🥋UFC
The UFC, the world's biggest mixed martial arts promotion, was founded on November 12, 1993 at the McNichols Sports Arena in Denver, Colorado as a one-night, no-weight-class, almost-no-rules tournament built to answer a single question: which martial art actually wins a real fight. Royce Gracie won that first event with Brazilian jiu-jitsu, the audience was small, the production was rough, and the company nearly went bankrupt multiple times in the 1990s before being bought by the Fertitta brothers in 2001 for two million dollars. They installed Dana White as president, lobbied to legalize the sport in every US state, launched The Ultimate Fighter reality show in 2005, and turned the UFC into a 12-billion-dollar combat-sports empire by 2024. The athletes are now serious mixed martial artists with NCAA wrestling, Olympic judo, world-class boxing and submission grappling backgrounds. The polls are brutal because every fight ends with someone unconscious or tapping out, which means every fan has a hot take about every result. On moomz the chart fills every fight week. GOAT debates, McGregor versus Khabib, Jon Jones versus history, Islam Makhachev versus the next era, the best knockout ever, the worst decision ever. Drop a poll the morning of the main card and watch your group chat finally settle who is just watching highlights and who actually paid for the PPV.
The GOAT debate, brutal and unsettled
Jon Jones is the modern statistical GOAT by almost every metric: a record number of light-heavyweight title defenses, an undefeated record except for one disqualification loss for illegal elbows, and a successful move up to heavyweight where he won the title at 35. The asterisks on his career, multiple suspensions for banned substances, multiple legal issues outside the cage, are enough that polls on the true UFC GOAT often split. Khabib Nurmagomedov retired 29-0 with the lightweight title still around his waist, the only major champion to leave with an undefeated record. Anderson Silva ran a 16-fight win streak across seven years that defined the middleweight era. Georges St-Pierre returned from a four-year retirement to win a second weight class. Demetrious Johnson set the lower-weight standard. Amanda Nunes did it across two weight classes in the women's era. moomz polls on the GOAT splinter five or six ways. That is the fun. Drop the poll and watch the chart reveal who in your group chat has been watching since the Tito Ortiz era and who started during the McGregor pop.
McGregor, Khabib, and the era that built the brand
Conor McGregor versus Khabib Nurmagomedov, fought on October 6, 2018 in Las Vegas, is the single most-polled UFC event of the modern era. Khabib won by fourth-round submission, then jumped the cage to fight McGregor's training partner, and turned the post-fight night into the most chaotic scene the sport has ever broadcast. The pre-fight build, with McGregor smashing the bus in Brooklyn, the post-fight interview where Dana White had to physically pull a microphone away, and the Khabib team unbeaten run that followed, defined the UFC's mainstream breakthrough. McGregor never recovered his peak. Khabib retired at 29-0 in 2020 after his father's death. The polls on whether McGregor could have won that fight in any timeline, whether Khabib was the better fighter or just the better matchup, whether the rivalry built the UFC or only briefly inflated it, all of them are still active. moomz polls on the single most important UFC fight ever currently put Khabib vs McGregor in first place, ahead of Hughes vs GSP, Silva vs Sonnen, and Jones vs Gustafsson. The chart says the moment was that big.
The current era, the next generation, the polling chaos
The current UFC era has more depth than any in the company's history. Islam Makhachev defends the lightweight title against an absurd top ten. Alex Pereira moved up from middleweight to win light-heavyweight gold inside a year. Ilia Topuria knocked out Volkanovski at featherweight and now sits at the top of multiple pound-for-pound lists. Leon Edwards won welterweight gold with a final-minute head kick that became a meme. Sean O'Malley pulled the bantamweight title and turned it into a TikTok-era brand. Tom Aspinall is one Jones unification fight away from owning the heavyweight era. The women's side has Valentina Shevchenko, Zhang Weili, Alexa Grasso and Kayla Harrison all in title-fight rotation. moomz polls on the pound-for-pound rankings in any given month are the most active combat-sports polls on the app. The chart shifts every fight night. Drop a poll on who you think wins the next McGregor return, the next Jones unification, the next welterweight challenger, and your group chat suddenly has skin in the game without any actual gambling involved.
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Frequently asked
Q.When and where was the first UFC event held?+
UFC 1 took place on November 12, 1993 at the McNichols Sports Arena in Denver, Colorado. It was a single-night, eight-fighter tournament designed to determine which martial art was most effective in real combat. There were almost no rules: no weight classes, no judges, no rounds, and no gloves. Royce Gracie won the tournament using Brazilian jiu-jitsu, defeating opponents who outweighed him by 40 to 80 pounds, and instantly made BJJ the most important grappling style in MMA history.
Q.Who is the GOAT of MMA according to most rankings?+
Most modern rankings put Jon Jones first based on his light-heavyweight dominance and heavyweight title win, with Khabib Nurmagomedov a close second because of his undefeated 29-0 record. Georges St-Pierre, Anderson Silva, Demetrious Johnson and Amanda Nunes round out the consensus top six. Fan polls on moomz split sharply because Jones has multiple PED-related asterisks while Khabib retired clean but with a smaller sample of championship defenses. The debate is one of the most evenly split GOAT polls in combat sports.
Q.Why did Khabib retire undefeated?+
Khabib Nurmagomedov retired at 29-0 in October 2020 after defending the lightweight title against Justin Gaethje at UFC 254. His father Abdulmanap, who was his lifelong coach, had died from Covid-19 complications a few months earlier, and Khabib had promised his mother he would stop fighting after one more match. He confirmed retirement immediately after the Gaethje submission win, was offered multiple eight-figure paydays to return, and refused. He is the only major UFC champion to leave undefeated.
Q.Are UFC polls fair if my group is half casuals and half hardcores?+
On moomz the poll is exactly as fair as the room you share it with. A half-casual, half-hardcore split usually produces the most interesting chart because the casuals vote based on the recent main event while the hardcores vote based on a deeper sample. The post-poll group-chat argument is where the actual learning happens. Drop the poll, the chart speaks, and somebody is finally forced to admit they only watched the highlight reel.