MORNING KOMBAT WITH LUKE THOMAS AND BRIAN CAMPBELL - Memorial Day Mailbag: BMF Title | Combat Sports Scoring | Favorite Rappers/Bands

Episode Date: May 29, 2023

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Reveille, Reveille, dogs. Look at us now, tip to tip. This is our life. This is our passion. That's the spirit we bring to this show. I'm Luke Thomas. I'm Brian Campbell. This is Morning Combat. Ha ha, yeah, Monday, Monday, but not A regular one a holiday

Memorial day So good to me it's morning Combat and this is a special holiday Edition How about a little bit mailbag All right how about we put two hands under that bag And puff it up I'm Brian Campbell the BBC With that BBE what happened

Of your MK duo and Luke on this holiday What we're not recording it on a holiday. Luke Thomas from Washington, D.C. I don't know what I was teeing you up for, but all I know, Luke, is you're here, I'm here, and this one's for the soldiers, the ones that have fallen in battle. I would say any service member, not merely soldiers, because you can get sailors, you can get Marines,

you can get airmen, and it goes on from there. But yes, this is... You can get semen, Luke, too, right? You can get semen, you disgusting little motherfucker in the back of an Arby's. That's what you can do.

But this is a day, for folks who might be confused, on Memorial Day, I'll walk around here and people will be like, thank you for folks who might be confused. On Memorial Day, I'll walk around here and people will be like, thank you for your service. And I'm like, right, that's not today. That's not today. You can save that for Veterans Day. Today is the day where we honor the fallen BC.

For folks who don't know, if it's not too late, you're watching this and you actually do live in the area, you can go lay flowers at graves at Arlington Cemetery. It's volunteer, they take volunteers You can show up and then place flowers there So I recommend everyone do that once in their life It is a stirring experience

When you go from a guy like 18 years old 19 years old, 19 years old, 18 years old 19 years old, it's fucking insane Indeed, well We are here for you on this holiday I mean, I don't see the other shows that we compete with For all these awards that we win Putting out great content on holidays But we'll do here for you on this holiday. I mean, I don't see the other shows that we compete with for all these awards that we win. Putting out great content on holidays.

But we'll do that for you. Recorded a couple days or so in advance due to the space-time continuum. But yes, Monday, May 29, 2023. And Luke, we solicited, through the powers of social media, to our viewers, sex. And it turns out a lot of them have done that before. Luke, they paid for it. Just like all your... Hardcore pornography, sex. And it turns out a lot of them have done that before. Look, they paid for it. It's like all your, no. Hardcore pornography, yeah.

We solicited questions to our great audience, and we have received a pack full delivered to us by our fine producer, Mikey Mormile of CBS Sports. So reminder, we're normally here every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. You already know that. Tip our waitresses. Shout out to Showtime Sports, CBS Sports. Follow us below at the social channels.

I'm sure there's 30 days of free Showtime at the end of that. Showtime.com rainbow. So why don't you check that out for all the finest in combat sports and beyond. And Luke, do I have merch in front of me? Normally, that's the only thing I'm wearing. But, you know, we got great merch as well at morning combat dot store uh luke any memorial day traditions beyond what you mentioned or can we get into these questions um taking my so i think a lot of cities are like this but um where i live it's this way we're on memorial day weekend

is when they open all the citywide pools and uh some of the pools in the city are trifling some of them are actually like amazingly good so i found a couple that are like shockingly very nice they're free to dc residents and uh my daughter freaking loves the pool so i'm gonna take her there all right very very important question this is not a bit at all i'm gonna assume you're a public piss in the pool guy because you know you can't trace that there's no receipts right but are you a public pool guy when your own family is in that pool luke that's where we would know you know how so i haven't been yet but i'm not against it in principle um everyone just bathing in my urine you know like a hell's angels in and over a sink right yeah i'm showering my piss yeah all right uh enough of that bullshit look let's roll on here this today is this holiday you see what

mikey wrote in the chat oh boy oh boy yeah our kelly th Thomas over there, indeed. This is for the fallen troops, Luke, and this is for our fans. And, you know, in hindsight, should Showtime Legal have edited out that Pat Tillman joke I made, the timing, the delivery, Luke, it was pretty exceptional, right? That one time. Remember that time? Yeah, exceptionally fucking stupid, and it ruined the whole thing because it didn't come out until like nine weeks later. Let's start off with a question from mk viewer max vermeer and luke this stonk says if the ufc announced that from now on a bmf belt would be introduced to every single weight class good lord max vermeer which

two fighters from each weight class should fight for it do Do you want to do this? That's not a bad question. All right, let me think about this. I'm opening up for you. At lightweight, you're getting it. Say again? True. Let's start at flyweight. Men's flyweight.

Yeah, men's flyweight here, Luke. Brandon Moreno, the champion, could he fight? Could he try to unify the flyweight belt with the BMF belt, Luke? Against who? Against who? Against who? I'm not sure who would be that guy on the other end in terms of that. I've said Henry Cejudo, but they don't want to do it that way. Yeah.

Maybe him against Figge number four, five for the BMF title. See, this is why this is lame. Let's just have one BMF title. Why do we have to have one for every division? But for the sake of it, Luke. I'll say this. I'll say at 145, you know who it is. It's Teporia and Emmett.

Teporia and Emmett. Ooh, that'd be hellacious there. That's sick. I mean, they're going to fight, and that one could qualify. Yes, Max could qualify, too. I mean, yeah, this is why the BMF thing is stupid. They're just putting it on there to sell pay-per-views. I mean,

they're just, I mean, it's got nothing to do with anything. Yeah. Just to close though, to get so that Max can feel good. Luke, who are you picking at women's featherweight?

Dude. I, okay. Do they have any women's featherweights left besides Amanda? Uh, I think, um, what's her name is teaching class right now, Luke? What was her name? She used to fight for a title at 145.

She's from Canada. Yeah. Yeah, the Canadian. Not Norma Dumont, but I forget her name. Yeah. The chick. The chick who fought the other chick. Yeah, this is great content right now.

