Despite the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, MMA has never been better.
The UFC continues to hold dynamite events almost every weekend, while other promotions such as ONE Championship, Bellator, RIZIN and KSW have uncovered tactics to resume their action-packed fight programs.
There are so many wonderful MMAs out there that sometimes it can be hard to stay awake.
But of all the divisions of all the high quality promotions that fight enthusiasts can now enjoy, what are the ones?It’s a difficult question to answer, but we’ve done everything we can to mitigate it.
Continue exploring our 8 favorite divisions in MMA, not in the quality of your fighters, but in your ability to create exciting matches.
Honorable Mentions: Bellator Soft Heavyweight Division, ONE Championship AtomicWeight Division, RIZIN Roosterweight Division, UFC Middleweight Division, UFC Featherweight Division, PFL Featherweight Division, PFL Featherweight Division, UFC Heavyweight Division, Bellator Heavyweight Division.
THE FLYweight department of ONE Championship has gained a lot of attention in the more than two years, basically due to the fact that it is the new home of former UFC flyweight champion Demetrious “Mighty Mouse” Johnson, who is widely regarded as one of the most productive.fighters Ya.
Although Johnson is by far the most popular and complete fighter on the FLYweight ONE list, he is not the only world-class talent.
ONE’s flyweight department has been run lately by Brazilian Adriano Moraes, a Brazilian jiu jitsu genius who trains with John Lineker, Kyoji Horiguchi, Joanna Jedrzejczyk and many other lighter American Top Team stars in South Florida.to Kazakhstan’s Akhmetov kairat and Filipino Geje Eustaquio, any of whom have held the one flyweight title, as emerging contenders such as Japan’s Yuya Wakamatsu, Filipino ace Danny Kingad and Australian grip specialist Reece McLaren.
Bellator’s welterweight department recently took a big hit when it lost its former professional fighters league (PFL) champion Rory MacDonald, but it’s still incredibly stacked.
The ideal predator of the division is lately Douglas Lima, who arguably is one of UFC’s most productive outdoor fighters.While Lima is to protect his title, he will likely face a number of damaging rivals such as Michael “Venom” Page, Andrey Koreshkov, Paul Daley, Neiman Gracie, Ed Ruth and Jon Fitch, some of whom have already won, but all remain valid threats to his reign.
The department is home to a multitude of top-notch talent.
Bellator’s featherweight department is one of the most talented departments in all MMAs.The fact that the promotion can launch a 16-man featherweight grand prize in 2019 is proof of the intensity of the department you need.
The elegance of the 145-pound weight is recently led by Patrick “Pitbull” Freire, who also has the light-heavyweight name Bellator and, like the welterweight champion, Lima is undoubtedly one of UFC’s biggest outdoor fighters.they are fatal contenders such as undefeated AJ McKee, former cockweight champion Darrion Caldwell, SBG Ireland fashion product Pedro Carvalho, and former challengers named Emanuel Sanchez and Daniel Weichel.
Bellator’s featherweight department might not have as many household names as the UFC’s featherweight department, but make no mistake, it’s home to so many world-class talents.
ONE Championship’s lightweight department is so full of exciting fighters that it’s almost making matchmaking mistakes.
The light ONE name has been held lately through Christian Lee, a 22-year-old prodigy who is widely regarded as one of the sport’s most promising talents. Despite that reputation, Lee has a long list of contenders knocking on his door, adding former UFC lightweight champion and Bellator Eddie Alvarez, who is the top visual wrestler in the weight category.
Beyond Alvarez, other fans of Lee’s ONE softweight belt come with undefeated main contender Iuri Lapicus, Dutch star Pieter Buist, fierce Russian finisher Timofey Nastyukhin, Dagestan destroyer Saygid Guseyn Arslanaliev, undefeated Hawaiian giant Lowen Tynanes and Japanese legend Shinya Aoki.talents, and we have not yet given a nod to talented and gentle ONE veterans such as Eduard Folayang, Amir Khan, Ariel Sexton and Ev Ting.
UFC’s strawweight department is by far the innerest department of female MMA, but it is also one of the sport’s most internal departments, period.
The elegance of the weight is carried out through one of the sport’s most exciting champions in China, Weili Zhang, who is now in a ridiculous series of 20 fights without defeat after he began a 5-0 race at the UFC.
Zhang’s next challenger for the name is probably former department champion Rose Namajunas who, Despite a 2019 defeat to Jessica Andrade, she remains one of the most productive fighters on the planet Beyond Namajunas, the department’s Top Five is recently populated by two other former champions: Jessica Andrade and Joanna Jedrzejczyk – the latter is one of the most complete fighters in the history of female MMA – and the undefeated Tatiana Suarez, whom many enthusiasts are a long-running champion.
Outside of this step, the department houses a long list of established contenders such as Nina Ansaroff, Claudia Gadelha, Carla Esparza, Michelle Waterson and Angela Hill, and emerging talents such as Marina Rodriguez, Yan Xiaonan, Amanda Ribas and Virna Jandiroba, all of whom seem to be just a few wins away from the naming sessions.
THE UFC’s roosterweight department is full of elite talent.
Russian Petr Yan has been sitting lately on the throne of the department, who won the vacant championship with a technical knockout win in July against featherweight legend Jose Aldo.While Yan turns out to be a long-term champion, a quick review of UFC’s 15 most sensitive.rooster proves that he will have very, very complete hands as he tries to continue his reign.
The Throne of surrounding Yan is an organization of damaging fighters such as former World Tankerweight Champion Fighting Marlon Moraes, former UFC heavyweight champion Cody Garbrandt, burgeoning contender Aljamain Sterling, former UFC lightweight champion Frankie Edgar and emerging talents like Rob Font, Merab Dvalishvili, Song Ya. , and we haven’t talked about crowweight tacos like Cory Sandhagen, Pedro Munhoz and Sean O’Malley, who are all in defeats but still appear at a distance from the takeovers.
There are no two tactics to do this, it’s a division.
Ufc’s welterweight has been good, but it’s probably never been that good.
Today, the department is governed by Kamaru Usman who, after a successful name for defenses opposed to Colthrough Covington and Jorge Masvidal, both full-time elite wrestlers, turns out to be the top dominant champion in the department since the legendary Georges St- Pierre.
In addition to Usman, Covington and Masvidal, the department also houses Gilbert Burns, who after a long career as aArray has risen to the rank of contender No.1 with asymmetrical victories over stars such as Gunnar Nelson, Demian Maia and former champion Tyron Woodley..
Consider the presence of established welterweight contenders such as Stephen “Wonderboy” Thompson, Neil Magny, Nate Diaz and Robbie Lawler, and emerging stars such as Michael Chiesa, Vicente Luque and Geoff Neal, and it temporarily becomes irrefutable that this is one of the divisions in the sport.
You had to know that the UFC department would get our first place.
The department is run by one of the dominant top fighters in MMA history, the undefeated Khabib Nurmagomedov, and is home to a quartet of fighters who recently qualified in the Top 15 pound per pound from UFC to Justin Gaethje, Dustin Poirier, Conor.McGregor and Tony Ferguson.Es a world-class ability for an apartment, and does not even cover the other killers who inhabit the weight category, such as Dan Hooker, Charles Oliveira, Paul Felder, Diego Ferreira and Islam Makhachev.
While it’s harder to believe that someone defeats UFC lightweight champion Nurmagomedov, it doesn’t replace the fact that the department is home to more high-level skills than anyone else in the overall game.
It just doesn’t get better.