Which division’s ranked fighters are the most active?

[sdpdude9]

So did some research and found out which division’s ranked fighters were the most and least active. I looked at the period of July 2020 through July 2021. I counted fights that are still scheduled through the end of this month. I did not count fights when a fighter fought in a weight division they were not ranked in. And yes, I had nothing better to do, I work a slow job with a lot of downtime so this was a good time waster. Here’s the weight classes and how many fights each fighter had. There’s likely some errors somewhere so let me know if you see one.

Spoiler: The Divisions

Spoiler: Heavyweight

Francis Ngannou - 1
Stipe Miocic - 2
Derrick Lewis - 2
Ciryl Gane - 3
Curtis Blaydes - 1
Alexander Volkov - 3
Jairzinho Rozenstruik- 3
Shamil Abdurakhimov - 0, 1 scheduled
Marcin Tybura - 4
Augusto Sakai - 2
Chris Daukaus - 3, 1 scheduled
Blagoy Ivanov - 0
Walt Harris - 2
Tom Aspinall - 3
Sergey Spivak - 3
Sergei Pavlovich- 0

Average: 2.12

Spoiler: Light Heavyweight

Jan Blachowicz - 2
Glover Teixeira - 1
Jiri Prochazka- 2
Aleksander Rakic - 2
Thiago Santos - 2
Dominick Reyes - 2
Anthony Smith - 3
Magomed Ankalaev- 2
Volkan Oezdemir - 1
Nikita Krylov - 1
Johnny Walker - 1
Ryan Spann - 2
Paul Craig - 3
Misha Cirkunov- 2
Jimmy Crute- 2
Jamahal Hill - 2

Average: 1.87

Spoiler: Middleweight

Israel Adesanya - 2
Robert Whittaker - 3
Paulo Costa - 1
Jared Cannonier - 1
Marvin Vettori - 3
Derek Brunson - 2
Jack Hermansson - 3
Darren Till - 1
Uriah Hall - 2, 1 scheduled
Kelvin Gastelum - 3
Edmen Shahbazyan - 2
Sean Strickland - 3, 1 scheduled
Chris Weidman - 2
Brad Tavares - 2
Kevin Holland - 6
Andre Muniz - 2

Average: 2.5 (2.26)

Spoiler: Welterweight

Kamaru Usman - 3
Colby Covington - 1
Gilbert Burns - 2
Leon Edwards - 2
Stephen Thompson - 2
Michael Chiesa - 2
Vicente Luque - 2
Jorge Masvidal - 2
Neil Magny - 3
Belal Muhammad - 3
Geoff Neal - 2
Demian Maia - 1
Li Jingliang - 1
Santiago Ponzinibbio - 2
Sean Brady - 2
Muslim Salikhov- 2

Average: 2

Spoiler: Lightweight

Charles Oliveira - 2
Dustin Poirier - 2
Justin Gaethje - 1
Beneil Dariush - 3
Michael Chandler - 2
Islam Makhachev- 2
Tony Ferguson- 2
Rafael Dos Anjos - 1
Dan Hooker - 1
Conor McGregor - 2
Gregor Gillespie - 1
Kevin Lee - 0
Diego Ferreira - 2
Brad Riddell - 2
Arman Tsarukyan - 2
Thiago Moises - 3

Average: 1.75

Spoiler: Featherweight

Alexander Volkanovski - 1
Max Holloway - 2
Brian Ortega- 1
Yair Rodriguez - 0
Chan Sung Jung - 2
Calvin Kattar - 2
Arnold Allen - 1
Josh Emmett - 0
Dan Ige - 3
Edson Barboza - 2
Giga Chikadze - 3
Bryce Mitchell - 1
Sodiq Yusuff - 1
Movsar Evloev - 3
Shane Burgos - 1
Ilia Topuria - 3

Average: 1.62

Spoiler: Bantamweight

Aljamain Sterling - 1
Petr Yan - 2
Cory Sandhagen- 2, 1 scheduled
Rob Font - 2
Jose Aldo - 2
Cody Garbrandt - 2
Marlon Moraes - 2
Frankie Edgar - 2
Pedro Munhoz - 2
Dominick Cruz - 1
Merab Dvalishvili - 2
Raphael Assuncao - 1
Jimmie Rivera- 2
Marlon Vera - 3
Kyler Phillips - 2, 1 scheduled
Cody Stamann - 2

