MMA Fighting - UFC 312 Watch Party Replay w/ Mike Heck & Jed Meshew

Episode Date: February 9, 2025

Relive the magic of UFC 312's live watch party with Mike Heck and Jed Meshew! Check out the original UFC 312 Watch Party here: https://www.youtube.com/live/0EzeUcm3yrE Follow Mike Heck: @m_heckjr ...Follow Jed Meshew: @JedKMeshew Subscribe: http://goo.gl/dYpsgH Check out our full video catalog: http://goo.gl/u8VvLi Visit our playlists: http://goo.gl/eFhsvM Like MMAF on Facebook: http://goo.gl/uhdg7Z Follow on Twitter: http://goo.gl/nOATUI Read More: http://www.mmafighting.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:00:00 You're listening to the Vox Media Podcast Network. Welcome to MMA Fighting's UFC pay-per-view watch party. Watch along with MMAfighting.com as we check out the main card for another UFC blockbuster event. Results, games, surprises, and the best reactions to the craziest moments in the ultimate fighting championship. Live around the world on the MMA Fighting YouTube channel, here are your hosts, My Kack and Mr. no gray area, Jed Mishu. And we are live, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the UFC 312 watch party here on MMA Fighting.com.
Starting point is 00:00:51 I am Mike Heck, just looking festive. That is Jed Mishu, looking terrific with the hairstyle. He's got his DDP garb ready to go. Let's go. DDP Nelson Mandela, the two greatest exports of South Africa. Yes. And, yeah, it's a two-play card, but, The early prelims are really fun.
Starting point is 00:01:11 We've had some interesting things happen in the middle prelims, and we have some interesting things happening right now. Jack Jenkins versus Mr. Santos. And Jenkins knocked Santos down. I was feeling pretty good. I do have a plus 185 bet on Jack Jenkins. Santos almost triangle submits Jack. Now he's on top, laying in a couple of elbows.
Starting point is 00:01:30 It was never even close. Never even close. As I was saying, yeah. But final seconds around one. And despite it not looking all that great, Jack Jenkins, he probably wins the round because he dropped him. I think so. I think he gets around.
Starting point is 00:01:44 You wouldn't shock me if other people, but considering he's a decent-sized underdog, solid start, I can't. The hat is so good. The hat is so good. I can't believe I didn't think of going offsy-centric here. I was just to me like, obviously I got to get my South Africa shirt for my guy.
Starting point is 00:02:05 Got something planned for 313. Very excited about it. Um, but the hat, just absolutely unbelievable. I forgot I had it. I asked the wife like, do I still have the Aussie head? She goes, yeah, it's behind the door and. Sure enough, there it was. The one side got to wear it.
Starting point is 00:02:21 We're just ready to go out into the bush. It's just ready to go. But yeah, it's been, uh, it's been kind of the card we expected here. Top to bottom, not fully loaded. We're just waiting. It's the countdown to the two title fights. But I think the big story coming out of this is, Alexander Tuporia makes his debut and sweeps the cards looked really good he's solid man
Starting point is 00:02:46 because Cody Colby think this is is a pretty solid guy and it was all Tuporia in there and he was kind of laid back wasn't the reckless just go for broke to Poria that we typically see and he looked real good man yeah we talked about like in the buildup he could be good we just have nothing to go on other than his name is to Preria the people he beat were I would say all due respect, but they don't even deserve it. They were like, oh, and 16, like truly horrible fighters, and he killed them. That's what you're supposed to do when you fight bad dudes, but you can't take anything from that.
Starting point is 00:03:23 It's the same as if you were fighting me, like, okay, well, you can knock out Jedmer Shue in 12 seconds. That's not special. This was his first real opponent, and he looked very good because I do, I think Colby thickness is a guy who will hang around. I think he 100% would have been gotten like in the contender series this go around had a shot to get here for sure he deserves to be in the organization and kind of air quotes of whatever deserved means and deporia looked unbelievable so happy to have him here want to see where he goes uh and frankly that's I mean I know you you were being very kind saying that it's been a fun prelim uh it has not been I have been I have been underwhelmed by the action that has happened thus far. I mean, we had, what, an 11 second knockout in the first fight? We did.
Starting point is 00:04:15 That was a bad stoppage. Your thoughts on the stoppage? I think that was a bad stoppage. I'm not like, he probably wins anyway, but that's a bad stoppage. I can't lie to the world. I left the room for like 30 seconds because I'll be back. This fight's not going to be over in 30 seconds. And by the time it came back, it was so far.
Starting point is 00:04:31 So that's better than mine. I was watching on my laptop and ESPN just, froze and when it came back uh quinland is on the cage and homie is just being like this is bullshit to the rep we're like cool so i missed something and then i finally saw the replays and justified to be angry bad stoppage but other than that a lot of decisions i missed the wang song fight so i can't speak to that i had to travel here but uh i missed the tom nolan fight which i'm a bit sad about tom nolan my boy but he got the w my first victory i've been getting killed on my bets today so So the Cody Steel fight was fun.
Starting point is 00:05:09 Yeah. Part of me was just very frustrated by how dumb Cody Steel apparently is. Yeah. Rongji was just tagging him. And he was just like, okay, rather than tackle him and try to win. I'm just going to keep. I'm just going to go for fight of the night. I'm going to keep getting my head caved in.
Starting point is 00:05:23 That's a good, good strategy. Yeah, it was fun fight. I made it fun. But tough scenes blew up my round three. I was so mad too because Mike, if you listen to Robespard, you heard this this week, four different fighters from the most recent season of Contender Series that I rated as round
Starting point is 00:05:41 two prospects. Not quite elite but good fighters were competing on this card. Quillen was one. Cody Steele is another. Towson Tasharo, who were going to watch the feature bout, the third. And the fourth was Mikulev. And Mikulev was the only underdog. And the coward that I am, I just
Starting point is 00:05:58 parlayed the three favorites because, like, Kevin Ducet is a good fighter. I like Mikhailov as a prospect. This might be a tough one. Mickleff goes and just handles business. And I was in me like, what a coward I am. I deserve this. And then Cody's freaking steel burns it anyway. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:06:12 So, and because you would have been, if you had gone the full four, you would have been so thrilled. You'd be like, all right, it's a lot. I got this one. Yeah. Dude, once Michael have happened, I was like, oh, yeah, man. This is game like over. And then Cody Steele immediately killed it. So yeah, see, we are.
Starting point is 00:06:30 It actually worked out. Your disappointment levels. That's why you don't part of the kids. It's definitely why you don't parley underdogs, AK, shout out to you. Yes. So far, all Santos here in round two. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:06:43 Just on top. The head kick that dropped him, we changed the dynamic around one, but now this is just strictly business for, for Gabriel. Yeah, Jackson's getting tackled and kind of, I mean, there's some shots being landed, but nothing truly impactful, but enough for the referee to not stand them up.
Starting point is 00:07:03 Although he is waiting the fingers around. So we can, you can double fist the cannons. The plus 885 bet. I mean, I have no bet. So you can, you get both cannons now. Yes. Vital 35 seconds here of this featured prelim, which is not as fun as I thought it was going to be. Final 35 of this round of the future prelim.
Starting point is 00:07:27 Yes. Oh, yeah, I have this round. We still got a whole other round. We have five more minutes to go because this is definitely making it out. out of this round. Oh, for sure. At this pace, this is going to three. The referee is just shouting at them to do something.
Starting point is 00:07:41 He's shouting at Santos to keep moving. Honestly, Santos kind of is doing stuff. So I'm not sure what he's landing punches to the body. Working some elbows in. And oh, good left to end. A decent little left hand right there. All right. Jack Jenkins.
Starting point is 00:07:57 One one probably. I think it's probably one one. You could, you know, it wouldn't be the worst score card. if it was two O'Santos, but I would have it won one right now. I hope it's one one. Dropping somebody is more impactful than not submitting somebody. In my humble opinion, I could be wrong.
Starting point is 00:08:14 I'm open to negotiation on that point. Yes, that's very true. Call me crazy. Yeah. And again, we kind of ran down the highlights of the fight so far. It just has not been great. Again, I missed the two, so I can't, maybe the last two fights really lined it up. I have been told that they were both decision wins.
Starting point is 00:08:39 If Slava Claus is going to a decision, that could be fun or it could just be boring because he got tackled a bunch. I don't know. But the other stuff, I've been interested because there are a lot of people I am marginally interested in, but the outcome has not been when we thought, frankly. We knew this card was what it is. There are two fights. I do think the main card has they well i'd quibble maybe with some of the names that they put there we've talked about that a lot i do think they probably selected pretty close to the best bets for good action uh like jimmy krew is just gonna die because that's what jimmy kruit does i mean maybe well maybe a win but if he wins redolfo ballado is going to die i will be very surprised if uh prado matthews
Starting point is 00:09:24 isn't just a fun scrap of nothing else and you know just oh oh that was That's nasty from Sato's. Put him in a bad place. Oh, no, don't get to tackle. This is not the good place for Jack Jenkins. He is in the bad place. That's nasty. He is.
Starting point is 00:09:40 Oh, no. He is not there. He does not have it all. This is fighting on instinct right now, brother. He's got his back. Oh, no. This is so bad. It's not what you want.
Starting point is 00:09:53 He's all the way in that backpack, body triangle, awful little angled. All right. Most people have a 19-19. This is a terrible. start for my Jack Jenkins bed. This is, oh, we're fishing. We're fishing.
Starting point is 00:10:07 Just shake him off four minutes remaining in the fight. It would be hard to shake him off with that, with the body triangle and locked it deep through. Oh, no. This is so bad. Oh, just, just doing the mean bullshit crank down on the head there. Oh, no. Bring him down. Oh, it's just so uncomfortable.
Starting point is 00:10:25 Oh. Yeah. I don't think you're going to win anymore, my. No. He came out hot. I mean, I came out smoking, but it's, uh, it's not good. It is not good. And Jack just, come on, Jack, you can do it.
Starting point is 00:10:40 The Mike puppet. We have a, my son let me know. He goes, do not touch the pupil of one of the eyeballs. Oh, why? We had a loose eyeball that he glued back on. Loose eyeball. So the Michael Bisping special, got it. Yes.
Starting point is 00:10:56 The Bisping puppet. Shut up. Shut up. he's actually on the call right now he's actually on the call he would have gone here that he's done that is that is on there's a tap there's a tap there's a tap under the chin and tough scenes oh that would be such a good idea just light it on fire i mean i don't know if you guys that was impressive man working for vox media has its perks.
Starting point is 00:11:31 Yeah. Right. And this is all the money I threw away on Cody freaking steel right there. That's about eight grand right there probably. This is a good amount of money. Yeah. Well, that was fun. I mean, unbelievable performance from Sonto.
Starting point is 00:11:48 Oh, like look at that front kick. That is a heel right to the man's jaw. That was nasty. All that's a pop. And then just palm. Oh, yeah, it was over. Palm grip. all the way there.
Starting point is 00:12:01 That's cartons. Cartons. Just nasty stuff, man. That was a good performance. A really, really good performance from Santos. Santos looking. There's Michael Bisping right there. Mike, Joshua Ash, or perhaps Ashy.
Starting point is 00:12:19 I'm going to assume it's Ash, though I grew up with a kid who spelled his first name that way and it was Ashi, has asked, can we get a guest appearances for certain fights like we did a couple years ago? Something like AK joining for the main event would be. pretty sweet. We'll take that under consideration. I'm open to, you know, getting some more people in particularly if there's like a good reason. Like you guys used to have me on when Valentina Shvchenko had literally every empty dollar of mine to her to her bet. That was really fun. I'll do a great moment that I think about all the time.
Starting point is 00:12:53 One of the greatest moments in the history of family fighting. So, you know, if there's a great reason of that, this is not frankly the card to do it. But we could figure some people out. Poetan Ankaliev. I don't know who's got like a real big attachment there. Hmm. Not a ton of people. We'll get Adjadis on now.
Starting point is 00:13:15 Who knows? Oh, now we're cooking with gas. Yeah. Mike, do you miss doing fight companions with the old crew? I mean, yeah, but now I got Jed here. So wow. Yeah. I mean, what a great question to ask for him.
Starting point is 00:13:27 Dundson. More like dumb son. It's just, are you coming to me? rude wow I'm sitting right here had the decency to talk behind my back I mean it was definitely a different show um but yeah I mean boy we've had iterations flying to New York driving to Atlanta now you drive here it's like it's solely so different uh Nolan versus Slavikovac's a fun fight they mix the martial arts well uh Tong had her way with Brasilia fun to watch tongue go off but not really competitive.
Starting point is 00:14:00 No, it wasn't really that competitive. Nolan's Slava Claus was kind of what you expected. Honestly. I mean, it just depended. If no one was going to not grapple, then Slava can always be fun on the feet. Nolan certainly is a pretty fun striker as well, but path of least resistance. I did like, he's never really done in the UFC, but I've watched and was like, I'm pretty sure Tom's just big enough to be like, tackle you.
Starting point is 00:14:24 Ha ha ha. I win. I win. All right. Santos. I love you, but I don't care. I don't love you. I don't hate you.
Starting point is 00:14:31 I'm fairly indifferent to you, but great performance. Yeah, good win. Very, very good win. Congratulations. Time for the main card. Boy, I hope we get like four first round or three first round finishes. That'd be terrific. I mean, the only one I'm really hoping is the feature bout because if to share a tafa goes past
Starting point is 00:14:51 the first round, now we're in danger zone of something bad. It will be funny. It is true. It will be funny. Watching a six foot seven man. It's going to be cartoonish size difference between five. What's it? Five of eleven to six, seven.
Starting point is 00:15:08 Something like that. That's incredible. It's. So it's going to be funny either way. I mean, they will look. It will look like a grown man fighting a child. Yes. Like a big child.
Starting point is 00:15:19 Justin Topp is not, he's not making light heavy, but different. Different sizes. Difference. Very tall man. guy my size not great i mean yeah you could probably take justin taffa oh no well yeah look at the guns yeah i mean that that doesn't do anything in this he's crazy that man great that man great can and he's got to win over the he's got to win over the goat i mean that's but it's not a bare knuckle so who goes a shit oh tusha that's the only that's the only goat that matters
Starting point is 00:15:52 yes pack a porter all right we got the opening graphics we could take some more questions because we know not fighting for 15 at least at the stone earliest kirk there's ddp there's sean strickland they bled there's a fight sean with the jabs ddp hitting him as hard as he can's the best uh thank you kirk canadian fan they're coming back to canada for ufc 315 any predictions for main co-main uh from montreal Canada got was UFC 297. They owe us one. Not to mention the year before that, Vancouver got, is it 289?
Starting point is 00:16:37 That was the Amanda Nunes, Arrini Aldana card. That sounds correct. Plus, a couple of toughies, man. I'm now looking this up again just to make sure I'm not totally speaking out of my ass. And yeah, so this is the first time because I wrote this for us yesterday. It's the first time they're going to Montreal in a decade. Yep. And the last time they went, do you know what it was?
Starting point is 00:16:59 179 it was 186 and that was six uh the main event is a good fight but i did a good fight dj horaguchi okay i will give you 10 000 of these u.s dollars if you can name the co-main event right now to that car there's just no way i'm going to get that i i that's why i was going to give you 10 000 of these dollars it is quentin rampage jackson versus fabio all that's right there was a catch weight belt so that was the one rampage like wasn't even he was like under contract with bellator but he still somehow owed the UFC a fight
Starting point is 00:17:36 or whatever yeah he like wasn't supposed to go to contract with bellator and so then he's like fine let me finish the i'll go fight fabio freaking maldonado so random um as the co-mean event so yes they owe canada you are absolutely correct 297 was me 289 was it was real bad But we got Charles, I mean, we got Charles Oliver a moment against Binaldairus.
Starting point is 00:18:05 That was like the thing that stole that event. So predictions for Maine and Co-Main for UFC 315 in Montreal. So the issue, part of the reason Canada is getting bad cards is honestly part of the reason Australia is getting bad cards. Because Australia is also getting fairly bad cards. There aren't that many good fighters from the region. they are going there for other regions like they're getting paid by the tourism board and there's not a george st pierre to tuck in to every canada event so that is tough we know that perere magamatov or um angelaev is going on next so march we don't know april
Starting point is 00:18:47 what that is yet do we no i well they're if it's up in the ufc's eyes they want to pour a vote I say, I know that that has been rumored, but that is, to the best of my knowledge, far from being complete. Maybe we'll get something different on the broadcast while they have them all. I don't know. I mean, this would be a pretty damn good car to announce some big fights. I have a little time to do it. But so that's April. So we're talking the May card.
Starting point is 00:19:14 And let's operate under the assumption to Puerto Volk is what happens. Not at all. Don't report that we said this. That leaves us with not a lot of other. like marab marab is saying he wants to be really active i don't know if shone o'm alley is up for that timeline i don't know why you do that in canada i'm montreal although shot o'm aleck would have a pretty damn good time much like i so here's belal shavcott okay yes i again no insight at all my guess will be we'll get two title flights ball shafcott one valmanal vall vall vall vall vall
Starting point is 00:19:51 so i'm if i had a guess again no insight to He was like, oh, Mike, I got the watch fire. I just said this. I'm willing to bet a fair amount that Val Manor is on it. She had obviously Montreal and Paris are not the same thing. Montreal is French, you know, French speaking all as well. Manal is French speaking. They're not going to hold a pay-per-view in Paris.
Starting point is 00:20:16 They will go there for a thing. She's fighting on a pay-per-view as a champion. I would bet a lot that that is your co-main. And so Balal Shavkat says, good of guess as any yeah i'm just trying to think like what else it could be do you do just pants i mean maybe pants versus whoever ends up getting the shot at pants is possible maybe you double up women i don't know if the kela harrison juliana pinia fight can happen in montreal like i the one i would feel again i feel some level of confidence valmanal is taking
Starting point is 00:20:50 place and that would be a good location for it anything else could be there i have truly no idea what else yeah so i would do i would do ball schofcott shafcott had the like injury i don't know if he can do that but like that to me would make the most sense baller shavkot valmanal valmanon i would do jasmine versus either on drange or rose as the featured oh that's yeah i like that a lot um mike milan Mike a lot on there somewhere. Mark Andre Barriel. Somewhere in a main card, I guess. God, I hope not on the main.
Starting point is 00:21:28 But like, interesting question, because I honestly had not thought of it as this popped yesterday. I was just like, oh, can't believe they haven't been Montreal in a decade. That seems like a long time. Yeah. So I would say, yeah, I would say Minon, Valentino would, like, if I, if I had a power ranking options. Yeah, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's a perfect.
Starting point is 00:21:49 place for that fight. All right. What else we got? We're over over one and a half on BDP Stricklers minus 715. By the way, in my parley, I got it at minus 900. Over one and a half. Yep. That means juice came in on it.
Starting point is 00:22:06 I got it at minus seven for the climb. Oh, Jed. By the way, he. I saw. I hope you also know that I wasn't calling. I wasn't being mean intentionally, but you came from me. I had to come back for you. Now we can all be friends.
Starting point is 00:22:21 Now we're all buds. What else you got? What do you guys think of jarsing your roses, right? Getting cut. Um, no surprise. I mean, I don't technically didn't get cut. So we're clear.
Starting point is 00:22:31 He fought out his contract and was not renewed. I believe that that is correct. Um, yeah. I was I, I mean, I don't really. It's semantics, but he's not a semantics, but it is slightly different. Um, I think it's insane and I don't understand it. Yeah. Yeah, I do.
Starting point is 00:22:51 I do not understand why the promotion would not re-sign a guy who they have ranked in the top 10. Yes, he has lost the fight and has lost like three of his last six or whatever it is. He's still ranked in the top 10. And like there's just the ever present Derek Lewis fight that just should have happened at some point. I don't even, we don't even mention that fight anymore because it's just never, it just never happened. And it doesn't make sense. it doesn't make sense to me and it screams of
Starting point is 00:23:18 there were some other issues behind the scenes that led to this. They felt he was difficult to work with. They didn't like his hair. I don't know what it was, but I just don't understand why else you would release, cut,
Starting point is 00:23:34 not re-sign, whatever, a guy you have ranked in the top 10 coming off a loss to the guy you have ranked number four. I yeah I don't know it's just kind of a weird one yeah it's kind of a weird one but heavy weight just so bad man
Starting point is 00:23:52 like it's such a bad division which makes it even more puzzling because do you need everybody who like he at least has kind of a name because he's been around enough but he's fought like everybody already except for Derek Lewis it's so weird and we don't mention that fight
Starting point is 00:24:09 maybe it'll happen to the GFL who the hell knows no the GFL's never holding an event I know who knows I do pick me Mike Does Jed think Tatiana will bring him points on his draft team
Starting point is 00:24:22 buddy I sure hope so That's why I drafted her I took her fairly early too I think she was my second round selection Actually she might even be my first round selection I have thought since this fight was announced And I am Super willing to be wrong
Starting point is 00:24:39 We'll find out in an hour and a half to me it feels like this is a great fight for her if Zhang stuffs the first two takedowns I will immediately regret a whole lot of choices I've made in my life but I think that she brings the physicality to match or even exceed Zhang that Zhang secretly really relies on I don't think we think about that enough how she just always has the I can back pocket-hoss people if I need to
Starting point is 00:25:09 and I don't think she can do that against Tatiana. I think Tatiana is the best female wrestler in the sport and should be able to get to her spots and can threaten in a way. So that's why I took her. I have a bet on her. I have predicted her to get a submission, I think in the third round.
