Longest Losing Streaks in UFC History

The roughest skids ever — and who finally broke out of them

About All-Time Losing Streaks

This leaderboard ranks the longest runs of consecutive losses any fighter has ever endured in the UFC, rebuilt fight-by-fight from their full recorded history. It's the flip side of our longest win streaks record book — a curiosity that says as much about a fighter's toughness and longevity as it does about a rough patch.

How a skid is counted

Every fighter's career is rebuilt in date order and we look for the longest run of defeats with no win inside it. A win ends the run, and so does a no contest: the bout was struck from the record, so the count restarts after it. A draw does not end a skid — it is not a loss, but it is not a win either, and the fighter is still waiting for one. The figure shown is the longest such run in the fighter's Octagon career, whether that was last year or a decade ago. Runs of three or more are listed, and the page holds up to a hundred fighters.

What the number leaves out

Only bouts in our UFC database are in the sequence, so results in other promotions neither lengthen a run nor break it, and a fighter who won twice elsewhere in the middle of an Octagon skid will still show the full run here. The count also says nothing about how the losses came: five close decisions against ranked opposition and five one-sided stoppages read identically. Nor does it weigh who the opponent was, which matters more on this board than most, because the fighters who compile long skids are usually the ones being fed the toughest available matchups. Read it alongside a fighter's actual record rather than on its own.

A green skid is snapped: the fighter eventually got back in the win column, so the run is safely in the past. A red skid is active — their current losing run is also their longest, meaning they're still searching for the next win. Remember that you have to be durable and well-regarded enough to keep getting booked to even appear here; many of these names are respected veterans. See the other side of the ledger on our most wins and never been finished pages.