Fighters with the most top 10 wins - List

I caught this on PooPuppy.com. I put something like this together for HW's when I was defending Fedor over at Linker. I haven't got a chance to go thru the whole thing yet. Let me know what your thoughts are...

Rester from Sherdog wrote:
The research took me a lot of time. i just wanted to know which current fighter had the most quality wins, it's not about who is the best p4p or whatever.

A top 10 win counts only when you fight him on the weight where he is ranked at.

example: fedor defeated lindland(ranked mw). it doesn't count because he fought fedor at hw.

anderson's ww wins count because he fought them at their own weight.


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Fighters with the most top 10 wins (reputable sources only)

*This list is based on rankings from reputable sites only: sherdog, black belt magazine, mmanews, mmaweekly, mmafighting, independent world mma rankings.... back to the year of 2000. No
Fightmatrix or other questionable ranking sites/systems!


Tier 1: 16+
- None

Tier 2: 13-25
- Anderson Silva
- George St.Pierre
- Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira

Tier 3: 10-12
- Fedor Emelianenko
- Matt Hughes
- BJ Penn
- Chuck Liddell
- Tito Ortiz
- Randy Couture
- Dan Henderson


Tier 4: 7-9
- Wanderlei Silva
- Quinton Jackson
- Shinya Aoki
- Mauricio Rua
- Mirko Filipovic
- Takanori Gomi

Tier 5: 4-6
- Kazushi Sakuraba
- Kevin Randleman
- Joachim Hansen
- Rashad Evans
- Lyoto Machida
- Tim Sylvia
- Mark Coleman
- Alistair Overeem
- Josh Barnett
- Fabricio Werdum
- Renato Sobral
- Vitor Belfort
- Gilbert Melendez
- Tatsuya Kawajiri
- Jose Aldo
- Dominick Cruz
- Andrei Arlovski
- Brock Lesnar
- Heath Herring
- Chael Sonnen
- Frankie Edgar
- Nick Diaz
- Urijah Faber
- Frank Mir
- Jon Jones



Top 10 Opponents

Anderson Silva
1. Tetsuji Kato (WW)
2. Hayato Sakurai (WW)
3. Alex Stiebling (MW)
4. Jeremy Horn (MW)
5. Lee Murray (MW)
6. Rich Franklin (MW)
7. Nate Marquardt (MW)
8. Rich Franklin (MW)
9. Dan Henderson (MW)
10. Thales Leites (MW)
11. Forrest Griffin (LHW)
12. Demian Maia (MW)
13. Chael Sonnen (MW)
14. Vitor Belfort (MW)
15. Yushin Okami (MW)

George St. Pierre
1. Karo Parisyan (WW)
2. Pete Spratt (WW)
3. Frank Trigg (WW)
4. Sean Sherk (WW)
5. B.J. Penn (WW)
6. Matt Hughes (WW)
7. Josh Koscheck (WW)
8. Matt Hughes (WW)
9. Matt Serra (WW)
10. Jon Fitch (WW)
11. Thiago Alves (WW)
12. Dan Hardy (WW)
13. Josh Koscheck (WW)
14. Jake Shields (WW)

Antônio Rodrigo Nogueira
1. Valentijn Overeem (second fight) (HW)
2. Mark Coleman (HW)
3. Heath Herring (HW)
4. Semmy Schilt ("super"HW)
5. Ricco Rodriguez (HW)
6. Mirko Filipović (HW)
7. Heath Herring (HW)
8. Sergei Kharitonov (HW)
9. Fabricio Werdum (HW)
10. Josh Barnett (HW)
11. Tim Sylvia ("super"HW)
12. Randy Couture (HW)
13. Brendan Schaub (HW)

