MMA Fighting - The A-Side Live Chat | Looking back at 2019, looking ahead to 2020, end of the year awards

Episode Date: January 1, 2020

For this episode of The A-Side Live Chat, José Youngs and Petesy Carroll kick off 2020 by breaking down some of the top storylines in the world of mixed martial arts. Some of the topics they will discuss will be the fallout from Bellator Japan and Rizin 20, the impending return of Conor McGregor at UFC 246, our picks for the 2019 Fight of the Year, Knockout of the Year, Submission of the Year & Fighter of the Year, and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Well, we're live, and people are... That's how we're going to start. Pete's the Carol's saying you can apologize and blah, blah, blah, blah. Well, we're three minutes late and Petezied... Because we were talking about comic books for a while because Bitsa Carroll got his first comic books ever for the holidays. He's reading... He's her name Akita, or as you Westerners call it, Akira.

We don't know how to read. And I was just asking Jose. how do I do that? You get it, so you can see my massive show for comic books behind me. Welcome to the club, Peecey Carroll. Yeah, but don't apologize to those people. Those people.

They should be so lucky to have what's talking to you on New Year's Day. Right. So what for three minutes late? You're looking we're even here. Happy New Year's, by the way. Happy New Year to you. Merry Christmas.

It's been more beautiful, even more beautiful in 2020. Oh, you. Oh, you. So how are your holidays, by the way? We didn't have an A-Side last week. Would you get out to on Christmas? I recorded Eurobash That's true

That is true No Yeah I had a great Christmas My little nieces three So it was very exciting Santa Claus Everything like that Oh she's at the age

Where Christmas is like a really big deal Early in the morning Yeah It was great You know what I mean It brings a little bit of magic Back to it And yeah

I was on the 20 third Of December I was like a fucking hey Christmas I'm then on the If I was like It's the best most magical time Of the year

What did you get up to New Year's? My friend, David, moved into a house with his soon-to-be wife, fiancee. So we went out there to see the house for the first time and we had a few drinky pews out there. It's great crack, actually. You? You?

Pizza Carol had a few drinks on a holiday? No. It was a special occasion. But it's a, it's, I prefer to, you would be the same as me? Like, you'd prefer to be at a house party than, like a club? I hate that shit.

I can't do clubs. I've walked into like New Year's Eve. Like here in Phoenix they have a lot of like bars and stuff that do things. I remember I've walked in and I'm like, nope. And I just immediately turn around. It's like that gif of like the Samson's grandfather where he like walks in and does a lap and that just like leaves immediately. That's been me many a time.

The smell of cheap after shave and desperation just always turns me off. You know what I mean? People groin on you. I don't have that problem. I don't have that problem. I don't know what they do out there in Ireland just walking around stabbing people and grinding on people all day. You'll take the groin' over the stab any day.

I'll take your word for it. I will take your word for it. But as always, we could talk about pizza getting stabbed all we want for hours on end. But we won't do that this time. We're going to talk about mixed martial arts because we haven't done in the long time. No fights, really, in the UFC since the last time we talked.

But that doesn't mean there haven't been fights in general. There's a big bell at our Japan car. or 237, whatever you want to call it. We have the Risen card that you watched. That was great fun. Casey and Esther were there on the site out in Tokyo. You should stay on this. After this, go watch all their videos.

They also have coffee. They have a coffee talk that's coming out, which I'm very excited to watch. Do they? Yes, they do. Who did they get for the coffee talk? I think it's just them. I haven't watched it yet.

I have not quite watched it. I'm saving it for when we're doing this. I'm going to put it on YouTube on my big television, and I'll sit down and watch my fellow quote unquote hipsters want to coffee talk I mean the slagins are just so bad I wish they'd just get better at that shit

but they are the best at that I think it's the best thing for Casey and Esther because it's just like a hang with them isn't it? I think it's great I love it and if you haven't seen it there's a long thread on Twitter and they're all on Instagram of Esther's photos from the Ryzen card

she did for not even just Rising the Bellator card too And I think usually 243, the Israel out of sign a card. She was like that is some of her finest work she's ever done. Same thing for 244, 245, especially that Kevin Lee, Gregor Gillespie fight, where she just got all the perfect shots. But she was on another level on rising. Like people getting choked out, people getting head kicked.

I have that tension photo of the guy and kicking the mouthpiece out is one of the coolest photos I've ever seen. She also put together her photos of the decade that she put out on. Twitter and Instagram, which is unbelievable. I had the joy of posting them and just sifting through. I go, I don't even know how you can just pick. Isn't it? That's what I thought. It's the funny.

It's like, you know, they're picking the photos of the decade. And under nearly everyone, there's like 10 replies with 10 different pictures that could have been in the dread that were definitely there. I mean, which was the one I saw today, the John Jones walkaway guillotine on Machita, where he just flopped lifeless to the ground. Yeah. I remember actually watching that live and just being like, holy. fuck.

When he did that he's like what the fuck that was the that was in college when that happened I convinced my professor to let me cover that event

for school that was the first time I got to cover a UFC event but yeah go check out Esther stuff Casey has

did awesome work as usual with the scrums I was very fascinating watching because last rising card I did not work with you

I didn't I was with MFA but I didn't work it this is the first rising card New Year's Eve card I really worked where Casey was on the site

it was very fascinating to watch the media day process from know how Belator works, I know Cage Warriors works, I know how the UFC works. It was fascinating watching another promotion that isn't a native English speaking, do media.

So it was just, it was an interesting time to watch and I always like watch Verizon because it reminds me of pride. So I had a good time. I was actually thinking of you as I'm watching this event because I know you're putting together at the events. I was like, oh, no. I had already, I had already.

I had already. I had already finished writing it and submitted it by the time that was over. And I kicked myself. Like, that was harder than I thought event of the year. Because I was putting it together because Alex Kaley, who was the czar of the end of the year awards, signed me the event of the year because he says I can rattle off events by memory. And I had, it was very difficult because it was like, I put my top five together and it was like all UFC. And I was like, that doesn't seem right.

like there's been better there's been really good non-UFC fights like the cage warriors won the first bellator car with fadour and bader was really good uh the ks wkhs w was really good uh there was been the one championship it was a lot harder i thought it was one century this year as well fucking hell yeah it's yeah it's been a lot of events so i was like top five was hard like putting it together i had to like trust my i'm like so then at the end i was like whatever i'm just gonna trust my gut like that's what i did with the points of the decade one as well i was just like i know i have i have a bone to pick with you on fights of the decade too petero petero what did i do you did not include my favorite fight of all time koread zombie at pari yep that is my

single favorite fight of all time and as soon as i saw your list i was like i bet he didn't include it and sure enough sure i think like i mean there's a lot of when you're doing these things right there's all these like people don't realize there's 20 events from the decade that every, like, that people will say have to be on the list. You have to rattle it down to 10 or fights, whatever it is. And it's like, even with you, I'd say you thought of at least a short list of like 15 events. And then you're like, now I have to get this down to five. Yeah.

And by the time you do that, I mean, you can't even think straight. Like, it's just like, all right, this is what I'm going to have to go with. Otherwise I'm going to be here till next year trying to put together this fucking list. You know what I mean? I don't think we did breakthrough fighter of the year. That would have been hard too. That would have been real hard. Last year it was really easy because we had the emergence of Israel out of signing it.

But I was looking at my list of fighters of the year, a breakthrough fighters of the year. And I had Izzy, Alexander Volcanowski, and Wiley Zeng on my 2018 breakthroughs. Piece of piss this year, it's Piota Yan. Or Giorzino. No, it's Pioreen. I think you'll find it's Piota Yan, the more you look at it. Yeah, I mean, how many times did it? Was he 3 in 2009?

Well, we're going to say, we'll say, we'll say. this because we're going to do like our picks of the year at like our ends of the year thing at the end because we so we'll save our uh lists for then but as always this is not our podcast this is your guys's podcast you can ask us whatever you want it is pizzi's podcast we just live we're just watching it so you can leave your question on the site you can use hashtag the a site on twitter i don't look at the questions until i'm on the air so you can ask whatever you want i also have the youtube chat open for all of you lovely people to make fun of us and ask us questions whether who would win in a fight between me and pizzi because we

know the answer would be me. But we're going to keep moving on. First question on the site from longtime commentator Trumbo. We're kicking off the 2020s. With one of the longest commenters we've had. So two or false? And one question. So true or false, Pizzi. Oh, first of all, happy north. True or false for 2020. For 4 2020,

Max Holloway wins back the featherweight championship of the world. False. That's... I'm going to say false too, simply because there's a lot going on there now isn't there Volcanoski's a Bia Rodriguez there's lots of matchups like yeah exactly like I mean look we're forgetting

like there's so many fights that could be made that aren't Max Holloway there and I think he deserves a shot of course he does at the belt straight away he's brilliant I think he's fantastic but there's just a lot that can happen there and I think you know I wouldn't be surprised if we see Max take a long bit of time off

allowing someone else to fight for the title and then who knows I don't know well I was looking like did you watch Did you listen to the Joe Rogan podcast with Max Holloway on it? Yeah. He said that this was a weird fight when he lost to Volcanowski because he said of his last few fights, he took the least amount of damage against Volcanowski,

and he's still lost. So everyone, like, I was thinking to myself, like, in my mind, I was like, well, I wouldn't be, I wouldn't put it past Max to take a lot of time off, but have we heard Max say that? Because I feel like everyone else is saying it, but I haven't heard Max say he wants to take a lot of time off. I feel like we're just kind of putting that on him.