Starting point is 00:25:28 She is on my fantasy team. If I am wrong, it's going to suck. It's not going to be great for me. Yeah, I mean, I feel good about my, Zhang bet. I felt good from Jump Street. I've always
Starting point is 00:25:42 would pick Zhang in this fight. And now knowing that she has way more to lose than Tatiana just makes it feel better. And I'm getting her a plus money, which is kind of insane. I'll take it. She's number two pound for pound female fighter
Starting point is 00:25:59 in the world. You're getting her at plus money. Yeah. I have the same kind of vibes that I had with Marab. Like, wow. No one thinks Marab's going to win. But I bet worked out. Yeah, that one worked out. A successful run. And I kind of feel the same way. Like until I see someone go out there and dominate her, I can't bet against her.
Starting point is 00:26:16 So we'll see. I don't know why we're doing a tourism promo right now. Why is Driggis too? Also, why are they a wave garden in fucking Australia? It's Australia. I mean, I guess Triggis can't really surf. Oh, this is part of the multi, multi million dollar. Hey, come visit.
Starting point is 00:26:35 See. Here. Looks like a nice place. I would absolutely. love to visit Sydney. Yeah, Australia is probably a bucket list. It's a hundred percent a bucket list. I think it's number three on the bucket list for me right now. What's number one? I have four since I was five wanted to do a big tour of Greece. I see all the history, the islands do all of that. Been through a fair amount of Europe, but never been to Greece.
Starting point is 00:27:01 That is the next time I go to Europe, I will be going to Greece. Nice. I just, I like, you know, I loved Greek mythology as a kid. You know, a little loser reading those books about the, and there's just like a bunch of cool history, dope food, Mediterranean climate. There's what's not to love about it. Love it. Definitely want to go to Ireland at some point.
Starting point is 00:27:23 I hear absolutely wonderful things about Ireland. Yeah. We have like distant relatives that live there that could show us around. So definitely a spot I'd like to go visit. Australia's right up there. Yeah, definitely want to do that. There's Francisco Prado, who is a young. man who is looking ginormous in his new weight class young fellow let's go and there's jake
Starting point is 00:27:46 matthews formerly formerly uh a top 10 fighter in the welterweight division we don't have to talk about that goal over rankings i was never forget that post right show i was so i was like he's done it he's 26 we all knew he's super talented look at how look at the boxing he's put it all together Andre Fialho is not a bad fighter and he just emasculated him. Oh, never mind. Spent 35 minutes talking about Jake Matthews. Because it was like he's 26 and he is finally doing it. He's finally getting there.
Starting point is 00:28:19 And then Matthew Symbolsberger killed him. And Symbols burger's not even in the freaking U.S. anymore. Oh, there's just unbelievable. Unbelievable. Yeah. Let's get a T-Rex arms. You know, he's a man.
Starting point is 00:28:31 That's not a boy anymore. That's not a boy. Jake Matthews became a man today. He grew up. We were so ready. I was so prepared for him to be the next generation of wealth away. And he sucked ass after it. So I assume you don't, you do not have a bet on Jake Matthews.
Starting point is 00:28:50 I in fact have a bet on Francisco Prado in this one. Okay. Both because Jake Matthews does really enjoy underperforming in moments. And also I really like Prado. I won't shock me if Matthews just has a little bit better boxing. I ultimately think Prado is destined to be a lightweight, though he's pretty big now. He used to not, but he is small. He is not very tall.
Starting point is 00:29:12 I think he's like 59, 510. He's fairly short T-Rexe arms. So it kind of feels more like a lightweight to me than a true welterweight. But he's 22 years old, super fun, definitely has a lot of talent. Got him at like plus 195. I might be on the here, is it? It is plus 195. So I figured I'd take a dog shot.
Starting point is 00:29:35 I need it. I have cashed one bet of four thus far today. So my freaking parley got busted. Wang Song by K.O. got busted. Cody Steele by submission got busted. So yeah. I did hit Tom Nolan at Underdog odds. So it's not that bad.
Starting point is 00:29:53 But we can get right back into the black with a Prado win here. I have no side here. This is a parley piece fight. over one and a half. That's a good parlay piece. Yeah. So I have this. The co-main, the main all over one and a half.
Starting point is 00:30:09 And then I have the Tafa to share a fight under two and a half as one parlay plus 114. We usually don't like to do the fourth leg, but I feel fairly confident that all those will hit. Four is a good base. Yeah. Sturdy. Sturdy.
Starting point is 00:30:26 Like tripods are strong, but a quad pod. Pyramids. Quad part. Oh, yeah. Well, the pyramids have been standing for 10,000 years or whatever that is. But your four-leg bet, it'll be fine. It's going to be terrific. I'm excited for the main event where I am, the climb is now at an amount of money that I am uncomfortable with.
Starting point is 00:30:47 So the over one and a half really needs to happen in the main event. And for the first seven and a half minutes, I'm going to be on the edge of my seat. Because this is for leg 10, Mike. Because DDP could happen. It's a good wobble in the first round. This is for leg 10 of it. I'm debating, honestly, I was talking to AK about this. If I get to leg 10, like, you know, when you play like 21 in basketball, you get to 15 or whatever, you get to get to set.
Starting point is 00:31:15 So I'm debating me like, what if a leg 10, I just pulled my initial $100 bet out just to bank that as opposed to keep? But like, the wage of this week is $750 on this one. So getting uncomfortable at the. how high up we are the mountain there comes jake matthews he gets the full-on hometown intro they're the back the the walk right behind him now they got the 8k cam on them look all there's still a question whether jac matthews or jack delamadalina has more upside jake matthews still a young man maybe jack maybe jdm's about to lose his next five fights you don't know you don't know maybe leon sends him to a bad place leon's very good he's very good he's very good also jack was super
Starting point is 00:32:06 close to losing to gilbert burns yes just unbelievably close to lose it to gilver burns yes gilbert burns is uh i think over is pretty good though that that was uh that would have been a terrific underdog bet to cash that was uh i was feeling so good about that and then seeing Huff beat. Well, then, like, G.C. was depressed because JDM's his guy. Like, he was just sulking in his seat. And I was just like, at that point, I was like, I kind of just hope you win just so you're not a bummer the rest of the watch party. And then he came back and won.
Starting point is 00:32:41 We got a great moment. And then we got Dustin Poirier right after that. And then we got Sean O'Malley putting a clinic on Cheeto. Yeah, that was fun, man. That was a fun-ass card. Yeah, it was a pretty good one. That was a great card. The one of the last year.
Starting point is 00:32:54 It was very, very good. And there's Jake Matthews. He's in the Octagon. Just squatting down before he gets the Argentinian thunder coming his way. We said it would be at least 15 minutes so we get a fight and we are knocking on the door at 20 right now. We're killing it. Casey reminds us to do a countdown for the round start. We will.
Starting point is 00:33:16 We will. I've been thinking about that all day, honestly. That's because you're professional, Michael. Yes, because I screwed up like 18 times last time. Jake Matthews, 12 and 0 record when significant strike accuracy is over 40% I believe that stat was okay all right something to keep in mind that's like the the little big league stats you ever see a little big league the movie is that's the one where the kid becomes the manager of
Starting point is 00:33:43 the yeah yeah yeah there were like several child baseball movies yeah rookie of the year but yeah that's the one where it becomes a manager yeah and he would like the the broadcaster like if someone got he goes ah he's he's not batting 400 on days and N and Y in autumn months that are even numbered throughout the year. So that's something to keep in mind. And that's just kind of like what these stats are coming up, which is, which is great. The buff man, look at Jake Matthews. He is looking like a more of a man, like a big loser like a big loser.
Starting point is 00:34:17 Like he was once upon a time, the 10th best Walter way in the world. Yeah. Like I mean, a lot, I've done a lot of dumb things in my life. I catch hell for that one more than more than most. What's more regrettable? You ranking him that high or not believing in Sean Stricka? What do you fight? Oh,
Starting point is 00:34:34 I'll never forgive myself that because I had, I spent two full months talking about like, the day that fight was made, I was like, I'm just going to pick him. I was going to pick him because it's a very silly year and it would be so funny. And I'm kind of riding the heater of picking these very stupid things to happen. And I,
Starting point is 00:34:52 I believed in that all the way up until I had to actually put my money around Roth was and I was like he can't possibly win and I will regret it till my dying day. Yep. You should all be so thankful. I would walk around. I would have it tattooed on my face. I take to Giuliana Pena and Sean Strickland to win and DDP losers. And Sean O'Malley.
Starting point is 00:35:12 I just against Azurban Sterling. Yeah. Oh, that was such a heater of a year. Oh, it would have been unbelievable. I'll never. I am more mad about that than I am losing all of my money on Valentine's Shipchenko that one time. There he is. Jake Matthews.
Starting point is 00:35:32 Michael Sparks with the bold statement of Tuporius sucked. Oh, interesting call. That's not true. Round one, about to begin, Casey. I don't know who any of the Octagon girls are anymore. So I don't know who just left the cage with the number one in her hand. All right, here we go.
Starting point is 00:35:55 Mike Beltran, are you ready? You ready? And we're off. And the clock is up. And 56. 55. 54 right on schedule out now that brought to you by time x you know yes so you know it's good jake matthews not rolex but jing matthews looks two way classes bigger than this man yeah probably
Starting point is 00:36:14 was just not a lalter weight man i just don't think he is but nice little nice little slip and dip there oh nice combination i was got the justin gachie full cover defense yes he gets all up in here he looks like gaitie like stature while to moving around yeah get him proddo oh get inside let those short hands go to work they trade leg kicks oh matthews catches that one flips him around but proud proud prado's still big dude he is he is you put on some some weight in here oh that's right back up back up jakey jakey jakey about to make a big mistakey proud of doing the ddp thing i'm just going to move forward and throw his hard that's all that's all you got to do
Starting point is 00:37:02 This is the new meta, just yolo ball. Oh, Jake was about to throw a head kick. That was just throwing half knees. Oh, Frank, give him the business, Francisco. Frankie prods. Frankie Prada, let's go. A lot of yelling in the corners. Not a lot of punch.
Starting point is 00:37:27 More active than they are being as fighters right now. Absolutely. Right here from Matthews. Oh, another one. Right hand from, from Jake. Prado the kick to the body. Try to spinning back fist. Very technical battle here.
Starting point is 00:37:50 A lot of yelling. You can't back up. You got a DDP this. Oh, we got a hockey fight. Oh, Matthews are these short little uppercuts. Oh,
Starting point is 00:37:57 these are nice. A couple okay knees, but Matthew's just firing like 12 uppers into him. Matthew's just so much bigger. He's a large, large fella comparatively. Like, Prada could do a million pushups,
Starting point is 00:38:10 but Jake's just like five inches taller than I'm proud oh come on more more aggression Jake is really holding the center now in there just playing some bully ball being a big bully oh I got to tell you the parley's a little scary right now with how hard these guys are throwing punches nah I mean yeah Jake Matthews probably about to get slept so you should be concerned oh both guys landed that was that was nice they've done a couple of the both dipping left hooks in the exchange of the same time like the uh carlis condit martin campman whoever gets there first or no that's dan hardy hashtag yolo for bolow let's go under two minutes here good round here very fun it's up for grabs i mean very
Starting point is 00:39:07 much i would say jake is certainly ahead but yeah not not an instrumental lead oh good left from jake and another one oh quick little right or punch the body you're too short to get to his head punch the body. Yeah, do the, do the Teporia thing. That was the difference in the, in the Teporia. I think this is like once Tuporia started landing to Colby's body, he didn't like it at all. Nobody punches. Not even a little. I think it's like one of the many keys to victory I have for DDP this evening. Just start to punch the body a lot more. Because Strickland's so good about defending his head and like DDP can get there on this like fourth, fifth, six punch in a combination.
Starting point is 00:39:49 Yeah. Instead of just punch the body. Yeah, okay. Oh, you're covering and just. Oh, Prato ties up. Frankie Prads. Let's get him for the takeout. Oh, it gets it. Game changer from boy.
Starting point is 00:40:02 Let's see if you could do something with it, though. This isn't going to do it. No, you're fine. Just hold him. Be a hostage. Squeeze and break his ribs. Bear Claw. Actually, why am I rooting for Jake?
Starting point is 00:40:12 I don't even have a bet on him. I'm rooting for you. I mean, you can root for Jake. It's fun. I don't want to roof for Jay. I mean, just part of the picks I have them, but. I don't think I'm doing very well all my picks today. I honestly don't even know.
Starting point is 00:40:27 I won the first two events of the year and then I was horrifically bad last week. I'm pretty sure. Come on, Frankie. I did great last week except for, uh, is he killed? Oh, Oh, Matthews just shunted his head around.
Starting point is 00:40:43 Matthews is a lot of cleaner in these, uh, little inside pocket exchanges, but Prado was content to kill. Prado got a little cut on him. A little cut looks like over the right eye. Oh, Jake Matthews just bullying him around. You and I have the same amount of winners so far.
Starting point is 00:41:04 Okay. Love that for us. I think no one has more than four correct picks. That's not great. Yeah. I think everybody got, it seems like everybody got you set and Cody Steele wrong. That makes sense. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:41:21 If I wasn't a coward, I would have picked McAleff, but I am. Except for Casey. Casey picked McAleff. Cause case is not a coward case is good at this uh 10 nine jake matthews for sure 10 nine jake matthews by the way prado i will give you 300 american dollars if you could get your shit together and start winning this fight just do it do more of that take the dude down just wait two and a half prado lost every one of these ducking exchanges he ducks down and just gets tagged as soon as he comes up for air And then he cut him. All right, here we go.
Starting point is 00:41:59 Round two. Just give me two and a half minutes. That's all. Just give me two and a half minutes. Also, I just desperately want to shoot, like, if probably wins, I get to shoot both money cannons and I really want to do that. I didn't even do that at home when I got them. I don't know why as I'm saying out. I just didn't, but like I desperately want to dual-willed money cannons.
Starting point is 00:42:16 So I need to get this shit going. 55-54, right on. All right. Oh, big slugs. All right. Now these is bleeding out of the nose right above the eye get scrappy Frank Frankie Frankie prod's got to go probably back to 155 I mean Frank probably probably probably a definitely lightweight in in most worlds.
Starting point is 00:42:43 Ooh that was a saucy little standing elbow that was nice. Oh the rib roaster just right to the belly for Frankie Prad is for the Celtic child good knee to the body from Jake. Good right hand. Oh, that was nifty. Kick to the buy from Jake Boprado. Good counter left. He's just chucking him.
Starting point is 00:43:08 Oh, Robbie Glover, don't, don't get caught up in the bleeding and Jake talented. So incredibly talented. Don't get caught up in oblivion, Jake Matthews. That's how they get you. That's how he gets you. Oh, no.
Starting point is 00:43:19 Come on, Robbie. His rankings. His rankings. Jake Bath is both be ranked. Robbie learn the lessons that I. Don't do it, Robbie. I sacrifice. so you could run.
Starting point is 00:43:29 Yes. Oh, good. Me for Prado. Oh, Frankie Prads. Oh, good right hand from Jake. Okay. This is, this is fun.
Starting point is 00:43:36 I mean, I thought that this fight would be fun because winter lose. Prado is fun. And Clay Matt or, uh, yeah, claim, not Clay Matthews. I just did twice. No, linebacker for. Clay Matthews. Linebacker for the Green Bay backers of yesterday. And Clay Matthews is now a UFC welterweight.
Starting point is 00:43:55 Yes. Wouldn't that be something? fighting a man he's literally twice as old as oh jake just hum in a right hand all right give me 36 seconds just give me 36 more seconds our significant strike totals are very close apparently i would not have thought that three oh tried to change levels but matthews ducked it
Starting point is 00:44:23 instantaneously oh good to exchange every one of those is bad for frank Francisco Francisco That's a fun name to say Oh someone asked on the Oh Oh good exchange Three
Starting point is 00:44:40 Two One All right leg one We are alive Hey No money canon We are alive It's going to be a sweat for the rest of the rest of the card
Starting point is 00:44:53 Yeah this one felt like it's pretty likely to Go your way 213 long Uh, someone asked because of how, speaking of how bad heavyweight is, uh, could Miles Garrett? Yes. Be a top 10 heavyweight in the UFC. If he like switched to M. May right now.
Starting point is 00:45:13 Probably not. He's probably to lose weight. I don't know if you can get down. Yeah. But you can get down. I don't know. I mean, if you just came, but like he doesn't take a fight for he just, he does train Alta for the next six months.
Starting point is 00:45:28 And then fights. Yes. I guess on the contender series but probably for his pro debut yes he would be a top 15 heavyweight within four fights if he like did it okay I mean you know there's all you and I are kind of in the same there's always the question of whether like maybe he just can't take a punch at all some people can't know and that'll end you but like no like the amount of Greg Hardy good the amount of MMA or of like NFL castoffs who became top 10 heavyweights who are like not great athletes comparatively like yeah miles gear is probably going to do unbelievably well yeah for a very long time I my constant joke was that uh one of the 10 best heavyweights in the world was actually
Starting point is 00:46:16 selling milk in minnesota because i still think cole conrad if he just got in shape could walk into the UFC and beat half of the top 10. I agree. This is like heavyweight is a good upper cup from Jake. We're just not getting the best athletes are not competing in MMA. So any really good athlete that took it seriously, probably do extremely well. Yeah. Final 30 seconds. Oh, that looked like a bit of a head buddy. Yeah. Oh, Prado the cheeky love.
Starting point is 00:46:48 Frankie. Frankie might be down two rounds. It doesn't seem great for him. but he's competing he's hanging in he is he is competing my bet i need him to win he still might i i mean he's got a lot of bleeding going on swing oh oh he swung boys did he swing he lined that up just here oh frankie pratt is frank frank frank frankie prada the crimson mask it's not even crimson mask he looks like the dude and god of war it's just like a line like right here Both sides of his face. I was a headbut. You were absolutely right.
Starting point is 00:47:26 I'd say it looked like a headbutt and it busted him open. That's why. That's why he's wearing the crimson mask. It is. I was like, it looked a lot like a controversial opinion. I believe headbutts should be legal in MMA. I believe standing headbutts should be legal. Why?
Starting point is 00:47:45 For that, like, screw it. I don't need us to litigate whether that cut is real or not. Like, if you just want to torpedo someone with your head, head how is that any that is not any more dangerous than a knee to the face or whatever like there's no reason for it not to be legal interesting we can get rid of head clashes being a thing entirely you want to get rid of head butts on the ground so you can't take somebody down and do that sure standing headbutts totally i think it should be totally legal there's the per can you live graphic well like henry sehuto would do with that big old noggin it was a legal
Starting point is 00:48:22 maneuver for him to just ram his head forward he could fight blindfolded it'd be the best he just dart his head up who's gonna who's gonna mess that guy well it's instead of jab into your rear hand it's jab into ha ha so it would soon it would be three division champion you know 52 51 50 50 there we go round three we're chucking them oh good left hand from jake matthews is is looking spicy right now to start this. He's about to be re-ragged, isn't he? No, he's not. I fool me once, shame on me.
Starting point is 00:48:58 Well, Robbie Glover's going to have him wrecked. Robbie, don't do it. Don't do it, Robbie. It'll be the biggest mistake. Prado, Prado's going to have to go for it here. He's going to have to go for the home run shot. Casey, why not you, E. Casey, but Casey Wilson, headbutts lead caused too many cuts. Why is that a problem?
Starting point is 00:49:19 I'm not even, I'll even stipulate that that's true. which i don't necessarily think it is true who gives a shit elbows cause cuts we let them in it's fine there's a fist fight it's not a bake sale let him get cut oh man jac matthews is just kind of working him over now so big plus he's got the reeds like everything prado is throwing matthews is slipping blocking and then fire him back yeah it's just the size is he's prado is Kevin Lee-ish. Yeah. In stature.
Starting point is 00:49:58 I just think he's just a true lightweight and just needs to commit to it. Yeah. And there's 165, man. He'd be perfect. I hate that argument. In Sunny 16, yes, Lethway does use headbutts.
Starting point is 00:50:12 That's where I got the idea from. It bangs. Oh, fun exchange. I mean, they're scrapping in here, boys. I mean, Frankie is doing the same like three combinations over and over again to no avail. Oh, Jake just missed. Just with the toesies.
Starting point is 00:50:33 Oh, just hit them with them little piggies. Oh, little elbow from Jake Matthews. Nice. Prado's just, Prado is content to lose, um, competitively. Yeah, he stopped like throwing as hard as he can. Yeah, he is not. Oh, good.
Starting point is 00:50:55 Matthews, frigging shot from Matthews. Yeah, Prado's Every single time Prado steps to the left Ducks and comes to the left. He misses his left hook and gets tagged. It's happened 12 times in this fight
Starting point is 00:51:09 and he keeps going back to that well, baby. Matthews doesn't even look like he's been hit at all. Yeah, he's, he is winning this handily. Prado's got him not much. Maybe one underhook? Not even. Not even.
Starting point is 00:51:28 Matthews actually has the underhook. he's just content just letting this clock run hey come on put on a show if you're gonna win if you're gonna ruin my day be cool another good knee another good knee prado with the need of the body all right decent little uppercut from prado throw everything you got right now weapons free frankie oh just just just let weapons free frankie come on like kick for matthews yeah proud pro proffo misses he misses my life Oh, yeah. It is just his he might have a separated shoulder right now with how much he's missing with that right hand.
