Alex Pereira, Max Holloway, GSP, Charles Oliveira and other UFC/MMA fighters take to social media to celebrate Christmas

UFC and MMA personalities get in holiday spirit by celebrating Christmas 2024 and stepping into a better 2025.

Alex Pereira, Max Holloway, GSP, Charles Oliveira and other UFC/MMA fighters take to social media to celebrate Christmas

UFC and MMA personalities get into Christmas spirit before 2025 (Source: IG)

The holiday season has arrived, with no major events scheduled until the calendar flips to 2025. The MMA community had a chance to relax and celebrate with loved ones. Many in the UFC ranks, both past and present thus got into the Christmas spirit to close out 2024.

Across 10 countries and five continents, the UFC staged 42 events in 21 different cities in 2024. There were 517 fights in 12 different weight classes (including catchweight) within those events from Dana White and Co. These 517 fights totaled 101 hours, 32 minutes, and 25 seconds in the cage.

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The championship gold changed guard quite a few times. While in other cases, it stayed the same with stupendous knockout wins and hard-fought brawls. The milestone UFC 300 PPV event was a record-setting mark for the promotion. It was something to feel extra Christmas-ey about.

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Hence, the brass was the first to get into the spirit. Check down below a list of other industry notables and fighters celebrating Christmas and the onset of 2025:

Mayra Bueno Silva is no Wolverine like Irene Aldana. But she seemed to have healed well from her deep stitch and is celebrating the 2024 year-end holiday spirit. The all-time rockstar Georges St-Pierre posted some workout snippets again, before separately making Christmas posts. No “Rush” but he seems anything but 43.

Stoic and silent Alex ‘Poatan’ Pereira got a few rounds of Christmas spirit in before stepping into 2025. The Brazilian had a historic year with three title defenses. Here’s hoping the next year goes the same way. Funnyman peer Johnny Walker also posed up for the family photos.

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Christmas mood, three spirits, and elves aside, brass had much to enjoy about this 2024. Here’s a short recap about the year that was.

UFC had quite the event feats all of 2024
UFC had quite the event feats all of 2024 (Source: Instagram-threads.net › @ufc/X)

This year’s longest event was “UFC Fight Night 248: Moreno vs. Albazi” in Edmonton at 3:06:38.

“UFC Fight Night 248: Moreno vs. Albazi” had a total fight time of 3:06:38, making it the third longest event in history behind UFC 263 (3:19:32) and UFC 251 (3:07:27).

The shortest event of the year came on “UFC Fight Night 247: Magny vs. Prates” in Las Vegas at 1:18:26.

For these events, UFC drew an announced attendance of 366,269 for a live gate of $144,882,135 (24 events had unadvertised live gates).

The UFC staged UFC 306 at the Sphere in Las Vegas for the first time in the history of combat sports. It had the highest initially reported income gate ever ($21,829,245).

UFC Fight Night 237 had the highest reported attendance of the year for “Moreno vs. Royval 2” in Mexico City (21,546). While the lowest-attended events were the VIP-only cards at UFC Apex in Las Vegas.

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A total of 103 fighters made their debut in the UFC in the year 2024. These fighters went 46-57. Debutants who faced an opponent with at least one bout of UFC experience went 29-39. Due to various circumstances, a total of 24 UFC main or co-main events were rescheduled, postponed, or canceled.

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