Average: 2

Spoiler: Flyweight

Brandon Moreno - 3
Deiveson Figueiredo - 4
Askar Askarov - 2
Alexandre Pantoja - 2
Alex Perez - 1
Joseph Benavidez - 2
Brandon Royval - 2
Kai Kara France - 2
Rogerio Bontorin - 2
Matt Schnell - 2
Tim Elliott - 2
David Dvorak - 2
Raulian Paiva - 1
Matheus Nicolau - 1
Su Madaerji - 2
Amir Albazi - 2

Average: 2

Spoiler: Women’s Bantamweight

Amanda Nunes - 0
Germaine de Randamie - 1
Holly Holm - 1
Aspen Ladd - 0
Irene Aldana - 2
Julianna Peña - 2
Yana Kunitskaya - 3
Ketlen Vieira - 2
Miesha Tate - 1
Sara McMann - 1
Macy Chiasson - 1
Lina Lansberg - 0
Pannie Kianzad - 3
Sijara Eubanks - 3, 1 scheduled
Julia Avila - 2
Karol Rosa - 2

Average: 1.56

Spoiler: Women’s Flyweight

Valentina Shevchenko - 2
Jessica Andrade - 2
Katlyn Chookagian - 3
Lauren Murphy - 2
Jennifer Maia - 3
Cynthia Calvillo - 1
Joanne Calderwood - 3
Viviane Araujo - 3
Jessica Eye - 2
Roxanne Modafferi - 2
Alexa Grasso - 2
Andrea Lee - 2
Taila Santos - 2
Miranda Maverick - 2, 1 scheduled
Maycee Barber - 1, 1 scheduled
Montana de la Rosa - 3

Average: 2.31

Spoiler: Women’s Strawweight

Rose Namajunas - 2
Weili Zhang - 1
Joanna Jedrzejczyk - 0
Carla Esparza - 2
Yan Xiaonan - 2
Marina Rodriguez - 3
Mackenzie Dern - 3
Nina Nunes - 1
Claudia Gadelha - 1
Michelle Waterson - 2
Tecia Torres - 1
Amanda Ribas - 2
Angela Hill - 2
Virna Jandiroba - 3
Amanda Lemos - 3
Felice Herrig - 1

Average: 1.81

Results

1. Middleweight (2.5)*
2. Women’s Flyweight (2.31)
3. Heavyweight (2.12)
4. Welterweight/Bantamweight/Flyweight (2)
5. Light Heavyweight (1.87)
6. Lightweight (1.75)
7. Women’s Strawweight (1.81)
8. Featherweight (1.62)
9. Women’s Bantamweight (1.56)

*Contains an outlier (Holland). Without him average is 2.12.

Fun Facts

-Heavyweight and Middleweight had the most fighters with 3+ fights with 7

-Light Heavyweight, Lightweight, and Flyweight had the least fighters with 3+ fights with 2

-Women’s Bantamweight and Heavyweight had the most fighters with 0 fights in the division with 3, though one of the Heavyweights has a fight scheduled before the end of the month

-Flyweight and Women’s Flyweight had the most active top 5 with 12 fights

-Women’s Bantamweight had the least active top 5 with just 4 fights

-Nearly half of the divisions’ fighters averaged less than 2 fights a year

-Kevin Holland had the most fights amongst ranked contenders at 6

-Amanda Nunes was the least active title holder in her division (though she did compete at Featherweight)

-Francis Ngannou and Alexander Volkanovski were the least active title holders that didn’t compete in another weight class with 1 fight each

-Kamaru Usman and Brandon Moreno were the most active title holders with 3 fights each

-Shamil Abdurakhimov has gone the longest of any ranked fighter without fighting but has a fight scheduled before the end of the month

-Yair Rodriguez has gone the longest of any ranked fighter without fighting and is not scheduled for a fight

 

[Gio]

Nice thread TS. Yep it seems MW has the most active ranked fighters. Kelvin has been stepping up on short notice fights. Vettori has managed to stay healthy and active. Till was supposed to have some fights but got cancelled due to injuries and Costa was about to fight but postponed it due to his hair transplant.

