List of UFC champions explained

Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) champions are fighters who have won UFC championships.^[1]

Historical notes

At the time of the UFC's inception in 1993, mixed martial arts was not sanctioned in the United States, and did not include weight classes. Instead of the traditional championship model, the UFC held tournaments with the winner receiving a permanent appellation.^[2] In response to criticism from Senator John McCain that saw the loss of its television deal and the banning of the sport in thirty-six states, the UFC increased its cooperation with state athletic commissions and introduced weight classes in 1997, starting with UFC 12, and began introducing weight-specific titles.^[3]

The original codification for weight classes introduced only two divisions: heavyweight, which grouped together all competitors above 200lb, and lightweight, which encompassed all competitors 199 pounds (90 kg) and under. At UFC 14 the lightweight division would be renamed to middleweight, though it would still encompass all fighters 199 pounds (90 kg) and under. The lightweight moniker would later return at UFC 16 with a new division consisting of those competitors 170lb and under.^[4] Two years later a fourth weight class, the bantamweight division, arrived at UFC 26 and included all fighters 155lb and under.^[5]

In 2000, the New Jersey State Athletic Control Board completely took over MMA regulation in its home state and developed new rules and weight classes that eventually became the de facto rule set for all mixed martial arts.^[6] 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.

It would be nearly ten years before the UFC would expand their divisional offerings to include any of the lower weight classes. The first additions came in late 2010 when the UFC merged with their sister organization World Extreme Cagefighting (WEC). Due to the WEC's focus on lighter weight fighters, this merger necessitated the addition of both the featherweight and bantamweight divisions to the UFC, starting with The Ultimate Fighter season 12 finale.^[8] In early 2012 the UFC decided they would delve even further into the lower weight classes when they announced the introduction of the flyweight division to their ranks, beginning with .^[9]

In November 2012, as a result of the forthcoming dissolution of their sister organization Strikeforce, the UFC announced they would be adding female fighters to their roster for the first time in the promotion's history. Initially, only the women's bantamweight division was brought over, with the division's premiere bout taking place at UFC 157.^[10] 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 .^[12] In late 2016, a featherweight division was introduced for the women with the first bout to be for the inaugural championship at UFC 208 on February 11, 2017. In that same year the UFC announced the Women's Flyweight division would officially be added, with the winner of the 26th season of The Ultimate Fighter to be named the inaugural champion.

Current champions

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Men

width=120	Division !	width=200	Champion !	width=70	Since !	width=45	Defenses
Heavyweight	Jon Jones	Mar 4, 2023	1
Tom Aspinall (interim)	Nov 11, 2023	1
Light Heavyweight	Alex Pereira	Nov 11, 2023	3
Middleweight	Dricus du Plessis	Jan 20, 2024	1
Welterweight	Belal Muhammad	Jul 27, 2024	0
Lightweight	Islam Makhachev	Oct 22, 2022	3
Featherweight	Ilia Topuria	Feb 17, 2024	1
Bantamweight	Merab Dvalishvili	Sep 14, 2024	0
Flyweight	Alexandre Pantoja	Jul 8, 2023	2

Women

width=120	Division !	width=200	Champion !	width=70	Since !	width=45	Defenses
Bantamweight	Julianna Peña	Oct 5, 2024	align=center	0
Flyweight	Valentina Shevchenko	Sep 14, 2024	0
Strawweight	Zhang Weili	Nov 12, 2022	2

Men's championship history

Heavyweight Championship

206 to 265 lb (93 to 120 kg)
The UFC Superfight Championship was unified with the UFC 11 Tournament Championship to determine the inaugural UFC Heavyweight Champion on February 7, 1997, when Mark Coleman defeated Dan Severn at UFC 12.^[5]

No.	Name	Event	Date	Reign (total)
1	Mark Coleman	UFC 12	Feb 7, 1997	170 days
2	Maurice Smith	UFC 14	Jul 27, 1997	147 days
3	Randy Couture	UFC Japan	Dec 21, 1997	? days
Couture was stripped of the title in January 1998, when he left the UFC due to a contract dispute.
4	Bas Rutten	UFC 20	May 7, 1999	34 days
Rutten vacated the title in June 1999 in order to drop down to Light Heavyweight. He retired soon after due to training injuries.^[14]
5	Kevin Randleman	UFC 23	Nov 19, 1999	364 days
6		UFC 28	Nov 17, 2000	490 days (490+ days)
7	Josh Barnett	UFC 36	Mar 22, 2002	126 days
*Barnett was stripped of the title on July 26, 2002, after testing positive for anabolic steroids in a post-fight drug test.^[15]*
8	Ricco Rodriguez	UFC 39	Sep 27, 2002	154 days
9	Tim Sylvia	UFC 41	Feb 28, 2003	229 days
Sylvia was stripped of the title on October 15, 2003, after testing positive for anabolic steroids in a post-fight drug test.^[16]
10	Frank Mir	UFC 48	Jun 19, 2004	419 days
—	Andrei Arlovski	UFC 51	Feb 5, 2005	—
Mir was stripped of the title on August 12, 2005, for inactivity resulting from injuries he sustained in a road accident.^[17]
11	Andrei Arlovski	—	Aug 12, 2005	246 days
12		UFC 59	Apr 15, 2006	322 days (551 days)
13		UFC 68	Mar 3, 2007	623 days (1,113+ days)
—	Antônio Rodrigo Nogueira	UFC 81	Feb 2, 2008	—
14	Brock Lesnar	UFC 91	Nov 15, 2008	707 days
—	Frank Mir	UFC 92	Dec 27, 2008	—
—	Shane Carwin	UFC 111	Mar 27, 2010	—
15	Cain Velasquez	UFC 121	Oct 23, 2010	385 days
16	Junior dos Santos		Nov 12, 2011	413 days
17		UFC 155	Dec 29, 2012	896 days (1,281 days)
—	Fabrício Werdum	UFC 180	Nov 15, 2014	—
18	Fabrício Werdum	UFC 188	Jun 13, 2015	336 days
19	Stipe Miocic	UFC 198	May 14, 2016	784 days
20	Daniel Cormier	UFC 226	Jul 7, 2018	406 days
21		UFC 241	Aug 17, 2019	588 days (1,372 days)
22	Francis Ngannou	UFC 260	Mar 27, 2021	659 days
—	Ciryl Gane	UFC 265	Aug 7, 2021	—
Ngannou was stripped of the title on January 14, 2023 when he left the UFC due to a contract dispute.^[18]
23	Jon Jones	UFC 285	Mar 4, 2023	(incumbent)
—	Tom Aspinall	UFC 295	Nov 11, 2023	(incumbent)

