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 (5/30/23)
1) Zhang Weili (2)
2) Larissa Pacheco (4)
3) Alexa Grasso (5)
4) Valentina Shevchenko (6)
5) Julianna Peña (7)
6) Kayla Harrison (8)
7) Rayanne dos Santos (2)
8) Jillian DeCoursey (3)
9) Liz Carmouche (10)
10) Tatiana Suarez (N/A)
Honorable Mentions
Jéssica Delboni, Taila Santos, Lauren Murphy, Ilima Lei-MacFarlane, Amanda Lemos
*Ronda Rousey, Rose Namajunas, Cristiane Venâncio and Germaine de Randamie are all ineligible.
**Amanda Nunes has retired from active competition.
Top 10 Women’s Open Weights (5/30/23)
1) Kayla Harrison (1)
2) Olena Kolesnyk (2)
3) Genah Fabian (3)
4) Abigail Montes (4)
5) Vanessa Melo (5)
6) Zamzagul Fayzallanova (6)
7) Aspen Ladd (7)
8) Julia Dorny (8)*
9) Jozette Cotton (9)*
10) Latoya Walker (10)*
*Due to a lack of depth in the weight class, the following fighters have exceptions to eligibility.
**Gabi Garcia, Bobbi-Jo Dalziel, Olivia Parker, Camee Adams and Lei’D Tapa are all ineligible.
Top 10 Women’s Featherweights (5/30/23)
1) Larissa Pacheco (2)
2) Cat Zingano (3)
3) Sara McMann (4)
4) Sinead Kavanagh (5)
5) Macy Chiasson (6)
6) Norma Dumont (7)
7) Marina Mokhnatkina (8)
8) Arlene Blencowe (9)
9) Leah McCourt (10)
10) Chelsea Chandler (N/A)
Honorable Mentions
Josiane Nunes, Amber Leibrock, Amanda Leve, Evelyn Martins
*Amanda Nunes has retired from active competition.
**Megan Anderson, Leslie Smith, Cristiane Venâncio and Talita Nogueira are ineligible due to inactivity.
Top 10 Women’s Bantamweights (5/30/23)
1) Irene Aldana (2)
2) Julianna Peña (3)
3) Raquel Pennington (4)
4) Mayra Bueno Silva (5)
5) Ketlen Vieira (6)
6) Talita Bernardo (7)
7) Claire Guthrie (8)
8) Holly Holm (9)
9) Yana Kunitskaya (10)
10) Olga Rubin (N/A)
Honorable Mentions
Veronica Hardy, Joselyne Edwards, Taneisha Tennant, Montserrat Rendon
*Amanda Nunes has retired from active competition.
**Ronda Rousey, Julia Avila, Sarah Kleczka, Pannie Kianzad and Germaine de Randamie are ineligible.
Top 10 Women’s Flyweights (5/30/23)
1) Alexa Grasso (1)
2) Valentina Shevchenko (2)
3) Tatiana Suarez (3)
4) Taila Santos (4)
5) Erin Blanchfield (5)
6) Manon Fiorot (6)
7) Liz Carmouche (7)
8) Jennifer Maia (8)
9) Ilima Lei-MacFarlane (9)
10) Maycee Barber (10)
Honorable Mentions
Antonina Shevchenko, Amanda Ribas, Dakota Ditcheva, Lauren Murphy
Top 10 Women’s Strawweights (5/30/23)
1) Weili Zhang (1)
2) Carla Esparza (2)
3) Amanda Lemos (3)
4) Virna Jandiroba (4)
5) Marina Rodriguez (5)
6) Yan Xiaonan (6)
7) Jessica Andrade (7)
8) Mackenzie Dern (8)
9) Luana Pinheiro (9)
10) Gillian Robertson (10)
Honorable Mentions
Cory McKenna, Tabatha Ricci, Lupita Godinez, Angela Hill, Michelle Waterson
*Tecia Torres and Rose Namajunas are both ineligible due to inactivity.
Top 10 Women’s Atomweights (5/30/23)
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) Saori Oshima (7)
8) Kanna Asakura (8)
9) Ayaka Hamasaki (9)
10) Elisandra Ferreira (10)
Honorable Mentions
Machi Fukuda, Aya Murakami, Jeong Eun Park, Miki Motono, Ayaka Watanabe
*Lisbeth Lopez Silva, Linda Mihalec and Viviane Pereira are all ineligible.