MORNING KOMBAT WITH LUKE THOMAS AND BRIAN CAMPBELL - Misfits 22: Darren Till KOs Rockhold | Tony Ferguson Wins | CJI2 Recap & Canelo/Crawford Lookahead

Episode Date: September 2, 2025

Welcome back to Morning Kombat, Tuesday edition! First, Darren Till defeated Luke Rockhold in a bridgerweight main event at Misfits 22 and did so via vicious knockout. Is he good enough for a Jake Paul bout or actually too good for a Jake Paul bout? Also, Tony Ferguson finally got back to his winning ways by stopping Salt Papi in the third round of their middleweight contest. How good did it feel to see Ferguson get back to his winning ways? Plus, CJI 2 is now in the books, but the reviews are mixed. What went right and wrong with the event? Did Jones succeed in his aim for the event? And, we're two weeks out from the biggest boxing fight of the year: Canelo Alvarez vs. Terence Crawford.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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member our team a bong enthusiast a producer director a podcaster in his own right no one really needs to know where he came from or why he's here but he's from long island it's luke no ceda hey guys yeah nice you didn't get there i thought you were gonna get there you didn't get there hope you had a good labor day weekend i was sick all weekend i had a pretty crappy weekend i'm not gonna lie but uh we're back tuesday contender series tonight so you know i'm hype let's go did your girlfriend make you chicken noodle soup uh no i had to make it for her because she was sick before me i made it for her

oh so she got you sick yeah pretty much yeah so you know what that's a good reason why you keep away from her so often then there you go there you go check out uh the main card minute podcast for Luke Nocita's live, Dana White Contender Series. Oh, it's tonight. Yeah. It's tonight. Yes. L.T. How you feeling about life, Liberty, the pursuit of happiness? We're less than two weeks out from a little fight called Canelo Crawford. Yeah. I mean, I think in general things are okay. I know, it's, listen, the quietness of summer. It feels like that's, that's now, that's, well, we have to do today's show.

But like after today's show, it feels like the quietness of summer is going to be behind us officially september's even though there's no ufc event of a number of ufc event in september it's actually a pretty busy month with three fight nights i think three on the road is i'm not if i'm not mistaken and then weekend then we got no che the following one that's right and then kinella crawford as well so despite they're not being a ufc pay-review this month it's surprisingly kind of busy yeah yeah and we'll be back of course when they do restart the payper views with ufc320 we'll be hitting your hard quervo style with a little pregame priggity preview folks all right right but that's neither here nor there a quick offer for you to like and subscribe what's going

to happen during this show it does support us it does go a long way also shout to everybody watching on the draft kings network audio only fans we hear you too and check out our extensive youtube channel offerings as well all under the mk umbrella uh rana style just giving it to you right you know what i mean yeah all right that yeah it got weird it got weird but you know we'll get through it i don't even understand that comment i mean either do i really right i mean maybe deep inside i do so wait a second let me turn the tables did you have a good weekend yes yes very very laid back very you know it was very prepatory weekend look if i can add that word to the language because today are my kids uh the start of their senior year across country so uh today's a

big day uh we are uh a top 10 team in the state and one of the favorites for the state title so let's go okay let's go how many kids in your uh your children's graduating class um it's a middle side school for connecticut so by comparison where and i graduated with 330 i think they're like in the 120 area at this school it's pretty small one 150 maybe at most yeah yeah all right very good womb there it is all right let's hit you with topic number one as we look back at the weekend that was hey love it or hate it what they got going on over the at Misfits Boxing. It certainly disrupts, gets our attention,

and features names we know very well. Darren Till improving to three and oh in his newfound boxing career, maybe more importantly, as a huge favorite sending Luke Rockhold to hell in this Bridgerweight main event at Misfits 22 and Manchester, England over there on DeZone. It was a vicious third round knockout

in which Rockhold appeared to be briefly knocked out cold. He was dropped by the same punch earlier in the fight and really beat up for the totality of the three rounds. Now, as Darren Till still in his early 30s, still in his physical prime, despite losing six of his last seven UFC fights to exit that promotion, is this win, this performance and the brief boxing resume that Till has put together, Luke Thomas, good enough to start banging that drum for a Jake Paul fight or possibly. Is there a scenario where the 6'1 185 pound till is actually looking too good for a Jake Paul fight after this K.O. of Rockhold. I have to tell you, I think it might be the latter. I honestly think it might be the latter. I mean, okay, so let's talk about this fight on Saturday. Again, we know we're not talking about, you know, this is not Islam versus Ilya, but it did happen. And there's actually something, I think, kind of noteworthy about it, B.C. Two things. We've talked about this many times. Whether it's misfits or more BKFC or something outside of at least the MMA bubble, there are fighters with names who have very up and down performances, often in UFC, sometimes more broadly in MMA, and they get out of some kind of dominant promotion.

Again, this is typical of the UFC experience. Well, they'll go to BKFC, and in this particular case, they'll go to misfits. And after a little bit of time and some wins being put together, B.C., they can do a lot to rehabilitate their name. I think you have to add Darren Till to that list. His last loss in combat sports was in 2022 to Drickus Duplice. I don't think he fought at all in 2023. He did get a win in 2024. Yeah, he got one in 2024.

And then Anthony Taylor and Darren Stewart in 2025. And so this is now his third one. So he's had a huge, huge comeback year. But, you know, in that moment, BC in 2022, where he's losing. And then he's gone for a year. And then he comes back against, you know, guys, you just don't really know who they are. And even now, obviously, it only really took people by storm in this last particular fight. I'm just trying to point out, he has put together enough of a, what do you want to call it,

return campaign that people, I think, are right to ask, hey, what are some interesting matchups with relevant names? We can put this guy in. Maybe that's in the UFC. Maybe it's not. But that's the kind of place he's in. Now, to answer the question more broadly, this is what I think he might be too good for Jake Paul. I mean, Jake Paul, I'm not saying Jake Paul can't or wouldn't beat him. or even wouldn't be favored to beat him.

But Till, I don't know, he seems like a real threat. You pointed it out, 32 years of age. Dude, he smoked Luke Rockhold. This was really never close at all. We'll talk about Luke Rockhold in the second because we do have to weigh what the value of that win is relative to his name versus his ability at age 40, 41. But Darren Till, dude, was methodical.

I saw someone on Twitter. Do you know Smuggy on Twitter, SMO-O-G-Y, Smugie? Yes. He put out a comment, and I think he's absolutely, right. That's the best boxing combination any MMA fighter who has done boxing has ever had in like this kind of, you know, it was a different world. Like you've never seen one perform quite this ably. So to me,

because of his size, because of his UFC experience, because I do think he's really putting together something of a, a bit of a noteworthy run on the outskirts of MMA as you indicated. And again, this is boxing. I understand. But like, you know, that world anyway. B.C. I think Jake Paul is going to be looking for either bigger names or easier opponents, not Darren Till. And I would actually kind of like to see Jake Paul versus Darren Till. I'd love to see. I don't know if it's possible. I assume they're rivals in this space, but I'd love to see a misfits MVP co-promotion where they really play this up as

potentially the number one influencer boxer against the number two. I mean, I think Darren Till looks that good. And when we mentioned his three and no turn into boxing, he also had an exhibition knockout win last year. So in, in totality, that's four boxing appearances, three knockouts. Yes, like Jake Paul start to his boxing career, it's a varied, you know, size, experience level that he's going against. But our eyes tell us one thing. As you mentioned, physical prime, roughly the same size as Jake and can put punches together, has at least a remedial knowledge of head movement, which was something Rockhold did not have in this fight and easily became his undoing. I mean, look, when I saw 20 to one odds that Rockhold was going to,

you know, that it was a till favorite over him, I'm like, come on, Rockhold's got a pulse. Yeah, he's probably going to lose here, but you're making it seem like it's going to be extreme one-way traffic. Oh, it completely was. I mean, do we, I got to ask you, do we take anything away from this victory because of the way Rockhold succumb to really the first clean punches that he was met with? Yes. Yes, we have to weigh this victory appropriately. He did not be. somebody who gave him, you know, genuine resistance. Luke Rockhold still got a big name, and he physically looks the part quite clearly, but, you know, he's been battered over the course of his career.

I tried to explain this to people in my live chat. Dude, he was a champion in strike force. It's 2025 for crying out loud. Like, what are we even talking about here? And so, yes, the resistance was not significant. However, BC, the ease with which it came, you know, know the readiness for it all like the part of doing you know leaning into the promotion he seems like he's ready for a bigger challenge i think that's the point to me like okay clearly you have to give

him somebody who's trying and has the ability to do it out there rock hole's not that guy till may be the most if jake paul's still the pound for pound best of the crossover influencer boxers so we're talking about people like kSI we're talking about all the retired mMA fighters that have crossed over uh i think till might be the most explosive offensive offensive offensive The way that he puts together as combinations, the accuracy and power of his overhand left, does he rely heavily on that left hand? Yeah, of course, but it is set up by at least a jab that has some type of pop on it. We don't normally get that, right, at this level of these crossover guys. Even Mike Perry, who's great in BKFC and to the point you made about Till, has also completely restored and resurrected his name.

You know, when he boxed against Jake Paul, even though the size gap was pretty large, just no, you know, basic understanding, it seemed, despite having a pro fight in his, in his past of the combination of head movement defense relying on the jab. Till seems to have more than most. I mean, look, the best way to try to figure out if he really would be a live body and a problem for Jake Paul, I think, is look at how would he do against the one man that did beat Jake Paul straight up by split decision? And that's Tommy Fury, who relied on his size, relied a lot on a style, which was jab, jab hold and got up off the canvas in the final round but he also got the win what do you think a tommy fury darrell fight would look like right now well they were supposed to have how to have

fight and get it got canceled um i i might i mean i guess i might favor till i don't know what fury's been up to i mean at a bare minimum this is this is relevant matchmaking this is where these say i'm sorry fury doesn't want it he turned down Jake big money for a rematch he doesn't want it anymore yeah interesting i mean but this is this is my point this is this is where the relevant matchmaking is like i was thinking about this bc you know now till it is different right because he's 32 so i know we're talking about till but i was just thinking about this misfits world and like you know we'll talk about tony in a minute and i was thinking to myself like why did this not work for bellator remember belator used to just have

old guys out all the time and in part it's because like you know oftentimes they were facing each other and it you know what tito versus chale or chale versus fedor you know and it's just like the bottom drops out on two old guys going after it whereas with this like influencer world yes you've got an older name in rock hold but it was a serviceable use of him this time given the rule set and then obviously in the tony fight you know you've got these this new world is when you pump in these guys and you start asking questions like about darren till versus um you know Tommy fury this is a relevant way to match these dudes now and it didn't really used to be this wasn't a thing you could ever count on and now it's a real space and it actually kind of makes sense for all the parties involved and that's

honestly given what's around that's not that's not a bad place to be and look as we're talking about whether a till versus jake paul fight could happen i have to say this about misfits luke when they arrived you know i don't want anything to do with them i remember thinking why is callie sowerland involved if he's a quote unquote legitimate boxing promoter with a long history but what him and mams Taylor has done is get everyone's attention by doing what by doing what the Jake Paul fights have not been able to do the Jake Paul fights when we expect celebrities to be fighting we know the skills aren't going to be at a elite level but we want to see like closure we want to see a war and we want to see a true winner I think Jake maybe to his detriment learned you know became pretty

proficient early enough had such a size and age advantage on all of his opponents that it became more of a jab fest and it was more about can Jake stamina hold together to get the win. I think on misfits, they are giving you misfit boxers, meaning people without the proper background, but they're close enough to their physical prime, and they go out there and they bang, and you find out who's the better man more often than not. So that they, in some ways, misfits with Daryntill quickly becoming one of their lead cards to play is kind of becoming everything Jake and MVP never did. Jake has been able to sustain this by his name, his ability to win these fights

and the fact that he keeps teasing and eventual move to real boxing. But to close out the argument that we started this segment with, I'm not sure if Jake looks at this, sees the danger that's there and really would want a Daryntill fight because it's either,

it's all or nothing for me. Either Jake's going to eventually cash himself out against an Anthony Joshua or for a cruiserweight title or he's going to take opponents that actually have a chance to beat him like he did with Tommy Fury, you know, by the way, he lost that fight. It doesn't seem to be much of an in-between anymore because he's out of those in-between names.

