THE FIGHTERS.
Champions. Contenders. The names coming for them.
Lightweight
104 fighters · 16 ranked or champion
Tap a group to include or exclude it. Official rankings first, CageDogs Next 15 next, then CageDog Prospects alphabetically.
Justin Gaethje
Lightweight
28-5-0 · W–L–D
- Style
- MMA
- Gym
- Genesis Training Center
- From
- Tucson, United States
Ilia Topuria
Lightweight
17-1-0 · W–L–D
- Style
- Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu
- Gym
- Team Topuria
- From
- Germany
Arman Tsarukyan
Lightweight
24-3-0 · W–L–D
- Style
- Kickboxer
- Gym
- Syndicate MMA - Las Vegas, NV
- From
- Georgia
Charles Oliveira
Lightweight
37-11-0 · W–L–D
- Style
- Jiu-Jitsu
- Gym
- Bronx's Gold Team
- From
- State of São Paulo, Brazil
Max Holloway
Lightweight
27-9-0 · W–L–D
- Style
- Muay Thai
- Gym
- Gracie Technics
- From
- Waianae, United States
Paddy Pimblett
Lightweight
24-4-0 · W–L–D
- Gym
- NEXT Generation MMA
- From
- Liverpool, England
Benoît Saint Denis
Lightweight
17-4-0 · W–L–D
- Style
- MMA
- Gym
- Venum Training Camp Paris
- From
- Nîmes, France
Quillan Salkilld
Lightweight
13-1-0 · W–L–D
- Style
- MMA
- Gym
- Luistro Combat Academy
- From
- Pinjarra, Australia
Mauricio Ruffy
Lightweight
14-3-0 · W–L–D
- Style
- Striker
- From
- State of São Paulo, Brazil
Salahdine Parnasse
Lightweight
24-2-0 · W–L–D
- Style
- MMA
- Gym
- Atch Academy
- From
- Aubervilliers, France
Mateusz Gamrot
Lightweight
26-5-0 · W–L–D
- Style
- Wrestling
- Gym
- American Top Team
- From
- Bielsko, Biala, Poland
Rafael Fiziev
Lightweight
14-5-0 · W–L–D
- Style
- Muay Thai
- Gym
- Tiger Muay Thai - Phuket, Thailand
- From
- Kyrgyzstan
Renato Moicano
Lightweight
21-7-1 · W–L–D
- Style
- Jiu-Jitsu
- Gym
- American Top Team
- From
- Brasilia, Brazil
Dan Hooker
Lightweight
24-15-0 · W–L–D
- Style
- MMA
- Gym
- Saigon Sports Club- Vietnam
- From
- Aukland, New Zealand
Tom Nolan
Lightweight
11-1-0 · W–L–D
- Gym
- Team Compton Training Centre
- From
- Australia
Beneil Dariush
Lightweight
23-8-1 · W–L–D
- Style
- MMA
- Gym
- Kings MMA - Huntington Beach, CA
- From
- Iran
Grant Dawson
Lightweight
24-3-1 · W–L–D
- Gym
- American Top Team
- From
- Cambria, United States
Drakkar Klose
Lightweight
16-4-1 · W–L–D
- Gym
- Red Hawk Academy
- From
- Kalamazoo, United States
Chris Padilla
Lightweight
18-6-1 · W–L–D
- Gym
- California Mixed Martial Arts
- From
- Lynwood, United States
Diego Lopes
Featherweight / Lightweight
28-8-0 · W–L–D
- Style
- Jiu-Jitsu
- Gym
- Brazilian Warriors / Lobo Gym
- From
- Manaus, Brazil
Diego Ferreira
Lightweight
20-7-0 · W–L–D
- Style
- MMA
- Gym
- Team Ferreira BJJ- Pharr, TX
- From
- Terra Nova, Brazil
Drew Dober
Lightweight
29-15-0 · W–L–D
- Style
- Freestyle
- Gym
- Elevation Fight Team - Denver, CO
- From
- Omaha, United States
MarQuel Mederos
Lightweight
12-1-1 · W–L–D
- Style
- MMA
- Gym
- MMA LAB - Glendale, AZ
- From
- Denver, United States
Nurullo Aliev
Lightweight
12-0-0 · W–L–D
- Style
- Wrestling
- From
- Dushanbe, Tajikistan
Chris Duncan
Lightweight
15-3-0 · W–L–D
- Style
- Striker
- Gym
- American Top Team
- From
- Glasgow, Scotland
Jalin Turner
Lightweight
16-9-0 · W–L–D
- Style
- MMA
- Gym
- Bloodline Combat Sports
- From
- Los Angeles, United States
Farès Ziam
Lightweight
18-6-0 · W–L–D
- Style
- Kickboxer
- Gym
- Dominance MMA, Onx Labs
- From
- Vénissieux, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
Esteban Ribovics
Lightweight
17-3-0 · W–L–D
- Style
- Striker
- Gym
- Kill Cliff FC
- From
- Tartagal, Argentina
Ludovít Klein
Lightweight
24-6-1 · W–L–D
- Style
- Boxing
- From
- Slovakia
King Green
Lightweight
36-18-1 · W–L–D
- Style
- MMA
- Gym
- Pinnacle MMA
- From
- San Bernardino, United States
Brian Ortega
Featherweight / Lightweight
16-5-0 · W–L–D
- Style
- Jiu-Jitsu
- Gym
- Team Ortega
- From
- Carson, United States
Abdul-Kareem Al-Selwady
Lightweight
16-4-0 · W–L–D
- Style
- MMA
- From
- Baton Rouge, United States
Adam Livingston
Lightweight
1-1-0 · W–L–D
- From
- United States
Akbar Abdullaev
Lightweight
1-0-0 · W–L–D
- From
- Kyrgyzstan
Alex Reyes
Lightweight
13-5-0 · W–L–D
- Style
- Freestyle
- From
- Hollywood, United States
Alexander Hernandez
Lightweight
19-9-0 · W–L–D
- Style
- MMA
- From
- St. Louis, United States
Anshul Jubli
Lightweight
7-2-0 · W–L–D
- Style
- MMA
- From
- Uttarkashi, India
Artur Minev
Lightweight
7-1-0 · W–L–D
- Gym
- The Q
- From
- Odesa Oblast, Ukraine
Axel Sola
Lightweight
13-1-1 · W–L–D
- Style
- Karate
- Gym
- Boxing Squad
- From
- Nice, France
Billy Quarantillo
Lightweight
18-8-0 · W–L–D
- Style
- MMA
- Gym
- Gracie Pac MMA
- From
- Buffalo, United States
Callum Connor
Lightweight
0-1-0 · W–L–D
- From
- Oldham, England
Charlie Campbell
Lightweight
9-3-0 · W–L–D
- Style
- MMA
- Gym
- LAW MMA
- From
- New York, United States
