MMA Fighting - UFC Vegas 70 Post-Fight Show | Did UFC Win the Weekend In MMA?

Episode Date: February 26, 2023

Nikita Krylov and Ryan Spann did not close out UFC Vegas 70 as planned, as their matchup was cancelled shortly before it was scheduled to begin. But Brendan Allen made the most of his first UFC main event matchup — and surprised a lot of people in the process. MMA Fighting’s Mike Heck, Shaun Al-Shatti, and Alexander K. Lee react to Allen’s impressive third-round submission victory of Andre Muniz in the short notice middleweight headliner and where he could go following the biggest win of his career. Additionally, they discuss Tatiana Suarez’s successful return to the octagon for the first time in nearly four years with her submission of Montana De La Rosa, if the UFC won the weekend in MMA, Yaroslav Amosov’s unbelievable performance against Logan Storley to retain his Bellator welterweight title, Fabricio de Andrade’s TKO win over John Lineker for ONE Championship on Friday, Phil De Fries stopping Todd Duffee in the first round on Saturday to keep his incredible KSW heavyweight title run going, Floyd Mayweather vs. Aaron Chalmers, and more. Follow Mike Heck: @MikeHeck_JR Follow Shaun Al-Shatti: @ShaunAlShatti Follow Alexander K. Lee: @AlexanderKLee Follow E. Casey Leydon: @ekc 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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Brennan Allen retains. His middleweightiest middleweight title submits Andreemones in the third round. The stakes could not have been higher, graduated to the main event. And boy, did Brennan All In Allen deliver in a big way. Welcome to the UFC Vegas 70 post-fight show here in M.AFutting.com. I am Mike Heck. Got a whole crew with us. First, my best friend, Alexander K. Lee, joins us, AKA, how are we doing, buddy?

It's felt like a very long day. There was a lot of combat sports-esque content to digest. I don't want to call all of it Combat Sports, but it was definitely Combat Sports flavored. I will say again, Combat Sports-esque. I don't know how anyone else felt about it. I don't know how much content everyone else consumed, but I saw probably 90% of what you could watch today.

You know, I had double screens going. Probably should have had one more. But yeah, there was a lot. We have no shortage of topics despite this, you know, UFC card, which is sort of headlining our show here. Not being the most like narrative heavy card, but we have that to talk about. And we'll touch upon some other things, I hope. And we also have Shaheen Al Shadi joining us from Phoenix, Arizona. Shaheen, how are we doing, my man?

Oh, we're doing. We're certainly doing. As AK said, is quite an interesting Saturday. A combat sport adjacent maybe. I think a lot of that I know in particular one fight that A.K. had a good time with earlier in the Mayweather card. But yeah, man, I don't know. I mean, that was certainly a UFC card, wasn't it?

We just all watched that. Yeah, I mean, it depends on when you watched. But yeah, certainly it was a card in a UFC octagon in a UFC building. And that's always half the battle. But Jehine, I want to start with you because you've been very high on Andreemini's for a very long time. Very, very high. you and Jed were very confident that Andre Monez was going to put the boots to Brandon Allen and do just really bad things to this man.

And I just wasn't with you guys. Like I picked Andre to win, but I thought this fight was going to be very competitive. I actually thought Brennan Allen was a step up in actual competition compared to Uriah Hall and some of the other opponents that he had. Maybe he didn't have the ranking, the cachet of a Uriah Hall and the name value. But skill for skill, I thought he was better than Uriah Hall. probably anybody else Andreemones is faced inside the octagon. So now that this fight, this main event,

Andreemones has failed attempt to become the middle-weightiest middleweight champion has come and gone, submitted in a third round. How surprised were you to see this all play out? I mean, how surprised? I was very surprised. You're right. Jed and I, we plant ourselves on a lot of corners. You see, when you do that, sometimes you make some terrible mistakes.

I clearly made a terrible mistake on this one. I was on this show yesterday, arguing, vehemently against you, the idea that Andrea Muniz could even be involved in a middleweightiest middleweight title fight. Like he felt like he had was above that. He had transcended about that conversation. But I don't know, man, we were saying, you know, off air. I wonder if it's just almost like all of us want so badly there to be the next Damien Maya,

the Damien Maya evolution that we sort of grasp onto these guys. Like, dude, broke Jacques, Ray's arm. Like, that type of thing. Like, he was so impressive up to this point. but I certainly did not have Brendan Allen out grappling Andre Monez on my bingo car tonight out grappling him. He was, it wasn't even a fluke either, right? Like we saw in that second round hitting those sweeps, top control, everything. He was doing, he was putting the wood to Andre Monez and then in that third round getting the submission. I mean, that was nine to one

odds, right? Like I hope someone out there made a ton of money on the rest of our stupidity, picking Brandon Allen by submission because I just certainly didn't see that coming. And it's in retrospect making me do some reevaluation for how we view. Brandon Allen, right? Because I still am pretty high on Irene Moone's. I still feel like he will be somebody who matters in this division for a while to come. But Brendan Allen has a sneaky good resume in the UFC now. Like he officially does. He's nine and two. I'm sorry, either nine and two or eight and two, right? And the two losses were Chris Curtis and Sean Strickland. Like at a certain point, that's not that bad. That's much better than it really, I think we maybe think of him as

or at least did before tonight. So he's going to wake up with a number next to his name coming Monday. And it's very well deserved, man. Like that was an incredible performance. That was a breakout performance. And to do that on a short notice, not in terms of the fight itself, but knowing that you're sort of closing the show and that there's going to be that much more of a spotlight on your performance.

And like we said, we're leading the show today with it, that type of thing. Very impressive, man. You can't take that anything away from Brennan Allen. I think very few people saw a result like that coming. And that's the best win of his UFC career by far. nine and two inside the octagon uh he's won four in a row he's won six out of his last seven dude is on a tear right now aka brandon allen coming into his own some like i he looks so good in those first two rounds and oftentimes like it happens and i think it happened in like

kind of both of the losses that he had comes out looking good gets excited gets a little too overconfident and then gets just sort of caught with something and it felt like it's certain points in round three. Munez is starting to tag him a little bit, but Brennan was able to keep his composure, got back to what got him to the dance in that position to begin with, took him down, mounted him,

and then eventually just very patiently got himself into the rear naked choke and gets Andre Monez to tap out. So what did you think of Brennan Allen's performance? How much did he burst through the old the ceiling and the expectations that you've had for this man? So impressive.

So impressive. My prediction for this fight is terrible. You guys can find out MMA fighting.com. I had a great website. I had expected Munis to just be the superior grappler. And you know what? Listen, if this was like a straight-up jujitsu competition, maybe he would be. But this is not.

