MMA Fighting - On To the Next One: Matches To Make After Finish-Filled UFC Belgrade Event

Episode Date: August 2, 2026

Uros Medic was put in a position to become a breakout fighter in the UFC, and he delivered in a big way with a blistering, 30-second knockout of Daniel Rodriguez in the main event of UFC Belgrade. The Serbian competitor sent his hometown crowd happy before turning his attention to former champion Leon Edwards as a potential next opponent. Is that the matchup to make for Medic? On an all-new edition of On To the Next One, MMA Fighting’s Mike Heck and Alexander K. Lee give their thoughts on where “The Doctor” could go following the biggest win of his career. Additionally, future matchups are discussed for Navajo Stirling after his first-round knockout of former light heavyweight champion Jan Blachowicz, Aleksandar Rakic following his successful heavyweight debut against Marcin Tybura, along with fellow main card winners Robert Valentin, Gilbert Urbina, Noah Gugnon, and more. Plus, the fellas take your matchmaking suggestions following the historic card that saw a record number of finishes. Follow Mike Heck: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@m_heckjr⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Follow Alexander K. Lee: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@AlexanderKLee⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Subscribe:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ http://goo.gl/dYpsgH⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Check out our full video catalog: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠http://goo.gl/u8VvLi⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Visit our playlists:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ http://goo.gl/eFhsvM⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Like MMAF on Facebook: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠http://goo.gl/uhdg7Z⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Follow on Twitter: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠http://goo.gl/nOATUI⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Read More: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠http://www.mmafighting.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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made the switch. So why not you? Try Odu for free at Odu.com. That's ODOO.com. Hello there, everybody, and welcome to a brand new edition of On to the next one. The matchmaking crowns are back after a historic WWE superstars edition of UFC Fight Night Belgrade, where we had so many squash matches on paper, almost all of them delivered in squashy fashion. And we had an upset or two and records are broken 12 finishes and 14 fights. I think we had the most first round finishes in UFC history. I think this is the most finishes ever on a UFC card. Is that true, AK, my best friend?

I'm sorry. Oh, am I still muted? Yeah, I unmuted you, but is that true? Is this the most finishes ever? I think I saw someone tweet that. Definitely I think it was the most first round finishes for sure. It helps that it was a massive card. I mean, this was a 14-fight card.

And thank goodness there were so many finishes because, I mean, we knew on paper we're like, boy, this looks like a little bit of a slog. Like, even given the talent involved, like, I shouldn't say that, even given like that we knew there would be some fast fights, we're like, man, I don't know if this needs to be 14. But, you know, everyone made weight. Everyone stayed healthy.

So I think fans are used to be this point. The car is being booked for like 14, 13, 12 fights and having at least a couple fall through. that wasn't the case here. We got every fight. And, you know, mileage may vary. I thought it was an overall pretty fun card. I don't know if it was like the best card of the year or anything,

because I know people love finishes, but I think we remind people all the time. A lot of quick finishes doesn't necessarily mean you're watching great MMA. It means, as you said, Mike, you might be catching an episode of old-school WWF superstars, right? Which is fine. That's how you get people over, get to see cool moves, get to see people, you know, work on their gimmicks.

I drew up the great Michael Carroll at MJC, flipped a script on Twitter. He said some UFC records that were set or matched. Hold on. Finishes at a modern U.S.C. event. First round finishes in a modern U.S. event. Significant strikes landed in a three-round fight. Oh, that was the Tom McMillan thing.

Sorry, this was 20-26 records. And tied for longest submission streak in modern history. That was Walter Walker. So sorry, just so, just for Serbia, Belgrade, most finishes and most first-round finishes. So both, I think. The reaction to it has been interesting. because I had a bunch of people reach out to me and be like, yeah, that was really fun. And then I had some people being like, yeah, I didn't enjoy that at all because like none of the fights were competitive.

Like, everything that was supposed to happen happened outside of Gilbert Urbina. And then I was like, well, Tophik Maseyv wasn't upset. But I mean, like everybody who won was like a minus 700 favorite. They were all massive favorites. So like, but again, every apex event should be this. It should be exactly this. All squash matches. and then a main event with some significance.

Our lives would be so much better. It would be. And by the way, Apex Cards should only be 10 fights. Boy, some people were really upset with me when I was like 14 fights is too many. Most people agree with me, but there are a couple people who are like, you shouldn't even have a job in this sport. You're thinking that. I'm like, dude, 14 fights is crazy.

Like, we don't ask for five quarters in an NFL game. We don't ask for five quarters in an NBA game. Like sometimes you get it if there's a tie, but it's not the norm. You're not supposed to get that every single time. We'd like to enjoy other things during the day. It's okay to not sit here and watch seven hours of fist fights, especially when every fight ends in the first round,

and it's still seven hours of fist fights. Like it's just too many fights. And that's okay. My stance, you will never convince me otherwise that 14 fights is too many. 10 to 12 is the freaking sweet spot. 10 should be every apex card or less. 10 is the absolute maximum

than an apex guard should be and a fight night should be 12 no more than 12 there's nothing wrong with that my best friend I felt the fatigue again just trying to make matches for this card honestly yes as we got a little bit I was like I don't know like I can't

once we got past the top two fights I was just like what are we doing like we'll see you know that I think I did my best I put a I put a lot of thought into some of these main card winner picks and somewhat to the wild card pick so I guess that might just be might be a chance for me to do some commentary on a fighter that did well in the card.

But yeah, and then I can tell the listener picks were all over the place. So we'll see. We're going to get through it, guys. We're going to get through it. Yeah. I wonder how many friends forever moments are going to have, like, deeper into this. But let's just get right into it. Zero.

Let's talk about the star of the event, Serbia's own Eros Medich, who just went out there and obliterated Daniel Rodriguez. We're all like, is that line a little too wide? Turns out it wasn't. Maybe it wasn't wide enough. He hit D-Rod basically with the first punch that he threw, and D-Rod went down in the heap. And then the soccer kick was one of my favorite moments of the year.

Drops this dude. Doesn't just jump on him and start punch. He just runs over and field goal kicks D-Rod right in the ribs. I was like, ooh, that is just nasty and brutal. And I loved it so much. And then Medich gets him out of there. 30 seconds is all it takes. Where are we going with Belgrade, Serbia's own Orozbedevich?

