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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. [4]
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.
Heavyweight Cain Velasquez: Junior Dos Santos: UFC 166: 5 3:09 Light Heavyweight [a] Frank Shamrock: Tito Ortiz: UFC 22: 4 4:42 Middleweight Alex Pereira: Israel Adesanya: UFC 281: 5 2:01 Welterweight Kamaru Usman: Colby Covington: UFC 245: 4:10 Lightweight Justin Gaethje: Tony Ferguson: UFC 249: 3:39 Featherweight Max Holloway: Brian Ortega ...
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).
Prior to the pair’s two clashes, the Brazilian was on a 12-fight win streak that saw her become one of just four dual-weight champions in UFC history by collecting the bantamweight and ...
After conflict with UFC President Dana White over pay in May 2020, Jones said he had vacated the UFC Light Heavyweight Championship. [26] Jones was targeting a fight with heavyweight contender Francis Ngannou and, according to White, wanted " Deontay Wilder money", referring to Wilder's reported $25–30 million earnings in his rematch with ...
One-time Interim UFC Light Heavyweight champion UFC 13 Heavyweight Tournament Winner Most title reigns in UFC history (6 (5 undisputed, 1 interim)) Oldest champion in UFC history (45 years, 147 days) First champion to hold titles in two different divisions. Mark Coleman: March 1, 2008 [9] UFC 82: Inaugural and one-time UFC Heavyweight Champion
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 ...