Starting point is 00:52:13 But it's not like, you know, the old Leonard Garcia just fastball looping. It's a tight right hand just missing by a mile. He takes the, he just takes like a big step and you just, you see it coming from a mile away. You got to take a big step because he's so, oh, he's just a little guy. Yeah, he's got to get in that distance takes that big left march forward. Matthew's a nice little short right hand I cut his open Jed turning on Jake breaks my heart says Troy Hampton He broke my heart first Hurt people hurt people
Starting point is 00:52:49 I got hurt by him Now look where we are Blame him Matthew might add another clash of heads Oh You just hold him here Matthews for 30 seconds They're like eight knees to legs And you win
Starting point is 00:53:09 Not that there's any day I do not think Prado has the ability to hurt you at range at this point. So you're just waiting for 16 seconds. Final 10. We got the clap clap. Kirk Patterson, I'm firmly against fish hooking in M.MA. Yeah. Terrific street fighting tactic.
Starting point is 00:53:33 Absolutely opposed to it in M.A. And there you go. Jake Matthew should win 3027. Yeah, pretty easy. And the crowd goes mild here at, uh, It was still a pretty fun fight. It was a good first half. It was a good little bit of action.
Starting point is 00:53:48 It definitely died off a little bit as they got a little more tired. But Prado was getting, I mean, Prado was getting tagged in every round. I mean, there's a reason he got tired. He just got his ass. I don't know if you ever had your assby.
Starting point is 00:53:59 Mike, he's pretty tiring to just get wailed on. Somebody who's gotten his assby before, it's not easy. Did you get your assby for 15 minutes? I've never had. I asked me for 15 minutes. I'm like relatively durable.
Starting point is 00:54:16 I ain't 15 minutes. That's 15 minutes is a long ass beating. Hey, get a minute. Chat, if any of you have had your ass beat for 15 minutes, please tell me because I have a million questions. So get in there and be like, actually, yeah, I got into a fight outside of bar in college and this dude just whipped their shit out of me for 34 minutes. What is I know it's 30 minutes?
Starting point is 00:54:41 is a film. It's based on a novel. Robin Patterson is the main character. The premise is in the future or an alternate world that we live in. We have created cloning and we've also expanded throughout the universe. And there is a certain job role called whatever it is, where you do like the most dangerous jobs and this asteroid or whatever. and when you die they just clone you
Starting point is 00:55:12 and you wake up with your memories from your dead spot and then you go back to work in the trash compactor whatever it is and the core premise is he he the 17th iteration when he dies and they clone him the 17th one isn't dead so then there are two of them running around and you can't have two running around for reasons
Starting point is 00:55:33 I don't know for reasons I never read the book but I probably will just because the movie's coming out and it looks somewhat interesting. Jed, I don't know if this changes things. No.
Starting point is 00:55:44 Jake Matthews on a two-fight win streak right now. Good for him. He's broken the win-one, lose one that he's been on, but nope. Win three and we can talk. All right. Jake Matthews is not McKinsey Dern,
Starting point is 00:55:57 who I can't quit no matter what she does. I quit him hard and fast. It was very quick. So, yeah, the Semelsberger loss, that was a you turn on him real quick. Like, immediately. It was sad.
Starting point is 00:56:11 Jody Pearson, I'm really sorry that happened to you because, yes, fish hooks are awful. That is a reason that they should not be allowed to fix marks. My brother fish hooked me to tore the skin from my bottom front tooth all the way to the Jesus, dude. Yes. It's. That's his brother. I mean, your brother sounds, no offense, like a stone cold sociopath.
Starting point is 00:56:33 He beat my ass for 12 to 60 hours a day. Okay. So like, no, he didn't. Nobody beat your ass for 12 hours. hours a day. That's exaggeration, Jody. I mean a 15 minute unimpeded ass beating in a row with maybe one minute breaks every five minutes, you know? Yeah. 12 to six. I mean, that is 12 to 16 hour ass beaten. I mean, that's at some point you have to be held accountable for not stopping that. Like that's tough. But like, I'm trying to think of the longest fight I've ever been.
Starting point is 00:57:08 in like outside of a training room or something like that it is not remotely close to five minutes like it's most fights in the real world are over really quickly all right come on jimmy crout this is my uh oh um bergenti says in the book he doesn't die 17 times the movie increases the number because it liked killing patterson i don't know if that's true or not but sure what's the Is the book called? What's the book? I have no idea what the book is called. Mickey 12?
Starting point is 00:57:44 Yeah, I maybe. I genuinely do not know. Let's make it. Let's have him die 17 times. That's, I've never seen a guy die 17 times. I mean, I'm sure that they're playing it for laughs because your whole like first act can just be like,
Starting point is 00:57:58 oh, now I'm doing this. And oh, here I'm getting eaten by an elephant. And here I'm falling in the trash compactor. And, uh, here a bomb,
Starting point is 00:58:06 uh, is at my feet suddenly. Uh, or whatever. So there's that. Oh, up. We got a Hall of Fame announcement. Who's it going to be?
Starting point is 00:58:19 Dom Cruz. Oh, it's a fight. Carl's Condon versus. Robb. It says, it says epic fight, but they're going to do two for Robbie. I mean,
Starting point is 00:58:30 they fucking should. Gasolum versus Arizona. Oh, yeah, because it's Atlanta. There you go. There you go, buddy. Oh, is that this one, baby? I'll let you wax poetic about this while I get another beverage.
Starting point is 00:58:45 EOC 236, Israel, Dissio wins the interim. title against Kelvin Gastilum. I have talked about this many times of various different points. This fight absolutely deserves to go into the Hall of Fame. This fight is one of the ten best fights of all time, in my
Starting point is 00:59:01 opinion. It is, in my personal opinion, it's one of the five best, though. I give the caveat. I was sitting a cage side. Honestly, you may actually be able to see me in several of these clips. This has happened in Atlanta.
Starting point is 00:59:17 I cannot stressed you enough how unreal the energy was watching this. That fifth round coming out as he's standing in the corner saying, I'm willing to die in here, gets dropped, everything that is just absolute anarchy. Everybody on Media Row is out watching that fight and afterwards, we all just sort of sit back and look at each other and can't really fathom what the hell just happened. to the point that I'll never forget this feeling. This was the co-main event. The main event was the second best fight of that year.
Starting point is 00:59:53 It was Dustin Poy and Max Holloway 2 for the interim lightweight belt. That happened, and I remember watching that, I've been like, this fight is amazing, and I cannot possibly think about it. Like, my brain was able to register that that fight was sick, but all my emotions were gone from watching. Izzy, try his hardest to kill Kelvin Gasolum, who cannot die. and conversely, Izzy willing himself to not die
Starting point is 01:00:20 as Kelvin Gasolm just kept coming at him absolutely deserves to be their unbelievable fight. Like I said, I think it's one of the five to ten best fights in the history of the sport. There you go. Izzy's in the building too, so we'll get his reaction. They gave him the camera. Oh, they did. Okay.
Starting point is 01:00:41 Also, Joe, backtracking a bit to your comment. Defense isn't actually scored, So apparently I know judging better than you do. Jed doesn't know judging. Sean was Sean, uh, Jed doesn't understand judging in defense. Sean clearly won.
Starting point is 01:01:00 Defense is not a scoring criteria. So I've read the rules like a lot. I thought DDP won. Uh, yeah. I watched a fight three times. I scored for DDPL three times. Yep. I, if you scored it for Strickland,
Starting point is 01:01:17 I do not have an issue with you scoring it for Strickland, but I think, DDP won the fight. But, uh, fight wasn't nearly as good is this freaking fight, which absolutely deserves to be in there. Yeah, it was a very close,
Starting point is 01:01:29 like, there's difference between like, incredible fight and close fight. Like, Stricken DDP was one of the closest fights. The only other fight that I can think of that was that close, championship wise was Volcanofsky Holloway 2.
Starting point is 01:01:44 Or it was just like, man. Does, it was really close. I'll tell you, I remember thinking this as it was happening. uh glover yeary when it looked like we were going to the discards i was like i don't i have i stopped scoring because it was so chaotic i was like i don't know who one that was a different kind of
Starting point is 01:02:02 close but i was like and then suddenly it ended it's like oh thank god because i didn't have a score for that man i can't believe calvin gaslum didn't die in that fight oh my god that was crazy fight it was everybody on meteor road just sat back and looked each other like Holy shit. They come back and they're, uh, freaking Izzy's, Izzy's face looks like a Martian.
Starting point is 01:02:34 Yeah. Like he has busted up in the back room doing media. And then Dustin Porre and Max Holloway fought and like the crowd was just like, they, they got back up to like the level they could. They couldn't get up any higher. I was, because Holloway Porter was so good.
Starting point is 01:02:52 I was saying that like to, to them, I, I, I'd have a distinct memory of watching that fight. and logically knowing this is an unbelievable tactical masterpiece, and there was no emotional connection whatsoever because I was spent. But totally, I mean, one, terrific place to announce this.
Starting point is 01:03:13 Izzy's here in the crowd, a very deserving fight. I think we might have a really good Hall of Fame class with Polygian going in from the thing. Obviously not, nobody's going to be that excited as they don't know him, but this is your fight. I strongly anticipate Dom Cruz is going in. Frankly, it feels like Amanda Nunes probably gets,
Starting point is 01:03:33 gets to go in as well. Like, that is a really, if they do do DJ and that's your class, that's an unbelievable class. It's a great class. Unbelievable. If they don't do DJ,
Starting point is 01:03:47 who do you think gets in? Do you think they're like Carla Spars in there? That wouldn't be bad either. Yeah. Joe, no, he did hit him. Like he hit him. I don't,
Starting point is 01:03:58 know what to tell you man like he he hit him if you don't think he did just you're just wrong i don't you can keep tilting at that this particular windmill man and sean strickland gets a chance to prove you more right now in just a moment but well hopefully sean strickland is a different game plan because if he fights the same way he loses again tonight i really interested to see if If you bring something different, that'll be cool. I can assure you the game plan is, I can assure you, the game plan is not to do the exact same thing. So whether he does the game plan, Mike is always the question.
Starting point is 01:04:37 He usually doesn't. He usually doesn't. He certainly didn't do the game plan against Alex Pereira. And I did a game plan against Alex. He had a game plan. But sometimes you don't even have, sometimes he didn't do the game plan and worked out. Is your Adasania?
Starting point is 01:04:54 Perfect example. That was not the game plan, but he dropped Izzy in the first round and then they were just like, all right, fucking go. Just keep doing that, I guess, because you win. Yeah. You're going to win if you keep doing that. Yeah, we'll see. It's interesting. Like, I'm very curious how Sean approaches this fight.
Starting point is 01:05:16 Does he wrestle? If DDP takes him down. I think he's the only the same. You think he's going to look the same? If DDP takes him down, I want to see him. I want to see if Sean like does something with it. Because if he could because if D if he just stands back up, like that's not going to stop DDP from taking him down at all.
Starting point is 01:05:37 Like anytime Sean got going, anytime Sean got cooking, like once DDP figured out like if I move forward and just wing shots as hard as I can, like I'll win the rounds. And then when Sean wouldn't push forward, DDP would just take him down and then they would stand up and then he would do the same thing again. If Sean can actually threaten something on the ground, the back pocket thing goes away a little bit. It'd be interesting.
Starting point is 01:06:02 But there are a lot of tools he can't have. I would love to see Sean Strickland throw one uppercuts in this fight. DDP ducks his head so much when he's doing his reckless kamikaze charges. Pereira Corning multiple fighters tonight. Is he? Is he in Bellato's corner? I believe so. I'm trying to look over it.
Starting point is 01:06:20 Look over the right shoulder. Oh, sure is. That is. That sure is. Busy night for Poetan. Busy night for Poetan. One of eight active Brazilian UFC light heavyweights. I also think Casey, we have a super chat to get to.
Starting point is 01:06:43 And while, frankly, this fight that no one really cares much about and they're walking out. Kirk, shout out. Connor is done, obviously. Biggest fight to make in the UFC right now, not Jones versus Aspinall. Sharra side Not a lot of star power right now I think you mean Shama Ah, that's probably right
Starting point is 01:07:05 It's probably Shama I was like Shara bullet Isn't spelled that way and wouldn't be in the top 27 of biggest fights So I was confused I was like Zedania Shara I think Shama is correct so So the biggest fight the UFC can book right now That's not Jones basketball
Starting point is 01:07:20 I think it's to me it feels pretty obviously Ilya versus Islam I super hope they do not book that. I think that that is the biggest non-John Jones, Tom Aspinall fight, or Connor, or obviously withdrawn Connor. What do you think would be other than that? Jones Pereira. Well, I assumed by the Jones thing, we were restricting Jones in general because the Jones
Starting point is 01:07:45 Aspenol fight is more of a Jones just isn't going to do it. So also you can't do Jones Pereer. He said not Chama. He said shop, well, he's saying not a lot of star power outside of Shama. I thought we were also restricting Shama. Yeah, I don't, I didn't, I didn't read it that way. I could be wrong. I would, I would agree that, uh, I think Jones Pereira is the biggest fight
Starting point is 01:08:09 EPSC can make that doesn't involve Connor right now. So I do agree that. I think that's bigger than Tom Aspenal play. From a pay per view by standpoint. What's, how big? is ddp versus homside i mean it's it's big but it's divisional big not champ versus champ chanapagra right so it's just i mean to for a tipporia is um would be big i think taboria is um is the biggest thing that doesn't involve john jones alex prera or cona mcgregor yeah uh kevin gray
Starting point is 01:08:44 watch along to tipporia live up to your expectations in his fight tonight i thought i thought you look pretty damn good in there i had no expectations for him i was really clear like He could be good. What he has shown on the regional scene is him just demolishing people. But again, that's demolishing kindergartners. If a dude beats the shit out of me, you guys should not think he is a world-class fighter. You should think that he can beat the shit out of me. That's functionally what he was doing with his regional run.
Starting point is 01:09:12 So I had no expectations. Now I'll have some because he looked amazing against the guy who I think is good. Not great, but I do think thickness is a fun, talented enough fighter. and he looked really, really good. So he certainly exceeded the no expectations, and now I can have a little bit. And I'll be interested to kind of keep seeing, seeing what sort of brother can he be?
Starting point is 01:09:32 I think we know objectively he is not Ilya, because they basically said, I took some time up my career to help Ilya focus on his. If he was the better brother, he would not have taken time off to focus on. They were just like, oh, you're better, you do it. So I think we can say, he's safely not the second best pound-for-pound fighter in the world.
Starting point is 01:09:51 by many people's estimations, but he can still be very good. And it's whether he is the, uh, Nate Nick Diaz kind of brother level, the, the, uh, Shogun Ninja kind of brother level, the Joe and Dan. The nod. Yeah, the Joe, but like that's the bottom tier of it is the Joe and Dan Luzon. So like where did, where does he fall as a brother, the Tafo brothers that they're both pretty made to bed. So we'll see.
Starting point is 01:10:16 But I'm interested in following along with that now. Yeah. He's he's he's real solid. And look, one of the things he told me was, I kind of hope this fight goes long because he's been saying in all of his interviews that he's going to take me into deep waters. He's like, okay, I would like to see that. And I think there's honestly, I think there was part of his strategy that was like, all right, let's get this in the third round. We'll see if this man can take me to the deep waters. And what did he do? We tackled them and just drowned him in the third round.
Starting point is 01:10:45 Suplex city, baby. Yep. The suplex was nasty. Knocked him down in the first round. Dude is sharp just missed with that spinning wheel kick in round two that was friggin nasty He were great he didn't show he didn't show his best stuff at all and still swept the cards against a pretty Talented guy like Really comparatively like they that is a good matchup for where there's very good careers and he dominated so yeah
Starting point is 01:11:10 It was very good Cody Haddon was the favorite I think that's right interesting I could be wrong but I think that's right. Interesting. That might be... That's a fight I would have loved to watch. I really like going to be. Speaking of fights, we're about to have a late...
Starting point is 01:11:28 Also, Joe, yes, Oleg Tiktar should be in the U.C. Hall of Fame. I hope you get a lot of day. 57, 56, 55. Bam. I have a bet on Jimmy Crute. Oh, by the way. I have no action on this one. As you can see, I thought to myself,
Starting point is 01:11:41 Jimmy Crude hasn't won a fight since the year 2020. And I think I think I had Balato has like a marginally interesting prospect but not very good from season the 2023 seasons so just like he should probably kill jimmy croup but i just i did not want i had a surprising amount of action for how bad this card was yeah again it's one of those things where it's just like if jimmy loses he's probably done fighting he's done he's getting he is for sure getting he's going to be gfc like that's that's his best bet yeah he's out of the ufc if you're definitely getting his walking papers are the loss he has the most to lose this weekend i believe maybe tatiana swaras
Starting point is 01:12:22 no i think jang has the most of oh jimmy jimmy right in the mouth jimmy's in full mom come on jimmy come on jimmy balado went for a pretty fun explosive sweep oh he's going to tap him he's going to tap him oh balado you silly silly silly boy oh my god come on jimmy but you do not have a lot of fun there we go that's a fundamental guard escape there we go should probably stand up I mean that would have been a really cool trip from Blocum and instead Jim and crew just fell on it was awesome random was a sick counter from Bucre I didn't even know if it was a counter just like oh all right we could stay here for a minute like I'm okay with that I mean this is is terrific for your Jimmy Croupette.
Starting point is 01:13:14 Slowly kind of threatening an arm triangle, at least giving the idea that it could happen if Polato. Last afternoon, I had an underdog bet that started off great. I lost. So we need, uh, we need Jimmy to hang on because Jack Jenkins wasn't able to, to fulfill the destiny. Joe, you're in Toronto, AK's in Toronto. Apparently, you guys are cold.
Starting point is 01:13:37 Oh, North South. We never see North South anymore. Yeah. Now we didn't. He just rolled right past it. Yep, sure did. We got a lot of it's about to work his way to his feet now.
Starting point is 01:13:46 He's in the turtle. Oh, oh, he's going for the Bravo and then. Oh, he's been awesome. Blato just bailed like a coward. He didn't want to get brabored.
Starting point is 01:13:56 Jimmy Crout. Posturing and with the big right hands, looping. Jimmy looks like I would punch in a dream in that scenario. He's just throwing, but nothing said he's missing. But it's okay. I like what I'm seeing here.
Starting point is 01:14:10 This is terrific for my bet. But don't get too tired. Don't get too tired. Just chill out. I mean, it's hard to get dominant position. I like the short little shots. Short little lefts.
Starting point is 01:14:23 I think Ballarder should not go for that trip again because that had dire consequences for his game. I hope he does. Just keep tripping. Trip forever. Oh, I like these little left hands from Jimmy. Just the damage bar just dropping punch by punch. Now we're starting to land.
Starting point is 01:14:37 Oh. I mean, Jimmy Cruz, who's who's whooping his ass. Oh, we had backmount now to full. Balato is taking some elbows now. Those don't look comfortable. I'm going to be honest with you guys. This has been
Starting point is 01:14:55 a deeply uncompetitive round. Very, very, very. Charlie, I've never played Bellatro, but I'm strongly considering doing it. The only reason I haven't is it seems quite addictive based on everything people have told me. Oh, I...
Starting point is 01:15:27 Sorry. Well, basically is the same thing. Jimmy Cruz just beating their shit out of Bolado. He almost tried to go for like a sweep to a truck, like a De La. But instead, Jimmy Cruz just sat on him and has three minutes and 13 seconds and counting of control time per the broadcast. That's going to end up being well over four minutes by the end of this, assuming things do not change. And oh, oh, there he goes. He's to his feet.
Starting point is 01:15:58 Blotto finally gets, oh, and he got jawed by a right hand. from Jimmy Crute oh Jimmy Crute is looking saucy in there and Blotto is his legs are not oh oh oh oh oh oh oh I don't even know what it looked like a left hand maybe got him and then he just fell over like he flare flopped that shit and it didn't look like he got like he like walked back and stumbled oh that this is gonna be game over baby jimmy jimmy jimmy jimmy I mean short time. Well, I was going to make it to the end of the realm, but he is dead. I was stopping time.
Starting point is 01:16:33 10.8. Oh, that's for sure a 10.8. That was possibly a 108 before the almost killed him at the end. That is for sure a 108 for Jimmy Kru. I want to see the replay. Looks like a left hand get it, got him. And then his legs just went out from under him. That was so weird.
Starting point is 01:16:54 Love what I'm seeing here. Also, whoever's super chatted, I do not know. what that chat means all right big elbows i mean jimmy krew was just whaling on him from top position here i think this is going to be it right oh it's a right hand oh i mean that just took his equilibrium out right hand right around the guard right on the ear and blotter just fishlegged his way out of there seems okay but he he was not on great legs before he got dropped jimmy krew it looks like he can run through a wall right now. This man is amped up.
Starting point is 01:17:50 Decent little leg kick. Oh, sorry, Casey. 4.50, 449, 48, 47, 46. Oh, good right hand from Jimmy Krupp. Blotto is looking slow in there now. Labored. That was a tough first round. Aid another right hand. K1 Jimmy Krupe giving him the sauce in here.
Starting point is 01:18:17 Another right hand. Blotto just does not have anywhere safe to go. jimmy crout throws a high kick tries to get him now blotto goes for a clench just just a reprieve i mean jimmy crew is getting everything he wants in there balto looks like he's still trying to find himself he's trying to get back just get back to a place of comfort oh good right hand from blotto there oh hockey fighting love it i mean he's got the hair to hockey fight mike he sure does jimmy crute has got some hockey hair on him is just staying super busy on the feet certainly the best we've seen uh mr crute look in
Starting point is 01:19:03 in a long long time kirk you're right he should have headbutted him 100% of thing he should have done and it should have been legal and i've you you all know my stance on headbutts now all right we're back sorry i had to get uh tomorrow's trivia question done got to do that forgot i forgot about the trivia question the people crave the trivia Yeah. I really like the trivia questions because I can make fun of people in the comments who are bad at them. Oh, yeah.
