Lineal championships held by fighters...

Titles that change hands unofficially when someone loses but doesn't lose his title.

Examples ;

Couture being UFC champion losing to Valentijn Overeem who then loses to Big Nog who later suffers his next loss to Fedor.

Thus Fedor holds the lineal UFC title dating back to that time. Thus Fedor is and always has been the undisputed MMA HW champion.


Another example would be Pat Miletich being UFC champion, while losing to Nakao, who loses to Kato who loses to "Mach" who loses to Anderson Silva who never loses the lineal title, and moves on to middle weight. Had that Anderson Silva-Matt Hughes match been made, it would have been Hughes that in essense was the real challenger.

Any other examples?



(can you see why Zuffa won't let it's best fighters fight outside the UFC now?)

Just stumbled upon this. Covers Organizations which have folded and where their Belts would be if the last champion had kept defending. I updated it. Organization Lineal Champ in Bold.

Cage Fury Fighting Championships

Last Bantamweight Champion Clint Godfrey
Lost To Wagnney Fabiano
Lost to Joseph Benavidez

Last Lightweight Champion Jim Miller
Lost To Gray Maynard

Last Welterweight Champion Nick Serra
Lost To Matt Makowski
Lost To Erik Apple
Lost To Bobby Voelker
Lost To Roger Bowling
Lost To Bobby Voelker

Last Middleweight Champion Dan Miller
Lost To Chael Sonnen
Lost To Anderson Silva

Last Light Heavyweight Champ Josh Rhodes Still Defending

Last Heavyweight Champ Carmelo Marrero
Lost To Gabriel Gonzaga
Lost To Randy Couture
Lost To Brock Lesnar
Lost to Cain Velasquez

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Cage Rage Championships

Last British Cage Rage Featherweight Champion Robbie Olivier
Lost To Masakazu Imanari
Lost To Dokonjonosuke Mishima
Lost To Takafumi Otsuka
Lost To Kazuyuki Miyata

Last British Cage Rage Lightweight Champion Abdul Mohamed
Lost To Vitor Ribeiro
Lost To Gesias Cavalcante
Lost To Shinya Aoki
Lost To Joachim Hansen
Lost To Shinya Aoki
Lost To Gilbert Melendez

Last British Cage Rage WelterWeight Champion Che Mills
Lost To Jim Wallhead Current Champion

Last British Cage Rage MiddleWeight Champion Matt Ewin Still Defending

Last Briish Cage Rage Light Heavyweight Champion Ian Freeman Still Defending

Last British Cage Rage Heavyweight Champion Mustapha Al Turk
Lost To Cheick Kongo
Lost To Cain Velasquez

Last World Cage Rage FeatherWeight Champion Masakazu Imanari
Lost To Dokonjonosuke Mishima
Lost To Takafumi Otsuka
Lost To Kazuyuki Miyata

Last World Cage Rage LightWeight Champion Vitor Ribeiro
Lost To Gesias Cavalcante
Lost To Shinya Aoki
Lost To Joachim Hansen
Lost To Shinya Aoki
Lost To Gilbert Melendez

Last World Cage Rage WelterWeight Champion Paul Daley
Lost To Jake Shields

Last World Cage Rage MiddleWeight Champion Anderson Silva
Lost To Ryo Chonan
Lost To Phil Baroni
Lost To Ikuhisa Minowa
Lost To Murilo Bustamante
Lost To Dan Henderson
Lost To Kazuo Misaki
Lost To Paulo Filho
Lost To Chael Sonnen
Lost To Demian Maia
Lost To Nate Marquardt
Lost To Chael Sonnen
Lost To Anderson Silva

Last World Cage Rage Light HeavyWeight Champion Vitor Belfort Still Defending

Last World Cage Rage HeavyWeight Champion Antonio Silva
Lost To Eric Pele
Lost To Aleksander Emelianenko
Lost to Peter Graham

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Elite XC Champions

Last BantemWeight Champion Wilson Reis
Lost To Joe Soto
Lost To Joe Warren

Last LightWeight Champion KJ Noons
Lost to Nick Diaz

Last WelterWeight Champion Jake Shields Still Defending

Last MiddleWeight Champion Robbie Lawler
Lost To Jake Shields

Last HeavyWeight Champion Antonio Silva
Lost To Fabricio Werdum

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Hero's

2006 LightWeight Grand Prix Winner Norifumi Yamamoto
Lost To Joe Warren
Lost To Bibiano Fernandes
Lost to Hiroyuki Takaya

