List of current UFC fighters
 |
The Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) is a mixed martial arts (MMA) promotion, founded in 1993 by Art Davie and Rorion Gracie. The organization was purchased from its parent company SEG in 2001 by Zuffa LLC, a promotional company owned by Las Vegas casino magnates, Lorenzo and Frank Fertitta and managed by Dana White (current president of operations).[1] Since its inception, and through its current Zuffa management, the UFC has remained one of the more dominant MMA promotions in the world, playing host to a wide field of MMA fighters.[2]
This list provides an up to date roster of all fighters currently competing under the UFC promotional banner.[note 1][note 2] Fighters are organized by weight class and within their weight class by their number of appearances inside the UFC. Fighters with the same number of fights are listed in order of their number of wins. Fighters with the same UFC record are listed alphabetically.[note 3]
World Extreme Cagefighting (WEC) was purchased by Zuffa in 2006[3] and officially merged under the UFC brand on January 1, 2011.[4] All former WEC fighters have had their WEC record listed in place of their UFC record, starting with WEC 25 (the first WEC event under Zuffa). These records have been, and will be, continued as former WEC fighters move on in the UFC.[note 4]
Strikeforce was purchased by Zuffa in 2011[5] and officially merged under the UFC brand on January 12, 2013.[6] All former Strikeforce fighters have had their Strikeforce record listed in place of their UFC record, starting with Strikeforce Challengers: Wilcox vs. Damm (the first Strikeforce event under Zuffa). These records have been, and will be, continued as former Strikeforce fighters move on in the UFC.[note 5]
Each fight record has four categories: wins, losses, draws, and no-contests (NC).[7] All fight records in this article are displayed in that order, with fights resulting in a no-contest listed in parentheses.
Recently released
These fighters have been released from their UFC contracts, or announced their retirement, over the course of the last month. If their release has not been announced, then they have been listed here based upon their removal from the UFC's rosters.[note 6]
| ISO | Name | Division | Zuffa record |
|---|---|---|---|
| BRA | Diego Brandão[8] | Featherweight | 6–4 |
| IRE | Paddy Holohan (retired)[9] | Flyweight | 3–2 |
| JPN | Katsunori Kikuno | Featherweight | 2–3 |
| BRA | Lucas Martins[10] | Featherweight | 4–3 |
Recent signings
The fighters in this section have either signed with the UFC in the last month, have recently returned from an announced retirement, or have yet to make their UFC return or debut.[note 6]
| ISO | Name | Division | MMA record |
|---|---|---|---|
| GER | Jessin Ayari | Welterweight | 15–3 |
| BRA | Poliana Botelho | Women's strawweight | 5–1 |
| BRA | Luan Chagas | Welterweight | 14–1–1 |
| USA | Devin Clark | Middleweight | 6–0 |
