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The Top Ranked Heavyweight MMA Fighters of the 1990s

 

Notes: Fighters are listed only with the weight class they are most associated with this decade.

Ranking Explanation

 

Rnk Athlete Overall Decade Rank
1 Bas Rutten 1
2 Royce Gracie 2
3 Masakatsu Funaki 3
4 Dan Severn 4
5 Guy Mezger 5
6 Yuki Kondo 6
7 Ken Shamrock 8
8 Semmy Schilt 9
9 Mark Coleman 10
10 Jason DeLucia 13
11 Oleg Taktarov 14
12 Kiuma Kunioku 15
13 Don Frye 16
14 Randy Couture 18
15 Minoru Suzuki 19
16 Maurice Smith 21
17 Igor Vovchanchyn 22
18 Ryushi Yanagisawa 23
19 Tank Abbott 25
20 Kiyoshi Tamura 27
21 Mark Kerr 28
22 Renzo Gracie 30
23 Kevin Randleman 31
24 Pedro Rizzo 32
25 Pete Williams 34
26 Enson Inoue 35
27 Marco Ruas 36
28 Kimo Leopoldo 37
29 Kazuo Takahashi 38
30 Ricardo Morais 40
31 Osami Shibuya 41
32 Tsuyoshi Kosaka 43
33 Keiichiro Yamamiya 44
34 Gerard Gordeau 45
35 Dan Henderson 50
36 Mikhail Ilyukhin 51
37 Scott Ferrozzo 53
38 Carlos Barreto 57
39 Allan Goes 58
40 Takafumi Ito 61
41 Dave Beneteau 63
42 Gilbert Yvel 64
43 Marcus Silveira 65
44 Igor Zinoviev 69
45 Karimula Barkalaev 71
46 Magomedkhan Gamzatkhanov 73
47 Tom Erikson 74
48 Steve Jennum 75
49 Evan Tanner 77
50 Patrick Smith 78
51 Tariel Bitsadze 79
52 Gary Goodridge 81
53 Leon van Dijk 82
54 John Lober 84
55 Takaku Fuke 86
56 Josh Barnett 87
57 Kenichi Yamamoto 89
58 Zaza Tkeshelashvili 90
59 Chris Brennan 93
60 Dwayne Cason 94
61 Harold Howard 95
62 Katsuhisa Fujii 96
63 Nick Sanzo 97
64 Steven Graham 98
65 Tony Fryklund 99
66 Sidney Goncalves 100
67 Akira Shoji 101
68 Jason Godsey 104
69 Tra Telligman 108
70 Paul Varelans 113
71 Sanae Kikuta 114
72 Ed de Kruijf 123
73 Victor Yerohin 127
74 Renato Sobral 129
75 Akira Maeda 131
76 Bob Stines 132
77 Vernon White 136
78 Mikhail Avetisyan 138
79 Jean Riviere 139
80 Sergey Haritonov 141
81 Alex Andrade 145
82 Jong-Wang Kim 148
83 Joe Estes 150
84 Paul Jones 153
85 Remco Pardoel 155
86 Larry Papadopoulos 156
87 Carl Franks 158
88 Dan Bobish 159
89 Akhmed Sagidguseinov 161
90 Joe Charles 163
91 Richard Heard 165
92 Todd Bjornethun 167
93 Adilson Lima 169
94 Katsuomi Inagaki 170
95 Mario Sperry 171
96 Satoshi Hasegawa 175
97 Hiromitsu Kanehara 177
98 Rene Rooze 178
99 Daisuke Ishii 179
100 Leonid Efremov 184
101 Roberto Traven 185
102 Vitaly Tkachenko 186
103 Hugo Duarte 187
104 Yoshihisa Yamamoto 190
105 Dario Amorim 193
106 Yuriy Kochkine 198
107 John Dixson 199
108 Kosei Kubota 201
109 Pedro Palm 202
110 Mitsuya Nagai 204
111 Bobby Hoffman 208
112 Wayne Fisher 209
113 Ricardas Jancevicius 210
114 Mario Neto 213
115 Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira 217
116 Alexandre Ferreira 220
117 Kavkaz Sultanmagomedov 221
118 Brad Kohler 223
119 Igor Gerus 224
120 Heath Herring 227
121 Chris Haseman 232
122 Francisco Bueno 233
123 Pedro Otavio 235
124 Mark Schultz 236
125 Joop Kasteel 239
126 Mark Hanssen 245
127 Martin Malkhasyan 248
128 Genki Sudo 253
129 Bakouri Gogitidze 255
130 Rafael Carino 261
131 Kazunari Murakami 263
132 Valentijn Overeem 265
133 Jim Axtell 266
134 Todd Broadaway 268
135 Naoya Ogawa 270
136 Andre Roberts 271
137 Hans Nijman 273
138 Tedd Williams 281
139 Adam Guerra 283
140 Ian Freeman 293
141 Lee Hasdell 305
142 Assuerio Silva 306
143 Nobuhiko Takada 307
144 Vepcho Bardanashvili 308

 

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