MMA Fighting - On To the Next One | Matches To Make After UFC Vegas 55

Episode Date: May 22, 2022

After picking up back-to-back main event wins over former women's bantamweight champions, Ketlen Vieira wants her opportunity at UFC gold following her win this past Saturday over Holly Holm. But has she done enough to earn one? This week on On To the Next One, MMA Fighting's Mike Heck and Alexander K. Lee put on their matchmaking hats to discuss where Vieira and Holm go after the controversial result to the UFC Vegas 55 headliner. In addition, future matchups are discussed for Michel Pereira after his split decision victory over Santiago Ponzinibbio in the Fight of the Night, Chidi Njokuani following his Performance of the Night earning knockout of Dusko Todorovic, Tabatha Ricci and Jun Yong Park after earning decision wins to kick off the main card, and more Follow Mike Heck: @MikeHeck_JR Follow Alexander K. Lee: @AlexanderKLee Subscribe: http://goo.gl/dYpsgH Check out our full video catalog: http://goo.gl/u8VvLi Visit our playlists: http://goo.gl/eFhsvM Like MMAF on Facebook: http://goo.gl/uhdg7Z Follow on Twitter: http://goo.gl/nOATUI Read More: http://www.mmafighting.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Welcome aboard Air Canada. Rocky's vacation, here we come. Whoa, is this economy? Free beer, wine, and snacks. Sweet. Fast free Wi-Fi means I can make dinner reservations before we land. And with live TV, I'm not missing the game. It's kind of like I'm already on vacation.

Nice. Air Canada. Nice travels. Wi-Fi available to AeroPline members on equip flights. Sponsored by Bell. Conditions apply. See Air Canada.com. You're listening to the Vox Media Podcast Network.

Hello, everybody, and welcome to a brand new edition of On to the Next one. I am Mike Heck, and the matchmaking hats return to the top of our heads as we discuss the What's Next for the notable names coming out of UFC Vegas, 55, the final UFC event for the month of May, before things pick up in a pretty big way come June. We had a main event that ended with the judge's scorecards, creating a whole bunch of controversy. The open scoring discussion is a vigorous one.

And we'll see where both of the fighters who competed in the main event will go. But before we get to that, let us say hello to the co-host, the co-matchmaker, the showstopper, the icon, the main event, and the best friend, Mr. Alexander K. Lee. Hello, sir. How are you on this Sunday morning? I'm doing great. The only title I cared about there was that I'm your best friend. All that other stuff was great, but being Mike Heck's best friend is better than any other accolade that I could receive.

Oh, I had a thought, and it just went out of my head. It went out of my head because, again, I want to say my brain is scrambled from having to watch 90,000 Abu Dhabi tourism, propaganda commercials. I won't recite the line from it. For anyone who was tuned into the May Weathermore, you know, Anderson Silva stream. early Saturday. Actually, he knows what I'm talking about. We're all traumatized forever. We're all in this.

We'll get through this together. But I'm feeling better after we had a decently entertaining UFC card. And we got a lot of good reader input this week. I'm actually, reader listener input. So that I'm very excited about it. Yes. So let's just get into this thing. And let us start with Kettlyn Vieira, who picked up the biggest win of her career.

She now has back-to-back wins, AK, over former Bannamweight UFC champions in Misha Tate. Now she adds Holly Holm to the resume with the split decision win, a victory that has divided the MMA community. And we're not here to talk about the scoring or whether or not this is the R word. The decision is official. Viera is the winner, and there's nothing anybody can do about it. Holly Holmes' winning streak is over. So, AK, Viera is getting wins over former title holders. She wants a title shot herself against the winner of the now main event of UFC 277 in Dallas between Giuliana Pena and Amanda Nunes. The rematch goes down July 30th.

Is that what you think will happen here? I think that it's very likely that could happen. They just chill. Wait to see what happens with this Oldmouth fighter coaches, you know, rematch thing. And, you know, we'll figure it out from there. But I don't think she should necessarily do that. There's just so much uncertainty. I know 135 is shallow, so she's kind of.

put herself in that position and maybe doesn't want to fight again and shouldn't have to get a title shot. Three out of four is pretty good. Amisha Tate, like you said, back-to-back UFC champions now. I'm going to go Magic Wand here. I think I need to see her fight. I know she doesn't want this fight, and I understand why. I think she needs to fight any A Aldana again. We're pretty far removed from the first one December 2019, so I'd like a little bit more of a gap, but that's pretty, that's well over two years now.

You know, I'm sure they both developed as fighters. I think Aldana has a pretty strong claim. I know she lost a home. If you wanted to have a math, then she should be behind Veda, but she starts her pretty badly in their first fight. Would that happen again to get in their rematch? I don't know. I think it's unlikely.

Again, it was a really, really vicious knockout. And if Altona can replicate that, then you just give her the title shot. But either way, I think you can have them scrap again while, you know, this title situation resolves the top, which could end up becoming a trilogy. So let's just go for an exciting fight And one that would really give us a As definitive, a number one contender You can get at a 135

Going through the listener selections that I received There's a name that I didn't really think of That makes a lot of sense here But I think the reason I didn't think of it Is because this person's future is so unclear We haven't heard her name in a while She hasn't been booked or mentioned at all So I didn't go this route

I'm sure you guys could probably figure out who I'm talking about just by what I just said there, but we will definitely reveal that name later on because this is a very popular choice for Kettlind Vieira, and it is not Giuliana Payne, it is not Amanda Nunes. But I'm with you, A.K., Q Friends Forever. The Aldana rematch makes sense to be. We'll talk about that later.

Yeah, get one more win, get one more win, and make it official. And to me, at least right now, if Valentina Shufchenko wins in a few weeks at UFC 275, I think she gets the next Bannamweight title shot, especially if Pena wins and get the hot tag horn ready. And if Amanda Nunes wins, it would not stun me to see them go to that well, go that trilogy route before they go the trilogy route with Giuliana Pena. Because I just don't know. I know you're not a big fan of the second fight, A.K., I know it's not one that you will remember and that you look back upon fondly and when you're going to go watch again and again. but I feel like there's a little meat on that bone.

I feel like you don't have a lot of time with the man and Nuna's left. So if you're going to do it, you're probably going to have to pull the trigger on that pretty quickly. So I think Vierre is just going to have to win one more fight, more than likely. And with Aldana, I think this is something that Ketland of Vier

might actually be a little bit excited about because she gets a chance to avenge probably the worst loss of her career since that was a pretty vicious knockout. But now for Holly Holm. A.K. Man, this is a, This is a tough one because nothing really stands out. There's really not a lot that I care to see here that like really interests me.

It's not like flyweight. It's not like straw weight where we have up and coming contenders. We have like the sort of next generation of contender on the way up that could challenge for a title that we're eyeballing. There's just not really that name there. So this division sucks. It's pretty bad. It's pretty bad. You can just say it.

You can just say it. I'm glad you're elaborating on it. You're, you know, you're a proper journalist. You're explaining why you are criticizing the division. I'm just going to go. I just don't want to beat around the bush. This division sucks. Yeah.

It sucks. As Rick Patino said at one of his great press conferences as a, one of the final ones, as head coach of the Boston Celtics, it stinks and it sucks and it stinks. So, I mean, look, you got the surging Raquel Pennington, but they fought twice and neither were particularly all that fun to watch. But Pennington has looked pretty damn good recently. I just don't see that fight happening. I don't see anybody clamoring for it.

I don't even know if we're Cal Pennington's clamoring for that fight. You got the winner of Aspen Ladd versus Sarah McMahon coming up. That's a possibility. But I guess that's kind of my fallback school, AK. But if Lauren Murphy beats Misha Tate at UFC 276 on July 2nd, perfect opportunity to do the Holm Tate rematch. Yes, there's a lot of moving parts. But if Tate falls short against Murphy in that move to 125,

I don't imagine her staying there very long, especially with the list of killers that are on the way up. That home fight is still pretty marketable, considering how memorable their first fight was. So that's where I'm going. A little bit of a journey. Things need to happen. Hurtles need to be leaped over.

But I think we'll see the home. I think there's a chance we see the Holm Tate rematch next. What's say you? Penny Kianzad. You can tell I'm really excited about it too. I just, I don't, I don't know where, sorry, I have to look at Penn, why I went this direction.

Penny's a good fighter. She's won five of six fights. She is a up-and-coming, it's a shame she lost that Pettington fight that would have made her right, probably one fight away from a title shot. Now, even if she fought Holly Holm and beat Holly Holm, she's probably not, and again, that's a really tough ask. I just, I get, and I understand anyone, everyone hearing this brick now is like, Holly Holmes's not going to get out of bed for a Penny Kianza. fight. I mean, it would be a big drop off in like name value and rankings wise, but it's like, I'm going magic wand again, I guess. Just call me Ron Weasley. I am just waving this magic wand around and just saying, this is a fight I would make because, I mean, yeah, I get at home might

have won. It's not like we saw, it's not like you know, we saw that fight and we're like, oh, home is really dropped off. Like, she needs to like plummet down the rankings. But it's also like, we don't need to keep giving her five round main events against top contenders. Like, it's, I feel like it's okay for her to fight people who are, you know, top, like fringe top 10, top 15, I mean, or at least offer it. At least, you know, try and make these fights happen. I get it. She's Holly Holme. Her name is big. It always will be. Not just from the, Ronda Rousey knockout, from her boxing career. Like, she's a, she's a combat sports legend. I think that's fair to say. I can hear people, I can hear people rolling their eyes now.

I think it's fair to say she's a combat sports legend. And so, Why would she want to just fight a, you know, lesser known fighter like Pani Kanzad? I don't know. She wouldn't ask for it, but I think it's a reasonable fight. So I just went in that direction and a new matchup for her. The name didn't really stand out. And I know a lot of people have been asking for us to do these shows in video format every single week. But the look on your face when you said Panty Kanzad's name was incredible.

