MMA Fighting - On To The Next One: Matches To Make After UFC Vegas 114

Episode Date: March 15, 2026

Kevin Vallejos is on a roll. The rising featherweight star made short work of respected veteran Josh Emmett in Saturday’s UFC Vegas 114 main event, and the sky looks to be the limit for Vallejos going forward. A number of notable names make sense for him now, what’s the best option for the 24-year-old super prospect? On an all-new edition of On To the Next One, MMA Fighting's Mike Heck and Alexander K. Lee discuss what could be next for Vallejos after a career-best performance. Additionally, we determine whether Gillian Robertson has done enough to secure a strawweight title shot after outworking Amanda Lemos, plus future matchups are discussed for budding featherweight talents Jose Miguel Delgado and Marwan Rahiki, the mercurial Ion Cutelaba, the always game Charles Johnson, and more. All that and a slew of fantastic matchmaking suggestions from the listeners. 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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where all 14 fights can't miss, no, but I would say 12 of the 14 were very good or the performances were very good. It's one that if you did not watch yesterday, if you had plans, you went out and about, went apple picking or whatever they do while spring is sprung. You've got nothing to do on a Sunday, fire up Paramount Plus and go back and rewatch it. I think you'll have a great time. And we're going to have a great time today discussing what is next for some of the big winners from UFC. Vegas 114. I am Mike Hack and joining me to do exactly that as the co-host, the co-matchmaker, the Prince of Positivity. And gosh darned, my best friend, the one and only, Alexander Kay Lee, aka how we doing up in Canada following UFC Vegas 114. Right. I mean, Mike, my best friend,

we've got our work cut out for us today because I think the matchmakers knock this one out of the park. I mean, on paper, we said this looks decent. We were probably underselling it. I think we were probably a little burnt out from 326. By the time the preview show rolled around on Monday with Jedd and I, you were there too as well, we were definitely, well, we were a little bit in a wacky mood. But I think as we talked about the card, we had a lot of moments of it, oh, this fight's kind of interesting,

this kind of fight's kind of good. Like, I think we knew, like, at least as far as the undercard goes. This was very much on par, if not better, than the lineup we just saw last weekend on a numbered event. And it over-delivered. Like, I think it over-delivered. I think my standards were a little bit higher. My expectations, I just say, were a little bit higher.

for again the undercard on this one than 326 and it still it still did even better unlike three 26 where our our expectations were low and it went under that bar somehow so good vibes all around we don't quite have spring up here mike i'm sure you've seen well i don't know if you've getting messages from from back home in new england uh because i think they're getting some of it too uh not not the most springy weather up here in canana in ontario anyway uh but we're we're getting by hopefully we'll see the sun poke through and let's no more snow this week it is a march it is the march break for a lot of kids out there so hopefully they get to enjoy that wherever you are um but yeah this card really kind of brought us back to life 14 fights is always going to be slow like you said mike

and there'll be some there's going to be a few a few down spots here and there but overall i just don't think they could have done a better job of plenty other matchups they give us either really competitive back and forth fights um sort of helped to properly debut some contender series talents like really really shine a nice light on them And also push some other up-and-comers, as I think we saw on the main event. That's kind of how this was built around. And I know the U.C is doing that a lot this year, like kind of using some fringe top 15 guys to boost younger fighters. Milege may vary how much people like that. But I think in combat sports, it's very necessary.

And it's working out pretty well for the UFC, I think, so far. I love this narrative that we're just like negative all the time. It's just not true. Like, we just call it as we see it. And yeah, it comes off a little negative because. The UFC just, they go through these spells or they just don't try. Like, they just throw darts. Like, there's no real thought into the matchmaking and how they put cards together.

And it is shown throughout 2026. Like, compared this card on paper to the apex card on April 4th. Like, that April 4th card is like, yowser. That is, that is not the effort that was put forth on this card. And it showed, like, this is, that last night is what every apex card should be. It should be a variety of squash matches, potential heaters, and then you throw a couple of high-stakes fights in there to sort of mix and match everything. And this did it.

This did it. And that's why it was such a strange question, but it was worth going into last week when we were doing the live show following UFC 326. If this lineup was better than 326, and ultimately we didn't go there with it being on paper. And also we obviously have the benefit of hindsight, so we have to try to block that out. but it was a discussion worth having and that's good like this was a great card this is so much fun yeah it got a little sloggy with the 14 fights but all in all like i didn't even really notice it at times because it was so good the fighters delivered the matchmakers delivered it sounded good on

the broadcast obviously paramount plus had some issues for sure and people are starting to lose their minds when it comes to that with the audio going up for 10 minutes and cutting to commercials at bad times and things of that nature. But all at all, this was an A card without question. Yeah. And we're always evaluating cards from like beginning to end because we're in the media. We have to watch the whole thing. And that's not everyone's experience. Right. So some people like as much we complain about the 14 fights, let's say someone only tuned in for the main card of this. I think you had a great time. Let's say you started watching from Petrino Aspland. You had a great time. In fact, you probably had the best time. You started with that fight and your fight is like,

like this night's going to be crazy. If you started with Anders Tavares, I mean, what a great sendoff for Eric Anders. Him and Tavars have been in some sloggy middle-way fights in their day. This was not that. Very competitive, fun, classy fight. Two veterans. I was very happy to see it.

If you started with a B. Mosquita performance, that was a great time. So even if you skipped, like, the first two fights, which again, we're already even bad. I think Pierre Rodriguez did what she was supposed to do. Kind of looks like someone who could be top 15. I think she has a ranking in the O.C. rankings. But, like, maybe a top 10 fighter at 115.

Hatcher Sosa, his debut against Lacerda, very entertaining fight. So even if you skip those two fights, you can always go back and watch them. But yeah, if you turn this into a 12-fight card, 10-fight card, whatever you had time for. I think it flowed really well. So, yeah, again, just great, great job by the UFC. And, of course, the fighters. I think all the guys, all the fighters on Saturday knew the assignment and just delivered in the best way. Absolutely.

Speaking of delivered, no one delivered more than Kevin Vigejos. Wow. Good gosh, man. I don't think anybody, I didn't see anybody picking Josh Emmett to win this fight. I think people kind of expected Kevin Bajos to go out and get his hand raised. I thought, I didn't think we'd get quite what Ilya did to Josh Emmett,

where Kevin was dropping 50-42s on Josh Emmett, but I thought when it was all said and done, we were like, all right, this was not competitive. This was a showcase fight and Bajillo styled on Josh Emmett. That did not happen here. Voshaeus just walked him down and obliterated this man. He knew what Josh Emmett was going to do well before he was going to do it. And what a performance.

He is a talent. He is someone to keep your eye on. And I think those who saw his talents, but were on the fence of how high he could go in this division, I think a lot of those were answered. And I know Josh is up there in age and he was on a little bit of a Schneid heading into this fight. but man he did exactly what he needed to do and then some what a performance for Kevin Bajos

there's so many fun options because this division rules AK like featherweight is on fire right now there's so many big featherweight matchups coming up where do we go here this is a man who does not I mean he's got to get rushed at this point but his whole mentality

heading into the gig if I was like I don't want to be rushed I want to slow roll this thing I'm only 24 years old I got plenty of time to fight for Bell and gets to the top of this division, but too bad, man, you're going to be moving up real quick. How high are we moving Kevin Vos up after this incredible win over Josh Abbott? Yeah, I don't know if we are rushing him even at this point.

He's 4 and 0. I know he didn't start. I think he's at what, 2021 debut, right? He has only been fighting professionally for like five years. He's packed a lot of fighting into there. But yeah, 4 and O in the UFC 18 to 1 has passed two wins against, like, legitimate veterans. Emmett was ranked going to this.

I think Giga was Giga maybe wasn't hanging on to a ranking he'd already been out of the ranking but had been ranked for quite some time so two very pretty respectable veterans that he's now finished On the on the previous show Mike we were talking about what what does a

What does a what does Feshahos have to do to like walk out of To sorry to have fans Leaving their viewing of Vegas 114 being like Oh wow this guy's the next thing because I was like you know If he does the Toporia thing like what Toporia did to emit And does like the dominant sort of five-rounder. Is that going to wow people or is there going to be that thought that he should

have finished them? Because there was some of that when Toporia beat him. Like people were impressed, but they're kind of like, oh, he couldn't put him away. Does he have to finish him fast? You know, we weren't sure. Jed said like, you know, kind of any good win elevates him. And I was like, I do feel like we need a moment. And he had that moment, big time. I mean, this is, if you did not, if you did not walk away from this thinking, this guy could be a future title contender or world champion, I don't know what you're seeing. You may be too cynical for this game. Mike, I feel like we might have some overlap today just because I was, you know,

sometimes I'm stealing ideas from you guys while I watched the post-fight show. So I can't remember this where you guys landed, but I do like the idea of him fighting the Diego Lopez, Steve Garcia winner. Of course, they're fighting at the White House. I think he can get the winner. That may be the loser, but I don't see why not the winner. I do think one of those guys makes a lot of sense for him next. I mean, that obviously works.

I would I would with yeah your Rodriguez oh yes yeah yeah's got to fight somebody man does he apparently not apparently not but I mean he's not fighting for the belts like there is a time where like that was a thing and nobody liked it and like yair just sort of sits back and is like give me what I want and then eventually like so much time goes by that it's like well I guess I have to take this fight because I don't really have a choice and I mean honestly like if you're yai'er right now and i know vichaeos looks so so good but like what a stock booster would be for him if he went out there and beat kevin vichaeos like yayr is still very good i mean look what he did to patricio pit bull like that fight was not competitive at all that was just one-way traffic like

wasn't the most like aesthetically pleasing performance but i mean he beat the hell out of patricio pit bull he dominated that fight so could yaiir go out there and beat him sure and if you're yaiir like You know at some point you're going to fight this guy. Do it now. Like jump all over this opportunity. You may not win, but this is probably your best chance because in two years when this dude is still not in his athletic prime, he's only going to be, just think of how much better he's going to be in two years, let alone where he's going to be when he's 2930.