This is M.M.A. We do mix the martial arts here. The grappling isn't quite as straightforward matchup-wise. And I should be taking those things to account. But I think like Shaheen said, we're kind of so excited about what we thought Andre Monez can be. I'm not going to say could because I agree. I think there's still a lot of room for him to improve, learn from this loss, still, you know, get back in the top 10. I think he might lose his number in our rankings. After this loss, we'll see, or Brennan, we'll jump into the top 10. We haven't quite sorted that out yet. But we had an M&A fighting global rankings, we had Munez tied for the number seven spot, 185 pounds. I'm pretty sure he will fall out. Because as we said, it'll be hard for Brennan to jump certain names because he's lost to Sean Strickland and Chris. Curtis. So the MAA mask can get a little tricky here. But yeah, all the credit to Brendan Allen. You know, we can say what we want about Monez maybe looking a lot, maybe not being his best.

But I think Brennan was certainly at his best and he's been on a hot streak. This is consistent with his recent performances. This isn't like, oh, wow, I can't believe Brennan Allen like fall out so well. It's like, no, he's been doing well. Monez has been a step up in competition from some of the guys he recently faced. And he stepped up accordingly. He had the right mindset. He had striking looking looked good. Again, it got a little dicey at times, but overall striking looked good. Grappling, we know that's one of his strengths. Did we know that he could, he would get the better of Andremenis in the ground? I certainly did it, but he had the sweep. He got submission finished in the third round. Just a really, really solid performance. And I do want to say, I don't know if

everyone knows what we mean when we're talking about middle weighty, middleweight and the middleweightiest middleweight title, right? Because I worry that I kind of see why Shaheen. had this difficulty of placing Muniz in that area because I would have two. I would have two. I think we prefer our middle weighty middleweights to not be ranked.

Normally they're unranked. I think if you're a middleweighty, middleweight. And Muniz was undefeated in the UFC so far. Like we said, top 10 in our rankings. I think top 10 in the official ranking. So it almost seems ineligible. But boy, Brendan Allen, unquestionably a very middleweighty, middleweight,

brought out the middleweight in him. This word is starting to lose all meaning now. I'm saying it too much. They brought out the middle one in him. Because we got, again, for people who don't know what we mean, this division 185 has had a history of taking, like, there's just a lot of skilled fighters in there. For some reason, at some point, they get matched up

and just these fights become these sort of formless blobs. We're like, jiu-jitsu experts can't quite show off their jiu-jitsu. Wrestlers can't quite show up their wrestling. Strikers can't show off their striking. And you get these weird back-and-forth battles where you just don't get the sense that either guy is, is showing off their best. Like I said,

tonight it was a little different. I think Brendan Allen, even though, whatever, it wasn't maybe not an A plus performance. It was like a solid A. It looked great. But yeah,

middleweight is just that division. Every division has their qualities. We're starting to see some of that in heavyweight too. I mean, I don't know how much we're going to talk about Augusta Sakai and on Dantelle Mae's the new penultimate fight of the evening. But that and then we had the heavyweight fight or light heavyweight fight. No,

heavyweight fight last week, which had a similar quality to it. So heavyweight's getting there too. But middleweight has historically. been talented fighters that at some point it just becomes I don't know for some reason they can't put it all together when they get in there if anyone wants an idea of what I'm talking about Phil McKenzie and Connor Robush from Bloody Albo had they used to have a series called the League of Extraordinary Journeymen with theirs they specifically talked about

the phenomena so the research is a little old but for anyone not familiar with what we're our description of the middleweight division go go check that out that's on Bloody Albo still and really look at any of our tweets and comments about middleweight for the last what two or three years I don't know for the longest time that's just how the division is look here's how it became a thing Christoph Jocko was like the ultimate number 16th

ranked middleweight and for anybody who wanted to get ranked you had to beat him and if you beat him then you became a rank guy but if you couldn't you weren't you just wouldn't and Jocko's just beating everybody he's just eking out decisions against all these guys who were like so close so as that just continued to evolve. We just started after the Gerald Mirashart win, he was officially the middleweight champion because we thought maybe GM3 was going to get over that home and he just

couldn't. And then he was officially crowned that that champion. And then he fights Brennan Allen next. Brennan Allen beats him. So henceforth, he becomes the middleweightiest middleweight champion. But I feel like this has become such a thing. Like people are talking about it on Twitter. I think it was trending at one point, middleweightiest middleweight. Like people are just talking about this thing. This could be the. the evolution of the middle-weightiest middleweight title. Brennan Allen could put his whole new twist on it. He could throw the belt in the trash and create his own new title.

Like there's so much he can do with the power that he possesses after this victory over Andre Meneese. It's unbelievable. And that leads me to you, Shaheen, because AK, you and I are going to talk about this tomorrow. Sean, you're a wrestling fan. Do you remember when Chris Jericho was feuding with Dean Malenko? And he said, oh, yeah, Dean Malenko, you're the man of a thousand holes.

Well, the man of a thousand and four holds. And he pulled out like this printer paper that was all attached together. and he read off each hold one of the time. I felt like that's what Brennan Allen did with this callout tonight. He just took out a big piece of paper unrolled it and read every middleweight's name off the list in hopes of getting somebody. So if you are the UFC middleweight matchmaker right now,

you're seeing Brennan Allen with this title, first title defense, big win over a guy like Andrenees. What do you do with them? What do you do with this man? Hmm, that's a good question. And I would say first, Also, the man called his shot. I have to say, I have to just throw that out there.

The man called his shot. If you check out MMA fighting a great website, if you check it out this morning, an article came out from our good friend, Damon Martin. Brendan Allen welcomes grappling batter with Andre Muni's quote, I think my jiu-jitsu is just as good, if not better. Man, called his shot to a T. And no one believed him.

I'm sure when that article went out, all that you could imagine what the comments were. But man, pulled it off. Who's next? That's a good question. For me, I mean, you're right. He kind of just sprayed the entire middleweight division there. He kind of just scattershot at that into the crowd and see who's going to bite.

I would like the Sean Strickland rematch if you kind of give me my druthers. That feels like an interesting fight for the time. Sean's sort of in this same place in the division where he's kind of in that 10 to 15 range that I think Brandon Allen's now probably in as well. That to me feels like it'd be a good time for it. In regard, really, I mean, there's not a, I wouldn't say there's a wrong answer, right? Roman Dolities, like, I think that could be good. Jack Hermanson, if you want to.

to talk about middle weightiest middle weights, keep this train rolling. I think anyone in that range feels good of just sort of the lower end of the top 15, top 10 type of range. Yeah. And I mean, Brett and Allen picked a great time to win this fight because we got DDP Derek Brunson next week. Marvin Vittori's fighting Roman DeLidezze at the London card. UFC 286. So Hermanson doesn't have a dance partner. Who knows what the hell is going on with Paul Costa right now?

So this is a great opportunity to get a win and have a great performance. And Brennan Allen gets it done becomes the main event after Nikita Krilov gets, shows up to the apex. He's ill, not cleared to fight. Ryan Span reacted to it. Just I felt so bad for the guy like initially. And then after watching his scrum in the back with the media members, man, your heart just broke for that, man.

