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Women's Bantamweight

Women's Bantamweight — 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
Kayla Harrison
UFC 3-0 · Pro 19-1
—
86
Strike
73
Fight IQ
Last beat Julianna Pena — Submission, R2 · 7 Jun 2025Move unchangedno graded pick yet
1JP
Julianna Peña
UFC 8-4 · Pro 13-6
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45
Strike
58
Fight IQ
Last lost to Kayla Harrison — Submission, R2 · 7 Jun 2025Move unchangedno graded pick yet
2
Joselyne Edwards
UFC 9-4 · Pro 18-6
↑1
84
Strike
67
Fight IQ
Last beat Norma Dumont — Decision (unanimous), R3 · 25 Apr 2026Move ↑1 from #3our calls in 2026: 1–125 Apr L21 Feb W
3
Ailin Perez
UFC 7-1 · Pro 14-2
↑2
62
Strike
66
Fight IQ
Last beat Norma Dumont — Decision (unanimous), R3 · 26 Sep 2026Move ↑2 from #5our calls in 2026: 2–026 Sep W28 Feb W
4
Raquel Pennington
UFC 13-6 · Pro 16-10
70
Strike
70
Fight IQ
Last lost to Julianna Pena — Decision (split), R5 · 5 Oct 2024Move not comparable — the archive has this fighter at #3no graded pick yet
5
Norma Dumont
UFC 9-4 · Pro 13-4
↓1
68
Strike
66
Fight IQ
Last lost to Ailin Perez — Decision (unanimous), R3 · 26 Sep 2026Move ↓1 from #4our calls in 2026: 1–126 Sep W25 Apr L
6
Yana Santos
UFC 7-5 · Pro 17-8
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86
Strike
42
Fight IQ
Last beat Macy Chiasson — Decision (unanimous), R3 · 4 Oct 2025Move unchangedno graded pick yet
7
Luana Santos
UFC 6-1 · Pro 11-2
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53
Strike
63
Fight IQ
Last beat Karol Rosa — Decision (unanimous), R3 · 20 Jun 2026Move unchangedour calls in 2026: 1–021 Jun W
8
Jacqueline Cavalcanti
UFC 5-1 · Pro 10-2
75
Strike
77
Fight IQ
Last lost to Ketlen Vieira — Decision (unanimous), R3 · 16 May 2026Move not comparable — the archive has this fighter at #9our calls in 2026: 0–116 May L
9
Macy Chiasson
UFC 8-6 · Pro 11-6
54
Strike
43
Fight IQ
Last lost to Ailin Perez — Decision (unanimous), R3 · 28 Feb 2026Move not comparable — the archive has this fighter at #8our calls in 2026: 1–028 Feb W
10
Karol Rosa
UFC 8-5 · Pro 19-8
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91
Strike
67
Fight IQ
Last lost to Luana Santos — Decision (unanimous), R3 · 20 Jun 2026Move unchangedour calls in 2026: 1–021 Jun W
11
Bia Mesquita
UFC 3-0 · Pro 8-0
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88
Strike
72
Fight IQ
Last beat Melissa Mullins — Submission, R1 · 20 Jun 2026Move unchangedour calls in 2026: 2–021 Jun W14 Mar W
12
Michelle Montague
UFC 2-0 · Pro 8-0
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50
Strike
54
Fight IQ
Last beat Mayra Bueno Silva — Decision (unanimous), R3 · 25 Apr 2026Move unchangedour calls in 2026: 1–025 Apr W
13
Nora Cornolle
UFC 4-3 · Pro 10-4
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58
Strike
58
Fight IQ
Last beat Klaudia Sygula — Decision (unanimous), R3 · 5 Sep 2026Move unchangedour calls in 2026: 1–15 Sep L21 Feb W
14
Melissa Croden
UFC 2-1 · Pro 8-3
68
Strike
69
Fight IQ
Last beat Daria Zhelezniakova — Decision (unanimous), R3 · 18 Apr 2026Move not comparable — the archive has this fighter at #15our calls in 2026: 1–018 Apr W
15
Daria Zhelezniakova
UFC 2-2 · Pro 10-4
50
Strike
49
Fight IQ
Last lost to Alice Pereira — KO/TKO, R1 · 10 Oct 2026Move not in the archive’s latest tableour calls in 2026: 1–018 Apr 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 Women's Bantamweight table the UFC has published since the rankings began — 613 of them, 4 March 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 613 of 613
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 · 613 published tables, 4 March 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 women's bantamweight fighter the UFC has ever put in this table, drawn through the tables themselves — 60 of them across 613 published weeks. The chart opens on the last 3 years; Full history pulls it back to 4 March 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.

