MMA Fighting - UFC Vegas 51 + Bellator 277 Post-Fight Show | Biggest Winners, Losers of a Bizarre MMA Weekend

Episode Date: April 17, 2022

Well, that was certainly something. MMA Fighting's Shaun Al-Shatti, José Youngs, and Jed Meshew react to a bizarre MMA weekend that featured a cornucopia of absurdity between UFC Vegas 51 and Bellator 277, in which Belal Muhammad's main event win over Vicente Luque was practically the only fight that didn't come with a little bit of controversy. Is Muhammad a main player now in the UFC welterweight division? Did the judges get it right for Patricio Pitbull vs. A.J. McKee 2? Was there any more ridiculous way for Bellator's light heavyweight grand prix to end other than Corey Anderson vs. Vadim Nemkov's no contest? The crew hits every angle coming out of the latest MMA double-header. Follow Shaun Al-Shatti: @ShaunAlShatti Follow José Youngs: @JoseYoungs 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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It's the UFC Vegas, 51, Post-Fice show. Here on MMA fighting, and also we're getting a little battle tour 277 as well. It's your weekend wrap-up. My name is Michelle O'Shti. Thanks for joining us. I'm joined by the crew. You already know him, the man, with the best Bobby Hill tattoo in all of MMA. Not even close.

Jose Youngs. Best Bobby Hill tattoo on planet Earth. Let's get it right. I love it. Got the Lord of the Hot Take out there in Georgia, my man Jed K. Mishu. And of course, the undefeated. E. Casey laden.

Man in the boards from the producer's desk. And thank you to you all as well. We're going to field your questions, comments later in the show, as always. But let's get Roland fellas because what a weekend. What a weekend we just went through. One of the more bizarre weekends we've ever had. Two events, two days. And in those two days,

Jose, you had a really nice rundown of this on Twitter. Within the last 24 hours, we have seen a heavyweight, spike himself onto his opponent's skull. We've seen a no contest in a title fight that was for a million dollars, where if it lasted five more seconds, somebody wins a million dollars. We've seen a controversial end to a fight that Bellator should probably have called one of their biggest of the year. And then tonight we saw two technical decisions after illegal blows, and in very bizarre and I think incorrect fashion, and we also got a Daniel Kenahan shout out

just for a good measure. So, you know, just another lovely weekend out here in MMA. But fellas, let's start with what we just saw from UFC, or I'm sorry, UFC Vegas 51, Balal Muhammad defeating Vicente Lucke in the main event. And this was, I think, an upset in a lot of people's eyes. Not many people were out there picking Bilal.

But once again, it is the wrestling of Bala Muhammad that carried the day. He calls out Kobe Covington afterwards. Jose, let's throw it to you, man. I mean, your immediate reaction to what we just saw. I was absolutely flabbergasted. I mean, I said this. Like, I agreed with our own Damon Martin on the preview show that, like, if you want to call Vicente

Lucke won, if not the most exciting fighter on planet Earth, I'm not going to argue with that. And I said, Blah Mohamed is very good. I just think Vicente Luque is better everywhere. And my God, DeBlau Palmaid, prove me. I'm not even going to say prove me wrong. He proved everyone on the site wrong, essentially. I don't think anyone picks Balahma to win. I thought Vicente Lucay, he lost the first couple rounds.

I thought he was going to go in there and just blast him, maybe get a Darce choke on like a lazy shot from Bilal Mohammed. But Mal Muhammad, but Mal Muhammad, just what, like seven, eight wins in a row and his like one win away from a UFC welterweight title shot, that is not something I had on my bingo board for 2022. But good on you, Bilal Mohammed. You proved everyone wrong. And hopefully they run this back third time because I didn't think it was a bad fight whatsoever.

And Vicente Lucke just looked obvious. flat and had Carlos Condit-esque takedown defense. So we would fight all around, not in anything I predicted. Yeah, you mentioned the picks. I mean, I just breaking the fourth wall here. Internally, we have like a little slack room where we make our picks.

And I think there's maybe like eight or ten of us in there, and there was not a single person tonight who picked Bola Muhammad. Not one. Everybody. Vicente Lucke crossed the board. And I think a lot of people out there in the MMA land just generally were following suit.

Jose, you mentioned Vicente Leuke looking a little flat today. I would agree with you as well. Jed, for you, man, I mean, are you surprised? Are you as surprised as Jose by what we just saw? And really, I guess, who Belal Muhammad is in this division, who he has become? Oh, Mr. McHugh, you're...

We can't hear you. Come on, the professionalism here. What is this? Oh, no. Amuted? There you guys, you are. Okay, I don't know what happened there. I absolutely disconnected my microphone.

Good choice. My bad. up guys uh as of saying below mohammed full credit to him he i thought he fought a really smart fight brilliant that that lateral movement gave luke fits and uh the commentary team which maybe we'll talk about who i was not thrilled with for much of the night i do thought that they nailed that it wasn't the takedowns so much as the lateral movement that was setting up the takedowns because when ball was shooting just blast doubles to like down the pipe luke was getting his hips back and keying off them.

But when he was pairing it with some lateral movement, he was getting them easily. And so like, and that was really kind of the key to the fight for him. So first, incredible effort from Ballal and take nothing away from him. Second, I don't know,

maybe I was just wrong about Vicente Lucke. This like, it looked like he went back to Michael Graves. Like coming off tough, can't defend any sort of a takedown. And like, I don't know what the stats are. I'm not looking at him.

