MMA Fighting - On To the Next One | Matches To Make After UFC Vegas 57

Episode Date: June 26, 2022

Mateusz Gamrot outlasted a fellow high-level lightweight in Arman Tsarukyan to cap off UFC Vegas 57. With the biggest win of his career under his belt, where does the former KSW double champ go from Saturday night? On an all-new edition of On To the Next One, MMA Fighting’s Mike Heck and Alexander K. Lee attempt to answer that very interesting question from a matchmaking perspective after an incredible main event. In addition, future matchups are discussed for the event’s biggest standout Shavkat Rakhmonov following his incredible performance in submitting Neil Magny in the co-main event, Josh Parisian after his second-round comeback TKO win over Alan Baudot, along with Thiago Moises — who submitted Christos Giagos in the first round — Umar Nurmagomedov, Chris Curtis, 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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Shop now at IKEA.ca.ca slash Black Friday. IKEA, bring home to life. Welcome to the Vox Media Podcast Network. And welcome to a brand new edition of On to the Next One, the matchmaking hats are back on after UFC Vegas 57. And I'm excited, but I sort of preface this on the preview show. I'm also in a weird place mentally for this show, if we're being honest, because normally I like to let these cards breathe a couple of days,

then turn the page to the next one about midweek. But I'd be lying if I said that right now because it's full speed ahead to UFC 276 for me in that insane lineup, which took a little bit of a hit during Saturday's broadcast, but we're not here to talk about that. I'm ready to put a bow on UFC Vegas 56. with my best friend, Mr. Alexander K. Lee, who has been a little under the weather, but he's here like the man's man that he is. Hello, AK.

I'm gutting it out, Mike, my best friend. I've gotten it out for you, specifically you. Also, because look, this is the, listen, this is the best time in the week. This is the, the post-fight glow, the post-UFC event glow. We could just spend time with the, the Otno Army. And just talk about the, talk about the, talk about the, future, which what people should be doing when they think what MMA. They should be thinking about their futures. That's what I always tell people is there's no better time to plan for your future than after you've watched some MMA. I think it just gets you in the right in the right spot. AK, you seem, I mean, I understand you're under the weather, but you seem, uh, you got that look

in your eye this week. We haven't seen it many times in this program, but you kind of have that look in your eye. Yeah, listen, we'll, we'll get to that later, why I have a certain look in my eye. And the listeners are lucky they can't see it. but I will say I was a little conservative with my picks this week Mike I don't know where you I'm interested I'm interested to see where you went with some of these names because I'm definitely people know me I'm pretty like cautious I'm a very cautious person there's some matchups that I'm like obsessed with or some fighters I'm obsessed with now I'll throw them right to the wolves this was a very eventful enjoyable card to watch with a lot of people living up or

surpassing their expectations and yet I still kind of I'm still kind of like pulled back with with the matchmaking. I kind of didn't go nuts with the matchmaking, so I really want to know what you did. Yeah, this was an interesting one because they were either really difficult because there's like a dozen potential options, or it was just kind of you can't go wrong

because there's like 30 names and all of them work. So there's tough, there's a couple of tough ones. I think the first two fights that we're going to talk about are probably the toughest if we're being honest because there's so many options. but let's get into it. And I have to say, okay, I'm in a good mood. I'm a little tired, but I am in a good mood because I watched the main event

between Matush Gamron and Armand Sarukian for the second time this morning because those two guys did the damn thing for 25 minutes. And I wanted to make sure, I wanted to watch it on mute. I wanted to watch it more closely. I wanted to make sure that my scoring that I had was not absolutely insane because watching it live, I scored it for Saru Krook. Sourkeon 4946. And I watched it again this morning.

Let me just say it's equally delightful the second time around, by the way. My score changed slightly. It changed to 48, 47, Suryukyan. I still don't hate the 4946, but listen, it's not a robbery. And let me just add, because this is not being said really at all. And a lot of people feel that because I was very high on Saurukian, that I'm like his vice president of fighter affairs, it's not true at all. I'm not crushed by him losing. It was a tremendous fight.

I was just very high on the guy. But Sir Rukhan probably should have lost a point at some point during this fight because he grabbed the fence a lot. Like four or five times, probably should have lost a point in that fight. So we could be talking about a draw. We could be talking about a two point victory for Gamrott. But again, tremendous fight. And like I said from Jump Street, I thought Seroquian would win four rounds,

but not by much in either round. Like it would be a game of inches. But in my eyes, I get, we have ourselves a competitive rivalry for years to come between these two guys. There's no way these guys don't fight again. Both guys' stocks roached tremendously. Gamrod obviously a little more

because he got to hit his hand raised last night in a fight that we're going to be talking about at the end of the year in multiple ways. But Gamrod calls out Justin Gaichie. Do you like that fight? Or are you going a different direction? You read it. First thing I wanted to say was, there was one point actually taken away on Saturday, right?

Who was it actually lost a point finally? Because there was a lot of warnings. Someone lost a point? I don't remember that. Someone definitely lost a point. Maybe they didn't. Maybe they didn't. There were many warnings.

There were so many warnings and so many fouls. Who was it? Oh, Chris Curtis. To be fair, though, only one of those was like really egregious. There was two. There was two. One that caused the first pause. The second one was like closer to the belly button, whatever.

I think I think bad. I kind of got screwed there. The second one, the third one there was not a stoppage, a pause in action, but he clearly got kicked like right between the upright. Yeah, that's true. I forgot about the third one. Yeah, yeah. And it just didn't cause a pause.

So either way, and no points anywhere. And again, I kind of understand it. But yeah, there was a lot of chicanery going on last night and no actual, no actual points. No ipokes, I don't think. There you go. What a thing to celebrate. I think all the eyepokes were like, oops, it was an actual. And then it was like a high five and they just continued on. Yeah, yeah. Uh, so this is people will see here what I'm talking about when I said I went kind of conservative with this because Gamrod is one of the names in this card who I'm like again

Like we everyone's been saying future title contender at the very least possibly a future champion Um, but I just feel like I don't want to throw him or any of the other guys up the rankings too quickly and I don't think the UFC will either. So I love the gate G call out where I using my magic wand that is the that I would make, but I am not Magic Wand picking this one. I'm going to go with the methodology, Mike, because I did kind of already set the seeds for this one last week. I said one of the UFC Austin, one of USC Austin's big winners should get the winner of this fight. And it was so close that I'm actually sticking to it.

So is Magulov, after getting his own close win over Guram Kutad Latsay, I would like to see him fight. I want him to get the winner of this fight. So, yeah, I'll stick with that. I think, and I think the UFC will look at this one next, Gamrott versus Demir Isma Gullov. The way you started the show of the conservative picks, I thought we're going to have a friend's forever moment there. I was wrong.

But there were, like we talked about earlier, there's a lot of options here. I don't think he gets the Justin Gagey fight. I doubt he gets a guy like Chandler. There's a lot of people who want to see the winner or loser of the RDA-Fizzee fight happening in two weeks. there's perhaps Benil Daryush a lot of people suggesting that

but I mean that would be a really tough sell for Daryush right? Because this guy is a case to fight for the title right now there are people who feel

his resume is better than Islam Makachev's and he from a meritocratic standpoint deserves the title shot more than Islam Makhachev and you're going to have him fight Matush Gammot coming off a win over Armand

Sarukion it'd be a sick fight I'd watch the crap out of it but come on you got to do B'Neil a little bit better than that, but not say that it won't happen. We've seen, yeah, we've seen the UFC do more more horrible things than that. So, so I'm going to make my pick by sending a message. And maybe he hears this, maybe he doesn't. But here's a message for this

individual that I'm going to match Gamrod up against. We should, we should play a clip of the BGs. I've just got to get a message to you like, but when we do. Because I feel like we kind of intro something. Anyway, go ahead. Yeah. But here's the message. It's put up a shut up. time. You can't make the, this guy is ranked lower than me claim anymore. Want to know why? Because you're not in the rankings anymore. And even if you were, this guy probably jumped you on Saturday. So give me Gamrod versus Gregor Gillespie. This is where the winner should have gone more than likely. This is probably where I would have put Arm on Syracian had he won. Gillespie has to fight somebody. He has to fight somebody. He's not getting the Ferguson fight. He's not

getting Chandler, he's not getting anybody ranked above that. This makes the most sense. And who is going to complain about this fight? This fight is, I don't know if it'll be as high level as what we saw last night, but this is pretty damn close. This is like the Intercontinental championship version of the WWF title fight that we saw last night. So that's the fight. It's Gamrock Gregor Gillespie. Nothing else makes sense. And Gillespie can't say no to this fight. Enough is enough. Yeah, I'm a Gregor Gillespie fan. And I feel a little bit bad for him because I feel like he is backing his way into like a tough, a tough fight, a low reward fight. Like, I get it.

I get it. Listen, some fighters have been smart to sit out and, you know, eventually get the fight they want. Gillespie just is not in that position. As talented as he is, as accomplished as he is, the UFC just does not view him that way. And you're right. Now, I can't remember what the options were for him before, but I feel like there was better. more winnable fights than Gamrod because for me I would favor Gamrod in that matchup. And again, now Galasra, he lost his spot in the rankings.

He's probably, again, he's sitting on the sidelines trying to get a big fight. The UFC is just like, have fun. Good. It's like us. It's like Gregor, we like you. But we, we, this is one of the deepest division in the sport. There's so many great matches we can make. If you don't want to be part of those right now, then we are, you know, we're, then

That's fine with us. So, yeah, I do feel like he's maybe Paul taking himself into trouble here. And I could very much see the Gamrod fight happening. And as you said, I saw a lot of listeners saying throw Gillespie to the Gamrott. As great as that fight was, as great as Gamrott's performance was the MVP of UFC Vegas 57 by a long shot was Shafkat Rachman up because this hype train just continues to grow exponentially after each performance, especially after last night,

because he just runs over Neil Magni, incredibly impressive performance. He aces the test with flying colors. This guy is the truth. He's the real deal, my best friend. And I'm curious to see where you go with this. I'll leave this one off because there aren't going to be a lot of guys at 170 who Rachmanov has earned the right to fight,

who are going to be like, yes. Let's fight this guy. Not a lot of guys are going to be raising their hand to fight Rachmanoff in the top 10. But who might end up getting that pen in their hand to sign a contract to face this dude. Man, this dude is, he's the real deal. He is the real deal. Yeah, I was pretty confident in him being Magni. You know what?

