MMA Fighting - UFC 328 Post-Fight Show: Reaction To Sean Strickland Shocking Khamzat Chimaev To Regain Title

Episode Date: May 10, 2026

Sean Strickland is a two-time UFC world champion, and he did it with another massive upset win in the challenger spot. Strickland handed Khamzat Chimaev his first ever loss, regaining the middleweight title in the main event of UFC 328. And now, where in the world does this division go? Following a memorable UFC 328 event, MMA Fighting's Mike Heck and Jed Meshew react to Strickland's stunning victory, how the fight played out, biggest surprises, and who gets first crack at Strickland in this new title reign. Additionally, they discuss Joshua Van's knockout win over Tatsuro Taira to defend the flyweight title and if the stoppage was too soon, big decision wins for Alexander Volkov and Sean Brady, bonus winners, Dana White's press conference, and much more. 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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How we do it, everybody? How we feeling? I'm feeling confused, Michael. I'm very confused about everything that went down today. Not unhappy. It's confused. Confused. Confused. not mad we're not upset I actually had a fairly good time this evening I would say we're talking about this little off there I think this didn't quite live up to the expectations of the card overall

that's kind of always going to be the case the main event was a little weird ultimately very not a bad fight but definitely a curious one and it leads down a bunch of funny roads frankly of like what the hell just happened but you know we didn't end with some like super barn burner the co-main event was awesome

to kind of not that like important significant fights but not that interesting and the main card opener so the main card probably was like overall letdown even if it wasn't bad but we had very high expectations probably came in a little lunder but i still had a very good time i'm mostly just trying to process what that was yeah so the victory horn sound for Sean Strickland. He is a two-time middle-weight champion wins the fight

48-47-48-47-47-47-48 split decision win over Hamzla Chamaif gets it done like we talked about one of the weirdest fights I've ever seen the first round was very much what a lot of people expected. I felt so smart and the first round was like I called it

exactly right and then I was never right again. Yeah. And then Hamza didn't shoot, Hamza didn't shoot another well, he didn't shoot a take down in the second round, but it was a lazy shot. Strickland ended up getting on top. He basically pulled guard off it. Yeah, and then pulled guard, which again, like saying that sentence into a live

microphone, Hamzaa Chamaa pulled guard is bananas. Super weird. And then round three happens. And to me, at least in my eyes, I thought Hamzaa Chimae if outstruck Sean Strickland to win round three. none of the judges agreed No

judges were unanimous in every round except for the last which is curious because that did not feel like a round that should have been a swing round but yeah and then round four was clearly Hamzaat Shamaif and then round five was kind of up in the air but I thought Shamiya won round three

so three rounds to two or four rounds to one for Hamzat just kind of seemed like that's what was happening but not a robbery none of that Sean Shirkland goes out there gets somehow the fight he wanted and crazy like just

I'm just baffled by it and I see people in the chat they're like exactly what I said was going to happen no you don't think you are so full of shit it is not even funny that you predicted that fight to happen I don't believe you

even if you threw out a receipt into social media you are you made it right now like it's an AI version of your receipt. seat. No one expected this fight. Nobody. Nobody in the world. If you predicted Sean Strickland was going to win, that's cool. But there's no way you expected those 25 minutes to go like that. I'm trying to think of a more baffling 25 minute fight than what I just watched,

where like nothing I expected happened. Yeah. And it's, the thing is, I think we all could have expected. And a lot of people did talk about this being a possibility of like, but it was always contingent on well strickland's going to stuff takedowns and then this happens but he didn't he stuffed some like it's not like got took down and taken down every time but i think tomorrow was like nine of 12 on takedowns or something like he didn't shoot in rounds three or four and i am interested to see if he ever speaks about it if maybe because he looked super gassed in the second round he did i thought he was i thought he was done because he didn't do anything And it's not like Sean made him tired, but he, I thought he might actually just be done.

Instead, he seemed to be fine, and he just kept fighting. And it's weird. I want to watch it back. A lot of people are very confident that Sean won three rounds. I don't, I think Sean could have won three rounds. The people who are confident strongly suggest to me that they have ulterior motives in their confidence. So I want to go back and watch it because Hamza was obviously advancing the whole time. Sean kept jabbing.

they were both bleeding profusely from the nose, and I felt like Hamzaa was landing the more powerful strikes, but I can't, not 100% sure. And I was just so, I was just not at all the fight I expected from Tremayev, because it did seem like he willingly engaged in a fight that Sean Strickland would have preferred for a big chunk of the middle portion.

And then in the end, like you said, the fifth round ended up being the swing round, the judges agreed in whole on the first four. The judges split on the fifth round, which I think seems wrong. That round felt very clearly a strong Strickland round to me. And so it's just the last time Sean Strickland did this, we were not here, we were spiritually here,

and we spent the whole time laughing because it was so funny that he beat Israel Dissina. Well, he floored him and then just like, and then just beat the shit over 25 minutes. Yeah. And this time I was just like, I don't know who's winning. I don't know what's going on.

This isn't what, what's happening. And I, I can't wait to find out more from them. I would love to, I will hear what Sean Strickland says about the fight and what he felt in there. Because Sean was very confident he won.

Yeah, Sean, apparently was rightly so. I mean, he did in fact get the W. I've mentioned to see how the internet split. I saw a lot of Strickland scorecards, but again, and I don't have a single issue with them. I think two of those rounds felt to me very swinging.

