MMA Fighting - UFC Vegas 69 Post-Show | Reaction To Erin Blanchfield's Impressive Finish Of Jessica Andrade

Episode Date: February 19, 2023

Erin Blanchfield passed her biggest test with flying colors and submitted Jessica Andrade in the second round of the UFC Vegas 69 main event on Saturday at the UFC APEX. Following the win, Blanchfield called out the winner of the UFC 285 title fight between Valentina Shevchenko and Alesa Grasso. Should Shevchenko retain, will Blanchfield be the longtime champ's toughest challenge? MMA Fighting's Mike Heck, José Youngs, and Jed Meshew react to Blanchfield's massive victory against the dangerous Andrade, and discuss the chances "Cold Blooded" would have against Shevchenko. Additionally, they discuss the strange performance of William Knight in his unanimous decision loss to Marcin Prachnio, Alexander Hernandez's decision win over Jim Miller, Evan Elder's tough luck being up 20-18 on all three scorecards against Nazim Sadykhov before a cut forced the fight to be called in the third round, and more. Follow Mike Heck: @MikeHeck_JR 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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Well, hello there, everybody. Welcome back to the M.A. Fighting YouTube channel. We are live after UFC Vegas 69 has come to an end. And while the card will not be a memorable one from start to finish, the main event will be giving us something to talk about for a little while as Aaron Blanchfield submits Jessica and Raj in the second round. She is for real, for real. And could a title fight be next for her?

She wants the winner of Valentina Shufchenko versus Alexa Grasso. And damn it, I think she deserves it. Will she get it? Whole other story altogether, but we'll see what happens. I certainly think she should be fighting for the title after that incredible win to cap off a card. And boy, that couldn't have come at a better moment after the previous three main card fights. But thank you for joining us. I am Mike Heck. Nice to have Jose Young's with us here on the post fight show.

What's up, buddy? It's nice to be back in America. It's nice to, you know, not be stuck on a plane or traveling for 50 hours. So happy to be here, gentlemen. Let's talk. And I'm going to use this term loosely. And for those listening in air quotes, fights. Let's do it.

And Jed Mishu, who I'm sure come Thursday when he looks back on this card and joins the BTL panel, he is going to sing this card's praises with every single fight we talk about. Isn't that accurate, Jed? Jose's serious question, would you rather watch the main card of this event or be back on that plane for 57 hours or whatever it was. Watch this fight card. That should tell you my ordeal. I mean, I'm impressed because it felt 57 hours to me at home watching this.

It was a tough hang. I think this would have been the perfect card to watch on the flight because then I would have dozed right off and then I would have woke up in America. Yeah, I will say this. Thanks guys for making this one in early because there is that that stretch of three in the main. I would have fallen asleep for sure. Like I just wouldn't have been able to do it if this was like the 10 p.m. You know, road to the UFC fight night car.

I'm done so. Well, let's start with Aaron Blanchfield, the star of the show. Competitive first round on the feet with Jess Gondrage. Seems like the scoring was kind of all over the place. Some people thought Androge. I actually thought on Drogge on the first round. I thought she landed the more damaging strikes. But I also thought that was a great round for the bank account, so to speak, of Aaron Blanchefield,

because she made Jessica Andrude's work. Jessica was breathing pretty hard going back into the corner. And the momentum was clearly swinging in her favor. Her confidence was unbelievable. It was all over her face beginning in that second round. Lands a couple shots, gets the body lock, takes her down. immediately to side control, takes the back, immediately cinches in the rear naked choke,

and forces the tap in the second round. One minute and 37 seconds into round number two. What a performance for Aaron Blanchfield? Jose, your reaction to cold-blooded, because this is one of those fights. People were like, ooh, this might be a bridge too far for Aaron Blanchfield, but it is intriguing. And boy, did she pass this test with flying colors.

