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

Pound for pound

Agreement 0.11 · Elo # is the order Elo puts these same fighters in
FighterMediaMeta EloElo #Elo vs UFC
Islam Makhachev 29-1 1 – 2,467 1 same
Alexander Volkanovski 28-4 2 – 2,210 9 ▼7
Petr Yan 20-5 3 – 2,210 10 ▼7
Justin Gaethje 28-5 4 – 2,287 4 same
Ilia Topuria 17-1 5 – 2,255 5 same
Tom Aspinall 15-3 (1) 6 – 2,177 12 ▼6
Sean Strickland 31-7 7 – 2,229 8 ▼1
Merab Dvalishvili 21-5 8 – 2,175 13 ▼5
Alex Pereira 13-4 9 – 2,198 11 ▼2
Ciryl Gane 14-2 (1) 10 – 2,241 7 ▲3
Joshua Van 18-2 11▼1 – 2,161 14 ▼3
Khamzat Chimaev 15-1 12 – 2,291 3 ▲9
Alexandre Pantoja 32-8 13 – 1,972 15 ▼2
Arman Tsarukyan 24-3 14 – 2,255 6 ▲8
Charles Oliveira 37-11 (1) 15 – 2,353 2 ▲13

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.