Current list of eligible fighters for the GFL draft.

[Hellowhosthat]

This is such a weird roster. It's a bizarre mix of legends coming out of retirement, most semi name fighters who've been released from UFC, Bellator or PFL over the last couple of years, some regional journeyman and some really top prospects and fighters in their prime like Musayev.


Heavyweight



Juan Adams – USA – 10-6

Ahmed Jabbar Al-Rubaye - Egypt - 11-5

Andrei Arlovski – Belarus – 32-24

Stuart Austin – England – 18-8

Alan Belcher – USA – 18-8

Tanner Boser – Canada – 21-10

Bruno Cappelozza - Brazil - 15-7

Rakim Cleveland - USA - 23-18

Oscar Cota - Mexico - 11-3

Robelis Despaigne – Cuba – 5-2

Quentin Dominguez – Portugal 12-4

Junior dos Santos – Brazil – 21-10

Todd Duffee – USA – 9-4

Davion Franklin - USA - 6-3

Ronald Girones Sago - Brazil - 7-3

Greg Hardy – USA – 7-5

Jordan Heiderman – USA – 7-2

Guto Inocente - Brazil - 10-6

Ali Isaev - Russia - 9-0

Christian Larsen – Canada – 8-3

Ilir Latifi – Sweden – 16-9

Philipe Lins – Brazil – 18-5

Roman Lukashevich - Belarus - 10-0

Aleksandr Maslov – Russia – 11-1

Frank Mir – USA – 16-11

Alexei Oleinik – Russia – 61-18-1

Fernando Rodrigues Jr - Brazil - 13-9

Mostafa Salehizadeh - Iran - 2-0

Thiago Santos – Brazil - 22-13

Alexander Soldatkin - Russia - 15-4

Said Sowma – USA – 9-5

Roggers Souza – Brazil – 15-8

Oli Thompson – England – 18-9

Fabricio Werdum – Brazil – 24-9



Light Heavyweight



Omari Akhmedov – Russia – 24-8

Julius Anglickas - Lithuania - 11-4

Chris Camozzi – USA – 27-14

Antonio Carlos Junior - Brazil - 16-6

Rafael Carvalho – Brazil – 17-8

Devin Clark - USA - 14-9

Acacio dos Santos – Brazil – 15-6

Mateusz Duczmal – Poland - 4-1

Rashad Evans - USA - 19-8

Alexander Gustafsson – Sweden – 18-8

Luis Henrique da Silva – Brazil – 19-10

Jamelle Jones – USA – 15-8

Da Woon Jung – South Korea - 15-6

Caio Machado – Brazil – 8-4-1

Ronny Markes – Brazil – 25-10

Hasan Mezhiev - Lativa - 13-0

Przemyslaw Mysiala – 24-12-1

Grant Neal – USA - 9-2

Edinaldo Novaes - Brazil - 12-7

Norman Parke - Northern Ireland - 32-7

Yoel Romero – Cuba – 16-7

Mauricio Rua – Brazil – 27-14

Masoud Safari – Iran – 8-1

Alan Silva - Brazil - 15-4

Cleiton Silva – Brazil – 16-4

Emiliano Sordi – Argentina - 23-10

Ovince St Preux – Haiti - 27-18

Anton Turkalj – Sweden – 8-4



Middleweight



John Allan – Brazil – 18-9

Lucas Alsina – Argentina – 13-5

David Branch – USA – 22-7

Jorge Bueno – Brazil – 10-5

Pieter Buist – Netherlands – 18-8

Rodrigo Cavalheiro – Brazil – 28-10

Adis Dadovic – Bosnia – 8-1

Kyle Daukaus – USA – 15-4

Zaza Dokhnadze – Georgia – 4-0

Handesson Ferreira - Brazil - 20-6

Jonathan Figueroa - Argentina - 9-1

Chauncey Foxworth – USA – 19-10

Glaico Franca – Brazil – 23-8

Tornike Gigauri - Georgia - 7-0

Dwight Grant - USA - 11-6

Uriah Hall - Jamaica - 17-11