Starting point is 01:19:33 You got. This is the Julieta Panyu? Yes. Because it was one tough and is a current female champion. There's only one of them by question three. Everyone should have got it. And everyone was like, I got it on the fourth try. What?
Starting point is 01:19:48 There are only three women champions and only one of them won tough. How is this hard? Well, that'll change. Anna Winston. That is true. I love to. Oh, good spinning back into the body. Jimmy crude.
Starting point is 01:20:02 Jimmy crude is looking sharp. The man is fighting for my money. I will say that. He is absolutely competing for your money. And I got to tell you, in what I know of, that exchange is scary. I just don't think he's got the juice left to really put a hurting on him. He took such a whopping in the first few rounds.
Starting point is 01:20:25 Jimmy looks tired, though. It looks very tired. I mean, it's hard to beat the shit out of somebody, too. You did it for five minutes. That was a lot. That was a lot of beating the shit out of somebody. Oh, good like you. Maybe this is the Balato's plan.
Starting point is 01:20:41 Oh, good right here for the Homer Simpson defense. Yes. I will let him. Oh, this is bad. That was a good little one, two, three. Oh, good right here from Jimmy. Not really a one, two, three, but a three punch. Just move forward and punch.
Starting point is 01:20:56 Just move forward and punch. Oh, good. right hand from ballado oh no the momentum oh no is the big moh changing it's close this round stuff for grabs i mean jimmy is well ahead but if things get go for the trip again balado go again for the trip i'm dominating the ground and not once looking to take this down is good right hand yeah jimmy yeah jimmy he's head with the hockey uppercut jimmy jimmy Good. Oh, that was the right hand that dropped him the first time around.
Starting point is 01:21:29 You gotta at least keep the hands up, Jim. Jimmy Cruz should really try and shoot a take down, given how absolute. Oh, what a knee! Oh, big knee. Blotto is now saying yolo ball, son. Blas got a chin on him. Blotto has now, oh, Jimmy takes a big breath. He's tired.
Starting point is 01:21:49 It's just. That's charging Blotto up. He's like, all right. 49 to 2. The first round for significant strikes. And now it's dead even. Yep. I mean,
Starting point is 01:21:58 whoever wins 45 seconds from now could win this round. Come on, Jimmy. Blotto looks like a different person. Yeah, I think his nose may not be in its original. He tried to spin kick. It could barely get halfway around.
Starting point is 01:22:16 Big knee by Jimmy. No, no, no. Just getting that good right hand from Jim. Oh, Jimmy. Come on,
Starting point is 01:22:23 Jimmy. Blotto is bleeding a lot from a lot of places. I mean, we could stop this. like doctor stoppage i'll take it bold this bold request i'll take it uh i mean this is getting oh the world's slowest wheel kick and it landed and it did land oh now they're staring each other down all right you know what maybe i'm biased i don't give a shit jimmy kruit no that's a 109 Kurt around he uh he's up three full points god he's gonna be to finish he's so tired
Starting point is 01:22:56 this is this is terrific this is a this is a fun fight yeah i jimmie crew just immediately should take down you'll win this fight with so an ape drape hockey hair crew channel and dd p i mean look it's it's not a bad move jimmy kruj should come out to the vandal song about mullets because it's a it's a terrific song look at the movement of james crude i mean i'm telling you just super slick in there it's just ducking under he's there's the 800th good guy bad guy promo you're you're watch that i've had to watch Oh, yeah, for work. For work.
Starting point is 01:23:48 I would never choose to watch it. It's tough. I. It is what it is. Yeah. D.C. was never my cup of tea when he has put on the spot to be performative. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:24:01 I think he is a great person sort of organically. Obviously, love to watch. When you interview DC, he's terrific. Yeah. Like, but him having to be a personality, I think is not his strength. Yeah. He has personality, but being one i would say is they're very different things oh all right get back
Starting point is 01:24:22 james all right james four 32 31 30 case is doing a terrific trouble oh good right hand from jimbo kevin i only no uh somebody in the chat also had it there um but that was much that first round is a 10 8 though come on well oh yeah the first round the 100 percent should to Nate oh oh well out of swung with everything he could muster there missed hard but he tried good right hand though getting in there well don't find in a second wind we need some home cooking there oh oh jimmy finally gets to take jay and then he's done i mean you all you had to do is keep going and you had that come on jivvy james i mean you may just win anyway but you should the takedown is a maneuver if you can get it i'll take it like we i take that would be terrific you have controlled him
Starting point is 01:25:17 for five fucking minutes in the first round it was deeply uncompetitive on the floor oh good check you checked it he sees it coming from mile away he is so defensively savvy that james cruz i'm telling you i mean people say floyd mayweather junior jimmy crute Roy and Sean Strickland. It's always the same, the same sentence. Tiago Moises. Oh, a little jab to the body.
Starting point is 01:25:46 Oh. Just a flail. That is what we know as the flail. Yeah. Yeah, Jimmy. Just charge it. Go DDP. Go full DDP here, James.
Starting point is 01:25:56 Come on rock them, sock them for the last three minutes, boys. Let's have a good time. Yeah. Do it. I credit to Jimmy. He's done a really good job of checking that logo. calf kick.
Starting point is 01:26:07 He's really been keyed in on that. Oh, good shot from Jimmy. It was also a head clash. Another checked low kick. Yep. I'm glad I bet on Jimmy Kruh. Like, I do not regret this bet, regardless of what the card said. Ancient David, man, you're correct.
Starting point is 01:26:34 Jimmy Kruit does have some tree trunks of legs. Get up, James. Get up, Jimmy. Immediately, immediately elevates with a butterfly. Shit. But now his back is given up. Oh, This is so tired.
Starting point is 01:26:46 If Kevin Ioli is not alone, you could be in a tough scene. Jimmy is trying to just bear crawl his way to the fence. Blato doesn't even have the energy to get off his ass. Yeah. He is, he is barely around the back end of the hip and getting drug to the side and can't even just stand up and consolidate this position. Now he does. Yeah, Jimmy.
Starting point is 01:27:06 Jimmy. Come on, Jimmy. Come on, Jimmy. Your body shot. Just throw. Just throw right hand whoever wants it more dig deep fellas Come on Jimmy it's your career baby this your career point at the ground and sling them or don't punch it all got it same thing right head oh head kick well 52 blocks action there from ballotto sick cool your face tells a different story
Starting point is 01:27:43 that's good light kick right there didn't check that one Don't right back. Don't right back, Jimmy. Oh, right hand. Big knee. Another big knee! Let's go, Jimmy. Bellotto with more significant strikes per the broadcast this round.
Starting point is 01:28:03 Which maybe- The leg kicks are all getting checked, so those shouldn't even count. Well, they theoretically shouldn't count them. I don't know if they are or not. Never trust the numbers. Oh, good shots from Jimmy. I mean, yelbo's got 40 seconds, and this could be up in the air. y'all need to just meet in the middle and fire weapons three boys 30 seconds jimmy lends a combination
Starting point is 01:28:27 jimmy let's the right hand pushing good jab backed him up swing for all your worth fellas put your hands up jimmy don't both of you drop them and just chuck them let's end this on fireworks that was a nice elbow from jimmy crude 13 seconds swing oh my god swing oh oh right left hand your title Jim, Jim, Jim, the fucking face. Jimmy Kurt just stinging the fucking face. He just open hands slapped him. Boato and then finishes with the jumping knee and both elbows. Oh, such a silly end.
Starting point is 01:29:01 I've never, this, he opened face, he open hands slapped him. But not like this. He slapped down at Jimmy Kurt's face like he was trying to get the tongue that was sticking out of his mouth. It was like a big show chop. 10-9-Ballato. 10-9-Ballato, uh, 29, 27. 29-27.
Starting point is 01:29:18 29-27. Correct is what I have that. I feel like if even if this is if the judge what do you guys have this one as it's pretty close. If the judges scored the first round the way it should be scored at work. I cannot lose I cannot lose this bad. I you know 10 I think if I lose. We never know if it's are happening.
Starting point is 01:29:40 Yeah. I would say that this should absolutely at least be a 10 8 in the first job. Yeah. Uh, chat, what do you guys got for this one? Cause this is I think crude's going to get it to see what other people think on this. we obviously have rooting interest i'm seeing i'll make them fight another round i'm seeing a lot of people withdraw i don't hate i'll i'll be and that's fine if you want
Starting point is 01:30:04 to score a lot of the round two and three i think that's totally reasonable as well we're going to get jimmy i've basically exclusively seeing draws in the jesus yeah i'll take it i'll take it uh we're going to get majority decision win for for games it is definitely about to be bala we're getting a 29 28 majority decision with oh and you know you know it's going to be fun because they're taking some time to get oh no oh no we are taking some time to get this crew 28 27 okay 28 27 interesting scorecard must have done a 10 7 in the first honestly you could tell me 20 dude i'll take it uh come on baby pretty fun little scrap uh buffer is standing behind jimmy crout i tend to think that when he stands behind you you won the fight come on majority draw
Starting point is 01:31:08 29 27 and 2 28 28 28's majority draw jimmy crout couldn't do math and thought he won do i still get it i'll take a i will take i do you get push but what a push certainly a good bet you've got your money in on the right side yeah uh question came up do we think jimmy crut's going to get cut after the draw i would say no particularly because it was a super fun fight That may well win fight of the night. So I don't think he, I think that's a performance where he's not getting his welcome papers, even without winning.
Starting point is 01:31:39 So good on you, Jimmy Kruke, good on you, Bellato, came back after an abysmal first round. Two, no, I guess.
Starting point is 01:31:47 Up, up, up, going to Mexico. Oh, we're getting the Moreno fight. Moreno, Steve Ersig.
Starting point is 01:31:54 Yeah, it's official. In Mexico City. Moreno, uh, Vinny Sigs. Which means Marino is not going to, Canada despite that being his home away from home.
Starting point is 01:32:04 Yes. But I mean, I think we that's been out and about for a bit. Yeah. Credit to the judges though. Oh, wait a minute. Wait a minute. Are we getting the main event? Tickets go on sale.
Starting point is 01:32:19 All right, April drop Miami. You have. DeKoria and Volk right there in the building. Just announce it. They're not doing it. It's not done. I don't know, man. It's crazy.
Starting point is 01:32:36 Well, we're not getting it. Damn it. I mean, it doesn't look at Driggis do pussy man carries himself like a champion got to say gotta say he's got the lady friend I believe it's his fiancee I don't think they're married it could be wrong um dudes dude's got some drip going on I got got the chain multi-colored diamonds yeah uh honestly really very focused Sean Strickham couldn't could not have a different cut of an image from Sean Strickland to
Starting point is 01:33:17 Trigas 2 plus C. Looking like an 80s pro wrestler. Dude, Ryan Campbell on the morning combat preview for this said, I think the most app thing I've ever heard about Sean Strickland now coming to Australia and being
Starting point is 01:33:33 like super over. He's like the reverse crocodile Dundee and I almost shit my pants laughing. I was like, yes. That's very funny. That's exactly what he is. He is a crocodile Dundee coming to America.
Starting point is 01:33:43 He is the American image of people going to Australia and bringing our culture to them. It's the most spot on thing I've ever heard. Trying to see. What is, uh, man, who does Sean Strickland look like? Really disappointing that our cash cannons are not getting to be free. Oh, there it is.
Starting point is 01:34:12 There it is. I was like, is it super macho man? And I was like, no, it's not him. It's soda. If you played Mike 10, he looks like Soda Poppinski from Mike Tyson's Punchout. That's what he looks like with the, mustache I mean it's nailed it quite a stash that's quite a stash there's Justin Tava I need him to shave his beard because he has a majestic stash and he can't at like
Starting point is 01:34:33 look at him look at how good he looks with just the stash oh no what beer takes it away that didn't happen no by the way that happened sure Austin Lane but the knock of that happened before did not look like the stash is so good the beard no bad bad beard there's a terrible choice just go go dash only Jonah byr you're a bad person you pray this fight goes to round three no you're bad person we got we got we got a funny Santa is watching you I know that it is only February he's he's he's a big he is he's a big fella he's also like legitimately got pretty solid skills he's not I don't think he's a great athlete um but his natural February he's 26
Starting point is 01:35:19 he's pretty talented yeah he's just humongous yeah Danny Burns, we are moving to the feature fight between Justin Toffin, tell us into Sheta. We're about to get the title fights. Hopefully this fight ends quick. Parlay piece number two right here. It is this fight under two and a half is parley piece number two. I think that you're safe there unless Joe, the villain Joe or Jonah. Sorry, Jonah, not Joe, Joe, you're fine.
Starting point is 01:35:51 Jonah, Joe, you're an issue. We do not want everybody knows your problem. Actually, you know what? This can go to round three. but it just needs to end under three i think we all would like this to end quickly yes i have talus and jasherr in a straight bet uh he was also in my round two parley that is dead because cody steel forgot that he is primarily a grappler um it could happen to anybody anybody could forget the thing that they do best um and so talison jashera is now just just playing a solo run for me man i wish
Starting point is 01:36:23 Vodalva Bolato tried to trip Jimmy Kruh one more time. Oh, ancient David, man, that's a good question. Is this the only time we get two champion versus number one contender fights on one card? In today's UFC? Well,
Starting point is 01:36:39 also is Tatiana actually ranked as the number one contendent? Yes, she is. She's really, that seems wrong, but okay. She hasn't fought in like 18 months. Interesting choice for them to do that.
Starting point is 01:36:50 But that is a great question. I would have to guess. no, just there have been 800 UFC events in history but even just going back to the rankings, it probably has been another, but it is definitely not a common occurrence that the actual number one
Starting point is 01:37:05 two number ones are challenging on the same evening. Was UFC 300 maybe? Jamahillow number one? No. She wasn't? Chamaoh, couldn't have been number one because
Starting point is 01:37:19 what do you mean? A year he had just lost, so he would have been in front of Jamal Hill if nothing else. Plus, this year he got knocked. Well, yeah,
Starting point is 01:37:28 he lost Alex. But he lost Alex. So he would have been. Yeah, you're right. Because he is a champion. That's how they were. Plus,
Starting point is 01:37:34 um, there's no chance why Lee was playing, um, that Jan was there. So I don't think so. Like, I would have to go back. Honestly,
Starting point is 01:37:46 Jose Young's probably just knows the answer to this off of his head. He's super good at that. I can't think of one. I would be surprised if it, if there weren't though. But it's definitely not a comment. occurrence because you're rarely getting the number one contender even fighting the champion that only happens particularly the way the uc rankings work once every couple of years because then they've
Starting point is 01:38:07 already beat the guy who just holds number one any of the max volk fights i don't know what i can't remember what the co-main events were there like that maybe those were those were the co- so that fight their fights were co-main events all three times really is that true that is very true first one yeah first one was co-main event second one was co-main event second one was co-main event behind usman and mazadol and the third one was co-main event behind israel a sonya versus jared canaan here well neither of those were it so what was the first one co-main event let's go look what the first one was behind max hallway 1
Starting point is 01:38:57 245 Usman Covington that probably actually was one and one was the first Usman Covington fight yeah and that very likely I'd have to go and see at the time but I would suspect that that was number one versus number one
Starting point is 01:39:14 though honestly there's a world where Volcanovsky wasn't the number one contender at that point in time what about because actually Volt might not have been the maybe surely he was he'd just come off the aldo win he probably was the number one contender at that time yeah like he was the one in a harbor whether he had the number one just i would bet that that one just checked and you've got to jama and john i were ranked one that's insane let's go where was yri ranked why would he be behind jama that's dumb as shit yurries probably two and he fought rackage
Starting point is 01:39:47 that's dumb as shit well i mean yury lost and jama didn't yeah but jimmy all beat one dude retired right but he was the champion but then year he won the belt like uh i know listen this the UFC rankings this isn't the best rankings in the world it's true all would have happened if arm had hadn't pulled out was umar number one of the ucec rankings all the time i don't think so i thought he was number two yeah i don't think he was one i don't think so i think sean was was john had yeah i thought umar was like five i don't know four i don't know He's certainly top five, but I don't know how high. Well, credit to you, Joshua.
Starting point is 01:40:33 I was wrong. I am plumb surprised. Justin Tava. You can't win because you don't believe in the mustache. If you don't believe in the mustache, it won't believe in you. 266. It's a big fella. At 5.11.
Starting point is 01:40:52 Using that extra pound. Love it when a heavyweight needs to make use of the extra pound. What is to share a way in that? I didn't see. I was not paying it. attention sure wasn't 266 it's unlike seven and a half should be a freaking power forward
Starting point is 01:41:07 come on rich quick stoppage to share right in there in america to share would never fight to share would be like a two way wing for marquette right now he'd be like a mid major just a long dude maybe like an undersized
Starting point is 01:41:25 power forward he's gonzaga like he's playing for his uh for this oh you're a big fella who's mildly athletic and has hand-eye coordination let's put a ball in your hand son he's so much bigger it is hilarious the his high kick is really like a regular body it's a leg kick so it's like i'm throwing his regular kick but it happens to hit just in the face case casey just nailing the time my bad i gotta tell you honestly tersherr's looking a little a little more sprightly than the last time i saw him dd yes oh good he's oh it's over oh talison that's over that's over that's over that's
Starting point is 01:42:01 ball. Wow. That was friggin nasty. That elbow is sick. The terrible villain who wanted this to go three rounds where it. How do you feel about that? I mean, that's what you're supposed to do. So well done.
Starting point is 01:42:14 And he's caught. He's complaining about the stoppage. That elbow is so frigging nasty. Honestly, I'm going to tell you guys right now. Terrific stop. To Sherrish should not have been around two prospect. There were a couple of dudes who were like on the cusp of being round two and round ones, but I didn't want to have like 40 round one prospects.
Starting point is 01:42:30 And I was like, eh. In my head, I was like, Heinzai should have been hired just because he's heavyweight and is a garbo division. But I would still have him below like the other round one prospects I have. But just so he tackles him against the fence. Put top against the fence. This elbow is so nasty. Show it.
Starting point is 01:42:53 Oh, so the knee drops top of his arms down to cover the body and then that elbow comes. Yeah, dude. That's a fine stop. This elbow is so nasty. Oh, the slow-mo. So the Vee actually hurt him. I want to show back because top of his face is dropped because he says, oh, that sucked.
Starting point is 01:43:13 And then, yeah. Oh. So the knees already. Boom. That is a devastating. Dude. That is nasty. I don't.
Starting point is 01:43:25 Maybe he can't be complaining about the stoppage because the stoppage is obviously clean. Did he say maybe he thought the knee was low? I say maybe he thought the knee was low. dingney but there's no way you can complain about the stoppage yeah you are in full turtle doing nothing that is a you just got your face elbow off also way to go to share a way to get me a freaking oh my fire the cannon baby my fire the cannon oh my oh my god it's the most electric thing I was yeah yeah I got the ceiling fan on so there's these bitches are fly it everywhere it's gonna be incredible oh my oh and we don't have to like fish them off the ground because we just we still
Starting point is 01:44:07 we got we got more because vox media pays us well they sure do oh man oh one of one of these canons is got to go off in the next night yeah might might as well reload us up yeah one of these just one oh that's true we both get to keep our cannons one of us will win one of us will be a sad sad loser yes although hopefully the parley gods continue to be on my side. Oh, man. I am so confident that that's the best purchase I've made in a long time. It's the best purchase ever in the history of the watch party.
Starting point is 01:44:48 Casey, just like, no money guns. Casey, honestly, I've been losing so much. I stone forgot about them. I just haven't had any good things happen, betting wise, that I forgot now. Hell yeah, money guns for sure. Money guns for life. The cannons. To Chera.
Starting point is 01:45:07 Well done. Now we're off to the title fights. If Talison took steroids, it looks like he has top five to ten potential easily. Honestly, he doesn't need to take steroids. Heavyweight's garbage. You'd just be fine. I mean, he should probably get it a better gym routine. Because he could put some muscle on that frame for sure.
Starting point is 01:45:30 Yeah. I mean, he looks better than you don't like a consensure. He doesn't need to put like a lot of muscle just a little bit. Bam. that elbow oh god oh i mean that elbow just looks deeply uncomfortable maybe he's complaining about the need to the grounded opponent like i don't know what the concern was after because there's just no debating that that was a clean stoppage Dana white tweets hashtag now you know Dana I already knew you knew we knew we all knew
Starting point is 01:46:08 that's why that's why I bet my guy we all know you can't you can't do a main card fight is for if you don't know, now you know. You just can't. I mean, look, they gambled on putting this as the feature worked out. Yep. The second quickest win of the night, a guy that they're going to want to push because heavyweight sucks ass. Chuckie olives.
Starting point is 01:46:32 And, you know, Justin Toff has got a job for life. Oh, look at old, old towey, the Shoey Vasa. Yeah. Justin Top will be around forever because, like you said, it is a talent to not just be able to get. But he got, he got, he's terrific. He got got. He is terrific.
