The UFC is celebrating its 30th year and to commemorate the milestone, MMA Junkie has compiled its 30 greatest UFC fighters of all time. Every day until the anniversary of UFC 1 on Nov. 12 (1993), we will reveal one fighter on our list.
Today, MMA Junkie reporter Danny Segura brings you No. 4: Anderson Silva.
You can watch Segura’s career 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 staff submitted their own individual 30 greatest UFC fighters list. Each fighter was assigned a corresponding numerical value based on where they were ranked on an individual’s list, i.e. No. 1 = 30, No. 2 = 29, etc. We took those numbers and added them up to get a total number for each fighter to determine the composite ranking of MMA Junkie’s 30 greatest UFC fighters of all time.
