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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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Khabib Nurmagomedov
Khabib Nurmagomedov retired in 2020 with a perfect 29-0 professional record, becoming the only fighter in UFC lightweight championship history to leave the sport completely undefeated — a career built almost entirely around a suffocating wrestling and grappling-based control style that few opponents ever found an answer for. Nurmagomedov won the UFC lightweight championship in 2018 and defended it three times, including a headline win over Conor McGregor at UFC 229 that remains one of the highest pay-per-view draws in UFC history, and a final title defense against Justin Gaethje in 2020 that he dedicated to his father and longtime coach, Abdulmanap Nurmagomedov, who had died of COVID-19 complications weeks earlier. His dominance was built on an almost unmatched takedown success rate and top-position control, statistically the most dominant grappling numbers of any UFC champion — opponents frequently spent entire rounds unable to escape from beneath him, a style that proved just as effective against strikers as against fellow grapplers. Nurmagomedov announced his retirement immediately after the Gaethje fight, honoring a promise he'd made to his mother not to fight again without his father in his corner, closing out his career at 29-0 and walking away from the sport at the height of his championship reign rather than fighting into a decline.
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