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The Top Ranked Welterweight 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 | Georges St. Pierre | 2002 | 4 |
| 2 | Kamaru Usman | 2012 | 16 |
| 3 | Matt Hughes | 1998 | 32 |
| 4 | B.J. Penn | 2001 | 37 |
| 5 | Tyron Woodley | 2009 | 48 |
| 6 | Robbie Lawler | 2001 | 49 |
| 7 | Leon Edwards | 2010 | 50 |
| 8 | Colby Covington | 2012 | 58 |
| 9 | Belal Muhammad | 2012 | 63 |
| 10 | Sean Strickland | 2008 | 67 |
| 11 | Jake Shields | 1999 | 75 |
| 12 | Jon Fitch | 2002 | 90 |
| 13 | Nick Diaz | 2001 | 92 |
| 14 | Rory MacDonald | 2005 | 93 |
| 15 | Johny Hendricks | 2007 | 102 |
| 16 | Carlos Condit | 2002 | 108 |
| 17 | Jorge Masvidal | 2003 | 115 |
| 18 | Stephen Thompson | 2007 | 118 |
| 19 | Demian Maia | 2001 | 119 |
| 20 | Sean Sherk | 1999 | 123 |
| 21 | Hayato Sakurai | 1996 | 125 |
| 22 | Douglas Lima | 2006 | 131 |
| 23 | Shonie Carter | 1997 | 137 |
| 24 | Josh Koscheck | 2004 | 141 |
| 25 | Gilbert Burns | 2012 | 148 |
| 26 | Diego Sanchez | 2002 | 157 |
| 27 | Hector Lombard | 2004 | 158 |
| 28 | Ben Askren | 2009 | 171 |
| 29 | Darren Till | 2013 | 181 |
| 30 | Carlos Newton | 1996 | 182 |
| 31 | Frank Trigg | 1997 | 195 |
| 32 | Jason Jackson | 2009 | 196 |
| 33 | Paul Daley | 2003 | 202 |
| 34 | John Alessio | 1998 | 206 |
| 35 | Neil Magny | 2010 | 207 |
| 36 | Thiago Alves | 2001 | 212 |
| 37 | Karo Parisyan | 1999 | 214 |
| 38 | Matt Serra | 1999 | 216 |
| 39 | Chris Lytle | 1999 | 232 |
| 40 | Dong-Hyun Kim | 2004 | 244 |
| 41 | Jay Hieron | 2003 | 248 |
| 42 | Andrey Koreshkov | 2010 | 249 |
| 43 | Jake Ellenberger | 2005 | 250 |
| 44 | Jack Della Maddalena | 2016 | 251 |
| 45 | Vicente Luque | 2009 | 273 |
| 46 | Dennis Hallman | 1996 | 276 |
| 47 | Lorenz Larkin | 2009 | 280 |
| 48 | Michael Chiesa | 2008 | 281 |
| 49 | Jutaro Nakao | 1996 | 283 |
| 50 | Martin Kampmann | 2003 | 284 |
| 51 | Geoff Neal | 2012 | 287 |
| 52 | Gil Castillo | 1998 | 291 |
| 53 | Shingo Suzuki | 2007 | 293 |
| 54 | Sean Brady | 2013 | 294 |
| 55 | Mike Pyle | 1999 | 295 |
| 56 | Matt Brown | 2004 | 306 |
| 57 | Tetsuji Kato | 1997 | 307 |
| 58 | Santiago Ponzinibbio | 2008 | 323 |
| 59 | Gunnar Nelson | 2007 | 324 |
| 60 | Tim Means | 2004 | 337 |
| 61 | Katsuya Inoue | 2003 | 339 |
| 62 | Brian Foster | 2006 | 340 |
| 63 | Ryuichiro Sumimura | 2009 | 343 |
| 64 | Dom O'Grady | 2007 | 347 |
| 65 | Tony Hervey | 2006 | 349 |
| 66 | Kazuhiro Kusayanagi | 1989 | 353 |
| 67 | Jason Black | 2000 | 355 |
| 68 | Victor Valenzuela | 2013 | 356 |
