MMA Fighting - On To the Next One | Matches To Make After UFC Vegas 70

Episode Date: February 26, 2023

Brendan Allen silenced the critics and busted a bunch of parlays when he submitted the surging Andre Muniz in, what became, the main event of UFC Vegas 70 this past Saturday at the APEX. With the middleweight division in an interesting spot, what makes sense for Allen's next fight following the biggest win of his career? On an all-new edition of On To the Next One, MMA Fighting's Mike Heck and Alexander K. Lee attempt to answer that question from a matchmaking perspective. Additionally, future matchups are discussed for Tatiana Suarez following her successful return to the octagon in submitting Montana De La Rosa, Augusto Sakai after his victory over Don'Tale Mayes, along with fellow victors Mike Mallott, Jordan Leavitt, 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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Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, children of all ages, it is officially, UFC 285 Fight Week. It is officially the countdown to, in my opinion, the most in charge. Intriguing fight on the books in mixed martial arts right now in 2023 for the vacant heavyweight title, the return of John Jones versus Cyril Gone. As you record this, we are six days away from that fight. But before we can turn that page, we have to put a bow on UFC Vegas 70 from a matchmaking perspective, a wacky fight card that lost its main event just a couple of hours before it began.

But in its place, we got ourselves a title fight. Brennan Allen stops Andre Munez, submits him in the third round, and the middleweightiest middleweight title is evolving at a pace that has surpassed my wildest imaginations. But thank you for joining us. I am Mike Heck and joining me as always, the facemaking co-host, the co-matchmaker, the Prince of Positivity, and he's my best friend, not yours, Mr. Alexander. Kaylee, hello AK.

Hello, my best friend. Yeah, we're looking forward to 285. I will say it's a little crazy. As we record this, we're hours away, we're hours away from Jake Paul, Tommy Fury, supposedly happening. By the time people hear this,

I don't know, maybe it has already happened, or, you know, heaven forbid, was canceled again. But if you had told me that Fury, that Jake Paul and Tommy Fury and John Jones and Cyril Gunn

would go through without a hitch in the same week, I would not have believed you. I would have thought, one of these fights would have fallen through somehow. Again, we still have plenty of time before 285. Fingers crossed, knock on wood, whatever all stuff you guys want to do, whatever superstition you people have to prevent misfortune.

I say, please do it because, again, listen, I don't like John Jones personally, but I'm very excited, of course, to see him fight again. And against Cito Ghan, I think it's just a great matchup. It's not the Jones and Ghanu matchup we won for so long, but it's not a bad, it's not a bad Constellation Prize. And regardless of what happens, just the storylines coming out of it are going to be compelling no matter what. I just think there's, as much as we're talking about in the lead-up, I think there's going to be so much to say about the fight after whether Gone wins, whether Joan wins, whether it's controversial, whether it's not controversial. We're going to be talking about this one probably for the rest of the year.

It's going to be a whole discussion about it. Regarding the middle-weightiest middleweight title, Mike, we have to have a discussion. It seems weird for it to be on a ranked guy. I will say, I'm going to talk about my rankings in a bit, Mike. The results of Saturday's main event actually kind of mess with my rankings in a weird way, so we'll get into that. But I do think he is, Brendan Allen will end up ranked because Moonez was. He was in our top 10.

Brennan Allen probably will have a spot by the time our next rankings update goes out. It feels weird to put on a ranked person. But like you said, it's evolving. It's evolving. But is this not a title that maybe, if you get it, like, like a top 10 ranking, you should have to vacate it, you can't be the middleweightiest middleweight champion? I don't know. What's a ruling on this? I mean, look, Brendan Allen just had the best performance of his career, and it's not a coincidence that it was his first title defense.

So maybe he just wants to keep the belt and continue to evolve. And who knows? This could be like the build to WrestleMania 6, where Brennan Allen just keeps winning and winning, and maybe he could fight Alex Pereira or Israel out of Sonia. It'd be like the ultimate war. as the Intercontinental Champion versus Hulk Hogan as the WWF champion, and then they unify into one belt. Or, you know, Brendan wins the belt. He could vacate the Middleweight title and we could start all over again. Or Brendan can just do what he wants.

He could call it a different belt, whatever. And then we can crown a new Middle-Aidious Middleweight champion. I mean, the evolution of this title, since it was introduced to the world, like two years ago when Christoph Jocko was just running things, man. Like I think Christoph Jocko is the champion Even when he was loose even when he lost fights Because he was still like the number 16 guy But this title is just taken out of life of its own

And I don't know where it's gonna go But I'm I'm buckling up And I'm taking the journey That's the that's my quibble with it Mike is It's the middleweightiest middleweight title Isn't about winning It's about being a middleweight It's about defy

Being one of middleweight So Jock you're right It's a perfect example I think at some point he did have a U of C number next to his name. He's probably somewhere in the 14-15 range, but never much higher than that. And I know he was never in our global rankings.

He was probably a FAR. He might have gotten a vote here or there. And he always sat outside that top 15, right, in that 16, 25 range. That's what a middle-wage should be. Like, this is for the, I'm looking now, the Gerald Mears shirt. Like, Gerald Mearshert, I feel like,

is the logical option to carry on the mantle. I feel like Brennan Allen should pass onto him. That's not a bad idea. They are buddies. They are buddies. I think it's a lot of to pass it on to him. I'm looking at other names in that range. Ian Heinish I think would be a strong candidate

if he can get some wins going. Not too many wins, but get a few wins going. I know this guy's getting up there and I feel like he's, people see him as a future like top 15 guy, but I feel like Kyle Barallio, if things don't go great for

him in the next, his next two or four fights, prime middleweighty, middleweight candidate. Prime candidate. But again, I don't want to. I think he's a prime candidate right now. His style is like perfect for this title. Right. Who knows? Maybe with a win in his next fight, I think he's got a pretty tough opponent.

I forget who exactly it is. Maybe he gets the Brennan Allen fight. Maybe they go to that. And you're right. See, he does. Because we talked about this. I wanted to define this on the post-fight show. So if anyone didn't, I won't go over the whole thing.

again, but for anyone who's like, what's a middleweighty middleweight? What does that mean? Like, watch our post fight for UFC Vegas 70. I kind of wanted to get into it. Kyle's fighting. Oh, tough one. Michael Olegs-Stache.

It's how these middleweights, who we know are either talent, like they're talented jujitsu guys, strikers, but they have some sort of specialty. Like, these are good talented fighters. And for some reason, at some point, their fights just become this mess. And that's very true of Kayo, who is, as far as we know,

as like a blue chip grappler, yet somehow has never really had a finish. we all thought, oh, he's definitely going to submit, like, Armand Petrosian, and it didn't go that way at all. So he would fit it. So I will say, Kaya, if you don't become a top 10 middleweight within the next, you know, 18 months, that middleweighty, middleweight title is up for grabs. I'm just, it's amazing how people have just bought into this thing, and I love it. Like, I love it. People were talking about it last day.

As soon as, and I felt bad for Nikita Krilythe and Ryan Span, who, there are reports out there. We have not confirmed this yet that they're going to rebook that for March 11. that card in Vegas, not at the apex, which would be very cool for both guys. And hopefully that is the case these guys can get right back after it. But yeah, as soon as that fight was over, everyone's like, oh, now the middle-waitiest middle-eight titles on the line in the main event. Like people are hit me up like crazy. I was like, this is awesome. This is great.

It's finally getting over. And who knows? The definition is in the eye of the beholder. It's like a robbery or pound for pound. You can determine it how you see fit. And our imaginations are just running wild. This is what Fight Island was supposed to be. And the middle-weightiest middle-way title is what Fight Island was supposed to be.

Our imagination is running wild. The excitement just continues to build up for this title and the future of this title. And so let's just get right into it and talk about the champion himself. Mr. All-in, Brendan Allen, who looked better than ever against Adjimini's. Again, coincidence? The fight after winning the middle-weight title? I think not. But this guy pretty much all of us tabbed as a future title challenger,

185 pounds, Audrey Muniz, that is. Brennan Allen just quietly flies under the radar, perhaps overlooked by the MMA community. And man, did he shut a lot of people up? I think he probably destroyed a bunch of betting parlays in the process. What a performance.

Called out pretty much the entire division, one by one after the win, but what makes sense to you, A.K., there's a very popular pick amongst the Otno listeners, but I'm curious to see where you landed. I think I'm with the majority here. I did have a chance to sort of look over some of the listener picks this week ahead of the show. So I am going to land on the Joker, Jack Hermanson. Joker coming off a loss.

I think Joker lost his last fight, if I'm not mistaken, right? Oh, no, he beats Chris. He did. He did. He beat Chris Curtis. And then he lost to, who do you lose to? He lost two. I literally was just looking at this.

Roman deletes there. That's right. Yeah, that's what I was. Kind of surprising. Kind of got upset there. So yeah, I'm okay with that. I want Brennan. So Brennan is in a weird spot for me because, so I'll talk about my rankings now.

You would think Munez was, again, tied for number seven in our rankings, the consensus rankings. It may fight in global rankings. I had Muniz at 7 as well, so I was right in line with how we ended up. I can't bump Brendan Allen that high because he has somewhat recent losses to Sean Strickland, and again, a little less recently, Chris Curtis, you know, the two rematches he's been asking for. The Curtis one, you could say, is long enough that maybe we could look past it, but the Strickland one is a little bit... Oh, sorry, it's the Curtis one, was more recent, right? The Curtis won was more recent.

December 22. Yeah. Strickland was the one. And that was like a weird, was that light heavyweight out or like a catchweight bout? And that was when we first sort of saw the Strickland that would become a top 10 guy. So I don't know if I love either of those rematches. But I bring them both up because they're recent enough.

