If UFC on FOX 3 showed us anything, it’s that the newly-created flyweight division might be the home of the most entertaining fighters in the sport today.
After Louis Gaudinot and John Lineker got things warmed up early with a back-and-forth slug-fest, John Dodson and Tim Elliott took to the cage and blew the roof off of the IZOD Center in East Rutherford, New Jersey, during in the preliminary bouts on Fuel TV.
As great as the UFC flyweights already look, the division as a whole might be the most interesting in the sport for those who watch MMA promotions outside the UFC.
Given that the division has only been around for a few months now, the biggest MMA promotion in the world hasn’t quite reached the level of top-level talent consolidation in the flyweight division that they have in most of the other divisions.
Let’s take a look at where each of the top 10 flyweights in MMA currently compete.