| MDA | Ion Cutelaba | Light heavyweight | 11–1 (1 NC) |
| RUS | Abdul-Kerim Edilov | Light heavyweight | 16–4 |
| USA | Josh Emmett | Lightweight | 10–0 |
| BRA | Luiz Henrique da Silva | Light heavyweight | 10–0 |
| RUS | Adam Khaliev | Welterweight | 6–0 |
| USA | Matthew Lopez | Bantamweight | 8–0 |
| RUS | Bilyal Makhov | Heavyweight | 0–0 |
| SER | Bojan Mihajlović | Heavyweight | 10–3 |
| USA | Adam Milstead | Heavyweight | 7–1 |
| USA | BJ Penn | Featherweight | 16–10–2 |
| USA | CM Punk | Middleweight | 0–0 |
| USA | Jordan Rinaldi | Lightweight | 12–4 |
| RUS | Dmitry Smolyakov | Heavyweight | 7–0 |
| BRA | Alberto Uda | Middleweight | 9–0 |
Total fighters: 527
Heavyweights (265 lb, 120 kg): 39 fighters
Junior Dos Santos
Cain Velasquez
Travis Browne
Josh Barnett
Fabrício Werdum
Light heavyweights (205 lb, 93 kg): 33 fighters
Rashad Evans
Jon Jones
Alexander Gustafsson
Middleweights (185 lb, 84 kg): 55 fighters
Michael Bisping
Vitor Belfort
Lyoto Machida
Anderson Silva
Thales Leites
Gegard Mousasi
Chris Weidman
Welterweights (170 lb, 77 kg): 97 fighters
Donald Cerrone
Demian Maia
Georges St-Pierre'
Matt Brown
.jpg?lang=en)
Patrick Côté
Carlos Condit
_from_acrofan.jpg?lang=en)
Dong Hyun Kim
Tyron Woodley
Lightweights (155 lb, 70 kg): 96 fighters
Diego Sanchez
Jim Miller
Joe Lauzon
Ross Pearson
Dustin Poirier
Anthony Pettis
Takanori Gomi
Featherweights (145 lb, 65 kg): 61 fighters
Clay Guida
Dennis Siver
Frankie Edgar
Cub Swanson
_(cropped).jpg?lang=en)
José Aldo
Chad Mendes
Gray Maynard
Darren Elkins
Renan Barão
| ISO | Name | Nickname | Zuffa record |
|---|---|---|---|
| USA | BJ Penn[23] | The Prodigy | 12–9–2 |
| USA | Clay Guida | The Carpenter | 12–10 |
| USA | Jeremy Stephens | Lil' Heathen | 11–11 |
| GER | Dennis Siver | The Menace | 11–8 (1 NC) |
| USA | Frankie Edgar | The Answer | 14–4–1 |
| USA | Cub Swanson* | Cub | 12–6 |
| USA | Cole Miller | Magrinho | 10–7 (1 NC) |
| BRA | Thiago Tavares | 10–6–1 | |
| BRA | José Aldo* | Junior | 15–1 |
| USA | Chad Mendes* | Money | 12–4 |
| USA | Gray Maynard[24] | The Bully | 9–5–1 (1 NC) |
| USA | Ricardo Lamas* | The Bully | 11–4 |
| BRA | Charles Oliveira | Do Bronx | 9–5 (1 NC) |
| USA | Max Holloway | Blessed | 11–3 |
| USA | Darren Elkins | The Damage | 10–4 |
| USA | Alex Caceres | Bruce Leroy | 6–6 (1 NC) |
| BRA | Renan Barão*[25] | The Baron | 10–2 |
| USA | Dennis Bermudez | The Menace | 8–3 |
| USA | Sam Sicilia | 5–5 | |
| VEN | Maximo Blanco** | Maxi | 4–5 |
| USA | Myles Jury | The Fury | 6–2 |
| BRA | Rony Jason | Jason | 4–2 (1 NC) |
| BRA | Godofredo Pepey | Pepey | 4–3 |
| USA | Yaotzin Meza | 2–4 (1 NC) | |
| USA | Matt Grice | The Real One | 2–5 |
| USA | Chas Skelly | The Scrapper | 4–2 |
| BRA | Hacran Dias | Barnabe | 3–3 |
| USA | Andre Fili | Touchy | 3–3 |
| USA | Jimy Hettes | The Kid | 3–3 |
| KOR | Chan Sung Jung* | The Korean Zombie | 3–3 |
| JPN | Tatsuya Kawajiri** | The Crusher | 3–3 |
| NZL | Dan Hooker | The Hangman | 3–2 |
