GFL Draft Results: Tyron Woodley, Sage Northcutt, Junior Dos Santos, Chris Weidman Among Fighters Drafted

The 2025 GFL Draft took place on Friday, January 24th.

Six teams, each representing a major city, drafted from a pool of approximately 500 fighters.

Teams & Coaches

• Dubai (manager Cain Velasquez and coach Javier Mendez)
• London (manager Luke Barnatt and coach Carl Prince)
• Los Angeles (manager Wanderlei Silva and coach Rafael Cordeiro)
• Miami (manager Thiago Alves and coach Conan Silveira)
• New York (manager TBA and coach Ray Longo)
• Sao Paulo (manager Lyoto Machida and coach Andre Pederneiras)

Draft Results

Round 1

• Pick 1 (Team Dubai): Tyron Woodley
• Pick 2 (Team Los Angeles): Sage Northcutt
• Pick 3 (Team London): Gegard Mousasi
• Pick 4 (Miami): Junior Dos Santos
• Pick 5 (Sao Paulo): Fabricio Werdum
• Pick 6 (New York): Kevin Lee

Round 2

• Pick 7 (New York): Chris Weidman
• Pick 8 (Sao Paulo): Douglas Lima
• Pick 9 (Miami): Anthony Pettis
• Pick 10 (London): Alexander Gustafsson
• Pick 11 (Los Angeles): Aspen Ladd
• Pick 12 (Dubai): Abubakar Nurmagomedov

Round 3

• Pick 13 (Dubai): Derek Brunson
• Pick 14 (Los Angeles): Tony Ferguson
• Pick 15 (London): Josefine Knutsson
• Pick 16 (Miami): Yoel Romero
• Pick 17 (Sao Paulo): Carlos Petruzzella
• Pick 18 (New York): Holly Holm

Round 4

• Pick 19 (New York): Melissa Amay
• Pick 20 (Sao Paulo): Camilia Reynoso
• Pick 21 (Miami): Natasha Kuizutina
• Pick 22 (London): Brett Johns
• Pick 23 (Los Angeles): Urijah Faber
• Pick 24 (Dubai): Ali Isaev

Full Teams

Team Dubai

• Anastasia Nikolakakos (atomweight)
• Jessica Aguilar (atomweight)
• Faine Mesquita (strawweight)
• Randi Field (strawweight)
• Alexa Conners (bantamweight)
• Arlene Blencowe (bantamweight)
• Farbod Iran Nezhad (bantamweight)
• Timur Valiev (bantamweight)
• Adilet Nurmatov (featherweight)
• Khumoyun Tukhtamurodov (featherweight)
• Damir Ismagulov (lightweight)
• Tofiq Musayev (lightweight)
• Abubakar Nurmagomedov (welterweight)
• Tyron Woodley (welterweight)
• Derek Brunson (middleweight)
• Luke Rockhold (middleweight)
• Omari Akhmedov (light heavyweight)
• Ronny Markes (light heavyweight)
• Ali Isaev (heavyweight)
• Todd Duffee (heavyweight)

Team Los Angeles

• Cory McKenna (atomweight)
• Jessica Penne (atomweight)
• Ilima-Lei Macfarlane (strawweight)
• Cynthia Calvillo (strawweight)
• Aspen Ladd (bantamweight)
• Leslie Smith (bantamweight)
• Ray Borg (bantamweight)
• Urijah Faber (bantamweight)
• Chad Mendes (featherweight)
• Tyler Diamond (featherweight)
• Sage Northcutt (lightweight)
• Tony Ferguson (lightweight)
• Lorenz Larkin (welterweight)
• Louis Glismann (welterweight)
• Grant Neal (middleweight)
• Uriah Hall (middleweight)
• Da Woon Jung (light heavyweight)
• Rashad Evans (light heavyweight)
• Frank Mir (heavyweight)
• Andrei Arlovski (heavyweight)

Team London

• Chiara Penco (atomweight)
• Kelly Staddon (atomweight)
• Josefine Knutsson (strawweight)
• Karolina Owczarz (strawweight)
• Julia Budd (bantamweight)
• Pannie Kianzad (bantamweight)
• Cameron Else (bantamweight)
• Josh Hill (bantamweight)
• Brett Johns (featherweight)
• Mike Grundy (featherweight)
• Benson Henderson (lightweight)
• Tim Wilde (lightweight)
• Danny Roberts (welterweight)
• Norman Parke (welterweight)
• Gegard Mousasi (middleweight)
• Mariusz Ksiazkiewicz (middleweight)
• Alexander Gustafsson (light heavyweight)
• Ilir Latifi (light heavyweight)
• Stuart Austin (heavyweight)
• Tanner Boser (heavyweight)

Team Miami

• Kayla Hracho (atomweight)
• Natasha Kuziutina (atomweight)
• Hannah Goldy (strawweight)
• Paige VanZant (strawweight)
• Cat Zingano (bantamweight)
• Mariya Agapova (bantamweight)
• Eric Shelton (bantamweight)
• Marlon Moraes (bantamweight)
• Andre Harrison (featherweight)
• Charles Rosa (featherweight)
• Anthony Pettis (lightweight)
• Jeremy Stephens (lightweight)
• Dilano Taylor (welterweight)
• Gleison Tibau (welterweight)
• Hector Lombard (middleweight)
• Yoel Romero (middleweight)
• Philipe Lins (light heavyweight)
• Thiago Santos (light heavyweight)
• Robelis Despaigne (heavyweight)
• Junior Dos Santos (heavyweight)

Team Sao Paulo

• Joice Mara (atomweight)
• Pamela Mara (atomweight)
• Camila Reynoso (strawweight)
• Viviane Araujo (strawweight)
• Alejandra Lara (bantamweight)
• Paula Bittencourt (bantamweight)
• Raphael Assuncao (bantamweight)
• Renan Barao (bantamweight)
• Julio Arce (featherweight)
• Maike Linhares (featherweight)
• Patricky Freire (lightweight)
• Lucas Martins (lightweight)
• Alex Oliveira (welterweight)
• Carlos Petruzzella (welterweight)
• Alan Patrick (middleweight)
• Douglas Lima (middleweight)
• Antonio Carlos Junior (light heavyweight)
• Mauricio Rua (light heavyweight)
• Bruno Cappelozza (heavyweight)
• Fabricio Werdum (heavyweight)

Team New York

• Bi Nguyen (atomweight)
• Marisa Messer-Belenchia (atomweight)
• Melissa Amaya (strawweight)
• Miao Ding (strawweight)
• Holly Holm (bantamweight)
• Liana Jojua (bantamweight)
• Jimmie Rivera (bantamweight)
• Zviad Lazishvili (bantamweight)
• Lance Palmer (featherweight)
• Kai Kamaka III (featherweight)
• Sidney Outlaw (lightweight)
• Kevin Lee (lightweight)
• Neiman Gracie (welterweight)
• Dillon Danis (welterweight)
• Phillip Hawes (middleweight)
• Chris Weidman (middleweight)
• Devin Clark (light heavyweight)
• Ovince Saint Preux (light heavyweight)
• Fabricio Werdum (heavyweight)
• Aleksei Oleinik (heavyweight)

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