Currently, Fury is the seventh longest reigning lineal champion, having held the title for roughly 6 years and 2 months.

He will crack the top 6 very soon, since Jack Johnson was the lineal champion for 6 years and 3 months.

To become the longest reigning lineal champ, Fury would need to retain the title for five and a half more years, until 38.

This is the current top 5:

5th - 7 years, 0 months, 9 days

4th - 7 years, 2 months, 19 days

3rd - 7 years, 3 months, 12 days

2nd - 9 years, 7 months and 6 days

1st - 11 years, 8 months, 8 days

How successful are lineal champions in unification bouts against the titleists of the sanctioning bodies? For example, Fury (Lineal) going up against Wilder (WBC) which resulted in Furys victory, or Lewis (WBC and Lineal) vs Holyfield (WBA and IBF) which resulted in Lewis' victory or Tyson (WBA, WBC, and IBF) vs Spinks (Ring, Lineal). I know the lineal is often trashed because it doesn't have mandatory defenses (ironically, the alphabet titles are also trashed for having terrible rankings and mandatories) but it always seems to belong one of the top boxers in a given division at any moment. I'm mostly asking about heavyweight because that's my favorite division but any weight class is welcome.

I've always been interested in lineal titles. Decided to create a list of the lineal champions after these promotions ended. The ones that I feel are not looked into enough are non-UFC promotions.

Of course, rules are that the belt can only be defended within weight class.

WEC Heavyweight Championship

Olsen > (none/retirement)

WEC Light-Heavyweight Championship

Cantwell > Cane > Lil Nog > Bader > Jones

WEC Middleweight Championship

Filho > Paraisy > Falcao > Shlemenko > Halsey > Carvalho > Mousasi > Lovato

WEC Welterweight Championship

Condit > Kampmann > Daley > Koscheck > GSP

WEC Lightweight Championship

Pettis > Guida > Benson > Pettis > RDA > Alvarez > McGregor > Khabib

WEC Featherweight Championship

Aldo > McGregor

WEC Bantamweight Championship

Cruz > Garbrandt > Dillashaw

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Strikeforce Heavyweight Championship

Overeem > Bigfoot > Cain > Werdum > Miocic > DC > Miocic > Ngannou

Strikeforce Heavyweight Grand Prix Championship

Cormier > Miocic > Ngannou

Strikeforce Light-Heavyweight Championship

Hendo > Machida > Davis > Rumble > DC > Jones (Debatable due to positive drug test)

Strikeforce Middleweight Championship

Rockhold > Vitor > Weidman > Rockhold > Bisping > GSP

Strikeforce Welterweight Championship

Saffiedine > MacDonald > Lawler > Woodley > Usman

Strikeforce Lightweight Championship

Melendez > Benson > Pettis > RDA > Alvarez > McGregor > Khabib

Strikeforce Women's Featherweight Championship

Cyborg > Nunes

Strikeforce Women's Bantamweight Championship

Rousey > Holm > Tate > Nunes > Pena

Lineal champions from today's B-league MMA promotions. Championships not listed are still intact with the original lineage, hence why I'm not listing them. The majority of the PFL ones with the exception of the 2018 HW, are pretty much unified with the modern titles, which is why I won't list them either.

Bellator Middleweight Championship

Hector Lombard > Tim Boetsch > Costas Phillippou > Francis Carmont > Jacare Souza > Yoel Romero > Robert Whittaker > Israel Adesanya

Bellator Welterweight Championship

Ben Askren > Jorge Masvidal > Kamaru Usman

Bellator Lightweight Championship (Original Lineage)

Eddie Alvarez > Donald Cerrone > Rafael Dos Anjos > Eddie Alvarez > Conor McGregor > Khabib Nurmagomedov

Bellator Lightweight Championship (Will Brooks Lineage)

Will Brooks > Charles Oliveira > Paul Felder > Dan Hooker > Dustin Poirier > Charles Oliveira

Bellator Bantamweight Championship (Eduardo Dantas Lineage)

