MMA Fighting - On To the Next One | Matches To Make After UFC Vegas 56

Episode Date: June 5, 2022

With a victory over Jairzinho Rozenstruik in the main event of UFC Vegas 56, Alexander Volkov is in a very interesting spot. Does he get the chance to fight ahead in the heavyweight rankings, or will he now have to face a surging contender? That question is discussed by MMA Fighting's Mike Heck and Alexander K. Lee following Saturday's event at the UFC APEX. In addition, future matchups are discussed for Movsar Evloev following his incredible performance against a game Dan Ige in the co-main event, Lucas Almeida after his Fight of the Night win against Mike Trizano, along with Karine Silva and Ode Osbourne following their main card finishes, and more. Follow Mike Heck: @MikeHeck_JR Follow Alexander K. Lee: @AlexanderKLee Subscribe: http://goo.gl/dYpsgH Check out our full video catalog: http://goo.gl/u8VvLi Visit our playlists: http://goo.gl/eFhsvM Like MMAF on Facebook: http://goo.gl/uhdg7Z Follow on Twitter: http://goo.gl/nOATUI Read More: http://www.mmafighting.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Like leftovers at midnight, our Black Friday offers won't last. Shop now at IKEA.ca.ca slash Black Friday. IKEA, bring home to life. Welcome to the Vox Media Podcast Network. Everybody and welcome to a brand new edition of On to the next one. I am Mike Heck. We have dusted off the matchmaking hats after a rare, weekend off from the program last week.

But I feel like we gave you a lot of fun, original content for our first ever All-Star weekend here at M-Mayfighting.com. But the UFC did return with UFC Vegas 56 on Saturday. And that means we return with this program as well. And by we, I mean myself and the co-host, the co-matchmaker, the Prince of Positivity, and just the bestest friend ever, Mr. Alexander K. Lee. Hello, sir. Hello, my best friend.

This is weird. It's weird. We have so much time in between the actual ending of Saturday's show and our own show. So we should both be well-rested. I'm not because I party like a rock star, as you know. I was not responsible. You know, it's a Saturday night. It's not like, oh, UFC's over at seven.

No, I can be in bed by 10.30. No, I got to go out there and do my thing. I got to hit the streets. You know what I mean? I got to hit the streets. I got to hit the sheets. You know what I'm saying? So what did you do?

I have to know. I just play a lot of video games. Oh, fair enough. Fair enough. Online. Oh, wow. That changes everything. I'm not just soloing.

I'm playing. I'm interacting. What game? That's very old. Not old. I mean, it's like a year old now, but it was recently, it was recently free, put out for free. Borderlands 3. So I'm like, oh, well, free is a very good price.

So I've been playing that with some friends and family. So, thank you. Yeah. Does this man know how to party or watch? Oh, listen. I don't want to. You don't even want to know. Well, let's get into some matchmaking.

That is a party in its own right. Let's start with the main event, the one that everybody was clamoring for, AKA. Alexander Volkov gets it done. You can rip referee Herb Dean if you want. I thought the stoppage itself was fine. The hokey pokey action of it all, not okay with. But either way, Drago wins, stops jars in your Rosenstrike in just over two minutes. He looked good.

He avoided losing two in a row for the first time in his UFC career. And normally after these main events, it's pretty easy, AK. We kind of know where it's going. But this is a tough one because he's fought most of the guys in his wheelhouse already. And not all that long ago. So what do we do now? Because he doesn't climb up the rankings or get any closer to a title shot with this win in reality. what do you think this took forever this took forever I thought it'd be like somewhat easy

just because you know anytime someone's in the top 10 you kind of just sort of count down and like okay well he's fought this person he's fought this person until you land on a name that he hasn't fought that isn't booked but as you said he's fought all these guys in the top 10 or these guys are booked or at least rumored to be fighting everyone within the like within 10 15 spots of him so so that was really tricky I thought I'd have a harder time with like some of the debutantees that on the main card, but actually, because there's so many options usually, that actually wasn't that difficult. So for Volkov, geez, I settled on, all right, Mike, here's how you know how this pick broke me.

There was a lot of controversy by the finish, right? Yes. We really didn't get to see a lot of action, right? And I think both guys were unharmed. Would you agree with that as well? I would agree with that. Run it back. Run it back.

Volkov. Jarzino to headline it again. You see it. Look, they got a lot of cards to fill. Guess what? You've got another free apex headliner. Run it back. Bad blood, you know, bad blood.

Bring Herb Dean back. Recreate the circumstances as much as you can. And let's just run this one back because he really has fought everybody else. There's some good suggestions later. I'm sure you'll have one as it as well, Mike. But I said, screw it. Screw it. How long was a fight?

Two minutes, 12 seconds? Yep. That's not. We don't know. We don't know who the better fighter is. that is very interesting. Man, I might actually, you got me thinking,

I'm not changing my mind. This was really hard. I was thinking if Derek Lewis loses to Sergei Pavlovich, then maybe we'd do the Derek Lewis rematch because I'm sure Volkov would love that fight. But I kind of feel like Derek Lewis should fight Jarzino no matter what happens,

since people have been asking for that fight for quite some time. God. The hashtag, get it ready. Alexander versus Alexander. I think Alexander Romanov is the answer here. Let's just throw this monster in there with Alexander Volkov and let's see which first name Alexander is better, the one with an E or the one without.

And let's just see if Mr. Romanov can swim with the sharks. I think it's worth the look. I think it's worth seeing if this guy is a top 10 close to a top five guy. Let's throw him in there with Volkov and see how he does. Yeah, I thought, the only thing is I had picked Romanov as my wild card, the last time Romanov fought, and I went with March and Tabura. But the Volkov fight makes a lot of sense. And Taburra would be a big step up, but Volkov would be an even bigger,

like huge, huge step up compared to the competition that Ramonov is facing the UFC. So, yeah, I mean, look, I think that is the right test for him. I like that. I like Toborra. I like Arlowski, but I think I had some other weird pick for Arlofsky. So really, any of these, either a couple guys in the top 10 or you have, or you give Ramonovovovsky something. But yeah, no, this is, I sense this is almost a crystal ball pick.

I don't know if it's a pick that you would want, but I feel it's something that they would do. Yeah, I think it's very likely possibility that this fight happens. If Greg Hardy can fight Alexander Volkov early in his career, I think Alexander Romanov is earned the right to get this fight with maybe an extra winner two under his belt. Let's go to the co-main event because Mavzar, Ivoev is officially a big, big problem, aka tremendous performance against Danny Gay. I think the world of Danny Gay and Evloyaf just put a beating on him.

No one has really put a beating on Danny Gay quite like that. They've won decisions and they've wore him out a little bit, but no one has really just busted him up like that. he calls out Arnold Allen. I loved the callout. But at the same time, if I'm Arnold Allen, I'm not going anywhere near this guy. So I will stay consistent. There's a big one coming up, a big main event in a couple of weeks between Calvin Cater and Josh Emmett.

I think if Lov should fight the loser of that one. What say you? Oh, I'm kind of in a conundrum now because I thought you were going to say Arnold Allen or Bryce Mitchell and then I was going to go with the one you didn't pick. so I had a little strategy there sorry man it's fine I like the caterer

I'm at possibility as well and I have them both ranked higher than than Bryce Mitchell and Arnold Allen so that would be a nice jump up for a way of I'll lean towards Alan then I'll lean towards Alan then I do like to call out

I do think I don't think Alan I know you're saying he should avoid him I don't think Alan will I think he'd love to see that name on that contract sent his way because he needs I mean I think a lot of people eyes, Evloiev jumped over him with this, if he wasn't already ahead of him in some people's rankings. He jumped over him with this win over Ege. Just because Alan, again, there's just these

little weird asterisk, some of the guys he's beaten, like, again, Dan Hooker, a ranked guy, yes, but not ranked it featherway. And then you can go down the list and say, oh, this person's a good name, but whatever they're, this, this is why, you know, it doesn't improve Arnold Allen's standing in the, in the rankings that much. So I think Alan still, still wants that signature win. And I think if he fought of Loeb and beat him, I mean, then there's no more questions. And even if he lose to live, even if he ends up taking that first UFC loss, I don't think it would be bad for him.

I think Arnold Allen himself needs to get a better gauge of like, okay, where am I as a contender? Am I really a top, could I be a top five guy now or am I step away? Because he is, he is look, nine straight wins in the featherweight division. I don't care who you're fighting. It's insanely hard to do.

So he certainly has the credentials of someone who should be in the top 10, possibly top six or seven. But he still needs that signature win of loyiff could be it so i do like the arnold allen call out and i think they should they should get the same page with that yeah i love the call out as well if iron oland takes that fight he's an absolute g and if they set that one up for london that's a great opportunity for both guys so they make it i am watching the hell out of it but if i'm honor lallan i'm defending that ranking

and just calling for that zombie fight and hoping i get it so let's stick at one 45 Lucas Almeida had himself a hell of a debut, stops a game Mike Trezano in the third round. Super fun fight. Almeida gets it done. Can't really be too wrong with this one, AK, so we'll kick it off with you. What do you think for Mr. Almeida?

I kind of went the same direction for both Lucas Almeida and Karina Silva, so a little spoiler, a little teaser, I'd say ahead of there, because you could kind of match them up with other people who have one and two, three fights in the O.C. but I think they both entered you know they both entered the octagon with a little bit more experience than the average newcomers

so I did so I'm saying throw both these fighters kind of into the fire for Lucas Alameda I'm thinking I'm going Andre Feeley yeah I know we're going a guy with almost 20 UFC fights against the guy who just made his debut but the UFC has shown in the last couple of years that they are not against that

again and they take into account again outside of the UFC experience as they should as they should so I don't know how good Lucas Almeida is but I was very impressed I think he's super exciting Andre Fili I want to see is he really trending in the wrong direction or is he the kind of guy that he just has the misfortune of being in the loaded in a loaded division and facing really tough competition and you're going to end up you know with 500 record or a sub 500 record so I again feel he's really good so this is kind of a gauge for Lucas Almeida and I think also just a super exciting matchup so yeah give me give me let's try

Lucas Almeda and Andrei Feeley. Like I said, can't really be wrong with this one. So Tucker Lutz. Tucker Lutz, good fight. Nice. I like it. Where did you go with Korean-A-Silva? Again, a more experienced opponent.

