MORNING KOMBAT WITH LUKE THOMAS AND BRIAN CAMPBELL - Maycee Barber Last-Minute Scratch vs. Erin Blanchfield, UFC Vegas 107 Reaction, UFC 316 Lookahead

Episode Date: June 2, 2025

Erin Blanchfield learned minutes before walkouts that Maycee Barber dropped out of the UFC Vegas 107 main event. LT and BC go over the circumstances regarding the last-minute cancellation and what this means for Barber's future. Also, what is next for Blanchfield? The fellas go over the rest of the card including Mateusz Gamrot's impressive win against Ludovit Klein. And Ramiz Brahimaj and Dustin Jacoby both notched first-round wins. Plus, the guys go over the results from the PBC card, news about a location change for Noche UFC and a look at this weekend's UFC 316 event.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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First of all, congratulations if you did, but you came for boxing and mixed martial arts and that's what we provide. So why don't we transition right now to topic number one, UFC Fight Night Apex. Over the weekend, it was supposed to give us a typically watered down card, but with an interesting main event in the women's flyweight division as title contention and maybe a straight up title shot was at stake on paper when Aaron Blansfield and Macy Barber were set to face off. But not only did Macy Barber miss weight on Friday and really, really looked bad on the

scales as she tried her best to get in under that 126 pound main event limit there, it would get a lot worse for her as just moments before the start of the main event reports backstage would be that Macy Barber had multiple seizures and the fight was scrapped at the very last minute leading UFC analyst Laura Senko to literally put her head down on the table in disappointment or maybe even fear for Barber's well-being. Does Aaron Blanchfield have that same fear? Well, we'll get into that in a second, but Luke, we know that

Barbara has had a number of serious health complications that have held back what we felt like was an inevitable march to the top of this division. Is there any way to say from the outside looking in what all of this means, not for the UFC, not for the warehouse, we're talking about the athlete and her health here from AC Barber. How scary was this in your eyes to see this fight fall apart and and see the reports of what she went through?

Yeah, so this is by my count, at least three times she's had to withdraw from about now, obviously never this late. This is one of the latest ones you'll ever see. This is up there with Kevin Randleman hitting his head on a pipe walking out to the fight or before just before walking out to a fight in terms of the lateness of it. It's hard to get much later than this. But of course the Rose Nama Eunice fight she had to withdraw from and I think maybe even the first attempt at the Montana De La Rosa fight she had to withdraw from. That's to say nothing of some of the other like orthopedic injuries she's had, but BC, I don't know what the medical situation is and obviously virtually all

of those things are her business, not ours. But if we can connect some of the dots here and at least begin to ask some bigger questions. If you've had now multiple times you've had to withdraw from a fight early, including one, this is, I wouldn't call it catastrophic, but this is concerning at a bare minimum. We don't have this confirmed, but it was at least said by Erin Blanchfield that she was told that Macy had a seizure. From Hunter Campbell. From Hunter Campbell, that's right. Again, that's still secondhand, but nevertheless that's what she said. And then if you look at the Rose

Nama unit situation which had to pull out that she had a lasting medical illness that her doctors, according to Barber's own social media posts and subsequent discussions about this that they weren't even sure what it is and they're still not exactly sure what it is and it seems to me that

whatever it is BC again I don't know what the situation is. I can only make some kind of halfway informed speculation about it, but it does not appear to be over with. It does not appear to be in control. It does not appear to be something that is otherwise and a known but containable medical issue or series of medical issues. If you're having a medical event of that kind just before a contest where you can potentially sustain

serious head trauma, you have questions about whether you can do this at all. That's not to say, again, I'm not some doctor who can declare definitively what it means and what you can and can't do, BC, but seizures are a, again, to the extent that that is real, that's a very serious thing. And some seizures, as I understand it,

have come with conditions that are largely controllable. I don't know to what extent this one is, especially if some of the situations from the Namayunis fight are still unresolved. Like what are they trying to identify? What are they trying to get at? And BC, like I don't have anything near approximating this kind of problem. But when I had that issue with my leg, and I had to go to doctor after doctor, you knew about this, I was telling you about it, doctor after doctor after doctor after doctor, and none of them had any idea what the problem is, these problems can linger, they can get worse, they can lead to subsequent problems, because they weren't handled more easily and quickly because they weren't known conditions like the amount of cascading downstream problems that it can cause, they tend to get worse over time. So let's

just say this, we obviously hope the best for Macy Barber. We obviously hope that she's going to be okay. But I know she's just what 27 years old BC? Yeah, There's some big questions to ask about, is this a viable career path right now? No doubt about that. This is a scary situation for a fighter who's won six in a row. And one that we generally think is one of the better fighters

in this division. Obviously she came in as a betting underdog against Aaron Blanchfield. And this was a fight that really could have propelled the winner, you know, directly into knocking on that door for a title shot. So it's definitely concerning news, you know, as was to some degree, her missing weight in just in general by a half pound when you consider how big of a fight this was for her. But look, when I saw her on the scale, I mean, you know,

we've seen scary scale situations before. I mean, uh, who was the, the, the fee? Was it Ash? Um, Aspen lad that time who sort of like was wobbly, you know, and it's trying to stop. We've seen that before. And none of that is even remotely healthy. But you saw the look of Barbara on that scale. You know, she looked like death. And that was really concerning. So then even I'm going to say this, even the live video, which Dana White tweeted out of her entering the apex facility, you know,

two hours before the main event was supposed to start. say this, even the live video, which Dana White tweeted out of her entering the Apex facility, you know, two hours before the main event was supposed to start. I also felt that she didn't look, you know, that healthy in that situation either. This escalates it to a new area. I mean, unfortunately for the UFC, and we're going to get into that discussion, this is a really bad timing to roll out another Fight Night where warehouse card, a card that wasn't that strong up and down. If you have apathy toward women's MMA, maybe you didn't even want the main event and now you don't get anything.

But the human side of this is even bigger. Macy Barbara did finally update on social media, uh, her condition showing pictures, as you can see here of her in the hospital and specifically what she said here was not what I had planned for a Sunday post. Thank you to everyone for the prayers and support. I owe an apology to UFC McMainer, Dana White, Sean Shelby, Aaron Blanchfield and PS. My life is not messy. This is just a bad hand. We will get to the bottom of it all and be back. So Luke, that messy comment, well, that's in direct relation to how Aaron Blanchfield handled this, which was multiple interviews, one with Megan O'Levy right after the main event was

canceled and then one at the press conference afterwards where Blanchfield did not pull any punches. Let's listen in on that. Yeah, I guess I jinxed myself. I guess I shouldn't have been saying that. Um, I feel like I'm still pretty in disbelief right now. You know, I feel like I was in disbelief yesterday when she missed weight, cause we knew about this fight since January. You could have been 50 pounds overweight and still made weight. You know what I mean? So she missed weight. Then she gets to Saturday, she gets to the locker room, I'm fully ready to go. She's supposed to be ready to go.

Supposedly now she has like all these health issues right when we're supposed to fight. I think it's pretty crazy, pretty unprofessional. Yeah, I wouldn't want to fight her again. Do you know what happened? I was told she had a seizure in the locker room. I don't know like how or why exactly that was caused, but's what I was told. I mean when she missed me yesterday I definitely thought that was strange. I mean I didn't care I was gonna take her money. I would have took her win money tonight too but I remember they said six

minutes and I was like this feels like a lot longer like it didn't feel like six minutes. No one said anything until like Hunter came in and told me you know that she was having a seizure and that she wouldn't be able to compete And yeah, I don't know I feel like it's it's almost like like a nightmare kind of thing You know you always when you have jitters you're like, oh, maybe something will happen the fight won't happen But you never want that you know what I mean, it's uh, yeah, it's pretty disappointing I don't know. She needs to look at another division. She needs to fix her life. She needs to just fix herself

I think she's a complete mess in every aspect of her entire life. Well, Luke, her nickname is cold blooded. That was cold blooded as shit, but I have seen a response from people that it's torn. Some people saying, like you mentioned, maybe insensitive to release the medical info, maybe just insensitive in general

to talk down to someone's situation, you know, medically, but at the same time, Erin prepared for this fight. I believe I saw where she's still gonna get the show and maybe even the win bonus off the check that. That's what her management reported on social media. So there's that part covered, but there is an unprofessional side of this in general,

even separate from the health conditions. How do you read how Erin Blanchfield in her cold blooded ways responded to this? I mean, I saw, listen. Okay, BC, if you work in this industry long enough, fighters don't come in one type. They come in all different kinds of types, uh, even in a more homogenized combat sports space that we have today.

But the reality is, um, there tend to be some kinds of behaviors that are simply much more common among them or considered to be much more acceptable among them. And not having sympathy for an adversary who caused you professional issues is pretty standard. Now that's not me saying, this is the kind of logic that an ordinary person in ordinary life should employ to your point. It is quite heartless. And if, if Barbara is having medical issues that her doctors cannot discover and or properly control, she is the victim. She is not the perpetrator of these issues. And someone

should be able to look at that and say as much. But, you know, in fight sports, you're not tasking fighters with having ultimate rationality rationality,'re not tasking fighters with having ultimate rationality rationality, you're tasking them with having the kind of viewpoint that lets them have maximum success and you know, looking at a an opponent in the way in which Blanchfield did here is ugly by normal standards, but to be honest, among a highly competitive prize fighter who has a heated rival who, you know, again, for whatever you want to say about it, by what happened to her,

everything on that evening got blown up. Yeah, I don't necessarily expect every fighter to say nice things in that circumstance. When they do, we should praise them, and I think it's a great sign of maturity, but, you know, am I losing sleep over what is, yeah, it's, it's a cold, heartless message. Am I losing sleep over it?

No, I am not. I mean, I kind of agree with her and her team on the idea that like, they don't need to run this fight back. They definitely don't need to run the fight back. Yeah, no dude. I mean, this was the problem with this situation. It's one thing we were talking like, oh, what are all the permutations that could lead to X or lead to Y?

But now you've got a situation that can't really lead to anything other than you just have to like wash your hands of it and move away. A, you don't even know what the situation is with Barbara and B Blanchfield, it's not like she got like, oh, they fought for 30 seconds and she got a BS stoppage. You didn't even get that.

You got nothing. You got a window into absolute nothingness. And so it and she got a BS stoppage. You didn't even get that. You got nothing. You got a window into absolute nothingness. And so it's going to be a hard for her to catapult, but trying to put this one back together, forget it. Just, just whatever can be made available. Figure it out from there. Maybe it's the Natalia Silva number one contender fight. Maybe Silva now gets it.

Maybe he won't feel one of them fights. Yon excuse me, not Yon Shaman. I'm sorry. John Wiley. We shall see, but yeah, we don't need to worry about this. I mean, does it go without saying that, that, that for Macy's health, for the, you know, credibility of the sport, you don't want to see her back into a fight until she really understands what's happening to her medically.

So that for her own, you know, the, the scare of her own health here that, that we don't see her back until everything's figured out. Yeah, there's no one wants to give up professional time when you have youth on your side in a combat sport, but if you're having these kinds of medical issues, a ongoing and be as it was suggested by Blanchfield potentially seizures backstage, dude, that's serious. This is the this is these are the kinds of things that could affect the entirety of your life in very substantive ways. You must get an answer to this question. And maybe the answer is BC, Oh, we figure this out and it's all controllable and you can go right back to it. We've seen fighters make seemingly miraculous comebacks, even with situations where they had, you

know, brain scans that didn't come up all that great. We just have to wait and see, but they must get to the bottom of it first. It feels like there's something missing looking at Aaron's reaction because I get the competitive anger in I prepared for this and because of you, I don't get to take a step ahead in my career, which is what this was supposed to be about. Maybe even up to and including securing a title shot, although we said coming in, I felt like it was a little bit of a longer road for Blanchfield than Barbara, but we can argue that but from the standpoint of what we don't know, did it sound to you at all based upon how again,

cold blooded Blanchfield's comments were that maybe she knows a little bit more than she's saying about Macy that maybe there was I don't think so. No. What I would say is let's take a more common scenario BC. How many times have you seen a big grudge match or really any kind of fight, but let's say there's a little bit of bad blood on the line. And then one of the opponents misses weight, right?