Go to MAAFlying.com and check that out, courtesy of our friends over at MMA mania. But congratulations to Brennan Al. Adjimenez, look, this guy is, he may not be fighting for a world title, but he's still very, very good. This is a setback. Nobody goes undefeated. It just doesn't happen unless you Garaslav Amasov or Habib Naramagamadov and John Jones, depending on who you ask. But guys still really good. There's still fun fights for him.

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Visit our Holtz holiday shop and store or online at Holtrenfrew.com. No, AK, you mentioned the Dantel May's Augustus Suckeye fight, and that's as much as we're going to talk about it unless people want to ask about it. But I think what people want to hear about and want to talk about is the successful return of Tatiana Suarez, AK, she comes back, Montana de la Rosa, brought the fight to her, Little rusty at first. Tatiana had to get her bearings about her.

And then eventually, once she got cooking and once that gear shifted up, boy, she was a wrecking ball, gets a submission. She was all fired up, very emotional, rightfully so. Her man, Patchy Mixed in her corner, shouted him out. What did you think of Tatiana's performance? Did this live up to the expectations you had? Because it was kind of impossible, right? It was kind of almost like unreachable expectations of what people wanted to see from her.

Yeah, I think this is why we talk about so much MMA, and I'm not blaming the UFC for this. I don't know if this is possible with just the way MMA is structured, like the concept of Tuneup fights. This is why Tuna Fights are so valuable. This is why fighters like Montana Delorosa

in her own way are valuable. Just talking about Montana for a second, she's a tough fighter. She has a skill set that theoretically could at least give difficulty to a fighter like Tatiana Suarez. But at the same time, if you're the UFC, you probably don't view Montana as a contender. You think that she's someone that Tatiana can be.

Anyone watching me now is saying, duh, to every statement. And I'm like, yeah, this is how combat sports should work. You wish that when a fighter was coming back or a fighter who's falling in the rankings, like at Edmund Chabazian, for example, like you wish they gave them fights like this to properly gauge where they are as opposed to just keep throwing them up against the brick wall of other contenders, of up-and-coming fighters. So again, I say this respect to Montana. She was the right matchup for Tatiana and Tatiana Suarez played it perfectly.

I mean, we in our picks, we do picks every week on our Slack channel. All of us pick second round finish for Tatiana Suarez. I think we all assumed it would be a bit of a feeling out period, which is what we saw. It wasn't like she just came out double-leg Montana Delirosa right away, slammed her and went to work. It's like, no, she had to go to work as the fan. She had to, you could see her just kind of having to rediscover the rhythm of being. in a fight of doing MMA like actual competitive grappling because I'm sure she's all the hours she put in practice. It's just never the same as actually being in there and going against someone

that is fighting for their life, fighting for their careers. So she fought very smart. I thought the first round, very competitive. And then the second round, we saw what makes her so special. We saw the grappling. We saw her take over. We saw that strength. We saw her takeover. Again, fighting in a weight class that is not her own. She certainly looks like a healthy sized flyweight. But again, this is 10 pounds heavier than she normally competes plus you know i don't know whatever wage you know she actually waited on a fight night so um yeah it played out as we expected she if people think that you know or sorry thought that tatyana suarez was a surefire contender three years ago i don't see why that that should change after tonight um this this was the right matchup for her and it was the it was a

great performance and most boring i think everyone's really excited to see her next fight and that that's you know the whole that's one another uh objective of a tune-up fight is is make this fighter familiar with people again and build up her next appearance. So I think it did that in spades. So top marks 10 out of 10 all around for the matchmakers and for Tatyada Suarez. We'll get Shaheen's reaction to this in a moment.

But Casey, we do have some breaking news if you want to fire the breaking news music. We have bonuses, ladies and gentlemen. Yeah, this is weird. Not surprising. Not surprising. Brendan Allen, performance of the night. Tatiana Swarres.

performance of the night. But also Mike Malott performance of the night. Trevor Peek performance of the night. Jordan Levitt performance of the night. And Joe Selecki performance of the night. So anyone who got a finish night got themselves an extra 50 Gs. What? There you go.

You love to see it. Finish bonuses, baby. Hold on. You love to see it. But why? Why this card? I don't understand. How is this fair to fighters on other cards?

Like, I don't understand. They had a whole bunch of extra money because they didn't have to pay the main eventors tonight. But why doesn't, I'm just looking at last week's card, by the way. Why doesn't Philippe Lins get a bonus for a 49 second knockout last week? Why is he stiff 50 Gs? Like, how is this fair? We mentioned this, I think, after UFC 283, which is a really good card, had a ton of exciting finishes. And only four bonuses were handed out there, one fight of the night.

Like, I'm so glad all these guys got paid. But this should be, as Jean just said, it should be a finish bonus. Yeah. It's just ridiculous. Like, I'd be so pissed if I'm one of these fighters and on one of these other cards. Why did they choose arbitrarily to give out six bonuses tonight? This is dumb. I mean, you go back 15 years, they were arbitrarily choosing that certain cards would be 80K,

certain cards would be 90K, certain cards would be 100K. And that's always how this stupid system works. You just end up, you just pray that you're on the right side of the arbitrary luck, right? Finish bonuses is the way, though. At least I'm glad they did that tonight. Like, if that's just the thing we're going to do, moving forward, that would be excellent. Obviously, we know that's not going to be the case,

but that would be great. That would be great. And then if there's like an absolute banger, give that fight of the night too. Like, you can do it. You have the money. You can do it. You can do it.

That's the thing. The fans always argue like, oh, it's not your money. It's easy for you to give it away. Y'all, they were literally given out 80K bonuses 15 years ago, guys. Like, they were giving out more money way back in the day.

Like, they've made a money hand over fist. they have the money. They're fine. Don't worry about the UFC. Yeah. If I had their money, I'd probably give more on bonuses, but I don't have their money.

So, I mean, if they want a couple bucks, I can help you out there. You're a generous man, Mike. We all know you're a generous man. I try to do it. I try to do what I can. But Tatiana Suarez is $50,000 richer Shaheen,

and she should be after that performance. Did this live up to the expectations for you? Because we've been waiting almost four years for this. And she comes back. I thought Montana Della Rose is a perfect opponent to come back to. She ain't going to back down. Good size. She's strong.

She's tough. She's got skills everywhere. She's good at everything. I thought this is perfect matchmaking. And this fight played out almost exactly the way I thought it would. Did it live up to expectations as an interesting way to frame it? Because I think a lot of people probably had expectations that maybe surpassed what we saw tonight. Right.