I'm thinking, actually, my first instinct was I really want to see either Ariani Lipski or Priscilla Kachara, but I had previously, I think, masked up the two of them. That's a fight I still want to see happen. That's a fight I think still makes a lot of sense. It has not been booked. I've not seen rumors about it. but it just makes a lot of sense. I feel like I'm going to my crystal ball here.

I feel like that one is going to be booked at some point. So I went with Montana de la Rosa instead. So, you know, just someone who's been around the UFC. Again, another exciting fighter, so a fight finisher, which in the Flyweight Division is not the most common thing. And Karina Silva is definitely a fight finisher. As we saw, all her wins have come by way of knockout her submission. And she snagged another one in her UFC debut.

So, yeah, give her a tough veteran test in Montana de Larosa. And let's see if we really have something here with Corinna Silva. I thought we were going to sing the Friends Forever song by being on the same page. We were close. We didn't get completely there. I took a little bit of a step back from Montana, but right around the same wavelength, I think, after Silva had that impressive debut against Botelio, that Darshug was nasty, stops it with five seconds left in the first round. I really liked what I saw. So Gillian Robertson seems like a fine choice.

I'll go with that. I think both of us are right around the same wavelength. And yeah, I like what I saw from her. I think that's a good fight and see some, uh, some jiu-jitsu between those two. There you go. That's all I need to hear. Yeah. Mixing of the martial arts.

No, no, no, no, just jih Tzu. O'Day Osborne, aka he is great. I love him at 125. He could be a big problem. And I'm just going to make this easy. Jeff Molina called him out. seconds later. I like that fight. I like that idea. So let's go with that. It's not lazy. Both guys fought on the same card, both won, one much more emphatically than the other. But still, I think they're essentially around

the same place in the rankings. And that's just a freaking banger. What say you? Yeah, it's a freaking banger. It's like a free wild card pick for us because, I mean, Melina deserves to be, deserves. You mentioned, three and O now in the UFC. Love, I've said it on the other shows. Loved everything he had to say about, you celebrating LGBTQ rights and things like that and just him having a laugh about it being like like why is it such a big almost like like why is it such a big deal he's like why are people coming at me on Twitter and he didn't he didn't even take the like firing back at people who were like who were asking him oh why are you why are you I'm speaking out about you know about these riots and representing and he's just like he almost had this attitude like why wouldn't I like it's 2022 like what what is

the big deal so very cool um very just a very cool winning week for Jeff Molina all around. And yeah, Odie Osborne, let's make it happen. Fun matchup. Both guys want it. Neither guy lose as much if they lose. I mean, I think these are both, I mean, there's two fighters who are going to be names in the flyweight division for a long time hanging around that top 20. Molina, I think will sneak into a ranking.

And Osborne, listen, I don't know why I've been so skeptical with him, maybe because the results in the UFC have been mixed. But he is finally, I think, in the weight class where he belongs. And he looks super dangerous on Saturday night. And this could be, there could be really big moves ahead for a pro day. Friends forever. Yes. With you everywhere. Oh, man.

Wow. Excellent. We're on the same page. All right. So unofficial. Okay. So unofficially, that's our thing now. All right.

All right. I'm not doing the full two-minute song, but I figure we just. Well, we'll get sued. Yeah, we can't do that. Well, I was going to cut you off. I was about to cut you off. I was like, I was like 30 seconds. I had like a timer 30 seconds.

Okay. Yeah, we're not on the YouTube. So we're good. I don't want to. want the wrath of Mark Paul Gosler. Mark Paul Gosler? Yeah. Big Jujitsu guy.

Okay. He might appreciate it. He might. The MVP of this card to me, okay, is Alonzo Meadowfield. And this is not even close. He stops the oh so mysterious Ascar Mazarov, vicious elbows in the crucifix. This fight was hilarious in so many ways. And he puts a bow on one of the weirdest stories of the air.

So what is next for the Fortis MMA fighter? Oh, gosh. I like Alonzo, like you said, he took care of business. He put a beautiful capper on, yeah, what was certainly a wild week as far as a moraz. You know, hey, I shouldn't be blamed for not getting his name right because apparently he has like three or four of them. So, Mosarov. I know, you know, I know Alonzo is, I think 34. I don't know if he's turning 35 this year,

but I know he was 34 heading to this fight. So it's not like there's a lot of time to like, but he's still relatively young in MMA years. So I'm hesitant. I'm hesitant to kind of push him in tough D. He's only been fighting, I think, like six, seven years. I've been pro. And he's been thrown to the UFC fires, right?

So I wish we could kind of scale things back. People know I'm Mr. Scaleback. I'm Mr. Cautius. Give me, I just want to say these names. Give me Menafield versus the Nikolai Negomiriano, Eeyor Poteria winner. I should have practiced that. Igor Ejor Porteria winner.

It's going down U.S.C. 277, July 30th. Let's let Menafield possibly get some momentum going here. Not that I'm saying he's guaranteed to beat either guy, but I would favor him over a lot of the names, over those guys compared to a lot of the names ahead of him. So, yeah, this is almost like a crystal ball thing, too. This is almost like, I think, like, I don't think they're going to want to necessarily rush him up so quickly. Yeah, I mean, to me, the correct answer would be any 205er that wants to fight at UFC 27 in Dallas on July 30th. And who knows? Maybe one of those names falls out.

Duh. So, I mean, that's the correct answer. I don't know if that happens. But if I have to pick a name, this is actually pretty easy for me outside of that. Tyson Pedro, I think, is a perfect selection for this division because Tyson was gone for a while, got the Ikeville in a wave of momentum. and yeah, Alonzo's a little up there in years, but he could still make moves at light, heavyweight, and everyone's really high on him.

Like, I feel like how people individually rank him and view him is way higher than probably he should be. Not that he's not, like, he's still a very good fighter, and he's getting better, and we're seeing just him being smarter over these last couple of fights. The William Knife fight, I think people still have in the back of their minds. They don't really like it too much, but this is a perfect performance against, just,

Just a weird story guy. And he's got a lot of promise. Still some work to do. But I think this is a realistic fun scrap that probably isn't going to the judges. I think this is was pretty easy. So, yeah, Manifelt, I, I forgot. Excuse me. I forgot.

Are they going to Texas twice in the next column months? Dallas and Austin, right? They're Austin in 13 days. And then as we record this, and then they're in Dallas July 30th. Right, right. Okay. Right. I forgot that Alonso Miffel would love to get on one of those Texas cards, of course.

You know what? So I'm changing. I'm going crystal ball. I'm going crystal ball. So I'm sticking in the same area. But yes, one of those gentlemen, Nikolai or Eor, will stub their toe. And Alonzo will get his pay-per-view opportunity in, or not maybe not on the main card, but pay-per-view card opportunity in Dallas.

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select one fighter we have not match made for yet and we will go ahead and do so right now so AK kick us off wild card selection UFC Vegas 56 I'm gonna go with sort of something one of our listeners suggested and I said you know all ranked shouldn't all fighters and the MA fighting global rankings with a number next to their name shouldn't they be shouldn't they be picked in this case there's only one fighter out of the top two fights that has a global ranking number Aaron Blanchield number 13 so yeah I mean I you know I could I could have gone with There's a lot of good performances on the prelims. And, you know, could have gone Tony Gravely.

Again, we kind of did Jeff Malina already. Damon Jackson always a fun one. But, again, she's ranked. She's ranked. She deserves she mentioned. And I'm sure if I didn't, you would. So I'll, but I'll just cover that base so you can toss another name out there. Let's see, Aaron Blanchfield.

And this is a name. I'm strictly doing this because it's ranked higher. Some people might already have Aaron Blanchfield ranked higher than this name. But I think Andrew really is a good matchup for Aaron. this point. Very experienced. Again, another really tough test. I thought Aldridge was a really tough test, and she was. Again, anyone who watched that fight, I mean, Aaron Blanchfield's got a lot of tape, a lot of stuff to work on. So you might even argue that Andrea Lee might be a bridge too far at this point based on what we saw against J.G. Aldridge. But I don't think so. I think

Blanchfield certainly has a chance. I think she'd be favored, just because I think her name has so much heat behind it right now. I think people might maybe not thrilled that Andrew Lee's last performance and certainly not the behavior of her of her corner. So I'm going, and I think Blanchefield's talent is just through the roof. Is that talent enough to overcome the experience gap? I don't know, but I'd like to see it. So yeah, Blanchfield and Julie. I appreciate you setting the table like that for me to choose somebody else, but I'm not going to. I'm picking around Blanchfield as well. Because I know there's going to be a lot of names thrown out there. There's going to be a lot of fighters who are ranked and have numbers next to their

names that are going to be thrown out there. And I'm going with the correct pick. It's Aaron Blanchefield versus Tracy Cortez, too. That is the fight to make. One of these win streaks has to be snapped. I don't think I like the kind of the slow build for both of these fighters right now. They fought before. I thought Aaron Blanchfield clearly beat Tracy Cortez. The judges that night did not. So I think this is the perfect time for it. Both of them are very close to getting over that hump into that discussion. I'd like to see Aaron get one more tough fight outside of the UFC rankings, if you will. I don't know if maybe Tracy is ranked in their rankings.

Wouldn't surprise me if she was. But I think that's the fight. Run that one back. There's a story there. You can put that anywhere on a pay-per-view card. On a main card for a fight night event. You can do a lot with that fight because both are – there's a lot of hype behind both of these women. Tracy Cortez has a lot of fans, a lot of appeal.

and Aaron Blanchfield is still kind of a mystery right now, but a mystery people are very, very excited about. So let's just run that one back. Like, if you're going to do it, you have to do it now. You have to do it now, I think. So let's go. Let's go, AK. I don't know if it's as urgent.

