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Enjoy some facts. Below is a list of former UFC champions that lost their championship, and never regained it again, at the age of 33 or younger.
Nog, Cain, JDS, Mir, Sylvia, Arlovski, Barnett, Tito, Rashad, Machida, Rampage, Wanderlei, Shogun, Franklin, Weidman, Rockhold, GSP (WW), Hughes, Hendricks, Lawler, Condit, BJ, Frankie, Benson, Pettis, RDA, Alvarez, Conor, Aldo, Cruz, Barao, Faber, and Mighty Mouse
Guys that win or retain championships in their late 30s are an anomaly. There's like 6 of them in the history of our sport. The norm is guys win championships in their 20s and then lose it in their early 30s.
Losing a belt doesn't make you washed up though. Only one person(maybe 2) people can have the belt at the same time.
Even by those standards some of these examples, losing the belt and not regaining it has nothing to do with them. MM lost a split decision and got "traded". A shit ton of the people in your list weren't the best fighter in their division as champ.