My UFC franchise

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This diary will not be as detailed as the others, I'm only gonna be posting yearly recaps. I've added a few awards that I'll give out at the end of each season. I'm using an altered real world mod and I'm gonna be adding a couple of fictional fighters and some real world fighters from other sports each year. I won't try to rate them according to their real world abilities, ratings will be purely random. They're just in it for name recognition. 2008, my first full season is in the books. Here's how it played out. 2008 Heavyweight 1.Josh Barnett © 3-0 (23-5 OVR) 2.Brandon Vera 3-0 (11-1 OVR) 3.Tim Sylvia 2-0 (28-3 OVR) 4.Heath Herring 2-0 (30-12 OVR) 5.Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira 2-1 (32-5-1 OVR) 6.Fedor Emelianenko 2-1 (28-3 OVR) 7.Mirko Cro Cop 2-1 (24-7-2 OVR) 8.Chuck Liddell 2-1 (22-6 OVR) 9.Sergei Kharitonov 2-1 (17-4 OVR) 10.Fabricio Werdum 2-1 (11-4-1 OVR) Title holders: Randy Couture (retired as champion), Josh Barnett Light Heavyweight 1.Mauricio Rua © 3-0 (19-3 OVR) 2.Tito Ortiz 3-0 (18-5-1 OVR) 3.Quinton Jackson 2-1 (30-7 OVR) 4.Vitor Belfort 3-0 (19-8 OVR) 5.Forrest Griffin 2-1 (17-5 OVR) 6.Rameau Thierry Sokoudjou 2-1 (6-2 OVR) 7.Jason Lambert 1-1 (24-7) 8.Patrick Cote 1-1 (13-5) 9.Houston Alexander 1-1 (9-3 OVR) 10.Keith Jardine 0-1 (14-4-1 OVR) Title Holders: Quinton Jackson, Mauricio Rua Middleweight 1.Evan Tanner © 3-0 (36-6 OVR) 2.Joe Doerksen 4-0 (43-11 OVR) 3.Dan Henderson 2-0 (24-6 OVR) 4.Anderson Silva 2-1 (22-5 OVR) 5.Jeremy Horn 1-1 (77-17-5 OVR) 6.Kendall Grove 2-0 (10-4 OVR) 7.Murilo Rua 2-1 (17-9-1 OVR) 8.Kazushi Sakuraba 2-1 (23-11-2 OVR) 9.Matt Lindland 1-2 (21-7 OVR) 10.Melvin Manhoef 1-2 (19-6 OVR) Title Holders: Anderson Silva, Evan Tanner Welterweight 1.Georges St.Pierre © 4-0 (18-2 OVR) 2.Matt Hughes 2-1 (43-6 OVR) 3.Karo Parisyan 2-1 (20-6 OVR) 4.Mike Swick 2-0 (12-2 OVR) 5.Ryo Chonan 2-0 (16-8 OVR) 6.Nick Diaz 3-1 (18-8 OVR) 7.Jon Fitch 1-1 (16-3 OVR) 8.Spencer Fisher 0-1 (20-5 OVR) 9.Hayato Sakurai 1-2 (31-9-2 OVR) 10.Matt Serra 1-2 (10-6 OVR) Title Holders: Matt Serra, Matt Hughes, Georges St.Pierre Lightweight 1.BJ Penn © 2-0 (14-4-1 OVR) 2.Takanori Gomi 2-1 (30-4 OVR) 3.Gilbert Melendez 3-0 (16-0 OVR) 4.Vitor Ribeiro 1-0 (20-2 OVR) 5.Tyson Griffin 3-0 (13-1 OVR) 6.Roger Huerta 4-1 (24-3-1 OVR) 7.Melvin Guillard 4-0 (25-6-1 OVR) 8.Shinya Aoki 2-1 (13-3 OVR) 9.John Halverson 3-1 (19-6 OVR) 10.Norifumi Yamamoto 1-2 (18-3 OVR) Title Holders: Sean Sherk, Norifumi Yamamoto, Takanori Gomi, BJ Penn Pound for Pound 1.Mauricio Rua 2.BJ Penn 3.Josh Barnett 4.Georges St.Pierre 5.Evan Tanner 6.Brandon Vera 7.Takanori Gomi 8.Quinton Jackson 9.Tito Ortiz 10.Tim Sylvia Awards World-class awards: BJ Penn, Georges St.Pierre, Josh Barnett, Mauricio Rua Fighter of the year 2008: Georges St.Pierre 4-0 (4 UD) Pound for Pound Gold, Silver and Bronze: Mauricio Rua, BJ Penn, Josh Barnett Camp of the year: Jackson's Submission Fighting Hof Inductions Randy Couture: 1 time HW champion / 2 successful defenses, Pound for Pound Gold in 2007, Fighter of the year 2007, World Class Award 2007, 18-8 record

