Eddie Alvarez is the last fighter to lose the title in a fight at 155, 9 years ago.

[Meathead Jock]

Strange fact; but Conor McGregor was the last person to win their lightweight title in the cage against the reigning champion.

we haven’t seen a 155 champion lose their title in the cage for going on 9 years.

Conor held the belt for a while, but was eventually stripped.

Khabib won the vacant title defended it 3 times and vacated

Oliveira won the title, but was stripped after missing weight.

The current champion, Islam won the vacant title and still holds it with no scheduled title defense.

Pretty wild that if Makhachev is champion for a little over another year that will be a whole decade without the champion losing the belt in the cage.

 

[Objectively Correct]

That means Conor is still champ, thats for you haterzzz

 

[Shaolin Alan]

Strange fact; but Conor McGregor was the last person to win their lightweight title in the cage against the reigning champion.

we haven’t seen a 155 champion lose their title in the cage for going on 9 years.

Conor held the belt for a while, but was eventually stripped.

Khabib won the vacant title defended it 3 times and vacated

Oliveira won the title, but was stripped after missing weight.

The current champion, Islam won the vacant title and still holds it with no scheduled title defense.

Pretty wild that if Makhachev is champion for a little over another year that will be a whole decade without the champion losing the belt in the cage.

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I still can't wrap my head around that headline. Is it because I'm hi??

Edit: Read the full text and it all makes sense. Funny how that works Oh and wow!!

 

[Elvis.]

He would only win one more fight , in the last 9 years , feels like yesterday he was blasting other contenders on the way to the top

 

[oski]

Obligatory...
Father's Plan

 

[svmr_db]

The current champion, Islam won the vacant title and still holds it with no scheduled title defense.

Why'd you gotta phrase it so negatively bro lol he's got 4 title defenses & fought less than 3 months ago.

 

[Meathead Jock]

Why'd you gotta phrase it so negatively bro lol he's got 4 title defenses & fought less than 3 months ago.

I stole the interesting fact off Facebook, didn't really notice the lack of love shown to my guy at the end.

 

[BigTruck]

He would only win one more fight , in the last 9 years , feels like yesterday he was blasting other contenders on the way to the top

His UFC career was so strange, 4 years 8 fights, loses to cerrone then wins 2 split decisions and gets a title fight and wins by tko then absolutely shits the bed against Conor, then has a nc dude to illegal knee, then ko's Justin, THEN loses by ko to Dustin and is gone. 4-3-1.

 

[Kowboy On Sherdog]

 

[Reileyb]

It sure is a fun fact, but none of that really matters at all. Alvarez was one of the most paper champions in the 155 division in the last 20 years.

 

[El Fernas]

That means Conor is still champ, thats for you haterzzz

He lost a LW title fight after, so, is he?

 

[usernamee]

Crazy stats.

Now I'm certain JDM will beat Belal and Islam will jump up in weight to fight him for the title and UFC will force him to drop the belt.

Topuria will then fight someone for the vacant belt.

 

[tritestill]

It sure is a fun fact, but none of that really matters at all. Alvarez was one of the most paper champions in the 155 division in the last 20 years.

I mean, did he not dominate RDA to win the belt though?

 

[Hymen Crusher]

That's how it is when dagi are champ. Lhw will get 2 defenses in 4 years

 

[Reileyb]

I mean, did he not dominate RDA to win the belt though?

He did! and he's by no means terrible at all.

His UFC stint in general was rough though, it felt like he was past his prime and looking to sloppily brawl his way through his fights, relying on his chin to win fights for him.

He lost to Ceronne, SD past prime Melendez that most people thought he lost, and SD past prime Pettis (He deserved that nod).

The TKO of RDA was definitely a legit win though and he deserved to be called champion. You can make the argument though that he gambled on his sloppy brawling style and happened to connect before RDA hurt him, the same thing he did with Dustin, except the gamble failed him in both fights, badly.

Not to mention, Conor made him look like an amateur, because he can not hang with skilled technical striker.

 

[markg171]

Every time someone says LW is the hardest division I point out that Eddie is the only LW champion in UFC history to fail his 1st defence.

Meanwhile every other division has tons of fighters who failed their 1st defence proving they're harder division if they're cycling through champs more often.

It's made up nonsense, largely driven by Khabib stans to inflate that he got 3 defences... alongside like 4 other people as well as every other LW champ who also successfully defended besides Eddie.

 

[Goatenstein]

"Fight"

 

[markg171]

He did! and he's by no means terrible at all.

His UFC stint in general was rough though, it felt like he was past his prime and looking to sloppily brawl his way through his fights, relying on his chin to win fights for him.

He lost to Ceronne, SD past prime Melendez that most people thought he lost, and SD past prime Pettis (He deserved that nod).

The TKO of RDA was definitely a legit win though and he deserved to be called champion. You can make the argument though that he gambled on his sloppy brawling style and happened to connect before RDA hurt him, the same thing he did with Dustin, except the gamble failed him in both fights, badly.

Not to mention, Conor made him look like an amateur, because he can not hang with skilled technical striker.

Past prime? It was Pettis' very next fight after losing the title to RDA... he was ranked #1 lol.

Also make up your mind about those two bolded. Eddie was able to fight his way into a clinch fight to win against Pettis but couldn't do that to Conor. Is Pettis not a skilled striker or something?

And as follow up to the last point, I mean I'm not sure what the issue even is here? Conor got the shot, but if it wasn't him it was Khabib or Tony and neither of those are skilled technical strikers so the defence would've gone vastly different.

 

[TITS]

Alvarez was one of the most paper champions in the 155 division in the last 20 years.

How so?

 

[Meathead Jock]

Every time someone says LW is the hardest division I point out that Eddie is the only LW champion in UFC history to fail his 1st defence.

Meanwhile every other division has tons of fighters who failed their 1st defence proving they're harder division if they're cycling through champs more often.

It's made up nonsense, largely driven by Khabib stans to inflate that he got 3 defences... alongside like 4 other people as well as every other LW champ who also successfully defended besides Eddie.

I don't really agree with this. Just by odds 155lbs is the weight class that most people seriously in shape would fall into (maybe 170 if it was same day weigh-ins). Also too small to be an athlete likely stolen from MMA by other sports.

Just because Khabib and Islam are long time champs doesn't mean they arent facing harder challengers than champs elsewhere are.

Look at the challengers at a lot of the weight classes out there, what weight class would you say is harder?

125? Shallow - top 3 heavy
135? Nope but it's tough.
145 definitely not with Ilia not there, but still has some tough fighters
155 stacked
170 it's pretty deep but I'm not convinced there is a true great at it.
185 Pretty tough, but Strickland getting multiple title shots kinda says otherwise
205 sucks
285 with Francis gone and Jon MIA it's pretty weak or Tom is so great it just appears that way at least.