With one other action-packed month of MMA within the books, MMA Junkie seems to be at one of the best fights from March 2025: Listed below are the 5 nominees, listed in chronological order, and winner of MMA Junkie’s Struggle of the Month award for March.

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Nominees

Nominee: Nasrat Haqparast def. Esteban Ribovics at UFC Struggle Evening 253

Nasrat Haqparast (18-5 MMA, 10-4 UFC) and Esteban Ribovics (14-2 MMA, 3-2 UFC) placed on an exhilarating slugfest at light-weight in the midst of the principle card.

Haqparast, an underdog within the struggle, gained for the fifth straight time, 4 of which have been selections, towards Ribovics, who gained Struggle of the Evening honors for the second straight bout.

Nominee: Ozzy Diaz def. Djorden Santos at UFC 313

Ozzy Diaz (10-3 MMA, 1-1 UFC) beat Djorden Santos (10-2 MMA, 0-1 UFC) with a unanimous choice of their mild heavyweight showdown that was crammed with motion.

Diaz and Santos landed the eighth most mixed strikes in UFC middleweight historical past – 270 complete, with Diaz with a slender edge at 136-134. Even the place they landed their strikes was almost even.

Nominee: Shauna Bannon def. Puja Tomas at UFC Struggle Evening 255

Shauna Bannon was in serious trouble earlier than rallying to attain her first UFC end towards Puja Tomar.

Simply moments after getting dropped by a clear left excessive kick, Bannon (7-1 MMA, 2-1 UFC) was in a position to whip up an armbar off her again and submit Puja Tomar (9-5 MMA, 1-1 UFC) within the second spherical of the strawweight bout.

Nominee: Crazy Godinez def. Julia Polastri at UFC on ESPN 64

Crazy Godinez (13-5 MMA, 8-5 UFC) was buoyed by the help of the Mexico crowd in a unanimous choice victory over Julia Polastri (13-5 MMA, 1-2 UFC) of their strawweight bout, and managed to outlive a late surge.

After being a step forward for almost all of an entertaining contest, Godinez was pressured to go on the defensive as Polastri threw warning to the wind down the stretch. It wasn’t sufficient, but it surely definitely introduced the followers to their toes.

The winner

The winner: Justin Gaethje def. Rafael Fiziev at UFC 313

One other Justin Gaethje vs. Rafael Fiziev struggle, one other thriller.

That’s what performed out as Gaethje defeated Fiziev of their swiftly booked rematch, incomes a hard-fought unanimous choice with scores of 29-28 from all three judges. The light-weight bout was the UFC 313 co-main occasion.

Gaethje (26-5 MMA, 9-5 UFC) first beat Fiziev (12-4 MMA, 6-4 UFC) by majority choice within the Struggle of the Evening in March 2023 at UFC 286. This struggle unfolded very similar to that encounter, with each males throwing and touchdown heavy punches all through the quarter-hour.

However it was Gaethje who landed probably the most important strike of the struggle within the second spherical when he ducked below a jab and dodged an uppercut earlier than countering with an uppercut of his personal that dropped Fiziev to the canvas. It almost ended the struggle, however Fiziev survived.

The third spherical began in Fiziev’s favor, however Gaethje – who promised a throwback model of himself from his WSOF days heading into UFC 313 – was relentless with quantity and energy punches that began sporting on his opponent because the spherical unfolded. It was a robust method for Gaethje to shut out the struggle, which resonated with the judges.