MMA Fighting - Eurobash: Episode 51 (w/ Pedro Carvalho, Adam Borics)

Episode Date: September 3, 2019

On the latest episode of Eurobash, European featherweights Pedro Carvalho (11:30) and Adam Borics (35:00) preview their Grand Prix bouts at this weekend's Bellator 226 card. Peter Carroll joins Niall McGrath from Abu Dhabi to preview UFC 242. Peter and Niall also take a closer look at this weekend's Cage Warriors Unplugged 2 event as well as Bellator 226. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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The Downloaded 2, Ghosts in the Machine. Available now, only from Audible. And we are back, Eurobash episode 51. A little bit of a different setup today. I'm hearing beautiful sunny, beautiful, amazing, dark, dreary, unbelievably rainy Dublin and Peter Carls all the way across the water in Abu Dhabi. Ptie me L Flower. I said I'd start off the show today because you're overseas of shite audio.

We thought originally you were going on Tuesday, but you messed it up somehow. Fill the listeners in, why? I don't know how I did it, okay? I don't have a clue. I was moving out my apartment at the weekend. So I think I just decided I was going on Tuesday. And then on Sunday night, I still had lots of stuff to move out of the apartment. And I just said, oh, I'll better check my phone and see what time this flight is going on Tuesday.

Turns out what's going out on Monday. Up all night, running around like a lunatic, then straight on a plane. But thank you, Noel, for somehow being able to record this today. Because... You know me? I'm a tech genius, Pizzi. yeah but um yeah it's very warm over here man i think i'm gonna be coming back with third degree burns poor you man we've the heat on here it's got that cold today seriously i'm not even joking it's freezing out like rain and pissing feckin' rain all day fucking stop moaning enjoy it i was uh actually

it seems to be a bit of a buzz over here because this showdown week we're trying to put abu dappy on the map or whatever but um i was surprised see wonder boy being absolutely mobbed in the Abu Dhabi Airboard. Like, he was surrounded by people. He's probably on, like, a 16-hour flight over here. And then he's just being the nicest going in the world as people, like, cue up to take pictures with him. I was like, oh, shit, man. I would hate that guy.

Hey, baby. This is amazing baby. This is great baby. Of course you can have a picture. I think I'm like, oh, my God. There's about 50 people queuing up here, right? But I think it's going to be interesting. You're obviously going to get a good gauge now this week to actually how popular the sport is over there.

And, you know, obviously, I don't think we've seen it. an event in Abu Dhabis. So is it BJ Penin? That caribor-Anderson Silva as well. I think what's that 2010 or something? Frankie Edgar fight. There was another one. There was Big Country and Negara that he brought here in 2014.

But since then, and this is like, obviously, the UFC have signed a five-fight event deal or a five-year deal or something to that effect. I heard Khabi saying that it was him. You know, it's because of him that they're doing this. So obviously, he's going to be huge over here. wait to see just how the fans when they react to him

and stuff but I even saw Shamil who's fighting Curtis Blades hulking out there in the elevator before I came to record this so I tried to have a conversation with him but the language barrier was a bit too much but I'm seeing lots of, I saw toys him off, I've seen Claudia Godale

I must be in the fighter hotel if I'm seeing this many people but yeah it's going to be a very different one I'd say to be honest. I can't wait for it man I'm really excited about the comment and man well yeah i mean like the car let's be honest the card does take a big drop off after the main and calm main but um we'll have to see really i think it's one of them ones where i'm gonna wait to see what happens and then uh i'll pass judgment because we've been talking about for weeks the card isn't

overly uh stacked it's just very top heavy but um will i will i run through to the latest yeah let's get to us well i said that yeah it's about say that you get on to the news baby yeah thank you very much sir uh darren till v kelvin gasland is a go according to Dana White. He confirmed that that is happening in Madison Square Garden. We'll talk about that in just a little bit. Jack Shaw has had his first UFC

opponent announced it's Nolan Hernandez who he's going to take on UFC Copenhagen. That's the date me and Noel thought he would get slotted into and that has come to fruition. Phil de Frees has got a replacement opponent for his KSW 50 title defense. This time he's going to be taking on Luis Enrique instead of his original opponent

Damien Grabowski. Norman Park also has a new opponent. He's going to be taking on Mars and Wozick instead of Marion Zilkowski. James Webb and Natoyas Frederick are going to go at it again in November in London. They had that controversial fight of Cage Warriors 106 night of champions.

I think there's going to be a big appetite for that fight in London. And I know that Natoyus wanted this in Birmingham. James wanted it in London, but I think the injury Webb sustained to his neck through that pole driver actually kind of ruled them out of the Birmingham show. so and then the other big news of the week was Cage Warriors returning to Ireland so

why don't we take that one and drifted into the old talking points here that is quite considerable because we've been saying like I mean it's only really Bellator and Cage Legacy putting on events over here so that's a big deal that Cage Warriors are coming back right? Yeah it's a massive deal man I think we've said it and you know the one thing I'm sort of intrigued to maybe find out if we can if we can get any answers of Emma and stuff like that

as to why and how Cage Warriors are back and is this in accordance with them and safe MMA and all that. There's obviously details that we haven't learned on that yet. So I'm really interested to know why it's now. It's happening after such a long stint of us really just having Bellator in Dublin. Obviously it's hard to get answers off the guys to the actual intricate details of how shows get put on here. So I'm interested to find that. But I think it's great for the sport.

I think Reese McKee has already come out. said that he's definitely down for fighting in Netchum stadium and cork, and I think that would be a good way to sort of maybe look at it, even maybe put Reese and a co-main event slot or a main event slot and get some motor behind Reese. He's right up in that main event territory.

It has to be said, like, to consider his next fight, what would it be for the weight that's going to be on that fight? I think he's well in there with a main event slot, unless cage warriors have something up their sleeve. But I mean, we have lots of great Irish fighters represented there on the

the Cays Warriors roster McCulligan. You know, you have Darren O'Gorman. You have Ian Gary, James Sheehan. Paul Hughes might get signed up for a fight there. I'd love to see that happen. It'd be great. That'd be great. Like, I mean, I'm sure I'm forgetting some people,

but, you know, James Webb could be a headline over here, for God's sake. It is in November, though, and he's going to be fighting in November. You obviously broke the news, Pety. Did you hear anything about the sort of intricate details? No, no, I think, but I do think, wouldn't have announced it unless it was backed by Emma like I mean there would be absolutely no point in I don't think you'd even be

able to book a venue without Emma giving it the all clear so I just think it's one of those things where if it comes together it's it can be handy like I mean I know cage warriors are always in with safe MMA they're getting the scans done etc so logistically it's not a big shove to get

them put on a card in Ireland whereas maybe other promotions that come across who don't have such stringent kind of medical practice in place they can find it a bit more difficult. But even the UFC would find it difficult coming into this terrain at the moment, I'd imagine. Yeah, no, listen, I'm loving it though.

I think it's great for the sport badly needed to have some sort of competitive rivalries amongst these promotions. And, you know, it's more fights, more pro fights for the guys who can't get matched. Excellent. Yeah, absolutely. And of course, Graham Boyland put out that comment as well

that seems to be a big commitment to Irish fighters. Yeah. But moving on from Cage Warriors, Ireland, I wanted to talk a bit more about Darren Tilvey-Celvey-Galvin Gastlam. Dana Hoyt has said the reason why this fight has been made is because Darren Till wanted it.

Yeah, it's bullshit, man. I don't really know what the UFC are doing here. We said a number of weeks ago that was the fight that was rumoured and it's obviously come to fruition now. You know, like, you slow down the guy. You don't throw him straight into the best fecking, one of the best divisions in the world and give him a guy who's literally coming off an interim

title fight against Israel at a Sanya and a guy who's, you know, we've seen how impressively he's dealt with some of the bigger names in that division. Michael Bisping, obviously, to name, but a few. I think it's absolutely crazy for the UFC and Dana White

to say that. He's a guy that has such star potential that you could market so much better. You could easily deny him that fight if you had any sort of interests in pushing this guy further into the fucking market. I can't understand it, man. and you know

sometimes I just don't know what Dan is on man I really don't I think Darren as I said should have a guy that's in the top between top 10 and 15 You're right a hall I said we need to go perfect perfect I think

Anderson Silva Phoebe's fate or someone like that yeah yeah but like the one thing I think is kind of funny about this is like of course Darren Till wants to fight the best guy there like Darren Till's a fighter

Darren Till's a young fighter with a chip on his shoulder that wants to go out and prove everybody wrong but You know, as a promoter, you should be trying to protect your talent. Exactly. I mean, we've talked about this in Ozium.