And I don't really think Holly's in a position where she could be like, nah, not really good. I can't get out of bed for a Panic-Kanzad fight. I think she's just kind of take what's coming to her, and that's it if she wants to stick around and make a run. And here's the thing about Holly Holm, no matter how you feel about her, age, et cetera. She's always a win away from getting a title shot, especially in this division, especially coming off of this loss, because you have a narrative here. You could say, well, I got robbed in the last fight.

So here we are. Although I went back at watch her this morning. It was still not a great watch the second time around. But I still don't feel like this is a robbery. I actually feel more confident, Katelyn Viera won in the second watch, if we're being honest. We talked about this a little bit on the Post-Bite show. Is it possible? Let's say Pena beats Nunes again, and they want to give her, you know,

a marquee matchup for her next title defense. And so is it possible that they do the Josie Aldo Marlon and Marlon McIst thing and that Dana White gives home the title shot anyway? No. You don't think so? No. I think he, I bet he thought that fight was a robbery. I bet he would have, if he had done for the post-fight press conference on Saturday,

he would have been saying like, you're a hallway home on that fight. I bet, I bet. Pure speculation. Yeah, and then he would go on and say, we need open scoring in the UFC. Is he one of those guys? I don't remember. Is that his sarcasm? Oh, he doesn't want to change.

He doesn't want to change. You're all right. He doesn't want to change that. Are you kidding me? There's so many things you have to do to make that reality. We're not going to go there. I'm sure there's going to be a topic, open scoring. I hate talking about it anyway.

I get why it's a conversation, but I feel like this week we're going to be talking about it more and more and more and more. Yeah, I think we're going to have to. This card is the worst. I'll tell you right now. I know we saw three split decisions on Saturday, three contentious split decisions. This card to me is like the worst example of open, of cars in open scoring. I don't want to get into this whole debate. Worst example.

Also, I love the guys that, you know, I like the concept of verdict, MMA. I'm a fan. I think it serves a purpose. But anyone who's saying that like we need to consider like fan voting. Oh, God. For fans scoring, Lord have mercy. For me, something like verdict is good for showing, like, public opinion, which is, which is important. It's like, it's like, how do fans perceive a fight?

And that's interesting. That's why you see, that's how fights become, like, you know, consents, quote-unquote, consensus robberies is you have, you know, we don't have, like, official polls of all-M-May fans, but you have verdict, you have sites running their own polls and stuff. You have M. You have M.M.A. decisions. You have, again, all these sites to kind of collect this data. And you can kind of look at it, and that's what we can kind of go, well, the people to disagree. For whatever reason, right or wrong, the people disagreed with a certain decision.

So that's in the purpose of verdict. But to anyone who thinks fans scoring could replace judging or that fans are necessarily better at scoring fights than judges, I would say that's very widely incorrect. So let's pump the brakes on giving too much power to the people, especially when it comes to potentially deciding who wins UFC fights. Yeah, the fans already lost that power and they lost it very quickly with the crypto fan boating. giving Rose Namayunas the fight of the performance of the night. You guys are terrible if you were part of that whole thing. I mean, come on. You lost all your power and you lost pretty much everything.

My confidence in you when it comes to actually voting. Now, for those of you, being in the radio industry, I realize that only 1% of the population actually takes part in these things. Like literally 1%. So I'm not calling on everybody here, but those who take the time to actually cast a vote for those are probably not the ones listening to this show right now. So I feel like maybe I'm safe here.

So you guys listen to right now. I think you're all set. I was going to say, if we were talking about specifically Otno listeners and regular readers of MMA fighting, if that is the people that you're talking about who are voting, who are like scoring fights and things, I think that we'd be in a better shape.

We have a very educated listener base, I feel, Mike. So I will say for all our loyal Otnoites out there, or Ottenowans. I trust you guys to score fights correctly, even though we've got some wacky takes here and there. But hey, we've had wacky takes ourselves too. And I just want to say one more thing about scoring and then we'll move on. Just relax.

Just relax. Just relax. If it's a close fight, we don't need to get all angry about it. It doesn't need to ruin our weekend. It doesn't need to ruin our day. Listen, the Celtics pissed away a playoff game last night. I'm not like, you guys. guys are more upset about the scoring of a fight between two fighters that outside of maybe

betting on them you have no relationship with whatsoever i don't think you're sitting there with kettlin vera posters on your wall i don't think you're it's it's one of those things this isn't the 80s isn't i don't it's not like new kids on the block is on your wall or george michael whatever it's like you have posters of these women on your wall you're sitting here and getting it getting in fights with strangers on social media because of the outcome of a main event that you're never going to watch again, that you're never going to watch again. So everybody just relax. If fights are close, there's no need to fight. There's no need for hatred. Just chill out. Chill out. It's okay. Because guess what? In a week or two weeks of the most,

there's going to be another card. And we have a whole new batch of things to talk about. So relax. There's no need to fight people. There's no need to argue over this. It's silly. There's no need to get mad. You want to have a discussion cool, but there's no need to get upset. No reason to get mad. It's where it's already a negative place.

Let's not make it more negative because of things you can't control. Yeah, we can't control it. Be kinder to yourself. Be kinder to other people. That's what I always like to tell people. It's my pin tweet, which I'm leaving up for forever now, I think. Just be kinder. Again, even to yourself, like you said, imagine how much people are stressing, like, over, like,

you're, like you're, like you're stressing over this? Like, why are you stressing over an outcome like this? Just like shut the laptop, put the phone down, go for a walk, go see nature, whatever it is, hang out with your family, hang out with your friends. And, yeah, don't worry about it. MMA matters, but MMA is also supposed to be fun, as we say all the time. So if you're stressing about it, you may need to just take a step back from the MMA. Put the MMA down just for a little bit. And like you said, two weeks from now, pick that MNMA back up again.

And we'll have ourselves another row, I guess. Yeah, yeah. And also, the next time, guys, you say such and such is the worst decision ever, which I say, saw a lot of that on Saturday. Oh, God. Not just about the main event, though, as at Jun-Yong Park, Eric Anders. Next time you guys see something that,

just please watch. I feel like Sony will have never seen Diego Sanchez versus Ross Pearson, which is, to me, unequivocally still the greatest robbery in my mystery. If you don't have time to watch it, read my robbery review on it, guys,

I'maflain.com. You will never call another fight the worst robbery again if you watch that fight. If you have not seen it, you'll understand why. The scoring was, that was borderline. I don't even say borderline.

I think there was like an investigation into the judging after. Anyway, we've said enough. You're right, Mike. Yeah. Just be kind. Who cares? It's all good. At Desjardin, we speak business.

We speak startup funding and comprehensive game plans. We've mastered made-to-measure growth and expansion advice. And we can talk your ear-off about transferring your business when the time comes. Because at Desjardin business, we speak the same language you do. Business. So join the more than 400,000 Canadian entrepreneurs. who already count on us and contact Desjardin today. We'd love to talk, business.

Ontario, the wait is over. The gold standard of online casinos has arrived. Golden Nugget online casino is live, bringing Vegas-style excitement and a world-class gaming experience right to your fingertips. Whether you're a seasoned player or just starting, signing up is fast and simple. And in just a few clicks,

you can have access to our exclusive library of the best slots and top-tier table games. Make the most of your downtime with unbeatable promotions and jackpots that can turn any mundane moment into a golden opportunity at Golden Nugget Online Casino. Take a spin on the slots, challenge yourself at the tables, or join a live dealer game to feel the thrill of real-time action, all from the comfort of your own devices. Why settle for less when you can go for the gold at Golden Nugget Online Casino. Gambling Problem Call connects Ontario, 18665331.

21-2-600-0-19 and over physically present in Ontario eligibility restrictions apply see golden nuggett casino dot com for details please play responsibly let's go to the co-main of it aka because this fight was awesome it delivered in spades michel peheda he gets it done he defeats a very game santiago panzanibio personally i scored it for michel peheda it was a close fight it was a very fun fight it was awesome And Behe got a little craziness in him in that third round. He wasn't doing backflips and Harokan Rana's, but he got aggressive. He went after it and he wins for the fifth straight time. So, AK, you've been very high on this guy for a while.

He's not quite Ryan Hall in your eyes, but he's in that conversation. You've sung 80s rock ballads in his honor. So what is next for Mr. DeMolador? First of all, I was so wrong about this fight in every possible way. I picked Panzini V to win. I mean, actually some of the action played it, I will say, the way I thought of what. I did think Ponzi was the more patient fighter, and I thought that would be the key to a success. And he was, and then he started turning it on in, you know, middle of the second round and into the third.

I also thought it would, like, it wouldn't be the fight of the night. I was like, I think they'll both be more technical. And they were, but they also were absolutely willing to brawl, especially in the third round. I think both guys realized how close the fight was, and they were just, like, swinging and, you know, arm punches at each other. And so I was very wrong with that. And happy to be wrong. Glad both guys got the bonus. Glad it turned out to be a great fight, as many people predicted on paper.

And that Michelle Behead won because we have ourselves a new contender at 170. That said, I'm picking a fight, which I swear I'd called for on the show before, though I can't find any record of it in my notes. I really want to see him fight Horace Madhidal. I know he wants it. I know he talked about it, so I'm into that. I understand that people are kind of like, well, they're in different places as far as like Mazvedal's kind of trending downward. The head is trending upward. Masvidol kind of goes for these big money fights that he can build up with like trash talk and that might not work with Michelle Pahara.

