Welcome to Fightful MMA's weekly fighter rankings (as of 11/17/21).
UFC Vegas 42 has come and gone and so has yet another Max Holloway masterclass as he dispatched of top Featherweight contender Yair Rodriguez to potentially earn another shot at 145-pound king Alexander Volkanovski.
Meisha Tate and Ketlen Vieira take center stage next weekend which is sure to shake-up the women's ranks at 135-pounds.
Men’s Pound-For-Pound
- Kamaru Usman (20-1) — UFC Welterweight Champion
- Jon Jones (26-1) — UFC
- Francis Ngannou (16-3) — UFC Heavyweight Champion
- Alex Volkanovski (22-1) — UFC Featherweight Champion
- Israel Adesanya (21-1) — UFC Middleweight Champion
- Charles Oliveira (31-8) — UFC Lightweight Champion
- Ciryl Gane (10-0) — UFC Interim Heavyweight Champion
- Dustin Poirier (28-6) — UFC
- Max Holloway (23-6) — UFC — (+1)
- Jan Blachowicz (28-9) — (-1)
- Stipe Miocic (20-4) — UFC — (-1)
- Robert Whittaker (23-5) — UFC
- Brandon Moreno (19-5) — UFC Flyweight Champion
- Peter Yan (16-2) — UFC Interim Bantamweight Champion
- Colby Covington (16-3) — UFC
Women’s Pound-For-Pound
- Amanda Nunes (21-4) — UFC Featherweight & Bantamweight Champion
- Valentina Shevchenko (22-3) — UFC Flyweight Champ
- Cris Cyborg (25-2) — Bellator Featherweight Champion
- Rose Namajunas (10-4) — UFC Strawweight Champion
- Kayla Harrison (12-0) — PFL Lightweight Champion
- Germaine De Randamie (10-4) — UFC
- Weili Zhang (21-2) — UFC
- Holly Holm (14-5) — UFC
- Joanna Jedrzejczyk (16-4) — UFC
- Juliana Velasquez (12-0) — Bellator Bantamweight Champion
- Jessica Andrade (22-9) — UFC
- Julia Budd (16-3) — PFL
- Carla Esparza (18-6) — UFC
- Julianna Peña (10-4) — UFC
- Marina Rodriguez (15-1) — UFC
Heavyweight
- Francis Ngannou (16-3) — UFC Champion
- Ciryl Gane (10-0) — UFC Interim Champion
- Stipe Miocic (20-4) — UFC
- Derrick Lewis (25-8) — UFC
- Curtis Blaydes (15-3) — UFC
- Alexander Volkov (33-9) — UFC
- Valentin Moldavsky (11-1) — Bellator Champion
- Tom Aspinall (11-2) - UFC
- Jairzinho Rozenstruik (12-3) — UFC
- Marcin Tybura (22-6) — UFC
- Cheick Kongo (31-11) — Bellator
- Augusto Sakai (15-3-1) — UFC
- Chris Daukaus (12-3) — UFC
- Fedor Emelianenko (40-6-1) — Bellator
- Fabricio Werdum (24-9) — PFL
Light Heavyweight
- Glover Teixeira (33-7) — UFC Champion
- Jan Blachowicz (28-9)
- Vadim Nemkov (13-2) — Bellator Champion
- Jiri Prochazka (28-3-1) — UFC
- Corey Anderson (16-5) — Bellator
- Ryan Bader (28-7) — Bellator
- Phil Davis (22-6) — Bellator
- Aleksandar Rakic (14-2) — UFC
- Thiago Santos (22-9) — UFC
- Dominick Reyes (12-3) — UFC
- Anthony Smith (35-16) — UFC
- Anthony Johnson (23-6) — Bellator
- Magomed Ankalaev (15-1) — UFC
- Nikita Krylov (27-8) — UFC
- Volkan Oezdemir (17-5) — UFC
Middleweight
- Israel Adesanya (21-1) — UFC Champion
- Robert Whittaker (23-5) — UFC
- Gegard Mousasi (48-7) — Bellator Champion
- Jared Cannonier (14-5) — UFC
- Derek Brunson (23-7) — UFC
- Marvin Vettori (18-5-1) — UFC
- Paulo Costa (13-2) — UFC
- Sean Strickland (24-3) — UFC
- Jack Hermansson (22-6) — UFC
- Darren Till (18-4-1) — UFC
- Kelvin Gastelum (16-8) — UFC
- Uriah Hall (17-10) — UFC
- Brendan Allen (17-4) — UFC
- Kevin Holland (21-7) — UFC
- Nassourdine Imavov (11-3) — UFC
Welterweight
- Kamaru Usman (20-1) — UFC Champion
- Colby Covington (16-3) — UFC
- Gilbert Burns (20-4) — UFC
- Leon Edwards (19-3) - UFC
- Vicente Luque (21-7-1) — UFC
- Stephen Thompson (16-5-1) — UFC
- Yaroslav Amosov (26-0) — Bellator Champion
- Michael Chiesa (18-5) — UFC
- Jorge Masvidal (35-15) — UFC
- Ray Cooper III (24-7-1) — PFL Champion
- Douglas Lima (32-9) — Bellator
- Belal Muhammad (19-3) — UFC
- Khamzat Chimaev (10-0) — UFC
- Neil Magny (25-9) — UFC
- Robbie Lawler (29-15-1) — UFC
Lightweight
- Charles Oliveira (31-8) — UFC Champion
- Dustin Poirier (28-6) — UFC
- Justin Gaethje (23-3) — UFC
- Beneil Dariush (21-4-1) — UFC
