MMA Fighting - UFC 310 Watch Party Replay w/ Mike Heck & Jed Meshew

Episode Date: December 8, 2024

Relive the magic of UFC 310's live watch party with Mike Heck and Jed Meshew! Check out the original UFC 310 Watch Party here: https://www.youtube.com/live/iDVpwPmWskI Follow Mike Heck: @MikeHeck_JR Follow Jed Meshew: @JedKMeshew Subscribe to MMA Fighting Check out our full video catalog Like MMA Fighting on Facebook Follow on Twitter Read More: http://www.mmafighting.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

You're listening to the Vox Media Podcast Network. Welcome to MMA Fighting's UFC pay-per-view watch party. Watch along with MMAfighting.com as we check out the main card for another UFC blockbuster event. Results, games, surprises, and the best reactions to the craziest moments in the ultimate fighting championship. Live around the world on the MMA Fighting YouTube channel. Here are your hosts, MyCack and Mystery.

no gray area, Jed Mishu. Hello there, everybody. Welcome to the UFC 310 watch party here on MMAFighting.com. Tis the season for Fista Cuffs. And we're happy that you are here with us. I am Mike Heck. That is Jed Mishu. Hello, Jed.

Hey, Mike. Have a good time? Dogs on top, Mike. I'm having a great time. Yes. Go dogs. Go dogs. Congratulations.

You had to sweat that one out a little bit. Oh, yeah. There's a nightmare. But, you know, fist fights are happening. Mostly they've been very fun. I missed the Evela-A-A-Aljo fight, which apparently was very fun. So I'm excited to go get to watch that one. It's the only fight I've missed on the card.

So shame that I missed it. But this fight, we thought might be depressing. It's been at least lively thus far. Yes. You know how I feel about the main card. I love it. So it's a very good final pay-per-view of the year so far. Yes, we are very festive.

We're in great moods. Dominic Reyes, Anthony Smith has made it to round two. We're about 406 left in round two, and Anthony Smith is working on a single egg and just got elbowed on top of the damn head. And now getting more elbow to the ears. Oh, this is bad. Yeah, he's hurt.

Oh, 12 to 6s are fine, so that's okay. Very legal. Oh, Smith is not enjoying this. Dominic Reyes is not Michael Chandler. Smith is holding this single leg for dear life as he is getting his head. Just humbled. Just whacked repeatedly.

Reyes has hit him. Oh, but he's getting, I'm saying he is getting closer to finishing the single leg. Dominic Reyes, unkillable. That's going to be the end of the fight, I suspect.

Oh, he just keeps sitting. Now Smith is doing the desperation leg hold. Now he's, yeah, now he's full covering up. Oh, but he's trying to stand up. A kindly man,

in a street fight, Dominic Reyes would have walked off and said, we're done here. Oh, man, now he's got the arm trapped. Reyes now back on a different single leg, just holding.

Oh, more elbows. He is bleeding a, a lot now too. Oh boy. Things aren't going too hot for Lionheart. He's showing the heart off. Oh, he's going to finish this thing down.

He got like, oh, he's going to finish his take down, Mike. Oh, no. Oh, no, he's just getting old. Stop the damn fight. 42 unanswered significant strikes this right. And that was before the flurry of a Baker's dozen.

That just happened. Anthony Smith has landed zero strikes. Oh, my God. This is tough. And probably closer to 60 at this point in time. this is letting this happen you know you mean he's he's still somehow defending himself i mean he's still trying in there this is a this is an ass this is more of the the sad part we were predicting the first round

like the first round was tough you know uh ray has landed a lot of jabs just kind of did did land better but anthony smith was competing yeah they just tried to make it a dog fight and that was like the best thing he could do. I mean, that is who he is as a fighter. But this round, he is, this has been full survival mode from the start. This is like a, dude, this is beyond 10-8. This will be a 10-8, but. Definitely a 10-8 with potential for more as there are still two minutes.

There's still two minutes left in this round. Yeah. This is like a 10-6 on the Jedmishu scoring system. If I was legally allowed to score 10-6, you best believe I would. Smith trying to. Credit to him. I thought this fire was literally going to be stopped, and he is still moving.

I mean, he's not, he's not landing any offense. Yeah, I thought it was going to be over here. Offense is gone, but he is, down of Reyes is tired. Yeah, I thought it was over like two minutes and 65 punches ago. Yeah.

We got a little hammer fist, Reyes, another elbow. But who knows, maybe Reyes is just tired, tucking himself out here. And this is what, this is Anthony Spitz game plan the entire time. Let's just, if you,

Let's just get battered until you can't punch your kick no more. If you've never seen it, the documentary When We Were Kings on the Rumble in the Jungle fight. It is on Netflix now. I watched it this week because I was just on Netflix and I saw it. I saw it way back in the day. It's very good. It's terrific.

It is so good and I rewatched it. And if you have never watched it, if you don't know really like, you like know what the, you know, Ali Foreman fight is, is great. And, you know, maybe this is Anthony Smith, Ropa doping. By the way, Dominic Reyes already has broken his significant strike record. And he has fought in five rounders before. He went five rounds with John Jones. 127 is his new set.

And there's still a lot of time for that to add up. And honestly, I'm surprised it's not 127 this round alone. Yeah. He has just been, you know, he's not killing him. He's not drilling him in coughing nails. But this is 100 shots. Unanswered function. A mercy stoppage.

Jesus. Mark Goddard. Mark Goddard just saw 100 shots. He was like, we got to triple digits of unlawful. He's got to. That's got to be. That's good enough.

I mean. I think Anthony Smith and Chris Wyman should both. Yes. They both have longstanding positions with the company from a broadcasting perspective. Anthony Smith is very good at this from an analyst. He actually would be a terrific color guy. You could rotate.

him in there i think you'd be awesome chris wybin could do some desk stuff he's really funny on those uh the morning weigh-in shows when he does those so he's like both these guys could still be employed but i just don't want to really see them fight anymore yeah i i will say very you know i'm very comfortable with anthony smith retine do feel bad that you know the circumstances out because i didn't know about it until an hour yeah 20 minutes ago his best friend dying a couple of weeks ago i can't really imagine fighting through that or really doing anything if my best friend died. Yeah. And so if he wanted to say, hey, that was a particular set of circumstances.

I know I don't have a long career left, but I don't want that to be my final fight. I'd absolutely understand that. For Chris Wyden, I know you may not want that to be your final fight. That needs to be your final fight. It was tough. Like that, to me, the booking of that fight was the answer to the question. Like, if you can't, and I don't mean this to be disrespectful to errant. But we know who Eric Anders is at 36, 37 years of age.

If he can't beat Eric Anders, there ain't really much else place to go. You know what I mean? So, tough die for both of those guys. And it is what it is. By the way, I'm a little thirsty. I think I need a little caffeine. I love this so much.

There we go. Right into the old wait, North Swole sweatshirt with the old Celsius. The issue is, Mike and I didn't coordinate at all. And he did the festive thing. which is obviously very smart and very stupid. And so he's doing this. I did something that you will see later.

Oh, my God. Then I didn't coordinate with my either. It's a totally different way to go with things. The gloves are coming off, by the way. Oh, that's good. I mean, it's not great. I'm really, it's really unfortunate for him to have to, if it is, he's ending his career in these circumstances,

but he's going to stick around the USC for a long time, like you said. He's so good with the microphone in his, with him he's terrific and i i try to give him credit a lot because he carved a career out when he just shouldn't have one i know like anthony smith is the most creative fighter name ever like there's nothing to be like i'm gonna remember and like you went to school with an anthony smith for sure probably a couple of them and then like he kind of even looks like a creator fighter in the ufc game like if you just do the spin the wheel give me like he's got the tattoos of bald head And so, you know.

Dom wants to know how you would have scored that round if Smith had made it to the corner. I mean, it was at least a 10-8. If it had continued like that for the remaining minute, I think there was left in that, I would have gone 10-7. I think there was like 25 seconds left or something. To me, and it's not necessary.

Like the way the rules are written, there's a lot of vagueness. To me, the judging criteria is pretty clear in that if they offer nothing, they offer no resistance of any kind. that's full everything and he took a lot of damage for five full minutes

offering nothing in return I think that should be scored as heavily as we can possibly score a fight. Yeah, that was, that was just, that was vicious. There was 100 on-inched punches.

Oh, dude. There's a lot of punches, man. Go punch your pillow right now a hundred times. I wonder, it's hard as you, just punch it a hundred times. I bet you will be tired.

Donald Gray is still talking about the elbow. I wonder if he's got a call out in mind. That's a great question. And hey, shout out to Dom Reyes. Man's on the winning streak. Two in a row. Two is a streak.

He's back. The Devastator. The Devastator. So now he's moving. Not only has he won two in a row, he's now going to move up in the rankings. He's not the number 12. Was Anthony Smith in front of him in the rankings?

I think so. Let me pull up the old UFC rankings and see if that's true. That sounds like you could be right. One of them was 12 and one of them was 13. So no Rayez was 12 Smith was 13. Oh. So he will remain at 12. He moves in front of Johnny Walker after such a sensational win.

Anthony Smith getting the mic, though. Anthony Smith getting the mic. So let's see what he has to say. We can turn the volume up a little here because it's not the pay for you. So, oh, man. Anthony Smith says he doesn't know how many times he can continue to compete without his best friend. No full answer, though. Yeah.

Says he wants to think on it. I think that is correct. him. Yeah. I think you, I mean, with as many emotions, this have to be going through him right now, you take some time. There's no need to retire right now in this moment. Yeah. If you ultimately decide to walk away, I think that's perfectly, obviously a fine call, but I just don't know, like, it's unnecessary to do at this moment. I'm trying to think, like, do you do, like, one more fight for both guys, just have Wyden go to 205 and just have those dudes fight each other, like for one last one

I mean that I mean honestly I don't like Is that terrible I really just think Wyden should retire And that's it If he doesn't want to I don't know

If Smith You know If Smith wants to retire There's Jamai Yeah Getting booed in his own city I'm trying to think Who like

Who's just a terrible I mean What's Luke Lucas Breske's still around He's a heavyweight. That's fine. Go to heavyweight. Anthony Smith, Lucas Breske, let's just get her done, you know.

Lucas Breske is an important member of the UFC community. He is. And that he is going to help fighters get dubs. You sure is. Let's kind of go through the rest of what has happened as we await the main. Oh, I should probably get us ready for the main card. Oh, that is probably fair. Because we are about a minute away from this main card kicking off.

and we already get the live thing. Kennedy and Chichukwu stopping. Kenny Nunjucks. Multiple parlay pieces for me throughout the day, feeling pretty good about things. Oh, wait a minute. Did I lose one of the parlors? I think I, no, I think.

What parley would you have lost? I was waiting for the, hold on, where I got? Okay, we're still alive. The violence parlay is still alive. Kennedy, Brechke, Reyes Smith, all end inside the distance. I just need the main and co-main to join them. And anything inside the distance? That fights ending inside the distance.

Plus 296. Well, that is going to put a lot of pressure on the main. Yes. I love that. The Kenny Nunchucks parlay with Shafcott and Cyril Gone also in play. So we're okay? We're alive. I may now be back on, because Kenny Nunchucks was my boy for a very long time.

And then he burned me. And so I've just been staying away. I stayed away this time. I had a long conversation with Alex Kinder K. Lee. Shout out, AK, your best friend. Shout out, IK. Love you, buddy. We talked for a couple, well, you know, a little while this week about making him part of the climb.

It was whether I was going to do him or Shavkat as my climb. And then I decided, ultimately, one, I didn't want to really trust Kenny yet. And two, it's better content if I have more stress for a fight that were televised as opposed to the opener. also super happy because at the time Kenning Nunchucks was fighting, I was losing my mind watching UGA play Texas again. So I ought to have a little

split there, but I think I can trust him again. So All right. I mean, next time out, depending on who he's facing. The next time he fights Lucas Breske, you bet on him. Yes. Well, you know, if he gets, again, because the Chris Barnett one, I didn't trust him either, I was like, Chris Barnett might win. Canning Nunchis? And then no. So like, he's, he is building my confidence

back in him that is great. Shout out to my boy, Michael Kiesa. Birthday boys get wins, Mike. He sure does. He looked real good. As did Chase Hooper, who just continues to do the damn thing. I was really impressed by the Hooper performance. Yeah.

I had a bet on Clay Guido just because Hooper, I didn't think should be a minus thousand. It wasn't a big bet. And I picked in our picking thing, I picked Hooper to win. I thought he would. He has looked so much better since bumping up a weight class. And just, he

He continues to develop, which is good. Like, he was rushed a little bit, I think, pretty obviously. It's so young. Took a little time to get there. He's still a long shot off of being a top 15 guy or a title challenger. But I think the bump up in weight class, he keeps developing. Like, he's just going to be around for a very long time. Oh, yeah.

Like, he's going to be in the U.C. for another decade probably. Yeah. So shout out to Chase Super. You look great. You know, people like you. You got a gimmick. The company seems to like you. Doing great, man.

Yeah. Shout out to Michael Kiesa, like you said. He should absolutely be put on that Seattle card in February, which is just announced. Josh Van and Cody Durden was real fun. It was a super fun fight. Yeah. I love Josh Van.

Josh Van. Cody Darden, ATT, Gwinnett, not Atlanta, but I've never actually met him, but he trains with people I used to train with, etc. People like him. He's a fun fighter. I had to pick against him because I love Josh fan. We talked about this.

week Mike, Josh Van is part of flyweight being awesome. Like the flyweight division in three years is going to be sick because you got guys like Josh Van and Josh Van like he's doing it right. Four fights this year. He fought four times. That's how you get better. That is how you get popular kids sick. I'm very excited to see where he goes.

Oh yeah. He might be a, he might be my wild card pick for onto the next one just because flyweight rules. where's BSD ranked Chase Hooper versus BSD perhaps? Oh, no, that's a terrible idea. Don't do that. Someone asked him about Jim Miller and he's like, sure, I like that one. I think that's correct. I don't mind that one either. BSD almost certainly kills Chase Hooper at this point.

And again, it's just like firing him up the road. You don't need to. Yeah. Let Chase Hooper. Let him cook. Well, fight Jim Miller. Jim Miller could win that or Chase Hooper can win it and he beats a popular guy. Nobody loses too much in that fight either.

Oh, Josh Van versus Vinnie Siggs? I mean, you're giving him a pretty big bump up because I do not believe Van is ranked. He will be at least. I guess Durdon was like 14 or something in the UFC. I guess that's true. So maybe that, yeah. Vinnie Sigs is coming off a bad.

That's a lot of boxing. That's a lot of good boxing going on. Oh, I love that. That's a good pick. I like, that's not a bad. That's a terrific pick right there. Yeah, shout out there. I love that.

Eric Anders's second round TKO. The man has gotten his shit together. sober, no longer addicted to the drugs. That's important. And goes out there and beats Chris Wyden. He looked, as we talked about, did not look good.

He had one moment after the illegal knee. It's so great. You put in Slack, Chris Wyman should retire. And then almost as if you conjured it, he hits that left hook. And I was like, oh my God, Mike just exed him.

This is the best. Chris Weapon's about to win. Yeah, I was like, this should probably be his last fight. because he was just getting like ragdolled by Eric Anders all over the place. Like Eric was like tripping him around like just do whatever he wanted. And it was like tough to watch. And then he almost gets the finish.

I was like, holy crap, what a way to go out. But no decision there. He just kind of took off and left. So yeah, that was that was tough to watch. Brian Battle missed weight by four pounds. Vegas let him hear it. He was getting booed that entire fight. And I thought he lost to Randy Brown.

I thought Randy Brown won the first and third rounds, but battle gets the splitie. And this to me, that, like, especially with how the fight ended because it wasn't a thrilling affair, especially in round three. It slowed down quite a bit from round two into round three. This win for Brian Battle will be, it's not exactly of the same, you know, echelon because of the name value, but this is a Mario Batista versus Jose Aldo. Stock drop for Brian.

for Brian Battle or it's like, yeah, you won, but you gained nothing from this. Yeah, two paychecks and lost a lot in the eyes of the people and probably in the promotion. I think it's fair. I miss the first round, so I can't really say confidently who won. I certainly thought battle won the second and Brown won the third. So yeah, the clearest round of the fight. Yeah, the clearest round of the fight to me was round one. Randy Brown just kind of beat him up. But Brian, it seemed like the commentary team, DC especially, was like, yeah, I

I think battle took the first round off just to kind of like, yeah, keep on to the gas tank a little bit more. But it is what it is. I had a bet on Randy Brown stung a little bit, but it was close to fight. It's definitely not a robbery. I almost bet Randy Brown this week. And then I had so much action on this card that I was like, I don't know. And then as soon as I was debating it. And then when Battle missed weight, I was like, I'm not going to do it because, you know, credit to Randy Brown, he came out.

He said, hey, Brian Battle is like, this was intense. intentional. We'll never know if it was an intentional weight myth. But like, yeah, he had a five-pound weight advantage. It's one of those situations where I don't think any of the things people will suggest about take a point from him or whatever. Like, I'm not really sure any of those fit, but at the same time in a fight that close for the guy who missed weight to eke it out, feels a little wrong. Yeah. And then he cuts the problem on the crowd who were just absolutely booing him just without mercy.

He knows how to cut a promo on a crowd. Did him Paris? Yep. You know, he'd be a villain, I guess. Yeah. Mobser of Lov defeats Al Jermaine Sterling. Great fight. Scramble Fest.

You'll have to go back and rewatch that one because it is fun. Of course. It's very, very good. I thought Muzar, I left that fight feeling very confident that Mobsar won the fight. I thought he definitely won round two.

I thought he won round three. Aljo had control in some moments, but if Loya actually did damage, so to me, I thought he won the third. And there are many people who thought that he won 3027 because the same thing happened in the first round. Aljo had a ton of control for like the first, you know, there's like a two and a half, three minute stretch where he just was on the ground. He wasn't landing any punches. He wasn't really doing anything. And then if Lov got on top and swept and landed damage, actually did stuff and landed a shot that. that you could tell Aljo did not like in round one.

So if you wanted to score that first round from Uvzar, wouldn't, I don't hate it. I don't hate it. So there are people on Twitter who were not happy with that scorecard. I don't understand why people are that upset about me saying, cards could be everywhere, but I think if Loy of one, oh, you're an asshole and you, I'm not going to talk about the- people who just hate them.

They just, for no real reason other than doing it hates him. He's good. He's good. And I'm not here to tell you. He hasn't had some boring fights. But the Arnold Allen fight was fun. Apparently this fight was fun too. I am excited to see what Dana says in the post fight if he chits all over this again.

But I mean, the fact of the matter is it doesn't matter if he's boring or not. He is 19 and 0. He has nine wins in the UFC. The UFC, the organization that purports to only give you the best opposition. You cannot say in one hand, fighters only fight the best here. and this dude is won nine in a row and doesn't, it's like, no. Like, one of the other is true,

so you got to let him do it. So I don't think you will, just because it seems like Volk's getting, I think. Diego, now we do the Diego Lopez rematch. I think we're heading to the Diego Lopez rematch, which is fine. I think that's reasonable.

I do have a question for you, though, because you said earlier, I think Josh Mann might be a wild card. Are you guys doing a special allotment for Evluev on onto the next one, because of the odd card placement on the prelims? It feels weird not to. I'll have to talk to the best friend.

I'll talk to the best friend. But we can just throw them out there. Like, we'll be live. We could just talk about it. People might just ask, like, who should have boy a fight and it's going to be Diego Lopez, or you should get a title shot. I would have given him a title shot after he beat Arnold Allen, honestly.

