Longest Tenured UFC Heavyweights

Here is an ordered list of the 15 current UFC Heavyweights that have been with the company the longest. (No Amateur TUF debut dates are counted). Do any names surprise you?  Who from this list do you think will be the last to still be fighting for the UFC? It pains me to put Gus, Latifi, Rogerio de Lima, and Villante on this list, but it's not a list about who I like or who I think shouldn't count when they do. Let me know what you think.


#1 Andrei Arlovski. Debut: 11/17/2000
#2 Junior dos Santos. Debut: 10/25/2008
#3 Stefan Struve. Debut: 9/21/2009
#4 Ben Rothwelli. Debut: 10/24/2009
#5 Alexander Gustafsson. Debut: 11/14/2009
#6 Stipe Miocic. Debut: 10/8/2011
#7 Alistair Overeem. Debut: 12/30/2011
#8 Ilir Latifi. Debut: 4/6/2013
#9 Gian Villante Debut: 4/27/2013
#10 Derrick Lewis Debut: 4/19/2014

#11 Marcos Rogerio de Lima Debut: 5/31/2014
#12 Walt Harris Debut: 11/7/2014
#13 Shamil Abdurakhimov Debut: 4/4/2015
#14 Francis Ngannou Debut: 12/19/2015
#15 Curtis Blaydes Debut: 4/10/2016

Typo alert! Struve actually debuted in February, not September, but it actually doesn't change the ordering anyway!

Not much really surprises me about this list but then again I'm not as heavily invested in the UFC's Heavyweight division as I am in the other divisions.

Too bad Roy left in 2017 he spent a long ass time in the UFC, debuting on Dec 5th 2009 and has his last fight with them  on April 15, 2017

Didn't mean to comment twice, how do you delete comments?

* Edited at 01.29.2021, 3:04 AM ET *

I believe you can only do it if you catch yourself within like 30 minutes or so, same for editing posts. If you still have the option it'll show up as an orange hyperlink right next to where it always says "reply". Edited: the hyperlink is really more red. Also, it doesn't look like there's a "delete" like I thought, but I bet if you erased all the text after hitting edit it would work.

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Thanks

I gotchu fellow Reem appreciator

#3 Stefan Struve Retired so everyone below him moves up a spot and Marcin Tybura joins the list. To be completely honest, he debuted on the same card as Blaydes so they're tied and I just missed it before, lol.

Sure that’s not eminem in a mask @ DrMax?

You're close Hip E. That's his ancestor from Moche era Peru.

Ha.. close   Yeah still resembles em 2me..

Don't you mean he resEMbles Em to Me (an anagram of EM)? 

I'm a weirdo if my picture didn't already give that away

What is his name? B'ALAM AJAW ?


JAGUAR LORD !?

Ha ha ha 

@ DrMax either way = the same answer to me, doesn’t matter!  Flip a coin.

#2 JDS and #7 Overeem have been released from the UFC. I just realized that once upon a time I missed fat boy Jake Collier because he's easy to forget from this type of list due to originally fighting at MW (sue me) and he debuted on December 20, 2014. Since Tybura was missed before, which I acknowledged last time, and is tied with Blaydes, those two are now tied for #14.  Also I just realized Aleksei Oleinik was missed, (Debut: 6/28/2014) and that one was just me being a doofus. I know this is confusing so I'll just write out the new fully updated list. 

#1 Andrei Arlovski. Debut: 11/17/2000
#2 Ben Rothwelli. Debut: 10/24/2009
#3 Alexander Gustafsson. Debut: 11/14/2009
#4 Stipe Miocic. Debut: 10/8/2011
#5 Ilir Latifi. Debut: 4/6/2013
#6 Gian Villante Debut: 4/27/2013
#7 Derrick Lewis Debut: 4/19/2014
#8 Marcos Rogerio de Lima Debut: 5/31/2014
#9 Aleksei Oleynik Debut: 6/28/2014
#10 Walt Harris Debut: 11/7/2014
#11 Jake Collier Debut: 12/20/2014
#12 Shamil Abdurakhimov Debut: 4/4/2015
#13 Francis Ngannou Debut: 12/19/2015
#14 TIE Curtis Blaydes and Marcin Tybura Debuts: 4/10/2016


Disregarding my oopsies for a second, it's crazy that Ben Rothwell is now the #2 longest tenured UFC Heavyweight, and to be honest, that's a little bit embarrassing.  It's exciting that Stipe has now lasted his way into the top 5 though. 

@Drmaxis2

The effort you put into keeping these lists up to date is extraordinary!

#1 Andrei Arlovski. Debut: 11/17/2000
#2 Ben Rothwell. Debut: 10/24/2009
#3 Alexander Gustafsson. Debut: 11/14/2009
#4 Stipe Miocic. Debut: 10/8/2011
#5 Ilir Latifi. Debut: 4/6/2013
#6 Derrick Lewis Debut: 4/19/2014
#7 Marcos Rogerio de Lima Debut: 5/31/2014
#8 Aleksei Oleynik Debut: 6/28/2014
#9 Walt Harris Debut: 11/7/2014
#10 Jake Collier Debut: 12/20/2014
#11 Shamil Abdurakhimov Debut: 4/4/2015
#12 Francis Ngannou Debut: 12/19/2015
#13 Jarjis Danho. Debut: 2/27/2016
#14 TIE Curtis Blaydes and Marcin Tybura Debuts: 4/10/2016

#1 Andrei Arlovski. Debut: 11/17/2000
#2 Jon Jones. Debut: 8/9/2008
#3 Stipe Miocic. Debut: 10/8/2011
#4 Ilir Latifi. Debut: 4/6/2013
#5 Derrick Lewis Debut: 4/19/2014
#6 Marcos Rogerio de Lima Debut: 5/31/2014
#7 Jake Collier Debut: 12/20/2014
#8 Jarjis Danho. Debut: 2/27/2016
#9 TIE Curtis Blaydes and Marcin Tybura Debuts: 4/10/2016 
#10 Chase Sherman. Debut: 8/6/2016
#11 TIE Alexander Volkov and Tai Tuivasa. Debuts:11/19/2016
#13 Blagoy Ivanov. Debut: 7/14/2018
#14 Augusto Sakai. Debut:9/22/2018
#15 Sergei Pavlovich. Debut: 11/24/2018

Crazy to think that Andrei Arlovski has been around 8 years longer than the 2nd longest!