| USA | Mike De La Torre | El Cucuy | 2–2 (1 NC) |
| GBR | Rob Whiteford | The Hammer | 2–3 |
| USA | Phillipe Nover | The Filipino Assassin | 1–4 |
| MEX | Yair Rodríguez | Pantera | 4–0 |
| RUS | Zubaira Tukhugov | Warrior | 3–1 |
| ISR | Noad Lahat | Neo | 2–2 |
| USA | Charles Rosa | Boston Strong | 2–2 |
| USA | Alex White | The Spartan | 2–2 |
| USA | Clay Collard | Cassius | 1–3 |
| JPN | Mizuto Hirota** | Pugnus | 0–3–1 |
| FIN | Makwan Amirkhani | Mr. Finland | 3–0 |
| BIH | Mirsad Bektic | 3–0 | |
| USA | Brian Ortega | T-City | 2–0 (1 NC) |
| MEX | Gabriel Benítez | Moggly | 2–1 |
| BRA | Tiago Trator | Trator | 2–1 |
| GEO | Levan Makashvili | The Hornet | 1–1–1 |
| USA | Jim Alers | The Beast | 1–1 (1 NC) |
| MEX | Masio Fullen | El Lobo | 1–2 |
| GBR | Arnold Allen | Almighty | 2–0 |
| KOR | Doo Ho Choi | The Korean Superboy | 2–0 |
| BRA | Renato Moicano | Moicano | 2–0 |
| CHL | Diego Rivas | Pitbull | 2–0 |
| JPN | Teruto Ishihara | Yashabo | 1–0–1 |
| RUS | Artem Lobov | The Russian Hammer | 0–2 |
| USA | Ryan Hall[26] | The Wizard | 1–0 |
| USA | Luke Sanders | Cool Hand | 1–0 |
| USA | Kyle Bochniak | Crash | 0–1 |
| BRA | Fernando Bruno[27] | Açougueiro | 0–1 |
| USA | Jason Knight | The Kid | 0–1 |
Bantamweights (135 lb, 61 kg): 58 fighters
Urijah Faber
Brad Pickett
Eddie Wineland
Dominick Cruz
Women's bantamweights (135 lb, 61 kg): 26 fighters
Ronda Rousey
Miesha Tate
Sarah Kaufman
| ISO | Name | Nickname | Zuffa record |
|---|---|---|---|
| USA | Ronda Rousey** | Rowdy | 10–1 |
| USA | Miesha Tate** (C) | Cupcake | 7–3 |
| CAN | Alexis Davis** | Ally-Gator | 6–2 |
| BRA | Amanda Nunes** | The Lioness | 5–2 |
| CAN | Sarah Kaufman** | 3–3 (1 NC) | |
| NED | Germaine de Randamie** | The Iron Lady | 4–2 |
| USA | Raquel Pennington | Rocky | 4–2 |
| USA | Liz Carmouche** | Girlrilla | 2–4 |
| BRA | Bethe Correia | Pitbull | 3–2 |
| USA | Sara McMann | 2–3 | |
| USA | Leslie Smith | The Peacemaker | 2–3 |
| USA | Jessica Eye | Evil | 1–3 (1 NC) |
| USA | Holly Holm | The Preacher's Daughter | 3–1 |
| USA | Marion Reneau | Belizean Bruiser | 2–2 |
| USA | Julianna Peña | The Venezuelan Vixen | 3–0 |
| USA | Cat Zingano | Alpha | 2–1 |
| USA | Lauren Murphy | Lucky | 1–2 |
| USA | Elizabeth Phillips | 1–2 | |
| BRA | Cris Justino** | Cyborg | 1–0 (1 NC) |
| RUS | Milana Dudieva | 1–1 | |
| USA | Ashlee Evans-Smith | 1–1 | |
| CAN | Sarah Moras | Cheesecake | 1–1 |
| PER | Valentina Shevchenko | Bullet | 1–1 |
| BRA | Larissa Pacheco | 0–2 | |
| DEN | Anna Elmose | Panda | 0–1 |
| USA | Kelly Faszholz | 0–1 |
Flyweights (125 lb, 56 kg): 30 fighters
Demetrious Johnson
Wilson Reis
| ISO | Name | Nickname | Zuffa record |
|---|---|---|---|
| USA | Joseph Benavidez* | The Beefcake | 16–4 |
| USA | Demetrious Johnson* (C) | Mighty Mouse | 14–2–1 |
| USA | Ian McCall* | Uncle Creepy | 3–5–1 |
| USA | John Moraga | 5–3 | |
| JPN | Kyoji Horiguchi | 6–1 | |
| USA | Sergio Pettis | The Phenom | 5–2 |
| BRA | Jussier Formiga | Formiga | 4–3 |
