MMA Fighting - On To The Next One: Matches To Make After UFC Baku

Episode Date: June 28, 2026

Rafael Fiziev is back on track after a highlight-reel knockout of Manuel Torres in the UFC Baku main event, but is he still in the contender picture or is time for the fan favorite to chase fun fights? On an all-new edition of On To the Next One, MMA Fighting's Mike Heck and Alexander K. Lee discusses what's next for the resurgent Fiziev and his hopes of getting the call for a "BMF" title fight. We also try to figure out what the matchmakers can do with the frequently underwhelming Shara "Bullet" Magomedov, who continues to win while leaving us wanting more. Additionally, future matchups are discussed for main card spoiler Matheus Camilo, Asu Almabayev after a dominant submission win over Charles Johnson, intriguing middleweights Ikram Aliskerov and Abus Magomedov, and more. Plus, your matchmaking suggestions following the UFC's return to Azerbaijan. 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

You're listening to the Vox Media Podcast Network. Hello there, everybody, and welcome to a brand new edition of On to the next one. The matchmaking crowns are back following UFC Baku, and perhaps a resurgence of a very popular name in the UFC's lightweight division. We're here to talk about what's next for Raphael Fiziv and some of the other big winners from the recent UFC Fight Night event. I am Mike Heck, and joining me to, Make his matchmaking selections as well.

And read, I guess, a whole lot of your selections as well. It's what happens when you have early day MMA on a Saturday. Carries over on the Sunday. It just gives you more time to submit your picks. He is the co-host, the co-matchmaker, the Prince of Positivity. And he's my best friend. He's all of your best friends, Alexander Cayley, aka, how we doing, sir? What's up, Mike?

What's up, my best friend? Yeah, we got a ton of feedback on the website. Got a ton of feedback for Otno. You know, these early morning cards don't always deliver this kind of response. I mean, we had Macau recently, which was, I think we got like maybe eight or nine people sending in. But this card was considerably stronger, I will say. It was considerably stronger. Macau wasn't like a bad show in practice.

Like, it was fine. Like watching was fine. This card looked like good main card on paper. And, you know, like we said, it followed this kind of formula that I think Paramount and the UFC have hit right now where it's like prelims with a lot of potential for finishes, you know, some serious squash matches. And then, you know, a main card that hopefully has some, if not contender implications, but like, you know, legitimate names that were curious to see like where they could go with a winner or loss. So solid so far, I thought a very enjoyable early morning card. Yeah, it was very good. All the all but three of the fights were watchable, I guess.

Like the first fight of the night was horrendous. One of the worst fights I've ever seen. The feature prelim will never be watched again by anybody. And then the co-made event was terrible. Like it was just a bad fight. Like Shara Bullitt should not be co-main eventing any event moving forward. Like, and I don't say that to be a hater. It's just his fights are just not exciting.

And Michelle Pereira, like, he's a terrific one-round fighter. Actually, he's a terrific two-minute fighter. Because then he just makes like horrific decisions. And like that just sucked a life out of everybody that fight. But luckily, the main event delivered the way that it did that first round was really compelling. and then the finish and the main event was unbelievable. But let's just get right into it, A.K. And just to add the cherry on top of the Sunday there,

UFC Baku was a good damn card. You can't have 13 absolute heaters every single time. It's not going to be a perfect event. You'll never find a perfect event. Maybe White House is pretty damn close. But this was not on paper. We knew it wouldn't be. But all in all, pretty entertaining.

time. There are way worse ways to spend your Saturday morning slash early afternoon and let's get into how it ended, A.K. Rafael Fazeve no longer on the Schneid, as the kids say. He entered the fight with a two-fight losing streak. He was

destroyed. He was mauled. He was finished by Marisha Ruffy in his most recent fight back in January, a UFC 325. He lost to Justin Gage of the fight before. Did have a win against Ignacio Baja Mondays, but then prior to that he lost to Justice Gagee again.

So level competition, super strong with him, which is why I was pretty confident if Zee would go out there and win, especially if the Scott of the first round, since Millet Torres is not a guy who gets out of the first round. And boy, did he deliver. Spinning wheel kick, what a finish. Y'all must have forgot Raphael Fiziv, baby. Where are we going here? I went a little off the wire, but I'm curious where you went with Mr.

Ottoman. Yeah, I think I'm about a gone off the wire too. And I want to say it was funny that, like, you know, the general consensus was, yeah, if this goes past the first round, that Fiziv is going to win. And I saw people commenting, like, it literally could not have followed the script better because as soon as the first round ended,

Manuel Tours, like, has lost all of his powers. Fiziv 15 seconds knockout. So it's one round fighter to a T, which is going to open up some pretty interesting matches for him. I think a lot of people are on the same page as for who he might fight next. But Fiziv is who we're talking about here. I like the,

like bmf idea i don't think he quite has a kind of cachet to get the bmf title uh obviously he's not going to fight for zeevaara next that's just not going to happen uh how about an interim bmf title fight oh we're gonna i'm already like signaling the band i think we're i think we're going i don't know i think we're in a similar range i don't think we have the same name because this is a fight i've wanted to see for a while i want to see oh then no yeah yeah i want to see him fight uh drew dover oh okay yeah just veterans just veterans hard-hitting veterans again you know another thing we talked about for the show was like is this kind of a do-or-do fight do-or-dive fight do-or-dive and it was like as far as keeping him relevant but the due part like and even if he did is not like oh

he's going to get a tablet shot or he's one fight away from a towel shot it's it's it's gonna play that by year i mean if by some chance he has this you know surge and wins two three four fights and the time just works out yeah he could fight for the title but i i i don't think that's I mean, he said himself, it's really not what he's thinking about right now. It's not what the UFC is thinking about. So let's do fun stuff, and I'm just going to land on Dober for now. Yeah, we're going to have some fun here, okay. And, you know, we had a card a couple of weeks ago.

There was a historic event at the White House. And we came on and did it on to the next one. And we were kind of all in agreement like, you know what? This one makes all the sense in the world. But now I'm not like, I just don't think it's going to happen. And I think the biggest reason why is because the match will be for this person, maybe doesn't just make a lot of sense anymore because it doesn't appear like he's going to stay in this division.

