MMA Fighting - UFC 314 Post-Fight Show | Reaction To Volkanovski Regaining Title, Pimblett Destroying Chandler

Episode Date: April 13, 2025

Alexander Volkanovski is once again UFC featherweight champion after earning a unanimous decision against Diego Lopes in the main event of UFC 314 — but that may not be the biggest story from Saturday's blockbuster card in Miami. Following UFC 314, MMA Fighting's Mike Heck & Jed Meshew react to the card, Volkanovski's statistic-defying championship win, who he could defend his belt against next, and where Lopes goes. Additionally, they discuss Paddy Pimblett's lopsided stoppage win over Michael Chandler in the co-main event, what could be next for "The Baddy," Jean Silva dominating and submitting Bryce Mitchell, and much more. Follow Mike Heck: @mikeheck_jr 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

You're listening to the Vox Media Podcast Network. Casey back here live in Command Center 4.0 for the UFC 314 post-fight show here on MAAfighting.com. We just wrapped up the rope with the watch party. We just witnessed Alexander Volcanowski defying all the statistics, making history, becoming a two-time featherweight champion, doing it so over the age of 35, becoming the first fighter in UFC history. over the age of 35 to win a title at 155 or lower, doing so coming off of back-to-back knockout losses, all the curses, all of the statistics that were against Volcanowski. None of that mattered.

I thought it was a vintage performance from the great. He is once again the champion, and we are here to react to that. And all the happenings at UFC 314, very, very fun card. I am Mike Heck. That is the great Jed Michoud. Jed, it's hard to grade it overall card right when it ends. Usually you want to take some time, digest it.

How are the fans reacting to it? We've just been kind of here, just digesting it here on our own. How do you grade UFC 314 as a whole? Really good, man. I had a really good time tonight. This was the card we wanted. You know, people have been on us a little bit about being negative. It's not our fault.

The cards have been bad. this card was not bad on paper we were very excited and I feel we got our money's worth some outcomes that well maybe big picture I expected I thought bulk would win though I fluctuated back and forth on that I thought if he was going to win it would look pretty similar

but I got some questions answered some outcomes on the other part of the main card that even if I thought Patty Penel will win I did not think it would look like that I had a fun time not an A plus plus or whatever.

Like the I year pit bull fight was a little bit of a downer. It was fine, but it wasn't that exciting. I don't know. A minus B plus,

something in that. Like a really, really good night of fights had a great time. Yeah. I think A minus is a pretty fair score. I thought some of the prelims were interesting

and there were some high stakes fights and a lot of went into it. Danny Ege gets the big knocko heading into the main card. But obviously, let's start with Alexander Volcanowski. We ran down the accolades. ran down the resume, ran down the history that he made tonight,

and you could see the emotion sort of pouring out of him. Volcanovsky, man, gets it done. I scored at 49, 46. Two of the judges agreed with me. You actually scored at 50 to 45, and I know some people are giving you some shit for that scorecard. I am not one of those people. I actually understand where 5045 comes from,

especially in a scenario like this where we're trying to balance multiple things. But, man, what a showing from Volkadovsky? This is exactly what he needed. in you know what he wants to talk about doubters he wants to talk about people betting against him he wants to talk about people kind of picking up a shovel and putting a little dirt on there

I think he had every right to kind of say that and boy did he deliver tonight his right to say it it shouldn't be like the theme and he wasn't making it the theme like this is not me here to bag on Alexander Pokanovsky he was the betting favorite but there certainly were people doubting him

saying that hey man you're too old you pass the prime you know now not right now but in the very near future we'll have the conversation of is he the real champion because elia to pray a vacated he did not beat the champ to be the champ etc etc but this set any of that bullshit aside is an exceptional performance from him um a really a return to vintage form against a young a youngish young new to the title picture uh dangerous contender who a lot of people were picking. And so I'm okay with any scorecard from 4847 Volk to 50-45 Volk.

I don't, anything in there, you want to argue those rounds. I think rounds two and four, you can make arguments for Lopez winning. I also just, I thought bulk blanked him. I thought that he had certainly moments in scare in round two when he got dropped at the very end, but he seemed to be okay from that. Round four when he took that errant punch to the eye and was really out of sorts for a little bit. But Lopez just did not do enough. Volcanowski did not let him do enough.

This was the exact performance that my read on this fight, everything I said in every show I did, was if Volk's chin is there, he's going to win this fight, he's going to win it convincingly. His chin was there, and there was exactly the fight I expected. I missed calls. I missed a lot of other calls. Maybe I got the winner right, but Hal was really wrong in a lot of this card. His main event was exactly what I thought.

If his chin was there and could stand up, up to the punishment, he would, he would have a vintage performance and that's exactly what we got. Yeah, I scored rounds one, three, four, and five for Volk. Two, I gave to Lopez because of the knockdown. But again, can certainly understand it because Volk won four minutes and 30 seconds of that round running away up until the knockdown. And it's not like Volk was close to getting finished or anything because he popped right back up. Still had his wits about him. He was fine. and this is a big night for the featherweight division. This is almost like moving day for featherweight now that Ilya Tuporia is no longer.

We got a lot of motion happening. A lot of motion happening. And this was a very good night for Alexander Volcanowski. It turns into an okay night for Yaya Rodriguez, although he's still going to get a big fight more than likely. And wouldn't you know it, Jedmishu? Wouldn't you know it? at least in one man's opinion, of course, Dana White is going to go to the press conference,

and he is certainly going to be asked about this. And I still, to this day, don't think he knows who this man is. Outside of Volcanowski, outside of maybe Gian Silva, the best night at Featherweight belongs to Mobsar of Lov. I think he is going to fight for the UFC Featherweight title in his next fight.

I think this worked out great for him. Best evening he could hope for. Yep. Completely great. Yeah, he's getting the next title fight. But, you know, Daniel Lopez and Volk both said they wanted to fight him next. But then the Yaira stuff kicked up. It seemed a certainty that that was very much in play.

Lopez losing opens the door. There's no other clear-cut featherweight contender at this point. If Ilya were to come back, obviously, but Ilya, it does not seem in the cards. So who else would even get it? Right. Like who else is even in the conversation at Featherweight right now? the technically Lorone Murphy I suppose

but like if you're going to go with a boring guy at least go with the boring guy who did beat Diego Lopez and is higher ranked then and also Malthar's not actually boring Lerone Murphy is boring Mawesor has had some boring fights

but has also had some good fights so I think this opened up this was perfect for him no one's going to be enthused about it we don't have to pretend like people are going to be like ah the Mavsorev Luev stands can finally have their day.

There aren't those people out there, but he gets his day in court, and then we can be done. If he wins, then we live in the Movsar universe, and that's the world. But if he loses, we never have to do it again.