 

[Carrotman23]

Nice thread TS. Yep it seems MW has the most active ranked fighters. Kelvin has been stepping up on short notice fights. Vettori has managed to stay healthy and active. Till was supposed to have some fights but got cancelled due to injuries and Costa was about to fight but postponed it due to his hair transplant.

Stop being so nice and positive to everyone on here . Call some people cunts or something like damn.


Also yeah cool thread OP did not expect that MW number 1 ranking in terms of activity

 

[Gio]

Stop being so nice and positive to everyone on here . Call some people cunts or something like damn.


Also yeah cool thread OP did not expect that MW number 1 ranking in terms of activity

 

[Oscar Madison]

So did some research and found out which division’s ranked fighters were the most and least active. I looked at the period of July 2020 through July 2021. I counted fights that are still scheduled through the end of this month. I did not count fights when a fighter fought in a weight division they were not ranked in. And yes, I had nothing better to do, I work a slow job with a lot of downtime so this was a good time waster. Here’s the weight classes and how many fights each fighter had. There’s likely some errors somewhere so let me know if you see one.

Spoiler: The Divisions

Spoiler: Heavyweight

Francis Ngannou - 1
Stipe Miocic - 2
Derrick Lewis - 2
Ciryl Gane - 3
Curtis Blaydes - 1
Alexander Volkov - 3
Jairzinho Rozenstruik- 3
Shamil Abdurakhimov - 0, 1 scheduled
Marcin Tybura - 4
Augusto Sakai - 2
Chris Daukaus - 3, 1 scheduled
Blagoy Ivanov - 0
Walt Harris - 2
Tom Aspinall - 3
Sergey Spivak - 3
Sergei Pavlovich- 0

Average: 2.12

Spoiler: Light Heavyweight

Jan Blachowicz - 2
Glover Teixeira - 1
Jiri Prochazka- 2
Aleksander Rakic - 2
Thiago Santos - 2
Dominick Reyes - 2
Anthony Smith - 3
Magomed Ankalaev- 2
Volkan Oezdemir - 1
Nikita Krylov - 1
Johnny Walker - 1
Ryan Spann - 2
Paul Craig - 3
Misha Cirkunov- 2
Jimmy Crute- 2
Jamahal Hill - 2

Average: 1.87

Spoiler: Middleweight

Israel Adesanya - 2
Robert Whittaker - 3
Paulo Costa - 1
Jared Cannonier - 1
Marvin Vettori - 3
Derek Brunson - 2
Jack Hermansson - 3
Darren Till - 1
Uriah Hall - 2, 1 scheduled
Kelvin Gastelum - 3
Edmen Shahbazyan - 2
Sean Strickland - 3, 1 scheduled
Chris Weidman - 2
Brad Tavares - 2
Kevin Holland - 6
Andre Muniz - 2

Average: 2.5 (2.26)

Spoiler: Welterweight

Kamaru Usman - 3
Colby Covington - 1
Gilbert Burns - 2
Leon Edwards - 2
Stephen Thompson - 2
Michael Chiesa - 2
Vicente Luque - 2
Jorge Masvidal - 2
Neil Magny - 3
Belal Muhammad - 3
Geoff Neal - 2
Demian Maia - 1
Li Jingliang - 1
Santiago Ponzinibbio - 2
Sean Brady - 2
Muslim Salikhov- 2

Average: 2

Spoiler: Lightweight

Charles Oliveira - 2
Dustin Poirier - 2
Justin Gaethje - 1
Beneil Dariush - 3
Michael Chandler - 2
Islam Makhachev- 2
Tony Ferguson- 2
Rafael Dos Anjos - 1
Dan Hooker - 1
Conor McGregor - 2
Gregor Gillespie - 1
Kevin Lee - 0
Diego Ferreira - 2
Brad Riddell - 2
Arman Tsarukyan - 2
Thiago Moises - 3

