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Official UFC rankings — the 2018 archive

Flyweight rankings, 2018

Where the Flyweight division stood when 2018 finished, taken from the 37 ranking tables the UFC published for it that year. This is the archive, not today’s table — the current Flyweight rankings are one click away.

The official UFC rankings, taken from ufc.com. 37 published tables in 2018, 1 January 2018 to 17 December 2018. 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 2018 finished

The last Flyweight table the UFC published in 2018, dated 17 December 2018. The right-hand column is the change since 18 December 2017 — the table this page measures the year from.

The UFC’s published ranking table of 17 December 2018
RankFighterOn the year
ChampionCHenry Cejudo↑2
1Jussier Formiga↑3
2Joseph Benavidez↓1
3Ray Borg—
4Deiveson Figueiredo↑10
5John Moraga↑4
6Wilson Reis—
7Alexandre Pantoja↑5
8Dustin Ortiz↑2
9Alex PerezNEW
10Tim Elliott↑1
11Magomed Bibulatov↑4
12Said NurmagomedovNEW
13Ryan BenoitNEW
14Eric SheltonNEW
15Matt SchnellNEW

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 2018

Measured between the last table of 2017 on the record (18 December 2017) and the last table of 2018 (17 December 2018).

The champion line

  • 18 December 2017 · the year opens with Demetrious Johnson in the champion line
  • 6 August 2018 · Henry Cejudo takes the champion line from Demetrious Johnson

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.

Flyweight rankings, year by year

A year gets a page here only where the UFC published at least 10 Flyweight 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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