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The Top Ranked Lightweight 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 | Takanori Gomi | 25 |
| 2 | Shinya Aoki | 40 |
| 3 | Joachim Hansen | 48 |
| 4 | Jens Pulver | 54 |
| 5 | Vitor Ribeiro | 61 |
| 6 | Joe Stevenson | 67 |
| 7 | Gilbert Melendez | 78 |
| 8 | Kenny Florian | 85 |
| 9 | Dokonjonosuke Mishima | 86 |
| 10 | Tatsuya Kawajiri | 91 |
| 11 | Charlie Kohler | 97 |
| 12 | Hermes Franca | 100 |
| 13 | Yves Edwards | 112 |
| 14 | Caol Uno | 114 |
| 15 | Marcus Aurelio | 115 |
| 16 | Jean Silva | 118 |
| 17 | Satoru Kitaoka | 120 |
| 18 | Mitsuhiro Ishida | 137 |
| 19 | Josh Thomson | 138 |
| 20 | Tony Hervey | 145 |
| 21 | Gesias Cavalcante | 162 |
| 22 | Clay Guida | 176 |
| 23 | David Shepherd | 185 |
| 24 | Gabe Ruediger | 188 |
| 25 | Gerald Strebendt | 189 |
| 26 | Hideki Kadowaki | 190 |
| 27 | Maximo Blanco | 199 |
| 28 | Rory MacDonald | 204 |
| 29 | Seung-Hwan Bang | 206 |
| 30 | Shoji Maruyama | 208 |
| 31 | Thomas Schulte | 211 |
| 32 | Eddie Alvarez | 215 |
| 33 | Mizuto Hirota | 221 |
| 34 | Brandon Olsen | 229 |
| 35 | Buddy Clinton | 236 |
| 36 | David Gardner | 244 |
| 37 | Gabe Lemley | 253 |
| 38 | Jason Maxwell | 271 |
| 39 | Jason Meaders | 272 |
| 40 | Kit Cope | 295 |
| 41 | Koichiro Matsumoto | 297 |
| 42 | Leigh Remedios | 306 |
| 43 | Marcus Hicks | 308 |
| 44 | Olaf Alfonso | 313 |
| 45 | Oliver Ellis | 314 |
| 46 | Orlando Ruiz | 316 |
| 47 | Richard Crunkilton | 319 |
| 48 | Sam Wells | 326 |
| 49 | Samy Schiavo | 327 |
| 50 | Sean Wilmot | 329 |
| 51 | Philip Perez | 356 |
| 52 | Tyson Griffin | 371 |
| 53 | Frankie Edgar | 379 |
| 54 | Roger Huerta | 397 |
| 55 | Jason Ireland | 403 |
| 56 | Ryan Schultz | 409 |
| 57 | Gray Maynard | 419 |
| 58 | John Mahlow | 420 |
| 59 | Daisuke Nakamura | 421 |
| 60 | Jorge Masvidal | 430 |
| 61 | Ryan Bow | 433 |
| 62 | K.J. Noons | 442 |
| 63 | Javier Vazquez | 456 |
| 64 | Takashi Nakakura | 460 |
| 65 | Charles Bennett | 468 |
| 66 | Jamie Varner | 470 |
| 67 | Clay French | 473 |
| 68 | Jim Miller | 481 |
| 69 | Sergey Golyaev | 482 |
| 70 | Nate Diaz | 483 |
| 71 | Rumina Sato | 487 |
| 72 | Din Thomas | 491 |
| 73 | Tomomi Iwama | 494 |
| 74 | Kazunori Yokota | 495 |
| 75 | Luiz Firmino | 502 |
| 76 | Mac Danzig | 504 |
| 77 | Ben Henderson | 508 |
| 78 | Artur Umakhanov | 518 |
| 79 | Eiji Mitsuoka | 524 |
| 80 | Rodrigo Damm | 526 |
| 81 | Chris Brennan | 529 |