Average: 1.75

Spoiler: Featherweight

Alexander Volkanovski - 1
Max Holloway - 2
Brian Ortega- 1
Yair Rodriguez - 0
Chan Sung Jung - 2
Calvin Kattar - 2
Arnold Allen - 1
Josh Emmett - 0
Dan Ige - 3
Edson Barboza - 2
Giga Chikadze - 3
Bryce Mitchell - 1
Sodiq Yusuff - 1
Movsar Evloev - 3
Shane Burgos - 1
Ilia Topuria - 3

Average: 1.62

Spoiler: Bantamweight

Aljamain Sterling - 1
Petr Yan - 2
Cory Sandhagen- 2, 1 scheduled
Rob Font - 2
Jose Aldo - 2
Cody Garbrandt - 2
Marlon Moraes - 2
Frankie Edgar - 2
Pedro Munhoz - 2
Dominick Cruz - 1
Merab Dvalishvili - 2
Raphael Assuncao - 1
Jimmie Rivera- 2
Marlon Vera - 3
Kyler Phillips - 2, 1 scheduled
Cody Stamann - 2

Average: 2

Spoiler: Flyweight

Brandon Moreno - 3
Deiveson Figueiredo - 4
Askar Askarov - 2
Alexandre Pantoja - 2
Alex Perez - 1
Joseph Benavidez - 2
Brandon Royval - 2
Kai Kara France - 2
Rogerio Bontorin - 2
Matt Schnell - 2
Tim Elliott - 2
David Dvorak - 2
Raulian Paiva - 1
Matheus Nicolau - 1
Su Madaerji - 2
Amir Albazi - 2

Average: 2

Spoiler: Women’s Bantamweight

Amanda Nunes - 0
Germaine de Randamie - 1
Holly Holm - 1
Aspen Ladd - 0
Irene Aldana - 2
Julianna Peña - 2
Yana Kunitskaya - 3
Ketlen Vieira - 2
Miesha Tate - 1
Sara McMann - 1
Macy Chiasson - 1
Lina Lansberg - 0
Pannie Kianzad - 3
Sijara Eubanks - 3, 1 scheduled
Julia Avila - 2
Karol Rosa - 2

Average: 1.56

Spoiler: Women’s Flyweight

Valentina Shevchenko - 2
Jessica Andrade - 2
Katlyn Chookagian - 3
Lauren Murphy - 2
Jennifer Maia - 3
Cynthia Calvillo - 1
Joanne Calderwood - 3
Viviane Araujo - 3
Jessica Eye - 2
Roxanne Modafferi - 2
Alexa Grasso - 2
Andrea Lee - 2
Taila Santos - 2
Miranda Maverick - 2, 1 scheduled
Maycee Barber - 1, 1 scheduled
Montana de la Rosa - 3

Average: 2.31

Spoiler: Women’s Strawweight

Rose Namajunas - 2
Weili Zhang - 1
Joanna Jedrzejczyk - 0
Carla Esparza - 2
Yan Xiaonan - 2
Marina Rodriguez - 3
Mackenzie Dern - 3
Nina Nunes - 1
Claudia Gadelha - 1
Michelle Waterson - 2
Tecia Torres - 1
Amanda Ribas - 2
Angela Hill - 2
Virna Jandiroba - 3
Amanda Lemos - 3
Felice Herrig - 1

Average: 1.81

Results

1. Middleweight (2.5)*
2. Women’s Flyweight (2.31)
3. Heavyweight (2.12)
4. Welterweight/Bantamweight/Flyweight (2)
5. Light Heavyweight (1.87)
6. Lightweight (1.75)
7. Women’s Strawweight (1.81)
8. Featherweight (1.62)
9. Women’s Bantamweight (1.56)

*Contains an outlier (Holland). Without him average is 2.12.

Fun Facts

-Heavyweight and Middleweight had the most fighters with 3+ fights with 7

-Light Heavyweight, Lightweight, and Flyweight had the least fighters with 3+ fights with 2

-Women’s Bantamweight and Heavyweight had the most fighters with 0 fights in the division with 3, though one of the Heavyweights has a fight scheduled before the end of the month

-Flyweight and Women’s Flyweight had the most active top 5 with 12 fights

-Women’s Bantamweight had the least active top 5 with just 4 fights

-Nearly half of the divisions’ fighters averaged less than 2 fights a year

-Kevin Holland had the most fights amongst ranked contenders at 6

-Amanda Nunes was the least active title holder in her division (though she did compete at Featherweight)

-Francis Ngannou and Alexander Volkanovski were the least active title holders that didn’t compete in another weight class with 1 fight each

-Kamaru Usman and Brandon Moreno were the most active title holders with 3 fights each

-Shamil Abdurakhimov has gone the longest of any ranked fighter without fighting but has a fight scheduled before the end of the month

-Yair Rodriguez has gone the longest of any ranked fighter without fighting and is not scheduled for a fight

Did your Boss review this "work" -- before it was released to Sherdog?