So, Luke, if it comes down to, do you take a fight against Till that would probably get a ton of attention, but wouldn't bring in the type of money it would if you were getting a real title fight or a Canello or an Anthony Joshua, I could believe, without having Jake right here to answer for himself, that maybe he wouldn't look at Till as a perfect option, even though from an entertainment standpoint, this might be a real 50-50 fight, and Jake doesn't often do that. Yeah, and also, I mean, the one part we're discussing, you hinted at it, but we should underscore just a little bit more.

Till is maybe a tough fight. Again, there's some debate about that, but certainly you would think better than some other ones, better than Mike Perry, for example. But Mike Perry is like, I was thinking about this, who's a bigger star, Mike Perry or Darren Till? And again, partly that's a dependent, how you answer on the market, but like the North American market, probably Mike Perry, but

it's, you know, it's not a huge difference. But Mike was a lot easier to beat. The point I'm trying to make is Till also, I think again, has rebuilt his name very significantly since 2022. But at the same time, he's not so big a star that this is an open and shut case, right? You see, like, you know, look at the names he's fighting. Again, just the names, not the person, but the date they're in, but the names. Diaz, Silva, Tyson, now, Jerva. Fonte. These are massive names. Darren Till is both a tough fight for him, we think, and as much as he's done to rebuild himself, not even close to some of these other names yet. So like, yeah, I actually don't, I think he'd be a great candidate for a fight, but I think he's a bad candidate for

a Jake Paul event. And those are two different things. Yeah. Well, look, there was no talk about Jake Paul after this fight because Till seemed to have a perfect plan in place. And that was going after the legend, the cobra, Carl Frotch, once feuding with likes of Ariel Hwani. Now, of course, it seems like, because for a while, Frotch was going after Jake Paul, but it didn't come together, that Frotch in his 40s, the Hall of Famer still feels like he's got one left. So, Luke, this is a very interesting fight to think about. We do have footage here of Dylan, Daryntill, literally going after Carl Frotch. Let's look at this.

Dude, did you see that. Dude, did you see that? By the end up. By the stairs? Now, look, Frotch is 48. So the window is closing. But Luke, this would be a, in my opinion, you know, when you're talking about a Frotch,

a guy who did, by the way, Phil 80,000 in Wembley Stadium for his famous rematch with George groves i kind of feel like this would do big business the trash talking would be wild this is sort of the perfect old guy who's got more experience and still might have enough against younger guy with the huts who's coming on do you think that misfits can get frotch out of the way from the couch now he's in incredible shape he stayed in incredible shape but is this a makeable doable fight in your eyes i hope because i think this is the right one to make this is this is a much better pairing Carl Frotch, by the way, often an antagonist of Jake Paul.

What does he call him fake Paul? I think that's the name he gave him. You know, that, Frotch is like the right in between because he, I think, still wants a payday. He still wants to be seen. This is a guy, you know, by the way, you can make it like an all-UK affair as well. And boxing is still quite hot as a normal sport in the UK. Like, dude, there's a lot you could do with this matchup.

I actually think this matchup is the, is the exact right one to make. Now, again, whether or not anyone who's watching now or especially from the UK has a particular appetite for it is a different question. But I'm just saying, if I'm misfits and I'm trying to make this, I think Frotche is affordable. Till is certainly affordable.

And that's the right exact pairing in terms of a fight to get something, you know, discernible and meaningful out of it. Well, let's hear from the Cobra to find out whether he believes this is a fight that should happen. Then he started talking gobshot down the mic. I was already out the building. I didn't do a runner. I wasn't scared for those haters

that are going to go in the comments and say, I shit myself and ran off. I didn't. I couldn't be arsed with the bullshit. But I'm sitting here now one of the chief guys at the zone

is a very respected broadcaster for proper boxing, but you also do the misfits. And are you saying actually this fight would like genuinely have some interest and some value? I think you probably know it does.

I think we only have to look at the audience you generate, the audience Darren, the audience that we saw tonight for the event let's talk about it you know that's what I was going to say so I suppose we've got to sit down and maybe we haven't got to but maybe we will sit down and have a chat maybe I'll up it from level four to level five

out of ten in the gym see how I feel maybe throw a few punches in the spinal ring get the old face mask on protect the hooter and see how I feel but yeah it's got me thinking bottom line it's down to you isn't it as you say you've been out of the ring for 11 years do you want to go through the proper intensity of a training camp, which you'll have to do because you have a lot of personal pride. You don't want to get in there looking out of shape. I'd need

two or three weeks, yeah. I'm already in shape. I'm fit. I do do quite a lot of cardio in terms of bag work and a step machine. I don't do much running, but I get my cardio. And I'm in the gym, lifting weights, and I punch the bag. But I'm not sparring. I'm not sparring. So I would have to start sparring. Dude, it sounds like he could be

lured for the right amount of money. And it does sound like even though obviously if he was in his prime this wouldn't even be a topic but the dude's 48 you might be able to get a really contentious competitive fight out of this i think this is this is the one dude this is the one and sometimes these like all uk matchups they take on all i don't know am i wrong bc like for example okay well i mean ben ubank is different because they're both the children of aben and a u bank who fought so like it's a little but like as a fight on its own as you if you match them up i don't know what it does for you but there's something about like the cultural i guess that's what point i'd like to make there's something about the cultural

significance to me that kind of raises the stakes a little bit here and i feel like you get a little bit of that i mean i don't i can't speak for people in the uk maybe they would feel differently but but as an outsider i'll say that it feels a little bit like that it's boxing versus mama it's you know old school against new school the uk support their own it's interesting now look this victory by Till does put some of those big matchups potentially on the table because now he's got three official wins, four wins overall in boxing.

What about his great rival Mike Perry? Well, Perry responded to some comments from Till, despite having a very successful BKFC career going on right now. I can't read that font. Let me blow it up. Hold on. I am 40. I can read it. You want me to read it? Yes, please. It's just not

true. I'm booked for more, for four more. I think you spelled it wrong. At a smaller weight with no gloves on. Don't say I won't take it. Talking about Till saying he won't take the fight. When I have the paperwork, I'd box you, Darren Till. It just has to make sense. All right.

There is BKFC star Mike Perry. To close, we did have some Bushito in the bar afterwards where Till and Rockhold made nice with a bottle of brew after bashing each other one-sidedly. Luke, at 40 years old, do we need to see Rockhold taking strikes again in any discipline moving? Bro, I think. I think he's got some tough questions to be asking himself. I mean, he's been getting put out hard. Yeah. Several times now, like real bad.

This was a real bad, K. I mean, you're a male model. You should not be the one putting out, right? Yeah. Yeah. You know what I mean? Right. I mean, such a dad joke.

Such a dad joke on Mile 300 of the road trip, you know. But in fairness to UBC, in fairness, like, dude, he, he clearly wants to be involved in combat sports. and I don't know if pro grappling fights are a thing that, you know, really scratches that itch. They're not as big. They don't make as much money. You know, the striking ones, I think command a higher dollar. So I think that's part of it. But like, man, do the way he's getting put out, like this is, I think we're just well past concerning.

And also the, I mean, I'm not saying he's not a tough guy. He's clearly an extremely tough guy. But even the toughest guys, if they get smoked like that enough, they can no longer be tough guys. where now the chin just doesn't hold up at all. And I think we're in a place where he's got some questions to be asking about. Just forget anything else, just his health, you know. It's crazy how he never recovered from the 199 Tuttle lost of Bisping. Like it's never been the same.

Had a couple of minor. Like his chin did recover or his career? His career, his momentum, the ability to get the best out of himself. You know, like, yeah, the David Branch comeback wouldn't look good. Like there's been a couple many peaks, but it's been a long slide. since then and you know we've been on this ad nauseum not to pile on him when he's down but i think the arrogance level was the thing that got him into trouble consistently yeah but you know what people kill him for that and it's like dude that's why they keep booking him in fights you know

yes he's got a name and he was a champion in ufc a champion in strike force and there's some pedigree that goes with that but also dude he says insane shit like that's promoters love that so it's like oh yes i grant that it's annoying and not in keeping with reality but it's like it's in keeping with promotional needs and that goes a long way. All right. Now it's a good time to put this topic to rest, but it's also right now a great time to remember where tequila's story truly began. Let's go back to 1795, the year Cuervo invented tequila. And since then, Cuervo has stayed true to its roots. Same family, same land. Of course you know that same passion. 230 years later, Quervo is still up in here in every

poor and every margarita in every celebration. So, enjoy the tequila that started at all. Quervo, the tequila that invented tequila, proximo quervo.com. Please drink responsibly. That is the perfect transition to topic number two, which was the co-main event at Misfits 22 on Saturday. And it really gave us an opportunity to bring out the flowers, bring out the applause, and bring out the respect for a guy that we love in combat sports history, who of course ended his UFC run with eight consecutive largely damaging losses and that's 41 year old tony ferguson it may have come in a oddly matched misfits boxing match against a gentleman known as salt poppy but tony got back to

the winning ways with a third round stoppage against the ropes in this middleweight contest you saw him fall to his knees emotions over poured him the internet had some memes of course but they also brought out real love luke no one's trying to get this guy back in a big time fight, maybe other than himself. But how good did it feel to see a guy we've always loved and respected, just didn't want to become a danger to himself, get back, get the W, get his hand raised. I got to tell you, I, obviously this went way better than some of us were kind of worried about.

I mean, I didn't exactly know what to think, but I did not have high hopes for Tony. I don't think a lot of people necessarily did. They had like hopes that nothing bad would go wrong, but, you know, return to some kind of level of greatness is different. I think Tony's been a hero for a lot of people. He has obviously done, and a couple of things. He's been a hero to a lot of people. He was a very and has been a very fun, irreverent,

different kind of personality, irreverent, different kind of fighter. But like something, two things happened along the way, B.C. Number one, this horrible losing streak with also the very devastating results has been very difficult to watch. And two, there is a prevailing sense that the game never, quite rewarded him for what they should have rewarded him for in part because he was only interim champion he never had the chance to well he got chances to fight a beat but they all kind of fell apart for one reason or the other and then the game like it did him wrong a little bit it didn't give him

enough so then he goes out here and he gets this win stops the guy and bc i will tell you what i really liked about this win if i can be dead serious for a moment is that it had tony signature it had had a signature on it which was i was a little worried at first because he was walking into some pretty big punches but he kept applying pressure he kept applying pressure he started to find himself get his rhythm range you know begin to start landing a little bit more and then just march the dude down it was in some ways now hear me out now in some ways it was a little bit of a vintage performance and what i mean by that is dude like you could see you could see tony as a competitor express himself in a winning way but i'm saying the kinds of things he would do in those

wins like the marching of the down and you know kind of just taking punishment but then like mowing right through it that's what he did in his ufc career and to an extent he did it here like he had competitive signs of life i'm going to say it i used to be and have been and i you know the misfits thing is not for me it's i'll watch it because that's what the game is in many ways but it's not what I prefer. But BC, this is an appropriate level of matchmaking for Tony now. This is what it looks like, something along the lines of this. If he can stay here and stay relatively healthy,

I mean, he's taken a lot of damage, but don't you feel kind of good about what might be possible now at this stage? And that's not something I expected to stay on Friday. I mean, look, kind of good, provided the matchmaking stays on the freaking salt poppy level, I mean, you know, no disrespect to salt poppy. He had been six and two in this space coming in. He, you know, he seemed fairly credible in there.

But I do not want this to escalate to areas where it shouldn't. It felt good. If this is the senior league where Tony can, yeah, take a few, you know, shots to the face, but still have a chance to compete. It was only a five-round fight. Then, yes, did it feel good? It felt very good. It really did.