Like she wasn't ever in trouble tonight. It was a route pretty through and through. But she did sort of take a whole. while to get her bearings. But to that, to anyone who I would say is disappointed or maybe underwhelmed by this like, again, contextualize it, right? Four years, basically, four years away, it is not an easy thing to come in here. And four years away, just reacclimate yourself right away to the situation, the lights, live opposition rather than sparring, all of that. Not everybody can be dominant crews who can come back after three, four year breaks and

destroy it to give him as a gaki and like less than a minute or win a belt against T.J. Dillishol. Like, that's just not the norm. So like AK said, I think on our Slack channel, our internal Slack channel, we all picked second round finish. It seemed like that was always going to kind of be the path. Take those first five minutes, really feel your way through it, reaclimate yourself to the Octagon and just this environment and then really go for it. And that's what we saw. And to me, I was impressed by Tatiana Suarez coming back from such a long layoff like this and really kind of throwing up a flawless performance, right? Like she was never really in trouble.

She didn't really get hurt. She kind of was able to be successful in everything she was trying to do in there. And that's the thing, man. Like if Tatiana Suarez is able to be here this year, that is a good thing for the women's divisions as a whole. Because this is one of the best talents in women's MMA, or at least she was back in 2018, 2017, 2019 range when all of us were out here saying that she's going to be a future champion. At 115, she instantly makes that top mix so much more interesting than it's been in a while because we've kind of had the same, for as fun, as most of these fights have been. And I say most because obviously you have Rose and Carla out there sitting on an island.

But for the most part, these top fights at 115 have been really fun. But they've also just been retreads and recycling of the same few people, right? Rose, Carla, Zhang, and Raj, right? Those four are sort of just cycling it out and Yohanna was in that mix too before she retired. Swarres instantly to me belongs in that conversation. I don't know that I instantly want to see her fight anyone of that ilk, although maybe Carla, Carla rematch would be interesting. I think a similar result would play out in the way we saw it in 2018.

But I would still like to see Tadiana maybe get one more to work her way into that mix at 115, get the weight cut right, really just do this. We can slow roll this to a certain degree. We don't need to just rush her there. But she belongs just talent-wise now in that conversation in my mind. And one thing that makes her really supremely interesting for a potential opponent for Zhang, ultimately down the road, is something that I think A.K. which is the strength, right?

Like Tatiana Soros is so impossibly strong at 115, and that is exactly what we've seen from Zhang as well. She is just a fire hydrant in there. She is so strong, and this combined strength of those two women, the way their styles would mesh together, to me would be a supremely interesting fight. I hope we can get to it. But tonight was a perfect first step, again,

reintroducing herself. I think also, like, she has been gone long enough to where the actual MMA audience, or at least 50%, 60% of the MMA audience right now, a lot of the new fans, pandemic fans, they probably have no idea who Tatiana Suarez is, right? Like, we're just talking about her in these terms and in these glowing ways.

But I think a lot of the fan base, this was probably their first experience with Tatiana Suarez unless they went back and rewatch some of her old fights. So again, just reintroducing yourself to a whole new fan base, reintroducing yourself after four years away, and reintroducing yourself just to an environment with these type of stakes. I think Tatiana Suarez passed every time. test that she could have tonight.

And I'm very excited for the idea of this being her year to finally get back and be healthy because I still have a lot of faith in her. I had a friend that I went to high school with Texpe today about that exact thing. And he knew who Trevor Peek was more than Tatiana Svora's heading in tonight. It's a long time, man. That's insane to think about. Oh, man. What a performance.

Yeah, 115's going to be a lot of fun. AK, I'm sure we'll be talking about the match. making for her. I think Montana de la Rosa deserves a lot of credit. That is she's been putting a lot of tough positions. She has just fought killer after killer. Apparently Dana White's talking to the media right now and she put Montana over as a badass. So good on her. It's just a tough fight. Not a lot of people are going to say yes to Montana probably didn't even hesitate to say yes. And I thought this is perfect matchmaking. This is the perfect opponent. And Montana had some moments in the fight and showed that she's strong as hell too. So good stuff. Congratulations.

Congratulations to Tatyados Juarez. What a year it's going to be for her and her boyfriend, Patchy Mix, who's about to fight Rafihan Stats for the interim Bannamweight title in Bellator in April in Hawaii for the million dollars. So great performance there. A.K., let me go to you. Any other performance that really stood out to you today?

I mentioned Trevor Peek. There's some others from the bonus winners. Any fight, any individual performance kind of under the radar that isn't going to aid? particularly well with this never-ending news cycle that you would like to shout out here. I got to talk about Canadians, Mike. I mean, Mike Malat winning 50 G's for that, you know, he was expected to be Johann Linus, but still, great job. Another finish for him, 2 and 0 in the UFC, both by Finnish.

And 50,000 USD, you know, that's like 800,000 Canadian. So he's become, like, he's going to come back to Ontario. And it's just, it's literally changes the whole economy, him getting that bonus. So I'm a little scared, but congrats to him. And I just want to say this name because I want to say how she said it was pronounced on the Ameri. Yasmin Yasudavishis, apparently, is the, you know, if you don't want to anglicize it. So I'm going to try and roll with that. I'm just going to say Jasmine Jasmine, Jasmin because it's much easier.

But Yasadavish is looked great. She looked great. She was the underdog going in, if I'm not mistaken. I believe the line had gone in favor of Gabriella Fernandez. Very slight, very slight. people have been counting out, Jasmine. I don't think her last fight, obviously she didn't look that great in it. You have people like Connor Burke's hating on her, and he's paid the price.

He's taking his looks on social media, so he's a good man. I'd get a shout up both of my Canadians. I don't know what the ceiling for both these fighters are. I'll be honest. I think Malotte looks good at Welterweight, but again, we'll see. You know how it is with me. I like to see a guy or gal go like three and O and then give them a step up. So let's take our time with Mike Malott.

This was only his ninth pro fight, I think, ninth or tenth pro fights. So he looks, you know, he looks like a guy who's more advanced than that, but I don't see any needs to rush him to rush him anywhere. So good from a lot. And same with that Jasmine. It's, listen, we know flyways actually, you know, a tougher division than people give it credit for. We've been saying this for years. Some people, Air Hawani, just recently gone in the bandwagon saying like, oh, this is suddenly such an intriguing division. We've been, we've been binging up women's 125 for a long time.

So I don't know where she sits in that. But two and one, the UFC, not bad. Again, looks more experienced than her record would suggest. So I don't know. Maybe she does have a future as of ranked, Flaue. But either way, I'm not projecting any big things for either fighter yet. Typical humble Canadian. But I was happy to see him get the win.

