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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 | 31 |
| 4 | B.J. Penn | 2001 | 36 |
| 5 | Tyron Woodley | 2009 | 44 |
| 6 | Colby Covington | 2012 | 52 |
| 7 | Robbie Lawler | 2001 | 54 |
| 8 | Jake Shields | 1999 | 69 |
| 9 | Jon Fitch | 2002 | 83 |
| 10 | Nick Diaz | 2001 | 85 |
| 11 | Rory MacDonald | 2005 | 86 |
| 12 | Johny Hendricks | 2007 | 95 |
| 13 | Carlos Condit | 2002 | 100 |
| 14 | Jorge Masvidal | 2003 | 107 |
| 15 | Stephen Thompson | 2007 | 110 |
| 16 | Demian Maia | 2001 | 111 |
| 17 | Sean Sherk | 1999 | 114 |
| 18 | Hayato Sakurai | 1996 | 115 |
| 19 | Douglas Lima | 2006 | 122 |
| 20 | Shonie Carter | 1997 | 126 |
| 21 | Josh Koscheck | 2004 | 129 |
| 22 | Diego Sanchez | 2002 | 140 |
| 23 | Hector Lombard | 2004 | 141 |
| 24 | Leon Edwards | 2010 | 143 |
| 25 | Ben Askren | 2009 | 156 |
| 26 | Darren Till | 2013 | 168 |
| 27 | Carlos Newton | 1996 | 169 |
| 28 | Frank Trigg | 1997 | 180 |
| 29 | Gilbert Burns | 2012 | 181 |
| 30 | Paul Daley | 2003 | 185 |
| 31 | John Alessio | 1998 | 190 |
| 32 | Neil Magny | 2010 | 191 |
| 33 | Thiago Alves | 2001 | 196 |
| 34 | Karo Parisyan | 1999 | 198 |
| 35 | Matt Serra | 1999 | 199 |
| 36 | Chris Lytle | 1999 | 213 |
| 37 | Dong-Hyun Kim | 2004 | 226 |
| 38 | Jay Hieron | 2003 | 230 |
| 39 | Andrey Koreshkov | 2010 | 231 |
| 40 | Jake Ellenberger | 2005 | 232 |
| 41 | Sean Strickland | 2008 | 242 |
| 42 | Dennis Hallman | 1996 | 253 |
| 43 | Lorenz Larkin | 2009 | 257 |
| 44 | Jutaro Nakao | 1996 | 259 |
| 45 | Martin Kampmann | 2003 | 260 |
| 46 | Gil Castillo | 1998 | 266 |
| 47 | Mike Pyle | 1999 | 268 |
| 48 | Michael Chiesa | 2008 | 277 |
| 49 | Matt Brown | 2004 | 281 |
| 50 | Vicente Luque | 2009 | 282 |
| 51 | Tetsuji Kato | 1997 | 283 |
| 52 | Belal Muhammad | 2012 | 284 |
| 53 | Santiago Ponzinibbio | 2008 | 301 |
| 54 | Gunnar Nelson | 2007 | 302 |
| 55 | Tim Means | 2004 | 316 |
| 56 | Katsuya Inoue | 2003 | 318 |
| 57 | Brian Foster | 2006 | 319 |
| 58 | Dom O'Grady | 2007 | 323 |
| 59 | Shingo Suzuki | 2007 | 324 |
| 60 | Tony Hervey | 2006 | 326 |
| 61 | Kazuhiro Kusayanagi | 1989 | 330 |
| 62 | Jason Black | 2000 | 332 |
| 63 | Victor Valenzuela | 2013 | 334 |
| 64 | Ansar Chalangov | 2003 | 349 |
| 65 | Joe Riggs | 2001 | 355 |
| 66 | Dan Hardy | 2004 | 357 |
| 67 | Martin Nguyen | 2012 | 373 |
| 68 | Josh Burkman | 2003 | 374 |
