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The Top Ranked MMA Fighters by Rookie Year-2009
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 | Daniel Cormier | Light Heavyweight | 9 |
| 2 | Israel Adesanya | Middleweight | 17 |
| 3 | Chris Weidman | Middleweight | 34 |
| 4 | Robert Whittaker | Middleweight | 35 |
| 5 | Tyron Woodley | Welterweight | 44 |
| 6 | Yoel Romero | Middleweight | 46 |
| 7 | Michael Chandler | Lightweight | 132 |
| 8 | Alexander Volkov | Heavyweight | 149 |
| 9 | Ben Askren | Welterweight | 156 |
| 10 | Daniel Straus | Featherweight | 210 |
| 11 | Beneil Dariush | Lightweight | 211 |
| 12 | Edson Barboza | Lightweight | 235 |
| 13 | Lorenz Larkin | Welterweight | 257 |
| 14 | Al Iaquinta | Lightweight | 272 |
| 15 | Joe Warren | Bantamweight | 273 |
| 16 | Vicente Luque | Welterweight | 282 |
| 17 | Travis Browne | Heavyweight | 300 |
| 18 | Dan Hooker | Lightweight | 378 |
| 19 | Jason Jackson | Welterweight | 389 |
| 20 | Rick Hawn | Lightweight | 394 |
| 21 | Ryuichiro Sumimura | Welterweight | 415 |
| 22 | Juri Ohara | Lightweight | 453 |
| 23 | Ryo Okada | Featherweight | 454 |
| 24 | Yuki Kawana | Lightweight | 455 |
| 25 | Sota Kojima | Flyweight | 499 |
| 26 | Pedro Munhoz | Bantamweight | 520 |
| 27 | Ramazan Emeev | Middleweight | 569 |
| 28 | Antun Racic | Featherweight | 625 |
| 29 | J.C. Cottrell | Lightweight | 626 |
| 30 | Jeremy Kimball | Light Heavyweight | 627 |
| 31 | Jordan Griffin | Bantamweight | 628 |
| 32 | Koshi Matsumoto | Welterweight | 629 |
| 33 | Manny Rodriguez | Heavyweight | 630 |
| 34 | Shinsho Anzai | Middleweight | 631 |
| 35 | Tim Sosa | Flyweight | 632 |
| 36 | Tomar Washington | Heavyweight | 633 |
| 37 | Andy Manzolo | Middleweight | 779 |
| 38 | Benny Madrid | Lightweight | 780 |
| 39 | Brandon Anderson | Light Heavyweight | 781 |
| 40 | Cody Pfister | Welterweight | 782 |
| 41 | Eric Kelly | Featherweight | 783 |
| 42 | Hideki Sekine | Heavyweight | 784 |
| 43 | James Brum | Featherweight | 785 |
| 44 | Jerod Spoon | Bantamweight | 786 |
| 45 | Katsunori Tsuda | Featherweight | 787 |
| 46 | Keita Ishibashi | Featherweight | 788 |
| 47 | Kenny McCorkell | Middleweight | 789 |
| 48 | Ki-Bum Kim | Middleweight | 790 |
| 49 | Lemmy Krusic | Featherweight | 791 |
| 50 | Mark Dickman | Bantamweight | 792 |
| 51 | Matt Gabel | Middleweight | 793 |
| 52 | Mike Guidry | Heavyweight | 794 |
| 53 | Nathan Torrez | Bantamweight | 795 |
| 54 | Nick Newell | Lightweight | 796 |
| 55 | Steven Rodriguez | Featherweight | 797 |
| 56 | Tomislav Spahovic | Light Heavyweight | 798 |
| 57 | Tristan Grimsley | Featherweight | 799 |
| 58 | Yoshifumi Nakamura | Lightweight | 800 |
| 59 | John Salter | Middleweight | 1020 |
| 60 | Matt Mitrione | Heavyweight | 1126 |
| 61 | Elizeu Zaleski | Welterweight | 1235 |
