Division Rankings

Heavyweight

Updated

November 2, 2025

Fighters

31

Source

FightMatrix

Top 15 Contenders

The elite fighters vying for championship gold

1

Ciryl Gane

Ciryl GaneTop 5“Bon Gamin”

2

Tom Aspinall

Tom AspinallTop 5

3

Francis Ngannou

Francis NgannouTop 5“The Predator”

4

Alexander Volkov

Alexander VolkovTop 5“Drago”

5

Sergei Pavlovich

Sergei PavlovichTop 5

6

Jailton Almeida

Jailton Almeida“Malhadinho”

7

Curtis Blaydes

Curtis Blaydes“Razor”

11

Serghei Spivac

Serghei Spivac“Polar Bear”

12

Jairzinho Rozenstruik

Jairzinho Rozenstruik“Bigi Boy”

14

Derrick Lewis

Derrick Lewis“The Black Beast”

17

Philip De Fries

Philip De Fries

18

Ante Delija

Ante Delija“Walking Trouble”

19

Marcin Tybura

Marcin Tybura“Tybur”

20

Tai Tuivasa

Tai Tuivasa“Bam Bam”

21

Alexandr Romanov

Alexandr Romanov“King Kong”

Full Rankings

16 additional fighters

27

Rizvan Kuniev

28

Shamil Gaziev

29

Timothy Johnson

Timothy Johnson

30

Rodrigo Nascimento

Rodrigo Nascimento“Ze Colmeia”

32

Valter Walker

Valter Walker“The Clean Monster”

33

Tafon Nchukwi

Tafon Nchukwi“Da Don”

34

Augusto Sakai

36

Marcos Rogerio de Lima

Marcos Rogerio de Lima“Pezao”

37

Vitor Petrino

38

Ryan Spann

Ryan Spann“Superman”

41

Amir Aliakbari

43

Mario Pinto

45

Alexander Soldatkin

Alexander Soldatkin

46

Martin Buday

Martin Buday“Badys”

48

Kennedy Nzechukwu

Kennedy Nzechukwu“African Savage”

50

Mick Parkin

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