10 Fighters Who Beat The Most Champs & Never Won A UFC Title 

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Dustin Poirier comes to mind too as an honorable mention

Gegard moussasi could've easily become champion in the UFC but they didn't pay him what he was worth.

In my head “who is the best fighter to never win thw undisputed title “ always returns the same answer Tony Fergunson

Fun fact: Cro Cop actually has THREE wins over Josh Bartnett -- all in Pride.

As a younger fan, Dan Henderson is slowly becoming one of my favorite fighters ever. His record is outstanding. You never could guess the outcome of any of his fights. He always brought it, and he was always looking for the knockout. The craziest Hendo fight - even more so than Bisping 1 - is easily Hendo vs Fedor. Like, how tf did he do that?!

Can we talk about how insanely close chael sonnen got to beating the absolute GOATs of middleweight and LHW? He may not have been the better fighter but he was ridiculously close to beating silva and seconds away from beating jon jones on a technicality!

Fedor actually had wins over Pedro Rizzo, Jeff Munson, Ricardo Arona, Satoshi Ishi, all champions in MMA organizations. That's 13 champions for FEDOR. And just off the top of my head. Not sure why people say ,( fighters past their prime), Fedor was the same age as all of them. Sometimes older. He was 41 & Frank Mir was 38. He was 32 & Arkowski was 29. He was 29 and Randleman was 29. He was 42 & Sonnen was 40. It goes on like that. He was the same age if not older then most all the guys he fought. He & Big Nog both prime 28.

You guys should start a series watching UFC from the very start. Would be interesting to see your guys opinion on the old events & how things have changed so much

Cro Cop might not have won a divisional title, however he did something even more impressive. He won several tournament Championships. He is the only fighter to win championships in Pride, K-1 and Rizin (doing so basically when all promotions had peak competition) he won the 2006 Pride World Open-Weight Grand Prix and 2016 Rizin World Openweight Grand Prix and the K-1 World Grand Prix 2012

I feel we should all acknowledge that Chael Sonnen remains undefeated & undisputed... he never lost a round.

Sakuraba never lost a belt in PRIDE. He was the UFC tournament champ and he had a symbolic sakuraba belt but he never lost a title in PRIDE so I'm confused by the mention. The fight vs Silva at PRIDE 17 was the inaugural title.

Hendo also won against Hector Lombard, a long time Bellator champ.

The Diaz brothers never winning a Championship belt is a War Crime.

Nate beat Conor when he was a champ, Nick also should've been ufc champ both are champs for life💯💪

Fun fact: Nate Marquardt is also a three-time Pancrase Middleweight Champion.

Absolutely! Thank u for giving those guys the credit and recognition they deserve

Such a long time fan of King Of Queens and that scene with Hendo, Randy, Trigg, and Rampage is so legendary and soooo funny! The scene always catches me off guard whenever I go on a binge of that series bc I forget how OG Kevin James was to the early UFC days. We all thank you Kevin James.

Shouldn't Dan Henderson be at 13 ? he also beat Hector Lombard, who previously held the Bellator middleweight belt. *Actually i took a look at his record and based on all the fighters they counted as champions he should be at 14 1-newton 2-sobral 3-noguiera 4-ninja 5-belfort 6-bustamante 7-wandy 8-phalhares 9-franklin 10-bisping 11-cavaclante 12-fedor 13-shogun 14-lombard

Great video a lovely shout out to some often overlooked fighters

Finally a video with actual content Was afraid it will be the crew sitting and talking again

Loved this one! was surprised and almost skipped when I saw MCC at 10 but it makes sense glad I stuck around

Fedor used to beat every ex ufc champ and stack them like pokemon

4:24 Ubereem looks so chill and cuddly in this shot.😅

There can't be a serious list without Chael Sonnen on first place.

Dans last fight was against middle weight champion Michael bisping for the belt. One hell of a retirement fight from one hell of a career

Mirko cro cop 2:22 Alistair overeem 3:32 Wanderlei silva 4:45 Shinya aoki 6:07 Chael sonnen 7:22 Nick diaz 8:42 Fedor 10:00 Jake shields 11:15 Gegard mousasi 12:55 Honorable mentions 14:36 Dan henderson 15:15

4:23 Ubereem givin frank mir some lovin in this clip lmfao😂

chael is always my first thought, completely undefeated without a belt is criminal

I always think of Hendo as having won one, I always forget 😅

The background music in this one was so much better than the usual.

Great video, guys.

Excellent content thank you and Mirko was a beast😊😊😊

How about a list of champions with...arguably the worst records? Basically who had the most mediocre fight records but more or less stumbled into a chance and became champ?

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I miss Hendo. That aura surrounding his right hand had everyone on the edge of their seats every time he fought.

Hendo was a tough dude, he had a wild knockout power, can you imagine him beating the utter shit out of prime Wanderlei Silva. He is a tough dude even his last fight with Bisping he was very brutal I mean if you saw the entire fight he destroyed Bisping's face.

I’d like to see top ten best drops. Or top ten best strikes that buckled the opposition’s knees but caught themselves and stayed standing.

Every time I see Silva all I can think of is that "I can't let you get close" moment with Sonnen

Didn’t know I needed this list

At 9 minutes and 10 seconds you had me hit the subscribe button

That dream title Aoki got is really niceeee

Good list . Some of these I forgot about .

Best one so far

Damn good list and Dan Henderson is my all time favorite fighters he dated my younger sister back in the late 80’s when he was wrestling and was an alternate for team USA

Should've pointed out that Hendo's win over Newton was the UFC 17 middleweight single night tournament champion. The whole time I was listening I was thinking, I wonder if Hendo gets to count or not

I didn't realise Dan Henderson never won a UFC title.

