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The Top Ranked Lightweight 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 | Khabib Nurmagomedov | 2008 | 10 |
| 2 | Frankie Edgar | 2005 | 45 |
| 3 | Conor McGregor | 2008 | 48 |
| 4 | Dustin Poirier | 1997 | 56 |
| 5 | Justin Gaethje | 2011 | 59 |
| 6 | Takanori Gomi | 1998 | 63 |
| 7 | Charles Oliveira | 2008 | 67 |
| 8 | Rafael dos Anjos | 2004 | 72 |
| 9 | Ben Henderson | 2006 | 77 |
| 10 | Anthony Pettis | 2007 | 79 |
| 11 | Shinya Aoki | 2003 | 87 |
| 12 | Tony Ferguson | 2008 | 89 |
| 13 | Gilbert Melendez | 2002 | 94 |
| 14 | Eddie Alvarez | 2003 | 102 |
| 15 | Donald Cerrone | 2002 | 130 |
| 16 | Michael Chandler | 2009 | 132 |
| 17 | Joachim Hansen | 1999 | 135 |
| 18 | Tatsuya Kawajiri | 2000 | 142 |
| 19 | Satoru Kitaoka | 2000 | 146 |
| 20 | Nate Diaz | 2004 | 154 |
| 21 | Caol Uno | 1996 | 165 |
| 22 | Vitor Ribeiro | 2001 | 166 |
| 23 | Gray Maynard | 2006 | 173 |
| 24 | Kenny Florian | 2003 | 174 |
| 25 | Joe Stevenson | 1999 | 182 |
| 26 | Jens Pulver | 1999 | 193 |
| 27 | Rumina Sato | 1994 | 195 |
| 28 | Alexandre Franca Nogueira | 1998 | 200 |
| 29 | Beneil Dariush | 2009 | 211 |
| 30 | Dokonjonosuke Mishima | 1998 | 219 |
| 31 | Josh Thomson | 2001 | 225 |
| 32 | Yves Edwards | 1997 | 233 |
| 33 | Edson Barboza | 2009 | 235 |
| 34 | Christian Lee | 2015 | 244 |
| 35 | Kevin Lee | 2012 | 250 |
| 36 | Hermes Franca | 2001 | 252 |
| 37 | Clay Guida | 2003 | 254 |
| 38 | Islam Makhachev | 2010 | 265 |
| 39 | Al Iaquinta | 2009 | 272 |
| 40 | Patricky Freire | 2005 | 285 |
| 41 | Will Brooks | 2011 | 286 |
| 42 | Bobby Green | 2008 | 289 |
| 43 | Marcus Aurelio | 2002 | 311 |
| 44 | Daisuke Nakamura | 2002 | 329 |
| 45 | Charlie Kohler | 1998 | 343 |
| 46 | K.J. Noons | 2000 | 360 |
| 47 | Michael Johnson | 2008 | 370 |
| 48 | Dan Hooker | 2009 | 378 |
| 49 | Wander Braga | 1994 | 384 |
| 50 | Jean Silva | 2002 | 388 |
| 51 | Mizuto Hirota | 2005 | 390 |
| 52 | Rick Hawn | 2009 | 394 |
| 53 | Yuki Nakai | 1993 | 397 |
| 54 | Tomonori Ohara | 1990 | 398 |
| 55 | Isao Kobayashi | 2008 | 418 |
| 56 | Alex Reyes | 2007 | 419 |
| 57 | Francisco Trinaldo | 2006 | 426 |
| 58 | Gesias Cavalcante | 2003 | 430 |
| 59 | Genpei Hayashi | 2012 | 443 |
| 60 | Luka Jelcic | 2010 | 451 |
| 61 | Juri Ohara | 2009 | 453 |
| 62 | Yuki Kawana | 2009 | 455 |
| 63 | Kazuki Tokudome | 2007 | 463 |
| 64 | Viktor Halmi | 2007 | 467 |
| 65 | Hideki Kadowaki | 1999 | 483 |
| 66 | Mitsuhiro Ishida | 2001 | 490 |
| 67 | Luiz Firmino | 2000 | 493 |
| 68 | Brent Primus | 2010 | 519 |
