MMA Fighting - On To the Next One: Matches To Make After UFC Vegas 117

Episode Date: May 17, 2026

Arnold Allen got back in the win column by spoiling the first UFC main event spot for Melquizael Costa with fantastic showing int the main event of UFC Vegas 117. After his much-needed victory, where does "Almighty" go in the absolutely loaded featherweight division? On an all-new edition of On To the Next One, MMA Fighting's Mike Heck and Alexander K. Lee put on the matchmaking hats following the UFC's latest Fight Night event, and discuss what's next for Allen after his win over Costa? Additionally, future matchups are discussed for Doo Ho Choi after his Fight of the Night stoppage win over Daniel Santos, Juan Diaz following his finish win over Malcolm Wellmaker, along with fellow main card winners Modestas Bukauskas, Bernardo Sopaj, Khaos Williams, and more. Plus, some listener suggestions and thoughts on the MVP MMA event on Saturday. Follow Mike Heck: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@m_heckjr⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Follow Alexander K. Lee: ⁠⁠⁠⁠@AlexanderKLee⁠⁠⁠⁠ Subscribe:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ http://goo.gl/dYpsgH⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Check out our full video catalog: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠http://goo.gl/u8VvLi⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Visit our playlists:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ http://goo.gl/eFhsvM⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Like MMAF on Facebook: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠http://goo.gl/uhdg7Z⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Follow on Twitter: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠http://goo.gl/nOATUI⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Read More: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠http://www.mmafighting.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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UFC Vegas 117 event. Obviously I exaggerate a little bit, but I gotta tell you, had a fun time watching it. Jed and I were on UFC duty last night. It was not a horrible card. There are some fights that probably should never happen in a UFC Octagon, but all in all, I had a good time, and it was capped up by Arnold Allen

getting a dominant win over Melchie Costa in the main event. The Almighty is back. And so are we. Following this event, I am Mike Hacken joining me. As always, is the co-host, co-matchmaker,

the Prince of positivity, my best friend, Alexander Kaylee, AKA, how are we doing, how we feeling after a crazy Saturday night of the mixing of the martial arts? What's up,

my best friend? How are you feeling? How are you feeling? I'm not sure if everyone is able to sort of track the timeline of our, like, workflow on Saturday night. I think anyone who, like, I think everyone's aware. There was two events, obviously.

Most of the M.A. website is going to be a little more burdened than usual. But you had also a little announcement from our pal, Dana White, in glamorous fashion, sitting cage side at the apex. Is this stream working? Is it stream working? Okay, we've got Connor McGregor's coming back. He's playing. I mean, I guess it didn't matter that much.

This was like one of the worst kept secret. It wasn't even a secret. I think Dana had as much confirmed that, like, yeah, we're hoping to get Connor back in July. We know they have the pay for you in July. So it wasn't even a secret. So I guess he didn't need to do like a grandiose thing and treat it like it was some shocking thing.

But man, it felt weird, just the delivery. I know we've gotten Instagram live news bombs before, but like just so half-heartedly. And I know we know why. We know the timing of why, of course. But yeah, you had to hop on to a reaction show right away. No watch party last night. But obviously you guys are hopping on right after MEPMA is over.

You do another 90 minutes. And then you and Jose, part of the social teams, you guys kind of do a little bit of the cleanup. So you guys enjoying all that stuff on our Instagram and our Twitter, TikTok, whatever we're on. That's Jose and Mike chipping away at it, man. That's not, that's not AI. That's humanity. So we got, so Mike is here.

One more show for the weekend. One more for show at the weekend. Let me just say. Please. The clip cutting experience for M.A. fighting is typically a lot easier because we're watching like a live stream and like we know what's being said at the time it's being said. So I cut all those clips without watching a second of the post fight stuff.

So I had to go through and watch all of it. Every single one of them. Every single scrum from start to finish to figure out what I needed to cut. That was tough, man. I don't really like, I'm not even complaining. I'm just like, I'm half of where I am right now. It was not expecting to do that. And like I'm on like two hours of sleep right now.

You're on the fumes of the fumes. The fumes of the fumes. The gasoline is gone. The fumes are gone. There's still some lingering fumes. That is what Mike is riding on right now. But we had a pretty okay night of action, like you said. Vegas 117 definitely, I think it helps the prelims over delivered at first.

I think we're off some good vibes early on. And we're not, for all the people come out there, like, oh, you were too quick to judge this card or per-oh. No, on paper. On paper, a brutal card. On paper, a brutal card. But that's kind of like why I think, guys, when we tell you that stuff, we're not like telling you, one, we're telling you you don't have to watch, which I still think is true. I think if you miss 117, I'm not going to tell you like, oh, you've got to go back and watch the whole thing. No, you're all right.

If you watched it, you're fine. If you didn't watch it, guess what? You're probably also fine. But also, I think for ourselves a little bit in the media, because we cover every event, we kind of have to lower our own expectations properly. So then when a card like this plays out the way it did, we're like, we're like pleasantly surprised. I'm still not calling it like an event of the year. I'm not saying an amazing show.

But listen, when you get finishes, when you get two strawweight bouts, Mike, that end in finishes. I mean, that is a treat. You cannot complain. playing the main card that was pretty interesting as well i think uh the top two fights very exciting top two fights um yeah a good time a good time uh MVP was its own was its own beast but i know you've you've talked about that a lot already yeah like Vegas 117 is fine like again you have to you just have to taper your expectations the right way and and that's what jett and i did we just went in there like look this is this is what we're doing tonight like MVP was the laptop fodder for

a while while we're watching the ufc and we're just like okay like not bad there are Like shot we should not be watching certain fights as UFC fans, but look man like it wasn't bad. We saw first ever from Alice Arde Leon. I forget that the capsule lock. I believe it was called. A lot. Yeah. Awesome.

Like it was just so crazy. So we got some things we hadn't seen. It was nice to see the return of Bernardo Suppai. Dude is super fun. And you can all like I will judge a UFC event by on to the next one because it took. It took me literally 14 seconds to do this today. Um, because there's, I get, cause it's just an event that like, outside of the main event, like, we're never gonna talk.

