Professional Fighters League (formerly the World Series of Fighting, or "WSOF") is an American mixed martial arts promotion, and the following is a history of its champions in each weight class. As well as championship history for their International promotions WSOF: Canada and WSOF Global Championship.
Event | Date | Division | Winner | Runner-up |
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PFL 11 (2018) | Dec 31, 2018 | Heavyweight | Philipe Lins | Josh Copeland |
Light Heavyweight | Sean O'Connell | Vinny Magalhães | ||
Middleweight | Louis Taylor | Abus Magomedov | ||
Welterweight | Magomed Magomedkerimov | Ray Cooper III | ||
Lightweight | Natan Schulte | Rashid Magomedov | ||
Featherweight | Lance Palmer | Steven Siler | ||
PFL 10 (2019) | Dec 31, 2019 | Heavyweight | Ali Isaev | Jared Rosholt |
Light Heavyweight | Emiliano Sordi | Jordan Johnson | ||
Welterweight | Ray Cooper III | David Michaud | ||
Lightweight | Natan Schulte (2) | Loik Radzhabov | ||
Featherweight | Lance Palmer (2) | Alex Gilpin | ||
Women's Lightweight | Kayla Harrison | Larissa Pacheco | ||
PFL 10 (2021) | Oct 27, 2021 | Heavyweight | Bruno Cappelozza | Ante Delija |
Light Heavyweight | Antônio Carlos Júnior | Marthin Hamlet | ||
Welterweight | Ray Cooper III (2) | Magomed Magomedkerimov | ||
Lightweight | Raush Manfio | Loik Radzhabov | ||
Featherweight | Movlid Khaybulaev | Chris Wade | ||
Women's Lightweight | Kayla Harrison (2) | Taylor Guardado | ||
PFL 10 (2022) | Nov 25, 2022 | Heavyweight | Ante Delija | Matheus Scheffel |
Light Heavyweight | Rob Wilkinson | Omari Akhmedov | ||
Welterweight | Sadibou Sy | Dilano Taylor | ||
Lightweight | Olivier Aubin-Mercier | Stevie Ray | ||
Featherweight | Brendan Loughnane | Bubba Jenkins | ||
Women's Lightweight | Larissa Pacheco | Kayla Harrison | ||
PFL 10 (2023) | Nov 24, 2023 | Heavyweight | Renan Ferreira | Denis Goltsov |
Light Heavyweight | Impa Kasanganay | Josh Silveira | ||
Welterweight | Magomed Magomedkerimov (2) | Sadibou Sy | ||
Lightweight | Olivier Aubin-Mercier (2) | Clay Collard | ||
Featherweight | Jesus Pinedo | Gabriel Alves Braga | ||
Women's Featherweight | Larissa Pacheco (2) | Marina Mokhnatkina | ||
PFL 10 (2024) | TBA | Heavyweight | ||
Light Heavyweight | ||||
Welterweight | ||||
Lightweight | ||||
Featherweight | ||||
Women's Flyweight |
Event | Date | Division | Winner | Runner-up |
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PFL Europe 4 (2023) | Dec 8, 2023 | Light Heavyweight | Jakob Nedoh | Simeón Powell |
Lightweight | Jakub Kaszuba | John Mitchell | ||
Bantamweight | Khurshed Kakhorov | Frans Mlambo | ||
Women's Flyweight | Dakota Ditcheva | Valentina Scatizzi | ||
PFL Europe 4 (2024) | Dec 14, 2024 | Welterweight | ||
Lightweight | ||||
Bantamweight | ||||
Women's Flyweight |
No. | Name | Event | Date | Reign | Defenses |
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1 | Smealinho Rama def. Derrick Mehmen | WSOF 14 Edmonton, AB, Canada | Oct 11, 2014 | 237 days | |
2 | Blagoy Ivanov | WSOF 21 Edmonton, AB, Canada | Jun 5, 2015 | 3368 days | 1. def. Derrick Mehmen at WSOF 24 on Oct 17, 2015 |
Ivanov vacated title on April 25, 2018, after becoming free agent and signing with the UFC. | |||||
No. | Name | Event | Date | Reign | Defenses |
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1 | David Branch def. Teddy Holder | WSOF 23 Phoenix, AZ, U.S. | Sep 18, 2015 | 507 days | 1. def. Vinny Magalhães at WSOF 33 on Oct 7, 2016 |
Branch vacated title on February 6, 2017, after becoming free agent and signing with the UFC. | |||||
No. | Name | Event | Date | Reign | Defenses |
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1 | David Branch def. Jesse Taylor | WSOF 10 Las Vegas, NV, U.S. | June 21, 2014 | 961 days | 1. def. Yushin Okami at WSOF 15 on Nov 15, 2014 |