No, Luke. I'm really glad we're recording this and everyone's listening because it's very very good dude i'm looking at ufc.com slash rankings right now and literally under amanda nunez as the featherweight champion there's not a fucking person listening and there never has been since the division was first birth amazing um yeah thank you very much moving on this. This is from screw you. Screw you. You know, screw you. Right. With the whole Loma Haney scoring debate going on. What was the three most absurd judging or referee decisions on your memory? Luke of modern or so combat sports lore. What do you reach for?

What do you reach around to when you're talking about the go-to of the worst judging or referee decisions in combat? The worst judging one, again, I've said it before, I'll say it again. Especially under the old criteria was Mike Easton versus Chase Beebe and absolutely incomprehensible, even to this day incomprehensible, but especially under the old criteria, just completely, thoroughly incomprehensible to the point where you have to ask

whether the judges should be investigated. That bad. You just cannot understand it. That one's really bad. In terms of reffing, dude, we just saw it with Tony Weeks. That shit again. Dude, I'm not the first person to cry

corruption. Neither are you. We don't really go to that very often. But I'm just going to be honest. Dude, when you see something so bad, so bad that you're like, dude, a human being who's been doing this for some time couldn't possibly, like you'll get them right, you'll get them wrong, you'll get ones that people feel strongly about. But then every once in a while, didn't tell you. They have to be taking a bribe and whatever. Something has to be off with them.

I don't know what that was in any of these cases or maybe there's not. Maybe they're just absolutely old and brain damaged, whatever. It makes you at least think that when you see a decision like Easton over Beebe or Tony Weeks stopping it for Roley Romero over

Barroso? I think we've said time and again that we believe the Haney-Loma controversy is overblown and they may not have gotten it right, but it doesn't mean it was a major controversy in our opinion. But in relation to Tony Weeks stopping Barroso versus Roley under those circumstances and missing the knockdown before it that was clearly a push. I did get some people long after the fact going hold on. Here's the problem, Luke.

This isn't like a natural villain. This is Tony Weeks. He's the guy that made Corrales Castillo one go from an all-time great fight to maybe the greatest fight of all time. Maybe. He was the referee on the unfortunate bout with Eidos Yerbosimili,

taking on David Murrell Jr. on Showtime a couple months back in the super middleweight division that led to Yerbosimili being in, I think, a medically induced coma and certainly having, you know, a life or death scare there. I'm wondering, Luke, if maybe we're overlooking that. Tony Weeks did get some smaller level of controversy from that fight for not stopping it when it became so one-sided do you think there's a chance that tony weeks was super super gun shy and it's not that that makes the situation better but at least it helps you understand it so you're not living in the oh god when does tony weeks his new corvette show up in his driveway and this sport sucks and why do we ever wait why do we always waste our

time here i don't i never I never understand these arguments at all. It's like, dude, the decision is not good or bad because Tony Weeks made one out of regret or he is reacting to something that previously happened. Either it's good or it's bad because it's in the fucking strike zone, period. Like whether or not he has some motivation based on another uh job i i don't remember the details of that fight enough to say he did that job poorly

or not so that's not what i'm suggesting but to answer your question about whether or not he is influenced by these factors um dude none of that matters what only matters is did you do this job effectively in this instance yeah no he didn't and he simply fucking did not like he did not well the reason why that that that does matter is because in boxing luke you don't tend to lose your job for that so it's usually like we just have to figure out corruption or not corruption that's what we're trying to figure out all i mean to say is that's fair but when i say it doesn't it doesn't matter, what I mean is when we're judging whether or not a referee's interference was justifiable,

not to you, but like everyone out there, you can absolutely disregard all of those other factors. They are judged on their ability to meet the requirements of what a stoppage should look like under what conditions. Either they meet that threshold or they do not. And if they're so clearly departed from it, whether or not they felt something or they were reacting to something else

that had happened to them, absolutely fucking irrelevant. You need to be able to execute the job as it requires every time, irrespective of previous incidents. Get the fuck out of here with that. And obviously for boxing, there's a ton of comparisons of worst in both categories. mean pacquiao bradley won for a decision canelo triple

g won for parts of that decision um you know everyone goes to and they should luke uh chavez versus pernell whitaker which was a draw in the alamo dome on showtime pay-per-view yet was a clear pernell whitaker winning with our eyesight um and you know for referee stoppages everybody goes of course to chavez versus meldrick taylor although i still defend richard steel in that very gray area of that you know if you see a fighter who needs to be stopped it doesn't matter if there's one three seconds left on you know three seconds one second left or or or a hundred you know like you stop it but you know certainly we've had questionable stoppages in boxing and big fights in terms of the timing.

And to be fair, usually all of them involve dunking. Just to be fair, Luke, in terms of historic sense, just so we're all on the same page here in this great sport. Let's go over to a man named Walk. I mean, it could be a woman, Luke. I'm not trying to be rude here, but W.A.K. Walk. walk curious if luke has seen a fighter that can be put on the same level as chewbacca when it comes to being about it about it well first of all don't you dare besmirch the name of chewbacca by comparing any mortal man to that excellent number one should there be a comparison because you you not only have to be a loyal friend and be about about it you have to be a badass you have to be kind of hilarious too you have to drink and smoke and get chicks uh human chicks actually um see i'd say tony ferguson but he's he's a little too out there like chewbacca's also kind of laid back a little bit you know

you see that gif of him like rub he's like yeah i got the ladies on my side you know chewbacca was one of a kind dude because all your friends who are about about it are kind of aggro you know they're all they're about about it because they're always on edge chewbacca is the one hitting the ball and it's like chewbacca we gotta go fuck this guy up but chewbacca's like i don't want to go it's like come on man we fucking need you and he's like all right all right i'll go he puts the bong down then he goes and rips someone's arms out of their socket you know there's no one you don't have a friend like that no no you don't you certainly don't i don't uh let's go over to matthew solera he wants to know

who would win 18 holes of golf bc or lt interesting question here luke i've never played 18 holes of golf BC or LT. Interesting question here, Luke. I've never played 18 holes of golf. Have you? What does that even mean? You've never played 18? Are you serious? I've never once in my life. All right.

How often do you golf nine holes then? Once every couple of years, if that. Yeah. See, I'm on that path too. I'm on like the once every six to seven years. I do have clubs they were from an old guy in florida who was half my size that died and my dad inherited them and gave them to me luke so it's always embarrassing but i do have the clubs to like show up with if you were like yo dude let's go golfing next time i'd be like all right i guess here's my clubs and then you'd laugh at me, but I would be OK with it because I hate golf, Luke.

