MMA Fighting - The A-Side Live Chat | UFC Raleigh & Bellator 238 fallout, Cris Cyborg’s latest title win, Curtis Blaydes & Michael Chiesa's future, more

Episode Date: January 30, 2020

For this episode, José Youngs and Peter Carroll discuss the recent fallout from UFC Raleigh and Bellator 238, including Curtis Blaydes’ TKO win over Junior dos Santos; Michael Chiesa’s decision win over Rafael dos Anjos; Cris Cyborg’s latest title victory over Julia Budd; Darrion Caldwell’s submission win over Adam Borics; Aaron Pico’s return to the win column and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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responsibly. You're listening to the Vox Media Podcast Network. That was shoyed last night at home. Sorry. Well, Pizzi's here, for those of you who that are just tuning in, or people that are listening because apparently we have over 14,000 people listening to this after it goes live. So it's the 14,000 people that listen.

Hello. Welcome back to the MAFighting.com's A-side live chat. It is Pizzi's jet lagged. I'm tired. it's going to be a great episode but uh pizzi how's life been since the last we saw you took a little break to go on some expedition through somewhere from what i gather yeah i went to amsterdam it was great we did uh loads of things we were we did we actually went proper touristy on it we did everything we went to some windmill village went to anne frank museum went to vang golf museum went in a canal cruise

and you know obviously the other things you do in afsadam as well it was great for one of altogether, you know? It's I've never been there. Like, I was only ever been there once after UFC Rotterdam for a day, so I've never really got a feel for the place. It's quality. The city is unbelievable, man. I feel like a lot of people go there

and they just go into those cafes and they don't do anything else, and it's like, there's so much shit to do there, though, you know? It was incredible. So you went from Vegas to cover a Connor McGregor fight where we pretty much work nonstop, and then you went straight home, and then you got on a plane or I imagine

and you went to Amsterdam, so you probably haven't slept in a month. Yeah, that's about it, yeah? That's where I'm at at the moment. But, I mean, it's just weird in Vegas for me. Every time I go to Vegas, I just find it really hard to sleep there. It's the same for you, right? Like, it's just the place. Like, it's really weird.

Well, people always say, people always ask me, like, oh, what's Fight Week? Like, what's this and that? Like, other up-and-coming journalists are just people in general. I don't sleep at all. Like, we work. we work super late and then by the time we do go to bed like i'm only thinking about either the work we just did or the work we have the next day that i don't sleep like even friday to saturday which is the day you're supposed to get sleep i still wake up super early it's just i can't sleep until i'll fight week

is over uh oh i think ptzee froze oh no he's back hello i think ptzee's no mas everyone i'm back i'm back i'm back god damn it ptzy you're giving me a you're giving me PTSD from our Audio and visual troubles. Brian Keller, the co-host last week, he also had a little bit of... I saw that, yeah. But anyway, enough talk about us. We can talk about Brian later. We're going to hop into the questions because this is not our podcast.

It's your podcast. If you want to ask a question, you go to M-Afighting.com, find the post on the site. Leave your comment in the comment section, the green questions. Obviously, get prioritized. But lately, we've getting... I don't know if you've noticed this pizza. We've been getting... And in a lot of questions on Twitter, you can go on Twitter.

You can go on Twitter use hashtag the A-side, or you can just tweet underneath. my tweet because I feel like more people do that than anything but we're going to hop right into the question on site first from long time commenter trumbo bellator featherweight tournament bellator featherweight tournament shaping it out to be pretty amazing who do you have who do you favor to win my pick is called well with his upset win he looks great at featherway so yes pizzie you were probably off gallivancing around amsterdam during last week but we had two fight cards in one day we had ufc we had ufc raleigh and we had bellator two 38 with the co-main event uh between adobeyser Boris and Darren Caldwell to punch their,

the winner would punch their ticket to the semifinals of the Bellator World Featherweight Grand Prix to face A.J. McKee or Antonio McKee Jr. as some people started calling him on Twitter, which I thought was very weird because he's A.J. McKee. But what did you make of Darren Caldwell's performance? I don't know if you saw it, and who do you favor

in the tournament? Look, I felt like that was something that not enough European fans were thinking about. Like, we were all kind of in the hysteria of Borix has knocked out Pico, but we forgot actually what happened in the lead up to that knockout. Pico was dominant in the grappling exchanges against Borix, and Boris took the one opportunity, he got to knock him out, and that was what was really impressive about the performance for me. I always felt as though Caldwell would be able to neutralise him, and unfortunately for Adam,

that's what happened. But look, this will make our break, Adam. It all depends on how he takes this first loss. He's gone a long way. He's done some incredible things before running into this first career loss. you know, I feel like he's going to learn an awful lot from that. And look, Caldwell looks great now, and I can't wait for the AJ McKee fight. Like, I feel like it's definitely the toughest test of McKee's career so far.

It's not against a guy that's maybe past it in terms of getting back to the title. I feel Caldwell is going to be a perennial contender with Bella Tori, either Bantamweight or featherweight. So I feel like this is a brilliant test. And if you can go through this, the sky's the limit for AJ McKee. The sky is already the limit for AJ McKee, as far as I'm concerned. And I did know it was on their face off. He looked a lot taller. Darren Cole, yeah, I think he's just taller and lankier.

Apparently him and AJ have had some sort of beef. I'm not 100% that's what I keep hearing. Seeing on Twitter, and people keep asking me, like, where's this beef stem from? Where's this beef stem from? Like, don't honestly know. But they're two of the, I feel like we had this wave of fighters like like Lima, Diego Lima, MVP,

the Pitbull Brothers, Chandler. We had like this, this, the, the, the guard of Bellator fighters, like these were for a long time the faces of Bellator. And I really feel like Darren Caldwell and AJ McKee are that new way, not because they've obviously been in Bellator for a long time, specifically AJ McKee. He made his debut in Bellator. He's one, he's what, 14, 16, 15, and O, and all of his fights have been in Bellator. He's debuted at O and O.

So he already has, like, the record for, like, most consecutive wins because he's undefeited, most submission wins. I think stoppage wins or tied for stoppage wins. And these are all, like, featherweight. uh, Bellator featherweight records, but, uh,

this is the biggest test he's had in terms of someone that can match his athleticism because if you look at his last few fights, he gets a lot of these fights that people say like, oh, this is his big test, this is big test. But it's been guys like Pat Curran or like Derek Campos or Georgia Carcarian. Uh,

so I always butcher his last name. Uh, but those are three fighters that have been in the Bellator for a minute. Uh, and he's, in terms of Georgie, what was that knockout? Like 10 seconds,

seven seconds, eight seconds long. And then, uh, he pulls off that submission. win the Bellator Hawaii card. So it's, uh, AJ McKees looked like the real deal.

