MMA Fighting - On To the Next One | Matches To Make After UFC San Diego

Episode Date: August 14, 2022

Marlon Vera has inserted himself in the UFC bantamweight title conversation following his monster knockout of Dominick Cruz in the main event of UFC San Diego, but how much more work does he need to do before getting his championship opportunity? This week, on an all-new edition of On To the Next One, MMA Fighting's Mike Heck and Alexander K. Lee put the matchmaking hats on following Saturday's UFC event and discuss what is next for both Vera and Cruz following their contest. In addition, future matchups are discussed for Nate Landwehr following his crazy win over David Onama in the co-main event, Yazmin Jauregui after her impressive octagon debut victory, along with Azamat Murzakanov, Priscila Cachoeira, Gerald Meerschaert, and more. Follow Mike Heck: @MikeHeck_JR 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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Following UFC San Diego. Following a week of the Rona, which still will not leave me for some reason, but we fight on, we fight through because UFC San Diego ended up being a pretty damn entertaining card. So let's talk some what's next for some of these amazing athletes.

And allow me to introduce the bestest friend. that one could ever have Mr. Alexander K. Lee. Hello, sir. Good morning. Wait, Mike, how's that possible? You're the best friend that anyone could ever have. So that is, it seems like a contradiction.

I'm really happy. Oh, yeah, I really liked Saturday's card. I actually thought the main card was better than last week's, you know, 10 out of 10 finishes banger. I guess that's not much of a hot take. there were two like one fight of the year candidate one fight just before that looked like it was going to be a shoe win for fight of the night um featuring two debuting fighters that was super

exciting so also also i will say yeah not not to harp on the whole like oh last you know saturday's card over delivered and the media was crapping on all that but like you know just because a card has a lot of finishes does not mean it's a great card if people want to see a lot of finishes there's like you know you can watch any regional international show out there you'll watch shows that have like a 90% finish rate. But this card had finishes, all finished on the main card, except for two decisions, which were both amazing. So main card-wise, I thought this one really, really delivered.

And I think we were, I will say, for the most part, as a team, we were pretty, like, positive about the main card, at least. We kind of, you know, we said the whole card lacked star power. But I think the main card, we looked up and down the fights for like, there's quite a bit of intrigue there, you know? Yeah, I think at the end of the year, we will kind of remember this card. It's not like it's not going to be like the top.

It's not going to be like a top five card of the year, but it's one we're going to remember. We're not going to remember anything about UFC Vegas 59. Not one thing. No one thing. I mean, look, Sergey Spivak, great finish. People are not going to remember that. No.

They're not going to remember that. Jeff Neil, Lucay, maybe. I mean, it was a great performance by Neil. But it was a little sad. People don't want maybe just want to forget. Oh, and of course, the two ultimate fighter finale is we're going to be talking about, you know, for the next. for not just the rest of the year for the next what year or two years.

We're still unpacking those two fights. We're going to be comparing each finale forever to the tough 30 finale. Yes. All of them. Yes. Yes. But let's get into this thing. Let's start with the main event.

Let's start with how the card ended. Marlon Vera brutally knocks out Dominic Cruz in the fourth round. It was a very interesting fight. Cruz looked pretty damn good. All three judges had him up two rounds to one, heading into the championship rounds. But Vera is just so powerful. He just needs one.

And the fourth knockdown of the fight was the final one. There's a lot happening at 135 right now, AK. So there's a lot of options for Vera. None of which are really wrong here. What are we doing? What are we doing? Mike, you were very excited on Saturday's post-fight show, saying you had like the perfect pick for Cheeto, I believe,

or you're very jazzed up about it. I have a good pick. I like, just because you said that, I spent like 15 extra minutes, like trying to make this quick because I couldn't think of anything that I thought was super interesting. I only want Cheeto to fight up after that win. He is number seven in our rankings. I don't know if who's it.

Yeah, he's number seven in our ranks. I think ahead of him is all UFC people. I know we have some Bellator guys in there as well. I don't know if we put them above Cheeto. So I just want to see him fight the Corey Sanhagen Song Yadong winner. Song Yadong is behind him in our rankings and in my own personal rankings, but I think would be at least maybe jump ahead or be in the range if he beat Corey Sanhagen. Then we get that nice rematch for a fight that happened well over two years ago now. And by the time it rolls around, it'll be like 18 months, closer to 18 months.

So yeah, if that rematch happens, that's great. A lot of people thought Vera won the first fight, but he was on the wrong end of a decision. And of course, Corey Sandhagen wins, gets right back on track, keeps his top five spot. And that keeps it very busy because, you know, we debated this a lot before and after Saturday's main event. I just don't know if there is a shoe in to get a title shot, even after that impressive win over Cruz. So I'm just going to throw this out there. Oh, my. It's shit or get off the pot time.

This is it. It's last chance time. I'm not going to talk about this man again. Oh my God. If Henry Sohudo is serious about fighting, then this is the fight. In fact, this has always been the fight. This has been the fight since Sohudo got back into the testing pool. This is the fight that I have been saying is the fight because it's not the champion.

It's not the number one contender. It's not Peodor Yan. It's nothing like that. A tough, dangerous opponent that Suhudo does have advantages over in a number of ways. And of course, Henry Suhudo made it a little bit easier on me last night because he decides to go on social media and tell the world that not only did he do it better than Marlon Verre did, but he wasn't impressed with Cheetos performance at all, not even a little. So enough is enough. If you're not impressed with the man, then go fight him. go fight him Henry Sehudo this is the one and if you win you can have a title shot no one is going to

complain about it do it at the end of the year because Vera has options but he's probably not going to want to wait until all the chaos unfolds at 135 pounds he'll probably want to fight before the year is over so I'm just going to throw that out there this is a big fight for every single person involved here the UFC sahudo Marlon vera it works for everybody. So if Sohudo is truly serious about getting back to fighting, this is probably the best case scenario for him. Go fight Marlon Vera.

If you win, you get a title shot. If you're not impressed with the man, then go out there and beat him. So that's it. This is it. Shit or get off the pot, Henry Suhudo. This is the one. If you want your title fight, go fight Cheeto Vera. This is the fight.

You ran your mouth. you talked a bunch of garbage. You're not impressed. Go beat him. Go beat him and go get your title fight. There you go. How did I not see that coming? I don't know why.

Like I said, I actually thought about this for a long time, trying to think of where you would come from. I don't know. Now that you say it out loud, it seems so obvious to me. Considering your excitement, considering, like I said, I wasn't sure who in the top, you know, top six of the division is like a logical matchup for him.

I think they're all booked. how did I not see you pulling the Sohudo card? Did you say if this matchup happens, then you'll never bring it up again? Or just this is the latter what, just saying it, you're like, this is it. This is all the Sehudo talk you want to have for now. I'm not bringing Sehudo up anymore.

Okay. It's going to come up on a heck of a morning. We all know that. And you have no choice. As is your journalistic duty to talk about it. But you will not, you know, volunteer Sehudo discussion anymore going forward. Absolutely not.

Okay. And even if I am asked about him, a heck of a morning, I'm probably not going to spend a lot of time on it. Wow. Okay. Like this is, this is literally, this is last chance of Hudo time. That's it. He's not going to, he's not going to fight Cheeto Vera. Why?