Eduardo Dantas (lost fight outside of Bellator ) > Tyson Nam > Marlon Moraes > Raphael Assuncao > Marlon Moraes > Henry Cejudo

Bellator Bantamweight Championship (Kyogi Horiguchi Lineage)

Kyogi Horiguchi > Kai Asakura > Manel Kape

Bellator Women's Strawweight Championship

Zoila Frausto > Jocelyn Jones-Lybarger > Tecia Torres > Rose Namajunas > Karolina Kowalkiewicz > Joanna Jedrzejczyk > Rose Namajunas > Jessica Andrade > Weili Zhang > Rose Namajunas

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PFL/WSOF

WSOF Heavyweight Championship

Blagoi Ivanov > Junior Dos Santos > Francis Ngannou

WSOF Light-Heavyweight Championship

David Branch > (none)

WSOF Middleweight Championship

David Branch > Luke Rockhold (fight against Romero does not count as Romero missed weight)

WSOF Welterweight Championship (Original lineage)

Rousimar Palhares > Emil Weber-Meek > Kamaru Usman

WSOF Welterweight Championship (Jon Fitch lineage)
Jon Fitch > Neiman Gracie > Jason Jackson

WSOF Canada Welterweight Championship

Ryan Ford > Jake Shields > Rousimar Palhares > Emil Weber-Meek > Kamaru Usman

WSOF Lightweight Championship

Justin Gaethje > Eddie Alvarez > Dustin Poirier > Khabib Nurmagomedov

WSOF Featherweight Championship

Andre Harrison > Lance Palmer > Bubba Jenkins > Chris Wade > Movlid Khaubulaev

WSOF Bantamweight Championship

Marlon Moraes > Raphael Assun

I guess we're including pictures now

Intro

Sasha Banks is one of the best women's wrestlers of her generation. She has done almost everything there is to do in the WWE and after her recent success in the movie industry, she now looks destined for a stint in Hollywood at some point as well. The goal here is to take a current WWE wrestler and book them in the wider wrestling world, and I feel that the wider wrestling world needs nothing more than a woman of Sasha's talents and star-power. So, as Michael Cole would scream ad nauseam every time she appears..... It's Boss Time!..

Prologue

Royal Rumble 2022

Women's Royal Rumble Match

We’re in the final four of the 2022 Women's Royal Rumble Match. There's no one left to enter. The only hopefuls left standing are Rhea Ripley, Shotzi Blackheart, Bianca Belair, and the woman who entered at number 3 - Sasha Banks. The Boss has been the iron woman of the bout, much like she was in the first-ever women's Rumble four years prior. Ripley and Belair, the last two standing a year ago, battle it out near the apron. Meanwhile, Shotzi and Sasha do the same on the other side. Shotzi attempts to fireman's carry Bank over the top, but Sasha holds onto the ropes. Blackheart then pulls her off and hits a TKO. She runs at Banks who’s now staggering, as she looks to clothesline her over the top, but Banks counters pulling down the top rope, sending Shotzi out to the floor. Shotzi is eliminated!

On the other side, Bianca decks Rhea with a stiff right. Ripley is on the apron. Bianca runs at her from in the ring and handstand-kicks her off the apron. We’re down to two! The two women that main evented last year's WrestleMania, now come face to face at the end of the Rumble. After five minutes of attempted eliminations and counters, Bianca meets Banks with a nasty whip of the hair, just as she did 9 months prior in Tampa. She follows with a big-time Spear! Sasha is hurt. Bianca scoops her up for the KOD, looking to send the Blueprint over the top rope with the move. But in mid-air, Sasha readjusts and hurricanrana's Belair, sending her to the outside! Sasha has done it! She has won the Royal Rumble for the first time in her career! WrestleMania beckons for the Boss…

Sasha Banks wins the 2022 Women's Royal Rumble by last eliminating Bianca Belair (59:29)

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After

A quick history of the CFB Lineal Championship

And there's the list of reigns, starting with Arkansas's CFB reign as Lineal Champions in 2020.