We probably won't even talk much about the main event after today. Um, all the headlines are gonna be on MVP and like the good, the bad and the ugly. But if you watch the event, like you, you, you had a good time. If you watch both cards last night, like miles may, mileage may vary, but I know I had a decent time. I, like, I didn't have a bad night watching those events, but, AKA, I'll throw it to you. I'm going to let you do your thing here.

Yeah. We're not going to matchmake for the MVP card because it's ridiculous to even attempt to do that because we don't know what this is yet. We don't even know if it's real. We don't know if this is a one-off. We don't know what the numbers are. And that is going to literally dictate all of this for us. But you are on MVP duty.

You are one of our MP guys. You live blogged. I think the entire main card. That is, that is hero stuff too. Yeah, it was kind of easy too because there were a bunch of finishes. but please. You know, from the heart, let us all know your thoughts, your experiences, everything you came away from, came away with following MVP MMA1.

Yeah. First of all, thank you Netflix producers for timing, like their top two fights. I mean, there's a lot of delays. And I think it's because I'm pretty sure Francis was watching the Doho Choi Daniel Santos fight. Like, I feel like that has to be the explanation for it. Because, yeah, if you guys were watching the events concurrently, yeah, the breaks at Netflix, you know, weren't ideal. There was a lot of gaps between fights. So if you were only watching Netflix MMA, you're probably a little confused.

But it kind of worked out neatly because we had, again, before the Francis fight, so before the co-main event, whatever you guys want to call it, before the third fight of the main card, there was a gap. And you got to see the whole Choi Santos fight, which went what, two rounds. went to the second or late into the second round and that was a great fight that's so fun to watch love the matchmaking there it looked great on paper it turned out great and you got to watch the whole thing i think i swear maybe francis maybe philippines big uh duho choi fans said they got to watch my korean superboy before i walk out and then we had a similar thing sort of happen in between the uh Nate dyes fight and the um Nate dyes fight perry fight excuse me and the main event where there was obviously a long wait for gina and ronda and you got to see uh pretty much the entirety of Alan and McKizel Costa, which is also a pretty solid fight. So in that sense, I guess I can say the Netflix pacing worked out. But for the majority of viewers, who we don't know, could be anywhere from $5 million if it was a disaster to $25 million. Yeah, you were dealing with a lot of waiting time.

You were dealing with a lot of waiting time. And some of it was analysis, which was fine, if that's your thing, not my favorite type of broadcast. And some of it was just straight up music, just music, and a screen of Netflix, MMP, MMA will return. So not ideal. And I know this was all pre-planned. I think they knew fights like Francis's fight could end fast.

I think they knew their rebels to Spain, juniors' dissenters fight could end fast. So I think their plan was always to fill time and always make it feel like a boxing card. I'm not the first person to say this. This is literally what almost every MMA journalist was saying during the show. was like, man, this feels boxingy. Maybe that works for a card like, you know,

Jake Paul, Anthony Joshua, Jake Paul, Mike Tyson. I'm just talking about Netflix boxing cards here, guys. Maybe this works for that. You have a different kind of audience. The rhythm of a boxing event is different. The fights themselves are turning longer. Like you have like a, you know, a 12 round fight. Maybe you need a little bit of a break.

I don't know. Maybe you want to get to the next fight. But I get it. This is sort of how boxing traditionally works. M.A has become like that more recently, and it shouldn't be. We complained when PFL started doing podcasts like this. We said, this is horrible.

Why are they doing this? Why are they stretching things out? That's not an anime should be. And it seems to always be the case where the prelims and mostly undercard, boom, boom, boom, it's running. It's snapping. I'm like, man, this card is flowing. This is great.

If you watch the MVP-M-A, like YouTube part, I think it was like a, they peaked at like 200,000, maybe 200,000 current viewers. And look, they deserved it because those fights were just flowing. And then you hit the main card and you got to have all this analysis. And you bring in, frankly, quite a few personalities who I don't think are amazing at breaking down fights or or if you even think they're good they're put in this tough position where there's not a lot to say there's not a lot of it's not a lot to say about what uh what happened between robes of spain and juno de centos and what happened between uh you know francis and ganu

and philippe lins we don't need a 10 minute breakdown of a of a three minute fight is it's crazy it's crazy so that part i didn't enjoy overall the card was a solid bee i thought um i had no problem the main event. I thought it was funny. I just laughed. I totally agree with Jed's take. Like, maybe we could have used a little more showmanship. Like, I never thought that was going to. Like, I know, I know, Michael. Listen, I never

thought that was going to happen because I'm like, Rousey's, Roddy's a competitor. She's a competitor. Like, even if she could reasonably drag this out a couple of rounds, like she was so safe. She's not going to do it. Once she goes in there, she just sees red and she's going to kill. And she's actually that she didn't really want to hurt Gina. So I guess this was the fastest way to do it. And she

has somewhat of a reputation to maintain a bad reputation, you might say. That was terrible. But you know what the card was really missing, Mike? It didn't feel fun. Really? There was not a lightness to it. Like, I think some of it, I thought Mike Perry, Nate Diaz was great, super fun.

It's a little sad to see how slow Nate Diaz is now. Like the legendary cardio. I mean, it goes quickly when I do is punching your peeling the head. So that I enjoyed. Like, I enjoyed the card as an M. May fan. I don't know if you're a casual M.A. fan that you had a great time. I don't know if you saw either a new M.A. or someone who hadn't watched, let's say you hadn't watched M.A. in like 10 years.

You're like, oh, I want to see how much it has changed. I don't know if you got that much out of it. I think you're just like, oh, okay, it's cool. Like some faces I recognize, fast finishes, that's fun. But all the breaks, all the, I don't know, the post-fight interviews felt pretty generic. Like, it just didn't feel fun. And that's why I'm giving it a B. I enjoyed it as a fight fan.

I'm very curious. I wish we could have someone on the show, Mike, who had never watched MMA before. Like, it was like, you know, a sports fan. Maybe it was like a generally a sports fan, but I'd never really watched MMA. I would love to get their read on it. Because I don't really know anyone like that, unfortunately. So I had people hitting me up last night who are barely casual MMA fans, but they're like, oh, I'm going to watch.

