UFC rankings vs Elo

The UFC's two official lists (the media panel and the newer Meta list), set beside where Elo puts the same fighters.

Media updated 15 Sep Meta updated 12 Sep Tracking since 12 Sep 2026

How much Elo agrees

Rank correlation with the media panel's order; 1 is the same order
  1. Pound for pound 0.11
  2. Flyweight 0.74
  3. Bantamweight 0.82
  4. Featherweight 0.83
  5. Lightweight 0.90
  6. Welterweight 0.86
  7. Middleweight 0.83
  8. Light Heavyweight 0.72
  9. Heavyweight 0.83
  10. Women's pound for pound 0.87
  11. Women's Strawweight 0.89
  12. Women's Flyweight 0.90
  13. Women's Bantamweight 0.67

Biggest disagreements

Places apart within the UFC's own list
  1. Charles Oliveira Pound for pound · UFC #15, Elo #2 Elo ▲13
  2. Michelle Montague Women's Bantamweight · UFC #12, Elo #2 Elo ▲11
  3. Khamzat Chimaev Pound for pound · UFC #12, Elo #3 Elo ▲9
  4. Robert Whittaker Light Heavyweight · UFC #12, Elo #4 Elo ▲9
  5. Arman Tsarukyan Pound for pound · UFC #14, Elo #6 Elo ▲8
  6. Aleksandar Rakić Heavyweight · UFC #15, Elo #9 Elo ▲7
  7. Patricio Pitbull Featherweight · UFC #15, Elo #10 Elo ▲6
  8. Yaroslav Amosov Welterweight · UFC #11, Elo #7 Elo ▲5
  1. Lone’er Kavanagh Flyweight · UFC #6, Elo #16 Elo ▼9
  2. Alexander Volkanovski Pound for pound · UFC #2, Elo #9 Elo ▼7
  3. Petr Yan Pound for pound · UFC #3, Elo #10 Elo ▼7
  4. Tom Aspinall Pound for pound · UFC #6, Elo #12 Elo ▼6
  5. Movsar Evloev Featherweight · UFC #1, Elo #8 Elo ▼6
  6. Jamahal Hill Light Heavyweight · UFC #7, Elo #14 Elo ▼6
  7. Israel Adesanya Middleweight · UFC #9, Elo #16 Elo ▼6
  8. Aiemann Zahabi Bantamweight · UFC #7, Elo #14 Elo ▼6

Flyweight

Agreement 0.74 · Elo # is the order Elo puts these same fighters in
FighterMediaMeta EloElo #Elo vs UFC
Joshua Van 18-2 C C 2,161 1 same
Alexandre Pantoja 32-8 1 1 1,972 5 ▼3
Manel Kape 23-7 2 2 2,158 2 ▲1
Brandon Royval 18-9 3 3 1,865 7 ▼3
Tatsuro Taira 18-2 4 4 1,981 4 ▲1
Kyoji Horiguchi 36-6 (1) 5 8 1,989 3 ▲3
Lone’er Kavanagh 10-2 6 6 1,597 19 ▼12
Asu Almabayev 24-3 7 5 1,914 6 ▲2
Brandon Moreno 24-11-2 8 9▲1 1,826 9 same
Amir Albazi 17-3 9 10▼1 1,704 17 ▼7
Ramazan Temirov 21-2 10 7 1,827 8 ▲3
Tim Elliott 26-14-1 11▲1 – 1,778 10 ▲2
Steve Erceg 14-5 12▼1 – 1,684 18 ▼5
Sumudaerji 20-7 (1) 13 11 1,753 13 ▲1
Tagir Ulanbekov 17-3 14 – 1,776 11 ▲4
Alex Perez 26-11 (1) 15 – 1,740 14 ▲2
Mitch Raposo 11-4 – 12 1,560 20 ▼3
Rei Tsuruya 12-1 – 13 1,763 12 ▲6
Charles Johnson 20-9 – 14 1,726 15 ▲4
Alessandro Costa 17-5 – 15 1,720 16 ▲4

Elo would also rank

In Elo's top 16 at this weight, on the UFC roster (a UFC bout in the last year), and on neither list
  1. Joseph Morales 16-3 · last fought 12 Sep 2026 1,811 Elo #10
  2. Bilal Hasan 10-0 (1) · last fought 29 Aug 2026 1,774 Elo #13
  3. Alden Coria 13-3 (1) · last fought 18 Jul 2026 1,746 Elo #16

Checked twice a day and kept each time either list changes, so movement here is measured against the previous list we hold; until there is one, the arrows are the UFC's own. Ties are as the UFC publishes them. Elo is the tuned rating shown across the site.