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The UFC realigned their weight classes to comply with these new regulations in 2001, beginning with UFC 31. [7] At the time, this brought the total number of active divisions in the UFC to five: lightweight , welterweight , middleweight , light heavyweight , and heavyweight .
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 .
Fighters are organized by weight class and within their weight class by the date of their debut in Endeavor (WEC, Strikeforce or UFC - whichever was the earliest debut date). [note 3] TKO records below are based on the combination of total fights which fighters fought under Endeavor, UFC, Strikeforce and WEC. [note 4]
UFC 12 saw the introduction of weight classes and the banning of fish-hooking. For UFC 14, gloves became mandatory, while kicks to the head of a downed opponent were banned. UFC 15 saw limitations on hair pulling, and the banning of strikes to the back of the neck and head, headbutting, small-joint manipulations, and groin strikes.
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 ...
Champion Weight class W D NC L 11 Bibiano Fernandes: Bantamweight of MMA 11 0 0 2 9 Regian Eersel: Lightweight of Kickboxing Lightweight of Muay Thai 6 3 0 0 0 0 1 0 8 Adriano Moraes: Flyweight of MMA 8 0 0 4 Xiong Jing Nan: Women's Strawweight of MMA Women's Atomweight of MMA 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 Nong-O Gaiyanghadao: Bantamweight of Muay Thai 8 0 0 1 6
He currently competes in the Heavyweight division of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), where he is the current UFC Heavyweight Champion. A professional competitor since 2008, Jones was previously the UFC Light Heavyweight Champion from 2011 to 2015 and from 2018 to 2020, as well as the interim UFC Light Heavyweight Champion in 2016.
ONE Championship: 15–0 (1 NC, 6 KO, 4 SUB) [21] Bout declared a no contest after an accidental eye poke rendered Alibeg Rasulov unable to continue. Sharabutdin Magomedov: Male Middleweight: UFC: 15–0 (12 KO) [22] Lerone Murphy: Male Featherweight Lightweight: UFC: 15–0–1 (7 KO) [23] Aliaskhab Khizriev: Male Middleweight Welterweight ...