I absolutely thought he should have gotten the title shot after that. But, you know, so it goes. And I will just say, I don't think you can friends forever. If you guys don't do it, I think it's too low hanging. Yeah, no, no, no. To be like, Evoie of Diego Lopez. Yeah, okay, the band, the band gets to stay on the sides. Yeah, this is not Patty Pimbo, Michael Chandler,

types of friends forever. It's just not one of those things. The one bed that I wish I took, but I didn't, and I think you have the same regret. Vicente Lucke just goes out there and melts Tempe Garimbo. That fight was went. Yeah, I mean, the question. to me, and I know you've felt the same way, and there are others who felt the same as well.

Temba Garimbo is a fine fighter, but he's not going to be a ranked fighter. He is just not that guy. Look at the wins. They're not great. And he takes a big step up to fight Vicente Luge. A fight he called for, by the way. So he got himself to the dance by making the call and doing the thing. However, Vicente Lucay, the question was about Vicente. It was nothing to do with Temba. It was all about his Vicente Leuke just done, done. And turns out he's not done done, because he went out there and just strangled Tembogorimbo unconscious in a fight where, you know, it's very cliche now,

but there are levels to this game. And Vicente Leuke showed that, and he's back in the wind column. So it's good to see from one of the all-violence all-stars. It is. I almost bet him. But, I mean, the issue, obviously, I don't think Vicentee Luca is near his prime. He is still very young, which is one of those weird things.

he's relatively very young but pretty clearly he's past his problem he's very shopworn my concerns were that the Buckley fight was so concerning not just that his performance was bad he looked like he just didn't want to fight at all like he just didn't

want to be there and if you start getting into that mentality and you're fighting for the wrong reasons or whatever I don't know and then to think of okay well he was also supposed to fight Nick Diaz now he's fighting a guy nobody you know people have heard about because of the rock thing, but, like,

Timma Groomo's not a star. Like, I just didn't know what his motivation would be. And so I was like, ah, I don't feel confident. And then immediately he kills him. Like, just instantaneously, he drops him and then taps him. And you're like, oh, yeah, okay. Maybe the Buckley fight, like, it's still indicative that Luka's not a top 10 guy anymore, but maybe it's not indicative that he is done with fighting.

That was just a bad night for one reason or another. Yep. And then you guys got to see the tail end of Dominic Reyes. putting a beat down on Anthony Smith who was very emotional after the fight. And we wish Anthony the best, obviously. And we'll see what happens to this future. But now, ladies gentlemen,

the promo video is kicked off for the main card opener. Featherweight, banger. You know what's going to be chaos. One Nate, the train land wear. One of your favorite fighters, favorite fighters taking on another one of your favorite fighters, favorite fighters.

The Korean Superman, do ho joy. Yeah, man. And this is this is like this is superb matchmaking of just like yeah,

these are fighters that fighters and like hardcore fans just love to watch Nate Landre is just the best like I wish he was good he's not bad

but like I wish he was good because I would love I would adore him he's not gonna win a belt or anything but he's never going to be right but it doesn't matter because sometimes you're not he I'll tell you Nate Landry

is Justin Gachie, if Justin Gachie was less of an athlete, bad. Like, they're the same fighter in that respect. But Justin Gachie

is extremely athletic and very good. Nate Landre is like, you just took the sliders on Gachie and moved him down a couple of notches. So he's still awesome. And he goes out and says shit like, you know,

uh, I was, I was losing before I won. I, if you, if you don't beat me, I'm probably going to win. It's like,

that's the best quote ever. Like, that's a yogi bearer. ass quote and so he's delightful that thick Tennessee accent like he rules it's so good I do have a bet on this fight I just have this under two and a half

I have Nate Landrears the chat GPT bet of the week baby oh okay chat GPT boldly predicting that this will be a nip and tuck affair that goes to decision saying that Land Weir grits it out down the stretch but that they're both going to play hell at each other Trout TPP, not doing is great this year.

It's still okay. It's still like 66%. I think this year, because I haven't done it every... That's not bad, though. I mean, 66% picking close fight odds is that'll get you paid. But last year it was like 82%. It was an unbelievable like 14 and 4, some nonsense. That's wild.

Clarksville, Tennessee stand up. Du Ho Choi, Korean Superman, making his walk to the Octagon. My pick is Nate Landware K-O-R-R-1 And just the Nate Land-Warest way possible Where Du Ho-Choi is probably going to Knock him for a loop

And we're like, oh my God, this fight's over And then Nate Land-Wer Suddenly rises from the ashes And then knocks out Du-Go-Choi With like seven seconds left in round one What's my pick? Was it round two? I think... Round two, I'd say, because I have the same thought

I just think it's going to happen in the second round Yeah I think Du-O-Troy is going to in the first and then if you don't if you don't beat him Nate Lamber's gonna beat you so yeah he's like Joe Pesci's character in Casino it's like if you don't beat him with your fists you better beat him with the bat if you better like that's just who Nate is I see a Korean zombie TKZ baby there he is the great TKZ yeah I mean I wish I was this comical

and collected doing anything as do Ho Choi is getting ready to fist fight an absolute lunatic. And the way they are going to fist fight. Oh, it's not going to be absolute chaos. He's going to just get into a battle because Duo Troy is that dude. It's awesome. The spiritual successor to TKZ. Smile

on his face. Does the double fist pound to Chris Tione? Also, I know you call them Superman. He is just as boyish. He does. He does. It'll look like that. What's he like 32 and he looks like he is 24? I mean, I need the secret. I need those jeans.

And there he is. Yeah, there's a train. Total different demeanor from Nate Landware. We can talk about opposite walk-up. Nate Ray to take arms with him. Look, the way they compete is similar, but I think, like, spiritually, they're not quite the same guy. Do-alers, like, realigning as she and... Nail-Land-Wars, like, tackling people on the way to the cage.

Do you just kind of bopping. Bop around and Nate-Lah. Nate Lee. It's like, wow, this is so cold. Nate's just, I'm going to smack somebody around. He's killing it. Look at his face. That's so great.

It's so great. This guy's the best. Nate Landward is the best. Honestly, like, here's the thing. I want Nate Landwehr to stick around for as long as he can in the UC. Nate Landwehr for sure has a- -Oadillo. What up?

That man has a Mike Perry Bear Nuckel. running him that's going to be exceptional. When that comes about, boy, is the Nate Landware of Mike. Like, we need to do, like, you know how sometimes they do that with movie stars where Glenn Powell did Top Gun Maverick to go to like Tom Cruise movie star school?

We need Nate Landware with Mike Perry to go to Mike Perry BKFC school. Oh, I love this so much. We need to get these two dudes together. We should play golf with them, just do a two-on-two golf with them. Oh. He can start learning the Mike

Perry thing and then he can go to BKSC in a couple of years. I'm not pushing out the door now. Let him keep running. Oh, yeah. There's no need. There's no need. But in a couple of years where Mike Perry is ready to hang up his bare knuckle, not gloves, I guess, because the bare knuckle, Nate Lambert is coming seamlessly and fill the role.

He is, I like, I've been thinking about that take for a while. I'm glad I got to unveil it here. But this man is going to be pair. Like, he's built for it. Oh, yeah. That's, he's, he's a great neck. he's the next generation. And he could be a star there.

Like he could be a mega star there, I think. That's the thing is like, Nate Lamar is not good enough to be a star in the UFC because you do have to like get into title contention to really blossom like that. And he's just like he's never going to. I mean, he's 36. Yeah,

but he has all the maings to be like, that man is built for BKS. Oh, yeah. Two minute rounds. Two minute rounds. Like, buff man. got the snowflake jacket on just tremendously dressed all the time

tis the season tis the season indeed Nate Landware Nate Landware looks like a man who's about to get in the fight Duo Tro is just kind of hanging out Duo Troy looks like he's lining up a seven foot birdie put Nate Landware looks like he's about to run through a gauntlet of fire

it's really incredible yeah he's so relaxed All right, cool. What you think about, K&B? Yeah. Pop-Tarts. You know, just hanging out. I'm so excited.

Oh, man. It's about to pop up real quick. It's going to be very, very fun. And then the fight after this is the best fight. Oh, yeah. Of the year. Oh, yeah. Might be the best moment of the year.

Maybe the best moment watch party history when you unveil the, uh. It's my favorite. Everything about that fight is so good. Oh, man. This is a great warm up. We've had a little time to digest from what could have been the set. This is like the mixing of the martial arts, the real chaos. And then it's the complete opposite.

Still chaos, but the complete opposite variety with Price and Grown. It's the Nate Landor and duo choice. There really are rhythms to this car. We're going Anthony Smith to Domera's like down here. Then we're going to come up, rising up the vibe meter, just up with this. And then we're going to just go to. a weird for the flat earther bowl. It's a roller coaster.

All right. There's Chris Tione. There's the Octagon Girls. And here we go. There's Nate. Very upset. There's Duo. Very happy. So happy. These guys are going to become like best friends after this fight.

There's no out of my mind. They're definitely going to have a beer together if Duo Troy's old enough to have one. Nate is running across the cage. We are underway. 456, 455, 454. Casey is like right on here. Casey, Neallin. He's a professional.

All right. Oh. Do I'm showing with the big uppercut right away. Troy just immediately just pops Nate's head up. Some quick jabs from Korean Superboy. Oh, nice right hand. This is kind of the fight I expected it to start out looking like. Nate Lindner's got that force.

No, Nick is. You got to start beating my ass before. before I start fighting to him. They get dropped to a knee and he's right back up. Right back up a very high guard. Oh, the right hand over the top. Duo Choi is just,

just look a little sharper. Yeah, he looks good. Oh, another nice jab. They just need to get hit a thousand times. Big leg kick almost nothing later over. He's well on his way, Mike. Can say it with another uppercut. He's getting hit a lot.

Every, every four seconds. Oh, no, a good. Big uppercut from Troy. there's a leaping, like, lead step-in, upper cut. Landmark, there was a right hand, doesn't really land. There's a push kick doesn't really land. Another hard leg kick from Troy. Well, he's bleeding perhaps from two cuts on his forehead.

At least one cut. His nose is jacked up. It looks like, too. Oh, big combination from Troy. Aha. Oh, right-handed. Oh, Troy is just chewing him up. That leg is.

It's nasty. But if you don't, if you don't beat him. Oh, good jab to the body. Chat GPT is not looking smart right now. No, I gotta tell you.

And now we get to the ground. Choi gets a takedown in a weird clinch. This is, I mean, all you're doing is making Nate Landware mad. I say, yeah. This is the fight Nate wants.

Yep, this is it. We're just getting grimy with it. Now he's getting a little breather, just holding on the leg. Nice little elbow from Choi. Lamware trying to get back up. But Choi just drags.

him back down trying to get a hook in the hook in land we're just holding on to that love perhaps i mean the wrist if you're not cheating i mean he should just do it they ain't they ain't gonna call it they ain't gonna take points away i mean chris wybin got a clearly illegally and just got us eric end that was a really good knee it sure was super illegal yeah i was like man you got it wasn't remotely legal it never has been it's not like a new rule thing that's never been okay that's never been okay. Nate Landward should have grabbed that fence there. He didn't.

He's a man of integrity. Now Troy's got the hooks in. He's got the full pack. Kind of a wonky set though. Both hooks are in. Both hooks are in. So Nate definitely has a cut like right here

and looks like he's bleeding from his nose as well. And the intensity levels of both guys remain the same. Oh, Nate. Oh, Nate turning. Stand up. Nate to his feet and the knee to the body.

There he is. Keep that train chugging along, baby. But now you're just going right back up into another world of hell where Duo Cho is eating alive. Well, yeah, he's just killing you. But we knew this is coming. Yeah. This is what Nate does.

Oh, good right hand from Choi. Eventually your hands will hurt if you hit him enough. I mean, that uppercut is just. He is landing it every time. Goes to the body. And then once Nate tries to like cover up the body, he throws the uppercut again. Troy is...

Oh, another one. Troy very clearly scouted well for this fight. Oh, yeah. All he is doing is landing his uppercut right through Nate's guard and his right hand over Nate's guard. Yep, it's all he's doing. And leg kicks and just killing him with it. And then when Nate puts his hands up,

like he's going to block an uppercut, he rips him to the body. Go to the tum-tum. Yep. Minute five left here. This is the Duho Choi show thus far. I mean, yeah, this is... Left hook.

Just trying to mix things up a little bit. Oh, right. Big combination. Nate with the right hand. Oh, Choi. Oh, Nate started to wake up a little bit. I say,

Nate starting to wake up a little bit. Now he's starting to come alive. Seven to 31 is the strike count. Seven for Nate. Oh, well, make that 34 for Troy. Jeez.

He just rips Nate's head off again. Man, that uppercut is nasty. A number one round for duo, Joy. Got one underhook. Let's see if you could do anything. She's like, not, I ain't grabbing the fence. I mean, you should be.

You didn't cheat the last time. Cheat now. Oh, well, go overplum. Oh, me to the rib. Oh, me to the rib. Oh. It's so nasty. So I just landed.

The sharpest short elbow you've ever seen in your life. We have the volume like down to three and we, that was a snap. I mean, that thing healed. Final seconds. Nate Land where is a, he's a tough, durable, tough, dude. And he's just like, okay. Now I'm like. fight. Now you're going to fight.

10-9 for Choi. Let's make it official. Let's make it official. With the Christmas colors. 10-9, Choi, Casey. Yes. I think we're running into the same issue we had last time where... So I have no idea if you can see this. It is red marker on a whiteboard that has glare on it. With light, yes.

So... Okay. There's a real chance that that may not be a thing. I was thinking about this, too. I'm like, oh, yeah, we have whiteboards. We didn't really use them last time, but why? And that's just exactly the reason. So we will speak it to existence, but luckily the great E. Casey Liden already has the scorecards ready to go. He can type him out in there.

God, that uppercut is just. Just ferocious. But we knew, look, like I said, Nate was going to lose the first round. Now this is the round Nate turns around and knocks him out. Oh, it's common. And I get a perfecto, baby. Let's go. Choo-choo-choo.

Round number two. Choo. Did you enjoy the, the FPI, the Fight Pass Invitational? Oh, it was terrible. I actually do enjoy grappling. Okay, like, fight pass invitational is awful because it plays by the awful rules.

C.J.I really did it best. Oh, getting right after. Oh, Choi rips into the body again. I mean, these dudes are swinging. This is the fire we wanted. Oh, big leg kick from Choi. Just takes the leg out from under him. Did you watch any of that fight pass invitation?

I had not a second, not a second. I mean, like almost all of them went to decisions because it is that kind of grappling. And like they don't even do the EBI stuff, the pretty clearly established best practice of. When we go to overtime, we do like escape time submissions or whatever. It's just like, nope. So it was just, oh, this dude won.

It was terrible. Double underhooks. Let's see if Nate. Let's go, Nate. Let's go, Nate wins. Oh, good, Nate. Win this round and chat CPT is looking smart. Then chat GPT's looking like it knows what's up.

Oh. We got a double, double clinch action. Do you look almost disinterested. Oh, big elbow from Choi in that. Oh, right back to the body from Choi. That didn't feel good. Chad from Choi.

Shout out to the person in the comments who called the first round close. Respect that. Oh, spinning back almost from me. from his head. I'm spinning back elbow. Out of nowhere. Who said the first round was close?

I didn't somebody. Oh, what a trip from Superboy. Jeez. He just launched Nate Landware across the eye to go. Out of nowhere. Into side to go. It's an outside trip.

Shout out of M. Grubb. I'm not sure what fight he was watching, but, uh, all right. Perhaps it's a joke. And in which case is a terrific joke. Yeah, I, I'm into it.

I'm into it. Close fight. Side control. Troy. Troy, don't, come on. Fight with honor.

Oh, now we got a mountain is fighting with honor. Oh, now we switch to the back. This is what a transition. Right to the back. Wow.

Nate Land, we're just moving around. Oh, he's cleared the legs. Okay. All right, Nate, good scramble.

Might get crucifix right now, though. No, he's up on the single and then the trade's time to the train to come. Now he's got the hook in.

Keep standing up, Nate. Oh, now he's got both hooks. And an arm trap too. I think that Nate Landre is not going to win this fight.

Yeah, not looking good. Troy was unbelievable. Troy got him flattened out, starting to put the shots in. Manware looks so good. He coughed a little bit. This is the best he's ever looked. I mean, I like Troy winning as that means we're one step closer to Nate Landler, BKFC King. Oh, yeah, that's true.

You're telling me you wouldn't sign up for Chad Mendez, Nate Landler and BKFC. Oh, be incredible. Tomorrow. There's a lot, oh, yeah, there's lots of fights. I want you know. We get Nate Landward Eddie Alvarez. Potentially, Nate would have to put a couple LBs on, but you'd still see it. Stop cutting weight.

Be fun. Yeah. One of the great tragedies in my life. I don't know what Nate's doing. He's pulling the hair almost, it looks like, but it's like a reverse full Nelson. It's not great. He's just sort of stuck here and out of ideas. Yes.

Oh. Troy looks just so relaxed. It's wild. Just how you're getting into fistfight. Oh, Nate's up. Come on. Get up. Wait a fight with honor, Troy.

Choile. He's like, all right. No, don't trip him again. Come on, Troy. You let him up to just take him back down. Oh, Nate is now yelling. He is doing the grunt scream as he tries to buck Troy off. And Choi is, uh,

this is incredible. Totally relaxed. Trying to will himself out of getting owned. Ah, new, new record for Duo Cho his third takedown. Train just playing possum. Hey, oh. I like it. That's the plan.

You're a man. Mike, can I tell you how sad I am that I missed going to BKFC last night? Yeah, dude. It's a time. It's in Atlanta. And I forgot it was. And I was like, how did I not remember this? Oh, because they can't go because we're doing this, which I don't regret because I love this.

Yes. But I was going to saw Braxton Smith fight live. I could have seen a two-second K.O. That's true. Like, I was literally in the barbershop. cool because this never happened to me, but I went to the barbershop and dudes were talking about fights in the BKFC stuff and I was like, oh man, that's sick. Love when that happens. And then they were talking about this card and it was great.

We got singing going on in the crowd, but Duo Choi is, uh, well, Casey made this kind of a fight that, uh, Casey, you can't see this still because it's 10-9. It hasn't changed, but this is 10-9 in favor of Duo-choice. Yes, samezies. But yeah, I think everybody's score will probably be around the same. But this is where Nate Landr comes alive. I thought he was coming alive.

He came alive for about 45 seconds in round two. He's going to put a 10-7 and still win a decision so chat GPT will be correct. Yes. All right. Troy still looks very relaxed. Nate Landwerer looks like. Jay, I was in the barbershop getting my hair cut

because my hair has been cut. That's true. It's just, it's not as long as it used to be. it's still long. Joey just rip into the body. Ah, that's foot sweep is so sick. CJ, look, it only goes to like here instead of down down. There's too much of it previously.

If you order UFC 311 right now, you get it for $10 less. Ooh. Today was $10 less. No matter, they just gave it. They called it holiday pricing. Wow, what night? So nice of them? Not a lot of people are going to buy this one.

So maybe we could sell a couple extra pay-per-views. I think that's, I think that's smart. That is very smart. I, Oh, Nate Landwar just, it's a big right hand. Oh, let's go, Nate is coming out. Slugging.

Someone's getting knocked out. Just go. On your shield, baby. This is the Korean zombie. Max has been beating me. We're going to settle this right now. Nate is just hooking him. And Troy's killing him in response,

but Nate is going to make his stand. Oh, Landware with the nice right hand. Come on, Nate. Dog it out. Choi is going to catch him with something real bad. Wait, you need to finish for your bet here? I need, this is just a single. Oh, this is not part of the violence parley.

