<p>Taken the UFC through COVID and beyond. Just coming to the end of 2022.</p><p> </p><p>
<span style="text-decoration:underline;">Heavyweight</span></p><p> </p><p>
- Cormier won the rubber match against Stipe via decision</p><p>
- Ngannou then defeated Cormier via knockout to win the Heavyweight belt. Dc retired post fight</p><p>
- Ngannou has defended the belt twice with wins over Cyril Gagne and a returning Anthony Johnson, both by TKO.</p><p>
- Ngannou's next defence is against Volkov</p><p>
- Jones is expected to make his Heavyweight debut in 2023</p><p> </p><p>
<span style="text-decoration:underline;">Light Heavyweight</span></p><p> </p><p>
- Reyes defeated Jones via knockout in the rematch to win the light-heavyweight title.</p><p>
- Jones then beat Reyes in the rubber match</p><p>
- Jon then beat Adesanya in a super-fight before defending against Volkan</p><p>
- Jon has now vacated the belt and is moving to Heavyweight</p><p>
- Somehow Shogun is on a roll and will face Reyes for the vacant belt</p><p> </p><p>
<span style="text-decoration:underline;">Middleweight</span></p><p> </p><p>
- Adesanya is a dominant champion, beating Costa twice, Till and Whittaker </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>
<span style="text-decoration:underline;">Welterweight</span></p><p> </p><p>
- The limit was moved to 175lbs after the advent of the 165lbs division</p><p>
- Kamaru Usman is still champion, defending against Masvidal, Burns and Luque</p><p>
- Usman vs McGregor is set for the belt to end 2022</p><p> </p><p>
<span style="text-decoration:underline;">Super Lightweight</span></p><p> </p><p>
- Kevin Lee won an eight man tournament, defeat surprising alternate Pedro Carvalho in the final to become the first Super-Lightweight champion</p><p> </p><p>
- Jorge Masvidal, Donald Cerrone, Anthony Pettis, RDA are among the big names to join the division</p><p> </p><p>
- Tony Ferguson has also recently moved up</p><p> </p><p>
<span style="text-decoration:underline;">Lightweight</span></p><p> </p><p>
- In my sim, Ferguson beat Gaethje and Khabib. He did however lose to Poirier in his first defence</p><p> </p><p>
- Gregor Gillespie has been on a tear since losing to Lee. Rising up the ranks, including a big win over Khabib in Abu Dhabi before beating Poirier for the belt. He has since defended it against Charles Oliveira and Marc Diakese in London.</p><p> </p><p>
- Michael Chandler is 2-0 since making hsi UFC debut and is next in line</p><p> </p><p>
<span style="text-decoration:underline;">Featherweight</span></p><p> </p><p>
- Volkanovski made a successful defence over the Korean Zombie before losing to Holloway in the rematch.</p><p> </p><p>
- Holloway defended against Rodriguez and Ortega before losing the title to former Bellator champion AJ Mckee</p><p> </p><p>
<span style="text-decoration:underline;">Bantamweight</span></p><p> </p><p>
- In my save, Cruz beat Cejudo to win the belt back, but immediately lost it to Petr Yan.</p><p> </p><p>
- Yan has since defended the title four times</p><p> </p><p>
<span style="text-decoration:underline;">Flyweight</span></p><p> </p><p>
- Benavidez is champion and that is all there is to it</p><p> </p><p>
<span style="text-decoration:underline;">Womens Bantamweight</span></p><p> </p><p>
- Featherweight was disbanded and every fighter that could, made the move down to Bantamweight</p><p> </p><p>
- Nunes was a dominant champion, but lost to Megan Anderson is a big upset </p><p> </p><p>
- Ronda Rousey made her return, but lost to a surging Anderson</p><p> </p><p>
<span style="text-decoration:underline;">Womens Flyweight</span></p><p> </p><p>
-Valentina's reign is over after back to back losses to Mackenzie Dern</p><p> </p><p>
- Dern has also defended against Maycee Barber</p><p> </p><p>
- Joanna and Gadhela are now full time in the division</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>
<span style="text-decoration:underline;">Womens Strawweight</span></p><p> </p><p>
- Zhang defeated Suarez in her second defence</p><p> </p><p>
- Thug Rose then beat Zhang and Yan before losing the belt to Randa Markos</p><p> </p><p>
- Ribas beat Markos, then Rose beat Ribas so basically this belt has been a hot potato</p>