The champions are listed in reverse chronological order.
Click here for the list of current UFC champions in each division and here for the champions in each MMA promotion.
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
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Current champion
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Sean O'Malley
• Won title: Aug. 19, 2023
• Outcome: TKO2 over Aljamain Sterling (UFC 292)
• Defenses: 0
Past champions
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Aljamain Sterling
• Won title: March 6, 2021
• Outcome: DQ4 over Petr Yan (UFC 259)
• Defenses: 3
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Petr Yan
• Won title: July 11, 2020
• Outcome: TKO5 over Jose Aldo (UFC 251)
• Defenses: 0
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Henry Cejudo
• Won title: Aug. 4, 2018
• Outcome: SD5 over Demetrious Johnson (UFC 227)
• Defenses: 1
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TJ Dillashaw
• Won title: Nov. 4, 2017
• Outcome: KO2 over Cody Garbrandt (UFC 217)
• Defenses: 1
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Cody Garbrandt
• Won title: Dec. 30, 2016
• Outcome: UD5 over Dominick Cruz (UFC 207)
• Defenses: 0
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Dominick Cruz
• Won title: Jan. 17, 2016
• Outcome: SD5 over TJ Dillashaw (UFC Fight Night)
• Defenses: 1
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TJ Dillashaw
• Won title: May 24, 2014
• Outcome: TKO5 over Renan Barao (UFC 173)
• Defenses: 2
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Renan Barao
• Won title: Jan. 6, 2014*
• Outcome: UD5 over Urijah Faber (UFC 149)#
• Defenses: 1
* -- Promoted from interim to undisputed champion
# -- Won interim belt on July 12, 2012
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Dominick Cruz
• Won title: Dec. 16, 2010#
• Outcome: UD5 over Scott Jorgensen (WEC 53)#
• Defenses: 2*
* -- Vacated the title on Jan. 6, 2014, after injuries prevented him from defending it on several occasions
# -- Awarded inaugural UFC belt after beating Jorgensen