The 16 Best Undefeated Streaks in Sports History

Winning once is luck. Doing it for a decade without losing is what this list is made of.

1. 1
   Rocky Marciano

   Retired 49-0, the only heavyweight champion to leave boxing unbeaten.
   1000pts
2. 2
   Arsene Wenger's Invincibles

   An entire 2003-04 Premier League season without a defeat.
   888pts

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3. 3
   Julio Cesar Chavez

   Eighty-seven fights unbeaten before a draw and then a loss in 1994.
   759pts
4. 4
   Edwin Moses

   122 consecutive wins in the 400-metre hurdles between 1977 and 1987.
   597pts
5. 5
   Floyd Mayweather

   Fifty professional fights, fifty wins, then retirement.
   478pts
6. 6
   UCLA under John Wooden

   Eighty-eight straight college basketball wins between 1971 and 1974.
   478pts
7. 7
   Aleksandr Karelin

   Unbeaten in Greco-Roman wrestling for thirteen years, with three Olympic golds.
   319pts
8. 8
   Wladimir Klitschko

   Twenty-two consecutive heavyweight title defences between 2006 and 2015.
   318pts
9. 9
   Iga Swiatek's clay run

   Thirty-seven consecutive match wins in 2022, the longest of this century on the WTA tour.
   318pts
10. 10
    Bobby Fischer

    Twenty consecutive wins against the world's best players in 1970 and 1971.
    318pts
11. 11
    Joe DiMaggio

    A hit in fifty-six straight games in 1941, still untouched.
    318pts
12. 12
    Jahangir Khan

    Roughly 555 consecutive squash matches won across five and a half years.
    217pts
13. 13
    Ronda Rousey

    Twelve straight wins and six title defences before Holly Holm in 2015.
    217pts
14. 14
    The Undertaker

    Twenty-one straight WrestleMania wins from 1991 to 2013, ended by Brock Lesnar in 2014.
    0pts
15. 15
    Cael Sanderson

    159-0 across four seasons of college wrestling at Iowa State.
    0pts
16. 16
    Khabib Nurmagomedov

    Left the UFC 29-0 after promising his mother he would stop.
    0pts

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