What an intro to 155 for Diego Lopez against Raphael Fiziv. Like, I mean, just thinking about that fight makes me so happy. Like, that just makes me happy. I think that is just a terrific test for Diego Lopez, a fight that's going to get Rafael Fiziv out of bed and excited to train and prepare. I think this is a terrific, like, this could be a main event on a fight night card.

This could be a co-main event on a numbered event. You can put this in so many different places, and I think this is a big fight for Viziv. And who knows? Diego Lopez seems to be a guy interested in fighting for a BMF title at some point, too. Maybe this is the BMF title eliminator fight between these two guys.

There's so much fun we can have here. So I am landing on this. fight. This is where I'm going. That makes a lot of sense. I think it makes a lot of sense also for what, like, Diego is trying to do in his career, right? Where, you know, he wants to explore fights at 155. I don't know if he necessarily wants to like stay there. But yeah, we've kind of said, you know,

after getting two title fights, he's in limbo as far at 145. If he can comfortably make 155, 145 and keep bouncing between, this is what he should be doing. Just do fun fights. Do fun fights. Do fun fights. I could headline, you know, smaller events or, you know, be, you know, fights to watch on numbered events. That's good. That's really. good that is off you like I said a little bit outside the box but like right in the pocket though I think

yeah hold that let's go to the co-main event oh shower bullet yeah uh Michelle Pereira I just don't think this this UFC world is long for Michelle Pereira anymore I mean it was right there man all he had do is all he had to is stand back up to his feet and he wins and he's just like you know what no ground and pound and then I'm yeah he landed a couple good shots and then he just gassed himself out and then like he didn't throw a punch like the entire second round it was crazy uh but charra bull gets the win he comes back and wins the last two rounds at a super forgettable fight um i'm kind of done with this whole thing aka like oh my goodness honestly like i need like i'm i know what the ufc's trying to do and they're doing a horrific job with this so i'm

going to take over okay i'm putting in my job application to be the shara bullet matchmaker Nobody else. I don't need a matchmake for anybody else. I just want a matchmake for Sharra Bullet. Because there's too many frigging questions here and we have no answers. Like none. So this is not lazy booking at all. This is what I need to see, AK. I need to see this and I think this guy deserves this opportunity. Sharab bullet fights and assault in Rootsabayev. I need to see him fight a dude who can grapple. I need to see him fight a dude who's big and is well round is well rounded, but more. more specifically can grapple his ass off. And that picture from Jeff Batari

that is on my Twitter of what Nersulton Rutsabayev did to Andrei of yesterday, I need to see if he could do that to Sharra Bullitt as well. So that is the fight I'm making. I in no way expect the UFC to do this. They are still on the let's make Sharra Bullet thing happen, even though everybody has jumped off this train at this point. Give us this fight.

Just see. Who knows? Maybe Sharra Bull goes out there and dings them up. Like maybe that happens. But if it doesn't, then, like, we know where we're at right now. This guy's not fighting for a belt. Like, he's convinced he is. I just don't see it.

Maybe he goes out there and dummies up near Salton. I'll be convinced a little bit more. But right now, I need this fight or something very similar to it. Yeah, I mean, I landed on, like, Roman Coppolov, like a very unsexy pick. Could be a good fight. Just a very unsexy pick. And I want to warn people now. We're kind of in a weird situation with this card because we had, what, four?

middleweights in action, I believe, the aforementioned Bullet and Nersault and Ruzzov and also, of course, we add Ikamalos Karov and Abis Megamatov. I match those two guys up. I'm just giving you heads up. We can spoil that. Just match those two guys up. But I'll say, like, when we get to the listener picks,

there's me a lot of, I'm probably going to avoid reading a lot of those, because these guys are like all kind of in the same range for me. I don't know about the official rankings, but like all the guys we just mentioned, Bullet, Abis Megamatov, Rusaboyev, and Alis Garov, and Elscarov, like 16 to 24 range.

Like, however you want to order them, I have no problem with it. I don't really comfortably have any of them in the top 15, to be honest. Because middleweight's actually pretty good these days. I don't think it's an easy division to break them in the top of 15, so it's not like, doesn't say anything about them. But yeah, they're kind of in this cluster. So, if you, Roman Koppelov or like the leads Zay or all these other names that kind of Fluffy Hernandez canonnier winner.

I saw kind of thrown out there for like, and again, for various. Like some people said for bullets. Some people said for Abis. So I'm just warning people, you might hear a lot of the same names or not hear them at all. If we decide to just kind of skip over them over the next like, you know, half an hour or so. It's a cluster. It's a nice little cluster. I will have a, I will have a, I will have a, I will have a, on our next, on our next cycle.

Okay. You don't already. You don't already. I had him for a long time. But like, I just, because middleweight is so weird and so many different names have come through and made big moves. Like, you got to put Johnny Ebblin back in the rank. rankings. Like, you just have to. Like, Robert Whitaker's coming out for sure. And then you look at some of the

names here, like, I'll rank Ellis Garef above Jared Cannoneer right now. I'll probably rank him above Gregor Rodriguez right now. It's not something that will stay that way forever, but I feel pretty good that I would bump him up to like 12 or 13. Like, I'm that high on him. I have been on for a while. I was probably the only person on our staff who had him ranked for as long as I did. I had him ranked for even after the Whitaker loss, but just so much movement happened when he's not fighting that often that I just,

you just had to pull him at that point. So I think I'm clearly the best of this bunch. And that's why, like, I think him and Abbas makes so much sense because, like, it was a great win and what he did to Bruno Ferreira was impressive, but, like, this does nothing for him. He's not getting, like, a top five guy

coming off of this win. This is not, uh, ooh, let's give him the Israel, Asana fight. Like, it just wasn't that kind of, of a performance. This is the this is a Magamadankalaya type win for him. Whereas like dominant and you're

like yeah, this dude might be he might be the best guy in the world. We don't know but it's going to take forever for us to find out. That's just how the UFC does business and it's pretty public knowledge at this point that like they want fun dudes. They want people to go out there and just

run people over in fun ways and as impressive as Icrum was. This wasn't like the most fun I've had watching a fist fight. You know what I mean? So, yeah, middleweight, there's a lot of middleweight, borderline, top 15 talent on this card. So, yeah, I'm with you on that. How about Mateus Camilo, AK? Speaking of great divisions, how about lightweight?

