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Meet Igor Vovchanchyn, aka "Ice Cold."
Before Khabib, before Fedor, Igor was the Russian bareknuckle destroyer. Between 1996 and 2000, he went 38 fights without losing, and the only blemish is when PRIDE briefly didn't want people kneeing to the head of downed opponents and Igor didn't know that and he knocked out Mark Kerr and got a No Contest instead of a win. (He fought Kerr again the next year and beat him officially.) And he was such an indestructible force that most of that streak consisted of tournaments where he was never losing or getting injured, he was just destroying three or four people a night tournament after tournament, year after year. Old school savage who sent many opponents' souls to the Just Bleed God.
On the subject of records, I don't know of a longer unbeaten streak than Igor's, and considering that so many of his wins came from tournaments I wonder if anyone has won more tournaments than him.
His most humbling stat is that he's barely older than I am.