We never have to do it again. Sometimes you've got to eat your vegetables, leafy greens coming our way next. And just think about what the championship landscape could look like for the fan base, right? Magamenekel I.F.

Maraud Walsh, Willis, Bilal Muhammad, Mavzar of Loya of good grief, man. It's like all the premium men's divisions just tough watches. I think I honestly have a different view on Moussar. I think he is

way more exciting than people give him credit for. But I also think I think Magibad is I'm not saying they're all winners. They can be boring. I think Magamad has done a lot of fun things. He gets a bad rap. Like I respect Marab as a fighter as an exceptional

fighter, he bores the pants off of me and I can't. I'm sorry. I'm sorry if it makes me casual. I find him deeply boring. Oh, what is this? Oh, we got some action here? Apparently Colby and Patty got into a backstage. Who gives a shit? I sure. Like, that if Colby's getting into someone he can fight okay, that's just nonsense. It's dumb. Like, that's the most predictable thing. Oh, Patty Pimlet's got some shine. Let me try and steal that. as I'm desperately trying to hang on to my 15 minutes. Diego Lopez, look, man got to fight for a belt. When he went in there and fought Mobbzar,

I don't think a lot of people would have predicted that. I mean, it was still a good performance. I think people are like, okay, this guy is going to be real fun. He'll be in some compelling fights. Don't think a lot of people expected him to go and fight for the belt. I think he's going to go back and rewatch this fight and kick himself a few times, realize that he could have been a little bit more aggressive, could have taken the fight

to Volk a little bit more, scrapped it, been a little more scrappy. Yeah, he might have eaten some damage, but I think it's going to be okay. At the end of the day, do you think he will fight for a belt again? Do you think this will be the only time he fights for a belt?

I wouldn't like bet a lot on it, but I'm going to go with no. I had genuine concerns in this. And really, as I said, like, if Volk was able to take punishment, it would be fine. And he was. but because I didn't know how compromised you was.

I thought Diego had a real chance to win this. She watched his fight. He had some moments. All of the concerns I had were like that were so readily apparent on tape. And I talked to, this is not me saying like a bunch of people were able to look at this and be like, oh, like he's a very exciting dude. But he is really limited. Like the best part of his game is graphing. I was like, cool, that's just not going to do a goddamn thing.

It's Alexander Volkanowski. Like, like Islam barely succeeds. He's a much better wrestler than getting grappling going. That's going to do nothing. And his striking game can be effective because he's powerful. And he has like a good fundamental idea of being dangerous. But he doesn't have the tools to deploy weapons in a way against a technical, like a technical savant like Alex is, particularly with Alex making adjustments. We saw in the second, he had some windows, right?

He buzzed Alex in the second. It was at the end of the round, not enough time. Alex then looked at that and said Okay, here's how I got caught. I will just minimize that being a thing. Like I'm not no longer, Alex got drawn into a little bit of a bra and got buzzed. It's like, okay, we're done with that part.

Made a great adjustment in that. In the fourth, I think tomorrow morning he is going to wake up and go holistically, I approach this fight wrong because I think whatever his game plan was pretty bad. I think specifically he is going to look at the fourth round and be like, I don't know what the fuck I was doing, man. Like when that errant punch went to the eye

And Volk in the corner after I was like I'm just starting to be able to see now He had a fighter who could not physically see out of one eye And was retreating for the first time in the whole fight Volk was just against the fence retreating And occasionally throwing haymakers to get Lopez off him And Lopez was in his grill And then just didn't do like

Should have just, he could have just wildly spammed offense And it would have been better than just just sort of letting Alex off the hook. And credit to Alex, like that's just, that is a veteran performance to get out of that when you are in a dangerous spot. I think tomorrow when he watches it, Diego's going to be like,

that was bad. I had a chance. And I don't know what I was doing. I just, but that wasn't it. And now he's probably going to fight Yayao Rodriguez in Guadalajara. And we will go from there. Oh,

we got bonuses. I'm going to guess that these are the easiest bonuses in the world. what do you got a fight of the night main event correct uh performance of the night jean silvo correct performance of the night they don't usually performance of night for just beating their shit out of somebody but i'm going to say they gave patty one for beating the shit out of michael chanler ding ding ding ding usually it's like a big chaos or a big sub but sometimes it's just a big ass whoopin and we'll talk about that big ass whoopin in a minute dan ege was maybe on the road to getting a bonus, but then the stoppage didn't really help him too much.

A better stoppage, he could have helped him. But honestly, like, if Dan just got a clean TKO, I still don't think he was getting a bonus over Patty. Probably not given the two main, like, there was, I would have, I would have literally bet my life, John So was getting a bonus. And so then like, he's just not beating Patty even. Like, that's a great comeback or great, you know, underdog performance for him. We can talk about it, but it's Patty's.

Patty was out of this world. Yeah. And that's where, that's our goal right now, is Patty the Batty Pimbleau because in the lead up to UFC 314, this is the Patty Pimba, Michael Chandler show.

This was the high stakes fight. This is what, what happens when Patty fights a hitter? What's it, what's it going to be? Can his chin take a guy like Chandler hitting him? If Patty wins, how can he do it?

It's a five-round fight. All these different questions that we had about Patty Pimble. He beat the soul out of that man. This fight was not competitive at all. Patty Pimbleau just continues to improve, continues to get better and better and better and better. The man is just delivering in a big way. And I think, Jed, it is fair to say that five days from now, five months from now, heck, even five years from now, when we're talking about UFC 314, as great as Alexander Volcanovsky was tonight, as great as of what he accomplished tonight was.

The first thing that's going to come out of people's mouths is what Patty Pimble did to Michael Chandler today. At least that's what I think. I think he's going to be vault. But it wouldn't shock me if you were right. It was an unbelievable performance. It was one of the fights I was more confident all week. I was pretty sure Patty was winning this fight. I just thought he's durable enough to take the big shots from Michael Chandler.

I thought it wasn't like, wouldn't bet my life on it. But I was like he's historically been pretty durable. I mostly, I was really, really, than Michael Chandler has washed because he was washed for 23 minutes of the Charles Oliverer rematch and then there were two minutes

where he was cheating his ass off and I was like yeah Patty's just gonna win it I still thought Patty winning it would look like the Oliver fight of a lot of back control not a ton of damage per se maybe some success on the feet

because Chandler as he's gotten older is basically a front kick and an overhand right and those are the only two things he does but I mean this was a school yard ass beating like this was I have had like I have had my ass beat that way in elementary school and Patty did it to a professional fighter in the octagon like just a woppin put down on him

or wailed on him for however many minutes it was 12 before he got him out of there bloodied the shal I mean Michael Chandler was walking just pouring blood everywhere easily the best performance of Patty's career and legitimately like i've had concerns have had questions about patty he's a top 15 lightweight even though i don't i think michael chandler sucks and has washed still that kind of performance against a guy historically has accomplished as michael chandler incredible performance i am legitimately very interested to see where patty pimble is because wouldn't it be a damn thing if for years we've been waiting what lightweights are going to finally break through and get this this sort

of triumvirate at the top of Justin and Dustin and Charles and they can Raphael Fiziv can't quite do it and Benoit Sandini can't quite do it and Armin gets through but he also has his own sort of struggles and we need somebody and wouldn't it be a damn thing if that somebody was there all along it was Patty Pimbled oh Patty the Batty oh Patty the Patty oh Patty the Patty oh Patty the Patty What growth in this guy? Not just like physically and not just in the octagon, but I just, I feel like his attitude. I feel like everything about him is just much different. And who knows if it's because he's become a dad or the right people are around him telling him like, dude, chill out, be a little more likable.

