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UFC MMA events in 2020 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The year 2020 was the 28th year in the history of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), a mixed martial arts promotion based in the United States.
2020 in UFC | ||||
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Information | ||||
First date | January 18, 2020 | |||
Last date | December 19, 2020 | |||
Events | ||||
Total events | 46 (5 Cancelled) | |||
UFC | 11 | |||
Fights | ||||
Total fights | 456 | |||
Title fights | 19 | |||
Chronology | ||||
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Starting in 2021, a partnership between the UFC and Dapper Labs's Flow platform for MMA fans to own, maintain and trade UFC-branded collectibles was announced on February 26, 2020.[1]
Onwards from April 2021, the UFC announced Venum as their exclusive outfitting partner on July 11, 2020.[2]
The numbers below records the events, fights, techniques and fighters held or performed for the year of 2020 in UFC.[3]
Events | |||||||
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Numbers | PPV | Locations | Countries | Cities | Highest attendance | Lowest attendance | Notes |
41 | 11 | 10 | 4 | 9 | 19,040 | 0 | 5 cancelled |
Fights | |||||||
Numbers | Knockouts | Submission | Unanimous decision | Split decision | No contest | Total fight time | Notes |
456 | 139 | 82 | 185 | 35 | 5 | 83' 33" | Total title fights - 19 |
Techniques | |||||||
Fastest knockout | Fastest submission | Significant punches landed | Number of takedown performed | Number of attempts for a takedown | Number of knockdowns | Number of submission attempts | Notes |
Khamzat Chimaev - 0:17 seconds | Brian Kelleher - 0.39 seconds | 40,180 | 905 | 2,447 | 187 | 281 | |
Fighters | |||||||
Number of fighters | UFC debutants | Releases / Retired | Fighters suspended | Number of champions | Number of interim champions | Number of title defenses | Notes |
576 | 123 | 85 | 34 | 13 | 1 | 15 | |
These fighters have either been released from their UFC contracts, announced their retirement or joined other promotions:
The following fighters fought their first UFC fight in 2020:
The list below is based on fighters suspended either by (1) United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) or World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) for violation of taking prohibited substances or non-analytical incidents, (2) by local commissions on misconduct during the fights or at event venues, or (3) by the UFC for reasons also stated below.
ISO | Name | Nickname | Division | From | Duration | Tested positive for / Info | By | Eligible to fight again |
Ref. | Notes |
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Fabrício Werdum | Vai Cavalo | Heavyweight | Apr 25, 2018 | 2 years | Trenbolone, an anabolic steroid. | USADA | Apr 1, 2020 | [63] [64] |
Reduced suspension as a result of 'substantial assistance' | |
T.J. Dillashaw | Bantamweight | Jan 18, 2019 | 1 year (NYSAC) 2 years (USADA) |
Erythropoietin (EPO). | NYSAC and USADA | Jan 18, 2021 | [65] [66] |