And good day, good day for Canadians overall. Shout out to Jeremy Kennedy. Yes. Shaheen, who is like your 10th player award winner for UFC Vegas 70? I mean, I'm not even going to do that. I'm going to just change the question. I'm going to go off the board. I'm talking about Yaroslav Amosov because what we just saw today at Bellator 291,

like I don't even know if we're going to get to it. We just thought one of the best welterweights in the world, ladies and gentlemen. Like this is, it's official you have to pay attention. You don't have to do anything. You do whatever you want. I'm not your dad. But you should pay attention if you're a good MMA fan because Yaroslav Amasov just pulled off an incredible feat tonight coming in here, basically beating the brakes off at Logan

Storley far, far, far. worse than he did the first time around these guys fought. This man just basically lost a year off of the prime of his career, fighting a war, an actual war to defend his country from an invasion and somehow came in here tonight looking better and more prepared and more well-rounded and just generally more dangerous than he ever has before in his entire life. He looks sensational, Mike. Like Yaroslav Emasov, we has been out of sight, out of mind because he hasn't really fought since 2021. But this man is 27 and 0 at this point. That is an obscene record to pull off at MMA. And a lot of that is against very high level competition, regardless of what you think

of Bellator. Yarrasov Amasov just pulled off one of the feel good stories of the year today. And again, I am so supremely impressed by this guy. And if you have a top 10 just globally when it comes to the welterweight rankings and you don't have Yaroslav Amosov and your top 10, you're just doing it wrong. That's frankly, that's the truth. You're just a bellator. or hater at this point. Because that man, again, so damn impressed on a lot of facets, on a lot of factors of how he pulled off what he pulled off tonight. Because Logan Storley is no one's mark and Yaroslav Amosov handled him easy, man.

That was an incredible fight. That was the most incredible performance of the night. It is impossible to look good in a fight against Logan Storley. It's impossible to look good against him. Even when Amosov beat him the first time, he didn't look good. There's a fun fight. Like he made Storley a little more fun, but he didn't. didn't look great in that fight.

He looked good enough to win. He looked spectacular tonight. He looked like a top five months or wait? I think he's a top five months away. His striking got so much better. Like it's, and it was really good anyways. And people don't really talk about it

because they remember the Douglas Lima fight. And he just took leave it out over and over and over again, just frustrated a hell out of him. But man, he was the, the footwork, the movement, everything he did tonight was just a spot on.

He had storily bleeding like a sieve. Three minutes into the, fight. It was crazy. He just looked, he looked fantastic. I will say this AK, and I'll let you wax poetically on Amazon if you like as well. Yaroslav Amasov, in my rankings, at worst, will be number six.

He might be number five. I can't hate it. But he will have it number five. On ours right now, I have him number five. I can't hate on it. Yeah, he's that good. I'm that impressed. And I think he beats a lot. I don't know if he's the best wealth for it in the world, but he beats a lot of guys. He beats a lot of guys

in that top 10. A.K., your thoughts on Amazon's performance, and why are you going to rank him number 13? No, no. Listen, hey, listen, I have him higher than most. Listen, this is one of the situations where I'm not going gaga about it because I already had him ranked higher than most of you jokers did. All right, I know about Amosov. I've spoken to Amosov. He's a good, humble man.

I'm a fan. I have him at number seven already. Now, the question is how much am I going to move him up? I know, and again in our internal discussions, we've kind of all thrown out some names that Amosov should jump over. And I kind of agree. It's hard. We've talked about this with Lorenz Larkin recently. We've talked about it with what's going to happen with Johnny Elblen going forward is Amosov is at risk of getting bellotored, which is to say it's hard for them to find really top shelf.

comparable competition for him to face in that promotion right now. There's good names. Like he, like I said, he can rack up tail defenses, Amosov and Abilom, I'm talking about both them. They can rack up tail defenses there, but these fighters just don't have that cachet

or just don't have that track record that you have when you're fighting in the UFC. That's just how it is. That's just how it is. And I'm not just saying it's a matter of name. I do think if you look at some of the best names the UFC and you look at their histories, there's a reason why they are in the top 10.

It isn't just the promotion they fight for. So, yeah, I don't know how high Ebbling go. I don't know how high Amosov can go. In my rankings, he's behind like Bala Muhammad, Colby Cumberton, and Gilbert Burns. Those are three names directly ahead of him. And theoretically, he should be able to jump them. But all those guys have such strong resumes and have done well recently. It's not like any of these guys have really fallen off.

We can debate the Covington thing if we want to. He just hasn't fought. But it's hard for him to put him over him. So I'm not going to make any guarantees right now that he rises above seven. there is a chance I just keep him there. I don't want to get, you know, too caught up in the moment because I like Amazon a lot, but I already had him high. So I don't know if I necessarily feel the need to course correct here and suddenly bolt him up.

But certainly, I will say this, you match him up with anyone ahead of him. I like his chances. I literally, maybe Shama if you want to, you know, if you're still on that bandwagon, which I kind of am, that's the one where I would like definitely pick Shamaio to beat him. But I like how he matched up with Leon Edwards, Usman, Burns, all these guys like Muhammad. He's really good. He's just a really good, well-rounded, welterweight, and 27 and out doesn't happen by accident.

Yes. Shout out to Trevor Peek. That guy's just wonderful. No shout out to Kerry Hatley for allowing poor Eric Gonzalez to just take way too much punishment. Like, that was brutal. He gets knocked down. Trevor Peek, just being the wonderful man that he is,

looking at the referee, like, we're done here, right? And the ref's just standing there. And he goes, oh, man, and he has to actually unleash too brutal upper. cuts finally halley steps in stops it uh Trevor peak is just so much fun so congratulations to him and then uh one more for bellator we talked about this on the on the people's pre fight show the bellator prelims are kind of tough to watch they were just it was just long it felt like where i was watching bellator fights for like 14 hours uh but just so we needed to finish just so we

needed to to change course a little bit young norbert norvenny junior comes in and just throttles a man in like three minutes. Every time he touched this man, he fell to the floor. And the referee just was like, dude, if I let you continue to fight, you're going to get hurt real, real bad. So this is the opposite of what Kerry Hatley did and young Norbert, Novenye Jr. At just 23 years of age, this man is a problem at 185 pounds. This man could be contending for the middleweightiest middleweight title representing Team Bellator. But this kid's going to be real good.

a fight is going to happen in the next three years between this guy and Johnny Eblen and it is going to be unreal. So just preparing you. That's how high I am in this kid. He's not going to fight him anytime soon, but two to three years, he missed two and a half years already

due to an injury and COVID and all this stuff, but he came back in a big way tonight and just we needed to finish so badly he comes through and gives it to us. So congratulations to him. Yeah, I mean, look, It wasn't a bad night of fights. Sucked losing the main event.

We got what? We ended up a 10. 10 fights. Pretty solid. We saw more history, too. We saw more history. We saw the continuation of the domination, the legacy of Phil DeFries. KSW, the greatest heavyweight champion in the history of Poland.

Are you kidding me? Phil DeFries. What is this now? Eight, eight title defenses deep? Eight in a row. That's the greatest heavyweight title run besides Fador. Like, what are we talking about? This is great.

He demolished Todd Duffy too. Like that wasn't even a fight. Todd Duffin didn't put up any sort of fight that that was a wash through and through. And then calls out Alcer Overeem. Like let's get Alcer Overeem on those KSW PEDs, you know, like those KSW drugs. Get them all juiced up. Get Uber Eam back. Throw him in against Phil DeFries.

