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125 free UFC trivia questions with answers — sports quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
27 free UFC trivia questions with answers. Are you a true UFC fan? Put your knowledge of the Ultimate Fighting Championship to the test with our comprehensive trivia quiz. From legendary fighters to iconic moments, this quiz covers the biggest names and most memorable events in UFC history. See how many questions you can answer correctly!
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Q 01Who was crowned the inaugural UFC Heavyweight Champion?
Mark Coleman
Mark Coleman beat the reigning Superfight champion in 1997 to become the first heavyweight champion, and is credited with coining 'ground-and-pound' for his takedown-and-punch style.
Q 02How long is a UFC bout that is neither a title fight nor a main event?
Three rounds of five minutes
Three rounds of five minutes is the norm, with five rounds for title fights and main events; the first UFC cards had no judges, so a fight ended only by knockout, submission or a thrown towel.
Q 03Which country hosted the first UFC event held outside the United States and its territories, in 1997?
Japan
Japan staged the show in Yokohama in December 1997, where Kazushi Sakuraba won the tournament by re-fighting an opponent after the referee's stoppage against him was overturned.
Q 04What is the maximum weight limit for the UFC Lightweight division?
155 lbs
155 lbs has been the lightweight limit since 2001; before that the UFC called its 155-pound class bantamweight, and its first 'lightweight' division took everyone under 200 pounds.
Q 05Whose first-round TKO of Beneil Dariush in 2023 was a record 20th UFC finish?
Charles Oliveira
Charles Oliveira stopped Beneil Dariush at UFC 289 a year after losing his lightweight title on the scales, where he weighed in half a pound over the limit.
Q 06In what city did the inaugural UFC event take place?
Denver
Denver got the first UFC in November 1993 because Colorado had no athletic commission, so there was no regulator whose approval the no-holds-barred show needed.
Q 07At which numbered event, in 1997, did the UFC first introduce weight classes?
UFC 12
UFC 12 split fighters into heavyweights of 200 pounds and over and lightweights below that; until then anyone could be matched with anyone, and some gave away 100 pounds or more.
Q 08Which advertising executive pitched the eight-man tournament that became the first UFC in 1993?
Art Davie
Art Davie called his pitch War of the Worlds and went on to book the fighters for the first event himself, as its matchmaker.
Q 09UFC light heavyweights must weigh in at or under how many pounds for a title bout?
205 lbs
205 lbs is the light heavyweight limit; in the UFC's early years this same division was confusingly called middleweight, before the weight classes were realigned.
Q 10For roughly how much did the Fertitta brothers buy the UFC in 2001?
$2 million
$2 million was all it took in January 2001: the seller was on the brink of bankruptcy after years of state bans and lost pay-per-view carriage.
Q 11For roughly how much was the UFC's parent company Zuffa sold in 2016 to a group led by WME-IMG?
$4 billion
$4 billion, officially $4.025 billion, was then the biggest sale in sports history; five years later lead buyer Endeavor paid another $1.7 billion to buy out its partners.
Q 12Who came out of retirement to win the UFC heavyweight title at age 43 in 2007?
Randy Couture
Randy Couture floored the 6ft 8in champion Tim Sylvia with his first punch, eight seconds in, and went on to win every round on all three scorecards.
Q 13Whom did Conor McGregor knock out at UFC 205 in 2016 to hold two UFC titles at once?
Eddie Alvarez
Q 21Which public company formed in 2023 from the merger of UFC and WWE became UFC's parent?
TKO Group Holdings
TKO Group Holdings began trading in September 2023 with UFC owner Endeavor holding 51 percent, the first time WWE had not been majority-controlled by the McMahon family.
Q 22Which venue used a 25-foot Octagon instead of the standard 30-foot cage in 2020?
UFC Apex
UFC Apex, the promotion's own studio venue (renamed Meta Apex in 2026), staged its pandemic cards in the smaller cage, which has been linked to faster-paced fights and more finishes because there is less room to retreat.
Q 23Which UFC heavyweight champion kept working shifts as an Ohio firefighter-paramedic during his title reign?