Branch vacated title on February 6, 2017, after becoming free agent and signing with the UFC. | |||||
No. | Name | Event | Date | Reign | Defenses |
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1 | Steve Carl def. Josh Burkman | WSOF 6 Coral Gables, FL, U.S. | Oct 26, 2013 | 154 days | |
2 | Rousimar Palhares | WSOF 9 Las Vegas, NV, U.S. | Mar 29, 2014 | 492 days | 1. def. Jon Fitch at WSOF 16 on Dec 13, 2014 |
Palhares was stripped of the title on August 3, 2015. | |||||
3 | Jon Fitch def. João Zeferino | WSOF 30 Las Vegas, NV, U.S. | Apr 2, 2016 | 698 days | 1. def. Jake Shields at WSOF 34 on Dec 31, 2016 |
Fitch vacated title on March 1, 2018, after signing with Bellator. | |||||
No. | Name | Event | Date | Reign | Defenses |
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1 | Justin Gaethje def. Richard Patishnock | WSOF 8 Hollywood, FL, U.S. | Jan 18, 2014 | 1196 days | 1. def. Nick Newell at WSOF 11 on July 5, 2014 |
Gaethje vacated title on April 27, 2017, after signing with the UFC. | |||||
No. | Name | Event | Date | Reign | Defenses |
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1 | Georgi Karakhanyan def. Lance Palmer | WSOF 7 Vancouver, BC, Canada | Dec 7, 2013 | 196 days | |
2 | Ricky Glenn | WSOF 10 Las Vegas, NV, U.S. | Jun 21, 2014 | 176 days | |
3 | Lance Palmer | WSOF 16 Sacramento, CA, U.S. | Dec 13, 2014 | 371 days | 1. def. Chris Horodecki at WSOF 21 on June 5, 2015 |
4 | Alexandre Almeida | WSOF 26 Las Vegas, NV, U.S. | Dec 18, 2015 | 226 days | |
5 | Lance Palmer (2) | WSOF 32 Everett, WA, U.S. | Jul 30, 2016 | 231 days (602 days) | |
6 | Andre Harrison | WSOF 35 Verona, NY, U.S. | Mar 18, 2017 | 446 days | 1. def. Steven Rodriguez at PFL Everett on Jul 29, 2017 |
The WSOF Featherweight championship was retired on June 7, 2018 when the PFL league format began at PFL 1. [1] [2] | |||||
No. | Name | Event | Date | Reign | Defenses |
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1 | Marlon Moraes def. Josh Rettinghouse | WSOF 9 Las Vegas, NV, USA | March 29, 2014 | 1,011 days | 1. def. Josh Hill at WSOF 18 on Feb 12, 2015 |
Moraes vacated title on January 3, 2017, after becoming a free agent and signing with the UFC. | |||||
2 | Bekbulat Magomedov def. Donavon Frelow | WSOF 35 Verona, NY, USA | March 18, 2017 | 446 days | |
The WSOF Bantamweight championship was retired on June 7, 2018 when the PFL league format began at PFL 1. [1] [2] | |||||
No. | Name | Event | Date | Reign | Defenses |
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1 | Magomed Bibulatov def. Donavon Frelow | WSOF 24 Mashantucket, CT, USA | October 17, 2015 | 446 days | |
Bibulatov vacated title on January 5, 2017, after joining the UFC. | |||||
No. | Name | Event | Date | Reign | Defenses |
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1 | Jessica Aguilar def. Alida Gray | WSOF 8 Hollywood, FL, USA | January 18, 2014 | 484 days | 1. def. Emi Fujino at WSOF 10 on June 21, 2014 |
Aguilar vacated title on May 18, 2015, after joining the UFC. | |||||
No. | Name | Event | Date | Reign | Defenses |
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1 | Ryan Ford def. Joel Powell | WSOF Canada 1 Edmonton, AB, Canada | February 21, 2014 | 472 days | |
Ford vacated title on June 8, 2015, after retiring from the sport of MMA. |
No. | Name | Event | Date | Reign | Defenses |
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1 | Evgeny Erokhin def. Brandon Cash | WSOF Global Championship 2: Japan Tokyo, Japan | February 7, 2016 | 851 days | 1. def. Richard Odoms at WSOF Global Championship 3: Philippines |
All WSOF International championships were retired and vacated on June 7, 2018 when the PFL league format began at PFL 1. [1] [2] | |||||
No. | Name | Event | Date | Reign | Defenses |