Phil Hawes – USA – 15-4

Oton Jasse – Brazil – 21-10

Mariusz Ksiazkiewicz – Canada – 11-2

Thomas Lane – USA – 4-0

Wilker Lemos - Brazil - 12-3

Douglas Lima - Brazil - 33-12

Hector Lombard – Cuba – 34-10

Nayib Lopez – Mexico – 17-2

Ruan Machado - Brazil - 7-2

Simon Marcus - Canada - 2-0

Jack Marshman – Wales – 23-10

Andreas Michailidis - Greece - 16-8

Lopez Mota - Brazil - 7-2

Gegard Mousasi – Netherlands – 49-9

Sasha Palatnikov - Hong Kong - 8-5

Marus Perez – Brazil – 14-6

Jared Revel – Canada – 13-4

Luke Rockhold – USA – 16-6

Leandro Silva - Brazil - 23-8

Wanderlei Silva – Brazil – 35-14

Mark Stoddard – USA – 17-10

Jozef Wittner – Slovakia – 16-4



Welterweight


Tahir Abdullaev - Azerbaijan - 17-3

Eric Alequin – USA – 7-1

Ndidi Alonu – Nigeria – 13-4

Joao Lucas Alves – Brazil – 9-0

Fabricio Azevedo - Brazil - 11-2

EJ Brooks – USA – 14-6

Chris Brown – USA – 10-5

Yosdenis Cedeno – Cuba – 11-7

Lucas Clay – USA – 10-3

Stephen Costello – Ireland – 5-2

Efrain Escudero - Mexico - 32-17

Tony Ferguson - USA - 23-7

Louis Glismann – Denmark – 12-3

Neiman Gracie - Brazil - 13-6

Benson Henderson – USA – 30-12

Michael Irizarry – Puerto Rico – 14-5

Magomed Kabardiev – Kazakhstan – 10-1

Thiago Lima – Brazil – 8-1

Marcos Lloreda – USA – 15-8

Ruan Machado – Brazil – 7-2

Ibrahima Mane – France – 14-5

Jordan Mein – Canada – 31-14

Manuel Mena – Venezuela – 13-4

Dominick Meriweather – USA – 8-1

Danny Mitchell – England – 20-9-1

Abubakar Nurmagomedov – Russia – 17-4

Adilet Nurmatov – Kyrgyzstan – 13-2

Rousimar Palhares – Brazil – 19-11-1

Aziz Pakhrudinov - Russia - 22-1-1

Carlos Petruzella – Argentina – 13-0

Pat Pytlik – Canada – 9-2

Ashley Reece – 9-3

Danny Roberts - England - 18-9

Emin Sharifow – Turkey – 7-1

Eduardo Souza – Brazil - 20-6

Gabriel Souza Galindo - Brazil - 9-1

Julio Spadaccini – Brazil – 8-3

Dilano Taylor - USA - 12-5

Gleison Tibau - Brazil - 38-19

Francisco Trinaldo – Brazil – 32-14

Austin Tweedy – USA – 11-4

Tyron Woodley – USA – 19-7

Joao Zeferino – Brazil – 26-11



Lightweight



Magomed Akaev – Russia – 10-0

Amirkhon Alikhuzhaev – Uzbekistan – 11-4

Saad Awad – 24-14

Agshin Babaev - Azerbaijan - 24-10

Nicolas Barna - Uruguay - 9-4

Raimundo Batista – Brazil – 18-3

Stephen Beaumont – Canada – 11-3

Will Brooks – Canada – 26-5

Yan Cabral – Brazil – 15-3

Ignacio Capella - Spain - 8-2

Ayrton De Paepe – Belgium – 12-4

Nate Ghareeb – USA – 10-3

Christos Giagos – USA – 20-12

Thibault Gouti – France - 177

Andrew Guisa - USA - 4-0

Damir Ismagulov - Kazakhstan - 26-3

Milos Janicic - Serbia - 17-3

Kevin Lee – USA – 20-8

Wlliam Lima – Brazil - 6-3

John Makdessi – Canada – 18-9

Mukhiddin Mamazhaonov - Uzbekistan - 7-1

Lucas Martins – Brazil – 22-7

Adam Masaev – Russia – 10-0

Aaron McKenzie – USA – 11-2

John Mitchell - Ireland - 9-2

Mohamed Tarek Mohey – Egypt – 9-4

