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DateSportDetail
5/2/2021MMAJiri Prochazka enters at #96 after victory over Reyes, N. Diaz falls out from #100
5/9/2021MMAMarina Rodriguez moves from #25 to #24 after win over Michelle Waterson
5/16/2021MMACharles Oliveira enters at #73 after victory over M. Chandler, Michael Bisping out from #100
5/16/2021MMAT. Ferguson drops from #59 to #70 after loss to Beneil Dariush
5/22/2021MMACody Garbrandt falls out from #87 after losing unanimous dec. to Rob Font
5/22/2021MMAM. Bisping reenters at #100 due to Garbrandt falling out.
6/13/2021MMABrandon Moreno enters at #79 after victory over Deiveson Figueiredo, Michael Bisping out from #100
6/13/2021MMADeiveson Figueiredo drops from #79 to #80 after submission loss to Brandon Moreno
7/8/2021NHLPatrick Kane moves to #30 from #34
7/8/2021NHLNikita Kucherov moves to #35 from #82
7/8/2021NHLConnor McDavid from to #36 from #84
7/8/2021NHLPatrice Bergeron moves past Doug Gilmour who was one spot ahead of him, but drops from #66 to #68 due to Kucherov and McDavid’s movement.
7/8/2021NHLAndrei Vasilevskiy enters at #73, Toe Blake out from #100
7/11/2021MMADustin Poirier moves from #16 to #12 after second victory over Conor McGregor
7/11/2021MMAConor McGregor drops from #18 to #26 after second loss to Dustin Poirier
7/22/2021NBASteph Curry moves from #11 to #8
7/22/2021NBAGiannis moves from #28 to #14
7/22/2021NBAKawhi Leonard passes Kevin Garnett but stays at #17 due to being leapfrogged by Giannis
7/22/2021NBAChris Paul moves from #26 to #22
7/22/2021NBARussell Westbrook moves from #47 to #30 (movement from 2020-2021 season and additional adjustment due to being underranked)
7/22/2021NBARudy Gobert moves from #57 to #50
7/22/2021NBADamian Lillard moves from #63 to #51
7/22/2021NBAPaul George moves from #55 to #52
7/22/2021NBAKyrie Irving moves from #88 to #59
7/22/2021NBANikola Jokic enters at #60, Nate Thurmond out from #100
7/22/2021NBAJimmy Butler moves from #81 to #68
7/22/2021NBAKarl-Anthony Towns enters at #81, Blake Griffin out from #100
7/22/2021NBABradley Beal enters at #89, Grant Hill out from #100
8/8/2021MMACyril Gane enters at #59 after TKO over Derrick Lewis, Chael Sonnen out from #100
9/26/0201MMAA. Volkanovski moves up from #27 to #25 after victory over Brian Ortega
10/9/2021MMAMarina Rodriguez moves from #24 to #22 after win over Mackenzie Dern
10/30/2021MMAGlover Teixeira moves from #48 to #45 after win over Jan Blachowicz
10/30/2021MMAJan Blachowicz drops from #45 to #46 after loss to Glover Teixeira
10/30/2021MMAPeter Yan moves from #61 to #60 after win over Cory Sandhagen
11/6/2021MMAKamaru Usman moves from #5 to #3 after win over Colby Covington
11/13/2021MMAMax Halloway moves from #23 to #21 after win over Yair Rodriguez
11/16/2021MLBNote: No movement into or within the top 100 for the 2021 MLB season. Max Scherzer inched closer to J. Verlander while J. Votto inched closer to D. Eckersley. Many players outside of the top 100 took major steps towards breaking in including Paul Goldschmidt, Jose Altuve, Nolan Arenado, Bryce Harper, Freddie Freeman, and Mookie Betts.
