Carlos Ulberg
Magomed Ankalaev
Jiří Procházka
Alex Pereira
Khalil Rountree
Navajo Stirling
Paulo Costa
Jamahal Hill
Azamat Murzakanov
Jan Błachowicz
Dominick Reyes
Bogdan Guskov
Robert Whittaker
Johnny Walker
Alonzo Menifield
Nikita KrylovLight heavyweight runs to 205 pounds, with sixty pounds of empty air between it and the heavyweight limit. That is the widest gap between any two divisions in the sport.
For most of the UFC’s history this was the marquee weight class. Liddell, Ortiz, Rampage, Jones, Cormier — the fighters who defined eras mostly did it at 205. It still takes traffic from both sides: middleweights who can no longer make the cut, and heavyweights who never needed to be that big.