The 10 most stacked UFC cards of all time

UFC star Conor McGregor. Photo: Mark J. Rebilas – USA TODAY Sports

Let’s take a closer look at the most stacked UFC cards ever!

UFC 100 – July 11, 2009

Brock Lesnar.

UFC 100 took place at the Venue Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas, and was headlined by a massive heavyweight rematch between champion Brock Lesnar and interim champion Frank Mir.

The event was the most bought UFC pay-per-view for five years, until UFC 202 smashed the record.

• Heavyweight title bout: Brock Lesnar vs. Frank Mir
• Welterweight title bout: Georges St-Pierre vs. Thiago Alves
• Middleweight: Dan Henderson vs. Michael Bisping
• Welterweight: Jon Fitch vs. Paulo Thiago
• Middleweight: Yoshihiro Akiyama vs. Alan Belcher
• Light Heavyweight: Mark Coleman vs. Stephan Bonnar
• Light Heavyweight: Jon Jones vs. Jake O’Brien
• Lightweight: Jim Miller vs. Mac Danzig
• Welterweight: Dong Hyun Kim vs. T. J. Grant
• Middleweight: Tom Lawlor vs. C. B. Dollaway
• Lightweight: Shannon Gugerty vs. Matt Grice

UFC 129 – April 30, 2011

Georges St-Pierre. Photo: Noah K. Murray – USA TODAY Sports

UFC 129 took place at Rogers Centre in Toronto, and was headlined by a welterweight title bout where Canada’s own Georges St-Pierre defended his belt against Jake Shields.

UFC 129 was the largest UFC event in North American history with a crowd of 55 724 MMA fans.

• Welterweight title bout: Georges St-Pierre vs. Jake Shields
• Featherweight title bout: José Aldo vs. Mark Hominick
• Light Heavyweight: Lyoto Machida vs. Randy Couture
• Light Heavyweight: Vladimir Matyushenko vs. Jason Brilz
• Lightweight: Benson Henderson vs. Mark Bocek
• Welterweight: Rory MacDonald vs. Nate Diaz
• Welterweight: Jake Ellenberger vs. Sean Pierson
• Welterweight: Claude Patrick vs. Daniel Roberts
• Bantamweight: Ivan Menjivar vs. Charlie Valencia
• Middleweight: Jason MacDonald vs. Ryan Jensen
• Lightweight: John Makdessi vs. Kyle Watson
• Featherweight: Pablo Garza vs. Yves Jabouin

UFC 194 – December 12, 2015

”The Notorious” Conor McGregor. Photo: Mark J. Rebilas – USA TODAY Sports

UFC 194 took place at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, and was headlined by the historic 13 second featherweight title bout where Conor McGregor knocked out José Aldo to become the undisputed champion.

“Again, nobody can take that left-hand shot,” McGregor said in the post-fight interview. “He’s (Aldo) powerful and he’s fast. But precision beats power, and timing beats speed. And that’s what you saw there.”

• Featherweight title bout: Conor McGregor vs. José Aldo
• Middleweight title bout: Luke Rockhold vs. Chris Weidman
• Middleweight: Yoel Romero vs. Ronaldo Souza
• Welterweight: Demian Maia vs. Gunnar Nelson
• Featherweight: Max Holloway vs. Jeremy Stephens
• Bantamweight: Urijah Faber vs. Frankie Saenz
• Strawweight: Tecia Torres vs. Jocelyn Jones-Lybarger
• Welterweight: Warlley Alves vs. Colby Covington
• Lightweight: Leonardo Santos vs. Kevin Lee
• Lightweight: Magomed Mustafaev vs. Joe Proctor
• Lightweight: Yancy Medeiros vs. John Makdessi
• Welterweight: Court McGee vs. Márcio Alexandre Jr.

UFC 199 – June 4, 2016

Michael Bisping

UFC 199 took place at The Forum in Inglewood, California, and was headlined by a middleweight title bout where Michael Bisping knocked out Luke Rockhold in the first round.