Yeah, like, I guess, I guess when you just look at his activity, like, he's just always going, and you're like, maybe this is a nice time where you don't feel like you need to keep defending the belt. You can take that time off to decide what you want to do next. Because, like, he's a living legend in our sport. Like, he can kind of think about what he wants to do next. And I always remember, you know, this 55-Cutak isn't going to go away, even though he's no longer the champion.

And I always think of, you know, The people like yourself who know a lot about this sport always say, maybe if he wants to take code of 55, he needs to take that elongated period off to put some good weight on his body and stuff. I mean, there's a lot of options there, and you certainly wouldn't blame the guy for taking a break at this stage, you know?

Yeah, I think what he has, like, what could benefit him too is Volcanowski had surgery on his hand. He broke his hand in the fight. So Volcanowski could be out for a while too. So if Max wants to wait for him to return, that could be hugely beneficial for him in the long run. I was on the team that if Max wanted to take a lot of time off, he would get an immediate title fight regardless of who is the champion.

Kind of like how Rhonda Rousey did. When she lost to Holly, the belt changed hands twice during her time off. Like Misha beat Holly and then Amanda Nunes beat Misha. And then when Rhonda came back, she fought Amanda because she had the belt. So I was on this team where if Max wants to take 12 months off, whoever has the belt when he comes back, he gets to fight. Could be Volkanowski. It could be the beat.

It could be Korean zombie. Max gets, Max gets to cut the line of contenders. So if he wants to do that, great. But if Volcanovsky's out for a while, and Dana White did say he wants to go to Australia every year now, like that part of the world. If Izzy is still champion and Volcanowski is still champion, I don't know why you don't do, say Israel Adasanya beats Yo-Ramaro in March,

like the rumored fight is going to be. And then they want to get him turn him around and fight Paulo Costa. Israel has signed in Paulo Costa in Volcanowski, Max Holloway is Maine and Co-Maine down in that part of the world. That is a phenomenal card right there. Especially if Dan Hooker wins in Adelaide. Is it in Adelaide, right?

Yeah, that's correct, yeah. Auckland, is it? Or Auckland. I can't quite remember. I always get those too confused. Auckland is New Zealand. It's in New Zealand. So, Auckland.

Correct. And Dan Hooker beats Paul Felder. Throw him on that card too. Maybe he gets a Porier type of guy. Like, that's a phenomenal card for that part of the world. You have someone? my city kickboxing guys that are coming true as well i expect that gym to keep having guys signed as well um but um here's here's a funny thing i was just thinking about as you were talking there

you know i know he's not coveted this fight and it's not something he's ever made a priority of but he's probably he's probably in a better position in the connor mcgregor sweepstacks off a loss and losing the 45 title than he was with it because now he doesn't have to be like this is champs I have to defend against the number one contender and stuff like that. You know, Connor obviously doesn't want to fight at 45. It doesn't seem like he does, but at 55, he might look at what Porre did to Holloway there, and if everything doesn't go according to his plan,

with his three-tier plan from Soroni to Masvedal and then to No Magamatov. I feel like Max is right there, and it's a fight that every time it's popped up on social media or anything, people are really, really interested in it. You're not wrong. Like, I hadn't thought about that. I just know Connor has his plan. I think if Connor,

I'm still adamant that if Connor loses to Cowboy Soroni in a few weeks that he should get the trilogy with Nate. And if he loses that, we might never see Connor again. But yeah, Max is, he could rematch Max. He could rematch Dustin. He could fight Justin Gage. Like, there's a lot, like, when we were trying to make this whole what's going to happen to the Welterweight,

lightweight division situation, a lot has to happen when Connor and Cowboy fight. Like that one fight is like the lynch pin to a lot of matchups. because like Connor wins, then you have the Mazur doll fight. Connor loses, then Mazuradol could fight Usman and then Connor could fight Nate. If Cowboy wins dominantly, maybe they give him a shot, like move him up the 170-pound rankings. Like a lot has to happen that card before we can even pot, like make possible matchups. And I feel like, I mean, I was kind of, we were talking about this fight, no, every week probably since it's been announced or whatever.

And I can remember when we were initially talking about, oh, you had talked to Owen Ruddy. and I mean that's probably one of two interviews anyone has done from the camp like it's been radio silence again and that just worries me because the McGregor who was on top of his game everybody from the camp couldn't wait to do interviews to talk about

great he looked how amazing he was all this stuff and it was the same before Habib there was this radio silence and when that happens I'm always like well why aren't people talking here this should be exciting like this is the return of one of the most polarizing stars of the sport and nobody from the camp is putting themselves in front of a camera to speak about it.

It's just, well, apart from Owen Roddy, of course, you have a lot of time for doing that for me. But I just feel like it was always something that was pretty, it goes hand in hand with a Conner camp, all of these guys talking all of these guys talking about great he looks. Now, Kavana's not even doing interviews, you know what I mean? It's just, it's a bit, I don't know, it's off-putting for me having covered his career since he was 20 or whatever, you know what I mean? Well, speak of the devil, 34 minutes ago, John Kavanaugh, just tweeted January 1st last this he tweeted this just 34 minutes ago January 1st last heavy spar today before we go to Vegas can honestly say this is the best I've seen him it wasn't sure

that was possible to do six months ago you guys are in for a real treat I'm glad to have a good seat hashtag USC 246 so 34 minutes ago John Kavanaugh tweeted that this is the best he's seen on in a long time yeah but I don't unless I'm going to talk to you and I can actually feel what you're saying I don't believe that like I mean yeah you know he said he probably he said something similar before he fought Habib, and I don't care what anyone says. It's the worst version of Connor we saw. So, I mean, that's when you kind of start going, well, all right, you said it. Does that mean it's true?

I don't know. Sure. Well, we're going to move keeping in the Connor McGregor, what do you call it, theme. Vane. It doesn't have to be about Connor McGregor, but one of his former opponents. Two or false, Jose Aldo wins the Bantamweight title. I tell you what, he looked fucking good. He did.

I actually had him winning. I think Jan and guys like that are going to be trouble for him though. Jan or Al Jermaine who's long and lanky and has really good submission game. But I feel like if you can just, if he can just, he never uses those leg kicks as much as we used to see him in the WEC days. Remember he fought favor and he disabled the guy. Like he would just destroy his legs. And I guess the early in the Moro's fight,

it seemed like he was going to go with something like that. I think that would be the way to fight Jan if you're trying to, you know, because he's so predominantly a boxer. I think, you know, that's the real way Al-Lo could have success against him. But I guess I think that's a tough fight from, I think, someone like Al Jemaine Sterling could cause him a lot of problems in terms of wrestling and stuff like that. So, you know, I think it would be an amazing story, but I'm going to go with false. Yeah, I'll say false too, I think, well, we have to even see when Henry Sohout, like,

if Henry Sehout, like, if Henry Sehout only fights once this year, then who's he, like, and he fights Aldo? I don't know if, like, if Aldo, I think Aldo could beat Sohudo, for sure. but if Suhudo wants Aldo in his next fight, I slightly favor Aldo against Henry Suhudo. But it really depends on, like, if Sehudo faces Peter Yan, and Jan wins, I don't think anyone's going to take the belt from Yan anytime soon if he wins. I think, again, it depends on who Suhudo fights next before, but I'm going to say false.

True or false, John Jones fights to the heavyweight championship. False. I'm going to say true. he's already talking about it at the press conference. He's been talking about it years. Every time he does this shit where he's like, oh, yeah, I'm going to do it. And you're like, oh, this is going to be great. And then he doesn't fucking do it.

So, I mean, I'm sorry, I'm not going to get myself excited anymore. Look, I'm already getting excited talking about. I'm going to say true because at that last press conference, when it was him and Dominic up on stage, he said that he was actually trying to fight Stipe in October or September. But they already had, they had other plans for him. So I'm going to say true. The only thing I think. What's on more lucrative at this stage.

Yeah. Like, I mean... The only thing I think would stop that is Stepe is currently sidelines recovering from his last fight against D.C. And D.C. said that in another interview that he's waiting for Stepe. And he's like... So Stipe and D.C. don't fight until August, December. And then there's another fight of the year candidate and they get banged up again. So the only thing that I think would prevent John Jones from fighting for the heavyweight championship of the world is if the heavyweight champion is on the sideline.

But I do expect him to fight at heavyweight. it just depends on who he fights that's my take yeah I feel like you know as much as we've been singing the praise of eliza blachovitch and Corey Anderson who you know we love that guy he's in amazing

and we love his kind of rubbing the UFC up the wrong way everything about what he's doing at the moment is really good for media members and fans I'd say maybe not so much the brass but you know as much as he's doing great work it's it still doesn't it doesn't compare it to Jones going up to heavyweight

like it's it's going to be a completely different thing so such a big fight I feel no matter who he takes on there I don't even feel like you know whoever's the champion I feel like it's john jones moving up to heavyweight is the story rather than anyone he's taken on you know I agree uh I agree it's I'm curious but then John is so meticulous with his every decision he makes is like laid out and like strategize so if he goes to heavyweight he said I can't imagine he's just going to he's not going to want to take a lot of time to bulk up Like, I don't think he's like, when Bader went up to heavyweight for that Grand Prix, there were a lot of light heavyweights that just kind of moved up, like the rampage and Chale Sunnett, like the, like the rampages and the Chal Sunnins and there were a lot of guys like that.

