SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA - AUGUST 22: Reinier de Ridder of The Netherlands reacts after a victory against Roman Dolidze of Georgia in a light heavyweight fight during the UFC Fight Night event at Golden 1 Center on August 22, 2026 in Sacramento, California. (Photo by Jeff Bottari/Zuffa LLC) It only took Reinier de Ridder one victory over an unranked fighter to debut in the Top 10 at 205 pounds. The former middleweight contender jumped to the light heavyweight division at UFC Sacramento last weekend in California, where he summarily disposed of longtime veteran Roman Dolidze. The 35-year-old “Dutch Knight” (22-4) landed at No. 9 in the official Meta Rankings, sandwiched between Dominick Reyes (No. 8) and Azamat Murzakanov (No. 10). That’s not all. Jamall Emmers made his debut in the featherweight rankings by hospitalizing red-hot 145-pound prospect Lerryan Douglas with a broken orbital. In addition, “Crispy” Carli Judice joined the women’s flyweight Top 15 after stopping Jeisla Chaves in the opening frame. Victorious main card players Gregory Rodrigues and Vitor Petrino also made big moves in their respective divisions. Check out the updated UFC Meta Rankings below (for an explanation on how they work click here). UFC META RANKINGS FLYWEIGHT Champion: Joshua Van 1. Alexandre Pantoja 2. Manel Kape 3. Brandon Royval 4. Tatsuro Taira 5. Asu Almabayev 6. Lone’er Kavanagh 7. Ramazan Temirov 8. Kyoji Horiguchi 9. Amir Albazi 10. Brandon Moreno 11. Kevin Borjas 12. Mitch Raposo 13. Sumudaerji 14. Charles Johnson 15. Alessandro Costa BANTAMWEIGHT Champion: Petr Yan 1. Merab Dvalishvili 2. Umar Nurmagomedov 3. Sean O’Malley 4. Mario Bautista 5. Cory Sandhagen 6. Song Yadong 7. David Martinez 8. Raoni Barcelos 9. Farid Basharat 10. Marcus McGhee 11. Deiveson Figueiredo 12. Charles Jourdain +1 13. Aiemann Zahabi -1 14. Bryce Mitchell 15. Montel Jackson FEATHERWEIGHT Champion: Alexander Volkanovski 1. Movsar Evloev 2. Diego Lopes 3. Lerone Murphy 4. Aljamain Sterling 5. Arnold Allen 6. Jean Silva 7. Pat Sabatini 8. Nathaniel Wood 9. Youssef Zalal 10. Kevin Vallejos 11. Melquizael Costa 12. Steve Garcia 13. Aaron Pico 14. Jamal Emmers *NR 15. Jose Miguel Delgado -1 LIGHTWEIGHT Champion: Justin Gaethje 1. Ilia Topuria 2. Arman Tsarukyan 3. Charles Oliveira 4. Max Holloway 5. Paddy Pimblett 6. Quillan Salkilld 7. Renato Moicano 8. Benoit Saint Denis 9. Mateusz Gamrot 10. Mauricio Ruffy 11. Tom Nolan 12. Dan Hooker 13. Rafael Fiziev 14. Tofiq Musayev 15. Grant Dawson WELTERWEIGHT Champion: Islam Makhachev 1. Carlos Prates 2. Ian Machado Garry 3. Michael Morales 4. Jack Della Maddalena 5. Sean Brady 6. Gabriel Bonfim 7. Belal Muhammad 8. Leon Edwards 9. Joaquin Buckley 10. Uros Medic 11. Kamaru Usman 12. Mike Malott 13. Yaroslav Amosov 14. Kevin Holland 15. Daniel Rodriguez MIDDLEWEIGHT Champion: Sean Strickland 1. Khamzat Chimaev 2. Dricus Du Plessis 3. Nassourdine Imavov 4. Joe Pyfer 5. Brendan Allen 6. Caio Borralho 7. Gregory Rodrigues +3 8. Michael Page 9. Anthony Hernandez -2 10. Israel Adesanya -1 11. Christian Leroy Duncan 12. Ikram Aliskerov 13. Bo Nickal 14. Abus Magomedov 15. Nursulton Ruziboev LIGHT HEAVYWEIGHT Champion: Carlos Ulberg 1. Alex Pereira 2. Magomed Ankalaev 3. Jiri Prochazka 4. Paulo Costa 5. Jamahal Hill 6. Khalil Rountree 7. Navajo Stirling 8. Dominick Reyes 9. Reinier de Ridder *NR 10. Azamat Murzakanov -1 11. Bogdan Guskov -1 12. Robert Whittaker -1 13. Alonzo Menifield -1 14. Johnny Walker -1 15. Muhammad Saidov -1 HEAVYWEIGHT Champion: Tom Aspinall 1. Ciryl Gane 2. Alexander Volkov 3. Sergei Pavlovich 4. Alex Pereira 5. Rizvan Kuniev 6. Josh Hokit 7. Waldo Cortes Acosta 8. Vitor Petrino +3 9. Valter Walker -1 10. Curtis Blaydes 11. Brando Pericic +1 12. Mario Pinto +1 13. Serghei Spivac -4 14. Mick Parkin 15. Ryan Spann WOMEN’S STRAWWEIGHT Champion: Mackenzie Dern 1. Zhang Weili 2. Virna Jandiroba 3. Tatiana Suarez 4. Yan Xiaonan 5. Gillian Robertson 6. Fatima Klein 7. Alexia Thainara 8. Piera Rodriguez 9. Denise Gomes 10. Mizuki Inoue 11. Loopy Godinez 12. Tabatha Ricci 13. Jaqueline Amorim 14. Talita Alencar +1 15. Amanda Lemos -1 WOMEN’S FLYWEIGHT Champion: Valentina Shevchenko 1. Natalia Silva 2. Manon Fiorot 3. Alexa Grasso 4. Erin Blanchfield 5. Zhang Weili 6. Wang Cong 7. Jasmine Jasudavicius 8. Rose Namajunas 9. Maycee Barber 10. Tracy Cortez 11. Miranda Maverick 12. JJ Aldrich 13. Karine Silva 14. Eduarda Moura 15. Carli Judice *NR WOMEN’S BANTAMWEIGHT Champion: Kayla Harrison 1. Joselyne Edwards 2. Norma Dumont 3. Luana Santos 4. Ailin Perez 5. Julianna Pena 6. Yana Santos 7. Jacqueline Cavalcanti 8. Michelle Montague 9. Melissa Croden 10. Karol Rosa 11. Bia Mesquita 12. Macy Chiasson 13. Daria Zhelezniakova 14. Raquel Pennington 15. Klaudia Sygula The official media rankings have not been updated at the time of publishing and are expected to be phased out in the coming weeks. You can expect these rankings to change around this time next week, particularly in the bantamweight division, following the upcoming UFC Shanghai: “Nurmagomedov vs. Song” MMA event on Paramount+, scheduled for Sat., Aug. 29, 2026 at Shanghai Indoor Stadium in Shanghai, China. For much more on that upcoming fight card click here.