MMA Fighting - UFC Baku Post-Fight Show | REACTION To Rafael Fiziev's Highlight-Reel Knockout Of Manuel Torres

Episode Date: June 27, 2026

Rafael Fiziev sent a reminder to UFC fans, and the rest of the lightweight division after a sensational knockout victory over surging contender Manuel Torres in the main event of Saturday's UFC Baku card. Now that Fiziev is back on track, what makes sense for him, and how do you think the new UFC Meta Ranking structure will reward him? Following the UFC Fight Night card, MMA Fighting's Mike Heck — along with a guest appearance from Alexander K. Lee — reacts to the event as a whole, Fiziev's spectacular performance, his callout for the BMF title, and what fights make sense. Additionally, they discuss some of the weirder moments on the card, another rough day for Herb Dean, Shara Bullet's win over Michel Pereira in the co-main event, and much more. Follow Mike Heck: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@m_heckjr⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Follow Alexander K. Lee: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@AlexanderKLee⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ 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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The victory horns at 3.20 p.m. Eastern Time. It's a beautiful thing. when that happens and they sound for Rafael Fazeve how about it front of a home crowd in Baku Aizir Baijan first round very competitive with Manuel Torres looked like Torres made us might have stole a little bit of momentum with the the closing round shot there that hard jab got Fiziv's attention round two Fiziv comes out like a man possessed Spinning wheel kick, vicious ground and pound, and Raphael Fiziv with an emotional victory, gets back on track, two-fight skid.

No more. Big win for Raphael Fiziv. Then he called for a shot at the BMF title. We'll see how you guys feel about that. And perhaps a special guest will join me as well. But I am Ikech. Welcome to the UFC Baku post-fight show. What a weird card that was.

I mean, it just... It's hard to explain because the prelims were actually pretty fun. The first fight of the card was one of the worst fights I've ever seen in my entire life with one of the most questionable stoppages I've seen

in quite some time. And then we got real fun, right? Like, Matsumoto and Amalekon was sick. Then we had De Niel Donchenko's awesome knockout, Khan Offley with the first round submission, Nersalta Rutsabayev choking out Andrei Pulaev

And that photo, if you haven't seen the photo that Jeff Vatari of Getty and the UFC posted, it's on my Twitter. It's the most insane photo you'll ever see. It's crazy. But what a finish for Nersault and Ruzabai F, first round submission.

And then Abdul Rahman, Yakiyaev, eight second knockout of Julius Walker. Michael Bisbing was ready to throw him into a title shot. Maybe we'd pump It breaks a little bit after beating Julius Walker. He's not a bad fighter, but I mean, come on now. And then we got a little, then we got a little weird with Hosinoff and Eric Nolan kind of halted some momentum. That was not a fun fight.

And then the main card pops up and we got a nice finish from a boost bagelmaidoff, a dominant win from Icram Alaskaroff. Asu al-Mabayev with a Sulu of stretch. Crazy. Mateus Camillo with a wild first-round knockout, big upset. Nobody really saw that coming against Zizim Satikoff, at least anybody that I saw. There's probably some smart people out there watching this right now. Then we had a co-main event that was just terrible in a lot of respects between Sharra Bullitt and Michelle Pereira. And then we were capped off with Raphael Zeev, just obliterating Manuel Torres.

What a fight, man. What a fight at the end. What a performance for Zeev. The reaction was great. He needed that so, so badly. And kind of put a stamp on things because that's true. Charabot, Michelle Pereira fight put us in a, in a tough spot. I'm sure if Zeeves getting a bonus for that.

But lightweight is just fun. It's just such a fun division. Manuel Torres is still super fun. Like, it's probably not going to fight for a belt. He's a little, I'm not saying like it's impossible, but I think he's 31, 32 years old. At Lightway, it's very difficult to get there anyways, not just because of the congestion,

but because of the talent. It's the best division overall in the sport, pound for pound. And you got guys like Viziv who are still there who have just fought everybody. Like it's so hard to move forward in this division because eventually you're going to run into these guys who have fought everybody. Like people look at Viziv and there's all these questions about him, but we have to truly look at the losses here. Two of these losses were to Justin Gage who is the current champion of the world. And then on top of that, Marisha Ruffie, who is, your time. timing child is unbelievable. Go ahead. Go ahead. Every time I want to show or doing something,

the child's come in and get ice. Knows it's coming, knows it's happening. He's just smiled at me, but anyways. And then the other one else was to Bruce your refuse, just an absolute demon in this weight class. So great win for for Zeeve. I mean, I don't hate the BMF call out. Like why not? Just just get after it, really. He's not going to get that fight. I have to think about who he's going to get, but he's not getting Charles Olivera, that's for sure, unless Oliver just is no longer the champion.

He fights for, like, the lightweight belt or some share of the lightweight belt. But, yeah, it's just a great win. It's just so needed. Torres will be back. He'll just be in a bunch of heaters and all good. I mean, just just a crazy way to end the event. Sharra Bullitt, Michelle Pereira, golly, man.

What are we doing here? Can we please stop? Can we stop with Sharra Bull of co-main events? Like, enough's enough. I think we've done enough of this. They're not really that entertaining. They tried to squash match him here. They tried to get him in there and have a moment.

And then he gets obliterated in the first round. And then Sharra Bullitt cheats his ass off. He's grabbing. Pereira's hair over and over again. Good old Herb Dean. It's just like, hey, can you, can you please tone it down on the hair pulls? And then he pulls it again. I'm telling you, don't pull his hair again.

We're going to have issues. And then he pulls it again. And he stops the action and says, I'm going to take a point if you do it again. He pulls his hair three times after getting hurt. Like a minute before that. by Michelle Pereira. Doesn't do anything. Blatent hair pulling.

Like grabbing his hair and it's not like an accidental hand grab. This is a dude like who's using the back of his head and a hair pull to get extra momentum. And no point taken. Herb Dean has been so bad lately. Just so, so bad.