Like try these things. Like you could still be a popular fighter if you're an asshole, but you could still be kind of an asshole. But in a way that people really like it. And I think Patty is just clicking on all cylinders, and then this performance just put him on a whole other level. I don't, we've seen Chandler get finished. We've seen Chandler lose fights. I don't remember Chandler just getting pillar to post it like this. I mean, this, and I know Chandler's older, and I know he's got mileage on him and you call him washing all that stuff.

But Jesus Christ, man. Charles beat him and kind of embarrassed him a little bit, but Chandler still had moments in that fight. almost got Charles out of there in round five and there was just no chance of that happening tonight this is the Patty Pimbled show all the way it was just so damn impressive man it really was really really good performance like it like I understand your point

it is a breakout performance I do think we are going to come back to this as at least I will maybe everybody doesn't certainly people view these things this is the performance that I already knew Alexander Volknoffsky wasn't all time great I've said for a long time top 10 fighter of all time, these are the performances I really want to see from all-time grades

when they're past their prime and can still pitch a game like this. Because frankly, a lot of the end of Anderson Silva's title run, he was no longer Anderson Silva, but he was still able to do incredible stuff. The best fighters ever, all of them have that. Look at what Jose Aldo is doing right now, a decade removed from his prime year. and he is a top 10 bantam in a way class below and reen like that is what greats do and this is

Volk hasn't had the chance because he's been in his prime we are now in post prime Volk and to pitch a performance like that it won't be the name it's not the max trilogy this is absolutely a fight I will come back to and be like man what a damn good fighter we had so i would still say that but if you if people want to take from this the this is the patty pillenble breakout moment. How can you, I mean, I can't argue that much against it. You beat the shit out of it, man. You did what you're supposed to do.

And certainly, you know, I like Patty. I've never been against Patty. I just didn't think he was that good. He has won me over with his performances. Being Michael Chandler, that warm part makes me happy. Just being punishing Michael Chandler really

makes me pretty happy. So, way to go, Patty. I feel like it's fair we, even though this It's Michael Chandler and we know how you feel about Michael Chandler. He's terrific. He's so good at fighting. Where does Chandler go from here? Do you think he fights it?

Like, do you think he fights again? Because, like, what is there for him? I mean, even at this point with his record and the wins and the losses and all that stuff, because of what this division looks like right now, and you even mentioned, like, these guys are fighting for the Iliot to pour your sweepstakes and potentially for like a vacant or an interim title fight, Michael Chandler getting just done up in almost all of these fights and still being in this conversation. It makes me really happy that his UFC record is like two and seven now. Yeah.

It's awesome. He ain't in the conversation anymore. Like, it is done. It's deeply out. It's done. So does he just hope and pray that somehow, some way he gets the Conner fight? Because I got to tell you, if you're Connor McGregor and you're thinking about coming back and fighting the UFC, probably felt pretty good about how things went.

If you're watching a Michael Chandler fight, maybe you feel like you could win that one. Is that just like the best hope for him? Does he hope that Connor comes back to fight him? And then if he doesn't, then he just doesn't fight again? Because otherwise, does he want to fight the Joel Alvarez's of the world?

Because I feel like that's the world he's going to be living in. Or not. I mean, obviously the best case scenario is Connor. I think like that's the fight. That would have been the best case scenario for him at any point. point in the last four years. Connor's not fighting again. I've been pretty firmly on that corner.

I wavered a little bit when it looked like. I foolishly forgot that I was like, oh, Connor had this terrible legal thing. He'll need to fight again so people remember to love him. I forgot that things don't matter anymore. And people just won't care. And so Connor is not fighting again.

His comments at BKFC really reinforced it. I really doubt he is fighting again. if he does fight he should absolutely fight Michael Chandler because he might win that fight there aren't that many fights that Conner can win in the U.S.C. right now that's one of them. If not, Mike

Oh boy. Look, I think the U.S. probably would be like, all right, Michael Chandler fight. Ben-Wassan-Nees rumored to be fighting. That's happening. That is happening.

I didn't know if we... He's fighting Joel Alvarez. Yeah. You know, like, Like that's sort of a dude. You kind of got a fight. Like you could do Chandler versus like a Jim Miller, which would be a reasonable matchup of veteran dudes.

Jim Miller wants to get some fights going. Still, he's trying to get to 50s at 46 or 7 now. So he still needs a few. He'd do something like that. But Mike, what if Michael Chandler versus Patricio Pitbull, too? It doesn't seem like there's any interest in that fight either side.

I mean, maybe now they've been. Boaches lost and they don't have a lot of other choices. If I'm Chandler, I'd definitely rather fight that. If I'm Pitbull, I got to think I could win that fight. I don't know what you do with either of them because they are both old. Bobby Green? Yeah, that'd be fine too. Like, there are a couple of old dudes you could match up either, you know, I mean,

technically in different way classes. So Bobby Green versus Michael Chandler would be okay. But like that, and I, you know, I like Bobby Green. That feels like a big step. down if you're Michael Chandler from like I just don't know where I know that like he kind of needs to take that but like does Michael Chandler what that would be weird I think paddy's what like 13 in the UFC ranking setting into this yeah but he's also just monstrously popular so you can kind of even being 13 it's still Bobby is not ranked anymore and Bobby's popular but he ain't Patty popular

so like I don't know I it's hard to book him Bobby green's not a terrible answer I think I'd go Jim Miller. If I'm doing lightweight, like, be fine. Honestly, you know what to do. You know what you should probably do? Chase Hooper. Just give, just give you on Chase the opportunity.

Chase just keeps fighting his dad, just fighting old guys every time. I love that gimmick. It's an incredible gimmick. Yeah. I love it. What a performance on Patty Pimble. We'll see where Michael Chandler goes.