And I'm not even going to say that I didn't see it going that way. I think I actually picked in our official staff picks like, uh, uh, uh, Rachmano, excuse me, by first round submission. because most of us agreed if this goes the distance and Magni is able to avoid trouble early, he will sort of outpace him. But if Rachmanov gets his offense going right away, which he did, I mean, he just ran through him in the first round and then kind of controlled a fight until he got to finish at the end of the second. Then, you know, it was going to be his fight. So, yeah, this was tricky.

Again, I kind of just went, you know, started the top of my rankings. I just went down from my welter rankings and just went down and down and down with likelihood go to fights, guys who are already booked. So this was tough because I do want to move him up. I do feel like you have to move him up at this point. He has jumped into my top 10. He's jumped firmly into my top 10 right now. I moved him above the man that he called out, Stephen Wonderboy Thompson.

And I don't love that matchup. I could see the UFC being interested in it. It was a pretty kind of a smart callout. But I settled on the, I was settled on Jeff Neal if he beats, Bacente Lucay on August 6th. And not just the winner of that fight. I think Rachmanov, he's with Sanford now, right? Yes.

Or at least spent time training at Sanford for this fight. I don't know if that means he wouldn't fight Luque, but just for now, I assume there, at least on some sort of, because there's certainly a chance that, you know, he doesn't stay permanently at that team. Like, he's, you know, he has his own team. It's just he prepared to Sanford, right? So there might be some chumminess there.

Maybe he won't fight Luque. So I'm saying, so, and again, I'll just be specific and say, and say Jeff Neal if he beats him. look at the sake of my ought no point i'm looking at my rankings right now i had rock monoff at 13 which is two jad i think had him the most jad said he's put him in the top five i'm i'm not putting in the top five but it's close the only like i'm going to have rachmanoff no worse than number seven in my rankings i will have him above vizente luke the only one i'm pondering even though he

the second longest winning streak in the division is do I jump him over Bilal Muhammad. So that's the question I have right now. Are you, am I sharing my screen by accident? That's exactly, no, I have him exactly at seven. We should play the friends right. No, I'm kidding. Yeah. Not yet.

No, we can't play. We can't play now. No. I have him exactly at seven behind Bilal Muhammad. I have Muhammad at six. I just, I would favor Rachmanov in a fight with him, probably. But I have to balance, you know, accomplishments as well. And I just, I think Muhammad has the combination of both.

It would be, you know, it would be a competitive fight with Rachmanov. And, I mean, he's just, you know, he's got some more bigger, bigger wins on there. So, but yeah, yeah, I thought five was crazy when Jed threw that out at us, that he's going to make him a top five well-to-right in his rankings. Yeah, but I have met seven, so it's definitely not unreasonable. A lot of people gave, weren't overly thrilled with the Wonderboy callout. And then he goes to the post-fight press conference and he calls out Mazadol and he calls out Nate Diaz and a lot of people didn't love those call-outs either.

I actually liked them a lot because of what I mentioned earlier. He's going to have a really tough time finding fights. So you might as well get your name in the headlines, get that search engine optimization. So when they pull up Jorge Mazadol, you got Rachmanov's name. It's actually a really good idea. The Wonderboy one is one that gave a lot of people pause. And let me just say this. If you chastise Sean Brady for calling out the NMF,

then you have to at least somewhat keep that same energy with this call out. I hate that fight for Wonderboy Wonderboy said he likes Paheda or Kevin Holland I love those fights I suggest the Pahada one they do Kevin Holland that's awesome too

I stude on this one for a long time AK this one took almost a half an hour straight of just looking at how this could play out timelines and stuff and the first thought I had was Gilbert Burns just throw them right in there with Gilbert

but much like you're saying with Vecente Luque, they both train at Sanford M.MA, their teammates, their acquaintances at least. So I'll say that's unlikely at least for now. The Bilal fight actually makes perfect sense in my eyes. But if Balal's not interested in fighting Sean Brady, there's no way he's interested in fighting Shafkat Rock Monoff. Because that's just, that's just horrifying. My pick AK, and it's kind of a future pick, just based on what I think is going to happen in the next two months. My pick is going to be Shafcott Rachmanoff versus Leon Edwards, okay, because I think Leon Edwards is going to lose to Kamar Usman at UFC 278,

and we're going to see Edwards versus Rachmanoff at the end of the year because at that point, the UFC is going to say to themselves, listen, we gave Leon his title shot, he got what he wanted, and now he's back on our terms. He's got to fight this dude. I think that's how this plays out. But this is a tough one, man. It's tough.

It's timelines. There's so many fights. there's trying to get the right guy. Walterweight is interesting, but it's like not great. Overall, there's just a lot of stagnance. There's a lot of guys in there that we don't even know what their futures are going to look like. Kobe Covington with the whole court thing and the whole thing with Mazadol. Like we don't know where any of these guys are going.

So I'm playing a future shot, Rachmana versus Leon Edwards, AK. I like it. I believe it. I can see. I saw you doing that. I imagine you're doing the Dr. strange seven billion timelines thing in your head there. I'm not going to ask who's better because I think this is going to be a point of debate

for the next little while until both these guys fight again. Do you think we see Rachmanov and Khamsat Shemaya fight one another at some point before the end of 2023, whether it's for a world title or one of the already gets a world title shot and then, you know, comes off a loss and stuff like the other guy? before the end of 2023 will we see this i'll call it right now a dream match happen because i'm dying to see this way it all depends on how active rakmanov is going to be because this is the first time in his ufc career he's fought more than once in a year once in 2020 once in 2021 he's already fought twice this year so that's a real good sign so if he can get a third fight in

especially i mean if he gets the leon edwards fight and shami if wins a title then the answer is yes he just probably needs at worst he would need to be at worst he would be even one more win and maybe he comes back in like April of 2023. So it's possible. It all like I would need to see Rachmana fight again this year to feel more confident. But if he is active, if he fights end of the year and then gets one in end of the first quarter, maybe early second quarter of 2023, there's a very good shot that happens if Schaaf got win if Shemaiah wins the title. I love it. I need to see it. I need to see it. I feel like whether it's for a world title or not, I have they have to cross past at some point they have to cross and I'd say a five round main event

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on the post-fight show when we found out about this, but let's go to the man who I mean, I'm not going to he stole bonus money, but he won bonus money over Carlos Ulberg, Mario Batista, Cody Durdin. Josh Parisian has a fight with Alan Boudot. They're slapping some beat around. Bodeau has Parisian badly, badly hurt.

Parisian overcomes it. Bado just like, it was like, I would have loved to have seen a damage bar in that fight because Baudet was probably in the green and then immediately went to the red in like four seconds. If Parisian goes back, gets him out of there in the second. This could go so many ways. So I'm just, I'm just going to throw out William Knight, A.K. Heavyweight William Knight. Let's go.

Parker Porter has a win over Josh Parisian already. So let's let Parisian try to get one back on the old Thornton MMA gym in Connecticut with Parker Porter's teammate, William Knight. So I'll go with that one. What do you think? I can't hear you. best friend. I'm sorry. I've been covering up a lot because I've been sniffling a lot. So I've got my mute button on, uh, on, uh, on the ready. Um, oh, what was the, what was the point you just made for my, my brain shut down? Uh, yes, the, no, not. I always want to have a park reporter. Uh,

you said something about the life bars and there before that. Oh, yeah. The damage are you? No, no, and then winning, winning a bonus. They like made, I feel like they made, they they headed out three performance of the night bonuses on Saturday. They made, as far as we know, they made. They have made an extra bonus just to give $50,000 to Josh Prisian. That's possible. I mean, you could also say the extra bonus was for Rachmanov or Moises, whatever. But in my mind, in my mind, it feels like they said, let's do one more bonus. I feel like they had decided on Moises and Rachmanov and said, you know what, let's do one

more bonus. And that Josh Peresian for some reason. And there was other impressive finishes on the night, too, was the man who benefited from that. So good for him. I'm not saying, listen, Josh Perugian is a gamer. good for him. Is he the poor guy who,

oh, you know, and he deserves it because he's the guy who went through Contender Series and was rewarded with an appearance on the Ultimate Fighter, right? Yeah, and then had to come back on the Contender Series. You know what?

I hope this is, I hope someone, whoever decided these bonuses thought about that, and this is like a long game kind of reward for him because, again, that is one of the worst pass I've ever seen to have to go to,

to go to the UFC. So good for you, Josh, for you. Enjoy that. Please enjoy that extra. $50,000. I think I just settled on, I honestly don't, I wish I'd taken notes on why I decided on this. This was probably in the middle of the night, in the wee hours of the morning, Eastern time. I settled on Rodrigo, Rodrigo Nassimento.

Why did I do this? Mike, can you see my logic here? Why did I do this? Because you can anywhere from like 30 to 70 in the rankings, however the UFC has it, like any of those fights make sense. All of that makes sense. I wish I'd taken notes. It's like a comedian, like, just forgetting to write a joke down. And, like, in the middle of the night and they wake up and they look at their notes. I'm like, what the hell? What is this?

It's just the punch line. And it's like, what? So I didn't write down the punchline of this matchup. I didn't write down the setup. That's Bush League. It's Bush League on my part. I apologize. This bonus.

And listen, I don't want to sound like I'm hating on Josh Perugian because he went out there and it overcame adversity. Like, the fight went exactly the way we thought it was going to go. but normally on these fight night cards Casey always talks about card placement and I'm always like it's not that big of a deal I think we're making too much of this it's all just like one big stream

there's really no main card you're just saying main card for the sake of saying main card when it's all just like one show from start to finish and this bonus has caused me to pause on that a little bit because had Mario Batista

or Carlos Ulberg or Cody Durden fought in that featured bout slot, they would have got a bonus, like 100%. If Parisian got that finish in the second fight of the night, he's not getting a bonus. There's no way. There's just no way. And those other finishes,

you got to feel bad for these guys. Like Carl Soltberg's like, yes, finally got the finish. I was aggressive. I did what everybody wanted me to do. And just bolts Tafon and Chukui. Just runs him over. After the first punch he threw, it was over.

It was maybe the nastiest knockout of the night. Yeah. Mario Batista, what he did to Brian Kelleher, was super impressive. Amazing. That was incredible. I think Cody Dirt is just a vicious, vicious man, just tons of power. The man can absolutely crack at J.P. Bays. J.P. Bays was knocked down 11,000 times by Montel freaking Jackson and didn't get stopped.

And Cody Durning goes out there and stops him in just over a minute. J.P. Bay has had one of the roughest. He's probably going to be released out of this three straight law. Oh, and three in the UFC now. he's having one of the roughest like UFC careers I've ever seen He took in three years I'll have to see like like you know

Per punches per slash knockdowns per you know A minute He has been he got hurt a lot in his first three fights in his His three fights in the OC I think he's 11 or 12 total knockdowns Oh my God That's not good and he and in the code That knocka if anyone missed on the prelims

That was scary because he was clearly I think was put out by I can't remember it was the left hand or right hand from Durden, but this looping bomb and put him up. But he didn't fall down. He kind of like he fell into sort of not on all fours, but, you know, posted up on his hands and feet. And I think he was out, but his body was just kind of locked up. So the referee wasn't calling the fight because it looked like he was still conscious, but Durden was just blasting him with punches.