And then we got an eye poke in the third round and still nothing happened. It's just so. bad. It's such a bad fight. Good for Sharr, getting the win, I guess, but he's going to gain nothing from this. He's not going to fight for a belt. He can't even fight really outside

of that region of the world. It's not like to come to the U.S. and fight. Like, what do you do with him? I truly don't know what to do with Char a bullet. I don't know. He's going to be the most interesting pick on to the next one, but that was such a forgettable fight outside of the first couple of minutes

where Pereira got a knock down. I'm like, oh my God, he's going to do it. And then Michelle Pereira came in and we got all sorts of middleweighty. No more Sharabolo Co-Main events. No more. I think we're done with this. And Herb Dean was just atrocious. Just absolutely awful.

Great win for Mateus Camillo. That was nasty. At first, I didn't love the stoppage because, only because it's Nazim Sadikoff. Like, if this was a tour, this is a guy like making his debut or it was a second or third fight in the UFC, I wouldn't have had like, I would have like no issue with it, but I'm just like, Satikoff, like, he's one of those dudes that actually gets better when he's hurt.

When you hurt him, he actually improves. His damage bar doesn't go down, it goes up. Like, he's just one of those guys who's able to bounce back so quickly. But I understand, like, after watching the replays from different angles and talking to people I respect, I'm like, okay, I don't love it. I did not love the stoppage. I hated it last. I guess I hated it less the more I looked at it. The way he felt was not good.

He kind of shelled up. He really didn't defend all that well. But it is Nizem Staticoff. Like literally a year before this, he was in one of the craziest fights you will ever see. One of the fights of the year last year. And he was hurt multiple times in that fight. And he got no chance here.

So I was a little confused by that. But again, not the worst stoppage you've ever seen. But what a win for Mateus Camille, man. guy needed that one badly now he woke some people up that he silenced the entire arena like pretty wild what a performance from him and again just another example of why 155 pounds is the best division in the sport out of nowhere you never know what can happen what a performance i don't know if we have bonuses yet i will let you know when we get them uh let's shout out the MVP of the event in my opinion asu al mabayev holy cow man

look, I understand that we did have an eight second knockout, and that is, that's great. And that would probably be in consideration. That's going to get a bonus. It would be in consideration for the MVP of the event, but it's Osu El Mabayev, man. What a performance. It is so, it's so difficult to do that to anybody in the UFC at 125 pounds. To do it to a guy like Charles Johnson was unbelievable. And he might have been the MVP of the event for me, even if he didn't get the finish he

got. He just looked so good in this fight. He dominated Charles Johnson. Charles had nothing for him. You don't see anybody do that to him. And he just dominated from pillar to post. And then the Suluweb stretch. And he looked for it the whole way. This wasn't like an accident, wasn't anything that Charles fell into by mistake. Asu, like, worked for this thing while Charles was still standing on his feet, started working on it. And then it was just nasty. The angle of it, just kind of an unfortunate image for Charles the way he had to go out and tap and he just had no choice at that point but man that that performance was just like all right this guy this guy's gonna fight for the belt like he's that good wasn't completely sold after the metal cop fight maybe he's ready

for these for these spots i would like to see him in a co-main event of a big card i know they try to hit to throw him in a main event at the the world's most famous apex he fought men cop he got nuked in that fight but let's give him a big one let's put him on a big card in like a co-main spot and see how he does because he to me this is if if if if we're talking like rising basically like start from where you started to where you ended in this card no one rose higher in my eyes than i so i'm a buy i always thought he was a good fighter always thought he had top five potential this to me was just like okay this it's not potential He is one of the five best fly weights in the world, and he is going to fight for the belt.

The problem is he called for the title shot, and I was just bad timing. You got to go out there and get a couple more wins under your belt. You're not leapfrogging pants. You're certainly not leapfrogging Minel Cop who already knocked you out. You got to be a little more strategic. Tyro would have been a great callout. Hey, Tatura, let's go. Brandon Moreno, wouldn't have hated that either.

There are other names he could have called that would have made a lot more sense. He was supposed to fight Brandon earlier this year. Could have ran that one back, or at least it rebooked it. But what a performance, man. I mean, it was just so impressive. So, so, so impressive. Icrum Alaskaroff. Hold on.

We're going to have a special guest joining us in a matter of seconds. Let me just get the link over. to him. He is ready to rock. We'll get hit, we'll start basically with his opinion of the main event and what we saw from Raphael Fiziv and what we saw of the card as a whole. And then we'll eventually get get you guys in here and we'll chat it up and and get on out of here. But ladies and gentlemen, it is an honor and a privilege to bring in my best friend. Alexander Kaylee, aka you were the tag. Wait, my best friend. My best friend. Did someone, my best friend, did someone say I

I'm Al-Scarrov. I thought I heard the words, I was minding my own business. I was just at home doing nothing, watching a lovely Toronto tempo game. And then I was like, my ears started buzzing. Someone talked about Icrum Al-Scarov? And then I tuned into the show. And I'm like, I mess. I'm like, Mike, let me in. Let me in, Mike. Had to give you the hot tag. I want to talk about Iqrum. Yeah, I was the Marty Genetti of the group just getting battered out here. Now we had to tag in

Sean to get us over the top and the big win over the, over the Orient Express, AK, or what other bad guy tag teams were there in that era? The Twin Towers, Power and Glory, name them. We were the rockers in this situation. But AK, Raphael Fazeve, is he back back? I mean, was he ever gone? I don't think he was gone. I think, you know, he had a lot of hype because, you know, good start to his UFC career.

And the Ashimae fight in the past, we always talked about, oh, he didn't. well against Shemaya, if he did well against Shemaiah, he got knocked out, but he did well against Shemayev. And then he kind of got rushed in the Robert Whitaker fight. But I think, I don't know if I, I don't remember if I picked Wittaker. I feel like I picked Whitaker. I could be wrong. You guys have a record of my predictions on M.Afighting.com. But I don't feel like it was unanimous that we're all like, oh, he's just going to run through

Whitaker. I feel like there's a lot of people in the media probably smarter than me that were like, yeah, you know, Rob's still a lot too much for this guy. Because outside of that, outside of that fight, he's looked pretty good. And I think he's as advertised. He's got a lot of power, sure. But he knows how to mix some martial arts. He did quite a bit of that today.

So, yeah, I like Alice Carver a lot. I think he's for real. Like, I actually think he is someone who not, you know, let's give him some time. And he is a actual contender at 185. I see it. Well, I mean, I did, I get it. And we're going to get to Alaskarraf from a minute. But Fazeve, I mean, is Fizziv back back?

