-
1
- Anderson Silva
- "The Spider"
- 34-11-0, 1 NC
-
2
- Chuck Liddell
- "The Iceman"
- 21-9-0
-
3
- Wanderlei Silva
- "The Axe Murderer"
- 35-14-1, 1 NC
-
4
- Quinton Jackson
- "Rampage"
- 37-14-0
-
5
- Lyoto Machida
- "The Dragon"
- 26-12-0
-
6
- Cung Le
- 9-3-0
-
7
- Fedor Emelianenko
- "The Last Emperor"
- 40-7-0, 1 NC
-
8
- Rich Franklin
- "Ace"
- 29-7-0, 1 NC
-
9
- Georges St-Pierre
- "Rush"
- 26-2-0
-
10
- Shane Carwin
- "The Engineer"
- 12-2-0
-
11
- Todd Duffee
- 9-4-0, 1 NC
-
12
- Vitor Belfort
- "The Phenom" | 26-14-0, 1 NC
-
13
- Mirko Filipović
- "Cro Cop" | 38-11-2, 1 NC
-
14
- Maurício Rua
- "Shogun" | 27-14-1
-
15
- Junior dos Santos
- "Cigano" | 21-10-0
-
16
- Paul Daley
- "Semtex" | 44-18-2
-
17
- Thiago Alves
- "Pitbull" | 23-15-0
-
18
- BJ Penn
- "The Prodigy" | 16-14-2
-
19
- Eddie Alvarez
- "The Underground King" | 30-8-0, 2 NC
-
20
- Melvin Guillard
- "The Young Assassin" | 32-22-2, 3 NC
-
21
- Robbie Lawler
- "Ruthless" | 30-16-0, 1 NC