Let's go. Let's have some fun, Mike. I'm so fired up right now. I didn't think it'd be dischacked up after UFC Vegas 70. Jordan Levitch is chucking them out there. getting knockouts. That was pretty impressive. O'Day Osborne, Charles Johnson.

It's a fun fight. Joe Selecky, what a nice guy. What a great family. His wife's pregnant, about to have the next kid. And Joe's like, oh, you know, I know you can't come to Vegas. Like, I'm sorry I had to leave you. And she just came to Vegas anyway. Surprised him during his weight cut.

I mean, what a couple of those two are. And then Nerulo Aliev, apparently biting people. but still winning fights? I don't know. I didn't like I know it. We were doing the pre-fight show. I had no idea what happened. What's the golden rule?

Just cheat. Always cheat. Always cheat. If you're not cheating, you're not trying. I didn't think biting would be a part of the, the cheating, the cheating festivities. But hey, listen, apparently nothing is off limits at this point. And he gets his first UFC win. So good job, buddy.

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Product availability varies by region. See app for details. Do we have questions, Casey? How are the peeps reacting to such a wild day of condoms? Oh, the poll, okay. The poll, by the way, the poll. We didn't even get to AK's favorite part of the day. No, of course.

Listen, who won, we put a poll up. We got a lot of votes already. Who won Saturday Fight Day? Of course, UFC, I guess it's the one most people watched, 46%. Bell Tour actually pretty close behind, 32%. And KSWT, Tied with Mayweather Chalmers at 11%. Mayweather Chalmers had like nothing when I started the polls. So a late surge there, I guess people want to talk about it.

There's not a lot to say. It was a pretty dull watch. Not like bad. It had a very brisk pace. There was literally almost no like padding. It was like a fight. All the fights were exhibitions, I think. Yeah, all the fights were exhibitions.

So it was an exhibition ranging anywhere from three to four, like three to four rounds. I don't think any of the ones on the undercard were more than four rounds. Two minute rounds. So the fights were brisk. Again, they would talk about it a little bit after, send out the next people. So the fights were not particularly great. Some people put in a really fine effort.

I'm not going to hate on that, but there just wasn't a lot of excitement. I'm not surprised the crowd took their time. The crowd O2 Arena is where this took place. Kind of took their time shuffling in, but it seemed like a pretty decent house by the end. The co-main, I shouldn't even call it that, but I guess we have to. Shaheen, I know you and I were both watching this featuring these. We've made terrible decisions in our life. Okay, two women, Natalie Nunn and Tommy Lee.

I'm guessing some people are more familiar with these two women than I am. You had to do some Googling. Their housewives of Atlanta? It was something like Love and Hip Hop, Atlanta. Oh, Love and Hip Hop, Atlanta, excuse me. I don't know. I don't know if this is right.

It sounds like their previous reality show veterans, much like Aaron Chombers himself in the main event. And then they were also, they're part of a new show. I'm doing free advertisement here, people. A new show on the Zeus Network, It's an online. I don't think it's a TV channel. For sure, it's online only.

The Zeus network called Badi's? Sheen, Sheen, I'm going to you. I'm throwing to you here. Don't leave me hanging because you were talking about this for the rest of the night. You, you, you, you referenced this fight in our private conversations like seven or eight times after, like, later on. And I was like, stop. I meant to say, stop talking about the baddies. it was just a really ugly

I mean it feel based on the description you can tell I couldn't find a video I don't know if anyone like like a legal video but just these two women who did not look to be anywhere near the same weight class throwing hands literally

like not boxing just literally one of them was definitely not wearing like a boxing top like it was not no it was like a normal like workout top or something anyway and then it was weird She weird the one you're talking about I believe this is Tommy Lee Like she kind of like flopped down in between rounds and they thought she was hurt

But she was like trolling them it was really weird and then they had to think a pony Pony Taze savage Yes well she was getting wrecked and then they went to go and then the referee's like okay This is enough. This is ridiculous and then her corner was like oh don't worry We're just gonna fix up her ponytail. It's like causing a vision issue so she thought the fight was gonna continue And the referee was saying mobile time like no no it's over this fight is over So I wish I could tell people to go find a replay of it or find more coverage of it on mabiding.com,

but we didn't really talk about it much. I don't want to make a post for it. We're talking about it a lot now. I literally, to let the people know, I jumped into, I was the last one to jump into our little video thing that we have going on here. You guys were already talking.

And as I jumped in, you, the first thing you said to me was, you can't mention the baddies, Sean. You can't mention the baddies. You just did like a whole play-by-play at the baddies. Exactly. I said, I said you can't. that's just yes my wording was very specific i didn't say none of us can i said you can't

because i think you because you loved it too much and is there something you'd like to say about that fight gene uh no no i think you covered most of it okay and then i'm pretty sure the replay that has been wiped off the internet already yeah okay and i didn't see anyone tweeting anything about even caposa didn't touch that or or matisic on twitter and these guys cover everything so is there going to be a robbery review uh yeah definitely no Definitely. That's the coverage you're going to say. But Mayweather Chalmers was what you would expect.

This was an eight-round fight, though originally on screen they had it as six rounds. It was very confusing. The broadcast seemed to not know how many rounds there were. I believe it was advertised as eight-round or two, so I'm not sure what happened there. So eventually two rounds were tacked on. And the Cromptor was like, oh, are they just getting extra rounds? Anyway. But yeah, Aaron Chomers, Bell, Beltor veteran, not the most seasoned boxer.

couldn't touch Floyd for eight rounds. I mean, Floyd was just styling on, talking to the cameraman. He's talking to people at ringside, talking to his corner, just talking to Aaron Chombers. And picking out part with his jab, it was like, it was, listen, if you like Floyd Mayweather, not a good human being, but it's certainly a good boxer. You probably enjoyed it. You got to see a lot of what Floyd does in his fights, but even more offensive than usual, because he's fighting a guy who he's not, has zero fear of.

And, yeah, people who went to go paid whatever paid their hard-earned money to watch them at the OT Arena, certainly got their money's worth. They got to see Floyd Mayweather Box. And that was it. So I don't know. Like not, it's weird. I'm kind of passionateless about the event.

Like I don't, it wasn't the best I ever seen. No, but if you, I mean, the baddies, listen, if you paid,

but if you paid money for this, if you're, if you're like, I'm a huge Floyd Mayweather fan, I just want to see Floyd Mayweather fight. I'm paying pay for you or I'm paying for a ticket. You weren't, you weren't disappointed.

You were like, yeah, this is, this is what, this is what, Floyd Mayweather, Floyd Mayweather exhibitions are for the rest of time, then you're probably going to be happy following

his exhibition career, because this is what you get. If you're a baddie's fan, did you get your money's worth? You got more than your money's worth. You should have paid extra if you were a baddies fan. Sounds like a great show. That's all I hear. A.K. How was the crowd?

