Every month, Combat Press will provide MMA rankings for each weight class from heavyweight to flyweight, as well as the pound-for-pound rankings, including male and female athletes.
Note: the numbers in parentheses represent the fighter’s ranking from the previous month.
- Francis Ngannou (1)
- Ciryl Gane (2)
- Tom Aspinall (3)
- Alexander Volkov (4)
- Curtis Blaydes (5)
- Sergei Pavlovich (6)
- Rizvan Kuniev (7)
- Jailton Almeida (8)
- Waldo Cortes-Acosta (9)
- Serghei Spivac (10)
No top-10 fighters were in action this month, so the rankings remain unchanged.
- Alex Pereira (1)
- Magomed Ankalaev (2)
- Jiří Procházka (3)
- Khalil Rountree Jr. (4)
- Carlos Ulberg (5)
- Azamat Murzakanov (6)
- Corey Anderson (7)
- Jamahal Hill (8)
- Jan Błachowicz (9)
- Aleksandar Rakić (10)
No top-10 fighters were in action this month, so the rankings remain unchanged.
- Khamzat Chimaev (1)
- Dricus du Plessis (2)
- Sean Strickland (3)
- Nassourdine Imavov (4)
- Joe Pyfer (-)
- Brendan Allen (6)
- Israel Adesanya (5)
- Anthony Hernandez (9)
- Caio Borralho (-)
- Reinier de Ridder (7)
Dropped from the rankings: Robert Whittaker (8), Paulo Costa (10)
At UFC 326 on March 7, No. 7 Reinier de Ridder lost a unanimous decision to unranked Caio Borralho. Later in the month, No. 5 Israel Adesanya suffered a second-round TKO loss to unranked Joe Pyfer in the UFC Seattle main event. De Ridder drops to No. 10, Adesanya drops to No. 7, Pyfer enters at No. 5, and Borralho enters at No. 9. Robert Whittaker and Paulo Costa both fall out of the top 10.
- Islam Makhachev (1)
- Jack Della Maddalena (2)
- Shavkat Rakhmonov (3)
- Michael Morales (4)
- Ian Machado Garry (5)
- Sean Brady (6)
- Carlos Prates (7)
- Belal Muhammad (8)
- Joaquin Buckley (9)
- Ramazan Kuramagomedov (10)
No top-10 fighters were in action this month, so the rankings remain unchanged.
- Islam Makhachev (1)
- Ilia Topuria (2)
- Arman Tsarukyan (3)
- Charles Oliveira (4)
- Justin Gaethje (5)
- Max Holloway (6)
- Paddy Pimblett (7)
- Benoît Saint Denis (8)
- Mateusz Gamrot (9)
- Dan Hooker (10)
At UFC 326 on March 7, No. 4 Charles Oliveira defeated No. 6 Max Holloway by unanimous decision to win the symbolic UFC BMF championship. The rankings remain unchanged.
- Alex Volkanovski (1)
- Diego Lopes (2)
- Yair Rodriguez (3)
- Aljamain Sterling (4)
- Movsar Evloev (5)
- Brian Ortega (6)
- Lerone Murphy (7)
- Jean Silva (8)
- Patricio “Pitbull” Freire (9)
- David Onama (10)
At UFC London on March 21, No. 6 Movsar Evloev handed No. 8 Lerone Murphy his first professional loss, winning by majority decision after receiving a one-point deduction for repeated low blows. The rankings remain unchanged.
- Petr Yan (1)
- Merab Dvalishvili (2)
- Sean O’Malley (3)
- Umar Nurmagomedov (4)
- Cory Sandhagen (5)
- Deiveson Figueiredo (6)
- Song Yadong (7)
- Aiemann Zahabi (8)
- Mario Bautista (9)
- David Martinez (10)
No top-10 fighters were in action this month, so the rankings remain unchanged.
- Joshua Van (1)
- Alexandre Pantoja (2)
- Tatsuro Taira (3)
- Manel Kape (4)
- Kyoji Horiguchi (5)
- Lone’er Kavanagh (6)
- Amir Albazi (7)
- Muhammad Mokaev (8)
- Brandon Moreno (9)
- Brandon Royval (10)
No top-10 fighters were in action this month, so the rankings remain unchanged.
- Islam Makhachev (1)
- Ilia Topuria (2)
- Alexander Volkanovksi (3)
- Charles Oliveira (-)
- Max Holloway (4)
- Jack Della Maddalena (5)
- Valentina Shevchenko (6)
- Alex Pereira (7)
- Justin Gaethje (8)
- Joshua Van (10)
Dropped from the rankings: Magomed Ankalaev (9)
No. 5 Max Holloway was the only pound-for-pound-ranked fighter in action during March, and he lost the symbolic UFC BMF championship to Charles Oliveira by unanimous decision. Oliveira enters the rankings at No. 4, and Magomed Ankalaev falls out of the top 10.
Editor’s Note: Fighters are eligible to be ranked if they have competed in the last 18 months. Any fighter that chooses to switch weight classes will be ranked in their previous weight class until they have competed twice in their new division. Fighters who announce their retirement will remain ranked for a period of six months following their final bout.