2006 Light HeavyWeight Grand Prix Winner Yoshihiro Akiyama
Lost To Chris Leben
Lost to Brian Stann

2006 MiddleWeight Grand Prix Winner Gesias Cavalcante
Lost To Shinya Aoki
Lost To Joachim Hansen
Lost To Shinya Aoki
Lost To Gilbert Melendez

2007 MiddleWeight Grand Prix Winner Gesias Cavalcante
Lost To Shinya Aoki
Lost To Joachim Hansen
Lost To Shinya Aoki
Lost To Gilbert Melendez

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International Fight League Champions

Last Feather Weight Champion Wagnney Fabiano
Lost To Mackens Semerzier
Lost To Deividas Taurosevičius
Lost To LC Davis
Lost To Josh Grispi
Lost to Dustin Poirier

Last LightWeight Champion Ryan Schultz
Lost To Mizuto Hirota
Lost To Kazunori Yokota
Lost To Satoru Kitaoka
Lost To Mizuto Hirota
Lost To Shinya Aoki
Lost To Gilbert Melendez

Last WelterWeight Champion Jay Hieron Still Defending

Last MiddleWeight Champion Dan Miller
Lost To Chael Sonnen
Lost To Anderson Silva

Last Light HeavyWeight Champion Vladimir Matyushenko
Lost To Antônio Rogério Nogueira
Lost to Ryan Bader

Last HeavyWeight Champion Roy Nelson
Lost To Andrei Arlovski
Lost To Fedor Emelianenko
Lost To Fabricio Werdum

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Palace Fighting Championship

Last FlyWeight Champion Pat Runez Still Defending

Last BantamWeight Champion Jeff Bedard
Lost To Cole Escovedo
Lost To Michael McDonald

Last FeatherWeight Champion Diego Saraiva
Lost To Joe Soto
Lost To Joe Warren

Last LightWeight Champion Carlo Prater
Lost To Antonio McKee
Lost to Jacob Volkmann

Last WelterWeight Champion Kyle Pimentel Still Defending

Last Light HeavyWeight Champion Jorge Oliveira Still Defending

Wolfgangsta wrote:

Titles that change hands unofficially when someone loses but doesn't lose his title.

Examples ;

Couture being UFC champion losing to Valentijn Overeem who then loses to Big Nog who later suffers his next loss to Fedor.

Thus Fedor holds the lineal UFC title dating back to that time. Thus Fedor is and always has been the undisputed MMA HW champion.


Another example would be Pat Miletich being UFC champion, while losing to Nakao, who loses to Kato who loses to "Mach" who loses to Anderson Silvawho never loses the lineal title, and moves on to middle weight. Had that Anderson Silva-Matt Hughes match been made, it would have been Hughes that in essense was the real challenger.

Any other examples?



(can you see why Zuffa won't let it's best fighters fight outside the UFC now?)

This argument may have had some legs three years ago, but technically speaking Werdum is the lineal champ. Plus I can't see why someone would continue harping on a subject they just blogged about last month. Just let it go my friend. The reality of the actual situation is this, with the only possibility of the SF HW Champion being equal or better than the UFC HW Champion, no one with an ounce of common sense thinks Diaz is GSP's equal. In fact none of anyone elses champions is the equals with the arguable one exception. Lineal doesn't mean shit except to people living in Mom's basement and masturbating to the National Geographic.

yo drew check out the date from post #1

Yeah just posting some FYI info on those old organizations. This seemed like the right thread for it.

My bad and my apologies Wolf. I would delete what I said but, that would look more douche like than not checking the dates. Hope you guys like the new sig though!

Royce Gracie

Harold Howard

Steve Jennum

Tank Abbott

Dan Severn

Mark Coleman

Just in case anyone wanted the UFC Tournament lineal title

http://www.bloodyelbow.com/2011/5/17/2175810/werdum-is-one-of-the-best-bjj-practitioners-in-the-world-as-you-can
Werdum
is one of the best BJJ practitioners in the world, as you can tell from
the transitions in the video. I'm interested to see if he is going to
be able put his world class grappling to use against the Demolition Man
Alistair Overeem, when the two meet at Strikeforce's June 18th grand
prix show in Dallas, Tx. Werdum was able to submit the Reem before
when the two met at PRIDE - Total Elimination Absolute in 2006. But
Overeem is quite a bit bigger now and on a huge roll having won the k1
world grand prix while Fabricio Werdum just tapped the greatest
heavyweight mixed martial artist of all time in Fedor Emelianenko. This
fight could very well determine the #1 heavyweight in the world and I
for one cant wait!

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