| 69 | Ansar Chalangov | 2003 | 371 |
| 70 | Michael Page | 2012 | 373 |
| 71 | Joe Riggs | 2001 | 378 |
| 72 | Dan Hardy | 2004 | 381 |
| 73 | Martin Nguyen | 2012 | 398 |
| 74 | Josh Burkman | 2003 | 399 |
| 75 | Tarec Saffiedine | 2007 | 404 |
| 76 | Rick Story | 2007 | 409 |
| 77 | Ray Cooper | 1997 | 417 |
| 78 | Nick Thompson | 2003 | 427 |
| 79 | Magomed Magomedkerimov | 2008 | 429 |
| 80 | Thomas Denny | 1999 | 436 |
| 81 | Daichi Abe | 2015 | 438 |
| 82 | Ben Egli | 2008 | 441 |
| 83 | David Gomez | 2008 | 442 |
| 84 | Drew Fickett | 1999 | 450 |
| 85 | Shavkat Rakhmonov | 2013 | 454 |
| 86 | Ian Garry | 2019 | 455 |
| 87 | Yoichiro Sato | 2008 | 488 |
| 88 | Anthony Lapsley | 2006 | 497 |
| 89 | Sam Liera | 2006 | 499 |
| 90 | Hiromitsu Miura | 2004 | 504 |
| 91 | Takenori Sato | 2004 | 506 |
| 92 | Aaron Wetherspoon | 2003 | 507 |
| 93 | Akihiro Murayama | 2003 | 508 |
| 94 | Koji Oishi | 2000 | 521 |
| 95 | Jake Adams | 2014 | 526 |
| 96 | Yuki Okano | 2008 | 530 |
| 97 | Joe Condon | 2007 | 531 |
| 98 | Kenta Takizawa | 2014 | 539 |
| 99 | Buddy Clinton | 1999 | 541 |
| 100 | Yaroslav Amosov | 2012 | 542 |
| 101 | Jordan Mein | 2006 | 547 |
| 102 | Marius Zaromskis | 2000 | 548 |
| 103 | Danny Bennett | 1995 | 552 |
| 104 | Seichi Ikemoto | 1999 | 562 |
| 105 | Mike Pierce | 2007 | 571 |
| 106 | Ali Elias | 1997 | 576 |
| 107 | Joaquin Buckley | 2014 | 593 |
| 108 | Mikey Burnett | 1996 | 595 |
| 109 | Timofey Nastyukhin | 2010 | 605 |
| 110 | Kohei Kadono | 2022 | 615 |
| 111 | Yuta Watanabe | 2004 | 619 |
| 112 | Masayuki Kikuiri | 2017 | 621 |
| 113 | Ibuki Shimada | 2016 | 623 |
| 114 | Richie Palomino | 2016 | 625 |
| 115 | Yamato Nishikawa | 2016 | 626 |
| 116 | Sherwin Price | 2015 | 629 |
| 117 | Edson Gomez | 2014 | 632 |
| 118 | Nick Angeloni | 2014 | 635 |
| 119 | Glaico Franca | 2012 | 641 |
| 120 | Hiroyuki Tetsuka | 2012 | 642 |
| 121 | Laszlo Senyei | 2012 | 643 |
| 122 | Dez Hill | 2011 | 649 |
| 123 | Lowen Tynanes | 2011 | 654 |
| 124 | Darren Smith Jr. | 2010 | 658 |
| 125 | Gota Yamashita | 2010 | 659 |
| 126 | Ryan Fillingame | 2010 | 662 |
| 127 | Koshi Matsumoto | 2009 | 671 |
| 128 | Kito Andrews | 2007 | 690 |
| 129 | Ricky Legere Jr. | 2007 | 693 |
| 130 | Thor Skancke | 2007 | 697 |
| 131 | Nobutatsu Suzuki | 2005 | 706 |
| 132 | Kengo Ura | 2003 | 713 |
| 133 | Matt Stansell | 2002 | 718 |
| 134 | Siyar Bahadurzada | 2001 | 719 |
| 135 | Erik Meaders | 1999 | 728 |
| 136 | Joe Camacho | 1999 | 729 |
| 137 | Takuya Wada | 1999 | 732 |
| 138 | Yuichi Watanabe | 1989 | 734 |