| USA | Dustin Ortiz | 4–3 | |
| BRA | Wilson Reis | 4–2 | |
| USA | Justin Scoggins | Tank | 4–2 |
| USA | Zach Makovsky | Fun Size | 3–3 |
| IRE | Neil Seery | 2Tap | 3–3 |
| USA | Henry Cejudo | The Messenger | 4–1 |
| USA | Louis Smolka | Da Last Samurai | 4–1 |
| RUS | Ali Bagautinov | Puncher | 3–2 |
| USA | Ray Borg | The Tazmexican Devil | 3–2 |
| USA | Danny Martinez* | The Gremlin | 1–4 |
| USA | Chris Beal | The Real Deal | 2–2 |
| CAN | Chris Kelades | 2–2 | |
| JPN | Ulka Sasaki | Ulka | 2–2 |
| USA | Willie Gates | Whoop Ass | 1–3 |
| GUM | Jon Delos Reyes | The Heat | 1–3 |
| USA | Ryan Benoit | Baby Face | 1–2 |
| USA | Joby Sanchez | 1–2 | |
| CHN | Yao Zhikui | The Conqueror | 1–2 |
| USA | Ben Nguyen | 2–0 | |
| COL | Fredy Serrano | El Profe | 2–0 |
| USA | Geane Herrera | The Revolutionary | 1–1 |
| PHL | Roldan Sangcha-an | The Executioner | 0–2 |
| BRA | Matheus Nicolau[29] | 1–0 |
Women's strawweights (115 lb, 52 kg): 32 fighters
See also
- List of UFC champions
- List of UFC events
- List of current Bellator fighters
- List of current WSOF fighters
- List of current Invicta FC fighters
Notes
- ^ Unless otherwise cited, all fighters listed are retrieved from ufc.com.
- ^ All names presented are in accordance with UFC.com profiles and may include common nicknames or alternative spellings rather than birth names.
- ^ Unless otherwise cited, all records are retrieved from sherdog.com.
- ^ All asterisked fighters are listed by a combination of their UFC and WEC records.
- ^ All double asterisked fighters are listed by a combination of their UFC and Strikeforce records.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l The flags listed in these tables are in accordance with official UFC telecasts and may not fully or accurately represent the full citizenship of the peoples listed.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j UFC championship title holders are marked with a (C).
References
- ^ Cliff Montgomery. "The History of the UFC - Part 1". ExtremeProSports.com. Retrieved February 5, 2011.
- ^ MMAjunkie.com Staff (December 23, 2010). "Sports-industry executives choose UFC as best positioned property for 2011". MMAjunkie.com.
- ^ Scott White (December 11, 2006). "UFC Acquires Assets from WFA; Purchases WEC". mmaontap.com.
- ^ ESPN Staff (October 28, 2010). "Huge White announcement sees Aldo arrive in UFC". ESPN.
- ^ "Zuffa purchases Strikeforce". mmafighting.com. 2011-03-12.
- ^ "UFC/Strikeforce Merger Is Finally "Official"". addictedmma.com. 2013-01-16.
- ^ Grant Waterman (October 2003). "MMA Scoring Guide". SFUK.
- ^ Steven Marrocco (April 28, 2016). "Diego Brandao released from UFC contract after loss, conduct violation and suspension". mmajunkie.com.
- ^ Dann Stupp (April 25, 2016). "UFC flyweight Paddy Holohan, 27, announces retirement due to blood disorder". mmajunkie.com.
- ^ Guilherme Cruz (May 19, 2016). "UFC parts ways with Lucas Martins despite recent win over Robert Whiteford". mmafighting.com.