I just, I thought if Sean would win, it would both look like that and not look like that. And so it's very, very, still trying to process what their shit was going on because Sean Strickland lost quite convincingly to Drickus Duplessi, who lost quite convincing to Hamzaa Shemayev, who just lost middleweight's weird man is weird

so I get like again if you're just joining us welcome to the post show Hamza Shamiyaf just lost the middleweight title to Sean Strickland in a very weird fight split decision I again I have to

I'm with you I have to go back and probably rewatch tomorrow no no sound no nothing it was just such a strange fight I scored it for Shami watching it live. Again, I'm with you. No robbery. This is totally fine. Not at all robbery. I gave Hamza 1-1-3-4, Strickland 2. I thought should conclude you on the fifth round. Third round's up in the air. But again, it kind of depends on what you, what you favor. Do you favor a guy landing some jabs and moving backwards?

And, you know, good amount of jobs. Apparently, you landed a lot. I remember at one point, we were watching it. and the stats showed him landing way more strikes and I thought was accurate. And one, I just never really trust the stat numbers in general. But like I said, it is also, we always say this, it is definitely a little bit more difficult to feel like massively confident while we're doing this.

Other things are happening. But that just was so weird, Mike. Yeah. But, I mean, ultimately, credit to Sean Strickland, credit to Eric Nixik and company. They are two-time middleweight champions. I don't know where Hamzaa Chmaiv goes from this. Does he just go to 205?

Does Strickland fight Imov? Does he fight DDP who has two wins over him? Like what... I don't know what happened or what's going to happen. I am left befuddled. I think the biggest loser tonight was Nasredine Imov. I hope that's not true. I feel like he is not getting the next fight.

I feel like Hamza Tchamayev has a better shot of getting a rematch than Nasor Dene Mavov has a shot of fighting for the belt right now. It's a bummer that I have to say that. But there's just no way after seeing the buzz this fight got, the business that it did, the closest of the fight, and the emotions on both sides of the fence. They could run it back,

which would I, you know my feelings. immediate rematches. It's silly. I hate them the most. Imovov should have gotten the shot before Sean Strickland if we're living in a fair and in just world, but we know the world we're living in. We're living in the, let's put butts in seats, let's get people to watch. Sean Strickland is exactly who the UFC wants.

This is the guy for the fan base of the UFC is trying to grab. Sean Strickland is the face of that fan base. That's who they want to trot out there. I ask you, Jen Mishu. We can talk about the fight all we want. It was a weird one. Was this the better result for the UFC? No, I think the better result for the UFC is how much of my winning.

Why is that? Especially if you'd won, like, if he'd come with the decision there, I think they probably sit them down like you're not going to 205, not off that performance. You got to stay, you got to fight EMOVov. I think it's not a bad outcome for Strong Strickland to win. They're obviously happy to be in the Strong Strickland business. as you said, super popular guy.

They like that. He will fight frequently. It is always a little bit better for the UFC if somebody holds a belt for a little bit of time. And I think it's pretty unlikely that Sean Strickland retains his title for long. DDP's right there. Eamov has a pretty good chance against him.

Sean could beat himov off too, but like, Sean Strickland appears to have he's better when nobody believes in him energy. And so I think he'll probably dump the belt back and then you've got a little bit more turnover. They had been so invested in Shemayev. And I thought that there was a chance we were on a way to the best case scenario for the UFC, which is, okay, Chimayev wins, but it's competitive enough that we say,

stick around a little bit more. Let's let light heavyweight and call us Ulberg and everything that's going on out there. Let's let that settle a little bit more. And you put a couple of defenses down here. So let's fight Imov again. and or not again, let's fight Imov and maybe you fight a Joe Piper. Now I guess they do have opportunities because they can kind of throw anybody they want in there, but it is, I think it would be better for Tremaya, but it's not a disaster for them, certainly.

Of course not. But yeah, it's always going to be weird to have a champion who has two losses to the number one contender. In any situation, that will be a weird thing, and that's what we have right now. Yeah, I mean, we'll see what else they book in. middleway. We'll see where Nasda Dean fits in all of this. I, God, man, Nasdaed hate Sean Strickland. Like, there is, I believe that that's not a fake heat. Yeah. If you want like, honestly, if you want like legitimate heat, like, Nasradi and Imovov would probably fight Sean Strickland in the street. Like,

you probably would. I believe that. Like, that's kind of where he's at right now. So can they build that? I don't know. I mean, they should be able to. They're the UFC. They can put a video package together to boost some excitement. But I see a lot of people in there in here being like, oh, Hamzat's getting no chance. He should go to the back of the line. I don't think you understand what the UFC is right now. They are, they're not a meritocracy. And if we look at this, to me, the more interesting. 50-50 chance they rematch that immediately. Oh, yeah. I actually it's like 55, 45, 45, because it's the biggest fight you can make in the division right now is them running it back.

There's nothing bigger than that they can make right now, unless Pereira drops back down or something. Like, you got not, there's nothing bigger than rebooking this rematch because even the fan, because again, the UFC does not care about the hardcore fans. They are going to try to attract the new fan base, throw those two dudes out there, say in the shit they were saying to each other. You could do it again. So it could be Joe Piper too.

could be Joe Piper getting it in Philly if Sean wants to turn around that quick. I'd, we're in a way place. I will be astonished with Joe Piper. I think it is 50-50 chance of a Hamzad immediate rematch versus a national new Mimov gets Shickland.

Or, because again, like, something else too, but it could. Nothing got announced. I think it, yeah, I think it's just going to, my guess is right now I'll go 55 for Imov because it won't stun me if Hamzai gets it back, but,

there is a little bit of we pulled the curtain back on this all week Dana White's out here saying this is one of the third this is the third greatest rivalry of all time and then before the fight they touched glove multiple times at the end hums up puts the belt on Sean Strickland gives him a hug and a kiss and actually it's

every we we know I'm not we don't need to relitigate that yeah but they they peeled the entire time but they peeled the curtain back on this kind of being a fake rivalry and so booking an immediate rematch maybe loses some heat whereas imov hates him and they can immediately have a real hot thing against with a guy who just absolutely deserves it and so my guess is we get imov shickland next and i don't know if chamaev you know a lot was made while we were doing our watch party uh go back and watch that a lot was made of like okay people all day people have been talking about homilip didn't make weight and then it's silly i think he obviously made weight but

he definitely had a bad weight cut. People were suggesting, maybe rightly, I don't know that, like, he gassed in the second round because of a really bad weight cut. I think that's totally possible. He had already been talking about maybe moving to 205, so maybe Chimae have just, you know, Poetons.