But Blah, had to have landed 95% of his takedowns in that fight. Like he did not, he did not fail when he was trying to take the fight to the mat. And on the feet, I thought in that third round, Lucay was going to come on strong. He had started to build momentum,

but he, he just kind of never built off that. And Ballal straight out worked him. So great, performance from Ballal. It doesn't change my opinion on his ceiling, frankly, other than by one spot. I think he now,

I had him, I think, right below. and he's going to go up in front of Lucke. I still don't think he's going to beat the guys at the top of the division, but incredible performance. You can't take anything away from that. Yeah, you really hit the nail on the head. The takedowns themselves were impressive, especially the open mat takedowns where it's just the center of the cage

and he's getting Vicente Lucay down. But that movement, too, I mean, he was really stifling Vicente Lucke with all the lateral movement and just everything he was doing out there. You mentioned the stats. I got the stats up in front of me. Five out of ten takedown attempts, so really 50%,

but he was just dogged in the, there in his pursuit of them and that seemed to be really the key for that is very surprising to me yeah i mean jose man are you where do you put below now in this division i mean jed mentioned it now he moves one spot up just to getting to essentially taking luke's spot does he feel like he's one win away from a title like is this sort of is he now in this conversation this very real conversation when we talk about these guys below kameru with you know hamsat shama i've and a colby covington I mean, you have to put him in that discussion solely for the fact that he's winning. And I know a lot of people don't view mixed martial arts as a sport, then view it as more as entertainment.

But I've always been on the signs that wins and losses matter in MMA. And he's kind of like the welterway Binald-Daryus, where all of a sudden he's racked up a bunch of wins in a row out of nowhere. And then similar to how Binald Darius beat Tony Ferguson, and he just kind of one win away before getting hurt, it's kind of what Balaamah's done. He just kept winning and winning and winning and winning. No one wanted to fight him. He fought the one that everyone was calling the dark horse in the division and was sent to look and beat him. So theoretically, I mean, not even theoretically.

The only ones above him would be who Gilbert Burns, Colby Covington, Hamzaa, and the champ. So if we're just going off a wins and losses, it has to be one of those guys. I know Hamza, Dana wants Hamzaa and Colby to fight. I think Billah Mohamed wasted a call out, calling out Colby Covington because it felt like for the whole week or so. between Hamzat's fight and his fight. He kept talking about Hamzat, how Hamzot can beat everyone in the division,

except for me. I think those are his exact words. So why not just go out there and beat him, and then who's going to argue you don't get the title shot after that? So honestly, throw a dart at either Colby or Hamzat or Gilbert Burns or whoever they want Balam-Mohama to fight next. And it makes sense, assuming Leon Edwards gets the titles shot up. But you have to have that conversation with Balhamma-Mohama in that top five right now.

I am so glad that you just mentioned that call. because that was what I was going to bring up next, because it was almost, almost a perfect night for Bilal. He comes out here. He really, I think, impressive performance for a lot of people. I'm sure a lot of fans probably still won't give him his respect because of the way this played out. But regardless, you do that, Vicente Lucca, that's impressive.

But to call out Colby, like, after all this time, you've spent so much time calling out Hamzat saying, I want Hamzat, Hamzat's the guy I want, I want to dispel all this hype. We already know there's a chance. Who knows if Colby's going to accept that fight with Hamzad or not. Jed, did Bilal botched this call out?

Totally. Absolutely. Categorically, this was an awful call out from him. And I don't remember who he called out last time with the Thompson win, but like, I feel like he did the same thing. Like, he's just not quite, he's not quite reading the room when it gets into the post, like, post-fight interview. Because Chameh was absolutely the right callout.

Like, quote, that, the UFC may want Chamaev-covington. I talked about it a lot earlier this week with Mike. Covington is one of the greatest shoot themselves in the foot guys in the history of MMA and might not even want to take that fight anyway. And Chamehive is the path to the title. Like Chameh's not going to get the next title fight. Leon Edwards appears to have that locked up. So Chameh is the path to the title.

You just call for him. And if you get on the mic and yell for Chimayev and you're the only dude other than Neil Magni, who's never going to fight Chameh, then. maybe you just get it. And instead, you take the guy that the UFC wants Shemaya to fight. Like, that's just, he went with maybe the worst choice. Like, Gilbert Burns makes more sense to me than the Colby Covington one. So I don't know.

He did it. Great. Everything he did tonight was great, but for as soon as Daniel Cormey to put a mic in front of him. Well, last thing on this, and then let's move on. Jose, match make this out for me. Like, if you're, if you're given the keys here at 170, obviously we have Usman Edwards that's out other than that

everybody's up for grabs how do you play this out um if obviously if Dana White wants to do the Colby Hamza fight I think that's the fight I want to see in the fight everyone else wants to see so if everything goes according to plan he fight Hamza and Colby coming and fight for the no more content then I'd probably have Belal Mohammed to fight Gilbert Burns

the storyline is there Gilbert Burns is Vicente Lucke's teammate and coach and training partner I'm pretty sure he was there screaming. I think I heard him screaming through the television during the main event. So why not just make that fight happen? Gilbert Burns is, I think it's weird. He lost, but I don't

think his stock has ever been higher in his entire career after that fight of the year candidate. So Balaamohama Muhammad, Gilbert Burns, I think it's a good fight. Like, you know, Gilbert Burns can try to get revenge and then throw his name back in the title shot. Or, again, there's not really

much else that makes sense for Balaamahad because all the money fights also happen to be ranked above him and he just doesn't happen to be the big money fight so someone's going to have to bite the bullet and fight belal mohammed and i think gil burns is the only one that can that can't say no considering he's coming off a loss and below's the highest ranked guy i think in the division that he would make sense for him to fight next jad do you like that is that how you played up yeah i mean if the ufc clearly wants covington jem i am like one of i think the few people in the world who's less interested in that.

I mean, I'll watch the hell of it. Don't get me wrong. I just, it doesn't speak to me as much as it does to everybody else. But, yeah, that's what the UFC wants, and both of those fights seem extremely straightforward. The only problem with that is that, at least from Mohammed's standpoint, if he beats Gilbert Burns, but Chamehuev beats Covington, he's still not getting a title fight. so he's either going to have to wait a long time or fight again. And so that that would be, that would feel a little rude towards, towards Muhammad

and what he's managed to accomplish this past couple of years. But beyond that, it's fine. All right. Well, I'm fine with that too. I mean, this division seems to be in a somewhat of a weird place right now. We really need to get it moving again because it is starting to become a little bit of backlog. But it does seem like we're going to get some clarity here in the summer.