| 69 | Tarec Saffiedine | 2007 | 379 |
| 70 | Rick Story | 2007 | 383 |
| 71 | Jason Jackson | 2009 | 389 |
| 72 | Ray Cooper | 1997 | 392 |
| 73 | Nick Thompson | 2003 | 401 |
| 74 | Magomed Magomedkerimov | 2008 | 403 |
| 75 | Thomas Denny | 1999 | 410 |
| 76 | Daichi Abe | 2015 | 412 |
| 77 | Ryuichiro Sumimura | 2009 | 415 |
| 78 | Ben Egli | 2008 | 416 |
| 79 | David Gomez | 2008 | 417 |
| 80 | Drew Fickett | 1999 | 425 |
| 81 | Geoff Neal | 2012 | 428 |
| 82 | Anthony Lapsley | 2006 | 468 |
| 83 | Sam Liera | 2006 | 470 |
| 84 | Hiromitsu Miura | 2004 | 475 |
| 85 | Takenori Sato | 2004 | 477 |
| 86 | Aaron Wetherspoon | 2003 | 478 |
| 87 | Akihiro Murayama | 2003 | 479 |
| 88 | Koji Oishi | 2000 | 491 |
| 89 | Jake Adams | 2014 | 496 |
| 90 | Yuki Okano | 2008 | 500 |
| 91 | Joe Condon | 2007 | 501 |
| 92 | Buddy Clinton | 1999 | 510 |
| 93 | Jordan Mein | 2006 | 513 |
| 94 | Marius Zaromskis | 2000 | 514 |
| 95 | Danny Bennett | 1995 | 518 |
| 96 | Seichi Ikemoto | 1999 | 529 |
| 97 | Mike Pierce | 2007 | 536 |
| 98 | Ali Elias | 1997 | 542 |
| 99 | Mikey Burnett | 1996 | 558 |
| 100 | Timofey Nastyukhin | 2010 | 567 |
| 101 | Yuta Watanabe | 2004 | 578 |
| 102 | Masayuki Kikuiri | 2017 | 580 |
| 103 | Richie Palomino | 2016 | 584 |
| 104 | Yamato Nishikawa | 2016 | 586 |
| 105 | Sherwin Price | 2015 | 588 |
| 106 | Edson Gomez | 2014 | 590 |
| 107 | Nick Angeloni | 2014 | 593 |
| 108 | Glaico Franca | 2012 | 599 |
| 109 | Hiroyuki Tetsuka | 2012 | 600 |
| 110 | Laszlo Senyei | 2012 | 601 |
| 111 | Dez Hill | 2011 | 606 |
| 112 | Lowen Tynanes | 2011 | 611 |
| 113 | Darren Smith Jr. | 2010 | 616 |
| 114 | Gota Yamashita | 2010 | 617 |
| 115 | Ryan Fillingame | 2010 | 620 |
| 116 | Koshi Matsumoto | 2009 | 629 |
| 117 | Kito Andrews | 2007 | 647 |
| 118 | Ricky Legere Jr. | 2007 | 650 |
| 119 | Thor Skancke | 2007 | 654 |
| 120 | Nobutatsu Suzuki | 2005 | 663 |
| 121 | Kengo Ura | 2003 | 670 |
| 122 | Matt Stansell | 2002 | 675 |
| 123 | Siyar Bahadurzada | 2001 | 676 |
| 124 | Erik Meaders | 1999 | 685 |
| 125 | Joe Camacho | 1999 | 686 |
| 126 | Takuya Wada | 1999 | 689 |
| 127 | Yuichi Watanabe | 1989 | 691 |
| 128 | Sean Brady | 2013 | 692 |
| 129 | Brock Larson | 2002 | 709 |
| 130 | Anthony Rozema | 2015 | 723 |
| 131 | Danny Garcia | 2015 | 724 |
| 132 | Travis Williams | 2015 | 726 |
| 133 | Adel El-Tamini | 2014 | 728 |
| 134 | Agilan Thani | 2013 | 734 |
| 135 | Takashi Sato | 2013 | 737 |