Yeah, I just took this as a single. I thought this might go to decision, but I still thought we, under two and a half was kind of a safe-ish bet, but yeah, not looking great. Choi became a smart intelligent fighter I mean it was lurking gray at the start of this round oh yeah Nate was made was doing it Nate was prepared He was just swayed there

He couldn't get anywhere near this band Oh crucifix Oh Choi are those elbows I mean Troy may get to finish here Because he's got that crucifix for sure He's got to do it in a minute in 10 seconds Oh another elbow Looks like he opened a cut though

Oh, Dr. Stoppage wouldn't be too bad. Nate's moving too much. Stop moving and get T-K-Oed for the under. Yes. It actually doesn't matter to me at all. Yes. My bet was on you, Nate, and I've failed that bet. It's over.

That bet that is gone. But it's okay. We're still positive. Nate is so angry and upset. Oh, he almost snuck out. He is trying so hard. But he can't get his arms free. He's a great try.

It doesn't really matter. Come on. Chris. He's defenseless. We love a trier. Oh, he's just trying, but he's just running out of energy.

This is like his last, whatever energy has left. A duo is just not letting him do it. He's holding his shoulders and arms so he can't do anything. It's so frustrated. Come on.

Let me out of here. I'll think this is going to hit. Let me out of here. Come on. Eight. Seven. six, five, yeah,

it's not going to hit. There's no way that's getting in two seconds. Oh, it's going to hit it like 224. I'm going to be real pissed. Nate is contorting his hips in a whole lot of ways

to look uncomfortable and still not getting out of this crucifix. The overhits. This is so, it's just demoralizing. Dario Troy is this big man, just shove your face down and then elbow.

Put your face to the mat. Here comes the elbow. This is just a great problem. performance, man. It's an unbelievable performance by the Superboy. Like, it's not the exact fight we wanted most people expected, but this guy, this guy is a player right now. This guy is an absolute player, 145. He's going to be fun to matchmake for tomorrow. Man, yeah. It's one of those cards you should match me for like everybody. Yeah. Like all the winners. No, not all the winners. Kennedy's fine. Oh, there's the stoppage. There's a stoppage. Yeah. I mean, it took three full minutes

the crucifix but Korean Superboy gets it done I mean I couldn't have done 50 seconds earlier so it's okay good for you shout out he knew that if you don't if you don't beat Nate Land where he's going to beat you so yeah that was beating boy beat him

oh good great that was a terrific performance from Superboy little duo Choi Aljamein Sterling action maybe wouldn't hate that idea if just watching that grappling display that might be the pick that might be the pick. I don't know if Aljo takes that

fight. I don't think he really is in a position to not take that fight. He's a former champion. He's always in a position to pretend that he has charge of something. What do we think? It's not like Cho's the most active guy. What about Aljo versus the winner of old Brysey Mitchell

Con Gracie? Oh God. Little grapplers delight there? You're not feeling the old grapple actions? I mean, Duo Choi has proven to be a pretty darn good grappler. Well, that was Nate the Trade. Not quite the same. First of all, how dare you?

Again, I'm sorry, that's future BKFC champion. Exactly, exactly. He can grapple. He just doesn't want to. Yeah, why would you? He didn't expect this from Duo Choi. But Duo Choi also fumped him up proper defeat too. He won literally every second

this fight. Even at the start of this round when Nate was like trying to make it a wild brawl. Duroro was still beating him at it. Nate just swung at air and like the breeze from the punches was like the only thing that was done to do Ochoa in this fight. But he was swinging. He was from the hip.

Yep. And we respect that. That's what we love Nate the train. Nate the train should be employed as long as he wants. Yep. Until he goes to BKFC. Just march right in there. Be like, hey, I want to do one more and I want to go to beat KFC.

Don't let him go. It would be the best. Then just let him cross over a little bit, you know, loan him out. They have a great relationship with BKFC. They let Mike Perry go. They let Derek Brunson go. Like, if there's Corey Anderson got to go, like, you know, fire wants to go.

They can go. What a performance from the Korean Superboy. Gets it done. It says two in a row, three in a row? I am not sure. I mean, putting a knockout stat after winning, oh, no, he did get a knockout. I forgot. TKO?

Son of a biscuit. Forget anything. I don't really feel like a knockout because Crucese never due, but it's now in sole possession of third place. What's up? What's up? Craven the Hunter. It was going to be terrible. So happy.

Same mentality he had before. Hunter Smith, you're not wrong, but I think we were pretty clear when I was very specific saying Nate Lander isn't good, but he's fun. And if you didn't think he was fun, like, we were pretty objective. he's not very good. He's not bad. He's just not good. Yeah. I think my exact quote was,

if Nate Landrear was good, he'd be Justin Gaichy, but he's not. So instead he's just fun. Yeah, we said he's never going to be a ranked fighter. He's not going to fight for a bell. He's just going to be in there to put on fun fights.

Yeah. And there's positions for all those people. We love people like that. Maybe we get someday like a Nate Landrewer versus like Shane Burgo speak. fight because that would be friggin' fantastic.

Oh, that is violent. That is very fun. Just screaming like, yelling while getting, he's like, Ah! Ah! They just,

he actually like is just mad that he can't get up and return at fire, but he's not having a, he's still not having in his eyes a bad time. He had that very clearly like, oh, my, my big. brother is holding me down, beating me and I can't do anything, so I'm just yelling about it.

I'm just going to yell as loud as I can. I'm getting nuggied. Let's see if there's a call out here from Superboy. Duo T-K was plus 250. Man, that's not that's actually, that was a pretty good price, actually. It's not a bad one.

Let's see. Pablo Casoli was, oh, oh, no. I thought you were saying this was stride the year. No. The next fight, the fight coming up, may in fact be fight of the year. He called out Bryce Mitchell. Oh, Bryce Mitchell may lose,

so that might be a bad call out. I don't hate the call out if Bryce Mitchell gets past ice cream crown. Yeah, you should probably wait. But you should wait. Or just call out. Or just got out to Mr. Early. Old World Mick Mack, I believe Duo Troy has already done his enlistment,

which is why he was out for two years or whatever. Yeah, I think he's good now. Mm-hmm. I may confirm that, but I'm like 90% that I'm right on that one. He's fought twice this year, right? That was the second fight of the year? Yes, because he fought Bill Algeo in July. Oh, yes, yes, yes.

And yes, Dio Troi did do his enlistment. That's why he has a four-year gap in his resume. You all know, he was dope and awesome. And then much like Korean Zombie, who was dope and awesome, and then had to go serve and then came back and was still dope and awesome, Deo Troy doing the same thing. It's about that time. Oh, is it about that time?

We're on deck. These two guys are getting ready to make the walk. I mean, sticking at Featherweight. What two guys? What are you talking about, Mike? You know what I'm talking about. Are you talking about the greatest fight this year? Yes.

Rob Van Damme! What's up? Terrific. And, oh, there's Bo Nicol. The crowd goes mild. Bo Nicol was their thing on Thursday to watch his boy lose. And there's J-WOW. Oh, I was like, who's J-W?

And there's King Green. Old Robert Green. Old Robert Green. Looks like I thought that was Connor Birxwood. Oh, and Cowboy. There's Cowboy. Who wants to fight, apparently. I mean, I'm probably going to.

Oh, you're alive. Oh, she's fighting for the belt. Jean-Wea-Lie, February 8th. Whoa. U.S. 312. Whoa. Breaking news. Whoa.

Out of nowhere. Wow. Also, Viena Girobe just got bowed. Yeah. Vyrna Giroba is supposed to fight her. Tatiana pulls out injured and then gets a title shot. No, no, no. It wasn't, apparently wasn't an injury.

It was like some sort of health-related issue, but now... Okay. Maybe we understand what was the health-related injure issue? I'm just going to get a title shot instead, suck it in Vienna? Well, maybe they offered it to Vianner, and she was like, no, I don't want to fight in Australia. And they're like, all right, bet. Tatiana, do you want to fight for the belt in Australia? you okay man I didn't see that home coming okay I mean that's how you do a fight

that is very w-dwee of them you can tell TKO has got their hand in this because that was just an out of nowhere a swerve as the kids say you bring in Rob van damn which is pretty awesome and then all of a sudden oh we got DDP versus Sean Strickland oh come on in Sydney wow I mean, it's fine. Why are we not doing the Shavkat thing? The Hamza? Hansa? Yeah, not, yeah.

Because, I mean, look, there's probably issues of travel and such. It's okay. My boys are going to get it done. All right, so there you go, guys. My big middle-sized vinyl. Wow. UFC 312, two more title fights, and now everyone can stop asking what's going on with Zhang Wei-Lee,

because now we know she's fighting Tata Anas Juarez and the fight that in the women's divisions this is the fight man this is it like we're going to find out everything we need to know about Tatiana Suarez in this fight most things

what I need to know is can she fight twice a year in perpetuity we're not going to find that out but in this division that doesn't matter because John Lee Lee is not fighting twice a year either you know fair boy oh there's Bryce oh there's my boy like I think it's time

Yeah, we got thrown off by a big fightout. Wow. If you're just joining us real quick, drink is duplice versus Sean Strickland for the middleweight title. Headlines UFC 312 in Sydney and John Way Lee versus Tatiana Suarez for the women's straw white title in the co-main event. There's Crohn Gracie. There's my boy. Jed, it's very festive in here. It's very festive.

But now you've got to get very festive for this fight. I have my own festivities because this fight between two people who don't believe that the earth is around. It deserves its own unique headware. And I, I am now the smartest man in the room, Mike, heck. I know you wish that you thought of this, but the brain waves, they're not coming. Do you see, do you see how this is a question mark? Yes. You have to question everything, Mike. You must question everything. Like, is the world a globe or not? Is over a thousand years of institutional knowledge wrong and the earth flat? I'll never know.

We'll never know. All I know is water doesn't curve, Mike, because the earth is flat. See, when I was a young man, the question that everybody pondered is how many elix did it take to get to the center of a tutzi pop? Now it's 2024 and it's a whole different... Now we question everything.

Like literally everything, Mike. We question everything, Mike. Every single thing. I'm so excited for this fight, man. I don't know if this is my dream fight. I loved when we did BTL this week and Luke was just like, oh, so Jed's just weird. I was like, Luke, you've known me for a decade.

You're just not doing this out. Or do you talk like of court, like, I love high level fights. Get through a broadcast without Michael Chandler. There is. Neutralized harm. Oh, he's two shots in a row. Whatever that era's tech is bullshit. This is how I neutralize harm.

fucking space lasers aren't getting me and there's oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh look at the drip on the champ yes that man is looking like a millie wow and just super calm yeah i gotta tell you i've been kind of feeling like this maybe a kiosikora night but not right now i'm not feeling that

i'm feeling pretty good but i mean pants looking looking real good right now and there's a very confident There's some swagger there too. I mean, Kyosakura is not a man who lacks for confidence. Yeah. And he's walking pretty quickly.

She's like, all right, let's just get through this walk. This is going to be fun. Oh, God, it would be a fun ass fight. Yes, very much. This is the scene in the wire. This is Brother Muzon meeting Omar

of, I admire a man with confidence. I don't see no sweat on your brow neither, bro. 2025 is Kron's year that looks like a globe it does not I would never besmirch the terrific

flat earth bowl with a globe here we go I do not understand how this is a main card fight it is categorically insane and I love it so much it's time oh it's time

this fight is probably going to be awful but I'm going to have so much fun watching how that it is. Who's in Gracie Corner? Well, there's a Gracie and there's a Nathan Diaz. Yep. And I don't know who else is there. I'm certain at least one of the Gracies is with him, but I don't know who.

Yeah. I know Nate is because that's what the whole throw-in-law bottle popping off stuff was. That's what happens. We throw water balls and miss. I didn't realize how often he does it until I wrote that story last night. And was like, oh, when I Googled Nate throwing beverage, There are a lot of hits.

Man really likes to throw a water bottle. He wants to dominate him and get a finish. I mean, that's kind of the goal, right? No. I forgot that Cron Gracie tapped Alex Casares. That's like a good win. Here we go. Let's do it.

I'm not ready to live in a world where Cron Gracie is a ranked EOC featherweight, but we could be 15 minutes away from that. exact world. Left hook, Larry, there could absolutely be Izzy and Volk in Sydney. Volk probably not because Bolt probably is fighting for the belt, but Israel Disney is not fighting

for a belt, so he could be the feature fight against somebody. Oh, yeah. It was very, very possible that he runs that. Or also, as I've been informed, New Zealand and Australia are not actually like that close. But they are, but not like

it's not like a hop, skip, and a jump away. Oh, yeah. Mike, what is you, do you, don't you have a saucy little bet here? I have Chrome Gracie. I have bet on Chrome Gracie. Obviously, the pick there for things being equal is Bryce Mitchell by decision, because this is weird and wacky, but for a fight where I literally have no idea what is going to happen,

I'm going to take a plus 550 shot on Chrome Gracie. I on no bets bar this week I was like I should like objectively I should be betting him because Bryce Mitchell's like I think Bryce Mitchell is a better striker

and could do that but if they just start grappling like absolutely Chrome could win and so I should bet it and I was like I don't want to bet on Chrome Gracie I don't I don't want to have to have to deal with that I do have I mean it's just like

let's just have some fun maybe maybe we get real weird I have a fairly sizable position on the over one and a half. I parlayed it with the over one and a half in the Movsar versus Aljo fight, which obviously cashed with ease. We're getting Cotton Eye Joe here from Bryce Mitchell. Oh my God. If he does the dance all the way to the freaking cage, I'm going to lose it. Oh, he's just sprinting with the American flag.

He's not. He's just sprinting with the flag. and now hopping up and down. Looking fired up. Oh, this is the best. Is that Gator Tooth necklace? What the hell is going on? This is the best.

There he is. He made it to the cage in like four seconds. Oh, just the fastest walk out you've ever seen. Even when Frankie used to sprint to the cage, Bryce got a better 40 times than him. Oh, yeah. He's down. And he took like eight steps to get there.

I'm so excited about this fight because my friends learned who Bryce Mitchell was this week. Talking about like. Seed belts. Yeah. I was like, that was it. And I was like, what's going? I was just talking to them. And then I was like, guys, you don't understand.

This guy. This guy is a special guy. And they're like, what do you mean? I was like, so outside of the flat earth and the dot believing in seatbelts or gravity or space. I was like, let me find it. And I just pulled up his tweet saying how he almost ripped his genitals off with a drill. And they were like, how? I was like, because, you know, he was.

was doing something and he just put the drill in his pants and then it got hit and turned on. And if you shove a drill down your pants, it's right there. Gracie buys the mission is plus 1400. Wow. I mean, I don't think that's happening, but that is a big number. That's a way more fun bet. That has a way more fun bet than Grace is straight up. But still plus 500 is.

But yeah, my friends got to learn about the Bryce Mitchell drill incident. And then they got to learn, I don't know if I've ever ever talked. told this on air. Maybe I have. I don't know, maybe I told it this week. I interviewed him after, like, one of the events I was at because he was there and he had won. And there's nobody else there. It was like me and two dudes from some local media. And this was fairly early on in his career. And I was like, oh, you got a bonus. What are you going to do with the money? And he very like, just was like, oh, yeah, you know, probably going to pave my driveway. Because the cow's just shit in it and it's grass. And I walk around barefoot and I step in cow shit all the time.

I'm like, dude, you can just wear boots. You just don't like, also cows can still shit on a driveway. Oh, absolutely. Like, what are you? It was just the most insane. Yeah, I'm just tired of stepping in couch. I was like, do you just like not look where you're like, what's going on here? He's such a special guy and I love him.

He's a very silly man. There he is. I'm Gracie. She's a special guy. He is a special dude. Because the thing is, like, he's obviously a very silly person. You can tell that his heart is in the right place. Or he just, it's ridiculous and incredible.

I love it. Oh, it's so much. What happened? Did you break your microphone? I didn't break it. It's just the anticipation. The, the brain waves. All right, we should be good now.

My apologies. It just clipped right out. Shout out to the chat. Shout out to Casey. Shout out. All forever. Shout out to the chat. We should be back. Also, I, somebody in the, uh, Anzley in the chat says,

Wyden and Guida brought out flags. Bryce brought out a flag. Is there a flag curse going on? Does anyone bring out a flag and win today? Uh, I don't know. Well, we're about to find out because we are underway. Ah, Fiss are about to fly. Sure they are.

Sure they are. They may fly, but nothing else does. Oh, like you. kick from Bryce. We have a strike. Alex Pereira is sitting cage. Do you think Alex Pereira is about to be dazzled by the striking acumen on display? I think so.

I think he's going to be like, I need to train with these guys. A better is put $5,000 on Chrome Gracie. I love that because that is not a lot of money. Like, it's not a small amount of money to most people, but like, oh, Chrome pulling guard. Oh, Chrome pulls guard into bottom half and doesn't have the underhook. I don't know what that decision was,

but it's not what I would call good. I would say the gravity got him, but I don't know if he believes in gravity. There's really nothing to call here. Yeah. Bryce Mitchell is holding on the top half, and Cron Gracie is trying to get to a hip. Oh, he does get to a hip and gets back into guard.

There he is. Good job. All right. Cron's back was off the mat for a good four seconds. there, but he's back down. And this is kind of what we expected here. Full guard for Bryce Mitchell is in full guard. Short shots and probably going to be here for a while.

Fry for three minutes and 27 seconds. Seems likely. I do respect Crone just going full 1996 MMA meta. Nobody will expect my guard. The guard is invulnerable. You know, a standup would not be. be the worst thing in the world. I mean, nothing is happening.

They could stand the side of. Nothing is occurring. Nothing is occurring. The worst thing in the world. Crona's not even really doing anything offensive with the guard. He's trying to play overs here.

I don't know. Now he's just holding posture down. I don't know. I don't know why he pulled guard if he's not going to do anything. This is, like, are you trying to set up a straight arm lock?

Because that's not going to work. this is uh yeah this is the worst this is the worst fine iq you've ever seen crone pulled guard to do nothing like he i would like to go to the floor to force a stand up i will do not yeah i'm holding for a stand up like why what is happening uh i can assure you for those who did not watch it um just three minutes into this and i know there's still potential 12 to go. Bob Sarah and Al Jard Stirling

was much more fun than this. Potential. There's a potential. Potential. I'm feeling really bad. Unless a meteor that they don't

believe in strikes the cage, we're going 15. Oh, yeah. We have like just little guard punches. Not like nothing substantive

is happening. They, we could stand this up. Keith is all about the nonsense lately. Oh, Crone for a brief moment trying to get his legs up and then quillard.

to the middle of Bryce's back. So we got moving. Then Bryce moved. He was like, I'm out. He throws an elbow with that missing. Bryce did at least try an elbow. That's something new and exciting. He missed.

Things are happening. He's trying. Really glad this is on the main card, not a prelim that people could just leave and not care about. Over three minutes of top position. Come on, Keith. I can't wait to hear Bryce Mitchell's post-fight interview. Crowd is losing it.

Yeah. This is. This is one of the worst fights I've ever seen This is a terrible fight Not maybe not worst fight I've ever seen I might be slightly overstating Yeah yeah yeah But like I thought

I thought that we'd have a lot more bozo in this fight And instead it's just bad Yeah 30 seconds left in the round of the year So I mean $5,000 is a small amount of money Because usually when you see that A better has placed a wager it's 100 grand or something.

It's probably the biggest bet on this entire fight on draft kings. Like I think it's five grand is an insane amount of money to place on Kron, but like I could scrounge up five grand and make a bet. You know, like I together to make a bet not, oh, that's somebody's yearly salary. It's making a bet. Yeah, I don't think they're feeling pretty good about things. Hey, the round's over. 10-9 Bryce.