Killys Mota – Brazil – 15-4

Tofiq Musaev – Azerbaijan – 22-5

Tom O’Connor – Canada – 13-3

Ayinda Octave – Cameroon – 5-0

Alex Oliveira – Brazil – 25-16-1

Romario Orozco – Mexico – 9-0

Sidney Outlaw – USA – 19-6

Oscar Ownsworth – England – 8-3

Jairo Pacheco – Brazil – 10-2

Anthony Pettis – USA – 25-14

Patricky Pitbull - Brazil - 25-14

Jefferson Pontes – Brazil – 6-1

Kyle Prepolec – Canada – 18-8

Gustavo Ribeiro - Brazil - 5-0

Saul Rogers - England - 15-5

Charles Rosa – USA – 14-8

Vladislav Rudnev - Ukraine - 10-0

Jeremy Stephens – USA – 29-21

Murad Umachiev – Russia – 4-0

Feruz Usmonov - Uzbekistan - 4-1

Rodrigo Vargas - Mexico - 16-6

Tim Wilde – England – 17-6

Hongang Yao - China - 28-7

Magomed Yunisilau – Russia – 10-0



Featherweight



Mohammad Abzakh - Jordan – 4-0-2

Marcel Adur – Brazil - 16-5

Carlos Alexandre - Brazil - 19-6

Huseyn Aliev - Azerbaijan - 14-4

Julio Arce – USA – 19-6

Thomas Assis - Brazil - 12-2

Ricky Bandejas - USA - 15-9

Deberson Batista - Brazil – 12-4

Artem Belakh - Kazakhstan - 11-3

Marco Beltran - Mexico - 20-10

Claudeci Brito – Brazil - 11-4

Lucas Caio - Brazil - 12-5

Alexsandro Cangaty – Brazil - 10-4

Pedro Carvalho - Portugal - 13-10

Walter Cogliandro - Italy - 14-6

Pedro Colman – Paraguay – 9-4

Diego Davella - Brazil - 21-8

Patrizio De Sousa – Brazil – 8-2

Tyler Diamond – USA – 14-4

Marcelo Dias - Brazil - 14-6

Leonardo Diniz – Brazil – 13-3

Marcelo Dias – Brazil - 14-6

Ylies Djiroun - France - 22-9

Mike Grundy - England - 12-4

Andre Harrison – USA - 22-3-1

Tariq Ismail- Canada – 8-2

Brett Johns - Wales - 20-5

Kai Kamaka - USA - 14-6

Maike Linhares – Brazil – 19-3

Donny Matos - Brazil - 27-12

Chad Mendes - USA - 18-5

Rakhim Midaev – Russia – 14-2

Lucas Miletich – Argentina – 10-2

Kenny Mokhonoana - Ireland - 5-1

Marlon Moraes – Brazil - 23-13

Leonardo Morales - Nicaragua - 14-10

Renan Oliveira – Brazil – 11-2

Lance Palmer – USA - 22-5

Jan Queyhagens – Belgium – 12-5

Zygimantas Ramaska - Lithuania - 9-3

Jamie Siraj - Canada - 12-2

Emrah Sonmez - England - 14-5

Edilson Teixeira – Brazil – 29-15

Khumoyun Tukhtamuradov - Uzbekistan - 12-5

Chris Wade - USA - 23-10

Matt Wagy - USA - 14-8



Bantamweight

Lasha Abramishvili - Georgia - 8-2

Marcus Paulo Amaral – Brazil – 16-4

Omar Arteaga – Peru – 11-1

Gamlet Aslanov – Kazakhstan – 6-0

Raphael Assuncao - Brazil - 27-10

Renan Barao – Brazil – 34-9

Andre Barquero - Costa Rica - 9-2

Ray Borg - USA - 16-5

Darrion Caldwell - USA - 14-7

Altamiro De Jesus – Brazil – 10-3-3

Cameron Else – England - 11-6

Marciano Ferreira – Brazil – 13-3

Marcelo Guarilha - 22-10

Ali Guliev - Azerbaijan - 7-1

Josh Hill – Canada – 22-7

Xian Ji - China - 22-5

Saiduokub Kakhramonov - Uzbekistan - 11-3

Brian Kelleher - USA - 24-16

Dileno Lopes - Brazil - 21-9

Edson Lourenco – Brazil – 13-7

