MMA Fighting - UFC 311 Watch Party Replay w/ Mike Heck & Jed Meshew

Episode Date: January 19, 2025

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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, Mycac and Mr. No Gray area, Jed Mishu. Hello, everybody. Welcome to the UFC 311 watch party. We are live in Command Center 4.0 for the first pay-per-view event of 2025. I am Mike Heck. That is Mr. No Gray area, Jedmishu. And ladies and gentlemen, we have started a little bit early because fantasy draft fantasy league implications going down, Peyton Talbot, about to take on Hione Barcelos, the buff man doing the intros. And I am about to get a lot of fantasy points, Jeff. You think that, but what if he's like, like Samson in the great Bible story? He's chopped all his hair off and now will he have the same powers he once had?

We're going to find out in moments, I suppose. We sure are. And hopefully he now has more power. Intuit dome looks awesome during the EMSC card. It's cool as hell. Yeah, it really does. Hokey-Pokey Herb gets the assignment. Hopefully he moves in quickly and assertively.

No. Poor Hione Barcelos out of danger. I'm fine with Payton Taube getting to finish. There's a great draft picked by you, Mike. Thank you. Thank you. I do have a bet on the over one and a half here. So I'd like it to come eight minutes in.

He can get that finish. 455, 454, 453. If you're watching at home with us, Barcelos shoots a single right away. Is he going to try and climb this tree? No, he's just staying on it. Like a dog on a bone, Mike. He's just working on that leg.

And Tal was just like, no. No. Talbot is doing the dad on his small son. Just hand in the face, no. Yes, just hand in. Oh, Barcelona is really fighting for it. Front choke. Front choke. And that, oh, that's going to be deep if Barcellus doesn't change.

Oh, no. Oh, Marcellus, you need to quit. Oh, he got down. That was almost going to be the end of my bed. And Max points for you immediately. Oh, it would have been incredible. What a start that would have been. Side control for Barcellus.

Map of Talbot's right back in. Talbot, threatening a Camara, too, Just staying squirly. And he's back to his feet. Into a dome on these shots is the like these are I think my favorite where you can see the back crowd through and it's just like cool white. Yeah. This place looks pretty light, man.

Yeah, I was noticing it at the ceremonials yesterday. We saw like fog shooting out of the sky when Mojano and Makachev got up there. I'm like, this is cool. All like different colors for their flags. It was pretty sweet. Good venue, man. Yeah. Varsallos tried to get the back there, tried to do.

jump it. He's trying to jump it again. He only has the one hook in, but he can get that other one in right now. Talbot doing a nice job trying to scramble up, back to his feet. Talbot playing the defense game right now. Barcell is putting him on the defensive. Oh, good little back trip using the heel.

Oh, there's a hook. Oh, that leg is a cross now. Oh, boy. That leg is a cross. He doesn't have the body triangle locked in, but the leg is all the way through. Talbot just staying so squirly, though, Mike. Like, he's not.

Just being calm. Very calm. He's not letting how many Barsellos dominate him, even if the position is not going great right now. Refere, got a little warning in for something. I don't know what it is. Oh,

Barcellus is on the neck. It looks like. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Oh, my goodness. Oh, my goodness. I can't see if that's under, but it looks bad.

Mike, this might be. Oh, there you go. This is still bad, though. I mean, it's not good. He's got him flattened down. belly down Talbot covering up. Samson does not have his hair, Mike. Oh,

back at the oh, Peyton rolls in. He's still there. He's scrapping for you, Mike. Don't worry. He's hanging in. Got it.

Big paws on a puppy. I mean, I appreciate the fact that he's calm, cool and collected here, but it's a little calm. He might be too calm. A little too calm.

I did not see what is happening, happen in this one. Oh. Oh, he's across the chin. But as we know, flatten down. He's cranking. be squirrely oh he's he's good enough right now but oh there you go oh boy talbot can't hangin

in there tell him out of this mount which is the problem you got to quit belly and down my guy this is shocking barcelos a k a wearing himself out right now though which is good sign if he doesn't finish the fight restarts in payton talbot now aka asked us in slack like are we just discounting out of barcellos because he's old and i was like Yeah, pretty much. Bain Talbot's one of the biggest betting favorites. He's the biggest favorite of the year. Biggie close like minus 10.50.

Yeah, like that's that's like top 25 or something. Oh, arm triangle. Oh, no. Oh, and that's that's in. Talbot's got the telephone block. Still looks super calm. Still very calm. But if Barcellas can clear his leg,

the cage side's probably going to prevent that from getting too bad. But I mean, this is not what you want to see from my guy, Peyton Talbot, your guy, Peyton Talbot. But I like the fact that he's surviving. Maybe this is just a ploy. He's just letting him get off here. He is staying very composed during all of this, trying to re- recompose guard right now.

He's using like no energy here, which I really like. Barcelor just steps right back over. But this time, Peyton does have his back against the fence. He's in a little bit better position as Barcellus breaks him back down, takes that away from him. Wow. This is crazy. 35 seconds left here.

Rossolos is using a lot of energy offensively. True. But like. Effective. Effective. I mean, this is a 10-8 round in my mind, guys. I don't know about that.

He is, is his one-way traffic. This is a classic 10-8. Do we have? We don't need him. I think we'll, when we put him up, they'll get blinded by the light.

Oh, blinded by the lights. Oh, we're back to the back. I don't think he's a little high, a little high. Yeah. He just, Shake him off, shake him off. Talbot can stand out of this right now,

but this is a short time, no need. Wow. Shocker of the day. Credit to Talbot, he looked fresh as a daisy. Get him up out of there. Seems okay. Now we get cooking for me, though, guys. Now we cook, 10.9 for me.

10.9 for me. He had some dominant positions, but he did nothing. Let's see what the slack is. Ooh, our own gear made crews dropped a little, little Scratola on Howney Barcellus and a big number. It's not a bad bet. Right now it's working like a good bet. Sometimes in the interview fighters,

you see something, you hear something perhaps that that changes the game a little bit. It's a also update for those of you don't know. The commanders are currently 31, 21, over the Detroit Lions. What quarter is it? Into the second quarter, 46 seconds left.

off has them at half field driving. It's 31, 21, 21 at half? Holy shit. Yeah, a lot of points going on. No defense whatsoever. No defense. Well, to the Lions defense, pun intended,

all of their players got hurt, so they can't really help it. Live odds, Peyton Talbot, still the favorite. Min is 195. Wow. That's a significant drop from minus 1050. I mean, I still, you know,

largely think Talbot will win, but Arceles just needs to do that one more round and then not die in the third. Yep. I'm surprised he's still the favorite. I thought this would be, I thought that'd be pick him at that point. 454, 453, 452 here in round one.

Talba looking a little more about the business coming right out. He's putting Barcellus in the back foot. Oh, big right in already. But you know, if you're going to knock him out, just wait two minutes. Two and a half minutes, then you can knock him out. He's going to do it with like 232. That'll be brutal. But, you know, that's the game we play.

That's a game we play. Also, Mike, a shout out to me. We have a climb bet coming later. You will get to be on it. A climb bet was not Reni Nakamura. This week on No Betts Barred, my good foot buddy, Billy Ward joined.

He has taken up doing the climb himself. He thought that there was a fun concept. No, boy. Oh, take down for Barcellus right into now. Oh, man. Now it's top half. Tal was like too relaxed.

These is not. He looks off. Four or six takedowns for Barcellos is a lot as a high percentage. to finish my thought my buddy Billy Ward's climb bet this week was Rania Nakamura and he was like why would you pick heavyweights Rania's going to win and I was like I don't bet on dudes who are rookies for the climb Nagamore only has nine fights

looking like a genius right now as a result of that I did have Nakamura in a parley that got blown up but bye parley but yeah the client for a climb bet that stinks for stage eight of the climb I would have been so upset oh that would be really cool not just didn't wrestle he didn't take the irony of Barcellus playbook to success Talbot using

butterflies now trying to get back to his feet this is a much better way you need to just stand up you need to find a way to get him off you kick him kick him kick him kick him off get to the fence stand up underhook and roll and stand there you go there you go stand there you go Peyton there you go Peyton now loosely looking to foot the leg but mostly just using to stand

Barcellus just standing good knee and how he just shoots immediately again. And he looks like he's slowing down a little bit. He does. Payton's looking less calm and cock, not cocky, but less sure of himself in there than we normally see.

Oh, good, good left hand from Barcellos into a shot. Wow. That was a weird one. I guess that was a trip and I didn't see it. Yeah, it looks like he did a cartwheel. Yeah, he just, his legs moved but I didn't see. I also think Jared Golf might have just done a pick. Five takedowns

already for Hione Barcellos. previous best was three well oh jared just threw a pick in the end zone by the way oh there's some defense so that and you're over one and a half well over one and a half baby now he's got full mount this is freaking crazy this is this is this is going to be one of the biggest this would if if barcelos pulls this off and i'll you know knock on what i don't want him to do it paid and talbot is my guy barceles pulls this off this will be the biggest upset of last year it would have been bigger than any upsets last year so oh interesting um oh talbot back up borsell is now heading favor is 195 according to live odds oh spinning back fist borsell's right hand getting tired yeah he can't do this

for another six and a half he's frantic in there so talbot still has room to work yeah but he's got he got he can't get taken down throw some uppercats payton just hit him with the little opies hit him with the upies. Go to the body. Oh, good left to head. Another one. 90 seconds left. He could still steal this round.

Oh, he throws the upy. We need some more of those. Oh, good right hand from Barcellos. Payton's talking to him a little bit. He's getting his groove back. Getting his groove back. Shaking the arms out. He's feeling himself in there now, Mike.

Come on. Particularly as Barcellus is just running backwards, basically. Tries to throw a knee. Oh, this third round. Oh, now he's getting Barcellos to bite a little. Oh, there's the upy. There's a happy, Jed. Oh, a head kick.

Oh, Barcellos. Barcellus doesn't have the same energy on that shot. He doesn't. Oh, Tabba with the body. Oh, Tabba putting it on him now. Barcellos of the, you cannot let him take you down right now. You super cannot.

Don't you dare. Don't you let him take you down, Peyton. Just keep spinning. Oh my God. Keep spinning with him. This is unbelievable. That might seal the round for Borellos, too, which then makes this interesting. I want to see what the live odds are because I might take a flyer on Peyton.

Oh, my lordy. That was, I. He was doing so good. Of all the things that could have happened. Okay. So now we know what he needs to do. He needs to, you know, shore up some takedown defense a little bit. Yes.

That's a glaring hole in his game. Almost like the hole in his chest. Yes. That is represented by the tattoo. Barzello's into Crucifix now to finish the round. Doesn't really get to do anything wins and elbow, but tough. Sheesh. This is unexpected.

I was not ready for this. I'm glad we went live for this because I didn't see this. Yeah. We go to round three. Now, I believe my official pick in our staff picks was Talbot K-O-Round three. Let's see. Give me a second, oh. Maybe two, but.

I had maybe maybe I gave him to three because I only is mine was tough around two so uh you were in fact round three all right so we're still so you're alive here we're still live for a for a third rounder also uh I think I am gonna go 10 9 for Barcellos on that so I'll yeah 17 Barcellos tough as much as I want to get paying that around I just don't think I can if I'm honi I am running I'm spending the round avoiding contact at all costs I ain't do it the only contact we're doing is if I shoot on your hips and then if I don't get that takedown, I run away. We're gone. Absolutely gone. Jumping around the cage. Man. Limo Imo takes us into round three. See what. I wish I had a good live book that I could get because I might actually

take a shot. I want to see what the odds are. Talbot, I think as a live play has some value with how Barcellus is slowing down. But it's entirely the Talbot gets a finish here. I think that's very much in play. 448 447 Oh there's the upy

Oh There's a good right hand over As Barcelos moves away Oh Barcelos Do not let him take you down What are you doing?

Pyd goes with him But he gets on top this time This is terrible idea He went for a sacrifice throw That's the most insane thing I've ever seen Stand up son They're clinched

And he goes a sack Trip toss Like what are you doing? Stand up Also why are you on the ground with him You just want to hit this dude in the face Now, Borcellus like, this would be great.

If I'm Borcellus, I'm closing this guard and locking up and stalling. Just suck up time. You'd Frank Trigg to be the ref, because Frank Trigg will stand this right up. Who is the right? I think it's Herb Dean. Oh, that's right. You said hokey pokey. Look at this.

A sack trip through. What an absolute psycho move that is. You were losing this fight. And you just tried to give position. That is unreal. I mean, cool. It's absolutely cool. I mean, you got to finish here.

Oh, good left hand. This ain't going to do it, though. Yeah. D.C. 's saying we need to get out of there. Stand up. Oh, no. Oh, Marcel is trying to throw in an OMA.

No. Let's throw in an Oma Panta. Also, we got a fud scrap. Take a point. He won't. He won't. He won't. He goes.

He goes. He's asking what position he wants it in. And now. Do it. Time out. Oh, do it. What are we timing out for, Herb? Oh, he wants the position down.

Why? I don't know why Talbot. What are you doing? Just stone, stone fence grab cheating from Barcellus. I mean, literally for 10 seconds. Honestly,

that's, we know, oh, Barcellos stands and Barcelos lands one on the break. Oh, good white hand. Tally scrapin.

Talbot with some headroom in there. That's right. Draw them into the scrap. Oh, jump knee. Right into a take down. God damn it. Talbot's eye.

Q this fight is not great. He tried to gram me roll. Stand up, stand up, set up. Okay, go. Punch him. You got, I mean. Oh, get to the body. They finally got him in the thing.

This is a really, really fun fight now. This fight is going insane. Barcellus is dead. He's so tired. Barcellos just going just a ham here. He's going to try to shoot. So throw a knee right up the middle. Tell me, you got two and a half plus minutes.

The knee's coming. Kick a little deep to the body. Oh, he's run away. If you just run away, you will win. Right hand. that does nothing because it got nothing. I mean, it's the most tired right hand of all time. Oh, real kick.

Wheel kick, Barcellus is like, no, man, which means he got him a little bit. Toes got them. Buddy, you got two minutes and 18 seconds. Pedal down, Peyton. You're two minutes away from finish. You can finish this fight and then fight Cody Garbrett next.

It's the dream. It's the dream. And now you just got to take it out again. The fight's over. You, I cannot believe this. Mike, when we did our. predictions for the year. One of the questions was Breakout Star.

And I didn't pick Peyton Talbot because the other two people, you and I want to say it was AK, maybe it was Damon actually, as you and Damon picked Peyton Talbot. And I was like, that's probably the right. But instead, I'm going to pick Renya Nakamura. We might be looking like

the best bozos on Earth in a minute and a half. Now, to be fair, my original pick was Bogdan Guscoff. He was the guy that was going to break out. because he's going to beliterate Johnny. Oh, oh, we're, no, we're doing it in mine. I even wrote in the article that my pick was Bogged in Goosecop

and now he's fighting a debut guy and won't gain much from it. Because him beating Johnny Walker puts him like two wins away from the title shot. Put some right there. I mean, the fight is now functionally over. Barcellus is in Mount Talbot is now obviously a little tired as well. Barcelas trying to lock up an arm triangle. He's sort of in position. I think where he's out on the cage,

probably makes this a non-starter. I just have no luck with my Bannamweight picks in these fantasy drafts. Jose Aldo getting screwed by the judges in the last fantasy season. Dude. And then Peyton just getting done up by Barcelos. This is, what was Payton was minus 10.50 was the closing line we looked at? I'm going to look this up and see where this ranks all time. He might, I don't know, he gave a thumbs up.

Dude, you got 30 seconds. You got to get out of there. stand up this is the sixth biggest numerical upset in UFC history he might finish him too if he just keeps punching he might finish oh oh

Peyton actually does seem close to being done here orsell is putting a stamp on this thing undeniable 3025 for me that's crazy the sixth biggest upset in UFC

history. That is incredible. The only biggest plug at Rousey Home, Agapova Dobson, St. Pierre, Sarah, Nunes Pena, and Barry Jackson. Sheesh. That is something. That's such a good little tidbit. I'm going to tweet it out. You got to build that social profile.

Yeah. You know, you got to, maybe it'll get on the broadcast, Jen. Oh, I didn't even think it. I'll do the hashtag to make sure. Yeah, get it on the broadcast. Well, you cash the bet. It's good. It cashed you over.

Love that. And main card's about to start. They actually timed this perfectly. And I know I have a bet on every single main card fight. So do I, kiddo. Beautiful. Beautiful. Maybe we're sympathetic on some of these, but perhaps not.

I can tell the co-main event will be on opposite sides of the spectrum, which is to be nice. Very, very much. Actually, maybe I don't have a bet on the main event now. I have one bet on the main event. I could also solve that problem before we get there. Yeah. Yeah.

So I had a bet on every fight prior to the obvious shakeup that happened. I was even going to be with you. I had a play on Armand Sruikin. It was not a major play, but I thought the value was there. I was prepared to lose it now that. I also had an underdog play on Benny Daryush that fell through. But what does happen, I'll tip my hand here. My choice for the climb this week, Mike, Jailton Almeida.

And so that was not going to be a main card bet because AK and I had this conversation off air on Slack. I was like, should I do it for the content? Because if I pick Almeida, which is the one I want to pick, it's not on the watch party. I can't share this experience with y'all. You can't see my stress levels. Need to see. You got to see the class level. And so I was honestly going to do.

Umar was going to be. And that's obviously kind of an insane choice. But that would have been the most electric climb bed of all time. The content is undeniable at that point. So this is best of both worlds now. You guys get to be part of it. We'll see. Hopefully knock on wood,

climb continues. Yeah. Something might be in the water. How many Barcellus just pulled it off? Unreal. We got two big upsets. on this card two big upsets Nakamura

and now Peyton big upsets yeah if you parlayed those two dogs together you were you're good your rent is paid for the month if AK did that

he could gamble until August I say he gambled till next year he's good wow solid win man I mean the other Joshua Ashie

that is right that's why you never bet on a minus a thousand person yeah just ain't worth it it was a great fantasy selection too it was such a good like all of us were like yep that's a great call like high draft because it still might not be a bad one because he can still

turn around you've got another five and a half months they're not going to get they're going to give him his next one will be a softball yeah uh but you know you don't get the two bites at the apple these are all the things i had to tell myself when i lost my first fantasy bet I still got five and a half months. They can get back in there. They can put some points up. We'll be okay. It's not the end of the world.

But who now it's time for the main card. And Jed, we get to start. Mikey Musumichi. Yeah. Colleen, Andre Jr. That's pretty. Mel Gibson.

Is there going to be Mel Gibson's saying? There's got to be. I hope they don't. My own Chito Vera in the building. I guess they would say Mel Gibson. My favorite thing, Mel Gibson's directed some new movie. I can't remember what it's about.

But the previews don't. won't say directed by Mel Gibson. They say from the director who brought you braveheart and Hacksaw Ridge or whatever. And they never mention it. I'm just like Hollywood still has this dude band. That is terrific. It's so funny. We are about to go to the main card.

And what a main card it is going to be, my friends. Kevin Holland versus Hennear to Hitter, as you like to call him, kicking things off. Wait, what? What are you talking about? Oh, is ESPN Plus doing this cool thing where it takes you a lifetime to get it up? Yeah. Also, today, Mike, as I was doing stuff, I decided my new mouth exercise to get yourself ready to, like, speak on air is going to be Rainier to Ritter rides a reindeer because it's just a

great tongue twister. Renier to Rides a reindeer. That's awesome. You need to New York. Yeah, say that five times, suddenly you're ready to go on air. I cannot wait for that fight because if it lasts two minutes or last. It's going to be funny. 15 minutes and they give him a sudden victory round.

It's going to be the funniest fight of the night. There's no doubt about it. It's the best. Casey Carpenter, you're a liar. I want you to know that you're a liar. Why is he lie? Michael Chandler is my favorite fighter, and that's just not accurate.

Michael Chandler's not anybody. My favorite fighter, two of my seven favorite fighters are competing. It was great. I was on MK yesterday, and I got to just be with Luke as he like, you know, is this highbrow eliteist. I like good fights. It was like, I want to watch these bones.