Fedor Emelianenko
1. Semmy Schilt ("super"HW)
2. Heath Herring (HW)
3. Antônio Rodrigo Nogueira
4. Kazuyuki Fujita
5. Mark Coleman (first fight)
6. Kevin Randleman
7. Antônio Rodrigo Nogueira (HW)
8. Mirko Filipovic (HW)
9. Mark Hunt ("super"HW)
10. Tim Sylvia ("super"HW)
11. Andrei Arlovski (HW)
12. Brett Rogers ("super"HW)

Matt Hughes
1. Carlos Newton (WW)
2. Hayato Sakurai (WW)
3. Carlos Newton (WW)
4. Gil Castillo (WW)
5. Sean Sherk (WW)
6. Frank Trigg (WW)
7. Renato Verissimo (WW)
8. Georges St-Pierre (WW)
9. Frank Trigg (WW)
10. B.J. Penn (WW)
11. Matt Serra (WW)

Dan Henderson
1. Gilbert Yvel (HW)
2. Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira (HW)
3. Renato Sobral (HW)
4. Renzo Gracie (MW)
5. Yuki Kondo (LHW)
6. Akihiro Gono (MW)
7. Murilo Bustamante (MW)
8. Wanderlei Silva (LHW)
9. Rafael Cavalcante (LHW)
10. Fedor Emelianenko (HW)
11. Mauricio Rua (LHW)[/b]

B.J. Penn
1. Din Thomas
2. Caol Uno
3. Matt Serra
4. Takanori Gomi
5. Matt Hughes
6. Joe Stevenson
7. Sean Sherk
8. Kenny Florian
9. Diego Sanchez
10. Matt Hughes

Chuck Liddell
1. Kevin Randleman (LHW)
2. Guy Mezger (LHW)
3. Vitor Belfort (LHW)
4. Alistair Overeem (LHW)
5. Tito Ortiz (LHW)
6. Randy Couture (LHW)
7. Randy Couture (LHW)
8. Renato Sobral (LHW)
9. Tito Ortiz (LHW)
10. Wanderlei Silva (LHW)

Randy Couture
1. Maurice Smith (HW)
2. Jeremy Horn (LHW)
3. Kevin Randleman (HW)
4. Pedro Rizzo (HW)
5. Pedro Rizzo (HW)
6. Cuck Liddell (LHW)
7. Tito Ortiz (LHW)
8. Vitor Belfort (LHW)
9. Tim Sylvia (HW)
10. Gabriel Gonzaga (HW)

Tito Ortiz
1. Jerry Bohlander
2. Guy Mezger
3. Wanderlei Silva
4. Yuki Kondo
5- Evan Tanner
6. Elvis Sinosic
7. Vladimir Matyushenko
8. Vitor Belfort
9. Forrest Griffin
10. Ryan Bader

Wanderlei Silva
1. Eugene Jackson
2. Dan Henderson
3. Kazushi Sakuraba
4. Quinton Jackson
5. Yuki Kondo
6. Quinton Jackson
7. Kazuhiro Nakamura
8. Ricardo Arona
9. Keith Jardine

Takanori Gomi
1. Ryan Bow
2. Rumina Sato
3. Dokonjonosuke Mishima
4. Jens Pulver
5. Tatsuya Kawajiri
6. Luiz Azeredo
7. Hayato Sakurai
8. Marcus Aurelio
9. Mitsuhiro Ishida

Shinya Aoki
1. Akira Kikuchi
2. Joachim Hansen
3. Akira Kikuchi
4. Gesias Calvancante
5. Caol Uno
6. Eddie Alvarez
7. Joachim Hansen
8. Mizuto Hirota
9. Tatsuya Kawajiri

Quinton Jackson
1. Igor Vovchanchyn
2. Kevin Randleman
3. Chuck Liddell
4. Ricardo Arona
5. Chuck Liddell
6. Dan Henderson
7. Wanderlei Silva
8. Keith Jardine
9. Lyoto Machida

