Rankings

Last weekend’s winners

Movement since 25 Aug 2026 · Updated

Men's Pound-for-Pound

Men's Pound-for-Pound, top 3
Rank Fighter FLRFirst Light Ratingmeasure of true skill FLIFirst Light Indexfame compared to skill
1 Jon Jones Heavyweight 2,201 +0.06
2 Islam Makhachev Welterweight 2,199 +0.21▲ +0.02
3 Khamzat Chimaev Middleweight 2,152 +0.41—
Men's Pound-for-Pound, ranks 4 to 15
Rank Fighter FLR FLI
4 Ciryl Gane Heavyweight 2,145 −0.07—
5 Carlos Ulberg Light Heavyweight 2,129 −0.30—
6 Vadim Nemkov Heavyweight 2,128 −0.55
7 A.J. McKee Featherweight 2,111 −0.44▲ +0.10
8 Alexander Volkov Heavyweight 2,105 −0.43Last 20 days: −0.43 → −0.43
9 Usman Nurmagomedov Lightweight 2,103 +0.13
10 Francis Ngannou Heavyweight 2,103 +0.45—
11 Rajabali Shaidullaev Featherweight 20 2,102 −0.60
12 Yaroslav Amosov Welterweight 1 2,100 −0.29▲ +0.03
13 Arman Tsarukyan Lightweight 15 2,097 +0.50▼ −0.09
14 Corey Anderson Light Heavyweight 2 2,092 —
15 Muslim Magomedov Light Heavyweight 2 2,091 —

Flyweight

Flyweight, top 3
Rank Fighter FLRFirst Light Ratingmeasure of true skill FLIFirst Light Indexfame compared to skill
1 Kyoji Horiguchi 2,038 +0.20—
2 Alexandre Pantoja 1,951 +0.55▲ +0.08
3 Tatsuro Taira 1,950 +0.48—
Flyweight, ranks 4 to 15
Rank Fighter FLR FLI
4 Joshua Van 3 1,948 +0.64▼ −0.04
5 Asu Almabayev 1 1,948 +0.27—
6 Bilal Hasan New 1,938 —
7 Manel Kape 2 1,923 +0.45—
8 Aren Akopyan 2 1,920 —
9 Tagir Ulanbekov 1 1,916 +0.48—
10 Brandon Moreno 1,913 +0.72▼ −0.04
11 Hiromasa Ougikubo 2 1,901 +0.20—
12 Zhu Rong New 1,894 PendingWithheld until this fighter’s audience has been fully checked.
13 Rei Tsuruya 6 1,881 —
14 Joshua Pacio 3 1,879 −0.16—
15 Christian Natividad 14 1,876 —

Bantamweight

Bantamweight, top 3
Rank Fighter FLRFirst Light Ratingmeasure of true skill FLIFirst Light Indexfame compared to skill
1 Merab Dvalishvili 2,065 +0.43—
2 Umar Nurmagomedov 2,045 +0.45▲ +0.10
3 Asaf Chopurov 2,036 —
Bantamweight, ranks 4 to 15
Rank Fighter FLR FLI
4 Petr Yan 2,024 +0.54—
5 Mario Bautista 2,021 −0.01▲ +0.02
6 Muhammad Mokaev 2,007 +0.42—
7 Taylor Lapilus 2,007 PendingWithheld until this fighter’s audience has been fully checked.
8 Bryce Mitchell 1,989 PendingWithheld until this fighter’s audience has been fully checked.
9 Payton Talbott 1,978 +0.21—
10 Sean O'Malley 1,976 +0.71
11 Sergio Pettis 1,972 +0.13
12 Daniel Marcos 1,966 PendingWithheld until this fighter’s audience has been fully checked.
13 Montel Jackson 1,966 −0.32
14 Cory Sandhagen 1,966 +0.38—
15 Raoni Barcelos 1,959 −0.13▲ +0.03