It's like a language barrier there. It'd be a bit strange. And then there's the weird, if anyone saw the Post-Fi press conference, Pahara's reason for, I keep saying Pareda. Pereira, Pereira's reason for wanting to fight Mazadol. Something about sending DMs to him and his wife and him just kind of being confused by it and just wanting to fight Mazadol to sort that out. So it's not like the coolest matchup on paper, but I do think everything else aside, I think, I think, in the cage, it would just be an awesome fight. And so for that reason, I want to see it. And I do think in my rankings, they're kind of in a similar area, even if they're moving in different directions.

So give me, give me DeMolador and Gamebred. I mean, listen, if they booked that fight, I'm not going to be upset. The correct answer is Wonderboy Thompson. That is the fight. I went to this well the last time Michelle Bejada won, and I'm going to go ahead and go that route again. Wonderboy versus Demolador. I think it's time.

I think it makes sense. and Wonderboy is not in a pretty heated court battle over an alleged assault in Miami Beach. So unless, I mean, because if that happened, that would be the biggest story in MMA right now, but that wouldn't happen because Wonderboy would never put himself in that kind of a situation. So love that fight, but you really can't go wrong. He needs to fight somebody with a number next to his name, a vet. He needs to step up because he's in a position right now with this winning streak where let's just see where it goes. see where it goes. I know we want to, I know we're so tempted just book them into fun fights with the

Nico prices and the Chaos Williamses of the world, but he's already done that. He's done that enough. He just had another one with Santiago Ponziabonibio. Now it's time. Let's get the step up. Let's see if this guy's for real. I think he's done enough to earn that opportunity to get that chance to see if this guy could actually fight for a world title. So congratulations to him. Great fight. Congratulations to Ponziabio as well. I know he was upset, but I don't feel like this is a robbery. either. Now, let's talk about a fight that was, did not need the judge of scorecards. We didn't even need a second round, AK. Cheaty and Jokawani is just such a bad, such a badass, a madman, a violent individual, knocks out poor Dusko Tadorovich with a just a ferocious standing elbow, the walkoff

helbo. He's now 2 in the UFC, two first round KOs. It'll be very interesting to see where the UFC goes with this one. Where do you think they'll go here? with Cheaty. UFC, please keep signing experienced veteran fighters. Not everyone needs to be, not everyone who goes in the contender series, not that Cheedy and Jacoani should have had to do that. But not everyone that goes to the contender series

needs to be some early 20s prospect with seven pro bouts. Like, it is a good thing to bring in fighters that have been through it that fans may be familiar with. I understand that there's probably a stigma with the matchmakers and the officials like, oh, it's a Belter guy. Like, this is the, and you can put any, like, any organization in there. But, like, I mean, like, oh, this guy fought for another organization. He was kind of okay there.

It's like, you know, above 500 fighter. What, what's he really going to do for us from a marketing standpoint? Like, can we sell this guy? And it's like, that crap doesn't matter. This is the kind of guy. He gets stuff done in the cage. So please, you know, see, sign more guys like that. Sign people, uh, fighters that fans who watch other promotions might be familiar with

and who are just not to take care of themselves in the cage and put on great performances. So, uh, give me Chiti and Jacani and the Jukewani and the Juilli and the Juilli Julian Marquez, Gregory Rodriguez winner. They're fighting on June 18th. Not too far in the future. I wish there was a matchup that was a little bit closer that I could throw Chidi in there with. But I like him matching up with other guy. I kind of put Marquez and Gregor Rodriguez in the same classes in Jacoani right now as far as,

I don't know if any of these guys is necessarily a contender. But until we find out, let's kind of just keep throwing them against each other until one of these guys accidentally ends up on like a four-fight, five-fight win streak. and then you end up with a contender by accident, and along the way, you get a bunch of, like, super exciting fights. I'm going with Anthony Hernandez, AK. Two dudes who are just going to put each other through pain and hell for as long as the fight lasts.

Because I think in Chukwani is, I don't think we're ready to put him in the pehata position where we're like, oh, let's just see if this guy can fight for a title. I think at least for now, at least for a few more, let's just get him in there with fun, exciting guys. but again, we want to test him in different ways. And I feel like Anthony Hernandez is a super exciting guy. This will be a really fun fight.

But I also think Hernandez can put on a grueling pace if he needs to. And he can put Injo Kewaani in different positions that he hasn't seen in the UFC. So I love the matchup. Let's rock and can't really go wrong. Let's just get this guy fights. Let him fight as often as possible. And I want to see it. Speaking of fights, we don't want to really go back and watch again.

I think the first two main card fights fit that bill. I'm not trying to be disrespectful, just the way that it was, especially how these last three fights ended. Not that the main event was anything that special either. But Tabith Ritchie gets the win over Pollyata, Viana. We're not going back to watch this one. It was what it was. Ashley Oter, AK.

I don't know. You can't go wrong with anyone from like 25 down in this division, but sure, let's do Tabith Ritchie versus Ashty Oter. Sure. Sure. Yeah, Ashley Oder's still sticking around, still hanging in there. Well liked by the UFC, just by having a three and seven UFC record. But, you know, she's willing to fight anyone. She's tough. It's hard to put away. Sure.

That, you keep saying, by the way, we won't watch the Ritchie Vianna fight again. But if Vianna had done that inverted butt scoot that we saw that went viral this week, that would have been amazing. Like, she should have tried that at some point because she really, she really wanted. want to fight off of her back. I mean, she was really just like, come down, let's do some Jiu-Jitsu. And I think maybe she could have goaded her into it if she just turned 180, rotate 180 degrees in the ground and kind of just did whatever the hell that guy was doing. Again, in that clip that I assume a lot of people saw guys. Check out Miss Fist this week if you didn't see it. It was truly bizarre. Um, Lupigodinas. Lupigina's. I think, uh, I'm probably a little

bit higher on Ritchie than others. I get it. Uh, you know, Saturday's fight. Not great, but she did enough to win against a very tricky and I think a tough opponent. who, again, was trying to force Ritchie into fighting a certain way. And Ritchie, for the most part, managed to avoid that and fight the way she wanted to. And it was enough to get a, you know, less than memorable 29, 28 win across the board. So, I mean, I would certainly favor Lupi in that fight. But I do think that Ritchie is a talented fighter. And I think we haven't seen the best of her yet.

So I'd be willing to throw in there with Lopi. Interesting. Yeah. I mean, that'd be an interesting fight. Lupy would certainly take because Lupy would fight freaking anybody anytime. So I feel like Lupy's a pretty significant ways ahead of her, but if they booked that fight, and yeah, it's fine. And then in the main card opener, we had Jun Young Park take on Eric Anders.

A lot of people felt like this could have been the R word as well, a robbery, but I have no issue with John Young Park winning this fight. What do you think? What are we doing here? with Jun Young Park, middleweight division, after he checks out the secret menu at In-N-O Burger, thanks to our man, Jose Youngs. Actually, I'm so sad this if I turn up bad

because I actually thought this had the potential to be, like, chaotic. But that's kind of the way it is with Eric Andrews, though, is sometimes you get, like, occasionally you get, like, a fun brawl and occasionally you get just, like an absolute slog. So, unfortunately, we got the sloggy, the sloggy Eric Anders and the sloggy

and the sloggy at John Young Park on Saturday. I don't know. This is, like, the first fight of the night that people were kind of like, oh, it was a robbery. but I think like by the end it's just completely forgotten. I think, and I think if people watch the game, let's be like, yeah, whatever.

Could have gone to Anders's way, no one would complain. It went to Park's way, and I'm not going to be too upset about it. Let's go Edmund Shabazzian for Jun Yong Park. I just don't know where Shabazzian is as a prospect. I think Park is like legitimately a guy who could hang around the UFC for a while. I don't think ever threatened a challenge for a title. But one of those guys who like,

like a two years from now, we're like, wow, Juniong Park has fought like 15, 16 times of the UFC. That's crazy. So he could be like a Brad Tavares type guy. And I think so and I want to know if Shabazzian and if Shabazzian can't get past a guy like that or at least put on a decent performance like a defeat against a guy like that, then we're going to have a really good gauge of where Shabazzian is. I think a lot of people, we just want to see Shabazzian fight again.

And there's a lot of good options for him to come back. I think John Young Park is one of them. I thought about that. That's a great choice. I'm just going to go with the winner, Phil Haas, Duran win. They're fighting June 18th, UFC, Austin, and. Sure. That's fine. If you did Shabazzian, that'd be really interesting because Edmund Shabazzian can't. And there's no disrespect to Jung-Young-Park. Because I would actually favor. If they were fighting tomorrow and I had a pick right now, I would pick John Young Park to win that fight. Just because of the wrestling, he could take him down. He could just lay on them and things could get real ugly and grinding and grueling. He's not going to let Shabazian do his thing in space. So I think it would be a pretty tough matchup for Shabazian. So, but that'd be a good test. Now we head to the wild card route, okay? We're going to select one fighter we have not match made for yet, whether it's someone who is not

victorious of the main card or anybody from the prelims. It will matchmake for them right now. Where are you going, my best friend? Let's go with young Chase Hooper. I like it. Very badly misread this match for the Felipe Colaris. I kind of like Felipe Coleris, maybe that's why, and I thought he had the grappling advantage. But Hooper has that motor, you know, one is a strong grappler.

And has that motor, you know, that's a tough thing. That's one thing, one of those things like you kind of can't teach in MMA. Like, you know, Clay Guida has made an entire career out of it. outworking guys who might be better strikers, better grapplers, better, even better wrestlers than him. But there's something about, you know, that being that relentless go-getterness that if you have it, you can go a long way in MA. And Chase Super's got some pretty good technique as well, and he showed it on Saturday. So fun fight, really strong performance by him. I think well-deserved performance bonus.