I can't put Brandon Allen above them in my rankings. I have, and I have Sean Strickland at nine. I have Curtis at 14. So for me, that leaves Allen kind of still. in the outside looking in, I have him in the 15 spot. And if you add in Johnny Eblen, Brennan will actually not be making my

top 15 rankings in the next set. Wow. Yeah, I mean, I don't know. I don't know if you've worked this out yet. Are you going to just jump him over, does this win jump him over Curtis and Strickland for you, or at least over Curtis? Probably.

Probably. Yeah. I mean, but Curtis is fighting Kelvin Gasolam, and it's not like, a better win than on Junie's, but it's a win, and it'll be close. Like, it'll be very close because, you know, Chris has lost since then, too. So he lost a Jack Remanson. He lost to Hermanson.

That fight was not all that competitive. Like, Cermanston just kind of pieced him up for 15 minutes. So, yeah, I'm looking at it. It is going to be tougher than I thought. I had me and Jed had Muniz ranked higher than anybody. We both had him at six. Okay. Not crazy.

That's not crazy. Brennan Al will not be number six. I can assure you of that. But I just don't know if I can rank him above Canineer and Costa and RDR, DDP, Derek Bronson, Strickland. I think he might, I think Imelov might bump out in Deleese. I think Brennan Al will probably be number 15 of my rankings. Munez might be out. Munez might be the guy.

that's out. Because maybe I, like, I just feel like I overranked him. Yeah, we all did. I think we all did. And even with this matchup, like, I was,

I didn't like it for Andreemite's. I mean, I said it a bunch. I thought this is a much tougher fight that people were giving it credit for. I thought Brennan Allen was his toughest opponent. Even with, you know,

God bless all his opponents and, you know, Uriah Hall, whatever, but Brennan Allen stylistically was a way tougher fight. And no one was given that credence. I still was going to pick my knees to win, but it was a close, like, really tough, maybe a split decision is how I

saw that fight going. But yeah, Brennan just don't care what anybody I say. So yeah, it is going to be tough, A.K., he probably will, I don't think I cannot rank him. I have to find a way to get him in, but it's not like he's going to jump to number six. I can't do that. This is, this is tough, now, I'm looking at it. I'm being super harsh. It's really unfair to Brennan for me to say, you beat a guy who we all agreed as the top 10 middleweight. And now I am not giving you a top, even a top 15 spot. But like you said, you nailed on the head. We may have overranked Monez.

I'm looking at it now. Monez's best wins. Or, I'm sorry. The other name. Go ahead, please. The other name, maybe we bump Nassarini Imovov. Yeah, I could see that too. I think I already have him out.

I think that's the thing for me. Oh, no. I have still have pretty high. Yeah, and I actually have him in my just UFC rankings. I have him 11, I think. So wait, who's ahead of them? RDR, I guess. I got to look at my middleweight rankings again.

Yeah, you get RDR, Delizze, Strickland, Dupli, Costa, that's 10 through 14. Sure, okay. You move off of 15. Yeah, he moved off of 15. Interesting. So I have Hermannsen out, Tavares, Chris Curd. Okay.

Yeah, so the overranking of Muniz was a problem. I mean, I think we did some projection, which I won't apologize for. I think projection is a fair part of rankings. You don't always, one, you can't always rely on M.A. math and two some guys like my personal favorite right now gelton almeda just run through the competition so impressively you have to rank them um muniz also had the jacqueray win which now looking back on it hasn't aged that well it was the last fight of jacques's career that was he was on a three-fight losing streak uriah hall was another good win but he was also coming off a loss so his two biggest wins were

older guys coming off losses who as of now are no longer competing in m m m ms so those wins have aged poorly. So for me, this is a course correction. And unfortunately, that course correction also leaves Allen out. It sucks. It sucks to say. But yeah, I went with Jack Hermanson. I'm like, I wasn't sure if you said, what was your pick for for Munis? I actually, and this is something for Brendan Allen. Excuse me. For Brendan Allen. I'm sorry. For Brennan Allen. Yeah. And I thought the timing of this fight is perfect for either guy. Because the thing about middleweighty, middleweights, and just the middleweight division in general is that these fights happen and they're interesting, but they're so few and far between

that when we have to make matchmaking selections, it just, we don't know where the hell it's going. It's a lot of, well, this needs to happen and this needs to happen. The timing of this fight is actually perfect for Brennan especially having the performance like that because we have Drichus DuPc fighting Derek Brunson on Saturday at UFC 285. Marvin Vittori's fighting Roman DeLizze

two weeks after that at UFC 286. I think after this performance, and yes, I'm going to squeak Brennan Allen into the rankings. I do think he is ready for almost all of those guys that I just mentioned and all the guys that he called out, whether it's a rematch or not. Derek Brunson, I will take out of the equation because he trains at the same gym as Brennan. They're both Kilcliffe guys. So, probably not going to see that fight happen. So I landed on no matter what happens. Drickus duplice, win or lose. That's my pick. And I am picking DDP to beat Derek Brunson. And if that's the

let's just do Brennan Allen versus DDP because I still have questions about DDP and I don't know Derek Brunson who has been very vocal about having one foot out the door is the guy to answer those questions. The A plus Derek Brunson is the guy who

put it on Kevin Hollins the guy who beat Ian Heinish when Ian Heinish was on a nice run like if that guy shows up and you know just frustrates the hell out of DDP then we'll get some answers. I don't think that's going to happen, but I think

Brennan Allen could be the guy that, you know, I think people are going to be shooting a little bit higher than that for DDP if he beats Bronson, but yeah, I would want to see that fight. So that's the one I'm picking. Probably maybe a bridge too far in terms of not for skill, but just for how the UFC would actually

matchmake Brennan Allen, but it's a fight that I want to see and I think it answers questions I have about DDP. If that matchup happened and he beat Drix duplice, then then I would have him vault over Curtis and Strickland. Even without having to rematch them, that would make Brendan Allen a pretty clear top 10 middleweight to me. So again, I'm being, Brent Allen, you're going to, if you're out there,

you're going to enjoy the middleweighty middleweight title. It's the most important thing anyway, but you will have, you will fly up the rankings if you're able to get one more, sort of one more big match. Again, it's just unfortunate. Those Strickland and Curtis losses for me are still still there. And now I understand why he wants to get those, you know, at least one of those wins back so badly but um or one of those losses back i should say but uh yeah i think getting ddp would be even better than rematching either those guys and and if he can win uh man brennan what a huge run he'd be on yeah i mean i would be kind of curious to those rematch see how brenden actually treats them because him and strickland were not friendly to each other

chris curtis is obviously a training partner and close friend of sean strickland so that was a big storyline heading into that fight and chris kind of shrugged it off like i don't really care, but Brendan didn't. So be interested to see how the mental game would be played there, but Unwrap holiday magic at Holt Renfrew with gifts that say I know you. From festive and cozy fashion to Lux Beauty

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See app for details. AK, before that, we had a heavyweight fight. Did we now? And two heavyweights got into the cage, and they fought? and it was pretty much everything we expected it to be, and it was won by Augustus Sakai, AK. So, look, I don't know what to do here. So I thought about this for a little while,

and then I just kind of landed on it because I, and I don't know how people are going to react to this, but I'm just going to go ahead and say it. I spoke with a man last week who is ready to fight. He has the itch to compete, and he has been working with John Jones, and Johnny Bones has lit a fire under his ass, and he wants to fight in June.

And we have been very picky on the show for a long time about this guy. And after seeing what we saw last night, I feel like this is okay for matchmaking. Augusto Sakai versus Walt Harris. Because I feel like, I feel like this is something the UFC is going to be looking at. I feel like when Wallha – because I don't know if Wall House is going to be in Vegas this week. I would assume he's going to be in some way, shape, or form since John Jones is a very small circle of training partners. and Walt Harris is part of that small circle. I'm putting on my UFC glasses here,

and they are pointing me in this direction. I'm hesitant to book Walt against anybody because I just want to see this man shine, but I don't think he would get hurt in this fight. I think this is a fight he could win. I really do, after watching him kind of struggle and fade and not look good against Dantale Mays, I feel like this new rejuvenated Walt Harris

could compete with Augusta Sakai. So that's my pick. What do you think? I'm just having deja vu. I feel like, I guess you haven't mentioned Waltz in a while. I feel like someone did even with last week's heavy. What was the last week's heavyweight main card showcase? Pogs and Prisian.

Yeah. I don't think we, I think the listeners did. Yeah, yeah. I don't think it was one of it. I swear some. The last time, yeah, the last time I put Wall Harris's name out there, it was against,

I think it was like against Chase Sherman before he got released and brought back again. I still like that. I have a lot First of all, I wish we had the M.M.A. Our breaking news soundboard because I don't know if you heard, Mike, but Augusta Sakai is back. He is back. I was like half listening to his promo and he just starts shouting it.

And I'm like, what the hell? What's going on? I'm like, listen, he snapped a four-fight win streak. It's not like it's crazy to him to make some. It didn't quite have the charm of like, Moikano wants money. You know what I mean? It wasn't quite there for me. It didn't quite land there. I don't know why. I have so much to say about Sakai. First of all, if anyone refers to that, I don't think I saw anyone do it on social media, but if anyone refers to that fight as a

co-main event, I mean, that was barely a main card fight, much less a co-main event. That was the definition of a fight getting moved from third last to penultimate. Okay, it's not a co-main. There's nothing to it. I guess Sakai was ranked once upon time. That's about it. But again, I'm not blaming anyone. This was the circumstances they were dealt. Let me ask you something like, how old? You probably know, because again, we've, you know, we've been looking at these numbers and everything for the past week. How old is Augusta Sakai?

35. You are way off. 44. You're wrong way. He's 31. He's 37. He's 31. He's 31?

Wow. He's 31. He's been. been fighting since... I did not know that. I did not know until I looked at. He's been fighting since 2011, so obviously up there in M.A. years. But he's young for heaven. He's 31. He is somehow... He's younger than Andre Munez.

