MORNING KOMBAT WITH LUKE THOMAS AND BRIAN CAMPBELL - Pereira Gets Revenge w/ RD1 KO over Ankalaev | UFC 320 Undercard: Merab Bantamweight GOAT? + Jiri KO

Episode Date: October 6, 2025

Brian Campbell, Luke Thomas and the Morning Kombat crew are back in the studio and ready to discuss all the latest in the world of combat sports. Alex Pereira delivered violent revenge to Magomed Ankalaev in Round 1 in the main event at UFC 320. The fellas break down the fight and discuss what's next for Pereira, including a potential move up to heavyweight to challenge Jon Jones? Merab Dvalishvili extended his win streak to 14 as he continues to dominate the bantamweight division. Is he in the bantamweight GOAT conversation? Also, BC and LT go through the undercard, including Jiri Prochazka's insane rally to KO Khalil Rountree Jr. in Round 3. Happy MK Monday, Donks!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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No. No, God, your kids are too. You have boys and they're too old. But it's the biggest thing in the world right now, K-pop demon hunters? We're still stuck in Italian brain rot. I don't know what that is, but that's what's his face? The fat kid do that. Yeah, we're in the 6-7. mode right now. Yeah, no. Anyway, so I have to go as Gnu. You're talking about the Ristler? Yeah, Rizzler, yeah, the fact of him. Genu. I have to go as Gnue from K-pop. What are his superpowers?

He's a demon. He shits violently. And then he sings songs. All right. You're my soda pop. I have to do that bullshit. All right. Let's introduce you to the third member of our team live and direct from his own main card minute podcast. He's single now. He's single. He had a good run in that relationship, though. It's long out on Luke.

Taken, ladies. Sorry. I'm taking the under on that one lasting. You know what I'm saying? Wow, dude, you got to take the over. I mean, we're going on seven years here. Exactly. Wow, it might be time, seven years in. It might be time to forget that.

Seven years, no ring. Geez. Wow, it sounds like Charles Barkley's career, right? Wow, all right. This is awkward. Anyway, guys, Poetton. Hey, now back to talking about your dad's balls. How are you, Long Island, look?

You good here? I'm good. I had a good betting weekend, enjoyed the fights. What did you miss? I hit Poton Moneyline. Okay. I hit a parlay of Marab and the over one and a half in Yuri Khalil. Okay.

And then I lost on the first two fights. But I did good on the prelims, too. All right. But, yeah, there you go. Yeri gave us a moment. In fact, why not just skip ahead to that right now? Can we show you the footage of the O-Face that L.T. made during his live stream of Yerite Pro Hatska's comeback, K.O. Let's watch it now.

Oh! Slapped him! Slept him. Holy shit. Oh, yeah. What? What? He fucking, are you shitting me?

What? Wow. Are you shitting me? What a feel-good moment. I want to flail more, but I have so much shit on my desk now because my, I figured it out, though. It's not, okay, so I finally got into the bottom of this. It is not my computers. Oh, you're, you're.

It's the Verizon router. So I dumped Comcast, hoisted by my own Patard. Yes. And now Verizon is causing havoc on my life. So that's actually the issue. So I have to have a laptop and then different stuff for that to work with my other stuff on there. How close are you to like foil and bubble gum just McGiver level? I'm already there.

I'm already there. That was borderline Pauiway, like the emotion, the... That was fun. Great moment in MMA history, though. I got to tell you, he was not looking too great for him. No. Heading into the third. You know what?

That's not quite true. He was winning, I thought, the last minute of the second round. Wasn't beating him up, but I thought he was winning the last minute. And then the third round came. And he was like, well, we just, I just got a Homer Simpson this shit. That's what it is right there. That's what he did. Also, shout out to Jed Meshew for joining us on Friday for UFC 320 pregame preview.

It was a spirited episode, I would say. People seem to like it, right? Yeah. That was my read. He looks like a tiny man, though, when he's sitting there in this camera with that, you know, Dale Senior mustache going on. Right. Oh, why, yeah. That's our guy right there, Jeff Rowe, Meshew.

Thank you. very much. All right, any more of bullshit to talk about, or can we... Hey, how about Mark Sanchez? Dude, what a twist, what a wild turn of events that way. Was that not insane? I was like, oh, holy shit, he got stabbed up at Indianapolis. This is terrible. Yeah. And then all the accounts were like, you know, former Jets and other

Fox Sports commentators. King of the butt fumble. We're all like, you know, our prayers up for Mark Sanchez. And it's like, well, guys, he's been arrested at the hospital because he stabbed a DoorDash driver. No, it was a truck driver. His job is to pick up the excess grease at, like, restaurants and hotels. You know, like, when you cook and you got the excess grease, his job is to pick that up.

And the dispose of it, yeah. And he, Sanchez tried to get in his truck and tried to, like, accost him. And then he got shoved into a wall. The guy was 60-knit, so he stabbed him up. So he came out with a knife. Wow. Stab my bitch up. Damn.

But-down, but-a-da. I'm feeling very musical today. Yeah. Yeah. You got this Sanchez thing guy. You're really excited. This is great. Yeah.

All right. That's good stuff. Imagine throwing your life away like that? No, no. You think he'll lose his Fox gig? I just don't understand. I've been drunk as fuck so many times, and I've never done something like that. You're like, I've never stabbed another dude. It just hasn't got up with him. Well, I mean, I've stabbed him. They just died. I never got away with it. You know what I'm talking to you. Third world.

But I'm saying, like, how many times have you just been like, you know, insanely drunk and it never occurred to you to go fistfight a man who's collecting oil? I don't. Isn't it incredible when you're insanely drunk the falls you can take and get right back up from? I fell backwards over a railing and landed on my neck. neck on a staircase and got right up like nothing happened. Yeah, but then the next day you're like, hey, how come my leg has been amputated? I mean, I was sore, but I should never walk again after something like that. It's true. That's true. Jeez, okay, that's the power of canned logger.

Thank you very much. Hey, let's get into the show with topic Numero Uno. Hey, UFC 320 in Las Vegas was a banger. Let me tell you, from start to finish. But we are here to talk about this main event, a changing the guard for the second straight fight in the light heavyweight division as the UFC 320 main event brought the return of a healthy Alex Pereira, the return of Chama and a revenge, an 82nd first round, K.O. of Magamette Ancolaev to regain the championship, joining a select group of legends, by the way, who have won titles

in two divisions and also had separate reins in one of them right there. So at age 38, of course, Rumors of Poetan's demise proved greatly exaggerated as he bounced back here in the manner that M.K. Viewer, Tony Gutierrez, DM me and called very similar to Roy Jones Jr. in the rematch with Montel Griffin when he got him out of there angrily in one round. It had that same feel right there. This is Poetton improving to 10 and 2 in the UFC. He's beaten everybody he's fought. What did Saturday's victory do in your eyes to either improve or cement both his historic revolution? historical relevancy, but maybe even more important, that aura of not invincibility, but of this monster because he came out angry, he rushed across the cage and the opening bell. And in some weird way, it felt like all of MMA was chairing his resurgence back on top after one hiccup fight in which he clearly wasn't the full Poetan. Yeah, it felt like after Poetan lost to Uncle I of in their first fight, that MMA fans and the industry felt a little, I don't know, demoralized, something like that?

Like the biggest star's gone, he's not the same, he's washed, and now we have more boring, wrestling heavy champions. Or other people who are doing stuff, but people aren't, again, you can debate about who was the 2024 fight of the year, but people don't, are not as fond about Ilia as they are about Poetan. And so there was this massive like, yes, okay, this is great kind of feeling that seemed to be everywhere. But BC, that was one of the most impressive performances in UFC title fight history. And the reason why I say that is not just because of the fight himself.

First of all, he squashed him like a bug. I mean, he really just grabbed him by the air. You know, have you seen that thing, that meme, where the guy takes the kid's face and puts it on the record player and spins it around? It was kind of the equivalent of that. I mean, this was

an absolute mugging in every way. I mean, you felt like Poetan must have had some extra weapon that we didn't know about. by the way he's been taking dunks on ali for the tweets from ankelaio he's been going after him well i can understand the point too he's like one of you has to get in here and he's not the one tweeting this shit y'all are it's a problem but okay but getting back to the situation here's why it was so impressive to me on so many levels first of all he now becomes the oldest active champion on the ufcester as you indicated there are fighters who have won titles and two weight classes

including in multiple rains, Couture at heavyweight and obviously had the light heavyweight rate in between, but, you know, to pack it in so densely. Look at this graphic real quick. Can you show the graphic of the, there's now five,

two division UFC champions who have also had two reins in one of those divisions. Dude, this is like the all-timers. You have Amanda Nunes, the greatest female fighter, John Jones, the greatest male fighter, Randy Cooter, GSP,

and now Poetton, dude? That answers the question of what does this do historically? Like, you're asking, what's the historical relevance of this, he's been able to accomplish, at least on paper, similar kinds of achievements, but he did it much, much, much quicker.

I also want to point out something that I think gets lost a little bit. For those of us have been watching MMA for a very long time, for a guy with a kickboxing background to get in a guy's face who ostensibly has the wrestling and then bully him as a consequence is actually itself historically unusual. BBC, oldest active champion at age 38.

Obviously, he got almost a house, but he lost convincingly the first time around. So now you get the revenge aspect over it. How many UFC title fights ever look that short? You got John Jones against Gone. That was one, you know, Nate Quarry getting beaten by Rich Franklin. That was within one round. Was the Aldo rematch with Mendez?

Was that the first round, CAO? That was the first fight. The rematch was the one that was actually awesome. And I realized like, I know, Aldo and. And, you know, Connor was 13 seconds. But you can pick out examples, but these are historically quite rare. Even when one guy is better, or one lady is better than the other, it usually takes at least a little bit of time to get that going.

But in cases where it wasn't, for example, Nunes versus Rousey, yes, that was a drubbing, but Rousey was still coming off of the home loss. This was taking the belt from a champion. Dude, for a guy to have lost, be this old, his five years senior. to his opponent, and when you consider the depth of UFC title fight history, what you saw on Saturday is profoundly and historically unusual. That sums up Poetan. He is just unusual, BC, and you can cut that in so many different ways

and why he's unusual. But people have been saying, you know, what about how would you compare him to Izzy's career? And I know that might come up here a little bit later. And there are some ways in which, obviously, Poeton's career is much, much, better. In other ways, who was a better middleweight? The answer is, Izzy was a better middle weight. But the point I'm trying to make is he's redefining the ways in which we actually measure greatness for a kickboxer to speed run multiple title reigns this late against an opponent who just

beat him at age 38. Less than four years. Like that? Less than four years. Everything about it should not exist and yet he makes it possible. And he fights all the time, which can be a blessing or a curse when it caught up to him in March, and the first meeting were the wear and tear, because when he had three title defenses last year in 175 days, we find out after he had many things physically ill-wise holding him back. He got through those. He didn't get through in March, but look what happens when he's not flying around the globe. Look what happens when he's got spite and reason to get in there. Dude, he walked right across that cage at the opening start through the big two-punch combination, put Ankelyev on his heels. The whole point of that first fight

was Ankleyev was putting so much pressure on him. He didn't overdo it, but just enough where Pereira was on the back foot against the cage the whole time. He made sure that was not even a factor right here. And he's not fighting some like flash in the pan champion. He's fighting a guy who was himself top five pound for pound, 20 wins, one loss, one draw coming in, and just obliterated him like it didn't matter. So when I say, what does it mean historically, we saw that, but what does it mean to like

the aura, the baddest man on the planet type feel? I feel like all the air is back in the balloon after this. Well, to that end, I wrote this on Twitter on Sunday yesterday saying, you know, he has done this short notice bit and it was fun and cool for a while and it worked for a while, but you kind of saw what the limits of that were. And at age 38 and especially given what you saw here, I think if you want Poetan to be able to accomplish the best things that he can, not making, of course he elects to do it, but not having him out there so consistently. is, I think, important at this point. Save him for the big things because, B.C., fully prepared, healthy, against a guy with purpose, look what he can do.

He can do really impressive things. Is he the most well-rounded? He'll never be the most well-rounded. But this guy pulls rabbits out of hats. Well, you can't expose him for his vulnerabilities. The fact that he was what he says, the first fight against St. Galive in March, the worst version of himself yet in the UFC

because of the physical setbacks, he still stuffed all 12. The fact that you cannot take advantage of him in his vulnerable place is probably the secret to his success, right? And maybe that's a credit to Glover Tashara and Poetan for putting in the work. I mean, it's just insane. You would expect he would come over as a kickboxer and on the right matchups he could look spectacular, but inevitably someone's going to sub him out. Inevitably someone's going to lay on him for five rounds. That's not happening, dude.

Yeah. And that's remarkable. People treat kickboxers, you know, like, and you see them kickboxers in MMA, especially when this wrestling heavy era. They tend to have a very defensive of sensibility. Like, you know, look at someone like Wonderboy. Yes, of course, he's got some spectacular COs. But, you know, if someone wants to wrestle him, it's just this constant defensive situation.

Poetan took that fight by the fucking scruff of the neck and was like, we're just not going to do that today. This is not going to happen. I'm going to tell you exactly what terms we're going to fight under. And he forced that guy into multiple mistakes. And then, dude, his power, even if it's not one punch, which it can be, at a bare minimum. it is fight altering.

