UFC Champions in Every Weight Class in 2020
By Evan Wolff
2020 is guaranteed to be an exciting year for the UFC when it comes to the championship picture, as plenty of deserving fighters will get their chances to dethrone champions inside the Octagon -- and you can bet that belts are going to change hands.
With that in mind, let's take stock of who holds each UFC weight division's undisputed world title at this point in time.
UFC Strawweight (Women's)
Zhang Weili: Earned the title by defeating Jessica Andrade by KO in August of 2019 (UFC Fight Night 157).
UFC Flyweight (Women's)
Valentina Shevchenko: Defeated Joanna Jędrzejczyk by unanimous decision in December of 2018 (UFC 231).
UFC Flyweight (Men's)
Henry Cejudo: Defeated Demetrious Johnson by split decision in August of 2018 (UFC 227). Cejudo agreed to relinquish the belt in December of 2019, but it has not officially been vacated at this time.
UFC Bantamweight (Women's)
Amanda Nunes: Defeated Miesha Tate by submission in July of 2016 (UFC 200).
UFC Bantamweight (Men's)
Henry Cejudo: Defeated Marlon Moraes by TKO in June of 2019 (UFC 238)
UFC Featherweight (Women's)
Amanda Nunes: Defeated Cris Cyborg by KO in December of 2018 (UFC 232).
UFC Featherweight (Men's)
Alexander Volkanovski: Defeated Max Holloway by unanimous decision in December of 2019 (UFC 245).
UFC Lightweight
Khabib Nurmagomedov: Defeated Al Iaquinta by unanimous decision in April of 2018 (UFC 223).
UFC Welterweight
Kamaru Usman: Defeated Tyron Woodley by unanimous decision in March of 2019 (UFC 235).
UFC Middleweight
Israel Adesanya: Defeated Robert Whitaker by KO in October of 2019 (UFC 243).
UFC Light Heavyweight
Jon Jones: Defeated Alexander Gustafsson by KO in December of 2018 (UFC 232).
UFC Heavyweight
Stipe Miocic: Defeated Daniel Cormier by KO in August of 2019 (UFC 241).