This is the first guy, like, the guy that sold out here in London quicker than anyone else. Like, any of these other UK draws they've ever had, he's the guy doing it. He's commanding huge interest. And when you have him on a two-fights kid, it's up to the promoter then to rebuild him. Exactly. And I think this is a harder fight than Horheim Aswell. It's a hard, I totally agree with you. Like, look, it's a total sort of what lobside is.

the furnace and into the floor. Yeah, it's just crazy. And I just look at this and I go, listen, UFC, did you not learn from what happened in your initial push with Darren Till? You know, Darren wasn't even that confident going into that woodley fight. I spoke to him a few days before that was announced. And he felt as though he didn't even deserve that shot. So, you know, Dana needs to sit back here and assess what he's going to do with Darren Till.

And, you know, I don't really know if he really believes in Darren Hill after matching him up with Kelvin Gasselman. And so easily him giving him that fight as well, it's bananas to me. and it's just the UFC all over. Marketing rubbish. I mean, what about that for a reason as well? Like, I mean, how many players have been calling out different fighters for years and years and they don't get the full? Oh, yeah. We just give it to Darren and then other fights like feckin Tony Ferguson, 12 fight win streak,

begging for a title shot for God knows how long. And, yeah, the guy can't even get a fucking fight, like. Unless, like, I mean, Kelvin is in some terrible, terrible way that we don't know about after the Stoylbender fight. and Dana think this is a good way to get Darren back on top but don't like it that's complete bullshit for me by the way but I'm just saying

look I'm over here at USC 242 we're going to have lots of coverage on I'm fighting all week from from over here but we decided to take a look at the Bellator featherweights that are competing this weekend because there is some European draws there in that tournament

and we think that's a big deal we think it's good to have the Europeans represented there so we'll kick on with our first interview of the day it's with Pedro Carvalio who takes on Sam Cecilia this weekend so we'll be back in about 10 minutes And now you have been asking for him to come back

And he has granted us that wish It is Pedro Carvalio who takes on Sam Cecilia this weekend at Bellator 2-26 In the first round of that featherweight Grand Prix Pedro all the way from California How are you and how long have you been out in that neck of the woods What's up? Bidavis thanks Thank you for having me

here again. And yeah, I've been in California since last Saturday. So about almost about a week already here, you know. So it's been it's been a great time so far. Yes, yes. And I must ask you, like how good was it to get what you asked for? Like you made no bones about it. You wanted to be in that featherweight Grand Prix. How good was it to find out that you would be in there? I mean like first I felt it was deserves and because I totally deserved to be on that tournament and like to be honest you know I just didn't was able to speak to anyone about it but on that night on that same night I got a confirmation that I was on the tournament you know on the fight on Birmingham on that same night on that same night I got a confirmation like

Unfortunately, I couldn't give that information to anyone. But yeah, but I already knew for quite some long that I was on the tournament. And that was it, you know, I wasn't amazed or surprised. I would be surprised if I wasn't on it, you know. That will surprise me because, like, for my journey so far inside Beltor, I think, I'm not going to say that I'm the most deserved it, I'm one of the most deserved guy to be on it, you know,

because the names that I face on the occasions that I face them is like, and the way that I beat them. So I think there's no doubt about it that I deserve to be honest and that's how we feel about it. That's the only feel about it, you know,

and happy because I know that in less than a year time I will have four bodies to beat. So I'm pretty happy with it. Yes, yes. and, you know, Scott Coker, when he revealed the bracket, he said that all of you guys just basically found out you were in the tournament. He didn't tell you who you would be facing.

Now, we know that you're going to face Sam Sasea this weekend, but would he have been your first choice for a guy to fight in the first round of this tournament? To be honest, like, any one of the guys would be my choice. Actually, like, if I could pick, I would pick the champion, you know, so I could start the tournament as champion, you know. What better way to start the tournament? That is a confident man I'm talking to right now. No, it's not a confident man.

It is what it is, you know. I'm just being me, you know. I never was any different of it. I know what I'm capable. I know, I know, like, I train to be the best in the world. I believe that I'm the best in the world. So like I've said before, a guy that believes that is the best in the world. world, you cannot have problems to fight anyone in his division or in the world, you know,

because if he believes that he is the best in the world, he believes that is best that anyone of the guys. So if you believe that it's the best that any one of the guys, he cannot have problems to face anyone. So I have absolutely no problem to face anyone of the $515s, you know. Yes, yes. So, but yeah, but talking about personally about this fight, like, you know, you know, you know, I'm pretty happy, pretty happy because I know, I know, like, Sam is a really experienced guy, you know,

is a UFC vet, is a warrior, you know, is a fighter. And I respect that, you know, I really respect guys like him, you know, that just go out there and put everything on the line. But stylistically, I think, I think it's a really good match up for me. And like I've said before, him and all the other guys on the tournament, they're going to face a pressure that they never seen before. They're going to see someone in their faces constantly, like they're never seen before, and they're all going to crumble. They're all going to crumble with that pressure.

It's interesting. You comment there on Cecilia being a good matchup. That was one of the big things I could see online. When this was revealed, I saw a lot of your team. teammates, a lot of Irish fans in general, just saying they really liked the style match up there for you and Sam Cecilia. And they also were commenting on the fact that this will be a big introduction for you in the US. I mean, we know what you're capable of. We've seen what you've done over here. But it feels like this is an even bigger, a new milestone which you're going across to the US here and being a

part of this Fedraway Grand Prix. Yeah, absolutely. But any, any, any, any, any one of the other 15 will be a a great opportunity for me to to start high with a high performance you know but but yeah absolutely absolutely i think it's a really good opportunity and and it's going to be it's going to be good for me and it's going to be good for the fans going to go going to be watching yeah it's interesting um that you mentioned the champion i mean a lot of big big names in this in this bracket like is there anyone there that you imagine will be there at the end. I know that's where you want to be, but is there anyone you can see going the distance here

when you look at the way the matchups have fallen? Like who's going to be in the final? Yes. I don't know. I would say if Patricki doesn't get me on the quarterfinals or semi-finals, I would say Patrick Pitu has a pretty good chances because, man, he is a bit. He is a proven champion, you know.

He's not some guy that pull up names and won a belt. He's a proven champion, you know, and he proves that he is really, really good. So I truly believe that he has probably the chances to be on the final. I think it's probably the best name to it. I was wondering, you know, I spoke to John Kavana about you recently, and he was kind of saying, look, the thing about Pedro is the big advantage he has is he's coming in, he's floating under the radar.

Some of the bigger names there, people are expecting big things from them, but he gets to go in. Maybe a lot of the US audience don't really know you, and you get into going there and spoil the party a lot. Do you think it works to your favor that maybe some of the US audience haven't heard of you just yet? I don't know. I never really thought about it. But yeah, it can be, but I think, I think. After this match, after I beat some Sicilia, there will be like, there will be nothing of that. Everyone will know who I am after I beat some Sicilia.

Everyone will have their eyes on me after I beat some Sicilia, you know. So I think if there's an advantage factor, for me, I think there will be no more, I will have no more that effect after some Sicilian's fight. You know, you're coming into this fight on the back of two really, really quick wins over Luca Vitale and Derek Campos. Like, I mean, can you see Cecilia being a bit more difficult in that regard? This guy has been around the game for a long time. Do you see any reason that maybe he will be a tougher guy to put away? I think, I think, I mean, all of them are tough, you know.

We are talking about the highest level of MMA, you know. We are talking about the best fighters in the world, so all of them are tough. The thing is, like, I see something stylistically really, really, really similar at Derek Campos. So I'm expecting a kind of a similar fight as I have with Campos. The thing that I know that I have to look for is power. You know, he's a powerful guy. But at the same time, it's a guy there. He burns himself.