Victor Madrigal – Mexico – 13-4

Farbod Iran Nezad - 12-3-1

Matheus Nicolau - Brazil - 19-5-1

Denis Palancica – Moldova – 10-1

Paulo Portillo – Uruguay– 15-3

Mariano Pupi - Argentina - 10-3

Jimmie Rivera – USA – 23-5

Louie Sanoudakis - Canada - 10-3

Eric Shelton – USA – 19-8

Miguel Angel Sosa - Dominican Republic - 7-2

Andre Soukhamthath - USA - 14-10

Diego Teixeira – Brazil – 7-4

Jose Maria Tome - Brazil - 41-19

Timur Valiev - Russia - 19-4

Ali Wasuk - Canada - 9-3

Felipe Zacaron - Brazil - 8-2



Women’s Bantamweight

Talita Bernardo – Brazil - 11-5

Arlene Blencowe - Australia - 16-10

Queila Braga – Brazil - 8-2

Julia Budd – Canada – 17-6

Emilse Chirino – Argentina – 2-3

Alexa Conners – USA - 8-5

Alana Cook – Canada – 3-1

Paula Cristina - Brazil - 7-3

Thalita Diniz – Brazil - 5-3

Julia Dorny – Germany 2-2

Tonya Evinger – USA -19-8-1

Lina Fayyad - Jordan 2-2

Fernanda Guersone – Brazil – 1-0

Liana Jojua - Georgia - 8-6

Elina Kallionidou - Greece - 9-6

Pannie Kianzad – Sweden - 16-9

Aspen Ladd - USA - 12-5

Alejanda Lara - Colombia - 11-8

Mariza Loch – Brazil - 6-1

Evelyn Martins – Brazil – 5-1

Vladlena Petrova - Russia - 4-1

Lorrany Santos – Brazil - 6-2

Sabriye Sengul – Turkey – 3-5

Leslie Smith - USA - 12-9-1

Luz Vazquez – Argentina - 5-0

Shanna Young – USA – 10-7

Cat Zingano - USA - 14-5



Women’s Flyweight

Mariya Agapova - Kazakhstan - 10-5

Mara Borella – Italy - 11-9

Veronika Borisova – Russia – 6-1

Cynthia Calvillo - USA - 10-6-1

Miao Ding – China -18-8

Kalindra Faria – Brazil - 19-10

Justine Kish – USA – 9-6

Kelly McKay - USA - 1-0

Faine Mesquita – Australia – 3-0

Janaisa Morandin – Brazil - 10-5

Elin Oberg - Sweden - 5-3

Karolina Owczarz - Poland - 5-3

Chiara Penco – Italy - 9-5

Camila Reynoso - Argentina - 6-0

Andressa Rocha – Brazil - 6-3

Antonia Silvaneide – Brazil - 7-4

Maiju Suotama – Finland – 8-9

Paige VanZant – USA - 8-5



Strawweight

Maiken Aannerud - Norway - 0-0

Jessica Aguilar – Mexico – 20-10

Melissa Amaya – USA – 7-0

Anita Bekus – Poland – 7-6

Yasmin Castanho – Brazil – 6-2

Marina de Abreu – Brazil – 5-2

Isabela de Padua – Brazil - 7-5

Eva Dourthe – France - 8-6

Randi Field – Canada – 5-1

Hannah Goldy – USA - 7-4

Brenda Gottig – Argentina - 8-2

Maria Henderson – USA -1-1

Kayla Hracho – USA - 6-4

Samantha Jean-Francois – France – 9-8

Jada Ketley - Australia - 3-3

Josefine Knutsson - Sweden - 8-1

Natalia Kuziuntina – Russia – 7-1

Claire Lopez – France – 8-6

Ilima Lei Macfarlane - USA - 13-3

Joice Mara - 12-6

Pamela Mara – Brazil – 6-4-1

Cory McKenna – Wales – 8-4

Marisa Messer Belenchia - USA - 5-2

Silvania Monteiro – Brazil – 11-4

Bi Nguyen – USA - 6-9

Jessica Penne – USA - 14-8

Viviana Pereira – Brazil – 16-4

Erika Sousa - Brazil - 6-3

Livinha Souza – Brazil – 14-4

Kelly Staddon - England - 3-1

Hayley Valentine – England – 5-0

