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Welterweight

93 active · mean Elo 1568 · updated Jun 20, 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 1802 ±20
2 Kamaru Usman 1691 ±43
3 Shavkat Rakhmonov 1679 ±20
4 Michael Morales 1671 ±20
5 Ian Machado Garry 1669 ±26
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 Michael Chiesa 1616 ±34
14 Mike Malott 1612 ±23
15 Colby Covington 1597 ±37
16 Bryan Battle 1591 ±25
17 Joel Alvarez 1589 ±32
18 Daniel Rodriguez 1585 ±37
19 Michael Page 1582 ±29
20 Jake Matthews 1580 ±35
21 Joaquin Buckley 1579 ±30
22 Neil Magny 1579 ±41
23 Myktybek Orolbai 1578 ±34
24 Jonathan Micallef 1568 ±20
25 Jacobe Smith 1567 ±20
26 Rafael Dos Anjos 1561 ±35
27 Gilbert Burns 1560 ±33
28 Muslim Salikhov 1559 ±37
29 Randy Brown 1558 ±38
30 Gunnar Nelson 1552 ±38
31 Geoff Neal 1549 ±39
32 Khaos Williams 1547 ±35
33 Elizeu Zaleski dos Santos 1543 ±33
34 Uros Medic 1542 ±36
35 Jeremiah Wells 1539 ±36
36 Kevin Holland 1539 ±42
37 Stephen Thompson 1536 ±39
38 Sam Patterson 1533 ±38
39 Santiago Ponzinibbio 1533 ±39
40 Nicolas Dalby 1524 ±37
41 Chris Curtis 1524 ±37
42 Li Jingliang 1522 ±38
43 Jack Hermansson 1521 ±38
44 Charles Radtke 1515 ±28
45 Punahele Soriano 1510 ±38
46 Carlston Harris 1499 ±37
47 Song Kenan 1491 ±35
48 Themba Gorimbo 1488 ±37
49 Alex Morono 1484 ±33
50 Carlos Leal 1479 ±37
51 Trey Waters 1475 ±41
52 Ramiz Brahimaj 1474 ±36
53 Phil Rowe 1470 ±39
54 Matthew Semelsberger 1469 ±37
55 Mickey Gall 1465 ±31
56 Oban Elliott 1461 ±41
57 Ricky Glenn 1460 ±37
58 Tim Means 1459 ±38
59 Trevin Giles 1456 ±40
60 Max Griffin 1451 ±39
61 Kevin Jousset 1451 ±42
62 Niko Price 1448 ±34
63 Chidi Njokuani 1447 ±36
64 Court McGee 1446 ±34
65 Bassil Hafez 1443 ±38
66 Nikolay Veretennikov 1428 ±37
67 Preston Parsons 1424 ±39
68 Billy Ray Goff 1421 ±37
69 Ange Loosa 1420 ±38
70 Jared Gooden 1410 ±35
71 Adam Fugitt 1410 ±36
72 Gilbert Urbina 1399 ±35
73 Kiefer Crosbie 1384 ±20
74 Rhys McKee 1382 ±29
75 Francisco Prado 1380 ±33
Provisional Show 18 fighters with too little data for a firm ranking
Yaroslav Amosov 1555 ±20 2-0-0
Daniil Donchenko 1542 ±20 2-0-0
Seokhyeon Ko 1539 ±20 2-0-0
Islam Dulatov 1527 ±20 1-0-0
Levan Chokheli 1526 ±20 1-0-0
Jean-Paul Lebosnoyani 1526 ±20 1-0-0
Ty Miller 1525 ±20 1-0-0
Victor Valenzuela 1525 ±20 1-0-0
Jose Souza 1525 ±20 1-0-0
Taiyilake Nueraji 1524 ±20 1-0-0
Zachary Scroggin 1510 ±20 0-1-0
Saygid Izagakhmaev 1507 ±20 0-1-0
Josiah Harrell 1506 ±20 0-1-0
Ding Meng 1506 ±20 0-1-0
Leon Shahbazyan 1504 ±20 0-1-0
Andreas Gustafsson 1475 ±42 1-1-0
Austin Vanderford 1465 ±41 1-1-0
Daniel Frunza 1452 ±20 0-2-0

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 →