 

[sdpdude9]

Did your Boss review this "work" -- before it was released to Sherdog?

Boss only pops in like twice a year haha. So no, not peer reviewed therefore doesn’t meet Sherdog forum’s high standard of integrity. So should be ignored by everyone.

 

[Slatersan]

Izzy seems to be a very active fighter and champ. Twice already this year. Twice during the pandemic. Three times in 19. Four times in 18. He has an insane amount of pro fights and appears to be extremely durable and recovers fast. Reminds me of Anderson Silva (pre leg break) with his durability.

 

[Kvothe_the_kingkiller]

Izzy seems to be a very active fighter and champ. Twice already this year. Twice during the pandemic. Three times in 19. Four times in 18. He has an insane amount of pro fights and appears to be extremely durable and recovers fast. Reminds me of Anderson Silva (pre leg break) with his durability.

Stipe was the most active HW since Sylvia until the DC / Brock debacle. That's when he learned loyalty means shit in this business, and decided to fight on his timetable.

Some resent him for it. I have a hard time blaming him.

Nice data TS, thanks.

 

[Slatersan]

Stipe was the most active HW since Sylvia until the DC / Brock debacle. That's when he learned loyalty means shit in this business, and decided to fight on his timetable.

Some resent him for it. I have a hard time blaming him.

Nice data TS, thanks.

For sure. Stipe was done pretty dirty by the UFC. Fought everyone. Fought often. Beat everyone. But didn’t treat people like shit to get fans. Dana couldn’t wait to get him out of there. Reminds me of how they did Aldo.

 

[Bend NvR Break]

What does Yair have over the UFC? You'd a thought they would've cut him by now.

 

[Bend NvR Break]

For sure. Stipe was done pretty dirty by the UFC. Fought everyone. Fought often. Beat everyone. But didn’t treat people like shit to get fans. Dana couldn’t wait to get him out of there. Reminds me of how they did Aldo.

Stipe and the UFC were cool until DC beat him. Then Stipe had a hissy fit because the UFC wanted to move forward with Brock vs DC.

Here's my issue with Stipe. Stipe knew ahead of time Brock was going to attend. That was planned and not some spontaneous thing. If Stipe would've won a back and forth spilt decision battle do you think Stipe would've said "hold on. I barely beat DC and think he deserves a rematch. Brock is going to have to wait." to the UFC? DC just knocked out Stipe in the first round and Brock is in the cage shoving him across the ring. The UFC has to move forward with that. Stipe knows that.

Where I think Stipe got kinda screwed was the Lewis vs DC fight. But I hold DC more at fault for that than anything. DC is the one who said he needed a full camp to fight Stipe again. He said the UFC paid him a truckload worth of money ($4 mil) and he said he really didn't need a camp to fight Lewis (super dig at Lewis imo). If DC would've said yeah give me Stipe who knows what would've happened.

 

[Rawplier]

Very nice, OP.

Ladd was scheduled to fight but her opponent just recently became injured.

 

[Straatblaffer]

So did some research and found out which division’s ranked fighters were the most and least active. I looked at the period of July 2020 through July 2021. I counted fights that are still scheduled through the end of this month. I did not count fights when a fighter fought in a weight division they were not ranked in. And yes, I had nothing better to do, I work a slow job with a lot of downtime so this was a good time waster. Here’s the weight classes and how many fights each fighter had. There’s likely some errors somewhere so let me know if you see one.

