Last Updated: 2/3/2012 3:40:21 PM

Computerized All-Time Mixed Martial Arts Rankings

The all-time rankings reflect the overall careers of MMA fighters. When observing these lists, it is important to consider the following:

• All-time rankings are division-specific, whereas the current rankings are division-adjusted.  Therefore, a fighter CAN be ranked in more than one division.
• Longevity at or near the top of the division plays a huge role in where a fighter is ranked.  All of the rankings are career-long, with the exception of the division dominance list, which ranks fighters based on their most dominant period.  Only extreme cases of past-prime bad performances are mostly excused from the rankings.
• Head-to-head results have a minor, but direct effect.
• These rankings are not updated as often as the current rankings. Please check the last updated date at the top of the page.
• The nature of the rankings requires them for the most part, to be “slow” in reacting to actions made by current fighters.  Think ‘rolling average’, versus immediate change when looking for effects from recent fights.
• Fluctuations in the position of active fighters may be a frequent occurrence. This is merely due to how these rankings are calculated. However, fluctuations may also accompany mathematical revisions or data updates.
• The all-time division dominance has minimum requirements for divisional tenure.
• Early Pancrase (pre-mid 2000) bouts were open-weight.  Due to the impact of these matches, the “credit” is assigned to fighters within the division that these fighters would’ve competed in had there been weight divisions, but only from early 1998 and on (when UFC started adapting several weight divisions).  Surrounding data (in terms of chronology) is analyzed to determine a division.  If one cannot be definitively determined, the credit will be assigned to the fighter for Heavyweight+.

