The 2025 MMA Draft! | Which 28 Fighters Do You Build A Promotion Around?

MMA Fighting

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Sports News, Sports, News

4.6 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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With the 2025 NFL Draft set to take place this week, it's once again time for the MMA Fighting team to don the hats of the premier combat sports promotions in the world and select the 28 fighters they would most want to have on roster to build a promotion around. Listen as Jed Meshew guides the action and the staff drafts seven fighters to their respective organizations: the UFC, PFL, BKFC, and newcomer GFL. Other promoters include Mike Heck, Damon Martin, and Alexander K. Lee. Who will be the first overall pick? And which drafter is best set up for the next five years? Tune in to find out. Follow Jed Meshew @JedKMeshew Follow Mike Heck: @MikeHeck_JR Follow Alexander K. Lee @AlexanderKLee Follow Damon Martin @DamonMartin Subscribe: http://goo.gl/dYpsgH Check out our full video catalog: http://goo.gl/u8VvLi Visit our playlists: http://goo.gl/eFhsvM Like MMAF on Facebook: http://goo.gl/uhdg7Z Follow on Twitter: http://goo.gl/nOATUI Read More: http://www.mmafighting.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:45.3	That's right, everybody.
0:48.3	This is Jedd Machuvenmefight.com, and it is time for our yearly promotional draft.
0:56.0	If you have no idea what I'm talking about, listen up because it will all become clear in a matter of moments.
1:02.2	But the past few years, this week, in fact, every year, we do a MMA promotional draft to coincide
1:11.0	with the NFL draft, which goes down
1:12.8	this Thursday in Green Bay, Wisconsin,
1:14.8	and so we will gather the
1:16.6	brain trust of MMA fighting once
1:18.7	again to, functionally,
1:21.6	tell you who the biggest
1:22.7	stars and best fighters in the
1:24.9	world are today.
1:26.9	Very, very simply, what is about to happen is we have collected myself,
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