Oh, man. Guy goes out there, knocks out, Zizim Satikov. I don't love the stoppage, even, like, in the rewatch. Like, it's not the worst I've ever seen. I've looked at it from different angles. I'm like, I get why people are defending this. It was Zizu Saddok. dude like this dude got hurt way worse a year ago in the same building and came back in one and they got

no chance here at all um but i get it like the way he fell and like you you know you show up i get it um i think certain fighters especially if they've been around for a while and have proven like they can take a little bit of a beating and some ruffs are very good at this they're like all right i'm going to give him an extra few seconds to see if he can step out of this and look he may It may not have changed at all, and it would have been fine. But for a guy like Satikoff, I'm like, man, he got, he got hit hard. It was a good shot. But like, give him a few more punches.

Let's see. Let's see. But great win from Mateus Camillo, another extreme coutur guy who is just coming up and I hear great things about. But maybe like the results haven't really echoed the promise. This one certainly did it for me. And now, AK, I'm going to give him Chris. Taco Padilla next. That's the next fight.

Nice. I saw a lot of that. This was kind of a dart throw. No, or did you come to that really quickly? Like, I had to kind of go up my... Oh, it took a minute.

It took a bit for sure. Okay. Let me just talk about the stoppage for a second. Let's get forensic here because... So this was Rich Mitchell, who made the call on Saturday. Shout out of Topology. I'm just looking at their records right now.

Shout to... Also, if it's wrong, you can blame Topology. But no, they're usually pretty right about everything. Last year, as you said, Lucas Bosaki. Lucas Bozaki. So off the top of my head, like I don't,

I'm not going to say like I'm an authority on Mitch Mitchell and Bozaki. Like, oh, who is normally allows for more stop, like longer stopages or not. But just to say,

yeah, you know, it wasn't the same referee and people call things a different way. And there just seem to be, I would say on Saturday quite a few. Well, so,

early knockout stopages and maybe like late submission stoppages. I guess both guys who got choked out didn't really tap. They just kind of like went out. But anyway, just to be,

just so everyone has all the facts. about who is officiating what. And we don't want to talk about Herb Dean. We're going to try to avoid going on a 20-minute Herb Dean rant this week. Anyway, for Camillo, Evan Elder. Atlanta and Evan Elder, he's been out, I don't know where he's been. He's been out of action for a while. I don't think he's, I think he had like a minor injury, I want to say,

that took him out of his most recent fight. Like, I think he was supposed to fight the end of 2025. There you go. That's just similar UFC records and nothing, yeah, nothing fancy. Yeah, Markle Maderos is fine, too. like this is the range that makes it makes a lot of sense but lateway rocks and either either of those fights are going to be great uh again the MVP to me of this event was asu el mabayev unbelievable stuff what a performance goes out there we got a sulloev stretch aka flyweight's got a new

contender if i'm if i'm josh van and a pantosia you need to prepare yourselves this dude is coming also al mabai if what a performance against charles johnson where do we go here aka uh uh Okay, this is not a dirt though. This is like a fight I've wanted to see for a while. I like Al-Mabayev and Kai Kar-France. Kai, I know, took some time off. That's sort of why we haven't seen him for a while. Just said, you know, personal time.

He's fought a lot in the UFC, I think doing the smart thing, physical rest, mental rest, whatever he's got to do. But I believe that was sort of third quarter last year. So we're approaching that. I don't know what the status is of him. He maybe wants to take more than a year. You know, maybe he's enjoying his, he said a year. man this is great i'm going to take another six months life is sweet not getting you know

punch in the face not having to stick to the super intense training routine you know probably spending time with the family but when he's ready to come back when he's ready to come back i i that's who i think should be the next test for amabai i think alibi i think i'm biive i think i've been really really impressed from what i've seen with him i think skill-wise he's great everyone's saying he's a little small it's not a lot you can do it's the smallest medicine i think it's fine i think his skills are enough that he can compete with anyone uh at 120 i mean look he looks small against charles Johnson didn't make much of a difference right uh so i'm not quite ready mike to give him that huge jump up yet i'm giving him a veteran top 10 guy kai kara france i'm guessing you're going a little higher

yes it starts with the k and it ends in yoji oraguchi man we got to do it man we got to do it like alba biive is just one of those guys who's so good but like we have to we just have to go with at this point. Like, you have to find out. And I know he's, you threw him in there with Minnell Cop, it did not go well. And he has bounced back and fought frequently and has delivered just impressive stuff ever since the cop loss. Goucch needs somebody to fight. Like, he's coming off of, look good against cop until he didn't.

Let's see what he can do here, man. Like, let's see if Gucci is still a title contender type guy. And let's see if Amal Biaf is that guy. Like, I'm, I'm very convinced this guy's going to fight for a belt at this point. After that performance, like, no one does that to Charles Johnson. I mean, I know MMA math doesn't make all the sense in the world, but like, Charles Johnson beat the shit out of Joshua Van, who's the champion right now. And many believe he's the best flyweight in the world. And Charles Johnson dummied him up and finished him.

The last guy to beat Josh Van was Charles Johnson. And this fight was not competitive for one second. It was so impressive. So let's give him the gooch fight and we'll see. It is 100% do or die for his title hopes on a fight like that. It just is. But I love that. Let's give us some stakes at 125.

Let's do it. I already gave away my next pick, AK, matching up a boost and Nick Graham. Like, this is just what we're going to do right now. What did you do with these two gentlemen? No, no, I'm going with you on this one. We kind of talked. You know, we did a little bit of segment on the preview show and kind of post-fight show,

excuse me, and kind of Brooks one down. And yeah, my mind didn't change a day later. I was like, yeah, this is the way to go. I know, I know, I get it. Isra de Sanya's in the mix. And I feel like a lot of people are saying, well, at some point, Izzy has to kind of fight back against one of these, like, fringe guys. I think, um, he's going to fight Bo Nicol.

