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As of 25/07/2010 the UFC Heavyweight champion is Brock Lesnar and is set to defend is title against Cain Velasquez at UFC 121

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Cain Velasquez is the current Heavyweight champion in the UFC.

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The current UFC light heavyweight champion is Jon Jones. He won the title in March 2011 when he was only 24 years old making him the youngest person to ever win a UFC Championship. He has been able to successfully defend his title ever since and is dominating the light heavyweight division.

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Cain Velasquez is the current UFC heavyweight champion in the UFC. He won the title for the first time at UFC 121. Velasquez won the fight via TKO in the first round to win the title from Brock Lesnar. After Velasquez won the title, he lost it to Junior Dos Santos at the UFC on Fox - 1 event. He regained the title back at UFC 155 and is the current reigning UFC heavyweight champion.

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Brock Lesnar started the year 2010 as the Heavyweight champion of the UFC. He won the belt in November 2008 and was able to defend it in 2009 as well. His first title defense in 2010 was against Shane Carwin at the UFC 111 event in March 2010. He was able to beat Carwin. His next fight in 2010 was against Cain Velasquez at the UFC 121 event in October 2010 which he lost.

So, Lesnar and Velasquez were the UFC Champions in the heavyweight division in 2010.

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The first ever UFC Light heavyweight champ was Frank Shamrock. He was crowned the champion at the "UFC Japan" Event held on 21 Dec, 1997. He was the light heavyweight champion for a total of 703 days. He retired as the champion on November 24, 1999 from the UFC citing lack of competition as the reason. Tito Ortiz was the second champion and Jon Jones is the current champion. Including Jones, a total of 12 people have held this prestigious title.

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Lyoto Machida is the light heavyweight champion with a ko victory over rashad evans to win it and a title defense over maricio shogun rua

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Anderson Silva

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Frankie Edgar

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Cain Velasquez

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