This guy's going to be a champion. He's going to win the belt. This new era, this new wave, this new generation of featherweight is coming up. and they're trying to start this takeover right now. How can you not be super excited for this guy? Him and Yair, Vigayo said, let's do it, Noce, UFC. I love that idea. Love it.

I don't know when Noce is going to be. I think it's in September. So if it is in September, I'd like to see Kevin maybe fight a little bit sooner than that, but if not, so what, man. Like, that's a damn fun main event for Noce, and love that idea. So, yeah, give me, Iyer,

but there's really no wrong answer here. Anybody above him works fine for me and maybe, I mean, dude, you can fight the loser of next week's main event. And like, I'd be fine with that. Like, there's so much and really no wrong answers here with Kevin Mishios. How has Yeir never fought on a NoJ UFC? Because he's either like banged up or that seems stupid. He didn't fight for the belt or I don't know. How does he not like, he was like their biggest Mexican.

and star for so long, like pre-moradus. Probably still is. And maybe still is. How has he been missing out? Like, yeah, here, you just got to get on one of these. I'm just going, I'm trying to think that I forget. No, he definitely did not fight on any of these. There's only been three.

There's been a lot of opportunity. I mean, he really should have fought Diego Lopez instead of Jean-Silva, which is just weird. I don't know. Yeah, I'm with you, man. Yeah, year's got to fight. Just get on a no-cha. Please, this is ridiculous. It'd be so insane if he never fought a no-cha.

And you're right. I love what you're saying about. get fishedhos now this is what we used to say about uh usman and hamzad all the time remember we were like usman like take the hamzat fight now and he did eventually fight him in like a weird middleweight bout and i feel like if he had caught him even a year earlier actually he would have beaten hamzad because we saw how competitive that middleweight fight was i mean i know it was a strange one short notice for both guys right if that had happened a year earlier i can't remember the circumstances i think by then i think uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh was still fighting with edwards i think he was still with leon

so maybe it couldn't happen but at some point before he actually fought hamzat a year before or 18 months before, he should have really just jumped up the opportunity because he would have beaten him. And it would have changed the arcs of both guys' careers in a really strange way. So yeah, same mentality for a year. Hopefully he's him and this people are paying attention. They're saying, fun fight, let's do this. It'll get people talking. And hey, and maybe he gets the win and right back on the title track that he wants so badly. Yeah, I remember after Hamzaa knocked out Gerald Mearshardt, I came on this, this year program. I said, give him Leon Edwards. There you go. Just give him, give him Leon the UFC. Like, they did it. They gave him Leo Edwards.

then the fight didn't happen. They took Leon out of the rankings for a couple days. And then the fight got remade and he was back in the rankings. And then unfortunately, the fight never happened. But yeah, man, just throw this dude in there with anybody. And it's got to be really fun. Let's go to probably the highest stakes fight of the card.

It was the co-main event at 115 pounds between Gillian Robertson, who was on a role taking on past title challenger, Amanda Lemmo. and this was this is probably the most they're the least entertaining fight of the card i mean maybe there's others but this was i mean this is what happens when you have two super high ranked fighters like going in there and buying for a very big spot and shout out to julian robertson jed talked about it and we talked about on the on the post fight show last night that first round looked real bad for julian she was not moving her around very well. She was getting pieced up. She was getting beat up on the floor.

It just seemed like, oh boy, we are in for 30, 27 type of performance for Gillian Robertson, or for Amanda Lemosch. But then we, we forgot that Amanda Lemosch is one of the, she's just so frustrating to watch, man, because she's got everything. Like, she's good. And there are moments, like even after she was getting controlled and dominated in that second round she stood up and just started doing stuff and she was piecing up julian robertson she was battering her over there but it was just a little bit too little too late and we're just like all right the momentum actually changed like jillian won the round but the momentum was with amanda heading into the third round and her team's telling her like just don't get taken down and you win and then like 10

seconds into the third round she gets taken down and i'm like oh my gosh this is crazy but jillian gets another win she wants the title shot she's calling for it I just this was this is a very good win and her bouncing back the way that she did tip of the cap to her this is not a performance with the UFC is like yeah we're we're going to push Zhang Wei Lee to the side and we're going to throw Jillian in there the only way this happens is if Zhang is like hurt and injured and can't fight till like December other than that the UFC is is going to wait for her because at this point McKenzie's only fighting once in 26.

And they are just going to wait for Zhang Wei Lee at this point. We have pay-per-view. We have, we're through White House. That's June. So if Zhang Wei Lee, if McKenzie Dern fight, she's not fighting until July or the summer at the earliest. So they're not going to, they're going to wait for Zhang unless she is just battered and can't fight.

Then Jillian can get it. But to me, I think she's going to have to fight again. I don't think this is a performance where she could sit back and wait. I think she's going to have to fight again. So there is a fight coming up. Tatiana Suarez versus Lupi Godinez, and I think whoever wins that fight fights Jillian Robertson

in, I guess, a title eliminator, like a true title eliminator. Of course, Tatiana may, it may not be for her because if Zhang Wei beats McKenzie Dern and most people feel that she will,

they're running Tatiana back with Zhang Wei because Zhang Wei already ran her over for 25 minutes. So, but Robertson, Lupi would be fun. and Robertson Suarez would be interesting. Like I think all the questions I have about Jillian Robertson would be answered in a fight with either of those two women. So that's where I'm going.

A.K., something tells me you're going a different route. I am. Not as extreme as I wanted to, unfortunately. I will say it is weird to matchmake around the top with like the top 10 of the strawways because a lot of them just fight each other. Like a lot of them fight each other. It's hard. I think you're right. If Tatiana beats Loopy and then beats either Gillian Robertson or another one 15er,

you kind of just have to give her a title shot and like it could be jang again and no one really wants to see that fight again it was so lopsided um you could sell it as of course you know all rematch are different and tatyana's improved but it would it just really feels like she can't there's not a world where she beats um jang wily but who knows who knows right and piotr yon beat marab the second time after uh after you know a pretty clear cut win for marab in their first fight but i this is an apples and origin's comparison and i know no one wants to put those fighters in the same sentence really. I do think Gillian needs to fight again. I think you're right.

The timing just didn't work out. I would have loved to have said, oh, Gillian should wait. She can just wait for a title fight, but how is that going to happen? It could be December. It could be next year depending when Jean and McKenzie gets booked and that really does need to get booked. As it is, she is like the backup. She is the number one backup right now.

If whoever, for some reason, whoever can't fight, she has step in there. I think I joked with you guys yesterday. It'd be amazing if we got Gillian Robertson and Zhang really in an interim strawweight title fight it would just be so people it would be one of the most illegitimate like titles ever if you was like what is the point of this uh jang already is kind of perceived as like the champion who just left her belt behind and is like the real champion i think we still have her ranks number one oh you muted me for a second i did i meant to be myself i'm sorry

yeah it's all right i was spinning on fire no i'm just saying uh we still consider jang to be number one so yeah it's this whole very strange situation so i do think roberts is your fight again i'm going with this will be a quick turnaround but I think she can do it I know Saturday's fight was probably not easy for her by pretty physically taxing if she can make this quick turn around it's a little like two and a half months I'd like to see a fight in Macau Mike I'd like to see them book her against Jan Shanan I'd like to see her against yeah now this is very risky like I do think she'd be favored I think she's quite a bit bigger and stronger than Jan if she lost it would be a complete disaster I mean because again we don't want I don't think Jan Shanan's ever meant to be

fighting for the title again. And then I don't know what you would do with Gillian. She had to be, again, two fights away once again from fighting for the title. So, but I'm doing this because I do think Roberts would win. I do think it would keep her just in the mix where she needs to be until she can fight again and until we get the Dern-Zhang fight resolved, which hopefully that does happen within the next like six months. But we'll see.

So yeah, I'm going a little weird here. But I think Gillian Roberts' team should try to make that turnaround and try and get this late. Yeah, I think I think her sitting back. I mean, luckily, Strah Wade is kind of in a weird spot right now. So, like, could she sit back and wait and get a title shot? Like, it's possible. But also very risky. Because, like, if Lupy goes out there, and I know Lupy fought dirt and lost,

but if Lupy goes out there and just, like, if she goes out there beats Tatiana Suarez, in any way, shape, or form, like, she's going to be the number one ranked fighter in the division. like, at least in the UFC's rankings, like she jumps ahead of Jillian. Without question, she's going to jump ahead, no matter how she does it. So it wouldn't, it wouldn't be a bad idea for her to just get out there and fight again

and just get it done. But her versus Loopy, I think actually is a really good matcher for Gillian. I think it's a far better matchup than Zhang, Dern, or Tatiana with her style and everything. But Gillian Robertson is just, kudos to her, man. Like, even Dominicru said it last night when Bisbing actually let him speak.

It was like you know what's coming. Like when you fight Julianne Robinson, you know exactly what's coming. And you can't stop it. There's nothing you could do about it. And she just keeps finding ways to win. So good for her. What a turn around. Winning is a skill.

Winning an MMA fight as a skill. Yes. She probably needs to win one more time, though, for talking title shot. Let's go to Jose Delgado, AK, who defeats André Feeley in a very, fun featured bout very very very very close fight split decision i know people are kind of like right down the middle on this one i don't hate that delgado got the decision watching it live i did score for andre feely but it's certainly not a robbery is a very very close fight this is a great win for delgado and feely showed up and and gave it hell and respect to that man but where do we

go with mr delgado after a big win another guy to keep an eye on at 145 pounds yeah great great stuff good good W in a competitive fight with Andre Feeley Andre Fili is so class like just never an easy win I don't think I think I know he's been finished a few times there's very rare times where you're like oh Philly's just a veteran walkover I mean this guy's going to be putting on again competitive 15 minute fights

until he's like 40 I had no I this is one of those ones I just don't know what to do and when that happens at 145 pounds Mike I break glass in case of urgency and out comes Pat Sabatini there you go oh I like I always I've done for anyone who listens to this show regularly yes I've this before, probably with a similarly ranked prospect of Delgado.