They were not happy that they wasted their Saturday night watching it. They were not happy at all. Some of them blame me. They're like, oh, it's because you cover the sport or, you, work in the industry like we gave it a chance. It's like, this is bad. I could have literally done anything else. I'm like, sorry? Like, I didn't tell you to watch it. I didn't buy your Netflix subscription for you. Like that is, you made a choice. You have to deal with the choice. Now, I didn't really have a choice, but to watch, technically I didn't have to watch it because I wasn't

even covering it. I was on UFC duty, but I chose to watch it. But I also chose to understand what this was. And my biggest takeaway from this, I think B's okay. I think this went about as I'm not going to say what about as good as it could of like in terms of the fights it went about as good as it could have if we got three five rounds slog fest at the end like that would been real bad if we just had five terrible fights with no finishes that would have been real bad we had juno santos just get obliterated knocked back two decades parnass is the friggin man he was the MVP no pun intended of like the entire night he was so good and gano gave us the the nuking.

Mike Perry beat the shit out of Nate Diaz, but it was still kind of fun. Got a lot of blood. So if you're a new MMA fan, you're like, ooh, I'm going to go in and watch fights. Like, you got what you wanted. You got a blood bath from Mike Perry and Nate Diaz. And then Rhonda, I mean,

again, the main event always sort of signifies everything. The casual audience was hilarious on Twitter. It was just like, fixed, bullshit. What are we doing? And then I'm saying, I'm like, have you ever, like, do you not know, who Ronda Rousey is? Like this was always this was always the results from minute

one when this fight was announced. Ronda tackle Arm bar dunzo. Like this is it. So I get but I get why people didn't love it. I totally understand. Absolutely. Totally get it. MVP's got a lot. I mean they literally they need to go on

you know how corporate companies are like yeah we got to find something let's go on a corporate retreat up in the mountains and we don't come down until until we have this all figured out. They need to do that for like a month if they're going to keep doing this. Netflix is going to have to be all in. They're going to have to give them all the money

to accomplish what they want. They got to blow this whole thing up, though. They have to start over from scratch. I don't want them to do another event this year. Do not do one. If you're moving forward, take the rest of the year off and figure this out. Wow.

Take some time and work on it. I and the they have to listen to the MMA fans and I'm not talking about the one the winers and the complainers and the ones who don't watch and chose this event and now they're experts don't listen to those people listen just go on Twitter and just find the accounts that you would sort of rely on you know who's who like if you know you know it's pretty obvious it's pretty easy to tell uh blow it all up man all like the the broadcast all of it should look 1,000% everything should look different from the second show to the first every single thing should be different please um nothing should take long no more hour long press

conferences 22 minutes of fighting should not take three and a half hours it shouldn't that's crazy everything went way longer than it should have this is not boxing i'm with you this is not boxing this is m m m mc in and out call r a f call eric bischoff get eric bischoff in there to produce this shit because he figured it out he figured out how to do this to make it fast people would people people would have been fined if this was one finish

but it lasted two hours and 15 minutes they would have been fine with it people have shit to do they give lives no one wants to watch MMA till fucking two o'clock in the morning they just don't so take the rest of the year off man like if the number's big awesome now take that take that number

know that you can do this and just build it up, man. Like drop a trailer, do something. Be like, wait to you see what you have. Pipe it up next event, March 2027, something of that nature. And then go do it. But no more MMA this year, MVP, don't do it.

I was hoping for more, but don't do it. The worst case scenario unfolded. Remember my big complaint going into like this car remark was like, it feels like an MMA show. Like it feels like it's structured like a modern MMA show. And we say this all the time about the UFC. Like you said, we don't want to be up to 2 a.m. Thank goodness they move.

They bump the times back. But there was a time like so many UFC shows were just exhausted by the end. Like we're just, we're not going, we're not going out on a high. I think that was a huge problem in the UFC. And now here comes MEPM and Netflix saying, well, we're, you know, we're sort of an alternative. You know, we are a competition of the UFC. And then you put on a show that gives me that same feeling at the end. Like by the time, Ronda just put Gino away in seconds.

I wasn't, I wasn't wanting more. I think that's the issue. I was like mostly satisfied and I was like, okay, now we need to move on. And again, we have a different vibe because, you know, we finish a card and we have to do all this post-flight work. But I think, as you said, even some of your friends who watch were just, we're like, that's it. And it's one in the morning now, wherever you are, you know, wherever you have me watching. You're like, okay, I'm done. I don't even want to think about this tomorrow.

Like, I made it, I made it through. And that's what I mean when it doesn't feel fun. I love what you said to REF because, frankly, like those events, for the most part, they kind of leave you wanting more. And that's why they've been able, I think, to have such a rapid, like, monthly event thing because, yeah, they keep it tight. And they're like, oh, wow. And I only have to wait another 30 days to watch more RIF.

I'm not, if they told me there's another MVP card, like at the end of the summer or something, I'm like, my enthusiasm levels are not going to be super high. It depends who's on it. But I don't want more of this style of broadcast. It's not fun to me. That said, Mike, I think we will see them again. I will say, like, not like a Christmas thing, but I feel like they're going to try and do a late 2026 show. I don't know they need to get Francis or they need to get Nate back or they need

to have one of these names from this card. And I don't know if that's possible, frankly. Again, it sounds like all these people were on one fight deals as far as we know. So I don't know if that's possible. And we're not doing. We know what they're going to do. They're going to do Francis rebellus. They're going to and they're going to run for some weird reason. They're going to run back Mike Perry versus ATS. I don't want to say that where there is like literally zero controversy. It was an ass whoopin from start to finish. Like, we don't need to see this again, but apparently they are all in on doing this again.

So I guess we're going to see it again. But yeah, overall, yeah. No, you know, not a bad experience at all. I think it was okay. I think your friends are being too harsh on you. I will say, Mike, just because you didn't tell them to watch it. You didn't tell them not to watch it. So that is your fault.

That is my Kek's fault. Mike Hex friends, you're right. My best friend was a little irresponsible. He didn't tell. He should have told you not to cross the street. Okay, he should tell you not to cross the street. He just put his hands up and say, hey, you want to cross the street?