I mean, it did. We love Tony. How could you not? But damn. And I got to say, this. Like, I don't think the misfits thing is fully for me either, but I love that they put Todd Grisham in the play by play space because his overly theatrical ability when knockouts and knockdowns happen is perfect for this. Wade Plymonds was more than fine. He can do a lot

of different roles for them, but they got to get KSI out of that booth. I mean, he was just like, you know, it was Rogan levels of like, oh, it's over. Well, it's not over yet. KS. Okay. He seems, I mean, I say this as a person decidedly annoying. He seems decidedly annoying. He seems decidedly annoying. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, but there it is. Let's hear from Tony, who like I mentioned, looked relieved in winning this as he dropped down to his knees. Here's him talking to MMA fighting's

Jose Young's afterwards. Jose Young's here with MMAFighting.com. Speaking with the victorious Tony Ferguson, it feels good to hear that again, doesn't it? Yeah, absolutely. Want to know, baby. Undefeated. And you've got a nice piece of hardware right here. I mean, what do you make of the belt that, the misfits belt? Why am I

such a misfit, brother? I mean, literally it fits in. I'm going to be honest with you. It felt awesome. I was nervous to ship before, you know, camp started. Throughout camp, every single time it was sparring and showing up to different practices, traveling and making it uncomfortable. It felt really comfortable in there after a couple rounds, you know, got hit a couple of times, but this was no cornerman and came out with the victory. It must have been good to have your shoes on again in a fight.

Oh, yeah, I wasn't slipping. I wasn't thinking about even throwing any kicks or punches or taking them down. So, I mean, it was awesome. He'd 10-ounce gloves. I mean, not too much different than before. I mean, it was awesome watching him throw his head back with the jab. I mean, the kid's tough as shit. I mean, the guy's got balls to steal for sign-out of dotted line,

so props to salt poppy. And it seemed like the first two rounds he was finding a lot of success with that left, but then you adjusted and it was like the Tony Ferguson that we'd seen for X amount of years just walking forward, walking forward, walking forward, landing, and then eventually you just, it looked like you had broken him in there at some point. Yeah, I mean, there was a lot that went into camp. I mean, my coach, Hoss and knuckleheads and coach Rashad and then my training partner and the fighter Tommy, I mean, we all put a lot of time.

And then my coach Dave Mills, he was one of the missing links, you know, using our body for movement to be able to make them throw. And it was just, I had to put everything together, I had to listen to them. and just come out of here and be confident that I knew that I knew what to do. And in terms of your career, what do you want next? Because I spoke with the man, I spoke with the man's earlier this week, and he was adamant that, like, Tony wanted to box. If you wanted you to do MMA, we would have given it to him.

He wanted to box, and Tony Ferguson gets what Tony Ferguson wants. So what does Tony Ferguson want next? I want to box. This is something else that's the dream come true. I want to know. I'd like to be two and O. MMA is still there. I mean, but I mean, money talks, bullshit walks.

I mean, we're here to stay. I'm a misfit, so we'll figure the shit out, man. Dylan Danis walked in. was very respectful, gave you a handshake, a little bit of a face off there with his belt. Did you see his fight? It was like six seconds, 15 seconds somewhere. No, I expected it to be like that.

I mean, like, Dennis is a gamer. I always told him, you know, we talked on Instagram. You know, I just think that some people are just a little bit misunderstood. You know, for people that are misunderstood, misfits is a perfect place for us. So we'll figure it out. Well, congratulations, Tony. It feels good to shake a, like I said, a victorious, Tony,

I've been a long fucking time, damn it. It feels good. Dude, shout out to Jose Young's. He looks pretty cool there, Luke, right? Oh, that Mountain Dew shirt. Yeah, I like that guy. It did feel good. It felt good when Tony did the dance in the center of the cage, Luke.

And he did shout to this coach, Coach Hoss of Knuckleheads, Joseph Janick, who by the way is Tabitha Ritchie striking coach and a long time boxing guy. So shout out to them. The problem is, Luke, when you escalate, when now you take a step up the ladder, it might go to areas that we don't want to see for Tony. So I don't know if you saw afterwards, Luke, they did have a press conference where mams and company were saying like the future of m-MA is here in misfits he was pointing to danis ferguson and darin till so i have to ask you in light of this in light of uh dylan danis

who we're going to get to in a second having like a 13 second or six second submission win in an actual m-m-a fight on this card do you want to see any of these people meaning till Ferguson, even Dennis, in misfits MMA, or do they have it right largely sticking with boxing moving forward? I think it's opponent dependent and for that reason

I think in the case of Tony and Dylan, I can't believe I'm saying this. I genuinely can't believe I'm saying this, but it's just where we are. I think a Tony Dylan MMA fight, honestly, doesn't that sound about right? I mean, yeah, Tony's, Tony is so infinitely more accomplished in MMA, it's not even funny.

However, just given where he's at and given where Dylan might be at, is that, I guess I'm asking, is that crazy? Is it? I don't know. It is. I mean, I'm, let's get Long Island Luke in here. Long Island, Luke. Is a Tony Ferguson, Dylan Danis fight in MMA for misfits, is that crazy? It's not crazy because it's probably going to happen.

him, but I, I kind of hate it. All right, why do you hate it? I don't know, dude, I just, I mean, whatever, Tony's going to fight again, whether I like it or not, I'd like it if he just retired. And Dennis, I would like if he genuinely was fighting his way towards an MMA career. You could argue fighting Tony and Misfits is, but like, come on, it's not really, dude. I don't know. I don't know.

Does anyone feel like Dennis is a big threat to beat him up? No. I think he could sub them. I don't think he's going to beat him up on the feet, though. So then what are you worried about? I just feel like it's a nothing fight I don't need to see. I'd rather see him box, is what I'm saying. Okay.

I get the point you're making. Let's hear from Tony at the press conference, where he talked about the possibility of even bigger fights than he was talking about with Jose Young. It has been a man that you've been synonymous with throughout your career, but obviously it never happened in M.M. Do you think possibly you could bring Connor two misfits and fight him in boxing? Oh, he's scared shit.

That dude doesn't want to want to fight me. Same thing with that, like, that coward-cabover. These are the two fighters that I've loved to want to fight. I got Daciers on both of them. They scare the shit out of them. And you know what? They just don't want a part of it. They do.

Then we'll find out the way how to do it. But I'm here. I got resurrected. I feel great. And I'm great to enjoy the victory tonight. How do you feel about a 20 saint that Conner scared of it? Connor? I mean, he doesn't want that fight.

I like Tony, but he doesn't want to get her. I mean, Conner's my boy and one of my brothers. So I think I mean, I like Tony a lot. He won tonight, but I don't know that's the path he wants to take. No, we have to say, well, I mean, to be real, we had to say management, so they knew how I trained, where I trained, and how, you know, about it went. You know, they tried to sample that and didn't work for them for the longest time. They knew how fucking deadly I am when I really put it in there.

I'm that guy with the red lipstick that kind of just goes right there and he's that guy. I'm a sniper when it comes into it. Look, why does everybody feel like McNuggets is able to get out of his UFC deal and fight in BKFC or Misfits? I keep hearing a lot of this. I mean, every, because here's the thing, everyone is planning for the eventuality. Eventually, he will be done with his UFC deal. I don't know when that is, but it will happen.

There will be a day. And then there's going to be a day after that where everyone is going to try and feast off of his carcass. And you're going to see, you know, they're setting up for that world. All right. Let's hear Tony talking about whether a Danis fight could move him. We'll figure, like you said, we'll digest this one. You know what I mean? We're going to enjoy these victories.

You know, we got our belts, which is pretty cool. Very happy that Toby won by the way I respect Unlikely We call it the unlikely What was it? An unlikely duo Or something like that

It's kind of a difference How it goes But you know I was super happy It feels like pretty good Dylan's all right man I think in the end I think some of us

I think some of us are just misunderstood And I say that You know with open arms And we found a house here over at misfits I was happy to see him when he went Yeah likewise I mean whatever Whatever

Okay, at least it's not kill it. Listen, it's not our favorite. It's not even our second or third favorite. Okay. I get it. I do get it. But it has life. And on some level, we have on some level, we have to reconcile with that. How we do that, I don't know what the right answer is anymore. All right. We got one more Tony Ferguson moment on this flower-filled comeback tour. And that's him giving an interview to some kids on the streets in Manchester. Let's hear this. One small surprise for you. I'm a message. Oh, Patty. May it love to see you again. That's my guy. I don't need a fight in career. Hopefully you get a few more of these battles and a few more wins.

Lots of money in the band. That's my guy right there. Tell him I say hello. That's awesome and good luck in your next future, buddy. I appreciate you. Love you, love you guy. Thank you. Thank you.

Cheers. Wow, so much love going on. So much love. Luke, let's talk quickly about Dennis. he fought a guy who's not a household name in boxing or MMA. The guy shot a double egg. Dana submitted him almost instantly. What do we do with this?

What do we make of this outside of him fighting? This is close. Sorry, your thing. Oh, there you go. Now I see you. Okay, yeah. You got that. Are you at McDonald's?

You got that McDonald's Wi-Fi? Well, the person with the McDonald's Wi-Fi would say that, yes. Yeah, yeah, whoever denied it. it. Luke, do we feel like Dennis wants a real MMA fight? I mean, he talks about the UFC all the time, but does it, what are we doing here? We know nothing about this dude other than

he's still around. He's still around. This, I mean, dude, that guy could have walked into Danis's gym a hundred days in a row and the exact same thing would have happened 100 days in a row. Maybe by day 100, he would have lasted another 30 seconds or something. But like, this is a matchup with like no

value other than they just kept Dylan Danis in the rotation in a public and present way meaning they're trying to introduce him for a subsequent opportunity but like what relevance of is is he you know in terms of ability like what relevance is he is a is a UFC conversation even does it even make sense we simply know nothing in any he would need to go through contender series and i mean that that's not often you would say that about someone who's been a prospect for this long but in his case i actually think it would be to his benefit and ours if there was some kind of vetting process because he's on he's

unvetted in any kind of real way. I wish he would just do that before he gets too old. I'll save the fans from playing his interview with Jose Young's, but he does say he wants any of the top 15 UFC welterweights after this win, whether that's JDM, Leon Edwards, MVP, he doesn't care. You're probably going to end up fighting Tony Ferguson in a hybrid fight. That's first round boxing, second round, MMA, third round slap fight. So good luck to you.

I mean, look, damn, this is a personality. But take it, I don't know, get serious for once, dude. To close here, Luke, Nate Diaz showed up at Dirty Box on Friday. Mike Perry and John Jones's promotion in the crowd and talked about the possibility of this Conner trilogy at the White House. Let's listen. Now, fans want you versus McGregor 3. Do you want that fight?

Yeah. For sure. White House? Yeah, what time? We'll see what happens. Time will tell, guys. Oh, you're a legend. Thank you for your time, bro.

Appreciate you. All right. Time will tell, Luke. We'll see if that happens. I mean, it makes a tough. on a sense to cash them both out with that, all right? It does. I mean, again, it has a life of its own on one level.

You've got to just reconcile it with it. Yeah, ride it, ride it to the death. All right, there you go. Hey, that was our talk of Misfits hybrid MMA boxing talk. Let's talk some NFL, all your football fans out there. Week one is on the horizon. I can see it coming. And week one offers you your shot to play free and stack a million dollar cash bag with

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but the reviews have been mixed. What went right and what went wrong with C.J.I.2. And do you believe that Craig Jones succeeded and everything he was aiming for this time around with so much competition between him and what UFC is trying to do? How many hours of CJI2 did you watch, B.C.? Did you see any results? I saw some highlights.