He's younger than Carl Deaton, who just fought for the first time in the UFC. Sakai is younger than him. He's younger than Jasmine Yasidavishis. Somehow, just a few months older than Mike Malott and Victor Martinez. Victor Martinez also made his UFC debut. He was 31 years old I just I don't I couldn't believe it He's not just back

Mike He has a whole career ahead of him He's just Forget being back We've only just begun Because I was counting the man out So let's give this young stud Shemiel Abdurikimov

I guess Of Durakimov I don't know if he's been released yet But as far as I know he's still with the promotion Despite being in a pretty bad slump himself But let's give up Durkimov a chance to break out of a slump and and see what happens there because I don't know. I just don't want to bump Sakai up against like a top 15 guy. He didn't earn that with that win.

And it has to happen, by the way, in the UFC Apex, which is the whole, Mike, did you watch the Elvis movie? Yeah, it's awful. Yeah, I'm not, I'm not so bad. I didn't love it. But the whole, you know, the whole last half of the movie is about Elvis getting trapped in that Las Vegas residency. and I feel like that's what Sakai has or deserves.

He should have a UFC Apex residency. Four of his past five fights, I want to say. Four of his past five fights have taken place at the Apex. He also fought 269s, which at T-Mobile. So his last five fights have been in Vegas, four at the Apex. He should have a residency. They should be paying him a lot of money every year. Four, you know, I don't know how many fights can get.

Four fights a year. Four fights a year. here, UFC Apex, put his name on the billboard, let people know. He'd make him an attraction. You know, you come to Vegas, you're going to come see, get dinner in a show. Let that show be watching Augusta Sakai fight at the U.S. Apex. He has earned this.

He lives there. And I hope he, I don't know where his residence is. I hope he is actually staying in Vegas because if he's flying back and forth from Brazil or wherever he trains to Vegas, saving the money, pay this man, put him up in a fancy hotel of Dana and let him be your UFC Apex attraction. man him and shemiel derahimov is going to be rugged that's like the best

oh man so yeah I love the residency idea that's that's tremendous stuff but all eyes were on Tatiana Suarez aka she returned for the first time in almost four years submit Spontana de la Rosa in the second round flyweight bout look this fight

I mean the way this fight exactly the way I thought it was going to go. I thought she would win. I thought there'd be moments where she'd have to feel it out a little bit. I mean, it's not easy to go back in there after all that time and just be, and just run people over. And Montana's a tough

opponent. She was the perfect opponent to come back to. She was going to try to fight Tatiana. She was going to have some sort of defense for her. But Tatiana is just an absolute animal. She's so strong. Eventually, she's going to get going and she didn't. She got

Montana Dela Rosa to tap in the second round. But she wants to go back to her home at 115. I think she could compete at either division, but I think 115 is probably the better spot for her. And she really wants this Rose Domi Unis fight. Not sure if she'll get it. Maybe they'll do it. But what do you see next for?

Tatiana Suarez. That's a great call for her. I mean, I think I would certainly favor her over Rose this point. I mean, listen, Rose fights well when she's counted out. So I'm not saying by any means like El Soros, smashes her but just based on the skill set based on i still i thought she looked pretty good on on saturday i don't know if people were expecting her to just run through montana and around but montana is tough and for suarez to to even again win the fight the way she did and finish it and

show a lot of you know that she still has pretty much all of the skills that she had before she went on this long layoff injury recovery um she looked good it was a great matchup i loved it uh so rose is a good choice but i'm going all in i think someone mentioned this on the post fight show Mike and we were all kind of like, okay, maybe that's the way to go. So let's say Jessica Andrash. Forget it. Listen, both these ladies want that title shot. Again, both of them would love to fight Rose to earn it, I'm sure, but like we said,

we just don't know when Rose plans to fight again. She can take all the time off she wants. That's good. But at some point, the division needs a fresh number one contender, needs to keep moving. And I'd love to see Zhang Wili fight Jessica Andrage again. I'd love to see Tatiana Suarez fight get her first title shot. So, yeah, I went in that direction. Let's just go.

It sucks because, like, I get it. It's two top contenders, both of whom have paths to getting a title shot, but I don't think it knocks either of them out of contention. If Andrage beats Suarez, I don't think Suarez is out forever. If Suarez beats Andrage, maybe bumps her a little bit further back just because Andrage has had chances before, but I still think Andraj would really only be, like, two highlight real finishes away from getting a shot at Womteen that she wants.

So I'm fine with pulling the trigger on this one. Maybe it's too soon for Suarez. Maybe people thought, you know, she didn't look that great against Montana Dolores and want to see her fight, you know, another straw weight sort of maybe in the 7 to 15 range first. I'm fine with just going her and Andraj right now. Let's do it. This is probably this is probably the toughest one for me because there is a part of me that wants, like, I don't want to see her against like the bottom third of the top 15. But part of me wants to see like five to 10 and like let's give her a good fight with a name. but maybe not the tippy, tippy top for her return to 115.

I do think she'll end up getting somebody near the top. And Rose is kind of a wild card because she might move up to 125. She might get a title shot at 115 against Zhang Wei Li. She's already got two wins against her. Jessica Andrade stands out to me as a great name, like you said. But she also did the UFC a solid last weekend and fought Aaron Blanchfield on like a week's notice. So they might sort of spare her for this next. one and not just chuck her right in.

To go from Aaron Blanchfield, the 125, back to 115 to fight Tatiana Suarez. Holy crap, dude. Like, that is, that's a tough back-to-back stretch right there. So, Shaheen wanted a kind of slow roller a little bit. Maybe the 7 to 15 range. Some people want, like, the 1, 2, 3 range. I'm going right smack in the middle, AK.

Like I normally do, I like to just sit on the fence. So I'm going with Jan Jonan. Jan is number five right now. She's tough as hell. She's coming off a big win in a main event against McKenzie Dern. Give her that fight. If she wins,

then you can give her an Androja if you want or somebody in the top three depending on how things shake out by the time we get to that point. I think Jan's a good first test. It's a tough fight. A really tough fight to return to at 115, but it's not too crazy.

Like, it's a good test. I think Tatiana would win and I would pick her to win, but yeah, let's start there, see how she does. And look, if she trucks Jan Jan Janan, you could still give her a title flayed. Like that that performance could be so impressive that you just can't ignore

and you have to give her a title shot. So I landed on like, I think Jan's ranked number five in the UFC rankings. I'm not sure we have her, but yeah, that's where I'm going. Yeah, no, I'm fine with it. Like you said, Jan Shaanan has had some, she's entertaining fighter,

and she would test like one of the biggest questions we still have Tatian Suarez is can she go all the way to the top with a stand-up game that is I'll put it is not up to par with the best names at 115 like I would not pick her to win a stand-up battle with Rose with Jessica Andrash obviously

with Zhang Wei Lee is her wrestling so overwhelming that because listen she had she had trouble with Nina Anstrov excuse me. When they fought, she won a unanimous decision, but people can go back, watch that fight,

they can see that, you know, when the fight wasn't going her way, she wasn't able to impose her will, she had problems. Same thing, if she can't, listen,

we know Jan Sharnan, we saw her get sort of trucked by Carla Svars. Suarez should theoretically be able to do the same. But if she can't, then, again, that raises these very important questions of how close she really is

to get, a teloshot. So I like, I like that a lot. I went all in. I think she, I think she is ready. I think she has a good chance of beating it Jessica Andrage, but I think for a lot of people out there who want to see a little bit more, again, long layoff and long layoff due to a knee injury. I mean, that's serious business. We might need just a little bit more rehabilitation as far as her fighting goes. But so, yeah, we're kind of on the same page. I'm just, I'm just a little bit, I got a little bit jumpier. Fair enough. A.K. Canada's Mike Belize Mike Belize. lot. It's pretty damn good at this fist fighting thing, isn't he? He's good. Good performance. First

round sub. Good walkout music. Nasty arm triangle. AK, I want to give him a little bit of a step up. A guy with some experience, fun fighter who's down to go. Mike Malab versus Nico Price, AK. Let's go. I like the matchup. I saw a lot of that. I went with Worley Alves. I have him like maybe a 10 or so spots ahead of Mike Malott after that win. I'm selfishly, again, just trying to move my fellow Canadian up the rankings. Worley has not been in the best form

in recent fights, but he is a bigger name, certainly than Mike Malat. He's experienced. Got a lot more UFC experience. And Mike is like, I hate to keep harping on people's ages here. Mike is not like super young. He's, I said, like I say, he's 31, so he's just a bit younger than

Augusta Sakai. And also he's kind of been on and off. with his career. He actually has been he started the same year as Augusta, 2011, and just sort of has been an on and off with taking fights,

which is why he only has 11 fights in 10 years. Over 10 years, excuse me. So he doesn't have that much MMA mileage on him, but I would also say he's not a young guy. So, yeah, I think

match us with experienced UFC guys like Worley Alves, Nico Price make a lot of sense. And both guys, yeah, I think would put him in that top 35, top 30 range.

And I'm cool with that. because I do want to see if Canada really has itself a welterweight contender here. If not, it's fine. I like Mike a lot, and I hope he has a long year-C career. But it would be really cool if we could see him like in the top 25 by the end of the year. Maybe, I don't know. It's possible. It's tough division.

It's tough division. It is possible. He's good. He's a really good fighter. All right. Let's move to the wild card round. That's it for the main car. We'll pick one fighter we have not match made for yet, and we will matchmake for them right now.

So, AK, where we're we. we going here? I'm going to go, I could have gone with any number of lightweights. I did settle on one, a man who is very much a wild card, I would say, as far as personality and his, even his fighting style, he surprises a bit on Saturday with his striking. I had to go with Jordan Levitt. Ooh, I like that. Yeah, entertaining fighter got the first, what he classified as the first knockout of his career,

first knockout via strikes, you know, first knockout via strikes. He didn't count the, he wasn't counting the wide. and slam. And he was so jazzed about it. And I can imagine, how many fights the Indyre career now? His 13th bike gets his first knockout. Beautiful, beautiful Muay Thai, really vicious, killer instinct. Good job by Leavitt hits the splits, hits the dirty dancing.

