Which UFC Champion or Former Champion has the greatest collection of title defenses????

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Not necessarily the most (That would be Silva and Demetrius)....

but the most impressive.

For example, Silva to me would immediately be out of the running. He beat a lot of guys like Sonnen, Meia and Leites. Solid fighters but never world beaters.

I'd almost surely say Jones. He beat several undefeated fighters, TRUE number one contenders and even another all-time great (Cormier). He also is one of the few title holders across multiple divisions.

Aldo is probably up there. Topuria could get there.
 
Has to be Silva. Every time he fought I loved that I knew I was about to witness some amazing technique. He was so wild and always mixed it up and basically made it fun!

I get jones name being brought up but I often ended up fast forwarding his fight as I hated the point fighting and dirtiness. 205 was more entertaining without him.
 
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Not necessarily the most (That would be Silva and Demetrius)....

but the most impressive.

For example, Silva to me would immediately be out of the running. He beat a lot of guys like Sonnen, Meia and Leites. Solid fighters but never world beaters.

I'd almost surely say Jones. He beat several undefeated fighters, TRUE number one contenders and even another all-time great (Cormier). He also is one of the few title holders across multiple divisions.

Aldo is probably up there. Topuria could get there.
Silva and it isn't particularly close....

No-one has had his streak of impressive finishes in title defences.

Jones is likely a career roider and GSP was a safety first bore who ran from the sport after he realised his limited style wasn't working anymore.
 
Silva and it isn't particularly close....

No-one has had his streak of impressive finishes in title defences.

He had a few duds where he just coasted when he could have gone for the kill whenever he pleased. Him fucking around during the Maia fight in front of the (at the time new Saudi investors) it killed the Silva/Gsp fight hype. Gsp was cage side with Dana they were going to bring him if Silva finished Maia in some dramatic way.

He did have a lot of highlight finishes that looked like a ballet of violence.
 
True, but look at his opposition. Beating guys like Hardy and Alves isn't exactly a ringing endorsement for his title tenure. Hendricks beat him, and Condit was probably more competitive than it should have been.
Okay what about hughes, Shields, Fitch, condit, and diaz???


He 49-46'd condit at absolute worse AFTER an Knee surgery so I dont know what the fuck you're talking about actually. Im sure you dont know what the fuck you're talking about either.
 
Not everyone will agree but for me it has to be Jon Jones.
He's had a laundry list of guys that were supposed to beat him and all this time later the only loss he has is to himself.
 
UFC- Jon Jones.

If you treat Fedor as a "Lineal world champ"
.. he had some amazing scalps in his run after picking up Pride title.

Big Nog 2x
Prime CC
Coleman 2x
Randleman
Tim Sylvia 32 second destruction
Arlovski R1 face down ass up ktfo

18 wins, 16 by stoppage in his run directly following his acquisition of the title.
 
If Jones had never popped for peds etc it would be him, but you never know which fights he was cheating for so he really can't be part of any honest discussion comparing fighters.

Emelianenko being pre-testing also has the same issue.

Part of the issue with saying Anderson didn't beat any "world beaters" or "all time greats" is because literally NO ONE could come up with him on top. He literally shut down the entire division for years. It was to the point where it was pointless to bet on cards anymore. here just wasn't any wiggle room for discussion with such a dominant force.

Makes it very hard to even compare him to the others because it was like watching a grown man fight children when he was on top. And I don't think it's because he fought in a shallow division. He was just that far ahead of everyone else.

That leaves GSP. He did honestly lose the last fight with Hendricks but he literally defended against every video game boss possible.
 
UFC- Jon Jones.

If you treat Fedor as a "Lineal world champ"
.. he had some amazing scalps in his run after picking up Pride title.

Big Nog 2x
Prime CC
Coleman 2x
Randleman
Tim Sylvia 32 second destruction
Arlovski R1 face down ass up ktfo

18 wins, 16 by stoppage in his run directly following his acquisition of the title.

No one matches up to those names, and Nog and CC were in their prime (unlike Jone's Shogun, Rashad, (lol) Chael, etc.,). Jones' biggest wins in retrospect were DCx2 and Gus imo. His older "upcoming" fights mostly look less impressive in hindsight than they were at the time.
 
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