List of UFC champions

This list of UFC champions provides an overview of all champions of the US MMA organization Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC for short).

Reigning champions

current

Weight class	champion	since	Title defenses
Heavyweight	Stipe Miocic	17th August 2019	0
Light heavyweight	Jon Jones	December 28, 2018	3
medium weight	Israel Adesanya	October 6, 2019	1
Welterweight	Kamaru Usman	March 03, 2019	1
lightweight	Khabib Nurmagomedov	April 7, 2018	2
Featherweight	Alexander Volkanovski	December 14, 2019	1
Bantamweight	vacant		-
Flyweight	vacant		-

Heavyweight

No.	champion	From	To
1	Mark Coleman	February 7, 1997	July 27, 1997
2	Maurice Smith	July 27, 1997	December 21, 1997
3	Randy Couture	December 21, 1997	1998
4th	Bas Rutten	May 7, 1999	1999
5	Kevin Randleman	November 19, 1999	November 17, 2000
6th	Randy Couture (2)	November 17, 2000	March 22, 2002
7th	Josh Barnett	March 22, 2002	July 26, 2002
8th	Ricco Rodriguez	September 27, 2002	February 28, 2003
9	Tim Sylvia	February 28, 2003	February 28, 2002
10	Frank Mir	August 19, 2004	August 12, 2005
-	Andrei Arlovski ( Interim )	February 5, 2005	August 12, 2005
11	Andrei Arlovski (2)	April 15, 2005	April 15, 2006
12	Tim Sylvia (2)	April 15, 2006	March 3, 2007
13	Randy Couture (3)	March 3, 2007	November 15, 2008
-	Antônio Rodrigo Nogueira (Interim)	February 2, 2008	December 27, 2008
14th	Brock Lesnar	November 15, 2008	October 23, 2010
-	Frank Mir (Interim)	December 27, 2008	July 11, 2009
-	Shane Carwin (Interim)	March 27, 2010	July 3, 2010
15th	Cain Velasquez	October 23, 2010	November 12, 2011
16	Junior dos Santos	November 12, 2011	December 29, 2012
17th	Cain Velasquez (2)	November 29, 2012	June 13, 2015
-	Fabrício Werdum (Interim)	November 16, 2014	June 13, 2015
18th	Fabrício Werdum	May 14, 2015	May 14, 2016
19th	Stipe Miocic	May 14, 2016	7th July 2018
20th	Daniel Cormier	7th July 2018	17th August 2019
21st	Stipe Miocic (2)	17th August 2019	current

Light heavyweight

No.	champion	From	To
1	Frank Shamrock	December 21, 1997	November 24, 1999
2	Tito Ortiz	April 14, 2000	September 26, 2003
-	Randy Couture (Interim)	June 6, 2003	September 26, 2003
3	Randy Couture	January 26, 2003	January 31, 2004
4th	Vitor Belfort	January 31, 2004	August 21, 2004
5	Randy Couture (3)	August 21, 2004	April 16, 2005
6th	Chuck Liddell	April 16, 2005	May 26, 2007
7th	Quinton Jackson	May 26, 2007	July 5, 2008
8th	Forrest Griffin	July 5, 2008	December 27, 2008
9	Rashad Evans	December 27, 2008	May 23, 2009
10	Lyoto Machida	May 23, 2009	May 8, 2010
11	Mauricio Rua	May 8, 2010	March 9, 2011
12	Jon Jones	March 19, 2011	April 29, 2015
13	Daniel Cormier	May 23, 2015
-	Jon Jones (Interim)	April 23, 2016	September 13, 2017 *
14th	Daniel Cormier	September 13, 2017 *	December 28, 2018
15th	Jon Jones	December 29, 2018	current

Explanation (*): Jon Jones did not pass the doping test in the run-up to the fight on September 13, 2017 against Daniel Cormier and thus lost his title. The fight was subsequently rated as a "No Contest".

