The Brit Pack MMA Podcast

The UFC is 100 per cent back. The octagon is back at the T-Mobile Arena this weekend, with the sport’s biggest star set to take centre stage in a massive fight, not only for the UFC, but for him personally. Conor McGregor and Dustin Poirier each hold a win over the other heading into UFC 264 on Saturday night, but who holds the edge going into the trilogy fight, and who has the best route to victo...

The build-up to UFC 264 is well and truly underway, and we’re on hand to offer our way-too-early predictions for each of the main card bouts at the T-Mobile Arena on July 10. As well as our early pugilistic prognostications, we also take a look back at UFC Fight Night: Gane vs. Volkov from the UFC Apex, as “Bon Gamin” picked up another key victory. But was it enough to put him next in line for a t...

On this week’s episode of The Brit Pack, we look back at UFC Fight Night at the UFC Apex, as “The Korean Zombie” Chan Sung Jung showed his class and put himself right back in the title mix at 145 pounds. We run down the card and highlight the top performers of the night in Las Vegas, before chatting about former UFC middleweight champion Anderson Silva’s superb performance as he showed some of his...

What a weekend that was! With PFL on Thursday night, Bellator on Friday and UFC on Saturday night, MMA fans got more than their fill of combat sports action, and UFC 263 was the perfect main course to a superb weekend of fights. Israel Adesanya returned to middleweight and showed the world why he’s been untouchable at 185 pounds as he pitched a shutout against Marvin Vettori, while Brandon Moreno...

It's been quite the week in combat sports, with a UFC fight night card in Las Vegas dwarfed by the crazy goings-on in Miami as Floyd Mayweather's mismatch world tour continued against Logan Paul. However, "The Maverick" turned out to be a much more tricky opponent than even Mayweather himself thought he'd be, as the YouTuber bit down on his gumshield and, despite being comprehensively outboxed, ma...

It’s been something of a quiet week in MMA, but business will start to pick up again this weekend when the octagon reopens for business at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas. Heavyweights are on the menu this weekend, with heavy-handed Jairzinho Rozenstruik and Augusto Sakai set to go toe to toe in the night’s main event, while octagon veterans Walt Harris and Marcin Tybura face off in the co-main feature....

The New England Cartel’s Rob Font put on a jabbing masterclass in the main event of UFC Vegas 27 as he outboxed former UFC bantamweight champion Cody Garbrandt to stake his claim for a shot at championship gold at 135 pounds. But, with Aljamain Sterling out injured, Petr Yan next in line for a rematch, and Cory Sandhagen and TJ Dillashaw set to throw down, where does Font’s win leave him in the ti...

UFC 262 delivered another packed night of talking points from the Toyota Center in Houston, Texas as a new champion was crowned in the 155-pound division. On this week’s episode of the show, we break down what it means for the UFC to have Charles Oliveira as the new lightweight champion following his dramatic second-round TKO finish of Michael Chandler in Saturday night’s main event. We also look...

It’s been a while since we’ve seen the UFC lightweight title on the line, but the belt is back up for grabs, and we’re guaranteed a brand new champion when first-time challengers Charles Oliveira and Michael Chandler face off in the main event of UFC 262. It’s a huge fight, and one that will kickstart a new era for the UFC’s 155-pound division following the retirement of the undefeated Khabib Nurm...

Jon Jones may have departed the UFC light heavyweight division, but the weight class continues to deliver fascinating matchups. The latest came on Saturday night at the UFC Apex, where former Rizin FF champion Jiri Prochazka went toe to toe with two-time title challenger Dominick Reyes before knocking him out with a spectacular spinning back elbow. It was a shocking, stunning and brutal finish tha...

What. A. Night. UFC 261 saw crowds return to cageside as a packed house of 15,000 screaming fans took the roof off the VyStar Veterans Memorial Arena, and boy were they treated to an unforgettable night. The main card stacks up against almost any pay-per-view main card in UFC history, with all five fights ending in finishes, and each fight telling a compelling story. Some were tinged with sadness...

This week has been crazy for us here at The Brit Pack, with both of us still reeling from the news of the impending disaster of “The Super League” in European football. But, thankfully, while the footballing world is in meltdown, the world of combat sports is in rude good health. On this week’s show, we take a quick look back at Bellator 257 and UFC on ESPN 22 before discussing the most talked-abo...