I mean, I don't know what else to say. That's right, baby. 10-9, you still can't see. Do I reward Cron for his idea of pulling guard coming to fruition? There's no honor in what Cron did. Oh, I'd rather watch Derek Lewis and God, who. I don't know about that. Honestly, I actually accept that because at least the first round of that fight,

I wasn't sure what it was, right? I was like, there's still the tension of all it takes is one punch. And then in the second round, I was like, oh, that one punch is never coming. but there was a five-minute period where I was like still on edge. No, we all know what's happening here. Plinyo is texting and Alex Pereira is watching him text. So that just kind of goes to show you.

Oh, for sure. I mean, if we weren't doing a watch party, I would absolutely be on my phone right now. Yeah. Like, oh, oh. Covington Buckley. I'm like, all right. I hear you maybe attending, Mr.

I will be there. The old UFC. I will be in Tampa next week. Yes. final fight card of the year. I'm very excited. Pretty decent little fight card too. Not too shabby.

I mean, not that I'm like super looking forward to McKenzie Dern and Amanda Heba's fighting each other. I'm sorry. Two. Two. I know, the rematch. Thank you very much. But, you know, there would have been a nice little addition to that fight card.

It's not bad. Like, now we get Billy Q and Cub Swanson the main event. We know that fight's going to be fun. Oh, Bryce might have heard him. Oh, boy. Oh, good. from Bryce in a good elbow. He's playing possum. He's playing possum. Bryce absolutely should not take this. I mean, he should because he was winning the fight

comfortably on the floor, but he's also winning the fight comfortably on the feet, so. Oh, he did it again. He did it again. God, why? It's not even a pull like Bryce start shooting. Crohn is just like, yes, come into my guard. I will hold you. I will hold you and whisper into your ear. I won't do anything offensive. We will just hug. with the next four minutes and one second's about to look like. Maybe Kroen just needs a hug. And he's like, I'll just fight him and I'll get at least a couple good hugs in there with

Bryce. We need Hickson to like just show up out of nowhere. Hickson by and bar. Kroen really looks a ton like Hickson too. Yeah. And doesn't have really the mystique of Hickson whatsoever. No, he looks worse in this fight than the Jordan fight. And that's saying something.

Yeah. That's how it goes. I still look back at the reaction to them posting this fight on the graphic during the 309 watch party and I'm still like, what? Where did this come from? That was so funny.

Super Saint, if you do Bingrips every time this fight is boring, you are not going to be around for the next fight. Yeah, you are another planet right now. And we all know that other people. planet don't exist. Bryce stood him up.

He stood him up and then he's going to go right back to the ground because Kron's going to freaking bull guard again. Oh, Bryce might get a knockout. I need him to not get a knockout in the next 15 seconds. Krone's coming back. Oh, he's got a kid. Oh, he's got him again. Oh, man.

It's because he doesn't have one of these hats, Mike. So the bad ideas are seeping in from the space. Oh, we got a fence grab from Kroen's. Dude, let him finscrab. He's doing nothing. Nothing. If cheating lets him bring offense, it's fine. Then let's, let's have it. Also, the overhit, I cashed my fairly large wager on a nonviolence party.

Nicely done. Sick. Also, never in doubt. Crohn in this fight going one and a half. Come out, Crohn. Oh, Crohn actually trying offense. Oh, he's got an arm. Oh, my key has one.

My God, if he does it. I mean, Mitchell's a good place to defend here, but that's pretty locked in. Mitchell's got the cross grip here. There's no way. I mean, two minutes. work. Mitchell is in a good place to defend here now, but this is still, he has that arm and it is in deep. Oh my God. And it's now whether Crone can get him extended, break the grip. Oh, no, he already has to bail. Oh, you try and reset it here. Oh, he's getting this going now. Oh. Oh,

this could get nasty. Win the round, Crone. There you go. I mean, Crohn actually, is winning the round now. He's trying to now like sneak his way into an inverted triangle. Oh my God, can you imagine? Which is super weird. And it's not, but it's also, now it's kind of a fine place.

He got Crohn smashed against the fence. Yeah. Oh, Cron is really trying to walk to the back in the, he's almost there. A truly sick back take if he gets this out because he's cleared the hand, so he is sort of on the back. But he can't quite get around to the grip here.

He's very focused. He's got the thread through over the head and under the back arm weave. It was actually like really sick grappling, especially considering he did nothing for the first eight minutes. All right. Now it's over.

And there's enough time that it's like he's still pretty close to getting this. He's got to keep that arm weaved and use it to leverage him stuff around but Bryce is just keeping him smashed into the cage so he can't really get enough out. And now he's going to try and throw a high crop here. Back on the arm.

Oh, that's in there now. That arm bar is in. That on board is in. Oh, that arm bar. Oh, man. Oh, that is getting extended in walkie ways. Bryce turning through.

Oh, man. That was close and fun, though. Hey, something exciting happened. Yes. And Bryce is now unloading. No more Bing ripping. At least for now. Did Coral win that round?

I mean, I don't know. Probably not based on how the criteria scores. I will say. That is very close. I'll say 10-9 Bryce, but in a. better, more equitable scoring system. I actually think Crohn should get it.

I don't think per the rules and how they're judged. Yeah, I'll go 10. I'll go 10-9 Bryce as well. But man, that was, I got saucy. It was literally the only fun thing that's happened in this fight was Crone. Yeah, that was very saucy. I agree, Matt. Thank God they didn't put Movstar versus Aljo in this spot.

Yeah. Although Crone may be stone gassed. So he looks a wee bit tuckered. Yes. I mean it's great defense from Bryce because that got a little tricky in spots

when Mick Maynard just clapping and just giving it the old seal of approval getting the old yeah round three this is it this is where this is where heroes are created I mean

jump to get don't be silly jump the gillie crown don't pull guard I mean we you can't tell him he's gonna pull guard oh brice oh they're throwing in knee Crone, Bryce fell over and you couldn't just fall on top of him?

He's literally on his ass in front of you. You could have just let gravity do the work. Let him throw another knee. Bryce Mitchell should not go. Bryce Mitchell should absolutely not grapple at all this round and just chew crone off on the feet. Good knee. Oh, he immediately pulls off.

Oh, God, out. Oh. Did the slam knock him out? He must have. That elbow got him, got him, got him. Damn. I mean, Croni's in a bad way. Yeah, he's another plan.

I didn't take the over two and a half in this fight. Damn. Wow. Cron knocked himself out pulling guard is the best thing in the world. If that's actually what has happened, and Cron just knocked himself out by pulling guard. What a king. I mean, Cronin is aft up.

Yeah. We got to see a replay here. run it back oh you give Bryce Mitchell that that necklace he has the immunity idol he sure does the rosary beads is that what it is

no no it's like there's like gator teeth on it alright let's see because he did I mean he slammed him oh slams him with the elbow he seems he's out he's now he's for sure out after them elbows he was I mean he was

out and then the elbow is out Bryce did the cool thing with he got the elbow in on the chin and then just dropped all his weight behind it. Yeah, he was out there. He looked out there. Bryce Mitchell. That elbow was, uh,

you get, you get the hat of triumph. Congratulations. I'll mail this to you. Oh, yeah. Oh. D.C. says the slam. I mean, I think the slam hurt him,

but I think the elbow. Yeah. The elbow ended the day. Yeah, his lights were out after the slam. But yeah, once the elbow landed, it was, it was toast. Look at that immunity. Oh, yeah.

Oh. father, son, and the Holy Spirit, and gator teeth. This guy is the best. Crone is getting, he's gone. Crone is not doing great. He's still not doing terrific. No, he's gone. Now we're getting a, now we get the Bryce Mitchell Postman interview.

Oh my God, this is going to be the best. I mean, Bryce Mitchell has told me that the three gator teeth on his neck are the father, son, and holy spirit. I have no idea what's coming when he gets a mic in front of him. Except the Duho Choi challenge. That would be terrific. What was Bryce Mitchell by knockout plus 17,000? That's probably a lot of money. You know, the worst thing about this,

the worst thing about that fight is that it's over. I mean, yes. Also respect Bryce during the classy, mouth guard behind the ear. Yeah. No. Crowding scripture to start. Yep.

He had no option. I mean, it's correct. Bryce has taken the opportunity. Wow. Wow. See, and that's the thing. Growing up. Look, Bryce Mitchell was a foolish person

a lot of ways, but you could tell that he means well. And that was very nice. I called you stupid Joe. I wanted to apologize to your face. I don't think Joe was the only person who was concerned about you after Josh Schmidt, I genuinely thought killed you. What a time. Bryce Mitchell admits that that arm bar was dangerous.

Says he didn't want to tap. He needs that money. Oh, that was nasty. He's not very pleased with that. and then that elbow is the end of your. Your evening is done, sir. Shots to the body. Oh, my God.

Bam. Oh. He was already like. Yeah, he was, he was dazed, and then he was confused. I think he was out with the slam. The first elbow woke him up the touch, and then the second elbow killed him. Rice, there's no more questions.

Yeah, it's exclamation point. This is your hat. It'll be in the mail. I don't know if you believe in the mail, but it'll be there for you. Now we move on to the greatest rematch of all time. I mean, I guess. It's an A rematch of all time. How do you book Bryce Mitchell now?

I really actually like the Aljo fight. I think that makes sense. Aljo just has to fight back after losing. He's not even that highly ranked. I think he was like eight or ten. He's in front of cater. He's in front of cater. yeah um but you know he's got a fight back i think there are plenty of spots you could go but

there's rob and umar oh so we haven't talked on it i do this is coming there's we got you i don't know did you guys talk about this in the pre-fight q and a at all we did not didn't come up how did nobody we got to talk about the ufc 311 presser yesterday i think everyone either read my tweets and is aware of my feelings or you know if they're here they've probably seen me talking can guess my feelings how do we feel about

old Marab yesterday at the 311 presser boy I got a tough I didn't think it could get worse for Maraub he goes in whatever face he had left I thought he saved it by especially when you have Dana White

announcing this fight and then saying Maraub broke down the doors of the UFC headquarters and demanded that I put this fight together for this man because he was tired of Umar talking trash about him. And then he shows up to the press conference

and he died. It was terrible. Like it was so bad. And even Umar's like, what do you mean disrespect you? You're the champion. Of course we're going to call for it. And then Barab kept doing the whole you haven't done enough to earn it be a man thing. It was such

a terrible performance. Thank God for Islam and Armin to just like, dude, we're the two best guys. It was deeply, the contrast was deeply funny. Oh my God. As they like, there's absolutely no beef. They're just like, as I was just like, yeah, he clearly deserves this.

Well, I'm going to fight him because I want to fight the best dudes. He's like, how are you so bad at this? The Marab thing, like, it, I know that this is maybe a stretch. It honestly felt like the Don Davis thing where he, like, Dana gave him a lifeline of he broke down the door. And so like Marab could have just come in and been like, this guy, like, people are disrespecting me. I wanted this fight. I'm doing it. And then he spent so much of that presser putting Piotr Yan over. Like, Umar is very like trying to be very, the part that outside of Islam being like, dude, just be cool. Like you're being real weird. Because Mara was being

so weird. Umar was at one point like, fine, I don't deserve it. Like, I don't care if it's a gift. I just want to fight you. What are you talking about? I disrespected you. Explain it. And Rob's like, you did,

you just, okay, but you're saying something. Prove what I said to you about your nation, about you personally. The only thing I said is you don't want to fight me because you are saying right now that you don't want to fight me. And he,

like, Marhab is just in a fever pitch of fury. And it is so like, no, like his rant. on Peter Yan. You're not active. Well, he actually voted you.

Like, Peter Yan, he looked at me. Who didn't think Peoria Yon looked so amazing? Of course I went to fight him. He's very dangerous. Like, then, Umar's like,

why is all the dangerous guys you want to fight dudes you've already beaten? Like, he just asked him that. And Rob didn't have anything. It was nuts. It was nuts. He just, he thumped up,

Jan. It was like, it was, it was, you killed him. Yeah, it was like a 50, it was, you could have.

scored a 50-42 and I would have believed you. Like it was one of those. A deeply home competitive fight. Yeah. And it was 18 months ago. Like this fight wasn't three years ago. It was 18 months ago. There's no, there's no need for that. Jan is two and three in his last five.

And granted, he looked so good. He beat Davidson Figuerrello. Who wasn't impressed? Like, dude, you got to let this one go. Yeah, man. Like, it was just, it's just bad. And I understand like, Luke's take on it or it's just like, look, man,

like this is where you make money. I get it. But the fight is booked. Like, it is done. There's no more, Peodor, Jan, you are not going to convince the UFC to change course at all. Like, this is the guy you were going to fight.

Doesn't sound like a guy who stormed into UFC HQ with a pen saying, give me a contract to sign. It seems like a guy who is frustrated that he is fighting this guy who, maybe he doubts that he can beat. and yeah like I don't you know it a lot of rational people that I respect and that were like why is he so mad I just like what is he so mad because truly what umar did the only things umar has done is say that he has ducked him which by the way is like everyone says that and frankly maraub himself said that about Sean O'Malley like repeatedly so like how mad can you

really be and then he thinks he's going to beat him And it's just like, you can't be that mad about this. Pretty clearly this is about something else. Yeah. And even if you are mad, like the die is cast. Like you just, like, you should have come in with the energy that Dana tried to say you did. Like, yeah, they're like, they're saying that this guy is, is better than me. He's not.

I'm going to, I'm going to shut all of the doubters up. And I never was saying it's just like, no, he's getting a gift. He didn't deserve it. Why should I talk about you? I'm pure. I should talk. Why should I talk about you? Please let me talk about Peoria on.

He put Peeryon over at least two, maybe three times, which was nuts. Marab and Jamal Hill should start a YouTube channel. Please, no, no. Because the other thing is too, like, if Marab loses, he has diminished himself. He's done. Putting Umar over. This guy doesn't deserve it and isn't very good. If he beats you, you look full.

Well, you look silly. like you should everybody you fight should be great you're just better and it was so I'd have never seen a new champion handle it worse I honestly it's the worst it is the worst three now four months is the worst four actually three months worst three months stretch of a champion in UFC history in my opinion is so so bad and to think where this guy was two years ago no one wanted to watch him fight nobody he had them even with the marl maria's fight which was an absolute crazy ass fight people were just like yeah man he's boring we're not bought into him we don't like his personality like he's just a boring guy and then he started to get a little fun he was doing the videos and they were

funny and then he's getting some wind the yon performance like was so eye-opening because he just mauled him killed him and then the sohudo fight happens and he's just like the hero of of the fans in that area and he just humiliates henry sohudo he's having conversations with mark Zuckerberg as he's beating up henry sehudo over and he is over and the fans are taken to him he was getting big big eruptions like even at ceremonial wanes they were going freaking crazy from rob and then he wins the belt and everything since that moment has gone down the shitter don't forget about winning the belt mike it wasn't a guarantee that he was getting there we all thought he deserved it, obviously.

Sean O'Malley was pretty clearly trying not to fight him if he could. He got the Cheeto fight first. Then he was like, I want to go fight I'll want to. He was trying to play his way out of fighting Marab. Yeah. And the fans didn't let it happen because Marab had gotten so over. Maybe we'll see and maybe there is a, because certainly some people got my mentions yesterday.

And so maybe this connected with some people in a way or he's over enough that, you know, he hasn't turned off all the fans, but I just don't know. how you look at what he has done in the past couple of weeks and be like, this is good. There's nothing good about this. There's nothing good about it. He's fumbled this entire thing. Like, he truly has.

I honestly believe, too, that this is his biggest fight. Like, this is the biggest fight for him that is actually available to him. Sean O'Malley is certainly a popular fighter amongst a certain fan base. But the Nirmaga made off name is. so influential in the sport and umar has a huge fan base like a huge one yeah and if he he's like a million instagram followers yeah this something dumb he's in a position where like you got to fight this dude and if you beat him then you can you can call your shots you can call to fight yon do whatever like a win if he goes in there and just runs over umar and hands him his first l and you

prove it's proven everything you said was right then you get to call the shots then you're in a different tier. But you got to do it in the right way where it's like, okay, this guy I'm fighting. I fought some good dude. Sean O'Malley's great. Piotr Yan's great. See what he did against David's figure.

But this is a dangerous man. Oh, no. I regret everything I've ever done, Mike. Why? Because Volkov doesn't have the flow. Oh. He braided it. Why do I have a bet on him?

Oh, no. What is happening? Gone by decision is a lot. Oh my God. all your money on gone by decision. This is the dumbest thing that's ever happened. I couldn't be more upset. He can't win now.

What in God? Like, who told him? All I talked about yesterday other than Marat being a super weird dude is like Volkov Volkov might have the best hair in fighting. Might have the best hair on earth. I'm so upset.

I'm sorry. Who knows? Maybe he, uh, maybe just goes in and just obliterate zero gun. No. No? No. Nope. He's done now.

Are you, are you about to let the masses now? Oh, I'm absolutely. Like, I have to tweet now. I don't, I don't care for this. I don't care for this at all. Jermaine likes the brades. Jermaine is wrong. I don't know what to tell you, man.

Jermaine is wrong. He's just wrong. How are you going to put freaking cornrows on that flow? Tied for the longest active win streak in the UFC Heavyweight Division with four. He's tied for my least favorite fighter of all time now. That is, oh, but I still have bets on him. I need him to win, but I mean, oh, this is disgusting. Patty, yeah, that's what I noticed was he's very patty looking.

Josh, if I could cash out my bet right now, I would, but that is not an option for me. So here I am. Stuck watching stupid Corn Road Volt. And here comes zero gone, just shaved head, knows what to do. Smart man. Yeah, he's not fucking up his whole program. Volkov is invited to the cookout.

So we had a question on the people's pre-fight show, named three fighters on this card that you would have a beer with. And we actually landed on Volkov. Volkov would have been my number one would have been Bryce Mitchell and Kron together. I only want them together. I do not want them. That was a fun table discussion of like a different table of just or just having Bryce and just doing seatbelt conversation.

I would actually rather just be in the booth behind the Krohn and Bryce booth, just hear them without being in there. But I mean, for sure, it would have been Volkov. Now he is my enemy and will be forever. I went with, I end up going with Pantosia because you just feel good, like you just feel hyped. You'd feel like you could start a business. and thrive because he would just put you in that spot plus you'd be responsible enough

case you threw this part out he'd be responsible enough to be like oh i've had a drink and a half like that's enough for me time to call it a day chris wybman was another one i would use because i think you'd be low-key hilarious having a couple of drinks and volkov is the third because he would just sit there and not say anything and then when the moment came when the ball was on the tea he would just shit it quietly and cool as a cucumber just knock it out of the park wouldn't even make a face and then he would just be like i got to go to the restroom and then you wouldn't see him again for the rest of the night he would just batman on out of there and we'd be like oh where did volkovco where did he go that was he's the funniest guy i've ever meant i mean he just left him left him he stands as it well

yeah he left on the high note just nailed it the irish goodbye jed's got to lose a bet where he gets cornrose uh i have in fact had cornrose once upon a time. Not my best look. Let's just say that. I don't have them for any real amount of time, but you know, you get bored.

You have friends, you do dumb shit. What was worse getting, it's someone who can't get cornrows? Oh, they sucked hard. The whole time? It's getting them done and taking them part.

It's just not a fun experience to have them done. Do you like stabbing your head? It's what it feels like. Kirk wants to know if Volkov wins, will you do hornrose again? No, I don't support this at all. I'm fundamentally opposed to this.

I know, and now I'm going to lose. But if he wins, it's solely because of the corner. I don't think that's true. Well, if he loses, I think he wins in spite of the cornrows. If he wins, it's because he was going to dominate. Ah, okay. I don't know. This is his extra gear you needed.

Look, it's the last favorite of the year. It's our last watch part of the year. We'll table it. I'm not opposed to doing Cornrose again, but I'm not going to be shanghied into it on short notice and this nonsense. Ainsley is not a fan. Rose her. Ainsless says Rose her too.

