The rankings have been updated following the action at UFC 323 this past weekend. This past Saturday, the premier promotion returned to Las Vegas for UFC 323, which was the final PPV of the year, and the final PPV of the UFC’s long partnership with ESPN.
One new UFC champion may have an obvious first defense against a first-time opponent in 2026. Two titles changed hands at the final numbered event of this calendar year, with new kings crowned in both the bantamweight and flyweight divisions at UFC 323.
Khamzat Chimaev is done playing musical chairs with weight classes. The undefeated middleweight champion has now declared that he would defend his 185-lb belt one more time before finally moving up for good.
Henry Cejudo moved quickly to show respect to Payton Talbott after their fight on Saturday, leaving the young fighter holding back tears. Talbott had just put in a dominant performance at UFC 323, taking a unanimous decision over three rounds.
The UFC returns to the APEX for Vegas 112 fight night on December 13th, 2025. In a star-studded card packed with experienced veterans and rising underdogs, one stylistic matchup in the featherweight division is getting hard to ignore.
Former UFC women’s strawweight champion Joanna Jedrzejczyk has released a statement after a bizarre altercation was caught on camera this past weekend.
Since his arrival in the UFC in July 2020, Khamzat Chimaev seemed destined to become a champion. The undefeated Chechen lived up to those expectations winning the middleweight championship at UFC 319 by dominating then-titleholder Dricus Du Plessis.
Payton Talbott has insisted that his feud with Adin Ross is very real, and there is now a UFC bounty on his head from the streamer. The fast-rising bantamweight scored the best win of his career on Saturday night as he brutalized former two-weight world champion Henry Cejudo at UFC 323.
UFC 323 wasn’t supposed to end with a collective gasp. It was supposed to be a showdown between the division’s most decorated champion and its fastest-rising contender, a passing of the torch of sorts.
Former UFC bantamweight champion Aljamain Sterling believes Merab Dvalishvili’s performance at UFC 323 was far from his usual self. Dvalishvili (21-5 MMA, 14-3 UFC) lost his bantamweight title by unanimous decision to former champion Petr Yan.
Merab Dvalishvili doesn’t look like a man content to wait. Days after losing his bantamweight title to Petr Yan at UFC 323, ‘The Machine’ is already back on social media, posting a tongue-in-cheek Instagram carousel that flipped the roles from their careers past and present.
Former UFC strawweight champion Joanna Jedrzejczyk has broken her silence. Following a brief but heated backstage exchange with former light heavyweight champion Jamahal Hill, a moment captured in a nine-second video clip that surfaced Monday on social media.
The UFC 323 co-main event between flyweight champion Alexandre Pantoja and surging contender Joshua Van was poised to be a thrilling clash of styles and generations.
Henry Cejudo left Payton Talbott fighting back tears as he immediately paid tribute to the youngster after their fight on Saturday. The 27-year-old dominated Cejudo over three rounds at UFC 323, winning a unanimous decision in what ended up being the former two-weight world champion’s final fight.
Conor McGregor says only one thing awaits him if he returns to the Octagon: gold. The former two-division UFC champion has doubled down on his intent to compete at next summer’s historic UFC White House card, which is in active development for June 2026.
Tom Aspinall handed out a few end-of-year awards right after UFC 323 had wrapped up. The heavyweight champion watched the final pay-per-view event of the year from his living room, taking in a card full of unexpected results and standout performances.
Alex Pereira has already carved out an impressive career in the UFC, but now he is looking for a legacy-defining challenge that would put him in a league of his own.
Flyweight Brandon Royval takes on Manel Kape in the main event at UFC APEX this weekend in their final UFC bout of 2025, as we preview his upcoming fight.
A rematch 10 years in the making is officially on the horizon, as Max Holloway will face Charles Oliveira in the new main event scheduled for UFC 326 on March 7 at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.