12/12/2012MMACharles Oliveira moves up from #74 to #34 after submission victory over Dustin Poirier
12/12/2021MMADustin Poirier drop from #12 to #20 after loss to Charles Oliveira
12/12/2021MMAJulianna Pena enters at #17 after submission win over Amanda Nunes, M. Coenen out from #25
1/23/2022MMAF. Ngannou moves from #11 to #7 after win over Cyril Gane
1/23/2022MMABrandon Moreno moves from #80 to #63 after loss to Deiveson Figueiredo (movement due, in part, to re-rank of the two GOATs at Fly)
1/23/2022MMADeiveson Figueiredo moves from #81 to #62 after win over Brandon Moreno
2/13/2022MMAIsrael Adesanya moves from #9 to #8 after decision over Robert Whittaker
3/23/2022NFLAaron Rodgers moves from #9 to #7
3/23/2022NFLAaron Donald moves from #19 to #10
3/23/2022NFLRob Gronkowski moves from #39 to #35
3/23/2022NFLVon Miller moves from #59 to #52
3/23/2022NFLTravis Kelce moves from #83 to #77
3/23/2022NFLBobby Wagner moves from #86 to #82
3/23/2022NFLRussell Wilson moves from unranked to #89, Jim Parker out from #100
4/9/2022MMAA. Volkanovski moves up from #25 to #9 after combination of victory over Korean Zombie and ranking adjustment due to underranking
4/9/2022MMAAljamain Sterling moves from unranked to #63 after split decision victory over Petr Yan; Yan drops from 61-64; A. Gustafsson out from #100
4/14/2022WrestlingRVD in at #81, rectifying a “copy and paste” casualty
4/14/2022WrestlingBobby Lashley jumps from unranked to #76, Samoa Joe out from #100
5/8/2022MMAMichael Chandler moves from #78 to #77 after victory over T. Ferguson. Ferguson drops from #75 to #78
5/8/2022MMACarla Esparza moves from #12 to #7 after victory over Rose Namajunas
5/8/2022MMACharles Oliveira moves from #34 to #26 after victory over Justin Gaethje
6/12/2022MMAWeili Zhang moves from #5 to #4 after victory over Joanna Jedrzejczyk
6/12/2022MMAJiri Prochazka moves from #99 to #70 after victory over Glover Teixeira
6/26/2022NBAJames Harden moves from #12 to #14 after ranking adjustment due to overranking
6/26/2022NBAChris Paul moves from #22 to #20 following 2021-2022 NBA Season
6/26/2022NBANikola Jokic moves from #60 to #32 following 2021-2022 NBA Season
6/26/2022NBAJimmy Butler moves from #68 to #66 following 2021-2022 NBA Season
6/26/2022NBAJoel Embiid moves from unranked to #81 following 2021-2022 NBA Season; Mark Price out from #100
7/3/2022MMAAlexander Volkanovski moves from #9 to #5 after third victory over Max Holloway
7/3/2022MMAIsrael Adesanya moves from #8 to #6 after victory over Jared Cannonier
7/9/2022NHLAlexander Ovechkin moves from #6 to #3 following 2021-2022 NHL Season
7/9/2022NHLSidney Crosby moves from #7 to #6 following 2021-2022 NHL Season
7/9/2022NHLConnor McDavid moves from #36 to #24 following 2021-2022 NHL Season
7/9/2022NHLAndrei Vasilevskiy moves from #73 to #37 following 2021-2022 NHL Season
7/9/2022NHLPatrice Bergeron moves from #67 to #48 following 2021-2022 NHL season
7/9/2022NHLSteve Stamkos moves from #88 to #63 following 2021-2022 NHL season
7/9/2022NHLAnze Kopitar moves from #69 to #64 following 2021-2022 NHL season
7/9/2022NBAMagic Johnson moves from #4 to #6 after ranking adjustment due to overranking
7/23/2022MMACurtis Blaydes jumps to #64 from unranked, ostensibly, after defeating Tom Aspinall. The move is primarily due to previous under-ranking. Vadim Nemkov drops out of top 100.
8/20/2022MMALeon Edwards jumps to #71 from unranked after TKO of Kamaru Usman. Urijah Faber drops out of top 100.
10/22/2022MMAIslam Makhachev jumps to #28 from unranked after submitting Charles Oliveira. Don Frye drops out of top 100.
10/22/2022MMAAljamain Sterling jumps from #64 to #40 after TKO of TJ Dillashaw
11/12/2022MMAAlex Pereira jumps to #81 from unranked after defeating Israel Adesanya. Dan Severn drops out of top 100.
11/12/2022MMADustin Poirier moves from #21 to #19 after defeating Michael Chandler
11/18/2022MMAVadim Nemkov jumps to #94 from unranked after unanimous decision over Corey Anderson. Carlos Condit drops out of top 100.
11/21/2022MLBJustin Verlander moves from #23 to #17 after the 2022 MLB Season.
12/10/2022MMAMagomed Ankalaev jumps to #81 from unranked after split-decision draw against Jan Blachowicz. Jeremy Horn drops out of top 100.