No, I didn't think this was a bridge too far, considering Jessica Androj took this fight on super short notice. I know Jessica Andrade is a bad, bad woman, and so is Aaron Blanchfield. And I fully expect Aaron Blanchfield to fight for the UFC title at some point, her career. I picture to beat Jessica Androd stolen for the fact that Jessica on how long ago did she take this fight? Like, I was backstage at Media Day when they announced this fight. And Jessica Andrade is a heavy-handed, like high-level grappler. And that is exactly what Tyler Santos is, too.

So it's not like Aaron Blanchfield had to change much of her game plan. She's actually just fighting a shorter woman, who should be a straw weight. So I just thought Aaron Blanchfield has been in a full camp preparing for a very specific opponent. Her new opponent wasn't that much different. So I just picked, I thought this was an easy pick for Aaron Blanchfield. She is uber impressive. I think she should be undefeated. I scored her only lost to Biscortez for Aaron Blanchfield.

I watched that with Casey after, I think it was open workouts here in Phoenix before in Ghanu and Kay and Velasquez. I think that ended and then we watched it after. I can't remember. That was so long ago. That's neither here nor there. Aaron Blanchfield looked awesome and I hope she fights for the title either in August or September against the winner. Assuming Valentina wins, which obviously everyone's going to pick her to win because if Alexa wins, then obviously they're going to do the rematch, probably in Mexico. But if Valentina wins, then bring on the Aaron Blanchfield era.

Jedd, what was the first thing you thought of when Blanchefield got this tap? I saw a tweet that I think are going to get a lot of people to stop and read it a couple of times. And I think it makes a lot of sense. But was that you could kind of go back through that tweet? Is that the first thing you thought of? I think my first tweet was, man, I'm all the way here for Blanchfield versus Valentina because that fight is now way more interesting than I thought it was. 23 minutes ago.

And my second thought was, if I'm a women's flyway, I'm going to find a new line of work because I don't know. Ain't know. Ain't no reason to be fighting. I am not going to be the world champion because I'm not beating Valentina right now

and I'm not beating Aaron Blanchfield for the next 10 years or whatever. And maybe I'm not beating Blanchefield now. Like, we'll see because she'll get her day against Valentina. Valentina's going to run over Alexa Grasso. But we'll get this fight later this year.

And if Aaron can convert, unbelievable and sucks to be the rest of you because you ain't beating that woman. And it still sucks to be you like, Casey O'Neill, you have promise and you look like you're a solid prospect. Give up.

Go back to school. Get an accounting license. Do something else because you ain't going to be champion. Now this woman's around. It's a wrap, guys. We're done here. Were you surprised by this fight, Jed? Were you surprised by the way I went?

Yes. Look, like, I thought that Blancho could win if she could get takedowns because she's a predatory grappler, right? But I thought it would look like the first round, that part of it, because she didn't get them because Jessica Androge is a house. And my questions about Androge's ability to win were largely, if this fight does go into deeper waters, how's that going to look? taking this on such short notice, but she's just coming off a fight camp.

I figured it would be okay in large part because Aaron Blancheville is not a very good striker. And I say it is not because I still, as her performance tonight was impressive in some regards, but it wasn't like good. It was effective. Those are very different things, right? She still got hit a whole bunch, but she apparently has a great chin, which is another huge problem for everyone at flyweight, because she's probably the best scrapler in the division.

Like two women's flyweight in the world have actual knockout power. And they're not going to be able to knock her out. Because if Jessica and Drodge Landen clean on you doesn't send you to the shadow realm, nobody else is going to. Like she's going to run this shit real, real soon. And I was super impressed by what she looked like on the feet, even though it wasn't like pretty, she was super willing,

has great chin, and she tagged and draw a bunch because she wasn't afraid to take shots. And that, I don't know, I don't know who's going to beat this woman that's not named Valentina Shivchenko. It was the reverse William Knight first round

from Aaron Blanchfield, where she just didn't care, got after it. No matter what came after and hit her, she was fine with it. She made Jessica Andrudge work, which I thought was very impressive. and got her tired.