Oh, I'm sorry. I was, I'm here to talk about Alaskar. It's okay. You're an Alaskaroff watch. I understand. I thought we're, I was actually trying to time it. with when you got to Yakyaev. And then I realized that's probably a bit further down.

Yeah. But, you know, people, people want your opinion on Fiziv too. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Right, Fizzi, I'm so sorry. By the way, well, this happened on multiple shows. I swear, I did this. I noticed that Jed, like, twice. I think Jen was asking me about something, and I was like,

Paulo Costa, and he was like, I was asking you. I did not mention Paul Acosta. So I need to get my act together. But Fiziv is like back. But again, he was almost in that Peodor-Yon situation where, yeah, it looked. bad, you know, you need to win fights. Four out of five, certainly not a good

look. But right, two were against Gaitchi, with a roofie in there, the injury to Gamrod. So there was like an asterisk next to some of these losses. It's not good. It's not good if you're like coming up short against the best of the division, for sure. But I never felt like, oh man,

like he is now the guy for all these younger fighters to just kind of come and take his spot. I still view him as someone who can give all these guys we mentioned a tough fight. Like, but the Gateschi fights were tough, right? So, yes, he's back as in, like, I think he needed a highlight. I think he needed, like, a real highlight. Like, the Bahamando's win was impressive, but, like,

he really need to smoke somebody. And the way he did it in this one, and then saying afterwards, like, man, my eye was messed up. So I just decided the second round, I'm just going to come out spinning and see what happens. And it's why we love this guy, man, you know, he faces tough opponents, does know who goes away. But he's going to go out swinging, swinging and spinning. And this was beautiful. So check, he is back.

Yeah, what a performance. He's not getting to BMF title shot here, but I don't care. Go win another one and maybe you'll get it, you know? It's hard to get into that spot. Again, unless, you know, they give Oliver like an interim title fight or of some kind or something while they wait for Gachy to come back and fight if they just want to get a title fight on the books since they loaded up some of these other cards so quickly. So, yeah, lightweight rocks, man.

I mean, that's always the answer to these questions, that lightweight rocks. and Fiziv just with a reminder to the folks out there who are counting him out. Yeah, kind of going back to the Alaskara fight, like, dude is good. Like back in the heck of a morning days, I was like, dude, the UFC needs to put this guy in here. And then they put him on contender series. And I was like, what are you doing? Like, this guy should not be on contender series.

He's better. He's a ranked fighter right now. He's one of the 15 best middle weights in the world right now. And you're making him fight on contend. Ender series. And then, yeah, he got the Whitaker fight and he got absolutely run over in that one. But he's bounced back nicely. I was impressed with this win.

I thought he was just going to run the F over Bruno Ferreira, like finish him in the first round. And I think outside of Fiziv, I think he needed that moment in this fight more than anybody else in the card and didn't get it. While it was a great performance, I'm getting Ancolaev vibes here. And again, like, it's not an insult to say that because Uncle I have, like we were all saying, yeah, this guy is not fighting for the belt, but he's probably the best guy in the division. I'm not saying Alaskarraf is the best guy in the division, but I'm getting those vibes like,

dude, this guy's real good, but it might be a really long time for the UFC pulls the trigger on him getting a title fight. This performance as good as it was, not going to get you the Israel-Ad-Sanias of the world. He's, Abuz probably has a... a better shot of getting got a sonya fight than than alaskarraf has right now. As a matter of fact, I'm breaking news. I'm giving away an auto pick right now. It's not even lazy booking.

Let's just do Iqram versus Abuse and the winner gets busy. Like, let's just do that. You know what I mean? Even though Izzy's going to fight Bo Nickle anyways, he may lose to Bo Nickle, but those two dudes just one of them has to go away and then the other one can go up.

I actually like that piece of business right there, but yeah, Alaskaroff's nasty, needed to see a little bit more tonight to really give him the big push. And I think you're right. And I think that's okay that, you know, he's not in their championship talks right now. He's not a young man, but he's not super old. I feel like he's in the private career. He can wait a year, two or three more fights, like really, you know, to really impress.

Because, yeah, that is what Inc alive had to do. Like, he just had to win and keep winning and keep winning forever until there was no one left and he had to get the title shot. And so that could be a crimson day. It could be a six, seven, eight fight win streak. He's on three straight now, you know, beating good competition. right muniz took good competition iron turtle uh bruno ferreira all guys that i think he was supposed to beat i'm pretty sure he was favored in all these but nevertheless taking care of business um i don't know

of anyone on today's card i know you said asu maybe osu i don't know if anyone today's card really like increased their chances of being a title contender someday well i mean there's one guy we can talk about him later but and that's okay i never felt like going into this card that that was sort of the point of what this was this was a card that had again a lot of um like a handful of asurbaijani fighters, definitely fighters that are sort of closer to the region that would have a fan base here. And I think, you know, in that aspect, of course, because even the main event, I think of that aspect it delivered. So, yeah, I'm not really that worried about like, ah, what do these wins mean for some of these guys

and their championship hopes? Like, I don't think that, I think that's like a secondary concern for this card. Yeah, it's just kind of a card that happened. It was good to be in front of a crowd, get that energy levels up after the apex card last week. so yeah it was good it's just when you go from an al cop in keochie horaguchi like such a heater like that in an apex in the apex and then we go to azurbaijan that crouch is on fire for freaking everything man it was it was awesome but it comes it comes nasty let's see what he can do a boost might be like the perfect opponent for him to like get him that big finish and get because i'd pick it kikram pretty

comfortably in that fight but you never know a boost might go out there and do some damage but middleweight getting healthier and healthier as we go on. And then we mention a boost goes out there and beats Michael Alexeychuk. And I was like, man, if Miguel can get out of that first round, he's got a really good chance here. And he didn't. He just, he got a boost. He got run over by the boost. And, uh, yeah, good win for a boost. And then we had the the prelim sandwich with, uh, yeah, that fight happened. Bread.

