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UFC 101: Declaration [3] was a mixed martial arts pay-per-view event held by the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) on August 8, 2009 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was the first UFC event held in Philadelphia. [ 3 ]
All UFC bouts take place inside the Octagon. List of UFC events is a list of events held and scheduled by the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), a mixed martial arts promotion based in the United States. UFC's first event, UFC 1, took place on November 12, 1993. Each UFC event contains several fights.
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 3 February 2025, the UFC roster consisted of fighters from 78 countries. [1]
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 .
Meta has appointed three new members to its board of directors, including Dana White, the president and CEO of Ultimate Fighting Championship and a familiar figure in the orbit of incoming ...
The first documented UFC Bonus Awards event, where fighters received official cash bonuses, was on January 16, 2006 at Ultimate Fight Night 3. [3] Gerbasi's book reviewed 63 events prior to that date as well as subsequent events that did not have bonuses, and noted the "unofficial" awards including the official UFC Bonus Awards .
The 13-fight card produced a UFC record-tying eight knockouts, including five in the first round, and one submission that was set up by powerful strikes.
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. [140] 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.