UFC gentle heavyweight champion Alex Pereira could have pulled off the most important win of the evening at UFC 307 on Saturday, but it surely wasn’t sufficient to maneuver him up within the pound-for-pound rankings.
As an alternative, the most important winners (and risers) from the weekend reside within the girls’s bantamweight division, as newly topped girls’s bantamweight champ Julianna Peña and Kayla Harrison scored large victories to arrange what ought to be the following battle for the 135-pound throne.
The wins for Peña and Harrison prompted a small shift within the girls’s P4P rankings, as Harrison moved up one spot to No. 5 with a unanimous choice win over Ketlen Vieira and Peña reenters the rankings at No. 8 following a break up choice win over Raquel Pennington.
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Observe: Outcomes are present; rankings as of Oct. 8. To be eligible for the rankings, a fighter will need to have competed over the previous 12 months or will need to have an upcoming battle booked. Fighters who’ve been dropped for inactivity might be reinstated solely after they compete.
Males’s pound-for-pound rankings
UFC light-weight champion
Document: 26-1
Final: W (Sub5) vs. Dustin Poirier, June 1, 2024
Subsequent: TBD
2. Alex Pereira 
UFC gentle heavyweight champion
Document: 11-2
Final: W (TKO4) vs. Khalil Rountree Jr., Oct. 5, 2024
Subsequent: TBD
3. Ilia Topuria
UFC featherweight champion
Document: 15-0
Final: W (KO2) vs. Alexander Volkanovski, Feb. 17, 2024
Subsequent: Oct. 26 vs. Max Holloway
UFC flyweight champion
Earlier rating: 6
Document: 28-5
Final: W (UD) vs. Steve Erceg, Could 4, 2024
Subsequent: TBD
5. Tom Aspinall
UFC heavyweight interim champion
Document: 15-3
Final: W (TKO1) vs. Curtis Blaydes, July 27, 2024
Subsequent: TBD
UFC bantamweight champion
Earlier rating: Unranked
Document: 18-4
Final: W (UD) vs. Sean O’Malley, Sept.14, 2024
Subsequent: TBD
UFC welterweight champion
Earlier rating: 8
Document: 24-3, 1 NC
Final: W (UD) vs. Leon Edwards, July 27, 2024
Subsequent: TBD
UFC featherweight
Earlier rating: 7
Document: 26-4
Final: L (KO2) vs. Ilia Topuria, Feb. 17, 2024
Subsequent: TBD
UFC middleweight champion
Document: 22-2
Final: W (Sub4) vs. Israel Adesanya, Aug.17, 2024
Subsequent: TBD
10. Max Holloway
UFC featherweight
Earlier rating: Tied for 9
Document: 26-7
Final: W (KO5) vs. Justin Gaethje, April 13, 2024
Subsequent: Oct. 26 vs. Ilia Topuria
Different fighters receiving votes: Leon Edwards, Sean O’Malley and Sean Strickland.
How our panel voted
Brett Okamoto: 1. Islam Makhachev; 2. Alex Pereira; 3. Ilia Topuria; 4. Tom Aspinall; 5. Alexandre Pantoja; 6. Belal Muhammad; 7. Merab Dvalishvili; 8. Alexander Volkanovski; 9. Max Holloway; 10. Dricus Du Plessis.
Andreas Hale: 1. Makhachev; 2. Pereira; 3. Topuria; 4. Aspinall; 5. Dvalishvili; 6. Muhammad; 7. Pantoja; 8. Volkanovski; 9. Holloway; 10. Du Plessis.
Megan Anderson: 1. Makhachev; 2. Pereira; 3. Aspinall; 4. Topuria; 5. Volkanovski; 6. Du Plessis; 7. Pantoja; 8. Muhammad; 9. Dvalishvili; 10. Sean O’Malley.
Carlos Contreras Legaspi: 1. Makhachev; 2. Pereira; 3. Topuria; 4. Du Plessis; 5. Pantoja; 6. Dvalishvili; 7. Muhammad; 8. Aspinall; 9. O’Malley; 10. Leon Edwards.
Ian Parker: 1. Pereira; 2. Makhachev; 3. Topuria; 4. Dvalishvili; 5. Holloway; 6. Du Plessis; 7. Pantoja; 8. Muhammad; 9. Aspinall; 10. Sean Strickland.
