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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 .
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 ...
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.
MMA SERIES 10–0 (5 KO, 3 SUB) [88] Khalim Nazrulloev: Male Bantamweight: ONE Championship: 10–0 (5 KO, 1 SUB) [89] Idiris Alibi: Male Flyweight: NFC 10–0 (4 KO, 2 SUB) [90] Khabibullo Azizov: Male Featherweight: Matrix Fight Night 10–0 (1 NC, 3 KO, 4 SUB) [91] Bout declared a no contest after an accidental groin kick rendered Azizov ...
This is a list of Pancrase champions at each weight class. Pancrase is a Japan -based mixed martial arts (MMA) promoting and sanctioning organization founded in 1993. The champions of Pancrase are referred to by the title of " King of Pancrase " and " Queen of Pancrase ".
Two years later a fourth weight class, the bantamweight division, arrived at UFC 26 and included all fighters 155 pounds (70 kg) and under. [ 4 ] In 2000, the New Jersey State Athletic Control Board completely took over MMA regulation in its home state and developed new rules and weight classes that eventually became the de facto rule set for ...
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.
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 ...