| 139 | Ramazan Kuramagomedov | 2014 | 739 |
| 140 | Albert Tumenov | 2010 | 742 |
| 141 | Brock Larson | 2002 | 752 |
| 142 | Anthony Rozema | 2015 | 767 |
| 143 | Danny Garcia | 2015 | 768 |
| 144 | Travis Williams | 2015 | 770 |
| 145 | Adel El-Tamini | 2014 | 772 |
| 146 | Agilan Thani | 2013 | 778 |
| 147 | Takashi Sato | 2013 | 781 |
| 148 | Georgiy Kichigin | 2012 | 787 |
| 149 | Tyler McGuire | 2012 | 795 |
| 150 | Matt Conte | 2011 | 804 |
| 151 | Kris Armbrister | 2010 | 816 |
| 152 | Cody Pfister | 2009 | 826 |
| 153 | Aaron Hedrick | 2008 | 845 |
| 154 | Brandon Bell | 2008 | 850 |
| 155 | Daron Cruickshank | 2008 | 853 |
| 156 | Eric Moon | 2008 | 854 |
| 157 | Justin Baesman | 2008 | 857 |
| 158 | Roberto Neves | 2008 | 867 |
| 159 | Ryan Walker | 2008 | 868 |
| 160 | Thomas Noel | 2008 | 870 |
| 161 | Anselmo Martinez | 2007 | 875 |
| 162 | Cris Leyva | 2007 | 880 |
| 163 | Ivica Truscek | 2007 | 886 |
| 164 | Koffi Adzitso | 2007 | 889 |
| 165 | Levi Stout | 2007 | 890 |
| 166 | Tyson Jeffries | 2007 | 901 |
| 167 | Brendan Tierney | 2006 | 907 |
| 168 | Ivan Gluhak | 2006 | 910 |
| 169 | Jason Palacios | 2006 | 911 |
| 170 | Kiichi Kunimoto | 2006 | 913 |
| 171 | Waachiim Spiritwolf | 2006 | 921 |
| 172 | Giovani Diniz | 2005 | 925 |
| 173 | Omar de la Cruz | 2005 | 932 |
| 174 | Sojiro Orui | 2005 | 934 |
| 175 | Tomoyoshi Iwamiya | 2005 | 935 |
| 176 | Yoshihiro Koyama | 2005 | 937 |
| 177 | Dave Terrel | 2004 | 939 |
| 178 | Bryson Kamaka | 2003 | 951 |
| 179 | Ganjo Tentsuku | 2003 | 953 |
| 180 | James Warfield-Lane | 2003 | 956 |
| 181 | Gabe Rivas | 2002 | 969 |
| 182 | Garett Davis | 2002 | 970 |
| 183 | Ross Mason | 2002 | 980 |
| 184 | Hiroki Nagaoka | 2001 | 989 |
| 185 | J.T. Taylor | 2001 | 990 |
| 186 | Jerry Gummo | 2001 | 991 |
| 187 | Kenichi Serizawa | 2001 | 992 |
| 188 | Kenichiro Togashi | 2001 | 993 |
| 189 | Kenji Arai | 2001 | 994 |
| 190 | Shigetoshi Iwase | 2000 | 1006 |
| 191 | Jeremy Williams | 1999 | 1015 |
| 192 | Thomas Kenney | 1998 | 1027 |
| 193 | Michael Morales | 2017 | 1043 |
| 194 | Kyuhei Ueno | 1993 | 1048 |
| 195 | Zebaztian Kadestam | 2011 | 1070 |
| 196 | Stephen Palling | 1998 | 1078 |
| 197 | Steve Berger | 1998 | 1081 |
| 198 | Jay R. Palmer | 1996 | 1084 |
| 199 | Evangelista Santos | 1997 | 1087 |
| 200 | Ray Cooper III | 2012 | 1092 |
| 201 | Muslim Salikhov | 2011 | 1097 |
| 202 | Logan Storley | 2015 | 1098 |
| 203 | Keith Wisniewski | 1998 | 1104 |
| 204 | Andre Pederneiras | 1998 | 1113 |
| 205 | Renato Verissimo | 2002 | 1116 |