Eddie Maisonet III: 1. Makhachev; 2. Pereira; 3. Pantoja; 4. Volkanovski; 5. Topuria; 6. Muhammad; 7. Edwards; 8. Holloway; 9. Aspinall; 10. O’Malley.
Jeff Wagenheim: 1. Pereira; 2. Makhachev; 3. Topuria; 4. Aspinall; 5. Pantoja; 6. Dvalishvili; 7. Holloway; 8. Volkanovski; 9. Muhammad; 10. Du Plessis.
Ladies’s pound-for-pound rankings
1. Zhang Weili
UFC strawweight champion
Document: 25-3
Final: W (UD) vs. Yan Xiaonan, April 13, 2024
Subsequent: TBD
UFC flyweight champion
Document: 23-4-1
Final: W (UD) vs. Alexa Grasso, Sept. 14, 2024
Subsequent: TBD
3. Alexa Grasso
UFC flyweight
Document: 16-4-1
Final: L (UD) vs. Valentina Shevchenko, Sept. 14, 2024
Subsequent: TBD
4. Cris Cyborg
Bellator featherweight champion
Document: 27-2, 1 NC
Final: W (TKO1) vs. Cat Zingano, Oct. 7, 2023
Subsequent: Oct. 19 vs. Larissa Pacheco
UFC bantamweight
Earlier rating: 6
Document: 18-1
Final: W (UD) vs. Ketlen Vieira, Oct. 5, 2024
Subsequent: TBD
6. Manon Fiorot 
UFC flyweight
Earlier rating: 5
Document: 12-1
Final: W (UD) vs. Erin Blanchfield, March 30, 2024
Subsequent: TBD
PFL featherweight champion
Earlier rating: 8
Document: 23-4
Final: W (UD) vs. Marina Mokhnatkina, Nov. 24, 2023
Subsequent: Oct. 19 vs. Cris Cyborg
UFC bantamweight champion
Earlier rating: N/A
Document: 13-5
Final: W (SD) vs. Raquel Pennington, Oct. 5, 2024
Subsequent: TBD
UFC flyweight
Document: 12-2
Final: L (UD) vs. Manon Fiorot, March 30, 2024
Subsequent: Nov. 2 vs. Rose Namajunas
10. Yan Xiaonan
UFC strawweight
Document: 17-4, 1 NC
Final: L (UD) vs. Zhang Weili, April 13, 2024
Subsequent: TBD
Different fighters receiving votes: Rose Namajunas, Raquel Pennington, Seika Izawa, Amanda Lemos and Julianna Peña.
How our panel voted
Brett Okamoto: 1. Zhang Weili; 2. Valentina Shevchenko; 3. Alexa Grasso; 4. Manon Fiorot; 5. Cris Cyborg. 6. Rose Namajunas; 7. Erin Blanchfield; 8. Kayla Harrison; 9. Larissa Pacheco; 10. Yan Xiaonan.
Andreas Hale: 1. Zhang; 2. Shevchenko; 3. Grasso; 4. Cyborg; 5. Fiorot; 6. Harrison; 7. Pacheco; 8. Namajunas; 9. Peña; 10. Blanchfield.
Megan Anderson: 1. Zhang; 2. Shevchenko; 3. Cyborg; 4. Grasso; 5. Fiorot; 6. Harrison; 7. Peña; 8. Yan; 9. Pacheco; 10. Blanchfield.
Carlos Contreras Legaspi: 1. Shevchenko; 2. Zhang; 3. Grasso; 4. Harrison; 5. Cyborg; 6. Peña; 7. Raquel Pennington; 8. Pacheco; 9. Fiorot; 10. Blanchfield.
Ian Parker: 1. Zhang; 2. Shevchenko; 3. Cyborg; 4. Harrison; 5. Grasso; 6. Yan; 7. Peña; 8. Pacheco; 9. Fiorot; 10. Namajunas.
Eddie Maisonet III: 1. Zhang; 2. Shevchenko; 3. Grasso; 4. Pacheco; 5. Cyborg; 6. Harrison; 7. Peña; 8. Fiorot; 9. Blanchfield; 10. Amanda Lemos.
Jeff Wagenheim: 1. Zhang; 2. Shevchenko; 3. Cyborg; 4. Fiorot; 5. Grasso; 6. Harrison; 7. Yan; 8. Blanchfield; 9. Izawa; 10. Peña.