The holiday season is upon us, and you know what that means: it’s time to get weird. There’s no MMA for the next three weeks (well, there is still MMA, but none of the major organizations over here in the United States have shows), so we can stretch out our wings and explore some other fertile ground ripe for MMA discussion — case in point: Christmas. As a wise man once said, I’m a peacock; you’ve got to let me fly! So that we will do, soaring into a grab bag of holiday-themed questions.

Christmas gifts If you could ask Santa for one fight (besides jones/aspinal) to be made in 2025 what would it be? “If you could ask Santa for one fight (besides Jon Jones / Tom Aspinall ) to be made in 2025 what would it be?” This is exactly the sort of question I was hoping to get, because there’s no wrong answer, but there are quite a few right ones. For instance, there are a number of fights already on the books for the coming months that are very, very good. Islam Makhachev vs.

Arman Tsarukyan 2 is one of the best fights that can be booked, and Merab Dvalishvili vs. Umar Nurmagomedov ain’t far behind. Dricus du Plessis running things back with Sean Strickland isn’t exactly thrilling, but it’s undeniably a good fight, and Zhang Weili vs.

Tatiana Suarez is exceptional. That’s all premium fisticuffs that I might normally pick, except they are already on the books, and you don’t ask Santa for what you already have. And along those lines, you should be reasonable with.