And second round, she was able to steal that momentum and turn it into a submission. But you made a noise, Jose, when Jed was going through what he was having to say. So what was that noise about? Oh, just because there's someone named Tatiana Suarez that's also technically a flyway right now.

So I'm not ready to crown anyone the best grappler and the woman's flyaway team until they fight. I will believe Tatiana Suarez when she does fight next weekend. We still have seven whole days and anything could prevent her from. fighting. I mean, that's one way to look at it. So a lot of talk, Jose, I mean, Aaron Blanchel's 23, Jose. This is a very scary woman who's only just going to get better and better as time goes by. And there's a lot of talk on these shows about the level of prospects that

we have in the UFC. We talk about O'Neckle and Shafkat Rachmanovs and fighters like that as they come in and they build their resumes inside the Octagon. I saw a lot of people to do this out, so I'll ask you, is right now Aaron Blanchfield the best prospect in the sport. Is she a prospect anymore? She's 23. I think that has to... I guess the question is, is it a prospect age-based, or is it like

competitive base? Because if you beat Jessica Androge and Molly McCann back to back, I don't really consider you a prospect because they've been in the U.S. forever. But if you're considering anyone under the age of 25 a prospect, like in a non-combative entertainment, sport, then I probably, because I don't, off the top of my head, I can't think of a whole lot of like, Muhammad Mahiahev is pretty freaking high up there as well. He's what, 22, 23 as well. Aaron Blanchfield at this point is essentially the number one contender for the best women's

fighter in the world. So I personally, I don't age base it. But if that's what we're doing here, then sure, why not? Like, I'm not going to argue with you. Prospect slash up and comer. I don't even think she's up and coming anymore. She's like, She came. She came. She's here. Yeah. She's here, dog. Literally the only up is to be the champion now. She will be the number one not champion in the division. Yeah. So prospect is, I guess, a subjective term. I don't consider her a prospect, but if people do, then I don't, I can't think of many other people higher than her. Jed, is her ceiling as high as it can get right now in this sport for a young fighter. who may or may not be an up-and-comer, who may or may not be a prospect because she's here and she's the number one contender

for this title, but she's still nowhere near as good as she's going to be. Yeah, I mean, she got more ceiling to go. Here's Aaron Blanchard's ceiling right now. The longest reigning flyway champion of all time and a two-division champion. That's the ceiling.

We may not get there. We may not even get halfway there. But we talk about it all the time, either publicly or privately, 135 is a wasteland, just a horrifically bad division. And Aaron Blanchefield could probably beat most of those women, like, tomorrow. So I imagine that over the next five years, since Bannon Waite has like six fights a year, that will still hold true for her because Holly Holm will still be a top five Man and weight because that's just how that weight class works.

Like that's her ceiling. Her ceiling is two division champion. She's 23, so longest reigning champion ever. I have no idea if we'll get there. If she's a prospect, she's at worst, like, number three in the world. I would also say Usman, Naregummedev, if we're doing sub 25, that dude's a pretty good look at prospect too, but like, I don't think she's a prospect. She's just here.

She's the second best fighter in the division. And I think once you get that, you're not a prospect. You're just, you're there. You're one of the very best fighters in the world. And fortunately, we probably have 10 more years at least of this. So that's going to be really fun. Where would you gauge Blanchefield's chances right now, Jose against Valentina Shifchenko? I know she's got to fight Alexa Grasso and we'll learn a little bit more.

And obviously we'll have to build to that fight if Valentina wins. But if for some reason this fight, if they just went right to Valentina, versus Aaron Blanchfield, like four or five months from now, that was the fight that we're focused on. It's on the books, it's on the posters. What are the chances you're given Aaron Blanchfield in this fight? Is it higher than most of the women Valentina has faced over the last few years? Yeah, for sure.