1/21/2022MMABrandon Moreno moves from #64 to #31 after TKO win over Deiveson Figueiredo
2/11/2022MMAAlexander Volkanovski moves from #5 to #3 after loss at lightweight to Islam Makhachev
2/22/2023NFLTravis Kelce moves from #77 to #36
2/22/2023NFLPatrick Mahomes jumps from unranked to #42. Roosevelt Brown out from #100
2/22/2023NFLBobby Wagner moves from #83 to #75
3/18/2023MMALeon Edwards jumps from #72 to #13 after defeating Kamaru Usman
4/8/2023MMAJorge Masvidal drop out from #99 after losing to Gilbert Burns, Belal Muhammad enters at #100
4/22/23MMACurtis Blaydes drops from #66 to #92 after losing to Sergei Pavlovich
5/7/22MMAAljimain Sterling jumps from #42 to #27 after defeating Henry Cejudo
6/14/23NBANikola Jokic jumps from #32 to #14
6/14/23NBAJoel Embiid jumps from #81 to #33
6/14/23NBADamian Lillard jumps from #54 to #39
6/14/23NBAJimmy Butler jumps from #67 to #40
6/14/23NBALuka Doncic enters at #56, Kevin Johnson drops out of the top 100.
6/14/23NHLConnor McDavid moves from #24 to #15
6/14/23NHLErik Karlsson moves from #65 to #33
7/8/23MMAAlexandre Pantoja enters at #72 after defeating Brandon Moreno, Moreno falls from #33 to #38.
7/8/23MMARobert Whittaker drops from #18 to #29 after losing to Dricus Du Plesses
7/29/23MMAJustin Gaethje enters at #43 after losing to Dustin Poirier, B. Muhammad drops out
7/29/23MMAAlex Pereira jumps from #82 to #67 after defeating Jan Blachowicz, Blachowicz drops from #51 to #68.
8/24/23MMAAljamain Sterling drops from #27 to #37 after loss to Sean O’Malley
9/9/23MMAIsrael Adesanya drops from #5 to #6 after loss to Sean Strickland.
10/21/23MMAIslam Makhachev moves from # 29 to #27 after defeating Alexander Volkanovski.
10/21/23MMAKhamzat Chimaev enters the top 100 at #76 after defeating Kamaru Usman. Renan Barao moves out of the top 100.
11/11/23MMAAlex Pereira moves from #67 to #36 after defeating Jir Prochazka.
12/1/2023MLBNote: No movement into or within the top 100 for the 2023 MLB season. Freddie Freeman and Mookie Betts inched closer towards the top 100.
12/16/23MMALeon Edwards moves from #13 to #11 after defeating Colby Covington.
1/20/24MMADricus Du Plessis enters the list at #77 after victory over Sean Strickland. Raphael Assuncao drops out of the top 100.
2/12/24NFLPatrick Mahomes moves from #42 to #32.
2/12/24NFLTravis Kelce moves from #36 to #33
2/12/24NFLTJ Watt enters the top 100 at #78. Carl Eller moves out of the top 100.
2/17/24MMAIlia Topuria enters the list at #77 after victory over Alexander Volkanovski. Pedro Rizzo drops out of top 100.
3/9/24MMASean O’Malley enters the list at #87 after victory over Marlon Vera. Sergei Kharitonov falls out of the top 100.
4/13/24MMAMax Halloway moves from #23 to #21 after win over Justin Gaethje.
4/13/24MMAArman Tsarukyan enters the list at #87 after victory over Charles Oliveira. Oliveira drops from #27 to #29. Vadim Nemkov falls out of the top 100.
4/13/24MMAAlex Pereira moves from #36 to #18 after victory over Jamahal Hill.
6/18/24NBANikola Jokic moves from #14 to #12 following the 2023-2024 NBA Season.
6/18/24NBAGiannis Antetokounmpo moves ahead of Karl Malone (stays at #13 after Giannis leapfrogged both to #12).
6/18/24NBAAnthony Davis moves from #35 to #31 following the 2023-2024 NBA Season.
6/18/24NBADamian Lillard moves from #39 to #37 following the 2023-2024 NBA Season.
6/18/24NBAScottie Pippen moves from #41 to #36 on a re-rank.
6/18/24NBARudy Gobert moves from #54 to #48 following the 2023-2024 NBA Season.
6/18/24NBAPaul George moves from #55 to #50 following the 2023-2024 NBA Season.
6/18/24NBALuka Doncic moves from #56 to #40 following the 2023-2024 NBA Season.
6/18/24NBAKyrie Irving moves from #63 to #57.
6/18/24NBAKarl-Anthony Towns moves from #83 to #80
6/18/24NBAJayson Tatum enters at #80 following the 2023-2024 season. Bob Lanier falls out of the top 100.
6/18/24NBAJaylen Brown enters at #81 following the 2023-2024 season. Dolphy Schayes falls out of the top 100.
6/18/24NBADomantas Sabonis enters at #83 following the 2023-2023 NBA Season. Billy Cunningham falls out of the top 100.
6/18/24NBADevin Booker enters at #84 following the 2023-2024 NBA Season. Robert Parish falls out of the top 100.
