UFC Light Heavyweight

The Light Heavyweight Division is a weight class in combat sports. The UFC Light Heavyweight Division limits between 186.1 lbs to 205 lbs (84 to 93 kg).

1. UFC Light Heavyweight Rankings 2022
2. UFC Weight Divisions

UFC Light Heavyweight Rankings 2022

The Light Heavyweight Title was known as the Middleweight Title prior to UFC 31 (May 4, 2001). In 2007, the Pride World Middleweight Championship was unified with the UFC Light Heavyweight Title on when Quinton Jackson defeated Dan Henderson at UFC 75.

The UFC Light Heavyweight Title has been held by the likes of Frank Shemrock, Tito Ortiz, Randy Couture, Vitor Belfort, Chuck Liddell, Quinton Jackson, Forest Griffin, Rashad Evans, Lyoto Machida, and Mauricio Rua.

At UFC 128, Jon Jones won the Light Heavyweight Title for the first time in his career after defeating Mauricio Rua. Jones held the title for 1501 days and defended it 8 times before being stripped off the title due to a hit and run issue. Daniel Cormier won the vacant belt by beating Anthony Johnson at UFC 187.

Cormier, who became the second fighter in UFC history to hold titles in two weight classes simultaneously and is the first to defend them in two divisions, vacated his Light Heavyweight Championship 174 days after winning the Heavyweight title. Jon Jones won the vacant belt for the second time in his career after defeating Alexander Gustafsson and defended it against Anthony Smith, Thiago Santos and Dominick Reyes before vacating it to move upto the Heavyweight division.

In his first title defense as champion, Glover Teixeira lost to Jiri Prochazka via rear-naked choke at UFC 275, making Jiri Prochazka the incumbent light heavyweight champion.

Current UFC Light Heavyweight Champion: Jiri Prochazka [29-3]

Rank	Fighters	Record	M	Win Streak	Result	Last Fight	Next Fight
C	Glover Teixeira	33–7	-	6 (0 def)	Win	UFC 267 Jan Błachowicz	UFC 275 Jiří Procházka
1	Jan Błachowicz	28–9	-	0	Loss	UFC 267 Glover Teixeira	UFC on ESPN 36 Aleksandar Rakić
2	Jiří Procházka	28–3–1	-	12	Win	UFC on ESPN 23 Dominick Reyes	UFC 275 Glover Teixeira
3	Aleksandar Rakić	14–2	-	2	Win	UFC 259 Thiago Santos	UFC on ESPN 36 Jan Błachowicz
4	Magomed Ankalaev	17–1	-	8	Win	UFC Fight Night 203 Thiago Santos	TBD
5	Anthony Smith	36–16	-	3	Win	UFC Fight Night 192 Ryan Spann	TBD
6	Thiago Santos	22–10	-	0	Loss	UFC Fight Night 203 Magomed Ankalaev	TBD
7	Dominick Reyes	12–3	-	0	Loss	UFC on ESPN 23 Jiří Procházka	TBD
8	Paul Craig	16–4–1	-	4	Win	UFC Fight Night 204 Nikita Krylov	TBD
9	Volkan Oezdemir	17–6	-	0	Loss	UFC 267 Magomed Ankalaev	TBD
10	Jamahal Hill	10–1 (1 NC)	-	2	Win	UFC Fight Night 201 Johnny Walker	TBD
11	Nikita Krylov	26–9	-	0	Loss	UFC Fight Night 204 Paul Craig	UFC Fight Night 212 Alexander Gustafsson
12	Johnny Walker	18–7	-	0	Loss	UFC Fight Night 201 Jamahal Hill	TBD
13	Ryan Spann	19–7	-	0	Loss	UFC Fight Night 192 Anthony Smith	UFC on ESPN 36 Ion Cuțelaba
14	Jimmy Crute	12–3	-	0	Loss	UFC on ESPN 33 Jamahal Hill	TBD
15	Dustin Jacoby	17–5–1	-	3	Win	UFC 272 Michał Oleksiejczuk	UFC Fight Night 211 Da Un Jung

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