And I think Bays was completely out, but his body was just stuck in that position. And thankfully the fight was eventually stopped. I think there are free, I don't know if it was a big Dan, was it was the referee for that one? Mark Smith. Was that Marksith? It was Mark Smith, you're correct. And that was really scary. And that just shows you, man, how crazy and, like, violent fighting is.

Like, even getting knocked out in a fight, you are not safe, if that makes sense to people. Again, it might not make sense to anyone who didn't see the finish. Watch that finish. He is frozen on his hands and feet and taking a lot of punches. So whatever happens for JP Bays, again, whether he's still with the O.C. Or parts ways, hopefully this guy gets some time off. to rest and heal and if he continues his fighting career has better health because this was a rock this one of the toughest uh three fights stints with the uc i've ever seen

yeah i hopefully agree with you chafcott rockmanoff was the MVP of this card aka there's no doubt about that but the silver medalist in the MVP award in my eyes is won tialgo moises not just because of the performance but because he came a he became a hero and an icon in my eyes because this is a tough hang if you're on the East Coast because there was just a long night. This is a marathon. We were nearly, we were like just around 90 minutes into the main card

when this fight began. And this is the third of six fights on the main card. And we knew the main event was going a full 25. We needed a quick finish. We needed it badly because we thought there's no way Chris Curtis Adolfo Vieira goes to a decision, goes to a decision. There's no way.

Nomaga Madoff doesn't submit Nate Maynus in the first round, that fight goes to a decision. And Tiago comes through with a quick submission win over a pretty damn good fighter in Christos Diago's, who just had nothing for Tiago. Tremendous game plan, used his strengths wisely. And Tiago Moises' strength of schedule since coming into the UFC has been insane, to say the least, at 155 pounds. So where does he go after this quick yet heroic submission win to maybe pick up the pace a little bit on this card.

Listeners, I'm going back to my conservative picks. I'm not ready to just throw moises up there. I need to see a little more consistency. But I am potentially, depending how your rankings shakeout, giving him a jump up. We've got a nice fight next weekend between Brad Riddell and Jalen Turner. Give him the loser of that fight. Give him the loser of that fight. I think either one would be a nice test for him and a nice test for also, again,

whoever doesn't get their hand raised, UFC 276. So Radell would probably be the more appealing matchup for him. But Jalen Turner's an up-and-comber. That'd be a nice name if he were able to kind of hand him, let's say, a consecutive loss if Turner loses to Riddles. So Moises is just in kind of the middle of that lightweight pack right now. He's not really creeping towards the top 15. I know he's fought guys that are in the top 15, but he's not there yet for me. So I just need to see him mix it up with that middle of the pack a little more.

So, yeah, I could see this fight being made in the timing, just working out. Normally, I don't like to reward fighters who try to do our jobs for us, but he called out Joe Selecki. And since this man is a hero, let's give him what he wants. I think that makes perfect sense. Let's do Tiago Boises versus Joe Selecki. Amen seems right with the rankings where they're at. Probably, Boises probably like maybe a spot or two above Selecki, maybe three,

but it's not by much. And yeah, it was not, it was probably the least ridiculous callout that we've heard in a long time, like the maybe the most realistic callout we've seen. Yeah, you just kind of went like, oh, yeah. Yeah. Okay. I love it. Jiu Jitsu. Let me see.

Let's see the Jits. Let's see the Jits. I mean, I'm always just loves to mix it up on the feet, but I do want to see some, you know, a little less mixing the martial arts at that way would happen. Picking for Akmanov is really hard. this one might be the most difficult of all. Oh, God, he just ran over Nate Manez.

And I actually, I talked about this to the Post-Fight show. I actually felt bad for Nate Mainis. Like, I felt really bad for him. While getting submitted and choked in three minutes hurts the ego, it stings a little bit.

It's not a horrible night at the office. Like, you go in there, you get paid and you, unless something insane happened, you probably, in there with confidence thinking maybe I can pull off a miracle but I'm probably not going to so the fact that he went the distance with umar namag made off good for him but I just felt so bad for the guy throughout this whole thing it was just pillar to post I thought this would knock it out of the

first round that this wasn't possible and that wouldn't be a horrible night for him but all things considered Jesus 15 minutes with that guy on top of you just pounding you and just making your life miserable, good grief. Cudos to you, Nate Manus. But this is so hard, man. This could go a number of ways. And I had to think about this one a lot too, because we're probably going to have to play the wait and see game to see how some of these fights that are already booked to play out. I will go with, I will go this route, just so I have an actual pick. If Pedro Munoz, this is Ashon O'Malley, you do that fight. You do maybe the loser of Ricky Simone versus Jack Short's, popular one.

But here's the magic wand pick, AK, here's the magic wand pick. What I would love to see if this is possible, and I'm doing it if all goes well on August 20th, not all goes well, but if all goes in this direction. If Joseyaldo beats Marab de Walsh-Willi,

you do Umar v. Marab. That is just a ridiculous fight. Yes. But this is the toughest pick for sure for me. I don't know where to go, because we have to wait and see how these play out, but if I'm waving, if I'm trying to play predictor,

I think Sean O'Malley's going to beat Pedro Munoz, and I feel like Munoz is going to have to be the unfortunate, sacrificial lamb in this weird equation. Okay. Yes, this was absurdly difficult. Bantamweight is just loaded. People have fights booked. So a lot of this also depends on where you're ranking,

Umar after Saturday's impressive win. I bumped him up a lot. Keep in mind, though, I also had him probably lower than people had him going into Saturday. So he wasn't in my top 20 before Saturday. I'm sure a lot of people already had him in there. I didn't. Again, I just, for me, it's like, you know, I need to see you win three U.S. Fights or fight in the U.S. three times before I really have a good gauge of who you are.

This was fight number three against an undefeated guy who was three and O is very tough. It's going to win a lot more fights in the UFC before it's said and done. So, yes, shout out to Nate Maynest. but um mar yeah made him look like they weren't even in the same uh promotion it was like he had dropped down to some regional promotion and just and just uh you know knock some can around which is not what nightmanus is at all um so you're right mike about the you know the decision being almost so much more devastating than just getting caught uh you know again i don't want to i know people are probably this i'm sorry guys it's not the rankings show i know this is ot no but i do that talk rankings so i have

umar mike tell me if you agree with something of this. Do you have any idea, first of all, where you're kind of going to rank him when our next, you know, show comes up? He will be, he will be in, he will be number four. Well, because we have to, he might, he'll be anywhere between 12 and 14. Okay. So I still have him outside the top team. If you're going to kill me, I have a feeling our panel is going to skewer me. But here's who I have him below. And, and this is not, And this is clearly not using the who do I think he would beat rule because there's a lot of names above him more I think he'd be. So I have met 17. People feel free to DM me and flame me.

And here's who I have above him. Sean O'Malley, 16, Hafeu'll Asun Sao 15. Yanez 14. I still have Yonnas above him. I, you probably agree, right? No? Yes. No?

No. I can't. I like Adrian a lot. But if Umar, if they match Umar and Adrian up as much as I like Yanaz, I'm favoring Umar. He's like a minus 500 favorite in that. If I were using the who would Umar beat method, uh, he'd probably be in the top 10 right now.

I just need to see one, one more fight. I need to see one more fight. I know he's the real deal. I believe he's not just a future contender. I would pick him to be a future champion someday. Of all the, let me go with this way,

of all the guys who fought on, uh, Saturday's card, if you were to ask me who is most likely to actually not just compete, but win a UFC title, Umar would be my choice over Gamrod, over Saras. Rukyan over, who else was the other?

Over Rachmanov. Oh, that guy, yeah, over Rachmanov, yeah. I would pick Umar. I think Umar, that is my guy. And that's saying a lot again, when you consider the depth of band to wait. So, um, yeah, look, I have him behind some names now. And that's why it's kind of a little bit easier for me to give him a fight that I think would be big for him.

You might not like this. I'm so, I can't wait. I can't wait. you might not like this. But I think this would also be worthwhile for this name because if he got this win, I mean, it would just be huge for him and immediately changed how people view him, I think, after his last couple losses.

Rob Funt. Wow. Rob Fon. Again, Umar would be a huge favorite going into it. I would say at least minus 400. I understand. But if you're Rob Fon, I don't think you say no. I know you want to, I know you're on a losing streak.

But if you beat Umar or give him a tough fight. I mean, that gets your stock right back. People already know Rob Fons good. Rob Fons is my top 10 still. I think he's in a lot of people. I assume he's most people's top 10 at 135. I don't know if it would move him up. I don't know how much it would do for Rob Fons ranking necessarily

because he's behind a lot of, again, pretty elite names in 135. But I think as far as reputation goes, it would get people thinking again, is, you know, could he be, could he himself be a world title contender someday? And I think he would be if he could somehow knock off Umar. I wouldn't pick it, but If you're Rob Font, you certainly would believe you have a chance.

I don't think you'd avoid it. So maybe that's where they go. Wow. So if this is a fight like Umar wants, I think he becomes the biggest Pedro Munoz fan in the world. Like a Pedro beat Sean O'Malley, because I think if Sean O'Malley wins, they're going to give him Rob Fon. I think that's how they're going to do it because seeds are already planted. I think that's the way they go.

That'd be like the nice, the next appropriate step up, I would think. but man i don't i don't hate that at all and that could be that could be the direction they go as we move on to chris curtis a.k. Chris the action man curtis 3 and o in the ufcc he mixed the martial arts aka against hidolfo vietta and he lived to tell the tale gets the unanimous nod and i would just be a terrible best friend and co-host if i didn't let you go first on this one seeing him mixed the martial arts with with hodolfo Valletta was horrifying at first but then you realize that he's been mixing the martial arts for a long time and that this mixing is certainly why he was able to avoid was it 20 takedowns statistically something like that yeah something like 20 takedowns which i everyone was saying on social media has to be some sort of record uh most offended without ever getting taken down once. Yeah, he did not get taken down. It was over 20 for Hidalphal Bayada. Now, some of those were, if people saw like the latter half of the fight, some of those were very

half-hearted, like very telegraphed takedowns. And, you know, Curtis, again, to his credit, saw them coming a mile away and just easily like brush them off in those counts as a take down defense. But he defended a lot of deep ones too. So, listen, I love the action, man. This has been such a fun ride to see him excel in the UFC as so many people. knew he would at 185 which you know he's kind of said like isn't really his weight class but Chris Curtis if the if the wins keep coming you just just stay there this is this is the right place for you so obviously yes I'm not going crazy or anything here and and matching him up outside of outside of this division he should stay at 185 how do we move him up Mike

how do we move up Chris Curtis I say give him the Uriah Hall Andre Muniz loser which goes down next weekend USC 276. So Hall would be a fun striking matchup, two guys who have, again, two strike veterans who are great strikers. And Andre Monez, look, we just saw him handle the grappler and Huddlva Vietta. So I know a lot of people are thinking like, oh, Andre Mniz is going to run through Chris Curtis. Maybe he would.