And then not only do they miss weight, but then because of the miss weight, the missed weight and the process that they had to put themselves through, even though they missed the weight, they now you know, they have a medical ailment the next day and then the fight gets scrapped. We've seen it a million times, right? So I mean, think about it, if you're if now she got apparently, again, KO rep said that Blanchfield is going to get her show in her win money, which is great. But remember, she was

entitled to more than that. If she had one, she'd be entitled to show win and was it 20 or 30% of of Barbara's purse, she was entitled to more than that. If she had won, she'd be entitled to show win and was it 20 or 30% of Barbara's purse. She doesn't get that either. And performance of the night if you can get that too. And you know, everything that comes with it. What I'm saying, so it's a number of ways in which she's kind of negatively affected here, but under that consideration,

you would still have a degree of sympathy for the fighter who had a medical issue, but then you could say, hey man, you got sick the next day after missing weight because you are unprofessional and you didn't make weight, right? You didn't do the work necessary to put yourself in a position not merely to win, but to even get to the octagon. Your own unprofessionalism cost you in those scenarios, that kind of cold bloodedness that you're seeing there from Blanchfield seems to me totally normal. To me, what's missing is this is a something of a pattern and maybe BC maybe we don't know.

And I don't wanna unfairly speculate, but certainly it seems not only is there merely a pattern involved, but that could there be escalating issues in other ways. Again, a series of deep and serious unknowns that have to get answered here and in those situations, it actually inverts it less about barbers preparation and more about her suffering from whatever ailment is causing these complications. into the bigger picture and you know, I want to say, unfortunately for the UFC, this is another big notch on the negative belt of the direction we're heading in 2025, where again, it's not just you and me and people in the know, you know, what's the word you want to talk about complain about where UFC is headed, the

soullessness, the money first on everything, all of that. But then again, even though this isn't directly related to being UFC's fault, they also are not doing the type of things that would put them in a good light right now. So is it inevitable that you have to sort of link this, even though it's not the UFC's fault, with the continued downward trend of the court of public opinions PR state of where UFC is at right now where again it's not just you and I I'm seeing and same thing by the way with what's going on with WWE and how angry fans are increasingly getting with TKO.

Do you think this is another giant negative feather in the cap of we have a major problem here in combat sports and mixed martial arts and TKO land and it's only continuing to build negative apathy with the fans? Yeah, I mean, I definitely think so. But let's try and make the case as clearly as we can. First of all, what we have to say is let's actually start with a bit of good news BC from this point forward the rest of June, assuming you know to say is, let's actually start with a bit of good news BC. From this point forward, the rest of June, assuming, you know, and I'm gonna knock on wood here,

assuming things stay relatively intact, the month of June should be incredible. You have UFC 316 coming up, you have Buckley versus Ustman coming up, you've got International Fight Week coming up, and you've got the show in Baku, Azerbaijan, headline between Khalil Rowntree and Jamal Hill, right? So you've got an exciting month ahead.

We already know UFC 318's got a big main event as does UFC 319. There's a lot to look forward to and it appears like the calendar might be really finally heating up. That's the first thing I wanna say. The second thing I wanna say is, obviously with this situation happening,

that by itself is not the fault of the UFC. And in fact, to the extent that there's any promoter in the MMA space that's doing advanced medical screening, it's going to be the Ultimate Fighting Championship. And that's just a reality, right? So there's that as well. But here's what I did want to say. There is some speculation about whether Saturday's fight card is the worst one in UFC history. And I think you can actually make a legitimate claim that it is and Even if you don't want to make that claim you can very much make the claim that it's the most Irrelevant card in UFC history

There's a big mistake that everybody makes they they when they look at the list of the fights or the the events that are considered To be the worst in UFC history And of course even if that's a UFC event, that's really bad by relative standards, that's going to be much better than, you know, a lot of virtually almost anything any other promoter can make. Right. So when we say worse, we are grading on a curve here. Okay.

But I do think it's because there were, there were finishes on that fight card. There were some good fights on that fight card. It's not like they were bad fights in and of themselves, but that's why I'm calling it the most irrelevant fight card in UFC history. UFC 33 is kind of considered to be the worst one in UFC history because they had a bunch of big fights planned for it. They all went to a decision such that in the main event between Tito Ortiz and Vladimir Matyushenko, they went over their time that they were allowed to be on pay-per-view and it cut out in the middle of the fight. It was considered a disaster. This was the first big event under the Zufa leadership. This was a huge, huge mess and it sort of went in time as like ways not to book a card and all the things that could have gone wrong. But this is my point. In one of these situations where, you know, people think that the worst UFC event is just going to have all bad fights, but it's actually one where it has like a lot of either irrelevant fights, fights that, you know,

just don't end up delivering and then some kind of calamity affecting it on top. That's kind of what this one is. This one had some decent action to be clear, but it didn't have anything beyond the co-main, which ended up being the main in Ludovic Klein and Gamrot that had much stakes for any division, maybe Kytlyn Vieira, but even then they had to go up a weight class.

There was numerous weight misses. There were numerous fights that fell out right before the fight. And then it didn't even have a main event ultimately in the end. It produced by UFC standards anyway, BC, the most irrelevant kind of MMA and didn't even have a main event in the end.

If there's a more irrelevant UFC card than this one, I am struggling to identify which one it could be. Well, that's well said right there. And it's the same night, by the way, we'll get into it deeper, but it's the same night that they announce what we all thought was coming that UFC Noche will not happen in Wada Lahara. It will no longer even be a pay-per-view. We'll get into that. It's just a

bad time. Let's throw to this fan tweet, which kind of sums up the apathy for this card in general. Here's from Val Duar at the three L's. 11 fights scheduled. Nine fights actually happened. Three weight misses. Two medical issues canceling fights outside of the cage. The main event got cancelled three finishes one by KO one of the more violent sustained injuries was the one with a women's feather. What was that? What the hell does that say Luke WFL women's flyweight women's flyweight who is a much as much an influencer as fighter. I mean, that's as harsh as you could get. It's also not wrong. So look, is there any part of you that believes, although we know that there's no apex

cards in June, there's two in August back to back. They are doing what construction on the facility. That's right. In hopes of improving the amount, the, you know, everything, the amenities, the amount of people that can watch. Is this enough of a negative blow? Because we've been talking about that in the timeline of lately. When the fans in London were pissed off about the ticket prices and the lack of big names,

is that the first sign that maybe, you know, things are changing in a negative direction and could force change? Do you think this horrific ending to a already bad card with bad circumstances is enough maybe where they're gonna go, we can't do this anymore. We can't put out these shitty fight night cards

in a warehouse. That's not gonna change anything. They love making money. The guys at TKO love making money and these cards help them make money. But it just goes to show like one point I didn't make in my last comment BC is like You know listen, I don't know what card would be just fine losing its main event, right?

I mean virtually any card is going to be to a degree ruined by losing the main event So we're gonna be more resilient than others obviously, but it's a big it's a big deal So in that sense like losing the main event, you can be very forgiving of the card in that sense. But the problem is one, if I had to tell you that the most irrelevant UFC card of all time took place in this era, would that in any way be surprising? Probably not. Probably not. And then more broadly, it's like, dude, these Apex cards, they just have their bare bones. You know what I mean? Like they don't, they're not filled out.

So yes, again, losing a main event is a huge problem, but that's not all they lost. And you know, you take a couple of pieces away and all of a sudden it's just a complete different animal. I mean, that was, I mean, that was Mateusz Gamra, Ludovic Klein are good fighters, and maybe there's a couple of the ones you could throw in there, but that was basically an LFA card. It was basically an LFA card, which by the way, LFA is a good promotion. You can see good fights on LFA, but that's not the highest tier. It's a pretty far. Remind you, we are in the season of negotiation for a new broadcast deal in which the

UFC has stated their goal is to get 1 billion per year to triple the value of their current one. This is the timeline that we're running leading into that. It's insane to me, Luke. It's it's not. It's not. It's not good timing but like, you know, again, unless I mean, this is the problem. Like you just don't have an alternative. Like if you are a fan and you're like, I'm gonna take my MMA dollars elsewhere. Dude, no, you're not. No, you're not. You're just.

I'm gonna take my dollars to PFL South Africa, whatever channel that they're in Nashville next week, which is not a bad, not a bad place to be. But yeah, to your point, like, what are you going to do? You're going to go give your money to PFL. Like it just, it's not, it's nonsensical. So look, I was debating to myself, which topic you would be less interested in talking about on today's show. So I figured I would just give you the two topics and you can pick which one you are less interested in talking about. Are you ready? All right. The negative effect of breast implants on women's MMA or big John McCarthy story about John Jones sexually assaulting a

commission member in the locker room before a fight. This is truly the Sophie's choice of a question. MMA questions here. Can I just put a gun in my mouth instead? Can I just do that? That's too far. That is too far. I don't accept that. Wow. Wow. Wow. I don't know how to transition out of that into an ad read, Luke. So, maybe I'll just take five seconds to pause here. Wow. What did you drop? Wow. Alright. Hey, by

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It's going to be great. We got, as we said, we're going to have a Bron with us here in studio. And like I said, dude, for as bad as Saturday was, and it was quite remarkably bad, um, the rest of the month looks great. The rest of the month looks, I mean, the summer headliners are very good too. So I'm happy to just and just walk forward. Yeah. And John Jones did say in some public thing that he won't announce the

Aspen all fight Luke. The UFC. We I don't care about him anymore. I just genuinely don't care. I don't know. I'm still wondering about his 20s. Luke, but his 30s have been a lot worse a lot worse to be. No, his 20s were been worse. I don't know the headlines about his 20s look but his 30s have been a lot worse a lot worse to be no his 20s were been worse

I Don't know the headlines in his 30s look they've been pretty damn bad. Okay All right, who'd you rather be John? He's so fucking boring Probably just tattooed all right. You're like, all right. Here's we're gonna do we're gonna talk about potential gay sex acts or, uh, sexual harassment in the workplace. And I'm like, yeah, we can skip both of those. Okay. Hey, let's go to topic number two. It's the rest of UFC fight night for what there was inside of the apex in terms

of, you know, advancements, storylines, breakout performances, Luke, and that co-main event, which became the main event on paper. This was contender Mateusz Gamra looking to stay busy and hold his own spot contention against unranked but rising Lude Voight Klein and over three rounds boy did we see that dominant wrestling ability an increased I think urgency with the striking at times even though it was grappling heavy but even when he had Klein down, he reigned it on in terms of the ground and pound. So Luke, considering Klein's calling card coming in was that plus 90% take

down percentage to see Gamrot just absolutely control, dominate and outclass was this win impressive enough to do more than just hold serve in this division and maybe lift old Maddie Gamra to a much bigger fight here atop this? I don't think so. Well, he'll get a bigger fight after this. Yes. He got a win. There are available people. There are good fights to make. He's a good test for certain kinds of fighters. Yes, and I did notice him open up a little bit more with strikes this time, although that was mostly because he could

because he had better control of Klein, and therefore he was able to open up with his strikes, but. This was not one of those fights that I watched and I was like, oh wow, like he's reborn. This is all. this is everything that I wanted to see now again He's coming off of a loss and a very I think difficult one to accept although a real one Against Dan Hooker and so he you know getting the W was the most important thing

But I don't know how you can watch this and be like, oh now I need to rethink how he matches up with the rest of The division he was already tough Against any of those fighters BC, but there's nothing in this fight where you're like, Oh, now I need to reconsider what other threats he brings. It's more or less, maybe a little bit extra thrown in, but basically more or less what you knew about him before. And to your point, I'll give you know, listen, it sounds like I'm backing on Gamrot. I'm not. Klein came in with that more than 90% takedown defensive rate and you would have not known that with the way Gamrot was handling him. That was pretty impressive that was you know this was Gamrot made the point we even talked about it on Friday show BC we even said like we looked at the names that he's 90% above against it's like yeah but none of these guys rustle like Gamrot. Well sure enough Gamrot's a different level it's it's not to say he's not high level BC.

He's high level. He's a very, very good fighter, but I just don't know how you can look at this and come away with the conclusion that like, there's something else being added beyond what we basically already knew about him. True, true. Klein did have a seven fight on beaten street coming in. He was surging, even though, as we just said, this was basically a fight to hold Gamrot's place and it became the main event.