He burns themselves pretty fast. And I have gas to fight all day. So I know on the first minutes, I just have to be patient, set up my time, and then I'll just go to my pressure. And it's going to be all about them. If you can take the shots, maybe it can get to the second round or even maybe to the decision, you know, it's going to be all about how much damage can it take. And that's going to be for him.

for any one of the guys, this is going to be the history, the story of the fights with all the guys. It's going to be all about how much damage can they take. And that's it. I'm not trying to predict nothing. Like, I always go into the fight with this guy affecting a three-runs war. That's what my mind comes. My mom comes like to that cage to have a battle, a war for three runs for 15 minutes or five rocks. It depends on the type of what it is. I always go with my mind, set

for the toughest test so far and that's how I'm going to be inside of the cage with Sam Cicill. I'm going to expect a three-round war, but I also believe that you know, again, my pressure is going to be a difference maker than

sooner or later in that I fight I'm going to make him crumble like I made with Derek. I made with Luca Bittali, I made with Daniel Crawford, I made with them all, you know. Them all, they felt my pressure and I could see in some point of the fight that they were break. And I know I'm going to find a breaking point on Sam Cecilia and I'm going to make them crumble. Wow, I am very excited about this. I'm even more excited about than I thought I was before I spoke to you.

I was wondering, Pedro, like, is it a good time? I know you've been in California now for the last world, but has it been good to be an SBG because everyone's preparing for that Dublin card as well? I'd say it's a good buzz to have everyone around you kind of directed towards one goal. Oh yeah, it's been amazing, you know, like, like, back in SBG, we are not a team, we are a family, you know. And it's been, it's been really good, you know, like everyone has been so, so, so supportive, you know, so there. And it's absolutely amazing there was at this time of the year, you know,

because there's a huge amount of athletes there preparing for the Dovin card, you know. So we are, it's basically, I will say all the team, not all the team, but like half of the team is for the Dovin card. So half of the team is getting ready for like the, fight so the the atmosphere and the environment is great especially for me that I'm also I was ready for a fight so that was really the perfect occasion to having you know because we're training for the same who are all like in camp so everything it was perfect because by far the best camp that I ever had. Everything went perfect. I'm in the best shape of my life. My weight is perfect.

Everything is on point. And I'm going to put the best performance. It's going to be going to be a win. It's going to be a dominant. That's what you're going to see. You're going to see a side fight. Thank you so much. Yes. Thank you so much for joining us this week. It's been an absolute pleasure to speak to you. I'm really looking forward to seeing you in there. And I hope you'll come back on and speak to us soon when you can talk about who you got in the next round. Yes, we talk about after my win. We talk about the next round.

Absolutely. Thank you so much, Pedro. And enjoy California. Thank you, Pete. Thank you for having me again. Thank you very much. Have a good day. And we are back.

Thank you very much to Mr. Pedro Carvalio. Looking forward to seeing how he goes against Sam Cecilia this weekend. I think that's a good matchup for him, to be honest, Sam Cecilia, because Sam, likes the bang and we've seen how devastating Pedro's power can be so far in this in this run that he's already on with Belator

so very interesting to see that. Sam's a bit wild isn't he? He's always being like that. You never know what you get from. He's going to make for a great fight, you know? Yeah, he's a bit inconsistent, Sam. That was always the feeling I got when he was in the UFC and stuff like that and you know, there's a win, a loss, a couple of wins, a loss, that sort of record. So it is.

It's a fight very winnable for Pedro and I've been exceptionally impressed at his improvement and development over his last spot. Was he on four in a row on Bellator now? Something like that. He's on a... Three in a row, yeah.

But he's doing really well and he's a guy who's, you know, we're claiming him. I know he's Portuguese, but like... He's training in Dublin, so he's ours. Did you watch UFC Shenzhenz in last weekend? I did. I did. Of course I did. Yeah, I got up nice and early

on... I stayed in Friday night after work and I got up nice and early, nice and fresh coffee on and I watched the prelims all the way true I didn't see the five pass prelims now but I watched all the rest of it and listen you know off the bat I got to say for Wili Zhang unbelievable performance and I think it's great for the sport in a global level that we've a UFC champion now from China especially after the money the UFC have put into that market with the PI and the UFC gyms there it's a real sort of game changer and it's it's only good things for the sport.

There's going to be more eyes in the sport. It's going to develop now in China, and she's getting a lot of, obviously, traction from the comments on her Instagram from The Rock and Tom Brady and stuff like that, and Rhonda Rousey. So, man, it really is a good thing. I was delighted in a certain way to see her win.

Is that a bit of WME kind of messing there with the Rock and all that? Of course it is. Tom Brady's what, Sean Shelby's first cousin, man. Of course it is. Sean gave him a ring. I was saying this to a couple of lads that I met out on Saturday night. A couple of lads that are big UFC fans

and we were chatting about that and I mentioned, you know, Sean Shelby probably gave his cousin, Tom, a call and I'll throw a comment on there in Weiley Zhang's Instagram and we'll get some traction behind it. But listen, nothing wrong with that in my opinion. And, you know, I'm just, I'm just delighted.

And what a devastating performance, man. Unbelievable. Like, it was just, and like, it wasn't as if it was reckless. It was just calculated, brute, speed and aggression man. Unbelievable finish. To finish a tough, tough competitor like Jessica Andrage like that was sensational, man.

I was seriously impressed with that performance. I don't think he couldn't have been. Yeah, absolutely. The only way like the way I saw Zhang winning was be a submission. And to do what she did. Like, I mean, we were texting about that. We went, like,

there is a good chance she's going to win here by submission and then we, you know, we were just like sort of flabbergasted and we were texting back and forward after it was yeah what 45 seconds or something holy shit man and what about the fight before it as well like the leech man oh who who tweeted us before that and going like we're like stay funny on the santo's there mate yeah it was uh it was a bit of a bit of a bit of a one but what a performance from him man as well like just just just really good his boxing looked better i think than it's ever been really slick off the back foot as well pace and um some really really big shots uh tough

dude. Another guy that's really popular in China as well. UFC Yeah, the leech. UFC could really put some more weight behind him in that market now at Whaley Zhang become a champion. Yeah, well the thing with like, I feel bad for Zelisky de Santos because

you know, you're on a seven-foyt win streak and they sent you to China to fight the leech, like I mean, Jesus, we think Leon Edwards is getting a raw deal, man. That is a raw, raw deal, man. That's sick. It is, man. And it's going to put people on further notice about that guy when he's taking

out lads like that as well. That's a guy that's going to probably move up into the rankings now. Yeah, did you watch Kai Kara Francie did? You were talking to me during that fight. Yeah, really good fight. Really interesting, entertaining Scrap to watch again. He always brings a man really, really good. Probably the only thing I would have

sort of taken from his performance is there was two opportunities there where he really could have finished the fight to put him away and there was a little bit of hesitancy up against the cage when he was throwing some knees and shot. And I think that's maybe the only disappointed from. But listen, what a fighter to watch. And I'd

be, you know, I wonder if he can go right to the very top, because we obviously don't know what's going on with the flyweight still, but I wouldn't mind seeing him going to bantamate. I think there's possibly more challenges there in sort of a deeper division than what we have at flyweight at the moment. But yeah, no exciting guy. Really, really good fight

as well. Canaan's song and Derek Kranz had a hell of a fight. Yeah. It was a messy one. Plenty O'Blood floating around there. And Mizuki Inouye got our first UFC win, obviously a legend of Japanese MMA all very good, but I mean

it wasn't a, not a huge amount of talking points from the undercard, like, did you see Ebramov's fight where he just came out, like they just shot him out of a cannon? And he completely wrecked himself down for the rest of the fight. That was an interesting month to watch. It wasn't great.

It wasn't great, like. No, no, but it was just kind of spectacular in the sense of like, what in the name of Jesus, are we watching here? Yeah. It was. Miserie Maderge got a win over Andre Sukumtot who broke his hand in the first round and I mean, sued it so well.

