WORLD HEAVYWEIGHT RANKINGS (205-265lbs)
21-6-1242lbs 6'4" (Werdum Combat Team/Kings MMA)
14-2245lbs 6'2" (American Kickboxing Academy)
18-4238lbs 6'4" (Nova União / Team Nogueira / Champion Team)
4. Ben Rothwell 36-10265lbs 6'5" (MFS / Roufusport / Rothwell MMA / LCCT)
41-15 (1 NC)260lbs 6'5" (Golden Glory/Tatsujin Dojo/Xtreme Couture/Jackson-Wink MMA)
6. Josh Barnett
35-8250lbs 6'3" (Team CSW)
25-13 (1 NC)240lbs 6'4" (Overtime MMA / Jackson-Wink MMA)
18-5-1239-251lbs 6'7" (Glendale Fighting Club/NCFC Fight Team/Alliance MMA)
9. Mark Hunt 12-11-1
262lbs 5'10" (Liverpool Kickboxing/American Top Team/Jackson-Wink MMA)
(Loss to Lesnar may likely be overturned into a NC.)
10. Frank Mir 18-11260lbs 6'3" (Las Vegas Combat Club)
100 TOP-RATED FIGHTERS AND PROSPECTS
18-0235lbs 6'3" (Fight Nights Team)
(Is he the new "Fedor"!?)
23-12 (Record)264lbs 6'0" (Lion's Den / Country Club)
Jared Rosholt 14-3259lbs 6'2" (Team Takedown / Velociti Fitness)
32-8 (Record)220-256lbs 7'0" (Team Schrijber)
19-10-1265lbs 6'4" (American Top Team)
Matt Mitrione 9-5253lbs 6'2" (Blackzilians / Jaco Hybrid Training Center)
Mirko Filipovic 31-11-2 (1 NC)220lbs 6'2" (Cro Cop Squad Gym)
14-1255lbs 6'4" (Gorec / MMA Academy Russia / Fight Club Berkut)
Shawn "The Savage" Jordan 18-7238lbs 6'0" (Jackson-Wink MMA / American Top Team)
Derrick "The Black Beast" Lewis 16-4 (1 NC)231-260lbs 6'3" (Silverback MMA)
Gabriel "Napao" Gonzaga 17-11252lbs 6'2" (Team Link)
50-10-1205-230lbs 6'1" (K Dojo Warrior Tribe / OPLOT)
34-10-1 (1 NC)231lbs 6'3" (Team Nogueira)
19-5 (1 NC)205-217lbs 6'0" (American Top Team)
(Currently competing at both HW & LHW.)
33-10-2 (Record)230-234lbs 6'4" (Kongo Smashin' Club / Quoniam Gym / Wolfslair MMA)
11-5 (Record)238lbs 6'4" (Grudge Training Center/Reign MMA)
17-3-1
205-211lbs 6'4" (Jetsaam Gym Brno)
14-5-1240lbs 5'11" (I-Dash/Black House/Reign MMA/CSW)
Stephan Pütz 14-2203-229lbs 6'6" (Team MMA Spirit)
(Sherdog has his name misspelled. Loss to Nemkov was at LHW.)
10-2265lbs 6'3" (Academy of Combat Arts / Team Tainted)
Marcin Tybura 13-2252lbs 6'3" (United Gym)
20-3241lbs 6'1" (Lutadores Opole / Alliance Europe / Fight Spirit Team)
10-2264lbs 6'1" (Ghost Wolf / American Kickboxing Academy)
26-6226lbs 6'7" (Strela Team / Red Devil Sport Club / RusFighters Sport Club)
8-4240lbs 6'7" (Team Nogueira)
14-1 (1 NC)245-251lbs 5'11" (SK Absolute Bulgaria)
(fighters.com had him at 13-0-1 (1 NC)
Denis Goltsov 17-4213-228lbs 6'6" (Versus / AE Team / Sambo Piter)
Karol Bedorf 14-2228-258lbs 6'2" (Szczecin Top Team / Berserkers Team)
15-14205-240lbs 6'4" (Tiger Muay Thai / Drysdale Jiu-Jitsu / Grudge Training Center)
17-3231lbs 6'3" (Peresvet FT)
Lavar Johnson 18-10252lbs 6'3" (Pro Buhawe)
Soa Palelei 22-5265-290lbs 6'4" (AKA Thailand/Team Soa/Hulk MMA/American Top Team)
Viktor Pešta 10-2242lbs 6'4" (Penta Gym Prague / Shooters MMA)
Konstantin Erokhin 9-3205-235lbs 5'11" (Sambo 70)
(Fights at both HW & LHW. MMA.tv has his record mixed-up.)
Richard Odoms 11-2262lbs 6′5″ (Martial Arts Academy of San Antonio / US Elite Combat)
Nikita Krylov 20-4205-250lbs 6'3" (YK Promotion / Vale Tudo MMA Akademija)
(Competing at both HW & LHW.)
Walt "Big Ticket" Harris 8-5243lbs 6'5" (Champions Freestyle Fitness)
(4-1 am.)
Daniel Omielanczuk 19-6-1 (1 NC)242lbs 6'0" (Nastula Team / Palestra Warsaw)
12-3
245lbs 6'1" (Grudge Training Center)
(4-1 am.)