I think it definitely happens someday. I just think not next. I think there's almost, I think, yeah, I would almost guarantee as long as they both kind of stay in their general trajectory, that that rematch will happen. I just not, just not. I don't think it's next. Yeah.

I just don't know. Like, I think if Tracy, loses a fight, I think it's off the table for a while. Because I just don't see Aaron losing anytime soon. So why not? Doesn't hurt anybody. Let's go. Do we have any extra curricular activities?

So much. So much, Mike. So much. Okay. First of all, with Apologies to Marcus McGeke, we had two suggestions this time for what to call this episode of on to the next one. And I'm giving the nod to Chris Martin. Oh.

So we have multiple people. throwing in sort of subtitles. Yes. And Marcus, you know, your sub-tel, solid as always, but I'm giving the nod to Chris Martin. Chris Martin called this the 25 and 7, no, 21 and 12, no, 19 and 12 edition of onto the next one. So a nice tip of the cap to the funniest storyline of the week. And maybe one of the funniest storylines of the year. You know what?

We did the, a lot of people told me I did the mid-season awards too early, which I did mathematically. I did. I did it after five full months instead of six, which is fine. And now I super regret it because we had a category, what's the most memorable moment? And there was like Charles Oliver missing weight and Francis and Ganu, you know, fighting out his remains of his contract and being successful doing it. Those are our two big storylines. I mean, the Ascar Moseraw thing would have easily made it. Probably would have been number one.

So people, I screwed up. I screwed up. We'll make up for it at the end of the year if we do a moment's recap because this was just so funny and enjoyable. Don't lie about your records, fighters. come on. All right. I do want to give out some points. Do you want to go some points? Jay Donaggie. I don't even know if he remembers this. One of our regular emailers. You know, Mike, there was a lot of... What was your pick for Patty Pimblatt after the last U.S. U.S. U.S. Lundon. Hernandez. Oh, and I love that. We had so many picks. I think Jay is the only one who nailed it. Jordan Lovett. U.S. Lennon, I went back and U.S.L.O.C. London, July 23rd. I went back and

check my records. Jay Donaggy, Patty Pimlet versus Jordan Levitt. It's the fight. That's a fight they wanted. So, well done. A solo point for you, sir. And Hayes,

the third, sent me a few, like, check the tapes, some of which I had a record, which, some of which I had a record, some of which I didn't. But there's one that he actually got, that he bought as any remember. So this is,

you are getting a solo point this week, Hayes, for Macwan Armier-Cani versus Jonathan Pierce, also going down in London on July 23rd. He said Macwan Air McCa-Marconi versus the winner of, oh, sorry, Jonathan Pierce versus the winner of Armirconi, Grundy I'm your Connie won so they go so a conditional point but a point all the same

equal equal to a normal odd no point and a big shared point for everyone and a big pat in the back because we all got the Shane Burgos Charles Jodain match that we all we all want to see that's going to be on UFC on ABC 3 July 16th Mike we got some questions okay we got some questions and they're good ones too if they were if they were do-do obviously I wouldn't read them first of all big congrats to at Nick Eklonville on Twitter, who says he made it into Michigan State Medical School. So well done. Excellent.

Well done. And this has two questions, actually. Mike, you and I are both East Coasters. And he wanted to know he's never, he's never lived in a place where it snows, he says, or even gets below 20 degrees Fahrenheit. So do you have any advice? I told him where as little clothing as possible. I said it's, you know, to acclimate yourself naturally, right?

That's my advice. I mean, all your years living in Boston once winter came around, you just like, you just like stripped down, right? Yeah, it was tank and speedo. weather for me. Yeah, just, I mean, look, it's got to be cold. It's going to be snowy. Snow is awesome. Cold sucks.

Like, at least the way I look at it. I mean, I moved, so I don't have to deal with that anymore. But I didn't move because of the snow. I moved because of the cold. I would rather two feet of snow with 25-degree weather than no snow and two-degree weather. That's where we're getting a lot over these last few winters. so I couldn't wait to get down here to South Carolina. So, yeah, just enjoy the cold, get out and enjoy it,

maybe pick up a winter sports skiing or snowboarding, if that is in that area, some sledding, snow tubing, all of these fun activities. And also find a nice area to walk around and find lots of warm restaurants and or bars to enjoy yourself and suffer through the cold weather with others just like you. And you know what, you know what, Nicklinville? You're, you're in medical school anyway.

You should be, you should be bundled up inside studying for the next four years. Exactly. Or eight years. However, Alon seems to become a doctor. I wouldn't know. Never came close. Or play video games with AK. Yeah, you know what?

Yeah, well, I'll hit you up my gamer tag. Okay. And Nicklinville also had a question. He saw some behind the head shots, the Tony Gravely fight, you know, incidental, right? I mean, a guy gets knocked down, you're throwing the punches. And he said, this is, he said, this is my wince moment in MMA, where I genuinely don't like the action, even more so than low blows. He doesn't like those other.

He says, I know they're both illegal, but still happen just to do the nature of the sport. With that said, is there any type of strike, submission, move that is legal in May that you guys don't like? And on the opposite end, is there any move that you guys feel should be allowed? Hmm.

So, I mean, I think the latter question is probably easier to answer because, I mean, the 12-6, and I think knees, I think you should be able to knee no matter what. Like I'm not I know there's people who advocate like soccer kicks I don't love those in MMA fights like they're crazy to watch like Carlos Konda do it when he never did him before But as a whole I don't love them but I hate the I hate the knees to a grounded opponent rule

I think you should be able to throw knees to a grounded opponent that whole like just the the points of contact on the ground like that that that stuff annoys me and let me tell you if people want to like you know people always say you know people always say how much wrestling dominates modern M.A. And it has for, you know, what, 20-something years, maybe even before that. If you want to see that, if you're tired of seeing guys kind of just hanging on to single legs and just, you know, getting their takedown block, but just still like just gripping and staying down. If you want to see that, that's that boy.

You legalize knees. You're going to see a lot of wrestlers have to be more careful about going all in for takedowns because guys will get, defending fighters will sprawl and just smoke the hell out of the guy attempted to take down with the knees of the heads. So I agree. I think it would level the playing field a lot. It would it would substantially change the game, though. I think it'd be jarring how much it would change who's like how competitive certain fighters are in M.A. Yeah, and I agree with that. But I mean, and then the legal MMA move, you don't like, I mean, God, it's not supposed to be legal, but apparently you can grab the fence all you want and not lose points.

No, listen, that's my answer to the second part of the question. Like, that's, that's my, what, what moves I feel should be allowed. I tweeted this yesterday. I'm like, just make it legal. They're not calling it anyway. They're not taking points away. I think it's really more of a safety thing anyway.

I mean, there is certainly a sportsmanship, not sportsmanship, but like wanting, you know, people to defend takedowns honestly and not make use of the apparatus. But the other thing is,

I think it is, that defense, if you had people like grabbing it all the time, you would definitely have at least two fighters a year suffering like some severe finger injury, like getting their fingers shredded, like a tendon or something in their finger like shred it from just like trying to grip onto the fence and being pulled away from it.

So I think there is a safety element to it. It's the same reason like you can't like grab someone's head and like grind it against the fence. Like there's a lot of things with the fence that, you know, they just don't want people messing around with it because, I mean, there's enough danger inside the cage as it is, much less having people again have small digits inside in between the links. Between the links. Hey! Every Thursday. Every Thursday. Podcast Network.

So I think there's a safety reason to it as well. and I know that's why they wouldn't want to do it. But I think they should, I'm half joking and half serious that like, if you're just going to let people do it and not take a point away, then just add it to the rules and say, yeah, you can do it. And if your finger falls off, that's your own fault. So Mike, we've kind of killed wrestling here with our rules. I think we have now said, guess what, wrestlers?

Now you've got to deal with grounded knees to the head and your opponents are allowed to grab the fence whenever they want. Have fun getting takedowns in MAA with those rules. Yeah, unbelievable. And the legal, legal moves I don't like, I don't think so. I'm a rules, rules guy. Yeah. So anything that's legal, I'm like, how bad it?

The oblique cake makes me cringe every so often, but I don't think it should be banned. No. You know what I mean? So not really. I think the rules that are in place, maybe the 10 point. Like the things I would change that are like in place that are in the rules, they're not moves. Like the 10 point must system and.

you know, referees having more leniency. Like your warning is backstage when you're going over the rules. Like that's the only warning. But those aren't moves. So, yeah, it's tough question to answer from the former ends.

But yeah, I think you all know where I'm getting at. I was pissed about the referee. It's on Saturdays Guard. Nick, I will DM you if I think of a good answer for that. Chris Martin, Chris G.

Martin, excuse me, not the least name of Cole play. Chris G. Martin asked, he said this is more of a question. for heck of a morning three times a week

on two times a week right Mike yes new start time starting this week and 10 a.m. Eastern yes new start time people 10 a m. ET so still bright and early just you know a little bit easier for I think the West Coasters to maybe to maybe tune in because that's the one you're doing away that's the one complaint we have in the show that's too early and people can't get on live yeah you get a lot of East Coasters and international lot of international callers but I do think all right West Coasters

seven can you handle 7 a.m. is that too hard for you guys with your sunshine and margaritas. All right. I'm sorry, I'm sorry. That's my own thing. I'm sorry. He has a question.

I don't know if you care about this. He wants to direct it. He gave it to me because it's an ultimate fighter related. Why doesn't the UFC give a 10 pound weight allowance on the ultimate fighter so that fighters are less likely to immediately drop weight classes after the show is over? And cutting weight multiple times in a few weeks is more manageable. I don't know if he means like 10 pounds on the scale? Because that would be a little crazy.

Yeah. That would be insane. Do you want to be an effing fighter? Like, come on now. We have people gaming the system with one pound. A resident, a 10-pound allowance? Like, you'd have some pretty wild. I think I know what he's getting at.