Patty Pimbleet. I know you want the Armand fight. I know he kind of called for the arm and fight. I think you should fight. I think if I'm the UFC, I'm giving him a title shot next. If I'm the UFC, not because it makes the most sense,

because it's the one I want, I legitimately really want to see him fight Charles Oliver now. I really, really want to see that fight now. I'm curious how Charles feels about that. If I'm Charles and if they book Iliate Teporea... If I'm Charles, I take that fight immediately.

Yeah, but Charles really seems to think that he can just hold out for a lightweight fight. Maybe he can. Like a type of fight, maybe he can. Maybe he's like, look, Jack Dell is going,

going to win and I'll get to fight Ilya for the vacant belt I don't know seems risky but it's very risky if I'm charles you should he should either fight max or patty I accept either of those for charles yes but man patty pimbleau doing the damn thing uh yarer Rodriguez could have put himself in a really good position uh he needed to just go out and obliterate position of people I actually thought that's exactly what he was going to do tonight uh look good just fine fight dominant performance wasn't the most thrilling fight of all time, but goes out there, dominates.

Got the job. Had nothing for him, really, and gets the win, almost gets the finish, then maybe some questionable decisions in round three, but cruises gets the job done. Diego Lopez lost, so that takes him away from the title fight,

but he could probably still fight Diego Lopez and Guadalajara, and that's going to be a very, very big fight. There's no question that's happening. There's bet, bet your house on that. That's happening. Don't actually bet your house on that, but that's happening.

But the other fight, everyone had their eye on was John Silva versus Bryce Mitchell. My boy did it. John Silva talked a lot of noise, a lot of stuff. And we talked about it on the preview show. We mentioned it a little bit during the watch party as well. John Silva had a lot of pressure to deliver because when you say the things you say and you talk the way you talk, you have to follow through with it.

And boy, did he, because you want to talk about asswopens. He beat the hell out of Bryce Mitchell tonight. That was not competitive. Yeah. That was not competitive. competitive. Bryce had moments, couple leg kicks early. You could tell early with the first take-down attempt. He kept trying to fight. Give Bryce Mitchell a credit. He kept, he kept trying. He had hard. But he took a beating in this fight. And then-and-got slept. Yeah, and then got put to

sleep with a nasty ninja choke. Very not. And just the facial expression Bryce had when he was unconscious after tapping out. Just nasty stuff from John Silva. The man is a showman, if anything else, but he's a damn good fighter as well. I've been telling you all about that kid, man. And he exceeded my expectations. I thought that this was a very loseable fight for him. I thought Bryce Mitchell, I don't agree with everything Bryce has said. Made that very clear.

We don't have to dive back into it. I've never disputed that Bryce Mitchell is a very good fighter. A top 15 featherweight. I don't really think he's a top 10, though he's had moments where it could have been, but very much a top 15 limited. but I mean we have seen John Silver struggle with grapplers Take Down defense was incredibly

on point tonight I mean Mitchell got nothing going on the ground really even when they got into grappling exchanges John Silva was the dude like just threatening with chokes out of nowhere and on the feet almost from the opening bell as soon as Silva hit him once

Bryce Mitchell suddenly got real tentative and did not want that smoke I mean pillar to pose If you were body language experting it, there was not a second of that fight where Jean Silva wasn't ahead by miles. He oozed confidence from the opening bell and put it on Bryce Mitchell.

The submission win didn't see that coming. Nope. Saucy. Plus a thousand, I think it was. Yep, probably going to be one of the better submissions of the year. Got him the extra 50K. He, you know, here's the thing. When you talk that pile of shit,

it's risky because if you lose you look like a huge jackass and i said it was like man john silver was really putting it out there and instead like he comes off a little corny certainly maybe a little tryhardy dude you can't do anything but respect the outcome and what he is doing what fighting nerds are doing i was i've been as high on john sylva as anybody from the beginning and this is the reason why when he is going, he is an offensive dynamo in a way that this division needed. And you got a bunch of feathers coming up.

I'm excited to see where he go from him. My boy did it and keep riding with him. It's going to be interesting to matchmaking for him. I haven't decided just yet how we're going to matchmaking for him. Him and Yair would be so fun, but they're going to do Yair versus Lopez. No doubt about it. So there are many options here for John Silva. and I don't think anyone will complain about either of them.

Big performance from him gets a bonus, gets a job done. A man who did not get a bonus, but probably deserved a bonus today. When I think of this event in years to come, it will be Jean Silva being my boy. That will be the first thing. Then Volkovsky, then Patty. It would be the barking insane lunatic that is Jean Silva. You know what's crazy? Throughout all this, we're like, let's go through all these bonuses and think about people.

And we forgot about the guy who probably should. have gotten one. So I thought of that afterwards and I was like, I mean, I know they weren't going to do it because of Patty, but like it does, feels like he feels a little bit rough that Dom didn't get one here. You know, backroom deal, perhaps. But Dominic Reyes just just kills Nikita Krilov, man. That was nasty counter.

Just face plants him, knocks him dead on his ass and just gets him out of there. Now look at Jedmishu, Dominic Reyes, three fight windstreet. In a row. finish his last three opponents. What a world we're living in right now. Unbelievable stuff. There's always an MMA. It's beautiful.

There's always a chance for redemption. It's not always successful, but Dominic Reyes on that road and looking damn good doing it. One of the better stories going on in the sport. Look, you know, people can quibble two is not a streak. Two is a streak. But three, undeniably a streak. Three finishes. is, look, I don't think it's going to happen because I think for obvious reasons.

If Dom Reyes can even get to a title fight again, much less win the belt, which we've seen people do at Light Heavy. We've seen Glover Tashara win the belt well after anyone thought it was reason. We saw Jan Blavich win the belt long after anybody would have ever thought he was a legitimate title fight, a title contender. This is a division where that story is allowed to happen if Dom Reyes can go from being, I mean, this close to being the greatest what if in the history of the sport. I mean, a hair's breadth from being that of this is the guy who should have beat John Jones but was robbed to then he lost four in a row and never want to fight again. Like that's the helmet catch of MMA of the only catch that dude ever made is,

is that one to beat the bats in the Super Bowl. And he never played again. Like, Dom Reyes should have beat John Jones and then never want to fight again and retired. And it never got over and it ruined his life. Like we would be reading stories in a decade about how that night ruined Don Reyes' his life and he never got over it.

And instead, he pulled it together. He got one win. He got another win. Now he's got three wins. I don't think he's going to get back. there but if he can find a way to do it and win the belt it will legitimately be one of the most inspiring incredible stories the sport has ever seen and i am frankly rooting for it because he seems

like a good dude in general and just like what he went through the hell he went through to come out to where he is now is incredible uh i thought he was going to win this fight i picked him i bet him i didn't know that it would look quite like that but credit to him man because that dude has seen the the bad of this sport, at least from a competitive standpoint, and has gritted it out. And here he is. What a performance. What a job. What a story. And we'll see how far he can take it. I think you should fight Carlos Lulberg next. Seems pretty obvious. I think that's the way to do it. Whether you feel he deserves it or not. I know some people are like, oh, maybe he needs two wins. At this point, he definitely deserves it. Strike while the iron's hot.