6/25/24NHLConnor McDavid moves from #14 to #8 following the 2023-2024 NHL Season.
6/25/24NHLNikita Kucherov moves from #37 to #30 following the 2023-2024 NHL Season.
6/25/24NHLSteve Stamkos moves from #64 to #58 following the 2023-2024 NHL Season.
6/25/24NHLAuston Matthews enters the list at #50 following the 2023-2024 NHL Season. Tim Horton falls out of the top 100.
6/25/24NHLJarome Iginla drop sto #58 on a re-rank.
6/25/24NHLLeon Draisaitl enters the list at #51 following the 2023-2024 NHL Season. Turk Broda falls out of the top 100.
6/25/24NHLNathan MacKinnon enters the list at #45 following the 2023-2024 NHL Season. Bill Cowley falls out of the top 100.
6/25/24NHLSergei Bobrovsky eners the list at #82 following the 2023-2024 NFL Season. Brendan Shanahan falls out of the top 100.
7/4/2024WrestlingBrock Lesnar moves from #26 to #12.
7/4/2024WrestlingRoman Reigns moves from #32 to #11.
7/4/2024WrestlingSeth Rollins moves from #31 to #16.
7/4/2024WrestlingCody Rhodes moves from #72 to #22.
7/4/2024WrestlingDrew McIntyre moves from #67 to #52.
7/4/2024WrestlingJey Uso enters at #84. Paul Orndorf falls out of the top-100.
7/4/2024WrestlingKevin Owens enters at #64. Tully Blanchard falls out of the top-100.
7/4/2024WrestlingMJF enters at #82. Kevin Von Erich falls out of the top-100.
7/4/2024WrestlingSami Zayn enters at #83. Junkyard Dog falls out of the top-100.
7/4/2024WrestlingGunther enters at #78. Michael Hayes falls out of the top-100.
7/4/2024MMAJustin Gaethje drops from #44 to #52 after re-rank.
7/4/2024MMAVadim Nemkov enters at #53. Joseph Benavidez falls out of top-100.
7/4/2024MMAIslam Makhachev moves from #27 to #6 after defeating Dustin Poirier.
7/4/2024MMADustin Poirier drops from #22 to #23 after loss to Islam Makhachev.
7/4/2024MMASean Strickland enters at #90 after win over Paulo Costa. Curtis Blaydes falls out of top-100.
7/4/2024MMAAlex Pereira moves from #19 to #14 after defeating Jiri Prochazka.
7/28/2024MMAPetr Yan reevaluation drops from #68 to #90.
7/28/2024MMABelal Muhammad enters the list at #33 after defeating Leon Edwards. Derrick Lewis drops out of top 100.
8/12/2024SoccerSoccer: Top-125 released
8/18/2024MMADricus Du Plessis jumps from #79 to #33 after defeating Israel Adesanya
9/15/24MMAMerab Dvalishvili jumps from unranked to #15 after defeating Sean O’Malley. Demian Maia drops out of top 100.
11/17/24MMAIllia Topuria jumps from #80 to #6 after victory over Max Halloway.
11/17/24MMAKhamzat Chamaev jumps from #79 to #17 after victory over Robert Whittaker.
11/17/24MLBFreddie Freeman enters the list at #94. Trevor Hoffman falls out of the top 100.
12/14/24MMAColby Covington drops from #67 to #93 after losing to Joaquin Buckley.
1/19/25MMAMerab Dvalishvili moves from #16 to #8 after defeating Umar Nurmagomedov.
1/25/25TennisTennis: Top-100 released
2/8/25MMADricus du Plessis moves from #36 to #14 after defeating Sean Strickland
2/22/25MMAHenry Cejudo drops from #19 to #24 after loss to Song Yadong (down on scorecards in 3rd when eye poke occurred)
2/25/25GolfGolf: Top-100 released
2/25/25NFLPatrick Mahomes moves from #32 to #12 following the 2024-25 season.
2/25/25NFLBobby Wagner moves from #75 to #64 following the 2024-25 season.
2/25/25NFLTJ Watt moves from #78 to #38.
2/25/25NFLDerrick Henry enters the list at #52 following the 2024-25 season. Gene Upshaw drops out of the top 100.
2/25/25NFLLamar Jackson enters the list at #59 following the 2024-25 season. Willie Brown drops out of the top 100.
2/25/25NFLJosh Allen enters the list at #86 following the 2024-25 season. Don Hutson drops out of the top 100.
2/25/25NFLMyles Garrett enters the list at #87 following the 2024-2025 season. Bart Starr drops out of the top 100.
