Division Rankings

Middleweight

Updated

November 2, 2025

Fighters

39

Source

FightMatrix

Top 15 Contenders

The elite fighters vying for championship gold

1

Khamzat Chimaev

Khamzat ChimaevTop 5“Borz”

2

Dricus Du Plessis

Dricus Du PlessisTop 5“Stillknocks”

3

Nassourdine Imavov

Nassourdine ImavovTop 5“The Sniper”

4

Sean Strickland

Sean StricklandTop 5

5

Israel Adesanya

Israel AdesanyaTop 5“The Last Stylebender”

6

Brendan Allen

Brendan Allen“All In”

7

Anthony Hernandez

Anthony Hernandez“Fluffy”

9

Robert Whittaker

Robert Whittaker“The Reaper”

10

Paulo Costa

Paulo Costa“The Eraser”

11

Caio Borralho

Caio Borralho“The Natural”

12

Michael Page

Michael Page“Venom”

15

Jared Cannonier

Jared Cannonier“The Killa Gorilla”

16

Reinier de Ridder

Reinier de Ridder“RdR”

17

Roman Dolidze

18

Joe Pyfer

Joe Pyfer“Bodybagz”

Full Rankings

24 additional fighters

19

Marvin Vettori

Marvin Vettori“The Italian Dream”

20

Gregory Rodrigues

Gregory Rodrigues“Robocop”

21

Impa Kasanganay

Impa Kasanganay“Tshilobo”

22

Kelvin Gastelum

Kelvin Gastelum

24

Ikram Aliskerov

Ikram Aliskerov

25

Roman Kopylov

26

Shara Magomedov

Shara Magomedov“Bullet”

30

Abus Magomedov

31

Makhmud Muradov

Makhmud Muradov

32

Bo Nickal

33

Michal Oleksiejczuk

Michal Oleksiejczuk“Hussar”

34

JunYong Park

JunYong Park“The Iron Turtle”

35

Aaron Jeffery

36

Nursulton Ruziboev

Nursulton Ruziboev“Black”

37

Krzysztof Jotko

Krzysztof Jotko

38

Jack Hermansson

Jack Hermansson“The Joker”

39

Christian Leroy Duncan

Christian Leroy Duncan“CLD”

40

Ibragim Magomedov

Ibragim Magomedov

43

Marc-Andre Barriault

Marc-Andre Barriault“Powerbar”

45

Kyle Daukaus

46

Douglas Lima

Douglas Lima“The Phenom”

47

Robert Bryczek

48

Brunno Ferreira

Brunno Ferreira“The Hulk”

50

Anatoly Tokov

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