Doesn't matter if you are a champion or someone who the UFC promotes as being the best pound-for-pound fighter on the planet. The UFC is Dana White's sandbox.
It is remarkable but not surprising that the UFC would actually use DJ's title defense record AGAINST him, trying to make it so he couldn't break the record, in order to persuade him to take some one-off fight. This is as anti-fighter and anti-sport as is imaginable. They really don't give a shit.