I'm just going, I think we sort of talked about this a little bit after the show, Mike, you know, or maybe we'll talk about it in Slack, but I feel like it's time for the Leon Edwards fight, right? I mean, I know he wanted it, he wanted it before, and I think I remember the show after, after he beat Jeff Neal, I think I was expressly like not Leon Edwards. It's not time yet. He has not earned Leon Edwards fight. He needs to get one more win, and they booked them perfectly, got his show in Serbia, gets an opponent with, you know, with a name who's on a win streak, like a respect to a win streak,

down Rodriguez is not a can. I know he got put away in 30 seconds. People just say, oh, what a layup for U.S. Medici. No, I mean, it was very favorable circumstances, fighting in his home country, finding a guy who's going to stand and strike with him, and of course, find a guy who well documented,

of course. They played it on the broadcast a lot as well. You know, he was in Mexican prison for a while. Probably wasn't great for his preparation, and he's also, like, pushing 40. So, yeah, favorable circumstances, but well-deserved win. And now four straight,

four street first round finishes it's time it's time it's time to dust off leon and i think uh euroshmiti is the guy who gets to it's hard her to say it to put him away yeah basically send him to MVPFL is is really what we're going to do here um yeah it's the fight man i i think i think it was this fight was basically for the leon edwards sweepstakes and eros medich goes out there and gets the win so yeah great performance looked like a star was treated as such. I thought his demeanor and attitude was unbelievably good. He said some things that certainly got people's attention, talking about D-Rod going to prison,

like being a bad thing on the rest of the fighters, puts a stain on our names. The Ian Gary stuff was pretty ruthless, if we're being honest. And the funny thing is, I actually had somebody DM me, they're like, like, you know, you just sit there and you're trying to create drama. Because the Yorosbatish thing is crazy. I'm like, did you actually watch the entire clip? And they were like, no, because you're just trying to antagonize him.

I'm like, I asked him who was going to win between Islam and Ian Gary. That was literally the question I asked him. I had no way asked him about, what did you think of Ian Gary's thoughts about women running to run the world? I was like, who's going to win, Islam or Ian? They're fighting in your division in the title for the belt in two weeks. And he offered that on his own. So that's all on him trying to plant these seeds and set these expectations down the line. But they got something with him, man.

There's a difference in demeanors between Uros Medich and Dakota Dichva this week. Like Euros was like, this is my White House card. This is everything. And Dakota looked scared to death all week. And it just showed. One guy shined big time. The other one has a little bit of work to do coming out of this weekend. So great, great week for Euris Medich.

I didn't know you're getting so much crap for the medici. because I was editing that the write-up for it. And I think you made it very clear in the right of the, to preface that quote, it was like when Medich was asked about blah, blah, and this was his, and then he brought this up. And I'm like, oh, wow, that's so random. So yes, definitely, Mike, I do not. Listen, we could stir the pot a little in the media all the time.

I do not think you did any pot stirring. No, not at all. I was as shocked as everybody else was. That came out of his belt. But a great week for Eurisbetch. He is a character, great personality. he's got something to him and you know let's see how far he goes with with all this he's super fun i think he's uh he's entered that like it's not exactly the same but

after sean strickland fought alex perere even though he got absolutely obliterated in that fight like we knew before then we're just like all right john strickland's going to be headlining events like for the rest of his career and i kind of feel like that's what we're out with your osmadesh like i don't think he's going to be headlining a lot of pay-per-views because I don't think he's going to fight for the belt or anything, but any fight night event that he is competing on, he's probably in the main event now. So this is such a big,

such a big performance for him. How about Navajo Sterling, AK? Wow. It is, you said it best on the preview show. It is very difficult to look good against John Behovic. But I got to tell you, when Jan was walking out ever so slowly to the Octagon,

and John Anik was saying things of, yeah, Jan Behovic can no longer lift weights because he gets too sore. I'm like, oh, God. I'm like, he's going to get a blue. He's got to get killed. It's not a bodybuilding contest.

Whatever is. How many, how many weights was, was yon lifting, like in his prime? I don't think he was doing a lot. Yeah, but you probably was.

But you still, you know, you still want to lift some weights. There's like, yeah, you can't do any weight lifting at all. Like, how are you going to get ready for fights?

Like, I know you train and spar and stuff, but like, you have a strength condition. So I was like, oh, God, this can't be good. But maybe there's more to this. I'd love to talk to Yombovich about this. But boy, Navajo Sterling just knocked this dude across the cage and then delivered this elbow with such disrespect to the former champion and busted him open.

And it was just a nasty K.O. And all I wanted, AK, all I wanted this man to do was call it on Goliath. He may not even get it. But like, that was the, hey, no one wants to. to fight you, but you know who will? This guy. I'll fight you. I'm not here to put people to sleep like you. I'll go and fight people, because this is what I do.

I go out there and knock people out in the first round. And he called up Paula Costa, which is zero chance of getting that fight. I mean, zero. If there's a number of less than zero that I could realistically use, I would use it here. He's not getting Paula Costa. He does call it Roundtree. I was like, okay with this. Roundtree, like, Uncle If I if is like Yale,

and Khalil Roundtree is like, Penn State, like, very good school for like based on where he's at in his life right now. But like Uncle Ive was the Yale. That's like, this is the kind of the fallback school for him. It's still a darn good school. But he's going to. Why are you trying to anger all the Penn State fans out there? Why are you doing this?

Why are you stirring the pot again? Phil Davis is going to roll up on you. Bonickle. None of those guys are going to say that Penn State is more prestigious school than Yale. Like it's not an Ivy League. I have the opinions of my camp are not reflect the opinions of Alexander K. Lee, nor did I say it was a bit? I said it was a very good school.

It's a very good school. You'd be proud. Anyone who goes to Penn State goes to Penn State with pride, AK, as they should. I was trying to think if there was any NBA fighters from Yale. And you know what? I think we've yet to see it. Exactly. Navajo Sterling is going to Penn State.