You could have gone to a couple other people, but I thought he did a really good job. You know, first two, really good performance through two rounds and capped it off with the finish. so good for him. I was really surprised as I was trying to like look atopons for him how many people in his range like I kind of still have him

in obviously the bottom third of the featherweight rankings so many guys are matched up I'll go, I'll just read out a bunch of names that I was like considering for him like Johnny Munoz, Luis Salania

who else I'm thinking? T.J. Brown, Sean Woodson. Like Mike Trezano was matched up. Josh Kulabal. Some of the names I mentioned already matched up with each other.

Derek Minner. who I think fights next week, two weeks from now. There was just a lot of, like, really good options. And I'm like, man, they're kind of booked. And I could have gone with winner of, et cetera, et cetera. But I'll just throw out a name, the first, like, free name I could find. That's around his age. And I think also, and I think kind of needs a bounce back performance.

Yusuf Zalal. Let's say Yusuf Zal with Chase Hooper. Zal was like, looked like such like a white hot prospect there for a while. He won, and he almost won four fights in a year. And then he ran some good competition. and, you know, now he's in a bit of a slum. It's a last three straight. That happens.

That happens to a young fighter. But I think he's really talented. I would like to see him fight Hooper. I think even if Zalalal lost and it was four straight, I would hope the UFC would hang on to him. That's the kind of guy you just kind of need to gauge where he is at, you know, competition-wise. Hooper would be a really good test for that. And same with Hooper. If he beats the law, then we know that Hooper is kind of can kind of get bumped up to the next level of prospects.

But there's a lot of good options for Hooper still. So even after he beats the wall, or if he beats the law, excuse me, I would hope he wouldn't get pushed too fast. But it all depends on how that fight went. I feel like I have to go with Geltan Almeida here. Of course. I feel like I have to because I disrespected him by picking Paca Porter to beat him. And the reason was I thought he would gas out after the first round because of all the muscles and all that stuff. And you jetting me.

You jett and me. We all had that peg. This is our upset pick of Saturday. Yeah. And someone hit me up and was like, you know, this is just positive feedback. if you watch a contender series fight, he had a great gas tank. Yeah, I get that. But he wasn't fighting a guy that was 50 pounds heavier than him.

That's a whole different ball game. Because by the time Paco Porter walked into that octagon, he was probably 275, 280. He cut to 265. So the hoist ups, everything trying to keep the span on the ground, it's got to be tiring for you. It has to be. So I felt I felt Porter puts on a good enough pace where he can make things really interesting if he gets out of the first round.

he didn't doesn't matter so my initial thought was let's just give jelton let's just shoot him to the moon like that was my initial thought and then i looked at this division i'm like well everybody's got to fight pretty much everybody in the top 15 has a has something on the books but i still want to give this guy something a name somebody who somehow is still like just outside of the top 15 which i think is kind of crazy. And a guy that Jelton Omeida is probably going to be a minus 800 favorite over. OSP. OSP.

Jeltsin Omeda versus OSP. Let's go that route. Wow. Sorry, OSP. I know it's not going to be a fight that you're going to be all that excited about, but that's just kind of where we're at. We got to do that. And then after that, off to the races.

OSP can win some weird fights, though. He can. And we're talking about like a big difference. in, and this isn't everything, but a big difference in UFC experience. So that would be a Jelton's third UFC fight. He has 18 pro bouts, but that would be a third UFC fight. OSPs 20, oh, oh, oh, oh, no, 20. Oh, what happened?

Hello, hello? We're here, we're here. We're good. Oh, man. What happened? We'll be right back after these words. Hello, hello. Hello, I'm back, I'm back, I'm back.

Can you hear me? We're good. I can hear you. I can hear you. What was the last thing? What you heard for me? Oh, crap. Hold on before that. You're talking about how many UFC fights OSP has. Okay, let me, let's, I'll look back in, hold on.

Open Saint-Pruh, let me, let me try again. No, no, we're good, we're good, we're good. No, I need my, I transitioned perfectly. We're good. No, did you? I sure did. We went to commercial break and everything. So, Oven Saint-Prew, this would be, that will be here. be his next fight will be his 26th UFC fight again versus three UFC fights for a Jelton Lemaena. But, you know, he's an older fighter. I think people would see him as a logical step up.

Yeah, I don't hate that at all. But I will say, not a walkover, not a walkover for Jelton Lameda. Ovin St. Prue has seen it all. He's had people, he's been booked against guys who, you know, people thought would walk over him. He's beaten them. He's lost the guys that he should have beaten. So, yeah, you don't know what you're getting.

Was there any thought to keeping Jailton at heavyweight? I mean, it doesn't bother me. If that's where they go. If you want to stay there, then sure. If it's something he wants to turn around quick and just stay there, fine. But you can do that for a couple more fights, but eventually at 30, you're not going to be able to kind of bounce back and forth between these two divisions. So, I mean, if anybody can do it, maybe he can.

Maybe he is the Shemai of Light Heavyweight and Heavyweight. But I'd like to see him to sort of pick a road and stick with it. but if this is going to be like a Kevin Holland situation where I want to fight six times a year and something comes up like last minute for one of these June cards and said heavyweight then be a heavyweight. Eat some donuts, brother.

I would love that if he just jumped up to heavyweight. Anytime you felt like it, I was like, yeah, whatever. I'm sitting around. I'm 2.30 right now. Screw it. I'm going in. I'm putting in the cage. Let's get after it. Do we have any extracurriculars?

So many. Oh, so many. Oh, so many. Oh, my goodness. So I meant to play the listener picks this week to keep things brief here. All right, first of all, Marcus McGehy, calling this the Cheetah's Elbow edition of, on the next one, I like it. And I'm going to give Marcus a point, too.

He liked Sarah McMahon versus the Pennington Ladd loser. Aspen Ladd did lose decision to Rekyll Pennington, and now they've been booked for August 13th. So Marcus, there you go, take your points there. Matt Bradbury, I'm going to give a point as well for Billy Quarantillo versus Bill Algio. It's going on July 16th. And listeners, I mean, we can all, literally everyone can share at this point, Julianna Pena, Amanananus, too. is official. It was announced on Saturday's broadcast. U.S. 277, May 21st. Everyone knew they were going to fight sometime. Oh, I'm sorry, no, May 21st. What that? July 30th, right?

That's what am I doing? What's happening here? I was, I mean, clearly, I just wrote like yesterday's date while I was making my notes. July 30th, July 30th. Everyone knew they were aiming for a summer booking after, you know, after the Ultimate Fighter's done airing. So this is, I mean, people could have probably called out this date if they wanted to. I do have a... Sorry, let me go. We got to get a real soundboard here. Hold on.

I do have one of these. We spend so much, like all the other MMA fighting shows, get the number crunchers, like all this money invested. Yet I feel like we're the most consistently listened to program and we have to use our cell phones into our microphones. Listen, we are, we do, this is a homegrown show and I would think our listeners wouldn't want it either way. Anyway, so that's a, where were you on that one for Brad Riddell versus Jalen Turner? I don't know, Mike.

I don't know, maybe you had some people throw this one to you. I was looking at up my records. People, if I'm mistaken, if you guys called out Riddell Turner and I missed it, let me know. I didn't see anyone mention this. It's apparently going down. You see 276 July 2nd. I don't know how any of us missed it. But where were we on that one?

Yeah, I don't know. Honestly, I have no excuse for it. there you go is that it uh no the other one i think i want to talk about was and i'm going to have to go to our our phony soundboard again

oh gosh sorry oh there's an ad there's an unauthorized ad no because uh last week mike you and i asked for a few things we two things we asked listeners for and that was um you know any suggestions on kind of like improving the uh you know like how we choose which fighters we decide to make fights for you know we're probably going to stick with our format, but if people had any good suggestions, because we always stick with the winners, maybe the main event loser, depending on who it is,

and then our wild card, right? And we said, well, you know, what about ranked fighters who are on the prelims or, you know, shouldn't they get recognition instead of whoever the UFC haphazardly decides to throw on the main card? Like, and, like, should, like, you know, like this week, should Jailton Almeda have even been a wild card? Wouldn't we rather match me for him than like Jun Yonge Park? Probably. But anyway. So let me see what people had to say here. Our pal, Ren Odenheimer, suggested, well, first you want to say, I'm fully on board with the rules rule of no changes are made.

This will not change my loyalty. But since we did ask for suggestions, a few to offer. Changed the rule from picking fights for all main card winners to picking fights for all main card fighters who don't lose. And that way we can, in the event of a draw or no contest, this gives you the opportunity to pick for both fighters. We've actually kind of handled this as a past. Usually if it's a draw or no condos, we just say, we do the opposite.

We skip. Both fighters are out. Yeah. And I like that rule. So, yeah, I think it would kind of add more time to the show if we did that and not, like, in a good way. So add picking fights for both fight of the night fighters. In addition, if you don't agree with the UFC's fight of the night, you could pick fights for the fighters that you feel deserved fight nine instead. It's not a bad rule.

I think very often the fight in the night happens on the main card anyway. so, you know, not exclusively, but very often. So we're usually at least getting one of them. Yeah, I think we should maybe continue to get more suggestions. I'll continue to hear more from this individual, but we don't want the show to be longer. Yes. Let's just throw that out there. I think that's priority number one.

We don't want the show to be longer. Like, I feel like we give these cards a lot of time. I don't think we need to give UFC Vegas 55 a year. two-hour show. I mean, some people would want it, but those people are sick. Dax at Pike Putt on Twitter suggested that, oh, you know, we were also asking for what we need a bit or we need like a sound thing when you and I have an exact same pick. And he just said, just record a sound, but of both of us saying, let's go in unison and

play it every time you get a statement like a strong let's go. Not a bad suggestion and probably very doable. and Dax asks, I'm down for ranking, you know, ranked fighters automatically getting a pick,

but will that include fighters in other promotions? Because we do, Mike, we do, of course, do the global NBA fighting rankings

are global. We include fighters from all promotions, not just UFC rankings. So I think he's asking, like, you know, if a big Belator fight happened, would we do that?

