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The Top Ranked Welterweight MMA Fighters of the 2000s
Notes: Fighters are listed only with the weight class they are most associated with this decade.
| Rnk | Athlete | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Georges St. Pierre | 10 |
| 2 | Matt Hughes | 14 |
| 3 | B.J. Penn | 15 |
| 4 | John Alessio | 39 |
| 5 | Diego Sanchez | 51 |
| 6 | Jon Fitch | 52 |
| 7 | Hayato Sakurai | 55 |
| 8 | Gil Castillo | 59 |
| 9 | Thiago Alves | 63 |
| 10 | Matt Serra | 66 |
| 11 | Sean Sherk | 72 |
| 12 | Carlos Newton | 84 |
| 13 | Frank Trigg | 87 |
| 14 | Joe Doerksen | 95 |
| 15 | Akira Kikuchi | 96 |
| 16 | Nick Diaz | 101 |
| 17 | Josh Koscheck | 102 |
| 18 | Katsuya Inoue | 103 |
| 19 | Karo Parisyan | 110 |
| 20 | Chris Lytle | 128 |
| 21 | Nick Thompson | 130 |
| 22 | Thomas Denny | 133 |
| 23 | Carlos Condit | 139 |
| 24 | Anthony Lapsley | 141 |
| 25 | Victor Valenzuela | 146 |
| 26 | Jason Miller | 154 |
| 27 | Joe Riggs | 157 |
| 28 | Takafumi Ito | 159 |
| 29 | Jason Black | 166 |
| 30 | Kenichi Yamamoto | 168 |
| 31 | Dennis Hallman | 173 |
| 32 | Aaron Wetherspoon | 177 |
| 33 | Joe Camacho | 191 |
| 34 | Matt Stansell | 198 |
| 35 | Ricky Legere Jr. | 203 |
| 36 | Takuya Wada | 210 |
| 37 | Tetsuji Kato | 213 |
| 38 | Brandon Bell | 228 |
| 39 | Bryson Kamaka | 235 |
| 40 | Dave Terrel | 243 |
| 41 | Dong-Hyun Kim | 245 |
| 42 | Eric Moon | 249 |
| 43 | Gabe Rivas | 254 |
| 44 | Ganjo Tentsuku | 255 |
| 45 | Hiroki Nagaoka | 259 |
| 46 | Hiromitsu Miura | 260 |
| 47 | J.T. Taylor | 265 |
| 48 | Jason High | 270 |
| 49 | Jason Palacios | 273 |
| 50 | Jerry Gummo | 276 |
| 51 | Kenichi Serizawa | 288 |
| 52 | Kenichiro Togashi | 289 |
| 53 | Kenji Arai | 290 |
| 54 | LaVerne Clark | 303 |
| 55 | Omar de la Cruz | 315 |
| 56 | Quinn Mulhern | 317 |
| 57 | Ross Mason | 323 |
| 58 | Thomas Kenney | 340 |
| 59 | Tomoyoshi Iwamiya | 342 |
| 60 | Waachiim Spiritwolf | 348 |
| 61 | Marius Zaromskis | 360 |
| 62 | Pat Miletich | 361 |
| 63 | Steve Berger | 363 |
| 64 | Ray Cooper | 369 |
| 65 | Paul Daley | 381 |
| 66 | Drew Fickett | 389 |
| 67 | Renato Verissimo | 390 |
| 68 | Carlo Prater | 391 |
| 69 | Jutaro Nakao | 393 |
| 70 | Seichi Ikemoto | 400 |
| 71 | Joe Hurley | 402 |
| 72 | Daizo Ishige | 411 |
| 73 | Ben Earwood | 418 |
| 74 | Brock Larson | 435 |
| 75 | Jay Hieron | 445 |
| 76 | Ansar Chalangov | 447 |
| 77 | Hidehiko Hasegawa | 451 |
| 78 | Dan Hardy | 452 |
| 79 | Spencer Fisher | 457 |
| 80 | Romie Aram | 458 |
| 81 | Daiju Takase | 461 |