Thanks MMA on Pont , having the same footage and making thousands of histories for us , I really appreciate the effort

Great list

Timing and the impact it can have on your legacy is super interesting to think about. Cormier is one that comes to mind for me. Had he not fought in the age of Jones I wonder how he’d be seen in the all time best discussion. Or chosen to walk away in 2018 rather than returning to fight Stipe following the back surgery.

super cool video idea

If you count tournaments Hendo did win a ufc WW title when he beat Newton.

Ufc on point is my favorite ufc channel

No mention of Dustin Poirier? 6 world chsmps defeated, 2 of them twice and he's finished every one of those except the second bout with Max.

Mousasi was a beast, that 2016 run he had was phenomenal. Absolutely criminal that DFW never gave him the title shot he deserved.

Probably give some consideration to promotion strength and “future” champ especially the latter doesn’t mean too much when it’s so far removed. Same with vacant belts - by definition they didn’t fight a reigning champion to win it. It’s like calling Marquardt a feather in Chael’s cap but Nate lost the unification bout. And as mentioned, in a promotion that folded the next night. That’s much different than knocking off a recently usurped champion in their relative prime from atleast a strong promotion

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With the amount of champs that had ufc attached to them fedor should be higher

Dan is my GOAT. No one has had a career like him, and no one ever will.

My beloved boys, can you make a TOP 10 or even 20 fights of 2023? i started to watch the UFC again on September and i feel i lost so many great fights!

Good job 👍

Other than him being top 3 of all time on the mic, I love Chael for not denying to face anyone, even if he know he would be losing

Mousasi’s upkick on Souzas melon never gets old.

This list was all over the place in what and who is considered a world champ and what’s not

All the Vaalies (Joburg/Pretoria residents) are in the Cape now anyways (summer holidays). 😅

We need the top 10 fights that need to happen in 24’

I love that if Chael didn't tap, he would have been stripped and belt returned anyway. He was on so much juice that fight

Not having Dustin Poirer on this list is criminal. Dudes beaten Anthony Pettis, Eddie Alvarez, Max Holloway twice, and Conor McGregor twice. Plus Justin Gaethje, the BMF

top 10 mcgregor/chael impersonators gone wrong next, please. 296 has me thinking

Best fighters who never got a title shot in honor of Belal

Aoki did fight outside Asia, a decision loss to Melendez at Strike Force Nashville

1. Overeem

Dan Henderson wasn’t born he was chiseled out of a block of granite.

I’ve been watching these videos and I had no idea I was listening Cory’s friend from boy meets world

Would’ve been cool to see a post-championship win tally as well

Great list. Hendo #1. Numbers don't lie.

Crazy how Fedor beat so many UFC champions without stepping foot in the ufc.

2:39 bro is that Bobby Lee 😂😂

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First! Thanks for your videos guys

Dan Henderson actually defeated 14 former champions Carlos Newton (UFC), Minotauro Nogueira (Pride/UFC), Babalu Sobral (Strikeforce), Ninja Rua (EliteXC), Murilo Bustamante (UFC), Vitor Belfort (UFC), Wanderlei Silva (Pride), Rousimar Palhares (WSOF), Rich Franklin (UFC), Michael Bisping (UFC), Rafael Feijao (Strikeforce), Fedor Emelianenko (Pride), Shogun Rua (UFC) & Hector Lombard (Bellator)

At 13:16. Why is George Costanza on stage with Gegard?! On the right, spitting image though!

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I normally enjoy these lists. This one doesn’t make much sense. We’re counting wins over champs of major organizations but not counting holding one of those belts? I’d argue holding a Pride belt like Wandy or Fedor was way more significant than holding a comparable UFC belt at one point.

What about MATT Hughes? 6 belted UFC champs plus a tournament champion and some secondary champs. Menne Sherk Penn GSP Newton Serra Royce Gracie (tournament champion before belts) Sakurai (Shooto) was major at the time Castillo (King of the cage Trigg (WFA)

Pedro Rizzo holds wins in the ufc over Severn, Coleman, Barnett, Tellingman, Tsyoshi Khonaka, Arlovski, and Rodriguez. Outside the ufc he has wins over Vernon White, Monson x 2, Ken Shamrock. Not counting Vernon because KOTC that's 8 champions. I don't if Eilers, Tellingmsn, or Goodridge ever won titles outside of the states but he best them as well.

I think tournament champions should have counted. Meaning Hendo doesnt qualify

Jérôme Le Banner was called " the crownless king" . I think he could have been on that list 👍👍🇫🇷

Nate Diaz always and forever will be the Undisputed Peoples Champion!

I don't know if interim champion should count

Gegard also has a win over Hector Lombard former Bellator champ so that would bump that number up as well

Top 10 Most Effective Strikes/Subs/Takedowns of 2023

I hate to be 'That guy' but Sakuraba never held a world title in a major promotion...

Don’t call it ‘The Holidays’! It’s fucking Christmas

I think when Guida fought Benson Henderson that was a number one contender fight

Ring girls that have presented the round numbers that ended in a stoppage.

Next: fighters who lost to their own game to someone who opposes. Example: grappler lost to sub to a striker and a striker lost to tko/ko to a grappler

You guys didn’t even mention hector lombard on dans list either, HBOMBBBBBBB

Of the fighters on this list that never fought in the UFC, Shinya is definitely my #1 of "what if's" Fedor is a very, very, very close 2nd. Just mho. And on a different topic, I think Gerard might be #1 on the list of absolute badasses in mma history.