MMA Lineal Championship Title Holders (Women)


The first major tournament in women’s MMA was the ReMix: World Cup of 2000, an openweight tournament held in Japan. Nineteen-year-old Dutch fighter Marloes Coenen won the tournament by defeating three other women on the same night, the final match being between her and Megumi Yabushita.

This lineage was effectively merged with the Strikeforce women’s bantamweight title when then champion Sarah Kaufman defeated Roxanne Modafferi. After Strikeforce was acquired by the UFC, the lineage continued as the UFC women’s bantamweight title.




2000-2004 Marloes “Rumina” Coenen (Netherlands)
Opponent Result Method Round Time Event Date Location
Megumi Yabashita Decision Unanimous 3 5:00 ReMix: World Cup 2000 2000 Dec 5 Tokyo, Japan
Yoko Takahashi Submission Armbar 1 1:11 ReMix: Golden Gate 2001 2001 May 3 Tokyo, Japan
Megumi Yabashita Submission Rear-naked choke 1 2:27 Jd': No Holds Barred 2002 Jan 13 Tokyo, Japan
Miwako Ishihara Decision Majority 2 5:00 Shooto: Wanna Shooto 2002 2002 Apr 14 Tokyo, Japan
Yoko Takahashi TKO Punches 1 2:30 Smackgirl: World ReMix 2004 2004 Dec 19 Tokyo, Japan

2004 Erin “Steel” Toughill (USA)
Opponent Result Method Round Time Event Date Location
Marloes Coenen KO Punch 1 5:00 Smackgirl: World ReMix 2004 2004 Dec 19 Tokyo, Japan


2004-2005 Megumi Yabashita (Japan)
Opponent Result Method Round Time Event Date Location
Erin Toughill DQ Illegal elbows 1 2:39 Smackgirl: World ReMix 2004 2004 Dec 19 Tokyo, Japan


2005-2010 Tara LaRosa (USA)
Opponent Result Method Round Time Event Date Location
Megumi Yabushita Decision Majority 2 5:00 G-Shooto: G-Shooto 02 2005 Mar 12 Tokyo, Japan
Kumiko Maekawa Decision Unanimous 2 5:00 Smackgirl: Lightweight Anniversary 2005 Nov 29 Tokyo, Japan
Roxanne Modafferi Decision Unanimous 3 5:00 Mix Fight Championship: Boardwalk Blitz 2006 Mar 4 Atlantic City, New Jersey
Hitomi Akano Decision Unanimous 3 5:00 Mix Fight Championship: USA vs Russia 3 2006 Jun3 Atlantic City, New Jersey
Julie Kedzie Decision Unanimous 3 5:00 Ultimate Cage Wars 2006 Jul 8 Chelan, Washington
Amanda Buckner Submission Rear-naked choke 3 4:31 BodogFight: To The Brink Of War 2006 Aug 22 Tambor, Costa Rica
Julia Berezikova Submission Armbar 2 1:28 BodogFight: USA vs Russia 2006 Dec 2 Vancouver, British Columbia
Shayna Baszler TKO Punches 2 3:15 BodogFight: Costa Rica 2007 Feb 18 Tambor, Costa Rica
Kelly Kubold Submission Armbar 4 2:50 BodogFight: Alvarez vs Lee 2007 Jul 14 Trenton, New Jersey
Cody Welchlin Submission Triangle armbar 2 2:57 HOOKnSHOOT: BodogFight 2007 Women’s Grand Prix 2007 Nov 24 Evansville Indiana
Alexis Davis TKO Doctor stoppage 3 4:23 Extreme Challenge: The War at the Shore 2009 Jan 23 Atlantic City, New Jersey
Sally Krumdiack Submission Kimura 3 1:45 Extreme Challenge: Mayhem At The Marina 2009 Mar 28 Atlantic City, New Jersey
Valerie Coolbaugh Submission Rear-naked choke 1 3:58 Extreme Challenge: Locked in the Cage 1 2009 Nov 20 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania


2010 Roxanne “The Happy Warrior” Modafferi (USA)
Opponent Result Method Round Time Event Date Location
Tara LaRosa Decision Split 3 5:00 Moosin: God of Martial Arts 2010 May 21 Worcester, Massachusetts