Those always be silly. Let me watch any hitter in Yuri Perashka. Just be silly, silly, silly goose is the most fun. And Kevin Holland can be a silly goose. Oh, you can be such a silly goose. That is perfect matchmaking. A lot of funniness could happen. Because if Jailton Almada versus Sergius Vevac gets like three minutes into the second round,

that is going to be hilariously fun to watch. To gas down anyways, trying to strike. I'll be, I'll be tense. You'll be tense with the climb. I will have lost a bet because I had the under one and a half in that. But now is Lamakachev's dude if you not have you have you mentally prepared yourself at all to react to a Hanato moikano title win tonight on a day's notice against the best fighter on planet earth right now I have not because I don't think of what happened but if it does it'd be cool right now is Lamarachev is looking like he's going to close as the second biggest betting favorite in UFC history. like minus 1,300 now or something. Oh, so I'm sorry, he would actually still be the fourth at this point in time.

But depending on the book you're getting him at, let me check another couple of books. Though our primary book is obviously our friends at Fandul. But our friends at Fanduel have him as a minus 1,200, which would have him as the fourth biggest betting favorite in UFC history. Obviously, if Moikano pulls this off, we talked about this a little bit yesterday. where would this rank on the scheme of greatest upsets? I just don't think anything will ever be Sarah GSP. No, nothing will beat that. Rousey Home is obviously the mathematically biggest one and is very, very special as well.

But to me, Sarah GSP, Nunes Pena, Bisp being Rockhold, are kind of a separate tier. I think this is in that tier, even if it's not better than Sarah GSP, which I think is the number one. This is still, you know, two or three. It is in conversation to be the second biggest upset. And honestly, maybe in hindsight, maybe we get a couple years on if this happens and Manato loses immediately and Islam continues to dominate for years to come. Maybe it still just looks as absolutely wild as the Sergisb one did. Yeah.

It would be unbelievable for the story to go this way for him. It's just, it's so crazy that, like, Habib's involvement with, like, all of this. And it's almost like Habib is reacting to things that happened to him. Almost like everything happened. The two things that happened in a 13-month span are happening to him right now as it relates to his Lamakachev because the March 2017 Tony Ferguson situation where he's cutting weight, gets injured, has to have surgery because of the injury, and he's out. and then he even said in his reaction to all of it,

that, you know, I told the UFC, I probably won't get a title fight. I don't care. Give me the toughest guy you can get. And then I'll fight for the bell. I'll prove it and goes and beats the shit out of Edson Barbosa. And then ends up getting a title fight. And then 13 months later,

he's supposed to fight Tony Ferguson, who trips over a wire, Max Holloway's in. And then the day before Max Holloway is out because of a weight-cutting problem. And then he fights ally Quinta on a day's notice. Like, it's just pretty pretty pretty. He's like Paul Felder actually made more sense, but he didn't come in at championship weight or whatever.

No, they said Paul Felder wasn't ranked high enough. Oh, that's right. They did the winner. Like Paul Felder obviously made more sense than Al-Iquinted at the time, too. It would be, yes, it would be that exact scenario if Al-Iquinta beat Habib is like all this. It's very similar to this. Yeah. It would be nuts.

I don't think it has a remote chance of happening. I would never lay the minus 12 on Mokachev if we're being like real, but it would be uneniably fun. It would be so weird if it happened. So they would do an immediate rematch, certainly. Oh, you'd have to. Islam gets a chance. He gets a full camp.

Honestly, with a full camp, I assume he would win, because I assume he'd win this one. And then it's just like, well, that was a real weird thing. Maybe they should have just pushed the almond fight a few weeks and done it at 312 or something. Yeah, and that's like, I've seen some of that, and I don't, I actually don't hate that, honestly, because we don't have a main event for March right now. I mean, what we do?

They just haven't announced it yet. The question is, doesn't Ramadan start in March? Yeah, that's true. I mean, because I think, hold on, when is, right? Yeah, yeah, I think it's like late February. Ramadan, February 28th. So that's basically March 29. So it's basically a starter.

Yeah, you kind of had to do it now. I guess you could bump one of the three-twels, but then you're really. shifting the wheels around. Yeah, you're playing with fire there. You're hoping Zerugan's back injury is not that bad because this car, that card's in three weeks. I know because I was telling my parents, but I was like, yeah, because I obviously I came down today because yesterday I was in New York and they're like, oh, you didn't come and spend there. I was like, yeah, things happened. I'll see you guys again in three weeks. And I'll spend some more time with you. Don't you worry about it. I'm going to be right back down here

in three weeks and then three weeks after that. So we got Anick. We got Rogan we got DC right now is a machochev a minus 1200 favorite there's benal darius she gets a little bit of screen time good for him I think Benny Derrush versus raphael fazev April Miami that's the fight to make I don't hate that I think that's the one that's a great comeback fight for fazeve and I missed this because I was traveling who did grant Dawson call out did he call up the he called up aenele derrish I wouldn't hate that either I wouldn't hate patty pimble fighting benal der a there are you. The Chandler fight doesn't happen.

That's the one I've been pushing for for like two fights. I think that was good. Just give it to him. That's the Molly McCann, Aaron Blanchfield fight right there. Let's see. Good fight for, good fight for Brinnell. He can win that fight and he gained something.

I think Bineal would be a madman to take the Grant Dawson fight, even though I think he can win it. He just gains a lot less, but I think that that would make sense traditionally. I do think they owe Bineal something. Though I don't know if you confirm this or not reports out there that Vinny is getting show and win money. Yeah, he did some interviews.

So credit to the UFC if they did that. Yeah, he did some interviews and said that. And Benny doesn't seem like the kind of guy that would just say that if it wasn't true. I agree. And so full credit to the UFC, we rip them when they don't do stuff like this. That should be the norm, frankly, for a situation of this. He did nothing wrong. He should get all of his money.

And shout out to you, Luke Thomas, who yesterday started saying, oh, the U.C.'s going to give him money. And then I laughed at him. he was like, you're right, they would never do that. Actually, apparently, Luke, you were correct. Look at them. They gave them all his money. Yeah, and they'll rebook them. 2025. I told you, Mike, I'm going to be an optimist this year. It's going to be a good year.

Yes, the main event fell out. Good things are still happening for us this year, y'all. But you're just, like, you're just happy to see Mike Con, I get a shot because you just don't know if it would ever come. And now I can't, now we get to see him fight for a title. Win or lose. And I said this on the People's Free Fight Show, and I'll say it again, because people are giving credit left and right.

to Machachev, rightfully so. Credit to Hanata-Moykano, rightfully so. Credit to the UFC, rightfully so. Credit to Orrin Hodec and Kio reps, who reps Moikano, Kevin Holland, fighters like that. How many times has Orne Hodec on a day's notice saved a card by shuffling things up? And not only that, getting his fighter paid because there's no doubt in my mind that Hanata-Moycano is making that money.

he's probably making way more money to fight Islamakachev than he would have fighting Binaldairus because if I know Orrin, he ain't going to say, oh, you know, Hanato would love to fight for the bell. We'll just do it for the same price, maybe a little bit more. No, no, no. I bet they renegotiated and he got paid. Get a little bump. A little bumpy bump.

It's like Kevin Hall when he fought Hamza. Like exactly the same thing. So shout out to everybody involved. And we'll see. What a friggin moment that'll be. as you got Umar and Amaga Madov versus Marab de Wallach really so you and I were both sort of we were on our Slack channel talking about the ceremonial way into what was happening and Murrah umar came in looking you know like umar just com cool collected marab showed up with some good

energy super good energy yeah I was that's what I was looking to see like I was looking for that like all week long and right there I was like okay that is so That is a Marabi thing. There goes D.C. He is about to run to the restroom. There he goes. I mean, you still got some time of D.C.

Oh, just photo bomb in Oweeasy. Sick, D.C. Let's go. Security's laughing. It's so good. Rob believes his improved striking will be the difference. I think it's a really bad idea.

But to your point, Mike, I love the energy brought to the ceremonial. Should have just had this the whole time. I mean, wow. Look at the drip. $100,000 right there.

Whoa. That is an outfit and a half. Outstanding. If you're not watching, check Twitter. I'm sure the photos are coming. He, this man is about to overthrow the czars. Like, he is doing the coolest shit. Plus 285 I got him like a little less than a month ago.

A terrific bet. Money's been coming in on my eyes as well because I have a new more bet and poorly. But that has. Play the music, baby. Give it to us. Come on, baby. Come on. give us 10 year to hitter versus Kevin Holland.

We're near to do it to ride the reindeer into the octagon to take on the Dutch night attempts to conquer Holland for the second time. It's going to be fly over. Also, I think a I think this is an AK. We got a lot of fantasy options coming this week. We have a lot of head to head action. A lot of head to not in this one. A.K does have RDR.

I have a bet on RDR straight. I got that at even money plus 100. I don't think I have an over under on this bet I have it over under an year thing I don't so I just have a straight bet on RDR here and boys and girls I think it's time to let you know

about a new thing that we have here oh no we can't tell them yeah we can't tell them okay well wait well wait you're right you're right technically we could have done it previously but that was sort of an impromptu let's go live we got Mike here should we wait till like we both hit

something? Oh no, no. If RDR succeeds, are you on RDR or not? I am on the under one and a half in this I mean, if we both hit, certainly, but if RDR hits, I'm, I'm breaking that back now. Okay, all right, fair enough. It's going to be a good time. Minus one and a half or under one and a half plus 140 is what I got it at. And I kind of feel like these two are going to be the silliest of goose as you say. And we're not getting to the seven and a half minute mark. Kevin Holland's going to pull guard and then get tapped and it's going to be sick. He's going to be talking shit the whole way as he gets tapped. Max Rabkin. RDR subpropp, I do not hate it. I didn't bet it because I just got him at an underdog price anyway. And there wasn't that much extra. But Kevin Holland is he's probably, if Kevin Holland engages in the ground,

RDR has a very good chance to get that on him. So we'll see. We got the steam coming out of the ceiling here. This is fun. That seems like a really good venue. Oh, yeah, man. I watched the Netflix debut for Raw. and it was here.

And it was just, I was like, damn, this is a fun building. It's not sphere, but it's for just a normal arena with a more modern flair, it's about as, like, you'd still do really cool stuff in there.

So it's nice to see the UFC trying to take advantage of that. I wonder like what it's going to look like for the main event, walkouts, if they're going to do something else. Who the hell knows? It's okay to have a little fun.

And this is a good or a good venue to have some fun. Is there a wrestling show on Fridays? It's like one of the W. Yeah, Smackdown. How long until we get Smackdown on Friday and into a dome, UFC Saturday, and then we're all on Monday? Like, that just feels like T.J. could just take over a weekend that way. They could.

WWE, like, come WrestleMania season, they'll do, I mean, they won't do the same building, but they'll, let's say, so it's in Vegas, they'll do, like, T-Mobile for Smackdown. They'll do the big stadium Saturday for Mania, Sunday for Mania. then they'll do T-Mobile again for Rob Monday. Did they not, they don't like do Monday and Friday show in the same venue all that often? No. In my mind that. No.

Yeah. Like just for mania, they'll do like for a mania week because that's like a, it's like internet, mania week's like international flight week where like everything happens like in that area. So they'll do all the shows like in Vegas. But for every pay per view and like every week, they'll move it to different things.

Because like the wrestlers are also split into different brands. I do know that. So some will just do Monday and some will travel to Friday and then some will do some house shows along the way. So RDI are the middleweighty middleweight champion for life. He will never lose the title. He is the goal. It's the best. Also, I agree, Max Rabkin.

I would like the UFC to be on Netflix because I don't almost ever have issues with their streaming service. And I can't say the same for the current broadcast provider for the UFC. I mean, the one time when 100 million people were watching it, yes. It was very bad. That was terrible in these chairs. Other than that, I have never had an issue with Netflix. I had to on my plane flight back. I had to do Netflix on my phone because my TV monitor was broken.

So I had the Netflix on my phone from an airplane. No issue. No issue at all. ESPN Plus. Imagine I was trying to do that ESPN Plus. It would have just sent me the double birds emoji would have popped up. I'm like, no. Wow, look at all the different RDR graphics.

The smoke is cool, man. He is the Dutch Knight. They have an RDR graphic. It's terrific. Let's go. Let's see the walkouts. We're going to do anything cool with the walkouts? I'm carrying the flag.

This dude. Look at him. He's the best. Look at him. God, it would nothing would make me happier than him fighting drink his two-place seat for the middle way belt. It'll never happen. He'll never get there.

Oh, it would be my nirvana. Okay, actually, I lied. The only thing that would make me happier is DDP versus Yeri, just in a fight. I just need to see those two throw hands. Incredible. There he is. RDR about to walk into the hallowed octagon. The second time.

My official MMA fighting stat pick is Kevin Holland by K.O. in round one. I think I have sub round one, but I might, maybe I went sub round two. Because I think he's just, I think RDR is going to be. very silly in this fight. And I think he's going to get caught. Gerald Mearshire was hurting him. And that gives you cause for concern. I have RDR sub round one.

Let's go. Yeah, the thing is, if this stays standing, RDR's in trouble. Oh, he's done. Kevin Allen's not a traditionally great wrestler.

He's also very silly. He's a little underrated. But RDR is a terrific grappler. But the thing is, he's a lot better at wrestling when he's not at middleweight. Yeah. And he's not giving up a massive amount of weight.

which he is about to. Plus, he might just, like, pull guard. He's very down. Look at how, look at the swagger on this man. He's two division champ, Mike. Champ, champ, champ right there. Champ, champ. All right.

Try to be champ, champ, champ. Anybody been Antoine Malikin? I mean, he got it. Antoley Malikin was a uniquely bad matchup for him as a dude who can defensively who wrestle and box. It's like, oh, I can never beat that guy. All right. Here comes Kevin Holland.

There he, oh, there's a different kind of look on Kevin Allen's face right now. A little bit of intensity. Oh, now he's, now he's loosening up. Singing a little bit. Getting himself. Very, no, no smiling, no laughing. He knows. He knows he's in for the fight of his life.

He knows he's Dutch night. It's about to get real weird in there. He'll be Kevin Netherlands after this fight. He's feeling it. Representing the traveler, Travis Luter School. I mean, it's true. I did not really take into account

that RDR is competing against demand trained by the Michael Jordan of Brazilian jiu-tzu, which is still one of the funniest things has ever been said. If you all don't know, please, oh, it's the best. Oh, we miss you, Goldie.

Mike Goldberg calling Travis Luda the Michael Jordan of Beach. Sky River Ray wants to know could RDR have beaten Rugrug. Oh, God, no. There's not a chance. Who could be Rug Rug. Rug Rug is all like Rug Rug Rug is bad boxer, but he's not like awful and he's obviously

enormous and very powerful. RDR can't take him down so he just get like RDR is really bad at boxing. It's really not very good at it. Kevin Hollins said a media day. He wants to fight seven times this year. That would be the record. He could do it, man. If anybody could do it, it's that guy.

If I had known that, maybe we would have drafted him. I wish I knew that. Or now come July, if he's only fought twice, drafted. He's got five coming. He's got five coming, yeah. A lot of opportunity for success. The first tale of the tape of the night here. Do you guys get NFL on a side screen?

I have NFL in front of me, but since we have multiples, I'm kind of flicking back and forth to the comments, to some other things. Kevin Holland, three-inch reach advantage. Kevin Holland is super long and skinny. Yes. And fast. Very, very fast. I mean, he's going to be so much quicker than RDR.

Oh, yeah. It is 28 to 31 now. The Detroit Lions close the gap a little bit, but they are kicking. All right. We'll touch down. Must have just scored. I am sure Luke Thomas, as he is watching this card and has this game on another screen, is losing his Godforsaken mind.

Man, getting everybody fired up. Oh, man. It's such a cool building, though. It really is. R.D.R. is just terrific. He's such a silly boy. I love him so much. 18 and Anatoli Malikin is what his record is.

Yep. Just hold him and then trip him down and then submit him. Let's get out of here. I'm okay with AK getting max points here. I mean, I win that bad, too. So that's totally fun. I win that bet. Mostly I would just feel great from a boy because then he gets a ranked dude.

It would be, oh, Kevin Holland's not ranked. I thought he was still ranked at Walterweight. I didn't realize he wouldn't. I knew he wasn't ranked in Middleweight, obviously. Is he ranked at Walterweight? They don't have a number. They usually put that and then they'll put an at Walterweight thing by it. Yeah, maybe isn't.

I guess maybe with protest coming up, you know, like there's been some new blood. Yeah. So I'll confirm right now, but he is not. Oh, there you go. Michael Vennam Page is the last dude at 15 and obviously holds a win over him. Frank Trigg. Hey, screw you. He said, hey, guys.

Hey, Bell. Frank Trigg is the referee. Chris Leibon is going to be reffing the co-main event from. I saw that. Which is fun. Is he reffing or is he judging? I think he's reffing. Okay.

I think he's judging some fights and refereeing others. I heard he was judging. Oh, RDR. Immediately, that's my boy. get in on that single and take Kevin Holland down. Yeah, you try and play guard with the Dutch night, Kevin Holland. See how that goes. You try and play guard with my big old Dutch boy. Come on.

If he triangles him. It would be, again, objectively funny. Nice elbows. RDR doing an arm block as he tries to pull his arm out and then pass. Casey doing a terrific job. You nailed the time, by the way. Oh, it's a big shots here. Just roll him and scoop pass.

What are we doing? RDR, let's go. Are you trying to knee cut through? No, just trying to get into Topgar. You know what? If we spend 15 minutes grinding out a bad, awful decision, but you get your hand raised, that's all right by me, buddy. Holland trying to get work himself.

He's trying to work himself. He should have just grabbed it. Yeah, they're not going to say anything. Frank will stand this up, though. He was standing shit up real quick in the Grant Dawson fight. You got to let two savants on the ground, to B2BJ BlackButs. You got let them work.

Yeah. Kevin playing old school wrist control bottom game. And now attacking the leg, RDR just immediately squats down it. And now looks to clear leg. Oh, upkick. That was nasty. Just with kicks. RDR just in full posture now.

Punch into the elbows. Kevin again, like loosely looking at one of these legs. RDR is just in full stand. Like he is fully standing. and Kevin is sort of allowing this by not doing anything other than fighting hands. It's a big brother shit. Stop pin yourself.

Stop pin yourself. Ra, rah. Kevin's willingness to fight off his back is easily the worst aspect to his game. Like, I mean, he can do stuff. Good little short elbow. It's a decent ground upon from a boy. Punching him in the ears from his back.

Send that man back to the Netherlands. Oh, oh, oh. Let's go Holland chance. That could be for either of them. That could be for either. Dude, we don't know. You're absolutely right. Maybe this is a cultured crowd.

It could be. It's California. It could be. Cradal of civilization. Ryan, you're now starting to put some better ground and pound on. Holland looks like a child. Holland now just covering up. Kevin, have you considered trying to stand up?

Nope. Do a sit-up. Kevin is holding. That was the weirdest pass I've ever seen. Oh, no. Is Kevin tired? Is Kevin hurt? This is very bad.

I also, I need to see what happened again. Well, lock your feet so you don't get tossed. Lock your feet already are so you don't get tossed. Do the Michael chair. Seabelt. Seabelt. Sea belt. See belt.

Come on, see belt. Stop getting tossed over. Do the Michael chair there. Hook that leg. Hook that leg. Use your arm and hook the leg. I am transparently rooting. for one of these two men.

Oh, let's go. All he are. Gets the backpack. Oh, let's get it. Let's get that first round sub-max points on Tapology Jedediah. Oh, boy. You got the body triangle on the good side.

Cross grip on the other side. It's not tight DC, but his arm is working at it. He's on the chin. There it is. Yeah. The minus what the under one and a half hits. You know what this calls for, Mike?

The money cannon! Woo! Money canning. I'm knocking the table over. I'll throw some. I'll throw some in the air. The best thing I've ever bought. This is the best thing I've ever purchased in my whole life.

Oh, my God. That's what's 40 minutes to clean up. I have to clean it up now. We don't have to. We threw half of it on the table. We've done it. We can make it rain. We can make it rain.

