Fighters whose only losses are to UFC champions

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There are only 5 UFC fighters, who have only lost to other UFC champs (not counting interim champs and BMF title):
  1. DC
  2. Gane
  3. GSP
  4. Petr Yan (edit: doesn't count since he has a pre-UFC loss I didn't catch while making this list)
Can you guess the 5th one without looking at records (I had to look it up - would've never guessed)

LW
Pre-2010
Sean "The Muscle Shark" Sherk

PS: I might be missing contenders, but I can't think of any

EDIT: Also Carwin, Cain, Ronda, Joanna, Chad Mendes (surprised me), Umar
 
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Chad Mendes (Aldo, McGregor, Edgar, Volkanovski)

Cain Velasquez (Dos Santos, Werdum, Ngannou)

Ronda Rousey (Holm, Nunes)

Shane Carwin (Dos Santos, Lesnar)
Nice list. Rousey of course. Forgot about Cain.

Would've never thought of Mendes.
 
Poatan, at least his ufc losses
 
I'm assuming you're only counting UFC losses btw as even though I didn't agree with it Yan did lose to Magomed Magomedov in ACB.
 
There are only 5 UFC fighters, who have only lost to other UFC champs (not counting interim champs and BMF title):
  1. DC
  2. Gane
  3. GSP
  4. Petr Yan (has pre-UFC loss)
Can you guess the 5th one without looking at records (I had to look it up - would've never guessed)

LW
Pre-2010
Sean "The Muscle Shark" Sherk

PS: I might be missing contenders, but I can't think of any

EDIT: Also Carwin, Cain, Ronda, Joanna, Chad Mendes (surprised me)
Serra wasn’t champion when GSP lost to him. Or does it make the list because Serra got the belt from that fight?
 
Oh and there's a few people who are still active and just haven't had time to lose to non champs yet but do still have a fair amount of fights in the UFC.

Tatiana Suarez (only lost title shot to Weili)
Umar Nurmagomedov (only lost title shot to Merab)
Ikram Aliskerov (lost to Whiitaker inside the UFC, does have a pre UFC loss but it was against Khamzat)
 
What the F?

GSP lost to Serra who was the contender and never a champ, thus, he lost to Serra and only after that, only after the official announcement, Serra was a champ. So, no, that does not count.
 
What the F?

GSP lost to Serra who was the contender and never a champ, thus, he lost to Serra and only after that, only after the official announcement, Serra was a champ. So, no, that does not count.
Of course, this takes into account fighters who later went on to become champions. That shouldn’t be hard to understand.
 
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