He was brilliant. I really thought Sucumthot was going to have way too much for him so that's a huge win and of course the hand would have affected him there. Another guy I was impressed with it was Demir Izmigilov against Tiago Moisess. Really, really strong performance. Never looked in trouble and Mosez is very well regarded in his neck of words.

And then Alateng and Baccarel with the fight of the night there very close fight i thought back garel did enough but there you go it doesn't always happen but um interesting with you know last week you were kind of talking we kind of did a quick look over that polaris card and then these images of patty pim would come out yeah i said it last week i don't know of his knees in a bad way but it certainly uh illustrates your point very well doesn't it i think so man i was having a back and forth with uh with mike roads and about it when I put up that post about Patty, you know,

I wasn't a fan of these events taking place, especially when guys have fight booked, like Stevie Ray, he's obviously taken on Michael Johnson. That could have been very easy the other way around. Oh, yeah. And who knows,

he could have been out of a fight. And it's as simple as that. Like, the UFC have to sort out something within these contracts to say you're not allowed to take part when you're, um,

you've a fight booked or you're in fight camp. Because it's just a fucking mess. Like, you know, it's, you know, Michael Johnson as well, if that fight was to fall through and they didn't get an opponent.

You know what I mean? like it's taking money out of someone else's pocket as well if they're not going to show up. It's just a fucking mess. And I don't understand why it's not in their contracts already. Like it seems like a no brainer to me, no? Yeah, well, I mean, we've seen it happen now to too, well, I mean, we don't know how bad Paddy's knee is. You know, sometimes it feels terrible in that situation. It actually isn't that bad, so hopefully that's the case.

But we have seen Brett Johns pulled from fights because of being heel-hooked on events like Pilaris and stuff. And the game is so heel hook heavy now. And heel hooks are devastating injuries. It's so east to injure someone's knee with a fucking heel hook. So it does feel like it's like, you know, that definitely coloured your point quite a bit. I think seeing what happened to the party at the weekend. But I think that's all we had last weekend, was it?

Yeah. It was. Well, if we had anything else, we're not fucking talking about it. It was a shallow enough weekend. Obviously, you know, the main event there in China and the coalmen where we're really, good fights but yeah I think I just have to reiterate

that point it's I think it's exciting times for the UFC in China after Wei Li Zhang and it's listening the UFC need to really get behind her now with all this social media presence

and promotion from world stars in the entertainment industry and the American football industry is cool I want to see her doing more cryptic tweets like she did at the start

where she's talking about like wins and whatever like whatever else it is like forces of nature and stuff like scary woman she is. Terrifying. What about the media, actually? I don't know. I don't know if you watch a boy, it was covering the post. What was that about? Sorry, you know, that's like, like, people should like that. Man, they need to start throwing out people when they ask

questions like that. It's fucking weird. When you get a boyfriend now? It's weird and freaky, man. Like, what, what the fuck? Like, how do you have to see your credential in some of these geysers, man? It's, it's unbelievable. It's just funny that, like, she wins the world title. The biggest moment of her life, and this guy's question to her is, and you gotta get a boyfriend now? Like she needed to get the belt It's just weird You can get out of my life

You have to get the belt To get some bloody fucking I better not say that But you know what I mean She better get the belt To get a date No what are they on like Jesus

I would have literally If I was sitting in press row With that guy I would have grabbed his head And just tron him out I would have thrown him out Like get the fuck out of here man What are you fucking talking about

Like seriously Like how were they not ejected From the media room It's just mental I saw a glare me tweeting about and like holy mother of God man I don't know

Killer Faye was mess to me at the time so he said he just fucking sounds yeah I was just like what what the fuck I don't know weirdos around man yeah we'll get on with our second interview of the day it's Adam Barix he's taking on

Pat Curran so he's gone from taking on one of the biggest prospects in Ballotard and one of the biggest legends of the division really in two fights so really great to speak to Adam again and we'll be back again in about 10 minutes guys and now we are joined by the man who toppled one of the biggest prospects in the world of m m mary in his last outing we have heard from the man before it's mr adam barrick of hungarian fame and adam you have a huge fight lined up for this weekend against pat curran my god it's all happening for you tell me how excited you are about taking part in this featherweight tournament i am so excited man i am the most excited in my life what is the reaction

being like to the Pico win? Because I can remember when we were speaking, we were speaking about the impact this could have in Hungary, where the sport is just taking off. You are probably the biggest poster boy for the sport in Hungary. What has the reaction been like over there? You know, when I was younger, I had a dream. So I dream it and I do now, just like this. I am so happy. I can leave my dreams now. Yes, absolutely, absolutely. Now, did you know after you beat Aaron Pico that you would be in a good position to get into the featherweight tournament? Were you confident on the back of that win that Bellator would include you in that bracket? Yeah, man, yeah, because I have four fights, four finish. I was sure about I have to be in the tournament. Yes, I agree with you completely.

And I can tell you from the European side, a lot of the European side, lot of people are very excited to see the inclusions of you and of course Pedro Corvalio who's also fighting that night but how happy are you with Pat Curran because to me it's amazing that you're going to fight from going to fight a prospect to a veteran and a former champion that's a big jump up in terms of experience are you happy with an opponent like Pat Curran yeah yeah i am i'm I'm really happy for this matchup because, yeah, he's a former champion, you know. So he has been where I want to be there. So he has a lot of experience.

It's a big fight for me. It's good because I have always even bigger, bigger fights. You know, everybody was talking about before Biko fights. Oh, this is your biggest fight in your life. And now, again, this is your biggest fight in your life. Yeah, but I won this, you know. I don't care about too much just like it's okay

I go in there and get that win so this is my game plan yes and I'm sure there has been some people that are saying that maybe it was a fluke that you managed to beat Aaron Pico this is a good way to silence those people right you're able to shut everybody up and say this was no fluke I'm just after beating a former champion

yeah yeah yeah but I really respect him, you know, because he has a lot of experience, so I have to fight smart against him because he is a former champion, so he's a really tough guy.

I have to do what I can do the best. Yes, yes, of course. Did you see his last fight with A.J. McKee, was criticized a little bit. I thought unfairly criticized because the fight went the distance.

I believe that Curran is a very hard order to finish. Do you agree with me? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I saw that fight, but not clear, and before that fight, he didn't fight like one and half years, right, or something like that. So, so it's okay. And it was a little bit boring fight. I never want to do that, but I have to smile too. So I have a game plan too. I have to follow that. obviously, but yeah.

There's a lot of fights going on on the same night you take on, Pat. Obviously, one half of the featherweight bracket is going to be contested that night. You have Sam Cecilia versus Pedro Carvalio, Strauss v. Campos, Curran v. Borich, and obviously, Sanchez v. Claxton.

I know that at the end of September, the other side of the bracket is going to be played out, but who do you think is your biggest challenge in the whole bracket? Who do you believe will be there at the end of this with you. Do you have someone in mind that will be a top contender

in this featherweight bracket? You know, I don't think too much about the final now. I have to focus on my next side, but of course, sometimes I am thinking about it. But I think this featherweight tournament, the final is going to be Adam Boch versus Aegee-Machy. Wow, two of the biggest prospects.

That would be amazing, right? So you believe that... Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think... Go ahead, sorry. No, no, no, I mean, you know, two underfitted guy, two young, hungry guy.

So maybe the fans like it, if it's happened. You know, Patricio Pitbull is taken on Juan Archiletta on September 28th. I think that is a really important fight. Do you... I believe that Arculeta is good enough

to upset Patricio Pitbull, even though Patricio Pitbull is fantastic. He's a very under- underrated fighter, but do you feel like that could be a very pivotal clash in this tournament? Because I feel as though Eric Aletta is right there and the top contenders at featherweight. You know, my opinion is H.G. Mackey deserves the title shot because he has a 14th fight in a battle, so it might be, he's the next funnel. But we have our other, so like an Inoucaiva, right? after this chance.