Maybe he would. Maybe he's got a better gas tank than Hidalphal Vietta. Maybe he's a better striker than Hidalphal Vietta. I don't know. But I think the loser of this fight is the right way to go. Maybe I saw some people saying the winner too, but I'll stay again. Very safe here. I'll go loser.

and the rise of Chris Curtis continues. Look, and I said this, if you listen to the post-fight show, you already know my pick for this one. Since we're not getting Alan Bedou versus Joss Parisian in Paris, how about we get Chris Curtis versus Nassardine Imovov on that card in September instead. I think that's a fine fight. It's a scrap for sure. And we'll see which guy that's on a tear continues to stay on said tear.

It makes sense to me. That's the fight I'd like to see. I think Chris Curtis deserves the opportunity to fight a guy in the top 15. And Imovov needs to get another win under his belt before most people view him as a serious contender at 185. I'm close to saying he's a serious contender at 185, but I'm not quite there yet. But if he beats Chris Curtis, that would certainly answer some questions for me. So I like that fight a lot. But Chris Curtis against anybody is great.

There were some really good listener suggestions. There were some really bad listener suggestions too, but there's some really good listener suggestions for Chris Curtis that we will go to. Before we go to that, AK, we got to go to the wild card pick. We will select one fighter we have not match made four, and we will do so right now. So it could be anybody, it could be Neil Magni, it could be Armant Sirukion, could be anybody who did not get a win on the main card. It could be someone who got a win on the prethums, someone who did not get a win on the prelims,

a K, the sky's the limit, the options are a plenty. What did you land on? I was definitely tempted to go with one of the main card losers, either Armand Suryukyan or Neil Magni. But I instead, I wanted to put some shine on one of my favorite bantam weights who fought in the prelims, who has had a hell of a start. We talked about Chiangamoises, you know, facing stiff competition as UFC career. Sergei Morozov, I mean, man, this dude, he fought Umar in his first fight. Khalid Taha, very good bantuan in his second fight, beat him, fights Douglas Silva DiAndre. who I think is one of the most underrated guys in 135.

I think we'll look at his resume. He's bounced between weight classes, yes. His only losses at 135 are to Peodor Yan and Rob Font. And he beat Merozov, so obviously I think highly of Douglas Stelby. And Javier, who I think is also a top 20, top 25 guy at 135. So that's a ridiculous run. Good for Moresa for gutting out to win. That was a tough fight on Saturday.

He came into the UFC with actually a pretty decent amount hype. People just kind of don't remember because he faced Umar and umar way more hype than him. Uh, and I want to say I'm giving him an easier fight, but there's no easy fights at 135, at least not around the area he is. So I'm just throwing Morozov back to the wolves. I'm a believer. This guy is kind of like a sleeper contender. If he can string together the right wins, he's certainly behind, again, some of the names we've mentioned. But I do think if he can get like, if he, as he develops and even put like to kind of just kind of put a run together, you'll see him in that like you might see him sneaking into top 10 and into contender talk

sometime next year I really think highly of him so I'm giving him a tough tough fight Jonathan Martinez oh Martinis yeah if he beats him again I think we'll get more people talking I think we'll get people realizing that Morozov is not just a guy who fights tough competition he's a guy to keep an eye on himself so or or not or Martinez beats him and then you know four straight for Martinez then there we go and then we're talking Martinez as a contender so just a good matchup for both guys Yeah, I mean, there's a lot of ways you can go with Marzav. You could do Chris Gutierrez.

You could do Mario Boutisto. We've got a nice one on this card. There's lots of fun ways we can go with this. And again, normally I don't like to reward matches that are kind of made on the night of the cards. But in this case, I'm going to make an exception because it wasn't the actual fighter who set it all up. It was actually somebody else on social media who said it all up. Young Jeffrey Molina called out Cody Dern and he said, for you to see daddy.

Cody was asked about it at the post-fight press conference, and it wasn't really followed up on. But Cody took the opportunity to just continue to pile it on Jeff Molina. And then it was, yeah, I think that's the fight. I mean, these two guys are building it themselves. Let's just friggin do it. It doesn't make any difference. These guys are ranked around the same, in my opinion.

So, yeah, let's just do that. It's fun. The build will be fun. and well, maybe not so fun. Maybe at times not so fun, but you know what I mean. The fight will be good, though, and I'm in. I like it. Intriguing matchup.

So let's go with that. Yep. UFC, listen, these guys are building. They're doing the build for you themselves. Just make it happen. Yes. Now, extracurricular time, A.K., do we have any check the tapes? Do we have, is someone going to attack me in a mic check style?

What's up? Mike, why don't you tell me? Do we have a check the tapes that? Someone deserves a point? Why don't you tell me, Mike? Hmm. I know who deserves a point. I do.

Me. It's been a long time since I've been able to stake a claim to an Otno point. And damn it, I'm taking it. Jose, you're not getting any of it. Maybe I'll buy you a beverage in Las Vegas, but you ain't taking the Otno point. You ain't taking a quarter of it, half of it, a tenth of it. It's all mine.

It's in my account. I've been very giving with my Otno points. And I'm taking this home back. Gregory Rodriguez versus Cheetah and Joquani, September 17th, location TBD, that fight rules. There you go. Now, Mike, this was also a very popular listener pick. Would you be willing to share some of your point with, or do we give them, do we give them some of the lesser stock, the lower stock, Otno options? Would you be willing to share?

I will boost their Otno bank account interest rates up a half of price. So we like they're not going to get the full credit for this one, but their previous victories are going to get a little bit of a boost. And in long-term finances, over time, it's going to, it's going to lead to some healthy returns. So I'm going to give them that. But listen, you may a lot of people may have said it, but I said it first. So there you go. This is true. This is true.

By the nature of the show, you get, you kind of get first dips. So some might say it unfair advantage, but we just say that that is life and that is how Otno works. You're a very generous man and a very intelligent. This is how you're able to afford a command center 2.0 and your lush wood background. Yeah, well, I mean, there's more work to be done. So I need more Otno points to finish the job, but I have to take this one. I just have to. Yeah.

Listen, yeah, you also didn't become a rich man by just giving Otno points away. Yeah, listen, the other thing I want to say, well, this kind of ties into our listener. You know, normally, listener picks. normally I like to say the title of the episode here, either given to us by Marcus McGehey or Chris Martin or someone else. I'm naming this episode. This is the do-do edition, all right, based on some of the bull poopie, pardon my language, that we received in our picks. So we'll get to that. I'm not happy with a lot of our listeners.

I am not, I cannot believe some of the egregious errors and callous oversights that I saw in some of these picks. I am just shocked. Some of them kind of excusable, and I will say so when it comes up. But I'm like legit discussion. Should I go to the disclaimer, Mike? Yeah, please. All right, listen. Scategories rule, guys, hopefully you have the only, if you're the only person to pick a fight, very difficult to do.

Guess what? You get a rare solo auto point. Congratulations. People pay attention. Weight class. Did these people fight already recently? Is someone have a notable injury that we know they're not going to come back? Has this fighter been released?

As a fighter already booked, sorry, these guys teammates, et cetera. your pictures might be do-do and we don't want to read it that's the golden rule i'm going to say two right now so i don't have to call out people individually um especially since they they came out um excuse me they um they came from multiple people one of them's not so bad mike i saw some uh venez damopoulos versus sam hues now but people should know this is this is a rematch i'm sorry i know the fight happened a while ago i get it i wanted but i i hold the on the list of a higher standard. I wanted one person, just one person. And maybe I missed the comment. I do have a couple of things that I haven't read listeners, excuse me, that I haven't read their whole DMs yet. One person to

remember, they fought in the LFA, demo picked up a sick inverted triangle chokes submission. I believe this was covered in MMAfighting.com. And I expect everyone who is a fan of our site, literally every article that pops up on our website. So if you missed this and you didn't come into memory, shame on you. Because I saw people recommend this fight and you could, all you got to throw two on there, guys, so I know you know that their LFA fight might happen. Secondly, this one also isn't bad. So I can't remember the one that really made me mad. I think it's coming up later.

Moises and Dawson. I saw Lafiel Teago Moises and Grant Dawson. Okay, it's not that bad because maybe you weren't aware they trained together at a very top team. It is super bad, though, because Grant Dawson was in his corner. Teago pointed to him and said, thank you, Grant. Literally, he literally said, my buddy Dawson. help me with that.

So if you're not aware they trade together, fine. Maybe you didn't watch the card, I guess. But he was in his corner for this fight. You probably will not be seeing that fight happen anytime soon. So, like, I don't know. I'm sorry to get this off such a bad note. And I am going to, I know there's one more. I can't remember.

Then I'm going to call out. Maybe it'll come up in your picks and I'll call it up then. Mike, go ahead. I am annoyed. There are a few here. What is going on? It's happened. Is it, did we, have we been too lenient?

Is it our fault that we haven't called people out enough? Listen, it's been an emotional ride for our listeners, you know, going through just 275, the emotional roller coaster. Then we have fight night at a time. It should always be with a crazy card in Austin. And then you're asking them to come back on the East Coast, like for a later stop time, start time in a card that leads into UFC 276, which, which looked solid on paper, but not as good. is 276, like, they have to make a choice. Do we skip this one or do we watch it because people keep telling us the main event's going to be really good?

There's a lot going on here. I have no explanation for some of these, but we're just going to get into these. Matt Ravelli, hey, Mike, good night of fights. I want to see Chris Curtis versus the loser of Andrejah Hall versus Andreemuniz. Shafkat Rachmanov versus the winner of Vicentee Luke versus Jeff Neal. There you go. Robbie Ryan, I jumped the gun and the judges got it wrong again. Serucion won that fight.

However, my edit is Gamrod v. Darius, Serucion versus Gajee. All right. Throw him to the wolves. I like it. Jack Porter. Farrottoe, Gamrod v. Chandler, Syrucian versus RDA after he loses to Fiziv. Wow.