| 206 | Randy Brown | 2010 | 1118 |
| 207 | Rich Clementi | 1999 | 1125 |
| 208 | Neiman Gracie | 2013 | 1128 |
| 209 | Ryan LaFlare | 2008 | 1131 |
| 210 | Joao Bosco | 1996 | 1139 |
| 211 | Joe Hurley | 1997 | 1142 |
| 212 | Erick Silva | 2005 | 1150 |
| 213 | Carlo Prater | 2002 | 1152 |
| 214 | Anthony Rocco Martin | 2012 | 1154 |
| 215 | Daizo Ishige | 2004 | 1156 |
| 216 | Emil Meek | 2011 | 1160 |
| 217 | Henry Matamoros | 1997 | 1161 |
| 218 | Carlos Prates | 2012 | 1171 |
| 219 | Daniel Rodriguez | 2015 | 1183 |
| 220 | Dan Hornbuckle | 2006 | 1192 |
| 221 | Alex Oliveira | 2011 | 1194 |
| 222 | LaVerne Clark | 1997 | 1196 |
| 223 | Lyman Good | 2005 | 1202 |
| 224 | Alex Morono | 2010 | 1212 |
| 225 | Elizeu Zaleski | 2009 | 1215 |
| 226 | Steve Carl | 2005 | 1218 |
| 227 | Bret Bergmark | 2002 | 1219 |
| 228 | Hidehiko Hasegawa | 2002 | 1227 |
| 229 | Max Griffin | 2009 | 1236 |
| 230 | Keita Nakamura | 2003 | 1237 |
| 231 | Thad Jean | 2021 | 1239 |
| 232 | Romie Aram | 2000 | 1240 |
| 233 | Daiju Takase | 1998 | 1244 |
| 234 | Yoshiyuki Yoshida | 2005 | 1247 |
| 235 | Jason High | 2005 | 1248 |
| 236 | Magomed Umalatov | 2015 | 1252 |
| 237 | Paulo Thiago | 2005 | 1259 |
| 238 | Paulo Alfonso | 1997 | 1261 |
| 239 | T.J. Grant | 2006 | 1263 |
| 240 | Quinn Mulhern | 2007 | 1265 |
| 241 | Hidetaka Monma | 2001 | 1268 |
| 242 | Chris Wilson | 2002 | 1269 |
| 243 | Jim Wallhead | 2005 | 1270 |
| 244 | Carlos Leal | 2012 | 1272 |
| 245 | Delson Heleno | 2001 | 1273 |
| 246 | Fabiano Iha | 1998 | 1283 |
| 247 | Ben Earwood | 1998 | 1299 |
| 248 | Sergei Belov | 1998 | 1300 |
| 249 | Brian Ebersole | 2000 | 1302 |
| 250 | James Krause | 2007 | 1303 |
| 251 | Jingliang Li | 2007 | 1306 |
| 252 | Abubakar Vagaev | 2012 | 1310 |
| 253 | Mark Miller | 2002 | 1313 |
| 254 | Gabriel Bonfim | 2014 | 1314 |
| 255 | Jesse Jones | 2008 | 1321 |
| 256 | Nicolas Dalby | 2008 | 1323 |
| 257 | Dustin Hazelett | 2004 | 1330 |
| 258 | Kuniyoshi Hironaka | 2001 | 1334 |
| 259 | Sadibou Sy | 2013 | 1335 |
| 260 | Brad Blackburn | 2000 | 1337 |
| 261 | Michael Guymon | 1999 | 1338 |
| 262 | Jeremy Jackson | 2001 | 1342 |
| 263 | Nobuhiro Obiya | 2002 | 1345 |
| 264 | Jonathan Goulet | 2001 | 1361 |
| 265 | Karl Amoussou | 2006 | 1383 |
| 266 | Kuban Erkynbekov | 1997 | 1391 |
| 267 | Michel Prazeres | 2000 | 1399 |
| 268 | Fabricio Nascimento | 2002 | 1401 |
| 269 | Marcus Davis | 2003 | 1402 |
| 270 | Josh Neer | 2003 | 1405 |
| 271 | Billy Quarantillo | 2010 | 1418 |
| 272 | James Fanshier | 2002 | 1423 |
| 273 | Rinat Fakhretdinov | 2013 | 1434 |