The career absolute rankings are the sum of the fighters’ accomplishments in all divisions. Hover over the division dominance list to view the weight class info and peak dominance date.
Absolute Rank Fighter 1 Anderson Silva 2 Georges St Pierre 3 Fedor Emelianenko 4 Matt Hughes 5 Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira 6 BJ Penn 7 Randy Couture 8 Dan Henderson 9 Wanderlei Silva 10 Urijah Faber 11 Chuck Liddell 12 Quinton Jackson 13 Lyoto Machida 14 Takanori Gomi 15 Nate Marquardt 16 Jose Aldo 17 Josh Barnett 18 Mauricio Rua 19 Gilbert Melendez 20 Jon Fitch 21 Shinya Aoki 22 Sean Sherk 23 Rich Franklin 24 Rashad Evans 25 Frankie Edgar	Division Dominance (Peak) Rank Fighter 1 Georges St Pierre 2 Anderson Silva 3 Ken Shamrock 4 Fedor Emelianenko 5 Matt Hughes 6 Chuck Liddell 7 Jon Jones 8 Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira 9 Jose Aldo 10 Miguel Torres 11 Shinichi Kojima 12 Mike Thomas Brown 13 Junior dos Santos 14 Masakatsu Funaki 15 Wanderlei Silva 16 Takanori Gomi 17 Frankie Edgar 18 Yasuhiro Urushitani 19 Quinton Jackson 20 Alexandre Franca Nogueira 21 Mamoru Yamaguchi 22 Mirko Filipovic 23 Mauricio Rua 24 Semmy Schilt 25 Urijah Faber
Heavyweight+/Openweight Rank Fighter 1 Fedor Emelianenko 2 Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira 3 Josh Barnett 4 Randy Couture 5 Mirko Filipovic 6 Tim Sylvia 7 Frank Mir 8 Bas Rutten 9 Cain Velasquez 10 Mark Coleman 11 Junior dos Santos 12 Brock Lesnar 13 Andrei Arlovski 14 Fabricio Werdum 15 Masakatsu Funaki 16 Semmy Schilt 17 Alistair Overeem 18 Royce Gracie 19 Ken Shamrock 20 Pedro Rizzo 21 Igor Vovchanchyn 22 Shane Carwin 23 Sergei Kharitonov 24 Kevin Randleman 25 Ricco Rodriguez	Light Heavyweight Rank Fighter 1 Wanderlei Silva 2 Chuck Liddell 3 Quinton Jackson 4 Lyoto Machida 5 Mauricio Rua 6 Rashad Evans 7 Dan Henderson 8 Tito Ortiz 9 Randy Couture 10 Forrest Griffin 11 Ricardo Arona 12 Jon Jones 13 Antonio Rogerio Nogueira 14 Renato Sobral 15 Vitor Belfort 16 Yuki Kondo 17 Frank Shamrock 18 Rich Franklin 19 Gegard Mousasi 20 Keith Jardine 21 Paulo Filho 22 Jeremy Horn 23 Sokoudjou 24 Thiago Silva 25 Guy Mezger
Middleweight Rank Fighter 1 Anderson Silva 2 Nate Marquardt 3 Rich Franklin 4 Dan Henderson 5 Chael Sonnen 6 Paulo Filho 7 Yushin Okami 8 Murilo Bustamante 9 Matt Lindland 10 Ricardo Almeida 11 Jeremy Horn 12 Robbie Lawler 13 Kiuma Kunioku 14 Kazuo Misaki 15 Jorge Santiago 16 Demian Maia 17 Dave Menne 18 Jake Shields 19 Ronaldo Souza 20 Evan Tanner 21 Michael Bisping 22 Rodrigo Gracie 23 Gegard Mousasi 24 Erik Paulson 25 Denis Kang	Welterweight Rank Fighter 1 Georges St Pierre 2 Matt Hughes 3 Jon Fitch 4 Sean Sherk 5 Josh Koscheck 6 Thiago Alves 7 Diego Sanchez 8 Jake Shields 9 Nick Diaz 10 Karo Parisyan 11 Pat Miletich 12 Hayato Sakurai 13 BJ Penn 14 Carlos Condit 15 Matt Serra 16 Jason Black 17 Tetsuji Kato 18 Frank Trigg 19 Dennis Hallman 20 Dave Menne 21 Chris Lytle 22 Nick Thompson 23 Dan Hardy 24 Jay Hieron 25 Paulo Thiago
Lightweight Rank Fighter 1 Takanori Gomi 2 BJ Penn 3 Frankie Edgar 4 Shinya Aoki 5 Vitor Ribeiro 6 Gilbert Melendez 7 Joachim Hansen 8 Tatsuya Kawajiri 9 Gray Maynard 10 Eddie Alvarez 11 Kenny Florian 12 Marcus Aurelio 13 Caol Uno 14 Gesias Cavalcante 15 Yves Edwards 16 Jens Pulver 17 Rumina Sato 18 Dokonjonosuke Mishima 19 Mitsuhiro Ishida 20 Hermes Franca 21 Clay Guida 22 Sean Sherk 23 Din Thomas 24 Jim Miller 25 Ben Henderson	Featherweight Rank Fighter 1 Urijah Faber 2 Jose Aldo 3 Hatsu Hioki 4 Alexandre Franca Nogueira 5 Mike Thomas Brown 6 Masakazu Imanari 7 Jeff Curran 8 Marlon Sandro 9 Yoshiro Maeda 10 Wagnney Fabiano 11 Hiroyuki Takaya 12 Chad Mendes 13 Noboru Asahi 14 Mark Hominick 15 Joao Roque 16 Takeshi Inoue 17 Michihiro Omigawa 18 Antonio Carvalho 19 Bibiano Fernandes 20 Stephen Palling 21 Naoya Uematsu 22 Ivan Menjivar 23 Gilbert Melendez 24 Tetsuo Katsuta 25 Uchu Tatsumi
Bantamweight Rank Fighter 1 Miguel Torres 2 Dominick Cruz 3 Brian Bowles 4 Joseph Benavidez 5 Ryota Matsune 6 Masahiro Oishi 7 Masakatsu Ueda 8 Eddie Wineland 9 Masakazu Imanari 10 Chase Beebe 11 Kentaro Imaizumi 12 Scott Jorgensen 13 Antonio Banuelos 14 Akitoshi Hokazono 15 Takeya Mizugaki 16 Hisao Ikeda 17 Kazuhiro Sakamoto 18 Eduardo Dantas 19 Kenichi Tanaka 20 Abel Cullum 21 Zach Makovsky 22 Rani Yahya 23 Jin Akimoto 24 Manny Tapia 25 Demetrious Johnson	Flyweight Rank Fighter 1 Mamoru Yamaguchi 2 Yasuhiro Urushitani 3 Shinichi Kojima 4 Rambaa Somdet 5 Jussier da Silva 6 Yuki Shojo 7 Masatoshi Abe 8 Junji Ikoma 9 Ryuichi Miki 10 Alexis Vila 11 Jin Akimoto 12 Setsu Iguchi 13 Mitsuhisa Sunabe 14 Homare Kuboyama 15 Kiyotaka Shimizu 16 Robson Moura 17 Masaaki Sugawara 18 Yasuhiro Akagi 19 Takeyasu Hirono 20 Ian McCall 21 Atsushi Takeuchi 22 Daiji Takahashi 23 Yusei Shimokawa 24 Richard Lasprilla 25 Fumihiro Kitahara
Women (Open) Rank Fighter 1 Megumi Fujii 2 Yuka Tsuji 3 Tara LaRosa 4 Marloes Coenen 5 Jennifer Howe 6 Cristiane Santos 7 Roxanne Modafferi 8 Sarah Kaufman 9 Satoko Shinashi 10 Hisae Watanabe 11 Amanda Buckner 12 Miku Matsumoto 13 Laura DAuguste 14 Miesha Tate 15 Hitomi Akano 16 Takayo Hashi 17 Erin Toughill 18 Seo Hee Ham 19 Rin Nakai 20 Megumi Yabushita 21 Shayna Baszler 22 Yuuki Kondo 23 Zoila Gurgel 24 Gina Carano 25 Mei Yamaguchi

Comments (172)

172 Comments

• ThonolansGhost says:

  December 5, 2011 at 10:33 pm

  Nice to see GSP in the #2 spot- it’s long overdue.

  Reply
• jcs says:

  December 1, 2011 at 5:36 pm

  Did not expect Fedor to get overtaken…

  Reply

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