The year 2009 is the 17th year in the history of the
Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), a
mixed martial arts promotion based in the United States. In 2009 the UFC held 20 events beginning with, ''UFC 93: Franklin vs. Henderson''.
Title fights
The Ultimate Fighter
Debut UFC fighters
The following fighters fought their first UFC fight in 2009:
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Aaron Simpson
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Alexander Gustafsson
Alexander Gustafsson (born 15 January 1987) is a Swedish professional mixed martial artist. Gustafsson currently competes in the light heavyweight division for the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC).
Gustafsson spent a major part of his MMA ...
*Alexandre Barros
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Andre Winner
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Antônio Rogério Nogueira
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Ben Rothwell
Ben Rothwell (born October 17, 1981) is an American mixed martial artist who competes as a Heavyweight. He most notably had a 17 bout stint in the Ultimate Fighting Championship and competed for the Quad Cities Silverbacks of the IFL where he h ...
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Brendan Schaub
*Brian Cobb
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Brian Foster
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Brian Stann
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Cameron Dollar
Cameron Dollar (born December 9, 1975) is an American college basketball coach who was most recently an assistant coach for the Washington Huskies. He was previously an assistant coach at Washington before serving as the head coach for the Seattl ...
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Carlos Condit
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Chase Gormley
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Chris Tuchscherer
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DaMarques Johnson
DaMarques Johnson (born June 28, 1982) is a retired American mixed martial artist. He competed for the UFC and King of the Cage and was the Welterweight runner-up on '' The Ultimate Fighter: United States vs. United Kingdom''.
Background
Johnson ...
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Dan Cramer
Daniel John Cramer (born October 31, 1985) is an American retired mixed martial artist. A professional from 2009 until 2014, Cramer made his professional debut with the Ultimate Fighting Championships (UFC) and was a competitor on SpikeTV's '' T ...
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Danillo Villefort
Danillo Villefort (born August 5, 1983) is a Brazilian professional mixed martial artist. Villefort has fought for the UFC, WEC, IFL, World Series of Fighting, and Professional Fighters League fighting in their Middleweight division.
Biograph ...
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Darrill Schoonover
''The Ultimate Fighter: Heavyweights'' is the tenth installment of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC)-produced reality television series ''The Ultimate Fighter''. In a press conference following ''UFC 98'', Dana White announced that filming ...
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Denis Kang
*Denis Stojnic
*Derek Downey
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Drew McFedries
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Edgar Garcia
Edgar is a commonly used English given name, from an Anglo-Saxon name ''Eadgar'' (composed of '' ead'' "rich, prosperous" and ''gar'' "spear").
Like most Anglo-Saxon names, it fell out of use by the later medieval period; it was, however, rev ...
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Evan Dunham
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Fabricio Camões
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Frank Lester
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Igor Pokrajac
*Ivan Serati
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Jacob Volkmann
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Jake Ellenberger
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Jake Rosholt
Jake may refer to:
Name
* Jake (given name), including a list of persons and fictional characters with the name
* Katrin Jäke (born c. 1975), German swimmer
* Jake (gamer), American ''Overwatch'' player and coach
Animals
* Jake (rescue dog), a s ...
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James McSweeney
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James Wilks
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Jared Hamman
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Jay Silva
*Jesse Lennox
*Jesse Sanders
*Joe Brammer
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John Hathaway
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John Howard
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Johny Hendricks
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Jon Madsen
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Justin Wren
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Kimbo Slice
*Lucio Linhares
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Marcus Jones
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Mark Muñoz
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Matt Mitrione
Matthew Steven Mitrione (born July 15, 1978) is an American mixed martial artist and former American football player, who competed for both the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), and most recently for Bellator MMA. Prior to embarking on an MMA ...
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Matt Veach
Matt Alan Veach (born May 31, 1981) is a retired American mixed martial arts fighter who most recently competed in the Welterweight division. A professional competitor since 2006, he has competed for the UFC, BAMMA, the MFC, and Cage Warriors.
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*Mike Ciesnolevicz
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Mike Pierce
Michael Pierce (born September 1, 1980) is a retired American professional mixed martial artist. He formerly competed as a Welterweight in the UFC and also competed in a one-fight stint in the WEC.
Personal life
Pierce is married and has two c ...
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Mike Pyle
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Mike Russow
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Neil Grove
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Nick Catone
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Nick Osipczak
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Nik Lentz
*Nissen Osterneck
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Paul Daley
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Paulo Thiago
Paulo Thiago Alencar Antunes (; born January 25, 1981) is a Brazilian mixed martial artist who most recently competed in the Middleweight (MMA), Middleweight division of Konfrontacja Sztuk Walki, KSW. A professional competitor since 2005, he ha ...
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Peter Sobotta
Peter Sobotta (born January 11, 1987) is a retired Polish-born German professional mixed martial artist, who fought in the Welterweight division of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC). A professional competitor since 2004, Sobotta has also f ...
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Rafaello Oliveira
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Ricardo Funch
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Rick Story
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Rodney Wallace
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Ross Pearson
Ross Pearson (born 26 September 1984) is a retired English mixed martial artist who last competed in 2019. A 26-fight veteran of the UFC, he was a three-time "Fight of the Night" winner and was the lightweight winner of The Ultimate Fighter 9.
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Roy Nelson
*Ryan Madigan
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Stefan Struve
*Steve Lopez
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Steve Steinbeiss
Steve Thomas Steinbeiss (born May 5, 1981) is an American mixed martial artist who recently fought in the middleweight division of the Ultimate Fighting Championship.
Mixed martial arts career
Ultimate Fighting Championship
Steinbeiss was pa ...
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Tim Hague
Timothy Edward Lee Hague (May 9, 1983 – June 18, 2017) was a Canadian mixed martial artist and boxer who competed in the heavyweight division, most recently for Absolute Championship Berkut. He became a professional fighter in 2006, and formerl ...
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Tim McKenzie
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T. J. Grant
T is the twentieth letter of the Latin alphabet. (For the same letterform in the Cyrillic and Greek alphabets, see Te (Cyrillic), Te and Tau respectively).
T may also refer to:
Codes and units
* T, Tera- as in one trillion
* T, the symbol for ...
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Todd Duffee
*Tom Egan
*Xavier Foupa-Pokam
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Yoshihiro Akiyama
Events list
See also
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UFC
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List of UFC champions
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List of UFC events
This is a list of events held and scheduled by the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), a mixed martial arts promotion based in the United States. UFC's first event, UFC 1, took place on November 12, 1993. Each UFC event contains several fight ...
References
{{UFC Events
Ultimate Fighting Championship by year
2009 in mixed martial arts