Featherweight

Featherweight, top 3
Rank Fighter FLRFirst Light Ratingmeasure of true skill FLIFirst Light Indexfame compared to skill
1 A.J. McKee 2,111 −0.44▲ +0.10
2 Rajabali Shaidullaev 3 2,102 −0.60
3 Alexander Volkanovski 1 2,076 +0.44—
Featherweight, ranks 4 to 15
Rank Fighter FLR FLI
4 Islam Omarov 1 2,073 —
5 Movlid Khaybulaev 1 2,071 −0.54
6 Aljamain Sterling 2,058 +0.08—
7 Patricio Freire 2 2,042 PendingWithheld until this fighter’s audience has been fully checked.
8 Movsar Evloev 1 2,026 +0.43—
9 Timur Khizriev 1 2,023 −0.61▲ +0.03
10 Losene Keita New 2,004 −0.18▼ −0.07
11 Aaron Pico 1 2,004 +0.01—
12 Rustam Kerimov 1 1,997 —
13 Pat Sabatini 1 1,995 −0.48
14 Mehdi Baydulaev 1 1,987 —
15 Kevin Vallejos 1 1,971 +0.10—

Lightweight

Lightweight, top 3
Rank Fighter FLRFirst Light Ratingmeasure of true skill FLIFirst Light Indexfame compared to skill
1 Usman Nurmagomedov 2,103 +0.13
2 Arman Tsarukyan 2 2,097 +0.50▼ −0.09
3 Justin Gaethje 1 2,090 +0.45—
Lightweight, ranks 4 to 15
Rank Fighter FLR FLI
4 Charles Oliveira 1 2,085 PendingWithheld until this fighter’s audience has been fully checked.
5 Benoit St. Denis 2,050 −0.02
6 Salahdine Parnasse 5 2,048 +0.01▼ −0.04
7 Ilia Topuria 1 2,044 +0.80—
8 Grant Dawson 1 2,041 −0.46
9 Max Holloway 1 2,036 PendingWithheld until this fighter’s audience has been fully checked.
10 Abdul-Aziz Abdulvakhabov 2,031 PendingWithheld until this fighter’s audience has been fully checked.
11 Mateusz Gamrot 2 2,031 +0.22▲ +0.04
12 Bibert Tumenov 2,022 —
13 Gadzhi Rabadanov 2,015 −0.25
14 Paddy Pimblett 2,014 +0.72—
15 Archie Colgan 2,006 —

Welterweight

Welterweight, top 3
Rank Fighter FLRFirst Light Ratingmeasure of true skill FLIFirst Light Indexfame compared to skill
1 Islam Makhachev 2,199 +0.21▲ +0.02
2 Yaroslav Amosov 2,100 −0.29▲ +0.03
3 Michael Page 2,082 +0.07—
Welterweight, ranks 4 to 15
Rank Fighter FLR FLI
4 Sean Brady 2,070 −0.53Last 20 days: −0.54 → −0.53
5 Eduard Vartanyan 2,059 −0.52
6 Magomed Umalatov 2,049 —
7 Gabriel Bonfim 2,048 −0.17▲ +0.02
8 Ian Garry 2,044 +0.45
9 Shavkat Rakhmonov 2,042 +0.17▲ +0.07
10 Michael Morales 2,038 +0.05Last 20 days: +0.05 → +0.05
11 Shamil Musaev 2,030 —
12 Andrey Koreshkov 2,026 PendingWithheld until this fighter’s audience has been fully checked.
13 Jason Jackson 2,021 —
14 Abdoul Abdouraguimov 2,008 —
15 Belal Muhammad 1,997 +0.46—

Middleweight

Middleweight, top 3
Rank Fighter FLRFirst Light Ratingmeasure of true skill FLIFirst Light Indexfame compared to skill
1 Khamzat Chimaev 2,152 +0.41—
2 Dricus Du Plessis 2,088 +0.10—
3 Johnny Eblen 2,087 −0.63
Middleweight, ranks 4 to 15
Rank Fighter FLR FLI
4 Brendan Allen 2,064 −0.19—
5 Kamaru Usman 2,055 +0.47
6 Reinier de Ridder 2,044 −0.01▲ +0.03
7 Sean Strickland 2,043 +0.57—
8 Magomedrasul Gasanov 2,041 —
9 Costello Van Steenis 2,037 —
10 Robert Whittaker 2,023 +0.27Last 20 days: +0.27 → +0.27
11 Ikram Aliskerov 2,020 −0.12—
12 Israel Adesanya 2,017 +0.73—
13 Fabian Edwards 2,010 −0.37
14 Sharabutdin Magomedov 2,005 PendingWithheld until this fighter’s audience has been fully checked.
15 Krzysztof Jotko 2,004 −0.37—