So everybody moving forward, we'll get their spots. Let's move on now. let's hit the other big action of the weekend. And then we'll bounce back to UFC during the fan question part. Because Bellator 277 went down Friday night. And it was probably one of the best Bellator cards that that promotion could put on in 2022. And let's just say it was a very, very Bellator card with the way it played out. Jose, you had Pitbull beating McKee, not only in a fight that I would say didn't light the world on fire,

but it's also a very controversial decision, lots of discussion afterwards. and then Corey Anderson and Vadim Nemcoff leaving things totally unresolved in this light heavyweight tournament. Was the way Friday played out? Is that a worst case scenario if you're Bellator? I mean, it could always be worse than what happened, like especially if because I was talking with New York Rick on Slack because we were doing social media after the co-main event. I'm like, imagine if the main event was a no contest or a DQ, then that would be the most Bellator ending ever.

But, you know, a controversial ending is, I guess, the silver lining. this whole scenario. So not worst case scenario, but it just checks out. The first fight was just so epic, and everyone was talking about how AJ McKee might be the best featherweight on planet Earth. And then that fight happened, and he just looked like a completely different fighter. Just

a weird, weird fight all around. Patricia Pupol is, what, three time, four-time champion, whatever it is now. So good on him. I hope they run it back again, but it'll probably won't happen because AJ doesn't want to go to featherweight again. He just looked flat. Like his feet were just, he looked so,

different than any AJ McKee I have ever seen fight in Bellator. Like he, like, I think Casey Stead, he tweeted or something like that like, is that like the first round that AJ McKee has ever lost in there. And his stance looked weird. He looked flat. He looked straight up in the air. Like, I want to know what was going on in his training camp, like how much prep he did, or if he changed anything, or if he prepared for Patricio Pitbull to make adjustments.

Then what was it? After the fourth round, going to the fifth, his dad and Tony McKee said, I got you up four rounds. I'm like, bro, what are you talking about? You are not up four rounds. That's like Tiofima Lopez like dad coaching right there. Like that was a problem. So, yeah, not a great night for AJ McKee.

He lost to a really talented fighter. He's still obviously an Uber talented fighter. AJ McKee is still clearly a top five feather way I'm planning with maybe top three, top four, but just a weird night for him. And he, again, I can't stress enough that. I did not recognize that AJ McKee in there at all.

on Friday night. I'm glad you mentioned that, and I want to revisit what you're saying here about how AJ looks. But first, Jed, I mean, how did you score that fight, that Pitbull-McKee rematch? I scored it at the time, 3-2 McKee. I thought he won the first two rounds in the fifth. I went back and re-watched it. And, I mean, last, I guess not last night, technically.

Friday night, if you scored it for Pitbull, I had no issues with it. I thought it was a close fight and totally fine. I do have issues with the 49-46. that seems a little strange to me. But going back to rewatch, I think that first round easily could be a pit bull round. And so, like, I have no issue with that score whatsoever with pit bull winning. I echo a lot of what Jose said, though.

Like, McKee just looked really strange. And I came with so many questions out of this, because I don't know if he looked strange because he thought he was just going to run through pit bull. If, you know, the cut to 45 is really starting to wear on him and he is ready to be done with that. And so he spent a lot more time focusing on weight related issues as opposed to prep. Or if, you know, some part of him kind of was okay taking an L so he could get out of that

champion's contract and bolt. Or maybe he just is a more limited fighter than we kind of ascribed onto him because realistically we've seen AJ McKee fight a lot but it has been mostly being the hammer and kind of we haven't had to see him ply the depths or go into championship rounds or show kind of a wide depth certainly of a striking skill and so I just don't know where any of the way any of the truth lies within that could be all of it it could be factors of all of it maybe we all overestimated him a little bit maybe he overestimated himself so I'm really fascinated to see kind to where he goes moving forward from here.

But the end result was I thought that he, at the minimum, did not fight a smart or good fight and paid for it by taking that L, which, you know, has pluses and minuses for him. But I don't think that's the way he wanted to get an L. Jose, the way the rhetoric coming from AJ and ahead of that fight was very, very different than I think we've heard from him, just generally. throughout his career. And it was very, I wouldn't say alarming, but it was,

it did sound like someone who was already kind of over what their current situation was, right? He's talking about, you know, inevitable UFC champion. He's talking about all the contract negotiations that won a million per fight. You know, I think at some point during his MMA hour interview, he said, you know, I don't need to train as hard for these guys, that type of thing.

Do you feel, is it like, AJ, did you feel if that first win, that way that pit bull fight play out running through a guy that we had all proclaimed as the greatest fighter in Bellator history. Do you think that kind of got to AJ's head a little bit and that he was maybe feeling himself a little too much into that? Or is this really just about what Pitbull did and he

just came in with a spectacular game play? I think it's a little bit of both. I mean, how much, like, even before the first fight, like I remember back, like, this was way long time ago, back when I first started at M.A. fighting. Me, Casey, and Esther went to like the Featherway Grand

Prix media day where it was even before they had the seating. It was like they had all the matchups announced, and then they were going to fight, and then the winners would then be seated. And the entire interview I do with AJ McKee, he kept complaining about how Pitbull wasn't fighting him first, or he wasn't matched up with Pitbull

because he wanted to fight Pitbull and get the belt and then get his lightweight belt because Petruzo Pitbull had, you know, I think rightfully so, been labeled to the greatest fighter in Bellator history. He was the champion. It was a tournament for a million dollars, and he was the lightweight title,

which AJ McKee wanted. And then he beat him, So then what do you have to do next is fight him a lightweight? And then he gave up the belt. So I just felt like the thing that AJ McKee had been chasing for his entire career, he had accomplished. And then he had that feeling that I'm sure everyone else has had in the world at some point in the life. I'm like, well, what do I do now?

I can't leave. And I guess I have to fight him again in a way that I already beat him. And like there's a reason Connor McGregor probably didn't do that with Josealdo, you know, the whole time. Like the whole time he's like, I want to fight Josealdo, the greatest feather way of all time. you knock him out in 13 seconds and then you just bounce and then all of a sudden you go up to fight lightweight probably what a j mckee should have done or what belliger should have done with a j mckee because what a j mckee puttriek

pit bull you know the second pit bull brother for the title the vacant title that would have sold too like i get what a j mckey is saying but it's just you can't mess around and not take petrillo pit bull seriously the man had a game plan in place just kicked the hell out of his legs and then piece him up and then win a decision. I'm sure that he wanted the stoppage. But yeah, I think you used the word alarming, and it was. It was very alarming here, AJ McKee. Talk a lot about non-Patrisio Pitbull stuff before he was about getting to a fist fight with Patriso Pitbull.