It's higher than the people that she's faced, just given the old two times that Valentina has looked any sort of human, has been someone that can, you know, take her down and be on top. Like, if my did round, then Valentina adjusted and then just ran over her for a four-round. And then obviously the Tyler Santos one is the big one, Tyler was just a bigger opponent too. And obviously you heard the rumors of Valentina might have had like a foot injury or she came in like lighter than she normally does. So that might have played a factor, but doesn't really matter because Valentina's still won in the end of the day. Given what we've seen as the only times that like I've said, Valentin has shown any sort of chink in the armor, then I would obviously give Aaron Blanchfield a greater chance.

I wouldn't pick her to win, but on a one to 100 scale, maybe 33% chance. And then so one third chance right now, she's still very young. It's not like she's going anywhere. She's still got a lot to improve. Balatine has probably been fighting longer than Aaron Blanchefield's been alive. So let's take that into consideration. Jay, what do you think? Because obviously it's not the same as Yairir in terms of the leveling up.

Because obviously we're much more interested in Yairier, challenging Alexander Volkanowski today than we were like eight days ago after watching how Yaira performed, watching Volcanov. Valkovsky versus Makachev. Do you feel kind of similarly with Aaron Blanchfield right now after this performance? Do you feel like her chances are higher now than they were two days ago? Like how much more interested do you in and how much bigger of a chance you're giving Aaron Blanchfield compared to past title challengers?

She's going to have the best chance of any of the past title challengers, both from an odd standpoint. Like, the smallest anyone's been, the smallest Shepchenko's been against anyone during this run is the first fight with Yonan J. Chichick. So when she won the vacant belt, she was like minus 300, which was a hilariously low line at the time. It's probably going to be something similar, depending what Alexa Grasso ends up looking like. I don't know. If Shibchenko kind of dogs it in that one, maybe that fight gets real close.

Chichenko just runs over Grasso. She might get a bigger bump coming into this. But I feel pretty confident saying Blanchfield is going to be the easiest sell as for why someone could be competitive. And I'm more interested in the fight now than I was. I still don't think she wins it. But I got to see it now. There's no other fight to make. Frankly, if Alexa Grosso wanted to step aside and we could do this fight, that fight is far more compelling.

to me than Grasso versus Shepchenko. So yeah, I still just don't, it feels like it's a really tough matchup for her, particularly at this stage of her career, but got to see it, got to see it. Great win for Aaron Blanchfield. Jessica Andrade's just on the ESPN post show, so she's going back to 115, which she probably would have done even if she won this fight. So I think that's probably the best spot for her. And I think the best place for her now is just fighting there for foreseeable

future, but she is just such a gangster. And if opportunities come up, she just jumps on them. And that's just the fighter that she is. So she'll come back. She'll still be very good. This will just be a setback for Jessica Andrade. She's still the real deal. So it's hockey season. And you can get anything you need delivered with Uber Eats. Well, almost, almost anything. So no, you can't get a nice rank on Uber Eats. But iced tea, ice cream, or just plain old ice? Yes, we deliver those. Goaltenders, no. But chicken Tenders, yes, because those are groceries, and we deliver those too, along with your favorite restaurant food, alcohol, and other everyday essentials. Order Uber Eats now. For alcohol, you must be legal drinking age. Please enjoy responsibly. Product availability varies by region. See app for details.

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At Onepellaton.ca Not a ton to talk about on this main card Zach Pauga beats Jordan Wright in a fight There you go, Jamal Poges Also had a fight against Josh Parisian Gets the unanimous decision win I do want to talk for a moment, Jed,

and I'll start with you about the second fight on the main card. No one in the fight. Don't you call it a fight. Don't you call it. I don't know what you call it. Jose just knew what we're going to talk about. A dance. Jose in protest.