Actually, this is a relevant question. Yes. what did you see i saw the main event both taps okay oh the chel son in match alister felt them yes i did not watch i got some reviews from donks that were there okay they said the pacing could be improved but i want to hear your take here yeah i mean the reality is this Craig jones attempted something very ambitious and as one of the problems that we discussed on friday was if you have just paid attention to his social media accounts and like all the interviews he's been doing the guy has been promoting this or

I mean, I wouldn't say a full year, but a very, very long time day after day on his Instagram, month after month, week after week, the whole bit. And it's a Super Bowl event. So like you get one shot, it means two days, but you get basically get one shot at it. And CGI2 was not CJI 1. I'll just put it that way. Now, I love the concept of the Super Bowl thing in an era where everybody is trying to make content that scales to make as much of it as possible.

for themselves as much as possible. I love the idea of there being a singular event, and I think Jones's vision in that regard is important. Number two, the amount of money that this tournament paid out because the B-team won on Sunday night, but it turned out there may have been a misinterpretation about the rules. The rules were written somewhat, how do I say this?

They weren't very clear. And so yesterday, I don't know if you saw this, B.C., Craig Jones actually awarded another million dollars to the losing team, which is new wave. technically something of his former team. So between that and then the $100,000 women's tournament, plus all of the prize money, it's a small, modest amount,

but I went to all the other competitors. This is easily the most that any jiu-jitsu event has ever paid its athletes by a mile, and C.J.I.1 was the first one of those. So just the amount of money that got poured down is important. So conceptually, I like it. In terms of its result, I liked it. Day 2 BC was a lot better than day one,

but day one had a lot of problems. I mean, it was kind of snake-bitten, it felt like, to me, from the moment that Gable Stevenson pulled out, because Chil Sandin subbedin, as you saw, he got the two kind of buggy, well, reverse buggy choke taps, but, you know, it was something of a, I don't know, three, like a Harlem Globetrotters bit, kind of there a little bit. And then on day one, there was way too many matches that went all the way, not nearly enough submissions. And it's actually a little bit more than that, B.C.

One of the other problems with this event is the market seems to show that to grow jujitsu, you have to do no-gi instead of ghee jiu-jitsu. But there's a big problem, which is a lot of the matches end up looking the same. And people have a very hard time passing the guard in no-gi. In ghi-jitsu, I recognize there are other entertainment problems, but there's a million different ways to pass the guard relative to no-gi with the ghee. There's many more ones, obviously, because you can do all or at least most of the Nogi subs, plus a new universe, you know, clock chokes and bow and arrows and all kinds of things that aren't really available to you for the most part in Nogi.

And so you get like a lot of not just no subs, but a lot of matches that end up kind of looking the same. A lot of guys would establish grips, some kind of contact, and they would try to pass. There would be a leg lassoing and repummeling, and then they would just kind of be back to where they started. And this happened pretty frequently, or you get leg entangling. that really just went nowhere. And the fans booed a couple of times. So then day two comes around a BC and Craig Jones is like 50K per sub. And Victor Hugo had two subs that day.

So he got just another 100K just in the subs. And he was part of B team. So he's going to get, you know, another chunk of the cash from that. This is what I mean. Like Craig was handing out money. So day two ended up being way, way better. But then the other problem was the team format BC. I don't know if it worked.

I think it was an ambitious idea, and there were parts of it that were enjoyable, and you did get B-Team versus New Wave in the finals, you know, Jets versus the Sharks, kind of a sort of set up there, but there wasn't enough rivalry. There wasn't, in general, there wasn't enough storyline.

There was a lot of just glut of matches that went to double elimination. It felt like following the arc of these winners, through the tournament has a little bit more drama to it. And the last thing I might say, too, is BC, the wall definitely plays a role, right? Because what's the primary function of that wall? It's to, in my estimation, and I think this is expressly told, it's to prevent restarts so that they just keep moving the whole time.

There's no one restarting them. And you did see the wall used in interesting ways. For example, there was one, Mika Galvaal had a, had a, like a Sumigashi sweep. I think from there, it may have been somebody else. Maybe that was a back tick. I can't remember, but there was a couple of different times where the wall would be useful and fun and relevant. But for the most part, relative, I think, to C.J.I.1,

a lot of the action was more contained in the middle. People were aware that they didn't want to be near the wall, especially the corner of the wall. So they paid more attention at keeping the match kind of flat in the center. And that's fine because you achieve your objective, which is not having the restarts. but when we watched C.J. I won, it was like a mind-blowing to watch this. Not only did you not have restarts, it created for these weird possibilities.

But I think guys have realized being on the wall typically confers some disadvantage. There was one time where a guy got up on the wall and then the person on the floor, actually, was Victor Hugo. He snapped the guy down and Hugo's, I mean, because of the angle, you're not here. Because of the angle, his face goes crashing into the mat. You know, it's fun for us, but this didn't happen very often because people knew you get up to these situations. and it confers a lot of disadvantages. So it just didn't quite get going in the way that you would have hoped, which is not to say it wasn't ambitious,

which is not to say there wasn't some real meaningful success. And again, I think the effort, I mean, no one is trying to do for Jiu-Jitsu, what I think Craig Jones is trying to do. He's trying to do more. But, B.C., you know the truth. When you try to do a lot, it's a lot to juggle, and I just don't think all of it necessarily worked this time.

All right, let me ask you an idiot, question. Why can't Craig take all of his great ideas, his promotional ability, his connections link up with UFC. I know they offered him, you know, subpar money, and that's why he didn't coach their version of the ultimate grappler. But like, why can't there be a world where they all come together and make this work? Is it the same question as asking why can't boxing get along? Yeah, kind of. I mean, the answer is, I think if the both parties really won. it and were willing to work within the parameters of what each party really valued, you know, potentially there would be a way to work together. And I think to your point,

if you could align forces, you know, with powerful actors in the space, it could potentially do a lot. But that just doesn't seem realistic at this point. It doesn't seem like a thing we can rely on. And also I will say this, too, like this is the one thing I keep getting, like, I've gotten questions on my live chat, BC, and I'm sure you've heard different ones of different varieties but like someone was like hey why can't ufc take over four ounce moitai and it's like guys do you want one combat sports promoter to just give you everything at this point like ufc is so big and in control of mma and obviously they're talking about tk o and it's not even like a dis on tkoh it's more just like having a little bit of diversity in terms of people with different ideas about

how things should look and how things should be run and how things should be structured you want that in the marketplace. It's just that I think Craig has to reflect on some of the things that were really good and true about this, but then definitely got to make some changes if there is going to be a C.J.I.3. Interesting. Let's hear from Gordon Ryan, who, as you mentioned, did not like what he saw in day one of the CJI putting out on Instagram.

Imagine giving athletes eight minutes to work and then being upset. There are no submissions sub 80 IQ thinking. Gordon would also react to your- really fair because day two you got a fair amount of submissions but i also don't think that that rule set is great for well i don't think two day anything works i mean i even i know that you know w w w is doing that with russomania and somerslam and maybe if they've got the rosters you know people that are super fans want it do you think two days of a grappling tournament makes sense luke to get people to really care i think it can work but like one thing else too you mentioned like the

WWE Factor BC, like one thing they were like, oh, we're going to do a Royal Rumble style where, you know, we're just going to have like that we don't know who the next person to come out is going to be after, you know, so let's say you and I go, you submit me who the next guy is that's coming in. But what they ended up doing in the broadcast BC was going to the coaches, then the coaches would tell the announcer. So it was like, I don't know, like the reveal should have been them walking out, right? It sounds like a small difference, but it actually makes a pretty big one in real time.

some of these things just all in concert with one another, it created for some friction in this event. Just add striking. It'd be awesome. I mean, look, it'd be great. Let's also hear from Gordon Ryan reacting to the B-team's win over New Wave. He says corruption at its finest, not surprise at all. Look, is this a serious take from old Gordon?

So, not really, but here's the problem, B.C., let me read you the rules that got messed up. So this is where everything got jacked up. So in the end, what ended up happening was there were five matches at the end. A new wave won three of them and B-Team won two of them. But B-Team won the last one, 10-8. Nicky Ryan, Nicky Rod, excuse me, really put it on them, okay? So it was a 10-8 there. So here you go to, now you're like, okay, well, what do we do?

What do we have to go? There was no submissions. So what did the rule say? The rule say as follows. If five double eliminations occur or any such instance where each team's final athletes are double eliminated the team with more individual wins by judge's decision wins okay um if tied on the score cards the team whose athlete won the final bout wins if the final bout is a draw the win goes to the team whose athlete last won a non-draw bout and that sounds kind of complicated and messy

because it is the reality on that is because b team lost twice and new wave had three wins they should have ultimately won the contest. But because you had the rules written somewhat strangely, it ended up going to the point where you had the double elimination. So now we have to go to the scorecards. Score cards had it a draw. If it's a draw, final bout, Nikki Rod 108, so therefore B team wins. But that may have been a misinterpretation of the rules.

So this is another part like Craig is trying to put this event on. I didn't even mention it. There was a tapping controversy as well. Two guys. Did they tap? Did they not? What does the tap constitute in this rule set? and that wasn't exactly fully fleshed out for the public to understand, you know, pre-event.

So this one pointing out, like Craig is trying to do a lot. And I think some of the concept as well as some of the execution has got to get ironed out for next time. How was the broadcast team, Luke, because I don't, you know, I don't pull punches. I'd like to see you on that broadcast team. I don't think I'm good enough for it, to be honest with you. They had Phil Roe, UFC fighter, doing backstage stuff. That seemed fine. Shouts to MK producer Al Wendling, who was Matt Side doing like,

the post-match interviews and whatnot. Obviously, we have great love and respect for her. I don't know the names of all of the commentators, but I will say this, the one who sat in the middle of the three, one of the color ones, Hugh L. Teague, I believe he was one of the original founders of Floe grappling. He's fantastic. I mean, they were all pretty good,

but I felt like Hewle really stood out, really did a phenomenal job. So the commentary team in general, BC, was very strong, but they had a hard time reacting to Hanato Lorangea asking Tom de Blas, yeah about being uh you know it was a bit it's all a bit so it's whatever but it was weird because i didn't know was a bit i mean i knew he was doing a bit but i didn't know if tom de blast was in on it and then they would throw it back to the commentary team and they would have they'd be like well our next match is uh you know yeah yeah it's wild stuff uh finally we did have that

super fight chel son and filling in for gable steveson uh a tap so nice chale wanted to go to sleep sleep twice. Here's Chale reacting to his two submission defeats here saying the contract said three out of five and then I can't read that font. Look, I'm old. The first thing you do in a position like that is relax. That's all that was. I don't blame anybody. I'm not upset. Misinterpretations happen. I forgive you. He's trying to claim he wasn't out, I suppose. Did it, was it as entertaining as Craig versus Gabby last year? Craig versus Gabby went a little bit longer. I think had a little bit more. Gabby promoted the shit out of that. Yeah.

You know, that was the thing. Gabby promoted. Dude, Gable didn't promote shit. And then Chale was just flying in on last minute. But Chale took the microphone at the beginning and was like, shut your mouths. You know, you losers. But he was like definitely trying to be the heel to make Craig look good.

So he did what he could. Listen, Chale did what he could? I mean, what are you supposed to do with that kind of situation? He did what he could. Yeah, indeed. All right. Let's go to topic number four. We mentioned earlier, we're less than two weeks out.

from the biggest boxing match of the year. And I think you can really argue maybe even the biggest since 2017's Floyd Mayweather versus Connor McGregor. I mean, with the exception, of course, of Jake Paul versus Mike Tyson, which did grab hold of public consciousness

for their real fight. That was more of an exhibition. This time, it does get real when Canella Alvarez and Terrence Crawford square off for the undisputed 168-pound title. And given their resumes, their historic value, I mean, there's a lot at stake in this matchup but luke while there has been some social media chatter to the idea

that the buzz for this fight isn't there is this much ado about nothing in your eyes or a valid critique for all we know maybe fight weeks giving us a ufc embedded style series or a ufc countdown you know pre-fight 24-7 all access type thing but as of right now are the haters the critics right in saying great fight but could use a little bit more of that buzz well i'll say this i i think in general this critique and i've started to see more of it i don't know if you have as well or i mean i would say excuse me i saw more of it this weekend but i just think it's largely wrong i think it's first of all far too early to say exactly what fight week is going to be like and you know paul tyson two weeks out to me did not seem

all that huge and then ended up being really huge. More to the point about Paul Tyson, I've already begun to see some comparisons being like, you know, well, that's the baseline for success. And it's like, you know, the Tyson Paul, the combined star power there, is greater than the combined star power

of Canello and Crawford. I mean, I don't think Paul's as big as Canello. I think Camelo is pretty big, are bigger than, certainly than Paul, and, you know, obviously more relevant as a boxer than Tyson, but Tyson's worldwide name is extraordinary. Like, the amount of power that brings together is simply bigger than what Crawford and Connolla are bringing it like it can't possibly be as big in all likelihood anyway it cannot possibly be as big so there's also this question of

like how unfair are the expectations more to the point September 9th I believe no 4th September 4th so in two days the uh Netflix is putting out kind of like a pre-fight you know um what do you want to call ABC not it's not 24 7 what's a documentary series documentary series is the best way to put it It's just a docu-series, kind of you're getting us all ready for this particular bout. If I do have any criticism, B.C, it is one thing, which I don't know how much it will matter. In the end, this is Netflix we're talking about. This is Canelo Alvarez, we're talking about. Again, TKO, a powerful promoter we're talking about.

