Random UFC Lightweight Picker

What Is the Random UFC Lightweight Picker?

The Random UFC Lightweight Picker spins through the 155 pound division and lands on a fighter.

Lightweight is generally considered the most competitive division in the sport, with a roster deep enough that ranked fighters regularly go years without a title shot.

How to Use the Random UFC Lightweight Picker?

1. 1

   Open the Random UFC Lightweight Picker. All 16 fighters load with equal odds, Arman Tsarukyan, Beneil Dariush and Benoit Saint Denis among them.

2. 2

   Trim the field if your game calls for it: take Arman Tsarukyan out for an underdog run, or keep only the fighters still in contention.

3. 3

   Press SPIN. The wheel settles on one of the 16 and the result card names your UFC lightweight fighter.

4. 4

   Drawing for a group? Turn on Remove Winners so Ilia Topuria cannot come up twice, then spin once per person.

5. 5

   Save the trimmed wheel under "My Wheels" and the next UFC lightweight draw opens on your fighters rather than all 16.

Random UFC Lightweight Picker Use Cases

Prediction pools. Fantasy MMA tiebreakers. Watch party draws on a stacked card.

Anyone picking a fighter to follow, where the division's depth means there's almost always a relevant fight booked.

What Is on the UFC lightweight Wheel

The wheel holds the whole UFC lightweight field: 16 fighters, each with an identical slice. Arman Tsarukyan, Beneil Dariush, Benoit Saint Denis, Charles Oliveira, Dan Hooker and Grant Dawson are among them.

Equal slices mean the UFC lightweight draw does not quietly favour the fighters you would expect it to. Arman Tsarukyan comes up exactly as often as Ilia Topuria, which is the part that matters when the result has to look fair to everyone watching it land.

At 16 fighters, the UFC lightweight wheel leaves room for a group to take one each and still have something to offer the last person. Turning on Remove Winners narrows the field as you go, which keeps the later picks meaningful instead of handing somebody a fighter that has already gone.

The Most Competitive Weight Class

Lightweight at 155 pounds is widely regarded as the most competitive division in mixed martial arts. It's deep enough that ranked fighters routinely go years without a title shot despite winning consistently.

The depth comes from the same place as welterweight's: it's an accessible weight for a large share of athletes, so the talent pool feeding it is bigger than at the extremes of the scale.

For anyone running a prediction pool, that's the division where the wheel earns its place. Almost everyone the wheel can hand you is dangerous, almost nobody is a clear favourite, and the people who follow the sport closely disagree with each other constantly about the order.

Tips for Fair Draws

The competitiveness cuts both ways for a random draw, since almost anyone the wheel picks is dangerous, and almost nobody is a clear favourite.

That's the argument for spinning rather than trying to reason your way to a pick.