It just makes so much sense for him. I don't think he thinks he has a name. I don't think he thinks Cheeto Vera has a name. Why would he just make a bunch of videos saying that he's not impressed? Why does Henry Seudo do anything? Except just get in there and fight someone. I don't know, Mike. I don't know.

I can't tell you. Listen, I've never won a gold medal before. I've never won two UFC tiles before. So I'm not going to tell him how to do it. I'm not going to tell him how to live his life. You know, good for him. But I am so doubtful. I mean, when he put himself back in the pool, even when you know, I know he's back in the pool now,

I was still like, God, is he actually going to fight someone? Because you could certainly go back into the testing pool, you know, if you're willing to make that sacrifice of your time and privacy. And that doesn't mean you have to fight. He can pull himself out of the testing pool anytime he wants. You know, he's, he's, he's in the testing pool. He's literally kind of testing the waters, you know, trying to see if anyone will bite on his callouts and his, you know, like, yeah, all the videos he's making. I am very concerned now that he just doesn't, he just doesn't get the matchup he's looking for and doesn't come back.

And I'm not concerned like, oh, no, I really want Henry Suu to come back. I'm concerned that we wasted all this time, you, Michael, wasted all your valuable time talking about him. And he just doesn't come back and fight it all. So I would love to see him fight Chudo Vera. I don't think he doesn't. Well, then that's it. Then I've completely quit on the Henry Sehudo business if this fight doesn't happen. I hope so.

You're a good man for entertaining it this much over the past whatever, four, five, six months that you've had to talk about this retired fighter. Yeah. And for Dominic Cruz, this is kind of, it's kind of tough because, like, for me, the fight I've wanted to see is him and Frankie Ed here. Frankie wants to fight at MSG. I just don't know if Cruz is going to be able to come back that quickly after getting his face shattered by the foot of Marlon Vera. So I have two options here. One, if Al J. Stirling beats T.J. Dillishaw October 22nd, which I'm picking him to do. We do the rematch between Cruz and Dillishaw.

If Dillishaw becomes the champion, we do Cruz versus the winner. of Hanayaya Cody Garbrand October 1st. Oh. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I'd love to see him

fight Garbrand again, so that's not a bad option. And Honeya, yeah, would be a unique, fresh matchup, so I don't mind that either. I'm just,

I guess I'm crystal balling slash magic wanding here. Listen, we've said that Josialdo fight can happen anytime. I still, I'm going to just keep pushing for it to happen as soon as possible.

I also think Josie Aldo loses to Marab. So this is not a winner or loser this fight. I'm calling my shot. I think the great one, Josie Aldo does lose to Maraub to Volusvoli, next weekend, excuse me, UFC 278. And then we can make that cruise fight happen. Because, yeah, we don't know when cruzily back, but I don't see Aldo necessarily rushing back in.

So if it's a tough loss to Marab might want to take some time off, and then, you know, reevaluate over the next four months. And maybe get that cruise fight early 2020. fingers crossed. So a bit of fantasy booking here. I still want it to happen. And if Cruz is going to fight again, which I don't think he's retired.

Yeah, give him five, six months. Let's get this Legends fight sometime. Because we keep saying it can happen whatever. But boy, you never know. That door can also close really fast. Yep. That's how the sport works. And the ups, the downs, the sways.

It's an emotional roller closer to this M.A. Much like the co-made event. on UFC San Diego. Nate Landware and David Onama is just, I can't describe the fight because nobody can. You just have to watch it for yourself. You have to watch the first round. Then you have to watch Nate Landware almost kill him in the second round.

And then the third round, it's looking like more of the same. And then David Onama somehow wills his way into almost stealing the third round with like 30 seconds left. It's just such a chaotic fight. It was obviously the fight of the night. It's one of the fights we'll be talking about at the end of the year. And Nate Landware is just must-see TV, AK. You have been, you've been sort of strumming that guitar. You've been drumming the drum from the top of the mountaintop for Nate the train.

Now what do we do? After this insane fight, we just watched for 15 minutes in the co-made event. You know, if only we had had Joe Rogan on that call, because Daniel Corpour, has learned a lot from Joe Rogan, but he cannot quite capture Rogan's histrionics. And my God, we might have broken a record for the amount of it's over, he got him, that's, that's, like Landre went for like two guillotines and Rogan would have just like, he's locked in, it's tight, it's tight. So I don't know, I don't know what Rogan would have done because in his mind,

that fight was probably over at least like 14 different times, but well done anyway by Michael Bisping and Dale Cormer and Brendan Fitzgerald. They did their best again to call what you have essentially said, Mike, is an uncallable fight. I don't know what it was. He went full Tennessee after, God bless him. And who did he call out? I honestly could not even necessarily.

Billy Quintilla, what did he do? Did he have a name? Billy Q, Shane Burgos. There are a few that I just couldn't understand. Again, listen, he went full Tennessee and God bless him for it. No, Paul. Nate Lamber, you make no apology to anybody. I say just rebooked the Lorraine Murphy fight.

This was booked at some point. I don't know if it was for this card or for another card, but that fight was booked. Lauren Murphy was tweeting up a little bit during the fight, just kind of saying, like, oh, I'll take either of these guys. So, the fight was over. Landre was the last man standing. This would move Landre up the rankings.

Not that I think that necessarily is our number one priority when booking this guy. But if there's, you know, if there's any thought that he could be a top 20, top 15, and heaven forbid someday, a top 10 guy. It starts with fighting guys like Lorraine Murphy. And again, I think you just get an exciting matchup here. And if you're a Lauren Murphy, it's a smart callout.

The guy is really hot after that fight. He's a veteran. And he's going to test you. Maybe Lauren Murphy also just wants to be tested and see if he can either be one of the guys who can bolt land where in the first round, which has happened before in the UFC, or that can go to that decision and actually win a war. which David Anamo was not that far off from doing. So, yeah, I'm into for just giving Landwehr and Murphy another crack.

Yeah, there's no real wrong answer here. So I'll just give him one of the callouts. I don't think he's going to get Shane Burgos, but I think there's a chance he gets Billy Q. So give me Billy Q, the new dad in Nate Landware. There's no way that that fight is not absolutely insane. So give that to me and give it to us all. We'll all be very happy.

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We also saw an incredible fight, an incredible debut from both Yasmin Haragi and Yasmin Lucindo. Incredible fight from the straw weight ladies. Haragi gets it done in the end. She impressed everybody who watched the fight. Both ladies did. 1.15 is a couple of prospects for sure. Again, there's not really a lot of wrong answers here.

You just don't want to rush her too fast. I think Vanessa Demopoulos is a perfect name here, okay? Yeah, yeah. And I like Vanessa Domopoulos. I think she can be a popular name for the UFC. But there's really no protecting people in this division. I mean, the division is only, if I'm being generous, probably 35, is probably 35 contracted straw whites?

Oh, no, over 40. Okay, I'm looking on my list here. Over 40. But again, that is not a lot. That is not a lot for a division. So, again, they've got a lot of, you know, fun, up-and-coming names. Vanessa Dimoppa is one of them. We can't protect everyone.

