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Welterweight

100 active · mean Elo 1566 · updated Aug 15, 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 Shavkat Rakhmonov 1675 ±20
4 Michael Morales 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 Rinat Fakhretdinov 1625 ±20
10 Gabriel Bonfim 1623 ±27
11 Leon Edwards 1620 ±48
12 Belal Muhammad 1618 ±40
13 Conor McGregor 1618 ±36
14 Michael Chiesa 1616 ±34
15 Mike Malott 1612 ±23
16 Colby Covington 1595 ±37
17 Neil Magny +5 1593 ±40
18 Bryan Battle 1589 ±25
19 Michael Page 1582 ±29
20 Jake Matthews 1581 ±35
21 Joaquin Buckley 1579 ±30
22 Daniil Donchenko 1571 ±20
23 Jonathan Micallef 1568 ±20
24 Jacobe Smith 1567 ±20
25 Daniel Rodriguez 1563 ±38
26 Jeremiah Wells +12 1560 ±35
27 Gilbert Burns 1560 ±33
28 Rafael Dos Anjos 1559 ±35
29 Muslim Salikhov 1559 ±37
30 Myktybek Orolbai −7 1558 ±33
31 Randy Brown 1558 ±38
32 Uros Medic 1558 ±39
33 Sam Patterson 1556 ±34
34 Joel Alvarez −17 1554 ±42
35 Gunnar Nelson 1551 ±38
36 Geoff Neal 1549 ±39
37 Khaos Williams 1546 ±35
38 Elizeu Zaleski dos Santos 1543 ±33
39 Kevin Holland 1539 ±42
40 Stephen Thompson 1536 ±39
41 Nicolas Dalby 1524 ±37
42 Chris Curtis 1524 ±37
43 Li Jingliang 1521 ±38
44 Jack Hermansson 1521 ±38
45 Santiago Ponzinibbio 1520 ±34
46 Charles Radtke 1515 ±28
47 Punahele Soriano 1510 ±38
48 Carlston Harris 1499 ±37
49 Song Kenan 1491 ±35
50 Themba Gorimbo 1488 ±37
51 Alex Morono 1484 ±33
52 Carlos Leal 1479 ±37
53 Seokhyeon Ko 1476 ±45
54 Trey Waters 1475 ±41
55 Matthew Semelsberger 1470 ±37
56 Phil Rowe 1470 ±39
57 Mickey Gall 1466 ±31
58 Chidi Njokuani +8 1462 ±41
59 Ricky Glenn 1461 ±37
60 Tim Means 1460 ±38
61 Ramiz Brahimaj −6 1458 ±38
62 Trevin Giles 1458 ±40
63 Kevin Jousset 1452 ±42
64 Max Griffin 1451 ±39
65 Niko Price 1448 ±34
66 Court McGee 1447 ±34
67 Bassil Hafez 1445 ±38
68 Oban Elliott 1441 ±41
69 Nikolay Veretennikov 1428 ±37
70 Preston Parsons 1426 ±39
71 Ange Loosa 1422 ±38
72 Jared Gooden 1412 ±35
73 Adam Fugitt 1410 ±36
74 Billy Ray Goff 1396 ±34
75 Kiefer Crosbie 1384 ±20
76 Rhys McKee 1382 ±29
77 Francisco Prado 1380 ±33
Provisional Show 23 fighters with too little data for a firm ranking
Yaroslav Amosov 1554 ±20 2-0-0
Jean-Paul Lebosnoyani 1536 ±20 2-0-0
Ty Miller 1532 ±20 2-0-0
Michael Oliveira 1525 ±20 1-0-0
Islam Dulatov 1525 ±20 1-0-0
Tahir Abdullayev 1525 ±20 1-0-0
Levan Chokheli 1525 ±20 1-0-0
Victor Valenzuela 1524 ±20 1-0-0
Jose Souza 1523 ±20 1-0-0
Taiyilake Nueraji 1523 ±20 1-0-0
Abubakar Vagaev 1523 ±20 1-0-0
Farman Hasanov 1522 ±20 1-0-0
Zachary Scroggin 1509 ±20 0-1-0
Theodor Berggren 1505 ±20 0-1-0
Josiah Harrell 1505 ±20 0-1-0
Ding Meng 1504 ±20 0-1-0
Jefferson Nascimento 1503 ±20 0-1-0
Leon Shahbazyan 1503 ±20 0-1-0
Andreas Gustafsson 1474 ±42 1-1-0
Austin Vanderford 1464 ±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 →