MORNING KOMBAT WITH LUKE THOMAS AND BRIAN CAMPBELL - Tank vs. Roach Controversy | UFC Apex Recap | Cinco De Mayo Boxing | FULL EPISODE

Episode Date: March 3, 2025

Bringing the heat like we always do! On today’s Morning Kombat, Luke and BC break down everything you need to know about the Gervonta "Tank" Davis vs. Lamont Roach fight on PBC on Prime PPV and this weekend’s UFC Apex card. First up, in boxing, Tank Davis barely escaped with a majority draw against Lamont Roach, and there was plenty of controversy surrounding the fight. The guys talk about the ‘knockdown’ that wasn’t called and whether Roach got robbed of what should’ve been his victory. Plus, was this just a one-off for Tank, or is he losing his competitive fire? Then, we move to UFC Apex, where Manel Kape took a big step toward a flyweight title shot, but his third-round TKO win over Asu Almabayev had more than its fair share of eye poke drama. What did we really learn from Kape’s performance, and can we separate it from the eye poke issues that seemed to play a part in his win? And in future fight news, we’ve got a massive Cinco de Mayo weekend ahead, with three straight days of big boxing events. Luke and BC react to the newly announced Turki card live from Times Square on May 3rd and give their thoughts on what could be a crazy weekend for boxing fans. Don't miss out on all the drama and the breakdown of what’s coming next in both sports! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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a wild weekend in the combat space we have to break down from everything that went on and the Gervonta Davis Lamont Roach Jr. PBC on Prime Pay-Per-View to UFC Apex and people sticking fingers in other people's eyes. Hey, I'm Brian Campbell, that BBC with that BDE. Yeah, the AA, er, er, alpha over here. I'm one half of your hosting duo from my basement in suburban Connecticut. Yes, all right.

How's that apathy? Let's go, yeah. And that guy next to me. Oh my God. He's the best damn combat sports analyst who never had the gall to get in the fighting circle, right? Well, okay. I'm just being a dick. Hey, it's Luke Thomas from Washington, DC. There he is guys. Yeah. What's up? What's up? BD. Well, what's up? Hey, hey, three cheers for BC on a big ass Saturday, huh? Three cheers for BC on a big ass Saturday, huh? Three

cheers for him. There it is. How did you celebrate after doing a Tank Davis pay per view in terms of like, you know, relaxing, kicking your feet up. I'm going to guess you you cranked your hog at your hotel room while looking

at something on your phone and you ate popcorn until you fell asleep. Um I was you know, it's, it's interesting. My, my hotel room came with a, with an eighth road chair and I just, I just settled, I settled deep into it, put on YouTube and just, you know, smelt my own farts, what a time to be alive. Thank you for the love. Appreciate as well. All the love from the, uh, the MK faithful.

It was a fantastic night at the office. Even with the controversy that of course we're going to get into. But Luke, did you have a nice weekend in the nation's capital? Maybe take, I mean, there's no splash pads open this time of year for young tokes, but, uh, I don't know. Did you get your toe spacers? What do you got going on in your,

Oh, I got my toe spacers on right now. They got them on right now. Yeah. I got to fix these feet. Um, I got my first pedicure for whatever that's worth. Now people, I didn't, I didn't realize this. There are like, there's like numerous levels to pedicuring, which I did not know. I of course did not do like the coloring of the nails. If people want to do that, that's cool. It's not for me. I just got them trimmed and then cleaned. And then I called it a day. My wife and kid kept going. I, you know,

whatever. My feet are disgusting. My feet and kid kept going. I, you know, whatever. My feet are disgusting. My feet are disgusting. Did your foot surgeon quit instantly after that job or what? You know, I couldn't believe the like the wreckage of dead skin. She was able to pull off of my feet, but I can't because you sent me the disgusting brush or the cheese great. I have to show the picture. I have to show it because this is truly unbelievable. We're not that far away in our friendship if you want to call it that from

you sending me actual pictures of your craps which really would be the end. That would be the end point. That would be I mean that's a little much but I just want folks to see this. She took one of those cheese grater things. This is

one foot. This is one foot of dead skin. Is that insane or what? Yeah. That's a lot gross, Luke. Okay. You know what I mean? Yeah. Wow. Okay. So that was cool. That was cool. Yeah. All right. I hope you listeners out there are doing well. Thank you for supporting this here podcast. Uh, you know, we get through some storms, but we fight through them. We're still standing. You can follow us below. If you've been on this journey and you haven't let the world know, how about liking this video, subscribing to what we're doing here on YouTube. If you're catching us on an audio only platform, well, thank

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All right. Shout out to our people. Thank you very much. Okay. Here we go. Enough enough talking them up Uh our third member of our fantastic team here. Uh, he's from the ball sack of an australian He loves long island and yeah, there he is luke no cita of the main card minute. Hey brother. What's up guys? How are you? Good. Did you enjoy that? Uh Star studied apex event over the weekend. Yeah, dude, uhu Omlovayev, you know, he would have won

if he didn't get poked in the, no, I'm kidding, he was getting his ass beat. Tough night. Esteban Rivovic won, in my opinion. Pretty bummed about that. I think a lot of people feel that way, yeah. LIL, you know what I love the most about Saturday? The two-man Anik Dom Cruise booth.

I'm serious, that was awesome. I like them together, too. A lot of people don't like Dom Cruise on commentary. I actually love Dom. Yeah, but you know what? They did the retirement package for him. It was a little like dude in like a study hall. Dude, they literally it felt you because so I ride the train all the time. There's one train car BC called the quiet car. It's like right behind first class. Anybody can sit in it, but the only rule is right. I know about that, but the rule is you can't be on your phone. There's no, there's no loud talking.

That's they call it a library like atmosphere. And they will tell you to shut up if you're like, if you're breaking the rules, dude, they did a highlight package for Dom Cruz in the quiet car on Amtrak. I couldn't believe how like it was a nice package. Don't get me wrong. Like they pause, but they, you know, they did a good job like building it out, but oh my God, man, like there it just felt dead.

I don't think it was just me. The only difference between the Apex and an Amtrak car is one of them doesn't have a half Armenian man blowing up the commode, right? I mean, just hold it till you get to the studio. What are we doing here? Can't do that, brother. Can't do that.

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Cause that guy's a fighter, by the way, that guy's got a backbone and he had MK right on the package. I can't wait to corner him one day. Coach was Tory style. You know, that's my dream. Uh, but I want to get this guy on the show one day. Would you allow that? Would you ever? Yes, yes, I would. Absolutely. I would not. I would not stand in the way of that at all. Uh, he's my hero

and dig arrow. Shout out to that brother. Just he's a hero. Yes. Yeah. Damn right. Uh, unless you have anything else to say, Luke, we should get into this, this wild and wacky weekend. If you're, we've got a lot to talk about. Let's do it. All right. A reminder that anything else to say, Luke, we should get into this wild and wacky weekend if you're ready. We got a lot to talk about. Let's do it. All right. A reminder that today's episode is presented by DraftKings and you know that DraftKings,

the crown is yours. Thank you very much. Topic number one. I know you guys want your MMA, but you know, the first four topics on MMAfighting.com right now are boxing because it was big over t Barclay Center PBC on Pri your Vante tank Davis, th holder escaping with a ma

amateur rival DMV favorite But oh boy, oh boy, there controversies going on in Brooklyn. Luke Thomas, from referee Steve Willis and the New York State Athletic Commission's replay officials, seemingly egregiously blowing that round nine knockdown when Tank willingly took a knee to, I don't know, Roach outworking and out out landing Davis and still settling for a draw in your opinion Was Lamont Roach merely unlucky and this is boxing or was this another black eye to the sport and was Lamont Roach Robbed of something meaning a victory meaning millions of dollars that could have been rightfully his no

There's there's simply no question Lamont Roach was robbed. I have a high opinion of Lamont Roach. I have a high opinion of his gym, of his father, of his family, and I thought he would do well. I wanna say before we talk about anything else, he overperformed even what I thought was possible, and it looked to me like he overperformed

what Tank Davis thought was possible, to an extent probably PBC as well. I just wanna say, the first thing that should come out of our mouths when talking about what Lamont Roach did was he performed insanely well and I just want to make sure that that is the defining feature of how we talk about his performance. Now that aside you're asking a pretty big question. I saw a tweet from Bill Simmons BC on Sunday. That notable boxing fan, Bill Simmons. Yes, go for it.

Yes. Well, fair enough. He's a casual combat sports fan. I mean, he has been in fights. He gets to a certain degree. To Bill's credit, back when ESPN was doing stuff called like page two, he was going to the Mohegan Sun to see UFC events. Like this is a guy who I'm not gonna call him a hardcore fan

and I don't really care for, like, I don't know. I don't understand why he has cousin Sal on all the time, who has nothing interesting to say ever once in his life. But putting that aside. I didn't see this rivalry coming, but keep going. No, no, no. I don't hate him, but it's like, every time I tune in, I'm like, why is this person just talking?

Stop. Anyway, he had a tweet that was, that he had to know was incorrect, but it doesn't really matter, which is that he says, in talking about the round nine knockdown, that this was a travesty, this was ridiculous, but boxing is not really really regulated so that there will be no penalty. Now he knows that's not true. He's had any number of discussions with other boxers

with Dana White about the UFC, he knows that relevant athletic commissions are the ones that are in charge, but the casual person's opinion even somebody who might know better like bill nevertheless takes you to a position where it doesn't really necessarily matter that the Commission actually is the one in charge. I mean there is some relevancy and importance there, but this is the crucial detail BC that it just looks like nobody is in charge. It looked like Saturday. No one was really in charge except for maybe tank Davis of his own choosing to do almost not quite whatever he wanted because in taking the knee, not only should that have been ruled potentially a knockdown and referee Steve Willis began

physically gesturing counting with his fingers then all of a sudden inexplicably stops. They could have actually disqualified him for putting tank Davis for putting his head out the ropes being wiped down by Calvin Ford to get something out of his eyes and then returning to action or they could have taken two points for that if they had wanted to. That was all on the table, but instead, none of that happened. And in fact, what happened was the exact opposite, as if nothing had happened. That is the reality of what went on here. We'll talk about a tweet from Turkey, a little chic later

in the show, BC, where he had some interesting things to say about this broadcast. But I want to really make a point about this. A lot of what the American boxing community is trying to do right now, which I fully support, is bring big fighters, big fights, and keep them here in the United States, right, to keep the markets alive, to show what can be done when you have an enthusiastic and native boxing audience here in the States, and to really sort of showcase what it means to have an American boxing, both a side as well as a future event. But in the end, you know, when we talked last week about Turkey, you know, going up and talking to Shiraz

about the scores and how that was, you know, not necessarily a good look, but hey, he's the guy kind of in charge. What do you really expect? I'm not suggesting to you that the regulatory scheme that we saw in place on Saturday is identical to that BC. What I'm saying is a casual fan, which is the biggest audience that combat sports has,

they can't tell the difference. There was really no difference between the kind of thing that you saw in Saudi where Turkey can kind of have his way. And then basically, what do you want to call it? Inept, not lost his fastball whatever with Steve Willis where this goes down we all saw the score cards 115 113 2114 114 and I saw what people said well if he had taken a point maybe Lamont excuse me if they had taken a point maybe Davis would have approached this fight afterwards a little bit differently. NBC, that is true. I have no way of knowing if he had taken a point, how that would have been, how Davis would have responded to it. But the best stretch of the