Shino Vanhoose – USA – 6-6

Isis Verbeek – Netherlands - 4-2

Karolina Wojcik – Poland - 12-6

 

[Thesnake101]

Good on Hawes for changing his record so it's easier on the eyes.

 

[STAY GOLD]

This has been a mess. They announced a lot of fighters they haven’t signed and got nationalities wrong for them. Not a good look days before this even starts to take place.

 

[puppybird]

My money on Erick Silva, kids got potential

 

[skylolow]

I wonder how serious some of these coaches and managers are taking this draft.

I'm assuming the GFL sends out some type of bio on each of these guys, maybe even some vids to each team. At least I hope they would because I don't think many of them have the time to research a lot of fighters or the desire.

You'd also think on their site there would be at least full list of fighters available and not just more or less the named guys.

 

[STAY GOLD]

I wonder how serious some of these coaches and managers are taking this draft.

I'm assuming the GFL sends out some type of bio on each of these guys, maybe even some vids to each team. At least I hope they would because I don't think many of them have the time to research a lot of fighters or the desire.

You'd also think on their site there would be at least full list of fighters available and not just more or less the named guys.

That’s a good catch. I highly doubt Wanderlei, for example, is spending hours upon hours researching regional fighters he’s never heard of.

 

[SalvadorAllende]

That is a great roster... for 2019.



Honestly.. I would love for them to thrive but this looks more and more like a complete shitshow. I would be surprised if 10% of those fighters end up actually fighting

 

[TITS]

Retirees, cans, and retired cans?

 

[Ara tech]

A decent start and a few promising prospects. They will have a secured future only when a 1/3 - 33% of their fighters will be 10-0 12-1 14-2 7-0 prospects like fighters. Not enough prospects, too much old retired cans. But we will support GFL as much as we can.

I wish they would sign fighters like Khotam Boynazarov (10-0), and others with similar record and skills, like "Honey" Vladislav Rudnev (10-0).
The world is full of talents, talents everywhere, the future belongs to who secure them first.

Glory to GFL ! Death to the evil UFC monopoly !

If you read this message, may god bless you and your family !

 

[CC27]

shit would just be better off calling it Legends MMA or something and just doing it as a reg org but with known legends, casts offs, anyone from UFC/Bellator/PFL/Rizin/One who has any sort of name.

mma fans are more nostalgic than other sports fans, not saying they'll buy PPV or nothing but take away UFC brand and put an apex show against a show that has Bendo/Tyron and Mousasi/Rockhold, JDS/Duffee, Lee/Pettis, Gus/Romero and alot of fans are gonna pick that.