3/9/25MMAAlex Pereira drops from #17 to #20 after losing to Magomed Ankalaev
3/9/25MMAMagomed Ankalaev jumps from #87 to #15 after defeating Alex Pereira
3/23/25MMASean Brady moves into the list at #92 after defeating Leon Edwards. Nate Marquardt falls out of the top 100.
3/30/25MMADemetrious Johnson moves #26 to #24 after reevaluation.
3/30/25MMARobert Whittaker drops from #25 to #27 after reevaluation
4/5/25NHLAlexander Ovechkin moves from #3 to #2 after becoming the most prolific goal-scorer in NHL history.
4/5/25NHLMario Lemieux moves from #4 to #3 after reevaluation.
4/13/25MMAPatricio Pitbull drops from #87 to #100 after loss to Yair Rodriguez, and reevaluation.
4/13/25MMAMichael Chandler drops out of the list from #93 after loss to Paddy Pimblett, and reevaluation. Tom Aspinall enters at #98.
4/26/25WrestlingRoman Reigns moves from #11 to #9.
4/26/25WrestlingSeth Rollins moves from #16 to #13.
4/26/25WrestlingMick Foley moves from #21 to #18 after reevaluation.
4/26/25WrestlingCody Rhodes moves from #19 to #22.
4/26/25WrestlingCM Punk moves from #44 to #33.
4/26/25WrestlingKevin Nash moves from #51 to #47 after reevaluation.
4/26/25WrestlingDrew McIntyre moves from #52 to #48.
4/26/25WrestlingKevin Owens moves from #64 to #57.
4/26/25WrestlingJey Uso moves from #88 to #62.
4/26/25WrestlingGunther moves from #79 to #65.
4/26/25WrestlingMJF moves from #84 to #80.
4/26/25WrestlingSami Zayn moves from #85 to #81.
4/26/25WrestlingWill Ospreay enters the list at #87. Gene Kiniski falls out of the top 100.
4/26/25WrestlingOwen Hart moves from #99 to #87 after reevaluation.
4/26/25WrestlingWrestling: Women’s Top-25 Updated
5/11/25MMAJack Della Madallena enters the list at #90 after defeating Belal Muhammad. Patricio Pitbull falls out of the top 100.
5/11/25MMAAlexandre Pantoja moves from #79 to #34 after reevaluation.
5/11/25MMAShavkat Rakhmonov enters the list at #98 after reevaluation. Rory MacDonald falls out of the top 100.
6/22/25NHLConnor McDavid moves from #8 to #7 following the 2024-25 NHL season.
6/22/25NHLPhil Esposito moves from #12 to #16 after reevaluation.
6/22/25NHLBobby Hull moves from #17 to #15 after reevaluation.
6/22/25NHLErik Karlsson moves from #34 to #47 after reevaluation.
6/22/25NHLMike Bossy moves from #39 to #34 after reevaluation.
6/22/25NHLNikita Kucherov moves from #30 to #26 following the 2024-25 NHL season.
6/22/25NHLAndrei Vasilevskiy moves from #38 to #37 following the 2024-25 NHL season.
6/22/25NHLNathan MacKinnon moves from #45 to #35 following the 2024-25 NHL season.
6/22/25NHLLeon Draisaitl moves from #52 to #36 following the 2024-25 NHL season.
6/22/25NHLSergei Bobrovsky moves from #82 to #70 following the 2024-25 NHL season.
6/22/25NHLConnor Hellebuyck enters the list at #41 following the 2024-25 NHL season. Charlie Conacher falls out of the top 100.
6/22/25NHLCale Makar enters the list at #62 following the 2024-25 NHL season. Frank Nighbor falls out of the top 100.
6/22/25NHLVictor Hedman enters the list at #81 following the 2024-25 NHL season. Bill Cook falls out of the top 100.
6/23/25NBASteph Curry moves from #8 to #6 following the 2024-25 NBA season.
6/23/25NBANikola Jokic moves from #12 to #10 following the 2024-25 NBA season.
6/23/25NBAJayson Taum moves from #80 to #57 following the 2024-25 NBA season.
6/23/25NBAKarl-Anthony Towns moves from #82 to #77 following the 2024-25 NBA season.
6/23/25NBADomantas Sabonis moves from #84 to #78 following the 2024-2025 NBA season.
6/23/25NBADevin Booker moves from #84 to #74 following the 2024-25 NBA season.
6/23/25NBAJaylen Brown moves from #81 to #79 following the 2024-25 NBA season.
6/23/25NBAShai Gilgeous-Alexander enters the list at #28 following the 2024-25 NBA season. Paul Arizin falls out of the top 100.
6/23/25NBADonovan Mitchell enters the list at #76 following the 2024-25 NBA season. Tiny Archibald falls out of the top 100.