Shofcott versus Gilbert Burns. Again, I'm not going to call this doo-doo. I'm not going to call that or Lucay-Dudu. I'm not doing it because he goes, like, when he goes to the States, they work together. It doesn't mean they're, like, best friend. They're not wearing wolf hats together. I don't even remember seeing like Shafcott and Gilwood Burns and a social media picture together.

So maybe he just trains there, but they're not. We've seen Gilbert Burns fight Kamarhus. We've seen teammates fight quite a bit. It happens. Parisian versus Jared Vandera. I'm going to let this one slide because Vandera is fighting in two weeks, but we didn't know until Saturday. So if you didn't watch the card, you didn't know that Jared Vandera is fighting

Chase Sherman July 9th and a fight that should just be the absolute best. I can't wait for it. However, Jack Porter, I am going to get, I am going to, uh, perhaps unleash AK on you for two of your picks. I'm going to say one that's not going to be, uh, one of those. Normaga made up versus Munoz, if Munoz is Sean O'Malley. I believe that's what you said. You, you didn't, you put Moises, but I know you didn't mean that because you put Boises in a matchup that you shouldn't have.

You suggested Moises versus Bobby Green. They just freaking fought. Hold on. Hold on. Okay. I just got one of those as well. I will say, did they put a two? Did they at least acknowledge it to rematch?

Nope. Okay. So for me, like, that's actually a fight I would like to see again. We are a couple of years. We are a few fights. I feel like we are enough fights removed and almost two years, I guess, removed. If you want to be generous with the time there. That would be a fun rematch.

But yes, people, you have to acknowledge the rematch. Because I am assuming that means that you didn't know. And we've said this before in previous shows. We've said this. we want to believe you. Mike has been very nice. Mike, you have actually given a lot of people the benefit of the doubt

when they have recommended fights that were rematches without indicating that they knew that. I have less tolerance for it and I am losing what tolerance I have left for it by the day. Yeah, my tolerance is lost with this last choice. Come on. Mario Batista versus Casey Kenney.

I think Batista could be a real contendent of this division so I think it's a match and move him up quick. Yeah, go to Arizona and go to the MMA lab and you can watch this fight like all the time because they train together. Teammates. Come on now. John Ray, which Jared Vellel decision is worst?

3027 Demopoulish or 2928 Romero versus Phil Davis? That's, it's got to be Romero versus Phil Davis. I'm sorry, it's got to be Romero versus Bill Davis. Yeah, look, the Demopolis score, I don't agree with it. I actually think if people watch it again, they're going to realize all those rounds were a lot closer. I certainly would have given Jin U Fry the first round, but I think on a close watching, you can kind of,

kind of see where Demopoulos maybe was perceived as having the more damaging strikes. Again, I don't agree personally. It's not the worst scorecard ever. But I would classify it as bad. I don't think it's a good score. It's a bad card. It's probably the worst card of the night.

In my eyes, I don't, let me just clarify just to make sure here, because some people are like, What do you don't like Vanessa Domopoulos? No, I don't have a problem with Demopolis winning that fight. And I think Demopoulos did more to show that she wanted to win that fight more than Jin U Fry did. In my opinion, she went after it more. She maybe felt like she was down on the cards and really needed to win that third round. Jinu Fry was very technical, listened to her corner, but just didn't take it to that next level and she needed to.

And Demopoulos tried to take it to that next level. So to me, I don't think it's a robbery. The 3027 card is pretty awful because I just don't see a world where DiMopos won that first round. I just don't see a world. I will say. I think Umar only not getting a 10-8 on one of the Georgia judges' scorecards is worse. Yeah. I try to say that on the post-fight show and everyone's like, well, it doesn't really matter because the right guy won.

I'm like, yeah, it doesn't matter. Come on. It's still a bad card. Yeah, we'll just say. It's just the one score card. We'll just say. There should have been at least one 10-8 in there. Let Umar take solace.

He got a 10-8 on every card. His picks, Durdon versus Molina, Batista versus Morsoff. Love that fight. Nerden Biaka versus Xiangwu-Coy. Carlos Ulberg versus Ed Herman. I saw a lot of that. That was the unanimous. I mean, there's other picks for...

I don't mind that one. I like it because I like the optics of it. And this is not to say Ed Herman is not an attractive man. But he's, you know, he's a grizzled veteran. I like the idea of the up-and-coming pretty boy, Carlos Olbe. And the grizzled just get get her done. UFC veteran at Herman. I like how people will kind of see them on a scale and be like, oh, this, you know, this

Carlos Alberg is going to kill Ed Herman, you know, if you'd never see another guy fight before. But it's like, listen, Ed Herman, Ed Herman does not go down easy. I don't care who he's fighting. He's going to give someone a scrap. And that would be a huge test for Carlos Olberg. Huge, huge, huge test. So I like it.

I'm glad everyone. That's kind of, you know what? So listeners, I'm sorry. I cropped on everyone, but that one kind of won me back over. I'm glad everyone seems to be down with Ulberg and Herman. That's a good one. He likes Rachmana versus Kiesa, aka I think maybe this will sweeten you up a little bit for you make your picks.

He likes Normaga Madov versus the Normaga made of Silva de Androge winner because there could only be one. Saeed is not related as not actually related to Habib, right? Right. But they are like, aren't they still associated with each other? I don't know. Are they not? I don't know.

I thought they were at least still friends or trained. I don't. It's hard to say. Yeah, but yeah, he's the one who is very confusing. I think like when he would debut, there was a lot of like, oh, he's another cousin of Habib. And I think it had to be clarified that like he's maybe like cousin in the sense that like you and I are cousins.

Like, you know, one day when we meet up, I'd be like, what's up, Cus? I think like that, like in that sense, they're cousins. I don't think they're blood. But I do think they're associated. But I get it. I get the joke. Nomergamma, no merga, I know. Yeah.

Jared Biyagan. He likes Saurukian versus Marco Madsen. This will shore up Armand's wrestling, give Matt to shot at the rankings. I like the matchup. I don't necessarily agree with the shoring up of Armand's wrestling, because Armand's wrestling doesn't need a whole bunch of shoring up. Gamrod, I mean, Gamrod got better in the fourth and fifth round, that's for sure. Maybe the gas tank needs more shoring up than Armand's wrestling.

Because I thought Armand's wrestling was great, especially on the defensive side of things. But it would be an interesting matchup. I don't I actually don't mind that one I actually don't mind it uh if we're gonna give it marks good I would feel it's a somewhat step back for Armand if we're being honest but if they go that route I wouldn't hate it at all so not a bad suggestion and the other thing I'll say about Camrod is you have to keep in mind he's older and like in a good way sometimes we call it say someone's older in combat sports and we we say it in like a uh you know like it's detracting from what they can do but 31 years old Matisse's Garminra is a man

He is a man. He has man strength, great jujitsu, and a man, man conditioning, a man gas tank. And I think, like, Surika is just not quite there yet. He's only 25 years old. Yeah. He's only 25. He's one of those guys who I bet a year from now will hear, like, oh, I got my, I wasn't eating right. Like, I didn't get my diet right until now.

And I just started, like, doing this certain exercise and training in this way. Because he's a really gifted guy. I just, like, naturally gifted. And I'm sure a hard worker. But, again, he's 25 years old. He's nowhere near a finished product yet. And any questions about him, like, slowing down a five-round fight? Again, wait for him a year from now, 18 months from now.

And I think he'll shock us with, like, holy crap, he'll go like a hard five rounds, just be this relentless guy. I think it's entirely possible. So, yeah, you saw the difference, you know, in experience. And I talked about this in the preview show, right? What was the biggest factor? And I mentioned experience was huge. And not just, like, age, but, like, meaningful in cage experience.

And I think we saw how much of that paid off for Gamrod. Because, yeah, listen, this was a man fighting a, 25-year-old prospect and wait till Sarukian becomes like a man-man and then we'll again we'll still be talking about him as you know a guy who could win a world title someday

shout out to Paul Felder I thought he did a fantastic job color in the color commentary seed for that main event I thought he did a fantastic job just kind of warning people of what could happen especially on Sirukian just loading up on all those kicks that he was dead on with

the way he viewed it so well done Gerard also likes Rachmano Ficentee Luka winner lose against Jeff Diel Neil Magny versus Sean Brady I'm not gonna we've talked about this before it's not I'm not gonna say this is DUDU but they do have a relationship

they do train together quite often they're not like teammates but they they are tight so not a DUDU pick but just for future if it comes up again I've said this a few times now so we'll let this one slide and being lenient

Josh Parisian Rodrigo Nassimento A.K. How about that. There we go. Who was this? Who was this? Gerard Bioggan. Gerard, if you're other, can you DM, Mike, and tell me what you were thinking so I can try to remember what I was thinking with that matchup, because I honestly don't know how I land on that. Tiago boys is Claudio Pueyes, good fight. Umar and Amaga made of Chris Gutierrez, Chris Curtis versus the middleweight, middle, middleweight, middleweight champion of the world, Christoff Jocko. I knew that was coming. I knew that was coming. Carlos Ulberg versus Alexa Kamer. Yeah. I mind that. Shilin versus Camuel

Kirk Morozov versus Kyler Phillips Mario Batista John Castaneda that's a banger Cody Durden versus Tatsuro Tyra I like that fight as well throw him in there with another killer yeah two fights at your Makaya I know right you get to fight in three fights the two brightest prospects in this division Drew Hilty sorry about the arm sorry about the arm on loss he looked great in the other in there other than the five times you got the fence so apologizing for the arm on loss I have no emotional attachment to it I was just very I just touted a guy very highly. Come on. Gamrod versus Benny, since it seems like Oli versus Islam is being made and Gaichi is going to avoid this matchup like the plague, Surukian versus Gillespie.

I would love to see that fight. That was the fight the UFC wanted originally for this card, and Gillespie said, nope, and we got this fight instead, which I'm okay with. Hated the callout of Wonderboy. No one wants to see that, but I like Shafkat versus Bilal. Boise's Selecki's great. Umar versus La Mangosta aka Victor Henry. Love that fight. Curtis versus the Tavares DDP winner.

It would have to be DDP because Tavares trains with Curtis. Wildcard, Magny versus D-Rod. Good fight. Like that idea. Yes, good for both guys. Tony Ferguson, or I'm sorry, Turd Ferguson, which, oddly enough,

goes with Matush Gamrodot versus Tony Ferguson. Okay. Shafcott Rockbada versus Jorge Mazdal or Stephen Thomas. Thompson. Sorry, I don't like either of those. Not doo-doo picks. I just don't like either of them. And neither of them are taking that fight. Josh Peresian versus Paco Pau-Coh-a. They already fought. Dudo. Tiago Boys is versus the winner of Diyadh. I think that was another one. Yeah, yeah, that's one of the ones that. Yeah. Teaga Boys is versus the winner of Diego Faheda, Dracar close. Umarna Maghamauga made up versus Javieral, Sunsau. Chris Curtis versus Edmund Schabazzian.