Light Heavyweight Championship

186 to 205 lb (84 to 93 kg)
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.^[5]

No.	Name	Event	Date	Reign (Total)
1	Frank Shamrock	UFC Japan	Dec 21, 1997	703 days
Shamrock vacated the title on November 24, 1999, when he retired from the UFC, citing a lack of competition.
2	Tito Ortiz	UFC 25	Apr 14, 2000	1,260 days
—	Randy Couture	UFC 43	Jun 6, 2003	—
3	Randy Couture	UFC 44	Sep 26, 2003	127 days
4	Vitor Belfort	UFC 46	Jan 31, 2004	203 days
5		UFC 49	Aug 21, 2004	238 days (365 days)
6	Chuck Liddell	UFC 52	Apr 16, 2005	770 days
7	Quinton Jackson	UFC 71	May 26, 2007	406 days
8	Forrest Griffin	UFC 86	Jul 5, 2008	175 days
9	Rashad Evans	UFC 92	Dec 27, 2008	147 days
10	Lyoto Machida	UFC 98	May 23, 2009	350 days
11	Maurício Rua	UFC 113	May 8, 2010	315 days
12	Jon Jones	UFC 128	Mar 19, 2011	1,501 days
Jones was stripped of the title on April 28, 2015, due to his involvement and arrest in a felony hit-and-run.^[19]
13	Daniel Cormier	UFC 187	May 23, 2015	1,315 days
—	Jon Jones	UFC 197	Apr 23, 2016	—
Jones was stripped of the interim title on November 9, 2016, due to his one-year suspension related to a failed pre-fight drug test.^[20]
Jones won the undisputed title at UFC 214 on July 29, 2017, but was stripped on September 13, 2017, after his win was overturned to a no-contest due to a failed pre-fight drug test. Cormier was then retroactively reinstated as champion.^[21]
Cormier vacated the title on December 28, 2018, 174 days after winning the heavyweight title.^[22]
14	Jon Jones	UFC 232	Dec 29, 2018	597 days (2,098 days)
Jones vacated the belt on August 17, 2020, citing issues with the UFC over salary negotiation and the desire to compete at heavyweight.^[23] ^[24]
15	Jan Błachowicz	UFC 253	Sep 27, 2020	398 days
16	Glover Teixeira	UFC 267	Oct 30, 2021	225 days
17	Jiří Procházka	UFC 275	Jun 12, 2022	164 days
Procházka vacated the belt on November 23, 2022, after suffering a severe shoulder injury.^[25] ^[26]
Jan Błachowicz and Magomed Ankalaev fought to a draw for the vacant title on December 10, 2022, at UFC 282 in Las Vegas, NV, US.^[27]
18	Jamahal Hill	UFC 283	Jan 21, 2023	174 days
Hill vacated the belt on July 14, 2023, after suffering an achilles tendon rupture.^[28]
19	Alex Pereira	UFC 295	Nov 11, 2023	(incumbent)

Middleweight Championship

171 to 185 lb (78 to 84 kg)
The Pride World Welterweight Championship (182.98 lb) was unified with the UFC Middleweight Championship on March 1, 2008, when Anderson Silva defeated Dan Henderson at UFC 82.^[29]

No.	Name	Event	Date	Reign
1	Dave Menne	UFC 33	Sep 28, 2001	105 days
2	Murilo Bustamante	UFC 35	Jan 11, 2002	267 days
Bustamante was stripped of the title on October 5, 2002, when he left the UFC for Pride.
3	Evan Tanner	UFC 51	Feb 5, 2005	119 days
4	Rich Franklin	UFC 53	Jun 4, 2005	497 days
5	Anderson Silva	UFC 64	Oct 14, 2006	2,457 days
6	Chris Weidman	UFC 162	Jul 6, 2013	889 days
7	Luke Rockhold	UFC 194	Dec 12, 2015	175 days
8	Michael Bisping	UFC 199	Jun 4, 2016	518 days
—	Robert Whittaker	UFC 213	Jul 8, 2017	—
9	Georges St-Pierre	UFC 217	Nov 4, 2017	33 days
St-Pierre vacated the title on December 7, 2017, due to ulcerative colitis.^[30] ^[31]
10	Robert Whittaker	—	Dec 7, 2017	660 days
—	Israel Adesanya	UFC 236	Apr 13, 2019	—
11	Israel Adesanya	UFC 243	Oct 6, 2019	1,134 days
12	Alex Pereira	UFC 281	Nov 12, 2022	147 days
13		UFC 287	Apr 8, 2023	155 days (1,289 days)
14	Sean Strickland	UFC 293	Sep 10, 2023	132 days
15	Dricus du Plessis	UFC 297	Jan 20, 2024	(incumbent)

Welterweight Championship

156 to 170 lb (71 to 77 kg)
The Welterweight Championship was known as the Lightweight Championship prior to UFC 31 (May 4, 2001).