There's a lot of forces that lead you to believe this will be bigger or not than Tyson Paul, still a bout of very relevant size and success. if I do have a critique, it's that it does feel to me like the promoting around this early on. They were like, we're going to do this, you know, three city tour and blah, blah, blah. And now to me, BC, it feels like the promotion in terms of the extra things they're doing is a little formulaic. It doesn't, they're not going, you know, to a crazy extent to create all these other kinds of shoulder programs, other things to sell it. But they might also believe that they don't necessarily. necessarily need to because they expect it to do so well.

So as a very minor critique, I might bring that up. But in general, I feel like people are just a little bit bored because boxing's a little boring right now. And they are maybe having a bit of a jaundiced view of the whole thing. Yeah. I mean, I didn't realize how much boxing really does need this when it got announced, right? Because of how bad this summer would be and really how empty the box feels at the moment. It is hard to critique because it is a different model than we're used to.

They're literally not in the business of. selling pay-per-views for this one, so many people have Netflix, so many people that don't are probably going to buy it for one month and give it a ride just for this fight like they did for Tyson Paul, maybe, maybe like they did for Serrano Taylor 3, if that was of interest. But I do agree with you. It's like, in one sense, they're against it to begin with because neither Canello or Bud is going to go out of their way to do the full expansive media tour, talk all that trash, and create sort of legitimate buzz.

And I think that they overachieved to a large degree with that three-fight press tour, particularly the second and third stops where you could see Bud Crawford amping up the, you know what, I'm coming for that ass type of feel. And Canello almost feel a little like put off by that. I just now feel so long ago. I kind of wished for, you know, if they could have stretched that out or maybe dropped an explosive face off, you know, a month out, maybe do another tour of media interviews. any way it is what it is, it's going to be what it's going to be. And that's, of course, a great fight on paper. Luke, how much pressure do you feel is on TKO Zufa Boxing UFC in that while they've, you know, dabbled in the past, they put on a Tate, they put on a Calum Wall show that I helped call

in Dublin last year on UFC Fight Pass, but nothing compares with this debut. Is there pressure on them in your eyes to show us in a dome what they can do on the boxing side? I think there is. Yes. I absolutely think that's true. I mean, we know the UFC can do sizes of arena shows like it's the back of their hand. We know that they can do larger situations than that. For example, Marvel Stadium they did in Australia, I think about 50,000 or so a couple times. You know, so it's not like we don't think that they can do something like this. But this is Las Vegas. This is the first time they're promoting at the Allegiant Stadium. This is obviously their first real big boxing event through TKO. This is a big deal. This is on Netflix. I mean, this is the biggest fight of the year. I can go on and on.

There's just kind of a lot of either firsts or first time big stakes moments for this organization. And we'll, you know, UFC fans understand this very keenly. UFC production, I mean, like a very well-oiled machine. You could never say anything other than that. On the other hand, you could also argue. And again, everyone's going to have a different. sense about this, but one criticism you could make is that it feels, yes, the production is

nice from a graphic standpoint and it all runs smoothly. The production elements don't like, you know, like lobbed on top of each other. The guys who executed the production elements are all pros, but that, you know, there isn't pomp and circumstance to it, right? The guys walk out of a tunnel. They're wearing gear. You know, you don't have, you don't have pyro. You don't have performers there. You don't have huge shows. This is, you know, a Saudi funded kind of operation BC. I mean, that's part of it, too. It is in a stadium. It is kind of supposed to be a showcase. What kind of aesthetic do they have? And BC, the previous Netflix shows, even, or not shows, but about, even Taylor. So these were big and over the top and like, you know,

color saturated. What kind of show is TKO going to give us? And what does that say about how the aesthetic does or doesn't match their UFC programming? Yeah. And I hope they look they have we talked about their announced team last week i mean just the three that are physically calling this fight john annick max kellerman and and andre ward dude that's star power there's the return of max kellerman to this chair after a long time he hasn't really called a fight since 2018 when hboh boxing seized uh you know uh putting on fight cards so i i'd love to see more pre-fight content surrounding them i'm excited to hear their call um i hope you have seen nails it to be honest in terms of the stadium experience

I'm now going to be there, so I'm excited from, you know, inside the dome to see what that's going to be like. Regarding pressure, though, maybe there is a lot of pressure on TKO to deliver here. Do you think that my theory here is true that even though Terence Crawford is bringing in the unbeaten record, and even though he's an underdog, not by much when you really look at the difference in size between them, which is just a credit to who he is and the reputation he carries, do you feel like there's almost zero pressure against Crawford? and that all the pressure is on Canelo, not just to win,

but to potentially body up this much smaller man. Yeah, and deliver, you know, a big show himself, like, you know, going to be the author of grand circumstances. Yes. Dude, Crawford's playing with house money. He's going up, I mean, you know, two at this point, but basically three way classes from the last time most people saw him. Now, obviously, he has the fight against Israel Madrimov.

He was at 54. But the last time most people saw him, it was against, or most boxing fans or whatever was in 2023 when he fought Errol Spence at 47 like he's at the end of his run Canello still has at least in theory a little bit of life left in him like

abs so free it's going to be in Las Vegas so the majority of the fans are probably going to be his fan base and the Mexican fan base they're going to be you know I suspect they're going to have a much greater dude like who's going to get a I think we just lost LTE. I think it's his Wi-Fi.

It has been him the whole time. He was in denial before. Slings and arrows of outrageous Wi-Fi fortunes here. Luke, you know, I mean, he's frozen. Look at that man. Here in time. I'm going to go so long. Look, to whatever Luke was going to close with, I'm sure I would have agreed with it.

I'm really focusing on what an opportunity this is. Do we have Luke Thomas back? Do we have LTE? I thought we did. I thought we did. Luke Franklin Thomas. I want to remind people, Luke Franklin Thomas,

named after Benjamin, just so you know, Benjamin, more like it. Oh, look, I'm obviously, I think the whole thing

about this fight, it's almost a negative Torquenello because he's expected to win by a lot, but the whole thing is, Kant Crawford etches name even deeper. Not only to the history books, but to complete one of those all-time leaps

that I do believe will be on some level, comparative to Mani Pachial rising up to his seventh and eighth divisions and winning titles at 47 and 54. Roy Jones moving up to heavyweight for that one fight and that one big win over John Ruiz. And of course, Sugar Ray Leonard coming out of a three and a half year retirement to move up to middleweight for the first time and take on the baddest middleweight of all time. So a lot at stake. Do we have LT? Please, if we don't Long Island, Luke, can we show the Netflix produced trailer that's getting people fired up for this fight?

When I start boxing, they say, I'm going to be the best fight in the world. Mexican stylists duke it out, middle of the ring. Is that relentless spirit? Canelo didn't avoid tough fights. He used his clout to make tough fights. If you win this fight, does it push your... I'm going to wait. I had to go through so much.

Every day in another, it is a battle. Just kill or be killed. People talk about Terrence Crawford. They're going to talk about how overcame all the odds. Putting on muscle don't mean that you're going to be slower. But you punch a little harder. The fight is great. The fight is fun. But this is memory.

These are two of the baddest motherfuckers of all time, and this is a once-in-a-lifetime fight. Sin of one is done! Viva Mexico Cabrone! Dude, right, right. Dude, I got to say that commercial, as we get Luke Thomas back in here and we find out that it was his Wi-Fi. He was him all along, okay? No, this time it was me.

The other time was you. Yeah, right. Luke, in all seriousness, my favorite part of that commercial was Bud Crawford, you know, kind of speaking to the critics and saying, yeah, I'm putting on all this muscle. Not only is it not going to make me slower, it's going to make me punch a lot harder. Did you get those same fuels watching that? I just hope he's right. You know, again, Canello, this is a part two, B.C., like we'll talk more about this as the fight gets closer. Canelo, in all, like in theory, Canello should not lose this.

Right. In theory, you're getting a very old Bud Crawford who's been relatively inactive, who's going up several weight classes, inadvisably against a dominant puncher with a great chin. it's like you should not if you're Bud Crawford you should not win this but but given the way Connell's been conducting his career I hope that Bud Crawford does I truly I wish this was the first fight

where both big name fighters agree to no drug testing where they're just like anything goes man okay I'm fired I am really legitimately fired up for it all things considered I can't wait to see it boxing needs this right now we'll see what happens the people panicking it's it's way no

just not right now not right now yeah I mean I want to see if Bud has the power to dis sway to Canello in any form or if he fools us and just tries to outbox him for 12 it's such an interesting thing and look as much as I haven't loved the inactivity of Crawford maybe this has allowed him to put on the weight the right way slowly he obviously knew this fight was coming for you know almost a full year so uh let's go let's go I'm fired up with that uh one final thing we've got as everyone sharing their predictions lately let's hear one from uh I believe the only common opponent of the two and that is

former champion former olympian amiricca who do you think has an upper hand with it being crawford in the movement or conella with the power would you say about what would you say is a strong ground hand i think crawford in my opinion has more attributes like more advantages in this fight because being the guy that's not taking much punishment and not not many hard hard fights won't open their weight categories see one thing about crawford is built himself up slowly whereas Canallo's jumped up and down weights and he's always been a heavy, heavy guy and he's probably taking a bigger punch from the heavier weights

and stuff like Bivel and, you know what I mean, triple G and those fights take a lot out of you. So I just feel, looking at it, the fresher fighter and not a fight is Crawford, and I think he's the fresher guy's going to probably edgy it in my opinion because I could just see that Canano don't have that fire in the belly anymore. He's made so much money. He's won every title that was there. He's been in the game a very long time.

So respect where it's due where I think that he's just like, maybe this could be like a farewell fight for him. Wow. I mean, I'll say this, dude. Well, you know, I can't be happy at Canello's, you know, outright ducking of David Benevias. Let's say what it is. I've got enough respect for him to say that the,

whatever fire is left in the belly, he's going to come out full steam ahead to make sure that he does, lose this fight i mean you got to agree whether he wins or loses i think you got to agree with that it's not like oh canello is too old if he loses it's because crawford's great i don't think i think you know canello's been coasting for a while but he knows this is not a coastable fight yes i think that's definitely been coasting a while but he knows that this is not the one to do that the question is if you've been coasting too long what do you leave behind yeah maybe nothing i guess we'll see all right

Let's find out. Hey, our final topic. Topic number five of the week is a look ahead to this Saturday. UFC back on the slate with a fight night card in Paris that is pretty damn attractive, especially a middleweight main event matching a streaking Nostradine Imov against an unbeaten in the octagon, Kyle Volhalio. We already know what's at stake. The opportunity for the winner should he shine and should he outshine the matchup on the other side of the bracket pairing Anthony Hernandez and RDR, a potential.

opportunity at the middleweight title but l t saturday's card in paris is not all about the middleweight main event which we will break down in great detail in friday show it's also got a lot of very interesting things going on if you had to pinpoint one fight or one storyline heading into saturday what has you buzzing one more time put the graphic up if you can uh the zm and fernandez fight is off uh zion fell out so they're trying to see if they can find a fight for fernandez just something to keep in mind so here's what i'm going to say i mean if you're asking me like genuinely which one of my most excited about non main event the answer is the co-main but in the interest of giving this a question a better answer i'm going to give you two of them i'll give you one on the

main card and then one on the preliminary card for the main card bc your opener patricio pitbull well i guess it could be the i'm not sure exactly uh i don't know they because of the way they moved everything around it i think it's still the main card opener but i guess we'll have to see so in this particular case, B.C., it's going to be the Patricio Pitbull taking on the Black Panther himself, Losan Kaita. I might be mispronouncing his name, a double champ out of Octagon in Europe. This will be a 145 fight. He hasn't lost since Octagon 45 in July of 2023. But the point being is he's 16 and 1, 27 years old, very good, capable of winning. I mean, capable of ruining Patricio's night or your Wi-Fi with what he's

capable of at this point. Well, I think we've got it back. I've seen movement on his screen here. Oh, my God, man, my fucking internet. It's just going to know what the fucking situation is. Keep going. Everything's great. Keep going.