Have fun. This, I'm literally reading a text from a buddy I went to high school. Oh boy, here we go. How could you eff and do this to me? What the F did I just watch? I hate myself. That, that is a text. Okay.

I hope your friend is doing better. Your friend has his own things going on. I just did the laughing emoji and did that, yeah. It was probably more out of like showmanship and gamesmanship, but it was very funny. I'm sure he's feeling better this morning. But yeah, MVP, a lot of stuff to work. Like you said, Mike, a lot of stuff to work. I'm on major overhauls.

You got to change the flavor. You got to establish more of your own identity because this felt familiar in like the wrong ways. Yeah. As combat support, not just, not just UFC, not just NPA,

I'm including PFL, other promotions of this. As combat sports fans, we feel a little tired of this kind of presentation. Yep. It was a, yeah, I hope the number's huge.

I think it will be. I'm still saying 20 million plus. I'm standing by. That'd be awesome. That'd be awesome. I think we're going to end up like around 12, but God, I hope you're right. I hope a billion people

watched it. I really do. So I can tell you what a billion people do not watch. They did not watch UFC Vegas 117, but I was one of the few, and I had a good time. And we watched Arnold Allen just beat Melchie Costa, man. Like, this is a great performance. I'm fine with the five rounds to Arnold. Jed

wasn't. He said he could actually maybe give two rounds to Melchie Costa. I don't know if I agree with that, but 49, 46, 5045, all fine with me. Arnold Allen is back. And I'm just going to warn everybody. I'm not spending a lot of time here. This is not going to be a long show.

We are going to fly through this stuff. I'm just going to go right out and tell you, A.K. There's a fight coming up, June 14th at the White House between Diego Lopez and Steve Garcia. Arlau is going to fight the winner of that fight, and that's that. My friend, we're so close to my friends forever moment. I think I just can't do that because I think on a previous show, I wanted the winner of that fight for Vichéjos.

I think that's what I did. I think I said Vichéjahos gets the winner. But definitely one of those guys is fighting Alon. I'm taking the loser from the U.C. White House fight. It just makes a lot of sense. Arnold Allen, frankly, is in a little bit of limbo. And he's not quite out of the title contention yet. He's kind of like in that Sean Brady position

where it's like he needed this win for sure for us to ever view him as a title contender. Stayed alive. Stayed alive, did what he's supposed to do. Fought a lower-rank guy, very dangerous guy. Melki, I thought Melki put in a great effort. But a guy who had never gone five rounds, a guy who had never gone in five rounds.

And I don't know if that was the difference. Like, I don't think Melki, like, faded. I don't think it was like, oh, he clearly got like blown out, rounds four and five. But yeah, I do think that kind of experience matters. And also the high level experience, Arnold Allen is fought versus the, you know, not quite there yet with Melki. But, yeah, good effort, good win for Arnold Allen. He and the team should keep on that White House fight for sure. Yeah.

And you know what, AK? Oddly enough, I match made for Melki Costa as well. Okay. If you're going to go back and watch one thing from this event, I'm sure you saw the Alice Ardea Leon's submission. If you're going to go back and watch a fight from start to finish, go watch Doho Choi versus Danny Santos. That fight rocked. They beat the brakes off each other. It was fantastic.

And Melki Costa is going to fight Dooh Choi now. And that would be super fun. That's a great pick. I'm happy that my pick I have not used it for. I think you couldn't use the name I'm about to use because I think you've already done some crystal balling for this guy. I need to see Dooh Choi and Aaron Pico. I need to see it. I love that.

It's crazy. And I know, look, I know, do Ho Choi is like, it's crazy. Like, he's 35. So it sounds like, man, you know, you can't do that with him. Like, he's, he's near, it feels like he should be near the end of his career and getting more age appropriate matchmaking. But he doesn't really fight like that. I mean, just, he just beat Daniel Santos. Not a super young guy, but a guy who's like, feels a bit fresher and newer to the promotion.

So yeah, give me the Korean Superboy and Pico at some point. Maybe it's not next. But if we could get it next. Oh, man. I want it. I want it. It'll probably end in. half a round.

But boy, what a half round it will be. Whatever Pico does next, we need him to lose. Then we can have that. Okay. Because they're going to try to do, they're going to try to push him. They're right. I know. I know.

I know. Yeah. It's true. I'll tell you what, man. Juan Diaz, what an impressive young man he is. Boy, did he hammer out Malcolm Wallmaker. And one of the other things that annoyed me about MMA Twitter was, uh, oh, Malcolm's fraud checked.

This guy sucks. What are we doing here? I mentioned on the post-fight show the fight graphic, well, this is the fight to make, and they had Malcolm Wellmaker and Gina Carano next to each other. Like, I mean, come on. I'm here to tell you, this is, if you go back and, like, listen to all the shows

where we talked about Malcolm Wellmaker, like, this is who I told you he was. He is Bantamweight Terrence McKinney at best. Like, that's just who he is. Like, he's fun. He is a highlight real machine. If you give him the right opposition, he got in the sport a little too late he's a little rough around the edges he's green as grass

and when you put him up against good dudes he's not going to beat him and juan dyes is a good dude so this is not a fraud check this is just kind of what like when terence mcanny fights good dudes he loses like that's just how the sport works he's never really in a bad fight but juan dyes is very very good so who do we match up for juan here that was a that was a hell of an outing for him going out there and just dominating and stopping poor Malcolm Wellmaker and leading to some more horrible DC commentary in the process. I'm not even going to talk about it. I had most of Vegas on mute.

I would say that. So I did not hear a lot of it. Thank goodness. A quick thought on Wellmaker. Yeah, you're right. It's just tough being a, it's tough being a 31-year-old bantamweight prospect. That's a very difficult thing to be. It's not a young man's division.

