Alexander Volkanovski
“The Great”
Alexander Volkanovski is ranked 3rd of 491 featherweights by the First Light Rating, and the UFC’s featherweight champion.
- FLRFirst Light Ratingmeasure of true skill
- 2,0773rd of 491 · Featherweight
- FLIFirst Light Indexfame compared to skill
- +0.70Fame ahead of skill
- Career phase
- PrimeCareer-best FLR 2,110, 8 Jul 2023
- Record
- 28–4Pro
Fame against skill.
Every fighter with an FLI, by skill and fame. Hover a dot for the fighter; click to open their page. The dashed curve is the fame their skill predicts: above it, a fighter is more famous than their skill; below it, better than their fame.
Skill and attention.
Attention is drawn at the skill level its fame matches: above the skill line, more famous than skilled. Shaded: where the most similar careers went next.
Recent fights.
| Date | Fight | FLR |
|---|---|---|
| 31 Jan 2026 | Won vs Diego Lopes TitleUFC 325 - Volkanovski vs. Lopes 2 · Decision (Unanimous), R5 | +10 |
| 12 Apr 2025 | Won vs Diego Lopes TitleUFC 314 - Volkanovski vs. Lopes · Decision (Unanimous), R5 | −1 |
| 17 Feb 2024 | Lost to Ilia Topuria TitleUFC 298 - Volkanovski vs. Topuria · KO (Punch), R2 | −12 |
| 21 Oct 2023 | Lost to Islam Makhachev TitleUFC 294 - Makhachev vs. Volkanovski 2 · KO (Head Kick and Punches), R1 | −20 |
| 8 Jul 2023 | Won vs Yair Rodriguez TitleUFC 290 - Volkanovski vs. Rodriguez · TKO (Punches), R3 | +16 |
| 11 Feb 2023 | Lost to Islam Makhachev TitleUFC 284 - Makhachev vs. Volkanovski · Decision (Unanimous), R5 | −12 |
| 2 Jul 2022 | Won vs Max Holloway TitleUFC 276 - Adesanya vs. Cannonier · Decision (Unanimous), R5 | +25 |
| 9 Apr 2022 | Won vs Chan Sung Jung TitleUFC 273 - Volkanovski vs. Korean Zombie · TKO (Punches), R4 | +20 |
| 25 Sept 2021 | Won vs Brian Ortega TitleUFC 266 - Volkanovski vs. Ortega · Decision (Unanimous), R5 | +8 |
| 11 Jul 2020 | Won vs Max Holloway TitleUFC 251 - Usman vs. Masvidal · Decision (Split), R5 | +7 |
| 14 Dec 2019 | Won vs Max Holloway TitleUFC 245 - Usman vs. Covington · Decision (Unanimous), R5 | +16 |
| 11 May 2019 | Won vs Jose AldoUFC 237 - Namajunas vs. Andrade · Decision (Unanimous), R3 | +31 |
FLR is the First Light Rating points the fight earned or cost them.
How it is measured.
Data Credit: First Light Observatory.
How these numbers are made.
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