Just something I’ve been thinking about in work to pass the time, and interested to hear if anyone disagrees strongly with any places. Totally open for criticism, these lists are totally subjective.

For criteria, most importantly, head to head is not relevant.

Things that are important are, quality of opposition/domination of a division, quality of the opponent the title was one from as well as lost to, post title career.

Below heavyweight career is considered either so Charles, Moorer, Holyfield etc could be lower than some might expect.

This is only for Lineal champions, so no titlests (sorry Ken Norton) and I don’t count Vitali Klitschkos ring belt reign as lineal. Tyson Fury’s careers isn’t over so I’ve not ranked him yet.

Here’s the list from lowest to highest.

• James J Braddock
• Primo Carnera
• Jess Willard
• Jack Sharkey
• Marvin Hart
• Hasim Rahman
• Ingamaer Johanson
• Max Baer
• James Buster Douglas
• Leon Spinks
• Tommy Burns
• Max Schmeling
• Shannon Briggs
• Michael Moorer
• Michael Spinks
• John L Sullivan
• Riddick Bowe
• Bob Fitzsimmons
• Ezzard Charles
• James J Corbett
• Jersey Joe Walcott
• James J Jeffries
• Jack Dempsey
• Mike Tyson
• Gene Tunney
• Floyd Patterson
• Evander HolyField
• Charles Sonny Liston
• Joe Frazier
• Wladamir Klitschko
• Rocky Marciano
• Jack Johnson
• Larry Holmes
• Lennox Lewis
• George Foreman
• Joe Louis
• Muhammad Ali

I saw this on here a long time ago I think, but couldn't find an updated version so I made it myself of all the lineages and the current lineal champ of each UFC weight class. Please let me know if I made any mistakes!

For anyone who doesn't know, a lineal champion is most easily defined as "the guy who beats the guy who beats the guy, who beats the guy..." etc. Therefore, if a belt is stripped/vacated OR if the champion loses in a non-title bout/a bout in a separate promotion, the lineal champion would be whoever they lose to, not who gets the belt next.

For example, if a fighter were the lineal welterweight champion, and they want to go up to fight for the middleweight championship and lose, the middleweight champion would then be the lineal welterweight champion even though the welterweight champion didn't lose his belt. If you need more explanation, I'd recommend looking it up, so to avoid further confusion, here is the list:

Mens:

Flyweight:

DJ (inaugural) -> Cejudo

With Cejudo retired, the lineage ends here barring a comeback

Bantamweight:

Cruz (inaugural) -> Garbrandt -> Dillashaw -> Cejudo

With Cejudo retired, the lineage ends here barring a comeback

Featherweight:

Aldo (inaugural) -> McGregor -> Diaz -> McGregor -> Khabib

With Khabib retired, the lineage ends here barring a comeback

Lightweight:

Pulver (inaugural) -> Ludwig -> Penn -> Machida -> Rua -> Jon Jones

Welterweight

Miletich (inaugural) -> Nakao -> Kato -> Sakurai -> Anderson Silva -> Takase -> Rodrigo Gracie -> Penn -> Machida -> Rua -> Jon Jones

Middleweight:

Dave Menne (inaugural) -> Murilo Bustamante -> Rampage Jackson -> Wanderlei -> Mark Hunt -> Barnett -> Cro Cop -> Gonzaga -> Couture -> Lesnar -> Cain -> JDS -> Cain -> Werdum -> DC -> Stipe -> Ngannou

Light Heavyweight:

Frank Shamrock (Inaugural) -> Renzo Gracie -> Matt Hughes -> Penn -> Nick Diaz -> Condit -> GSP

With GSP retired, the lineage ends here barring a comeback

Heavyweight:

Mark Coleman (inaugural)-> Maurice Smith -> Couture -> Inoue -> Kerr -> Fujita -> Coleman -> Big Nog -> Fedor -> Werdum -> Overeem -> Big Foot Silva -> Cain Velasquez -> Werdum -> DC -> Stipe -> Ngannou

Open weight:

Royce Gracie (UFC 1 Champion) -> Sakuraba -> Vovchanchyn -> Coleman -> Big

https://www.sltrib.com/news/2021/05/20/navajo-nation-tops/

Hello, I’m not a Native American, but I’m very interested in what you all think of the lineal descendant requirement for other tribes. The link I posted seems to indicate it can create some unfairness, especially financially.