And obviously a talented guy, like you said, a little bit of a late start. And yeah, it's in and I don't. be the matchmakers having to book him because he's only has 12 pro bouts after last night. So like you can't, you need to kind of push him a little bit quickly just because of his age. Like if you want to go like a slow burn by the time you start putting him against, you know, top 20 guys, he'll be 33 years old. And that's not a fun place for him to be. So you kind of have to find the right competition. I think Juan Diaz maybe was in the right range. But Diaz, I realized is also very similar to Ethan Ewing a little bit and as far as movement. And like I, anyone can read my prediction. I said all this stuff like,

Oh, Juan Diaz is going to get Malcolm. I'll make her a lot of problems because this, this, this. And then I pick Wallmaker to win because I'm an idiot. So congrats to Juan Diaz. It looks very UFC ready. I do not think he needed to go through the contender series. Should have just been signed. And he will fight Rinya Nakamura.

That's where I landed on. We can go in a lot of directions here. I landed on Rania. Yeah. I mean, we might as well just do like one, two, three. Who do we pick? Because literally all dart throws the rest of the way. Who you got?

Who you got? I would Demand Blackshare. Nice. That's just fun. Yep. Maybe a little too soon. But I don't care. I want to see, I think he has a, he has a good chance of beating Devon Blackshare,

and I kind of want to see that fight. That fight is just going to be super fun. Jed mentioned this, and I agree with him. Modestis Bacoscus did something that is very rare in this sport. He won, but lost luster in a big way, man. He fought Christian Edwards, who, you know, good for him getting the call, being in the right place of the right time. He's not a UFC fighter.

he's just not a UFC fighter man I mean he got obliterated by the goat big tuna just I mean like this is just kind of what it is right now Modesta should have ran him over in two minutes and while I agree with Jed

that you know you're preparing for one opponent and then you just the switch of another this did not inspire a lot of confidence in the Modestis Poccas fan base and unfortunately my best friend and maybe I'm just padding stats for myself

I don't really know Medesda Picoscus has a date with destiny for his next fight and it's not a good one it's not going to be a destiny that when he thinks where he's going he's not going to end up in a good place he's going to be on the wrong end of

of the Avengers end game kind of stuff he's fighting Iwo Baranuski after Ewo he just up polarates poor dude on June 6th And that is going to go horribly wrong from Modestas Bukascusas. I think now we can kill the band. Yeah. I think now we can kill the band. Yeah.

Okay. One, two, three. Friends forever. Yes, it is Ewo Baranuski after he beats Billy Alicana, Mike. Billy Alacana. I'm sorry. It's okay. It's fine.

UFC Vegas 118, June 6. Yeah. I was looking a little, I was like, I can't look upwards for Modestis. I don't think he gets a bump up in huge bump up in competition after this. So I do have to go back a little bit. And I'm like, who would it be fun to see him defend his number again? Like, he's not top of team, but he would, you know, I think top 20 at light heavyweight. Who can, who deserves to get a shot at his number?

Yes, it is Ewo if he beats Billy. So I don't want to rule out Modest is winning because like I think he's really talented still. He's tough, but he's so inconsistent. And it does feel like he is just waiting for someone to come and come and catch him. Because, yeah, he's got to do better against Christian Edwards. All respect to guy. Christian Edwards, like a journeyman. like the definition of a journeyman right now modesta's got to get too bad than that yeah i mean

on him like it didn't never thought i'd see a world where christian edwards was in the ufc especially after the big tuna night um just like okay like this is this is who he is it's very hard like it's not easy to get to the ufc so good autumn i just didn't see it coming and there he was and gave cacca's a competitive fight and i'll get another shot they'll give him another fight christian others will get another fight in the ozc uh it's great to have bernardous to pie back in our lives. That dude rules. That damn Timmy Kwanba, making us wait, making us wait

until the end of the friggin' morning way-ins, and then making the wait and not giving us one fighter misses on the headline. How dare you, Timi Kwamba? Dastardly. That dashedly, Timmy Kwamba, but Bernard Sopai was like, you know what? I'll take care of this for you. And boy, did he.

He's been out for a long-ass time. Goes out there and gets the win. A.K., should we play Bernadar Sopai versus who? One, two, three game? we can i think there's zero chance one two three rickie simone oh okay wow you we went in super opposite direction yeah you're you're wanting to see him get a step up oh god yeah this is rules i i want to see him get a third straight win before uh before i get like i want to see him get a same style a little bit uh city did have an injury recently some some months ago and i believe it was just a

dislocation so i think his plan was to come back some time in twenty 26 and yeah when he comes back I would love to see him against so pi still don't he's a young he's what's 25 so pie yeah he's young he's a young man this is a prospect now this this is a guy who's in that sweet sweet bantamweight prospect range where he's got experienced he's he's in the uccc he's just really starting to boom he's really separating himself from uh whatever tier you put him in third or fourth tier the bantam weights so yeah maybe it's time to move him up like you said mike against veteran like rickie simone i'm not there yet i'm not there yet uh i've no problem with it i could see him beating Ricky for sure, but Ricky's a super, super, super tough test still.

He kind of really bounced back from a little slump he had there for a while. So I'm going a little more lower experience just to see if he's really, because if he runs through City, he's like a tough guy, but, you know, I think would be like plus 350, probably in that matchup. If he takes care of business, okay, I can reevaluate. But yeah, I like supply. I didn't match for K.S. Williams at all. I just said May 2026.

Because he's fighting in May. That's right. He's taking a year off. He's fighting in May. I just literally I wrote Chaos Williams versus anybody in May 2027. So did you have an actual opponent in mine?

I tried to prognosticate, yes. So this would be, so as we have said many times, he is like an ancient beast who should only arise once a year. There was a time. For some reason, he was only fighting in May.

And he went two and one. He's won his last three now, though. He's won his last three in May. He fought us out of May two times before this and lost. Shouldn't have done it. Should have done it. Yeah. So I randomly picked out Sam Patterson.

A year from now, San Patterson will be in that Chaos Williams range, or Michael or vice versa, chaos Williams, be in the San Patterson range. And that is the fight that will happen either at an apex or maybe, maybe Chaos Williams gets to go jolly old England. I don't know, but that's my random pick. But yes, May 2020. There we go.

Let's go to the wild card round, AK. Do we need to? Do you know what my pick is? You went to the house, didn't you? No. There was a lot of great women's MMA options. but there's only one fight I want, Mike, in the UFC. And it's still alive.

And they have to give it to me. What is it, okay? Tell them. Tell him. Give me Yvonne Erslan versus Ebo fucking Aslan. Okay? I don't ask for a lot as a fan. I don't.