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Michel Prazeres | Welterweight | Mar 9, 2019 | 2 years | Exogenous boldenone and its metabolite 5β-androst-1-en-17β-ol-3-one. | USADA | Mar 9, 2021 | [67] | |||
Hu Yaozong | Totoro | Light Heavyweight | Mar 9, 2019 | Initially 1 year but reduced to 10 months | Arimistane and its metabolite from contamination supplement. | USADA | Jan 9, 2020 | [68] | ||
Roman Dolidze | Bazooka | Light Heavyweight | Mar 12, 2019 | 1 year | Clomiphene hormone and its metabolites M1 and M2, as well as 4-chloro-18-nor-17β-hydroxymethyl,17α-methyl-5α-androst-13-en-3α-ol (M3), which is a long-term metabolite of dehydrochlormethyltestosterone (DHCMT). | USADA | March 12, 2020 | [69] | ||
Jessica Penne | Women's Flyweight | Apr 8, 2019 | Initially 4 years but reduced to 20 months | Stanozolol metabolites 16β-hydroxystanozolol and 3′-hydroxystanozolol. | USADA | Dec 8, 2020 | [70] | Original suspension was 4 years after second violation, but reduced to 20 months in February 2020 | ||
Melissa Gatto | Women's Bantamweight | Jun 5, 2019 | 1 year | Furosemide, a diuretic. | USADA | Jun 5, 2020 | [71] | |||
Bruno Silva | Blindado | Middleweight | Jun 14, 2019 | 2 years | Boldenone and its metabolite. | USADA | Jun 14, 2021 | [72] | ||
Vince Murdock | Featherweight | Jul 6, 2019 | 20 months | GW1516, a hormone modulator that is better known as cardarine. It is often sold on the black market as endurobol. |
USADA | Sep 6, 2020 | [73] | Originally banned for 20 months and reduced to 14 months after documenting neurological condition moyamoya | ||
Giacomo Lemos | Heavyweight | Jul 9, 2019 | 2 years | Drostanolone and its metabolite 2α-methyl-5α-androstan-3α-ol-17-one. | USADA | Jul 9, 2021 | [75] | |||
John Allan | Light Heavyweight | Jul 13, 2019 | 1 year | Tamoxifen. | USADA and CSAC | Jul 13, 2020 | [75] | Fined $4,800 by the CSAC | ||
Istela Nunes | Women's Strawweight | Jul 22, 2019 | 2 years | Stanozolol metabolites 16β-hydroxystanozolol and 3′-hydroxystanozolol. | USADA | Jul 22, 2021 | [76] | |||
Sean O'Malley | Bantamweight | Aug 6, 2019 | 6 months | Ostarine. | USADA | Feb 6, 2020 | [77] | |||
Khalid Taha | The Warrior | Bantamweight | Oct 6, 2019 | 1 year | Furosemide (diuretics). | USADA | Oct 6, 2020 | [78] | ||
Priscila Cachoeira | Women's Flyweight | Oct 12, 2019 | 4 months | Hydrochlorothiazide (HCTZ) and its metabolites chlorothiazide and 4amino-6chloro-1,3-benzenedisulfonamide (ACB). | USADA | Feb 12, 2020 | [79] | |||
Ovince Saint Preux | OSP | Light Heavyweight | Oct 25, 2019 | 3 months | Ostarine and S-23, the family of selective androgen receptor modulators (SARMs). | USADA | Jan 25, 2020 | [80] | Ostarine came from a tainted supplement | |
Diego Sanchez | Nightmare | Welterweight | Oct 26, 2019 | 3 months | Ostarine and S-23, the family of selective androgen receptor modulators (SARMs). | USADA | Jan 26, 2020 | [80] | Ostarine came from a tainted supplement | |
Kelvin Gastelum | Middleweight | Nov 3, 2019 | Initially 9 months but reduced to 5 months | Marijuana. | USADA | Apr 3, 2020 | [81] | Original suspension was 9 months, but reduced to 5 months after Gastelum's successful completion of a drug treatment program | ||