He's got his fringe guy. Right. That's what we said after White House, right? And that to me is why in my mind, Izzy is not free. I mean, that is not booked, by the way, guys, that's not book. That's not like we haven't heard anything. Just because for our purposes, we think Bo is the guy who just, who kind of deserves to get that name. And I think the UFC would agree.

I think if they if they if they if he's available and the timing works out and the you see would be very very happy to make a dissonia and bo-nickle certainly more so than like is he versus al-scarov or abus mechometab even even the shara bullet matchup I don't think they're that hot on it and shara himself said like I'd rather Abis get at him and abyss are friends and they've trained together before so so yeah that doesn't really make a lot of sense for Izzy to get one of the guys on this card but yeah that let's see Abbas in there with with Ikram again two guys very good middleweights I think we're a lot higher on it is alaskarov but hey if abas proves us wrong maybe he's a guy maybe

he's a dark course a middleweight i don't know i'm kind of off that train like i think he had a little bit of buzz coming into the ufc um you know in these winning fights now so you could certainly you know return to that conversation but i'm leaning more towards ikram but that's what you know that's why you know uh let's go to the wild card round a kay you know i know i know you're that's why i went a different direction um yes go ahead and do it you know Everyone listening to the show knows of the Wild Card Round is at this point. So who's Yac Yaya fighting? Yeah, obviously I got to find a fight for Big Yac.

But I want to ask you first, Mike. What's your ranking of these undefeated middleweight guys we got in here? What's your ranking of Navajo, Iwo, and Yakuyao. How would you, in terms of, not now, in terms of who you think will, has a legitimate shot to actually win a UFC title. How about that? Not just content. these three guys have you had to pick that.

Let's say two years from now, you know, yeah, not saying to continue undefeated. Like any of these guys could take a loss in their next fight, but let's say, based on what you see now, the development path, let's say 2028 is, you know, one of these guys who could win, win a UFC time. Man, that's a really good question. Because I have them like all right next to each other my rankings. I think there's like a couple of names in there, but it's like a very small stretch between them. I think I'll go, I think it's Iwo, yucky I F. Sterling. Wow. And Sterling has the most wins before. Sterling, you know, Sterling's fought the better. I mean, I'm not going to say the better competition, but at least he, like, he's fought Kutalaba,

and that is, like, by far the, like, most battle tested name that either of these three guys have fought by a lot. Right. But I'm just not sold on Navajo Sterling just yet. Um, even like some of the, like these dude, like, Ewo and Yakiyaf, like are getting squash matches and they're just mowing people down. Like, they're just doing what they're supposed to do. And we're watching Sterling struggle with a lot of these guys. Like, he's, I know he's got a couple of finish in his last couple of fights, but, like, he's had to work for some of these, some of these wins against guys.

He was, like, minus 1,400 favorites over. And, yeah, like, Ewan showed that, like, Sterling has holes in his game. And these guys probably all do, but this is kind of where I'm at right now. Like, Ewo's going to just continue to get more popular. because he fights all the time. Like he fights like every two months. And he's your number one. He's your one.

He was number one for me. Right now, right now. He was number one for me because mostly due to his, he's obviously very skilled. He's young. He's got room to grow. But he fights all the time. And the UFC will always reward that over like anything else. Strength of competition, any of that stuff.

Like they will always reward a dude who will be like, oh, you just fought like six weeks ago. Okay. You're right back in there. You never say no. You just want to get in there. And then you deliver. a performance of the night type of performance. So that's our map, but it's a very tough question.

They're all in play, but Sterling makes the bottom of the list. Iwo's right there. And obviously, Yaki IF is super skilled. I'm excited to see all these guys get a bit of a step up, though. Yeah. You mentioned the name. Who's my pick in that discussion? Kuchelava.

Kuchelava. We just saw, sorry you on. This is kind of where you are. You got to kind of be the litmus test for Navajo. And now let's see. now you get Yakayev. I kind of took some of your advice, Mike.

I know you're telling people to pump the brakes a little bit. Pump the brakes a little bit on Yakayaev. And frankly, just looking at the top 15 right now, I just don't think there's a lot of people that makes sense for him. Not that I think he can't beat them, but I think some of them are booked.

I think some of them are a bit just like experience-wise, a little bit out of that range that I'm comfortable throwing him in there with. And I know you want Qutla, but he's very experienced, but he's kind of that mixture of like he's experienced, but also like we've kind of seen his, you know,

his floor. And I think Yucayev could beat that version of Kuchelava. But we'll see, but I want to know. Yeah, I want to know. Yeah. I mean, I think Kujalab is going to fight either Ewo or him. Like, it's just, it's one or the other. But yeah, I'm with you. Like, Modestis Bukascus, like, like he's probably as high as I would go for any of these guys right now.

Really? Just, uh, because he's a vet and he's a squirrely and he's been in there with some really good dude. So, uh, I wouldn't go any higher. Like, I'm not chucking Volkan Osama. there with any of these guys right now like that is just a big mistake so um i'm just going we're going to have some fun at 155 aka uh we have two guys who aren't going to fight for the belt or anything like that but they're super fun and super dangerous uh we're doing manwell torres versus jalen turner those two are just big huge lightweights that are going to beat the holy heck out of each other for three and a half minutes until that fight is over so let's go

ahead and have some fun there just do it at 170 sure i'm okay with that too why are we making these guys do this why yeah what's the point one 165 170 I don't care do it anywhere any at any way do it in middle late why not then you really don't have to cut weight so I love that idea lightweight rocks that fight would bang and uh let's let's have some fun here all right let's go to the peeps a okay I didn't get a ton but got some good suggestions including a newcomer okay um shout it to Sam Mednick who by the way, first of all, welcome to the party. Of course. Uh, a professional mixed martial arts fighter. Oh. Uh, two and oh out of Portland, Oregon. He's

23 years of age. Uh, ATT Portland guy. Uh, Sam Bednick comes in and says, hey, I have a not no pick for Fiziv. And I think this is super interesting, by the way, okay? Uh, so I'm gonna, I'm gonna read that at the end. His other options are Shara should fight a table of goatee and hopefully get put to. sleep. So I'll throw that out there. Damn. I mean, that's just rough. Here's my pick for Frizee. He should go to featherweight,

as he has previously suggested, and fight Aaron Pico, because that would be a sick fight. Also, if he could safely make 1.45, I do think his chances of a title shot are much higher there. I think he struggles with the bigger grapplers at 155. How's that for a debut? We're doing Raphael Fizier versus Aaron Pico.