So, yeah, that might have to be the option there. I went with the same mindset here. Loma Luke Bunmi, Diana Belbeda, they're fighting September 17th. Again, both fighters with, I think, bright futures in the UFC in their own right, if they can sort of start stringing some wins together, but you can't protect them. And plus, I think, one, I think Loma's going to win that fight, and then Loma Haragi is just be a friggin' ridiculous stand-up battle. So, yeah, let's just keep giving Haragi.

exciting batchups and it could be Loma, could be Dan Al-Bababita, but I'm down with either of those. Yep, completely agree. Azamat Mirzokhanov is a very dangerous prospect at 205 pounds. He just destroys Devin Clark, body shots are nasty, finally puts him away in the third. Just, I mean, this is one of those, this is a different kind of, like a next fight for a guy who made a great impression because I'm convinced this guy could beat a lot of guys in the top 15 right now. I think he's that good.

But how high are you willing to send this gentleman, AK? I'm kind of boring, Mike. I didn't go super, you know me. I need to see three UFC fives before I start launching someone up the standings. So I kept him a little bit in range. Someone who is a few spots, still a few spots ahead of him. Daun Jung coming off his first UFC loss. Very tough guy.

I think skill-wise, I do think he's behind where Merzikonov is in terms of both in wrestling and in striking. But he's got that UFC experience, and he's got some notable wins himself. So, you know, again, not a sexy matchup, but let's keep going with Mirzikanov, seeing how good he is. I saw a few, I saw some pretty logical, slightly higher ranked matchups, and I have no problem with those. But for me, Don Jung, the way to go for now. So I didn't, there wasn't really one that really stood out to me until I looked on social media at one point. And there's one, one name in particular.

I was like, ooh, this is actually pretty good. It's just a matter of whether or not he's willing to wait that long. Jimmy Crute. Jimmy Crude called him out, said, let's do this in February. And I like that one. Makes sense. Five, six months away. I know Murscada might want to get back in there a little bit sooner.

But these cars are starting to fill up. And, I mean, let's just say he'll come back in January. Just wait another month and you get to fight Jimmy Crude. I think that's worth waiting the extra. or month. So yeah, I like that idea. And it's kind of a win-win for the UFC right there in one of those types of fights. So yeah, I like that. And it sounds like he may also at some point, if you look at them may at some point drop down to 185. So, you know, he does have to worry about that now. I think 205 is perfect of him. Don't worry about cutting weight. It's a thinner division.

Asma Merzacana, this is the place to be right now. Yeah. And if you get like a Jimmy Crue and you can beat him, I think Crude has definitely been, he's definitely correct. I know he's been in the UFC's rankings. I'm pretty sure he's cracked our top 15 at some point as well, somewhere in the, you know, 13 to 15 range. Still, still an exciting young fighter himself. So, yeah, I would love to see, I would love to see that happen at Merzokanov can wait. And also for Jimmy Crute, hey, great way to get back on track. He beats Marzacanov right back in that up-and-coming contenders talk.

Get a lot of that steam back. Priscilla Kachua. Yes. What a performance she had against, is she not? Now the new Queen of Violence, AK, is that a thing? Was the nickname on the line? You know, you know, Queen of Violence had maybe considered, I can't, oh, God, Michael, I shouldn't say this, but maybe he'd considered mixing the martial arts a little bit.

She may have, or the opposite, don't mix the martial arts. Forget the striking for now. Go to your grappling. Go to your Jujitsu. I mean, she's got a decent submission game. So I know I don't know if it was I think it was in her interview with

I want to say it was with Guillermo that she said like I'm really excited about like possibly getting my first UFC knockout and that's great. You know, hunting for a knockout is great. She's obviously an exciting striker had a good reputation for finishes from KSW and from any from for the UFC.

But you really got to know that like Kachara is one of this took place at 135 but in the flyway division is one of it's most like potent like finishers. Like she has legitimate knockout power at 125. She's a good striker. I wouldn't say a great technical striker. I would think Lipski had the advantage there.

But listen, you wanted to turn this into a fight. Priscilla Kachwarata more than happy to oblige. And she put her away in 65 seconds. So all the credit in the world, of course, to Priscilla Kachara. I mean, look, she fought her fight. She took what was dealt to her. But boy, I would love to see some of her opponents trying to take her down.

I don't know. Maybe I'm underestimated her jiu-jitsu. I don't know. But what were we talking about, Mike? What's next for what's next for zombie girl? And does she get the, yeah, I mean, she should take the name. She's taking the name. She's putting people away with strikes.

It's pretty great. Yes. So this woman is four and one near last five. She's one back-to-back fights. Less than a year ago, we were calling for this woman to be ousted from the promotion. Yeah. Because she's trying to claw out the eyeballs of Julie Roberson. Disgusting. Disgusting. Yes. But now she was kind of, she's kind of the bell of the ball in San Diego.

Crowd was supporting her. She's going, having a good time. People were digging it. And, you know what? This is a woman who, when she made her UFC debut, she was on the wrong side of one of the all-time great ass whoppings in the history of the promotion. Valentina Shofchenko put the boots to her in a way we don't really see. women's MMA. And what she has done over the last four plus years since then, I think she has earned the opportunity to go full circle here and face the Cister of the champion. Let's do Priscilla Katsueira versus Antonina Shvshanko, AK. You got a story.

It's all written. It's ready to go. I think I hear music. Do you hear music? Do you hear? Do you hear? Oh, we, one, two. Okay, friends forever.

Priscilla Antonina fighting. Oh, that's terrible. But yes, that's the fight. We're the best. We don't get many of these. We had two last week, unfortunately, like you were under, I messaged you. We actually had two Friends Forever Ficks. And again, thanks again to Jen Mishu, by the way, for filling in last week.

But we could have sang the song twice last week. No, yeah, no, Anthony Shepchenko. That's the way to go. Again, Anthony Zyuchenko, a pretty smart fighter, not as well-rounded or as good a wrestler as her sister, but still someone I wonder if she might, you know, do some game planning here and try and not go right at Priscilla Kachir. Because if she does, she's probably also going to get knocked out, much like Arani Lipski did. So I like the matchup, like you said, full circle.

And you really reminded me, like, that Kachura has, how is she, she's like, how many lives this woman have? Because after the Shipschenko lost, she lost her first three fights. It's not like she bounced back from the Shepchenko loss with like, oh, she had a big knockout after her. And the U.C. is like, okay. She was 0-1-3. And somehow stuck around and it gets a 40-second knockout of Shana Dobson.

And then gets another win, the Jillian Robertson thing happens. Excuse me, guys. And now she has another. And somehow still got kept around despite, again, a lot of us in the media and fan saying, just cut her after that loss. Two lives already down. I don't know how many lives that she'll catch where I has,

but I think there's a lot of people out there who are grateful that she's still around because putting on some exciting fights. I mean, even if you didn't think she won the Gian Kim fight, they won't fight in the night. So she's carved out a niche for herself against all odds in the UFC, Mike. Yeah, she is quite the story.

So good on her, good win, and we'll see what's next. I think that's the obvious choice you have to do that fight. Gerald Mearshard, AK, I got to tell you, there have been some really wild and interesting listener suggestions for Gerald Mearshard. Oh. The band goes out there and proves all the doubters wrong. Outstanding performance is a big underdog.

Third round, club and sub. What's next for GM3 after? Top to bottom? Like, this is probably the most complete performance of his career. And he's had a million fights. Amazing. Like, he legitimately, I think. something had to be wrong with Bruno Silva.