Women's Bantamweight 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 2025CChampion123456789101112131415202420252026Chelsea ChandlerDaria ZhelezniakovaGermaine de RandamieHolly HolmIrene AldanaJosiane NunesJulia AvilaKetlen VieiraMayra Bueno SilvaMelissa DixonMelissa MullinsPannie KianzadTainara LisboaAilin PerezAilin PerezBia MesquitaBia MesquitaJacqueline CavalcantiJacqueline CavalcantiJoselyne EdwardsJoselyne EdwardsJulianna PeñaJulianna PeñaKarol RosaKarol RosaKayla HarrisonKayla HarrisonLuana SantosLuana SantosMacy ChiassonMacy ChiassonMelissa CrodenMelissa CrodenMichelle MontagueMichelle MontagueMiesha TateMiesha TateNora CornolleNora CornolleNorma DumontNorma DumontRaquel PenningtonRaquel PenningtonYana SantosYana SantosNo 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 2025CChampion123456789101112131415201520172019202120232025Alexis DavisAmanda NunesAshlee Evans-SmithAspen LaddBethe CorreiaCat ZinganoChelsea ChandlerDaria ZhelezniakovaGermaine de RandamieGina MazanyHolly HolmIrene AldanaJessamyn DukeJessica EyeJessica RakoczyJosiane NunesJulia AvilaJulie KedzieJéssica AndradeKatlyn CerminaraKetlen VieiraLauren MurphyLeslie SmithLina LansbergLiz CarmoucheLucie PudilovaMarion ReneauMayra Bueno SilvaMelissa DixonMelissa MullinsNicco MontanoPannie KianzadRonda RouseyRosi SextonSara McMannSarah KaufmanSarah MorasSheila GaffSijara EubanksTainara LisboaTalita BernardoTonya EvingerValentina ShevchenkoViviane AraújoAilin PerezAilin PerezBia MesquitaBia MesquitaJacqueline CavalcantiJacqueline CavalcantiJoselyne EdwardsJoselyne EdwardsJulianna PeñaJulianna PeñaKarol RosaKarol RosaKayla HarrisonKayla HarrisonLuana SantosLuana SantosMacy ChiassonMacy ChiassonMelissa CrodenMelissa CrodenMichelle MontagueMichelle MontagueMiesha TateMiesha TateNora CornolleNora CornolleNorma DumontNorma DumontRaquel PenningtonRaquel PenningtonYana SantosYana Santos

Official UFC.com official rankings · 613 published tables, 4 March 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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Women's Bantamweight title lineage

7 fighters have held the women's bantamweight title on the published tables since 4 March 2013, across 9 reigns and 2 spells with the belt vacant. The longest is Amanda Nunes, 215 weeks on the published tables.

Swipe the table sideways for the full dates →

#ChampionFromTo Weeks on the published tables
1Ronda Rouseybefore the record begins9 November 2015106+2 weeks the archive holds no table for
2Holly Holm16 November 201529 February 201611
3Miesha Tate7 March 201620 June 201610+2 weeks the archive holds no table for
4Amanda Nunes11 July 20166 December 2021215+28 weeks the archive holds no table for
5Julianna Peña13 December 202118 July 202226+3 weeks the archive holds no table for
6Amanda Nunes1 August 202213 June 202336+3 weeks the archive holds no table for
—Title vacant20 June 202319 December 202324the tables record the belt as held by nobody
—No champion line2 January 20242 January 20241the table was published with no champion row and no vacancy marker
—Title vacant16 January 202416 January 20241the tables record the belt as held by nobody
7Raquel Pennington23 January 20241 October 202430
8Julianna Peña8 October 20248 June 202545+3 weeks the archive holds no table for
9Kayla Harrison10 June 20256 October 2026108

Official UFC.com official rankings · 613 published tables, 4 March 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.