And Bader just kind of, he was a light heavyweight that just stopped cutting weight. Because, like, Fador is not the biggest heavyweight in the world. He looked like more of a natural heavyweight than Fadar did when they fought. Exactly. And then the only real legitimate heavyweight he fought was Matt Mitrione, who just dominated. He just ragged all them for like 15 minutes. So Bader, he said that at the end of the run, he felt like a legitimate heavyweight, but when he first started, his body just was a light heavyweight that stopped cutting weight.

Same thing as Darren Caldwell in this featherweight tournament. He goes, I'm just a bannon weight. That's not cutting weight right now. Like, I'm still abandon weight. My body just, I haven't bulked up yet. So I feel like John Jones is not going to take that approach. And he's going to take time to become a real heavyweight before he moves up. well like i mean people don't give people a lot of credit like i mean i feel like

max holloway did that against porre johanna did that against valentina and shevchenko and because they lost people are like oh this guy sucks and you're like you know not not that not that everyone says that but you do see and you're like do you realize the risk that this this person just took in this fight like i mean you've met you've met the know stuff about the sport if you're going to follow it so passionately you know what i mean even look at uh jacaree rockhold and widened like they all yeah they're going up from middleweight to light heavyweight that was rough for them too uh didn't work out for them and before that we were seeing the praises of the tago santos the anthony smiths that moved up it looked great it doesn't

work out for everyone uh they also got rough matchups right out of the gate where uh i think anthony smith took the slow climb because he wasn't like a world beater he didn't have high expectations uh same thing for uh um um diago santoes he kind of filled in on short notice uh who did he fight in his, was it Eric, Eric Anders was his first fight at light heavyweight when he filled in. Was it Manoa? No, it was so, he was. Oh, Mojave been Anders in Brazil, was it? He was supposed to fight Manoa, but then Manoa got hurt and then he fought, so that was his two middleweights fighting in light heavyweight. And then the next fight was Manoa. And then the next, and the next, and the next fight was Yon. So like, Tiago Santos didn't fight Dominic Ray's in his first fight.

He didn't fight, he didn't fight, uh, like, so he, he did the slow climb up too. And All those fights were absolutely insane. He had no expectations of light heavyweight. He just turned out he was phenomenal. And now a lot of people think he beat John Jones. I keep seeing 1-2-5 a lot on Twitter for the rounds that they think he won. One sentence I wrote in that fight for the decades piece against Gustavs, with the Jones and Gustafsman fight.

I'm like, and no one has pushed him as hard to this day. And straight away, as soon as it went there, it was like, that's the only line I looked down. I was like, fuck. Because Diego Zandos might have beaten him, you know what I mean? It's like, oh, my argument, Gustafin might have beaten him as well, but it's the reason he boys, people are like, fuck you, Pizzi. They would say that anyway. To her false, Rose is the 125-pound champion at the end of 2020.

No. Absolutely not. I don't think Valentina's losing a lot for a long time. This guy, maybe Trumbo meant 115. Oh, we're still on Trumbo. Fair play. He's giving us a lot of juice here, in fairness. These are all good questions.

Rose is the Maybe he met 115 Do you think Rose would be the 115 pound champion? Actually, save that Because we have a question coming up later Toer Falls, Bellator does another tournament Bansomweight Featherweight or Lightweight

Well, they're already doing a featherweight tournament right now I have to It's not like they need to do this stuff Because they are so bad Building narratives that lasts Like more than one event I feel like you know That's why these things really go well

the European series like I mean we have no idea of where people are on the totem pole because it's just like here's a bunch of fights again woo you know there's like you need to give us something here I was even arguing for get European titles over here and if you become the European title then you then you've the European champion you know within six months you can get get to fight the the international champion I feel like that's their big issue here they've had some great great sold-out cards in Dublin but I feel as though if they don't actually develop a storyline and you know if they don't have those you know reasons for people to be coming back to these things rather than just going to a fight card i feel like it's going to be hard to maintain those sold-out shows even though they have like superstars like james galler over here who command such big attention all over the world i just feel like they need to work on what are we actually selling here what is the product i don't like james gallagher has the makings could be a massive star like he could be a huge star in america uh he's obviously a huge deal in europe especially in when he headlines the Dublin cards.

Lost in Sioux Falls, but he also has a win in Madison Square Garden. But like Michael Venom Page, I want to see him fight like these upper echelon in America. So, like, we can see him fight. Like, I would love to cover James Gallagher fight. But I want, like Michael Venom Page, I was around him a lot in Chicago. And I think being around him a lot in Chicago and the fan seeing him around a lot was hugely beneficial for Belator. Yes, he lost, but he lost to Douglas Lima very violently. But the way he handled himself too, because a lot of people saw that, I think got him a lot of fans.

Yes, there were a lot of haters, but a lot of fans were like very shocked at how positive he was on the outcome. Like, yeah, I lost. I hope he becomes champion now. People don't realize that James and the looks of James and Michael have been competing in martial arts since they're like 10 years old. They have lost so many times you wouldn't believe. probably in horrendously embarrassing ways. It just wasn't people there to see it. So, I mean, it's like, the thing with James is, you know, I completely agree with that,

that they need to move them on to that US opposition again. But they need to do that by doing something with his fights here. Like, I mean, why isn't he fighting for the Bantamweight, the European Bantamweight title against Carl Eleanor, who beat a Cage Warriors champion in his debut? Like, when you're a Cage Warriors champion, you are waiting to be signed by the UFC. can you defend that title enough to the point where they go and sign you? That's all that is. It's like you're next in line.

So if he's done that to a former cage warrior's champion and now he's fighting James, I mean, don't get me wrong, there's lots of great bantamites there that I'm sure would be like, I want to fight for that title. And I get that, but you've got to let James. If he's the one selling out cards, the headline of these Irish cards that are selling out 10,000 seats, that's the guy you need fighting for the title.

And look... Sorry, go ahead. There's no bansomite champion, period, in Bellator right now. Horaguchi vacated because it was a lot. injury. Yeah, but there'll be murder if they put that for the, the, the, on the spewed of title, Carl Eleanor and Jane Garland. No, I'm not talking about that, but if Gallagher wins, he's a big star, why wouldn't he fight for the championship of the world? Like, not even European. Like, if he fights for the Bellator championship on another Madison

Square Garden card they want to put, like, you know, Gallagher's going to be a big star. He comes in here, he, people see him fighting for a major championship in Madison Square Garden on a major card, maybe put like... That's huge with the Irish, too, you know? The East Coast of America. stack it stack that whole card like what they like they used to do uh like like okay perfect example last madison square garden card erin pico adam borge was known to relative like hardcore fans he gets on the msg card with the all like son and machita rory mcdonald dylan dianis they see him knock out erin pico all of a sudden he's not only a big star he's doing all the interviews he's in

the featherweight grand prix he was on the m m m m m mary hour after he did it uh sorry mate hey he was on Eurobash before and after. He was on Eurobash before and after. So stick Gallagher on MSG card for the Bannerweight Championship of the world. Why not? If he loses, he's still a former title contender, and he can, it's not like that's it for him. It's so funny, yeah, because every time, like, when he lost him by and Diaz, people are like, oh, it's over now. You're like, no, it's not.

Like, Connor lost to Nate and he's still the biggest star in the UFC. Like, let him fight in America against, like, a big name opponent. Like, have him, have MVP by Douglas Lima on the card. Like, have, who's a Brazilian prospect? I don't, can't think of a Brazilian prospect of Bandonwite off the top of my head. Make him, like, make him fight Gallagher. Do Brazil versus the UK. Like, Brazil versus Europe, champion versus a contender.

Do that, there's a narrative right there. I don't know. Yeah. But if they do a Bandsomweight tournament. That's what we thought it was going to be. That's, like, the thing is, that's what we thought the European series was going to be. And it was sometimes, like, they had Patricie Pitbull versus Royenscope. They had Tim Elliott versus Brent Primis.

They're doing Quilly v. Primis on this. But we thought we'd see a lot more of that. I thought all the main card would be pretty much like our elite guys who they have signed in fairness to them against like a good level. Like guys who are at least on the radar in their divisions in the US, you know what I mean? So yeah, I feel like look, it's still doing a great job. I don't think you can argue with it that they've sold out every Irish show that they've done. But it is very much Ireland is the jewel in the crown of that European series. They are not getting those numbers in London.

They aren't getting those numbers in Birmingham. I'm only in Ireland that they sell and out shows. Well, if they're going to do, I'd like to see, if they do a bantamweight Grand Prix, Gallagher's obviously has to be in it. So, like, that could just be how you build them to the championship anyway. I think a lightweight Grand Prix would be very beneficial solely because Patricio Pitbull, who's the featherweight champion, is in this featherweight grand prix. So maybe they just have a number one contenders tournament, not just a, like, you know how

Roy McDonald and Patricio Pitbull are in the Grand Prix as champion? Let the lightweights fight it out. winner gets the million dollar prize and everything and then fights for the championship that's the as long as it's not brother right yeah sure well at the at the uh when he beat michael chanler i was there and at the press conference they made a joke like would you ever fight your brother uh and he said never i'll vacate the time before i find my brother and then patricki in the back was like i'll fight him for millions of dollars millions of dollars so that's what like they both laughed about I'm just like, yeah, I'll fight you for like $5 million.