Dang. Sorry, guys. And I got a couple of newcomers, too, but that's sitting the bar pretty high. That's setting the bar pretty high. Well done. Very impressed. What a debut. John Ray, me picking...

John Ray, me picking Raposo versus Borjas last week was terrible. But AI ranking Borjas in the top ten is so much worse. Is he still? No, he's not still. That was a glitch, right? I don't think so. Stop it. I'm going right now.

Look at the meta rankings. The flyweight ranking. I'm at the meta rankings. as number 10. It's crazy. Okay. All right. Absolutely.

It's it. This is absolutely going to get you some share of a not, no point. Abduliah versus Leon Shabazzian. That is 100% the fight. We talked about that too. We were asking who could Abdalia beat, reasonably beat and we're like, Leon? Maybe.

I don't know. Batsumoto versus DeMond Blackshear, Donchenko versus Sam Patterson, Offley versus Chippe Mariscol, Rizabaya versus Kyle Dachyah versus Jimmy Kruz, Hassanov versus Veritenekov, Abis Magamatov versus Koppelov, Al-Scaraf versus the Cannonair CLD winner. I did think about that fight.

Amabaya versus the Timorov-Urseg winner, Camillo versus Lance Gibson Jr., Sharabola versus Roman Delizze. Torres versus the Green McKinney winner, and Fizzis versus Moikano 2. Wildcard Pereira. versus Ferreira. Pereira versus Oh yeah, yeah, sure, sure.

Yeah, I don't know what Panetta's deal is with the UFC right now. Like we keep saying he feels like he's cooked. But if he has spice left or if he signs a new contract, yeah, I think that makes a ton of sense. I just want to say people for recommending Yak Kruitt. I thought about that a lot.

Crute, I'm pretty sure suffered like another knee injury. Like the guys had so many injuries in his career. I think he suffered another knee injury last year, didn't he? Like near the end of last year. I think I could be wrong. So, and again, it might be nothing serious. I swear I saw the words like rupture, ligament and rupture.

So I have a feeling we might not see Crute in 2026. So that's the only reason. Because rankings-wise and, like, experience-wise, I do think Crute is like makes a ton of sense. I don't think we see him fight in 2026. But I could be wrong. I haven't been keeping up with the socials. Maybe he's like having a booming recovery.

I hope that's the case. Yeah, we like crew. He just had a lot of, a lot of injury problems. Certainly. Matt Downing, Fizzee, versus the BSD Patty loser. Manuel Torres versus Fores Zem. Abuse versus Edmund Shabazian. I actually liked that fight a lot.

So Edmund's threat, like I said, thrown out for all the guys that fought on. Yeah, that makes, that makes a lot of sense. Sharra versus the CLD candidate loser. El Mabaya versus Roy Val, win, loser draw. Al-Scarra versus Bahalio. Interesting. Hmm, how do I feel about that?

I don't hate it. I feel like this, he needed to do a little bit more yesterday in order to get a fight. like that but I don't hate it he's gonna be out for a minute he's gonna have to fight somebody that's as high as I would go for Alaskarov I agree I don't know that you go ahead in that yeah Camillo versus Nazarad Hakparas Matzumoto versus Davy grant dang that is fun bexot versus john yannis that guy needs to step down for a second dude's been fighting killers yes bexat amokka is like maybe the best one and three fighter in UFC history right I when I was looking at his record as

I was updating. I'm like, man, one and three looks so weird because I know this guy's good. He is. It's definitely good. I thought he beat, I thought he beat Matsumoto yesterday,

but I mean, I wasn't watching the fight like super duper close. Yeah. One judge giving him the first round is an atrocity. Like, he, dude, knock John Matsumoto on his ass.

Like, how do you lose that route? I don't understand it. Yakiya versus Junior Tafa, slow burn to the EWO main event matchup. I think we're past the junior taffa stage at this point. Oh, boy, junior.

Offley versus Sharia in France. Sure. Donchenko versus Charles Racky. Left lane. We will end here. Actually, a really enjoyable card on the road. He agrees with Fiziv Moikano, too. Torres, Mason Jones, Shara canineer with a lost CLD. Camillo versus Rebekchi. Asu versus Kioji.

Johnson versus Shirez. Ikram versus Abuse. Winner gets top 10. Hasenov versus Chris Curtis. Yakyaa. versus Bukoscus, Ruzabaya versus Copulov. He's saying basically just matchmaking the October Abu Dhabi, paper view prelims with most of this.

Please. I'm sorry. I'm sorry, Hosanov versus what? Hosenov versus Chris Curtis. What? I think he's saying I want, let's get him in there with the dude that's hard to take down,

since that's all, like literally all Hosanov did was try to shoot takedowns. Okay, I saw, I'll just skip this over later when I see it when I come over again. So I had another listener recommend Abdulyev versus Chris Curtis, which at least made sense from a like, oh, they both have a lot of fights. No, I mean, like, neither fight makes sense. But Hassanavs is like 6 and 0.

Hasanav is like, he's been fighting for. Is he like another, I'm sorry, guys, with my lack of Hasnav knowledge. Is he like well known from another combat sport or something? Like, what is the deal? I know he got on this card because he's from Azerbaijan, obviously. But he's very inexperienced. Like, Chris Curtis has like five times as many fights this guy has. Probably more.

Yeah. I'll just say it now. I'm not here for the Chris Curtis disrespect. He would murder Hassanab or Abdelah. Oh, Abdelive has no chance in that fight. What are we doing? Like, I know Chris Curtis is not a war. I know we don't view him as like a dominant fighter at, you know, whatever division he's

fighting in. I think he would destroy either of these guys. Like, if his odds were anything less than like minus 700, I would jump. on that in a second. I'll kill these dudes. What do we do? Hussanov.