But, you know, I can put together like an OK stretch. The problem is that once it goes off the rails with like, you know, hitting a shot behind you or like, you know, just something ridiculous. It's my my night's over. My day is over. It's over. It's over. You know what I mean? Like I'm competent for a certain amount of time, but then I turn into a gremlin. I wanted to see how long I could mouth breathe before you would interrupt. Yeah. You're a, you're a gremlin no matter what. So am I. It would be a gross game of golf, but I think I could beat you over 18 is what I'm saying.

It sounds like you could. Yeah, it sounds like you could. But I'm bad. I do putt-putt once a year. What's that? Mini golf. You're talking about miniature golf? Oh, I thought you were talking about, because you know how there's an in-between?

What do they call it? Chip and putt? There's an in-between of miniature golf miniature golf oh i think you're talking because you know there's an in-between what do they call it chip and putt there's an in-between of miniature golf and golf it's like a three hole thing where you have like a putter and a chipper you know i'm talking about no i've actually never seen that yeah they're basically uh you go to golf courses that have this little side area and there's like three mini golf holes and you like chip to tee off and then you put yeah i don't know whatever dude dc has this um you know it has really good public resources obviously like any kind of public golf course is going to be ass compared to congressional which is you know the quite the opposite but uh you know

what i noticed that they did do when i was there last time because i go to the driving range i do like the driving range that part is my favorite i noticed that they were converting certain parts of the golf course to the one where people are doing like like kicking soccer balls into these giant holes have you seen that no they're calling it foot golf i'm not doing a bit like 60 minutes of the whole special and i kind of ignored it and then a year later i saw it at my fucking local public golf course where they're it's like i don't know if you play 18 holes or not i'm not exactly sure the rules but they have giant holes like this and you actually kick like Later, I saw it at my fucking local public golf course where they're, it's like, I don't know if you play 18 holes or not. I'm not exactly sure the rules, but they have giant holes like this. And you actually kick like a soccer ball.

Like you would, like if you were golfing, you're opening kick and then you kind of put it, you know, all that shit. I don't know. Anyway, I feel like it's a game for bored white people who are also losers and probably, you know. Who grew up as only children and they played alone a lot. Yeah, I know. Yeah, you know, the kind of person you just don't want buying an AR-15. I'll just leave it at that, you know. Yeah, they probably play tennis too.

Yeah, I know that. I played pickleball the other day. I played pickleball. How was that, Luke? Pretty fun. It's like, you know, do you want to play tennis, just run less? Are you not skilled enough and you don't want to run as much? run less. Are you, are you too, are you not skilled enough and you don't want to run as much?

Let's just narrow it a little bit. You know, Jay Aaron has, has a hot friend and the two of them are like a championship local pickleball doubles team. Yep. The, uh,

the lady and the cuck. All right, let's go over to Mr. Damn fine. we'll be the judge of that sir uh when are we gonna see you two box each other in virtual reality oh virtual reality yeah yeah yeah vr look vr yeah i don't know maybe soon i don't know i'm not vr kind of sucks you know it's not that great and you get sweaty too when you're doing it like like they have like a you ever go to the arcade they got the vr thing and you put the headset on it's fun but then you get like all sweaty and it's yeah you know what wake me up when

vr is like tron and i get to go and be in like the future or some shit as long as i have to walk around and just hang out with other losers who don't want to interact in society man yeah i mean i'd like to hang out less with at Zuck than I already do right now, Luke, so I'm staying away from all VR components moving forward. This one's from Poetison. What 90s song? Look, are you dying over there?

Dude, I wasn't sick when I first got up this morning, but I am sick now, for sure. Yeah. Newark train station, baby. You know what I mean? Yeah, catching up with you. There it is. but I am sick now. Oh yeah. Newark train station, baby. I mean, yeah. Catching up with you. There it is.

Uh, which 90 song would you two use to describe each other? Newark air is like just the Newark train station air is just getting like teabagged by the wind. It's just filth and feces running across your face. Uh, sorry. What was the question?

What 90 song would describe me? And then I have to give the answer about you. So I have to pick a 90s song that would describe you? Yeah, please go with I Touch Myself by The Diviners if you want full accuracy. Yeah, that or Jeremy by Pearl Jam. Oh, stop. BC Spoken, class today.

Same to Harmless harmless little but yeah um luke for you i would go with uh bitch by meredith brooks or um yeah or probably um probably something by like alice and chains luke right i was gonna say alanis morissetteette because BC will also go down on you in a theater. Not really. Only if Uncle Joey is a part of this equation. Cut that out, Luke. Yes. That was him, dude. That was really him. I know.

She had a number one hit talking about how mad she was. She had to blow Uncle Joey. We're like, we could have told you that. We could have told you that wasn't a... Listen, Atlantis. Listen, we could have told you that was not going to be a money experience. You know what I'm saying? We could have warned you.

Let's keep it going here, Luke. This is Gavin Roland. Very serious MMA question. If Francis is able to secure this big boxing fight he's chasing, assuming he loses loses how much would that hurt PFL seems like alongside the inactivity Francis's stock would take a big hit with a boxing loss no no no like Mayweather McGregor did he have something to sell about it afterwards yes he did

so you know if he goes there and just gets stopped in 30 seconds bc you would agree yeah that's probably pretty bad but if he has some whatever it looks like some moment of redemption some moment of flair that people remember and enjoy and appreciate doesn't matter if he loses after that absolutely i do think like let's say a worst case scenario that he gets knocked out cold early just like you don't belong in here i think there's intrigue in seeing him come back and fight mma but if you're pfl then you would really need to get an opponent that we would be like oh that guy could win right you know what i mean like we you'd have to utilize that doubt from that boxing match to some degree but i don't i don't know dude francis got a good chin too a great chin i mean francis has a will he's got a will luke exactly so he also might get

handled and stopped but yeah again there's a scenario where like it could go badly but there's a lot of scenarios where it doesn't necessarily go bad right there's not a lot of scenarios by the way where he wins or is in a position to have a chance to win outside of again the puncher's chance but there is scenarios that he exceeds our expectations, shows a ton of heart, and maybe even has you going, oh, crap, maybe this guy could box if he decides to, you know. That would be, like, the best. And that's where we were at post-Mamac, to be fair, dude.