| 136 | Georgiy Kichigin | 2012 | 743 |
| 137 | Tyler McGuire | 2012 | 751 |
| 138 | Matt Conte | 2011 | 760 |
| 139 | Kris Armbrister | 2010 | 772 |
| 140 | Cody Pfister | 2009 | 782 |
| 141 | Aaron Hedrick | 2008 | 801 |
| 142 | Brandon Bell | 2008 | 806 |
| 143 | Daron Cruickshank | 2008 | 809 |
| 144 | Eric Moon | 2008 | 810 |
| 145 | Justin Baesman | 2008 | 813 |
| 146 | Roberto Neves | 2008 | 823 |
| 147 | Ryan Walker | 2008 | 824 |
| 148 | Thomas Noel | 2008 | 826 |
| 149 | Yoichiro Sato | 2008 | 829 |
| 150 | Anselmo Martinez | 2007 | 832 |
| 151 | Cris Leyva | 2007 | 837 |
| 152 | Ivica Truscek | 2007 | 843 |
| 153 | Koffi Adzitso | 2007 | 846 |
| 154 | Levi Stout | 2007 | 847 |
| 155 | Tyson Jeffries | 2007 | 858 |
| 156 | Brendan Tierney | 2006 | 864 |
| 157 | Ivan Gluhak | 2006 | 867 |
| 158 | Jason Palacios | 2006 | 868 |
| 159 | Kiichi Kunimoto | 2006 | 870 |
| 160 | Waachiim Spiritwolf | 2006 | 878 |
| 161 | Giovani Diniz | 2005 | 882 |
| 162 | Omar de la Cruz | 2005 | 889 |
| 163 | Sojiro Orui | 2005 | 891 |
| 164 | Tomoyoshi Iwamiya | 2005 | 892 |
| 165 | Yoshihiro Koyama | 2005 | 894 |
| 166 | Dave Terrel | 2004 | 896 |
| 167 | Bryson Kamaka | 2003 | 908 |
| 168 | Ganjo Tentsuku | 2003 | 910 |
| 169 | James Warfield-Lane | 2003 | 913 |
| 170 | Gabe Rivas | 2002 | 926 |
| 171 | Garett Davis | 2002 | 927 |
| 172 | Ross Mason | 2002 | 937 |
| 173 | Hiroki Nagaoka | 2001 | 946 |
| 174 | J.T. Taylor | 2001 | 947 |
| 175 | Jerry Gummo | 2001 | 948 |
| 176 | Kenichi Serizawa | 2001 | 949 |
| 177 | Kenichiro Togashi | 2001 | 950 |
| 178 | Kenji Arai | 2001 | 951 |
| 179 | Kenta Takizawa | 2014 | 961 |
| 180 | Shigetoshi Iwase | 2000 | 964 |
| 181 | Jeremy Williams | 1999 | 973 |
| 182 | Thomas Kenney | 1998 | 985 |
| 183 | Yaroslav Amosov | 2012 | 994 |
| 184 | Michael Page | 2012 | 995 |
| 185 | Albert Tumenov | 2010 | 999 |
| 186 | Kyuhei Ueno | 1993 | 1007 |
| 187 | Zebaztian Kadestam | 2011 | 1026 |
| 188 | Logan Storley | 2015 | 1029 |
| 189 | Stephen Palling | 1998 | 1036 |
| 190 | Steve Berger | 1998 | 1039 |
| 191 | Shavkat Rakhmonov | 2013 | 1042 |
| 192 | Jay R. Palmer | 1996 | 1043 |
| 193 | Evangelista Santos | 1997 | 1045 |
| 194 | Ray Cooper III | 2012 | 1051 |
| 195 | Keith Wisniewski | 1998 | 1059 |
| 196 | Andre Pederneiras | 1998 | 1068 |
| 197 | Renato Verissimo | 2002 | 1071 |
| 198 | Rich Clementi | 1999 | 1079 |
| 199 | Neiman Gracie | 2013 | 1082 |
