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How the ranking works, who is rising, what every event is worth, and answers to the questions we get most. Every number in these pages comes from the same engine that builds the tables.
A KBN table exists for every discipline, category, gender and weight class, in world, continental and national scopes. These articles explain who appears, how positions move, what the arrows mean and how to use rankings well.
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Rank, movement arrow, verified record, points. What each column means and why the order is what it is.
Combat sports rankings are built in three main ways: panels of experts who vote, sanctioning bodies that publish their own lists, and points systems that calculate positions from results. KBN uses a published points form...
Rankings explained
Reading the tables, movement, scopes and divisions.
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The same fighter can be #1 in Uzbekistan, #1 in Asia and #1 in the world, or #3, #7 and #19. How the scopes are derived from one c...
A KBN continental ranking lists fighters from the same continent in the same division, ordered by the same points as the world tab...
Divisions
KBN ranks women in separate tables for every discipline, category and weight class, using exactly the same point formula, evidence...
A KBN division is one combination of discipline, category, gender and weight class, and each division has its own ranking. Points...
Movement
Movement arrows are not only about new results. Expiring results, verified appeals and multiplier changes all move the table.
Movement arrows in KBN tables compare each fighter's current position with their position in the table calculated as of 30 days ea...
Division in focus
Aleksei Karimov leads with 635 points. Who is chasing, where the points came from and what would change the order.
Li Shang leads with 562.5 points. Who is chasing, where the points came from and what would change the order.
Fatima Diallo leads with 535 points. Who is chasing, where the points came from and what would change the order.
Rustam Nazarov leads with 357.5 points. Who is chasing, where the points came from and what would change the order.
Elif Demir leads with 260 points. Who is chasing, where the points came from and what would change the order.
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