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Middleweight

Middleweight — champion and the ranked contenders, each with the record on file and our two headline derived scores. Tap any fighter for the full card: tale of the tape, strike-zone map and all six FightIQ Metrics.

Rankings as of 11 October 2026 — official UFC rankings, refreshed weekly from UFC.com. Pulled 11 Oct, 14:28 UTC. These are the UFC’s own rankings, taken from ufc.com/rankings — we did not invent them and we do not adjust them. The UFC updates the table weekly; ours refreshes when we re-pull the page, so a ranking here can lag theirs by a few days.Faces, records and scores are ours — see how the scores work.
ChampionC
Sean Strickland
UFC 18-7 · Pro 31-7
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67
Strike
65
Fight IQ
Last beat Khamzat Chimaev — Decision (split), R5 · 9 May 2026Move unchangedour calls in 2026: 0–29 May L21 Feb L
1
Khamzat Chimaev
UFC 9-1 · Pro 15-1
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81
Strike
79
Fight IQ
Last lost to Sean Strickland — Decision (split), R5 · 9 May 2026Move unchangedour calls in 2026: 0–19 May L
2
Dricus Du Plessis
UFC 10-1 · Pro 24-3
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76
Strike
66
Fight IQ
Last beat Kamaru Usman — Decision (unanimous), R5 · 18 Jul 2026Move unchangedour calls in 2026: 1–018 Jul W
3
Nassourdine Imavov
UFC 9-2 (1 draw/NC) · Pro 17-4
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82
Strike
68
Fight IQ
Last beat Caio Borralho — Decision (unanimous), R5 · 6 Sep 2025Move unchangedno graded pick yet
4
Brendan Allen
UFC 15-4 · Pro 28-7
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76
Strike
60
Fight IQ
Last beat Christian Leroy Duncan — Submission, R5 · 10 Oct 2026Move unchangedour calls in 2026: 2–010 Oct W7 Jun W
5
Caio Borralho
UFC 8-1 · Pro 18-2
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78
Strike
71
Fight IQ
Last beat Reinier de Ridder — Decision (unanimous), R3 · 7 Mar 2026Move unchangedour calls in 2026: 1–07 Mar W
6
Joe Pyfer
UFC 7-1 · Pro 16-3
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59
Strike
59
Fight IQ
Last beat Israel Adesanya — KO/TKO, R2 · 28 Mar 2026Move unchangedour calls in 2026: 1–028 Mar W
7
Gregory Rodrigues
UFC 11-3 · Pro 20-6
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86
Strike
58
Fight IQ
Last beat Anthony Hernandez — Decision (unanimous), R5 · 22 Aug 2026Move unchangedour calls in 2026: 1–122 Aug L7 Mar W
8
Anthony Hernandez
UFC 9-4 · Pro 15-4
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88
Strike
65
Fight IQ
Last lost to Gregory Rodrigues — Decision (unanimous), R5 · 22 Aug 2026Move unchangedour calls in 2026: 0–222 Aug L21 Feb L
9
Israel Adesanya
UFC 13-6 · Pro 24-6
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70
Strike
48
Fight IQ
Last lost to Joe Pyfer — KO/TKO, R2 · 28 Mar 2026Move unchangedour calls in 2026: 1–028 Mar W
10
Christian Leroy Duncan
UFC 8-2 · Pro 15-3
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86
Strike
57
Fight IQ
Last lost to Brendan Allen — Submission, R5 · 10 Oct 2026Move unchangedour calls in 2026: 3–010 Oct W18 Jul W21 Mar W
11
Jared Cannonier
UFC 11-10 · Pro 18-10
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74
Strike
54
Fight IQ
Last lost to Christian Leroy Duncan — Decision (unanimous), R3 · 18 Jul 2026Move unchangedour calls in 2026: 1–018 Jul W
12
Abus Magomedov
UFC 5-3 · Pro 29-7-1
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61
Strike
56
Fight IQ
Last beat Michal Oleksiejczuk — Submission, R1 · 27 Jun 2026Move unchangedour calls in 2026: 0–127 Jun L
13
Ikram Aliskerov
UFC 5-1 · Pro 18-2
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92
Strike
65
Fight IQ
Last beat Brunno Ferreira — Decision (unanimous), R3 · 27 Jun 2026Move unchangedour calls in 2026: 1–027 Jun W
14
Bo Nickal
UFC 6-1 · Pro 9-1
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80
Strike
65
Fight IQ
Last beat Kyle Daukaus — KO/TKO, R1 · 14 Jun 2026Move unchangedour calls in 2026: 1–015 Jun W
15
Shara Magomedov
UFC 6-1 · Pro 17-1
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93
Strike
62
Fight IQ
Last beat Michel Pereira — Decision (unanimous), R3 · 27 Jun 2026Move unchangedour calls in 2026: 1–027 Jun W

