Louie Sutherland

Montanha took Sutherland down early, returned him to the mat after he rose and secured a rear-naked choke in the Brazilian's UFC debut.

Key moments

• Was taken down early and returned to the canvas after working up.
• Montanha flattened him out and attacked the choke.
• Tapped to the rear-naked choke 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.