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UFC Weight Class Rankings 2026

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📈 🥊 2026 UFC Divisional Fighter Rankings & Official Contenders
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📑 DIVISIONS: 🏷️ Men's Pound-for-Pound Top 5 🏷️ Heavyweight Div 🏷️ Light Heavyweight Div 🏷️ Middleweight Div 🏷️ Welterweight Div 🏷️ Lightweight Div 🏷️ Featherweight Div 🏷️ Bantamweight Div 🏷️ Flyweight Div 🏷️ Women's Strawweight Div 🏷️ Women's Flyweight Div

Men's Pound-for-Pound Top 5

Featured Table
Rank Fighter W ↕ L ↕ Win % GB Home Road L10 Strk
1 Islam Makhachev (#1 P4P) 👑 26 1 0.963 - - - 10-0 W14
2 Alex Pereira (#2 P4P) 🔥 11 2 0.846 - - - 8-2 W4
3 Jon Jones (#3 P4P) 27 1 0.964 - - - 10-0 W18
4 Leon Edwards (#4 P4P) 22 3 0.880 - - - 9-1 W13
5 Ilia Topuria (#5 P4P) 🔥 15 0 1.000 - - - 10-0 W15

Heavyweight Division

4 Fighters
Rank Fighter W ↕ L ↕ Win % GB Home Road L10 Strk
1 Jon Jones (Champion) 👑 27 1 0.964 - - - 10-0 W18
2 Tom Aspinall (Interim Champ) 14 3 0.824 - - - 8-2 W2
3 Ciryl Gane (#2 Contender) 12 2 0.857 - - - 8-2 W1
4 Alexander Volkov (#3 Contender) 🔥 38 10 0.792 - - - 8-2 W4

Light Heavyweight Division

3 Fighters
Rank Fighter W ↕ L ↕ Win % GB Home Road L10 Strk
1 Alex Pereira (Champion) 👑 11 2 0.846 - - - 8-2 W4
2 Jiri Prochazka (#1 Contender) 30 5 0.857 - - - 8-2 L1
3 Magomed Ankalaev (#2 Contender) 18 1 0.947 - - - 9-1 W1

Middleweight Division

3 Fighters
Rank Fighter W ↕ L ↕ Win % GB Home Road L10 Strk
1 Dricus Du Plessis (Champion) 👑 21 2 0.913 - - - 9-1 W9
2 Sean Strickland (#1 Contender) 29 6 0.829 - - - 7-3 W1
3 Israel Adesanya (#2 Contender) 24 3 0.889 - - - 7-3 L1

Welterweight Division

3 Fighters
Rank Fighter W ↕ L ↕ Win % GB Home Road L10 Strk
1 Leon Edwards (Champion) 👑 22 3 0.880 - - - 9-1 W13
2 Belal Muhammad (#1 Contender) 23 3 0.885 - - - 9-1 W9
3 Shavkat Rakhmonov (#3 Contender) 18 0 1.000 - - - 10-0 W18

Lightweight Division

3 Fighters
Rank Fighter W ↕ L ↕ Win % GB Home Road L10 Strk
1 Islam Makhachev (Champion) 👑 26 1 0.963 - - - 10-0 W14
2 Arman Tsarukyan (#1 Contender) 🔥 22 3 0.880 - - - 9-1 W4
3 Charles Oliveira (#2 Contender) 34 10 0.773 - - - 8-2 L1

Featherweight Division

3 Fighters
Rank Fighter W ↕ L ↕ Win % GB Home Road L10 Strk
1 Ilia Topuria (Champion) 👑 15 0 1.000 - - - 10-0 W15
2 Alexander Volkanovski (#1 Contender) 26 4 0.867 - - - 7-3 L2
3 Max Holloway (#2 Contender) 🔥 26 7 0.788 - - - 7-3 W3

Bantamweight Division

2 Fighters
Rank Fighter W ↕ L ↕ Win % GB Home Road L10 Strk
1 Sean O'Malley (Champion) 👑 18 1 0.947 - - - 9-1 W6
2 Merab Dvalishvili (#1 Contender) 🔥 17 4 0.810 - - - 10-0 W10

Flyweight Division

2 Fighters
Rank Fighter W ↕ L ↕ Win % GB Home Road L10 Strk
1 Alexandre Pantoja (Champion) 👑 28 5 0.848 - - - 8-2 W6
2 Brandon Royval (#1 Contender) 16 7 0.696 - - - 7-3 W1

Women's Strawweight Division

2 Fighters
Rank Fighter W ↕ L ↕ Win % GB Home Road L10 Strk
1 Zhang Weili (Champion) 👑 25 3 0.893 - - - 8-2 W4
2 Tatiana Suarez (#1 Contender) 🔥 10 0 1.000 - - - 10-0 W10

Women's Flyweight Division

2 Fighters
Rank Fighter W ↕ L ↕ Win % GB Home Road L10 Strk
1 Alexa Grasso (Champion) 👑 16 3 0.842 - - - 7-3 W5
2 Valentina Shevchenko (#1 Contender) 23 4 0.852 - - - 7-3 D1
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