GSP just retired with 3 lineal belts.

[Croton]

We bid farewell to a legend of the sport. He retires having defeated every man he has ever faced, taking 2 official belts and 3 lineal belts with him.

Light heavyweight: George St Pierre > Bisping > Rockhold > Bisping > Cung Le > Rich Franklin > Wanderlei Silva > Cung Le > Scott Smith > Cung Le > Frank Shamrock (vacated in 2000) (with Dq GSP > Condit > Diaz > BJ > Gracie > Shamrock)

Middleweight: George St Pierre > Bisping > Rockhold >The Chris > The Spider > Henderson > Wanderlei > Arona > Wanderlei > Rampage > Bustamante (vacated in 2002)

Welterweight: George St Pierre > Serra > GSP > Hughes > GSP > BJ (vacated in 2004)

the fights need to occur at or below the weight limit in question to count. You also have to beat them to win, DQ's don't count.
Credit to @MMA_enthusiast for the info

 

[blaseblah]

Lineal titles are irrelevant.

 

[DoctorNick]

I hold the lineal belt of the kumite. GSP ain't got shit bro.

 

[Sansnom]

- GSP beat Bisping
- Bisping beat Silva
GSP > Silva

- GSP beat Shields
- Shields beat Henderson
- Henderson beat Fedor
GSP > Fedor

- GSP beat Bisping
- Bisping beat Hamill
- Hamill beat Jones
GSP > Jones

 

[Kyler Ruxin]

He's no Anderson, but he's still pretty good.

Hespect to a legend.

 

[Croton]

He's no Anderson, but he's still pretty good.

Hespect to a legend.

Yeah he aint bad

 

[sabretitan]

Goat

 

[xXxGhost89xXx]

Yeah he aint bad

 

[GrayArea]

Jon Jones would kill GSP whenever and however he pleased, literally.

Goat

 

[Fahcough]

Be Facts Son
Be Faction
Beef Action

 

[kuka45]

lineal championship, you don't need lineal championships in combat sports, what this even mean, he can be lineal ww champion, whatever, his last fight as ww was hendricks 5 years ago, he is not best ww, mw curently, wtf cares.

 

[NoSmilez]

wtf is this stupid lineal bullshit

 

[Ying Li]

- GSP beat Bisping
- Bisping beat Silva
GSP > Silva

- GSP beat Shields
- Shields beat Henderson
- Henderson beat Fedor
GSP > Fedor

- GSP beat Bisping
- Bisping beat Hamill
- Hamill beat Jones
GSP > Jones

GOAT reply there ^ LoL

 

[dim_]

We bid farewell to a legend of the sport. He retires having defeated every man he has ever faced, taking 2 official belts and 3 lineal belts with him.


Light heavyweight: George St Pierre > Bisping > Rockhold > Bisping > Cung Le > Rich Franklin > Wanderlei Silva > Cung Le > Scott Smith > Cung Le > Frank Shamrock (vacated in 2000) (with Dq GSP > Condit > Diaz > BJ > Gracie > Shamrock)

Middleweight: George St Pierre > Bisping > Rockhold >The Chris > The Spider > Henderson > Wanderlei > Arona > Wanderlei > Rampage > Bustamante (vacated in 2002)

Welterweight: George St Pierre > Serra > GSP > Hughes > GSP > BJ (vacated in 2004)

the fights need to occur at or below the weight limit in question to count. You also have to beat them to win, DQ's don't count.
Credit to @MMA_enthusiast for the info

This makes no sense though

Because if the lineal championship changes when the champion vacates (Shamrock, Bustamate and Penn), then the lineal championship changed when he (GSP) vacated the welterweight title and the middleweight title

And Cung Le was NEVER the fucking light heavyweight lineal champ, so that line goes out the window as well. Cung Le didnt even fucking fight at light heavyweight (When Shamrock vacated the winner of Couture/Ortiz became lineal champion, not a freaking middleweight)





So you are counting GSP as lineal welterweight champion despite retiring from the division.

In that case, Shamrock is still the lineal light heavyweight champ,

 

[John makfresshi]

Except he didnt

 

[Mike]

- GSP beat Bisping
- Bisping beat Silva
GSP > Silva

- GSP beat Shields
- Shields beat Henderson
- Henderson beat Fedor
GSP > Fedor

- GSP beat Bisping
- Bisping beat Hamill
- Hamill beat Jones
GSP > Jones

 

[ImNotSurpisedDonks!]

Hmmmm, I wonder why that is??

Could it be he retires after receiving gift decisions and there are no eyed fluke champ senior citizens to fight?

GSP's career in a nutshell:

 

[TheChance]

Lineal titles are irrelevant.

Unless it is the YAMMA title

 

[dyhardcubsfan]

GSP realized he couldn't beat this generation of fighters and outright stopped fighting.....

He was great in his time, but walked away from both belts when he saw that defeat was inevitable...

 

[MindTravel]

titles are irrelevant.

Fixed