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The Top Ranked Lightweight 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 | Khabib Nurmagomedov | 2008 | 11 |
| 2 | Islam Makhachev | 2010 | 39 |
| 3 | Frankie Edgar | 2005 | 41 |
| 4 | Charles Oliveira | 2008 | 47 |
| 5 | Conor McGregor | 2008 | 53 |
| 6 | Dustin Poirier | 1997 | 61 |
| 7 | Justin Gaethje | 2011 | 65 |
| 8 | Takanori Gomi | 1998 | 70 |
| 9 | Rafael dos Anjos | 2004 | 78 |
| 10 | Ben Henderson | 2006 | 83 |
| 11 | Anthony Pettis | 2007 | 85 |
| 12 | Shinya Aoki | 2003 | 94 |
| 13 | Tony Ferguson | 2008 | 96 |
| 14 | Gilbert Melendez | 2002 | 101 |
| 15 | Eddie Alvarez | 2003 | 110 |
| 16 | Donald Cerrone | 2002 | 142 |
| 17 | Michael Chandler | 2009 | 146 |
| 18 | Joachim Hansen | 1999 | 152 |
| 19 | Tatsuya Kawajiri | 2000 | 159 |
| 20 | Satoru Kitaoka | 2000 | 164 |
| 21 | Nate Diaz | 2004 | 169 |
| 22 | Caol Uno | 1996 | 178 |
| 23 | Vitor Ribeiro | 2001 | 179 |
| 24 | Gray Maynard | 2006 | 189 |
| 25 | Kenny Florian | 2003 | 190 |
| 26 | Joe Stevenson | 1999 | 197 |
| 27 | Jens Pulver | 1999 | 209 |
| 28 | Rumina Sato | 1994 | 211 |
| 29 | Alexandre Franca Nogueira | 1998 | 217 |
| 30 | Beneil Dariush | 2009 | 230 |
| 31 | Dokonjonosuke Mishima | 1998 | 237 |
| 32 | Josh Thomson | 2001 | 243 |
| 33 | Christian Lee | 2015 | 252 |
| 34 | Yves Edwards | 1997 | 253 |
| 35 | Edson Barboza | 2009 | 257 |
| 36 | Dan Hooker | 2009 | 267 |
| 37 | Kevin Lee | 2012 | 272 |
| 38 | Hermes Franca | 2001 | 275 |
| 39 | Clay Guida | 2003 | 277 |
| 40 | Al Iaquinta | 2009 | 298 |
| 41 | Patricky Freire | 2005 | 308 |
| 42 | Will Brooks | 2011 | 309 |
| 43 | Bobby Green | 2008 | 312 |
| 44 | Usman Nurmagomedov | 2017 | 331 |
| 45 | Marcus Aurelio | 2002 | 333 |
| 46 | Jean Silva | 2002 | 345 |
| 47 | Daisuke Nakamura | 2002 | 352 |
| 48 | Charlie Kohler | 1998 | 365 |
| 49 | K.J. Noons | 2000 | 383 |
| 50 | Michael Johnson | 2008 | 394 |
| 51 | Arman Tsarukyan | 2015 | 403 |
| 52 | Wander Braga | 1994 | 410 |
| 53 | Mizuto Hirota | 2005 | 415 |
| 54 | Rick Hawn | 2009 | 419 |
| 55 | Brent Primus | 2010 | 420 |
| 56 | Yuki Nakai | 1993 | 423 |
| 57 | Tomonori Ohara | 1990 | 424 |
| 58 | Isao Kobayashi | 2008 | 443 |
| 59 | Alex Reyes | 2007 | 444 |
| 60 | Francisco Trinaldo | 2006 | 452 |
| 61 | Gesias Cavalcante | 2003 | 457 |
| 62 | Song-Ha Lee | 2021 | 464 |
| 63 | Kimihiro Eto | 2013 | 469 |
| 64 | Genpei Hayashi | 2012 | 471 |
| 65 | Luka Jelcic | 2010 | 479 |
| 66 | Juri Ohara | 2009 | 481 |
| 67 | Yuki Kawana | 2009 | 483 |
| 68 | Kazuki Tokudome | 2007 | 492 |
| 69 | Viktor Halmi | 2007 | 496 |
| 70 | Hideki Kadowaki | 1999 | 512 |
| 71 | Mitsuhiro Ishida | 2001 | 520 |
| 72 | Luiz Firmino | 2000 | 523 |
| 73 | Evan Dunham | 2007 | 565 |