Let's not – I know we kind of rewrote it over the years because it seems now we're more aware that Floyd, like, weighted him out to a degree like right you know what i mean like connor let all his punches out for four rounds and then started walking him down and exposing his lack of everything gas tank all that but true or false luke we exited maymack saying connor could do this for a living if he wanted to or i think we that he had i could do it for a living i don't know i don't know i didn't come out of that necessarily saying that not be a champion but we were like he looks like he could

transition i i felt that was fair from that no i did not get that opinion but what i what i did say what kind of transition are you talking about in like the male the female way You thought based on that, he could be a successful boxer. If he wanted to. Yes. I was impressed by the footwork and technique, not the, not the power. It wasn't there, but the footwork and technique, it did impress me. And it wasn't like he was without like showing you that he's a novice. No, he, he was a novice, but dude, we thought he was going to get walloped. Dude, I mean, Mayweather's a salesman. Conor's a little bit tricky at first. Dude, the way he got walked out in that 10th round,

he'd get walked out by a lot of guys. And Mayweather was old in that fight. You can pretend like he wasn't. He was. Yeah, that's another fair point. I don't know. I just felt like he had made the transition. Dude, he performed. If he wanted to take it serious, he could have.

Here's what I do think is possible. Like, I want to be clear. Like Connor is a great striker. The fact that he's not a good boxer is not to say irrelevant, but that's really not what I judge him on. I judge him on what he actually tries in. And it's a different combat sport with different leverages,

different ranges, different weapons, different timing, different durations, different. I mean, it's, it's so different.

I don't expect him to be good at boxing. I think it's kind of silly to expect him to be good at I don't expect him to be good at boxing. I think it's kind of silly to expect him to be good at boxing. I expect him to be good at MMA. And during that stretch, he was fucking excellent at it, right? So that's how I judge him. But what I did think was possible after fighting Mayweather was he could get another big fight. Now, I didn't know what that was or who it would be. That part was a little bit unclear, but like, would people pay for this again from McGregor? And could he turn in another performance like this that gave some life to the idea that he could win?

But did I think he could go box? No, I did not think he could go box. I mean, I'm a, I only meant that if he had done it full time, if he had transitioned, but I thought the foundation and the base was there,

but maybe I'm wrong. Look, he can't go 10 rounds. Like how are gonna go 12 you know that's fair that's also fair i mean why can't he because you know look i i re-watched poirier two and three recently why does connor always gas out i don't know if it's his resource management like do i think he's a good athlete yes do i think he trains hard yes athlete? Yes. Do I think he trains hard? Yes. Do I think that he trains probably in the way that he's supposed to for the

most part? There's been camps where I think that's been true. Also been true that like, you know, Alvarez didn't push him that night. I wonder if Alvarez had pushed him. Would we have seen a night where Connor could do it? Like we've only seen the ones where he couldn't. Cause like the second Nate fight was at 170. So that's not the best representation.

He was coming off of the second Nate fight where he survived all of the areas that normally would have led him to a stamina-induced stoppage loss. In the Nate fight at 202, he nipped all of those scare moments in the bud and came back with more. So maybe he would have used that momentum into the Eddie fight at that point? Ed, Ed, Ed, you know, Ed,

Ed, who's Ed, uh, Luke Thomas. Yeah. All I'm pointing out is like, it's not to say that I don't think he can go those kinds of distances,

but, uh, whether it's the way he punches, whether it's the way he manages himself, like, and again, dude, the way you move in the boxing ring will also affect your

cardio. You have to have for 12 round elite fighting. You have to have, for 12-round elite fighting, you have to have very efficient footwork by and large, especially in that weight class. He's got a very, very different kind of footwork. It's lethal. It's great. It's just not perfectly built for duration. Let's go over to Jack Sudduth.

What do us fans have to do for Brian to put on a gi and roll with Luke? Oh, my God. What is up with these guys? What are you two guys? All of these end in us banging, apparently. What are you two guys just going to get it over with and just bang? Have some mouth sex. Luke, is there a scenario? mean really here's the deal if the

closest it could come is this you know how we like we're kind of building a nice little connection with gilbert burns we've gone to his gym twice to interview him yeah let's say ahead of the next fight he invited us back and let's say he was like hey man you want to come do like a workout thing on tape we'll have fun with it. Which he would not do. Which he wouldn't. I get it. And then you and I had a gi on, and we were talking trash,

and then Henry Hooft walks by, and he's like, hey, who would win between you guys right there? And Luke's like, I'm not doing that. My back, my vagine. And I'm like, yo, I'll take that dude on right now. With the doc cams going, let's do it, bro. And we did it, Luke. Yeah.

It would go very poorly for you, yeah. Do you think I would give up full mount fairly quickly or what? Full mount or the back. Yeah, either one. What if I took the strategy that Brendan Schaub took against that Jiu-Jitsu guy? I would just like, yeah. Yeah. It would go well for you. It would go well for you all right all right all right there we go all right uh let's

keep this hey you can't say he got submitted he didn't get so yeah you can't i mean he barely got touched yeah yeah didn't even have to use his stand-up skills luke oh look at you i mean just being gratuitous just gratuitous try to you boy are you let me ask you a question bc are you a little hungry for some reddit love is that what's happening here no no not at all i'm trying to distance myself from all hateful no no i'm serious i'm serious uh i like comedy though i'll tell you that much like good comedy i like that a lot luke you know what i mean i gotta sit down someone recommend to me because i'm always being a hater about this but i don't know any better you know what is a good burt kreischer uh thing to watch where if you're like okay so here's the here's the thing imagine and boobs look

hold on but imagine someone was like show me something from burt crasher that is like in can like the funniest thing he's got and it's not that long russian bit where like though he never gets to the punchline i'm talking about the like something else what else does he have what is it what would that be does he just masturbate on stage? Just, you know. We got a question here. Instead of smashing watermelons, he's just busting them. Well, Gallagher has evolved his product, yeah. By the way, so our producer on MK loves Bert Kreischer.