He's going to end up getting the Cluelo Roundtree fight. And you know what, AK is probably going to have to fight again afterwards. Yeah. all good win not anywhere closer to fighting for the belt in my opinion but this is a very important night for him his friendship with a friendship and obviously being a teammate of karls olberg really muddies the waters right because if they decide let's say within the next four months they decide to do a interim title fight which i don't know if they need to because i feel like they have the firm they must have a firm timetable of when elberg is coming back he has always

for the longest time said early 2027 and the fact that they have not stripped of the title or even like hinted at an interim title fight tells me that they believe him and that they are they are aiming for he at january february march for oliver's return so but if by some chance they did interim title fight maybe olberg has some injury complications like oh i won't be back till next summer and they decided to strip them it's so weird you just cannot you really can't put navajo as one half of that a vacant or interim title fight because the winner would presumably fight carls oberg when he comes back and i don't think they're going to want to do that um at least not for Navajo's like first tell defense.

Should he win it? Should he win it? So it's weird. It's weird because, yeah, it should be him in Ancolaev or it should be him in Palo Costa or it should be him in Roundtree, some mix of that for a vacant title flight. But it feels like they would definitely go another way either Ankolaev Costa or something like that for a bacon belt. It's weird. He's in a weird spot after, despite having like a career best win. I called that one so poorly. I thought Jan was just based on experience and level of competition, like such a huge step

up. And I thought he'd be able to grind out a decision. He's old. He can't lift weights no more. And the chance of him getting run over was always a possibility. And that's like that scenario we saw play out. So I apologize Navajo Sterling and his team. I was way off. You guys are very good. You guys are very good. And great job capitalizing this. And on taking this fight. Like they didn't

have to jump on this fight. You know, this opportunity opened up because of the goose scovry booking for Ankylaev. And now they've beaten a former UFC champion and a guy who I think was still in the top five of the ranking. So well, done. I'm going on the round tree two though. Yeah. Yeah. As well. Speaking of jumping on opportunities and doing new things, Alexander Rackich jumps up to heavyweight.

And if there's one thing you could probably skip over on this card, it's probably this fight. Rackage versus Tibera was everything you probably thought it might end up being in more. But the most important thing, Alexander Rackich gets the win. He moves up in the heavyweight division, a.k. What are we doing here for Alexander Rackich? Because he goes from one bad division to probably a worst division. And I struggled with this one. And then I eventually threw a dart and landed somewhere. Okay. I think there's no way we got the same. I'm not giving a guy on the top 15. I look at the top of Dean. I'm like,

it just doesn't make a ton of sense right now. I was in a lot of these guys in top 15 should be fighting each other. Like there's not a lot of guys right now, maybe a couple near the bottom of that range of the rankings that should be like being used as quote unquote like enhancement talent. Otherwise, all those guys are kind of in the mix, like in this murky situation, especially with like, we don't even know when Aspinall's actual like return fight is going to happen. So not top 15. So I had to go like slightly out. And I was trying to avoid just matching him up as one of these other like light heavies that I moved up to heavyweight. But I couldn't really avoid it fully. So I'm giving them like the winner of Shamil Gasev and Kennedy and Zuchuku.

They're fighting at UFC Sacramento. That's it. I thought for a second we might get. I knew. I knew. I knew. I knew we wouldn't. Going to a guy who just got obliterated in his last fight.

Not that long ago. Actually, it was like eight days ago. Tarot Fortune. Why not? Hopefully his rigs are okay and his team doesn't lead him out to Slaughterville. But yeah, give him Tyro Fortune. I saw some people suggest that. And I love it because Tibura and Fortune just fought.

So it was like it turns out to be the Alexander Rocket sweepstakes, but both guys won. So that's great. How fun. Support for this show comes from Odu. Running a business is hard enough. So why make it harder with a dozen different apps that don't talk to each other? Introducing Odu. It's the only business software you'll ever need.

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I'm not doing this, Mike. What do you mean? I'm not doing this. You're not, but actually, either of me? Did you match drinking against each other? Gilbert of being out Robert Valatine. That's it. That's all that.

I did not do that. I had a little more fun with this. Fine. Please. Because now is the time for one matchup that just seems to have been a match made in heaven for this division. Quite frankly for you, AK, but we'll get to that in a moment. We'll start with Gilbert Arbino who pulls off one of the bigger upsets this year. I'm just going to chuck him in there with Andre Petroski. Let's just see what happens.

Either Urbina beats him and Petroski is probably out of the UFC or Petroski beats Urbina. Quite frankly, Urbina might be out of the UFC as well. Robert Valentin versus Disko Todorovich. was one of my favorite fights on the actual card because people are saying like, oh, these fights don't have enough stakes. This fight was like maybe the most high stakes fight on the card because whoever lost this fight was gonzo.

Like, this is a loser leaves town fight. No doubt about it. So Robert Valentin gets to live to fight another day. Gus goes to Dorvich, it's probably going to have to go find another hole somewhere else. Maybe PFL will need his services at some point. but Robert Valentin is about to get the biggest opportunity of his career, okay? He's going to take on a man who fought on the Contender Series multiple times.

Your favorite and mine. Got a little injuries to recover. Now he's apparently singing songs during people's weddings. The one and only Torres Finney gets the opportunity to fight Robert Valentin. Wait a minute, Mike. Hold on. Hold on, Mike. Robert Ballantin

and... Did they fight? Those two fought each other? No, they did it. It was a very controversial. Yes, it was a very... Is that a contender series? No, this was a UFC

sanctioned fight. Oh, Jesus Christmas. Mike, this is two weeks in a row. This is two, I don't like to keep score. I'm like, this is two weeks in a row. We've had some do-do with your main car. Well, I don't care. I just don't care.

I don't care. Yeah. Let's do it again. See? We have a storyline. It's controversy. It was Finney, shockingly. holding, holding Valentin down for like 15 minutes and doing, I think,

throwing maybe three significant strikes in the fight and eking out a split decision. I mean, I thought a dominant, unanimous decision. Can I change back to Robert Valentine Gilbertabina? I think we have to do. So let me just justify that by like. I forgot that fight ever happened. I'm sorry. How could you, what a emotional win for Finney.

No, it was very controversial. Wild card pick, Dusco Todorovich versus Torres Fini. They haven't fought, have they, please, for love of God. Bring Dusko back. Give one more chance. I like the Valentin Arbina matchup because, well, and like you were saying, the stakes of the Valentin Dusko matchup was like, somehow one of these guys was going to end up, like, get a very unlikely two-fight win streak.

Like it sounded crazy because of our Valentin, like, started out with no wins. Dusko hasn't had consecutive wins since he was an undefeated prospect coming out of contender series. And one of them was going to be able to say they won two straight UFC fights. And now if Urbina and Valentin fight, Valentin could possibly have a, a three fight win streak. Wow. It seems very bizarre.

