Build-A-Fighter: Draft the Greatest UFC Fighters of All Time Into One Champion

Ever wondered what would happen if you stitched together the best tools in UFC history into a single, unstoppable fighter? 

RotoWire's free Build-A-Fighter game lets you do exactly that.

How Does Build-A-Fighter Work?

Spin to land on a random division and era, draft any legend from that pool, and slot them into one of five categories: Striking, Wrestling, Submissions, Chin & Durability or Cardio. Do that five times and you've assembled a complete fighter built from five different careers. 

The widget hands back a composite score out of 99 and a tier, anywhere from Regional Prospect up to UFC Hall of Fame Build.

UFC Fight Night: Hooker vs. Parnasse lands Sept. 5 in Paris, France at the Accor Arena, headlined by that lightweight showdown as well as Fares Ziam vs. Axel Sola and Michael Venom Page vs. Nursulton Ruziboev on the main card, 

Build-A-Fighter's Bantamweight vault is stacked with the guys who built the division, Dominick Cruz, TJ Dillashaw, Aljamain Sterling and Merab Dvalishvili among them, all waiting to be drafted into a fighter who could hang with anyone on Saturday's card. Spin, draft and see if your Frankenstein fighter is good enough to beat the best 135-pounders in UFC history. 

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Build-A-Fighter

Scout a random division, then draft the best fighter available for whichever tool is on the clock. No swapping, no picking your spot — five slots, five picks, one Frankenstein fighter.

57

Fighters in the vault

12

Weight classes

5

Skill slots to fill

1

Re-scout allowed

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Striking

Open slot

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Wrestling

Open slot

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Submissions & Grappling

Open slot

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Chin & Durability

Open slot

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Cardio

Open slot

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🥊Now Drafting: Striking

Scout for Striking

1 Re-Scout remaining — use it on a dead pool, not a lazy one. Re-Scout

Ratings (1–99) are RotoWire's own composite, calculated from each fighter's real UFCStats.com career totals: Striking blends significant strikes landed per minute (60%) and striking accuracy (40%); Wrestling blends takedown average (40%), accuracy (30%), and defense (30%); Submissions & Grappling scales average submission attempts per 15 minutes; Chin & Durability blends strikes absorbed per minute, inverted, (50%) and striking defense (50%); Cardio takes the higher of a fighter's striking or takedown output rate, a sustained-workrate proxy since the UFC doesn't publish a literal gas-tank stat. Every value is scaled 1–99 relative to this 57-fighter roster, not the all-time UFC population. Note: Striking rewards volume and accuracy, not one-punch power — UFCStats has no public knockdown-rate field, so elite finishers may rate lower here than reputation suggests. No duplicate fighters; each name can only be drafted once per build.

Best UFC Fighter Draft Strategy 

The strategy runs deeper than it looks. Every fighter carries a real rating in all five categories, but only the number tied to whichever slot you drop them into counts. Land a legendary striker with nothing left but an open Wrestling slot, and you're actively hurting your build by drafting him at all.

The best runs match fighters to the tools they actually built their careers on, and hold out for the right pool before locking anything in.

Per RotoWire: the ratings behind every fighter are built from real career numbers, strikes landed per minute, takedown accuracy, submission attempts and more, scaled against this specific field of 57 legends rather than pulled from any official UFC or video game rating. 

That means Khabib Nurmagomedov, Anderson Silva, Amanda Nunes and Jon Jones are all sitting in the pool, waiting to be drafted into a fighter who could beat them all.

Spin, draft, build, and find out whether your Frankenstein fighter is good enough to hang with Saturday's UFC headliners.