Free agent? UFC ironman Jim Miller doesn’t have a contract for UFC 334 bout: ‘It’s all verbal’

Going through the fights I’ve seen live, I decided to see who I saw before they became champions.

The only criterion is that they must have fought in the heats or worse (see Jones, J)

Turns out more than I actually thought

Jon Jones – UFC 100 – Dark Match

Renan Barao – UFC 130

Demetrious Johnson – UFC 130

Glover Teixeira – UFC 146

Khabib Nurmagomedov – UFC 160

Robert Whittaker – UFC 160

Tony Ferguson – UFC 173

Cody Garbrandt – UFC 189

Raquel Pennington – UFC 191