Like, so it was a joke, but I don't think that's ever had it. But anyway, I keep moving on. Two or false. Connor fights for the lightweight belt in 2020. And I'll add, I'll add this to it because he follows it up with the question. Connor fights with the lightweight belt in 2020. But also, if Tony beats Habib in April, Habib will almost certainly get an immediate rematch,

which likely ties up the lightweight title for the rest of 2020. How does that impact the year of Gagy and Connor? Hang on, someone's ringing me. I'll tell you what I think. The first part of the question is, will he fight for the title, right? I think he has a good chance of beating Soroni. So do I. But I think the next step is very important.

Because he's talking about Mazvedal, and I just don't like that fight for him. I don't know how you could give him a lightweight title fight on the back of a lost to Masbado. He hasn't want to fight a lightweight since Eddie Alvarez. You're right? He hasn't want to fight period since Eddie Alvarez.

Yeah. He's lost. He had a boxing match against Floyd Mayweather, and then he fought Habib. Those are his two fights. He had an exhibition sparring. Which was ruled a draw. Also rule the draw, because that's how you do

with exhibition. Uh-huh, uh-huh. But like, I was looking at like some of the highest selling pay-per-views in the history of the UFC are UFC 196 Connor loses UFC 229 Connor loses

and then like one like the second highest selling pay-view in boxing history is Connor and Floyd and he loses so like three of the biggest selling pay-per-views ever our fights Connor has lost that's crazy isn't it yeah but he's like it shows you like at the end of the day he needs a win I think Cowboys

is a perfect fight for him because cowboy wins like yeah you lost the guy with all the all the records and if you beat cowboy yeah you beat the gal with all the records do you think like I mean is it does it feel big over there because I'm kind of like I thought there be just more now I taught to be already more and you know I just don't know why they're not doing like I guess I get I can understand it slightly but I mean I just don't get like it doesn't it's not the same when he's doing it this way right it's all quiet and all like that's not what that's not what was compelling people to him it was the fact that he was

doing all the promotion he was so visible but he was also able to kind of have these amazing performances and I know look I know he's getting stretched I know it would you know it must be an unbelievable amount to take on but it's just a very different thing than it was when he was at the height of his career

like people like you know I used to walk around man before Mendez and Aldo you'd be walking around Dublin and everybody was going to the fight everybody like every every dickhead you went to school was going to the fight and you're meeting them all over there and it kind of stopped around the Diaz fight where it started to be just becoming

Americans dressed up as Irish people right I kept on saying this and I kept on saying it when he's fighting a bee but I was like be careful like the Irish aren't coming they aren't there this is people either on J-1s um that are working over there for the summer and around that college age it's perfect demographic to be coming to these fights but every time I was there and I haven't been there in a while I was kind of like this is less and less Irish people every single time it's people pretend be Irish people, you know? So I don't know where I was going with that, but they can't they can't all be Irish like you and me, Pizzi. They can't. That's right my Celtic brother.

Yeah, I told my dad that and he could not stop laughing. Because he's like, yeah, we're like, I told him that Pizzi gave you a pass because we're from Westmeath and no one claims Westmeath. And my dad's like, yeah, that's true. No one I've ever talked to is like, yeah, Westmeath is a place I want to go to. There's a. There's an Irish pub. I'm going to just go to Westmeet. There's an Irish pub in Rhode Island that the placemats or like are, is the map of Ireland. And it has a location for all the, what do you call it, counties or whatever you call it.

Yeah. Of a tourist spot that you should go to in every county of Ireland. And the only one that doesn't have a location to go to is Westmeath Ireland. Oh, that's bad. And I'm trying to think of something you can do there and I can't. I'd say everyone I've talked to from Ireland. I go, oh, I'm from like, my dad's for meat. They're like, oh, I'm sorry.

It's all like, that's my old experience with it. Oh, you're not even from me. Mead is just beside Dublin. You're from Westmead. Yeah, yeah. Like, way out there. But anyway, that's it for Trumbo. Great questions for Trumbo.

But moving on to staying with the theme of longtime commenters, Lodovic, who's... Oh, shit. Who's all the way back from the Luke Thomas days. Happy New Year's, guys. Just for fun. could you please give us your guess for who's going to be UFC champion

of each weight class by the end of 2020? All right, let me get the rankings out then. Also, we'll start at the bottom. Flyweight. Men's flyweight. Or women's straw weight as Preet Caryl pulls up the rankings right now. I'm going to just be very, I'm going to

just Euro the shit out of this just to annoy people. That video he put up and so funny. I can't believe he's saying these people. So I'm going to guess So I'll do this. I'm going to say You're going to say Yawanna is going to be champion of the Strawoy Division by the end of 2012.

That's what's going to fucking happen. I'm going to say Tatiana Suarez would be the champion by the end of 2020. Okay, mate. All right. If you're going to stick, if you're going to Euro it, I'm going to pick the Mexican-American. Is that fair? Yeah, that's fair. That's fair.

All right. So you're going to, Beach is going to pick Yowana. Women's flyweight. Champion remains. Yeah. I think Valentina will. stick stick with it uh who do you think she fights though in 2020 after she's already scheduled to fight cal and chukagan uh there's cal and chal and chagin and then there's jojo uh vivian eruzia just lost

jessica i she's also out there macy barber's one that you obviously have to keep an eye on um yeah like i think jojo caldow wood is always going to be there about so i think if she can put another couple of wins together obviously the lost jukagin has really knocked her back a bit but it was incredibly close fight if chuggan's right there's always right there's there and Joanna's, I'm sorry, Joanne Collwood has just bounced back into the wind column when she beat Andrea Lee and Abu Dhabi. I feel like a couple more wins there and you're knocking on the door. So yeah, I don't know.

I feel like that's going to be a problem for this division because Valentina is so dominant. It's going to be Anderson Silva of middleweight all over again. Women's bantam weight. Oh, shit. Yeah, that's tough for the Europeans. Is there a European in the top 10? Jana Kunitskaya? Yeah, I don't think that.

Lena Landsberg, is she from Europe? Yeah, she's from Sweden. Oh, come on. No, I'm not even going to be a fucking idiot there. It's just Amanda. Men's flyweight. I think Joey B, right? I would say so.

Yeah, Joseph Benavitas. I think it's just the on crown champion. Figure 8 is fucking class, though. He is. Flyweight is fun. They got Formiga still there, Pantosia, Brian Moreno had a phenomenal fight

at 235. Who did he fight? Cairo France? Cairo France. That was an unbelievable fight. He's really good, man. The Cairo France is really, really good. And he's another one out of city kickboxing goes.

Esther actually thought that was the fight of the night. But obviously, the main event between Camaro was called. Yeah, I just said. But Pantosia, Figuero and Edmonton, oh, my God. When we were back there, me and Casey were just like, oh, they're dying. We're watching someone die.

Because they were just beating the soul out of each other. That was an unbelievable fight. I'm not messing about this. I know I'm a bit of a Euro shill, but Ascarazkov could be fucking unbelievable. He's another one. He's deaf. He's completely deaf.

He can't communicate with his coroner. He's won the national wrestling champions in Russia. Like, I mean, that's crazy. And his submission skills are out of this world. I think I saw him hit a twister before in ACB or something. Like he's... And they know he's good. because you can tell by the way they matched him.

I think he had a drawn as force fight. I forget who he got. It was tough fight, though. And now he's fighting Tim Elliott on the undercard at McGregor. So I'm really, I can't wait to see that motherfucker fight live. Like, I've been dying to see him fight live. Women's featherweight. Is that a division?

I'm going to say Amanda Nunes is going to be the champion. As long as that division is alive. Men's featherweight. Or no, men's bantam weight. I know you're going to say Peter Young. Peter Yan, exactly it. I'm going to... Also, it's hard.

I'm going to hold out because I don't know who Suhudo's going to fight next. If it's Aldo, I think Peter. I'll say Peter Young. Well, you're not really... You're not really involving yourself on the fun of this game then, really.

Are you by saying, hang on a second. I don't want to pick that one because I don't know what's going to happen. We don't know what's going to happen at any fucking division. I'll say, then I'll just pick against you because I want to, and I'll say Al Jermaine Sterling.

All right, fuck you, Jose. Men's featherweight Zabit Korean zombie Zabit's European He is Who else is European in this featherweight No one really in the

No one really in the top 15 Huh Mirzad Bechtik? The Bechtic is Bosnian, yeah What about Arnold Allen On a six-foy win streak Fighting Josh Emmeth Oh yeah

He's that's in Raleigh, right? That's a banger of a fight It's piss me off. Like, it's pissing me off because Josh Emmett and, and, um, what I was just talking about the guy?

How do I forget them already? Who was I just talking about? Josh Emma and Arnold Allen. That should have been in London. Like, that's a brilliant fight for London. And also a brilliant fight in London is Nathaniel Wood and John Dodson. They're two perfect fights for London.

And now granted, I understand that Dodson went to Prague to fight Peter Yan, so we need to accept that that's doing a lot. But it's just like, I'm seeing so many key guys that I would like to see on that London card, putting different spots against really good opponents and I'm like, why, why are you doing that there, you know? These are the Footsby-Roy and Elfer.

It's like, why is Holly Holm not fighting, not headlining the New Mexico card? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Why is Corey Anderson and Jan Blackowitz who don't have ties to New Mexico fighting in Rio Rancho, New Mexico when they could just be on the same card as John Jones as Dominic Reyes?

