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Welterweight

Welterweight — 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
Islam Makhachev
UFC 18-1 · Pro 29-1
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64
Strike
69
Fight IQ
Last beat Ian Machado Garry — Decision (unanimous), R5 · 15 Aug 2026Move unchangedour calls in 2026: 1–015 Aug W
1
Ian Machado Garry
UFC 10-2 · Pro 17-2
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82
Strike
61
Fight IQ
Last lost to Islam Makhachev — Decision (unanimous), R5 · 15 Aug 2026Move unchangedour calls in 2026: 1–015 Aug W
2
Carlos Prates
UFC 7-1 · Pro 24-7
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84
Strike
63
Fight IQ
Last beat Jack Della Maddalena — KO/TKO, R3 · 2 May 2026Move unchangedour calls in 2026: 0–12 May L
3
Michael Morales
UFC 7-0 · Pro 19-0
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82
Strike
68
Fight IQ
Last beat Sean Brady — KO/TKO, R1 · 15 Nov 2025Move unchangedno graded pick yet
4
Jack Della Maddalena
UFC 8-2 · Pro 18-4
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85
Strike
48
Fight IQ
Last lost to Carlos Prates — KO/TKO, R3 · 2 May 2026Move unchangedour calls in 2026: 0–12 May L
5
Gabriel Bonfim
UFC 7-1 · Pro 20-1
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75
Strike
70
Fight IQ
Last beat Belal Muhammad — Decision (unanimous), R5 · 6 Jun 2026Move unchangedour calls in 2026: 1–07 Jun W
6
Sean Brady
UFC 9-2 · Pro 19-2
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82
Strike
72
Fight IQ
Last beat Joaquin Buckley — Decision (unanimous), R3 · 9 May 2026Move unchangedour calls in 2026: 1–09 May W
7
Belal Muhammad
UFC 15-6 (1 draw/NC) · Pro 24-6
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63
Strike
60
Fight IQ
Last lost to Gabriel Bonfim — Decision (unanimous), R5 · 6 Jun 2026Move unchangedour calls in 2026: 1–07 Jun W
8
Leon Edwards
UFC 14-5 (1 draw/NC) · Pro 22-6
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66
Strike
52
Fight IQ
Last lost to Carlos Prates — KO/TKO, R2 · 15 Nov 2025Move unchangedno graded pick yet
9
Kamaru Usman
UFC 16-4 · Pro 21-5
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75
Strike
69
Fight IQ
Last lost to Dricus Du Plessis — Decision (unanimous), R5 · 18 Jul 2026Move unchangedour calls in 2026: 1–018 Jul W
10
Joaquin Buckley
UFC 11-6 · Pro 21-8
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46
Strike
54
Fight IQ
Last lost to Sean Brady — Decision (unanimous), R3 · 9 May 2026Move unchangedour calls in 2026: 1–09 May W
11
Yaroslav Amosov
UFC 2-0 · Pro 30-1
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66
Strike
74
Fight IQ
Last beat Joel Alvarez — Submission, R2 · 9 May 2026Move unchangedour calls in 2026: 1–09 May W
12UM
Uroš Medić
UFC 8-3 · Pro 14-3
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93
Strike
61
Fight IQ
Last beat Daniel Rodriguez — KO/TKO, R1 · 1 Aug 2026Move unchangedour calls in 2026: 1–11 Aug W21 Feb L
13
Mike Malott
UFC 7-1 · Pro 14-2-1
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73
Strike
65
Fight IQ
Last beat Gilbert Burns — KO/TKO, R3 · 18 Apr 2026Move unchangedour calls in 2026: 1–018 Apr W
14
Daniel Rodriguez
UFC 10-5 · Pro 20-6
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84
Strike
59
Fight IQ
Last lost to Uros Medic — KO/TKO, R1 · 1 Aug 2026Move unchangedour calls in 2026: 1–01 Aug W
15
Neil Magny
UFC 25-13 · Pro 32-15
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64
Strike
59
Fight IQ
Last beat Ramiz Brahimaj — KO/TKO, R2 · 15 Aug 2026Move unchangedour calls in 2026: 1–015 Aug 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 Welterweight table the UFC has published since the rankings began — 618 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 618 of 618
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 · 618 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 welterweight fighter the UFC has ever put in this table, drawn through the tables themselves — 74 of them across 618 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.

