UFC Title Backgrounds

Heavyweight Championship

First Champion: Mark Coleman - Feb 7, 1997
Final Champion: Still Active

Light Heavyweight Championship

First Champion: Frank Shamrock - Dec 21, 1997
Final Champion: Still Active

Middleweight Championship

First Champion: Dave Menne - Sep 28, 2001
Final Champion: Still Active

Welterweight Championship

First Champion: Pat Miletich - Oct 16, 1998
Final Champion: Still Active

Lightweight Championship

First Champion: Jens Pulver - Feb 23, 2001
Final Champion: Still Active

Featherweight Championship

First Champion: Jose Aldo - Nov 20, 2010
Final Champion: Still Active

Bantamweight Championship

First Champion: Dominick Cruz - Dec 16, 2010
Final Champion: Still Active

Flyweight Championship

First Champion: Demetrious Johnson - Sep 22, 2012
Final Champion: Still Active

Women's Bantamweight Championship

First Champion: Ronda Rousey - Dec 6, 2012
Final Champion: Still Active

Women's Strawweight Championship

First Champion: TBD
Final Champion:

Superfight Championship

First Champion: Ken Shamrock - Jul 14, 1995
Final Champion: Dan Severn - May 17, 1996

Tournament Winners

UFC 1 - November 12, 1993

Winner: Royce Gracie

UFC 2 - March 11, 1994

Winner: Royce Gracie

UFC 3 - September 9, 1994

Winner: Steve Jennum

UFC 4 - December 16, 1994

Winner: Royce Gracie

UFC 5 - April 7, 1995

Winner: Dan Severn

UFC 6 - July 14, 1995

Winner: Oleg Taktarov

UFC 7 - September 8, 1995

Winner: Marco Ruas

Ultimate Ultimate - December 16, 1995

Winner: Dan Severn

UFC 8 - February 16, 1996

Winner: Don Frye

UFC 10 - July 12, 1996

Winner: Mark Coleman

UFC 11 - September 20, 1996

Winner: Mark Coleman

Ultimate Ultimate 2 - December 7, 1996

Winner: Don Frye

UFC 12 - February 7, 1997

Heavyweight Winner: Vitor Belfort
Lightweight Winner: Jerry Bohlander

UFC 13 - May 30, 1997

Heavyweight Winner: Randy Couture
Lightweight Winner: Guy Mezger

UFC 14 - July 27, 1997

Heavyweight Winner: Mark Kerr
Middleweight Winner: Kevin Jackson

UFC 15 - October 17, 1997

Heavyweight Winner: Mark Kerr

Ultimate Japan - December 21, 1997

Heavyweight Winner: Kazushi Sakuraba

UFC 16 - Mar 13, 1998

Lightweight Winner: Pat Miletich

UFC 17 - May 15, 1998

Middleweight Winner: Dan Henderson

UFC 23 - November 19, 1999

Middleweight Winner: Kenichi Yamamoto

UFC 39/41 - February 28, 2003

Lightweight Winners: B.J. Penn & Caol Uno (Draw)

UFC 152 - September 22, 2012

Flyweight Winner: Demetrious Johnson