RANKINGS AND TITLES

Reach the top 10 of your tier and weight class with a winning record and no more than one straight loss. That makes you a title contender. The DIVISION RULES card under each board prints the exact rule.

Then call the champion out from their profile. Any fight a champion takes in their own division is a title fight, and the belt answers people first: while a contender's challenge stands, the champion cannot take a bot instead. A challenge from a top-three contender takes priority over everything else on the champion's plate; they must answer it before another fight.

The champion can also call you out, on the same terms. If the belt is vacant, the board names the eligible contenders, and any fight between two of them is for the belt.

Amateurs: the same contender rule applies, and a title chase never shortens your farewell window.

Promotion runs on your overall rating (OVR) and lands at the end of a fight.

Amateur to Regional Pro: reaching OVR 52 opens your farewell window at your next fight. The gold strip on HQ counts it down: six non-title fights to win the belt or sign. Title fights never shorten it. Win the National Amateur Title and the window becomes an exit clause: two completed defenses or your next loss sends you up. You can sign any time from the strip. OVR 57 is the hard cap: up after your next fight, belt or not.

Regional Pro to the WFL: declineable offers at OVR 60 and 65; automatic at OVR 70. A Regional champion can go up at once or stay and defend until a trigger is met.

The rookie clause: three straight losses in your first six WFL fights sends you back down. A higher OVR voids it.

Each tier and weight class has its own board. The champion sits above it on the CHAMPION CARD; everyone else is ranked below from #1 down.

Your place comes from your results against ranked opponents. Every official fight moves a rating for both fighters: a win takes rating from the loser, and beating someone rated above you moves you more than beating someone below you. A draw counts as half. Nothing else moves it: not a title win, a promotion, or a weight-class move. On the amateur boards your record and current win streak also count toward your place.

A new fighter starts unranked (NR) and earns a place with a first result. Fighters who have not fought recently and have nothing booked drop off the live board; booking or fighting puts them back where their rating says. The rating itself is only printed on the leaderboards.

A champion has to keep fighting. Every belt runs on a belt clock: three completed defenses in each fixed window, back to back from the moment the belt was won. The CHAMPION CARD at the top of the RANKS board shows the count (for example 2/3 DEFENSES) and a countdown to the close of the window, for everyone in the division to see. The champion's own card spells out what is owed and by when.

Only a win or a draw counts as a completed defense. Once the window holds its three, the clock reads NEXT WINDOW IN and counts toward the next window, and a challenge can be booked past the close. A defense that is live when the window closes holds the belt until it settles. A champion who is still short at the close is stripped, and the belt goes vacant.

A belt goes vacant when a champion is stripped by the belt clock, gives it up, retires, or is promoted out of the tier. The RANKS board then says TITLE VACANT and names the eligible contenders. Any fight between two of them is for the belt, whichever way it gets booked. A champion who gave up the belt is not in that pool until someone new wins it; after that they can challenge like any other contender.

There are no interim champions in Glass Jaw. A WFL champion who moves to a neighboring weight class keeps the belt, and the card in the old division reads CHAMPION IS AWAY while its clock keeps running. They have to come back and defend in time or they are stripped, and a contender from that division can call them home for the belt.

The leaderboards are the League's all-time record book, reached from the LEADERBOARDS strip on RANKS. Flip through the boards with ◀ ▶ and filter by weight class or ALL. Beside the two P4P boards you will find TITLE WINS, YOUNGEST CHAMP, OLDEST CHAMP, STRIKES LANDED, STRIKES THROWN, TAKEDOWNS, KNOCKOUTS, SUBMISSIONS, FASTEST KO, FASTEST SUB, LONGEST STREAK, IRON CHIN (strikes eaten) and CAREER EARNINGS. The #1 on each board gets the gold card. Retired fighters stay on the boards forever. Search any fighter by name to see where they stand; your own fighters appear under YOUR STABLE if they missed the top of the board.

WOAT (Worst of All Time) is the inverse of P4P: the lowest pro win rate among human fighters with at least 20 pro fights and a losing record. Nobody wants the top of that one.

P4P (pound for pound) ranks fighters across every weight class by rating rather than by place on a division board. There are two boards, both on LEADERBOARDS.

ACTIVE P4P ranks fighters still competing by their live rating. Only fighters who have fought in the last 3 days are on it, the same activity window the division rankings use. Go longer than that without a fight, or retire, and your row leaves this board. Fight again and it comes back.

ALL-TIME P4P ranks every pro career by the peak rating it ever held, retired fighters included, so a legend who declined late in their career keeps the place their best moment earned.

Both add a credit for WFL title-fight wins, including defenses. That credit is a record-book score only: it never changes your rating or your place on a weight-class board. The ALL chip covers whole careers; a weight-class chip ranks only fighters who fought most of their pro career in that division.

Every fighter climbs through three tiers: the Amateur circuit, Regional Pro, and the World Fighting League (the WFL). Each tier has its own rankings board in every weight class and its own belt, so each division has a National Amateur Title, a Regional belt, and a WFL world title.

You start as an amateur. Matchmaking, callouts, and open contracts only pair you with fighters in your own tier and weight class, so a Regional pro never meets an amateur in the cage. Purses rise as you move up, and so does the quality of everyone you fight. The RANKS screen shows all three tiers; the ones above you are locked until you get there.

Belt Lineage is the full history of one belt: every reign in order, from the first champion to today. Open it with BELT LINEAGE ▶ on the CHAMPION CARD at the top of any RANKS board.

Each reign shows who won the belt, from whom and how (knockout, submission or decision, with the round and time), how many defenses they made, how long they held it, and how it ended: lost in the cage, given up, stripped for not enough defenses in time, left behind on promotion, or retired with the belt. Vacancies sit in the chain with their reason. Tap a reign for the full card with every title fight in it. Long reigns are marked as notable, and the reign with the most defenses wears the BELT RECORD badge. On the web the page also lists the division's records.

Rank is a position on a shared board, so it moves whenever the people around you move. If a fighter below you wins a big fight and passes you, you drop a place without doing anything. If someone above you loses, moves weight class, retires, or gets promoted, you climb. Fighters also leave the live board when they have not fought for a while and have nothing booked, and come back onto it when they book or fight, which shuffles the places around them.

The board marks this. The ▲ and ▼ arrows beside a rank show who moved in the last 24 hours, and a fighter new to the board points up.

The League does not run seasons or scheduled rankings resets. Ratings were recalculated once, in September 2026, to correct how they were computed; records and belts did not change.