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

Light Heavyweight

Agreement 0.72 · Elo # is the order Elo puts these same fighters in
FighterMediaMeta EloElo #Elo vs UFC
Carlos Ulberg 14-1 C C 2,182 3 ▼2
Magomed Ankalaev 22-2-1 (1) 1 2 2,188 2 same
Jiří Procházka 32-6-1 2 3 2,071 6 ▼3
Alex Pereira 13-4 3 1 2,198 1 ▲3
Khalil Rountree Jr. 16-8 (1) 4 6 1,936 9 ▼4
Navajo Stirling 11-0 5 7 2,004 8 ▼2
Paulo Costa 17-5 6 4 2,079 5 ▲2
Jamahal Hill 12-4 (1) 7 5 1,849 15 ▼7
Azamat Murzakanov 16-1 8 10 1,920 12 ▼3
Jan Błachowicz 29-12-2 9 – 1,918 14 ▼4
Dominick Reyes 16-5 10 8 1,933 10 ▲1
Bogdan Guskov 18-4-1 11 11 1,920 13 ▼1
Robert Whittaker 29-9 12 12 2,088 4 ▲9
Johnny Walker 22-10 (1) 13 14 1,928 11 ▲3
Alonzo Menifield 19-6-1 14 13 1,786 18 ▼3
Nikita Krylov 31-12 15 – 1,825 16 same
Reinier de Ridder 22-4 – 9 2,019 7 ▲10
Muhammad Said 10-0 – 15 1,790 17 ▲1

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. Volkan Oezdemir 21-8 · last fought 22 Nov 2025 1,965 Elo #9

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.