Light Heavyweight

Light Heavyweight, top 3
Rank Fighter FLRFirst Light Ratingmeasure of true skill FLIFirst Light Indexfame compared to skill
1 Carlos Ulberg 2,129 −0.30—
2 Corey Anderson 2,092 —
3 Muslim Magomedov 2,091 —
Light Heavyweight, ranks 4 to 15
Rank Fighter FLR FLI
4 Alex Pereira 2,073 PendingWithheld until this fighter’s audience has been fully checked.
5 Magomed Ankalaev 2,070 +0.29—
6 Phil Davis 2,049 —
7 Yoel Romero 2,009 —
8 Dominick Reyes 1,992 +0.21—
9 Jiri Prochazka 1,992 +0.54—
10 Azamat Murzakanov 1,991 +0.14—
11 Volkan Oezdemir 1,978 +0.03—
12 Jan Blachowicz 1,959 +0.51—
13 Valentin Moldavsky 1,959 −0.41
14 Salamu Abdurahmanov 1,958 —
15 Rob Wilkinson 1,956 −0.61

Heavyweight

Heavyweight, top 3
Rank Fighter FLRFirst Light Ratingmeasure of true skill FLIFirst Light Indexfame compared to skill
1 Jon Jones 2,201 +0.06
2 Ciryl Gane 2,145 −0.07—
3 Vadim Nemkov 2,128 −0.55
Heavyweight, ranks 4 to 15
Rank Fighter FLR FLI
4 Alexander Volkov 2,105 −0.43Last 20 days: −0.43 → −0.43
5 Francis Ngannou 2,103 +0.45—
6 Phil De Fries 2,087 PendingWithheld until this fighter’s audience has been fully checked.
7 Sergei Pavlovich 2,077 +0.02—
8 Anatoly Malykhin 2,069 −0.29
9 Denis Goltsov 2,056 PendingWithheld until this fighter’s audience has been fully checked.
10 Tom Aspinall 1 2,045 +0.46—
11 Waldo Cortes-Acosta 1 2,042 −0.05▲ +0.05
12 Alexander Romanov 2,020 —
13 Curtis Blaydes 3 2,019 +0.05▼ −0.10
14 Oleg Popov 1 2,011 —
15 Kirill Kornilov 2 2,002 −0.89Last 20 days: −0.87 → −0.89

Women's Atomweight

Women's Atomweight, top 3
Rank Fighter FLRFirst Light Ratingmeasure of true skill
1 Janet Garcia 1,605
2 Satomi Takano 1,552
3 Ana Palacios 1,511
Women's Atomweight, ranks 4 to 9
Rank Fighter FLR
4 Jeong Eun Park 1,504
5 Andrea Meneses 1,478
6 Claire Lopez 1,336
7 Maria Cruz Maldonado Cosino 1,274
8 Seo Young Park 1,187
9 Juliana Otalora 1,044

Women's Strawweight

Women's Strawweight, top 3
Rank Fighter FLRFirst Light Ratingmeasure of true skill FLIFirst Light Indexfame compared to skill
1 Weili Zhang 1,961 +0.24▲ +0.03
2 Virna Jandiroba 1,923 +0.17▲ +0.02
3 Tatiana Suarez 1,907 +0.06▲ +0.03
Women's Strawweight, ranks 4 to 15
Rank Fighter FLR FLI
4 Denise Gomes 3 1,865 PendingWithheld until this fighter’s audience has been fully checked.
5 Mackenzie Dern 1 1,853 +0.83
6 Aieza Ramos Bertolso 1 1,850 —
7 Fatima Kline 1 1,840 PendingWithheld until this fighter’s audience has been fully checked.
8 Jessica Andrade 1 1,815 +0.25▲ +0.05
9 Amanda Lemos 1 1,811 +0.20▲ +0.08
10 Jaqueline Amorim 1 1,810 —
11 Carla Esparza 1 1,806 +0.15▲ +0.03
12 Xiaonan Yan 4 1,801 +0.33
13 Alexia Thainara 1,801 —
14 Piera Rodriguez 1 1,798 —
15 Gillian Robertson 1 1,798 +0.58

