Division
Strawweight is the 115-pound division of mixed martial arts, the lightest at which the major promotions award a championship. Under the Unified Rules of MMA, a strawweight bout is contracted at a maximum of 115 pounds — 52.2 kilograms — with a one-pound allowance in non-title fights and none at all when a belt is on the line. Above it sits flyweight at 125 pounds; below it, nothing that is regularly contested.
Strawweight is where physical margins are thinnest and technical ones decide everything. An inch of reach or two pounds of rehydrated weight is a meaningful advantage here in a way it simply is not three divisions up, and fighters build their whole approach around exploiting or neutralising those small edges. Nothing is won by overwhelming anyone.
The pace follows from that. With knockout power rare, rounds are dense with attempts: strikes thrown to set up other strikes, takedowns entered to force a reaction rather than to finish. Judges here are separating fighters on volume and control more often than on damage, which puts a premium on being able to work for fifteen minutes without a lull. The division also has the shortest distance between its own weight limit and the next one — ten pounds — so movement upward is common and rarely dramatic.
Every fighter Fight Hub records in the strawweight division, with their professional record, the gym they train out of, their nationality and the measurements that make up their tale of the tape. Each name links through to a full profile. Records shown are professional records across all promotions, not a single organisation's tally.
Strawweight is the floor of the championship weight classes, so its traffic runs upward: fighters who can no longer make 115 pounds move to flyweight, and some return. The neighbouring division pages are listed below, alongside the countries and gyms that produce the most fighters at this weight.
