10 Longest UFC Win Streaks (Overall and by Weight Class)

When watching the sports section or comments on TV, or reading about them in the media, you always hear that some people are best in one thing, some are best in another and there are, of course, those that are simultaneously best at the same thing, which is impossible.

Martial arts are no exception and it is very difficult to objectively state that someone is or was the best fighter in their category.

In today’s article, I shall discuss some of the numbers in the UFC, namely – who has the longest UFC win streak?

Anderson Silva holds the record for the longest winning streak in the UFC. He won 16 fights in a row over a period of 6 years.

In the rest of the article, I will say a bit more about Anderson Silva’s winning streak, show you the rest of the 10 longest UFC win streaks, and give you some interesting information about winning streaks in the UFC; like the longest winning streak by the weight class.

Who Has the Longest Winning Streak in the UFC?

As already mentioned, Anderson Silva holds the record for the longest winning streak in the UFC. He won 16 fights in a row over a period of 6 years, from June 28, 2006, to July 6, 2013, when he lost to Chris Weidman.

Silva was primarily a middleweight fighter and he totaled 24 UFC fights in his career, with a total record of 17-1-6.

Interestingly enough, when Silva lost his first UFC match on July 6, 2013 – after having had 16 wins before that fight – he managed to win just one UFC fight (in 2017) up to now. His winning streak was as follows:

Fight	Date	Opponent	Method
1	June 28, 2006	Chris Leben	KO (knee)
2	October 14, 2006	Rich Franklin	KO (knee)
3	February 3, 2007	Travis Lutter	Submission
4	July 7, 2007	Nate Marquardt	TKO (punches)
5	October 20, 2007	Rich Franklin	TKO (knees)
6	March 1, 2008	Dan Henderson	Submission
7	July 19, 2008	James Irvin	KO (punches)
8	October 25, 2008	Patrick Côté	TKO (knee injury)
9	April 18, 2009	Thales Leites	Decision (unanimous)
10	August 8, 2009	Forrest Griffin	KO (punch)
11	April 10, 2010	Demian Maia	Decision (unanimous)
12	August 7, 2010	Chael Sonnen	Submission
13	February 5, 2011	Vitor Belfort	KO (kick and punches)
14	August 27, 2011	Yushin Okami	TKO (punches)
15	July 7, 2012	Chael Sonnen	TKO (knee)
16	October 13, 2012	Stephan Bonnar	TKO (knee)

Silva ultimately lost to Chris Weidman on July 6, 2013, and what was his first loss after 16 consecutive wins. Weidman would go on to defeat Silva in their rematch several months later, thus effectively finishing Silva’s record-breaking career. 

Longest UFC Win Streaks

Fighter	Division	Began	Ended	Winning Streak
Anderson Silva	LHW / MW	Jun 28, 2006	Jul 6, 2013	16
Kamaru Usman	WW	Jul 12, 2015	Active	13
Jon Jones	LHW	Mar 21, 2010	Jul 29, 2017	13
Demetrious Johnson	FLW	Jun 8 ,2012	Aug 4, 2018	13
Georges St-Pierre	WW / MW	Aug 25, 2007	Retired	13
May Holloway	FTW / CW	Jan 4, 2014	Apr 13, 2019	13
Khabib Nurmagomedov	LW / CW	Jan 20, 2021	Retired	13
Tony Ferguson	LW	Oct 17, 2013	May 9, 2020	12
Amanda Nunes	W-FTW / W-BW	Mar 21, 2015	Active	11
Royce Graice	OW	Nov 12, 1993	April 7, 1995	11

Now that I have answered the big question, I am about to give a brief analysis of the other fighters that have been or are close to Silva’s record. 

So, I’ve stated that Silva’s record holds at 16 consecutive wins.

The next best series of wins is 13, which again demonstrates the difficulty of having an incredibly successful UFC career.

There are six fighters who’ve managed to achieve 13 consecutive wins in the UFC, but only three of them could potentially elevate that record. Those are Kamaru Usman, GSP, and Khabib Nurmagomedov.

Sadly, Khabib and GSP are retired at the moment so they’ll go down in history as ending their career with a 13-win run, but you never know when they might decide to return. It’s happened before, so why should it not happen now?

One fighter has 12 consecutive wins, American Tony Ferguson.

Amanda Nunes is also next in line, as she has a streak of 11 wins, a record she shares with retired Brazilian fighter Royce Gracie, who managed to win 11 consecutive fights between 1993 and 1995. 

One thing I would like to add over here. Although Jon Jones has one defeat in the UFC, that loss came by disqualification from 12-6 illegal elbows usage in a fight against Matt Hamill which Jon was clearly winning.

So, when I talk about the longest winning streaks in the UFC, fans of Jon like to mention that he is technically undefeated inside the Octagon with 20 consecutive undefeated fights (not wins, as he has one NC against Daniel Cormier).

Longest Winning Streak in Each UFC Divison (Weight Class)

As an interesting piece of trivia, I can also give you a short table of the most consecutive wins in each weight category in the UFC and by gender.

This is a larger table as it doesn’t just list the best overall, but rather the best for each category, meaning that you can see for yourselves how the records evolved for each of them. 

The table is as follows:

What Next?

That’s it for today. I hope you’ve enjoyed reading and if you have more questions about the UFC, check out our beginner’s guide to the UFC where you will probably find the answer!