I mean, I guess I guess if you want to do Reyes versus like the winner of Hill versus round tree and then Ulberg fights Yerry. Like that's also fine. All of those are fine, I guess. But I can just do the Oldberg fight. Alberg just is not getting a title fight. No, no. So do the Oldberg fight.

That seems good to me. Yep. All right. Let's bring in the people. peeps. Let's take some questions here. We'll get through some super chats. Hey, excuse me, sir. You, you again, Casey, do you again, this man with the disrespect to Vera Jericho, the number one contender at Strawway, Casey. Do you, can you believe this guy? Chad, you know, I know who's produced. I know we're going to get a question about it. I know.

We're going to get it. It's going to come up. Even before the super chats, Vernon Janjarova supersedes the super chats. We know this. Let's pop them up on the screen. Let's see what you guys have to say. Shout out to you. We'll get to as many of these as we can. Shout out to you, Danny.

Jake, when Jed takes Volk on No Betz Barred, we all do. Shout out. We did. Also, shout out, Jake. But yes, I in fact did. I was very conflicted. $50 Super Chad? He's got another one in there too.

I was very conflicted about it on No Betts Bar this week. We talked all through it. my head just said he was going to win and I couldn't walk away from it my gut said he was going to lose even right here when we were doing the watch part I was like it's just nobody wins this fight historically there are many many things against him I'm glad I went with the head because it wasn't always easy there were certainly scary moments but that was what I expected I expected a masterclass we got one just one the 10 greatest fires of all time man that's what you get damn great performance thank you Jake

but yeah also that I might actually be like the first time I've bet on folk in a long time Jake just firing off you must have made to spend some money I hope so I hope you I hope you hammered him because you should have felt really good for most of that fight

that he was coming away apparently Sean Shelby scored the fight for Diego Lopez based on the commentary I was hearing from the UFC commentary team which is wild if true I can't confirm that, but that is wild if true. Sean Shelby, if that is true, Sean Shelby should not even, like, not only not be allowed to. Suspend him for matchmaking.

Yeah. He should no longer be allowed to judge a fight. He shouldn't be able to be allowed to hold a pen or a pencil to write down a score. Like, he should be banned from any sort of writing at all. That's just, that might be one of the most egregious things I've ever heard. House on Volk. Three streaks is Jake. You're damn right.

Jay Galser tweeted House on Volk. a dog on Silva. Hey, I don't love betting the house on anybody, but it works. And I'm sure you got great odds because he was like minus 120 all week long, basically. Yeah, I got plus money on them with the point spread. So I think gold winning means I almost certainly am positive. I have to check the account, but almost certainly positive.

It wasn't my best week, but it was a winning week. A lot of dogs barking, a lot of plus money hits. So I worked out. I got all of my main card picks right, and I bet all of them straight up. So. All right. Keep them coming. What do we got?

Stephen, thank you. How far is Dom from a title shot? Not a Patty fan, but him versus Charles or Hooker. Don't see Armine or Dustin. Justin versus Patty. Top 10 for Sylvan next. This is A plus questioning. Really getting your money's worth.

I respect that game, Stephen. Yes. We've mentioned the Dom thing. I think he's won away. Dom is won away. It's Ulberg. And if he wins it, book it, man. Yeah, just do it.

Patty versus Charles or Hooker, sure. I want the Charles fight. I'm pretty sure they're going to rebook Hooker. Yeah. Patty versus honestly, if I had a choice, I don't know. I like both those fights. Patty versus Charles or Patty versus Hooker. I think Hooker makes more sense from how he's moving up the ladder.

Yeah. I just, I'm pretty interested in seeing the trolls fight right now, man. Like I would watch. Both are good. Probably. But I mean, that performance from Patty was really, really good. Armin would be really interesting because if he beats Armin. I would also be happy to watch that.

Yeah, if he beats Armin, then that's just, if he beats Armin, I will legitimately go on the show we do right after and say, okay, he's about to be a lightweight champion. Yeah, he's about to be the champion of the world. He's definitely not going to get the Dustin fight. Do we do John Silver versus the top 10 opponent, Dustin? I mean, 100%. Bryce Mitchell is 13, so John Silva will be 13 in the U.C. rankings on Tuesday.

He's not fighting back. There's no like because that's the thing if you if you invite that risk you talk that trash he I mean he said some stuff he said a lot of corny stuff and he said a lot of stuff I don't agree with he's like this is the people's main event I don't think that was necessarily true for this week but nobody nobody did more to sell this event than John Silva from the moment he called out Bryce Mitchell to the moment it got booked on this card every presser he is doing his best to make people care. And when you do that, when you take that onus on, it elevates it. It became important. You don't then go from that and from this dominant, incredible performance to be like, all right,

and now you're going to fight the number 14 ranked guy. That is not how this works. He's getting somebody in the top 10. The question is who. I don't think there's a wrong way to book him really unless it's Laurel Murphy. But here's the thing. Even Laurel Murphy can't be boring against Gian Silva, because he's fun as hell. So maybe that's the only way to make Lorone Murphy exciting. I don't think Lorone wants that fight, and I think ultimately what we do is we give him Arnold Allen. To me, that's the fight,

but anybody in the top 10 is also A-OK at this point for Gianz Silva. Fighting nerds, all of them, move them up the ladder, let's give them opportunities because they are making the sport fun. I think one of those two guys are Josh Emmett or just fine. Josh Emmett's A-O-K as well. Thank you, Stephen. Thanks, Stephen. When I got a great deal on a great gift at Winners,

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Yeah. At this point, like there's a small part of me that's like, oh, there are a couple of flyweight contenders. That does not matter. At this point, Whaley is fighting the winner of Valentina versus Manil at UFC 315. I think that's okay. it will be an interim belt. I don't think they'll strip Waley. They'll let her get it. And then if she wins it, then the interim belt

will become the official. I actually think she's done, man. I think she's just going to be like, okay, I'm good. I could. We'll find out. I don't think so. It's a big weight cut for her. She's got nothing. Like, there's, and we talked about it on the watch party, maybe he was a little tongue and

cheek, but probably not. John Waley watched Verna Jandorobo fight tonight and she is not losing a minute of sleep. No, no. She would, I think it is just a horrific matchup for Verna, just really, really bad. So it's very tough for her. I think for Vanner, this actually probably works out pretty well because I do think

Zhang is just going to be like, all right, I've done everything I need to do here. So you're the perfect scenario for her. Yeah, Verner's not like a big enough star to keep her there. That performance wasn't like, it was a good performance. It was a very, it was a solid outing, 3027, like good, very good win. but not one where it's like, Verna is the first thing we talk about. We have to fight her.