Sorry. God damn it. Anyway, point I'm trying to make is that's a great one. On the prelim, which you might be sleeping on before my internet dies on me, BC, Axel Sola, taking on Rise McKee. This is a 170 pout. Axel Sola out of the Ares promotion, which is a French promotion. So I got to say, we bust UFC's balls when they pass on all these international prospects.

And for some reason, there are some that they still do. You've got two good ones on this card in Los Enkaita and now Axel Sola. Axel Sola obviously has undefeated since he, basically since the amateur days. And then when he lost back in 2019, but that's it. Like he has been absolutely killing it out there. And I've had several people who are close months. monitors of the European scene tell me about both of these guys and in particular actual solo more recently. So two matches to keep out for it. Now, Long Island, Luke probably has

some other ones, but it's just bouts of quality with prospects. These, I think it's Reese McKee, no? It is Reese McKee. I keep saying rise because that's the way it reads in my brain, but you're right. It is. You know, I've butchered plenty of names, you know, there we go. Look, obviously that co-main event bangs in some, in so many ways it's, you know, producing in terms of of the turnover at lightweight and the new era coming on. Who's seriously for real, a BSD, who bounced back with a win after two devastating losses that seemed to slow his momentum against a Mauricio Huffy, who has legitimate momentum.

But I'm looking at my Lithuanian brethren here, Modestis Bukowskis, whoever since losing two of three in his first UFC stint and being cut is seven and one overall since then. The one loss was a second round KO lost to Vitor Petrino. But since coming back to the UFC 5 and 1 during this run, the split decision went over Kutelaba last time out. He's got a sub of Marchine. How do you say that, Prachino? Prachnio, like a CK.

Yeah. He draws a Paul Craig who is, you know, has proven to be beatable of late, back up at light, heavy weight. He's got a new deal. Yes, probably tears apart most of the female population in Scotland. But Luke, if this Bukowskis goes out there and gets another win as a nearly four to one favorite are we building a run here at 205 or should i pipe the

hell down yeah you should pipe the hell down i mean 205 is wide open but not that wide open right all right let's get long island luke to open up his legs and tell us about what's going on here what do you got for saturday i mean i don't know i got to look at this card more closely guys i'm not going to lie i took the weekend kind of off this shit but uh marchine tibera ante delisia coming over from pfl that should be a fun fight i believe those odds are pretty close i think It's like a pickum right now. I like that. Yeah, that's a good one.

William Gomi, Robert Ruchala. This is some Polish guy. Ruchala making his UFC debut. Gomi, obviously, French guy, MMA factory trained. I mean, maybe that'll be fun. It looks like Kyle Fernandez, by the way, has a replaced opponent, Harry Hardwick. He's out of cage warriors. This will be his UFC debut.

So we'll see what happens. Harry Hard prick, making that debut. Oh, wait, one fight that actually I missed over. Andreas Gustafson, Renat, Fokker. Ritina that should be a Oh yeah Is it Gustafin the racist guy or did I just Yeah no he's got the real

Apparently he's got real fucked up tattoos I'm not sure he also said uh The R word he had our strength You know like that's a word Yes He must hang out with KGB Lee's ex-boyfriend right Luke Oh yeah

Maybe so All right let's transition off of that More to come on our preview on Friday Of UFC Poddy Let me remind you folks however If you can put that damn camera on me Yeah, this episode of Morning Combat is also sponsored by Total Wireless,

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base 5G unlimited plan for new subscribers applies only to the monthly, monthly rate for your plan additional terms apply see the website for more details as we transition here to our fan questions every week sunday night at morning combat on x and instagram we give you the viewer the opportunity to get your voice heard but l t we did want to speak for the show here and say what we don't want if you can help it we want to hear from you folks but we don't want to see you just double up on the questions that you may already know are probably going to get answered in the rundown recapping the weekend that was we want you to spin it forward ask a hypothetical you know what i'm saying here well luke that's not too much

to ask right maybe he's in deep thought all right he's frozen again maybe he died i mean that's dude can you get hold a hold like hold like give me a dude take long out luke take me off Hold on, not yet. What the fuck? He's like, I'm just canceling you now. Like, you're done here. Okay. Take me off screen for just a second.

I'm going to try to do something with my internet because it's not affecting the Wi-Fi for some reason, but it is affecting the wired connection. Yeah, you should pay your bill. First and foremost, I'll take my bill. My bill's paid. But something's up with the thing. Give me just a second. Take me off and then I'm going to try and fix it.

All right. All right. So that is our ask of you folks. If we can get a little bit more creative on those old DMs, from the diggies appreciate you this one's called dms from the dogs all right first question coming in hot from riftrona thank you sir what i'm assuming it's a man because we've got male viewers right what would till have to do to be qualified to fight the mighty jake paul will this fight take place and who would you favor well look let's ask answer that in reverse who would i favor right now i think

you still have to favor Jake Paul, who has more boxing experience against, I guess, a wider variety of opponents. The problem when you really find tooth combing Paul's resume is how often he's been fighting with an extreme age, size, and even times experience advantage. A lot of that would go away in this matchup, which is what would make it so sexy. Could you outright favor Darantelle? I don't really think you could. We have seen Jake Paul go rounds. We have seen an acceptable level of defense for the crossover bubble. We're not asking him to go fight Zerto Ramirez necessarily in this fight. So I think this is the closest you'd get outside of a Tommy Fury rematch to Jake Paul in an

influencer fight actually being in position to potentially lose, which is part of the appeal when you're going to buy a big fight. Will this fight take place? I wonder if it would come down to whether MVP and misfits would work together in a co-promotion, and it would also come down to Jake looking at. at his options and realizing is this worth the risk? Right now, when you can still get these sort of fancy exhibitions like the Tank Davis for whatever that's going to look like, maybe that answer is no.

Jake seems to aggressively wanting to get what can only really be seen as a potential cash out against the likes of Anthony Joshua or Canelo. Maybe he prefers that because there's so much money at stake. In terms of what Till would have to do to be qualified, I think he's, already done it. It's really going to fall down to what's Jake's plan, who's available, and can these two promoters work together? I mean, look, do you feel like

Dary and Till would have to do anything else to be firmly on Jake Paul's radar here? Would it be qualified to fight the money of Jake Paul? This is going to place? On the radar, sure. But even Till said he doesn't think Jake's going to want to take it.

So does he have to do a Tarver to Roy Jones and show up at his press conferences and offer to piss on his lawn, you know? Honestly, I think beating Carl Frotch might might help him. That's why Carl Frotch is like the right one because there's reasons why that fight makes sense and then what it leads to is something bigger, yeah? Indeed, indeed.

Thank you for your question there, Rift Stronaut. We'll see if, I mean, look, if he did that and he won, if Till went in there in a damn stadium, if they wanted to do it, a small stadium against Frotch, it might get Jake's attention. Let's hear from Omar underscore Vars. Was this weekend, I mean, I think you can answer this just by looking at a rundown today,

Was this weekend one of the funnest and or most important combat sports weekends that did not involve the UFC? I mean, look, you could add in major boxing that it also didn't involve. With the combination of C.J.I. Misfits, the real American wrestling thing that Holly Holm was a surprise entry in, and dirty boxing on Friday, you had decidedly non-traditional combat elements being front page news in the dead of summer. yes you did but like the answer to this question is like any great boxing weekend like put up put up the question one more time maybe i misunderstood it was this weekend one of the funnest the most important combat sports weekends that didn't involve the ufc no like anytime there's been a really like fury usick was bigger and funner than this but but to your point the combat sports universe has expanded so far out now that you can get that satellite stuff

in bkfc or misfits or you know cj i is not the same kind of thing but it's also on the fringe for different reason um yeah absolutely there's so i mean this is well i try to explain to people like 20 years ago you just didn't have no you didn't and this was very m m a jason if i can finish your sentence here luke um gonna be hard to look at that shit if you ain't alive all right you hear with me brother oh my god oh my god take me off one more time god damn it i mean just join on your cell phone at this point maybe you got a blackberry in the drawer you can plug in luke wow all right uh yeah Hey, Long Island, Luke, did you get a chance to check out any of that real American wrestling over the weekend? Because I sure is that. No, I really didn't watch anything this weekend. No, C.J.I. No, misfits.

Okay. It's just one of those, like, where you have to be the boyfriend of the year one weekend a month to keep things going? No, truth be told, I was just sick all week. And I probably would have tuned in to, like, one or two of them. But we were just, like, laying around doing nothing. You got that, you got that, uh, Rona or what? I don't know, maybe. I'm feeling better today. That's all that. Do Turkey tweeted that he had the Rona. Oh, God. He actually called it Corona. He did.

Yeah, I hope he's doing better there. Good old H.E. himself. H.I.M. is back. Him. It's Luke, a regular shopper of Hems for men. Luke, did you, Hems.com, did you check out Real American Wrestling over the weekend? I saw the highlights.

I don't know if y'all can see me. I'm just going to talk until people tell me to stop. Yeah, we can see you just fine. I saw some of the. Okay, okay. I mean, my internet is a disaster. And this is Verizon. So, you know, just can't.

can't get good service out here apparently um i from what i saw i mean dude holly home is in an international boxing hall of fame she uh she was a ufc champion she has pro kickboxing wins and then fills in on short mid notice like 24 48 hours whatever it was something insanely short to go compete in freestyle wrestling at a respectable level and then do you know decently well at it she's 43 like how is that even pot's insane from i didn't see the wrestling of npc but from everyone who did they told me it was kind of a hit that was kind of good so i'm sorry i watched a bunch of uh mike perry's dirty boxing and i actually was entertained i mean i saw when uh when uh when uh who scored a win and then his opponent tried to attack the security outside i mean

there was some there's some some weird shit going on there yeah it was and also uh biggie boy got a belt that i don't i got to be honest i don't like the dirty boxing belt can i be honest about that oh i i kind of like it because it's so weird we'll get to that in my shit in a second it looks like a pizza box yeah that's kind of why i like it to be fair oh look are you still using dial-up by any chance i'm jesus no dude this is fucking terrible i'm trying to figure this shit out i don't know what's wrong i don't know what's wrong i think it's honestly i don't think it's my connection because my connection to my phone is never being disturbed so like it's something wrong with my computer more generally and i don't know what the fuck the issue is that's all right look

we'll just got it out let's go to the next question from sticks plays time. He must be a drummer of this guy. Win or lose in his next fight. Should Poetan Perella challenge Aspinall for the heavyweight strap afterwards? Aspinall is in desperate need for fights

and Alex could become a three-weight champ. I say book that fight. A reminder that Aspinall will have the first full defense at UFC 320 against serial game. Luke should Poetan? Oh, I saw you blink. You're

Here, yes, should Poetan challenge Aspinall, win or lose against Ancolaev? This is terrible. I might have to restart my computer because I'm really just, this is driving me nuts. I apologize to you. I don't know what the fuck the issue is. Yeah, all right. No. If he loses, who would possibly have an interest in that?

