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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 | Israel Adesanya | 2009 | 17 |
| 3 | Vitor Belfort | 1996 | 29 |
| 4 | Chris Weidman | 2009 | 34 |
| 5 | Robert Whittaker | 2009 | 35 |
| 6 | Luke Rockhold | 2007 | 43 |
| 7 | Yoel Romero | 2009 | 46 |
| 8 | Kiuma Kunioku | 1996 | 50 |
| 9 | Gegard Mousasi | 2003 | 53 |
| 10 | Murilo Bustamante | 1991 | 61 |
| 11 | Rich Franklin | 1999 | 64 |
| 12 | Nate Marquardt | 1999 | 70 |
| 13 | Evan Tanner | 1997 | 71 |
| 14 | Pat Miletich | 1995 | 78 |
| 15 | Chael Sonnen | 1997 | 81 |
| 16 | Ronaldo Souza | 2003 | 84 |
| 17 | Michael Bisping | 2004 | 97 |
| 18 | Matt Lindland | 1997 | 116 |
| 19 | Kazuo Misaki | 2001 | 121 |
| 20 | Kelvin Gastelum | 2010 | 124 |
| 21 | Jorge Santiago | 2002 | 127 |
| 22 | Yushin Okami | 2002 | 128 |
| 23 | Ikuhisa Minowa | 1996 | 134 |
| 24 | Ricardo Almeida | 2000 | 155 |
| 25 | Derek Brunson | 2010 | 167 |
| 26 | Paulo Costa | 2012 | 175 |
| 27 | Dave Menne | 1997 | 177 |
| 28 | Mamed Khalidov | 2004 | 179 |
| 29 | David Branch | 2007 | 183 |
| 30 | Erik Paulson | 1993 | 186 |
| 31 | Akihiro Gono | 1994 | 187 |
| 32 | Jared Cannonier | 2011 | 189 |
| 33 | Thales Leites | 2003 | 202 |
| 34 | Rousimar Palhares | 2006 | 208 |
| 35 | Ryo Chonan | 2001 | 209 |
| 36 | Kenji Kawaguchi | 1989 | 218 |
| 37 | Alexander Shlemenko | 2004 | 223 |
| 38 | Denis Kang | 1998 | 229 |
| 39 | Alex Pereira | 2015 | 238 |
| 40 | Tim Kennedy | 2001 | 239 |
| 41 | Masanori Suda | 1996 | 245 |
| 42 | Phil Baroni | 2000 | 251 |
| 43 | Izuru Takeuchi | 1997 | 256 |
| 44 | Uriah Hall | 2005 | 261 |
| 45 | Naoki Sakurada | 1989 | 264 |
| 46 | Joe Doerksen | 1999 | 269 |
| 47 | David Loiseau | 2000 | 274 |
| 48 | Marvin Vettori | 2012 | 275 |
| 49 | Joey Villasenor | 1999 | 276 |
| 50 | Tim Boetsch | 2006 | 292 |
| 51 | Patrick Cote | 2002 | 294 |
| 52 | Jason Miller | 1997 | 296 |
| 53 | Jack Hermansson | 2010 | 306 |
| 54 | Akira Kikuchi | 2002 | 309 |
| 55 | Rodrigo Gracie | 2000 | 317 |
| 56 | Dean Lister | 2000 | 328 |
| 57 | Yuki Niimura | 2011 | 336 |
| 58 | Brad Burrick | 1999 | 342 |
| 59 | Yoshimasa Ishikawa | 1989 | 344 |
| 60 | Mike Swick | 1998 | 345 |
| 61 | Johnny Eblen | 2016 | 351 |
| 62 | Melvin Manhoef | 1995 | 363 |
| 63 | Mark Munoz | 2007 | 367 |
| 64 | Jose Landi-Jons | 1993 | 371 |
| 65 | Chris Leben | 2002 | 376 |
| 66 | Kenichi Yamamoto | 1998 | 385 |
| 67 | Satoshi Honma | 1990 | 387 |
| 68 | Jorge Patino | 1995 | 399 |
| 69 | Amar Suloev | 1999 | 400 |
| 70 | Scott Smith | 2001 | 402 |
| 71 | Roger Gracie | 2006 | 404 |