He's beefed with, um, champion Pitbull for quite a long time. I remember being at Bellet's, I can't remember what media day it was, but they sat them next to each other at Media Day. It was a, oh, it was the Grand Prix, like,

these are the fighter. These are the 16. The reveal. The reveal of, well, we, they had announced two is going to be in it. And then pretty much all the U.S. base fighters had a media day plus, Ryan Bader and Czech Congo plus Liotr Machita and Gaghan Rousassi and like A.J. McKee and Pitbull were

right next to each other, like within feet of each other. And they talked the entire time at one another. Like I was interviewing Ryan Bader and we literally had to stop and watch them argue for like five minutes. So A.J. McKee's made a known he that is quote unquote his belt that Patriso Pitbull is carrying around. So I do tend to favor A.J. McKee, considering he has not lost yet. But Darren Koldo looked uber impressive against Adam Bourge. yeah absolutely like i mean i really like the fed away tournament but i feel like i need to point out that pedro carvalio was a guy who was taking us all by completely by surprise and look we were petitioned him to get him in that fed away tournament he's done great so far and obviously he's fighting the cream of

the crop next time but like even i believe it might have been esther i can't remember who was there for us when they had put on the press conference with pit bull and pedro but they were like really impressed by pedro how he presented himself and the guy is dangerous everywhere He has knockout power and he has great submissions. Look, I know Patricio is one of the best fighters in the world at the moment. So it's very hard for me to say he's definitely going to beat him. But look, I think he's a great dark horse in this division. And especially being in the tournament and the fact that he's fighting pit bull in the next round,

I definitely have high hopes for Pedro. Even if he doesn't come away with a win there, I think in the future, he has a really, really bright future. I think he's only about 23, 24 years of age as well. Pedro Carvalio. Yeah, he also looked taller than the chain. Well, he is tall. He's a big boy.

He's a big boy. I really liked that matchup. It was a lot of, I never realized how much I wanted that fight until I saw them stand next to each other because I always knew Pedro Carvalia would eventually be a title challenger. The fact that he's fighting for the title now, I don't want to say it's rushed because it's not like he's a newcomer to the MMA scene. Like he's had a, his fair amount of MMA fights. But he carried himself very impressively. He garnered a lot of interest in that fight from me. Like, as soon as they announced, like when that, when that fight was made, I liked it, but I wasn't as excited for as like the AJ McKee.

I mean, the Darren Caldo Borish fights or the AJ McKee Campos fights. But as soon as they, that press conference was over, I was pretty, I was hyped on that card. But in terms of who I favored to win the entire tournament, I have to favor the champion, Patricio Pitbull. He's the greatest Bellator fighter who ever lived and is a champ champ for a reason. Yeah, I agree with you. It's hard to look past pit bull, but just a note on Pedro. Like Pedro, he's been at SVG for a couple of years now, like I think about two or three years now, but it's very rare that you see a guy just coming in, especially like a guy who hasn't known these guys coming up if they're in different teams or whatever,

and become one of the front runners of the gym. He's at all with all the main guys and sparring and all of the dudes that spar him, like Artem, Peter Quilly, they have nothing but good things to say about him. Like to be impressing those veterans, which are work right and your willingness to spar and your durability and how open you are to train with everyone is really. really, really impressive for me. Like, everybody in that gym has nothing but good things to say about Pedro. And really, that isn't something that you see too often. And fighters are like, you know, they usually want to talk about themselves.

But when they're all talking about Pedro, I'm like, oh, this is very interesting. And look, he has, he's got a huge following in Portugal as well. So, you know, it's going to be interesting to see the way that one goes. But I do favour pit bull, as you said. Well, if he wins, can someone please make him a Wikipedia page? He's one of the few fighters in the tournament right now that. doesn't have a Wikipedia page. So I'm going to get on that.

What's his record? Like 12 and 3, 12 and 2, 11 and 3, something like that. Yeah, something like that. He's been Uber impressive. But he's won all his fights in Bellator. Like, I mean, if you were talking in terms of a guy who's had the biggest impact from this European series, I don't think you could argue that him and Kay Jackson who fought Elimele-McFarlane, they have done the most.

Like, they're fighting for titles already, and they didn't get signed until this European series kicked off. So that's a very promising sign for me, Belator Europe, is working, essentially. Yeah, and you've been on that. You've been on that. As you said, you've been on the Pedro Carvalio hype train for quite a while. And I'm very, I wish it was, it keeps, it's in March, right? That's when they're fighting? Yeah, it's still kind of a ways away.

Is it 21st or something that is? I don't remember the name off the top. I don't remember the name off the top of my head, but I just know Pitbull wanted that late fight because his fight against Juan Arjoletta was kind of a grueling win, five-round fight, and he just wanted time to recover, which is cool. I just wish it was happening sooner because I really like. like that fights also i really like patricio pipel fighting i feel like for a while he was always fighting like pat curran or um wow who i'm blanking who's the one with the dread johnner oh um wow

it's gonna bother me he got staniel strouse or corallis or he felt like he was fighting like the same three or four fighters all the time and now this tournament is really uh but it also opens to a window right because there's going to be European fans tuning in. I already feel like Pippel deserves way more international aplomily gets. Even regardless like yes European, like a lot of

European fighters will know his name but now we had we're going to talk about it later I'm sure but like Chris Cyborg just won a championship Lima's the champion. Pitbull if he wins this tournament he's still chanchep and he wins the Featherweight Grand Prix like Bellator there's no excuse for them not to go to Brazil after this tournament if Patruso Pippel wins. Bring them

all there. Gilairema Cruz has been having hernia is online trying to get those. That's the Brazil so I'm sure we'd be very happy if it happens. Well, perfect segue. Another question, Trumbo. I was going to call him Crumbo. That would have been nice. Cyborx complicated legacy. What do you make a cyborg's legacy? Four belts and four different

organizations, including the UFC, 10 years unbeaten, but questionable competition due to lack of featherweight contenders. Ronda fight never materialized. Kail lost inunes, positive tests, or PEDs. What do you make of her legacy? So yes, as our good friend Trumbo pointed out, and as Esther Lynn made a phenomenal graphic on Instagram, Chris Seiborke has won her fourth championship in her fourth organization over the weekend when she dethroned Julia Budd with,

I think it was like a 31 punch combination against the fence. I don't even want to say vintage because, like, we've seen that, like, recently. Like, we lost to Amanda Nunes, but she was, still like that's her only loss last 10 years like she beat felicia spencer pretty handily i don't care what joe rogan commentary said she beat k she beat kynit skye she beat home home she beat tony evander by tkio she'd be kuntz guy by tk so it's like she this vintage cyborg thing like i don't even think she went away but uh as trumbo pointed out she's had some complicated history the peds the quote unquote lack of competition which is not her fault uh you can't fault her for that

I mean, she's fighting good fighters. She was just that much better. So what do you make of Chris Cyborg's legacy inside the cage? Oh, she's one of the greats. You know, I feel like, right, okay, the BED thing, in every other sport that seems to matter but not ours. Right. I mean, Anderson Silva, John Jones,

like it's the, maybe it's the third or fourth thing people say about those guys, you know, in terms of their legacy win. And I was talking to you about baseball players. Like, I only know guys like Barry Bonds because he was a, a drug cheat, you know, or the red-haired dude, whatever his name was. But you know what I mean? Like, it's, you know, it's like, in other sports, Lance Armstrong, what's the first thing you think about Lance Armstrong?

Although Tour de France's? No. Like, but we think about Anderson Silva, middleweight champion, John Jones, basically undefeated. All of this stuff is an afterthought. Like, I mean, it's just the consensus way I think and within the sport. So I don't really feel like, you know, we can factor that in for Soyborg, if we're not doing it for everyone else.