| 200 | Ryan LaFlare | 2008 | 1088 |
| 201 | Joao Bosco | 1996 | 1095 |
| 202 | Joe Hurley | 1997 | 1098 |
| 203 | Erick Silva | 2005 | 1104 |
| 204 | Carlo Prater | 2002 | 1105 |
| 205 | Anthony Rocco Martin | 2012 | 1107 |
| 206 | Daizo Ishige | 2004 | 1109 |
| 207 | Emil Meek | 2011 | 1113 |
| 208 | Henry Matamoros | 1997 | 1114 |
| 209 | Dan Hornbuckle | 2006 | 1143 |
| 210 | Alex Oliveira | 2011 | 1145 |
| 211 | LaVerne Clark | 1997 | 1147 |
| 212 | Lyman Good | 2005 | 1152 |
| 213 | Ian Garry | 2019 | 1157 |
| 214 | Roberto Soldic | 2014 | 1167 |
| 215 | Steve Carl | 2005 | 1169 |
| 216 | Bret Bergmark | 2002 | 1170 |
| 217 | Hidehiko Hasegawa | 2002 | 1177 |
| 218 | Keita Nakamura | 2003 | 1186 |
| 219 | Jack Della Maddalena | 2016 | 1188 |
| 220 | Romie Aram | 2000 | 1189 |
| 221 | Sadibou Sy | 2013 | 1190 |
| 222 | Daiju Takase | 1998 | 1192 |
| 223 | Yoshiyuki Yoshida | 2005 | 1195 |
| 224 | Jason High | 2005 | 1196 |
| 225 | Alex Morono | 2010 | 1202 |
| 226 | Paulo Thiago | 2005 | 1208 |
| 227 | Paulo Alfonso | 1997 | 1211 |
| 228 | T.J. Grant | 2006 | 1213 |
| 229 | Quinn Mulhern | 2007 | 1214 |
| 230 | Hidetaka Monma | 2001 | 1217 |
| 231 | Chris Wilson | 2002 | 1218 |
| 232 | Jim Wallhead | 2005 | 1219 |
| 233 | Delson Heleno | 2001 | 1220 |
| 234 | Fabiano Iha | 1998 | 1232 |
| 235 | Elizeu Zaleski | 2009 | 1235 |
| 236 | Muslim Salikhov | 2011 | 1236 |
| 237 | Ben Earwood | 1998 | 1250 |
| 238 | Sergei Belov | 1998 | 1251 |
| 239 | Brian Ebersole | 2000 | 1253 |
| 240 | James Krause | 2007 | 1254 |
| 241 | Jingliang Li | 2007 | 1257 |
| 242 | Mark Miller | 2002 | 1262 |
| 243 | Jesse Jones | 2008 | 1270 |
| 244 | Dustin Hazelett | 2004 | 1276 |
| 245 | Kuniyoshi Hironaka | 2001 | 1280 |
| 246 | Brad Blackburn | 2000 | 1283 |
| 247 | Michael Guymon | 1999 | 1284 |
| 248 | Carlos Leal | 2012 | 1288 |
| 249 | Jeremy Jackson | 2001 | 1289 |
| 250 | Nobuhiro Obiya | 2002 | 1292 |
| 251 | Jonathan Goulet | 2001 | 1305 |
| 252 | Max Griffin | 2009 | 1307 |
| 253 | Randy Brown | 2010 | 1320 |
| 254 | Karl Amoussou | 2006 | 1330 |
| 255 | Kuban Erkynbekov | 1997 | 1339 |
| 256 | Michel Prazeres | 2000 | 1345 |
| 257 | Fabricio Nascimento | 2002 | 1347 |
| 258 | Marcus Davis | 2003 | 1348 |
| 259 | Josh Neer | 2003 | 1351 |
| 260 | Daniel Rodriguez | 2015 | 1358 |
| 261 | Billy Quarantillo | 2010 | 1361 |
| 262 | James Fanshier | 2002 | 1367 |
