UFC Women's Strawweight Champions: All 6 Winners Listed

Quick answer

AgentMMA counts 6 fighters who have won a UFC women's strawweight title fight across 21 championship bouts. As of October 22, 2026, Mackenzie Dern is the current champion in AgentMMA's rankings data. Joanna Jedrzejczyk was first to reach 6 title-fight wins, a mark Zhang Weili has also matched. This list tracks title-bout results, not separate championship reigns.

Data snapshot: AgentMMA analysis of 21 UFC Women's Strawweight title fights, computed 2026-10-22 from a database window of 1994-03-11 to 2026-10-17.

UFC women's strawweight champions: every title-fight winner

Every UFC Women's Strawweight title-fight winner

The order follows each fighter's first title-fight win, not her total wins. The record covers only UFC women's strawweight title fights. Joanna's 6-3-0, for example, isn't her full professional record.

A fighter appears once even if she wins the belt during separate reigns.

What were the last 10 UFC women's strawweight title fights?

Last 10 UFC Women's Strawweight title fights

This recent sequence starts with Zhang's UFC 248 win and ends with Dern's first successful defense. It records the result, method, finishing round and title type. It doesn't include scorecards or the length of each reign.

How this list is counted

AgentMMA starts with every UFC championship bout stored in its women's strawweight bout table. Undisputed and interim title fights qualify. An interim fight would be labelled as such rather than folded into the undisputed lineage.

Table 1 includes a fighter only after she wins one of those bouts. There is no minimum number of defenses or title appearances. One title-fight win is enough.

“Title-fight wins” and “title defenses” aren't the same measure. Winning a vacant belt counts as a title-fight win. Regaining a lost belt also counts. A loss remains part of the title-fight record but doesn't add a win.

Administrative changes need separate treatment because they aren't fights. UFC title-lineage material records that Zhang Weili vacated the belt in 2025 before moving to flyweight. Mackenzie Dern then beat Virna Jandiroba for the vacant undisputed title. The vacancy doesn't create a row in a bout table.

Another list may count reigns, successful defenses or every person promoted from interim champion. That can produce a different total. AgentMMA instead counts 21 actual championship bouts and the 6 fighters who won at least one.

The UFC Record Book also lists Joanna Jedrzejczyk and Zhang Weili with 6 title-fight wins in this division. That matches AgentMMA's snapshot. Joanna appears earlier here because she reached her first title-fight win in 2015.

The displayed database window begins on 1994-03-11. The first women's strawweight title-fight win in this table came on 2014-12-12.

Notable names on the list

Joanna Jedrzejczyk: first to six

Jedrzejczyk took the belt from Carla Esparza in March 2015. Her 6-3-0 title-fight record set the division's benchmark before Zhang matched the win total.

She retired in June 2022 and entered the UFC Hall of Fame's Modern Wing in 2024. Her five-round UFC 248 fight with Zhang entered the Fight Wing in 2026. It was the first women's bout selected for that wing.

Mackenzie Dern: the current champion

Dern won the vacant title against Virna Jandiroba at UFC 321. She then beat Gillian Robertson by decision at UFC 330 for her first successful defense.

That gives Dern a 2-0-0 divisional title-fight record in this study. She remains the champion in AgentMMA's data as of October 22, 2026. Check the UFC Women's Strawweight rankings for the live answer.

Zhang Weili: six wins across two reigns

Zhang stopped Jessica Andrade to win the title in 2019. After losing twice to Rose Namajunas, she reclaimed the belt from Carla Esparza and added three more wins.

Her 6-2-0 record now matches Jedrzejczyk's six title-fight wins. Zhang vacated the strawweight belt in 2025 to pursue the flyweight title.

Rose Namajunas: four wins against elite champions

Namajunas owns a 4-3-0 strawweight title-fight record. Her four wins came across two championship runs, including victories over Jedrzejczyk and Zhang.

She later moved to flyweight. Her UFC profile records a January 2026 decision loss to Natalia Silva in that division, so she isn't part of the current strawweight title picture.

Carla Esparza: the first champion

Esparza beat Namajunas in December 2014 to become the inaugural UFC women's strawweight champion. She regained the belt against the same opponent in May 2022.

Her two title-fight wins came more than seven years apart. Esparza retired after her final UFC fight in October 2024.

Related AgentMMA pages

• UFC Flyweight title history
• UFC Bantamweight title history
• UFC Featherweight title history
• Most UFC title-fight wins
• Youngest and oldest UFC champions

How solid is this data?

The population contains 21 UFC women's strawweight title fights. AgentMMA computed it on 2026-10-22 from UFC Stats-derived results stored in its database. Table 2 shows only the latest 10, while Table 1 uses the full population.

Only UFC bouts count. Fights in Invicta FC or another promotion may appear in a fighter's professional record, but they never enter these UFC totals.

Results follow UFC Stats as stored by AgentMMA. If an official result is overturned, the bout counts as a no-contest. AgentMMA doesn't preserve the original win or loss after that change.

The current champion can change at the next event. The UFC Women's Strawweight rankings carry the live answer. This page will refresh after a new title result, a corrected result or a relevant change to the championship lineage.

FAQ

What is the complete list of UFC women's strawweight champions?

AgentMMA's title-fight method finds 6 winners: Carla Esparza, Joanna Jedrzejczyk, Rose Namajunas, Jessica Andrade, Zhang Weili and Mackenzie Dern. Multiple reigns don't create duplicate rows.

Who is the current UFC women's strawweight champion?

Mackenzie Dern is the current champion in AgentMMA's rankings data as of October 22, 2026. She has a 2-0-0 strawweight title-fight record.

Who has the most UFC women's strawweight title-fight wins?

Joanna Jedrzejczyk and Zhang Weili each have 6. Joanna comes first in this table because the list is ordered by the date of each fighter's first title-fight win.

How many UFC women's strawweight title fights have there been?

AgentMMA counted 21 championship bouts in its computed population. That includes undisputed and interim title fights under the stated method.

Who was the first UFC women's strawweight champion?

Carla Esparza became the inaugural champion by beating Rose Namajunas on 2014-12-12. She later regained the title in 2022.

Does this UFC women's strawweight title history include interim belts?

Yes. The method includes interim championship bouts and labels them separately. Every title shown in this snapshot's two tables is marked undisputed.