Continuing with the weight classes is the quickest growing divisions – flyweight.
Note: Any fights that were above 116 for our purposes are considered flyweight. Any fights 121-124 were rounded up to 125. Any fights 117-119 were rounded up to 120 pounds.
There were 194 total fights at the 125 limit with ten at a 120 catchweight. The total number of flyweight fighters just beats strawweight’s amount by 4 fights.
There were 51 pro debuts with 54 amateur. This is slight more than the strawweights in both categories. A good percentage of amateurs do drop weight classes, so this is a good sign for the 115ers.
Following the trend of the lower weight classes, decisions (46) is the most popular way for a pro flyweight to win followed by submissions (29) and TKO/KOs (25). Amateurs saw 45 decisions, 25 submissions, and 20 TKOs/KOs.
Top 15 Flyweights as of June 30th (courtesy Unified MMA Rankings/Tapology)
- Jennifer Maia (15-4-1) – UFC
- Agnieszka Niedźwiedź (10-1-0) – Invicta FC
- Ariane Lipski (11-3-0) – KSW champion
- Ilima-Lei Macfarlane (8-0-0) – Bellator
- Nicco Montaño (4-2-0) – UFC champion*
- Roxanne Modafferi (21-14-0) – UFC
- Valentina Shevchenko (16-3-0) – UFC
- Vanessa Porto – Invicta FC
- Katlyn Chookagian (10-1-0) – UFC
- Andrea Lee (9-2-0) – UFC
- Liz Carmouche (11-6) – UFC
- Sijara “Sarj” Eubanks (3-2) – UFC
- Alexis “Ally-Gator” Davis (19-7) – UFC*
- Lauren Murphy (10-4) – UFC
- Jessica Eye (13-6; 1NC) – UFC
*-Have yet to fight in 2018.