There is one way you're fighting, then he lands something, and now you have to fight a different way. He changes the way that his opponents compete, and it's just the downstream effect of it is very, very difficult for them to collect. Let's enter a piece of evidence into the all-time great photos.

Look at this iconic celebration over a falling Ankelyev doing the whole Shama. Look at this bit. Look at his eye contact, too. He's looking right at him, too. And eventually, as we saw a lot of people were putting the memes, you know, Anklyev would sit up and look at it.

at him and then Poeton put out a meme of attire around it. He's grabbing a tire, yeah, yeah, back to the tire shop. To close the point on the 40% the first fight, and look, this is what you get if you can keep Poetan with a full camp. And they did say on the broadcast, I don't know if you agree with this. D.C. was saying Poetan's history is a kickboxer, being in tournaments and stuff. He's just used to quick turnarounds fighting her. It's not a problem for him.

Yes. I think it's also. Also kickboxing is a rematch sport too, yeah. And it's also part of his understanding that he came to the UFC at 34. or he had a short-ish window to make big success. So I'm not against what he did last year, which is he believed himself. He went in there, scored big wins,

became a star. But maybe we should have saw it coming of what happens if you take this guy off the road from showing up, flying around the world and being an ambassador. This is Poetan and a podcast that was recorded during Fight Week that I didn't see this till after the fight. Check out his response to this question. LX at 40% was a scary prospect.

What does Alex at 100% look like? 100% I think I'm gutative If I'm doing 100% I'm not a 100% I don't think I've ever been at 100% I think if I was at 100% In fighting I'd probably kill someone

Okay Like do you have an argument against that That sounds about right That sounds about right Lord Let me ask you this If Poetan was In some ways the face of the UFC

After last year Saving them on multiple cards Hold on I don't know if he's the face of the UFC but I can tell you what he is he's the party he's the life of the fucking party for a guy that doesn't speak English

now Anderson Silva eventually got there where he became so viral that people loved him before he developed English it's rare what Poetan's doing to not speak English really at all

and be able to become this beloved but when you look at what look there's a I'm not I know Poetan represents Brazil he happens to live in the US but we know in the totality of US there's these narratives that maybe the stars aren't there

of where they once were maybe there's not enough of faces and names of what they once were. But for Poetan to be as established as he was, then lose as humbly as he did to Ankleyev, but now to get it back, when you look at the next year for the UFC, they're kicking off the Paramount deal in January.

They've got to make a White House card in June that Dana White has said multiple times, including at the post-fight presser, that it's going to be the biggest card in company history. How important do you believe it is for the company that Poetan not only came back, rejuvenated his brand, but did it in one of the most historic,

in violent ways possible. They had to be toasting champagne flutes backstage after this. I mean, how much better for, I mean, again, as a promoter, you have a couple of jobs, right? You've got to put on the fights that people want to pay money to see. You have to find and recruit talent. You have to, in certain cases, develop talent. You have to develop contenders. You have to keep divisions moving.

But you know what you also have to do, BC? You got to get a little lucky. Yeah. You have to have a couple of guys who break out in ways where when they sign Poetton, I'm sure in their mind, they're like, okay, here are some good or you. even best case scenarios of how this could go. But they think that for probably all the people that they signed. They probably thought that for patchy mix, too.

And that has not gone even close to what they thought. This guy has delivered, again, he had a loss against Ankaliev. He got viciously caoed against Izzy. So has it been like the very ultimate, oh my God, best case? No, but it's been pretty goddamn close to best case scenario. And to have mulk, this is what it really means to be lucky as a promoter. to have multiple acts in each fighter's career. Well, they'll have a surge,

and there might be a decline, but then another surge. You get a secondary, that was the problem with McGregor's career. He had one surge, and then it just kind of petered out slowly after that. He's a new surge that comes in white powder. Yeah, but you know what I'm saying?

Look at the other people your point to do. Do you have that graphic with the multiple champions there? Can you put it up on the screen for a second? So look in the case of John Jones. There was a big break, and, you know, you can, I don't think much of his heavyweight campaign. Nevertheless, it was a second chapter after a long break. And him regaining his light heavyweight title was only because he got stripped three times for disciplinary reasons. Couture, multiple, multiple stages of his career where it was up, down, up, down.

St. Pierre, obviously had a little bit of a down, mostly up, but then a break, and then had another one. And then Amanda Nunes had a slow start and then kind of a big push. But the point I'm trying to make is, in general, what Poetan has fulfilled are these, multiple stages of rejuvenation of greatness of grandeur of spectacle of joy and dude the fact that he did it kind of angrily and he was fucking mean on saturday i don't know it felt like it broke a spell that was maybe hanging over the product a little bit let's be honest i don't try to think in these terms a ton i understand there's a problem of american fighters and potan's not even technically american i'm not trying to connect those two but i'm saying there's this narrative that

all the champions now are from Dagestan and they don't speak English and they have boring personalities and they have an even more boring fighting style. In reality, I don't think that of Ancalaev. I think he's well-rounded and there's a lot to like in his game. But do you think the fact that we took the belt off of a

quote-unquote boring guy to the masses and put it back on arguably the most exciting guy? Like, that doesn't hurt. That's a huge part of this. You know, like that has to be said out loud. Poetan became a star almost by killing off other people's star rise. In fact, we have a graphic that from Twitter that illustrates this.

These are the win streaks that he snapped. Sean Strickland had an 18-fight win-streek until Poetan knocked him out. Adasania was riding a 23-fight win streak. That's insane. 13 for Prohatska, only four there for Hill, five for Roundtree, 14-fight unbeaten streak there for Anka-Live. That's kind of how he did it, right? We thought it was Adesania's story, as Chuck Minnandhall famously said here.

In this show, it was really Poetton's story, and Poeton's story will continue. I got a dead wrong this graphic in real time. Sean Strickland was on like a six-fight win streak before Poetan. He lost to EZDS before that. Was it was one of them in a different weight class? He lost to Camaro Oussma. Maybe those were at 70 and then he moved up to 85. I didn't, you know, it's not like I researched that tweet at all, but like,

15 sounded way too long. I'm like, never the less, nevertheless, you know, he's not beating guys who are like, he's coming off of two stoppage losses in a row, you know. He's fighting really good fighters who are on, you know, good parts of their campaigns. All right, let's talk about the loss quickly for Ankleyev. We've given him first team all dunk status before. We've called him Donk Goliath, whether he deserves that or not. Did any of that play into his 80 second, 80 second dismantling hair?

Or was it just simply, Poetown was going to walk through whoever was across from him? Yeah, I got to say, I mean, I would love to, I would love to dunk on Donkolive. But I don't, I don't know if that is really appropriate in this case. so a couple things happen right let's talk about it in the first fight you got those it was open stance so it's like this right rather than being like this it's like this and so he would use the lead leg to the lead leg of the outside for leg kicks and those can be damaging certainly but on balance it's the ones from the back leg whipping all the way around just naturally what's going to be stronger your power hand or your jab there can be differences sometimes but typically it's going to be the backhand

so it's kind of like that in this fight which you'll notice is he whips three of those into uncle live and then he switches stance well when you switch stance he can switch stance It's not like Uncle Ive hasn't done that before, but he does that BC when he is pressuring through transition to get you to back up or when he's setting up a takedown on the defensive side, and I mean like right up against the goddamn fence,

that's not something he's used to. I don't know if you notice this. I did a breakdown. I put it up on YouTube yesterday. He's under such pressure from Poetan that he's trying to get away laterally and he crosses his feet. And when he has to take a second

to uncross them to throw, but at that point again if your feet are crossed you have to uncross them before you can get back to your balanced stance and by the time he does that that's did you notice that the punch that poiton lands is like way ahead of that hook that he was trying to throw sure it's because he couldn't get his feet set in time and poiton did poet on time did poet on time did perfectly on that so he just forced that guy into like did did uncle i have make some bad mistakes yes but under the kind of insane pressure that i don't think he was i I don't think he ever expected Poetan. Dude, you know what? Fabrice Verdum used to start fights running across the octagon and then just, you know, jump inside. Yeah. Like he did it to Travis Brown and some other guys.

This was like that energy, but channeled into a focused demolition. He also threw a boomerang once at Colby Covington. So shout out to Vi Cavalho. By Caval. Yeah, I think so. It's, yeah, Portuguese is a foreign language. Our second topic is going to be Pereira's tease

of a possible move to heavyweight. But we don't know if that's 100%. So if I can ask you if we're operating under a temporary, let's say he stays at 170 or 205, excuse me. What does this mean for both Carlos Olberg riding a nine-fight win street coming off the stoppage of Dominic Reyes? He was caged side on Saturday and Yuri Prohatska, who will get into his incredible third round rally against Cleo Rochie, but that was a top five matchup. Which one would deserve it more in your eyes if Poetan either was told to or chose to make one more defense at light, have you? It's Oldberg. at Solberg. I mean, the reality is this. That was an incredible, as you saw, my reaction,

that was an incredible comeback by year. I don't think anyone would say anything even remotely approaching the opposite. But the reality is, while that's two wins in a row, that's not the nine wins in a row that Ulberg has. And more to the point, B.C., the problem that we really have is that, for example, we'll talk about this later, would I be interested in a third fight between Usman Numergermadev and Paul Hughes? Yes. Because the first two were very, very close and the scoring is very controversial. Same thing for Vulcan Holloway in a sense. Same. Well

why you mean why you got a third one of US 276? Yeah. But in this particular case he got stopped in the first one and then he got stopped even easier in the second one and let's be real while that win by year he was real nice I didn't exactly

see some of the skill development things I'd want to do some of that actually was a little bit of it but you get my point like what did you see that makes you think it's going to go different than the second one, especially given the way that Poetton looked like fucking robocop chasing down, you know, bandits in the city of Detroit. I mean, it could be all action fun, but we've seen it twice, although Dana didn't shoot down the idea of that for the White House.

We'll get more into that for Pereira's future. I agree with you. I mean, did you see when Yeri, when Uncle I was in the prep point before the main event, and Yeri was in the front row and he sort of stood up and was just glaring at him, it had to hurt Yer to some degree that even though we saw the meme. of him literally crying in support of Poetan for being able to come back and win the title in an emotional manner that was almost akin to

Adasanya doing it to Poetan a couple years earlier at Middleweight, but you have to almost feel for Yeri because ifankalaya had won that, then suddenly you're like, I could even see him cutting the line ahead of Carlos Oldberg. By the way, just real quickly, Long Island Luke, what do you think of this comparison? I don't know if this is too of an old man reference,

but in the first fight between Shogun and Machita, very controversial, it was a leg kicking, And they didn't count it. Then they have a rematch and he fucking squashes Bichita like a bug. Very good comparison. Does it seem like it's a little bit of that happening here? It's pretty spot on. All right. You got the stamp of

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That's the last week of, or the last Saturday. So October 25th, I believe, is the fact. So that week, who's going to be in this chair? That's the question. Who's going to be sampling? My hope is Angela White, but the North Korean sensors keep shooting that down. Okay, then. All right, great.

The MK has, of course, brought to you by Cuervo. Now is a good time to enjoy the tequila that invention. to tequila. I interviewed Mia Khalifa on my radio show one time because she's from D.C. And it was like a, there was like a big sports weekend. I forget exactly what it was happening. And her people were adamant, adamant. They're like under no circumstance. Are you allowed to ask about, you know, adult material? I'm, I'm sure Cuervo had that same reaction to you, bring it up just now too, but that's fine. All right. We'll keep it going. We do love Cuervo. Yeah, absolutely. Let's go to topic number two. And that is, by the way, good job on the crickets. I

like that that's nice well nice nice introduction on there uh topic number two what's next for alex perrera he did seem to tease a big time move to heavyweight we don't know if it'll be temporary one time or full time of course in the post fight interview with joe rogan after defeating maga met ankylaev uh you did see poitans say i had a prepared statement and instead of reading it he chose instead to do a moment of silence for the death of john jones's brother and a former NFL player arthur jones which was a classy move right there but we would see him go on to talk about hopes of not only moving up to heavyweight but potentially fighting john jones at the white house in june so luke given his age of 38 given everything he's

accomplished in just four years as a ufc fighter and the reputation that he's built within the company which matters because he's doing what dana loves a guy that will turn around on short notice will fight anybody at any time few would argue perera deserves the opportunity to be the first to move up to heavyweight and maybe become the first three division champion in u. UFC history, but from a promotional standpoint, provided Pereira's injured foot, which we'll get into a second, doesn't keep him out, what do you think would be the best way to accommodate Pereira's heavyweight hopes in 2026? Is it a one-off against a contender or Derek Lewis, someone like that? Is it John Jones in a superfight? Is it lining him up to face Tom Aspernel

or the winner of the Cyril Gahn matchup? How would you, if you were the UFC, given that he's healthy, address his wishes? Because few have more leverage and money in the bank, the company than Poetton right now? Well, I think that the prevailing view that I see online, it's not my view, but I definitely recognize that it's there, is that people want Poetan to fight John Jones now on this White House card, and I think for a couple of reasons. One, again, Poetan just wasn't there, and it wasn't like he had, I guess he defended one takedown, that half-ass takedown after Uncle Iv got rocked.

It's not really a great examination of how he would do it with the wrestling, but the point is, is that, you know, Poetan would argue, I don't need to worry about that because look what I did. I beat him with these other things. Um, there's a lot of star power there between Poetan and John Jones. There is obviously, um, well, you even heard Poetan say he was going to call him out and then didn't want to, obviously, because there was this tragic and sudden passing of his brother. So there was this moment of silence there, which I thought was, by the way, a very classy gesture on the part of Poetan. But I'm just sort of pointing out, you need an American on that White House car.