This is such an insult to Gerald Mirchart. But listen, I've already insulted him with my prediction where I think I, if you can go at MAAfighting.com, I think I predicted like Bruno Silva knockout first, you know, round one or round two. So I've already insulted the great Gerald Mirchart enough. Why not? I might as well keep digging. I think something had to be wrong with Bruno Silva.

He just looks so bad. But at the same time, man, Gerald Mirchart and his team, whatever the game plan was, whatever the preparation they did, they had him figured out, you know, they had him figured out. They did not let him. They did not let him get anything going on the feet. They were outstriking him. Mier Shirt rocked him before gaining that submission. He got the finish. It was an amazing, amazing, amazing, amazing performance by GM3. And I was totally down with him responding to the Andre Petroski callout. I think there's a lot of people who thought, like, well, Petroski's kind of like so far beneath him in terms of like the level of experience. But he's also undefeating

the UFC very high level prospect and again as Mir Sharan has shown he will fight anybody he is not afraid he does not afraid of the Bruno Silvas he's not afraid of the Makmoud Murdobs he does not care he's not afraid of the Hamza Shamaev you know he doesn't care these are guys that other people do not want to fight

he will sign on Petroski is probably the same way right now there's a lot of veteran fighters who probably do not want to lose their spot in the standings by facing him I love that Mirchart accepted that said yeah listen you called me out, let's do it. He should be getting a higher ranked guy, but it doesn't matter.

Now I want to see these two fight. And if Mirrshire can derail that hype train, I mean, again, just another feather in his increasingly impressive cap. Wait, wait a second. Do it, what's that? Again? Do I hear music again? No. Do I hear music again? I can't. Friends forever. Yeah. Andrei Petroski. That's it. I'm not sure I actually know how to sing the song. I mean, I actually listen to be listening to the song again. I don't know if I know it that would. Yeah. Save of the Bell is just an awful show. But I love, no, no, it's great, but it's so bad that it's good because you go back and watch it in today's eyes and it's just awful. And I highly recommend if you've never seen this, I don't know, I'm sure all of you have who have watched

the Save of the Bell, but the funnier Dice series, Zach Morris's trash, is just the greatest thing of all time. ever seen this AK? I know. I have not. You haven't seen Zach Morris's trash? I haven't. Oh, dude. So basically, the funny or die voiceover guy takes some of the most memorable say by the bell episodes and knocks it down to like four minute episodes. But all of them, you go through like the plot lines and everything, but most of them all come back to Zach Morris just being a piece of shit human being. And it's hilarious. It's super fun.

And now that I've said this to you, after you watch like the first couple of these, your day is shot because you're going to watch all of them. There's probably 30 or 40 of them. It's the best. I'm in. Good. I'm in.

You know what else I'm in for? I am in for the wild card selection for UFC San Diego. We'll select one fighter who not match made for yet. It will do so right now. So, AK, Kick us off. Who's the wild card? There's a lot of obvious choices here.

But I'm going with Martin Boudai. Ooh, I didn't see that one coming. Listen, Martin Boudai has been on the onto the next one poop list ever since he grinded out a win over poor Chris Barnett. Just mixing the martial arts all over the place on poor Chris Barnett. It wasn't right. And now poor Lucas Breski, the debuting Lucas Breski, who looked very good in the first.

round of the fight, kind of lost a bit of steam, but still had a decent level of output throughout the whole fight. I thought he might have won. He loses a split to Martin Boudai. I'm sure Martin Boudai is a nice man. Well, I don't know about that, but let's assume he's a nice man. Still, he is a menace in the cage. Like, he has, he has, he, he beat poor Beast Boy, just outrasseled him, did not enjoy that,

possibly stole a victory from young Lucas Breski. He has to be stopped. The man has one loss in his career And I think we need to bring that man I think we have to go to that man To end this reign of terror Wannes Spino if you are out there I know this man does not fight frequently

I don't know where he is He has not fought since last year Wanted Spino save us You defeated this man I think in 2017 You are his lone loss You may be the only man in the world who can beat him Please Wanda Spino wherever you are

Let's have this re-match Martin Boudai in the UFC and end this madness because Martin Boudai is just breaking hearts and making children cry every time he goes out there and wins one of these decisions. Wow, that's a great pick. I'm going to the fly weights. I'm going to Tyson, because don't call it a comeback. He's been here for years.

Knox out of Ozbourne. I think he was the biggest underdog on the entire card. And now he's going to be a big underdog in his wildcard fight because he's going to fight Manel Cap and he's going to be an underdog and I can't wait to watch these two guys fight each other. At this point like seven months a year ago, this fight didn't make a lot of sense. But now I think Manel's been out for so long and the guy just can't get back in there. I think after that performance from Tyson Nam, 19 months away, knocking out a guy who was on a role, give him the damn fight.

Let's go. If we can't get Manal cop versus Brandon Royval, give him a manel. Oh, Cobb versus Tyson NAM. There you go. That's the pick. Swish. I still want Cop versus Car France, but I love, I mean, I love the NAM match. Of course, I thought about it.

If I had on a previous show said I wanted Car, France to fight Cop, absolutely, I would have gone the NAMCOP direction. I also thought one of us would pick, or you would pick Angela Hill, which is why I didn't want to go down that road. But, you know, congrats to Angela Hill and getting a much needed win. And also, I think we'll have plenty of listener picks for her as well. So she'll be covered. Angela Hill will be covered.

There was a lot of suggestion for Anzile. But obviously, you know, would have been a logical, well, odd card choice for us. But a lot of directions she can go, I think. She's tough because she's like borderline banned because she fights all the time. True. Could fight in two weeks. And no one would be surprised. So do we have any?

Oh, you know what? I'm sure we have extracurriculars. I have, I had Sean Bradley, long-time listener in the program, long-time submitter of picks to the program, reach out. to me and he is throwing in something that he forgot about. A. A way back,

check the tapes, A.K., way back to February 14th, Valentine's Day, 2021. 2021. I don't know if there's a statute of limitations here, but I want to read this message that he reminded me of

earlier this week. There's the timestamp. February 14th, 2021. I think the fight to make at Welterway right now is Nate Diaz versus Hamzat Shemayev. Nate Diaz fighting Porre or Olivera aren't going to work out. And Diaz for Hamzat would be an incredible scrap. Book it once Hamzot is healthy.

And the winner fights burns. It burns isn't booked soon. So February 14, 2021, this man went out there and picked Nate Diaz versus Hamzat Shamaif, okay. Listen, I mean, the general rule is that once, you know, a fighter in a matchup has been actually been actually booked, then, you know, all of their previous sort of, all the previous sort of picks for them are null and void. That is kind of my, now, this is a little bit of a different case. Again, because it's almost like, it's almost a very strong futures pick. So I do think we'd have to give Sean a bit of credit. I don't think we give him an odd no point.

This is this February of last year of 2021. February 2021. Yeah, I mean, obviously, Comza has fought, what, a couple of times since then, twice. Nate fought, what is it? Nate fought once. He fought Leon after that. Okay. So, I don't know.

You can't get a point. But yes, shout out. Listen, you get your shout out. We'll send you a hat. We'll send you a, I'm not a real hat, but like a metaphorical hat that you can pretend to wear with the Otno on it. And, but yeah, no, there will, I can't give him a point. I got to know if you feel differently about it. There's too much has happened since.

