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Ronda Rousey
Ronda Rousey won a bronze medal in judo at the 2008 Beijing Olympics before transitioning to mixed martial arts, and became the first women's champion in UFC history when the promotion introduced its bantamweight division specifically to accommodate her in 2012 — women's MMA hadn't existed in the UFC at all until Rousey's dominance made it impossible to ignore. Rousey defended the bantamweight title six times, finishing most of her opponents in the first round using her judo background to secure an armbar submission, a signature finishing sequence so frequently successful that opponents openly discussed strategies built entirely around avoiding it rather than avoiding losing generally. Her string of dominant, often under-a-minute victories made her one of the biggest pay-per-view draws in UFC history regardless of gender, and her mainstream media crossover — magazine covers, film roles, and coverage well outside typical MMA media — is widely credited with proving there was a commercially viable audience for women's fighting at the sport's highest level. Rousey's championship reign ended with back-to-back knockout losses to Holly Holm and Amanda Nunes in 2015 and 2016, a swift decline that closed out her UFC career, but her earlier run remains historically significant less for its length than for having created the entire commercial and competitive framework women's MMA has operated within ever since.
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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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