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The Top Ranked Light Heavyweight MMA Fighters of All-Time
Notes: Fighters are listed only with the weight class they are most associated with.
| Rnk | Athlete | Rookie Yr | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Jon Jones | 2008 | 2 |
| 2 | Randy Couture | 1997 | 5 |
| 3 | Daniel Cormier | 2009 | 9 |
| 4 | Wanderlei Silva | 1996 | 10 |
| 5 | Tito Ortiz | 1997 | 14 |
| 6 | Chuck Liddell | 1998 | 15 |
| 7 | Rashad Evans | 2003 | 19 |
| 8 | Mauricio Rua | 2002 | 20 |
| 9 | Quinton Jackson | 1999 | 21 |
| 10 | Lyoto Machida | 2003 | 22 |
| 11 | Frank Shamrock | 1994 | 26 |
| 12 | Dan Henderson | 1997 | 29 |
| 13 | Yuki Kondo | 1996 | 30 |
| 14 | Forrest Griffin | 2001 | 62 |
| 15 | Ricardo Arona | 2000 | 69 |
| 16 | Paulo Filho | 2000 | 72 |
| 17 | Kevin Randleman | 1996 | 82 |
| 18 | Glover Teixeira | 2002 | 86 |
| 19 | Kazushi Sakuraba | 1996 | 88 |
| 20 | Ryan Bader | 2007 | 99 |
| 21 | Renato Sobral | 1997 | 100 |
| 22 | Vadim Nemkov | 2013 | 103 |
| 23 | Phil Davis | 2008 | 104 |
| 24 | Alexander Gustafsson | 2007 | 109 |
| 25 | Antonio Rogerio Nogueira | 2000 | 111 |
| 26 | Vladimir Matyushenko | 1997 | 113 |
| 27 | Jiri Prochazka | 2012 | 116 |
| 28 | Jan Blachowicz | 2007 | 121 |
| 29 | Magomed Ankalaev | 2014 | 133 |
| 30 | Corey Anderson | 2013 | 144 |
| 31 | Sanae Kikuta | 1996 | 145 |
| 32 | Anthony Johnson | 2006 | 165 |
| 33 | Kazuhiro Nakamura | 2003 | 184 |
| 34 | Keith Jardine | 2001 | 191 |
| 35 | Murilo Rua | 2000 | 201 |
| 36 | Muhammed Lawal | 2008 | 210 |
| 37 | Jamahal Hill | 2017 | 222 |
| 38 | Vernon White | 1993 | 231 |
| 39 | Thiago Silva | 2005 | 234 |
| 40 | Thiago Santos | 2010 | 245 |
| 41 | Dominick Reyes | 2014 | 264 |
| 42 | Allan Goes | 1995 | 265 |
| 43 | Anthony Smith | 2008 | 282 |
| 44 | Jim Theobald | 1998 | 297 |
| 45 | Volkan Oezdemir | 2010 | 305 |
| 46 | Trevor Prangley | 2001 | 310 |
| 47 | Linton Vassell | 2008 | 313 |
| 48 | Gustavo Machado | 2000 | 327 |
| 49 | Marvin Eastman | 2000 | 328 |
| 50 | Daniel Tabera | 2002 | 336 |
| 51 | Mark Epstein | 2003 | 350 |
| 52 | Akira Shoji | 1996 | 368 |
| 53 | Jason Lambert | 2001 | 372 |
| 54 | Jerry Bohlander | 1995 | 377 |
| 55 | Shunsuke Inoue | 2007 | 380 |
| 56 | Rickson Gracie | 1980 | 384 |
| 57 | Kevin Jackson | 1997 | 390 |
| 58 | Rafael Cavalcante | 2006 | 392 |
| 59 | Ebenezer Fontes Braga | 1995 | 397 |
| 60 | Ovince St. Preux | 2008 | 402 |
| 61 | Liam McGeary | 2010 | 421 |
| 62 | Emanuel Newton | 2003 | 460 |
| 63 | Jesse Murray | 2012 | 472 |
| 64 | Brian Stann | 2006 | 519 |
| 65 | Dan Molina | 2004 | 535 |