You get a point in our hearts, but not in your Otno coin collection. Yeah, not in the, you're a bank account, unfortunately. Do we have any? Crypto wallet. I don't even know anymore. Do we have any other? Oh, God, so much. Oh, go for it.

Okay. First, Marcus Begay, he calls this the Cheeto Dust edition of, on the next one, which I like. Sean Haywood, take your point, sir. for Armand Petrosian versus A.J. Dobson, which is, uh, I just added, yes, UFC 280 October. I assumed, I thought someone else might have said it, but, uh, Sean Hillwood. You're the only one I can, I can sort of dig up. So take your point, sir. Barry O'Reilly, uh, this, this fight just developed. Um, Charles Jardin versus Nathaniel Wood. Uh, Jodan lost his upon. I know Jodan was supposed to fight line of a knot, I think, right?

No, Jordaigne. No, Jardine just fought Schenbergos. No, wasn't, but wasn't they, who was, uh, Andre Feeley was fights. Oh, Andre Feele. I have gotten Charles Rodin and Andre Feeley mixed up so many times, and I don't know why. They have literally nothing in common other than weight class. Anyway, so Charles Houdin versus Nathaniel Wood. Looks like that's going down September 3rd. So Bear Riley, take your point, sir.

Well done. And listeners had a bunch of together. Well done, guys. You got a bunch of them. Tessorotaira, C. Vergara, October 15th. Phil Haas, Roman, the lead, say, October 29th. Derek Brunson, Jack Hermanson, December 3rd.

And it looks like nothing official yet, no contract signed. But they're definitely talking about the year for Hachka Glover to share a rematch. Hopefully for UFC 282, December 10th. Now, Mike, I also have a for everyone because we really need to get this proper soundboard. Because I don't know how none of us got. No, I should say, we've talked about this kind of a weird. pick but I'm surprised that with all the the picks that have gone for both these women it wasn't no no one said McCand versus Aaron Blanchfield UC281 November 12th and again you

and I and the staff have discussed like why this wasn't like an obvious pick but I have a lot of faith in the ought no listeners and I thought someone out there and if I missed it please DM me guys you know DM me hit me with a screenshot if I missed it and someone called for this let me know I don't think that was the case I don't remember anyone mentioning it and again I Don't blame people for not mentioning it, but Mike, I thought we, I thought, you know, our net would have caught this one. Yes, I agree. I want to quickly read a message from our pal, our studying medical expert, Nicklinville, who wanted to talk about flash knockouts. And I'm not going to read this whole thing.

It's very in depth and very thorough. I'll try and dumb it down, mostly really for myself. And if it helps anyone else to understand this, that's great. because we saw Dom get knocked down quite a few times. We saw Dom get knocked down a couple times before actually getting knocked down in the main event. And of course, the land where Onama fight had all kinds of crazy. Both guys just getting rocked and somehow coming back from the brink of that. Devin Clark got hurt really badly.

There was a lot of sort of knockdowns and not knockouts. So Nicolmville is kind of explaining what could be the difference between a flash knockout and like an actual knockout. and I'll read this. Once the force is great enough, we experience a lapse in consciousness. The disruption of consciousness actually hyper excites our brains, increasing oxygen and glucose consumption, along with neuronal firing. I'm assuming this is a real word, Nick. Don't make a fool out of me. And he theorizes, he said, this is an evolutionary adaptation to wake us up quickly after a knockout and get us out of trouble.

that's why sort of flash knockouts happen and guys later say like you know oh i didn't even remember that round or what happened we've heard that a lot so and he's kind of just speculates that like but if the damage is is too big or the trauma is too strong uh and instead uh exhausts the glucose and uh neuro slash neurotransmitters and you get more of a real knock anyway i'm sorry i probably nick i apologize i probably read this out wrong but yeah interesting theorizing why we see kind of these so so much damage in these fights, and then sometimes it all takes us one shot to knock them out. So there's a lot going on in there, Mike.

Yes, well done. And let's wish a happy trail is because we always forget, when we try to leave it to the end of the show, to both Nina Nunes, who retired officially after her fight. And of course, Uriah Hall earlier this week, probably buried under a bunch of other headlines. Says he's stepping away from MMA. And I don't know if that means he's never coming back,

but he's certainly had a long enough career, and I would think is of the age where he should consider a permanent retirement. Yeah, but Uriah Hall, always a compelling fighter and personality and 185 pounds, probably the greatest knockout in Ultimate Fighter history, his spinning kick of Adam Sella. And, you know, he's fought the best of the best, has had a really good career. And Nina Nunez, I think, also has had kind of an more underrated career. I think her winner of Claudio Goodelia ages really well.

I think the competitive fight she had with Tatiana Suarez, the last fight of Suarez's career so far, ages really well. I think she really made a name for herself outside of people saying, like, oh, she just, you know, she married a manna Nunes. I think she had a really good career of her own. And I think she's walking away at the right time and for the right reasons. Agreed. Happy trails to both of those fighters. Boarding for flight 246 to Toronto is delayed 50 minutes.

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Visit our Holtz holiday shop and store or online at Holtrenfrew.com. Should we get to the picks? Let's do it. Standard disclaimer guys, listener fixed. Categories rule for out of no points. Please guys, pay attention. Weight class, people who fought already recently. Notable injuries.

People who aren't with the promotion anymore. especially if they're already booked guys that's so easy to check and if they're teammates I'm adding another rule Mike people please don't give me this or like oh this person should fight this guy or this guy or this girl or this girl

enough of that crap all right pick a name or pick a fight and like the winner slash loser of that fight that's acceptable but if you say this or I've been omitting these anyway but I still keep getting them I'm not reading out if you have two options you get one option guys

you get one option it's either a specific name or you pick a fight that's coming up and someone from that fight. That's it. That is your what you can do. Your pictures might be do-do and we don't want to read it. And I also want to remind people just for this week special rule. Priscilla Kachara

is not a bantam weight. Okay, that fight was at 135 because it was pushed back a week. I saw a lot of bantam weight matches for Priscilla Kachara. No. I don't think she's sticking around in 135. If she is, fine. I'm wrong. This was not her moving up to 135. This was a 125 fight where both women made weight last week. Or Priscilla Kachwara did.

Ariane Lipski didn't. And they didn't want to have to try and cut down to 125 again. So she's not a band to wait. All right. Let's get after this thing. Robbie Ryan, I only got to see the last two fights. Got to go back and watch the replays. But just on the main event, Vera is prepared to wait it out.

Give him the title shot after Aljo T. This will likely not be until January, February next year, though. Otherwise, the Aldo Mirab winner would be suitable. I know the dates don't really line up, but I would love to see Vera versus Sanhagan if he beat Songad Yadong. I know, disclaimer, but it's a, he kind of just checked off all the boxes. No, that one's okay. No, like we said, ifs for matchups. Oh, wait, did he say?

He said just the Sanhagen if he beat Sanga Dong, right? That's the one he would like want to see as a fan the most. That's fine. Oh, wait. What was the other thing he said? Otherwise, the Aldo Morab winner would be suitable. Oh, come on. All right.

Whatever. You just won't get a point for it. That's all. We'll read them out. That's all. That's fine. Yeah. We'll read about it.

It's not getting a point. Dad Jackson. Quinlan versus Nick Maximoff. Benitez versus Leo Santos. Boudai versus Justin Tafa. Merzikana versus Tyson Pedro. Pedro is booked to fight Harry Hunsucker. But I think you, I would assume that we're.

