Ratings for events through August 31, 2019. All weight classes/pound-for-pound.
Key: Fighter won recent fight ; Fighter lost recent fight ; Inactive: last rated win > one year ago
| Aug Rank |
Sept Rank |
Fighter | WC | Rating | Rated Record | Org | August results |
| 10 | 1 | Stipe Miocic | HW | 87.73 | 14-3-0 | UFC | Beat #1 Daniel Cormier |
| 2 | 2 | Jon Jones | LH | 80.79 | 19-1-0 | UFC | |
| 3 | 3 | Robert Whittaker | MW | 73.69 | 12-4-0 | UFC | --last rated win -14 months. |
| 4 | 4 | Khabib Nurmagomedov | LW | 69.50 | 13-0-0 | UFC | |
| 5 | 5 | Dustin Poirier | LW | 68.58 | 20-5-0 | UFC | |
| 1 | 6 | Daniel Cormier | HW | 68.09 | 18-2-0 | UFC | Lost to #10 Stipe Miocic |
| 6 | 7 | Kamaru Usman | WW | 67.51 | 10-0-0 | UFC | |
| 7 | 8 | Georges St. Pierre | MW | 64.47 | 24-2-0 | UFC | --last rated win -21 months. |
| 8 | 9 | Tony Ferguson | LW | 64.26 | 18-1-0 | UFC | |
| 9 | 10 | Henry Cejudo | BW | 57.35 | 9-2-0 | UFC | |
| 11 | 11 | Ryan Bader | HW | 53.90 | 19-5-0 | Bell | |
| 12 | 12 | Colby Covington | WW | 53.61 | 9-1-0 | UFC | Beat #130 Robbie Lawler |
| 13 | 13 | Max Holloway | FW | 49.98 | 19-4-0 | UFC | |
| 15 | 14 | Tyron Woodley | WW | 47.88 | 16-4-1 | UFC | |
| 16 | 15 | Francis Ngannou | HW | 46.86 | 8-2-0 | UFC | |
| 17 | 16 | Patricio Freire | FW | 46.83 | 16-4-0 | Bell | |
| 18 | 17 | Bibiano Fernandes | BW | 44.95 | 20-2-0 | One | |
| 19 | 18 | Rafael Lovato Jr. | MW | 43.07 | 7-0-0 | Bell | |
| 21 | 19 | Alexander Volkanovski | FW | 40.49 | 12-0-0 | UFC | |
| 20 | 20 | Conor McGregor | LW | 40.35 | 13-2-0 | UFC | --last rated win -33 months. |
| 23 | 21 | Jorge Masvidal | WW | 40.00 | 32-13-0 | UFC | |
| 24 | 22 | Leon Edwards | WW | 39.45 | 12-2-0 | UFC | |
| 25 | 23 | Israel Adesanya | MW | 38.64 | 5-0-0 | UFC | |
| 26 | 24 | Gegard Mousasi | MW | 38.53 | 36-7-2 | Bell | |
| 392 | 25 | Kai Asakura | BW | 37.58 | 8-1-0 | Rizi | Beat #14 Kyoji Horiguchi |
| 27 | 26 | Douglas Lima | WW | 36.71 | 16-3-0 | Bell | |
| 29 | 27 | Demetrious Johnson | FL | 35.41 | 20-3-1 | One | Beat #585 Tatsumitsu Wada |
| 14 | 28 | Kyoji Horiguchi | BW | 35.27 | 26-3-0 | Rizi | Lost to #392 Kai Asakura |
| 28 | 29 | Aljamain Sterling | BW | 34.70 | 12-3-0 | UFC | |
| 30 | 30 | Ben Askren | WW | 33.00 | 15-1-0 | UFC | |
| 180 | 31 | Paulo Henrique Costa | MW | 32.90 | 7-0-0 | UFC | Beat #22 Yoel Romero |
