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MMA Pound-for-Pound Top 100 (March 2021)

Ratings for events through February 28, 2021. All weight classes/pound-for-pound.

Key:  Fighter won recent fight  ;  Fighter lost recent fight  ;  Inactive: last rated win > one year ago 

Feb
Rank
Mar
Rank
Fighter WC Rating Rated Record Org February results
1 1  Stipe Miocic HW 97.59  15-3-0 UFC  
2 2  Khabib Nurmagomedov LW 91.49  15-0-0 UFC  
3 3  Kamaru Usman WW 88.94  13-0-0 UFC  Beat #16 Gilbert Burns
4 4  Jon Jones LH 81.60  20-1-0 UFC  --last rated win -12 months.
5 5  Israel Adesanya MW 70.74  8-0-0 UFC  
6 6  Alexander Volkanovski FW 58.92  14-0-0 UFC  
7 7  Henry Cejudo BW 58.16  10-2-0 UFC  
8 8  Dustin Poirier LW 56.37  22-6-0 UFC  
9 9  Robert Whittaker MW 53.77  14-5-0 UFC  
10 10  Francis Ngannou HW 50.87  9-2-0 UFC  
11 11  Gegard Mousasi MW 49.81  38-7-2 Bell  
12 12  Patricio Freire FW 49.08  18-4-0 Bell  
13 13  Georges St. Pierre MW 47.28  24-2-0 UFC  --last rated win -39 months.
14 14  Bibiano Fernandes BW 46.72  21-2-0 One  --last rated win -16 months.
15 15  Vadim Nemkov LH 46.37  7-2-0 Bell  
17 16  Charles Oliveira LW 43.70  21-8-0 UFC  
18 17  Colby Covington WW 42.10  10-2-0 UFC  
19 18  Kyoji Horiguchi BW 40.37  27-3-0 Rizi  
21 19  Aljamain Sterling BW 39.70  13-3-0 UFC  
20 20  Daniel Cormier HW 39.48  18-3-0 UFC  --last rated win -27 months.
23 21  Justin Gaethje LW 39.19  16-3-0 UFC  
22 22  Rafael Lovato Jr. MW 39.19  7-0-0 Bell  --last rated win -20 months.
44 23  Derrick Lewis HW 38.94  14-5-0 UFC  Beat #25 Curtis Blaydes
24 24  Demetrious Johnson FL 38.44  21-3-1 One  --last rated win -16 months.
26 25  Jan Blachowicz LH 38.05  21-6-0 UFC  
27 26  Lance Palmer FW 35.41  18-3-0 Prof  --last rated win -14 months.
28 27  Leon Edwards WW 35.20  12-2-0 UFC  --last rated win -19 months.
67 28  Beneil Dariush LW 33.04  15-4-1 UFC  Beat #30 Diego Ferreira
29 29  Ryan Bader LH 32.33  21-6-0 Bell  --last rated win -25 months.
16 30  Gilbert Burns WW 31.98  12-4-0 UFC  Lost to #3 Kamaru Usman
31 31  Deiveson Figueiredo FL 31.38  10-1-1 UFC  
32 32  A.J. McKee FW 31.07  11-0-0 Bell  
33 33  Michael Chandler LW 30.22  18-5-0 UFC  
45 34  Cory Sandhagen BW 29.76  7-2-0 UFC  Beat #262 Frankie Edgar
34 35  Jorge Masvidal WW 29.68  33-14-0 UFC  --last rated win -15 months.
37 36  Phil Davis LH 29.27  17-5-0 Bell  
35 37  Natan Schulte LW 29.13  10-1-1 Prof  --last rated win -14 months.
36 38  Tony Ferguson LW 28.95  18-3-0 UFC  --last rated win -20 months.
38 39  Max Holloway FW 28.85  20-6-0 UFC  
39 40  Zabit Magomedsharipov FW 28.41  9-0-0 UFC  --last rated win -15 months.
40 41  Tofiq Musayev LW 28.39  8-1-0 Rizi  --last rated win -14 months.
42 42  Petr Yan BW 28.16  9-0-0 UFC  
43 43  Stephen Thompson WW 27.94  12-4-1 UFC  
46 44  Michael Chiesa WW 27.52  12-4-0 UFC  
25 45  Curtis Blaydes HW 27.18  10-3-0 UFC  Lost to #44 Derrick Lewis
47 46  Douglas Lima MW 26.97  17-4-0 Bell  --last rated win -16 months.
48 47  Eddie Alvarez LW 26.73  26-7-0 One  --last rated win -18 months.
