Total fights of champions in 2025

[swarrrm]

Stolen from Reddit, this is pathetic tbh.

 

[Only Here for Attachments]

Aren't UFC championships great? Totally worth all the time and energy fans spend fretting over them.

 

[Pierce 34]

Is this is the evolution of the sport I keep hearing about?

 

[Gabe]

Joshua Van is a beast

 

[Kung Fu Kowboy]

Haha... Mirko Crocop fought 8 times in 2024

@Slobodan

 

[Hymen Crusher]

Its ridiculous. If you cant fight twice in a year you should be stripped and made 1 in the rankings for a year. You should have a chance for your belt when you come back but we dont need interim champs either. We all know who the champ is

 

[Ozze]

Joshua Van has 4 because he was not champion in 3 of them.

As soon as the belt is put around them it's immediately "none of these guys are worth my time", "I want the money fight", "need some time off", etc...

 

[Tweak896]

People still think Aspinall should hold the belt even if he takes until end of year to defend because of surgeries. UFC needs to crack the whip and do what they did at LHW with Hill and Jiri. Works best, also makes a good fight for their return.

 

[Pequeño Corey]

It has already been said, but the Josh Van stat needs context.

Blame the UFC. They allow this inactivity. Defend or vacate. Religious holiday? That’s your problem. Injured? Interim belt incoming. Don’t like the #1 contender? Also your problem. Want to jump weight classes? Vacate your belt and another championship fight incoming.

Dana’s whole premise was that boxing was flawed and in the UFC, the best fight the best. This is clearly not the case and meritocracy is dead.

 

[Thy]

actually more than i thought. still bad, but damn.

 

[TempleoftheDog]

Joshua Van has 4 because he was not champion in 3 of them.

As soon as the belt is put around them it's immediately "none of these guys are worth my time", "I want the money fight", "need some time off", etc...

Merab didn’t do that. He fought 4 times as the champion in 2025.

Some people don’t like his style. But you can’t be more active than he was as a UFC champion.

 

[Frode Falch]

Merab didn’t do that. He fought 4 times as the champion in 2025.

Some people don’t like his style. But you can’t be more active than he was as a UFC champion.

Spam 200 failed takedowns and get maybe three, who lead to 20 seconds of the other guy getting back to his feet.. And repeat.. Zzz

I will rather see one alex pereira ko a year then four merab kardio matches.

 

[swarrrm]

It has already been said, but the Josh Van stat needs context.

Blame the UFC. They allow this inactivity. Defend or vacate. Religious holiday? That’s your problem. Injured? Interim belt incoming. Don’t like the #1 contender? Also your problem. Want to jump weight classes? Vacate your belt and another championship fight incoming.

Dana’s whole premise was that boxing was flawed and in the UFC, the best fight the best. This is clearly not the case and meritocracy is dead.

I also blame the UFC for under paying fighters. I forget who said it but I remember a fighter saying they made like half the money in their next fight after losing the belt, and they still had to fight a top 3 guy in a 5 rounder. Also, being champ gets you paid with sponsorships, appearances etc so you can afford to take time off.

 

[swarrrm]

Spam 200 failed takedowns and get maybe three, who lead to 20 seconds of the other guy getting back to his feet.. And repeat.. Zzz

I will rather see one alex pereira ko a year then four merab kardio matches.

Dont forget pushing people into the cage and kneeing their thighs.

 

[HI SCOTT NEWMAN]

Yeah I have been complaining about it for ages, since Covid Lockdown times the amount of times champions defend the belt is so little, always some mysterious injury or mysterious problem/issue as to why they can't fight. Inactive champions has hurt the UFC so much, they also use the so called "superfight" nonsense to get another belt as another excuse to not defend the belt. I can see right through it all, flash in the pans the lost of em, no substance.

Thats a big reason why there is a lack of stars in UFC these days as well, no one has any consistency, if they can be long reigning champions then they would become a star and build that "aura", Anderson for example was not a star and had no aura when he first came to UFC, but because he had 16 UFC title fights it built a huge aura and he became so big and he was must watch. But now they want 0 title defenses and to ask for boxing with Paul or a superfight, but its no superfight when you haven't even reigned and done nothing lol.

 

[GOATtalks]

Shertards whining and longing for the good old days. You make me sick.

It’s always been like this-

 

[jeskola]

The stat is weird since several of the fights in those numbers aren't title fights and it excludes the fights by champs who lost the belt like Merab. That being said, the number if you just add up title fights is probably around the same.

 

[GOATtalks]

Actually it has been even worst:

 

[Deathmask]

Actually it has been even worst:

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Dope Epstein files av.

 

[nonoob]

This earlier thread hit hard toward the subject of TS.

Thread '2025: A Year of Cursed Title Fights?'

Nov 16, 2025

It's felt like a boring year when it comes to who is grabbing gold for the most part. Even with the rise of the likes of Topuria knocking out competition in title fights and Poatan enacting his marauding vengeance, this year has been...a weird one for the UFC.

Date	Event	Location	Weight Class	Fight	Method	Round	Time
Jan 18, 2025	UFC 311	Inglewood, CA, USA	Bantamweight	Merab Dvalishvili (c) def. Umar Nurmagomedov	Decision (unanimous) (48–47, 48–47...

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