EA Sports UFC 6 Welterweight Tier List
Islam Makhachev
Georges St Pierre
Shavkat Rakhmonov
Conor McGregor
Leon Edwards
Stephen Thompson
Kamaru Usman
Rafael dos Anjos
Jack Della Maddalena
Belal Muhammad
Ian Machado Garry
Robbie Lawler
Michael Page
Sean Brady
Matt Hughes
Tyron Woodley
Jorge Masvidal
Joaquin Buckley
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As of Sep 5, 2026 (UFC 330 Content Update (Aug 6, 2026)), Islam Makhachev, Georges St Pierre, Shavkat Rakhmonov hold the S tier in EA Sports UFC 6 Welterweight Tier List — an expert-seeded baseline with no player votes yet. Every vote re-ranks the board live.
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Welterweight in EA Sports UFC 6 is ruled by complete fighters, and two stand clearly above the rest. Georges St Pierre owns the division's best official numbers (95.6 stat average with 100 Takedowns and 100 Ground Striking), and the community calls him the safest ranked pick in the game — his Kraken perk supercharges stand-up takedowns while his striking is good enough that you never have to force the wrestling. Right behind him is Islam Makhachev, who moved up from lightweight carrying five-star fighter ratings and the most oppressive chain-wrestling identity in the game: control-based Flow generation, layered submission threats, and stamina pressure that breaks strikers by round two.
The A-tier is a stylist's playground. Shavkat Rakhmonov hunts finishes everywhere the fight goes, Leon Edwards and Stephen Thompson punish aggression with elite evasive counter-striking (Wonderboy's karate stance and movement profile are genuinely unique animations), Rafael dos Anjos quietly carries top-three official numbers, and Kamaru Usman mixes suffocating cage wrestling with real knockout power. Conor McGregor is the wildcard — five-star rated with a left hand that ends fights in one Flow State window, but far more punishable than the wrestlers above him.
As everywhere in UFC 6, official fighter ratings are a starting point, not a verdict: reach, defense-style identity and Flow triggers decide ranked fights more than raw overalls, which is why counter specialists and wrestlers outperform their numbers here while pure brawlers underperform. Where the community hasn't formed a clear opinion yet, placements below the top follow EA's official ratings order.
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As of Sep 5, 2026 (UFC 330 Content Update (Aug 6, 2026)), Islam Makhachev, Georges St Pierre, Shavkat Rakhmonov sit at the top of this board — an expert-seeded baseline with no player votes yet. Cast a vote to make it the community's answer.
As of Sep 5, 2026 (UFC 330 Content Update (Aug 6, 2026)), this board's S tier holds Islam Makhachev, Georges St Pierre, Shavkat Rakhmonov — an expert-seeded baseline with no player votes yet. Every vote re-ranks it live.
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