I didn't want to just throw a random name out there. I wanted to see if I could really figure out what's next for him because there's so many directors he can go in. He's still, again, we talked about welterate being in deep division. Lightweight is even deeper, probably the deepest division in all of MMA. And like this win doesn't make him, his wins in the OSE, unfortunately, have not been against like really, like super strong competition. But unlike Mike Malat, we have time with Trin Levitt. He's he's, he's not even at his physical prime yet.

He's not even at the peak of where we think his skills are going to be. Look, said, this is his first knockout. Maybe he has more to come. Maybe his grappling gets even better. So I landed on Someone who's just a few spots ahead of him in my rankings Forrest Zium Oh, okay

Yeah, I'm going, I'm going for Siam I want him to sort of just I have him ahead of of Jordan Levitt I think it's a good style matchup, fun matchup Between two guys who are again Both kind of up and coming still Levitt is We don't need to throw him in there with the top 30 guy yet

Okay, he's six fights in the UFC He could be 10 fights in the UFC And I would still wait We'll see how his development comes along But I like Jordan Leavitt. Let's keep him busy. Let's give him names in this range. And then we can talk about maybe facing more veteran guys or getting more highly publicized

fights like the Patty Pimbleau matchups. So yeah, that's where I landed with him. Yeah, I honestly, like the world would probably be a better place if there were more Jordan Levits in it. This guy, just such a positive presence, has this tough moment with Patty Pimbleau, kind of gets embarrassed, gets run over, gets stopped, you know, almost gets tea bagged in front of like hundreds of thousands of people watching it live. And a lot of people would falter in that position.

But Jordan Lowe is like, nope, I'm going to come back. And I'm going to do something I never did before and get a knockout. And I didn't see that coming at all. So good for him. Dude is just so positive all the time. Dude's really good for the sport. Another guy who could be really good for the sport is where I'm going. And I'm sticking with 155.

I'm going with the man of the hour, the man with the power, Trevor Peake. Trevor Peake, and I'm going to be very specific about this, I'm going to be very, very specific. UFC 288, I think it's May 8th, 2023,

the opening prelim on ESPN, Trevor Peek versus Mafravola. Let's go. Those two are just going to beat the brakes off each other in just the craziest three minutes and 11 seconds

we have ever seen inside that octagon. Someone's going to sleep. The other person's going to get some shine because he landed about 58 significant strikes to the face before he was knocked out. I just want to throw those two guys in there now and let's just go. There's, I mean, they're just going to be excited. They're going to be very exciting guys in this division. And maybe the winner of this could, uh, could win the Patty sweepstakes. Trevor Peak versus Matt for the Patty Pimbleau for the Patty Pimbleau. This Patty Pimbleau title. And let's

go. First ESPN fight of UFC 288, Trevor Peek, Matt Fravola. I just got to see it. That's the one I landed on. I love that fight. Might be a little much for Trevor Peak, maybe. Just a second UFC fight getting Matt Fervola, but

I just want to see it. I just want to see what it looks like. It's just going to be absolute chaos. I would love to see Patty Pimbleen Peak. I'm not counting out, I'm not counting out your hypothetical for Vola in this hypothetical matchup, but if Pee beat Friola and got that Pimbleau fight.

There's a second, when's the second London card? They don't think they've announced a second London card. They haven't yet. What's got, what am I thinking? We have the pay-per-view coming up, 286. They are planning to do, they are planning to do another. They'll probably do a second show, but they haven't been out of the day yet. We don't know yet.

Yeah, I mean, listen, Patty Pimble has to be on that. And I was just, the idea of Alabama boy, Alabama, Arkansas, Alabama. Tennessee, I think. Oh, Peek? Is he a Tennessee guy? Yeah, he's out of Alabama. I'm sorry, I'm sorry, you're right.

You're absolutely right. The idea of Alabama boy, Trevor Peek, going to the UK to fight Patty Pimbleau. Oh, my goodness. The chaos that would ensue, I would love it. I think Pete Pimbleau would be great. And again, you know me, I'm always saying, I always do listen.

I joke about Patty, Ferguson, whatever. He keeps saying he doesn't need. big names. Especially if he's fighting in London, he's the attraction. He's the attraction. You want to throw him in there with guys like Trevor Peek. Guys that just going to have fun fights with them, guys that he can, again, has a good chance of beating. And that could be for Vola too. I don't know. I think for Vola, I'd like his chance to better than Peek, but Peake would be the perfect guy to fight Patty Pimble in London. So yeah, I'm all in on that if that plays out. Let's go. Man, like Trevor Peek could be a guy who fights like six times a share. I could definitely see that coming,

because none of his fights are going to get to the second round. They're just not going to win or lose. He's get or get God, and usually he gets. So excited to see what he does. His reaction to meeting Bruce Buffer after winning that fight last night was absolutely the best. Did you see this clip? It was incredible.

I watched with my sound off. So I saw him bowing down, but that was in praise of the Lord, right? Not in praise of. No, Bruce comes over right before they're going to read the decision. And like he's starstruck. and like he pumps this, he tries to hug him and then like he doesn't know

whether he should. And then Bruce goes away like he's getting ready to you and out. Trevor Peek, just this big smile on his face looks at this coach and goes, oh my God, it's Bruce Buffer.

It was like the best, it's the best. I'm such a fan. He's wonderful. I tweeted out Trevor Peake is wonderful. He is wonderful. We need more Trevor Peaks

and Jordan Levitz in the sport and this place will just be a much better spot. So yeah, can't go wrong with with either of our picks there. Do we have any check the tape? He knocked out of

camera. He knocked out Kamowardee. He sure did, AK. He sure did. Recently. It's in August. What, 2020? Yeah, he had back to back, not, he knocked out Kamalworthy, and then a month later,

he got a knockout on the contender series and got a contract. What a two-month stretch for that guy? Yeah, eight, last eight fights, eight wins, eight knockouts. That's not bad. That's not a bad thing to have on your resume. I tell you, I tell you, I tell you, Dana went to the UFC like that. Yeah, he doesn't play. Do we have any, anyone sent any check the tapes?

Any bragg-and-doches people? No one sent any in. I swear, I'm talking about, but then give me a couple of months to get back to my proper record keeping and I'm sure people called for some of these more popular matchups that came up.

But listen, I have, we have a lot of odd no points stored, plenty to give out in the future. Otherwise, Mike, we can get to the, we can jump to the listener picks, which there was not that many this week, unsurprisingly.

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Check Sherdog. Check topology. Tapology puts a lot of rumored bouts on there, which, you know, we don't always show up on other sites, but are worth mentioning. And certainly take into consideration when you're doing your fantasy matchmaking. Weight class, guys, you know, listen, let's pay attention. because we see that happen sometimes too. Suarez this week was fine. Obviously, we accept flyweight or strawweight suggestions.

Because listen, she said she's going about a straw weight. I'm 98% sure her next fight is a straw weight. But she just fought a flyweight, and you don't know. Maybe another flyweight opportunity comes up. She jumps on it. So I have no problem with people suggesting flyweight matchups for Suarez, even though I don't think any of them will come to fruition. Notable injuries, releases, people who are teammates,

well-known teammates. And I think I have to add this now. my pregnancies. I saw at least one person suggests Suarez and Tisha Torres. And I know Torres and Raquel Payton have said they're expecting, I believe in June.

And it's not super far away, but it's far away enough that let's wait until maybe a couple of months from the child's arrival before we start matching up Tisha Torres again. And listen, she's an insane athlete. It wouldn't surprise me if she gave birth and then said, hey, I'm getting back in the cage

in friggin' August. Like, she's in ridiculous shape. And if anyone could do it, she probably could. but let's again let's let's let's hold off on this tisha torres matchmaking for now please and of course most importantly in the disclaimer if your pick is do do do like it's just bad you know i keep saying we don't want to read it more likely we will read it and shame you yeah so this is this is more of a warning yeah you we're both a little tired but if you drop doo-do next week we're just going to annihilate you oh on the live show oh because you're gonna be grumpy as hell you're getting it you're gonna get you're gonna get you're gonna get god So let's get into this. Robbie Ryan. Good day, lads. Just a couple of picks this week.

Allen versus Hermanson. Swars, this is kind of do-do, but it's okay. This one kind of flew under the radar, so I'll let it slide. Swars versus John Jaroba at 115, but Vern is booked against Marina Hodriguez, UFC 288 in May. Or if she stays at 125,

the winner of the Jennifer Maya Casey O'Neill fight at UFC 286. Why? I don't know if Casey O'Neill and Swar is a fight. They both train at Extreme Couture, but I don't think, I don't know if Tatiana is like a full-on extreme contore athlete. I'm not really sure. Following the Sakai Mays fight and upon reflection, oh, a question, AK.

Following the Sakai Mays fight and upon reflection of recent heavyweight and light heavyweight fights, how does the UFC improve the level of depth in these bigger weight classes? Is it simply money? Or would a recruitment path from college slash Olympic sports be a better way to go? I don't know. do we do more of these these deals like Bellamere signed and just get college athletes kind of locked up

and get a train and ready to go? Who is this asked this question? This was Robbie Ryan. Robbie Ryan, of course. That's a great suggestion, yeah, because I was going to say, there's not a lot the UFC specifically can do because it's not like a UFC problem.

Listen, so the problem with heavy weight and also to a similar degree, women's featherweight is there comes a point where you are an athlete of a certain size and you have a certain amount of skill and there's a threshold and once you pass that threshold you're not

going to fight an MMA. You are someone who will go into the NFL some into basketball another sport that pays a lot more money. If you're like six foot two or taller and you're an athletic person why would you fight an MMA? You're not going to MMA. This is why we see

a lot of former NFL players or professional football players. Maybe they didn't make the NFL who became, who become MMA heavyweights because, listen, they couldn't quite cut it at, in that sport. But their athleticism is physical gifts to make them give them an advantage, just getting into MMA. So that's the thing.

