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The Top Ranked Middleweight 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 | Anderson Silva | 1997 | 3 |
| 2 | Alex Pereira | 2015 | 17 |
| 3 | Israel Adesanya | 2009 | 18 |
| 4 | Vitor Belfort | 1996 | 31 |
| 5 | Chris Weidman | 2009 | 35 |
| 6 | Robert Whittaker | 2009 | 36 |
| 7 | Luke Rockhold | 2007 | 46 |
| 8 | Yoel Romero | 2009 | 51 |
| 9 | Kiuma Kunioku | 1996 | 56 |
| 10 | Gegard Mousasi | 2003 | 59 |
| 11 | Murilo Bustamante | 1991 | 68 |
| 12 | Rich Franklin | 1999 | 71 |
| 13 | Nate Marquardt | 1999 | 76 |
| 14 | Evan Tanner | 1997 | 77 |
| 15 | Pat Miletich | 1995 | 84 |
| 16 | Chael Sonnen | 1997 | 87 |
| 17 | Ronaldo Souza | 2003 | 91 |
| 18 | Michael Bisping | 2004 | 105 |
| 19 | Matt Lindland | 1997 | 126 |
| 20 | Kazuo Misaki | 2001 | 130 |
| 21 | Kelvin Gastelum | 2010 | 135 |
| 22 | Jorge Santiago | 2002 | 138 |
| 23 | Yushin Okami | 2002 | 140 |
| 24 | Jared Cannonier | 2011 | 143 |
| 25 | Ikuhisa Minowa | 1996 | 151 |
| 26 | Paulo Costa | 2012 | 154 |
| 27 | Ricardo Almeida | 2000 | 170 |
| 28 | Derek Brunson | 2010 | 180 |
| 29 | Dricus Du Plessis | 2013 | 185 |
| 30 | Dave Menne | 1997 | 192 |
| 31 | Mamed Khalidov | 2004 | 194 |
| 32 | David Branch | 2007 | 198 |
| 33 | Erik Paulson | 1993 | 203 |
| 34 | Akihiro Gono | 1994 | 204 |
| 35 | Khamzat Chimaev | 2017 | 215 |
| 36 | Thales Leites | 2003 | 219 |
| 37 | Rousimar Palhares | 2006 | 227 |
| 38 | Ryo Chonan | 2001 | 228 |
| 39 | Kenji Kawaguchi | 1989 | 236 |
| 40 | Alexander Shlemenko | 2004 | 240 |
| 41 | Denis Kang | 1998 | 247 |
| 42 | Jack Hermansson | 2010 | 256 |
| 43 | Tim Kennedy | 2001 | 260 |
| 44 | Johnny Eblen | 2016 | 261 |
| 45 | Marvin Vettori | 2012 | 262 |
| 46 | Masanori Suda | 1996 | 266 |
| 47 | Phil Baroni | 2000 | 274 |
| 48 | Izuru Takeuchi | 1997 | 279 |
| 49 | Uriah Hall | 2005 | 285 |
| 50 | Naoki Sakurada | 1989 | 290 |
| 51 | Joe Doerksen | 1999 | 296 |
| 52 | David Loiseau | 2000 | 300 |
| 53 | Joey Villasenor | 1999 | 301 |
| 54 | Tim Boetsch | 2006 | 315 |
| 55 | Patrick Cote | 2002 | 317 |
| 56 | Jason Miller | 1997 | 319 |
| 57 | Akira Kikuchi | 2002 | 330 |
| 58 | Rodrigo Gracie | 2000 | 338 |
| 59 | Dean Lister | 2000 | 351 |
| 60 | Yuki Niimura | 2011 | 358 |
| 61 | Brad Burrick | 1999 | 364 |
| 62 | Yoshimasa Ishikawa | 1989 | 366 |
| 63 | Mike Swick | 1998 | 367 |
| 64 | Fabian Edwards | 2017 | 375 |
| 65 | Nassourdine Imavov | 2016 | 386 |
| 66 | Melvin Manhoef | 1995 | 387 |
| 67 | Mark Munoz | 2007 | 391 |
| 68 | Jose Landi-Jons | 1993 | 395 |
| 69 | Kevin Holland | 2012 | 396 |
| 70 | Chris Leben | 2002 | 401 |
| 71 | Kenichi Yamamoto | 1998 | 412 |
| 72 | Satoshi Honma | 1990 | 414 |