Like, I think she's one of the greatest fighters of all time, really, to be honest with you. I put a number two, greatest female fighters of all time after Manna Nunes. And it's hard to do. Oh, yeah. But, like, Ron, like, that stretch of wins that Rhonda had, like, was, I can't remember a time in the UFC. Like, yes, everyone tunes in for Connor. But, like, everyone was tuning in for Rhonda to see how fast she would win. Not, like, would she win?

It was, like, how fast, can she do it faster than 13 seconds? Can she do it faster than a minute, this and that? so uh obviously it was a cultural thing it's a cultural thing yeah the same as like like even i was noticed in connor talking about coby brunt day um and he was saying you know the thing about him is people in ireland don't even know about basketball but we all know coby brunt he trance like you know um he transcended the sport and that's what we have in connor and ronda two people who have transcended the sport so when we talk about greatest female fighters ever a lot of people who say like amanda chris because of their wins and i think it's because they're still

fighting so it's like recency bias but like you can't not put ron like if you wanted to put ronda two a two b with chris is the greatest female fighters ever that's fine with me if you want to put her as the greatest female fighter of all time that's fine with me i just think amanda nunez is the greatest because she's being pretty much everyone they put in front of her including ronda including cyborg uh including nxte women's champion shana baslea a little w w reference for you pisa carroll uh you know i love them you know i love them but uh yeah i I mean, like, it feels like, are we talking about the greatest fighter? Who is the best at fighting?

Like, you know, it's different. Like, Connor's thing and Rhonda's thing are completely different when you, when you encompass everything they brought to the game, and the eyes they brought to the game of the interest and the cultural ramifications. But if we're just talking about fighters, without Amanda Nunes and then Zyborg. Yeah, in terms of their ability inside the Octagon or Cage, because people, I don't know if you saw this, but a lot of people on Twitter were like the Bellator Octagon.

They still refer to the cages as the Octagon. like Chris Cyborg making her first walk to the octagon since leaving the UFC. I'm just like, nope, it's not an octagon. It's a Bellator cage. The Numer alarm goes off every time that shit happens. Woo! It reminds me of the Tito, Chuck Liddell, Golden Boy, MMA thing when they had the seating chart. Like someone tweeted the seeding chart, I think it might have been Oscar Delahoya.

And it still said the octagon in the center of the arena. And I was like, what are you doing here, guy? But yes, back to Chris Cyborg. Four champions, four promotions, all very impressive wins. I can't remember who she beat for the Invicted Championship off the top of my head. It was, and I'm terrible because Marley's Cohen, TKO, beats Julia Budd, TKO, beats Tanya Amager, TKO. So she's beating these fighters for the belts by TKO knockout. I asked a few female fighters leading up to her fight against Amanda Nunes.

Is this a fight for the greatest female fighter? But would the winner of that fight should they be considered the greatest fighter of all, female fight of all time? And pretty much all of them said yes in terms of, like you said, actual billy inside the cage. I feel like the only thing that can even rival Nunes at the moment is, even though she's fought her already and beat her so many times, it's like Shevchenko and I run at 125.

I feel like she's just going to be out on her own for so long there. Yeah. Yeah, and then people, a lot of people think Shavchenko won the second fight. A lot of people, I remember, so the first fight was the first Connor Nate fight, right? Was that UFC 196? And now it's three rounds. And I think the narrative coming out of that was like, oh, Valentin had two more rounds. She could have won, and then she got two more rounds.

She was only brand new then, basically. You know, they only seen her once before, though, I think. And so we had known that she was this exceptional striker. And if I remember correctly, Amanda really grappled the shit out of her in that fight. I can remember being on the ground and are dominating from top position, a lot of the fight. And then Amanda fought Misha Tate for the championship in the very next fight at UFC 200. Headlined UFC 200.

People forget about that. But I am curious how Amanda Nunes does off her back. I know Casey Liden, our cameraman, constantly brings that up. He really wants to see Felicia Spencer fight Amanda Nunes if she wins her next featherweight fight because Amanda Nunes wants to defend both belts. She wants that new, fancy UFC belt around. She wants two fancy UFC belts. I like the Spencer fight.

I feel like if Megan Anderson wins her next fight, they'll probably give it to Megan Anderson, but Spencer has a win over Megan Anderson, which makes the Spencer Cyborg fight all the more weird that they booked that fight, because Cyborg was probably out the door anyway, and she knocks off a contender, but that's another conversation we can have. We're going to move right along. Jay's Store. Can refs hear commentary and doesn't matter?

I'll probably never get to sit ringside of the UFC event. Don't say that. Anything is possible. I don't know what it sounds like in there. Can the refs hear the commentators? do you think the rest are ever influenced to stop the fight based on commentary? I'm thinking of Joe Rogan yelling stuff like he's out and stop the fight and it's over. I would think if you're a ref trying to make a tough decision to hear him,

that could influence you in the moment. So I can say on regional scenes, you could hear the referees can hear the commentary. I've been at some local Arizona fights that are broadcast on local stations or like what they're streamed online or stuff. you can definitely hear the commentators especially if the arena is so small I've had this I've experienced this few times

the arena is so small that the concourse is so close and so small and there's not a lot of fans at the early fights and they're streaming the fights on the TV in the concourse that I could hear the broadcasters from the TV on the conference like through the I they did one at the Cosmo it was the Mendez Frankie fight

and the I was at that yeah and then the paid sage fight and it was the similar situation where it was really early on on the fight cards so there weren't a lot of fans there and says the con everything is like so compact brian stan was was doing the commentary and you could hear his voice from the speakers of the concourse and i remember hearing someone just go stand shut up like because you could hear him so but in terms of like a big ufc fight because i assume this is what they're referring to or bellator fight or whatever i can't even hear the commentaries and i'm sitting like 10 feet away away from them, octagon side. So no, I doubt the referees can hear the fights, the, the, the, plus there's a lot of, like,

I don't know if, I'm sure you've heard it, when they're walking around the octagon, it's not that quiet when they're taking steps or like when they're leaning against the fans and the crowd is going crazy. Like, so no. I don't want to speak for any of the referees because I've never refereed a fight and I never will referee a fight, but I highly doubt they can hear the commentators during big UFC fights. I, um, like, no, I don't think so during UFC fights, but, um, I don't think so during UFC fights, but I've definitely seen it on the regional scene

where you feel like a corner is nearly prompted to go out to stop a fight. You know, where it's like their fighter, the coach of the fighter who's winning is like landing some good shots and might not be, it might not be time to call it. And they're like, oh, it's over, it's over.

And you see the referee, like, who's maybe refs like five fights before, like, oh, shit, yeah, it's over. Sure. I've seen that. I've seen that before, but not in the UFC, I've got to say. Yeah, definitely not.

Plus, like, the UFC, like, especially in the big pay-per-views, they only get the best of the best, like John McCarthy before he signed over with Bellator, Herb, Dean, Mark Goddard, like Dan Mergliata, like they're not going to let Joe Rogan's commentary dictate whether they stop a fight or not. And I want to say a lot of people that are watching this live or listen, a lot of people are talking that we don't pay attention to the YouTube comments.

