Back to the MMA Newsfeed

Fighters On The Rise 2025 | Part One

Identifying 20 Of The Top Emerging Names To Follow In The Coming Year

Forecasting how the forthcoming year in the UFC is going to play out for certain fighters is like projecting what the weather is going to be like all year long — you study the available information, look at the trends, offer up an educated opinion and see what happens.

You can be spot on in some months and dead wrong in others, and while the aim is always to be as close to correct as possible and give people the best information possible, fights, like the weather, are difficult to predict and an athlete that enters the year white hot could cool as easily as they could add a couple more wins to their resume and keep rolling.