Let's make that bag. It's not going to headline a pay-per-view, which is not one of those fights. Her fighting Valentina, her fighting Manin, could headline a pay-per-view. More money there. She's getting up there in age.

I don't think she's got a ton of fights left in her. Honestly, I think she's just going to go and make a run at 25 and kind of just do the Rose thing. She doesn't win the belt. She can just go fight Rose. Do it a flyway. There's fights for her up there that are better fun.

She just wants to challenge herself. And now she's in movies and got all these different opportunities. She's a massive star. Challenging yourself for Rose ain't the same as getting pay-per-view points, though, on a belt. I don't know. We'll see. I think unless the UFC makes her vacate, there's no reason for her to vacate. Yeah, but she's not going to get pay-bry points if she's not headlining anyway.

So what's the difference? We'll see. If the UFC isn't maker, I just don't know why she would. And I don't know that the UFC is going to make her because, Are they that enthused about putting the belt on Vienna? Or I guess if Dern wins, they'd be pumped on that. I'm assuming that if the interim fight will be Dern Bernner, too. But I think that seems incredibly obvious to me.

I asked her before the Tatiana fight. I said, if this goes well for you, is this your last fight at 115? She said, if it's up to me, yes. That's my last fight. So we'll see. We'll see. Thank you, Joseph. Thanks, Joe.

Lazybad. Here, here, on this glorious UFC 314 night, I present the first annual Lord Jan Silva Public Servant of the Year award to our hero, Gian Silva. He is in fact our hero. And he would have given himself that award as well. He would have given himself all the awards. Yes. I think that award should be in the shape of a barking dog because that is, it's what he is.

He barks way too much. He's definitely a little corny. Certainly the corniest of the fighting nerds. And frankly, I do think the fighting nerds are all a little corny. Anyway, Jean Silva is really over the top on it, but he's freaking working for him. He's a sick-ass fighter man, so I don't care. It's working. Thank you, lazy bed.

Spencer, Volk is a legend. You have him top 10 all time, Jed. How far is he from the pantheon of six you always talk about? And do you agree with me that Alex is a bad matcher from Ozar? He is top 10 all time. He's still away from getting to the top six. Because to get to the top six, he has to take a spot from somebody. The person he has to take the spot from is Josealdo, and he's a ways away from that.

A ways? He is at least two title defenses from that. Okay. That's a ways. Also, we'll see how it shakes out. I don't want to disrespect Volk tonight after such a performance. He needs a couple of title defenses. but I do think he's got a good chance

at least getting one of those. I think Mavsar is not well equipped to beat him. I could very well be wrong, but I don't, grappling is really, Islam had a hard time grappling him. Mavsar is not the same grappler Islam is. So we'll see.

I mostly want Mavsar to get his chance. I believe that there should be some level of meritocracy in this sport. Mavsar has done enough. Mavsar is undefeated and deserves a chance to put him. And if he can't prove it, then we never have to do it again. Yep. But sometimes you got to eat your vegetables.

I think we're going to. No one will like it. It will sell three paper views to people outside of Australia or hardcore fans. That's okay. How dare you? You just got to do it. Mobstar deserves it. I know deserve doesn't exist in the sport.

I would like it to in this. I do. And I really like folk to win that fight. maybe I'll watch tape and I'll feel differently but that feels like a good matchup for Volt Yeah I mean Volk says he wants to be active Be a good fight for New Orleans man that could be the main event You'd do uh pourier hallway BMFL's co-main event wouldn't be terrible

I'd take it thanks Spencer Uh Trump and Moscow night's it to the early stoppage cost EGA 50K IOWW was Woodson about to be finished even though he was getting up It was a comeback finish too I think What do you mean comeback finish?

I don't know about that part I think was up to 2018 on all three of the judge of score cards was not a comeback

officially though the fight in my mind was competitive but officially he was not down I don't know I don't know

that it cost him 50K just because the other performance is above that like even that finish is not better than frankly the Dom Reyes

finished and Dom didn't get 50K, so probably didn't cost him 50K. It really did cost him any chance to get that because of the stoppage was poor and that really hurts your opportunities. Yeah. I don't know if it stopped to finish, right? Like if the finish was going to happen or not, like it is very possible that that was just going to be the end of it.

It didn't ultimately matter to the outcome. The fight was 100% going to be Dan Ege's at that point. It was just whether he got a cleaner stoppage or whether Sean Woodson was able to get up and work through it and lose a 3026. And so ultimately the outcome, the winner was not influenced, even if, you know, I didn't love the stoppage. I thought the stoppage was poor. Yeah, Woodson was losing the fight regardless.

So I don't think it cost them. And then kind of thinking back on just how the card played out in general, I would say even if Ege cleanly T-K-Oed Woodson, I still think it's like the fifth best finish of the card. Marco Tullio's. I did not see that one, so I can't speak to it. He beat the shit out of Treshaun Gore. Probably went way longer than it should have.

Julian Arosa, I mean, that was just kind of sad to watch, but he basically stopped Darren Elkins with an upkick. And Darren's just too tough for his own good. So that fight continued, he just took an absolute vicious beating, but started with a nasty upkick. There were just some decent performances. Ege is real good, man. Felt real confident Ege was going to win that fight.

I thought him being an underdog, especially at that price, was a no-brainer for me to take, and I'm glad I did. So what a performance. I thought Ege was going to knock him out in the first round, but third round works too. So, yeah.

I thought Sean Woodson was going to win that fight. Danny, he looked exceptional. Starved at points. certainly wasn't an easy fight, but I mean, the gates are kept. He manned the wall. Hey, Jed, this is critical Cameron. Hey, Jed, can I be your co-host on the Randy Brown

Nick Darby card? Nick Dalby? Sure. Those guys fighting? I don't know. I'll be enthusiastic about it, even though you're entitled to ask thinks it's a stinker, which it is. I don't, honestly, I don't know what card that is.

I assume that that's Vegas 107 or 6 or whatever. If that's the main event of a fight card, it can't be. That has, like that would be the worst thing I've ever heard. They're fighting UFC Kansas City. Oh, no, the rest of that card's probably not awful. And the main event of that, who refers to that as the Randy Brown Nick Dolby card?

That's the IMG Carlos Bratist card. You still called Psycho Cameron who refers to it as that. And no. That is the main card opener as it right the second. And I honestly don't know what the rest of that fight card looks like. That main event's sick. So I'll at least be excited about the main event.

I will tell you. In two weeks. Rest of the main card, Icermal Scariff, Andre Munez, Giga Chikaze, David O'Nama. Fun enough. The final fight of Anthony Smith's career against Ming Yang Zhang.