And then Urbina having a two fight win streak is also crazy because he has had very little success. So yeah, let's keep this like weird middleweight mashup going and like the lower tier of the division and somehow like just manufactured these win streaks. I just keep putting together these guys who are like, you know, somehow put it together wins and like I don't know. Maybe you accidentally create like a top 30 guys somehow. Maybe we can do this.

I think we need to get to a Gilbert Urbina versus Trashon Gore fight, two guys who are like in the top 70 of their respective divisions, promising the world that they're going to be UFC champions. I think we just need to line those two dudes up because one of their dreams are going to shatter at the end of that fight. You know, they did fight on the ultimate fighter, Mike. But not, I mean, for real, for real, in the UFC fight. That's as real as it gets.

That's true. High stakes fight. High stakes fight. Yeah, I mean, he replaced Trashon in the final. Trashon actually beat him, and then he replaced Trayshon. Trench Young got injured, I think. They have history.

They got a history for sure. Let's go to lightweight division. Noah Gugnian. Silence the very loud Serbian crowd to kick off the main card. Great performance, great showing. Another finish. I'll just go. Mitch Ramirez, UFC Paris in September.

Let's just get him out there and get the Paris crowd on fire. Damn, pulling up an 0 and 3 guy, O and 3 in the UFC, I'm sorry. O and 3 guy for Gugnian to just smoke. Hey, free trip to Paris. I mean, I essentially did the same thinking. I was like, who can we find that would love to have a nice free trip to Paris and get smoked? I actually went even more.

I picked, I think, an even worse opponent than you, Mike. I think I talked to you because Paris is next month, right? Paris is September. September. Yeah, Labor Day weekend. That's a short time. I mean, whoever gets the call up, I mean, it's going to be a short notice for them. I mean, Gugnian's obviously in shape.

He probably is already like just getting back into the. gym and just keeping his weight where it is for the next fight. But we got to call someone up on short. I don't know if that's fair to Mr. Mitramirez, who could be up, we could wait like 180 pounds right now. Mikey could be enjoying a nice summer vacay. So I'm going to the featherweight division. So I'm calling up a feather weight so that they don't have to cut as much weight

and bring up. I'm going with the illustrious Ollie Schmidt. Oh, of the four and three pro record. Sarah, you are getting a trip to Paris to fight Noah Gunion. So enjoy, enjoy. Possibly pulling up one of the upsets of a life. time because you're going to be a plus 750 underdog i mean which seems unreasonable but

given the circumstances i have a feeling that's that's where the number would land so yeah we're thinking the same thing guan yeah paris it has to have has to happen all right wild card selection okay okay we'll pick a fighter we've not matched me for yet we'll match big for him now i knew i threw it a a phony one because i got do-dood all over but who we go with aka uh i know you think I'm doing Nina Milosevic, but I was going to leave that to you. Oh, yeah, I'm definitely going. Okay. Your fantasy super, I think you got 200 points for you.

That's it? Well, a win, a finish, and somehow, somehow a bonus. Dude, that I know. What? Come on. Come on. She got a bonus over. Let me see.

Who would I? Nah, it wasn't crazy, I guess. I know a Gugnian's finish. You could have given him a bonus. Michael Olavera, I think. You know, I don't know who you know with the UFC, Mike, but someone's in it for Team Hacked because someone just got 200 points for a win over Haley Cowan, which feels wrong.

It's so hard to actually like feel a knockout blow while watching it. And Nina Milosevic put us in that position to feel the pain that Haley Cowan was feeling, not once but twice in that moment. Fine. extra 50 points for my Kek extra 100K for Nina Melissa a great personality too boy she was I wish I wish miss being given her more mic time she was just booming with personality

after them yeah she's fun man she had a lot of excess energy I mean the fight did not last long I went I love that to you I'm going with Michael Olivera I'm not going crazy here I like the Cheedy and Jukwani the Chidi and Jukwani call out so I'm going with that and I know he wants a quick turnaround so hopefully we get him on one of those shows coming up soon because Chidi was supposed to fight

I think Jeff Neal and that fell through. So Chitty is probably not like too far out of like camp shape. But I picked this also because I just want to talk about Michael Ola Faire a little bit. Mike, we got to, I'm being that guy again. This is the weekly Al-Zander Kay Lee pump the brakes. We've got to pump the brakes a little. No? What are we doing?

I see people like say like they want to see him fighting like top 20 now. This is first UFC fight. He's only been fighting MMA for like six years. Mike, what are we doing? I didn't see you. I don't think I saw you. tweeting like you didn't i don't say you go nuts he's very he's very good and someone you can build around he looks incredible okay i get it looks incredible coming off the bus as we say uh beat up a you know

experience welter rate like they didn't give him an oh and one one and oh one and one guy they gave him a guy who's like you know uh four ufc fights four ufc fights who's like i don't think obanellie it's a terrible welterway i think he's okay solid but i do think people aren't getting a little too excited over a fast finish i think this was a favorable matchup which is fine, nothing wrong with that, not blaming either man. And I think Michael O'Levare took care of business. So that did not like wow me in that way of like, oh, wow, this guy's even better than I expected.

No, he was a pretty heavy favorite. And I think, let me see if topology, I think most, let me see how many people picked him to win by knockout. 80, oh, sorry, 89% picked him to win. 91% expected him to win by knockouts. So when a fighter, like, delivers exactly what's expected in the debut, cool, thumbs up. I'm not ready to make all this talk about always a future contender. And so I think Cheedy's the right spot.

I actually didn't want to go that high at first, but in my rankings, Cheetah's only like two or three spots ahead of them. So yeah, that's probably the right way to go. So I'm going with Michael Lavera Cheetah. I just want on record. I am not on the like, you know,

this guy is a mega super duper star bandwagon yet. Yeah, yeah. I'll come on late. I'll come on late and I'll do a mea culpa. but this guy just runs through the division over the next like two years. Yeah. Look, he's, he's something. He's very talented.

He's very good. Huge. Looks good getting off the bus. Hits real hard. Got a Tabe Goteer vibes. Sure. To a lot of extent. I put the brakes on all those guys too.

Listen, he beat Oban Elliott. He beat Oban Elliott. All right. That's all I'm going to say. Yeah. What do we do? I mean, one of the more overrated guys. And I like Oban, too.

