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The Top Ranked MMA Fighters by Rookie Year-2008
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 | Jon Jones | Light Heavyweight | 2 |
| 2 | Khabib Nurmagomedov | Lightweight | 10 |
| 3 | Conor McGregor | Lightweight | 48 |
| 4 | Charles Oliveira | Lightweight | 67 |
| 5 | Tony Ferguson | Lightweight | 89 |
| 6 | Phil Davis | Light Heavyweight | 96 |
| 7 | Chad Mendes | Featherweight | 159 |
| 8 | Muhammed Lawal | Light Heavyweight | 194 |
| 9 | Ricardo Lamas | Featherweight | 207 |
| 10 | Pat Curran | Featherweight | 222 |
| 11 | Sean Strickland | Welterweight | 242 |
| 12 | Anthony Smith | Light Heavyweight | 258 |
| 13 | Michael Chiesa | Welterweight | 277 |
| 14 | Bobby Green | Lightweight | 289 |
| 15 | Linton Vassell | Light Heavyweight | 290 |
| 16 | John Lineker | Bantamweight | 293 |
| 17 | Santiago Ponzinibbio | Welterweight | 301 |
| 18 | Michael Johnson | Lightweight | 370 |
| 19 | Ovince St. Preux | Light Heavyweight | 377 |
| 20 | Magomed Magomedkerimov | Welterweight | 403 |
| 21 | Ben Egli | Welterweight | 416 |
| 22 | David Gomez | Welterweight | 417 |
| 23 | Isao Kobayashi | Lightweight | 418 |
| 24 | Cody East | Heavyweight | 456 |
| 25 | Frank Baca | Flyweight | 457 |
| 26 | Jared Papazian | Flyweight | 458 |
| 27 | Tatsumitsu Wada | Flyweight | 459 |
| 28 | Yuki Okano | Welterweight | 500 |
| 29 | Yosuke Saruta | Strawweight | 541 |
| 30 | Brad Tavares | Middleweight | 559 |
| 31 | Joshua Aveles | Lightweight | 570 |
| 32 | Jimmie Rivera | Bantamweight | 571 |
| 33 | Marcin Held | Lightweight | 574 |
| 34 | Blaze Gill | Lightweight | 634 |
| 35 | David Shepherd | Lightweight | 635 |
| 36 | Issei Tamura | Featherweight | 636 |
| 37 | Jeremy Spoon | Bantamweight | 637 |
| 38 | Russell Doane | Flyweight | 639 |
| 39 | Sidiah Parker | Middleweight | 640 |
| 40 | Kenta Takagi | Flyweight | 733 |
| 41 | Aaron Hedrick | Welterweight | 801 |
| 42 | Adam Ward | Bantamweight | 802 |
| 43 | Anthony Leone | Bantamweight | 803 |
| 44 | Asuka Mikami | Flyweight | 804 |
| 45 | Baru Harn | Heavyweight | 805 |
| 46 | Brandon Bell | Welterweight | 806 |
| 47 | Chad Herrick | Light Heavyweight | 807 |
| 48 | Dae-Hwan Kim | Bantamweight | 808 |
| 49 | Daron Cruickshank | Welterweight | 809 |
| 50 | Eric Moon | Welterweight | 810 |
| 51 | Jared Torgeson | Light Heavyweight | 811 |
| 52 | Josenaldo Silva | Bantamweight | 812 |
| 53 | Justin Baesman | Welterweight | 813 |
| 54 | Keith Richardson | Flyweight | 814 |
| 55 | Kota Shimoishi | Lightweight | 815 |
| 56 | Kyle Aguon | Featherweight | 816 |
| 57 | Leandro Ataides | Middleweight | 817 |
| 58 | Naoto Miyazaki | Lightweight | 818 |
| 59 | Nate Williams | Flyweight | 819 |
| 60 | Nick Gaston | Heavyweight | 820 |
| 61 | Richard Patishnock | Lightweight | 821 |
| 62 | Rob Jackson | Heavyweight | 822 |
| 63 | Roberto Neves | Welterweight | 823 |
| 64 | Ryan Walker | Welterweight | 824 |
| 65 | Tatsunao Nagakura | Featherweight | 825 |
| 66 | Thomas Noel | Welterweight | 826 |
| 67 | Tye Brown | Lightweight | 827 |
| 68 | Will Noland | Middleweight | 828 |
| 69 | Yoichiro Sato | Welterweight | 829 |
| 70 | Zorobabel Moreira | Lightweight | 830 |
| 71 | Costas Philippou | Middleweight | 1031 |
| 72 | Rashid Magomedov | Lightweight | 1056 |
| 73 | Attila Vegh | Light Heavyweight | 1085 |
