Louie Sutherland

Montanha took Sutherland down early and returned him to the canvas when he worked back to his feet. He flattened Sutherland out and attacked the choke from dominant position. Sutherland tapped to the rear-naked choke just before the two-minute mark.

Key moments

• Montanha put Sutherland on the canvas early and returned him there after he stood.
• Montanha flattened Sutherland and attacked the choke from dominant position.
• Sutherland tapped to the submission at 1:50 of round one.

Sutherland pressed the action early and landed a takedown, but Brando Pericic answered with knees and power punches that put him on the floor. Pericic followed him down and closed the show with unanswered ground strikes for a first-round TKO.

Key moments

• Sutherland briefly took Pericic down before the finish.
• Pericic dropped Sutherland with a combination of knees and punches.
• Referee Marc Goddard stopped it at 1:48 of round one.

Sutherland captured the Levels Fight League heavyweight title, dropping Luke Newland with a clean right hand and following up with a finishing barrage that forced the stoppage in round one.

Key moments

• Dropped Newland with a right hand early in round one.
• Finished with follow-up strikes at 2:50 of round one.
• Won the LFL heavyweight championship.

Sutherland went the full three rounds with Matusalem Santos at LFL 17, winning a unanimous decision in a heavyweight main event.

Key moments

• Won a unanimous decision after three full rounds.
• The fight went the scheduled 15 minutes without a finish.
• It was a heavyweight main event for Levels Fight League.

Sutherland got the rematch he wanted with Luis Carlos Brito — whom he'd already finished once — and closed the show again inside round one at Levels Fight League's Amsterdam studio.

Key moments

• Faced Brito for a second time, having already stopped him in round one back at FSC 27 in November 2023.
• Finished this rematch in round one as well, at 3:25.
• It was a heavyweight co-main event for Levels Fight League 16.

In his only appearance under the Bellator banner, Sutherland lost a clean-sweep unanimous decision to Slim Trabelsi at the Accor Arena in Paris.

Key moments

• All three judges — Hadi Mohamed Ali, Mourad Benseghir and David Peabody — scored it 30-27 for Trabelsi, sweeping every round.
• Referee Keith Peterson worked the full three rounds; there was no stoppage.
• It remains Sutherland's only fight under the Bellator Champions Series banner.

Fighting inside PFL's SmartCage in his first outing after his first professional loss, Sutherland finished Alton Meeks with a knee and follow-up punches in round two at the 2023 PFL Challenger Series.

Key moments

• It was his first fight back after a decision loss to Abraham Bably the previous August.
• Hurt Meeks with a knee, then closed the show with punches at 1:25 of round two.
• The stoppage came at the 2023 PFL Challenger Series, Week 3.