| 72 | Cung Le | 2006 | 405 |
| 73 | Tony Fryklund | 1997 | 408 |
| 74 | David Terrell | 1999 | 409 |
| 75 | Yuichi Nakanishi | 2002 | 422 |
| 76 | Yoshihiro Akiyama | 2004 | 429 |
| 77 | James Zikic | 1998 | 435 |
| 78 | Alan Belcher | 2004 | 437 |
| 79 | Vitaly Bigdash | 2012 | 446 |
| 80 | Daniel Hernandez | 2007 | 460 |
| 81 | Josh Bryant | 2007 | 461 |
| 82 | Keith Berry | 2005 | 471 |
| 83 | Brandon Hunt | 2004 | 474 |
| 84 | Young Choi | 2000 | 481 |
| 85 | Yasuto Sekishima | 1989 | 484 |
| 86 | Jorge Rivera | 2001 | 485 |
| 87 | Taisuke Okuno | 2005 | 503 |
| 88 | Jan Lomulder | 1994 | 517 |
| 89 | Kevin Holland | 2012 | 525 |
| 90 | Eiji Ishikawa | 2000 | 534 |
| 91 | Krzysztof Jotko | 2010 | 545 |
| 92 | Ryuki Ueyama | 1998 | 555 |
| 93 | Brad Tavares | 2008 | 559 |
| 94 | Ramazan Emeev | 2009 | 569 |
| 95 | Yura Naito | 2020 | 577 |
| 96 | Igor Svirid | 2011 | 608 |
| 97 | Shinsho Anzai | 2009 | 631 |
| 98 | Sidiah Parker | 2008 | 640 |
| 99 | Erik Herbert | 2007 | 644 |
| 100 | Daniel Madrid | 2006 | 658 |
| 101 | David Mitchell | 2006 | 659 |
| 102 | Rikuhei Fujii | 2006 | 660 |
| 103 | Joao Batista Yoshimura | 2004 | 665 |
| 104 | Ryan McGivern | 2004 | 667 |
| 105 | Billy Ayash | 2003 | 669 |
| 106 | Luis Ramos | 2001 | 679 |
| 107 | Paul Jenkins | 2000 | 683 |
| 108 | Matt Horwich | 2003 | 694 |
| 109 | Fabian Edwards | 2017 | 698 |
| 110 | Yuki Sasaki | 1998 | 702 |
| 111 | Mark Weir | 2000 | 705 |
| 112 | Andrei Semenov | 1998 | 710 |
| 113 | Dave Strasser | 1996 | 712 |
| 114 | Austin Vanderford | 2017 | 716 |
| 115 | Mike DiOrio | 2013 | 736 |
| 116 | George Clynes | 2012 | 742 |
| 117 | Mohammad Karaki | 2012 | 748 |
| 118 | Andy Manzolo | 2009 | 779 |
| 119 | Kenny McCorkell | 2009 | 789 |
| 120 | Ki-Bum Kim | 2009 | 790 |
| 121 | Matt Gabel | 2009 | 793 |
| 122 | Leandro Ataides | 2008 | 817 |
| 123 | Will Noland | 2008 | 828 |
| 124 | Igor Fernandes | 2007 | 841 |
| 125 | Ikkei Nagamura | 2007 | 842 |
| 126 | Jared Hess | 2007 | 844 |
| 127 | Matt Lagler | 2007 | 849 |
| 128 | Tommy De Pret | 2006 | 876 |
| 129 | Yusuke Sakashita | 2005 | 895 |
| 130 | Michael Gonzalez | 2004 | 901 |
| 131 | Umar Luv | 2004 | 903 |
| 132 | Ian Pyatt | 2003 | 911 |
| 133 | Kyacey Uscola | 2003 | 915 |
| 134 | Ichiro Kanai | 2002 | 930 |
| 135 | Jorge Ortiz | 2002 | 932 |
| 136 | Suley Mahmoud | 2001 | 954 |
| 137 | Brendan Seguin | 2000 | 956 |
| 138 | Brian Sleeman | 2000 | 958 |
| 139 | Sean Loeffler | 2000 | 963 |
| 140 | Angelo Popofski | 1999 | 967 |
| 141 | Gaz Roriston | 1999 | 968 |
| 142 | Lee Murray | 1999 | 977 |