I mean, golly. The first fight of the prelims was a disaster. One of the worst fights I've ever seen with one of those stoppages I've seen in time and then the uh the farm on has enough eric nolan fight was just like man what are we doing here probably just the featured prelim should be in the ufc i would have oh golly that was just that was tough and then he's like i'm coming i promise you i promise you guys don't no no no i'm not lying i'm coming he said so many times he said it so many times it's it's not going to happen uh let's talk about your guy okay you want to talk about abdul rock bottom yucky i have uh eight second knockout this to me

I don't know man I feel like we're we're on the overreaction train just a just a hair here I mean no the guy is obviously very talented he's 10 and 0 he's a big finisher

he's something that very few in this division are he's fun he's very fun he likes to finish fights quickly there is definitely a wonderful foundation

to build off of here but can we please put this in the perspective AK. No. Yeah. Oh, no. I'm going to do it. You can. You can. I'm not going to come with you. You can put in perspective. My perspective is completely skewed on this. Okay. Alik Lorenz was his contender series win.

It was built up for that moment to happen. Who's the hooter? Who's that? Exactly. 30 second win is exactly what they tried to do. Uh-huh. They gave him Rafael Cirqueira for his UFC debut. Yep. Probably if there's like 50 middle, 50 light heavyweights, he's ranked 49th. And then they went to Brentson Ribero, who, yeah, probably the 47th best guy in the division, runs his ass over. And then we go to Julius Walker, who, like, look, I like Julius Walker.

He's a nice guy. He's got a great personality on the Twitter. He got over because he took a fight on short notice against Alonzo Meadowfield and won the fight of the night. and was somewhat competitive in that fight. And then he beats Rafael Cirqueira, a name we just mentioned, AK. And then they put him in there with Dustin Jacoby. We were like, why?

What are we doing here? And then they tossed him in there with the, if we knew this is going to happen. Eight seconds we couldn't have predicted, but I probably would have taken a sprinkle on fight ends in first minute here. Like, that's where we are. But Michael Bisbing is ready to give him a title fight

and anoint him into the Hall of Fame. Like, he was just like, this is the best prize. prospect at all of MMA. And I, you know, look, I don't get Alex Serra vibes here. I don't get Armin Sarukian vibes here. I get why people are excited about him, but it's Julius Walker, man. I like the guy, but he's like the 40th best guy in the division of 50 at best in this division.

I don't know if I'd favor Julius Walker against Alec Lorenz, if I'm being perfectly honest. Jeez, Louise. But, you know, you're right. I like Julius. I think, again, we all like Julius. He's a gamer, man. He's a gamer, he doesn't book the fights, right? It's like he's volunteered.

He's had a, it's February of last year. What a, what did my math here? 14, 16 months? What a 16 months has been for this young man, going from his like sixth pro fight to four UFC fights. Yeah, it's getting thrown in there with an absolute killer. No, Mike, we need to just like jump in on these things and just be like, yeah, all in. I hope the meta rankings have you a guy of like number six on like Tuesday.

I'm really excited to see how these merit-based rankings work because obviously I assume there's some algorithm and like just winning three UFC fights against anybody and like no matter how fast you do it is not going to break. He better not be ranked. I will throw it. I'm really. You know what? Thank you. I have because this is like a stress test for the meta AI rankings.

I really want to see how much these wins mean because obviously I'm with you Mike. He's not, I don't think I'd, well, this division does suck. Um, well, I have in my top of D next time I do it. ranking. No, he'd have to go above guys like, are you looking at the current rankings? I'm looking at my own ranking. Okay, let me look. Yeah, yes. I'm sorry. All right. So let me redo the meta rankings right now. Okay.

That's the meta ranking. This is the meta UFC rankings. It's Pereira, Uncle I have, Yuri, Paul Costa, Jamal Hill at 5, Khalil Roundtree, Dominic Reyes, Vulcan Ozedimir, Merzikonov, Bogdan, Gooskopf. That's the top 10. Then it's Jacoby, Navajo Sterling, who finished like the, 17th or 18th best dude in his last fight. Then Alonzo Menafield,

Johnny Walker, Jan Blahovic. See, Jan should not be that low. I think this was kind of spurring this up. Jan should not be that low. Johnny shouldn't even be in the rankings, nor should Alex Pereira be in the rankings because they're not even in the division anymore. This is true.

And Rockich is in there? Rockets is out. Rockets is out. I'll give them credit for this. So far from what I can glean from the rankings, like they're not great, But like I think inactivity is punished. I believe if like fighters haven't fought in like a year,

it looks like they just kind of take them out. And that's not like the craziest thing. And if the system, like we said, is working like it's supposed to, I mean, Jan technically has not won a fight since 2022. So I get it. Like I'm not, I'm just playing devil's advocate here. I'm not siding with the robots people. I'm not signing of the robots.

But I'm saying, is there some sort of consistency? Is there some sort of system? I don't know. I'll have to look closer. But if it is like severely punishing, not just. an activity, but lack of wins regardless of who your competition is. I guess that's how you end up with this because I think Fizib is also. Fizier was not ranked heading in the meta ranking.

Yeah, he had won just one fight in the last, his last five fights. So there's some method here. Again, I don't think rankings should be strictly math based or results based. I think you have to count who the opposition is. But that's what makes Yuki Aev so interesting. So based on what we're seeing here, Mike, will Yakaiyev have a number next to his name come Tuesday? No. You don't think so?

No, you can't. Do you think it calculates like speed of finishes and stuff like that? I mean, it might. Right? I mean, to some degree, that would just be ridiculous. That would just be ridiculous. He shouldn't be higher than, again, like I said, but if you remove- Than any of these guys.

But if you remove Walker and you remove, who else you say shouldn't be in there? You remove- Pereira. Pereira. This is a spot? You know, there could be a spot, right? Would you rank him above, would you rank him above like Kuchelaba? Yeah, please, is he in the media ranking? No, but.

I'm neither. Oh, but I, well, just in my own rankings. I will. I have him behind Kutalaba right now in my own ranking. This is not updated up from today. I have, uh, Rak, Yaki, I have a 22 Kuchelaba at 21. Would you rank him above Modestis Bukascus? That's, okay.

So that's what I say is my range. So I have, who I have at 18 right now. Okay. I have Jacob. I have Jacobi at 16, Modestis at 15, Alonza Menafield 14. So when I rank him above any of those guys, I don't think I can yet, right? Okay. Would you rank him above Iwo Baranuski?

Oh. Oh, no, I don't think I can't because I think I have I wo. Because they basically, I mean, if we're being fair here, if we're being fair. Yes. We're looking. And obviously, I'm very excited about EO and obviously he was in my fantasy team. He's probably going to remain there. But like very similar records in the UFC.