Isabella de Pádua | Belinha | Women's Flyweight | Nov 16, 2019 | 2 years | 19-Norandrosterone (19-NA), the main urinary metabolite of nandrolone (19-nortestosterone) and other 19-norsteroids (class of anabolic agent). | USADA and CABMMA | Nov 16, 2021 | [67] [18] |
Released | |
Rachael Ostovich | Women's Flyweight | Jan 3, 2020 | 8 months | Ostarine and GW1516. | USADA | Sep 9, 2020 | [82] | Prohibited substance found in supplement | ||
Duda Santana | Cowboyzinha | Women's Bantamweight | Jan 10, 2020 | 1 year | Selective androgen receptor modulator LGD-4033 | USADA | Jan 10, 2021 | [83] | Released by UFC | |
Lara Procópio | Women's Bantamweight | Feb 17, 2020 | 6 months | Ostarine | USADA | Aug 17, 2020 | [84] | |||
Raphael Pessoa | Bebezão | Heavyweight | Mar 4, 2020 | 1 year | hydrochlorothiazide and its metabolites chlorothiazide and 4-amino-6-chloro-1,3-benzenedisulfonamide | USADA | Mar 4, 2021 | [85] | ||
Deron Winn | Middleweight | Mar 7, 2020 | 9 months | Amphetamines. | NSAC | Dec 7, 2020 | [86] | Fined $1,800 | ||
Chase Sherman | The Vanilla Gorilla | Heavyweight | May 13, 2020 | 9 months | Anastrozole | USADA | Feb 13, 2021 | [87] | ||
Jamahal Hill | Sweet Dreams | Light Heavyweight | May 30, 2020 | 6 months | Marijuana. | NSAC | Nov 30, 2020 | [86] | Fined 15% of his fight purse | |
Aleksander Doskalchuk | Flyweight | Jun 6, 2020 | 14 months | Mesterolone. | USADA | Aug 6, 2021 | [88] | |||
Luis Peña | Violent Bob Ross | Lightweight | Jun 17, 2020 | 4+1⁄2 months | Marijuana. | NSAC | Nov 2, 2020 | [86] | Reduced suspension was due to his fight being taken on short notice, fined 15% of his fight purse | |
Tim Elliott | Flyweight | Jun 17, 2020 | 4+1⁄2 months | Marijuana. | NSAC | Nov 2, 2020 | [86] | Reduced suspension was due to his fight being taken on short notice, fined 15% of his fight purse | ||
Marc-Andre Barriault | Power Bar | Middleweight | Jul 21, 2020 | 6 months | Ostarine | USADA | Jan 21, 2021 | [89] | ||
Jesse Ronson | The Body Snatcher | Welterweight | Jul 22, 2020 | 20 months | Metandienone | USADA | Mar 22, 2022 | [90] | ||
Jorge Gonzalez | George St. | Light Heavyweight | Aug 5, 2020 | 2 years | Stanozolol metabolites, drostanolone metabolite and tamoxifen metabolite. | USADA | Aug 5, 2022 | [91] | ||
Yair Rodríguez | El Pantera | Featherweight | Sep 8, 2020 | 6 months | 3 Whereabouts Failures in Last Year | USADA | Mar 8, 2021 | [92] | ||
Kevin Croom | The Hard Hitting Hillbilly | Lightweight | Sep 19, 2020 | 4+1⁄2 months | Marijuana. | NSAC | Jan 26, 2021 | [93] | With addition of $1,800 fine | |
Niko Price | The Hybrid | Welterweight | Sep 19, 2020 | 6 months | Marijuana | NSAC | Mar 19, 2021 | [94] | With addition of $8,500 fine | |
Oskar Piechota | Imadło | Middleweight | Sep 25, 2020 | 22 months | Growth hormone releasing peptide 2 (GHRP-2 or pralmorelin) and GHRP-2 (1-3) free acid, a metabolite of GHRP-2, | USADA | Jul 25, 2022 | [95] | ||
Erik Koch | The Phoenix | Welterweight | Oct 3, 2020 | 18 months | 3′-hydroxy-stanozolol, a metabolite of stanozolol | USADA | Apr 3, 2022 | [96] | ||
Charlie Ontiveros | The American Badboy | Welterweight | Oct 30, 2020 | 6 months | Chlorodehydromethyltestosterone metabolites | NSAC | Apr 30, 2021 | [97] | With addition of $2,245.36 | |
