#2 Anderson Silva – UFC Middleweight title
The longest title reign in UFC history, Anderson Silva’s kept running as Middleweight champion was genuinely epic. The Brazilian made a sum of 10 effective title safeguards amid his close to multi year run, and could have had increasingly – his first challenger Travis Lutter missed weight, transforming their battle into a non-title issue, and he additionally took 3 non-title battles at 205lbs amid his rule as well.
‘The Spider’ first caught the title from Rich Franklin in October 2006, and when his reign finished in 2013, he was considered by numerous individuals as the best pound-for-pound warrior alive. Silva’s complete rate as boss was additionally incredible – of his 10 barriers, just two men – Thales Leites and Demian Maia – kept going the separation, and the others were done in typically awesome mold.
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Silva came under feedback for the Leites and Maia battles, with the superseding feeling being that he was toying with overmatched rivals. Furthermore, that is the thing that keeps him in third place for me – while Franklin, Nate Marquardt, Dan Henderson, Vitor Belfort and Chael Sonnen were gigantically intense adversaries, none of Leites, Maia, Patrick Cote or Yushin Okami were viewed as the best challengers at the time Silva vanquished them.
Toss in a checkered history with fizzled tranquilize tests – Silva has two on his resume, both after his title rule – and like with Jones, you need to scrutinize his pre-USADA run. Silva is without a doubt one of the best heroes in UFC history and his epic rule was certainly amazing – however it is not exactly the best ever.
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