It was like, oh, I lost the belt. I'll just go up to 205 now. And he fight, instead of fighting for the belt immediately, he fights Paulo Costa. They have a long running rivalry. He probably should just go to 205. I was thing like he can just go, if he just goes to 205,

fight Policosta right now and that's probably a number one contend to fight it at a light heavy weight and so maybe that's what ends up happening all of it is so strange it's all so i at no point in time considered that before this fight that hamzach may have might be going to two o five having dropped the belt and it's it's weird times man last thing and then we'll kind to move on. My brain is still a little fried by what we watched. Weird is the clear definition of that fight. I think anything else is just wrong. But let's take that word out of it. We can only go with two words. Actually, I'm just going to go, I'm going to go with this. True or false? That was a good fight. True. Okay. I don't think it was a great fight. I don't think anybody would

claim so, but, and it's, it's a fight that I'm going to watch again because I just kind of want to see and learn. It's not, like, it's not one of the fights of the year. It just, it certainly wasn't a bad fight, right? Like, there were swings. The first round was all Chimae of. The second round, Strickland took over. Chameyve came back in the third, apparently didn't as much as we thought he did, based on the judging score card. Fourth round, like, it's, it's a, by most definitions, good, not great fight. Certainly some people were probably a little bit bored because it was also a classic Chelm Strickland fight.

Not a lot of like rear hand punches. A lot of jabs, uh, some body shots, some takedowns. Decent fight. Not great, but good. Well, it was a really good fight. Was the co-main event. Terrific fight. Best fight of the night by

a lot. One of the better ones of the year. Really good fight. Joshua Van, still the flyway champion. He knocks out Tetsu-Rotira in round Is that fifth round? In round five. However you feel about the stoppage, I think the finish was coming anyways.

I still think the stoppage was a little early. And... Wait, what? What? There's Sean Strickland. He has arrived at the post show. There you have it. The new Middle-A champion.

No title belt. Oh, there it is. There's the title belt. I was like, where's the frigging title belt? Sean Shookon is the champion. His nose is it looks like a whole other human being. I refuse to believe that because I have it on good authority

that Hamza Tchamai have did no damage to him. That's what people in the chat have told me. Yeah, exactly. Hamza did nothing. Absolutely no damage to that. Oh, my God. His nose is almost certainly a little broken. His whole face is effed up.

Yeah, they both just jabbed each other a whole lot in the face. Yeah. There are a lot of shots at Lannett. but Josh Van Tetsurtsa I rocked. I mean, exceeded expectations to me again, but still kind of a weird fight because Tyra had such a great first round, had moments on the feet too,

but then did this thing where he just kept his hands at his shins. And Josh Van punched him in the face a whole bunch of times. But still, really fun fight. And Josh Van is still the flyway champion. and now there's only one direction to go, even though Josh Van kind of fumbled the call out. There's just no other direction. We're getting the pants rematch,

and I gotta tell you, just being a purist of the sport, one of the five fights I have to see right now is Van Pantosia too, doing it for real. Yeah, man. That fight was awesome. At some point we'll get him running it back. It doesn't need to be sooner immediately,

but that fight was super fun. I full credit to Joshua Van, who Tyra, I mean, honestly, Tyra had the same sort of first round that Jemayev did. Like, he was winning the striking exchanges. He scored a takedown.

He got dominant position and was just, I was like, man, Tyra looks the best he's ever looked in that first round. Ron did a lot better in the second round. And then by the end of it, floored him with the right hand when Tyra got a little too lackadaisical, maybe near the end.

third round was really, really putting it on him and had him in some serious trouble. And I don't know where Tyra was just kind of like yolos it and starts swinging back and Vaughn stops pressing and then Tyra finishes the round getting a top position and we're getting these back and four swings. We talked about a lot on the watch party. I didn't love the stoppage.

I don't think that stoppage is one of the ten worst stoppages of all time. I do think in a title fight that's that close, you had already seen Tyra overcome very bad circumstances earlier to have success. I think you give him every opportunity he can. But I also ultimately, I don't think it mattered because at that point, Tyra was going to lose the fight. It's not like he was going to overcome. I think there was a really good chance that Vaughn actually might have just gotten

more of a emphatic finish there that was coming. Tira immediately was upset. Again, I think he has reason to feel like he got an opportunity a little bit taken away, but it's ultimately not going to matter. He'll go back. Flyweight's really tough right now, so I don't know. He's going to have to get some wins of really good dudes,

but I'm really confident at some point, whether it's for a belt or not, those two dudes are going to fight. In the meantime, Vaughn sucks at the mic. We should probably just not let him speak into one, but I don't really care about that. Him versus Pantosia in a real fight,

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After getting hit in the face for the 5,000th time, it was a lot. He just kept getting jabbed. Tyra is getting punched in his face as a bloody mask because he's just been jabbed up and had right hands all day. And he hits them with the Larry Moe and Curley. I was like, buddy, instead of doing this, what if you just keep them right there? just put him right there. And Hamza Jemai did a great job of keeping his hands up.

