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The Top Ranked Light Heavyweight MMA Fighters of the 2000s
Notes: Fighters are listed only with the weight class they are most associated with this decade.
| Rnk | Athlete | Overall Decade Rank |
| 1 | Randy Couture | 3 |
| 2 | Wanderlei Silva | 4 |
| 3 | Chuck Liddell | 5 |
| 4 | Tito Ortiz | 6 |
| 5 | Quinton Jackson | 8 |
| 6 | Mauricio Rua | 11 |
| 7 | Lyoto Machida | 12 |
| 8 | Vitor Belfort | 16 |
| 9 | Dan Henderson | 17 |
| 10 | Paulo Filho | 18 |
| 11 | Forrest Griffin | 23 |
| 12 | Yuki Kondo | 24 |
| 13 | Ricardo Arona | 26 |
| 14 | Frank Shamrock | 29 |
| 15 | Rashad Evans | 30 |
| 16 | Evan Tanner | 32 |
| 17 | Gegard Mousasi | 35 |
| 18 | Renato Sobral | 36 |
| 19 | Sanae Kikuta | 41 |
| 20 | Antonio Rogerio Nogueira | 42 |
| 21 | Vladimir Matyushenko | 44 |
| 22 | Keiichiro Yamamiya | 53 |
| 23 | Kazushi Sakuraba | 56 |
| 24 | Alistair Overeem | 57 |
| 25 | Kevin Randleman | 65 |
| 26 | Keith Jardine | 79 |
| 27 | Mark Epstein | 93 |
| 28 | Akihiro Gono | 99 |
| 29 | Murilo Rua | 105 |
| 30 | Vernon White | 106 |
| 31 | Jason Lambert | 123 |
| 32 | Marvin Eastman | 149 |
| 33 | James Lee | 163 |
| 34 | Lodune Sincaid | 194 |
| 35 | Melvin Manheof | 200 |
| 36 | Shiko Yamashita | 207 |
| 37 | Thiago Silva | 220 |
| 38 | Ariel Gandulla | 224 |
| 39 | Aung La Nsang | 225 |
| 40 | Brian Hawkins | 232 |
| 41 | Bryan Pardoe | 234 |
| 42 | Chad Herrick | 237 |
| 43 | Daijiro Matsui | 239 |
| 44 | Dan Molina | 240 |
| 45 | Danny Bessant | 241 |
| 46 | Dave Cryer | 242 |
| 47 | Edwin Aguilar | 248 |
| 48 | Fabio Piamonte | 251 |
| 49 | Fernando Gonzalez | 252 |
| 50 | Glen Appleby | 257 |
| 51 | James Te Huna | 267 |
| 52 | Justin Levens | 285 |
| 53 | Justin McElfresh | 286 |
| 54 | Lance Gibson Sr. | 300 |
| 55 | Leandro Silva | 304 |
| 56 | Richard Montoya | 321 |
| 57 | Tait Fletcher | 337 |
| 58 | Yukiya Naito | 351 |
| 59 | Luiz Cane | 352 |
| 60 | Hidehiko Yoshida | 368 |
| 61 | Masakatsu Funaki | 382 |
| 62 | Bozigit Ataev | 383 |
| 63 | Yoshinori Momose | 392 |
| 64 | Mikhail Ilyukhin | 396 |
| 65 | Eugene Jackson | 398 |
| 66 | Mike Rogers | 404 |
| 67 | Alex Stiebling | 443 |
| 68 | Guy Mezger | 448 |
| 69 | Elvis Sinosic | 450 |
| 70 | Doug Marshall | 465 |
| 71 | Mitsuyoshi Sato | 469 |
| 72 | Jim Theobald | 476 |
| 73 | James Irvin | 477 |
| 74 | Daisuke Ishii | 478 |
| 75 | Rameau Thierry Sokoudjou | 486 |
| 76 | Mike Whitehead | 488 |
| 77 | Tony Lopez | 489 |
| 78 | Muhammed Lawal | 503 |
| 79 | Allan Goes | 507 |
| 80 | Akira Shoji | 513 |
| 81 | Brian Stann | 516 |
| 82 | Sam Nest | 545 |
| 83 | Stephan Bonnar | 553 |
| 84 | Chris Munsen | 558 |
| 85 | Evangelista Santos | 565 |
| 86 | Chalid Arrab | 571 |
| 87 | Brian Olsen | 572 |
| 88 | Kosei Kubota | 586 |
| 89 | Steve Cantwell | 588 |
| 90 | Cyrille Diabate | 608 |
| 91 | Bobby Southworth | 613 |
| 92 | Goran Reljic | 616 |
| 93 | Matt Hamill | 624 |
| 94 | Tony Bonello | 628 |
| 95 | Ryo Kawamura | 630 |
| 96 | Alex Schoenauer | 640 |
| 97 | Nilson de Castro | 642 |
| 98 | Poai Suganuma | 653 |
| 99 | Hirotaka Yokoi | 654 |
| 100 | Philip Preece | 658 |
| 101 | Bill Mahood | 663 |
| 102 | Jamal Patterson | 670 |
| 103 | Dae-Won Kim | 686 |
| 104 | Gabriel Vella | 694 |
| 105 | Bruce Nelson | 701 |
| 106 | Arman Gambaryan | 717 |
| 107 | Andrey Rudakov | 748 |
| 108 | Edwin Dewees | 765 |
| 109 | Daisuke Watanabe | 769 |
| 110 | Jordan Radev | 774 |
| 111 | Ryan Bader | 784 |
| 112 | Antonio Schembri | 793 |
| 113 | Houston Alexander | 798 |
| 114 | Rafael Cavalcante | 806 |
| 115 | David Heath | 818 |
| 116 | Victor Valimaki | 825 |
| 117 | Fatih Kocamis | 827 |
| 118 | Jon Jones | 828 |
| 119 | Krzysztof Soszynski | 834 |
| 120 | Jorge Oliveira | 836 |
| 121 | Emanuel Newton | 848 |
| 122 | Stanislav Nedkov | 849 |
| 123 | Robert Jocz | 855 |
| 124 | Jared Hamman | 860 |
| 125 | Andre Gusmao | 865 |
| 126 | Michael Patt | 871 |
| 127 | Julio Paulino | 874 |
| 128 | Eric Schafer | 876 |
| 129 | Jaime Jara | 880 |
| 130 | Mikko Rupponen | 881 |
| 131 | Glover Teixeira | 894 |
| 132 | Raphael Davis | 899 |
| 133 | Tommy Sauer | 901 |
| 134 | Alexander Gustafsson | 903 |
| 135 | Ryan Jimmo | 905 |
| 136 | Alexandre Ferreira | 912 |
| 137 | Tim Boetsch | 919 |
| 138 | Jan Blachowicz | 922 |
| 139 | Vinny Magalhaes | 926 |
| 140 | Kassim Annan | 927 |
| 141 | Fabio Silva | 928 |
| 142 | Lukasz Jurkowski | 931 |
| 143 | Mike Ciesnolevicz | 933 |
| 144 | Antwain Britt | 935 |
| 145 | Rodney Wallace | 936 |
| 146 | Dwayne Lewis | 946 |
| 147 | Eliot Marshall | 948 |
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