I pay attention to all the YouTube comments. I don't pay attention to anything. I pay attention to the YouTube comments live because sometimes we get great questions. There's just no questions right now. Someone says if Rhonda would have beat Nunes, she cleaned out the division. Yeah, I agree. If Rhonda had beat Nunes again. Nunes came after Ronda.

Rhonda's big mistake is she never fired that horrible coach at first. That's a little rough. Blah, blah, blah. Shaboison is proving that Tardveridian is in fact a fantastic coach. Yeah, Shabazzian. I put out that graphic, like who's the, which undefeated fighter will win the U.C. championship next. And I'm going to throw him under the bus, but Alex K. Lee is like, Corey Sanhagen's not undefeated.

I'm like, that's Edmund Shabazzian, dork. Oh, God. Yeah, right. It might have been the steroids. Probably. Someone says, Pete, you get another nose ring. He doesn't even have a nose ring. What a nose ring, dude?

Imagine a boy Akir on next of all, he showed with a nose ring. Come on now. I used to call you Stan. I'd be standing you if I started that stuff, right? That's very true. That's very true. Someone says, A.J. McKeever's dare. AJ McGee versus Daring Caldell and then did a thumbs up face or thumbs up emoji.

Don't know who AJ McGee is. We're very excited to see who he is though. Interesting question from someone called Mr. Brooks. Pico won this weekend and Borix lost. How do you homies feel about a little redemption for Pico and setting up the rematch? Don't like it. I mean, I wouldn't. Like he could win.

He could win that fight. Look, he dominated Barix up until he didn't. You know, but what's the point in rushing him now? He fought like a guy who's what, seven and four or seven and five or something, and he can put him in with this guy, this prospect that they have who's coming off his first loss. Why would you put them back these two against each other again? I feel like it makes absolutely no sense. I like that fight as a high-level martial arts fight, but I don't like that fight happening immediately.

So to be determined. Someone says, Jose is Brennan's job your hero? Nope, not even a little bit. What the fuck? What? Where would they get that from? I mean, he's the antithesis of Brandon. Haven't you?

haven't you seen the tweets? Everyone keeps calling me Brandon Shob's gay cousin. I don't know why. Pitchie Carroll's losing his mind right now. I don't know where it started. All of a sudden, I started getting tweets about that. Oh, fucking hell.

I thought I was going to spit water all over the screen there. So people were, like, tweeting at me and tagging him. And I was like, where did this even come from? Like, I have to be like, I've been called Brandon Shops' gay cousin. I haven't called G. G.Easy. I've been called a magician. I've been called a magician.

I've been called a gyp I've been called a gypsy. Like, I don't know where you guys are all getting these from, but keep them coming. But someone says, I'll fight you both at once. I personally walk around at Welterweight. All right. Same here. Yeah. All right, moving back to the questions.

Uh, blah, blah, blah. What? I want to smash that fella's head in, though. Just make sure you tell him that. Give him a date on a time to meet us. Oh, someone was asked to be an interesting comment, but I'll, I'll look. Someone says, S.J. Actually, it's doing that.

Now, SJY. In response to the can referees here, the commentary, similar thing may have happened in the NFL. I don't have to tell you about the NFL Pizza Carol. Oh, of course. When league officials heard Tony Romo's commentary for the Titans' Chiefs game, and then called a penalty on Titans, former NFL referee, Terry, I can't pronounce this last time.

I'm not even going to try. Terry McGiley, as I actually try and pronounce it. Now an officiating analyst for NBC wrote on Twitter that it looked like the New York officiating office got in touch with the referee on the field after Romo pointed out the miscarry. that's a violation of the league's rules but it's an open secret that it happens sometimes so open secret i'm sure it happens i know for a fact it's happened on the low on the regional circuit when there's not there's maybe 300 fighters 300 fighters 300 fans watching but definitely not in the ufcure belliger

uh kesa versus rdaa in the in the comment section on the site because i see a lot of you comments asking about this fight too i'll just ask you right now hello there from lodovic hello there were you also what's happening baby we all surprised by the results of the fight and what do you see next for these guys i had no case called el covington but wouldn't it be fun if he fought connor next have we ever seen a fight where one of the fighters is suing another one what about r d'a he's probably not getting anywhere near the welterweight title anytime soon should he start talking to jose aublo's nutritionist thanks so first part of the question what did you make of michael case's three-round decision

win over hafayle dos angios this weekend in the co-main event of uc raleighi pizzi i don't know if you watched it. I did. I think I tweeted about this. I think Kees's game plan, if you had to ask me what his game plan would be, was pretty much what he displayed. There's so much tape on like high level wrestlers having success against Hafei El-Dazios like Camaro, Colby Covington, like a lot of, and it's recently like these five-round fights against Hafeel DeSanos, there's so much tape on RDA. And then when he normally wins his guys that strike with him, like he's, he's really, he's he beat, not always, but he beat Robbie Loller. Yes, Robbie Loller's knee like erupted underneath him.

He has that submission win over Kevin Lee, who was coming up from lightweight to well to wait in his first fight. But, so Keyes' game plan, I think was perfect. He pretty much took a playbook out of Covington and Camaro's book and just had some striking, ducked in, took him down, this and that. What did you make of Michael Keyes' performance against Hafeel de Sainos? Yeah, I thought it was great. he looks huge as well

I'm like I mean I'd say that Sano was in around the same size as Connor would you say at 170 like I mean in terms of height width like that kind of stuff would you say he's around there Michael Kieza he looks no sorry no not Michael Kieza Raphael de Sannios yeah he's a thick

boy yeah he's a thick guy but that also had me looking at it going like you know the 170 you know the Conner's fight now is very different than Keza where he's at like where he's this monster right I think someone said my case was like 180 pounds walking into the octagon. I thought he'd be bigger, to be honest.

He was huge. Yeah, I think it's really impressive. And great to see him kind of looking healthy on fight week and stuff, because some of those cuts to 55 when he was on the scales, was worrying, you know what I mean? He was so shredded and shit. He always looked like he was nearly gray. So I felt like he kind of nearly wasted the call out, though,

with Colby Covington. I'm going to be honest, because I feel like it's just not really. going to happen you know it's like copy thing's going to come back and he's going to be dropping bombs left right and center and he's going to have a fight against one of the big names in the division like if woodley beats leon you'd imagine that would be a fight they'd want to set up in the future usman and cobbie are going to always have um beef because of what a great fight they've put on and all the all the stuff that was there and i can't really think off the top of my head

who i would like him to see fight immediately i do i do understand this point though with the With the lawsuit I play, the McGregor, he could be brilliant. But, yeah, I was very impressed with him, I guess. I'm pulling up the UFC rankings right now. Off the top of my head,

I imagine he is, Michael Cesar's seventh. He could fight Stephen Thompson, sitting at six. I know Damien Mai and Gilbert Burns have a fight. If Gilbert Burns wins, that I imagine Gilbert Burns will jump up into the top 10. He's sitting at 12,

Mai sitting at 5. So maybe the winner of that fight. Tyne Woodley at 1, and Leon Edwards at four fighting, so maybe he could fight the loser of that. Robbie Lawler's out there, Jeff Neal's coming off a really impressive win. But Michael Cleese said he's not going backwards.