| 274 | Curtis Millender | 2013 | 1435 |
| 275 | Ben Saunders | 2004 | 1456 |
| 276 | David Davis | 1997 | 1460 |
| 277 | Alex Cook | 1994 | 1461 |
| 278 | Tom Schmitz | 1997 | 1462 |
| 279 | Marcelo Aguiar | 1997 | 1466 |
| 280 | Yuya Shirai | 2003 | 1473 |
| 281 | Yasubey Enomoto | 2006 | 1476 |
| 282 | John Hathaway | 2006 | 1477 |
| 283 | Stanislav Nuschik | 1999 | 1482 |
| 284 | Hernani Perpetuo | 2005 | 1487 |
| 285 | Fernando Gonzalez | 2003 | 1490 |
| 286 | Yancy Medeiros | 2007 | 1492 |
| 287 | Brian Fulton | 1998 | 1507 |
| 288 | John Strawn | 2001 | 1520 |
| 289 | Alibeg Rasulov | 2016 | 1521 |
| 290 | Mathieu Nicourt | 1997 | 1539 |
| 291 | John Howard | 2004 | 1540 |
| 292 | Brad Gumm | 1999 | 1545 |
| 293 | Tony DeSouza | 2000 | 1547 |
| 294 | Michel Pereira | 2011 | 1553 |
| 295 | Chad W. Saunders | 1999 | 1557 |
| 296 | Cristiano Marcello | 1997 | 1562 |
| 297 | Aaron Riley | 1997 | 1572 |
| 298 | Heath Sims | 2002 | 1577 |
| 299 | Rob Kimmons | 2003 | 1581 |
| 300 | Bryan Battle | 2019 | 1595 |
| 301 | Jason Walls | 1997 | 1600 |
| 302 | Artur Taymaskhanov | 1998 | 1604 |
| 303 | Sergio Moraes | 2006 | 1606 |
| 304 | Alexey Kunchenko | 2015 | 1615 |
| 305 | Alexandre Barros | 1999 | 1617 |
| 306 | Saburo Kawakatsu | 1996 | 1623 |
| 307 | Shamil Musaev | 2013 | 1634 |
| 308 | Mike Perry | 2014 | 1636 |
| 309 | Adlan Amagov | 2007 | 1638 |
| 310 | Luigi Fioravanti | 2004 | 1650 |
| 311 | Zak Cummings | 2007 | 1651 |
| 312 | Warlley Alves | 2011 | 1652 |
| 313 | C.J. Fernandes | 1999 | 1653 |
| 314 | Nikolay Aleksakhin | 2011 | 1664 |
| 315 | Rory Markham | 2003 | 1670 |
| 316 | Charlie Brenneman | 2007 | 1671 |
| 317 | Brandon Thatch | 2008 | 1683 |
| 318 | Vitaly Slipenko | 2015 | 1690 |
| 319 | James Head | 2006 | 1692 |
| 320 | Jake Matthews | 2012 | 1709 |
| 321 | Viktoras Kontrimas | 1999 | 1714 |
| 322 | Kalinn Williams | 2017 | 1717 |
| 323 | Mike Malott | 2011 | 1721 |
| 324 | Mukhamed Berkhamov | 2013 | 1725 |
| 325 | Eduardo Pamplona | 2002 | 1733 |
| 326 | Uros Medic | 2016 | 1734 |
| 327 | Jeff Cox | 2004 | 1736 |
| 328 | Gadzhimurad Khiramagomedov | 2014 | 1750 |
| 329 | Alan Jouban | 2010 | 1752 |
| 330 | Andy Sanders | 1997 | 1760 |
| 331 | Bob Cook | 1998 | 1773 |
| 332 | Elias Silverio | 2011 | 1777 |
| 333 | Linson Simanjuntak | 2002 | 1790 |
| 334 | Luke Pedigo | 1999 | 1794 |
| 335 | Jordan Damon | 1999 | 1796 |
| 336 | Nordine Taleb | 2007 | 1799 |
| 337 | Amir Sadollah | 2008 | 1800 |
| 338 | Daniel Roberts | 2007 | 1802 |
| 339 | Miguel Baeza | 2014 | 1809 |