What says what? Rose hurt. Oh, oh. Yeah. They are miserable experience. Rat tail forever. Forever.

Speaking of Comcle collected, Sierra God looks like he's about to take a walk in the park. Just he looks in pretty, uh, looks like he hits. the gym a time or two he's you know been in a couple times I'm sure looks like he uh he hoist some some weight up in the air I am I'm so shook by Volkov with Rose because here's the thing I'll never shave my head

like I'll never do that bet but I would do I'll get Cornrose bet and frankly I would hate that probably more because I would look very silly and it will hurt all right here we go here we go who's who's your picking your guy gone by decision. I got by decision. Okay.

I bet Volkov. That's is gone by decision. I want Volkov to shoot a takedown, but I also just kind of think he can win this fight on the feet too. I know they didn't do very well, but the first fight is a lot closer than I think people remember. Not that Gunn didn't deserve to win or didn't win all the rounds, but like they were all competitive.

And now Volkov just looks at the John Jones fight and is like, what if I just take him down once? What if I just tackle him? I'm a big fella. If I just tackled me, he might fall over. Look for a second Like these guys are just going to get after And heavyweight style

But now we're back to Oh look at him tackle him Look at him tackle him! Look at him tackle him! Oh yes! Yes! Look at that big silly bastard Take it to the floor!

It's the corn rose, baby. I don't take back anything I said yet But if he wins maybe I'll take back some of it. The corn rows Got him fired up to tackle. This is a business. These are business rows. business road see you feeling better about him i mean i love that he caught a kick and was like i'm

i'm tackled that because that was my thought i was like he was like god didn't run him out of the ring on the feet and he he's not dumb he could watch the john jones fight and be like i should at least try to see if i get him down and just kill him like frances tackled him and won by tackling him what if i did that i could do that and if he wins the fight he's gonna get a title shot so like yes no no don't give him the underhook no no No, Alexander, do better. Now he's going to take him down. Oh, oh, he was a tackle him.

He's got to tackle him. He's trying to put on a rear naked joke while getting single-legged. Oh, if he takes up, Volcker. Oh, God. I laugh. Oh, my God. Oh, this is a, big knee. Big knee, Volk.

Let's go. Oh, digging that on. underhook. Yep. Gone is D1 gone now. Oh, Volkov just big manned him off of him. Knee,

bring that knee up, kid. Oh, Mark Smith is going to get Marksviz is getting ready to separate him. That's right. You keep kicking the body

and just walk him down. And tackle him. And then tackle him. Tackle and grapple, baby. Let's go. Gone with a jab like crazy. See,

but now, now he's now gone shook. Now he knows that the grappling is open. He's slowed down. He's got to be. I'm sorry, curve the fragrance for fighters. Oh, yeah. Okay.

Oh, gone. Gone elevating on a double. Gone's the tackler now. Gone with a big time elevation on a double right there. Like, clean finish. That was a man. This is not the fight we thought. No.

Two guys grappling it in there. Who knew that this would be a better grappling than Bryce Mitchell and Chrome Gracie? How about that? I mean, if Volkov hits an arm bar out of the guard. Yeah. Volkov hits an arm bar of the guard. I'll get corned Russ. I'll do that one.

I don't think he's going to happen, but I mean, why not, you know? That would be, uh, that'd be sensational. Also,

the back tat is legit. It was, oh my God. Oh, he did try and throw up a triangle from the guard. Oh, he's still working that too.

He's got the knee up. Cyril, he's playing, Volkov is playing an old school risk control guard. Just a king. Cyril, get away.

Oh, oh my God. He's going to hit it. Oh, he hit the dog shit sweep. Oh my God That is literally the sweep They teach you in day one

And Gond drops back on a fucking The silliest fight of him This is the best Volkov hit the double heel kick sweep I forget what I call what you call it Gone cheats and grabs the fence To not get taken down Mark Smith is like

Don't do that And then gone drops for Oh big knee from Volkov In the plumb This is the silliest fight of all time I love it this is my type of bozo right here oh oh come on volkov let's give them the sauce this silly silly man good right hand for volkov okay oh god just missed with the big left

i mean they're both a wee bit tired yeah they are there's a frankly they've done a lot more in this round than they did in 25 minutes oh good step me from gone we got tackle coming but volkov working on the single at gone try gone goes for a guillotine, then gets tackled and is like, I guess I'll keep trying. I don't believe he is remotely close on this. Oh, this would be hilarious. I don't, I don't think he's anywhere close to getting. He doesn't have the latin gauge.

Now he's closer that he's got the full guard, but there's short time. I don't think he's, I think he's fine. Look at the focus. Oh, he's squeezing. You got to get more lat engagement. You got to get more Vox entirely fine. Now is his shoulder's eye. That was incredibly.

fun round. The crowd is very excited. Also, but one of the corn rows is blown out. This is the best. Okay, so there you go. This is. We're one roll down. Look, I can't, I'm not a fair arbiter. I'm giving it to Volkov. I'll go gone. But I'm not, that could easily be me being biased. I did, we all win. That was actually, we all win 109. That was just a deeply silly round that I found delightful. these guys and they're going to be absolutely gas oh i mean they were already tired started like in the middle of that round oh i'm so excited take those deep breaths yeah i mean here's the issue with the with the rose we don't get the combing in between rounds like let's let's get that part looking looking crispy just the one blow now corolla is awesome that's awesome here's the side of his head i can't wait to the

the getty image on that is going to be oh come on Volkov, let's go, baby. This is why it was way more fun than anyone thought it would be already. I'm gone trying to target the body. Coward. Grapple again. Let's do big, silly, heavyweight grappling.

Neither one of them want to engage in any way. No, no, no. Gone just throwing a jab. Well, this is all Gone ever wants to do. I would like to kick you in stagulling. Gone pulling guard right now would be would be unreal. Just the full crone, I'm going to hold you and then fall.

That was a good little teep kick. Oh, Volkov putting some hands on him. That's not tackling him. It's giving him multiple things to think about, Mike. That's true. Can't get predictable with the tackle and grapple. Flying triangle. Oh, my God.

Like kick from gone. I'd probably get Volkov's face tattooed on my chest and he pulled the flying triangle out. This face with the blown out corn row. Yes. Yes. Oh! Spinning back this! Oh, that hurt him.

Oh! Oh, God is hurt. Wow. That was a nasty spinning back fist. How is he still a lot? Volkov needs to press the issue. Gone feet are not all the way under him. Yeah, he was, he was hurt, hurt.

I can't believe he ate that as well. He did. I thought he was going to drop drop. That was every, every ounce of Volkov. Oh, look at the replay. Oh, my God. Bam. Oh.

Oh, that was nasty. Oh, I had good credit to Gone for still being in this. Oh, big head kick. Nice of the chest. just missed. Corned Volkov. Wilcoff feeling himself right now. Oh, nice little double right hand.

This fight is way more fun than that. Oh, that head kick. Some toes to the ear. Volkov just feeling himself. Also, Gond, is clearly not all there. You need to pedal down. He's pissed that he popped the corn roll. Light kick from Gond.

I think God is trying to get himself back to level. And Volkov is not putting the pressure down. Yeah. Which may come to bite him in the ass because easily the first round could have been scored for gone. Oh, yeah. It's up in the air.

It's very possible that I was biased. Oh, good right hand from gone. But Volkov answers are the nice jab. Volkov's got himself a solid enough chin. He's a big man. He's big fella. Hard to reach. A couple leg kicks from gone.

Oh. That was the old Leota Machita kick to a straight. I think gone has realized okay this guy's gotten a lot better since we're a real fight like you just go rewatch the first fight like I'm way fast than you I'm just going to run around

and tag you and now Volcroft is not letting him do that plus he's intimidated by the cornrose good job nobody saw the cornrows coming oh god just missed that uppercut all right let's go back to the tackle and grapple method we can't get too excited about the kicking

and the striking I mean the spinning back this I mean that was dope I would like your offense to be exclusively spinning back fists and tackles. Yes. Ghan's got time to turn this around. It does. And I think he's clearly back to full bars now. But he was just not doing stuff for like a full minute.

And it seemed like that was probably a, I got to get my, my legs back under me. Volkov, let's get the tackle and grapple going, baby. Flying Cisor Trip. Good light kick. Oh. Oh, oh, God, the big right hand.

Oh, big right hand from God. Now, Gondon is trying to grapple. Grab the shorts. Volkov has a fun headlock going. Oh, he's going for the body sleep. Yeah. Oh, but Gond's going to pass to the side. So this is not going to work.

Look at the improvement. You got to abandon or you're going to get Von Fluid. Gone is, in fact, trying to set up a von Flu because Volkov's hand is stuck here now. This would be one of the funniest results. It would be deeply funny. There's no answer for another. I mean, he is, he has it sort of.

He is not remotely close to finishing. He needs to get his weight more down up. But Volkov's hand is trapped here. Yeah, I think, I think that you are absolutely correct. Oh, Volkov, getting, getting, getting guardy. No, but Cyr's like, no, no, no, no. Oh, Searle don't want to play. He's afraid of that.

Now give him the business. He fights up in the air now. You've both been hurt this round. Oh, good right here from gone. Solid. Head kick blocked. Thrown by Volkov. Gone tries to answer.

Same thing, same result. Not a ton of volume at this point. One big shot here. Let's go. Right now, finish it. Alex, big time. Finish it. Nope.

Man. I mean, very obviously. 10-9 Volkov. I... Yeah, I mean, gone close the gap. I'm very comfortable saying that this fight is a toss-up. this last round very likely decides the winner I'll go Volkov in that round

I doubt everyone joined me in scoring Volkov for the first round but I mean the the live odds are suggesting we are I mean we are 15th so yeah 115's are getting the replay of the back fist terrific boom

oh you see the spit fly from Gons and I assume that we're about to get a replay of the gone shot that hurts him. Well, that's some jabs we're getting. Oh, here's the right hand. Oh, just caught him right on the ear. Oh, big right there. This is honestly incredibly fun fight.

It really is. I think most people do not anticipate it. And I thought it would be fun in a way that I find fights fun. This is objectively fun. It is fun, yeah. Both guys got, both guys tackling. They're mixing them. Oh, we're just brawling ready to start.

Let's go. We're at that point. tone who wants it more boys who wants that title shot more a race all doubt who wants to get killed by tommy aspinall but maybe not but didn't you hear dana white said that john tom's gonna fight john okay who wants to fight tom after tom fights john after too shay who wants to be the backup for the fight that won't ever happen come on come on alex oh oh gold landed yeah i'm just i'm just saying Oh, single leg. Snatch single finishes.

Oh, the Gondon's got to move to the back. You got to hold that leg, kid. Hold that leg and wrestle through. You have the leg enough to wrestle this through. You should be fine here. So you should be fine because Gons not, yeah, just hold the leg and drive. A couple elbows.

Step over and you're fine. Step over that leg and finish this. Yeah. Cyril should have been trying to hit a switch there instead of holding this Camaro lock. I guess unless he grabs this Camaro, which is actually fairly close to getting. This would be wild.

You just never see that happen, though. Especially Volkov is now just walking his own leg up through. I'm waiting for Joe Rogan to be like, he's got it. Well, he's saying he's in trouble, so we know that he's probably not. Yeah, he couldn't be any safer. I mean, he's, you know, he has to be aware, but this is pretty far away from getting out right now. And really, if Volkov just pops his head up and then gets his weight down,

He's just going to smash gone through this. Gone getting that left leg over. I mean, God is staying committed. Yeah. And Volkov is punching him in the butt. Great, great technique. It's the one thing this fight didn't have. You got to punch something.

Oh, oh, oh, gone is spinning a lot. Does he even know why? Well, now he's trying to spin for an arm. Look at this. I say he could try and get the arm bar spin. But so if he pulls it off at heavyweight, I'll be impressed. And now, Vol, Volkov is winning.

Yes. Volkov finally got his head out. He's high position. God's still on the arm. I mean, it does mitigate anything Volkov can do offensively, but eventually Vorov is going to pull his arm out. And he's just going to be here. His arm's going to have nothing like that.

Just get real stupid. Get real stupid and pull the reverse tomorrow from here. It would be sick. Nope. And God has to give up as Volkov's in top half. Oh, goes back to it. Goes back to it. Just you just shake it out a little bit.

Just need to shake it out a little. I mean, you. all you are doing is holding the position now? I mean, we could probably just stand this up. No, no, no. Nonsense. I mean... Punch him in the butt.

But punches. Just punch him right. He's just the most like, eh, punch him in the butt. I mean, we have spent two full minutes, if not more of this fight now, just in this hold. We've gone desperately holding a thing

that he's not going to get. I don't... You could stand this up. You absolutely could stand this up. Yeah, it's weird to stand up from, I guess. It is like a neutral spot. Oh, oh, he breaks now and tries to get the underhook and smash. And Volkov is just trying to body him down.

But God has that under him. Oh, I thought he's going to set the Gildon. Now Gons through on a leg. He's got a full deep roll in for the transition. As we all thought, this would come down to Zahasen now. To actual just classic scramble positions. So we all thought this. fight would be.

Volkov just trying to cross face and does cross face smash. I mean, Volkov put some elbows in. He could easily win this fight right now. I don't know how you score this so far. Little taps. Like this round is so, Volkov, you just got to land like three good elbows. If he just lands 300 more of those, he wins this round.

If he just lands three elbows, it's heavyweight. He might knock it out. He almost said. I was saying he was very close to cheating, which I respect. Yeah, just cheat. Love of a cheater. I mean, he probably, he's trying to slap the guillian. Oh, oh, now, yeah, but it's very silly.

And now his knees are fucked. Gone's going to turn you. Oh, he got out. He's flared out. Okay. Yep. He was way too close together, but I also don't know what gone has to pull like a big sweep at this point. He seems fairly tired.

Volkov, laying like three big elbows. You have 14 seconds. Big shots, Alex. Come on. Come on. Fight for my money, Alex. Oh, that's it. That's it.

I have no idea. I have no idea. Honestly to God, like, I truly believe that you are supposed to score that round of 10-10. I will defer to say Volkov won because he was on top and landed punches. And he stood up and walked away. And gone just quit. Like, God was just clearly tired. But like, the third round should.

legitimately be attentive. Nobody established any level of superiority over the other. I'll give it to, I'll give it to Ghan, because why not? Let's just be different. Sure. But I truly have no idea.

I mean, I did not, look at this, just like the basic heel block sweep, and God just cheated his ass off to not get swept. Gone dropping back for a frigging heel hook is the best in this fight, too. It's like, spinning back.

I think Volkov's going to win. because I think they're just going to score that third round for them. But, man. That was, that fight was fun for like 12 minutes. That fight was honestly, look at this numbers. Did you ever see this?

Eight takedown attempts, three submission attempts in this fight? No, I wouldn't have saw it come. A total of 74 significant strikes. That's a, how many did they land in their first one total? I think like 200 something.

Yeah. But too heavy waiting great. The cameramen are looking at Gons' foot as if he hurt himself. Maybe a broken foot. I mean, they were doing a lot of shenanigans. He was kicking elbows a lot. Yep, there's some leg locks. I mean, I think...

Four minute Camorra attempt. If we don't get a title fight, I think we run this back a third time. Five rounds. Seven rounds. All right, let's see. I feel great about my bet, even if it doesn't cash. I feel great about not betting this fight. Splitty.

Ah, Colcoe's gonna win. Here it is. For the winner. Cyril Gun! Cyril! Freaking God! It was a good bet, though.

It was a great bet. Plus 280 or whatever I got it at. That was a good bet. It was a great bet. I don't. I also... Fights probably... Oh, Volkov is upset.

He's pissed. Also, Gond's just walking out. Gond don't want to do anything. gone is mad and leaving. I've honestly don't know I've ever seen that. Is it because he's banged because it's hurt? Oh, now they are forcing him back in.

Maybe he's mad because he doesn't believe he won. Now he's talking to Joe. Okay, let's get a little clarity. That's odd. That was very strange. I mean, just a perfect ending to this fight. Crowd's booing him loudly. Yep, take the mouthpiece out.

He's talking, and he's like, oh, I should take my mouthpiece out. Broke his toes. Brogan's toast first kick of the fight? Is that what he said? Something early, yeah, it seemed like, look for my toes. I can't, I mean, I can't tell if your toes are broken. I mean, his left foot looks way gnarlier than the right, but that could just be... Yeah, toes are toes, man.

You know, toes look weird. Crowd is deeply upset about it. Okay. All right. There you go. Yeah, I mean, it's not like a huge robbery. I would like to see if they scored like... they scored it for should have been a draw him i honestly it truly should have been but i know people

hate draws so whatever it is in that regard but like you know if you want to score the first two rounds for gone i don't think that's wrong oh here we got the judge's score card junichiro oh camejo scored the first two rounds for gone uh wow eric cologne scored rounds two at three for volkov and adelaide bird uh also scored the first two rounds for gone i think that's defensible i don't think that those are The second round was real close. Like, he followed him back into it. So, like, I think it is defensible. Not how I obviously would have scored it, but it's not a robbery.

Just a close fight. And sometimes that's how you get them. So she? Oh, God. Speaking of our Bannamweight champion, Rob fighting fans again. Fist or Throne. Not by Marab, but somebody else. That's smart.

Man, right for you. Oh, there's a Banyway champion. champion. Speaking of Bannonway champions, there's a former Bannonway champion. There's a Weldwellah. Michael Bisbing. Michael Bissbing having a bevy. Oh, there's Justin Gage himself and Kyle Boralia right behind him. I think Josh Emmett's. Also, Josh Emmett's right behind him as well. Oh, my goodness. Oh, it's time. Oh, it's time. Shavkat. All right, this is, I think this is the break time.

Talk amongst yourselves. Casey, throw cues up. Throw some cues up. I'll answer them as Shavkat gets to shadow boxing, and I am sad about my bet that should have cashed. Or at least had a reasonable chance to cash. Machado Gage probably shave. It's not a great mustache.

He's rocking. Not that I have like a great one, but it's not ideal. I think the thing we've learned here, guys, I feel fairly confident when I say this. The coroner was a bad decision that if he is flowy Volkov, game over. There's no competition he gets to win. So, boom.

Kyle did not see Marab fight the fan. Mike did. I've yet to see it because I don't know, doing this. I haven't looked through it. But it's not a great look. I'm sure that the fan was probably an asshole and said something terrible and stupid. but you should just never fight fans

because that's not what you should ever do. If you're on our test, you shouldn't do it. If you're a professional fighter, you super shouldn't do it. Over Under Suarez makes it to the octagon for UFC 312. I mean, I don't really know what you say the over under is on a yes, no question, but we're going to be optimist here. We're going to say that Tatian Suarez is going to make it to the octagon in February. Also, by the way, the first two paper views of 2025 are looking quite good.

Double champ fights, love that. Very good. So what was the question? Like, the chances that Tatiana makes it? I'll say, I'll say 55-45 she makes it. I am going to be very optimistic. I just, I can't. I can never be confident with her.

I've decided that 2025 is going to be the year that I'm an optimist. Oh, yes? I don't know how long that will last, but I wanted it to be this year. I thought 2024 was going to be the year of righteousness. It very much was not. John Jones got to fight steep in me. There's no righteousness in this year. No.

I won't be foolish enough to say there will be righteousness next year, but I'll be optimistic. I will say all the good things. John Jones is going to fight. Tom Aspinall next year. We got Maraubumar. Tom and John's going to happen. Tatiana's going to make it. A lot of great things are going to happen in 2025.

That's what we're going for. And also, you missed this as well. I'm very confident that without the cornrows, he wins 30, 24. So what a mistake that was. Sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry. I mean, I feel fine. I have the fire of bad judging.