• Middleweight title bout: Michael Bisping vs. Luke Rockhold
• Bantamweight title bout: Dominick Cruz vs. Urijah Faber
• Featherweight: Max Holloway vs. Ricardo Lamas
• Middleweight: Dan Henderson vs. Héctor Lombard
• Lightweight Dustin Poirier vs. Bobby Green
• Featherweight: Brian Ortega vs. Clay Guida
• Lightweight: Beneil Dariush vs. James Vick
• Women’s Strawweight: Jéssica Andrade vs. Jessica Penne
• Featherweight: Alex Caceres vs. Cole Miller
• Welterweight: Sean Strickland vs. Tom Breese
• Light Heavyweight: Henrique da Silva vs. Jonathan Wilson
• Middleweight: Kevin Casey vs. Elvis Mutapčić
• Lightweight: Polo Reyes vs. Dong Hyun Ma

UFC 200 – July 9, 2016

Amanda Nunes. Photo: USA Today Sports

UFC 200 was hosted at T-Mobile Arena, and headlined by a bantamweight title bout where Amanda Nunes submitted Miesha Tate to become the undisputed champion.

Even though UFC 200 has a massive card, it was meant to be even better, with a light heavyweight title unification rematch between Daniel Cormier and Jon Jones as the headliner.

However, just three days ahead of the event, Jones was pulled out by USADA due to a potential Anti-Doping Policy violation, and former middleweight champ Anderson Silva stepped in on short notice to face ”DC” in a three-round non-title light heavyweight bout.

• Women’s Bantamweight title bout: Amanda Nunes vs. Miesha Tate
• Heavyweight: Brock Lesnar vs. Mark Hunt
• Light Heavyweight: Daniel Cormier vs. Anderson Silva
• Featherweight: José Aldo vs. Frankie Edgar
• Heavyweight: Cain Velasquez vs. Travis Browne
• Women’s Bantamweight: Julianna Peña vs. Cat Zingano
• Catchweight: Kelvin Gastelum vs. Johny Hendricks
• Bantamweight: T.J. Dillashaw vs. Raphael Assunção
• Lightweight: Sage Northcutt vs. Enrique Marín
• Lightweight: Joe Lauzon vs. Diego Sanchez
• Middleweight: Gegard Mousasi vs. Thiago Santos
• Lightweight: Jim Miller vs. Takanori Gomi

UFC 205 – November 12, 2016

Conor McGregor. Photo: Steve Flynn – USA TODAY Sports

UFC 205 was held at the Madison Square Garden in New York City, and was described by UFC president Dana White as the ”biggest fight card” in the promotion’s history.

The event was headlined lightweight title bout where a prime featherweight champion Conor McGregor defeated Eddie Alvarez to become the first fighter in UFC history to hold titles in two divisions simultaneously.

• Lightweight title bout: Conor McGregor vs. Eddie Alvarez
• Welterweight title bout: Tyron Woodley vs. Stephen Thompson
• Strawweight title bout: Joanna Jędrzejczyk def. Karolina Kowalkiewicz
• Middleweight: Yoel Romero vs. Chris Weidman
• Women’s Bantamweight: Raquel Pennington vs. Miesha Tate
• Featherweight: Frankie Edgar vs. Jeremy Stephens
• Lightweight: Khabib Nurmagomedov vs. Michael Johnson
• Middleweight: Tim Boetsch vs. Rafael Natal
• Welterweight: Vicente Luque vs. Belal Muhammad
• Catchweight: Jim Miller vs. Thiago Alves
• Women’s Bantamweigh:t Liz Carmouche vs. Katlyn Chookagian

UFC 217 – November 4, 2017

Georges St-Pierre. Photo: Noah K. Murray – USA TODAY Sports

UFC 217 took place at Madison Square Garden in New York City, and was headlined by a middleweight title fight where Georges St-Pierre submitted Michael Bisping to once again become a two-division champion.

It was also here that Rose Namajunas shocked the world with a first-round KO over dominant strawweight champion Joanna Jędrzejczyk.

