UFC

The UFC is the promotion where the modern shape of mixed martial arts was settled. Its first events, in the early 1990s, were open-weight tournaments with almost no rules and no rounds — closer to an experiment about which martial art worked than to a sport. Nearly everything the sport now takes for granted was added afterwards, and much of it was added here.

How a card is built

An event is a single night of fights, ordered from the opening bout to the main event. The card is split into segments — preliminary bouts first, then the main card — and the order is not decorative: it reflects how the matchmakers rank the interest of each fight, so the bout order is itself a piece of information about the event.

Non-title fights are contested over three five-minute rounds. Main events and championship fights go to five. That difference changes how fights are prepared: a five-round fight rewards a pace a fighter can hold, while three rounds reward whoever can impose themselves early.

Weight classes and rules

Bouts are contracted at the weight classes of the Unified Rules of MMA, from strawweight up to heavyweight, with men's and women's divisions. Championship bouts allow no weight allowance at all; other bouts allow one pound. A fight contracted outside the standard limits is a catchweight, and it is marked as such.

Judging follows the same Unified Rules, scored round by round on a ten-point must system by three officials, with the athletic commission of the host territory sanctioning the event. A fight that reaches the final bell is decided on those scorecards — unanimous when all three agree, split or majority when they do not.

The pages below list every fighter in this catalogue whose most recent bout was in the UFC, and every card we hold: the announced events with their full bout order, and the past ones with every result.