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The Top Ranked MMA Fighters by Rookie Year-2004
Notes: This is a list of the greatest fighters to start their pro career in the year listed.
| Rnk | Athlete | Weight Class | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Jose Aldo | Featherweight | 42 |
| 2 | Rafael dos Anjos | Lightweight | 72 |
| 3 | Mark Hunt | Heavyweight | 88 |
| 4 | Michael Bisping | Middleweight | 97 |
| 5 | Patricio Freire | Featherweight | 118 |
| 6 | Josh Koscheck | Welterweight | 129 |
| 7 | Hector Lombard | Welterweight | 141 |
| 8 | Nate Diaz | Lightweight | 154 |
| 9 | Bibiano Fernandes | Bantamweight | 161 |
| 10 | Mamed Khalidov | Middleweight | 179 |
| 11 | Alexander Shlemenko | Middleweight | 223 |
| 12 | Dong-Hyun Kim | Welterweight | 226 |
| 13 | Matt Brown | Welterweight | 281 |
| 14 | Cub Swanson | Featherweight | 295 |
| 15 | Tim Means | Welterweight | 316 |
| 16 | Koetsu Okazaki | Featherweight | 341 |
| 17 | Roy Nelson | Heavyweight | 352 |
| 18 | Dan Hardy | Welterweight | 357 |
| 19 | Narantungalag Jadambaa | Featherweight | 381 |
| 20 | Yoshihiro Akiyama | Middleweight | 429 |
| 21 | Alan Belcher | Middleweight | 437 |
| 22 | Brandon Hunt | Middleweight | 474 |
| 23 | Hiromitsu Miura | Welterweight | 475 |
| 24 | Nick Rossborough | Heavyweight | 476 |
| 25 | Takenori Sato | Welterweight | 477 |
| 26 | Dan Molina | Light Heavyweight | 505 |
| 27 | Joe Lauzon | Lightweight | 539 |
| 28 | Kazunori Yokota | Lightweight | 552 |
| 29 | Daiki Hata | Bantamweight | 556 |
| 30 | Yuta Watanabe | Welterweight | 578 |
| 31 | Joao Batista Yoshimura | Middleweight | 665 |
| 32 | Manabu Inoue | Bantamweight | 666 |
| 33 | Ryan McGivern | Middleweight | 667 |
| 34 | Seung-Hwan Bang | Lightweight | 668 |
| 35 | Dave Terrel | Welterweight | 896 |
| 36 | Houssain Oushani | Heavyweight | 897 |
| 37 | Jerry Davis | Heavyweight | 898 |
| 38 | Joe Voisin | Bantamweight | 899 |
| 39 | Justin Levens | Light Heavyweight | 900 |
| 40 | Michael Gonzalez | Middleweight | 901 |
| 41 | Richard Goodman | Bantamweight | 902 |
| 42 | Umar Luv | Middleweight | 903 |
| 43 | Zach Lari | Flyweight | 904 |
| 44 | Tyson Griffin | Lightweight | 1013 |
| 45 | Raphael Assuncao | Bantamweight | 1028 |
| 46 | Riki Fukuda | Middleweight | 1063 |
| 47 | Dennis Siver | Featherweight | 1092 |
| 48 | Daizo Ishige | Welterweight | 1109 |
| 49 | Francis Carmont | Middleweight | 1159 |
| 50 | Clay French | Lightweight | 1215 |
| 51 | Diego Nunes | Featherweight | 1246 |
| 52 | Ross Pearson | Featherweight | 1260 |
| 53 | Dustin Hazelett | Welterweight | 1276 |
| 54 | Artur Umakhanov | Lightweight | 1294 |
| 55 | Matt Wiman | Lightweight | 1297 |
| 56 | Mark Bocek | Lightweight | 1299 |
| 57 | George Sotiropoulos | Lightweight | 1315 |
| 58 | Brian Cobb | Lightweight | 1331 |
| 59 | Maiquel Falcao | Middleweight | 1364 |
| 60 | Brian Olsen | Heavyweight | 1393 |
| 61 | Ben Saunders | Welterweight | 1399 |
| 62 | Rodrigo Damm | Lightweight | 1412 |
| 63 | Makoto Takimoto | Middleweight | 1419 |
| 64 | Kazuyuki Miyata | Featherweight | 1429 |
| 65 | John Howard | Welterweight | 1478 |
| 66 | Goran Reljic | Light Heavyweight | 1499 |
| 67 | Andrews Nakahara | Middleweight | 1510 |
| 68 | Adriano Martins | Lightweight | 1535 |
| 69 | Brad Imes | Heavyweight | 1540 |
| 70 | Tomasz Drwal | Middleweight | 1553 |
| 71 | Lavar Johnson | Heavyweight | 1563 |
| 72 | Luigi Fioravanti | Welterweight | 1574 |
| 73 | Yuki Shojo | Flyweight | 1594 |
| 74 | Christian M'Pumbu | Light Heavyweight | 1617 |
| 75 | Zelg Galesic | Middleweight | 1641 |
| 76 | Fabio Leopoldo | Middleweight | 1643 |
| 77 | Jeff Cox | Welterweight | 1658 |
| 78 | Alexander Yakovlev | Lightweight | 1733 |
| 79 | Fabricio Monteiro | Welterweight | 1740 |
| 80 | Andre Amado | Lightweight | 1752 |
| 81 | Jacek Buczko | Middleweight | 1756 |
| 82 | Fredson Paixao | Lightweight | 1764 |
| 83 | Chris Tuchscherer | Heavyweight | 1789 |
| 84 | James Birdsley | Lightweight | 1858 |
| 85 | Tae-Hyun Bang | Lightweight | 1901 |
| 86 | Mattias Awad | Welterweight | 1907 |
| 87 | Eddie Sanchez | Heavyweight | 1910 |
| 88 | Peter Sobotta | Welterweight | 1963 |
| 89 | Mu-Bae Choi | Heavyweight | 1977 |
| 90 | Vitor Vianna | Middleweight | 1993 |
| 91 | Yong-Jae Jun | Middleweight | 1994 |
| 92 | Shamil Zavurov | Lightweight | 2015 |
| 93 | Akiyo Nishiura | Featherweight | 2064 |
| 94 | Do-Hyung Kim | Welterweight | 2101 |
| 95 | Jason Jones | Light Heavyweight | 2108 |
| 96 | Atsushi Takeuchi | Strawweight | 2139 |
| 97 | Lukasz Jurkowski | Light Heavyweight | 2145 |
| 98 | Joe Taimanglo | Bantamweight | 2181 |
| 99 | Marcus Vanttinen | Light Heavyweight | 2187 |
| 100 | Rob Broughton | Heavyweight | 2227 |
| 101 | Sang-Soo Lee | Heavyweight | 2228 |
| 102 | Omar Choudhury | Flyweight | 2240 |
| 103 | Brad Pickett | Bantamweight | 2249 |
| 104 | Yusei Shimokawa | Strawweight | 2271 |
| 105 | Yuichiro Yajima | Strawweight | 2276 |
| 106 | Katsuya Murofushi | Strawweight | 2277 |
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