Chase Hooper
Lightweight
17-5-1 · W–L–D
- Style
- Grappler
- From
- Enumclaw, United States
Claudio Puelles
Lightweight
13-5-0 · W–L–D
- Style
- Muay Thai
- Gym
- Kill Cliff FC / Brazilian Warriors
- From
- Peru
Cristian Perez
Lightweight
15-2-0 · W–L–D
- Style
- MMA
- Gym
- UFC Performance Institute Mexico City
- From
- Ensenada, Mexico
Dakota Hope
Lightweight
11-2-0 · W–L–D
- Gym
- 4oz Fight Club
- From
- United States
Damian Rzepecki
Lightweight
10-1-0 · W–L–D
- Style
- Wrestling
- Gym
- Top Fit Center Piotrków Trybunalski
- From
- Piotrków Trybunalski, Poland
Damir Hadžović
Lightweight
14-8-0 · W–L–D
- Gym
- Rumble Sports - Copenhagen
- From
- Gorzade, Bosnia & Herzegovina
Sources, dates & roster coverage
This directory combines the publicly listed current rosters from Wikipedia and roster.watch, adds every fighter in UFC’s published divisional media rankings, and removes the recent departures explicitly listed in the roster source. It includes new signings awaiting a debut. It is a dated public-roster snapshot, not access to UFC’s private contracts. Inactive contract holders and very recent changes may be missing or delayed. UFC’s athlete archive is used only to match identity, portraits and listed records, not as evidence of an active contract.
Top 15 numbers follow UFC’s media rankings, including ties. CageDogs Next 15 positions use a separate provisional Elo model. CageDog Prospects includes everyone outside those two lists. Roster membership and weight classes can change before public lists update.
Style and gym follow UFC biography fields when available. “From” is the listed birthplace, not a verified current camp. Missing fields are left out.
Portraits are matched to UFC athlete records. 2 listed fighters do not yet have a matched portrait. Missing or blocked images show a labeled placeholder.
UFC official rankings (media rankings) ↗
How CageDogs Next 15 works · Elo Beta
We rank eligible roster members by CageDogs UFC-result Elo. Champions and official top-15 fighters are excluded separately in each division. No editorial override changes the order. These are independent positions #16–30, not official UFC rankings or win probabilities.
Every identity starts at 1500. Expected score = 1 / (1 + 10^((opponent Elo − fighter Elo) / 400)). New Elo = old Elo + 32 × (result − expected score). Wins count 1, draws 0.5, losses 0. No contests, DWCS, regional results and future bouts are excluded. There are no finish, title or popularity bonuses. Same-day fights use start-of-day ratings. Exact rating ties use stable fighter ID.
Eligibility requires at least three included UFC results, an included result within 730 days of the snapshot, and no unresolved identity, outcome or latest-result gap. Short divisions stay short. CageDog Prospects includes other listed fighters, including those without enough evidence. It is not an unsigned-prospect ranking.
Opponent quality is the mean of the opponents’ Elo immediately before the fighter’s last five included bouts, or fewer when fewer exist. It is descriptive and is not added to Elo a second time. The opponent-history percentage shows how often opponents already had a result in this dataset.
Striking differential is significant strikes landed minus absorbed per minute. Accuracy is landed / attempted. Defense and per-15-minute rates are source-listed career aggregates. These are context, not a weighted score or opponent-adjusted advanced model. Missing and inconsistent fields are omitted, never scored as zero. In particular, takedown accuracy and rate are withheld when landed/attempted totals do not reconcile. Career metric dates can be older than the result update.
Coverage: 707 official athlete-page captures, 3,808 deduplicated UFC bouts, 2007-05-26 through 2026-10-17. 2 conflicting or ambiguous records were excluded. This is a partial historical universe built around the current roster, not every UFC fight ever held. Missing retired-opponent history and incomplete biographies affect Elo. Historical opponents without a uniquely matched roster identity use exact normalized names, with no fuzzy matching.
A fighter has one captured UFC-career Elo across divisions, then is filtered into the current roster divisions. Historical bout divisions are not consistently available, so this is not a weight-class-only Elo. Current division labels and contract status still depend on dated public roster evidence. All model confidence is provisional. Editorial opinions remain separate. Historical replay checks do not establish predictive or betting advantage.
Result snapshot: 2026-10-22T02:42:29.706Z · Model ufc-biography-elo-v1. This is a fixed snapshot, not a live feed. Open a fighter’s rating evidence for the counted bouts and pre-fight opponent ratings.