Unfortunately, after it already ended in a lot of ways, but it did. It was Gamrot at least holding serve and showing us that in his early 30s, he's trying his best to put the full game together. He does have an impressive record. He does have victories over very key contenders in this division including Armand Sarukian. So in terms of who he wants next, let's let Gamrot tell us himself. I guess I can change Benyat Sanbeni nickname. He has nickname good of war, but I can change

this nickname my good good good of comfort zone. Because bro, he got the offer fight with me one week before many times he called call out me like I want to fight with gamrot he gets opportunity and he say no bro what the fuck good of comfort zone is that a fight that you hope to hope to happen like do you want that fight to happen in Paris, Abu Dhabi, somewhere else? I think Paris, his home times will be good. Like another time I will be myself against everybody, no problem. His big name in French, so if I get my even five rounds with him, I will enjoy this time. This is like September, right? This three months later, perfect timing.

I back to home, I rest, then I back to Florida, prepare, give me this guy. So look, even though I love this fight on paper, the idea of Gamrod against the good of comfort zone. Don't be mocking his accent. I'm just relaying what he said. He is ranked number seven gamma Rod. He just beat an unranked fighter and now he's going to wants the number 13th ranked fighter in

BSD who I do agree is better than his ranking. Is that the right call or should he be looking into that top five and saying, Hey Gagey, Hey whomever let's get, Hey, Sarukian, I beat you yet. You've left me. Let's do it again. I mean, if he's calling out the BSD's of the world, he probably has an idea that he needs to get the matchmakers on his side. You know what I'm saying? Why would you fight BSD? Well, because you know he's going to bring it.

It's going to be action packed. And he'll probably bring it in the way in which it will accommodate Gamera's existing style, which means he'll get an exciting fight against a known contender that's respected and He'll probably win. So that makes a lot more sense to me than just being like hey I beat a guy on the most irrelevant card in UFC history Can I have a title shot now?

What I mean like did you like the swagger though in the post fight interview? I'm gonna guess you had the volume down, but he was almost doing like a shtick like, yeah, let's go. I've taken on anybody like he was kind of trying to show some, some, uh, Riz, if you will, some, uh, you know, some Rizler. Is that what the kid does? Or is it like this? I can't quite. I can't, you know, there's this, there's this, and then you gotta do this along the fat line. Oh, you gotta, you gotta, you gotta do the throat slash. Yeah. Well,

it's like, I don't know if it's, that's where he taught. That's where he tells his servants to tie his bib. Like right by the way, by the way, the Rizler had a question with his name as the answer on jeopardy in the past week, did a collab with Elmo. Meanwhile, the Costco guys are still like debating how much money they'll spend on their Costco trip and interviewing shoppers. Like they have this just what the one's a runaway. I can't believe guys whose personalities are deals at Costco.

Didn't have staying power in any way in terms of public relevancy. How could that be a thing? All right. Well, gamma also the Rizzo is going to die of type two diabetes. I mean, what are we talking about? Right. Didn't you also say that, uh, that big AJ was going to Benoit down the street? I mean, what are we doing here? Right. And big AJ. Oh yeah.

He was going to Benoit him up. I mean, he might, you never know, but okay. All right. I mean, but BJ Penn got arrested three times in a few days, Luke. And this is six days. Yeah. How do we end up here? I don't know. But Hey, Gamrot, nice win. Luke, when we look up and down the rest of this card, no, this is where we got it. This is where we got to bring main card minute. Fish and Otto. I wanna hear him. I wanna hear him spin this one up. Oh, I'll I'll spin it for

you. I mean, uh Jordan Levitt looked great against Kurt Hollibaug got a nice sub there. He did look he did look nice. Uh I'll admit. I'll admit. Ramiz, Brahimaj, knock or knocking, uh choking uh Billy Ray golf unconscious. That was, yes. And he had a great, very inspiring post fight speech. Very inspiring. Yeah. It's own Dustin Jacoby also knocked out Bruno Lopez. That was a fun fight. Yeah. I mean, I didn't think much of, you know, the opponent in this case,

but I will say he's doing great. I will say, you know, it's a bad card because I was having trouble figuring out who they were going to give the bonuses to and not because there were too many things to choose from there were too little we only had three finishes so you can't do four performance of the nights and there was no fucking fight of the night on this card I don't care what anyone says no there was definitely no fire there how why do you think jacoby didn't get a bonus I don't know and I was actually uh because he's a mid carter he had the fucking only tko stoppage on

this whole thing yeah I know they gave it to levitt rahimaj and then they gave fight of the night to ardellian dos santos which I don't think deserved it I don't mind that because it rarely does the very first fight on a card ever get fight of the night and so the one time that it does but this is what I mean dude if you're giving fight of the night to the fucking curtain, Jerker, holy shit, man, you must have been suffering for greatness out there, you know. Hey, Luke, Brahe Maj had been trading wins and losses over a 10 fight stretch and now has back to back finishes of Mickey Gall by KO and now the put him to sleep against Connecticut's Billy Ray golf. When you pair that with the exciting or sorry, the inspirational, uh, speech he gave in that thick, thick Bronx accent. Should we be looking for him at welterweight or was this the worst card of

all time and it's time to move on? I mean, listen, it's a nice win. He looked, I mean, he dispatched an overmatched opponent very, very quickly. He did exactly what he was supposed to. It's hard to say what that means about his total upside, but nice wins, nice, nice speeches. They get you noticed and it moves them up the chain. Let's see what he can do next, but good win.

And you can't just say not, not all these wins means so much about the next one, at least from the outside looking in, and this is one of those cases. All right. Speaking of Dustin Jacoby and his light heavyweight tilt against Bruno Lopes, which lasted just a few minutes, Luke, he did say afterwards now with two consecutive knockout victories over prospects that he wants to be looked at as a contender and not just a veteran sort of gatekeeper tough out. Is this enough to begin that transition where USC starts to match him against, you know, more willing live bodies in the rankings for Dustin Jacoby.

Yes. So he had that bad loss against, um, uh, uh, Reyes. And then since then he's put together two good wins in a row. I think that's right. Yeah. He's 37. It was the Reyes knockout in the first round, which was right after a loss to Alonzo Menafield.

And it was in a stretch where he dropped four losses in five fights. Right, but he's had two good stoppages in a row. I mean, I think he's good for action. It's hard to say exactly what is beyond that. Remember Dustin Jacoby was one of the original guys who did the Road to Glory series. They were trying to find American kickboxers

and he went and had, I think, a modicum of success there, certainly. But he's back in MMA. And I think it definitely leveled up his striking. How good he is ultimately in the division, division BC is a little hard to tell. And probably, you know, we've probably seen the highest of the upside, but he's putting together a nice wind streak. He is reliable for action. He doesn't, you know, uh, he doesn't put on boring performances.

He tends to, you know, uh, give you what he has. Keep him busy as far as I'm concerned. You know, all right, Kellen Vieira at women's Bantamweight missed weight, forfeited 25% of her'm concerned, you know? All right. Kellen Vieira at women's Bantamweight missed weight, forfeited 25% of her purse. They had to make it a 145 bout against Macy's Shazan and you know, Vieira dominated with grappling for the most part and then celebrated like she won the Superbowl. But do we cut her at the legs?

Cause she missed weight here, Luke. Yeah, we do. You gotta make weight. Sorry. I mean, no. Gotta make weight. And did Jordan Levitt, who did put that anaconda choke on Kurt Holoball and put him to sleep in round one, did he walk in terms of in-cage twerking so that Eileen Perez could run Luke? Yeah, I'm a little sick of the twerking. Can I be honest? Okay. Like all the way around with all Latin women or just with UFC fighters, just with UFC fighters. Yeah, it's it's a little much. You know, if you're if you're

Shakira tickets had come through, there'd be a there'd be a lot of it'd be a lot. Yeah. I mean, I wouldn't be crying about that. But you know, I've had enough of it in the cage. You know what I'm saying? All right. Anything else you want to say about UFC fight nights, Nights, Apex's, TV deals, BC wanting and complaining that his second favorite sport sucks the horn this year. Anything else? No. No, I'm good. Alright. Well, we'll put that behind us here

and let's transition. In due topic number three which just might continue the trend I was just talking about or maybe it won't. Let's get Luke's opinion on this. Noche UFC, which was originally scheduled to be a pay-per-view card, UFC 320 on Saturday, September 13th in Guadalajara, despite constant, constant rumors that the arena would not be finished its creation. And after so many concerts and other events were canceled,

now we're seeing UFC slipping it in as an announcement during Saturday's Apex card that Noche UFC is moving from Guadalajara to San Antonio, Texas. It'll stay on the same day. It'll no longer be a pay per view fight. We don't know how that will change the matchmaking. Remember, it appeared as if a Volkanovsky rematch with Ayer Rodriguez was going to be rushed into place, not because it was earned or desired,

but because of the Mexican connection. But Luke, a lot changes here, and it does connect, by the way, with all of these still unknown issues related to Turkey, Alishik, and Dana White, and TKO Boxing, you know, a can of worms on that. But let's get into this actual thing. According to UFC's own message, it appears now that it's not a pay-per-view, as I mentioned. Was this the right call for the UFC considering everything going on from the arena to the unknown about Canelo Crawford on the same night? Is this the right move for the UFC given that? This is a blessing. They lucked out with this. Now put the UFC's message up here because I want to make sure we're talking on the same kinds of terms if you can Long Island Luke. This is what they wrote via tweet. The third annual Noche UFC will now take place at the Frostbank Center in San Antonio, Texas on September 13th. That is that Saturday. The Noche UFC Fight Night card will celebrate and honor the remarkable and listen to what they wrote here. The Noche UFC Fight Night card will celebrate and honor the remarkable contributions of Mexican fighters to combat sports and continues

UFC's great tradition of holding an event around Mexican Independence Day. Okay, as BC indicated, well I'm sure we'll get to in a minute, there is of course what does this mean for Dana White now and TKO and Canelo Crawford and all that kind of stuff, but putting that to the side BC just on the MMA side, UFC should be grateful about this. They actually caught a break in my view. We keep talking about how they're making content that are making events along lines that are designed for maximum revenue generation or a broader revenue

strategy where we're going to go to places when they're going to and making events along lines that are designed for maximum revenue generation or a broader revenue strategy where we're going to go to places when they pay us to go in this sort of highest bidder government contracting sense rather than taking fights to cities where that fight makes sense for that city. But here you have a situation BC where now it's a pairs by the UFC's own language. It's not a pay-per-view. So you don't have to make Volk versus Yair to a fight that makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. You don't have to do that. Now you can make Yair versus Diego Lopez, a fight that makes sense and is absolutely perfect for this main event of this card. And San

Antonio, Texas has a vast Mexican American population as we all know. So the card will be two weewees in the coal main too, right? Yeah, exactly. There's a ton of stuff you can do. So you are relieved of that pressure. And as you indicated before BC now, because it's not a pay-per-view, you can then shift your focus for September to a different card where you can now put on a proper pay-per-view event. And I'm sure they had to shuffle some things around, but I'm saying the fact that they got to move it out of Mexico is neither here nor there necessarily. But the fact they got to downgrade it from a pay-per-view to a Fight Night card gives them the flexibility they need to do this event correctly. It took an arena not being ready that journalists from Mexico had told the

UFC, including David Shaw, the head of international there that comes out to speak in Dana's spot, but even though this is the best choice for them, their hand was forced in a lot of ways, right? Yeah. I mean, they, they didn't select it this way. They obviously selected it to go to Mexico and they were warned that this was going to be a problem. We should play this. So like Rodrigo Del Campo, you can put the tweet up first and

I'm saying like a gringo but you know, there's Rodrigo. He asked a question. We'll listen to it in just a second. In March, he tried to tell them that the that the event in Guadalajara, I asked about assurances for their date because of delays. Remember, we heard about the venue, was told they didn't appreciate that line of questioning. All right, now let's go back to that day, April 21st, when he asked David Shaw about it and this is how it went.

Questions. Hi, Dave, Rodri Elcampo from Claro Sports here. Hello. Obviously a great announcement, the announcement of Guadalajara. Dana, in this room last year, said that he was looking forward to the arena being finished and going to the arena. Yet, the arena presents a one-month delay today.

There are a lot of concerts booked between February and March and April. What are the assurances that the promoter and the arena have given you for your date to be reserved for the pay-per-view? I mean, we've been in constant contact with them, enough so to be able to announce tonight. If we weren't confident, we wouldn't be announcing the fight.

