After maybe the busiest no-gi weekend of the year, there is significant movement in every division through the rankings. To help fans understand some of the changes and the reasoning behind them, we are going to break down these updated rankings after some action-packed events.

See The Updated Rankings Here

Since the last update, only ten days ago, there has been the IBJJF World No-Gi Championships and Fight Pass Invitational. First thing to understand for the rankings is what matters more than what you win is who you beat. If you win Worlds with a path that lacks many of the top athletes, it won't be as impactful in the rankings as someone else winning a division full of proven talent.

Also, we have removed a number of athletes who have not competed in no-gi since the 2022 World No-Gi Championships. Should any of them begin competing again, they will re-enter the rankings if their resume has earned it but inactivity of one year+ will be punished.

For IBJJF, we consider the weights to really line up like this for rankings consideration;

• Men's 135lbs - Rooster, Light-Feather
• Men's 145lbs - Feather
• Men's 155lbs - Light
• Men's 170lbs - Middle
• Men's 185lbs - Medium-Heavy
• Men's 205lbs - Heavy
• Men's +205lbs - Super-Heavy, Ultra-Heavy
• Women's 115lbs - Rooster, Light-Feather
• Women's 125lbs - Feather
• Women's 135lbs - Light
• Women's 145lbs - Middle
• Women's +145lbs - Medium-Heavy, Heavy, Super-Heavy

Men's Pound-for-Pound

• Nicholas Meregali defeats Felipe Pena, rises from 6th to 3rd. Another big no-gi win for Meregali, who has been spotless since last ADCC where he won two medals. With another submission victory over a former ADCC champion, he's an easy pick to move up here. With the loss, Felipe Pena falls from 14 to 15. Even though Jimenez won the open class, he was held back from the pound for pound ranking because of his loss to Pena at ADCC.

Women's Pound-for-Pound

• Wales's Ffion Davies is back on top. With her double gold performance, she eeks out the #1 rank over Clay, despite the head to head loss. Mayssa also moves up over Amy Campo, who was unable to compete at Worlds, because of her continued level of dominance.
• Andressa Cintra is back in the rankings after being out with inactivity. By submitting her way through the bracket, she earns the 7 spot here, under Tammi who also defended her world gold with a dominant performance in the finals. Amanda Alequin has a win over Alex Enriquez in 2023 so she stays above her - tho both move up with Alex's continued success.
• World absolute silver Gabi McComb and Adele Fornarino both slot in well at 11 & 12, above Rocha who was unable to compete at Worlds.

Men's 135lbs

• Junny Ocasio wins world gold and moves as high as possible, but we are keeping him right below Mikey because of a head to head result. Still, if Junny keeps winning it is possible he can take that one spot through attrition. His world finals opponent Zach debuts top 5, with his biggest win actually coming first round when he heel hooked Bebeto.
• These rankings account for any grappler below 135 so roosterweight champion and rookie black belt Everton Souza can move as high as sixth but he still doesn't have the resume to overtake Calestine. The back half of the rankings are heavily dependent on the podium results from No-Gi Worlds. Big risers include Rodnei Barbosa, Riki Yoshinaga, and Tadiyah Danforth (who beat Almarwai in an early round match).

Men's 145lbs

• World #1 Diego Pato retains his spot with another gold medal in The Year Of The Duck. Gianni Grippo takes silver and advances up to 6th based on his activity level and success.
• Kennedy Maciel is back competing after time off with injury and he slots into the 12th spot, under the very-active Corbe and above Espinoza who is still waiting for a true breakthrough performance but is very active and consistently good.

Men's 155lbs

• 155 isn't an ADCC weight so these rankings rely a lot on IBJJF competition and super fight action for movement. Lucas Valente and Deandre Corbe were in the world finals and that gets them up to 3rd & 4th, behind Dante and Pato who both have a deeper resume overall while staying active at 155lbs.
• Daniel Sathler debuts in the rankings after taking out Max Hanson and beating Richar Nogueira (who also debuts after beating Josh Cisneros). Nogueira stays behind Cisneros just based on depth of resume, Cisneros has done enough to stay up for now but he takes drop 6 spots.