fight that Lamont Peterson had was basically during that portion and then a little bit later as well. Like he was on fire from round seven afterward, not from rounds one to round six. It is very hard for me to believe that there would have been some kind of amazing tank comeback, at least on that particular night, given everything that we saw BC. So how do I wrap this all up? Let's just state it as plainly as possible. The rightful winner of that bout should be Lamont Peterson. Lamont Peterson was the better pure boxer, landed more on Tank Davis than anyone else has to this point, and was fucking robbed by an officiating crew that either wasn't up to the job or certainly after the fact even despite multiple entreaties from the press like Dan Rayfield and other ones

who don't even have the goddamn decency to explain what happened from a regulatory standpoint on their end. A shameful night for boxing, even if it was a great night for Lamont Roach. Yes. Thank you for you. You're calling in Peterson for a while. I get the Washington Connect. Oh, sorry. Sorry about that. Yes. I have a lot of Lamonts here. If anyone didn't see it, very slow tactical fight for the first half. We didn't really learn a lot. You get Tank who's always a slow starter, but I think the key part of this was Lamont Roach didn't do what everybody else does, which is try to go crazy and win as many rounds

until Tank makes that adjustment and knocks them out. He forced Tank, who loves being the counter puncher, to take the lead. So it was an interesting but slow chess match. When we fast forward all the way to round nine, of course, Tank after a couple punches from Roach, not directly, you know, I mean, there was a pause, he got hit with a jab, and then he turns and takes a knee. And anywhere, I believe in any state commission, automatically you get a standing eight count. You take a knee voluntarily, let's not forget,

by the way, the only time legally that Floyd Mayweather was knocked down in his entire career, not counting the one against Zab Judah that should have been that they missed was when he broke his hand against Carlos Hernandez and turned away and went down to one knee. Should have been a 10-8. If it had been as Luke said, it would have been a majority decision win for Lamont Rhodes. So right there then and there you've got a major issue. I don't have a major issue with the actual scoring of the fight. I do want to say that in real time while calling the fight, which isn't always easy to score it as focused as you would be if you weren't, I felt eight, four or nine to three in terms

of rounds in favor of Roach was what my eyes saw. But I'm saying that telling you that there's like four or five rounds in the first half of that fight where the output is so low from either fighter that it is really hard to confidently say Roach won this fight. I think most people had it around a draw or seven five either way and really I don't think it's crazy that you could have scored it seven five four tank because some of those rounds were close. And even that round nine, after that failed knockdown fiasco, that was the best round of the fight, and honestly, one of the best rounds of the year because they traded in the center of the ring. And I actually thought that Tank landed in totality the bigger shot,

so I slightly edged him that round, even though he did get briefly wobbled by a road shot. But the whole point was two or three judges had a 10, nine tank. If that knockdown would have been called, it would automatically been 10 to eight roads. So there you go. Now to clean up some of the regulatory stuff here and Dan Raphael of fight freaks unite did a lot of reporting yesterday on this and went on his own podcast and talked about it. And according to Dan, he communicated with people that were in the production truck for PBC and under the New York State Athletic Commission rules, they do have instant replay, but they have a tight window where they can use it. So according to Dan, he talked to the production people in the truck. They fed the replay in real time, in enough time, but also according to Ray Fuehl, the replay official on site

is claiming that they didn't get the clean feed quick enough and the window passed for the actual instant replay to take place. So in totality here, Luke, I don't know who's right or wrong on the replay getting there in time, but this is a major, major dropping of the ball from the New York State Athletic Commission. First and foremost, Steve Willis, a guy that a lot of us love and respect in some ways because he's smooth in there. He's almost dancing the way he moves around. His eyes are flying all over the place. This was a drop call. This was absolutely a drop call and something I didn't even realize in real time while calling it. He did. You can see it on the

replay, start administering the count. And then his voice was picked up on the broadcast due to being miked saying, tank, you can't do that because it's gonna look like a knockdown. No, it is a knockdown. So this is rough. This is really rough. If we can show a tweet from Dan Refuel,

Long Island Luke, who is certainly one of the longest reigning and respected journalists in this game, Dan straight up calling it fuckery and quote, literally the worst call I've seen in my entire life. So you're talking about a legitimate controversy here. Luke, how do you feel like having watched it a second time? What's it? What's the window of a fair scorecard in your eyes?

I could do one 15 in either direction. I think that's okay. Uh, I think start getting to one 16 territory. That seems a little wide, although I suppose there's probably a case, but that seems more edge case. I mean, it was a close fight and it wasn't a fight that had a ton of really truly punctuated moments and so you know, it's not that I mind a

You notice I'm not necessarily railing on the scorecard of 115 113 for Gervonta Davis. I don't I don't think that that is insane by any stretch of the imagination It's just that it ended up being a 115, 113, then the 214. And so mathematically at the point of being deducted, we've been over a million times. Obviously it would have gone to Roach. But like, you know, I don't mind scoring it that way. It's just, dude, you know,

you go back to the Teddy Atlas quote, you know, what is it, 36 minutes to make life fair. When you're talking about these 12 round bouts, this is something Lamont Peter Lamont roach, excuse me has been looking for for quite some time He did everything that was asked of him and it didn't end in disaster But it didn't end the way that it was supposed to Under the fairest of circumstances and I really don't know what the what the what the what the choices for fighters about this one

You know, I've made a big deal about fighter pay for a long time, but it's not really as relevant in boxing for obviously, you know, a bunch of reasons. But if there is one common denominator, the boxers and the MMA fighters have is, man, they are at the mercy of just absolutely. We talk about our leadership, our political leadership in this country, being a gerontocracy. But dude, that's the same thing happening in our officiating world. Look at how old these boxing referees are. Look at how old these judges are. Look at how old the commissioners are. And that's, look at me saying it. If I'm saying it, there's a huge problem. And it's, here's how bad it is in boxing BC. It's not even as bad in MMA despite the fact that the commissions are

Obviously sanctioning both sports, you know, we talked about the Jason Herzog controversy Look at the difference between what Jason Herzog is and what he's done since that error Versus Steve Willis who didn't speak to the press has apparently no desire to speak to the press The Commission won't make him speak to the press. And so here we are. It's like, dude, we are in desperate, and I do mean desperate need of adults with bold vision in this sport, both boxing and MMA combat sports more broadly, taking on a position where they recognize

the problems that we face now in some ways might be intractable. But the effort we are putting into making them better seems non existent, whether it's I pokes in MMA, or whether it is referees, in this particular case, who watch a fighter take a knee, stick his head outside the ring, get wiped down and then return, he starts account physically, you can see him do it on the broadcast, and then stop and we're just supposed to say, this is a normally functioning sport. This is a fucking disaster sport.

This is a disaster sport. You are ruining and fucking up the lives of the people who are putting their lives on the line for entertainment. It's unethical, it's unfucking believable. And yet it is the reality we have. Something, goddamn, something needs to be done to protect people like Roach and more broadly just consumer interest if they want to keep this thing afloat. Now we're going to get more into Gervonta's sort of shortcomings on this night and topic

number two, but if you hadn't heard his excuse when I asked him in the ring afterwards in terms of like what happened, Why did you take that knee? Was that he had his braids done a couple of days ago and that there was grease put in there and the grease was dripping down and blinding him in the eye. Now, like we have seen the famous Cassius Clay versus Sonny List in part one where Muhammad Ali, accused Clay of putting illegal substances on his gloves and he was blinded, but he fought through

it because there's no timeouts in boxing. So it really is a rough situation that doesn't make Tank look good. And oh, by the way, Tank's proposed hairstylist, if this is the person who did it, came out on social media and killed him and was like, I did his hair on Wednesday. There's no chance that that could have still been an issue on Saturday. Although Luke, you may remember that Amanda Serrano did have a Puerto Rico homecoming fight with Jake Paul's MVP promotions, I think it was last year, and unfortunately had to pull out the day off of that fight because something similar happened where she got her hair done and it messed with her vision. So I guess it is possible that that could be a thing, but the whole handling of it was

an absolute debacle by the New York State Athletic Commission. And you're right, the fact that officials are not readily made available in most cases for comment or interviewing does not help the situation. It also, even though PBC is getting a lot of counter fire blame here, it's not their fault, but it looks like it is because Tank escapes a fight where he was, let's be honest, a little bit flat, not himself, largely uninterested. I said, we'll get into more of the Tank side. So Luke, let's close out the Lamont Roach side. Everything he said he did in this fight. Luke, I got laughed at in the production meetings, talking up the amateur experience

between them, the familiarity, the fact that Roach was not afraid of Tank. He showed that in just about every way. He survived those middle rounds where Tank was going hard to the body and walking him down. So I got to ask you Luke, what do you think Roach ultimately accomplished against Tank that pretty much every other opponent has been unable to to make it this close. Obviously the Barrios fight was closed, it was a size difference, but Tank overwhelmed him. The Pipple Crews fight was close, but Tank hurt his hand in here.

I'm not seeing the same excuses here. A guy who knew him well kinda outdid him here. How did he do it in your eyes? I don't think he kinda outdid him. I think he did outdo him. I mean, again, that's you know, some of the scoring can be close, but just watching it again. I watched it two more times this morning from front to back and I couldn't believe what I was looking at. I mean, dude, that understand what the fucking

media slander was about Lamont Roach coming into this fight number one that he was cherry picked, which I don't think is necessarily unfair. I think that Davis was probably looking for a tough but manageable fight and thought he could get that in Roach and he got much more than he bargained for. But aside from that, the point that they made was not an unfair point beyond that, namely, well, Roach is a 130 guy coming up to 135. He lost to Jamel Herring. Yeah, he's got a win over Hector Garcia. That's nice.

But you know, this is this is somebody that tanks should just blow away. And then you talk to Lamont Roach, you talk to him, I talked to him ahead of this fight. And he said all the right things, which was I know this guy, I know myself, I grew up from those bad experiences with Jamel Herring. I've rounded the corner. This is totally different. We've rounded the corner. This is totally different. We know who he is. We know how to fight him. Dude, he stood in the, he stood in front of Tank Davis, took the best punches that Tank could give him for 37 minutes,

36 minutes and fired back almost the entire time. First six rounds, a little slow, but from round seven on BC, he was in there trading with the guy, never got dropped, wobbled Tank Davis as the guy coming up in weight, catch and shoot, was so crafty, slipped on the two and landed his own. That lead left hook of his is a dynamic weapon. You saw him chopping to the body, chopping upstairs.

With that, dude, He stood in there and gave Gervonta Davis basically in that space, not in terms of like an overwhelming show of force, but in terms of what he said he was going to do, BC, overall boxing skill and an overall boxing skill. He stood in there under that consideration and gave Tank everything he could handle and then some. How many people have numerically outscored Tank Davis in that way? Not for power shots, but overall volume in the way that Lamont has. Nobody. And then to go in there and stand right in the line of fire, and

BCI even tweeted it before the show. There's several of those punches where he's kind of catching and rolling with, but they're landing at the same time. This is fucking Tank Davis, man. This guy just stretches people when he lands. And remember, I'm going to say it again. where he's kind of catching and rolling with, but they're landing at the same time. This is fucking Tank Davis, man. This guy just stretches people when he lands. And remember, I'm gonna say it again, coming up from a lower weight class,

just taking, catching, and shooting the whole time. Dude, I understand that a lot of people didn't know who Lamont was. BC, I'm not even, I told you, did I not text you this? Tell the audience the truth. After I got my stupid ass pedicure, I'm sitting there waiting for my daughter to get finished up and the guy next to me who's sitting there is playing your post fight

interview on the phone. Then I didn't tell you this part, I go across the street to where there's like this food hall. And the guys behind the grill are talking about Lamont Roach, do nobody knew who he was. And now they do. And that's a great thing. But you asked what he did. Dude, he arrived. That's what he did. He arrived.

He said he was going to do, and he did everything that he promised. He can't control the judging, so that part's out of his hands, but he proved he is a craftsman, he is a veteran, and he deserves to be taken as seriously as anybody else in that division. Yeah, huge coming out party.

