Who is the ufc lightweight champion 2017

Jones had beaten Cormier by third-round knockout to reclaim the light heavyweight championship, a title he has had taken away three times because of various infractions. Dillashaw won back his title with a second-round TKO. St-Pierre returned after a four-year absence to become the fourth fighter in history to win titles in multiple UFC weight classes. Whittaker was named the undisputed UFC middleweight champion in early December after Georges St-Pierre vacated the title to deal with a health issue 33 days after he won it from reigning champion Michael Bisping.

Khabib was able to retain the title. Charles Oliveira won the vacant title at UFC Your email address will not be published. Skip to content UFC Lightweight Championship is the premier title for the lightweight division which ranges from to pounds or Khabib won the title unification fight later. He lost to Khabib in the title unification bout. After his win over Gaethje, Khabib announced his retirement and vacated the title. He was stripped of the title after he suffered a ligament tear.

However, he was stripped off the title after he took a break from MMA. Alvarez Notes: Eddie Alvarez won the title from do Anjos. Big news from inside and outside the Octagon filled headlines in , setting a high bar for to follow, but the UFC was not intimidated in the slightest by such expectations.

In fact, it came out firing after a pair of January shows with its first visit to Brooklyn, New York in February. Following international stops in Fortaleza and London, the Octagon arrived in Buffalo in April, where upstate New York fans saw Daniel Cormier return to submit Anthony Johnson and retain his light heavyweight title. May saw two more champs keep their belts intact, as Stipe Miocic defeated Junior Dos Santos and Joanna Jedrzejczyk beat Jessica Andrade, and in June, Max Holloway made it official as he stopped Jose Aldo in Rio to become the undisputed featherweight champion of the world.

The day after that event, Robert Whittaker won the interim middleweight title with a Fight of the Night victory over Yoel Romero in the main event of UFC , a bout elevated to that spot when Amanda Nunes was forced out of her bout with Valentina Shevchenko due to illness.

Again, it was Jones emerging victorious, but he would see the win and his title disappear after a failed drug test.