Look how nice I was about the MVP I make cards. A lot of meaner stuff I could have said about that. There's a lot of mean more stuff I could have said about the Vegas 117 card on paper. I'm the print of positivity. I'm pretty nice. What do I have to do? What do I have to do? They even had them fight on the same card recently.

Remember that? You get Ebon and Yvonne on the same card. I'm like, what are you doing? Why are you doing this to me? So if Yvonne Ursula lost to Tokutucus, probably we would not see him in the UFC anymore. But he didn't. He won a decision.

He's still alive. You start to match me for him. And I believe Ebo Asla, I'm almost going to screw up their names now. I believe Ibo Aslan is unbooked. Give me Evo Aslan, Yvon, Ercelon. It's all I want. It's all I want this year. We will do a live reaction

to that. We will do like, no. I'll film it on my phone. I don't care. Like, I was wherever I am. Look, I don't have a big story about this. Tommy Gant is a pretty good lightweight. He's old, or which I don't love. But he's going to get some wins. So we're going to give him Jai Herbert.

We're giving him Jai Herbert. Let him fight him. And Daniel Cormier should be banned from Caged Side. No, it's just honestly a thing that like should be a UFC rule across the board. If a dude is not only part of your team, but if he is living in your frigging house, you should not be allowed to broadcast. You should not be allowed to commentate this fight.

When DC said that, he goes, if you see a guy in a golf cart riding around my street, it's Tommy Gant. I'm like, he's like, that dude is literally living in my house. I'm like, no. You should go smoke a cigarette, dude. Go take a coffee break. Go outside. Take a stroll. Take a walk.

Do something. You should not be on the broadcast. team during that. And I would say that about anybody else. I'd say it about Felder. Felder's excused himself from broadcast before. We've said this. We've said this before. It's come out. We've literally said this about Felder before. Yeah. So, yeah, man. But Gantford versus Herbert's really fun. So let's do that. Yeah, that's that's that's that's Vegas 117. But we'll rifle through some fan picks. Uh, before we roll out of here. We'll start with Trevor, our guy Trevor. Uh, Alan versus Aljo for the number one contender spot. Wozhar gets a shot, and he's saying Inganu versus John Jones on Netflix in December.

Can I just say, do yourselves a favor? Don't even think about Francis John Jones. The UFC's never, ever going to let that happen. John Jones has six fights left on his contract. Zero zippity-doodah chance. Unless John Jones wants to pony up $20 million to just hand them in a briefcase. He ain't going anywhere. They will never let him out of that contract.

There you have it. Ouch. Let's go to Robbie. Let's get Otno dudes. I've omitted Rousy Carrano matchups before the fight even starts. All right. Arnold Allen versus Lorne Murphy, Costa versus Sabatini, Perry Diaz, 2 in the UFC.

Doho Choi Cheppe Mariska. I like that fight. Juan Diaz versus Benardo Suppai, like that. Wildcard. Ingana versus Lins was possibly the worst mismatch I've ever seen in professional MMA. Well, clearly he did not watch Razzie Corado. He will not go back to the UFC.

There is no one to fight an MVP or PFL. John Jones won't commit even if he could contractually. The only answer, if Francis wants respect over money, is to head on over to one and fight in Tully Malcon. Who also retired. Yeah. I forgot about that. I forgot about that.

It's a freeze, man. We've got to get him in there with Big Phil. Yeah. You got to get it a big Philly style somehow. I don't know. Because if they could do it in KSW, man, that's, that would be huge. One of the Coliseum events. Oh, my gosh.

The atmosphere would be amazing. Dude, I'm sorry. There's only one fight for our guy, Francis, and it's Eddie Hall. Nothing else matters. Nothing else makes sense. Oh, God. Just give us that and the world will be happy. Nikisa, Jake, you want to make the fans happy?

You want to make everybody happy? You want to do a billion views? Francis versus Eddie Hall. Nothing more, nothing less. New Year's Eve show this year. New Year's. Oh, my God. We just fixed it.

We fixed it. I have to go back into that column. Let's go to Micah, Arla, versus Steve Garcia, Lopez loser, Melkees-A-Lal, Superboy Pitbull. Juan Diaz versus Sayyed Marmaga-Madoff. Bacoscus versus Jacoby. Supai versus Wellmaker.

Oh, God. Can't do that, poor Malcolm. Got to get Malcolm win. That's got to be real bad for him. Williams versus Ramiz Brahimage. MVP. Engano versus Eddie Hall. Let's go in four-ounce boxing.

The people have spoken. Diaz versus Danis. Perry versus Jason. I don't know if that goes very well for Mike Perry, dismayne versus Will Flurry, the Octagon double champ for the Ingano sweepstakes. Wow. Now we're thinking outside the box. I like this. Pradas versus Shade de Love at 145 pounds.

Fizil versus Armand at RAF. Stop stealing my ideas. Amo picks for the week. Both cards are pretty good. But yeah, dude. So it's all right. RIF should have already, this thing should already be booked. It might, it might be.

I honestly feel like some. of this pre this week hype was like there's a handshake agreement like yeah is this milwaukee is this the july milwaukee yeah they just can't announce it because he already has two fights booked on his resume uh schedule right now armin yes i need i need i need i need some raf like i need to cleanse my soul with some raf they've been gone for too long so i'm excited to douse in a couple weeks uh john ray caliari versus brazil versus the schnell rodriguez winner artile versus palastry brundage azi diaz viera versus paena i don't think julia is coming back to fight kill viera uh gans versus mahashata urslan versus aslin no friends forever needed aka williams versus

jukwani so pye versus gafferophukas jacobo diz lacerda duhoi versus d'a yge by the way dan yge may be moving to bannamweight i know people are running with it oh he's moving to bannam he is not officially moving to Bannamway if you watch one of my interviews with Eric Nixick over the past couple of weeks, they're going to do a test cut. I believe in June, they're going to cut him to 1.40, and then they're going to run him through like a hard sparring day

or like a hard day at the gym and see how he reacts to it. And if he goes through well, then they're going to give it a shot. So did no official move to Bantamway yet. So I just want to put that out there. So yeah, maybe Duhchoie versus Ege is on the table. Costa versus Marion Santos, Alan versus Murphy on the next UK card. You know what? Murphy, Allen is probably the fight to make.

