Most Dominant UFC Champion

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After a serious exercise of reducing the UFC champions to numbers and studying these figures, I have a conclusion. Looking at the numbers, a lot made made sense and a lot didn't seem quite right. This was exactly what I had hoped for - to remove all the preconceptions and emotion and learn something new.

UFC Champions in order of dominance

Fighter	Total Rating
Anderson Silva	34.448
Georges St-Pierre	23.895
Jon Jones	9.700
Jose Aldo	9.316
Dominick Cruz	6.337
Junior dos Santos	3.417
Benson Henderson	3.267

While the order of this list seems generally correct, I feel the real surprise for me was just how dominant Anderson Silva is. I have often juggled between Silva and GSP as my top pound for pound MMA fighter in the world, and have on many occasions thought St-Pierre to be the more dominant champion. Amazing how differently the stats see it.
The better fighter however is something that will only be settled in the Octagon. Here are 5 reasons why Anderson Silva vs GSP makes perfect sense.

My Statistical Analysis of UFC Champions

1: Who is the most dominant UFC Champion? - introduction
2: Dominick Cruz

3: Jose Aldo

4: Benson Henderson

5: Georges St-Pierre

6: Anderson Silva

7: Jon Jones

8: Junior dos Santos

9: Fighter comparisons

10: Most dominant UFC Champion - conclusion

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