It's the best purchase of all time, by the way. It's so fun. That came in the same. the mail last week and I was like this is I've made great choices with my life. Oh, the money cannon. Oh, man. Banger.

Oh, man. We all win. Everybody, AK gets max points. I cash my bet. I got a plus money ticket. It's terrific. We're doing terrific, boys. What a start to the main card. That's tough magic for Kev.

Is Kev is just I mean, he's just fun And people want to see him fight He just needs to be a Walter way He's not a middleweight man Like against all the Oh it appears Kevin was busted up at some point Because RDR has a fair amount of blood

On his choking arm He did hit Kevin a bunch of times He did I mean when it went downhill It ended when we were near the end The end came quick I just want to see Kevin Hanah's a Walterweight He can win at middleweight

Because he's a good fighter But the good news is still very draftable the next time around. Still one fight. It was very quick. He could fight in Saudi Arabia in two weeks. If he's going to get to seven, he needs to fight against him. Get him in March. Kevin looks like just, just looks disappointed.

There's the steam coming out of the ceiling. We're going to get an RDR interview with Joe Rogan, the stuff the dreams are made on. Textbook. Oh, RDR. such a charismatic individual. Did you practice, Joe? I need a hitter. He is a hitter.

Oh, yeah. He's so fun. He's so fun. And credit to him, he said in the lead-up, you know, I probably did what my best showing. It's Gerald Mearsart. I'm not going to F around. He came right out. He threw one punch, grabbed a leg.

Very smart. No messing around. I know how to win this fight. I'm going to win this fight now. Now. Now. How do you matchmake for RDR at this point? Still probably won't be ranked after this victory.

He will not be ranked. I'm certain of that at middleweight. I'll, yeah. So, just looking at the UFC rankings right now, I got a fun one and I got what I think is the correct one. Which one do you think is better? I mean, the fun one is probably the same one I'm thinking, the Michelle Per.

The fun one is Michelle Pada. I'm a simple man. I love both. Both of these two glorious idiots, and I would love to see Michelle Paheta try and cartwheel pass and then get leg locked. Like, that would be fun as hell to me. I think the correct one is Jackramanson.

That sort of Jackermanson's role is to weed out the top guys. I think that's it. What did he call out? I did not hear that at all. Casey, let us know. Yeah, Casey, who did he call out? Said something about, this is Brian Campbell getting the tweet. He isn't perfect, but he's absolutely world-class on the ground.

Love to know who he called out. Lightwork Ferreterior. Casey says we're behind everybody else. I don't believe him. But I mean, no liar, Casey. He just called for a top five, so no name in particular. Which means you're not going to get it. So.

Yeah. Why would you get? Pereira rocks. I love that idea. Anthony Keatis in the building. Hermanson's not a bad one. I would say, I don't know who that is. Okay.

It's from rage. It feels like Hey, you're in my favor. Her answer just feels like the guy that makes sense. And Chuck O'Dow? The cross and the middle finger there. I'm not sure who he was.

Oh, that's my boy. Next up, the climb continues stage eight. As we reload the money cannon because you got to keep the money canton loaded. Stay ready. You don't have to get ready. Oh, man. I really need Jailton Almeida to.

do the thing against Sergei Spivak. If the polar bear ruins my dreams, I will be upset. Sergey Spivak, Mr. Apex's main event. All right, so it was a solid start. It was a very slow kind of grinding prelims with only one finish in eight fights. Yeah, prelims were, and we knew in general that the prelims were a little tougher. Most of the matchups weren't as good. but I think we talked about this yesterday in the preview show

this was the right ballot order because if you move Jailton just up to the Jailton Speedback maybe this is what we think it could be if it like to your point gets to be a slog that has a horrible energy right now next next time I will have to custom order ones I can't find where to buy one a Vives meter Vibes are they're try and Google like Vibes meter

nothing comes up that is helpful like so got a custom order one on itsy or get get it made somehow our vibes would not be like max vibes you know but vibes are solid right now so we can survive if this is a bit of a dud we're not all the way down are we getting a hall of fame announcement already it was the night before the gathering and all through the house the host rapid cozy cashmere throw from homesense for their spouse kids toys for $699 under the tree and Crystal glasses for just 1499 for their brother Lee, a baking dish made in Portugal for Tom and Sue, and a nice $599 candle, perfectly priced just for you. Happy holidays to all, and to all a good price.

Homeless presents perfectly priced. Are we about to get a Hall of Fame announcement? This annex in the setup. Oh, we are getting a Hall of Fame announcement. It's an old school one. Okay. Are they just inducting the Fertitas? Oh, okay. That makes sense.

I don't think they are, though. Are they inducting the ultimate fighter into the POSO of Fame? That would be terrifically funny. Craig. Pilligian. Pilligin, okay. Honestly, he actually deserves it as one of the EPs of Tough. Like, it very much deserves it.

But this is, it's odd because it's just like, you know where shout out to Greg Dillard yeah yeah and this just seems like a an odd choice for a pay per view announcements I mean I guess you're just doing it early

because when is the right trying to do this and you don't want to Vegas 103 yeah but no because it's still Hall of Fame you want to give it to it it means something you want to treat it like it does so yeah

this is this is a good one and a justified one. Okay. It's just, not everything's going to have the, the flash and sizzle of Ronda Rousey or John Jones or whatever. But especially when you're doing the,

I forget what they call that tier of the Hall of Fame, the, you know, non-fighter important people tier. Like, absolutely. Do you want to be a fighter?

That's the question. I love that speech. It was good stuff. It was good. TV man that's how you do it for those who want to see like what Dana white was like back in the day when we talk about just him being hungry and like promoting at the highest level you have to go back to those days that's that's when Dana was like just all in on this shit tough one was uh was a huge part of my my fandom I was a big pro wrestling fan so I would watch I would watch raw

and then uh tough would come on right after and Diego sam Manchez would come on and just be an absolute weirdo, and I couldn't wait to see what he was going to do next. Tough one was the first 10 seasons I was in on. Because by that point, I'd already been like, Tough really cemented it for me in large part because it was just accessible. Yeah. It was the thing.

Like I had already been a little bit on the forums. I knew what Sherdog was, you know, but tough was I was every week and I could watch this stuff. And it was now, I didn't have to go to Blockbuster and get an old thing or scroll YouTube or whatever. Shout out to congratulations to, I guess, to Alexander K. Lee for this. Because, I mean, if the EP of Tough gets in, then- Right after. AK should induct them. There's no doubt of my eyes.

He should be the guy to induct them. That is very true. Plus, coming on the heels of a big fantasy win, this is a big 20-minute stretch for AK right now. It sure is. say you could toast him, A.K. Drink a little red wine. The contributor wing. Congratulations.

Contributor, that's what they call it. He's still the EP of the Ultimate Fighter. Joshua Ashley, are you talking about Craig Pilligian? Or when you say he hasn't come across you? Because, like, yeah, if you're not, why would he? He's not doing, he's doing something sort of siloed. But tough is the most important thing to happen to this sport since Hoyst, Gracie won at the first one.

Tough one is probably, it probably is the most important thing. Yes. Like they went, they went all in on that shit. Yeah. And they pay, it's not,

what people also don't understand, but CHLP, CHILP, what people don't understand is that the UFC, like Spike didn't call the UFC and say, hey, we want you to build a reality show.

The UFC said, we're going to build this. We need somewhere to shop it. And Spike didn't pay them a penny. The UFC paid for it themselves. They went all in on this. If this didn't work, they were fucked. They were done.

Like, probably done if it didn't work. And then the finale came on and it got the ratings that it got. We got Bonner Griffin. And that was like the ultimate. What was it? Yo, turn on Spike TV. Watch this fight. These two dudes are beating the ever-living shit out of each other.

And then the sport just continue to rise and rise from there. overnight success whatever 10 years in the making yeah whoa we got an announcement tough 33 coaches chale p sun and daniel cornea this is good a that is awesome a plus also a k i know that you're probably sad you want to watch current fighters that's how you do it let hall of famers who aren't competing do that you can maybe bring in active champions as like uh oh they're stopping by this week to show it That's how you do it. Great call. I love that. That is perfect work if you're keeping tough around. Yep. To engage,

two fun personalities. Yeah. Who know the sport, who are probably going to be very good at coaching. Yeah, they're good at coaching. They've been coaches before on tough. Competitive egos,

but in like the right way because they just want to win. They'll talk the right amount of shit. They have a professional relationship in general on their show already to like their good guy, bad guy, ESPN show. That was perfect. People are learning lessons. this year.

2025, Mike, I've been saying and it's going to be a good year. First of all, I don't want to see this highlight because that's absolute horseshit. You're going to start off with Parker Porter

getting done up by Jelts and Almeida. I'm so sorry for you. Come on now. Parker Porter about to make his BKFC debut very soon. I'm very excited about that.

It's great place for him. Great place for him. I would love to be there to watch it at Mohegan Sun. Trying to make that happen. I'm trying to make that happen. There may be like a The wife might have to take a trip up north

And I might just go down Just turn along just so I can go cover that card Oh my goodness Michael You'll never guess what just happened Ah the commanders just scored a touchdown They sure did Brian Robinson Jr. They are now back up by nine soon to be 10 points If they make the extra

This will be devastating for the Detroit Lions If the manders just go into their house And I mean they're giving them the boots But tough scenes tough in Dagestan. I don't think that's going to happen. Not anytime soon. Megal Levi

is the best. She's so good at this. So damn good at this. Also, Joshua Ashley, no. I don't know if it's Ashley or Ash, so apologize from getting that wrong. Plenty of tough coaches have not fought each other before Connor and Chandler.

Obviously, that's the most recent one. But like the one of like the fourth or maybe in the third one, one of the very early seasons, like Matt Hughes and Rich Franklin coached against each other. Yeah. It's just like they don't have to. There's certainly a tradition

where coaches have fought, but it is not a requirement. Connor coached against your eye favor. And they never were even close to fighting. It was not part of it. It was just putting personalities opposite. That was a great season because like we found out who T.J. Dillishaw really was in that season.

And then like Cody Garbrand tried to start a fight with Connor. And like that wouldn't have gone. well for him. It was just, it was just like a real interesting season because like him in favor had like a good vibe together too. Like it they were they were really good together. It was just a really fun season. Also Joseph Ash duly noted. I had a friend growing up who spelled his name that way, but it was ashy. The only the only really interesting thing about like the coaches that were going to fight is like the drama that ensued throughout it because it was it Tito and Chuck and Tito got injured, like, in the middle of the show

and, like, had to tell Chuck, like, he couldn't fight. That's, like, that shit's heartbreaking. Yeah, really the idea was, if we get these two people who don't like each other and have to spend, we'll get scenes like Rampage Taring Down the Door, but also Rampage Taring Down the Door was pretty obviously, like, performative. Yeah, and it was like... The door was made out of construction paper.

Paper Shea. But it was great. All right, Polar Bear, I need you to collapse. I need you to be the sad polar bear on the dwindling sheet of ice in the middle of the Arctic with nowhere to go. By the way, if you hit, if we get Almeda with a victory inside of a round and a half, we get to fire the gun again. Oh, my goodness. Another double win. Oh, it would be the best.

I went under one and a half again, plus money again, had to do it. Let's go. buddy. I think this is my as a cucumber for Jailton. I have more money than I am ever comfortable with. If you think about it in straight money, I'm trying to think about it as I have $100 instead of I have $450. Yes.

Look at it. Look how confident he looks. Yeah. All right. I have to go for energy drink number two here. Oh, load up because we're don't need it. We're about to get you. Upgraded.

I mean, there's cash everywhere. I don't even need to be concerned about this bet. I have cash in piles around me right now because of the gun. Oh, uh, who? Oh, and Mike, I forgot. Jailton's on my fantasy team too. Oh, this is a big fight for me. Stress levels just,

they kicked up a notch, boys. This is big. Okay, so now I'm kind of open. Maybe speedback gets done. I mean, the content is obviously better, but I would like this to go exactly how I think. I think it's going to go front kick, double. Speedback gives up his back.

Jailton's immediately on it. We're out of here in 84 seconds. That would be incredible. And then we get right to Jamal Hill versus Jari Vajka, which is my everything right now. Yes, that's the fight we want to see, boys. I'll tell you what. If we double hit, not only does the gun come out,

we might throw out the, Yeah, the new gimmick, the Mike Puppet. Oh, yes. Oh, I forgot. That's, I love that. If we double hit this bet, the Mike Puppets coming out. The Mike Puppet's going to come out at some point anyways. To give you a little hint, you could probably see the Mike Puppet hanging around at some point.

You don't get to see the whole thing, but you get to see a little piece of it. My 11-year-old kid for Christmas, he made everybody in my family, like my parents. He made everyone? I just, I knew he made my dad a puppet. He made my mom a puppet. My wife a puppet. He made a meat puppet. Do you make Shiloh a puppet?

He made Shiloh puppet. Wow, rude. But just like, Shiloh erasure will not stand. Kid worked his ass off too. And he was like, here you go. And I was like, oh my God. He goes, yeah, that's the Mike.

That's the Mike Heck puppet. I love it. And it says MMA on the shirt. It's terrific. So we will unveil that, especially if Jelton Almeida gets a finish inside of a round and a half. I have breaking news guys. TikTok is dead.

What? TikTok is dead. Oh, no. It's officially gone. Good. Now I don't have to focus on posting on that frigging thing. I mean. Although it's, I've actually like, I haven't posted a lot, but like I have like 30 followers,

but like all my videos do like pretty well. Cause you. Because they're all us doing silly goose stuff. I was legitimately intending to start like developing it more. I was going to do a whole series along with the climb on TikTok. And I was like, oh, why would. I do that if it's going to go away. Yeah.

So if it comes back to life, if President Trump, I mean, President Trump tomorrow wins. 20th. Money. Monday. If on Monday, President Trump comes in and does what he said and returns it to us, maybe we'll do that. But otherwise, yeah. Tick-Tock is dead, long-lived red note, I guess.

What's my space up to these days? I mean, probably just chilling. Just chilling, yeah. Maybe it's time. Let's bring it back. Let's bring it back. You know, they said it couldn't be done. Oh, wow, that looks like a great catch.

Man, the commanders are really going to do this thing. Average closing line for Jelton Al-Meda is minus 485. That is, that's a lot. That's a lot. Dude, it's just a heavy favorite over everybody. I think he wasn't like a big favorite over Blades, but he was like, it was like minus two something. Yeah, which is crazy. which is almost like an automatic blades bet at that point it was and it I mean for five minutes I was very upset

and then it cashed Jason Herzog gets the assignment here jailton do the thing baby let's go all right edge of my seat time oh yeah this is this is a significant one for me fellas for all the monies lock in lock in go let's go now front kick we're not using today to practice our hands jails unless you got good hands no you overnight you got good hands. Edmund to Bertie in his near your corner. You're not falling in love with your striking. Just do do what you do. Switching the stances, giving them looks, making them think about things.

Spivak floating like a butterfly right now. Look at them. So, look at the foot. Loose. Oh, we're going to be boxing. I'm so excited. I will be distraught. I will be sitting here so upset.

Spieback looks a pretty good shape. He's looking in great shape. He's about the best I've ever seen. him look. Oh, go to jail. Oh, now we got that clinch. Oh, Spivak with a trip. Oh, he's inside control.

Spivak with a trip. Spivak takes Jailton down. We've never seen this. Wow. Jailton, what kind of guard you got going, buddy? Show me. He's got a full one right now. I never saw this coming.

Spivak, the first one to pop off a takedown. Wow. This is not good for the under one and a half. Oh, it's fine. He's about to throw up a triangle. Oh, he's trying to use an overhook. butterfly. He's got a butterfly. He's got double overs and try and elevate. Spivak just trying to break out. It's trying to just be a hoss.

Don't you can't hauss Jailton Almeda. You must be submitted by him. That is your only lot in life is to be submitted. Jailton is just fully locking down. He's not even pretending to sweep anymore as he was. Now he's up. Come on. Roll on that. Don't let him smush you. That's right. Kick your leg out. Nope. Oh, Speeck. Bevac is like a speedback just being big big boy. He's just doing big big boy things. Big boy. I'm also a bad host and did not tell Casey. Oh. And I'm an asshole. 3.11.

3.10. 3.9. It's all right. We'll keep it. We'll keep where it's at. We'll get there. We'll get there. Jelton covering up while Spivak lands from ground and pound here.

Delivering the thunder right now. This will be the most. If if the trick to beating Jailton, Almeda is to take him down before he takes you down, that will be. That's a sad thing. Awful. I'll be. so upset about everything.

This will be just truly disheartening for me as he's trying in old school elevator. What are we doing here? Jelton, just get to your feet and take him down. Use this underhook that you will. Oh, sweet! Sweet! Yeah, Jailton! Let's go, baby!

Oh, he's in top. You're cooked now, Polar Bear. What does fried polar bear tastes like? We're about to find out. I've had all sorts of mammals. had polar bear let's taste it he's trying he's trying to trying to get to mount he looks like he's just one powerful hostile way oh there he's constricting oh he's in the mouth bring the punishment oh he get him his bad get him j j a donde let's go oh sergey trying to i mean sergey's pretty

close to getting this here to get in turn around no keep that under her keep that under the arm seatbelt Get yourself back. Oh, you got the hook in. Oh, terrific balance. He's got a cross-grip. Wow. Come on, Jailton. Oh, just slowly sucks him down.

I was the slowest just poop. The look on, oh, the look on Spivak's face just kind of told you everything. He's like, oh, shit. But he's doing okay. Is he, D.C.? He's ready to come back on top. Ready to come on top. Also, at the end of this round, we may need to reload.

The chat is saying we're behind. Oh no, Spivak reverses. I hate that. Oh, big right hand from Spivak. Right hand. Left hand, right hand. Oh, Spivak landing in some good ground and pound here. One reversal each here.

Right. Jailton, we, we had it. Everything was as we wanted it to be. The chats that were behind. Chad says we're behind. Or it's perhaps that the timer is behind because we didn't do the reset. I'm unclear. Oh.

Oh. Get the hands. Jelton on him! Oh! Put it on him! Come on him! Stop holding him. He is hurt.

Punch him. Punch him more. Don't take him down. Punch him. Right in the mouth. Punch him! Punch him! Come on.

Jalton. Do it. Finish this out. Oh, Steve-back. Arm bars right there. Oh, Fivak is done. Keep punching. Keep punching.

Skivac is done. Get in there's on. Planning him out. Done. Just punch. Jump in, Jason. We don't need to see anything else. Yeah!

Woo! The climb continues. Jailton got hands now, boys. I don't know if you know. The Mike Puppet is here. The MM.M.M.M.A. M.M.M.A. Oh.

M.M.M.A. This is all the cash from the climb that I now have in my pocket. Oh. There, here's for next week. Oh, thank you. Woo. Wow, Jen, you're so good at a climber. I was so good at climbing.

Some say the greatest climber in all of them. Of all of other than that, yes. That was a perfect intro on, on ETL. Oh, man, that was electric. I am so glad I didn't have Reni Nakamura. Instead, I had Jilts and I made it. Look at that uppercut. Really jawed him, though, man.

I did. I'm a resell. set this to see where we're at, but I don't think like we had any delays. So I didn't think so either, but someone in the chat was saying a couple of, a couple of voices seemed to note. But like, so I have like our screen, what we're seeing live here. And then I'm looking over years and you have the actual stream on and it's like two minutes behind.

This is true on that. So that might be part of it. Casey has just messaged us. You guys are just really delayed is what Casey says. I mean. Well, we've reset. We'll see if we're better now. Almeida is still on top of the cage.

I don't know if that helps it all. And on top of the world. And on top of the world. And on top of the fantasy scores. What we've learned is I actually need more money to put in the canaan gun. Yes. And Jeltsin Almeida is delaying the entire fight card because everyone's yelling at him to get into the middle so they can announce the winner. Hmm.

Man, that was electric. So Casey, right now, we are about to get the official announcement. Yep. This is happening as we'll let, we will let Casey know from now on where the time is at. Because guess what? It's Yuri Jamal time. Oh, yeah. Also, CO3,000.