No.	Name	Event	Date	Reign (Total)
1	Pat Miletich	UFC Brazil	Oct 16, 1998	931 days
2	Carlos Newton	UFC 31	May 4, 2001	183 days
3	Matt Hughes	UFC 34	Nov 2, 2001	820 days
4	B.J. Penn	UFC 46	Jan 31, 2004	107 days
Penn was stripped of the title on May 17, 2004, when he left the UFC for K-1.^[32]
5	Matt Hughes	UFC 50	Oct 22, 2004	757 days (1,577 days)
6	Georges St-Pierre	UFC 65	Nov 18, 2006	140 days
7	Matt Serra	UFC 69	Apr 7, 2007	378 days
—	Georges St-Pierre	UFC 79	Dec 29, 2007	—
8		UFC 83	Apr 19, 2008	2,064 days (2,204 days)
—	Carlos Condit	UFC 143	Feb 4, 2012	—
St-Pierre vacated the title on December 13, 2013, when he decided to take time off.^[33]
9	Johny Hendricks	UFC 171	Mar 15, 2014	266 days
10	Robbie Lawler	UFC 181	Dec 6, 2014	602 days
11	Tyron Woodley	UFC 201	Jul 30, 2016	945 days
—	Colby Covington	UFC 225	Jun 9, 2018	—
Covington was stripped of the interim title on September 8, 2018, due to injury.^[34]
12	Kamaru Usman	UFC 235	Mar 2, 2019	1,267 days
13	Leon Edwards	UFC 278	Aug 20, 2022	707 days
14	Belal Muhammad	UFC 304	Jul 27, 2024	(incumbent)

Lightweight Championship

146 to 155 lb (66 to 70 kg)
The Lightweight Championship was known as the Bantamweight Championship prior to UFC 31 (May 4, 2001).The Strikeforce Lightweight Championship was unified (perhaps unofficially) with the UFC Lightweight Championship on April 20, 2013, when Benson Henderson defeated Gilbert Melendez at .^[35]

No.	Name	Event	Date	Reign (Total)
1	Jens Pulver	UFC 30	Feb 23, 2001	393 days
Pulver was stripped of the title on March 23, 2002, when he left the UFC due to a contract dispute.
B.J. Penn and Caol Uno fought to a draw on February 28, 2003, at UFC 41 in Atlantic City, NJ, US in the finale of a four-man tournament for the vacant title.
2	Sean Sherk	UFC 64	Oct 14, 2006	420 days
Sherk was stripped of the title on December 8, 2007, after testing positive for anabolic steroids in a post-fight drug test.^[36]
3	B.J. Penn	UFC 80	Jan 19, 2008	812 days
4	Frankie Edgar	UFC 112	Apr 10, 2010	687 days
5	Benson Henderson	UFC 144	Feb 26, 2012	552 days
6	Anthony Pettis	UFC 164	Aug 31, 2013	560 days
7	Rafael dos Anjos	UFC 185	Mar 14, 2015	481 days
8	Eddie Alvarez		Jul 7, 2016	128 days
9	Conor McGregor	UFC 205	Nov 12, 2016	511 days
—	Tony Ferguson	UFC 216	Oct 7, 2017	—
Both McGregor and Ferguson were stripped of their titles on April 7, 2018, due to inactivity and injury, respectively.^[37]
10	Khabib Nurmagomedov	UFC 223	Apr 7, 2018	1,077 days
—	Dustin Poirier	UFC 236	Apr 13, 2019	—
—	Justin Gaethje	UFC 249	May 9, 2020	—
Nurmagomedov announced his retirement on October 24, 2020.^[38] The title was officially vacated on March 19, 2021.^[39]
11	Charles Oliveira	UFC 262	May 15, 2021	357 days
Oliveira was stripped of the title on May 7, 2022 after failing to make weight for his title defense against Justin Gaethje at UFC 274.^[40]
12	Islam Makhachev	UFC 280	Oct 22, 2022	(incumbent)

Featherweight Championship

136 to 145 lb (61 to 66 kg)
Prior to the UFC-WEC merger, José Aldo was the WEC Featherweight Champion. Aldo was awarded the inaugural UFC Featherweight Championship on November 20, 2010, at UFC 123 in a ceremony prior to the event.^[41]

No.	Name	Event	Date	Reign (Total)
1	José Aldo	UFC 123	Nov 20, 2010	1,848 days
—	Conor McGregor	UFC 189	Jul 11, 2015	—
2	Conor McGregor	UFC 194	Dec 12, 2015	350 days
—	José Aldo	UFC 200	Jul 9, 2016	—
McGregor was stripped of the title on November 26, 2016, 14 days after winning the lightweight title.^[42] ^[43]
3	José Aldo	—	Nov 26, 2016	189 days (2,037 days)
—	Max Holloway	UFC 206	Dec 10, 2016	—
4	Max Holloway	UFC 212	Jun 3, 2017	925 days
5	Alexander Volkanovski	UFC 245	Dec 14, 2019	1,526 days
—	Yair Rodríguez	UFC 284	Feb 12, 2023	—
6	Ilia Topuria	UFC 298	Feb 17, 2024	(incumbent)

Bantamweight Championship

126 to 135 lb (57 to 61 kg)
Prior to UFC-WEC merger, Dominick Cruz was the WEC Bantamweight Champion. At WEC 53, Cruz defeated Scott Jorgensen to retain the WEC Bantamweight Championship and was awarded the inaugural UFC Bantamweight Championship.^[44]

No.	Name	Event	Date	Reign (Total)
1	Dominick Cruz	WEC 53	Dec 16, 2010	1,117 days
—	Renan Barão	UFC 149	Jul 21, 2012	—
Cruz vacated the title on January 6, 2014, after repeated injuries prevented him from returning to competition to defend his title.^[45]
2	Renan Barão	—	Jan 6, 2014	138 days
3	T.J. Dillashaw	UFC 173	May 24, 2014	603 days
4			Jan 17, 2016	348 days (1,465 days)
5	Cody Garbrandt	UFC 207	Dec 30, 2016	309 days
6		UFC 217	Nov 4, 2017	501 days (1,104 days)
Dillashaw vacated the title on March 20, 2019, due to a failed drug test.^[46]
7	Henry Cejudo	UFC 238	Jun 8, 2019	352 days
Cejudo announced his retirement on May 9, 2020. The title was officially vacated on May 24, 2020.^[47]
8	Petr Yan	UFC 251	Jul 12, 2020	237 days
9	Aljamain Sterling	UFC 259	Mar 6, 2021	896 days
—	Petr Yan	UFC 267	Oct 30, 2021	—
10		UFC 292	Aug 19, 2023	393 days
11		UFC 306	Sep 14, 2024	(incumbent)