| 340 | Derrick Noble | 2000 | 1813 |
| 341 | Boris Medvedev | 2018 | 1817 |
| 342 | Fabricio Monteiro | 2004 | 1819 |
| 343 | Brent Weedman | 2005 | 1826 |
| 344 | Jesse Lennox | 2005 | 1828 |
| 345 | Aslambek Saidov | 2008 | 1831 |
| 346 | Gerald Harris | 2006 | 1842 |
| 347 | Jarrah Al-Silawi | 2012 | 1847 |
| 348 | Claudio Silva | 2007 | 1865 |
| 349 | Alberto Mina | 2005 | 1870 |
| 350 | Danny Roberts | 2010 | 1872 |
| 351 | Paul Bradley | 2006 | 1881 |
| 352 | Nicholas Musoke | 2007 | 1893 |
| 353 | Gideon Ray | 2000 | 1895 |
| 354 | Ustarmagomed Gadzhidaudov | 2010 | 1897 |
| 355 | Borys Mankowski | 2008 | 1902 |
| 356 | Chad Reiner | 2005 | 1905 |
| 357 | Gael Grimaud | 2008 | 1913 |
| 358 | Pete Sell | 2002 | 1914 |
| 359 | Cathal Pendred | 2009 | 1918 |
| 360 | Carlston Harris | 2011 | 1922 |
| 361 | Brandon Melendez | 2003 | 1923 |
| 362 | Dilano Taylor | 2019 | 1933 |
| 363 | Jung-Hwan Cha | 2005 | 1947 |
| 364 | Erik Oganov | 2000 | 1951 |
| 365 | T.J. Waldburger | 2005 | 1952 |
| 366 | Anthony Torres | 2000 | 1961 |
| 367 | Niko Price | 2012 | 1964 |
| 368 | Cassiano de Freitas | 2006 | 1965 |
| 369 | Jess Liaudin | 2000 | 1967 |
| 370 | Ryan Ford | 2007 | 1972 |
| 371 | Tyler Stinson | 2006 | 1982 |
| 372 | Zhakshylyk Myrzabekov | 2020 | 1983 |
| 373 | Mattias Awad | 2004 | 1991 |
| 374 | Sam Morgan | 2001 | 2002 |
| 375 | Murad Abdulaev | 2010 | 2010 |
| 376 | Jesse Ronson | 2009 | 2034 |
| 377 | Philip Rowe | 2014 | 2046 |
| 378 | Forrest Petz | 2002 | 2047 |
| 379 | Ismail Naurdiev | 2012 | 2048 |
| 380 | Peter Sobotta | 2004 | 2064 |
| 381 | Kenny Robertson | 2008 | 2073 |
| 382 | Bryan Barberena | 2009 | 2086 |
| 383 | Andre Santos | 2006 | 2094 |
| 384 | George Sullivan | 2006 | 2095 |
| 385 | Seok-Hyeon Ko | 2018 | 2109 |
| 386 | Matt Shaw | 1999 | 2122 |
| 387 | Gilbert Smith | 2011 | 2136 |
| 388 | Jake Hecht | 2006 | 2137 |
| 389 | Gil de Freitas | 2006 | 2141 |
| 390 | Adrian Bartosinski | 2017 | 2145 |
| 391 | Colton Smith | 2011 | 2146 |
| 392 | Sauli Heilimo | 2000 | 2155 |
| 393 | Alex Serdyukov | 2003 | 2159 |
| 394 | Justin Edwards | 2008 | 2173 |
| 395 | Punahele Soriano | 2017 | 2187 |
| 396 | Donnie Liles | 2005 | 2188 |
| 397 | Bartosz Fabinski | 2011 | 2191 |
| 398 | Oban Elliott | 2019 | 2193 |
| 399 | Chris Lozano | 2009 | 2198 |
| 400 | Do-Hyung Kim | 2004 | 2202 |
| 401 | Jeremiah Wells | 2012 | 2207 |
| 402 | Kevin Burns | 2006 | 2212 |
| 403 | Jacobe Smith | 2021 | 2294 |
| 404 | Vinicius Cruz | 2009 | 2356 |
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