UFC Women's Pound for Pound 2025

Last Modified May 28, 2025 04:37 GMT

Even though the UFC rankings officially started in February 2013. Women were added to the pound-for-pound rankings for the first time in December 2013. Ronda Rousey, the then UFC Women's Bantamweight champion, became the first female fighter from UFC to debut in the rankings at No.10.

Active women fighters are ranked in the official UFC rankings by pound-for-pound and the respective weight divisions, namely Strawweight, Flyweight, and Bantamweight.

As there aren't enough women competing in the Women's Featherweight division, the rankings for the same are not available since they are not voted upon by MMA media members.

As of February 2025, Alexa Grasso is the current #1 ranked women's pound-for-pound fighter in the UFC.

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UFC Women's Pound-for-Pound Rankings 2025

RankFighterRecordWin StreakMWeight classNext Fight
1Valentina Shevchenko25–4–12 Flyweight
2Zhang Weili26–35 Strawweight
3Julianna Peña12–51 Bantamweight
UFC 316 Kayla Harrison
4Manon Fiorot12–20 Flyweight
5Alexa Grasso16–5–10 Flyweight
6Erin Blanchfield13–21 Flyweight
UFC on ESPN 68 Maycee Barber
7Kayla Harrison18–13 Bantamweight
UFC 316 Julianna Peña
8Natália Silva19–5–113 Flyweight
9Virna Jandiroba22–35 Strawweight
10Raquel Pennington16–90 Bantamweight
11Rose Namajunas13–70 Flyweight
UFC on ESPN 69 Miranda Maverick
12Tatiana Suarez10–10 Strawweight
13Yan Xiaonan18–5 (1 NC)0 Strawweight
14Maycee Barber14–26 Flyweight
UFC on ESPN 68 Erin Blanchfield
15Amanda Lemos15–4–11 Strawweight

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A. Valentina Shevchenko is the #1 Women's pound-for-pound fighter in the UFC. She competes in the Women's Flyweight division.

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