Current fighter count by weight class in UFC 6 👀

Current fighter count by weight class in UFC 6 (why heavyweight career feels so repetitive)

Been running a heavyweight career and noticed I keep fighting the same handful of guys over and over, way more often than I remember from a lightweight save. So I went through and counted up the actual roster by division, including how many are active versus retired. Here's where things stand right now:

Flyweight: 16 total, 15 active, 1 retired

 Bantamweight: 23 total, 19 active, 4 retired

 Featherweight: 27 total, 23 active, 4 retired

 Lightweight: 34 total, 28 active, 6 retired

 Welterweight: 39 total, 30 active, 9 retired

 Middleweight: 30 total, 21 active, 9 retired

 Light Heavyweight: 30 total, 14 active, 16 retired

 Heavyweight: 25 total, 16 active, 9 retired

 Women's Strawweight: 20 total

 Women's Flyweight: 17 total

 Women's Bantamweight: 17 total

Light Heavyweight actually has the thinnest active pool in the whole game at just 14, which surprised me, with Heavyweight not far behind at 16. Compare that to Welterweight's 30 active or Lightweight's 28, and I start to see why it felt so off.

Flyweight's numbers are smaller too, but the real division just doesn't have as deep a pool of fighters in real life compared to something like lightweight or welterweight.

What makes it worse for heavyweight specifically is you don't even have the option to drop down and chase the light heavyweight belt once you've cleaned out the division. So you're stuck working through that small pool with zero flexibility to look elsewhere for fresh fights, and it gets stale fast. And that's not even getting into everything else I've been pointing out is off with career mode (it's a lot).

The thin pool also creates some genuinely weird results in career mode itself. Tai Tuivasa will show up highly ranked, sometimes even as champion, despite having lost his last seven fights in a row in real life, which is currently the longest losing streak in UFC heavyweight history. With so few real fighters to draw from, the game ends up propping guys like that up near the top of the division, which breaks immersion.

EA's said they'll be adding new fighters monthly, so hopefully this evens out over time. But right now, if you're picking a division for a career save and want to avoid fighting the same handful of guys constantly, or a ton of created fighters, the heavier weight classes are clearly giving you a smaller pool to work with, especially light heavyweight. To be fair though, I do think this is better than last year, if I'm remembering right.

Anyone else running a heavyweight or light heavyweight save notice this? Curious if people are tracking what gets added in the next roster update.