The Brit Pack MMA Podcast

The UFC’s first pay-per-view event of 2022 is upon us, and it’s serving up two top-grade title fights that will likely serve up very different matchups on fight night. The main event has captured the imagination of hardcore MMA fans, with reigning UFC heavyweight champion Francis Ngannou set to face former teammate and training partner Ciryl Gane, who now holds the interim version of the heavyweig...

After a few weeks off, MMA is well and truly back, and the UFC is kicking off the 2022 schedule with a banger of a fight in the featherweight division. Calvin Kattar and Giga Chikadze could be as little as two wins away from a shot at the 145-pound title, and on this week’s show, we take a look at the stakes as the two strikers get set to go head to head in Saturday night’s main event in Las Vegas...

Happy New Year from The Brit Pack! We hope you enjoyed the holiday season and are launching into the new year with gusto and optimism. We’re kicking off 2022 with our annual hot takes special as we offer up our outlandish predictions for the upcoming year in MMA. Last year, we gathered behind our mics to offer up our MMA hot takes, using the famed spice-o-meter ratings used by our favourite chicke...

The final weekend of combat sports for 2021 served up a smorgasbord of pugilistic action, with a little something for everyone across three shows that delivered memorable moments aplenty. The headlines were generated by YouTuber-turned-pro boxer Jake Paul, who faced off against late replacement Tyron Woodley in a rematch, and scored a thumping one-shot KO of the former UFC welterweight champion. I...

What a night! UFC 269 delivered a spectacular final pay-per-view event for 2021 as the UFC’s final premium offering served up one of the most unforgettable performances in UFC championship history. That performance came in the co-main event, as Julianna Pena, almost universally considered a huge underdog, submitted two-division champ Amanda Nunes to capture the UFC women’s bantamweight title. With...

The UFC brings the curtain down on a stellar 2021 with a huge pay-per-view offering from Las Vegas, as two champions get set to put their titles on the line at UFC 269. In the main event, newly-crowned lightweight world champion Charles Oliveira takes on former interim champ Dustin Poirier in a battle to decide who’ll enter 2022 as the kingpin of the UFC’s glamour division. Meanwhile, the co-main...

Conor McGregor has set his timeline for a return to the octagon, but who should “The Notorious” face on his return? That’s just one of the questions we ponder on this week’s episode of The Brit Pack MMA Podcast as MMA returns to full speed after something of a “gap week” last weekend. Before we mull over McGregor’s many, many options for a comeback fight, we take a look at the double-header of U.S...

It’s been a quiet week in MMA, so it perhaps makes sense that one of the quiet contenders in the UFC’s women’s bantamweight division came to the fore with one of the most important wins of her career. Brazil’s Ketlen Vieira battled Miesha Tate – and, perhaps, her own confidence issues – to claim a huge decision win and cement her credentials as an elite contender at 135 pounds. But, even though sh...

Just when you thought the UFC had hit the ceiling for outstanding fights in 2021, Max Holloway and Yair Rodriguez collectively said, “Hold my beer,” and served up yet another Fight of the Year contender. Former featherweight champion Holloway and high-flying contender Rodriguez – who was returning from a two-year layoff – delivered a five-round firecracker of a main event at UFC Fight Night 197 at...

The biggest card of the year delivered the biggest thrills as UFC 268 served up a night to remember at Madison Square Garden on Saturday night. The main event between Kamaru Usman and Colby Covington produced another super-competitive title fight, with Usman getting the nod on the scorecards, while Rose Namajunas did the same in her title rematch with Zhang Weill. But this was a card that delivere...

In a packed year of MMA, our cup runneth over this week as we bring you an absolutely stacked episode of The Brit Pack MMA Podcast. On this week’s show, we look back at a superb event in Abu Dhabi as UFC 267 delivered stunning action, brilliant individual performances, a touch of controversy and some social media hi-jinks at cageside. We also recap the PFL’s 2021 Championship event in Hollywood, F...

Two titles are on the line at the top of a stacked main card as the UFC returns to “Fight Island,” Abu Dhabi for UFC 267. Topping the bill at the Etihad Arena on Saturday, October 30 is a battle for the undisputed light heavyweight title as reigning champion Jan Blachowicz looks to turn back the challenge of Brazilian veteran and former title challenger Glover Teixeira, who is making his second ru...

Fedor Emelianenko may be on the retirement tour portion of his MMA career, but there could be one more championship left to claim before he eventually hangs up the four-ounce gloves for good. “The Last Emperor” returns to action in the main event of Bellator 269 in Moscow, Russia, with Fedor set to face current heavyweight contender Tim Johnson. It’s a fight that might not offer the biggest name o...