| 69 | Evan Dunham | 2007 | 531 |
| 70 | Gleison Tibau | 1999 | 533 |
| 71 | Joe Lauzon | 2004 | 539 |
| 72 | Paul Felder | 2011 | 544 |
| 73 | Kazunori Yokota | 2004 | 552 |
| 74 | Roger Huerta | 2003 | 553 |
| 75 | Din Thomas | 1998 | 565 |
| 76 | Joshua Aveles | 2008 | 570 |
| 77 | Marcin Held | 2008 | 574 |
| 78 | Song-Ha Lee | 2021 | 576 |
| 79 | Koji Takeda | 2017 | 579 |
| 80 | Tatsuya Saika | 2017 | 581 |
| 81 | Keisuke Sasu | 2016 | 583 |
| 82 | Piankhi Zimmerman | 2012 | 602 |
| 83 | Salimkhan Sadulloev | 2010 | 621 |
| 84 | J.C. Cottrell | 2009 | 626 |
| 85 | Blaze Gill | 2008 | 634 |
| 86 | David Shepherd | 2008 | 635 |
| 87 | Eduard Folayang | 2007 | 643 |
| 88 | Takasuke Kume | 2007 | 652 |
| 89 | Victor Meza | 2007 | 655 |
| 90 | Shoji Maruyama | 2005 | 664 |
| 91 | Seung-Hwan Bang | 2004 | 668 |
| 92 | Gabe Ruediger | 2002 | 674 |
| 93 | Gerald Strebendt | 2001 | 678 |
| 94 | Thomas Schulte | 2001 | 681 |
| 95 | Natan Schulte | 2011 | 693 |
| 96 | Spencer Fisher | 2002 | 701 |
| 97 | Rustam Khabilov | 2007 | 707 |
| 98 | Ryoji Kudo | 2017 | 719 |
| 99 | Shutaro Debana | 2017 | 720 |
| 100 | Iuri Lapicus | 2014 | 731 |
| 101 | Amir Khan | 2012 | 739 |
| 102 | Ev Ting | 2011 | 754 |
| 103 | Keith Forant | 2011 | 758 |
| 104 | Tom Santos | 2011 | 764 |
| 105 | Matej Truhan | 2010 | 774 |
| 106 | Tateo Iida | 2010 | 776 |
| 107 | Yusuke Kasuya | 2010 | 778 |
| 108 | Benny Madrid | 2009 | 780 |
| 109 | Nick Newell | 2009 | 796 |
| 110 | Yoshifumi Nakamura | 2009 | 800 |
| 111 | Kota Shimoishi | 2008 | 815 |
| 112 | Naoto Miyazaki | 2008 | 818 |
| 113 | Richard Patishnock | 2008 | 821 |
| 114 | Tye Brown | 2008 | 827 |
| 115 | Zorobabel Moreira | 2008 | 830 |
| 116 | Chris Tickle | 2007 | 836 |
| 117 | Roy Babcock | 2007 | 851 |
| 118 | Yasuaki Kishimoto | 2007 | 860 |
| 119 | Yoshiaki Takahashi | 2007 | 861 |
| 120 | Yuma Ishizuka | 2007 | 862 |
| 121 | Akbarh Arreola | 2002 | 919 |
| 122 | Brandon Olsen | 2002 | 920 |
| 123 | Marcus Hicks | 2002 | 934 |
| 124 | Olaf Alfonso | 2002 | 935 |
| 125 | Oliver Ellis | 2002 | 936 |
| 126 | Gabe Lemley | 2000 | 959 |
| 127 | Samy Schiavo | 2000 | 962 |
| 128 | Jason Maxwell | 1999 | 970 |
| 129 | Jason Meaders | 1999 | 971 |
| 130 | Kit Cope | 1999 | 976 |
| 131 | Orlando Ruiz | 1998 | 983 |
| 132 | Sean Wilmot | 1998 | 984 |
| 133 | Leigh Remedios | 1997 | 988 |
| 134 | Sam Wells | 1997 | 989 |
| 135 | Kotetsu Boku | 2001 | 996 |
| 136 | Nik Lentz | 2005 | 1011 |
| 137 | Tyson Griffin | 2004 | 1013 |
| 138 | Philip Perez | 1999 | 1014 |
| 139 | Ryan Bow | 1999 | 1015 |
