UFC’s Megan Olivi shares her 5 needs for 2025

“I would love for 2025 to see UFC Spain. Ilia Topuria, let’s go. Headline a card in Spain. The followers would clearly adore it. It’s a brand new vacation spot for us. All of us journey a lot for these occasions, however I feel Spain is a rustic that each one of us might get behind going to.”

“It is likely to be slightly controversial as a result of we don’t do that, however I’d like to see a one-night event. I’ve thought concerning the BMF title, as a result of that’s been thrown on the market. I really like the concept. I’ve seen somebody speak concerning the flyweights as a result of there are such a lot of folks neck-and-neck proper now within the division to have one other shot, or their first shot at (Alexandre) Pantoja. I believed that may very well be actually enjoyable. I simply suppose it could be attention-grabbing. I do know we don’t do it, so it’s type of a pipe dream, however I feel it could be so attention-grabbing to cowl having a number of fights in a single night time.”

“I’ve some challengers I wish to see towards the champ. I wish to see Kayla Harrison (at girls’s bantamweight), Tatiana Suarez (who I hope makes her strawweight title battle vs. Zhang Weili at UFC 312) and Khamzat Chimaev (at middleweight) all get alternatives to battle for the title towards whoever the champion is likely to be at any time when they may get their likelihood in 2025.”

“I don’t suppose it could begin within the UFC straight away. I feel it must begin at one thing like Street to UFC or Contender Sequence, however I really like the concept of bringing atomweight in, girls’s atomweight. I feel it could present (a platform) to lots of the ladies we see in Invicta and lots of different feminine athletes from totally different walks of life to come back in or have one thing to proceed to coach for. I don’t suppose we’re going to make a roster spot for it but, a full weight class within the UFC, however I’d like to see us begin constructing a few of these fights up and begin garnering (consideration). Perhaps it’s on ‘The Final Fighter,’ and we get an atomweight season, however I really like the concept of increasing the ladies’s divisions and increasing them right into a division we all know could be very athletic and could be very thrilling and really entertaining.”

“I feel our manufacturing group is the most effective within the enterprise. I feel that they work tougher than anybody might probably think about. They’re not simply doing UFC fights, they’re doing Contender Sequence and (Energy) Slap and every part else that falls below the umbrella, and I feel we’re what folks look too after they wish to be progressive, after they wish to see easy methods to do an eight-hour reside broadcast higher than anybody on this planet. So I’d like to see UFC manufacturing win all of the awards, all the EMMYs, all of the awards that may be given out. They deserve them. Guys like Zach Candito and Michael La Plante and our director Anthony Giordano. Folks don’t perceive the hassle that goes into and the way you’re strolling a tightrope for everything of that battle broadcast, to simply get via it and ensure every part fires on all cylinders. To drag off one thing just like the Sphere was otherworldly, to be sincere with you, and I don’t suppose anybody else might’ve accomplished it in addition to we did within the timeline that we did it, as nicely. My hope is they’ll begin getting the popularity they deserve as a result of I get stopped by broadcasters in different sports activities on a regular basis asking how we do it.”

Try the video above as Olivi and MMA Junkie senior reporter Mike Bohn go over some extra 2025 needs on “The Bohnfire” podcast.