I can't remember the last time I did it. I think that person got booked against someone else. So Sabatini is free on my card. Let's go Sabatini. I love it. I love it. I have in a case of emergency sort of glass case as well, but it's more, it's a little more difficult, I think, and probably a fight that, like yours is probably the better match

up. Most people would probably take Team AK on this one, but I had Delgado's really good. I obviously was not a fan of the weight miss, and he did suffer a loss of Nathaniel Wood, although that fight could have gone either way, honestly, in my opinion. But I really like what I'm seeing from him. This is a good bounceback winning against a really good veteran opponent, who is, like you said, is very, very difficult to beat. But I want to see what we got here. I want to see and it's time to break that glass.

Not because Stone Cold Steve Vasa is coming up, but I want to know. There is one guy in this division that will answer those questions for you. It's Mr. Dan Ige. Let's just throw him in there with Dan Ige and let's see what we got. He might get chinned. It's very possible, but he might just go out there and beat Dan. And it's not an easy night at the office fighting Dan Ege either.

So yeah, we'll just throw him in there with Dan. I don't think he's ranked anymore. So it's like a fringe kind of a Neil Magniish type of opportunity for Delgado. So I like it. I think it's really good. It is. And I think Delgado, when it's all of done, it's going to be up there with not as good. Like I don't predict him to be a champion.

Maybe not even fight for a title. But I think he'll be part of this like promising wave of featherweights, like along with Fashejo's story of that because I think he's getting tested really well. Like I actually think he learned a lot from the Nathaniel Wood loss. I think he's going to take a lot away from the split decision, whether you thought he won or lost. So he's kind of developing. He doesn't have the lights shining as brightly on him as Vasejo does, which is totally understandable. But I think follow up like both these guys' careers closely. I think you'll see them.

I think someday they'll fight as well further down the road if Dogato can reach a certain level. So yeah, it's very exciting to watch. I like both guys a lot. Speaking of 145 pounds, another 145 are coming up. Marwan Rahiki taking on Harry Hardwick on Saturday. And holy crap, man. like probably for the the previous two and a half hours Stephen Aspland and beatore Petrito

like they're eating pizza, they're celebrating their wins maybe having a couple of libations and they're just thinking themselves we're getting 100K like that was the fight of the night nothing's gonna top that and then the damn bell had a ring for Marwan Rahiki and Harry Hardwick who just

I mean the first round was nuts and then the second round was in saying because Rehiki was just tuning Harry Hardwick up. Like I thought the fight was going to get stopped. I thought we were going to get a standing TKO at like multiple points of that second round. And that didn't happen. And Harry Hardwick just kept fighting and kept battling through.

And that fight went exactly the way I thought it was going to go during the people's pre-fight show where could, there's a good chance to win his fight of the night. But it's because like Hardwick just takes such a beating that he hangs tough and like has moments. And that's exactly what happened here. broken jaw for Harry Hardwick told his corner he's like yeah man jaw's broken do with that information what you will and fight obviously was stopped and it should have been and then Harry Hardwick with like the incredible Instagram story where it's just like yeah my jaw's broken but I like soup and I like smoothies and I like milkshakes and I like energy drinks and I can still have those things so life is

good and I'm just like this this dude like this guy's not going to win a lot of UFC fight but like he might be employed forever. Like with that attitude and that fighting style like just keep him around. I don't care if he goes, oh, what a hundred. Like these are the types of guys that should be on these apex cards. Like just fighting these really good up and coming prospects because he's going to go in there and battle with them. So shout out to Harry Hardwick. Copi heals quickly.

Shout out to Marwan Rahiki who had to kind of learn on the fly what it's like when you fight a demon. And that's exactly what he did. He goes out and gets the second round finish. But now we're going to go the complete opposite. away okay we're going we're going on the other side of the chaos train if you will like still kind of chaotic still kind of weird but this guy's not really a demon he's just different marwan versus pretty ricky terseos let's just go in there and do it and i because i don't want to step him up too quickly because that's like that that's a concern he's 23 he's got a ton of talent

he was looked fantastic on contenders he's looked great in this fight especially in the second round when he just stopped trying to be a maniac and fought a little bit more technically. Ricky's kind of the way to go, kind of keep him around, like maybe a small step up from Harry, but not much of one. Let him learn on the fly. And I think Ricky's a good opponent, especially with where Ricky's at right now. That's the thing with Freaky Rahiki is his fights have not been smooth sailing, at least recently. Like for a guy who are considered to be a pretty high prospect, like I think every fight he's had to kind of go through adversity.

And you're right. And like, I think he doesn't need to go through these moments. Like if he just sort of had a more consistent game plan throughout, he'd be closer to Vichéjos than he is to like Delgado. But I don't know. There's something about him. Maybe he's taking risks. Maybe sometimes he just, you know, like I said, gets a little creative.

Maybe he improvises in there too much and gets himself in bad positions. And we saw that occasionally on Saturday. But also what makes him exciting as hell and why I can't wait to see this guy fight again. So he's in that, he's in that weird spot. I would rank him like as a prospect higher than Delgado, definitely well below. by Shea-hos. And, yeah, we got to figure out what we got with him. I went on a similar track, Mike, but I did not go with Pretty Ricky.

I went with the man who defeated Pretty Ricky last week. Let me smash my contender series toys together here. How about him and Alberto Montez? Okay. I thought about that. But same idea. Yeah, same idea. I think that fight gave us Marwan Rahan's next fight.

Yeah. By the way, it's really fun right now. Let's see what we got with these guys. No protecting anyone in this range. Let's see what we got with these guys. let's head to the 205 pound division it's crazy we had one light heavyweight fight we had one heavyweight fight normally when you see that on cards it's like oh this is my popcorn fight it didn't happen here like the heavyweight fight rocked and then this was really fun too between iwan kuchalaba and omar

c and wouldn't you know it iwan kuchalapa by submission in the first round gets it done with the nasty gilly and dude's good man like there's still a little gas left in the tank and I'm curious where you went with this okay i think like the way i look at it is if there's a friend's forever moment to be had it's either here or the next fight yeah i guess we could have landed because now that i'm looking at my i thought my pick was pretty random but now that i'm looking at it it actually makes a ton of sense given how weird both these mfers are uh i'm going with a hadolfo bolato okay okay that was right yeah no these just goes just are just kooky.

I, you know, Balato just come off that nice knockout win. I do think he's going to land someone in the Kuchalaba range. So why not, why not the,

you on Kuchelaba himself? Is, Mike, is, is Kuchelaba good? Is he a good fighter? I just, I have no idea.

Yeah. Yes. Definitively, yes. Yeah, he's good. He is, I got sure I was looking at my stats here.

What's my Kutalaba? There we go. He is now 9, 10, and one in the UFC. I can have sure you, by the way, out there in listener land. He's the only fighter with a 9, 10, and one UFC record ever in the history of the promotion. It's very strange.

I think there's a no contest in there. Was there a no contest with Ancolaev? Was that no contest? Oh, no, no. No, no. It was a TKL win for Ankiyev, right? Yeah, but it was the Ropa Dope. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

The first one. The first one, yeah. He's coming off a weird split decision before this to Modestis. Which could have gone either way. Could have gone either way. Boy, what a weird guy. Now he's got four knockouts, two submissions in the UFC. I just, I don't know what to make of you on.

He's only, what, 32? It sounds like weird. He's only like 32 years old, right? I know, that's crazy. What the hell's going? This guy good, Mike? He's, he's, he's had 20 UFC fights. There's something there.

There has to be something there? He's, he's been a bit of everything, has it? From this dude's a wild man. Like, we know he's going to get an absolute heater out of this guy. to let's show up to the way-ins and start pushing people around, dress like the Incredible Hulk to, and I'm just going to start tackling people, and I'm going to 30, 20-70 with top game control

and now he's out here submitting dudes. Perhaps maybe he is in his prime. Perhaps this is the time. We're about to go on a little run with Ewan, but there's always a butt, AK. The timing of this win was just not good for Ewan Kutjalaba because there is a member of the defending team heck champions of our fantasy league, getting ready to compete next week at UFC London.

Good old Baranuski is going to wreck Austin Lane, and then he's going to fight Iwan Kuchelapa next. Oh, you want, you want Iwo. Ewan versus Ewo. Because we got Ewo, Ebo. We got Evo, Ebo. We got Ewo Ebo. Iwan Iwo.

This is hurting. I shouldn't have brought this up. It's hurting my brain right now. Yes, I get, yes, I did think about that. I remember I, I remember EO's book. I forgot it was just next week. So that's right. That's right.

We could definitely make that happen. The timing is perfect. I thought it was, I thought it was further down the road. Okay. Preferably before June 14th. Who else? I'm sure. I had to look at my light heavy weight rankings.

Who else can we throw in this? Who else has a three or four letter first name? Okay. Guys, we'll get back doing this. Jan Blyhoevich. Jan Blythe, Jan Yon. Oh.

We got to move on. All right. I think we can move on. Youron. We've got your on. Yeah, yes. Saudi Balthia. Oh, goodness me.

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988 suicide crisis helpline is funded by the government in Canada. Now we go to flyweight. Charles Johnson, Bruno Silva, very fun fight. We expected to be a fun fight. And Charles Johnson gets a split decision. I do not agree with this decision. I thought Bruno Silva won.