| 66 | Yuji Sakuragi | 2000 | 540 |
| 67 | Aung La N Sang | 2005 | 550 |
| 68 | Eugene Jackson | 1998 | 555 |
| 69 | Joe Slick | 1997 | 561 |
| 70 | James Lee | 1999 | 573 |
| 71 | Maxim Tarasov | 1995 | 585 |
| 72 | Tatsuya Mizuno | 2006 | 600 |
| 73 | Matt Hamill | 2005 | 611 |
| 74 | Jason Butcher | 2010 | 660 |
| 75 | Jeremy Kimball | 2009 | 669 |
| 76 | Lodune Sincaid | 1999 | 730 |
| 77 | Shiko Yamashita | 1999 | 731 |
| 78 | David Paaluhi | 1996 | 747 |
| 79 | Ryo Kawamura | 2005 | 754 |
| 80 | Michal Pasternak | 2012 | 791 |
| 81 | Brandon Anderson | 2009 | 825 |
| 82 | Tomislav Spahovic | 2009 | 842 |
| 83 | Chad Herrick | 2008 | 851 |
| 84 | Jared Torgeson | 2008 | 855 |
| 85 | Alexandre Machado | 2007 | 874 |
| 86 | Dave Cryer | 2007 | 881 |
| 87 | Richard Blake | 2006 | 916 |
| 88 | Ariel Gandulla | 2005 | 923 |
| 89 | Justin McElfresh | 2005 | 929 |
| 90 | Justin Levens | 2004 | 943 |
| 91 | Richard Montoya | 2003 | 959 |
| 92 | Tait Fletcher | 2003 | 961 |
| 93 | Bryan Pardoe | 2002 | 964 |
| 94 | Carlos Pereira | 2002 | 965 |
| 95 | Edwin Aguilar | 2002 | 968 |
| 96 | Glen Appleby | 2002 | 971 |
| 97 | William Hill | 2002 | 984 |
| 98 | Yukiya Naito | 2002 | 986 |
| 99 | Brian Hawkins | 2000 | 1000 |
| 100 | Mike Bourke | 1999 | 1020 |
| 101 | Daijiro Matsui | 1998 | 1021 |
| 102 | Lance Gibson Sr. | 1997 | 1029 |
| 103 | Fabio Piamonte | 1993 | 1033 |
| 104 | Nikita Krylov | 2012 | 1041 |
| 105 | Johnny Walker | 2013 | 1060 |
| 106 | Jorge Pereira | 1995 | 1061 |
| 107 | Yoshinori Momose | 2002 | 1123 |
| 108 | Attila Vegh | 2008 | 1130 |
| 109 | Mike Rogers | 1998 | 1145 |
| 110 | Khalil Rountree | 2014 | 1146 |
| 111 | Roberto Godoi | 1995 | 1157 |
| 112 | Stephan Bonnar | 2001 | 1158 |
| 113 | Anthony Macias | 1994 | 1163 |
| 114 | Yoshinori Nishi | 1994 | 1176 |
| 115 | Aleksandar Rakic | 2011 | 1201 |
| 116 | Jimmy Crute | 2016 | 1205 |
| 117 | Alex Stiebling | 1999 | 1216 |
| 118 | Luiz Cane | 2005 | 1224 |
| 119 | Elvis Sinosic | 1997 | 1226 |
| 120 | Ryan Spann | 2013 | 1241 |
| 121 | Mitsuyoshi Sato | 2000 | 1255 |
| 122 | Tony Bonello | 2001 | 1258 |
| 123 | Ilir Latifi | 2008 | 1262 |
| 124 | James Irvin | 2003 | 1276 |
| 125 | Ismael Souza | 1997 | 1282 |
| 126 | Alexander Otsuka | 1995 | 1285 |
| 127 | Cyrille Diabate | 1997 | 1336 |
| 128 | Dovletdzhan Yagshimuradov | 2012 | 1339 |
| 129 | Artur Mariano | 1997 | 1341 |
| 130 | Mario Roberto | 1997 | 1348 |
| 131 | Paul Craig | 2013 | 1353 |
| 132 | Ryan Jimmo | 2007 | 1358 |
| 133 | Tomasz Narkun | 2009 | 1360 |
| 134 | Vinny Magalhaes | 2006 | 1363 |
| 135 | Brian Gassaway | 1996 | 1386 |