Go work with him, Tataru, because he doesn't have head movement. Maybe that'll come, but mostly he really needs to just not have his hands by his knees. He's not getting punched in the knees, Mike. Keep his hands up. Oh, my God. He was just getting lit up, man. I was going to say, I'm really excited to rewatch that fight and see stuff that I may have missed. It felt to me, like Von didn't go, didn't really do a lot of body work.

which has been a calling card of his until the fifth round. And as soon as he started doing it, like the sequence that ultimately finished the fight was him hurting Tyra to the body. And so I don't know why he didn't do that a little earlier, but I mean, he's 24 years old. I have him as the best flyweight on Earth because it was a valid win over Pentoshan, even if it's weird.

I don't know if he is like the best flyweight on Earth, right? but at 24 years old he's basically miniature max holloway and that's pretty awesome we have bonuses Jedd okay I'm 100% certain of Von and Tower won five of the night

yes I think Danny even told him in the cage like you guys are getting under day yeah totally fair man they can't I refuse to believe they would have done it so we're looking for are two performance bonuses. I'm going to look at the old results here to remind myself what happened.

I don't think King Green got one because they love to not give King Green bonuses. So that's funny. It sucks for him, but I hope. I don't think they did it because why would they be good? Yarrislav Amosov. Yes. Oh, totally deserved. I'm really glad they did that.

I think I honestly, Yaroslav Amosov had the best performance in the entire night, my opinion. I guess this is, he dummy Joel Alvarez. I mean, he was the,

it was great. So I'm totally cool with that. Best performance of the night. That's sick. I love that they did that. I maintained during the thing that they're going to give it to Basangor,

Sursa Kai, if Jimmy Suss, because they like Jimmy Suss and he put a man to sleep and they care for that. He did not. Okay. Jim Miller?

Yes. Yeah, we're totally okay. with Jimbo getting him? A table, Gotea killed a man with one punch. Yeah,

but he was a minus 1,400 favorite. I think you probably shouldn't get a performance bonus if you're a minus 1400. Yeah, Jimmy Susses probably shouldn't have gotten the bonus. I'm totally fine with him giving it. Jim Miller.

I just thought he's the guy they like and he slept a dude so they tend to favor that, but that's dope. I love that. I think those are good choices. Yeah. King Green,

I would have probably over Jim Miller, but not upset about it. Yeah, I mean... Yeah. Jim Miller is a very big underdog Amazon getting one is I'm thrilled because I have newfound faith

he mighty mouse him it was awesome he threw him in the air and jerked him it was great we'll get to the peeps we're not going to be here super duper long I think Dana's actually speaking with the media right now good win for Josh Van

we already talked about that he'll fight pants Tyra will be interesting to see AK and I will talk about where he goes they go to Japan and he fights Kioji Horrochi and Japan. When those are dry against Scott?

Correct. Because that won't be until the end of the year anyway. So you go in the fall, they go back to Japan for the first time. I don't think that's actually going to happen. That's what I want to happen in my heart and soul. Yeah. I mean, I'll just give it away. I'm going Vinnie Siggs.

I think that's fine too. Is he Tyra Vinny Sigs? I think it makes sense. Because Tyra, I mean, Siggs is going to bring some things to the table that he can take advantage of after watching this fight. He is a very good striker and he's a better striker than Tetsu Retire is. Obviously the ground game is not as strong.

The get-up game may not be as strong. Very winnable fight for Tyrod about that. But Vinnie Siggs, let us not forget. Vinnie Siggs gave, Vinnie Siggs, if he didn't give the fight away in round five, would be the flyway champion in the world. And like just allowed himself to get taken down in round five.

Totally okay with that fight. So I think we could learn some lessons from that one. so but fly it's awesome man we get a big win for Alexander Bolkoff over Walter Cortez Acosta good for him sure sure was sure not gonna be

fighting for the belt anytime soon but you know you're fighting Josh Hokit that's I mean maybe Derek Lewis again if Derek Lewis pulls off yeah he's getting a very funny upset but you're probably fighting Josh Oket next more than likely

I would bet a lot of money on that quite frank Sean Brady obliterates Joaquin Buckley just not competitive in any way, shape or form. Not for one second was that like competitive. Genuinely the story of that fight is there was

a massive amount of line movement that ended up being nothing because Brady just ran right over. The line movement should it looked like it should have gone the opposite direction. Yeah, again, I don't know if anybody asked Brady about it. That's still just super weird, but that fight looked like I thought that fight would look, which good because a lot of the other fights I was incorrect in my assessment of

but that one was one where I was like I kind of think I watched walking Buckley get taken down a million times by Kamar Usman until Usman got tired in the fifth round and Sean Brady is going to do that and that's exactly what happened. Yeah, I mean just pure dominance. Just a lopsided, as lopsided as you can possibly get in a fight that's not stopped. So good bounceback win for Sean Brady really needed that one. We talked about King Green. He started up.

He's going to fight in Philly. Oh, and King Green. Yeah. I was sick. It was great. I mean, he's a big favorite. It's a weird fight. It's Jeremy Stevens.

But he gave a good post fight. He always does. It's King Green. Then he begged for the bonus and didn't get it. He didn't, to be fair. He really mostly just complained that they never give him a bonus. He should have definitely got one. Which is better than be like, can I get a bonus?

But he was like, dude, they didn't give me a bonus. When I knocked out Daniel's L. where they don't ever give me a bonus. Yeah. And then they also didn't give him a bonus tonight. Which is wild, man. Yeah. And you probably could have given it to him over Jim Miller,

but who's going to be upset when Jim Miller gets a bonus? Or, you know, you're a billion-dollar company. You could have just given all of them bonuses. Yes. I genuinely am opposed to performance bonuses. I think you give a bonus for Friday the night and all the finished bonuses that they do do now instead of them 25. They're all just 100K.