| 82 | Antonio McKee | 539 |
| 83 | Ralph Gracie | 541 |
| 84 | Toby Imada | 543 |
| 85 | Deividas Taurosevicius | 551 |
| 86 | Fransino Tirta | 566 |
| 87 | Alberto Crane | 567 |
| 88 | Marcio Ramos Barbosa | 568 |
| 89 | Donald Cerrone | 570 |
| 90 | Takumi Nakayama | 573 |
| 91 | Rob McCullough | 574 |
| 92 | Katsunori Kikuno | 576 |
| 93 | Furdjel de Windt | 581 |
| 94 | John Gunderson | 590 |
| 95 | Joe Lauzon | 596 |
| 96 | Abdul Mohamed | 602 |
| 97 | Kotetsu Boku | 625 |
| 98 | Paul Rodriguez | 626 |
| 99 | David Baron | 627 |
| 100 | Duane Ludwig | 631 |
| 101 | Naoyuki Kotani | 632 |
| 102 | Phil Johns | 635 |
| 103 | Sam Stout | 638 |
| 104 | Chris Horodecki | 646 |
| 105 | Victor Hunsaker | 649 |
| 106 | Luiz Azeredo | 667 |
| 107 | Kurt Pellegrino | 682 |
| 108 | Kuniyoshi Hironaka | 685 |
| 109 | Bart Palaszewski | 689 |
| 110 | Terry Etim | 702 |
| 111 | Hideo Tokoro | 704 |
| 112 | Fabricio Camoes | 711 |
| 113 | Lauro Figueiroa | 714 |
| 114 | Ian James Schaffa | 716 |
| 115 | Henry Matamoros | 718 |
| 116 | Luciano Correa | 719 |
| 117 | Hiroshi Tsuruya | 723 |
| 118 | Eric Payne | 726 |
| 119 | Farrell Frisby | 729 |
| 120 | Gleison Tibau | 731 |
| 121 | Steve Reyna | 735 |
| 122 | Kohei Yasumi | 738 |
| 123 | Per Eklund | 739 |
| 124 | Rafael Addario Bastos | 740 |
| 125 | Charlie Pearson | 743 |
| 126 | Mathieu Nicourt | 744 |
| 127 | Andre Amado | 749 |
| 128 | Rich Crunkilton | 752 |
| 129 | Karim Sorensen | 754 |
| 130 | Edson Diniz | 757 |
| 131 | Takeshi Yamazaki | 759 |
| 132 | Fredson Paixao | 760 |
| 133 | Pavel Kuchumov | 771 |
| 134 | Adam Lynn | 780 |
| 135 | Keith Wilson | 782 |
| 136 | Donald Ouimet | 785 |
| 137 | Nick Agallar | 794 |
| 138 | Lyle Beerbohm | 799 |
| 139 | Takaharu Murahama | 800 |
| 140 | James Birdsley | 804 |
| 141 | Mark Bocek | 805 |
| 142 | Olly Bradstreet | 810 |
| 143 | Ronys Torres | 819 |
| 144 | Thiago Tavares | 821 |
| 145 | Ross Pearson | 822 |
| 146 | Tae-Hyun Bang | 823 |
| 147 | Evan Dunham | 829 |
| 148 | Vladimir Zenin | 831 |
| 149 | Jeremy Stephens | 838 |
| 150 | Yusuke Endo | 845 |
| 151 | Brian Cobb | 846 |
| 152 | Alvin Robinson | 857 |
| 153 | Robert Emerson | 859 |
| 154 | Rafael Dias | 864 |
| 155 | Matt Wiman | 868 |
| 156 | Bryan Travers | 873 |
| 157 | Tomonari Kanomata | 893 |
| 158 | Donny Raines | 898 |
| 159 | Cam Ward | 904 |
| 160 | Bendy Casimir | 911 |
| 161 | Jorge Gurgel | 914 |
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