This is not me. being disrespectful. It's just, you know, somehow he got like super famous after one win. And I think it kind of killed his career in a lot of respects. And it sucks to have to say that. But it is what it is. Hopefully Oban finds some footing.

Maybe ends up like a cage warriors. Again, MVPFL. They do a lot of European shows. Obama would fit in really well. It could actually be like a star for them. That's perfect. More than likely. So perfect thing.

But I am going with Nina. Let's just go with the, let's just do a storyline, okay, let's just run through the whole squadron, shall we? First it was Haley Cowen. Now let's take on Haley Cowan's best friend,

yet in Canadian, Melissa Croton. Let's just, let's just see if she could run through the whole freaking gambit at 135 pounds, the whole friend group. I love this so much. We could do it.

We could do it in Edmont today, okay? We can go to Canada and do it. Get Melissa Croton. the hometown advantage this time and see if Nina Milosevic can break some more hearts. I hate this so much. Wow, I mean,

not like hours after Haley Cowan and Melissa, who are, yes, are very, very close training partners and friends, both posted emotional dedications to like Haley's career. We don't know, it sounded like, we don't know if Haley's retiring or she just thinks her time with the UFC is done, but yeah, Haley did this post.

You guys can check it out social media, just saying, like, what a journey it's been and all that. So, yeah, very emotional. And then Melissa Croton also shared a message praising her. And now Mike says, hey, coming off of this, let's have Melissa get supposedly get smashed by Nina Molesvich in Canada. She may not, though. No, exactly. Yeah, think about what could happen if the other thing happens.

You're getting zero, maybe a fight of the night. But outside of that, you're getting zero points next time because she ain't going to come here and spoil these Canadian waters, my friend. And so I hate it, but I also, you know, bring it on, Mike. Can I have just a big moment. Melissa celebrates emotional and Haley comes walking down the aisle and they embrace. I mean, just what you're looking for. Okay, okay. You're not going to get any more fancy points out of this.

I'm just telling you. Fight a night. You've gotten all your five points. You're getting, but that's it. You're getting all your points. She's not going to be the Josh Hokit of your second half of the 2026 season. Could be the main event. And you know what, AK, if Nino wins, it's a ranked win, which I love so much.

Are you serious? I mean, of course it is. Crohn's 15, I think. Yeah, there's only like 15 women's spantirates. I think you have to be in there by default. Oh, she's number nine in the meta. Yeah. Oh, my goodness.

Yes. You should get 25. I should get points for even, for this match, even being suggested. This is an overshoot. You are, you are pushing, Nina, way too fast. Oh, my, a number. That'd be a touch. She'd be top 10 in the meta rankings if she won.

Oh my gosh. All right. Love this so much. All right. Let's go to the peeps. I didn't get a lot. It's okay. People just rely on you, AK.

I totally understand. John Ray, let's go. Stephanie Luciano, by the way, just overlooked at all of this because she had the first of the record setting finishes. Luciano versus Loma, Lekbunmi, Lecha versus Peterson,

Milosevic versus Mullins, Rombetsky versus Davis, neither took any damage. That's actually really true, even though Mike just lost his fight. Grad versus Gomi, Nikolich versus Santiago Luna, Olivera versus Siokhonko.

You like that, A.K.? I do. It was one of the options I was considering, for sure. Musaya versus Grant Dawson. I actually really like that fight. Urbina versus Valentin. There you go.

Rackage versus Perich, who is ranked somehow. God, this division sucks. This is his words, not mine. Tyborra versus Blaovich, both are very old. Sterling versus Goosekopf. I think we were a little bit ahead of the Goosecott trade. Why would he?

What does he have to gain from that? Yeah, that's a nothing fight for him. If you're Goosekopf, boy, you're feeling real bad about taking that Ankelya fight now because he probably would have, because I know he, I mean, he almost beat Yon last time, probably would have finished the deal this time based on what we saw. Damn. He had to jump on an opportunity. I get it.

He had to. He had to do it. He had to do it. Much like Navajo had it. But yeah, he was having some buyers of Borch yesterday, I'm sure. Daniel Rodriguez versus Sam Patterson and Medage versus Edwards

and it just says, I want to see something with a laughing emoji. All right. Left lane. Incredible card in Serbia. This is why UFC needs to go to new places slash return to markets they haven't been to in ages, correct?

Another Medich Leon D.Rod versus the Ty Miller, Billy Gough, winner next weekend? That seems a little much, right? So this for who? For D-Rod? I mean, I don't- A top 15 guy who just headlined an event

is now going to fight the winner of a fight between top 70 welterweights. Yeah, I mean, the thing is with Dan Rodriguez, I think they could book him in literally almost any situation now. This was like, I think this was his, I think this was his last chance to prove that he's like, oh, he has to be entrenched

against only like top 25 opponents. I think this was it. He's up there, man. He's up there in age. He's up there in age. Respectfully, he's up there in age. Yeah. I mean, him and Kevin Hollander, like, let's do it again. I know you just fought a year ago, but sign me the F up for that one.

I'll watch those dudes fight a thousand times. Sterling Khalil, Jan versus the Omar C. Bodesis Bukascus winner? Sure, although that has sad face written all over it too. Rackage versus the Petrino Spivak loser. Tobora versus Talosin Tashara yowsers, that could be as heavyweighty as it can get. Really? Who was that with Talasin?

Taibora. No. Don't do this. No. Valentin versus Zach Rees. Urbina versus De, ooh. Arbina versus Damien. I almost did that for Valentine.

Okay. But I changed my mind. He could get one of these two guys. He could very well. A penis could definitely get one of these two guys. True. Gugnag versus Mota, they're going to do Musayev versus Daryush,

and it's going to be sad. Klein versus Duncan. Olivera versus the Magni Brahimage winner. Really? I, can we walk a little bit here? Just a little bit of a brisk walk. we don't have to start sprinting right that's a lot of experience neal magni obviously the most

fights by any welter rate in ufc history and even bryan much has like i think like a dozen ufc fights that's a lot of ufc experience i can dude like he beat oban elliott yeah yeah which is it's fine it's a win but like come on now we get it we get a chill a little bit uh niggulich versus marineti vlogden needs to go to 125 grad versus montes rubechie versus the hackperaspidia winner Milosevic versus Mullins, Lecca versus Louis Sutherland after his fight this weekend. Oh yeah, and Oosman Narrague made off is 100%

going to the UFC. I like the Gamrodt fight, winner lose this coming weekend. Usen who's going to the UFC, right? I would hope so. I feel like there's already a deal in principle done. Dana doesn't smile like that

unless he's being at least unless he thinks he's being like a dickhead to his enemies. And it seems like he's being a little bit of a, of a DH to his enemies right now. So, yeah. I mean, you can, you can send a crippling blow to that merger in one fell swoop. That is a huge loss if they lose Luzon or Magmaidav.

