UFC’s Megan Olivi shares her five wishes 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 like it. It’s a brand new vacation spot for us. All of us journey a lot for these occasions, however I believe Spain is a rustic that every one of us may 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 in regards to the BMF title, as a result of that’s been thrown on the market. I like the thought. I’ve seen somebody discuss in regards to the flyweights as a result of there are such a lot of individuals neck-and-neck proper now within the division to have one other shot, or their first shot at (Alexandre) Pantoja. I believed that could possibly be actually enjoyable. I simply assume it could be fascinating. I do know we don’t do it, so it’s sort of a pipe dream, however I believe it could be so fascinating to cowl having a number of fights in a single evening.”

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

“I don’t assume it could begin within the UFC straight away. I believe it must begin at one thing like Street to UFC or Contender Sequence, however I like the thought of bringing atomweight in, girls’s atomweight. I believe it could present (a platform) to lots of the ladies we see in Invicta and lots of different feminine athletes from completely different walks of life to come back in or have one thing to proceed to coach for. I don’t assume 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). Possibly it’s on ‘The Final Fighter,’ and we get an atomweight season, however I like the thought 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 believe our manufacturing group is the perfect within the enterprise. I believe that they work more durable than anybody may presumably think about. They’re not simply doing UFC fights, they’re doing Contender Sequence and (Energy) Slap and the whole lot else that falls below the umbrella, and I believe we’re what individuals look too once they need to be modern, once they need to see tips on how to do an eight-hour stay broadcast higher than anybody on the earth. 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 trouble that goes into and the way you’re strolling a tightrope for the whole thing of that struggle broadcast, to simply get by way of it and ensure the whole lot fires on all cylinders. To tug off one thing just like the Sphere was otherworldly, to be trustworthy with you, and I don’t assume anybody else may’ve achieved 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.