And every time he's like, yo, yo, I like Bert. Don't you be besmirching his name Mikey did go to bat for Bert like out of nowhere was like no that's my guy that's my guy you know so he's got stand up specials on Netflix are they long oh dude Mikey is challenging you to us to watch

the Bert Kreisler stand up special on Netflix yo we should do an MK review on that shirtless bastard Luke alright homework yeah he's saying he goes i that he says that mikey says that he goes to bat for the guys that were wrong about including bc alan w wow he's well he's laying he's throwing down the thunder there my friend oh he's throwing down danger mouse as well luke i think we ran him off unfortunately hey where do you think Damien the Donk is right now? Prison. I hope not.

Prison. I mean, he's like a single dad, you know? He was like a podcaster. Yeah. I hope not him too, Luke. He had a tattoo of a toddler hanging on his chest. That was like... Yeah, yeah.

That's a lot. That's a lot. That was intense. That was very intense. Imagine if. It's a lot. It's a lot. It was intense. That was very intense. Imagine if your CPA had that, like, would you trust them? It's like,

guys, here's your refund. It's only going to be $300 a year. It's like, I don't trust your math. You have a dead kid hanging on your chest. Yeah. Yeah.

Is there a, is there yet a term for showing what's the word I'm looking for Luke like like because of tattoos like if you like showing a bias or a

you know I'm saying like a stereotype against people with tattoos like you said not not hiring them for the job because they have a neck tat. So you assume that they're crazy and that they steal. Oh yeah. There's all kinds of that. Yeah.

Oh, like lawsuits and everything. Yeah. Um, I don't know about where, where's this question going? I don't fucking cares. Can you read the next one?

Oh, wow. You look, you look like me trying to figure out that sat math problem there yeah that's great yeah i wasn't i wasn't sick like like this like even two hours ago and now i'm like dude what the fuck maybe you're breaking out in hives luke because you're nervous um i think my daughter sneezed in my face a few days ago and this is the result. Kids, bro. They just bring home every disease known to them. Oh, they love getting sick.

Yeah, they're the worst. Bullfrog Actual says, Are there any UFC fighters that you want to see compete in BKFC? Will Mike Perry's success be repeated? So, Luke, let's say we could magically- Dude, most of the time when people want to see a UFC fighter compete in BKFC, it's almost as punishment. Like, I see a UFC fighter compete in BKFC it's almost as punishment like I hope you have to fight BKFC you know I mean they're probably a lot of them are going to end up there anyway so you'll get your wish but Luke is there anybody

who's active now and not like at Tony Ferguson level where they may actually be in BKFC in one more fight that you're like you know what I actually would be intrigued by watching them pull a Mike Perry I And Mike Chandler. Honestly, I wouldn't want him to do it, but would it be good? Yes, it would be good. Shavkat Rachmanov, Hamzat Shemayev, any of those guys who just kind of bite down on the basket. Meatball Molly or no? Yeah, maybe to an extent.

Sure. She can punch. Look, she's tough as nails. She can punch for sure. Oh, let's go over to Penn Deegan. Why does Brian like so many straw weight fives? This is, that's such a rude question, Luke, because first of all, there tends to me. There what?

There tends to me, Luke. Okay. Wait, what was the question about straw weights? Why does Brian like so many straw weight fives that's that's like meaning he's meaning this person writing the question is evaluating them from looks and right which i which which is not what we do anyway in our mma fandom so it's you know it's dude brian you know uh brian has the strangest taste in women i've ever seen um it's like he i like to watch realistic movies luke okay you know what i mean yeah but not like depressing you know like that you know your wife is lovely so i'm not counting

that but like the women like you kind of show me in office like yo isn't this great i'm always like bc this is quite obviously fucking terrible why would you even think this is a good like no he'll be like what are we talking about and then it'll be a white person i'll be like oh oh there you go he's just grading them on a curve you know he's meanwhile meanwhile luke shows me these women i'm like have you seen her face looks like nope you know what i show him i show him latin women with big old like, have you seen her face? Luke's like, nope. You know what I show him? I show him Latin women with big old fat asses. And he's like, oh, that's gross.

And I'm like, it's not. It's not. I don't know if I ever said the word gross, but it's very aggressive, Luke. It's a lot. It's a lot. It's a lot. Thank the good Lord. There's a lot going on there.

Thank you. Let's go over to twin nightmare uh what would it take for both of you guys to share a blunt with an mk donk a blunt like just show up and offer one we'll probably just smoke it you know it's not like yeah there's no there's no grand process. It's not Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. You don't have to win a fucking ticket. What if we had a contest where every time we're in studio, Luke, one lucky MK fan is chosen to pay their own way to fly to Jersey City

and then be waiting outside the door with a blunt as we leave. That's really the contest. Just show up. Yeah, that's it. All right. There you go. luke let me let me rephrase that if i offered you a chance to share a vape pen or a blunt with any ufc fighter for 15 minutes who are you picking right now i don't know how you well you said ufc it's you

and me it's you me and the fighter you choose for 15 minutes what who are you, well, you said UFC fighter, right? It's you and me. It's you, me, and the fighter you choose for 15 minutes. Who are you picking? Well, I would have said Nate Diaz, but he's not a UFC fighter, so that doesn't count. So under that condition, we got 15 minutes to hit the pen. I said hit the pipe. Ooh, that's a good one. Ioana? I don't know. I said hit the pipe. That's a good one.

Ioana? I don't know. I haven't thought about that. That's a great question. What do you think, BC? I mean, Derek Lewis would have to be high up in this conversation if you're going to look into maximizing the, you know. Mikey, you wrote Tai Tuivasa in there. Was that for this category or something different?

Probably something different. But Luke would, oh, no, for BKFC, Mikey wants Tai Tuivasa. That's a great pick, by the way, on there. You know, I could offer Rashad Evans, but he's not active, Luke. I don't know, like, who do you look at as a fighter right now that you, like, don't really know? You may not have interviewed them yet or extensively, but you're like, you know what?

