UFC/Pride/WEC Champions with the most Top 10 ranked wins in each division.

[acannxr]

The Flyweight version is here.
The Bantamweight version is here.
The Featherweight version is here.
The Lightweight version is here.
The Welterweight version is here.
The Middleweight version is here.
The Light Heavyweight version is here.
The Heavyweight version is here.
The Multi-Division version is here.

Rankings are based on FightMatrix; if a fighter wasn't listed on a champion's resume, the most likely explanation is either the fight didn't take place at the corresponding weight class, the fighter wasn't ranked in the top ten, or the fighter was removed from the rankings due to inactivity.

Flyweight: Demetrious Johnson

Johnson's resume:

#3 Ian McCall
#1 Joseph Benavidez
#3 John Dodson
#6 John Moraga
#2 Joseph Benavidez
#8 Ali Bagautinov
#7 Kyoji Horiguchi
#4 John Dodson
#4 Henry Cejudo
#9 Tim Elliott
#7 Wilson Reis
#4 Ray Borg

Johnson has 12 top ten wins.

Bantamweight: Dominick Cruz

Cruz' resume:

#5 Joseph Benavidez
#1 Brian Bowles
#2 Joseph Benavidez
#5 Scott Jorgensen
#3 Urijah Faber
#7 Demetrious Johnson
#6 Takeya Mizugaki
#1 T.J. Dillashaw
#3 Urijah Faber
#9 Pedro Munhoz

Cruz has 10 top ten wins.

Featherweight: Jose Aldo

Aldo's resume:

#1 Mike Brown
#4 Urijah Faber
#3 Manvel Gamburyan
#9 Mark Hominick
#2 Kenny Florian
#4 Chad Mendes
#2 Frankie Edgar
#5 Ricardo Lamas
#3 Chad Mendes
#1 Frankie Edgar
#5 Jeremy Stephens
#9 Renato Moicano

Aldo has 12 top ten wins.

Lightweight: Takanori Gomi

Gomi's resume:

#5 Rumina Sato
#5 Dokonjonosuke Mishima
#7 Ralph Gracie
#2 Jens Pulver
#3 Tatsuya Kawajiri
#2 Hayato Sakurai
#3 Marcus Aurelio
#2 Mitsuhiro Ishida

Gomi has 8 top ten wins.

Welterweight: Georges St-Pierre

St-Pierre's resume:

#9 Jason Miller
#7 Frank Trigg
#8 Sean Sherk
#2 B.J. Penn
#1 Matt Hughes
#4 Josh Koscheck
#3 Matt Hughes
#1 Matt Serra
#2 Jon Fitch
#2 Thiago Alves
#5 Dan Hardy
#3 Josh Koscheck
#2 Jake Shields
#2 Carlos Condit
#5 Nick Diaz
#2 Johny Hendricks

St-Pierre has 16 top ten wins.

Middleweight: Anderson Silva

Silva's resume:

#9 Alex Stiebling
#4 Jeremy Horn
#1 Rich Franklin
#8 Nate Marquardt
#3 Rich Franklin
#9 Demian Maia
#3 Chael Sonnen
#4 Yushin Okami
#2 Chael Sonnen

Silva has 9 top ten wins.

Light Heavyweight: Jon Jones

Jones' resume:

#6 Ryan Bader
#1 Mauricio Rua
#4 Quinton Jackson
#6 Lyoto Machida
#3 Rashad Evans
#4 Alexander Gustafsson
#6 Glover Teixeira
#2 Daniel Cormier
#4 Anthony Smith
#6 Thiago Santos
#8 Dominick Reyes

Jones has 11 top ten wins.

Heavyweight: 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.

Summary
Demetrious Johnson: 12
Dominick Cruz: 10
Jose Aldo: 12
Takanori Gomi: 8
Georges St-Pierre: 16
Anderson Silva: 9
Jon Jones: 11
Fedor Emelianenko: 12​

 

[jojoRed]

People shit on DJ for his competition but holy crap are there some great names in his list. Comparable to many of the champs mentioned here outside of GSP and Jones.

 

[acannxr]

People shit on DJ for his competition but holy crap are there some great names in his list. Comparable to many of the champs mentioned here outside of GSP and Jones.

You should see the type of revisionist history going on with Gomi in the Lightweight thread, whole lot of ignorance <Lmaoo>.

 

[Deleted member 278323]

Except for Gomi, they nailed the GOAT of every division. (Gomi was awesome, but I'll rank him below Khabib).

 

[Summoning]

1-Khabib
2-Gomi
3- the rest

 

[Pillar of Society]

Nice list, thank you for the effort OP.

 

[acannxr]

Except for Gomi, they nailed the GOAT of every division. (Gomi was awesome, but I'll rank him below Khabib).

The thing with Gomi is that he has fought 52 times and the last 19 fights of his career weakened his legacy; if Gomi had retired after the same number of fights as Nurmagomedov, he would've left the sport with a 26-3 record, which looks a lot better than his current one.

 

[legatoblues]

Really appreciate your effort with these, great threads, well constructed and informative.

 

[Deleted member 405583]

That Ralph k.o. is what got me into mma

 

[Brom Bones]

GSP is the GOAT...

Of shaved pits.

 

[Plissken]

Despite all his accomplishments Gomi feels like an outlier here. LW doesn't feel like it has any definitive goat, and I feel that the guys with the top wins in all the other divisions in their primes would still be either the best or at least within the top 3 today save for Gomi and perhaps Fedor (heavyweight isn't exactly brimming with talent today, I'd feel less confident in Fedor making it if Cormier were still at HW), but Fedor's accomplishments across such a long time is more impressive to me than Gomi's prime run, especially considering the lopsided loss to BJ near the beginning of that run. I don't think a lot of the fighter each beat would be top fighters today, but the heavyweight division is more forgiving in terms of its' evolution throughout time than LW.

 

[13Seconds]

Damn Vitor wasn't ranked in the top 10 when Anderson beat him?

 

[13Seconds]

1-Khabib
2-Gomi
3- the rest

BJ is a greater LW than Gomi imo. Sure he has like a zillion losses on his record, but hey...

 

[Magnum1978]

Damn Vitor wasn't ranked in the top 10 when Anderson beat him?

Nah, he'd just come of 18months injury hiatus with his last fight at 195 against Franklin, and his only ever 185 fight against an aging Lindland over 2 years prior in Affliction (oh and Terry Martin before that). It was Vitor's first fight at 185 in the UFC.

 

[MMAudit]

gomi and fedor ...<Lmaoo>

 

[eddymotto]

As always, thanks to the OP for the fantastic work

 

[blaseblah]

The thing with Gomi is that he's fought 52 times and the last 19 fights of his career weakened his legacy; if Gomi had retired after the same number of fights as Nurmagomedov, he would've left the sport with a 26-3 record, which looks a lot better than his current one.

He still fought in a much weaker division relative to the other fighters. LW wasn't one of the most stacked divisions back then.

 

[acannxr]

He still fought in a much weaker division relative to the other fighters. LW wasn't one of the most stacked divisions back then.

Middleweight was the weakest division back then, not Lightweight.

 

[sampuncher]

Jones is probably gonna retire with at least 15.

 

[blaseblah]

Middleweight was the weakest division back then, not Lightweight.

Not the one Silva fought in when he was on top.