Movement compares 22 September 2026 with 6 October 2026 — the two most recent weeks in our rankings archive. The table above is the newer live table of 11 October 2026, so a fighter who moved after 6 October 2026 carries no arrow: where the two disagree about where that fighter stands, we draw nothing rather than an arrow pointing at the wrong number.

These rows are the official table of 11 October 2026. Under each name: the fighter’s last UFC bout from the official statistical record; their movement between the two archive tables named above; and our own graded record on their 2026 fights, with a link to each call. We publish no forecast here — a fight that has not happened has no line on this page.

Every table since 2013

Slide back through every Middleweight table the UFC has published since the rankings began — 617 of them, 4 February 2013 to 6 October 2026. Drag the handle, or click it and use the arrow keys to step a table at a time.

6 October 2026 table 617 of 617
2013 2026

The table at the top of this page is the live one of 11 October 2026. The newest stop below is 6 October 2026, the newest table in our rankings archive, so the two can differ by a place or two. Both are the UFC’s own tables; they are different weeks.

Official UFC.com official rankings · 617 published tables, 4 February 2013 to 6 October 2026

One stop on the slider is one published table, not one calendar week — the UFC has missed weeks, and every weight division has holes of a month or more in it. Where the table you have landed on sits the far side of one of those holes the panel says so, rather than sliding through weeks nobody published. Arrows compare the table on screen with the one published before it; a fighter who was not in that earlier table is marked NEW. Nothing here is interpolated: every row is a row the UFC published on the date shown.

Who climbed, who fell

Every middleweight fighter the UFC has ever put in this table, drawn through the tables themselves — 72 of them across 617 published weeks. The chart opens on the last 3 years; Full history pulls it back to 4 February 2013.

Hover or tab a line to pick a fighter out of it. Move the slider above and a marker follows it across the chart.

Middleweight ranking positions on every published table from 10 October 2023 to 6 October 2026. One line per fighter; the lane above number one is the champion.No table on record, 17 December 2024 to 14 January 2025CChampion123456789101112131415202420252026Andre MunizBrunno FerreiraChris CurtisJack HermanssonKelvin GastelumMarvin VettoriMichael Venom PageMichel PereiraPaul CraigPaulo CostaReinier de RidderRobert WhittakerRoman DolidzeRoman KopylovAbus MagomedovAbus MagomedovAnthony HernandezAnthony HernandezBo NickalBo NickalBrendan AllenBrendan AllenCaio BorralhoCaio BorralhoChristian Leroy DuncanChristian Leroy DuncanDricus Du PlessisDricus Du PlessisGregory RodriguesGregory RodriguesIkram AliskerovIkram AliskerovIsrael AdesanyaIsrael AdesanyaJared CannonierJared CannonierJoe PyferJoe PyferKhamzat ChimaevKhamzat ChimaevNassourdine ImavovNassourdine ImavovSean StricklandSean StricklandShara MagomedovShara MagomedovNo table on record, 29 April 2013 to 21 May 2013No table on record, 21 March 2016 to 12 April 2016No table on record, 12 October 2016 to 7 November 2016No table on record, 7 August 2017 to 4 September 2017No table on record, 23 April 2018 to 16 May 2018No table on record, 6 August 2018 to 29 August 2018No table on record, 8 October 2018 to 31 October 2018No table on record, 18 November 2019 to 10 December 2019No table on record, 24 December 2019 to 20 January 2020No table on record, 16 March 2020 to 11 May 2020No table on record, 21 December 2020 to 18 January 2021No table on record, 20 December 2021 to 17 January 2022No table on record, 19 December 2022 to 17 January 2023No table on record, 17 December 2024 to 14 January 2025CChampion123456789101112131415201520172019202120232025Alan BelcherAlex PereiraAnderson SilvaAndre MunizAntonio Carlos JuniorBrad TavaresBrunno FerreiraCB DollawayCezar FerreiraChael SonnenChris CurtisChris WeidmanCostas PhilippouDan HendersonDaniel KellyDarren TillDavid BranchDerek BrunsonEdmen ShahbazyanElias TheodorouFrancis CarmontGegard MousasiGeorges St. PierreHector LombardIan HeinischJack HermanssonKelvin GastelumKevin HollandKrzysztof JotkoLorenz LarkinLuke RockholdLyoto MachidaMark MunozMarvin VettoriMichael BispingMichael Venom PageMichel PereiraOmari AkhmedovPaul CraigPaulo CostaRafael NatalReinier de RidderRoan CarneiroRobert WhittakerRoman DolidzeRoman KopylovRonaldo SouzaSam AlveyThales LeitesThiago SantosTim BoetschTim KennedyUriah HallVitor BelfortYoel RomeroYushin OkamiAbus MagomedovAbus MagomedovAnthony HernandezAnthony HernandezBo NickalBo NickalBrendan AllenBrendan AllenCaio BorralhoCaio BorralhoChristian Leroy DuncanChristian Leroy DuncanDricus Du PlessisDricus Du PlessisGregory RodriguesGregory RodriguesIkram AliskerovIkram AliskerovIsrael AdesanyaIsrael AdesanyaJared CannonierJared CannonierJoe PyferJoe PyferKhamzat ChimaevKhamzat ChimaevNassourdine ImavovNassourdine ImavovSean StricklandSean StricklandShara MagomedovShara Magomedov

