You're listening to the Vox Media Podcast Network.

Well, hello there, everybody, and welcome to a brand new edition of On To the Next One.

As a matter of fact, this will be the last edition of On to the Next one that you hear in 2025.

We are wrapping up the year. No, not with any matchmaking. This is part one of our annual two-part predictions extravaganza.

And obviously the main event of the predictions extravaganza will be the live buy cell prediction show which will go down mark

your mark your calendars january 4th noon eastern live on the m may fighting youtube channel

that's re-answer all your by cell questions we make our champions predictions at the end of the

year our mi caliente bold predictions for the year.

And you'll kind of see a rundown of how this works.

But before we get to the live show, we like to kick things off by going back in time to

January of 2025 when we did the live show predicting what 2025 would look like for not just the UFC,

but for the sport and some of the major promotions.

We look back, we reflect, and this is also a learning tool for all of the new onto the next one listeners who joined us in 2025,

asking yourselves, what the hell is this Bicel

predictions thing? This will be sort of a learning tool for you guys to understand what

that show is all about, the type of questions that we will be asking of you to present

to us for that live show. And then A.K. and I who can go back and see how we did. It's a good

time because once we do the show, I don't even go back and listen to it until a couple of days before we record this episode.

So I have no idea what the hell we talked about and what we predicted.

So this is a good little experience for us, but I and Mike Heck and joining me.

I mentioned the nickname a little bit earlier, but he is the co-host, the co-matchmaker, the Prince of Positivity, the Best Predictor in All the Land. My best friend, Alexander Kaylee from The Wonderful, the Great MMAFighting.com. A.K., how are you, sir? Yes, my best friend. It's great to do the show with you every year. My hands are dirty right now. I'm covered in dirt. We've taken the time capsule out of, we've shoveled it. Like you said, we don't, we do the show. We physically put it onto tape. We bury it in the dirt. And then now we shovel it out and you've got the tape player. I heard you listen. I heard you know already what we're going to talk about, what, uh, how it went.

So I'm very excited.

...