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 shelved his usual power game and out-wrestled Tai Tuivasa for three rounds in Perth, repeatedly taking him down and grinding out top position for his first UFC win. Tuivasa had a point deducted in the third round for an illegal knee to the grounded Sutherland, but the Brit was already well ahead on the cards.

Key moments

• Took Tuivasa down in every round and spent most of the fight on top.
• Referee Rich Mitchell docked Tuivasa a point in round three for an illegal knee to a downed opponent.
• Won a lopsided unanimous decision, 30-26 on all three scorecards.

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.

In his UFC debut, Sutherland traded kicks with Valter Walker before eating a right hand that Walker turned into a double-leg takedown. Walker rolled for his signature heel hook, and Sutherland had to tap for the first submission loss — and first finish loss — of his career.

Key moments

• Walker scored a takedown after Sutherland landed a hard right hand.
• Walker's heel hook forced the tap at 1:24 of round one.
• It was Sutherland's UFC debut and his first career loss inside the distance.

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.

Sutherland went the distance with Renato Rangel at Levels Fight League 15, taking a clear unanimous decision over three rounds.

Key moments

• The heavyweight bout went the full three rounds without a finish.
• All three judges sided with Sutherland for a unanimous decision.
• The win moved him to 7-3 heading into his rematch with Luis Carlos Brito two months later.

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.

Sutherland got the first-round finish over Luis Carlos Brito at FightStar Championship 27 — the first of two meetings between the pair.

Key moments

• Stopped Brito inside round one, at 4:11.
• It was their first meeting; Sutherland beat Brito again by first-round finish roughly 15 months later at LFL 16.
• The win moved his heavyweight record to 6-2.

Sutherland dropped a unanimous decision to Moreno Kacapor over three rounds at Levels Fight League 9 — his second professional loss.

Key moments

• The heavyweight bout went the full three rounds.
• Kacapor took a unanimous decision on the scorecards.
• The loss dropped Sutherland to 5-2; he answered with a first-round finish of Luis Carlos Brito four months later.

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.

Sutherland's unbeaten start ended at PFL 9: 2022 Playoffs, where Abraham Bably took a clean-sweep unanimous decision.

Key moments

• Sutherland came in 4-0, having finished all four of his previous opponents.
• All three judges — Ben Cartlidge, Mark Collett and Darryl Ransom — scored it 30-27 for Bably.
• Referee Gary Copeland worked the full three rounds; it was Sutherland's first professional loss.

Sutherland stopped Dion Groombridge in round one at Sparta Fight Knights 1 in Manchester — the only professional fight of Groombridge's career.

Key moments

• The heavyweight bout ended by first-round knockout.
• It was held at the Victoria Warehouse in Old Trafford, Manchester.
• Groombridge never fought professionally again, closing his MMA record at 0-1.

Sutherland needed just 25 seconds to finish Jan Lysak in round one at Ambition Fight Series: London.

Key moments

• The stoppage came at 0:25 of round one.
• It was held at the Brentford Fountain Leisure Centre in London.
• Lysak, fighting as "The Monster," finished his own career with well over 20 professional losses.

Sutherland made it two wins from two with a first-round knockout of Atanas Krastanov at FightStar Championship 20.

Key moments

• The finish came at 2:05 of round one.
• It was Sutherland's second professional fight, following his debut win over Pavel Dailidko four months earlier.
• The win moved his record to 2-0.

Sutherland opened his professional career with a first-round knockout of Pavel Dailidko at Almighty Fighting Championship 18 in Barnsley.

Key moments

• The knockout came at 1:05 of round one.
• The event was held at the Metrodome in Barnsley, England.
• It was Dailidko's professional debut, and the earliest fight in Sutherland's own record.