Flyweight Championship

116 to 125 lb (53 to 57 kg)
Demetrious Johnson defeated Joseph Benavidez on September 22, 2012, at UFC 152 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada in the finale of a four-man tournament for the inaugural title.^[48]

No.	Name	Event	Date	Reign (Total)
1		UFC 152	Sep 22, 2012	2,142 days
2	Henry Cejudo	UFC 227	Aug 4, 2018	574 days
Cejudo announced on December 20, 2019, that he would vacate his title to focus on defending the bantamweight title. It was officially vacated on February 29, 2020.^[49]
3	Deiveson Figueiredo		Jul 19, 2020	328 days
4	Brandon Moreno	UFC 263	Jun 12, 2021	223 days
5		UFC 270	Jan 22, 2022	364 days (692 days)
—	Brandon Moreno	UFC 277	Jul 30, 2022	—
6		UFC 283	Jan 21, 2023	168 days (391 days)
7	Alexandre Pantoja	UFC 290	Jul 8, 2023	(incumbent)

Women's championship history

Women's Bantamweight Championship

126 to 135 lb (57 to 61 kg)
Prior to its folding and absorption by the UFC, Ronda Rousey was the Strikeforce Women's Bantamweight Champion. Rousey was awarded the inaugural UFC Women's Bantamweight Championship on December 6, 2012, at a pre-event press conference.^[50]

No.	Name	Event	Date	Reign
1	Ronda Rousey		Dec 6, 2012	1,074 days
2	Holly Holm	UFC 193	Nov 15, 2015	111 days
3	Miesha Tate	UFC 196	Mar 5, 2016	126 days
4	Amanda Nunes	UFC 200	Jul 9, 2016	1,981 days
5	Julianna Peña	UFC 269	Dec 11, 2021	232 days
6		UFC 277	Jul 30, 2022	325 days (2,306 days)
Nunes announced her retirement on June 10, 2023. The title was officially vacated on June 20, 2023.
7	Raquel Pennington	UFC 297	Jan 20, 2024	255 days
8		UFC 307	Oct 5, 2024	(incumbent)

Women's Flyweight Championship

116 to 125 lb (53 to 57 kg)
The inaugural title was contested on December 1, 2017, in Las Vegas, NV, US at The Ultimate Fighter: A New World Champion Finale. The inaugural title fight was between two fighters who appeared on the 26th season of The Ultimate Fighter.

No.	Name	Event	Date	Reign
1	Nicco Montaño	The Ultimate Fighter: A New World Champion Finale	Dec 1, 2017	280 days
Montaño was stripped of the title on September 7, 2018, after she was forced to withdraw from her title defense at UFC 228 due to weight cut issues.^[51]
2		UFC 231	Dec 8, 2018	1,547 days
3	Alexa Grasso	UFC 285	Mar 4, 2023	561 days
4		UFC 306	Sep 14, 2024	(incumbent)

Women's Strawweight Championship

106 to 115 lb (48 to 52 kg)
Previously the Invicta FC Strawweight Champion, Carla Esparza defeated Rose Namajunas for the inaugural title on December 12, 2014, in the tournament finale of .^[11]

No.	Name	Event	Date	Reign
1	Carla Esparza	The Ultimate Fighter: A Champion Will Be Crowned Finale	Dec 12, 2014	92 days
2		UFC 185	Mar 14, 2015	966 days
3		UFC 217	Nov 4, 2017	554 days
4		UFC 237	May 11, 2019	112 days
5			Aug 31, 2019	603 days
6		UFC 261	Apr 24, 2021	378 days (932 days)
7		UFC 274	May 7, 2022	190 days (282 days)
8		UFC 281	Nov 12, 2022	(incumbent)

Defunct titles

Superfight Championship

The openweight title used before the introduction of weight classes in 1997. It was designed to create a reigning UFC champion for the UFC tournament winners to challenge.^[52]

No.	Name	Event	Date	Reign
Ken Shamrock and Royce Gracie fought to a draw on April 7, 1995, at UFC 5 in Charlotte, NC, US for the inaugural Superfight title.
1		UFC 6	Jul 14, 1995	308 days
2	Dan Severn	UFC 9	May 17, 1996	266 days
Mark Coleman defeated Severn on February 7, 1997, at UFC 12 in Dothan, AL, US. This bout unified the UFC Superfight Championship with the UFC 11 Tournament Championship to determine the inaugural UFC Heavyweight Champion.

Women's Featherweight Championship

136 to 145 lb (62 to 66 kg)
The inaugural title was contested on February 11, 2017, in Brooklyn, NY, US at UFC 208.^[53]

No.	Name	Event	Date	Reign
1		UFC 208	Feb 11, 2017	128 days
de Randamie was stripped of the title on June 19, 2017, after she refused to defend the title against Cris Cyborg.^[54]
2	Cris Cyborg	UFC 214	Jul 29, 2017	517 days
3	Amanda Nunes	UFC 232	Dec 29, 2018	1,634 days
Nunes announced her retirement on June 10, 2023.^[55] The title was officially vacated on June 20, 2023.

