has anyone faced more champions in their career than Chael?

Wandy
Rampage
Fedor
Anderson
Bisping
MAchida
Shogun
Bones
Tito
Rashad

They were mostly out of prime and late in their careers but still that is a ridiculous list of opponents. Chael fought a whose who in the pantheon of mma champions from both Pride and the UFC. I think the record works out to 4-7 against this group.

 

I don’t have the time to go through the list but I’m pretty sure Dan Henderson has

 

Hendo fought

Bisping
Anderson
Wanderlei
Fedor
Shields
Shogun
Evans
Machida
Big Nog
Bustamante
Franklin
Newton
Feijao
Vitor
Rampage
DC
Moose


Was supposed to fight Jones too.

 

Fedor has faced 10-11 champs.

 

Soooo, Hendo?

sounds legit.

 

Lyoto is pretty impressive:

Rich Franklin (UFC)
Tito Ortiz (UFC)
BJ Penn (UFC)
Rashad Evans (UFC)
Sokoudjou (KSW)
Shogun Rua (UFC)
Nakamura (DEEP)
Rampage Jackson (UFC)
Randy Couture (UFC)
Jon Jones (UFC)
Ryan Bader (Bellator)
Dan Henderson (Pride and Strikeforce)
Rafael Carvalho (Bellator)
Gegard Mousasi (Dream and Strikeforce)
Chris Weidman (UFC)
Luke Rockhold (UFC and Strikeforce)
Vitor Belfort (UFC)
Chael Sonnen (still undefeated) (WEC and UFC)

 

Chael probably is the guy who fought the most champs without being one himself...

 

What a list of killers.

Chael P Sonnen still undefeated.

 

Ric Flair

"Flair is officially recognized by WWE as a 16-time world champion (8-time NWA World Heavyweight Champion, 6-time WCW World Heavyweight Champion, and two-time WWF Champion), although the number of his world championship reigns varies by source, ranging from 16 to 25. He has claimed to be a 21-time champion"

 

Overeem:
Werdum
Shogun
JDS
Stipe
Mir
Brock
Belfort
Hoffman
Arona
Buentello
Bigfoot
Nelson

 

Yup, Chael has had the ultimate fan experience.

I know people will start posting other stacked records, but not a lot of guys have fought legends in multiple weight classes.

Chael and maybe Hendo, Vitor and Wanderlei are unique in this regard cause they are legends themselves and they fought from MW to HW.

They are also unique in how much supplements they ingested during their careers

 

Faber also

Aldo
Edgar
Barao
Cruz
Yan
Bowles
Pulver
Brown
Wineland
Escovedo

 

The gangster kinda was one ig

 

Good post!
I know it's a long shot but I'm rooting for him in the gp

 

Lost to all of them that weren’t shot to shit.

The original MMA loser.

 

Hendo or Vitor probably have the most

 

Cowboy: has been in there with a ton of champs

Benson (3x)
Pettis
RDA (2x)
Varner (2x)
McGregor
Ferguson (interim)
Gaethje (interim)
Lawler
Masvidal (BMF)
Alvarez

 

Also forrest griffin

 

Chael was the guy that Uncle Dana knew he could call whenever needed. Even if he knew he was going to lose (which was most of the time), he'd still take the fight both for the money and to ensure his worth to remain on the roster. Mir was the heavyweight version of CPS, though the difference was that Mir had this weird belief that he actually had a chance. I'm a Frank Mir fan (he and Arlovski were my first "favorite fighters"), but is what is...