Fast forward from UFC 1 to UFC 260, which fighters have stood out from the rest? From those 557 UFC events, a total of 90 mixed martial artists were able to rise to greatness — they became either undisputed UFC champions or interim champions.
This article will include a list of all the current UFC champions.
If you would like to learn more about groundbreaking records that happened in UFC championship fights then take this short UFC Title Fight Records quiz.
Who are the current UFC champions?
Heavyweight (Up to 265lbs or 120kg)
- Francis Ngannou
- Record: 16-3
- Won title: March 27, 2021 at UFC 260
- Outcome: Round 2 KO over Stipe Miocic
- Age (when he won the title): 34 years, 6 months, 23 days
- Nationality: Cameroonian
- Hometown: Batié, Cameroon
- Title defenses (since he last won the title): 0
- Next fight: TBD
Light Heavyweight (205lbs or 93kg)
- Jan Blachowicz
- Record: 28-8
- Won title: Sept 27, 2020 at UFC 253
- Outcome: Round 2 TKO over Dominick Reyes
- Age (when he won the title): 37 years, 7 months, 4 days
- Nationality: Polish
- Hometown: Cieszyn, Poland
- Title defenses (since he last won the title): 1
- Next fight: TBD
Middleweight (185lbs or 84kg)
- Israel Adesanya
- Record: 20-1
- Won title: Oct 6, 2019 at UFC 213
- Outcome: Round 2 TKO over Robert Whittaker
- Age (when he won the title): 30 years, 2 months, 14 days
- Nationality: Nigerian
- Hometown: Lagos, Nigeria
- Title defenses: 2
- Next fight: TBD
Welterweight (170lbs or 77kg)
- Kamaru Usman
- Record: 18-1
- Won title: March 2, 2019 at UFC 235
Outcome: Unanimous Decision over Tyron Woodley - Age (when he won the title): 31 years, 9 months, 20 days
- Nationality: Nigerian*
- Hometown: Auchi, Nigeria
- Title defenses: 3
- Next fight: Jorge Masvidal at UFC 261 on Apr 24th, 2021
*Kamaru Usman became the first mixed martial artist born in Africa to win the UFC strap.
Lightweight (155lbs or 70.5kg)
- Khabib Nurmagomedov
- Record: 29-0
- Won title: April 7, 2018 at UFC 223
- Outcome: Unanimous Decision over Al Iaquinta
- Age (when he won the title): 29 years, 6 months, 18 days
- Nationality: Russian
- Hometown: Sildi, Dagestan
- Title defenses: 3
- Next fight: TBD
Featherweight (145lbs or 66kg)
- Alex Volkanovski
- Record: 22-1
- Won title: Dec 14, 2019 at UFC 245
- Outcome: Unanimous Decision over Max Holloway
- Age (when he won the title): 31 years, 2 months, 15 days
- Nationality: Australian
- Hometown: New South Wales, Australia
- Title defenses: 1
- Next fight: TBD
Women’s Featherweight (145lbs or 66kg)
- Amanda Nunes
- Record: 21-4
- Won title: Dec 29, 2018 at UFC 232
- Outcome: Round 1 KO over Cris Cyborg
- Age (when he won the title): 30 years, 7 months
- Nationality: Brazilian
- Hometown: Salvador, Brazil
- Title defenses: 2
- Next fight: TBD
Bantamweight (135lbs or 61.5kg)
- Aljamain Sterling
- Record: 20-3
- Won title: July 12, 2020 at UFC 251
- Outcome: Round 4 DQ over Petr Yan*
- Age (when he won the title): 31 years, 7 months, 7 days
- Nationality: American
- Hometown: Uniondale, New York
- Title defenses: 0
- Next fight: TBD
*Aljamain Sterling became the first UFC champion to win the belt by disqualification.
Women’s Bantamweight (135lbs or 61.5kg)
- Amanda Nunes
- Won title: July 9, 2016 at UFC 200
- Outcome: Round 1 SUB over Miesha Tate
- Age (when he won the title): 28 years, 1 month, 9 days
- Title defenses: 5*
- Next title defense: TBD
*Amanda Nunes has the longest active title reign in the UFC.
Flyweight (125lbs or 57kg)
- Deiveson Figueiredo
- Record: 20-1-1
- Won title: July 18th, 2020 at UFC ESPN+ 30
- Outcome: Round 1 SUB over Joseph Benavidez
- Age (when he won the title): 32 years, 7 months, 1 day
- Nationality: Brazilian
- Hometown: Soure, Brazil
- Title defenses: 1
- Next fight: Brandon Moreno at UFC 263 on Jun 12th, 2021
Women’s Flyweight (125lbs or 57kg)
- Valentina Shevchenko
- Record: 20-3
- Won title: Dec 8, 2018 at UFC 231
- Outcome: Unanimous Decision over Joanna Jędrzejczyk
- Age (when he won the title): 32 years, 4 months
- Nationality: Kyrgyzstani*
- Hometown: Frunze, Kirghizia
- Title defenses: 4
- Next fight: Jessica Andrade at UFC 261 on Apr 24th, 2021
*Valentina Shevchenko became the first mixed martial artist from Kyrgyzstan to win a UFC belt.
Strawweight (115lbs or 52.5kg)
- Weili Zhang
- Record: 21-1
- Won title: Aug 31, 2019 at UFC Fight Night 157
- Outcome: Round 1 TKO over Jessica Andrade
- Age (when he won the title): 30 years, 18 days
- Nationality: Chinese
- Hometown: Hebei, China
- Title defenses: 1
- Next fight: Rose Namajunas at UFC 261 on Apr 24th, 2021
*Weili Zhang became the first mixed martial artist from China to win a UFC belt.
Which active champion has the most title defenses, since last obtaining the belt?
- Amanda Nunes – 5 title defenses at Women’s Bantamweight and 2 title defenses at Women’s Featherweight
- Valentina Shevchenko – 4 title defenses at Women’s Flyweight
- Khabib Nurmagomedov – 3 title defenses at Lightweight
- Israel Adesanya – 2 title defenses at Middleweight
- Kamaru Usman – 2 title defense at Welterweight
- Jan Blachowicz – 1 title defense at Light Heavyweight
- Alex Volkanovski – 1 title defense at Featherweight
- Deiveson Figueiredo – 1 title defense at Flyweight
- Weili Zhang – 1 title defense at Strawweight
- All other champions don’t have a title defense yet
What is the nationality of each current UFC champion?
Pictured below is a breakdown of the nationalities of all the present-day undisputed champions.
As you can see, Nigeria and Brazil are tied for the lead with two champions reigning from each country. The other UFC champions hail from Russia, Australia, Poland, Kyrgyzstan, United States, Cameroon, and China.