Like Iwo probably has like a little bit of a better run. Yeah. But not by much. No. I actually have. Especially junior Tafa stepping in on short notice to fight the last fight. So like that's a good. Yeah.

So maybe this is. But he shouldn't get in before EW. I don't know. I already had. So I already have EW at 23. So I already have one step ahead of him. So yes. So I'm already ranking him instead of.

Yeah. Yeah. So yes. Of course he would still be. But top of team. wouldn't crack mine yet like you said level of competition

is a little too sketch but am I believer that this guy is like the next week thing at 205 I'm all in Mike I'm all in love me some yakaya

must see TV does someone on our fantasy team have him no way he wasn't traffic no you might you might get him though okay but like I think

like I would rank like I think Uran Sultabathev is that how you pronounce it Satabaldiav Saltebaldiyev Salty Baldiyev I think that dude

is better than probably both of these guys that we're talking about right now. Really? He's so good. He just doesn't fight that often. It's kind of a bummer, but he's super good. Who was his one loss? He fought someone good, right? That's what he went up to heavyweight.

He took, he took his debut at heavyweight on like a few days dotus. Yeah. The great Martin Boudai. Okay. So we don't even count that. We don't even count that. I mean, nobody beats Martin Boudai for being fair. And that's not good enough to keep in the UFC.

But yeah, I mean, honestly, like, when it comes to the rankings, Fiziv is like a great test. Right? Because he had entered the fight on the two-fights skid, knocked out of the rankings altogether. I thought strength of schedule had like big meaning, and he's got a pretty sick strength of schedule. They had Torres ranked 13, which and him not ranked in the meta rankings,

which I find crazy. Like, I wonder where my litmus says, is where does Fiziv end up on this list on Tuesday? Interesting. That's what I want to see. So they have. He should be 11 in my. Yeah, I would rank him above Dan Hooker.

You can't rank him above Ruffie. But like, should Patty Pimblit be ranked above Raphael Fiziv? Should Kill and Saul Killed be ranked above Raphael Fiziv? Oh, they will be. They probably will be. No, they will be. Yeah, they will be because those guys are both in the top 10. And I don't think you can give Fiziv a top 10 spot.

I think he'll end up, surely he'll end up ahead as they have number 12 Tom Nolan right now. Surely he's he should be ahead of Tom Nolan. Maybe Dan Hooker. They give him number 11 over Dan Hooker? The inactivity? Punish for inactivity, maybe. Yeah, but again, like Dan, Dan has been out that long. No, I mean, Raquel Pennington's got dropped like 15 spots and arguably like she didn't lose the belt.

Oh, she's still a lot of people's eyes. Okay. Interesting. Yeah. Julietta Pena is still number four, by the way. It's a brave new world. Yeah. Well, that's weird. Isn't that weird?

Yeah, that's a weird one. There's some weird stuff in the rankings. Joachim Buckley is ranked higher than Kamaru who spent at Walterweight. Did you know that? What? It's true story. Joaquin Buckel is ranked higher than Kamar Uspin. In the meta.

In the meta rankings. Okay, I guess because he's leaving the division. But that's... But meta should account for that. The meta should shouldn't rank him at all at Welterweight then. If they're going to do that. Right. That's weird.

But he also, like, in his most recent fight, he 50, 45ed Wachim Buckley. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. If you're going to have them both at Welterweight, either Uspan has to be higher or if you think he's going to middle... If you're like counting him as a middleweight, you just take him out of Walterweight entirely. Because that seems like what they've done with some people. I think they've Robert Whitaker

Oh no no they didn't take about yet No they did Yeah Whitaker's out of the middle way right I guess he also doesn't want to fight in a while Okay all right we've got to dig in it's been a minute Sorry guys we're trying to figure this We're all in this great new world like Yeah we're all trying to figure this out together

Wild stuff yeah I think we're still waiting on bonuses Okay I will I will oh yeah you know I'll leave after the bonus come in Because I have had I need to watch this press conference I see we've had Sharra bullet come in I will check to see if he said anything interesting Probably not No Fizzy so we're waiting for Fizzy

Yagyaev is getting a bonus. Rootsabaya better get a bonus just based on that photo. Oh, you're just guessing right now? I'm just guessing. I've got you said Yucayev? I think it's going to be a four, a four performance night. So Fiziv certainly, I would do Fiziv, Yac Ya'iyev, Rootsabov, and I'd go con awfully, honestly,

because it was just, I didn't see that one coming out of that race. is just going to kind of run his ass over, but that was just one of those, all right, you want to count me out, watch what happens kind of thing. Donchenko's knocko is pretty nasty too. That head kick was pretty sick. But that was like kind of, that was like always going to happen. So I'd go, I would give it to, I'd give it to Offley. I'd give it to Offley, the fourth one. I hope so. I thought that was such a cool win. He looks tight. I didn't know, is, is he tiny and Reyes is huge or a bit or both? Is he like kind of? small for featherweight and race is also like a gigantic feather weight.

Yeah, I think it's kind of a combination. I didn't know. I knew race is bigger. I did not until they stepped, until they stepped into the cage. I was like, oh, wow.

Like, awfully three wins in a row, okay. Okay. We have in here. We have bonuses. Oh, what are they?

Um, all bonuses are weight. All bonuses are 100 grand now. Where have I been? This is a thing now, right? These bonuses are all 100K and then anyone else who has to finish gets 25. Yes.

I remember. I'm sorry. You know what three. It's White House, the crazy White House bonuses, right? It used to be 50. Okay. Fiziv, obviously. Yakiyaev.

Al-Mabayev. You said that you called that one too, right? Oh, I forgot about that one. Yeah, that's, that's, okay. Yeah, I'm sorry, John, you're screwed. You're screwed. And Donchenko. Oh, okay.

Interesting, Donchenko over. Yeah, what am I thinking? Assyl Mbayev is, that was the front ride. He's like the star, the top of the mountain bonus winner. Wow. Okay. So nothing, no, no big surprise. And yes, finished bonuses to Camillo, Camillo, Camillo,

Rizaboi of awfully and Abdulayev, you are so lucky. You're getting 25 Gis. Yeah. You're so, because he's probably going to win the fight anyway, but like, you're so lucky. Such a bad fight. Such a bad stoppage. Godly. Not for him.

