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The Top Ranked Lightweight MMA Fighters of the 2010s
Notes: Fighters are listed only with the weight class they are most associated with this decade.
| Rnk | Athlete | Overall Decade Rank |
| 1 | Khabib Nurmagomedov | 8 |
| 2 | Conor McGregor | 14 |
| 3 | Frankie Edgar | 22 |
| 4 | Anthony Pettis | 24 |
| 5 | Rafael dos Anjos | 25 |
| 6 | Ben Henderson | 30 |
| 7 | Tony Ferguson | 36 |
| 8 | Eddie Alvarez | 41 |
| 9 | Gilbert Melendez | 50 |
| 10 | Michael Chandler | 67 |
| 11 | Donald Cerrone | 71 |
| 12 | Dom O'Grady | 77 |
| 13 | Nate Diaz | 79 |
| 14 | Will Brooks | 86 |
| 15 | Justin Gaethje | 94 |
| 16 | Al Iaquinta | 96 |
| 17 | Kevin Lee | 97 |
| 18 | Gray Maynard | 98 |
| 19 | Dustin Poirier | 104 |
| 20 | Edson Barboza | 109 |
| 21 | Satoru Kitaoka | 111 |
| 22 | Bobby Green | 119 |
| 23 | Narantungalag Jadambaa | 120 |
| 24 | Alex Reyes | 122 |
| 25 | Isao Kobayashi | 126 |
| 26 | Koji Oishi | 127 |
| 27 | Shinya Aoki | 133 |
| 28 | Christian Lee | 137 |
| 29 | Kazuki Tokudome | 151 |
| 30 | Kotetsu Boku | 153 |
| 31 | Luka Jelcic | 154 |
| 32 | Viktor Halmi | 166 |
| 33 | Yuki Okano | 187 |
| 34 | Patricky Freire | 199 |
| 35 | Jim Miller | 211 |
| 36 | Kenny Florian | 214 |
| 37 | Joshua Aveles | 216 |
| 38 | Blaze Gill | 229 |
| 39 | Daisuke Nakamura | 232 |
| 40 | Eduard Folayang | 240 |
| 41 | J.C. Cottrell | 250 |
| 42 | Koji Takeda | 265 |
| 43 | Salimkhan Sadulloev | 285 |
| 44 | Takasuke Kume | 298 |
| 45 | Victor Meza | 305 |
| 46 | Yutaka Saito | 310 |
| 47 | Josh Thomson | 318 |
| 48 | Beneil Dariush | 320 |
| 49 | Clay Guida | 321 |
| 50 | Akbarh Arreola | 328 |
| 51 | Amir Khan | 332 |
| 52 | Benny Madrid | 347 |
| 53 | Caol Uno | 355 |
| 54 | Chris Tickle | 360 |
| 55 | Daisuke Hanazawa | 364 |
| 56 | Ev Ting | 378 |
| 57 | Juri Ohara | 413 |
| 58 | Kota Shimoishi | 427 |
| 59 | Matej Truhan | 438 |
| 60 | Naoto Miyazaki | 450 |
| 61 | Nick Newell | 456 |
| 62 | Richard Patishnock | 464 |
| 63 | Roy Babcock | 467 |
| 64 | Seichi Ikemoto | 472 |
| 65 | Takafumi Ito | 481 |
| 66 | Tom Santos | 488 |
| 67 | Tye Brown | 499 |
| 68 | Yasuaki Kishimoto | 507 |
| 69 | Yoshiaki Takahashi | 509 |
| 70 | Yoshifumi Nakamura | 510 |
| 71 | Yusuke Kasuya | 514 |
| 72 | Zorobabel Moreira | 519 |
| 73 | Brian Foster | 521 |
| 74 | Michael Johnson | 522 |
| 75 | Michael Chiesa | 544 |
| 76 | Paul Felder | 548 |
| 77 | Evan Dunham | 555 |
| 78 | Marcin Held | 563 |
| 79 | Rustam Khabilov | 570 |
| 80 | Francisco Trinaldo | 571 |
| 81 | Myles Jury | 583 |
| 82 | Brent Primus | 589 |
| 83 | Joe Lauzon | 593 |
| 84 | Alexander Hernandez | 595 |
| 85 | Mizuto Hirota | 597 |
| 86 | Luiz Firmino | 607 |
| 87 | Marat Gafurov | 616 |
| 88 | Rashid Magomedov | 617 |
| 89 | Gleison Tibau | 620 |
| 90 | Rick Hawn | 621 |
| 91 | Dave Jansen | 624 |
| 92 | Matt Wiman | 631 |
| 93 | Joao Zeferino | 635 |