Ulberg versus Prakneo. Nerjan Biyaka versus Kirk. Another one. Maraza, versus Barcelos, Durden versus Francisco Figuero. Francisco has a fight coming up, I believe. He is booked. That is doo-do. That is DUDU. He is fighting Amir Al-Bazi, U.S. 278, August 20th. Come on. Mario Batista

versus Hanyaya. That's assuming that this Cody Garbrand fight doesn't happen. He's got like a neck thing, right? Oh, but they said that they said it's not serious, sir. They think he'll be back. Like, they think he'll be, from what I understood, he was basically like you have to sit out for a month.

And then you can start training again. That's an old man injury. That's it's that's. What do you think of this matchup, okay? Vanessa Demopoulos versus Angela Hill. Wow. You know what? I mean, Angela, Angela Hill hasn't lost a split decision in a while, right?

So it feels like that would be perfect for her. I actually don't. That's a thinker. Straw weight is not a bad division, but it is thin as far as how many people are in it. By my count, there's 40 something contracted fighters, and my list is pretty informal. There could be people who have been released, or there could even be names that are, sorry, should be, that I haven't signed, that I haven't fought yet. But it's definitely around 40. So, yeah, if you've won, was that two fights in a row now for demo?

Yeah, if you won two fights in a row, she's in my top 25 in the UFC now. I mean, it sounds kind of crazy to say she's a top 25 UFC fighter, but she is at Strawwood anyway. I guess you kind of could make that happen. And if you're Angela Hill, that'd be a great fight to take. I'm a big fan of Vanessa Mopoulos. Again, I like that kind of what you said earlier. She's in there to win fights. You know, she's in there to win fights.

Maybe Gen U. Frye was the more skilled fighter on Saturday. But Vanessa Mopoulos knows what the judges want to see. She can she's a convincing fighter, if not the most skilled fighter yet at the stage of her career. So maybe, maybe it is, maybe you can't throw her in there with Angela Hill. I don't hate it. That's very, who was this again? This was turd Ferguson. Turd, just a great name.

Territ Ferguson, I like it. Yes, and plus Vanessa Mopoulos currently is the best gimmick in MFA. The only one who could, the only one who could surpass it is if Josh Boregian jumped into the arms of Michael Bisbing, that would have been the best. and I would give him two bonuses if he did that. Did you see what she said about jumping into Bisping's arms after the show? No. And the postman. Okay.

So obviously there's some fun questions asked in her scrum. Someone at one person asked, uh, who was the better sort of hugger or catch her hugger? She said Joe Rogan easily. Mainly because Abisping did not actually really catch her that much. He kind of had like one arm out. He didn't really, he's straight. Maybe he's not a hugger. So he didn't really catch her.

She kind of had to hold herself up by almost by one arm around his. like shoulders and neck and someone said like oh that you know they credited it to her she she has done pole dancing before and so it was essentially like she essentially used she made michael bisming the pole is what i'm saying and had to use her own upper body strength and balance to hold herself up so she didn't fall and she could do her kind of post fight her now signature post fight victory pose so i'm trying to think who else i mean cormay has got to get it someday i think that'd be so much fun. He would catch her.

Oh, God, yeah. Yeah, he would catch her. He'd do a great job of it. Does anyone else? Paul Felder, I think. I don't know. I wonder how Paul Felder would have handled it. Is that it?

Is that all for people who do the post-fight interviews? Yeah. Oh, Annaic. Anik, does Anna? Very rarely. Okay. That would be. He's probably done doing post-fight interviews.

But I think he could, though. He got that he could. I think he could do it. And someday, God willing, Laura Sanko, I would love to see Vanessa. Pnemophilus jumped in the arms of Loisanko. I would be so funny. Yeah, that's so, it's a great gimmick.

It's, man, it's good. That's a smart gimmick. Yeah, I love it. J.D. Felt, Parisian versus whatever tattoo artist spilled ink on his back. That's funny. Nirmagamatov versus Frankie Edgar. Sorry, A.K., happy birthday. Canadian Bryant.

So who was that? Who versus Edgar? Nirmagamatov. Yeah, listen. And who said this? J.D. Felt. I got this from, Sean Haywood as well on Twitter.

That's a doo-do pick. Not because it breaks any rules, just because it breaks my heart. I love Frank Yeager. I want to say, and he'd be competitive against anyone, but Umar and Rema Medov at this stage of their careers would

F him up really badly. I do not need to see this in my lifetime. We go to, let's go to Canada, AKA Canadian Bryant's. Good morning, Mike and AK, no intro today, straight to it. Wild card pick,

Hadoe, Vietta. is Gerald Mearschart, whether he wins or loses against Bruno Silva. I like that idea. Love it. Chris Curtis versus Joachim Buckley, Umar Namagamatov versus anybody who loses their opponent and all these booked upcoming Banimate fights. I like that idea. And if you're Umar, you keep your phone near you.

Because if something happens and you get the chance to slide in there, you slide your happy ass in there and do it quickly because there's a lot of people in this division who are vying for that spot. Josh Parisian versus Jake Collier This might be the actual best pick for Josh Peresian. I love that fight. Rachmanor versus Blal Mohammed. Don't need to see Wonderboy get grappled to death again.

Gamrod versus the winner of RDA versus Raphael Fizu. Raffailles excuse me, yes, I said winner because I think whoever wins that fight will more than likely fight back in the rankings. Sure. Chris London, Otno 57. He gives us a title Hardcores Delight. It was indeed.

Gamrod versus Daryush. Sarukion versus Dan Hooker, A.K. Yeah, I could see it. I could see it. Again, it's sort of, sort of the same logic I have for Rob Font versus Umar is like, if you're a hooker, you, you want fights that are going to, you know, against good names that are going to keep you in there. Because he's fallen out of there. He's fallen out of there.

I know he'd love to fight up for sure. But at some point, you are going to have to take these tough fights. And again, if you are the guy who puts a dent in someone's record, like an Umar or like a Surukyan, um, I'm sorry, that was Surukyan, right? Surrogyan hooker, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. in this case it would be another dent. It's good for you. It's good for you.

If you're hooker, again, yeah, you can't really pick and choose at this point. So I think I saw someone in my picks as well with that. And I'm, I'm into it. I'm going to keep this going positive because it's going to, we're about to take a downward turn, A.K. Oh, no. Let's take it down or return. He likes Rachmana versus Brady Orbelal. Umar versus the winner of Jack Shore, Ricky Simone.

Carlos Olberg versus Iwan Kutalaba. That's interesting. Don't really love that right now. but because wrestling, if we get wrestler, Iwan Kutalava, that's a rough night for Carlos Holberg. But I like where you're coming from. You want to see chaos and I get that. He likes Curtis versus Buckley sounds good too.

This is where we fall off the cliff, AK. This is where we fall off the cliff. I can actually hear the whistling sound of these picks falling to the ground. Dust is about to fly up after a faded little thump. Josh Parisian versus Eichville and Oweva. We get two, I mean, that's two categories of doo-doo in one. Because not only is Ikeville in a wave and not on the roster, he's on a freaking heavyweight.

He's a light heavyweight. Preachian would outweigh him by 70 pounds. That's great. I love you, buddy, but this is just not a good big. Has Ike not fought at, did he not fight once at heavyweight in the UFC? Maybe he shot, like, his short notice debut when he took on like a week notice is like the first pandemic fight against. Chase Sherman. Chase Sherman.

Okay, he's not heavyweight. And we realized immediately once that fight began that he should never fight in heavyweight again in the UFC because he was just outsized and it was just such a huge difference. That's kind of do-do-ish, but this. That's bad. How about this one, AK? Oh, God.

Tiago Moises versus Joel Alvarez. What? Which is literally the fucking for this one. People, what are you doing? What are you doing? I understand people who like, okay, they can't be bothered to go to Tapology or a sure dog to look for like upcoming fights. Fine.

Okay. Whatever. Wikipedia. The man has a Wikipedia entry. It's right there. It's right there. You probably heard it on the broadcast. He's coming off a loss to Joel Alvarez.

What is that? Mike, what's happened? Is it, again, is it our fault? Is it, did we do this? I don't know. I don't know. Listen, I just want to say this. We, we might be.

We might not be mad. We might be disappointed. But we do this out of love. Just like when we say something on the preview show or the post-fight show and you don't agree, you and your whole and your, your buddies, you'll jump on Twitter and you'll, and you'll shove it back in our faces. We say this out of love. If you, if you sat at a, if you met us at a bar somewhere and you sat down and you said, these are my picks, I would say the same thing to you. Like if you were my best friend, like if AK said that to me, I would say, AK, this is, this is a, this is a. triple scoop do-do Sunday with hot fudge whipped cream and a cherry and chocolate

sprinkles on top. I mean, this is just, it looks good, but it already happened and it tasted like crap then. It tastes way worse now because we just saw it and Alvarez destroyed Tiago Moises. So can we start like penal, can we start suspending people like a week? It's offensive. This week was offensive. We get a few every now and then. This week, I'm not even done. Wait do you see. I got I got more. Now, now, now listen, if If you feel like, if you're trying to at least get going here, do what Adam Marvin did. A preface. Hey, Mike, I've given some picks a couple times now.

Just wanted to say that I love the show. I listen every week. You and AK do a great job. I'm a bit of an MMA newbie, so I'm still trying to improve my picks. Hopefully, they aren't too do-do. He's going with Rachmana versus Wonderboy. Fine. Curtis versus Haas.

Fine. then he goes with boys No, not fine No, no, whoa, whoa, whoa, quote, whoa, Curtis versus Haas is not fine. I just fought. I had that. I had that price. I'm Du-Vos. I'm doing for not remembering. Sorry, I'm just for not, sorry, Adam, sorry, Mike, you are not, you are not. Sorry, Mike, you are not, you are not. This is what, Sorry, he's one, sorry, two fights removed from Phil Hosper.

And he knocked him out for God. I'm sorry, Mike, keep calling. Go on. I'm sorry. Moises versus Boycano. I believe they're both teammates, so that doesn't really work. But again, ATT is a huge gym. teammates can fight each other.

And you're new. And he asks a question, A.K., he ends it with a question. I'll throw this to you. I also, he is a fellow Canadian. I also wanted to ask, as a Canadian, myself, looking for a fellow countryman or woman to cheer for, who do you think has the most potential? to make a good run out of the UFC fighters from Maple Country. I like Gavin Tucker.

