Light Heavyweight — champion and the ranked contenders, each with the record on file and our two headline derived scores. Tap any fighter for the full card: tale of the tape, strike-zone map and all six FightIQ Metrics.
Slide back through every Light Heavyweight table the UFC has published since the rankings began — 619 of them, 4 February 2013 to 12 October 2026. Drag the handle, or click it and use the arrow keys to step a table at a time.
The table at the top of this page is the live one of 14 October 2026. The newest stop below is 12 October 2026, the newest table in our rankings archive, so the two can differ by a place or two. Both are the UFC’s own tables; they are different weeks.
Official UFC.com official rankings · 619 published tables, 4 February 2013 to 12 October 2026
One stop on the slider is one published table, not one calendar week — the UFC has missed weeks, and every weight division has holes of a month or more in it. Where the table you have landed on sits the far side of one of those holes the panel says so, rather than sliding through weeks nobody published. Arrows compare the table on screen with the one published before it; a fighter who was not in that earlier table is marked NEW. Nothing here is interpolated: every row is a row the UFC published on the date shown.
Every light heavyweight fighter the UFC has ever put in this table, drawn through the tables themselves — 67 of them across 619 published weeks. The chart opens on the last 3 years; Full history pulls it back to 4 February 2013.
Official UFC.com official rankings · 619 published tables, 4 February 2013 to 12 October 2026
One step across is one published table, so the spacing is real time and the holes in it are real: where the UFC published nothing for a month or more, the line stops and starts again rather than being drawn through weeks nobody published. A line begins where a fighter enters the fifteen and ends where that fighter leaves it, and both ends carry a dot. The lane above number one is the champion, kept off the numbered ladder because a belt is not a rank; a week the title was vacant has nobody in that lane. Names down the right are the fifteen in the newest table on record — every other line gives its name when you hover it or reach it with the keyboard. Nothing here is interpolated: every corner is a rank the UFC published on the date under it.
One page per year: the last table the UFC published in it, who entered the rankings across it, who left, and every change in the champion line. Server-rendered from the same archive the slider above plays through.
Years with fewer than 10 published tables have no page of their own — that is the year a division opened or closed, and there is not a year of rankings in it to summarise.
9 fighters have held the light heavyweight title on the published tables since 4 February 2013, across 13 reigns and 3 spells with the belt vacant. The longest is Jon Jones, 90 weeks on the published tables.
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| # | Champion | From | To | Weeks on the published tables | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jon Jones | before the record begins | 20 April 2015 | 90 | +2 weeks the archive holds no table for |
| — | Title vacant | 27 April 2015 | 18 May 2015 | 3 | the tables record the belt as held by nobody |
| 2 | Daniel Cormier | 25 May 2015 | 26 July 2017 | 79 | +5 weeks the archive holds no table for |
| 3 | Jon Jones | 2 August 2017 | 13 September 2017 | 4 | +3 weeks the archive holds no table for |
| 4 | Daniel Cormier | 20 September 2017 | 17 December 2018 | 49 | +7 weeks the archive holds no table for |
| 5 | Jon Jones | 1 January 2019 | 17 August 2020 | 64 | +12 weeks the archive holds no table for |
| — | Title vacant | 24 August 2020 | 21 September 2020 | 5 | the tables record the belt as held by nobody |
| 6 | Jan Błachowicz | 28 September 2020 | 25 October 2021 | 47 | +3 weeks the archive holds no table for |
| 7 | Glover Teixeira | 2 November 2021 | 6 June 2022 | 25 | +3 weeks the archive holds no table for |
| 8 | Jiří Procházka | 13 June 2022 | 21 November 2022 | 20 | |
| — | Title vacant | 6 December 2022 | 17 January 2023 | 4 | the tables record the belt as held by nobody |
| 9 | Jamahal Hill | 24 January 2023 | 7 November 2023 | 37 | |
| 10 | Alex Pereira | 14 November 2023 | 9 March 2025 | 58 | +3 weeks the archive holds no table for |
| 11 | Magomed Ankalaev | 11 March 2025 | 2 October 2025 | 53 | |
| 12 | Alex Pereira | 7 October 2025 | 9 April 2026 | 47 | |
| 13 | Carlos Ulberg | 14 April 2026 | 12 October 2026 | 34 |
Official UFC.com official rankings · 619 published tables, 4 February 2013 to 12 October 2026
Every row is read off the champion line of the published tables and nothing else, so weeks are weeks on the published tables — one table, one week. Where the archive holds no table for a month or more the weeks inside that hole are counted in neither column; the reign is not broken by it, because there was no table for anybody else to be in. This is the undisputed title. The source puts an interim champion inside the numbered list rather than on the champion line, so an interim reign is not a row here — that is how the tables are published and we have not rewritten them. A reign already running when the first table appeared in February 2013 is marked: the record cannot see when it started, so we do not print a date for it.