They look kind of interesting. They would be the answer for this question i don't know about that but like cory sandhagen's from colorado that seems like a good candidate you know yeah and i bet he's not i bet he's a chill high too dude brian ortega is the pick here you know what i mean walk me through it he's gonna have tremendous stories right you just want to smoke and stare into his dreamboat eyes is that is that well you're just tired of looking at my ugly face and you want to look at something a little bit better than that i don't blame you uh i bet he'd be cool as shit too it's really where i'm going with that luke but yeah he i mean maybe we could

just skip and go right to where his stories would end up. You know, you never know, Luke. And just, I mean, like, would you be interested? Well, you know what? If I won this contest and I picked Joanna, would you join the trio? No. How about Johnny Walker? Dude, my man's got some stories, right?

About, yeah. Just dicking down half of Europe. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, yeah, that's, that's. Yeah, I mean, that's, um, yeah. I mean, do you think that if we ever do another live show,

we not only should have a meeting greet, we should have a post meeting greet outside, uh, where the, where the donks just, just provide blunts for you. Look, is that,

is that really? Yeah, that'd be, I'd be, I'd be in favor of that. What if I told you that of the 10 blunts that we would sample, at least one is rolled with GHB. And one of our listeners is,

is, you know, it's just, you know what I'm saying? I mean, would you still take that risk? The old Appy special, huh?

I mean, there's a one in 10 chance that you end up like most of that. You know, you're missing a kidney. Yeah. Yeah. You know, it's missing a kidney. Yeah, there you go. Yeah, you know, it's a list. You got to roll the dice, play the game. All right.

This one's, Luke, from Kellen Jenkins. This is for both of you. What are your three favorite bands and three favorite rappers of all time? Luke, who are your three favorite bands of all time? I guess he's basically saying the bands would be rock music and then rap would be hip-hop, Luke. Okay, so if we're going to separate that. I thought about this the other day.

Metallica put out some album recently, and I haven't even listened to it. And when I was a kid, especially around Injustice for All and the Black Album, I loved Metallica. I even love Metallica. I tried to tell myself that the load and reload phase wasn't a big deal. But obviously everything before that was

tremendous. I really loved those first five albums, basically. Oh, yeah. But would I even put them on the list? I haven't even listened to their new album. I don't even care. You don't have go-to your favorite bands of all time that someone's like, who are your three favorite bands of all time? For sure, the answer for number one is very easy.

It's Pantera, right? I mean, it's Pantera. Would you put the Beatles in your top three, Luke? You do talk about them. Well, you're asking who are the three most influential or the three ones that I like the most? I'm asking your three favorite. Your three favorite three favorites so i put pantera on that list i'd probably put helmet on that list helmet wow all right i love helmet i love helmet um after that dude i'm not

sure like growing up it would have been metallica but like now that's just it sounds like christian dad rock to me it doesn't It's not interesting at all. I know a lot of Metallica fans my age disagree, whatever. I don't know. Tool would be another one I like a lot, that I listen to a lot. All right. Deftones maybe for a time. Okay, these bands you offered as

potential top three were better than I thought we would end up. I really did. I know you think I'm like abortion aids and uh pimples those are my three favorite bands a little more to it i mean sometimes you you do you do stray to those areas look i would go with uh the jimmy hendrix experience the birds and maybe traffic or joni mitchell i mean at times bob dylan could fit in there. The Beatles had been in there before. The Stones, The Dead.

I mean, look, I've been around those circuits. But I'd probably go Jimmy, The Birds, and Joni. I'm sorry, Luke. She took over a big part of my life the last few years. And I don't think I'm getting it back. And I'm okay with it. Three favorite. Hold on.

What's your favorite Alanis Morissette song? You got gotta have one yeah i like um head over heels the best oh you are such a bitch head over feet is that what it's called head over heels god you suck dude that's the best you can come up with it's obviously i got one hand in my pocket and the other one's giving up. Yeah, no, that one's she's pretty in hindsight. She's pretty lame, but she was cool. Admit it.

She had good videos and there was enough rockers that when that debut record came out, it was kind of fire for a bit. Jagged Little Pill was like the biggest thing in music when it was out. It's hard to explain that to anybody now, but like, you know how big big bad bunny is now Alanis Morissette was bigger than that like she was fucking enormous that's in the conversation for the great it wasn't in my top 10 recently when we did this exercise but the greatest debut albums in rock history like that's got to be her follow-up shit wasn't as good but jagged little like my first real girlfriend I had came like after that yeah like high school girlfriend came after that album was released and it was like her favorite record you know it was a big deal so

yeah look i tend to like the ballads i'm a ballad guy you know what i mean i can see that i can i didn't realize you were like you uh you got a little me i'm like oh the ballad part you can just cut that shit out you know yeah yeah you know i have i have uh feelings and warm blood inside of me look that's that's definitely for real dude there's a bands there's bands like kill switch engage and they got these like hardcore names but if you listen to like their music it's not what it what the name gives off you think like oh they're just devil rock no kill switch engage they'll do like the heavy riffing and then in every song they stop to like sing a pretty tune that's like very melodic and a lot of people like that and to me it's like dude stick with the song you were fucking making

you don't have to have these like rap why is there so much dialogue in this film just you know be a master storyteller and don't do that tell stories with your balls yeah please i gotta tell you i gotta tell you the new cattle decapitation album not doing a bit i know you hate on them the new one terror site is legit one of my favorite tracks we eat our young great song yeah they eat what they kill luke we know that at the end of the day um luke they also asked your three favorite rappers let's also throw in hip-hop bands like what are your hip-hop artists who do you who would you say are your three favorite of all time probably vinny paz as a solo artist or like groups or groups or so like whatever like artists you know so i would put vinny paz slash jedi mind tricks and that's a little bit hard to separate the two

there is he does have some solo work, but he's really kind of a total package in that sense. Sean Price, easy. Sean Price has been one of the most... I mean, here's my Sean Price. You know, right there. Sean Price figure. Is that a white guy or a black guy, Luke?

Sean Price is black. He is black, yeah. Very black. Black Muslim from Bushwick, or I should say Brownsville uh brooklyn and then after that i it's kind of wide open um maybe i'd say scarface i love fucking scarface man from from the ghetto boys you're talking about yeah dude scarface dude scarface is just amazing an amazing storyteller hardcore gangster rapper with a

southern edge um golly dude i yeah it's scar face scar face has given me you know you ever think back to some of the times that music brought you the most joy whether you're happy or sad just brought the most joy there was a time in my life, I'll find the song. I forget the name of it now. I haven't listened to it in so long because the lyrics are so hardcore. I had to kind of keep it out of rotation. He goes, I'm a bank robber. Woo!