- ^ MMAjunkie Staff (April 25, 2015). "Olympic medalist Bilyal Makhov signs with UFC, still eyes 2016 Summer Games". mmajunkie.com.
- ^ MMAjunkie Staff (April 21, 2016). "UFC Fight Night 91 gets Tim Boetsch vs. Josh Samman, Scott Holtzman vs. Cody Pfister". mmajunkie.com.
- ^ MMAjunkie Staff (March 27, 2016). "After loss to Magny at UFC Fight Night 85, Hector Lombard returning to middleweight". mmajunkie.com.
- ^ MMAjunkie Staff (March 17, 2016). "Kevin Casey vs. Elvis Mutapcic added to June's UFC 199 in Los Angeles". mmajunkie.com.
- ^ a b MMAjunkie Staff (April 25, 2016). "Devin Clark vs. Alex Nicholson headed to UFC Fight Night 91 in Sioux Falls". mmajunkie.com.
- ^ Mike Bohn (April 2, 2016). "UFC's Roan Carneiro announces return to welterweight division". mmajunkie.com.
- ^ MMAjunkie Staff (April 24, 2015). "Zak Cummings vs. Antonio Braga Neto booked for UFC on FOX 16". mmajunkie.com.
- ^ MMAjunkie Staff (April 29, 2016). "23-year-old German welterweight Jessin Ayari signs deal with UFC". mmajunkie.com.
- ^ Mike Bohn (April 25, 2016). "Former welterweight title challenger Thiago Alves says next fight will be at lightweight". MMAjunkie.com.
- ^ MMAjunkie.com Staff (April 23, 2013). "Yves Edwards vs. Spencer Fisher added to July's UFC on FOX 8 event". MMAjunkie.com.
- ^ a b MMAjunkie Staff (March 31, 2016). "Sage Northcutt meets Enrique Marin at stacked UFC 200 (Updated)". mmajunkie.com.
- ^ MMAjunkie Staff (March 25, 2016). "'Maestro' Dong Hyun Kim set for lightweight bout with Polo Reyes at UFC 199". mmajunkie.com.
- ^ MMAjunkie Staff (January 19, 2016). "Ex-champ B.J. Penn ends retirement, but UFC boss still unsure on details". mmajunkie.com.
- ^ Mike Bohn (November 23, 2015). "Former UFC lightweight title challenger Gray Maynard dropping to featherweight". mmajunkie.com.
- ^ Mike Bohn (October 12, 2015). "Former UFC champ Renan Barao planning move up to featherweight". mmajunkie.com.
- ^ Mike Bohn (May 24, 2016). "'TUF 22' winner Ryan Hall returns vs. Alex White at UFC Fight Night 91 in Sioux Falls". mmajunkie.com.
- ^ MMAjunkie Staff (May 13, 2016). "Gray Maynard heads to 145, meets Fernando Bruno at TUF 23 Finale". mmajunkie.com.
- ^ MMAjunkie Staff (May 17, 2016). "Rani Yahya meets RFA standout Matthew Lopez at UFC Fight Night 91 in Sioux Falls". mmajunkie.com.
- ^ MMAjunkie Staff (May 21, 2016). "Former flyweight title challenger John Moraga meets Matheus Nicolau at TUF 23 Finale". mmajunkie.com.
- ^ MMAjunkie Staff (October 8, 2015). "Jessica Andrade moves to UFC's strawweight division". mmajunkie.com.
- ^ Zane Simon (May 6, 2016). "Welcome to the UFC, Emmett & Botelho". bloodyelbow.com.
Professional mixed martial arts organizations | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Asia |
| ||||
| Australia |
| ||||
| Canada |
| ||||
| Europe |
| ||||
| Middle East |
| ||||
| Nigeria |
| ||||
| South Africa |
| ||||
| South America |
| ||||
| United Kingdom |
| ||||
| United States |
| ||||