And a reminder that they were, the last time they fought as amateurs when they were age 15 and 16 in 2011, they were number one and two in the nation in their weight class. So Roach turned pro with a legitimate reputation, but to be fair, it took him time. It wasn't just the loss to Jamel Herring in 2019

where he just wasn't quite ready for prime time. He bounced from promoters, from Golden Boy, eventually to PBC. And then look, he had to wait out his title shot against Hector Garcia for Hector to fight Tank. And Hector delayed it and got injured. There was a long time for him to get this opportunity to finally prove himself.

And I've got to say, he was not, even though we knew he was slightly taller and slightly longer than Tank coming in, he was not the smaller man, despite moving up in weight. I know it's one division, five pounds. He looked like a legit ass 135 pounder, a tough one, with a chin, with defense, with counter shots. I know it was largely a low output fight, save for those pockets of rounds where they did trade.

But he passed the test literally every way he could. And there was a tweet out there that I didn't love from Tank where he said, they took the fight from me and made it to the draw because I did that bullshit knee, but I landed the most punches in the fight, which he didn't. And he didn't even hit me with a punch when I took the knee. Also not true, it did come after a couple shots.

And oh, by the way, that tweet from Jermontae did get community noted and they showed the CompuBox stats on there. But let's play an interesting piece of sound from the presser, where Roach is talking about what Tank said to him in round 12. Y'all know something funny? When we was talking in like the 12th round, I think the 12th or 11th, we was talking shit, right? him in round 12. That's how boxing work, it's sad to say. That's how boxing work. I'm not totally upset.

I figured with a superstar, you won't get too much on paper. But shit, I damn sure thought I had it. Especially when they announced the score for him, I was like, oh, they're going to give me a split decision win. I was like, oh, yeah. I was like, oh, they're gonna give me a split decision when I was like, oh, yeah But soon as I heard that 114 I was just like damn I just So look tank telling him they're gonna rob you they're not gonna give it to you They're gonna give me a split decision was interesting

Oh, I got a updated tweet 20 minutes ago from Lamont Roach 20 minutes ago. So Gervonta tweets. Yes 42 minutes ago. Say no more. I'm pushing for the rematch Lamont just quote tweeted and goes F you mean pushing n word my my contract already signed and set for the immediate rematch because you put that in there just in case you lost only reason we don't fight is because you're scared. Okay, so that is good because Keith I deck of uncrowned reported that Tank did have a rematch clause. It is contractually there, but there was this weird sound afterwards from Tank that didn't make a lot of sense. Can we hear it quickly here?

Long out. You know, up a little bit then press the issue. One more here and I think we're good. Tank. I just wanted to ask earlier. You said, you know, hopefully you can get the rematch with Lamont next, but everybody looks at you as a face of boxing and as somebody who calls the shots. Do you want that rematch next?

And if so, how likely it is that we're, you know, we're to see that fight happen again this year? I'm not sure, bro. I'm definitely not sure. Hopefully we can get it before. It probably won't be this year. Is that the one you want next? That's the yeah, it's definitely the one I want next, but it's not going to be next. What is? You might say in a minute. It's definitely the one I want next, but it's not gonna be next.

Well, what is? You might see it in a minute. You definitely might see it in a minute. Alright ladies and gentlemen, give it up one more time for the 38 line- Now Luke, he would elaborate on that in another interview where he claimed that there was an opponent ready in the arena that came into his locker room that he was going to announce had he won. The only people I saw that fit that description either ringside or on social media that were there were Shakur Stevenson, Isak Pitbull Cruz and Jake Paul. So it seems like it was probably going to be one of those three if you could even sanction some kind of weird Gervonta Jake Paul rematch, you know match, I don't even know. But I'm happy though

that it does seem more angling toward a rematch because Roach deserves that and I did see, I think it's is it the WBA, came out and said they're more than likely going to order a rematch. So would you agree with me that this has to be next and I want to know, do you think this is because of the controversy and the performance from Roach? You think this will be a big deal this rematch? I think the rematch will be bigger than the first one. I do think that. I mean, there's simply no question that people were caught a little. Dude, even us, we have a high opinion of Lamont Roach and even us were like, wow, he really, I thought for sure if he was going to duel like that with Tank, he was going to get some licks and give some, but that

eventually he might get clipped at a bare minimum. And even that didn't happen, like crazy to think about. So I think the rematch will be bigger. And for that reason, there's a good chance of it being made. But like, you know, if Shakur comes calling, I don't know if that will take precedence or not. And you mentioned it. I mean, I don't even know, I don't even know what to say about like Jake Paul

being there. Is it even relevant? I mean, how do you, you know what I mean? Like I don't even know what to say about that. But the point I'm trying to make is there could be any number of other fights that get made that are at least in theory bigger. And for that reason, you just always have to follow

the money in boxing. But I think what Lamont has on his side is, him and I sent a bunch of tweets in the chat. He has them ready if you want. Yeah, he's going back and forth. He's going back and forth with tech show that here's the Dan Kenobia one. Santa more pushing for the rematch.

BC saying he wants the rematch at the end of May. I'd be okay with that if that's what they want to do like turn around on it real quickly. And then I don't understand this one, if you've got it, word around the block, y'all favorite fighter, he's talking about Tank here, is fitting to be a 30 and one, not 30, 0 and 1, two times two division champ.

Is he suggesting he's got word from the commission that they might change the result of that fight? It seems like that, it seems like that. And the history of people appealing and getting things changed in boxing isn't great. But this is such an egregious situation. Again, I mentioned what Dan Rayfield reported about the the dropping of the ball in terms of the timing of the of the window of when replay is accepted there.

I feel like if they had seen it in real time and I think was referee Ricky Gonzalez, Dan said, who was the replay official, very respected guy. There's no reason that they would not have changed that to a, to a, uh, a knockdown. So I don't, I mean, I don't know rules wise, Luke, if they can retroactively do that either way. This man deserves the rematch, meaning Lamont Roach. He deserves the big time money for this performance.

And I'd almost tell him, leave that 130 pound title you own behind. I love him here at lightweight this physical size this confidence. You already had Shaker Stevenson saying he'd love to fight him too. So interesting stuff Luke, but let's transition to topic number two.

A lot of tank trepidation out there about what was really going on in the build up to this fight, the performance of this fight, the aftermath. So Luke, yes, the true story of this fight surrounds two things, the controversy and the overachieving, the coming out party of Lamont Roach. But it is hard not to overlook some of the bizarre behavior from Davis. Okay, him talking about retirement like crazy and therapy. That's not bizarre, but I think that played into this. Then you have that sort of weird mock outrage that Tank had in the ring after the

decision was won. He had like a smile on his face, but he kind of kneeled in the corner and acted like he was really upset. Then he gives me the very odd excuse about the grease in his hair that's already been auto tuned into like a song by the way on the internet. He had an overall lack of urgency. So when you consider all this, Luke, including him arguing with his corner aggressively and yelling at Calvin Ford and, and, um, and, uh, who is it? Barry, uh, Hunter took over as main trainer for this fight.

Here's a very important question because boxing, you only fight two times a year in most cases. So you are only as good as your last performance. Was this one off night for Tank Davis, or is this a sign that the hunger is temporarily gone, or that he might be spiraling here in terms of the direction of his career in the wrong direction after this performance? There is simply no question

his competitive fire has diminished. There's no question in my mind. I don't know how you can't look at his attitude from the beginning of this announcement for this fight, the press tour all week, everything. It just seemed to me he's got his mind in other places. Now we have to understand something. That doesn't mean he did not train hard and in fact if you'll know he did not have a hard time going 12 rounds

and also I think the way in which Lamont Roach fought him created as you indicated BC somebody like Tank wants to be the counter fighter and Lamont wasn't really obliging that very often or at least not certainly not as much down the stretch and was making him go and then was getting countered and you know, so it was a big problem. But I just I just want to point out something here. We said from the moment that this fight was announced and they did that press event BC you and I watched it. We were like, man, tank just seems like he's in another world I cannot declare to you at the present moment that he is done and

anybody who can knows much more than me or simply is willing to just say things that they just don't know to be true it is very possible BC that another thing you have to consider is he does have tank Davis a chummy relationship with a bunch of DC boxers. Again, the guy who was his fucking corner man this time is perhaps the chief, um, and Barry Hunter, the chief coach in this area for that kind of a thing. And so it wasn't a heated rival like he had in Ryan Garcia. In fact, you see, I went back and I watched some of the press events from the Ryan Garcia fight. Remember when Ryan was like, you know, it's not about money. That's what you don't get.

And then tanks pulling out money is like, yes, this is all that it's about. Idiot. And he's like chucking money at him. Remember? Like there was a certain kind of competitive fire that was pulled out of him. And I do think that that ultimately elevated his performance on that night. I know there's weight stuff and everything else, but I'm saying, I do think that played a role, But Lamont never gave him any of that and Tank never tried to get any of that out of him. And there's a little bit of this and that,

but there was none of it. But just between that, the way in which Roach fought and then the bigger issues that a guy like Tank has identified, remember, prior to this fight, and then there was some other ones too, but more recently, I should say, in Tank's life, the guy went to jail. And he went to jail for like a big thing that he fucked up on

really bad. It was a hit and run and left people there at the scene of an accident. Like this is pretty bad shit. And he went to jail for it. And he came out, it seems to me, something of a different person. And it seems BC, maybe even a better overall person. But I've seen better overall people become worse boxers because they're healing. Things that had tripped them up and angered them and frustrated them earlier in life,

simply no longer does. By the way, he also has more money than he could probably ever need if he spends his money wisely. So BC, all of this is to say, there's simply no doubt this is not peak tank in terms of his competitive fire, ambition and focus. That isn't to say he couldn't pull it out of him in a rematch.

That isn't to say he couldn't win a rematch. And it's not here to say that a different person who would be squawking in his face couldn't pull out the monster once more. But he wasn't there on Saturday at the Barclays and he should have paid for it with a loss. I agree with you. I agree with you completely. And it's not that this doesn't happen. Great fighters have had off nights, bad camps, stretches in their life where they weren't as focused, whether there's outside distractions or partying or whatever. I don't know the case, right? We don't see a lot of tank outside of his fights. You know what I'm saying? So it's tough to say, but

there were some issues in there it seemed beyond just Roach knew him well, applied the right element of pressure, showed a great chin. I mean when he was giving me that answer it was like Bizarro world. Even when he was hearing the boos from the crowd and sort of getting angry and challenging them and being like, why you guys booing? This is a legitimate thing. It's like I'm not saying it's not a legitimate thing that hair grease could have gotten to his eye, but he was so nonchalant, almost laughing about it. There didn't seem. A legit amount of a urgency in the fight and be lament that this even happened.

Right? Like lament that there was a draw on his record. Now it could just be, he was kind of half embarrassed in the moment, who knows? It was interesting. Let's play sound from Tank at the Post Fight Presser where he does show some humility about why this result didn't go his way

and further talks about Hairgate. What was going through your mind when you heard the decision? Nobody like a draw, you know, from a guy that get knockouts and things like that, but it's cool. I feel like if we fight again, I could do more and I should have did more. I was lost in a, I lost track in the rounds. That's why we need, what is it called?

Yeah, man. I didn't know what round it was. Facts. Tank, Eric Blum from DailyMail.com. First off, your coaches said, can you confirm, did you get your hair done two days before the fight? Yeah.

I ran water over it today, but I must say, I didn't do it enough. Can you describe what the feeling was like in the ring? Was it to get the towel out, to get the burn out of your eyes, or what was going on? I didn't want to get caught. I didn't want to get caught while my eyes was burning. And you know, like, you can get knocked out like that. So I'd rather take the knee than, you know? But I already know that you can, like,

get the Spotify for all that. Or, like, when you start counting, I'm like, what the hell? But I don't know. It's cool. Do you want that rematch next? And if so, how likely it is that we're going to see that fight happen again this year?