Perfect. Your broadcasting partner now in Mexico, Fox Sports Mexico, has been going through a downfall in the last few months. They're being sued in the U.S. by CONCACAF. They've lost Premier League, FA Cup. They had an issue with the NFL due to lack of payment. It's been kind of difficult. They've been almost sold to the Mordek family again.

What is your current relationship with Fox Sports Mexico? Strong, if you saw the front row tonight behind the Octagon Dana's section, front row in Dana's section, we had a number of executives from Fox Sports Mexico. The relationship that we've had with them has been nothing but excellent. They've been firm supporters of the UFC for a very long time. They invest heavily in content. They build profiles of our athletes.

They help promote our events. They've been great, great partners for us. You know, I've read a number of things in the newspapers about the status of their business here in Mexico and they've given us assurances that you know we go through the end of of year with them and there'll be no disruption to the UFC and Fox Sports Mexico partnership through 2025. You know just one. Yeah. Interesting. Yeah I mean it's weird here Luke they they may have dodged a bullet but their hand got

forced we still I mean people get upset that we don't always have like all the hard details on here UFC doesn't speak publicly on stuff they've gone quiet for a while on a lot of this big ticket information. It felt like this was something that could have been seen coming, but maybe like you mentioned, Luke, taking it off pay-per-view, not forcing a matchup that isn't necessary. It will be a blessing in disguise, but this does coincide with a few things here. Lance Pugmire of Boxing Scene did put out a story on Saturday that basically said, look, we're all waiting for news on whether Canelo Crawford is still going to be a Turkey Al-Asheek slash TKO Global Dana White production, but according to Lance's reporting, this development does open up back the idea that

the two could work together still on that same date September 13th in Las Vegas To put on Canelo versus Crawford What do you make of this because you did have Canelo Alvarez coming out in Spanish at a press conference in the last week saying He was the one who told Turkey I we can't do this on Friday. My fans are coming in from Mexico They need to be able to come in on Saturday to see it do this on Friday. My fans are coming in from Mexico. They need to be able to come in on Saturday to see it. Also Canelo said in that same interview that he told Turkey he's not fighting anymore in Saudi Arabia. It has to be in the US. Will we now see Dana in your eyes in Turkey partner together as it's still too unknown at this point?

Yeah, that one's still too unknown. I don't exactly understand how they can get that one back together. I mean, I guess if it's a fight night and not a pay-per-view, there's less pressure on Dana to be there is the idea. And also you're not trying to grow the Mexican market as much if you pull out from there. I mean, you are, I'm sure there still are more broadly, but I'm saying on that night they're not, they're putting it back in San Antonio. So, you know, I guess it relieves Dana of having to, even though they're on the same day,

does he have to prioritize the UFC event at all times if it's a fight night? This is what I mean about getting a, if it's a pay-per-view, even then he could still prioritize Canelo Crawford over it, but it makes it a little bit harder, especially if you've got your pound for pound, or you know, one of the top pound for pound guys in the sport competing on it.

But if it's a fight night card and none of those concerns are in play, then who gives a damn, just do whatever you want. It certainly frees it up in that sense. I think you've got to say here that the choice of changing from pay-per-view to fight night feels aggressively like it's opening up the door to go head to head. Dana said he wouldn't go head to head with a pay-per-view. This feels like they're throwing a bone back to maybe like, and I don't know if it'll end up on Netflix.

I don't know if Canola Croft will ever be as big as they say it will be because right now it's only a few months away and there's no date, no network, no site, and really not a lot of buzz going on to it, but this does feel like that opens the door and maybe this TKO boxing thing is still alive. So while- Yeah, I mean, people wanted to make the big deal to be that it went from Mexico to Texas. That's not the big deal. The big deal

is that it got downgraded from pay-per-view to fight night. That opens up a range of new possibilities that they just were kind of locked into before. Well, dude, this is a weird year, man. Really, really. Dude, this is the strangest fucking time, really? It's a soup, dude. This is a strangest fucking time in combat sports that I've maybe ever seen. And I mean that very sincerely. I mean, I've seen some really bad years where it's just like, you know, the money wasn't coming in for combat. Yeah, there's some big fights, but it's just the momentum is down. This is much deeper because obviously look at the cross pollination between Turkey kind of controlling boxing, but we've got questions whether he'll, you know,

pair with TKO and everything going on. The apathy in general for everything is as low as possible. Boxing isn't going to enter a kind of a dark month here in June. I hope we pull out of this. Okay. Yeah. Well, don't worry BC. I'm told that monopolization only leads to good things.

So, dude, do you know though that like, just real quick on this? Okay. The WWE let our truth go yesterday, a long time performer who yes is 55 years old, but is like this long-term fan friendly comedic character locker room giant. And this is the, I think that's the bridge too far. The amount of backlash I'm seeing now on social media against TKO for specifically how much their, you know, value extraction model removes the soul from all the things we love. Dude, WWE fans are unhappy and not backing down. Look, why are we not getting that same response from MMA fans? I don't know.

It's wild. It's as if they're like, yeah, this is fine. I'm cool with where we're at. Dude, I see people like, you know, every time there's one of these cards, it's like super irrelevant. And people like, who's going to watch this card and I'll read the comments and half the comments are, um, you know, it sucks, but I've got nothing else going on in my life and I don't watch TV or movies or, you know, I guess interact with friends. And therefore like, this is the only thing.

I told you like there's a certain kind of person that's become, it's probably sports wide actually to be honest with you. But certainly you can see in the combat sports that have this passive relationship of baby bird being fed constantly. You know, it's a dopamine hit. Like on social media, you're just constantly looking for new tweets, constantly looking for new posts on IG.

So you can get this constant stimulation rather than like having a life. You know what I mean? It's actually, honestly, it's kind of sad. It is. And you know how many people are like BC, you're way too harsh on Saudi and TKO. Why don't you want them in boxing? They're going to make huge fights. Check the temperature of what's going on in MMA and pro wrestling right now. Just check it. Yeah. I'm sure it's great for boxing that the biggest fight in the last several months has been Kayla Plant Armando Resendiz. I'm sure that that's a great thing for boxing. More like Resendiz nuts, Luke. I couldn't fit that into the broadcast on Saturday. I see you. There was a couple of ones you had. I had an off night. I had an off night.

Oh, no, no. You didn't. Well, you called first of all, you called Cornflake a fucking Connecticut legend, which I was like, get the fuck out. I called Willie Pep a Connecticut legend. Cornflakes from New Jersey. It was in. No, that's right. Because Morrow then called you a Connecticut legend. I was like, Morrow, you're really reaching here, motherfucker.

You had another one during that Cornflake fight. I forget what it was. And I was like, wow, dude you're really reaching here, motherfucker. You had another one during that cornflake fight. I forget what it was. And I was like, wow, dude, he almost got fired for that one. Oh, no, there was no almost got firing. There were like two moments where I I attempted to to to bring in a zinger at the wrong time as there were developments in the fight. So it made me look like an asshole. And I deserve it. Look, I deserve it. I don't know about that.

But I'll go back and find it. But you had another one. I was like, wow, he's really reaching. I don't, I don't think it was really that, but no, who did you say? You said race and these looked like Mario Lopez. I was like, that's quasi racist, but that's all right. How was that quasi racist when Mario Lopez then tweeted out, uh, from the broadcast of me saying that as he was celebrating it, I know. Hey, look, they, I get it to someone like you, they all look alike. I understand. You know what I'm saying? Oh my god. This guy.

I mean, you know, why don't I just come back with this, Luke? Okay. You know what I'm saying? I'm just teasing. I'm just teasing. Tell him, Joey. Um alright. Hey, Luke, let's go to topic number four which was the surprising big developments in Saturday's PBC on Prime Video Boxing Card of which, yes, your boy BC was on the call and in that main event We thought this card was a setup to take us to a Caleb plant versus germ All charlotte grudge match and by the way, we still could be on the road to that despite the results

But Caleb plant despite being a heavy betting favorite came up empty Against an Armando resend ease who was determined moving up in weight and Really never said die now Luke rescendiz was known for his pressure fighting. He came in this time though, a very relaxed demeanor. He actually boxed, increased the pressure over time. And unfortunately for Caleb Plant, the one big negative in his game, the fact that he does fade late against pressure fighters

really came into play here. It goes down in the end as a split decision win for race and ease, even though eight rounds to four seems to be the, the, the general opinion of most, including the scorecard that I have as well. How bad of a loss in your eyes is this for plant and at age 33, is it enough to question whether not only his best days are behind him, but you know, with the second child on the way, there's some whispers of people saying, maybe he should be, maybe he should be done.

Maybe this should be the beginning of the end. Do we overreact for a guy who's only fought once a year in recent years? How did you respond to Saturday night? Yeah. I mean, this was a weird one. First of all, the fight itself was actually pretty good. Very competitive. Yeah.

Jail a plant is, you know, usually not in bad fights. Like there are fun fights one way or the other typically. And actually this might've been the most enjoyable fight all weekend, MMA or boxing, depending on your perspective. But you know, it certainly was the co-main event to me on that card was, but we'll talk about that in a second. But I have mixed feelings BC, and I wonder if you do too. On the one hand, when I went back, cause I didn't see the fight live and I wonder if you do too. On the one hand, when

I went back, because I didn't see the fight live and I had seen all the reactions. So those are, let me go watch. I watched it last night on the couch and I'm looking at plant through the first four rounds and I'm like, how did he lose this fight? And it's like, oh, right. Well, after the first four rounds, everything basically changes. But even late into the fight BC, he didn't look slow. he didn't look like he was laboring with his movement, you know what I mean? He still had some snap to him but he just seemed like his skills declined and maybe that's because they had a bad camp, maybe because it was a short camp, maybe they didn't really plan properly for what race NDS could offer them. But like a couple of things BC, he didn't kill a plant

until like, you know, the latter third of the fight couldn't keep his hands up and kept getting tagged with right hands from race and these as a consequence. And I'm like, I know he does the low thing because he likes to go low to high with the jab. And he's got that kind of shoulder roll, half Philly shell style, but it wasn't working against a guy with that kind of shoulder roll half Philly shell style, but it wasn't working against a guy with that kind of forward pressure. That was the first thing I noticed. Also BC, and I went back and I looked at this, I don't think he threw anything more than a three punch combo the entire fight. A great double

jab, right hand, jab cross hook, you know, you name it. He was never putting four and potentially five punches together and in certain fights, maybe against who's who's cutting, uh, it was Kotege maybe against, um, early in the fight against Benavides, you saw him putting a little bit more into it. And in this one, he just seemed out of idea. So there's that. And then there's the last part BC, which is. I don't know. I'm not a race in these historian. He looks like a tough guy. 26 clearly was ready for this opportunity, but in looking over some of the fights, he did not look to me like a home run hitter of a puncher and yet.

Plant was just getting shook up by it, so it seemed to me that his skills just weren't where they needed to be for this fight for whatever reason. I don't know what happened to his punch resistance and the combination of the two just made for a weird result. It totally did and plan is 32 not 33 as I mentioned but that doesn't necessarily change what we're talking about right here. The fact that now in his last five fights he's two wins and three defeats. Understandable when you're talking about Canelo Alvarez and David Benavidez, but Ray Cindiz wasn't known for that. His biggest work he had done was at 160 even though he turned pro at light heavy weight and has fought as high as 183 pounds in the past. But I think the difference was he came in to win the biggest fight of his career which he ended up pulling off. He brought an insanely large crowd from his hometown in Niorette, Mexico with him.

They completely dominated the weigh-in on Friday at the Mandalay Bay. They made their presence known on Saturday, best shape of his career. But I think you gotta give a lot of credit to trainer Manny Robles, who is, of course, world class, for helping race indies not just be that aggressive guy who throws 20 punches more per round than the super middleweight average. He was patient. He knew. They had to know that if you can get plant into the later rounds, that a lot of the constant movement plant does the circling away. I mean, he uses a lot of effort and a lot of his movements.