| 73 | Jorge Patino | 1995 | 425 |
| 74 | Amar Suloev | 1999 | 426 |
| 75 | Scott Smith | 2001 | 428 |
| 76 | Roger Gracie | 2006 | 430 |
| 77 | Cung Le | 2006 | 431 |
| 78 | Tony Fryklund | 1997 | 434 |
| 79 | David Terrell | 1999 | 435 |
| 80 | Yuichi Nakanishi | 2002 | 447 |
| 81 | Reinier de Ridder | 2013 | 451 |
| 82 | Yoshihiro Akiyama | 2004 | 456 |
| 83 | James Zikic | 1998 | 461 |
| 84 | Alan Belcher | 2004 | 463 |
| 85 | Vitaly Bigdash | 2012 | 474 |
| 86 | Daniel Hernandez | 2007 | 489 |
| 87 | Josh Bryant | 2007 | 490 |
| 88 | Keith Berry | 2005 | 500 |
| 89 | Brandon Hunt | 2004 | 503 |
| 90 | Young Choi | 2000 | 510 |
| 91 | Yasuto Sekishima | 1989 | 513 |
| 92 | Jorge Rivera | 2001 | 514 |
| 93 | Taisuke Okuno | 2005 | 533 |
| 94 | Roman Dolidze | 2016 | 543 |
| 95 | Jan Lomulder | 1994 | 551 |
| 96 | Costello Van Steenis | 2014 | 566 |
| 97 | Eiji Ishikawa | 2000 | 570 |
| 98 | Krzysztof Jotko | 2010 | 579 |
| 99 | Ryuki Ueyama | 1998 | 590 |
| 100 | Brad Tavares | 2008 | 596 |
| 101 | Ramazan Emeev | 2009 | 607 |
| 102 | Yura Naito | 2020 | 618 |
| 103 | Igor Svirid | 2011 | 651 |
| 104 | Shinsho Anzai | 2009 | 673 |
| 105 | Sidiah Parker | 2008 | 682 |
| 106 | Erik Herbert | 2007 | 687 |
| 107 | Daniel Madrid | 2006 | 701 |
| 108 | David Mitchell | 2006 | 702 |
| 109 | Rikuhei Fujii | 2006 | 703 |
| 110 | Joao Batista Yoshimura | 2004 | 708 |
| 111 | Ryan McGivern | 2004 | 710 |
| 112 | Billy Ayash | 2003 | 712 |
| 113 | Luis Ramos | 2001 | 722 |
| 114 | Paul Jenkins | 2000 | 726 |
| 115 | Matt Horwich | 2003 | 736 |
| 116 | Yuki Sasaki | 1998 | 745 |
| 117 | Mark Weir | 2000 | 748 |
| 118 | Andrei Semenov | 1998 | 753 |
| 119 | Dave Strasser | 1996 | 755 |
| 120 | Austin Vanderford | 2017 | 760 |
| 121 | Mike DiOrio | 2013 | 780 |
| 122 | George Clynes | 2012 | 786 |
| 123 | Mohammad Karaki | 2012 | 792 |
| 124 | Andy Manzolo | 2009 | 823 |
| 125 | Kenny McCorkell | 2009 | 833 |
| 126 | Ki-Bum Kim | 2009 | 834 |
| 127 | Matt Gabel | 2009 | 837 |
| 128 | Leandro Ataides | 2008 | 861 |
| 129 | Will Noland | 2008 | 872 |
| 130 | Igor Fernandes | 2007 | 884 |
| 131 | Ikkei Nagamura | 2007 | 885 |
| 132 | Jared Hess | 2007 | 887 |
| 133 | Matt Lagler | 2007 | 892 |
| 134 | Tommy De Pret | 2006 | 919 |
| 135 | Yusuke Sakashita | 2005 | 938 |
| 136 | Michael Gonzalez | 2004 | 944 |
| 137 | Umar Luv | 2004 | 946 |
| 138 | Ian Pyatt | 2003 | 954 |
| 139 | Kyacey Uscola | 2003 | 958 |
| 140 | Ichiro Kanai | 2002 | 973 |
| 141 | Jorge Ortiz | 2002 | 975 |
| 142 | Suley Mahmoud | 2001 | 997 |
| 143 | Brendan Seguin | 2000 | 999 |
| 144 | Brian Sleeman | 2000 | 1001 |
| 145 | Sean Loeffler | 2000 | 1005 |
| 146 | Angelo Popofski | 1999 | 1009 |
| 147 | Gaz Roriston | 1999 | 1010 |