Starting point is 01:46:51 He got got. John Whaley. Let's let the masses know. Oh, I mean, this is, this is a big fight. Casey and I going head to head in fantasy. You and I going head to head in our wagers. Oh, man. I wish I wait, but my biggest regret is I should have pulled the trigger on the
Starting point is 01:47:11 Zhang bet today. Well, what's that now? It was like when we did the People's Free Fight show, Jean was like plus 126 or something It's like damn it Tatiana I need you to come through here baby girl My fantasy team is in some trouble I've had a couple injuries
Starting point is 01:47:28 I lost the freaking Bashie I think Bashy might get another fight before July anyway but Be tough scenes Have to just really hope the rest of you all have more fighters pull out of fights The fact that Arm and Sarukin You had a really really tough 3-11
Starting point is 01:47:45 God damn 3 11 was not lost art in the day before Peyton Tal loses his tough seed but good Saudi card you you are in front of Damon as the score stand right now yeah I had Shemiel Godziyev who the hell I didn't even I didn't even remember I drafted him delivered big got a first round finish no bonus is horseshit though yeah absolutely should have got a bonus pretty brutal my my gambit to take the two heavies worked out both Sergey And Jailton, they did their job. Sergei didn't finish the drill, but 100 points. I'm sorry, 150 points for the ranked 150 points. So there's power slap. Oh, that's like, what are we
Starting point is 01:48:31 watching? Oh, it power slap. Got it. Got it. Got it. Got it. Got it. Got it. March 7th from Fonton Blue, Las Vegas. John, looking at our current fantasy standings, uh, I need the win more because I do have two fighters who lost.
Starting point is 01:48:53 Izzy and Austin Bashie. I also, Cody hadn't pulled out of the event. supposed to compete today um rafel fazeve may or may not be fighting casey has only had two fighters fight and they both won um his he is currently winning on a point per competitor basis he had he had maraub and irene in perez correct this is only ilyne parres might be the best pick oh i'm sorry he will have more because wang song did win which was he had active today as well so I just I'll calculate that up later but he has uh Zhang and DDP so Casey had by far the most action coming into today.
Starting point is 01:49:31 Damn if if both of those win Casey will be a prohibitive favorite at that point case you might just because everybody else has had at least a loss or somebody pull out of a fight and may not compete again God I hope Armin Serruki invites Michael Chandler so bad I need that fight to happen I mean that would yeah be really good for you yeah it would be like 200 points unbelievably good for you oh man here we go hey beale uh the answer is that hose youngs is the freaking man and in me fighting is the best i don't know what the question walls but why does he ask so much better questions than everybody else Jose's the man and he may fighting is the best but you know that that's why you're here
Starting point is 01:50:15 yeah that's why you're here with us you understand yes and because jose understands what we're doing here. He's been doing this for a long time. We're talking about this on the pre-fight show. I was yesterday, I sat back and watched the Dominic Cruz UFC 207 post-fight scrum after he lost to Cody. And I was just like, man, I remember like, I'll watch like the 30 minute. I was like, this is probably 30 minutes long.
Starting point is 01:50:40 I'll watch it and, you know, I'll watch Dominic Cruz like take a loss like a chain. Yeah. There's 12 minutes, 12 minutes after that. And Dominic Cruz got asked like four questions. He just talked Everything he said everything you need to say Not every reporter in there had to ask a question Because they want to be on embedded or anything like that
Starting point is 01:51:00 Like the important questions were asked And then we moved on to the next fighter It's not like that anymore Like it's just it's so annoying It's gonna be worse according to Dana and his We're gonna only bring influencers in plan When was that when did you say that? Oh did you not see that? Oh that was this week of a like You think the future will
Starting point is 01:51:20 MMA media will primarily be influencers. Wow. Well. I mean, I don't think that's happening this year, but it's not going to happen. I'll see. It's not going to happen. I mean, Jose will still be there. Jose is an influencer. He's a taste maker.
Starting point is 01:51:35 Yeah. It's a trendsetter. Freaking Jose Young's. Oh, Red Bull. Again, we're not sponsored by Red Bull, but this is the team of Max for Stappen, the greatest driver in the world currently. and I drink it. So Red Bull, reach out because I'm basically the Max for Stappen of MMA media, like basically the same.
Starting point is 01:51:59 It's like, that whole thing is also like terrifically funny because like UFCPR like loves the MMA media for the most part. Like they love, they love the media. Yeah, we're great people. Of course they do. Like we get along. And then Dana just like hates everybody because like, you know, I honestly don't think we try to treat the U.S. UFC and MMA like, you know, a sport. My honest take was that it wasn't that, though, is that it is more just, he just likes influencers and thinks that they are. Yeah, because they won't say anything bad about it.
Starting point is 01:52:35 Yeah, the PR. They won't say anything bad about them. Josh or Ashley, uh, Mike's on Celsius gang right now. Bam, number two. You tell me when Celsius gets involved in F1 and we can talk, but this is the four times in a row. I actually hate the Red Bull team. So I don't hate Red Bull.
Starting point is 01:52:53 It's a delicious beverage. I would be happy to promote you at any point in time. Reach out. I do hate Red Bull at F1 team because Christian Horner is one of like the 16 worst people alive. Celsius used to like send me. They used to like send me some stuff. They haven't sent me anything in a while. They'd be like, hey, we have this like cool mock tail we're trying to create.
Starting point is 01:53:16 Like, I'm going to send you some. I'm like, okay. Oh, damn it. Why don't I get that? In college, a kid on our dorm was a rep for rock star energy. And so he just had cases of it. And basically all we mixed anything with freshman year was free rock because he was just hand them out.
Starting point is 01:53:35 And so all we did was chug rock stars and like vodka. And it was a horrible idea. And I could never survive doing that now. But boy, you were keyed up to go out in downtown Athens, Georgia. Dude, so like during the New York trips, like we're in the studio, in the back, like behind where Ariel's like desk was doing it in May hour. I mean like cases stacked up to the ceiling of not only Celsius, not only a prime hydration, but the prime energy drinks. Have you had a prime energy drink before? No, I've had a lot of time.
Starting point is 01:54:12 Dude, you will run. I don't want to cut off time. You will run out. I believe you will sprint out the window. It is like, I've had energy drinks and I'd like basically just keeps me from falling asleep more than anything. Prime is like, okay, two minutes after that first sip, you're like, you're shaking. Like you feel it. It's the only time of like truly felt an energy drink was drinking prime.
Starting point is 01:54:37 That's how I feel about Noss. Because Noss was my go to for a long time because it gears me up. Red Bull just kind of gets me up. Yeah. Just enough. Whereas Noss makes me want to fight somebody. Oh, if that makes you want to fight somebody, Prime will make me want to. Prime is the worst beverage.
Starting point is 01:54:53 And I don't, I'll change again. I can be bought. I can be bought Prime. So if you want to sponsor us, I will take back everything I'm saying right now. Not a Prime guy, huh? I think it's one of the worst things I've ever tasted. Which one? All of them.
Starting point is 01:55:07 I tried. No, I've never tried the energy drinks, but like the regular. The bomb pop? I thought they were, they are the sweetest, most candy got off. awful things have ever tasted. Bob, bomb pop parties. And Suzanne, I'll never stop hating because I only hate things that deserve to be hated. Like Christian,
Starting point is 01:55:25 Horner, he sucks. Here comes the challenger in the favorite. Yes, I love heads will roll as a walkout song because that song, like slaps. All right. She's fired up. She's ready to go. She's ready to get in that octagon.
Starting point is 01:55:46 What's a super chat? I see a soup or soupy perpetually prevail. My money goes to charity. If she gone, if she goes to destiny. I think that's a joke about going to a place
Starting point is 01:56:03 where you can give women named charity and destiny money, which is not a bad joke. Took me a minute to get that, but assuming I'm correct. Very good. Reasonable. There's a PFL tour champion
Starting point is 01:56:20 patchy mix. in the corner to see the coronation let's go freaking Tatiana let's freaking go all right get your predictions in chat I'm seeing a wily Kio round 3 225 very exact
Starting point is 01:56:37 wow you don't have to be that I don't hate that but I'll take it oh I went sub round two in my official predictions okay so okay I think that makes more sense in sub round three which is I think what I thought I had uh... ancient David, man, I also think rains are terrible.
Starting point is 01:56:56 Again, I will change that tune instantaneously if they pay me money. I went through a period where I tried every energy drink to find the one I liked best because I was like, I should stop drinking Noss because I think this is going to kill me. And I couldn't do rains either. They just were not good to me. You know the best energy drink of all time was. Best energy drink of all time? Science.
Starting point is 01:57:19 Oh, well. Zion. I mean, we are a watch. party of science certainly we would you know this is the sport of science remember they were the official engineering of the UFC for many years they're official like supplement I never actually had one oh dude but there is an unbelievably silly name so I supported it very good but I never once had one so I remember um like when I worked at a gym wow chat is all on the on the zang gang wow all right I am not seeing a slores coming through here and should we know the chat is smart chat
Starting point is 01:57:55 correctly predicted draw. So the chat's on it today. I have some regrets about my jolt. Oh man. Let's go. Look at the look on her eyes. I have, I have concerns.
Starting point is 01:58:07 I love this. I have concerns immediately. Django is coming at me through the television that she knows that I did not pick her. I feel so good. I feel terrific about this. She looks. Look at how like, look at how still.
Starting point is 01:58:25 everybody is in the back. Yeah, because they don't want to die if she stares daggers at them. Oh my God. Take your time. This woman looks ready to commit all manner of felonies. There's a smirk.
Starting point is 01:58:39 Homicide, grand larceny. Oh my gosh. Aiding and abetting, treason. She's going to commit many atrocities with the look on her face. Good God. Cash that bet out, Jed. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:58:53 I can't cash out my fantasy. team pick. Locked into that one. Casey's feel real good right now. That's just the kind of... I mean, it's fine. I don't need to win fantasy. It's fine.
Starting point is 01:59:05 I didn't win last season either, so as long as I don't finish last, we genuinely need to make a punishment for finishing last. Did you finish last last time? Actually, I might have. I think you did. Might have.
Starting point is 01:59:17 And I don't want to do that again. I think I beat you by like... It was really close because I think I counted it up wrong and then I had to go back. It was like... Which is crazy because I literally had like two fighters not fighting. Yeah, but I had like six fighters lose. The only reason it was close is I had Buckely fight twice.
Starting point is 01:59:35 I had Jose Aldo win, but then lose on the cards. I'd probably Raquel Pennington. I legitimately think six of my fighters lost, but walking Buckley fought and won twice. Which is crazy. Like he kept me alive. It was so like I went for the high risk. I'm just going to take all people in time.
Starting point is 01:59:55 battle fights and none of them won. I thought I had the, I thought I legitimately had the best pick of the draft last time. And then my draft, my season was literally over a day after the failure draft. Because I drafted Alessandro Costa, who was going to destroy Matt Schnell. And then he got hurt.
Starting point is 02:00:15 And then who the hell? Someone else stepped in, and yeah, just clobbered him and got all the points. So yeah, good times. That's why we love fantasy. Zell Huber versus Brenner announced for Mexico. Obviously, I can't confirm that at all.
Starting point is 02:00:34 But I would be fun as hell. If that is remotely true, that'd be pretty cool. I mean, I'm sure. Like, I don't think left lane is trying to lie to me, but I just, I know nothing about this. So trying to see if I see anything, I don't. So if it happens, that's cool. Jorge Mazadol is saying that he may run for Joseph Moon I am sorry that you have five grand on her
Starting point is 02:01:08 I do not have that much money but I don't have remotely that much money I do have money on her and we're locked in I'm concerned because Zhang looks you know like she wants to commit atrocities so I'm very very happy that's happening that does not that doesn't mean anything jang could come out get tag get double-agged off her ass and you can have a mean face while getting choked out. But she's not looking like she's coming into this.
Starting point is 02:01:38 Like if we're, if we're judging just based on. Like John's. Yeah. John's in a win. Plenty of people have lost when in the, win in the stair down. Um, but who.
Starting point is 02:01:51 That shook me a little bit. Yes. We'll lie. Joseph Moon, uh, then let's, let's ride, baby. You, me and this cash gun. We're going to do it. I believe in.
Starting point is 02:02:04 us and then never ever ever bet money you can't lose again i mean still waiting for this tautiana's pacing she's looking like she's looking like i'm about to fight for the first time i wouldn't feel any concerns looking at tatiana she's ready to go it's just that jang uh looks ready to topple dynasties uh big marcel had put it on twitter so i believe it uh big morsel put it i i believe him i believe him First reported by broadcast partner ESPN. Oh, well, then that seems likely. But Big Marcel's word is good enough for me. Yes.
Starting point is 02:02:49 Man, I've never been led wrong by that man, which is all you can really ask for. That's a woman who knows is about to happen. Yeah, she probably get freaking doubled off her ass. She's about to be looking up at the ceiling in moments. She is about to. stuff three the first three takedowns she's getting run right across it's going to be the bounce off tautian is going to get her driver bounce off the cage lift finish while he's going to spin over right to the back ha ha wishful thinking but i don't care yes i mean jong looks now she looks less mean
Starting point is 02:03:38 she just looks like she's pumped which i'm happy about yeah i mean this is a terrific fight It's so good. This is what we've been waiting for, guys. The other fights were whatever. Now I'm, I'm ready to be involved. The Bond crew did, in fact, tie. We usually call those draws,
Starting point is 02:04:04 but I like tie. It's fun. Tie, tie works. All right, John asking for the glove touch. I assume Tatiana will, uh, oblige.
Starting point is 02:04:18 Unless she fake gloves. Double-egged. And then John just punch her in the face. Oh my God. A, shoot her. All right. Oh, no, they touch gloves. Match if Jean just dead sir with the first punch.
Starting point is 02:04:30 I wouldn't. I wouldn't be pumped about that. That'd be pretty awesome. I don't want to see that happen. Well, no, I don't want to see that. 447, 46, 45. Yeah, cases right out, so I didn't say anything. Feeling things out early.
Starting point is 02:04:45 Open stance matchup. I mean, if the first punch doesn't land for another six and a half minutes, that'd be okay. Oh, my God. if we got another freaking rose carla that would be miserable oh i like the obliq kick yeah oh oh that's the ride baby oh tautiana gets down first time one shot one kill they collapsed tautiana gets double unders and just bullies are down big bank take little bank let's go toddy potty toddy who likes to potty john's been ready for this to hold i mean yeah we She knew she was going to get taken out at some point.
Starting point is 02:05:28 Yeah. Side control. See who if Jean can get an underhook can create some space. She got, John gets back to half. Some people like to be in the half if you're on the top. But John doing a really good job of tying up arms. Yep.
Starting point is 02:05:48 Not letting Tatiana consolidate anything. Tatiana now trying to clear and step back over to side control. open instead john gets her into the guard now trying to use a butterfly to elevate toddy steps over to the other side yeah consolidated position double unders for swah who's ref in this fight i do not recall uh beltrane maybe okay he might's maybe quick i might be i might be quick i said i think that that is yeah i think it is i think it is mike let's go toddy i'm sorry mike's already yet Ellen, gotta work, gotta work. That was a bold attempt to get up with overhook from, from Zhang there.
Starting point is 02:06:36 Yep. And Suarez just immediately pins her back down and steps back over, double overs from Zhang. Yep. We're gonna get a stand up pretty soon. Soros' own arm is all the way around the hip and could try and throw like a Dagestani handcuff if she can tie up an arm here. But he's doing a really good job of getting back to the butterfly. And she's throwing elbows.
Starting point is 02:07:02 And then sores is just passing herself right back out of the butterfly. John's doing. Oh, now we're full guard. Now we're full guard. Now we've got the closed full guard. John's are doing all the damage down here. I do not believe that to be true. She's landing like 12 good elbows.
Starting point is 02:07:21 Okay. She's winning the round. That feels a lot like personal perspective. This is MVP Logan Storley right here. Sores moves back to. two top I mean, Beltrane can stand this up at any time. I love that.
Starting point is 02:07:38 This is literally at any time. This is a great good. John's got one butterfly. Oh, Sauras now clears and moves to side control. And she's got the hand weaved around the hip as a blocker. And I was walking to north south. I mean, if she drops her hip,
Starting point is 02:07:55 she actually has a north south opportunity here. She can drop her hip inside the elbow. That would be sick. More I mean, she would never possibly just land in all the elbows right now. this is terrific oh jean gets to her knees all the bravo is the bravo coming guillotine oh that was a sell out yeah yep swore's jump for a gilly that we go remotely here we go and now john is on top win the round it's still holding that guillotine front
Starting point is 02:08:23 oh yeah foolishly now zhong is in the top goal actually doing damage she might steal the round here let's go soar is now trying to do a double wrap reverse uh transition here honestly sort of got the position close yeah she can't get enough of an elevation John just was and tries to run around it soars gets your leg back through but I'm I'm like it what I'm seeing here this is terrific I am leaning Zhang right here and I'm not even being a dink about it I I respect your strong efforts John to do any John has an arm tied up and is trying to pass through oh let's go soars is just keeping her butterfly
Starting point is 02:09:08 in locking everything down gets full guard there you go just punch just punch and win the round punch you in the round tontana sora's kind of look like she was trying to go for a straight arm lock which is the dumbest idea i've ever heard of if that was true i don't care say what you want chat i mean you money's where it is 10 nine jang we lee you may say what you want my money is also where it is it's 109 d d d d d d d diana sworez for me i mean you just just laying on top of somebody shouldn't win you the round i do not believe uh jean landed any meaningful strikes either those elbows for we we can agree to disagree on this one tautia has got a little some welts on the face look at that eye we think can agree to look at that left eye this one left
Starting point is 02:09:54 eyes a little bruise got a little shiner a little welts there chat chat which of us is right we're obviously we're split on bets which of us is correct on the scoring of roshan she had Which Sean Sheehan and uh uh the great josebosa is a 10 9 Tatiana that's how we're doing uh Jonah buyer says no idea who what say look if you score it for uh jean it's not like criminal it's not but not what i did oh jeremy's on your side let's go somebody else she did stuff tatyana didn't saying did stuff is she a bit ambitious that you had to laid on her she did nothing bit ambitious the best thing she the most influential thing she did was almost gillier all right john we're back ride the mo ride the mo 51 5049 48 come on good leg kick very nice john jang jang fainting a lot of uppers just giving us something to think about like all the hip twitches tried that oblique again dominant round and then and then and then Tatiana just bullies her into the cage.
Starting point is 02:11:23 Now she's trying to lock her hands. Those hands look like they're about to be locked and this is about to be a ride. I mean, Zhang doing a great job keeping her hips wide. But I think that Tatiana is going to be able to finish this. Probably. The hands being locked is usually a sign that this is going.
Starting point is 02:11:43 Oh, oh, great little reversal from Jean. Use that overhook wizard to win the position. She's on top. I don't know if she's going to stay on top. Tatiana has this underhook and can roll on. It's all you win the round. Oh, you know, all you got to do is just lay on somebody. I mean, I mean that I think John that Tatiana has the underhook in the leg and is about to try and turn. Tatiana's knee is bleeding. I believe. Ne is definitely bleeding. Oh.
Starting point is 02:12:08 Oh yeah. No, we got punches being landed. Tatiana really trying to roll up on this single. Zhang heavy with this whizzer on top. I love it. smashing down, preventing Tatiana from getting to her knees. She's trying. Oh. Can't quite.
Starting point is 02:12:29 Can't quite. Oh, some good punches here from Zhang. This is actually good stuff. This is so good. Oh, trying to spend to the back. Oh, front choke. Front choke. Oh, that's a real choke.
Starting point is 02:12:43 Oh, my God. Knees. And throwing knees. Oh, I don't know why you bailed to do that. That was, I liked your position prior, Zhang. Tadiana is staying on the hips She's been Zhang has one
Starting point is 02:12:55 One underhook in She didn't have the overhooked The counter this time I didn't have the The deep wizard But also Okay Now we're in a
Starting point is 02:13:07 Clinch against the fence Instead of a wrestle position Against the fence Oh good knee from Wee Ling A little hockey fighting Tatiana's taking some Some brats
Starting point is 02:13:19 Oh man Oh good Good right hand from the champ. Wayley is feeling herself right now. She's got a little smirk on her face. Overconfident is what I would call her right now. I think you're, yeah,
Starting point is 02:13:36 she's about to get dumped trucked. Imagine she's, Tatiana just knocked her out. Tatiana, just keep, keep wrestling. Oh, just the biggest right hand you've ever seen finding out.
Starting point is 02:13:47 Oh, Tatiana, that was a bad shot, but she's still, she's just bully her ass into the fence. I'm, I gotta tell you, is somebody with a Zhang Wei Lee ticket, I am feeling.
Starting point is 02:13:56 real good right now i still feel fine i don't feel great about round two sub that doesn't seem like that's happening for me anymore that that that shot right there oh look we're going on oh good good dig under from john oh oh no you are not that cowcatcher is fucking your life big left hands tautiana is getting way too desperate for these tak downs and just like holding on to a position long after it's dead like that right there you see you see you see She should not have kept driving her forward on that. Boy, and look, even if you scored the first round for Tatiana, there's no world.
Starting point is 02:14:40 There's no way to not score this round for John. Oh, this is like clear in a way. Unless Tatiana taps it right now. Quit trying to double over. Like you're just not going to get that. Double unders with butterflies. John just chips away. It's a great round.
Starting point is 02:15:01 Great round for the champ right now. I mean, nothing is happening. We're not not telling you action. They are tied up. And Beltran's letting them be. That's okay. It's fine. John's actually doing like landing punches.
Starting point is 02:15:25 Nice little elbow. Final 10 seconds. Easy. Easy 109 for John. Yeah. It's not remotely. The question. All right.
Starting point is 02:15:43 One apiece. 2.0. 107 Zhang. No. Obviously. 10. 2018 obviously there's a
Starting point is 02:15:57 little bit of bias to that score I mean I don't have any bias to my score whatsoever so you can I don't like that cut I think the doctor should come in there and stop it if they stop a fight for a cut on the knee that would be a I think a first it would be incredible those good little right hand from John
Starting point is 02:16:17 just on the inside that is I don't know how that wasn't even actually the wizard that got that counter. Zhang just sort of fell on. I don't know. Like, Suarez went to her back hip, weirdly. Another good right hand from Zhang.