Last thing on this fight, because I agree with a lot of what you're staying there, Jose. I mean, Jed, what do you do now if you're Bellator? Like, I don't even, it didn't even seem as though, I mean, watching the post-fight press conference, it didn't seem like there was even certainty if AJ's still a Bellator fighter if he's a free agent with this championship clause situation. Like, if you're Scott Coker and you're AJ McKee and you need to sit down and figure this out,

what's the move? What do you do from here? I have no idea because it sounds like AJ doesn't want to get the featherweight belt back, which I think Jose nailed it. AJ should have just gone to lightweight. Like he should have pulled an absolute counter and be like, all right, I won this as cleanly and dominantly

as a man can win a fight. I'm not going to run this back. We can go fight for the lightweight belt if you want, and then, you know, gone from there. But he didn't, and now we're here. And if AJ is somehow still under Bellator contract, which wouldn't make sense to me, but I guess it's plausible,

I guess they lobby to run back a third fight, because that is the fight that should be made at this point, whether it happens at featherweight or lightweight, I guess is anyone's guess at this point. But my assumption is, he is not. He lost and so shouldn't be subject to any champions clauses that are in effect

and so should be a free agent. And based on everything he was saying before the pit bull fight, it sounds a lot like he wants to go to the UFC. So I have honestly no idea what's going to happen, but it's going to be really interesting because

I'm excited to see him in the UFC and fight those guys, but I also think it's really funny that he was talking a lot of to to steal Jose's phrase a lot of greasness about Alexander Volcanowski not being all that impressive and then he goes out and lays that egg so that will bring he will come to the UFC

with something to prove which I think will be really really interesting well we're certainly going to get a lot of clarity I think in the coming days regarding the contract situation where just AJ if he's free if he's staying all of that if he is free he definitely lost a lot of zeros on whatever that UFC offer would be. And I think he's going to have to lowers expectations for whatever that offer will be, because now it's certainly going to be much less than it would have had he come out

and replicated that first performance against Pitbull. If he does stay with Bellator, though, I actually, I don't think we're going to see him fight a featherweight again. Like, I don't think the trilogy fight almost doesn't even make sense at this point, even though, you know, logistically it makes sense. But it just feels like what AJ needs to do is move to 55. I don't know how long he can continue to make this cut. It seems like it's really difficult for him.

You still have a story there with the Pitbull Brothers, Patricie having the lightweight title. I don't know. The whole thing is so much more of a mess than it was. What's that? Is that not feel weird to you, though? It feels completely weird. Put him in against an, like the Ersatz Pitbull Brother.

Here, you just lost to the good one. Why don't you fight the one who's not as good? I think it's just about getting a belt back on him, right? Then you can resume what you were trying to do with him before. Anyway, let's move now. Let's move to the other half. Give me AJ versus Brian Ortega. That's all I want.

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That giant oversized check doesn't go to anybody. It just goes in the trash. A no contest between Corey Anderson, Vadim Nevis. Emcoff, accidental clash of heads, the closing seconds of the third round. It kind of seemed like if the fight lasted just five more seconds, it probably goes to the scorecards and Corey Anderson leaves San Jose with, you know, a giant oversized novelty check, but that doesn't happen. Jose, what was your biggest takeaway coming away from this supposed end to this tournament

that didn't actually end? It was honestly, yeah, that makes sense. Like, this would happen to Corey Anderson. You know, he labeled himself the best light heavy way in the world. I know a lot of people in the rankings, including people on our site, put Corey Anderson as the number one light heavyweight in the world. But the fact that there is some debate proves that he's not like obviously undisputed top light heavyweight on Planned Earth. And I think beating Nemcov pushes him that much closer to it. And he said it himself, he views himself as the champion.

Unfortunately, Corey Anderson's sportsmanship got the like blew up in his face because he accidentally was the accidental headbut. And he's the one that alerted the ref. and if he had waited five seconds, he would have a million dollars and a big shine and two belts, one Grand Prix belt and one light heavyweight championship. So, uh, and a bunch of 50 cents bad champagne being poured on it. So, um,

yeah, just all around like this makes sense for what is happening right now. You know, Bellator put a lot into this light heavyweight grand prix. Uh, it seems like the bad luck bug had bitten their bantamweight grand prix that they put all this marketing behind. So why not have it leak in to the finale?

of the light heavyweight Grand Prix, right? So, unfortunate all around, Corey Anderson, I still view, like, I thought, like, I think you can all agree he was about to win that fight. He was dominating that fight against a seemingly undersized Vadim Kempkov. And I think one of my biggest takeaways from him is Nemcov looks like a middleweight compared to a lot of these light heavyways and just that much more impressive what he did to previous light heavy wage, which makes it even more impressive what Corey Anderson was doing to Vidim Knav. So good on you, Corey Anderson, you were a good sport, but you lost out a million dollars. and I fully expect you to get that giant, goofy check, bad champagne, and two belts in your next fight. I mean, you said a lot there, but I got to say, Corey Anderson impressed, I think, a lot of people with the way he came out there

and surprised Vadim Nemcoff by really almost like breaking him by the end of that third round. It did certainly seem as though things were trending his way. But, Jed, you made a point several times on Friday night to point out that Corey Anderson didn't actually win that fight. So all of us subscribing victory to him were baby being a little premature. We just went through this with Sterling and Yonel. Jen, when we started this tournament, we had all these big dreams. It was Romero Rumble was on that. I remember that being a thing at one point.

We got none of them. None of the big dreams happened. None of them end up coming true and we end up here. Are you disappointed with how this hall played out? Like, what do you make of this tournament, this weekend, and just, I guess, did this weekend affect the way you think of Corey Anderson moving forward now? Well, first, the thing I do want to say, because we've said it, and a bunch of people have said it.