And I do think it plays into a stamina dump down the stretch in fights that he's not controlling and dominating. We saw that in the losses to Canelo and Benavides. We saw that in his breakthrough title win in 2019 against Uzcategui where he really had to bite down in the final rounds. At 32, I don't think this is enough to say it's over. And I don't think it's enough to say race race and these only look that great because plan is no longer good. But to some degree, both things were true and they gave us this result. You do have a lot of people saying, as I mentioned earlier,

that plant fought once in 2024, once in 2023, once in 2022, hasn't fought twice in a year since 2021. So is it that lack of consistency building momentum? Was he just cold? Was he on a single night? Was he overlooking race? And these because of all the talk for this big charlo fight either way, it was eye opening. It was alarming. Now we can see the scorecards here. David Sutherland is certainly other under fire. The third judge who got at 115 113. That's insane that he gave the last three rounds to Caleb Plant.

That's insane. Dominated largely down the stretch. So you know, Caleb Plant really entered the championship rounds where he's known for fading in the worst spot down on the cards on most people's eyes against race and he's and he wasn't able to rally. I think you're right on a few things you mentioned. One punch at a time not going not gonna work You know, he's not known as a big puncher. Although under bread man Edwards He's been sitting down on his shots more He turned to an inside style against McCombie and knocked him out But I think race and DS was not there to be hit and I think the fact that plant through every single punch at a time was because race and DS was countering with combinations and I think plant realized that he couldn't stay in there against

That power but look if you really want a detailed thing on what might have happened and he was countering with combinations. And I think Plant realized that he couldn't stay in there against that power. But look, if you really want a detailed thing on what might've happened, there's an absolutely incredible interview with Steven Bredman Edwards, the trainer of Caleb Plant, but known really more, right? If you read his boxing scene weekly column as just a smart mind in this game,

he gave one of the most candid interviews I've ever seen to a group of reporters in which he said a few things, not just moving forward, does he wish if he stays with Caleb that he could take Caleb from the beginning of the camp and have full control. I don't know if that's speaking to the idea that Caleb is co-trained by his father Richie and Caleb doesn't spend full time in training camp with Bread, right? They visit each other, but his dad also trains him. Maybe there's part of Breadman that isn't getting the message all the way through that he wants. But Luke, Breadman

identified two things that were concerning. He said, one, Caleb's skin and reactions to punches from race and Ds that didn't actually appear to be that hard was concerning to him. That plant wasn't necessarily showing the durability and the positive response in those moments. And then he also mentioned about the lack of output overall. We do have sound from Caleb Plant in which he made it seem like it's kind of just one off night. He thought he had an argument to win. Let's listen to Caleb Plant. It was a great fight tonight, close fight. Felt like it could have went either way, but you know, it's live by the sword, die by the sword. The judges seen it how they seen it and you know, I'm not the

type to make any excuses. I left no stone unturned this camp, put it all in, paid a lot of money for camp, did a lot of work, a lot of running. And so you know, obviously I'm disappointed, but wanted to make sure I come out here and, you know, said my piece came to see you guys and You know, I still got you know, I still getting a lot of love from the fans and you know, I think I've earned the respect over the years and obviously right now I'm just just disappointed. So In life, I'm a winner, you know, if you look at where I started what I've been through and what I've had to accomplish to get here It's taken a lot and, uh, I feel like if anybody's the man for the job, it's

me. So like I said, I'll regroup with my team. We'll get right back to work. And, um, I'm not easily discouraged, you know, to a boxing's biggest stars. Look, we know how mentally tough he is with, with his own trainer talking about maybe the, the one fight a year thing. Maybe he gets active that this could turn around. I'm going to lean more towards one off night, maybe not the best training camp, maybe partially overlooking the opponent.

Maybe the opponent performed better than we expected, but I'm not going to lie from what I'm reading on the internet, which has a lot of people from fans to connected Insiders basically saying they kind of feel like not only is the best of plant behind him But without being a power puncher for a style that's heavy on movement But staying in the pocket a lot they don't see a sustainable future for him I'm not gonna go that far after hearing him say look. I don't discourage easily. I'll be back Do you think fighting two three times a year could get him back into the. Elite shape we expect there.

Yeah, but he's got to bring a better skillset. Again, I, I, I, I didn't, I, I saw just better elusiveness against Canelo and I will grant it was four years ago. It's been some wear and tear on the tire, you know, the tread straight up took a beating. Yeah. I mean, he looked good for the first six rounds, but the last six were terrible. I mean, the fact that he survived was remarkable.

And dude, in the fifth round here, he got tuned up by Ray Sendiz. I mean, I was amazed he didn't go down from that to be perfectly honest. I haven't seen him wobble that bad maybe since he fought David Benavides, if I'm being honest. So to me, it's like there's a lot of things you need to get tightened up. Again, the good news is BC, he did not physically look shop-worn in the sense of how well he could move and the speed at which he could move. That all looked pretty good. He still had some zip and pop in his legs and that's what you want, but he didn't wear the punch as well and he did not have many either offensive or even defensive answers.

That's not going to be enough against even a diminished Charlo or whoever else in the division they can give them a fight against. Yeah. Let's see the, uh, the clowning here from Edgar Berlenga, who's been in a constant feud with plant, but they've been unable to sign a fight against each other. Berlenga putting out the, uh, Caleb plant pack of, uh, buds there and weed Luke that'll, I guess if you smoke that you'll get, well, you won't get put to sleep. Plant didn't get put to the game. I'm looking at Berlanga putting out the uh Caleb Plant pack of uh buds there and we'd Luke that'll I guess if you smoke that you'll get well, you won't get put to sleep. Plant didn't get put to sleep. He was competitive in a

loss but it certainly was a step back. Now, Luke, Jamal Charlo. I didn't think I didn't think this fight was that competitive. I did not think you could go either way. I think four rounds is generous. Okay. There's a difference when I say competitive between competitive on the score

cards means in my eyes, it's that the judges were giving rounds either way, but it can be a 12 to nothing fight that's competitive within each round. Do you know what I'm saying? I thought it was the rounds were competitive, but he was losing them. I never thought that plant was getting abused, but I did not think that he was in it by around nine or 10. I can assure you that. Well, in that co-main event, Jamal Charlo handled his business, obviously though, against a lower tier opponent in Thomas Cornflake Lamana, who since being one punch KO'd by Arislandi Laura, did win nine straight fights.

They were on the regional circuit. Luke, this fight got lambasted coming in. Yeah, it should have. This fight was stupid. Yeah. It took a lot of, a lot of hits afterwards with Milano just not being remotely on plants level, I'm sorry, on Charlo's level. But with that said, Luke, before we tie this into the future for a plant Charlo matchup, were you impressed by what we did see from the 35 year old Charlo, from the poise, the heavy jab that he's known for.

And just in general, look, it's not prime Jamal Charlo, but is this a still a title contending Jamal Charlo in a new weight division at 168 in your eyes? I don't think there's any way to really know. I mean, he had a little bit of loose change on him. He did not look to be in terrible shape. No, by any stretch. No, he did not look to be terrible shape, but not traditionally good shape. He's traditionally looking, he traditionally looks a little bit leaner.

He had a little bit of loose change on him. I'd say that first and foremost. Second of all, it's just really hard to know against an opponent of this quality. I mean, dude, Cornflake seems like a nice guy, but what the fuck was that fight? Like he had no he got dropped in the third and the fourth and the fifth. Yeah. You know what I mean? And like they were like not all it was the one I think it was the one in the fourth and the fifth. Yeah. You know what I mean? And like they were like, not all I mean, it was the one I think it was the one in the fourth or the fifth. It wasn't the first one. He literally was right on the ropes.

He gets the shot and he gets his hand up the punch hits the glove. It's split it a little bit, but it mostly landed on the glove and it still knocked him down. And I was like, Okay, what the fuck are we doing here? Yeah, his legs were gone at that point. I mean, it's it was I mean, it's like it's like did Charlotte, by the charlotte could have got him out of there much earlier. And I think wanted to get some rounds, which fine, but you're asking me to make like a declaration about what we can learn from there.

It was nice to see him. Put together the pieces of something back together again, you know, but I don't know what to say beyond that. I don't, I just, it's hard to put any of this into context. Well, I'll give him credit. Look, getting back after the hell he's been through, mental health issues, he's talked openly about bipolar disorder in the past.

He had a bad divorce, he had substance abuse issues. I mean, he went through hell and back, mentally and physically. So to be back, that's great. To see the smile on his face afterwards, to see him speak a positive message about mental health and especially in the African American community. Alan Dawson, our friend, had a great interview with Charlo coming in about how there's a stigma against mental health, but specifically in that community. So to see Jamal speak out on that, all good stuff. And I think a lot of people came away

going, look, he's still got it. He's still got something here. He's a fun fight for a lot of super middleweights moving forward, whether you're talking about Berlanga, Munguia, although he's got issues here, or maybe Caleb Plant. Now, according to Charlo, he did say that Plant dropped the ball. He also said, hey, even with that loss, I got to get my lick back. I still want that fight. Let's hear from Jamal Charlo. This camp was amazing. I probably had too much fun this camp. But it's cool though because you know that's what it's all about. You know having fun, giving my all, working and you know just staying focused.

You know talk to my mom every day. Talk to my brother, my peers, my friends. CC hit me up, Dee Dee hit me mom every day. Talk to my brother, my peers, my friends. Cece hit me up, Dee Dee hit me up every day. Everybody that's just been really holding me down. I just wanna say to my fans and my friends and people out there, if you ever going through something, the worst thing to do is hold it in. It don't matter who it is,

just talk to somebody about it and that's the best thing you can do and try to move forward. Just pray to God that he could change the view on things in life and that's kind of what I've been doing and I've been battling with it. I know I just got a victory and I got a victory maybe a year ago and I've kind of been inactive but my goal is to get more active but you know I was you know I'm still battling some things now you know but I'm not it's not affecting me not to fight as you can see I went in and still prevailed and I just wanted to tell you I thank y'all for following me thank y'all for being there with me each and every step of the way you know it's a journey and I'm still working towards

making myself better I'm not perfect towards making myself better. I'm not perfect, but my record is. Two of boxing's biggest stuff. Luke, what do you make of what he said? That while, yes, we can lambast the idea of marination boxing, we've done it for years, going back to Yuri Orcas Gamboa and Juan Mal Lopez falling apart when they each took tune-up fights

ahead of an expected clash. You can talk about what just happened in Times Square with Haney and Garcia. This was, I think, open to criticism whether Plant and Charlo should have just been fighting on Saturday night. I think you can offer that criticism. Does it kill the matchup though, considering where they are in their age and considering that there is a real grudge between them with, you know, Charlo pulling on the beard of plant back in 2023 and them having that fight backstage at the Spence Crawford weigh-in. I still think that they could make that fight.

I even still think you could make plant Munguia or sorry, when I say Munguia plant Berlonga, I think you could do either of them. Promotionally, I don't feel like he sank a lot of what there was there because. You know, the reason why those fights are interesting are can only be resolved by making the one fight the other right? Like there's not. There's no real clear substitute.

That's just as good. I mean, there's a few different permutations of fights that are available, but there's a certain connectivity between X and Y and so you have to kind of see what's up with that. None of that really got super displaced, but to me it's like you know, I don't know who would have been

the favorite plant or charlo before the weekend BC, but now it's like, I don't know. I mean, charlo's a big puncher and to your point he jab was heavy and against the guy like plant, if he can't wear the shots of race indies, you definitely can't wear the punches of charlo. Like it makes me wonder how competitive it is. Not so much like do I want to see it? Yeah, sure. I would still definitely see it but my view of what it actually would mean has changed fairly significantly with just one weekend of fights. Yeah. I mean, look, it's tough to speak on Charlo because we only have this one fight in the last 18 months and it wasn't against the top chair contender but considering that he lost out on superfights with Canelo twice in the past four years, one where he wasn't ready a second time where Canelo just chose a different opponent.

If you look in your crystal ball and we don't know if Canelo is going to lose the undisputed championship to Crawford or what's going to happen. But Canelo this week did say he wants to fight until he's 37. Do you think Jamal Charlo ends up getting the Canelo? Oh, Jesus. Does play into the type of opponents Canelo wants. Let's be fair, right? Golly. I hadn't even thought about it. Probably because I hate the idea, then the answer is yes.

Probably. I mean, I wouldn't hate it if he puts together a couple wins and looks the part in and hopefully, then I won't fight him. If he looks the part, Canelo won't fight him. Alright. Uh Jermel. was also in the ring celebrating with his brother and I interviewed him quickly on the post fight broadcast. Luke, I'm happy to say this. The Charlo brothers have been either each other's best friends and biggest motivators or the biggest

enemy between the two of them over the years. We've seen them have call each other out and we've seen some really tough situations where they didn't talk to each other for a long time. Jermall said that Jermell is the reason why he's boxing again, that his brother was there for him day after day to help him. And I don't know if you saw Lance Pugmire's reporting over the weekend on Twitter.

