The OKTAGON welterweight title is vacant, and on 31 October 2026 Amiran Gogoladze, the 28-year-old from Georgia ranked #1, meets Felix Klinkhammer for it at Oktagon 96. Klinkhammer is 11-0-0, the only fighter in the top ten without a loss.
OKTAGON welterweight rankings
The top ten as it stands on 22 October 2026. No fighter has changed position since the previous ranking.
| Rank | Fighter | Record |
|---|---|---|
| #1 | Amiran Gogoladze | 16-3-0 |
| #2 | Jack Grant | 4-3-0 |
| #3 | Ion Surdu | 17-8-0 |
| #4 | Ronald Paradeiser | 25-13-0 |
| #5 | Jessin Ayari | 19-6-0 |
| #6 | Felix Klinkhammer | 11-0-0 |
| #7 | Andrej Kalašnik | 13-7-0 |
| #8 | Marcel Mohamed Grabinski | 24-11-0 |
| #9 | Christian Jungwirth | 16-10-0 |
| #10 | Christian Eckerlin | 18-9-0 |
Gogoladze has three losses and still holds the top spot, with a finish rate of 69%. Klinkhammer, ranked sixth, finishes 82% of his fights.
Who fights for the vacant welterweight title
Gogoladze against Klinkhammer is the main event of Oktagon 96, and it is booked as a title fight. It sits on a card that also puts the rest of the top five in the cage. Jessin Ayari faces Ion Surdu, the #5 against the #3, and Ronald Paradeiser faces Tyrone Pfeifer.
Paradeiser is the most experienced name in the top ten at 25-13-0, but he is coming off a loss: Jack Grant submitted him in round 3 at Oktagon 89 on 6 June 2026. Pfeifer, for his part, stopped Niklas Stolze with a TKO in round 1 at 0:22 at Oktagon 90 on 20 June 2026.
What the last 12 months show
The division produced 28 bouts in the last 12 months, and 21 of them ended in a finish.
The latest results fit that picture. At Oktagon 95 on 17 October 2026, Matúš Juráček beat Jozef Wittner by TKO in round 3 at 3:17, while Viktor Červinský took a decision over Daniel Hromek. At Oktagon 94 on 26 September, Tamerlan Dulatov submitted Nikola Janković in round 1 at 1:24, and Michael Obodozie stopped Oskar Staszczak in round 1 at 1:04.
Grant, ranked #2, has a 4-3-0 record and a finish rate of 100%. He is 34 and from the United Kingdom, and his round 3 submission of Paradeiser is the most recent result in the sample that involves two ranked welterweights.
The fighters behind the top spot
Gogoladze is the youngest of the top three at 28. Surdu, from Moldova, is 31 and finishes 82% of his fights, the same rate as Klinkhammer. Ayari, a 34-year-old German at 19-6-0, finishes 74% of his, so the Ayari vs. Surdu fight on 31 October pairs two fighters who usually finish their fights.
Further down, Paradeiser, from Slovakia, finishes 60% of his fights and Kalašnik, from the Czech Republic, 46%. Grabinski, 35, has a finish rate of 71%.
The German core and the veterans
Five of the ten ranked welterweights are German: Ayari, Klinkhammer, Grabinski, Jungwirth and Eckerlin. Jungwirth and Eckerlin are both 39, the oldest in the ranking. Jungwirth lost a decision to Max Coga at Oktagon 94, and Kalašnik, ranked #7, lost a unanimous decision to Kennedy Rayomba at Oktagon 93 on 12 September.
Grant and Ayari are both 34. Surdu is 31, Paradeiser 29 and Gogoladze 28.
What comes next
Oktagon 96 on 31 October puts the welterweight belt on the line. A week later, on 7 November at Oktagon 97, Jan Holzer meets Rastislav Zvara in the next welterweight booking.
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