So we're clear, if that fight had made it to the end of the round, it still would have resulted in the outcome that we got. A technical decision requires the fight to go past three rounds and into the fourth. So that fight would have been stopped on the stool between rounds the same way. And because we never got a start to the fourth round, it should not have gone to the judge's scorecards. It would have still just been rendered a no contest, just so we're clear,

because I'm sure somebody knows this in his math. added us about saying this. Yeah, this was the most GP thing of all time for just, just, hey, we've done a tournament and nothing goes the way we want it to. And then we don't even get a satisfying conclusion. And Jose, we were talking before this, they like brought out the big novelty check and then they had to take it away. It was just, it's just the most unbelievably funny possible outcome to this.

whole situation. And so while it's objectively bad for almost every reason, I can't help but smile at what happened on Friday because it's, it feels incredibly bellator for this to happen. Shades of Eric Prendel. That's what we have here. We don't even get like a cool DC's type of story of like DC coming from out of nowhere to win this tournament. Like it's all just a bunch of nothing. The whole thing. It's just a bunch of nonsense. It's just a bunch of nonsense. So let's throw throw away the no contest. Throw it aside for a second. We spoke pre-fight about the stakes here

in terms of the global landscape at 205, right? It's a very, very weird division right now ever since Glover won the title because Glover, he's lost to some guys. One of those guys is Corey Anderson. That wasn't super long ago, and that was a very dominant win for Corey Anderson on like two weeks notice, as Corey Anderson

said several times in the lead-up to this. Vadim Nemcov, I think a lot of us really like. Vadim Nemcov, I think he was pretty highly ranked for all of us on the rankings panel at MMA fighting. And then obviously, you know, Corey Anderson also has lost recently to Jan Belkovic. All of this, there's Yeri Prohask out there. Jose, simple question.

I'm going to throw this to you, then to Jedd as you as well. Is Corey Anderson the best light heavyweight in the world? Is he top two? Where is he? Three behind Glover and Yuri, I think. I mean, we saw tonight what happens when, you know, sometimes when a guy knocks out a guy or dominates him the first time and then they run it back doesn't always play out the same way. We just saw that like 30 minutes ago with the last.

Muhammad and Vicente Lucay. So I think Glovercher just, you know, got a lot better as you do in mixed martial arts. Then his loss to Corey Anderson. That was also when, if I remember correctly in Germany, there was like a lot of, like, they both had to fly over there, Glovercher laid an egg. And since then, he's got a lot of stoppage wins. And Corey Anderson's looked really good too. I think Gear Prakasca is also a psychopath who can just kill a human being with his elbow.

So those are the top three. If you want to argue that Cory Anderson is number one, I'm not going to tell you you're wrong. but I put Glover number one, Uri number two, and Corey Anderson number three, but it's honestly 1A1B1C if we're allowed. Actually, you know what?

I'm not even on the voting panel, so that's my rankings. 1A1B1C. You all can kick rocks with your fake rankings. Take the power back, Jose. Take the power back. Jen, what do you think?

Where's Cory Anderson? Like how you rank these guys at this point in this light heavyweight division that seemingly makes no sense? He's probably number one. At the end of this month, I'm probably going to move. him up to the top spot, that will be conditional.

If Yuri goes out and just, you know, Molly Wops, Glover, then Yeri's going to be the top spot for me. And that's, I'll feel really confident about it. But if he doesn't, like our own Mike Heck has been just adamantly beaten the Glover's going to tackle Yeri and submit him in the first round train for months. And so if that happens, then yeah, Corey Anderson's probably it. And that's interesting. Not a world I thought I'd ever be living in. if we're being honest, but I mean, you can't deny, like, what he's doing. He, you know, coming into this fight, maybe I was high on Vadian Nemcov,

but he was my second ranked lightweight and Corey was my number three. And, you know, he didn't win this fight. I firmly believe he did not win this fight because he did a dumb illegal thing. And, you know, you play stupid games, you win stupid prizes. Well, sometimes, sometimes. We saw a couple times tonight that if you play stupid games in Las Vegas, sometimes you can just get the win. Great prize.

Who knows? But yeah, I mean, if they fought, you know, when they do fight again, this time I will be, and I suspect the sports books will be heavily favoring Corey Anderson to win. Now again, we also saw this last weekend. You know, Piotr Yan did very similar things to Al Jermaine Sterling and then lost that rematch. So maybe that's what happens here and it all gets done up in the air. But for the time being, he's either one or two in my book. man I'm glad that we have a couple weeks to mold this over because we obviously do them at the end of the month because I'm right there with you if I did it right now I think there's a 50 50 shot I put him in at number one or number two I have yuri braz got number one right now it's all a mess like none of it makes any sense the fact that glover de sherra at age 42 and corey anderson who I think no one expected to really be in this spot at this point are two of the three best light heavyweights in the world is pretty wild pretty wild. Daniel, he could come off the couch and freaking wreck this division. You're not wrong.

If he could make 205, I don't know if he could make 205 again. He can be benching them Doritos all he wants. He could still come in and just house these fools. Well, Casey, get in here. Let's turn to the peeps.

We just saw a lot of fights over the last two days. A lot of them were pretty unmemorable, but there were some gems in there as well. What are what's going on? What are the people saying? All right. how's everyone doing how is everyone doing

also while you're looking around Casey Corey Anderson number one number two where are you going to put him this at the end of this month I feel I want to say he's number one but like but then as I start saying it out loud my brain kind of like you know just starts to mess it up it doesn't like it hurts something's wrong

but um I think actually Jose had the best best thing just it's 1A 1B1C I think with Glover Glever, Yerry, and Corey right now. I got no issue of either of those guys. My ranking most likely is probably still going to be Yerry at number one,

with Corey number two, and Glever number three, and Nimcov, I guess, four. But it's... It's so weird. Yeah, 2.05's very weird right now. 205 is very weird. It's kind of really fun if you put aside the fact

that it's insane. Rumble Johnson, might be the best light heavyweight in the world. Who knows, man? Exactly. It's all good. Ankylois is going to be like terrible. Yeah.