I'm a natural born killer. Drug dealer. Oh, God, what's the name of that song? Anyway, that song brought me so much joy when i first heard it i could not believe how good it was let me pull that yeah and the parking lot of big chicken with some whippets uh luke i would go with no no that was later that was i was in my 20s by that point uh a tribe called quest i would go with no i would go with public enemy because i owned everything they ever made but that does age me but i you know that's fine luke um you know i was a part of that commercial rap era even though

they're not really known as a commercial act uh political act but uh the third one you know i'd probably go tupac there luke for the third one you know because you know i liked i like some gimmicky rap though and you would make fun of me like i was real into like black sheep and um of course third base and uh yeah but whatever no one yeah dude the the hook for this song is i can squeeze without blinking i'm a cold-blooded your favorite word bank robber whoo i'm a natural born killer drug dealer anything it took to survive uh and it goes on from there dude it's that it's the song is called in cold blood it's from the uh the fix album absolute fucking artwork artwork looks like i learned so much life wisdom from scarface dude i you see here's the this is the okay okay let's stop for just a moment this is where where you begin to be racist.

This is the line right here. This is the line. Because you hear this stuff, and what you do is you make the common error that what you're hearing is maybe meant for mass production, which to some extent, of course, all this artwork is. That's got a major label under it. But more to the point that not only is there anything not really redeeming about the artwork but that there actually isn't much art mastery in there or wisdom or something clever to be told and

in fact when you actually begin to really engage with the material there is a significant amount of wisdom that comes from it in this particular case this is merely storytelling i get that what was largely lost in the risen debacle rise into the air um yeah you're being you're being like someone was that when you do that you know i really wasn't against japan or rising in that scenario luke i was against you okay so that's you know that's also a big part of it look this gentleman also wants to know Your three favorite adult film stars I mean, you know, Rocco And then we can move on, right? No, Rocco's gross

All these guys who breathe through their teeth Okay, I'm done with this part of the show Thank you very much I'm not going to do it again But are you not with me? It's like, please stop breathing. Please stop. Please stop doing that.

Please stop doing that. Yeah, there you go, Luke. Let's go over to 21 Randy. Oh, do you think part of the reason in Ghanu MMA fight isn't until 2024 is to see if the PFL will finalize the Bellator purchase by then and maybe have them fight Ryan Bader. Luke, that did seem to be a hot rumor at one point, the PFL Bellator thing. But I feel like that rumor has come and gone. Is that is that would that be an accurate statement? Say that again.

That the whole Bellator PFL rumor. I don't feel like that's as hot as it once yeah i mean the latest i've heard i mean i want to be clear they were in the running uh to buy it that was real um it sounds like it's going to go in a different direction but nothing's finished or done or so it sucks because that would have been it would have been good that would have been good for pfl to get them i don't know what happened i don't know if they have enough money or whatever but um that would have been huge to just buy that segment and put those two organizations maybe they'll co-promote who knows but i don't know i feel like an opportunity is lost there yeah i would agree with that um you know how we were talking about potential Francis PFL debut opponents that we'd be okay with?

And as the things are laid out right now, there's certainly very little information or potential out there. We can all throw out Overeem or kickboxers or whatever. But look, have you identified anyone for real that if it was that you would want nothing to do with and you don't approve like if it ends up being in ghanu debuting in the pfl against big ben rothwell are you out yeah i would not i mean dude like like take the pfl for where they're at on this take take them for where they're at they um they want an opponent that can sell on pay-per-view fine get one like i'm not going to grade them on a curve you know getting francis was big but i'm not interested in francis versus you know bruno capolazzo uh see i'd actually be

more interested in a post usada bruno capoloza than any other old name you can drum up that has the ufc x ufc attached to his name you know what i mean fine but it's not going to sell on pay-per-view it's not really what i want to spend no you're right personally you know no you're right like if you're gonna do this do it get the get do it the right way to the best of your capabilities whatever that looks like and that's the gamble they made dude that's the gamble they made you know so right and that's why like you know we can support francis on this side of the debate about this if there is one but we also have to be like you know it's also up to the pfl to make this deal work for them it's not a guarantee you could say the odds may not even be with them that that it's possible even. But let's see what they can do.

I mean, I'm just thinking there's got to be a name we're not thinking of that would surprise us. Not Josh Barnett, but that would be one in that category. But is there someone that we're not thinking of that like Crow Cop? No, seriously, BC, did you say Crow Cop? Yeah, I guess I did. But something like that, that's a wild card. We're like, oh, yeah, dude, how old is that person? I haven't thought of them in a while. Is there anyone else? I don't know. I don't know. There's the verdum thing, but, uh, dude, again, if they got Brock, I doubt that could

happen, but like, I'm just saying they got Brock. That just saying. They got Brock? That'd be something different. Yeah, that'd be something. That'd be huge. Yeah, God bless you. Maybe it'll be Maheta when he gets done with USADA, Luke. Maybe. We'll find out there. Jesus Christ, I'm sick. Good Lord. Well, Luke, it's a good timing, and thank you for shouting out the Lord

and Savior there. We're out of fan questions now, Luke. We ran through the mailbag. turns out the bag is as empty and deflated now as our own you know what i mean our own bags right you know just i mean it's like the accumulation of age you know misuse and stuff but god bless you again and you know god bless the uh those who gave all luke for the for us to celebrate this holiday today of memorial day but we still had to fill the bag right we still had to to you know time to make the donuts luke you know i said that to my kids the other day like what are you talking about dad luke when i say that you know what i'm

talking about right dunkin donuts commercial from the 1980s time to get out of bed at 3 a.m and go do what you do because that's that's how that's how we eat you know i'm saying we eat what we kill luke right data's right our luke, you know Dana's always right about one thing. Fighting is in our DNA. You know what I mean? We get it and we like it. You know, thought about that. Luke, are you okay over this past weekend with Dana giving out hotel suites

to Robbie Fox and other media members so that they'll cover the power slap too? Are we really talking about that right now? I mean, what would it, serious question, right? Dana calls you up and he goes, Brian Campbell, what would it take this weekend for you to fly to Vegas and cover slap? And you have to do it professionally, you know, take it for what it is.