That'd be a great idea, yeah. And that adds to that main event, way more, having them there. I was reading the, I can't remember the, publication but like the the newspaper of albuquerque their headline in the sports section like the day after they announced uh jrri annerson and yon black who says holly holm not headlining that made her not headlining was the headline well that's the news yeah i mean that's that's that's

that was their lead obviously you know that's crazy but it makes sense uh men's lightweight I'm gonna say T T F uh... Oh man that's tough I think it's tough Sean Alshadi is adamant oh Sean Lashati is gonna is adamant slap me for even saying that yeah he's been on he's been saying

he's been saying Tony Ferguson is the Uncrown champion for a long time can't wait to read his tweets that night you're gonna you'll be in like I hope on there I hope on there I hope I hope we're both there in brooklyn we already made that agreement make uh men's welterweight that this one is where it gets really hard uh leon edwards man it's hard not to pick tyron woodley it's hard not to pick leon edwards for me woodley edwards they have to fight colby compton like i mean it's such a tease at this point you're like come on like i mean in fairness right like two months ago i was talking about this on your obash it is either going to be

leon edwards tyron woodley or jack carmanson and till and then people are like you know we're talking about articles saying oh that's what they're targeting two months ago we're talking about this lads come on just make it happen you know what i mean and then leon slagin turin's raps and torrens like hang on a second mate if you're going to be slag him a rap so i won't sign the contract so stupid you guys are fighters like first of all first of all tyrin will he puts out a hip-hop album which i haven't listen to yet. And then, so this guy is a hip-hop artist slash professional fistfighter. And not only does this guy talk junk, and then this guy that supposedly he's going to fist-fight talks junk about his rap career, A, either A, battle-rap him and drop a disc track, or fist-fight him,

or do both, or better yet, come out with a disc track and walk out to it. here my Leon is friends with some of the best rap artists in Birmingham like they're like they're fucking really good like I mean they're really um under the radar it's a real movement going on there at the moment because obviously London's always been well known with with their scene but Birmingham over the last couple of years is really emerging and I'm sure that Leon knows these guys because he's always interacting with them so I feel like yeah you got you got it there's a lot of beautiful things going on in that in that matchup and um including the rap dynamic so it just needs to happen i speaking look look what

happened last time look what like woodley needs to look at it on the flip side when he's looking at this i'm sure he wants more money which he should get i hope he does get it but he needs to look at masvidal launched his whole 2019 crusade from knocking out the guy in the main event of ufc london you're going to have that same opportunity you're probably going to be the betting favorite as well 100% I actually yeah 100% I think I think there's a lot to gain there

just look at what Masvedal did the till and look at the ships at launched there was so many ships launched off that fight for R.A. Mazbidal you know? Speaking of British rap who was it Darren Stewart and I always have a long conversation about his entrance music

because at UFC 238 in Chicago he walked out to Skepta and I love Skepta and me and our mutual friend Oscar Willis were sitting backstage and we both kind of looked and we both looked at each other like this cat's walking out to Skepter right now. He's already

one of my favorite fighters of all time. And then he fought in Boston against Duran Wynn and he walked out to, I didn't recognize it, but the song Darren Stewart walked out to is called Habib Time. And it's like it's about... Is it Dave? Dave.

The rapper, his name is Bonkus. I don't know. I don't didn't either, but he's like, his name is He comes out of the song called Habib Time, and he picks that song because Duran Win is teammates with Habib at AKA. Send location. And while the beginning of the song starts with, I'll Fight You in Russia, Brooklyn, New York, Ireland, just send location. That's how the song starts.

And the UFC cut that out of the song on the entrance. And he's like, and Darren Stewart was like, they just hate British people. Like, why do they do this stuff? Like, he was like very annoyed, but he was like happy that. someone like heard the music yeah there's great there's great uk rappers now unbelievable um i think that's like i'm really into old music so i feel like the only part that like i mean i'm wrong about this i'm sure but i feel like the only part you can see real evolution and music in a mainstream sense is probably rap music at the moment do you know because the the

rock music that's making it into the charts and the mainstream stuff isn't actually challenging the you know the whole genre of music whereas the rappers are constantly even though i don't like some of the stuff they're doing with the auto chilling and the mumbling and stuff like that. At least they always seem to be trying to evolve it or moving on to something else and I don't see it in every other mainstream genre. Well, shout out to skepta

and Stormsy because they fucking rule. I don't like to swear on the show. Listen to 6-7 as well. They're ready to go there. Yeah, Stormsies speaking, Stormsies like 6-7 in real life. That dude is tall. That's like the tallest human being I've ever seen as a musician. Jay Cole's at 6-4, but

Stormsies a tall cat. Speaking of great music, Kamar Luzin walked out to Burner Boy, who's a Nigerian musician. Oh my God, I got so hyped during that entrance. Like, internal. Did you see it was one of Stoyle Bender's earlier fights

and Waleigh, the Nigerian rapper made it. He didn't actually, it's not the song isn't about Stoylebender, but he made a cool little kind of video of him rapping this song about greatness with Stoylbender on it, and it was really cool. I can't remember what it was called, but it was brilliant.

And I can remember at the, the time, Stollbender was like, well, well, A, is like, doing this stuff for me. And I was like, in about a year's time, mate, that's going to be nothing for you. That is going to be regular. Sticking with the theme, who will be champion of the Middleweight Division by the end of 2020? Oh, Darren Taylor, Jack Armantson, I'd imagine. Captain Crystal, Jared Cannonair. Yes.

An honorary European. Well, listen, I love Izzy. I don't want to. I do too. Fellow weave. So shout out to my fellow weave. but Captain Crystal. Magic.

You know, like, I mean, when we were in Melbourne for that fight, it was like, we're witnessing the beginning of something amazing here. I know there's been some false alarms, like, this is the era of the dragon, Leota Vichita. But I feel like, I think Izzy's going to do magic things. I can't wait until he fights Daryntil, if that ever happens, that would be fantastic. There's still a lot of fights. He has, like, I want that Darringtonil fight.

I know all Europe wants that Daryntil fight. He's got Romero, he's got Costa, and he could have Jared Cannon. too like all those i mean plus it out for a year though right like i mean he's out for the goods of a year cost i believe yeah i mean he if the end of 2020 that fight could happen maybe the beginning of 2021 if they give till a big spot in london and he wins they're gonna want to make that fight like if jared canner goes out there and just crushes robert whittaker like which is no which is could happen he did it the fucking jack

in in copenhay yeah like if so if jared and and the thing that he jared canada i know we like to joke about Captain Crills and stuff. The thing that he actually has going for him is after Israel Asanaia beat Robert Whitaker, he's like, they asked him, like, who else do you have your eye on besides Costa? Oh, yeah. And they were like, Jared, that guy, I like that guy. He's a really cool guy. So the fact that the champion is already saying your name kind of gives you a bump.

He actually, that's another thing that showed us how great is he is, is the fact that he really put a lot of Heath. on a guy nobody was really talking about. And since then, I feel like a stock elevated, because he realizes that I need killers to fight me for me to do what I want in this sport. But I was kind of as well, I was thinking about poor Jack Armansen at home, watching that press conference and going, duh.

Like, he didn't need to fight Canada and Copenhagen. And he did that, like, just to show, I'll fucking do anything I can. And then you get all your momentum taken away, and now the newly crown champ who's gone viral all over the world is like, hey, do you know that guy that knocked you out? Real like him. Well, Edmond Shabazian is on the rise too.

Middleweight is fun, man. Middleweight's a lot. Like, Uriah Hall's doing things, like Brad Tavares just got... Edmund Schabezian knocked out Brad Tavares when Izzy couldn't in five rounds. And that's a great style matchup. That's a fun fight. Shabois and Tail is another great fight. Middleway is quietly becoming one of the most exciting divisions in the UFC.

But who will be the light heavyweight? champion. Jan Blackovich. Not the returning Alexander Gustafson? One of them. What about Vulcan Oostomere? Who's just coming off a win over Alexander Ratchik? He's there and so is Rackich. Anyone really with that EU membership?

I'm willing to say that I'm knocking on the door. Nikita Krilov then too? Right there. Right there. Yep, right there. But I feel like it's Jones, yeah. Jones is so good. It's going to be John Jones.

heavyweight here it is actually a disaster for that the division if jones goes to heavyweight and stays there yeah well we probably said that about anderson sylva and look what middleweight francis and ganu i agree i agree 100% um and i'm saying francis and ganu because he's french not from cameron french i think frances i think frances ghano will well it's it's It's really, like I said before, like by the end of 2020, it might be hard considering Stipe's still hurt. So Stipe doesn't fight so late in the year. We might only have one title fight. So I think Daniel Corme could very easily beat Steepe in the trilogy.

And then all of a sudden, Daniel Corme is the greatest heavyweight again. Because after he knocked out Steepay, everyone crowned Daniel Corme as the greatest heavyweight of all time. And then as soon as Steepa knocks out Daniel Corme, everyone crowned Steepie the greatest heavyweight of all time. So I do think this fight between Stipei and Cormier could determine who the greatest heavyway in UFC history is. But then you have, I think Inganu, after he fights Giorzino, which is not an easy task, will eventually be the champion. I don't know if it'll be in 2020, but it may be 2021. It just depends on when Stevie is returns. Iggy boy could just go in and fucking wreck everything, couldn't he?