50 48  Philip De Fries HW 26.68  12-6-0 KSW  
51 49  Derek Brunson MW 26.67  16-7-0 UFC  
52 50  Timofey Nastyukhin LW 26.65  6-3-0 One  
127 51  Alexander Volkov HW 26.64  21-7-0 UFC  Beat #58 Alistair Overeem
49 52  Conor McGregor LW 26.49  14-3-0 UFC  --last rated win -13 months.
53 53  Glover Teixeira LH 26.44  25-6-0 UFC  
54 54  Thanh Le FW 26.22  10-1-0 One  
64 55  Magomed Ankalaev LH 26.17  8-1-0 UFC  Beat #433 Nikita Krylov
55 56  Christian Lee LW 26.16  8-2-0 One  
57 57  Brandon Moreno FL 25.69  7-2-2 UFC  
59 58  Marvin Vettori MW 25.50  7-2-1 UFC  
61 59  Jingliang Li WW 25.02  11-4-0 UFC  
62 60  Brian Ortega FW 24.87  8-1-0 UFC  
63 61  Timothy Johnson HW 24.73  11-5-0 Bell  
60 62  T.J. Dillashaw FL 24.71  11-3-0 UFC  --last rated win -30 months.
65 63  Movsar Evloev FW 24.31  9-0-0 UFC  
66 64  Guram Kutateladze LW 24.28  6-0-0 UFC  
68 65  Josh Emmett FW 23.85  10-2-0 UFC  
83 66  Belal Muhammad WW 23.60  13-3-0 UFC  Beat #612 Dhiego Lima
70 67  Kai Asakura BW 23.58  11-3-0 Rizi  
69 68  Islam Makhachev LW 23.48  10-1-0 UFC  --last rated win -17 months.
72 69  Tatsuki Saomoto FL 23.34  14-1-0 Rizi  
496 70  Alexandre Pantoja FL 23.24  7-3-0 UFC  Beat #41 Manel Kape
74 71  Emmanuel Sanchez FW 23.24  14-3-0 Bell  
75 72  Azamat Kerefov FL 23.17  6-0-0 ACA  
71 73  Mukhomad Vakhaev HW 23.11  5-1-1 ACA  --last rated win -12 months.
76 74  Artem Reznikov LW 23.11  5-0-0 ACA  
73 75  Lorenz Larkin WW 23.00  13-7-0 Bell  --last rated win -14 months.
216 76  Abubakar Vagaev WW 22.93  14-3-0 ACA  Beat #77 Murad Abdulaev
209 77  Ciryl Gane HW 22.79  6-0-0 UFC  Beat #81 Jairzinho Rozenstruik
78 78  Yaroslav Amosov WW 22.79  7-0-0 Bell  
79 79  Ryo Okada BW 22.59  11-3-3 Shoo  
80 80  Raoni Barcelos BW 22.51  8-1-0 UFC  
30 81  Diego Ferreira LW 22.31  12-3-0 UFC  Lost to #67 Beneil Dariush
82 82  Rob Font BW 22.31  10-3-0 UFC  
119 83  Ali Bagov WW 22.25  14-8-0 ACA  Beat #317 Elias Silverio
409 84  Fabricio Andrade BW 22.08  2-0-0 One  Beat #56 Shoko Sato
84 85  Bryce Mitchell FW 22.06  8-0-0 UFC  
86 86  Vicente Luque WW 21.81  11-2-0 UFC  
87 87  Hiromasa Ougikubo BW 21.79  17-5-1 Rizi  
88 88  Kiamrian Abbasov WW 21.79  4-1-0 One  
85 89  Tomasz Narkun LH 21.66  12-3-0 KSW  --last rated win -17 months.
92 90  Abdul-Aziz Abdulvakhabov LW 21.64  8-1-0 ACA  
89 91  Paulo Costa MW 21.52  7-1-0 UFC  --last rated win -18 months.
90 92  Demian Maia WW 21.48  26-10-0 UFC  --last rated win -16 months.
96 93  Felipe Froes FW 21.47  6-2-0 ACA  
91 94  Albert Tumenov WW 21.44  12-4-0 ACA  --last rated win -15 months.
98 95  Merab Dvalishvili BW 21.43  6-2-0 UFC  
93 96  Magomed Magomedkerimov WW 21.39  11-3-0 Prof  --last rated win -16 months.
94 97  Isao Kobayashi FW 21.39  22-5-2 Panc  --last rated win -16 months.
95 98  Jared Cannonier MW 21.38  6-5-0 UFC  --last rated win -17 months.
100 99  John Salter MW 21.21  12-4-0 Bell  
101 100  Leonardo Santos LW 21.19  9-0-1 UFC  

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