John has been angling for it. You know, it's not my personal preference for what I would see. I'm going to answer it just based on what I want to see. You know, understanding that I think that the majority of fans probably want to see those two together on that card. I want to see Poetan get the winner of the next pay-per-view. Thus Aspinall v. Cyril Gun. Either way, either way, you're going to get something worthwhile there.

Now, to that point, in either case, that's probably. probably not a fight that is as well suited for that White House card as the John Jones factor because of who John is. He's an American. I'll see the most decorated champs in UFC history, blah, blah, blah, blah. You get the point there. But for me, if gone wins, which I don't think he will, but, you know, a striking contest between those two would be very fun. Or in the case of Aspinall, I don't know. I don't know exactly what Aspinall's got to offer. I would favor Aspinall to win. Sure. But Aspinol needs a boost.

Yep. He needs somebody to help raise his profile. A boost Mega medal? He needs, he doesn't get it. My man's got one round and then it's the show's over. You know what I'm saying? He's good for a round. He's great for a round.

He's fucking awesome for a round. So for me, the answer is the winner of UFC 321's main event. But I recognize that Long Island Luke, I'm guessing you probably prefer the Jones factor of the White House, yeah? No, I'm actually with you. Oh, okay. But I'll actually say with this caveat. If Aspinall wins, I want to see Pereira Aspinall.

If Don wins, then I would go John Jones Pereira. Oh, really? Yeah, just because that's the bigger, like, star value. That's true. Can we have it all and have Jones Aspinall and then Pereira also on the card or on a different card making his heavyweight debut? Or do you want... Okay, who would it be?

I don't know. I mean, I guess it's what you... It depends on Pereira's injury. It depends on a few things. Because if he's, if he can come back pretty soon, it's like, do you put him in a main event and you want to your early paramount number paper viewer, PLEs, whatever you want to call it? He may have broken his foot. Yeah, well, let's get right to that.

Can you just do the foot video first? I know you have a boot on your foot here. When you think about the timeline of getting back in there? You've always been very active throughout your UFC career. When do you want to get back in there? Yeah, we have to see how this heals up. I'm pretty sure it's broken. You know, I was kicking his legs.

And when he switched stances, as soon as I kick his leg leg, you know, I felt my foot. So we'll have to see. All right. Did that tell you that the White House return in June, which is now being targeted for Sunday, June 14th, which is the president's birthday. Yes, very American history focused. I can see that.

I can't wait to see you holding up a $1 coin with that man's face on it. Get more on the LGBTQ spin-off political challenge. Luke, if, okay, I'm not a doctor here. If he has a broken foot, then June probably would be a more realistic. Yeah, my understanding is my understanding, which, of course, is quite limited, probably makes January... aggressive as a timeline.

Sure. And you are hearing Elia Gaichi as a rumor of that could be the first Paramount card. Which is something of a swash match, but fine, it would serve. You never know. I mean, I agree with you, but you do never know. Fair enough. Fair enough. But, okay. But it makes the June timeline for Poetan

certainly doable. Sure. So I think... Okay, so if you're doing the June thing... Just to add the other piece here, if you're going to do, whatever you do, whether it's Aspinall, Gone, Jones, whoever, give me Yeri and Carlos Alberg interim title. Interim title. So interim title just in case he stays at heavyweight.

Meaning just in case Pereira moves up and he goes up there and even if it's fluky, right? Even if he like, dude, what is, who am I, who am my, what impression is this? Tom Aspinall. Yeah, yeah. What if he gets just, you can even say, what if he just gets lucky and he just fucking chins him one time? They're going to run it back. They're going to run it back. But then again, if you can get Poetan John,

at any point do you just cash it and do it? There's a lot of questions here. He chins aspirin all. Again, I don't think this is the likeliest outcome. But then to your point, you do that and then you're going to set up the John thing. Like, if he goes up to heavyweight and has any measure of success, I'm not saying he never goes back to 205, but it seems a lot less likely. Well, he talked to this past fight week about the

how tough it is now to make 205. So I think that has to be part of the decision. 38. Let's first hear from Dana White, who wasn't like all in on the idea of Pereira at Heavyweight, which was interesting. but he also talked about the joy of promoting someone like Poitome. So today I was at work and had a bunch of meetings over there this afternoon, and I went over to the PI, and he was over on the PI. And I'm like, well, you're the last guy I expected to see here today. What are you doing here?

And they're telling me we want to fight a heavyweight. I said, how about we win tonight and focus on tonight? And then we could talk about heavyweight. And I don't know. I don't know. You know, there's still fights here in this division. vision, but we'll see. I mean, this guy has been

an absolute stud for us. He's on vacation in Australia, flies over and fights because, you know, somebody fell out. He fights when he's hurt. He doesn't care. He wants to fight everybody. He wants to move up to heavyweight. You know, he's a, he's a, he's a dream to have in this organization.

And now we have Alex Pereira after the fight doing that new sort of UFC post-paper-view press or podcast thing that they do. Here's Chris Wyden talking to Poetan about his dream super fight that he wants. So there's a lot of options now for his next fight. You got Carlos Oldberg, you got Yuri Brehashka. They both really want the shot.

You also have heavyweight. He's talked about going up to heavyweight. I know he doesn't make the fights. You know, it's what the UFC wants to do. But if it was up to him, what does he think is the most exciting and most probable matchup next? There's a lot option,

now. The Uber, the Prohashka, not you who decides, not you who casas the lutas, but what I'd be able to Derek. Pizzo. HeavyWay. Not even a moment's hesitation.

Wow. Well, we got Aspinol and Cyril Ghan booked already. I think in the next month. Oh, this month, yeah. So I guess I'll be the winner of that. That would be the best best form. There's an Aspinon, Cirulgan, this month.

This is a better a post. No, I want a superlut. No, I want a super fight. Oh, Superfight at heavyweight. I can think of one. Wow. I would do it for us. Who else is there?

It's Aspinol, man. I don't see if Casa Branca, John Jones. John Jones. At the White House, John Jones. That's a super fight. All right, so he's... Interesting.

What's kind of funny before is, you know, two things. I've said it before. What makes Poetan special, B.C., he's a big game hunter. He's only out for the big game on the safari. That's the first thing I'd say.

That's part of his deal. DNA. What's interesting about the Jones thing is before it was Jones kind of angling for it when he had the belt and which caused all the friction. It's like, you know, you got to fight the guy who's been waiting on it, which there's an interim champ at that time. A, that's now gone. B, now you've got Poetan lobbying for it. And who has more money in the bank to go back to that point? You heard Dana say it's like he's built up some capital. And now he wants to spend And now there obviously is a big question here about where this all leaves Jones. And again, I don't, obviously, his family has experienced a profound tragedy.

So I don't even, I don't even know what to say about that, especially at the present circumstances. I suppose we'll hear from him in time when he feels ready. But to me, it's not the fight that I particularly want to see. However, what I recognize is different now is that the belt thing is gone. It's irrelevant. and Poetton wants it after an historically unusual performance that changes the stakes of it

probably by a significant amount. All right, whether he's fight, or actually let's keep it in this Jones-Asperol matchup. In theory here, if Saturday's version of Poetan at full strength, full camp, or close enough to 100% full strength, is what he still has.

Let's imagine him now with a little more weight on the frame. Let's also remind ourselves that he stuffed all 12. takedowns from Anka-Live. Whenever we originally talked about the idea of the Poetan Jones superfight when John was really pushing for it so that he didn't have to fight, Aspinall, the first thing we said, well, yeah, John's just going to take him down

like he did serial gain and just sit on him. Do you feel like that would be a major factor in that fight? Like, what does full-strength 38-year-old Poetan moving up with that speed, with that power? What would that look like against John in your eyes? Does he still end up on the bottom? I would imagine that he would I mean if you're John Jones

Are you trying to strike with that fucking No But that fucking guy for any of these guys Probably can kick him in the kneecap right away What did Tom Aspinall say If you had to fight him He would rugby tackle him After running across the octagon

Like dude stand Look at Onkaliev Onkaliev is a talented Well-rounded fighter Is he the best striker at 2 o5 or the division? No But he's very competent And very good

And he couldn't last 80 seconds Under duress I mean, just consider that. Do you think John Jones would last any longer under duress? No, no, absolutely. Or Aspinall or gone or any of these guys. They would have to change up the equation. So to me, that's why this win is so great.

But at the same time, it does leave some questions because it's like, right, well, now that the cat's out of the bag that you might just come out of their like evil-canevil shot out of a goddamn cannon, they're going to be ready for this. And at a bare minimum, they're going to want to turn the tide on him. What does that do? We'll have to see. Wow. Good stuff right there.

Listen to the conversations that we're having, right? Listen to how fun these possibilities sound like. Poetan just brings joy. He does he not? He does. He just brings joy. I used to say that about the fighting nerds when they used to win. They just bring fun joy, but Poetan does.

So to remind you, Poetan 10 and 2 in UFC in less than four years, two division championships, now on his second reign at light heavyweight. He has beaten everyone he has stepped foot into the octagon with. he has 12 fights eight of them have been title fights the stats go on and on so Luke Thomas this is probably the most important question of what could happen by him

moving up to heavyweight in my mind John Jones two division champion the recognized goat could you make an argument for GSP you know even someone like Habib or Silva I mean you could but I've never been in the time where it's felt more universal that John Jones is the goat

if Alex Pereira were to defeat John Jones in a super fight or defeat the winner of Aspinall gone to become the first three division champion in UFC history, would you feel comfortable saying he could exit those fights as the goat in the history of the sport? Or is it too special and unique his run to compare it to others? Because if you had to say at 38, what's left for him? What else could he do?

We're talking about, you know, Jones Superfight win or that third division title. But with that, is that enough for him to not only enter that conversation, but to potentially exit the cage with that. mythical title with people saying, yep, he's probably the best we've ever seen. I'm not sure how to answer that question, because do I consider him the most objectively talented fighter that has ever entered the Octagon? I don't think I can say that. Not in a pound for pound level, no.

However, if you have a double champ record in the highest level of professional kickboxing, for heavy weights anyway, or big guys, and then you have, the most unique run and achieve a feat of excellence before any other fighter could do it, to your point, becoming a triple champ, what are you supposed to call that guy? Or if you take on the reigning goat, although, you know, he's older,

but if he signs up for the fight, you take him on and let's say you beat him? Yeah. Isn't that, like, the easiest path to try to get there? I'm not saying even a win over an old... Well, beating the champion. Even a win over an old Jones. I'm not seeing that automatically catapults him,

but if you did get that, If you became the first three division champion, I mean, that's hard. That's like, I don't even know. I don't know. It's so mental. It's actually quite, I've said this, again, I said it on the show. I said it on Saturday net. Like, the guy achieves in ways that are so unusual by conventional standards that like

when you're trying to compare him to other people, it's like, okay, well, there's pieces that fit, but he's his own unique standard. It's the Poetan standard. And it's just in real time, hard to grasp, but a fun, but a fun thing to witness. It's crazy. I mean, I always say that about Lennox Lewis's heavyweight boxing reputation. He's the top five heavyweight of all time. One of the biggest things is he had two losses, both of which he avenged by knockout and title rematches.

So he beat everybody he fought. What if Pereira runs that table and has that same part to his legacy? That's pretty damn awesome. I know Habib beat everybody fought. Did GSP ultimately beat everybody? Yes, he did. He lost him at Hughes. He beat him.

He lost him at Sarah. Okay. So he's got that going for him too. That is, to me, that's an incredible stat. When you can do that, you're doing, I mean, yeah, are you going to win every time? No. but you were the better guy every time, right? I know Pereira, or I know Pereira lost to

out of signing the rematch, but he also got him. In the first place, yeah. And then in the first one, yeah. All right, let's go to topic number three. We go to that co-main event there at UFC 320 in Las Vegas. Marab DeValishvili extends that win streak to 14. And Bannamweight goat talks are now swirling following his victory over Corey Sanhagen.

And I know what you're going to say. No one can score a big win in MMA these days without a podcast showing up and doing the whole goat thing. But as we try to figure out that, the machine has won 14 consecutive fights. He's two shy of Anderson Silva's record, one shy of Islam Mahjave in Kamar Uspan. He's moved into a first place tie for most title defenses in Bannon Wade history. And he seemingly cleaned out his own era in this division short of fighting teammate Algeman Sterling, who's no longer in this division.

And when you consider the eight-fight win streak that got him to this point, where wins over, Marlon Marais, Josie Aldo, Peoria, Jan, Henry Sehudo, Sean O'Malley twice, Umar Gnaragamette Mettoff, and now Corey Sanhagan, has Marab done enough to supplant names like Dominic Cruz and T.J. Dillishaw in this conversation for Bannam Wake Gota, or are we just filling time here with another segment?

No, I think he has. Or in a bare minimum, I don't think the argument is that hard to make. I think I was looking at some of their streaks, and there's a wind streak there's a wind streak there that Dominic Cruz has up until the Garbrandt fight, even with all the injury, that is still very, very good. Two wins over Uriah, went over Muzugaki, went over T.J.

Demetrius Johnson. Demetrius Johnson. And I was there for that fight, and he housed him. And everyone would be like, well, he was flyweight, Drew. But DJ went up to 35 at one, and, you know, he was great there. So, like, I get the point. That was a different kind of DJ. But nevertheless, it was a different kind of Dom Cruz.

