Everyone's back from holiday hibernation. This week we're previewing the first UFC event of 2026, and the first one of the Paramount era, UFC 324: Gaethje vs. Pimblett, headlined by Justin Gaethje vs. Paddy Pimblett in a UFC Interim Lightweight fight.

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This week is The Hammer MMA Radio's Sixteenth Annual Awards Show. As usual, the four of us debate 2025's Best Fight, Best Knockout, Best Submission, Fighter of the Year, Prospect of the Year, and more.

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In the first half of this week's show we talk about the results of FC on ESPN: Royval vs. Kape, the last UFC show of the year, and the last of their broadcast deal with ESPN.

Then in the second half of the show we discuss the week in MMA, including Francois Ngannou, PFL, and more.

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UFC 323: Dvalishvili vs. Yan 2 is the last UFC PPV of the year, and closes out the modern era of PPV, and it came with a couple of big upsets to crown new champions. We recap all of the results, including new UFC Bantamweight Champion Petr Yan, and new UFC Flyweight Champion Joshua Van, in the first half of this week's show.

Then in the second half of the show we discuss the week in MMA, including the upcoming UFC on ESPN: Royval vs. Kape.

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In the first half of the show we take a look at UFC 323: Dvalishvili vs. Yan, a show that marks the end of an era as UFC's last traditional PPV event, at least in the United States.

Then we discuss what's up in 2026, as three UFC title fights have been announced for the first two Paramount+ events, and they're....interesting choices.

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We start off this week's show talking about the results of UFC Fight Night: Tsarukyan vs. Hooker, and how many options there are for UFC Lightweight and Welterweight title fights right now.

Then we just talk about random trash and drama for a while.

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Dominant wrestling won the day at UFC 322, with Islam Makhachev dominating to win the UFC Welterweight Championship from Jack Della Maddalena, and Valentina Shevchenko retaining against Zhang Weili. The rest of the fights were more exciting, and we discuss all of it in the first half of this week's show.

In the second half we look at some of the week in MMA news, and at the upcoming UFC Fight Night: Tsarukyan vs. Hooker coming up from Qatar.

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This weekend's UFC 322: Della Maddalena is looking like one of the best MMA card of the year, including two instances of a champion relinquishing their title to move up and try to win a new one. We preview the whole card in the first half of this week's show.

In the second half of the show, we look more at the recent UFC betting scandal, and the results of UFC on ESPN: Bonfim vs. Brown.

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This week we start off the show looking at the upcoming UFC on ESPN: Bonfim vs. Brown, a nice set of fights but without any big names.

Now if your fight cards can't have big names on them, there may as well be controversy, and that sums up this week in MMA news, as well as the results of UFC Fight Night: Garcia vs. Onama.

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UFC 321 was an unsatisfying night, mainly because UFC Heavyweight Championship fight between Tom Aspinall and Cyril Gane ended in a No Contest. We discuss that, new UFC Strawweight Champion Mackenzie Dern, and more, in the first half of this week's show.

Then we take a look at the upcoming UFC Fight Night: Garcia vs. Onama, which at least on paper is looking a little thin.

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