Best UFC Heavyweight fighters

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Francis Ngannou 🇨🇲1509

The worldwide ranking generated by 1.5k votes

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Francis Ngannou 🇨🇲1509

Ciryl Gane 🇫🇷1410

Tom Aspinall 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿1319

Stipe Miocic 🇺🇸1247

Derrick Lewis 🇺🇸1237

Alexander Volkov 🇷🇺1194

Curtis Blaydes 🇺🇸1139

Jairzinho Rozenstruik 🇸🇷1105

Marcin Tybura 🇵🇱1022

#10

Chris Daukaus 🇺🇸1016

#11

Shamil Abdurakhimov 🇷🇺1002

What the community says

Francis Ngannou 🇨🇲 leads with an ELO of 1,509, ahead of Ciryl Gane 🇫🇷 (1,410) and Tom Aspinall 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 (1,319). Ranked over 1,546 duels between 11 contenders, last updated August 25, 2026.

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How this ranking is computed

Every duel won lifts a contender and every loss drops them, by an amount that depends on the opponent's strength: beating the leader is worth more than beating the last. It is an ELO, the same principle as in chess. Duels are not drawn at random — an adaptive entropy sort puts the least predictable match-ups first, which settles the ranking far faster than a full round robin. A worldwide ranking is only published past 30 completed plays. Known limit: a contender who has faced few opponents keeps an approximate score, and the bottom of the table moves more than the podium.