Division Rankings

Featherweight

Updated

November 2, 2025

Fighters

34

Source

FightMatrix

Top 15 Contenders

The elite fighters vying for championship gold

1

Alexander Volkanovski

Alexander VolkanovskiTop 5“The Great”

2

Movsar Evloev

Movsar EvloevTop 5

3

Diego Lopes

Diego LopesTop 5

4

Yair Rodriguez

Yair RodriguezTop 5“El Pantera”

5

Aljamain Sterling

Aljamain SterlingTop 5“Funk Master”

6

Lerone Murphy

Lerone Murphy“The Miracle”

7

Brian Ortega

Brian Ortega“T-City”

8

Youssef Zalal

Youssef Zalal“The Moroccan Devil”

9

Patricio Freire

Patricio Freire“Pitbull”

11

Steve Garcia

Steve Garcia“Mean Machine”

12

AJ McKee

AJ McKee“Mercenary”

15

Jesus Pinedo

Jesus Pinedo“El Mudo”

16

Josh Emmett

Josh Emmett“CC0”

17

Dan Ige

Dan Ige“50K”

18

Jean Silva

Jean Silva“White Bear”

Full Rankings

19 additional fighters

23

Gabriel Miranda

Gabriel Miranda“Fly”

25

Nathaniel Wood

Nathaniel Wood“The Prospect”

26

David Onama

27

Giga Chikadze

Giga Chikadze“Ninja”

28

Brendan Loughnane

Brendan Loughnane

29

Pat Sabatini

30

William Gomis

William Gomis“Jaguar”

31

Cub Swanson

32

Jose Maria

Jose Maria“No Chance”

33

Melquizael Costa

Melquizael Costa“Melk Cauthy”

35

Sean Woodson

Sean Woodson“The Sniper”

36

Diego Brandao

Diego Brandao“DB”

37

Kai Kamaka

Kai Kamaka“The Fighting Hawaiian”

38

Dooho Choi

Dooho Choi“The Korean Superboy”

43

Enrique Barzola

Enrique Barzola“El Fuerte”

44

Aaron Pico

47

Calvin Kattar

49

Joanderson Brito

Joanderson Brito“Tubarao”

50

Muhammad Naimov

Muhammad Naimov“Hillman”

Featherweight rankings data provided by FightMatrix. Last updated November 2, 2025.