

Bantamweight – Kazuhiro Sakamoto beginning Octoat Shooto: Shooto.Featherweight – Noboru Asahi beginning Maat Shooto: Shooto.Lightweight – Yuichi Watanabe beginning Januat Shooto: Shooto.Welterweight – Yasuto Sekishima beginning Januat Shooto: Shooto.Middleweight – Kenji Kawaguchi beginning at Shooto: Shooto.Light heavyweight – Frank Shamrock beginning Decemat UFC Japan: Ultimate Japan.Heavyweight – Ken Shamrock beginning Octoat Pancrase: Yes, We Are Hybrid Wrestlers 2.Though unofficial, Fight Matrix considered the first MMA lineal champions as follows:

Those titles have been and will be recognized as subdivisions under their common weight class. Some organizations have created titles in weight classes outside the NSAC guidelines. Due to a lack of clear guidelines, this list is limited to those organizations that are either highly regarded (such as the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) and Strikeforce), long standing (such as King of the Cage (KOTC) and Pancrase), or the dominant organizations of a country or region of the world (such as England's Ultimate Challenge MMA (UCMMA) and Canada's Maximum Fighting Championship (MFC)).īecause there is no international unified MMA weight class system in use, the Nevada State Athletic Commission's (NSAC) weight classes have been adopted for this article as they are most common across major promotions. There is no clear industry definition within the MMA community to determine which organizations are considered major promoting bodies. This list displays all title holders for the major, certified MMA promoting and sanctioning bodies. At such times an interim champion may be crowned, or the belt may be awarded to the winner of a fight between top contenders. A belt may be vacated when a fighter leaves a promotion, or is suspended. Each belt is usually contested every time the belt holder fights, and passed to the victor of that fight (see the List of UFC champions for a chronology of UFC title belts). Championship belts are fought for at each weight class under a promotion, with only one belt awarded per class. MMA titles, or championship belts, are given to those fighters deemed by a promotional organization to have met a certain standard of athletic accomplishment in a specific weight class (most often by means of a championship fight). Mixed martial arts (MMA) is a form of competitive combat sport, akin to boxing, muay thai, or kick boxing. Step into the world of MMA in World of Mixed Martial Arts 3.Anthony Ruiz after winning the PureCombat Middleweight Championship belt

In this simulation title, you control every aspect of the MMA world.

Post-show bonus awards: Knock Out Of The Night, Submission Of The Night, and Fight Of The Night.Watch matches that are being held on other promotion's shows "live" as they happen.Large game world featuring 90 separate regions, including North America, Japan, the UK and Asia. Referees can now make controversial (or just flat-out wrong) decisions during a match. This is a measure of the quality of a promotion's roster and is used to simulate the fans' view of the fighters.
