Top Rated UFC Fights
The highest rated UFC fights of all time as voted by MMA fans. Rankings based on community fan votes.
About the Top Rated UFC Fights Rankings
This page ranks UFC bouts purely by fight quality, ordered by the average score that MMA fans give each fight after watching it. Every fight on the list is rated on a 1 to 100 scale on its event page, and we sort the leaderboard by that average rating, using total vote count as the tie-breaker so that a packed-house classic does not get edged out by a fight with only a handful of votes. You can slice the list by finish type (KO/TKO, submission, decision) or by year to see how a single card or a single era stacked up.
Fan-rated quality measures something the official record cannot: drama. A lopsided one-round finish and a five-round war can both end in a stoppage, but the war is what fans remember and reward. That is why back-and-forth slugfests, momentum swings, and last-second comebacks tend to climb the board, while technically clean but uneventful decisions sit lower even when the better fighter clearly won. Title fights and main events draw bigger vote totals, but the rating itself is blind to stakes, so an undercard banger can outrank a championship bout.
Because this leaderboard is driven by the crowd rather than judges or matchmakers, it is the closest thing to a fan consensus on the greatest fights ever staged. Pair it with our ELO rankings to see how the fighters behind these classics rate as competitors, and dig into the fighter profiles to trace the careers that produced these moments. Every vote you cast on an event page reshapes the order, so the list stays current as new instant classics happen.