And this is all. If he gets a shot, I don't know that Ankylai will get a shot. But this is all because John Jones doesn't get along with Dana White. This is all, you know, like, we want to be really having this discussion. Like, just the John Jones thing. You're like, who's that guy? Yeah. All right, here we go.

Uh, uh, ch-ch-ch-ch-oh. All right, here we go. Going back to the main event. It's from generic profile. He says he knows he has a better shot at Colby than Hamzat. This is obviously talking about Balal. After his performance against Lucke, he can get caught by Hamzat, but not Colby. Thoughts?

I'm going to go on a limb here and say, if you're a top four fighter in the division, you're probably not angling for a quote-unquote easy fight, especially if you're Balal Mohammed. Seems like he's down to fight. anyone. So I disagree with whoever this individual is. Yeah, man. Belaw wants to fight anyone. I agree in principle, though. He does have a much better shot of beating Colby than Hamzat. I don't think he beats either of them, but he has a way better chance against Colby than Hamzot. Also, he genuinely hates Colby Covington, so I also think he just wants to punch him in the face.

Yeah. That is hyper-valid. Yeah. That's what that feels like to me is like, because all week he'd been talking that that chamea of stuff like like that's what he knew and then after 25 minutes of like fist fighting human being in a cage he just reverted to like oh i actually do just hate this dude and i'd like to fight him next yeah all right um let's go to yesterday's main event all right this one's coming from jamie who said i had it 4 1 a j to be honest 4 1 a j is not a a scorecard I have seen. Okay. The rules say submission attempts that either have immediate impact or cumulative only affect what, okay, this is a weird, weirdly worded. Only effect was the pit bull tired himself out. I like him being the pit bull. I'm not sure what he's asking, but

4.1 AJ is a pretty wild scorecard. I got to say, I think I had it 3.1 AJ in the moment. I haven't rewatched it yet. I called it 3. It would be 3.2. I had it 3, but I also gave A.J. the round that he's talking about the round with the submission because I discounted the submission. I think on the rewatch, I'm probably wrong about that. And that probably was a pit bull round. Jose Casey, how did you guys hurt him, which I did not recognize in real time that pit bull like heard him before that guillotine happened. I was pretty confident. It was the first three rounds were for pit bull.

The last two rounds were for a. from my memory with the first round being pretty close but I remember I thought the leg kicks I've seen so many fights right now the leg kicks from pit bull in the round one was what won round one for me and then and then

of course you had no daddy McKee saying you won every round which I that's rough that's a whole thing that's so rough man I don't want I'm not going to get the open scoring thing but if you're a cornerman and unless you're a fighter wins I get, you know, like an 8.5 round.

You have to assume the fighter lost that round. You can't. Tell me he's losing. There's no downside at that point. Even tonight, I think that happened in the Lucke fight. I think his corner said you may be, it might be tied. You just have to win this round. And I was like, oh, don't do that. So, but back to this question, I had pit bull winning.

I was shocked. But AJ looked, that was the worst AJ I've seen. and also maybe I just kind of forgot how good pit bull was too I'm not quite sure but I think probably some of both for all of us yeah I definitely feel that way yeah I think not that I got overhyped on AJ's I still think he's extremely great talent I just I honestly I forgot how good pit bull was and and I think people I think I think I think about two minutes into that fight I think AJ realized that too oh he this guy is very good

This isn't going to be as easy as last time. Yeah. This was the case of an individual got caught early, made adjustments, and the other one thought he could just do the same thing all over again. Yep. Like Pitbull made, Pitbull had a training camp. AJ's like, all cut away and show up. Yeah.

How did you score it, Jose? I had a three to pit bull. I think I scored that the round in question. Was it the third round with a submission that guillotine with the hair? I'd scored that for Pitbull because I think in the rules they say effective striking a grappling should be considered first priority. I think that's actually written in to the criteria for judging. So that's just how I've always based it.

But teach their own because in M.M.A, we make up rules as we go as we've seen. We all just made it up. Oh, my God. Tonight was improved that. Also, let's talk about. And I almost gave me an aneurysm with all the Vegas stuff. How about Featherway? How about Featherweight title fights and third round guilletines, man?

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Like this, the, the DQ's thing, both of those situations in my eyes should have been DQ's. Like, how on, setting the precedent of the guy who's ahead two O commits a foul. And because you didn't think the foul was purposeful, you can then end the fight and he just wins. It feels like a super dangerous precedent for me to set. You saw a bunch of fighters tweeting at it well as well tonight of like if I'm up 2-0 and a fight or 4-0 and a fight 3-0, what's to stop me from just smashing some dude in the balls until he can't continue and then just getting a win off of that? Like, am I crazy here?

No, I'm glad you brought- But I'm glad you brought that up because everyone on this website can pretend their professional fighters and complain about fighting. But now that we're seeing actual professional fighters saying like, what's to stop me from doing this, then you have to take it into consideration. I think Ben Rothwell was like, he tweeted and stuff. He was like, what's to stop Bilal Mohammed or Sinclair, if I'm just grinding out three rounds and then just running in and just blasting the other guy in the nuts

and then getting a DQ and calling it a day or something like, or round four or whatever Jed said? So, yeah, now professional fighters are talking about it. Something's going to have to be done because it's a bad precedent if, you know, I'm up two rounds halfway through the third round and go, I'm tired. I'm just going to stab this dude in the eyes with a couple fingers, three stooges style, and I'm still going to get the. rest of my paycheck. So yeah, it's something's got to change in Las Vegas, that's for sure.

I'm going to play a bit at the other side. But wouldn't those be considered intentional? Like, I don't know what's the word. Everything is intentional. Well, that's the thing is there's no such thing as accidental. I know me and Jed have our differences on this. But, yeah, I don't. It's just how good of an actor you are at that point, right?

Like, if you're just, maybe you're just a really good actor and you can be like, oh, I didn't mean to punch this guy in the back of the face, back and head like this is crazy. We're also talking about a situation. Are we saying these fighters did that tonight? Because otherwise we're talking about a situation that's never happened before in the thousands of fights you've seen. Unless we're saying that the guys did that tonight on purpose. Are we saying they tried to do that?