6/23/25NBAAnthony Edwards enters the list at #90 following the 2024-25 NBA season. Sidney Moncrief falls out of the top 100.
6/23/25NBADavid Robinson moves from #16 to #15 after reevaluation.
6/23/25NBAKawhi Leonard moves from #18 to #21 after reevaluation.
6/23/25NBAChris Paul moves from #21 to #27 after reevaluation.
6/23/25NBARick Barry moves from #28 to #30 after reevaluation.
6/23/25NBAClyde Drexler moves from #39 to #48 after reevaluation.
6/23/25NBAGeorge Gervin moves from #41 to #35 after reevaluation.
6/23/25NBADwight Howard moves from #48 to #37 after reevaluation.
6/23/25NBAPaul George moves from #51 to #75 after reevaluation.
6/23/25NBATracy McGrady moves from #70 to #56 after reevaluation.
6/23/25NBARudy Gobert moves from #49 to #66 after reevaluation.
6/23/25NBAPatrick Ewing moves from #50 to #38 after reevaluation.
6/23/25NBADamian Lillard moves from #38 to #47 after reevaluation.
6/23/25NBAPau Gasol moves from #53 to #46 after reevaluation.
6/28/25MMAAlexandre Pantoja moves from #34 to #31 after defeating Kai Kara-France.
7/19/25MMAMax Halloway moves from #26 to #19 after defeating Dustin Poirier.
7/19/25MMADustin Poirier drops from #28 to #36 after loss to Max Halloway.
7/26/25MMARobert Whittaker drops from #27 to #44 after loss to Reinier de Ridder.
8/12/25WrestlingStone Cold Steve Austin moves from #3 to #2 after reevaluation.
8/12/25WrestlingThe Rock moves to #5 to #3 after reevaluation.
8/12/25WrestlingJohn Cena moves from #6 to #4 after reevaluation.
8/17/25MMAKhamzat Chimaev moves from #18 to #8 after defeating Dricus Du Plessis.
8/17/25MMADricus Du Plessis drops from #14 to #16 after los to Khazmat Chimaev.
8/17/25MMAKhabib Nurmagomedov moves from #5 to #3 after reevaluation.
8/17/25MMADaniel Cormier moves from #14 to #10 after reevaluation.
8/17/25MMAStipe Miocic moves from #13 to #11 after reevaluation.
8/17/25MMALeon Edwards drops from #17 to #21 after reevaluation.
8/17/25NBAWilt Chamberlain moves from #17 to #16 after reevaluation.
10/5/2025MMAKhabib Nurmagomedov moves from #3 to #6 after reevaluation.
10/5/2025MMAMerab Dvalishvili moves from #9 to #5 after defeating Cory Sandhagen.
10/5/2025MMAAlex Pereira moves from #20 to #12 after defeating Magomed Ankalaev.
10/5/2025MMAMagomed Ankalaev moves from #15 to #21 after losing to Alex Pereira

The 100 Greatest Mixed Martial Artists (MMA) of All-Time

Every ranking update ever (Last MMA update: 10/5/25)

The making of the list.

The Rules

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RankFighterYears
1Jon JonesWhy?2008-active
2Anderson Silva1997-2020
3Alexander Volkanovski2012-active
4George St-Pierre2002-2017
5Merab Dvalishvili2013-active
6Khabib Nurmagomedov2008-2020
7Ilia Topuria2015-active
8Islam Makhachev2010-active
9Khamzat Chimaev2018-active
10Daniel Cormier2009-2020
11Stipe Miocic2010-2024
12Alex Pereira2015-active
13Israel Adesanya2009-active
14Fedor Emelianenko2000-active
15Francis Ngannou2013-active
16Dricus Du Plessis2013-active
17Kamaru Usman2012-active
18Max Holloway2010-active
19Dominick Cruz2003-active
20Leon Edwards2011-active
21Magomed Ankalaev2014-active
22Lyoto Machida2003-active
23Dan Henderson1997-2016
24Shogun Rua2002-active
25Demetrious JohnsonWhy?2007-active
26Henry Cejudo2013-active
27Fabricio Werdum2002-active
28Rampage Jackson1999-active
29Alexandre Pantoja2007-active
30Chuck Liddell1998-2010
31Randy Couture1997-2011
32Matt Hughes1998-2013
33Alistair Overeem1999-active
34Charles Oliveira2008-active
35Dustin Poirier2009-active
36Conor McGregor2008-active
37Jose Aldo2004-active
38Belal Muhammad2012-active
39Frank Shamrock1994-2010
40Royce Gracie1993-2016
41Rashad Evans2003-2018
42Tito Ortiz1997-active
43Wanderlei Silva1996-2018
44Robert Whittaker2009-active
45Aljamain Sterling2010-active
46Brandon Moreno2011-active
47Cain Velasquez2006-2019
48Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira1999-2015
49Junior dos Santos2006-active
50Chris Weidman2009-active
51Ken Shamrock1993-2016
52Bas Rutten1993-2006
53Rickson Gracie1980-2000
54Anthony Johnson2006-active
55Vitor Belfort1996-active
56Jake Shields1999-active
57Forrest Griffin2001-2012
58Glover Teixeira2002-active
59Justin Gaethje2011-active