Yeah, not ironically, right? Yeah. Call your shot. What's the number? What is it going to take? Walk me through it. I mean, I wouldn't accept it, Luke, because I've been so. Okay, you wouldn't accept it, but let's say you did.

Walk me through what it's like. Okay, are you saying if he was like, look, I respect your take. I'm not mad, but I want to give you a chance to be proven wrong. I want you to attend one card on our dime. You're going to get a suite at the red rocks. We'll take you out to dinner. You can, you know,

you can, you can, you can have a ring card girl of your choice. No, I mean, that's just, you know, what do I look like a 14 a year Luke,

right? No, you know, ultimately Luke, I think it would be more like I'd have to turn it down Luke, but maybe if, maybe the me from like six, seven,

eight, nine, 10, 12, 15 years ago, what do you think? I mean, I mean, is there a price for you that, all right, I guess it would have to be like your employer going, no, we really want you to do that. Go do that. We think there's big content there. Go do a first person at the slap dick thing because you've been such a person against it. Go behind the scenes so look it's a behind the scenes tour now where you are like with dana the whole day on all you know full access to

dana the whole day but they expect you to write an honest story you know video companion story about it afterwards so let's make it legit okay because that's the only and that's the only auspices where this conversation accelerates, right? Unless he's like, I've got a room full of Delta nine and eight that you can, we've got a bed that's made out of Delta eight. Luke,

you can sleep on that. If you go to this event outside of that, if that's the only way, Luke, would you do that? No, I'm being dead serious. This is what it would take.

I'm not, not bullshitting. Uh, you're going to have a car pick me up, right? You're going to put me on a first-class flight, period. There'll be nothing less than that. You're going to have a car pick me up from the airport. I'm going to have a suite at the Red Rocks, a full suite,

like not a bullshit suite. I can order out of, like, room service and not eat it, and it all goes to you. Like, no charges go to to me it's like a regular trip for me yes i wish i fucking wish and then honestly bc are you gonna say i'm doing a bit but we're talking wish list like i can call my shot to the nth degree dude you're gonna wire to my bank account fifty thousand dollars cash you're gonna oh my god i thought you were to say I get a one-on-one interview with Dana on camera in my hotel room. No, I don't care about that.

I'm trying to put Tukey through school. You're like, it actually would take 50k. So you're like, whatever bonus they were going to give to that finish on the undercard. That's coming to me. Wow. And then I would go. And then I,

then I would go and I would try to treat it as best I could. Mikey thought that I would pick 20 minute interview alone with Joanna. And I assume he wanted you to pick that. You get to slap Dana one time. Nah, not interested in committing crimes. Not interested in that.

I mean, just journalism crimes. Yeah. Yeah. To be fair, but hopefully Robbie Fox enjoyed that slap of mania to coming your way pretty soon. That's our Memorial day show.

Luke Thomas. We, we encourage people to go to youtube.com slash morning combat. If you want more fun bonus stuff from room service diaries to remember, we used to do high court. That was great. That's great. Yeah.

Think about the premise. one day you're like they used to pay us to like sit in the eighth row put on an english wig in our own studio and just yell at each other and you know look if this if this ride ever ends we'll look back and we'll say this was a hell of a ride. BC, how many times are we going to record on the roof going forward? Like that's over, right? Like they're not doing that anymore. I don't know. I don't know.

I don't know. I don't know. But. Shouts to Chuck Mendenhall for no particular reason shouts to him yeah i mean look can i ask you a question right now in in mma media who do you actually like uh i like a lot of them but i don't really like read and follow do i i follow uh bloody elbow um okay i want to offer a name now he, he comes across very gas station. He,

despite his law degree, Luke, you know, Jed mesh you from MMA fighting. Yeah. You love Jed. Yeah. That guy's good.

Luke. I mean, he takes chances, you know, like, uh, you know, he,

I mean, you know, if you, if you, if you had a guess at his search history, I'd probably agree with you, but outside of that, you know,

that guy, that guy's getting after it, you know? Yeah. He, he, he, he's a hustler. Yeah. Um i guess that's it luke that's all i have to take a dump that can only be described as well i mean you don't have love for john s nash luke not not yes

of course i do i said anyone a bloody elbow i read their stuff uh i read the headlines and stuff but like i'm mostly focused on what we're doing i'm not the problem is i've said this before don't hit the thing is i used to listen to like a lot of different podcasts and then i found out like i would just kind of like their opinions would just kind of become mine because it was i was hearing it and i did i hated the way that was influencing me so yeah i kind of would have to go to it afterwards and now i just don't even go like make that move at all i think some people do that too they listen to our show and then they have like these opinions and then you know but like you know we're all swimming in the same pool at the end of the day luke only some of us are pissing in it happily and willingly you're bathing you're bathing in my urine enjoy yeah yeah at the

end of the day all right that's it i don't really want you know that's it that's the end of it um thank you mikey more mile behind the scenes for uh being a true american a floridian though at that like would you do you think mikey's been in florida long enough to be considered a florida man uh here's the question has mikey ever illegally carried a handgun i'm not sure what what is the illegal with handguns in florida but let's just assume there's some version of that uh or even just touched his lips on a on a meth pipe or or walked across a highway carrying a dead animal has he done any of the three like he says eight years he's now in florida i think that's common law that he is now a florida man uh luke i think it's legal to put a Glock in the waistband of your sweatpants

in Florida. I think that is a legal place. I used to do a bit on my show where they would either read a real Florida man story or they would make up one and I had to guess whether it was real. And there was one time, they actually played the tape for it later, there was a guy they called the cops on because he was practicing his

karate on swans, kicking him in the face and shit. Stop looking at me swan yes indeed uh we're out of here luke that's it um you know unless you want to count down your favorite expired food items you know yeah it's like what's what kind of food that you can't even eat anymore without dying rank your top three yeah thank you mailbag senders all right return to sender we're out of here that's lt on bc thank you for patronizing us uh only fans.com slash i'm sorry cameo.com slash brian campbell for more and on thursdays luke has plenty of options for you to pay him for uh yeah uh morty combat is gone thank you we're out of here bye