Because I mean, I saw videos of people like walking through the concourse and there was literally nobody in the conference at all. I saw that too. That was a little unfair because that was, Like just before the quote unquote undercard started. And the undercard, like I said, was not, was bad. It was bad. It was all exhibition bouts.

Some other, I think there was another influencer fight on there, but I wasn't familiar with either boxer. So that obviously wasn't enough to draw people in to come in early. That's why someone would, if you're just watching from home, you'd be like, oh, yeah, I know this person. But you wouldn't show up early for them. Because again, like I said, by the main event, even by the third to last fight in the card,

I think it was about as filled up as it could be. I don't know if it's sold out. But it was a healthy crowd. So those videos were a little unfair. There were people there. Okay. A.K., you left out the best part of the Chalmers Mayweather fight, the whole experience, which was like, so the whole time these guys are fighting, it says round one of six,

round one of six, or two of six, three of six, like the whole way. Yeah. Then we finished round six, and it seemed like everyone in ring just sort of unanimously decided, like, hey, let's just do two more. You guys were going to go to eight? Let's just go to eight. And so, like, the announcers had no idea it was going. going on.

And all of a fantastic. Yeah. It was a great audible. Hold on. Listen, I mentioned this.

And then all of a sudden, the counter at the bottom is round seven of eight. They just had it ready. One more round. One more round. Hold on. We can't misrepresent this.

I believe it was advertised in an eight round fight and the broadcast just screwed up. The broadcast did not know what was done. Dude. Because we originally, even if anyone was following the live blog, we originally had it as an eight rounder. So I do think, and then I was literally changing it on the fly.

I'm like, okay, it's a sixth rounder. I'm on the MMA hour this week, though, had no idea whether it was six or something. It was just kind of in the air the entire time. Whatever we feel like once we get to that moment. There's a lot. It's true, though. There's a lot of things we didn't know.

Oh, yeah. Whether it would even happen, Floyd didn't show up to the way-ins, like the ceremonial way-ins. When it's your birthday, you got a birthday business to attend, so you can't be on Friday. You know a lot of birthdays, okay. I love it.

I love them. I will say, because we haven't mentioned it yet, and I was the one who covered one championship for the website yesterday. I do just want to mention the one championship made event Friday night because it was utterly sensational. It was probably my favorite fight of February, unless I'm missing one that just off the top of my head just thinking about it. But, like, Fabriceo Androd versus John Lineker.

If you haven't seen that, dial up Amazon Prime, go watch that. That was a hell of a fight, man. Hell of a scrap. And And And Drod is for real. guys. Like he he put the wood to John Lineker to the point where John Linear's team had to stop it going into the fifth round. And it was incredibly brave and incorrect call by his team to stop it. Like all the kudos in the world to John Linegar's team for making that executive decision right there because we've seen it in MMA that that's just not a very acceptable, accepted sort

of practice in MMA to stop these fights mid-round and save the fighters from themselves. Especially because I'm like Linnaker who has, he still had a path of victory. He still had that path of victory. And they and they were brave enough to save their fighter. Braves the right call. Yeah. No, no, Braves the perfect call. Because you're 100% right.

Even in that fourth round, Linneker was landing his trademark Linneker hooks. Like he was landing a couple of them. But dude, Androd had a, has a chin on it, man.

He was eating those. Like it was nothing and just walking through it, straight through it. That's not twice. This man's just really blasted the hell out of John Linneker for a 25-year-old.

Like, I know people aren't going to be thinking about Fabricio Androd a lot in the US when it comes to top band weights or feather weights or whatever you want to consider these dudes in one championship. But man, that kid's a talent.

That is, that was an utterly sensational fight. Did you enjoy that fight more than Makachov-volkovsky? No, so there you go. I knew there was one of his business. I was curious. I mean, I don't know if there's a wrong answer to this

because I, they were both enjoyable in totally different ways. You know what I mean? Like this, I mean, that was a fun fight. That was really fun to watch last night. It was a different. fun. And it was in a ring. And it was in a ring.

It was in a ring. So much better. At Lumpai, I guess the new Lumpet, how do you say it? Lumpet Stadium in Thailand. So that was awesome. I just wish that place was lit up. So it was just really, it's shot so weird. Did it look really under exposed to you on your TV?

Like some shots were just dark. Okay. Yeah. The production is a little strange. It was like, it's just dark. It was just weird. Okay. I wasn't sure it was my TV or not.

So I'm glad that everyone's weird experience. But yeah. I will say, too, for anyone who's fiending for extra violence, the fight right before the Lineker fight was like a Muay Thai one championship, championship fight. I'm not a Muay Thai guy, so I'm not familiar with either the two gentlemen, but ended in like a 40-something second leg kick, K.O. Go watch that.

Go watch that. Go watch that. It was. Oh, that'll give you nightmares. No crazy leg break or anything like that, but just. no thud and just like baseball bet yeah yeah just instant yeah it's weird like we get guys get like really good body shots you know it's like a half second second you get a really hard leg kick it's like immediate i'm out yeah he literally just why it was like it was instant as soon as

it kicked and like before his opponent's foot even hits the ground he just like I'm done it was amazing all right Lord of the peeps saying, Casey? We have a few questions, yeah. Oops. Okay. Let me see what we got here. Yeah, a lot of love for Amazon, actually, in the comment.

So I'm glad we brought it up. Yeah, a lot of love for him. We have a very sophisticated fan base here at MMA. Yeah, we do. We love you guys. We say it all the time. We say it all the time. Fight of the weekend, yep.

Yep, yep, yep. He's right. Uh, do, do, too, um, uh, I had it. I'm sorry. Um, super bummed out for my teammate. Eric Gonzalez is getting his butt kick tonight. But let's talk about Trevor Peak. Eric Gonzalez versus Trevor Peak was a crazy fight.

What is the ceiling for Trevor Peak? And what is next for him? Perhaps he'll be a wild card on onto the next one. So I don't want to give my answer, James. I don't know yet. But, uh, Shaheen, I mean, Trevor's just fun, man. Like, he is just super fun. That's what you saw tonight is what you're going to see.

every time that man fights. He's, he's very luke-ish in a lot of ways where it's just like, but not quite, he's a greener version of luke, if that makes sense. And that, I mean,

that's just amazing, right? This guy's so fun. Nico Price-ish. He's in the middle. He's like, kind of in the middle. Can I suggest,

I mean, he's a bit of a lightweight, a lightweight, Derek Lewis. He just threw hammers. And when he, and when he, and,

and, Eric Gonzalez is, he's very good on the ground. And because, and Pete just like, he didn't technique it. He just muscled his way up. I don't know. I was like, he just muscled his way up. Because I was about to go, oh, yeah, that's that wrestling. I know, I know those takedowns.

I've been taken down by those. And he just got up. It was like, oh, that's all you had to do. It was just like, so that I was just throw that at a bit. That's a good one. Just throw hammers and just get up. I don't know what the ceiling is, but if he's fun. Lightweight, man.

