Each new UFC champion topped in 2022

For the second yr in a row, UFC titles modified fingers 9 instances (together with one interim champion) throughout 2022, tying for third most within the historical past of the promotion. The document in a single calendar yr is 12, which occurred in 2016. The next yr was the second most with 11 in 2017.

Seven out of 12 weight courses throughout males’s and girls’s divisions topped a brand new champion, tying with 2015, 2018 and 2021. The UFC document is eight, which occurred in 2016 and 2017.

4 fighters grew to become two-time champions in 2022, probably the most in a single yr in UFC historical past. The following highest whole in a calendar yr was two, which occurred in 2004.

Just one fighter tried to defend their newly acquired title in 2021: Carla Esparza dropped the strawweight belt to Zhang Weili.

For the second time in UFC historical past, a fighter misplaced an undisputed title battle and went on to grow to be interim title in the identical yr. Brandon Moreno misplaced to Deiveson Figueiredo in January, and have become interim champion in July by defeating Kai Kara-France. Petr Yan achieved the identical feat in 2021.