Welterweight 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 2025CChampion123456789101112131415202420252026Colby CovingtonGeoff NealGilbert BurnsKevin HollandKhamzat ChimaevMichael ChiesaMichael Venom PageRinat FakhretdinovShavkat RakhmonovStephen ThompsonVicente LuqueBelal MuhammadBelal MuhammadCarlos PratesCarlos PratesDaniel RodriguezDaniel RodriguezGabriel BonfimGabriel BonfimIan Machado GarryIan Machado GarryIslam MakhachevIslam MakhachevJack Della MaddalenaJack Della MaddalenaJoaquin BuckleyJoaquin BuckleyKamaru UsmanKamaru UsmanLeon EdwardsLeon EdwardsMichael MoralesMichael MoralesMike MalottMike MalottNeil MagnyNeil MagnySean BradySean BradyUroš MedićUroš MedićYaroslav AmosovYaroslav AmosovNo 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 2025CChampion123456789101112131415201520172019202120232025Albert TumenovAlex OliveiraAnthony PettisBen AskrenBenson HendersonCarlos ConditColby CovingtonConor McGregorCurtis MillenderDarren TillDemian MaiaDonald CerroneDong Hyun KimElizeu Zaleski dos SantosErick SilvaGeoff NealGeorges St. PierreGilbert BurnsGunnar NelsonHector LombardJake EllenbergerJake ShieldsJohny HendricksJon FitchJordan MeinJorge MasvidalJosh KoscheckKelvin GastelumKevin HollandKhamzat ChimaevLi JingliangLorenz LarkinMartin KampmannMatt BrownMichael ChiesaMichael Venom PageMichel PereiraMike PerryMike PierceMike PyleMuslim SalikhovNate DiazNick DiazRafael Dos AnjosRick StoryRinat FakhretdinovRobbie LawlerRocco MartinRory MacDonaldRyan LaFlareSantiago PonzinibbioShavkat RakhmonovStephen ThompsonTarec SaffiedineThiago AlvesTyron WoodleyVicente LuqueYancy MedeirosBelal MuhammadBelal MuhammadCarlos PratesCarlos PratesDaniel RodriguezDaniel RodriguezGabriel BonfimGabriel BonfimIan Machado GarryIan Machado GarryIslam MakhachevIslam MakhachevJack Della MaddalenaJack Della MaddalenaJoaquin BuckleyJoaquin BuckleyKamaru UsmanKamaru UsmanLeon EdwardsLeon EdwardsMichael MoralesMichael MoralesMike MalottMike MalottNeil MagnyNeil MagnySean BradySean BradyUroš MedićUroš MedićYaroslav AmosovYaroslav Amosov

Official UFC.com official rankings · 618 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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Welterweight title lineage

9 fighters have held the welterweight title on the published tables since 4 February 2013, across 9 reigns and 1 spell with the belt vacant. The longest is Kamaru Usman, 144 weeks on the published tables.

Swipe the table sideways for the full dates →

#ChampionFromTo Weeks on the published tables
1Georges St. Pierrebefore the record begins9 December 201330+2 weeks the archive holds no table for
—Title vacant16 December 201310 March 201413the tables record the belt as held by nobody
2Johny Hendricks17 March 201424 November 201432
3Robbie Lawler8 December 201427 July 201659+2 weeks the archive holds no table for
4Tyron Woodley3 August 201625 February 201997+13 weeks the archive holds no table for
5Kamaru Usman5 March 201915 August 2022144+18 weeks the archive holds no table for
6Leon Edwards22 August 202223 July 202481+3 weeks the archive holds no table for
7Belal Muhammad30 July 202411 May 202546+3 weeks the archive holds no table for
8Jack Della Maddalena13 May 202513 November 202548
9Islam Makhachev18 November 20256 October 202668

Official UFC.com official rankings · 618 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.