I'm not sure, bro. I'm definitely not sure. But hopefully we can get it before. No, it probably won't be this year. Is that the one you want next? That's the, yeah, it's definitely the one I want next, but it's not going to be next. What is? You might see it in a minute.

Definitely might see it in a minute. You definitely might see it in a minute. Okay, the ending of that was a repeat of what we had heard earlier, but Tank would go on to later say, when asked if this changes his retirement plans, he said it does. He now wants to fight four times this year, so who knows if that is, if he'll get there, if that's real. But Luke, you did hear him say he lost track of the rounds. He didn't know the rules about the knee Which is kind of weird and interesting Um, I get the way you don't want MMA fighters and boxers appear to not know the rules of their own sport I'm not I'm not even doing a bit like how many weeks do we go over this and they're like

No one seems to know the rules if you could try to get in the head of referee Steve Willis Do you think this is tied into some of the complaints we have in MMA refereeing, where they don't wanna be the story? So they try so hard not to take away a point or do something where they become, where they have a hand in the outcome. But in this case, by not taking control

and not having a hand in the outcome, you alter the outcome. Is that how you sort of look at what Steve Willis did? I just think Steve Willis is old and I think he got caught in a super unenviable situation, a weird one, and just refused to take control, just refused to take control and let the other guys take control. And I think as a consequence This is where we are like these guys don't into your point

They simply don't want to have any kind of fingerprint and now it's gotten to the point where we can't even tell if they're there Right that there's they are their borderline invisible at this point and by the way Obviously not calling the knock or the knee down or even warning about anything and any kind of formal way and the whole, all of that in round nine is bad. It wasn't like he had a good refereeing performance

outside of that BC. He was slow to break up some clinches and he had a hard time doing it. And then there was other times BC, he would like pull them apart and then talk to one of them, wouldn't stop the clock and they would talk, I counted, almost one of them went for 15 seconds. So several of them went for 10.

And the time is just ticking by and I'm like, dude, dude, he sucked, he was really, really bad on Saturday night. It's hard for me to believe there is nobody in their late 20s, early 30s in New York state who can do that job effectively. Because it seems to me like they are in desperate need of some turnover. Well, if Roach would have won. Would be a new champion.

You've already got star study group at this division with Tank with a belt. Lomachenko, Shakur Stevenson, Keishon Davis. Do you reorder those at all, Luke, in terms like like this tank deserve to drop out of the pound for pound top 10 for this. I mean, it was a draw in the end, controversially enough. Does this change anything when you look at the hierarchy at lightweight? And what I mean by that is I was always of the belief that if Chakur and tank met, I would favor Chakur even with the power difference between them. And people would always laugh at me when I say that.

I almost feel like we saw some limitations in Tank's adjustment ability here that we just haven't seen before. This was the first flat fight he'd had since the MayMack co-main event in 2017 when he missed weight against Francisco Fonseca and kind of got booed the whole fight until he finally knocked him out late. Does this change much in how you look at Tank stock? Yes. Yes, it does. I remember when Spence beat Crawford beat Spence and not I think the month after that BC, I got the opportunity to call by the way, Gary Antoine Russell, I got to call one of his fights at the MGM here on an Oxen Hill, Maryland, just outside the city and bread man bread man, by the way, who was also there cornering Julian

Williams, J rock. And he said to me something off air, we were talking about like, you know, what does this do to Spencer's pound for pound ranking? And his point was, dude, you can't get throttled like that, and then claim to be a pound for pound guy. And his point was, dude, you can't get throttled like that and then claim to be a pound for pound guy. Now, the argument of course was that Bud is also a pound for pound guy, so it wasn't like you were losing to a scrub, but his point was, you simply cannot get dominated like that

and then hold your pound for pound positioning. Now, BC, that's not the situation here. It's not like Lamont dominated tank, far from it. That's not my point. And nobody would suggest something like that. However, like again, I'm gonna say it Roach prior to Saturday not on anyone's pound-for-pound list and on top of that a 130 guy coming up if you're a pound-for-pound guy Should you be going to draws against guys that you handpicked from lower weight classes? I that you handpicked from lower weight classes.

There's a strong argument that there should be a very stiff penalty in the rankings for a performance like that. But if Tank comes out and knocks him out in the rematch and does what the odds makers thought he would, that could change that. You are, I mean, it's fickle this sport. Yes, I mean, I don't know if you like, I'm not saying he never belongs on it now or ever again.

We're taking a snapshot in time. He goes out there in the rematch in may BC stretches him. Okay. Different conversation that we're having, but at the present moment in time, he turned in a real dud and he's supposed to be a top pound for pound guy. There should be a penalty for that. Yes. All right. Well, Luke, that's a good time.

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Please drink responsibly always a shout out to our partners over there at Cuervo Luke. Let's quickly hit the big notes on the PBC On Prime undercard. Then we'll get into the UFC Apex over the weekend. Gary Antoine Russell, who had knocked out all 17 opponents heading into his title shot last year for the interim belt against Alberto Pollo. He would lose a split decision and say afterwards, I'm never gonna leave it. I'm never gonna leave it in the ring again.

He said he had a chip on his shoulder and he went in there against world title holder, Jose Valenzuela, who called him nothing special this week. Russell said, I took that shit personally. What did he do? He delivered a near shutout over 12 rounds to capture a world title at 140 pounds, honor his late father, Gary Russell Senior. Of course he had his brother, Gary Russell Jr., year shut out over 12 roun title at 140 pounds, honor

Russell senior. Of course Russell jr former feather his corner. So luke russel of 1000 punches over 12 r a brutal pace and he beat is a very good fighter in category. What did this p your eyes about where Gary

Antoine Russell belongs in the 140 pound hierarchy? Dude this is the most impressive performance I've seen from him. I mean you can say the Victor Postol fight, you can even say the Kent Cruz fight, which is the one that went in around, but like I freaking love this performance from Russell. I couldn't believe how good it was. I thought Ryo was going to give him a tough time. I mean understand something. Rio was coming into this fight, Jose Valenzuela, with the stoppage win in the, what was it, round six over Chris Colbert,

and then the Esau Cruz performance. And remember, Esau Cruz was kind of bumping himself up in everyone's eyes in terms of what he was doing. And then Rio outboxed him and everyone's like, oh wow, I guess Rio is simply a lot better than we ever realized. And then Antoine Russell, Gary Antoine Russell goes in there BC and kind of abused him to be perfectly honest, especially down the stretch that he was

landing multi punch combinations. Rio simply couldn't do anything to a get out of the way of the onslaught. He got pushed back into the ropes over and over again, he got drilled to the body combinationslaught, he got pushed back into the ropes over and over again, he got drilled to the body combinations upstairs, he just really was struggling to find a place, I'm not gonna say to hide but to be comfortable in there. And then secondly, on top of it, BC, he, he was just so he looked, he was out of ideas. I think by around nine or 10, he just looked like I am just trying to get through this. That's what it looked like to me. Russell fought with verve. He fought with personality.

He fought with a ton of offensive mindedness, like he had a good high work rate and everything else. And you guys talked about it on the broadcast that he fought with a bit of a chip on his shoulder coming off that Puello, Quoios with decision loss BC it clearly lit a fire under him. And by the way, also should say something too. I don't want to keep going back to it, but I do think it is relevant. They lost their patriarch some years ago at this point and Gary Russell Jr. has kind of filled in and I think he's done a marvelous job. Please don't misunderstand me, but it looked like it might've taken some time for Gary Antoine Russell to kind of settle into all of the new power dynamics at the gym and what it means for his training, what it means for the

fights, what it means for his development, and everything else, dude, he looked like if you just take away the Pollo fight, you pick up off the Kent Cruz fight, it looked to me like you know, the the the the, the line growth is like this on the, on the graph. You just, I mean, it's just an unbelievable leveling up from him. This was Rio at arguably BC, his hottest. This was Valenzuela at a balance with, excuse me, at arguably the best that he has been. And Russell mowed him down. I was so impressed by him. I was

not I was expecting we talked about it a little bit on Friday. Hey, this is kind of one going on under the radar, because I thought it was going to be back and forth. Dude, it was a pick on on the cards. It was an actual pimp. Sorry, last thing on this PC. I apologize. You're right. It was a pick them. Rio couldn't get Russell off of him. Russell was just constantly battering him.

And you could see there were times Ryo would bite and then throw. And then kind of like, I'm going to stay in my ground. And then he would just get overwhelmed right afterwards. Man, this was the best performance I've seen from Russell. A deserving one for claiming a world title. I take my hat off to him. Fantastic by him. He told us in the fighter means I'm going to destroy him in

every possible way. And you hear that and you're like, okay, great. Let's see what happens, dude. He even took Riles best shots and never sold them. Just kept coming forward and pushing and pushing. It was almost virtuoso level. And I loved the coaching in the corner from his older brother, Gary. And if you don't know their father, their late father, Gary Russell, senior named all six boys, Gary Russell with different middle names, sort of a George Foreman thing but breakout performance no longer Gary Russell jr's little brother in any way and you consider he's got that streak of 17 consecutive knockouts against guys he's he beat didn't get a knockout here but dominated I think this was a good enough performance that he now looks like the class

of this division like literally looks like he could beat every other champion, including Teo Fimo. He looked that good as a Southpaw mixing the boxing with the power. We also saw another title fight in this division on the undercard. Also between Southpaws when Alberto Pollo and Sando Sando or Martin, who a lot of us kind of secretly thought could put out a stinker, they surprisingly had an aggressive somewhat of an action fight. But Luca split decision lost for Sandor Martin where I thought he had done enough. The same outcome he had against Teofimo in that close fight. I felt for him. Did you have, were you one I thought more teen one but the fight was

Not great and it was close and be whenever it's close to you know The rule whenever it's close in combat sports you it's just a coin flip at that point So yes, I I did not again again, Pollo got the split decision against Russell previously and then, you know, he kind of edges one here too. But I didn't think it was some kind of, I saw some people being like, this was a travesty. I didn't think it was a travesty. Yeah. And you can have a unification fight rematch now with Russell and Pollo. Also, unbeaten to 154 pounder, the 24 year old, Yones Teyes of Cuba. Look great against J Rock. He's 10 and 0, Luke. He would get the decision here. I feel like he's ready for a title shot like

right now. Like this kid is legit looking to me. Are you going to talk me off the ledge at all or were you impressed? What did you think of J Rock? Didn't throw enough punches, gave a veteran performance, tried to expose the kid, couldn't, it's getting time. He's 34 years old, you know, he's a gatekeeper now, but I love the guy, I love Brevin. I thought J-Rock boxed as a crafty veteran. I thought, you know, he kept himself safe as possible,

tried to go where he could, tried to find his spots where he could, and it just wasn't enough, and ultimately he succumbed. So it's a nice performance by Teyes but at the same time, I need to see a little bit more. All right, all right, a fun division there at 154. And if you missed it in Puerto Rico over the weekend on Dizone, Sabriel Mateus did get his second consecutive victory after losing

the title stopping Gabriel Valenzuela in the eighth round. But one thing I forgot about Luke, Subaru Al Mateus has knocked out every single opponent he's beaten. He's 22 and two now overall. So he's still a name here at 140. Should be some fun fights. Last thing on Gary Antoine Russell, 28 years old, like like like Nasser Dini, Movav BC. He's in the prime. He's in the in all seriousness, he's 28 years old. like, like, like Nasser Dini, Mavov BC. He's in the primer. He's in the, in all seriousness, he's 28 years old. Like, man, he's hitting his prime and looking every part of it. Really excited about his future. It was also that, that, that robbery in England with that DQ

with Patty Donovan that the internet was going crazy over. Did you watch that? Yeah, I saw the highlights or whatever that was floating on social. Yeah. Yeah. All right, Luke shots fired across the boxing landscape for sure. And speaking of shots fired, how about a new segment here on morning combat brought to you by who by Cuervo and oh, by the way, right now is a good time to enjoy that tequila that invented tequila that we're talking about at Cuervo. Our new segment will look at some of the more aggressive takes of the week or moments right here. And we have a tweet for this week, Shots Fired, and it comes from Saudi Arabian boxing advisor, Turki Al-Ashiq, who was in New York over the weekend.

