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Last weekend’s winners

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Men's Pound-for-Pound

Men's Pound-for-Pound, top 3
Rank Fighter FLRFirst Light Ratingmeasure of true skill FLIFirst Light Indexfame compared to skill
1 Islam Makhachev Welterweight 1 2,204 +0.30—
2 Jon Jones Heavyweight 1 2,201 +0.18—
3 Ciryl Gane Heavyweight 1 2,142 +0.05▲ +0.03
Men's Pound-for-Pound, ranks 4 to 15
Rank Fighter FLR FLI
4 A.J. McKee Featherweight 3 2,141 −0.44—
5 Carlos Ulberg Light Heavyweight 2,131 −0.19—
6 Vadim Nemkov Heavyweight 2,128 −0.45—
7 Usman Nurmagomedov Lightweight 2 2,115 +0.14—
8 Rajabali Shaidullaev Featherweight 23 2,110 −0.56Last 11 days: −0.41 → −0.56
9 Alexander Volkov Heavyweight 1 2,104 −0.35Last 25 days: −0.36 → −0.35
10 Yaroslav Amosov Welterweight 1 2,104 −0.21—
11 Francis Ngannou Heavyweight 1 2,101 +0.48—
12 Arman Tsarukyan Lightweight 16 2,100 +0.61
13 Magomed Ankalaev Light Heavyweight 13 2,099 +0.21▼ −0.10
14 Khamzat Chimaev Middleweight 11 2,099 +0.63▲ +0.17
15 Corey Anderson Light Heavyweight 3 2,095 −0.63

Flyweight

Flyweight, top 3
Rank Fighter FLRFirst Light Ratingmeasure of true skill FLIFirst Light Indexfame compared to skill
1 Kyoji Horiguchi 2,039 +0.23—
2 Alexandre Pantoja 1,955 +0.52▲ +0.06
3 Bilal Hasan New 1,954 +0.43
Flyweight, ranks 4 to 15
Rank Fighter FLR FLI
4 Joshua Van 3 1,945 +0.62▼ −0.02
5 Tatsuro Taira 2 1,940 +0.49▲ +0.03
6 Asu Almabayev 2 1,940 +0.27▲ +0.03
7 Manel Kape 2 1,916 +0.44▲ +0.03
8 Aren Akopyan 2 1,915 −0.62
9 Tagir Ulanbekov 1 1,914 +0.44—
10 Brandon Moreno 1,912 +0.68▼ −0.04
11 Hiromasa Ougikubo 2 1,904 +0.19
12 Joshua Pacio 1 1,887 −0.05
13 Zhu Rong New 1,887 −0.44—
14 Marcos Degli 2 1,878 —
15 Rei Tsuruya 4 1,875 −0.28

Bantamweight

Bantamweight, top 3
Rank Fighter FLRFirst Light Ratingmeasure of true skill FLIFirst Light Indexfame compared to skill
1 Merab Dvalishvili 2,081 +0.40▼ −0.04
2 Umar Nurmagomedov 2,062 +0.41▲ +0.04
3 Petr Yan 1 2,055 +0.45▼ −0.08
Bantamweight, ranks 4 to 15
Rank Fighter FLR FLI
4 Asaf Chopurov 1 2,014 −0.82
5 Taylor Lapilus 2 2,007 −0.61—
6 Mario Bautista 1 2,002 +0.11▲ +0.09
7 Renat Khavalov 15 1,992 −0.72
8 Bryce Mitchell 1,991 +0.04—
9 Sean O'Malley 1 1,989 +0.86Last 11 days: +0.87 → +0.86
10 Cory Sandhagen 4 1,987 +0.30▼ −0.06
11 Montel Jackson 2 1,977 −0.32—
12 Muhammad Mokaev 6 1,975 +0.54▲ +0.09
13 Sergio Pettis 2 1,968 +0.15▲ +0.03
14 Yadong Song 11 1,962 +0.44—
15 Raoni Barcelos 1,956 −0.06▲ +0.07