Also, I mean, we're sending Anthony Smith out on a stretcher, but fun. Of course, the main of any image, Ido, Gary versus college branches, but the fight that is going to warm your heart the most, Michelle Pereira versus Abu Shnagabazz. Yeah. I mean, that scratches you're right. Yeah. That's just going to be absolute lunacy.

Objectively, that car is poor, but it's kind of poor in the weird way I like things. It's more UFC Mexico and less UFC Vegas 105. Yeah, it's definitely less. be very fun. Apexie. Mostly there's just a lot of weird going on and I like a weird. Yeah. It's going to be a fun car.

I like a weird thing. That's a fun one. Thank you, Critical Cameron. What else we got? Thanks, Cameron. R.

40 is the UFC desperate for a star. I feel like they rushed Lopez into a title fight that Movesar should have gotten already. Also, John Silva versus Murphy. I mean, I don't, they're not desperate for a star because they have a star.

It's called the letters UFC and or Dana White. I don't think they rushed it. I just think that. Dale Lopez is more fun. And so obviously, if you have the choice as a promotion, pick the more fun guy. Look, I don't know that he's ready as a question that I don't know. He's 30. He's a grown-ass man.

He can get better because every fighter can get better, but it's not like he is new to fighting and just learning. Like, he's relatively new to the UFC. He's got a lot of miles. It's been around. I don't know that they rushed him. Volkinovsky's an all-time grade turned into great, performance and Diego took advantage of a fighter who has some limitations.

He could have done exactly the same thing to Mobstar have loved, and he may do so. We may in fact see that fight later this year. But I don't know that they care in general about stars. It seems like they kind of don't. If some happen, they would be cool with that. And they're not incentivized to let the most boring people win or compete.

But dang, and speaking of boring people, Lorone Murphy. I believe I mentioned it on this very, show. Gian Silva could make Lorone Murphy fun because he'd make anybody fun. I think you should not book that fight just because

Lorone Murphy is boring. And I'm sorry that this might hurt your feelings around because you're a very good fighter. I do not want to say you're not. The tweet you put out last week is 100% true. That was a great performance. Real fans will know how tactical and smart and brilliant.

Real fans make about 1% of people who watch this sport and buy pay pay per views, they don't pay the goddamn bills. Diego Lopez lost him off Sar, Evelwev, and one of those two dudes fought for a belt, and it wasn't the boring one. You are more boring than Evalve. You shouldn't get to fight someone fun like Jean-Silva. So I don't know what you do with Laurel Murphy. Mike, that's your business.

You do a, I don't remember what you did or not know this week, frankly. But Jean-Silver should get somebody cooler because he deserves that. So John Silva actually worked out really well because my original plan for him was after Yusuf Zalal dropped that stinker on Calvin Kater. I was like, well, now you're going to fight John Silver after he beats Melsig-Begh Beg-Dazarian. Like that's just the penalty and the price you're going to have to pay. I still want to see that fight. So I'm probably still going to go in that same direction and have John Silver just fight Yusuf Zalal. It's a damn good fight.

And again, kind of in the same position where although Yusuf Salal, very good since his comeback. Not the most exciting performance against Calvin Gator, especially that third round. So John Silva will, it's actually a really interesting fight, and John Civil will make sure that he will not be able to be on his bike in the third round like that either.

He will not. All right. Thank you, RS 40. Thanks, RS. Also, Jake's an absolute madman. Paid the bills tonight. Good website. Jake, just.

Jake. You must have paid Jake, we love you. I'm glad you're paying our bills tonight too. Yeah, so terrific. I get coffee for a month. I'm really,

really glad you had a good night because I think I did, but I have to look at my bank. I have to look at my betting slips. I didn't do I have a bad night, which is nice. But it would be nice to win because then I'd be on a little bit of a heater,

which is great because I'm down for the year pretty majorly. Yeah. So it would be nice to keep digging into that hole. Spencer, what a night, Wolf, Wolf, Lordsevahs of us,

terrifying man, who are the most intimidating fighters at 145 or below all time all time all time 145 or below i mean so like i think you have to say connor i kind of always thought connor stick was a little lame but it absolutely worked and certainly seemed to affect people so you and i mean he's got a highlight real of chaos so i think we probably deserves to be thrown into that conversation jose i think probably deserves Dude, Prime Jose was intimidating, not enough. Oh, I might die, though, we might die.

I might get my leg enough. You're right, I'll never forget your eye if I've ever been like, my leg didn't work for like a year after that fight. Like, it's just like, oh, I might physically be damaged forever. I think he, I might be making this up, but I don't think I am. I have to look it up. There's like a quote where your eyes like, I had a bruised sternum for like two years from a flying knee that he caught in the chest from Jose.

So Jose gets in there. Connor gets in there. Ilya would have got in there, but then he bailed. So, like, I just don't think he can be. Because, like, if Ilya had fought Volk and beat him tonight or whatever, or fought Diego Lopez and beat him tonight, like, we would be in the, like, this is one of the best fighters in the world. Look at him.

He's sword. Now, like, maybe he still gets that at lightweight. Certainly could happen, but he did not have enough of a run at featherweight. Max is too likable to be intimidating in that way. Alex is also not intimidating in that same way. Obviously amazing, not in the same way. Jeremy Stevens caught some shit, legitimately was an intimidating puncher,

but not really an intimidating fighter. I'm trying to think who are like really intimidating feather weights or lighter. Oh, Figgie. For sure, Figgie Smalls. Figg is a good one. Yep. for sure Davis and Figurato that's good

there weren't really a lot of intimidating bantam weights out there yeah that's good Figgy's Figgy's I'm trying to think Bannam weights Figgy is the one at flyweight of like intimidating I would say maybe Jan

at a time there was a little window where he had that sort of new gen fade or yeah or a to him again John Dodson was too happy but man that dude crack yeah uh oh um

give me a second john leniker i would say i would say john linnaker got got that sauce to him yeah i'm sure that there are a couple of other people that i'm just like missing is just all time like holy shit that dude but i think that's a pretty decent list off the top of my head yeah pretty solid thank you spencer john silver doing doing a good job of working his way into that room though certainly chase dom reis versus eury two first one was fun as all hell i don't want to do it i don't either hate it yeah i'm kind of in the same boat i thought

dominic gras was actually killed in the octagon that night i mean the thing is he was having success until he wasn't and that is the yri prehashka story oh i was winning until holy shit i was super not winning unless you're alex in which case you were always winning but i think the fight would go the same way, but it was very fun and I would absolutely line up and watch it again. That was my knockout of the year and fight of the year that year. Yeah, it was wild. I don't think those are wrong choices.

Yeah, neither them won, but. I say, I don't remember what I voted for that year, but those are good choices. I think I was overruled by, maybe he was Gachie Chandler that year. Oh, and yeah, that was like, and I didn't even think that was that great of a fight. It was a good fight.