But I will say, Chris, I think that's a feature, not a bug, them allowing them having fighters compete like a buck. I don't think they care. I don't think it does not bother the UFC at all when they do a heavyweight season as they are this season. And then like six of the eight fighters drop down to light heavy weight. They don't care. It doesn't matter to them.

Same when they did the featherweight season. They knew they were not building a women, excuse me, women's featherweight. They knew they were not building a women's featherweight division. They knew all those fighters were going to drop down to 135 after. So it's just for the purposes of the show. I mean, there's so many other problems with the show. Certainly, forcing people to cut weight in so many times a short period of time as one of them. I got to do a big, like, how to fix the ultimate fighter podcast article or, you know, something like that someday.

We'll see. It's a seven-part series, by the way. But Chris, yeah, I know it's silly. It's silly the way weight class their handle on the show. And through email, whoops, I should have. Oh, there it is. From Laura, Terran, I haven't heard from Laura in a while. They were just very happy for Carolina Kolvakombovist.

And I sent you this picture, Mike. They said, do you think Renat Fakritinov looks like Nate Diaz? I should tweet out the picture. But you guys can just kind of Google a picture, Nate, picture Renat. I'm going hard no. I don't know. He looks more like, I guess when I first saw this, I was like, this is the stupidest question I've ever heard. But the more I look at it, the more I can kind of see something.

Renat looks like the would-be spawn of Nate Diaz and Darren Till. Oh, okay. I'll tell you what I see. Darren Till. I'll tell you what I see. If you cover the lower half of his face, Mike, as I'm doing right now, and this is riveting podcast material right here. It kind of does.

No, I see Damien Maya, around the eyes. Oh, around the eyes. Oh, yeah, that's not bad. Cover the beard. Yeah, cover the beard. Maybe, you know, Damien Maya with the hat, with the traditional, whatever, the hat. Excuse me, I apologize to people. I don't know the name of the hat, but the hat that he was wearing on the,

on the wayans and I think after the fight or before the fight. So, yeah, he looks like so. Somebody. I mean, he's one of those guys where you look at him like, yeah, he looks familiar. I don't know if Nate Diaz is where we're going to land on that one. But all right, that is it for checking the tapes. I believe I might have missed something on Instagram. Whatever, I'll hit you up. I'll mention it later.

If I come across, I while looking over these things. We're not done with the extracurriculars, AK. Oh. We're not done. It is time, I think, for the first time ever on this program. We've had many mic checks. No. To the inaugural edition of Dismay with A.K.

What? Yep. Take a guess. No, tell me, it's our palat Tristan Gordette. It sure is. Here we go. Why? Here we go.

Dismay with AK. All right. I'm just going to let it go. Yeah. I haven't read this yet. I'm reading it right now for the first time. Oh, my Lord. Mike, can you tell AK that I know he's going off on these rants, which I have to say has been

warranted? See? He's giving you props. Because you do have to defend yourself. But I do have to say it feels like a setup that I know it's coming, especially for the Otno episode after UFC Fight Night, Dosanjos versus Fazeve, where he will be sounding like former Jets linebacker Bart Scott, screaming, quote, to all the nonbelievers, to all the nonbelievers,

which obviously will be towards me saying, quote, I told you Marina Moros is on another level than Aaron Planchfield. So when the NBA fights global rankings come out on Wednesday, August 3rd, since Morose will fight next month against Eubanks, and obviously he feels Maros will win, he will disregard everyone's vote on staff, putting Marose in the top 15 of the women's flyweight division, feeling so vindicated.

Also, if Marose does face Blanchfield at some point and wins, oh my goodness, A.K. Lee will be insufferable and will not let up. Yes, Mike, don't. Let A.K. fool you. He said he doesn't ride the hype train when it comes to prospects, which is true, but he never said he doesn't go all in for a fighter in general. He is petty, just like the rest of us, even though he will never admit it. Trust me, Mike, the rant is coming. First of all, I'm super petty. That's, that is not a secret at all. I don't know. I don't know why he thinks I'm above being petty. That, that is no. People not. You not see my tweet for Mazarov last night? I had that one loaded. I am not above being petty.

I watch the NBA, the most petty of all the sports leagues. Don't tell me that I'm above pennies. I love being petty. So very incorrect there already, Tristan. What is this Morose hang up for him? I don't know. Apparently you said that she was better than Blanchfield, but maybe you ranked Blanchfield and not her?

I don't know. Yeah, no, listen, this was three months ago. This is three months ago. This guy's hanging up on this. Yeah, I was just talking about, like, why you wouldn't rank someone like Blanchfield of Marina Rose? It's like she has, she's just fought longer. She's had better opponents.

And all that is true. But I'm not like, I'm not like this big, huge Marina Morose fan. I mean, I'm not a fan. I like her fighting, but he went in on this on a heck of a morning, on Thursday. Tristan, that is. And now I guess he's harping on it. Again, I think he's trolling me at this point. Tristan, you're way more all in on this Marina Morose talk than I am.

Yeah, I think if she beats Sejara Eubanks, that would be a big feather in her cap. Might get her ranked, I'm not sure. If she beats Aaron Blanchfield, I mean, again, I won't be crowing about it because, like I said, my expectations for Aaron Blanchfield are high, but also tempered. They're also, this is someone who's so young that if, if, or I say, when she loses because everyone does, I'm not gonna, like, I told you so about it. Why would I? Like, she's a super talented fighter who I'm a fan of.

And the Marine and Roe stuff is just bizarre. So he just keeps saying it. And I just, I don't know, if I've been talking about Marina Rose too much, well, you just made me talk about her more. So that's on you, brother. I look forward to her fight with Sejar U. Banks. I don't know how I'm going to rank them after.

It depends if she wins, which is not a guarantee, Sejariubanks is a really tough, stylistic matchup for her. Morose wins. It would spy like a close decision that certainly won't make me shoot her up the rankings. Maybe a finish. Maybe a finish would be more convincing that would give her four straight wins,

nothing to sneeze out in this division. But yeah, no, I don't think she's... Now that after Aaron Blanchfield's... Actually, I mean, that win over Alder's really tough and very impressive, but it doesn't make me think that Blanchfield is leagues ahead of Morose or other veterans at Flyweight. Yeah, that's why we kind of did our respective matchups.

Like, I went with, I went with Andrea Lee. And then you said, and Mike, you said. Tracy Cortez rematch. Tracy Cortez rematch. Yeah, and I'm down with both those. We're still testing where this person is. So Tristan, thank you for, you know, because Tristan does pay attention to what we say.

And that is, I really appreciate that because we say a lot of stuff. So for someone to go into it, and that much detail is always welcome. But yeah, I'm not that hang up on the Marine and Rose thing. We'll see. Listen, we'll revisit it. We'll revisit it. I think he's right, though.

The conversation is not over. The conversation is not over. I probably will be talking about her more next month when she actually fights. He has the memory, and I mean this super complimentary. He has a memory like my nine-year-old. My nine-year-old, you say something.

He remembers everything. Like, I told him. You mean me? Yeah, you. So he had, you're welcome. He had his, they had these, they have these like ceremonies in his school and oftentimes getting him to school is the hardest part of the day. He just doesn't like get up and he's not ready to run out the door. It's,

it's a process getting him out. So I told him that, hey, it's the last week of school. If you just get up and go to school and don't cause any issues, I will wear a full suit and tie. I actually said I would wear a tuxedo to his ceremony. And just saying it kind of like, joking around. It's like just throwing it out there. So the day of his ceremony, I walk in and I wake him up and I make him breakfast and he goes, he goes, Daddy, don't forget you got to wear a tuxedo to my thing. I'm like, well, I don't have a tuxedo. So 95 degrees. The school is within walking distance. I'm walking down. I'm the only one in the ceremony wearing a full suit. Everyone's just wearing like t-shirts and shorts, maybe some golf shirts. And I'm rocking the full sports coat, tie, button up shirt, pants everything. because he remembered and I couldn't let him down.

So Tristan's got that memory. All I got from that story is that you're a great dad. Thank you. You're a great dad. That's the most important takeaway. And you are a great co-host. So why don't we set up the disclaimers for the listener selections? Thank you for the dismay, Tristan, by the way.

Thank you. Stand, disclaimers. Categories rules, guys. We're really focusing on people who get that are the only ones who get that pick. That's a sweet, sweet, sweet solo on a point your way. People, please just be aware of making mistakes. Wrong weight class. People who fought already.

Notable injuries. Fighters that have been released, already booked. Teammates is a big one. This is a hard one to keep track of, and we've made this mistake before. But, you know, let's work on this together, guys. Let's try not to match up teammates, close friends, and like that. I will mention the injury one, particularly this week. I did see a couple of, like, Damon Jackson, Ryan Hall picks.

A fight we would all love to see Ryan Hall is once again injured, the goat. So I won't be reading out any other Ryan Hall picks here or for a while. Just get well. Get well soon, Ryan Hall. It is, it is, you know, the featherweight division can breathe a little bit easier knowing that you were on the shelf and not on the hunt at the moment. Oh, and then I wanted to read a note from Sean Haywood. Again, regular, regular ought no contributor.

He says, not that I want you guys to do more of the great work that you already do, but he says, I often struggle placing guys that are fighting in different weight classes from previous fights. Are they making a permanent change? Was it short notice and they didn't have time to cut? Did they make a statement to the media by their plans for the future, etc.? Would it be possible to send out a tweet after the events? And before, on to the next one to provide that info, I just don't want to make a do-do pick by matching a fighter up against someone in the wrong way class.