Donchenkoe versus Salukov. Matsumoto versus a hobby. I actually really like that fight. Exile. Then he goes,

exile both Nassimento and Abdulyev immediately ban them both from competing until any televised combat. Wow. And I want to throw this

out there, okay. Con Offley versus the Tommy McMillin Montes winner at UFC OkC, which is

going to be Tommy Macmillan because the UFC knows how to book a squash batch and they are certainly trying to book one here. Would you throw him in there with Con awfully? I think I don't see that going well for time McMillan at all. So Con is so interesting because I do think he's undersized for the division. He looked tiny. And Ray and Ray and Ray's a bit. I also also also race is a big who he fought on Saturday. And McMillons a pretty big phantom weight too. Featherweight. Excuse me. Featherweight. Excuse me. Um, Yeah, I get what you're saying, Mike, we could just see a world where this goes to the ground and it's just, you know, it's curtains for McMillan. And I like Khan a lot.

And he has, man, he has proven to be a pretty decent EOC fighter. I don't know. It's weird. The guys he's beaten, he's done really well against, like, experienced people. I wonder if a wild car on the McMillan might throw him off. I agree, though, with you, the idea that made this don't want to risk that. I don't know what the upside is to that. So, yeah.

But I don't hate the matchmaking. All right. Well, let's hear what your peeps have to say. Oh, gosh, okay. I'm going to try to run through a lot. I got so many. Thankfully, I had time to kind of parse through them, so I can avoid a lot of repeats. But thank you, everyone who sent in.

Let's start with MC McRen, MC Wren. M.C. Wren? I'm not sure. I'm not sure how to read that. This was on Instagram. Welcome to the Party, pal. Just one, just one pick, which I love. Manuel Torres, Terrence McKinney,

win-loser, Dragon, King Green. Round of the year written all over. It might be like minute of the year. Minute or two minutes. I don't know. We're not getting a full round. We're not getting a full round. That might last, that might break Yakaya's record.

I can't do it because I will, my new Justin Gagee versus Max Holloway is Michael Chandler versus Terrence. Yes, I agree. We need to see that. We need to see that. But maybe down the road, MC Rent, great good, great pick, great pick. Alex Van Dam. I'm just seeing if there's anything new.

Bullet and Gotiye in Abu Dhabi. The only thing is Abu Dhabi is like next month, right? I mean, they could be talking page. pay-review to in October. Really? I mean, they could. No, they're going to do a pay-per-view in October in Abu Dhabi. They do it every year.

So maybe that's what the mass making is because they must be thinking October because there's no way Shara is coming back and fighting it. Okay, okay. I forgot about it. You're right, you're right. I'm sorry, I forgot about that. A bullet's still a little. I mean, I don't mind the matchup, but I'm saying bullet would be like a two-to-one favorite. No? Against the Taba?

Yeah. You think that's, you think Ataba's got that with? I think a taba absolutely annihilates him. Did they think he be favored? Yeah, oh 100%. Wow. People know me. Maybe I'm a little too conservative with my ranking. So I have a table.

Like I still haven't put them in the top 30. I just like, I just don't see a, I don't see how Shara beats him. I really, I just, he's not going to beat him in a kickboxing match. Char is very annoying.

Shar is very annoying. Yeah, he's not going to like try to take Gotee down. Like this fight is going to play out on the Feing. Gotee's got to win that fight. He could annoy him to death. That's true. That is possible.

He could decisionate him in a truly dreadful fight. But that's interesting, right? I forgot about the other. Okay, so Al-Mandam, that's interesting. Thomas Collins, Manuel Torres, Mike Davis, Nirolo Aleyev winner. That's going down in Abu Dhabi, July 25th. Not bad.

Donchenko Soriano, sure. We've got some wild Donchenko fix it, but Danchenko Suriano, I think that's accurate. Kyle Thornton, bullet and nickel. I don't think they're going to do that right now. Oh, God, no chance that happens. Camillo Ziam? I know Ziam's coming off a loss, but like, I think he's still a little too high ranked for him.

Al-Baiab, Erseg, Wind Loser Drave versus Temarov in Abu Dhabi. I think Al-Mabab is, is he higher than, he's ranked higher than Ersig, right? I would have to think. I will have him ranked higher than Ersig, certainly. Kyle asks, when are you guys doing another movie review? I need my terrible movie fix. I know, man, and we've had so many movies and TV shows released, but it's just a matter of timing. Hopefully someday we get, this is a cinema back.

Harry Newhouse Let's see what's new here Hassanov versus Francisco Prado Yes, thank you This is the like people This is That's good match The logical, yes

This is people right near the bottom Of the barrel That welter rate respectfully What else we got Offley Levitt Yes, great grappling matchup I love that Donchenko

Ponzanibio That's a big veteran test This guy was the youngest fighter on this card Mike I think he's only 24 What's Donchenko 24? There's 25 this year.

I don't hate it. I don't hate it. I don't hate it. Listen, he won the ultimate fighter. He could probably beat Islam tomorrow. But, you know, why risk it? But that's not bad. There's some other veteran matchups, I think, are a bit strange.

Matsumato Bryce Mitchell? Yeah, I actually really like that fight. Abdullahiaev and Sagid Izagakmaev. I assume a good fight for Isaac Gakmaev, but I don't want to see a lot of fight anytime soon again. Gerard Biagin, Bullet and Belgarrui. I actually love that. I know bullets are much,

much bigger name than Belgarui, but I think, like, I think Bell Garu could be him. That's not a layup for a bullet, so that's pretty good. Mike, you said this is a terrible idea, but Gerard says Yakayev and Oostomir. Nope.

No, it's not ready. He's not ready. You know me. I'm a big Oostomir, like, supporter, and I feel like he's still a topout for a lot of these, up and coming middleweights let's go to my email Eli Hitala Amabaya versus Tyra just imagine the grappling game between these two I want it and I God that was that was the call out that was absolutely the call of Rasu instead of the whole I'm fighting for the

belt thing oh that was bad that was so bad also you're not getting that title fight unless three people in front of each other god you're two he's gonna have to win at least two bad bad uh off Lee versus Gabriel Santos where is gabriel Santos been I don't know Eli, I don't know, be honest, I'll ask, I'll ask Guy. Donchenko versus Chris Curtis. Again, this is not as bad as the other, but I think you guys know how, like, the experience gap Chris Curtis has with some of these young alterways.