He could. He could. He absolutely could. Oh, man. He's a funny, I mean, I think I think I like us. Team Crystal. Oh, yeah. I was going to do, what's my... Give them one of these. So stupid. I'm trying to make it look less cumbersome, but it's not working.

It's the dumbest thing I've ever seen in my entire life. Every time you say I ain't about crystals, I'm just going to... But, yeah, that's all the divisions, isn't it? Yep, that's all the divisions. We're going to hop over to Twitter. Some lads were getting an argument there under an ask the questions point. I think so. trying to look oh what's the questions and then fucking lads just you know in the

all right from gerardo at jcd u l-os one in the second round of dustin v habib i don't know why he gave dustin the top billing uh so i'm going to say habib v dustin dustin had a decent flurry of punches making a be retrieved backwards do you think this is a good way for tony to beat habib to keep the pressure to keep moving forward tony for sure has the cardio to do it so yes is the key to beating Habib Nermanagh Madoff which has never been done to put pressure on him. I think the

thing that I feel that Tony will do better than anyone has is going to be able to engage him while Habib is smothering him because we actually did it against Porre better than I've ever seen him do it against anyone whereas if he wasn't punch him in the face

he was trying to choke him. Like I mean there was not a second that Porre could do anything where it wasn't defending himself Like he had no energy to punch him because he's like, I have to get this fucker off my neck. I have to get him off my back. He's taking me down. And I think Tony's going to have a better answer for that.

Like he has real quirky, he has real quirky movements and he real, real weird approaches to scrambles. Like if you watch some of his scrambles, it makes no sense how he gets out on top sometimes. It's like, how the fuck did he just do that? And I think that's the only thing,

like a complete anomaly in terms of grappling is going to be able to cause him problems there. Because that's what I was, I was caged side for that poor eight. and I was watching it going like, this is a fucking, this is like watching like something on National Geographic. You know what I mean?

Like he's all over. Like there's nothing I could tell Pariet, like nothing anyone can tell Pariet to do because he's doing the right thing. He's trying to stop him from beating the shit out of him basically and trying to choke him and stuff. He's doing everything that he should be doing, but it's just not enough.

It just can't do it to him. Everybody knows what Abe's going to do. No one's like, I wonder what he's going to do this time. He's going to fucking just march you down and then take you down and make your life of miserable. until you say, I don't want to fucking do this anymore.

Well, I'm, and it's, this is why this fight is so, I can't think of another word, but awesome, is like, Habib's, Habib's greatest strength is his top game in his wrestling, and Tony Ferguson is one of the best fighters I've ever seen fight off his back. Like, he beat, he beat Danny Castillo completely off his back. And then Kevin Lee, Castile's a savage wrestler, savage wrestler, Steele. And then when he fought Kevin Lee, who's no sloucher wrestling, and is one of the, he's an unbelievable. fighter. People just kind of, yes, he lost to Al, yes, he lost to RDA, but he, Kevin Lee is an unbelievable fighter who had staff infection, got Tony in full mount, and was, and I don't think it was close to finishing the fight, and then gets choked out from the bottom, and then after the fight,

Kevin Lee was like, I've never fought someone who's that, that skilled with his elbows off his back. Like, he would get on top, and Tony was just throwing elbows and, like, punches from from off his back and Kevin Lee was like they did a lot of damage to me. So this is why this fight is so good because both of their strengths play completely into the other one's strengths. Yeah, and I agree with you. Like, I mean, I even feel like Gordiaz submission to Kevin Lee is one of the best submissions of the year because Kevin Lee is so good on the ground.

Same as Maya and Ascran, it's like the level of opponent. It shows you so much when someone's able to submit a guy like that. From Sean Denny, from at Denny Rance. Denny, Denny, Sean Denny. Denny's got good taste. What cities do you want to see the UFC hit up? up in 2020. I'm assuming me...

Ask what? I mean, Amsterdam. Yeah, you would. That's because it's beautiful canals. The home of Heineken. What else do they do there? That'd be fun. Stick Germain on that car.

Stick Alis Roving on that car. That'd be a fun time. Get Musassi back. I've been saying Providence, Rhode Island, forever, just because that's my hometown. And the UFC's never been. I think Rhode Island is one of the few states that's never had a UFC event. I really want to see the UFC in Paris next year.

If they get it legalized, that would be amazing. I'd love to see the UFC. Morocco, like Africa. Yeah, because that's, from what everyone's saying about that whole situation, that would be the best place to do it logistically, because they have experience putting on these big events in terms of an African country. I want to see them go to Puerto Rico really bad. Will you just point me out for that?

Yeah, this what? they'll have to floy me out for that like you know what I mean imagine the budget I'd need for like just sun cream it would be fucking ridiculous it costs more than to Floyd to keep me in sun cream I know I'd spoke with Jorge Mazvedal at 239 before he fought Asker and I asked him like because the UFC I guess wants to build a

PI maybe somewhere make possibly and I asked him about that and Jorge Mazvedal had no idea and he's like are you kidding me like the UFC wants to hold an event in Puerto Rico I go Yeah, he goes, I'm there. Like, he doesn't care who we fights. He goes, I have to fight there. Because he's obviously...

He's obviously... He's Cuban, and the U.S. He's not going to Cuba anytime soon. So if they go to Puerto Rico, they have to... They have to bring Jorge Mazurl. They have to bring Anthony Pettis. Resign Eddie Alvers, bring him back. They've got to put Puerto Rican fighters on... Or people from that part of the world.

I'd like to see them to do a lot more in South America outside of, like, where they've already been. Like, they've been to Uruguay and Argentina, Argentina, Chile. I'd like to see them do more there, a lot more maybe in Central America, more cities in Mexico. El Paso would be cool, I think, because I could go and see my family. They have a pretty, they have one of the... I heard Opaso, Texas is the most populated city in America that doesn't have a major sports team. So if that's true, that's pretty impressive because it's a major city in Texas. It's also a border town, so you put a lot of Mexican fighters on that card.

Like, why they went to Hidalgo, Texas instead of El Paso is... beyond me. I only know that the Myers-Valt had come from El Paso, Texas. That's the only thing I know about El Paso, Texas. And Eddie Guerrero, Lenza, is from El Paso, Texas. Your favorite professional wrestler of all time. Oh, yeah. Love him. Yep. R. IP, Eddie Alvers. But Provenouser Island, for sure. It's just too close. It's only like 45 minutes in Boston, so there's no way they would go. What's from Andy Stevenson, Andy, Andy, Andy Stee, one, two, three. What's the best fight or fights to watch that fans may not have seen before. And then

specifically for you, PT, any Irish ones come to mind? Phil Mulpeter v. John Donnelly. Owen Ruddy B. Shannon Guugherty is a real seminal moment in Irish MMA history. It's when we realize that you know, our guys can take on elite guys

who would been in the UFC. Brilliant fight, really dramatic fight. Ruddy's literally in a rear-naked troke of Googerty's for the whole fourth round. His face is going purple and he's just like not going out. like just barely staying there comes back boxes the head off goody out in rounds two and three and wins it's controversial decision for some people but a really good fight um i would like josephs with koremberg's a huge fight you've never watched that back in the day just the way it happened mcgregors this meteoric star duffy's the the established the elder statesman say at that lightweight division just hit eats one punch takes them immediately down submits them that's really cool um but there's loads of brilliant fights i'm not thinking of here um i've been put on the spot

but yeah I'd say one of the best fights ever is Molyteer v. Donnelly and Moly v. Richard Gorey as well is another brilliant fight but in terms of fights that I thoroughly enjoyed that I bet a lot of people that just got into MMA

over the last few years haven't watched Conley and Frank Shamrock I loved that from the strike when Frank Conley was still undefeated and broke Frank Shamrock's arm with a spinning back kick like he blocked it and then you literally see Frank Sean just go, oh my God.

And it's like, then the round ends, and he's like, my arm is shattered. And then the very next fight, Kung Lee fought Scott Smith and Kungley got knocked out. And then the next fight, they rematch. Remember that when he got knocked out before and people are like, oh, my God. So Kungley, Scott Smith won. And then Kungley gets knocked out. And then the immediately rematch. And then Conley beats Scott Smith by Ticchio with a spinning back kick and then follows it up with punches.

Those three fights. If Connolly did that in the UFC, he would be one of the biggest. stars in the history of the UFC. Just those string of those string of fights. And then his very next fight was against Vandale Silva. Add on that, you know why that fight, that fight gets lost in the shuffle? It's because that fight happened on the same card as Hendo Shogun won.

And the same night of Eddie Alvers, Michael Chandler. So I remember watching Vandaleigh, Kong Lee, and I was like, this fight rules. And then later that night, we see arguably the greatest fight in the history of the UFC. That fight card also had, favor and Brian Bowles. I remember that. And it's also,

and you know, at the same time, was that the one of Chandler and Alvarez is going down across the country? Oh yeah. Florida. Hollywood, Florida.

That card also had Ryan Bader beat Jason Brill, I think, by knockout, and Stefan Bonner fought Kyle Kingsbury. Former ASU son-Yo.