| 140 | Ralph Gracie | 1992 | 1037 |
| 141 | Antonio McKee | 1999 | 1038 |
| 142 | Genki Sudo | 1999 | 1041 |
| 143 | Diego Ferreira | 2012 | 1048 |
| 144 | Mac Danzig | 2001 | 1055 |
| 145 | Rashid Magomedov | 2008 | 1056 |
| 146 | Chris Brennan | 1996 | 1062 |
| 147 | Luiz Fraga | 1995 | 1065 |
| 148 | Rafael Fiziev | 2015 | 1083 |
| 149 | Jason Ireland | 2000 | 1100 |
| 150 | Ryan Schultz | 2003 | 1108 |
| 151 | Takumi Nakayama | 2000 | 1118 |
| 152 | Jamie Varner | 2003 | 1128 |
| 153 | John Mahlow | 2002 | 1132 |
| 154 | Rae-Yoon Ok | 2013 | 1135 |
| 155 | Abdul-Aziz Abdulvakhabov | 2011 | 1149 |
| 156 | Joao Marcos Pierini | 1996 | 1153 |
| 157 | Alexander Hernandez | 2007 | 1161 |
| 158 | Usman Nurmagomedov | 2017 | 1172 |
| 159 | Naoyuki Kotani | 2000 | 1173 |
| 160 | Javier Vazquez | 1998 | 1187 |
| 161 | Takashi Nakakura | 2002 | 1191 |
| 162 | Tofiq Musayev | 2013 | 1194 |
| 163 | Clay French | 2004 | 1215 |
| 164 | Arman Tsarukyan | 2015 | 1221 |
| 165 | Chris Horodecki | 2005 | 1226 |
| 166 | Sergey Golyaev | 2001 | 1230 |
| 167 | Ali Bagov | 2009 | 1239 |
| 168 | Marat Gafurov | 2010 | 1242 |
| 169 | Eduard Vartanyan | 2011 | 1244 |
| 170 | Raush Manfio | 2011 | 1247 |
| 171 | Dave Jansen | 2007 | 1248 |
| 172 | Sam Stout | 2003 | 1255 |
| 173 | Tomomi Iwama | 2002 | 1256 |
| 174 | Melvin Guillard | 2002 | 1258 |
| 175 | Pat Healy | 2001 | 1261 |
| 176 | Joao Zeferino | 2005 | 1293 |
| 177 | Artur Umakhanov | 2004 | 1294 |
| 178 | Matt Wiman | 2004 | 1297 |
| 179 | Mark Bocek | 2004 | 1299 |
| 180 | Eiji Mitsuoka | 2001 | 1302 |
| 181 | George Sotiropoulos | 2004 | 1315 |
| 182 | Phil Johns | 1997 | 1318 |
| 183 | Drew Dober | 2009 | 1329 |
| 184 | Brian Cobb | 2004 | 1331 |
| 185 | Leandro Silva | 2008 | 1332 |
| 186 | David Gardner | 2002 | 1340 |
| 187 | Rich Crunkilton | 1999 | 1341 |
| 188 | Olivier Aubin-Mercier | 2011 | 1353 |
| 189 | Deividas Taurosevicius | 2002 | 1354 |
| 190 | Luis Palomino | 2006 | 1359 |
| 191 | Yusuke Endo | 2003 | 1362 |
| 192 | Leonardo Santos | 2002 | 1368 |
| 193 | Jacob Volkmann | 2007 | 1382 |
| 194 | Gregor Gillespie | 2014 | 1385 |
| 195 | Fransino Tirta | 2003 | 1388 |
| 196 | Alberto Crane | 2002 | 1389 |
| 197 | Marcio Ramos Barbosa | 2000 | 1390 |
| 198 | Rob McCullough | 2001 | 1394 |
| 199 | Furdjel de Windt | 1999 | 1410 |
| 200 | Rodrigo Damm | 2004 | 1412 |
| 201 | Koji Ando | 2008 | 1420 |
| 202 | Benoit St. Denis | 2019 | 1437 |
| 203 | John Gunderson | 2002 | 1440 |
| 204 | Michael Sa Jin Kwak | 1997 | 1444 |
| 205 | David Rickels | 2010 | 1450 |
| 206 | David Baron | 1999 | 1456 |