You are so generous. Nah, I'm not going to call it, doo-doo. You're so generous. And I can't believe you glossed over Quinnlin versus Maxxham. Quillan is not a middle weight. Quillan is not a people. I saw a few people ask me about this. Like one, I don't know, it's not, guys, if you want to check

weight classes again, go to topology. They have a very comprehensive, one, what weight class they fight in and what weight class they've recently fought in. You could even check, though. He weighed in 175, guys. He was well under the catchweight limit. He's not a middle weight. Mike, I'm already salty. I'm sorry, I should have said this beginning. I have the doo-do pick to end all doo-do-pick.

I just, I want to hype it up. Because I know sometimes people gloss over the listener Picks. I know we go on for a while, but please stay till the end of the listener picks. I guess you could just scrub to the end of the episode. Stay to the end of the listener picks. I have a really stinky, stinky doo-do pick. I can't wait. I can't wait. Landware versus JSP. Chito versus the Marabaldo winner. Gerald Mearshard, AK, versus Darren Till. Oh, I like it. I wish he called him out. That was so good.

That's a good one. Does that take away the do-do stuff? Oh, no. No, Mike, I'm about to ruin your day. Oh, no. All right, let's continue on. Matt Rovelli. All right, to start this off by having Cheeto face the winner of O'Malley versus John for a title eliminator,

Landware versus the loser of Jordane versus Nathaniel Wood. Last pick for me as a slight caveat. I want GM3 to face the action man Chris Curtis if he wants to stay at middleweight for another fight. Yes. I love it. I love it. Yeah. Chris Curtis has not said anything about dropping down to 170.

We keep saying he should drop back down to 170. But he's been having a good time in 185 outside the Hermanson fight. So yeah, I mean, if a fight with Gerald Mirr's shirt came up, I think he would take it. It's not an easy fight at all, but I think he'd entertain it for sure. That's a good one. Toby Foster Taylor, all I want and have wanted for ages is Marab versus Cheeto, win loss for a title at some point. Just give it, give me it soon and for five rounds.

Landware versus Billy Q Let's have Gerald jump up to 205 to fight Paul Craig for some Jiu-Jitsu fun. There you go. And he also said, I understand it and explained who I want for Cheeto, but you kind of did. But man, I don't care.

Just anyone and everyone. I'm enjoying the ride. Yadong, Corey, Jose, Peotor, Sugar, Aljo, they can all get it. Like it. John Ray. NAM versus Cop. Hill versus Pinero. Merzikana v. Walker, Kuchelaba loser. Landware versus Kassaris.

Cruz versus Font. I would say Edgar, but he wants to fight November and Cruz doesn't fight that often. Bonus, Bo-Nickel versus Sam Alvey. I'm only 70% kidding, L.O.L. Is it because they look the same? Is it also because of that? Maybe.

Oh, man. Canadian Brian. Good morning, Mike and AK. Mike, hope for you're only better this week. week. I was away at the cottage this weekend, but broke out the Bell Fib TV app to watch the main card. Priscilla Kachua versus J.J. Aldrich. Merzacana versus OSP. I really wanted Kudalaba, but I guess

he's fighting Walker, 279. So maybe if one of those two falls out, Azamot can slide in there instead. Haragi versus the loser of Tabitha Ritchie versus Shia and Volismis. Could be the winner, too. No problem with that. Nate Landwehr versus Alex Casares. What is Bell 5 TV app, AK? Because you nodded. You're like, oh, yeah.

Yeah, that's a Canadian thing. Well, Bell is one of our major cable and internet providers up here in Canada. And the Bell 5, Vell 5 app is just, you know, so it's like an app, you can watch TV on your phone, just what we have up here. So just a Canadian thing. All right. Let's go to Marcus. Josh Quinlan versus Matthew Semelsberger, Mirsharp versus Olegzecich, Kachua versus Karinezegov versus Karinezegov, Karev versus Negomiriano, Yergani, Hargi.

versus Emily Decodee, Nate Landware versus Joe Anderson Brito, Dominicruz versus Frankie Edgar, and a man who just, I mean, I gotta tell you, Marcus, I've given him a hard time, but he's had some great picks as of late. Marlon Vera versus Henry Sehudo.

Right on, my man, right on. Are you friends forever now? That's a Friends Forever pick. I'm not singing it for him, but he's let me down many times of the past, but he's coming back. He's definitely getting into my good graces. Well done, Marcus.

And let me say, because this came a bunch of times. I'm pretty okay with the Cruz Edgar matchup, even though I still think it would end with Edgar somehow getting violently caoed. Maybe. I hate to say it. I really hate to say it.

Let me just, I really hope Frankie Edgar's stand-up career takes off. I think, did he debut this weekend or something? I know I saw someone promoting it. Frankie Edgar making his, it's a very brave thing to do. Stand-up comedy is something I've always wanted to try,

but, like, I'm too scared to do it. It's just insanely. it is really, really hard to do. Even for a fighter, I'm sure it's a totally different kind of nerves. So Frankie, hopefully you can have a career in stand-up comedy, and we see you on like a problematic Netflix special or something in five years. I don't know. And you never have to fight again.

But I'm okay with the cruise edgar's suggestion. Thick Be. Josh Quinlan versus Preston Parsons. Tyson and Bruno Silva. Benitez versus Balak, you would be explosive. Both men are hovering around 500 in the UFC and have durability issues. Budai versus Dachis. versus Malarkey.

Yeah, okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Very good, very good. I like that. Budai versus Chris Dacus would be a great buildback fight, but more likely it's Juana Spino. There you go, A.K. Hey.

Angela Hill versus Dakota. Mirshar versus Edmund Shabazian would be a good comeback fight for Edmund. I don't know. Yeah. We're trying to avoid, we're trying to avoid, although K-1 Mirchard is a bad dude. So I don't know. I don't like it for Shabazzia. I don't think that is like a comeback, like, fight for him.

I'd pick me a shirt to win that fight. I like the Angelo Hill of Dakota suggests shit. I saw that a few times as well. Because Dakota beat Penny. Penny and Angela Hill are very good friends. And, yeah, I like the revenge angle there. Hargi versus Vanessa Demopolis. David O'Nama versus Shah Yilan.

And then he... Yeah, Norton BK. Yeah. This is important, he says. We cannot let Onama get turned into another Mike Perry, Orlando Venata, who takes tons of damage in their early fights, gets pigeonholed as action fighters, and then never develop. Shailaon is a good grappling test that lets him fight without a war. I don't think that's the case with Onama anyway. I mean, for the first, like, this is like damning with faint praise.

For the first half of the first round, I was like, I was like, I was like, oh, Nama looks like amazing. Like he looks like this is what a featherweight contender looks like. He looks so patient. He knows how he has a good jab. He knows how to use his range really well. He clearly has power. I'm pretty sure he knocked Landvera out in the first round and then woke him back up with punches or hitting the ground woke Landver up. I'm not sure.

So I don't think it's a risk of Onama getting cotton brawls like that. Again, that's just kind of the nature of Landwehr's existence. I think Onamo will learn a lot from this. And I don't think he becomes just an action fighter again. This was a unique circumstance, which hopefully for an alma doesn't happen again, even though, you know, hey, fight on the night bonuses are great, but all the damage to your brain and body, not so much. He also likes the Cheeto Vera versus the Song Yidong, Corey Sanhagan winner idea as well. Jared Biaghan, last one, Dominic Cruz versus Rob Fon.