| 74 | Ryan LaFlare | Welterweight | 1088 |
| 75 | Ilir Latifi | Light Heavyweight | 1212 |
| 76 | Kiyotaka Shimizu | Flyweight | 1245 |
| 77 | Jesse Jones | Welterweight | 1270 |
| 78 | Leandro Silva | Lightweight | 1332 |
| 79 | Brendan Schaub | Heavyweight | 1350 |
| 80 | Koji Ando | Lightweight | 1420 |
| 81 | Nicolas Dalby | Welterweight | 1421 |
| 82 | Chris Curtis | Middleweight | 1422 |
| 83 | Sam Alvey | Middleweight | 1439 |
| 84 | Teddy Holder | Light Heavyweight | 1459 |
| 85 | Kamal Shalorus | Lightweight | 1487 |
| 86 | Maximo Blanco | Lightweight | 1504 |
| 87 | Alexander Sarnavskiy | Lightweight | 1517 |
| 88 | Brennan Ward | Middleweight | 1518 |
| 89 | Shamil Abdurakhimov | Heavyweight | 1539 |
| 90 | Brandon Thatch | Welterweight | 1612 |
| 91 | Jimi Manuwa | Light Heavyweight | 1680 |
| 92 | Vyacheslav Vasilevsky | Middleweight | 1685 |
| 93 | Viktor Nemkov | Light Heavyweight | 1705 |
| 94 | Alex Caceres | Featherweight | 1708 |
| 95 | Eric Prindle | Heavyweight | 1711 |
| 96 | Amir Sadollah | Welterweight | 1720 |
| 97 | Ivan Buchinger | Featherweight | 1745 |
| 98 | Aslambek Saidov | Welterweight | 1750 |
| 99 | Maxim Grishin | Light Heavyweight | 1774 |
| 100 | Brandon Girtz | Lightweight | 1775 |
| 101 | Mackens Semerzier | Featherweight | 1776 |
| 102 | Mikihito Yamagami | Strawweight | 1786 |
| 103 | Borys Mankowski | Welterweight | 1826 |
| 104 | Gael Grimaud | Welterweight | 1835 |
| 105 | Haruo Ochi | Strawweight | 1838 |
| 106 | Jay Silva | Middleweight | 1879 |
| 107 | Gregory Rodrigues | Middleweight | 1928 |
| 108 | Peter Graham | Heavyweight | 1958 |
| 109 | Eric Marriott | Featherweight | 1962 |
| 110 | Kenny Robertson | Welterweight | 1973 |
| 111 | Musa Khamanaev | Lightweight | 2003 |
| 112 | Ryosuke Tanuma | Strawweight | 2004 |
| 113 | Alan Patrick | Lightweight | 2005 |
| 114 | D.J. Linderman | Light Heavyweight | 2008 |
| 115 | John Makdessi | Lightweight | 2010 |
| 116 | Kleber Koike Erbst | Featherweight | 2014 |
| 117 | Francisco Rivera | Bantamweight | 2050 |
| 118 | Kenny Garner | Heavyweight | 2051 |
| 119 | Mike Richman | Bantamweight | 2066 |
| 120 | Justin Edwards | Welterweight | 2070 |
| 121 | Lloyd Woodard | Lightweight | 2071 |
| 122 | Rodney Wallace | Light Heavyweight | 2109 |
| 123 | Erik Perez | Bantamweight | 2115 |
| 124 | Joe Schilling | Middleweight | 2119 |
| 125 | Mitch Gagnon | Bantamweight | 2135 |
| 126 | Felipe Arantes | Bantamweight | 2136 |
| 127 | Jon Madsen | Heavyweight | 2137 |
| 128 | Pat Barry | Heavyweight | 2158 |
| 129 | Cody Gibson | Bantamweight | 2178 |
| 130 | Alexandre Bezerra | Featherweight | 2184 |
| 131 | Mike Hackert | Heavyweight | 2217 |
| 132 | Will Campuzano | Flyweight | 2222 |
| 133 | Konstantyn Stryzhak | Heavyweight | 2230 |
| 134 | Luis Alberto Nogueira | Bantamweight | 2231 |
| 135 | Karol Celinski | Light Heavyweight | 2235 |
| 136 | Francisco France | Middleweight | 2239 |
| 137 | Jim Alers | Featherweight | 2253 |
| 138 | Jessie Riggleman | Flyweight | 2260 |
| 139 | Hiroyuki Nakajima | Flyweight | 2261 |
| 140 | Darrell Montague | Flyweight | 2264 |
| 141 | Andrew Kapel | Light Heavyweight | 2267 |
| 142 | Suguru Hayasaka | Strawweight | 2268 |
| 143 | Hiroaki Ijima | Strawweight | 2274 |
| 144 | Adam Antolin | Strawweight | 2324 |
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