UFC 5 weight classes and divisions
UFC 5's roster hub splits into eight men's divisions and three women's divisions, and each one displays five fighter cards. That five-per-class display is the whole published structure — there is no overall rating, no ranking order and no attribute breakdown behind it.
The eleven divisions
| Division | Cards shown | Fighters on the hub |
|---|---|---|
| Heavyweight | 5 | Jon Jones, Fedor Emelianenko, Daniel Cormier, Stipe Miocic, Tom Aspinall |
| Light Heavyweight | 5 | Jon Jones, Alex Pereira, Daniel Cormier, Jiri Prochazka, Jamahal Hill |
| Middleweight | 5 | Anderson Silva (Legacy), Israel Adesanya, Sean Strickland, Michael Bisping, Dricus Du Plessis |
| Welterweight | 5 | Georges St Pierre (Legacy), Leon Edwards, Kamaru Usman, Colby Covington, Shavkat Rakhmonov |
| Lightweight | 5 | Khabib Nurmagomedov, Islam Makhachev, Justin Gaethje, Charles Oliveira, Dustin Poirier |
| Featherweight | 5 | Alexander Volkanovski, Max Holloway, Conor McGregor (Legacy), Ilia Topuria, Jose Aldo |
| Bantamweight | 5 | Sean O'Malley, Aljamain Sterling, Cory Sandhagen, Marlon Vera, Merab Dvalishvili |
| Flyweight | 5 | Alexandre Pantoja, Brandon Moreno, Demetrius Johnson (Legacy), Henry Cejudo, Deiveson Figueredo |
| Women's Bantamweight | 5 | Amanda Nunes, Valentina Shevchenko, Holly Holm, Julianna Pena, Miesha Tate |
| Women's Flyweight | 5 | Valentina Shevchenko, Joanna Jedrzejczyk, Alexa Grasso, Erin Blanchfield, Taila Santos |
| Women's Strawweight | 5 | Joanna Jedrzejczyk (Legacy), Zhang Weili, Rose Namajunas, Mackenzie Dern, Amanda Lemos |
Three fighters appear in two divisions, which is why the eleven classes contain 55 cards but only 52 distinct fighters: Jon Jones (light heavyweight and heavyweight), Daniel Cormier (light heavyweight and heavyweight) and Valentina Shevchenko (women's flyweight and women's bantamweight).
The nineteen cards outside the divisions
Nineteen cards are tagged New Fighters and do not appear under a weight class on the hub. They are: 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.
This is a display decision, not a statement that these fighters have no division. It does mean that if you are looking for a specific new addition, the New Fighters view is faster than the division pages — several of them will not appear in their division's five-card window.
What the five-card window hides
Five cards per division is a sample, not a full list. The hub's own totals make that clear: 74 cards total, 19 of them outside the divisions, leaves 55 across eleven divisions — exactly five each. A division with more than five viable fighters in the game is showing only five of them.
The practical consequence for team building: if a fighter you want is not in the five-card window, they may still be in the game. The New Fighters view and the full paged roster are the two places to check.
Division differences that change how you fight
The rules are identical across divisions. What changes is the fighter pool, and that changes the archetypes you meet.
Heavyweight and light heavyweight are the power divisions. Fights end on single clean shots more often, which makes head movement and blocking worth more than volume. The five-card windows in both divisions are almost entirely knockout threats.
Middleweight and welterweight are the most balanced. Both have a 5-Star card (Adesanya, St Pierre) and both have wrestlers and strikers in the same window, which makes them the best divisions to learn matchups in.
Lightweight and featherweight are the deepest striking divisions. Makhachev, Khabib, Gaethje, Oliveira and Poirier in one window is a division where the ground game and the stand-up are both live threats.
Bantamweight and flyweight reward speed and cardio. The fighters are smaller, the exchanges are faster, and stamina management matters more because the pace is higher.
The three women's divisions each have a clear 5-Star anchor — Nunes at bantamweight, Shevchenko at flyweight, Jedrzejczyk's Legacy card at strawweight — and each window is otherwise a mix of strikers and grapplers rather than a single archetype.
How to pick a division
- Pick the division with the fighter you already want to use. Learning a division is easier when the character fits your hands.
- If you are new, start at middleweight or welterweight. Both windows contain a striker, a wrestler and a submission threat, so you will meet every archetype without changing divisions.
- If you like submissions, start at lightweight. It is the window with the most ground-first fighters.
- If you like knockouts, start at light heavyweight. It is the window with the fewest defensive specialists.
A note on the missing numbers
The hub does not publish attribute values per fighter, so this page cannot rank fighters inside a division and neither can any other page. What it can do — and what the tables above do — is tell you who is officially in each division and which cards carry the 5-Star tag. Everything beyond that is either in-game fighter select or someone's opinion.
Why five per division is the right sample
Five cards is enough to show the archetypes without turning the page into a database dump. Each window tends to include one striker, one grappler and one all-rounder, which is exactly what a player needs to understand a division before committing to it.
It also means the hub is not a complete fighter list, and the page should not be read as one. If a fighter you want is missing from a division window, check the New Fighters view and the full paged roster before concluding they are not in the game.
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