| 62 | Ali Bagov | Lightweight | 1239 |
| 63 | Dennis Bermudez | Featherweight | 1240 |
| 64 | Andre Muniz | Middleweight | 1259 |
| 65 | Anatoly Tokov | Middleweight | 1266 |
| 66 | Tomasz Narkun | Light Heavyweight | 1304 |
| 67 | Max Griffin | Welterweight | 1307 |
| 68 | Philip De Fries | Heavyweight | 1314 |
| 69 | Drew Dober | Lightweight | 1329 |
| 70 | Tyler East | Heavyweight | 1366 |
| 71 | Frankie Saenz | Bantamweight | 1413 |
| 72 | Magomedrasul Khasbulaev | Featherweight | 1431 |
| 73 | Marcos Rogerio de Lima | Light Heavyweight | 1443 |
| 74 | Shahbulat Shamhalaev | Featherweight | 1471 |
| 75 | Derek Campos | Lightweight | 1480 |
| 76 | Doo-Ho Choi | Featherweight | 1530 |
| 77 | Andre Fili | Featherweight | 1585 |
| 78 | Shawn Jordan | Heavyweight | 1598 |
| 79 | John Moraga | Flyweight | 1622 |
| 80 | Chas Skelly | Featherweight | 1629 |
| 81 | Yuki Yasunaga | Flyweight | 1636 |
| 82 | Thanh Le | Lightweight | 1645 |
| 83 | Masakazu Utsugi | Strawweight | 1655 |
| 84 | Clifford Starks | Middleweight | 1666 |
| 85 | Josh Hill | Bantamweight | 1751 |
| 86 | Tim Elliott | Flyweight | 1760 |
| 87 | Tadaaki Yamamoto | Strawweight | 1796 |
| 88 | Emiliano Sordi | Light Heavyweight | 1820 |
| 89 | Cathal Pendred | Welterweight | 1841 |
| 90 | Ali Bagautinov | Flyweight | 1842 |
| 91 | Damir Hadzovic | Lightweight | 1881 |
| 92 | Josh Sampo | Flyweight | 1897 |
| 93 | Satoshi Ishii | Heavyweight | 1915 |
| 94 | Said Nurmagomedov | Bantamweight | 1923 |
| 95 | Caros Fodor | Lightweight | 1925 |
| 96 | Jesse Ronson | Welterweight | 1939 |
| 97 | Islam Mamedov | Lightweight | 1948 |
| 98 | Murad Machaev | Lightweight | 1966 |
| 99 | Herdeson Batista | Lightweight | 1978 |
| 100 | Jason Knight | Featherweight | 1983 |
| 101 | Bryan Barberena | Welterweight | 1986 |
| 102 | Caio Magalhaes | Middleweight | 2009 |
| 103 | Piotr Hallmann | Lightweight | 2011 |
| 104 | Amir Albazi | Flyweight | 2055 |
| 105 | Abel Trujillo | Lightweight | 2057 |
| 106 | Chris Lozano | Welterweight | 2097 |
| 107 | Mike Wilkinson | Featherweight | 2143 |
| 108 | Trevor Smith | Middleweight | 2151 |
| 109 | Gadzhimurad Antigulov | Light Heavyweight | 2161 |
| 110 | Nikola Dipchikov | Middleweight | 2169 |
| 111 | Jonathan Mackles | Flyweight | 2197 |
| 112 | Louis Gaudinot | Flyweight | 2202 |
| 113 | Evgeny Erokhin | Heavyweight | 2203 |
| 114 | Fabricio Guerreiro | Featherweight | 2204 |
| 115 | Rasul Mirzaev | Featherweight | 2208 |
| 116 | Hiroshi Izumi | Heavyweight | 2248 |
| 117 | Masayoshi Kato | Strawweight | 2285 |
| 118 | Robert Whiteford | Featherweight | 2297 |
| 119 | Aleksei Butorin | Light Heavyweight | 2302 |
| 120 | Daniel Omielanczuk | Heavyweight | 2311 |
| 121 | Gian Villante | Light Heavyweight | 2320 |
| 122 | Lincoln de Sa | Strawweight | 2336 |
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