Starting point is 02:16:40 Champ's still looking fresh. Yep. Still looking angry. All right, Tatiana, time to do the thing. Now is the time to do the thing. This is like a must win round for Tatiana, I would say. I mean, it is pretty, it would be pretty cool if she just won.
Starting point is 02:16:58 It would be great if she won the round. All right. We're over. And the parley piece already hit, so. Look, which is eyes. Double move right to 46. 5 control. Get the arm triangle and let's get going, Toddy. My kid just came down getting himself a beverage.
Starting point is 02:17:16 I don't know what he's doing awake. Sometimes you need a beverage. Good body kick from the champion. Tatiana is getting back down. Dang, just that look at her face. Hang, just jab, jab, jab, blast. on the fifth jab that's when you change the level good kick to the body from jang oh definitely a difference in hand speed between these two
Starting point is 02:17:46 oh big combination from the champion oh another big combination oh that puncher landed right in her right eye and she did not like it oh oh oh she hurt her that put her tautiana is hurt she is about a fire a double yep yep she sure is and john john said no ma'am jong said no man i saw that hurt hurt not down clinch good oh good me all right she's battling i can't get a hockey fight in here put her against the fence and shoot girl or poker in the eye cheat always cheat toddy let's go let's go oh toddy oh she just shud very hurt tally is very hurt she's trying to i mean just haussing her to the to the fence jang a minus six 20 on the favorite that's a that's a that's a 2018 stop going double right stop going double she's got one
Starting point is 02:18:37 under hook don't go double here not going to finish that go to the single move to the high crotch it's execute or just take a knee and rest which i think is actually what's not a bad idea you know let's get your head back let's get you head back again jang has defended six of the seven takedoms my breakdown was very clear if she can do that she will win the fight yeah i did not think she could I was wrong. But a lot of fight left. Oh, a big combination.
Starting point is 02:19:06 Tatiana is on wobbly legs, but she's battling, man. Respect. She's got a chin on her. The Homer Simpson plan. Yeah. She's about to get tired.
Starting point is 02:19:15 And then that's where Tatia Swares comes alive. Man, my fantasy team is getting wrecked. It worked. Oh, just for a mile. Yeah, that's a bad takedown attempt.
Starting point is 02:19:32 That's very bad. 220. 19 throw a head kick they're the first good head kick of your career oh jang heard you wrong wrong fighter wrong fighter front kick just that right anderson silver right hand right hand right down the pipe is nobody will see it coming if tautiana silver or tanya sora is not silver oh low kick way to go oh oh jang is jang is feeling herself right now oh yeah she's credit oh right to sora right to the just keeps coming into her yep tautia just takes that right now let's keep going let's go
Starting point is 02:20:13 jean just looking for the counter right hand over the top oh nice no no cross and kick to the chest sores i'm gonna need you to get going here that tepid low kick is not getting going no oh big combination jane's drilled in the face by that combination is not getting going tautiana could take a punch man I'm impressed. That was another right hand that just ja-jotter. Yep. Oh, another one. You got to throw some offense or else you're just a heavy bag.
Starting point is 02:20:44 Yeah. And Zhang is killing her right now. Final minute of the round. All right. It's fine. Just give up on this round. You won the first. No.
Starting point is 02:20:57 You can still win rounds four and five. And you're going to get the submission. We all know it's fine. Just take another 50 seconds for cover or make the ugliest shot. shot in the history of shots. Wow. Man, there just aren't going to be any fun,
Starting point is 02:21:16 like new champions. It's just all the same people. Oh, good elbow from Zhang. Another one. Those are good elbows from champ there. 30 seconds. Oh, good right hand from Wei Lee. Honestly, Suarez,
Starting point is 02:21:26 you might be in a spot where you just kind of have to throw and hope that your punches work because you're wrestling. Head kick from Suarez misses by a lot. 15 to go. Good leg kick from Wei Lee. Like Tatiana can't even. check them right now 10 seconds oh I mean that's a terrific shot yep too late had any gas left in the tank that would be exceptional she's getting uh 29 28 for the 30 27 for Zhang I feel
Starting point is 02:22:00 John just a massive betting just incredible right now I feel so good about the John bet I mean get there's some money guns available for you that seem like they're heading your way Now, Jed, I know you got money. I know you got money on Tsoir. But in the Jedmish, Jedmishu, MMA scoring system that you bring to the table, is that a 10-8 round? Tatiana did nothing.
Starting point is 02:22:32 You could, you could sell it as a 10-8 round. Now, I'm not saying, like, for those just joining us who think like, oh, Mike's saying it's a minute round, I'm not saying that. I'm asking. No, you. Yeah, you can make the argument. You can make the argument.
Starting point is 02:22:44 I'm not sure I'd go there. but it's also hard to be objective at this point with where I'm at. I wouldn't totally hate that because that was mostly one-way traffic. And she heard real bad. And like that that is really the selling point. If she had actually dropped to a full knee, 100%. I am honestly of the opinion that if you drop somebody, you should get it the same in boxing as a differentiator, but, um,
Starting point is 02:23:07 nobody will have scored that attenny under the way I would like the game to be scored. That's on the border. I would say that's right on the border. I got the high five round four. But this is where Suarez comes alive. She's been, roping doping. Biting her time for 15 full minutes.
Starting point is 02:23:28 She's going to let her punch me in the face, 500. I'm going to build her confidence to the moon. And then curtains. Cabam. She'll never see it coming. Rolling Thunder, K.O. Alan Jubon, you're a smart man. It is two to one for Wiley.
Starting point is 02:23:44 Oh, it's about to be two to two. and then it's oh oh and waley that was a rude we got a jang three oh we got a jang three john you can't trust him for anything he doesn't that's a smart man this is me the guy that was by the way a disrespectful take down from the champion yeah they collided and she just tripped the shit i was like go oh almost a crucifix not quite it's like a one-legged crucifix not just Just hammer her elbows. I mean, sores is pretty close to getting a turn on this. Yeah.
Starting point is 02:24:21 John is just having to down block with that wizard for days. Just punching her. Sores stop trying to get the this back roll. Sores now bleeding off the head. Does, yep, seems to be cut on the forehead somewhere. Left hands from Zhang over and over again. Back to guard. This fight is probably over.
Starting point is 02:24:40 I'm not going to grab the money can yet, but I mean, you shouldn't. But yeah, I feel pretty good. It's right there. You know where it is. It's in reaching distance. You know where it is when the time comes. Blaze 10. Yes, because all the other people who have fought Jean Wiley have also not deserved title fights.
Starting point is 02:25:06 Maybe this isn't an indictment of Natiana Suarez. Maybe it is a confirmation that Jean Ralee is an unbelievable fighter. She is working on a head and arm choke. I think it's a little high. But she's close. I think she has it but I think that she is a little too high to finish this could be wrong so as having to defend also Zhang probably really wants to get out and turn a little more but yeah because she's a little more up top I think this is just more of a wear down than anything
Starting point is 02:25:39 and gets out got yeah's back at full guard but she worked quite a bit short left hands just all way lee halfway through round four I think you're crazy but okay What is what does happen? This was a pound for pound worst title challenge in a while. Sir, Steve Irsag got a title fight as the number 10 contender off beating. Wait, he's not saying from like a merit perspective.
Starting point is 02:26:06 I have no idea. He said pound for pound. I think he's saying, I think he's saying from like the actual performance. That's also just lopsided. Deeply silly. Jamal Hill less than a year ago got instantly killed. Like it was just a deeply silly contention.
Starting point is 02:26:23 It what about Colby against Leon that was also that was atrocious that was pretty bad it does not have to be that Tatiana Suarez is overrated no or that this is garbage it can just be that Zhang really is an unbelievable fighter and we should give her dues and proper i've had jung is the best female fighter in the world for two years now she certainly has an extremely good argument yeah and as I said in our previous show I think if she wins this and I'm saying if in the loosest of sense She's winning this fight. Quit diving on a stupid guillotine that has no chance of success.
Starting point is 02:27:00 Full on desperation here. When Zhang wraps this up, be it in another six minutes on the cards or if she manages to get it done sooner, I do think that she moves into the top five sort of list of all time. Oh, so I agree. I think she's top five. She overtakes you on in J-Chick as the greatest straw weight of all time. Yeah. And so, I mean, there's a lot on the line for her here.
Starting point is 02:27:23 And her and Valentin is very interesting. Yeah. It's a very interesting fight. I don't think that fight should happen remotely soon, but they may do it. I think before the end of the year. I mean, I just think she should get her shot. And then after they do Vina and Manal, if you want to do that, then sure.
Starting point is 02:27:41 Yeah, let, let Manning get her shot. And then John gets the winner. And there you go. You can do Vanner versus. Fuck, you can make Varner versus John on the title fight. I mean, if John, but they'd I guess they'd probably do an interim
Starting point is 02:27:58 title fight in those circumstances, but I think if John, because I asked John straight up, like if you win, is this, if it's your call, is this your last fight at 115?
Starting point is 02:28:09 And she said yes. Yeah, but if it's my call. If she's going up, they don't, they want to have two belts on it. Just for promotional standpoint. That's true.
Starting point is 02:28:17 Former champ. Okay. They would just. Wow. Sean just dunges her and then helps her up. what a what a sports man sores 4036 credible comeback jang we lee uh 3 1 that is a nasty little cut on the knee yep um doesn't matter at all you you can't wrestle anymore unless you're going to tap her you should try and throw the best right hand of or i guess left hand healthy of your
Starting point is 02:28:42 entire career because uh you are five minutes away from losing this fight and badly i mean i can't say you'll never fight for a title again because straw weight is bad and certainly of John Bales like I know she'll she'll fight for the well maybe she might also be injured for five more years I never know with her so um you gotta do it I got I told you man when she was walking out looking like hell on wheels I immediately had regrets and uh sometimes sometimes you you know things can she have her Leon Edwards moment here that would be sick don't let him bully you son don't
Starting point is 02:29:27 I was so funny. Dig deep, Tatiana. Dig deep. So the greatest. No glove touches around. Greatest left hand of your entire life right now. Then a head kick. Rose got it with a head kick.
Starting point is 02:29:41 You could do it. Pupa. You're not who plying. She's going backwards, which is not. That's, I mean, you're probably.
Starting point is 02:29:51 Oh, what a right hand from John with the right hand. Oh, good leg kick too. Low. Jeez. I also have nothing else. Like a patchy mix. I've learned that Tatiana Soros can take an ass weapon.
Starting point is 02:30:02 Yeah. She's tough as shit, man. Patchy mixes in the corner just like this, watching her just get walloped. Oh, we're trying to take down. No joy. Not working. Oh, what an elbow from Sean and another one. Soros just keeps coming.
Starting point is 02:30:16 Just trying to relentlessly force this to the cage where she will not succeed again. Yep. They're screaming at her to take her down. I don't understand. Look at the leech just there on the, on the commentary booth. just just going to work. Oh, you could maybe finish this if you keep driving.
Starting point is 02:30:32 Table Topper. Table Topper. She's got to let she's got to land it here. Come on, but jog is lift and drive. Oh, she didn't get it. Oh,
Starting point is 02:30:40 no. Surrender. That's it. Oh, boy. John is feeling herself right now. We might get a finish here. Stop take,
Starting point is 02:30:48 stop wrestling. Fake a shot and throw the biggest up. Her core is telling her to wrestle. I don't understand. Stop. fake a shot the world's greatest uppercut, tech and shit. Just from your ankle, throw that.
Starting point is 02:31:00 Just throw punches. But with more speed than that, that looked like somebody punching through water. Oh, well, we're doing wrestling that's bad again. Every time you wrestle, she just hits the shit out of you and you don't get her down.
Starting point is 02:31:20 Trying again, that corner just keeps telling her, take her down. I don't understand. Benji, the answer is because this is by far the best Zhang has ever looked in the wrestling and grappling departments.
Starting point is 02:31:33 Oh, I don't want that. That wasn't the best choice in the world, John. What did you do, Tatiano? What is the name of God was that? That was incredible. You had her down and you like, John just fell over.
Starting point is 02:31:48 John just kicked her in the tush and flip her over. Oh, my God. That was 14 of 15 takedowns defended by the champ. If you told me those deaths, I would have said that John is going to win this fight. Yeah. Oh, big left ends. Tadiana getting battered. Elevate, scrape to the back. Come on. Arm bar.
Starting point is 02:32:07 Come on. You have no energy left. Suarez is. Oh, she might. Oh, she got to get the back. Gassed. She got one hook in. It's not the good hook. Oh, but she's going to mount her.
Starting point is 02:32:17 She got to try to mount her. Thanks, Suarez is about to give the back or get back to back down and have the half guard. Punch. Two minutes left. Big right hand from Wheely. another one boom to the body sores is trying to dig this under dude props to tatyata honestly she is getting her ass beat and hanging in there i mean nothing is happening we're just yeah i mean jang i'm just saying i'm just saying is i'm just in all jang is mashing sora jane
Starting point is 02:32:58 his mashing swores yep more left hands flattened out oh every time swore's tries this underhook jang just immediately bought like down blocks with that wizard and elizzer and just puts her back down and then hits her a bunch i do not like vienna jan jerobos chances should she fight jang lovie yeah i do not think that will go very well for her no uh hot take it's a hot take very spicy i know that is a hot take i do not like more left hands from zhang 60 seconds left. Yeah, we're just going to cruise here to leave. Mike,
Starting point is 02:33:35 the second money gun is right here. So in another 53 seconds, you have your day. You earned it. Casey has defeated me in fantasy, and I am now desperately hoping some of my people will fight again so I can get points because they're all losers. But you know,
Starting point is 02:33:56 that's okay. We had fun, and that's what matters. we had fun michael let's go jang let's go jang put the exclamation point on it let's go make sure to shoot the money on right at the camera too so they can see just all of your glory and victory because if you lose this i'm willing to call it the greatest robbery in the history of the sport my biggest bet of the year too it would be the biggest robbery in the history of maybe organized sports if jang does not oh and jang's don't understand that
Starting point is 02:34:29 this is Gexter's shit. She can't even stand up in time. Let's go. Beoboo, me, me, I don't know what happened with this money gun,
Starting point is 02:34:37 but I don't get my shirt. You earned it, kid. You earned it. There's so much cash on your floor. Oh, reload. So this guy's dead,
Starting point is 02:34:57 right? Yeah, this guy's stone and Dese will have to reload it, but, who, well. Fifty, That was a stone cold asswhip in 49, 46.
Starting point is 02:35:12 And honestly, you could throw a couple extra points, Zhang's way. I wouldn't hate it for you. 52, 45. There are a couple of those that I don't think most people will score them 10-8s. I would score. I think the third is the most likely to get a 10-8 round scored based on current criteria because she really hurt her. You could score.
Starting point is 02:35:33 You could score. You could score several of them, and I wouldn't have an issue. That was just not competitive. You get scored. 2, 3, 4, and 5. I wouldn't, but. Yeah. It was just not.
Starting point is 02:35:43 Not competitive as we collect all the cash that might just boldly. Someone bet with the 5K bet was on Suarez? Yeah. Oh, no. Why would you do that? I hope that everything is okay and that you will make it through here. I mean, respect.
Starting point is 02:36:04 Cardigraph, yeah. Oh, no. Oh, no, indeed. Man, there's so much cash on your floor right now. There might be 5K on the floor. Then come on grab it. There is, come on and grab it. Way more than 5K on the floor right now.
Starting point is 02:36:19 There is honestly close to a million on the floor right now. Because that's how much Vox pays us, guys. One million dollars for this. Oh, look at Todd Tatiata. I gotta tell you, it's been a pretty shit year for uncrown champions. Umar now Tautiana. Diana was the crown champ for years just to get the piss beat out of her. Hey, listen.
Starting point is 02:36:43 Again, Zhang is the fifth best. I got to tell you. One of the five greatest women's fighters of all time. At this point, I am priced in to just based on my history, supporting Magban and Goliath, but the trend is not good for him this year.
Starting point is 02:37:00 I didn't hear the score. I have no idea. A lot to a little. It was a lot. of a lot of points to very few of them all right uh you already have a ranked that way do you think that this win gets uh jang to number one pound for pound in the women's i i believe shivchenko currently holds our top so i'm i'm i'm the only one who had jang winning round one uh but there was a 10-8 mixed in there 49 46 49 46 49 45 i think that's totally fine
Starting point is 02:37:37 so i mean i've had jang number one for a long time uh she has to be bad. Like, I just, I don't think there's, like, I don't have any issue. Like, if you want to think really long and hard about it. Well, the issue for a while was Zhang had the two losses to Rose and that kind of kept her down. And then Valentina was number one for so long. And then she avenged her loss.
Starting point is 02:38:02 And so it was easy to put her back. But the women's pound for pound debate has felt pretty weird for a while because after Amanda lost, then it was like, where the hell do we go? It was just so wonky. So I'm going to think about it for a lot. But like I said, I think that John is now cemented as the greatest straw weight of all time. And I have an enormous amount of respect for Yonni and Jacek.
Starting point is 02:38:27 I think she's a top five female fighter of all time still in the prime of her career. So it can climb up that ladder. And I think I'm not committing to it. I really want to dive in. I think she will be my number one pound. for pound female fighter after this performance. Yeah. Because I mean, she just beat the shit out of Tatiazores.
Starting point is 02:38:55 That was unbelievably not competitive. Ms. remembered, it wasn't a 10-8 round one. It was a 10-8 round three. One round was 10-8. And John Waley is catering to the Aussie crowd, doing the Aussie, Aussie, Aussie champ. Joey Bozo, I know we talked about a little bit. We're both fine with the scorecards.
Starting point is 02:39:16 49-46 is totally fine. 49 45 is fine i have no issue with it um i assume it was round three i those are fine anything between 50 40 like five to 49 40 for a six is fine with me yeah 50 45 to 45 to 49 40 40 i only five i don't think you can give it for the last round she didn't really do she just was sitting on her but didn't do much so well like you do whatever you want it didn't matter Scores were irrelevant in that. It is winner, Jean. How you get there does not matter.
Starting point is 02:39:54 Yeah. There are 4946s that look a certain way. And then there's 4946s that look like. You used to be the goat of this way class. And now look at you. You're just a Hall of Famer. Yawani and J-Chic. And Mike, do you know what that means?
Starting point is 02:40:08 It's time to me there. It is time. Oh, there's a $100 bill right here. There's so many $100. I mean, they are everywhere. You're going to find them forever. When I shot that in one of the books that's there that there's probably $1,200 bucks. When I shot it at the end of the preview show or whatever yesterday or Friday or whenever the hell I did that, I then was finding them for the rest of the day.
Starting point is 02:40:32 Just like randomly like move my chair, like, holy shit. They it gets everywhere with this thing. But. And shout out to Casey, man. I mean, Casey. Casey is four for four on his fantasy deep. Casey's Casey's dumb ass
Starting point is 02:40:48 And that's right Casey You can hear me And I can't hear you He's like oh I haven't done fantasy sports Ever I want like I don't know What I'm doing
Starting point is 02:40:56 Burma blah Now he's just beating The soul out of the rest of us Casey is slaughtering us in fantasy Right now I don't know who to draft I'll just draft
Starting point is 02:41:07 Everybody who wins I wonder if that's a good strategy Where There's Sean Soda Poppinski Strickland He really does look a lot like Sotominski. Now that you say it,
Starting point is 02:41:17 that's hard to not see. If you don't know what I'm talking about, Google Soda Puppensky, punch out, and then look at the images. Let's go. That's John Strickham. Nelson Mandela and Drickus Duplessi, baby.
Starting point is 02:41:32 That's the other thing. It's from Bong Joon Ho. So, like, I just sort of assume it'll be a good movie. The main event shades may be, maybe coming on here. Ooh. Most importantly.
Starting point is 02:41:41 If this goes over one and a half, we hit the parli. say more important than anything is the over one and a half yeah i don't give a shit about any other bet here's the thing i've learned about the climb mike i could not care less about my other bets yes because i am just fully locked into the climb yeah it's like eh whatever anything else fine like the jang the jang bet no matter what happens the rest of the way is a winning night um but i would like to i would like to go perfect again two cards in a row going perfect with the bets be pretty sick.
Starting point is 02:42:15 Except the jack jackets of it, but on the main card going perfect. If D.D. wins by points, I think I get close to breaking even now. Would it be perfect even though Jimmy Kruit was a draw? It technically is because you didn't lose money. Okay.
Starting point is 02:42:27 So it's not perfect in the sense you did not win all your bets, but you did not lose money. Okay. Which is more important than winning all your bets. Yeah. It's like an unbeaten streak. Ancient David, man, we are seeing sharks right now.
Starting point is 02:42:39 We're seeing people scuba diving with sharks. Robert Whitaker is scuba diving with sharks. Yes. You can do that in the Atlanta Aquarium, and I will do that before I die. There's a shark tooth. The Atlanta aquarium has a thing where you can scuba dive in the big tank, and it's probably, it's got to be like the coolest thing in the world. So I will be doing that at some point.
Starting point is 02:43:00 All right. Main event about to happen. Quick programming note. As soon as this is over, Jose will go live on the Post-Fite press conference. So you'll hear from Dana Waite and others. But you also get to hear from us again, because the post-fight show. was going to happen right around the same time. I'll just be crying in this very chair if DDP loses in like a minute and a half.