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Here's the title history through January 2009: UFC Title History Heavyweight title UFC 79: Saturday Week 3 of December, 2007 Randy Couture (NEVADA) 16-8 def Fedor Emelianenko RUSSIA 26-1 by TKO at 2:10 in Round 1 (running slam/ground strikes) to retain the UFC HW title **** UFC 85: June 2008 Randy Couture 18-8 def Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira 31-5-1 by UD (3 x 50-45) to retain the UFC HW title **** Randy Couture retires and the HW title is vacated UFC 88: September 2008 Josh Barnett 23-5 def Mirko Filipovic 24-7-2 by Submission in 1:35 of round 1 (armbar) to win the vacant UFC HW title **** LHW UFC 83: April 2008 Quinton Jackson 28-6 (TEN) def Chuck Liddell 21-5 (CAL) by KO at 4:35 in round 2 (surprising Liddell with a big right-cross while Liddell was going for the KO) to retain the UFC LHW title ***** UFC 87: August 2008 Mauricio Rua 19-3 def Quinton Jackson 29-7 by TKO in 1:55 of round 4 (punch to the chin and follow up, Jackson was ahead on points) to become the new UFC LHW champion ***** UFC 92: January 2009 Forrest Griffin 18-5 def Mauricio Rua 19-4 by UD (2x 48-47, 49-46) ***** MW UFC 80: Sunday, Week 4 of January, 2008 Anderson Silva (BRAZIL) 20-4 def Matt Lindland (OREGON) 20-6 by TKO at 3:59 in Round 1 (head kick) to retain the UFC MW title *** UFC 85: May 2008 Anderson Silva 22-4 (BRAZIL) def Yushin Okami 21-5 (JAPAN) by UD (3x 50-45) to retain the UFC MW title **** UFC 89: October 2008 Evan Tanner 36-6 def Anderson Silva 22-5 by Submission in 2:52 of round 3 (choke, Silva ahead on points) to become the new UFC Middleweight champion ***** WW UFC 81: Sunday, Week 4 of February, 2008 Matt Hughes 41-5 (ILLINOIS) def Matt Serra (NY) 9-4 by TKO at 1:18 in Round 2 (punching) to become the new UFC WW champion **** UFC 85: June 2008 Matt Hughes 43-5 def Hayato Sakurai by UD (2x 50-45, 49-46) to retain the UFC WW title*** UFC 90: November 2008 Georges St.Pierre 18-2 def Matt Hughes 43-6 by UD (2x 50-45, 49-46) to become the new UFC WW champion **** LW UFC 82: March 2008 Norifumi Yamamoto 17-1 (JAPAN) def Sean Sherk 30-3-1 (MINNESOTA) by UD (Scores 3x 50-45) to become the new UFC LW champion ** UFC 86: July 2008 Takanori Gomi 30-3 def Norifumi Yamamoto 18-2 by TKO in 2:42 of round 2 (standing kick & follow up) to become the new UFC LW champion **** UFC 91: December 2008 BJ Penn 14-4-1 def Takanori Gomi 30-4 by TKO in 3:41 of round 3 *****