I still like Jasmine's De Bezias. I know she got, like, housed in her last fight, but I think that says more about her opponent than her. Boy, if we're just talking about the UFC? You know what? Go with the, who's the guy in the PFL who just stole a fight from Clay Collar? Martinez. Alexander Martinez.

He represents multiple countries, and I believe Canada is one of them. So let's get behind Alex Martinez here. I believe that he has. Yes, he does also represent Canada. So he's a man of many nations. He's from Paraguay, but he's a man of many nations. So there you go. That's my guy.

No, no, Gavin Tucker, Jasmine Zadbizius. And yeah, hey, what the hell, Alexander Martinez. He got away with one in your most recent fight, but you're also two wins away from a million dollars. So that's a lot of, that's like 13 million Canadians. So he'll be a rich man when he comes home. And the prohibition will never let you forget it either. because Don Davis is doing media round saying,

we're transparent. This guy lost. That was awkward. That was so awkward. We end with Marcus, who has his little graph here. Let's see if we have anything new. I'll pull it up too. Josh Parisian, Tanner Bozer,

Umar versus Kyler Phillips. I do like that fight. Chris Curtis versus the Tavares duplice winner. Probably have to be Drichus for that to happen. He likes Oldberg versus Grishin. Yeah. I like this idea a lot. Tiago Moises versus Guram Kutatalata.

Oh, yeah. That's a great fight. Great pick. Marcus, you've been killing it lately. And then he just gave us one Bellator pick, which is the only pick, to be honest with you. Brennan Ward versus Sabahamasi, you have to make that fight. I'm with you. I tweeted on Friday.

Sabahamasi is right near the top of my list of fighters who are like, if someone, you know, someone said, I'm going to give you $5 million to take like one clean shot from this guy, like hands down, chin out. I would not take it. he like you know francin can do is on that list just in gaecchi like guys like that i put saba homasi up there when he lands a clean shot it is like one of the scariest things people watch if you didn't see it watch his knockout that he got on friday it was ridiculous yeah he just he just he just he likes say a lot he is the definition of get or get god oh and when he gets he gets a lot so go ahead my best friend on to you i am so too upset no it's too late i'm so salty i'm gonna

run through these as quickly as I can. First off, consensus picks. You know, it's funny. I didn't really see a big consensus for Gamrod. I saw Dariush. I saw some people say RDA Fazeve winner, and I saw people say, G.

So it's kind of, oh, and Izmugulov was up there, too. So usually there's, like, one pick that jumps out for a main event winner. This was, like, all over the place. So kind of a good thing, I guess. It means Gamrod has options, but also kind of bad because it makes me think he's not going to get one of the sort of the big fights he's angling for because the matchmakers are also aware that there's a lot

options for him. So Rukkiyam versus Gilles. yeah, it was really popular. I want to read what Four Corner Sports NY said. He said, maybe this will be the time Gillespie accepts a fight with Arma instead of ahead of him in the rankings. This man is going to need to take a fight.

If not, the UFC should give Gillespie a pink slip and he can fight for Belator, or as Jedmishu says, a promotion that nobody watches because they do a terrible job marketing their own fighters. So, Belator catching a stray there. Not sure if that's appropriate. it. Rahmanab, Keiza was popular, as was Wonderboy, and Bala Muhammad.

Hazemithird has this to say about the Muhammad matchup. He said, dude still looks like a Terminator and they can't let my boy Wonderboy fight him. I think it'll be tough to get people to fight down and face him. Lukia Burns would make sense if they didn't train at Stanford 2. This could be outside the box, but have him and Balal fight, have it be a five-rounder. And put it, this is not going to have. Put it in writing, Balal gets a title fight if he wins. Yeah, okay.

Depending how the division looks, Shavcott could probably be in the position for a telefight if he wins as well. Yeah, I mean, Shavkat would be, Muhammad. They're never going to promise him anything. Yes, the Phrysian versus Vandera-Scherman winner, as we said, kind of just recently reported on flight night. So, and a lot of people were quick to jump on that one. A lot of people with me on Curtis versus either Hall and Muniz, so I'm down with that. And Cody Darden versus C.G. Vergara was a surprise and popular. All right. Individual messages here. Let me read one from Christian, a first timer on Instagram. He didn't want to issue picks yet. He doesn't want them to be do-do, a smart man. But I did want to shout him out. It is his first time commenting. And Christian, I will read your comments out next. Read your picks next time. I'll count that as your first time. He just said he wants to see the U.C. make Tony Ferguson versus Nate Diaz before we lose out on that fight. So that was how he introduced himself. Okay. And congrats Christian on your draft kings wins.

Tom Futcher, a first-timer. Big love from the UK for Mike and myself. One pick. Shavcott versus Leon Edwards when Uzman trucks him. So there you go, Mike. This guy is kind of with you. That's the one. That's going to happen, folks.

Well done, Tom. You know what? Friends forever, you and Tom Futcher apparently. So there you go. I like it. M. Mayhead's always sending in a ton of picks. Yeah, Moises versus Guital. Lotset.

That's money. Alberg versus Nagu Mariano Potaria winner, UFC 277 July 30th. I'm going to have to get that Potaria pronunciation down by then. Demopoulos versus Brianna Fortino. Yeah, whenever Fortino is ready to fight again, she's had a couple of cancellations. And, you know, still coming back from her, it will be her first fight since giving birth. So that's hopefully we see that soon. Let me go to the email.

Mike Rappalachian Gordet. Hey. Hey, let me read. You know what? You know what? He's been a good, he's a good dude, as always. But I think he's been particularly good lately. So I was going to read all this stuff.

Gamrod versus Izma Gulov. I know Gamonaut should fight someone up the rankings. But I feel Izma Gulab is unofficially already a ranked fighter because of how highly skilled he is. So the same goes for Guruam Kotadlazze. And he wants to see Kutadlazai fights Sarukia. Chris Curtis versus Anthony Hernandez. He had Hernandez facing Chita in Jaquani, but it looks like, as we mentioned before,

Cheetah is facing Gregor Rodriguez. So good call from Mike. And good call for you, Mike. I'm predicting that fight last week on Nottoe. So there you go. You get Not No Point and you're getting your kudos from Tristan Gordette. Wow. What a day.

What a weekend. It's the best day ever. Best day ever. And he also mentions Mario Batista versus Javid Basharach. And another email from, again, our pal, Casey Carpenter. It's a lovely, great work this week. Love Mike's Daily show. Hopefully one day, I can take the off work and call in.

So Casey's always listening, Mike. They just haven't had the chance to call in. And they like Batista versus Montel Jackson. Where's Montel Jackson? I don't know. He was scheduled to fight not long ago and he had to pull out, I think. Montel is just that is what has just really slowed him down is just a lack of activity. He just gets a fight on the books.

It just kind of, it's like one of those things that just we don't find out about it until like two weeks before when they just flash a graphic on the screen. And then for some one reason or another, you just can't get there. It stinks. And at Bantamweight, when you don't fight, like, you just drop. You just, you don't even lose. Just by inactivity, you're dropping. Like, guys, just jumping over you. So it's tough.

I love this one. Morozov versus Tony Gravely. I don't know why I didn't think of that. I think that's a great matchup. And Casey just says, screw it. Rockmanov versus Jemaya, make it happen now. I sincerely doubt that happens. But I do love the idea.

And Magni versus Michelle Pereira. So there you go. And let's finish with our Twitter, our Twitter pals here. again, there's a lot, so I'm not going to read all these out, guys. I apologize. Chris at Dragon Slayer 2, like Chris Curtis, was Roman DeLite, sure. Braden O'Neill, Chris Curtis versus Chris Wydenman, Mike, comeback fight. Do you think the timeline, we don't know when Wyman's coming back.

If Chris Curtis can wait, do you think that's the right matchup, Chris on Chris? Wow. It could be a while, though. He might not fight this year. Like, I don't think Wydenman's coming back. I think he will. I mean, he seems to think he's gone, so. Listen, if Wyman fights, if Wyman comes back in like October, November-ish, maybe.

But listen, even if Chris fights Imovov, even if Curtis fights Imovov, he could still fight Wyman after that. And he would. Yeah, he would step in on a week's notice and fight him. He's madman. Mirazov versus John Castaneda and Mario Batista versus Cody's statement. Chris Martin, some good picks here, but I'll call it. the Duda won first. Friesian versus Justin Tafa, Dantel, Mays, loser.

Precian and Mays just fought. They just fought. What are we doing as a society? What are we doing? We live in this society. He fought him two December. No, last December. I'm sorry.

This was six months ago. What are we doing? Chris Martin. Come on, man. I'll read it. Moises versus. Diego Faheda, drug cart close winner, USC 27, fine. Norton B.J.A. I'm so demoralized.

Norton Bekei versus Tucker Lutz. Domopoulos versus Canejo, sure. James McDonnell, I won't say it again. He's also the one who I was told brought up Curtis and Hodge. So James McDonald, for God's sakes. Umar versus Chris Gutierrez, Moises versus Umu Gulov. Sean Haywood. I shouldn't even read it because he also threw out the Nirmamata.

Edgar fight earlier. Demopoulos versus Kanaka Marata I like that Durden versus Jake Hadley Shore Morozov versus Halfa Ellis and Sal Boy, what a tough fight for Halfa Lesson Sal that would be

And it's with me on Parisian And Rodrigo Nassimento Four Corner Sports NY Magni versus Randy Brown Has it never been booked? I don't think so Man that seems like

I can't believe that hasn't been booked before I like it And Morazov versus the Simone Shore winner Hayes B'3rd Oh I wanted to read this Gamrod versus Dosanos if he loses to Fizziv. Why did I say I want to read this?

We were really cursed just to have controversial made events or title fights as of recent, it seems. Good thing we don't have a title fight next week with a matchup where controversial scoring has happened before. You know, listen, I just hope we don't have to see another Wokanovski-Hawlovy fight. I thought, even though they've been great. I thought Aramun won it, but it was definitely close and fun fight to watch. As for Gammon's next fight, I respect that Justin Gavis' game. you call out but there are other fights I like for Justin for Justin excuse me like Max at 1 to 5 which has to happen so I'll go with the with Gamrod versus Dosanos if he

loses too busy haze also Magny versus Holland Moise versus Madsen Durden versus Zimugula some other good picks Stephen Brighter what's jumping out of here gamrod versus Ferguson so there's another one another vote for that uh Moises versus redell Turner loser sure dachs at pike putt Bautisa versus Gutierrez Has that? They're not friends or anything right Who's this? Bautisa versus Gutierrez

Why did this sound so familiar to me? Or strange to me Maybe it's just been suggested on the show a lot Yeah, MMA Lab versus Factory X Oh are they both Factory X guys? No Batista's MMALah

They're not there oh you're checking to see Yeah, yeah yeah You're trying to see you Yeah Okay I think it's just been recommended The show before that's why I'm so Well, so good pick, Hayes. Yeah, I do think we see.