I'm sorry. I got excited that a good thing happened. I can't contain myself and scream away from the mic when good things happen. I'm going to just, I'm shining my light. Let it shine bright. Jeltao Meda is so funny. So apparently, just jumping on the socials, apparently the UFC's social media team tweeted out

Justin Gaichie versus Dan Hooker for UFC 313 in March, along with Alex Pereira versus Maga Mancalaia, but then they deleted the tweets with the posters. So that's happening. We're just not confirmed. Something tells me we're about, we were probably going to get this announcement. on the broadcast.

And then those tweets will reappear. Someone got a little excited. Yeah, people screen grabbed them. So it looks like it's a thing. The internet is forever once it's out there. Except for TikTok, not forever, obviously. Not for on TikTok, but once you, yeah, once they're out there, people are all over that shit.

You remember when they put it on the side of a building once? John Jones was, that was the best. No, no, that's not what happened. It's on the side of a building. It's literally in the arena that's going to host the fight. Yeah. He called out Cyril Gunn. He said he was going to.

I think he talked to Guy Cruz. He sure did. He said that. Honestly, I think that's right. Like, I know there's a world where maybe Aspinol takes on Cyril Gond. Surin did officially beat Volkov. Sir Gond needs to fight this dude. She needs to do it.

I got to tell you. I'm like at first I would pick, I was going to pick Cyril. But after watching the Volkov fight, I'm going to confidently pick Jelton Al-Meda in that one. I would have picked Jailta Ameta after watching the John Jansero fight. And watching the Volcott fight too. Because now we know that Jelton's got some hands too. I mean, he's look at him.

Man, is built like a pile of cobblestones. The biggest question about him was, the biggest question about him was like whether or not he was going to go back to 205. And even after the blades lost, people were like, yeah, maybe he should just go to 205. but he stuck to his guns and he's like, nah, man, I'm gonna stick around. I cannot wait for what's about to transpire.

It's gonna be so fun, man. It's gonna be so freaking. Yuri Barashka versus Jabal Hill. And Jamal Hill, credit to him. He said a very good fight week, I think. Yeah, Sir has.

It's had a terrific fight week, and I love that so much. Jay Fish. He's learning some lessons. Jay Fish super chatted in, and he is absolutely correct. It's not even 11 p.m. yet and it's Yuri time. What a combo.

We got Adam Carolla and Kevin Kosser. There's A.C. Slater, baby. Mario Lopez. There's a champ. The champ is here. Justin Gagee behind him. Maybe we'll get an announcement. Tadiana.

They didn't get patchy a little title. Pants. With the lakeshirt jersey, Brian Ortega behind him. Brontea got the hair out again now. Pulled back. So this is the third. 312 main card and boy it's a tough it's a tough

scene outside of the top two we got ddp strick and we get jangweili tatyana sworez we have justin taffa versus talison teshara as the feature bout jimmy krew versus hidolfo bolato and jed jake matthews your guy opening up a main card on pay-per-view in 2025 against francisco prado I really like Francisco Prado. He's going to be my guy in that fight.

Look, I'm not here to tell you that that is a great card top to bottom. I'm here to tell you I don't give a shit because the top two fights are good. Excellent. And so, yeah, the rest of that is poop soup and a half. Like, it's poop soup with the side of Garbo. But top two fights are sick. Are we about to get a? I think they're going to kill some times.

We're obviously moving pretty well. Are we going to get a announcement? Oh, yeah. There it is. Alex Pereira versus Magerman Ancolaev. Let's break in go. March 8th, UFC 313. It is a go, ladies and gentlemen.

Giermei Cruz getting Alex Pereira in for his fantasy team. Nobody drafted Magerman Ankelaiev. I guess not entirely surprising. I don't regret my Bogg and Goosecroft pick at all. But finally, this is the fight that needed to happen, Mike. it needed to happen. I'm glad we're getting it. Oh, my goodness.

The commanders are killing them. 4528. I am waiting for the betting odds to drop. Something tells me Pereira is going to be an underdog. And I'm going to bet that immediately. You see, I mean, so the commanders are going to beat the Lions. They're up 4528. And five round co-main event, Justin Gagee versus Dan Hooker.

It's official. 313 has is awesome. It's better than 312. Yeah. It's better than 312. Let me see if we have Pereira odds. Let's give us, do we get any more? Those are two damn good fights.

I'm glad minus 140 is what I'm seeing out there. Good. I am betting on Elshare right to second. Appeer to be getting there. 313 looks like it's pretty decent. I mean, we don't know the rest of it. Look at these guys. Just rolling in in white T's polos.

I'm going to go play a round of golf before. they beat some ass later tonight. Man, 313, I'm now very excited about. I think Gachie Hooker is good matchmaking. I think Gage can kill him, but I've been wrong before, obviously. And it's probably going to be a super fun fight. And I've wanted Uncle Hav Pereira for over a year now, finally doing it. If he beats Uncle Live, which, as you said, he's going to beat him.

I think he can. I think he absolutely can. I'm not saying that this is a runaway victory for Magamara. I've never said that. if he does, then you're done at light heavyweight. Then you're just going up to heavyweight. I think that that's just for sure the thing you do. And we continue to see this remarkable career out of Alex Pereira.

It's the fight. It's the fight that always should have been. Can't wait for it. And I'm going to back my boy. I think Magmaic's going to get it done. I think I was going to boop him real quick. It'd be really funny. I think Goliath is going to feel like he's got to deliver like a fun fight in this one.

And then he's just going to get booed. Oh, my God. Speaking of a fun fight where someone's getting booted. It's about it. It's about to happen. I'm so excited. UFC 313, we got Alex Pereira versus Magam and Ankelai. We got Justin Gagee versus Dan Hooker five rounds.

Amanda Lemos versus Yasmin Lucindo. Bruno Faheda versus Armin Petrojan. Ozzie Diaz de Jordan Santos. Alex Marono versus Carlos Leal. Myron Santos versus Francis Marshall. Bruno Silva versus Josh Van. And Chris Gutierrez versus Gian Matsumoto is UFC 313. I like that.

I like Shabby. Matsumoto Chris Gutierrez for a lot. Yeah, it's a good fight. It's a good fight. Carlos Lial, Alex Marono will just be super fun and weird. So we get Yuri with all the hair and all the pre-fighting talks, and he's going to come out with the Mike Heck hair. Just fully, but, oh, my God.

I thought he killed Dominic Reyes. Pereira via Boop. Magomed's too much of a donk. I mean, it could happen. I think for her boobs him, it's not because Magramead's a dog. It's because he chops the leg out, and then Magermade is without a leg to stand on. Yeah, he gets obliterated with leg kicks. Like, he gets clobbered with him.

He does. Perrero's a better wrestler than people think. Yeah. I think Magamud's going to take him down a bunch, though. I mean, he should. He absolutely should. But he keeps playing the, oh, I can outstrike him. Watch what happens when I stand with him.

So Aga's fighting in Ramadan, bold. Yeah. So not wrong. It is a little bold. Well, I was fought in Ramadan a bunch times. So I am far from an expert in the Islamic faith to my understanding for special events, occasions you are able to basically pause Ramadan if you need to and say, I can't for reasons of the Olympics or whatever and make up for it a later date. Maybe he's doing that. I don't think he has the option, though.

they come to him with a date. If he says no, he's never getting that fight. He's got to do it. He just has to take it. So I assume my guess is that he will not be participating in Ramadan during his prep and fight and that he will delay it. But maybe he does.

Maybe he is just comfortable doing that. Guys, Jamal Hill is walking to the October. Jamal's looking locked in, locked in. Oh, man. I'm so, I'm about to,

the energy levels are about to shoot through the room. Energy levels have been real weird today. I was telling Casey on the People's Prefight Show. 15 minutes before the People's Prefight Show started, I ended a 72-hour water fast. Wow. I did it. Did it? And then I had food during that?

So you have food, no water? I just had water. Oh, water. Got it. Yeah. Water, black coffee and like a little bit of bone broth like from time to time, some electrolytes. So I went through the whole thing.

And then I like right before, right at 5 o'clock when it ended, I ordered a public's like turkey wrap and just ate half of it right before we went on. And by the time the People's Free Fight Show was over, I felt like I was on like, I felt like it's gonna run through this wall. Like the energy levels, I turned.

Blood sugar spikes. It was crazy, dude. And it felt like a trillion dollars. And then I was like, wow, food tastes so good. And then I just ate the rest of the wrap. and had like a couple other things and then I was like I'm still kind of hungry and I had a few more things

and then like at the end I was like I ate a little too much some was in a little bit of a food coma but now now second I drink Jamal Hill walk into the to the cage blood sugar butts get a thousand three trillion right now

maybe I'll try that I did an inadvertent 24 hour fast yesterday it was not intentional but I woke up at the ass crack of dawn to fly up to New York had a lot of issues with my travel I get to New York I have to immediately do morning combat the moment I was done

I left the studio caught a cab up to Vox offices to do our show immediately when that was done caught a cab back out to JFK get into the thing I immediately have to do some work so I can't go get dinner

I'm on the flight suddenly I'm just at my house and I haven't eaten in 24 hours like kind of hungry the only thing I had yesterday was some water and two shots of tequila. There you go.

I'll get you. I've never done 72. Maybe that might be fun. I did it last year and I felt way better last year than I felt this year. I also missed time the start of it because I was like, I'm going to do it at five. But it was like a weird week because I was like single dad this week. So when I went, usually I go to the gym in the morning, but my kid has a workout class too. So like when he works out, I worked out with him.

this week. That would be tough. The kids did one and I did the other. And I was like, all right, I'm going to start at five. But the workout was at 5.30. So I had my last meal or my last bite of food, which is a protein bar right before the workout started. And it was like a ridiculously taxing one. And by the time like I got home, I was like, I'm so hungry right now, but I've already started the timer. I can't do it. And I was already like in deep shit right away. Also speaking of locked in, Yuri Perajka looks like he is about. to. I'm so excited for this.

He's about to assault the Huns. I don't know. His face. Bruce Bobford is a man who is very prepared to do battle. Yeah. Bruce Bobford could just, he looks in the best shape I'd maybe ever seen. He looks in exceptional shape and he looks locked in.

He looks. He looks like a billion. By the way, I, um, oh, this is just good shit right here. I mean,

it's just, what a great guy. Just terrific. All the vibes are with, or with Yuri. And it's just, it's almost like somewhat unfair to Jamal right now because if Jamal goes out there and beats Yuri, like he gets treated like even more of a of a, of a villain because of what Yuri's fighting for right now. And it's not even his fault. It's not his fault. It's just not. Play the card you're dealt. I did not watch misfits boxing.

I know you got to do that, which is, uh, boy, those are tough scenes, but. This is really bad. I saw Darren Till beat Anthony Taylor. Did he just beat the, shit out of him mostly not entirely uh he was clearly 20 plus pounds heavier than anthony tay yeah he looks gigantic and taylor acquitted himself as well as he could he landed some shots but they just couldn't move dantil um he mostly put it on him dropped him multiple times multiple knockdowns didn't get counted they were called shoves they were pretty knockdown it's got a great stay down gone fucking rules by the way pretty good i mean they're ready to go i wish you had the top not, but it is

oh my God. So keyed in. He's ready to fist fight a dude. This fucking rules. Jamal's going to die. He's going to kill him. Oh, they're walking towards each other before the intro.

Mike Beltrad getting in the middle and they chase to take one step back. They're not going to fight. They're just staring each other down there about to fight. They're going to fight when it happens. Just ring the bell. Oh my God.

Just don't even do the intro if they start swinging. But he put it on. on him. Scary thing that was not, it was told on the broadcast, it was not shown. Apparently Anthony Taylor collapsed outside of the ring after. He gave a post-flight speech.

Seemed okay. But apparently he collapsed. He woke up. They gave him oxygen, took him back, and he reportedly left the arena, did not have to get transported to hospital. But yeah,

it was mostly one-way traffic. Can't wait for this fight. I thought one of the first. I hope this is one-way traffic. for Yeri. Jamal getting booed out of the building. Boy, I mean, we talked about the pressure on Morado Oshulay,

and how this is everything. Boy, the pressure is not exactly the same, but it's pretty damn close for Jamal Hill here. This is about as must win as it gets. Yeri needs this one for like the meritocratic legacy conversation. But at the end of the day, Yuri is in, Yuri is in territory where like nobody gives a fuck.

They just want to say, I'll watch him fight for, he could lose 10 in the row. He's in the Derek Lewis kind of tier where it's like, it don't matter who he fights. It's just awesome that he's fighting. I think he can do it too, baby. Let's go. We both. Listen to this frigging crowd.

We would both on Yuri, right? I got Yuri at plus 115, I think. What's the actual number? I got my plus 100. I'm dead even. Yeah, I know I got a fight a little. It would have gotten better. And AK has yeary.

Plus 114. That's what I got on. AK can get some more big points as he has Yuri on his team. He's the best. Guys, he is the best. If there's any goodness left of this world, please help Yuri win. I know Luke Thomas hates fun, guys. I know that he wants to play defense.

Don't listen to him. You don't love people in spite of their flaws. You love them because of their flaws. Why we love Yuri Prasca. And he's about to do this damn thing. Let's go. Sit down, relax. Buckle up.

We're going to count it all. Mike Beltran. Yeah, no, I'm going to tell Casey right now. I'm going to tell. Are you ready? Are you ready? I want to see the move. Come on, Mike.

Come on. First round. Ready. Ready. Go. We're off. Touch of the gloves. 57, 56, 55.

55. Casey is the best in the world. Neri just right on. Probe him with low, low obliques early. Jamal's got knee sleeves. on both knees. Knee sleeves. Knee bar him, Yuri.

Let's go. Jamal is just going to wait to land a counter left hand when Yuri. He's going to hurt him. He's going to drop him. And Yuri's going to survive. He's going to lead with his head

and Jamal's going to draw him with the left. But then that's just the beginning of the dance, boys. Oh, man. You're giving him a lot of looks. I like the constant stance switching. Nice like kick from Jamal.

I wondered if that was one of my big questions. Are we going to see him do that because we know that that is very that's a weapon to attack eerie with oh good right hand from eerie from yerry here looks real fast tonight looking looking quick oh good left hand from yerry you still get the hands down oh he's got it now you really has his hands down by his hip feeling himself bjp baby let's go you're just giving him so many different things to look at a lot of A lot of flash, a lot of flare. A lot of a dazzling.

I like, it's a nice to answer from Jamal. Oh, another one. Oh, big shots from both of them. Good D. He from Jamal. And Yuri. And Yuri. Did he get a ding ding king?

Got a whole load. Can you imagine if he, if the same thing happened, he pushes him away, he knocked him out? That would be really funny. Oh, my God. Oh. Yere is slipping more than, than, uh, yes. He got, got his head off. Oh, is Jamal bleeding from the nose there?

Or is that just the mustache? Oh, good jab from Jamal. I think it might just be his mustache. My boys. Oh, weird. I didn't even know what that. A jab hook. It's Yere B.

From Yeri. Just let Yeri be here. Just let him cook. He's going to look weird. God, I need to see this man fight trick as Duplessy. I need it. Oh, good. Oh, a little elbow from Uri.

Let's go Yeri chance. Both guys swinging in a miss. Oh, the front kick. A lot more of that from you, I actually think that would be a very good weapon to deploy. It's been a pretty good round for Yuri so far. It's doing fine. I mean, it's a little more feeling out both ways than I thought we might get,

but, you know, both dudes have shown pretty clear respect for each other. We're both former champion. Now they know what the next title fight is too. Oh, they do. Good right hand from there. Yeah. He's landing. Oh, he got him!

He's in trouble. Left hand drops Jamal Hill. Jamal Hill might be okay and just got dropped. Yeah, he's up to his feet. Oh, his legs might still be a little shaky. Yeah, he's bad on back, though. That's good offense from Hill. Just fire back.

He heard him. He heard him bad with that left hand. Oh, another one. Oh, right hand. Jamal Hill landed. Oh, they're just slugging now, baby. Come on. Oh, nice.

Right hand from Hill. Oh, good. He can't get too Yerre crazy. Oh, big knee. Come on, Yuri. Come on. Oh, Jamal Hill almost fell over. Yeah, he did.

Jamal's still not all back. Here, you got to, you got to keep hitting him. You can't be too insane, but you got to hit him. You got to hit him. Oh. Oh, he's spinning back fist. Jamal Hill's getting his legs back under him. And now he's jabbing.

Oh, oh, Jamal. Heary was so close to kill him. Oh, Big knee. Oh, another knee. Oh, Jamal is bleeding now. He's bleeding from the nose now. Come on, Yuri. Now we're getting a fight, boys.

Dude, look at Yerri. Oh, good jabs both sides. Oh, good job for Jamal. It's a good right hand. Oh, now you're pissing Yuri off. It's going to charge him up with your punches. Oh, right here from Yerry just missed. Oh, we buddy.

Oh, he tried a big upper cut there. Jamal is busted open. I can't tell everybody's going to be. It's right in the nose. He's wearing it bad. Yeri's dipping and then a left hook has dropped Jamal the once and almost killed in the second. Oh, good right hand from Yeri on that. Yuri's showing some, this is an excellent defense movement.

Luke Thomas. He's trying out, Luke Thomas. Look at my boy playing defense. Body kick from Yury. That was nice. Oh, good right hand from Jemal there. Jamal slowing down a little bit. His eye, his left eye.

Shiner under his left eye. Yeah. Good body kick from Jamal. You're just sort of, Oh, Yuri nailed them again. Wow. It's like, what are you stopping it for? I was so locked in.

I didn't know very long time. Beat up in there, but that was still fun as hell. 10-9, Yuri, without question. Look at my slipping. I'm a little year he perhaps could just, whoop. I mean, that was also fun as hell.

Jamal Hill very much in this fight. Shout out to Jamal Hill for surviving. because he got dropped bad. I thought that fight. I thought it was over. I really thought it was over there too. Man, I'm queuing up to tweet to fire at Luke Thomas when this goes down. Look at that left.

I mean, that is a picture perfect. It's as Jamal steps in, that left comes across the chin, full head turn. Shout out to Jamal Hill for surviving that. That is as clean of a left hand as you're going to eat from a doo-doo hits. Like hits. That was sick That was really, really good And Jamal Hill looks okay

We're covered up I obviously got some blood in the mouth But that's the business boys Let's go Here we go First round Come on year Let's do the thing

Come on Mike Stop wasting time They're walking towards each other We don't need you You don't even need to start it 458 48 47 6 5 bam High kick From Jamal Hill goes to the big high kick

Love that Give him something new Jamal Hill was almost exclusively hands there Yeri was really mixing things in Oh, he almost got the spitting elbow again Tried for it again, Jamal. Jamal is obviously fully recovered now I thought he was slowing a little bit

But he does not look slow right now So maybe he just No, I'm just saying slightly more timid Yeah He knows that there's real offense coming back He can't he can't just say I'm going to kill this guy the first time I touch him Yeah

which many people thought was the case. Yerry shown a little defense too. Made him miss a few times. It was just. He's slippery in there. You can't catch it. He's adding layers. Alex Pereira,

watch out. I'm coming for you. Oh, head kick. Jamal Hill just slips that head. Oh, good left hand from Jamal. Oh,

jumping me from Yuri. He's so silly. Right hand from Yuri. Right hand. How do you fight this guy? It's got, it's so, It's so hard.

He's such a maniac. If you're touching this, you don't want to see this dude fight trigger gives me pussy. Oh, are we getting eye poke? I poke. Oh, okay.

Take some time. Yeri called it himself. What a, just a humble guy. Gentleman. Gentleman, the scholar. You can feel it. Eyes are squishy.

Just parry in the front and just little thumbs to the eye. Little thumb to the eye. A little thumb to the eye. You know, good strategic move. You already quilted up one eye. Let's cheat.

Oh, you're just on the other. Yeah. Yeah. They ain't going to take a point. Don't you worry about it. Never going to take a point for that. Nah. How he says he's good?

How many bars are the fence for 30 seconds against Fentonel? 38, 39 seconds is all we took. And we're right back to action. We're right back to action. 43, 42, 41, 40. Bam. Body kick. Another one from here.

