Anderson Silva ought to be tied with Mighty Mouse for many title protection at 11. He defended his Middleweight belt at UFC 67 in opposition to Travis Lutter who got here in chubby (187 lb) so it was deemed a non title bout.

36 thoughts on “Anderson Silva ought to be tied with Mighty Mouse for many title protection at 11. He defended his Middleweight belt at UFC 67 in opposition to Travis Lutter who got here in chubby (187 lb) so it was deemed a non title bout.”

1. Same with Whittaker and Romero

2. Chael Sonnen should be considered a former WEC champion, he beat an overweight Paulo Filho who was then champion.

3. Didn’t this also happen with Hughes VS Riggs?

4. Prime Anderson didn’t give AF. You could put a middleweight, chubby mw, or light HW and he would best all of them. Father time caught him later as he always does though.

5. It should count as a defense if the challenger misses weight. Why punish the champ for doing nothing wrong. At minimum there should be an asterisk signifying the they should have another title defense/title fight win.

6. Another weird one is Jon jones with IIRC 15 consecutive title fight wins.

   He only doesn’t have the most title defense record because he kept getting stripped and had to fight for the title again lol.

7. He fought while holding the title, but had no risk in losing it. You can’t defend something that’s no longer on the line.

8. You are right it is not a punishment because had he lost the match he would still reamin the champion.

9. Punishing the champ for defending in a now theoretically harder fight, is the dumbest shit.

10. That rule doesn’t even make sense. That makes the win more badass, not less. How is the champion penalized for this? He defended the belt at the proper weight.

11. Also Aljamain Sterling should have the most wins in BW history. He beat Renan Barao but at a catchweight (Barao missed weight) so it didn’t count. If it did he would have 14 wins making him the all time wins leader for the division.

12. Non title for Lutter. Anderson made weight so he is still eligible to claim the belt. If you claim the belt, it counts as a title defense.

13. And MM should have beaten Cejudo in the rematch, so in my mind that makes 12. GG

14. He should, but he isn’t. Blame Lutter.

15. Doesn’t count as a defense because it wasn’t on the line because there was no challenger for the belt because of the weight miss. So if Silva lost he wouldn’t lose the belt there for no defense

16. He also had that win over Bisping screwed up by the ref…

    Don’t let stats ever tell a story. As Sammy Clementine said “there’s lies, there’s damn lies, and then there’s statistics”.

    He had a good point IMO

17. That is technically correct, but I think most feel that that rule is kind of stupid. Why should the champ be punished because a contender failed to make weight? In this case, Anderson did everything required of him in his contract. He showed up, made weight, and fought.

    It’s like Jon Jones’ (the piece of shit) loss by DQ to Matt Hamil. Those 12 to 6 elbows are no more damaging than any other angle. However, since they were deemed ‘deadly’ by some combat officials after seeing a bunch of karate masters murdering cinder blocks, here we are.

    All this to say that some rules really need to be updated to reflect the current state of MMA. Maybe a bunch of records will be adjusted to have asterisks next to fight outcomes, but hopefully it will show a more accurate record of every fighters’ resume.

18. This has always irritated me. Why should his legacy be penalized because Travis Lutter was an unprofessional slob who couldn’t make weight.

19. Wait, UFC told me back then MM was the Goat for ‘surpassing’ Anderson! Now that you make me think about it, UFC also told me Halabeeb was the Goat! Same company promoting Sanko as 1st UFC female commentator! Guys.. are you telling me UFC simply twists reality according to the hot fighter of the moment? That can’t be!! C’mon!!

20. Fair point, especially considering that fighting against an overweight opponent is arguably harder than a regular title defence.

21. Should count as a title defense for the champ.

    But the challenger should be ineligible for the strap if he wins

22. If you made weight you should be considered fighting within the division. Your opponent cannot. I will die on this hill.

23. GOAT

24. Speaking of Anderson Silva why isn’t he in the ufc hall of fame yet?

25. He also moved up a weight class multiple times and kept his streak alive. He’s my GOAT until the day I die!

26. jones got like 15 of them mfs

27. Doesn’t matter. Another white guy, another beat down.

28. Same thing happened to Hughes. He was Welterweight champ when he beat Joe Riggs and Royce, but they were both Catchweight bouts so they didn’t count

29. Kinda sounds like he didn’t defend his title then.

    Plus, Silva’s a douche, so I’m fine with it.

30. The scenario hasn’t occured but Anderson Silva could have been knocked out cold against Travis Lutter and he would have retained his belt.

31. TIL Mighty Mouse defended his middleweight belt

32. He didn’t defend the title though. It was a non title bout.

33. Fat fuck

34. Jon should have been undefeated until he lost to Reyes, guess it evened out in the end, but he was basically more dominant than khabib for much longer.

35. Against the Michael Jordan of jiu jitsu it should count as 2 defenses

36. The Michael Jordan of BJJ, is Travis lutter

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