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 (4/29/23)
1) Amanda Nunes (1)
2) Zhang Weili (2)
3) Jillian DeCoursey (3)
4) Larissa Pacheco (4)
5) Alexa Grasso (5)
6) Valentina Shevchenko (6)
7) Julianna Peña (7)
8) Kayla Harrison (8)
9) Rose Namajunas (9)
10) Liz Carmouche (10)
Honorable Mentions
Tatiana Suarez, Jéssica Delboni, Taila Santos, Lauren Murphy, Ilima Lei-MacFarlane
*Ronda Rousey, Cristiane Venâncio and Germaine de Randamie are ineligible due to inactivity.
Top 10 Women’s Open Weights (4/29/23)
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 (8)
8) Julia Dorny (7)*
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 (4/29/23)
1) Amanda Nunes (1)*
2) Larissa Pacheco (2)
3) Cat Zingano (3)
4) Sara McMann (4)
5) Sinead Kavanagh (5)
6) Macy Chiasson (6)
7) Norma Dumont (7)
8) Marina Mokhnatkina (8)
9) Arlene Blencowe (9)
10) Leah McCourt (10)
Honorable Mentions
Chelsea Chandler, Josiane Nunes, Amber Leibrock, Amanda Leve, Evelyn Martins
*Amanda Nunes is ranked in multiple classes but is an exception to the rule.
**Megan Anderson, Leslie Smith, Cristiane Venâncio and Talita Nogueira are ineligible due to inactivity.
Top 10 Women’s Bantamweights (4/29/23)
1) Amanda Nunes (1)*
2) Irene Aldana (7)
3) Julianna Peña (2)
4) Raquel Pennington (3)
5) Mayra Bueno Silva (4)
6) Ketlen Vieira (5)
7) Talita Bernardo (6)
8) Claire Guthrie (8)
9) Holly Holm (9)
10) Yana Kunitskaya (10)
Honorable Mentions
Olga Rubin, Veronica Hardy, Joselyne Edwards, Taneisha Tennant, Montserrat Rendon
*Amanda Nunes is ranked in multiple divisions but is an exception.
**Ronda Rousey, Julia Avila, Sarah Kleczka, Pannie Kianzad and Germaine de Randamie are ineligible.
Top 10 Women’s Flyweights (4/29/23)
1) Alexa Grasso (1)
2) Valentina Shevchenko (2)
3) Tatiana Suarez (3)
4) Taila Santos (4)
5) Erin Blanchfield (5)
6) Manon Fiorot (8)
7) Liz Carmouche (9)
8) Jennifer Maia (10)
9) Ilima Lei-MacFarlane (N/A)
10) Maycee Barber (N/A)
Honorable Mentions
Antonina Shevchenko, Amanda Ribas, Dakota Ditcheva, Lauren Murphy
*Jessica Andrade has vacated the weight class.
Top 10 Women’s Strawweights (4/29/23)
1) Weili Zhang (1)
2) Carla Esparza (3)
3) Amanda Lemos (4)
4) Virna Jandiroba (N/A)
5) Marina Rodriguez (5)
6) Yan Xiaonan (6)
7) Jessica Andrade (N/A)
8) Mackenzie Dern (7)
9) Luana Pinheiro (8)
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 (4/29/23)
1) Rayanne dos Santos (2)
2) Jillian DeCoursey (1)
3) Seika Izawa (4)
4) Si Woo Park (5)
5) Claire Lopez (N/A)
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.
**Jéssica Delboni has vacated the weight class.