Longest Tenured UFC Bantamweights

Here is an ordered list of the 15 current UFC Bantamweights that have been with the company the longest. (No Amateur TUF debut dates are counted). Do any names surprise you? Do the lengths of any of their careers based on their styles surprise you? Who from this list do you think will be the last to still be fighting for the UFC? The amount of ties on this list threw me for more than one loop. 3 different ties with one even being a 3-way tie and there was a friggin a 4-way tie too, I could not have believably written something stranger for this list. What an interesting occurrence! Let me know if you have anything to add beyond my already ridiculous findings. 


#1 Frankie Edgar. Debut: 2/3/2007
#2 Rani Yahya. Debut: 1/22/2011
#3 THREE WAY TIE Urijah Faber, Eddie Wineland, and Raphael Assuncao. Debuts: 3/19/2011
#6 Jose Aldo. Debut: 4/30/2011
#7 Dominick Cruz. Debut: 7/2/2011
#8 Mitch Gagnon. Debut: 7/21/2012
#9 Louis Smolka. Debut: 1/15/2014
#10 TIE Aljamain Sterling and Pedro Munhoz. Debuts: 2/22/2014
#12 Ray Borg. Debut: 4/19/2014
#13 Rob Font. Debut: 7/5/2014
#14 Frankie Saenz . Debut: 8/16/2014
#15 FOUR WAY TIE Marlon Vera, Alejandro Perez, Jose Quinonez, and Guido Cannetti. Debuts: 11/15/2014

Let's be honest, the sun's gonna implode before Frankie Edgar retires or gets cut from the UFC. Also, while I'm not surprised that he's not the longest, it does feel like Urijah Faber has been around forever.

#1 Frankie Edgar. Debut: 2/3/2007
#2 Rani Yahya. Debut: 1/22/2011
#3 THREE WAY TIE Urijah Faber, Eddie Wineland, and Raphael Assuncao. Debuts: 3/19/2011
#6 Jose Aldo. Debut: 4/30/2011
#7 Dominick Cruz. Debut: 7/2/2011
#8 TJ Dillashaw. Debut: 12/3/2011

#9 Kang Kyung-Ho. Debut: 3/3/2013
#10 Louis Smolka. Debut: 1/15/2014
#11 TIE Aljamain Sterling and Pedro Munhoz. Debuts: 2/22/2014
#13 Rob Font. Debut: 7/5/2014
#14 THREE WAY TIE Marlon Vera, Alejandro Perez, and Guido Cannetti. Debuts: 11/15/2014

#1 Rani Yahya. Debut: 1/22/2011
#2 Raphael Assuncao. Debuts: 3/19/2011
#3 Dominick Cruz. Debut: 7/2/2011
#4 Cub Swanson. Debut: 11/12/2011
#5 Kang Kyung-Ho. Debut: 3/3/2013
#6 Davey Grant. Debut: 11/30/2013
#7 TIE Aljamain Sterling and Pedro Munhoz. Debuts: 2/22/2014
#9 Rob Font. Debut: 7/5/2014
#10 TIE Marlon Vera  and Guido Cannetti. Debuts: 11/15/2014 
 #12 Aieman Zahabi. Debut: 2/19/2017
#13 Brian Kelleher. Debut: 6/3/2017
#14 Cody Stamann. Debut: 6/8/2017
#15 Song Yadong. Debut: 11/25/2017

I watched an interview of Yahya where he said that he is satisfied with his achievement and that he just wanna go as high as he can. And looking into his career he did a great job indeed.