Rankings for February 25

Neal and Carl up to their same old shenanigans

Our first ranking post of 2024. The year end ranking post is somewhere right over here.

Most of the movement so far has happened in men’s featherweight, where Ilia Topuria and Brian Ortega just ruined the nice tidy world that we had there once.

The lack of movement in women’s featherweight has led to us putting that division on hiatus. We’ll bring it back when something interesting happens. And by “something interesting” we mean “a worldwide mma org promotes fights there.”

Lets just go.

Carl ranks based on his qualitative assessment of the fighters; I rank quantitatively based on their performances and results. This leaves us with a weirdly happy medium.

We’ve been talking to some of our fightis.land colleagues about getting more people involved in the rankings.

Eligibility criteria:

a. Fighter has made weight in the division in the last 12 months.

b. If fighter has a fight booked when those 12 months elapse they will not be removed from eligibility.

c.  Fighters will be classified by actual weight on the scale, division names and other promotional eligibility criteria notwithstanding.

d. A fighter must be clearly competing in a division and will be removed when declaring intention to switch or retire. 

Men’s Rankings

125 Lbs.

1. Alexandre Pantoja

2. Brandon Royval

3. Amir Albazi

4. Brandon Moreno

5. Matheus Nicolau

6. Manel Kape

7. Kai Kara-France

8. Muhammad Mokaev

9. Jarred Brooks

10. Steve Erceg

11. Bruno Silva

12. Joshua Pacio

13. David Dvorak

14. Tim Elliott

15. Tagir Ulanbekov

135 Lbs.

1. Sean O'Malley

2. Merab Dvalishvili

3. Cory Sandhagen

4. Aljamain Sterling

5. Patchy Mix

6. Marlon Vera

7. Petr Yan

8. Demetrious Johnson

9. Deiveson Figueiredo

10. Yadong Song

11. Sergio Pettis

12. Jonathan Martinez

13. Rob Font

14. Raufeon Stots

15. Mario Bautista

145 Lbs.

1. Ilia Topuria

2. Alexander Volkanovski

3. Max Holloway

4. Movsar Evloev

5. Arnold Allen

6. Brian Ortega

7. Josh Emmett

8. Fabricio Andrade

9. Yair Rodriguez

10. Patricio Pitbull

11. Dan Ige

12. Muhammad Naimov

13. Edson Barboza

14. Bryce Mitchell

15. John Lineker

155 Lbs.

1. Islam Makhachev

2. Charles Oliveira

3. Justin Gaethje

4. Dustin Poirier

5. Arman Tsarukyan

6. Mateusz Gamrot

7. Rafael Fiziev

8. Beneil Dariush

9. Usman Nurmagomedov

10. Michael Chandler

11. Jalin Turner

12. Benoit St. Denis

13. Elves Brener

14. Brent Primus

15. Alexander Shabliy

170 Lbs.

1. Leon Edwards

2. Belal Muhammad

3. Shavkat Rakhmonov

4. Gilbert Burns

5. Jason Jackson

6. Stephen Thompson

7. Yaroslav Amosov

8. Ian Machado Garry

9. Logan Storley

10. Kamaru Usman

11. Jack Della Maddalena

12. Vicente Luque

13. Geoff Neal

14. Sean Brady

15. Neil Magny

185 Lbs.

1. Dricus du Plessis

2. Sean Strickland

3. Robert Whittaker

4. Johnny Eblen

5. Israel Adesanya

6. Jared Cannonier

7. Marvin Vettori

8. Jack Hermansson

9. Brendan Allen

10. Derek Brunson

11. Roman Dolidze

12. Nassourdine Imavov

13. Anthony Hernandez

14. Roman Kopylov

15. Fabian Edwards

205 Lbs.

1. Alex Pereira

2. Magomed Ankalaev

3. Jan Blachowicz

4. Jamahal Hill

5. Corey Anderson

6. Nikita Krylov

7. Johnny Walker

8. Khalil Rountree Jr.

9. Volkan Oezdemir

10. Azamat Murzakanov

11. Phil Davis

12. Ryan Spann

13. Alonzo Menifield

14. Carlos Ulberg

15. Anthony Smith

265 Lbs. (Heavyweight)

1. Tom Aspinall

2. Jon Jones

3. Ciryl Gane

4. Sergei Pavlovich

5. Curtis Blaydes

6. Alexander Volkov

7. Renan Ferreira

8. Linton Vassell

9. Jailton Almeida

10. Anatoly Malykhin

11. Phil De Fries

12. Sergey Spivak

13. Ryan Bader

14. Marcin Tybura

15. Sergey Spivac

Women’s Rankings

105 + 108 Lbs. combined (Atomweight)

1. Seika Izawa

2. Si Woo Park

3. Rayanne dos Santos

4. Kanna Asakura

5. Si Yoon Park

6. Saori Oshima

7. Jillian DeCoursey

8. Arisa Matsuda

9. Machi Fukuda

10. Ayaka Watanabe

11. Satomi Takano

12. Monique Adriane

13. Elisandra Ferreira

14. Chihiro Sawada

15. Anastasia Nikolakakos

115 Lbs.

1. Weili Zhang

2. Xiaonan Yan

3. Amanda Lemos

4. Tatiana Suarez

5. Virna Jandiroba

6. Jessica Andrade

7. Marina Rodriguez

8. Stamp Fairtex

9. Mackenzie Dern

10. Carla Esparza

11. Lupita Godinez

12. Seo Hee Ham

13. Angela Hill

14. Tabatha Ricci

15. Amanda Ribas

125 Lbs.

1. Alexa Grasso

2. Erin Blanchfield

3. Valentina Shevchenko

4. Manon Fiorot

5. Natalia Silva

6. Maycee Barber

7. Liz Carmouche

8. Taila Santos

9. Viviane Araujo

10. Tatiana Suarez

11. Xiong Jing Nan

12. Tracy Cortez

13. Katlyn Chookagian

14. Karine Silva

15. Jennifer Maia

135 Lbs.

1. Raquel Pennington

2. Mayra Bueno Silva

3. Irene Aldana

4. Holly Holm

5. Pannie Kianzad

6. Olga Rubin

7. Ketlen Vieira

8. Karol Rosa

9. Ketlen Viera

10. Yana Santos

11. Joselyn Edwards

12. Macy Chiasson

13. Talita Bernardo

14. Luana Carolina

15. Taneisha Tennant