And I think they're going to. So tough scenes. Build around Paul Hughes, I guess. Hey, listen, no, Usma, open the door for Paul Hughes. How about that once he gets, once he gets healthy? It could be fine. Okay. You're up.

Okay. I'm not going to read some of the, a lot of the ones that have been read. I mean, a lot of people are on the same page with Medici versus Leon Edwards as well. I saw people say JDM or Belal-Muham. Do either of those interest you, Mike, Medich versus JDM or Ballard? Yeah. On the other former U.S. If it's not Leon, Bilal, JDM, those make sense.

He should be fighting a former champion next. One of those guys. A lot of the ones are things, ones we've already mentioned. So thank you everyone for sending him. I'm going to try and stick to mostly unique picks here, except for you unless you're a new first timer. So a little welcome to the party pal to just J, just a letter J. First time sending any picks, listen for a long time,

but after a good card, I figured I'd send in what I think. Medici versus Edwards of Balia, Sterling versus Merza Khanov, Rockich versus Curtis Blades. Curtis Blades is booked, I believe. He is fighting. Who's he fighting now? Waldo Cortez Acosta at NoJ UFC. Okay, Jay, it's your first time.

It's your first time. Valentin versus Bukoyev, Urbina versus Pulaev, Gugnionn versus Dakota Hope. Love the show every Sunday, and I appreciate your company's commitment to truthful journalism. Wow. Yeah, let's go. Listen, if you don't see that in MEPFITN, you guys know the golden rule. That's right. Speaking of Mr. Usman, Nemeanor Magamatov, Paul Cifinelli has one pick.

He just wants to Usman fight BSD, then Walsandini. Sure. Yeah, that'd be fun. I like it. I like it. That'd be super fun. And I end it. I think

I would be fine with that. I think Jedd and I were both in agreement. Hanata Moikano is the fight. Okay. After whatever happens with Brian Ortega, Usman versus Hanata Moikano seems like the perfect fight. Because like that's, if Ooste went out and lost to Hanata Moikano,

like it wouldn't surprise me. Like I think we need to chill a little bit with Usman. Like he's super good. But like honestly, like the takes I was seeing, even from some of our own staffers being like, dude, he rinses Armand Saurukee. And I'm like, what?

Are we, we're really going to justify this because he beat Archie Colgan, who's like the 55th best lightweight in the world. Great win. And I know Archie was undefeated, but like Archie's best one was J.J. Wilson, who isn't beating a lot of guys in the UFC. So like, good win, who's been doing what he did. He became such a more valuable entity because of how he performed. And he could have done that against anybody.

by the way. You throw him in there with any lightweight in the world if he did that, then if he fought Mitch Ramirez, it would have been the same thing. You would have got the same exact you know, follow out reaction from everybody. But like, yeah, Wicano's perfect. Like, we

throw them in there with Armin right now. You guys are crazy. You guys are nuts. Yeah. Paul Hughes is a good fighter. One of the 20 best lightweights in the world. Maybe a little better. Maybe one of the best 15. He struggled in both of those fights. You don't think. think Armand Sarukian's going to give him problems?

Come on now. I'm so excited to see what he can do in the UFC, but we have to match me. We cannot overbook him too quickly, because if he loses once, AK, he goes out there and fights Armin and gets destroyed. What are people going to say? Fraud checked.

See, PFL sucks. Like, let's just chill a little bit. Moycano's perfect. Yeah, I don't, I think Mikena is perfect. I still think Patty Pimblech would be so funny. It's not going to happen. I just think it'd be so, so, so funny. It'd be the funniest one they could do.

They're not going to do it, obviously. If we're going top five, that's the one you're doing. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I just, shout up to Tristan Gordet. He was asking me through DMs. He was just saying, like, are they going to give him like a big payout to match PFL? And are they going to, yeah, they have to give him a top five. And I'm like, they really don't have to do anything.

They're the UFC. I don't know how the payout thing works, Mike. Like, does PFL have, as far as we know, don't have like any sort of matching rights or anything right it's not like they have to match um i honestly don't know okay we don't know we're we're assuming they i'm sure they do to to a certain extent but i don't know what like i don't know what like oosman's contract was like when they were doing tournaments and things of that nature if like someone won the tournament and was like the champion defending into the next season i believe there were matching rights which is why kala ended up staying

with PFL and didn't go to Belator to fight Chris Seiborg. And so I don't know for sure, especially without the tournament structure. PFL is going to have to overpay to keep him. I do not think the UFC will have to overpay, not to pay, like, you know, respectfully, but they're just going to, they're the UFC. They're the UFC. They're going to find ways to compensate him. And I don't think they're going to have to give him a top five matchup.

I think you guys are right. The Moikana range makes sense. But hey, if they want to throw under the wolves, zone to the wolves, I doubt it. I just don't see that. happening. He'll make six, the UFC's, the UFC will pay him six figures. PFL should pay him like four mila fight. Honestly, they need to, oh, they need a Howard stern him. Yeah, then he stays. Then he stays. Honestly, if they can pull off. Yeah. He stays. He needs to be like, I truly believe this. The only where they're going to keep him is that they, if they make him

the second highest paid fighter in the world behind Connor McGregor. They have to overpay. Yeah. Unfortunately. Um, he said, like he says, uh, legacy doesn't pay the bills and well that was more a shot at the ufc and loyalty doesn't pay the bills either guys unfortunately so that's more a shot at the pfl but um we'll see it'd be interesting to watch over the next few months kori champlin uh likes chepo versus finney i love it and then corey says i'm doing the ultimate crystal ball pick after his victory friday usmond omec metoff will sign with ufc it'll be official before ufc 331 and at ucc 331 moikana will defeat brine ottega and challenge usman in this post-fight interview I love this so much.

