November 9, 2023 9: 00 am ET
The UFC is commemorating its 30th year and to honor the turningpoint, MMA Junkie hasactually assembled its 30 biggest UFC fighters of all time. Every day till the anniversary of UFC 1 on Nov. 12 (1993), we will expose one fighter on our list.
Today, MMA Junkie pressreporter Danny Segura brings you No. 4: Anderson Silva.
You can watch Segura’s profession retrospective on Silva above; video produced by Abbey Subhan.
Also see:
- No. 30: Dustin Poirier
- No. 29: Frank Shamrock
- No. 28: Francis Ngannou
- No. 27: Joanna Jedrzejczyk
- No. 26: Frankie Edgar
- No. 25: Tito Ortiz
- No. 24: Cain Velasquez
- No. 23: Dominick Cruz
- No. 22: Valentina Shevchenko
- No. 21: Matt Hughes
- No. 20: Ronda Rousey
- No. 19: Max Holloway
- No. 18: Chuck Liddell
- No. 17: Henry Cejudo
- No. 16: Israel Adesanya
- No. 15: Conor McGregor
- No. 14: Royce Gracie
- No. 13: Kamaru Usman
- No. 12: B.J. Penn
- No. 11: Randy Couture
- No. 10: Stipe Miocic
- No. 9: Alexander Volkanovski
- No. 8: Amanda Nunes
- No. 7: Daniel Cormier
- No. 6: Jose Aldo
- No. 5: Khabib Nurmagomedov
About the list: All 12 members of our personnel sent their own specific 30 biggest UFC fighters list. Each fighter was designated a matching mathematical worth based on where they were ranked on an specific’s list, i.e. No. 1 = 30, No. 2 = 29, etc. We took those numbers and included them up to get a overall number for each fighter to figureout the composite ranking of MMA Junkie’s 30 biggest UFC fighters of all ti