Featherweight

Featherweight, top 3
Rank Fighter FLRFirst Light Ratingmeasure of true skill FLIFirst Light Indexfame compared to skill
1 A.J. McKee 2,141 −0.44—
2 Rajabali Shaidullaev 3 2,110 −0.56Last 11 days: −0.41 → −0.56
3 Alexander Volkanovski 1 2,077 +0.71
Featherweight, ranks 4 to 15
Rank Fighter FLR FLI
4 Aljamain Sterling 2 2,074 +0.31
5 Movlid Khaybulaev 1 2,073 −0.48—
6 Islam Omarov 3 2,067 −0.83
7 Patricio Freire 2 2,048 −0.21▼ −0.09
8 Movsar Evloev 1 2,029 +0.42—
9 Timur Khizriev 1 2,020 −0.34
10 Losene Keita New 2,015 −0.19▼ −0.10
11 Aaron Pico 1 1,999 +0.05
12 Rustam Kerimov 1 1,998 +0.13
13 Mehdi Baydulaev 1,984 −0.15
14 Yadier Del Valle 6 1,963 −0.55
15 Pat Sabatini 3 1,960 −0.33▲ +0.12

Lightweight

Lightweight, top 3
Rank Fighter FLRFirst Light Ratingmeasure of true skill FLIFirst Light Indexfame compared to skill
1 Usman Nurmagomedov 2,115 +0.14—
2 Arman Tsarukyan 2 2,100 +0.61
3 Justin Gaethje 1 2,093 +0.47—
Lightweight, ranks 4 to 15
Rank Fighter FLR FLI
4 Charles Oliveira 1 2,087 +0.59—
5 Benoit St. Denis 2,050 +0.36
6 Ilia Topuria 2,043 +0.84
7 Grant Dawson 2,040 −0.39▲ +0.02
8 Abdul-Aziz Abdulvakhabov 2 2,039 −0.72—
9 Salahdine Parnasse 2 2,038 +0.34—
10 Max Holloway 2 2,038 +0.43—
11 Mateusz Gamrot 2 2,036 +0.23—
12 Bibert Tumenov 2,017 −0.77
13 Archie Colgan 2 2,006 −0.63
14 Dustin Poirier 3 2,005 +0.69—
15 Paddy Pimblett 1 2,004 +0.72▲ +0.02

Welterweight

Welterweight, top 3
Rank Fighter FLRFirst Light Ratingmeasure of true skill FLIFirst Light Indexfame compared to skill
1 Islam Makhachev 2,204 +0.30—
2 Yaroslav Amosov 2,104 −0.21—
3 Shavkat Rakhmonov 6 2,089 +0.26
Welterweight, ranks 4 to 15
Rank Fighter FLR FLI
4 Michael Page 1 2,083 +0.39
5 Eduard Vartanyan 2,063 −0.47—
6 Ian Garry 2 2,062 +0.41—
7 Sean Brady 3 2,054 −0.42Last 25 days: −0.48 → −0.42
8 Thad Jean 15 2,050 −0.69▼ −0.13
9 Jason Jackson 4 2,050 −0.57
10 Gabriel Bonfim 3 2,048 −0.12▲ +0.02
11 Michael Morales 1 2,032 +0.09Last 25 days: +0.07 → +0.09
12 Andrey Koreshkov 2,025 −0.65▲ +0.02
13 Magomed Umalatov 7 2,022 −0.21
14 Shamil Musaev 3 2,020 −0.63
15 Abdoul Abdouraguimov 1 2,015 −0.49