Golden Boy and PBC, according to Lance, are talking about potentially a come backing J Jermell Charlo at one 54 against Virgil or T's junior. Are you in or out? I'm in. Oh, yeah. I'm in. Oh, yeah. Sounds like a fun fight.

That sounds like a really fun fight. Um, and Ortiz looked really good against, um, Madrimof. So yeah, indeed. Uh, also the clothes here, Luke PBC will be back July 19th as they officially announced their pay-per-view card on Prime Video. I was able to interview both Fundora and Zou who are gonna rematch in the co-main event, Manny Pacquiao and Mario Barrios in the main event and to round out that pay-per-view as was teased, we're gonna get Brandon Figueroa against Joy Gonzalez, which should be a brawl and then a rematch of Pitbull Cruz and Angel Fierro

from earlier this year. All things considered, even with Pacquiao at 46, Luke, and with me being a PBC homer, I gotta say I'm excited for this card and it should be really good. And I hope that it is continued momentum. Are you giving Manny any chance at this point? I mean, you know, you never know

with the magic of pharmaceuticals, but in general, I don't give a shit about that fight. The rest of the cars we said before, rest of the fight, the card looks good. That main event to me is a joke. Shout out. Shout out to everybody involved. Interesting development and we have another name now in race and ease Luke, who's going to be deserving of a big fight now has the interim belt there. Just 26. Yeah, he's got a very interesting stuff.

Luke, is a sequel better than the original? It probably depends on the franchise. I know Dune made one heck of a sequel, but we're gonna find out if that's true this Saturday at UFC 316. Why? Because Marab Davos really will defend that Bantamweight title against former champ Sean O'Malley in a rematch nine months in the making.

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And look, UFC needs a big weekend. All right, let's do it. So, Luke, I want you to name one fight, one fighter, one situation on this card that has you the most intrigued heading in to the first of two pay-per-view events we can expect as UFC fans in June. What is that one storyline that you're focused on? The reformation of Sean O'Malley. So one of the reasons why people might be upset about this fight to a degree is not that people don't think Marab is good. Hello, he's the champion or even that O'Malley is good. Hello, he's the former champion, but that it happened within 10 months, which is not typically a long amount of time. Typically for a rematch to be

interesting in terms of some of the differences you could get with the second matchup, a couple of years or more need to go by before you get a real big difference. But I would actually say something interesting is kind of happening here. Sean O'Malley, it may be only having a 10 month difference, but he appears to be doing any number of major changes to the way in which he's operating both in terms of training, physical health, as well as like personal health in a different way, not so much an ailment, but centering his life. So that I think you're actually are going to get something of a different Sean O'Malley. Now, I'm not suggesting to you that's a reason why he may win. You still have to kind of match up the X's and O's as best we understand them.

But I guess the point I'm trying to make here is, I actually do think he's gonna come into this with some different ideas about how to fight, with some different ways in which he prepped and a different centeredness about self. And the reason why that's important, BC, is twofold. One, you actually give him, he's giving himself like, remember he had a to this effect. He kind of made Marab the enemy in a certain way. He's changing enough things where you do have to reconsider his chances in a second fight. But here's the interesting part BC.

Either those changes are going to lift him to a new sense of success. Right. He actually, this will work or he's going to be doing all of these things and the results won't be there. And what I've often seen in my career covering fighters who have done this kind of thing where they've actually committed their life to change, and then the subsequent result doesn't yield that for them, they end up going through a bit of another journey as a consequence because what's happening is they're telling themselves, I'm the man.

I couldn't show that I was the man that night, but with these changes, this can still help me to believe internally how much that I am the man. Something that young men and young women may not appreciate is you will tell yourself something about who you are for very long periods of time, especially if you're driven to go do things. And then eventually, life may reward it, life may not. And if it does it, you then have to reconcile with how many things you have told yourself over the years that

actually were not true. And when that's not true, who are you? And so it could lead to him going up to 45 BC. It could lead to him, maybe actually because of the positive health changes on a personal level, it won't matter. Like he'll actually still be quite happy about who he's become through that journey. But this is what I want to say, when you go all in on these kinds of changes, A, it gives you the best chance at victory in a rematch. But the problem is if those don't work, you have serious questions to answer for what you actually told yourself and how it's impossible to believe it going forward. And that could yield a bunch of different changes as a consequence, an

interesting way in which this main event could yield a variety of outcomes. No doubt about it. And this UFC 316 look ahead is brought to you by Total Wireless, the official wireless provider of the UFC. Get unlimited data that won't slow you down. And Luke, when it comes to not slowing down the former champion, I have to agree, the storyline about him no stone unturned,

not jaying the peen. I mean, when he could re, you know, Luke, the idea of him. What's the right term I'm looking for? Re. Masturbate. No, what's that term when you re you recharge and refill the, uh, the satchel and, uh, I'm sure the sponsor loves this conversation. Yeah, that's great. Anyway, here's the deal, though.

Luke, the history of people that have because this has not been a tune up fight from O'Malley in between or a bounce back number one contender fight. He's going right from a title loss to directly for him an immediate rematch and under circumstances where people, you know, complained about whether he was truly deserving. Now you've got him absolutely going all in, as you mentioned, where the stakes are pretty high. If he loses consecutive title bouts, considering the star push he received, he's pretty much going to have to move up to featherweight, isn't he? Luke, right? He doesn't have to, but I wonder if he might be incentivized to, yes. And it might be a situation where, where he might be forced to really overhaul

a lot of things in his career. So this is that all in opportunity to regain what he had. And I do take into account a few things, the injury, the need for surgery that he had coming into the first matchup, weather elements of the sphere, you know, affected him in ways that it didn't marab, all of these things. I'm excited to see where this goes

because we're looking at one of the biggest potential stars in this game coming off a muted performance. Now you got to keep your back off the canvas against Marab. You've also got to hurt him ultimately. So this is more intriguing as we are just a few days out than I expected when this fight was first announced. But you mentioned we do have some sound from Sean O'Malley. May I interject very quickly? Please. People are like, oh, he's doing the same thing that all fighters do.

No, he's not. BJ Pan in the rematch for Matt Hughes, they asked him what he was gonna do differently this time and he goes, nothing, I'm gonna go surfing. I mean, I remember this distinctly. He was like, I'm gonna do absolutely nothing different. Like there are fighters who are like, I, even if you lost, like I still had the right game plan.

I still had the right idea. Just didn't come together that night, blah, blah, blah. O'Malley's doing the opposite. He is trying in a short amount of time to overhaul a bunch and whether it's enough, we'll see. It's a tough tough fight, but if you overhaul a bunch and you still don't get there, it leaves you in a very strange place. Often times. Sorry about that. Refractory period. That's what we're thinking of, right Luke? No. Well well he's not gonna need

that period this time Luke anyway let's go to some sound about a strange encounter on Mally head the owl has been like I randomly got this owl tattoo on my chest I had a shitty tattoo right here and I didn't like it I told this I told the tattoo I might cover it up he's like what do you want so I don't know what would be there's like some kind of bird Mike he's like you fucking tell me he put an owl here and now it's like ever since I the last it was the period for the first period on fight us Yes, I watched the sunset and like this owl came and flew and slayed on this or was sitting on this Wood thing by me and I was like what the fuck I was so scared to look up what that meant

Cuz I thought it was bad like my what if that's bad. I think I've ever seen an owl in my life Yeah, well, I looked it up. It was ever Harry Potter. It's really it was good luck you at what if that's bad luck? I don't think I've ever seen an owl in my life. Yeah, well I looked it up. Except for Harry Potter. It's really, it was good luck. You at 6am is like a fucking owl. Actually, yeah. That's the only owl I've seen, but yeah. But owls have been coming in and out of my life in a weird way. Like a weird way.

And, you know, I moved out to this other house and there's, I have a bunch of owls that live in these trees around me. So I see them quite often. Ten days before the Marab fight, there was a dead owl in my driveway and I was like that can't be good. And I was like, I don't know, I didn't want to think about that but I think and it sounds crazy but I was like fuck I just didn't feel like I was supposed to win that fucking fight. He's in his own head. He's in his own head a little bit. This is what I mean.

You see how he's like reinforcing any kind of positivity in there because I wonder if there's like a real hardcore element of doubt that he's trying like a flame he's trying to extinguish. Like the invincibility in him was was damaged and now, you know, he's under maybe he is under a serious refactoring period just in a different way. You know what I mean? Um, he's under, maybe he is under a serious refactoring period, just in a different way. You know what I mean? It's an interesting storyline, just the same, but I do like what he says in this next clip about changing his mindset and how he looks at Marab.

And we know how often in pro sports, or really in pickup basketball and anything, Luke, there's a small percentage of people that can play emotional, fight emotional, and benefit from that, O'Malley seems to be the opposite. Let's hear him. Another thing I just feel like that uh the cheeto second cheeto rematch there was like animosity. I really truly wanted to beat the fuck out of him. Like I felt like I really didn't like him at that time and I and I had such a good performance. It felt so good. I was like I'm gonna carry that into the mirab. Like I don't I almost forced myself to not like Marab, but it wasn't like genuine.

It was just like, so I felt like I forced that a little bit. And, uh, this camp, it's like, I have nothing against Marab. I'm going to go out there and compete because I love to compete. I'm an athlete. I'm a high level performer. I want to go out there and put on a beautiful performance because I love this sport not necessarily because I don't like them. I Mean, that's what I'm talking about. That's good stuff right there. Yeah. Yeah, the dead owl thing in the driveway is a little concerning Look, but that's that's refreshing right there. So, um, you know, Marab though Luke. Didn't he just hurt another toe? Did you see that? I mean the guy's just popping off toes left and right. I Don't know what to say about Marab except he'll be there. He'll be there. He'll absolutely be

there. Uh Luke, we're gonna break down these matchups uh in in depth on Wednesday but the whole Caleb, Kayla Harrison making weight and looking great doing it and being effective is a big part of this. I like that her story is really getting a push this week ahead of this title fight and that she we already know took on uh the children of her sibling who was going through hard times adopted them became a mom and is really an inspirational sort of encouraging figure in a lot of ways but there's going to be a big physical task for her to finally

climb this mountain we're still looking at someone who can do really great historic things in the sport and the idea of her potentially winning this championship and welcoming Amanda Nunes. It's the best news women's MMA has had in a while. So this Saturday's fight should be pretty interesting in that regardless. I'm telling you, I mean, you know, the whole month has got a lot of positivity to it. And, and there are some, is it the best fight? The co-main this month or even the main is that the best fight this month? No, probably isn't the best fight this month, but it's, it's a quality main event.

It's a quality co-main event for the most part. And, um, interesting storylines all the way through. You got patchy mix. You got Joe Pfeiffer's dislike for Mexico. We got a few things to focus on on Wednesday's pregame. It's amazing to me that he's like, I don't want to fight in Mexico. You know what? Let me go fight in a new work guys. Yeah. New work is not an improvement. I have terrible news for everybody. Newark Penn will give you all those same water issues you had there. Yeah, and you'll get stabbed up on the walk home to the subway.

Maybe catch measles too on the way. That'd be fantastic right there. But no, the Patchy Mick storyline, very interesting. Can't wait to break this all down. Come Wednesday, 11 AM Eastern time. This has been the road to UFC 316 brought to you by Total Wireless. Let's get friggin fired up Luke. Let those are our five topics for the week. Hey, Long Island Luke, no seat a quick update as we let the people know once again that MK Merch if you joined us late, it's back and it's live right now.

Morning Combat dot shop. Long Island Luke, are you able to see in real time or are we moving product? We're moving product. We got almost 20 orders in so far. So appreciate everyone who's been ordering and keep it coming. Merch is back. Okay. It helps us out. Let it help you out this summer in terms of tight t-shirts. Okay. Let's do that thing. There you go. We now transition to a fan segment where every Sunday night at morning combat on Instagram and X, we give you the opportunity to join the conversation and get your questions answered. Sometimes they jerk off a donkey for the intro. This one's called DMs from dogs. You know, I prefer the new one.

