UFC Rankings Shake-Up After UFC Fight Night: Muhammad vs. Bonfim
Gabriel Bonfim's finish of former welterweight champion Belal Muhammad at UFC Fight Night: Muhammad vs. Bonfim on June 6 is the defining move of Tuesday's rankings update. Bonfim jumped six spots in the welterweight division, from number eleven to number five — the biggest single-card jump the 170-pound division has seen in recent memory. Muhammad dropped two places to number seven.
Biggest Movers
| Fighter | Division | Old Rank | New Rank | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gabriel Bonfim | Welterweight | #11 | #5 | +6 |
| Belal Muhammad | Welterweight | #5 | #7 | -2 |
| Caio Borralho | Middleweight | #4 | #5 | -1 |
| Leon Edwards | Welterweight | #7 | #8 | -1 |
| Kamaru Usman | Welterweight | #8 | #9 | -1 |
| Joaquin Buckley | Welterweight | #9 | #10 | -1 |
| Yaroslav Amosov | Welterweight | #10 | #11 | -1 |
| Karol Rosa | Women's Bantamweight | #9 | #8 | +1 |
Welterweight: Bonfim Rewrites His Standing
Gabriel Bonfim entered Saturday's main event ranked eleventh and left it ranked fifth. The Brazilian ended Belal Muhammad's night to deliver the most consequential performance of the card. Muhammad, the former UFC welterweight champion who lost the belt to Jack Della Maddalena in 2025, had returned to Las Vegas looking to rebuild toward another title shot. He came in ranked fifth. He was finished instead.
The six-spot jump for Bonfim is rare. Rankings committees move in small increments; a six-position leap in a single week signals that Bonfim's win was considered a clear step-change in his standing, not a marginal improvement. At 20-1 and just 20 years old, he has now beaten a former champion and enters the top five of one of the UFC's deepest divisions. No welterweight in the top fifteen can afford to overlook what Bonfim just proved.
Muhammad at number seven is still inside the top ten but outside the threshold that matters most. His two-spot drop reflects both the loss and the reality that being ranked fifth as a former champion — with limited activity since losing the title — made him vulnerable. A win over a live contender in the top five at welterweight would put him back in position. For now, he needs to fight again and needs to win.
The rest of the welterweight division shifted by one position each to absorb Bonfim's move. Leon Edwards falls from seven to eight. Kamaru Usman goes to nine. Joaquin Buckley drops to ten. Yaroslav Amosov slides to eleven. None of them fought on this card. These are arithmetic consequences of one fighter's big night moving the pieces below him. Michael Page gains one spot to number thirteen while Uroš Medić falls one to fourteen.
The welterweight title picture, with a deep field of contenders from number one through five, has just added Bonfim as a legitimate voice in that conversation. He is 20 years old and has beaten a former champion. The runway is obvious.
Middleweight: Borralho and Pyfer Each Drop One
Caio Borralho falls from number four to number five. Joe Pyfer moves from number six to number seven. Both fighters were absent from the June 6 card. Their drops are tied to the co-main event at UFC Vegas 118, where Brendan Allen was in action at 185 pounds. The committee adjusted the middle of the middleweight division in response to that bout, shifting Borralho and Pyfer one spot each as the rankings settled.
The top of the middleweight division — the champion and the contenders ranked one through three — remains unchanged.
Women's Bantamweight: Minor Adjustments
Karol Rosa gains one position to number eight. Macy Chiasson falls one to number nine. Lower down, Beatriz Mesquita rises one spot to number thirteen while Michelle Montague drops one to number fourteen. No women's bantamweight bouts appeared on the Las Vegas card; these are committee activity adjustments.
Other Notes
In flyweight, Alex Perez climbs one spot to number eleven while Tim Elliott drops one to number twelve. Beneil Dariush moves up one to number fourteen at lightweight. These are minor roster-activity adjustments not tied to specific results from this card.
The story of this week's UFC rankings update is straightforward: Bonfim finished Muhammad, the committee rewarded him immediately with the largest jump the welterweight division has seen in recent memory, and everyone ranked between five and eleven at 170 pounds moved one spot down. Six positions gained in a single night. At 20-1, that record now belongs inside the top five of the welterweight division — and Bonfim looks every bit like a name who will matter more as 2026 unfolds.