Yes, yes. We chose each other, yeah, yeah. So we will see what's happening, but, you know, Arshita is, I think he's a 135 guy, not 145. Yes, yes, of course, yes. I believe football will win. And after we'll see what's happening. I really don't care if I get football in the next run,

so just let's do it. Yes, yes. And I can remember Scott Coker spoke about this tournament. He said he didn't tell any of you who you were going to fight. You know, you basically just said, yes, I will fight in the tournament. Who were you hoping to get in the first round? No, I didn't think about who is the next, but I was happy for Pet Curean because it's, you know, it's a good matchup for me. He's a former champion and I want to fight against a tough guy. and he is very tough. I think one of the toughest in this division, it's a good matchup for me. I want to fight against the tough guys. In a way, is it a hard fight to have in the first round

because Pat is so durable and he's a veteran and he tends to be able to take people the distance? Is that in your head that a 15-minute fight may not be the ideal thing in a tournament? setting? You know, he's a he's a counter fighter and I think in this fight I have to be smart and calm just like just move around and kick punch and keep the distance too. So because he, he has a, you know, he has a lot of experience. So, so I have to be calm and smart. Don't rush like, like, like throw. Because I want to finish always the fight.

So keep calm now. Are you, is there right? Did you think the win over Pico would give you an even bigger platform? Did you think with that win that even more people would know about you? I feel as though even though everybody is very excited about you, it should have made an even bigger splash. Do you agree with me? Yeah, definitely.

You know, he is a very famous guy, you know. he has a lot of life still and yeah I saw on a for example on the social media you know I get a lot of followers and that's just from Hungary from the US too so and yeah I feel it and I think now the people knows my name but I thought everybody before people's fight after this fight, I will remember my name. After Pat Curran, even more people, yes? Yeah, exactly. It's still right.

Thank you so much, Adam. It's always a pleasure to speak to you. You are one of the great prospects in M.A. And I'm really looking forward to seeing you fight in this tournament. Thank you. Thank you, bro. Bye-bye. Bye-bye.

Thank you very much to Mr. Adam Barich. Yeah, so let's take a look at the week ahead, because it's a bit of a monster. lot going on this weekend as we know noiler um where we begin do we do we do two four two first we no we leave the best last okay all right so we leave cage where's the last then is what you're saying yeah well we just talked we just talked to uh adam and pedro so let's take a look at two two six first of all uh the main event is going to be roin bairder versus czech congo can't really see um too many bad situations there for better can you no the best heavyweight

the world apparently according to Scott Coker. Yeah, I mean, that's not his fault. Come on, get out of here. He's not. It's rubbish. That's a rubbish comment if ever heard one. If I ever heard one. He's a promoter.

He's doing the job he's doing it to be doing. Yeah, Steve ate him. Steve ate him for dinner. For, for breakfast, he'd eat him. Then he'd eat Congo for lunch and he'd Daniel Cormay for dinner. Again. No, listen, no, listen, there's no problems there.

Ryan Bader is going to take him down. completely dominate him Congo just is nowhere near the level he used to be a number of years ago when he was in the UFC and I think that's an easy night's work for Ryan better I don't foresee any problems from I think it's going to be

you know maybe you can get a submission or finish in the deck as well I think he's just going to wrestle him all over the cage and no problems no problems whatsoever yeah after like this fight of course then the featherweight tournament is really taking precedent here is this Peter is this is this

Is this the best thing Bellator have done in a number of years? I think it is in terms of depth in what they have in their division there. Yeah, the 16 fighters are really good. I like the fights as well. The fights are really competitive. You're not looking at the first round going, well, he's going to beat him. You know, like, it is very competitive. Let's just take a look at that line up there.

Daniel Strauss v. Derek Campos. Love it. Pat Curran v. Adam Barich. Emmanuel Sanchez v. Toywin-Claxton. Ooh. And then Sam Cecilia versus Pedro Cavalio. What fight is jumping out there for you? I have to say, I like Curn and Baruch.

Yeah, I do. I like that fight. I think, you know, it's another one, as you said there earlier on. It's a test for him against the legend of Bellator, MMA and Pat Curran. You know, really good on the ground is Pat Curran. But you'd have to fancy Baruch, the guy you've admired for quite some time. And I think that's the fight that probably stands out. It's a tougher test for him.

It is. It's sort of a level up. And it's, I like that, as you said, the matchmaking. There's little progressions there, between the fights and it's given these guys maybe a little bit of space and breathing room to to show their skills and not pushing them too fast. I like the way they've matched this tournament up. It's really good. But I also am very interested to see Daniel Strauss because that comeback fight was the last couple of fights were absolutely sensational after that accident, getting told he was

never going to walk again. You know, if he came back and won this tournament and ultimately, you know, it will be probably one of the greatest stories in mixed martial arts history. Absolutely phenomenal stuff. It just shows you the will, the term. this guy and I'm looking forward to see him and Campos throw down as well that's a really competitive fight yeah yeah like I'm gonna just we might as well just kind of do some predictions here

for just a featherweight tournament there and just this leg of it obviously the rest the other four fights are going to happen at the end of the month so Strauss free Campos I'm going to firmly in Strauss's part there I think he's got I think he's gonna get that done and I like Barich against Curen just because Baruch has got so much momentum at the moment

but I don't think that's an easy fight one bit No, if Curran gets you on the deck, man, you're in trouble. You really are. You can really grind a guy out. I mean, Barich is having a tough old time with Pico until that flying knee as well. And I imagine Curran will be very wrestling heavy as well, like not looking to waste time at all, just take him down to the ground as quickly as possible. So that could be, like, I'm slightly leaning towards Baruch, but I do think Curen's going to give him a hell of a fight. It could be very like the Pico incident.

But the thing with Baruch is, you can just explode into action and stop a fight for him doing it. so often. Definitely, definitely. Love it. Which one are you going for there? Barich. Too explosive. I think the power is going to get him. I think Pat Kern is a guy who's obviously, you know, he's an older veteran in the sport. He's probably on his way down.

But as you said, you know, live underdog there, he gets you on the ground, very grindy, very gritty. He can cause you a lot of problems. But as you said, I think the fact Baruch has that explosiveness in his locker is going to be the difference here. I think Sanchez's experience is getting the win over

Claxton and yeah I have to say I can't look past Carvalio against Sicilia I really can't I think that's like if I was picking the perfect opponent out of all those 16 fighters for Carvalio I would have said Sam Sicilia yeah but again Sam Cecilia is explosive in his own right as well he can catch

yeah he is on his night he looks great that's what you were saying earlier like I mean there was many times there was so many times where he thought oh Sam's after turning the corner here he's gonna go on to great things and it just never came about kind of like Andre Feely before he totally agree with what he's doing now

You know totally agree He's very loose in the cage and I think You know the looseness probably is Sometimes in his favour And sometimes against him in terms of You know when he goes out and he catches someone It's because of that looseness And also on the other hand you know

He can get sloppy at times And I think that's where Pedro Carvallio is going to take the advantage here In his fight Yeah also should be noted that Ashley Grimshaw is fighting on this card He's taking on John Massapa I think that's the curtain and jerker of the whole card. The court and joker.

The court and joker. So keep an eye out for Grimshaw there early on that night. But of course, there's lots of fights happening on Saturday. And on Friday, even, we have Cage Warriors unplug too. And it's another tournament. And it's a lovely little tournament as well. Jesus, Psy, I forgot until you tell me that. Yeah.

My eyes have been so firmly fixed on UFC this weekend. I love the time of the UFC as well. Obviously, we'll talk about that in a while. Yeah, yeah. It's well this card's very interesting Like the bantamai tournament is there And so Josh Reed V Marco Kovacevic

Scott Malone v. Jack Cartreuth Both of these These two fights are going to be contested over two rounds If there's not a winner after the two rounds It will go to a third round And to the Papp And Tanyo Pagloriccio Is the kind of the

What do they call it? When it's not actually The Standboy fight or whatever Swing babe Yeah, it's the If someone gets injured or whatever, the winner of this boy is going to get involved. Sorry, not a swing bet.

What am I fucking talking about? It's a substitute bet. I was just trying to move on quickly because I knew that was wrong. But I think this is great because it's going to be played out that night. I mean, you're going to see the winner that night. And of course,

when you think about that cage warrior, his bantamweight champion, the last three people who have held it, have gone on to the UFC. That's Jack Shore, Nathaniel Wood, and Brett Johns. I believe that the last three. anyway, it could up that arsways.