It might be a problem we can never solve. Money solves everything. We harp on about fighter pay all the time. Listen, you make, you make, you make MMA a more intriguing proposition. And you're going to get more high level athletes of, at heavyweight and light heavy weight jumping in there. That's just how it is.

So that's why the NAL thing is such a great suggestion. Thanks, Robbie. Because yeah, if you can start enticing them early and showing these athletes that there's a path to make money in the future now and in the future, then you can start

literally developing and as I was going to say, and breeding the next generation of heavy weights. So it can be done, but it's a long-term solve. they're like I said they're just not out there again people say something why do it just takes why are there no more women's further why are they not more women's further weights they're not out there if you're an athletic woman above 135 above 145 pounds there's other sports you're probably you probably learn to

play when you're younger and you're probably able to make more money in so yeah it always comes down to money but in this case development options as well so yeah I like I like the idea of scholarships otherwise there's just no magic way to just boost I mean heavy weight it's again it's not a UFC problem Same with Bellator, KSW, one championship. It's just not a lot of depth there. Yeah. Chris London, not sure this card deserves an odd note, but here we go. Krilovspan Rebook.

We talked about this. We haven't confirmed yet, but it looks like March 11th, they might do this again. Munez versus the Duplice Brunson loser. Sakai versus Moe Usman, Swars versus Androj, Malat versus Phil Rowe, Peek versus Otman, Azitar, Jazz DeVizius versus Montana de La Rosa, Levitt versus Benoit Santanyi Selecki versus Guram Kutata Ladezai wow

that'd be a friggin grinder of a fight Mike what is your I don't imagine it would much because he did face sort of a short notice journeyman type guy respect to Carl Deaton but that that's why sort of why he was brought in

I know you're talking about Joe a bit on heck of a morning and you said listen you like Joe Joe's obviously he's got a good UFC record now I think he's what four and one five and one Five and one. Yeah, five and a one. But you said you saw a pretty clear ceiling for him.

Like you don't necessarily see him as like a top 10 guy, title contender. Did anything change after last night? I mean, he just kind of took care of business. But what do you think for Joe's? Is there a way, depending what his next matchup is, to sort of get to that top 10 anytime soon? Joe's just solid, man. Like, he's just solid. There is, like, there is no letdown with Joe Selecky.

Like, if you're a coach of a guy and he has. to step in on short notice against a guy that he's a massive favorite over. It's not like Joe's going to overlook it. He's going to show up and he's going to jump on your back and he's going to put you to, he's going to put you away. He's going to, like, if you're a gambler and you see Joe Selecki fighting a newcomer and he's like a minus 550, like you do not have to worry about your money. He's going to fight for your money and he's probably going to net you some sort of a profit

because there's no let out this guy. If he's fighting Carl Deaton the third or he's fighting Islam Mokachachat. He's going to approach both fights with the same amount of seriousness. He's just very solid. I'm trying to find, like, the right guy to actually compare him to, but it's kind of tough to pinpoint a certain person. But he's just very, very solid. Like, I would say it's different because this guy, like,

just throws bombs and hammers and finds ways to win. He's very, he's Drew Doberish. Like, he's Doberish, but more with the grappling. He's the grappling. He's the bizarreo Drew Dober. Like the same niceness. You just want to like be friends with him. But just very dangerous in the cage.

But in different ways. Like Drew Dober I like a lot and he's on a nice run. But I don't like, Drew Dober's not going to be like a top seven lightweight. He's going to run into guys he's going to have problems with. But you can make a very solid career being like a lower third top 15 guy, lightweightiest lightweight kind of guy. Ooh.

That's that's kind of. where select like 12 to 25 range like i think that's kind of where so like he's going to be hanging out pretty much his entire career which is a great place to be in this division which is so incredible he's very solid-handed like he's a tough out for almost everybody he fights him and guram is actually really interesting it's a really interesting fight so like his striking's getting getting better too if that striking can can get anywhere near his grappling this guy's gonna be tough to beat he's just not he's so nice. He's just such a nice guy. And I don't know, I would love to see Joe Selecki, like, fight for a title someday. But he's just a very solid hand. He'll be a 12 to 25 guy pretty much his entire UFC run. That's a pretty damn good place to be. Am I, am I overshooting to say he could someday take on the New Jersey mantle, warrior mantle from Jim Miller.

Ooh. He beat him. He beat Jim Miller. Could he have taken some Jim Miller's powers from that result? It was a while ago now. But he did beat Jim Miller. Maybe. I'm painting very broad strokes here.

He's a grappling specialist. He's from New Jersey. He's a nice guy, as you said. He kind of just goes in there, takes care of business. May never fight for a UFC title. Who may never be super highly ranked. I think the highest Jim Miller ever was ranked was. maybe i don't even know if you was in the top 10 when the ufc introduced their rankings i know shir dog

i think had them in their top 10 at some point um i don't remember by the time the ufc rankings rolled around if jim miller was ever ever qualified for a ranking um so we don't can correct me on that if you see that but it's a long ways away again where what this is a six ufc fights for just lucky jim miller just fought what the 41st time i think it was 41st ufc fights so i don't know Joe's lucky might retire like in two years and Jim Miller might still be fighting so too early to say but there you go we have a lot there's a lot of positive projections

for Joe's lucky Joe's got a very bright future not just as a fighter but he is a very bright future as a broadcaster as a fight promoter I mean this guy this guy's to be very successful in MMA in and out of the cage

so yeah if he fights Guram Kutatsal Latse and beats him I mean that might sway me in a different direction. Ooh. Because Guar, I mean, dude, you be Guram, like you are, you're legit, and I'm not saying Joe's not legit, but like, I'm thinking, my ceiling goes a little higher if he goes out there and beats Guam.

That's a tough fight for anybody. So, yeah, dude's great. Big fan of his. We'll see what happens next. I like Odea Osborne as well. And Mr. Chris London suggests Odei fight to Madaerji. Terd Ferguson, Brendan Allen

Jack Kerr Manson Augusta Sakai versus the loser of Romanov versus Volkov Todd Wow, I'm going to end with that one

I'm curious to get your thoughts on this this might be like too too low Mike Molloff versus the winner of Ian Gary Kanan Song Trevor Pete

Trey Ogden Jordan Levitt Otmanazitar Selecki versus Michael Johnson Nerulo Aliev versus Benois Santini

Tatiana Svarez AK versus Emily Decode at 1.15, give her two to three fights at straw weight before a title fight. I understand playing it safe, and I do not mean this is a knock to Emily Decode, but Tatiana Torres would be a minus 2,000 favorite in that fight. That's too low, isn't it? I think Montana Della Rose is a tougher fight. It's too low, but you know what?

if if uh mr turd is trying to go for a a crystal ball pick as opposed to a magic wand pick i don't think it's crazy to think that that's the path the ufc matchmakers would go down um maybe i'm giving them too much credit maybe because i thought they did a great job with the uh you know booking montana del rosa for her comeback fight like i thought that that was a great tune-up and i want to believe that they'll give her another tune-up if they, because look, I know it's been a long time since Tatyana Suarez-Far as far as fought. Even when she, it doesn't, even when she was on her win streak and dominating people one-fonte, it's not like she'd become a household name. She was becoming a popular fighter for sure, but she wasn't a household name. So, and now with time off,

I mean, again, I don't know what her, what her, her cachet among the fan bases right now, but I would think the UFC does view her as someone that could be a good person to hold the UFC see title. And if they didn't want to risk it with again a just gandrage fight with a yon chanon fight, I could see them going the Emily decodey route. I could see it. I see the logic in it. Tert Ferguson, I rarely say this. I see your logic in the Dakota Suarez matchup. So Mike, I don't hate, I wouldn't do it myself, but as far as crystal ball picks go, I don't think it's horrible. I don't think it's horrible I'll say this

I thought this is one of the worst picks I've ever seen last night when I first saw it but I've come around a little bit hearing you talk about it there's the only I don't agree with you by the way but here's the only way this is realistic thing it is only realistic

if this happens like real quick in the next two months if this doesn't happen by UFC 287, it ain't happening. Okay, yes. This is just, Tatiana's like banging on the door. I'm ready to go. I'm healthy.

Like, no injuries. I want to get right back in there. And if they call Emily Decode and she says, yeah, I'm down. Like, that happens. Like, I can see that happening. Like, the Miami car needs an extra fight or even the May pay per view, wherever that ends up needs an extra fight. It's not long enough notice for one of these top fighters to get ready.

but Dakota says, yes, sure, just to get her out there. Because I talk about this all the time. Sometimes you just need to get fighters reps and need to get them on television. You know what? I'm talking myself into it more. I don't think it happens. I don't think it happens. But it's not as bad of a pick as I thought when I first saw it.

Yeah, this is like you were... It could happen. It actually could happen. This was the point you were making with Sauru Kian a while ago, like when Suryukian lost the... What is he lost the... No, with Shafka, when he lost Jeff Diel. Just get him on the card. Just get him on the card and have him to kill somebody.

Yeah, yeah. And that's a great point. And that's sort of what you want to do with. That's kind of what they're doing with Mikhail in London, right? He is on the London paper view, right? He's fighting some newcomer. And it's like, you just want to get them in. You want to keep these guys out there.

And yeah, for sure. As far as, like, I'm ready to fight. Just let me go to work. It could, listen, it could be almost anybody. But I think Decode makes sense as well. Yeah, and the other reason is something we talked about in the post show last night is that we all know who Tatanasaurus is. There are a lot of people that are listening to this right now that had no idea who she was when she fucked. She'd been out for so long.

Like I said, like one of my friends texted me. He goes, what's the deal with Tatiana Swars? Like, I knew who Trevor Peake was more than her heading into this fight. That's crazy to think about as somebody who's been in the sport for so long. I love Trevor Peek. Could be a big star. Who knows. But it was just hilarious to that text.