60Vadim Nemkov2013-active
61Ryan Bader2007-active
62Phil Davis2008-active
63Frankie Edgar2005-active
64Mirko Cro Cop2001-2019
65Ricardo Arona2000-2009
66Gegard Mousasi2003-active
67Antonio Rogerio Nogueira2000-2020
68Kazushi Sakuraba1996-active
69TJ Dillashaw2010-active
70Josh Barnett1997-2016
71Masakatsu Funaki1993-2012
72Cyril Gane2018-active
73Deiveson Figueiredo2012-active
74Jan Blachowicz2007-active
75Mark Coleman1996-2010
76Yoel Romero2009-active
77Nick Diaz2001-2015
78BJ Penn2001-2019
79Tyron Woodley2006-active
80Jiri Prochazka2012-active
81Luke Rockhold2007-active
82Jacare Souza2003-active
83Stephen Thompson2010-active
84Eddie Alvarez2003-active
85Rich Franklin1999-2015
86Rafael dos Anjos2004-active
87Arman Tsarukyan2015-active
88Sean O’Malley2013-active
89Sean Strickland2008-active
90Jack Della Maddalena2016-active
91Petr Yan2014-active
92Sean Brady2014-active
93Colby Covington2012-active
94Tony Ferguson2008-active
95Anthony Pettis2007-active
96Benson Henderson2006-active
97Robbie Lawler2001-active
98Shavkat Rakhmonov2014-active
99Tom Aspinall2014-active
100Frank Mir2001-active

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Why is The Rock the 3rd Greatest Professional Wrestler of All-Time?

There is a significant difference between professional wrestlers who help wrestling companies make money and those who help them survive. There are literally thousands who fit in the former category, while less than a handful fall in the latter. Hulk Hogan and “Stone Cold” Steve Austin, of course, are two of the few whose contributions impacted the very existence of not just World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), but the cultural relevance of sports entertainment as a whole. However, to quote Yoda, “There is another.” If you smell what Yoda’s been cookin’, then you know I’m talking about The Most Electrifying Man in Sports Entertainment, The Great One, The People’s Champ, The Brahma Bull, The Final Boss, Dewey himself, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson. The Rock is a global icon and arguably the most popular action star in the world. Weirdly, though, fans, historians, and former wrestlers have a hard time agreeing on where he stands in the GOAT conversation. He is routinely left off Mt. Rushmore lists, and sometimes out of that discussion altogether. On a list of favorites, by all means, take him or leave him. In the GOAT discussion, though, The Rock sits in a class above with only Hogan and Austin as peers. 

Before we dig into what makes The Rock one of the three greatest professional wrestlers in history, it’s important to explore why it might not be so obvious to the millions…and millions of The Rock’s fans. The #1 reason that his true significance is often overlooked is likely because he bolted town like Barry Sanders, leaving his fans wanting more, so much more. Despite The Rock’s Houdini act, it might come as a surprise that he has a nearly identical career resume to Austin. Both failed to gain traction with their initial gimmicks. Both had relatively short peak runs. Austin broke through in 1997 and retired in 2003. The Rock broke through in 1998 and left the company in 2004. Both were pivotal in WWF defeating WCW in the Monday Night Wars. They cut the greatest promos in the history of the business, delivered the most iconic catch phrases, elicited the loudest crowd reactions, and were booked as the main event in three WrestleManias. The difference in perception between the two might just come down to hurt feelings. Austin didn’t go anywhere which made his departure more palatable to fans. The Rock left for Hollywood, which, for many, felt like being stabbed in the back. The fact that The Rock was still at his physical peak while Austin wore visible battle scars only exacerbated the perception that Austin was the real people’s champ, while The Rock was a Hollywood turncoat. This criticism of The Rock is fair, and it was undoubtedly a gut punch for many at the time. However, the move to Hollywood would not only make The Rock a bigger star than ever before, but it would eventually give WWE credibility on a scale that it never could have imagined. 