So Usman versus Moikano. After the Money Man beats Ortega. You guys rock. No, Corey, you rock. You rock. But yes, I think this is where the tea leaves seem to be forming and showing Moikano as Usman's first opponent. Braden with a lot of picks here.

Sorry, Brian. I'm not going to read all these. Some things are interesting. Tofik Musaya versus King Green. I like. Oban Elliott versus San Canaan. Man, where is San Canaan bin? But Logged in versus John.

Maness, man, we've got to give a logged in a win, but that's, as we've learned, that's not an easy win. Nina Milosevic, Zelazniakovah, Stephanie Luciano, Alice Ardiliano, not like all these. The M.A. patron, Tabura versus Perich. Jan, probably time to retire. Mike, I don't know if I remember if I got your thoughts on this. Is this it? Is this it for Jan Blako? I would like it to be it, but I don't think it will be.

We saw, I think you were reading John Ray. He said Jan and Tabora. Like, what do you think about that? Like, the heavyweight move. Like, I mean, that's like the most desperate thing you can do, probably. probably and it's not like it's not like we look at yawn and say like oh his issue is that he's facing like guys are just like so much faster than him i guess that might have been the case with navajo a little bit but i don't feel like going up to heavyweight is like

just go fight dominic huge guy just fight dominic rayus in a yeah yeah right it back do something like that yeah yeah uh some people i saw that's i like well suggesting that dgb ribetski versus sola very fun michael oliver's chaos williams that's the range i was thinking Mike, what do you think of this? Robert Valentin, Kyle Dawkins. Oh, you don't hate it right away. I mean, does it matter?

I mean, Kyle Dawkins is like a top 25 middleweight in the UFC. Oh, that, that's, yeah, that is, that's just wrong. I love you to death, but it's not. Oh, no, you would have been on the top 25? No, he's like, I am 44th right now. Okay. I think it's fine.

I gave him too much credit for the, Michel Pereira win. I think that's it. Because Michelle Pereira wasn't my top 30. And obviously, like, Michelle Padretto should be nowhere near the top 30 right now. Yeah. Completely watched that.

So my rankings need a bit of a shake-up, I think. Yeah. And then he got absolutely obliterated by Boeh, Nicole. Yeah. That's because Boe's so good, though. That doesn't say any bad about Kyle. Boe's so good. Finn Hamilton,

Gugnion. He wants Favola to get the parish trip. Okay. Okay. Maybe I think it's a little bit too tough for Gugnion. But he is very talented. 25 years old. I think it's a little too far.

Rockich, Walter Walker, Mike, Jan Blockovich, Robert Whitaker. No. No, God, no. UFC champions, legends. No. Age appropriate matchmaking. Robert Knuckles is about to go fight Magabat and Kalliath, so we can't do that. Okay.

All right. Bear or Raleigh, a bunch of good picks here. Leka versus Bozer, I find it interesting. Milosevic versus Josian Nunes. Yeah, probably. Oh, boy. The next featherweight champion. I know.

Nikolich versus Davy Grant, Michael Oliver, person Levon, Chilkelly, another name I considered. Mike Mosayev versus Usman, no,

no, no matter. Damn. Too low. Well, Messiah's a top 20, though. That's super fun.

I kind of love it. I still don't know if they view, but I don't think they view Masayev. They're not signing, they're not, look, they're not going to give Usman anywhere near what PFL is going to offer them, but they're going to offer.

enough to say, yeah, we're not giving an unranked dude in his debut. So I'll say they won't go that route, but if they did go that route, I'd be pretty damn happy about it. That's fun fight. Yeah, that's interesting. I just had not see anyone suggest something like that.

Okay. Armand Strzryon's Stan account, Blakovich versus Derriter deletes a winner, and he says retirement fight. Obviously, I assume means retirement fight for Yon. It could be a retirement fight for Delizze as well, frankly. He's kind of up there. And RDR now, RDRB.

you have many, many, many good years left, I think. F-Rod, Daniel Rodriguez, Puna Soriano. Man, where's Puna Soriano? He's got some good wins. Got to get him back in there. Cheppo versus Leon Chabazian. I think that's really good. Luciano, Piero Rodriguez, Leca.

Why do you laugh? The Leon Chabah. Hearing Leon Chabazian getting matched on this program. This makes you laugh. We'll continue to make me laugh. I mean, by the way, Puna just fought in February. so it's not like he's been out for who did he fight he fought remise brahimage a one and he sure did he's won four in a row with too many cards man we have too many how many cards do we have again mike for us the

year up until like december like 20 like three straight months we don't have we don't have a week off until like thanksgiving week that's insane that's just completely insane uh it's unbelievable i've seen a lot of messaging go like oh man it feels like we've had a lot of cards recently and i'm like and i respond you'll buckle up you think we had a lot of cards recently message me again at six weeks when we still have another six weeks of like cars to call that that's the halfway point six weeks we're not we're not near the end there of ufc events uh ufc event weekends uh four corner sports medich versus brady i hadn't thought about this but why not it's not a good style match i mean sure i mean honestly like that i would be i'd be fascinated by that because

I want to see him fight a dude who's going to tackle him and Sean Brady's absolutely going to tackle him or at least try to try his damnedest to tackle him so yeah I mean that would answer some questions for me

but Brady might because he's like so much shorter than Medich he might just get kicked in the face real fast too I don't know so I do like that matcher yeah I don't know I hadn't thought of that I got on the emails Eli Hittala Michael Levera, Gunner Nelson.

Like, this is one thing I didn't want to do was put Michael Oliverer on the like Walter rate retirement guys tour. Like I like hit Gunner Nelson, Ponzo Nibio. Maggie. Yeah, Neil McI. Like I just don't need to put him on that track yet. Like that may inevitably end up how they sort of use him and built him

like in 2027. Let's not do that yet. We don't need to do that. Gugnion versus Joaquin Silva. Remind me that Joaquin is on the roster. My goodness, the guy's been around forever. Medich versus Buckley, win-loser draw versus molot ucdmont uc edmonton um he's kind of like his stock is he's so much

he's so much higher than buckley's right now buckley's stock is way back deads buckley is a very highly fluctuating stock you know it goes down it goes way up it's it's it's back down now it's very down after this break he got he got run the f o he got 3023ed by sean brady like that is that's not good i just say win loser draw now if he loses to mike malott there's no reason the Meditish should want to fight him. This is the silliest piece of match. Like, I get that you want Mike Molot to fight in Edmonton and fight in Canada. You're trying to make him a thing.

