How to draw a fighter

Three steps from a division to a name you can paste.

Rounds, scores, and a grounded fighter

MMA terms on this page

Weight class

The limit a fighter must make at the weigh-in. In the UFC, a title fight must be at or under the class limit, and a non-title fight may be one pound over.

Catchweight

A bout contracted at a limit between the usual classes, or at a number both fighters agree to. Commissions can refuse a catchweight if the gap is too wide.

10-point must

The scoring system for a round. The winner receives 10 points. A close or ordinary round is 10-9. A 10-8 round requires significant damage.

Grounded fighter

Under the August 2025 Unified Rules, any part of the body other than the hands or feet on the canvas. Knees and kicks to that fighter's head are fouls.

Pioneer

A fighter best known from PRIDE or the early UFC, including the open-weight tournaments before today's class list. Some of those names also fought in the later era.

Women's MMA

The UFC women's classes are strawweight, flyweight, bantamweight, and featherweight. Those fighters also appear in the matching weight-class filter.

Split decision

Two judges score the bout for one fighter and the third judge scores it for the other. A unanimous decision means all three judges agree.

Unique mode

Duplicates turned off. Each fighter appears once, up to the size of the selected filter.