I'm not going to try to pretend I know. I'm just saying like to answer Sean's question, it does set a precedent that you can get away with stuff if you're a good actor. Yeah. Like it's, I'm sure neither of these dudes. meant to throw purposefully illegal strikes, but they did, and they got rewarded for it. Like, end of the day, that's what it is, right? You got rewarded for cheating. That's my whole thing.

It's just like, it's all, don't add interpretation. There's no need for interpretation because you know who didn't do anything wrong, the people who got hit by illegal strikes, and they are potentially adversely affected. If a fighter is intentionally trying to actually cheat, meaning they intend to throw an illegal strike to harm their opponent, they should lose the fight and be banned from the sport for two years. The same way PEDs are intentionally cheating and get a suspension. If you throw a fight and you foul, you foul.

You're in charge of your strikes and just, oh, I don't feel like it. And I feel like it just happens a lot where because of, fighter is winning and it feels wrong to make them lose because they did a wrong thing. We don't. But it's like the only sport where this happens because it doesn't matter if you intended to cheat or not. Like I didn't mean to grab that face mask. It was a reflex and I grabbed his face mask. Cool.

It's 15 yards. You did the illegal thing. Don't do the illegal thing because the other guy didn't do the illegal thing. And that's it. Like it just I don't I don't know why we've given interpretation to referees. which also changes wildly, which is another huge issue with this, where Mark Smith can immediately take a point for one, and Dan Margliata can just be like, nah, we're good.

It's fine. I don't feel that that was bad, so it's okay. Like, that's just make everything black and white and build from there. If I'm Peter Jan watching all of this tonight, I'm throwing my remote at the TV, like multiple times. It is very confusing for the Peter, if you throw the Peter Yon situation, and it could say that Peter Yon fight was tonight, Who is reffing the-

Peter John walks away from the champion as champion at that point because he was ahead on the scorecards. Who was refing yon? Was that Goddard who did that? Like the Yon-Ney thing? I think I should know this. I feel like I should remember this.

Don't remember off-hand. I can't remember, but that goes to the point like whoever's reffing can totally define how you do it. And so it's just like, I don't, there was, it was Mark. It was Mark Smith.

Yeah. Mark Smith is actually pretty good about like actively enforcing the rules that are on the books, which is wild. So good for him. And the situations tonight, first off, in the Barnett situation, Barnett, I forgot his opponent's name, they got that won the fight. That was a legal strike, first of all. Merglaude screwed up.

That was a legal strike. That was not, that was not this elbow. That was this elbow and it hit him in the legal spot. I think he just thought it was illegal. They looked at the replay, and they just made up a new rule, honestly. that's my conspiracy theory um watch your replay it was a legal strike

I mean I kind of really annoyed me but uh as far and what was the other the other it doesn't matter I mean he won he was about he was going to win whether the blow landed or not

he was going to win anyway that's why it's silly all right and yeah it's just stupid rules too that is also the thing it's just frustrating honestly frustrates me a lot is like because it does happen a lot with fighters who are winning.

You just don't have to do the dumb thing that's maybe illegal. You can just beat them. Like you're already, you are already knocking that dude out. You don't have to throw that elbow, or that knee. Baralo doesn't have to throw the grounded knee.

Just hit him. You're already winning. Just win. If you watch that fight. The first class couch coronary advice from Jed, telling him just win. He stopped himself from throwing illegal knees like twice in the second round.

He clearly knows what he's doing. And it was like, oh, never mind. That's illegal. All right. I pretty sure he even put his hands up. I rewatched, actually last night, I rewatched Gilbert Burns and Hamz at, and I was thinking, because technically, if you throw an illegal strike and it misses,

it's still illegal. And I couldn't believe Burns got away at that soccer kick. You also punched Hamza on the back of the head in that fight. All right. We're getting way too deep. Yeah, I know. It was so much. There's people cheat all the time.

There's no rule. There's no more of it tonight. Let's just go back. Open weights. Let's do one or two more questions and then we'll get out of here. All right. All right. This one's coming from, oh man, I'm going to totally butcher your name.

And I'm sorry. Sommdutt Roy is what my attempt to that is. Who has Lucke actually defended takedowns against? Even Kiesa took him down easy before getting submitted. Leon Edwards, baby. He lost that fight, but he stuffed like 10 takedowns in that fight. I think the takedowns wasn't what won the fight for Luka. I mean, sorry, for Muhammad.

It was the freaking lateral movement because if, if, if, if Luka can't get a rhythm, if, if Muhammad just stays still and doesn't have that lateral moving the entire fight, Luka wins that fight. It was once Muhammad stopped moving, he was getting pieced up. I think we all knew that Luka was going to get taken down eventually. but not submitted. It's kind of what we saw, but I think it was the lateral movement

that kind of really kind of surprised us. I don't know. It really surprised me. How do you feel? I think it's both. Both. I think the lateral movement was great, but I think if Belal doesn't take him down,

I don't know that he wins the fight, but he was so effective with it. But it's just neutralizing it's striking to me. Or it made it. Blahmalahman had a good game plan. Vicente Lucke did. Vicente Lucca also just didn't adjust. Like, even when he, there was like that, there was like that sequence when Vicente

Luca like clipped Bilal, but with that left hook and the, like, the announcers went ballistic. And then Bilal Mohammed just shot like a blast double lug and took him down. Like he got hurt and he took him down. And Vicente Luque was like, oh, no, I'm stuck. It was weird because he, his game plan was like, okay, he did sort of adjust early by like, like, he kept attacking the outside leg when Muhammad would move. So when Maham would go to his left, he was nailing that low kick to slow it. And he was going wider with hooks.

And then he, like, after that take down on the third after he heard him, he seemed to entirely revert to just like, I'm going to chase him around the ring and not land punches anymore. It's very, be fascinated to know kind of what was going on in his head. The flat as Ficentis looked for a long time. I was going about to go rogue with this last question. What do you got here, Casey? Because I got a good one teed up. A gentleman says, can we talk about that Jordan Levitt dance pose?

