All-Time Absolute

The career absolute rankings are the sum of the fighter’s accomplishments in all divisions.

Please note, the ratings here are not necessarily equal to the sum of a fighters’ divisional all-time points.

Last Updated: 6/04/2023
ID Fighter  (Age) Record Points
1 Georges St. Pierre 26-2-0
36135
2 Jon Jones 27-1-0
31710
3 Jose Aldo 31-8-0
23542
4 Fedor Emelianenko 40-7-0
21422
5 Anderson Silva 34-11-0
20516
6 Matt Hughes 45-9-0
20036
7 Demetrious Johnson 32-4-1
14251
8 Alexander Volkanovski 25-2-0
13357
9 Max Holloway 24-7-0
13171
10 B.J. Penn 16-14-2
12604
11 Khabib Nurmagomedov 29-0-0
12215
12 Daniel Cormier 22-3-0
12183
13 Kamaru Usman 20-3-0
12081
14 Dan Henderson 32-15-0
11771
15 Stipe Miocic 20-4-0
11251
16 Israel Adesanya 24-2-0
11141
17 Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira 34-10-1
11008
18 Randy Couture 19-11-0
10437
19 Frankie Edgar 24-11-1
9623
20 Urijah Faber 35-11-0
9480
21 Lyoto Machida 26-12-0
9015
22 Chris Weidman 15-6-0
8680
23 Wanderlei Silva 35-14-1
8569
24 Tyron Woodley 19-7-1
8465
25 Chuck Liddell 21-9-0
8383
26 Rafael dos Anjos 32-14-0
8005
27 Eddie Alvarez 30-8-0
8003
28 Cain Velasquez 14-3-0
7992
29 Dominick Cruz 24-4-0
7964
30 Robbie Lawler 29-16-0
7914
31 Fabricio Werdum 24-9-1
7781
32 Dustin Poirier 29-7-0
7756
33 Tito Ortiz 22-12-1
7741
34 Junior dos Santos 21-10-0
7717
35 Ben Henderson 30-12-0
7618

10 Comments

  1. Jeff Cohen August 20, 2018 at 1:45 am Reply

    How is it an ‘all time’ rating if you don’t rank inactive fighters?

    • oleg August 20, 2018 at 4:38 am Reply

      What do you mean? Are Randy Couture and Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira active fighters?

  2. Aidan August 20, 2018 at 1:45 am Reply

    This page was mentioned on the MMA Hour with Luke Thomas this week! He was talking about how many people suddenly saying Daniel Cormier is top 3 all time.

    Anderson and Fedor are hardly mentioned anymore on the “Mount Rushmore” of MMA. I think it’s mostly recency bias, but popular opinion now on the best 4 all time would be GSP, Demetrious, Cormier, and Jones.

    • oleg August 20, 2018 at 1:45 am Reply

      Awesome. There’s definitely recency bias… and seems like people are discounting Silva’s accomplishments because of the PED issues – even though most of his career was in an era with very lax testing (or none at all) – and almost all of his UFC opponents have failed drug tests even with the lax pre-USADA testing.

      Fedor and Silva are still on my personal Mount Rushmore FWIW 🙂

  3. mmastat August 20, 2018 at 1:45 am Reply

    Wtf? Conor beat number 3, 20 and 35 but he is not on the list? Clearly greatest FW of all time.

    And Bj Penn at 8? With the record of 16-12-2? That looks legit af

    And Fedor…can crusher who fell out of his prime the moment he first met an elite competition. Cain, Stipe or even DC would make him look like a joke

  4. Jeff Cohen July 23, 2018 at 2:06 pm Reply

    How is it an ‘all time’ rating if you don’t rank inactive fighters?

    • oleg July 23, 2018 at 2:14 pm Reply

      What do you mean? Are Randy Couture and Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira active fighters?

  5. Aidan July 10, 2018 at 7:23 pm Reply

    This page was mentioned on the MMA Hour with Luke Thomas this week! He was talking about how many people suddenly saying Daniel Cormier is top 3 all time.

    Anderson and Fedor are hardly mentioned anymore on the “Mount Rushmore” of MMA. I think it’s mostly recency bias, but popular opinion now on the best 4 all time would be GSP, Demetrious, Cormier, and Jones.

    • oleg July 11, 2018 at 11:43 am Reply

      Awesome. There’s definitely recency bias… and seems like people are discounting Silva’s accomplishments because of the PED issues – even though most of his career was in an era with very lax testing (or none at all) – and almost all of his UFC opponents have failed drug tests even with the lax pre-USADA testing.

      Fedor and Silva are still on my personal Mount Rushmore FWIW 🙂

  6. mmastat July 7, 2018 at 5:55 pm Reply

    Wtf? Conor beat number 3, 20 and 35 but he is not on the list? Clearly greatest FW of all time.

    And Bj Penn at 8? With the record of 16-12-2? That looks legit af

    And Fedor…can crusher who fell out of his prime the moment he first met an elite competition. Cain, Stipe or even DC would make him look like a joke

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