Incinivized people are finished fights. finishes from Gotei, Amossoff, Dawson, and Jim Miller. The middle prelims were sick. And those were the ones where I thought we might get a lot of, everybody thought of Tabor Goteer was going to finish. But I thought the rest of those were very likely to be, like competitive, interesting fights,

but maybe some snoozers and they were all heaters. Roman Coppulov, Marco Tullio was a fun fight. Very fun fight. And also one of the fights that I actually predicted pretty well. I was like, I think Koppelov is being undervalued right now. Yeah. He lost to two very good guys and Tullio's never beaten anybody. And I was like, well, I'm stupid for the very, for the first five minutes,

it's like, oh, Jed, you're dumb. And then he suddenly dropped Tullio in the fight change. So couldn't you? Pat Sabatini, William Gomi, is a fight that happened. Sure did. Pat Cappetini won that fight. So good on him. We mentioned Jimmy Suss.

He did. He did. He did. He finishes Jordan Santos. and a kind of a fight that happened until it was over. Sirsukhyev, man. He's got so much talent. He's got a very interesting UFC career.

He's got so much. I have Baha'iahe vibes from him so badly right now. That is a great comp because, like, he obviously changed with Hamza. Everybody expects big things. He's been given very favorable matchups. And he has, McCavs, that's a perfect comp, right? Because he has finished everybody. and in every one of those fights

you're like, this hasn't looked like we thought it would. George Santos is like, not really UFC caliber. He was thumping him up a little bit in that fight. Yeah, like he was probably never really at risk of losing the fight,

but the whole time he were also just like, dude, you're by far better than him on the ground. Why are we doing the striking thing? And the minute he was like, I'm going to score a takedown. He moved to the back and choked him unconscious. He feels like he may be a little bit high on his own supply, you know, a little bit, I'm God's gift and I can do whatever I want.

And he's, he's not as talented or as physical as Tremaya was, who could kind of do that shit. So he's, he's flying a little too close to the sun. I think eventually it's going to get him burnt. He just hasn't faced the level of competition that's going to get him there. Yeah. He's got a lot of, he's got to want to hurt people too. Yeah.

I mean, put a dude to sleep, and that's great, but we can see him try to hurt people. Yeah, it's... That was the thing about Makayev that it, like, annoyed us. The thing about Mikef is he had... He was the worst about that. He had the most electric debut, too. He was the first fight of UFC London.

Just flying, he just need Cody Dirt into an oblivion, and then tapped him. And then from there was, didn't want to hurt anybody, snuck out of submission. So I even, I worry about Sirskaya, because he's so talented. I just don't want to see him go down that same rabbit

because I'm convinced that McConnell-Oyev will never, ever fight in the UFC again. I think they're just done with him. They gave him a shot and they're just like, okay, we're fine. Like, we've done this and we don't need him anymore and hopefully Sir Shkiaf

can start wanting to hurt some people. And then Jose Ochoa. Really good performance for him. Yeah, man. Clayton Carpenter, to quote the great Jim Ross, tougher than a $2 steak. He got his ass beat. all over that damn cage and ochoo looked uh about as good as he could have looked in this fight so good on him uh daniel cormier comparing him to carlos prattis was certainly a choice but uh

i did that's tough tiffany just saw carliss fight recently and that's what's at top of mind yeah yeah it uh that was the one that was the one fight on this card i was like i'm not i also did this sabitini go me when i was like i'm not going to do that's not going to be i was like i'm not going going to do a lot of research. Joseo Chow had a tough run, but talented dude, Clayton Carpenter, had been all right. And I, I hope, I just looked great. So really good start.

Like a really good start to the car. We, I thought, I, I enjoyed, look, the Pat Sabatini William Ganyi, the less we talk about that, the better. Everything else I felt was quite strong on the prelims. Main card bit up and down, but hit or miss. Ultimately, I had a pretty good time.

not the, it didn't quite live up to the three-star expectations. You know, if you go to a three-star Michelin restaurant, you're expecting to be wowed. It's probably didn't quite get us there, but I would still say I had a very positive time this evening. And a ton of stuff that I'm going to keep thinking about because like, I'm going to go back tomorrow. I'm going to watch the main event. I'm going to watch the co-main event for sure. Probably not going to watch Volgao Woldo Costa. Probably good on that one.

But I'm absolutely going to watch the main and co-main event just to get a vibe. on them again. I'll probably watch King Green, Jeremy Stevens, because it's just fun. Yeah. So good, you know, the expectations were A, A, plus. I think we got B, B plus. Not bad. Not a bad night at the office, especially now that we're not dropping 80 bucks for these. If I spent $80 on that, I'd be a little bit more upset, I think. Yeah, I think other people would be too. $9.99 for whatever. I don't remember what I'm like that. I think I paid $30 to the yearly, but yeah, I had totally fine with that. Some notes from Dana White. Okay.

From Aaron Bronson. Shout out, Aaron. King Green will get his own custom shorts in lieu of earning a bonus. He says that Green deserves a ton of credit for facing Stevens despite the weight miss. And when they were determining the bonuses, they took into account the quality of opponents. Sounds like Jeremy Stevens' days are numbered. Yeah, and that is sort of the thing. I do feel like sometimes they take into account, but they don't always take into account.

quality opponent. I just wish somebody would follow up with Dana and be like, can question, can King Green eat his shorts? Because I bet if you ask King Green, he would prefer 100K to custom fight shorts. Yes. Well, he's getting 25 and custom fight shorts.

That's true. I guess he'd prefer 75K and custom fight shorts because the company is too cheap ass to give 125K to knock up bonuses. It's so nuts. Dana White scored the fight for. for Sean Strickland. And even heading into the fifth round, gave the fifth round of Sean,

scored it. The heavyway fight for Waldo Cortez-A Costa. Oh, apparently, Chimae have approached Dana and asked him about moving up. Dana said him moving up is exciting. Numbers tonight are monstrous, but White House will be bigger. Of course.

That's obvious. White on whether Rousey Corona will eclipse the White House numbers, declines to answer and says he loves Rhonda and Gina wishes them well. It's 100% going to. It's going to smash the one else. He could have lied, but like everyone would know it will lie.

