UFC/Pride Heavyweight Champions with least-to-most Top 10 ranked wins at Heavyweight.

[acannxr]

The Flyweight version is here.
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The Middleweight version is here.
The Light Heavyweight version is here.
Champions with most wins in each division here.
The Multi-Division version is here.

Rankings are based on FightMatrix.

Bas Rutten

Rutten has 0 top ten wins (90% of his fights took place at Openweight).

Jon Jones

Jones' resume:

#2 Ciryl Gane

Jones has 1 top ten win.

Ricco Rodriguez

Rodriguez' resume:

#3 Randy Couture

Rodriguez has 1 top ten win.

Maurice Smith

Smith's resume:

#4 Mark Coleman

Smith has 1 top ten win.

Mark Coleman

Coleman's resume:

#3 Dan Severn
#10 Akira Shoji

Coleman has 2 top ten wins.

Kevin Randleman

Randleman's resume:

#8 Pedro Rizzo
#5 Mirko Filipovic

Randleman has 2 top ten wins.

Tim Sylvia

Sylvia's resume:

#4 Ricco Rodriguez
#7 Andrei Arlovski
#10 Andrei Arlovski

Sylvia has 3 top ten wins.

Frank Mir

Mir's resume:

#4 Tim Sylvia
#2 Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira
#8 Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira
#7 Antonio Silva

Mir has 4 top ten wins.

Brock Lesnar

Lesnar's resume:

#9 Heath Herring
#3 Randy Couture
#3 Frank Mir
#5 Shane Carwin

Lesnar has 4 top ten wins.

Josh Barnett

Barnett's resume:

#2 Semmy Schilt
#2 Randy Couture
#6 Kazuhiro Nakamura
#7 Frank Mir
#7 Andrei Arlovski

Barnett has 5 top ten wins.

Daniel Cormier

Cormier's resume:

#6 Antonio Silva
#8 Josh Barnett
#7 Frank Mir
#1 Stipe Miocic
#5 Derrick Lewis

Cormier has 5 top ten wins.

Fabricio Werdum

Werdum's resume:

#4 Gabriel Gonzaga
#1 Fedor Emelianenko
#10 Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira
#5 Travis Browne
#5 Mark Hunt
#8 Travis Browne

Werdum has 6 top ten wins.

Andrei Arlovski

Arlovski's resume:

#7 Vladimir Matyushenko
#7 Tim Sylvia
#9 Fabricio Werdum
#4 Antonio Silva
#4 Travis Browne
#9 Frank Mir

Arlovski has 6 top ten wins.

Randy Couture

Couture's resume:

#6 Maurice Smith
#5 Kevin Randleman
#8 Tsuyoshi Kohsaka
#5 Pedro Rizzo
#10 Pedro Rizzo
#5 Tim Sylvia
#3 Gabriel Gonzaga

Couture has 7 top ten wins.

Francis Ngannou

Ngannou's resume:

#8 Andrei Arlovski
#2 Alistair Overeem
#3 Curtis Blaydes
#4 Junior dos Santos
#7 Jairzinho Rozenstruik
#1 Stipe Miocic
#3 Ciryl Gane

Ngannou has 7 top ten wins.

Cain Velasquez

Velasquez' resume:

#3 Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira
#1 Brock Lesnar
#9 Antonio Silva
#1 Junior dos Santos
#3 Antonio Silva
#2 Junior dos Santos
#8 Travis Browne

Velasquez has 7 top ten wins.

Stipe Miocic

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Miocic's resume:

#5 Mark Hunt
#3 Andrei Arlovski
#1 Fabricio Werdum
#3 Alistair Overeem
#5 Junior dos Santos
#2 Francis Ngannou
#1 Daniel Cormier
#2 Daniel Cormier

Miocic has 8 top ten wins.

Junior dos Santos

Santos' resume:

#4 Fabricio Werdum
#9 Mirko Filipovic
#6 Shane Carwin
#1 Cain Velasquez
#4 Frank Mir
#9 Mark Hunt
#6 Ben Rothwell
#4 Derrick Lewis

dos Santos has 8 top ten wins.

Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira

Nogueira's resume:

#5 Valentijn Overeem
#5 Gary Goodridge
#3 Mark Coleman
#6 Ricco Rodriguez
#5 Mirko Filipovic
#3 Josh Barnett
#9 Tim Sylvia
#5 Randy Couture
#10 Brendan Schaub

Nogueira has 9 top ten wins.