16-8226-230lbs 6'1" (Sportcentrum KOPS / Masakra Team)
8-1
250lbs 6'4" (MMA Factory / CrossFight Paris)
Curtis Blaydes 6-1265lbs 6'4" (Dutch Style MMA / UFC Gym Lombard / Strong Style Fight Team)
12-3237lbs 6'3" (Jackson-Wink MMA / Duke City Wrecking Crew)
Marcin Rozalski 6-4227lbs 6'2" (Fight Club Freestyler)
Nick Rossborough 25-19-1265lbs 6'5" (Jeremy Horn's Elite Performance Gym)
Ryan Martinez 10-5265lbs 5'11" (Infinite MMA)
13-3-1245lbs 6'0" (Golden Glory)
Siala-Mou "Mighty Mo" Siliga 9-5265-290lbs 6'1" (Millennia MMA / Aguirre's Fighting System)
11-9247-253lbs 6'2" (Boxing Works)
Augusto Sakai 9-0-1255lbs 6'3" (Gile Ribeiro Team / Noguchi)
Daniel Gallemore 5-3265lbs 6'5" (Team Agoge)
Gzim Selmani 4-2
263lbs 6'3" (Golden Glory / Tatsujin Dojo)
Oli Thompson 17-8205-248lbs 6'1" (ZT Fight Skool)
(Currently competing at 205.)
9-4220lbs 5'11" (Alexander Nevsky (Stary Oskol) / Red Devil Sport Club)
14-3265-329lbs 5'9" (TNEB-RCP Fight Club/XFC/Hardcore Gym/ WCC)
Josh Queen 6-2260lbs 6'2" (Lion's Den/ The Gym)
20-11-2215-235lbs 6'4" (Ring Demon Jiu-Jitsu)
Jared Cannonier 8-1244lbs 6'3 (Gracie Barra Alaska)
14-2241-265lbs 6'3" (American Top Team Altitude)
Dan Charles 10-3-1248lbs 6'2" (Arizona Combat Sports / Power MMA & Fitness)
Chase Gormley 13-5 (1 NC)265-274lbs 6'3" (Reign MMA)
8-2254lbs 6'0" (HIT Squad)
11-4205-253lbs 6'2" (Apex MMA / All Star MMA)
9-3260lbs 6'3" (Xtreme Couture/Grudge Training Center/American Kickboxing Academy)
Anthony Hamilton 14-5265lbs 6'4" (Jackson-Wink MMA)
9-2253lbs 6'0" (Goldenstars Boxing / Goncalves BJJ / Independent MMA)
19-7247lbs 6'4" (American Top Team / Hard Drive MMA)
Mariusz Pudzianowski 9-5 (1 NC)260lbs 6'1" (Pudzian Team)
(Formerly the 'World's Strongest Man'.)
8-4247lbs 6'4" (Renzo Gracie Jiu-Jitsu)
Michał Włodarek 7-1238-242lbs 6'1" (Wrestler 24/Ankos Zapasy Poznan/Boks Poznan)
Dale Sopi 6-1264lbs 5'11" (Power MMA)
9-4
255lbs 6'3" (MMA Lab)
Brandon Griffin 4-1230lbs 6'3" (Z's Training Gym / Cheyenne BJJ)
14-5 (1 NC)240-265lbs 6'6" (Fit NHB)
Jeff "Lights Out" Hughes 6-0 (Record)256lbs 6'2" (Evolve MMA Ohio)
11-7204-250lbs 6'1" (Strong Style Fight Team)
(Competes at both LHW & HW.)
17-5 (1 NC)257lbs 5'9" (Warrior Concepts / Fiore MMA)
13-8 (1 NC)185-228lbs 6'3" (American Top Team)
1-0253-265lbs 6'7" (All-American MMA and BJJ)
2-1265lbs 6'5" (Battle Tactics Academy)
Darrill Schoonover 14-8247lbs 6'2" (Schoonover's Garage / Red Spider MMA)
6-0 (1 NC)
243lbs 6'9" (The Dream Team)
11-2205-245lbs 6'4" (Bridgewater Combat Center / All or Nothing / Trojan Freefighters)
(Currently competing at HW)
10-4 (Record)
229-265lbs 6'3" (Team Titan / Trojan MMA)
Thomas Denham 7-8254lbs 5'11" (HardLife MMA / Darlington)
11-5 (1 NC)248-254lbs 6'4" (The Dungeon / Alliance MMA / Machine MMA)
Denis Smoldarev 11-2259lbs 6'7" (Garant / Alexander Nevsky MMA)
9-2
238lbs 6'3" (Team Nogueira)
6-2
238-253lbs 6'6" (Team AVAM)
João Isidoro Almeida 3-1240lbs 6'3" (Corinthians MMA / Demian Maia Team)
3-2
255lbs 6'0" (Nigue Team)
Geronimo "Mondragon" dos Santos 38-16264lbs 6'2" (Hard Fight/Bulldog Team/Ulisses Pereira Team/Coalizao Fight Team)
(Rodrigo Oliveira is a LHW.)
Dion Staring 34-12
204-235lbs 6'1" (Mike's Gym/Combat Sports Academy Holland/Blackzilians)
Ante Delija 14-3230lbs 6'5" (Gladiator Team)
7-0
238lbs 6'3" (Fight Nights Team)
Leroy Johnson 6-0263lbs 6'0" (Michigan Top Team)
OTHER HIGHLY RATED FIGHTERS & PROSPECTS
Retired/Inactive Fighters (3 years or more)
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