I don't think that the argument is so overpowering BC that if you believe that the answer is Cruz, that you have no place to go to. What I am going to say, though, is now it's becoming not quite undeniable, but pretty close that Marab is the guy. Certainly across eras, I would pick Marab to beat any of them. I don't think that part is really in any way in question for me. What he's done is remarkable. The thing that really stands out to me, B.C. is, you know, it's kind of funny, right? Cruz lost early to Faber when he was barely recognizable in WEC, and then eventually they fought two more times, and he won both of those.

But when you look at the age in which he fought him, I think even the third fight, Cruz was close to like 31 years of age. Marab is, he'll be 35 in January. When Cruz was 35, he was fighting Henry Suhudo. Right. And what I mean by that is Marab is able to do things obviously later in his athletic career. That's part of it. But the other part is, dude, he's a little bit of an accidental champion.

You know, a lot of times, like, dude, I remember when I saw St. Pierre's UFC, I mean, his first fight with Hughes, which he lost. But you could just tell early. like this guy was different. The same when I saw I was like, same thing with John Jones early. Same thing with John Jones. You can just tell something.

Habib too, you're like, they're doing something different. Rob wasn't necessarily that guy. And I think that's why a lot of us, me included, were a little slow to come around on him. And now he's adding those skills every single fire.

It's like the thing that he was doing when he was fighting lesser competition, now he's doing when he's fighting the non-lesser competition. And that to me is just so unusual, so remarkable, so special. and to your point, the accumulative weight of what he has achieved?

Those names that I mentioned is everyone who was in power in this division unless, like, you know, we're at the point now where we're like, who could even give him a threat? Maybe Song Yadong, not really. Maybe Yon in a rematch, but he already beat it. You get 50 attempted takedowns against him. Umar and a rematch is the fight. So Umar's the guy, but he already fucking beat him. He's got to defeat Mario Bartista.

And I think if Umar ratchets up that, that stamina, even more, we're going to have a fight. But whatever, we thought that a few times. times on this journey. I thought Sohudo was going to beat him. I thought a few different people were going to beat him. He just keeps getting better, but he's also this undeniable alien who has an absurd chin, the best cardio we've ever seen. I mean, let's talk about it. Omar won the first two rounds, I thought, against Marab, until Marab turned into the machine there. And once he gets you even fatigued for a second, he's just going to be all over you. Sanhagen looked fantastic in this first round where you're like, maybe we misread this. Maybe BC was right. This style is

going to be tough for him. Marab almost knocked him. out in round two. He came really damn close and on my scorecard just cruise the rest of the way. What changed? What changed for Corey who had a great game plan was completely well prepared and probably would have been a champion one time in any other era. Instead he's now got bridesmaid sort of thing wrapped around him. But that fight was his until it wasn't and it never was again. I mean, two things. One, Marab doesn't have to be judicious about his offense. He does in the sense that he doesn't want to be so open that he's getting countered all the time. But he doesn't have to pick and choose. about like other people do

to think about what am I going to do in round five he can just flow and I think that opens him up to like he's throwing punches when Corey's up against the fence or he's going for takedowns or transitioning or whatever he can just do whatever he wants because there's no consideration more to that point BC striking is

underrated yeah he's got that lead left hook that he constantly it's not going to knock you out but will it interrupt or rhythm or disrupt your base or limit the impact of what you can throw it's got a little tricks like that. He doesn't slow down. So once you slow down, he becomes so much more effective. But the other part, too, is I think he hurt Corey, as you indicated, in that second

round. Corey had a better third round than a second round, but clearly lost that one. To me, you could have given round four to Corey. There's an argument. There's an argument for it, but it didn't happen, but you could. He had a decent round. But the point I'm trying to make is, after the second round, he was still digging himself out of a hole in the third round. And this was the other part. Like, what was the, what was the, what was the, to your point, by the way, San Hagen did not fight poorly. He thought he was prepared, he was in shape,

he had an idea about what he wanted to do. He was game, he came back from getting his ass kicked around to him. He gave a shot, he gave himself a shot to win against maybe the best guy to ever do it. No shame. He didn't fuck around and like shit the bed or what was up with that game plan. Nah, he gave it a shot.

It's just, you know, it's like it's the Gordian knot, like how are you going to get around this? The point I'm trying to make is his theory, BC, was if we get locked hands with Marab and he's behind you, their plan was to wrestle up, break the hands, and then turn. And then Marab just found a way to reset that so many times. Corey couldn't get any offense going. It's interesting.

Maraub will go offense, offense, offense, offense, hold. Offense, offense, offense, hold. And it just, and oh, you want to get going? Pick up, Matt return. Pick up, Matt return. He never lets you settle into any kind of offensive rhythm. and to your point, because he just has a gas tank like we've never seen, it's just gas, no break.

It seems like you can only hurt him in like the final minute and a half of round five. That's the only time he allows you to like, you know, outside of the Maresh fight where he allows you a moment. While this night seemed to be all about Poetan and boy, did we give him his flowers, I welcome the goat talk about Marab.

Not only because he's earned it, but because he's so damn unique, weird and lovable, like Yeri, like Pereira, but in his own way. Throw to this video here. Here's Marab at 6 a.m. on Sunday morning at a club, on stage, celebrating his win. He would end up shirtless. I mean, how do you not love this guy?

I like how he's not dancing and he's just shadow boxing. I mean, this is awesome. I don't even think he drinks, does he? I think he just aggressively gets after life. I wish I felt this happy ever. This is so awesome. I mean, Long Island, Luke, you love Long Island. And this guy, to you is probably an adopted Long Islander.

Would you have sex with Mara? Yeah, that's what I wanted to ask. No, I can honestly say I wouldn't. But there's an epic video. of Marab from like 10 years ago at Frivola's house party like climbing a tent in his backyard doing basically this exact thing

and it's epic he seems like a great time let's hear Dana White settle the goat talk here about Marab I found Maraub on looking for a fight and literally Matt Serra told me that night this guy's going to be one of your greatest champions ever it took me a while to see it

and a lot of other people I think you know everybody always doubts him Corey is a very very fucking tough guy and you know wasn't the most exciting fight of the night but Marab dominated he seems to he seems to want to fight in December

to the surprise of no one is that something I guess you'd entertain another short notice fight for Marab what did he say he wants to fight in December pay-per-view December there's another Tuesday conversation like Marab doing what he's doing is it easy to say that he might be the best Bannamweight champion

the UFC's ever had no question absolutely he just said I like that he said that. And I think they should give him that chance to come back in December against Piotr, Yon. That would be a great rematch. Yon's earned it. He deserves this.

And then we set up if, if Umar gets past Mario Batista, I think that's the last remaining, like, I've got to see that one more time. That's my opinion. And Mara, clearly won their first fight. I just feel like that is the only guy, Umar. I mean, Jan could do it, but really the Umar is the only guy that I believe maybe could do it. But here's the deal. Rob is not thinking about one.

45. We have some sound on that. Can you throw to that? No featherweight here from Rob. Everybody's beautiful. Like even GSP said, like we all lose in the gym, like some training partners. I said, I'm going to tell you guys, like, so we saw Pachimix just lost fight, but this guy many times submit me in a gym, you know? It's good, but sometimes fight doesn't go, go your way, you know? I saw him. like I think yesterday

Apache Mix and he got chills and he told me he was training through like during the like he has an impaction you know I think stop impacting and stuff so it's it's it's fight business and we saw like first fight

Anka Laev versus Pereira different result this time different result next maybe third time it's a fight and everybody's beautiful good luck to fight with me but of course everybody has now he is right that was the wrong clip that I like that he said that

I think he's trying to say that in defense of like even Rogan was like there's nobody left for you to fight you know what I mean and I don't think as we're about to hear that he wants to move up and do a future you know super fight with Volcanowski he wants to stay in his division Bernard Hopkins style he's got three title defenses that's tied for the record he says he wants to fight till he's 50 maybe he can consecutive

Cruz has five Okay, five in total, are we count in WEC there? Yes, that would be fair in my judgment. Okay, interesting. Let's hear Maraub talk about that specifically. This is my division and I'm comfortable here. I don't want to like try go up and make a mess and, you know, because I don't want to be like, you know, without in white, you know,

saying like it's like you have a, if somebody show up, I'll just wait in tomorrow, I will look at his face. We'll be mad at least, you know? So it's like the guys earned them, like, weight, I mean, whatever. And also, I'm comfortable here. Like, you know, I want to be my division champion. And then there is, like, I mean, I have respect for all these guys, especially like my brother, Aljama and Stanley Wokanoski.

And I don't want to fight these guys, you know. I'm good here. No, we'll see. We'll see who comes up on the underneath to eventually be a contender for him. But right now he's looking, I mean, he could be palm for pound number two. You can, could you put him above Islam?

Who's only taking a step back because Eli is rising and Mahachev, who had to fight Mekano last minute, hasn't been fighting, I guess, the super A list, but he will be soon. He's going to moving up to fight Jack Della Madelanah, but I hadn't thought about that. I guess you could.

I mean, the names are there. Temporarily, you could. Now, obviously, if Islam, beach jdm that absolutely not that will change that again but right now i think i have elia one marab two islam three and then where you're going for um you put perera there gilvin gastolum put pantosia five i mean this is this is a wild time to be alive i'm loving it all right hey this podcast by the way that you're watching right here it's sponsored by total wireless the official wireless partner of ufc so when you're streaming the fight and sharing those take down highlights with your friends

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applies only to the monthly rate for your plan. Additional terms apply. See the website for more details. Let's move on to topic number four. The UFC 320 undercard brought a lot of surprises, explosions, and breakthrough wins. Obviously, none bigger, of course, than Yeri Prohatska in round three down on the scorecards against Khalil Roundtree, Jr. Talk about embracing the chaos after Prohatska was picked apart for two rounds. He went into Berserker mode in round three

and improbably finished a top five opponent to put him within striking distance once more at that UFC light heavyweight title. Luke, you've actually talked with Yuri in the past about his game. You know his game very well. After this performance and all the love he's receiving for being as uniquely weird and dangerous as he is, should Prohatska just continue to fight like a crazed asshole

the rest of the way? Put that pressure on, gas people out and do exactly what he did to Roundtree, who looked like a champion for two rounds, by the way. Dude, for 10 minutes. I mean, what do you do if you're a pro-Hatska? Do you just continue this chaos? I don't think that I just,

man, this is a tough one. I don't think it's a good idea. Now, you're going to be like, well, what he was doing before he went into berserker mode, wasn't going to get the job done. And that is also true. I mean, there's, you know, seven or eight minutes into this fight, BC,

you were like, oh, Jesus, this is, Khalil's got his number. You know, I thought Khalil had his number for a moment. He was confused, he was getting pieced up. Again, that was another one. They were in open stance, and he just couldn't figure out a way to get through that first line of defense. It was really, really difficult.

Brontree had range distance. Everything he threw was hard. And the speed. Yeah. Huge, powerful hooks he was landing. But I'm going to say this, man. Like, you know, I think that Prohachka should treat his, just, I mean, absurd levels of durability as an ace in the whole.

In other words, I actually feel like. given the circumstances, he went to that at the right time. He went to get the, he went to get the, the, the sawed off from the trunk when he, when he had to. Let me go to my car and get my other gun. Yeah, I think that's what it felt like to me, and that worked. And it's amazing that he's got that gear. I will say, people being like, oh, he didn't improve it all.

I don't really agree with that. You ever seen, you know what a double end bag is? Those are the bags that sit like this and it's tied to the ceiling and it's tied to the floor and you press it. Yes. And it goes out and comes back. So you can jab it and then it comes back and you can slip. When he is playing at a range where his opponent almost serves as like a double end bag

and he's flowing and then punching and then flowing and then punching. You can't breathe. Right. Then he actually looks amazing. And the reason why he won this fight BC, aside from just eating enormous punches and kicks the whole way through, was he got Roundtree to fight at a stage where they were kind of trading a double end bag style of fighting. And he will win that fight with any light heavyweight. But you've got to have crazy stamina along with that chin to be able to keep up that pace.

Yes, of course. He's an amazing athlete. It's insane. But the thing I'm going to say is his theatrics for us are just the stuff of legend. Fans are going to remember a night like Saturday for a long time. But dude, I've been around long enough to tell you someone's going to crack that shit. If he keeps this up and it's... I don't know.

We've already seen it. He lives by the sword. He dies by the sword. No, no, no, no. But he still has good durability. What I'm saying is someone's going to crack that shit where all that's going to go away. By the way, he improved to 8-0 against everyone in the UFC not named

Alex Pereira. And he continued this incredible streak of 17 consecutive fights that have not gone the distance dating back to 2016. He brings the chaos. Here's Yeri walking backstage immediately after this insane victory. Oh, he's the

champion now. That was a necessary. I think it was a necessary. It was necessary. It It was necessary. It was necessary. To be... To catch a little bit. The right turn, Yuri.

To win the fight. It was necessary to turn into berserker. It was super necessary. Jed Meshu sat here and challenged you to start loving this man. Was Saturday the turning point. We saw that reaction from Luke Thomas. I already had a turning point with the Jamal Hill win. Okay.

So I didn't need to be convinced at this point. All right. But the thing is that, I mean, Jed likes it when Yeri fights like a donk, and I like it when he's a little more selective. So you'd like... But I'm going to say, my man had to pull the pin on the grenade on this one if you wanted to get a win. So all as well as well as I suppose. But moving forward, maybe a little head movement in defense could help him.