Starting point is 02:43:22 DDP gets knocked out in the first 30 seconds. I'll be inconsolable for the foreseeable future. All right. Chat. Final predictions. Get a man. Let's see what you got. All of your predictions better say this fight lasts longer than seven and a half minutes.
Starting point is 02:43:36 Yeah, we need it. I just desperately need this to last longer than seven and a half minutes. The Mandela shirt gets go. My official, so my, This is like one of the best shirts I own. God bless everybody here. My official pick is DDP Stop Sean Strickland in the fourth round.
Starting point is 02:43:57 That's my, that's my staff pick. That would be cool. I, I'm on decision. I think it's more definitive than the first. Way more fun fight than the first one. The first one is kind of fun.
Starting point is 02:44:11 Kind of a close one. DDP, K.O. Round two. As long as that K. round two is after the halfway part yeah ddp finished fourth a lot of ddp chat has been very smart tonight so chat is all on ddp all right strick oh now i'm seeing some strickling people coming here chattel's dddd p round four strickland under four strickland split decision is going to finish him under four would be pretty impressive yeah so my my my final breakdown was very competitive Sean Strickland fights to the game plan, probably down two rounds to one, but you can make a case that maybe he's up two to one.
Starting point is 02:44:53 It's a super close fight. And then Sean gets really pissed off. He goes off the game plan. He starts yelling and screaming. They do big exchanges and DDP catches him. That goes bad. The big shot. Sean goes down.
Starting point is 02:45:09 DDP gets on top. He's landing big shots. Fight gets stopped. Sean complains about the stoppage, others complain about the stoppage. Post-fight show will be a big question whether the stoppage is too early. That's how I see it. I'd be comfortable with that. I think if Strickland wins, is there a trilogy or straight to Hamzot?
Starting point is 02:45:30 Straight to Hamza. There's no chance. I think there's. Hamza's getting the shot. Shamsat's getting it and then they can settle out after. My thought is that this time, DDP does not take a five-minute feel-out round. He just immediately marches across and starts. fighting like he did and it'll be just as all right what are you bringing to the table this time strickland
Starting point is 02:45:49 you're doing something different because if not i'm getting in your face right out of the gate i think that'll cow a lot of strickland we'll see strickland land a lot with his jab retreat i think ddp will have made some adjustments i think he will be more effective with his takedowns not necessarily holding strickland down he's very good but i think he will use takedowns to set up strikes as Strickland is standing. I think it'll work the body a lot more. I think he'll kick the body a lot more instead of going. See, he was trying low kicks a lot in the first fight.
Starting point is 02:46:19 And Strickland's really good at checking low kicks. I think he'll just say, screw that and just immediately just start chopping wood to the body. And this will just be a more clear-cut victory for the DDP as he has made more adjustments in Strickland. But genuinely super-interested in this fight. Because if Strickland comes in different, which we've really never seen him, fight that different from what he wants to do. It's a whole new ball game. Sean will scream at DDP, then he will jab.
Starting point is 02:46:46 Yeah, pretty much. He will tell you that he is coming for, uh, till the death and blood and guts and then he will keep you. That has been, that has been the book on Sean Strickland for some time. If he changes that book, no one will see it coming. Here we go.
Starting point is 02:47:05 I am, my favorite thing is that I, I bullied Casey into liking DDP is really, is what happened. It's like fine. Oh, let's go, buddy. Do it for the native land. Strickland be a showtime kick.
Starting point is 02:47:29 It's the best prediction I've ever heard. Credit to you the bonds. That would be so sick. I wouldn't even be that mad if that ruined the climb. There he comes. Soda Poppinski. Oh, Nelson. It's so.
Starting point is 02:47:57 back of the corner to the whatever this song's name is actually i can ever think of it i just think of it as a saints go marching but what's its real name um give me a second battle cry but not of the republic what the fuck is it hold on why can't why can't i think of the name of the song battle him of the republic it is battle him of the republic say it's not battle cry but battle him's pretty close the stash so much mandela shirt is just for the vibes My friends got me this entirely not know. They don't know shit about my MMA fandom because they know that I work here, but I don't talk to them about it. But I had some friends who did their honeymoon in South Africa while I watched their dogs.
Starting point is 02:49:03 And they came back and were like, we thought you should have this shirt. And that's why I have Nelson Mandela's shirt. The coaches, we got Alex Pereira in the corner. I mean, I guess based on your prediction. But good question from game changer. Will there be a knockdown by either fighter in this fight? I think based on your prediction, you feel that that's probably likely. You could convince me.
Starting point is 02:49:35 I have it going to decision. Strickland is durable, but he's not like impossibly durable. And honestly, DDP can get knocked down because he is on one leg and gets hit. Like he is already leaning over on one leg and just gets hit and he just falls over. So, yeah, I wonder what the odds are on that. Well, there's a knockdown on the fight. a knockdown like well because it's probably plus money the thing that i would really like m m to do and they won't do it and i get why one of my favorite things about the super
Starting point is 02:50:09 bowl which is tomorrow is just the sheer variety of very stupid bets you can make oh yeah and i would love them to do more of that yeah but like most books you barely even have prop options i remember i think like uncanny suit my black friends think that this shirt is is funny because i did i I support Nelson Mandela as a hero. So it's cool. It's a party for DDP. It is DUP's got some fun graphics going on here. Draped in the South African flag.
Starting point is 02:50:53 He's saying I mean, I'd feel a lot better if he had freaking Zhang's murder face on than whatever he's doing right now. I don't think he needs to change anything. I mean, every, every fighter should have the Zhang murder face on. Yeah. That was when I knew I had made a mistake.
Starting point is 02:51:11 Yes. It was at that moment. You knew. And now he's milking it. Uh, tree branch. Buddy, I was not remotely a flanker and eight man.
Starting point is 02:51:36 I was a fullback. Um, I was actually a pretty decent one too. Uh, I am not remotely strong enough to play freaking eight. I occasionally, occasionally played wing and center, but I was our starting fullback for my,
Starting point is 02:51:55 uh, two seasons, my last two seasons. Tony, and what does minus 5.5 mean? That is a point spread bet, which means should this go to the cards, add up the points the same you would in a football game. So if it's 50, 45, 50, 45, 50, 45, the winner is 15 total points over. Any finish goes to the fighter who got the finish or whatever the points spread, they covered if they get a finish.
Starting point is 02:52:26 Yes. And a finish Matt finish counts too. Yeah. Any finish any finish coverage you. Yep. Has the card over under delivered up until now? I think it's delivered exactly what we thought. Yeah.
Starting point is 02:52:41 The tell the to share a fight ended quickly. The Matthews fight was fun. It was interesting and fun. I will say the crew, a lot of fight was way better than I thought. So maybe that delivered the co-main event was interesting. I think my exact breakdown was this fight probably won't be interesting one way or the other. We're just going to know. And then it was just watching Suarez be tough while Jang beat the soul out of her.
Starting point is 02:53:07 Yep. And then this. So I think it's basically right what you expected. If you spent your 80 bucks, you knew what you were getting and thus far you can't be unhappy with the purchase. I would say slightly better. The main card. The main card. I mean, the middle prelims were well, the prelims were honestly way worse than I thought. I think. thought they'd be more interesting. We got Tuporia. He looked pretty good. So that was probably like outside of the main card.
Starting point is 02:53:35 Like the third biggest storyline out of this card will be Taboria. Yeah. It seems pretty likely. It will be Taboria. Not having a South African card at this point feels like a missed opportunity. Wouldn't shock me if this is the fight that gets him. That if he gets this, they try and find a way to get, maybe they can't do a paper view there. But yeah, they really should take if DDP wins this, they should take him there.
Starting point is 02:54:03 Mike, can you explain your points about Jed kind of already did that? So it's mine's five and a half points. It's basically a spread. If it goes to the cards, as long as DDP wins by a total of five and a half points or better, I win. Yeah. So basically I would need to get a finish, I would be two 4946s to win. DDP gets a finish or DDP wins 4, 49, 46. Or if he just gets 150, 45, 45 card, you probably win.
Starting point is 02:54:34 Yeah. Well, you don't, but yeah. The points where I've actually treated me decently well. I've lost a cup. I've won way more than I've lost. The ones that I lost, I lost Adasania DDP because I had the point spread on Pasagna, but he got stopped, so I lost that one. I had a point spread bet on Belal Muhammad against Leon Edwards, so I cashed that one.
Starting point is 02:55:04 But then there's one I got hosed on bad. The Sean Strickland-Lauca fight, I had a point spread bet on Sean Strickland minus five and a half. It was 4946, 4946, and then they scored 4946 the other way for Paula Costa. Yeah. Oh, I remember that happened. I lost that point spread because that was terrible. Like if they,
Starting point is 02:55:27 if they scored at 48, 47 for Paula Costa, I would have still won it. But they scored at 49, 46 for Paula Costa and screwed me. I just don't do them a lot. This is just not as fun. I really thought about playing around with some. Fandul, shout out to Fandle,
Starting point is 02:55:45 offers a bunch of props for big fights. And you could take various numbers of over significant strikes for each fighter for the total of this. I got up to like, and I thought about just being like total significant strikes for Sean Strickland over 160
Starting point is 02:56:02 parlayed with DDP wins. It's like doing some really robust dumb shit. I got to dig into those a little bit more. But yeah, I just felt like that was the best value. I almost took the flyer on DDP inside the distance,
Starting point is 02:56:19 which I think was like plus 285. I'll be entirely honest. only reason I have the DDP points bet is because we were doing this. Because I wanted to have the, I mean, the bet I have is the climb the over one and half. But I knew I was rep for my boy. He is my boy. I want to show love.
Starting point is 02:56:35 All week, I thought honestly, Sean Strickland was a good value bet. I sort of came to thinking that the odds are pretty close to right. And then we're doing this. I want to have some action. I want to have some fun. I want to support my guy. And so that's when I took the points bet because plus 195 or whatever. we'll see
Starting point is 02:56:53 Sean Strickland getting the intro You can tell the There are first responders People are pumped here in Bluffton South Carolina For this fire They have called all of the firefighters The policemen Raw hair
Starting point is 02:57:14 DDP closing is a minus 220 favorite Yeah it's a little higher than I think it should be But it's not that off I think if I was seven in line I do minus 180 DDP 7 and O is a favorite Is there a fight he's actually entered
Starting point is 02:57:27 Where he was not the He is, yes, because he's a, he is eight. He has eight U.S.C. fights. Okay, so just the Whitaker fight. DDP is in a spectacular shape. Look, DDP is the man that first made me. Is that the look you're thinking about right there?
Starting point is 02:57:44 It's a better look. Watching him fight, I was like, what if this is when I've come to, and this is very early on, whoever has the bigger Lats wins. And I think that there might be something here because DDP, that man is doing dumbbell pullovers for days. That man is doing just lap pulldowns. He is breaking the machine with that back of his. All right.
Starting point is 02:58:05 The main event shades are on. Here we go. Let's go. The main event shades are on. Do it for Africa, buddy. Do it for Africa. You just, you kill Soto Popensky in seven minutes, seven and a half. In eight minutes, you can do it.
Starting point is 02:58:22 Until then, I would like that. You guys just walk around and talk at each other. Multiple. year ddp in the points plus i have the over one and i have to close out a parley so plus casey has ddp nobody took tron strickland on their fantasy teams which is interesting but case he does have ddp all right 46 the time's perfect uh case has just been lockstep the entire time strickland is uh just flashing the lead hand showing the lead to the body a little a little more often than just the jab oh there's a jab by ddp i also really wanted to see in my brain
Starting point is 02:58:57 I had like a lot of things. I would like to see DDP jab a lot more because he had success when he jabbed with Strickland the jabber. Mostly just kick him in the body and be yourself, Jerkis. Do it for Africa.
Starting point is 02:59:16 Good like it. That's a good luck kick, yeah. I mean, this fight looks very similar to the first one through a minute. Sean, just getting the hands moving. Hands are going. Jab, jab, jab. Lead hook.
Starting point is 02:59:31 Oh, switcher. A little switch from the champion. That was nice from DDP. He threw that a few times in the first one and all just kind of just came short. A little check there from Strickland. I mean, I don't think you're okay with checking the cap kicks because that still sucks. Well, he said he said DDP's okay with Strickland. Yeah, I know.
Starting point is 03:00:00 I don't think that you are because like that you still just, I'm just not good. Oh, yeah. Shiglin is really trying to throw a looping lead hand around Drickus's guard. Less of the jab down the middle and more pawing that hand around. Guys, we're looking at a new version of Drickus called defensive Drickus. He's been hit by about two strikes. And nothing like super duper clean. I mean, yeah, nothing, well, you know, nothing.
Starting point is 03:00:33 Also, Strickland not doing any of the teeps, which were a pretty good weapon for him in the first one. Body kick blocked from the champion. Spin kick to the hip. Strickland slid out of the way. Slid out of the way. Oh, decent little right hand from Drickus. Another leg kick. That was checked.
Starting point is 03:00:54 That was full check. Oh, Driggas really wants that kick going high. He's already fishing for it. When he's switching the stances, getting backed up, loosening it in. Jermaine, you're right. This looks,
Starting point is 03:01:11 It looks a little different than the first fight Because honestly, Drickis is being way more defensively minded Than we basically had ever seen him He does like that was one of the big things I thought he should jab more certainly from the same stance And when he goes open he should just parry the lead hand Constantly just hand fight that And Strickland is not as effective in round one as he was in the first five
Starting point is 03:01:31 He is not at all He is not winning this round plenty of time two minutes Nobody has really set the tone here But that was a good body shot That was the best shot from Strickland That was the best shot He's landed the whole round. Who spinning back kick lands, not super clean, but does get home for the champ.
Starting point is 03:01:47 Well, something extra for strickling the look at. I mean, guys, I got to tell you this is the pace I would love to see for another four minutes. Yeah. Not even four. You know, you give me this pace for now three and a half minutes. He goes up again, man. He is really looking for it. It's always from the orthodox.
Starting point is 03:02:11 The thing, didn't kick. Yeah, but he just shakes it off. Orthodox, DDP is looking to go high. Body kick. Yep. Sean Strickland looks. Is this like the gate? You think this is part of the game plan from Sean?
Starting point is 03:02:28 I do not. Just like, all right, we're just going to come out and we're going to let DDP kind of dictate everything to see what he's got. And then we'll turn it up in round two. I guess we could see. Maybe that's the case. Sean, I mean, this is just a weird to me. This kind of looks like Strickland fighting his normal fight, but Drickis has made some adjustments, brought some new tools. Oh, he's really again with that.
Starting point is 03:02:49 That one landed a little bit better. Not quick question mark kick. Also for as I know that he was joking when he said it earlier this week about footwork. Oh, that was a nice little. Drickis is also showing the best footwork I've ever seen him show thus far. I agree. Which I think is really, he's, yeah, he's done that a lot, but he is just keeping his base under him. He's winning the foot battle most of this.
Starting point is 03:03:16 I honestly think this. Strickland's game plan is functionally similar, but he is just a little... Oh, good left to have from DDP. By what DDP has done, because DDP is not doing what he did in the first fight of the... I'm going to run at you and punch, my,
Starting point is 03:03:28 yeah. Good like it. I mean, easy round for the champ. Let's get two and a half more minutes of that, and then I don't care. All right. I'm curious to hear. I don't want to guess.
Starting point is 03:03:39 Old world DDP does not look gassed. DDP doesn't get gassed. Gass is for people who believe in things like that. All right. All right, Nexick being very calm here. I saying trust your right hand, Sean. That's the that's the big advice. I mean, trust your right hand.
Starting point is 03:04:03 That was my legit in my breakdown. My biggest key was one, strictly needs something, but the most obvious answer is a right hand. Because he just rarely throws it, but he needs something to back him off. I mean, he didn't throw maybe two right hands out around. None of them was salt. None of them landed. Sean is going to not cannot fight like that round. He's going to get 50, 45.
Starting point is 03:04:23 Yeah, like if he doesn't do something different. Because DDP was not just running headlong where Sean could at least jab him a bunch and hit him. Honestly, Luke Thomas, the coward and scoundrel that he is, is probably happy that we're seeing DDP like show defense and stuff. Luke is single-handedly trying to ruin my dream fight of DDP versus Yeri
Starting point is 03:04:47 by teaching them how to fight. Needs more of those from Strickland with. the old teep to the front there. Some of DDP now less of a betting favorite than at the start. Only minus 160 for the live odds. That's very strange. That is a very curious clear DDP route. Would you should not be available.
Starting point is 03:05:10 I'd probably bet that now. So that's interesting. Strickland with several teeps this round, which I think is obviously a great call for him. Yeah, especially after good body kick from the chance. any in round one and strickland putting the trickling defending a little bit better in this round he is jab out a lot more making strickland have to give that credence instead of just keeping into a lot i mean that's tricklin's game is putting putting fire down the middle pipe
Starting point is 03:05:45 yep i like the body work i mean the body kick was there for him all day in the first one he is doing it back yeah bleak kicks they're nice another one honestly dd peter just stays in kicking range is probably a winning method for him. Hey guys, right hand from Sean. Stop punching so hard. We don't need to punch so hard. Yeah. Punch harder.
Starting point is 03:06:03 Just give it another 70 seconds. Just take it easy. Why don't we hug it out? Oh, good job from Strickland. Why don't we hug it out for the next 65 seconds? It's all we need to do. We don't need to get crazy in there. Come on.
Starting point is 03:06:19 Oh, good check from from Strickland. He's good at checking. That was a DDP right hand. That was a just leaping right hand from the champ. guys 45 seconds that's all I'm asking from yeah oh he's kicking a little kick to the chest oh good little like that one ddp that was that was lightning fast oh that did not seem comfortable no oh pretty good left that it cut strickland's lip immediately pretty good left hand oh good good jab from strickland the
Starting point is 03:06:51 issue is it's a jab he caught him all the way out oh there you go there's a right hand all right we're starting there's a right hand he need to bleed his own blood down he needed to calm down i need you to calm down for nine eight seven six seconds five four drickis you back up you back up one we have climbed oh no 10 steps down on the road to 30 good right good right hand from uh parley closes Good right hand from from Strickland there who we've hit the parlay I was not ever in doubt but you know you beautiful druggis got a little bit of blood on him to knows and maybe that's Sean's blood or he is bleeding oh oh left stepping left hand the Strickland blood was right
Starting point is 03:07:50 when uh dp landed that left again with immediately oh good leg kick from driggis is just kicking him a lot yeah he's just throwing his plan was to throw a lot and to kick a lot because the punch is harder to land but the kicks oh that one got and that got the head to turn i think it was a little more toes he's got strickland biting a little bit more too in this round yeah i mean still good team oh that's a fun little counter to the teep just to try and catch it and then spin another spin from the champ he's throwing the volume of ddp is Well, you even talk about the first fight. His strategy was I am just going to throw a ton of volume.
Starting point is 03:08:34 And I think that that is a good like against the defensive fighter like Strickland, you just kind of have to put a lot out there. Oh, good job from Strickland. Good jab. Andy threw the right hand wasn't great, but he threw it, which is necessary for him. Yep. And Stry, DDP has some blood on the nose. And I think that that is a cut on right here on his nose.
Starting point is 03:08:58 To the death, Sean Strickland. Oh man that little question mark cake is starting to really land it's not getting shin But he is getting he is inching up he started at the he started at the toe and now he's like at the second knuckle He's just moving his way up with that good kick to the body KDP all good right hand over the top Shiglin has got to find a way to get respect in here yeah he's because he don't have it right now DEP is just not afraid to stand and deliver he's not you know walking into the dumbest shit ever but he is comfortable saying screw it if we trade one for one that's a win for me good good body shot ddp uh 10 9 ddp 10 9 ddp 20 18 for the champion and strickland does not look particularly happy either now he looks like a man
Starting point is 03:09:51 looks a little frustrated he looks like a man who's down two rounds uh i have long been of the opinion that homz out would kill strickland but i could absolutely be wrong i would love to see them fight but uh per whoever said i honestly i i think it would again could be again strickland has to survive seven minutes with hamzaa which anybody surviving seven minutes with hamzot is very very difficult um but boy if he could it's strickland could be could be a problem i will also say that like the idea that this fight is showing you how homzat will fight against him is very incorrect now that would look nothing like this the the battle is whether hamzah gets the takedowns because on the feet i do think sean probably does win that he's just humzot's just a monster
Starting point is 03:10:43 like yeah this is a physical freak but that's why i can't wait for the like johnny ebbin's a great wrestler and all like dude dude's great he ain't homza dude like you just no one is thus far this fight looks exactly like i got right whereas dup made adjustments and they're good adjustments because they are a smart team who scouted. And I assume Strickland's teammate adjustments, but Strickland is fighting extremely similar to the first bout. Yeah. No take down attempts on either side.
Starting point is 03:11:10 So I think this is a huge key of Strickland once. He really does need to be the guy coming forward because he is not a great fighter off his back foot, and he is trying to win this battle now. But D.P. just keeps kicking him. he's landing his low kick more effectively than in the first belt he's using the leg kicks just to set up the body kick and then set up the or landing that's a good right hand or he's landing him at the end of the strickland punch when strickland is not looking to to check anymore because he's finished a combination is a rhythm break and then the rest of it's going body and then that question mark kick up top but strickland's pressing forward right now oh good counter left from dd p ducking left overhand from and that's the only such an issue for Sean because now now the live odds are minus
Starting point is 03:12:05 620 for dp i've no idea what those live odds were the end of round one oh good my hand from strickland that's what he needed right there all right now dp went the full cover and strickland just felt one right under the elbow right here and now ddp's looking a little more ddp strickland's combination that's what he needs little more ducking oh kind of the leaping right hand got there that's very ddpish oh good light kick embrace your or goon dp oh good body the body there's left up left hook up top legitimately this is i think the best defensive i've ever seen ddp look a ding ding kick shook off footwork is pretty clean here sean blocks the jab it is astonishing to me the ddp used to be a welter raid i know he is i mean both
Starting point is 03:12:51 these guys were but ddp is a thick thick fellow look at the right side of sean strickland's midsection he's been kicked a lot with that left body kid yeah it's just red and nasty Oh, good little jab. Another ding-ding kick. I poke, we're taking a break for a second. Oh, that was a punch to the ding-ding. Well, I thought he was a jab. That was a jab to the ding-ding.