Tyson Fury proved that he isn’t just the best heavyweight in the world. “The Gypsy King” proved that he’s the best heavyweight of his era as he knocked out longtime rival Deontay Wilder in the 11th round of their epic trilogy fight in Las Vegas to retain his WBC and The Ring heavyweight world titles. One half of The Brit Pack was there, and Sandhu recaps his experience of fight night in Sin City –...

One of the biggest fight nights of 2021 is set to go down in Las Vegas on Saturday, October 9, and The Brit Pack will have boots on the ground in Sin City for Tyson Fury vs. Deontay Wilder 3. Sandhu will be making the trip down from Toronto, Canada to Las Vegas, Nevada for the huge WBC heavyweight title clash as he makes his first foray into live event coverage since the start of the pandemic. San...

To borrow the famous tagline of Australian former Formula 1 ace Mark Webber, UFC featherweight champion Alexander Volkanovski showed true “Aussie grit” as he retained his undisputed title in the main event of UFC 266. Volkanovski claimed a landslide decision on the scorecards after his bout with Brian Ortega went the distance, but the 49-46, 50-45, 50-44 scorecards don’t tell the full story of the...

He may be 46 years of age, but Anderson Silva showed the combat sports world that he is still more than capable of putting people away, with his clinical knockout of fellow former UFC champion Tito Ortiz the highlight of the Triller Fight Club: Legends II event last weekend. On this week’s show, we look back at the at times controversial event in Florida, as Silva and another former UFC champ, Vit...

UFC Vegas 36 (or UFC Fight Night 191, if you prefer) was supposed to take place in London, England. But some of U.K.’s top rising stars made the UFC Apex a home away from home as they served up impressive performances in Las Vegas on Saturday night. Things may not have gone Darren Till’s way in the main event, but prior to the headline bout, we saw huge performances from Jack Shore, Molly McCann,...

The Brit Pack is back to recap a packed weekend of MMA action and look ahead to a pivotal event for a host of British fighters at the UFC Apex. First, we look back at the final round of PFL Playoffs, as England’s Brendan Loughnane agonisingly lost out on a place in the final via split decision to Russian contender Movlid Khaybulaev. Then we move on to the action at the UFC Apex as Giga Chikadze de...

With no UFC card at the weekend, the attention of the MMA-watching world was on Bellator and PFL, who went head to head with solid cards of action last Friday night. Bellator 264 saw middleweight champion Gegard Mousasi retain his 185-pound title with victory over No. 1 contender John Salter, while former welterweight champion Andrey Koreshkov marked his return to the Bellator cage with an impress...

UFC 265 may have been denied the added value of an Amanda Nunes title fight, but the event still delivered plenty of superb action, with France’s Ciryl Gane coming of age by capturing the interim UFC heavyweight title in only his 10th professional fight. “Bon Gamin” produced a near-flawless display to finish Derrick Lewis in the third round and set up a mouthwatering unification clash with the und...

On a packed weekend of MMA, Bellator took centre stage with a huge card at The Forum in Inglewood, California as A.J. McKee rose to the featherweight summit at Bellator 263. McKee finished two-division champion Patricio Pitbull in less than two minutes in the final of the Bellator featherweight Grand Prix to extend his perfect record to 18-0 and become Bellator’s biggest star. On this week’s show,...

The already stacked UFC bantamweight division was bolstered by the return of former undisputed champ T.J. Dillashaw after he defeated top contender Cory Sandhagen in the main event of UFC Vegas 32. Dillashaw returned from a two-year USADA suspension to defeat Sandhagen via split decision after five super-competitive rounds at the UFC Apex, and on this week’s instalment of the podcast, we look back...

On paper, this weekend’s UFC Vegas 31 event at the UFC Apex was a fight card that offered a couple of bouts of interest to the hard-core MMA fan. But, as is often the case with underestimated fight cards, the bouts delivered in spades as the Apex saw a night packed with finishes. The main event saw Islam Makhachev score a dominant win, but was it enough to see him gatecrash the division’s top five...

We all knew there would be drama at UFC 264, but nobody could have predicted what we witnessed on a wild night in Las Vegas as crowds returned to the T-Mobile Arena for Poirier vs. McGregor III. We had a wild opening round between the two main event stars, with Poirier looking outstanding after a strong start by McGregor. But an awful broken leg sustained by “The Notorious” meant a bout that was a...