And the information seems to be hard to come by thanks to the great show weekend and week out. Thank you, Sean. No, first of all, we're not doing that. We're not doing any more work. Answer that part of the question. Two, we're pretty lenient with this. I think it's only if it's like a greedist. Like if a fighter's fought like two or three times in a weight class and then just like

this listener like completely randomly books them against the wrong person. And again, worst cause we usually don't call people out. It just means we don't read the pick, at least in my case. So we're lenient with it. I don't think we need to give you guys a heads up. Again, it's pretty easy information to find. And yeah, sometimes in the case of like a Brian Kellerhur is confusing. It's like he keeps taking fights at featherweight.

but obviously he's a pha he's a phantom weight he's not cutting weight for some of these Kevin Holland Kevin Holland's uh listen that's why he was banned from the show we did that for the listeners for listeners yeah listener safety yeah listener safety Jalton Almeida now is the new question mark and that's a good example he keeps saying he's sticking around a heavyweight but we all see him as a future light heavyweight champions so that one's super confusing but right now it does again but guys like that I would say usually you can match stuff in either division we're not going to call you out it's not a big deal so and then of course guys most important golden rule you're

pictures might be do-do and if that's the case we're not going to read it or I mean here's the thing I look at these for the first time when I go through them so I might read it and then I might react as if it's do-do aka be a little more lenient because oh yeah on the day on the week too once in a while you uh you you you rattle them a little bit you're gonna be lucky if we don't read it yeah if you're big is do-do and we don't read it that's a good thing because otherwise it means you're probably getting the wrath of Mike yes let's start with Jaron Kawada he likes O'Dayette Josborn versus the winner of the Ulan Bekoff Tyson Nam fight on June 25th.

Tyson Nam back in our lives, A.K., how about that? First fight since the Matt Schnell split decision loss in January of 2021, Matt Chanel coming back at the end of the month, A.K. How about that? Did you even know this? The Matt Schnell Sumin, the energy fight was surprising to me. And you telling me Ulaan Bekoff, Tyson Nam also feels like new. Maybe I saw it. just forgot. That also feels like new news. Yeah, but that's happening. He likes, he likes Almeida versus Joe Anderson Brito. His mind says, oh no, he did it. Mine says rebooked Danny Gaye versus Ryan Hall. But he's, he's not going at that. He's going with the

heart. Heart says Igay versus Cub Swanson, which I actually like that idea as well. If they don't do the Swanson, you're a favorite fight. So not doo-doo because you went with the heart and that's fine. Who was Cub Swanson yelling at? It was during the Argetta fight. right he was yelling at say he said say sued and damon jackson it was great can we get i think someone suggested day i'll get to it i'm pretty sure did you i'm sure you'll get some damon jackson cub um suggestions which i feel like has to happen now yeah that's a great point uh he also likes the alonzo menafield tyson pedd dry there great right todd vire sent in a message no picks he just said please show some love for tony gravely on otno this week he deserves some great great win great performance

One of the unsung heroes The Phantom Weight Division Like a guy who just had so much experience Before coming to the UFC Probably could have been signed like a year earlier Oh yeah And now that he's here He's such a finished product

And man I don't know It's such a deep division I don't know if he ever makes that run But he's the kind of guy like Everyone who gets matched up with him I don't care if you're top 15 or top 30 Or you are in for a really really tough fight Go back into my Twitter timeline

January of 2019 Covered a CES Saturday afternoon card In beautiful Lincoln, Rhode Island and go check out the tweet. I said Nate Andrews, Tony Gravely should both be signed by the end of the week. Gravely finally got signed. Nate Andrews never got the look, which is crazy to me. And there we go.

Let's go to Canadian Bryans. Good morning, Mike and Ike. Hope you guys had a great week off from Otteno and excited to be back. Go Avs. Okay, go ads. Sure. One game away, I think from the Stanley Cup final. I think so.

I haven't really been paying attention. Once the Bruins are. I don't watch hockey. Sorry, sorry, Edmontonion. Sorry, I don't think the Cups coming back. I guess the Cups, again, it's not coming back to Canada this year. Yeah, I guess not. Someday.

But, yeah, go Celtics, by the way. Alonzo Menefield versus Philippe-Ozbollah versus David Dvorak. And in parentheses, I think this call-out for me is honestly better, maybe an easier opponent and ranked top 10. That's actually not a bad choice. Is he ranked top 10 in the UFC, really? I think so. And there are rankings?

I think he's, yeah, I'll have to look at ours. I think he's top 15 in ours. Yeah. Karine Silva versus Priscilla Kachewara. Some more Brazilian on Brazilian crime. Lucas Almeida versus Lano Venada, sure. Mavzar of Loya versus the loser of Yayaa Rodriguez versus Brian Ortega. He's got to get there eventually, so let's see if the time is now.

It's also smart to get him on the way up. Plus, I love that Ortega BJJ versus Vloyves, Greco Roman, and then he likes Alexander Volkov versus Alexander Romanov. Good pick. Let me, a couple of things. First of all, Dvorak is number 13 in our rankings. Secondly, Evoiev would be favored against Eir, right? Um.

More so than Ortega, I think. I don't know. That's close. I'm not really sure. Because the grappling, you know, on paper makes him a more complicated matchup. Yeah, and Ortega's been striking pretty effectively as well. Uh-huh. And we've seen Yai'er be foiled by wrestlers before, specifically Frank

I think he, I bet, I think, I don't know if he'd open it minus 200. I think he finished like a two to one favorite against. Be close. Yeah, I'd be close. It'd be, it'd be, it'd be, we'd probably be an even money type of betting line to open. Just to kind of initiate some, some back and forth on the lines. But yeah, I think you're probably right. Let's go to J.D. Feltz.

He likes of Loya versus Giga Chikaze. That's actually not a bad idea. I saw a lot of that. Yeah. That's not a bad idea. I didn't really thought about it. but makes sense. Volkov versus Derek Lewis,

the rematch, let's just do it. Alameda versus Nick Lentz, Alonzo Meadowfield versus Coleo Roundtree. That would just be super violent. John Ray, Aaron Blanchfield versus Joanne Wood. I like that idea.

Fack Redidoff versus Elizu Zaleski. That's a big step up. Yeah, I like the fight though. It's a good style match. Yeah, I mean, I favor Fack Reddow to win that fight. Okay. His grapplech is so good.

I know. Melina versus the JP Bay's Cody Durden winner. Tony Gravely versus Brian Kelleher. This is a newish thing, so I'm not going to do to you. Brian Kelleher, at least according to Mario Bautista's management team. June 25th. Not confirmed. Not confirmed by us, I will say not confirmed.

Is that afraid of saying? I will text Brian Kelleher today. Okay. We will confirm that. Look at that. I'm sure it's done. Damon Jackson versus Alex Casaris. Okay.

Joe Selecki, Alexander Hernandez, Kovalikovic versus Loma-Luk-Bunmi, Menefield versus Oleg Zeychek, win or lose. This is kind of do-do-ish, because Oleg Zey-Cech is booked, and I believe he's at middle-weight now. I have to look this up real quick. I believe he has a fight booked at middle-weight.

Was that Menefield? Was that for Menefield? For Menefield. Let me just look this up real quick. Okay. Meanwhile, I know he's booked at middle-weight. I have a question for you while you're looking that up. Go ahead.

Ask away. Sam Alvey. That's right. How did I forget that? He's like San Alvey and middleweight August 6th. I think that's pretty easy to forget. I think. Carolina Kovacovic versus Loma.

Who do you like in that one? Loma. Same, right? Like, it's crazy because, you know, Kirlene is so much more experienced in MMA. It's a one-time U.C. title challenger. And it's a really good striker. But, man.

Hey, look, she shows. her grappling on Saturday. So that could be a problem. Maybe this maybe the second phase of or this last phase of Carolina Kolvakovic's career, maybe, Colvakovich, excuse me. Maybe she is going to show off

more of her well-rounded game that she's not just a kickboxer. So she could out grapple Loma, but I think in a straight striking battle, man, I go Loma look booed me like all the way, right? She's nasty on the feet. Yeah, she really is. She's a little undersized, so that might be an issue. Yeah.

But I mean, Kovovic probably grapple the crap. So yeah, it's close. It's close. Okay. But I would favor. If it does, if it is, if it does like a striking battle, I would definitely favor a little more. Yep. O'Day Osborne versus the loser of NAM Ulanbeckoff.

I think O'Day deserves a little better than that. How did I not know this fight was happening? I'm always checking you of Tyson. I swear I checked earlier this morning that Tyson Dan was fighting and I guess I must have missed, just misread it. Okay. Silva versus Carolina. Elmada versus Daniel Paneda.

Evloia versus Bryce Mitchell. Rosenstrike versus Dawkes. Volkov versus the Lewis Pavlovich winner, regardless. Chris Lund and Avloa versus Toporia. Let's just go ahead and do it. Toporia throw in all sorts of shade at Obloia. It was awesome. Undeserved, but kind of awesome.

Maybe we build that fight back up. Ege versus Erosa? I don't think that can happen. I love the idea. But I think those two guys probably have epic sparring matches multiple times a week at Extreme Couture. So, I don't know that's happening. Almeida versus

Bagtizarian sure Silva versus How about Silver versus Aldrich? Yeah, you could just do that And I can see them doing that I feel like

that is Aldrich's role now in the UFC Fair or not Is that she is this Again, she's a litmus test She's a litmus test And unfortunately She is susceptible to being finished

And that's why you throw in there With the Blanchefields Barbers and maybe Cranea Silvas And even if she can come out And have a great first round and she's always in danger of just kind of her opponent turning it up and putting her away. Selecki versus Claudio Pueyes, Gravely versus Davy Grant.

That's fun. Damon Jackson versus Darren Elkins. Benoit Santanyi versus Jim Miller. I assume that's after Jim Miller fights Bobby Green at UFC 276 on July 2nd. And then Fock riddenoff fights what's left of Neil Magny when Shofcott is through with him. just so much confidence in shop got Rachmanoff and well deserved if we're being honest. What do you think of, I didn't pick this because I already, I think I picked something else for Elkins on another show. What do you think of Elkins versus Lucas Almeida?

I'd watch it. Again, huge, huge, enormous gap in UFC experience. But I think after seeing that wild fight with Trisano, I think they're like, could he recreate that with Elkins, the master of sort of getting hurt early and coming back? And it could be another wild one. So I love it on paper. I know to ignore the records. As far as the UFC experience goes, I love that one on paper. Gerard Biaghan, Rosenstrike versus Blagoi Ivanov,

Evloia versus Korean zombie in Abu Dhabi. He's just saying, go right for TKZ, do it in October. Hopefully TKZ will have enough time to get back. Danny Gay versus Sodi Kusuf. O'Day Osborne versus Bruno Bulldog Silva. Meneafield versus Grishin. Caroline Nicole Kavich versus Angela Hill.