Again, probably not, probably not. One championship, Bellator, wherever these guys happen to fight, PFL, mostly just because,

One, we don't want to add more time. And two, those rosters just aren't as deep. So it's usually pretty obvious. Usually pretty obvious who's... What if we add... What if we... Right. What if we added to the wild card rule that we could...

Maybe that works. Oh, wow. That if we want to mix things up, we want to add a Bellator, we want to add it one. It is a wild card. It is wild. We can be as wild as we want to be. Let's wait for the next week where we have like a one, a Belator. or a PFL and a UFC card all in the same week.

It happens more frequently than people. I mean, a PFL kicks back in the gear next month. So let's wait till next month. Let's wait until there's a week where we have a bunch of ranked guys fighting. And we can revisit it. Though, again, with something like PFL, after the upcoming cars, they're going to have their playoffs kind of set, so it's kind of pointless. Bellator is an option.

Okay, we'll consider it. I like that. So, Dax, good suggestion and something we can play around with. And then, Mike, we were talking about this before the show. It was James McDonnell, the loyal, ought-no listener, who suggested that you and I use the, the saved by the bell friends forever I like it yeah I think I don't know the right I think I can't play too much wherever we're gonna get a sue but oh no we're good this is a podcast no I

think you can only isn't it you can only play like like sill like don't they have the 60 second rule or something I think we're okay I think podcast it's open it's open it's open up we can't do it on you two we'd be demonetized in the YouTube world listen that is this is this is copyrighted material by the sage by the bell band which i don't even remember what they were called zach attack come on dude oh my okay well done good for you oh yeah i'm i'm i have an elephant's brain when it comes to awful television from the 90s well it's got a very clippable hook so i mean i'm not let me let me let me let me bookmark oh i did bookmark it already let me bookmark your tweet and then uh maybe we will we will isolate this clip and that is something we can run yes we need to get a producer

We need to get a live producer to put these in there. I like it. We will work on that. I like that idea. Anytime we can incorporate Save by the Bell, Jed and I have been saying for a while that Mark Paul Gosseler, who played Zach Morris and Mario Lopez, who played A.C. Slater should have alternate commentary on Eagle FC broadcasts.

So this would tie in perfectly. Wait, why is this just because you are the president of Eagle FC? Oh, no. This is before the draft. We just thought because Henry Sehudo, is just the worst commentator in history. And if we're looking for other options, and if we can't jump on Twitter spaces

to do alternate commentary, that the FlexCast app will provide another option for commentary. We just have those two guys, A.C. Slater and Zach Morris, who are martial artists. It's actually a jiu-jitsu guy. Mario Lopez done a lot of boxing commentary.

And some jiu-suitzoo as well. Okay. So we just have those two guys sitting around watch a fight. It's like Manningcast. We have Eli and Payton. and watching all these events, why can we have Zach and Slater watching these events and giving their thoughts? I think that's a tremendous idea. Will they be in character as Zach and Slater? They can be. If Mario Lopez can sit backwards in his chair like you did at the max, I'm totally

okay with that, just like Tony Ferguson did at the at his pre-fight media scrum for UFC 274. So do we have anything else or we're ready for the disclaimer? Thank you, Wren, Dax, and James for your suggestions. Strong suggestions, strong suggestions. Tremendous. Yes. Again, we don't want to tweak the format too much, but hey, you never know. Some of them might come along with some game-changing suggestion, and maybe we will. Again, I do like the wild card rankings idea.

That's kind of fun. Okay. Yeah, no, standard disclaimer for listener picks. Guys, categories rule. We like to focus on picks that are made by just like, if you're the only person, you're going to get yourself sweet, sweet, on no point. Please, guys, pay attention. Weight class.

Have these people fought already? Is there a notable injury that we know this person not going to be fighting anytime soon? Have they been released by a promotion? Fighter could already be booked. This happens a lot, et cetera, et cetera. And your pick this might be doo-doo, and we don't want to read it. By the way, before I get into the listener picks, I want to throw this out there. If the UFC, AK, if the UFC books Leon Edwards versus Hamza Tchamaya for the interim welterweight title,

if they go ahead and book this fight, do I win Otno? Do I win? Because I've been saying this since November. Hamzaa versus Leon for the interim title. let's just say Usen because Usen doesn't seem like he's in any rush to come back right now. He says that things have taken a little longer. Shamiyev took to Twitter, said, Leon, let's fight.

If the UFC books Shemaiah Edwards' interim title before Usman comes back, do I win? Did I beat the game? I mean, you get an Otno point from my personal collection. I get multiple Otno points. I've had to defend that pick for months and now that I have heck of a morning I've had to defend that pick

almost on every single episode this sounds personal like this is a this is a fiery like you're not just asking for credit you want you want an apology almost I feel like from some of the haters out there I want people to line up and shake my hand and say you are the odd no

the greatest otto picker of all time kiss the otto ring custom auto championship ring and the you know in the same design as like a Patriot Super Bowl ring, should be kissed on Mike's hand if you get this right.

Because I think we're getting closer and closer. I think the chances are growing by the day. We'll see what happens. We'll see what happens. Let's get into the listener picks. These are all Instagram DMs. Dylan, hey Mike, not such a bad card after all. Here's my picks.

Oh, boy. I'm saving this for the end. He is with me. Almeda versus OSP at light heavyweight. But then he kind of falls off a little bit. Cheedy versus the winner of Alonzo Meadowfield. in Mazuroff because she's the middle way, right? So that does really work.

Okay. Yeah. Those are light, heavy weights. I mean, listen, maybe you just wants to bounce around and stay busy and just give us fun fights. I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt. Pahada versus Luke A is booked, by the way, against Jeff Neal, but he says, I think they could push someone like Pahada because he could sell tickets.

Him and Luke A would be pure chaos and I'm all for it. So maybe it's a winner-l lose pick. Vieira versus Raquel Pennington, call me crazy, but I'd love to see it. Holly Holme versus Katie Taylor, just whenever. Maybe after Taylor fights Serrano one more time, boxing, obviously. I actually still feel like Holly Holm is like the only M.MA fighter right now that has any, besides maybe Anderson Silver and Jake Paul. But all these MMA fighters are calling out all these boxers. Like Uspen keeps calling out Canelo.

It's the dumbest thing in the world. Chris Cyborg and all these other fighters are calling out Katie Taylor. Holly Holie Holm has the only legit chance, in my opinion, to get any of these fights and actually be somewhat competitive. But here's the one I want to ask you about AK. Dylan suggests Chase Hooper versus Ryan Hall the Paduan versus the master We just got Chase Hooper back in the right track

and I want to end his career Why? Why? Why? I'm finally starting to come around on the Chase Hooper I've always liked him but I'm finally starting to come around on the I see the path for him becoming a UFC contender with like a title contend, not a title of course, but like a top 20 guy within like three years. I'm talking a long game. here. I'm talking about like an end of 23 we start saying oh, Chase

Hooper should fight a top 20 featherweight. Like that's how far ahead. Again, I think very highly of his skills, marketability, personality, it's great. He's just going to keep growing. He just looked stronger to me on Saturday. Which again, makes sense. He's what, 22 years old, right? I mean, he's

not even close to fully mature yet. So, no, I hate it. I hate it. I think Ryan Hall would just, it's a ground fight. Ryan Hall would just annihilate him at this point. Ryan Hall's a man. Ryan Hall's a grown-ass man. You don't throw a boy in there with him.

I hate that man. All right, Brandon Nunez. Bichel versus Wonderboy. Holly Holm versus Macy Chieson. I mean, that's probably kind of in the wheelhouse where you go. So many people are saying, just have them fight at featherweight and then winner gets a title shot. Whatever. There's a lot of that.

And I love this pick. Cheedy versus the guy who heckled Mike on heck of a morning. Love that pick. What was this? I heard. Did someone, I didn't listen to every show this week. Did someone cuss you out on the show? Okay. So I believe this is the Thursday show. So I went on my little rant and there were some people who requested to ask questions like they always do. So one individual, I picked him first. I said, you're going to be first. How are you doing?

His response was, oh, hang on a second. I'm doing something. I said, all right. I was like, I'm going to pull you out. And when you're ready, when you finish doing what you're doing, hop back in. I'll get you right on. So I took a call. Someone had a good question. And then I brought him back in. Bring him back in. And he called me a B word for dropping him out of the call.

He said I was talking to myself that I was a 45-year-old idiot. I need to get a real job. And then he was like, I'm talking to you. And then I hung up on him. I said, no, you're not. Not anymore. You're not. And it was just a weird, awkward moment.

It was the first time it has happened on, the show. We've had some like, we've had some people just cuss a little bit and say some things, but no one's ever like attacked me personally, but that happened on Thursday. And to a lot of, a lot of people coming to my defense. I appreciated that. So yeah, it was a very strange moment, but I thought I handled it well. And it was a memorable time. My best friend, I'm sorry I wasn't there. I'm sorry I wasn't there for your time of need. I saw someone comments about it later. I don't know if I'm maybe finding comments or on Twitter or something, so I'm referred to it. I totally missed the incident. And I mean, in some ways, I'm kind of glad I missed it because I don't want to

hear anybody talk to you like that, but also, I don't know, I'm going to reach the internet and beat the crap out of this person. It's all right. Now Cheezy's going to do it for me and we're good. Speaking of heck of a morning, Christopher is almost a daily caller on heck of a morning, said, hey, Mike, I tried to send these to A.K., but I think I'll start alternating between you two goats, bringing my positive heck of a morning vibes over to Otto. Here are my picture from UFC Vegas 55.