Surprise, surprise! Just one day after Conor McGregor tweeted that his trilogy fight with Dustin Poirier was off, the UFC officially announced the bout is confirmed for UFC 264, which will take place in front of a capacity crowd in Las Vegas on July 10. On this week’s episode of the show, we discuss the bizarre spat between the pair that played out publicly over social media just one day before th...

It may have been a “gap week” for the UFC, but that didn’t mean we were short of UFC-related discussion points on this week’s show. The big headline was the announcement, from both men, that the trilogy fight between Dustin Poirier and Conor McGregor is on, and will take place at UFC 264 on July 10. We look at that matchup and ask the question: Did Dustin Poirier make a massive mistake by taking t...

The mantle of “Baddest Man on the Planet” has changed hands, and how! At UFC 260, Francis Ngannou completed a remarkable personal journey from Cameroon, via homelessness in Paris, to become the undisputed UFC heavyweight champion as he ushered in a new era for the UFC’s biggest, baddest weight class. On this week’s show, we look back at Ngannou’s remarkable knockout win over Stipe Miocic and discu...

The heavyweight championship of the world is on the line at UFC 260, as the greatest heavyweight in UFC history squares off against the most devastating knockout artist to ever set foot in the octagon in a titanic title rematch. On this week’s episode of the show, we look ahead to the huge heavyweight title clash between Stipe Miocic and Francis Ngannou in Las Vegas, and also take a peek at some o...

UFC Fight Night 187 (or #UFCVegas21, if you prefer) served up a bizarre night of fights that saw two of the three Brits on the card walk away with no contests added to their records as a run of bizarre fight-ending fouls continued at the UFC Apex. Just one week removed from the controversial events of the UFC 259 bantamweight title fight between Petr Yan and Aljamain Sterling, we saw another illeg...

With three title fights at the top of a stacked fight card, UFC 259 promised plenty of action this past weekend, and the event delivered more than we bargained for. There was the fascinating main event clash, as Jan Blachowicz outpointed middleweight champ Israel Adesanya to retain his light heavyweight title and hand “The Last Stylebender” his first defeat. Then there was the one-woman battering...

After a lacklustre UFC Fight Night event, the UFC will look to deliver plenty of fireworks, with UFC 259 boasting three title fights in Las Vegas this coming weekend. On this week’s show, we take a quick look back at UFC Fight Night 186 as Ciryl Gane defeated Jairzinho Rozenstruik on a night packed with decisions, then look ahead to all three title fights at UFC 259 as we run the rule over each of...

Things are getting pretty crowded at the top of the UFC’s heavyweight division these days, and this past weekend’s main event at UFC Vegas 19 produced another compelling contender in the heavyweight title sweepstakes. Derrick Lewis was considered by many to be the underdog heading into his bout with Curtis Blaydes, but an uppercut from the heavens starched “Razor” and propelled Lewis to the top of...

UFC 258 may not have boasted the most stacked fight card of 2021, but the event provided plenty of action on Saturday night at the UFC Apex. The main event saw Kamaru Usman bounce back from an early knockdown to finish Gilbert Burns and retain his UFC welterweight title, while Mexican flyweight Alexa Grasso showed that she may be the next new contender at the top of the UFC’s women’s 125-pound div...

The first big UFC title fight of 2021 is upon us, and it should produce a cracker of a contest. On this week’s show, we take a look at the upcoming welterweight title clash between former teammates Kamaru Usman and Gilbert Burns, who know each other well, but now face the test of defeating their former training partner to walk away with bragging rights, and the UFC welterweight championship belt....

The fallout from UFC 257 rolls on as the UFC lightweight division continues to hang in the balance, and on this week’s show we attempt to navigate the tricky waters of what might come next at 155 pounds. Common sense says that Dustin Poirier, fresh off his TKO win over Conor McGregor, should face either Charles Oliveira or Michael Chandler for the title, which will surely be relinquished by Khabib...

Dustin Poirer stood and delivered on a huge night for the UFC lightweight division at UFC 257, as he TKO’d Conor McGregor in stunning fashion to declare himself the uncrowned champion at 155 pounds, while an explosive new contender blasted his way into the title picture as Michael Chandler delivered an A+ debut in the night’s co-main event. On this week’s show, we unpack the two huge matchups at t...

The UFC is kicking off 2021 with a bang, and Conor McGregor’s all set to turn things up to 11 at UFC 257 on January 23. On this week’s show, we take a look at McGregor’s main event bout with Dustin Poirier, and preview the lightweight co-main event between Dan Hooker and Michael Chandler. We also wonder aloud what the two fights might do to convince Khabib Nurmagomedov to return to the cage. We al...