Most title defences

Most successful title defences across all reigns.

All timeSince 2020 Since 2010 Since 2001 Before 2000

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Reigns are derived from championship bouts. When a belt was vacated or stripped outside a title fight, the reign is shown ending at the next title fight in that division, so a few run long; a title awarded without a fight (José Aldo's in 2010, for one) starts at the champion's first UFC title fight.

A drawn title fight keeps the belt but is not counted as a defence.

67 fighters.

#	Fighter	Total
1	Jon Jones	13
2	Demetrious Johnson	11
3	Anderson Silva	10
=4	Georges St-Pierre	9
=4	Valentina Shevchenko	9
6	Amanda Nunes	8
7	Matt Hughes	7
=8	Alexander Volkanovski	6
=8	Israel Adesanya	6
=8	Jose Aldo	6
=11	Islam Makhachev	5
=11	Joanna Jedrzejczyk	5
=11	Kamaru Usman	5
=11	Ronda Rousey	5
=11	Tito Ortiz	5
=16	Alexandre Pantoja	4
=16	Chuck Liddell	4
=16	Daniel Cormier	4
=16	Frank Shamrock	4
=16	Max Holloway	4
=16	Pat Miletich	4
=16	Stipe Miocic	4
=16	Zhang Weili	4
=24	Alex Pereira	3
=24	Aljamain Sterling	3
=24	BJ Penn	3
=24	Benson Henderson	3
=24	Chris Weidman	3
=24	Khabib Nurmagomedov	3
=24	Merab Dvalishvili	3
=24	Randy Couture	3
=24	Renan Barao	3
=24	TJ Dillashaw	3
=24	Tim Sylvia	3
=24	Tyron Woodley	3
=36	Andrei Arlovski	2
=36	Brock Lesnar	2
=36	Cain Velasquez	2
=36	Cristiane Justino	2
=36	Dominick Cruz	2
=36	Dricus Du Plessis	2
=36	Frankie Edgar	2
=36	Henry Cejudo	2
=36	Jens Pulver	2
=36	Joshua Van	2
=36	Leon Edwards	2
=36	Rich Franklin	2
=36	Robbie Lawler	2
=36	Rose Namajunas	2
=50	Anthony Pettis	1
=50	Charles Oliveira	1
=50	Deiveson Figueiredo	1
=50	Francis Ngannou	1
=50	Ilia Topuria	1
=50	Jan Blachowicz	1
=50	Junior Dos Santos	1
=50	Kevin Randleman	1
=50	Lyoto Machida	1
=50	Mackenzie Dern	1
=50	Maurice Smith	1
=50	Michael Bisping	1
=50	Murilo Bustamante	1
=50	Quinton Jackson	1
=50	Rafael Dos Anjos	1
=50	Sean O'Malley	1
=50	Sean Sherk	1
=50	Tom Aspinall	1

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