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Official UFC rankings — the 2022 archive

Women's Strawweight rankings, 2022

Where the Women's Strawweight division stood when 2022 finished, taken from the 41 ranking tables the UFC published for it that year. This is the archive, not today’s table — the current Women's Strawweight rankings are one click away.

The official UFC rankings, taken from ufc.com. 41 published tables in 2022, 17 January 2022 to 19 December 2022. These are the UFC’s own tables, week by week — we did not invent them and we do not reorder them. Names link to our fighter pages where we hold one; a ranked fighter we have no page for is printed as plain text rather than dropped.

How 2022 finished

The last Women's Strawweight table the UFC published in 2022, dated 19 December 2022. The right-hand column is the change since 20 December 2021 — the table this page measures the year from.

The UFC’s published ranking table of 19 December 2022
RankFighterOn the year
ChampionCZhang Weili↑1
1Carla Esparza↑1
2Rose Namajunas↓2
3Amanda Lemos↑7
4Jéssica AndradeNEW
5Marina Rodriguez↓2
6Yan Xiaonan↓2
7Mackenzie Dern↓2
8Tecia Torres↓1
9Amanda Ribas—
10Virna Jandiroba↑1
11Michelle Waterson-Gomez↓3
12Angela Hill—
13Luana Pinheiro↑2
14Emily DucoteNEW
15Polyana VianaNEW

A ranking here is a ranking the UFC published on that date, not our order and not a re-run of it.

What changed in 2022

Measured between the last table of 2021 on the record (20 December 2021) and the last table of 2022 (19 December 2022).

The champion line

  • 20 December 2021 · the year opens with Rose Namajunas in the champion line
  • 9 May 2022 · Carla Esparza takes the champion line from Rose Namajunas
  • 14 November 2022 · Zhang Weili takes the champion line from Carla Esparza

Entering and leaving are counted across the whole published table, the champion line included, so a fighter who won the belt during the year is not double-counted as having left the numbered places. The number beside each name is where they sat on the table that names them. Movement inside the year that had reversed itself by December is not counted here — the division page’s week-by-week slider is where every table in between lives.

Women's Strawweight rankings, year by year

A year gets a page here only where the UFC published at least 10 Women's Strawweight tables in it. A year with three or four tables in it is the year a division opened or closed, and a “what changed this year” section built on three weeks in December would be titled as something it is not.

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