Below are the current UFC champions in each weight division. Click here for the current champions in Bellator MMA, World Series of Fighting and Invicta FC, in addition to the UFC.
All-time UFC champions by division:
Heavyweight | Light heavyweight
Middleweight | Welterweight
Lightweight | Men's featherweight
Men's bantamweight | Men's flyweight
Women's featherweight
Women's bantamweight
Women's flyweight
Strawweight
Heavyweight (Up to 265 pounds)
Daniel Cormier
• Won title: July 7, 2018
• Outcome: R1 TKO over Stipe Miocic (UFC 226)
• Defenses: 1
Light heavyweight (205)
Jon Jones
• Won title: Dec. 29, 2018
• Outcome: TKO3 over Alexander Gustafsson (UFC 232)
• Defenses: 1
Middleweight (185)
Robert Whittaker
• Won title: July 8, 2017
• Outcome: UD over Yoel Romero (UFC 217)
• Defenses: 0
Welterweight (170)
Kamaru Usman
• Won title: March 2, 2019
• Outcome: UD over Tyron Woodley (UFC 235)
• Defenses: 0
Lightweight (155)
Khabib Nurmagomedov
• Won title: April 7, 2018
• Outcome: UD over Al Iaquinta (UFC 223)
• Defenses: 1
Men's featherweight (145)
Max Holloway
• Won title: June 3, 2017
• Outcome: TKO3 over Jose Aldo (UFC 212)*
• Defenses: 2
Men's bantamweight (135)
Title is vacant
(TJ Dillashaw vacated the belt on March 20 while announcing an "adverse finding" in a drug test.)
Men's flyweight (125)
Henry Cejudo
• Won title: Aug. 4, 2018
• Outcome: SD5 over Demetrious Johnson (UFC 227)
• Defenses: 1
Women's featherweight (145)
Amanda Nunes
• Won title: Dec. 29, 2018
• Outcome: TKO1 over Cris Cyborg (UFC 232)
• Defenses: 0
Women's bantamweight (135)
Amanda Nunes
• Won title: July 9, 2016
• Outcome: SUB1 over Miesha Tate (UFC 200)
• Defenses: 3
Women's flyweight (125)
Valentina Shevchenko
• Won title: Dec. 8, 2018
• Outcome: UD over Joanna Jedrzejczyk (UFC 231)
• Defenses: 0
Strawweight (115)
Rose Namajunas
• Won title: Nov. 4, 2017
• Outcome: KO1 over Joanna Jedrzejczyk (UFC 217)
• Defenses: 1