He's not kicking at all. Those kicks, I mean, it's throwing like two head kicks maybe. A couple low kicks early. But as soon as they started throwing those low kicks went out the window. Oh, good shots of both guys. Yeah, good attempt of a knee there from Jamal Hill his year was ducking around.

Didn't land there. The looping left that just kind of not working. Maybe go to the hide kick with the spin again. That was kind of fun. Oh, the left hand again that he dropped him with. He tried, he didn't, Jamal was better defensively. Jamal got that one that time.

He saw it coming because Yeri dipped through the left. Oh, I like the double body kicks from Yuri. Jamal tries him one back. She says, what's up? Jamal's missing a lot. here. Oh, he didn't miss there. From Jamal. Yeri.

That was about as good as Jamal could hit him. And Yeri walks through it. That is his best punch tonight. He glended that one snappy on him. Yep. Oh, head hit from Yari. Oh,

left hand. Left hand. Oh, Jamal's shaking off. Which means. He heard him. Oh, now we got an eye poke on the other side.

Yeri trying to walk it off now. He seems like he's trying to say, let's just go. Yeah, he's like he's, he was starting to ding him up a little bit. All right, take the time now. Might as well. I mean, it's take 39 seconds like Jamal did and we're right back into it.

Yeah. 100%. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Is that two? Almost two fingers in the eye. At least they're not going burnt like in. Yeah.

It's not a 90 degree. They kind of go in and up. But yeah. And Yuri absolutely. Very obvious eye poke. Yuri got poked in the eye and he cracked Jamal at the exact same time. Plus we're even. Both guys have been poked in the same eye.

They've both been poked in the right eye. This might go more than 30. That was that was a tougher poke. That one looked worse than the thumb, I will say that. Hard to know. We're not feeling those, but. Oh, both eyes, actually. Oh, wow, a double one.

Comes across and gets them. Shout out, Jamal. I mean, that's how you do it, boys and girls. Hey, listen, yeah. Let's even things up here. You know, now both guys got hurt eyes. Both of them. Both guys get hurt eyes.

Both guys get hurt eyes, you know? Oh, no. He's got a lifetime, kid. You got four minutes. You got four minutes. Use them all the time in the world. settle on in? Oh no.

Oh, they've called the doctor. Oh, no. I don't care for this. Don't you take this for me? No. Don't you take this? No. Ask him if he can see

in three and a half minutes, not now. There's no need to ask this question now. He's got time. Mike, what the fuck, man? Why are you calling the docks in? Yeah. You cannot make this decision right now.

Don't even try it. This would be absolutely ridiculously brutal. he's trying to say let's go oh now they're looking at him but year he is trying to say let's go start this back up i want to get in oh we're starting it up doc says he's good to go i hope year he's not but still take the time still take the time shouldn't take the time but we're going two two minutes and oh mike beltron is now warning them about i pokes yeah this is the warning before the final warning before the final warning and we're back to action 237 36 303

Spin kick and wheel kick. Did kind of slow our momentum. I felt like we were rising. The vibe meter was getting to astronomical levels and now we're just, we're fine. Oh, good right hand from Jamal. Great body kick from Yuri as well. Oh, you're running.

Leaping left, just a jumping, weird switching left. He just jumped. You just jumped. He just did a plieie in the middle of the cage. You've never seen that. Oh! Big right hand. Jamal just ate that like nothing.

Jamal's chin really holding up after that first drop. That was a big right hand. Good right hand from Jamal. Come on, Yuri. Let's make some magic, baby. Yuri still struggling a little bit with that right eye. Honestly, wouldn't hate to see your ear you throw a take down here. Keep things fresh while his eyes are not there.

Oh, Jamal ends a good combo. Good right hand at the end from Yuri. Oh, right here for Jabal. Another good right hand. Oh, combo. You're slipping now, so I'm still. Try that pull counter left again. Jamal's trying to get Yuri just straight up charge after him,

which is a very smart strategy because he sees- Oh, go right-hand from Erie. Jamal is starting to see the drop counters from Erie better. Yeah. When he's slipping off and coming with the right of the left, he is starting to turn those off. I think Erie kind of slipped that right. Jamal just misses with the left jab.

another miss from Jamal. High kick from Yuri blocks. Oh, good body to the body from Jamal Hill. That was nice. I don't think Yuri like that too much. No. Oh, that right hand.

He's just running away. He's just jumping bastard, Jerry. Jamal goes back down low again. This has become semi-tackical. This is such a close round. It becomes very, very close rounds. Become very tactical, both, both swinging and missing. 20 seconds left here in round two.

What a fight. Jamal is now really starting to target the body. I like it. I think he thinks it's available and it looked like it might be. Oh. Oh. Oh, good need from Jamal. Three seconds.

Let's see. Great round. Great round. I, uh, despite the I post. I think Jamal Hill won that round. I have it, uh, 1918 for a year. I gave you a 108 in the first round. Of course you did.

10.9. Jamal Hill for me. He knocked him down. It should. That's more. He did more. That is an, that is a major impact. It's worth a 10-8.

I mean, Hill looked really good at that round, especially after the eye pokes where I'm really not sure he was recovered. But he was starting to feel pressured like the fight might get stopped. Joel was looking good before that, made no mistake. Yeah, Yuri is also looking good. He looked much worse after the double eye poke. Yeah. And it felt like he rushed that back because he thought the fight might stop. Yeah, both landed to the body there.

That was good. Yeah, I mean, he got hitting the body there for sure. were. Final five. All right. Let's go, baby. This is it. I can't believe you didn't finish that in the first.

I know. I can't believe we're seeing it through a ground here. Let's go. Let's go. This has big fantasy implications too. If this goes to a decision, who saw that one coming? I know. Oh, they hug it up before the last one.

Respect already had earned inside the cage now. This has been the best fight week for Jamal Hill in the last like two years. I mean, and this fight is very good. Both men may be on their way to some bonus money at this rate of speed. I feel like Jamal Hill talk to Joaquin Buckley. Everybody can turn it around. Yeri pawn the lead hand and then goes high. Jamal Hill, nothing happens.

Joe Rogan thinks Yuri might be up two rounds. So I've seen a couple of people in the comments that have it. It could be. That could be. The second round is very close. Yeah. The hill really going to the bottom. Parasco was like pulling away before the eye pokes.

Yeah. Parasco I think was ahead prior to that. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, Hill on shaking legs, run away.

Oh, Hill on shaking legs. Oh, Jerry nails him. Big shots. Big shots. Big knees. Knees.

Knees. Rock them, sock him. Let's go. Get in. Oh, we got tight clinch on both sides. Oh. Clenches. Both clucking them now.

Just chocking them now. Oh, this is a hockey fight. That is a hot. Oh, Jaba ball is lost it up. Again, year he's still showing a lot of

got good hands from Jamal right there Jamal is tough as shit man Jamal this is frankly a fight I wanted to see from Jamal Hill because I said in the lead up I don't know who Jamal Hill is I know he's had one amazing performance I know who Jamal Hill is he's top five light

heavyweight win or lose whatever happens is jacked but this last three minutes small hill top five light heavyweight I have no questions about it now showing grit termination fight half. Oh, sweet left hand by Yuri. Sweet left hand from Yuri, yeah.

I heard a high kick call from, I'm guessing, Jamal Hill's corner. I would assume so. I'm sure Yuri's Corner isn't saying high kick. They're saying like, I don't know what they're saying. Some sort of warrior technology. Yetty special. Yeti Spear.

Excalibur. Jamal Hill's ability to get his ass beat for a minute. Oh, good shots of the body from Yuri. Jamal just kind of punching his way slowly back into the round. Oh, good left hand from Yuri. He's walking him back onto those shots as he was doing in the first round now. Yep. He's countering real nice now.

Just drawing him in and then pop. Oh, great knee to the body. Here he got his hands down, but that was a nasty power knee from Jamal Hill. Oh, this has got to be over. He is all over. Jamal is trying to hang on. He's so, look at him.

He's trying to get up. That right hand, he floored him. him. Oh, Jamal's on his feet. Jamal's on the end. All people did. Right in. Oh, he's going down again. He's going down again.

Belgrade's stopping this. It's over. It's over. It's over. This man's life. He's getting disaster. It's over. Gary Pulaska.

Holy shit. What a fight. What a performance. Oh my God. Fight of the night. Fight of the year, boys and girls. Whoa. That was awesome.

Both sides. Jamal was badly hurt. That was, that was insane. I have to send a mean tweet to Luke Thomas. Emotionless. I mean, that was. Holy shit, dude. That was amazing.

That was an unbelievable fight. You're right. You're right, dude. Jamal Hill is one of the five best light. It was a great performance. It was why, like, even after he won the belt, this is the fight I've wanted ever since. this would be this was everything i needed to know and this is exactly the fight i think we would have got what a fight i mean again the left hand starts at all this right hand i mean a clean as can be again jemal hill's feet are together he has nothing to take that just gets dropped credit

to hill for taking just a he's just shit load of punishment tonight he's just battling oh oh I mean, right. I mean, just, that was worse than the first round one. Yeah. It's your turn. You, I've shot plenty of money guns tonight. We hit it. You cash, you cash bigger money than I did on it too.

I sure did. Should we fire the money gun? Mm-hmm. The mic puppet, the money gun. This is the best watch party ever. This is literally the best $15 I've ever spent. Oh my God, dude. That's so good.

I'm so happy with that. Oh, boys. Hundies everywhere. And shout out to Alexander K. Lee, who made a fantasy team of almost exclusively my dudes and is killing it right now as a result. He just picked guys that I am unabashedly in love with and have told the world for years. I think Casey picking Drick's Duplice is the funniest, the funniest traffic of the year. It was really funny.

Dude, that is... That was sick. Dude, that was sick. The vibe meter... Oh, the check. Now we're getting two... Now we're getting a high-level Bandaway title fight. I need a singer after these three fights.

Literally the things I wanted to happen, three in a row, my silly guy won, my climb bet won, my silly guy won the fight of the year thus far. But so I just hope Jamal Hill, like, when he reacts to this, he does so the right way. Dude, as long as you don't say something horrible, you can't leave this loser, it's such a good fight.

It's great performance, even in the scene. His stock has never been out. Even when he won the belt, his stock is higher now, in my opinion, that it was then after this fight. I am just so much more certain than I was when he won the belt

because I was like, maybe Glover got old overnight. I don't know. It was great. Defense of Yuri. I mean, not hands up. What I love about it is,

that, because we saw this a lot in the rackets fight, too. He didn't do that I'm going to cover. It is just, he slipped. He slipped a lot of punches in the rackage fight. He didn't check a single leg kick, mind you, but he slipped a lot of punches. This rule, this night is going as great as things could happen. Spectacular. Both fighters are great.

You're right, Mr. T. John P.N., you are exactly correct. AK's draft sheet was my adult sons. Dear to Hachka, Rini, Rini, or something. Rainer to Ritter, Reiner to Ritter, both are my, it's my large and medium-ish adult son. Driggis duplicity is my true medium adult son forever and always, but this is best, man. Man, this, Jamal Hill took such a beating at the end here. That right hand floors him again.

The fact that he survives that onslaught to get up and then just kind of fall over again. I'm tough as nails. Daniel White's on the phone as it's happening. I mean, he's probably on the phone to make sure they can clear the 50K. They got to give these dudes for five the night. That's your fire of the night for sure. I would,

I would double bonus here. I hope he doesn't or else AK is getting a lot of points on that one. Yeah, that's true. I have to look at the criteria. What ranked wins. So that's a 200 point because he gets a finished ranked win and 100. 200 points. moves in to the lead.

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He called for a third to fight with Pereira Surely not Because you can't do that Maybe uh Look if Ankelyev Look he can be the backup fighter I guess He should

But he We just don't never need to see him fight Alex again Unless he wins like seven in a row But I do believe Now that we know Magam and Engelive Is fighting Ox Pereira I believe Carlos Olberg is taking on Jan Boehovic Sure is

So perhaps Yiri takes on the winner of that or Pereira gets boops maybe Bogdan goose cov I don't know just gets a real fire up the mountain kind of opportunity yeah I don't know if you do that the truth is it does not matter you can't log of Ed for year 3 put him in there against any person

and it is fireworks I said this on our BTL set it on a preview show I've said it everywhere and I believe this is now his eighth UFC fight in the seven fights before this. He had or actually maybe.

Oh, CM Punk in the building. Erie has one more bonus than he has fights in the UFC and the two fights he lost and he didn't get a bonus. Alex Pereira got Keo bonus. He's about to give fighter. I see Matt Brown back there. There's Jed's favorite fighter of all time. Michael Chandler.

Boo. Yeree Perashka is just light heavyweight Justin Gehche and I love him so much. so much. Oh man. Marab versus Umar time. I mean, terrific fight too. It's so good. Like this,

I'm so fascinated by this matchup because I just truly don't know what's going to happen. I feel like I do, but I'm just wrong all the time. Yeah. Like, we're all wrong from time to time. I'm honestly, a lot of my confidence in this.

I truly think is just inherited confidence. from Umar. He's just so unconcerned. We shall see. Excuse me. I mean, this is, this fight is everything from Rob. I mean, it's literally his entire career. This is, this is everything.

This is it. He has to win this fight. Or he's not done. Like, he'll still fight and win fights, but he's not fighting for the belt again. And thus it is just a, an emergency situation, and they need somebody to fill in. they will be in no rush to give him another title shot.

No rush. I've said it before. I think that this is the biggest gap between a win and a loss, maybe in the history of the sport. Because with a win, Marab gets to rematch a bunch of dudes. He's already won. He gets to stack title defenses. Frankly, this fight, and some of this is certainly supposition,

but I am assuming if he wins this fight, his first title defense. His next two title defenses are rematches with Peoriaean and Sean O'Malley. Fights, we would expect him to win. If he wins those three fights, Marabdalas really is your bantamweight goat. So this fight is the difference between him being the bantamweight goat and all the money that comes with multiple title fights and nothing. And him dropping back to being a dude.

It is, like, the stakes have just never been higher that I can think of. for one fight to be so prescriptive to how a legacy will unfold as this one is. So Henry Suhudo, who, I mean, he says not a lot of smart things. But he has been in there with a lot of very good bantam weights. He claims Marab is already the best bantam weight of all time. Yeah, that's wrong. With just the resume he has, wins over Jan, wins over Suhudo, wins over Aldo, Sean O'Malley.

The list goes on and on. And if he adds Umar to the list, like, it's a very good. It's a, it's a, it's a, it's an argument that can be made. Tom Cruise have like four title defenses though. Does he? I think he has like counting WCs. Yeah, because Cruz and Sterling, I think are tied for UFC title. But yeah, I think I think counting WCs, he has multiples.

Yeah. Um, but Rob's resume overall and like the names he has on it is probably better than Aljo's. Oh, I, I think that it is. I would agree with. that. I'm going to look at old Dom Cruz right now and see. Pretty good run. One, two, three, four successful title defenses. Then he vacated the belt because he was injured for seven years, beat to Kea Mizigaki, then re-won. Um, so he does have five. They are split between two title reigns. However, those two title reins were not the result of a loss. They were the

result of vacation because his injury. And the Cody loss. Um, no, no, his, his last defense was you ride a favor before Cody. So he has five official title defenses and he'd never lost the belt during the gap between them. Very realistically, you could argue that the T.J. Dillishaw win is more a title defense than a title win.

So he could have six defenses. Can't quite give Tikaa Mizzacchi that same credence because he was not fighting for the belt at that point. Yeah, that was definitely the Dilleshaw Cruz was definitely the best fight I've ever seen live. It was a really good fight. I mean, I've been in covered events.

Like, I was in the building for Hamzaa versus Gilbert Burns, but I wasn't like in the arena to watch it. I was in the media room watching it. So, like, I could feel the vibes in the building, which are off the charts. But I was like in the arena, in a chair, like, as a fan watching Dillishaw versus Cruz in Boston. And it was like, it was awesome.

If I ruled, this is a terror. God, those tough fights are great at 312. I think DDP is going to. mow down circling this time i god i hope so i don't yeah i don't think this i don't think he's gonna mow him down i do think he's gonna win more clearly than he won the first time i don't think yeah i kind of feel like ddp's got finish him this time i would be the best uh my favorite thing that has happened this year is the israel dissonia robert whittaker combo it's so good where they're just well the whole part of it is heartwarming fun but the part where they are specifically talking about ddp

while watching a highlight or something is the funniest thing in the world. Two certified geniuses of fighting. Guys who have so much knowledge and understanding being like he's the best bad fighter I've ever seen, which is frankly a breakdown I have specifically given. And like Robert Whitaker has a quarry's like, I remember being in there and thinking,

damn, he is so slow. And then I got punched in the face. Yeah. Yeah, I dropped him. And I went to bounce on him. And he just stood up and just kind of waved his hands at me. And I had to stop attacking him. So it worked, but it was awful.

And then suddenly I was loose. It was like, yeah, that's my guy. Oh, look at this. This is fun. It's a fun little video. Did you hear Javier Mendez? This fight will determine whether Umar is the young eagle or the eagle. Now he's the young eagle or whatever.

and if he gets the bout that he graduates to full-blown eagle. He gets to leave the nest. I believe that was on Embedded. This is fun. Guys, Yanbovich is fighting Carlos Olberg, so he can fight Erie if he beats Carlos Solberg. But if he doesn't, I think Carlos Solberg, honestly, if he doesn't, there's a world, Carlos Holberg just gets straight shot into a title fight.

Big Winstreet. There's a very real chance that happens. Big Winstreet if Pereira hangs around. Or even if he doesn't. I mean, if he does it, then, yeah. Alberg versus Yerri for the vacant belt. Well, no, because Uncle Yav, I feel like probably if he gets boot by, if he gets boot by Pereira, no way.

I feel like they just do Yeri Uncle Yav, right? Oh, maybe not. Maybe because they hate him. They don't do that. You know what? You're right. You're right. I'd watch the hell of Yuri versus Silberg.

I will watch Yer Pajka fight any person. Here we go. Here's the promo video. Max Rabkin, I remember the triple yon night. It was going to be so great, and it didn't work out for us. I was the, I think I was the only person, like, the yon, yon, yon parlay. And then it failed. It sure did.

I was upset, but it was so smart of me. I see the vision. No, GFC. Where are you out on this pick, Mike? Are you officially on Marab? I have a bet on Marab. My official pick is Marabai decision. Your official pick is Marabai.

Wow. I love that for you. I just, I just, the more I think about this fight and the more of like tape I've watched and all this, the way Umar wins this fight

is he just flat out kills Marab. Like this fight is not competitive for a moment if he wins. He just flattens him and just runs his ass over and Marab's got no answer for him. If this fight is competitive, Marab is going,

to win the fight. I think Umar needs to get it done. And Umar can go five. I was impressed with what he did, a good, Scori Sanhagen. But he ain't, Sanhagen, as great as he is, he ain't Marab. He is an annoying son of a bitch to fight. And that man ain't going away. And if this fight is competitive.

Now, could Umar go in there and just blow the doors off Marab? I definitely think if anyone's getting the doors blown off them, it's Marab by Umar. So my official pick. I think I pick more, I, I pick, I, I pick, Umar with a fourth round TKO. Yeah. I mean, the bet was easy because I saw him at plus 285 and that's just automatic. But I just, until I see somebody just dust Marab, I just can't pick against him.

And I feel like that's the only way he loses. He's on an 11 fight win streak or whatever. Yeah. I feel like it's the only way he loses to anybody is he just gets obliterated. See, I think that there are a lot of possibilities. I think Marab winning is the one that I find the hardest to envision. I can see it. But it's just, to me, I think Umar could get him early, right?

He can catch him. But I also think that Marab is going to do Marob things. And Umar, Umar can mostly stifle the takedowns. You won't stifle them all. Maraub will hold them against the fence, but I think Umar is better in the clinch and can do enough damage there and sort of just kind of slowly accumulate points and maybe lose the last round, even the last two rounds, but edge out a competitive fun decision. I'm just very curious to see him fighting a guy.

where I think could Umar like control the pace of this fight? He could. But if he can't and Marab just starts Marobin, can Umar keep up with him for 25 minutes? Probably not. It's tough. The thing I think that really sells me, I think there's a very big opportunity for Marab to take him down.

