Lineal Championship History: Bantamweights

First, a run-down of the particulars:

• Due to potential metric conversion issues and weight class changes, a limit of 137 pounds is observed for this list.
• Inception of the championship occured on 7/29/1989, the fifth known professional fight taking place at or below 137 pounds, which included the first two winners of Bantamweight bouts in a previous event (the other two bouts were draws).
• Periodic inactivity was a sporadic issue in the Bantamweight division.  In early history, ranked fights were so sporadic, that the winners of these “best available” matches were used to fill gaps.  Idea is to not allow title vacancy for more than 2 years. In later Bantamweight history, only fights between established 1/2, 1/3 or 2/3 were used.

Your current lineal Bantamweight champion is Dominick Cruz

The full history is below.  Note, the colored backgrounds indicate a title change.

MMA Bantamweight Lineal Championship History