List of current UFC fighters
Rankings
The UFC rankings are rated by a panel made up of MMA media members. The panel votes for the top active fighters in the UFC by both weight class and pound-for-pound.

List of current UFC fighters

Section Title: Rankings
Table Section Text: The UFC rankings are rated by a panel made up of MMA media members. The panel votes for the top active fighters in the UFC by both weight class and pound-for-pound.

Rank	Middleweight	Light heavyweight	Heavyweight	Women's Strawweight	Women's Flyweight	Women's Bantamweight

(C)	Robert Whittaker	Jon Jones	Daniel Cormier	Rose Namajunas	Valentina Shevchenko	Amanda Nunes

1	Israel Adesanya (IC)	Daniel Cormier	Stipe Miocic	Jessica Andrade	Jessica Eye	Germaine de Randamie

2	Yoel Romero	Alexander Gustafsson	Francis Ngannou	Joanna Jedrzejczyk	Katlyn Chookagian	Holly Holm

3	Luke Rockhold	Thiago Santos	Junior dos Santos	Tatiana Suarez	Liz Carmouche	Ketlen Vieira

4	Jacare Souza	Anthony Smith	Curtis Blaydes	Nina Ansaroff	Joanna Jedrzejczyk	Raquel Pennington

5	Kelvin Gastelum	Dominick Reyes	Derrick Lewis	Claudia Gadelha	Joanne Calderwood	Cat Zingano

6	Chris Weidman	Jan Blachowicz	Alexander Volkov	Weili Zhang	(5) Roxanne Modafferi 2	Aspen Ladd

7	Paulo Costa	Volkan Oezdemir	(6) Alistair Overeem 1	Michelle Waterson	Alexis Davis 1	Yana Kunitskaya

8	Derek Brunson	Corey Anderson	Cain Velasquez	Tecia Torres	Lauren Murphy	Marion Reneau

9	Jared Cannonier	Ilir Latifi	Aleksei Oleinik	Carla Esparza	(8) Jennifer Maia 1	Sara McMann

10	Jack Hermansson	Jimi Manuwa	Shamil Abdurakhimov 3	Karolina Kowalkiewicz 1	Andrea Lee	Irene Aldana

11	Brad Tavares	Glover Teixeira	Justin Willis	Cynthia Calvillo	Montana De La Rosa	Tonya Evinger

12	Antônio Carlos Júnior	Johnny Walker	Tai Tuivasa	Felice Herrig	Mara Romero Borella	Bethe Correia

13	Uriah Hall	Mauricio Rua	Marcin Tybura 3	Alexa Grasso	Maycee Barber 1	Lina Lansberg

14	(13) Elias Theodorou 1	Misha Cirkunov	Blagoy Ivanov	Randa Markos	Paige VanZant 1	Macy Chiasson

15	Anderson Silva	Nikita Krylov	Andrei Arlovski	Cortney Casey	Poliana Botelho (NR)	Talita Bernardo

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Carla Esparza is #9 in the strawweight rankings.

final_sentence: Carla Esparza is #9 in the strawweight rankings.