| 94 | George Sotiropoulos | 643 |
| 95 | Pat Healy | 644 |
| 96 | Tofiq Musayev | 645 |
| 97 | Takanori Gomi | 647 |
| 98 | Luis Palomino | 669 |
| 99 | Jacob Volkmann | 673 |
| 100 | Mark Bocek | 676 |
| 101 | Brian Cobb | 679 |
| 102 | Melvin Guillard | 681 |
| 103 | Diego Ferreira | 687 |
| 104 | T.J. Grant | 690 |
| 105 | Koji Ando | 695 |
| 106 | Ross Pearson | 701 |
| 107 | Yoshiyuki Yoshida | 706 |
| 108 | David Rickels | 710 |
| 109 | K.J. Noons | 711 |
| 110 | Dan Hooker | 713 |
| 111 | Jonathan Brookins | 717 |
| 112 | Natan Schulte | 721 |
| 113 | Derek Campos | 729 |
| 114 | Kamal Shalorus | 731 |
| 115 | Leonardo Santos | 746 |
| 116 | Adriano Martins | 748 |
| 117 | Islam Makhachev | 755 |
| 118 | Mairbek Taisumov | 761 |
| 119 | Alexander Sarnavskiy | 771 |
| 120 | Ali Bagov | 773 |
| 121 | James Vick | 774 |
| 122 | Antonio McKee | 777 |
| 123 | Sam Stout | 803 |
| 124 | Danny Castillo | 804 |
| 125 | Yves Edwards | 805 |
| 126 | Kurt Pellegrino | 813 |
| 127 | Carlos Diego Ferreira | 818 |
| 128 | Abdul-Aziz Abdulvakhabov | 824 |
| 129 | Mac Danzig | 831 |
| 130 | Goiti Yamauchi | 840 |
| 131 | Akhmed Aliev | 847 |
| 132 | Gesias Cavalcante | 858 |
| 133 | Alexander Yakovlev | 861 |
| 134 | Gregor Gillespie | 875 |
| 135 | Derek Anderson | 880 |
| 136 | Brandon Girtz | 881 |
| 137 | Stevie Ray | 897 |
| 138 | David Teymur | 901 |
| 139 | Olivier Aubin-Mercier | 907 |
| 140 | Eduard Vartanyan | 921 |
| 141 | Jamie Varner | 922 |
| 142 | Cole Miller | 929 |
| 143 | Joe Stevenson | 938 |
| 144 | Damir Hadzovic | 942 |
| 145 | Leandro Silva | 947 |
| 146 | Isaac Vallie-Flagg | 960 |
| 147 | Justin Wilcox | 961 |
| 148 | Marcus Aurelio | 964 |
| 149 | Khusein Khaliev | 968 |
| 150 | Caros Fodor | 970 |
| 151 | Shane Roller | 978 |
| 152 | Magomed Mustafaev | 979 |
| 153 | Maximo Blanco | 984 |
| 154 | Eiji Mitsuoka | 991 |
| 155 | Justin Buchholz | 992 |
| 156 | Murad Machaev | 997 |
| 157 | Drakkar Klose | 1002 |
| 158 | Mitch Clarke | 1005 |
| 159 | Mansour Barnaoui | 1006 |
| 160 | Paul Sass | 1007 |
| 161 | Reza Madadi | 1012 |
| 162 | Drew Fickett | 1024 |
| 163 | Anton Kuivanen | 1026 |
| 164 | Toby Imada | 1028 |
| 165 | Musa Khamanaev | 1033 |
| 166 | Ronys Torres | 1034 |
| 167 | Alan Patrick | 1035 |
| 168 | John Makdessi | 1040 |
| 169 | Piotr Hallmann | 1042 |
| 170 | Shamil Zavurov | 1044 |
| 171 | Loik Radzhabov | 1055 |
| 172 | Katsunori Kikuno | 1069 |
| 173 | Scott Holtzman | 1070 |
| 174 | Abel Trujillo | 1072 |
| 175 | Lewis Gonzalez | 1075 |
| 176 | Lloyd Woodard | 1082 |
| 177 | Roger Huerta | 1094 |
| 178 | Adam Piccolotti | 1095 |
| 179 | Chris Wade | 1096 |
| 180 | Kajan Johnson | 1100 |
| 181 | Arman Tsarukyan | 1103 |
| 182 | Johnny Case | 1111 |
| 183 | Drew Dober | 1116 |
| 184 | Amirkhan Adaev | 1132 |
| 185 | Saad Awad | 1136 |
| 186 | Nate Andrews | 1155 |
| 187 | Damir Ismagulov | 1160 |
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