I'm like, wow, that really puts things into perspective. Tatiana, I can't say, I can't remember. Tatiana Torres smashed like Alexa Grasso. It wasn't close. It wasn't close. and Alexis Grasso was fighting for a UFC title this weekend in a different division. She smashed Carlos Sparza. It was not a close fight. I don't know if people are going to look at that fight. I go like, oh, went to the third round. She dominated another wrestler. Like, I've got a wrestling. Carlis was a great wrestler. Tatian Soros dominated her. And Carlis was later went on.

to win the Starway Titleist second time. So this is like her credentials are so good already. We just need to get her back in that position because she was right there. Right there was going to get a title shot. And then horrible knee injury and other things. Other injuries deal with. So yeah, let's hope we see her soon. Did you see her scrum when she was asked about the Aspires of a rematch?

And she was like, nah, I'm not interested because I'd catch another case. It was such a case. Oh my gosh. That was such a gangster line. Good for her. Marcus, let's see if we have anything new here. Ah, wow. Speaking of, Suarez, as far as a two.

Malat versus... Wait, did he say two? Yeah, there's a two in there. There's a two in there. Okay, okay, Marcus, I'm sorry to question you. I'm sorry. Yeah, it's on the right, just in its own column. I see it.

The two has his own column. Yeah, because he says to both of us. I just saw... Look at that. You know what? I should give him a point just for giving the two its own special, its own special spot. Oh, man.

Yeah, I mean, I give up points willy-nilly, but as well. Mike Vallat, Renat, Fakrinoff, Trevor Peek, Raphael Alves, Joe Selecki versus Nerulo Aliav. I would not do that fight. No, I don't know that. I like Aliev. He's got a future, but don't throw him in there with Joe. Don't do it.

Come on, Marcus. We're just taking names. We're just taking names for this car and throwing them against each other. Come on. Come on, Marcus. Yeah. I mean, you gave the column for the number two, which we appreciate, but now we're just being lazy here.

John Ray, Joe Selecki, Nazareth, Haqparas, Osborne, Nassimento, Levitt McDesci, Jazz DeVizio, Gato, Balot versus the Harris Narmaga-Madoff winner. Swares, here's another suggestion. Swares versus Pollyanna Viana. Then a top five is person. Let's just see how she looks at 115 first. All right. Sakai versus Daucus, Munez versus Ivanov.

Which I actually like that fight. That's a great fight. I think that's the best fight for Andromenies. For both guys. For both guys. For both guys. Yeah, I like that fight a lot.

Both guys we might have overranked. Yep. It's a great fight. Yeah, we both, we projected a little bit with both guys, and both guys face their tough, when they had to face their toughest test, again, respect to Jacques-Day and Yorahal. But when they had to sort of face, put the spotlight really shown on them, didn't, it didn't go well.

Because I'movov was favored against Strickland, I believe. and Monez was definitely favored against Brendan Allen. So when they were, yeah, when they were finally put up as like, oh, this is a, she's going to be a showcase fight for them. Listen, they stumbled. It's okay. Great, good fighters lose fights. It happens.

A couple more. Jared Biaagan, Tatianas Horace versus the Marina Rodriguez, John Jerobal winner. Mike Belot versus Munir Lazez. Jordan Levitt, Ferez I am. Look at that, AK. Gerard's on the same page. Best friends. Nerula Alia versus Chris Gritzmacher.

I actually kind of like that one. That makes sense. Joe Selecki, AK, versus Ishmael. Bonfeme. Okay, I actually did look at that. I don't know what to do with the Bonfeme brothers. I don't think we matched up for them. They both were fought in the prelims, right?

So we didn't match up. Yeah. I don't think we matched. I don't know what to do with those guys. I don't know how I feel about that pick. I don't know how to do what to do with the Bonfemes. They both looked amazing in their UC debuts. I don't know if I'm too high off of those, both of them getting

finished highlight real. finishes. So I don't know. I don't hate it. I don't hate it. I just feel like that's more of an opportunity for Bonfim that. I don't know how much Selecki has to gain from that. So I don't hate it, but that for me is more for Ishmael Bonfim than Joe's

lucky. I think what you do with them is you just put them both on the same card and the opponent doesn't really matter. Just let him go in there and flying knee people. Yes, that too. Get them over like that. Last one, Casey Ryan. The return of Casey Rad.

Wow. I haven't, it's been a minute. And there you go. So, Mike, first time doing picks in a minute. That car is a D plus for me with the biggest highlight being Mike Malat walking out to some 41. So I'm only doing a few matchups here. Malat versus Andre Fialio would be a fun one. And I'd be shocked if that one made to the judges.

Good win for Tatiana. But I hope she is really going back down to Strawweight because although she got the dub, she did struggle a bit with getting Montana down. A part of that is her takedown defense, but I think a bigger part of it is her size. I don't think anyone at 115 can stop her takedowns. I think they should just chuck Tatiana right into the top five to ten. Like why waste any time?

She's already lost almost five years. My choice is Amanda Lemosch. If she beats that killer, then she should get a title shot after. The easier route would be in a spars the rematch, but I want to see Tatiana deal with the dangerous striker. Lemoosh is a good pick. I like the Lemosch idea.

again, I don't know. This could go a number of different ways, but I do like the Amanda Lemos idea if Rose gets the title shot. But this division is a mess right now. We have a champion. We have no idea what direction she's going to go. There is no clear-cut number one contender.

There's like three names that could get the title shot right now. So it's a mess. But yeah, Lemish is a good one. Suarez is going to be one of the most sort of talked about fighters this year in 2023 as far as what's next? What's next? What's next? Like we said, if she gets another win in the next couple of months, like, gets a quick turnaround and wins again, man, it's just going to be, we're going to be a lot

of questions. A heck of a morning. Between the links. People are going to want to see her on the May hour. Like, I think she's, and I'm glad for hopefully her health, everything's good with her health. Because, yeah, we're going to be talking about her a lot. And man, again, if things go right, even if she doesn't get a title shot this year,

if she's even able to sort of get in line for it, get two or three fights, I don't know, We could be talking about a fighter of top five, Fight of the Year list. Again, maybe I'm looking too far ahead, I know, but maybe a fighter of the year ranking. And also, if we did comeback fight of the year, I mean, she'll be a shoe in if she wins a couple more fights. You're up, my best friend.

Oh, my goodness. Okay, hold on. I'm I prepared. Okay. Yes. Let's go the first timer. Martin Grisham. Thank you, Martin Grisham for chiming.

And I get him hit him with the, welcome to the party pal gift. Martin Grisham, I'll read all these, Mike Mollat Fialio, again, I like that suggestion before, that's good. Suarez versus McKenzie Dern as soon as she goes back to Strait. Now, Martin, it is your first time. Mackenzie Dern is already booked a fight.

She's going to fight Angel Hill on May 13th. So I'm going to assume, because it's your first time, you mean win, lose, or draw against Angela Hill if you'd like to be. That's what we use. And Brendan Allen versus Jack Kermanston. That was one of the more, okay, I picked that. that's one of the more popular picks

Actually, let me read over some of the More popular listener pick I don't know if you can say that Sakai versus Chris Daucus I had a few people suggested Yeah I saw that one Selecki versus Claudio Pueyes

Sure That moves them up Because I got point I know Pueis dropped a stink bomb In his last fight But I haven't been like the top 30 And I don't quite have Slucky there yet Oh, actually, maybe just outside.

I would favor Slucky. I would favor Slucky. I would favor Slucky. But again, man, that, that, that, that, um, that, um, Poias Hooker fight was so bad. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know what to, what to think of him. I still think he's really good. I just think he had a terrible night.

It was a really bad matcher for him. And, um, I think we'll still see better from Claudio in the future. Uh, what else? Okay, back to, I'm sorry, back to, I'm sorry, back to, I'm sorry, that was Martin, our first timer. Thank you, Martin for chiming in. Uh, Matt Bradbury coming in with, what do we got? here. Levit versus Jim Miller.

Yeah, it's fun. It's so funny you say that. Tino Alvarez, just hit me up with some picks, and I'll read them after because it's some interesting ones here, but Jordan Levitt, Jim Miller was one of those picks. Matt Bradbury's Friends Forever with you, Suarez versus Jan Shonan. How about that? How about that? A couple of emails, Jay Donagie, like Selecki versus Vovola. Oh, okay, here's one. Sakai versus Derek Lewis.

And I believe... Funny enough, Tino Alvarez. Are these the same person? Friends forever. Augustus Sikai, Derek Lewis. Are you Tino Alvarez on Instagram? Just tell us now. And he added the caveat. If Lewis can't beat him,

like, Derek Luz is done. I think this is a terrible side if you can't knock. Yeah, that's why I was okay with Wall Harris getting this fight. Yeah. And I would rather see Walt get it than Derek.

I mean, Derek Lewis has... Like, that's a classic Derek Lewis matchup, right? You could see him getting held against the fence for two rounds and then just blasting Sakai, right? That's why I hope we are with that. Yeah. And listen, Jay, you maybe, have we ever given a point? Like, under the circuit, because he says reschedule cry-laws span for March 11th,

Co-Maine, USC Vegas, 71. Again, we've just only, the rumor is out there. We have not confirmed it. We've only seen the rumor. I almost want to give Jay a point. I don't know. I'm sure he's not the only one who suggested this, but only one in my. What time is the sense?

What time is that? Okay. Oh, that's a good question. All right. Who did I say this was? Jay Donagie. This was, I'm sure this was last night. This was 937th Saturday evening.

So, yeah, that would fit because the report came out five. The report came out at 4.42 a.m. Eastern Standard time. Jay, let us get confirmation on this. Or let's wait for a formal announcement. I will give you a point. I will give him a point. Even if other people chime in with it and say, oh, I said that too. I knew that was going to happen.

I'm going to give Jay a point. So this point is in holding. It's like you can see it. It's in a glass. It's in a time release case that we will send you, Jay. You will send you the five-digit code. Sorry, not time release. Password case.