I didn't see him at the Barclays Center. I'm not sure he was there, but he was watching the broadcast. He did fire some shots. Here's the tweet from Turkey. If you charge people at 80 bucks for the pay-per-view, you must give them a good card with good production. I mean, I worked on that show, Luke.

I thought it was pretty damn good, but the expectations of your friend, Turco 182 over there. Okay, shots fire time. Listen, I appreciate what Turkey is saying and I'm not saying he has no point here. For example, just on a small bit, when these guys walk out with the rappers who are just pantomiming,

I realized that in the case of Gervonta, he had two thirds of dips set there. He had Jim Jones and he had a Joel Santana. But the point was, it's just lame. It doesn't really work. There's a lot of things that could have been better on that broadcast in terms of the production element. But I will say this. The crowd was real. They had one of the highest gates ever at that facility, second highest of all time.

There's a real market here. And in the case of Gervonta and Lamont, you obviously have two legit fighters, although to Turkey's credit, he's putting real fighters on in his neck of the woods as well. Listen, you've got two different models that are happening that are colliding and both have their benefits, both have their downsides. I understand what Turkey is saying, but also can we just say it real quickly, the RBC, you're charging 25 bucks for pay-per-views because you're just willing to take an L. Other promoters simply cannot afford to do that. It's not realistic. Enjoy it while you can, but that ain't fair to the state side who are putting on fights for an audience that has to show up. That was a great crowd. Chuck

Mindenhall was there with his son. More Ronaldo's brother flew in for it to see Tank. It was kind of cool to see those guys there, but enjoyed that. Thank you. Over to Cuervo, shots fired, baby. That's what we're talking about. Let's go on now. The topic number four. What went down on UFC Fight Night in the apex and a new flyweight main event after the injury to Brandon Royvald did not change the stakes for Manel Cop who went in there against Red Hot Asu Almabyev and would finish him in within three rounds. So

Luke, Cop certainly moves closer if not right on the doorstep of a rematch with Alexandria Panteljia and that long awaited flyweight title shot. So I want to know from you, what did we ultimately learn about Kopps third round stoppage and is it possible to separate the performance from another week of gratuitous eye pokes, which led directly to cop's finish of of Alma Bayev, who was trying to call time out, trying to alert the referee and ultimately cop got away with it. I do have a quote I can

read from cop that MMA fighting.com transcribed where he said after the fight, that's not my job. I didn't see nothing. I think the referee should be more attentive. I've suffered so much stuff in the octagon So I don't know it was clear for what I've seen it was good He could see me good if he was not able to fight and if I think he was really stopping He was complaining about something. I give him three seconds and I run back I just didn't do anything so I fight end quote a little bit confusing the grammar there But is it

possible to separate this performance and his climb up the ladder from I pokes that weren't even caught by referee Mike Beltran and seemed to clearly affect the finish so I think two things in this particular case can be true once you asked me did we learn anything from cop? Not necessarily in the newer sense from me, given what he's been up to more recently, but it was confirmation that like, clearly this guy deserves to fight for a title. And in fact, in the post-fight show,

they had cop talking to a remoted in Pantoja, right? So they were kind of just going back and forth on that one. It seems like the UFC was setting that up. I mean, it looked to me, he looked ready BC. He looks to me like he's really fully kind of put things together here a little bit. He has fast feet, good reaction time and great sprawl. You saw that a lot. Um, a bio went over six on takedowns, right? Had I think I got 30 seconds of control time, which, you know,

hardly anything over the course of the time of that bout, like this was a, you know, and then obviously like the, the, the, the pinpoint that bout like this was a you know, and then obviously like the the pinpoint accuracy on his striking and you know, he was hunting down a literally fleeing on the bi of and I want to point out something like at least in the I pokes or the scrapes anyway that took place in the third round a lot of this came from a mobile who was fleeing contact. Now. I don't know if that falls under the exact guidelines of a fighter, you know, avoiding the fight, but you're actually not allowed to do that. Of course, you can use defense, of course, you can

evade. But if you're just straight up running half the time, they I do believe that certain jurisdictions and certain referees are allowed to at a bare minimum warn you about it and potentially even take points. You're not allowed to simply flee a fight, you can avoid you can adjust you can move around in certain ways, but fleeing is different. And a lot of this happened when he was reaching, again in that third round in particular, when he was reaching as he was fleeing. And I think that goes to the story. But you know, listen, cop looks ready. This guy looks like he's ready for a flyweight title shot. He absolutely looks at whether he'll win or not, remains to be seen. Again, this will be the first fight. This will be a rematch of the first fight that he had when he came to the UFC.

I told you already won that one, but you get what I'm trying to point out. He just looked like, okay, we don't need to be wasting his time with anybody else. If it had been Royville, it's a different consideration, but we are where we are at this point. Give the guy a title shot. He's ready at the same time BC, even if I can look at how they matched up and I can say, well, one guy definitely looks a lot better at this weight class than the other one. And I definitely can say that on the bio is a good grappler, not a great one. And he's not much of a

striker at all. And that really kind of fell apart for him here. None of that has anything to do with the reality that this guy's eyes got raked like fucking leaves in the middle of October I mean, there's really no way Around it, dude. There's no fucking way, dude There has to be rules and those rules have to be accompanied by a process and the process here Completely broke down and I'm gonna say it one more time We went back to the old gloves two weekends in a fucking row. You have a main event where is it true that iPoaks played a meaningful role in the outcome or at

least how the outcome in this particular case was decided matter of factly happened and I'm gonna say it again BC I don't know if the new gloves would have meaningfully made a difference in terms of eye injury. I actually went back to their announcements in April. The UFC did make some claims that they would do that, but those weren't untested, I don't know. What I do know is they went back to the old gloves, which we know verifiably do nothing to solve this problem. And I'm gonna say it one more time.

Look at the fucking shambolic state of combat sports where in New York City, you've got a fucking boxer in the middle of a round taking a knee and then getting his face wiped off and nothing happens. Let's go to the other side of the country with their sister sport in MMA and let's have a guy get raked in the fucking eyeballs and nobody in the regulatory apparatus

in either case appears ready to do anything. The fighters, I don't think that there is any legal standing for what I'm about to say BC, but there should be. There should be legal standing for the fighters to be able to sue these athletic commissions. And I mean that from every fucking fiber of my being because they are getting railroaded week after week, month after month, year after year. And they, I say decade after decade by these fucking incompetent do nothings who are simply unwilling to meet the urgency of the moment

with what has to happen on the regulatory side. So there was an eye poke in round two that Beltran did see at least the results of when Alba by of was squinting and sort of covering up and they did stop the action. There wasn't really a harsh warning. He treated it accidental, which it was. But our biggest point is that fighters are still allowed to fight with their fingers extended still.

And I know that's part of the game. You're trying to catch kicks or what have you. But Luke, the, the, the sequence of three consecutive eye pokes as Alma by of was like you said, running away. He was, was so egregious, but I got to ask you this. These were flyweights. It's a faster product. Cop was, if I thought he was virtuoso

against Bruno Silva last fight in his flowing state, ability to hit, not get hit, not even wind up on shots, just stick his arm out there and nail ya. Is there any chance that Beltran, we could say he had a bad angle, that he couldn't see it? Because you kinda had to see the replay,

and then when you did, you can see the extended fingers and that cop is scratching and wiping the face of Al Mubayev like three consecutive times Which led to the sequence where he tried to call timeout and then eventually got stopped Do we let Beltran off the hook for that or or like what do you do there? That is that are really those are really fast punches. Was that a sequence where you felt like he should have seen it again? I don't think it's the biggest deal in the world that he didn't see it, but that afterwards there is no acknowledgement that the again,

sometimes you'll see in the NFL is and this they'll take some time to look into it. Let's say that they missed some kind of egregious call somebody was you know? Neutral zone infraction that should have been called and it wasn't and there was still a consequential play that happened afterwards BC You know this they'll take a look at that and then they'll issue a report and then give it to the public to be like Hey, we fucked up on this They won't change any of the results like whoever won the game wins the game, but they'll, they'll, they'll make a note of it. Dude, we're not even going to get that. We're not even going to get that. We're not even going to get any kind of acknowledgement about anything that

anything was mishandled that anything or even not even mishandled could have been handled better. And by the way, if you're at a point where you're getting multiple eye pokes in a fight, however accidental they may be, maybe that proves that there should have been a point taken earlier. And let's see what happens when you actually do that. I would love to see the data on what happens where if a fight has a point taken for eye pokes, how many eye pokes happen subsequent to that? I bet the number drops off pretty

fucking rapidly. This is my point. BC, I'm happy to entertain. We have to treat these officials with some degree of forgiveness. It sounds like I'm not doing that, but I actually do believe that it is a hard job. But if you're going to be forgiving of them, that means on the other end, there has to be some kind of communication with the public, some kind of transparency,

and some kind of process that acknowledges an error was made and we're gonna do our best to not do it again. Jason Herzog last week did that of his own volition. He volunteered for that and that's why we feel better about it. But if they don't do that, we're just left here. Steve Willis owes the public something and I do think Michael Beltran is a pretty good referee,

whether he should have gotten this one right in that particular instance or not but we're just inheriting a situation referees of the fucking MMA world they're using the old gloves there's no technological solution now or imminent to assist you with this it is on you to do something about it so I am begging you do something about it well look what am begging you do something about it. Well, look, what do you have to say about the way the replays were handled with the eye pokes here? Yeah. So when he got poked in round two and Beltran did stop the fight, they quickly then go to the side referee to look at the replay. That referee says it wasn't an eye poke. So

they don't even give Alma by of the time to recover. They continue to fight. Then the broadcast shows the replay. Dom Cruz is like, what the fuck is that? That's a clear eye poke. So I'm a little more annoyed at that than I am at the ones we eventually saw happen right before the finishing sequence where he's running away. Also the stoppage in general, I know he's running away and you got to defend yourself and he was turning into the take down. He had a double leg as they stopped the fight. Like what the fuck is that? Yeah, but also be but dude, but dude, you can't lose. He was going to lose. Well that and you can't flee your opponent like I know. I know. But Chelsea Chandler did it against Norma Dumont. No one bats an eye

at that. You know what? He's like, Hey, do you know there's inconsistent roughing standards? And I'm like, yes, yes, I am totally aware. It's it's like, it's a fair point, but back to that tank scenario of where he actually could have been DQ'd when they wiped his eyes. People forget sometimes, I know this is the case in boxing. I don't know if there's the same rule in MMA, but if you turn your back to the action at any point in a boxing match for any reason, they can call the fight a TKO loss right there because you have stopped defending yourself. Now they're not always that firm because it would be controversial, but any form of like, I'm not looking at my opponent, I'm not protecting myself, they can jump in and stop it.