Well, it's not like there's a long list of great heavyweights waiting to fight Aspinall, look, you know? I mean, I get that, but, yeah, I mean, I guess you could. Yeah, I guess you could. I mean, I don't know what appetite the UFC would have in the event that he loses. I guess that's really my point. But could you do it? Sure. You could do it, yeah.

I mean, you can also make Jones Aspinall if John is willing. I mean, that'd be nice too. All right, folks, there we go with that. Maybe just maybe coming to the South Lawn. Let's bring in, I believe, uh, Kowai's own Big Papa, Telvin Key Papa, fresh off the, the 3 a.m. shift. If it's 3 a.m., Telvin must be lonely.

He says with Sam Alvey snapping his losing streak and becoming karate combat champion and Tony El Cuckooie Ferguson snapping his losing streak and becoming a misfits interim middleweight champion, would you guys be down for Governor Penn to participate in either CJA or UFCBJJ? Luke, this is a loaded question. Uh, no, I think Governor Penn is, in need of the kind of help that C.J.I or UFC, BJJ can't really give.

I would, I think I would have to agree with you on that. I don't think that rewarding fighters after disturbing and scary behavior with more fighting, even if there's no head trauma in this is the way to go. But that's just my two cents. Thank you, Big Papa,

for the question. Our final donk ask comes from a man and his cat, and believe me, I live that life too. Who is your dream live commentary booth you wish to work with for any combat sport. Look, maybe I take boxing, you take MMA. Look, you've been calling fights lately. You've been in and around broadcast for many years. Let's say you got to be color commentator on a monster MMA broadcast. Who do you want play by play, commentary, and ringside reporter with you?

like your dreams uh yeah john annick and brian stan and then ringside that's a tougher one i mean megan olivy does a phenomenal job yes am i forgetting someone in the history of the sport who used to do it really well is there like i mean i mean you know part of the ringside job is interviewing fires but ufc uses one of the analysts for that so that takes that away but you know Heidi Angel has been a gamer, Cameron Bryan.

She's been there for a long time. Yeah. I don't know about the ringside reporting one. I'm trying to, because I don't, I'm trying to think through if I'm disrespecting someone by not recalling anyone who has been on previous broadcast that may have stood out. I will say that, you know, a couple of names that the people who used to be really good, Lon McKeachran used to be really good. Excuse me, Lon McCarran.

What am I saying? Law McCarran used to be really, really good. He briefly did it. You know, Stephen Quadris obviously goes way back. boss rootin has been a mainstay for you know broadcasting for many years you know i think joe rogan yeah yeah more rinalo is a great oh more what am i even saying how could i even sleep on more rinaloa jesus that's a shit it's a crime that i just did that you know i know rogan's been around for a while i tend to think his best stuff is behind him but

um you know certainly he's been an important contributor so you know something like that but definitely either you could you could throw an annick or rinalo you know i hold them both in high regard and then Brian Stant for sure on the commentary. All right. I've been lucky to have worked with Moranallo a ton in the past year, and it's been great experience. If I was looking at a dream team to be on, I mean, it's kind of hard not to say Jim Lampley,

even in this, you know, advanced stage of his career where he's sort of reappearing a few times, thanks to what Ring Magazine's putting out. What if it was Jim, V.C. on caller commentating, uh, the late George Foreman next to him. Imagine Lampley, Cambley, Campbell, Foreman, and then for ringside reporting, we'll throw in Larry Merchant as ringside reporter there. I mean, that's the greatest team ever.

Wow. Yeah, or maybe put me on ringside reporting and bring back Jim, Larry, and in Big George. I know Roy Kellerman, they were great mixed in Emmanuel Stewart through the years as well, Al Bernstein, so many great ones. But I absolutely loved when George Foreman was at the peak form of his commentary in the 90s with Lampley and Merchant. that's my take right there so shout out to big george thank you for your questions our final segment is the weirdest now let me ask a question here let me ask a question before before we get going should i plug back in my wifi or by my wired connection to see what happens what do you think

i think you should set up however gives you the best chance to not go out for the next 15 minutes i don't know what that is hold on one second hold on take me off the goddamn screen take me off the goddamn screen wow so uh just so you folks know what i do every sunday i i wow should we just listen to luke swear like he's my dad in the garage in the 90s being like you know get me that wrench you know um i scour the globe for the good the bad the ugly uh in the worlds of combat sports and beyond folks uh it might offend you it might entertain you it's really just designed to press luke thomas's buttons even more than his own dial up connection is this one's called have you seen this shit.

I mean, I didn't make these memes, all right, but they're out there, whether you want to watch them or not. Long Island, look, can we get a technical update on our co-host here? Empty chair. I hear him rustling around, you know. Yeah, do you hear it? Yeah, yeah, there he goes. All right, all right.

Here it is. Luke Thomas, are you with us? he's got to put it in his earpiece all right once he gets us in his earhole are you here can you hear us oh I hope yeah you got it you got it you're there okay great great to see yeah but I mean the thing is

it's fading in and out is the problem it looks fine and all of a sudden it just crashes and I don't understand why I don't get it yeah lightning crashes and old mother cries I've been living that life for decades right you know oh wow throwing copper is that what you're doing throwing copper yeah all right Luke you're back okay Luke here we go let's talk about

about DBX, the old dirty box. Giorzino Rosenstrike scored a first round stoppage to become the inaugural heavyweight champion. And then he made love to that strap under the covers. Look at that gorgeous piece of square box. You see that, Luke? Yeah, I don't, I mean, Long Island, Luke, way in on the shape and the, the look of this belt. I think for dirty boxing, it's perfect. I kind of like it. Am I out of my mind? I mean, it is ugly, but it's so gaudy. I kind of like it.

That's what I'm basically trying to do. I like big belts. I know some people like modest size belts. I don't. I like the big ones, but like a big old box looks like a pizza box. I don't know. Yeah, it looks like a torta, right?

Luke, you could fit a few guys. Are you a, are you a torta pounder? Is that what you are? Yeah, well, let's see this week's t-shirt of the weeks, if that catches up with you. Oh, Luke, this next video gives new meaning to the phrase nose beers. Check out this fella. Could you do this without choking,

the question is why would you want to that's really the issue here do you got to do it all for the gram at the end of the day but wouldn't that hurt but i'm like i'm like bro there's an easier way to do this you know what i'm saying yeah i v intravenous right just just injected in my veins that that was indeed a nose beer i it's a good point uh luke you know i love not only bushito moments in combat sports but when fighters get a mortalized in their homeland with a giant-ass mural on the wall. All right. Vacant strawweight title challenger,

Verna Jangeroba, was given that treatment in Brazil. But Luke, were they too accurate in that painting for your liking? All right. Are we talking about her eyes? Well, I mean,

you tell me, look at the painting, dude. It's a great moment in a fighter's career, but they were like, yo, we're going to get this 100, 100 accurate.

I mean, here's the thing, right? like don't you have to i guess i mean what yeah i mean yeah but like i don't know i mean you're saying they should like have cosmetic surgeryed her up you know yes yes why rub it in they should have given her that lacyc surgery unless it's like a neighborhood watch type thing where they're like you know you're all under surveillance right now come come to think of it how did they get around that with i mean i think they painted it over but there was a notorious b ig

one out there in um benson her not benson hurst i'm sorry um bedford stuyvesant yeah for a while but he had the shades on right so you didn't see away why you know what i mean whereas you know you got to just kind of confront the biology with verna here's the thing if verna wins the bell i would petition my own money to get that thing evened out on there for her sake okay that's big of you bc i'm glad you're thinking of others yeah thank you uh luke you ever been to the Jersey shore let's go to our beach banner of the week okay can you read this uh dropping loads all over the jersey shore okay okay that is uh wait what is the fucking brand what's the show at the beginning i think the brand is that man's jonson luke okay i think he's advertising for himself

all right what is that 34 what i couldn't read the rest long island what is he what is this thing I was getting as close as I could to my TV to read it I can't read it either I just got 34 or something I think it's some guy putting his cell phone number on there and being like willing to also you know what I love about New Jersey is just how classy its people are you know what I mean yes that's where Mikey's from by the way Jersey Shore Tom's River area yeah get it done that makes sense that makes that dude loves burnt Chrysler yeah yeah he loves burnt Chrysler it's unbelievable uh Luke you know that we're big he man fans and average Joe R produced a T-shirt design talking about that. Relatable weekend plans here from Skeletor. Can you relate? My plans for the weekend. Jack King off until we meet again. You know what?

Entirely relatable plans. And Skeletor and I understand each other quite greatly. Yes, well done right there. Luke College football was back in full swing this week. It sure was. Arch Manning got not a great day for him. Yeah. Yeah, you know how many 9-11 memes people sent me related to Archmanning?

It was out of control. But Luke, Coach Prime over there at CU, Dion Sanders, was asked about his favorite college tradition. Is there anything about Folsom, about this stadium that surprised you that you didn't expect? Yeah, the smell of weed in the second quarter. It's surprised the heck I mean, like every game, I'm like, dang, like it seems like it's like a light-up quarter. You know what I'm saying? So is this the quarter that y'all chose? Like, I'm serious, it's a TV timeout.

never fails. And I'm like, wow, what's going on? Because you know, I've never been a day of my life. So that's, that, that's kind of new to me. That, that's, that's a, that's a bolder essential, I guess. Yeah, truly. Do you believe him? He's never been high a day in his life? Look, I don't know about that. I mean, he's had a good life. He's been high on some other things, I suppose, you know? Thank you, Long out of Luke for that. I want Dion to know, I have been high a day in my life, many days, in fact. Dion, Dion, go watch a fight at the Barclays Center. They don't wait till the second quarter there. Oh, my God. You walk into the bar. You walk into the bar. Markley Center. You're going to get a contact high in there. It's insane.

It's insane. Let's go to this live shot. Sir, we're live. This is an R-B's. Here we go. Let's check it out. You get a three-possession game or you just ice it right now with the first half. I think the way they've been running the football. Dude, Alabama had a bad day. They looked so bad. You know what? I used to hate college football. Yeah. Because it's it's so shit, you know. But now I think that's why you have to like it is because it's so shit. It's not shit. It's competitive and rivalries. And it's all the kids that used to beat you up at bad golf.

Compared to the NFL level, it's ass. It's butt cheeks. Well, okay, it's not butt cheeks. I mean, especially you're talking about the SEC, all right? Luke, let's go, let's go to the U and see the T-shirts of the week from this couple. Peace. And also, I come in peace. I mean, that's very subjective for that senior couple right there.

Wow. you know it's very interesting that the seniors would be like uh hey everyone i want you to know i ejaculated my wife that's really a thing that i do that's how my kids got here uh let's go to michigan state check out this glizzy gladiator in the crowd luke do you respect this action bc i didn't know you shaved and went to the game my my hair die ran out but yeah i did i did take that doubt luke speaking of glizzies it's time to play another round of would you eat all right here's our first item let's head to the soft serve machine straight up dude is this AI fucking slop what is this shit straight up would you eat this

absolutely fucking not I'm not homeless what kind of a question is that I would cry long out look can you split the difference here if somebody handed that to you you'd crush it come on fuck no I might eat some ice cream

around the outside I'm not taking a bite of that fucking dog yeah you know what I want on my fucking ice cream is hot dog juice that's the thing that's been missing this whole time. You're a disgusting man. You're a disgusting man. I would try it.

If it was at the big E at the state fair, I'd try it. Luke, I would. I really would, okay? You're a disgusting man. Let's go to this next one. They call it a giant hot dog. Let's see if you would eat it. Let's surprise my family with a giant hot dog.