He's only fighting fighters that are above him in the rankings. But if it's like 6-7, maybe, so maybe the winner of Maya Gilbert Burns, I think that's a little fun grappling match, whoever wins that. Maybe like Stephen Thompson's still recovering from an injury. Sente Lucke is still out there. uh long story short there's we're not michael case is not going to be hurting for a high level

fight uh but if you want to stick to his guns of fighting people only ranked above him that he might have to wait a little while i agree uh dorji area area i'm sorry if i mispronounced your name in the youtube comment section what do you guys think about brennan shop saying the uc is the best promotion in terms of talent and competition uh and competition level but josh thompson and big john mccarthy not agreeing to it love from india so shout out to india for the fantastic. Did Josh Thompson and Big John McCarty not work for Belator? Yes.

Okay, this is a silly question. I won't say they're like, I think, I don't say the best fighters are only in the UFC because we see Lima, Pitbull, Chandler, all that, but if you're looking at like who constantly puts on the most competitive fights, I mean, everyone's going to point to the UFC. Oh, like Belator, some of the fights they put on over here

absolutely ridiculous, like they're not even, like, you know, we know, like, there's literally nobody is like, oh, maybe the other guy's going to win. It's just literally, okay, we're here to watch, you know, a lot of prospects beat up guys this week. You know, that's basically why it is. You know, look, and even, like, I think Roberto Soleditch is one of the best fighters in the world. He fights are KSW. Like, I mean, look at the prospects list. I mean, there's so many fighters that are amazing world talents that aren't in the UFC,

but I do think when it comes to the actual cream of the crop fights, you can't beat the UFC. they're going to be able to put on the most lucrative and most interesting fights because they have the best fighters across the board on their cards, I believe. Anyway, I couldn't agree more. Every fight promotion is going to have their superstars. They might be a little top-heavy. I mean, Jose Shorty Torres signed with Brave, and he's, I think, one of the best flyweight, bansom weights out there.

I mean, I remember when he was like a two-division champion, Titan, he wanted to go for a third. He was actually balking up to go up after a third championship, and now all of a sudden he gets cut and now he's at brave so just top heavy I was wondering about that as well actually just today I was speaking about this because a guy called Jake Hadley has been announced as a signing for Cage Warriors and he's a brilliant flyweight but I heard he had been talking to Brave and I was like well that's naturally a great fight Shorty Torres v Jake Hadley but do you believe if Shorty hadn't signed a multi-fight deal with Brave

he'd already be back because I certainly do He shot himself with the foot In a way That's difficult to say Because Shorty Torres Was putting out those YouTube videos Of like Kind of pulling

He was pulling the curtain back a little bit On finances And he's like giving Talking about like Oh it looks like I remember he was like Looks like the UFC is just cutting all the flywights Like he was saying that before

It was actually happening On his YouTube so He was the red flag Was he was that the red flag That initially kind of Because he was a talent He was a prospect and when he went Burkine, like, what the hell's going on here?

Even though he hadn't won every fight in the UFC or whatever, he was considered a great prospect. Yeah, I think he was one-and-one in the UFC. He beat, I can't, he fought in Utica, and then he lost UFC 227. I can't remember. I think he beat Jared Brooks in Utica, and I think he lost Alex Perez at UFC 227.

And then all of a sudden he gets cut, but that was like when he gets cut on that wave of fly weights. They were all, like, Brandon Moreno is cut, Tim Elliott, like all these great flyways. Now they're coming back. I can't speak for Shorty Torres. but I know his father just passed away and he had to pull out of his fight because he wasn't emotionally ready to fight again. But I would like to see him fight some of the best.

I would love to see him and Alex Perez run it back or him and Frigere and all this stuff. But who knows? We're getting a lot of questions from this one individual. Aldo Versa Hudo is set for Brazil because they only have a Nunez as champ. Do you think that's like, basically I think he's saying like, do you think they just want Josealdo to win so they can have another Brazilian champion. No. Yeah.

And then someone goes, someone asks, what do you think about Henry versus Alta? I think that's a disgrace to the sport and shits on the bantam weight. Your thoughts. I don't like the fight. I mean, I like the fight.

I don't like that we made the fight. Yeah, that is the way to put it. I like the fight, but I don't like the fight. Yeah. If this was in the natural pet corner and this was happening, oh,

it'd be overjoyed by the fact that it's happening. But it actually, like, the sport, Again, I say it's all the time. It's way more established in the US. You can get away with stuff like this a lot more. It's been around for a long time.

The dogs in the street know what MMA is. But this BMF stuff, this, oh, a guy who just lost a fight gets a title shot. All this stuff kind of flies in the face of the sport being actually recognized in this part of the world, you know, like as in a meritocracy-based sport, where the merit of your victories pushes it towards a title. What? So I spoke with Kelleher about this, and we seem to be in agreement. that but I would like to hear your thoughts what do you think of Romero getting a title shot coming off two straight losses yeah I mean I feel like we have talked before like I mean I feel like it

makes more sense because of the situation that the middleweight division is in but when there's a guy like Jan just there you know when there's there's Aljo all these guys that are seen to be lining up it just feels like a bad idea like where else are you going to go with Stoylbender at the moment if if everyone's injured or a guy like Darren Hills just arrived in the division division with a win like it's tough Hermanson's just got rolled over by cannoneer you know canineer still building a stock to a certain extent in the in the division Robert Whitaker is not active at the moment you know like what else he gonna do and Romero's and I think it's also a little different in the sense that

Jose Aldo was coming off the loss in his bantamweight debut or Romero has a resume at middleweight where he's pretty much the boogeyman for a long time like he's being a who's who not named Robert Whitaker and then that Palo cost to fight a lot of people think Romero won. So his stock is set at middleweight and Jose Albo is now 0 and won in his new division fighting a champsend when there's already established contenders at 135. It's not like Romero was, like if you look at the rankings, like Romero's probably the next man up anyway in terms of ranking.

So I think it's a little different. Someone says what it's also like the matchup, right? Because we know that Y'all Romero is absolutely a horrific matchup for this amazing guy who's come out and reinvigor the sport for even harding people like us like that it's amazing matchup in that sense as well yeah Ed Plus is he really wanted this fight

because I think he want well I don't think I know he wants to fight Romero before because Romero's on the wrong side of 40 he wants to fight Romero before he's passed his prime so he could say like I didn't just beat him because he's an old man but speaking of this band and weight division someone says what do you think about Corey Sehangan

versus Peter Jan? I like that's brilliant fight. I like that fight, but there's a lot of other fights I like too. I like Peter Jan versus Al Jamein Sterling for I know I like but Corey Sanagan supposedly fighting uh Frankie Edgar next like the winner of that fight could fight Pete like Frankie Edgar versus Peter Yon would be another I like if Peter Yon I do think he needs one of those fights Jan I do think he needs like a prestige builder that will make him more of like I mean this is why Henry Zahood was

voting alo it's a way bigger name fight and like Jan has already obviously taking out favor, but he is gone from, like, his stock has raised so much off the back of that favor fight. You know, it's unbelievable. Like, I had no doubt in my mind that that was going to happen either, like, absolutely no doubt. So I feel like any of these guys, like, you put Edgar in against the Yan, I don't fancy Edgar's chances, but it definitely makes him more of a commodity, and that will allow people like Suhudo to want to fight him. Like, and I feel like Jan's open to it as well, although he is goading and goading, Suhudo. I think a guy, like, you know, with big stock in any sense of the UFC and Edgar and Alow, you know,

favor, as we've seen already. I think you'd be very interested in that. Peter Yonso just become the legend killer. Just fight legend after legend after legend. Like, buy Frank Edgar next and then beat Frank. There's so many different names. No, mercy, just certain being gangster. And then fight Marley-Ais.