Spoiler: The Divisions

Spoiler: Heavyweight

Francis Ngannou - 1
Stipe Miocic - 2
Derrick Lewis - 2
Ciryl Gane - 3
Curtis Blaydes - 1
Alexander Volkov - 3
Jairzinho Rozenstruik- 3
Shamil Abdurakhimov - 0, 1 scheduled
Marcin Tybura - 4
Augusto Sakai - 2
Chris Daukaus - 3, 1 scheduled
Blagoy Ivanov - 0
Walt Harris - 2
Tom Aspinall - 3
Sergey Spivak - 3
Sergei Pavlovich- 0

Average: 2.12

Spoiler: Light Heavyweight

Jan Blachowicz - 2
Glover Teixeira - 1
Jiri Prochazka- 2
Aleksander Rakic - 2
Thiago Santos - 2
Dominick Reyes - 2
Anthony Smith - 3
Magomed Ankalaev- 2
Volkan Oezdemir - 1
Nikita Krylov - 1
Johnny Walker - 1
Ryan Spann - 2
Paul Craig - 3
Misha Cirkunov- 2
Jimmy Crute- 2
Jamahal Hill - 2

Average: 1.87

Spoiler: Middleweight

Israel Adesanya - 2
Robert Whittaker - 3
Paulo Costa - 1
Jared Cannonier - 1
Marvin Vettori - 3
Derek Brunson - 2
Jack Hermansson - 3
Darren Till - 1
Uriah Hall - 2, 1 scheduled
Kelvin Gastelum - 3
Edmen Shahbazyan - 2
Sean Strickland - 3, 1 scheduled
Chris Weidman - 2
Brad Tavares - 2
Kevin Holland - 6
Andre Muniz - 2

Average: 2.5 (2.26)

Spoiler: Welterweight

Kamaru Usman - 3
Colby Covington - 1
Gilbert Burns - 2
Leon Edwards - 2
Stephen Thompson - 2
Michael Chiesa - 2
Vicente Luque - 2
Jorge Masvidal - 2
Neil Magny - 3
Belal Muhammad - 3
Geoff Neal - 2
Demian Maia - 1
Li Jingliang - 1
Santiago Ponzinibbio - 2
Sean Brady - 2
Muslim Salikhov- 2

Average: 2

Spoiler: Lightweight

Charles Oliveira - 2
Dustin Poirier - 2
Justin Gaethje - 1
Beneil Dariush - 3
Michael Chandler - 2
Islam Makhachev- 2
Tony Ferguson- 2
Rafael Dos Anjos - 1
Dan Hooker - 1
Conor McGregor - 2
Gregor Gillespie - 1
Kevin Lee - 0
Diego Ferreira - 2
Brad Riddell - 2
Arman Tsarukyan - 2
Thiago Moises - 3

Average: 1.75

Spoiler: Featherweight

Alexander Volkanovski - 1
Max Holloway - 2
Brian Ortega- 1
Yair Rodriguez - 0
Chan Sung Jung - 2
Calvin Kattar - 2
Arnold Allen - 1
Josh Emmett - 0
Dan Ige - 3
Edson Barboza - 2
Giga Chikadze - 3
Bryce Mitchell - 1
Sodiq Yusuff - 1
Movsar Evloev - 3
Shane Burgos - 1
Ilia Topuria - 3

Average: 1.62

Spoiler: Bantamweight

Aljamain Sterling - 1
Petr Yan - 2
Cory Sandhagen- 2, 1 scheduled
Rob Font - 2
Jose Aldo - 2
Cody Garbrandt - 2
Marlon Moraes - 2
Frankie Edgar - 2
Pedro Munhoz - 2
Dominick Cruz - 1
Merab Dvalishvili - 2
Raphael Assuncao - 1
Jimmie Rivera- 2
Marlon Vera - 3
Kyler Phillips - 2, 1 scheduled
Cody Stamann - 2

Average: 2

Spoiler: Flyweight

Brandon Moreno - 3
Deiveson Figueiredo - 4
Askar Askarov - 2
Alexandre Pantoja - 2
Alex Perez - 1
Joseph Benavidez - 2
Brandon Royval - 2
Kai Kara France - 2
Rogerio Bontorin - 2
Matt Schnell - 2
Tim Elliott - 2
David Dvorak - 2
Raulian Paiva - 1
Matheus Nicolau - 1
Su Madaerji - 2
Amir Albazi - 2