Sam Hughes versus Pieta Rodriguez, Chase Hooper, he's with you versus Yusuf Salal, Jonathan Martinez versus Julio Arcei, Uros Medich versus Matt Frivola, and that is, in case Matt Frivolta gets re-signed to the UFC, because he's still a free agent as far as I'm concerned. He's also on the Al-Meda OSP train. Joseph Holmes versus Brian Battle. I like that idea. The Iron Turtle versus Wellington Termin. By the way, that might be the most popular pick I got, was Iron Turtle Wellington Termine.

I got a whole lot of those. I got a lot of Holmes Battle. Holmes Battle was a very popular, and I think really logical as well. I like that pick. Tabitha Ritchie versus Cheyenne Velismis. Chidi Enjokwani versus Ian Hynish. Okay. Marcus.

I got a lot of that too. A lot of Injikwani-Hinish. Marcus. Caitlin Vieira versus Jermaine Durandami, which that is the name, by the way, that I referred to earlier. Yeah. It's weird. I think a lot of people, we kind of have to remind people of this every week.

Guys, the UFC roster watch, that Twitter account, U.C. roster watch. It's not a bad account at all. Like, it is kind of good for keeping track of, like, you know, rapidly to keep track of signings and people getting released. But it is based on, and again, I think it's a bot, it is based on pulling names off of the UFC's fan rankings list or something. The pool, yeah, where they can rank fighters. So when a fighter's name gets removed from there, then the bot or whoever runs the account will automatically take that name and tweet out such as such was removed from the roster. That does not mean they're released.

It just means usually, again, they could be in some contractual limbo or just inactivity. They haven't fought in a while. Again, they happen to Joanna. Obviously, she wasn't released in GDR. GDR we know has not been released. So, yeah, she's still around. So I was like, I wouldn't tell me like, don't keep track of the roster watch Twitter account.

But like, just remember, it does, it does not mean that, especially if it's a bigger name, probably means they haven't been released. This is happened with Gillespie as well recently too. Just again, inactive. Jaycheck. Yeah, it's happened to a few different people. Inactivity.

It just kind of gets you out of there sometimes. What else? Cheaty versus Edmund Shibati and Tabitharic versus Sam Hughes just match them up. Jung Park versus Ian Heinish, another one of those. Joseph Holmes, A.J. Dobson. Jelton-Ile-Made a Ryan Span.

I actually liked that idea. That's a good pick. I saw a couple of... And someone told me they've kind of been pushing you for a while. So I'm like, yeah, that's logical. Euros Medich versus Rafah Garcia. Chase Hooper versus Isaac Delgarian. I think it's not a bad choice.

Delgarian, I believe, is... The reason he hasn't debuted yet is I believe he's trying to move to 135. So I think that's his plan. Contender series. He's a looking for a fight guy. Oh, of course. Oh, my mistake. And then he tried to sneak in Sam Hughes Tabitha Ritchie again,

but like reversed it instead of Tabit Ritchie versus Sam Hughes. Did Sam Hughes versus Tabith Ritchie? They probably had one written down, like the Sam Hughes matchup. Like, well, actually, why would they write down? Anyway. And then so I'm going to kind of boo you there. And then I'm going to totally boo you out of the building, Marcus, with Jonathan Martinez versus Chris Gutierrez.

Come on. Seriously, those two guys would never fight. They're like besties. They train together. They're Factory X guys. I'm sure Chris Gutierrez helped Jonathan Martinez prepare for this fight since they both fought Vince Morales

and they had identical game plans. Come on. I'm booing you out of the building. Ouch. I always forget to add that in the disclaimer, teammates thing. But I think I've made that mistake before so I don't want to be too harsh on it.

But I should add to the standard disclaimer. Just to remind people, check if guys are teammates. Yes. Tino Alvarez. Sam, another Chey and Elizabeth's pick. Sam Hughes versus Cheyenne Velasmus. I actually like that. I like that fight a lot because, yeah, I like it.

We haven't seen Cheyenne in a while. Chase Hooper versus Charles Rosa. I like that pick. Yeah. I think that's a really experience. That's the other name I really thought of. But boy, big experience gap there, though, eh? Yeah, really like it.

Really like it. I think that's a pretty even fight. Jonathan Martinez versus Casey Kennedy. I like that. Another popular one this week. I saw a lot of this. Eurosbeditch versus Slava Claus. Oh, I didn't get any of those.

I got a lot of... Medish Malarkey. Tabitha Ritchie versus Monserrat, Canejo, Chee-Bang-Bang versus Christoph, Jocko. I don't know if I want to see that for Chiti. It's just, no. I want him in just sort of firefights. I want him to get a little bit of a step-up,

but I don't want a Christoph Yucco set up. I have a lot of respect for Yacco, but he's not someone I would describe as a fun fighter. He likes Paheda versus Jorge Mazadol, but if he can't get Mazadol, for obvious reasons, Stephen Thompson, but we're all in agreement that he deserves a big fight. Ketland Vieira versus the winner.

We're going title fight here versus the winner of Pena Nunes too. Sure. Wow. Adam Marvin, Paheda versus Magni when he loses to Rock Bonoff. Okay, very confident. Damn. Chee-Veatroski, both had relatively quick finishes and wanted to get back in there soon, get him on the Texas card, sure.

Vera versus the winner of McMahon versus Ladd? With a question mark. Sorry, don't you think Injuquani would like, at this point in their careers, like kill Petrosky? If it's standing, but what if it goes to the ground? Trosky's very good down there. For sure, but I just think like, again, this is an experience gap thing for me.

It's like it is a stripler grappler matchup. But I think like Enjikwani has some takedown defense and just has fought much better competition. I don't know. I don't really like that one. Okay. We go to Canada with Canadian Bryants. Good morning, Mike and AK. It took a couple weeks off.

Great golfing weather is sparse in Canada. But we're back for this. absolutely stack card wild card pick jelton al-leda this is another popular one versus iwan kuchelaba tabith ritchie versus muzuki inoua i feel like her returns got to be close chidi versus wakim buckley win or lose versus albert du reaff i feel like that's a great pick mitchell pehanna versus horhe maz dot dot no i'm kidding that would be an amazing fight but that'll never happen so let's do pehada versus the winner of tim means versus kevin holland oh oh you like that one That is good.

All right. That is good. Caitlin Vieira versus whoever has the belt after the Nunes versus Pena's saga because of Nunes wins. They're running it back for a third time, no doubt. Plus, let's be honest, Holm won that fight. Okay. Daniel Marculas, Hooper versus Tristan Connolly, AK. Yeah, I like it.

I like it. I think in the eyes of the matchmakers, Hooper might have kind of vaulted a little bit past him with that win on Saturday. But Connolly is exactly the kind of veteran test who I think is like, yes, has experienced. but also is not like so far above Hooper that like it's unreasonable. That's actually pretty good. I thought of that. That's definitely what I considered. He also likes Jonathan Martinez versus Manaboy Martinez because we can make the hashtag.

Martinez on Martinez. Love it. Dig it. Packa Porter House Porter versus Jake Collier. Stick into this one from while back. Alameda versus whoever you wants because you don't because you need to have some balls to tell that bohemath no. but in all series, this is going on Mata

versus Iwan Kuchelaba. The tiny mustache man Holmes versus A.J. Thompson. Baby Shark versus Monster at Ruiz for the shortest UFC fight possible. Oh. Cheedy versus Mahmoud Muradoff, assuming his hand issue is resolved.

Paheda versus the loser, Bagdi Shafcott, Ponziabia, Randy Brown. I like that idea. Ponsonzovian versus Randy Brown. Gerard Biagin, Kailen, Vira versus GDR, because Chivchenko will jump the line or a trilogy between Unionis,

Pena. Hollyholm retirement fight versus Sarah McMahon, I assume win or lose against Aspen Ladd. Michelle Paheda versus Michael Kiesa, Santiago Ponziabio, Kiosk Williams, Jun Young Park versus Andre Petroski, Chase Hooper versus Jamal Emmer's. John, go ahead. How do you like the Palleta Keyeson matchup? Look, I didn't like it at first. I saw a lot.

I got a ton of those. And I was kind of like, I don't really love it, but. I think it's fine. Like, it's a top 10 guy, right? Kess is still in the top 10, isn't he? He is. I mean, rankings-wise, it makes sense.

Like, stylistically, I don't know if I like it. Like, I just don't want... You're a tough fight. Like, why I throw Palletta in there with a grappler? Like, I don't want... But again, he's going to have to... I get it. He's going to have to fight, you know,

diverse styles as he goes up in the rankings anyway. So, yeah, it's not bad. I just didn't jump out to me right away, but a lot of people called for it. I'm like, maybe there's some legs to it. And then lastly, for me, John Ray, Hughes versus Carnalosi, Martinez versus the Stamen Wineland winner.

I believe that fight's happening June 18th. Okay. Uris Medich versus Ferez Ziam on September 3rd, of course. I like that idea. Holmes versus Holmes versus the Phil Hawes Geron win winner.

Okay. That might be a little soon, but John Young Park versus you say an Iron Turtle Cheaty bang bang, let's go. Match the two winners up. Yeah, you can just do that.

Ritchie versus Kanako Morata. Piera versus Kiesa, I guess since the UFC went in booked Luke A already. home versus the Ladd-McMan winner and then Vieira versus GDR. So there's the IG picks. We head over to you, my best friend.

