UFC 5 roster: what the hub contains
The UFC 5 roster hub is the only place EA publishes fighter data, and what it publishes is deliberately thin: a name, a weight class, a star tag where one applies, and a headshot. No striking numbers, no grappling numbers, no stamina values. This page maps what the hub actually contains, because the shape of that dataset explains most of the questions people ask about the roster.
What the hub contains
At the time of writing the hub returns 74 fighter cards across five category views: New Fighters, 5-Star Fighters, Men, Women, and the individual weight classes underneath Men and Women.
| Count | What it is |
|---|---|
| 74 | Fighter cards on the hub |
| 19 | Cards tagged New Fighters |
| 12 | Cards tagged 5-Star Fighters |
| 11 | Weight-class categories (8 men's, 3 women's) |
| 5 | Cards shown per weight class |
The 74 cards represent 71 distinct fighters, because three fighters appear twice: Jon Jones at light heavyweight and heavyweight, Daniel Cormier at light heavyweight and heavyweight, and Valentina Shevchenko at women's flyweight and women's bantamweight.
The New Fighters set
Nineteen cards carry the New Fighters tag. These are the additions the hub still separates out, rather than folding into a weight class:
Joshua Van, Reinier de Ridder, Ignacio Bahamondes, Esteban Ribovics, Sean Woodson, Bryan Battle, Mauricio Ruffy, Iasmin Lucindo, Bas Rutten, Asu Almabayev, Kevin Randleman, Payton Talbott, Manuel Torres, Jean Silva, Josiane Nunes, Vitor Petrino, Matt Frevola, Michael Morales and Azamat Murzakanov.
The list is a useful record of the live-service cadence: these arrived in monthly drops between 2023 and 2025, and several of them (Joshua Van, Mauricio Ruffy, Esteban Ribovics, Sean Woodson, Bryan Battle) have their own patch note announcing them.
Why the roster grew without the hub growing
EA's January 2026 update says over 80 fighters were added across the run. The hub lists 74 cards in total, including the 19 tagged new. Both numbers are correct and they measure different things: the hub is a current snapshot with a five-per-class display, while the 80+ figure counts every fighter added since launch, including ones that arrived before the hub's current categorisation.
This is the single most common source of confusion about the roster, and it is worth stating plainly: the hub is not a full inventory, and the 80+ figure is not a card count.
The star tags
Twelve cards carry the 5-Star Fighters tag. They are not a rating out of five in the way a review score is; they are a curated highlight set of the game's best-regarded fighters, spread across divisions.
| Fighter | Division on the card |
|---|---|
| Georges St Pierre (Legacy) | Welterweight |
| Joanna Jedrzejczyk (Legacy) | Women's strawweight |
| Jon Jones | Light heavyweight |
| Jon Jones | Heavyweight |
| Alexander Volkanovski | Featherweight |
| Amanda Nunes | Women's bantamweight |
| Khabib Nurmagomedov | Lightweight |
| Valentina Shevchenko | Women's flyweight |
| Anderson Silva (Legacy) | Middleweight |
| Fedor Emelianenko | Heavyweight |
| Israel Adesanya | Middleweight |
| Islam Makhachev | Lightweight |
Five of the twelve are Legacy cards — versions of retired fighters, tagged in the name itself. The Legacy tag is part of the fighter's displayed name on the hub, not a separate category.
The cover fighters
Israel Adesanya and Alexander Volkanovski are the two cover athletes, and both appear on the hub as ordinary roster cards. Adesanya is a 5-Star middleweight; Volkanovski is a 5-Star featherweight.
What the hub does not publish
This is the part that matters for anyone building a tier list: the hub does not publish attribute values. There is no striking number, no grappling number, no stamina value, no overall rating on any card.
EA has published one ranking-style list, a launch-window "Top Skilled UFC 5 Fighters" article with top-five punch power, kick power and takedown leaders, but it is a promotional list from 2023 and it has not been updated with the roster additions since.
Which means: any tier list you see for UFC 5 that quotes specific attribute numbers is either from that 2023 article, from the in-game fighter select screen, or invented. The hub itself will not confirm it.
How to use the hub efficiently
- Use the category views, not the paged grid. The hub's pagination is five pages of sixteen; the category pages filter to the set you want.
- Treat "New Fighters" as a changelog, not a division. Those nineteen cards are the additions the hub still tracks separately.
- Check both divisions for the three two-division fighters. Jon Jones, Daniel Cormier and Valentina Shevchenko each appear twice, and the two cards are not identical.
- Read the Legacy tag before you pick. A Legacy card is a retired fighter's version, which affects both the name and the available move set.
The two-division duplicates
Three fighters appear twice on the hub — Jon Jones, Daniel Cormier and Valentina Shevchenko — and the duplicates are not cosmetic. Each card is its own roster entry with its own division, its own weight-cut implications and its own matchmaking pool. Picking the light heavyweight Jon Jones is not the same decision as picking the heavyweight one, even though the name on the card is identical.
The Legacy cards work the same way. They are separate entries for retired fighters, tagged in the name so you can tell them apart from an active namesake, and they carry move sets built from the period they represent.
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