Middleweight

Middleweight, top 3
Rank Fighter FLRFirst Light Ratingmeasure of true skill FLIFirst Light Indexfame compared to skill
1 Khamzat Chimaev 2,099 +0.63▲ +0.17
2 Dricus Du Plessis 2,081 +0.19▲ +0.04
3 Johnny Eblen 2,071 −0.50▲ +0.06
Middleweight, ranks 4 to 15
Rank Fighter FLR FLI
4 Magomedrasul Gasanov 4 2,052 −0.60
5 Kamaru Usman 2,048 +0.55▲ +0.02
6 Brendan Allen 2 2,047 −0.05▲ +0.08
7 Sean Strickland 2,040 +0.68
8 Reinier de Ridder 2 2,034 +0.08▲ +0.07
9 Israel Adesanya 3 2,031 +0.68▼ −0.02
10 Robert Whittaker 2,022 +0.27Last 25 days: +0.26 → +0.27
11 Krzysztof Jotko 4 2,018 −0.37▼ −0.03
12 Ikram Aliskerov 1 2,013 −0.05▲ +0.04
13 Costello Van Steenis 4 2,011 −0.61
14 Sharabutdin Magomedov 2,007 +0.25—
15 Gregory Rodrigues 1 2,007 −0.02▲ +0.06

Light Heavyweight

Light Heavyweight, top 3
Rank Fighter FLRFirst Light Ratingmeasure of true skill FLIFirst Light Indexfame compared to skill
1 Carlos Ulberg 2,131 −0.19—
2 Magomed Ankalaev 3 2,099 +0.21▼ −0.10
3 Corey Anderson 1 2,095 −0.63
Light Heavyweight, ranks 4 to 15
Rank Fighter FLR FLI
4 Muslim Magomedov 1 2,094 −0.86
5 Alex Pereira 1 2,077 +0.36—
6 Phil Davis 2,056 −0.62
7 Yoel Romero 2,014 +0.26
8 Dominick Reyes 1,993 +0.22—
9 Azamat Murzakanov 1 1,991 +0.16—
10 Jiri Prochazka 1 1,989 +0.62
11 Volkan Oezdemir 1,982 +0.03—
12 Jan Blachowicz 1,966 +0.47—
13 Luke Trainer 5 1,965 −0.75
14 Salamu Abdurahmanov 1,962 −0.65
15 Rob Wilkinson 1,961 −0.59—

Heavyweight

Heavyweight, top 3
Rank Fighter FLRFirst Light Ratingmeasure of true skill FLIFirst Light Indexfame compared to skill
1 Jon Jones 2,201 +0.18—
2 Ciryl Gane 2,142 +0.05▲ +0.03
3 Vadim Nemkov 2,128 −0.45—
Heavyweight, ranks 4 to 15
Rank Fighter FLR FLI
4 Alexander Volkov 2,104 −0.35Last 25 days: −0.36 → −0.35
5 Francis Ngannou 2,101 +0.48—
6 Phil De Fries 2,087 −0.65—
7 Sergei Pavlovich 2,072 +0.09▲ +0.03
8 Denis Goltsov 1 2,059 −0.74—
9 Waldo Cortes-Acosta 1 2,048 −0.01—
10 Anatoly Malykhin 2 2,045 −0.13▲ +0.11
11 Tom Aspinall 2,027 +0.52▲ +0.06
12 Oleg Popov 1 2,018 −0.78
13 Alexander Romanov 1 2,017 −0.48
14 Curtis Blaydes 2 2,012 +0.11▼ −0.06
15 Kirill Kornilov 2 2,004 −0.87Last 25 days: −0.85 → −0.87

Women's Atomweight

Women's Atomweight, top 3
Rank Fighter FLRFirst Light Ratingmeasure of true skill
1 Janet Garcia 1,576
2 Satomi Takano 1,546
3 Ana Palacios 1,515
Women's Atomweight, ranks 4 to 9
Rank Fighter FLR
4 Jeong Eun Park 1,499
5 Andrea Meneses 1,474
6 Claire Lopez 1,302
7 Juliana Otalora 2 1,178
8 Seo Young Park 1,160
9 Maria Cruz Maldonado Cosino 2 1,110