And that's not a... But again, let's just be clear. If the UFC White House car was on Netflix, it would do better numbers than Ronda Gino. But it's not... So it's not going to do those numbers. For sure. And that's what it comes down to.

The White House card is the better fight card by a billion miles now that I think about it. Then MVP? Like, MVP's got names and they brought on like good young fighters. who are going to murder some people on that card. And you're going to get Pumi Nakuta, Adrian Marais, a super interesting fight, just in general. But the Netflix numbers are just,

they're going to smash the White House. Like, it's going to be the biggest MMA event of all time in terms of numbers. But, I mean, to say, but that does not mean that the MVP card is better than the White House card. It's not also. Also not remotely close. Yeah. It's not even close.

Not even close. He heard about the swing in the, Buckley Brady betting line all afternoon says that because of the numbers, it didn't surprise him there was a big live movement in the fight. UFC was not aware that Grant Dawson's wife had a miscarriage earlier this week. That was the really sad thing. Yeah. I like Grant Dawson a lot.

He's one of the people that I was interviewing well before he's in the UFC. So really sad to hear. I can't imagine what him and his wife are going through. So, yeah, really tough news. no deal done with Connor McGregor. Still confident that McGregor is going to fight this year, more confident than he was last year. That's why we didn't get the announcement.

That's why we didn't get there, not said. If you allowed this is going to be easy, never is. It never is. We got no announcements, which I'm really shocked by. Really shocked by. Shemai said he wants to move up to light heavyweight. So there you go. It's going up to 2.5.

And he's going to fight Paul. I got to tell you, he's fighting Paul Costa a billion percent. I don't know if it'll be for a number of people, but he's 100%. Interimbella of the real. If Paulo hasn't already started tweeting, that man is about to be tweeting gourmet chinchin 500 times.

Yeah. Dana said he was so concerned about the Strickland Shemai of Way and he didn't even think about any sort of incident with Josh Hokit. A kid on stage yesterday was screaming his name from the crowd, so Dana invited him up.

Kid told him it was the best day of his life. I wasn't wondering that kid was. Yeah, everyone was like, is that some? I was like, okay, well. Is he promoting Fury Joshua? Quote, let's see what happens. White asks if he ever lies about these sorts of things. I mean, I love whoever asked that, but like...

No, Dana said that. Oh. Do I ever lie about these things? I thought somebody asks, like, yeah, which is irony at its finest. You constantly say untruths. Says White House will be the biggest viewing audience for any UFC events. Also very obviously true.

Yeah. The fucking ellipse, it's, see, it's like, 100,000. It's obviously going to be enormous. What else we got? Jim Miller's, that was the last fight on Jim Miller's deal, but you sign a five-fight extension.

If he fights out that extension, he will have 51 fights in the UFC. Crazy. So he's got four fights left thing, because this was 47. So you fight, because this was fight 47 for him. So if you add his five to that, this was 47. Okay, so the map is incorrect.

So 52 is the answer. No one for Spain, no day for Spade. Armand Serrigin, definitely a title contender. Don't ever go to Spain. Yeah, now we're getting to the point where, now we're getting to the point where media people are just asking questions to hear themselves talk. And now I'm out. I'm definitely out.

So there we go. If you guys are going to go watch or you can. Let's go to the super chatters and get out of here. Spencer, completely had a three, two, for boars, but not a robbery. that's that's we're both in the same boat as of again i'll rewatch and maybe i'll feel differently i 3-2 strickland is totally fine i think three to either side is fine yep i also would personally believe that a draw is fine a draw would also be fine with that first round being one of us i'm not a hundred percent certain which rules new jersey is operating under so maybe i would change it i

think they're i think you make an argument for 10-8 in the first round i think it should be based on like logic, but per the actual rules, I had no anticipation that anyone would score 10-8 for the first round, but I do think that that is you are able to do so based on the scoring criteria. Ron, 320 in the books, how are we feeling tonight? Did it underwhelm feel about right or exceeded expectations? It was strange but entertaining. I think felt about right.

Only because- A little underwhelmed, but it's not bad. Like, not like, oh, I'm disappointed, just... The man is just weird. The whole beef thing I didn't even take into account when... Them getting rid of it so quickly was pretty funny. They didn't even pretend like in the face house. They're both smiling and dapping each other up like five times.

I was like, okay, we just threw out all the pretend zones. Yeah, we didn't wait to the end for the... I even said like verbatim what Sean Strick was going to say on the microphone. He's a great guy. Chechchians are great fighters. He's the warrior. Yeah. Like verbat.

I went too hard. I'm sorry, guys. I should be a better role model. Oh, my God. He's a great fighter. Yeah. We're friends. God.

They were having steak dinner. Yes. I know that about it. Super quick Google, but the only fights are a bigger dog want to belt are Pena. Dude, he's Pena. I said it.

I said it immediately. T.J. Browow type. Sean's done it twice. Absolutely outrageous. Good for him, man. He's officially a UFC Hall of favor now. He is.

He is the middleweight Pena, which is, because his first one was this, like, epic, incredible upset win. And his second one is this like kind of weird split decision win. And he just is Giuliana Pena. Only their their kinds of annoying are very different.

They're very different types of annoying. He's Julianna Pena. It's wild. My biggest takeaway from tonight is that UFC 293 will be the greatest post-flight show we've ever had. It'll never be better. Nothing will ever eclipse. It's pretty tough to ever beat that. But funny, John Strickland, the only, well, I'm not going to say that.

There's still a chance. June 14th. God. You're of Our Lord 2026. We could have an even funnier post-fights. I have so much fun. If everything bad happened. If Justin Gachie knocks out of his story.