| 82 | Chris Wilson | 462 |
| 83 | Hidetaka Monma | 475 |
| 84 | Paulo Thiago | 479 |
| 85 | Genki Sudo | 480 |
| 86 | Rich Clementi | 485 |
| 87 | Brian Foster | 490 |
| 88 | Mark Miller | 497 |
| 89 | Keith Wisniewski | 498 |
| 90 | Dustin Hazelett | 505 |
| 91 | Brad Blackburn | 512 |
| 92 | Jeremy Jackson | 515 |
| 93 | Nobuhiro Obiya | 517 |
| 94 | Josh Burkman | 523 |
| 95 | Lyman Good | 530 |
| 96 | Michael Guymon | 533 |
| 97 | Jonathan Goulet | 534 |
| 98 | Koji Oishi | 537 |
| 99 | Mike Pyle | 542 |
| 100 | Fabricio Nascimento | 548 |
| 101 | Marcus Davis | 549 |
| 102 | James Fanshier | 557 |
| 103 | Mike Pierce | 578 |
| 104 | Fabiano Iha | 579 |
| 105 | Yoshiyuki Yoshida | 582 |
| 106 | Stanislav Nuschik | 585 |
| 107 | Brian Fulton | 593 |
| 108 | John Strawn | 598 |
| 109 | Josh Neer | 606 |
| 110 | Brad Gumm | 609 |
| 111 | Tony DeSouza | 611 |
| 112 | Chad W. Saunders | 614 |
| 113 | Aaron Riley | 619 |
| 114 | Heath Sims | 621 |
| 115 | Rob Kimmons | 623 |
| 116 | Saburo Kawakatsu | 652 |
| 117 | Luigi Fioravanti | 661 |
| 118 | C.J. Fernandes | 662 |
| 119 | Anthony Johnson | 666 |
| 120 | Rory Markham | 668 |
| 121 | Alex Cook | 672 |
| 122 | T.J. Grant | 673 |
| 123 | Dan Hornbuckle | 679 |
| 124 | John Howard | 680 |
| 125 | Alexandre Barros | 690 |
| 126 | Viktoras Kontrimas | 691 |
| 127 | Jeff Cox | 698 |
| 128 | Ben Saunders | 705 |
| 129 | Andy Sanders | 710 |
| 130 | Jake Ellenberger | 712 |
| 131 | Linson Simanjuntak | 724 |
| 132 | Eduardo Pamplona | 727 |
| 133 | Brett Cooper | 734 |
| 134 | Derrick Noble | 736 |
| 135 | Fabricio Monteiro | 737 |
| 136 | Jesse Lennox | 745 |
| 137 | Kim Dong-Hyun | 747 |
| 138 | Roan Carneiro | 777 |
| 139 | Gideon Ray | 783 |
| 140 | Chad Reiner | 787 |
| 141 | Rick Story | 788 |
| 142 | Pete Sell | 792 |
| 143 | Brandon Melendez | 795 |
| 144 | Matt Brown | 802 |
| 145 | Johny Hendricks | 803 |
| 146 | Erik Oganov | 809 |
| 147 | Anthony Torres | 814 |
| 148 | Jess Liaudin | 816 |
| 149 | Mattias Awad | 826 |
| 150 | Sam Morgan | 830 |
| 151 | John Hathaway | 842 |
| 152 | Forrest Petz | 851 |
| 153 | Brent Weedman | 858 |
| 154 | Matt Shaw | 877 |
| 155 | Gil de Freitas | 884 |
| 156 | Pat Healy | 889 |
| 157 | Brian Ebersole | 890 |
| 158 | Sauli Heilimo | 892 |
| 159 | Alex Serdyukov | 895 |
| 160 | Yoshiguki Yoshida | 896 |
| 161 | Donnie Liles | 907 |
| 162 | Jesse Taylor | 910 |
| 163 | Do-Hyung Kim | 913 |
| 164 | Keita Nakamura | 917 |
| 165 | Kevin Burns | 920 |
| 166 | Brian Gassaway | 930 |
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