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Weight classes underwent many changes in the ensuing years, but the ability of promotions to autonomously decide their own weight classes eventually disappeared after athletic commissions began supervising mixed martial arts. In 2000, the Unified Rules of Mixed Martial Arts were codified by the New Jersey State Athletic Commission.
Weight class Span 5 Justin Gaethje: Lightweight January 18, 2014 - April 27, 2017 Marlon Moraes: Bantamweight March 29, 2014 - January 3, 2017 4 Blagoy Ivanov: Heavyweight June 5, 2015 - April 25, 2018 3 David Branch: Middleweight June 21, 2014 - February 6, 2017 2 Jessica Aguilar: Women's Strawweight January 18, 2014 - May 18, 2015 Rousimar ...
Championship belts are fought for at each weight class under a promotion, with only one belt awarded per class. Each belt is usually contested every time the belt holder fights, and passed to the victor of that fight (see the List of UFC champions for a chronology of UFC title belts). A belt may be vacated when a fighter leaves a promotion, or ...
Shooto is a Japan-based mixed martial arts (MMA) promoting and sanctioning organization founded first in 1985 as a particular fighting system, and then in 1989 as an MMA promotion. Shooto used to promote different weight classes than the Association of Boxing Commissions , which are used by most MMA promotions.
Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) rankings, which were introduced in February 2013, are generated by a voting panel made up of media members. These media members are asked to vote for whom they feel are the top fighters in the UFC by weight class and pound-for-pound .
Mixed martial artists by weight class (11 C) Pages in category "Mixed martial arts weight classes" The following 19 pages are in this category, out of 19 total.
The year 2007 was the 15th year in the history of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), a mixed martial arts promotion based in the United States. In 2007 the UFC held 19 events beginning with, UFC Fight Night: Evans vs. Salmon .
Daichi Abe vacated the title when he signed with the UFC. 12 Glaico França def. Takashi Sato: Pancrase 297 Tokyo, Japan: July 1, 2018 Glaico França vacated the title when he signed with the PFL. [7] — Hiroyuki Tetsuka def. Kenta Takagi for interim title: Pancrase 306 Tokyo, Japan: June 30, 2019 13 Hiroyuki Tetsuka promoted to undisputed ...