# Episode 675: Smell ya later, 2025!

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Podcast: [The Co-Main Event MMA Podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-co-main-event-mma-podcast-414130)
Published: 2025-12-16T21:43:00+00:00
Episode link: https://traffic.megaphone.fm/COME2136952027.mp3?updated=1765921797
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## Resource

The Year of Our Lord 2025 was a weird one in MMA. Complete dogshit for the heavyweight division, obviously. You started the year with Dana White swearing up and down that he was going to get Jon Jones vs. Tom Aspinall done, only to have Jones quit the sport to monetize this amazing brand he’d built — then come crawling back as soon as he found out about the White House fight card. When they finally did set up a heavyweight title fight for Gas Hands Tommy, Ciryl Gane went two knuckles deep in Aspinall’s eye … which obviously seems to have negatively affected Aspinall’s career more than Gane’s. But it wasn’t all bad. In the spring, fighters started to get that sweet, sweet class-action settlement money. By the end, Merab and Islam were the consensus fighters of the year. The UFC wrapped up the ESPN era and is now on to murkier waters with Paramount. Oh, and what’s this shit with Ilia Topuria? Not great! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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