I thought he, I thought it was pretty clear he won the first two rounds. Maybe I have to go back and rewatch it. Charles Johnson thought he won all three rounds, which I think is kind of crazy. 37 card kind of rub a lot of people the wrong way but Charles Johnson gets the win bounces back gets back in the wind column after the lost Alex Perez I'm going Brandon Moreno here okay are we are we queing up the band I think we should queue up the

band for this yeah I think it took a little bit of creativity yeah one two three friends forever yeah Brandon Moreno because this is kind of where Brandon's at right now you know like he he got he got dominated by lani cabinah charles johnson they gave him i mean they've given him opportunities and obviously fighting and beating brandon moreno is is a big opportunity but brandon's definitely on the back nine of his career he's been through so many wars right now and i just think it'd be like a fun interesting stylistic matchup at this point in both of their career so yeah let's do charles johnson little energy versus assassin baby action And it makes a ton of sense.

Because I think Charles said he was passed over or he, I don't know how much, how close that was in negotiations. He thought he should have gotten the Lonnie Kavanaugh spot on the Mexico City card. Didn't Charles Johnson say something about that? Yeah, he was mad about it. Yeah. He's also, again, we always joke about. He has become the guy who, like, he beats younger fighters.

They go on to become world champions. And it's about his time, I think, for Charles Johnson to at least get to fight a, if not to fight for the title, to fight a former world champion. I don't think he's had the chance to do that before. no, he's only fought future world champions. He's never fought a past one. So, yeah, let's do it. Let's close that loop.

Let's see how much Brandon Moreno has left. It's crazy to think that. I can think of that fight like got booked. I know Brandon would be favored, but like a year ago, I would have said minus like 400 or something. Now probably like maybe minus 250. I think they give a lot of respect. I don't think it's that high.

You think people are that down on Marino now? No, I just think. I mean, I think it's a combination of the two. I think people are seeing like, eh, you know, maybe Brandon's just kind of in, he's on like the 15th hole right now. A lot of mileage. Still talented. Young guy, but been fighting a long time. But Charles is dynamic and huge for the division and has a little bit of momentum.

So I think, I think Mario would still be favored, but like minus 175 minus 180. That's crazy. That's crazy the thing about. That's crazy thing about because, again, even before the cap, even before he lost the Kavanaugh fight, he would have, I think, minus 300 over a Charles Johnson. But. Yeah. Okay. Let's go to the wild card round, AK.

Let's select one fighter we have not match made for yet. Let's matchmake for them right now, aka Pierre Rodriguez versus who. Is that where you going? No, I should have. I should have gone Pierre. I should have gone beer. I did not.

I, uh, okay, I'll, I need to preface. This is probably one of my most rotten picks I've ever made. Wow. I don't feel good about this. But it popped in my head. It kind of made sense just where these people are numbers wise. I'm ready for people to hate on this. I hate myself for making this pick.

This should not happen. Okay, this should not happen. But I have the feeling of might. Mixed Beck to Beck-deck-or-Wi was very impressive. Killed one of my two bets on the night. I had picked a Chris Curtis underdog pick. I had just never seen Chris Curtis lose from strictly being out grappled. Maybe I know he's fought like 45 times.

I'm sure I'm forgetting one or two fights. But generally, even when Chris Curtis is facing a strong grappler, he either is able to avoid takedowns or he gets taken down and gets back up very quickly without his opponent being able to do anything. No, that was not the case here. Orwell By it looks super impressive. A lot of people were bringing him up to me before the card. And I said, yeah, I like him.

I just like Chris Kurtz's chances. But he totally dominated, showed the skills. It looked like a guy who could become a top 10 fighter, fight for a title if he gets the right matchups. Very impressive. All the cut in the world to Oralby. So I will match me for him. I know he had issues making 155,

but I think he is at home at 170. I don't think it's as bad for him to make the cut. So I want to stay in shape, Mike, because I need him ready for March 28th. Because on March 28th, a young man named Michael Keiza will be fighting for the, is supposed to, just wait, let me finish. A young man named Michael Keza is supposed to be fighting for the final time, of course. He wants to have his last fight in his home state of Washington. He lost his opponent.

He was supposed to fight Carlson Harris. We need to keep Maa Keza on this card. I think you can, if you can, you have. think you give him Oral Bai. Now, I know, I know, I feel out there is like, oh, this is what you want the last memory of Michael Kesa to be in the UFC. Is him getting his face smashed in by Oral Bai? No, I don't mean that because I like Michael Kesa a lot. But I'm going to go, like, you know, we have that kind of pro wrestling mentality sometimes where you got to go out on your shield, you know.

It doesn't always go the way in an NBA. Sometimes it's fun. We get to see guys go out in a win. Eric Anders, we just saw it go out in a win. That was nice. But sometimes you got to go out in your shield. Sometimes you got to put the next guy over. And I have K's not in the top 15, but still like maybe lower top 20s in my rankings.

And I don't put Oroby ahead of him yet. I think he needs to earn that spot. I want to give that opportunity at UFC Seattle. I apologize to everyone for this pick. It is a very disgusting match making out my part. AK, I couldn't be more proud of you. This is a terrific. This is actually terrific.

Oh, no. It's actually really good. And the reason it's really good is, one, you're absolutely right. Michael Kiesa needs to fight on this card. It's in Seattle. Like the man deserves to fight in Seattle. And two, like Michael Kiesa at his core is a competitor.

And I think if he was offered this fight, he'd be like, yeah, man, let's go. It may not go well for him. But, like, this is, this is what would happen, you know? I actually love this idea. I think it's great. I think it's great.

Michael Kiesa being like the big-time baby face, against Mick Debeck Oralby, who everyone loved up until last night because people thought it was like a terrible fight because he just Matt return. And 19 takedowns, third most ever in a UFC fight by Mick Debeck Oralby. And to do it at Chris Curtis to be is just so, it was so damn impressive. Not a fight a lot of people are going to go back and rewatch. But like, this guy like made his hay by not being tackled

and not getting, having great takedown defense. And he got taken down 19 times. And then, you know, he got all. pissed off on social media about it and and what have you. Only 19 significant strikes. Sorry, 20 significant strikes apparently. So he was right. Chris Cruz is right.

The man is not was not fighting him. 19 take downs and 20 significant strikes. Yeah. No, I'm kidding. Good for a robot. Yeah, he tried to submit. He did try to submit at times. Yes, yes.

But I like this idea. Okay. And it's really good. I went with one of the names you wish you went with. I'm going with B and Mosquita. What a performance. Like, Moncy? That's her name now, right?

Moncy. Apparently Moncy. I think we had to shorten it again. I think because she lost. She's just a Mon now. Yeah, she's going to be M. She's just going to be Rendon by 2037. Yes.

But Bia's got those hands. She was dropping hammers on poor Monty Rendon. This is one of those fights where I was just like, yeah, she should have been like a minus two trillion favorite in this fight. Bia just throwing hammers, getting the sub, unbelievable performance, a.k. The time is now.

The time is now. I want her in a title Eliminator immediately. I want her literally like in her next fight if she wins, she fights with the belt next. The fight that should be made, in my opinion, is they should just give me a mosquito

Giuliana Pena right now. That is the one. She is the number one ranked fighter in the division. Wow. Like go do it. Go do it. However, I don't know

I don't know what's going on with Juliana Pena. I truly don't know. I think she's healing from some injuries. I don't know when she's planning on coming back, but something tells me when she's ready to come back. If they offer her be a mosquito, she's going to be like, what are you talking about? Like, that sounds crazy to me.

However, there is a fighter ranked behind Giuliana Pena. The fighter that Julianna Pena beat via controversial decision to become a two-time UFC Women's Bannon & Way champion, someone who is also injured, someone on the mend,

and I believe she is on the comeback trail. I just do Bia Mosquita versus Rocky Pennington right now and it Bia Mosquita wins. She fights the winner of Kayla Harrison versus Amanda Nunes. Damn. I'm down, man. I'm down. Or if Kayla wins and retires, she fights for a vacant belt.

Maybe you do Bia versus Giuliana for the vacant title. I don't care. I would do it. Cole, hold on. Listen, Bia is not 22 years old. I know. She's just not. But she is, she is, when you look at this division, she is the third most exciting fighter on the entire, in the, in the division. Like, I feel terrible saying. And you're counting in Nunes. You're counting the returning amen to Nunes. Yes. And I feel bad for the Norma Dumonts of the world who have to like just keep clawing and fighting. But like, there's so much momentum behind her right now. Like I just want to see. Like you, you don't have a lot of time here. You just, you have to throw her to the world. You just, you have to throw her to the world. and just see if she could. And I would pick her to beat Rocky Peddington.

I would pick her to win. And then just give her the shot. Like, just do it. I think you just, you strap the rockets to her and you give it, you just give her, give it to her. They could bring her to Brazil as champion potentially.

Like, you could do so much with the situation. And this division needs her to not be slowly walked up the rankings. Just throw her right into the fire and see if she comes out unscathed. And I think there's a good chance she does. Maybe she doesn't go well in the title fight, but I think she beats every woman in this division right now outside of Kayla and

Amanda. It even so, like a beat either of them, it would not surprise me. Bea has not beaten anyone with a Wikipedia entry yet. We should, we should note this. That's okay. Then again, I would also- challenge yet, AK. I would also note, like, I think half the women's band-in-way division does not have a Wikipedia entry. So fair. Like, you know, she doesn't have a lot of options. of notable names in like the lower half of the, you know, the vendor. Okay, I understand. What's the line?

What's the line is Bia favorite over. Minus 250. She's favorite. She's favorite. She's favorite. Over B as favorite. Yes. Oh no.

No, I think minus one, minus 150. Now she's higher than that. Rakel has this, this would be. Has it fought in well over a year. Correct. Which be, and she is not a spring chicken either. Oh my goodness. No, she's not.

Is she 39? She will be, she's 37. She only, she's a fresh 37, a relatively fresh 37. This would be her, McClellanan's 20th UFC fight, and it would be Bia Miss Keats' third, third and eighth MMA fight. I don't know. I'm glad, I feel bad because you supported me so much with my truly grotesque oral biokiazaphic. I feel like I should be with you on this. I'm not against it.