I do. I mean, the first one's just so off putting. I don't know. They're both pretty, it's like computer jazz. You know, it's all right. Hey, our first one's from Johnny underscore thump. If you're Aaron Blanchfield, Johnny S do you call for the Manon Farrow rematch or shoot for the Natalia Silva matchup? What is the easier route to the title shot in your eyes?

Luke Thomas. Yeah. I don't go back to the Manon fight. She got, she was fighting a brick wall that night. That was a terrible, I mean, unless you feel like you can really advance past it at this point, but dude, Manon is a tough out. You already lost to her. Try a, try a different route.

I don't know. I don't go back to that at all. Yeah. But as we talked about Luke, if the next two fights for Val are Jean-Hui Lee and then an already deserving to some degree, Natalia Silva, it all comes down to whether UFC says, Aaron, you have to go through Manon a second time because the title's not going to be available for a while or maybe Zhong Wei Li does get the next one. Is there

any world in which they tell Natalia Silva, you have to go through men on yourself to get the titles? Unlikely. I would bet against that. Yeah. Okay. But he wanted to know if you're Aaron, what would you do Luke and probably stay spicy and cold blood. It would be the answer, right? I get try to get a fight booked. Get out of Jersey maybe. No. Get leave Jersey permanently. Okay. And never go back. There you go. Shout out to Aaron Blanchfield. Let's hear from Eric Bolden. He

says, what would be the odds for a Kayla Harrison versus Amanda Nunes fight if Kayla demolished Pena first Furthermore could that fight headline a UFC pay-per-view and do decent numbers if the undercard is solid It's a good question for a resident gambling expert and boyfriend of the year Hmm. What do you think? What's the in the scenario that they're positing? Give me a line. All right. So Kayla just first round finish over Juliana. Let's say let's say it's around and a half, but it's just a fucking beat down. Grounded pound. It's a joke from behind. Not just that gets the take down passes to dominant position and just works her over. It's tough just because Amanda's

going to be coming off. However many year lay layoff now like how long has she been out? It's probably gonna be two years by the time two years. I think it's two years for old mandy Yeah, yeah, and she's up there in age if i'm not mistaken over 35, right? Yeah, she's also the greatest of all time. So take that. Yeah, I mean dude if she could stop the takedown This is amanda's fight. Ah I'm gonna still ah fuck man This is a tough one to line. I'm going to say Kayla Harrison is still the dog, but it's close. I'll say she's like plus 110, Amanda minus 130.

I'd go a little higher. I'd go Amanda like minus 190. Well, she, the striking, she would have a potential dominant advantage, but look one look outside of the first Valentina fight in round three and maybe the second GDR fight. We've never really seen Amanda like handled consistently on the ground, right? There might be a couple more than that one, but yeah, I mean it's it's it's few and far between certainly. I mean the issue is this like one of the things we've spotlighted, and we'll talk about it on on Wednesday, Pena has terrible takedown defense

from a statistical point of view. So, you know, it's hard to know what that might mean. If Harrison struggles against her, but wins in terms of getting the takedown, you're like, oh, we're not going to get the takedown on a man. Yes. You know what I mean? So that's different kind of conversation. Just for age purposes, Kayla Harrison will turn 35 on July 2nd and Amanda Nunes just, uh, three days ago turned 37. Still she can punch, you know?

Yeah. I'm with you on that. Now the final question from Eric Bolden there was, could it be a main event on its own? I mean, it could be, but I would think it would be a co-main to a, to a pretty good title fight and be a larger. Yes. But if need be, it could headline. Yes.

Like that. Doesn't this kind of feel like the perfect IFW co-main or am I no, no, it would under that scenario, it'd be a perfect one, but you know, I don't know if they're going to wait that long or what's going to happen. Our third DM comes in from lowercase.com. or am I not? No, it would under that scenario. It'd be a perfect one, but you know, I don't know if they're gonna wait that long or what's gonna happen. Our third DM comes in from lowercase3. He says, who are the fighters that make up the top five chins in active current MMA? And what about historically, Vittori comes to mind for current fighters, considering he gets nuked and stays standing. Yeah, he's got a hell for modern UFC right now active fighters

But Tori's got a hell of a beard L the Tory I mean, it's been cracked now, but it's you know, historically speaking even he's still relevant Max Max Holloway's chin has been fucking legendary John Jones has a phenomenal chin, you know, you just never gets hurt hardly at all Try to think like who else had like a really good, I mean, dude, like some of these guys, like they're not really relevant anymore, you know, but steep ahead of phenomenal chip, but honestly, like the beginning of the chin conversation historically starts with no Gara. No Gara has had the, maybe the most amazing chin I've ever seen.

Um, at any way class, just an absolute demon to deal with. Uh, Josh near early on had a good chin. Roy Nelson, Roy Nelson had a ridiculous chin. A lot of these guys up there. Who Mark hunt for a long time. Yes. Yes. He had a good chin as well.

I mean, again, you know, you have to kind of define the era in which it was their best because you see them when it gets cracked and then it's not the same anymore. But oh, big knock, dude. Prime big nog is just in. Yeah, no guarantee. Yeah, I said you said it. Good Lord, that's that might be my pick for the greatest chin ever because those pride plates were just the ones that you want. Gara fought a nearly 400 pound sap who like separated his vertebrae on the first spike of the goddamn fight like dude and he didn't want it. You know what I mean? Like he's just insane. It's a different level of physical punishment. You can tell to try to bring a female

into this. Do you put Juliana Pena in there? No. No. You put anybody in there? No. No. Okay. Um you know, you put anybody in time. There was a time where she was. I mean, before it went, Liddell could could take a bomb. Liddell. Maybe Liz Carmush had a decent chin for a while. She could take a big shot. Yeah. Alright. Alright. That's great. It was great talking to you on this one. Let's hear from what the hell Russell question with Mrs. Luke Thomas being of Colombian descent. Columbia spelled wrong. It's it's Columbia. Can

Luke actually dance or does a gangster still just bounce a little now? Luke, it's been established on the show that I will tear up your wedding reception dance floor and make it all about me. But can Luke move if he needs to? I can salsa only because I've taken many, many salsa lessons. That's it. So, you know, do I freestyle? And can I freestyle?

No, no, it's a disaster. So wait, okay. We're at a wedding reception, all right? Yeah. We just finished eating, we're drinking, we're laughing with each other. And then like a traditional classic dancing banger. For the old people, it might be like celebration

or something, for me, who's also an old person but a different different era. It's going to be going to make you sweat by CZ CNC music factory. Let's say that song hits Luke. We're at the reception together. Our wives grab us by the arms. We head out to the dance floor. You don't have like a little bit of like just a site. Like, I don't mean to bring in the Trump dance, but like something like that, just a go-to safe move. You mean like safe white guy, hold position, don't embarrass yourself kind of like a tread water thing? Yes, I've got a tread water thing. Okay. But I can't like commit, you know what I mean? I can only commit under like very, very narrow circumstances. Okay, okay. That's fair. But do they, they, you know, it's, what do you want to say? It's a festive time.

You got to be ready, you know, would you say Columbia and people in general can really dance or is that, yes, it's the thing that you don't really understand. I didn't fully understand. And like, how can that be? Like, as a, you know, they're not born that way. It's just such a part of everything early on in their life, both like at school and in social life, they're always dancing. There's like some dance is just a big element of life broadly for young, for old, for everything,

everything. So yes, it's so pervasive that, you know, they are just better at it. Right. Would your wife be angry at Eileen Perez is post winning theatric dancing in the UFC cage. Upset. I don't think she'd be upset at it. She might have some choice words about it, but I don't think she'd be upset about it. Okay.

That's great. Finally, from Von Beckel, are you guys doing any camping this summer or are you city rats? So my family has been asking me to take them camping for maybe a solid year now. And this is real camping, like drive to a campsite, put up a tent, right? You're not talking about like, yeah. All right. So I'm glad you brought, I'm glad you asked that because first of all, I

was an Eagle scout in the boy scouts. Right. So I was, dude, when it comes to things like, yeah, debate team, uh, sergeant in the Marines, fricking Eagle scout. Yeah. So I was an Eagle scout. I was, I, I got it.

How old was I? I got it before I, that was 15, 16, something like that. I think I just started, uh, high school. No, I had a second year of high school, so something like that. Um, but I definitely did it. I was actually quite bitter about it because I had a single mom at the time, as everyone probably can recall me talking about, and I never had, they do it like this is the voice of the eagle thing when you get it, and I never had an eagle

ceremony. So they gave me the patch, I was able to wear it. And I actually, I might even have it still in my closet somewhere. I had, do you know the differences between the Boy Scouts and the Explorers? The Explorers is like for older people, it's actually coed anywhere a green shirt not a brown one. So I had that Well, I did after that after that I was like, I think I'm done with this part of my life And that's what I actually have the year after that is when I actually had my first serious girlfriend So it actually kind of happened like right like that but in any case between that and the Marine Corps where I literally one time had to get hospitalized because of the number of mosquito bites on my face and head In any case, between that and the Marine Corps, where I literally one time had to get hospitalized

because of the number of mosquito bites on my face and head, I don't like being out in the elements anymore. I had to deal with so much suffering that I, it made me kind of like, I hate it, to be honest with you. So I told them- I didn't expect you would say anything positive about camping. Well, what I told them was,

I'll do like the half thing, where you can rent like a yurt. You ever seen these things called yurts? Or you can do glamping is what they call it. I told them, I'll do that. I'll do that. But I'm not, I'm not buying a tent at fucking Dick's and then setting it up and then getting chewed to death

by fucking mosquitoes. I'm not doing that. I'm trying to get in here to say that my family, we go camping like every summer. We're going in a few weeks and camping is great, man. Sleeping in tents, you get a nice pet. You just sit in front of the fire all day drinking beers. I mean, it's not for you. Do you hear yourself? Do you realize I have a child? Like, I mean, what kind are you living?

All my nieces and nephews come. They range in ages from two to fourteen. Are you watching them? Yeah, sometimes. They're not my kids sometimes. Sure. But I have to say, Luke, back when we really didn't have money for you know what you would consider normal vacations or expensive vacations, we did a lot of family camping when the kids were small. We did a full week at Acadia National Park in Maine and it it's it's a it's weird. It's amazing at the end. You're like wow that was an incredible experience, but it's a lot. It's a lot of work to spend a whole

week sleeping outside and it's gonna be me and me and two to Colombianas like what you think they're gonna help me set up the tent. Yeah, you think they're gonna help me make the fire like I have to do everything. It was great when my kids are small. I feel like once we could afford not to camp we stopped but I do miss it. It is a lot of setup. It's a lot of work. And again, I don't have a tent. I don't have a sleeping bag. I don't have any gear. So now we have to go buy all this gear, you know, like, yeah, I mean, there is something about once it's all set up and you're looking at the lake and you're sitting in your Chair the fires going I mean it is pretty awesome Luke turn that phone off right connect with nature part is great

That's what I'm saying. If I could do a glamping scenario where I don't have to bring half of these provisions We'll talk about it. But alright, I don't I don't think that's the most manly response You've had though considering you're an ex-marine sergeant who survived Parris Island, right? response you've had though considering you're an ex Marine Sergeant who survived Parris Island, right? Uh dude, I'm telling you like I had to sit in the back of a five ton in New Jersey at Fort Dix one time. They didn't have a lid on the the five ton and it was snowing and freezing rain and we had to ride on the back of that **** for hours. Dude, I

it's like I remember that night going to bed and we because we we actually made it back to the motor pool and I got in my sleeping bag and I remember I just could not get warm. Hour after hour, I just sat there freezing. And then the next one, the summer hits, I had to get hospitalized because I couldn't open my eyes for the amount of mosquitoes that had feasted on me during the course of that evening. So dude, you go through a few of these experiences,

you're like, it's not that money outside. It's just not. Here we go. That was your DMS from donks. Thank you for playing a reminder that you can reach our program by emailing morning combat at gmail.com. We will not have a show this Friday, a programming update, obviously, as we'll have Wednesday's pregame preview, but the following week, you better believe we're coming strong with fan submissions and dead wrongs and maybe you guys showing Mikey your package but please don't. Our final

segment involves me scouring the internet like I did yesterday during that brief break between flights in Dallas at the Admiral's Lounge, shout out American Airlines, where I put together enough weird videos to try to make Luke uncomfortable. This one's called BC's Thesis. Ooh-ah, indeed. Luke, we start with the quote of the week and it comes from Mike Bone's interview with the one and only Derrick Lewis. For the guys calling me out, you know, so I I think what I need to start doing that once I knock guys out, start putting my finger in their ass, you know, people don't want to call me out afterwards, you know, if I start

putting my finger in my opponent ass while they knocked out on the ground, I don't think nobody won't call me out anymore. You know, no, no, no. I guess that's funny if you're five, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, I'm Mark Fimo Lopez. One week after brawling over the internet with Turkey Alashique, Teo is getting ripped for this tweet Saturday to his Excellency, Turkey Alashique. I

take full responsibility for my inappropriate words on the X app. I publicly apologize to H E. I will conduct myself with greater respect, humility, and professionalism sending love and light to all. Hashtag boxing. Yeah, except except African-Americans but but yes, to everybody else, he probably is. That's right. Does this look like the way the boxing public is receiving it? That you talk all that junk until it comes time to lose money and now you're

back kissing H E's ball bag. Yeah. Teo is a great boxer and seems to be a terrible person, but I guess we'll see how that, I mean that, that's hard because he's one of my favorite personalities until the hard R era but like you know it's just damn. The hard R era. That's what we're living in BC. Well, we're living in the hard R era. Our next subcategory is a shout out to all things father-daughter bonding you and the late Kobe Bryant hashtag girl dads and Luke do you ever go golfing

with Chucky? I've taken it to the driving range. Definitely done that. Putt putt golf. Done that too. This dad has done the same thing. What's up guys? Today, I'm going to be golfing with my daughter. How high how high were you when you put this? I mean, I wouldn't recommend that but uh and Luke, unfortunately your tickets for the father-daughter Shakira concert fell through, but this could have been you! Yo, why you wearing shades?

