Who will close out 2024 as UFC champions? Here are the odds by division
The UFC is coming off a near record year in terms of title turnover, and it’ll be interesting to see if that continues in 2024.
In 2023, UFC championships changed hands 11 times, including two interim champions, which tied for the second most title changes in the promotion’s history. With UFC Fight Night 234 set to kick off the new year of events, it’s the perfect time to see how oddsmakers view each division and who could be UFC champions when the calendar reaches December 31, 2024.
The odds via DraftKings are broken down below by division and include the top 10, but before you check them out, here are some notes that stand out:
Former middleweight champion Israel Adesanya, who’s failed once to win the light heavyweight title, has the sixth-highest odds at +800 to end the year as 205-pound champion.
Bo Nickal, who’s currently unranked at middleweight, has the fifth-highest odds at +550 to end the year as 185-pound champion.
Islam Makhachev, the current lightweight champion, has the fourth-highest odds at +500 to end the year as welterweight champion.
Conor McGregor, who hasn’t won a lightweight fight since November 2016, has the eighth-highest odds at +3500 to end he year as 15-pound champion.
Former bantamweight champion Aljamain Sterling, who is set to make his featherweight debut at UFC 300, has the third-highest odds at +550 to end the year as 145-pound champion.
Former women’s flyweight champion Valentina Shevchenko, who fell short before to claim the bantamweight title, has the sixth-highest odds at +750 to end the year as 135-pound champion.
Heavyweight
Jon Jones +170
Tom Aspinall +175
Jailton Almeida +300
Sergei Pavlovich +600
Ciryl Gane + 700
Stipe Miocic +1000
Curtis Blaydes +2000
Alexander Volkov +2500
Serghei Spivac +3000
Shamil Gaziev +5000
Light heavyweight
Alex Pereira +200
Jamahal Hill +300
Magomed Ankalaev +450
Aleksandar Rakic +800
Jiri Prochazka +800
Israel Adesanya +800
Azamat Murzakanov +1200
Nikita Krylov +3500
Khalil Rountree +3500
Johnny Walker +3500
Middleweight
Khamzat Chimaev +100
Israel Adesanya +300
Sean Strickland +400
Dricus Du Plessis +500
Bo Nickal +550
Ikram Aliskerov +700
Brendan Allen +1500
Jared Cannonier +1600
Robert Whittaker +2000
Anthony Hernandez +2000
Welterweight
Leon Edwards +100
Shavkat Rakhmonov +200
Belal Muhammad +300
Islam Makhachev +500
Ian Machado Garry +1100
Sean Brady +1100
Kamaru Usman +1100
Jack Della Maddalena +3500
Gilbert Burns +3500
Michael Morales +3500
Lightweight
Islam Makhachev -300
Arman Tsarukyan +250
Charles Oliveira +350
Benoit Saint-Denis +450
Justin Gaethje +500
Dustin Poirier +500
Mateusz Gamrot +2000
Conor McGregor +3500
Michael Chandler +4000
Rafael Fiziev +7500
Featherweight
Bantamweight
Sean O’Malley +150
Merab Dvalishvili +250
Umar Nurmagomedov +275
Aljamain Sterling +350
Cory Sandhagen +500
Henry Cejudo +600
Marlon Vera +1000
Song Yadong +1000
Petr Yan +2500
Jonathan Martinez +2500
Flyweight
Alexandre Pantoja +120
Brandon Moreno +250
Amir Albazi +400
Manel Kape +650
Muhammad Mokaev +800
Brandon Royval +1000
Kai Kara-France +1400
Tagir Ulanbekov +2500
Matheus Nicolau +2500
Tatsuro Taira +3000
Women's bantamweight
Women's flyweight
Alexa Grasso +150
Erin Blanchfield +210
Manon Fiorot +300
Valentina Shevchenko +350
Zhang Weili +350
Taila Santos +1500
Maycee Barber +1800
Rose Namajunas +2000
Jessica Andrade +2200
Natalia Silva +2500
Strawweight
Zhang Weili -125
Tatiana Suarez +140
Yan Xiaonan +350
Amanda Lemos +900
Carla Esparza +1100
Loopy Godinez +1500
Rose Namajunas +1600
Jessica Andrade +3000
Virna Jandiroba +3500
Marina Rodriguez +5000