List of Bellator MMA champions
Welterweight World Championship

List of Bellator MMA champions

Section Title: Welterweight World Championship
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No.	Name	Event	Date	Reign	Defenses

1	United States Lyman Good def. Omar de la Cruz	Bellator 11 Uncasville, CT, USA	June 12, 2009	485 days

2	United States Ben Askren	Bellator 33 Philadelphia, PA, USA	October 21, 2010	1120 days	1. def.

Askren vacated the title on November 14, 2013 when he left Bellator for the ONE FC.

3	Brazil Douglas Lima def. Rick Hawn	Bellator 117 Council Bluffs, IA, USA	April 18, 2014	455 days

4	Russia Andrey Koreshkov	Bellator 140 Uncasville, CT, USA	July 17, 2015	482 days	1. def. Benson Henderson at Bellator 153 on April 22, 2016

5	Brazil Douglas Lima (2)	Bellator 164 Tel Aviv, Israel	November 10, 2016	437 days	1. def. Lorenz Larkin at Bellator NYC on June 24, 2017

6	Canada Rory MacDonald	Bellator 192 Inglewood, CA, USA	January 20, 2018	463 days (incumbent)	1. drew with Jon Fitch at Bellator 220 on April 27, 2019

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