Raquel Pennington | Rocky | Women's Bantamweight | Nov 7, 2020 | 6 months | 7-Keto-DHEA and AOD-9064 | USADA | May 7, 2021 | [98] | Self-reporting doping violation when she found out she had ingested banned substances prescribed by her doctor to help treat a medical condition | |
Liliya Shakirova | Women's Flyweight | Dec 5, 2020 | 2 years | Meldonium | USADA | Dec 5, 2022 | [99] | |||
Title fights in 2020 | ||||||||
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Weight class | Method | Round | Time | Event | Notes | |||
Women's Flyweight | Valentina Shevchenko (c) | def. | Katlyn Chookagian | TKO (elbows and punches) | 3 | 1:03 | UFC 247 | [lower-alpha 1] |
Light Heavyweight | Jon Jones (c) | def. | Dominick Reyes | Decision (unanimous) (48–47, 48–47, 49–46) | 5 | 5:00 | UFC 247 | [lower-alpha 2] |
Flyweight | Deiveson Figueiredo | def. | Joseph Benavidez | TKO (punches) | 2 | 1:54 | UFC Fight Night 169 | [lower-alpha 3] |
Women's Strawweight | Zhang Weili (c) | def. | Joanna Jędrzejczyk | Decision (split) (48–47, 47–48, 48–47) | 5 | 5:00 | UFC 248 | [lower-alpha 4] |
Middleweight | Israel Adesanya (c) | def. | Yoel Romero | Decision (unanimous) (48–47, 48–47, 49–46) | 5 | 5:00 | UFC 248 | [lower-alpha 5] |
Bantamweight | Henry Cejudo (c) | def. | Dominick Cruz | TKO (knee and punches) | 2 | 4:58 | UFC 249 | [lower-alpha 6] |
Lightweight | Justin Gaethje | def. | Tony Ferguson | TKO (punches) | 5 | 3:39 | UFC 249 | [lower-alpha 7] |
Women's Featherweight | Amanda Nunes (c) | def. | Felicia Spencer | Decision (unanimous) (50–44, 50–44, 50–45) | 5 | 5:00 | UFC 250 | [lower-alpha 8] |
Bantamweight | Petr Yan | def. | José Aldo | TKO (punches) | 5 | 3:24 | UFC 251 | [lower-alpha 9] |
Featherweight | Alexander Volkanovski (c) | def. | Max Holloway | Decision (split) (47–48, 48–47, 48–47) | 5 | 5:00 | UFC 251 | [lower-alpha 10] |
Welterweight | Kamaru Usman (c) | def. | Jorge Masvidal | Decision (unanimous) (50–45, 50–45, 49–46) | 5 | 5:00 | UFC 251 | [lower-alpha 11] |
Flyweight | Deiveson Figueiredo | def. | Joseph Benavidez | Technical Submission (rear-naked choke) | 1 | 4:48 | UFC Fight Night 172 | [lower-alpha 12] |
Heavyweight | Stipe Miocic (c) | def. | Daniel Cormier | Decision (unanimous) (49–46, 49–46, 48–47) | 5 | 5:00 | UFC 252 | [lower-alpha 13] |
Light Heavyweight | Jan Błachowicz | def. | Dominick Reyes | TKO (punches) | 2 | 4:36 | UFC 253 | [lower-alpha 14] |
Middleweight | Israel Adesanya (c) | def. | Paulo Costa | TKO (punches) | 2 | 3:59 | UFC 253 | [lower-alpha 15] |
Lightweight | Khabib Nurmagomedov (c) | def. | Justin Gaethje (ic) | Technical Submission (triangle choke) | 2 | 1:34 | UFC 254 | [lower-alpha 16] |
Women's Flyweight | Valentina Shevchenko (c) | def. | Jennifer Maia | Decision (unanimous) (49–46, 49–46, 49–46) | 5 | 5:00 | UFC 255 | [lower-alpha 17] |
Flyweight | Deiveson Figueiredo (c) | def. | Alex Perez | Submission (guillotine choke) | 1 | 1:57 | UFC 255 | [lower-alpha 18] |
Flyweight | Deiveson Figueiredo (c) | vs. | Brandon Moreno | Draw (majority) (48–46, 47–47, 47–47) | 5 | 5:00 | UFC 256 | [lower-alpha 19] |
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