Who Will Be UFC Bantamweight Champion on the Finish of 2025? The title would be the first of 2025 to be defended because the champion, Merab Dvalishvili clashes with Umar Nurmagomedov within the UFC 311 co-main occasion with the strap on the road.
Dvalishvili is about to defend his belt for the primary time since beating Sean O’Malley at UFC Noche again in September. Nurmagomedov is undefeated at 18-0, nonetheless, hasn’t actually confirmed himself towards top-level competitors aside from Cory Sandhagen.
With the belt being on the road, we check out who may very well be the UFC bantamweight champion on the finish of 2025!
Who Will Be UFC Bantamweight Champion on the Finish of 2025? Betting Odds
All odds are right on the time of writing and might be discovered right here.
Prime 3 Favourites
The highest three favourites don’t come as a lot of a shock. The present champion, the latest different champion and the person difficult for the belt subsequent are the three most probably to carry the belt coming into 2026… in response to the chances anyway.
Apparently, it’s UFC 311’s challenger, Nurmagomedov who’s most probably to be the UFC bantamweight champion with odds of +110. If Nurmagomedov can overcome The Machine, it’ll be an enormous feather in his cap, particularly as he has just one notable win on his resumè.
The champion has odds of +130, so though he isn’t anticipated to win in California, he’s solely a slim underdog. The percentages recommend that even when he does lose at UFC 311, he may nonetheless reclaim the belt sooner or later in 2025.
Rounding out the highest three is the previous champion, O’Malley. Though he misplaced out to Merab at The Sphere, he’s nonetheless arguably the largest identify within the division so don’t be shocked to see him within the title image once more this 12 months.
From +650 to +4000
Subsequent, now we have one other former champion and a person who’s again to successful methods, Petr Yan. No Mercy re-bounded from three straight losses by beating Tune Yadong earlier than out-pointing Deiveson Figueiredo throughout 5 rounds final trip. At +650, it may very well be price a punt!
At barely longer odds now we have Sandhagen who could be very a lot the ‘practically man’ of the division. Each time he’s been getting ready to a title shot, he loses his subsequent battle. Losses to Aljamain Sterling, TJ Dillashaw and Nurmagomedov have halted each title push of The Sandman‘s.+700 for Sandhagen.
Figueiredo is coming off a loss and at 37 years of age, it isn’t a shock to see him at odds of + 1500. One other man coming off a loss, Yadong is available in at odds of +2200, nonetheless, at 27, he arguably has one of many highest ceilings within the division. Former title challenger and fan favorite, Marlon Vera is +4000 to enter 2026 as UFC bantamweight champion.
Outsiders and Fan Favourites
Let’s be trustworthy, there’ll possible be two, possibly three title fights within the bantamweight division in 2025, so the next males are extremely unlikely to compete for the belt this 12 months until there’s a late discover alternative or one thing alongside these strains.
At +6500 you may get a person who many are tipping to be the following neatest thing and a person who you may see compete at UFC 311, Peyton Talbott. The undefeated prospect went 2-0 in 2024 with two finishes and may very well be an issue in years to come back.
May we see historical past made with the youngest-ever UFC champion being topped? Properly 20 12 months previous Raul Rosas Jr may very well be your man and with odds of +10000, you would witness historical past together with cashing an enormous cheque.
The featherweight GOAT and former bantamweight title challenger, Jose Aldo is available in with odds of +25000 and two former bantamweight champions, Dominick Cruz and Cody Garbrandt each are available with odds of +50000, so possibly hold maintain of your cash.
The best odds being provided in the intervening time as to who would be the UFC bantamweight champion are +100000 for fan favorite, Adrian Yanez.
After UFC 311, we’ll have a much better concept as to who would be the UFC bantamweight champion with the belt on the road, so keep tuned!
