UFC Heavyweight - 2022

Let's look at all you need to know about UFC Heavyweight Division:

1. UFC Heavyweight Division
2. UFC Heavyweight Champion - 2022
3. UFC Heavyweight Rankings 2022
4. UFC Weight Divisions

UFC Heavyweight Division

The Heavyweight division in Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) generally groups fighters between 206–265 lb (93.4–120.2 kg).

UFC Heavyweight Champion - 2022

The current UFC Heavyweight Champion is Francis Ngannou. Ngannou defeated Stipe Miocic at UFC 260 on March 27, 2021 to become the champion.

UFC Heavyweight Rankings 2022

In 1997, the UFC Superfight Championship was unified with the UFC Tournament Championship to determine the UFC Heavyweight Champion, as Mark Coleman defeated Dan Severn at UFC 12.

Notable names such as Randy Couture, Josh Barnett, Frank Mir, Andre Arlovski, Brock Lesnar, Cain Velasquez, Junior Dos Santos, and Fabricio Wedrum have all won the UFC Heavyweight Championship.

At UFC 198, Stipe Miocic won the UFC Heavyweight Championship in Brazil. However, at UFC 226, Miocic was beaten by Daniel Cormier to win the Heavyweight Title.

A rematch between Miocic and Daniel Cormier took place on August 17, 2019, at UFC 241 for the UFC Heavyweight Championship. Miocic won the fight by TKO in the fourth round after landing several clean left hooks to the body and following up with punches to the head, reclaiming the title.

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Current UFC Heavyweight Champion: Francis Ngannou [17–3]

Rank	Fighter	Record	M	Win Streak	Result	Last Fight	Next Fight
C	Francis Ngannou	17–3	-	6 (1 def)	Win	UFC 270 Ciryl Gane	TBD
1	Ciryl Gane	10–1	-	0	Loss	UFC 270 Francis Ngannou	TBD
2	Stipe Miocic	20–4	-	0	Loss	UFC 260 Francis Ngannou	TBD
3	Tai Tuivasa	14–3	-	5	Win	UFC 271 Derrick Lewis	TBD
4	Curtis Blaydes	16–3 (1 NC)	-	2	Win	UFC on ESPN 33 Chris Daukaus	TBD
5	Derrick Lewis	26–9 (1 NC)	-	0	Loss	UFC 271 Tai Tuivasa	UFC 277 Sergei Pavlovich
6	Tom Aspinall	12–2	-	8	Win	UFC Fight Night 204 Alexander Volkov	TBD
7	Alexander Volkov	34–10	-	0	Loss	UFC Fight Night 204 Tom Aspinall	UFC Fight Night 207 Jairzinho Rozenstruik
8	Jairzinho Rozenstruik	12–3	-	0	Loss	UFC 266 Curtis Blaydes	UFC Fight Night 207 Alexander Volkov
9 (T)	Marcin Tybura	22–7	-	0	Loss	UFC 267 Alexander Volkov	TBD
9 (T)	Chris Daukaus	12–5	-	0	Loss	UFC on ESPN 33 Curtis Blaydes	TBD
11	Sergei Pavlovich	15–1	-	3	Win	UFC Fight Night 204 Shamil Abdurakhimov	UFC 277 Derrick Lewis
12	Shamil Abdurakhimov	20–7	-	0	Loss	UFC Fight Night 204 Sergei Pavlovich	TBD
13	Augusto Sakai	15–4–1	-	0	Loss	UFC 269 Tai Tuivasa	TBD
14	Walt Harris	13–10 (1 NC)	-	0	Loss	UFC Fight Night 189 Marcin Tybura	TBD
15	Blagoy Ivanov	18–4 (1 NC)	-	0	Loss	UFC on ESPN 9 Augusto Sakai	UFC 274 Marcos Rogério de Lima

UFC Weight Divisions

Men

1. Heavyweight
2. Light Heavyweight
3. Middleweight
4. Welterweight
5. Lightweight
6. Featherweight
7. Bantamweight
8. Flyweight

Women

1. Featherweight
2. Bantamweight
3. Flyweight
4. Strawweight

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*Last Updated April 13th, 2022