Maybe Johns came a bit before. Yeah. But, yeah, look, there's lots of Irish interest here as well. You've got Ian Gary making his second ever performance as a professional, and he's taken on Martin Harris. Like, that is a hard fight for a one-and-old guy. Like, Harris, if you look, like, Harris is a four-and-five record. But look at the guys he's lost.

They've all been very, very good. Like, I mean, this is a tough fight for Ian Gary. Like, you don't need to be fighting guys with nine fights in your second professional fight to be fairly. It doesn't. We've seen worse fights though in terms of, you know, a lot of sight of matchmaking. It's a good test. It's a good step up. And I think Ian Garry's, you know, from what I've seen. I don't think it's sinful, like, you know, I just think it's like,

I'm just trying to highlight that it is a very, like, I mean, fair play to him. I'm taking on a very, very tough fight, you know. Yeah, it's a step up. And listen, I just hope everything goes off, obviously with the incident the last time. Because obviously, Ian was good at after that when his opponent pulled out in the last fights of fingers crossed. yeah yeah um also uh deckie mccalina will try and get his first cage warriors win um as a professional we saw him um sorry he's already fought what are we talking about he's already got a winning cage warriors but um he obviously came back

he fought amiable there last time it was a very tough fight and amyable was able to kind of take him down yeah three rounds so tom mann's should be an interest in one both guys five and two and there at the top it's like Craig White coming back against Louis Gleisman and I just love this the top there

Joe McCauldan v. Medi Ben Lackdown Yeah it's a good fight That's going to be an insane fight That's two top-class strikers man That's guaranteed excitement I promise you man That fight is going to be fucking out right Yeah

I know it is We only obviously saw bits of Joe's Fight in Italy the last time But looked impressive From what we saw On the on the stream was put up on Twitter. But yeah,

listen, man, Joe's a great fighter looking forward to see him get back in there big time. Who do you fancy for the Phantom White tournament

there? That was four guys. Who do you think will come away? I'm kind of looking at Reed and Malone or my two kind of favorites there, I have to say.

Yeah, Malone's the one that stood out to me so I'd be putting a few quid on him if I was a betting man, which I'm not Petezy, as you know. Absolutely not hate it. Nah,

he's the one he's definitely impressed me. Obviously, that lost it was a Jack Shore. So, you know, looking to bounce back from that. And I think, I think you will. I think this is a, it's, it's an interesting tournament. And I just hope we don't have anything like fucking injury or something that roams the night. So I just hope it all goes off well.

Because obviously it's a big, big platform as well for, for Cage Warriors. So listen, great night of fights. Great night of fights. I think, I think Brian Boulon is saying that he wants to fight the winner of this tournament in the forest defense. So that would make a lot of sense too. well let's take a look at the big on it's happening here can't wait a beautiful abou dhabi did you have a look at the sides yet did you get it did you see

anton you're coming in or this just got in and got something to eat and then I'm doing this what's G what's you what's you I got a UFC burger what yeah the whole fucking town seems to be gone UFC mad to be honest and so they had a UFC burger is on special down there so I said yeah I've Have you been mobbed by all your fans? Ah, yeah. Fucking hell.

Women, I'd say women lining up at the door, are they? For a picture. Terrifying. Peripine. Peripine. I think they're all looking at me, just looking at me head of hair. I was meant to get me hair cut. I thought, as I said.

Curly tops. I thought I was leaving on Tuesday. So when Barbara was going to cut me hair on Monday morning. I was like, oh, sorry about that, mate. I'm gone. I was laughing. I was laughing my arse off when you text me last night. I'm going to Abu Dhabi in the morning.

I was like, what? fucking idiot only carol they have the they have the Turkish barbers over here and they just they wax your whole face

so I might just do it after the crack do it you have to IG that now if you do that IG live my mate Lee he works across

on the military base there in Afghanistan so he comes over here saying his down weeks or whatever and he fucking knows the place inside out so he was telling me

he's like if they ask you the tidy up your face say no because it really hurts and I was like I know I have to say yeah so I will

I think I made of mind's there this week. Dara Connell, so look out for him. I'll sign his, whatever he wants to sign, tell him, no problem. Yeah. I want to charge him. Cool. But let's take a look at this card, man, because it feels like, like, it already feels like there's something in the air here where it's a big card.

We know how big Khabib is out here. Like, he said himself, he's the reason that this is coming to town. He is huge here in this part of the world. Does he become an even bigger star on the bottom? back of this. We've talked about it, Connor McGregor in Ireland, Darren Hill and Liverpool. I know that Khabib has already rose his

profile to a level probably that surpassed them by the time they were having those words in home tournament. And I know this isn't in Russia, but it's in a huge Muslim state here and they are massive massive Khabibna Magamados fans. Do you think this is going to push him on to another level? Yeah, I think

he's on that level probably already, but yeah, it's going to be very, very interesting and as you said there, you know, it's Abu Dhabi seems to have gone UFC mad this week with whatever it's going on around fight with the Chili's in town you know we've a lot of top level

UFC fighters, guest fighters in town and they seem to be fully embracing the government there as well so it is you know it will it'll put him on a you know a level where

he's going to be probably a lot more appreciated around those sort of Muslim states maybe people who don't know him it's giving them a light there you know Abu Dhabi are shown it live across Arabic stations

as well like that. So it is. It's a fucking big deal, man. But I just feel as though there is something in the air this week, as you said there. Like, I don't know why. I don't know why. On Saturday, I was just thinking about it sitting down. And as I said to earlier on, I was chatting to a couple of lads who are big UFC fans and they were asking me what I thought of

the fight and things like that. And I just went, you know what? I don't know why, but I think something's in the air this week. Like everything in my head is telling me and that Habib's going to win this fight, but I just have a feeling Dustin Porre is going to catch him. I don't know why, I don't know where I'm getting that from. I just have this feeling something's going to go fucking haywire this week,

whether it's some bloody main event fallout or something crazy. I just have that weird, weird, weird feeling. And normally something happens when you or I are in town as well, which I think sort of clips onto what every fight I ever seem to bloody go to this feckin carnage or something falls out. So you're there, you're the bad luck this week, something's going down,

brother, something is going down. When you look at the matcher, bro, the Maga Madov's wrestling, of course, right, he's brilliant, he's unbelievable. Once he's on top of you, you're fucked, basically. But one thing I really stuck out to me with Poreen Holloway's fight was how good Porre's job is.

And I think the job is possibly one of the best weapons you can have against a guy who's going to be diving in your legs. Because it's, like, if he can consistently land his job on Khabib as he's trying to come in, it's just going to make him very reluctant to shoot by the third round, fourth round, if Parier can consistently do that, it's going to be a striking belt by the third or fourth round,

I'd imagine, and it's going to play completely into his hands. Yeah, no, I totally agree with you on that, and I think, as well as sort of an asset that, you know, Dustin Porre, maybe doesn't get an awful lot of credit for as well as how fast he is on his feet and off the back foot. He's going to be very, very, very

tougher, Habib, to try and take him down in this fight, and, you know, maybe he doesn't get enough credit for his ground game as well, but yeah, you do sort of look at this fight and you do think Habib is going to be able to get him to the ground and maybe look to mall him like he did against Connor McGregor. But if he does want to stand on him, I think Connor striking was so poor in that last fight against Habib. He obviously looked way, way off the pace from the Connor McGregor we've seen of old in terms of how good he was in his feet. And I think

Dustin Porre, if you look at his boxing man, he's one of the best guys in there. And I don't think Habib's going to want to do that standing on the feet because look at Habib in that fight. If you watch it back, there is plenty of holes. And it was. was the same in ally Akinta. There was a lot of times there where if Al had a thrown a job

and it may have possibly gone for an overhand right, Habib tends to drop his left hand very, very low at times and I think that's an area where Dustin Bore maybe could exploit.

So, man, I just, I don't know why I just had this fucking crazy feeling, as I said, since last Saturday. Something just clicked to my brain or whatever happened. I think something mad's going to happen.

