The final UFC pay-per-view of 2025 delivered two new champions who will enter the new year with golden hardware around their waists. Petr Yan and Joshua Van unseated Merab Dvalishvili and Alexandre Pantoja , respectively, and threw their divisions into a tizzy.

At men's bantamweight, it's hard to see Yan hold up a title belt and not wonder how things could have been different if the moment that he lost it by disqualification in 2021 had never happened. And at flyweight, a new hard-to-watch moment that resulted in an injury and a changing of the guard may end up affecting that weight class for quite some time.

Brett Okamoto and Jeff Wagenheim give their takeaways on how those moments have altered the timeline of the UFC.

What if Yan didn't throw that knee?

There is an alternate

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