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Welterweight

Updated

November 2, 2025

Fighters

39

Source

FightMatrix

Top 15 Contenders

The elite fighters vying for championship gold

1
Jack Della Maddalena
Jack Della MaddalenaTop 5
2
Belal Muhammad
Belal MuhammadTop 5“Remember the Name”
3
Sean Brady
Sean BradyTop 5
4
Kamaru Usman
Kamaru UsmanTop 5“The Nigerian Nightmare”
5
Leon Edwards
Leon EdwardsTop 5“Rocky”
6
Shavkat Rakhmonov
Shavkat Rakhmonov“Nomad”
7
Joaquin Buckley
Joaquin Buckley“New Mansa”
8
Ian Machado Garry
Ian Machado Garry“The Future”
9
Michael Morales
Michael Morales
11
Carlos Prates
Carlos Prates“The Nightmare”
12
Colby Covington
Colby Covington“Chaos”
13
Jason Jackson
Jason Jackson“Jah-Son”
15
Gilbert Burns
Gilbert Burns“Durinho”
16
Daniel Rodriguez
Daniel Rodriguez“D-Rod”
17
Geoff Neal
Geoff Neal“Handz of Steel”

Full Rankings

24 additional fighters
18
Michael Chiesa
Michael Chiesa“Maverick”
19
Rinat Fakhretdinov
Rinat Fakhretdinov“Gladiator”
20
Neil Magny
Neil Magny“The Haitian Sensation”
21
Randy Brown
Randy Brown“Rudeboy”
22
Joel Alvarez
Joel Alvarez“El Fenomeno”
23
Muslim Salikhov
Muslim Salikhov“King of Kung Fu”
24
Gabriel Bonfim
Gabriel Bonfim“Marretinha”
25
Stephen Thompson
Stephen Thompson“Wonderboy”
26
Chris Curtis
Chris Curtis“Action-Man”
28
Bryan Battle
Bryan Battle“The Butcher”
29
Bibulatov Magomed
Bibulatov Magomed“Chaborz”
31
Mike Malott
Mike Malott“Proper”
32
Kevin Holland
Kevin Holland“Trailblazer”
33
Andrey Koreshkov
Andrey Koreshkov“Spartan”
34
Lorenz Larkin
Lorenz Larkin“The Monsoon”
35
Vicente Luque
Vicente Luque“The Silent Assassin”
36
Rafael Dos Anjos
Rafael Dos Anjos
37
Carlos Leal
Carlos Leal“The Lion”
38
Albert Tumenov
Albert Tumenov“Einstein”
39
Jake Matthews
Jake Matthews“The Celtic Kid”
41
Max Griffin
Max Griffin“Pain”
43
Nicolas Dalby
Nicolas Dalby“Danish Dynamite”
47
Punahele Soriano
Punahele Soriano“Puna”
48
Myktybek Orolbai
Myktybek Orolbai

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