The MMA Freak rankings are voted on by members of the writing staff. Fighters who are serving drug related suspensions, have been inactive for twelve months or have recently retired are currently ineligible. Also, fighters are only eligible for one weight class unless they are champions in multiple divisions in which case, they are exceptions to the rule:
Top 10 Women’s P4P Fighters (10/30/23)
1) Cristiane Venâncio (1)
2) Zhang Weili (2)
3) Larissa Pacheco (3)
4) Alexa Grasso (4)
5) Valentina Shevchenko (5)
6) Kayla Harrison (6)
7) Rayanne dos Santos (7)
8) Jillian DeCoursey (8)
9) Liz Carmouche (9)
10) Tatiana Suarez (10)
Honorable Mentions
Ilima Lei-MacFarlane, Jéssica Delboni, Amanda Lemos, Marina Mokhnatkina, Danni McCormack
*Ronda Rousey, Julianna Peña and Germaine de Randamie are all ineligible.
Top 10 Women’s Open Weights (10/30/23)
1) Kayla Harrison (1)
2) Aspen Ladd (N/A)
3) Olena Kolesnyk (2)
4) Destanie Yarbrough (N/A)
5) Evelyn Martins (N/A)
6) Sayaka Hishinuma (N/A)
7) Mayumi Aoki (N/A)
8) Yuko Matsuura (N/A)
9) Momo Shimizu (N/A)
10) Brittney Hoover (N/A)
*Gabi Garcia, Bobbi-Jo Dalziel, Jozette Cotton, Latoya Walker and Lei’D Tapa are all ineligible.
Top 10 Women’s Featherweights (10/30/23)
1) Cristiane Venâncio (1)
2) Larissa Pacheco (2)
3) Cat Zingano (3)
4) Leah McCourt (4)
5) Sara McMann (5)
6) Sara Collins (6)
7) Sinead Kavanagh (7)
8) Norma Dumont (8)
9) Marina Mokhnatkina (9)
10) Arlene Blencowe (10)
Honorable Mentions
Chelsea Chandler, Josiane Nunes, Amber Leibrock, Amanda Leve, Karol Rosa
*Megan Anderson, Macy Chiasson, Leslie Smith and Talita Nogueira are ineligible due to inactivity.
Top 10 Women’s Bantamweights (10/30/23)
1) Irene Aldana (1)
2) Raquel Pennington (2)
3) Mayra Bueno Silva (3)
4) Ketlen Vieira (4)
5) Pannie Kianzad (5)
6) Talita Bernardo (6)
7) Olga Rubin (7)
8) Holly Holm (8)
9) Yana Kunitskaya (9)
10) Veronica Hardy (10)
Honorable Mentions
Zurina Turrey, Nora Cornolle, Taneisha Tennant, Montserrat Rendon, Claire Guthrie
*Ronda Rousey, Julia Avila, Sarah Kleczka, Julianna Peña and Germaine de Randamie are ineligible.
Top 10 Women’s Flyweights (10/30/23)
1) Alexa Grasso (1)
2) Valentina Shevchenko (2)
3) Erin Blanchfield (3)
4) Taila Santos (4)
5) Manon Fiorot (5)
6) Liz Carmouche (6)
7) Viviane Araújo (7)
8) Jennifer Maia (8)
9) Maycee Barber (9)
10) Ilima Lei-MacFarlane (10)
Honorable Mentions
DeAnna Bennett, Dakota Ditcheva, Joanne Wood, Justine Kish, Valentina Scatizzi
*Antonina Shevchenko and Katlyn Chookagian are ineligible for the rankings due to inactivity.
Top 10 Women’s Strawweights (10/30/23)
1) Weili Zhang (1)
2) Amanda Lemos (3)
3) Virna Jandiroba (4)
4) Marina Rodriguez (5)
5) Yan Xiaonan (6)
6) Tatiana Suarez (7)
7) Jessica Andrade (8)
8) Mackenzie Dern (9)
9) Amanda Ribas (N/A)
10) Luana Pinheiro (10)
Honorable Mentions
Cory McKenna, Tabatha Ricci, Gillian Robertson, Lupita Godinez, Angela Hill
*Tecia Torres and Carla Esparza are both ineligible due to inactivity.
Top 10 Women’s Atomweights (10/30/23)
1) Rayanne dos Santos (1)
2) Jillian DeCoursey (2)
3) Seika Izawa (3)
4) Si Woo Park (4)
5) Claire Lopez (5)
6) Rena Kubota (6)
7) Park Si-yoon (7)
8) Saori Oshima (8)
9) Kanna Asakura (9)
10) Elisandra Ferreira (10)
Honorable Mentions
Aya Murakami, Jeong Eun Park, Suwanan Boonsorn, Reina Kobayashi, Arisa Matsuda
*Ayaka Hamasaki, Lisbeth Lopez Silva and Linda Mihalec are all ineligible.