We keep hearing about mixed martial being in a period of dominant champions.

(It's different in the lower weight classes, where participants have fewer opportunities in team sports and where there are still some dominant American champions.)

In his prime Lasker was one of the most dominant champions, and he is generally regarded as one of the strongest players ever.

Like Navratilova, she made the leap to dominant champion after developing a true athlete's physique, a form of armor to protect herself from the voices in her head.

Liddell is considered to be one of the most dominant champions that ever competed in the UFC.

Beginning in 1951, a young cyclist named Jeffrey O'Brien would become arguably the most dominant champion ever.

"Ekky" returned to the track in 1934 and proved to be a dominant champion, winning numerous important stakes races in the next three years.

Grant, a 26-year-old heavyweight contender with a 31-0 record, is viewed by many in boxing to be the next dominant heavyweight champion.

In the 1984-1985 season, after Hamilton's retirement, Orser was seemingly poised to become the dominant champion.

Jones, a dominant national amateur champion for more than a decade, won the amateur world championship twice, in 1958 and 1964.