Which UFC Champ Has The Most 5-Star Wins? 

Probably Jones. He beat almost all the champions of the post Liddel era

Always great ideas. Idk how this channel isn’t huge

You can make videos on this to the top 10 of every weight class.

Or for every champs in the particular division. I'd love to see how Mighty Mouse stacks up against Cejudo, Figureido, Moreno and Pantoja's resumes.

Comparing legends and recent champs would be dope. Im sure there are better past champs for some of these weight classes, and including noteworthy losses would be interesting too. Also, super excited to see what everyone featured this current roster of champs will be capable of producing in terms of fight quality down the line! Just look at Islam vs Volk yesterday, absolute banger!

I agree, In a loss to Anderson Silva

Yea good point. That should have been counted.

People thought he was washed because he was washed

@@TheMMAKasual He definitely wasn't washed when you consider his final fight against Holloway was actually pretty darn competitive for the first two rounds. If he didn't gamble everything to try and chase a finish in Round 3, he likely would have made it to a finish with Max Holloway that would have been more competitive than the 3rd fight between Holloway and Volk was. He wasn't washed; he just couldn't continue finding the drive to keep fighting when it became clear to him he would never become a champion. He could still probably beat lower Top 10 ranked Featherweights like Giga, Kattar, and Emmett.

Am I reading this wrong? Surely you're not implying Mendes was in his prime when he fought Volk..? Surely....

@supermegaguy666 close to it I'd say. He was coming off a win where he looked dominant and he arguably put up a better showing against volk than aldo. He went up a weight class and took Eddie Alvarez to a split decision loss last year, so it's not like he fell off super hard.

@@mikeCD62 Absolutely not. It was his last fight and 2nd fight back after almost a 3 year absense. I dont necessarily disagree that it should be a """""4 star"""" win though

I don't think it's fair to say that Fitch or Shields are just as good as Hughes/BJ were in their prime. Would not call those two 5 star wins. Condit was excellent but never held a title so I think that's a hard sell, too

@@almazingsk8er Shields was a 3 major promo champ on a 14 fight winstreak. If he had beaten GSP, he wouldve been the first Grand Slam Champ in MMA history ans the only man to have that accolade. Fitch was on a 16 fight streak and was future WSOF champion. Condit was the interim champ and should've won against Robbie in their fight.

If you consider Fitch and Shields 5 star then Machida, Evans, Vitor and Rampage were 5 star for Jon as well.

Yea I can't put Fitch or Shields as 5. Too much of a push under this criteria.

I love your videos @mmadive but you're an absolute CTE tito if you don't think victories over prime Shields and prime Fitch are 5-star. see above for why Shields and Fitch literally won 8 straight in the UFC before GSP and then 5 more straight in the UFC after losing to GSP against top competition. He might have been boring, but he quite literally was the #2 welterweight in the world at that time and there is really no debate. For the record, a win against a prime Evans who was on a savage comeback run to take back the LW belt is also 5 stars. Jones didn't fight prime Pride-era Rampage who knocked out Liddell, a prime Machida, or a prime Vitor (Vitor was never 5-star quality anyway).

Not by my criteria I'm afraid. Stunning win in an awesome fight. But a 40+ Glover with 0 title defenses is never a 5 star win by this metric.

GOAT*

@@hdhshdhs5503 Great only alongside turinabol*

​@@hdhshdhs5503goat of roid heads

You’re wrong here. Jones started during a time everyone was juicing. DC tested for elevated testosterone earlier in his mma career too but again; the guys they were fighting were testing out of this world. Jones is the goat. 3 generations of fighting-still undefeated.

@@chriswheeler155 he’s had several USADA violations. That is a fact. He low blows, he pokes the in the eye, he does a number of other dirty things beyond legitimate cheating. On top of that he’s a terrible ambassador for the sport outside of the cage. If you’re a jones fan, that’s fine, that’s your choice, but these are the facts. Cut and dry, plain and simple. He may be many things to many people, but he is also a historic cheater, criminal, and a scumbag

Lol gsp is not a roid head buddy, let alone dj, dj hasn't even retired u noob

​@@blue7lvn245dj is retired from mma. he is now just doing bjj. and gsp has his controversies as well with missing title fight weight and greasing

Don't agree with that. Jones will forever leave behind a complicated MMA legacy.

@madgavin7568 nah, thats not going to happen. people swept gsp's indiscretions under the rug. same with tom brady with deflating balls and team stealing signals. fans will keep bringing it up and eventually it will fall on deaf ears. look at the life of iron mike, charged with rape, domestic violence, part of a racist cult, bit holyfields ear off. people love the guy and some even say he is the hw goat now

​@muhglasschin258 DJ is literally currently the Champion in ONE. Do you just say whatever you feel like and act like it's fact with every topic?

Yet you probably glaze up 7000 testosterone levels DC so why would we take your word ?