| 74 | Gleison Tibau | 1999 | 569 |
| 75 | Joe Lauzon | 2004 | 574 |
| 76 | Paul Felder | 2011 | 578 |
| 77 | Kazunori Yokota | 2004 | 586 |
| 78 | Roger Huerta | 2003 | 587 |
| 79 | Rafael Fiziev | 2015 | 599 |
| 80 | Din Thomas | 1998 | 603 |
| 81 | Diego Ferreira | 2012 | 608 |
| 82 | Joshua Aveles | 2008 | 609 |
| 83 | Marcin Held | 2008 | 613 |
| 84 | Koji Takeda | 2017 | 620 |
| 85 | Tatsuya Saika | 2017 | 622 |
| 86 | Keisuke Sasu | 2016 | 624 |
| 87 | Piankhi Zimmerman | 2012 | 644 |
| 88 | Salimkhan Sadulloev | 2010 | 663 |
| 89 | J.C. Cottrell | 2009 | 668 |
| 90 | Blaze Gill | 2008 | 676 |
| 91 | David Shepherd | 2008 | 677 |
| 92 | Eduard Folayang | 2007 | 686 |
| 93 | Takasuke Kume | 2007 | 695 |
| 94 | Victor Meza | 2007 | 698 |
| 95 | Shoji Maruyama | 2005 | 707 |
| 96 | Seung-Hwan Bang | 2004 | 711 |
| 97 | Gabe Ruediger | 2002 | 717 |
| 98 | Gerald Strebendt | 2001 | 721 |
| 99 | Thomas Schulte | 2001 | 724 |
| 100 | Natan Schulte | 2011 | 735 |
| 101 | Spencer Fisher | 2002 | 743 |
| 102 | Abdul-Aziz Abdulvakhabov | 2011 | 744 |
| 103 | Rustam Khabilov | 2007 | 750 |
| 104 | Ryoji Kudo | 2017 | 763 |
| 105 | Shutaro Debana | 2017 | 764 |
| 106 | Iuri Lapicus | 2014 | 775 |
| 107 | Amir Khan | 2012 | 783 |
| 108 | Ev Ting | 2011 | 798 |
| 109 | Keith Forant | 2011 | 802 |
| 110 | Tom Santos | 2011 | 808 |
| 111 | Matej Truhan | 2010 | 818 |
| 112 | Tateo Iida | 2010 | 820 |
| 113 | Yusuke Kasuya | 2010 | 822 |
| 114 | Benny Madrid | 2009 | 824 |
| 115 | Nick Newell | 2009 | 840 |
| 116 | Yoshifumi Nakamura | 2009 | 844 |
| 117 | Kota Shimoishi | 2008 | 859 |
| 118 | Naoto Miyazaki | 2008 | 862 |
| 119 | Richard Patishnock | 2008 | 865 |
| 120 | Tye Brown | 2008 | 871 |
| 121 | Zorobabel Moreira | 2008 | 873 |
| 122 | Chris Tickle | 2007 | 879 |
| 123 | Roy Babcock | 2007 | 894 |
| 124 | Yasuaki Kishimoto | 2007 | 903 |
| 125 | Yoshiaki Takahashi | 2007 | 904 |
| 126 | Yuma Ishizuka | 2007 | 905 |
| 127 | Akbarh Arreola | 2002 | 962 |
| 128 | Brandon Olsen | 2002 | 963 |
| 129 | Marcus Hicks | 2002 | 977 |
| 130 | Olaf Alfonso | 2002 | 978 |
| 131 | Oliver Ellis | 2002 | 979 |
| 132 | Gabe Lemley | 2000 | 1002 |
| 133 | Samy Schiavo | 2000 | 1004 |
| 134 | Jason Maxwell | 1999 | 1012 |
| 135 | Jason Meaders | 1999 | 1013 |
| 136 | Kit Cope | 1999 | 1018 |
| 137 | Orlando Ruiz | 1998 | 1025 |
| 138 | Sean Wilmot | 1998 | 1026 |
| 139 | Leigh Remedios | 1997 | 1030 |
| 140 | Sam Wells | 1997 | 1031 |
| 141 | Kotetsu Boku | 2001 | 1037 |
| 142 | Nik Lentz | 2005 | 1053 |
| 143 | Tyson Griffin | 2004 | 1055 |
| 144 | Philip Perez | 1999 | 1056 |
| 145 | Ryan Bow | 1999 | 1057 |
| 146 | Ali Bagov | 2009 | 1066 |
| 147 | Ralph Gracie | 1992 | 1079 |
| 148 | Antonio McKee | 1999 | 1080 |