Let's hear Yuri talk about that. I start to be to believe in my defense, in my hands up, man, I didn't, didn't understand that it that works. Because, yeah, my hands up and hands up. head movement and when I when I when I first time I connect it together and and it worked um that is the best quote of all time like it's like bro boxing's been around for well over a hundred years they figured this out a long time ago there's a lot of elite m-ma fighters that need to watch that video though turns out it works guys you know if I avoid contact it's so true I cannot believe how poor they just think that like you know oh I don't need them up here I'm just going to yes uh well

look year he still believes in this trilogy with Poetan and by the way team Poetan does like him glover tacher gave an interview where he said like this third fight will happen in some form the question is how does yeri change the result here's prohatska once more but i am really happy that i saw that alex won you can you maybe you don't believe me that but i believe i will find a way to a cost for alex in the third match what would it be different this time around you know as you as you saw the the fight there was a pressure there was a pressure from alex in this in this in this last fight with calil i really understand i need a pressure from an opponent from myself and in that in that case i'm working the best i'm i'm doing the best i just need to accept who i am and just go through

every time find a way to alex berrera i think the way through is to get him into a berserker brawl and just try not to get got but that's really hard against poiton it's going to be tough you're going to welcome the demon out of him as well and uh luckily though he's not uh accusing him of channeling the spirits anymore for the victory. Yeah, it's like you didn't go to a shaman this time. Yes. Also, Yeri dressed like... His life is a costume party.

He's literally dressed like, you know, either you're going to a costume party or this is the most insane cultural appropriation on planet Earth. Either way, though, no one seems to get... Dude, my man is like, I am a samurai. It's like, dude, you're from the Czech Republic. I'm a samurai! No, no, you're not. All right, before we get into the many breakthrough stoppage performances on this card,

I do want to talk about patchy mix. They moved this fight up from the early prelims to the mid prelimbs. The official record now is 0-and-2 in the UFC, and it really was, in my opinion, a strong performance against former KSW champion and debutante, Jakub Wicklots, I believe, Biglots, what are they called him? Viclich? Vich-Lach. Jacob Wick-Lats.

Jacob gets the win here, but you had Daniel Cormier. You had John Annick trying to make the argument that the judging got it wrong and that maybe it should have been two-to-one patchy. But I think the question is beyond even the scoring on there. Seriously, we, you and I covered his entire run through Bellator and he wasn't beating nobody. He's being Keog George Horaguchi. He finished three of the four. The one was the one he didn't finish was Horaguchi, who he dominated.

And he'd be in Sergio Pettis, like beating legit freaking dudes. The guy that showed up for both UFC fights is not the same guy. No head movement. Body language is not good. Flatfooted. Just I don't know what happened. Luke, what the hell happened to him? Yeah.

At least in the case of Tatiana Suarez, you can say, hey, here's a case where somebody had a boatload of injuries that they, but, you know, just if, even if you could get over them the next day, you're losing some of the physical capability that comes with, you know, surgical rehabilitation or whatever. And then also just a ton of time, B.C., that she lost in her career. And by the way, even with all of that, she still might get a title. Like, that's actually not out of the role of possibility. but at a bare minimum, you know, was there a difference from what she was doing pre-pandemic to now in terms of how she looked and the answer is quite clearly that there was.

But her, you can look at that situation and be like, right, well, this makes sense. The injury is the time off. It really had an impact. I don't know what happened with Patchy. I don't know if he's concealing some kind of injury that we don't know about. I don't know if...

Because it's not that his skills don't translate on this level. He's not putting the best of him out there. He doesn't have that aura he had in Bellator. So is there a disconnection? Do you think it's something mental? I mean it honestly might be the fact that he is kind of stiff on the feet was I mean there was a bit of a red flag in the megamed mega med of rematch correct and something that's where it really started they signed him anyway after that and it's like dude like this guy used to be able to find the back effortlessly this was a guy who had a step through K.O. on Ralphion Stats this was a guy who dominated Sergio Pettison finished him off too what the fuck is happening here I don't under this is my challenge to everybody I don't know I I don't know where the footage would even be.

Maybe it's on YouTube. Maybe it's not. My challenge is watch Pachy Mix in the Bellator Grand Prix, the Bantamoy Grand Prix. It's four fights. He wins by finish in three of them. And come to the conclusion that he's boring, I dare you. Right. And then come to the conclusion that he's not good, I dare you.

It is a distant memory at this point. And people are just forgetting about it. But to your point, we watched all that shit happen. The aura is gone. It's not there. The mojo is gone. I just, Long Island, Luke,

do you have a theory about why Patsy Mix has looked this way? Because you could say, oh, well, the UFC's a step-up. I'm sorry, with all due respect

to his last two opponents, especially those one on Saturday, they're actually, like, he's not better than Kioji Horaguchi. He's not better than Sergio Pettis. What is happening? I don't know.

You made a good point. Like, I don't, his two opponents in the UFC were tough guys. I don't want to like, Mario, Batista. I'm not saying they're bad. Mario especially is hard to look good against.

To your point, Horoguchi is obviously. a legend and more well-rounded whatever, but yeah, dude, I don't know, I saw someone say that him and Tatiana are winless since they got engaged, but I actually think that's false, because I'm pretty sure he proposed

to Tatiana just before the Magamed Magamato fight, the one that he won by close split decision. I think she had a win before the title opportunity, too. Didn't she have a comebacking win? I don't know, whatever. The point is they're both suffering, unfortunately, in terms of not putting the best of them out. Can you show that picture of him? Long Island, do you think he deserved

the split win or what? no so in real time we knew it was one one going into the third and i think i remember saying like i feel like patchy could win this but i wasn't like shocked at the scorecard but decision i mean obviously how could anybody sit there and be mad about that scorecard he didn't even pass guard no the vast majority of the time you got mounted you got fricking mounted dude and i know he had the back at the end of the third for a minute which was i was like okay well what the fuck was this dude the guy is known as i mean dude we just do the extent they used to be criticism of him that was that he wasn't good enough is like well he's just a backpacker

where where is that i don't even see where that is so to me it's like dude i don't know what happened i don't know again mental block hidden injury i honestly don't know i wish him well i hope he bounces back he's still young enough he's what like 31 he still something like that yeah he's only has what three career defeats one of them to one archelette in a title fight and then these two back-to-back ufc debuts i really love him to see him to get to see him have a chance to show how good he really is, because we've seen it. Who are the three PFL sent Pico, Mix,

and then Patricio? So, Patricio is the only one that's gotten a win of the three? Yes. Wow. Pico fought once, yes. Wow. All right, let's talk about the breakthrough performance. So, look, from Yousef Salal to Joe Pfeer, Ataba Gautier, to Edmund Shabazian, to Ramiz Brahimaj. Who scored in your opinion?

By the way, it is Brahmi. They said it on the fucking broadcast. I ate crow on my watch along. I said me and Luke Thomas Got into an argument about this. He was right. Who do you think had the biggest breakout win for where their stock was coming in to where it is now after that? It's a good one.

The problem is Gautier obviously looks like a million bucks, but he was fighting as Joe Barrett looked like. I mean, you know, that guy got electric. The guy was running from the opening. You ever seen guys like taunt cops and then they hit him with the taser? And they just freeze up and then it felt like he got tasered. Goetet was almost mad afterwards.

They asked him who he wanted to fight. He's like, fucking anybody. Like right now, bring somebody else in, let's go. Do you guys watch Embedded with him in the Cats? No, but I got to see that now. My man is obsessed with kittens. He has like five kittens at home, and then he goes to a cat cafe to waste time during fight week.

He is so wholesome, he's the man, dude. That is a little bit much for me. They were talking up his body being so large for middleweight. His fucking abs protrude out. I've never seen anything quite like that. All right, so for me, the Brahimai 10-finger guillotine was real nice. I will absolutely say that. He's fun, too. He's fun, man.

I don't know if it made a huge impact. He's talking it. I'm going to actually say Edmund Chabazzian or Andre Munez. I don't think, again, I don't think anyone had like this wharro, you know, uplifting moment. Munez's punch resistance has been against him for a while. Yeah, but you know what? Edmund just starting to put things together a little bit better. He's physically filled out, which is good.

And the game all connects smoothly at this point. He doesn't rush things, although he's still kind of dangerous, obviously, in the stand-up. I liked what I saw from Edmund Shab. And by the way, Veronica Hardy had a pretty decent performance too, but I'm going to go with Edmund Chabazian. That was a very good victory for Edmund, and it's good to see because what am I saying, dude, Daniel Santos. I didn't even put him on the list. You're right. You're right. You're right. You're right. That's my bad. Dude, that fight was fun for as long as it lasted and then my man got electrocuted, you know. He had a lot of spinny shit in that one, Santos. Uh, yeah, but they fought. They also has a hard on for your boy, Zuck. We'll get into that and have you seen the shit. All right, let's start at the top. You see him in the back. be like giving prep advice like what the fuck is he going to say to you before a fistfire

that you would ever need to hear didn't volk learn that lesson the hard way all right uh let's talk about yousef's the law here at featherweight dude he needed 98 seconds to submit josh emid after a clean takedown and he was like above and beyond apologetic about that cater fight where it was boring he ran he uh he accused uh he accused cater of greasing like there was a lot the fans didn't like about that performance. Zalov almost went above and beyond to say, like, that's not me. I apologize. You'll see.

Dude, he's streaking at featherweight. This felt like the exact victory at the exact time that he needed to be taken seriously. Because that's a Josh Emmett who could still bang. Well, I mean, I'm glad Josh Emmett spent a portion of this camp working on his power. That proved quite useful. I didn't understand what the hell he was doing. If you have, if you are on top of someone and they turn at an angle, right? So now it's 90 degrees.

and they frame for an arm bar your job as the top man is to force compression because what you want as the bottom man is extension he just fucking stood up and what happens when you stood it just comes right I was like bro what the fuck are you doing? There's a little

donk in there you're saying a lot of times in MMA guys will think oh my training partners try this and it doesn't work I'm gonna he man this shit and 99% of the time it's true but like in fights that goes down to like let's say at best 50% and they don't make that connection.

You have to have a slow compression and then inch the elbow out and then you're cooking with gas. And he didn't do that. And I was like, what the fuck is that? So Zalal to me was opportunistic and has well-rounded skills and I definitely want to see more.

But at the same time, like Emmett kind of gave it to him a little bit. It was a little weird. Well, for Zal to shake off a four-fight streak where he didn't win, where he went 03 and 1, then now to win eight in a row. And there are good victories. Calvin Cater, Jack Shore, Billy Q, And now you get Josh Emmett.

I'm not saying give him a title shot now. I'm not saying giving that. But like, give him a fight that matters now. Really test him. Let's see what we got in this division. Absolutely. Joe Pfeiffer was in this discussion because he did have a breakthrough, but he did get his ass kick by Abu Samagamette off for most of that first round.

He would say afterwards that physically he just didn't feel right mentally he was. And it wasn't until that second round that he felt that motivation to put it together. Look, Abu Smogamatoff is ripped. I mean, just top to bottom ripped. Diced to the socks. But, like, as soon as the pressure comes on him, he just crumbles. Is this a redemptive, great, big bounce back? Not that he's coming off the loss, but Pfeiffer has needed to regain the buzz that he had coming out of the Dana White Contender series.

Be like Joe Pfeiffer. And whether it was the loss to Hermanson, whether it was the Mexico comments, he's become not always likable. Body cam off. Not always likable. He almost did a full-on baby face. I'm an American fighter, USA, like, get behind me type of political rant afterwards. Is this that type of win that you? think could project him?

In fairness, I thought the rant was, and I mean this is a compliment, somewhat generic. I was sort of pro-American without much beyond it. I don't know if it's a baby-face turn, but I will say to the point that he had, I mean, he even said that he had, he, did you hear he almost fell asleep in the, in the warm-up room? No. Because he was so chill before the fight, and he was like, I was not really there mentally. And then, of course, Magamadov, who is good for a round, was given him the business. That knees to the body on the ground on the house.

So I woke him up. And I think having to answer for adversity, whether it's because he did it to himself or because the opponent was good or whatever the case may be, and then coming back and then just absolutely smashing him in the second, I think it's definitely good for his stock. You know, did you beat the very best guy? No. But you dealt with unenviable circumstances and still overcame them. And still, by the way, got a really nice finish in the end.

And it wasn't with huge power. Obviously, it was with a bit more well-rounded skill. A little face crank. A little face-crank. So I definitely feel like, you know, again, are we saying he's a future chance? champion? No, but that was a real nice win against let's say challenging circumstances

and he shined in the end. He would say after that he wants either Vittori or Canaaner next and that could be the type of guy that That would be good. Votory, hard to put away. Canoneer, hard to put away. Those are some tough challenges. I'm all in on that one. And we mentioned of course Gautier taking care of

Tristan Vines. Somebody he used to know. Yeah, I know what you're saying. I'm saying. I'm there. Between Gautier and Santos, We like in both in terms of long-term here? Too early to tell with either of them, but I got to say a lot to like about their next step. That's kind of where I'm at. Did you like much from Yakup Wicklots in that patchy mix fight?

It was more all about patchy, but you weren't overly moved by that? He seems talented. Don't get me wrong. I'm not saying I looked at it. I was like, oh, you sucks. That's not what I'm saying. That's not what I'm saying. But did I see anything next level that got me intrigued?