| 31 | 32 | Santiago Ponzinibbio | WW | 32.60 | 9-1-0 | UFC | |
| 32 | 33 | Cheick Kongo | HW | 32.37 | 28-10-2 | Bell | |
| 33 | 34 | Lance Palmer | FW | 32.11 | 14-3-0 | Prof | |
| 34 | 35 | Jack Hermansson | MW | 32.08 | 15-4-0 | UFC | |
| 35 | 36 | T.J. Dillashaw | FL | 31.28 | 11-3-0 | UFC | --last rated win -12 months. |
| 36 | 37 | Alistair Overeem | HW | 31.07 | 39-17-0 | UFC | |
| 37 | 38 | Kevin Belingon | BW | 29.66 | 9-4-0 | One | |
| 54 | 39 | Eddie Alvarez | LW | 28.93 | 26-7-0 | One | Beat #177 Eduard Folayang |
| 39 | 40 | Joseph Benavidez | FL | 28.78 | 22-5-0 | UFC | |
| 38 | 41 | Kelvin Gastelum | MW | 28.75 | 11-4-0 | UFC | --last rated win -15 months. |
| 22 | 42 | Yoel Romero | MW | 28.29 | 10-4-0 | UFC | Lost to #180 Paulo Henrique Costa |
| 41 | 43 | Jan Blachowicz | LH | 28.24 | 18-6-0 | UFC | |
| 42 | 44 | Timofey Nastyukhin | LW | 28.18 | 5-3-0 | One | |
| 40 | 45 | Fabricio Werdum | HW | 28.15 | 23-8-1 | UFC | --last rated win -21 months. |
| 43 | 46 | Vadim Nemkov | LH | 28.05 | 5-2-0 | Bell | |
| 44 | 47 | Philip De Fries | HW | 27.29 | 10-6-0 | KSW | |
| 45 | 48 | Charles Oliveira | LW | 27.19 | 18-8-0 | UFC | |
| 60 | 49 | Danny Kingad | FL | 27.10 | 4-0-0 | One | Beat #331 Reece McLaren |
| 46 | 50 | Curtis Blaydes | HW | 27.04 | 7-2-0 | UFC | |
| 47 | 51 | Marlon Moraes | BW | 26.91 | 17-4-0 | UFC | |
| 48 | 52 | Jon Fitch | WW | 26.83 | 30-6-2 | Bell | |
| 50 | 53 | Mateusz Gamrot | FW | 26.51 | 9-0-0 | KSW | |
| 52 | 54 | Justin Gaethje | LW | 26.36 | 14-2-0 | UFC | |
| 53 | 55 | Phil Davis | LH | 26.27 | 15-5-0 | Bell | |
| 78 | 56 | Martin Nguyen | FW | 26.20 | 6-2-0 | One | Beat #152 Koyomi Matsushima |
| 51 | 57 | Alexander Volkov | HW | 26.14 | 18-6-0 | UFC | --last rated win -17 months. |
| 49 | 58 | Anthony Johnson | LH | 26.13 | 21-6-0 | UFC | --last rated win -36 months. |
| 57 | 59 | Rory MacDonald | WW | 26.00 | 16-5-1 | Bell | |
| 55 | 60 | Brian Ortega | FW | 25.85 | 7-1-0 | UFC | --last rated win -17 months. |
| 58 | 61 | Diego Ferreira | LW | 25.77 | 9-2-0 | UFC | |
| 103 | 62 | Cory Sandhagen | BW | 25.73 | 5-1-0 | UFC | Beat #100 Raphael Assuncao |
| 59 | 63 | Ramazan Emeev | WW | 25.72 | 11-1-0 | UFC | |
| 87 | 64 | Vicente Luque | WW | 25.32 | 8-1-0 | UFC | Beat #165 Mike Perry |
| 61 | 65 | Zabit Magomedsharipov | FW | 25.12 | 8-0-0 | UFC | |