Tournament winners

Event	Date	Division	Winner	Runner-up
UFC 1	Nov 12, 1993	Openweight	Royce Gracie	Gerard Gordeau
UFC 2	Mar 11, 1994	Openweight		Patrick Smith
UFC 3	Sep 9, 1994	Openweight	Steve Jennum	Harold Howard
UFC 4	Dec 16, 1994	Openweight		Dan Severn
UFC 5	Apr 7, 1995	Openweight	Dan Severn	Dave Beneteau
UFC 6	Jul 14, 1995	Openweight	Oleg Taktarov	Tank Abbott
UFC 7	Sep 8, 1995	Openweight	Marco Ruas	Paul Varelans
The Ultimate Ultimate	Dec 16, 1995	Openweight		Oleg Taktarov
UFC 8	Feb 16, 1996	Openweight	Don Frye	Gary Goodridge
UFC 10	Jul 12, 1996	Openweight	Mark Coleman	Don Frye
UFC 11	Sep 20, 1996	Openweight		Scott Ferrozzo
The Ultimate Ultimate 2	Dec 7, 1996	Openweight		Tank Abbott
UFC 12	Feb 7, 1997	Heavyweight	Vitor Belfort	Scott Ferrozzo
UFC 12	Feb 7, 1997	Light Heavyweight	Jerry Bohlander	Nick Sanzo
UFC 13	May 30, 1997	Heavyweight	Randy Couture	Steven Graham
UFC 13	May 30, 1997	LightHeavyweight	Guy Mezger	Tito Ortiz
UFC 14	Jul 27, 1997	Heavyweight	Mark Kerr	Dan Bobish
UFC 14	Jul 27, 1997	LightHeavyweight	Kevin Jackson	Tony Fryklund
UFC 15	Oct 17, 1997	Heavyweight		Dwayne Cason
Ultimate Japan	Dec 21, 1997	Heavyweight	Kazushi Sakuraba	Marcus Silveira
UFC 16	Mar 13, 1998	Welterweight	Pat Miletich	Chris Brennan
UFC 17	May 15, 1998	Middleweight	Dan Henderson	Carlos Newton
UFC 23	Nov 19, 1999	Middleweight	Kenichi Yamamoto	Katsuhisa Fujii
UFC 39 UFC 41	Feb 28, 2003	Lightweight	B.J. Penn drew with Caol Uno in the finale of the 4-man tournament.
UFC on FX 2 UFC on FX 3 UFC 152	Sep 22, 2012	Flyweight	Demetrious Johnson	Joseph Benavidez

The Ultimate Fighter

The Ultimate Fighter (TUF) is a reality television series and mixed martial arts competition produced by the UFC. The show features professional fighters living together and competing against one another in a tournament for a contract with the UFC.

Season	Finale	Division	Winner	Runner-up
TUF 1: Team Couture vs. Team Liddell	Apr 9, 2005	Light Heavyweight	Forrest Griffin	Stephan Bonnar
Middleweight	Apr 9, 2005	Diego Sanchez	Kenny Florian
TUF 2: Team Hughes vs. Team Franklin	Nov 5, 2005	Heavyweight	Rashad Evans	Brad Imes
Welterweight	Nov 5, 2005	Joe Stevenson	Luke Cummo
TUF 3: Team Ortiz vs. Team Shamrock	Jun 24, 2006	Middleweight	Kendall Grove	Ed Herman
Light Heavyweight	Jun 24, 2006	Michael Bisping	Josh Haynes
TUF 4: The Comeback	Nov 11, 2006	Middleweight	Travis Lutter	Patrick Côté
Welterweight	Nov 11, 2006	Matt Serra	Chris Lytle
TUF 5: Team Pulver vs. Team Penn	Jun 23, 2007	Lightweight	Nate Diaz	Manny Gamburyan
TUF 6: Team Hughes vs. Team Serra	Dec 8, 2007	Welterweight	Mac Danzig	Tom Speer
TUF 7: Team Rampage vs. Team Forrest	Jun 21, 2008	Middleweight	Amir Sadollah	C. B. Dollaway
TUF 8: Team Nogueira vs. Team Mir	Dec 13, 2008	Light Heavyweight	Ryan Bader	Vinny Magalhães
Lightweight	Dec 13, 2008	Efrain Escudero	Phillipe Nover
TUF 9: United States vs. United Kingdom	Jun 20, 2009	Lightweight	Ross Pearson	Andre Winner
Welterweight	Jun 20, 2009	James Wilks	DaMarques Johnson
TUF 10: Heavyweights	Dec 5, 2009	Heavyweight	Roy Nelson	Brendan Schaub
TUF 11: Team Liddell vs. Team Ortiz	Jun 19, 2010	Middleweight	Court McGee	Kris McCray
TUF 12: Team GSP vs. Team Koscheck	Dec 4, 2010	Lightweight	Jonathan Brookins	Michael Johnson
TUF 13: Team Lesnar vs. Team dos Santos	Jun 4, 2011	Welterweight	Tony Ferguson	Ramsey Nijem
TUF 14: Team Bisping vs. Team Miller	Dec 3, 2011	Bantamweight	John Dodson	T.J. Dillashaw
Featherweight	Dec 3, 2011	Diego Brandão	Dennis Bermudez
TUF 15: Live	Jun 1, 2012	Lightweight	Michael Chiesa	Al Iaquinta
	Jun 23, 2012	Featherweight	Rony Jason	Godofredo Pepey
Middleweight	Jun 23, 2012	Cezar Ferreira	Sérgio Moraes
TUF 16: Team Carwin vs. Team Nelson	Dec 15, 2012	Welterweight	Colton Smith	Mike Ricci
TUF: The Smashes	Dec 15, 2012	Lightweight	Norman Parke	Colin Fletcher
Welterweight	Dec 15, 2012	Robert Whittaker	Brad Scott
TUF 17: Team Jones vs. Team Sonnen	Apr 13, 2013	Middleweight	Kelvin Gastelum	Uriah Hall
TUF: Brazil 2	Jun 8, 2013	Welterweight	Leonardo Santos	William Macario
TUF 18: Team Rousey vs. Team Tate	Nov 30, 2013	Bantamweight	Chris Holdsworth	Davey Grant
Women's Bantamweight	Nov 30, 2013	Julianna Peña	Jessica Rakoczy
TUF: China	Mar 1, 2014	Welterweight	Zhang Lipeng	Wang Sai
Ago 23, 2014	Featherweight	Ning Guangyou	Yang Jianping
TUF Nations: Canada vs. Australia	Apr 16, 2014	Welterweight	Chad Laprise	Olivier Aubin-Mercier
Middleweight	Apr 16, 2014	Elias Theodorou	Sheldon Westcott
TUF: Brazil 3	May 31, 2014	Middleweight	Warlley Alves	Márcio Alexandre Júnior
Heavyweight	May 31, 2014	Antônio Carlos Júnior	Vitor Miranda
TUF 19: Team Edgar vs. Team Penn	Jul 6, 2014	Middleweight	Eddie Gordon	Dhiego Lima
Light Heavyweight	Jul 6, 2014	Corey Anderson	Matt Van Buren
TUF: Latin America	Nov 15, 2014	Bantamweight	Alejandro Pérez	José Alberto Quiñónez
Featherweight	Nov 15, 2014	Yair Rodríguez	Leonardo Morales
TUF 20: A Champion Will Be Crowned	Dec 12, 2014	Women's Strawweight	Carla Esparza	Rose Namajunas
TUF 21: American Top Team vs. Blackzilians	Jul 12, 2015	Welterweight	Kamaru Usman	Hayder Hassan
TUF: Brazil 4	Aug 1, 2015	Bantamweight	Reginaldo Vieira	Dileno Lopes
Lightweight	Aug 1, 2015	Glaico França	Fernando Bruno
TUF: Latin America 2	Nov 21, 2015	Lightweight	Enrique Barzola	Horacio Gutiérrez
Welterweight	Nov 21, 2015	Erick Montaño	Enrique Marín
TUF 22: Team McGregor vs. Team Faber	Dec 11, 2015	Lightweight	Ryan Hall	Artem Lobov
TUF 23: Team Joanna vs. Team Cláudia	Jul 8, 2016	Women's Strawweight	Tatiana Suarez	Amanda Cooper
Light Heavyweight	Jul 8, 2016	Andrew Sanchez	Khalil Rountree Jr.
TUF: Latin America 3	Nov 5, 2016	Lightweight	Martin Bravo	Claudio Puelles
TUF 24: Tournament of Champions	Dec 3, 2016	Flyweight	Tim Elliott	Hiromasa Ougikubo
TUF 25: Redemption	Jul 7, 2017	Welterweight	Jesse Taylor	Dhiego Lima
TUF 26: A New World Champion	Dec 1, 2017	Women's Flyweight	Nicco Montaño	Roxanne Modafferi
TUF 27: Undefeated	Jul 6, 2018	Featherweight	Brad Katona	Jay Cucciniello
Lightweight	Jul 6, 2018	Michael Trizano	Joe Giannetti
TUF 28: Heavy Hitters	Nov 30, 2018	Heavyweight	Juan Espino	Justin Frazier
Women's Featherweight	Nov 30, 2018	Macy Chiasson	Pannie Kianzad
TUF 29: Team Volkanovski vs. Team Ortega	Aug 28, 2021	Bantamweight	Ricky Turcios	Brady Hiestand
Middleweight	Aug 28, 2021	Bryan Battle	Gilbert Urbina
TUF 30: Team Peña vs. Team Nunes	Aug 6, 2022	Heavyweight	Mohammed Usman	Zac Pauga
Women's Flyweight	Aug 6, 2022	Juliana Miller	Brogan Walker-Sanchez
TUF 31: Team McGregor vs. Team Chandler	Aug 19, 2023	Bantamweight	Brad Katona	Cody Gibson
Lightweight	Aug 19, 2023	Kurt Holobaugh	Austin Hubbard
TUF 32: Team Grasso vs. Team Shevchenko	Aug 24, 2024	Featherweight	Mairon Santos	Kaan Ofli
Middleweight	Aug 24, 2024	Ryan Loder	Robert Valentin