Not for him as Bank account. I'd say, if you're to hear, you should maybe tip that ref 500 bucks. Maybe, maybe, I mean, people are saying, like, Justin Gates, you should retire at the White House. like he should probably retire you got to finish you got to finish like this is it's not going to get much better for you oh wow it was that that's 25th fight okay that's right that's uh dude that was fight number 25 that's it yeah but he's finally but the first fight of the rest of his life though is there a welterweight on earth outside of jesson

nassimento who by the way owes chase hooper a public apology uh what was that i was that i was reading geese story chase hooper doesn't deserve be on the roster what what's he kidding he's not even in your division what was just chuck and shade at chase hooper and you go and you fight like that oh my god not good gee thanks for uh thanks for writing that story but boy he did not make it did not make jefferson not sentimental look good uh i think um to here could be uh leon shabazzian yeah i'm not even sure yeah I mean, that's probably the fight to make, right? Ding Meng, ding Meng. I shout out to Ding Meng.

Yeah. Daniel Fernza, if he's still around. Oh, yeah. What a name draw. Yeah. To Here versus Leon Shabazzian is probably the fight to make. That's, that's all. Yeah.

If they're keeping both guys around, let's do it. Yeah. At the apex, some sort of prelim fodder. Yeah, 100%. All right, my best friend, I'm going to leave you to discuss the rest of the car with the people. I'm going to hop on. Yeah. People don't know.

We were essentially running a two-man ship, of course, with our great social team as well, Jose Young's and Blaine Henry. So otherwise, editorial stuff, pretty much just you and me. So we got it. Yeah, thank you everyone for watching. Please be gentle to Mike. And we will see you for,

won't see you. You'll hear, you'll hear us for Otno on Saturday. So I'm not going to, I saw the start question. I'm not going to answer that, Mike, because I don't have an answer yet. So you're on your own. You're on your own. All right.

Thank you, guys. Bye, bye, bye, bye. All right. Question time. Get your submissions in. Super Chatters get to the front of the line. And we'll hammer this out for the next 10 or 15 minutes. All right, Erban, thank you for an early edition of Otno. Who would you like to see Fizzi fight next? I personally wouldn't mind the BMF or someone like Hooker, all action bout. Dan Hooker makes a lot of sense. I think that's a fine fight. I'll tell you what, man. Like, this might be a...

I don't think it's a bridge too far, but like, like, would anybody be upset? Like if Connor McGreg goes out there and beats Max Holloway Like Fizzi versus Max Holloway would be super fun Then you got Sontini, you got I mean we could do the Gamorot fight Because you never really got that fight This boy I mean we got Moikano

Hooker's probably like hooker would be my pick Killing would be fun That'd be like a big step up for Salkin I don't know There's a lot of options That's for sure UFC just not the August 22nd main event But no word on what the August 8th card main event will be

So yes we reported this yesterday Um Connected MMA I believe was first on this But yes we confer multiple sources Fluffy Hernandez getting the The hometown fight in Sacramento Against Robocob That's gonna be very fun

That's gonna be a very busy day Of Of combat sports That's for sure August 22nd, a lot going on. That is the retirement fight for Chris Cyborg in Tampa. RAF's big one-year anniversary show. Still waiting on the main event for that.

Could be a big one. And then this event as well. What is August 8th is... Is that an apex card or is that a road show? Card. What is August 8th? Yep, it's an apex card. Oh, God.

Sheesh. They should just make Lemochtainara the main event of that card. I mean, we're just, we're running out of time here. God, what do you do? I wouldn't even, oh dude, Billy Q versus Diego Feida, like, has no real significant stakes, but like, it's no way that's a bad fight. What's, uh, what is, what, what could headline that card? I don't know. I truly, I have no idea. I have no idea what you can do there. So we'll find out, I'm sure. I don't think it's going to be a main event that people are going to be super thrilled about.

Don't worry. My losing memory isn't all bad. I should know. Yeah. Some days I got, like I just, I remember everything. And there are some topics where like I will remember everything. Like I'll remember like every moment of saved by the bell. Like all of it.

Ask me to say by the bell trivia question, I'll nail it. Absolutely. Without question, I'll remember everything. And there are days where I remember everything about MMA. And then there are days where, like, I'll hop on prop quiz and just be like, take me forever to think of something. And I feel like I'm a thousand. Dave, Fizzie versus Steve Garcia.

How about Fizzie versus Diego Lopez? Oh, there you go. That's fun as hell. Lazy. Sheesh, that August 8th card is rough. Yeah, that's tough scenes. That is tough scenes. Here's the August 8th card.

I do. I mean, look, Billy Q, Diego, Faheda. Like, that's going to be fun. Amanda Lamos, Alexia Tidara. I think Tidara is going to fight for the belt at some point. I think she's that good. She's super talented. She should have been the UFC a lot sooner.

She's going to beat the hell out of Amanda Lemosch. And we have Aspline, Gareme, Pat. That certainly isn't going to be the main event. Julianna Miller versus Ravain Oliver. That's certainly not going to be the main event. Jose Montagna versus Louis Sutherland. That's certainly not going to be the main event. Dante Johnson, Eric Conoco,

Diir Nergazai versus Brutel Lopez. That's that card right now. Mike, do you remember Miss Bliss? Carrie Bliss? Yeah. Yeah. I remember Miss Bliss. And then she had the wacky assistant Tina.

Milo was the... I think he was the janitor, but they never really defined his role. He was kind of just like the utility knife character. Of course, Mr. Belding. He had Zach and Mikey and Nicky. and lease and screech. The whole crew. So you can explore.

Mike, unrelated to Audnob, what's your take as to how fighters can get the UFC to pay them more? UFC 15% NBA and NFL 50% or more of athlete paid annual revenue. Nothing. There's nothing they can do right now. There's literally nothing they can do. They've had so many chances. And like, obviously we'd like, like,

there's nothing more I'd like to see in this world than all the fighters making more money. Nothing in this world would make me happier. The problem is they have had so many chances to come together and make it happen and then they just didn't do it. When the company sold for $4.2 billion, they didn't do it. Didn't do it. Could have done it in 2016 when you sold the company. You certainly could have done it when you went over to ESPN. Didn't do it that either.