| 143 | Joshua Taibl | 1998 | 981 |
| 144 | Kevin Hogan | 1998 | 982 |
| 145 | John Cronk | 1997 | 986 |
| 146 | Rafael Carvalho | 2011 | 992 |
| 147 | Michal Materla | 2003 | 993 |
| 148 | Travis Lutter | 1998 | 997 |
| 149 | Naoyuki Taira | 1995 | 1000 |
| 150 | Matt Hume | 1994 | 1003 |
| 151 | Johil de Oliveira | 1995 | 1004 |
| 152 | Manuel Garcia | 1995 | 1005 |
| 153 | Ivan Salaverry | 1999 | 1006 |
| 154 | Dan Miller | 2005 | 1012 |
| 155 | Kiamrian Abbasov | 2011 | 1019 |
| 156 | John Salter | 2009 | 1020 |
| 157 | Doug Marshall | 2003 | 1022 |
| 158 | Dustin Denes | 2001 | 1024 |
| 159 | Khamzat Chimaev | 2017 | 1025 |
| 160 | Costas Philippou | 2008 | 1031 |
| 161 | C.B. Dollaway | 2006 | 1034 |
| 162 | Yuji Hisamatsu | 2000 | 1046 |
| 163 | Tyrone Roberts | 1996 | 1049 |
| 164 | Ronald Jhun | 1998 | 1054 |
| 165 | Ed Herman | 2002 | 1058 |
| 166 | Brandon Halsey | 2012 | 1060 |
| 167 | Riki Fukuda | 2004 | 1063 |
| 168 | Nate Quarry | 2001 | 1064 |
| 169 | Falaniko Vitale | 1999 | 1072 |
| 170 | Larry Papadopoulos | 1994 | 1081 |
| 171 | Terry Martin | 2002 | 1089 |
| 172 | Brett Cooper | 2005 | 1090 |
| 173 | Brian Dunn | 1996 | 1091 |
| 174 | Benji Radach | 2001 | 1094 |
| 175 | Egan Inoue | 1995 | 1097 |
| 176 | Elias Theodorou | 2011 | 1102 |
| 177 | Jesse Taylor | 2006 | 1122 |
| 178 | Rafael Lovato Jr. | 2014 | 1125 |
| 179 | Roman Dolidze | 2016 | 1133 |
| 180 | Alessio Sakara | 2002 | 1134 |
| 181 | John Renken | 1997 | 1137 |
| 182 | Curtis Stout | 2000 | 1139 |
| 183 | Jermaine Andre | 1998 | 1146 |
| 184 | Crezio de Souza | 1995 | 1154 |
| 185 | Kendall Grove | 2003 | 1156 |
| 186 | Shamil Abramov | 2001 | 1158 |
| 187 | Francis Carmont | 2004 | 1159 |
| 188 | Nassourdine Imavov | 2016 | 1165 |
| 189 | Jason MacDonald | 1999 | 1175 |
| 190 | Phillip Miller | 2000 | 1180 |
| 191 | Eduard Vdovenko | 1999 | 1184 |
| 192 | Crosley Gracie | 2003 | 1185 |
| 193 | Wallid Ismail | 1991 | 1200 |
| 194 | Roan Carneiro | 2000 | 1206 |
| 195 | Adrian Serrano | 1996 | 1229 |
| 196 | Ryuta Sakurai | 1996 | 1233 |
| 197 | Andre Muniz | 2009 | 1259 |
| 198 | Anatoly Tokov | 2009 | 1266 |
| 199 | Antonio Carlos Jr. | 2013 | 1268 |
| 200 | Bart Guyer | 1996 | 1269 |
| 201 | Troy Pacenka | 1997 | 1300 |
| 202 | Shawn Peters | 1997 | 1312 |
| 203 | Andrius Krishtopaitis | 1999 | 1317 |
| 204 | Rick Graveson | 1996 | 1328 |
| 205 | Rafael Cordeiro | 1993 | 1344 |
| 206 | Toby Imada | 1998 | 1352 |
| 207 | Shungo Oyama | 2001 | 1355 |
| 208 | Rogerio Dionisio | 1996 | 1357 |
| 209 | Maiquel Falcao | 2004 | 1364 |
| 210 | Dricus Du Plessis | 2013 | 1365 |