Fedor Emelianenko

Emelianenko's resume:

#6 Semmy Schilt
#10 Heath Herring
#1 Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira
#8 Gary Goodridge
#9 Mark Coleman
#2 Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira
#4 Mirko Filipovic
#4 Mark Coleman
#7 Mark Hunt
#8 Tim Sylvia
#6 Andrei Arlovski
#8 Brett Rogers

Emelianenko has 12 top ten wins.

 

[sampuncher]

No shock who would be first on this one.

Also crazy Brock made it reasonably high on the list things considering.

 

[SakurabasEar]

Fedor is the HW goat, no surprises

 

[Brom Bones]

Akira Shoji? Like, WTF? That short, fat dude.

 

[acannxr]

Akira Shoji? Like, WTF? That short, fat dude.

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[Deleted member 278323]

No shock who would be first on this one.

Also crazy Brock made it reasonably high on the list things considering.

Whatever his limits nobody has had a tougher schedule than Brock Lesnar. One Korean can and then nothing but killers until retirement.

 

[Deleted member 278323]

Considering the amount of low effort-threads on Sherdog, I'd just like to salute acannxr for putting in some work.

 

[Substance Abuse]

No shock who would be first on this one.

Also crazy Brock made it reasonably high on the list things considering.

Good timing for Brock.

 

[Substance Abuse]

@acannxr

Is there a way for you to check Suredawg rankings historically?

 

[Haliacmon]

1. man, Akira Shoji usually fought at 75 kilos, that´s a UFC small WW, he bulked up with fat rather than muscle to reach 92 kilos (thats a small UFC LHW) to fight in PRIDE´S hw division, Coleman beating him via decision is a failure from him considering the man was roided beyond any reasonable level, in fact all guys in Hammer House were fully roided: Coleman, Randleman, Baroni, Gary Goodridge, almost everyone from that gym had roid rage attacks during and after the fights

2. Rodriguez´ only win to Couture was when he was roided

3. Brock beat a much smaller and old man in Couture, just his mere size was enough to beat an old wrestler

4. Rizzo was robbed in his first fight with Couture

5. Barnett beat Nakamura, a MW and undersized LHW

6. Big Nog wins against Valenjtin and Schaub are not that great

7. Sobral wasn´t a natural HW, thats Fedor´s only win I disagree

 

[SKYNET]

So where does 28 year old Blaydes come in on this list? If he defeats Lewis then would he have 5 or 6? Oleynik, Hunt, Reem, JDS, Volkov & Lewis? Just curious

 

[Sweater of AV]

It's interesting that FightMatrix generated historical rankings put Hunt ahead of Mirko when Fedor and Mirko fought. Hunt beating Mirko later that year must have changed things significantly in the previous months for their rankings.

 

[sampuncher]

Id love to see Overeems HW ranked record.

 

[Big Tuppy Hole]

1. man, Akira Shoji usually fought at 75 kilos, that´s a UFC small WW, he bulked up with fat rather than muscle to reach 92 kilos (thats a small UFC LHW) to fight in PRIDE´S hw division, Coleman beating him via decision is a failure from him considering the man was roided beyond any reasonable level, in fact all guys in Hammer House were fully roided: Coleman, Randleman, Baroni, Gary Goodridge, almost everyone from that gym had roid rage attacks during and after the fights

2. Rodriguez´ only win to Couture was when he was roided

3. Brock beat a much smaller and old man in Couture, just his mere size was enough to beat an old wrestler

4. Rizzo was robbed in his first fight with Couture

5. Barnett beat Nakamura, a MW and undersized LHW

6. Big Nog wins against Valenjtin and Schaub are not that great

7. Sobral wasn´t a natural HW, thats Fedor´s only win I disagree

Rodriguez never popped after fighting Randy

 

[fedoriswar37]

Lmao. So Cain has 3 total.

 

[Make Sherdog Great Again]

Fedor has the quantity, but the quality is very lacklustre.

 

[Natural Order]

Just out of curiosity, where is Ice Cold on Coleman's record? Igor was 42-2 heading into the fight with Coleman and I could of sworn was #1 or #2 in the world at the time.....

LOL @ Shoji being ranked, ever.

Edit - are they not crediting Igor because it was the OWGP? That's garbage, they were both at HW.

 

[Natural Order]

Fedor has the quantity, but the quality is very lacklustre.

That's quite a slight to the UFC HW division mate!

 

[Harlekin]

How many does Overeem have, although he was never ufc/pride champ?

 

[Pancake Sprawl]

Fedor has the quantity, but the quality is very lacklustre.

buddy, there's 4 UFC HW champs and 2 K-1 champions in his 13 top 10 wins.