I'm not talking about Procadio William Knight. F that noise. Oh, man. Martin Parcheo, William Knight. Like, if your grandchildren came up to you like 20 years from now, Jed, and they're like, hey, tell me about William Knight versus Marcheem Pratrio at UFC Vegas 69. What are you going to tell them? Be like, it's one of the worst things I've ever seen inside a cage. Like, I don't, this isn't,

the other fights that jump out like this, all at least have some hook that makes them somewhat interesting, right? Like, Caleb Starons literally ran away in the cage. And that was, that's a, that's at least funny in hindsight and even at the time, it was morbidly, like, curiously amusing. William Knight just clearly didn't want to fight and

credit or whatever to Marcin Prachino. He had no interest in giving William Knight any opportunity to just bullshit his way to some kind of a one-punch win. So he just kicked him a whole lot and stayed out of range for doing

anything other than kicking this poor. immobile man in the leg over and over again but it wasn't but these are two guys who we don't care about so it makes it like a thousand times worse like asparza versus Rose is

probably the worst fight I've ever actually seen as far as like things that are happening but that's at least like memorable in that it was for a freaking title and that you saw one woman just throw away a belt for no discernible reason that

That's a memorable thing. Caleb Storm's running away is memorable. For instance, Inganu, Derek Lewis, freaking Kastanzing the world to deliver the least fun fight possible between those two dudes. That is memorable in a way. This is just,

this was just whatever and terrible. And honestly, my only takeaway here is that all of you bums are wrong, and I'm right. you go check MMA decisions right now. You'll see a bunch of sheep who gave this 3027 and one person who gave it 3024 prokneo. And that's me.

And that is the correct scorecard. And y'all need to read up on the rules for giving William Knight nine points around for throwing zero strikes. That's not how this shit works. All of you should be embarrassed. What a way? William Knight landed eight total strikes

in that fight? That's what? That was the number, right? Eight total strikes? So maybe it was nine. It was not double digits. He landed like four, one round was like the most strikes. He landed.

He did zero in this fight. Jose, even the UFC was kind of trolling William Knight on social media, just throwing out memes and throwing out pictures and Patrick from SpongeBob memes and quotes and all sorts. of stuff. This is just such a weird 15 minutes of our lives. Was it not? Yeah, William was about as active as my Wi-Fi right now, which should tell you everything. There you go.

So we'll see what happens. I don't know if William Knight will be fighting inside the Octagon next. Zero percent chance. Zero percent chance. I will bet any amount of money that William Knight does not get returned to the UFC. After that, you simply

cannot. You just can't. The main card opener is fun though, Jed. Alexander Hernandez gets a win over Jim Miller. And we talk about Alexander Hernandez a lot. And he looked, he had a Hernandez-esque type first round where he looked good. Miller looked pretty good in the first round too. I thought Hernandez won the first round.

Some people thought Miller did. Actually, a lot of people thought Miller won the first round. I thought Hernandez won the first round. He clearly won the second round. he was clearly winning the third and then he had like a second round kind of brain clots

or like cloud but it was the third round and Miller takes him down and takes his back and looks like he's about to strangle him and Hernandez gets out of it ends up getting 2.30, 27s and a 29, 28.

Some people thought Jim Miller was robbed. That's just not true. I thought Hernandez won that fight. But it was a good scrap, Jed. What did you take away from Alexander Hernandez versus Jim Miller more so in the Hernandez side because although he almost

gave it away in the third, I thought this is probably the most mature performance he's had since maybe the Olivia Aubin-Mersier fight. Honestly, it's the same thing I think every time I watch Alexander Hernandez fight. How

did this dude freaking salt, B'Neil Daryush? Like I don't, that is one of the most perplexing outcomes to me in recent fight history because he's just not very good. Like he's not awful. He's not a terrible fighter or whatever. But like, God love Jim Miller. Jim Miller still is still throwing, you know, changeups and sliders and working with off-speed pitches.

But Jim Miller doesn't have a fastball anymore. It's just not part of his game. He's got too many years, too many miles on him. and Alex Hernandez couldn't do a lot with that. You're absolutely right. This was the most mature-like performance. He didn't totally collapse after five minutes like he has been prone to doing. And it's still like he's still kind of almost collapsed in the third round before getting it back on track.