Definitely could have done it when they did all the uniform changes. didn't do it there. You could have done it with Usada. You could have done it obviously with the Paramount deal. Like there's so many times they could have come together and said, hey, they have all this money.

Why are we getting it? The problem is you just never, it's never going to happen. Never going to happen. I remember talking to Joe Lowe's on about this and Joe got so much crap for this. And he was just like, I asked him about fighter pain and all that stuff.

He goes, he goes, it doesn't matter. He goes, nothing's ever going to change. He goes, I'm good with where we're at right now because this is where we're going to be. And people were like, oh, you don't want to fight for fighter pay? He's like, no, I'm done fighting for fighter pay. He goes, once the, it was the Reebok deal. He goes, once the Reebok deal went through and nobody tried to stop it, he goes, then I knew like it's never going to change.

And he's right. He's absolutely right. You're just never going to get 700 fighters on the roster to agree to come together for this sort of union. But the toughest, the more difficult part is there are house managers that the UFC deals with, and there's no effing way that they are going to allow their fighters. When they're in good positions and good standing with the UFC brass and the matchmakers, they're never going to let their fighters sign any sort of letter of intent or any sort of survey or anything to say like, oh, hey, we're going to do this thing so we can try to organize and try to create some sort of

of union or association like it's just never going to happen ever ever ever and that is why when we do the contender series and we feed into this thing those are just that that's 50 40 50 more contracts that are coming in 40 50 more fighters who are just not going to do it they're just going to be happy to be there i made it to the ufc and it'll be business as usual so uh the answer is just not fight um and the other answer is come together and just not fight until things are made well. But again, it's just never going to happen. Masters, there's so much MMA, though,

it can often all be a blur. It's very true. They made Robocop Fluffy Official for 822. They sure did. It's an interesting fight. Max, July 18, do I drive three hours for OKC or just give up and go see Greg Hardy five minutes for my house? Who's Greg Hardy fighting?

Is it an MMA fight? Is it a boxing fight? I think the answer should be OKC, by the way. Greg Hardy should not be the answer. to anything unless he's fighting Eddie Hall and then you know we know how that fight's going to end

and then we can have a good time Joseph Osu is so underrated at Flyway 7 and 1 with the loss of cop do you rematch him and Cobb if Pants gets the next shot at Josh no because Benal Cobb should not have to fight anybody else and he certainly shouldn't have to fight Asu Omelive again Masters Mike do you remember

the million dollar man Ted DiBiase and IRS is a tag team they want money incorporated come on of course I do August, it's Contender Series season. You're going to see a lot. That's why we're getting a lot more release stories. Do they still do Rick D's weekly top 40 on the radio? Golly.

So one of what, so when I worked in radio, this is before, this is before I went to NBA fighting. And really before I got into like, all right, I'm done with everything else. I'm just going to do MMA stuff. one of my roles because like there's this misconception when it comes to being on radio that oh you just go in there and you sit in a studio and you have a good time you do your show and you go home no it's not like that at all you go in early there's meetings sometimes you have clients you have to help cut and produce commercials and there's like other little side rules that

everybody has so like it got to a point where I was like I have this to do I have this to do And then once we got bought out, I was in charge of, like, putting the websites together. But one of my jobs every week, there were two things I had to do. One was daily. One was weekly. The daily one was I had to get the, the John Tesh syndicated radio show locked and loaded. It wasn't even just that. I had to get the commercials that were going to play on the John Tesh show, like loaded into the system.

Every time. I'd have to put them on a flash drive. I'd have to go through them. and I'd have to listen to every single one just to make sure they were correct and they matched the spot sets and then I'd put it in. And the other one I'd do every week

was the Rick D's show. On our other station, the classics show was all the recaps of the Rick D's show and they would go back to a certain year on that certain date. So the Rick D's weekly top 40 I'm quite familiar with,

which is very, very funny. A couple of questions about this. Joe assigned to BKFC, Mike. Thoughts on that. Lozahn. Look, this, like, here's, I know, I understand why people are, like, upset about this, and I understand why people are hesitant about this. Totally get it.

And from a viewership fan perspective, I agree with most, most of you. Here's the thing for Lozan, though. If this event was happening at the TD Garden, he wouldn't be fighting on it. If this event was happening in some, if this event was happening at the House of Blues, he would not be fighting on it. The reason Joe Lozahn is fighting is because BKFC is doing an event at Fenway Park. That's why he's fighting. The UFC's not doing an event at Fenway Park. PFL's not doing an event at Fenway Park.

No one else is. One company is doing it and it is BKFC. It just so happens they're going to Fenway. and Joe's just going to fight. Joe just wants to fight at Fenway Park. I mean, it's really that simple. Even in that release, it was like, I was in college when the Red Sox won the World Series.

It would be an honor to fight there. I fought at the Garden a million times. I fought the garden before. I get to fistfight somebody at Fenway Park. So I'm okay with this. If they throw them in there with Mike Perry, I'm going to have a problem. Like, they're not going to do that.

If they throw them in there with, like, Lorenzo Hunt, we're going to have problems, but they're just going to find somebody he should be able to obliterate, right? Like, that's what it's going to be. He is, he is 42 years of age. He hasn't fought in a long time. I was at his last fight covering that event in Boston. It was October of 2019. He just obliterated Jonathan Pierce in an upset win and got a huge ovation.

They were supposed to fight Donald Soroni three different times. And they all got killed. canceled for all sorts of reasons, including Joe Lozon hurting himself putting his socks on for the last one. So that's a little scary. But look, man, he is a grown man. And there are certain things that I will usually, like, have issues with when it's just like, yeah, you know, I've had enough of this. I don't need to really see this. Like, I didn't need to see Tony Ferguson have a UFC fight again.

I certainly don't need to see Tony Ferguson to have a BKFC fight. And Joe's been in some wars, no doubt about it. but it's not like we're watching Joe get absolutely annihilated every time he fights. You know what I mean? It's like, dude, if he wants to have one fight of Fenway Park, like, I'm okay with it, but obviously I get the trepidition. So I think Delilah is still in the air, too. She sure is.

Dela. Lephe Schofcott said he's back end of the year. Who do you think he fights? Great question. I mean, I actually think like the ball fight is probably what you do. Do you feed him Leon Edwards? I don't hate that idea. Maybe that's the Gabriel Bonfim fight.