You can’t knock back Machida, Rampage, Gus or Reyes. Machida was winning rounds against Jones before he made the read that lead to the guilly. Rampage was so powerful that Jones spent most of the fight pot shotting and avoiding getting into boxing range, meaning he had to respect Rampage and gameplan properly. Gus 1 was Jones’ second hardest career fight, with his hardest being against Reyes, who despite falling off hard was undefeated going into that title fight. Even Rashad was a really strong contender, but after Jones he fell off. You have to keep in mind where people were when Jones fought them. Reyes and Rashad only started losing consistently after they lost to him, and he fought a juiced up Vitor (although Vitor was aging, TRTitor is still insane, he blinded Bisping with a headkick)

@@DaInternetBear Lmao. among other things. Machida was literally 1-2 when he fought Jones with his win being an even older Randy Couture, after the Jones fight he literally moved down a weight class because he's a natural middleweight. Rampage was a middleweight who got cut soon after the Jones fight, and even before that was losing to Rashad and barely beating Matt Hamill for a title shot. 205 was an empty division that had a lot of old names. Reyes got a winstreak from beating washed fighters because the UFC needed a contender, same as Gus. They both lost a lot when they started fighting actual 205ers

@@madmack6831 I think there’s an overlap in the timeline, because people who moved from Pride like Shogun and Rampage were on their way out, but could still put on good performances. Despite when Shogun fought Jones, he was still a worthy opponent for the time. The sport has changed so much that what made someone a skilled fighter has really evolved over the years. I can’t knock back Rampage, Lyoto, or Rashad, and you can’t deny that despite the run-up to Jones being easier than most, both Gus and Reyes were extremely tough competitors, of which I still think Reyes won the fight. You can say what you want about pedigree and fall-offs, but at the time of most fighter’s careers, they’re on the up and up, or had an amazing legacy at the point they fought Jones. Shogun’s Pride run was insane, and although he didn’t match it in the UFC, beating Lyoto, arguably twice, says alot. Even though the Machida era didn’t get going, Lyoto was still a top competitor. In retrospect, Rampage was on his way out, yet Jones still adjusted his entire gameplan and developed a completely new edge to his style just to play it safe. Gus and Reyes battered Jones, and he edged them out. He beat the snot out of DC twice, and strangled Gus the second time round as well as Game. If I were to discount him on anyone, it’d be Glover (who was undefeated in the UFC before fighting Jones, and that win has aged incredibly well) who was battered for 25 minutes like Jones’ wife, Thiago Santos, and Anthony ‘Could’ve won’ Smith. You can say what you want about people fighting other top opponents and losing or falling off, but my biggest counter to that is someone like Cody Garbrandt, who was the greatest bantamweight of all time for 1 night. MMA isn’t formulaic, and the best fighters don’t always give the best performances, vice versa with mid fighters who can bust out an amazing performance

That's the dumbest thing I've heard all day

Islam only fought 2 opponents in entire career that aren't complete dogshit, Charles has double digit losses, DP is actually a joke. Rashad evans is a wrestler, Belfort is a ADCC absolute bronze medalist, DC also a wrestler. If your gonna cry like a bitch about fighting only strikers than it sounds like your talking about Islam or khabib

Was usman not the same man or did rocky just shut him down so he didn't look the same fighter. All down to interpretation.

That's taking credit away for Leon by basically implying he didn't do anything different and that Usman would always beat him. That couldn't be further from the truth, the biggest difference is the fight was at sea-level rather than elevation thus making it a more fair fight as Leon didn't gas after round 1. Leon did a great job maintaining the distance picking Usman apart with kicks thus bringing the pace of the fight to one that Leon was comfortable with, and isolating the hands preventing Usman from securing his takedowns. It was a masterful performance by Leon and a masterclass in how to shut down a pressuring wrestler like Kamaru Usman.

@@joshhinds8635 He wasn't the same I watched the fight he was a lot more tentative and a lot less confident, he would always raise his guard up to his head at the slightest flinch expecting a head kick

@@madgavin7568 Usman was not the same clearly, he was a lot more tentative than the first fight, he was constantly anticipating the head kick and leaving himself vulnerable elsewhere, his guard was always way too high, if you watch earlier Usman fights especially when he purely relied on his wrestling you can see just how much he has degraded in that aspect mostly due to his bad knees.

@@joshhinds8635 Being knocked out like that changes you a lot, and Leon destroyed his already bad knees. Usman nowadays is a guy that people say Belal beats...

If we take out PED’s

His literally one of the best hws and there's an argument that he beat Francis. Beating him in 2 minutes while moving up a weight is 5 star 5 star heavyweights aren't as good as other divisions

@@account-pb2df ducking Tom

I agree with the above comment. He's as good a heavyweight win as Jones could have gotten - and the fashion he did it in, with all of the context. Just about makes it 5-star in my book.

​@@user-jw2mu6vb3lhe's ducking pav and Tom now but Gane was literally the number 1 contender and Tom was recovering from an injury. That doesn't change Gane being a high level win

Francis and Gane are shit@@account-pb2df