I made a custom oversized bun and baked it in the oven. Then I just grilled a 10 pound beef bologna for 30 minutes. By this point, my family was starving. I topped it with mustard and ketchup and sliced it up. It's the perfect shareable hot dog. And next time I'd probably boil it so I could drink the hot dog water. okay this woman this woman goes and makes the most horrendous food you've ever seen she took a burger disassembled it and made frozen popsicles out of it she took beef grilled it made little cubes of it

and then made cereal out of it like she's known for making the most disgusting food imaginable so you wouldn't try her giant dog no and in fact i hope she dies oh my god all right look i got one more for you this is interesting you ever mix apple pie and baked beans let's watch this we can talk over this luke here we go here's the ingredients you get some apple pie can a can a bullshit yeah okay then you got to get some of them bushes original yeah not enough sugar in that okay okay there we go then you get some of that uh mustard dude people are just people are just mixing any do you realize how much sugar is in this fucking meal dude i would definitely try this you would not know a little little bacon on top i i'm not being i'm not being i'm not doing a bit

i'm not being facetious i'd rather watch my family murdered than eat okay dude you would try this and you would like it you're a dirt hole i've hung out with you you buy i'm a dirt hole i'm not eating i'm not eating like it's the war and this is what's all that's left in my more All right, all right. Do you imagine the shits you'd have after that, too, by the way? I mean, you got plenty of fiber. I'll tell you that. Joseph A. Bank is rolling in his grave right now watching this. All right, Lucas, time for some child abuse. Let's watch this kid on the bike.

Let's... It's... It's a kid. Wow. Oh, my God. See, that landing is a dozy right there. It's like, dude, you're going to go faster at each stop. You got to know that, you know what I'm saying?

Let's go to your child abuse t-shirt of the week. This brings us to Costco, Luke. What do you think about this? I would drop kick a child for a Costco wholesale hot dog. In fairness, I understand that, actually. All right. Luke, you may consider a child abuse for parents to allow this. Watch this youth football celebration.

All right, we're on the run here. All right, little man is dusting the competition. This is an excellent performance. Okay, all right. We're just doing missionary on our opponents here. The coaches ran down to celebrate with him to do the DX, Luke. Yeah, that's a little much for, what is this, peewee football? I mean, are they three?

How old are they at this point? We got, you know, we always have to offset child abuse with getting the elders involved here. Let's interview grandpa. Let's watch this. an impression of you. You can do impression of me? Yeah. Oh, I bet you can't.

Don't forget I'm an older man than you. I can do it. Let me see what you're going to do. Gamble, gamble, gamble, die. Oh, no. This is, look at the, I'm in, look at the, I'm in, this is a, I mean, this is a, I'm in, this is a, I'm in, this is a, I'm in, this is a, I'm in, this is a, I'm in, this is a, gamble, gamble, gamble, wow, that. awesome all right uh look you know a memory pops up uh for me it was eight years ago may mac and you know what that brought us the frozen rope of the century my man had a frozen

steak in his dungaree hell yeah look at the unit on that guy you would call that a phoner wouldn't you look i mean it's something yeah that is something right there all right uh speaking of the ufc dana white was in china fighting robots luke this is a preview of when ai takes over and then i mean I just watch Mission Impossible 8 with my kids the other day, Luke. It's a preview of what's coming, okay? I've not seen that one, nor have I seen these, dude. I've heard that Chinese robotics is like

we're all worried about like what the Boston Dynamics Company can do and then they've got Chinese robots who apparently can scissor. They can also do a bunch of other stuff. Yeah, I mean, Luke, do you think Dana's considering how little he'd have to pay these robots or is that joke overplayed?

Dude, remember that? Do you remember that movie with, what's his face? The guy who played Wolverine. Who was the guy played Wolverine? What the hell is that guy? Hugh Jackman. Hugh Jackman. The Aussie. What? Real steel? I'm saying, like, now those were oversized. These are a little tiny ass robots.

But like, if they get good enough, you know, you never know, right? Yeah, you never know, Luke. They don't complain or pull out of fights. Let's go over to the heavyweight champ, Alexander Usik. So, look, this dancing video broke out, and we can certainly peep his moves. And it actually got him in trouble because one of the sanctioning bodies, which allowed him to get time off from his mandatories to heal an injury, basically came out and said, looks like he's not injured anymore. I mean, he definitely does not look injured to me. Yeah.

I mean, do you break it down at a wedding or are you like a, you know, you sit the whole time and just like, well, the reality is, the reality is, um, it depends on the wedding. It depends on the wedding. Okay. If it's a friend's wedding where they're not super big on dancing, then, you know, and there's some of it that happens and it's more modest than I tend to skip it. If it's like the last wedding I went to was about a year ago and it was actually in Bogota and they made me there. They made me.

I had to. So, you know, I do the cabbage batch when I get lit, Luke. You ever rocked that or no? Like this number? Oh, yeah. You know, all right. I'll get out the fishing, imaginary fishing rod and start learn. people in it gets it gets you know wild and zesty look all right i find that it's very easy to get asked

to leave the dance floor if you just yeah that is true that's a true fact sir the exit is this way oh okay look your two piece of the week comes on the rugby field watch this these large gentlemen okay what are we waiting for here oh oh okay oh dude i think that's legal in rugby yeah i think so yeah i mean look like luke rock old getting sent to the i think i think you're allowed to do that that was a pretty nice combo there bob bob hit him with the two piece damn don't even need the soda with that uh luke it's time to rate that tat and people want authentic ranking ratings one to ten ten being the best are you ready for this i'm ready check out this tyson fury back splash of finishing off dionte wilder in their rematch or i'm sorry i mean again i would

never in a million years want this or revere this fight in such a way that this would ever make sense to me. But as a tattoo, this is clearly well applied. Although Fury looking a little bit more muscular than he deserves to, you know what I'm saying? What are you giving it? I give that I mean, as a tattoo, I give it a nine, you know? Oh, wow. Nine out of ten. All right. This one's more American friendly, Luke. What do you rate this? Yeah, this is a negative eight billion is what this is. you've got you've got the flag of the losers of the confederacy in a almost a mechanized style with the monster logo as the thing that rips back and reveals what's really below all time loser tattoo it's got your two favorite things america and energy drinks luke i thought you'd be more into it i don't think the confederacy is america that's a fair point right there uh well it depends on what state you're at uh luke did you hear about deshawn jackson who's making a comeback He had them put him to sleep and had the wide receiver.

The QB and had four tattoo artists work on him while he was out to do a back splash of his family. And I'm going to need you to rate the final product here coming. All right. Let's see. Um, so again, he did not get bad tattoo artist to do this. yeah i tend to think these like composition murals on the back to me are they're not it's not really art nowhere is it supposed to be i suppose but i for that reason i can only give that like a six all right we'll take it we'll take it uh i like that he got put to sleep i i you know how mad

they got at me at my first colonoscopy when i tried to get all of my inner uh inner hole tests done at one time i'm like can't you just get the get the get the prostate while you're there they were like no you know what i'm the same look like why wouldn't why would you why would you so here's the deal i don't i'll give you it if you get a colonoscopy you wake up you don't there's no pain it feels like no memory of anything yeah no memory it's like it's like getting it's like getting drugged i mean it truly it's the best thing ever but if you get that prostate checked you're walking funny for three days and it's just awkward and it's whatever why can't you put me to sleep to all the gross things you have to

to do for me that's why i think where there's a lot of money if we can open up a clinic where we put men to sleep and then just have doctors check all their holes right you've thought a lot about this i'm serious they get mad when i try to pitch them a new idea but welcome to the new age all right come on let's go radioactive oh look um yes yeah heavy is the head that where's the crown can you rate this tat wow that is a I mean, this is a... That man's seen a few things right there. Yeah, this is...

Once again, I mean, here's the problem with these tattoos is... I mean, that one's not even done, but like... Or maybe it is done. I guess I'm not sure. Like, the top there, it's not like that tattoo artist doesn't know what he's doing, but the artistic composition of it is so unbelievably ass that I have no way of giving it anything but a negative five quadrillion. score you know what i'm saying wow that's the first time we've gotten that score that's wild right

there okay uh our final tattoo luke is a video then we'll get your reaction and we don't have sound so you could just kill the video thank you thank you 2009 yeah i killed the joke about the sound and you put it in a mirror and it says poop yeah you really had to listen to it to be there but we'll keep going luke i hope that guy dies yeah our favorite recurring character is bad it's time for weird cake lady lu god damn you stop putting this bitch in here oh yeah why don't you just eat it like a like a like a like a homeless person at the greyhound yeah eat the plastic oh the bag is edible too luke right yeah you know what she's probably eating pure plastic yeah i bet you

are eating plastic you demon from another dimension oh why don't you eat some clothing yeah of course why would that be clothing why don't you just eat it yeah of course of course billy goat here Celine the Billy goat Yeah I bet she Celine could start In only fans and do like Remember the movie Major League When the owner

Every time they'd win They'd pull another piece Of the clothing off of the man Yeah yeah yeah Oh yeah I could do that Yeah she should do that I like how BC's thoughts were You know what she could do

With this cooking challenge Show her kitties I should manage her Luke All right Luke you go woke You go broke Cracker barrel learn that Here's what they were going to go for

With their new layers but as you can see that's heavily offensive Luke okay that is on American at best right okay that's that one caught me off guard that one is that's a good one that's a good that caught me on guard

Luke shout out to Arby's you know they got the meets this is normal this is normal this is normal and this is normal and we're not talking about roast beef sandwiches this is not normal look hey look obviously you know what she was talking about right yeah she was talking about those five dollar beef and cheddar yeah can we see the next

slide she was talking about them meat curtains look obviously right okay and i know what your next question is look i know what your next question is can we go to the meme here does do that doesn't match the carpet it's I mean to the extent we had any female viewers we no longer do oh wow shout out to that U.S. soccer goalie that's great stuff right there and finally Luke let's go off to the golf course

all right dude what the fuck dude don't do that don't fucking that's why I don't play golf man that's not my kind of game No, no, I'm not into that. That's touch butt in the park.

Come on, Luke, that's at least a B plus this week, all right? That's a B plus. That's a B plus. Yeah, you had a couple of good ones there. That was actually pretty good. Well done. Well done. I appreciate that.

Thank you very much. I'm so sorry about my internet, dude. I really apologize to the viewers. I apologize to you. I don't know what the fuck happened. Well, look, it was material. You know, content is king. So like you when you're in your 70s sitting in an outdoor public park,

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stuff right there it is uh long island look do you have a closing message for the people i'm doing a contender series watch long in about seven hours so join me for that it's actually probably the best contender series card of the year by the way week four so uh let's go looking they've been they've been doing a lot of uh swash matches have they not lately last week definitely was also there was a guy on the i called his last fight prior to the contender series during an alby out of killcliff um there is i will say this i don't think he's competing today but there was another guy whose fight i called at xfc who i absolutely think you should pay attention to i told you about em bc his name is chris alveed dude he looks to me it's very rare i watch someone on the regional scene and i'm like okay there's

something like you know he's tonight you're saying i don't think he's tonight but i think he's soon i think he's soon chris alvydres when you see him he is not to be missed i think there i think he could be something special we'll see all right check that out uh friday we'll be back 11 a m eastern time to get the weekend ready for all things ufc paris like us subscribe to us tell a friend about us and check out our extended YouTube channels. I've got an interview with Corey Anderson talking about his PFL title shot, his want for a Nemcoff trilogy and the fact that he ain't scarred to fight Francis and Ghanu, so take that haters.

He's still beast in 258. You know what I'm talking about? Not 24-7. No. Do you know I thought up until I interviewed him the other day that I thought he meant the beast in 258? Like, hey, that was my college dorm room number. No, but there was like an apostrophe on the end.

You know what I mean? Right. I realize that now. Yeah, yeah. I'm an, I'm an a hole. All right. Well, for Luke Thomas. You also didn't realize there was no Santa Claus until fifth fucking grade.

I have two people to blame for that and I will hold that grudge. Okay. I will. I will. Okay. They played me out. They made me look like a sucker. Luke.

Okay. All right. You know, damn. For Long Island, Luke and the great Luke Thomas. This is BC. Take care of yourself. we'll be back Friday and yeah that's all Zoe the cat you good you want to say hi to sit to go here Zoe the cat everybody yeah Zoe yeah she be first or second in the euthanasia long

okay this is it this is it the end of the show I'm done I am done all right this is this is an I heart podcast