The last three-and-a-half months of 2013 will feature 11 cards from both the UFC and Bellator MMA and two World Series of Fighting shows, among many other less prominent events.
Some of the most pertinent MMA bouts of the year, including Michael Chandler-Eddie Alvarez II (Bellator 106), Georges St-Pierre-Johny Hendricks (UFC 167) and Anderson Silva-Chris Weidman II (UFC 168), will take place in the next 109 days.
Other less talked about fights will take place in Japan’s Deep and Shooto organizations, Canada’s Maximum Fighting Championships and England’s BAMMA promotion.
Here are five bold predictions for the rest of 2013.