2010 Sarah Kaufman (Canada)
Opponent Result Method Round Time Event Date Location
Roxanne Modafferi KO Slam 3 4:45 Strikeforce Challengers: de Rosario vs Mahe 2010 Jul 23 Everett, Washington


2010-2011 Marloes Coenen (2) (Netherlands)
Opponent Result Method Round Time Event Date Location
Sarah Kaufman Submission Armbar 3 1:59 Strikeforce: San Jose 2010 Oct 9 San Jose, California
Liz Carmouche Submission Triangle choke 4 1:29 Strikeforce: Feijao vs Henderson 2011 Mar 5 Columbus, Ohio


2011-2012 Miesha “Cupcake” Tate (USA)
Opponent Result Method Round Time Event Date Location
Marloes Coenen Submission Arm-triangle choke 4 3:03 Strikeforce: Fedor vs Henderson 2011 Jul 30 Hoffman Estates, Illinois


2012-2015 “Rowdy” Ronda Rousey (USA)
Opponent Result Method Round Time Event Date Location
Miesha Tate Technical Submission Armbar 1 4:27 Strikeforce: Tate vs Rousey 2012 Mar 3 Columbus, Ohio
Sarah Kaufman Submission Armbar 1 0:54 Strikeforce: Rousey vs Kaufman 2012 Aug 18 San Diego, California
Liz Carmouche Submission Armbar 1 4:49 UFC 157 2013 Feb 13 Anaheim, California
Miesha Tate Submission Armbar 3 0:58 UFC 168 2013 Dec 28 Las Vegas, Nevada
Sara McMann TKO Knee to the body 1 1:06 UFC 170 2014 Feb 22 Las Vegas, Nevada
Alexis Davis KO Punches 1 0:16 UFC 175 2014 Jul 5 Las Vegas, Nevada
Cat Zingano Submission Straight armbar 1 0:14 UFC 184 2015 Feb 28 Los Angeles, California
Bethe Correia KO Punch 1 0:34 UFC 190 2015 Aug 1 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil


2015-2016 Holly Holm “The Preacher’s Daughter” (USA)
Opponent Result Method Round Time Event Date Location
Ronda Rousey KO Head kick and punches 2 0:59 UFC 193 2015 Nov 15 Melbourne, Australia


2016 Miesha Tate (2) (USA)
Opponent Result Method Round Time Event Date Location
Holly Holm Technical Submission Rear-naked choke 5 3:30 UFC 196 2016 Mar 5 Las Vegas, Nevada


2016-2021 Amanda “The Lioness” Nunes (Brazil)
Opponent Result Method Round Time Event Date Location
Miesha Tate Submission Rear-naked choke 1 3:16 UFC 200 2016 Jul 9 Las Vegas, Nevada
Ronda Rousey TKO Punches 1 0:48 UFC 207 2016 Dec 30 Las Vegas, Nevada
Valentina Shevchenko Decision Split 5 5:00 UFC 215 2017 Sep 9 Edmonton, Alberta
Raquel Pennington TKO Elbows and punches 5 2:36 UFC 224 2018 May 12 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Cris Cyborg KO Punch 1 0:51 UFC 232 2018 Dec 29 Inglewood, California
Holly Holm TKO Head kick and punches 1 4:10 UFC 239 2019 Jul 6 Las Vegas, Nevada
Germaine de Randamie Decision Unanimous 5 5:00 UFC 245 2019 Dec 14 Las Vegas, Nevada
Felicia Spencer Decision Unanimous 5 5:00 UFC 250 2020 Jun 6 Las Vegas, Nevada
Megan Anderson Submission Reverse triangle armbar 1 2:03 UFC 259 2021 Mar 6 Las Vegas, Nevada


2021-2022 Julianna “The Venezuelan Vixen” Peña (USA)
Opponent Result Method Round Time Event Date Location
Amanda Nunes Submission Rear-naked choke 2 3:26 UFC 269 2021 Dec 11 Las Vegas, Nevada


2022-curr Amanda Nunes (2) (Brazil)
Opponent Result Method Round Time Event Date Location
Julianna Peña Decision Unanimous 5 5:00 UFC 277 2022 Jul 30 Dallas, Texas
Irene Aldana Decision Unanimous 5 5:00 UFC 289 2023 Jun 10 Vancouver, British Columbia



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Also, Men's Lineal Championship Title Holders.



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