World MMA Rankings: Top 25 fighter rankings by division
* Click on any division below for Top 50 World MMA Rankings. All fighters, regardless of promotion, are eligible to be ranked in the MMA World Rankings.
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MMA World Heavyweight Rankings (265) – Current #1 Fighter: Jon Jones
MMA World Light Heavyweight Rankings (205) – Current #1 Fighter: Alex Pereira
MMA World Middleweight Rankings (185) – Current #1 Fighter: Dricus Du Plessis
MMA World Welterweight Rankings (170) – Current #1 Fighter: Leon Edwards
MMA World Lightweight Rankings (155) – Current #1 Fighter: Islam Makhachev
MMA World Featherweight Rankings (145) – Current #1 Fighter: Ilia Topuria
MMA World Bantamweight Rankings (135) – Current #1 Fighter: Sean O’Malley
MMA World Flyweight Rankings (125) – Current #1 Fighter: Demetrious Johnson
MMA World Pound-4-Pound Rankings (Pound-4-Pound) – Current #1 Fighter: Islam Makhachev
MMA World Women’s Featherweight Rankings (145) – Current #1 Fighter: Cristiane Justino
MMA World Women’s Bantamweight Rankings (135) – Current #1 Fighter: Raquel Pennington
MMA World Women’s Flyweight Rankings (125) – Current #1 Fighter: Alexa Grasso
MMA World Women’s Strawweight Rankings (115) – Current #1 Fighter: Weili Zhang
MMA World Women’s Pound-4-Pound Rankings (Pound-4-Pound) – Current #1 Fighter: Cristiane Justino
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Hello,
I was wondering about the following statement…
“We are the only source that uses computerized analytics rankings system & actual fight footage to determine rankings similar. The reason we do this is to avoid ranking bias.
Here is the rankings criteria that encompasses a fighter ranking:
– Most recent performance
– Performance against top competition
– Estimated ability against future competition
– Strength of competition
– Activity in the last 3 years
– Last 5 fights ”
How does one avoid ranking bias by including criteria such as “performance” and “estimated ability”? What unbiased source is estimating everyone’s ability?
I like some of your guidelines, actually… last 3 years and last 5 fights are fair, but there is some obvious UFC bias at play here and some obvious personal bias. There is no way that an unbiased analytics evaluation is producing something that looks so close to the UFC rankings without a lot of biased modifiers applied.
What constitutes unbiased “strength of competition”? In these rankings, it doesn’t seem to be factual success rates. Is “strength of competition” something you’ve added personal bias to as well? If an American HW gets in a cage that says UFC on the canvass 3 times in 3 years, is his strength of competition automatically better than a Russian HW who gets in a cage 9 times in 3 years, because the canvass says some other name on it? Isn’t every MMA match taking a chance that some random strike doesn’t catch you? Can 2 wins in 3 tries over the course of 3 years really be miles above 9 wins in 9 tries?
It’s hard to see where any data analytics have come into play when the results end up so close to the heavily human-biased rankings produced by the UFC rankings panel.
What factual unbiased analytics would put Paul Craig, (who has 3 recent finish wins over your top 30), behind Dominic Reyes who has lost his last 3, (was finished in 2 of them), and in his last 5 fights only has 1 split decision win over your current top 30.
What kind of spin would one need, to have 3 top-30 finishes score lower than 3 straight losses and only one top-30 win, (a split decision)?
All that said, the web design here is really nice, so kudos for that.
Hi, very much appreciate the detailed comment and feedback. The rankings come straight from a massive Excel file with every fighter’s record, broken down by year and a variety of other factors. Promotions do not matter in rankings, but the level of competition does. The Russian HW that fights 9 times in 3 years, who did they fight is really the determining factor in their ranking. If they fought a bunch of non-ranked talent, than they will have a difficult time working their way up. Similar to other ranking systems in other sports, like college football or basketball, mid-majors can have the superior records, but who did they play is what it comes down to. We try to assure our rankings always provide a glimpse of where fighters would stack up regardless of promotion. The fact many divisions are dominated by UFC fighters is simply because of the level of competition offered within the promotion. There are fantastic fighters across the world who could absolutely win in the UFC…but it’s all about testing your skills against the highest level of competition, whether that means UFC, ACA, One, Bellator, PFL, it doesn’t effect the rankings one bit. That’s the main goal of the website, is to provide unbiased rankings, regardless of promotion.
Your UFC Lightweight page is missing the recently announced fight between Islam Makachev (ranked 4th) and Beneil Dariush (ranked 6th) scheduled for 26th february next year. You got extremely cool site by the way!
Michael Venom Page??
He is apparently ranked 19th in the category of MMA World Rankings sorted by WelterWeight.
Are you considering ranking AW’s any time in the near future?
Yes, definitely have been looking at it. Since World Rankings are not based off promotion, I have considered the idea of adding Women’s Antomweight, but then that also opens the door for Men’s Strawweight or Super Heavyweight…or Women’s divisions above 155 lbs…For now, just ranking divisions recognized by the larger promotions with hopes fighters from those divisions eventually given a larger platform.
I can see only ufc fighters , this is not valid
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How the hell can you justify Aung La Nsang being ranked 29 behind people like Tito fucking Ortiz. This really drops your legitimacy a ton. Fix this shit.
La Nsang due the ONE weight classes, is primarily ranked as a MW. He does have the recent win over Vera that moved him up the LHW ranks, but his history as a true LHW is very limited. Appreciate your feedback, and Nsang has definitely turned around his career in ONE and is a truly inspirational story.