{"id":366981,"date":"2025-12-25T00:19:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T00:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/366981\/"},"modified":"2025-12-25T00:19:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T00:19:07","slug":"between-the-links-2025-promotional-festivus-grading-the-best-and-worst-from-ufc-pfl-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/366981\/","title":{"rendered":"Between the Links\u2019 2025 Promotional Festivus: Grading the best and worst from UFC, PFL, more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">With just a week left in the year, it\u2019s almost time to say goodbye to 2025, and hello to 2026. In the sport of MMA, there was certainly a lot to like this past year \u2014 and a lot that needs to be improved upon, from the UFC, to PFL, and beyond.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">On an all-new edition of Between the Links, MMA Fighting\u2019s Mike Heck and Jed Meshew bring you the fourth annual BTL Promotional Festivus \u2014 where they grade the UFC for their 2025 performance, both in and out of the octagon, along with their airing of grievances for things that happened negatively throughout the course of the year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Additionally, the duo do the same for PFL, BKFC, and give their thoughts on things they did better from the year prior, other ideas to bring into 2026, and what could be the breakout promotion in the space for the upcoming year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With just a week left in the year, it\u2019s almost time to say goodbye to 2025, and hello&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":341024,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[33307,42718,49,48,641,701,638,37036,1863,8417,329,82,640,702],"class_list":{"0":"post-366981","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-bkfc","9":"tag-bkfc-news","10":"tag-ca","11":"tag-canada","12":"tag-fighting","13":"tag-latest-news","14":"tag-mma","15":"tag-mmaf-podcast-network","16":"tag-pfl","17":"tag-pfl-news","18":"tag-podcasts","19":"tag-sports","20":"tag-ufc","21":"tag-ufc-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366981","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=366981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/341024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}