Although Bonfam should probably fight Sean Brady in Philly. But I think, you know what? Maybe the answer is, but it's the back end. Maybe do Mike Morales? I don't know. It depends on how they view Shafka right now. But I think I would go Ballal. I think that would be what I would do.

Please share your favorite Bizbing moment from today. Oh, there are quite a few. There are quite a few. I think my favorite Bisbing thing of the day, like obviously the eight second knocko was pretty fun. What fight was it? I have to go find the fight. There's one moment you could tell like Bisbing was like,

I was warming up, I was at the gym with Ike-O-Mell-Scaroff and he was doing this specific move. And I think he wanted to like, he threw that out there. there so he could be like yeah i called that shit um but maybe not i'll be a fair there's one fight in particular oh it was the eric nolan fight it was the eric nolan fight um paul felder is literally like paul knows eric nolan and like one thing that kind of bothers me about the commentary teams is like when fighters they're close with or fighters that train of their gyms are

competing like those commentators should not be sitting in that seat they should have to take a step back and and leave the room or sit one out or go in the corner or something like I would love to see that more and I think honestly if you ask Paul Felder to do it I think he'd probably just go up and do it so obviously knows who Eric Noland is but Paul is like literally watching this Hassanoff fight and he's just like okay Hassanov's getting tired Eric should throw the uppercut like the uppercut like the uppercuts right there he should be spamming uppercuts and then they come back from commercial and you hear Nolan's cornerman

who I was just having a great time listening to. He's like, this guy sucks. He's effing tired. Knock this M.F. or out. And at one point, he's like, kick him in the body. The body kicks there. The body kicks there. And they come back and John Gooden's like, go to the body kick. And then Michael Bisba was like,

you know what, actually be a great idea? If he just started spamming uppercuts. I'm like, dude, Paul Felder just sat next to you and said that the round before. He just like, he didn't say like, oh, I agree with what Paul said. It was just like, no, want to know it would be a great idea? He should just spam up for cuts.

I got a kick out of that. But yeah, Felder should have been doing the post-fight interviews too. Like, what are we doing? Paul is the, and I'm not even like, this isn't even a shade of Bisbin because this is, you have the best guy. You have literally the best guy on your roster sitting at the desk. Like Paul Felder is the best post-fight interview where they have. he's better than Rogan he's better than all of them he's the absolute best at it and we're not letting him do it that annoys me

Mike had to listen to them torture with Tesh no I mean Rick D's I had to make sure like everything was up to date um the Tesh ones I just had to listen to the commercials that were gonna play on it because you had to play like the syndicated spots and I did hear a lot of John Tesh's voice during those because it's a lot of his ad reads so yeah uh boxing is FN way Mike I Yeah, that's the Nolan brothers, I believe, do the boxing events. But those boxing events are like, they're not on the field. Like, they're in, like, if you walk through Fenway Park, they're in, like, common areas where, like, the concession stands are.

Like, that's where those boxing events are happening. I assume the BKFC card's going to be like, I assume the ring's going to be, like, on the field somewhere. At least that's what I hope. Because, like, what's the point of going there if you're not going to do that? Bonus info. Yeah, we got the bonuses for you. Let me just read them off again while I have them. It was Fiziv, Al-Mabayev, Yakiyaev, and Donchenko.

So Rootsabyev didn't get a bonus. That's right. I'll take a couple more that we'll roll out. Mike, last one from a UFC 329 around the corner. I think Max wins, but if Connor does, where do you think the UFC will try to spin it? Islamor Gachi or BMF. Oh, God. God, there's so many ways you can go with this.

Patty is obviously a great choice. Toporia is a great choice. I think if Connor loses, they're 100% going to do the Toporia fight. Connor wins. It probably be Gaichi, which will kind of annoy me. It'll be good for Justin,

but for me, I mean, Gachi would obviously pick the Connor fight. I mean, that's just prize fighting. but Armin should be fighting for the belt 100%. I will be there as well. I'm very excited. Back for IFW.

Shilves a guy was really looking forward to another Herb Dean video where he explains how the specific way which Shara pulled Pereira's hair was not in fact a foul. God, don't even get me started on Herb Dean. Jeez, Louise. Mike, do you think Alex Barona will fight anywhere since leaving the UFC? Doesn't have to be specifically at BKFC, but I thought of him when talking about Joe also.

Um, I mean, if someone's going to pay him a bunch of money to go fight, then go do it. But yeah, I think lazy said it earlier. UFC BJJ would make a lot of sense. It's actually probably like the perfect spot for him, really. Like you could do Alex Marono versus like Gilbert Burns in a Brazilian jiu-jitsu match. That'd be pretty fun. Why the heck not? Morano should also like Marano is also very good as a commentator.

Like very good as a commentator. he does a lot of like Fury FC fights he's terrific he has actually like one of the better minds in the sport when it comes to like breaking down fights and things of that nature he is he's very good at that doesn't get enough credit for it he is excellent at it so yeah I would like to see him get an opportunity they won't give it to him but he'd be very good at it so all right I think we have We have exhausted this event enough for early day MMA, but we're not done yet. AK and I will be back tomorrow for on to the next one. So get your picks in.

Submit him the way you normally do. You can hit up AK. It is 500 different platforms that he throws out there. You can hit me up on Instagram. That's where I get mine. That's why AK gets a lot more than I do. But that's you could submit your picks. Get them in before like 11 a.m. Eastern tomorrow.

Probably be the best bet. And yeah, and then we got no UFC next week. Very exciting. Get a little week off for 4th of July week, which should be very fun. And then, yeah, this was the go-home show for UFC 329. I got to say, one more thing I wanted to shout out tonight. Shout out to the UFC production team, because those 329 promos, those Connor Max promos, those are awesome.

They were absolute fire. So really well done by that. brought back some memories. And they did a really good job with those. What else can you say? So appreciate all of you, as always. AK and I will see you back tomorrow for on to the next one. And after that, I think we'll probably have a BTL of some kind next week.

Oh yeah, we'll have mid-year awards next week. We'll have the draft show next week. All sorts of fun happens. Sick with us, napa,000.com. Have a great rest of your weekend. We are out of here. You're listening to the Vox Media Podcast Network. You know,

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