Average: 2

Spoiler: Women’s Bantamweight

Amanda Nunes - 0
Germaine de Randamie - 1
Holly Holm - 1
Aspen Ladd - 0
Irene Aldana - 2
Julianna Peña - 2
Yana Kunitskaya - 3
Ketlen Vieira - 2
Miesha Tate - 1
Sara McMann - 1
Macy Chiasson - 1
Lina Lansberg - 0
Pannie Kianzad - 3
Sijara Eubanks - 3, 1 scheduled
Julia Avila - 2
Karol Rosa - 2

Average: 1.56

Spoiler: Women’s Flyweight

Valentina Shevchenko - 2
Jessica Andrade - 2
Katlyn Chookagian - 3
Lauren Murphy - 2
Jennifer Maia - 3
Cynthia Calvillo - 1
Joanne Calderwood - 3
Viviane Araujo - 3
Jessica Eye - 2
Roxanne Modafferi - 2
Alexa Grasso - 2
Andrea Lee - 2
Taila Santos - 2
Miranda Maverick - 2, 1 scheduled
Maycee Barber - 1, 1 scheduled
Montana de la Rosa - 3

Average: 2.31

Spoiler: Women’s Strawweight

Rose Namajunas - 2
Weili Zhang - 1
Joanna Jedrzejczyk - 0
Carla Esparza - 2
Yan Xiaonan - 2
Marina Rodriguez - 3
Mackenzie Dern - 3
Nina Nunes - 1
Claudia Gadelha - 1
Michelle Waterson - 2
Tecia Torres - 1
Amanda Ribas - 2
Angela Hill - 2
Virna Jandiroba - 3
Amanda Lemos - 3
Felice Herrig - 1

Average: 1.81

Results

1. Middleweight (2.5)*
2. Women’s Flyweight (2.31)
3. Heavyweight (2.12)
4. Welterweight/Bantamweight/Flyweight (2)
5. Light Heavyweight (1.87)
6. Lightweight (1.75)
7. Women’s Strawweight (1.81)
8. Featherweight (1.62)
9. Women’s Bantamweight (1.56)

*Contains an outlier (Holland). Without him average is 2.12.

Fun Facts

-Heavyweight and Middleweight had the most fighters with 3+ fights with 7

-Light Heavyweight, Lightweight, and Flyweight had the least fighters with 3+ fights with 2

-Women’s Bantamweight and Heavyweight had the most fighters with 0 fights in the division with 3, though one of the Heavyweights has a fight scheduled before the end of the month

-Flyweight and Women’s Flyweight had the most active top 5 with 12 fights

-Women’s Bantamweight had the least active top 5 with just 4 fights

-Nearly half of the divisions’ fighters averaged less than 2 fights a year

-Kevin Holland had the most fights amongst ranked contenders at 6

-Amanda Nunes was the least active title holder in her division (though she did compete at Featherweight)

-Francis Ngannou and Alexander Volkanovski were the least active title holders that didn’t compete in another weight class with 1 fight each

-Kamaru Usman and Brandon Moreno were the most active title holders with 3 fights each

-Shamil Abdurakhimov has gone the longest of any ranked fighter without fighting but has a fight scheduled before the end of the month

-Yair Rodriguez has gone the longest of any ranked fighter without fighting and is not scheduled for a fight

Nice research, but I would argue one thing. You should count in the fact there are way more LW's than Heavyweights.

 

[sdpdude9]

Nice research, but I would argue one thing. You should count in the fact there are way more LW's than Heavyweights.

What would be the relevance of that? This was just looking at the top 15 so numbers are completely the same for every weight class.

 

[Steven Novak]

I had a look at this except the top 20 and how often they will be fighting. I noticed the mass of cheap women fights and ranks 50 or 100+. Every top 20 list had 2 or 3 fights out of 40 ppl. Some divisions worse then others. MENS WW was a lot. Women ranks fight more

 

[Carrotman23]

Bump

 

[Straatblaffer]

What would be the relevance of that? This was just looking at the top 15 so numbers are completely the same for every weight class.

Maybe, but HW is the division the UFC's favourite division. They want to book HW's more than lets say MW's. But since there are fewer HW's under contract, it's somewhat logical the ranked guys get to fight relatively more