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UFC or the Ultimate Fighting Championship is a reputed martial arts organisation originated from America and is owned by the private company WME-IMG. UFC collects trained and the best martial artists from all over the world and organises matches between them.

It is reputedly one of the largest and the most popular multi-billion-dollar enterprise in the world that has earned it’s name entirely from conducting events involving popularly acclaimed stars and artists all over the globe. Given below is the list of top ten richest UFC fighters as of 2019.

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10. Matt Hughes

Matt Hughes is an American martial artist with strong grounds in boxing and wrestling. He has been decreed the UFC Welterweight Champion twice and has been inducted into the UFC Hall of Fame and the NJCAA Hall of Fame. He has got a winning streak of six fights and has defended the belt consistently seven years in a row. Nicknames the ‘Gracie Killer’, he holds an unparalleled mastery over submissions and has used it specifically for winning against black belt holders who stand against him.

9. BJ Penn

Penn is a professional Jiu-Jitsu artist from Brazil and has won medals, especially gold, in the World Jiu-Jitsu Championship Tournaments before his career in the UFC. Penn won the UFC Lightweight Championship in the year in which he also broke the lightweight title defense record. He was inducted into the UFC Hall of Fame and was awarded the UFC Welterweight Championship too in the next few years. He was credited as the greatest lightweight combatant in the history of UFC and is one of the greatest fighters in the world in UFC.

8. Ronda Rousey

Rousey was the first woman in the world to win an Olympic medal in Judo. Being ranked as the most active athlete in 2015 by two magazines that year, she was voted as the Best Woman Athlete in the same year after a few months. She has won almost 12 MMA fights consistently in a row and is the highest paid female athlete in the Bantamweight line of specialisation.

7. Fedor Emelianenko

He is reputed to be the greatest heavyweight champion in the history of UFC. He’s held a win streak of 29 fights and a finishing percentage of 82.1%, which is assuredly the highest among all of the heavyweight champions in the UFC. He has defeated almost eleven top-ranked fighters in his career in the UFC, all of which has made him one of the top most reputed fighters in UFC as of 2019.

6. Georges St. Pierre

This fighter has won the Welterweight Championship Title and the Interim Title twice in 2006 and 2007, and is said to be the best middleweight champion of all time. He has been ranked the best fighter in UFC by Sherdog and various other popular sports magazines. He is undoubtedly, the most accomplished and dignified fighter in UFC history and holds the second longest combined-streak in UFC.

5. Randy Couture

His career in UFC is mostly filled with his numerous championship achievements for countless categories. He has won the UFC Heavyweight Championship thrice, the UFC Light Heavyweight Championship twice, The Interim UFC Light Heavyweight Championship and the UFC 13 Heavyweight Tournament Championship during his career in the UFC. He holds a strong background in wrestling and he was also former US Military Army Sergeant before his career as a fighter and before UFC.

4. Demetrious Johnson

He is the first and the most reputed flyweight champion in the UFC till date. In his career in the UFC, he has held the longest record for maintaining the maximum number of titles for the maximum number of years. Sherdog has ranked Johnson as the number one flyweight fighter of all time as of 2019. He began his career in 2011 and immediately caught the attention of everyone using his adverse super-wrestling methods to control the opponents and predict their attacks. He holds the record of having the most number of takedowns in the UFC history.

3. Jose Aldo

He was the first featherweight champion who continued his career even after the merger of UFC and WEC unlike many. He held a win streak of 18 fights in 2015, due to which he began to be called as the ‘Greatest Featherweight Champion of all Time’ in the UFC. He too was ranked the first by Sherdog as the finest featherweight champion of the year in 2009. He is also currently, a training partner and the former UFC Bantamweight Champion from Nova Uniao.

2. Conor Mcgregor

This fighter is one among the very few to hold titles in more than one weight division. He is the UFC Featherweight Champion, as well has the UFC Lightweight Champion and as competed in countless fights in these two categories along with Welterweight in his career in the UFC. He started his career in 2008, and by 2012 he has won both the titles in their respective categories. In 2015, he defeated Jose Aldo within just thirteen seconds of the first round. This was, and still is, by far the quickest victory in the history of UFL.

1. Anderson Silva

Holding the longest title streak in the history of UFC, he also holds the record for holding the maximum number of titles in his career. He is a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu black belt and has won a black belt in Judo, a yellow rope in Capoeira and is also a professional boxer before he began his career in the UFC. In addition to all these, he is most popularly known for his Muay Thai style of fighting in the UFC tournaments and events. The UFC signed him in 2006 for a multi-fight contract. They soon began advertising him upon seeing his rampant success and win-streaks which were unlike anyone’s in the league.

UFC, though just a source of entertainment for many, is an excellent medium for achieving the passion and aspirations of many other people who possess raw talents and ambitions in this line. These aforementioned athletes have not only given their lives and souls for this but have also strived hard so that their names stay etched in the minds of people who look up to them and awe at them for their unflinching success in this area of art.

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inspiring people have broken stereotypes and gone on to do even better than their younger counterparts. Businessmen, sports stars, dancers, actors, authors, and singers whose careers started pretty late in life are inspirations to honestly look up to!Today, we take a look at 8 such legends in the field of Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) who went on to conquer arenas and titles despite being older than expected average of 29 years for an MMA fighter! Not only did these guys win many matches, they’ve even fought and won events organized by the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), the mothership of all things MMA-related, and are listed from youngest to oldest. So without further ado, onto the list!

8. Evan Tanner

34 years and 3 months
February 11, 1971
1997-2008
The United States of America

The now-deceased Evan Lloyd Tanner was 34 at the time of his retirement from MMA. This middleweight-division fighter won his first championship at USWF 7 and went on to win the UFC Middleweight Championship at UFC 51, following his single-round win over David Terrell at the age of 34.

