The MMA Freak rankings are voted on by members of the Freak staff. Note that fighters who are serving drug related suspensions, have been inactive for over twelve months or have recently retired are currently ineligible. Also note that fighters are only eligible for one weight class unless they are champions in multiple divisions in which case there are exceptions:
Top 10 MMA P4P Fighters (12/31/23)
1) Jon Jones (1)
2) Islam Makhachev (2)
3) Alexander Volkanovski (3)
4) Leon Edwards (4)
5) Alex Pereira (5)
6) Demetrious Johnson (6)
7) Alexandre Pantoja (7)
8) Jamahal Hill (8)
9) Sean O’Malley (9)
10) Dricus du Plessis (N/A)
Honorable Mentions
Sean Strickland, Ciryl Gane, Charles Oliveira, Tom Aspinall, Brandon Royval
*Francis Ngannou and Stipe Miocic are both ineligible due to inactivity.
Top 10 MMA Flyweights (12/31/23)
1) Alexandre Pantoja (1)
2) Brandon Royval (2)
3) Brandon Moreno (3)
4) Deiveson Figueiredo (4)
5) Amir Albazi (5)
6) Kai Kara-France (6)
7) Matheus Nicolau (7)
8) Matt Schnell (8)
9) Kyoji Horiguchi (9)
10) Makoto Takahashi (10)
Honorable Mentions
Bruno Gustavo da Silva, Manel Kape, Asu Almabaev, Askar Askarov, Azat Maksum
*Alex Perez, Dustin Ortiz, John Moraga, Roberto Sanchez, Darrell Montague, Danny Martinez and Hector Sandoval are ineligible.
Top 10 MMA Bantamweights (12/31/23)
1) Sean O’Malley (1)
2) Aljamain Sterling (2)
3) Henry Cejudo (3)
4) Demetrious Johnson (4)
5) Adriano Moraes (5)
6) Merab Dvalishvili (6)
7) Marlon Vera (8)
8) Petr Yan (7)
9) Cory Sandhagen (9)
10) Song Yadong (10)
Honorable Mentions
Jonathan Martinez, Patchy Mix, Chris Gutiérrez, Juan Archuleta, Cody Garbrandt
*Dominick Cruz is ineligible for the rankings due to inactivity.
Top 10 MMA Featherweights (12/31/23)
1) Alexander Volkanovski (1)
2) Yair Rodriguez (2)
3) Ilia Topuriav (4)
4) Max Holloway (3)
5) Chan Sung Jung (5)
6) Josh Emmett (6)
7) Arnold Allen (7)
8) Patrício Freire (8)
9) Jeremy Kennedy (9)
10) Jesus Pinedo (10)
Honorable Mentions
Giga Chikadze, Edson Barboza, Movsar Evloev, Fabrício Andrade, Movlid Khaybulaev
*Brian Ortega and Calvin Kattar both are all ineligible due to inactivity.
Top 10 MMA Lightweights (12/31/23)
1) Islam Makhachev (1)
2) Charles Oliveira (2)
3) Justin Gaethje (3)
4) Dustin Poirier (4)
5) Beneil Dariush (5)
6) Bobby Green (6)
7) Paddy Pimblett (N/A)
8) Tony Ferguson (7)
9) Dan Hooker (8)
10) Usman Nurmagomedov (9)
Honorable Mentions
A.J. McKee, Arman Tsarukyan, Benoît Saint-Denis, Jim Miller, Thanh Le
*Conor McGregor and Michael Chandler are both ineligible for the rankings due to inactivity.
Top 10 MMA Welterweights (12/31/23)
1) Leon Edwards (1)
2) Kamaru Usman (2)
3) Colby Covington (3)
4) Belal Muhammad (4)
5) Gilbert Burns (5)
6) Shavkat Rakhmonov (6)
7) Geoff Neal (7)
8) Jason Jackson (8)
9) Yaroslav Amosov (9)
10) Michael Page (10)
Honorable Mentions
Stephen Thompson, Magomed Magomedkerimov, Vicente Luque, Jack Della Maddalena, Ian Machado Garry
*Nate Diaz are both ineligible due to inactivity.
Top 10 MMA Middleweights (12/31/23)
1) Dricus du Plessis (3)
2) Sean Strickland (1)
3) Khamzat Chimaev (2)
4) Israel Adesanya (4)
5) Robert Whittaker (5)
6) Jared Cannonier (6)
7) Marvin Vettori (7)
8) Derek Brunson (8)
9) Johnny Eblen (9)
10) Brendan Allen (10)
Honorable Mentions
Jun Yong Park, Roman Kopylov, Makhmud Muradov, Lucas Fernando
*Paulo Costa is ineligible for the rankings due to inactivity.
Top 10 MMA Light Heavyweights (12/31/23)
1) Jamahal Hill (1)
2) Alex Pereira (2)
3) Jiří Procházka (3)
4) Jan Błachowicz (4)
5) Vadim Nemkov (5)
6) Cory Anderson (6)
7) Magomed Ankalaev (7)
8) Johnny Walker (8)
9) Anthony Smith (9)
10) Impa Kasanganay (10)
Honorable Mentions
Nikita Krylov, Reinier de Ridder, Azamat Murzakanov, Volkan Oezdemir, Aung La Nsang
*Antônio Carlos Júnior, Rob Wilkinson and Aleksandar Rakić are all ineligible.
Top 10 MMA Heavyweights (12/31/23)
1) Jon Jones (1)
2) Tom Aspinall (2)
3) Ciryl Gane (3)
4) Sergei Pavlovich (4)
5) Curtis Blaydes (5)
6) Alexander Volkov (6)
7) Ryan Bader (7)
8) Jailton Almeida (8)
9) Jairzinho Rozenstruik (9)
10) Tai Tuivasa (10)
Honorable Mentions
Ante Delija, Ali Isaev, Renan Ferreira, Anatoly Malykhin, Linton Vassell
*Josh Barnett, Stipe Miocic, Francis Ngannou and Cheick Kongo are all ineligible.
Until major promotions start utilizing the super lightweight, super welterweight, super middleweight and cruiser weight classes, MMA Freak will not generate rankings for fighters in said weight classes.