The team shit is stupid, its not gonna work, nobody is invested in that but if they just went with straight mma with just legends and names from past maybe there is something there. It all depends on what rights deal they can get and can they build an audience to buy tickets.

 

[Koala]

Let's be honest, their roster is awful. Some guys retired years ago, some are coaches, podcasters, some retired because they were seriously injured (Thiago Santos for example)
Who are the fighters we know are quite good? JDS and Belcher had an OK fight in Masvidal's promotion. Phil Hawes is a good fighter. Mousasi and Douglas Lima may still be good enough. Abubakar, Lins, Giagos, and Fighter Kevin Lee might still be OK as they are still training consistently in serious gyms.
The draft will be friends and teammates for sure, maybe Ed Soares / Joinho will put their guys in Sao Paulo or LA, maybe Ali Abdelaziz will lead the casting for Dubai and ATT and the Kahwa brothers will lead the draft of the Miami team
I expect a shit show with vets gassing out in R1, strikers with zero ground game. Maybe one team will take it seriously (NYC? London?) and draft good in-shape fighters outside gym and management rationale, and they will take the trophy
It might be the worst global promotion

 

[MilesAbove]

@koalaI think you're being pretty unfair to the potential roster. Now, if they just end up filling the rosters with old guys, then you're ultimately right. But there's more than enough good, talented, and/or young names shown on the roster list.

Damir Ismagulov, Lucas Miletich, Masoud Safari, Veronika Barisova, Hayley Valentine, Nayib Lopez, Eric Alequin, Emin Sharifow, Lucas Clay, Mahomet Kabardiev, Rosario Orozco, Mahomet Akeav, Gamlet Asanov, Mahomet Yunusilau, Rakhim Medeav, etc...

Let's just hope there's people smart enough to pick them over washed vets.

 

[Hellowhosthat]

@koalaI think you're being pretty unfair to the potential roster. Now, if they just end up filling the rosters with old guys, then you're ultimately right. But there's more than enough good, talented, and/or young names shown on the roster list.

Damir Ismagulov, Lucas Miletich, Masoud Safari, Veronika Barisova, Hayley Valentine, Nayib Lopez, Eric Alequin, Emin Sharifow, Lucas Clay, Mahomet Kabardiev, Rosario Orozco, Mahomet Akeav, Gamlet Asanov, Mahomet Yunusilau, Rakhim Medeav, etc...

Let's just hope there's people smart enough to pick them over washed vets.

Haley Valentine looks like an absolute fraud to me. She went to a split with a girl who's 0-6 now.

 

[STAY GOLD]

Paulo Portillo is Uruguayan and they posted a graphic with him with the Uruguayan flag and then posted he's from Argentina. He told me Sunday after the announcement that he wasn't signed. They reached out to him and negotiated, but he wasn't signed so he wasn't sure why they would make the announcement.

 

[Hellowhosthat]

Updated the roster, it hasn't got any less weird.

 

[David Street]

Looks like a lot of work getting these people signed. Yet I feel watching this develop glued like a natural disaster developing. Surprisingly a few decent mixed in...

 

[Koala]

At least now you have a few good fighters per weight class
Kenny Mokohoana is in the GFL draft today and fighting in the PFL Dubai card tomorrow

 

[EndlessCritic]

So basically PFL is now the new Bellator, and GFL is now the new PFL?

 

[EndlessCritic]

At least now you have a few good fighters per weight class
Kenny Mokohoana is in the GFL draft today and fighting in the PFL Dubai card tomorrow

Ali Wasuk is in the draft and got finished last night.

 

[STAY GOLD]

I want them to draft someone who’s signed with another promotion and isn’t signed to them just to see how they spin it.