• Middleweight title bout: Georges St-Pierre vs. Michael Bisping
• Bantamweight title bout: T.J. Dillashaw vs. Cody Garbrandt
• Strawweight title bout: Rose Namajunas vs. Joanna Jędrzejczyk
• Welterweight: Stephen Thompson vs. Jorge Masvidal
• Middleweight: Paulo Costa vs. Johny Hendricks
• Lightweight: James Vick vs. Joseph Duffy
• Heavyweight: Mark Godbeer vs. Walt Harris
• Light Heavyweight: Ovince Saint Preux vs. Corey Anderson
• Welterweight: Randy Brown vs. Mickey Gall
• Heavyweight: Curtis Blaydes vs. Alexey Oleynik
• Bantamweight: Ricardo Ramos vs. Aiemann Zahabi

UFC 218 – December 2, 2017

Max Holloway. Photo: Sergei Belski – USA TODAY Sports

UFC 218 was hosted at Little Caesars Arena in Detroit, and headlined by a featherweight title fight between champion Max ”Blessed” Holloway and former champion Jose Aldo.

The two rivals met previously at UFC 212, with ”Blessed” defeating Aldo to win the championship.

• Featherweight title bout: Max Holloway  vs. José Aldo
• Heavyweight: Francis Ngannou vs. Alistair Overeem
• Flyweight: Henry Cejudo vs. Sergio Pettis
• Lightweight: Eddie Alvarez def. Justin Gaethje
• Strawweight: Tecia Torres vs. Michelle Waterson
• Lightweight: Paul Felder vs. Charles Oliveira
• Welterweight: Yancy Medeiros vs. Alex Oliveira
• Lightweight: David Teymur vs. Drakkar Klose
• Strawweight: Felice Herrig vs. Cortney Casey
• Strawweight: Amanda Cooper vs. Angela Magaña
• Welterweight: Abdul Razak Alhassan vs. Sabah Homasi
• Light Heavyweight: Dominick Reyes vs. Jeremy Kimball
• Heavyweight: Justin Willis vs. Allen Crowder

UFC 245 – December 14, 2019

Kamaru Usman. Photo: Stephen R. Sylvanie – USA TODAY Sports

UFC 245 took place at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, and was headlined by a welterweight grudge match between champion Kamaru Usman and former interim champion Colby Covington.

No less than three title bouts took place at UFC 245 as featherweight champion Alexander Volkanovski and women’s bantamweight champion Amanda Nunes also defended their titles.

• Welterweight title bout: Kamaru Usman vs. Colby Covington
• Featherweight title bout: Alexander Volkanovski vs. Max Holloway
• Women’s Bantamweight title bout: Amanda Nunes vs. Germaine de Randamie
• Bantamweight: Marlon Moraes vs. José Aldo
• Bantamweight: Petr Yan vs. Urijah Faber
• Welterweight: Geoff Neal vs. Mike Perry
• Women’s Bantamweight: Irene Aldana vs. Ketlen Vieira
• Middleweight: Omari Akhmedov vs. Ian Heinisch
• Welterweight: Matt Brown vs. Ben Saunders
• Featherweight: Chase Hooper vs. Daniel Teymur
• Flyweight: Brandon Moreno vs. Kai Kara-France
• Catchweight: Jessica Eye vs. Viviane Araújo Decision
• Middleweight: Punahele Soriano vs. Oskar Piechota

UFC 268 – November 6, 2021

Kamaru Usman and Colby Covington. Photo: USA Today Sports

UFC 268 took place at Madison Square Garden in New York City, and was headlined by a welterweight rematch between rivals Kamaru Usman and Colby Covington.

• Welterweight title fight: Kamaru Usman vs. Colby Covington
• Strawweight title fight: Rose Namajunas vs. Zhang Weili
• Bantamweight: Marlon Vera vs. Frankie Edgar
• Featherweight: Shane Burgos vs. Billy Quarantillo
• Lightweight: Justin Gaethje vs. Michael Chandler
• Middleweight: Alex Pereira vs. Andreas Michailidis
• Lightweight: Bobby Green vs. Al Iaquinta
• Middleweight: Chris Curtis vs. Phil Hawes
• Middleweight: Nassourdine Imavov vs. Edmen Shahbazyan
• Welterweight: Ian Garry vs. Jordan Williams
• Heavyweight: Chris Barnett vs. Gian Villante
• Light Heavyweight: Dustin Jacoby vs. John Allan
• Catchweight: Melsik Baghdasaryan vs. Bruno Souza
• Catchweight: Ode’ Osbourne vs. CJ Vergara

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