That was impressive. I like Jamal Hill's response to that of saying, you do that to you twerk after you knock me out. We're fighting again the second time in the same night. Talk about the double standard in this sport. We all praise Jordan Levitt for his amazing dance, but then the MMA fans criticized Valerie Lareda for her awesome dancing after a close decision.

Double standards here. Yeah, those people are called Inslee. Those people are called in cells, Casey. All right, I'm going rogue on this last one. I want to answer this from Tristan Gordet, who brings up a man who we didn't even mention on this show that probably we need to start mentioning really soon. Thoughts on Aaron Pico's performance. He looked incredible and gave you everything you want from a fighter. Y'all, Aaron Pico's time might be here.

Like, it might be now. Like, we've been waiting on this guy for a while. It's been about five years since he debut as, you know, the best prospect in M.M. and then loses in 24 seconds in his debut. He's won now, six in a row. He's looking mighty unstoppable. Obviously, the competition level is not quite there yet. That's not really his fault.

This one was a short-notice replacement. But, I mean, what do you guys think about wearing Pico is becoming? Dude, I love Pico. Pico is, like, the one of the very few fighters in M.A. Who just believes in his soul that punching a man's liver out is, like, a very valid way to attack somebody. Dude, the body shots. It's so awesome. The body shots are so grisly to watch me.

That man throws nasty rib roasters and, like, does them all the time. I love that, dude. I hope he's good. I think he is. I think he's kind of there. Though, again, do question the fact that he has one win over a fighter with the Wikipedia page. Gives you a bit of a pause, but massive amounts of talent. And I love watching the fight.

Yeah. I agree. Is he arrived? Like is it is it kind of this time now to to I with him? I think he's he's so good. I want this like Jed said like who's he supposed to fight first? Jeremy Kennedy was that? Yeah.

Which he had a great test. If he had beaten him, the answer is he's like no doubter because then we're having a conversation like, does he deserve a title shot next, this and that? He's a big name. Like if they want to rebook the Kennedy fight, if they want to make the Borch rematch, if they want to make the Mads-Bernel fight, like so be it. But give him a big name next. When I say big name, like, you know, a highly skilled opponent that are not on short notice. The issue for people are just that ego fight. Orde or Bernal.

It has to be one of those two for me. Oh, yeah. Burnell lost that. Do Bernal, right? Yeah. Those are the only ones above him in the rankings are the champ, AJ, Bernel, and Borish. Those are the only four above him, I believe, in their rankings. I think I think you're right.

And yeah, it's, I hope he's here. I mean, he's 25 now. the game for like five years so he's finally settled. I think he's finally, his big thing was the ego fight just blew him to the moon. He's like, oh, this guy's never fought and he blew the doors off Landre Ego, who's like one of our better fighters. And he got rushed a little bit, but. And he looked pretty good against Corrales before he did himself said.

He got punched in the nose, saw a red, and then ran into a fist. And he was beating in Borch pretty good before he lost. Like he was winning before he lost in one of those. He's one of those guys. There was a moment there where he was kind of a coin flip fighter, and I feel like Brandon Gibson has really, really taking this guy to a different level. Like, ever since they've started working together, Pico's, I'm a believer, man. I feel like that guy's going to be champion in this division sooner rather than later at this point.

The UFC needs to give. Go ahead. Yeah, yeah, I've been fortunate enough I've had some kind of behind-the-scenes access with Mr. Pico training and talk to Greg Jackson and Bramson. Andy Gibson about Pico. And I've honestly never heard him speak more highly of a fighter than Aaron. Just from when they got, when they got him, essentially they were like, he is the worst MMA fighter.

But as individual talents in boxing and wrestling and wrestling, boxing and wrestling mostly, unreal. And all they had to do was just figure out how to make him a mixed martial artist, as cheesy as it sounds, they had to mix the martial arts with him. because when they got him, he was just either he was boxing or he was wrestling. He couldn't do both. And it took a little time. But, yeah, just he's ungodly good and committed to the sport. And yeah, I can't, yeah, I'm pretty much what Jed says.

Like, he just incredibly exciting to watch. He has it all. He has it all. And now we're just waiting for the tougher competition. That's all we're waiting for now. It's just, yeah, yeah, must see TV. All right. Well, let's close it out on that.

It was a very, very busy weekend. We saw lots of fights. You're not going to talk about the brilliant commentary from both Bellatory and the UFC? We don't need to get, we don't even need to do that. We do not need to do that. There are a lot of fights. Some of them were good. Some of them were not so good.

Some of them were weird. It was a weekend. A lot of them were weird. Who won the performance? Who won the money, extra money tonight? We didn't even talk about that. Oh, hey, there we go. Bonuses.

Last second guess is before. sorry, Sam. I just looked at it. That's interesting. Fialo, Fialo close, Lesez, and his opponent. Yeah, Lizzie. Got two out of three.

Close. Close. Loza. Fight of the night. Fialo performance and Clark? The fight of the night's

wrong, and I think that might be because of that post-fight interview. Oh, that cost us for 2000? Dang. If I know, he could have gone, maybe Kinsaad Landsberg, Lensberg, Lansberg. Silva versus Wu. Yeah.

Whoa. My brand of Silva, you want, which is, feels a lot like, feels a lot like Lazz has cost him and him and homie 50K with that post. He got his opponent 50K. Wow. It was all his own accord, too. Like, he took that mic back. Like, it was over. The interview was over.

Nobody's going to go. Danukwomi is not going to go ask him. So. Any murders you want to Alleged murders you want to talk about Are you people with a $5 million bounty on them You'd like to shout out real quick Let's get out of there with that

What a weekend Really bizarre weekend fellas Kind of a thoroughly unsatisfying weekend if I'm being honest But I... It's a great come down from 273 Yeah man They can't all be winners They can't all be winners

And really, performance of the weekend to Bilal Muhammad, because he's the one guy who went out there and did what he did what he needed to do. You know what? Jesus Christ loves knockouts. Happy Easter. Yes, he does. Happy Easter. Everyone.

My name is Sean O'Shti. That man is Jose Young's. That man is Jedmishu. The undefeated E.K.C. Leighton. Thanks for rocking with us all weekend. You know how it goes. Keep it locked. M.M.A. Fiding.

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