Women's Flyweight

Women's Flyweight, top 3
Rank Fighter FLRFirst Light Ratingmeasure of true skill FLIFirst Light Indexfame compared to skill
1 Liz Carmouche 2,024 −0.60▲ +0.02
2 Valentina Shevchenko 2,011 +0.28▲ +0.02
3 Dakota Ditcheva 1,951 PendingWithheld until this fighter’s audience has been fully checked.
Women's Flyweight, ranks 4 to 15
Rank Fighter FLR FLI
4 Sabrinna de Sousa 1,943 —
5 Erin Blanchfield 1,923 −0.02▲ +0.02
6 Rose Namajunas 1 1,903 +0.43—
7 Manon Fiorot 1 1,899 +0.21
8 Alexa Grasso 6 1,877 +0.75
9 Natalia Silva 1 1,865 PendingWithheld until this fighter’s audience has been fully checked.
10 Taila Santos 1 1,865 +0.21
11 Maycee Barber 1 1,863 +0.39—
12 Jena Bishop 1 1,860 —
13 Jasmine Jasudavicius 1 1,860 PendingWithheld until this fighter’s audience has been fully checked.
14 Miranda Maverick 1 1,855 PendingWithheld until this fighter’s audience has been fully checked.
15 Cong Wang 1,834 PendingWithheld until this fighter’s audience has been fully checked.

Women's Bantamweight

Women's Bantamweight, top 3
Rank Fighter FLRFirst Light Ratingmeasure of true skill FLIFirst Light Indexfame compared to skill
1 Kayla Harrison 2,033 −0.07▲ +0.03
2 Nina Nikolija Milosevic 1,882 —
3 Lucia Szabova 1,856 −0.32Last 20 days: −0.32 → −0.32
Women's Bantamweight, ranks 4 to 15
Rank Fighter FLR FLI
4 Michelle Montague 1,821 —
5 Norma Dumont 1,819 +0.51
6 Luana Santos 1,795 −0.65▲ +0.09
7 Jennifer Maia 1,791 —
8 Raquel Pennington 1,769 +0.24▲ +0.03
9 Ailin Perez 1,757 —
10 Melissa Croden 1,751 —
11 Jacqueline Cavalcanti 1 1,750 —
12 Joselyne Edwards 1 1,748 PendingWithheld until this fighter’s audience has been fully checked.
13 Julianna Pena 1 1,748 +0.58—
14 Alina Dalaslan 1 1,742 —
15 Miesha Tate 1 1,740 +0.61—

Women's Featherweight

Women's Featherweight, top 3
Rank Fighter FLRFirst Light Ratingmeasure of true skill FLIFirst Light Indexfame compared to skill
1 Cristiane Justino 2,100 −0.06
2 Larissa Pacheco 1,894 −0.11▲ +0.02
3 Ketlen Vieira 1,823 0.00▲ +0.09
Women's Featherweight, ranks 4 to 7
Rank Fighter FLR FLI
4 Sara Collins 1,770 —
5 Regina Tarin New 1,755 —
6 Eman Almudhaf 1,599 —
7 Paula Cristina dos Santos Silva 1,583 —

FLR

First Light Rating. A skill score built from a fighter's fight results, and the number these rankings are sorted by. It is deliberately conservative: the less we know about a fighter, the lower they are rated until the results are in.

FLI

First Light Index. It compares a fighter's fame with what their FLR rating would predict, on a scale from −1 to +1. Above zero, their audience is bigger than their skill explains: they know how to be a star. Below zero, they are better than their audience knows. The arrow shows how the FLI has moved over about the last 30 days; hover it to see the trend.