It wasn't like the best fight. I don't think I voted Gachy Chandler that year because, like, I know that that's Chandler's fourth fight of the year now, but like that one feels like by far the weakest of his fight of the years, which is a fucking banana statement, by the way. That feels like the worst of your fight of the

years. Nobody else gets to have them except for you and that's the least good one. It's a banana's thing to say about a fighter. Terrence, Colby and Mike equals Dana White privilege gone wrong, expired milk. I don't know. Colby might get him a little batty gun boy. Who fuck knows?

Do Kobe Covington, Mike Chandler? Who cares? Fine. Dude, throw Colby in there with Patty. I mean, geez. Oh, my God. That would be so bad. That would be a tough. I also think Patty would probably win that fight.

Yeah. Well, like, God, that would be such a waste of everyone's time. Anything else? Steven. ESPN put a graphic up that fighting nerds are 19 and O. How many other gyms have had this run in a success to start? Who's the girl from fighting nerds? There's a girl at the gym who is like lost, but whatever.

That's cool stat if it's true. Yeah. Pretty good. So you do see this with gyms from time to time. 190 is a very, very good run and the way they've done it with a unique branding. But like the city kickboxing launch into the MMA culture was basically Dan Hooker, Alex, Izzy. And like they all went in bananas to start their careers as well. You kind of can get this.

It is a uniquely cool thing about the sport. We don't ever talk about it. no real reason to talk about it. But Jack Slack mentioned this. Shout at Jack Slack on his podcast. Kriene Silva lies a loss. Yeah. I was like,

Kreni Silva. I was like, there is a girl there and has lost. So I don't think that's true. But okay. But Jack Slack mentioned this like a few months ago as the fighting nerds really picked up steam. One of the really cool things about this sport is that it's still in a place where

just like a group of random dudes. some corner of the world can figure out fighting. Like they can figure out the current meta game. They can have some talented people who are just in there working really hard and come up with something that is unique and different. And we saw that with the Abdueminaup. Like out of nowhere, Abduemnaup and the Eagle fight team were just like, hey, they threw so many people that you can't have, like not everyone's going to win.

But there's like, hey, here's Islam and Habib and Umar and Usman. You've never heard of these people until right now and they're they're all the best or whatever. Like they're going to go on these insane runs because they figured out cage wrestling in a way nobody had ever figured out before. You can get these sorts of developments from little niche teams, city kickboxing. You mentioned really, really figured out how to kind of port MM like true kickboxing skills into MMA. And the fighting nerds seem to have done something like that right now. It'll be the test to see how they go as they move up the rankings as they're starting to really get in there. But it is one of the things I do love, you will always have American Top Team.

You will always have AKA. You will always have these big stalwart bastion people. But there is nothing stopping Drickus Duplessi and a couple of random South African dudes who mostly aren't good. Like the rest of that gym is mostly not good. They're okay. But it's just like a couple of dudes in South Africa, figure it out. And it's really, really cool thing. And I really love the fighting nerd story.

It's pretty fun. Burden in Brazil has also wrapped fighting nerds as well. Yeah. Lots of fights. That's why that didn't feel right. But maybe if you're just doing male fighters, then sure. Yeah, I heard the title fight with one win in two years, trash. He didn't get in a title fight.

No, not now. Not Diego losing. He didn't get in it. Diego losing, he killed them. I genuinely, Giann Silva is close to a title fight. but the yai year is they're they're not rushing to rebook volk versus yai year too that fight was deeply uncompetitive all right we're at a rifle through the rest of these look at these two talking about patty like he's a real contender now looks like he is though what a world yeah man

hey credit to him he earned it yeah he sure did anything else lord silver may be a rabid demon but he's our lord from don davis he is our lord shout out don don davis getting a shout out from Juliana Pena, the 316 presser as well. Volk beating Diego after getting knocked up by Teporia, reminds me of Aldo beating Edgar after getting knocked up by Connor. It's all, it is deeply similar. Like, he's an all time great. And all past him into Jose Aldo and not a knock on Volcanowski.

Yep. Like he is, and like he is one of the most technically proficient fighters that's ever happened in the sport. All time great. Thank you, Jesse. Exceptional performance. All right, anything else? We've got one more super chat at least because Jake.

You guys are so negative and hate the UFC. Jake is just funding us forever. I'll never be negative again if Jake keeps firing out. I think that this is tongue in cheek because we've been very positive tonight. Yeah. And everyone says we're negative. And I have tried really hard this year to be less negative. It's very hard when they're giving you a lot of negative things.

But this was not a night for that. It was a night great performances, great fights. a really good time tonight, man. Yeah, listen. Listen, at the end of the day, if you want, go watch the UFC post fight show if you want nothing about positivity.

You want the truth, we'll tell you the truth. We won't even negative about anything to that. Yeah, really. The funny, honestly, dude, the funniest things,

the funniest thing that I got from all that was like, oh, you guys are so negative, talk about Vegas 105, and they were like, dude, UFC 314 fucking rules.

It's a gray card. It's like, what? You guys are so, you guys are overselling this card. Okunovsky's got knocked on two straight fights and he's in the main event. He's fighting Diego Lopez who doesn't deserve a title shot. What a joke of a website you guys are.

I'm just like, well, give me a fucking break. Which one do you want? You want negative? You want positive? Like we're trying to, come on. This is a great card. Three-fifteen. It's a good.

Look at the goddamn performance from him too. Kansas City's going to be fun. I do think. Kansas is going to be fun. Des Moines is going to be fun. Corey Sandhagan and Davis and Vigorato. That's a really good fight. It's a really good fight.

It's a great fight. It might be. It might be my most anticipated fight on the calendar right now. Yeah, it's a good one. And then we got Blah Mahoman in Jack Delamadalina, which is super interesting. The fall of that's going to be wild. UFC 315 is really good MMA and it might be boring, but it's really good MMA. Yeah, and no one's going to watch it.

But we'll be there. We'll be there and it will be good MMA. Yes. It will be elite world-class fighting that might not be that interesting. It sure will. And you guys have been elite all night long. for sticking with us. We've got one more that popped in for more boy, Jake.

All right, throw it up real quick. It's very easy. It's very quick. Just one through it real quick. Then we'll get out of here. Case is playing us off from what I understand. I ain't here. But it's,

Jake says so tongue, so cheap. Confirming that he was not calling this negative. There it is. I'm having good time. My man, Jake. Jake. Appreciate you.

Jake, appreciate all of you. You guys are the best. I believe the presser is still going on right now. So you'll get to hear from Diego Lopez. Maybe you'll hear from Alexander Bolkinovsky. I'm not sure if Dana White's up there, but you guys rock. Thank you so much.

We appreciate you. Have a good night, everybody. Love y'all.