Mauricio Rua
1. Quinton Jackson (LHW)
2. Little Nog (LHW)
3. Alistair Overeem (LHW)
4. Ricardo Arona (LHW)
5. Kazuhiro Nakamura (LHW)
6. Alistair Overeem (LHW)
7. Chuck Liddell (LHW)
8. Lyoto Machida (LHW)
9. Forrest Griffin (LHW)

Mirko Filipovic
1. Kazuyuki Fujita
2. Kazuyuki Fujita
3. Heath Herring
4. Igor Vovchanchyn
5. Josh Barnett
6. Josh Barnett
7. Josh Barnett

Kazushi Sakuraba
1. Carlos Newton
2. Vitor Belfort
3. Ebenezer Fontes Braga
4. Royce Gracie
5. Renzo Gracie
6. Kevin Randleman

Vitor Belfort
1. Wanderlei Silva ("MW")
2. Gilbert Yvel (HW)
3. Heath Herring (HW)
4. Randy Couture (LHW)
5. Matt Lindland (MW)
6. Rich Franklin (LHW)

Gilbert Melendez
1. Stephen Palling (FW)
2. Hiroyuki Takaya (FW)
3. Rumina Sato (FW)
4. Tatsuya Kawajiri (LW)
5. Shinya Aoki (LW)
6. Tatsuya Kawajiri (LW)

Dominick Cruz
1. Joseph Benavidez (BW)
2. Brian Bowles (BW)
3. Joseph Benavidez (BW)
4. Scott Jorgensen (BW)
5. Urijah Faber (BW)
6. Demetrious Johnson (BW)

Alistair Overeem
1. Vitor Belfort (LHW) (first fight)
2. Igor Vovchanchyn (LHW)
3. Sergei Kharitonov (HW)
4. Brett Rogers (HW)
5. Fabricio Werdum (HW)
6. Brock Lesnar (HW)

Jose Aldo
1. Mike Brown (FeW)
2. Urijah Faber (FeW)
3. Manvel Gamburyan (FeW)
4. Mark Hominick (FeW)
5. Kenny Florian (FeW)
6. Chad Mendes (FeW)

Heath Herring
1. Tom Erikson
2. Mark Kerr
3. Igor Vovchanchyn
4. Gan McGee
5. Cheick Kongo

Joachim Hansen
1. Rumina Sato
2. Takanori Gomi
3. Caol Uno
4. Yves Edwards
5. Shinya Aoki

Lyoto Machida
1. Rich Franklin
2. Rameau Thierry Sokoudjou
3. Thiago Silva
4. Rashad Evans
5. Mauricio Rua (controversial win)

Urijah Faber
1. Ivan Menjivar (FW)
2. Jeff Curran (FW)
3. Raphael Assuncao (FW)
4. Takeya Mizugaki (BW)
5. Brian Bowles (BW)

Josh Barnett
1. Semmy Schilt
2. Randy Couture
3. Aleksander Emelianenko
4. Mark Hunt
5. Antônio Rodrigo Nogueira

Chael Sonnen
1. Paulo Filho
2. Yushin Okami
3. Nate Marquardt
4. Brian Stann
5. Michael Bisping

Rashad Evans
1. Chuck Liddell
2. Forrest Grifin
3. Thiago Silva
4. Quinton Jackson
5. Phil Davis

Brock Lesnar
1. Heath Herring
2. Randy Couture
3. Frank Mir
4. Shane Carwin

Kevin Randleman
1. Pete Williams
2. Pedro Rizzo
3. Murilo Rua
4. Mirco Crocop

Andrei Arlovski
1. Vladimir Matyushenko
2. Tim Sylvia
3. Fabricio Werdum
4. Ben Rothwell

Tim Sylvia
1. Ricco Rodriguez (HW)
2. Gan McGee (HW)
3. Andrei Arlovski (HW)
4. Andrei Arlovski (HW)

Mark Coleman
1. Dan Severn (HW)
2. Igor Vovchanchyn (HW)
3. Allan Goes (LHW)
4. Mauricio Rua (LHW)