| 211 | Scott Askham | 2010 | 1373 |
| 212 | Bruno Silva | 2015 | 1375 |
| 213 | Stephan Potvin | 1999 | 1397 |
| 214 | Ronny Markes | 2007 | 1405 |
| 215 | Damien Riccio | 1998 | 1406 |
| 216 | Eric Schambari | 2005 | 1407 |
| 217 | Makoto Takimoto | 2004 | 1419 |
| 218 | Chris Curtis | 2008 | 1422 |
| 219 | John Lewis | 1995 | 1425 |
| 220 | Ian Heinisch | 2015 | 1436 |
| 221 | Sam Alvey | 2008 | 1439 |
| 222 | Magomedrasul Gasanov | 2014 | 1448 |
| 223 | Dong-Sik Yoon | 2005 | 1452 |
| 224 | Masato Fujiwara | 1996 | 1475 |
| 225 | Flavio Luiz Moura | 1999 | 1501 |
| 226 | Andrews Nakahara | 2004 | 1510 |
| 227 | Mark Jacquith | 1997 | 1515 |
| 228 | Ryan Jensen | 1997 | 1516 |
| 229 | Brennan Ward | 2008 | 1518 |
| 230 | Brendan Allen | 2015 | 1525 |
| 231 | Kalib Starnes | 1998 | 1546 |
| 232 | Branden Lee Hinkle | 1998 | 1552 |
| 233 | Tomasz Drwal | 2004 | 1553 |
| 234 | Eryk Anders | 2015 | 1555 |
| 235 | Jason Medina | 1998 | 1567 |
| 236 | James Nakashima | 2015 | 1571 |
| 237 | Michele Verginelli | 1998 | 1573 |
| 238 | Adriano de Souza | 1998 | 1580 |
| 239 | Mario Borzic | 1997 | 1584 |
| 240 | Eric Davila | 1998 | 1595 |
| 241 | Harri Niva | 1999 | 1601 |
| 242 | James O'Connor | 1999 | 1602 |
| 243 | Rasul Uzdenov | 1998 | 1603 |
| 244 | Marty Armendarez | 1999 | 1604 |
| 245 | Edmen Shahbazyan | 2017 | 1609 |
| 246 | Aaron Simpson | 2000 | 1610 |
| 247 | Daniel Kelly | 2006 | 1611 |
| 248 | Eric Spicely | 2013 | 1615 |
| 249 | Louis Taylor | 2007 | 1623 |
| 250 | Luis Santos | 2000 | 1625 |
| 251 | Gerald Meerschaert | 2007 | 1630 |
| 252 | Zelg Galesic | 2004 | 1641 |
| 253 | Fabio Leopoldo | 2004 | 1643 |
| 254 | Omari Akhmedov | 2010 | 1646 |
| 255 | Tamdan McCrory | 2006 | 1657 |
| 256 | Clifford Starks | 2009 | 1666 |
| 257 | Kyle Noke | 2002 | 1667 |
| 258 | Kyle Jensen | 2002 | 1673 |
| 259 | Chris Camozzi | 2006 | 1677 |
| 260 | Bryan Baker | 2007 | 1683 |
| 261 | Daniel Acacio | 2000 | 1684 |
| 262 | Vyacheslav Vasilevsky | 2008 | 1685 |
| 263 | Rafael Natal | 2005 | 1692 |
| 264 | Nikolai Kudryashov | 2001 | 1699 |
| 265 | Viktor Mileshkin | 2001 | 1700 |
| 266 | Scott Henze | 1999 | 1706 |
| 267 | Jason Day | 2002 | 1726 |
| 268 | Marcos da Silva | 1999 | 1736 |
| 269 | Jacek Buczko | 2004 | 1756 |
| 270 | Sharabutdin Magomedov | 2017 | 1771 |
| 271 | Cezar Ferreira | 2007 | 1772 |
| 272 | Patrick Fortrie | 1999 | 1779 |
| 273 | Steve Heath | 1998 | 1785 |
| 274 | Joe Pyfer | 2018 | 1800 |
| 275 | Court McGee | 2010 | 1802 |
| 276 | Xavier Foupa-Pokam | 2002 | 1804 |
| 277 | Khalid Murtazaliev | 2013 | 1809 |
