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Jon Jones
Jon Jones won the UFC light heavyweight championship in 2011 at 23, becoming the youngest champion in UFC history at the time, and went on to build the longest unbeaten championship reign at 205 pounds the promotion has ever seen, a run interrupted more by outside-the-cage legal and drug-testing issues than by anything an opponent did to him in the octagon. Jones successfully defended the light heavyweight title a record number of times across two separate championship reigns, and his in-cage résumé includes wins over a run of other former and future UFC champions — a level of quality across his opposition that MMA analysts still cite as the deepest of any champion's title reign in the sport's history. He moved up to heavyweight in 2023 and won the UFC heavyweight championship in his very first fight at the weight, making him only the second fighter in UFC history to hold titles in two different divisions at light heavyweight and heavyweight specifically, and doing it against a murderers' row of opposition that few other two-division champions have faced. Jones's career has been repeatedly interrupted by suspensions, including multiple failed drug tests and legal issues outside the cage, controversies that complicate but haven't erased a technical and physical résumé most rankings still place at or near the top of any pound-for-pound list in the sport's history.
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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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