About MMA.SOCIAL

What MMA.SOCIAL Is

MMA.SOCIAL is an independent site built by MMA fans for MMA fans. It exists to answer the questions the broadcast never settles: who is actually the best right now, who was the best ever, and which fighter really wins the argument you have been having all week.

Two things drive everything here, and we deliberately keep them apart:

The engine. An ELO rating system reads real fight results — who won, who they beat, whether a title was on the line, whether it was a finish — and recalculates every fighter after every event. No panel, no vote, no hand-placing anyone.

The crowd. Registered fans rate fighters across seven skill categories, score fights, rate events and vote in head-to-head polls. That captures everything a result column cannot: chin, cardio, excitement, the eye test.

Where those two disagree is usually the most interesting part of the page, so we show both instead of blending them into one number.

The Database, Right Now

These figures are read live from the database every time this page loads — they are not marketing copy.

Every one of those fights also feeds the stats lab — more than 70 leaderboards covering knockouts, submissions, control time, upsets, streaks and finish rates.

What You Can Do Here

How The Rankings Actually Work

The ELO engine

Every fighter enters the system at 1000. After each bout both fighters' ratings move, and how far they move depends on four things: the result, the gap in rating between the two (beating someone far above you is worth far more), a 3x multiplier on title fights, and a bonus for finishes over decisions. Ratings are recalculated from results — there is no manual nudging of anybody's position.

Current rating vs peak rating

Current is where a fighter stands today, so it drives the pound-for-pound list. Peak is the highest they ever reached, so it drives the GOAT list — which is why a retired great never quietly slides off the page.

Fan ratings and fan polls

Any registered user can rate a fighter from 1 to 10 across seven categories on that fighter's profile. Those scores are averaged into the community rankings, and each category also gets its own leaderboard. Separately, the head-to-head fan poll shows two fighters and asks which is better; those votes run through their own rating pool, completely independent of fight results.

When it updates

ELO recalculates once an event's results are imported. Fan ratings, poll results and fight ratings update the moment a vote lands. There is no weekly editorial meeting.

Read the full methodology, formulas and FAQ →

What Makes This Different

Nobody votes you into position. Official rankings come from a media panel. Ours come from an algorithm reading results, so they are reproducible and they do not have a favourite.

Two opinions, shown separately. Most sites give you one number. We give you the engine's answer and the crowd's answer next to each other, because the disagreement is the interesting part.

History does not get deleted. Peak rating means retired fighters keep the number they earned in their prime instead of decaying into irrelevance.

Depth over headlines. Every UFC event in the database, every fight on it, 70+ statistical leaderboards, and a compare tool that works on any two names you can think of.

No paywall, no signup wall. Everything is readable without an account. You only sign in when you want to add your own opinion.

How To Take Part

1. 1

   Make a free account

   Email and password, or one tap with Google. It takes about twenty seconds and nothing on the site is paid.

2. 2

   Rate fighters

   Open any fighter profile and score them 1–10 on the seven skill categories. You can change your scores whenever you change your mind — and after a bad night, you will.

3. 3

   Rate the fights and the cards

   Score individual fights out of 100, rate whole events, and submit your own scorecard on decisions to see how your reading compares with the judges and everyone else.

4. 4

   Play, vote, argue

   Make pick'em predictions before the card, vote in fan polls, and take it to the forum afterwards.

Who We Are

MMA.SOCIAL is run by a very small independent team of MMA fans. We are not a media company, not a promotion and not a betting operation. We have no press credentials, no insider sources and no relationship with anybody's management. What we have is a database, a rating engine and an unhealthy number of opinions about scorecards.

What we actually do

Import and reconcile every card after it happens, keep fighter records and divisions correct, write and tune the rating code, build the stats pages, and moderate the community so it stays worth reading.

Where the data comes from

Fight results, event cards and official fight statistics are compiled from publicly available sources after each event and reconciled against the existing database, so cancelled and rebooked bouts are corrected rather than left behind. Ratings, scorecards, picks and poll results are generated entirely by registered users of this site.

What we will not do

We do not sell ranking positions, accept payment for placement, or move a fighter because someone asked nicely. A position changes for exactly three reasons: a fight result, a data correction, or fan votes.

How it stays free

Advertising pays for the hosting. That is the whole business model — it is why there is no subscription and no paywall on any ranking, stat or profile.

Found a mistake?

Tell us. Send the fighter or event and what is wrong to info@mma.social or use the contact form. Corrections go into the database and the engine is re-run, so the rankings move with the fix.

Coverage — And Its Limits

What is covered. The database centres on the UFC: numbered events and Fight Nights, the fighters who appear on them, and their records and statistics.

What is not. Other promotions are not in the database yet. If you are looking for full Bellator, PFL or ONE coverage, we are not that site today — we would rather say so than pad the list.

Where ratings are weakest. ELO needs fights to settle. A prospect with two bouts has a noisy rating, and a fighter with only a handful of fan votes can swing a long way on one more. Vote counts and fight counts are shown so you can judge how much to trust a number.

Rankings are a model, not a verdict. They are a useful, consistent argument — not the truth, and not an official anything.

Contact & Follow

Corrections, feature requests, bug reports, business enquiries or a strongly worded opinion about a scorecard — all welcome.

Email — info@mma.social

Contact form — mma.social/contact