He can make some of these guys look really bad, and I just don't know if that's what we want. Tristan Gordet-Offley versus Del Valle, I like that, Donchenko and Mikhailette. Yes, this is more logical. Thank you, Tristan. Jay Donagy. Fiziv Gamrot, too, Mike, any interest in that, you know, unanswered questions? We had the injury in the first fight.

It's been a couple of years, I think. Yeah, I don't hate it. Yeah, I think it's possible. Bullet versus Jimmy Suss, Susser Kayaev. Oh, that's interesting. I really don't know how people feel about, I mean, I'm sorry, I do know how people feel about Bullet. I don't know how the UFC feels about Bullet.

I know how fans feel about. I think that's like the stock is like, he keeps winning, but some of the stock keeps, like, dropping. Golly, that is, uh, that's actually pretty good. I like this idea. Might be a little soon for Jimmy Suss, but we're getting close. Yeah. We're getting close.

And Abis versus Brendan Allen, sorry, not sorry. Okay. Dang. Yeah. Yakaya versus Navo Sterling. I don't know if either of these guys are good. One doesn't pass the eye test. The other doesn't pass the competition test.

Yeah, true, fair. Lucas Cortes, Abdelive. Cut this dude. He was dirty and an ass. He landed a late shot out of frustration, hugged the loser aggressively afterwards, just to be a dick those are Lucas's words guys not mine those are Lucas's word uh yak and Iwo not yet not yet someday someday don't do this yet don't do this yet Alaskarov nickel Mike what would the money line be for Alaskarov nickel I would

I'm golly I don't that's a really good question very quick I like personally it would be Alaskarov minus 300 for me like that's how I would line it anything no way no way minus 300 I think Bo gets a lot of respect. That's how I would lie. Anything, anything like, anything south of minus 300, I might just bet my car on an Icrum Alaskaroff. Like, I, there's just no way Bo wins that fight. There's just zero way wins.

How's he going to beat him? I don't know. He's a good wrestling. He's a good wrestler. Yeah, but like then when he gets to the mat, like Alasker is way better grappler. Like, he's just a way better MMA grappler than Bo is. And he's way bigger than Bo. Like I just don't see a world where I don't see unless Bo just like catches him with something, but he hate Robert Whitaker.

He's just not. I don't, I don't know. I would pick out of scare very comfortably there, which is why I think there's zero chance. The UFC puts that fight together. Yeah, man, that's not next, but I really want to see that now. Corey, let's go to Twitter. Corey Champlin. Look, this is a little positivity bike.

I would just like to start up by saying thank you to you, Mike and Jed, for doing amazing jobs. Love all the podcast you guys through the week. Thank you, Corey. Yeah, man. We love it. It's fun. Last week, I suggested KioG versus Al-Bai of Johnson winners sticking with that and let's do Shara and Izzy.

Ah, Corey, I just don't know what's happening yet. The M.M.A. Patron, Abis versus Kenanir, CLD winner, which we got here. Alaskarov versus Dele-Ze, and then Corey, sorry, the M.A. Patron said, does this do anything for anyone? Does anyone want this? Why would you make the pick? Bruno Paheda versus Calvin Gaslam coming to an apex near-Yer. You, yes, I like that.

Charles Johnson getting a normal haircut. How dare you? The Larry David look was spectacular. Oh, my God. It's getting worse. Shout out. Shout out Davidson Baker. I know he, he.

Oh, we love you, Davidson. Finn Hamilton, cut both guys involved in the curtain trigger. Throw the referee out like the uncle, like Uncle Phil did to jazz. Gosh, we're old. Finn, you just dated all three of us, by the way, because we, Mike and I totally understood that reference. And I think a lot of people are. Oh, bad. I was talking about Miss Bliss.

from old say by the bell on the post fight show after you left yesterday was great uh matsumoto ewing farid basharat loser uh i want to see him fight one of those guys one day but i don't know if that's next michael bisming versus any ounce of homework regarding fighters coaches yikes uh herb dean versus herb d versus indeed dot com all right so okay all right then but i'm you've had here i love macaw did you see moham micaiah like defend Herb Dean. I did. I was quite funny because he let. Was Herb Dean the referee for the

Medell cop fight? Maybe. I don't know. If he was, then this is one of the funniest tweets of all time because Herb let Mejave cheat the entire fight. And not lose any points or get any sort of infraction whatsoever. I have to look this up to see if that is the kid. Mike Beltron,

another genius referee. Oh, then then this is just a bad tweet. He's just a fan of quality refereeing in general, Mike. Why is he so bad at this? Tweety. He's so, like, just the whole, like, non-fighting.

Anything not fight-related, he's bad at. Listen, Mike, as you said, he's never been in the UFC. No, he's not. He has nothing to lose. I know, you say this all the time. DGB, Abis, Megamatta versus Gotea. Yeah, I could see that. I think it's a little more likely.

Dunchenko versus Salakoff. Again, like, see, Mike, I don't, how high are you on Dunchenko? I like him a lot. I just feel like he's one more fight away getting a veteran i don't want to give him a veteran yet he's he's in fun dude territory though like this like he's just gonna be a fun dude to watch fight so like throwing him in there with muslim salikoff who's what 40 something yeah might be a little sad on the other end but like maybe

that's fight's still gonna be very fun yeah i don't know i like don't jenko but i say one more person like in his experience range please i don't ask for much our tour uh i got to let's do the speed run here carmillo flowers matzumoto mantel jackson i don't mind that spee zir 32 Alaskarro, Borelio, Hassanov, Andreas Gustafson, there we go, much better. Dunchenko, Randy Brown. Too soon, guys.