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1 | Yusaku Nakamura def. Lawrence Diguilio | Deep Cage Impact 2016: DEEP vs. WSOF-GC Tokyo, Japan | December 17, 2016 | 537 days | |
All WSOF International championships were retired and vacated on June 7, 2018 when the PFL league format began at PFL 1. [1] [2] | |||||
Event(s) | Division | Champion | Runner-up | Final |
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WSOF 5, WSOF 7 e WSOF 10 | Middleweight | David Branch | Jesse Taylor | June 21, 2014 |
WSOF 20 e WSOF 23 | Light Heavyweight | David Branch | Teddy Holder | September 18, 2015 |
WSOF 25 | Lightweight | Brian Foster | João Zeferino | November 20, 2015 |
The following includes all fighters with three or more championship and/or interim championship title fights. Fighters with the same number of title wins are arranged in order of most title bouts. Tournament championships are not included.
Title wins | Champion | Weight class | W | D | NC | L |
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6 | Justin Gaethje | Lightweight | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Marlon Moraes | Bantamweight | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
David Branch | Light Heavyweight Middleweight | 2 4 | 0 0 | 0 0 | 0 0 | |
5 | Blagoy Ivanov | Heavyweight | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
3 | Lance Palmer | Featherweight | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
Jessica Aguilar | Women's Strawweight | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Rousimar Palhares | Welterweight | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
The following includes all WSOF champions who were able to consecutively defend their title two times or more. Fighters with the same number of title defenses are listed chronologically.
Defenses | Champion | Weight class | Span |
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5 | Justin Gaethje | Lightweight | January 18, 2014 - April 27, 2017 |
Marlon Moraes | Bantamweight | March 29, 2014 - January 3, 2017 | |
4 | Blagoy Ivanov | Heavyweight | June 5, 2015 - April 25, 2018 |
3 | David Branch | Middleweight | June 21, 2014 - February 6, 2017 |
2 | Jessica Aguilar | Women's Strawweight | January 18, 2014 - May 18, 2015 |
Rousimar Palhares | Welterweight | March 29, 2014 - August 4, 2015 |
Interim title |
Fighters who have won championships in multiple weight classes. [3] Tournament champions are not included.
No. | Champion | Division | Won | Lost | Defenses | Reign | Total Reign |
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1 | David Branch | Light Heavyweight | September 18, 2015 (WSOF 23) | February 6, 2017 (Vacated) | 1 | 507 days | 1468 days |
Middleweight | June 21, 2014 (WSOF 10) | February 6, 2017 (Vacated) | 3 | 961 days |
This table, different from the previous one, only counts the periods in which the fighter loaded the titles simultaneously and the defenses in that period of time.
No. | Champion | Division | Span | Defenses | Simultaneous Reign |
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1 | David Branch | Light Heavyweight | September 18, 2015 – February 6, 2017 | 1 | 507 days |
Middleweight | 2 |
Fighters with multiple title reigns in a specific division will be counted once in the Division champions. Interim champions who have never become linear champions will be listed as interim champions.
Country | Tournament champions | Division champions | International champions | Total |
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United States | 8 | 8 | - | 16 |
Brazil | 6 | 3 | - | 9 |
Russia | 3 | 3 | 1 | 7 |
Canada | 1 | - | 1 | 1 |
Argentina | 1 | - | - | 1 |
Bulgaria | - | 1 | - | 1 |
Greece | - | 1 | - | 1 |
Mexico | - | 1 | - | 1 |
Japan | - | - | 1 | 1 |
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