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Official UFC rankings — the 2017 archive

Bantamweight rankings, 2017

Where the Bantamweight division stood when 2017 finished, taken from the 37 ranking tables the UFC published for it that year. This is the archive, not today’s table — the current Bantamweight rankings are one click away.

The official UFC rankings, taken from ufc.com. 37 published tables in 2017, 2 January 2017 to 18 December 2017. These are the UFC’s own tables, week by week — we did not invent them and we do not reorder them. Names link to our fighter pages where we hold one; a ranked fighter we have no page for is printed as plain text rather than dropped.

How 2017 finished

The last Bantamweight table the UFC published in 2017, dated 18 December 2017. The right-hand column is the change since 19 December 2016 — the table this page measures the year from.

The UFC’s published ranking table of 18 December 2017
RankFighterOn the year
ChampionCTJ Dillashaw↑1
1Cody Garbrandt↑4
2Dominick Cruz↓2
3Raphael Assuncao—
4Jimmie Rivera—
5Marlon MoraesNEW
6John Lineker↓4
7Bryan Caraway↓1
8John Dodson↑1
9Aljamain Sterling↓2
10Thomas Almeida—
11Pedro Munhoz↑2
12Eddie Wineland—
13Brett JohnsNEW
14Rob FontNEW
15Matthew LopezNEW

A ranking here is a ranking the UFC published on that date, not our order and not a re-run of it.

What changed in 2017

Measured between the last table of 2016 on the record (19 December 2016) and the last table of 2017 (18 December 2017).

The champion line

  • 19 December 2016 · the year opens with Dominick Cruz in the champion line
  • 2 January 2017 · Cody Garbrandt takes the champion line from Dominick Cruz
  • 8 November 2017 · TJ Dillashaw takes the champion line from Cody Garbrandt

Entering and leaving are counted across the whole published table, the champion line included, so a fighter who won the belt during the year is not double-counted as having left the numbered places. The number beside each name is where they sat on the table that names them. Movement inside the year that had reversed itself by December is not counted here — the division page’s week-by-week slider is where every table in between lives.

Bantamweight rankings, year by year

A year gets a page here only where the UFC published at least 10 Bantamweight tables in it. A year with three or four tables in it is the year a division opened or closed, and a “what changed this year” section built on three weeks in December would be titled as something it is not.

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