We'll send you the five-digit code when this happens. Because I do think it makes sense. It wouldn't surprise you this rumor is confirmed or they just announced it this week because I'm sure, like I say, it sounds like Krilov, they said of some sort of food poisoning. not some sort of long-term debilitating things. So, yeah, show you back on his feet in a couple weeks, and we can make that happen. So, Jay, look forward to that.

Our pal, Tristan Gordet, Yasadavish's versus Hannah Goldie. I like it. At Trevor Peek versus Slava Claus, Borchew, what's his name? I'm sorry, Slava Claus. Vyasha Slav Borchav. Yeah, yeah. Thank you, thank you, Tristan, for that, saying those picks. And we'll hop over to Twitter, just a few here again, not quite as many as we would normally get.

this card was, you know, listen, this card was, for what it was, it wasn't bad. I thought there was a lot of entertaining fights. Sure, I'm not a lot of star power, but I actually thought the card turned, who gave it a D plus? Whoever the last, Casey Ryan gave it. Casey, that's harsh. That's harsh. D plus, I know. It's C, it's C, C, C, C, I go C plus.

I go as high C plus B minus. That's pretty solid. Considering they lost the main event. Barry O'Reilly. He was an interesting one. Odie Osborne versus Tetsuro, Tyra. At 125? Yeah.

I thought that was interesting. Oh yeah, what is it? 25 or now, isn't he? Yeah, because that fight was at 130. It was a catch weight because Charles Johnson took it. Yeah, not bad. That's not bad. Yeah, it's not bad. Tatiana Suarez versus Marina Rodriguez.

as Jean-Joroba winner, UFC 288, May 6, okay. We have some people with some show names suggestions. Thomas Collins wanted to call this, the Turning the Allen Key edition of On to the next one? Love it. That's great. As in like activating, like we're turning, like we're putting the Allen key in the slot and,

or we're screwing in his. No, I think he means, I think he means like an Allen wrench, which is also eight, otherwise known as an Alan key. What are we turning? The Allen screw. We're turning, we're screwing him into the top 10, into a ranking. Sure. We're, we're faceting his place in the rankings.

Okay. With an Allen wrench or an Allen key. All right, Thomas, thank you for that. Also, I feel like we're short-changing, I feel like we're short-changing Arnold Allen here. Like, Thomas Klaus, what are you going to do if Arnold Allen beats Max Holloway? That's turning the Allen key. I mean, look, you could do so many things. All right, fine.

So many things. Okay, I'll allow it. Tatana Suarez versus Caitlin Chukagian, obviously a 125 matchup. Really, she would destroy Caitlin Chukagian. I should say. I keep saying that about a bunch of people of potential Swarro's opponents. But I do, I am really high on Swarrow's becoming a champion. I have zero interest in that fight.

If there's an actual less than zero, that's where I would be with this fight. I mean, that gets her a title fight against... Does it, though? I don't know. At this point, maybe not anymore. Ask Manon and Fioro if that guarantees you a title fight. Listen, if she had called for it and campaigned for it, I think there's a chance she could have gotten it instead of... Instead of Grasso, but you're right, you're right.

It's not a guarantee anymore. There might have been a time when you could beat Chagin and get yourself a title shot. It's not the case. Four Corner Sports NY Regular heck of a morning caller Oh, okay, here's why I wanted to ask you Let's say this rumor Again, I think the rumor's true

They just rebooked what was supposed to be Saturday's main event If that didn't happen, would you be, or at least for March 11th, would you be okay with moving on Because Four Corner Sports NY proposes Throw Krilov in there with Rockich instead And throw Span in there with Usdemir

Or do you think it's like best that we just booked them? Like would you much rather rebook them than see either of those matchups? Let's just rebook it. Yeah. Let's just rebook it. I like the suggestion. I mean, technically it doesn't really matter, but I just feel like after just preparing for one another and it's just an illness, not an injury.

And it's something that they could get back, especially if this happens March 11th, that's two weeks. Yeah, let's just do that. Rather than have them go each through a full fight camp to fight somebody else. Yeah, I do like the idea of, I do like the four-part sports in Y, though, just being creative way. They're just trying to see if we can go in a different direction rather than just re-booking. but the rebooking makes a lot of sense here. Marcus McGehy calling this the All-In Edition. So keep it simple.

Again, shout out to Brendan Allen, the All-In edition of, on to the next one. And he has an interesting suggestion for Mr. Brennan Allen. If we want to give him a big name, Mike, what about a returning Chris Wideman? No. That's it. Just no.

Nope. Just down. Marcus, shot down. Augustus Sky versus recent contenders. series winner, Austin Lane. Mike Malott versus Michael Morales, M&M versus M&M. I'm very high in Michael Morales,

but I think that's a fair test for him. I wouldn't necessarily say he shouldn't. That would open with Morales as a maybe like minus 175 favorite. I don't know. It might move further in his direction. I'm very high in him. He actually, I think, got a Rookie of the Year vote for me,

but I do need to see more. And I think Mike Malo is a fair test for him. He hasn't fought in a while. He had. He was supposed to fight Fokertinov, I think. And I think that fell through. Yeah, anything that felt through. Hays but third, I want to read his

comments on Brendan Allen versus Mr. Brunson. We said Brunson, Brunson is fighting DDP, right? On Saturday. Okay, I think he mentions this. Okay, so yeah, yeah, yeah, okay. He says, I thought, okay, so for this fight, I thought Monez was a future champion, that Alan was an overrated prospect that couldn't understand,

and I couldn't understand the UFC's obsession with pushing Brendan Allen up the ranks. I feel dumb now. I feel like the reasonable next step here for Allen is Derek Brunton, win-lose-or draw against CDP. Also, who now, and we kind of touched upon this top of the show, Mike, but who now is the UFC's most middle-weighty middle-weight with Jock-Kogan and his most recent loss looking like a kind of legit contender? And why is it Gerald Mearshard? Not an insult to Gerald, but is Gerald?

Should this belt just be passed on to him? I don't think so. I think GM3 is bigger than that. Oh. Jocko, like here's like one, he's just great. Two, Jocko just, I feel like middleweighty middleweight. It's like obviously the evolution of the title. It just has so much new meaning now.

But the genesis of the middleweightiest middleweight title is you just go in there, you do your thing. you squeak by and get a win. And GM3 doesn't squeak by and get wins. He just dump trucks people and submits them and puts them away and makes people go, holy shit. Didn't see that coming. To me, that's not middle-weighty middle-weight.

Middle-weighty-middle-weight to me would be, I don't know. Like, Phil Haas could be a middle-weighty-middle-weight. Like, that's not a bad one. I feel like he has the skill set to be more than that. I don't know. You know what- Jocko is the quintess.

Jacob Malkoon is a great middle-weighty middle-weight. Absolutely. Like great wrestler, tremendous pace, doesn't finish people really ever. Jacob Malkun might be the number one contender for the middle-weightiest middle-weight title. That might be the actually perfect pick. We, I can't believe I forgot this name.

Eric Anders is definitely in there. Can't believe I forgot that name. But Eric gets a lot of, well, yes. He didn't get to finish in his last fight. He did, but it's not at frequent. He's got to a lot of decisions. And this fight coming up, these guys are a bit older, but I feel like they're, one of them could be in the talk soon.

I'm so excited they matched up Ed Herman. And the other problem is, I think it's a light heavyweight fight. Ed Herman and Zach Cummings, right? It's a light heavyweight fight. Yeah, it's not a. Yeah. Like, Brad Tavar's at this stage is a middleweighty, like mostly decisions.

Sure. But, man, like, there is a bright future for young Jacob Alcun as the middle, as a future middleweightist middleweight champion. Like, this is why I feel like Brendan, if he gets the deep, I think if he, let's say he ends up fighting DDP somehow, DDP beats Bruns and he fights CDP. I think if he beats CDP, he has to pass the belt down. Okay. Fair enough.

Okay, okay, okay. He doesn't need it after that. But his, I mean, his career is. taking a whole new turn since winning this belt. It's huge. His manager, Ali Abdel Aziz, thinks Brennan Al, is two wins away from a title shot now.

It's not unreasonable. It's... Well, maybe. I think he's well more than two ways. If those wins are, he beats Drigas Dupus C. and then beats like Jert Canaaner? He's going to need more than that.

What if he beats Robert Whitaker? That's not going to happen, but what if he did? If he beats Robert Whitaker? Ricker, yes, he gets a title shot. If he beats Bobby Knuckles, he gets a title shot, but he ain't getting that fight anytime soon. I'm just saying, that's what his management is talking about. Hayes for third, also throwing out,

Sakai versus Arlowski, too. Sure, it's time. Why not? I don't know. Levitt v. Mark Jekisi. I don't mind that. Peak versus Traoggan. I think you mentioned that one.

All right, Hayes, thank you for those picks. Braden O'Neill. Let's do a few more here. Braden O'Neill. Peak versus Anshal Jubilee. I think Peak, I would love to see that. I want to bring, but I think Peak is a step above him. I'd like to see Jubilee get a lot more experience for us.

I know people are like, oh, they're both one UFC fight. But like we said, Peak has been fighting pretty good competition in the U.S. Jubilee is, again, come from India, not the most super developed country yet as far as MMA goes. A talented guy, I think he could be a great fighter. I think he's ways away from us figuring out what he is. So I don't want to see that next. Maybe somewhere down the road. Mr. Guy MMA on Twitter, Pete versus Gennaro Valdez,

and Tatiana Suarez versus the Calvillo Lupi Godinez loser. One, I did not know that fight was happening. Two, is that a, that's a, what division is this happening in? 15, I think. I did not even know this was happening. I'm going to take a quick look at topology here. That is happening, yeah, 287, excuse me. straw weight okay

straw weight so cubbio is dropping back down interesting all right um i actually don't mind that i don't know how you feel about it don't love it but loopie would love to have a shot at tatana swarres well yeah loopie will fight her tomorrow she'd fight her the next day

that's how we love her so we love loopie uh leum perry levitt versus ludovic klein jai herbert winner uc 26 march 18 peak versus ma'sotei suarez lemo sure popular pick Sakai versus Rodrigo Nassimento, why not? And I want to end on this one, Mike. Clearest values coming in with very emphatic.