- Islam Makhachev (20-1) — UFC
- Conor McGregor (22-6) — UFC
- Michael Chandler (22-7) — UFC
- Rafael Dos Anjos (30-13) — UFC
- Tony Ferguson (25-6) — UFC
- Dan Hooker (21-10) — UFC
- Gregor Gillespie (14-1) — UFC
- Brad Riddell (10-1) — UFC
- Diego Ferreira (14-3) — UFC
- Rafael Fiziev (10-1) — UFC
- Arman Tsarukyan (17-2) — UFC
Featherweight
- Alexander Volkanovski (23-1) — UFC Champion
- Max Holloway (23-6) — UFC
- AJ McKee (18-0) — Bellator Champion
- Brian Ortega (15-2) — UFC
- Patricio Pitbull (32-5) — Bellator
- Giga Chikadze (14-2) — UFC
- Calvin Kattar (22-5) — UFC
- Yair Rodriguez (13-3) — UFC
- Korean Zombie (17-6) — UFC
- Arnold Allen (17-1) — UFC
- Josh Emmett (16-2) — UFC
- Movsar Evloev (14-0) — UFC
- Movlid Khaybulaev (19-0-1) — PFL Champion
- Dan Ige (15-4) — UFC
- Edson Barboza (22-10) — UFC
Bantamweight
- Aljamain Sterling (20-3) — UFC Champion
- Petr Yan (15-2) — UFC
- TJ Dillashaw (17-4) — UFC
- Cory Sandhagen (14-3) — UFC
- Rob Font (19-4) — UFC
- Jose Aldo (30-7) — UFC
- Cody Garbrandt (12-4) — UFC
- Merab Dvalishviili (14-4) — UFC
- Dominick Cruz (23-3) — UFC
- Marlon Moraes (23-9-1) — UFC
- Sergio Pettis (21-5) — Bellator Champion
- Pedro Munhoz (19-6) — UFC
- Kyoji Horiguchi (29-3) — Bellator
- John Lineker (33-9) — ONE Champion
- Marlon Vera (18-7-1) — UFC
Flyweight
- Brandon Moreno (19-5-2) — UFC Champion
- Deiveson Figueiredo (20-2-1) — UFC
- Adriano Moraes (19-3) — ONE Champion
- Askar Askarov (13-0) — UFC
- Demetrious Johnson (30-4-1) — ONE
- Matheus Nicolau (17-2-1) — UFC
- Alexandre Pantoja (24-5) — UFC
- Alex Perez (24-6) — UFC
- Brandon Royval (12-6) — UFC
- Kai Kara-France (22-9) — UFC
- Rogerio Bontorin (17-3) — UFC
- Manel Kape (16-6) — UFC
- David Dvorak (20-3) — UFC
- Jose Torres (10-1-1) — Brave CF Champion
- Matt Schnell (15-6) — UFC
Women’s Featherweight
- Amanda Nunes (21-4) — UFC Champion
- Cris Cyborg (24-2) — Bellator Champion
- Kayla Harrison (12-0) — PFL Champion
- Norma Dumont (7-1) — UFC
- Julia Budd (16-3) — PFL
- Felicia Spencer (9-3) — UFC
- Megan Anderson (11-5) — UFC
- Pam Sorensen (9-3) — Invicta FC Champion
- Larissa Pacheco (15-4) — PFL
- Cat Zingano (12-4) — Bellator
- Arlene Blancowe (14-8) — Bellator
- Leslie Smith (12-9-1) — Bellator
- Leah McCourt (4-1) — Bellator
- Leah Letson (5-2) — UFC
- Janay Harding (6-5) — Bellator
Women’s Bantamweight
- Amanda Nunes (21-4) — UFC Champion
- Germaine De Randamie (10-4) — UFC
- Holly Holm (14-5) — UFC
- Julianna Peña (10-4) — UFC
- Irene Aldana (13-6) — UFC
- Aspen Ladd (9-2) — UFC
- Yana Kunitskaya (14-6) — UFC
- Ketlen Vieira (11-2) — UFC
- Raquel Pennington (12-8) — UFC
- Meisha Tate (19-7) — UFC
- Macy Chiasson (7-1) — UFC
- Sara McMann (12-6) — UFC
- Josiane Nunes (8-2) — UFC
- Pannie Kianzad (15-6) — UFC
- Karol Rosa (14-3) — UFC
Women’s Flyweight
- Valentina Shevchenko (22-3) — UFC Champion
- Jessica Andrade (22-9) — UFC
- Juliana Velasquez (12-0) — Bellator Champion
- Katlyn Chookagian (16-4) — UFC
- Liz Carmouche (16-7) — UFC
- Lauren Murphy (14-6) — UFC
- Jennifer Maia (19-7-1) — UFC
- Andrea Lee (13-5) — UFC
- Cynthia Calvillo (9-4-1) — UFC
- Joanne Calderwood (15-6) — UFC
- Ilima Lei-MacFarlane (11-1) — Bellator
- Alexa Grasso (13-3) — UFC
- Viviane Araujo (9-3) — UFC
- Taila Santos (18-1) — UFC
- Roxanne Modaferri (25-18) — UFC
Women’s Strawweight
- Rose Namajunas (12-4) — UFC Champion
- Weili Zhang (21-3) — UFC
- Joanna Jedrzejczyk (16-4) — UFC
- Carla Esparza (18-6) — UFC
- Marina Rodriguez (15-1) — UFC
- MacKenzie Dern (11-2) — UFC
- Yan Xionan (13-2) — UFC
- Tecia Torres (13-5) — UFC
- Claudia Gadelha (18-5) — UFC
- Amanda Lemos (10-1-1) — UFC
- Amanda Ribas (10-2) — UFC
- Michelle Waterson (18-9) — UFC
- Angela Hill (13-10) — UFC
- Nina Nunes (10-7) — UFC
- Virna Jandiroba (17-2) — UFC
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