This is a list of longest winning streaks in combat sports.
Boxing edit
Professional edit
Longest unbeaten streaks:[1]
107 – Young Griffo (lightweight)[2]
- Streak started March 24, 1888 (defeated Jack Heaney)
- Streak ended May 17, 1892 (defeated by Mick Ryan)
Note : In the early times of boxing fighters could agree to a draw clause in which if the fight went the distance it was automatically called a draw. Giffo used this clause a great deal and only had 33 knockouts in 229 fights, so many of his bouts ended up being declared draws. 35 fights of the 107 consecutive fights unbeaten were draws.
104 – Packey McFarland (lightweight)[3]
- Streak started October 26, 1904 (defeated Young Fitzsimmons)
- Streak ended September 11, 1915 (Won his last bout then retired)
102 – Buck Smith (middleweight)[4]
- Streak started July 11, 1989 (defeated Dick Allen)
- Streak ended November 18, 1992 (defeated by Kevin Pompey)
95 – Jimmy Wilde (flyweight)[5]
- Streak started December 26, 1910 (defeated Les Williams) (Wilde's first professional bout)
- Streak ended January 25, 1915 (defeated by Tancy Lee)
93 – Pedro Carrasco (lightweight)[6]
- Streak started April 22, 1964 (defeated Giuliano Scatolini)
- Streak ended February 18, 1972 (defeated by Mando Ramos)
91 – Sugar Ray Robinson (middleweight)[7]
- Streak started February 19, 1943 (defeated Jackie Wilson)
- Streak ended July 10, 1951 (defeated by Randy Turpin)
90 – Julio César Chávez (light welterweight)[8]
- Streak started February 5, 1980 (defeated Andres Felix) (Chávez's first professional bout)
- Streak ended January 29, 1994 (defeated by Frankie Randall)
Note : Included is the controversial win against Meldrick Taylor in March 1990, which could have ended the streak at 68 wins
Amateur edit
Longest unbeaten streaks: 200+ – Vasyl Lomachenko
- Streak started November 2007 (first and subsequently last loss as an amateur)
- Streak ended October 2013 (turned professional)
Olympics edit
World Championship edit
6 consecutive heavyweight World Championships – Félix Savón
- Streak started 1986 Reno, Nevada, United States
- Streak ended 1999 Houston, Texas, United States
Note: winner of 3 consecutive Olympic gold medals (1992–2000)
Judo edit
6 consecutive titles at World Championships – Ryoko Tani
- Streak started 1993 Hamilton, Canada
- Streak ended 2005 Cairo, Egypt
Mixed martial arts edit
Men's edit
40 fights
- Travis Fulton
- Streak started April 23, 2005
- Streak ended May 19, 2007
31 fights
- Renan Barão
- Streak started May 13, 2005
- Streak ended May 24, 2014, UFC 173
- Luis Rafael Laurentino
- Streak started June 17, 2012
- Streak ended February 20, 2016
29 fights
- Khabib Nurmagamedov
- Streak started September 13, 2008
- Retired from MMA on October 24, 2020
Women's edit
22 fights – Megumi Fujii
- Streak started August 9, 2004
- Streak ended October 28, 2010, at Bellator 34
Professional wrestling edit
Since matches have predetermined outcomes, winning streaks in professional wrestling are orchestrated by the wrestling organizations.[9]
World Championship Wrestling edit
Singles matches edit
"173 consecutive matches" – Bill Goldberg[10][11]
- Streak started 1997 Dalton, Georgia
- Streak ended 1998 Washington, D.C.