And when Umar is shooting maybe counter-wrestle. And I think if Marab gets Umar down, I'm very interested to see. We just haven't seen him are down. We haven't seen Marab down a lot in that regard. Yeah. I just, I think there are a lot of ways for him are to win.

I think there's one way that Mara Bins. Like I said, I almost made this a climb bet. Really glad I didn't now that we're staring down the barrel of it and I've already cast a climb bet. But it's just a really, really good fight. I was just so,

I was so impressed with the Yon fight. Because like, it's hard to compare Umar's style to really anybody Marab has fought, but the closest is probably Jan and Marab killed him. Like, even on the feet

Marab was beating Jan, which is wild. Like, even on the rewatch, I was just like, man, almost every striking exchange, Marab got the better of. Even like out, out of it right off the gate, which is wild to think about and actually see it back.

And it could go similar to this. but I don't know like I'm so like I'm completely sold on it like Umar and Maghamaama Adolf if it's not tonight at some point is going to wear the bandamoy title without question seems likely

official Washington did beat the Lions 4531 the Jaden Daniels experience continues shout out to you Luke Thomas Brian Tucker all the other man of fans out there congratulations of the season but it's Umar season now he is walking with the papaka

I attempted to purchase one of those they are not cheap and so that's why I don't have one on my head right now the money gun's so much better the money gun was a must I think what we're going to do is we buy a lot more cash for the money gun

and buy cash and we go to the bank and take out cash or we just buy more another money gun I mean I honestly so when I bought that I had no idea if it would be good or not like I was like just buying something random off Amazon

It could be a piece. I didn't spend any money. So if it was trash, whatever. It's so much better than I thought it was. I immediately was like, what if I just bought each of us two money guns? And we could just go full anarchy mode. And I got to tell you, my. What is Sean O'Malley wearing?

Looks like his robe. He's a guy who wears the robes around. Those glasses are something else. Those glasses are interesting. He has the pink robe with the pink hair. He has caged. side so I guess he can jump in the cage for the face-off with the winner. Kind of like to see him fight somebody else.

I would love to, but I don't think that's not going to happen. No, there's no chance. I'd love to see him play on again. But if again, and I've said this ability to tell him O'Malley, made sense. Yeah, if I'm John O'Malley, I'm not going anywhere near that fight. You take that win, you fucking run. I would never fight him again unless I physically run with it.

Run with that win. Oh, man. Money gun duly is for sure. Chad. I mean, Chad says it. We must do it. We must do it. We need a wheel. That's another thing for the next one. So the wheel was going to happen for this one. But then my schedule had a lot of things pop up. Yeah, we'll get it done. The plan, guys, and then we're still working on some more things. One thing I want to do is I want to get a wheel, because as Mike correctly knows all the time, wheels make everything better. That's the best. I want to bring back us betting against each other, but I want the punishment to be determined via wheel. there are punishments from y'all you suggest punishments we can do on camera and then at the end of

the evening we can spin the wheel and the punishment can be distributed to also have a crown that the winner of said head-to-head bets gets to wear the next time out as the champion for in perpetuity until it is taken from him so i love that all right yeah i've been brainstorming gimmicks during our month and a half off was like we may we may have to we may have to introduce for 312 because i think We're going to need a lot of stuff. We're going to boost some gimmicks at least for the first 75% of that. If you all have ideas, shoot them into the chat. Casey will pull good ones.

DM me or Mike or whoever. I love new ideas of things that can be fun and interactive with y'all in particular is the goal to make this a little bit more communal. But yeah, that's where we're going. As Umar scratches his back along the cage, gets ready to make me right. we're about to find out. Rob DeVos really, by the way, programming note, post-fight show going on shortly after the main event. That is correct.

We're going to have the presser and the post-fight show going pretty much simultaneously. So don't worry about that. You will not have to wait until 5 a.m. And if you were part of Media Day and saw it was going on a media day, that Post-Fight Press Congress is going to last 17 hours. Yeah, it's going to be tough. It's going to last 17 hours. Pretty sick.

We're going to do the post show. I'm going to drive the hour back to my parents place and they'll still be going. Without question. Absolutely. That happened last time and I was like, guys, I really thought I'd get back and you would tell me, hey, I need you to pick up this. I was like, I need you to pick up this when they show. I'm like, geez.

Yeah. Now Islam or Moikano ain't going back till 4.30. Now E. Casey Lyon's great hope for points in the ban. weight division. Oh, yeah. Wasn't he the last Banimate picked? Was he the last? Yeah.

Yes. And Umar was, I think the first overall draft pick, uh, was Umar and Magumetto of. That was AK. By AK. AK, AK, I mean, AK's having a hell of a night already. He's got 350 points accrued through two fights with frankly, a good chance of at least 100 more points coming his way, maybe even more. So really, really good start for AK.

God, look at Marab. AK trying to go back to back. Oh, I am. back in the lead though because I just got I got 200 for the jailton boom and you got Yuri no AK had Yuri oh AK took all my 50 but I get 200 for Jailton for the ranked Wayne oh nice thing so I made a bonus I mean I would hope so but we'll see a lot of finishes came along the prelims did not have them none of them except for goose got but he's not gonna I probably won't bonus I've been told and not get to see it

This card is exactly what we thought it was. The top six fights, now five after the B'Neil had to fall out. The top five fights were amazing. And then the undercard was less so. But also we got two enormous upsets this year. All right. Again, Peyton Talbot, the upset is one of the biggest in UFC history. One of the, I think I said it was seven, six, something like that.

And the Reni Nakamura one is also a significant underdog upset there. So it has been, there's a lot to talk about at the end. And we haven't even got to the two title fights, Mike. I know. Rob is ready. Look, he is in terrific shape. Great shape. Locked in.

Ready to go. Joyful. Get the fight shorts. I think the vibe serves. My big question is whether he was going to come in here angry and be off his game or if he locked in last night seemed like he was going to be ready. He's walking in like he just got introduced at a groomsman at his best friend's wedding. Still happy.

You see that picture of his leg this week? That looked gross. Yeah. Look quite gross. He told me when we talk that he's dealing with an injury. He wasn't going to announce it until after the fight. But I don't know if that's the injury, but his leg looked gross. Yeah.

I don't know if that's what it is or what. If he has to check a kick, that might open up. The T.J. Dillishaw vibes. I remember talking to Dillishaw before the Sterling fight. He was like, because of the fights over and I announce something that's going to blow people's minds. And I guess the announcer was, yeah, that I followed with one arm. You are. still yeah my arm like doesn't work as somebody who had the exact same thing when jos a

aldo should have been fighting for the bell just so insane it's like dude just i could have told you we're not the same level of athlete obviously if your arm falls out when you sneeze you can't fist fight with it just doesn't work bussy fought aljo who looked like a fucking i also look and looked the best of we've ever seen al jo in general he he wouldn't have won even if he was healthy i think based on that but dueling hats here always fun love the hats always fun buffers is shaking the arms out vigorously sacred we here in this chat we adhere to bing rips um so somebody will let you know about the the legacy of bing rips yeah it's bing we're binging we're definitely bing rip boys here in the bing tail of the tape umar 29 marab 34 um um um

Omar two inches taller, one inch reach advantage. Umar closes as the plus 250 favorite. And Buffman is getting the peeps ready. Sean O'Malley is right there. What other dignitaries do we see in the crowd? Justin Gaichie. And now we're doing the swirling cam, Aljo in the corner, Ray Longo in the corner, John Wood in the corner.

Is Mara chewing gum? I don't know. I want to go or I guess maybe chewing on his mouthpiece. Chewing gum would be kind of ludicrous at this juncture, I think. I mean, Ben Zanison plowed with a freaking toothpick in it. That remains one of the crazier things that has happened. Yeah, I do it all the time in training. That doesn't make it better, Benton.

Patchy Mick sitting in the crowd. Fun times of Don Davis. Patchy. Ooh, Joey Bosa, you are correct. We should bring back around. graphics um we get that for like tailor tape graphics pre oh yeah i have to learn how to do that that was a that was a juicy special uh i've me and um hose are working on some stuff for for me and a few other things for social next week

this week was obviously got some downtime i think we get loop him in and get some templates and we can bring but josabosa that's exactly the sort of thing if there's stuff that we used to do uh that you'd like to see if you just have things that seem fun, let us know. I want to make this more interactive. The set's going to look a little different next time too. The wall behind us is not going to be this color. Oh, I was just saying we're taking it out.

We're just taking that wall out. Yeah, it's going to be just nothing but the trees in the woods. Make it a green wall. Make a green screen. Just cool stuff. We could be in an aquarium. We might go like, I think we might go MMA fighting blue back here. That's a good color.

That's a good color. Mixed right in with the puppet. You'll see the little eyeballs poking out. you won't know where they're coming from from the mic puppet. He's chewing something. I don't know if it's just his thing, but he is chewing. Maybe he's got a little, uh, or maybe he's just clicking his jaw or he's looks locked in.

Over under first shot from Marab, uh, 3.5 seconds before he shoots? Yes. Oh, over. 10.5 seconds. Over. A minute and a second.

A minute. 0.5 seconds. 60.5 seconds. Ooh, the five under. I think it's in the first 20 seconds. I wouldn't be shocked if he charged across and just instant.

I don't think he's gonna. I think he's gonna try to stand with him for a minute. All right. Almost time, boys. Umar looks the most calm I've ever. seen a human being look. Rob got a little energy, popping himself.

Phantom weight title, second best belt in the sport. We are live. 4.57, 456, 555. Right on, Casey. Beautifully done. What a professional. I would be wrong on the 10 seconds. I'm getting close to being wrong on 20 seconds.

Rob is backing up like he's going to shoot right away. They are so far away from each other right now. Nobody should be shooting now because they they could wave to each other from across the cage. All right. We're halfway there. 65 was the number. I think we're going under that. I think Mara will shoot by like the one minute mark.

I would have bet a lot he was going to shoot by a minute. But we are, I mean, they have not been near each other through freaking 45 seconds. Umar's a large man. Umar, that's the thing. Umar's big, uh, very far away. Marob test the waters with a not committed calf kick I hope this isn't

Oh, the over The over on that we're not there yet It's 60.5 so yes Oh yeah, oh I think he's in 65 60.5 it would have said over I mean we're we're gonna be two minutes at this case Without a take down It's crazy nothing

Morab's plan was to not do offense today apparently He's not gonna wrestle or punch Well there hasn't been a strike landed in this fight yet From anybody there has not been I think Marab landed like a calf kick I like that little calf kick There's a calf kick and Umar with the left hand in response And now but now Marab's back

Oh Oh Maraub Did he didn't drop him I don't think he dropped him I think he just sort of charged him I like the calf kicks here from Marab I mean

Caffirks is a great weapon for him Especially as it's not something he traditionally does That's not something on tape to scout Make that a little hard open stance is going to make it a little harder from rob oh rubber rob jumping in and throw in the right hand when umar tries to get his hips back and his head down not bad rob's moving pretty good out there umar's putting a lot of stuff right down the pipe but nothing landing at the moment he's just filling the space with stuff oh good trade rob gets the better of that exchange good little exchange in there

halfway through round one oh good left hand from Rob now we're in oh good right hand from Rob on the break left to the body from Umar this is just high level shit man both being really patient

not forcing the issue either side I would like to see Umar work the body with that body kick right there exactly what he did like just I think body shots are he's good at them we've seen Rob show a lot of little bit of weakness there.

And if Marab is changing levels and you're hitting the body, his heads moving into the bad space. Oh, good shot for Maraub. Now, now, Humar trying to wrestle onto a single. Maraub rolls away. Great job by Mara.

Flying knee. He goes for flying knee. Rob gets out of away. That was fun. Decent little jab for Murmar. Also, the jab should really be going for Murmour. That's got to be the weapon if he's not going to.

Jabs and body kicks are what I'd be wanting. I believe there's a Hasbula sighting, Cage side next to Dana White. It's still a thing. Very competitive first three and a half minutes. This fight, this is just a great round. Just tense, not massive action, nothing like what we just saw with Yere and Jamal. Oh, yeah. Umar's opening up a little more, particularly he gets Marab to the fence, shoots a double,

and Marab gets a deep underhook and says no. This is huge Maraub. Oh, good right hand on the break. On the break. Good. Does that calf kick again? It was a good inside calf kick. I mean, this round is up for grabs with 45 seconds left.

I think Mara is ahead right now, but it could change very quickly. One big shot from Mumar can change it. I mean, any significant offense either way is going to take this round, I think. Yeah. I think Mara's gotten the better. Neither person has done much. Umar's moving backwards a lot. Oh, good right hand stumbles for a shot.

second he's okay he's all right he's okay was a was a good connection and again in a round we're not a ton of big things maybe that steals on a judge's scorecard 10 seconds left one big shot either side make a statement boys nope we're just going to end the round uh that's close i'm going to give it to marraub yes marraub i don't feel any level of confidence yeah that score is very close i don't know if i'm scoring that for Marab because he did better on the feet than I thought. He won most of the striking exchanges, but Umar did, umar landed the best punch of the round. I just don't think either of them landed anything really like, but I guess we'll go Marab.

Yeah, I'll go Marab. I'm not, I'm going to go one. I ain't confident, but I don't. If you scored that for him on, I don't hate it. Yeah. Umar landed the best shot of the round. There's no, no doubt about it. again these are all stuff yeah like grazing shots then that's that's the good one that's the right hand at the end of the round yeah that was the best shot of the round and that's the thing like it wouldn't shock me and i love how there's not a single highlight of morav it wouldn't shock me if like that stole around the judges yeah it wouldn't the chat must i wonder the sheenick says one of the options in the wheel could be if Mike loses, he has to do a BTL episode with a Bam Bam-Bigolo

temporary skull tattoo. I love that idea, but that doesn't work because if he doesn't lose, I can't do that. So need to be sure, I guess we'd have to find a way around it. We're back to action. Oh, also, Casey, 4-41. Sorry, Casey. But you're right on it. You absolutely nailed it.

The Bam-Bang-Beglo thing just threw me for a loop. It would be fun. I think O-Rne needs to keep being the one. coming forward, certainly. I think Marab the same. Whoever's coming forward is going to do better. Maraub, slinging that loopy right hand. Umar gives him a left of his own.

But you're right. Like, there's just not a lot landing. Not. Oh, good, good little work there. I think Umar got the better of that one goes. Yeah, good kick to the body. Kick to a body kick combo on the other side. Oh, good job.

A nice body kick from Rob. Rob, that was nice. Oh, Marab is committing to coming in and throw. Which is good. He's affected when he does it. Aida left hand there for it. But I mean, Rob is,

he is wrestling far less than I thought. I assume that this is the plan. Maybe they think that. And he's chewing. He is definitely still chewing something. He is chewing something. I think it must just be the mouth guard. A little big chief.

A little big chief. That would be incredible. Maraub clenches. Umar breaks. Maybe the, oh, good job for Mara. It wouldn't be surprising to me if the plan for Maraub is we're going to

wrestle later, but early wrestling, he's fresh. he'll defend. I'll get more tired, even though my cardio's legendary. Let's look to do that later in the fight. We have to be willing to commit to the feet

and we'll do this early. And he's not getting blown out right now. When Maraub gets inside and charges and gets a little reckless, like he is landing. He is very effective. Oh, he got the leg. Oh, he is deep on a single.

Oh, but Oumar County Wusters and almost get, he is to the back, Maraub's spinning. That's the danger of, oh, sack throw from Umore. Oh, can he get Marab is keeping the feet up so Umar can't lock in the back, but he's got one hook. He's got the wrong hook in though. Marab's hip is down on top of the underfoot. I mean, Umar is holding him tight and he's got to try and create space to get the down foot or he's just got to drag Marab back. Maraub is smiling.

Maraub's got a little cut right here on the left eye looks like. Just a little baby one. Umar trying, really trying to slide. that knee under Marab can't as Marab stands and posts and there we go Mara's back up and we get some short grabs nope no oh we got separation this fight's fun good good high level

mixed more starts here boys we're mixing it up well Rob's gonna try to change the tide here he's got to try to get some more respect also I mean I don't know we know Marab is just got a strong will that is the concern he's oh overhand right for Marab That started with the Marab sequence of wrestling and then Umar turned that to offense. It was almost bad for Maraub.

So significant strikes are dead even basically at this point. Maraub's got one more. Because this fight is very close. Oh, good knee from Omar. Flash the right hand stepped into a knee, caught him. Oh. Umar wrestles. Marob sprawls.

Beautiful. Maraub swung a right hand from his ham. Didn't land. Boy, he let him have that one. That was a Jamal Hill in. Robb's starting to feel himself a little bit. Rob is starting to march forward. Rob is marching.

Umar has got to knock back up. Oh, good combination from Marab. Oh, that was a good shot to the body from Marab. Oh, they're just shocking them. This is fun. Rob again. Now Mara's got the double. Oh, Umar's.

Umar gets the under. Nice. See, oh, brings a high knee up for no joy. The thing is, umar is just. can't be getting backed up like this because this is how Marab Marabs. Yep. He's losing this round. This is exactly what Marab wants right now.

He wants these tie-ups. He wants this exact thing to happen. He wants to make you tired because the championship rounds are where he's swimming. Sneaky right hand on the break from Marab. Again, this is another very close round. I think Kumar's pretty clearly ahead on this one. Yeah. I think Guamar might be winning the battle and losing the war,

but I think he is definitely winning this round right now. I have Umar up right now, but it's not. I mean, something big happens. Marab can lynch, but a big shot and change. Decent body kick, just the toes land for. Oh, Marab to the body. That was nice. He is chewing something and it looks like gum, but I guess it's the mouth guard.

Both dude just swinging inside. Man. Nothing really landed either in there, but fun. I'm going 10-9, Umar on that one. I've got a tie to piece. I'm with you. Question is, is Umar going to be able to do that pace for, That's, this is my concern this entire fight on the Umar side.

He can't back up. Backing up is just going to kill him. He does it. So look at the difference between these two guys. Like Umar's, not that like he's done, but like, Marab looks like he's fine. Like he's not even taking a deep breath. Umar is taking like big deep breaths in the corner, which he should do. But Mara just like on his feed and.

I could. I mean, that first round could be huge too. Yeah. Because it's very up in the air. See, a couple of people in the chat out, 2.0. Again, I wouldn't be at all surprised without the case. It could be, yeah. First one was super close.

First round was incredibly close. But yeah, I think Umar won this round. I think Umar had won that round on just about everybody's scorecard review, I guess. Yeah, but the first round was real close. I thought Marab won a lot of the early exchanges and just not a ton happened. Just nothing happened in that one. So, umar could really use getting a dominant position and being able to take some time away without having to work hard.

Umar needs to do what he's doing and move forward and only move forward. Yeah, well, every fighter should only ever move forward, but no one listens to me because I'm at Bozo. Especially against a guy like Maraud Walsh, really. He's trying that little cheeky question mark kick. No joy.

Aaron Bronstetter has it, 2018 OMA per the broadcast. Also, Casey, 135, 34, 33. Aaron's scorecards are not always great, though. But a lot of, I'm seeing a lot of other people that just say Umar is up. Yeah.

But again, like, even if he thought he'd up that thing, I think, undeniably, that wasn't a bad round from Rob. Good wrestling, chain wrestling. Oh, look at this. Umar against the fence and breaks away. But again, this, it is, that's just money in the bank. First takedown. Wow. That doesn't even really feel like a takedown.

It's counted. But I guess it counts. But so Umar should work the body a little more, trying to even this up. But. So Chris Levin is a judge, not a ref. I, so that's what I thought. But he, we know also. Also, he does refs.

Yeah. Thing. Because I just saw him in the outside and I was like, ooh, kid, perfect. I'm pulling for you. 15 leg parlay. Umar's your last leg. I am pulling for you.

15 leg parley. Yeah. That's what you said in the chat. What the fuck else do you have? It's like 14 fights. He said his last leg. Maybe he had some football in there. Or 13 fights.