So it is dangerous in either sport to run away. It's not going to help you. It's just like if you're getting lit up on the ropes, you're behind your high guard, but you're not throwing back at all, you also could get the fight stopped. So it's bang bang. I don't wanna cook Beltran here. Yeah, but this is what- But with that said, I hated the stoppage and I feel really bad for Almabyev,

who I do believe was on his way to losing and sort of figuring out where he's at, because Kop looks like a title holder right now, or a title challenger. I mean, he looks like he's ready, but damn dude, like to lose like that. You're also in the apex. You're also probably not getting paid. Well, I don't know. I mean, he's coming in a short notice. I'm gonna say this too, and it's not fair. It is absolutely not fair. What I'm

about to say is not fair. I'm just saying it's the reality. If you don't speak the same language as your referee, you're taking some risks. You're taking some risks because you need the ability to both hear what they're saying to you as well as to be an advocate for yourself if you're a fighter in those really difficult scenarios. And again, maybe the same language won't save you.

And in fact, many cases it probably won't, but. In fact, in many cases, it probably won't. But there could be a very critical one where it does. And to Long Island Luke's point, like where they're reviewing it and being like, yeah, nothing happened here. And then you look at it and you're like, holy fucking shit, this is quite obviously a problem. I'm gonna say it one more time, dude.

The fighters have, I don't know what the fuck it could be, but they are so at the mercy of whether it's the promoter, whether it's the manager, whether it's the commission dude, everybody just takes from these guys and hardly anybody gives it back. And the dispiriting part about it all BC is that I'm not even sure the fighters care about getting what's owed, but I can just look at the situation and be like, my Lord, what an unequal, what an unequal segment of sports that the power relationship between the fighters and the sport itself. It's insane.

Like we always talk about a fighter union under the guise of being paid the fair amount compared to what the promotion is making, but this would seem a good use of a fighter union to, to, you know, go meet with the commissions and really push for rule changes or clarity or some level of understanding higher than that. But the other half of the story is what cop accomplished securing a title shot. I believe he did. You did mention they had Pantoja on that UFC post fight show.

And look, by the way, a lot of sleuths on the internet saw that the lower third, the cry on there when Pantoja Skyped or zoomed in i'm sure not skype luke because they're going to get rid of that still around for now yeah uh it said ufc 317 was the little logo next to his name so i don't know if that was an error or if that was an accident 316 316 yeah uh so is that that's the new work card june 7th i wonder if we're going to see cop versus Pantozha two on that. But let's hear cop after the fight at the press conference, talking about this potential rematch. And if you get that matchup, how different is that fight going to look this time? It's going to be very, very different. I'm in another dimension of the

fight and things being good. I'm in my timing. I'm being show. I'm in a flow state. And definitely with Pantoja, my style with him is going to match very well. And I believe that I'm definitely going to stop him. And you definitely have shown growth.

But can you admit that he's shown growth as well in this time since then? Yes, but he's been very sloppy. you see if Pantoja he didn't finish Herceg you know he didn't finish Herceg and Herceg is good but it's not that good it's not that level it's not a Kakarov just beat him you know so you should you should you should finish him and they become very sloppy after the third round, you know. He's been getting a lot of, like street fight, bully fights, you know.

Instead of a beautiful fight. What I've been showing is a beautiful fight, a master class, I've been dominating him, I've been showing levels against my opponents. And my opponents was not easy open as they they are tremendous guys that come with Four win streak and knockouts like Bruno Silva. This guy was coming with 17 Win streak nobody wants to fight him. It's a heavy wrestler, you know, so that's the reasons He's a heavy wrestler, you know, so that's the reasons.

So look, these two fought in a non-title bout 2021, three rounds. Cop did tell me this last week that he would have won if it was five rounds, but the scores after three were 30 to 27 and 29 to 28 on the other two scorecards in favor of Pantoja. That was four years ago though. How much have the stakes, or not the stakes, but the differences between them changed since then and how excited would you be if this was the next title shot? I think, you know, I'll say this. I

think Kopp is a deserving title challenger and he as such deserves a fight. I think he could go very differently than the first one. I mean, Pantoja is also at the peak of his powers or seems like he is. I mean, every time I think he's gonna fall off because of all the wars, he looks even better the following time. I've had a bit of a rough streak in terms of predicting his demise and so I'm really not in the business of doing that much anymore. At the same time, he is a little bit older.

He has a very different kind of skill set than cop and cops, sniper precision and whatnot could be a big problem. But of course, against Mokai, if you saw that again, that was a weird fight. I don't know what lessons totally to infer from that. But the point I'm trying to make is it's a good style contrast. It's got to because when rivalry cop will talk it up. It's the right fight to make BC. I'm not saying there aren't other good fighters or

guys who are kind of in that conversation, but cop's done enough. It's a good fight good rivalry nice rematch flyweight needs some of that. Let's do it It's the right fight to make let's bring in our betting and bong expert long Island Luke of the main card minute Luke What do you think the line should be if we see this rematch in June? I'm still gonna favor Pantoja. I'd probably go like minus shit, minus 180 Pantoja plus 200 cops, something like that. Okay, that's fair. That's fair. That's that's okay. Does that fight go to a decision or not? Yes, it does.

Okay. Interesting stuff right there. Luke, when you look at the rest of the Fight Night card, I know you weren't into the fight, but shout out to friend of the program, Cody Brundage, who likes our shit on Instagram. Listen, listen, let me tell you about, let me tell you about what Cody did.

Cody, Cody put his balls out on the table and said, Miss Pelota is a Stana key. You know what I'm saying? He went out there, listen, those two guys, we said it, we like Cody on the show. We absolutely like Cody on the show. But we didn't know if that was necessarily the best UFC main event on paper, you know, and then two motherfuckers went out there and just hammer the shit out of each other's brains. And first, Cody was up and then Julian came back and then Cody

storm back. That fight was probably the best version of whatever you were going gonna get from them in that particular role. So salute. They gave you what they had. You can't ask for more. I'm thrilled. Yeah, yeah.

Shout out to South Carolina's Cody Brundage right there, getting that win back. What else did you like on this undercard, Luke? I saw Nas, how do you pronounce that correctly? Nasrat Hacperas. I afterwards it looked pretty gnarly, but he gets a close decision. When overall action Esteban Rebovich, did this move you at all? It did. It moved. You know what? Let's bring it back one more time. Bong out on Luke. This is your 30 seconds to bitch about this fight. What, what, what do you have to say?

I'm only bitching because Esteban outstruck him by like 20 significant strikes. It was a clear 2-1 to me. PC just mentioned Nasrat's face at the end of the fight. Like, if you're looking at you want to do the the old face test, I mean, it's Esteban's fight. I'm honestly just salty about it because I lost out on a parlay on it. But I want to give a shout out to Sam Patterson who knocked out Danny Barlow, ended that hype train, didn't even get a performance bonus. Kind of wild. Probably one of the best finishes of the night. And did it did Sam Patterson, who knocked out Danny Barlow, ended that hype train, didn't even get a performance bonus. Kind of wild.

Probably one of the best finishes of the night. And did it did it relatively quickly as well. If I can be seen though, I go in a bit of a different direction. First of all, Andrea Lee, six losses in a row. I would imagine this is probably the end of her UFC run. I don't know. I guess we'll see. She'll be running for governor of Hawaii soon if she keeps this up.

You know, it's up there. As he mentioned, Sam Patterson having the great knockout, that was phenomenal. We talked about the co-main. I gotta say, the opening bout on the card, Ramazan Temurov defeating Charles Johnson. Now, Charles Johnson stormed back big in that third round. You can even argue that maybe he got it two to one.

It was very, very competitive, but I hadn't really seen much at all of Ramazan Temurov, and he looked fantastic. Great, great, great opening fight on this card. That was phenomenal. And by the way, Mario Pinto, absolutely sending Austin Lane to the motherfucking land of wind and ghosts with a two hitter while really a one, but you know, bop bop caught him. Um, phenomenal knockout by him. Phenomenal.

You were loving it. Luke. Hey, don't forget people. If you want more UFC coverage and I know you do. I've I hear that. I hear the words. I mean, this is a big boxing weekend, but this Saturday, of course, is UFC 313. In Las Vegas, it is Poetan versus Ankelyev.

It is Fiziv versus Gagey too. And it is pregame preview this Friday live 11 AM Eastern from metal art studio in Manhattan BC LT and the man in the damn hat, Chuck Mindenhall. Yeah. Yeah. You excited? Yeah. You want to be there? Look, let's, let's take down a couple shots of Cuervo and have some fun, what do you think? I'll do it, I'll do it.

Hey listen, Luke, we need you to drink on the job. Motherfucker, I'll be there. Oh, are you gonna bring Tukey? We'll see, we'll see. I might. I mean, look, in different cultures, Luke, they drink alcohol before the age of 18. They have wine with their parents. Is Tukey gonna take a shot?

I can't believe I said that. Sorry, Luke, let's move on. Yeah. She's five BC. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you very much. All right.

Our final topic surrounds a tradition in boxing, right? From Oscar De La Hoya to Floyd Mayweather to Canelo Alvarez. There's those two holidays in Las Vegas representing the Mexican people, Cinco de Mayo in May and Independence weekend there in September, but we're talking about this Cinco de Mayo in May where we won't see just one big boxing event. We're gonna see three of them in consecutive days with Turkey Alishik having a hand it seems to some degree in all three. So here's what we do know Friday, May 2nd, actually in Times Square, according

to Ring Mag and Turkey on social media, Alishik has announced the Dazon Pay-Per-View triple header. We already knew Ryan Garcia versus Rolando Romero at welterweight in the main event. We already knew Devin Haney will take on Jose Ramirez at welterweight in the main event. We already knew Devin Haney will take on Jose Ramirez at welterweight in the co-main event as Haiti has given up that title, which set up that Pueyo versus Sandor Martin fight at 140 on Saturday night. But Luke Martin Boccoli versus F.A. Ajogba

will not happen to open that card. Turkey has added Teofimo Lopez defending his 140 pound title against mandatory unbeaten breakthrough artist, Arnold Barbosa Jr. And we have an AI created by Ring Mag look of what Times Square can look like, where reportedly you can't sell tickets to an outdoor event in Times Square.

So I don't know how we're gonna do this. Do we have the picture? That's what it could look like there. Remember we did see that. Yeah, I wanna be clear. It's not gonna look anything like this, but okay. Okay, well that's what we got there. So that's Friday, all right?

There you go. Saturday, May 3rd from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia and supposedly airing in prime time in the US. You're going to get Canelo Alvarez on, I believe, his own pay-per-view looking to unify all four 168 pound titles again when he welcomes unheralded IBF title holder William Skull. I believe you're going to get a Jaime Mangia, Bruno Sorachi rematch in the co-main among others and recently teased is the idea that top rank will run a show Sunday May 4th from Las Vegas where Niall Inouye will defend his undisputed 122 pound title not against David Allen Picasso as those negotiations have fallen apart but Ramon Cardenas a slugger from San Antonio I've called his

fights on showbox in the past it looks like he could be the opponent there. And of course, the connection with Turkey is that Nioa Inouye is signed to Riyadh's season and wants to fight four times this year, including making his debut in Saudi later in this year. Luke, if this happens, these are three pretty damn big fight cards in succession three days in a row. I'm not sure we've seen something like this since UFC 200 weekend back in 2016. What are your thoughts on this kind of boxing craziness here? Well, I mean, there's good and there's bad, right?

