The first guy who was World Heavyweight Champion first is Triple H. He was given the title by a former RAW general manager Eric Bischoff. But later Shawn Michaels was the first one who actually won the World Heavyweight Championship from Triple H inside the Elimination Chamber who was created by Eric Bischoff.
There is no such thing as a champion of a certain "place" in the UFC. Jon Jones is the UFC light heavyweight champion of the UFC and ranked #1 in the world at 205 pounds.
UFC Champion Heavyweight - Over 230 lbs. to 265 lbs. Current UFC Champion: Brock Lesnar Interim UFC Champion: Shane Carwin UFC Champion Light Heavyweight - 205 lbs. Current UFC Champion: Mauricio "Shogun" Rua UFC Champion Middleweight - 185 lbs. Current UFC Champion: Anderson Silva UFC Champion Welterweight - 170 lbs. Current UFC Champion: Georges St-Pierre UFC Champion Lightweight - 155 lbs. Current UFC Champion: Frankie Edgar
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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 EDIT: facebook(dot)com/thession12 - February 28th 2015 Cain Velasquez is the current Heavyweight champion in the UFC.
Lesnar lost his UFC heavyweight championship to Cain Velasquez at UFC 121. Velasquez won the fight via TKO in the first round to win the title. 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.
There is no such thing as a champion of a certain "place" in the UFC. Jon Jones is the UFC light heavyweight champion of the UFC and ranked #1 in the world at 205 pounds.
Well there are several weight divisions in which the first champion was white, but the first ever white UFC champion was Mark Coleman who became the first ever UFC undisputed heavyweight champion of the world on Februrary 7th, 1997 at UFC 12.
There is no such thing as a champion of a certain "place" in the UFC. Jon Jones is the UFC light heavyweight champion of the UFC and ranked #1 in the world at 205 pounds.
UFC Champion Heavyweight - Over 230 lbs. to 265 lbs. Current UFC Champion: Brock Lesnar Interim UFC Champion: Shane Carwin UFC Champion Light Heavyweight - 205 lbs. Current UFC Champion: Mauricio "Shogun" Rua UFC Champion Middleweight - 185 lbs. Current UFC Champion: Anderson Silva UFC Champion Welterweight - 170 lbs. Current UFC Champion: Georges St-Pierre UFC Champion Lightweight - 155 lbs. Current UFC Champion: Frankie Edgar
John Ruiz of Massachusetts & of Puerto Rican decent was the first Hispanic heavyweight champion.
brock lesnar
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 EDIT: facebook(dot)com/thession12 - February 28th 2015 Cain Velasquez is the current Heavyweight champion in the UFC.
Lesnar lost his UFC heavyweight championship to Cain Velasquez at UFC 121. Velasquez won the fight via TKO in the first round to win the title. 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.
Brock Lesnar won the heavyweight title match at the UFC 116 event. Shane Carwin was the interim heavyweight champion and Lesnar was the reigning heavyweight champion. So, this bout was the title unification fight. Lesnar defeated Carwin to become the undisputed champion.
Randy Couture, 220 pounds.
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Cain Velasquez is the current UFC heavyweight champion, he regained the title from Junior Dos Santos.