The win came following more than 30 fights in the legend’s MMA career which ended following his UFC loss to Rich Franklin and his death by heat exposure while on a solo desert trip, a mere two months later (at the age of 37).

7. Sean Sherk

34 years and 4 months
August 5, 1973
1999-2010
The United States of America

The “Muscle Shark”’s first shot at the UFC title was in the welterweight division in April 2003, where he lost to the legendary Matt Hughes. Originally a lightweight fighter, Sherk became the first fighter to participate in multiple divisions with his participation in the welterweight division. Adding to his list of “firsts”, he even became the first lightweight titleholder of the UFC in more than 5 years, following his win over Kenny Florian at UFC 64. However, he was stripped of his championship due to the result of a failed drug test and has retired since.

6. Bas Rutten

34 years and 4 months
February 24, 1965
1993-1999, 2006 (MMA)
The Netherlands and The United States of America (dual citizenship)

Born Sebastiaan Rutten, “El Guapo” or “The Handsome One” Bas Rutten is a former MMA artist, also trained in kickboxing and professional wrestling. Included in the UFC Hall of Fame and with a strike accuracy of 68%, as per FightMetric, (the UFC’s official statistics provider), Rutten initially retired in 1999 following severe injuries with an unbeaten 22-match streak, but returned in 2006 only to retire again by the end of the year.

This legend’s debut into the UFC was supposed to be in a fight against Randy Couture, but as the latter left the organization before the fight, Rutten went up against Tsuyoshi Kohsaka instead at the UFC 18, where he won with a “knockout” in a highly controversial fight. Following his retirement, Rutten focused on his career of acting and even hosted several television shows such as “Inside MMA”.

5. Pat Miletich

35 years and 1 month
March 9, 1966
1995-2002, 2006-2008
The United States of America

Patrick Jay “Pat” Miletich is a former MMA fighter, holding the record for becoming the first Welterweight Champion and UFC 16 Welterweight Tournament winner. This lightweight-division fighter, also known as the “Croatian Sensation”, earned his first UFC title by defeating Mikey Burnett in 1998, holding onto it for 2 years before being defeated by Carlos Newton. Following this, he retired in 2008, going on to become a successful trainer and coach. This fact, along with the fact that he tied a UFC record by successfully defending his welterweight title 4 consecutive times, led to his induction into the UFC Hall of Fame in 2014.

4. Shane Carwin

35 years and 5 months
January 4, 1975
2005-2013, 2016-present
The United States of America

A late bloomer in the MMA world, Shane Bannister Carwin started his MMA career as late as 30! It then took him 5 years to earn a shot at the UFC heavyweight title, where he went up against Frank Mir and picked up a first-round stoppage against his opponent (the 12th such event in 12 career MMA bouts) at UFC 11. A qualified engineer, Carwin was defeated in his last fight before his retirement in 2013 by Junior dos Santos. In 2016, Carwin announced that he would be getting back to MMA and has been an active MMA artist ever since, having fully recovered from all the injuries that caused his retirement in the first place.

3. Maurice Smith

36 years
December 13, 1961
1980-2008, 2012-2013
The United States of America

Like Shane Carwin, Maurice Smith began his MMA career only after he hit his 30s. Despite this, Maurice “Mo” Smith reached the top of the heavyweight division in relatively no time at all, defeating UFC heavyweight legend Mark Coleman in 1997 at UFC 14 and becoming the first striker to survive a world-class wrestler’s attack. Smith went on to defend this title for 5 months before losing to Randy Couture. Maurice Smith is also a member of the UFC Hall of Fame and has been a part of Team Alliance since his return to MMA in 2007.

2. Anderson Silva

38 years
April 14, 1975
1997-present
Brazil

“The Spider” is a true inspiration, winning the middleweight title at 31 against Rich Franklin and maintaining his championship for nearly a decade after that! Still an active MMA artist, Silva could still give his younger counterparts a run for their money, and in fact, was undefeated till his loss to Chris Weidman at UFC 162. A well-rounded fighter known for his striking ability, Silva considers Spider-Man, Bruce Lee, and Muhammad Ali as his biggest personal heroes, stating that he loves comic books and comic book heroes. Well, it isn’t just boys who will be boys. Men will be boys too, it seems!

1. Randy Couture

45 years and 4 months
June 22, 1963
1997-2011
The United States of America

This list wouldn’t be complete without the real-life “Captain America”, the legendary Randy Couture. The oldest champion in UFC history, it’s safe to say that a very rare few can even hope to surpass this record. Also nicknamed “The Natural”, Couture is a three-time UFC Heavyweight champion, two-time UFC Lightweight champion, and the UFC 13 Heavyweight Tournament winner, making it easy to see why he holds the nicknames that he does. With his wins in both the lightweight and heavyweight divisions, Randy Couture became the first of the only 3 fighters ever to hold UFC championship titles in two different divisions. Additionally, he is the only person over the age of 40 to have ever won a UFC championship, and not just once, but an astounding 4 times! A member of the UFC Hall of Fame, Couture retired in 2011 after taking the MMA world by storm and astonishing everyone with his skill and talent to pursue quite a successful career in acting!

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Well, so there you have it. We suppose you now know why age is just a number! These legendary champions took the world by storm, proving that age is something we dictate to our bodies and minds, and not the other way around! So if at 23 (or 25 or even 28 or even 50!) you’re reading this and thinking about how it’s too late to chase after that dream you’ve always had, take a cue from these guys, get off your bottom, and start working. It’s never too late.