I kind of F that one up. There's some heat there too. Yeah, yeah. The two UK boys. I don't know. Maybe it seemed too obvious to me, but I get it. Yeah, if they're going back to London or something or somewhere in England, yeah. Harry, Brundage versus Bekeyev, Gantt versus Taco Padillo.

I like that fight. He's 34 and I'm already can miss his prime if we're following A.K.'s three fight rule, Gage Young. Okay. Chaos and Patterson. There you go. Supai versus Christian Rod Christian Kenyones. Juan Diaz, Davey Grant.

Damn, that's really fun. Wellmaker versus Jamie Sarage. We're taking drastic measures to get it right. Hey, watch. Don't mess with my Canadian boys. All right. It's not like, you don't want that smoke. That is actually probably the matchup, though.

You don't want that. You don't want that smoke. Doho versus Pitbull. I didn't realize the duo, I try to call the Pitbull, but I like this fight. Oh, yeah. But I prefer Salal. All right, we're going big step up.

Alan versus Aaron Pico is what Harry wants to see. Hmm. We'll end here with left lane, least for me. Alan Yair, Melkeyev versus Nathaniel Wood. Like that fight, too. Choi versus Emmett, Diaz versus Font. Bacoscus, Jacoby, Supai versus Simone, Williams versus Gunner Nelson next May,

because that's the only person I could reasonably assume will be out for that long. Oh, nice. Well done. Another Erzlan Oslin. Gant Mike Davis who I like that one. Vieira versus Janice Santos

two brunch, Gautier. Damn. The man just got to win. He was due. And now you're going to feed him to Gaudier. Come on. You know that was his sixth fight in 14 months? He's, like he just kept plugging away.

Like, eventually, I'm going to get somebody. That was a start. I'm getting paid and I'm going to get somebody. And he did. Art of Leon versus Colvich. Is he still fighting? Question mark. Gruel versus Park.

Kelly Arii versus Alan Carr. Brez, Vianna, Petroski and Tokos can part ways with the promotion MVP ronda versus holm geron ain't fighting again uh i do the second ronda tackled her in two seconds that she's never fighting again uh francis versus rebellus peri versus till assuming he beats chalmers not gonna happen but i'd love to see parnass versus usen or maga mcdaf versus uh pumae nakuta so there you go

what do you got all right uh great picks man great picks so far i don't think i need to read all mine uh i only got a handful anyway like five or six people of course the usual just absolute hardcores. I'm just looking at my Instagram. Of course I got some, Jared Bioggan. Jared Bioggan. What do we got here? Arnold Allen and Yair.

Melkei, Josh Emmett, Duho Choi, David Onama. I like that. I thought about that. Juan Diaz, Ricky Simone. There you go. Kuomba, Zhao Long. Bukascus, Iwo, Billy Alicana winner.

Yeah, man, listen, we're on the same page with a lot of these picks. Like, I think a lot of people know what the people want. No mention of Aslan, Ursulon. Go on Drive, we can do better than that. Netflix, MA, Rousie Home 2, as you said, Mike Rousey is done. Karano Zengano, it sounds nice. It makes her a good hashtag.

No. Stop it. Stop it. All of you. Perry versus Cedricque Dumbay. Pfell needs to do something with Dumbay. I don't know. Parnas Dumbay is the fight to be.

Come on now. That's what you got to do. Henganu versus Rico after he loses to Ussick. Yeah, that's certainly in play, for sure. Robles versus Artum Vacatov. Yeah, bring in Bakatov. Why not? Marais versus Mokaiv after he wins in Spain.

Wait, Mokaiv has his next fight already? Yeah, I forget he's fighting, though. Okay. The enthusiasm is pouring out of you. Tristan, go to the emails. Tristan Gordat, Tommy Gant and Cody Steele, had Steele face in Camillo, but Camillo's got both two fight,

Satikov and Baku. Sure, I wouldn't mind that. Alice Ardellian, Stephanie Luciano, sure. Man, a lot more Alice Adelian talk than I thought we'd have today. Lucas Cortes, hey, A.K., hope you enjoyed the fights.

MP was fine times. At least the last two, UFC fights are very good, sure. What was Arnold's Allen deal afterwards? He said he'd been F in the B. That's not what Lucas wrote by decisions before, which has never happened. All of his loss has been clear in the UFC. I think he thought he had a, I think he thought he had a case for the Moversar fight.

Yeah, he feels he won the Mozar fight. And that's fine. And a lot of other people thought he won the Mozart fight too. So there you go, that was the one. I don't know if he's talking about Max. I thought Max was pretty clear. It was a competitive fight. So I don't know if he's talking about that.

But Lucas doesn't agree. He says all of his loss and clear. What about Mariahs holding that choke after the bell? You guys listen to Mike and Jed on the post-vite show. I don't want to get into this. You can listen to their thoughts. That was, but also that was BS. Herb Dean's not good.

And then you add in Mike Belchand helping with their view. I mean, that's a real meeting of the minds right there. I was like, as soon as I saw that, they went to that shot of those two characters looking over the footage. I'm like, there's no chance they're going to get this right. There's no chance they're going to get this right. I think both them are very, very poor officials. And Kudo was definitely awake when the bell rang since he immediately said that was after the bell when he woke. Yeah, he was awake.

He was totally awake until the bell rang and Maraich held onto it. It was dirty stuff. And the Moraes, you know, that's always cheap. Bad, but you got away with it. Really, Herb Dean and Beltran, the rest of the commission reviewing that, you effed up. That was bad. And I hope, and they're appealing, by the way. Fumi's team is appealing and I hope they get it because that was ridiculous.

That should not be a submission loss. And apparently he was up on the cards. Is that correct? Did you see that? They said he was up on the cards? They said if they went to the cards, you would have won. But I don't know. Because that's another thing they screwed up last night.

They should definitely put out the cards for that. Oh, you have to put out the cards. Mike, they missed the announcement of the Robelis Jr. fight thing live. Like they were during a break or something when they actually did the official results. Yeah, I saw that. It was crazy. Very strange.

