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The Current Best MMA Heavyweights | 265 lbs.
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Who are the world's top heavyweights?
Heavyweight MMA features the highest ratio of knockout finishes of any weight class. It's no surprise; these guys are behemoths. Here are the current top ten at the 265lb. weight limit, across all promotions. Create YOUR own ranking today.
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- Cain Velasquez
- 11-1-0
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2
- Junior Dos Santos
- "Cigano"
- 15-2-0
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3
- Daniel Cormier
- "DC"
- 12-0-0
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4
- Fabricio Werdum
- "Vai Cavalo"
- 16-5-1
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5
- Antonio Silva
- "BigFoot"
- 18-4-0
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- Frank Mir
- 16-7-0
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7
- Alistair Overeem
- "The Reem"
- 36-12-0, 1 NC
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- Roy Nelson
- "Big Country"
- 19-7-0
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9
- Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira
- "Minotauro"
- 34-7-1, 1 NC
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- Mark Hunt
- "Super Samoan"
- 9-7-0
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- "The Warmaster" Josh Barnett | 32-6-0
- Travis "Hapa" Browne | 14-1-1
- Stefan "Skyscraper" Struve | 25-6-0
- Cheick Kongo | 18-8-2
- Gabriel "Napao" Gonzaga | 14-7-0
- Stipe Miocic | 9-1-0
- Brendan "The Hybrid" Schaub | 9-3-0
- Matt Mitrione | 6-2-0
- Ben Rothwell | 32-9-0
- Pat "HD" Barry | 8-5-0
- Sergei "The Paratrooper" Kharitonov | 19-5-0
- Shawn "The Savage" Jordan | 14-4-0
- Todd Duffee | 8-2-0
- Mike Russow | 15-3-0, 1 NC
- Shane "The Engineer" Carwin | 12-2-0
- Lavar "Big" Johnson | 17-7-0
- Shane Del Rosario | 11-2-0
- Andrei "The Pitbull" Arlovski | 19-10-0, 1 NC
- Dave "Pee-Wee" Herman | 21-5-0
- Alexander "Drago" Volkov | 19-3-0
- Jeff "The Snowman" Monson | 49-13-1
- Brett "The Grim" Rogers | 12-5-0, 1 NC
- "The Last Emperor" Fedor Emelianenko | 34-4-0, 1 NC
- Mirko "Cro Cop" Filipovic | 28-10-2, 1 NC
- Tim "The Maine-iac" Sylvia | 31-8-0, 1 NC
- Damian "Polish Pitbull" Grabowski | 18-1-0
- Phil "F-11" De Fries | 9-3-0, 1 NC
- Pedro "The Rock" Rizzo | 19-10-0
- Thiago "Big Monster" Santos | 11-2-0, 1 NC
- Jon Madsen | 7-1-0
- Richard "Rare Breed" Hale | 21-5-1
- Eric "American Soldier" Prindle | 9-3-0, 1 NC
- Christian Morecraft | 7-3-0
- Soa "The Hulk" Palelei | 19-3-0
- Geronimo "Mondragon" Dos Santos | 31-14-0
- Bobby "The Dominator" Lashley | 7-2-0
- Rob "The Bear" Broughton | 15-7-1
- Neil "Goliath" Grove | 12-6-1
- Devin Cole | 20-10-1
- Paul "The Headhunter" Buentello | 29-15-0
- Oli Thompson | 9-5-0
- Kenny "Deuce" Garner | 12-4-0
- Ron "The Monster" Sparks | 8-1-0
- Eddie "The Manic Hispanic" Sanchez | 13-7-0
- Blagoi Ivanov | 6-0-0, 1 NC
- Rolles Gracie | 8-1-0
- Abe "Hurricane" Wagner | 10-7-0
- Aleksander "The Grim Reaper" Emelianenko | 21-6-0
- Vinicius "Spartan" Quieroz | 6-3-0
- Valentijn "The Python" Overeem | 30-28-0
- Satoshi Ishii | 7-2-1
- Anthony "Rumble" Johnson | 15-4-0
- "The Viking" John Olav Einemo | 6-3-0
- Nandor "The Hun" Guelmino | 11-4-1
- Cole "The Polar Bear" Konrad | 9-0-0
- "Iron" Mike Whitehead | 27-7-0
- Tony "Kryptonite" Lopez | 32-11-0
- "El Guapo" Bas Rutten | 28-4-1
- Vitaly Minakov | 9-0-0
- Guram Gugenishvili | 11-2-0
- Kimbo Slice | 4-2-0
- Ryan Martinez | 9-2-0
- Jimmy "The Titan" Ambriz | 17-18-1
- Kirill "Baby Fedor" Sidelnikov | 7-4-0
- Brock Lesnar | 5-3-0
- Konstantin "Lacplesis" Gluhov | 26-12-0
- Andreas "Big Daddy" Kraniotakes | 15-6-1
- "The World's Most Dangerous Man" Ken Shamrock | 28-15-2
- Ednaldo "Lula" Oliveira | 14-1-1, 1 NC
- Mark "The Machine" Holata | 12-4-0
- Ricco "Suave" Rodriguez | 49-18-0
- Shamil Abdurahimov | 13-2-0
- Travis "The Ironman" Fulton | 248-49-11, 1 NC
- Tim "The Thrashing Machine" Hague | 14-7-0
- Dan "The Beast" Severn | 101-19-7
- Dion "Soldier" Staring | 28-9-0
- Kimo Leopoldo | 10-7-1
- Nick "Leatherface" Rossborough | 23-16-0
- Chris "The Crowbar" Tuchscherer | 21-4-0, 1 NC
- Nikita "The Al Capone" Krylov | 14-0-0
- Josh Appelt | 10-2-0
- Derrick "The Black Beast" Lewis | 9-2-0, 1 NC
- Maro "Mean Machine" Perak | 22-3-1
- Karl Etherington | 8-0-0
- Magomed Malikov | 6-2-0
- Ray "Sugarfoot" Sefo | 2-1-0
- Smealinho "Prince" Rama | 6-0-0
- Mostapha Al Turk | 6-6-0
- Jared "The Big Show" Rosholt | 5-1-0
- Peter "The Chief" Graham | 7-5-0
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