I think a lot of people are on that train. Damon Jackson versus the winner of Sungwu Choi. versus Josh Kulibau. I forget when that's happening. I forgot it was happening. I forget when that's happening. Benoit Santini versus Manuel Torres. Aaron Blanchfield versus the winner of Cynthia Calvio versus Nina Nunes.

So that, okay, that fight is happening, right? That's the one that Brianna Fortino was originally involved. It's one of the opponents, right? Earlier on. And then Fortino was supposed to fight Jessica Petey, and now Penny is fighting the now debuting now former Invicta champion Emily Ducote. So that's two matchups that Fortino was tied to and she was, she was then like not and now is no longer.

Okay. Very confusing. Okay. Great. Yes. And what do you think of this, AK? Joe Selecki versus the winner of Patty Pimbleau versus Jordan Levitt. Joe Selecki versus the winner of Patty Pimblit versus Jordan Levin.

Okay. Timing works out, obviously. Again, we're only about a month. Well, I should say more closer to two months. away from six weeks. You know, let's just be specific and say six weeks away from that fight. Joe Selecki has now, I'm digging deep into my rankings here. Joe Selecky, four and one in the UFC.

Okay, that's pretty darn good. So I haven't ranked well above Jordan Levitt. And the loss was a very competitive fight with Jared Gordon. So I have him ranked well above. Again, once you get out of the top 30, I mean, it's pretty close clusters. I mean, from 30 to 50 to 60, it's not like, or say mid-50s, it's not like that big of a gap. I have Joe Selecky at 28 in my UFC-only rankings. I have Jordan Levin at 55, Paddy Pimbleau just ahead at 50.

It makes a lot of sense. It makes a lot of sense. And if you actually want to see Patty Pimbleau move up the rankings, a win over Joe Selecki would be really impressive. I would favor Selecki pretty heavily, and I say this is someone who thinks that Pimblet's actually pretty good. I like that. Who recommended this? This was Gerard Biagan.

I like the suggestion. A regular, of course. Gerard Bajar, one of our regular odd-no contributors. Well done, Gerard. I do love that one. I would favor, at least right now, I would favor Selecki against both of those guys.

I feel like Patty would probably have the advantage on the feet, but I feel like Alex De Silva is a better striker than Patty Pimblit. I think he's a more powerful striker. than Patty Pimbleau and he's a way better athlete than Patty Pimbleau. So it's like he took his best stuff. I mean, listen, if the points weren't taken away, this is at best a draw. But you know, you can't cheat 48 times in a round and not get a point taken away.

47 times you can't. Yes, 47. But once you get to that 48th, we're taking that point. We're taking that one point. Oh, you guys all suck. I miss you, Jason Herzog. Come back to us. Let's go to Marcus.

He's got the graph ready to go. And the Louis Pavlovich matchup has a lot to do with this main event from this past Saturday. He likes Volkov versus the winner of that fight. Jarzini versus the loser of that fight. He likes of Loy of Bryce Mitchell, Almeida Venata, Silva Gato, Osborne Molina, Menafield, Roundtree, Blanchfield, Andrea Lee. He's with you on that one. And then we close out with Tino Alvarez, Almeida Venada.

Another one there. Silva versus Catuera. Metafield, Tyson-Paylorkevich, Loma-Lukbuni, another one there. Damon Jackson, Julian Arosa, I'd watch the hell out of that fight. Benoit Santini versus Rafa Garcia, not a bad pick.

Tony Gravely, John Castaneda. Fack Radinoff versus Preston Parsons. Slow build, I guess, for Ronaught. And then another Aaron Blanchfield versus Andrew Lee. So back to you, AK. There's some steam there. When you're a forward thinker, you don't just bring your A game.

You bring your AI game. Workday is the AI platform that transforms the way you manage your people, money, and agents, so you can transform tomorrow. Workday, moving business forever forward. Main event, yeah, everyone just wants to see. I think everyone's leaning more towards the, I assume, the Lewis Volkov rematch, or maybe they want to see Pavlovich testing as a top ten guys. Maybe I'm wrong.

But I see a lot of Volkov versus Lewis Pavlovich winner. So for me, I really want to see the rematch. Everyone remembers the first fight. Volkov pretty much dominating the entire thing. was eventually getting a swang and banging and going and ending it. So that's a classic fight. Not the fight is a classic. I mean, it's a classic example, excuse me, of a fight that should be run back.

Because we really didn't learn necessarily who was truly the better guy that night, with respect to Derek Lewis. People were kind of split. I saw it between a Blois of Chikaze and Obloy of Mitchell. I saw some of Abloy of Arnold Allen, too, of course. But I think people really like the stylistic matchup with Bryce Mitchell, so I understand that. also probably yeah Metafield Grishian has it was this it feels like this was

Metafield Grishan and Menafield Coochalaba he's never been booked to fight either of these guys I guess not maybe just come up on Otno a lot maybe every time Menafield fights it's Kuchelab or it's Christian their schedules are probably like lined up

and more so than Andrew Lee I saw a lot of Blanchfield people kind of going with Blanchfield's callout just guy Macy Barber winner winner slash loser one of them USC 276 July 2nd I agree smart callout And very logical. Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised if that happens.

It's kind of kind of in the works. And UFC's just waiting to see how that one goes. All right, on Twitter. Futti 999 has been on the show before, but not sent in picks. I believe this is their first picks. And they're saying Volkov versus Tuivasa, if he loses to Assidi-Lagan, about that is rumored to be taking place at UFC Paris September 3rd. I think they would want that for the headliner.

Again, nothing's official yet, nothing confirmed. But it does appear they're heading. that is in the works. I mean, I should just say this doesn't count because Toie Voss is going to knock Sidi-L-Gon out, right, Mike? I shouldn't even entertain this hypothetical. Yeah, it's a terrible idea. No, I don't know.

Yeah, listen, I think a lot of people are expecting Tide Taui Vasa to lose to Cigal-Gan, but I honestly think, at first I hated this matchup. Like, I really hated it. There were a lot of suggestions after TIE's win over. You're talking Tui Vasa gone. You don't, you don't know. Oh, I got it hated it so much. I'm like, please don't do this.

but I was also in the camp of if you're going to give Ty Tuivasa a title shot, just do it now. Like if you can't get John Jones Steepei over the summer, just give him the interim title fight and against whoever. Like whoever's ready. Like if Stepe can't fight till September,

but John can fight in July, just do John Jones versus Tai Tuva for the interim title. Like give this man the freaking opportunity. And then they went in a completely different direction. But the more I think about Tuovasa, and Ghan, the more I feel like

to have Ava has a chance to win. Of course he does. I mean, if Gond fights, if Gond fights him like he fought Jarzini Rosenstrike, he'll win and win all five rounds, and it will not be all that competitive.

But I just feel like coming off the loss to Francis and him being so young in the sport, not having experienced being on a big stage and falling short against a guy with one leg who wrestled you to win the title, in such a shocking fashion, I just don't know what his headspace is going to be like. There's a very good chance that being in Paris,

first UFC event in Paris, maybe he'll just be so ramped up for it that he gets in a slug fest with Tai Tuvasa. And if that happens, I would favor Tai Tuvaasa to come out on the other end of that. So it just depends. I think I give Tai Tuvaa more of a chance now than I did in February, March,

after Ty beat Derek Lewis. I like it a little bit more. Listen, I'm a coward. And when the time comes to make my official predictions post for UFC Paris, I'm going to pick Seattle gone by decision. I admit it. Gone by decision, I mean, on the, you know, prop will probably be like minus 600 or something like that.

Like everyone expects him to just pick tied Tuivasa apart for five rounds. I get it. That's, you know, based on what we've seen from both guys, a distinct possibility. But there's just something about Tuovasa's approach now, his sort of laissez-faire attitude, I mean, to interviews, but I think that is not reflective of how he has been probably in the gym and how he's approached fights. I think he's more focused, like, he's legitimately really focused and better than he's ever been from a mental standpoint. And I think that's where you need to be to beat a guy like gone. So I think he can knock him out. I won't be making that

pick again. I'm a coward. Maybe I'll change my mind if this spell goes down September 3rd. We'll see. So, but yeah, so I'm sorry, the original pick was Volkov versus Tui Bossa, if he lose to gone, I have no problem with that. And I think that is very likely. It's a bit further down the road. I don't know if Volkov would want to wait that long. That's probably the main issue. Like we said, he really didn't suffer any damage in this fight.

Probably wants to get back in there within the next three months. So he might have to wait. But could be he fights again, and win or lose ends up fighting the loser of that fight down the road. So thank you, footy-999 for that pick. All right. I'm going to run through some of these Twitter ones quickly. I don't need to read them all. Ryan Doherty, I like this one.

Alameda versus Nate Landworth. That's just a banger. That is a straight up banger. Barry O'Reilly, Gravely versus Davy Grant. That is sick. Benwalsandani versus Mike Malat. Mike, quick, without looking,

does Mike Malott's last name have two L's or two T's? Both. Incorrect. Oh, two T's. Crap. This guy is my new Cody Stamon, which, by the way, I still cannot spell that name. Cody Stamen is two.

don't tell me Cody's statement is two M's no stop it you're joking it's two ends damn it every time I have to write

anything about Cody statement I have to look it up I don't know why in my brain I see two M's every I've interviewed the man like twice I've written stories about him

I always see two ends because it should be pronounced Cody Stamann yes exactly if you're statement that's too and Mike Mollot

is just Mike Woss the next one I've never going to get. I think I'm always... I know it's two T's. I just got to get rid of that second L. It's 50-50 for me. I think sometimes I'll write it with two L, sometimes with two T's. So people out there who can, I guess this makes more, I'll emphasize the T's. That's how I'm Mike Malott. Mike Malott.