Nate Landauer versus Andre Fili, Osamont, Berzacana versus Alonzo Menafield, Angela Hill versus Carolina Kovilkevich, which I like that idea. I know Angela called for that one at MSG. I'm surprised. I didn't get a lot of that. I got like maybe one or two people suggest that. I thought like that's such a cut that that's such a tailor-made logical fight.

I was amazed. Everyone didn't just jump on that, jump on that suggestion. Yeah. Tyson NAM versus Cody Durdin and Gabriel Benitez versus Terrence McKinney, AK. Oh. Oh.

I do like it for Terrence because, you know, as much as I want to see. him get like a big name fight like a Patty Pimblit or a higher ranking opponent. I do just don't think he's so young in his UFC career. You just give him exciting, potentially exciting matchups, right? And I do consider Mowgli to be an exciting fighter. I actually really like that. And I kind of hope it happens.

Again, I know McKinney, again, maybe aiming for a bigger name. But, hey, Mowgli's been around. Mowgli's been around in two divisions. He's a veteran. He's got the ultimate fighter winner's shine. I'm into that. All right. Well, that's my, those are my listener.

A. Okay. All right, Mike. I'm not going to try not to repeat too many of those. But I will say, I was surprised. And I think if I listen to all your picks, all your listeners correctly, there wasn't that many calling for Cheeto to get that title shot. No, there's one who has said that he would like to see it, just give it to him and just see what happens. But no one, yeah, it wasn't a lot of people who were like, got to give him the title shot. Yeah, I only got a handful. The most I saw was he gets the loser of that fight. That seemed to me the most common thing. Not a lot of people saying he should get the winner of the upcoming title fight.

So, I mean, that's fair. That's fair. But I think it shows we were sort of correct in our assessment that he's a bit farther away than, really, his record and accomplishments suggest because he's done enough to be the number one contender that's just in this division. That's really tough for anyone to sort of make that definitive statement, as I think a bunch of these guys who are fighting soon are going to find out. Yeah, a lot of us with on Kacharra, Shepchenko.

Really, you read a lot of the consensus picks. Oh, here's one I liked. Mirchard versus Calvin Gasolam. Now, Gasolam, for anyone asked, is still ranked in the UFC's top of dean. He's still in my top of dean, as Shaheen Al-Shadi keeps being fun of me for. I'm trying to keep him in the global rankings, but he has fallen out. Liam Perry wrote, I don't know if Bruno Silva was slow or Mirchart was plugged into the Matrix. Head movement looked great.

Always fun watching Mirchard fight, win or lose. I'm going off Topology's rankings here. Okay, I'll allow it. But Mirshart is knocking on the top 15 now, and I don't see why he's calling out a fighter behind him in the rankings. I'm going with Gassolm. Top 15 name for Mirshart with a decent chance of winning. So I see the logic in that. I see the logic in that.

And if you're Gassolm, that's a guy you should consider fighting too. So I'm down for that for sure. A lot of Boudai versus Mike, your guy. Paca Porter. A lot of that. Gavin Mnitas, Mason Jones. That was a cool matchup. and a lot of Josh Quinlan coming off that one punch knockout versus Mike Mulan.

All right. I don't want to keep people waiting too long for this legendary doo-do pick. So I'll go to our email first. Our pal, Tristan Gordet, did not like the Petroski call out, aka, could someone call Andrew Petrosky calling him out in the first place, calling out GM3, aka, can someone call Andre Petroski's manager, tell him to pipe down his fighter over there. You called out Gerald Mearschart. He loved Gerald's response and then had some words for Bo Nicol.

Let's calm down, buddy. You're not that guy. Wow. Listen, I love how Brash Petrosky is, so I don't have a problem with it. But I've always been the advocate of unrealistic call-outs. I say call people out, you just never know what's going to happen. You never know if you're going to get it. So, hey, maybe he doesn't get Boe-Nichol.

Maybe he shouldn't want to get Bonichol. Maybe he doesn't get Gerald Mirchart. But, hey, we saw Gerald response. So I don't got a problem with either of those. Otno coin collector. I want to read their intro. Viva Mexico. Great night, Jim 3 with a veteran-type fight.

Brito Silva did not look like the same guy. Congratulations to Nina Nunes. I applaud her decision. Hope to see her behind other fighters on the come-up, perhaps the next generation. Who knows? Her could be, could Reagan could be fighter someday? The next child they have? Who knows?

Merzikana versus Philippe Lin's. NAM versus Zalel. Zuma Gulaw. I like that one. Okay, guys, so I got to skip over some of these. I got a lot of responses for U.C. San Diego. Let's go to the Twitter machine. What did I like here? Who God Will?

Merzacana versus Ryan Span. Sure. Marcus McGehy. Mike, what do you think of this one? Mershirt versus Anthony Hernandez-Hondre. Mark Andre, Barrio, winner fighting September 17th. Do you like either of those? Do you like one more than the other?

it's fine. Don't love either option. Hernandez would be fun because Hernandez is fun against anybody, but if we're having, if we have issues with the Petrosky one, we have to have issues of this one. Toby Kinsella, Budai versus Walt Harris. I feel like we're going in the wrong direction here.

Hmm. Hmm. I have to think about that one. I don't need to see, would I steal a decision from Walt Harris or grind out of this. This is not, no, that's just going to bum me out. But if Walt loses a decision, is that really the worst thing? The way that Martin Boudai wins decisions, yes. We're trying to avoid this man getting seriously badly knocked out.

That's what we don't want to see. Anything else is a win. I don't want to see him get... No. You don't want to see him get Boudaid. Wad Espino save us. Chris Martin says, oh, Tyson NAM versus the Mokai of Malcolm Gordon winner. again, I would pick Makayev there.

So imagine him fighting, imagine that being the next test for Makai of the veteran knockout artist Tyson Nam. That could be fun. I think I don't know, again, I don't know if Tyson's defensive wrestling really is enough to deal with Mikhail. But I do like the gap in experience. I like Makaiv possibly getting to add a name like Tyson Nam to his resume if he can get past him. Not against it. James McDonald's, someone who wants someone who throw out Action Man versus Gerald Mershrette. Like I said, I'm into it.

Let me drift a little bit down here. Again, apologies to everyone who we don't have time for this week. Hayes III. I want to read their Mearschart versus Petrosky thoughts. The question must be asked. Merechart dropped Bruno Silva. Alex Paheda didn't. Was Mershart meant to be in glory kickboxing this whole time?

I'll give him what he called for after the fight and take Androoky Petrosky. I'd worry this is rushing Petrosky a bit, but I thought it was rushing him when they match them with Maximoff. So why not give them GM3? Okay, I'm into that. Sorry, guys, I'm sorry. Excuse me. All right.

Pardon me. Yeah, a little bit of a cough there. Fast Bender J. Rebook, Yasmin Hadeghi versus Estella Nunes. Barry O'Reilly. I want to read out some of Barry's thoughts here. Again, Barry always takes time to write out some deep thoughts. So, Barry, I will give you some time today.

Landware versus. Shane Burgos, is maybe too big a step up, but I've been on the landware train, pun intended, since his debut, and I'm right in the current height for all I can.