Eddie Alvarez was stopped in the second round at Madison Square Garden, on the first UFC card in New York after the state ended its long ban on professional MMA.
Q 14Which Hollywood director was a co-founder of the UFC and creative director of its first event in 1993?
John Milius
John Milius, who directed Conan the Barbarian and Red Dawn, was a martial-arts student of one of the UFC's other founders, who recruited him to give the launch some Hollywood pull.
Q 15Which promotion, merged into the UFC in 2010, supplied its bantamweight and featherweight divisions?
World Extreme Cagefighting
World Extreme Cagefighting (WEC) was folded into the UFC at the end of 2010; its last champions, Jose Aldo and Dominick Cruz, became the first UFC featherweight and bantamweight champions.
Q 16UFC 28 in 2000 was the first UFC card sanctioned by which state's athletic board, whose rules became MMA's standard?
New Jersey
New Jersey's athletic board sanctioned UFC 28 in Atlantic City, then wrote up what it had seen as the Unified Rules of MMA, which other states went on to adopt.
Q 17Who knocked out Cris Cyborg in 51 seconds in 2018 to become the first woman to hold two UFC titles at once?
Amanda Nunes
Amanda Nunes, already bantamweight champion, moved up a division and flattened Cris Cyborg, who had not lost a fight since her professional debut in 2005.
Q 18Who was named president of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) in 2001?
Dana White
Dana White, by his own account, fled Boston for Nevada in the 1990s after mobsters demanded $2,500 from him; there he reconnected with old schoolmate Lorenzo Fertitta, whose family bought the UFC.
Q 19Which lightweight, the only man to fight at UFC 100, 200 and 300, was first to reach 40 UFC bouts?
Jim Miller
Jim Miller reached 40 UFC bouts by choking out Donald Cerrone in July 2022, a win that also gave him the record for UFC victories and sent Cerrone into retirement.
Q 20Former light heavyweight champion Quinton Jackson fought under which nickname?
Rampage
Rampage took the title by knocking out Chuck Liddell inside two minutes at UFC 71, having already beaten him in a tournament semi-final four years earlier.
Stipe Miocic
Stipe Miocic stayed on as a part-time firefighter and paramedic near Cleveland while champion, saying he needed something to fall back on once his fighting days were over.
Q 24Who won the UFC's first flyweight title in 2012?
Demetrious Johnson
Demetrious Johnson won the four-man tournament for the UFC's eighth men's division only after his semi-final, first announced as a win, was found to be a draw through a scoring error and had to be fought again.
Q 25Which US senator campaigned to ban the early UFC, calling it 'human cockfighting'?
John McCain
Senator John McCain called the early UFC 'human cockfighting' in 1996 and wrote to the governors of all 50 states urging them to ban it.
Q 26Which technique, legal when the UFC began in 1993, did the promotion outlaw in 1997?
Headbutts
Headbutts were outlawed at UFC 15 in 1997, months after gloves became mandatory, as the UFC added rules to shed its no-holds-barred image and win over regulators.
Q 27Which company sold the UFC to the Fertitta brothers in 2001?
Semaphore Entertainment Group
Semaphore Entertainment Group, the pay-per-view producer that had co-launched the UFC in 1993, was close to bankruptcy after years of state bans and lost cable carriage.
Q 28Which network launched The Ultimate Fighter in January 2005, right after WWE Raw?
Spike TV
Spike TV's slot handed the show WWE Raw's audience, and it was an instant hit that lifted the loss-making UFC into the mainstream.
Q 29Who beat Ken Shamrock in the main event of UFC 40 in 2002?
Tito Ortiz
Tito Ortiz stopped his rival after three rounds; the feud, begun when he taunted Shamrock's Lion's Den team in 1999, roughly doubled the pay-per-view sales of earlier Zuffa cards.
Q 30What became of Pride months after the Fertittas bought it in 2007?
Shut down
Shut down: the buyers had planned to keep Pride running alongside the UFC, but closed its Japanese office that October and moved its best fighters across.