Nick Diaz
1. Robbie Lawler (WW)
2. Marius Zaromskis (WW)
3. Paul Daley (WW)
4. B.J. Penn (WW)

Fabricio Werdum
1. Alistair Overeem (HW)
2. Aleksander Emelianenko (HW)
3. Gabriel Gonzaga (HW)
4. Fedor Emelianenko (HW)

Tatsuya Kawajiri
1. Yves Edwards (LW)
2. Vitor Riberio (LW)
3. Joachim Hansen (LW)
4. Gesias Cavalcante (LW)

Renato Sobral
1. Mikhail Illoukhine
2. Kiyoshi Tamura (first fight)
3. Maurice Smith
4. Jeremy Horn

Frankie Edgar
1. Sean Sherk (LW)
2. B.J. Penn (LW)
3. B.J. Penn (LW)
4. Gray Maynard (LW)

Frank Mir
1. Tim Sylvia
2. Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira
3. Roy Nelson
4. Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira

Jon Jones
1. Ryan Bader
2. Mauricio Rua
3. Quinton Jackson
4. Lyoto Machida

I dont care for it because although it does show Fedors acomplishments, it also has Anderson and gsp at the very top when those 2 have face some of the weakest oppositon ever due to most of their wins coming after 07 when zuffa controlled the rankings. So pretty much any zuffa guy after early 07 is going to have a advantage. Also look at chucks wins 4 wins are over the same 3 guys, randy randy renato renato tito tito, I mean all he was doing in the early zuffa era was fighting the same 3 guys mixed in with american cans. This is my opinion.

This list is based on rankings from reputable sites only: sherdog

Fedor dominated the top guys for many years while Anderson and GSP haven´t been overly impressive. I think there´s a difference between a "win" and a WIN.

Johan Lofgren wrote:

This list is based on rankings from reputable sites only: sherdog

Fedor dominated the top guys for many years while Anderson and GSP haven´t been overly impressive. I think there´s a difference between a "win" and a WIN.

well sherdog was decent untill 07, but anything after is highly questionable.

PRIDE NEVER DIE wrote:

Johan Lofgren wrote:

This list is based on rankings from reputable sites only: sherdog

Fedor dominated the top guys for many years while Anderson and GSP haven´t been overly impressive. I think there´s a difference between a "win" and a WIN.

well sherdog was decent untill 07, but anything after is highly questionable.

Yes I actually thought their rankings were alright. When Zuffa murdered PRIDE everything changed and it got even worse after the Strikeforce murder.

Well it is not about who's best but about the numbers. I found this a very interesting research to see.

It also proves that Fedor is one of the guys that fought top 10 the most in the sport, for those fags who are always saying he didn't.

Rester from Sherdog wrote:
*This list is based on rankings from reputable sites only: sherdog, black belt magazine, mmanews, mmaweekly, mmafighting, independent world mma rankings.... back to the year of 2000. No
Fightmatrix or other questionable ranking sites/systems!

Don't know anything about the other ones but it's a good thing they left out questionable sites/systems like.....Fightmatrix and....MMA ELO, and left reputable sites/systems like.....Sherdog and.....uh............
....Black belt magazine.

Question. Exactly what kind of a system does Sherdog (and the rest) use to make their rankings
besides some guy watching some fights and deciding "This guy should be ranked here,
this guy should be ranked there."


Another example of rankings misused to determine the quality of a fighter,
when that's not their purpose at all.

Top 10 wins would look completely different using rankings from somewhere like ELO MMA. Plus some of those, like Anderson's win over Belfort couldn't be top 10, Belfort hadn't even fought at MW in what? 2 years? Interesting none the less, thanks for posting.

Fedor should be ranked 2nd on the list with 13 top ten wins not 12. I think Matt Lindland was was a top 10 fighter when Fedor reversed him mid-air, Uchimada'd him, and the submitted him by arm bar.

It's very interesting but flawed.
I think in reality it's Fedor #1 and Aoki #2