| 278 | Jake Rosholt | 2007 | 1822 |
| 279 | Tom Lawlor | 2007 | 1827 |
| 280 | Nick Ring | 2002 | 1834 |
| 281 | Andrew Craig | 2010 | 1845 |
| 282 | Gregory Bouchelaghem | 2003 | 1848 |
| 283 | Tom Watson | 2006 | 1849 |
| 284 | Danny Higgins | 1999 | 1855 |
| 285 | Caio Borralho | 2014 | 1857 |
| 286 | Tom Breese | 2010 | 1863 |
| 287 | Jay Silva | 2008 | 1879 |
| 288 | Albert Duraev | 2011 | 1880 |
| 289 | Giva Santana | 2005 | 1891 |
| 290 | Antonio Braga Neto | 2006 | 1927 |
| 291 | Gregory Rodrigues | 2008 | 1928 |
| 292 | Josh Samman | 2007 | 1929 |
| 293 | Anthony Hernandez | 2014 | 1937 |
| 294 | Shamil Gamzatov | 2012 | 1944 |
| 295 | Drew McFedries | 2001 | 1950 |
| 296 | Luke Barnatt | 2011 | 1953 |
| 297 | Jordan Smith | 2007 | 1960 |
| 298 | Valda Pocevicius | 2000 | 1970 |
| 299 | Aziz Karaoglu | 2000 | 1980 |
| 300 | Bruno Santos | 2007 | 1984 |
| 301 | Abdul-Rahman Dzhanaev | 2014 | 1988 |
| 302 | Vitor Vianna | 2004 | 1993 |
| 303 | Yong-Jae Jun | 2004 | 1994 |
| 304 | Caio Magalhaes | 2009 | 2009 |
| 305 | Jun-Yong Park | 2013 | 2018 |
| 306 | Marcel Ferreira | 2002 | 2039 |
| 307 | Nathan Schouteren | 2000 | 2045 |
| 308 | Rafal Haratyk | 2010 | 2046 |
| 309 | Chris Honeycutt | 2013 | 2049 |
| 310 | Vladimir Mineev | 2014 | 2056 |
| 311 | Michail Tsarev | 2005 | 2067 |
| 312 | Bubba McDaniel | 2005 | 2078 |
| 313 | Salamu Abdurahmanov | 2013 | 2083 |
| 314 | Chidi Njokuani | 2007 | 2084 |
| 315 | Makhmud Muradov | 2012 | 2089 |
| 316 | Artem Frolov | 2014 | 2095 |
| 317 | Andrew Sanchez | 2012 | 2104 |
| 318 | Leo Leite | 2013 | 2117 |
| 319 | Trevin Giles | 2012 | 2118 |
| 320 | Joe Schilling | 2008 | 2119 |
| 321 | Abdoul Abdouraguimov | 2016 | 2123 |
| 322 | Roger Narvaez | 2011 | 2134 |
| 323 | Mikhail Ragozin | 2014 | 2141 |
| 324 | Danillo Villefort | 2005 | 2144 |
| 325 | Trevor Smith | 2009 | 2151 |
| 326 | Magnus Cedenblad | 2007 | 2152 |
| 327 | Pawel Pawlak | 2010 | 2160 |
| 328 | Eddie Gordon | 2011 | 2164 |
| 329 | Marc-Andre Barriault | 2012 | 2168 |
| 330 | Nikola Dipchikov | 2009 | 2169 |
| 331 | Aliaskhab Khizriev | 2014 | 2171 |
| 332 | Jack Marshman | 2010 | 2172 |
| 333 | Patrik Kincl | 2007 | 2209 |
| 334 | Julian Marquez | 2014 | 2214 |
| 335 | Cory Devela | 2003 | 2221 |
| 336 | Karl Roberson | 2015 | 2229 |
| 337 | Francisco France | 2008 | 2239 |
| 338 | Chersi Dudaev | 2014 | 2251 |
| 339 | Ikram Aliskerov | 2012 | 2252 |
| 340 | Roman Kopylov | 2016 | 2257 |
| 341 | Darren Stewart | 2014 | 2289 |
| 342 | Sharaf Davlatmurodov | 2015 | 2291 |
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