Bellator belts, ONE titles won across Asia, Strikeforce and Rizin gold: this decade's elite fought far from the Octagon, and plenty of them would have been favourites inside it.
1Vitaly MinakovRussian sambo champion who won the Bellator heavyweight title against Alexander Volkov in November 2013 and was later stripped of it without losing.1000pts
2Michael ChandlerWon the Bellator lightweight title three times, in 2011, 2016 and 2018, before signing with the UFC in 2020.999pts
3Ilima-Lei MacfarlaneHawaiian who became the first Bellator women's flyweight champion in November 2017.800pts
4Kevin BelingonFilipino bantamweight who beat Bibiano Fernandes by split decision in November 2018 to become undisputed ONE champion.692pts
5Bibiano FernandesBrazilian bantamweight who won DREAM titles and then held the ONE bantamweight championship from 2013 to 2018.692pts
6Kayla HarrisonTwo-time Olympic judo champion who won the 2019 PFL lightweight season final.692pts
7Cris CyborgBrazilian featherweight who won the Strikeforce title in 2009 and the Invicta FC featherweight title in 2013.600pts
8Muhammed LawalFormer college wrestler who took the Strikeforce light heavyweight title from Gegard Mousasi in April 2010.600pts
9Alexander ShlemenkoRussian striker and former Bellator middleweight champion who lost the belt to Brandon Halsey in 2014.600pts
10Angela LeeCanadian-born fighter representing Singapore who became the inaugural ONE women's atomweight champion in May 2016 at age 19.600pts
11Ben AskrenWrestler who went unbeaten outside the UFC, holding the Bellator welterweight title from 2010 to 2013 and the ONE welterweight title from 2014 to 2017.491pts
12Nick DiazWon the Strikeforce welterweight title in January 2010 and defended it three times before returning to the UFC in 2011.491pts
13Shinya AokiJapanese grappler who held the DREAM lightweight title and won the ONE lightweight championship in 2013.491pts
14Eduard FolayangTeam Lakay striker from the Philippines who took the ONE lightweight title from Shinya Aoki in November 2016.491pts
15Mamed KhalidovGrozny-born Polish fighter who headlined KSW for most of the decade and held its middleweight and light heavyweight titles.491pts
16Douglas LimaThree-time Bellator welterweight champion who won the promotion's welterweight Grand Prix final against Rory MacDonald in 2019.360pts
17Rafael CarvalhoBrazilian who won the Bellator middleweight title in October 2015 and held it until Gegard Mousasi beat him in 2018.360pts
18Patrício FreireBellator featherweight champion who took the lightweight title from Michael Chandler in May 2019 to hold two belts at once.360pts
19Aung La N SangMyanmar fighter who won the ONE middleweight title in 2017 and added the light heavyweight title in 2018.360pts
20Kyoji HoriguchiFormer UFC flyweight title challenger who won Rizin's bantamweight Grand Prix in 2017 and the Bellator bantamweight title in June 2019.360pts
Photo credits
- Vitaly Minakov — Mike Searson, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Michael Chandler — Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 2.0
- Ilima-Lei Macfarlane — Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, CC BY 2.0
- Kevin Belingon — Werda66, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Bibiano Fernandes — Peter Gordon from Vancouver, Canada, CC BY 2.0
- Kayla Harrison — Fernando Frazao/Agência Brasil, CC BY 3.0
- Cris Cyborg — Kevin Paul, CC BY 4.0
- Muhammed Lawal — Aukerits, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Alexander Shlemenko — Unknown author, CC BY 3.0
- Ben Askren — MMAnytt, CC BY 3.0
- Shinya Aoki — SUPERADRIANME, CC BY 2.0
- Mamed Khalidov — Artur Andrzej, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Douglas Lima — Franklin atl, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Rafael Carvalho — Studio Cápsula, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Patrício Freire — Sexto Round, CC BY 3.0
- Aung La N Sang — Lionslayer, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Kyoji Horiguchi — Gyutan329pii, CC BY-SA 4.0