No, no, I did not. All right. Tough break for Austin Vanderford in that brahimai fight, because that was a fun fight. It went back and forth a little bit. The problem was he was trying to, wrap the legs. So this is what was driving me nuts, right? Rahimi had his back up against the cage and he's sitting, seated. You had Austin either trying to shelf or wrap the legs. It's like,

dude, if his head, if Brockyamai's head is higher than Austin's, that's a problem. You actually heard, Correa talk about it. It's a concept called head height. And in fact, if if Vanderford's head is above his, it's going to make sitting up for Ramiz difficult. So the head height battle is kind of important. The way you can fix this is you just wrap his legs and then just fucking rotate him off the fence.

And he just never did that. And so he just sat in these positions. I'm like, bro, you're sitting in a dangerous spot for a guy who's got very good guillotines. Yeah. Why are you doing this? And then he just kept going back to it.

And I was like, he eventually tried to shelf a little bit later and then rotate him a little bit later. But like there was all this time where he's just over pursuing head down where he is going to have head height and now he can wrap your fucking neck. Like, I don't know.

I didn't love the game plan. Long Island, Luke, anyone you want to shout out? Because you are tuned into these prelims, dude. You guys pretty much covered everything. Just want to give a shout out to Rames. He is from the Bronx. Also, New York parley, four New York fighters on this card. Two of them just train here.

But Patchy Mixed it all up. Yeah, yeah. Veronica got your back. By the way, she got Jack. She's like kind of trying to make a run here. Yeah, and they were talking about, like, you know, did she start off with the most auspicious beginning? No.

She went 0 and 3 and then didn't fight for years. Yeah, but now look at her. She's putting it all together. And she was rocking a Pantara t-shirt post-fight. I'm sure you like that. I do love Pantara. Also, Yana Santos. She, like, that's not a great division band away?

Four opponents in a row not making weight. I know. She fought angry and she was pissed against Chazon. Whose name I cannot pronounce. You cannot, you cannot. All right, let's go to topic number five. We had a big one for PFL or was it in Dubai. It was certainly on paper and from the matchup in that main event,

a rematch of the must-see January lightweight title fight between Usman and Magamatov and Paul. We did have some larger issues here regarding distribution and some other things but let's start right off at the top Usman de Magametteoff edges out Paul Hughes for the second straight time. The first was a majority decision

this time universal but it's not without some disruption after five exciting rounds. Once again Usman proved that he's slightly the better fighter in this rivalry but Luke is it? Well that's the thing. Is it possible to separate both the highly disputed judges scoring

which included a 50 to 45 card from Brian Minor that has been much maligned and the multiple fouls from Usman for the second straight fight this time with referee Keith Peterson just not acknowledging that they happen, low blows multiple times that stopped the action when trying to decide whether Hughes ultimately got a fair shake on this night. Yeah, let me start with the Keith Peterson part. Keith, normally I'm like, well, these guys have tough jobs. I try to be as understanding as possible. Keith Peterson, you fucked up, bad. You fucked that fight up. Are you saying he smells like cold cuts and

cheap? No, I mean, he looks like he's been on Wegovi or Ozempic. He's all, he's all cleaned up. He still sounds like but like I'm not, I'm honestly not trying to like be demeaning. I'm being serious. You fuck that up. You fuck that up big time. Like the notion that he can even lightly headbutt hues between rounds. And I saw what Peterson said after that round. He was like, we're going to obey my commands. We're going to obey my commands. Keith, they didn't

obey your commands. They didn't obey shit. It wasn't just the low blows that stopped it. There were a bunch of other tiny low blows where Hughes would be like, dude, looking at Usman and just no fault. There was constant fouling. I won't say just, well, a little bit back and forth, but mostly from Usman. Remember, Usman had a point taken in the first fight. The fact that you didn't take a point, Keith Peterson, you absolutely failed as a referee in that fight. I'm going to say

that matter of fact that you fucked that fight did he fail more than the judges he felt just as much that fight was a travesty of officiating led by keith peterson absolutely be dude what why on earth if keith peterson i'm being dead serious bc if you are a prize fighter and keith peterson is your referee you're a fool if you don't foul your opponent if you don't foul your opponent if you don't I'm not yeah but that's like 18 referees on the roster no no no but like the fact that he would let that go on for as long as he did yeah dude

you are negligent Keith Peterson you are negligent you acted negligently and you fucked that fight up there is absolutely zero I don't give a shit what anyone tells you zero justifiable reasons for what Keith Peterson did other than plainly cowardice

cowardice on the part of of doing the job that they need you to do. If you want fouls to stop in MMA, fucking do something about it, which you've failed to fucking do. Number one, number two. Let him cook, yeah, let's go. I'm just so tired of watching the fouls happen,

having consequences for people's vision long-term, and then the fight itself. Say it drives you nuts. It drives me fucking crazy. All right. Let's talk about the judging. B.C. How did you have it?

So in real time, 3-2 Usman. Me too. Okay. Upon rewatch, I'm going to change that. I'm going to go 3-2 Hughes. So is the swing round, round 3? Yes. Rounds 2, 3, and 5.

No, no. To me, the swing round is 2. Because I go 2 and 5 hues, and I'm pretty solid on that. Yes. 3 was the one I felt was a little bit either way. Maybe that's right. But in retrospect, I didn't feel like, yes, yes, 2 and 3. Five was the easiest one to judge, I think, of the 3.

I saw a lot of people online having 3-2 hues. a lot of people. Yeah, I think if you're going to make a case for Hughes, it is 235, right? If you're trying to find three routes for him, it's that way. Now, again, can you find 134 or whatever for Nurembergadov? I don't think Nuremberg-Madov winning is a travesty, B.C. I don't. I don't think that's fair.

But remember, you had Cage Warriors going on. You had UFC going on. There was a shortage, I think, of the best of it. I mean, Ben Cartilage, who to me is like the gold standard, good good news he was at the ufc event which is where you would want him but there just wasn't enough of him so to speak to go around this is the part that i come down to it's like i understand the argument and for folks who don't know round one is over bc a i and long island lucre judges we have to write our scores down sure turn them in there's no ability for the next round to start a until those

scores are in and then b you cannot revise them later no one's watching the full fight and then going five nothing Usman. Right. It doesn't work that way. So I understand the argument that we're all five rounds close enough. Sure. That could you conceive of one person winning 50, 45? I suppose on some level I could. Usman did say after he thought he won every round. I mean, fighters say that, but yes. But here's what I'm going to say. The judge who looks at that fight and can't in any of the five intervals ever see a case for Paul Hughes winning, your judgment is bad. Let's show the scorecards if you don't mind up on the screen which by the way can we say something about the pfl putting out multiple versions of the scorecards i know it's just and then deleting it and it was

fucking weird it was a 10-8 in round five for a while although there is a 10-8 so brian minor who had it 50-45 usman had a 10-8 round in favor of usman in round five four four there it's round five where am i looking at brian minors on the far left oh yes this scorecard makes no sense because it says 50-45 yeah dude this scorecard makes There's another eight on the Daryl Ransom scorecard. This must have been an early version that they updated. So I think it was just... There was no 10-8s in that round, either way.

No, I thought, Paul, he's one round five. I mean, wait, can you throw that up one more time? And then that middle judge right there is what? Nadi Ali. Hadi-Ali. Hadi-Ali. That's a 49-46, four rounds to one. And they gave a 10-10 on round five.

Oh, my God, this is a debacle. Dude, what the fuck is the scorecard? And then you had Daryl Ransom? Is that what it says on the... So he had a 48-40s. That's a fair that's a justifiable scorecard and he gave Paul Hughes two and five just like I did But he also had 10-8 round four is that legit? That can't be legit because it doesn't make sense But to the extent that he gave like what rounds did he give to Hughes? He gave him two and five

He gave three to Ousman fine that's a fine scorecard Tuckie's classmates doing the math here Oh yeah I mean just just playing a tic-tac-toe with the shit Yeah come on uh dude I want to know what the worldview is of how they they perceive offense such that every time the default Because my question is like Okay, he came up 5-0 on Uspin Why couldn't you come up 5-0 on Paul Hughes What would be the difference in how you would perceive it?

Like, what are you favoring Where you can't go 5-0 Paul Hughes But you can go 5-all for Uspin And I'm just going to say You're not good at interpreting what you're looking at By the way, Ous Minor Magumatov is pretty fucking good So was Paul Hughes I mean they were both fucking good

I mean, so if the first fight was almost a 10 out of 10, I mean, it was a leading candidate for a year and the best fight in PFL history, even if it's a 9.7, it's a great fight. Yep. How do you sort of rate the second one? This was a fine fight. I wouldn't call it a barn burner.

I think some people felt let down, partly by the scoring, I suspect. In the following, yeah. I'd give it a solid eight. Yeah. It was a very competitive, high energy fight. I mean, Usman taking the back as many times as he did, and then Paul, he was shaking him off.

One thing we didn't give credit to Corey Sanhaken, constantly getting up every time Marob took him down. Morab let him. Yeah, by the difference. Oh, yeah, because Marab scored 20 takedowns, which is a new five-round record. Marab doesn't try to take your back in the sense of hooks in. Marab just wants to be on the back as a way to just be behind your elbows, so there's no offense.

Uspin still tries to take the back with those hooks, and I think that actually does him no service against a guy as good as Paul Hughes. Also, Paul Hughes has a stand's orthodox. He'd whip that hook around, and as soon as the shoulder would pass, Usman was right behind him onto the back, like the way he would time those hooks. Dude, Usman's, I'm going to say this. I love how he switches stances and the flow, man. He's great.

Usman's ability to chain together attacks and the speed at which he can do it. He's the best at 155 in the world at that. Wow, I was going to ask you that. At that, at that one particular skill. I was going to ask you in the whole world, are we looking at the top three or five lightweight here? I think either of those guys can compete with the top five of UFC, no question. Absolutely.

Whether you like the scoring or not, it is another win for the unbeaten or Magamatov, and you can add to the Abdulman app, tree look at this graphic here of the four fighters directly it's kind of insane 21 and one is Islam mahachev former palm for pound king you could still be on your list 29 and oh the retired Habib now the coach 18 and one umar namagamatov who's going to face mario batista for probably a shot at the title and now 20 and oh usman neuramagimov 94 and two for abdulmanac son two of his nephews and a gentleman in Islam who he's considered a son from the very beginning that's an incredible legacy. But if your PFL regarding this matchup, this rivalry, does the controversy

warrant an eventual third fight? And how quickly would you go back to that? I mean, if you're Usman, you're like, what else do I have to do, right? I think that, I mean, if they did, I would not complain. I just think it's unlikely. I think what probably is going to happen, and maybe even best for the promotional purposes is give each of them some newer opponents, you know, kind of cycle it through. Sure. But as far as I'm concerned, they have unfinished business. I just, and I'm going to say this to PFL too. Like, I get that they're in, by the way, obviously they're in Abu Dhabi or Dubai, I think they're Dubai, because they're being paid by the, the government there to bring a show, which, you know, I get, I understand at this point. But didn't you find it

weird that they had Dakota Ditch of a walking around Dubai? And she's like, wow, Dubai is so nice and modern and the sun is bright. Not like bullshit-ass Manchester England. I'm like, aren't you from Manchester? Like, what the fuck is this? I didn't see that part. You didn't see that? No. She was like, oh, it's not gray. I shouldn't say that, but she was like, it's not gray and gloomy all the time like Manchester.

I'm like, aren't you from there? She now lives in Florida, which is really nice. Is that right? Yeah. Did Francis Tsengano get interviewed on the broadcast? I didn't see him. I didn't see him get interviewed, no. All right. Let's talk about the PFL in general. Now, look, shout out to PFL. PR. They were great me. They got me both Usman, Paul Hughes, and new CEO, John Martin in the build to that fight.

But even before the fight happened on Friday, a lot of people online were like, look at their YouTube channel. They have not promoted this. It's supposed to be the biggest fight in their company history. This can't miss rematch. They have not gone the length to promote. You can argue that. But then when we all tried to tune in Friday afternoon, if you're an ESPN plus subscriber and you're thinking like normal, you're just going to go to the menu and click on live PFL, they gave you that upcharge for, what is it called? the ESPN Unlimited. And I know that WWE fans just went through this

in the first pay-per-view PLE that they just had Russell Palooza. But like, this is a company that desperately wants to change its image with MMA fans. They brought in the new CEO who seems to get it. We played it up last week. The card overall didn't necessarily deliver, but it was a well-put-together card. I'll say that.

I know that this is being framed as an ESPN decision and not a PFL decision. It is. But how bad does this look upon the PFL mixed with people already saying, and you've got this great card on paper and you're not doing much to promote it. And now average fans have to pay an additional fee on top of this. So they basically made it a pay-per-view without announcing it like that.

Basically. I mean, this was the problem that I think PFL had is that who's this, and I talked to some folks in the organization. My understanding is, you know, if it was up to them, they'd be on ESPN linear or not even on the plus, much less unlimited. But here's what I'm going to say to the PFL folks.

It's not their fault. and I'm being serious, that this was an ESPN decision. ESPN decided to put them in this place. They can't do anything about it. What they can do is, if you're going to be there, you need to go on an information campaign to let everyone know so that it's not Friday afternoon. I'm like, oh, I'm just going to fire up ESPN Plus,

and I'm going to watch this, and all of a sudden, now I can't. They should have done everything possible, even if it would have caused a little bit of blowback. You're going to get blowback one way or the other. You might as well get it just being transparent and honest. This is how you're going to have to watch this particular event, you know. I was pissed off. And they didn't do any of that.