Note: While the tally of 173 matches was listed by World Championship Wrestling as the legitimate total, it is fictitious number. WCW inflated the win count to make Goldberg look more dominant.[12][13]
World Wrestling Entertainment edit
Singles matches edit
"914 days unbeaten" – Asuka
249+ matches
- Streak started October 7, 2015 NXT TakeOver: Respect (Beat Dana Brooke)
- Streak ended April 8, 2018 Wrestlemania 34 (Beaten by Charlotte Flair)
Singles matches at WrestleMania edit
21 consecutive matches – The Undertaker, (known as The Streak)
- Streak started 1991 Los Angeles, California against Jimmy Snuka
- Streak ended 2014 New Orleans, Louisiana against Brock Lesnar
Wrestling edit
Olympics edit
World Championships edit
Men's Freestyle edit
6 consecutive titles at World Championships – Sergey Beloglazov
- Streak started 1981 Skopje, Yugoslavia
- Streak ended 1989 Martigny, Switzerland
19 consecutive team titles at World Championships – USSR
- Streak started 1967 New Delhi, India
- Streak ended 1993 Toronto, Canada
Men's Greco-Roman edit
9 consecutive titles at World Championships – Alexander Karelin
- Streak started 1989 Martigny, Switzerland
- Streak ended 2000 Retired after Sydney Olympics
Note: winner of 3 consecutive Olympic gold medals (1988–1996)
21 consecutive team titles at World Championships – USSR and Russia
- Streak started 1973 Tehran, Iran
- Streak ended 2001 Patras, Greece
Women's Freestyle edit
6 consecutive team titles at World Championships – Japan
- Streak started 2002 Chalcis, Greece
- Streak ended 2009 Herning, Denmark
College (USA) edit
159 matches – Cael Sanderson, Iowa State
Note: never lost a single NCAA match in entire collegiate career (1998–2002)
High school (USA) edit
459 consecutive matches – Brandon High School, Brandon, Florida[15][16]
- Streak started January 28, 1974
- Streak ended January 5, 2008
Sumo edit
69 matches – Futabayama Sadaji
- Streak started January 7, 1936
- Streak ended January 3, 1939 (ended by Akinoumi Setsuo)
References edit
- ^ "Historic Boxing Stats". theboxinghistorian.com. Archived from the original on November 28, 2009.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ "BoxRec: Young Griffo".
- ^ "BoxRec: Packey McFarland".
- ^ "BoxRec: Buck Smith".
- ^ Jimmy Wilde's record at BoxRec.com
- ^ Pedro Carrasco's record at BoxRec.com
- ^ Sugar Ray Robinson's record Archived April 14, 2015, at the Wayback Machine at BoxRec.com
- ^ Julio César Chávez's record Archived April 25, 2015, at the Wayback Machine at BoxRec.com
- ^ Grabianowski, Ed (January 13, 2006). "How Pro Wrestling Works". Entertainment.howstuffworks.com. Retrieved June 10, 2012.
- ^ "WWE alumni profile". WWE. Retrieved February 15, 2012.
- ^ Conner, Floyd (2000). "Gridiron Grapplers". Football's Most Wanted (1st ed.). Washington, D.C.: Potomac Books. ISBN 978-1-57488-309-1. Retrieved October 25, 2011.
- ^ Scherer, Dave (October 27, 2015). "Is WWE dissing Undertaker, pushing Dean, Goldberg's streak and more". PWInsider. Retrieved October 27, 2015.
- ^ Bryan Alvarez & R. D. Reynolds (2004). The Death Of WCW. Toronto: ECW Press. p. 134. ISBN 978-1-55022-661-4.
As it turned out, in a lame effort to make his streak appear more meaningful, the company had started to add imaginary numbers to the total. This had the exact opposite of its intended effect... fans figured out that the streak number had become fiction.
- ^ Kevin Powers (March 6, 2013). "10 great streaks that came to an end". WWE.com. Retrieved January 20, 2016.
- ^ Joe Smith RivalsHigh. "Rivals.com - 34-year winning streak halted". Highschool.rivals.com. Retrieved January 20, 2016.
- ^ "Florida high school wrestling team's streak ends after 459 straight victories". Sports.espn.go.com. January 6, 2008. Retrieved January 20, 2016.