Lightweight Active Rankings

Top active Lightweight fighters, ranked by NextKnockout's official rating system. Only fighters who have competed in the last 2 years are included.

Showing top 100 fighters • Updated weekly

Rank	Fighter	Rating
1	Islam Makhachev	2596
2	Ilia Topuria	2501
3	Max Holloway	2437
4	Charles Oliveira	2407
5	Justin Gaethje	2395
6	Mateusz Gamrot	2355
7	Arman Tsarukyan	2340
8	Dustin Poirier	2334
9	Paddy Pimblett	2311
10	Gadzhi Rabadanov	2311
11	EV Eduard Vartanyan	2299
12	Olivier Aubin-Mercier	2296
13	RS Roberto Satoshi de Souza	2293
14	Grant Dawson	2276
15	AB Ali Bagov	2271
16	AA Abdul-Aziz Abdulvakhabov	2265
17	AS Alexandr Shabliy	2251
18	SP Salahdine Parnasse	2248
19	Usman Nurmagomedov	2246
20	Joel Alvarez	2241
21	Beneil Dariush	2235
22	RK Rustam Kerimov	2222
23	Renato Carneiro	2217
24	HB Herdeson Batista	2207
25	LK Losene Keita	2203
26	Diego Ferreira	2195
27	Michael Chandler	2190
28	RT Raul Tutarauli	2187
29	BT Bibert Tumenov	2181
30	Damir Ismagulov	2173
31	Mansour Barnaoui	2172
32	BS Benoit St. Denis	2169
33	Bibiano Fernandes	2164
34	Dan Hooker	2164
35	Shinya Aoki	2163
36	AS Alikhan Suleymanov	2162
37	AK Abdisalam Kubanychbek	2162
38	Alexander Sarnavskiy	2161
39	PH Paul Hughes	2158
40	RG Ramazan Gitinov	2157
41	Mateusz Rebecki	2153
42	Ignacio Bahamondes	2145
43	Aaron Pico	2142
44	Jim Miller	2140
45	Rafael Fiziev	2137
46	LE Lom-Ali Eskiev	2135
47	Chase Hooper	2133
48	Mason Jones	2133
49	Archie Colgan	2130
50	Nazim Sadykhov	2123
51	Marcin Held	2122
52	Thanh Le	2119
53	Mauricio Ruffy	2115
54	SL Stephen Loman	2113
55	Chris Duncan	2112
56	KT Kai Tang	2110
57	Ludovit Klein	2108
58	Brent Primus	2107
59	JK Jakub Kaszuba	2105
60	Shane Campbell	2101
61	Jared Gordon	2097
62	RW Robert Watley	2097
63	AA Ali Abdulkhalikov	2094
64	AM Alexander Matmuratov	2093
65	MY Magomed Yunusilau	2093
66	AD Abdul-Rakhman Dudaev	2090
67	Esteban Ribovics	2089
68	JW Jay-Jay Wilson	2088
69	Alfie Davis	2086
70	Shane Burgos	2081
71	Drakkar Klose	2080
72	Fares Ziam	2080
73	Manuel Torres	2079
74	Nasrat Haqparast	2078
75	IB Ivan Buchinger	2077
76	Chris Padilla	2074
77	AS Axel Sola	2074
78	Loik Radzhabov	2068
79	MS Manoel Sousa	2067
80	Kevin Lee	2065
81	BN Bagama Nikabagamaev	2064
82	Julio Arce	2063
83	SG Shamil Gasanov	2061
84	GS George Staines	2059
85	MC Max Coga	2055
86	MJ Milos Janicic	2052
87	MD Michael Dufort	2051
88	VM Valeriu Mircea	2051
89	NA Nariman Abbasov	2047
90	IK Ivan Kurelaru	2047
91	RS Roman Szymanski	2046
92	Jalin Turner	2046
93	Mike Davis	2043
94	Michael Johnson	2042
95	CP Cristian Perez	2042
96	Giga Chikadze	2042
97	ZR Zhu Rong	2040
98	NJ Nate Jennerman	2038
99	LP Lance Palmer	2037
100	MP Marif Piraev	2036

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