Just fight legends. Just clean out all the legends of the Bantanway Division and then fight for the championship. I think it'd be great. I think I'm telling you, when this guy can speak English, it's going to be hilarious. He does Eurobash. I think he's done it three times and he speaks complete Russian throughout the episode and you can hear everyone laughing in the background and at the end he always just threatens my life in English very slightly and hangs up the phone. I love that guy. And you said it yourself like MMA's only going to get bigger in Russia right now with this

doping ban which if you haven't heard or watched it, I spoke with Alexel Linick at it about it at length at the USC 246 Media Day. I asked him one question and he's basically just started talking and I just held the mic. I was like, yes, yes, sir, yes sir, don't show me.

Yeah, he wasn't so talking of after the fact, but he also couldn't actually stand up because his leg was that badly injured, so we'll let him away with that one. We're going to hop over to Twitter. You can use hashtag the A stand on Twitter

or you can just reply to the comment section like this young up-in-coming fan. Nile McGrath tweeted at us. He said, first of all, Jose, you are a better man than me

in every aspect of the game. Your hair is amazing. You are the one true Irishman next to Pizzie Carroll in terms of co-hosting. I will never be as good. Wow, this is a lot of characters for a tweet. Props to you now. I will never be as good as you. I will never make sandwiches as good as you.

And I will never look as good as you. Shout out to Westmeath for producing the second greatest Irish MMA media member of all time after Pacey Carol. Well, thank you so much for the nice words, Nile. I'm sure we'll hear from you in the future when you make it big. It's great of the offer the olive branch like this. This is what I was trying to tell him on Eurobatch. I was like, I need you to be friends. And it looks like he's finally decided that he'll be friends.

Very glad to see it. Do you want to know what he actually said? Yes. Are you looking forward to going from A to A and East Side? I don't know what that means. Accident and emergency. That's where you are brought if you get battered in the streets. I've run the fields

of Westmeath We need to make up a gangstone for Westwood Oh there it is West Mid Ooh I like that That's like Wu-Tang right there But anyway Nile It's great to hear from you You can always come to me for advice

As your elder And mentor And life mentor What's that Who's that tall cat That Conn McGregor's always walking around with The Life Coat The Life Coat

The Life Coat Tony Robbins Did you just compare Grave to Tony Robbins Yes So as Tony Robbins is to Connor, I will be to this young upstart Nile McGrath. You can always come to me for advice. But moving along. Someone called straight at Talking Facts 1, Pete's question for Piz.

Oh, I love this guy. I love this guy. Can we talk about former SVG fighter Johnny Dargan, who got six years today for murdering a man, cold-blooded four years ago, also assaulting another man and threats to kill witnesses on the night. please cyber cyber this pizzi let us know how you feel about what he did I'm reading that verbatim so if there's any

misspellings in there I apologize no cyber is definitely a word yeah he got five and a half years for unlawful killing today in Dublin and he he was a really celebrated a striker in taekwondo like I believe he was on a national team

like represented Ireland internationally I would have covered him I think he fought four four five times in MMA. He's like one and three, but I mean, when he actually started fighting in M.A, he's probably over 45. He was like, if you remember

Connor McGregor used to use a lot of spinning techniques. Johnny was pretty instrumental when he came to him learning these wheel kicks and stuff like that. He was like a Tauiqwondo coach down there. But yeah, that's pretty much what happened. I believe he was walking. He was in

a kind of an argument with his wife or his girlfriend at the time that became his wife and um a guy came up and tried to stop the argument and he hit him and the guy died um i don't know if it was when he hit the ground or whatever way it was but uh that certainly happened but that guy is an asshole who asks that question hey because i was like maybe american people don't really want to know about this niche fighter from dublin today he's like calls me a pussy like what the fuck is wrong with you dude i'll smack you around the place come and say it to me in my face you're you're obviously from Ireland like come on idiot and then he goes to me oh you're not you're not

You're afraid you're going to be a blacklisted. I've been blacklisted plenty of times, mate. I don't need an excuse. Thank you very much. You're going to remain blocked, though. You're not getting back in. So, to put that, summarize that, Pt C. Carroll answers this individual's question, challenges to Tum of fight, and he remains blocked on Twitter.

So if P.C. Carroll doesn't host the A side for a while. It's probably because he is on the run. Yeah, from straight facts. Oh, terrifying. He actually got all the facts wrong, basically, in the tweet, but yeah, however, however. Well, long. Andy Stevenson on Twitter says, if Petey could make one domestic Irish fight right now, what would it be? Do you know what?

This was a great question, and that other asshole distracted me from it, because I was actually sitting there going, this is a great one. I'd love to see Norman Park and Paul Redmond again. I love that fight. That was a brilliant fight. I'd also like to see Moyle's Price, right? So he bet Peter Quirley, and it's like he completely disappointed. appeared off the face of the earth, while Peter Quilely is now fighting Brent Primus. Like, I mean, I'd like to see Miles because he had the whole beef of Quili, about the Habib

camp and all that stuff. I'd like to see Miles put against another SPG guy. Kiefer Crosby's not going to thank me for this, but that is the fight. Kiefer v. Miles, because they did have a lot of beef. Kiefer's this guy, undefeated, lots of, lots of hype. I feel like a fight between him and Miles will compel the whole next to an event again, like we saw with Quilely and Miles. and really

Miles, like, he's talking about, oh, you know, I want to step up from Quili and Quili's far more experienced than Kiefer, but I feel as though Kiefer's got so much stock at the moment that that would be a brilliant fight for him for Miles to get in. Like I think Kiefer is far more well-known internationally than Miles, and if Miles thinks he can beat him, he should fight him

because that would project him onto a whole new level. And from Kiefer's point of view, Kiefer is kind of, you know, to establish himself against a guy who just bet Kweely, That would be unbelievable for him. That would just show his levels to a huge extent. So, yeah, I think that would be a great fight to do. Miles Price is the one that trained with Habib before the Conner fight.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, I remember that whole beef. But that was great because Bellator capitalized on it, and they made the fight. And that nearly felt like a little sequel. Same way as Artem v. Pauley felt like a little sequel. I felt it worked very well. It's never going to go away. Someone says, Andy Stevenson follows up.

Can Jose, shoutouts for including the accent on Jose. Can Jose break down a potential fight between himself and Niall McGrath by looking at their respective skill sets? Why would I want to fight a young, up-and-coming journalists? You know, this man, Nile, comes to me for advice on how to just, you know, live his life as a good, honest man. Why would I want to fight this man? I'm trying to mentor this man. And Shep, I will be his Sherpa through life. I'm not going to be fighting him.

