10 MMA Champions Who Held World Titles Elsewhere

When you've risen to cult-fame by wrestling a f*cking bear, it's fairly hard to find anything else more impressive on one's resume. That rule would apply to any other mortal, but Khabib Nurmagomedov is no average humanoid.

Owning a 28-0 MMA record and reigning as the current Supreme Overlord/Champ of the UFC Lightweight Division, The Eagle already owns the longest undefeated streak in the history of Mixed Martial Arts.

You don't just stumble into that level of domination and Nurmagomedov honed his Combat Sambo, Judo and wrestling skills in Dagestan and San Jose. He trained with the American Kickboxing Academy and currently plies his trade - and is President - at Eagles MMA.

Yet, what put the Daghestani native on the map was his unbridled success on the Combat Sambo stage.

Combat Sambo is a craft developed for military use and includes forms of kicking, striking and of course, Khabib's bread and butter, grappling. The rules even state the allowance of groin kicking, which is never a recipe for an enjoyable evening.

The current Lightweight champ would take gold at the 2009 and 2010 Combat Sambo World Championships.

Add into that two World Championship winning performances at the 2012 NAGA World Championships and it's evident that the man's grappling prowess was always going to pay dividends in the UFC.