I, and you're right, slow rolling be as weird because, again, she's not super young for, as far as, like, athletic years. go and she does have a lot of like combat sports experience like a ton of combat sports experience right we're just talking about you know not mma specific i don't know and yeah all my other matches for her would be boring and be like and i don't know if these people are book i'm starting out names luana santos uh like do i want to see her fight macy chayson no do want to see her fight carrollosa no i lean prez maybe but like that could be a fight for the belt after bea wins the belt Janice Santos, no. Caitlin Vieira, maybe.

Maybe. Even that's too high for me. Do we have to go on the top 10? I guess we have. We have to go to top of five. We have to go in the top three with her. I would love to see. We are not doing an updated band-to-weight rankings. You know what?

Let me dig into this real quick. Let's see where Mike Heck has. Because I think you did, I think you have ranked Bea already. Am I not mistaken in your personal rankings? I'm pretty sure, yeah. I'm pretty sure you have. I think I ranked her pretty decently. you had her you had her 11 at our most recent women's band oh wow and let me let me tell you something ladies

gentlemen she going to be higher wow she going up where i have her at 11 let me go it now yeah you can look now yeah you have let me look at what i have go tell me who you she will be yes yes yes i think it now boo i want to throw in the top five so bad is she better than arena i'm like Is she better than Arena out now? Damn. Want to know why? Like Arena's, we are, Arena's got to be out of the rankings, right?

I believe she has. It's been a while since she's. So yes, by, by proxy. So she's, I'm going to put her at number seven. That's where I'm going to put her. Because Arena is going to be out of the rankings and I'm putting, she's almost out there. It's been September 2024. I think she's not, it's cool.

Oh, you know, she might be out. Yeah, February is 18 months. So she's out. That's out. That's it. She's out. Oh, wow. That's a bar.

Yep. So she'll be number seven for me. Wow. Okay. Well, all right. So, so the, so you say it that way, the Pennington's flight doesn't sound that crazy. Because it's just you're just matching up two top 10 contenders. Yeah. Okay. Maybe I'll bump her up to number three and maybe you'll be fully on board. How about that? Beas great. F is great. That's all I'll say. You're right. She just, just division needs her and needs her to like put her in big fights now. It should be Julianna Pena, but that that fight's not going to happen. I don't think so. All right. Let's go to the peeps. Let's see what they have to say. I didn't get a ton, but people had a great time. Most of my deal. DMs were not matchmaking suggestions. They were just like, oh, man, see what happens?

Like, this is, this is what you guys, someone reminded me in a DM. It's like, remember when you used to sign off on onto the next one was always remember the rule, MMA's supposed to be fun. Because he's like, you haven't said that at a while. He goes, that tagline, you guys, I don't, he's like, I think it's been like months since you've ended a show with that. He goes, I understand why. He goes, he's like, maybe you need to bring it back after this event.

Like, people are so happy with it. It's great to see. Like, I'm, I'm so satisfied because everyone was so down after 326. Everyone was so bummed throughout the week. And then, like, shout out to, honestly, shout out to the Rousie Carrano press conference, which, like, got us kind of more down on the UFC, honestly, when Rhonda was saying the stuff she was saying. And then shout out to hype fighting. Like, hype just brought us back to life.

They really did. That event just brought everyone back into the land of, see, this is. fun. This is what we're talking about. This is what we want to see with our mixing of the martial arts. And the UFC, maybe they felt a little threatened by hype Brazil. And boy, they came through in a big way. So everyone was happy. I love that. That's, this is, this is what I like to feel on a Sunday following UFC event. It's been a while since we have felt this way. And, well, I mean, not that. UFC 320 was very fun. So probably since October, like early October. So that's, that's a stretch. That's a stretch for a company that's putting out events like every

single week to wait like four months, five months to have that feeling again. So it feels good. And hopefully the moments we can continue into London. But let's start with Jamal Smith. Uh, Vigeos versus Yair, Javier. J.M.D. versus Morgan Shadier. Rihiki versus Billy Q. Hey, it's a little, it's, it's, it's a little too, a little too much.

Maybe I kind of put Billy Q in the same range of Sabatini. No, though, I don't know. Well, yeah. You didn't do Rahiki versus Abbottom. No, I did, I did Delgado versus Seventh. Yeah. Okay, so we're saying Raikato versus Sherryor, Rehiki versus Billy Q. Right, right.

Okay, yeah, maybe that's a bit of an odd one here. He's with you, AKA Kuchelaba versus Balato. Yeah. Johnson versus Albazzi. Oralbi versus, ooh, I really like this one. After the Kiesa fight, of course. Oralbi versus Puna Soriano. My only question is that not high enough.

And I like Sorriana. I think Serrano's look really good at Welterweight. I'm very curious. I'm very curious to see what the hype is. I haven't been in a good vibe for it. I've got to try to look at social media reaction. I don't know if people are like me and thinking that Orrubai is a contender after that win or people are more disappointed.

Or people, one, they don't think that highly of Chris Curtis. And two, you know, we're not happy that he kind of Charles Olivaired him. Right. So I think people should be hype about Oral Bai. I'm just not sure if they are. I don't know what the general consensus is. But I think he, in my mind, I think he's higher than a fight with Puna. But Puna's also been pretty good.

Puna's been outstanding. Yeah, I really like that one. And the story behind it, like Extreme Couture gets another crack at him. Puna trying to get one back for his teammate, Chris Curtis. Okay. All right. It's a lot happening here. It's a really good fight.

It's a really good fight. If you're Puna and like putting on the performances you're putting on and what's he like four or five? Is he four or five in a well? I feel like he's underfeiting. I feel like he's undefeated at Walter weight. He's definitely undefeated. I just don't know how many wins he has there. I think it's five now, I think.

Yeah, five and oh. Like this is, this is like break into the rankings or get real close kind of a situation. He'd be an interesting challenge because I think he's obviously smaller than Chris, but more athletic, right? I wonder if that would be the difference between, you know, trying to deal with oral vice wrestling. No, he's bigger than Chris.

He's bigger than Chris. Poon was a middleweight for his entire career. He was also middleweight. That's right. That's right. Yeah, he's a big, big ass dude. And he's more athletic. Okay, so maybe.

So maybe he would, okay. That's an interesting fight. That's not bad. I would pick Oroby, but that's interesting. Sosa versus the, or Sousa versus the Jones Sola loser, Bia Mosquita versus Eileen Perez. Say Sousa versus Jones Sola loser. Are we doing another name thing here?

Are we trying to do Sousa Sola? Is that what they're trying to set up? Maybe. Maybe. I can't. I mean, I love, I love these. I don't know. Jimmy Lloyd, Vesze.

versus the Bellator Bull winner. Quote, he wants a slow roll, so give him another big name that he could decapitate. Wow. He would, he would destroy Aaron Pico. I agree. I don't think we can make that happen. It would be exciting as hell.

And that fight would last maybe two and a half minutes. If Pico beats Patricia O'Pid Bowl, I kind of feel like they're going to, if they're not just going to give him, yeah, year, I kind of feel like the winner of that fight is kind of, there's a chance. I love the John Silva idea, but I can understand the UFC being like,

all right, Vajos is going to win the belt sooner rather than later, or John could win the belt. Like, if John, like they could just throw John in there with Volk right now. Like, it's possible.

It'd be silly with all these fights on the books right now with Lorone and Mazar next week and then Aljo and Yusuf, if they give John Silva a title fight after one win, after getting finished by Diego Lopez less than a year ago, be kind of silly. but I could definitely see the UFC doing this

in the year of our Lord 2026. So I think you wait for that fight. Either it's like a number one contender fight or it's for the belt, that rematch of their contender series fight. It'd be sick, but, uh, do Pico versus Fijos. It'd be friggin wild.

It would feel like, like, to me, just so unearned for Pico, but it's true. If he beats Pitbull, it does raise his profile quite a bit. It makes him the uncrowned, I guess Bellator featherweight champion or something. I guess he already lost that title to,

to Lorone. Yeah, okay, and it would be fun to watch. I just, I feel like Fishayeos is quite a bit ahead of him now as far as the ranking should be. Pit bull would be interesting, I guess. What a Pico loses to Pitbull? He very, he very well, I'm probably picking Pitbull.

Oh, oh, oh, and then do Pico and then still do Pico and Vichet House? Oh, God, no. Oh, okay. You could do Pitfall of a Chahos. Yeah. But like, does the UFC cut bait if he loses again? They did it with Mix. It depends if it's, it really depends if it's a good fighter.

If it's a stinker, if it's like a, which again, sometimes pit bulls fights can be, let's be honest. Yeah, I think they've had enough. Okay. And I'm sure Pico is getting paid pretty decently. Honestly, he's been on the matchmaker radar for a while. So, yeah. Interesting. I'm also with you on like the Jean Silva fight with Pagiotos.

The timing isn't quite right yet. Either you're right. Maybe it can be a title fight or somehow the timing doesn't work out there. It's a storyline you can always revisit down the road. 100%. Yeah. Robertson versus John John Donalado versus David Onama. I thought about that. Kuchelabba versus Rackich.

Light heavy is so hard to match week for outside of the top 10. Agree. Is Rackich moving up to heavyweight or is he like a joke? He's kind of doing a lot of Instagram stuff about like, oh, I'm going to heavyweight now. Oh, like I've got a heavyweight like body right now. I don't know if he's just kind of like promoting. I don't know. I know he's working out a lot.

So I don't know if he's just like, oh, cool. and lifting weights like I feel like a heavyweight um dude he looked great in his last fight against modestis he looked awesome i don't know i'm not i'm not entirely sure yeah he's good he would be funny as a heavyweight but i don't think he actually i don't think he actually is but what else we got johnson versus moreno he barely won this one but deserves the name could be the bounce back marino needs oral by versus shopcott not not for right now but i need to see this fight yeah i think that we'll probably get there at some point and then jimmy loy Nails it.