Women's Strawweight

Women's Strawweight, top 3
Rank Fighter FLRFirst Light Ratingmeasure of true skill FLIFirst Light Indexfame compared to skill
1 Weili Zhang 1,957 +0.47
2 Virna Jandiroba 1,927 +0.22
3 Tatiana Suarez 1,890 +0.29
Women's Strawweight, ranks 4 to 15
Rank Fighter FLR FLI
4 Denise Gomes 3 1,863 −0.31▲ +0.14
5 Mackenzie Dern 1 1,859 +0.78—
6 Fatima Kline 1,838 −0.07▲ +0.05
7 Amanda Lemos 3 1,811 +0.15▲ +0.08
8 Gillian Robertson 6 1,810 +0.50▲ +0.09
9 Jessica Andrade 1,809 +0.55
10 Piera Rodriguez 5 1,801 —
11 Xiaonan Yan 3 1,801 +0.27▲ +0.11
12 Jaqueline Amorim 1 1,800 —
13 Carla Esparza 1 1,800 +0.40
14 Alexia Thainara 1 1,798 —
15 Lupita Godinez 7 1,796 +0.03▼ −0.04

Women's Flyweight

Women's Flyweight, top 3
Rank Fighter FLRFirst Light Ratingmeasure of true skill FLIFirst Light Indexfame compared to skill
1 Liz Carmouche 2,020 −0.45
2 Valentina Shevchenko 2,009 +0.58
3 Dakota Ditcheva 1,954 +0.21▲ +0.04
Women's Flyweight, ranks 4 to 15
Rank Fighter FLR FLI
4 Manon Fiorot 2 1,918 +0.13—
5 Erin Blanchfield 1,903 +0.19
6 Rose Namajunas 1 1,898 +0.70
7 Alexa Grasso 7 1,875 +0.70▼ −0.04
8 Taila Santos 1 1,874 +0.13—
9 Maycee Barber 1 1,861 +0.56
10 Natalia Silva 2 1,855 +0.29▲ +0.05
11 Sabrinna de Sousa 7 1,853 —
12 Jena Bishop 1 1,849 —
13 Jasmine Jasudavicius 1 1,843 +0.04▲ +0.07
14 Miranda Maverick 1 1,836 −0.26▲ +0.07
15 Cong Wang 1,820 +0.03▲ +0.05

Women's Bantamweight

Women's Bantamweight, top 3
Rank Fighter FLRFirst Light Ratingmeasure of true skill FLIFirst Light Indexfame compared to skill
1 Kayla Harrison 2,019 +0.18
2 Norma Dumont 3 1,815 +0.46▲ +0.03
3 Lucia Szabova 1,797 −0.21Last 25 days: −0.35 → −0.21
Women's Bantamweight, ranks 4 to 15
Rank Fighter FLR FLI
4 Jennifer Maia 3 1,786 —
5 Michelle Montague 1 1,785 —
6 Luana Santos 1,772 +0.45
7 Ailin Perez 2 1,752 +0.60
8 Raquel Pennington 1,752 +0.45
9 Joselyne Edwards 4 1,737 +0.16▲ +0.04
10 Jacqueline Cavalcanti 2 1,735 —
11 Miesha Tate 5 1,732 +0.84
12 Beatriz Mesquita 6 1,731 +0.20—
13 Julianna Pena 1 1,726 +0.72
14 Macy Chiasson 3 1,725 +0.13▲ +0.04
15 Karol Rosa 4 1,723 −0.19▲ +0.03

Women's Featherweight

Women's Featherweight, top 3
Rank Fighter FLRFirst Light Ratingmeasure of true skill FLIFirst Light Indexfame compared to skill
1 Cristiane Justino 2,088 +0.30
2 Larissa Pacheco 1,886 +0.04
3 Ketlen Vieira 1,815 −0.01▲ +0.10
Women's Featherweight, ranks 4 to 7
Rank Fighter FLR FLI
4 Regina Tarin New 1,778 —
5 Sara Collins 1 1,668 —
6 Paula Cristina dos Santos Silva 1 1,578 —
7 Eman Almudhaf 1 1,551 —

FLR

First Light Rating. A skill score built from a fighter's fight results, and the number these rankings are sorted by. It is deliberately conservative: the less we know about a fighter, the lower they are rated until the results are in.

FLI

First Light Index. It compares a fighter's fame with what their FLR rating would predict, on a scale from −1 to +1. Above zero, their audience is bigger than their skill explains: they know how to be a star. Below zero, they are better than their audience knows. The arrow shows how the FLI has moved over about the last 30 days; hover it to see the trend.