The Rock and “Stone Cold” Steve Austin were in very similar positions in 1996. Both were struggling with gimmicks that fans didn’t care about. For Austin, it was The Ringmaster. For The Rock, it was Rocky Maivia. The WWF was struggling immensely at the time. WCW was galvanizing increasingly older audiences with the NWO angle, while Vince McMahon and the WWF were still pushing goofy occupational gimmicks onto its dwindling audience. The contrast couldn’t have been larger, and it showed in the television ratings as WCW Monday Nitro embarked on an 83-week winning streak over Monday Night Raw. The outlook for the WWF was so bleak that McMahon implored his top star–Bret “The Hitman” Hart–to seek employment with WCW because he couldn’t afford to honor Hart’s contract. With media mogul Ted Turner bankrolling WCW’s seemingly limitless budget–and stealing McMahon’s stars on top of it–the future of the WWF was very much in peril. Pay-per-view (PPV) buys had plummeted to record lows. TV ratings had eroded. Merchandise sales were non-existent. McMahon needed a miracle. 

Luckily for–and unbeknownst to–McMahon, he had two megastars on the roster, even if their initial efforts missed the mark. Austin, of course, found his niche with his anti-authority, badass persona. Although Austin’s popularity did result in more exposure for the WWF in 1997, it wasn’t until he had a yin to his yang that his character–and, subsequently, WWF’s TV ratings–launched into orbit. That foil was The Rock, who found his inner Soul Man in 1998, launching WWF to a level of pop cultural relevance that rivaled the hey days of Hulkamania. With an assist from the Mr. McMahon character, the chemistry between The Rock and Austin brought the WWF back from the brink and unlocked WCW’s stranglehold on TV ratings. The impact was just as noticeable in PPV buys as their main event match at WrestleMania XV attracted a record 800,000 buys, and then they smashed the record again two years later at WrestleMania X-Seven with a stratospheric 1.04 million buys. The Rock and Austin weren’t just talented performers; their popularity and chemistry literally saved the WWF from bankruptcy and eliminated its only competition. 

Austin almost always gets rated ahead of The Rock on these sorts of lists and there is ammunition to justify it. The “Stone Cold” character metamorphosed a year before the Rock when the WWF was facing its most existential threat from WCW. Austin was also the king of merchandise. The “Austin 3:16” shirt is likely the most popular in the history of the business. His weekly dust ups against Mr. McMahon–and corporate culture–let the everyman live out their most diabolical fantasies against authority. He also did it while guzzling cans of beer and extending his middle fingers. In contrast, The Rock was a smooth-talking, jabroni-beating, eye-brow-raising, smart aleck. Audiences loved to hate The Rock and loved to love Austin. However, despite Austin’s advantages, The Rock has some things on his resume that Austin can’t touch. 

While it wasn’t obvious to wrestling fans at the time, The Rock was doing something in Hollywood that would make wrestling more popular than ever before. Every movie and TV role he banked didn’t just increase his popularity in Hollywood; it increased the cache that he would eventually deliver when he returned to the place that made him a star. Yes, when the prodigal son returned, he came bearing gifts. After seven years away from wrestling, The Rock reemerged in 2011 to main event WrestleMania XXVIII with John Cena and then offered a sequel a year later at WrestleMania 29. The first match with Cena broke the record for WrestleMania PPVs at a staggering 1.3 million buys, and the two combined matches set the record for buys in consecutive years with a colossal 2.35 million. The Rock’s return came with record breaking numbers and a stamp of legitimacy for Cena–the face of the company at the time–that no active wrestler on the roster could’ve delivered.

Following his successful WrestleMania returns in 2011 and 2012, The Rock once again set out for Hollywood, except this time he would go on to become the biggest movie star in the world, even offering professional wrestling center stage on network television as his biographical TV series Young Rock aired in primetime on NBC. Once again, The Rock’s success outside of the wrestling industry would yield a massive return when he came back home again. He joined the Board of Directors at TKO–WWE’s parent company–and then used it as an opportunity to create his latest in-ring evolution, “The Final Boss.” Twenty-seven years after his first WrestleMania appearance, The Rock returned to main event WrestleMania XL to yet again deliver shine to WWE’s star of the present. This time around, it was “Dashing” “The American Nightmare” Cody Rhodes. 


While Austin’s white-hot run during the Monday Night Wars outshined even The Rock, his overall body of work might not quite be on par with Rocky’s. Consider that Hulk Hogan, “Stone Cold” Austin, and John Cena never faced each other in the ring. The Rock not only faced each of them, but he was booked against them in the main event at WrestleMania a total of six times. The Rock and Austin are two sides of the same coin. Their contributions are as equally important as they are unique. Their value can be measured in stacks of cash for the companies they worked for and pink slips for the ones they didn’t. Nobody short of Hulk Hogan can say they had a bigger impact on the wrestling industry than The Rock and Austin.