Yeah, I think like Vietta versus GDR would have been like the most popular pick for her if it wasn't for the fact that like people just were like where it is GDR. Because the other popular pick was, I know, you know, a bunch of people mentioned it. Just give just give Bada the title shot. Here's the level of excitement that we're dealing with here, though. This is from Casey Carpenter.

Casey says, I say just give Ketland the title fight. Amanda already has beaten the others in the top five. She wins. I don't want three straight fights. And a Pena wins. She needs a new challenger. So it's almost like by default that everybody's like, yeah, I guess. Throw in there.

Casey also says, another reason why I think Kettling can get the title fight is for Valentina. Would probably fight Misha if Misha beats, Misha Tate beats Lauren Murphy. Next, instead of going back to Bantamweight. From a business standpoint, it makes sense for her to fight Tate. Tate's the biggest star, one of the biggest stars currently in women's M. still. So that's two, that's like two scenarios where it's just kind of like,

Kellen Vejana gets the shot because other options, like either wouldn't want to take it or, or it's just Amanda has already beaten all these other names. So like, people are really not jumping at this, this Veyeda title shot thing. Like they kind of, everyone like suggested it,

but you get the sense that just, just to do it. Like just to give Bayetta something to do and to give whoever walks out of that rematch a challenger. So by the way, good job for the future matchmaking here. And if we were planning on maybe ripping a particular matchup, some breaking news on this Sunday morning. Actually came out a couple of days ago, but I must have just missed it. Derek Minner out of his fight with Damon Jackson. No. He said a clash of heads in training led to a concussion that has forced him to

withdraw from his June 4th matchup with Damon Jackson, first time in 60 fights. And in 14 years that an injury has put him out of a fight. But head injuries are, quote, something I can't tough out like all the rest. I'll be back better than ever. Appreciate all love and support. I will enjoy my hashtag girl gang. Get healthy and be back as soon as possible.

So there you go. Tough news. Yeah, but good to hear that he's putting his health first. You know, again, he's fought for a while. He's fought for a long time. And I think we're all okay with Derek Minner, as he said, as he said, when we're dealing with the brain, I mean, that's serious. He's been a lot of fights.

Certainly. How do you feel about Jun Yong Park versus Nick Maximov? I feel like this was recommended actually a while ago when Maximov was winning fights. I think people want to see him fight Jun Young Park and now, I guess people are revisiting this. Too soon for Maximoff? No, I mean, you fought Punisoriano, so I feel like, I feel like this would be fine. Yeah, I'm looking out. Yeah, I'm cool with that.

I said I got a lot of Holmes versus Josh Frimmed. Is there some heat there that I'm not aware of? Well, they're both looking for a fight guys. Oh, okay. But I believe Josh Frampton is booked. If I just have to, let me, I know Josh Frum just fought Anthony Hernandez, and I'm surprised that he's booked right away. Um, nope, never mind. Yeah.

He was scheduled to fight Trashon Gore July 9th, but Frumd had to withdraw from the fight. So that is technically still an option. And I like Josh. French front against anybody. That's a good fight. I actually like that fight. If he was going to fight, Trayshon Gore, I feel like Joseph Holmes is probably like a step ahead of Trayshon Gore.

Just one step. I think experience-wise, UFC, both guys, you know, a fight or two. Both were on reality shows of sorts for the promotion to get them to the UFC. So, yeah, I like it. The other one I saw, I think people just wanted to see me pronounce these names. Holmes versus the Mikhailitis Fekritinov winner, June 4th. Nice try, guys. I do my research on these things.

Boom. I don't think I heard you say this one. I got a lot of this one. Jayaltern Almeida versus Khalil Roundtree. I hate this matchup. Yeah, I don't like it. I don't know why. Like, I should, I feel like I should like it more.

That's a two-minute submission win for Jalmada. Yeah. He's taking him down in the first, like, first minute and then finishing him in the next minute. Yeah. Respectfully. I know what you're coming from. I feel like it's one of those fights that like we think about it. And if we saw the poster, we'd be like, oh, cool.

But then if we actually like watched the tape and did research, we were just Oh boy, this is, I feel like we could put these two guys in different fights. Please, terrible style matchup. Almeida would have to be, honestly, and I like Roundtree a lot. Almeida, I would make them like a minus 600 favorite. That's how strongly I feel about Almeida and that style matchup, I don't like it. And I love this one. This one made me, I had to think about it for a second.

Chase Hooper versus Brian Keller. Now, at first I was like, oh, that's not really the same weight class. And then I remembered, well, Brian Keller's kind of been, he's fought more of 145 in the last like two years than he. He's fought at 135. And experience-wise, again, he's the right, it's kind of in the right place for him. I mean, he has so much more experience. But I like, he'll fight anyone. He loves to fight guys with a name.

Chase Hooper certainly has a name now. I'm kind of okay with that. Hooper will probably have a pretty big size advantage. But I don't mind it. Hooper Keller, do you think that's a good logical next option? Wouldn't hate it. Big fan of both those guys. It would just be a tough watch.

Be a tough watch because I won't have to lose that fight. Yeah. All right. Now go to some individual listeners here. First timer. Matthew, I hope he pronounced this last. All right. Matthew Gamesey.

First time, he can not know pick, a long time fan of this show. First off, what a KO by Cheedy. Excited to see where he goes. And I want to see Cheedy versus Punisoriano. Michelle Pereira versus Keza and Kentlen Behrer get a title shot. So there we go. Dad Jackson.

Medici versus Michael Johnson. I don't know what they do with Michael Johnson now at this point. Oh, here's a good one. I always have to ask you about Hooper. CJ at South Poppix on Instagram. How do you feel about Hooper versus Joe Anderson Brito? It's not bad. It's not bad.

I don't like it. I don't like. Outside the UFC experience. Yeah, Brio's really good. It's tough. But maybe Chase Hooper is really good. I don't know. I'm jumping the gun off of a boat.

Future fight. Future top 15 fights someday. Okay. Dylan shoot. I don't know about this, but I know she would take it. Tabitha Ritchie versus Angela Hill. Angela Hill probably pieces her ass up at this point, right? Yeah, but if Ritchie gets her down, it's interesting.

Yeah. Maybe. I mean, yeah, Angel's kind of in a tough spot right now, so. MMA heads. I really like this matchup, and I'm going to repeat this a bunch of times, because there was a lot of people, I think, looking really far ahead to kind of make matchups. M. May heads. Jun Young Park versus Gerald Mearschart,

Bruno Silva, loser. I love the idea. The one problem is that's in August 13th. A lot of, again, a lot of listeners this week made picks like, oh, such and such versus this upcoming fight. That's like in August. That's a long time to wait for a lot of these guys. We're talking almost three months.

And then they have to wait for whoever is selected from that fight to rest, recover, sign on. So you're talking about keeping someone on the shelf for like five months minimum, him probably six months. Jun Young Park, I think he'll be okay. I don't think he's suffered any major injuries. Probably wants to get back in there soon. So I'm going to read some more of these.

But generally, guys, if you picked a fight for like a matchup winner in August, I just don't think it's likely. You just asking someone to wait a long time. And also, Chase Hooper versus T.J. Laramie, I think Hooper has passed him in the, like, pretty far past Laramie now in the prospect rankings. I think Laramie has to build his name back up. Yeah. He hasn't been great in the UFC so far.

No, he's only fought twice, right? Did he fight twice or three? Or he only fought once? He's fought twice. He's definitely fought twice. And I like the idea just again, age-wise and experience-wise. But I do think Hooper has, he's right-huh.

He's 0-2. So Hooper's kind of trending. Again, Hooper's kind of past him. I could see the fight being made. I just think if they did, it would clearly be because they think, like, Hooper's going to, like, smoke them and build on. I don't know if it's, like, a great matchup competitively. Yeah.

Matt Bradbury I always want to read this This is a call out Well I want to call out And then I think that's had a really good pick dude Jonathan Martinez versus Nathaniel Wood Now Nathaniel Wood I'm pretty sure is moving up to 145 He said that publicly

Now maybe Jonathan Martinez should too But he made wait for this fight If he can make 135 I think Martinez is like legitimately a guy to watch in this division So I would hold off on that It's definitely not going to happen at 135 I think Wood is going to try his hand at featherweight for sure But I did like Jailton Al-Neda versus Alexi Olinic.

Why? Come on. I like two grapplers. Just throw them in there. If he could submit Olinic, that would be pretty fun. Now, here's, I'm with you. But this can't be a, this can't be a bounce around situation. This has to be a, I am committing to moving up to heavyweight.

And, yeah, it has to be one of those things. Those are the guys who should get this Olinic fight. Because those are the guys who will probably beat Olinic and do it way better than others have. Like, Sergei Svich. Like, we're not, Jeltenhammeda will not Sergei Spivak this opportunity. He will go out there and probably just put it on Mr. Olinic and do it quickly and decisively. And he will do what you're supposed to do in these types of situations. So if he is committed to heavyweight, if that's where he's going, then I'm in.

If not, if we're doing the bounce around game, no. That was very daddish of you. You really put your foot down there with Charlton. Like, Gilton, I know you want to have fun. I know you're young. You want to have fun. But you got to, son, you've got to commit to something. Yeah, it's one of the other.

You got to commit. It's not all fun in games, Jailton. You want this opportunity to fight Alexia Leninik? Then you got to commit, son. You can't go to two colleges. You got to pick one. I disagree. I'm like, I'm like, Jelton, go do your freshman year at, you know,

UCLA. And if you want, go travel the world for a year and then come back and, you know, go to go to University of Southern California. Whatever you want to do, JLT. I don't know. I don't think it needs to commit. I'm fine with him jumping around. But that would be an interesting one if he took that. I would think like he's, you know, taking heavyweight seriously. One email here from Otno coin collector who says I'm, I was overjoyed to earn my first coin, but investing so heavily in Otno forced me back into the kitchen for wedding season catering. Oh no. So he's got do-do matchup ideas put me in a springtime slump. The small window I have between Saturday night and when the best brands get down to business on Sunday morning leaves me little time to submit picks. Oh, I'm sorry to hear that. So typically watch the podcast on Sunday, listening to the preview show during the marathon service where I mostly feed pretty appetizers to drunk guests. But man, did I have to raid submit this week after catching the main event at 2.30 in the morning? As always, thanks for the audio indulgence.

