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Anderson Silva
Anderson Silva won the UFC middleweight championship in 2006 and defended it a promotion-record 10 consecutive times, a title streak that lasted nearly seven years, from 2006 to 2013 — still the longest unbeaten championship run, by both fight count and duration, in UFC history. Nicknamed "The Spider," Silva was known for an unusually fluid, almost improvisational striking style built around head movement and counter-striking, sometimes taunting opponents mid-fight with his hands down, a level of confidence in his own defense that few fighters before or since have attempted against elite competition. His title reign ended in 2013 with back-to-back knockout and injury losses to Chris Weidman, including a gruesome leg break in the rematch — a stretch that closed out his championship run but didn't erase the historic length of the streak that preceded it. Silva's résumé during his prime included dominant wins over a series of highly ranked contenders across multiple weight classes, and his combination of technical striking innovation and sustained championship longevity is still the standard other middleweight champions get measured against, more than a decade after his title reign ended.
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Georges St-Pierre
Georges St-Pierre held the UFC welterweight championship across two separate reigns between 2006 and 2013, defending the title nine times combined, one of the most statistically dominant championship runs in UFC history at any weight class, before retiring in 2013 while still champion. St-Pierre returned in 2017 after a four-year retirement to challenge for the UFC middleweight title, moving up two weight classes, and won by submission — making him just the fourth fighter in UFC history to hold championships in two different divisions, a feat made more notable by the four-year layoff immediately preceding it. His fighting style combined elite wrestling with well-rounded striking and jiu-jitsu, an approach built around minimizing risk and controlling fights positionally rather than seeking finishes — a strategic, methodical style that drew some criticism for caution but also produced one of the lowest loss totals of any long-reigning champion in the sport. St-Pierre finished his UFC career with a 13-fight unbeaten streak across welterweight and middleweight combined, and he's widely cited by fighters and analysts alike as the most well-rounded and fundamentally sound mixed martial artist the sport has produced, regardless of era.
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