I didn't watch it because of that. And everyone's like, why don't you just stream? Guys, I know how to legal stream. I do know how to do it. But like the whole point is you took away my interest by the bait and switch of that. NFL should have done a media tour with these guys. I'm glad that they went to you, but they should have gone to a lot of people. They should have done that.

They should have had stateside or even UK or I should say, you know, northern Ireland or whatever. the fuck in belfast or wherever having some kind of press conference there that they all got everyone excited about they should have done things that let people know a this is coming here's how you're going to watch it and why you should care and it's like

I get if you're getting money from a government you're just you know it's you're on you're on autopilot but you can't treat it that way you got to treat it like it's still something that is special because that fight it wasn't like the most amazing fight having those two together in that rivalry is special very

quickly. Sergio Pettis on the undercard, spinning back elbow to the face of Mughammed. Not even spinning, just fucking... Just nasty to Maghomed Maghad Madoff, knocked him out cold with Habib in the corner, by the way. And Habib was going sick in the main event, too, for Usmann. Corey Anderson, front of the program, wins the inaugural PFL Light Heavyweight Championship with a decision

in the rematch with Doubletts on. Also, poked in the eyes a gazillion fucking times. And then PFL doesn't give an interview afterwards. Like, what are we doing here? I just couldn't believe it. Come on. I just couldn't believe it. Come on. That is what it is right there. uh pfl on friday i was just i guess in all i'm disappointed i wanted them to win i wanted this to be like this breakthrough moment for pfl and instead it was kind of nerve wracking but we'll see where they go from here yeah well all right i'll tell you where i'm going to go from here luke to the cabot no

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to have your questions answered every Sunday night at Morning Combat on X and the IG. We give you an opportunity to reach into the show and touch someone. This one's called DMs from dogs. As you can hear, that large animal came to completion. Let's hear the first one from our friend over there at Eric Bolden, whose stock rose the most from all

across mixed martial arts this weekend. It's Poetan. It's Poetan. Yeah. Marab's close. Marob took another step, but Poetan felt like the Kool-Aid man bursting through the fucking wall. It really was. It really was. Yeah. I mean, here's the thing, everyone's going to be like, oh, Poetan stock was high. Yes and no. Yes, obviously, on some level it was. But we had talked about

like, you know, that Bermuda Triangle of Oncalaia. Yes. People were a little bit deflated from that. This was I mean, the party is back. It really was. No, seriously. Yeri, though. Yeri, like on the... That was big. On, like, the character of Yeri, that really, like, beloved...

Like, people love that, man. Yes, that's true. That's true. That idea of... Delightfully weird. Him as an entertainer. Yes. That got bumped up big time.

And then to see, seriously, to see him in the crowd tearing up when Poetan wins the title. Like a Czech Samurai. It's just this ultimate, like, I love this weird man. I love him so much. All right. Second question, what do we got? From at... I'm not even saying that name.

Duky McPoopy Stink. Is that one of your... Can you imagine setting the... it up and being like, hey, your employer needs to know what your social handles are. And it's like, oh, yeah, it's booty eater 69. If Marab knocks out Corey in the second, oh, the second round

on Saturday, if he had knocked him out in the second, that's a good question. That's a great question. Could that have moved him up to pound for pound number one? Because that would have been consecutive stopages. He had the submission of- So I still think the fact that Ilya went up in wait would not allow that. And he's flatlining these legends. But to your point, it would make him uncontestable number

two, I think. Yes. If you're wondering who does number two work for, it works for Marab. wonderfully there. Let's keep it going. Great questions today. From at World's Worst Hero, UFC 320 was a bangar and 321 seems like one on paper as well. How would you rank the 2025 UFC paper views so far? I feel like they've been good but not great. There hasn't been an exceptional one, right? What do you think, Long Island Luke? I feel like they're only just now getting good towards the end of the year.

I feel like they've done a pretty damn good job with main events and co-made events for the most of the year. hasn't been like these ones like that's not a pay-per-view like sometimes last year we had a song we let's think about we had a strong summer right so we had the max and dust the more what was the one before that i got to go from the beginning so january was islam moikano and then co-main was marab was mara did that was a good part either way it wasn't his their fault and also you had marab and uh umar on that one okay February was ddp strickland two and the comane was tatiana and way lee so-so that's so-so uh-march was unclei of

Pereira 1 that that was not good sorry it was not that that led to play out that led to people being deflated April I think was good that was Volk Lopez but I remember that undercard being good yes that was good and then May was J.D.M. Bilal good yep uh June was Marab O'Malley I think it was that was that was IFW yeah that was in Newark that was not a big event but he shined there were two in June so early that was Kayla Harrison too right yes and then late June was uh IFW. Who fucking voted IFU? That was Ilya knocking out Charles. Yeah. And then you had Max and Dustin

in July. And then August was Hamzot. Yeah. So it's picking up. From the summer it's been picking up. And we have to believe they're going to kick off the Paramount era with a bang. I would imagine it would do that. And maybe keep it running through the White House. The only question is how much will the White House card take away from their momentum? Or

will they try to, some gimmicks, some legends coming back at the White House. We've got to kind of wait and see what you. I think Razie comes back. Dude, she just put another video out where she's like getting after it with ex-UFC fighters in training. And she's, like, ripped up again. Even though Dana kind of downplayed at the press conference of, like,

he's like, I don't, I don't think she's coming back. She's, like, had children. But, like, what about those CT comments that she put out there? That's kind of... I mean, brother, we live in a world where... Like, bro, at least Frankie... TKO is getting federal law changed.

What commission is going to say no to UFC? I mean, be serious. Hey, they stopped Frankie Edgar in Jersey. To UFC. I know, I'm just saying shout out to the jersey. What else you got here, Chin? We got from at PlayStation Chavi. after watching the Usman Hughes fight,

how do you guys see a potential Elia Toporia versus Usman Nirmagamatov fight at 155? God, that'd be a great fight. Here's Usman's fatal flaw. He has no pop whatsoever. Kicks, though. He doesn't use his kicks.

A little bit, a little bit, but I think a guy like Toporia who has, who's good wrestling, good takedown, defense, good jiu-jitsu. He'd be able to survive like Hughes would, except when he lands, it's going to be devastating. He's really,

Usman would really have to keep that distance and constantly switch the stance. I don't think it would make him too unable to make his offense work. Then what do you need Usman to step up become more of a submission threat? I mean, he took Hughes's back a lot but really wasn't able to convert that

into one where there was, you know, close to a tap or where there was extreme danger. Some of that is Hughes's ability to get back to his feet. He's a strong kid. Yes. I'd like to see him be more of a finishing threat, whether that is through kicks,

whether that is through so. I would say what's kind of interesting to me is ground and pound is getting harder because people are so good at standing up but if you can't have grounded pound you gotta do what Marab does which is reintroduce the offensive cycle you're up you're down you're up you're down you're down in the thigh

like a thousand times in the standing clinch that can be stalling though it's knees to the ribs that's when I'm like that's that's to me ground up yeah let's keep it going here we got more from these people from at David underscore Mesa 86 yep do you really think TKO is going to make any discernible difference in the

boxing world at best TKO becomes just another promoter like top rank or matchroom. Crawford and Canello just sealed my skepticism. Dana was completely unnecessary. Turkey is still footing the bill for the big names. Ali Act or no Ali Act. What exactly is TKO expected to do different besides just being the token boxing promotion funded by Turkey?

Well, the answer is if they get the law changed, now if they don't get the law changed, maybe he's right. If they get the law changed, they become a, they transform boxing, at least in theory. Well, the spirit of his question is like, where are they going to be just another promoter? No, to start, it seems like they're going to be the new grassroots system to produce the next fighters. So for a while, it would be more prospect building. Prospect building for a bit. I think the answer that we don't have is when does that merge with what Turkey's doing on the higher level with Ring Magazine and Riyadh season?

If it never does in UFC, Zufo Boxing just stays this exciting, you know, a monthly series that produces fighters for the next era, you know, tomorrow's pay-per-view stars, then it won't impact the game as much. But, dude, you see that report that Turkey might buy matchroom sport from Eddie Hearn? Like, he announced some deal this morning. Well, they announced deals for boxing snooker and darts moving forward. But, like, he may buy that whole thing out. It's trending toward the idea that Turkey is going to control all of boxing soon. Yes. And then maybe they combine that with Zufu boxing where they're the ones promoting the big fights.

Yeah, everyone thinks that Matrum and top rank are just going to stick around. And the answer is a lot of these promotions are going to die and or Turkey's going to buy them. going to merge in. So I think when that merging happens, then we'll see what Zufa really is in this space, right? Like, it's kind of hard to see that right now until they kind of establish this. But good question. Let's keep it going here with one more from the people. No, that was the last one. That's it. All right. Time to pick through the... Okay, I want to see... I want to see... Not the cake lady. I want to see everybody else. Everybody else, but what's her name, Celine? Yeah, Celine, the cake lady from friends.

You may show up. We'll have to see. I discovered the globe yesterday for the highs and those the good, the bad, the other thing, the in the in between and the worlds of combat sports and beyond. These are viral videos to make Luke uncomfortable. Vival videos. It's called, have we seen this shit? Oh, ah, shot for somebody out there.

It's 4 o'clock, 5 o'clock somewhere. Hey, it's UFC 320 in Las Vegas. Let's start right here. Forget about just bleeding the crowd. It's baby on board in T-Mobile. What are we doing here? as a society. Revoke this man's license to be a father immediately. Well, you know, this is

just baptizing your children into competitive warfare, right? And by the way, to the best that I can tell, those aren't even headphones. He's wearing wrestling ear guards. Is that even a real baby or is that like a doll? Seriously, like, I don't know what's going on here. I don't know.

All right, let's keep it going here. You know, D.C. and Poetan have this, like, prank war between them where Poetan picks him up a lot. It continued this week at 3.20. Cool. Okay. Who? Oh, God. Yeah, but here comes Policon.

Got him. What you're going to go head on the inside team or a head on the outside? Me? Yeah. I would always go head on the outside. I'm never going to shoot my head inside because me. Yes. That's great.

You said we all. That's funny. Yeah, I like that. That's good stuff. That's a good bit. gifted Marab with something that appears that he just had sitting around in his car. There we go. Hey, Chip, I have for you.

It's not Hotchapurian, but I have you. Thank you so much. Congratulations. What a fight. I mean, when did you get that? Congratulations. I went, did he rob a movie theater? Like, how did you?

I know, I know I'm not American, but you guys know. You are American. First of all, first of all, I cannot stand when people call Marab not American. I understand he's, I understand. He did on. I understand. You heard him say to D.C. He's like, I understand.

He goes, I'm not American. Yes, you are. Yes, you are. The best part about the end of that bit was D.C. started to try to get inside. They're like, no, you don't touch that. Fuck off on the popcorn. Shout to John Wood on that regard.

By the way, under, I mean, I know that he's got a big profile. We talk about him, but like, the dudes around John Wood win. Yeah. He's a good coach. Yeah, a lot of hard fighters for that would. Okay. We talked about Polish newcomer. Where's my crickets, dickhead?

Yacob. Luke Yaakov Wicklotz scored his first UFC win a little disputed there against patchy mix but talk about the reward here getting a hug from Yawanna champion do you know that he used to be her sparring partner when he was like a teenager?

Yeah. And she used to bring him into her corner? You think she ever called him and then right when they were about to talk she just hung up? What am I missing here? What she did to me? Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, she did.

I mean that's a great victory though. That's it for the back, you know, for the... Okay, thank you. Yeah, I don't care at all. And meanwhile, Daniel Santos got the most important hug after his knockout win. Look at this fucking nerve. I just want to point out,

billions of dollars can't unlame you. Is this MMA's John DuPont or what? It looks like it. Oh, look at these guys. Oh, yeah. Look at him. He can't even hug like a normal human being. Zuck looks good in that true classic, though, right?

Yeah, he does. You're right. She was the true classic. All right. Keep it going. Luke, you sent me this coming soon to your nearest theme park? Ride you've been waiting for, Jan 6th, the ride. Hey, man, they got all kinds of cool rides.

Back up, back up. This is AI. Yeah, that was made by SORA. Oh, my God. That's, they should bring that to D.C. The ride? Yeah, the city. I don't think the locals would care for it too much. All right. Let's go to your billiard shot of the week. I think they called this a bridge, Luke? Oh, big mama. Oh, wow. All right, keep that to your...

Let me ask you a question. Would you smell the pull stick? No, no, no, no. You know what you fucking... Look, we say to keep your kids out of NFL stadiums, I think you should keep your kids out of lacrosse after this. That's a pretty violent sport, right? Oh, my God.

You got jacked up, right? Right? When we grew up, they used to show highlights of people getting massive CTE, and they kind of had to stop that after all the lawsuits. Let's go to pro lacrosse. You've got to cover all your bases here. Protect yourself at all times. Did you play lacrosse in high school? No chance.

They didn't offer that where I come from. Oh, my God. Look at that. Yeah. Right to the bullseye. Is that legal in, did you play lacrosse? Long Island? I was going to say I played in middle school.

