{"id":193051,"date":"2016-04-29T23:42:28","date_gmt":"2016-04-30T06:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=193051"},"modified":"2016-04-29T23:42:28","modified_gmt":"2016-04-30T06:42:28","slug":"photo-ufc-title-holders-5-years-ago-today-compared-to-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/jon-jones\/photo-ufc-title-holders-5-years-ago-today-compared-to-now\/","title":{"rendered":"PHOTO | UFC title holders 5 years ago today compared to now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s undeniable that the landscape of the UFC has changed drastically.  While fighters such as Jon Jones have remained dominant, fighters such as Georges St. Pierre and Anderson Silva no longer hold UFC titles.  In addition, a new era of dominant fighters have emerged, such as UFC <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/videos\/video-demetrious-johnson-tkos-henry-cejudo\/\">flyweight kingpin Demetrious Johnson<\/a>.  In addition, the UFC now has two female champions!<\/p>\n<p>In the picture below, you can see who held UFC championship belts 5 years ago, before the introduction of the UFC&#8217;s flyweight division.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Five years ago today&#8230;.. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ImQhf2NGfk\">pic.twitter.com\/ImQhf2NGfk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; MMA History Today (@MMAHistoryToday) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MMAHistoryToday\/status\/726178945150902273\">April 29, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>To compare, we have included a list of who the current UFC champions are.<\/p>\n<p>Heavyweight: Fabricio Werdum<br \/>\nLight heavyweight: Daniel Cormier, Jon Jones (Interim)<br \/>\nMiddleweight: Luke Rockhold<br \/>\nWelterweight: Robbie Lawler<br \/>\nLightweight: Rafael dos Anjos<br \/>\nFeatherweight: Conor McGregor<br \/>\nBantamweight: Dominick Cruz<br \/>\nFlyweight: Demetrious Johnson<\/p>\n<p>Women&#8217;s bantamweight: Miesha Tate<br \/>\nWomen&#8217;s flyweight: Joanna Jedrzejczyk<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s undeniable that the landscape of the UFC has changed drastically. While fighters such as Jon Jones have remained dominant, fighters such as Georges St. Pierre and Anderson Silva no longer hold UFC titles. In addition, a new era of dominant fighters have emerged, such as UFC flyweight kingpin Demetrious Johnson. In addition, the UFC [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":128069,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[10091],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.7 (Yoast SEO v19.14) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>PHOTO | UFC title holders 5 years ago today compared to now | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/jon-jones\/photo-ufc-title-holders-5-years-ago-today-compared-to-now\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"PHOTO | UFC title holders 5 years ago today compared to now | BJPenn.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"It&#8217;s undeniable that the landscape of the UFC has changed drastically. 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