Top 20-11 UFC Fighters of all time as of 2024

This list does not take into account any events of 2025

20. Dustin Poirier 

Went 4-0 on his first UFC run at featherweight. He unofficially became the number one featherweight in the world by upsetting Josh Grispi and submitting Max Holloway before his title eliminator loss to the Korean Zombie. At lightweight, he went 8-1 to earn an interim title shot and win it against featherweight champion, Holloway. He then stopped Conor McGregor twice and worked his way up to two more title shots against Charles Oliveira and Islam Machachev. 

#1 featherweight 2011

#2 featherweight 2012 

#5 lightweight 2017

#4 lightweight 2018 

#2 lightweight 2020-2021

#3 lightweight 2022

19. Israel Adesanya 

He opened his UFC career 9-0 to win the UFC middleweight title over Robert Whittaker and defended it a total of six times. He'd lose his title to Alex Pereira only to regain it by vicious knockout to become the first middleweight to win back the title. 

#1 middleweight 2019-2021

#2 middleweight 2022-2023

#3 middleweight 2024

18. Khabib Nurmagomedov 

He stayed undefeated at 13-0 his entire UFC career. He won and defended the lightweight title three times. He got ranked wins over Justin Gaethje, Dustin Poirier, Conor McGregor, Edson Barboza and Rafael Dos Anjos. 

#2 lightweight 2014 

#1 lightweight 2016

#2 lightweight 2017-2019

#1 lightweight 2020

17. Robert Whittaker

At middleweight, he went on an 8-0 run knocking out half of his opponents, beating Jacare and Yoel Romero twice to win the UFC middleweight title. He now has wins over eight ranked opponents in Paulo Costa, Marvin Vettori, Kelvin Gastelum, Jared Cannonier, Darren Till, Romero, Jacare and Derek Brunson.  

#1 middleweight 2017-2018

#2 middleweight 2019-2021

#3 middleweight 2022

#4 middleweight 2023

#5 middleweight 2024

16. Stipe Miocic 

He's is the most successful UFC heavyweight champion with three consecutive title defenses. He became a two time champion by regaining and defending the title once more to win the trilogy over Daniel Cormier. 

#1 heavyweight 2016-2017

#2 heavyweight 2018 

#1 heavyweight 2019-2020

#2 heavyweight 2021

15. Joseph Benavidez

He went 15-3 at flyweight while Demetrious Johnson was champion with two of those loses coming from him. Twelve of those fifteen wins were against ranked opponents including a win over former flyweight champion Henry Cejudo. 

#3 flyweight 2012 

#2 flyweight 2013-2016 

#5 flyweight 2018 

#2 flyweight 2019 

#3 flyweight 2020-2021

14. Alexander Volkanovski 

He went 12-0 to win and defend the UFC featherweight title four times with wins over former champions, Jose Aldo and Max Holloway. He most recently made history by regaining the title and becoming the only fighter over the age of 35 to do so the lighter weight classes. 

#1 featherweight 2019-2023

#2 featherweight 2024 

13. Junior Dos Santos 

He became the most dominant heavyweight with 9 wins in a row, seven by knockout. This included winning and defending the title once. He closed out his UFC run with wins over four former heavyweight champions, Stipe Miocic, Frank Mir, Cain Velasquez and Fabricio Werdum. 

#5 heavyweight 2009 

#1 heavyweight 2010-2011

#2 heavyweight 2012-2013 

#1 heavyweight 2014 

#5 heavyweight 2015-2017 

#4 heavyweight 2019 

12. Tito Ortiz 

Up until Jon Jones' arrival, Ortiz was the most dominant light heavyweight champion with five title defenses. In his prime he only lost to former champions Frank Shamrock, Randy Couture and Chuck Liddell. In between those losses were 13 wins most by way of vicious ground and pound. Four of those wins were against former UFC champions. 

#2 light heavyweight 1999

#1 light heavyweight 2000-2002

#2 light heavyweight 2003

#4 light heavyweight 2004 

#3 light heavyweight 2005-2006 

11. Frankie Edgar 

He was 12-1 when he'd go on to upset the best lightweight of all time, BJ Penn, twice. He would then avenge his only loss to Gray Maynard in his next two title defenses. He would remain a top five featherweight for the next six years with wins over seven ranked opponents. 

#3 lightweight 2009

#2 lightweight 2010

#1 lightweight 2011

#2 lightweight 2012

#4 featherweight 2014 

#3 featherweight 2015-2017

#4 featherweight 2018

#5 featherweight 2019