| 207 | Tomonari Kanomata | 2002 | 1457 |
| 208 | Bart Palaszewski | 2002 | 1458 |
| 209 | Goiti Yamauchi | 2010 | 1461 |
| 210 | Jonathan Brookins | 2006 | 1462 |
| 211 | Abdul Mohamed | 2003 | 1467 |
| 212 | Duane Ludwig | 2000 | 1472 |
| 213 | Akitoshi Tamura | 2001 | 1473 |
| 214 | Derek Campos | 2009 | 1480 |
| 215 | Daisuke Hanazawa | 2003 | 1481 |
| 216 | Kamal Shalorus | 2008 | 1487 |
| 217 | Kurt Pellegrino | 2002 | 1494 |
| 218 | Maximo Blanco | 2008 | 1504 |
| 219 | Stevie Ray | 2010 | 1507 |
| 220 | Paul Rodriguez | 1998 | 1514 |
| 221 | Alexander Sarnavskiy | 2008 | 1517 |
| 222 | Antonio Carvalho | 2002 | 1524 |
| 223 | Mairbek Taisumov | 2007 | 1529 |
| 224 | Adriano Martins | 2004 | 1535 |
| 225 | Jalin Turner | 2016 | 1545 |
| 226 | Victor Hunsaker | 1998 | 1547 |
| 227 | Katsunori Kikuno | 2005 | 1550 |
| 228 | Roberto de Souza | 2013 | 1559 |
| 229 | Thiago Moises | 2012 | 1564 |
| 230 | Daud Shaikhaev | 2014 | 1583 |
| 231 | James Vick | 2011 | 1590 |
| 232 | Eric Payne | 1998 | 1591 |
| 233 | Luiz Azeredo | 1997 | 1596 |
| 234 | Yutaka Saito | 2011 | 1597 |
| 235 | Alexandr Shabliy | 2010 | 1631 |
| 236 | Danny Castillo | 2007 | 1638 |
| 237 | Thanh Le | 2009 | 1645 |
| 238 | Peter Queally | 2012 | 1650 |
| 239 | Carlos Diego Ferreira | 2011 | 1661 |
| 240 | Terry Etim | 2005 | 1663 |
| 241 | Hideo Tokoro | 2000 | 1672 |
| 242 | Chris Wade | 2011 | 1675 |
| 243 | Drakkar Klose | 2014 | 1679 |
| 244 | Fabricio Camoes | 1997 | 1682 |
| 245 | Lauro Figueiroa | 2000 | 1690 |
| 246 | Ian James Schaffa | 1998 | 1694 |
| 247 | Luciano Correa | 2000 | 1701 |
| 248 | Hiroshi Tsuruya | 1998 | 1707 |
| 249 | Guram Kutateladze | 2010 | 1709 |
| 250 | Farrell Frisby | 1999 | 1724 |
| 251 | Joel Alvarez | 2013 | 1731 |
| 252 | Alexander Yakovlev | 2004 | 1733 |
| 253 | Steve Reyna | 2000 | 1735 |
| 254 | Akhmed Aliev | 2011 | 1739 |
| 255 | Per Eklund | 2002 | 1741 |
| 256 | Rafael Addario Bastos | 2001 | 1742 |
| 257 | Kohei Yasumi | 1999 | 1743 |
| 258 | Charlie Pearson | 1997 | 1748 |
| 259 | Andre Amado | 2004 | 1752 |
| 260 | Karim Sorensen | 2001 | 1757 |
| 261 | Edson Diniz | 2001 | 1762 |
| 262 | Takeshi Yamazaki | 2001 | 1763 |
| 263 | Fredson Paixao | 2004 | 1764 |
| 264 | Derek Anderson | 2011 | 1773 |
| 265 | Brandon Girtz | 2008 | 1775 |
| 266 | Paddy Pimblett | 2012 | 1780 |
| 267 | Pavel Kuchumov | 2001 | 1782 |
| 268 | Drew Irion | 1998 | 1797 |
| 269 | David Teymur | 2013 | 1799 |
| 270 | Loik Radzhabov | 2012 | 1801 |
| 271 | Keith Wilson | 2003 | 1810 |
| 272 | Adam Lynn | 2002 | 1811 |
| 273 | Donald Ouimet | 2000 | 1824 |