My wife and I have a baby and my father in law wants us to make him a member. His great great grandfather was Choctaw, so I think that makes my son 1/16th. All the women in the line have been European.

Even though my wife and I have never had any connection with the Choctaw community and have no plans on raising our son with any connections to them, my father in law still thinks he should be enrolled.

My wife received financial benefits, like dental and college grants from the Choctaw when she was younger. However, now she doesn’t think it was right for her to have taken those benefits because she had no connection to the Choctaw community and was only 1/8 Choctaw. She believes someone else who was truly part of the tribe could have used that money more than her and her white middle class family.

Since you have the 1/4 blood quantum requirement, do you think it would be right to enroll my son?

I know the BQ things is controversial and other tribes are changing it and that it has bad connections to the past with the US government. But the points being made by the Navajo in the article above seemed legitimate. It seems to me there are very valid reasons to maintain the BQ requirement, in spite of it’s obvious limitations.

If my son decides as an adult to become a Choctaw member, that will be his choice, but for my wife and I to do it just doesn’t seem right.

I hope nothing I said sounds racist or offensive. I know nothing about the different cultures of the different tribes. I’m just feeling some family pressure to do this but don’t think it’s an honorable thing to do. I don’t want to deny my son part his heritage, but for better or worse, his heritage is basically all Northern European and his family is very white in every way to say the least. It would feel disingenuous to pretend that he’s not just a regular white male.

I believe the benefits of the tribes should go to true members, not parasitical white people who not only have minuscule amounts of blood, but zero connection to the culture and community. To do anything else is just to dilute the true tribe and to do so with questionable motives, primarily financially selfish.

This is just my gut feeling. I

If we include changes in weight class then oddly Jones is the lineal Lightweight champion. Since it’s a big deal in boxing, I was curious about lineal champs in the UFC.

First LW champion was Jens Pulvar who lost to Ludwig, who lost to B J Penn, who lost to Lyoto machina who lost to Shogun who then lost to Jon Jones. Making Jon Jones, the technical lineal 155lb champ.

Hi all. I have been an MMA fan (as well as fighter and coach) for many years, though do not remember posting in here before. I was reading about the history of the Lineal heavyweight champion (“The Man who beat the Man”) in boxing and it got me thinking about the “Lineal UFC/MMA champion” starting with Royce Gracie’s win at UFC 1. Interestingly enough, Francis is the Lineal champ! From what I have found, the line goes as such:

Royce Gracie -> Sakuraba -> Igor Vovchanchyn -> Mark Coleman -> Big Nog -> Fedor -> Werdum -> Overeem -> Bigfoot Silva -> Cain -> Werdum -> Stipe -> DC -> Stipe -> Francis

I started from the UFC 1 victory by Royce simply because that is when the UFC started, though some may consider Mark Coleman’s win in 1997 (the origin of the UFC heavyweight title) to be the start. In either case, both paths end up going to Francis with the Lineal “titles” changing hands in the PRIDE 2000 tournament.

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Soy alguien algo introvertido pero quiero empezar a hacer nuevos amigos. Últimamente he atravesado cosas difíciles y me he aislado de las personas bastante. Los amigos que tenía dejaron de ser amigos, me he quedado sin novia y, lejos de que eso me ponga triste, me aburre no conocer personas.

¿Cuál es la premisa que ustedes suelen usar para hacer que una conversación pueda durar bastante?

lineal translates to linear

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When taking the belt back to the first international game ever (Scotland-England in 1872), we've had 49 lineal champions.

The belt is currently held by Italy after winning it of the Netherlands in September of last year.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unofficial_Football_World_Championships