Good fights to watch. Go back and watch that low heavyweight tournament or the middleweight tournament, whatever was, Vandaleh, he chuk alister ovarim shogun that's amazing

that so 2005 2005 to me it was the greatest year a single fighter had there's two 2005 shogun when he ran through that tournament be like a bunch of hall of famers and then wins the pride grand prix and then um john jones

in 2011 when he beats bater showgun rampage machida all in one calendar year those are the two bests is he this year was ultra-impressive and is he yeah but i'd still put those two slightly above him even connor's run when he knocked out mendez and knocked out aldo like i still like the hey you're forgetting you're forgetting denisiever there mate yeah okay that wasn't the same calendar you don't be ridiculous but the 2005 shogun just go look at who he beat that's unbelievable like that's one of the greatest

run of fights i've ever seen in my entire life but john jones 2011 is way up there too and great thing to watch that I used to that I've done before is watch Nick Diaz's running strike force when everybody's trying to get him to the UFC

and he's fighting like daily he's fighting just so many good fights during that period brilliant to watch I always love that guy watching I'm trying to think of other fights

go and watch BJ Penn and Joe Stevenson just look how good he was like he was or Diego Sanchez v BJ Penn just imagine

that This is Diego Sanchez at the very peak of his power. He was untouchable and then watch what BJ Penn did to him that night. Like stuff like that's always cool to watch because sometimes we forget, right? Like with everything that's going on with BJ, you forget, like, how absolutely amazing he was. Who was the fighter that, remember he called up Barack Obama in his post-fight press conference or a post-fight interview? He was speaking with Joe Logan. He goes, who do you want to fight?

And he's like Obama or something of that. Or it might have been Ariel. I can't remember. Oh, is it Jacob Volkman? Are you having for a present? Volkman? Yeah, so Bobby Green, Jacob Volkman. That was a fun one because Volkman, similar to Owen Roddy,

like he was just getting controls the whole time. And they're so polar opposite. Like Jacob Volkman's like very much like, he called out Obama. He said Obama can shove his head up his ass and this and that. And then Bobby Green comes in with like head tattoos and like piercings right here. And then Volkman like controls him.

And then Bobby Green just taps him with a rear naked, choke and then Vulcum gets cut the very next, like right away. And Dana White was like, Bobby Green will have a job of the UFC for a long time after that performance. That's a fun one. Melvin Lerby Melvin Manoff. Oh, that's a great one.

He's getting kicking the leg and his leg is actually coming up and nearly hitting him in the head. His leg is red raw and then, of course, the best. Just to finish it the way he did then is just unbelievable. That's a great fight. Watch that one. That is... And we've talked about this a good bit. Joanna v. Jessica Penne back in the day.

Yohanna v. Those are just unbelievable performances. Performances. Yeah. Who did Dennis Bermuda's fight at 157? Is that Matt Grice? The one that got in the car. I'm not good, but remember names.

He got in a car accident, and now he can't fight anymore. That fight, man, who was that? I'm going to look it up. I was there for that. That was the first. That was the Ronda card. Ronda Carmouche, and then Muj. and then Machita Henderson was also on that card.

It was Matt Grice, I was right. That fight was unbelievable. And that was one of the times when backstage when Ariel was interviewing people that he interviewed both of them at the same time because that fight was just absolutely bananas. What else is a good one? Was Bermudans v. Stevens on the 189 card very good and people just don't remember because...

Yeah, no, that was a good card. Every fight on that main card was good. That also had all made a picket. My Brown and new? Matt Brown and who else? No, Matt Brown was the featured prelim against Tim Means. That was fucking wild as well.

The prelims weren't that great outside of that. Like Cody Garbrandt was on that card. It was slow, yeah. I remember it was like, fuck, this isn't happening. And then Matt and then Matt Brown, Tim Means was the featured prelim, and then I believe Pickett, Almeida was kicked off the pay-per-view. And then Bermudez, Stevenson, and then Gunner.

Moia. Nope. That was 194. Oh, it was the duty drop with the left hook and then choked him out? John? Nope. That's... Brandon That's...

Brandon That's... Yeah. Benson Henderson, Brandon Thash. That's a good fight. Benson Henderson coming up, because Brandon Thash was a massive welterweight. He went up to 170 and then signed over Bellator, right? No, he went up to 170 and he fought a few more times and then signed with Bellator. That's when he was trying to like...

Because he fought Mazvigdala, 170 in South Korea. I believe that was his last fight in the UFC. um may yamaguchi and angela lee is a great fight unbelievable one too uh holloway holloway versus uh

lennarcia was good um what's the old lang zion fight on one was it last year was it when he fought for the heavyweight not the brandon vera fight he had an epic fight there um is that what's the names to do with the champion the lehigh heavyweight champion the burmese oh yes yes

uh now i can't remember but he just I think he won international fighter of the year. Yeah, he's fucking quality. He won heavyweight title. The Brandon Verra fight

was really good as well. Doho Cho, Cub Swanson comes to mine. Oh, did I not get fucking that? Hey, good list, bro. But it should have that. I'm like, yeah, I fucking watched it. Do you get me?

Like, I can only pick 10. His dickheads. Aldo Mendez, too, is one of the greatest, might be the greatest featherweight fight I've ever seen. That hurt me the most. Not including that.

That hurt me the most. Why? That hurt me to the list. That wasn't on your list? That wasn't on it. Oh, no. And it was like, everything about that fight was so exciting.

McGregor's looming in the background, watching it. And do you remember, like, Mendez is in the ascending the first round, and then Aldo just plants him at the very end of the round. And it was arguably after the bell. And then from then on,

the fight just was like, fucking... You see McGregor the whole time sick because they flew him from Rio. They flew him to Rio and gave him his own embedded. And he's like, going just insane and at the end he's like I can't even talk trash that fight was so good yeah yeah um do you remember look height of his career very visible commenting in front of the media talking to people

it's like it's a big part of his his his fascination of mcgregor is his bond with the general public and we just don't see that anymore uh gsp conda is the one i'll end with because everyone talks about like gs p hendricks gsp bsp bsbbing like the bjepen fights and everything but gsp condit GSP was very close to losing that fight when he got head kicked and Condon jumped him there's an unbelievable photo that Esther took Yeah I think about the press conference

No well there's that one but there's the moment that Condit because you know you remember that moment Connick clipped George and he fell Yeah There's a moment when she captures the kick But it's not the kick landing It's the kick is like right here Like right next to his head

and you see GSP looking out the corner of his eyes. Like he just sees it at the last second. Because if you watch that, he kind of does this like kind of quickly. But it's still so it like hits him like that. But if he doesn't get his hand up, he's dead. Like that to cap, like he's knocked unconscious. So you see him like this and you kind of see him like, oh, and then he kind of puts his hand out like last second.

That's one of the more underrated photo that Esther took. I think T.J. Dominic Cruz was unbelievable too. That was wild. That was just a very skill match. And then you remember, TJ just was like, TJ was like right there and then he just disappeared. John, for so long he was out like, oh. Yeah.

Yeah. But we're going to end that one. But quickly, because we tease a little bit, you don't have to get too much into it because we'll do our end of the year. Fighter of the Year. All right. Fire of the Year. It's either easy or Jorge,

and the reason I'm picking Jorge is because of the cultural ramifications of his run. it was bigger in terms of it got more people that knew nothing about the sport watching m m m m mary engaged in m m and i know that you could argue the same with style bender and the nigerian influence stuff like this but i just feel like masvedal because he had been around for so long and pretty much in and out not really not really driving that much interest to go from that like a pretty much an average fighter in the ufc to the biggest one of the biggest fighters in the ufc within it within a year is absolutely unbelievable and that's why I'm picking I'm picking Izzy because I'm looking at it from like an

athletic perspective I think Anderson Kelvin oh yeah Anderson Kelvin Whitaker is a slightly better resume than Till Asgren Nate but look at the way he did it against Ascran until compared to like Izzy had not a amazing fight against Anderson he had the greatest title fight in the history of and then crush Robert Whitaker yeah I know and then beat the greatest middleweight of all time. Not a great fight. No, but it also has my... I actually really liked it.

I looked at all the showmanship in that fight. People hated it. Believe me, I said, I really enjoyed that. That has my favorite... My favorite photo of all time is... In the history of sport is when he does the rock leap pose to the greatest middleweight ever. That's...

This is my fighter. My favorite picture in the history of M.A. is when me and Casey were at the breakfast buffet in Abu Dhabi. I saw that. That one. Big moment in the sports history. Yeah, I like, but that kind of transcends MMA, so I don't really put it in the same category. Middle Eastern croissons.

Knockout of the year. I think that's pretty easy. Yeah, it's Masvedal on Ascran. Submission of the year. I went for Brent Primis, Gogol plating. Yeah, me too. That was my pick. That was number one for me.

And then Royce Mitchell second with the twister at Goalston. And then we're into Moia on Ascran because of how high level that fight is. RDA and Lee. That was in my top five genuinely just because I knew it would be so hard. Sarkinoff's Peruvian necktie was ultra impressive too. Oh shit.