So first of all, the Canelo versus Skull fight to me is just a gigantic waste of everyone's time. Like I'm just gonna say it out loud. Like that, yeah, it's part of the Cinco de Mayo weekend. That's fine. If you're a Canelo fan, you get to see him back in action again. But for anybody who cares about halfway decent fights, like that's a complete waste of time. The other ones are kind of interesting along the way BC and I want to make a point to like, you've got Ryan Garcia and Teofimo Lopez on the same card. Boy, that is just

a racist delight. I mean, you're going to get every possible awful thing said probably during the course of that fight week. We're coming off of one between Tank and Roach. I just want to point this out like, you know, Roach obviously in Tank, they say nasty things to each other, but I think in general, it's within the sort of normal boundaries of what you get with competitive prize fighters. Him and his team carried themselves with class and I thought Tank didn't really mess anything up either. You know, you're

going to get the opposite of that. I just want to point out that there are differences in how this game is played and who plays them and what that means. That being said, putting it on in Times Square BC is an interesting idea. We talked about this before. Now you'll recall I've actually been to a combat sports event in Times Square, namely beat the streets. This is the USA wrestling kind of like exhibition that they put on where they'll get like top wrestlers from another country against America's top wrestlers and then other stuff in between. And it's just a showcase to promote USA wrestling. Turkey is doing it probably to promote the ring magazine or his boxing business or you

know, whatever. But that could be really, really fun. And you're and let's be clear, you know, whatever else you want to say about Ryan and Roley and everybody else these are action fighters these are action fights these are you know in general i'm looking at this card bc and i'm wondering which one of these is going to be the worst ones not because i'm expecting the worst but because i'm actually expecting them to be pretty action packed and it's kind of hard to know who's going to pull up the rear so to speak in terms of delivering for the fans. So like if you're trying to put a put a card together in Times Square, these are some of the fights, at least in terms of like on paper

or the ingredients, you know, racism aside, you would put together to make it work. The one thing I'll say is it bums me out. It bums me out to no end that a pound for pound guy in Canelo granted it's a you know, whatever he's trying to get all the belts I get it but it's a waste of time. BC I freaking love Noya in a way we all love Noya in a way but this fight is on no one's fucking radar at all. So it's like how do we package BC the reality that across the globe, the earth, you're going to be getting multiple pound for pound guys competing on the same week while basically a free event takes place in Times Square. You got to be happy about all of that. But the pound for pound guys BC not really pulling their weight, are they?

No, I mean, here's the deal. Am I missing something? It's supposed to be a free event, the Times Square One, because of the rules on selling tickets, so there's gonna be a certain amount of space that spectators can come and bleachers, but that's a pay-per-view. And I like these three matchups. I like all three of them to certain levels of degrees,

but I get where everyone's saying, it's not like this is Ryan Garcia versus Haney 2, this is to build to that, and it's still a pay-per-view Haney too. This is to build to that and it's still a pay-per-view. You know, it is what it is on that regard. There's a lot of thought that Cardenas, who is a good fighter, does have power, maybe is only in this spot because of his Mexican heritage so you can have a fight in Vegas on Cinco de Mayo weekend. So I'm glad that one promoter at least is trying to take advantage of that. Yeah, it is going to be interesting. This is the Friday Night 1 in Times Square is the second Ring Magazine branded card that Turkey's going to roll out after that. Connor Ben, Chris Eubank won in April.

So I hate the Saturday fight, but I really like the matchups on this Friday fight and where they're going to go next. What do you think about the news that we have heard overnight added to this? The fact that Jim Lampley, the famous voice of HBO boxing that so many of us grew up with and have beloved, he has not called the fight since the end of HBO in 2018. He almost called that Teofimo Cambosus fight that was supposed to be on Triller. But then that fight fell apart, Triller defaulted on it. And we, and that ended up on Dazon. Turkey met with Jim Lampley. They put out a picture and Jim Lampley is going to do play by play on this card with Haney Garcia and Teofimo. No word yet if they're going to go the full ex-HBO

route and add Roy Jones and Max Kell jones a saw al Bernstein kind of twitter that he would li We've seen Jim of late. I with him. I like that he' on media. He's got great in the history. You think big deal. Luke, you think the nostalgia and the box

Lampley's voice back in t these big names on this c? No, not really. It's probably just a goodwill thing to get on the right side of American boxing fans, which is fine. I like Jim a lot, but I'm just going to say this. There's a lot of old motherfuckers in boxing, you know, and to me, you know, BC, you don't have to chime in here. I'm just going to make my point. There's a, there's not many chairs available for broadcasting jobs in boxing. I'm just gonna make my point. There's not many chairs available for broadcasting jobs in boxing. They're very, very difficult to get.

They take time. You have to be very good. You kind of gotta know the right people depending on who it is. It's tough. It's real tough. What makes it even harder is when, you know, you see a lot of the boxing guys

who just hold these jobs for decades. And in part because they're really good, but in part because this is just all that they know and it doesn't really allow for a new generation or new crop to come up. And I'm not going to say easily supplant them, but you know, for a natural handoff. So I'm happy to see Jim back in the sense, you know, I don't think he's going to, you know, I don't think it's some scourge where he's taking jobs from everybody,

but I just look at, you know, and then again, he would be doing play by play. You don't even do that necessarily BC, but like, I'm just going to point this out. at, and again, he would be doing play-by-play. You don't even do that necessarily, BC, but I'm just gonna point this out. This was the biggest assignment of your career last weekend. It shouldn't have taken this long for you to get that far. I think you've been ready for it a very long time. And to me, what boxing needs is a lot more fresh blood, not the opposite, even if we can grant that Jim Lampley is probably one of the very best, if not the best from play by play perspective to ever do it. And

I have total respect for him. But you know, it's time for some fresh faces. And I'm not trying to be a hater saying that I'm trying to acknowledge all of the new great broadcasting folks that are out there. And BC, I think you're obviously at the front of that pack. So that's just my view on the whole thing. I appreciate those kind words and sentiments. And I do have a lot of love for all those guys as well. So we learned a lot from them. We learned a lot from them. Oh yeah. You know, it's also time to move it along a little bit. Early odds have Roley plus 480 against the minus 700 Ryan Garcia, Devin Haney minus 1000.

This is the one that popped me. Minus 1000 against the plus 630 Jose Ramirez. Now, look, Haney should win this, but he's coming off a year layoff, a fight in which he was dropped a whole bunch of times, the worst year of PR he could have had, and he tried to sue Ryan Garcia, and he's a minus 1000 betting favorite

against the former unified champion at 140 who still got something left. Yeah, he did lose to Arnold Barbosa, but I don't know, I thought that was a little bit interesting. I think it's a little strong, but not that much. I don't think it's crazy. I think Ramirez is a little bit past it.

Minus 3000 for Canelo to the plus 1100 goal. And then Teo will be minus 300 Teo Fimo against the plus 220 Arnold Barboza. That might be the best fight of that weekend in terms of like competitiveness and we don't really know what's gonna happen. Yes, Ryan and Roley is the one that's got the most explosive potential you think.

But I agree with you, Teo versus Barboza is the one that's actually got some real legitimate, you know, uh, talent between them. All right. That'll wrap up our five topics. Now we get the opportunity for you to ask us questions and every Sunday night at morning combat on Instagram and X we put out the poll, the poll. We let you pull us.

No, we, we pull you to ask us quite. No, it's your poll and Here's your questions and we'll give you some crappy answers. This one's called DMs from dogs That's just disgusting anyway, our first question comes from D Sarge 1997 and D Sarge Les Luke often says it's not your fault You were born in the late 90s and don't get any of our references. He says except for Francis and D Sarge, Les Luke often says, it's not your fault. You were born in the late nineties and don't get any of our references. He says, except for Francis,

I think he's talking about Inganu, unless he's talking about former Hartford-Waylor Center, Ron Francis, shout out. Are there any heavyweights that the UFC could sign that would inject some life into the division? And I'll add to this that Tom Aspern, I'll just put out a video on a train yesterday, updating and saying he wants to fight Jones.

He doesn't know what the issue is. The issue is Jones. He doesn't know if it's about money, blah, blah, blah. He's still willing to retire Jones by never fighting him. But Luke, who can they sign? It's the same question you can ask PFL regarding who can you get to fight Francis. Who could the UFC sign?

BC just just noodle something for a second right? I mean other names you could sign and Atoli Malik and you could sign. Vadim Nemkov you know he's team Fedor you could sign him or at least you know in theory soon you could sign him. Root Rug Rug you know these are guys that eventually will come up that you could sign right? I mean it's not immediately available but you would imagine over time these are things you could go after. I just want to point out something. That division is an insane disrepair and they would rather let Francis sit in exile forever than bring him back and re-inject some fucking life into that division. That tells you not only the strength of their market position that they don't even give a fuck that that that the division is just ass.

I mean, butt cheeks right now, and they're not going to do anything to even bother fixing it, even though Francis by himself, let's be fair, of course, could not fix it. But it would go a long way towards creating some potentially compelling matchups all the way around. And it doesn't look like that's even something they'll even consider. That says a lot, I think, about the state of both the heavyweight division as well as the UFC sort of control of it all. Yeah, I mean, I think the only answer to here is which light heavyweights can bulk up and move up. You know, that's where we're at. I really wish there's a lot happening with TKO Global. We know this, right?

They've taken over pro wrestling, mixed martial arts. And now we hear the, not the rumors, we hear them talking on the sales call, this idea that they're going to partner with Turkey, put out a boxing prospect league, and handle big pay-per-views a couple of years. I really wish the powers that be would look at this in a non-Dana holding grudge type of way and just say, look at the money we can make by by potentially bringing Francis back now look I know he's under contract right now but like whether it's co-promotion whether it's signing him I agree with

you what it wouldn't egregious turn to just be like oh that guy doesn't want it FM will never talk about him or show him again on camera like yeah all right great thank you let's go to question number two from JD Roseman. His maiden name, by the way, is Von, yeah, Von Amsterdam, by the way. He says, that's Jake, our guy, our documentarian. He says, BC, did you get a good smell of any fighter during the post-fight interview?

Who smelled the best, if so? Always curious. Um, I did not necessarily to answer your question, Jake, get any bad smells. But while I am in my suit, it is interesting. As soon as the fight ends, right. I'm in the ring ready to jump in an interview. Oftentimes not knowing the result. Although I did peep over Jimmy Lennon shoulder as he was walking into the ring.

And I saw that it was going to be a draw and I was just like, oh my God, like, holy crap. And then what happens is usually like the, the sanctioning bodies and the team, they're trying to take pictures and in my ear, they're like, get in there. It's interview time. So I got to push people around and I ended up putting my arms around the fighters and pushing them into me. And that stains my suit full of blood and sweat. Luke, it's part of the job. But who smelled best this weekend, not worst, is Joe Goosen. Dude, Joe Goosen, who we already know, great guy, Hall of Fame trainer, pretty damn great broadcaster

throughout his career, the best dresser in all of boxing. Dude, when he walks in a building, you can smell that cologne and you know he's coming. There ain't nobody like Joe Goosen. I had a great time with him this weekend, by the way, hanging out. But no, I didn't necessarily Jake smell anybody awful and have to report. But Luke, I'm sure while you were watching the fights and live streaming, your office smelled like a, you know, like a sewage. Yeah, an absolute. Yeah, an absolute butthole. Yes. There you go. Thank you so much. All right. Our next question comes from a regular in these parts. They call him flannels and jits and he says, how excited are you guys for CJI 2? That of course is the Craig Jones grappling invitational and Luke, will you do a watch along for it? I'd say what I

would love to go to it. I don't mean, I don't know if that's possible with my schedule, my fam. I don't have no, I have no idea, but I would love you to work at it as a to go to it. I don't mean I don't know if that's possible with my schedule my fam I don't have no I have no idea but I love to work at it as a broadcaster Yeah, I don't think that's in the cars, but I appreciate that but nevertheless either way either way I would freaking love to go to it I think it's gonna be the same thing Thomas and Max Center again out in Las Vegas and of course no ADCC this year so they've got free rein and I've been following Craig's journey. He's back in Austin this week, actually. And so, I mean, at a bare minimum, I'll have some live coverage of it.