I actually think we do see that one someday. Francesca, or pal from Italy. Friesian versus Jay Collier, sure. Moises versus Pius. You mentioned that one earlier. I really like it. And Curtis versus Brunson also mentioned before. But that'd be a big, big fight for Chris Curtis if you get that one.

Emilio, DiMopolis versus Carolina Kovilkevich. Wow. That's a good one. If we're saying Angela Hill is an appropriate fight, Kovil Kavich might be there too. And Kovovic is definitely not picking fights at the stage of a career. I mean, she just snapped, what, a five-fight four-year losing streak. That might be actually the perfect pick for Demopolis.

I love it. Emilio, well done. I hope you get a solo point for that. I hope that fight does happen. Morozov versus the DeAndroche, Seidna, Nermanamaamauga-L-Loseer. Nerden Beke versus Al-Gio-Coron-Tillow winner, UFC, ABC3, July 16th. Oh, this is too much. Ulberg versus OSP.

Ulberg probably annihilates him at this point, right? Yeah, I don't love it. Okay. I don't love, like, there's ways Oldberg can win that fight, but I mean, every time, every time OSP becomes a litmus test for a guy like Oldberg, it never turns out well. For the, for the guy being tested? Yes. OSP always seems to come through with big, just some sort of dominant win or like a vicious knockout.

Yeah. I just think that's too much too soon. I think we got to give Oldberg just these are the kinds of fights. Like what we saw, the Enchukwees, the, I mean, if William Knight wants to go back to 205, like, that's fine. Sure. I like that. Something like that. Like, Kamer's not a bad one.

Like, we want to build, like, we know what the UFC is trying to do here. They can, Oberg can become a star. I mean, the guy's first team all handsome. The dude can scrap. He's an exciting. fights and when he actually pulls the trigger he's real fun to watch and that we got to see that last night so yeah don't go crazy don't don't don't go crazy no ewan no kutalaba no osp nobody like in the top 25 we got to we got to think like baby steps baby steps one of all

birth nicknames is ladies night i had not heard this before i didn't either until he is he has announced as black he has announced as black jag but apparently he has gone by ladies night in the past for you know what guys see check out the story at mate fighting.com all right it'll be up by the time you listen to this probably he explained it at the post write first cover doesn't surprise me that's a nickname there's so many reasons why uh it's it's it's fairly harmless but um what i wish that was my nickname uh marcus mcgey rakmana versus uh michel perera nerden becki versus i pronounce nor by the way i pronounce uh norton becki's name about 11 different ways on the show Jamal Emmer's so I apologize to

Mr. Nundbeki and Chukwe versus Kramer ain't no expert one of the Bobby Green Moises fight didn't mention it as a rematch I'm just furious at everyone at this point Curtis versus Petrosky no Petrosky's way behind him at this point

gosh darned you know what his name is ain't no expert so I don't even know why I'm getting upset okay and I'll end with two two guys who I didn't have a chance to our regular ought no pickers who I didn't have the chance to look at their DMs ahead of time but they're always writing well thought out suggestions so this week I will give them a little extra time and just because they explain things so for

thomas Collins uh what's a good one to read out here Curtis Chris Curtis versus Darren Till Jack Hermanson loser sure I'd have to see how the time lined up and Thomas says I think this would be a fun fight we'll give an opportunity for Chris to get his deserve stuff up and a shot at a ranked opponent uh Gamrod versus Fiziv does annuals loser what a fight but gamut's probably another fight away from fighting gaichi and really the winner of Fizzi versus Dos Angeles should get him. The loser of the upcoming main event would be a good test. So thank you, Thomas, for always writing this out.

And lastly, Barry O'Reilly, our man in Ireland. Vanessa Domoblis versus Marie Oliveira. Two fun fighters scoring off against each other, interested to see Oliveras pressure against Vanessa's power and takedowns. Durdon versus Jake Hadley. Hadley lost the debut, but Shots and Promising Science. Was a talent in Cage Warriors, could do this in England and give Durden a chance to get a win back against a hometown favorite in England.

Norton BK. versus Lucas Almeida. Shai Lahn is jacked. Fun fight versus the Impresselameda. Winner gets a big step up next fight. Oh, Olberg. All right. Olberg versus...

These two aren't fight. No, they're not fighting, but okay. Normally I don't read this fight. Olberg versus Luke Rockhold slash Khalil Roundtree. Oldberg versus Rockhold to be for the other BMF belt, the beautiful MFer belt. We would all be winners if this fight was made. As it won't be a fun fight.

It will be Oldberg versus Roundtree, as it will be a stand. up fight for some great striking and kicking. And the last one I'll read from them is that Umar versus Marab DeVos Field 8 or Raniyaya. I've been calling for the Marab fight since day one-ish. So if the Aldo fight isn't made, then make Umar versus Mara. If the Aldo fight is made, I wouldn't be mad.

Umar versus Raniyaya might pose a bit more of a threat than made this in the ground and is still a step up. And he also likes Garamara versus Gaghi. So there you go. Someone's supporting that. So that's it, guys. Thank you, everyone. We got a lot of picks, a lot of terrible picks.

You better I almost don't want to read out my information Because I'm so mad and I don't want any more Punish him, but no no At Alexander Kaley on Twitter At Alexander KK Lee on Instagram Alex dot Lee at SB Nation.com Guys, stop feeling our inbox with doo-doo

Stop lighting, stop crafting that Stop crapping in that paper bag and lighting it on fire And putting it on our doorstep It's not funny It's not funny I love this Wow. I mean, we can do better. Consider this.

Consider this your, you call yourself Armand Sarukian. You're only going to get better from this. They're lucky we're live next week. So we're probably going to be betting these. There'll probably be some doo-do picks next week too. But I'm already fired up. My do-do radar will be on point. I'm going to call people out live on YouTube if it has to be done.

Okay. Next week will be interesting because I'd know. know what's going to happen we're going to do show is it going to be live hopefully is there a chance it might not be live baby i don't know they better hope it's not yeah we i'm going to be i'm going to be in i'm going to be in vagus coming off of that event first time yes first time is virgin guys mike's a vagus virgin yes so this is my first time being there i've no idea how i'm going to feel after this event uh i have no idea when the show will start i have no clue we will figure it out and we will let you know. I might have do it solo. We don't know what condition you'll be in after Saturday

night. That's true. So we will let you know. I did do it in Jacksonville. We had to record it on the podcast network because I had to drive home. The good news for this particular show is that the only flight that wouldn't have cost my company an extra like $1,500 to take the day before 4th of July was to take a red eye Sunday night. So my flight out of Vegas Sunday night is that just before midnight heading into Monday. So technically on the East Coast, when I am in the air, you'll be sleeping like babies. And then I land on the East Coast back home at like 1 p.m. Eastern on Monday. So I will be, I will be spending a full day in Vegas extra, essentially. So we will get the show done. It's happening. We'll figure out how to do it.

We'll make it work somehow. Yes. What's your game, Mike? Like, what's your game? for blackjack blackjack poker I'm very good I've had great luck with blackjack when I'm covering fights and I go early I like poker the best because you have essentially

some control over what happens in some way I mean when you're playing cash games with these people who just have all the money in the world they don't care and they'll just bet on everything and it drives you insane but I've learned that

and poker to me when I played a casino, it's super boring because you have to just sit, like I play super tight at casinos in cash games because you have to wait for something big to happen. You have to wait for a big hand because you know you're going to get two or three idiots who are just going to come along for the ride

and put all their money in on caca. So yeah, we'll see what happens. I don't know how much time I'm going to have to play games because it's going to be crazy. When I tell you, I sit on the Post-Fite show that we're going to come home from Vegas with content for months. I'm telling you we're going to be giving you content for months.

I would say between Friday and Saturday, I'm going to do 50 interviews, like 50 of them. 50. Me and a fighter or me and somebody else. I might walk out of there with 60 interviews for Fight Week. Just me and somebody else. So I don't know what's going to happen. I'm excited to find out.

And I am excited for UFC 276, because next week on the program, we're going to be discussing the aftermath of UFC 276. Here's the card as it stands right now. 13 fights. Israel Adisaniya versus Jared Kennedyar for the middleweight title. Alexander Volkovsky versus Max Holloway, three for the featherweight title.

Sean Strickland versus Alex Beheada. Pedro Munoz versus Sean O'Malley. We did lose Lauren Murphy versus Misha Tate. Yeah, I think we're down at 12 fights, actually, right? I don't think so. Wasn't that? Yeah, that would have been... No.

13. Yeah. No. Are you looking at topology? Yes. They've missed number. They don't, they didn't change their numbers when they were moving. Oh.

Ah, they got you. Ah, they tricked you. Doodoo. No, it's not your fault. No, it's not your fault. No, they're doodoo for not changing their numbers. Well, it could be 13 because here's, here's what I've learned about the situation since Saturday. There is a glimmer of hope, perhaps, that Misha Tate will still fight on this card.

But I would personally, Here's where I sit after talking to multiple people about this. Something tells me that won't happen, but maybe it will. And if not, expect to see Tate Murphy rebooked for later in July. That's what I want to see. I still want to see that fight. But not done yet. If they can find an opponent for Tate for next Saturday,

Tate will probably, would rather just stay at home and continue her way cut and just fight. rather than push it back again and push it back two weeks so close. But we'll see what happens. I would probably do the same thing if I was her. So Pedro Mooshana Melli. Brad Riddell, Jalen Turner is a banger. Robbie Lawler, Brian Barbarina, banger. Ian Gary, Gabe Green, should be fun.

Donald Soroni, Jim Miller, Uriah Hall, Andre Munez, Jessica I, Macy, Barber, Brad Tavares, Strickus Duplice. That's the second fight of the night, by the way. That's the second fight of the night. That is a co-made event on any fight night card. 100% still knocks and this is probably a main card fight on a fight night card the first fight of the night is jessica rose clark versus julius stolia renco that's just going to be a crazy

fight and i can't wait to talk about the aftermath of it with all of you who are not going to have any do-do picks next week we're going to get good rest all week long and we're going to come back with a do-do free edition of on to the next one and always remember the golden rule don't take this stuff too seriously mma is supposed to be fun and we will have lots of fun following ufc 276 right here on on to next one, the podcast. You're listening to the Vox Media Podcast Network.