I don't know why. I'm still feeling it's going to be Kabeb, but I do, I do, I do understand what you're saying I mean I feel like because it's in Abu Dhabi because so most of this is built around

Habib, I feel like a lot of people I think it's a given that Habib wins you know, I feel like everybody's just kind of saying it's just a formality nearly and I think it's probably one of as toughest fights ever and listen to a certain extent from the interviews we've heard with Habib this week

and last week coming into it like he actually sort of does seem to be overlooking him a little bit and I'm not saying that like he's talked you know. No, he has, and I keep going back to these quotes because I'm going to say this. Tony Ferguson is next to challenge me for the title. You know, you've Dustin Porre and Saturday, man. You should be concentrating on him.

And I'm sure he obviously is. But it just seems that there's something in his head maybe that he thinks he's just going to walk past Dustin Porey and absolutely, you know, sail into the sunset with the UFC belt around his waist. And it's just not as simple as that. And I think Dustin's, uh, Dustin's hungry, dude. I'll give him that. So you think Dustin's, you think Dustin's going to, you, think Justin's going to do it.

No, I'm still going to be, man. No, I'm still going to be, man. But I just think something mad's going to happen this week. I don't know whether it's going to be, you know, someone slips on a shower and sprains an ankle the fights off, something like that. I just have this weird, weird, weird, weird feeling. All right, listen, you can throw eggs at me if something bad happens on Friday.

But listen, it's going to be fun. It's going to be interesting. I can't wait for that fight. But, yeah, I do think it be. but listen, very much a live underdog and Dustin Porre there. Felder and Barbosa, it's been a long time since that first meeting.

We had Paul on the show. I was just speaking to Edson Barbosa's jiu jihitsu coach in the elevator just moments ago. Did you teach him the floating seal? Did you do some moves on him? Will you show him real quick? And I was like, listen,

fuck off, I'm sorry, man. Just get the fuck away from it. I'm sorry, sorry, and I was like, I'm sorry, I'm in a bad mood too. Don't be embarrassed. And he's like, I'll try not to be. That's what happened. Class, class, class.

But Felder, this fight is huge for this card because until this fight was really put in there everybody was kind of going this isn't great and then this the co-mate event got out of there and everyone was like well now now we're fucking talking yeah yeah no listen it's a crocker someone like fell there coming out from the u.s like he's a big name he's a he's a guy like commentator very visible i think he's added a lot of his card and the chorus edson marmosa come on it's it's it's what it needed it needed something a bit more It's just that main event

That this is it It's fireworks man This fight Like that first fight I watched it back Before we spoke to Paul there last week And man That fight was just sensational

The amount of spinning attempts In that fight Like I'd say 30 40 It was unbelievable that scrap And I just hope we don't see any nutshots again Because that's one of the most vicious Notts shots you'll ever see In the sport of mixed martial arts

And I'm really excited for this I'll lose my fucking lunch. If he gets hit in a bollock like that again, I won't be able to fucking haul down food. Yeah, no, I wasn't, like, sick nearly watching it, like vomiting my mouth. And it was just horrible. But listen, I think the whole dynamic

of this fight, and I'm looking forward to seeing the countdown show, I know they're out with Paul and Milwaukee. And, you know, this was Paul's first pro loss of his career. First loss, you know, in his whole mixed martial arts career, including his amateur fights and stuff like that as well, he was, he's a super competitive guy

and it's pissed him off. so much. They obviously used to train together then after and Mark Henry says a lot of narratives around this fight and I don't think Paul ever felt fully accepted up there. I think he was just brought in as a aspiring partner and there is man, there's a lot of heat behind this fight. Probably people don't realize

there is a big, big chip on Paul Felder's shoulder after losing that fight and I think in terms of what Paul brings to the table this time compared to what he brought the table the last time is a totally different fighter and you can totally see that all he wanted to do when that last fight was just standing bang. It was

very much a striking contest. And I think Paul, as we've seen against Ed, you know, Olivera, he was defending terrible, precarious positions and got out of them. He's got so good up against the cage. And I think the area here where Paul is one, I'm going to look to do, was what Justin Gage did to Edson Barbosa, close the distance, get on the inside, use those elbows, you know, short leg kicks as well to unsettle him. And ultimately, when he gets inside him, he's going to look for that chin and Edson Barbosa.

and listen, Edson's boxing, man, it was very, very sloppy against Justin Gagy, and that's where he got caught. I think that's where Paul's going to try and aim to get him, but listen, those leg kicks that Edson Barbosa possesses are absolutely fucking insane. And I just think this fight has fireworks again written all over. But I actually think I'm going to go and pick Paul to win this fight.

I think Edson's looked a bit chiny as well in his last number of fights. I think that's an area of Paul can definitely take advantage of. Yes, yes. Let's take a quick look through the rest of the car. We won't be able to get into them in quite that deep. detail, but... What did you think?

What do you think? I want your opinion on that fight as well. Of Felder and Barbosa? Yeah, it's a cracker. I just feel, it's very hard to look at that first fight and think it's going to be anything like... It's been nothing like it. Like, I feel like Felder,

what he's doing in the clinch might be even more difficult for people to deal with than his spinning. Definitely. You know, the stuff that he was known for when he first came into the UFC, I feel like when he gets a guy up against a cage and he has them in that plumb. he's doing very, very, very, very dangerous things

that people, it's hard for them to deal with because we just don't see enough of the clinch anymore in M.A. Especially that classic toy plum that he uses. I think it's a very awkward situation. And look, if you think about it logically, Edson Barmosin needs a lot of space to do what he does. And that's where Paul used to fight, giving someone all that space because he wanted it too.

Now if he's coming in really close and he's not giving Edson the space to pull off those kind of kick. I feel like it's his fight to win if he can fight it in that range that we've seen him have great success with recently. Totally rich. Totally agree. Well, let's take a quick look through the rest of the card. There's some nice fights.

I have to say, I'm glad to see Makashchev getting a decent fight. Avi Ramos is a good, good opponent. I haven't been happy with some of the fights Makashev has gotten the past. Not that this is a hugely dramatic big step up, but I do think Davy Ramos is very, very good. He's brilliant on the ground. We know Makashv wants to take him to the ground.

So I think it's a very tricky fight for Islam this time And I'm happy to see that to be honest man Yeah, no, I'm looking forward to it A guy I'm high on, but as well, as you said What was his last fight where he was a very underwhelming performance? That was in Russia against a debutante. Like, I mean, you can't be one of the Islam chef against a debutante And claim that he's one of the best prospects at 55

He needs to be beating guys like Ramos To justify a kind of title like that, I feel He was very, very underwhelming in that fight in Russia Against Armand Tasurakan, I think you pronounce it. wasn't impressed at all and especially after that Caruchian especially

especially after that performance against Cajian Johnson where he looked pretty good and obviously the Gleason T-Bow won before that as well yeah listen it was a feck and weird match so I'm glad to see he's got something a little bit better this time

and I do I expect him to go out there and put on performance I think it's it's time to shit I get off the pot from Makachev we've talked about him he needs to go out and make a statement now here I think and I feel he's going to do

agree Curtis Blades takes on Shamil Abderet come off but this is another one Tysonoffie Ferreira is a fucking brilliant fight

Yeah that's a really really good fucking fight Cracker And I mean Again though It's one of those fights We said man

It's it's one for Thomas He's been doing it for so long Underwhelming in his last fight as well Against Desmond Green We have to say Even though he did win that fight

And I think it's It's time for him To really put a performance In there and start making that push towards that title like he said he's wanted to do for the last number of years. Listen, a tough, tough opponent in there

and Cesar Ferreira, definitely. No, it's Diego Ferreira. Sorry, Diego Ferreira, Jesus. He's only after beating Cabal off there, so, I mean, good fight that, big, you know? Big time, man, really good fight. He's been on a good streak

since that lost to Porre. So it's a good fight. Lots of Russians here, by the way. There is, isn't there? Joanne Collarwood looks to bounce back from that, very narrow loss to Chukagan against Andrea Lee. And that's a good one for two, one two five for me.

That's a good, that's a very competitive fight. It's very far down the card for a fight that will have kind of good, like big implication on the division really. I know, no, neither of these girls are going to get in a title shot, but it's still a big fight for that division as far as I'm concerned. It's a really good fight in paper as well, man, two really good girls on their feet, and I'm looking forward to that one.

