Ranking the Best UFC Fighters in the Last Decade

All of a sudden, it's been a long time.

A decade. Or, in this case, a decade-plus a few months.

Back then, when the calendar turned to 2011, the UFC was still in its formative stages and actually opened with a New Year's Day show—UFC 125: Resolution—at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas.

Nearly 150 pay-per-views have followed in the subsequent 10-plus years as the mixed martial arts conglomerate prepares to produce UFC 267 this weekend from its uber-hyped "Fight Island" venue in Abu Dhabi.

All the time that's passed got we B/R writing types thinking about the roster of great fighters that have graced the Octagon in the 3,954 days that have elapsed since lightweights Frankie Edgar and Gray…