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Q 01Who was crowned the inaugural UFC Heavyweight Champion?
Mark Coleman
Coleman, nicknamed 'The Hammer', beat Dan Severn in February 1997 to unify the Superfight and tournament titles.
Q 02How long is a standard non-title UFC fight?
Three rounds of five minutes
A standard non-title bout is three rounds of five minutes; five-minute rounds date from UFC 21 in 1999, and non-title main events have been five rounds since UFC 138 in 2011.
Q 03Which country hosted the first officially designated foreign UFC event?
Japan
While UFC 8 was held in Puerto Rico (a U.S. territory) in 1996, 'UFC Japan: Ultimate Japan' in 1997 is noted as the promotion's first foreign event.
Q 04What is the maximum weight limit for the UFC Lightweight division?
155 lbs
155 lbs is the lightweight limit, sitting between featherweight at 145 and welterweight at 170.
Q 05Whose first-round TKO of Beneil Dariush in 2023 was a record 20th UFC finish?
Charles Oliveira
Charles Oliveira stopped Beneil Dariush in the first round at UFC 289 in June 2023 for his 20th UFC finish, extending the record he took from Donald Cerrone in 2021.
Q 06In what city did the inaugural UFC event take place?
Denver
The November 1993 show was won by 175-pound Brazilian jiu-jitsu black belt Royce Gracie, younger brother of co-founder Rorion.
Q 07At which numbered event, in 1997, did the UFC first introduce weight classes?
UFC 12
UFC 12 in February 1997 introduced two classes, heavyweight over 200 lb and lightweight under it; UFC 31 in 2001 adopted the unified weight classes for the men's divisions.
Q 08Which individual is often credited as a co-founder who conceptualized the Ultimate Fighting Championship?
Art Davie
Art Davie is widely recognized as the businessman who conceived of the UFC and worked with Rorion Gracie to bring the first event to fruition.
Q 09UFC light heavyweights must weigh in at or under how many pounds for a title bout?
205 lbs
The division spans 186 to 205 lb (84 to 93 kg).
Q 10For roughly how much did the Fertitta brothers buy the UFC in 2001?
$2 million
Zuffa, formed by brothers Lorenzo and Frank Fertitta with Dana White, bought the UFC from its cash-strapped original owner for about $2 million in January 2001.
Q 11For roughly how much was the UFC's parent company Zuffa sold in 2016 to a group led by WME-IMG?
$4 billion
Endeavor bought out the other Zuffa investors for a further $1.7 billion in 2021 before merging the UFC with WWE.
Q 12Who came out of retirement to win the UFC heavyweight title at age 43 in 2007?
Randy Couture
Randy Couture, then 43, came out of retirement to beat Tim Sylvia by decision for the heavyweight belt at UFC 68 in March 2007, the oldest champion in UFC history at that point.
Q 13Which fighter was the first to hold two UFC championships simultaneously?
Conor McGregor
Conor McGregor made history at UFC 205 when he defeated Eddie Alvarez to become the first fighter to hold two UFC titles simultaneously (Featherweight and Lightweight).
Q 21Which public company formed in 2023 from the merger of UFC and WWE became UFC's parent?
TKO Group Holdings
TKO Group Holdings was formed in 2023 by merging UFC's former parent company, Zuffa (owned by Endeavor), with World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE).
Q 22What is the standard internal diameter of the UFC Octagon fighting area?
30 feet
The standard UFC Octagon has an internal fighting area that measures 30 feet (9.1 meters) in diameter, although a smaller 25-foot cage is used at venues like the UFC Apex.
Q 23The UFC Apex, home to many UFC Fight Nights, sits on the edge of which city?
Las Vegas
Q 14Which Hollywood director co-founded the UFC and helped conceive its eight-sided cage?
John Milius
John Milius, who directed Conan the Barbarian and Red Dawn and co-wrote Apocalypse Now, was a UFC co-creator credited with the idea of an eight-sided cage.
Q 15Which promotion, merged into the UFC in 2010, supplied its bantamweight and featherweight divisions?
World Extreme Cagefighting
World Extreme Cagefighting (WEC) was folded into the UFC at the end of 2010; its last champions, Jose Aldo and Dominick Cruz, became the first UFC featherweight and bantamweight champions.
Q 16Which November 2000 event was the first UFC card under New Jersey's Unified Rules of MMA?
UFC 28
UFC 28 at the Trump Taj Mahal in Atlantic City on November 17, 2000, was the first UFC card sanctioned under New Jersey's Unified Rules, which Nevada adopted the following year.
Q 17UFC 1, the promotion's first event, was staged at which Denver arena in November 1993?
McNichols Sports Arena
McNichols Sports Arena in Denver hosted UFC 1 on November 12, 1993, an eight-man, no-weight-class tournament billed as a test of which martial art was most effective.
Q 18Who was named president of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) in 2001?
Dana White
Dana White has been the UFC's front man since Zuffa bought the promotion in 2001 and made him president; he added the CEO title in 2023.
Q 19Who became the first fighter to reach 40 bouts in the UFC, in 2022?
Jim Miller
Jim Miller's submission of Donald Cerrone at UFC 276 in July 2022 was his 40th UFC bout, making him the first fighter to reach that number in the promotion.
Q 20Former light heavyweight champion Quinton Jackson fought under which nickname?
Rampage
Quinton 'Rampage' Jackson took the light heavyweight title from Chuck Liddell with a first-round knockout at UFC 71 in May 2007.
The UFC Apex opened in June 2019 in Enterprise, Nevada, on the southern edge of Las Vegas, across the street from the UFC Performance Institute.
Q 24How many men's weight divisions did the UFC have as of 2025?
8
As of 2025 they ran from flyweight up to heavyweight, and the women competed in three more, for 11 divisions in total.
Q 25Which US senator campaigned to ban the early UFC, calling it 'human cockfighting'?
John McCain
Senator John McCain called the early UFC 'human cockfighting' in 1996 and wrote to the governors of all 50 states urging them to ban it.
Q 26At which event did gloves become mandatory in the UFC?
UFC 14
Gloves became mandatory at UFC 14 in July 1997, the same event that banned kicks to the head of a downed opponent; headbutts and hair-pulling were outlawed at UFC 15.
Q 27Which company originally owned the UFC before selling it to the Fertitta brothers?
Semaphore Entertainment Group
SEG had run into financial problems by the end of the 1990s.
Q 28Which network launched The Ultimate Fighter in January 2005, right after WWE Raw?
Spike TV
Spike TV aired the first season of The Ultimate Fighter from January 2005 in the slot after WWE Raw, with Zuffa covering the roughly $10 million production cost itself.
Q 29How many pay-per-view buys did UFC 40, headlined by Ortiz vs Shamrock, sell?
150,000
UFC 40 in November 2002, headlined by Tito Ortiz against Ken Shamrock, sold about 150,000 pay-per-view buys, far more than any earlier Zuffa-era card.
Q 30In what year did the Fertittas agree to purchase Japan's Pride Fighting Championships?
2007
Lorenzo and Frank Fertitta agreed to buy Pride Fighting Championships in March 2007; the Japanese promotion was shut down that October, and Dana White later called the brand 'toxic' in Japan.