It will be one of the five best days in the history of him. Cyril gone 50-43ing Alex Pereira in a fight. No will ever rewatch. I think them going to a draw is funnier actually. Oh, okay. Because then Tom's back and he's like, well, what now? Avan's a hobby of alliterating. We do Tom Aspinall versus Volkov because they go to a draw and Derek Lewis

knocks out Josh Fulke. Even so how you destroying? I think that that would just be so funny if that happened. To count genuinely the biggest shocker of the whole week, Sean O'Malley getting zero questions at the White House press conference. Kyle Dawkins got two and Sean O'Malley got none. He sat there. He and Pete Diego Lopez.

just sat there doing nothing. Yep. That's pretty much what it was. Did Steve Garcia get a question? No way. I don't think Steve did either. Yeah, Steve. That's very, yeah.

And then what other funny moment? Kyle Doc is finishing Bo Nickel. That would add to it. That would be incredibly good. Lopez Garcia is just going to beat shit out of each other. There's no funny outcome. It's just fun. It's just a fun fight.

Is there a funny outcome? Is Derek Lewis? Derek Lewis is knocking out. Okay. It's absolutely hysterical. So there is a chance. that 293 could be eclips, but if you're ever bored, if you're ever feeling, once in a while I do this, if I'm feeling down in the dumps, I'll go back and redownload the 293

post-fight show because of how much we laughed after Sean Strickland thumped up Israel Asanae that night. And this isn't fair, but I do think that like a little bit of my feelings on this fight is that I was pretty confident, Shama was going to win. It was very confident. it. But I also knew that their Sean could win. We all knew how.

And even if maybe we didn't see it quite like that, the broad picture of that win is the same. Mostly keeps the fight on the feet. He outstrikes him, right? I thought that if that happened, we would get a, it would just be funny like it was last time. And we'd be like, dude, he just,

Chimaev just never took him down. And, but instead it, it, I'm not laughing in the same way. And so I think I'm a little bit sad. I had, if Sean was going to win, I thought it would be much funnier. And instead, it's just like, okay, what do we do now? Yeah. He's the Hall of Famer.

He's the champ. Is he going to stay the champ? What's going on? Super weird. Jake, what's your take on Sean's post-fight speech? But no idea apologized that he was selling the fight. I enjoy hate watching him. His scumbag behavior sells better than his fight style.

I mean, kind of touch on this. Not surprised at all. We literally told you that was going to happen. It was incredibly on-brand. the whole Sean Strickland experience is not for me. If it's for you, I'm totally fine for you to enjoy it. I actually prefer the post-fight John Strickland. I think that guy could be just as popular.

I don't know if you'd be just as popular, but you guys hear me talk about this in various ways. Mostly I just don't want to eat a lot of me. Like, just, I just, I don't, where you can say you can be terrible and I might not like that, but I'd like it better than you, being two different entities.

So he is. And I am even willing to, look, I've done combat sports. I've played a lot of very physical sports in my life. There's absolutely some part of like, you are a bit of a different person after you engage in strenuous, combative physical activity.

And you can just be like a little bit not as much of a dick because you just got a lot of testosterone emptied out. But like, it's, it is such clockwork of like, to the death, this guy sucks to, you know, more warrior. I'm sorry, Chechnya, you guys have got great fighters. And it's like, okay, I guess it's working. It's certainly working for him. But it, it just be the same person, man.

I think it'd be fine. Yeah. I mean, just literally the last like six fights he's been in have been exactly the same. All of them. And you know what? He's going to go fight Nasserdine or somebody else next. And it's going to be the same thing. People are going to fall for it.

And then although Nassadine, he'll put over Nassardine, but Nassadine ain't going to sit there and hug him before this fight. I can assure you that. There's real heat on the Eamov's side. And I think he was actually, because it was very obvious the whole time that Chimae have never hated, Sean.

I do think Sean actually worked himself up into genuinely being angry. Imov doesn't like that dude. So I don't know if they'll hug afterwards. I'm sure Sean would be like, I'm sorry for what I said, man. I don't know if hemova would be like, that's cool.

It'd be like eat shit. Yeah. Morning Wambach, we all agree, given the glove touches a mutual love, the Nixig brokered the scripted, the B for views and played all of us now. No.

Sean is Sean. like Sean knows how to talk himself into fights but Nixick the thing about Eric Nixick is he'll never get involved in the bullshit anyways even if Hamsat and Sean really truly hated each other Eric is still going to go up to Homsats is still going to shake Homsat's hand and Eric's talk to Hamsat since the fight was booked like he ain't fighting Hamsat so their relationship's going to say the same

like nothing's going to change there so no I don't think like Nixot's like hey guys you know it'll be really fun you guys can make a lot of money. I don't think Eric is broke with anything. I just think that's how Sean and Hamzaa are. They work buddies the whole time. And they had an understanding ahead of time. Dude, I'm going to say some pretty heinous shit.

Just be prepared, but I don't mean it, bro. Dude, it's, this is, Connor, I don't know if you guys know this. Connor McGregor and Nate Diaz really respect the piss out of each other. Oh, yeah. They are honestly probably some of the only fighters that either of them respect.

as very evident when they would do all of their shit. The rivalry changed the game. But you could tell the whole time that they were just like, okay, there's some stuff. This isn't all sunshine and roses, but like it was a deep well of respect there. More like most rivalries in this sport, there is a very clear monical of respect.

Like the ones that aren't are Habib and Connor and John and Daniel. And they just hate like, that's real life. Like that's real life. hate. Y'all have just, y'all are people. You've been around real life hate and fake hate. That's real, or like, hate versus rivalries. Most MMA rivalries are sporting rivalries. There is a real point of contention. We're fighting for something similar. You said something mean to me, but like, this isn't, I'm going to you until the day I die. Those, like, those are the rivalries where that's really like, I hate everything

about you as a person. Yeah. Those two rivalries are never be settled. Eventually, good to see Shail and Anderson are good buddies now. Yeah. There was real hatred there for a hot minute. Again, most of that hatred was Anderson. Yeah.