Yes. Coursing through my veins. Oh, man. The 18 and O Parley, most importantly, the climb is now, or not now, but in moments, the climb will be. We're about to be officially climbing up to that next ledge. What do they call? They call, oh, I can't remember what, it's not traverses. I'm trying to think back to the movie Free Soul and what they call like sections of mountain climbing.

we're on our next one. Somebody in the chat, you probably climb. Let me know. We know the word I'm thinking of. It's just a bad dude, Chafcott. I mean, he's pretty freaking awesome. Just an absolute wrecking ball. It's incredible.

Marab had fans on the side. What does Jed think of Marab saying the quiet part out loud that Umar got pushed because of his last name? It's not really a quiet part. Like, that's... He's also good at fighting. And he beat Corey Sanhagen pretty convincingly. That's the thing.

I am not here to say that he didn't get a softer touch because he is part of that team. He absolutely, like 100% he did. That's also been true of 100 people in the course of fight. Like that is part of it. And it's not like he is untested. If Umar got a title shot without beating anybody, sure. But like, Sean O'Malley got the Piotr-Yon fight exclusively because he's Sean O'Malley. and then he won

and nobody was like he doesn't deserve it like no he'd be one of the top dudes he deserves it like Corey Sandy is one of the top dudes and he beat him like he he does he is undefeated deserves it very good

and yes he has a famous last name that's like why also this shouldn't factor into it but like to me it does look at the other fucking people from that gym like oh Islam like people said that but Islam doesn't deserve it

cool look at him bet bet against abdheminov's boys you were going to lose so much money doing it like Islam got a title shot after beating bobby green right wasn't that his last win before getting his best his best like highest ranked win was Dan Hooker yeah like it's before he got a title shot

but again kind of like umar like umar was booked against and offered fights against marab and other people and umar fought I can't, his name escapes me right this moment. But like he was booked to fight somebody really good and then ended up taking an undefeated newcomer on who like... Wasn't that the first time he was booked against Corey Sandhagen? Yeah.

And then he ended up staying on the card fighting like a super dangerous guy, almost got stopped immediately and then just wrecked him the rest of the fight. Like he is, the Sanhagen win. He deserves it. Yeah. There's, the whole narrative for that fight was if he, beats Corey, he's the guy. Like, okay, we give him a title shot. And he's the

like, if there was another person, I was on various programs. Davis and Figurado, if he beats Peoriae, unquestionably deserved it. Had a legitimate argument that he deserved it more and if they had done that, they'd have been fine. But they're, Umar's not getting this and they're passing over

somebody. They are passing over a Sean O'Malley rematch that's useless. Nobody was. Piotriani won one fight. Like, what? No, like he clearly is the guy. and you can always make a case that Magna and Goliath doesn't deserve it. But like, I don't know when you don't lose for six years and you are beating good dudes and you beat one of the top guys, it's pretty normal. But yes, he is famous.

And to Amar's point, I don't give a shit. I just want to see him fight for it. It's a gift, thank you. Doesn't matter to me at all. I just want to fight for it. I just want to see him fight for it. And if Maraub wins, it's an incredible win for him. Yeah, I think it's one of his best, if not his absolute best,

because of what Umar is and who we think he is. I don't understand why people are so upset about this. Like we, everyone said like, well, give him Sandhag and let's really find out. Well, they gave him Sandhag and he won convincingly. Like it was a competitive convincing win, but it was like no one, we didn't get to the scorecards and think to ourselves. Nobody had debate about who was winning the fuck. We all knew who won that fight.

Yeah. And that's a great, this is a great win. Like that's a great win. You said, man, if you had another option that made sense, fine. You don't have one.

There just isn't another choice that makes any sense. Yeah. O'Malley is not the guy right now. O'Malley just lost to him. It would be categorical. And it was not that close. Like O'Malley had a moment in the fifth round where you're...

Sorry. O'Malley 1-35. Don't forget. O'Malley 1-3-5. It's ridiculous. And then, And, uh, Jan like, sure, he looked great against Figgi, but he lost three fights in a row. Then he beat Song Yadong.

By the way, in our rankings, Jan's two wins, and we, we, we love Piotr Yan, uh, ranked 15 and 17 in, not 17, 15 and seven in our rankings. They're good, and they are good wins. But they're not. And if Piotrion wins one more, sure. But also, Piotrion lost, like real bad. So you just, why would we do that again? Not long ago either.

Yeah. Like, why would we do that again? Like this... Three fights ago. It's such a... I get the Marab is upset about it because he... You know, there are reasons.

Because he wants the title defense. And I get that. I mean, to him, and I understand this, it is probably the toughest fight for him and maybe the least money. Love that. Man, love the flag. Let's go.

18 and O parlay. One leg is down. Need Chavcott to cash the other. I would just like this fight to not go to the distance. That would be terrific. Jermaine, I see what you did there. Here comes the next welterweight champion. And he looks very Duhot-Choi-esque,

just basking in the glory of getting an occasion. I honestly just kills Ian Gary. And I don't, like, people dislike Ian Gary. I actually, I used to like him. I'm now pretty whatever to him. But Shavcott rules. I hope he killed. Shavkat is a star, says, bear.

That's a bad MFER. You're damn right. Hidden with that Shavkat, Rock Monov. I'm so excited for this. Oh, my God. Remind me at the end of the night. I don't want to do this on air for reasons that you'll know,

but no one else will. Remind me at the end of night to talk to you about Action Bronson because a thing. Not about Action Bronson, but just that will be the trigger that reminds me about a very weird personal story

I have to share with you. Oh, okay. stop defending Umar Nepo Madamadov I sure I mean

I don't need that the guy I don't need to defend me that the guy who should get a title shot is getting a title shot his resume is talking about here yeah I don't understand the problem

with Umar getting a title shot just go beat him if he's that bad go beat him and then you then you have the pick of the litter but you got to beat this dude yeah then

then you really won't have any like real like your challengers will be dudes you all beat so it'll be a little weird but like yeah you can run it back with Sean Amalian you can go fight yon if he beats umar he can fight whoever he wants you gotta win this one in the first he has no clout he has no negotiation power he's got nothing the UFC like maraub is in a position with this company the UFC would just strip him of the belt if he didn't fight Omar they would just take him 100% he would just be like yeah they would just take the belt away from him all right fine you don't want to fight you're out Umar, you fight. Maraub retired.

Figy for the... I didn't retire. Yeah, you did. You were tired. And let me tell you, Umar versus Peotreale will be terrific theater. A great fight. I would like to see Peottyon get one more way and get himself back into a thing because

for a long time, I thought, I thought Peoria was going to be the dude to actually put together like a real run. And that obviously didn't happen through his own stupidity. But I don't even think it would have happened even if he hadn't done the dumb thing against Aljo like. there's below where I'm just

watching a little earlier and at the same like I understand there's a little glove touch I understand and the fight

in a meritocratic universe would be the rematch with O'Malley makes sense it'd be a big fight it would be awesome there's no effing way

this fight happens oh for Peterion next yeah there's no way if I'm Sean O'Malley I'm never fighting that man again unless it's fair belt yeah I you run away

I think Sean O'Mall should absolutely not fight him but that is a thousand percent of the fight that should happen next. Yeah, it should. Sean O'Malley should go fight Joseo, though. Like, that's, go call it, go get that. Or honestly, just wait,

and maybe you get the crack at the winner of Marab, Umar. Yeah. Like, they may just be like, yeah, run it back. Yeah. Umar, if, who do you think Umar's going to call out? Say, if Umar wins, you get the, Kabe Connor light version, you know, the discount. Yeah, he's calling out of him out.

There's no doubt about it. Oh, man, potential five rounds here. just be over just be over just like I really I really need you I've got to win

and I just really want him to win Gary is punching the mat Gary with facial hair is hilarious by the way I mentioned that where you were out I it's not I don't have like the world's greatest facial hair I feel like he might be making mistake I wonder how long that was taken

You young man, you got a baby face. Just go clean shave, kid. I'll tell you, he does not lack for confidence. Yeah, first time closing as an underdog in nine UFC fights. That is true. Even Chowda-Garie believes he is going to win. Him and Buffer are both to start screaming at each other. It's going to be electric.

A little dirty. If Ian K. K.O. Shavkat faced down 10 seconds in. It will be the knockout of the year maybe. Oh, still not. Nothing's going to top Max, but like it would be the knockout of the year and any other year. There's a lot of terrific contenders for knockout of the year.

It's a great year. Pereira's got like... It's Max Geci, but it's great year. Pereira's got like... Illia's got two of them. Ilya killed Volk. I mean, it killed Volk. And then killed Max.

Yeah, that one's not that aesthetically pleasing. Yeah, but the Volk, the Volk when he kills him. So it's very, it's very pleasing. It was very vile, yeah. Yeah, I think right now my list is Max, Ilya, Pereira over Jamal. I'll probably put Pereira.

to I mean, I think it's totally defensible. I'm just being the first dude to sleep Volkov like that. Yeah. Not Volkovsky. Still got the heavy weights of mine.

Let's go Shafkat. Well, yeah, at Featherway, yeah. Yeah, yeah. No, but like in like, yeah, he got him. Let's go Shokhov. Let's go. Here we go.

I think, didn't all of us in our staff picks have Shafcott being the champion by the end of the year? I think that that is correct. I think all of us did in our predictions. All right, we're underway. And we had a real shot to all be correct.

I had Armin as the lightweight champion. I had Bloyev as the featherweight champion. I did very poorly on that. I was feeling pretty good. I feel like I'm just like a year away on everybody, potentially. I think the only one I'm going to be right about it is this long. Might have had pants. I don't remember, though.

I didn't I think I had homzot at 185 yeah it's just one of those things I think homzat's gonna make the list every year until one of us is right I read just keep keep picking them yeah keep shooting that shot one day he'll fight for a title really feeling each other out the first minute and oh he got a hold of them for a minute this is where Gary needs to do exactly this yeah head position and panics panic get out of this yep I will drive my head into you and try and escape your clutches. This is a pivotal moment in the fight

a minute in. Gary's doing a great job of keeping his forehead in Shofcott's ear. And he's using the face. There you go. Now he's lost his head position. And Chavcott has his hands locked in double unders.

Yep, something's happening. This is, I mean, you know, Gary's still got room to work here, but it's not a strong place to be. He's getting shoulder-striked to the, to the face at the same time. Oh, Sherry wasn't going to try and bring his,

Gary's trying to keep Shovcock getting his hips in and taking him for a ride. Another knee of the body from Shafcott. He's doing a fun little knee block down. That's weird. On the right knee, it's... He's just keeping it out. Like, I don't want your knee to move near me.

Oh, Shovcott just manns them off. And now tries to get the outside brief. Ian's doing a good job. I mean, Ian's schooled for this. Let's see. I mean, Schavcott's just so patient In this spot

Oh, Shavkat again He gets his grips locked Yeah And he is really trying to drag Ian's ass Off the fence And Ian is really sitting weight down Saying no, sir Being very smart

I very much like this fence Is a safe zone Oh, oh, oh He's got a turn And he had Ian's feet together And he's trying to spin it He's gonna finish this He's going down

Got the trip Oh Ian Gary What a freaking That is incredible that was very, very nice because I thought that outside trip was going to finish it, but Ian just

just scraps his way, staying up. This is going to be a, this could be a very miserable night for you, Kerry. Like, he could just be in this spot. Yeah, we're just doing this.

Yeah. And he's breaking the grips on Shafka here, but he's just such a bad man. He's got to create space outside of Bray. He got the grips in turn, but Shafat's still on him. He's curiously how much energy Gary's going to have to waste to stay upright. I hope both men did their cardio work.

Yeah. I mean, Shafcott is just sucking all the space away from Gary. Oh, no, he tried. Now Gary has an underhook. Now Gary has two underhooks. Let's see. I think Gary's actually a decent position to take Shafat down and tries. Almost does.

He's still got a good spot to finish this. Yeah. Shavcott's going to pummel under and Gary's no longer going to get that takedown but that was a nice little effort for me and Gary that was good solid quid short grab a call off from Mark Goddard

to one of these fine gentlemen I assume Shavka but not really sure I mean this is a grueling effort and I've no idea nobody is winning this round I think Shafkat's winning with like I mean six shoulder strikes that he's slanted like per the scoring criteria

yes but like reasonably nobody is doing anything that should win this round 10 10. Should be a 10 10. People hate those, but should be a 10 10. But 45 seconds. Like one big flurry of offense either way should take the round right now. Oh, Gary's about to get to space. He does.

Hey, credit to Ian Gary. Yeah, that was a big win for him. Early on, fully dry. Shavcott Shaked. Oh, Shavcott lands a big right hand. Ian Gary sticks his tongue out and now they're punching in. I mean, that, that for sure hit him. Yeah, yeah.

Shavka was shaking his hands out, too. It was like, who would he burn his hands out? And then, bam. And that's going to fill it in the round. I say, Shavka doesn't need to spend a lot of energy here. That's going to win him the round, I'd say. Yeah, that'll do it. And Gary's going to get the space, couldn't he?

I mean, we are a grueling round. We are in a tight phone booth. Yeah. Holden. 10-9 Shafka for me. That's correct. 10-9 for. 10-9.

for Shavkat Hakmanov. Jay, I don't, I'm sure there's somebody scored a 10-10 somewhere, but the scoring criteria are like very clear that you are not supposed to. Like they super do not want you to do it, which is a bit silly, but that is what it is. See, Shafkat's cornerman just like, they're slapping his arms, shaking him out.

I mean, you know, there's a lot of clenst wrestling. Yeah, arms fell asleep a little bit. I mean, that is, That's the kind of round that Ian Gary can look at and say, okay, maybe Shotcott's a little tired. I think Ian Garry was always going to have to try and drag this late and hope that the championship rounds where Shafkat hasn't really been. Boom, there's that right hand.

Yeah, that thing landed. I landed clean. It landed real good. But, you know, another round like that is Shafat gets a little tired. Gary's in great shape. Maybe he can start moving around a little bit more. What's probably all thinking right now? It's Blal feeling pretty.

I mean, it's one round, but a big blow probably looks at that and you're like, all right. Yeah. Because he ain't get it. That dude ain't ever going to slow down. That dude is not. Shrekard already did the Henry Cavill in Mission Impossible gun shakeout. Yeah. Right at the center here.

See what Gary's game plan is. There is a jab. A little jab. It shows him a little something. See if I want Rockmonov to hit the body a little more. I know he didn't really do a lot of striking because he didn't in the first round, but he's a very nasty body worker. And if Gary's going to be playing for a long game here, you know, put some money in the bank.

Work on that tummy. Shofcott's got some good faints, man. He's got Ian thinking about some things. Ian try to throw out a little push kick that did not score. Ian gets a leg kick checked. Yep. I mean, we are really not pushing a pace. now and I have a whole here.

It's a lot of pressure in this one. I mean a lot of pressure in this one. A lot of pressure in this one. Especially for Shopcott. Gary's not moving around as much as I thought. He's standing there. Yeah, I thought he'd be a little bouncier. He was trying to- Shogot is shaking his arms out a lot.

He may have really taken some energy out of them early. Oh. Just comes up short on that right hand. He lands a jab. though. Ian really faking the hips a lot. I mean, it's early yet. I think Bola Mahomet probably feels pretty good right now.

Yeah. Like, okay. Neither of these dudes are running me over. Oh, Gary, good counter. The consequences of the mistake. Yeah. I mean, that is a good point, too. I mean, you're on a very high ledge right now.

You got a... Like, you can't take a bad step at all, or you're done. Mm, that's a good little stepping, tepee. or obliaky kick. Well, it's not like the full like side step thing, but it's like the front one to the knee. About the halfway point. Oh, good right hand from Shavcott. He's just hitting like a naked right hand, which is weird.

Yeah, he's all he leaps for a left hook that missed that Gary Ducks under. And now we're clinching. All right. We're back to the fence. Gary, Gary has the, the strong position now. Now we've got the, uh, The check. Yeah, there is absolutely a fair amount of fighting not to lose going on right now.

Both men being very cautious. The time Shavkat has not been cautious, it's actually worked quite well. Shavcott versus position. This is a big moment for Gary. He's got to stay on his feet. Shantukk might want to go for an inside trip here instead of trying to get position an outside trip. Yeah. Get those arms a little bit of a breather.

yeah like really if you could get this down it'd be obviously terrific for him but i mean gary is Gary's doing a great job of just the Clint wrestling i thought shopcott would really run away with the fight here Gary is very very well prepared obviously he's not given an inch here I think shovcott is broadly speaking winning the position

but he is not dominating the position and doing damage like i thought he would here yeah and now he's got the hands locked He got the hands off. For the last time, Gary, I mean, Gary ran the whole thing with him. He's trying again just the hawk spin and hits a slide through to the rear waistlock. Yeah. Knees to the thighs.

I mean, yeah, Gary's going to break the hands and turn back into him. Gary is talking about him about Shafcott holding his glove. The glove grabs. It does not look like he's holding his glove, but I can't say that. Goddard's clearing him. Goddard did not seem to give it credence. He was like, nah, were you good? Well, Gary gets out, though.

And Gary tries for a spin with Shavcott ducks under 25 seconds left. Again, a big... Oh, spinning back of us just missed from Shafcott. Big piece... I would say Shafcott's ahead this round, but any big piece of offense might just take it. Certainly if it's a big enough piece of offense, it absolutely will. I think Shavka has just...

Just edged out both of these rounds. Oh, good left team for Shafcott. Shavka walk away. You've won the round. Yep. 2018. Great year, 2018. 2018, great year.

2018, it remains. Yes. Gary hanging in there. And Gary's hanging again, if Shavkat is slowing down, the issue is that round was not around that if Shavkat is slowing down, Gary. Gary didn't make him work hard that round. There was a little bit of clenching. Mostly it was just in space, both men being very cautious.

The armwork in the corner is just fun to watch. They're so aggressive with it. I mean, bring a life to him. See if either man really steps on the gas here. I was wondering if Gary's just going to come out like a man possessed straight away. I mean, I would like that, but this has been working for him. Again, that right, like. At some point, he's going to have to attack.

Oh, if he lose another round like that, he's just, it will be forced into it. Oh, he did land. Oh, he did land. Okay. It did land. Wow. No, it didn't land like massive, but got him. The thing is when Chavcott is just committing to like real offense.

Like, he is landing it. It's kind of weird and feels a little wonky because it's not super set up but he's just not throwing a ton so kind of is catching Gary off guard I guess All right round three Gary, Gary showing a lot of movement right now Jerking

A lot of fainting from Shafcott Bozeman just faintly faints As John Eddie points 30 seconds in any and Gary has done actual nothing Oh head kick head kick Nice little switch lead head kick Rock Monov returns

with a rear head kick of his own neither really get home, but so we go. Check. Great leg kick from Shavkat. Great checks from Shavka. Yeah, he sees it coming from a mile away. Shavka has not really worked the body at all. Which I really thought would be a fairly big part of the plan here.

Yeah, the leg of kicks. And he's going for it. He's yet to really land them, like good. But it's offense, which, you know. Oh, right hand from Shafcott. Gary 11 to O in the leg kicks Oh that was a good and a good right hand from here Yeah that was good

Catches him with the leg kick coming in Off balances him and lands himself a first like very good punch Shavka might have to be the bull again Get him up against the fence at some point shot Oh Gary ducked under the wild overhand right He sees a common now yeah you gotta drop that trajectory a little Oh Shavcott puts one to the body shot for you Open him up

Gary's starting to feel a little more confident in there for sure he's moving a lot more not just standing in front both men still very cautious back to the body from shop cut yeah shopcott is getting caught looping this over him right yeah it's just the same thing every time now just ducking it and now we're back to the fence Gary initiated a clinch over unders shop cut with an outside reap and nope ever mind let's turn the position though yep I mean Gary is doing a really good job with his head position and constantly digging underhooks god shopcott is a bull man i mean yeah shop's is just forcing the issue here but i mean gary is doing all the things technically you'd like to see

yeah that's why he's not getting cooked there's just no escape but he he is not as physically imposing as shuffka it's pretty clearly oh oh shafka oh he's so close very close there garry i mean credit to gary they clearly worked a ton on this It's huge. My Shafcott should actually drop for a straight single here. So he can connect his legs. Oh, now he's driving in.