Brendan Allen versus Marvin Vittori when he loses, all caps, loses to Roman Deleetze, UFC 286 March 18th. How do you like that? How do you like that is part of the two-fight, the two-fights-away plan? How do you look, Marvin Vittori? I mean, if Marvin loses, that's the three losses in a row for Marvin. Is it really? The win loses its luster, right?

Is that three straight losses? Does Marvin Votori fall and start falling into a middleweighty middleweight range? I mean, he probably is there and probably has been his entire run. He just fought for a title. I know, but I mean, he probably is like the quintessential middleweight he is middleweight. We could be getting, we could be getting to that place. Like if Marvatory, if Marr, ooh. No, he beat Paul.

He beat Paul. Costa. He beat Polo Costa. So it's two out of his last three. is the two out of his last three he won the cost of the fight he won the cost of it

hmm I will say that man if this happens and they do Brennan versus Marvin Vittory Marvin Vittory becomes the middleweightest middleweight champion win or lose

because I mean he I think he is the standard I think when Marvin Vittory's career is over he's going to be doing talks about being the middleweightiest middleweight because he probably is but he's just he's just so good at it

he's so good at it he's so good at it. Wow. My head hurts now. See the evolution of this title? Wow. This is great stuff.

The permutations, Mike. The permutations are hurting my skull. Dude, like, you understand that this is getting over to a point where we're going to have to do this for every division, right? And we've already, again, we've already kind of, listen, Augusta Sakai and Jamal, who was it last week? Jamal Pogs, they're showing kind of what it means to be a heavyweightiest heavyweight. I'm just saying.

I'm just saying. I'm telling you right now, and I'm just going to put this out for the universe right the second. If we get a world where Paco Pota fights Chris Barnett, we are introducing the heavyweightiest heavyweight title. We were on BTL and someone was like, oh, someone was reporting that the UFC's coming to Boston sometime in April, which I had not heard that,

and I didn't see that report in anywhere. Like, what would be the main event? I was like, Parker Porter needs to fight somebody for the heavyweightiest heavyweight title. So, yeah, if we get, get Porter versus Barnett booked, that will be through the inaugural heavyweightiest heavyweight title. But I'm so excited where this is going to

go this year. It's just going to become a thing and I'm so pumped. 2023 is really picking up. It's the year of the raw dog. It's the year of the divisionally divisionist titles across the board. I'm so excited. I'm torn about some of these developments, but

overall, yes, excitement. Do you have any more, AK? That's it. Oh, I'm sorry. That was Yeah, I want to close on that. That is it. That is, thank you, Clearst Values, for that show closer. All right, so I want to read two more picks. Tino Alvarez, Mike Malad, Jeremiah Wells.

That's a good fight. But there's two that I looked at. You mentioned Jordan Leve, Jim Miller. We already discussed that one. Joe Selecki A.K. Versus Carlos Diego Fajara. What do you think about that matchup? Because I think that would be fun as hell, man.

The grappling exchanges in that fight would be just sick. Hold on. I need to look up. We haven't seen CDF in a minute. Hold on, hold on, hold on. Okay. Okay, that was, I just had a weird moment. Victor Martinez, he fought, who did Victor Martinez fight? Oh, he lost Jordan Leavitt.

And this is Joe. Victor Martinez is a CDF. Yeah, that's why I was confused. Okay. So I said, Joe Selecki, this is Joe Selecki versus Diego. CDF, yeah. Okay, interesting, interesting. Yeah, sorry, so there's no connection there.

I just was wondering why I thought about Diego Fed ahead of this morning. Um, wow. Wow. Faheda before his injury was like, I think he was top of dean of the UFC official rankings. And I know he's been, I don't know if he's ranked anymore. I know he's been hovering around our global rankings for some time. Um, I like it. That's very good.

I like it too. That's very good. Very good. And there's a storyline. Okay. There's a storyline there. Victor Martinez, a pupil of Diego Faheda. There you go.

you try to get one back for a student Wait no way you said Hold on you said Wait wait no way I I confused you because you said Selector Martinez No no Victor Martinez is trained by Carlos Diego Fajeda

Yeah yeah yeah but you said Selecki versus Ferreira right Right And oh no That's my fault I confuse you I confused you I am a mess I know I know

I brought it up for no reason I brought it up for no reason That's on me Okay there we go I take responsibility Forget everything that just happened there But here's the other one that I thought was interesting. Okay.

Jasmine Jazz DeVizius versus Molly McCann. That's a good one. In London. In London. Yep. I would do that fight.

I would do that fight. Because I think JASD I honestly think people are like, I don't think a lot of people know who Jasmine is. And that people who just are getting to know her as UFC fighter, Jasmine Jast Bivis. are starting to see the personality that I've seen from Jasmine since she was like a one and no pro. She's hilarious. She's super funny.

And she could be something. Like she could be something. I wish she was a little, yeah, I wish she found the sport a little sooner. Her story is just crazy. She is like a legit natural with MMA. It's just wild how she found the sport. And that was a great performance. And if she beats Molly McCann, she gets over in a big way.

So, and if she loses, who gives shit? Who cares? Like, I think that's actually a really good fight. Yeah, that's, that's perfect match baking to me. That is, again, if it happens in London, specifically, you make this in London. Yeah, 100%. Sure, it's a bummer for the home crowd.

If Jasmine gets an upset win, I do think she would be the underdog going in. It's a bummer, but at least for the UFC in the grand picture, you're like, oh, okay, maybe we have someone who can do, we have another player at 125. And again, if McCann, you know, the odds play out, McCann gets a knockout or an exciting decision win. there you go you're keeping that Molly McCann train rolling so yeah great matchmaking I don't think either woman is destroyed at all by a loss I like it Tino that's a couple of that's a couple of hits there I'm into it you did good you did good that's good stuff um yeah so I think we're done here if you're

listening I feel like we should cut like different things oh what did you think of that Jake Paul win what did you think of that Jake Paul loss what did you think of Tommy Fury not making it to the Listen, people were getting plenty of that. Like I said, by the time, I don't know what time they're going to listen to the show. But sometimes Saturday, guys, you'll be treated to a post-fight, a Jake Paul, Tommy Ferry post-fight show. So look forward to that. So next week, we will be discussing the fallout of UFC 285.

We will be live. So a reminder. And I always feel back because I forget to do this. It's a live show. So the pick submissions, don't go that route. and it's unfortunate for the people who like can't wake up or the days beyond them, but we're going to only be doing picks on the during the YouTube chat on Saturday. I'm not sure what time that show is going to start because I will be in New York,

so it's always kind of a mess. We can sprinkle in some DM picks, but for the most part, it's going to be what pops up on our screen that we're going to focus on. Because I usually have like an hour and I can't go any longer on those live shows because it gets a little too chaotic where I have to do the show. But of course, we get John. Jones versus Cyril Ghani, Valentina Shepchenko versus Alexe Grasso for the flyway title, Shafcott, Rukh Neal, Batush Gamrot, Jalen Turner, Bo Nichols' debut against Jamie Pickett,

Cody Garbrandt, back against Trevin Jones, DDPC, DDPC, versus Derek's Duplase, versus Vigiano Arru, Amanda Hebas. This card is so ridiculous. Julia Marquez versus Mark Andre Barrio. Love it. Ian Machado Gary versus Kanon Song. Mana Martinez versus Cameron Simon, Jessica Penne versus Tabitha Ritchie,

Fareed Basharath versus Demand Blackshear. And apparently there's another fight on the books. Another report, Igor Lazarin is reporting that Kamala Kirk is out of his fight with Esteban Rebovich. But stepping in is a man who has been kind of in the middle of this Connem-Morreger tough controversy because of Gilbert's sharing stories. uh, Loik, uh, Rodzaboff. Oh, PFL is apparently stepping in.

Yes, apparently, Lloyd was supposed to be on the ultimate fighter. Uh, there is, there have been talks about Connor has basically put his foot down, said, no, he's off the show. I want my teammates in. Who knows what's the truth and what isn't? But apparently, uh,

Radzaboff is one of those guys, according to Gilbert Burns. And this actually works out way better for Mr. Radsabob. He doesn't have to do the ultimate fighter. BS. He's already in the UFC apparently, so we'll see if that is, in fact, the truth, if that is

actually happening, but that is on the books. But I cannot wait for UFC 285-8. This is such a well-constructed card. You got prospects, a lot of fights with prospects and up-and-comers early on the card. You've got veteran names for the, yeah, veteran names on the ESP, the, I guess the not early

prelims, the regular prelims. And then, of course, a stack main card led off by so intriguing, Bo Nickel, Mickey's Day, view and then plenty of fights with a couple of fights with contender implications and two title fights so oh and john jones is back so there we go that's uh something people are talking about i guess and i'm always intrigued about how julian marquez will fumble the bag if he wins in his microphone work it's always the best uh and i mean this i mean this with great love because i am a i'm a big fan of julian marquez but i can never get the bylie cyrus thing out of my head because it's just

such a fumble rusky. Holy cow. It was so terrible. But I am pumped for UFC 285. I'm pumped for the whole fight week. I'll probably be a little tired and grumpy afterwards, but I'm still going to be pumped to talk about the aftermath of it all. So it's going to be a very exciting week.

Of course, we will be there. Jose Young's will be on site for that card. So we'll have Media Day press conference, weigh-in stuff galore. Heck of morning all week. BTL will be a fun live show talking about the comings and goings from 285. preview shows, post-fight shows, people's pre-fight shows, and a live on to the next one.

It's going to be a bonkers week, everybody. So stick with us at maffight.com. We'll get through this craziness together. And we'll be back next week right here and on to the next one, the podcast. Just always a friendly reminder. Don't take the stuff too seriously. MMA is supposed to be fun. We'll see you next week, everybody.

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