| 109 | 66 | Nate Diaz | WW | 25.00 | 18-11-0 | UFC | Beat #108 Anthony Pettis |
| 64 | 67 | Victor Henry | BW | 24.63 | 12-4-0 | Rizi | Beat #1982 Trent Girdham |
| 62 | 68 | Luke Rockhold | LH | 24.58 | 14-4-0 | UFC | --last rated win -23 months. |
| 65 | 69 | Ali Bagov | LW | 24.27 | 11-7-0 | ACB | |
| 66 | 70 | A.J. McKee | FW | 24.11 | 7-0-0 | Bell | |
| 63 | 71 | Michael Bisping | MW | 24.07 | 24-9-0 | UFC | --last rated win -34 months. |
| 67 | 72 | Mirko Filipovic | HW | 24.06 | 34-11-2 | Bell | |
| 68 | 73 | Donald Cerrone | LW | 23.95 | 33-12-0 | UFC | |
| 71 | 74 | James Nakashima | WW | 23.60 | 9-0-0 | One | Beat #1899 Yushin Okami |
| 69 | 75 | Salman Zhamaldaev | FW | 23.51 | 9-0-0 | ACA | |
| 290 | 76 | Jingliang Li | WW | 23.34 | 10-3-0 | UFC | Beat #56 Elizeu Zaleski dos Santos |
| 72 | 77 | Tomasz Narkun | LH | 23.11 | 11-3-0 | KSW | |
| 73 | 78 | Islam Makhachev | LW | 23.11 | 10-1-0 | UFC | |
| 74 | 79 | Gregor Gillespie | LW | 23.07 | 5-0-0 | UFC | |
| 70 | 80 | Cain Velasquez | HW | 22.95 | 12-3-0 | UFC | --last rated win -37 months. |
| 75 | 81 | Patricky Freire | LW | 22.91 | 13-7-0 | Bell | |
| 76 | 82 | Dan Ige | FW | 22.84 | 4-0-0 | UFC | |
| 77 | 83 | Jared Cannonier | MW | 22.74 | 5-4-0 | UFC | |
| 190 | 84 | Derek Brunson | MW | 22.74 | 15-7-0 | UFC | Beat #93 Ian Heinisch |
| 79 | 85 | Shintaro Ishiwatari | BW | 22.70 | 19-6-3 | Rizi | |
| 80 | 86 | Petr Yan | BW | 22.66 | 7-0-0 | UFC | |
| 81 | 87 | Magomed Magomedkerimov | WW | 22.50 | 9-0-0 | Prof | |
| 82 | 88 | Junior dos Santos | HW | 22.32 | 15-5-0 | UFC | |
| 83 | 89 | Andre Harrison | FW | 22.28 | 13-1-1 | Prof | |
| 84 | 90 | Ronaldo Souza | MW | 22.27 | 22-6-0 | UFC | |
| 85 | 91 | Lyoto Machida | MW | 22.19 | 25-8-0 | Bell | |
| 88 | 92 | Demian Maia | WW | 21.95 | 25-9-0 | UFC | |
| 89 | 93 | Natan Schulte | LW | 21.82 | 7-1-1 | Prof | |
| 90 | 94 | Calvin Kattar | FW | 21.75 | 10-2-0 | UFC | |
| 91 | 95 | Ryogo Takahashi | FW | 21.74 | 10-3-0 | Shoo | |
| 92 | 96 | Rafael 'Morcego' Silva | BW | 21.71 | 8-3-0 | Panc | |
| 94 | 97 | Geoff Neal | WW | 21.59 | 7-1-0 | UFC | |
| 266 | 98 | Gilbert Burns | WW | 21.54 | 9-3-0 | UFC | Beat #86 Alexey Kunchenko |
| 95 | 99 | Christian Lee | LW | 21.46 | 6-2-0 | One | |
| 96 | 100 | Alexander Hernandez | LW | 21.34 | 5-1-0 | UFC |