Where the Light Heavyweight division stood when 2023 finished, taken from the 43 ranking tables the UFC published for it that year. This is the archive, not today’s table — the current Light Heavyweight rankings are one click away.
The last Light Heavyweight table the UFC published in 2023, dated 19 December 2023. The right-hand column is the change since 19 December 2022 — the table this page measures the year from.
| Rank | Fighter | On the year |
|---|---|---|
| ChampionC | Alex Pereira | NEW |
| 1 | Jamahal Hill | ↑6 |
| 2 | Jiří Procházka | ↓1 |
| 3 | Magomed Ankalaev | — |
| 4 | Jan Błachowicz | — |
| 5 | Aleksandar Rakić | — |
| 6 | Nikita Krylov | ↑2 |
| 7 | Johnny Walker | ↑5 |
| 8 | Khalil Rountree Jr. | ↑7 |
| 9 | Volkan Oezdemir | ↑1 |
| 10 | Anthony Smith | ↓4 |
| 11 | Ryan Spann | — |
| 12 | Alonzo Menifield | NEW |
| 13 | Azamat Murzakanov | NEW |
| 14 | Dominick Reyes | ↓1 |
| 15 | Dustin Jacoby | NEW |
A ranking here is a ranking the UFC published on that date, not our order and not a re-run of it.
Measured between the last table of 2022 on the record (19 December 2022) and the last table of 2023 (19 December 2023).
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.
A year gets a page here only where the UFC published at least 10 Light Heavyweight 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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