5 UFC Prizefighters Who Have The Best Win/Loss Records

Introduction
The largest and most hyped events of the UFC are typically where there’s a belt on the line. Championship titles are always changing hands, so you’re spoiled for choice when it comes to prizefighting entertainment. Today we’re looking at the UFC fighters who have the best win/loss records in title bouts. Naturally, it’s a list of some of the best fighters the UFC has ever seen.

Most of these fighters are retired but there is value in knowing who the greats are. If you make a habit out of betting on MMA’s marquee fights, you should always compare your favorite fighters to the better fighters that came before them.

1. Jon Jones
The first UFC prizefighter with the best win/loss ratio is Jon Jones. Having fought in 15 title bouts, he won 14 of them and has 1 marked down as a no contest. The no-contest was a UFC heavyweight championship fight against Dan Cormier, where Jones landed a head kick to Cormier. However, Jones later tested positive for PEDs.

Across Jones’ entire career in the UFC, he has 22 wins to 1 loss alongside that no contest, so 22-1. That one loss was back in 2009, where Jones lost by DQ by trying to land some illegal elbow blows onto Matt Hamill. Jones’ single loss and his no-contest bout were due to his own mistakes, not because he was beaten.

2. Georges St-Pierre
Alongside Jon Jones, Georges St-Pierre is another big contender for the best prizefighter in the UFC. Like Jones, GSP also fought in 15 title bouts and won 13 of them, losing the other 2.

When looking at his entire UFC career, including non-title fights, then those figures change to 24 wins and those same 2 losses. That’s right, GSP’s two losses were both in title bouts, where a championship was on the line. These came at the hands of Matt Hughes by submission in 2004 and then Matt Serra by TKO in 2007. He would go on to beat both Matts in the octagon to get his revenge.

3. Randy Couture
Randy Couture is the third and final UFC fighter to have fought in 15 title bouts, to date. In those 15 bouts, he won 9 of them and lost 6. He doesn’t have the consistent victories that we can see with Jon Jones or Georges St-Pierre.

As for his career, Couture fought in a total of 24 fights (in the UFC) and won 16 wins to 8 losses, so his title win/loss record is consistent with the rest of his career performance. That career is marked by alternating wins and losses, with UFC legend Chuck Liddell posing a consistent threat to Couture in 2005 and 2006.

4. Demetrious Johnson
Being the man who dominated the flyweight division for so long, Demetrious Johnson is also a shoo-in for the best fighter of the UFC. As the UFC built up their flyweight division, Johnson had ample opportunities to fight, performing in 14 title bouts. Of those, he won 12 of them and lost only 2.

Across his entire career, Johnson fought 18 times as part of UFC events, though he had over 10 fights under his belt before he even reached the UFC. In those 18 fights, 15 of them were wins, 2 of them were losses (and like GSP, both championship losses), and then he also has a draw. Johnson lost to Dominick Cruz in 2011, then his next fight was a draw against Ian McCall. Former Olympian Henry Cejudo then put an end to Johnson’s title reign in 2018.

5. Anderson Silva
Last but certainly not least, we have Anderson Silva. Cited as the best of the best by commentators like Joe Rogan, Silva’s disadvantage is that he only fought 13 title bouts. Of those, he won 11 and lost 2.
Silva had a long and illustrious career in MMA, having fought 46 fights. Only 25 of them were in the UFC. Of those, he won 17 and lost 7, and that last one was a no-contest where his UD victory over Nick Diaz was overturned. Many of Silva’s losses came at the end of his UFC career.