Official UFC.com official rankings · 617 published tables, 4 February 2013 to 6 October 2026

One step across is one published table, so the spacing is real time and the holes in it are real: where the UFC published nothing for a month or more, the line stops and starts again rather than being drawn through weeks nobody published. A line begins where a fighter enters the fifteen and ends where that fighter leaves it, and both ends carry a dot. The lane above number one is the champion, kept off the numbered ladder because a belt is not a rank; a week the title was vacant has nobody in that lane. Names down the right are the fifteen in the newest table on record — every other line gives its name when you hover it or reach it with the keyboard. Nothing here is interpolated: every corner is a rank the UFC published on the date under it.

The rankings, year by year

One page per year: the last table the UFC published in it, who entered the rankings across it, who left, and every change in the champion line. Server-rendered from the same archive the slider above plays through.

20132014201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026

Years with fewer than 10 published tables have no page of their own — that is the year a division opened or closed, and there is not a year of rankings in it to summarise.

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Middleweight title lineage

11 fighters have held the middleweight title on the published tables since 4 February 2013, across 13 reigns. The longest is Israel Adesanya, 124 weeks on the published tables.

Swipe the table sideways for the full dates →

#ChampionFromTo Weeks on the published tables
1Anderson Silvabefore the record begins18 June 201314+2 weeks the archive holds no table for
2Chris Weidman8 July 201330 November 201599
3Luke Rockhold14 December 201531 May 201616+2 weeks the archive holds no table for
4Michael Bisping6 June 201630 October 201752+6 weeks the archive holds no table for
5Georges St. Pierre8 November 20176 December 20175
6Robert Whittaker13 December 20177 October 201974+7 weeks the archive holds no table for
7Israel Adesanya14 October 20198 November 2022124+18 weeks the archive holds no table for
8Alex Pereira14 November 202228 March 202315+3 weeks the archive holds no table for
9Israel Adesanya11 April 20235 September 202321
10Sean Strickland12 September 202316 January 202414
11Dricus Du Plessis23 January 202417 August 202591+3 weeks the archive holds no table for
12Khamzat Chimaev19 August 20257 May 202668
13Sean Strickland12 May 20266 October 202624

Official UFC.com official rankings · 617 published tables, 4 February 2013 to 6 October 2026

Every row is read off the champion line of the published tables and nothing else, so weeks are weeks on the published tables — one table, one week. Where the archive holds no table for a month or more the weeks inside that hole are counted in neither column; the reign is not broken by it, because there was no table for anybody else to be in. This is the undisputed title. The source puts an interim champion inside the numbered list rather than on the champion line, so an interim reign is not a row here — that is how the tables are published and we have not rewritten them. A reign already running when the first table appeared in February 2013 is marked: the record cannot see when it started, so we do not print a date for it.