And I believe Ano Coin Collector is mad because they feel that Holly Holm. one. So, Holm versus Pennington, number one contender matchup. There's any justice in the world? No, if there's any justice in this world, we never see that fight again. I'm sorry. And they're also with me on Hooper versus Euseb's allow. But Aono Coin Collector, I hope you find more time to submit picks. And I hope your heavy investment in Otno Coin doesn't lead you astray, which it shouldn't. All right, let's wrap up here with Twitter. I'm not going to read all these, but I'll read some of these. Braden O'Neill likes Almeida versus St. Proup.

So there you go. That's something. Jonathan Martinez versus Victor Henry. I like the fight. I still don't think that gets made. I don't either. Oh, I love this one. At Derek Hot Stuff.

Enjokwani versus Calvin Gastilum. I love this because I think, like I said, I know we've been saying for literally like the last four 48 hours, we shouldn't care about Injaquanty being a contender. I just put on fun fights. I think this is both a fun fight and won. Where I get it, I know Gasolam is, you know, has been a top 10, top 15 guy for a long time. And people might not view Injikwani in that way, but he's a veteran. He's been around.

I'm okay with throwing him into this fight. And Gasolm, he needs a win. So people think this is an easy win for Gasolm, which I don't think it is. But if people think it is that, then good for Calvin. Get himself back in the wind column over a guy who's been white hot since joining the UFC. Two things. One, apologies if you hear any screaming in the household. the heck household is a little crazy right now.

Secondly, what's that? Okay, Drick's Duplasia's entered the chat, and he hates that pick. Even though Dracus duplice is fighting Brad Tavares, he's like, I'm getting Gassum before anybody is, son, if I be Brad Tavares. So I don't love, I mean, I get where he's calling with this, but I just feel like, I don't know, I don't feel like we're, you fight Calvin Gasselm now to propel yourself up towards, like a top 10, top five type of situation.

And I feel like DuPlessi, I feel like DuPlessi is more that guy right now. How about, how about this idea, A.K., Cheady versus Chris Curtis. Win or lose versus Huddle Fayana. Correct. Yeah, that's a great, that's a great fight. Like, these are the types of fights.

And I feel, like, and if Chris Curtis beats Haddafiera, I feel like he has more of a right to the Kelvin Gasolm fight than Cheetah does. Oh, wow. So you've got a couple of times. people ahead of Cheaty and the Gasselm. He could get there. Yeah, he could get there. But

I mean, Chris Curtis is just, he's done just ridiculous things and lots of upsets, done him on short notice. Cheedy's doing really well, but I feel like Cheetah's still in like fun fight territory. It took us this long to get Michelle Paheda into like these kinds of conversations. This is true.

Five wins in a row. And listen, that's good for Cheaty. That just means he's making a big, strong impact. And if you want to, I like the concept, I just don't, I don't think it's feasible right now. Let's revisit this if Chiti, whatever his next fight is. Let's say he goes 3 and 0 in 2020, 2020, get some fighter of the year. If he gets another first round knockout, we're talking about legitimate, like, top five

fighter of the year candidate, I think. Well, we'll see by the end of the year. Yeah. I put a lot of weight in, like, fun win streaks, I will say. I think if people look at our ballots from last year, like I wanted to put Chris Curtis in there. There's a lot of this song. Anyway, Marcus McGahey, Michelle Panetta versus Sean Brady. I think he's kind of past Brady right now

and would there's like that would be going backwards for him. For Bahanna? Oh, well, oh no, Sean Brady beat Keys. Oh, I don't know. Philly's on the phone. I know. They said, A.K., how dare you? How dare you?

Yeah. I feel like it would be a step back for Brady. It could happen. You know what? You're right. I spoke to you soon. It could happen. Oh, Stephen Brighter.

I forgot to mention him. He's with you on Hollywood versus Tate. I think we're going to be. going to see Holly Home versus Tate too at some point. Like, it would be, it'd be ridiculous for Misha Tate to come back and not fight Holly home at some point. Like, that is one of the reasons I would think. I'm not that she necessarily needs to fight home again, but there's money to be made there.

And it's just a, it's just a great fight. Their first fight was really good. I'd love to see the fight again. Four corner sports, NY, John Young Park versus Buckley, win-losey, win-egrow against Dariyev. A lot of people keep in Jelton at heavyweight. Jelton Almeda versus Tanner Bozer. I'm not against it. Sean Haywood

Chase Hooper versus Tucker Lutz Yoros Medici versus Chris Gritzamacher Tabitha Ritchie versus Ariani Carnalosi I kind of like all those Hayes Bethard

Oh, I like this Enjoquani versus the Kyle Boralio Armin Petrosian winner Fun fight Fun fight Yeah, I like it I like it

Jailton Almeida versus Here's someone bringing him back to the 205 Jailetta Mada versus Jacoby Dustin Jacobi Da-on-jong-loser July 16th.

I don't mind it. Yeah, not bad. Not bad. Let me just skip ahead here. I got a lot of these. Thomas Collins, Medici versus Mason Jones. Jelton Almeda versus Enzichu. I think he'd be an insane favorite against Chuku. But again, it depends how the UFC wants to build this guy. I'm not sure.

He's on a weird funky path right now. Barry O'Reilly, Medeach versus Mike Davis, banger. Joseph Holmes versus Hadolfo Valletta, win-Lusarra, win-loser draw against Chris Curtis. He says, for some reason, Holmes has claimed that he's the best grappling in the division just didn't sit right with me. So let him put his money where his mouth is and show us that that is true against this decorated BJJ practitioner. Okay. Interesting.

James McDonald's, Michelle Perreira versus the Magni Rachmanov winner. So they're not assuming anything in that matchup, just whoever wins that. Yeah. I'd love to see him fight Magna. I'd like to see him fight Magna. I'd like to see him fight Magna. Just a couple more here. Hots, Ritchie versus Luana Pinheiro, Medici versus Manuel Torres.

Medici is, I feel like we didn't talk about him enough. I think he won, he might have gotten overlooked for a performance bonus. And two, he'd be a tough guy in Omar Morales. And I do think we'll be seeing a lot more of Medici. I love this matchup on paper. I just, it's way too long away. Chase Hooper versus Luis Saladanya, win-Lusor-Dragons-Wudson. Luis Saladna was actually the first name that popped in my mind before.

One, I knew he was matched up. and two, that he was matched up to fight in August. So that's way too long a wait for Chase Hooper. If you can afford to wait that long, great. I think Chase Hooper's one of those guys. I would love it right now if he only fought like two times a year and just like was able to spend as much time as he could training. But I think he's the kind of kid.

He wants to stay busy. He wants to fight. He wants to keep getting, you know, new contracts, going through his contracts, getting more pay. So that's a long wait. I just don't think he. I think he fights Luis O'Donius time in the future. But it just can't be next.

And Mike, one more for Gailton Almeida. at heavyweight from Dustin Gedko Jelton Alameda versus Alexander Romanov Chaos, baby, chaos. No, that's a title fight someday. Oh, you're right, that's how to bite someday.

All right, guys. Ramano's looking sleek. Maybe he drops down at 205 today. I'm just saying he looks sleek as hell in his last fight. We could see the incredible shrinking Alexander Romano, but I'd love to see the fight, but yeah, that's a 2023, 2024 fight someday.

guys thank you for the picks and all the all the suggestions for the changes the show format everything please reach out to me with all your thoughts at Alexander Kaley on Twitter

at Alexander KKKaley on Instagram and Alex dotly at SBNation.com and m underscore heck JAR for your picks but we don't have to worry about that because we are off next weekend

because the UFC is off next weekend as well so there'll be no on to the next one episode but we'll be back of course following UFC Vegas 56, which will be the go-home show for UFC 275. This is going down June 4th. We had a hilarious auto-correct on the People's Pre-Fight show, Volvo versus Rosenstrike. Okay.

But it's Alexander Volkov versus Jarzini Rosenstrike. Fine main event, although Danny Gaye versus Movzar of Loyaf would have been a way more interesting main event in my eyes. No disrespect to Volkov. Rosenstrike. But that is the co-made event. Polyana Botelio versus Corrine Silva. Jeff Molina is back

versus Zalgas, Zuma Gulov, O'Day Osborne, Zeruk, Adashev, Andreas Mikhailaitis, Renot, Fekrettenoff. Aaron Blanchfield is back versus J.J. Aldrich. Mike Trisano, Lucas Almeida, Benoit, Santini

versus Nicholas Stoltze. Joe Selecki versus Alex De Silva, Alonzo Menafield, versus Ascar, Mazarov, and Tony Graz. Avley versus Johnny Munoz Jr.

All going down on that card. 13 fights heading into UFC 275. Actually, 12 fights because we lost Eric Minner. So 12 fights. They better put Aaron Blanchfield in the main card. They probably should, right? Or the featured, whatever, ESPN had minor, whatever. Yeah.

But you know it'll have to be the second fight total on the card, and they'll bury it. That's what we like to do. But we'll talk all about that, card placement. thing in two weeks on onto the next one so we're putting a bow on this show always remember don't take the stuff too seriously m a's supposed to be fun and for a k i am ikek we'll see you back here in two weeks on on to the next one the podcast you're listening to the vox media podcast network