Earlier this week, UFC CEO Dana White made some big announcements as it relates to December\u2019s UFC 323 event \u2014 the final pay-per-view card under the ESPN banner before the shift to Paramount \u2014 and revealed that Merab Dvalishvili will attempt to defend his bantamweight title for the fourth time. If he\u2019s successful against Petr Yan, is Dvalishvili\u2019s 2025 the best year for a fighter in UFC history?<\/p>\n
On an all-new edition of Between the Links, the panel reacts to White announcing Dvalishvili vs. Yan 2, and Alexandre Pantoja vs. Josh Van for the flyweight title. Additionally, topics may include Charles Oliveira\u2019s big win over Mateusz Gamrot at UFC Rio and callout of Max Holloway for the BMF title, the revised Ali Act getting support from CSAC, Saturday\u2019s UFC Vancouver event headlined by Reinier de Ridder vs. Brendan Allen, and much more.<\/p>\n
Join MMA Fighting\u2019s Mike Heck and Jed Meshew as they answer your questions about all things mixed martial arts and combat sports.<\/p>\n
Watch the show live at noon ET \/ 9 a.m. PT in the video above.<\/p>\n
If you missed the show live, you can still watch above, or listen to the podcast version, which can be found below and on Apple Podcasts<\/a>, Google Podcasts<\/a>, Spotify<\/a>, and wherever you get your pods.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Earlier this week, UFC CEO Dana White made some big announcements as it relates to December\u2019s UFC 323…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":217630,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,701,638,37036,329,82,640,702,3194],"class_list":{"0":"post-217629","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-fighting","11":"tag-latest-news","12":"tag-mma","13":"tag-mmaf-podcast-network","14":"tag-podcasts","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-ufc","17":"tag-ufc-news","18":"tag-videos"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217629\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}