Build your ultimate UFC fighter with RotoWire’s free game. Draft legends by skill, compare ratings, and see if your build can top Islam Makhachev.
Updated on August 11, 2026 5:40PM EST
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.
It’s a timely one to launch. UFC 330 lands Aug. 15 in Philadelphia, where welterweight champion Islam Makhachev makes the first defense of his title against Ian Machado Garry. Makhachev’s own five-tool profile already lives in Build-A-Fighter’s Lightweight vault, and it’s one of the most complete builds in the entire game: elite Wrestling, elite Submissions, a chin that’s never once been tested. Before Makhachev steps into the Octagon in Philly, see if you can draft someone who beats him on paper first. Also, visit RotoWire’s MMA hub for the latest betting advice on UFC 330.
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 the real UFC 330 headliner.