Mallet. That's how I remember. Malitz. No, that makes you think two L's or some reason. No, don't confuse me, Mike. I'm easily confused. Mallot. Joe Selecki versus Grant's Dawson. I think Grant's a little, I think Grant's a little ahead. Because, And I hate playing in my math, but Jared Gordon beat Joe Selecki and Grant Dawson, like, demolished Jared Gordon. I think Barry, sorry, I apologize to bearer. He always writes a lot of well-out comments.

I think he mentioned that, actually. He mentions sort of the shared opponent thing, and that's why he kind of wants to see how they match up. Carolina versus Lupi Godinez. I think you mentioned that on the post-fight show. Like, I don't remember. I feel like you mentioned that as an option or someone in the, like, maybe on YouTube commenters or something. Yeah, I figured there's only really two ways to go at this. You either give her Angela Hill for just a fun vet fight

or you still use the Kobolkavich former title challenger name to potentially boost up a prospect. And who better right now to try to boost up than Loopy Goaded as. Yeah, those are the two choices for me. But I feel like Loopy will have three fights before that's an option. That's right. Again, we have a soft ban on Lupi, unfortunately, because you just never know when she's going to pop up and take a fight.

Metafield versus Jalton Almeda. I do like this if, obviously, if Jelton is returning to, like, heavyweight. It sounds like there's plans for him to maybe fight Abdur Akeemov at heavyweight. But if he does, that would be a good opponent for Jail. I just think he would also, man, he probably crushes Menefield at this point. Jalves and Elmerey. He runs over Alonzo Meneffield. This is no disrespect to Alonzo Menefiel.

I think Jelton runs over pretty much anybody outside of the top 15 in both divisions. Yeah, for being honest. He is. He is something else. Karini Silva versus Natalia Silva. If Natalia Silva, she'll be debuting soon against Jasmine. Mike, please help me this pronunciation. Jazz DeVizius.

Well, this is from you. This is from last time. Because last time I said it on the show, I've butchered it. So my Canadian, Fridays, I'm sorry. Mike Malotte, I will remember to spell your name correctly. Jasmine, Jazz de Vesias, I will make sure I pronounce your name correctly every time. No one. That's going on.

U.C. Austin, June 18th. And Barry just wants to do Silva versus Silva. So, sure. I have no problem with that. Thomas Collins is with you. but specifically Cater, Vloyev versus Cater, win, lose, or draw against Emmett.

I'm not sure why not Emmett, but it just wants to see that matchup, I guess. Damon Jackson versus Edson Barbosa. Dax at Pike Putt. So he's thinking Almeida at heavyweight. Volkov versus Jain Almeida, if he beats Shemiel Abdur Akimov again, rumored to be going down on September 10.

You're shaking your head. No, I'm not like mad at it at all. That's probably I mean, that's to me, if Volkov waits that long, I don't think Volkov wants to wait that long. He said,

listen, I fought for two minutes. Like, I just want to turn me right around. Let's go. I want to fight ASAP. I just don't know if that's going to be there for Jailton. Mm-hmm.

Because I think Volkov will probably have something on the books. But if not, and Romanov can't go, then yeah, it's going to be one of those two guys, I think. I was going to say similar to the Tuva possibility. that is in September. That is quite a ways away.

That's a long time to keep woke up on the shelf. And again, he's probably ready to fight next week if you had to. Egey versus Frankie Edgar. I know I don't like to read Eager matchups. But really, the question is, do you think Ege can drop down to 1.45? He's pretty fit. He doesn't look like he's carrying a lot of excess weight. Maybe height-wise.

He's 5'7. So he's not like super tall. He's not like a super-tall featherweight. Again, I obviously I don't know enough about Ege's diet, fitness, just body. in general to make a call. Do you think Bantam might drop is possible? I would say at this point in his career, probably shouldn't do that.

But I mean, maybe Frankie would just go up to fight him. That's possible. Frankie's out of the title. Frankie is out of the title picture at 135. When he first got into at 135, even after the Pedro fight, he was,

if he beat Marlon Vera, he might have got a title shot. Like he was that close. But now he's, he's, he's out of it. He's out of the title. discussion just because that division is just so insane right now.

There's so many candidates. Like there's five guys right now who you can make compelling arguments should fight for the belt next. And Frankie Edgar's not one of them. So yeah, Frankie could just go. Frankie should just go and have fun fights at this point. He should fight Dominic Cruz and that's pretty much it at 135 or go up and just

have fun fights with the Danny Gayes of the world, the Calvin Cators of the world. Like these are the kinds of fights you should be having. He says also not fight anyone who's had a knockout victory in the last four years. Okay. I think so E. So, and so, yeah. And so. Ryan Hall, it is next year.

Wait, do you want to see, I would never want to see Frankie here fight Calvin Cater. Hell, though. What, no, why would you do that? What about Frankie Edgar versus Ryan Hall down the road down the line? Yeah, of course. I mean, look, that's magical. I mean, I don't want to see, boy, I'd be very conflicted. I don't want to see Frankie Edgar get his leg torn off.

But, I mean, maybe that's what it takes again to retire. Maybe it'll be a mercy. Oh, I just have to call this one out. Menafield versus Kennedy and Zichuku. Big X, I believe they're both fordest enemy guys, if I'm not mistaken. Yes, they are. Okay. So Big X, Dax, come on.

Come on. Come on. I mean, a cool matchup on paper, but again, I don't. I don't think that's happening. You can go to Dallas and watch them spar. There you go. Join the gym. Sorry about the call out, Dax.

Marcus McGahey. Again, I'm sorry, your title did not get used this week, but I will mention you as always. Avalia versus Arna. What was his title, though? No, no, no, Mike. I can't read it because you lose, that defeats the purpose of the title competition. Only the winning title shall be read. Okay, fair enough.

I'll send it to you later. Oh, yeah, I'll send it to you later. It's nothing bad. It's just, it's just, again, that this is, I have to have rules and only the winning title shall be read. I want Mark, I want Marcus to take this personally. I want to. Fair enough. But who's, who's to say, you'll the burn. I thought we're in this together. Not when it comes to naming the show. Okay, fair enough. This is an AK call.

Marcus McGahey, I guess I could have just said to you at a time. Marcus McGahey. Yeah, uh, I'lloe ever as Arne and Alan. Colcovic versus Canejo. I don't mind that. I actually like that. It's just been a while since you've seen a Conejo fight, but certainly when she gets back in there

could do a lot worse than Carolina. San Deneve versus Rafa Garcia. I like that one a lot. Sean Haywood, who I mentioned before, is something that needs to be mentioned. One of the people that mentioned Damon Jackson versus Cubs Swanson,

so I really like that. Joe Seleucky Hanata Moikano, I think is a good one. Not bad. Yeah, he's with me with Karine Silva De La Rosa. Lucas Almeida versus Derek Minner I think Minner is dealing with a concussion though

So that's one of those things where boy We just don't know when he's going to come back Hopefully soon hopefully I think he's okay with that with Derek Minner But that's not a bad matchup Steven Breider had a couple of good ones Jeff Molina versus Malcolm Gordon And Lucas Almeida versus Melchik Baghdasarian So some deep cuts there

Malina probably quite a bit further ahead in the rankings right now than Malcolm Gordon I know Malcolm is coming off a win But yeah a bit of a gap in the rankings But it could happen again I don't know if Jeff Malina is at the point where he's necessarily guaranteed a top 15 top 20 guy that's that's what i'd like to see um i just don't know that's that's necessary the case four corner sports and why says oday osborne i don't think you're

going to hate this oday osborne versus the mochaev charles johnson winner that fights going down uc london july 23rd i don't hate it at all i don't hate it at all it just depends like what you want to it just kind of depends on because like i said i'm very high i'm high if you don't need to rush him. Like I said, and some people disagree with me. I think he's going to be a two-division champion. I think he's going to be the Flyway and the Benamway champion. I'm that high on him.

But it's not like, and let me just reiterate this. I'm not saying that this is going to happen in the next year. This is going to happen. He's one of the youngest fighters on the entire roster right now. Yes. This is like four or five years. We're going to be talking about him as a two-division champion. It's going to happen, folks.

Just deal with it and just prepare yourselves for it. We're a long way away. but it's going to happen. I got to remember to ask on our ranking show, like who wins the title first, Aaron Blanchfield or, who competes for a title first, Aaron Blanchfield or Mokai?

That's a good question, yeah. That's a good question, yeah. So he wins. Who gets a shot? Chris Martin, of course, who I said won the, who successfully named the show. Volkov versus Sergei Spivak,

Augusto Sakai winner. That fight's going down August 6th. Again, I almost didn't even know that was happening. And I think Chris Martin used the same that I did where he kind of just went down the rankings and is like who has volkov not fought yeah it could happen again you want to stay busy or you could step in and fight one of those guys who knows solekie versus joel alvarez hashtag joe on joel yeah it's okay not bad

damon jackson versus bill quintillow bill algio winner uh it's going down ucic long island july i just love that fight so good so good hayes the third uh said yeah screw it volkov romanov yeah I mean, again, I don't know if there's a way to avoid it. What else we got here? Selaki versus the Feheda, Draccar Close Loser, Yose 277 July 30th. Gravely versus Alejandro Perez. Yeah, I like it.

At Emilio Plays, Blanchfield v. Eubanks' Moros winner. Emilio Plays obviously wants to get in on this whole Morose controversy, so, okay. Kobokkavich versus Jinufri, excuse me Vanessa Demopoulos winner I just had a title there and he also likes Minifield Pedro

Karini Silva versus Shana Young and Volkov versus Arlovsky part of me wants to see that kind of like a passing of the torch Belarusian to Russian I mean it's not the same thing but I kind of want to see that

I feel like the fight has to happen before Alasky retired maybe if Rolovsky wins one more gets that fight all right let me quickly go to Instagram my Instagram freaks I have not I have not vetted these. So,

I'm going off the cuff here. Dad Jackus says maybe Lucas Alameda versus Bruce Leroy. I don't mind that. I'll go to CJ here. I've lawyer versus Bryce Mitchell. Someone's always got to go. Kovalkavich versus Cheyenne Velismus. Does Cheyenne not have a fight?