| 263 | Curtis Millender | 2013 | 1377 |
| 264 | Ben Saunders | 2004 | 1399 |
| 265 | David Davis | 1997 | 1402 |
| 266 | Alex Cook | 1994 | 1403 |
| 267 | Tom Schmitz | 1997 | 1404 |
| 268 | Marcelo Aguiar | 1997 | 1408 |
| 269 | Yuya Shirai | 2003 | 1414 |
| 270 | Yasubey Enomoto | 2006 | 1417 |
| 271 | John Hathaway | 2006 | 1418 |
| 272 | Nicolas Dalby | 2008 | 1421 |
| 273 | Stanislav Nuschik | 1999 | 1423 |
| 274 | Hernani Perpetuo | 2005 | 1427 |
| 275 | Fernando Gonzalez | 2003 | 1430 |
| 276 | Yancy Medeiros | 2007 | 1432 |
| 277 | Magomed Umalatov | 2015 | 1447 |
| 278 | Brian Fulton | 1998 | 1449 |
| 279 | Joaquin Buckley | 2014 | 1453 |
| 280 | John Strawn | 2001 | 1460 |
| 281 | Michael Morales | 2017 | 1468 |
| 282 | Mathieu Nicourt | 1997 | 1476 |
| 283 | John Howard | 2004 | 1478 |
| 284 | Brad Gumm | 1999 | 1484 |
| 285 | Tony DeSouza | 2000 | 1486 |
| 286 | Chad W. Saunders | 1999 | 1495 |
| 287 | Abubakar Vagaev | 2012 | 1498 |
| 288 | Cristiano Marcello | 1997 | 1500 |
| 289 | Aaron Riley | 1997 | 1506 |
| 290 | Heath Sims | 2002 | 1509 |
| 291 | Rob Kimmons | 2003 | 1511 |
| 292 | Michel Pereira | 2011 | 1523 |
| 293 | Jason Walls | 1997 | 1528 |
| 294 | Artur Taymaskhanov | 1998 | 1532 |
| 295 | Sergio Moraes | 2006 | 1534 |
| 296 | Alexey Kunchenko | 2015 | 1542 |
| 297 | Alexandre Barros | 1999 | 1544 |
| 298 | Saburo Kawakatsu | 1996 | 1551 |
| 299 | Mike Perry | 2014 | 1560 |
| 300 | Adlan Amagov | 2007 | 1562 |
| 301 | Luigi Fioravanti | 2004 | 1574 |
| 302 | Zak Cummings | 2007 | 1575 |
| 303 | Warlley Alves | 2011 | 1577 |
| 304 | C.J. Fernandes | 1999 | 1578 |
| 305 | Nikolay Aleksakhin | 2011 | 1593 |
| 306 | Rory Markham | 2003 | 1599 |
| 307 | Charlie Brenneman | 2007 | 1600 |
| 308 | Brandon Thatch | 2008 | 1612 |
| 309 | Vitaly Slipenko | 2015 | 1618 |
| 310 | James Head | 2006 | 1619 |
| 311 | Viktoras Kontrimas | 1999 | 1642 |
| 312 | Eduardo Pamplona | 2002 | 1656 |
| 313 | Jeff Cox | 2004 | 1658 |
| 314 | Gadzhimurad Khiramagomedov | 2014 | 1668 |
| 315 | Alan Jouban | 2010 | 1671 |
| 316 | Andy Sanders | 1997 | 1681 |
| 317 | Bob Cook | 1998 | 1693 |
| 318 | Elias Silverio | 2011 | 1696 |
| 319 | Linson Simanjuntak | 2002 | 1710 |
| 320 | Luke Pedigo | 1999 | 1713 |
| 321 | Jordan Damon | 1999 | 1716 |
| 322 | Boris Medvedev | 2018 | 1717 |
| 323 | Nordine Taleb | 2007 | 1719 |
| 324 | Amir Sadollah | 2008 | 1720 |
| 325 | Daniel Roberts | 2007 | 1722 |
