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The Light Heavyweight Championship was known as the Middleweight Championship prior to UFC 31 (May 4, 2001). The Pride World Middleweight Championship (205.03 lb) was unified with the UFC Light Heavyweight Championship on September 8, 2007, when Quinton Jackson defeated Dan Henderson at UFC 75 .
The UFC signed a deal with Fox Sports Net, after Fox agreed to broadcast one fight in June 2002, during its "All-Star Summer" that month. [5] UFC 37 and 38 had already been scheduled and promoted, but as UFC 38 was the promotion's debut in the United Kingdom, they created UFC 37.5; an event that featured the first ever mixed martial arts fight ...
Alex Pereira defeated Israel Adesanya for the UFC Middleweight Championship. Zhang Weili defeated Carla Esparza for the UFC Women's Strawweight Championship. November 11, 2023 — UFC 295: Procházka vs. Pereira. Alex Pereira defeated Jiří Procházka for the vacant UFC Light Heavyweight Championship. Tom Aspinall defeated Sergei Pavlovich for ...
AG Light Heavyweight Championship (One time) Ultimate Fighting Championship. Fight of the Night (One time) vs. Michał Oleksiejczuk [18] Performance of the Night (Two times) vs. Antonio Trócoli and Armen Petrosyan [15] [21] UFC Honors Awards. 2024: Fan's Choice Knockout of the Year Nominee vs. Armen Petrosyan [25] UFC.com Awards
Arlovski would go on to win the UFC heavyweight title in 2005. Other UFC champs around that time include Rich Franklin (middleweight), Chuck Liddell (light heavyweight) and Matt Hughes (welterweight).
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 ...
Alex Pereira used a series of elbows to Jirí Procházka's head to win the vacant UFC light heavyweight championship and Aspinall became the first British heavyweight to win gold in the UFC 295 ...
On December 16, 1994, Royce Gracie became the first fighter to reach 10 fights in the UFC. [1] On July 7, 2007, Tito Ortiz became the first fighter to reach 20 fights in the UFC. [2] On September 8, 2018, Jim Miller became the first fighter to reach 30 fights in the UFC. [3]