Based on merit and accomplishment.
This is a ranking free of any bias.
LHWs:
- Daniel Cormier
- -Fabio Maldonado
- -Ovince Saint Preux
- Francimar Barroso
- Vitor Belfort
- -Phil Davis
- -Rashad Evans
- -Jon Jones
- -Glover Teixeira
- Dan Henderson
- -Nikita Krylov
- -Mauricio Rua
- -Chael Sonnen
- -Gian Villante
- Ryan Bader
- -Rafael Cavalcante
- -Patrick Cummins
- -Alexander Gustafsson
- -Ryan Jimmo
- -Jimi Manuwa
- -Anthony Perosh
- Anthony Johnson
- Igor Pokrajac
- -James Te Huna
- Cody Donovan
- -Kyle Kingsbury
- -Antonio Rogerio Nogueira
- -Wanderlei Silva
MWs:
- Luke Barnatt
- -Clint Hester
- -Yoel Romero
- -Ronaldo Souza
- Dylan Andrews
- -Francis Carmont
- -Cezar Ferreira
- -Lyoto Machida
- -Rafael Natal
- -Mats Nilsson
- Tim Kennedy
- -Thales Leites
- -Caio Magalhaes
- -Brad Tavares
- -Chris Weidman
- Uriah Hall
- -Lorenz Larkin
- -Bubba McDaniel
- Tim Boetsch
- -Derek Brunson
- -Andrew Craig
- -CB Dollaway
- -Ed Herman
- -Gegard Mousasi
- -Mark Munoz
- -Luke Rockhold
- -Daniel Sarafian
- -Bradley Scott
- -Trevor Smith
- Michael Bisping
- -Antonio Braga Neto
- -Nick Catone
- -Josh Samman
- Chris Camozzi
- -Costas Philippou
- -Ronny Markes
- -Anderson Silva
- -Tom Watson
- Alan Belcher
- -Jared Hamman
- -Nick Ring
- -Thiago Santos
- Tom Lawlor
- -Cung Le
- -Stanislav Nedkov
WWs:
- Alex Garcia
- -John Howard
- Kelvin Gastelum
- -Takenori Sato
- -Stephen Thompson
- Omari Akhmedov
- -Ildemar Alcantara
- -Jason High
- -Robbie Lawler
- -Rory MacDonald
- -Mike Pyle
- -Erick Silva
- -Sean Spencer
- -Tyron Woodley
- Matt Brown
- -Dong Hyun Kim
- -Ryan LaFlare
- -Hector Lombard
- -Brandon Thatch
- -Alexander Yakovlev
- Siyar Bahadurzada
- -Neil Magny
- -Rick Story
- -Robert Whittaker
- Viscardi Andrade
- -Seth Baczynski
- -Carlos Condit
- -Johny Hendricks
- -Anthony Lapsley
- -Hyun Gyu Lim
- -William Macario
- -Court McGee
- -Brian Melancon
- -Mike Pierce
- -Kenny Robertson
- -Paulo Thiago
- Adlan Amagov
- -Zak Cummings
- -Sergio Moraes
- -Gunnar Nelson
- -Sean Pierson
- -Tarec Saffiedine
- Demian Maia
- -Thiago Perpétuo
- -Bobby Voelker
- -TJ Waldburger
- Chris Clements
- -Brian Ebersole
- -Jake Ellenberger
- -John Hathaway
- -Pascal Krauss
- -Nate Marquardt
- -Jordan Mein
- Patrick Cote
- -Nick Diaz
- -Marcelo Guimaraes
- -Josh Koscheck
- -Dan Miller
- -Kyle Noke