Notable Info
- Welterweight and Lightweight expanded to an unprecedented Top 500.
- New stat added to the “Records & Stats” page — Best (T)KO/Win ratio.
This Weekend: Fights of Note
Friday – Fresquez Promotions
Women’s Bantamweight
[#17] Christina Domke L-(TKO2) [*] Holly Holm
Holm’s debut. She is the #1 current Women’s P4P boxer and likely Top 5 in women’s boxing history.
Light Heavyweight
[#26] Keith Jardine W-(TKO1) [#252] Aron Lofton
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Saturday – Strikeforce
Light Heavyweight
[#7] Dan Henderson vs. [#10] Rafael Cavalcante
Henderson recently moved to #9 in our All-Time Absolute list.
Women’s Bantamweight
[#1] Marloes Coenen vs. [#4] Liz Carmouche
Carmouche was our 2010 Women’s Rookie of the Year.
Middleweight
[#20] Tim Kennedy vs. [#29 LHW] Melvin Manhoef
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Saturday – BellatorFC 35
Welterweight
[#21] Jay Hieron vs. [#74 MW] Anthony Lapsley
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Saturday – Chicago Cagefighting Championship
Featherweight (140lb)
[#56] Chase Beebe vs. [#274 LW] Steve Kinnisen
Featherweight
[#263] Jens Pulver vs. [#285 BW] Wade Choate
Featured Upcoming Bouts (Outside of UFC)
| Saturday, December 13th 2025: PFL Europe 4: 2025 Finals | |||
 [#1 W145] Cristiane Justino |  [#3 W145] Sara Collins | ||
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| Last Fight Date: 10/19/2024 [PFL] Last Opponent: [#2 W145] Larissa Pacheco Last 5: W W W W W | Last Fight Date: 9/14/2024 [BellatorFC] Last Opponent: [#6 W145] Leah McCourt Last 5: W W W W W | ||
| Sunday, December 14th 2025: Deep - Tokyo Impact 2025 6th Round | |||
 [#2 SW] Haruo Ochi | [#9 SW] Sora Sugiyama | ||
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| Last Fight Date: 3/30/2025 [Rizin Fighting Federation] Last Opponent: [#41 SW] Nobuyoshi Nakatsukasa Last 5: W W W W W | Last Fight Date: 9/15/2025 [DEEP] Last Opponent: [#41 SW] Nobuyoshi Nakatsukasa Last 5: - - - W W | ||
| Saturday, December 13th 2025: PFL Europe 4: 2025 Finals | |||
 [#8 HW] Vadim Nemkov | [#10 HW] Renan Ferreira | ||
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| Last Fight Date: 1/25/2025 [PFL] Last Opponent: [#29 HW] Tim Johnson Last 5: NC W W W W | Last Fight Date: 10/19/2024 [PFL] Last Opponent: [#3 HW] Francis Ngannou Last 5: W W W W L | ||
Featured Fighters
| [#1 LW] | Islam Makhachev | [#15 WW] | Gabriel Bonfim | |
| [#28 WW] |  Uros Medic | [#1 WW] | Jack Della Maddalena | |
| [#2 LW] |  Ilia Topuria | [#145 LW] | Ismael Bonfim | |
| [#31 WW] | Randy Brown | [#45 WW] |  Seok Hyeon Ko | |
| [#3 LW] | Charles Oliveira | [#1 MW] |  Khamzat Chimaev |
Thoughts on UFC 127 results vs. ratings
This year has been a relatively poor year in using the FightMatrix rating system for predictability when it comes to the UFC. Out of the 11 non-draw matches in UFC 127, the higher-rated fighter won in 5. We’re batting a tiny bit better on the year, but as it stands we are hovering around 50%.
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Granted, the UFC does a fairly good job at matchmaking and the rating system here only has some elements of predictability. Still, I would expect the system to be closer to 60%, and hopefully we get there by the end of this year. In general, we are closer to 70%.
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The Good
With the pre-bout ratings in mind, the “correct” bouts show a pretty good reflection of not only which fighters won, but by how they won. I’m particularly impressed with the system in regards to Quan/Reinhardt, a bout that would likely have caused a pure ELO system to fail. Even though I don’t like talking about fights in which one fighter was inactive — in this case, both were, and Quan had nearly triple the rating points of Reinhardt.