Be a Biskita versus Raquel Pennington. Strap the Rockets to her. It's time to go. Completely agree. You could not be more correct. I might just give you one of my Ateno points just for being so correct. Harry Dawkins, Soza versus Rinya Nakamura. That's very fun.

That's very, very fun. Manumito versus Rafa Garcia. He should have been in the UFC a long time ago. It's a good durable vet test for a ranked fight. Elijah Smith versus Timmy Kawamba. Petrino versus Ryan Span. Mick Tebuck. Mick Debeck Oroby versus Jacoby Smith

and a ranking eliminator? Okay. I don't hate that, by the way. Sorry, I want to go back to Elijah Smith for a second. I feel like he's the forgotten. Did you guys get a chance to talk about Elijah a lot on the post-fight show? A lot, no, but we did talk about him. He's pretty good.

He's not a bad prospect, this guy. He's very good. And obviously, Bantuweets really deep. It's like he's like three fights away from like a top 10 fight or something. It's just so hard to climb in this division. It really is. because I have him like just barely in my top 40 now just because there's a lot of veteran names still in there I can see people putting him higher top 30 I wouldn't blame you at all because it's very good so you know do you know in the UFC all finishes now two out of three two out of three who did he who did he go to who did you go to who did you go to who did you go to who did you go to such a perfect who did you go to such a perfect test for his first fight right and then finishes Kazama okay and then suing me.

Yeah, I just don't give him his flowers because, yeah, I'm another guy. I'm really looking forward to seeing fight. Hopefully soon, hopefully within the next like three or four months. Yeah. I mean, you should just keep, keep firing him out there, honestly. What else we got? That's new Ewan versus Jacoby II. Okay.

Freaky Reiki versus Javier Reyes. He's way too young and defensively open tonight to fight anyone else. It's true. It's true. He needs to work on his defense a lot if he's going to be. He could be a fun fighter in the U.S. for a long time. If he's going to be a contender, it's got to work on.

that defense. He just is very happy to get hit. Delgado versus Joe Anderson Brito, Fijos versus Iyer or Ortega would be deserved glue factory fights, but Vajos could stay active against Pat Sabatini. Yeah, I loved the, I loved the Delgado. Sorry, it was Delgado and. Delgado versus Joy Anderson Brito. I love that.

Actually, that's really good. Yeah. And then John Ray. Pierre Rodriguez versus Angela Hill. Yeah, I kind of think it's time. Oh yeah. Okay. Yeah, duh. Of course. Lock it in Apex Coimbing event. Let's go. Sosa versus Eretti Lang. Mosquita versus Nora Cornoli. Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on, John. What do we waity? Hold on. Nora is ranked. Oh, wait. She lost the Johnson Edwards.

Yeah. So we're gonna give it. No. No, John. I have her. Listen, I have. I have, I have Nora 11th, okay, in my band to weight rankings. So UFC only. Oh, I guess only the UFC is the only place that has band-a-wates women band-a-wates uh so i haven't no real can only at 11 that's a step up for me mike suza versus matt frivola that is real fun what has frivol been up to i've been his he thought when did he fight last he's eating a lot of twitter beefs i feel like yeah seems like he's like kind of anti ufc in some ways on twitter too yeah he's kind of like a thoughtful guy i feel yeah i like matt oh i love that smith versus aletang a lee petrino versus anti-delijah i believe petrino call for derrick lewis which honestly is like not a bad shout they

might just give it to him they love throwing derrick in there with like up-and-coming heavyweight brazilian fighters in like fight night main events in rando city in the united states so that he could very well get it i thought that was a very good call-out oral by versus jake matthews that's pretty good test i like that one what else we got rehiki versus bagtizarian delgado versus sean woodson robertson wow robertson versus the richie jean jeroba winner i don't mind that uh it'll be a two if ritchie wins did they put that in parentheses yeah okay yeah it's interesting because i do feel like um i do like i do like i want to rank jillian above tabitha but you can't can't because tabitha did beat her is her lone loss at 115 and it wasn't that long ago so

it's true you do you do got ahead to put tab with the above her tab of the reach he's fighting a gingeroba you said correct well there you go i mean yeah same same idea i think we're all on the same page as in her next fight will very likely put her if she wins whoever she beats next whether it's tautiana suarez yon chan ritchi lupi whoever jangiroba that is her sure fire tattle shot yeah i kind i kind of feel like if she fights the ritchie jon jerobo winner like she's gonna have she might have to fight again no no i mean no honestly i just think i i think the stock on john is dropped a little bit after getting kind of dummied up by mackenzie yeah um and rachis like you know reaches look good and does have a win over julian but like i feel like we don't

look at tab at the ritchie is like oh yeah if she beats verna jangirova they're giving her a title fight i don't know she's dating calum wash i don't know maybe uh dana steps in and says no this is my god this is my card i'm dropping the golden ticket here that it's title shot this is true also, Mackenzie Dern is going to beat Zhang Wei, obviously, so they're going to have to run that one back. So the rest of the division, you're at Jelian may have to fight again, even if she wins. This is a good point.

This is a good point. I forgot. Yeah. And another Vujahos versus Rodriguez. And lastly, from John Emmett in a rematch versus the last man to knock him out, I think previous to this, the man who passed his powers onto him in that fight when he did that since he never won a fight in the UFC again after that. I'm talking, of course,

a little heathen, Win or Lose versus Bobby Green at lightweight, of course. Yeah, people said this in the previous show. Remember people with those in the comments? I said, now's the time, let's run it back. I don't mind it. Boy, Josh has a receipt to give out to Jeremy Stevens.

Although it's not really Jeremy's fault. I forget who the referee was that night. Was that a Yamasaki mistake? I don't want to point fingers, but we have so many bad referees now. I don't want to point fingers at Mario. Yeah, that was, I remember watching that and being like, why is this fight not being stopped?

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Only on Disney Plus. All right. We got quite a few, quite a few, quite a few. Let's go to the emails first. Tristan Gordet. Piera versus Julia Poulastri. I think she's, how's Pallostri doing? Where is Pallostri?

She also on a Wednesday? She's on a, she's won one fight. I don't mind. I have Pierre quite a few spots ahead of her now, but I get it. Bia Mosquita versus Luana Santos. Sorry, Mike. Pritchinson says, I would usually slow play mosquito. Oh, he says this is not a slow play.

So I would usually slow play mosquito, but the women's bandway division very shallow. Should be sink or swim. I think mosquito can handle it. This is the sink or swim matchup, Mike. Luana Santos. You've got, you've gone too far. You've got too far, Mike. She's a minus 900 favorite in that fight.

Mike, you've gone too far. You've gone too far. Way too high, right. What are we doing? Tristan's way too high. There's 19 fighters of the division. What are we doing here? Manuel Souza versus Charlie Campbell.

Thank you, Tristan. Casey, carpenter, definitely best cards over far, great work by you guys. Thank you, Casey, as always. Thickness versus Sosa, Mosquita versus a top 15. Come on, Casey, we've got to be more specific. Ricky Simone versus Elijah Smith. Oh, I don't, oh, boy. That's, oh, no, that's a big jump up.

This big jump up. Again, it would fit the trend, though, what we've been doing with UFC this year, which is, yeah, taking some of these, sorry, Ricky, to say, older, more experienced fighters and testing them that way. Let's see what else.

Chip is on here. Oh, Dania D-Rod. D-Rod versus Oralby. Another U. U.S. Jacoby-2 request? Sure. Oh, Rikiki versus Delgado. Just sew them in together?

I don't think we need to do that. Okay. Let's keep moving on here. Eli Hitala. It feels like a featherweight grand pre is underway in the UFC along with the changing of guards. This could be the division of 2026. Yeah.

Yeah, this could be the division to watch in 2026. Yeah. Veshajos versus Arnold Allen after Allen loses to Melke. Gradual progression of the rankings against someone who's at least kind of in their prime. I like the idea. I just don't know if the timing is going to work out. I don't know if that's going to work out for, I don't know what the match makers think of for both guys right now.

Emmett versus Landwehr after he knocks Cub into retirement. Ouch, geez, Louise. Julian Romance versus Jan Shanan. Yes, Eli. Yes. Yuan versus Iwo and after he runs through Austin Lane, oral by Joel Alvarez, two maybe welterweights or two maybe lightweight

who really knows this point who put on amazing fights. What market you want. That's good stuff, Eli. Lucas Cortest. I watched about five fights. They're all really good. Didn't watch anyone above welterweight. Oh, cool.

Okay. I never thought of watching a card that way. Yeah, I guess if you started with, the top four fights. Oh, even the main card. And you just skipped Yuan and U.M.R.C. Okay, that's interesting. We're going to do you.

Uh, Vilejos. No, I've really pushed her down. But Shejos versus Lopez, uh, win-loser drop against Garcia. Boy, I can't wait for that fight when it ultimately happens. That's going to be real fun. Um, Emmett Cater 2. Loser leaves town. Honestly, if, I know the UFC is not going to matchmake Josh Emmett like that.

and they probably aren't going to matchmate Calvin Cater like that either. But truly, without question, if they're going to let these dudes fight again, they should just fight each other again. Yeah, that's really good. That was a very controversial decision. It was. One judge, honestly, one judge changed the course of Calvin Cater's career forever. Like, that, he's never been the same since.

And I know how much that loss affected him because of how badly the judge has been. messed that up. I thought it was pretty clear that Calvin won that fight. It was close. But yeah. I mean, I think I think Calvin would jump on that opportunity to try to get that one back. Oh, I think so too. Yeah, for sure.

