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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 .
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]
Weight class Status Next fight Event Opponent Ref. 1 Islam Makhachev: 26–1 14 Lightweight: Lightweight Champion: UFC 311: Arman Tsarukyan [2] 2 Jon Jones: 28–1 (1 NC) 6 Heavyweight: Heavyweight Champion: 3 Alex Pereira: 12–2 5 Light heavyweight: Light heavyweight Champion: 4 Ilia Topuria: 16–0 16 Featherweight: Featherweight Champion: 5 ...
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.
Former Bantamweight Champion Dominick Cruz with the WEC belt.. This is a list of World Extreme Cagefighting (WEC) champions at each weight class.. In December 2006 World Extreme Cagefighting was bought by Zuffa, LLC, the parent company of the UFC, to concentrate on the four smaller weight classes under the Unified Rules of Mixed Martial Arts.
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.
Ultimate Fighting Championship. Performance of the Night (Four times) vs. Trevin Giles, Charles Radtke, Li Jingliang and Neil Magny [21] [23] [25] [27] UFC.com Awards. 2024: Newcomer of the Year [28], Ranked #3 Fighter of the Year [29] & Ranked #9 Knockout of the Year vs. Li Jingliang [30] Standout Fighting Tournament. SFT Welterweight ...