UFC Middleweight Title History

Middleweight Championship

171 to 185 lb (77 to 84 kg) The Pride World Welterweight Title (183 lb) was unified with the UFC Middleweight Title on March 1, 2008, when Anderson Silva defeated Dan Henderson at UFC 82.^[20]

No.	Name	Event	Date	Reign	Defenses
1	Dave Menne def. Gil Castillo	UFC 33 Las Vegas, NV, USA	Sep 28, 2001	105 days
2	Murilo Bustamante	UFC 35 Las Vegas, NV, USA	Jan 11, 2002	267 days	1. def. Matt Lindland at UFC 37 on May 10, 2002
Bustamante was stripped of the title on October 5, 2002 when he left the UFC for Pride.[1]
3	Evan Tanner def. David Terrell	UFC 51 Las Vegas, NV, USA	Feb 5, 2005	119 days
4	Rich Franklin	UFC 53 Atlantic City, NJ, USA	Jun 4, 2005	497 days	1. def. Nate Quarry at UFC 56 on Nov 19, 2005 2. def. David Loiseau at UFC 58 on Mar 4, 2006
5	Anderson Silva	UFC 64 Las Vegas, NV, USA	Oct 14, 2006	2,457 days	1. def. Nate Marquardt at UFC 73 on Jul 7, 2007 2. def. Rich Franklin at UFC 77 on Oct 20, 2007 3. def. Dan Henderson at UFC 82 on Mar 1, 2008 4. def. Patrick Côté at UFC 90 on Oct 25, 2008 5. def. Thales Leites at UFC 97 on Apr 18, 2009 6. def. Demian Maia at UFC 112 on Apr 10, 2010 7. def. Chael Sonnen at UFC 117 on Aug 7, 2010 8. def. Vitor Belfort at UFC 126 on Feb 5, 2011 9. def. Yushin Okami at UFC 134 on Aug 27, 2011 10. def. Chael Sonnen at UFC 148 on Jul 7, 2012
6	Chris Weidman	UFC 162 Las Vegas, NV, USA	Jul 6, 2013	888 days	1. def. Anderson Silva at UFC 168 on Dec 28, 2013 2. def. Lyoto Machida at UFC 175 on Jul 5, 2014 3. def. Vitor Belfort at UFC 187 on May 23, 2015
7	Luke Rockhold	UFC 194 Las Vegas, NV, USA	Dec 12, 2015	175 days
8	Michael Bisping	UFC 199 Inglewood, CA, USA	Jun 4, 2016	455 days (incumbent)	1. def. Dan Henderson at UFC 204 on Oct 8, 2016
–	Robert Whittaker def. Yoel Romero for interim title	UFC 213 Las Vegas, NV, USA	Jul 8, 2017	56 days (incumbent)