By popular demand, we expanded our men’s pound-for-pound ranking to Top 15 instead of Top 10.

Men’s Pound-for-Pound Top 15

Check it out, and be on the lookout for more expansion and updates coming soon!

As promised, here’s our first attempt at a traditional pound-for-pound ranking of top MMA fighters.  Take a look and let us know what you think!

Men’s Pound-for-Pound Top 10

Women’s Pound-for-Pound Top 10

For years, we’ve featured the Division Dominance rankings for Men and Women.  Although similar to “pound-for-pound” rankings, these were not and are not the same thing.

Even though the posted definition at the top of the pages clearly states this, it seems many of our viewers cannot understand this or refuse to read it.  As some of you know, these rankings are very mathematical in nature and only reflect the proportional point differences that top fighters possess over fighters considered to be their divisional peers.  Throughout time, we added some conditional logic to eliminate outliers, but these lists continue to be mathematically specific and straightforward.

Within the next two weeks, we plan on launching “pound-for-pound” ranking lists for both genders.  These lists will feature separate point ratings that are calculated side-by-side, chronologically, alongside the typical ratings you see on our site.  However, the goal in mind is to make the rating points value the same factors that the fan and media lists do — but to do so consistently, accurately and timely.  Eventually, we will expand this to our Generated Ranking Sets to allow for a “lookback” in time.

Region

• The “region” parameter allows fighters to be filtered by groups of countries or continents rather than one single country — this utilizes the fighter nationality setting.
• Currently, we have nine regions to choose from and are open to adding more.

Home State

• A fighter’s home (US) state is assigned based on the state that the fighter most frequently fought in professionally, within the past three years.  If there is a tie, the most recent state is used.
• A fighter with a US nationality can have no home state if they fight solely overseas.  Likewise, a fighter with a non-US nationality can have a home state.
• Currently, no organizations are excluded, but we may consider dropping UFC from consideration.
• We are open to tweaking this criteria based on feedback.

Last Fought In

• “Outside of UFC & Bellator” is now an option for this search filter type.