Who is ufc heavyweight champion 2018

After im victory, Ngannou say im dey willing to face di man wey many pipo consider as di best pound-for-pound fighter for di sport, Jon Jones, wey dey expected to move up to heavyweight to challenge for di title later dis year. Im moving up na good thing," na wetin im tok. But dis time na him be challenger. I be di champ. Him dey coming up, to look for me. Even summer, I dey, ready to fight for July or August. Whenever dem ready, I ready. Cejudo, an Olympic gold medal-winning wrestler, used five takedowns and relentless offense to earn the title.

Cyborg hadn't lost an MMA fight in 13 years. Nurmagomedov was supposed to fight interim champion Tony Ferguson, who pulled out a week prior with a knee injury.

Godinez set for record 3rd UFC fight in 43 days. McGregor up for Chandler match 'at some stage'. Usman bests rival Covington again by decision. Namajunas edges Zhang in close fight, keeps belt. Usman was pushed to the brink, but at the end of the night, he got his hand raised. Oliveira has been fighting with the UFC since , but this is his first title belt with the organization.

Despite this, he holds numerous UFC records including most submission wins in the organization's history at 14, and for most finishes at The two fought to a decision last year that had the judges award Volkanovski the win and the title but he feels he and Holloway need to go again to solidify his position as the new featherweight champion.

Volkanovski fought Brian Ortega in what is considered to be a "fight of the year" candidate at UFC In the fourth round against Petr Yan, Sterling was hit by a textbook example of an illegal knee strike. Sterling was clearly injured and the referee declared it was a disqualification against Yan. Prior to the knee, Yan was winning on two of the three scorecards. All signs point towards these two fighting again in the near future. Yan defeated Cory Sandhagen at UFC for the interim title, after Sterling was forced to pull out due to a serious neck injury.

When Brandon Moreno took on Deiveson Figueiredo for the second time, history was made. After a close first fight, that was a fight of the year candidate in , Moreno separated himself from the former champ.

Moreno and Figueiedo will compete for the third time at the start of The lioness seems to be content at being the dominant champion of both the pound and pound divisions featherweight and bantamweight. She won the bantamweight title in with a win over Miesha Tate and has successfully defended that title five times, and won the featherweight title in when she knocked out Cris Cyborg in the first round.