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Mixed martial arts (MMA) is a form of competitive combat sport, akin to boxing, muay thai, or kick boxing. MMA titles, or championship belts , are given to those fighters deemed by a promotional organization to have met a certain standard of athletic accomplishment in a specific weight class (most often by means of a championship fight ).
The Unified Rules designate limits for fourteen different weight classes in mixed martial arts; all definitions and measurements are in pounds. [3] The strawweight class was added in 2015. [ 4 ] The super lightweight, super welterweight, super middleweight, and cruiserweight classes were added in July 2017.
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 ...
Mixed martial arts (MMA) competitors by weight class. Subcategories. This category has the following 11 subcategories, out of 11 total. A.
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 .
Bellator MMA (formerly known as "Bellator Fighting Championships") is an American mixed martial arts promotion, and the following is a history of its champions in each weight class. At the time of its inception in 2008, CEO Bjorn Rebney founded Bellator Fighting Championships as a tournament based organization. The inaugural champion for each ...
Strikeforce Men's World Championship belt Strikeforce Women's World Championship belt. Strikeforce was an American mixed martial arts organization. It crowned male champions in the lightweight, welterweight, middleweight, light heavyweight and heavyweight divisions, and female champions in featherweight and bantamweight.
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.