The connecting record
shownDragon Ball Super (manga) · ch. 87
Black Frieza beat Vegeta in Dragon Ball Super (manga).
Put down beside Goku by a blow to the body, in ultra ego.
What each of them is ranked on
The winner · Black Frieza · rank 2
manga
One punch each. He arrives at the end of the Granolah arc and drops the two strongest Saiyans alive — one in the perfected instinctive state, the other in the form built from pride — with a single strike apiece, and the arc ends with him unopposed. It is the least ambiguous top-tier feat in the franchise: no chain of comparisons, no narration doing the lifting, one scene with a result. He is marked contested because it exists only in the manga and has never been animated, and because he has not been seen since.
shownDragon Ball Super (manga) · Granolah the Survivor arc
Defeats Goku and Vegeta at their peak forms with one blow each. — 2022
Beaten · Vegeta · rank 6
manga · anime · films
Ultra ego is the more interesting of the two late states because it is built on a different principle — damage taken converts into output, so the longer he loses the harder he hits. It is manga-only and has never been animated. The record shows the mechanism working, then shows it insufficient against the Frieza who closes that same arc, inside the arc that introduced it.
shownDragon Ball Super (manga) · Granolah the Survivor arc
Fights in ultra ego, converting damage sustained into power. — 2022
shownDragon Ball Z · Buu Saga
Sacrifices himself in an attempt to destroy Majin Buu. — 1994
What this does not settle
One fight in one work. It is the only result the record gives between these two, and it is evidence about that meeting and nothing wider — not a general matchup, not a rematch, and not a ranking of its own.
The ladder above it is argued from everything either of them has been shown doing; this page is argued from one citation.
Where the two disagree, the disagreement is the point, and it stays visible rather than being resolved by whichever of them happens to be on this page.