I don't want anybody to know what I'm looking at. Oh. Okay. That one's better. And Luke, this last clip is definitely not the way we want father bonding to go for anybody. If you found out your daughter was an OnlyFans model, what would you do? Well, I would probably have to unsubscribe. No sound, but that's a good joke.

Oh, I heard the sound. You didn't hear the sound? I didn't hear the sound. It was only in the left speaker. Oh, that's right sound. You didn't hear the sound. I didn't hear the sound. It was only in the left speaker Well, is he is looking to have a problem moving forward No, I think it was just that clue. Okay. All right, so I can switch but yeah, luke it's time for your local News interruptions of the week. Here's molly mcbride from sandwich shops to liquor stores. Will check back in with Molly in just a moment. Looks like she's having some interactions there.

Roach, did she have a dollar? If you've not been to Vegas, the how would you describe the BC? The vagrants who waft through strip mall parking lots in Vegas are a unique kind of breed that you typically don't see in a lot of other American cities and true or false. Well, I see him in Newark, but yes, yes. Yeah.

Yes. Yes. And it's, I see him in Newark, but yes, yes, yes. Yes, it's and it's just people coming and going. I mean, that guy might have been down on his luck a little bit there, obviously, but it's just like I'm telling you, walking through a parking lot in a Vegas strip mall is you're going to see some wild shit. Let's put it that way. Well, here's our second news blooper of the week. Listen to this lady closely. Yes, you will. Here's our second news blooper of the week. Listen to this lady closely. The police wouldn't let me go through 122nd, so I had to go around 119th and go and I was they let me look at the lawyer's building. I know the vacuum cleaner man. He's seen my tits. I know that's not going on TV, but it's true. It's true.

I'm not here to lie to you. Um look, truth prevails again. Okay. Poor guy. That poor guy. Well, he came to sell her a vacuum and he got a fully out of that. Okay. So, you know what? Actually, credit to him. He was like, here, I'm here to vacuum. She's like, no, you're not. Take a look at these. Okay. Well, look, we honor. She's like the landlord in uh, in Kingpin. We honored the great Long Island Luke with his contributions to getting our merch off the ground. And here's a young kid standing up for Long Island Luke's pronunciation of

the word coffee. Yo guys, I was atbucks and the guy asked me you want a cup of coffee i said yo guy it's a cup of coffee and i'm twelve years old and i don't drink coffee but if i did drink coffee i would drink espresso with no sugar like a real man

and with the sad no problems how you doing long-eyelid you must feel attacked by this i mean he's on point is a couple coffee you know to enter that's how to that is and this is normally what a long island luke is like on a podcast if you have a watch the main card minute the backseat I mean long out look what happened on the podcast when the main event was canceled was it just alright let's just no we just sat and talked about it for like another 30 minutes or so

with everyone in the chat because we were all just like fuck it kind of felt someone described it as being blue balled. It was kind of an accurate description because you're like waiting for the main event and then they're like, oh no, actually the cards over. And you're like, oh. Yeah, risky take by you considering it was a female main event, but that's just fine with me.

I just went to bed. All right, here's Bud Crawford playing our boys Ock and Barack. Who's the hardest puncher you ever faced? I said D. Who? D said D. Who? D's nuts. Got him!

Yes, he was. Luke, I'd pop for that. Come on. He sold it well. I'll say that. He sold it well. Luke, signs, signs, everywhere there's signs, wherever this is. We need to show up, right? God damn what the **** going on over there. I don't know but I'm kind of interested. Uh also Luke while you're at it, please uh don't jerk and drive. Let's go to the next one. Okay. What are

we doing here? You know what? I needed to hear that before I got behind the wheel of the car today because I was definitely thinking of, you know, going to Lowe's or something and then just having a, having a disgusting. It's time for your biggest L's of the week. Let's hit the runway at the fashion show. Luke, what do you think's going to happen here? Uh, I have a feeling this is going to end terribly. Yep.

Here we go. Oh, okay. All right. Maybe we should get some railings on there here. Let's also go to the funeral RIP I mean we want to see some heinous shit. I hope not Luke I mean, I don't know we screen all these but uh, you know, they're honoring a one who's who's uh, Who's passed one who has fallen if you will, right? Oh

My fucking god. Oh my fucking God. Oh my God! Okay, okay. What the fuck? I want you to know that North Korea did approve that for the today's show, just so you know, but. How did the North Korean censors let that one through? I actually had to get a full approval,

but not the first dead body we've shown on this show. Let me ask you a question. Have you ever carried a casket before? I have, yes. My great, great aunt who was 103, I carried her casket. Wow, I had to carry a casket when I was a teenager. I had a friend who was a teen who died. It's not the most fun experience.

Don't recommend that. I mean, especially when the bottom drops out, Luke, but you know, that's awful. Hey, did you ever do, you did a lot of nerd stuff. Did you do college team trivia at William & Mary? I did not do that at William & Mary, no. All right, well here's these kids doing it. Whose last words were, let's do it? Sandy Valley? The Passengers of flight 93 incorrect

So that answer was let's roll not let's do it who was the answer do we know I don't know but that was You know, maybe an unnecessary call back to a tragedy indeed right there Also Luke you ever had a degree at your graduation Just want to grab your diploma and be like F you for the last four years. This kid did. Hey everyone, this motherfucker is a dumbass. Thank you everyone, have a good day. Wow. No, I mean I didn't have general hostility at the institution that was granting me certification of completion of their programs, but I'm also, you know, not a fucking idiot like this guy, so. Well, you know, Luke, people have asked often, who's your favorite character in this segment? What do you think the answer would be?

Cake Lady, obviously, let's check in with her, Luke. Oh, God! Where is the drive-by shooter when you need one? She's gonna eat the fucking, oh my God! Oh, boy, Luke. The French you just know her dumps are next level insane. Can she's she lives in France. I don't know if her English is good. If I can get her on this program, will you be okay with that? She's going to start eating her hands and shit. It's going to be really I'm into that. Okay. I'm definitely

into that. Speaking of would you eat Luke? This is the big get you can get at the Major League Baseball Stadium. It's called the slugger dog. It's $40 and it's a 16 inch glizzy. Wow. My man, my man went to work on the she boing boing didn't he? I was gonna say should you get after the hog that aggressive? Yeah. Why don't you put more mayo on it? You fucking absolute cretin. All right that's great stuff here. Luke Katz as we know from Reggie and Zoe already appearing on today's episode they're the coolest animals ever. All right you know that. Watch this. Oh yeah wake up wake and bake right that's great stuff right there. All right. Hell yeah. Mittens wants to get to work on that. Here's Mittens brother also interested.

All right, Luke. Yeah. Yeah, get him a bit. All right. There you go. Luke, there's an announcement here for all potential homeowners. You're not going to believe this. See this right here? See this hole? Could be a mouse, a rat, a mole. I don't know. I had gerbils and hamsters when I was a kid, so I've got kind of a love for these animals.

The inside of this tube is scented with a pheromone that will attract whatever kind of rodent this is to go right in the tube and run out the other side. Now all we got to do is wait for these babies to get to their new home. That clip was brought to you by Richard Gere, Luke, obviously. Okay, alright. Such an old man reference that Richard Gere snuck gerbils in his ass. Oh, Luke, you a big Back to the Future fan like J. Aaron? I do like Back to the future. Yeah. All right. Some people have issues with the plot hole consistencies, right?

You know what? He did miss that detail. Anyways, Luke, them streets are pretty crazy. Oh, watch out. Let's go to some road rage here. There's the cage. Is that pronounced Cajon? Cajun pass? Anyways, Luke, them streets are pretty crazy. Yo, watch out. Let's go to some road rage here. There's the cage. Is that pronounced Cajon? Cajun pass? I'm guessing Cajon, but I don't know. Oh, hell yeah.

Dude, I, oh yeah. Or I have seen this before a few times. Luke in Connecticut. This is, oh man, just slugging it out. That's awesome. Dude, there was a video that the local news did of a this year's valedictorian from Harvard. Yeah. It's a, it's a, it's an Asian girl. She's they're talking video that the local news did of this year's valedictorian from Harvard. Yeah.

It's an Asian girl. They're talking to her and in the background of wherever they were in Cambridge, two American guys start fighting and it's like, this seems like a metaphor for our life right now. Indeed. Indeed. Also, Luke, you big into drive-throughs? I live in the city, so drive-throughs aren't that common here, but you know, when in Rome, sure. Well, if you don't have one in your city, just make one. Oh my God! Stop it! Come on!

Come on! Okay, that's uh, that's uh... Why were they banging up the Dollar Tree that way? What the fuck was that? I could buy the whole store with what's in my wallet! Look, I don't know, that's pretty wild here. Here's your subway fight of the week though. Call the police, that's why I'm here Here's your subway fight of the week though. Call the police, this line is hard.

The next stop is Broadway. Why are you speeding the floor? Calm down. Clear up the closed doors, please. Shut the fuck up! Whatever, punk. whatever. Dude, he had to sit on that train ride after just getting bitched and everyone looking at him. Whatever punk. Uh

Luke, it's time for your worst t-shirts of the week. Let's check out this couple first. That man loves finger painting. These two look like classy individuals. Okay. Alright. Well, look, it's good to have a wingman like this next guy, right? When you go out. Hey, listen, someone's gotta jump on that grenade. He's making it explicit.

Someone's gotta jump. Ah, Luke, we got one more for you. Have you heard the latest new woke world mandate that barbers need to ask permission first? You hear about this? Alright, before we start today, is it okay if I touch you? Yeah, that's fine. to ask permission first. You hear about this? All right, before we start today, is it okay if I touch you? Yeah, that's fine, go ahead. Okay, bye.

I'm getting a haircut tomorrow. I'm gonna decline that part of the service, you know what I'm saying? Okay, that's the shit of the week. Hope you enjoyed that. That's a C. C, you're gonna give a C to that? Come on.

Yeah, that's a C. All right, C then, C then. All right. See that see them All right, that's all the show we can provide for you today, though Thank you for playing one more time. You like this new brand new shirt right here. You like the one on Luke's chest Why don't you head over to morning combat dot shop? Right frickin now merch 3.0 is back. It's a new era It's a new season in our life. Long Island Luke,

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You also have good things going on over at Substack. Any things people should be looking for this week? I'm going to be doing, let's see a fight day episode where we watch old fights together and watch breakdown tape. So that'll be later on Substack, but I'll have a bunch of stuff on YouTube as well. youtube.com slash Luke Thomas. Great stuff. We'll see you guys on Wednesday and have a great week. All right, let's go. Let's get fired up. Good weather outside. Raise your spirits.

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