All good names. Division of the sport. Best division in the whole damn sport. Bar none. Oh, wow. Always has been, always will. A shot at Bantamweight. So we see, just say it.

I'm just saying. If you want to get shot at Bantam weight, take a shot of Bantam weight. The real Bantam weight's great. Bantam weight's great. The real best division. I'm just saying, far none. Bar none.

Bar none. Barn none. Yeah, bar none. Yes. Come on. Yes. Barton. Bar one.

No. That's all three. People don't say bar one at that, I think. I think you really just get out of. We didn't actually talk about this at all, but I think this needs to be talked about. Should Span and Cryloff running back in San Antonio, that card is on the is on Maine ESPN and it needs some help. I don't know, man. I mean, all these fight night guys need help, right?

Like, what is that? One doesn't need help more than the other. Is the San Antonio card that bad? I mean, the San Antonio card has Nate Landware versus Alex Caseras, which is just going to be the best type of bananas. So, like, I'm all in on that. Best type of bananas.

Do we know at all, and this is complete conjecture, by the way. Haley Cowan also pulled out with an illness, and I think we found out they said with Krillov, it was a food-related? That's what they said. Food-Born, yeah. Do we think poor Haley Cowan,

who was supposed to fight Eileen Perez on the on the on the uh you know to open the card Saturday's card and pulled out yesterday um do we think that she may have also been struck by some bad sushi or something we'll have to look at us I'm just saying it's I apologize sushi I'm just saying it's a lot people get sick from sushi sometimes it's you know you got to prepare really well uh because she also like said she said she had an illness she said not related to her weight cut uh she called it outside medical issue so I don't know could be something obviously completely different. I hope that's not what happened at the apex, just getting taken out by a bad meal

or so by a cook having an off day or something because that would be a very, very depressing. But yeah, if Ryan Span is. Yeah, but that sucks for Span and Cryloff. Imagine Krilov have a big training camp, fly the other side of the world, eat a bad sandwich and, you know. It's a main event for them. Like, we, we make an event. It's a main event for them. No. I didn't make light of it. I had talked myself into this fight mattering because I had, in my predictions, I was like, light heavyweight is kind of weird division anyway right now. It's not crazy that one of these guys could have gotten a big win tonight. And by the end of the year, like, could have fought for the title with the right matchups.

Like, it's not crazy. It's not crazy. So I had actually. Absolutely. Yeah. Yeah. Light heavyweight is in flux. It's in flux.

We had, we've had, we just like, Glover retire. Europe Prochka, we don't know when it's coming back. Jamal Hill just won the UFC title. It's, it's just not a like a super solid. top 15 right now. It really isn't. And both these guys are already ranked. And they're one or two wins away from getting the right matchup and maybe fighting for a time.

I don't know. So I was really disappointed, yeah. Assuming Kralov isn't hurt, like six sick, like he'll be good in a week. I don't know. Do they do this like Spivak Lewis and they kind of just bump it a month or so? Yeah, run it back. If Krilov's okay by that? Yeah.

It's a fight that made sense for the division. All right, cool. I think so. Yeah, Dana said they got to try to run it back, and if for some reason, Kralov can't go, they're going to, like, focus on getting spanned something quicker. Oh, man. I just saw this. So this question that Jordan Levitt, what's next for good old Jordan Levitt, can you imagine

Jordan Levitt versus the guy we just talked about the lightweight? Yeah. Wow, that might be the weirdest fight of all time. I like that. I know, I just, I just like, imagine that right now. I was like, oh, my God. Just, I want to see a full countdown show. I want to see the full prime time on that.

Just some random prelim. UFC spends millions of dollars promoting this random prelim between Levitt and Peak. Also, full marks to Levitt's corner for pulling off the move where they caught him in midair and did the little dance move. Like, that was great. That was tremendous. That's our trademark, the dirty dancing. Yeah. Okay, there you go, dirty dancing.

I was trying to remember what that. Dominic Cruz was so excited about it, too. He said, do the dance, do the dance, love it. Oh, yeah, he's been doing it. I mean, they're ready. They already know what's coming. Since his first pro fight, amateur fights, he was doing that stuff. Yeah.

Yeah, yeah. And I guess. Love it peaks big one. That might be the correct answer. Yeah. Last, I guess last question, more of a comment, AK, is that you, you go an apology to our good friend, Sheila. I actually lost money from listening to your and Jed's high praise.

This is a Bunez on the preview show, Sean. I really wanted Allen to win too. Oh, so I didn't do anything. Oh, no, no. This is it going on. He was on the preview show. Sheila, get him, Sheila. Get him.

You let me and straight. I was like, oh, man, we're going to pull out AK. And then it comes for me. I was not on the preview show, baby. Look, you know, again, we sit on a lot of corners and sometimes we get these corners wrong. I would suggest never trailing us in anything. And then you can't be disappointed at us.

Yeah. Don't, yeah, don't take our advice. Like, go, I'll show you my topology record. Don't listen to anything I say. It's pretty awful. I had pretty good reads on this fight and the Tatiana fight, just based on how it was going to go. But, yeah, sometimes we take sides and we create fake titles

and sometimes you do weird things. But in the end, it's all about listener, entertainment, and having a good time. because no one has more fun on these shows than we do. There's just no doubt about that. So we're going to have a lot of fun this coming. I'm seeing sushi power rankings. I'm sorry, I don't even if I'm seeing sushi power rankings going on in the comments right now.

And it's spectacular. I love it. Best solicitors in the world. Best solicitors in the world. And if you think this weekend was fun with everything going on, we still have Jake Paul versus Tabi Ferry tomorrow. And then we are officially. We have a post show too. Yep.

Streams already built. Produced by this guy. That man. I'm very excited. Producer AK. I'll be tuning in. I'll be tuning in. It's good for your job, Casey.

And then guess what we have to look forward to? UFC 285. Did you see that main card graphic? Did you see that main card graphic? If that doesn't get you excited, I don't know what will. Because that main card is redonculus. And that's worth your 79, 99, 99, or wherever it's going to cost. So a lot to look forward to this week.

So my suggestion is get a good night's sleep, rest up, get ready to listen to A.K. and I tomorrow morning on onto the next one as we matchmake for this card. It will not be a long show since we only have to match make for four fights and a wild card. And then get ready for Jake Paul versus Tommy Fury. And then get another good night sleep and get ready for UFC 285. The end of May hour, everything we're going to be doing to build up to that. Of course, Jose Young's will be there. We'll be on site with coverage. It's just going to be a crazy banana's week. So Casey, you could hit the music. This is a fun night. Fun day. And that's it. So for Shaheen Al-Shadi, my best friend Alexander K. Lee, baddestash in MMA, E.K.E.K.E.C.

I am Mike Heck. Thank you for watching this post-fight show. Have a great rest of the night. We'll see you tomorrow for Jake Paul versus Tommy Fury. Good night, everybody. Bye. God, that's 285. First three fights.

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