Crazy. I don't know what's. Come on Netflix. Come on every few. Lucas fights to make. Alan Lorone Murphy, Troy, Pico. Yeah. Let's go.

Costa Zalalalal. Sadie Saladin Saladin versus anyone in the UFC He's been the OEC He's crazy good Mikhail Marais

Diaz Perry too Okay whatever Thank you Lucas Very good Very good And we just have a couple From Twitter I'm actually gonna end

I start with a newcomer I'm gonna end with the newcomers Let's start with Bear O'Reilly Nicole Calliari Jasmine Harrike Let me read some of these Cody Brunchage Cesari Olexeyek

Yeah he's on a hot Get Cody back in there. It's going to happen in two months. Ketland Bear, B. Miskita. Yeah, sure. Yvonne Ursulae. Yvonne Sati Baldi, Evon versus Yoront Berry. Barry, what are we doing?

What are we doing? Duho Choi, Larry Ann Douglas. Ooh. Oh, very fun. Oh my goodness. Oh, that's good. Another Allen Murphy pick. Picks by F Rod. Ronda and Julia Bud?

Uh, Mike, is that wet in your appetite for another Ronda play? Stop it. Mike Perry Kevin Lee. Oh, interesting. Okay, yeah, Fradier really. Okay, I don't hate that one. That one is sensible. Francis and Jorgon.

We got some YDC. You know, Jorgon de Castro? What are we, Eagle F.C.? He says one of John Jones's teammates. Okay, there you go. He can beat up Yorgon, go in the mic, and tell John there's more to come. But that's what...

John seeing Yorgon get sacrificed would not move him in the slightest. So we do Yorgon, then we do Walt Harris. And then we do John? What happened to, a crochet boss is he also involved in that oh he's a big weightlifter now from what i saw and actor he's yeah that movie uh arnold allen arnold allen valhahos all right maybe dang i don't know modestis and uh jama hill yeah that makes a lot sense four corner sports just something new here melky sean woodson yeah it's possible melchon woods and sure um malcolm and surrey city

yeah i don't mind that cody and a table boy what's going on guys um and for mvp m m ms Mike Perry versus Uriah Hall at 185. Oh, I kind of, I kind of don't hate that. Mike Francis Ngano and Parker Porter headlining the New Year's show. I mean, they can't get, if Eddie Hall's unavailable. MVP would never. They don't have the, they don't have the testicular Ford. It's all the pull off the second biggest fight they could possibly make.

The callout, the callout. They don't know. They don't know. That's the problem. They are surrounded by people who don't know the greatness of Parker Porter. Oh, my gosh. DGB, Brundage versus Lucay. Boy, that feels weirdly right.

Damn, that feels, that's a strange pick. It's actually, like, probably, that's pretty good. Kassel, one is Chris Curtis. What else we got here? Troy versus Feely long overdue. I agree it's long overdue. I just think they're on different paths right now. Yeah, that's going to happen.

I would love to see that fight. Alan versus winner of Lopez Garcia. And then we have a newcomer, Corey C. Welcome to the party pal. First time picker, long time. Listener, just one pick here, Mike, for an MVP, Victor, Jason Jackson, versus Joaquin Buckley. Jackson has gone 10 and 2 in his last 12.

Desirees another shot, another shot. Oh, I guess he was on the ultimate fighter. There's another shot in the UFC would be an exciting fight. I think that's great. If the UFC is going to bring Jason Jackson in, I think Joaquin is a great choice. I don't think they're going to bring him in, if we're being honest, but could MVP get Joaquin Buckley?

I don't think the UFC would be like, Oh. Be like, hey. Yeah, Dana, it's Nikisa. Hey, I know we haven't been on speaking terms, but like, can I have Joaquin Buckley? Uh, okay. Sure. Uh, will you give me?

That's right. Uh, I don't know. But yeah, I mean, that's, I mean, walking's like out of the UFC title picture forever now. So, yeah. I mean, I mean, just is after what Brady to do him. Like, he's still very fun. And he'd be good to, like, build that event, like, in a fun way. Like, you know, like he's, he is who he is.

So that wouldn't, yeah, I like it. Imagine having to build, though, around a Buckley fight without having access to the, the input chaos. That's true. That'd be super funny. Maybe there's a, someone has a cam foot, like a cat, someone was there. It was the apex, I think, but like, you know, maybe someone was recording on there. Yeah. Jake, maybe, I'm sure Jake Ball can get somebody, some footage from somebody.

He's Jake friggin' Paul. He can pay somebody if he needs it. Okay. Yeah, that's not bad. So, all right. Well, no show next week, which is very exciting. We finally have a UFC this weekend. It is a long weekend.

It is Memorial Day weekend in the U.S. There is some boxing, though. We have the sacrifice of poor Rico Verhoeven coming up in front of the pyramids. He is going to get obliterated by Alexander Usik. Probably within nine minutes. I just don't think that fight is going to go very long or very well for Rico. and it's actually like solid matchmaking because I mean I just let usick shine baby and then we'll give them something big but yeah that's happening and that's like all that's happening next

weekend and then the UFC heads to Macau and I'm not going to run down that whole card we'll do that another time we'll get to that yeah yeah song you dong Davis and figurato is the main event and there's the music so we we love you guys we appreciate it if you are in need of a UFC break. Glad you're getting it this week. If you got the long weekend, uh, enjoy it with family and friends. Uh, also don't forget what the weekend's all about. It's Memorial Day. We got a shout out and pay homage to those who gave the ultimate sacrifice, but, uh, yeah, we'll, we'll be here talking about the things that have come out of MVP MMA and UFC Vegas 117, mostly the former. And, uh, the Kesa said during the press conference, sometime,

Monday we should get the numbers so very very interested to see what they are hopefully they're very high and uh maybe we could do another one of these after a lot of soul searching and uh that'd be good for all of us so for a k i mike heck we will see you back on the program in two weeks following ufc macau uh make sure you go to bed early the night before ufc macau because main car starts at 4 a m eastern so we're out of here everybody see you later appreciate you see you next time on on to the next one the podcast.