Top 5 most-decorated wrestlers to compete in the UFC

[TheLastEmperorReurns]

Who are they and how would you rank them?

My understanding is that it is something along the lines of:

1. Olympic Medalist
2. NCAA Div I (and non-US equivalents of that)
3. other...

 

[John makfresshi]

S.o.g. and cejudo. Dc........




Everyone else

 

[LouisBolanos]

Mark Schultz/Channing Tatum at number 1, let's not forget about him.

 

[Sapp]

No order:
Mark Schultz
Kevin Jackson
Yoel
Matt Lindland
Cejudo
DC
Coleman

Probably others. A lot of those with the best credentials never quite clicked in MMA.

 

[Meathead Jock]

Yoel, Cejudo, DC, Rosolt (big slow), Hendricks.

If we allow Schultz with his one fight replace Hendricks with him.

Rosholt is the one who gets under appreciated in terms of his wrestling resume

 

[Huligani]

Mark Schultz / Kevin Jackson
Yoel Romero
Henry Cejudo
Daniel Cormier / Ben Askren / Mark Coleman

 

[Meathead Jock]

Mark Schultz / Kevin Jackson
Yoel Romero
Henry Cejudo
Daniel Cormier / Ben Askren / Mark Coleman

If we are including askren then we have to include ed ruth

 

[20falarVerdades]

Khabib invented wrestling so it must be him

 

[Huligani]

Brock Lesnar is the only WWE champion to fight in the UFC right?

 

[Kowboy On Sherdog]

Sara McMann....

 

[Xavier]

Marcus LeVesseur

 

[Meathead Jock]

Marcus LeVesseur

That guys street cred got shattered the day he got Cody McKenzietined

 

[RiotWyatt]

All those guys only won amateur wrestling titles. Lesnar and CM Punk did it at a professional level.

 

[B ville Famous]

 

[Xavier]

That guys street cred got shattered the day he got Cody McKenzietined

Cody McKenize dont fuck around bro

GOAT Blood donor

 

[Gambit MMA]

i care about who the best wrestlers are, not who are just the most decorated

gsp or bones are the best mma wrestlers we've seen in the ufc

 

[Meathead Jock]

Cody McKenize dont fuck around bro

GOAT Blood donor

Ha, just saying If I had accomplished what he did he wrestling. He has to regret ever trying MMA, tapping to Cody has to keep him up at night. His group chats likely include this picture in response to anytime he tries to talk shit.

 

[TheLastEmperorReurns]

i care about who the best wrestlers are, not who are just the most decorated

gsp or bones are the best mma wrestlers we've seen in the ufc

I have a few thoughts about that.

1. Good chance those guys wouldn't have done as well in actual wrestling
2. Part of the reason they outwrestled decorated wrestlers in MMA is that those decorated wrestlers put in the best years of their lives into wrestling whereas GSP/Bones did MMA for most of their adult lives. I don't think Jones would have even survived against DC if DC went into MMA in his early 20s instead of going into it when he got too old for elite-level wrestling. Like literally, imagine that Jon Jones retires after his suspension is up and tries to reach the pinnacle of Greco-roman or folk wrestling. He wouldn't even make it into the top of his weight class whereas that's exactly what DC's journey into MMA was.

 

[Dark Individual]

Brock Lesnar is the only WWE champion to fight in the UFC right?

No. The GOAT of wrestling right here

 

[Individualthoughtpatterns]

Punk, Lashley, Lesnar.
Ronda is also up there even though she never did any wrestling until after the UFC when she went to the world wide wrestling federation.