| 149 | Genki Sudo | 1999 | 1083 |
| 150 | Eduard Vartanyan | 2011 | 1095 |
| 151 | Mac Danzig | 2001 | 1099 |
| 152 | Rashid Magomedov | 2008 | 1100 |
| 153 | Chris Brennan | 1996 | 1107 |
| 154 | Luiz Fraga | 1995 | 1110 |
| 155 | Alexander Hernandez | 2007 | 1134 |
| 156 | Jason Ireland | 2000 | 1144 |
| 157 | Ryan Schultz | 2003 | 1155 |
| 158 | Takumi Nakayama | 2000 | 1165 |
| 159 | Jamie Varner | 2003 | 1177 |
| 160 | John Mahlow | 2002 | 1181 |
| 161 | Rae-Yoon Ok | 2013 | 1184 |
| 162 | Joao Marcos Pierini | 1996 | 1203 |
| 163 | Alexandr Shabliy | 2010 | 1209 |
| 164 | Benoit St. Denis | 2019 | 1222 |
| 165 | Naoyuki Kotani | 2000 | 1223 |
| 166 | Javier Vazquez | 1998 | 1238 |
| 167 | Takashi Nakakura | 2002 | 1243 |
| 168 | Tofiq Musayev | 2013 | 1246 |
| 169 | Clay French | 2004 | 1266 |
| 170 | Paul Hughes | 2014 | 1271 |
| 171 | Chris Horodecki | 2005 | 1277 |
| 172 | Sergey Golyaev | 2001 | 1281 |
| 173 | Marat Gafurov | 2010 | 1291 |
| 174 | Raush Manfio | 2011 | 1295 |
| 175 | Dave Jansen | 2007 | 1296 |
| 176 | Sam Stout | 2003 | 1304 |
| 177 | Tomomi Iwama | 2002 | 1305 |
| 178 | Melvin Guillard | 2002 | 1307 |
| 179 | Pat Healy | 2001 | 1312 |
| 180 | Paddy Pimblett | 2012 | 1320 |
| 181 | Roberto de Souza | 2013 | 1326 |
| 182 | Joao Zeferino | 2005 | 1346 |
| 183 | Artur Umakhanov | 2004 | 1347 |
| 184 | Matt Wiman | 2004 | 1350 |
| 185 | Mark Bocek | 2004 | 1354 |
| 186 | Eiji Mitsuoka | 2001 | 1357 |
| 187 | Jalin Turner | 2016 | 1359 |
| 188 | George Sotiropoulos | 2004 | 1368 |
| 189 | Phil Johns | 1997 | 1371 |
| 190 | Joel Alvarez | 2013 | 1378 |
| 191 | Drew Dober | 2009 | 1382 |
| 192 | Brian Cobb | 2004 | 1384 |
| 193 | Leandro Silva | 2008 | 1385 |
| 194 | David Gardner | 2002 | 1392 |
| 195 | Rich Crunkilton | 1999 | 1394 |
| 196 | Goiti Yamauchi | 2010 | 1407 |
| 197 | Olivier Aubin-Mercier | 2011 | 1408 |
| 198 | Deividas Taurosevicius | 2002 | 1410 |
| 199 | Luis Palomino | 2006 | 1416 |
| 200 | Yusuke Endo | 2003 | 1419 |
| 201 | Leonardo Santos | 2002 | 1425 |
| 202 | Jacob Volkmann | 2007 | 1440 |
| 203 | Gregor Gillespie | 2014 | 1443 |
| 204 | Fransino Tirta | 2003 | 1446 |
| 205 | Alberto Crane | 2002 | 1447 |
| 206 | Marcio Ramos Barbosa | 2000 | 1448 |
| 207 | Rob McCullough | 2001 | 1452 |
| 208 | Alfie Davis | 2014 | 1459 |
| 209 | Furdjel de Windt | 1999 | 1469 |
| 210 | Rodrigo Damm | 2004 | 1471 |
| 211 | Koji Ando | 2008 | 1481 |
| 212 | John Gunderson | 2002 | 1500 |
| 213 | Michael Sa Jin Kwak | 1997 | 1504 |
| 214 | David Rickels | 2010 | 1509 |
| 215 | Gadzhi Rabadanov | 2013 | 1513 |
| 216 | David Baron | 1999 | 1516 |
| 217 | Tomonari Kanomata | 2002 | 1517 |
| 218 | Bart Palaszewski | 2002 | 1518 |
| 219 | Jonathan Brookins | 2006 | 1522 |