Starting point is 03:13:13 And DDP says, F it, we're going. Yeah, we've had multiple ding-ding shots and DDP's fighting the hands a lot better. He is parrying the jab pretty effectively here. That was a good jab at the zone. Yeah. When Sean is like, when Sean throws hard, he's landing. I mean, he's throwing hard combinations.
Starting point is 03:13:30 He's landing. It's just not enough of it. it that's about the third time driggis has done this like it's not a superman because not the back hand it's like supermaning with this right but it's like with his right as the leet oh spin and shit that was a fun little elbow there that was nice that is that thing where he's down blocking he is down blocking the jab and then leaping his right hand over and it's funny as hell as working it's kind of like what rob font did with adrian yanna's but he does it more ddp yeah it's very it's very it's very goons
Starting point is 03:14:02 Yeah. Good body kick again from the champ. I mean, that left kick is just tethered to Strickland's guts. Oh. I mean, you call them, man. You said you saw a lot of DDP going to the body in this fight. I mean, it, it is all over the first fight is him doing exactly this. Like, you just do that a whole time.
Starting point is 03:14:21 Stop trying to punch him in the face. No more. He's just mixing it up so well. A lot of volume. He is tattooing the entire body. Yep. And eventually that's going to pay dividends. Strickland's hands are going to drop more.
Starting point is 03:14:37 It's just going to be tired because you get hitting the body a bunch. Drain's the gas thing. Oh, leaping upper cut that missed from DDP, but oh, big elbow from DDP. Dude, that was nasty. I mean, that landed pretty clean. Good on you, Sean Strickland. That one had him against the fence and everything.
Starting point is 03:14:56 Oh, over. Ooh, good shot from Strickland. Settling sitting down on the right hand. Get that respect. He needed it. This is getting tuned up again in this round. I mean, he ate that elbow so well. Yeah, that was clean.
Starting point is 03:15:09 There was some ill intent behind that spino. 40 seconds left here. Let's see if Sean could steal this one somehow. He would need a lot. Yeah. I mean, just hurting him would do it. But. Nice little overhand right from Sean.
Starting point is 03:15:26 Right hand from Strickland. Not just that. Yeah. Leg kick. Good right hand from DDP. Oh, and now the level change. Runs him right to the fence. He's got the legs right.
Starting point is 03:15:42 This is where you should just give up and punch him. Yep. I do like that as a as a rhythm breaker. I mean, that's what he does. He's giving him another thing. Anytime Sean gets momentum, he takes him down. I have a 3-0-DDP. Yeah, same.
Starting point is 03:15:57 That was a closer round though. Certainly a better round from struggling. Came for a lot more, was more committed to the right hand, as Nixick was telling him in the corner. Yep, Nixick yelling at him saying you're doing the same shit. It's all predictable. Mm-hmm. Guys, yeah, Amen is correct.
Starting point is 03:16:17 DDP is tired. It does not matter. There are different types of being tired. You can be Marab and never be tired or you can be DDP and be tired, but it doesn't matter. Yeah, DDP gets stronger. He just, he wills himself to not care about exhaustion. It's a remarkable skill set. Yeah.
Starting point is 03:16:36 It gets, it makes them stronger. And that was the first take down time. We've got 14 minutes into the fight. Man. There's that, uh, second, not the good elbow but another spinning elbow now john stricken probably needs a finish and he's not especially a finisher so we'll see i mean we'll see how people score i mean it just seems like all three rounds are ddp maybe some people our chat seems strongly to agree yeah um
Starting point is 03:17:08 maybe the first round is a little closer i don't know the last round is the closest one i don't think the first round is close at all yeah um a little hand foot oh what a little teep hit them in the fate oh well ddp did drop he's no longer 620s minus 4 20 maybe because people are seeing the the exhaustion he's very tired man he's six doesn't matter at all but he is tired he will just keep doing the same shit trust me seen it plenty he got the nose job guys you got to remember he got the nose job ddp oh nice jab there's a power jab from ddp back to the well with the cube oh right hand to the body that's the salt oh that was a hard teep that right to the belly honestly that is the the oh there's a leaping right again like that is the
Starting point is 03:18:01 the cleanest difference between these oh big right from ddp when dp oh he heard oh he heard he heard him strickland is in fact heard he is running away retreating or shattered oh his nose is broken shattered his nose is bleeding he is touching it this is the end folks because he is he does not like what has happened to him he keeps fucking with his nose because it has busted up ddp's being smart ddp's got to the body to the body's got to the body can see him as long as dp doesn't just go super turbo reckless here i wonder if shan starts just just chucking him now and going for i i don't think he has that i think he is the nose is is bothering and it should it's busted yeah that right hand was clean too from drickett dp just all over
Starting point is 03:18:44 him now but but still being kind of patient oh shan fighting back good right hand from strickland inside there. Oh. DDP is a real good finisher when he's got you in a spot. So credit to Strickland, if he can fight his way out of this, because DDP has sees a window. I mean, he is shot is to. Oh my God. Sean hasn't been hit by anything of this. Look at that nose.
Starting point is 03:19:07 Oh my God. pouring blood out there. Pouring blood. He's. Collusion, clench. Oh, good little punch on the break from Drickie. Cheeky little. Drick is now covered.
Starting point is 03:19:21 Sean's blood. He's going back to the leg arm is just... That head kick's going to be open. That head kick's going to be open. I mean, honestly, he should go to the body. Sean's going to be protecting that nose. Yep. Just rip the guts on him.
Starting point is 03:19:36 Genuine respect for Sean Strickon. I thought this fight was over. He was touching that nose a bunch. He's like, oh, this is a man who's... Oh. Not a bad little right hand from Strickland. I mean, it's ugly, but he is landing it. as d dp just is recklessly putting oh there's a right hand right oh john just so much
Starting point is 03:19:55 blood coming out of his face hurts and when sean lands it's a jab and that is just the difference the math isn't mathing for him there's this big goon just just just the best middle weight on earth none of y'all believe me i mean strickland has really fought himself into this round he's not going to win the round because of the nose and the fact that he got hurt bad but he is big shot from dd b a one but he is not he is not given up nope because he's been able he's been able to duck and dive and avoid and really a lot of damage a subsequent damage a clean shot up the middle o good right he lands is probably the end of the night i mean if he can land one clean on the nose it is really going to make things tough oh pretty decent one i had to check
Starting point is 03:20:50 nose again john taking it man yeah like if you can just keep peppering that nose honestly he should just be jabbing the nose not trying to hit the power shot to it because eventually you get the roy mcdonald everything hurts my face is collapsing in on itself i'm just out of here oh another nice jab from dp uh guys i mean oh good right hand look there is five minutes and 38 seconds left. This fight is by no means over. There ain't going to be no controversy about this one. No. Whoever wins, it's either Strickland pulls off an incredible comeback or zero controversy about who won this fight.
Starting point is 03:21:43 I mean, Trichas just keeps getting better, guys. Good shots of the body. I think I predicted Drickis to be my fighter of the year, too. Five seconds for. I'm trying to remember who I called for Friday of the year. Because Dricketts was definitely on the short list of it. 10-9 DDP. As a frustrated man right there.
Starting point is 03:22:04 I would in fact score that 10-8 both by my scoring criteria and the criteria of the rules. I don't think anybody else will. I think a 10-8 is justified because his nose is hanging off the side of his face. But I know basically no judge is going to do that. So 10-9, I have at 4-0-DDP. I mean, that is just a clean right-hand and his nose fell apart as a result. of it. Boom.
Starting point is 03:22:31 That sucked. Look at his nose just being bent and shit. And Strickland, that's why he kept touching it was to put it back. Because I didn't notice how crooked it was. He got it back. That's nasty, man. Round five. They're not going to stop for a busted nose, guys.
Starting point is 03:22:46 No. They're going to let this keep going. No chance. Eric Dixick is telling him like, dude, you got to take all the chances in the world there. A lot of people with 10-8s in there. Way to go, guys. I don't hate it. Hop on board.
Starting point is 03:22:58 I don't hate it. Honestly, if you do, if you knock somebody down or do massive physical damage, I just always think you should get the credit because that's more impactful than the other rounds or no, his face didn't get busted in half. Yep. All right. Here we go, round five minutes. Honestly, DDP, if you could not finish this and I can get points back and be back to almost even all my gambles today, that would be sick.
Starting point is 03:23:20 I mean, no matter, I mean, pretty much is more no matter what happens here. I feel real good about it. Yeah. The point spread bet, but I mean, to finish. Oh, I mean, your point spread bet should be barring Sean Strickland pulling incredible upset right now. Yeah, that view. Your points spread bet has to be in fine hands. Yeah.
Starting point is 03:23:39 I mean, if there's a 10-8 round mixed in there, that'd be even better. Nice kick to the body from DDP, back to the body. The thing about this one, too, is Jurgis is just so much less tired than he was, even visibly. I know he doesn't get tired in general, but like in the first one, he was sucking wind in the fifth round and just willing through it. But he looks spry in there. Like he's he's not even look all that tired. No. And considering he even when he looks tired, he's not tired.
Starting point is 03:24:10 Right hand from DDP. Oh, not a good right hand from BDP. The leaping lead right is the funniest thing. Yeah. Well, to me, it's landed like down parry that jab and then ha ha. Hussah! And Sean Shiglin's gonna hurt tomorrow, guys. Yeah.
Starting point is 03:24:27 It's gonna be a shitty flight home, man. It is. It is. But he did it for Mandela. country baby let's go let's go justin ten eight isn't laughable buddy uh read the score scoring criteria it's not hard you don't have to score it 108 108 is i believe justified and strickland still in here fighting man yeah me he's game his right hand is just not anything to be afraid of at this point particularly off the back foot if he can catch you
Starting point is 03:25:01 like he caught is he coming forward but in the retreating it's sort of slung Another body kick for the champ. Next watch party. Gachy hooker. Oh my God. That's going to be a bang for five rounds. And then we get. That's not going five rounds.
Starting point is 03:25:19 That fight ain't going five. Oh, that's going to be incredible. However long it goes, it's going to be cool. But. Boy, Sean Strickland needs to go.
Starting point is 03:25:30 I believe Sean Strickland is of the opinion. Oh. Oh. Oh. He was trying to feed for the power guillotine. Yep. And Drick was like, all right,
Starting point is 03:25:39 I'm out. I am of the opinion that Sean Strickland. is now just attempting to make it to the end of the fight, which I support. Yeah, it's what it is. Because he is not advancing. I mean, if he gets a freebie, he'll take it. But he's not really throwing a lot of good combination by DDP to the body leaping right hand again. DDP just keeps coming, man.
Starting point is 03:26:02 Over four and a half hits, minus 180. I will be moving, Drickus. I think I have him like four in my pound for pound rankings and I think I'm going to move them. because this is the issue is the victim fight was close this is not this is not this is not remotely competitive well it's competitive it's not close so that i misspoke it is competitive not close oh good body kick from dp dp's gonna be hurting too i mean he can be walking well it looks a lot better than the first fight though where that one eye was ballooned up all the jabs because he really is not eating nearly as many punches
Starting point is 03:26:42 is the first time. I mean, mathematically he's taken like 90 shots or whatever compared to 160 or whatever it was. Driggis genuinely looks the best I've ever seen him defensively. Drickis versus Hamzaa has got to be real fun. I said at the beginning of the year, I thought,
Starting point is 03:26:58 I thought Drick was going to win this fight. That was a great leg kick. I thought Drac was going to win this. Then I thought he's going to fight Hamzaa and beat him. I still stand by it. If he does both of those, fighter of the year is in play. For sure.
Starting point is 03:27:12 Oh, got the question mark up top. That one landed. My one did. John Strickland real tough. I mean, he is so bloody. He looks like a different person. Like his nose has just left all the blood in his face. Very, to everywhere else other than his face.
Starting point is 03:27:29 Very Roy McDonald's. But credit to him, man, still working. Uh, guys, a big change as Duplice outlanded Strickland and every round, but the four. This is his best round. Yeah. Well, that first fight, he was outland in almost every fight. He is outlanded Strickland more in every round, except the round where he busted his nose wide open. Strickland coming forward with short time. And now DDP changes levels.
Starting point is 03:27:58 Yep. Honestly, DDP just walk away, bud. Just spend 10 minutes jogging around. This is nice. I mean, it's not, but it should be four or three. i'm gonna win this decision bet baby we're about to get another uh go i right perfect night that got me very close to i mean i guess we'll wait you never know nasty strickland's face is just an absolute mess that is uh that is a tough one yeah i mean if he goes strickland hamzot imov or if he goes
Starting point is 03:28:38 strickland hamsa and then end of the year they do when Alex Pereira matchup you know champ versus champ it would be very rude to nassernini evolve obviously uh he'll be fired of the year if he wins all three of those and next thing embracing ddp casey in fact had a monster night he had the most people in play and uh casey is well in the lead yeah of our fantasy he probably just he probably just one time uh there's a lot he got a lot of fighters who might not not compete or, you know, things can happen, but he's in as good a shape as you could hope for right now. So let's go DDP, got John Wei Lee, got Marab. Wayne, that's right. We did do it for Mandela. Me and my boy, my day one. And the rest of the world has had to come around that
Starting point is 03:29:28 this big silly dupus is one of the five best fighters on planet Earth. I mean, I had pretty I had pretty good reads on both title flights. I would say that I didn't have a great read on the co-main. Yeah. I think I stone cold nailed this one. Did not have a good read on the co-main whatsoever. I mean, I know I picked fourth round finish like in our overall picks,
Starting point is 03:29:57 but I almost got it. Almost. I really thought that that was going to be it when he was trying to put his nose back in. Let's hear the cards. 545, 55. 55. We got the point spread bet. I want to know around they gave him.
Starting point is 03:30:15 I guess it's probably three. You could convince me three went to Strickland. Maybe one. We just can't be one. Shickland didn't do anything in one. But that was the closest. I thought that was the closest round. I thought three was closer on that.
Starting point is 03:30:26 But yes, I do believe DDP can beat Homsat. I also believe Homsok can beat DDP, but I think at middleweight, DDP is the most difficult test for Homs. Honestly, like the same questions are for DDP. If I'm not can beat him in seven minutes, it's done. He's going to get finished.
Starting point is 03:30:49 It is over. He's going to finish him. And I don't think he can. No, all I want is DDP versus Yerry, man. It's the only thing. To knock him out as next to impossible. I think, well, unless you're Alex Pereer, who did it with ease. Well, yeah, because it was the worst game plan I've ever seen.
Starting point is 03:31:13 Noah, I want DDP. As the fight I've asked for for almost a year at this point. I do not think if you let me make any fight at all in the sport, it's that. Oh, yeah, by the way. What a night. Not a great night for me, but a fine night in the climb continues. I lost the Jack Jenkins bet. I had a small sprinkle into Pory in round one, but I was just like for funsies.
Starting point is 03:31:43 Aside from that. But the actual, like, with all the main card bets all hit for the second consecutive pay review. Terrific job. I mean, that's pretty damn good, kid. Yeah. I'm proud of that. James crude. Great push. That's a solid push.
Starting point is 03:31:58 You were never a risk of losing that one. That's true. Barring. Tough. Charlie Morgan, robbery. Yes. Robbery. I love that. Charlie, way to go.
Starting point is 03:32:10 There probably are going to be people who like legitimately. They just say that. I don't think on this one because you can't point to the numbers. He got out landed in every round and got his nose ripped off his face. Way to way to pull the quote. from a movie that's like 20 years old was he calling up perera i think he just said is there no one else the gladiator thing uh yeah and truth strickle never laid a glove on him one of the comments james i would pick valentina to beat uh wiley but i also was super wrong about wiley winning today so
Starting point is 03:32:51 i would not say that i am oh i guess that landed more tricep so that do i mean that that's the punch of the fight for sure yep his nose is now crooked lazy bet he is my he's not my large adult son my large adult son is eerie he is my medium adult son my small adult son fights at 313 and just engage you they are the three layers of pokemon colicom son jeremy i'm not putting my entire bankroll in valentina again uh dp ends it with i'm a top three pound for pound fighter i he after tonight is at least top four i don't have an issue if you put in top three he's top At minimum top four.
Starting point is 03:33:59 All right. Let's see what Sean Strickland has to say. I'm sure it'll be awesome. Oh, stole the mic. Do you see, that's your job is to not let him do that. The Dutchman.
Starting point is 03:34:23 The Dutch man, it's a bad. And honestly, firm credit to him because it is legitimately a really badass thing to just put your own nose back in place and keep fighting. Yeah. That's pretty gnarly. Tough,
Starting point is 03:34:47 tough, tough man. Yes, Joe, I remember the time I did that. I recall. That's why I won't be doing it again. Drick is the Dutchman is the best.
Starting point is 03:35:03 The Dutch man is a badass. The Dutch man is a tough is a bad MF for. It was a good post-s speech from Chad Strickland. He stole the bite. Strykwin's in cage speeches are usually not horrific. Yeah. He knows when to do the thing. And it's not on pay-per-view.
Starting point is 03:35:25 There's the upcoming schedule. We're back at the world's most famous apex next week with Jared Cannonier versus Gregor Rodriguez. My recollection is that that card is not particularly good. We got Henry Sehudo and Song Yadong. The following week in Seattle, that's a really good card. I mean, losing Dominic Cruz, Rob Font. We'll see what happens with Rob.
Starting point is 03:35:43 Menal Cop versus Asu Almibayef. And then one month from today. One month from today. And it is February. So we get a few days off. We will be right back here in one month. Pereira Anka-LIF, Justin Gathe versus Dan Hooker. It's going to be fun.
Starting point is 03:36:01 It's going to be fun. We talked yesterday. I was wrong. I think the call was over under two takedowns. Two and a half. One takedown was attempted in this fight. The trick has got the one, basically. I think he shot twice.
Starting point is 03:36:17 Maybe he shot twice, but yeah. Yeah, but it was under two and a half. and no wrestling from Sean Strickland I'm stunned I'm not I did not think he would but you know I literally has there because I'm like true or fall Sean Strickland shoots a takedowns in this fight
Starting point is 03:36:34 and he starts laughing goes I fucking hope so I mean it wouldn't have hurt him given what happened yeah that's I mean standing up and striking exclusively didn't go super hot James I don't know about DDP pound for top three but y'all are top three pound for these your top three, five for pound.
Starting point is 03:36:52 But you're wrong. He's at least top. Like if he's not top four, I think you're wrong. I got a great. I haven't. I think I have him four. He's nine and oh in the OZ.
Starting point is 03:37:03 He has finished six of those. He just beat the soul out of the number one dude in the weight class. He finished Robert Whitaker and Israel. Like, I am comfortable putting Islam and, uh, Ilya. And if you want to put Alex,
Starting point is 03:37:18 I'm like those are all comfortable. I yeah you know I haven't before I say and he'll stay you can make a case for Marab or Belal I'd dracus his performances have just been undeniable yeah dude's real good man he's only getting better that is him and Hamzaad is gonna be you that is a huge he's 20 I still got multiple years of his prime left yep Nassanemov stay ready in case Hamzok can't make it but that's gonna be a big one I think that's probably going to be our international fight week headliner. That's my guess.
Starting point is 03:37:51 Maybe. I'm for, I'd like to present this to you for the Otno of tomorrow. Drichis versus Hamzat international fight week headliner in July of 2025. Don't hate it. I mean, it's very international. That's super international.
Starting point is 03:38:06 Plus, you have Imovov as the backup. It's the most international. And Kyle Bajal is the backup to the backup. The assistant to the regional backup. I mean, that's huge. I mean,
Starting point is 03:38:16 that is incredibly international. very international not an american to be found don't need them don't need them don't need them don't need them and uh all right that's it everybody that is it for us we will a jett and i will be taking a short breather to pick up on you clean up cash uh cash so we'll be back i made yeah we'll be back shortly probably in about 10 50 minutes biggest bullshit is this fight was the tweet from hamzatimaev with three yawning loggies well most people wanted to see hamzai got the shot over shirklin Anyways, so I mean, it's okay. Yeah, it's fine.
Starting point is 03:38:51 You're going to get your chance. So we'll see. Yeah. If Amsa comes in and does what he's done to many good fighters, that would be incredibly impressive. Yep. If Jekis survives the early storm and just is like, my lats are bigger than yours, you can't take me down.
Starting point is 03:39:05 And now you're tired. And that's, you're dead. That's going to make a good lad off between us. Oh, they are, who. It's just a hoss off right there for sure. That is, that is a fight. That is a fight. All right. We're going to have multiple streams going on simultaneously here. Jose is about to go live for the post-fight press conference.
Starting point is 03:39:24 You'll hear from Dana White. You'll hear from Zhang Wei Lee. We'll hear from Drick's Duplice. Maybe Sean Strickland. I'm not really sure. Maybe he goes to the hospital. Who the hell knows? And then we'll be back. Probably in about 10 or 15 minutes, probably 15 minutes for the post-fight show. Thank you for watching. We love you guys. You're the best. We're picking up money. We're out of here.

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