UFC Heavyweight Rankings - Performance Based - May 16/25
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Everyone hates the UFC ‘official’ rankings, which are based on the opinions of a voting panel consisting of people most of us have never heard of (except my man Gumby). But fret not - I’ve fixed the problem and developed a performance-based system for ranking UFC fighters.
I’ll simplify my method for doing this for you - a fighter has to have been active over the past 12 months and not suspended, points are given based on a fighter’s past 10 fights (five-year time limit cutoff) with more points going to most recent fights. Points are based on a fighter’s opponent’s UFC win/loss record. So the better the fighter beaten, the more points given. Extra points are awarded for finishes and title fights. No points are given for a loss.
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UFC Heavyweight Rankings - Performance Based
Stats Last UFC Total
Rank Rank
1 1 2 Tom Aspinall 598.5
2 2 1 Jon Jones 492
3 3 3 Ciryl Gane 386
4 4 7 Jailton Almeida 354.5
5 5 6 Curtis Blaydes 286
6 6 4 Alexander Volkov 261.5
7 7 10 Derrick Lewis 253
8 8 8 Serghei Spivak 245.5
9 9 5 Sergei Pavlovich 222
10 10 9 Marcin Tybura 210.5
11 11 12 Waldo Cortes-Acosta 169.5
12 12 13 Shamil Gaziev 109
13 13 16 Martin Buday 100.5
14 14 Ryan Spann 94.5
15 15 Justin Tafa 94
16 16 11 Tai Tuivasa 82
17 18 Kennedy Nzechukwu 76.5
18 19 Jhonata Diniz 70
18 19 14 Mick Parkin 70
20 22 Vitor Petrino 66.5
21 23 Valter Walker 48
22 24 Thomas Peterson 42
23 25 Mohammed Usman 33
24 26 Chris Barnett 32
25 27 Hamdy Abdelwahab 20
25 27 Mario Pinto 20
25 27 15 Tallison Teixeira 20
28 30 Austen Lane 9
29 31 Lukasz Brzeski 8
30 32 Sean Sharaf 0
30 NR Uran Satybaldiev 0
Other Weight Classes
Light Heavyweight
Middleweight
Welterweight
Lightweight
Featherweight
Bantamweight
Flyweight
Women’s Bantamweight
Women’s Flyweight
Women’s Strawweight
Pound for Pound
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