I think it's a potential outsider for fighting in a night there. Definitely agree with you. I think Loran Murphy, he's got his debut, obviously, here against Tuck Huggoff. But I feel like it's a good debut, even though Tuckov, Cook Hookoff is a tough assignment. Loran's coming in with nothing to lose. Zubair, everybody's going to be expecting him to get a win here. So I think it's a good one.

Leron coming in, just, you know, a bit of a sleeper there. You can come off and do something big. I feel like he'll come into this week. The man that Dana White said never fight in the UFC again. Yeah. Didn't last long, did it? Hot take, Dana. One of my prospects to watch in 2019 is making her debut.

That's Leanna Jojoa. Joe Jua. I don't know how to pronounce the name. Because I've only ever watched her in Russian commentary. So I don't know. Sarah Maras, she's going to take on. Sarah Maras with that even record of 5 and 5. I don't think that will look good against Leanna.

Liana is a savage. Timu Pekulan v. Ottoman Azatar. I know Ottoman is training with Khabib over there. He's with Habib and all his team. And Moils Price got a good few rounds. Everyone said he's a very tough guy, 11 and 0. so a big record to take in there. Bell Al-Mahmad,

shout out to that Instagram message. Oh, brilliant. I think Clemone on Paul Feller. Brilliant. Absolutely quality. Funny duty is. He's put up some great Instagram post this week,

so go check him out in the IG funny shit. Got Nardin Tel Aviv, Muslim Salikov, Zach Cummins, Omar Yak-Metoff, and then go on and talk about the boy. Don Maj. The Magic. The Magic man, yeah,

obviously his original opponent pulled out of the fight. due to personal reasons. It was, who was his original opponent supposed to be? Mago Med Mastayef. Mago Ed Mustayev. It was a real shame because I think that probably would have been on the main. I think it was fifth on the main card before that. So that's a bit of a bummer for him.

He's afraid far as he am. But Don Madgeman, this guy, you know, I followed his career since those days in the EFC. Unbelievable fighter, really hot prospects. One of the best UFC debuts you'll ever see. followed that up with it with another win so yeah definitely excited to watch him in there and everyone should have their eyes on this guy in the

Federweight division he's absolutely beast of a killer a beast of a killer well look that's it we've gone through three fucking cards for his lads and I'm very tired and it's half 12 at night Jesus I thought it was I thought you were further ahead

I don't know why no it's not too bad three hours isn't too bad I think that's manageable but... Seven o'clock. I mean, I'm here crying. I was on an eight-hour flight. I was just talking to Sean Al Shady

before we started recording this. He's about to embark on a 23-hour journey to get here, like... Holy shit. That's fucking horrific. Like, Esther and Casey are in Frankfurt now waiting to get their flight to here, which is another six-hour flight.

I thought you were on your own. Oh, that's great. Yeah, yeah. Well, that's why I don't have any equipment. Because no, no, I was like, well, what equipment do you have? And I was like, absolutely nothing. Jesus Christ.

you forgot Everton. But, no, listen. They got a straight book about your life. Rosso Carl Kelly. Yeah. It's amazing. I'm glad you've finally written an autobiography. I like the way you've given yourself a different name, but, I mean, really, really.

You've told the truth throughout, and it's really accurate representation of you, I feel. Thanks, thanks, thanks. Yeah, the Irish team was announced today, so a couple of surprises. No, no, Devin. No, Devin. No, Devon. No, I was, no, I've announced my competitive, competitive retirement. And then they go out and get hammered by England like a bunch of blouses on there and get an oil McGrath team.

They did beat Wales the weekend though, so you give them that. I'd be Wales by myself. No, you wouldn't. Wales are good. Good elsewhere to Welsh, but it should be a fun one. I'm looking forward to the World Cup. It's in a few weeks' time. It's starting soon, man, geez.

Is it up December? I thought it was December. No, no, no. End of September, start of October, yeah. What a confidence in boo. that is to get beaten by about 50 points to England ahead of a World Cup. That's amazing. It's not great. It's not great.

But listen, we've loads of UFC to look forward to this weekend. Seven o'clock as well, Pizzi. Is that what's going to? The main card's kicking off? Main car kicks off at seven here. I'm interested again. Obviously, it's pay-per-view on this side of the pond. I think it's, what, 2395 on BT Sports. So I'm very interested to see what the numbers will be like,

not that they're going to give us the numbers, but the general interest seems pretty poor again. and we put up a poll again and I think it was like 10% said they were going to buy it so I think there be a lot of illegal streaming going on on Saturday night I'm not encouraging that but I'm just saying

you know I don't think EBT Sport are going to change your stance on it because once you've the subscription if you think of it that way you know it's just an extra book for them if they put it on pay-per-view so it doesn't matter what sort of numbers they do it's still more money for them regardless because you're paying for the subscription anyway

in BT Sport the old double charge it's a horrible thing it is isn't it but listen what can we do. I'm looking forward to the fight card. Love the top two fights in the card and I'm actually, I'm generally excited about it. It feels, we've had a couple of them recently and I like it and I like it.

I do. Exciting fights. Is it a bit better? Like, I mean, it's a bit more understandable that it's happening at the time it's happening and you're paying for it. Like, I feel like that's... Yeah. That is like a bit better like then fucking you know, waiting up until 6am to watch John Jones. Like, I mean, fucking hell.

Yeah, and I think over this side of the pond as well that Habib is a bigger name than John Jones because of the whole Connor McGregor situation and, you know, I said they should have done it with Nate Diaz if they were going to do a pay-per-view, they didn't have that card in pay-view, which is a bit funny to me, you know, Nate Diaz being on it. Obviously, he's well known

for McGregor as well, a big, big draw on the sport. Probably more popular name than John Jones in many ways, so interesting for me, and I think they will do better numbers this time. But I just find it weird that they don't release their numbers, because they were, I'd say, about three people ball at the last time.

that's probably the reason why. And two of them were me and you know, of course. That is it. That is it. You're going to be there alive in the flesh anyway. I'm actually really jealous. I actually don't even want to talk to anymore, Pety. I'm not jealous. Like, I'd love to be in Abbey-Dabby.

I'm pissed. I'm actually pissed off. I'd love you to be here, too. I really would. But I'm glad I have Esther and Casey here, I have to say because it can be first lonely, can't it, Noel? It can be a lonely, lonely, lonely, lonely worlds. It can be a lonely, lonely, lonely, lonely world.

Eating on your own, drinking on your own. yeah as in case you're going to probably like when is Pizzi gonna fuck off what is he always here just hey guys hey guys be wrecking their head

here's never going away with him again here's the goose here's the gooseberry here comes the gooseberry the third wheel fucking out they'll end up adopting you Pizzi oh fingers cross on

they've moved to California in the morning Jesus I'll tell you what I'm fucking looking out that window now I might facken jump on a flight, come over. It's fucking miserable as fuck here. Holy God. I'm not like a lovely room, and there's got a couch here. It does. It looks lovely.

So it's going to sort it out. If you can only see it, people. If you could only see it, it looks beautiful. Living in the lap of luxury, you guys. But look, I'm going to go to bed and oil. Thanks so much for starting this all out for me. You're a fucking legend. I know I am, yeah.

I know I am. No worries. No, listen, enjoy the week. I'm looking forward to obviously all your coverage. Guys go check out. Pety and shit. fighting and full coverage all week. I hope you're doing commentary on the Wayans, yeah? You do it, will you?

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, you better get... I haven't done that before, so I'll probably be fucking shined at that foot. Yeah, I'll definitely do it. Yeah, you have to... You can talk to me, I'll just abuse you on there, on the YouTube page when you're down.

You do that, yeah. You're fucking prick. So I'm getting into me there. I'll talk to you soon. I want to get back, read more of your life story so I can learn about you even more. Okay, you're not going to wrap up the fucking show. Petey for the fuck sake.

I always thought you were going to do it because you want me to do it this week. All right guys, go fuck yourself. Enjoy UFC 2-4-2. Love you all. Signing out. Petey and Abbey, Noel McGrath and shithole, rainy Dublin Ireland. Good luck and good night. Maw.