UFC Live (Sanchez/Kampmann): How they stack up
Welterweight
[#9] Martin Kampmann vs. [#12] Diego Sanchez
Middleweight
[#24] Mark Munoz vs. [#30] CB Dollaway
Middleweight
[#15] Alessio Sakara vs. [#123] Chris Weidman
Bantamweight
[#4] Brian Bowles vs. [#64] Damacio Page
Lightweight
[#50] Joe Stevenson vs. [#78] Danny Castillo
Light Heavyweight
[#35] Cyrille Diabate vs. [*] Steve Cantwell
Lightweight
[#49] Shane Roller vs. [#80] Thiago Tavares
Bantamweight
[#15] Takeya Mizugaki vs. [#49] Reuban Duran
Middleweight
[#126] Dong Yi Yang vs. [#178] Rob Kimmons
Middleweight
[#22] Rousimar Palhares vs. [#38] Dave Branch
Light Heavyweight
[#99] Igor Pokrajac vs. [#130] Todd Brown
Sherdog vs. FightMatrix Rankings
Top 5 Highest Ranked FightMatrix Fighters not on Sherdog Rankings
(#6 FW) Kazuyuki Miyata
(#6 LW) Clay Guida
(#8 WW) Paul Daley
(#8 LHW) Randy Couture
(#8 BW) Zach Makovsky
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Top 5 Largest Rank Difference between Sherdog Ranked and FightMatrix
(-16 HW) Roy Nelson
(-10 FW) Dustin Poirier
(-10 BW) Brad Pickett
(-10 LW) Sean Sherk
(-9 BW) Demetrious Johnson
We decided to exclude Rambaa Somdet, as he is technically a Mini-Flyweight fighter, Dan Henderson, who we rank in different divisions, and Wanderlei Silva, who was recently dropped off of Sherdog’s list for inactivity.
Please share your thoughts in the Comments. If we missed someone, please let us know.
MMA Rankings Updated: 2/27/2011
Notable Info
- Welterweight and Lightweight expanded to Top 400.
This Weekend: Other Fights of Note
Friday – DEEP 52 Impact
DEEP Bantamweight Championship
[#16] Hiroshi Nakamura UD(3) [#6] Masakazu Imanari (C)
Women’s Flyweight
[#8] Seo Hee Ham UD(3) [#9] Saori Ishioka
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Friday – MFC 28 (HDNet)
Light Heavyweight
[#28] Ryan Jimmo vs. [#51] Dwayne Lewis
Light Heavyweight
[#48] Emanuel Newton vs. [#50] Rodney Wallace
Lightweight (160lb)
[#50] Drew Fickett vs. [#89] Matt Veach
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Saturday – BAMMA 5
Heavyweight (215lb Catch)
[#33] Ricco Rodriguez vs. [#161 LHW] James McSweeney
Rodriguez missed weight by 2 pounds.
Welterweight
[#8] Paul Daley vs. [#41] Yuyi Shirai
Daley missed weight by 0.4 pound.
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Saturday – G-Force Fights
Lightweight
[#6 FW] Luis Palomino vs. [*] John Robles
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Saturday – Cage Warriors FC 40
Women’s Super Flyweight
[#4 BW] Roxanne Modafferi vs. [#6] Rosi Sexton
Modafferi’s first fight below 130 lbs.
UFC 127: How they stack up
Welterweight
[#3] Jon Fitch vs. [#4] B.J. Penn
Middleweight
[#10] Michael Bisping vs. [#32] Jorge Rivera
Lightweight
[#8] George Sotiropoulos vs. [#41] Dennis Siver
Welterweight
[#11] Chris Lytle vs. [#82] Brian Ebersole
Middleweight
[#49] Kyle Noke vs. [#92] Chris Camozzi
Lightweight
[#68] Spencer Fisher vs. [#94] Ross Pearson
Light Heavyweight
[#26] Alexander Gustafsson vs. [#54] James Te Huna
Middleweight
[#21] Riki Fukuda vs. [*] Nick Ring
Light Heavyweight
[#191 HW] Anthony Perosh vs. [*] Tom Blackledge
Featherweight
[*] Zhang Tie Quan vs. [*] Jason Reinhardt
Heavyweight
[#67] Chris Tuchscherer vs. [#159] Mark Hunt
Lightweight
[#82] Maciej Jewtuszko vs. [#451] Curt Warburton
Shortest Average Win – Added to the Records & Stats
Another batch of fighters you’ve never heard of with quite an amazing distinction!
Longest Undefeated Streak – Added to the Records & Stats
With more to come….
More Divisional Expansion Ahead
In our next release, we will be expanding the Welterweight and Lightweight divisions to the Top 400. After this expansion, we will re-evaluate the current limits of all divisions and possibly expand another time or two. However, this upcoming expansion may be the final one for the foreseeable future. We apologize for non-uniform expansions, but we are attempting to expand based on divisional strength alone, within the confines of the rating system’s optimal performance zone.
The Week In Rankings
It’s been a mostly uneventful week, with only one significant occurence in the rankings: former #1 ranked flyweight Jussier da Silva suffered the first defeat of his career when he lost a unanimous decision to the WEC veteran Ian McCall. McCall was formerly ranked at #95 bantamweight, and landed at #4 in the flyweight division, with Jussier falling to #6 and Yasuhiro Urushitani and Mamoru Yamaguchi in a virtual tie for the newly vacated #1.
Here’s what the flyweight Top 50 looks like after this weekend: Flyweight (Under 131 lbs) fighter ranks.
Ranking Expansion
Once again, we expanded our lightweight, welterweight, and middleweight rankings by 50. See who is in the Top 350’s:
MMA Rankings Updated: 2/20/2011
Notable Info
- Middleweight, Welterweight, and Lightweight expanded to Top 350.
- Slight modification to blocking routine which forgives those who lose to aggressively placed early career fighters.
MMA Records & Stats Page Available!
Check it out here.
We’ll be improving on this page in the near future.