UFC Welterweight Rankings - Performance Based - July 7/25
Kamaru Usman starts moving back on up
(photo by Inaquout)
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 for my man Gumby). But fret not - I’ve fixed the problem and have come up with 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 Welterweight Rankings - Performance Based
Stats Last UFC Total
Rank Rank Rank
1 1 1 Jack Della Maddalena 611.5
2 2 4 Shavkat Rakhmonov 586.5
3 3 2 Belal Muhammad 538
4 4 5 Leon Edwards 481
5 5 3 Sean Brady 428
6 8 6 Kamaru Usman 363.5
7 7 8 Michael Morales 361
8 6 8 Joaquin Buckley 306.5
9 9 Randy Brown 284
10 10 14 Carlos Prates 271
11 11 12 Geoff Neal 244
12 12 7 Ian Machado Garry 240.5
13 38 15 Kevin Holland 199
14 13 Vicente Luque 180.5
15 15 Li Jingliang 164
16 17 Rinat Fakhretdinov 146
17 18 Uros Medic 140
18 19 Neil Magny 133
19 20 Nicolas Dalby 131
20 21 13 Stephen Thompson 129
21 22 Carlston Harris 124
22 16 Khaos Williams 117
23 23 Mike Malott 108.5
24 24 Max Griffin 106
25 25 Daniel Rodriguez 103.5
25 28 Philip Rowe 103.5
27 26 Niko Price 90.5
28 29 Muslim Salikhov 88.5
29 31 Gabriel Bonfim 82
30 30 Michael Chiesa 80
31 32 Santiago Ponzinibbio 77
32 NR Chris Curtis 76
32 33 Rafael dos Anjos 76
34 34 11 Gilbert Burns 72.5
35 35 Gunnar Nelson 71
36 36 Jake Matthews 70
37 37 10 Colby Covington 68
38 45 Ramiz Brahimaj 60
38 NR Seok Hyun Ko 60
40 39 Elizeu Zaleski dos Santos 59
41 NR Andreas Gustafsson 50
42 53 Oban Elliott 49
43 40 Francisco Prado 48
44 41 Danny Barlow 41
45 42 Adam Fugitt 40
46 43 Alex Morono 38.5
47 60 Jacobe Smith 38
48 44 Sam Patterson 34
49 46 Themba Gorimbo 31
50 47 Chidi Njokuani 28
51 48 Punahele Soriano 26
52 49 Charles Radtke 24
53 51 Preston Parsons 20
54 49 Court McGee 18.5
55 53 Trevin Giles 17
56 52 Billy Goff 16
57 56 Song Kenan 14
58 57 Tim Means 13.5
59 53 Ange Loosa 13
60 58 Bassil Hafez 9
61 59 Mickey Gall 8
62 60 Austin Vanderford 0
62 60 Carlos Leal 0
62 60 Daniel Frunza 0
62 60 Darrius Flowers 0
62 60 Jonathan Micallef 0
62 60 Kiefer Crosbie 0
62 60 Nikolay Veretennikov 0
62 60 Rhys McKee 0
Other Weight Classes
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Women’s Bantamweight
Women’s Flyweight
Women’s Strawweight
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