Championship wins by nationality

The table is divided by number of division championships, tournament championships, total championships, and individual champions. Fighters with multiple championship wins have each championship counted for the total. There is a distinction between the total number of championships won by a nationality and the number of individual fighters that won them. Division championships are the primary separation criteria due to being non-closed competition. It includes title holders and interim title holders. Countries that are tied are separated by number of individual champions. Interim champions who become undisputed champions are listed only once. Tournament championships are secondary due to many tournaments being country-specific and thus not generally a national achievement to win. Runners-up and TUF runners-up are not included.

Country	Division championships	Tournament championships	Total championships	Individual champions
United States	82	17	98	72
Brazil	24	6	30	22
Russia	4	1	5	4
Mexico	4	-	4	3
Canada	4	-	4	2
England	3	-	3	3
Nigeria	3	-	3	2
Australia	2	-	2	2
Georgia	2	-	2	2
Netherlands	2	-	2	2
Poland	2	-	2	2
China	2	-	2	1
Ireland	2	-	2	1
Kyrgyzstan	2	-	2	1
Belarus	1	-	1	1
Cameroon	1	-	1	1
France	1	-	1	1
Czech Republic	1	-	1	1
South Africa	1	-	1	1
Japan	0	2	2	2

TUF winners by nationality

Country	TUF winners
United States	35
Brazil	8
Mexico	5
Canada	4
England	3
China	2
Nigeria	2
Australia	1
Jamaica	1
Northern Ireland	1
Peru	1
Spain	1

Most wins in title bouts

Fighters with four or more championship and/or interim championship title wins.^[56] Fighters with the same number of title wins are arranged in order of most title fights. Tournament championships and TUF winners are not included.