| 326 | Mukhamed Berkhamov | 2013 | 1725 |
| 327 | Miguel Baeza | 2014 | 1734 |
| 328 | Derrick Noble | 2000 | 1738 |
| 329 | Fabricio Monteiro | 2004 | 1740 |
| 330 | Brent Weedman | 2005 | 1746 |
| 331 | Jesse Lennox | 2005 | 1749 |
| 332 | Aslambek Saidov | 2008 | 1750 |
| 333 | Gerald Harris | 2006 | 1761 |
| 334 | Jarrah Al-Silawi | 2012 | 1766 |
| 335 | Kalinn Williams | 2017 | 1768 |
| 336 | Claudio Silva | 2007 | 1787 |
| 337 | Ismail Naurdiev | 2012 | 1791 |
| 338 | Alberto Mina | 2005 | 1792 |
| 339 | Danny Roberts | 2010 | 1794 |
| 340 | Paul Bradley | 2006 | 1803 |
| 341 | Jake Matthews | 2012 | 1806 |
| 342 | Nicholas Musoke | 2007 | 1816 |
| 343 | Gideon Ray | 2000 | 1817 |
| 344 | Ustarmagomed Gadzhidaudov | 2010 | 1821 |
| 345 | Borys Mankowski | 2008 | 1826 |
| 346 | Chad Reiner | 2005 | 1830 |
| 347 | Gael Grimaud | 2008 | 1835 |
| 348 | Pete Sell | 2002 | 1836 |
| 349 | Cathal Pendred | 2009 | 1841 |
| 350 | Carlston Harris | 2011 | 1846 |
| 351 | Brandon Melendez | 2003 | 1847 |
| 352 | Jung-Hwan Cha | 2005 | 1868 |
| 353 | Erik Oganov | 2000 | 1872 |
| 354 | T.J. Waldburger | 2005 | 1873 |
| 355 | Anthony Torres | 2000 | 1882 |
| 356 | Niko Price | 2012 | 1884 |
| 357 | Cassiano de Freitas | 2006 | 1885 |
| 358 | Jess Liaudin | 2000 | 1888 |
| 359 | Ryan Ford | 2007 | 1892 |
| 360 | Tyler Stinson | 2006 | 1900 |
| 361 | Mattias Awad | 2004 | 1907 |
| 362 | Sam Morgan | 2001 | 1914 |
| 363 | Murad Abdulaev | 2010 | 1920 |
| 364 | Jesse Ronson | 2009 | 1939 |
| 365 | Philip Rowe | 2014 | 1946 |
| 366 | Forrest Petz | 2002 | 1947 |
| 367 | Peter Sobotta | 2004 | 1963 |
| 368 | Rinat Fakhretdinov | 2013 | 1972 |
| 369 | Kenny Robertson | 2008 | 1973 |
| 370 | Bryan Barberena | 2009 | 1986 |
| 371 | Dilano Taylor | 2019 | 1992 |
| 372 | Andre Santos | 2006 | 1995 |
| 373 | George Sullivan | 2006 | 1996 |
| 374 | Shamil Musaev | 2013 | 2002 |
| 375 | Matt Shaw | 1999 | 2019 |
| 376 | Gilbert Smith | 2011 | 2034 |
| 377 | Jake Hecht | 2006 | 2035 |
| 378 | Gil de Freitas | 2006 | 2038 |
| 379 | Colton Smith | 2011 | 2042 |
| 380 | Sauli Heilimo | 2000 | 2053 |
| 381 | Alex Serdyukov | 2003 | 2058 |
| 382 | Justin Edwards | 2008 | 2070 |
| 383 | Donnie Liles | 2005 | 2087 |
| 384 | Bartosz Fabinski | 2011 | 2090 |
| 385 | Chris Lozano | 2009 | 2097 |
| 386 | Do-Hyung Kim | 2004 | 2101 |
| 387 | Kevin Burns | 2006 | 2107 |
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