| 136 | Wes Gassaway | 1996 | 1388 |
| 137 | Rameau Thierry Sokoudjou | 2006 | 1389 |
| 138 | Sam Nest | 2000 | 1397 |
| 139 | Jason Brilz | 2000 | 1403 |
| 140 | Chris Munsen | 1996 | 1429 |
| 141 | Christophe Leninger | 1994 | 1438 |
| 142 | Magomed Mirzagomedov | 2014 | 1444 |
| 143 | Valentin Golubovskij | 1997 | 1445 |
| 144 | Chalid Arrab | 2000 | 1449 |
| 145 | Joe Geromiller | 1997 | 1450 |
| 146 | James Te Huna | 2003 | 1453 |
| 147 | Marcos Rogerio de Lima | 2009 | 1468 |
| 148 | Austin Long | 1996 | 1475 |
| 149 | Wilson Gouveia | 2001 | 1493 |
| 150 | Steve Cantwell | 2005 | 1494 |
| 151 | Scott Adams | 1998 | 1498 |
| 152 | Samuel Gaskins | 1999 | 1506 |
| 153 | Carlos Ulberg | 2011 | 1511 |
| 154 | Teddy Holder | 2008 | 1519 |
| 155 | Azamat Murzakanov | 2010 | 1536 |
| 156 | Roman Roytberg | 1997 | 1551 |
| 157 | Bobby Southworth | 1999 | 1555 |
| 158 | Goran Reljic | 2004 | 1561 |
| 159 | Impa Kasanganay | 2019 | 1575 |
| 160 | Andrey Rudakov | 1999 | 1582 |
| 161 | Dennis Reed | 1996 | 1596 |
| 162 | Adam Ryan | 1997 | 1599 |
| 163 | Alex Schoenauer | 2001 | 1603 |
| 164 | Dennis Deryabkin | 1997 | 1605 |
| 165 | Bogdan Guskov | 2015 | 1608 |
| 166 | Nilson de Castro | 1993 | 1611 |
| 167 | Moise Rimbon | 2000 | 1621 |
| 168 | Ivan Shtyrkov | 2015 | 1626 |
| 169 | Poai Suganuma | 2005 | 1631 |
| 170 | Hirotaka Yokoi | 2000 | 1635 |
| 171 | Tengiz Tedoradze | 2000 | 1637 |
| 172 | Philip Preece | 1997 | 1644 |
| 173 | Jason Von Flue | 1999 | 1654 |
| 174 | Bill Mahood | 1999 | 1658 |
| 175 | Larry Parker | 1998 | 1661 |
| 176 | Jamal Patterson | 2006 | 1676 |
| 177 | Maro Perak | 2005 | 1677 |
| 178 | Dustin Jacoby | 2010 | 1680 |
| 179 | Christian M'Pumbu | 2004 | 1689 |
| 180 | Dae-Won Kim | 2003 | 1699 |
| 181 | Anthony Ruiz | 2003 | 1706 |
| 182 | Gabriel Vella | 2003 | 1722 |
| 183 | Stanislav Nedkov | 2006 | 1723 |
| 184 | Rob Wilkinson | 2011 | 1742 |
| 185 | Bruce Nelson | 1998 | 1745 |
| 186 | Jimi Manuwa | 2008 | 1759 |
| 187 | Misha Cirkunov | 2010 | 1766 |
| 188 | Julius Anglickas | 2015 | 1771 |
| 189 | Arman Gambaryan | 2000 | 1776 |
| 190 | Viktor Nemkov | 2008 | 1786 |
| 191 | Houston Alexander | 2001 | 1795 |
| 192 | Mikhail Zayats | 2006 | 1798 |
| 193 | Karl Moore | 2011 | 1814 |
| 194 | Joshua Silveira | 2019 | 1818 |
| 195 | Sullivan Cauley | 2020 | 1832 |
| 196 | Magomed Ismailov | 2011 | 1846 |
| 197 | Maxim Grishin | 2008 | 1853 |
| 198 | Edwin Dewees | 2000 | 1856 |
| 199 | Daisuke Watanabe | 1998 | 1861 |
| 200 | Jordan Radev | 2002 | 1871 |
| 201 | Michal Oleksiejczuk | 2014 | 1878 |
| 202 | Emiliano Sordi | 2009 | 1896 |
| 203 | Marcin Prachnio | 2013 | 1907 |
