Sherdog’s 2024 Year-End Awards: The Complete List Another impactful 12 months have somehow come and gone in mixed martial arts. Rules changed. Drug testing relaxed. Promotions folded. Once-bright flames faded or burned out altogether.

Check The Kick: Who Will Be The UFC Champs A Year From Now? Dev, Dayne and Ben look ahead at the UFC's 11 divisions, predicting who will reign over each at the end of 2025.

IVC 1: Dan Severn and Gary Goodridge Steal The Show in Sao Paulo Marcelo Alonso shares exclusive photos and anecdotes from IVC 1, the 1997 no-holds-barred tourney that established Brazil's realest vale tudo promotion.

5 Defining Moments: Brandon Royval The Denver native will kick off his 2025 campaign against former Rizin Fighting Federation champion Manel Kape in the UFC Fight Night 253 headliner on March 1.

Discussion: Rizin’s ‘Bangaichi’ & ‘Decade’ Join us in discussion of Dec. 31's annual Japanese love letter to kakutogi.

Fight Facts: UFC 2024, a Year in Review The Ultimate Fighting Championship continued its reign as the mightiest MMA league on the planet while other promotions waned this year.

Fight Facts: KSW 2024, a Year in Review Poland’s KSW promotion reached new heights in 2024, staging a record number of events and bouts while leaving its home nation repeatedly to expand its reach.

The FF-Files: Throw It Away These are actual videos sent to Sherdog Fight Finder. Seriously.

5 Things You Might Not Know About Belal Muhammad The undisputed Ultimate Fighting Championship welterweight titleholder will enter his 2025 campaign unbeaten in his past 11 outings, having compiled a 10-0 record with one no contest in that span.

Rivalries: Mackenzie Dern The decorated grappler will look to avenge one of her five career defeats when she rematches Amanda Ribas in the UFC Vegas 101 main event on Jan. 11.

By The Numbers: Tom Aspinall The interim Ultimate Fighting Championship heavyweight titleholder has cleared every available hurdle ahead of a potential blockbuster unification bout opposite current champion Jon Jones.

Opinion: 5 Cities That Need a Major MMA Event in 2025 Sherdog columnist J.L. Kirven examines the global locales that deserve their piece of the mixed martial arts pie.

Opinion: Patience is Tom Aspinall’s Best Friend The interim Ultimate Fighting Championship heavyweight titleholder would do well to adopt the absence-makes-the-heart-grow-fonder approach being employed by the man he currently chases, writes Dayne Fox.

Sherdog’s Top 10: Fastest Knockouts in UFC History The bearers of sudden violence in the Ultimate Fighting Championship have been many, from journeymen to titleholders and everything in between.

Sherdog’s 2024 Upset of the Year At UFC Macau in November, Gabriella Fernandes throttled Cong Wang, silencing a partisan crowd and securing one of the biggest betting upsets ever in a major MMA promotion.

5 Things You Might Not Know About Islam Makhachev The pound-for-pound ace and reigning Ultimate Fighting Championship lightweight titleholder will defend his undisputed crown when he rematches Arman Tsarukyan in the UFC 311 main event on Jan. 18.

Sherdog Prospect Watch: Losene Keita The reigning Oktagon MMA featherweight titleholder will look to strike gold in a second division when he faces 155-pound champion Ronald Paradeiser in the €1 million Tipsport Gamechanger lightweight tournament final atop Oktagon 65 on Sunday in the Czech Republic.

5 Defining Moments: Dricus Du Plessis The 30-year-old South African tank will put his 185-pound championship on the line when he rematches Sean Strickland in the UFC 312 headliner on Feb. 8.

By The Numbers: Julianna Pena “The Venezuelan Vixen” will enter 2025 in possession of the 135-pound crown for the second time, having dethroned Raquel Pennington by contentious split decision at UFC 307 in October.

The Sheehan Show: UFC Year in Review Sean runs down all 14 Ultimate Fighting Championship pay-per-view events of the year, looking at the highlights, lowlights and most memorable moments for the industry leader.

The Sheehan Show: 2024 Year-End Awards Sean wraps up the year with the very first Sheehan Show Awards, giving a much-deserved pat on the back to some of the fighters, promoters and officials who made 2024 memorable for combat sports fans, paying special attention to the global MMA scene.

Gregory Rodrigues on Cannonier Fight, Sparring with Shavkat Rakhmonov and Alex Pereira In this Sherdog exclusive, the Brazilian analyzed his Feb. 15 matchup with Jared Cannonier, and talked about his recent training sessions with Shavkat Rakhmonov and Alex Pereira.

By The Numbers: Ilia Topuria The undisputed Ultimate Fighting Championship featherweight titleholder has rattled off 16 consecutive wins to start his career, 14 of them finishes.