Thank you, Lucas. That's very good. And also last one from E.L. J. Donaggieh, Vichai Hose, a year. Robertson. Give her McKenzie Dern. Guys, guys, even I know Dern has to fight. Zhang has first dips. Zhang has first dibs. Please. Delgado, David O'Nama. Wow.

guys David O'Nama just headlined an apex card. Let's see. Kuchelaba called for April 4th. He will be a late replacement and fight Abdul Yachayev or Prentison Hibar. One of these guys are going to follow. He'll fight one of them.

Yeah, I can see that. And Johnson versus Tim Elliott, I will not call this due because I think we just found out last night, I believe, that is Tim Elliott will be fighting Steve Versaig in Perth. That was just announced. So no worries there, Jay.

Thank you for the picks. Instagram. Just a couple here. You didn't read Robbie Ryan, did you, Mike? I did not. Robbie Ryan says you're not reading his picks anymore. Mike, what happened? What's going on with you and Robbie Ryan?

Is there a feud? No, because, you know, you're... He knows that you'll read them. Okay. Sometimes things get lost in the DMs, and, you know, it happens. You know, Robbie sent to... Well, definitely sent to Mike next week. I should help you all now.

I will not be on next week's episode. I'll be missing the... on an episode. I'm so sorry, guys. I'm taking a weekend away. You will not see me on the ought no. So yes, Robbie, please send to Mike. I think you guys can patch up your relationship and he'll be reading your picks in no time. Or you won't read them and it'll destroy

your friendship forever. Either way, I'll be watching. Garmi's not Ryan says Veshejo Sabatini. No, he's too high for that now. Sorry, man. He's too high for that. Robertson, Jandrobe, Ritchie winner. Rakekeeky versus throw a dart. Yeah, pretty much. Kuchelaba, Zhang, Menafield winner.

I would have loved to turn him in there with Zhang if Zhang was not just booked to fight in Macau. But yeah, I actually think that makes a lot of sense. Is that not a two? He hasn't fought Menafield? How'd they not run into each other? Wow, that's weird. Wow.

I thought they definitely fought. I guess not. No, I guess not. Sorry, I lost my things there. Johnson, Al-Sanbao, Wildcar, for you, AK. Let's make the women's bandway division great again. Oh, I like this. is what i don't want to i didn't want to interrupt you earlier be a in a rematch someone she

facing grappling misha tate think about it mike think think about it before you gather your thoughts honestly like if they're going to make bia fight one more time before getting rocky or juliana like feed her misha tate like i guess just for the name value yeah but honestly like they didn't do they didn't give misha eline perez which i think like was a good fight like i think that was and this is maybe like two this is like two three years ago i was suggesting like iileen peres should fight micha tate just to like get over because they they have something with her and the fan base likes her but yeah i don't think you can do that man i think i think that would borderline if if they put that fight on a poster and the ufc says

absolute heater of dominates proportions uh or dominates proportions i'm sorry coming to the apex BN Mosquito versus Misha Tate Fire emoji, fire emoji Eyes emoji, fire emoji People be like Lose your license This is

Lose your social media license Yeah You cannot post the social media anymore You cannot You cannot put poor Misha Tate in there At Bia Mosquito You can't do it You can't

You shouldn't But you can Misha's got like so many injuries Like she looked so bad In her last fight Like you can't Like, it would just, it'd be so sad. I don't want that.

But they might. I'd rather see Misha just not fight again. She seems very happy. I asked Eric Nixick about Misha, and she's just like, yeah, man, she's just happy being a mom. Like, and that I'm happy for her that she's enjoying that side of her life so much and not thinking about fighting. So don't come back if I be a Misha. Just keep doing what you're doing. Smart idea.

I feel like probably we might have spoken this one doing this instance. I'll be honest with you. He might have spoken this one. No. I'm not saying I agree. I'm just saying he may have just put this out there. And now that it's been said and it's put on our show and we broadcast it, the wheels may be in motion.

Jason, Jason Dunai. I like a couple of these, Hardwick versus Jijah, yes. And Petrino, excuse me, guys, I can't talk today. Petrino versus Walter Walker. Walter I'm Keoghry's beginning. He books, you know, but I don't think he knows anymore. He's too busy running Hype FC, apparently. Walter should just not fight anymore.

just do hype that rocks he's so good does he own it or is he the commissioner or was he just there i don't know what what authority does he have i don't want to know his job title just trot him out there to do everything like that's like fights to the crowd with random fans like this is this is true calling a k weird what a weird uh run it's been like the past year for walter walker has just been truly bizarre uh and incredible uh last from instagram gerard bion uh also if it's josei he has a year man people want this josh emmett doho choi oh i like that a lot um some of these a little bit of duty here i'm not even going to read it out charles johnson brandon merino oral by neil magni i'm surprised more people didn't just say this because um yeah it does feel like a logical test but i

just we can't just keep trining out neil for these reasons right can you just give neil like a wily veteran can we just you know what no watch neil beat him too i don't know neil god i still feel like magnini's got one more good upset left in him i think there's one more more. This is not going to be this one. This is very bad. This is very bad. On to Twitter, DGB, Oralba, Amasov.

I definitely thought about this. Another Kuchalaba Jacobi, too. What am I missing from this Kuchelaba Jacobi feud? Is there some beef here? Like, people really want this. I don't think so. I just think, like, makes sense. Enough time's gone by, I guess.

And light heavyweight is, well, light heavyweight. Delgado and Chepe. Boy, we are all over the place with the Dogato matchmaking. I do, like I said, I do think he's really good. I just, man, and it's, for the way, it's tough division. Honestly, there's no easy fight, so it's true. I'm not sure where you go with him. So, DGP, not bad.

TAC MMA, he wants Veshajahos, Jean Silva, too. You know, we discussed why the timing might not be right. But also, I could totally see the making. Zach Schultes Veshaejos versus Zalalalalalernling loser. It would kind of make sense. Obviously, Al Jho's like in the top five, top six right now. So that's kind of what you're saying. If Sterling lost, he could bump up.

Zalal losing, I think, is a less interesting prospect. I just don't think that benefits either guy that much. So I see her head, Zad, Zach, not my favorite thing. Rahiki, Dennis Bazookcha. Is he still with the UFC? Sorry, Dennis. That's fun. If he is.

Oh, Zach, you're with me. Oral by, oh, Oral by Keyes and says, make it a middleweight belt, just to not worry about cutting weight. Yeah, I'm fine. I should add that. If they want to keep it on, like make it 180, 180 pound catch weight, 185 or so 175 pounds one either one i think this makes a lot of sense Zach you know what's up four corner sports uh v jejos versus garcia if he loses to diego bshajos has mentioned he doesn't want to

he pushed higher from the rankings let's give another heavy puncher but you like you like you said you're um kind of okay with fujahos's strategy of of like kind of being very cautious with his callouts right you like that right and you thought because you thought it was funny when um he was like if i call for the champion they're just going to make me bump up to lightweight and fight. Yeah, I love that. That was really funny. I love that.

I love that. He got so much flack for the Cubs wants to call it. And honestly, rightfully so. This is not great. But I, after hearing his explanation, I'm like,

okay. And then he's just like, yeah, man, like they're just going to give me higher than I call for anyways. So, and I dig it.

I dig it. True, true. Okay. So it's working. You like this? Or by Puna, uh, uh,

Rihiki, Hyder, Emile, sure. Jose Delgado, Giga. And, uh,

I hadn't looked at it from this angle with Gillian Robertson, Jan Chaudan. Battle of who's going to wear the red shorts first. Ooh. Ooh. Oh, I hadn't even thought about that. I haven't thought about that. If it's in Macau, I have to imagine the let Jan be the red shorts. That's okay.

I think Gillian's rock like blue before. She could rock blue. Yeah. Can you should do white? I mean, we had a lot of white in our flag too. Sure. Picks by Frodd. Veshaejos versus Melchie Arnold Allen winner.

I don't think there's any new here. LeMos versus Denisi Gomez. Yeah, Denisi Gomez kind of quietly, I think on like, a four fight win streak at 115? Maybe there was a catchweight in there. I don't know. Petrino, tie to Evasta. Oh, I'm sorry.

Ty is booked, right? Again, Sean Sharaff. This has to be if Ty doesn't win that fight. I mean, that's got to be it. It's just got to be it. This is, dude, we totally understand what is happening here, or at least what is being attempted to happen. Yes.

I love that. Even Aspland Alvin Hines, bring it on. Oh my gosh, Alvin suspended though, I believe. No, oh, what did he? Oh, because all the sauce. I'm pretty sure. Let me just, let me just triple check. Like, I mean, double check.

I want to make sure. This does sound familiar. This is August, this is August 2015. Yeah, yeah. What's the L is. Hines tested positive one year period. Heinz tested positive for the presence of the anabolic steroids.

Okay. Drostan alone. It's metabolite. He tells you to fight in summer, 2020, 26. August 2026. Yeah, it's possible. I wasn't sure how long this bench was for,

but yeah, he can fight the summer. So yes, 100% we have to do this. That's one of my favorite picks this week. They might be teammates. Oh, I don't know. I don't know a lot about, you know what? I don't know. I'm pretty sure they're managed by the same,

they have the same management company, but, yeah, man, I don't know. I don't care if they're teammates. make them fight. I don't care. I like this fight a lot. It'd be incredible. Just a few more. Thomas Collins. What is up, Thomas Collins? I think a claim an otno point. Yeah, go claim some otno points. Thomas. I don't think you're the only one who had these picks, but you're the only one who's reminding me. So you're going to get a point for these, and then we'll trickle down some points to everyone else. If you know you had these, he said he called

Song and Figgy, which now is the main event of USC Macau. That's right. And then Tim Elliott and Steve Burstack, which is to announce for it first. So there you go. There's a least one point for you, Thomas, and everyone else will have to share it. Because please, guys, just remind us. We've got so many picks now. We don't have really have that time to go back and do all the, like, every matchup that comes up. It's really the way to see UFC just dumps matchup these days.