It's too soon. Ruzaboya, Bruno Fededa, run it back, too. I think that was Bruno's debut. One of their debuts, and that was like three years ago now,

so I don't hate that. Abdeliah versus Austin Vanderford. I still think that might be able to tough for Abdeliah. Oh, my God. Vanderford,

minus 350. Four Corner Sports Manual Torres, Chris Duncan, too. Yeah, I think it's been in a couple of years. Run that one back. Charles Johnson, Andre Lima.

I think that's accurate for Corner Sports. That's a good one. Frod, conditional here. Fizzis versus Holloway, if McGregor finishes him. Wow. I don't mind that. I don't mind it either. If Connor finishes Max, like that, that actually makes a lot of sense.

It got me thinking. Braden, a bunch of picks here. Hasanov versus Leon Shabazian. Thank you. That's exactly what we're talking about him or Abdalia. Abdelaya versus Tailik. Lightkey, Naraji. Some really deep cuts here.

Ruzabov, Malcun, Donchenko, Victor Valenzuela. Bradenada, you watch, put the M.A. down. You watch too much M.A. Baira O'Reilly, again, versus Curtis.

I don't even want to, no. I'm sorry. I'm just moving on. I'm just moving on. Thank you, Barry, for all the picks, by the way. Hassanov versus Bilegeoff. I haven't seen him in a while.

Camilla versus Steel. Some good ones. Donchenko versus Racki. I know someone missed that for. I actually think that's, like, the perfect one. That's where I would go. Last one here.

welcome to the party pal to Preston Schreier first time submissioner long time listener Manuel Torres Terrence Cooini win-l loser draw at against King Green set the over at minus one million yes no over I don't know if you're playing minus one plus a million anyway I know you're saying yes it's not going over

Shara and Mr. Bajani attempted to find a way to make Shara fights fun again Camillo Kyle Nelson Asu versus Tairar should be fun Akram Alis Gara Brendan Allen Let's continue the trend of getting Alan the worst possible fights of his career. Yakaya Falato. Let's keep Yakiav active.

Tally up another boop. Dunchenko, Jake Matthew, should be a fun scrap. Found out what we have. And O'Schenko, is he the most relevant tough fighter in a long time? Again, I don't know. That's why I'm not pushing him so fast. Nassimento, Claudio, Pueyes. Let's see if we can get the first decision in the UFC with zero strikes.

As Nassimendo does 300 laps around the octagon while Pueyes is laying in guard in the middle. Oh my gosh. That is hard. But well done for us coming in with the fire. All right, Mike. I'm so sorry. I kept us here a little bit too long. Guys, you can send your picks into me at Alessander KK.

Lee on Instagram at Alessonkali on Twitter. My DMs are open. Email me, Alex.org, at espionation.com. Look, I don't know what's, I don't know what the next show is going to be just yet. Right. UFC 329 going down. I think, AK, based on my travel schedule, I think we'll be able to do it live. Like at a normal at our normal time.

Okay. On that day, it'll be right before I have to go to the airport. So I think we can squeeze it in. The UFC 329. Who's fighting UFC 29, Mike? Some UFC guys. Okay. Yeah.

By the way, this is going to be a very busy week. We'll have to do our fantasy draft this week. No way about it. But UFC 329. I say this because I will be there. I got the green light. So we're going. Myself and Jose will both be boots on the ground because it's frigging

International Fight Week and you gotta be two places at once. Pretty much the whole week. So Jose getting a little assistance this time and I'm very excited to be there. First time in International Fight Week since UFC 276. That was the Israel Adisani, Jared Canonnier event.

So it has been, I think this is five years for me since I've been to International Fight Week. So very pumped. But it's Connor McGregor's return. I want to shout out the UFC production team. those promos for 329 and that fight in particular were freaking bangers. They're great. So Conner's fighting Max Holloway.

Co-main event, Ben-Wasantini versus Patty Pimbled. We have Corey Sanhagen versus Mario Batista 2. Brandon Royval against Lonnie Kavanaugh. King Green versus Terrence McKinney. By the way, in case you guys are not aware of this, I just found this out last night. Everything pushed back an hour. Everything's pushed back at hour.

Pushback so it starts at six, no, or the fourth. So the featured prelims will be at 7 p.m. Eastern, and the main card will start at 9 p.m. Eastern. That is what the graphics were saying yesterday when they were posting the lineups. That's not like, all right, whatever. It's still not 10, but still. That's fine. That's fine.

Nine still a little too late. But it's okay. King Green Terrence McKinney. Featured prelim, the light heavyweight debut of Robert Nucle. Wittaker taking on Nikita Krilov. That's so weird. One of the weirdest fights of 2026. 100%.

We go to the heavyweight division prior to that is the Octagon debut of Gable Steveson, taking on Elijah Ellison. We have Cody Garbrand versus Adrian Yannias, one of the most popular onto the next one picks of all time, finally going down. Kai Kamaka the third versus Luke Riley. And then five early prelim fights, Tracy Cortez taking on Tong Wang, Damian Pinyas versus Cesar Almeida, Farid Bosharov versus Ethan Ewing, Ryan Gondra versus Zach Reese. That's kind of the wisest fight on this card fight, but it's okay.

And Cody Dirt has a new and he's fighting Alessandro Costa. Maybe I'll draft Alessandro Costa, AK, just so he can fall out of the fight three days before it and then three years later fight Cody Dernan and beat him he's falling in this is a full this is a full circle fight right here yeah because Alessandro Costa was supposed to fight match now which is why I drafted him and then he got hurt and Cody Durdin stepped in and beat match now this is a final destination situation where I feel like you have to sure is yeah but that UFC 329 and uh very excited for it okay we're what vibes check we're we're Two weeks away here?

Or no, we're less than two weeks away. Yeah. Hi, man. I mean, 10 out of 10. And I'm glad there's like a break, like a week break in between. That's only going to help, I think. Hell yeah. Yeah.

For sure. But that's it. Obviously, going to be a weird week. We got Independence Day coming up in the United States. But don't worry. Canada Day up in here. Canada Day coming up. All the days.

Stick with us, MAFighting.com. We'll keep you entertained during sort of the, the long weekends and such. And we'll see you following UFC 329 right here on onto the next one. The podcast. We're out of here.