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Welterweight

96 active · mean Elo 1568 · updated Oct 17, 2026
Our ranking ≠ UFC rankings. UFC's official list is set by a media panel with political considerations. Ours is purely numeric: the Elo rating below is the standard Elo discounted by uncertainty, so a thin-sample star with one big win can't outrank a proven contender. The current champion is marked with C, interim champion with IC. See methodology →
# Fighter Elo
1 Islam Makhachev C 1814 ±20
2 Max Holloway 1690 ±38
3 Michael Morales 1671 ±20
4 Shavkat Rakhmonov 1671 ±20
5 Ian Machado Garry 1652 ±29
6 Sean Brady 1645 ±33
7 Carlos Prates 1645 ±26
8 Jack Della Maddalena 1632 ±33
9 Mike Malott +6 1628 ±24
10 Rinat Fakhretdinov 1624 ±20
11 Gabriel Bonfim 1623 ±27
12 Leon Edwards 1620 ±48
13 Belal Muhammad 1618 ±40
14 Conor McGregor 1618 ±36
15 Michael Chiesa 1616 ±34
16 Daniil Donchenko 1597 ±20
17 Neil Magny 1593 ±40
18 Colby Covington 1593 ±37
19 Jacobe Smith 1592 ±20
20 Bryan Battle 1588 ±25
21 Jake Matthews 1581 ±35
22 Jonathan Micallef 1568 ±20
23 Daniel Rodriguez 1563 ±38
24 Jeremiah Wells 1560 ±35
25 Gilbert Burns 1560 ±33
26 Myktybek Orolbai 1558 ±33
27 Randy Brown 1558 ±38
28 Uros Medic 1558 ±39
29 Sam Patterson 1556 ±34
30 Joaquin Buckley −8 1556 ±35
31 Joel Alvarez 1554 ±42
32 Gunnar Nelson 1550 ±38
33 Geoff Neal 1549 ±39
34 Elizeu Zaleski dos Santos 1543 ±33
35 Kevin Holland 1539 ±42
36 Muslim Salikhov 1538 ±39
37 Stephen Thompson 1536 ±39
38 Ignacio Bahamondes 1527 ±39
39 Nicolas Dalby 1524 ±37
40 Chris Curtis 1524 ±37
41 Jack Hermansson 1521 ±38
42 Santiago Ponzinibbio 1520 ±34
43 Khaos Williams 1519 ±40
44 Charles Radtke 1515 ±28
45 Carlston Harris 1499 ±37
46 Punahele Soriano 1496 ±38
47 Song Kenan 1492 ±35
48 Themba Gorimbo 1488 ±37
49 Alex Morono 1484 ±33
50 Carlos Leal 1479 ±37
51 Seokhyeon Ko 1476 ±45
52 Trey Waters 1475 ±41
53 Matthew Semelsberger 1472 ±37
54 Phil Rowe 1470 ±39
55 Mickey Gall 1468 ±31
56 Niko Price 1463 ±36
57 Chidi Njokuani 1462 ±41
58 Trevin Giles 1459 ±40
59 Ramiz Brahimaj 1458 ±38
60 Kevin Jousset 1453 ±42
61 Max Griffin 1451 ±39
62 Bassil Hafez 1447 ±38
63 Oban Elliott 1441 ±41
64 Preston Parsons 1429 ±39
65 Nikolay Veretennikov 1428 ±37
66 Eric Nolan 1427 ±40
67 Ange Loosa 1424 ±38
68 Court McGee 1418 ±40
69 Adam Fugitt 1410 ±36
70 Billy Ray Goff 1396 ±34
71 Kiefer Crosbie 1387 ±20
72 Rhys McKee 1384 ±29
Provisional Show 24 fighters with too little data for a firm ranking
Yaroslav Amosov 1555 ±20 2-0-0
Jean-Paul Lebosnoyani 1537 ±20 2-0-0
Ty Miller 1533 ±20 2-0-0
Roberto Soldic 1527 ±20 1-0-0
Islam Dulatov 1526 ±20 1-0-0
Michael Oliveira 1526 ±20 1-0-0
Levan Chokheli 1526 ±20 1-0-0
Tahir Abdullayev 1526 ±20 1-0-0
Victor Valenzuela 1525 ±20 1-0-0
Jose Souza 1524 ±20 1-0-0
Taiyilake Nueraji 1524 ±20 1-0-0
Abubakar Vagaev 1524 ±20 1-0-0
Cam Nelson 1524 ±20 1-0-0
Farman Hasanov 1524 ±20 1-0-0
Zachary Scroggin 1511 ±20 0-1-0
Bruce Whitehead 1507 ±20 0-1-0
Theodor Berggren 1506 ±20 0-1-0
Jefferson Nascimento 1504 ±20 0-1-0
Andreas Gustafsson 1475 ±42 1-1-0
Austin Vanderford 1465 ±41 1-1-0

The Elo rating shown above already includes the uncertainty discount (Global Elo − σ). The raw Global Elo point estimate is hover-revealed next to each rating. This penalizes thin sample sizes so a 1-fight newcomer can't outrank a proven top-10. See methodology →