Who’s the best UFC fighter ever?? It is one of the vital hotly contested debates amongst MMA followers, and now Dana White‘s weighing in!

Anderson Silva, Georges St-Pierre, Khabib Nurmagomedov and Jon Jones are the names most frequently thrown on the market (there’s additionally Demetrious Johnson, Amanda Nunes, and some others) … and each can absolutely stake their declare as one of the best.

However, with Jones about to return to the Octagon (first time in 1,121 days) in opposition to a bonafide beast in Ciryl Gane (11-1 professional report), and going as much as heavyweight from the sunshine heavyweight division which he dominated for a decade, Dana instructed Babcock on the TMZ Sports activities TV present (airs weekdays on FS1) earlier within the week that Bones is one win away from being the 🐐.

“There might be no arguments over who the G.O.A.T. is that if he beats Ciryl Gane on Saturday,” White stated.

As for the opposite fighters … they’re all inactive within the UFC.

Silva is the previous middleweight champion. He defeated everybody from Chael Sonnen, Vitor Belfort, Forrest Griffin, Dan Henderson, Wealthy Franklin and so many extra. He held the UFC title for longer than anybody within the historical past of the promotion … 2,457 days, defending his belt efficiently 10 instances.

GSP, a former 2x welterweight and 1x middleweight champ, had knowledgeable report of 26-2, solely shedding to Matt Serra (2007) and Matt Hughes (2004). St-Pierre beat the likes of Michael Bisping, Johnny Hendricks, Nick Diaz, Jake Shields, Carlos Condit, Dan Hardy, B.J. Penn and nearly each different fighter of his technology.

Khabib is the one of the fighters within the G.O.A.T. dialog to go undefeated, retiring with a 29-0 report. Nurmagomedov defeated Justin Gaethje, Dustin Poirier, Edson Barboza, Michael Johnson, Rafael dos Anjos and Conor McGregor.

There’s rather more with Dana … we talked to the UFC honcho about the whole lot from Valentina Shevchenko‘s resume, to 3x NCAA wrestling champ Bo Nickal‘s UFC debut.