| 274 | Mansour Barnaoui | 2011 | 1828 |
| 275 | Mateusz Rebecki | 2014 | 1832 |
| 276 | Nick Agallar | 1999 | 1840 |
| 277 | Lyle Beerbohm | 2007 | 1852 |
| 278 | Takaharu Murahama | 1998 | 1853 |
| 279 | Scott Holtzman | 2012 | 1856 |
| 280 | James Birdsley | 2004 | 1858 |
| 281 | Ronys Torres | 2006 | 1862 |
| 282 | Olly Bradstreet | 2005 | 1874 |
| 283 | Damir Hadzovic | 2009 | 1881 |
| 284 | Alex Martinez | 2013 | 1883 |
| 285 | Artem Reznikov | 2011 | 1887 |
| 286 | Sidney Outlaw | 2010 | 1899 |
| 287 | Tae-Hyun Bang | 2004 | 1901 |
| 288 | Isaac Vallie-Flagg | 2003 | 1908 |
| 289 | Justin Wilcox | 2006 | 1912 |
| 290 | Vladimir Zenin | 2001 | 1919 |
| 291 | Khusein Khaliev | 2010 | 1922 |
| 292 | Caros Fodor | 2009 | 1925 |
| 293 | Damir Ismagulov | 2014 | 1930 |
| 294 | Shane Roller | 2007 | 1932 |
| 295 | Vinc Pichel | 2012 | 1936 |
| 296 | Magomed Mustafaev | 2011 | 1938 |
| 297 | Islam Mamedov | 2009 | 1948 |
| 298 | Alvin Robinson | 2005 | 1956 |
| 299 | Justin Buchholz | 2005 | 1957 |
| 300 | Rafael Dias | 2011 | 1961 |
| 301 | Murad Machaev | 2009 | 1966 |
| 302 | Gadzhi Rabadanov | 2013 | 1976 |
| 303 | Herdeson Batista | 2009 | 1978 |
| 304 | Mitch Clarke | 2007 | 1979 |
| 305 | Matt Frevola | 2014 | 1981 |
| 306 | Paul Sass | 2007 | 1982 |
| 307 | Robert Emerson | 2002 | 1985 |
| 308 | Reza Madadi | 2006 | 1987 |
| 309 | Anton Kuivanen | 2006 | 1998 |
| 310 | Musa Khamanaev | 2008 | 2003 |
| 311 | Alan Patrick | 2008 | 2005 |
| 312 | Bryan Travers | 2005 | 2007 |
| 313 | John Makdessi | 2008 | 2010 |
| 314 | Piotr Hallmann | 2009 | 2011 |
| 315 | Shamil Zavurov | 2004 | 2015 |
| 316 | Brad Riddell | 2013 | 2028 |
| 317 | Amirkhan Adaev | 2012 | 2047 |
| 318 | Abel Trujillo | 2009 | 2057 |
| 319 | Adam Piccolotti | 2013 | 2060 |
| 320 | Lewis Gonzalez | 2011 | 2062 |
| 321 | Donny Raines | 2000 | 2065 |
| 322 | Lloyd Woodard | 2008 | 2071 |
| 323 | Rafa Garcia | 2014 | 2075 |
| 324 | Cam Ward | 2003 | 2079 |
| 325 | Lando Vannata | 2011 | 2082 |
| 326 | Bruno Miranda | 2011 | 2086 |
| 327 | Jared Gordon | 2011 | 2091 |
| 328 | Bendy Casimir | 2001 | 2093 |
| 329 | Jorge Gurgel | 2002 | 2102 |
| 330 | Kajan Johnson | 2002 | 2103 |
| 331 | Nasrat Haqparast | 2012 | 2106 |
| 332 | Johnny Case | 2007 | 2111 |
| 333 | Elves Brener | 2016 | 2126 |
| 334 | Nate Andrews | 2012 | 2128 |
| 335 | Yusuf Raisov | 2014 | 2142 |
| 336 | Saad Awad | 2006 | 2147 |
| 337 | Ottman Azaitar | 2014 | 2193 |
| 338 | Spike Carlyle | 2017 | 2232 |
| 339 | Jim Miller | 2005 | 2256 |
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