Increase the peace. Sean Denny Will PT Carroll be traveling to any events Outside of UFC, Belator or Cage Warriors This year He's asking me if I'm going to a KSW event there basically Isn't he? Yeah

Of course Sean Denny is He's like the god of KSW over here But I'd love to go to a KSW event If they do one of them stadium shows I'd love to cover that I know Esther and Casey have talked about that as well I want to go to a KSW No no just just me Casey and Esther

That's all that's happening All right But yeah I'd love to do one of those and I'd love that you know Casey and Esther the best in the business having them there shooting this and and doing a video and photo on I'd say would be unbelievable for KSW as well so that's something I'd love to do and I think they are talking about doing it like I mean people like I always say these guys nearly sold out a 60,000 C stadium was like 58,000 57,000 and every time I say it people are in the comments yeah but they sold the tickets for ten dollars and all who cares you're right I mean whatever you have to do right like I mean whatever you have to do right like I mean I mean you have to do right like I mean I mean Who else is doing shit like this? I mean, do you know how many people are comped into events that are apparently sold in there as well? Get over yourselves, lads. So yes, Sean, hopefully a KSW event this year.

MMA Duration on Twitter, whose official name is just heart emojis. I like that. Predictions for Rose and Amunas is a comeback fight against Jessica Androj at UFC 249, I think it is, in Brooklyn, co-main event, three-round fight. What do you think of them running it back? I think it's nearly like Pico and Baruch again. because like rose beautiful work with a job until she got slammed on her head and so i feel like like you know rose can definitely win it and jess got obviously capable of stopping people very

very suddenly and quickly and i kind of feel as though this time off her rose will do it a power or good though i wouldn't be i'd put my money on rose if i was a betting man i would too i think she looks phenomenal up until she got like you said got dropped on her head uh she's taking a lot of time off I think what she lose in May. She lost to Jessica Androge in May in the second round. And I think she's rediscovered her love of mixed martial arts. She said, I remember leading up to that fight. She'd also been gone.

She'd beat Yowna in April. I think in the rematch at UFC, what was that, 223? Was that the Brooklyn card? I want to say. You know this stuff. I don't know this stuff. Jesus Christ. I think it was UFC.

I think it was UFC 223 was the Dolly incident. And then eventually Habibi I came to the main event. But Yoha Rose beat Yowna five-round decision in the rematch. in the co-man event and then she took a lot of time off until May then she came back and got dropped on her head against Jessica and Drosh in enemy territory by the way So I do favor I would favor Rose it is a three-round fight too I can't remember the last time we saw Rose in a three-round fight oh yeah From Stuart Tuckwell at Stuart Tuckwell on Twitter How much public interest is there in seeing cyborg fight for Bellator again after she comfortably beat Bud at the week at the weekend Just a reminder I'm reading these verbatim

for me the only fights I am interested in is seeing her in a rematch against Nunes or fighting Kayla Harrison in the PFL 155 tournament so piece of Carol what else is out there for Chris Cyborg and Bellator

I mean it's tough that it's completely up the Belator here to make compelling matchups like I mean I know Irish fans immediately have been talking about oh Shnade Kavanaugh if they did the if they did the rematch between

Shnade and Leslie Smith and Shnade at a handraised like she now is a highly decorated boxer like ridiculous level amateur boxer if like that's a that's a compelling fight for that reason i don't know how well as you do obviously you're going to favor soyborg but like i mean imagine soyborg coming to ireland to fight like that would be absolutely mental like that would be that we like people would love that like i can't like it was the first time i saw cyborg fight live in invicta it was the in the cosmo that night and it was like a religious experience what even watching her walk out like she is she's larger

in life, you know. And I feel like that would be absolutely a sell-out in Ireland. But look, I think Leslie Smith, like, there's a lot of people there, like, that she, Leslie Smith rematch, but I feel like, you know, it's up to Belator here to make it interesting, to be honest. She could fight Arlene Blancow. I think that's how pronounced her name. She's fought, I think she's one of the more tender featherweights on the

Belator roster in terms of, like, actual, like, she might not have the greatest record, but she actually has. has a lot of fights under bellator in the featherweight division then one other name you might have forgotten casangano has signed with bellator she's also shit that's a that's a great fight like i mean they can they can do that whenever right yep she has not fought in the ufc yeah i think her last fight was to megan anderson uh when she got kicked in the eye and then oh that was horrific yeah yeah i really like cat going into that fight as well you know so i would say cat would be a good one arline would be a good one.

Sheenay would be a good one. Not the level of competition, like an Amanda Nunes fight, like the rematch. I think if you have to ask me right now what one fight would I want to see Cyborg take, it's the Amanda Nunes rematch, but that's not possible right now. So not the highest level of competition, but you're not going to get... Singada. Yeah, you're not going to get... Like, people are saying, like, why didn't she leave the UFC this and that?

Like, what is the UFC's female featherweight division? Like, what is it? It's like three or four fighters. And Jermaine derand me when she's interested. Right. I mean, like, yeah, it's like, it's crazy. Former champion, and she's like, I don't even know a fight there, man. Exactly.

So it's, I feel like she said, like she said, she would have more chances, opportunities to continue fighting if she signed, once she signed with Vallator. We're running up on time. So just a few more. From Valentino, Seifidine Tarhan. I apologize for pronounce her name. Yowell getting a title shot. Dana making Aldo versus Hudo. In my opinion, this is.

bad for the sport and I have no interest in these fights when there are contenders ready for the title guys coming off losses getting the shot Jared should be next for izzie and sterling for sehuto well I believe algerman sterling just got back into trading after his surgery last fall and jerry canaanair was already booked to fight Robert whittaker before that fell off and supposedly the darintill fight is up in the air because darintill might have injured his ankle so i don't hate i don't hate the romero fight nearly as much as i hate the aldo fight yeah yeah i think I think that's exactly how I feel about it to be honest but I do I do agree with this guy in that it's setting a horrific precedent You know letting let him let him guys off losses coming in for five-for-tiles

Someone says interesting He throws the name out what if Bellator of signs Clarissa shields for an MMA oh Well they're mates aren't they like like I mean Cyborg and Clarissa have trained together and stuff They're always big in each other up. I feel like like I feel like if Clarissa's going anywhere She's going to the UFC like I mean she was peddled around them events and stuff like that I like, I mean, to the media circles and stuff. So, you know, and look, like, if Clarissa Shields coming to NMA, please don't put her in against Cyborg for our first fight.

Or Amanda Nunes. People keep saying, like, Shields and Noonet, like, let Nunes welcome Shields into the UFC. That's crazy. You guys are nuts. Like, she would destroy Clarissa Shields in an MMI fight. Like, don't be ridiculously. She's even said, like, I don't know if after UFC 245 in December, she was like, I'm going to wrestle the shit out of you.

Like, people are. like oh, standard bank, she's like, why would I do that? I'm going to wrestle the shit out of her. Those are her exact words.

Yeah, it's unbelievable. Someone says, Cruz versus Sterling, Jan versus Marais. I'd buy that for a dollar. Okay. Someone says,

can you please break down figurado versus Joe B? Fighting in the Norfolk card, but kind of forgotten about under the radar flyweight fight,

title fight. What do you make of this fight? Oh, it's going to be class. I feel like it's just going to be like a whirl wind.

Do you know what I feel like two Tasmanian devils ripping it up? Look, it's like Joe B's story is going to be highlighted a lot here coming up in the lead up to this fight. Like, I mean, unbelievable. The guy that's been here since day one. The guy just been here like a bantam weight, right, before even the flyweight division came along. Like in the UFC, am I right?