Especially for a guy that size, man. Peruvian neckttoe is really hard to land into really well and tight. So yeah, that was really good as well. Was it Charles Olivera over one of the Tamer brothers? I always get Daniel and David mixed up. But he like dropped him and then sunk in the standing guillotine

But he didn't get the standing gate team like he grabbed it and then he like snapped him down That was ultra-impressive too It was it this year that the silver left stretches went No, that was last year that was last year that was crazy Both of those guys Aljoins a beat on the same list on the same night That was two same submission that was two 28 that was till woodley That was fucking good um fight a great night for Europe fight of the year

Who did I pick for this um? think it's Izzy Kelton. Oh, it's obvious as Izzy, I think that's one of the greatest fights ever, you know, I put it as number two in the fights of the decade. Really? People are like, recency bias and I was like, fuck you, watch it again. Watch it again. Beside all those other ones, watch

it again. And you know, the number two fight of the year was on that same card. Yeah, Holloway and fucking put the reason. That's, so I did event of the year, and that fight 236, I believe, was my event of the year because of those two. But also had great, like,

Cleo Roundtree, like, Bangkok-ready Cleo Roundtree, just like stalking Eric Anderson down and just beating the soul out of him was impressive. Like, there were a lot of great fights on that card. And then I think it was 239 was number two. That was Joan Smith. I mean,

Joan Santos, Nunes, Holly, Jan, Rockhold, Ascran, Masvidal. That was a great card, yeah. That was a fucking great card. And then I took, I stuck 244 number three because I don't know many sitting U.S. presidents that have ever been to a UFC event.

And so the fact that that kind of did transcend into the pop culture with the rock being there, Donald Trump being there, that might not have been the best main event in terms of athletic competition, but that time stopped for that event. And also,

Canello, his fight was paused until the fight was over. Yeah, that's insane. But I can remember just having a very uneasy feeling as I'm seeing the rock coming out with that belt and just going, what the fuck it? What is this? I know. But people loved it.

And then Cage Warriors. I got over it. Cage Warriors' Night of Champions is number four for me. That's great. Amazing. Amazing. Amazing. Amazing. Like, one of the most amazing scenes in a fight you've ever seen where they have to stop it. There's so much fucking blood on the ground. I wrote it. I said it turned into a violent slip and slide. You know, like afterwards, when I knew,

I always know it's something special when, say like when we're away with Casey and Esther when two of the most experienced people in the game are like, what the fuck was that about? And that's what it was like, everyone in UK MMA was just outside that medical room. Houston pissing blood. That'll be pissing blood. And we're all just like, what the fuck just happened there, man?

What the fuck did we just watch? Mark Goddard was like to me, he goes, absolutely ridiculous. I've never seen anything. Do you know when Matt Goddard is like, what the fuck? And he was the same with Izzy and Gasselms match. If you actually watched It's the most uncharacteristic thing you'll ever see Goddard do. At the end, they just, like, embrace each other because time is up in the fight.

And Goddard usually stay very close to make sure nothing pops off. But he just sees them hug each other. It's like, he's so exhausted. He's like, oh, get me away from this. Because you remember at the end, like, he's watching that way so closely. Like, you just see he's like, oh, fuck this. Breakthrough fighter of the air. Peter Yan.

It's him or Giresino, I think. It's one of those two. So it's Peter Yan. All right. I'm going to say Girozino because he's on Team Crystal. That's a good point. You don't know if Piotr doesn't like crystals. We don't know that.

Get on it. You're a journalist. You're a journalist. Do you like crystals? Macy Barber has to be up there for me too. Yeah, fuck yeah. She's been, she's like just the fact that people, like when she fights people, either hate her or lover.

I think a knockout of the, fighter of the year. I think Patricea Pitbull and Douglas Lima you have to mention over in Bellator knockout of the year Douglas Lima over MVP you have to kind of put on a short list. That was on my vibe. Yeah, definitely like that fight was fun. There's been a lot of phenomenal. 2019 was a good year for M.A. Yeah, it really was. And you know, it moved on from the Connor and Habib thing. And really when that happened, I was like, we're never going to get over this in Ireland anyway. Like, I mean, they were just like this sport is a fucking joke. Like the way he is promoted, that's disgusting. I mean, what the heck, you're letting this guy, an Irish man speak to a guy like that.

It's absolutely disgusting. We hate this whole thing. And I'm like, well, my livelihood is taking a big knock here. You know what I mean? Like, it's like the scourge of sport in Ireland as far as, like, after that event happened. And to see how it bounced back, Bellator selling out shows here, you know, new stars emerging, new gyms emerging in the country, like Team KF and Gary, all those guys. I mean, it's been a great year. A way better year than I could have expected,

even for me personally in the industry, than anyone than I could have expected at the beginning of the year. I'm looking at the comment section. Someone says I'm picking Volcanozky for Fighter of the Year. Not a bad pick. Yeah, I've seen a few people said out, actually. Beats Mendez. Did he fight Mendez in 2019?

Yeah, I think so. Or is it the end of 2018? Well, regardless, beating Aldo and fate, like beating Aldo and... Such a hipster shout, though, isn't it, Volcanowski? Relax, lad. Stop being hipsters, fuck sake. Right. It's either Jorge or Izzy, you're going to fuck yourself.

Someone says, Mazvi-Dahl fighter of the year, no question. He also says, knockout of the year. Bryce Mitchell Twister submission. Mazvi-Dal submission. Artem Lobov, Submission, Fighter of the decade. Fair enough.

Fair play, but he kind of transcends the sport of mixed martial arts. Someone says, dismantling Whitaker was nuts. Israel out of sign your fighter of the year. Yeah, I'm not upset with anyone picking his. by the way. It was a big dilemma for me. And in the end I just went for who had the biggest cultural imprint

and I completely agree with the way Jose went about it too. Just looking at the opponents, looking at the people he fought. It's either one or the other way, I think, to be honest. I think an underrated event of the year was 241. A lot of people don't talk about that one. That's DC-Sipe Diaz-Pedis and Romero-Costa. Yeah, Diaz-Petis was fucking insane.

and Romero speaking of my Costa Romero was on my shortlist for fight of the year too Pissed off though because it was three rounds like it was one of those where I was like annoyed like I was like for fucks say we knew this should have been four rounds we fucking knew this should have been four rounds should have been five rounds

should have been five rounds and the fight could have definitely changed in those last two rounds like I don't boy that shit with the Mazvedal when people are like oh yeah the whole thing was about the change but that fight it absolutely could have changed I know it didn't because it didn't happen but it absolutely could have changed

someone in the comment section is also going back a little bit when we were talking about where we want people to hold events someone says ufc hawaii and ufc thailand would be fun i agree with both of those sign me up like a guy in thailand though like if i would melt i don't think it's a good idea i'll go to send me there then i'll go say much safer guy to send to thailand than me fucking like the hangover tree or whatever uh someone says UFC Dallas, but they wanted to be a Dallas

Stadium show. I can remember what was the the fight that Aldo McGregor. Yeah. Aldo McGregor. And I can remember it was all booking, where the fuck are we going to stay in Dallas, Texas? And the next the hotel closes the Cowboys

Stadium was like, I don't know, like miles away. And then I was like, everyone was like, just make sure you go to four flags. And I was like, I don't know if that's a restaurant or whatever. What did you say? What did you say? Everyone was like, make sure go to like four flags or something is it called

I'm not gonna know if that is I'm not gonna tell you the real answer I'm gonna let you live with you live with your shame of calling it four flags what is it called five it's six flags six flags over Texas I don't care sorry no offense to Casey Lloyd and the Lloyd and the Lloyd and family from Houston Texas I'm a big fan of Houston just don't know a lot about the flags apologies Casey what an odd character you are pizza Carol but that's all the question as I'm seeing, we went a little longer, but that's because Petey decided that he was going to be rude

to you all at the very beginning. So to make it up for you. I don't care. I don't care. So don't tell me how you feel about that because I don't care, okay? Just remember that. Whenever you're going to tell me something,

I don't care and you're wasting your time. Well, guess what, folks? We're going to be in Las Vegas together. For those of you not just listening, Pete's doing his stupid scissors thing, which is stupid and funny at the exact same time. But we're going to be... We're going to be together in Las Vegas for UFC 246.

We'll have a great time. We're going to do A-Side live together. Maybe you guys can come watch. Who knows? We haven't decided yet. We are on that. But for Jose, that's P.C. Do you have anything else you want to say?

Cut a promo? We've gone a little long this time. Don't really have one. I'll make sure I have a really good one for next week. I'll say shout out to MVP, Michael Venom page, coming out in his Naruto robe with his dagger, his Hidden Leaf Village headband. fellow webe. It's been a great year for

Weaves with Israel Adasanya and Michael Venom Page carrying with the Torres Strong. And you even got Pizzi Carroll on Team Weeb now. Look at that, man. Roxanne. What a sign. Roxanne, I have to give a shout out to Roxanne Mattifier and Alex Casares who carried that torch for a long time in the MMA world.

Now MVP in Israel Asana, you're carrying it farther and brighter than ever before. So, yes, us weeps, I'm not a bad dude. MVP and Israel Adana are bad dudes. So that's my promo. Happy New Year, everyone. Just make sure when

Jose's article about event of the year comes out, make sure you just in the comments immediately say Oh, risen 20, make sure all of you say that because you know and I know that Jose doesn't know about that event. Look, sure he doesn't have a clue what happened. Make sure you say that all the way through it

because he'll love that. He'll love to see that kind of passion in his comments, I'm sure. And someone sent pizza chaos on conditioner because he's never used it before in his life. That's a particular. particularly bad day today. I mean, I don't want to say anything, but you're starting off 2020 in a rough shape, Pizzi Carroll. I'm a bit heavy, too, to be perfectly, you're a bit heavy. That's an unfortunately colored sweater. You have no conditioner in your hair. Pizzi Carroll is just falling apart in 2020.

These earth colors beautiful in this skin. What color is that potato sack brown? It's potato, yeah. It blends perfectly with my skin. Dear God. But anyway, that's Pizzi. I'm Jose. Happy New Year, everyone. We'll see you next week. See you later.