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Current longest reigning champion Islam Makhachev with the UFC championship belt. Historical notes At the time of the UFC's inception in 1993, mixed martial arts was not sanctioned in the United States, and did not include weight classes .
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 ...
This list of current UFC fighters records current Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) fighters' information, country origins, recent fighter signings and departures, fight schedules and results and the champion of each division. As of 23 November 2024, the UFC roster consisted of fighters from 80 countries. [1]
Johnson made his ascent as the original UFC flyweight champion, joining the promotion through the World Extreme Cagefighting merger and winning the belt in 2012 via tournament victories over Ian ...
UFC Hall of Famer Royce Gracie won three fights that night in Denver in a no-rules tournament that was just the start for the billion-dollar company owned by Endeavor that now stands as the global ...
The rising star defeated one of the UFC's greatest fighters by KO in a stunner at UFC 298, flattening the Australian with a brutal series of blows in the second round to capture the belt.
UFC's second biggest event to date was also in Canada, as UFC 129 held at Rogers Centre featured a record-breaking attendance of 55,724. [139] The United Kingdom has been home to 18 events. The first was UFC 38 held in London in 2002. UFC returned to the United Kingdom in 2007 with UFC 70, and visited Northern Ireland for UFC 72.
As of UFC 291, Justin Gaethje is a certified BMF. The fan favorite lightweight notched the biggest win of his career with a second-round KO of Dustin Poirier, winning the honorary "BMF" title with ...