And all this against a dude who doesn't have an A game anymore. Like he is a lightweight. And that's it. Like, every lightweight is pretty good. They can do a lot of things. And on any random night, they can beat somebody who's really good because that division is a frigging shark tank. But my thought always with Alex Hernandez is,

how in God's name did you knock out B'Neil Darius? It doesn't make any friggin' sense, guys. Jose, what did you think of his performance? And he said after the fact that, you know, he took this fight because it was short notice and it was an opportunity, but he wants to go back to 145. Neat. He didn't look really.

real good at 145. B. Jim Miller, who has the most wins in the history of a promotion on short notice at 155. So he also, I know, apparently his, you know, babymaker didn't work, 145. Not maybe Alex Hernandez doesn't want to, you know, reproduce. Maybe that's best for the world based on the few interactions I've had with him. But yeah, do what you want, man. 145 hasn't been kind of you, though. man that was that was some salt right there some some salt from jose youngs uh anything else you guys

want to bring up the prelims are fun there's some good prelim fights uh the evan elder fight was weird uh because it ended with a nasty cut and yeah and apparently uh dezim sadikoff at his post fight scrum admitted that it was a headbut that actually caused the cut so i don't think anything It's going to change. I don't think it's going to be a no contest or anything like that, but I thought that was some honest and interesting follow from that. And Evan Elder was up two rounds on all three judges' scorecards. So you got a feel for the BTL alum, Evan Elder.

He looked really good in that fight. That was a good scrap. Myra Bueno Silva gets the kneebar over Lena Landsberg. Good win for Jamal Emmer's. I thought he looked fantastic hands. Kusain Ashgaboff, his first loss. Slim Philippe Lins. just doing the damn thing, knocks out OSP,

A.J. Fletcher beats them a Grimbo with a nice, nasty elbow into a gilly. And then Clayton Carpenter, really good fighter out of Arizona, look good on the contender series, has the Batman voice very deep and just very cool. Clay and Carpenter used to beat the shit out of me when we were at Power MMA. That tracks. Chad Woodstead up to you for this right. He was not like he did to me what Aaron Blanchfield did to Jessica Andraj

and he would just laugh. That's so that that's great. That's a great story. So what I'm getting from this is that Jose is as good a fighter as Juan Camille Ronderos. Because he did the same thing to Juan Camille Ronderos basically.

So that's the big takeaway from this fight car. We did it, guys. The difference is I was like 23 and Clay and Carpenter was like 17 and he kicks me in the head and he dropped me on my head. That's the worst. Proceeded to beat the shit out of me. That's the worst when those little whippersnappers come into the gym and just ruin your day. Make you feel like an old man.

They definitely do. They definitely do. Anything, any performance or fight you want to touch on, Jed? Sure. very quickly. One, so if Sadakov admitted that that was a headbutt, one, I don't really know to what extent you can't admit that because, like, you probably have some sense, but he also could be mistaken about what actually causes the cut. But assuming that it's just true and that that's what caused it, then Elder got screwed. He should have won because if he's up two-oh on the cards, it should go to tech decision.

He's up to two-oh. he should win. So it shouldn't even be a no contest. They just got screwed out of getting the W. So that's unfortunate. My Buena Silva actually looks like she might not be awful, which is okay,

because Banim Wait needs all the help it can get. OSP is super, super washed. Kusain Ashkabov has fraud alert, 23 and fraud is what we can call that man. And then, yeah, the first two fights or at least fun. So yeah, that's the rundown on the prelims, guys.

There's not a ton, not a ton else that I would have to add to any of that, frankly. And the two most electric bets in the sport, both cashed on this card, right? Flyweight unders, heavyweight overs, right? One of them's not even electric. Flyweight unders isn't even electric. It's just guaranteed. It's just, I think it's like seven and one in 2023. They just don't miss.

Heavyweight overs are like 50-50. but it's electric every time out. I got to tell you, the only fight on this card outside of the main event that I was actively really interested in while I was watching was Pogues Parisian. Not because it was good, but because, like, I just needed it to get to 12 and a half minutes. And there were some stretches there where I was like, is Parisian going to Parisian going to Paris in his way and gas this man out? Or is he just going to tap to something real dumb from Pogues? It was electric. This was a great watch.

