UFC's Longest Win Streaks — and a Five-Way Tie for Third

Anderson Silva's streak is the one every fighter on this list, including Makhachev, had to measure themselves against. It ran from a June 2006 TKO win over Chris Leben through seven years of middleweight title defenses, and by the time Chris Weidman knocked him out at UFC 162 in July 2013, Silva had gone 16 fights without a loss — a number nobody came within two wins of for over a decade.

What made the streak remarkable wasn't just its length but its era: Silva built it as champion, defending the middleweight title against ranked contenders rather than padding the count with lower-stakes bouts, which is why it held as the sport's benchmark long after his own career had ended.

Kamaru Usman's 15-fight run began with a decision win over Leon Edwards in December 2015 — years before either man held a title — and carried him through a welterweight championship reign that included title defenses against Colby Covington, Jorge Masvidal twice, and Gilbert Burns. It's one of the sport's more unusual bookends: the streak ended almost seven years later, in August 2022, when the same Leon Edwards knocked him out at UFC 278 to take the belt Usman had defended so many times.

Merab Dvalishvili's 14-fight streak is the newest entry to end, and it ran longer than anyone else currently active in the sport's title picture. It started with a September 2018 decision win over Terrion Ware and carried him to the bantamweight title, built almost entirely on volume — Dvalishvili's fights are wrestling-heavy grinds that wear opponents down over five rounds rather than finish them early. Petr Yan ended the run by decision at UFC 323 in December 2025, just months before Makhachev's own streak overtook the record above it.

No single fighter holds third place on this list — five of the sport's most decorated champions are locked together at 13 consecutive wins apiece, and how each of their streaks ended says as much about the sport as the number itself.

Jon Jones · Closed by a No-Contest Ruling

Jones won his 13th straight fight, a decision over Ovince Saint Preux, in April 2016. His next win, over Daniel Cormier at UFC 214 in July 2017, was overturned to a no contest after a positive drug test — and under the UFC's own counting rules, that closes a streak exactly like a loss would, freezing his official total at 13.

Georges St-Pierre · Retired Unbeaten

GSP's streak started with a decision win over Josh Koscheck in August 2007 and never ended in the cage — he retired after submitting Michael Bisping at UFC 217 in November 2017, walking away undefeated in his final 13 fights rather than losing the streak to an opponent.

Khabib Nurmagomedov · Retired 29-0

Khabib's run began with a submission win over Kamal Shalorus in January 2012 and closed the same way, with a submission of Justin Gaethje at UFC 254 in October 2020 — his 13th straight UFC win and the final fight of a career that ended 29-0, never once defeated.

Demetrious Johnson · Ended by a Split Decision

"Mighty Mouse" built his streak on a June 2012 decision win in his rematch with Ian McCall and defended the flyweight title through it, until Henry Cejudo edged him by split decision at UFC 227 in August 2018 — the closest kind of finish to end a run this long.

Max Holloway · Ended in a Different Division

Holloway's streak opened with a decision win over Will Chope in January 2014 and ran through a full featherweight title reign, but it ended one weight class up: Dustin Poirier stopped him at UFC 236 in April 2019, in an interim lightweight title fight Holloway had moved up to take.

Alexander Volkanovski · Ended by the Streak Leader Himself

Volkanovski's run began with a TKO win over Yusuke Kasuya in November 2016 and carried him to the featherweight title, until the one man on this list still building his own streak, Islam Makhachev, beat him by decision at UFC 284 in February 2023 — the loss that ended Volkanovski's run also became a data point in Makhachev's.

Amanda Nunes · A Two-Division Champion's Longest Run

Nunes opened her streak with a submission win over Sara McMann in August 2015 and used it to become a simultaneous bantamweight and featherweight champion, before Julianna Peña stopped her by TKO at UFC 269 in December 2021 in one of the sport's biggest upsets.

Tony Ferguson · A Streak Built Without a Title Shot

Ferguson's run started after a 2013 loss to Michael Johnson and became the longest active streak in the UFC's lightweight division for years, notable because he built it through interim title wins and top contenders without ever landing a lightweight unification fight — until Justin Gaethje stopped him at UFC 249 in May 2020.

UFC 330 landed at the Xfinity Mobile Arena in Philadelphia on August 15, 2026 — the promotion's first numbered event in the city since UFC 133 back in August 2011 — and the main event carried the record with it. Islam Makhachev defended his welterweight title for the first time, beating Ian Machado Garry by unanimous decision across three scorecards of 49-46, 49-46, and 48-47. It was his 17th consecutive UFC win, moving him past Anderson Silva's 16-fight mark that had stood since 2013 and that Makhachev himself had only tied a few months earlier.

The card's co-main event carried its own title defense: Mackenzie Dern beat Gillian Robertson by unanimous decision to defend the women's strawweight title she'd won the year before. But the number that mattered most belonged to the main event — Makhachev's only loss in the UFC remains a first-round knockout to Adriano Martins at UFC 192 in October 2015, and the win streak that just rewrote the record books began with the very next fight after that.

Nine of the twelve streaks on this list ended the same way every sports fan expects — a loss inside the cage. Two didn't. Georges St-Pierre and Khabib Nurmagomedov both walked away from the sport with their win streaks still technically active, retiring rather than losing. GSP stepped away in 2017 right after a 13th straight win, and Khabib finished 29-0 for his entire career, retiring in 2020 after honoring a promise to his mother following his father's death. Neither man's streak has a losing opponent attached to it in the record books — just a decision to stop fighting while still on top, which is a different kind of ending than anyone else on this list got to choose.

Every other entry on this list is a closed number — Silva, Usman, Dvalishvili, and the eight fighters tied below them all have streaks that stopped, frozen at whatever total they reached before a loss, a no contest, or retirement ended the count. Makhachev's 17 is the one exception. It's an active streak, extended as recently as UFC 330, which means the record this post is built around could already be a different number by the time it's read.

That's the nature of a ranking like this one: it's a snapshot of a sport that keeps fighting. Silva's record looked permanent for 13 years, right up until it wasn't. The next challenge to Makhachev's 17 is already somewhere on the UFC's roster — the only question the data can't answer yet is which fighter it turns out to be.