| 148 | Lee Murray | 1999 | 1019 |
| 149 | Joshua Taibl | 1998 | 1023 |
| 150 | Kevin Hogan | 1998 | 1024 |
| 151 | John Cronk | 1997 | 1028 |
| 152 | Rafael Carvalho | 2011 | 1034 |
| 153 | Michal Materla | 2003 | 1036 |
| 154 | Travis Lutter | 1998 | 1038 |
| 155 | Naoyuki Taira | 1995 | 1040 |
| 156 | Matt Hume | 1994 | 1044 |
| 157 | Johil de Oliveira | 1995 | 1045 |
| 158 | Manuel Garcia | 1995 | 1046 |
| 159 | Ivan Salaverry | 1999 | 1047 |
| 160 | Dan Miller | 2005 | 1054 |
| 161 | Kiamrian Abbasov | 2011 | 1063 |
| 162 | John Salter | 2009 | 1064 |
| 163 | Doug Marshall | 2003 | 1067 |
| 164 | Dustin Denes | 2001 | 1069 |
| 165 | Costas Philippou | 2008 | 1073 |
| 166 | C.B. Dollaway | 2006 | 1076 |
| 167 | Brendan Allen | 2015 | 1086 |
| 168 | Yuji Hisamatsu | 2000 | 1088 |
| 169 | Tyrone Roberts | 1996 | 1090 |
| 170 | Ronald Jhun | 1998 | 1096 |
| 171 | Ed Herman | 2002 | 1103 |
| 172 | Brandon Halsey | 2012 | 1105 |
| 173 | Riki Fukuda | 2004 | 1108 |
| 174 | Nate Quarry | 2001 | 1109 |
| 175 | Falaniko Vitale | 1999 | 1117 |
| 176 | Larry Papadopoulos | 1994 | 1127 |
| 177 | Terry Martin | 2002 | 1132 |
| 178 | Brett Cooper | 2005 | 1133 |
| 179 | Brian Dunn | 1996 | 1135 |
| 180 | Benji Radach | 2001 | 1138 |
| 181 | Egan Inoue | 1995 | 1141 |
| 182 | Elias Theodorou | 2011 | 1147 |
| 183 | Jesse Taylor | 2006 | 1169 |
| 184 | Rafael Lovato Jr. | 2014 | 1173 |
| 185 | Antonio Carlos Jr. | 2013 | 1174 |
| 186 | Alessio Sakara | 2002 | 1182 |
| 187 | John Renken | 1997 | 1186 |
| 188 | Curtis Stout | 2000 | 1189 |
| 189 | Jermaine Andre | 1998 | 1195 |
| 190 | Roberto Soldic | 2014 | 1197 |
| 191 | Magomedrasul Gasanov | 2014 | 1198 |
| 192 | Chris Curtis | 2008 | 1200 |
| 193 | Crezio de Souza | 1995 | 1204 |
| 194 | Kendall Grove | 2003 | 1206 |
| 195 | Shamil Abramov | 2001 | 1208 |
| 196 | Francis Carmont | 2004 | 1210 |
| 197 | Jason MacDonald | 1999 | 1225 |
| 198 | Phillip Miller | 2000 | 1230 |
| 199 | Eduard Vdovenko | 1999 | 1234 |
| 200 | Crosley Gracie | 2003 | 1235 |
| 201 | Caio Borralho | 2014 | 1242 |
| 202 | Wallid Ismail | 1991 | 1251 |
| 203 | Roan Carneiro | 2000 | 1257 |
| 204 | Adrian Serrano | 1996 | 1280 |
| 205 | Ryuta Sakurai | 1996 | 1284 |
| 206 | Andre Muniz | 2009 | 1308 |
| 207 | Anatoly Tokov | 2009 | 1317 |
| 208 | Bart Guyer | 1996 | 1319 |
| 209 | Anthony Hernandez | 2014 | 1325 |
| 210 | Troy Pacenka | 1997 | 1355 |
| 211 | Shawn Peters | 1997 | 1366 |
| 212 | Andrius Krishtopaitis | 1999 | 1370 |
| 213 | Rick Graveson | 1996 | 1381 |
| 214 | Joe Pyfer | 2018 | 1396 |
| 215 | Rafael Cordeiro | 1993 | 1398 |
| 216 | Toby Imada | 1998 | 1406 |
| 217 | Shungo Oyama | 2001 | 1411 |
| 218 | Rogerio Dionisio | 1996 | 1415 |
