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Weight limits in women's MMA mostly follow the Unified Rules' limits, but organizations that recognize women's championships usually only have titles at the lower end of the table. UFC, for example, recognizes women's titles in the strawweight, flyweight, and bantamweight classes.
Super Fight League, an Indian MMA promotion, have been holding female strawweight fights at 105-115 pounds / 52.2 kilograms since SFL 17 in May 2013. [2] In Japan, Shooto regularly holds contests at that weight class and circulates a championship belt for the division. [3] UFC has added a women's strawweight division that is set at 115 lbs. [4]
A little over a year later, the UFC announced they would be expanding their weight classes for female fighters with the addition of a women's strawweight division, [11] the first bout took place at UFC Fight Night: Cowboy vs. Miller. [12]
Widely regarded as one of the greatest female mixed martial artists of all time, [12] [13] Nunes is the first and only woman to become a two-division UFC champion, and the third fighter to hold UFC titles in two weight classes simultaneously, after Conor McGregor and Daniel Cormier. She is also the only fighter in UFC history to defend two ...
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 ...
In general, atomweight refers to competitors weighing less than 48 kg (105.8 lb), but the exact weight differs per promotion. Fight Matrix classifies fighters at 110.9 lbs (50.3 kg) and under as atomweight. [2] The Deep Jewels atomweight division has an upper limit of 47.6 kg (105 lbs). [3] It was previously known as featherweight until May ...
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. A fighter is only eligible to be voted on if they are of active status in ...
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]