Title wins	Division	W	L	D	NC
16	Heavyweight Light Heavyweight	2 14	0 0		0 1
13	Middleweight Welterweight	1 12	0 2
12	Bantamweight Flyweight	0 12	1 1
11	Middleweight	11	2
11	Women's Featherweight Women's Bantamweight	3 8	0 1
9	Heavyweight Light Heavyweight	6 3	3 3
	Welterweight	9	3
	Women's Bantamweight Women's Flyweight	0 9	1 1	0 1
8	Featherweight Bantamweight	8 0	3 1
8	Light Heavyweight Middleweight	0 8	1 3
6	Women's Flyweight Women's Strawweight	0 6	1 3
	Heavyweight Light Heavyweight	2 4	2 1		0 1
	Light Heavyweight	6	3
	Lightweight Featherweight	0 6	2 1
	Heavyweight	6	3
	Women's Bantamweight	6	2
	Welterweight	6	2
5	Welterweight Lightweight	1 4	2 3	0 1
	Lightweight Featherweight	0 5	1 4
	Heavyweight	5	4
	Bantamweight Flyweight	5 0	2 1
	Light Heavyweight	5	2
	Bantamweight	5	2
	Women's Strawweight	5	2
	Welterweight	5	1
	Light Heavyweight Middleweight	4 1	0 1
	Light Heavyweight	5	0
4	Women's Strawweight	4	3
	Heavyweight	4	2
	Bantamweight	4	2
	Welterweight	4	1	1
	Bantamweight Flyweight	2 2	1 1
	Lightweight	4	1
	Middleweight	4	1
	Bantamweight	4	1
	Lightweight	4	0
	Lightweight	4	0

Most consecutive title defenses

The following includes all UFC champions who were able to consecutively defend their title three times or more. Fighters with the same number of title defenses are listed chronologically.^[57]

Defenses	Champion	Division	Period
11		Flyweight	Sep 22, 2012 — Aug 4, 2018
10		Middleweight	Oct 14, 2006 — Jul 6, 2013
9		Welterweight	Apr 19, 2008 — Dec 13, 2013
8		Light Heavyweight	Mar 19, 2011 — Apr 28, 2015
7		Featherweight	Nov 20, 2010 — Dec 12, 2015
7		Women's Flyweight	Dec 8, 2018 — Mar 4, 2023
6		Women's Bantamweight	Dec 6, 2012 — Nov 15, 2015
5		Light Heavyweight	Apr 14, 2000 — Sep 26, 2003
		Welterweight	Nov 2, 2001 — Jan 31, 2004
			Women's Strawweight	Mar 14, 2015 — Nov 4, 2017
		Women's Bantamweight	Jul 9, 2016 — Dec 11, 2021
		Welterweight	Mar 2, 2019 — Aug 20, 2022
		Middleweight	Oct 6, 2019 — Nov 12, 2022
		Featherweight	Dec 14, 2019 — Feb 17, 2024
4		Light Heavyweight	Dec 21, 1997 — Nov 24, 1999
		Welterweight	Oct 16, 1998 — May 4, 2001
		Light Heavyweight	Apr 16, 2005 — May 26, 2007
	Tyron Woodley	Welterweight	Jul 30, 2016 — Mar 2, 2019
3		Lightweight	Jan 19, 2008 — Apr 10, 2010
	Frankie Edgar	Lightweight	Apr 10, 2010 — Feb 26, 2012
		Lightweight	Feb 26, 2012 — Aug 31, 2013
		Bantamweight	Jul 21, 2012 — May 24, 2014
		Middleweight	Jul 6, 2013 — Dec 12, 2015
		Light Heavyweight	May 23, 2015 — Dec 28, 2018
		Heavyweight	May 14, 2016 — Jul 7, 2018
		Featherweight	Jun 3, 2017 — Dec 14, 2019
		Light Heavyweight	Dec 29, 2018 — Aug 17, 2020
		Lightweight	Apr 7, 2018 — Mar 19, 2021
		Bantamweight	Mar 6, 2021 — Aug 19, 2023
	Islam Makhachev	Lightweight	Oct 22, 2022 — Present
	Alex Pereira	Light Heavyweight	Nov 11, 2023 — Present

Bold — Incumbent champion.

Longest reigning champions

The following is a list of the ten longest reigning UFC champions.

Longest individual reigns

	Title Reign	Successful defenses
1	2,457 days	10
2	2,142 days	11
3	2,064 days	9
4	1,981 days	5
5	1,848 days	7
6	1,634 days	2
7	1,547 days	7
8	1,526 days	5
9	1,501 days	8
10	1,315 days	3

Longest combined reigns

	Name	Days as champion	Reigns	Cumulative title defenses
1		3,940 days	3	8
2	Jon Jones	days	3	11
3		2,457 days	1	10
4		2,237 days	3	9
5		2,142 days	1	11
6		2,037 days	2	7
7		1,722 days	2	4
8	Valentina Shevchenko	days	2	7
9		1,577 days	2	7
10		1,526 days	1	5

Bold — Incumbent champion.

Multi-division champions

Fighters who have won championships in multiple weight classes.^[58] Tournament championships and TUF winners are not included.

Randy Couture is notably the first champion to hold belts in two different divisions, and one of the few to reclaim a title after being defeated. Conor McGregor was the first fighter to hold multiple titles simultaneously.