Thomas wants to see Vichai Hose a year. Emmett versus Wood Keta winner. You'd be a good fight. I don't know. I really don't know. Emmett, you want him facing, like, actual people coming up anymore. Chris Curtis, RDA, potential. Wow.

right RDA is still around and fighting at 170 okay I never thought about that hardwick versus Jusang Yu and both fighters return after recovering from from injury yeah tough fights guys um jusang you what was supposed to fight because who was I'm sorry I keep getting these guys mixed up it's terrible with India mixed up that was you uh that was Sue Yu, who fought on Saturday Chu Sang Yu was supposed to fight and I think last week and I think you had to

got replaced it. Sorry, there's a couple more here. Barry O'Reilly, Barry O'Reilly, what is up, my friend? Piera versus Loma. He also wants Bia and Misha. Elijah Smith versus Saeed and Michael Medov. And maybe a little soon for match on this,

but he's passed the AK three-fight test and Saeed is on a losing streak. Smith is also young enough to bounce back from any potential loss. I actually agree. I actually think that's right. He's he just he needs a step up after going three and now. I actually think Barry, you're really on the right track there. You on Rockich. Rockies on a terrible run should not and should you not beat Kuchelaba should really consider a move to heavyweight. Again, I don't know if he is teasing that. I feel like he I don't know if that's serious or not. But guys, go to his IG. You tell me how serious is.

Let's close out with Speezy 32. Anything new here. Yeah, I'm with you on Jillian and Jan Delgado, Sean Woodson. I know we mentioned that. Rehiki's Kuchelaba Volkan. Yeah, maybe it's time. Charles Johnson. Joseph Morales.

Oh, I love the flight, but I think Charles needs a bigger name than that right now. Maybe down the road. I think Joseph Marles is really good, but don't think that's there yet. Petrino, Ante Delicia, Elijah Smith, Chris Gutierrez.

Damn, another veteran test. Maybe it's time. Sure. Maybe it's time. Hedrososa, Beckzat, Ackaman, and Al-Lah. Malcolm McCahn, excuse me, and the two, two of the hottest names, 150 pounds, Pierre Rodriguez, and Deniseie Gomez.

All right, Mike, I think that's quite enough. UFC Vegas 114 picks for this week. Yeah, we've done it. Oh, I should, that's right. We do need submissions next week. Well, I'll, you know, if anything I get, I'll send to Mike anyway. So, yes, I would say, guys, if you're listening, please try to send to Mike next week, but I know you're not all on IG, so you can't send to me.

I will forward these to him. I'm at Alexander K. Lee on Twitter. at alexander k kate lee on instagram alice dot lee at aspenation.com on email listen send to me don't send a k because a k is on vacation he's taking some days off if a k sends me any of your submissions uh i'm gonna be very upset no no no it's fine don't say that uh by the way i'm going to the feed here at m a fight uh great scott said he should fight kevin mjillo should fight brian ortega next so kevin Who said that?

Someone on the feed. I just had it. Is Tatea not moving to lightweight? Like, I know it hasn't happened yet. I know it hasn't happened yet. Technically, he is still, he is still a featherweight. He has not stepped into the cage anyway for a committed, like committed as a 155er. For sure.

So, yeah. But we're in London next week. Early day. MMA. Early day. M. A huge matchup. They said on the broadcast last night.

A lot of people pointed this out to me. They said on the broadcast. that the winner of this fight will fight Alexander Volkanowski next. They're promoting it as such. So I'd take that for however you'd like to take it. I take that as nothing. I take it as this has to be the case. Like at some point enough enough enough.

I thought Lorone remember after he'd knocked out Fico had a pretty damn good case. Not better than Mozar of Loyah. Okay. If he beats Mozart, he's getting it. And if Mozart beats Laroni's getting it and damn well should. Mozar of Loy of Team Heck Fantasy team member. I draft him every season. and I believe this is the first time he's actually competed for me.

So I'm very excited about this, taking on Lorone Murphy main event. Co-main event, undefeated prospect, Luke Riley taking on Michael Aswell Jr. I fully expect Luke Riley to get a huge performance here, but let me tell you something. I see a lot of people down on this co-main event because they're like, who the F are these guys. That fight is going to slap. Those two are going to beat the brakes out of each other. And Luke Riley's probably going to get him out of there, but that fight is going to be incredibly fun. what might not be incredibly fun is michael page versus sam patterson one of the most random

fights i've seen in the ufc's welterweight division for a while but maybe sam and yet i like it i do i it's so hard and they don't even want it they don't even want it they're they're friends they don't yeah it's it's a super random matchmaking and like unless sam just obliterates him like that that could be a tough 15 minutes honestly but we'll see another team heck member competing next week iro baronuski taking on Austin Lane moving down to 205. I'm a little concerned about that if we're being honest. As someone who is hoping Ewo competes,

it kind of needs him to do his thing tomorrow, what if Austin Lane comes in weighing like 213 on Friday? Like that's tough scenes. Oh, you're just worried he's not even going to make the fight. That is by concern. That is by concern. I hope he does. Please, Austin.

Do it for me. He's six foot six. He's like a, like a, like a powerful six foot six. I don't know how much fat this guy has to cut. He's a pretty good athlete. Ewo, if they offer you a catchweight opportunity, take it. Take it.

225, 215, 215, let's go. Them, honestly, AK, I don't know if I'm more fascinated about any fight in the next few weeks than this one. In the middleweight division, Christian Lee Roy Duncan, who is on a role, taking on Roman DeLidez, who got his soul snatched from him by Anthony Fluffy Hernandez in his last fight. So fascinated by this batch up. What is Roman Deleese going to look like in this fight after what Fluffy Hernandez did to him last year? I'm very, very fascinated by that whole thing. Good fight. Curtis Campbell, Dandy Silva.

That's going to be fun. Mason Jones versus Axel Sola. Nathania Wood versus Losing Cayeta. Very fun. Finally, we get the Cayeta debut. He was supposed to fight Patricia Pitbull. Fingers crossed, fingers crossed. Yeah.

The former Octagon champions. That should be a lot of fun. really like this fight. Mario Pinto versus Felipe Franco is happening. That is... If I'm going to bet on this fight, on any fight on this card, I have to see what the betting lines are for this fight.

Because if Mario Pinto is like minus 500, I might have to start my own climb here. If, honestly, this is... This could be the first step. This could be, this could be a mismatch of epic proportions. Are there odds for the, please tell me there's odds for this fight somewhere because I am curious. It has to be, it has to be minus $1,300. It has to be like minus $1,300.

It has to be only, only way to. Like this could be Ramona, Ramanoff, Chase Sherman territory. What is it? Oh, sorry. Hold on. I had to find the card. Okay, here it is. We are at Mario Pinto, Felipe.

Okay, I don't see. Oh, I only see minus 550 according to that's wild. according to topology let me go to fight odds I might have to start the old if you can find that those might be the best odds you can get yeah I don't know I'll have to go to fight odds.io and just see where if you keep going like keep going I'm looking at fan duel there's like no he's gone down we're not

we're not even putting this up I see as high as like minus 850 depending where you go which seems more reasonable but as low as minus 550 Mike that's those minus 550s we have Antonio Tricoli versus Mantas Contra Tevisius. Okay. Yeah. Louis Sutherland versus Brando Parachic. I'm sorry.

How many? Oh, two. Okay. There's just two heavyweight fights. Oh, boy. Kind of two and a half because I kind of feel like Ewo is going to get bumped up to like a heavyweight weight class. Got up a fight.

Shemrock is back inside the world's most hell of, uh, Halibh, uh, Halodd against Abdul Kareem El-Sawadi. Yeah. Shandelle Dyer versus Ravena Olavera. Okay.

And Melissa, Collins versus Luana Carolina at Bantamweight. Yeah, this, this, uh, teen fights, man. This, this might not be as brisk of 14 fight view. No, I don't think so.

But it is earlier in the day. I don't actually don't know if that makes things better. 1 p.m. Eastern main prelims, 4 p.m. Eastern main card, which means the post show is probably starting at 8 p.m. Right around there.

A main card could take a while. That could be a tough one. Don't we have other combat sports? this week, Mike. What's, is there no PFL. That's in Madrid. That's not this week. No, PFL is this week.

Yes. Okay, Friday on Friday. Yeah, that's the Constella von Steenis. That's kind of fun. Fabian Edwards card in Spain. Yeah, then going there before the UFC does. Yeah, that's pretty cool. Yeah.

Misfits Pro, I think, inaugural card. Miss Fitt's actual boxers, which I'm sure everyone loves. Can I just say that might be the worst idea in the history of time in this place? Like, what are we doing here? I don't know. But aren't they doing, aren't they doing the wilder Chisora fight next? month is that they're doing that i don't know i think it is is that not a misfits pro i don't want misfits associated with that with that oh that makes it worse you're you're more upset yeah yeah

they are the promoters of jasora wilder uh on april fourth you think i want to see peaceful face-to-face interviews i on a misfits youtube channel no i want to see influencers throwing chairs at each other with ben davis in the middle like that's what i want to see this is That's what Mississippi is all about. But yes. UFC London going down. That is the card. Then we're off to Seattle.

Then we're back to the apex with, that might be a tough one. And then Miami, Florida, here we come. April 11th, UFC 327. Very much looking forward to that card. Yeah, Seattle and RAF. That's going to be a busy last week of March. So lots going on.

You'll be there? You'll be there. I will be there. R.F. 7. Jose will be there for a couple days. We would not be there on fight night. but he will be there joining me for some fun stuff that we're going to be filming. Plus the press conference,

Armin and Georgio will be relaxed and not say a bad thing about one another. Kobe Covington, Dylan Danis, also on that card. So, yeah, a lot happening. Stick with us, M.A.fighting.com. It's a great website. We love you guys so much. And I will see you next week here and on to the next one, AKA enjoy your well-deserved weekend off, my man.

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