Yeah. Yeah, like I mean... He fought in the first title fight. Like, great, yeah, absolutely. Like, he's a savage. And look, Figuero, just happens to be another. absolute beast that is fighting a flow weight like I'm not gonna lie man I feel like figurato's like he looks unbelievable like his fight his fight in july against pantosia was my fight of the night

like that fight was bananas fucking unbelievable man fantoja is unbelievable and this we oh I don't know man like I mean I feel like every fan who's been around for a long time we're very happy to see joe be finally do it you know what I mean like I mean at this stage was great to do it. He has to beat Figurato first. That's really hard. That's so hard, man. Have you watched the dude? It's very tough. I can't wait for the fight, though. The fight is brilliant. The UFC's resident movie expert, Joseph Banevita, is we got a little fun video coming out soon. I don't want to spoil anything. But Annie Stevenson has another question. He goes, I needed more than 140 characters for this. So he wrote a note and then tweeted a picture of the note.

So because he put so much work into it, uh, Wow, someone just tweeted UFC champ Camaro Ouzman and BMF champ Jorge Monswell almost just got into it on Radio Row in Miami. Okay, looks like they're both there for the Super Bowl. Blades versus Rosenstrik. Should Curtis Blaze fight, Giorzina, Rosenstreek

regardless of who wins between Rosen streak and Igano? Big Fran is clearly number one, but obviously has to get through Biggie Boy first. DeSays D-Safe 3 likely to happen, but we'll take time. If Francis wins, he fights for title next. A third's Blades fight makes no sense. So make Biggie Boy versus Blay

Biggie Boy wins does he fight for the title or fight Blades for number one contendership If Biggie Boy beats Francis his next fight should be for the championship I like Curtis Blaise versus was it Volkov I think that's a good fight to make My head hurts trying to actually just compute that keep it to 140 characters and he geez you know I can't consume that much information So what is actually the question there like I feel like it was basically Basically should Curtis Blades fight Gairzino next regardless Yeah. Yeah, I agree with him.

I like that fight, but I don't want, like, if Giars Enoe wins and then Curtis Blade wins, that'd be a good number one contendership fight. But if Giorzino loses, do you want to risk, like, would Curtis Blades just want to stay active? I think he would want to fight something coming off a win, so that's why I like the Volkov fight a little bit more. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I feel like it's definitely an option, you know what I mean? I can't wait for it and Ghana who be biggie boy. I don't know we're talking about this is going to be absolutely mental.

Where is that for you? March? March 8th? It's the end of March. Me and Damon Martin, I think, will be there. Oh, my. Looky boys. Matt Brown's on, Cody Garbrents on that card.

I believe Stamen just got added to that card. Matt Brown's on that card. That's a, it's an ESPN car. It's not ESPN applause. I believe that's just ESPN card. But we're running up on time. So per usual Pizzy Carol, oh shit.

The floor is yours for whatever promo you want to cut. Oh, Jesus Christ. I don't know what I'm going to do. Hold one second. Before it, while you think of your promo, someone just in the comment section on YouTube goes, What type of elf is Jose? A wood elf?

What the fuck is the hair? I don't know. I think again, again, it's the hair, it's the nose ring maybe. Maybe it's the earring. I'm adding it to the list of things that people, strange things people have called me on this live chap. Anyway, back to your promo. even mean i don't know what i mean i believe if you're a fan of jr tulkins popular series lord of the rings

uh apparently they all have blonde hair uh so actually not apparently they most of them have blonde hair uh so i think that's what he's going with i don't know i'm trying to look around for inspiration here i don't really have any um i have to start remembering to do this because when i when i come correct i usually have a good one but um yeah i don't have one today i'm sorry i love his though well i'll say this it's a little sad but a lot of people were tweeting um Obviously, the passing of Kobe Bryant happens this week. I still cannot wrap my head around. Waking up in a world of Kobe Bryant not being here anymore,

especially and his daughter, Gigi, who was also on that helicopter. Like, that is, I can't even fathom what they're going through. But people were tweeting, like, what, like, not just Kobe Bryant, but like, what, is there an athlete in MMA that would captivate the world? if this tragedy happened with Kobe. I don't think so. I don't think there's anyone fighting in the UFC or Bellator right now that would be on the same level as Kobe Bryant

in terms of like you said it yourself. You don't even like NBA. You don't know anything about basketball, but you've heard of Kobe Bryant. Am I correct? I feel like the same people we're talking about it. The only people who've really transcended the sport and McGregor and Rousey,

and I still don't think that comes anywhere in there. They're not even on like, those two are the biggest superstars in the history of the UFC I'll throw Brock Lesnar in there too but they will not even come remotely close. Like Kobe Bryant won an Oscar like for crying out loud.

Yeah, it's insane. It's insane. Kobe Bryant is it's very strange to be in a world where Kobe Bryant is no longer with us. But I can't even I was, I was a, I'm not even a I'm not a Lakers fan. I was born in New England. I was diehard Celtics fan.

And it still like crushed me when that news happened. I was like people were like texting me like this I was like what I don't even I haven't even processed what what just happened stop asking me what's going on like my mother and father have never watched a basketball game they're lawyers but it's all they've been talking about you know like that it's unbelievable I he's the greatest he's the hardest he's the hardest worker in the NBA that I've ever seen I asked him one question in my life at the body armor press commerce in New York when it was him

Dana White and then I had like Garbrandt and Ganu Cynthia Calvillo they were all up on stage and I asked like, what's it feel like to work with a Celtics fan? Because Dana White's a Celtics fan. I'm like, what a stupid question? But he like laughed and answered it. So it's very weird that Kobe Bryant is not with us anymore. But there's no one in the MMA world that would even remotely come close to the reach that Kobe Bryant had throughout. Like he was a deity in China. Like basketball is such a big deal in China. He couldn't walk the streets. Like he could not. or like the country would shut down but anyway

that is my promo that pizza Carol did not have a promo there's no UFC this weekend I read something that this is the last week of no UFC Shedina L shot yeah yeah it was shot it's so depressing to read it's the last

weekend of no UFC until April so so stick around apparently Max Sherman has blown up our YouTube comments section saying hey pizzi cut a promo on michael pieta mcena versus dago sanchez oh man i'm sorry man i'm i've been caught cold i'm jet lagged all right i'm gonna try next week i just need my brain isn't here today long it's not at full capacity

long story short i'm better than peterl at everything because he can't cut a problem that's not true i'm not gonna even fight it i'm like yeah i agree with you today i'm i'm at that's door here but anyway i'm hose that's pete c i don't have my time frames matched up right now but i'll be in houston for ufc 247 uh the john jones rea's fight so i think is that next week is that next weekend not this weekend but next weekend yeah so i'll be in houston next week maybe we'll do one with alex uh Alex avis supposedly coming with us cool Alex oh cool cool cool Alex is going to be there Casey lyden will be there so maybe we'll have a but Casey lyden is like that's his hometown baby It is.

So we might give him a hometown, a hometown game and have him on the A side again. I know the comment section loves Casey. Helky and I love Casey. People, people are 50-50. They either love him or hate him. I think Casey loves that. But anyway, we've been ending this show for like 10 minutes. I'm Jose.

That's Pizzi. We're out. M-A.