| 220 | Abdul Mohamed | 2003 | 1529 |
| 221 | Duane Ludwig | 2000 | 1533 |
| 222 | Akitoshi Tamura | 2001 | 1535 |
| 223 | Derek Campos | 2009 | 1542 |
| 224 | Daisuke Hanazawa | 2003 | 1543 |
| 225 | Kamal Shalorus | 2008 | 1549 |
| 226 | Kurt Pellegrino | 2002 | 1556 |
| 227 | Drakkar Klose | 2014 | 1565 |
| 228 | Maximo Blanco | 2008 | 1568 |
| 229 | Shunta Nomura | 2021 | 1569 |
| 230 | Stevie Ray | 2010 | 1573 |
| 231 | Paul Rodriguez | 1998 | 1585 |
| 232 | Alexander Sarnavskiy | 2008 | 1588 |
| 233 | Sidney Outlaw | 2010 | 1592 |
| 234 | Antonio Carvalho | 2002 | 1597 |
| 235 | Mairbek Taisumov | 2007 | 1601 |
| 236 | Adriano Martins | 2004 | 1607 |
| 237 | Victor Hunsaker | 1998 | 1619 |
| 238 | Katsunori Kikuno | 2005 | 1622 |
| 239 | Manuel Torres | 2014 | 1629 |
| 240 | Thiago Moises | 2012 | 1641 |
| 241 | James Vick | 2011 | 1662 |
| 242 | Eric Payne | 1998 | 1663 |
| 243 | Luiz Azeredo | 1997 | 1667 |
| 244 | Yutaka Saito | 2011 | 1668 |
| 245 | Daud Shaikhaev | 2014 | 1685 |
| 246 | Danny Castillo | 2007 | 1708 |
| 247 | Thanh Le | 2009 | 1719 |
| 248 | Peter Queally | 2012 | 1726 |
| 249 | Carlos Diego Ferreira | 2011 | 1741 |
| 250 | Terry Etim | 2005 | 1744 |
| 251 | Hideo Tokoro | 2000 | 1753 |
| 252 | Chris Wade | 2011 | 1755 |
| 253 | Fabricio Camoes | 1997 | 1761 |
| 254 | Lauro Figueiroa | 2000 | 1770 |
| 255 | Ian James Schaffa | 1998 | 1774 |
| 256 | Luciano Correa | 2000 | 1782 |
| 257 | Herdeson Batista | 2009 | 1783 |
| 258 | Hiroshi Tsuruya | 1998 | 1788 |
| 259 | Guram Kutateladze | 2010 | 1789 |
| 260 | Farrell Frisby | 1999 | 1804 |
| 261 | Alexander Yakovlev | 2004 | 1808 |
| 262 | Steve Reyna | 2000 | 1810 |
| 263 | Archie Colgan | 2021 | 1815 |
| 264 | Akhmed Aliev | 2011 | 1816 |
| 265 | Per Eklund | 2002 | 1820 |
| 266 | Rafael Addario Bastos | 2001 | 1821 |
| 267 | Kohei Yasumi | 1999 | 1822 |
| 268 | Charlie Pearson | 1997 | 1827 |
| 269 | Mansour Barnaoui | 2011 | 1830 |
| 270 | Andre Amado | 2004 | 1835 |
| 271 | Karim Sorensen | 2001 | 1839 |
| 272 | Edson Diniz | 2001 | 1843 |
| 273 | Takeshi Yamazaki | 2001 | 1844 |
| 274 | Fredson Paixao | 2004 | 1845 |
| 275 | Derek Anderson | 2011 | 1852 |
| 276 | Brandon Girtz | 2008 | 1854 |
| 277 | Pavel Kuchumov | 2001 | 1860 |
| 278 | Drew Irion | 1998 | 1875 |
| 279 | David Teymur | 2013 | 1877 |
| 280 | Loik Radzhabov | 2012 | 1879 |
| 281 | Keith Wilson | 2003 | 1887 |
| 282 | Adam Lynn | 2002 | 1888 |
| 283 | Akbar Abdullaev | 2020 | 1894 |
| 284 | Donald Ouimet | 2000 | 1900 |
| 285 | Nick Agallar | 1999 | 1917 |
| 286 | Fares Ziam | 2014 | 1926 |
| 287 | Lyle Beerbohm | 2007 | 1928 |
| 288 | Takaharu Murahama | 1998 | 1929 |
| 289 | Scott Holtzman | 2012 | 1934 |
| 290 | Mateusz Rebecki | 2014 | 1936 |