Yeah. Good knee to the body from Shafcott. I think you're right. I think if he shoots a single right now. I mean, he has never really been like a huge, like he wants to get his, he wants to get Greco take downs.

He's shot like a couple. He hit like a reactive one on somebody. But like, yeah. If he were just on the leg of legs, I think he would have a lot. better chance here. Gary's not ready. Oh, we're trying to work, tried to order a front headlock series for a second. And we're getting a break.

Separation. Wow. Okay. Okay. Back to space. And again, there is less than 90 seconds, and this round is up for grabs. Very much so. Ooh, good head kick from Gary. Blocked, but showing signs of life. Final minute here. This will be the first time Shavcott's gone to the fourth round. It sure seems like. Yes. I mean, there's always a chance. That's not the case, but. Oh.

I mean, I think Gary's winning this round. If Schaqa, like, if Schaqa put something down right now, he can steal it and then be up necessary. I think he wins like one big shot. But yeah, I mean, I think Gary is just pretty cool. Oh, great jab. Oh, that wheel kick was not far off. Wow. That was fun.

When he started throwing, I thought it was a little. very far off. And a spinning back fist. I don't love what that means, like, strategically, because the spinning attacks of the bastion of... And there's a spinning back fist of his own. Oh, big right-hand from Shof-Kod. Shafkod sidestep, the body kick lands a big right hand.

It's not enough. That's a 10-9-Gary 29-28. Yeah, I'm with you. They'll be curious to see how they score this with the fence stuff. This fight sucks. Rock Monov is overhyped by media. Surrey's 18-0 with 18 finishes. like, I don't know what to tell you, man.

Overhyped by media. I don't. I don't know what. We've literally never seen him need judges. Yeah, the guy. That's like literally, that's the only thing you could ask for. The media overhyped the guy who had a title shot and just willingly put it on the line. He's so overhyped.

Is he changing? What? So it looks like he tore his shorts. Somebody was noting it. And I don't, I guess they'll allow him to do that as a. well I've never seen this I've never seen it

I think it's reasonable because it also won't take really any time they've got a pair of shorts uh credit to the camera people cutting away so we're not just seeing

Ian Gary and a jock strap out there but getting to get a little bit of a delay here but I think that's totally reasonable honestly nothing wrong with that all right if shorts

did get torn but yeah I mean that's not even longer all right round four round four Well, let's see how this goes. I mean, I think, I think it should be pretty clearly to one. I feel like none of these rounds are that controversial.

And so Shafka just needs one. Gary needs to obviously win two. Oh, all right. Right here from Shafka, yeah. Gary putting double fists out. Oh, spin big spinning kick to the body. That's the best full strike of the fight, I think. Wow.

Again, keep going to the body, Shav. like low kick. Oh, that was a good one from Gary. And another of that little down parry from Shavkat. I would really like to see Shavkat step in and actually shoot like a clean double. Just tackle them.

Punch, punch tackle. You didn't watch the Volkov gone fight? Like they wrote the blueprint. Always tackle. A, B, T, always be tackling. It's a motto than Mara. She tablin, yep. Weaponize that cardio.

Nice little jab from Ian. This was not the fight I anticipated whatsoever. Oh, he drives into a clinched, but Gary is all the way prepared here. Yep. Shafcott is almost forced to now dig for a single. Don't. Just go back down. I know you go double under,

but you're not going anywhere at this clenched with these double unders either. So Gary having double unders and not being able to keep Shavkat off him is tough. Yeah. Oh, now he does. He spins his position and immediately breaks. And then good work for me, Gary. Very good work.

That seemed to piss Schofcott off, though. I mean, he needs to get pissed because he needs to just start doing. Oh, a clean double. Oh, and he gets the takedown. Oh, boy. Also, terrific defense by Ingary. He stopped the initial shot. Yeah.

And then Chavcott turned it into an outside trip. That is why it's exactly what I wanted. And this is championship winning. Gary with a full body triangle from the bottom, which is useless. Yeah, I don't know why. I would like to. I would like to play. Like, it's just playing for a stand-up, which I guess is a tactic.

It's not a bad idea. Just try and stand up. Oh. Yeah. The thing is, anything's a bad idea when you're on the bottom of Shofka Ruffalo. You just need to like not be on the bottom. You need to be trying to stand up, not trying to get stood up. Wow.

I mean, that was a clean entry from Shavka. I can't wait to see the replay. Gary did a great job of stonewalling it, but his feet are too close together in Shavcott. Oh, Shafcott's learning big punches. Big punches. I mean, this is where. Oh, he's got his back.

Oh, boy. Oh, Gary's going to stand and dump him, though. Well done. Ian Gary. I don't know why Shafcott just didn't get him. Yeah, he wasn't. Harry and Gary. Ian Garry's got a choke.

Oh, he's got a real choke. He's got, oh. How did, like, he had the full Mata Leone grip on the front headlock. And Shafka just kind of dumped his head out of him. he's a freak i don't i need to see that like i guess maybe there must have been space there but that was nuts now shop guys is back that was dope

this is more the fight i was anticipating yeah minute 20 left here i think gary you're showing a lot of heart you gotta make some things happen though yeah because you are behind this round he absolutely needs to not need it down needs to the ass the hamstrings i guess are you is there you holding the no you're not holding the fence okay should have been cheat but you probably should be probably should in this position this and you should have they're never going to see you cheat here yeah

now now shop got just holding him because gary will just come on and be like yeah man i cheated he ain't like michael chan there shab got really putting gary in the spin cycle but can't quite get him down gary finally gets to space it's not oh Gary tries his spinning back face can't that's a that's a oh no he's gonna walk right out of that one yeah see I don't hate the idea of going for the guillotine when you're already committed there, but Shafka is a very, very counted grappler. He's just such a monster.

I mean, again, this is, we talked about this coming in. Like him and Bilalo is like, oh, big, big, big, big, oh, I mean, Gary, try and stay active off of the back. Some elbows. Again, there's a whole other round. Ian Gary. Oh, big right hand from Shafcott. Ian Garry is not.

out of this fight but if shopcott does get the W as he is certainly on pace to do 10-9 shopkow Rotsmanov Gary needs a finish 10-8 or a finish but Gary is showing a whole hell of a lot now this is the thing we talked about like

he'll lose it is a setback because when you have that many wins in a row you're that close now you're going to drop back a little bit but it has to be gaining a ton of respect from even the people who hate him because of his personality like yeah He's fighting his ass off.

He's in the fifth round. He's the first person to go to the five rounds with Schofcott. We'll see if Shafcock can continue his finishing spree. You are in need of a finish here, aren't you? I am. For the violence parlay. For the violence parley. I'm not feeling great about it.

I mean, things absolutely kicked up that round. Yeah. A lot more activity happened. And Shafcott's a clutch finisher. It looked like he wasn't going to finish Jeff Neal. Yeah. And then he did. The bigger parlay is the other parlay.

That's like the We got after it a little bit, Barley. The violence by the is just a fun one. Oh, we love fun. And we just eat Chopin'out to win this fight for me

to cash that one out. Also, is it time to start talking about Ian Gary making a tactical error changing his shorts? He was competing in the shorts. Changes the new one, gives up his first taketown.

Is this the corn rolls of the fight? Oh, my God. Oh, sneaky left hand. Very sneaky left hand is Ian Gary overexted. and Chavcott just punishes him for it. Oh, so. I like the effort to wheel it, but that was not close.

Oh, single. Shopcon has now figured out that I am going to shoot instead of try clenches that aren't working. Oh, single to ride, ride in the pipe to the double. But Gary doing a great job. Oh, oh. Oh, Gary to the back. Wow.

Gary to the back, Shafcott doing a great job to stay above the bottom foot, but he needs to make sure he's defending his neck. No way. He needs to make sure he's defending his neck. No way. He is super not defending his neck. He's holding two-on-ones on a grip, and he's really trying to make sure that Gary can't consolidate on the low foot,

but Gary does and gets the body triangle in. Oh, my God. And Gary is at the trope. Oh, but Shavka has defense slightly. Shavga now has the arm grip going, but like, I mean, this, I mean, this, if Gary just holds this, I'll score this a 10-8 and thus a draw. People will be mad.

I think it would absolutely. Oh. Oh. I think he's across the chin and Schofcutt's doing enough here. He's trying to go palm to palm, but he doesn't have the position here. No way. I mean, this is a good attack. It's a good attack.

He doesn't have his body angle is not quite correct. And Shovkat now Shafcott needs to quit trying to fight the feet. Yeah, he's freaking out. That's nasty. Now that is nasty. is, oh, he's still off to the side, though. It's a crank, so maybe he has the squeeze. This late in the fight,

Shofcott doesn't look like the squeeze is there. There's clearly some space. Shofcott needs to quit digging about and clear the crossing arm, though. Yeah, like, you just need to clear the crossing arm. Let's see if he turns it over. He does, and turns. And, oh, my God, like, turning into the body trial was so hard.

What a freak. I mean, that was an incredible effort for me. Gary. Yeah. Especially like he stuffs the takedown, switches to the back, finishes, gets in the hooks.

He still has this. Shafka has to clear the foot and continue his turnaround to get it, but I think he's going to. Yeah. It's just a matter of time. Wow. That was pretty crazy.

That was pretty wild. You got to clear the crossing foot and then the rest of this will turn and we'll be fine. Yeah. Great. I mean, Ian and Gary really showing class here.

Absolutely. Needs. I mean, again, still needs a 10-8 and not in the space for it yet. No. Let's see if Shafcott can, uh, can land some shots. Shav got his probably let go to his body triangle at some point. He's not able to. His foot's across the hip.

He is locked in. That's not my choice. Yeah. Like he does not have the ability to get out of this body triangle now. They are stuck here. Go to the body, Shafqq. I mean, Shavcott should just hit him. That's fine.

Gary's trying to pivot him up. Like, Shavcott's too postured here. Just sitting down and now hit him. Now he can break it. And the body, but he puts the body triangle on again. Don't know why. I mean,

he's winning the fight, Joe. In general, yes. I mean, you never know. Maybe he loses the first two. I don't think he did. No. But like you, you would want, you know,

also if Shavka just puts real damage on right here, he could maybe snake the round back because damage is the primary. scoring driver impact or if he does Shafcott shit and wins in the last minute would be sick. It would be. I don't think that's happened. Oh, I thought he was going to get it.

Gary up to his feet. Yeah, I mean, it is risky to give the back. But creditee and Gary up to his feet, double unders. I mean, Gary's going to try and get a take down here and try and cement the around and hope he got the judges somewhere, I guess. 30 seconds.

God are looking very closely. I've got to feel really better. than he did an hour ago. I think so. DC's saying needs to land something, and I think he should be trying, but I think he is going to win a decision.

To eke out a win here by winning the, you know, three of the first four rounds. 48, 47. That is how I will score it. Good right hand from Gary as they break. Oh, some spinach shit. Yeah, he tries to spin.

Momentum, Gary, at the end, but... 10-90 and Gary, but 48-47 for shots. of Kavkarakov. Yep, same. I mean, great. Not the most exciting fight you're ever going to see. No one will tell you, but technical, high level,

impressive effort from both men. And Gary. Gary raising his hand. I think Gary probably knows that he lost that fight, but all it takes is two judges to see one of the first two rounds and say, eh, F it, give it to Gary.

Bam. Oh, it's a big right hand. I really wish Rachmanov had been a little. little more aggressive in here just to do it. I think you wouldn't have been punished for it. But there's just a very, I mean, there are obviously moments where things got a little dicey, but this is just, uh, this is this is the great one. Oh, that's the first one.

So that was what he tried to do the second time. He gets stuffed and Gary has the over and so he hits the club knee tap functionally. This time he tries that Gary's head ducks under and he immediately spins with him through to the back. Shavcott and Bilal is a very interesting fight. It's now more interesting than I thought it was initially going to be. I still really like Shavkot's chances just stylistically in the fight, but yeah, I mean... Yeah.

First time Shavkot's needing the judges, how will they fare? Hopefully they treat him well. Casey, that was a fun, high-level technical fight. I liked it a lot. I enjoyed it. Yeah. I'm not going to go watch it again. like a bunch.

I'll probably watch it one more just to see, but I liked it. Yeah, Gary showed a lot of stuff. He showed a lot of improvements. Shafcott is not an easy man to fight. Very much not. But the hat. Do we get a face off with Bilal either way?

Probably not, but maybe. All three. 48, 47. It's both guys. Yeah. Even Gary knew. I mean, I wasn't a hard one to judge. Yeah, I mean, that was about as clear, clear cut as you can get.

Rounds one, two, and four pretty obviously shot cut. They were close competitive rounds, but, you know, it is where it is. Like we said, man, I think they nailed it. Ian Gary loses very little. And Gary loses almost nothing here. Yep. Loses something, lose a little momentum, but gains a lot of respect. He can go fight Colby Covington or whoever it is and in great, great position.

also the climb continues Mike congratulations this is the furthest we've ever been up the mountain the big parley hits we're in good shape the violence parley does not hit you know parley hits nice the climb we are now five steps up the mountain the first time we've hit the illustrious five ledge also coming next week uh i have a visual representation of the climb oh it's very exciting uh i'm very excited about it so wow i can't wait to see that it's going to be the best and then uh yeah shout out to cyril gone for getting sneaking away a win to get me the uh no shout out no shout out my volkile plus 280 is is very sad i mean that gone decision going my way is uh is huge it's the reason the parley it's the reason the parley

i'm happy for my friends to succeed in life but yeah a plus 280 would be nice but it's fine the only thing i really care about now is the climb so it's all i ever got just like i just wanted to hit. All right. 25 to go, baby. To 20K. So no face off. Ball's there.

Ball feeling good about himself. Should. I mean, you know, I guess you could break the streak. You're not going to break him as a person. Oh, he's on. Oh, Shab got calling for him. Ball says, okay, are they going to walk him in?

Oh, yeah, they're letting him come in. We got it. That's how you do it too. Like, Blah, get on in here. Blah, come in. Let's get the image. let's set this fight up let's make it happen Shavka by decision was plus 275

I thought that number would be way higher Yeah I was that's not that high Look you know the books respect Ian Gary as a is a where is he Oh he's coming in? He's the champ right Does he have the belt with him It doesn't appear that he has a belt with him

Which is a bummer Oh they shake hands Wow Shatka is much big Shying over him That was the other thing Ian Garry is actually bigger than Shavka Shavgot is a bigger fellow say I'm not impressed

by your performance. I'm going to take Blal cutting the heel promo Shafkat laughing at him. Very very classy. We'll do it. We'll see who's better. Oh, did Blal just see him hanging? Oh, okay. I'm not sure he knew that

that's happening. One of these men has much better hat and it's not the guy with the monster energy hat. I got to tell you. Okay, well we got a nice respectful face off in the video packages. We all said. We did it. We set this up we're gonna have it go uh i'm i'm certainly more i was always interested but i am more interested now as a you know i think there's more opportunity for ball to pull the upset but i will

still be picking schofcott harkmanov yes but let's go ian bowen from yellowstone zone i've never watched yellowstone but people are into oh go ron ryan apparently he did a scrum yes there's Alex Ferreira. Shama, just walking around at Whitey's killing it. I wonder if Jamal Hill's going to go over

and try to start something else. Oh my God. I don't know. I got talking about it. I don't have any Jamal Hill energy. Yeah, I don't either. Nor, but I'm just curious.

Like, that would be like an interesting time to do it. I got to tell you, Mike, I have a bet on Pantosia. I think I actually even need the bed on Pantosia. I've a bet on the over two and a half in general,

just straight, and then I have a parlay of Pantosia. I wish I could have walked back already when I was committed to it, but I'd already put it in, so they were. The vibes I'm getting at this moment in time are that Kaasikura is about to kill him. Okay.

And be dope. I have a bet on pants inside the distance and minus 105. That's what I want with. If he does it over 12 and a half minutes in the fight, I'm fine with that. Okay. I would actually really enjoy that. But the energy I'm picking up at this moment in time,

maybe it's the hat you know maybe the hat channeled the vibes but Casey's Casey is feeling that same vibe by the way I I mean it just he is carrying himself like he is there's no concerns whatsoever with what's about to happen I mean he's gonna be terrible I wish there was some sort of mixed martial arts element in it so it could be reviewed oh I mean they're definitely going to use M and MAMUs, but no, I don't think we're going to be doing that on this is cinema.

Pantosia money line minus 250 to win by sub plus 140. And the over two and a half that I have minus 125. I actually got that at a worst price. Wow. All right. Germain. Let's get right into it. I hate to disagree

with you because I don't want to disagree with anybody. Alessandre Pantosier is not a boring fight. No. He said he holds him, holds his opponent. It's not exciting. I'm not here to tell you that the Brandon Royval second fight was the most exciting fight you've ever seen. But in general, this man is gas. Everybody can have a dud every now and then. Yeah. And I don't actually fully blame pants for that one. I mean, I honestly do sort of blame Royval more. Yeah, exactly. He was clearly like, I don't want to get choked out like I did the last time immediately. So I'm just going to I'm not going to be I was going to hang tight and I was like okay well I'll just sit here then

yeah we didn't we didn't get raw dog Royval on that we did not we got a guy didn't want to get finished and he didn't so he didn't so credit to him but yeah in that regard but we kind of we got to see Royval the tire fight was awesome like that fight was awesome I also I know I mentioned this on shows this week I think it's awesome that uh UFC and Risen basically cut a deal. So, Kaki Bar is there, you know, tweeted about talking with Dana White and meeting with him and stuff. The UFC has gotten all this broadcast footage of Kyosakor.

They've done a very good job of on their YouTube through ESPN sort of getting, hey, you've never seen this guy fighting the UFC. Here's what he's about. And I think it's awesome. Very, very cool that they have done it. I think they've done it well. And if you have never gotten to see Risen, because frankly, it is hard to watch Risen fights in America, you now have a much better idea of the dude who's coming into town.

Asakura has to go for the soccer kicks. I mean, you kind of can if his knee's not down now that the rules are whatever. Pants. Pantosia, the most underrated fighter on the roster. Very likely to be true. I can't believe he's the cannibal. It's just a tail, like, your pants. the fact that you call the man boring when he is part of the greatest title fight in the history of the division is a take

my friends texting me that volkov was absolutely robbed by the way i don't i don't know about that what does them made decisions say about that one oh are they even are they working today uh surely they are they almost always are i don't know they've taken a bunch of cards off recently well look everybody deserves vacation every now. I know, but they've taken like a month off. I'm looking for a very specific gift to tweet out about pants. I'm not seeing them, so I may just have to go for a second one that I'm not excited about.

MMA decisions has not put up a decision past Battle versus Brown. Hmm. And that was many moons ago. So, yeah, they came back for a couple fights. You know, sometimes you have other things going. on. Kirk, you're correct. Oh, God, that is such a mean one.

At the weasel, MMA. Shout out the weasel. He made it. Volkov won that fight, right? I don't know. It was the best fight ever. I think he won that fight, but it is not a robbery. Yeah.