He's like 13 fights. Maybe it's some football in there. Oh. Good exchange there. Good, good little exchange there. Oh, good knee from Omar. You know, you got to come forward, buddy. body kick i mean a ton more of those would help you marab just marab getting him back getting him

against the cage i think the upies are getting it going the upy's there for we love an upy i love a good upy oh marab punches his way into a single can't can't really complete it but again making them work that's it you make him work constantly oh umor is really defending those clear clash of heads as Umar sprawled hard and their heads bumped, they, they moving on. Rob like dives head first into icy lakes, so head clash don't affect him at all. He's built for this. Bam. Seeing a replay of the obvious clash of heads, but we're good.

Yeah, that was more of like a Marab's head. A hard kick to the ding ding. Was that low? It must be Herzog. But Mara's like, no, we're good. Oh, good right here from Marab. Oh, to the body. And significant strikes are almost dead even.

42 to 40 Marab slightly up. Oh, good luck to him from Marab. Oh, good right hand. He's just. Oh, the up he's right there. I'm telling you, the up he's right there, Maraub. Oh, and Omar shoots now. And Rob sprawls.

This fight, this fight is awesome. It's a very high level. Very high level. Now, Omar. Oh, Mara dumps him. And let him back up and then he pointed out of him. That's fun. I mean, that is, it's a fun move.

You should do more with that than what you did. Yeah. Good right hand for Marab. This is Marab. This is probably Marab's best round. I think Maraub is winning this round. Oh, and he gets a full-fake-down-Ur. Oh, Butterflies immediately spring back up.

And now he's on there. Maraub is breathing from the eye. Now, Umar's holding. And now he's having a conversation with somebody. Maybe A.C. Slater. He's talking to Mario right now? Who's he talking to? I don't know, but he should try and submit this round.

Like, you have not won this round. I would say you're ahead, but. Annik is just laughing his ass off. And he turns him over. What a round. Good round. It's thinking very tense. Yeah.

Marab's doing some real good work. High kick. So Marab is, the first two rounds are dead. even on SIG strikes, Marab is ahead 17 to 10 per the unofficial counting stats via the broadcast. But that kind of meshes in large far with what it felt like. Oh, Omar drops to a snatch single. Marab does some work. Rob gets to the fence.

Grab the fence. Shirt in. Heets his ass off. Morobs to stay right back up. He's just stay right back up. Probably. Looks like it. He does stand right back up.

That was fucking hilarious. Man, the round's going to end as Marab is being held. And waving at the crowd. Again, I still think he wins this round, but it's fun. It could have been better. It's fun. You should do offense instead of that. Umar is definitely tired.

Yeah, he's, he's slowing down. The problem is, if Marab's not going to punish him and instead do that, that's, he's leaving. He could be down two rounds before that. Like, you'll see. I'm scoring that one for Marab. I have Marab up two one in this. fight. Yeah, that's a Marab round 10-9. But we could be two-one, Umar. Who the fuck knows? But it's a great fight. Longo is, Longo is saying the right things. That was, that round to me

signifies that those are two best bandit mates in the world. I mean, I do think they are the two best band-in-wits in the world. Yeah. The question is to see what Umar looks like this round. I think he will certainly, the fifth round is obviously Marab territory. Is he Limpin? Maybe. He looks, yeah, he's a little tired, but this is the round you want to see him. He's getting battle tested out there. He's getting battle tested out there. He may just need one round.

We'll see. And this is, this is tense. Tense action, boys. Tense action. Mara Marned marching forward right away. Let's see what Mrab can do here. Let's see if you can keep that up. Umar is still the betting favorite.

Not by much. The number has moved obviously more towards. Marab. Oh, love it to the body from Marab. And Marab is the one coming forward, gets into the hips. He is just making him out work.

That's all he's trying to do. He's not even trying to land these takedowns. He's just trying to make him work. Oh, good left hand from Umar. Yep. Good jab from Umar right there. Just needs to keep going. Maraub is definitely bleeding from the eye.

There's that calf kick again. That's so, it's such a good weapon for him and spite. Umar are you just got to stop doing that part. Maraub on the single backs into the fence. Yep, but he's making him work. Oh, he dumps him. throws a snatch down.

Umar immediately rolling on his own single. Which is exactly what Marab wants. Rob misses the break up. Good jab. Nice right hand from Marab on the break there. And we're going to have to dig deep here as Marab is now going to do full Marab. I mean, an instant sprawl, but Marab just kind of drives through it against the fence. Umar has a cradle.

Nope. Oh, Marab may be able to consolidate here. He's grapevine in one leg as Umar just stands. He's going to let him. Umar stand up. Yep. This is what he does. Then he punched him.

Umar is tired, man. Oh, good right hand for Mara. Low kick from Umar. He's got to keep going. Head kick. He's got to keep going. He's got to keep going downhill like this. Oh, Umar is not comfortable right now.

He's talking to him too. Keep going for him. I mean, this Maraub should really be pedaling down. Good body shop. Do not let this dude breathe at all. You really should pedal down, Marab. You can't give this a window. You have like this is where you wanted to be.

Oh, good left hand from Marab. That was a good shot from, from Muramara right there. Nice right hand from Mara. The thing is, um, are definitely physically fatiguing. Oh, he's so tired. He's not landing real offense yet this round. He's just walking forward and tiring him out. Marab is now the betting favorite.

Change levels from Umar. Maraub's stuffed it. He's got nothing. Back to the middle. I mean, I, Marab's got up. Marab's just got to keep pushing. He's winning the round.

I don't think he is right now. You don't think so? I think he's not landing anything. He is right. Oh, another right hand from Mara. Now he landed. That was a good right hand. He's doing,

he's making him more work and he is winning the war. But he's not landing a lot of punches right now. Good. Mara walks away. And he's obviously winning the optics. No denying that. Oh, good job from Mara. Good answer from Umar.

Umar still, I mean, umar's battling. He is wrecked, but he is, he is battling. Dig deep, buddy. Now's the time. This is the test. That's the thing. Marab has more and he is just not hammering down right now.

He's giving Umar an out right now. He is, he is in fourth gear. He needs to throttle this down and make a statement. I think this round is still up for grabs. Oh, keep going. That body shot. He heard him. Umar did not like that body shot from Marab.

Didn't. And now he's on a single. He ain't got to get this. I mean, he's never going to get this. I mean, he's never going to get this. Rob's holding blocking, break. Khabib is freaking right now. Man.

Good shot to the body again from Marab. Morgan drops level. Oh my gosh. He is cooked. Another shot to the body from Marab. Oh, good left hand from Marab. 31 to 16 on the significant strikes right now for Marab. Rob.

Oh, he's going to finish this one too. Damn. Habib is out of his chair right now. He's freaking the fuck out. I think you just accept that you've lost this round and the plan for you is now he has to come out. Maraub just tied GSP for most takedowns

in UFC history in 90. Break it. Break it right here. 16 seconds left. Umar definitely. Oh, he thought better of it, but he should absolutely grab the fence right now if I'm him.

Good left hands from Marab. And more and more and more. Another one. Cementing the round, no questions. Yeah. Clearest round of the fight for Marab, in my opinion. I have it 3-1 Marab. I have a little more needed a break.

I think it's very tough. Very possibly two-two, but. Which is frankly almost exactly what I said. I was like, if Marab's going to win, he needs to win one of the early rounds. Yeah, the Big Moe is, I mean, it's like 106 Marab right now in the big moat round. It's fight. It's awesome. Like, it's just an awesome fight.

I would love to hear Eric Kube saying to him. We're not getting that. This is the mental part, says Javier Mendes. It's correct. Yeah, I mean, you got five minutes. You could be five minutes away from winning the belt. Maybe you're too far behind need a stoppage. I mean.

But it's only five. This is the last run. So come out, ready to go. Oh, my God. Round five. Could be 38, 38, could be 39, 36 and Rob. Or 39, 37. Yeah, that's right.

Math. So either 3-1 or 2-2. Yep. There's no world, Umar is winning this fight. Unlike, very, very, I mean, I won't say no world.

I've been in this sport long enough. Yeah, yeah, okay. Very few worlds, Umar is winning this fight right now. Marava, I don't understand what's happening right now. I'm uncool as well.

Why are you not doing what you've been doing? Circling around the outside and, uh, doing nothing. Yeah, you need to like keep pressuring him. Casey's right on with the, with the clock.

I appreciate that. Two intense. too intense spinning move by marab that was 40 yards away couldn't have been further away from I don't but now now he started to press forward oh there it is shoots right in

puts him right against the fence exactly what he wants to do it moves away quickly marab's right after him now he's back just kind of letting him breathe a little bit there's a calf kick again another one there's a single punch into the single

Umar defending. And then we just go. This is miserable, just doing stuff. Just shoots the single again, lets him go. Then he punches him. Then he's going to shoot the single again.

It's just going to be like this for the next three minutes and 40 seconds. This is going to sound super hatery and I recognize that. So feel free to come at me in the comments. This is the part of Marab I don't like. I have a ton of respect for his ability and for what he is doing right now. This is, um, hacking the game of,

I'm going to like it says like I'm going to shoot to make you work. I'm not like, he's not putting real offense right now. He's clearly done some of that this fight. He's staying busy in a way that I don't care for. Now, though, deep on the hips here. This is a big moment. Oh, yeah, Umar is going to be toast after this.

I just got three minutes. Just think about three minutes left. That's all he need. He digs that underhook has the leverage point. Rob's just holding him against the fence. Second time away. Rips to the body. Conches in the face.

Umar the big breath. Keep doing that, Marab. And you win. I would really like either of these two dudes to do something this round. Good job from Maraub. Umar shoots sprawls. Easy sprawl from Mara. Or should stop shooting.

That's a waste of his time. Yeah. Good job from Maraub. Mara talking them. Oh, good right. Good right. And good left by Umar. Good right hand from Mara and charging in.

Nice body kick from Umar. Marrub is not. just peddling down right now. I'm stunned. Just take the fight is there to take away like make it unquestionable. Like you're winning the round but it's not by a lot. I mean this round is razor close right now that's that's what you got to do let's even get it goes for a trip umar counters hip out wizard counterback front headlock break. Yep he's I can't believe he's letting umar breathe like oh good laugh from marat it's honestly very possible at 90 seconds we'll determine this fight because morab is just not trying enough.

So decent left hand in the body kick from umar like 70 seconds and the the winner of this 70 seconds could win the fight. I don't think so. I have marab up 3-1 very real world where this is all square on this fight has 60 seconds left and neither dude is a surrog minus 8 10 that number feels real high right now. That's crazy. I'm stunned it's that I've added number is very high is umar charging with with his final Final hurrah. Head kick. Oh,

great right from Mara. That's the best punch of the whole fight right there. Definitely the best punch of the fight. Oh, and he dumps him. Snatch single dumps him. Oh, boy.

Fight, dude. You can't celebrate. Fight. That's annoying. Oh, and he dumps him. All right. It's a takedown.

Whizzer. Oh, now that's going to cement it. That's it. Omar back up to his feet. We're going to hold this out. And he broke the record. And he took him down again.

It's it. Mara is still the champion. and I'm going to put to cash a plus 285, baby. Oh my God. And now Marab just wrote his ticket. We did. I mean, that is. Before he did it right there.

Falsy performance, man. I said it in the entire lead up to all of this. Obviously, I was super on Uma. I thought him was going to win. I was very confident in Umar winning, honestly. But I said, if Marab wins, but you get a free ticket to talk shit. You get to talk your shit now. So, I mean, we saw him talking shit during the fight, frankly, Mike.

Do it. Do you dance? 10-9 Mar-A-Rab for me. 10-9 Mar-Rab. Yeah. Tim Ramb, Mar-Rob, I than 4-1 winning. At the absolute worst, it's 3-2 Mar-Rub. I don't know. I mean, it was very high-level.

I don't know if it's the highest-level fight. There were lots of good Banim-Wate title fights. Dana is very, Dana is very thrilled with it. He can't be thrilled with it. He's a great fucking fight. I mean, you can be impressed. he's not thrilled with it.

Like, Maraba is a bad champion, so. Like, he's a good fighter. Don't, don't misquote that. He's terrible person to have hold the bell. Like, I mean, with Dana, I mean, and Dana's eye, now he's, Dana has accepted the fact that Maraba's going to be the champion forever. He's going to have to accept it. And that's fine.

But like, these dudes are going to run it back again. But, yeah. Oh, just a very solid fight. Yeah. A left hand that went from here. to hear he he won that fight terrific performance best punch of that right hand that right hand was a good one yeah well is the best punch of the fight can you imagine how good marab would be if he could actually hurt people he'd be so good he does have that ability to just not get killed at all i mean he he is

unkill unkill man should be doing crossfit i don't know why he's not i'm sure he dude he'd be a pro That's the thing. He just made that a CrossFit competition and won the hell out of that competition. Dude, then like the promo video, he's in the middle of the street doing fucking power cleans, like in the middle of a street,

just the middle of a neighborhood street doing power cleans. A.K. suffers his first defeat in the fantasy squadron. Casey. Casey. With a Maraub pick. Casey and Eileen Perez today, too.

Wow. A couple underdogs doing big things for Casey. 4847. 4847. Okay, so there's one person There's one judge There's one there, but the last round was the deciding round And

Oh, I thought No, no I was like, that would have been a travesty Would have been a Would have been a bad scorecard To give that to them on Oh Who

I'm like Oh, just a little rain dance on it A little rain dance On fire today Just cashed and plus money bets, four for four on the main card. I love that for you.

It's terrific. Plus 285 on Marab. I'm not even that sad, Mike. You know why? Because my bet that was on Marab, I already lost because it was a parlay with Renanakur and Grant Dawson and only one of those did their jobs.

And just think of the incredible decision-making to use the climb on Jailton Amata and not on Newmire. If I'd climbed on this, that would have been a real hard watch. for me as I'm just slowly watching it just die are we going to get a Sean O'Malley face to face here you think probably I can't believe they're gonna do the fight if I'd rather ya I don't get it yeah yon deserves it the fight is terrible if they do it which they're definitely going to do it they're probably gonna make Marab fight in fucking April in Miami

against Sean Mike hold hold the line I gotta charge my laptop which is dead oh okay let's see what Maraith has to say. Marab by decision plus 300, I actually. I mean, I got him a plus 280, so it wouldn't have made too much of a difference going to my decision. But I'm just glad I jumped on that line when I saw it. That was like a Connor Burke special right there. You just see a freaky line early on in the process and you just hop on it.

And like, we're about to get an incredible victory tour of Marab talking all the shit in the whole world. And he deserves it, man. Do your dance, kid. You earned it. I kind of wanted to say I dared to be great. And I was. He called me old. I like this promo from Maraub.

It's very, uh, don't let them bully you, don't want to underestimate you. I, I just want one person be like, Marab, I understand that what he did is, I guess, bullying, sure. You also recognize you did the exact same things to Sean Amalley. And you weren't, uh, you're just, this is just a fight game, man. It's just the fight game. this is so funny with respect I'm talking shit

with respect all due respect eat my ass it's incredible I mean he's gonna go down as the Bannonway goat now because guess we're not gonna get a Sean O'Malley move

Oh now he's trying to uh good goal okay I mean we're gonna get that good for a promo to let him blow yeah look exactly the same as the first one

yeah I'm glad we get to hear from him where I'm clear his way yes uh he didn't get hurt yeah just got real real tired he's still so tired don't do it broke his hand he said jad how do you feel that's your boy i i hate to see him go out like that i don't doesn't matter i don't care if you died in there after the first round it's very jama he won you got to keep i'd say it all the time keep that same energy what i think that's that's smart i need to rewatch so i can understand that if you were in the fight you think you won the first three rounds like because all the time in the fight you really just have

no real concept but i just don't see any universe where he won the third no no yeah he did like we know he didn't i'm not saying he did but if you were in there and you especially the way marab fights you don't feel like you got hurt at all because he didn't but you feel like you hurt marab some like i could see you know being in there can't see the forest for the trees nobody watched that fight thought Umar won. Yeah. I'm sure his corner will tell him you did not win. But now.

But they can't because they had to deal with his on first. But here, but oh, and that's, and that's a very interesting point here, Jedmishu. One person who did watch that fight, I'm sure, from start to finish, was Islam Makachev. That's his guy. And it's very rare that Islam Makachov watches a teammate fight in a big spot and watches him lose right before he's about to make the walk against the guy who was not prepared to fight, 48 hours ago. So could there be weirdness in the air?

That would be pretty fun. A lot of big upsets on this card already. That would be the biggest of them. What a performance from Rob. Gets it done, man. He's going to go down as a Banimway, go. Yeah. Is he, could you make that case right now?

I mean, I think you make it. I don't think it's a good argument, but I think you can make it. One more win? I need two. I'm just not willing to call anyone like it. He's 12 in a row. Yeah, but again, there is a difference between winning title fights and not title fights. And also, one of those 12 in a row was that he didn't beat Josealdo when he beat Josalda.

So. There's Sean Amali. They put Sean Amali and Cheeto right next to each other. Cheetos are right behind his ass. Chita's laughing. And there's his own market chef. Two more title offenses and it's a real conversation. even if it's against O'Malley again and Jan?

Yeah. Stakes are different. They matter. What do you do with Umar now? That's a really good question. It's a really good question. I mean, Jody Yon?

I wouldn't love it, but... I don't think we're going to see Umar for a minute. Probably. I mean, he's definitely going to be out Ramadan, probably maybe fights in the summer. What about... Do you do Cheeto? Song you don't.

Do Cheeto? She'll fight anybody, man. Cheeto will fight anybody that feels like that fight will go very, very easy. So wouldn't be bad from a keeping a prospect around. But again, he's fighting a guy who can't be killed. Yeah, but Cheeto also won't attack you ever. Like, Cheeto will just do nothing for five rounds. So, uh, Figgy's not a bad.

Well, if Figgy, if you stick around. That probably actually is the fight, I think. That's a great. I think Figgy's the one if he stays around. That's a good. Really not a lot of wrong ways to go with, Umar. Just having to fight any dude in the top seven.

If Rob Fon beats Dominic Cruz, you could do Rob Fon versus Umar. I want, um, we want to fight somebody in the top five to seven. So the whole knock is he has one elite win. Where's Rob right now? Is he like he's 10?

I think he's 10 or nine, something like that. After being Phillips, yeah. I want to fight somebody. He's a whole knock on Umar is he only has the one when he's not ready. Comes out, loses. Those people will be very loud. hype drained rail

he wouldn't ever look very good not Maraub's very very good I'd like to see him prove it you know against another top five guy I think he would do it but somebody in that five to seven top top sevenish

range I think is a must for his next one the bad guy I feel Lamar can beat everybody but Marab you're probably right I think he can beat Maraub obviously didn't but they rematch in two years maybe that fight goes differently well yeah he'll be what 31

and Marab will be 38 or 36. But also, again, he was one round away from beating Marab tonight. So he can beat Marab. Certainly. But he certainly didn't. He didn't. All right, we're getting ready.

I'm going to run to the restroom. Do it because we got to lock in. Casey, throw up some questions in some box if you like. So read questions on Mike's laptop because I didn't bring my charger because I'm a big dumb idiot. So my laptop is now a brick of uselessness. Ooh, getting ourselves a little promo pre. I haven't seen any of the promoing since they did the Moikano stuff.

So we'll see how that shakes out. Casey, we got Hughes from the Peeps are now. Questions for Jed? Yes, this is the Jed talks time of the segment where Mike leaves me alone. We all take a smoke break. Do you all think Umar was overhyped or Marab was underhyped? I think this is, this is, more a Marab victory than a Noamar loss, frankly.

I thought the style matchup was really, really bad for him. And he just did his style through what I thought was a bad matchup, just overpowered through the will of his ability. So I still think Umar is very, very good. He took two rounds off of Marab, just a little short. That's all it is. Who the hell is next for Marab? It's Sean Amali.

We already know that. It's not what should happen. So it's going to happen. There's so many $100 bills on this floor, it's unbelievable. I mean, it is a cash grab in this room right now. It's terrific. We showed my son the money gun and we shot it at him. I mean, I've never seen him dive on the floor faster.

