The weight class is determined by actual fighter weight requirements, not nominally, such as in the Welterweight title that began as a UFC Lightweight title contested at 170 lbs. If a lineal champion retires before losing at the particular weight, then the lineage ends and a new one is not restarted. This article tracks the lineage of the original UFC championships.
In order to allow smaller fighters to compete more fairly, weight classes were introduced at UFC 12. As the larger fighters began to train in techniques and an influx of Olympic level wrestlers entered the sport, the technique gap greatly diminished and size and strengthen would often become the asymmetric advantage for the larger fighters. Initially as many fighters lacked legitimate training and relied merely on size and strength, those with technique, such as Royce Gracie, while substantially smaller in size, were able to find great success.
The idea was to determine who was the best fighter regardless of anything besides actual fighting merit. During the first event at UFC 1, there were no weight limits or weight classes. The rule set during the sport's infancy was significantly less voluminous than it has currently become.
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The era of modern mixed martial arts began in Japan in 1989 with the inception of professional Shooto.
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