The fight was, there's nothing wrong with scoring the first two rounds for God. Yeah, we even said it like watching it live, like the second could go to God. Yeah. There's nothing wrong with scoring the first year on this again. Bam. Asker is a vicious, vicious man. Let's see if you can land that shot against a guy who doesn't get hurt.

He just doesn't get killed. So if he does, that's very cool. It's the biggest question I have about this fight. That's it. Can he hurt him? If he can't, then this fight gets really interesting. If he can't, well, the panzer is just going to tackle him. Yep.

And then tap him. And that's all you got to do you tackle. Tap him within 12 minutes. Casey, yeah, Keith, Bullcom's robbed, I'll say it. Where you go, Casey. Sure wasn't. I'll take that parlay right to the, right to the window.

Look, I've, I have won. I'm never that upset when I lose robberies because I have won. Because I probably should have won the Randy Brown one, so this just makes up for it, if we're being honest. I've won some robberies in my day, so I can't be upset if I'm on the wrong end to one. Yeah. And that check still cash is.

You go to the window. I know that I don't agree with this whatsoever, but if you could pay me my money, thank you. Well, we did get a little lean of heart there. Good. I love that for us. Now the vibes are kicking the wrong way right now. I mean, I mean, Kai is very clear that there's no doubt in his mind he's about to win.

This is not a fake confidence. This man, he should be the villain. a karate kid movie like he is just so perfect for this she's so wholesome man has aura in half also just a deeply handsome man looks good getting off the bus looks great getting off the bus only seven japanese fighters in the ufc and now he's about to officially become one of them shades of uh kid yamamoto just man rip kidd kid freaking legend the hairstyle i mean everything Just confidence, just dashing good looks. Just, just oozing championship material here.

Brandon says you might be top five sexiest fighters in the UFC, and I am not going to argue the point with you. I mean, you like what you like. Look, you know. You know, is he, I mean, Carlos Olberg's up there? I don't think Carlos Oldberg is that. I mean, I know he's got the ladies. Like, he has that part of the aura, but he's not called Carlos.

condo, you know. That's the true, Carlos. I mean, Carlos is a legend. There he is. Michael Sparks, I think Kai probably does cut too much weight. They were... Honey hard on the audio track, confirmed. Love that. Like, Kai put out that he gained 10 pounds in an hour after weigh-ins. I have questions on if this goes late, if that's going to be good for him. but he is going to tower over pants. Yeah. And he is a full bantam weight in the cage tonight. It's probably a featherweight.

Like, so, you know, maybe he does cut too much weight. It also might super work for him. We're about to find out he should not go cornrows. No one should go cornrows. Certainly not Volkov. I wish Volkov got a post-fight interview. Someone would ask him, why ain't God's name? Would you F with that luscious flow?

The only man who should be walking to many men. Yeah, I'm comfortable with it. Yeah. It's his song. Think, pick a song, own it. Or I accept it if you're a tie and you just pick a new different pop song. It's fun. It's bouncy.

But it's just better if you pick a song. Did you watch a while I'd fight? Yeah, I did. Would you think of him now walking out to Tom Petty? That was a bad choice. I always, I thought when Anthony Smith, whatever, the fight he didn't come out to, return of the Mac but then one

I was like oh I guess I was like that why would you ever do that that seems insane to be to not do it Dominic Grace usually comes out to this is how we do it came out to

here comes the hot stepper which is an absolute Eni Camozzi let's go what a friggin jam King Sabas got the life savings on Pantosia I wish you all the best

I wish you the best I mean I want you to win you can see I'm there in the bets, but also you should watch, I don't know your vibes here, but the Yacht Rock documentary on HBO slaps. Apparently,

Oh God. Volkov has gotten himself a scrum. Oh, my God. And he's not happy. Did somebody ask him about the hair? I don't know. Oh, my God. I need someone to ask about the hair.

I need to find where this is in Slack so I can tell. No, it's already done. No. I need somebody to be like, hey man, do you think you would have won if you were a little less aerodynamic? I just, there he is, the champ. A champion de Mundo. Let's say third most significant strikes in flyweight history.

Longest active win streak in the U.C. Flyweight Division at six. It's pretty wild. Yeah. Considering Mighty Mouse won a long. 11, I'm sorry, 12 title fights in row. The longest win streak is now 6. That's pretty nutty. 12 title fights in row is an obscene amount of title fights in row to win.

Hey, I got a better price than the current odds. Only by five points, but, because I got pants inside the distance at minus 105, so I'll take it. Oh, that was a, that was a little intense. Pants is coming out with some fire. love the fire he was see he's doing with

marabh marab should probably schedule a Zoom conversation with Pantosha with literally anybody to do better things because Pantosia has done

nothing but put Kai Asker over as as the man yeah this dude's awesome I'm gonna cook him champions win 66% of their first

and second title defense 75% of their third really that the number said that can't be correct this is just a flyway thing? Well, then that would be a useless stat in general. Yeah, what is, I didn't see that.

Only one flyway just had three title defenses. By the time I, I like realized it was there, I was, it was half over. I mean, I'm now trying to just go through my Rolodex and be like, all right, who, which champions got to a third title defense and then lost it versus, because obviously we know the ones who have five title offenses six. So how many lost it on their third? I mean, we're talking to us. heavyweight because no heavyweight ever made three successful title offenses.

Yeah. Until steep A most lightweight. There's just no way that stats right. Banimway was three is the record. Yeah. Jason Herzog gets the... I like it. He's the actual best referee in the sport.

I don't hate that opinion. I think Mark Goddard is a good ref as well. I think Jason Erzard is the best ref in the sport. He's very consistent. That is literally the only thing I would, like a referee. Yeah. Kind of don't care

if you're bad at it, but if you're consistent, then we can all live under those terms. Completely agree. But if you're herb, you're just kind of making it up every time. It's something new. Buffer getting T-Mobile Arena fired up.

Final pay-per-view. It's time of the year. Do they send them to Tampa? Do they send good old Joey M to Tampa? I don't know. I mean, it feels like a roadshow buffer's probably going to go. Yeah. It feels like, you know, you go, you're done, particularly because then he gets a month off.

Yeah. So not a card till the 11th or 16th or whatever it is. Yeah. I remember 18th, I guess, is 311. Is that right? 18th is 311. So the 11th is the first card back. That's a fight night card at the world's most famous apex.

So there's a Joey Martinez. He boss Dern 2, baby. Yeah. I mean, yeah, that's for sure, Joe Martinez. So, Buffer gets a full month off if he does Tampa. Yep. Look at this guy. Look at Kai Asakura.

Just oozing confidence. All I need to do is just flick a toothpick at Pantosia when they do their face off. Reiser Ramon style. I have never once seen that man wrestle and I see takes of him on TikTok. And I'm just like, you're the greatest wrestlers ever live. I do not know what his finishing move is. but like I've just seen like my Algo my Algo has kicked me enough

like pro wrestling stuff out of things where now I just see him doing like compilations of being Scarface and throwing toothpicks. I'm like this guy's the greatest man I've ever seen he's eight feet tall and pretending to be Scarface

and throw it. So I'm throwing a toothpick at a little kid and I thought it was the best thing I've ever seen because the kid in the stands and he leans over the ropes just like yeah take it six year old it's like this guy's the greatest heel of all time oh yeah he was made like

I don't know if you were wrestle at all, but he's the best. Oh, he did. The vignettes that they made to, like, introduce him doing that stuff, like, put him over big. So by the time he debuted, people were like, sky rules. He was, again, I've never seen him wrestle, the best wrestler I've ever seen. No question in my mind. He was the great wrestler whole time as. Yeah, he was very good.

He had some demons. Well, not every wrestling. As others do, but. man just like running around and like he's great dudes running around a Canadian tuxedo just like jean jacket vest

and just like what a what a legend Pantosha is staring daggers to Kajasaker right now he is just looking through him all right glove touching let's get going baby

final pay per view good leg kick for pants oh Pantosia the right and the oh oh oh he caught it oh oh that was I mean, that landed, you heard it.

Oh, the pants caught it. And then, I mean, Asakur shucked off that. Oh, big, oh, Pattoja. Oh, good left hand from Pantosia. He stung him. I mean, stung him. Just charging forward, combination punching, gets his ass on the mat. Kai doing a great job of fending off the takedowns, though.

This has been the most exciting 30 seconds of hard. I mean, this easily, these two dudes, there's no feeling out process. Yeah. We're fighting. Knee to the thigh from Asa Kourke. up against the fence. And Asakuro is now twice functionally defended takedowns.

Maybe he officially got taken down on that second one, but he popped right back up. Oh, sneaky, sneaky. That was a mistake from Kai. Kai tried to just break off when he didn't have a break.

Pants held onto the arm and just ran him down. And now Pants has top position. With almost four minutes to work. Yep. I mean, if he can find just consolidate a position, maybe pass.

If he can get to the back, I mean, he's super good at that. Yeah. But not finish him because I'd like you to do it after 12 and a half minutes of fighting, please. What's the referee saying? On Jason Norsal. No, what's he saying? He keeps going here and saying something. I think he is clarifying what is a back of the headshot and what is an allowed punch in Massacre.

Not sure that any happened, but it looked like pants. Oh, what were you doing? Wow. That was a, I don't, Pantosia just. sort of stood up weirdly gave Asakora a room to stand and he took it. It was a gift.

Oh, good right hand from Pantosia. Maybe Pantosia is just like, you know what? I'm just going to strike with him. I mean, here's the thing. Asakura has, like, pants has never been knocked out. Asa Cora has. Yeah.

Pants can knock him out. And if he just says, Yolo, I'm going to Max Holloway this, my chin is better than yours. This math works for me. Might work. I'd pick him. I mean,

it's not the smartest way to fight, but it might work. He can only be on killable for so long. Oh, as a core. Oh, Pantosia. As a core,

rib in the body and Pantorja draws him again. The score got a little knot. He sure does. On the right, right by his right ear. Pantosia's landed. I'm cleaning the ball.

Oh, there's that jumping knee. He is really trying to hit that jump knee. Oh, Oscar, the nice right hand. Pantosia just don't care Pantosia I mean The dude is battle tested

Yeah He's just walking right through He is not afraid to fight Just ten toes if he needs to Oh Two minutes here High step, high step They slow to touch

Oh That's correct Guy just jumps in with the left hook Pantosia is like egging him on Like come on bro Man's a hard man Pantosia knows he's the most underrated fighter on the roster.

Oh, good, good jab from Pantosia. Oh. Pants blocks the head kick and then just kicks him in the body. Yep. My pants looks focused. Yeah, he looks sharp. That was a, that was a very fun little combo.

A right hand into a leg kick from, from Pantosia. Jumping. Oh, big combination from Pantosia. Oh, and a big knee. That's a current. Man, pants is, Pants is winning the stretch.

right now. He's collaborating him. But Asakura showing a chin tonight. Asakura showing chin, showing great takedown defense. I think Asakura might not for just for the first time. It looks like he has now been like, oh, I might not just kill this dude when I hit him. I thought I was just going to

kill him when I hit him. I might not. I might have to think this out a little more. Oh, Panosia. Pants putting some work on him right now. This is. And like, Kai is trying to just land a big shot in here and pants is just like,

dude, back to the body again. Let's throw, baby. We're good. Ascarus doing just fine, though. And he's been hit real hard today. I mean, both men have landed, but I mean,

good body kick from pants. That was the third junk knee. Yeah, Pantosia. That one missed by a wide margin. Jab from Asakura. Comes up a little short. And that's it. It's round one.

Fun stuff. 10-9 Pantosia. put on the pantalones. Oh, that's that neat. That one landed. I was so certain the first one landed, but he just caught it. It was like,

all right, it's fine. Yep. Because he can't hurt him. You can hit me. I get hit. And I'm just still here. Yeah.

Oof. I don't know that Asakura is shook. I do think Asakura hit him hard and realized that, oh, he's not dying. Yes. So he may need to adjust his plan of all I have to do is touch him. Because when he was saying that like in the pre-ils, like, I mean, I get saying that, but you've seen him fight, right?

Like, one mistake probably won't actually end the fight. You probably need a couple to really get after him. I mean, you just hit him with a full on jumping knee. I mean, immediately. He ducked into it and just grabbed your leg. Aided it and took you down. Like, he can be. killed and he can be hurt but it's going to take more than one it's going to take some shots

on an electric opening round let's give us seven and a half more minutes of action and finish at seven and uh 31 seconds of action it's fine all right we have the glove touch back in the center respect earned not that they disrespect at each other but oh good jab from pants Oh, right here for Asakura, but Pantoja. Pants punch his way right into the hips. Oh, he takes the back. Oh, he takes the back. Oh, he takes the back.

I mean, credit to Asakura, I love the pants jumped the back. Nobody ever jumps the back. They want to get it, like, clean. And this didn't work. The pants was just like, I'm a spider monkey. Asakura still smiling, having a good time, which I respect. It's like, fighting's supposed to be fun. Yeah.

Getting there, have some fun. Oh. Herzog inching in closer and closer. It's a weird position because, like, I mean, pants has a leg all the way across the hip. So if he can just get to the back, he can jump the body triangle easily. Now he's out.

And look, as soon as he opens face. There it is. And he's got the body triangle. Oh, boy. Well, this round is over. It's whether the fight is over. Yeah. Pants ain't giving this up.

So, Kai, uh, don't get it finished because I need this over to hit. Oh. Pants is so good at finding his way to the back. He's just so good at fighting. I mean, he's very good fighting. Formiga used to, like, did you see it for me? You used to have this unbelievable ability to sneak to the back despite, oh, no. Oh, it's done.

That could be unfortunate. Oh, get out of the way, Jason. Oh. But are you got it's over. It's over. It's getting closer to over. Oh, I see who's hanging in there. Oh, he looks very uncomfortable.

He's going to try and go palm and palm. He's going to hold. He might go out. Now he's out. He did. Slept him. Pantosia, by submission, round two, one-way traffic. What a fucking king, man. This is the fucking king. I tried to tell you all in the range show.

Pound for Power Ranking. We're underrating him. Yeah, we are under-ranking. I'm not. I have him like four. Yeah, I think I have him like seven or eight. I think I have him like seven or eight. I think you guys are just,

under rating him. It's over. He's now, so Kai Asakor is not ranked, but I think now that we would all probably say he's a top 10ish dude, you know, he's 9 and 0 against top 10 ranked fly weights or whatever. Seven wins in a row now.

Three title defenses. It's the most title defenses in the division other than Demetrius Johnson. I think he's very clearly cemented himself as the second greatest flyweight ever. I agree. I think this one did it. You could have made some arguments earlier, but no, like, I love that.

This is just so nasty. And then just flies into his right there. He finishes it where he and Gary did not. What a performance, man. Unreal. What a champion. And all of my parleyes won this week. I had three parlays.

All of them hit. None of my straight. No, Michael Keese won. Oh, there you go. Michael Keese won. But all my parlay is it. Michael Keese was the rest of my straight bets lost, except the climb. which continues.

Cron Gracie did not win. He's getting a good squeeze there on the palm slightly off to the side. I like that. He's just so good at this. He's so good. And now he's going to fight Brandon Marino again. And I'm cool with that.

I know he's beat him three times, but I'll watch it again. I thought he lost the third on, frankly. One of those was on the tough house. That kind of doesn't count. Yeah. And there's nobody else for him to fight. So.

Oh, is he calling it Royval? Well, I mean, Royval is ostensibly next in line, but like, I just, I don't care to see the, I'll watch it. I've seen him beat Warval twice. And neither, neither fight was competitive. That's true. That's the thing. Neither fight was competitive. Pantosia is like in another.

I mean, he's cooking, man. He, he was so focused. Like, just, who, let's go, baby. He outstruck him. I'll grappled him, beat him in his own game, and then finished him. Two minutes, five seconds. That over two and a half failed.

It did not go well. I didn't come close to getting that one. It did not go well. They don't look pissed. I told you guys, so we talked about on BTL. I think in a grand sense of things, the UFC maybe wanted Kai,

I don't think they are mad about this because how can you? He's a lovable dude. He is super easy to work with. Like, you've never heard them say a bad word about Pantosia about saying he is turning down a fight or being choosy. You need me to headline 301, bet. You need me a headline 310, bet.

Fight whoever, don't care. I think they're more than comfortable having Pantosia is a champion. Plus, truly, like, the best way the UFC can build stars is by having a guy have the belt for a while. And so this is just helpful. Longer he's there, the more people will respect him. Also, shame on you people saying he's boring. Yeah.

Losers. i don't think you're saying that now are you better not yes kaths kaths would be fun because it's just a new matchup but it's not going to happen right now no i mean the only the only chance kai had is if they did on the sydney card but now they already have two title flights on it so he ain't getting yeah he's not getting it but it would be fun go from classic rora to kai kair france just just dominate the kyes he's dominated the brandons now he dominates the kyes i like it Was there another Steve out there that we can get him in against?

Whatever. Whatever. Whatever Brandon does not get the title fight gets Kai. That seems probably. Both are rematches. Yeah. I don't know. And both were rematches of like fun-ass fights.

I want whichever Brandon does get the title fight to get that Kai. Sure. Do that Kai. Let's get Kai Kerr-France into a title fight. Oh, I just do Kai versus Kai. I mean, you do, I do love a fight for names. I love a name fight. Let Brandon versus Brandon three happen.

I mean, it's a trilogy for the name. You just never get that. And then we do little Kai v. Kai. And Panto's just saying nice things about everybody. She's great, too. He does. He's just a consummate professional. Hard to anyone not like him.

Just his best dude. Let's see what, how does Rogan close us out? it's just he's glowing yeah he's getting better he's impressive pantosia's like cornerman back there with the bald head is just mean mugging

yeah who is that right there it is no face off to be had ATT just keeping belts Dorino over there hanging out so Durrini is not an ATT guy I know he just here's a friend of friends friend O Pantosia

I mean who doesn't want to be a friend O Pantosia Pantoja. Ah, there it is. Oh, accidental headbutt. And gives Doreno the belt. Do this is, they don't want this belt? And he headbutted him right in the eye. Oh, my God, that's so funny.

He's fired up. He's fired up. The champion of the world. Oh, that's Suarez. Look at him. Hey. Great guy, Ed. Just a wholesome photo right here. I mean, you told me at the start of the year,

100 Pantos is going to headline two pay-per-view. and win them both in fine fashion, I would have said that seems unlikely. And now look at them. I mean, we went like seven years where flywates weren't allowed to headline an apex card. Now look at them.

I actually need to look this up. There's a very real world where Pantosa now has as many pay-per-view headliners as Demetius Johnson did. Yeah, we'll have to look that up. Because DJ headlined maybe two. because there's always a co-main event. It's always a co-mean event to somebody else.

So that's wild. Or they throw them in some, like, they threw them in like Edmonton or something. Yeah, exactly. So he may actually have as many pay-per-views as DJ did. Yeah. Just nuts. Well, that's it.

We done. We done? We done for 2024. We've done. We've done pretty shortly. And then probably sometime in the next 20 to 30 minutes, We're going to go live probably even sooner than that

for the post-fight show. Are we going to do post-flight show concurrent with Press? We figured that out? Oh, yeah. Oh, that's terrific. That means I don't have to drive home.

No, you just do it here. I know that's so much better. Yeah, we just do it here. That's beautiful thing. I didn't know that we were doing it. I knew we talked about doing that. I didn't know what that was up for this. So that is that.

Yeah, we're just good doing here. Oh, I'm a huge thing. That just made my night. Yeah. So stay tuned. We will give you options. You can watch the post-fight press conference. You can watch the Post Fight show.

Heck, open two screens and watch both at the same time. Shout out to Casey on the ones and twos. Shout out to all of you. You are the best. Shout out. And for all the watch party, yours out there, have a great holiday season. And we'll see you January 18th for UFC 311, which is just an absolute slap of a card.

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