If you want to suggest "The Eagle" warrants higher placement, we won't argue. In fact, the only smudge on Nurmagomedov's record in the UFC is that his stay was too brief, comprising just 13 fights from the moment he appeared on a UFC on FX undercard in 2012 to his tearful goodbye after choking out Justin Gaethje in 2020.

UFC CEO Dana White delivering the retirement news of arguably the greatest mixed martial artist of all time at a postfight news conference in Baku, Azerbaijan, after Saturday's UFC Fight Night card was as underwhelming as it gets.

Jon Jones is retired from MMA. But don't expect “Bones” to spend his retirement partying his life away inside some sleazy Albuquerque nightclub. After all, he did that when he was an active competitor.