	Interim

	Champion	Division	Won	Lost	Defenses	Reign	Total reign
1	Randy Couture	Heavyweight	Dec 21, 1997 (UFC Japan)	Jan ?, 1998 (stripped)	0	? days	1,478 + ? days
			Nov 17, 2000 (UFC 28)	Mar 22, 2002 (UFC 36)	2	490 days
			Mar 3, 2007 (UFC 68)	Nov 15, 2008 (UFC 91)	1	623 days
		Light Heavyweight	bgcolor=#C0C0C0	Jun 6, 2003 (UFC 43)	bgcolor=#C0C0C0	Sep 26, 2003 (UFC 44)	bgcolor=#C0C0C0 align=center	0	bgcolor=#C0C0C0 align=center	-
			Sep 26, 2003 (UFC 44)	Jan 31, 2004 (UFC 46)	0	127 days
			Aug 21, 2004 (UFC 49)	Apr 16, 2005 (UFC 52)	0	238 days
2	B.J. Penn	Welterweight	Jan 31, 2004 (UFC 46)	May 17, 2004 (stripped)	0	107 days	919 days
2	B.J. Penn	Lightweight	Jan 19, 2008 (UFC 80)	Apr 10, 2010 (UFC 112)	3	812 days
3	Conor McGregor	Featherweight	bgcolor=#C0C0C0	Jul 11, 2015 (UFC 189)	bgcolor=#C0C0C0	Dec 12, 2015 (UFC 194)	bgcolor=#C0C0C0 align=center	0	bgcolor=#C0C0C0 align=center	-	861 days
		Featherweight	Dec 12, 2015 (UFC 194)	Nov 26, 2016 (stripped)	0	350 days
		Lightweight	Nov 12, 2016 (UFC 205)	Apr 7, 2018 (stripped)	0	511 days
4	Georges St-Pierre	Welterweight	Nov 18, 2006 (UFC 65)	Apr 7, 2007 (UFC 69)	0	140 days	2,237 days
			bgcolor=#C0C0C0	Dec 29, 2007 (UFC 79)	bgcolor=#C0C0C0	Apr 19, 2008 (UFC 83)	bgcolor=#C0C0C0 align=center	0	bgcolor=#C0C0C0 align=center	-
			Apr 19, 2008 (UFC 83)	Dec 13, 2013 (vacated)	9	2,064 days
		Middleweight	Nov 4, 2017 (UFC 217)	Dec 7, 2017 (vacated)	0	33 days
5	Daniel Cormier	Light Heavyweight	May 23, 2015 (UFC 187)	Dec 28, 2018 (vacated)	3	1,315 days	1,722 days
5	Daniel Cormier	Heavyweight	Jul 7, 2018 (UFC 226)	Aug 17, 2019 (UFC 241)	1	407 days
6	Amanda Nunes	Women's Bantamweight	Jul 9, 2016 (UFC 200)	Dec 11, 2021 (UFC 269)	5	1,981 days	3,940 days
		Women's Bantamweight	Jul 30, 2022 (UFC 277)	Jun 20, 2023 (vacated)	1	325 days
		Women's Featherweight	Dec 29, 2018 (UFC 232)	Jun 20, 2023 (vacated)	2	1,634 days
7	Henry Cejudo	Flyweight	Aug 4, 2018 (UFC 227)	Feb 29, 2020 (vacated)	1	574 days	926 days
7	Henry Cejudo	Bantamweight	Jun 8, 2019 (UFC 238)	May 24, 2020 (vacated)	1	352 days
8	Jon Jones	Light Heavyweight	Mar 19, 2011 (UFC 128)	Apr 28, 2015 (stripped)	8	1,501 days	days
			bgcolor=#C0C0C0	Apr 23, 2016 (UFC 197)	bgcolor=#C0C0C0	Nov 19, 2016 (stripped)	bgcolor=#C0C0C0 align=center	0	bgcolor=#C0C0C0 align=center	-
			Dec 29, 2018 (UFC 232)	Aug 17, 2020 (vacated)	3	597 days
		Heavyweight	Mar 4, 2023 (UFC 285)	Incumbent	1
9	Alex Pereira	Middleweight	Nov 12, 2022 (UFC 281)	Apr 8, 2023 (UFC 287)	0	147 days	days
9	Alex Pereira	Light Heavyweight	Nov 11, 2023 (UFC 295)	Incumbent	3

Simultaneous two division champions

Note: Defenses shown are while champion was a two division champion.

	Champion	Division	Period	Defenses	Reign
1	align=left rowspan=2	Conor McGregor	Featherweight	Nov 12, 2016 – Nov 26, 2016	0	align=center rowspan=2	14 days
1	Lightweight	0		Nov 12, 2016 – Nov 26, 2016
2	align=left rowspan=2	Daniel Cormier	Light Heavyweight	Jul 7, 2018 – Dec 28, 2018	0	align=center rowspan=2	174 days
2	Heavyweight	1		Jul 7, 2018 – Dec 28, 2018
3	align=left rowspan=2	Amanda Nunes	Women's Bantamweight	Dec 29, 2018 – Dec 11, 2021	2	align=center rowspan=2	1,078 days
3	Women's Featherweight	2		Dec 29, 2018 – Dec 11, 2021
4	align=left rowspan=2	Henry Cejudo	Flyweight	Jun 8, 2019 – Feb 29, 2020	0	align=center rowspan=2	266 days
4		1		Jun 8, 2019 – Feb 29, 2020
5	align=left rowspan=2		Women's Featherweight	Jul 30, 2022 – Jun 20, 2023	0	align=center rowspan=2	325 days
5	Women's Bantamweight	1		Jul 30, 2022 – Jun 20, 2023

Bold - Active reigns.

Missed weight title fights

There have been multiple instances in UFC history where a fighter misses the required weight limit for a championship fight. The following fights were originally scheduled and advertised as title fights, with the contenders earning a title shot, but due to a fighter missing weight these fights took place, only one fighter was eligible for the title, or the fight was changed to a non-title fight.

Event	Date	Championship	Result			Notes
UFC 56	Nov 19, 2005	Welterweight	Matt Hughes (c) (170 lb)	def.	Joe Riggs (172.5 lb)	Fight changed to non-title contest
UFC 67	Feb 3, 2007	Middleweight	Anderson Silva (c) (185 lb)	def.	Travis Lutter (187 lb)	Fight changed to non-title contest
UFC 206	Dec 10, 2016	Interim Featherweight	Max Holloway (145 lb)	def.	Anthony Pettis (148 lb)	Only Holloway was eligible to win title
UFC 221	Feb 11, 2018	Interim Middleweight	Yoel Romero (187.7 lb)	def.	Luke Rockhold (185 lb)	Only Rockhold was eligible to win title
UFC 225	Jun 9, 2018	Middleweight	Robert Whittaker (c) (185 lb)	def.	Yoel Romero (185.2 lb)	Fight changed to non-title contest
	Feb 29, 2020	Flyweight	Deiveson Figueiredo (127.5 lb)	def.	Joseph Benavidez (124.5 lb)	Only Benavidez was eligible to win title
UFC 274	May 7, 2022	Lightweight	Charles Oliveira ~~(c)~~ (155.5 lb)	def.	Justin Gaethje (155 lb)	Oliveira was stripped of the title, only Gaethje was eligible to win title

External links

Current Title Holders at UFC.com

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