medium weight

No.	champion	From	To
1	Dave Menne	September 28, 2001	January 11, 2002
2	Murilo Bustamante	January 11, 2002	October 5, 2002
3	Evan Tanner	February 5, 2005	June 4, 2005
4th	Rich Franklin	June 4, 2005	October 14, 2006
5	Anderson Silva	October 14, 2006	July 6, 2013
6th	Chris Weidman	July 6, 2013	December 12, 2015
7th	Luke Rockhold	December 12, 2015	4th June 2016
8th	Michael Bisping	4th June 2016	4th November 2017
9	Georges St-Pierre	4th November 2017	7th December 2017
10	Robert Whittaker	July 8, 2017	5th October 2019
11	Israel Adesanya	5th October 2019	current

Welterweight

No.	champion	From	To
1	Pat Miletich	October 16, 1998	May 4, 2001
2	Carlos Newton	May 4, 2001	November 2, 2001
3	Matt Hughes	November 2, 2001	January 31, 2004
4th	BJ Penn	January 31, 2004	May 17, 2004
5	Matt Hughes (2)	October 22, 2004	November 18, 2006
6th	Georges St-Pierre	November 18, 2006	April 7, 2007
7th	Matt Serra	April 7, 2007	April 19, 2008
-	Georges St-Pierre (Interim)	December 29, 2007	April 19, 2008
8th	Georges St-Pierre (2)	April 19, 2008	December 13, 2013
-	Carlos Condit (Interim)	4th February 2012	17th November 2012
9	Johny Hendricks	March 15, 2014	December 6, 2014
10	Robbie Lawler	December 6, 2014	July 30, 2016
11	Tyron Woodley	July 30, 2016	02 March 2019
12	Kamaru Usman	2nd March 2019	current

lightweight

No.	champion	From	To
1	Jens powder	February 23, 2001	March 23, 2002
2	Sean Sherk	October 14, 2006	December 8, 2007
3	BJ Penn	January 19, 2008	April 10, 2010
4th	Frankie Edgar	April 10, 2010	February 26, 2012
5	Benson Henderson	February 26, 2012	August 31, 2013
6th	Anthony Pettis	August 31, 2013	March 14, 2015
7th	Rafael dos Anjos	March 14, 2015	July 7, 2016
8th	Eddie Alvarez	July 7, 2016	November 12, 2016
9	Conor McGregor	November 12, 2016	April 7, 2018
10	Khabib Nurmagomedov	April 7, 2018	current

Featherweight

No.	champion	From	To
1	José Aldo	November 20, 2010	December 12, 2015
-	Conor McGregor (Interim)	July 11, 2015	December 12, 2015
2	Conor McGregor	December 12, 2015	November 26, 2016
-	José Aldo (Interim)	July 9, 2016	November 26, 2016
3	José Aldo (2)	November 26, 2016	3rd June 2017
-	Max Holloway (Interim)	December 10, 2016	3rd June 2017
4th	Max Holloway	December 10, 2016	December 14, 2019
5	Alexander Volkanovski	December 14, 2019	current

Bantamweight

No.	champion	From	To
1	Dominick Cruz	December 16, 2010	January 6, 2014
-	Renan Barão (Interim)	July 21, 2012	January 6, 2014
2	Renan Barão	January 6, 2014	May 24, 2014
3	TJ Dillashaw	May 24, 2014	17th January 2016
4th	Dominick Cruz (2)	17th January 2016	December 30, 2016
5	Cody Garbrandt	December 30, 2016	4th November 2017
6th	TJ Dillashaw	4th November 2017	20th March 2019
7th	Henry Cejudo	June 8, 2019	vacant

Flyweight

No.	champion	From	To
1	Demetrious Johnson	22nd September 2012	4th August 2018
2	Henry Cejudo	4th August 2018	vacant

See also

• Ultimate Fighting Championship

Individual evidence

1. ^ Fighters . Ultimate Fighting Championship. Retrieved April 24, 2012.
2. ↑ "UFC Weight Classes & Their Champions: A History"
3. ↑ "UFC Weight Classes & Their Champions: A History"
4. ↑ "Champion vs. Champion: A UFC History "
5. ↑ All-time UFC welterweight champions
6. ^ A History - The Fifth Major Format Change (May 4, 2001, UFC 31)
7. ↑ New UFC champion Jose Aldo officially awarded title belt
8. ^ "Harris Eager to Crown First UFC Bantamweight Champ"
9. ^ "UFC 152 results: Demetrious Johnson wins flyweight title with split decision victory over Joseph Benavidez".