| 219 | Maiquel Falcao | 2004 | 1421 |
| 220 | Brunno Ferreira | 2019 | 1426 |
| 221 | Scott Askham | 2010 | 1431 |
| 222 | Bruno Silva | 2015 | 1432 |
| 223 | Stephan Potvin | 1999 | 1454 |
| 224 | Ronny Markes | 2007 | 1463 |
| 225 | Damien Riccio | 1998 | 1464 |
| 226 | Eric Schambari | 2005 | 1465 |
| 227 | Makoto Takimoto | 2004 | 1480 |
| 228 | John Lewis | 1995 | 1484 |
| 229 | Ian Heinisch | 2015 | 1495 |
| 230 | Sharabutdin Magomedov | 2017 | 1496 |
| 231 | Sam Alvey | 2008 | 1499 |
| 232 | Eryk Anders | 2015 | 1503 |
| 233 | Dong-Sik Yoon | 2005 | 1512 |
| 234 | Gregory Rodrigues | 2008 | 1534 |
| 235 | Masato Fujiwara | 1996 | 1538 |
| 236 | Flavio Luiz Moura | 1999 | 1564 |
| 237 | Andrews Nakahara | 2004 | 1578 |
| 238 | Mark Jacquith | 1997 | 1586 |
| 239 | Ryan Jensen | 1997 | 1587 |
| 240 | Brennan Ward | 2008 | 1590 |
| 241 | Gerald Meerschaert | 2007 | 1610 |
| 242 | Kalib Starnes | 1998 | 1618 |
| 243 | Branden Lee Hinkle | 1998 | 1624 |
| 244 | Tomasz Drwal | 2004 | 1627 |
| 245 | Jason Medina | 1998 | 1643 |
| 246 | James Nakashima | 2015 | 1647 |
| 247 | Michele Verginelli | 1998 | 1649 |
| 248 | Adriano de Souza | 1998 | 1655 |
| 249 | Mario Borzic | 1997 | 1659 |
| 250 | Eric Davila | 1998 | 1666 |
| 251 | Harri Niva | 1999 | 1672 |
| 252 | James O'Connor | 1999 | 1673 |
| 253 | Rasul Uzdenov | 1998 | 1674 |
| 254 | Marty Armendarez | 1999 | 1675 |
| 255 | Edmen Shahbazyan | 2017 | 1679 |
| 256 | Aaron Simpson | 2000 | 1681 |
| 257 | Daniel Kelly | 2006 | 1682 |
| 258 | Eric Spicely | 2013 | 1687 |
| 259 | Louis Taylor | 2007 | 1696 |
| 260 | Luis Santos | 2000 | 1698 |
| 261 | Zelg Galesic | 2004 | 1713 |
| 262 | Fabio Leopoldo | 2004 | 1715 |
| 263 | Omari Akhmedov | 2010 | 1720 |
| 264 | Tamdan McCrory | 2006 | 1735 |
| 265 | Clifford Starks | 2009 | 1747 |
| 266 | Court McGee | 2010 | 1748 |
| 267 | Kyle Noke | 2002 | 1749 |
| 268 | Kyle Jensen | 2002 | 1754 |
| 269 | Chris Camozzi | 2006 | 1757 |
| 270 | Bryan Baker | 2007 | 1762 |
| 271 | Daniel Acacio | 2000 | 1763 |
| 272 | Vyacheslav Vasilevsky | 2008 | 1764 |
| 273 | Rafael Natal | 2005 | 1772 |
| 274 | Bo Nickal | 2022 | 1775 |
| 275 | Nikolai Kudryashov | 2001 | 1780 |
| 276 | Viktor Mileshkin | 2001 | 1781 |
| 277 | Scott Henze | 1999 | 1787 |
| 278 | Jason Day | 2002 | 1805 |
| 279 | Marcos da Silva | 1999 | 1811 |
| 280 | Jacek Buczko | 2004 | 1838 |
| 281 | Cezar Ferreira | 2007 | 1851 |
| 282 | Patrick Fortrie | 1999 | 1858 |
| 283 | Steve Heath | 1998 | 1863 |
| 284 | Jun-Yong Park | 2013 | 1880 |
| 285 | Xavier Foupa-Pokam | 2002 | 1882 |
| 286 | Khalid Murtazaliev | 2013 | 1886 |
| 287 | Jake Rosholt | 2007 | 1898 |
| 288 | Tom Lawlor | 2007 | 1903 |
| 289 | Makhmud Muradov | 2012 | 1906 |
