Why flyweight champ Henry Cejudo has a claim on UFC heavyweight belt + could Neo4j save me time here?

MMA is crazy sport. The craziest one there is. Hands down..And with such crazy and unpredictable sport come also unexpected wins and loses. Some are flukes and some are beginnings of the new era. But at that moment, they all feel the same - WTF??

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So I've decided to take it one step further and make one WTF claim here. According to the UFC history, newly crowned Flyweight Champ and Olympic wrestling champ Henry Cejudo actually has a reasonable claim on the UFC heavyweight championship!! Why?? Well, check this table yourself..

Winner	Loser	Event	Result
Henry Cejudo	Demetrious Johnson	UFC 227	Decision
Demetrious Johnson	John Dodson	UFC 191	Decision
John Dodson	T.J. Dillashaw	The Ultimate Fighter 14 Finale	TKO
T.J. Dillashaw	Raphael Assuncao	UFC 200	Decision
Raphael Assuncao	ALJAMAIN STERLING	UFC on Fox 23	Decision
ALJAMAIN STERLING	Renan Barao	UFC 214	Decision
Renan Barao	Urijah Faber	UFC 169	TKO
Urijah Faber	Francisco Rivera	UFC 181	Submission
Francisco Rivera	Alex Caceres	UFC Fight Night 68	KO
Alex Caceres	Cole Miller	UFC 199	Decision
Cole Miller	Ross Pearson	UFC Fight Night 22	Submission
Ross Pearson	Paul Felder	UFC 191	Decision
Paul Felder	Steven Ray	UFC Fight Night 113	KO
Steven Ray	Joe Lauzon	UFC Fight Night 108	Decision
Joe Lauzon	Jeremy Stephens	UFC Fight Night 17	Submission
Jeremy Stephens	Rafael Dos Anjos	UFC 91	KO
Rafael Dos Anjos	Neil Magny	UFC 215	Submission
Neil Magny	Kelvin Gastelum	UFC Fight Night 78	Decision
Kelvin Gastelum	Michael Bisping	UFC Fight Night 122	KO
Michael Bisping	Anderson Silva	UFC Fight Night 84	Decision
Anderson Silva	Derrick Brunson	UFC 208	Decision
Derrick Brunson	Lyoto Machida	UFC Fight Night 119	KO
Lyoto Machida	Rashad Evans	UFC 98	KO
Rashad Evans	Rampage Jackson	UFC 114	Decision
Rampage Jackson	Mat Hamill	UFC 130	Decision
Mat Hamill	Jon Jones	UFC - The Ultimate Fighter 10 Finale	DQ
Jon Jones	Daniel Cormier	UFC 182	Decision
Daniel Cormier	Stipe Miocic	UFC 226	KO

THIS TOOK ME MORE THAN FREAKING 1 HOUR!!

Haha I thought it'll be cca 15 minutes at max...But it was much more difficult. Here just some funny points I noticed during this "well spent" hour :D

• Jon and DC defend that LHW suuuperstrong. Just this alone shows that the GOAT should be chosen between these two. If there wasn't that Mat Hamill DQ, I would have to stop there and then.
• It was also pretty hard to find a link from Bantamweight to Featherweight.
• Bantamweight with featherweight was easy just cuz of John Dodson and his win over TJ which gave me a lot of freedom for the next step cuz TJ is dominating people left and right..

I've done this manually

..and realized how happy I am to be a programmer and have some overview over current technologies and even the theory behind it. If this Sherdog database could be loaded into some Graph database like Neo4j, I'd looove to play around with it :) I just checked real quick and it seems Sherdog offers API to get the fighter's data, so it should be possible. It would provide so many nice insights and statistics...well, maybe when I'll have some time in the future :) This could be supercool exercise even for basic algorithm classes in the Uni - shortest paths, dijkstras etc etc on ordered graph...shit, I'd love to get such data like this for homework :D

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