Hating him. Because he wasn't used to anybody disrespected him like that. Yeah, and that's sort of the thing with a real, like, a lot of rivalries in MMA are one-sided. Or like the animosity is one way. And then it's reciprocal because somebody's being, like, if you're being a dick to me,

I'm probably not going to be kind to you. Correct. But I don't have an inherent issue with you. Connor and Habib are just fundamentally different entities. Yep. And they, like they will never, those two are never going to get a,

I mean, it's not like a beep, drinks beer, they're never going to be here together. No. Daniel and John will hate each other forever because of who each other is. And like,

Hamza never hated Sean. I do think Sean worked himself into, but they could always patch this up. Yeah. There are very few inherently like impossible rivalries in the sport. This wasn't one of them. There. But they got to have some fun and everybody went along for the ride.

Yes. Spencer Boy. Tito and Ken also. Oh, yeah. That's genuine pretty. Those two dudes both hate the piss out of each other. I don't know if they've patched up in recent years. They did.

After their third fight when Tito beat him again, they were like. It's also really hard when you're like a 50-year-old man to carry that same sort of energy. But, yeah. I mean, Daniel and John will. Those two dudes will be hating each other. And Habibu always hate him. Yeah. Spencer loved the two title fights

I'm more happy to be wrong about two outcomes Sean is an enigma does he have the biggest two champ upsets put together in a career ever now I mean probably I mean I still would give it to Pena like if we're averaging them out for averaging them sure

it's pain yeah but like well the thing is there are extremely few fighters who have multiple championship wins you lose nine times out of ten you lose the belt that's it you know like so literally ballparking it there's probably like 12 fighters who have ever reclaimed a belt across any weight class in the UFC yeah strickland's only in the second middle way to do it so yeah second middle way to do it like it is such a rarity to reclaim a belt in general and then to reclaim a belt and be an underdog in both

fights most people reclaim belts probably were an underdog in the second fight they probably may or may not have been the first. So that's a real narrow window. So probably by default, he is it. All right. Last question. From Ryan, could Sean DDP 3 happen again? I think Sean won the first fight.

Also, where is the Connor announcement? I think Sean DDP could happen again. Certainly. DDP may be having a fight announced in the new future. If he wins that, Sean saws the belt. I think that's probably... Kind of have to do that. Especially if Chamaev's leaving.

That's probably very much in play. I think there's absolutely an argument for Sean to have won the first DDP fight. I think there's not a credible argument that he won the second. And I think a third fight will go extremely poorly for Sean, which sort of makes this weird that Sean has reclaimed the belt. And the counter announcement, I think we sort of touched on this. Dana said it as presser that they don't have a deal reached. I think that's why they, it, you, I'm sure you all have seen the rumors.

It feels like we are on the 15-yard line, but they have not reached an agreement, like a new deal with Connor or whatever agreement they need with Connor. And so hadn't happened yet. Yeah. I think this is a guy being a star and, oh, yeah, you're going to do this? Here I am.

I'm certain that whatever the sticking point is almost entirely of most of Conner's money came from pay-per-view that no longer exists. I won a flat X dollars. The U.S.C. says, best I can, they, they hit the old pawn stars, best I can do is 350. And Conner's like, I would like $50 million.

Best I can do is five. And then the UFC is like, fine, I'll give you that, but you have to sign for another invite. Correct. And he's like, no. I'm sure it's some sort of a monetary number. Yes. I also assume at this stage that we will get to there.

And that fight will be announced at some point in the near future. I mean, we are two and a half, we're a month and a half away from International Fight Week. Two months of tops, we have nothing. We have Cody Garbrandt versus Jay J. Giannas. We're almost two months away from IFW because IFW is thinking 11. And no main event. Yeah.

It's in the next two weeks, I think we'll get it. Six weeks is usually about the furthest out they let fight cards go without main event. So I think in six weeks we'll get it. We're going to get it this week. Like with the MVP, card coming up. Oh, that's fair. They might do that as a drop set on like a Wednesday or something. Oh, yeah, MVP, watch this. Bam.

This week, Dana's going to hit the old check my IG going live to announce some fights. Yeah. And then that evening he will announce some fights. Speaking of fights. BFL? BFL, fights. Fights.

They got to do it. Call them. I mean, I don't have to call them. My good friend John Martin L. Oh, is this? He knows. He knows what. I'm really, I don't have that. I can't hear the music, but it's almost two. I have an hour until I get home and we still have a ton of work to do. Yes, that damn scoundrel, AK, took the night off.

I missed a good night of fights. Yeah, solid. He didn't want to be here to see Sean Strickland become the ending. But if you're wondering, and I know some of you are, How is A.K. feeling about what happened tonight? What does he think about the future of Sean Strickland and Joshua Van? Well, the good news is we have a matchmaking show. I think it's one of the greatest shows ever in MMA.

The people love onto the next one. It's just fun. We could speculate. We all have different opinions. But A.K. is going to join us. Join me tomorrow. I think we're on 11 a.m. Eastern. And we're going to discuss where Sean Strickland, Joshua Van,

and Alexander Volkov and Sean Brady all. On and on we go with all of you guys. So we'll be live on the YouTube channel. We'll be on Twitter. We'll be on Twitch. And then if you miss it, then you can check it on the podcast network. We're out of here for Jed.

I am Mike Eck. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Good night, everybody. And by the way, happy Mother's Day to all the moms out there. Happy Mother's Day. We're out of here.

Love y'all. King Green versus Michael Chandler. That's my honor. No, Pitt. Winner gets Connor McGregor. Hell yeah. You know, Thank you.