Cheyenne does not have a fight. Oh, okay. Yeah, big experience. Really, with Carolina, I feel like she could possibly fight anyone just because she's at that point of a career where she's not a contender clearly she might be on her way down

way out, excuse me, out of this out of MMA so maybe they want to try and see if they can, as you kind of alluded to earlier have someone get some shine off her name. Dylan shoots, Evloia versus Korean zombie. I mean, you know he would love to have that one. Everyone is trying to get that. Alonza Medellifilvvvvv is Jimmy Crute I really like.

It's just, I think I mentioned another show. Jimmy Crute is, He's got a surgery. He's going through surgery on one of his likes. So TBD for his return. M.M.A. heads. A ton of great picks. Sorry, Emmaheads.

I cannot read this all. M.A. Heads and Bradbury always bringing in. Awesome, awesome picks. What's jumping out at me? Koval Kavage versus Arya Karnalosi. So lucky versus Clay Guida. I can't remember if I read that one already. But I saw a few people mention that one.

I do like it. Damon Jackson versus Tukugov. another Gravely versus Grant suggestion. Man, I really want to see that one. Matt Bradbury. Gosh, so many picks. So many solid picks. Oh, they said, hey, Fakritinov versus Zelisky.

So there you go. People are talking about it. How do you like this, Mike? Tony Gravely versus Casey Kenny. Yeah. Yeah? I like it. I mean, Casey, man, I wonder where Casey Kenny is.

I don't know either. I think a lot of people want to know. I think a lot of people want to know. James Sherwood. wants to know. First, did Zumagolov get robbed? Again, guys, I really have to watch that fight again. I do apologize.

It was not actively scoring what was on. I was working on some other fight night related things. But people seem to think so. We saw them made decisions. It looked like about 80% of the media members thought it was a Zumagolov wins. Everybody but one. Pick Zumagov. Everyone but who?

Everybody but one person. So I think it was 13 to 14, I think. I think it was a couple of like, or not. more than a couple of 30, 27 Azalkas is. So, yeah. Controversy for sure. Again, I don't think I'm doing an official robbery review, but we'll see.

We'll see if I get a chance to watch it before the weekend is through. Fakritina versus Sergei Kandosco. There's a name I haven't heard in a while. Wow. I just forgot him he fought recently. Ben Wausand-Dani versus Jai Herbert. Damon Jackson versus Dan Hooker. I don't think Dan is sticking around at, I think he said it's done.

He's done at 40. Got to go back. Yeah, it just wasn't a good idea to go back. Did we already say, Just Lucky, Alexander Hernandez? What's your thoughts on that? Sure. Sure? A hard sure.

Yeah, that's fine. And last one on IG, Brandon Haley, Blanchefield, Cortez to El Hefe versus Bruno Silva. Wait, which one's El Hefe? This is how you know my brain is starting out. Oh, that's a good nickname. O'Day, Osborne, versus David DeVorek, Karani, Selva versus Luana, Carolina. And I got one email that I wanted to say for last. From the Otno coin collector himself, he says, first of all, what a six out of ten card that was.

No, Otno Coin Collector, that's not how the gymnastics scale works. When I said a gymnastics score, that is the peak. So you would say this is a six out of six or a six out of six point four. It is not every card is out of ten. Guys, do MMA fans not watch gymnastics? I find that hard to believe, Mike. Guys, do you not watch gymnastics? No.

So I said the peak score was like a 6.4. And I do think it came close to hitting that 6.1, 6.1, 6.2, because it was a decent card for what it was. Otno, coin collect. I'll call him OCC. He wants to say, first of all, Herb Dean stopped the fight correctly. Biggie Boy was hurt, falling to his side, not engaging with his right hand falling. I agree with all that. Saved him some brain damage for sure.

Yes. Again, shaky stoppage, early stoppage, but correct stoppage. I'd also like to say, this is why I say this one for last. OCC, very generous. All the proceeds from this week's Otno points. go to finding Mazarob a new promotion because he is trash. OCC's words, not mine, and more than likely he will convince them that he won against Meadowfield.

So, yeah, listen, burn the tapes, right? And I'll read out all their picks because I got such a chuckle. Volkov versus Paulovich, Lewis winner of Loya versus Thugnasty, Bryce Mitchell, only because Ryan Hall's knee is busted. So I think I see what OCC means he wants to see Bryce Mitchell, Ryan Hall. Not necessarily Ryan Hall, Mowseye. That would be fun too. That would be.

O'Day Osborne versus Zalgus, Jeff Molina versus Matthias Nicolao. Oh, I like that. I don't know if Nicolao's a fightbook. And Joe Selecki versus Mark O.Madsden. So good picks and funny comments. Thank you, O.C., for closing us out. Guys, you can reach me on,

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Just hit me up in my DMs. There you go. You can find me or send your out in op submissions M underscore heck jr. Just a reminder once again, heck of a morning. Now 10 a.m. Eastern on the MA fighting Twitter spaces. So West Coasters, get ready. It is a paper view fight week after all. So we have a lot to talk about.

No excuses. No excuses. 7 a.m. guys. It's not that early. I would hope you're getting up and getting up and getting ready for work around that time. And then having a nice, having a nice breakfast with Mike's voice. And what days is it again this week, Mike? It'll be Tuesday, Thursday, Thursday, Friday.

And guess what? A little spoiler. A little spoiler. You're getting Florida, Mike, for at least two of these shows. Oh, baby. So I'm going to be in a great mood. It's going to be in a great mood. Of course, UFC 275, June 11th, this Saturday, as you hear this, in Singapore,

Glover Tashira is going to submit Yuri Prakashka. We are, we have been all in. This is big. This is big. We've been all in saying, you know, as soon as, We're anointing Yuri as the uncrowned king at 205. I think you and I were part of that group pushing back like, whoa, hold your horses. Jujitsu, hold your horses, please.

I told John Anik about my pick on the interview that will air sometime this week on the YouTube channel. This is a big fight for us. He reacted to that in his own way. He couldn't make a prediction, obviously. No. Valentina Shvchenko, another step towards all-time greatness, taking on Tyler Santos, massive favorite. We get the rematch between Zhang Wei Li. in the returning Yawani and Jacek three rounds.

I'm kind of okay with it. I am too, so is Anik, by the way. One, the less brain damage for these women the better. Two, as we saw with Michael Chandler and Geci, sometimes when you have the three rounds, I mean, I don't know how they could go harder than the first fight, but knowing that they don't have to save anything for two more rounds, it could be even more intense. Yes. Hagerio Bontorin versus Minel Kapp. Jack Della, Madelana versus Ramazan Amiv. This is the main card fight.

I was what I was saying. I know we don't have the full skit. Oh, no, actually, no. They do the main card. They do announce the, yeah, they do announce the favorite main cards well ahead of time. So, yeah, good for him. Wow, big spot for Jack Della Madalena. Brandon Allen, Jacob Alcun, Sungwu Choi, Josh Kulaba.

Okay, it's on UFC 275. Hayasair Manashat versus Steve Garcia. I think he goes just by the one name. So you can just go Mahashat. I believe. I don't, because I rarely see, because I've seen the matchup mention before. I rarely see people mention the first name. So, I mean, if I'm wrong, but I believe you will just say Mahashat.

Andrei Fialho versus Jake Matthews. That's a fun one. Lo-teamanger for sure. Keongi-Hou Kang versus Dana Bakari. Nah Liang versus Silvana Gomez-Horez and Jocelyn Edwards. Keeping the featherweight division alive, taking on Ramona Pasquale. First fight of the night as it stands right now. Women's 1.45.

Why is this fight at 145? I mean, you know what? Why am I questioning it? If they don't want to... Presque, they got to get around the car. She can make bantam weight. Why do that? Exactly.

You know what? Exactly. I immediately take back my my gasp there because, yeah, if you're, if you got, listen, if you don't want to cut weight, neither fighter wants to cut weight, who cares? That's right. Whatever gets them in the cage at their best. Yes. You know what, 145.

Good for you guys. Do it. Yeah, I approve. A nice tight 12 fights, which I like very much. Jose Young's, as we record this, is on his way to Singapore. So he will be there for all the festings. Things are going to be at kind of wacky times compared to what we normally do. So we will let you know scheduling-wise for all the shows.

The way-ins apparently are going to. It's not going to be your typical two-hour way-in show. They're actually doing the old school. Way-in into face-off kind of thing like we did. I mean, a lot of you listening to this right now probably don't even remember the last time that happened. So that's happening. But we are going to try to plan to do something as far as a quote-unquote show goes. Hopefully.

Yeah, yeah. Well, doing some sort of commentary just maybe not live, unfortunately. Yes. And Otna will be live next week as well. Oh, that's right. After a paper view. So you get to see our smiling faces.

11 a.m. Eastern. Oh, that's the normal time. But what time the pay-per-view... But the paper view is also going to be catering to North American time, right? I believe so. Because for them, it'll just be, it'll be like in the afternoon,

like in the middle of the day. Or sorry, in the morning, morning and middle of the day, I guess. Yeah, right now 630 East. is supposed to be one of the pre-hams. Wait, what? So that'll be like seven of the morning for, 6.30 in the morning for them.

They don't care. Yeah, that's true. I mean, listen, they want to rock it. If they want to, if they want to reverse it and we start at 6.30 a.m. Eastern, I'm fine with that. They could absolutely do that.

That'd be so fun. I would love, yeah. Talk about a heck of a morning. Oh, that would be a heck of a morning. So we're getting Florida, Mike, you said. And we're getting Singapore-A-Mose. And Singapore-Hose. This is going to be a wild week.

Yes, and it's going to be a jeddless week. He's on vacation. So the takes will be a little more medium. So there you go. Well, I don't know. Maybe I'll step it up. Ooh, damn. There's a teaser for you.

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