| 291 | James Birdsley | 2004 | 1938 |
| 292 | Ronys Torres | 2006 | 1941 |
| 293 | Myktybek Orolbai | 2018 | 1950 |
| 294 | Olly Bradstreet | 2005 | 1953 |
| 295 | Damir Hadzovic | 2009 | 1960 |
| 296 | Alex Martinez | 2013 | 1962 |
| 297 | Ludovit Klein | 2014 | 1963 |
| 298 | Ignacio Bahamondes | 2015 | 1966 |
| 299 | Quillan Salkild | 2021 | 1971 |
| 300 | Tae-Hyun Bang | 2004 | 1984 |
| 301 | Isaac Vallie-Flagg | 2003 | 1992 |
| 302 | Justin Wilcox | 2006 | 1999 |
| 303 | Vladimir Zenin | 2001 | 2007 |
| 304 | Artem Reznikov | 2011 | 2008 |
| 305 | Rafa Garcia | 2014 | 2013 |
| 306 | Khusein Khaliev | 2010 | 2014 |
| 307 | Caros Fodor | 2009 | 2019 |
| 308 | Damir Ismagulov | 2014 | 2025 |
| 309 | Shane Roller | 2007 | 2027 |
| 310 | Vinc Pichel | 2012 | 2032 |
| 311 | Magomed Mustafaev | 2011 | 2033 |
| 312 | Islam Mamedov | 2009 | 2049 |
| 313 | Alvin Robinson | 2005 | 2056 |
| 314 | Justin Buchholz | 2005 | 2057 |
| 315 | Bruno Miranda | 2011 | 2058 |
| 316 | Rafael Dias | 2011 | 2062 |
| 317 | Murad Machaev | 2009 | 2067 |
| 318 | Nasrat Haqparast | 2012 | 2076 |
| 319 | Mitch Clarke | 2007 | 2079 |
| 320 | Matt Frevola | 2014 | 2081 |
| 321 | Paul Sass | 2007 | 2082 |
| 322 | Robert Emerson | 2002 | 2085 |
| 323 | Reza Madadi | 2006 | 2087 |
| 324 | Anton Kuivanen | 2006 | 2099 |
| 325 | Chris Duncan | 2018 | 2104 |
| 326 | Musa Khamanaev | 2008 | 2105 |
| 327 | Alan Patrick | 2008 | 2107 |
| 328 | Bryan Travers | 2005 | 2110 |
| 329 | John Makdessi | 2008 | 2115 |
| 330 | Piotr Hallmann | 2009 | 2116 |
| 331 | Shamil Zavurov | 2004 | 2119 |
| 332 | Brad Riddell | 2013 | 2131 |
| 333 | Amirkhan Adaev | 2012 | 2149 |
| 334 | Abel Trujillo | 2009 | 2158 |
| 335 | Adam Piccolotti | 2013 | 2161 |
| 336 | Lewis Gonzalez | 2011 | 2164 |
| 337 | Donny Raines | 2000 | 2167 |
| 338 | Lloyd Woodard | 2008 | 2174 |
| 339 | Cam Ward | 2003 | 2180 |
| 340 | Lando Vannata | 2011 | 2183 |
| 341 | Robert Watley | 2014 | 2185 |
| 342 | Jared Gordon | 2011 | 2192 |
| 343 | Bendy Casimir | 2001 | 2195 |
| 344 | Dan Moret | 2012 | 2197 |
| 345 | Jorge Gurgel | 2002 | 2203 |
| 346 | Kajan Johnson | 2002 | 2204 |
| 347 | Ronald Paradeiser | 2014 | 2206 |
| 348 | Yusuf Raisov | 2014 | 2208 |
| 349 | Aurel Pirtea | 2009 | 2211 |
| 350 | Johnny Case | 2007 | 2216 |
| 351 | Abdisalam Kubanychbek | 2015 | 2218 |
| 352 | Elves Brener | 2016 | 2232 |
| 353 | Mauricio Ruffy | 2016 | 2233 |
| 354 | Nate Andrews | 2012 | 2234 |
| 355 | Saad Awad | 2006 | 2250 |
| 356 | Trey Ogden | 2015 | 2274 |
| 357 | Abdul-Rakhman Temirov | 2010 | 2297 |
| 358 | Ottman Azaitar | 2014 | 2300 |
| 359 | Spike Carlyle | 2017 | 2341 |
| 360 | Jim Miller | 2005 | 2364 |
| 361 | Raul Tutarauli | 2011 | 2380 |
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