Following the warm reception of my comprehensive
Karate blackbelts in MMA thread I have decided to do the same for my other favorite martial art -
Judo.
Below You will find a list of
Judo blackbelts (with their respective Dan rank) who have fought in MMA. I have collected 108 Judoka so far. Please let me know in you find any inaccuracies in the list or notice that any Judoka is missing - I will gladly correct and add if applicable.
It would be great if this thread also becomes a starting point for discussion about Judo's history and usefulness in MMA - like it happened in the Karate thread. Thanks and enjoy!
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| NAME | DAN |
| Akira Kikuchi | 3 |
| Akira Shoji | 1 |
| Alexander Emelianenko | 1 |
| Alexandru Lungu | 5 |
| Alida Gray | 1 |
| Amanda Ribas | 1 |
| Anderson Silva | 1 |
| Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira | 1 |
| Antonio Silva | 1 |
| Baissangour Chamsoudinov | 1 |
| Becky Levi | 2 |
| Benoit Saint-Denis | 1 |
| Blagoy Ivanov | 1 |
| Bojan Mihajlovic | 1 |
| Brent Weedman | 1 |
| Brian Johnston | 1 |
| Chang Hyun Kim | 1 |
| Christophe Leininger | 4 |
| Daiju Takase | 2 |
| Dan Kelly | 4 |
| David Baron | 1 |
| Denis Lavrentyev | 4 |
| Dokonjonosuke Mishima | 1 |
| Don Frye | 2 |
| Dong Hyun Kim | 4 |
| Edson Carvahlo | 6 |
| Emmanuel Fernandez | 1 |
| Erik Paulson | 1 |
| Fabricio Werdum | 1 |
| Fedor Emelianenko | 1 |
| Ferrid Kheder | 1 |
| Frank Trigg | 2 |
| Frederic Fernandez | 1 |
| Gegard Mousasi | 1 |
| Hayato Sakurai | 1 |
| Hector Lombard | 4 |
| Hidehiko Yoshida | 6 |
| Hiroshi Izumi | 1 |
| Hirotaka Yokoi | 1 |
| Igor Zinoviev | 1 |
| Jae Sun Lee | 1 |
| Jerome le Banner | 1 |
| Jim Wallhead | 1 |
| Joe Charles | 1 |
| Joel Gerson | 1 |
| John Dixson | 1 |
| Jung Bu-kyung | 1 |
| Justin Bruckmann | 1 |
| Jutaro Nakao | 1 |
| Karo Parisyan | 1 |
| Katsunori Kikuno | 1 |
| Kayla Harrison | 6 |
| Kazuhiro Nakamura | 3 |
| Kazuo Misaki | 3 |
| Keita Nakamura | 1 |
| Khabib Nurmagomedov | 1 |
| Kim Min-soo | 4 |
| Kim Min-soo | 4 |
| Koji Komuro | 6 |
| Kron Gracie | 1 |
| Kuniyoshi Hironaka | 1 |
| Leonardo Leite | 1 |
| Lucas Predmore | 1 |
| Makoto Takimoto | 1 |
| Manvel Gamburyan | 2 |
| Maxim Tarasov | 1 |
| Megumi Yabushita | 1 |
| Merab Dvalishvili | 1 |
| Michihiro Omigawa | 3 |
| Naoya Ogawa | 1 |
| Norman Parke | 1 |
| Olivier Aubin-Mercier | 1 |
| Paulo Filho | 1 |
| Pawel Nastula | 6 |
| Rameau Sokoudjou | 2 |
| Remco Pardoel | 1 |
| Rhadi Ferguson | 1 |
| Rick Hawn | 1 |
| Rickson Gracie | 1 |
| Robert LaLonde | 1 |
| Ronaldo Souza | 1 |
| Ronda Rousey | 6 |
| Ryuichi Murata | 1 |
| Sanae Kikuta | 1 |
| Satoru Kitaoka | 1 |
| Satoshi Ishii | 6 |
| Shinobu Kandori | 1 |
| Shinya Aoki | 1 |
| Shonie Carter | 1 |
| Shungo Oyama | 1 |
| Svetlana Goundarenko | 1 |
| Tatsuya Mizuno | 3 |
| Taylan Yuasa | 2 |
| Tetsuya Yamada | 1 |
| Tsuyoshi Kosaka | 4 |
| Valentina Shevchenko | 1 |
| Valery Pliev | 1 |
| Viktor Tatarkin | 1 |
| Vitaly Minakov | 1 |
| Vitor Belfort | 1 |
| Yoon Dong-sik | 3 |
| Yoshihiro Akiyama | 3 |
| Yoshihisa Yamamoto | 1 |
| Yoshiyuki Yoshida | 4 |
| Yuki Nakai | 1 |
| Yuriy Kochkine | 1 |
| Yushin Okami | 1 |
| Yuya Shirai | 1 |