But, like, this is the silliest piece of match. Oh, you don't like it. No, because he, like, Milot's probably going to win, but he gains absolutely nothing from this, from this fight. Nothing. I know, Mike, but this is how we determine if fighters are watched. You heard Gilbert. Losing to Michael Malott was apparently the worst thing in his life.

And he's like, oh, it's just over. So Buckley should retire if he loses to Mike Mollard as well. I want him to say it's similar. Or like, I'm going back to middleweight or something like that. Like, oh, my God. For me my life. Mike, well, that's not bad, guys. I have to interview Mike and get his thoughts of that.

I think that is truly one of the funniest things I've heard all year. It's so thick after losing to him. Like, I'm like, hey, Gilbert, we get it. You're disappointed. You lost. He's not that bad. This guy sucks. I can't.

Like, if I lose to him, I have to retire. Tristan, Tristan, Tristan, Chishamma. Musayev versus Ziam Oliver McCullough. That's a tough. That's a really tough. I do not want to fight John of Nicoleth. I think it's actually super tough. and Milosevic, Michelle Monagy.

Thank you, Tristan. All right, let's close out here with Instagram, just a few. And I wanted to close out with the most grim, I'll build up to it, the most grim patchmaking of the week. So first, Alex Van Damme, Michael Olivares versus, oh, this is just a wrong division. Sorry, Alex Madan. I didn't read this. I think he said, Shara Bullet. No, that's not right.

No. Did I mess that up? Should I not have run? Okay, Alex Van Damne, if I messed that up. And if you messed up, shame on you if I messed up, do you have me? Kyle Nelson gets a trip to Paris for Gugnion. Sure. I thought about that.

Gerard Biagin. Valentin versus Robert Brechek, Arbina Fini, Rabetschki, Sattikov, and Thomas Collins. All right, let me build up here. Rockich versus Delia. Sure. Tabura, Gable Stevenson. We were joking about that in the chat. It's certainly possible.

Musayev, Manuel Torres. And then, truly, Thomas Collins, truly disgusting matchmaking. Mike Jan Blakovich versus Abdul, Abdul. Rachman, Yakya, yeah. Don't do this to Jan. This is not how, this is not how to treat a legend. Oh my God.

Like, I, again, I know I said like, oh, I was counting out Navajo, but now I think I'm seeing how past his prime, Yon might be. And if Navajo took him out that fast, I mean, I'm not saying Yakuayayev is better than Navajo, but he is like a berserker. And he would just be going under to try and kill Jan within 60 seconds. And given where yon is right now, could probably do it. So Thomas Collins, you're wrong for this one?

I'm not saying you're wrong at matchmaking. God knows that could be some sadistic. Your soul is just wrong. Your soul is wrong. And you might actually be correct. Like that could actually happen. But man, that just feels, oh, this makes me feel bad inside. Yeah.

Nasty stuff. Dang. Dang. Dang. That it? Yeah, what hell's going on next? Oh, God, US Vegas 120. Guys, we will be doing another matchmaking show.

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Yeah, as of right now, looking at topology, every Saturday, through all of October, we have events. You bet you're Bippy. There's going to be several in November. So, yeah, I don't think we're getting a break until thanks. Thanksgiving, which is wild. But first, ladies a gentleman, because

you know, we had 14 fights, 12 finishes, a bunch of first rounders, ruckus crowd, one of the loudest crowd you'll ever hear in your life. And now we're back at the world's most famous

freaking apex. Batush Gamrott, Kill and Sal killed is the main event, which is good. Good fight. Billy Q is back,

and he's at lightweight, AK. Billy Q taking on Diego Faheda. That's the co-made event. Darren Elkins, fighting Yadir del Valle, Amanda Lemosch versus Alexia Tainara.

Oh, I love that. I love that fight. She's on my fans team, right? Alexi Tarnara, maybe. Yeah, I think I, Lemosch faded in order to get her on my squad. Nice. Ty Miller.

versus Billy Ray Gough, apparently the Daniel Rodriguez fight awaits the winner. Stephen Asplen Gierme-Pat, Youser. D.R. Nergazai versus Bruno Lopez. Jose Montagna versus Louis Sutherland in a heavyweight

matchup. Giuliana Miller against Ravena Olivera. If Giuliana Miller cannot be Rivada Olivera, we have to be done with this. It's over. Yeah. Miles Johns taking on Jesse Roses.

us, the brother of Raul Roses Jr. And let me tell you what my main event is on this event, because this fight fucking bangs. Manuel Sosa versus Richie Miranda. Finally, Richie Miranda makes his UFC debut after just running rough shot over LFA and their lightweight division. Richie Miranda, one of the best prospects in the sport. Cubs Swanson guy, he's won seven in a row.

Dude is action-packed, finishing dudes left and right. This fight in men, so is a rocks. So I will be tuned in bright and early for this event, just to watch those two dudes chuck them at each other. That fight smashes. I'm very excited. That should be on the main card. Maybe they haven't finalized yet,

but that should be on the main card. I would put out of the main card, I'd like Missy Rose to the main card, too, for being honest. Yeah. Just because of the main sake. Boy, it's an apex car. But the good news, A.K. And they added the Miles John Jesse Rose's fight,

and they added the Richmanor fight, just to get us over the top. We had nine fights in total of the book. So now we have a nice special clear 11. I can deal with 11. That is within the 10-12. So there you go. And that's after next week, a little 5-8 action.

And then, is it Apex again? No, we're going somewhere. No, Pivotview, no. Oh, no, that's right. Number, number of it. Number of it. 3.30, 3.30. Okay.

I keep thinking August 1st is next week, but we just had August 1st. Yeah, then it's pay-per-view. Then it's Sacramento. Then it's Shanghai. This is our last trip to the Apex for a while. Until September 26th, everybody. So, savor it. So, Mike, enjoy it.

Stop your jokes and jibes about the world's famous apex because you're going to miss it. You're going to miss it after next weekend. UFC-a-Mania next week. We'll see you to recap it all right here and on to the next one. You're listening to the Vox Media Podcast Network. Support for this show comes from Odu. Running a business is hard enough. So why make it harder with a dozen different apps that don't talk to each other?

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