The man knows what's up. And I told him it was fake money and it was like literally the worst thing he's ever heard in his life. Can Moikano afford to lose now that he's getting pay-per-view main event show money? Yeah, he can absolutely afford to lose. He is, no, he can't afford to lose. That's his whole thing is he cannot afford to lose. So he can't afford to lose even more now. That's more money he cannot afford to lose.

Think of how many bitcoins he can buy if he wins. I can tell you right now that Hanata Moikano will be making big money, probably every fight the rest of his UFC career for taking this opportunity because he's a terrific manager. Can't afford to lose. Of course may big money. If he wins, holy shitballs, the rematch with Islam will be huge dollars. But he is in such a terrific, like he is, overall, he is nothing to lose here.

Like, he's doing the UFC a big favor. He is in great standing with them. If Islam moves up to 170, Moikano has a very good chance of getting the first title shot for the vacant belt. Like, he is in a spectacular place right now. Max, if money flash chaos Islam, is that a bigger shock than Izzy getting worked for five rounds by Strickland? Not at all. I know it's not the statistically biggest upset ever. I honestly think the Strickland-Dzy fight is the most surprised I could ever be at a fight.

Interesting question from AK in our Slack channel. Or it wasn't a question, but just something he said. We'll get said in the second. Well, will you do arm wrestle with Mike if Islam loses? Mike would slaughter me. I guess there's no point in that Yeah Are we doing that?

Come on, bro This is 22 inches over there I can't hang up with that Who would you pick In a fist fight And I know it's as hypothetical as you can get This Maraub de Wallis really Or prime Dominic Cruz

This Maraub de Wallis really I would too I never liked Dominic Cruz as a fighter I respected what he was able to accomplish I did not I never thought there. I mean, I'm not a huge fan of Marab style. The Boycano graphics are spectacular.

They are, especially because you know they made those like roughly on a fairly short notice, right? I don't think they were doing, were they doing graphics like this for the rest of the main card fighters? I don't think so, but maybe they were. I just don't remember. Can't afford to lose, boys. Money time. All eyes on me. What's your bet on this one?

Islam finishes between rounds one and three and minus one. I think that's likely to happen. I could see it either way. I could see Islam taking his time and finishes later. Or like when Bobby Green came in on five days notice, Islam just ran over his ass. So like, yeah.

Yeah, it's like, okay. Same thing could happen. Who's the 135 men's goat and where's Mara Pound for Poundwise? 135 men goat is Dominic Cruz. I don't love it. But he's a smidge ahead of Aljo.

Is that a Lj? is like right there. Marab is right there. Yeah. I think Marab's probably going to get that title, though. Marab pound for pound wise, I think I had him like top five or six. I would have him.

I don't know where I have him right now, but I think I would have the four that everybody else has right now. I would put pants at five and probably put Maraub at six. I think I have Maraub one behind pants and I think I still stand by that. Speaking of pants, there is in the corner of Money Moikano. I'm trying to think what mine is right now. The problem is like currently the pound for pound argument is, I think Islam is a deserved number one pretty clearly ahead of everybody. But the next six dudes have all accomplished a shitload.

And I'm not counting John Jones because I don't think John Jones should be counted. But the other dudes like, DDP, you may hate him, his resume is spectacular. pants resume spectacular ilia toporia resume spectacular mara ob spectacular like alex perera what he has done it is just a a super stocked group of guys at the top of the pound and mince pound for pound right now okay so here's my list as of right now but that may change here machochev ilia toporia oh belal perera resume jones jones jones jones DDP, pants. I have Aspinol above

Muhammad. I also do and I also Asmel has a stacked resume. Heavyweight is worse but he has run over a bunch of dudes in no time. I think I'm going to bump Maraub. I was going to get bumped for me for sure.

It would be bumped seven behind pants. I have DDP at five. I didn't think. It's hard. Again, it's just hard. man like all of these dudes have so much accomplished and i genuinely knock that marab does not finish

people he wins and deserves the credit but to me that like tom aspinall heavyweight's worse he's killing everybody in 60 seconds that that counts for something yeah 100% is i'm getting his graphics get the flying pebbles the flying rocks get the horse Horse face bones This is This is so fucking fun man Oh this is awesome

For the lightweight Tattle Defense record And Somebody said this yesterday And I didn't have looked This would tie Anderson Silva's Record of consecutive wins

16 You looked that up Is that right? I think that's true That's freaking nuts She was right. He was a 10-fight win streak. Then he won the belt was 11. Four would be 15. So maybe it was an 11-fight win-street before he won the belt. But, I mean, that would be, like, incredible to tie the most consecutive wins.

Did Usman tie it or did he fall short of tying it? I think he fell short of tying it. I remember that was like a big thing. Wasn't the Leon fight the fight to tie it? It might have been. I can't remember. That sounds like that might be right, but I'm not 100-3. on that. And 16 wins in a row is a lot of wins in a row, guys. Let's see. Let's look this up here. I like how it would be even Javier had to walk back with Umar and then turn around and walk back out

with Islam. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen. Fifteen. Yep. The Leon, five would have been sixteen. So only one other human has done what Islam is attempting to do and nobody has done the lightweight title defense record that he's attempting to beat and Usman has since lost three fights in a row. It's really hard to win 16 fights in a row guys. It's extremely difficult. Fighting and defending your belt over and over and over and over and over again. It's not easy to do. Sometimes you have to take a fight on a day's notice against the do you hadn't at all been preparing for and things can get weird. It's so weird seeing Hanata Mike kind of let to fight for a UFC belt.

And like, the amount of people who like reached out to me to like legitimately check on me after all of this because of arm and not fighting, look, I, you guys know how I am on them, but like it didn't ruin my day.

In fact, it made my day like a little more crazy, which is good. And it was a bummer, man. Like, I just want to see the two best lightweights in the world fight each other. Like,

that's what I wanted. Yeah. This is the toughest fight. We all wanted that fight. In my opinion, this was the toughest fight of Islam Makachev's professional fighting career was this version of Armand Sarukian. And there's a very real world Islam could have Ryan his ass over. Like it could have happened.

But considering what's available and what is at the top of this division, like Armand, a legit lightweight, always has been a legit lightweight, big dude, athletic, talented as hell, powerful. good stylistic matchup like everything about that fight it was like the fight I wanted more than anything but you wanted it for years yeah I just ever since I saw the first one

I just wanted to see it again and we finally got there and it was for all the marbles and the day before just take it away brutal man and now we get cool I mean dude do Boi Conno does this like in hindsight it's really cool story

shit dude really really cool story buff man getting everybody ready how's everybody feeling Anybody, anybody picking, uh, anybody picking Moikano in the chat? Like, for real, for real? That's a great question. Anybody for real, for real? Let's see them.

Let's see them up. Okay, okay, he'll pull them up. Let's see. Pogie Pogie Herb. Hey. Ah, love hurts gets the main event sponsorship from Universal Pictures. Uh, Dan is that they're close to making Asinol versus Jones fights, so you all could finally stop crying now.

Sure. Dennis says a lot of things. Yeah. Also, when have I cried? I've never cried on air. I almost did when Valentina and Shvchenko crossed me a number that I'm not comfortable revealing. I would, if there are betting odds, if it's 50-50 and it is even money on whether that fight happens or not, I would absolutely bet that it does not happen. I will believe that fight happens when they close the cage door.

I'm with you at this point. Also, I know Dana said that I distinctly remember someone recently telling me. Maybe it was a rumor or something that John is leaning towards retirement. She's like, but there's no reason for John to take the fight. Joe Rogan came out on a podcast and said he heard John Jones won at $30 million. The UFC was going to say yes. And then he walked it back and was like. And then he said Dana called him and said it was bullshit.

Yeah. It's just like there's no reason. for John to take the fight. I am not knocking John for not taking the fight. I've said it from Jump Street. I mean, I'm knocking him for not taking the fight because I think it's funny. Said it from Jumpstream. He shouldn't.

There's no reason to do it. The only reason is if they give him a financial incentive. And they're just not going to, man. They don't need to. They don't need to. There's no reason for them to do it. Yeah. They're about to get a bajillion dollars in this TV rights deal.

Like, they don't need to pay John anything. They don't need him. If John retired tomorrow, they'd be like, oh shit, that sucks. Next man up. The star, like, they don't have a star. The star is Dana White. The star are the three letters.

That's it. They have built that brand into something so, they're Pepsi, dude. Pepsi. Also, they have a star. His name is Islamokchev. His name could be Money Moikano in just mere moments. Both terrific fighters. It will never be bigger than the company.

You know what I'm sad about, Mike? I'm the most sad that we don't get to know what the secret move was. I know. I wanted to know. My curiosity is out there now. I know. Armin did such a great job. Could have been a boat.

Arvin could have. Could have been a boat. Armand did such a great job with that too. Like building anticipation. Let's lock in. Announcements are done. They're going to meet in the middle. Final face off,

a.k. The second face off. And then touch gloves. Get her done. Boycano. His post ceremony. way and interview with Joe Rogan was fucking great.

I don't give a fuck. It was just awesome. I can't afford to lose no glove touch. Oh yeah. Respectful head nod, no animosity there, but these two boys are about the business. Let's go. How does Moikano handle this?

Does he play technical and jab away as you try to kill him? I think you should try and kill him. Okay. That would be my suggestion. I'm not a genius. I'm very dumb. When I had to do a slap dash breakdown of this fight for our past, like the past a victory piece.

The thing I came to is like, things are crapshoot and short notice fights. 406, 455, 454. Casey is the man. Things are crap shooting short notice fights. So there's a real world where Morkana kind of gets opportunities just because neither guy's prepared for the other. He's got to make the most of them. Yep.

And throwing a little chaos to the wind here is probably hit him with the chaos hammer and see what happens. Good leg cake from Wicano. Oh, good right hand. Kind of looks big today. I mean, he is big. Trying to rip to the body. Got to be very, very careful with his.

It just keeps that check right hook ready. Very active lead hand. There is probably a very, oh, what do we got? Oh, we got a finger warning. It warns him about the fingers being out instead of up. Yeah. No, no I poke, just getting ahead of it. It seems like my kind of.

has been preparing for two people for this card. Like there's a part of him who thought like he might step in and fight one of these other dudes. Just keep it in the back of your mind. Plus also when you don't even know who you're fighting, then you're just training for that champ at the time. Yeah. Like, I don't know. I'm going to then, let's, you kind of always keep that in the mind.

Yeah. Should I always spend like 15, 20 minutes at the end of each practice preparing for a champion. How do you think about it? How would I fight the best pound-found fighter in the world is in my weight class in the champion? very feeling out from both men nobody committing big to shots a lot of lead hand fighting in this open stance matchup we're kind of really trying to smother the lead hand of Mogachev

kind of is a really good jab too it's it's beautiful it doesn't get enough credit and that's something that I think he could use in this fight oh good exchange is I've got one down the pipe there just so much tapping these lead hands. Tap, tap, tap.

I think there's... Oh! I think there's more of a... Is that more of a trip? I think it was more of an off-balance. Markachev kind of just weirdly put his feet off, like just sort of ducked in curiously there. He seems fine, so I'm going to lean towards trip.

Okay. But he kind of just lunged in off. If he wants him. He has why I get to take it out? Now Islam shoots. He's deep on the hips. Moikano working him back. Islam trips him.

Islam into top half. This is where I thought was really the biggest problem for Moikano. I am with you. I don't think he has much to off of the back. We're going to find out if I am a big dumb idiot. Islam with some shoulder bumps in this top half. It was a slip per annick on the broadcast. John.

Annex says it. He sort of just came in weird. His feet were all. and got off balance, so it makes more sense. But he did, he did get hit. He got a good shot. Yeah, you get punched. That shoulder strike is like awkward to watch because like his,

it's like you could see his bone like shifting around. The scapulent moves. Yeah. Let's see. Grab the fence. Oh, Moikano. Mocono touching the fence. He's thinking about grabbing that.

Grab it. Considering it. Herban guns, he ain't taking a point. He's never going to take a point. He'll never take a point. I mean, he gave you an early warning about eye pokes, but you can still eye poke him. You won't take it point.

Yeah, you still get two more eye pokes and you get three more each of every other for infraction. Oh, now trying to use the toes in there. Yeah. Create a little bit of space. Oh, he's up. Big move. Oh, no. Oh, oh, Markachev with the front headlock series.

Oh, he's done. And he needs to slide arm a little more. Oh, that's over. Wow, you're underbent done. And that bout is over. Yeah. That was so fast. Yeah.

That happened in a blink. Moikano rolls up immediate front headlock series, fires the arm through, didn't quite have it, repositioned gator rolls. He's just such a beast, man. Dude, he can outstrike you if he needs to or do that if he need.

He was having some difficulties on the feet, immediately gets a take down. Moikano does the right thing, gets himself up, gets to his knees to stand. That's like eight seconds? Like eight seconds. Oh, from the knee position, the initiation, that Dorsey was over.

It's the best fighter in the world, man. He is the best fighter in the world. Yeah. You cannot make, you cannot make a mistake. There's just no, no room. And again, man, like that could have been tough. I didn't think so. One of the biggest favorites in history.

But it's just so the short notice makes things weird. And we saw Moycano be a little. That was a good jab we saw there. Here's the knockdown. So he does land a right hand. but he shoots this double not even really that well set up now he's on to a single knee tap finish and we're just done

the game was over there it just took two more minutes to get done and instantly as soon as Moikano's on the knee front headlock fire the arm through and then once he consolidated it was so tight his arm wasn't quite locked he gets it gets the roll and he is the entire body is on my Conno's head is a rap. Best fighter in the world. Yep.

I. What is he going to say on the microphone? It's hard because he can't say that he wants to go to welterweight. I wouldn't be shocked if he said. Give Armand. Yeah, I wanted to fight Armand Sarukian. He got injured. I'm going to take Ramadan off.

Get healthy. Come back again. We'll do it. As I was talking with BC and Luke on morning combat yesterday. I think this win, even under these circumstances, which obviously is a little specious, I think there's now a real conversation on whether Islam has surpassed BJ as the number two lightweight ever. The only way I think he can pass Habib is if he wins six.

If he defends about six times, he doubles up, Habib. I think at that point you just kind of have to say, yeah, man, he did more, he's it. Five, it's a conversation. Six, I don't even really think it's a conversation. That's only two more. I know he wants to go to Welterweight, but that is the, little murky. I'd really like to see him stick around. I think he's got to beat Armin too.

I thought he was going to beat Armin anyway. And, you know, maybe that changed. We'll see. I would really like to see him put together an unassailable lightweight run that can never be top, frankly. Just easy, man. Just super easy money. Not even sweating. That's the other thing. He's finishing everybody in his title reign, too. I mean, it's just pure domination and he's putting all these guys away.

Ali is so funny because he just wants to get in the camera shot every single time. He's hilarious. That's how you get the brand up. He's just so funny. He just purposely does it.

Everywhere he goes. Good brand it's terrific. That's the record. And 16 tied with Anderson Silva. That's unreal. Sweeping the bets. That's good. That great promo.

What do you want to do? I like this belt. This is my job. Somebody wants this belt come to the cave. Oh, so he is. won away. He did not tie Anderson Silva. He is 15. Also, is that true? Does John Jones

actually have a 20 fight on beaten streak? It might be the case. Yeah, he does. I just don't remember when the Matt Hamill thing happened. That was like in 2007. Was it? That is That's a great line. Amazing. One day notice, that's a lot of notice. That's how you lose, boys and girls.

Islam was much better than I was today. God, man. That's how you lose, baby. Take notes. Islam was better than I was today. This wasn't a day's notice. I couldn't afford to lose. I lost. I don't know what's going on. That was a great line.

Terrific, man. That's how you lose. That is how you lose. Those two dudes have owned this division for like the last 12 years or something absolutely ludicrous. And look, as we've learned on the town hall, if we spend a Magamatov goes out there and dust up Paul Hughes and just gets pissed off enough. Great fight. And just gets pissed off enough and just gets pissed off enough. just says like, no, man, I want to, I would.

Don said himself, like, look, if you don't want to be here, then you don't have to. I don't think the Lernernerner would, but it'd be great if they did. I think Hussman still needs some time, needs a little seasoning, but he's very, very talented as well. The boys got things going on. I love that Paul Hues fight. I think it's really, really good. Islam Mogherchev will remain the pound for pound number one fighter in the world, according tovernuternet.com.

I'd make them, if there was a number better, I would. I would go higher. Yeah. Just, again. Armine, I think Armine literally is the only guy I won 55 who could beat him. Yeah. And it's a tall task. I think he's the only guy I can.

I will never pick him until I see it happen. Was Islam lucky that Armine was hurt? I don't think so because I thought he was going to beat Armin. You had a much tougher night of the office if it was Armin in there. Also, you know, like we'll never know until they fight and maybe they will fight. I tend to think the UFC's going to make Armand do something. They don't look that favorably, but maybe they just give them a pass

since there's not a clear cut, except for if Dan Hooker beats Justin Gagee, I know that that's a rematch, but like, Dan Hooker's on a good run if he beats Justin Gagee. So, we'll do some rapid fire, and then we're going to get out of here because the press cover is going to start,

and then we're going to start with post-fighter-trich. What's next for Moikano? Next for Moikano. I mean, honestly, I wouldn't hate them. booking Ponele Darriers. It's not like more, they're both going to have to fight. It's not like Moikano got hurt. The fight was over quickly.

You got tapped. So I honestly just running that back. Otherwise, give him Michael Chandler. I was going to actually go the other way. Otherwise, the Patty Pemblit fight is the fight. He wanted.

He did you a bit of a solid stepping in. That fight makes a ton of sense in general. Patty Moikano. I don't think there's anything wrong with that either. I think that's the fight. And then do Moikano and Chandler. Like that's. chance you'll fight conne McGrath, buddy

when? In June of when of what you're here? Yeah How many Michulin stars? I mean, we got I gave this card

three stars heading in didn't live up to it That was prior to the main event change I think honestly with the main event change that might have docked it to two just because the main event was so good and while that was good

we also lost the Benel Darry. So probably docked it sound maybe two maybe two and a half instead but ultimately I had a great time tonight. The prelims weren't the best, but we kind of knew that. But some interesting stuff happened, right? Like we had some cool stuff happen in the prelims.

Some big upsets. Three bangers to start the main card. The co-main event was a super high-level good fight between the two best dudes in the world, in my opinion. Upset Marab gets to talk his shit. Main event was quick, brutally efficient performance from the best fighter in the world. Ali's like a club promoter, always trying to be in the mix. That being said, Jed and M.K. needs to be recurring. I hope so.

I'm happy to come back to those dudes any time. It was a very spur of the moment thing. Chuck Mindenhall had some issue, couldn't come. They hit me up. I said, sure. I had a great time with those boys. If you haven't seen it, when you're done watching all the stuff here at M.A.Frient.com great website. Tomorrow you've got some time to kill.

You're done listening to on to the next one, which I assume is going to be live tomorrow. 11 a.m. Eastern. You're done listening to our post show, everything else. Gover, M.K. You can watch that back and see how wrong I was about Umar no, Micamatov during that. Pre-game preview. You can also see me shoot Cuervo like a friggin champ. This is basically like the Oscars music playing right there. Yeah, I think that's right. Guys, we appreciate you. We'll be back in... And you'll have the press conference.

Coming up in a matter of seconds, you also have the post-fight show going on pretty much simultaneously. So Jen and I are going to take maybe like a 15-minute breather, and then we're going to come back for the post-fight show. But in the meantime, stay tuned for the post-fight press conference, the kickoff of that. Elit Torea tweets, by the way, Islam, if you want to, I can finish you. If I want to, I can knock you out. I'll make it look easy. See you soon. That makes me angry.

Do your goddamn job, dude. You have 18. There's the only champion in the UFC who has like no right to say. I want to switch division is Ilius Coria. Three dudes to fight. Yeah. Three dudes to fight in your wake class. Hit the music.

We're out of here. See you next time. Mini Gunn says, good night. Well, love y'all. Good break. Say, good team. T-T-L. T-T-Y-L.

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