| 290 | Nick Ring | 2002 | 1911 |
| 291 | Dalton Rosta | 2019 | 1912 |
| 292 | Andrew Craig | 2010 | 1921 |
| 293 | Gregory Bouchelaghem | 2003 | 1924 |
| 294 | Tom Watson | 2006 | 1925 |
| 295 | Danny Higgins | 1999 | 1932 |
| 296 | Tom Breese | 2010 | 1942 |
| 297 | Jay Silva | 2008 | 1958 |
| 298 | Albert Duraev | 2011 | 1959 |
| 299 | Giva Santana | 2005 | 1969 |
| 300 | Rafal Haratyk | 2010 | 1986 |
| 301 | Ikram Aliskerov | 2012 | 1996 |
| 302 | Abusupiyan Magomedov | 2010 | 2000 |
| 303 | Aaron Jeffery | 2014 | 2012 |
| 304 | Roman Kopylov | 2016 | 2022 |
| 305 | Antonio Braga Neto | 2006 | 2023 |
| 306 | Josh Samman | 2007 | 2024 |
| 307 | Abdul-Rahman Dzhanaev | 2014 | 2040 |
| 308 | Shamil Gamzatov | 2012 | 2043 |
| 309 | Drew McFedries | 2001 | 2050 |
| 310 | Luke Barnatt | 2011 | 2053 |
| 311 | Jordan Smith | 2007 | 2061 |
| 312 | Valda Pocevicius | 2000 | 2071 |
| 313 | Christian Leroy Duncan | 2020 | 2074 |
| 314 | Aziz Karaoglu | 2000 | 2080 |
| 315 | Bruno Santos | 2007 | 2084 |
| 316 | Vitor Vianna | 2004 | 2090 |
| 317 | Yong-Jae Jun | 2004 | 2091 |
| 318 | Artem Frolov | 2014 | 2093 |
| 319 | Chidi Njokuani | 2007 | 2097 |
| 320 | Abdoul Abdouraguimov | 2016 | 2102 |
| 321 | Caio Magalhaes | 2009 | 2114 |
| 322 | Nikola Dipchikov | 2009 | 2125 |
| 323 | Nursulton Ruziboev | 2014 | 2140 |
| 324 | Marcel Ferreira | 2002 | 2142 |
| 325 | Nathan Schouteren | 2000 | 2148 |
| 326 | Chris Honeycutt | 2013 | 2150 |
| 327 | Vladimir Mineev | 2014 | 2157 |
| 328 | Kyle Daukaus | 2017 | 2163 |
| 329 | Michail Tsarev | 2005 | 2171 |
| 330 | Bubba McDaniel | 2005 | 2179 |
| 331 | Salamu Abdurahmanov | 2013 | 2184 |
| 332 | Marc-Andre Barriault | 2012 | 2190 |
| 333 | Andrew Sanchez | 2012 | 2205 |
| 334 | Leo Leite | 2013 | 2222 |
| 335 | Trevin Giles | 2012 | 2223 |
| 336 | Joe Schilling | 2008 | 2225 |
| 337 | Roger Narvaez | 2011 | 2239 |
| 338 | Mikhail Ragozin | 2014 | 2246 |
| 339 | Danillo Villefort | 2005 | 2248 |
| 340 | Trevor Smith | 2009 | 2254 |
| 341 | Magnus Cedenblad | 2007 | 2255 |
| 342 | Pawel Pawlak | 2010 | 2263 |
| 343 | Eddie Gordon | 2011 | 2269 |
| 344 | Vladislav Kovalev | 2020 | 2273 |
| 345 | Aliaskhab Khizriev | 2014 | 2276 |
| 346 | Jack Marshman | 2010 | 2277 |
| 347 | Kerim Engizek | 2010 | 2305 |
| 348 | Patrik Kincl | 2007 | 2317 |
| 349 | Julian Marquez | 2014 | 2321 |
| 350 | Cory Devela | 2003 | 2327 |
| 351 | Dustin Stoltzfus | 2014 | 2329 |
| 352 | Karl Roberson | 2015 | 2338 |
| 353 | Francisco France | 2008 | 2346 |
| 354 | Chersi Dudaev | 2014 | 2359 |
| 355 | Shamil Abdulaev | 2012 | 2360 |
| 356 | Darren Stewart | 2014 | 2401 |
| 357 | Sharaf Davlatmurodov | 2015 | 2402 |
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