Men's 170lbs

• Tommy Langaker wins his world title and rises up two spots, with his most impactful win coming early over Elijah Dorsey by RNC. Mike Perez debuts in the rankings at 11th, with his biggest win coming over Kichuk who had been top-15. Still, it was a deep enough field that he can be placed comfortably above JT who has not been as active.
• Oliver Taza falls after losing to Johnatha Alves. Johnatha lost next round to Luiz Paolo and doesn't have a very deep resume in no-gi so we think the best thing is to drop Taza some and wait to see if Johnatha commits more to no-gi before letting a ranking reflect that.
• Similarly, Jonnatas Gracie dropped to 170 for a match with Nicky Ryan, who he beat. However, this is only one match so we are holding off to see if he commits more to this weight before dropping him down from 185.

Men's 185lbs

• Tye stays at #1 but that's a very unstable one spot given his low strength of schedule in 2023 and how he did in his weight class at the last ADCC.
• A lot of people either a couple spots or entirely dropped from inactivity so guys like Izaak, Jacob, and Roberto all rise up here. Vagner also has dropped down in the rankings from 205 to 185, where as an ADCC medalist he slots in well at 5th just over the 2023 IBJJF champ but under the guys staying more active at an elite level.
• Rafael Paganini debuts in the rankings with his world bronze medal.

Men's 205lbs

• Roberto Jimenez had an incredible run at Worlds and debuts in the 205 rankings after spending more time in the last few years bulking up. Even though he won the open class, we have to keep the Elder loss in mind so he is limited upwards by that. Even though Wardzinski outplaced him, they both lost to Elder and Roberto had a more impressive overall run so he is given the edge. Couch stays above Elder by virtue of the ADCC Trials win.
• Javier Barter becomes the first ever athlete in the world rankings from Panama after medaling at heavyweight. Congrats!

Men's +205lbs

• Plenty of results at Worlds and FPI5 but not as much movement as other divisions. Biggest thing is that Nicholas and Felipe swap spots after Nicholas wins by submission. Craig Jones stays at 2 because he defeated both in the last 18 months at weights above 205lbs.
• Yuri Simoes is back at 7 after being out of rankings for inactivity. The ADCC absolute champion lost to Nicky Rod but has wins over Cyborg and Luke recently enough.

Women's 115lbs

• Grace takes a fall because she has been pretty inactive this year, so the top two spots are the rooster and light-feather champs. Faye Cherrier of Atos is also a big mover here, after medaling at Trials and Worlds - giving Mayssa a close match.

Women's 125lbs

• Alex Enriquez won a tough featherweight bracket and is now ranked 3rd. Amanda Alequin beat her at WNO earlier this year so she still benefits from that and is second.
• Emily Nicholson and Jessie Crane medal at worlds and join the rankings.

Women's 135lbs

• The big movement her is Nadia Frankland. She double golds at Worlds as a brown belt, but considering she beat Amanda Bruse (the finalist at black belt) last year at Worlds and she continues to be a standout, she slots in as the sixth best.
• WNO veteran Julia Maele won a world bronze and is back in the rankings as #11. Considering the comparative result that her and Mo Black have with Helena (Mo won, Julia lost), we think Morgan should be above her.

Women's 145lbs

• At middleweight, Gabi McComb had a gritty performance for gold-silver at Worlds. She debuts here at 5th over Helena, who still has yet to truly break out with a major championship. Thamara Ferreira also debuts at 7th, with her silver medal giving her more accolade than anyone below her. Caitlin Huggins, a Pan & World medalist at black belt, also joins the rankings.

Women's +145lbs

• Andressa submits her way through worlds - again - and is now ranked as the #2 athlete here after falling out to inactivity. Kendall also won Worlds and rises up some but the bracket wasn't deep enough to propel her further. Medium-heavy champion Elizabeth Mitrovic had the best performance of her career in winning Worlds, but because of other movement she actually ends up staying at 9 after losing to Roberta in the Pan absolute finals.