Congratulations on those two betting victories. All right, Casey, we're going to take two questions, two. So find the two best questions. The two very best. I am genuinely excited to see what constitutes a good question coming off this card. That's why I'm doing this to close it out. Because this is a card. This was a card.

It was early and it was a little. 11 fights, so I can't, I can't be that mad at it. BKFC wins the weekend for sure. I didn't watch a second of that. How was it? Oh, it was, it was, it was great. I saw Greg Gardner got knocked out, so that's cool. Yes, he got knocked out.

Love when that happens. Casey, you're muted, so I don't. It was great. Yeah, it was great. The main event was so ridiculous. It was so ridiculous. In a good way. And actually, usually we say ridiculous in a bad way about bare-knuckle, but I felt it was, it was a, it was a solid, solid, awesome card.

Yeah. Way better. Okay. Do you, come on. Give me good questions. Two questions. Or one question. Anything.

Trying anything to me. While I find a question. Hey, Jed. How bad does it suck the GC is so much. better than you. Wow. Wow. Did he do better? He may have done better than me this week. I didn't have a great week. Yeah. I couldn't care less. I want him to win every bet he makes because I would like everyone to win every bet they make because other people's failures don't lift me up as a person because my parents loved me. Oh. What were the um, the UFC give up performance bonuses yet?

It's a great question. I forgot that they would actually give bonuses for this. I would assume Blanchefield. Sattacrof. Sattachfield and Milder and Milder got the fight of the night. So good for them. Interesting. Blanchfield and MBS got performances.

Was that fight better than Miller Hernandez? Yeah, I think so. Oh, okay. And I think they probably just deserved it because Elder kind of got the big fat hose job. One of those things. Fair enough. So this is like, hey, you're not going to eat your win bonus, but we'll give you a few more dollars because you just got a fight of the night.

The 10 minutes was more fun than the 10 minutes of Hernandez Miller. But yeah. Yeah. All right. One more question. What do we got? Or do we not have any? Are people just mad?

Are people angry? Yeah. I just don't want to. I just don't want to crap on fighters. Like, yeah, we could bring up questions to crap on William and I, bring them questions to crap on. We talked about it. I'm not going to rip on William Knight for 15 minutes.

Everybody said what they had to say about it on Twitter. We talked about it here. We don't know. And again, fighters are human beings. We don't know if something's on his mind. We don't know if things are going on behind the scenes. So we'll take that for what it is. But yeah, I mean, I'm sure he knows how bad his performance was tonight.

And I'm not going to kick him while he's down. Or if there's none, we could just get the hell out of here. I got some pro wrestling to watch now. I'm looking through. There really aren't a lot of phenomenal questions. Yeah, yeah. You see, I'm like, uh, which this isn't a knock on you guys. Frankly, I don't, if I were in the comments, I have no idea what the hell I'd ask here.

I mean, this is a challenge. We covered it. We could actually get two questions. So I think we hit all the talking points. But next weekend, folks, we got best. Belator in Dublin. That's actually a pretty good card. Yaroslav Amosov is back fighting Logan Storley to unify the Welterweight titles.

Some interesting fights on that card. You know the crowd's going to be on fire. UFC is back for UFC Vegas 70. We got Nikita Krylov versus Ryan Spann. We got the return to Tatyada Suarez. We got the return of Audrey Muniz as he takes on Brendan Allen for the middleweightiest middleweight title. It's a prestigious title at 185 pound. Don't you forget the other dope shit we have next.

Next weekend's big. We've got a one. John Lineker. That's right. John Lineker getting after it. And most importantly, KSW 79. Phil DeVries versus Todd Duffy, guys. That's right.

Come on. KSW rules. And don't worry. We're not done with UFC Vegas 69 yet. AK9 back tomorrow. On to the next one. It'll be a short show as well. Thank you for watching.

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