Probably the two most entertaining fighters in the featherweight division, two ass-kicking zombies. That's saying a lot, but after seeing some of the recent fights, maybe not Burgos's, well, Burgos thought the recent fight

was interesting to watch, maybe not a banger. Also, Burgos, he still needs to resign, right? We don't know. He's technically still a free agent, right?

Yes. Yeah. we assume he'll come back I don't see why he would leave oh he listen to this he listened to this one Mike Dominic Cruz versus your eye

a favor four if favor is willing to come back this could be a fun bit of nostalgia as it stands it's two to one cruise if favor got a win we go for the fifth fight and have all these fights in California perfect fight night main event

or pay-per-view card opener slash co-main huh but they're like buddies out so it's Not a... I don't know. Also, there's really no unanswered questions.

I mean... Yeah. I think we know who the better fighter in the matchup is. I think so, too. And Marlon Vera versus Ricky Simone. I know this is a crazy suggestion, but it is log jammed at the top, and while it is a great win,

Cruz was ranked behind Cheeto. This is true. That's right. I think the winners of Song Yadong Sanhagan, Aldam Raab, and Jan O'Malley, all have more of a claim to the title shot and make this fight while he waits for the top of the division to play out

and even if Cheeto loses, you have a new contender in the impressive Simone. Again, I don't like it, Mike, because I think Cheeto should be done fighting backwards, but I don't know. I don't know if you think that's a good move for him. I'm with you. Yeah. No more fighting backwards.

And Ricky Simone is a great, great talent and should be in the top 10 soon, but it's not quite there yet. Okay, okay, I got to skip. Look at the combat guy, Quinlan versus Court McKee. Damn. Too soon? I think so. A little too soon. But you never know.

You never know. Court's coming off of a knock-all loss his last fight, so. And they add, by the way, how fun when Marizakana versus Candidei-Ensichuku would be 5-10 Merzacana versus 6'5, Kenney-Nzachu. Yeah, I think he'll maybe jump down

to middle weight before that happens, but I don't know, who knows? And Four Corner Sports, NY, Friends Forever Moment with me, rebook Loron Murphy fight, and Mirchard versus Jacob Malcun. Okay. Francesco, our man, Italy,

Mr. Ferguson versus Pimblen himself, Landrevers versus Casares, Benitez versus Kirk. All right. I'm so excited. We're a few moments away. We're a few moments away. Okay, but first I got to show some love to one Mr. Ryan Henson, long time listener, first timer with picks.

Cheeto build up to Cheeto O'Malley 2. Silliness for days. Oh, sorry, kind of hopes sugar beats Beater Yon so we can build up to that. Okay. Nate Landver. I shouldn't read this, but. We just got his x-rays back. Mike, we just got his x-ray.

Do you hear about this? And he's got that dog in him. I saw so much of that on Twitter. So why uncomfortable watching Onomano on the stool after round two. Statement win for Nate. But let's give him another bangor, Billy Q fireworks. How do he's impressive? Give her Demopoulos next.

Shout out to the iron chin on the Lindo. But if she could throw anything other than a hook, maybe she wouldn't get hit as much. And I want to do a wildcar pick for Angela Hill, but gave a bunch of options. the winner of release miss ritchie or reward the hell out of a gutsy performance on a week's notice over a highly tout of prospect and give her the loser of yon shannon mckenzie durn uh hill shanon too or hill durr so it's like a fun main card fight night uh fight on a fight night thanks again for your tireless work shout out to boston mike let's go uh james sherwood katjua versus maverickshana young winner august 20th merzikana versus craig sherkscher thomas baxter vera very Sanhagan after he beats Sonia Don calling a shot, I agree. Quinlan versus Lazez, Landrear versus Juliana Rosa, JuCJ, after he loses to Akeem Dawadu, UFC 279, September 10.

All right, Mike. Now this pick comes from this, what I will call the doo-do pick of the week, which is not going to be a regular thing because we are not encouraging this. We're not encouraging doo-do picks. If you're angling for a doo-to-pick of the week, I'm just not going to read it out. We will skip you. And I will know, by the way, if you're doing it intentionally. But this is with Turd Ferguson.

Oh, no. Good picks here. Have you gotten missed from Turd Ferguson before, didn't you? Yeah. Turd Ferguson is a regular. Yes. Turd with D's? Okay.

I don't know why they said to me. Maybe they haven't made it past your doo-do detector. Slip past mine. Some of the good picks here. I don't mind Angela Hill versus Waterson 2, Budivers, William Knight, Benitez, Vera Gonzalez. This is good stuff. Mike, this is bad. This is a bad pick for Gerald Mayer's shirt.

Gerald Murschart versus Hold on, is this fight When does this fight happening? One second, one second. I'm sorry, I got to build this up a lot. I guess this fight is happening. October 1st.

Brendan Allen versus Christoph Jocko. It's bad on just so many levels. Well, yeah, Mirschard just fought. It changed this whole entire training camp regimen because of the Jocko fight and him and Brennan Allen are like very good friends.

Like if you interview Gerald Beershardt, he has he has a fight kit shirt of Brendan Allen hanging on his wall behind him as he's doing interviews with other people.

He's got Brendan Allen gear hanging on his wall. So again for everyone. This is very bad. One guy, somebody's trained with a lot and a very good friend, the other guy,

literally, just fought him four months ago. Horrible. Horrible. People, you can send your non-duty pics to me on Instagram at Alexander KK. Lee or on Twitter at Alexander K. Lee. My DMs are open or hit me up email, alex.lee at spination.com. Yeah.

Do we usually do? Instagram M underscore, heck, J.R. Appreciate it very much. We'll be back next week. We'll be live, I believe. Hopefully I've kicked this entire sickness. and I feel like normal and I can get back to normal life

and just feel better about myself. But we got UFC 278 going down next Saturday. Kamara Usman, Leon Edwards, the main event for the Walterway title. Paulo Costa, Luke Rockhold, the co-made event, Jose Aldo and Rob DeWaulish-Willi. Marchine Taibora versus Alexander Romanov.

Ooh! Yes, I believe my number eight heavyweight on the planet returns and we'll probably mop the floor. with Barcine-Tybor because Robinoff is that good. Tyson Pedro versus Harry Hunsucker on a main card on a pay-per-view in the year of our Lord 2022. When you pay your 75 USD, that's the first thing that's going to pop up on your screen.

Tyson Pedro and Harry Huntsucker. Yes. And the rest of the card is, uh, it's not, not fantastic. It's not fantastic. But shout out to all the fighters who will be competing and willing and being, able to try to prove us wrong. Yes. But the rest of this card is not great.

Many times over the past couple of weeks, they have proven us wrong. Many times we have criticized both this card, this past Saturday's card and last Saturday's card. And there was a lot of great actions. So fighters, yes, continue to prove us wrong. Mike, I have to tell people, by the way, I will not be here next weekend. I will be out of town. Yes, I will be out of town for a friend's wedding.

So I just want to warn people. I don't know what's going to, I don't know who's going to be with you on hopefully still a live edition of, on the next one. but it should. Maybe I can call in from where I am. We'll see. No, no, no, no. I can't make those promises.

I definitely cannot make those promises. No, no, no. We'll figure it out. Maybe we'll bring Jed back. Yeah. He did a great job. That's good. Well, find out who my co-host will be next week right here on onto the next one, the podcast.

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