Long Island, known for its lacrosse. So, you know, it was kind of funny was that my buddy went to do. Georgetown and I would visit him and when I was in college and you know most even William and Mary like homecoming is when the football team comes home and then you have a big but they don't have it maybe they do now but at the time

they didn't have a football team or that's not Homecoming was around the lacrosse team okay and there were all these women who used to hang around the lacrosse team and they were called the lacrosse did you oh my God is this going to end into Duke lacrosse but they were found not guilty they were found not guilty by the way I mean this is a very

misogynistic framing. I'm just telling you what I heard. My Ritzie town now is big on lacrosse, but where I come from the factory town, we didn't have wrestling, we didn't have lacrosse. We didn't have boys volleyball. What sports did you have in high school? Football? We had football, baseball, basketball, cross country, track, soccer, yeah. Didn't have wrestling? Not an expensive sport. We went into that shit. We like to wrestle

with girls. I bet, I bet. Yeah, all right. Hey, what a wild weekend over there in Newark, not necessarily at Penn Station, although I'm sure it was. We had BKFC back for a big one shout out to mike perry by the way stopping jeremy stevens knocking him down five times that was a pretty gnarly win for it's just a weird thing to like for that fight to be set up because one guy fought at 70 and one guy fought at 45 well it wasn't the only weird thing this week connor mcgregor had a tour to force in the in the microphone game he looks sober let's listen in we're going to see them settle the score and there's nothing more satisfying than seeing scores settled

I wish all my combatants well. May we turn our knuckles to dives and raise the roof on the Prudential Center this Saturday night, live on Dazone, pay-per-view, where we destroy all our competition that we are facing on this night. Long live bare-knuckle fighting championship. Long-lived Dave Feldman.

Long-lived the Prudential Center. And long-lived the notorious. Let's go. I think I grabbed the wrong video. I meant to do the one. where he was making fun of mike perry so the one where he makes fun of mike perry he's like if you don't do what you're supposed to do you're out and then he goes and then on the other side who the fuck is that guy but then he says something nice about him the hard is hitting 145

i was honestly i was laughing he just shot on the main event was he fueled by energy drinks for that speech you know what probably just just straight up sober enthusiasm long out luke i think our next video is the one you're no it's not but this video is good too watch connor during this face off here this is insane i just think oh no here it's sorry yeah title honors is what it's about you've never been a world champion you have a chance here you're down playing everything

the mockery you haven't fought here why don't you come get it? I own this fucking thing what are you talking about I'm the owner I book the matches you need to climb for a world title otherwise you're here today gone tomorrow a fart in Michael Perry a fart in the wind

that'll be fucking you if you don't climb for a fucking world title It's more than any fight you're doing. You ain't fighting nobody. Yeah, I'm coming back in the White House. You're trying to clamor for it and switch roles. You're fighting for that world toil if you get true with this this weekend. They're going to treat you like Frankie Edgar.

The Redneck Mondale. The beat boss is going to make it happen. Dude, it's just so wacky to see him feuding with his own fighters. It's insane. And here's the insane. Thank you a longout. Look, we did have that one. I forgot.

Here's the face off. Connor's like checking these guys. Like, it's a cocky fight. Look at this. Shoulder bumps? Look at the eyes. Oh, he's got a foreigner. You know that.

And this is what it's all about, ladies and gentlemen. Who's the king of violence? Who's the king of violence? It's Mike Perry, Jerry Stevens, perhaps a fight with McGregor on the line. They keep selling that, but he's got two fights with the UFC left. And Dana was like, yeah, we're not negotiating with Conner yet. He's making all that shit up. I'm happy for Mike Perry, you know, but that is, that's close to the bottom of the barrel.

Mike Perry got the win in the fight, but he also got the win after this way in. Challenger Jeremy Stevens. He's delightfully corny. You have to give him that. Did you see, by the way, that Christine Ferreya, who had defended her title again, broke that chick's nose. I wish we could show the highlight. I did see the, I did see the aftermath, and it's vicious. Your BKFC fighter of the week, though, however, is Carl Roperson, who competed despite wearing a lowjack under his sock. Understand that if convicted, he has an upcoming court case.

If convicted, he's facing 10 years in prison for various forms of quite serious. And these are accusations. He is innocent until proven guilty. SA stuff? No, but robberies that are violent. Again, he's facing up to a decade in prison. Let's let him fight. Not small charges at all.

Just let him fight. Maybe he should fight. Cedric a Dumas, right? Sidreik Dumas, yeah. Let's go to your fails of the week. These are pretty violent. You know, if there's a pool on a roof involved, someone's getting hurt. Oh, this honky's not going to make it.

There it is. A mini scorpion there at the end. Shut up to that. Oh, let's go to the golf links. That fuck. They're getting that water, fatty. Okay, all right. Watch out for the gators.

There you go. That's great. Don't put your kids on BMX bikes. It's not 1979. anymore. Oh, my God. Yes, that is great. The orthodontist about to make a ton of money off this moron.

Check out this sign in the UK, right near the crematorium. They had a Mick Crispy McDonald's. To remove tasteless sign opposite Cornwall Crematorium. McChrispy, yes. Oh, I couldn't see it because of my site. So, okay, so the bus stop ad says, as Mick Crispy and they're next to the fucking place that they just burn up their relatives. Yeah, yeah, they had to remove that because enough people complain.

All right, uh, let's check in on the tour to crotch in Spain. We're coming up on the curve here in this bike race, but as we zoom in, Luke. Just a big old dick. That is awesome. Just some dude with a bunch of chalk and some free time. And they knew that the camera would pick up this. Oh yeah, they would. By the way, I was walking, rest in peace to barbous,

I was walking him, you know, close to the end of his life. And there was someone who was selling a house in my neighborhood. And I'm not fucking kidding. I took a picture because I was like, you couldn't go by James. His name, I'm not making this up, was Jim Crow. It said it on the fuck. You know, they plant a thing in the yard to, like, realtor or whatever? His name was fucking Jim Crow.

I looked it up on the last thing. It can't be right. Is it a QR code? I scanned it on the fucking website. Wow. He goes by Jim Crow. And I'm like, James wasn't available?

Yeah, I guess not. All right, it's time for my favorite mini-segment, MMA Fighters in the Wild. Let's check out Habib, the footballer. What's this corner kick, Luke? Is he barefoot? No, he's got something on. I've seen him play tackled basketball.

Now we got him on the soccer. A regular Hamas Rodriguez. There he is right there. Let's go over to friend of the program, Raw Dog Royval. I feel like it's been happening. What the hell? Well, the audio blew the joke.

Yes, ever. The audio there blew the joke. What was the audio? He was a bunch of Tylenone, I'll say. Yeah, yeah, I was doing it. He was doing a bit there, but I don't know what happened to that audio there, so shout out to that. Oh, so, whoa. Sorry, we ruined that joke.

Let's keep it going. Former UFC and GFL star. Sage Northcut has taken into real estate, Luke. Would you buy a house for him? Definitely not going to get his face smashed. doing that. Remember Cosmo Alessandre completely destroyed his face? Yeah, I do remember that. Do you think he will outsell raging

Iaquinto? I don't know what kind of business he does, but I wish them both best of luck. All right. Luke, people always ask me what it would look like if I had become a habachi chef rather than a podcaster. How do these people not get fired? I don't know. I don't know. Okay, it's time for your

KOs of the week. Regional Amateur MMA. This fighter's name is Jim Kelly St. Pierre. Watch this finish. Boom, brother. Show that one more time from the top. Watch this shit. Watch this spinning back kick. Did you see this yet?

Yes. Dude. I think I sent it to you. It's possible. That is insane. That's a great K. We saw an even better one at the Jason Aldeen concert. Don't hit a...

Oh! Yeah. Don't hit the police. Don't do it. Yeah, I have recommendation for people. Don't punch the police because they're going to punch you back. You know who you shouldn't mess with either? The umpire, because he strikes back.

Tell this, Coach Job, right? That's the most umpire build on a man I've ever seen. Yeah. You don't take no shit, Luke. Spoiler alert. Okay. umpire umpires arguing with the first base coach you're a fucking little fish

oh oh oh oh bro yo soccer kicks bro bro hell to the no is that what that lady said he treated that first base coach like uh like goate treated that dude who just like ripped him off and threw him away like a fucking scab wow that was amazing i mean what did the guy hit him

he called him a bitch did he put his hands on him he must have because otherwise he just did you see him hit that that Hulk with the mask in his hand oh hell yeah

but that hurt like shit too yeah uh Luke the people have been wondering where does Robert Kraft go now that he's been outed at his orchids place where does he get jacked off

I don't know okay maybe it's me maybe I'm tripping but wee wee massage that's a Texas landmark right there Luke okay could someone

send me the address of the wee-wee massage. Look, you know how they say sometimes a sports car, people, you know, call it sexy because of the curves. It's almost like a woman, right? Yeah, check out this Ferrari, right? You like that color? It's the color of your Subaru.

Yeah. Is he jacking off? I think he likes the Ferrari, Luke, all right? Maybe he's just excited about the color orange. I think so. All right, let's head to the old football pitch here. American football. Don't let your kids play high school football either, Luke.

Oh, brother. Oh, wow. That's helmet to helmet. Jeez. Pessing out CTE like lollipops, like Arby's coupons on Halloween, you know what I mean? They need to teach that kid who was trying to tackle. There's a better way to go about this.

Yeah. Your celebration of the week comes from the University of Minnesota. Was that Cam Scadabo? Hey, are you, you're a Giants or a Jets guy? Jets. Go Jets. Dude, that kid from the Giants, what's his last name, Scataboo? Skatabobo.

My man is going to have the most amount of CTE imaginable, the way he runs. All right, go ahead. Here's your college football celebration of the week last week from the coach of the University of Minnesota. Watch this. This is fun. Yes. Oh, that's pretty cool. Yeah.

I wish we could start each M.K. episode like that. Yeah, they don't love us like that, though. Wow. Hey, you know, I was going to say, I used to hate college football because it's so bad, you know, relative to the NFL level. No, it's not so. bad. Relative to the NFL level, it is bad. But now I love college football because it's so bad. It's not bad though. It's just different. It's different. It's bad. Relative to, again, listen to what I'm saying. Relative to the NFL level, it is bad football. They play out

a shotgun. The formations are simpler. The players are not as good. I get what you're saying. Relative to the NFL level, it is bad football. But I'm trying to explain to you, the fact that is bad, I actually now, that's why I enjoy it more now. Because it's so goofy. I don't think you're going to get a lot of people. It's like, why do you like regional MMA? Okay, college football is not regional MMO. Yeah, it's relative to the UFC, that's the closest equivalent.

Yes. It's a lot closer. But anyway, that's an argument for another day. What? Check out this football hit, Luke. Oh, black, got a block. Dude, did they launch that motherfucker into space? Into no, into a garbage can.

Did you see the ending there? Yeah, that was great. Right. We got a couple more, your Good Samaritan moment of the week. Check out this guy in the sidewalk, just helping out. Power washing. You know what? I need my dildos washed. Here. Power wash, man. Can you hold this one for me? My man has, look at the build on this man. He's like, no problem. We do this all the time. Shirtless, cargo shorts, no shoes. Just getting dildo juice all over his fucking toes. All right. Luke, I had to dig deep to find a new one here. Here's Celine. She's back from France. Luke, all right, okay. Oh, my God. She's eating the fucking razor.

Dude, look at this disgusting wench. Can you eat something not weird, you absolute fucking baboon? Oh, wow. Why don't you just eat that can? Thank you, Saline. This is great. Oh, she's got more. Yeah, yeah.

Just put weird shit in your mouth, you absolute fucking mutant. Luke, we're going to close with this one. Do you know the Chinese city of Chongking? This is the one that's like the cyberpunk city. It has the largest city proper population in the world at over 30 million, and it's known for those trains that cut through buildings. Yeah, this is the cyberpunk one. Yeah, check this out.

I went on the train that went through residential buildings in Chongqing, and you won't believe what I saw. That looks cool. Super cool. You can, like, see people in their houses when you drive through. Okay, you got me with that one. That's the shit of the week. I hope you saw it.

Good stuff. I don't know if I would take that metro line anymore. I might just walk. It's like, here's the deal. The fastest way to get to the city is to take the subway line. You're going to have to watch them. You know what? We watched the masturbators on the New York City once.

What are we talking about? Oh, my gosh. Going into that Penn Station bathroom today, you know, a lot of showers going on. Again, once again, I've watched grown men shave their pubic hairs in the sink. That's actually a true fact. That's a real thing I've seen. Well, that's your show for today. Thank you for watching.

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Like, she knows the Aussie ball. Oh, he would be like, put off by it. My dad would immediately be like, B.C. would literally ask to look at his testicles. Oh, right. And I think he would contemplate what he had done with his son at that way. Or his life. Yeah, yeah, that's great. All right.

Thank you for watching everybody. Luke, anything to say to the people. on the way up. Please check out my, it's, you know, I know the fight was very short. It was 80 seconds, but I did a little bit of a brief breakdown on the fight. By UFC posting the fight in full on social media.

People were saying like this was some kind of attack on ESPN, and I'm like, they've done this before. In big moments, yeah, yeah. And this was such a short fight. It was such a short fight. Why would you not show the whole thing? I didn't quite, I mean, yeah, I'm sure ESPN's not thrilled about it,

but I didn't see it as like a fuck you to them. I didn't quite read it that way. And then ESPN's like, Let's put PFL behind the double paywall. All right, there we go. For LT, the LIL, this is BC. Thank you to Ken and a deer in the back. Even Matt Snyder, we love that guy too, all right?

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