| 204 | Antonio Schembri | 2001 | 1916 |
| 205 | Alonzo Menifield | 2015 | 1930 |
| 206 | Anthony Perosh | 2003 | 1931 |
| 207 | Krzysztof Soszynski | 2003 | 1939 |
| 208 | Raphael Davis | 2006 | 1946 |
| 209 | Sean O'Connell | 2007 | 1956 |
| 210 | Muslim Magomedov | 2017 | 1970 |
| 211 | David Heath | 2003 | 1974 |
| 212 | Victor Valimaki | 2001 | 1990 |
| 213 | Fatih Kocamis | 1999 | 1998 |
| 214 | Rashid Yusupov | 2012 | 2017 |
| 215 | Jorge Oliveira | 2005 | 2020 |
| 216 | Stephan Puetz | 2012 | 2035 |
| 217 | Robert Jocz | 2005 | 2052 |
| 218 | Jared Hamman | 2006 | 2060 |
| 219 | Andre Gusmao | 2006 | 2070 |
| 220 | Steve Bosse | 2007 | 2075 |
| 221 | Michael Patt | 2001 | 2089 |
| 222 | Modestas Bukauskas | 2015 | 2098 |
| 223 | D.J. Linderman | 2008 | 2112 |
| 224 | Julio Paulino | 2005 | 2117 |
| 225 | Eric Schafer | 1997 | 2120 |
| 226 | Fabio Maldonado | 2000 | 2123 |
| 227 | Ion Cutelaba | 2012 | 2124 |
| 228 | Patrick Cummins | 2010 | 2130 |
| 229 | Jaime Jara | 2002 | 2133 |
| 230 | Mikko Rupponen | 1999 | 2134 |
| 231 | Ibragim Chuzhigaev | 2012 | 2160 |
| 232 | Tommy Sauer | 1998 | 2178 |
| 233 | Aaron Rosa | 2005 | 2209 |
| 234 | Jason Jones | 2004 | 2213 |
| 235 | Rodney Wallace | 2008 | 2214 |
| 236 | Igor Pokrajac | 2003 | 2215 |
| 237 | Kassim Annan | 2001 | 2231 |
| 238 | Fabio Silva | 2003 | 2236 |
| 239 | Lukasz Jurkowski | 2004 | 2249 |
| 240 | Mike Ciesnolevicz | 2003 | 2251 |
| 241 | Alex Polizzi | 2016 | 2253 |
| 242 | Martin Desilets | 2005 | 2257 |
| 243 | Gadzhimurad Antigulov | 2009 | 2264 |
| 244 | Mingyang Zhang | 2014 | 2266 |
| 245 | Antwain Britt | 2007 | 2270 |
| 246 | Da-Un Jung | 2015 | 2272 |
| 247 | Carlos Eduardo | 2003 | 2280 |
| 248 | Marcus Sursa | 2005 | 2290 |
| 249 | Marcus Vanttinen | 2004 | 2291 |
| 250 | Dwayne Lewis | 2007 | 2301 |
| 251 | Jordan Johnson | 2014 | 2302 |
| 252 | Ricardo Romero | 2007 | 2309 |
| 253 | Eliot Marshall | 2006 | 2313 |
| 254 | Batraz Agnaev | 2015 | 2319 |
| 255 | Nasrudin Nasrudinov | 2013 | 2322 |
| 256 | Robert Drysdale | 2010 | 2323 |
| 257 | Karol Celinski | 2008 | 2343 |
| 258 | Karl Albrektsson | 2012 | 2348 |
| 259 | Kennedy Nzechukwu | 2016 | 2352 |
| 260 | Klidson Abreu | 2011 | 2363 |
| 261 | Vitor Petrino | 2019 | 2375 |
| 262 | Marthin Hamlet | 2017 | 2376 |
| 263 | Andrew Kapel | 2008 | 2377 |
| 264 | Cory Hendricks | 2012 | 2409 |
| 265 | Aleksei Butorin | 2009 | 2415 |
| 266 | Devin Clark | 2010 | 2419 |
| 267 | William Knight | 2016 | 2423 |
| 268 | Gian Villante | 2009 | 2433 |
| 269 | Viktor Pesta | 2010 | 2434 |
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