But what I really want is to go. I want to go. Yeah. Great question here from Sticks Playtime. Luke, what are your favorite movies to watch while deep in row eight? That's such a great question. That's a great question. Half bag brother. You know what? I'm going to say this.

I think the best movies to watch if you're high are movies that you love but have seen a million times. You know what I mean? Like, yeah, I can't do new stuff when I'm high because all of a sudden I forget it. I can't remember what's going on. But the old stuff, it hits and then you just feel it like that old memory come whatever it is that old feeling comes flooding back. I think that's the move. I don't know. Maybe you have a different view. No, I agree with you. I mean, I'm going to play the hits half baked Tommy boy, the first Harold and Boy. The first

Holy **** Holy **** We gotta watch that one too. It's on Broadway right now with like Bill Burr and yeah. Have you seen the movie though? No, but I actually just did a job last week and they were referencing it a shitload and I had no idea what they were talking about. Look at me. Put the camera on me for a second. Oh wow. Wow the camera. Ready? Coffee is for closers. There you go. That's my Glenn Gary Glenn Ross impression right there. So is vaping apparently. Luke, are you gonna?

Luke, no, I haven't, dude, ever since I've had my lung issue, I haven't vaped in months, nothing. How about energy drinks? Cause those will kill you too, Luke. Okay, you don't know what you're talking about with energy drinks. I think it's only a problem

if you get the energy drinks with the 300 milligrams of caffeine and I have dialed all of Those back all of the ones I have are 200 or less Which is basically two cups of coffee and a little bit of change not that much All right our our you know our protector the backbone of this operation our producer Matt Snyder says great movie on the Glen Gary Glen Ross, right? It's fucking incredible. That's very good All right. I'm not that cultured Luke. So I fit in a certain niche Yeah, but you yeah, you know what though you would like it though Like because there's a scene where alex ball and goes in there and starts fucking bossing these douchebags around and it's

Incredible to watch do you remember when we flew back from the london live show in sol from chasin status gave us those gimmicks Luke those fantastic gimmicks. Remember that? Yes, yes, yes, I do. He reached out to me recently, by the way. He wanted to say hi. Yeah, he's awesome. He gifted us the greatest a throw gift you could.

And I had to fly from London to Dallas direct to work on that Showtime card. I watched the first Harold and Kumar for the first time in 10 years and was dripping crying. Okay, can I make a confession? Yeah. I've never seen Harold and Kumar for like the first time in like 10 years and was like dripping crying while okay can I can I make a confession yeah I've never seen Harold and Kumar oh my god dude it's am I fucking it up am I fucking up I mean it's a it's a goofball stoner movie but it's it's legendary in my opinion okay no all right duly noted um Snyder says that's peak Pacino by the way is he in Glenn Gary Glenn Ross, not only is he in it, he is insanely good in it. Like Snyder says it's up there with his performance incentive a woman, which he's telling the

truth. He's telling the truth. Yes. Okay. All right. Here we go. Let's keep it going here. We have one more. This is from Elvis underscore NG. Can we get BC's current MMA straw weight rankings? Do you need the uh we talking fighting ability or we talking Patreon show? What are we doing here Luke? Hey yeah. Hold on I want to send this in the chat. I don't know if we have time for it later but I'm going to send this to everyone later for later. Okay okay um yeah so I mean what do they want me to say Luke, what do they want me to say, Luke? What do they want me to say? Thank you. Thank you. I'll update my rankings for this week's Brian Campbell Ramble chat. So check that out. Thank you very much. So that is DMs from donks and reminder to reach the show

morning combat at gmail.com for dead wrongs for fan subs and we are trying to make fan subs great again. So it's up to you guys. Uh, I believe before we get into this shit long Island, Luke has done a solid and he's grabbed the photo of Christian DeGiro that we're talking about here. Long Island. Can you, can you pump that out there? Yeah, those were the trunks. First of all, shout out to parking pros, his ass sponsor, but Luke, we got the dick. Okay. All right. Yeah. So that's, that's the,

that's the motto of morning combat. We got the dick. We definitely do. Thank you, Christian DeGarro for always repping us. Whether you're training with Tony Ferguson while wearing an MK shirt or just living your life. Okay, brother. Hope you enjoyed.

I think he went out for fast food afterwards, you know, long camp Luke, right? Look, do you have a favorite fast food? Is there one fast food that, that is the king in your eyes? Taco bell, taco bell. I love that. It's when it's time when it's time to go for the bell, your buddy makes that move. I mean, yeah, you know, if we just five guys in and out, all that stuff, but taco bell.

Look, should you perish before me? And should there be a- Which is an inevitability. And should there be a ceremony where people get up and give speeches about how great you were? I will instantly recall my favorite times with you where you're like, yo BC, you want some Taco Bell? And I'm like, well, I kind of just ate-

I'm not sure, you're like, no, no, no, you're gonna eat some Taco Bell. I'm gonna get some, hold on, hold on. And then $79 later, we have every item on the menu as we're filming an old school RSD. I mean, what a time. I've told the story. After I did Rogan Show in October of 2020,

I crawled, because it was in the, it was in like, I forget we recorded it at like noon or something. So it was done at like three, 3.34, and then I walked outside and it was still daylight and my hotel was just across like not far. It was a walkable. So I walked back to the hotel and I was kind of coming down from the experience and I ordered I think like $70 of Taco Bell like any like the fattest amount of fat guy has ever ordered from there. I didn't need all of it because there's no way I could,

but I definitely indulged. All right, all right, great stuff. It's time for our final segment, folks. Unless, Luke, you wanna run that thing that you put in there now, do you wanna? Oh, no, I want, I don't know if we, let's wait, let's wait. Okay.

I was gonna say, I don't have it ready. Sorry, I scour the globe every Sunday to find viral videos that'll make Luke Thomas emote this one's called. Have you seen this shit? Now look the great who ah by the way the great oteal Burbridge even texted me last week that uh That that scene I showed at the end with the guy is shedding himself to explosive Joseph a bank levels. That was too far. He says that was too far. Let me let me also say this. They're they're beating our ass with this segment where like half the shows we do are getting shut down because of the nature of how YouTube just polices copyright at this point.

So have we done our due diligence to avoid that today? Yes. Yes, we have. We'll only get fired due to indecency today. Okay, very good. Very good. All right, Luke. This first clip gives new meaning to the term run to

daylight. Go. Go! Get set, go! Sounded like Stone Cold just entered the building right there. Wow, that was something here. Luke, you know what we should do on this? I mean, we've accidentally shown, what was it, up to three deaths on this segment in the history, including- I think I wrote Give or Take. take that circus performer new segment alert called faces of death. Let's bring it back. First. We got dancers. I just need you

to tell me if they died or not, Luke. So they're performing. It's going great. Yeah. They look like they're all having a good time. Nice dance troupe. I think they call it right here. Okay, well we just watched the death of 15 people. All right, that's a nice show. Let's add them to our uh our what do they call that body count Luke? Is that what they call that? Okay, all right. Okay, all right. Now it's time for your deep dive of the week. Tell me if you think this person perished Luke. and perished Luke. Okay, well that's not, that's a thing that um, BC was that you in high school? What was that?

No, no, is that a bass fishing store? You ever go to their look? There's bass pro shops. There's a lot of weird things in there like I have never been to a bass pro shops. I've been to a million gun ranges and stores. I've never been to a brass bass pro shops. Our final faces of death clip goes out to the golf course. Watch this.

Look, uh, four. Yep. Four. All right. All right. Let's see what happens here. More like for, ah, take a dive. You old ass bitch.

Wow. K. Ho one. Yeah. Don't you go dying on me. Oh, look, you remember when fan Man interrupted Bo Holyfield too, right? Oh, buddy, boxing at its finest. Watch this!

Who brought the dick, right? Look, yeah! Who brought the dick? Luke,, yeah. Who brought the dick? Luke, what is the soccer team called Millwall? Is that like low level English League? I don't watch that bullshit. Yeah, it is actually. Alright, so you know how soccer stadiums have in the UK have their own fan section separated? I'm sure they have South America too. This one drunk fan from at the Millwall game entered the opposing team. Oh, he's gonna get fucking demolished. the the

the the the the the the the junior prom hook, right? This is BC to his nutsack after the event on Saturday. That is

wild. Alright, time for your shirts of the week. Uh Luke, this one probably be caught on you at one point, right? Everything I love is illegal, expensive, or Latino. Yes, that is in fact the way in which I have lived my life. Yes. Uh

Luke, you'd ever see a happy couple? They end up buying like matching shirts. You know what I mean? Like Disney World, I see a lot of those my life. Yes. Uh, Luke, you'd ever see a happy couple. They end up buying like matching shirts. You know what I mean? Like Disney world. I see a lot of those. Yeah. Yeah. You ever seen this family at a Phillies game before

come in peace? Dude, she was in on the bit. I give credit to her. He, he, he was in too deep in. I give credit to her. She was in the bit. He was in too, Luke. Deep in. There's no question about that. That is awesome. Shout out to your Super Bowl champion, Eagles, but you can find some jerseys on the discount rack of ex-players, Luke.

What they got like, Melvin Aguilar here? Ah, no. My favorite Italian player. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, definitely. All right. Great gift ideas for Luke for the holidays if anybody's watching. We fucking on the cannibal corpse bed tonight. So I've got that on a shirt and socks.

All I need now is the is the is the was this shit. Yeah, that's gross. Luke, can you rate this gentleman's form when it comes to weightlifting? Luke, can you rate this gentleman's form when it comes to weightlifting? Those are some big ass dicks. Very erect form. Yes, yes. Yeah, he's on an earthquake bar. Wow, look at the hogs just hanging, buddy.

I mean, that is. Dude, why would you even buy dicks like that? I don't even know. It's like we've got the monster trucks of dicks. Like, I don't even, where do you get that? Where does that even thing? I got to ask Big Kev to find out where, you know, your boy over there.

Let's go. Hey, Dustin Poirier showed up at a comedy show and they roasted the shit out of him. Hello, Dustin. I ain't gonna bite you. Actually, I don't wanna fight you. Actually, I ain't scared of you, bruh. I, look, I know how to take you down, bruh. All I gotta do is get behind the title.

You'll never reach me. No! No! No! No! No! No! No!

No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No! I'm so on my way! Wow, 10-7 right there on Paui Way. That is, uh... I give them credit. They went for it. That's how you do it.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I forgot what this video is. All I wrote down is I can't stop. Let's see what happens. I'm so tired. I'm so tired. I can't stop. I can't stop. I cannot stop. Oh, fuck. I'm sorry. I could not stop. My bad. You all right? Yeah. Yeah. I mean, the guy couldn't stop. That's how BC treats me when we're on the road. And I'm like, hey, BC, do you want to go get dinner? His reaction was the same as that guy's reaction who got kissed. That's his reaction. Uh, Luke, let's see our haircut of the week. I don't know if you're into this. I don't know if your barber offers this, the headband cut. Do they come with executions? Send this person to Saudi Arabia and tell him he hates the

government. Speaking of Hoopers, Luke, it's time to hit the hard word. Check out this pocket rocket guy. He's our Hooper of the Week. Watch this move. Nice head fake. Wow. It's like he was tossing a football, right? Right into the hoop. That was great. Which MMA journalist can I compare him to to make them feel sad? Mark Raimondi, but he's an NFL journalist now. I like how Mark Ramondi had to fucking throw that thing like like like a medieval, you know, yeah. What? Like a high lie or something.

Luke, watch the ending of this youth basketball game. It doesn't get more heartbreaking than this. Oh, they stole it off the fucking inbound. the ending of this youth basketball game. It doesn't get more heartbreaking than this. Oh, they stole it off the fucking inbound bar. Oh, oh, no. Oh, no. He's going to throw it. Is it going to go in? They won the game on that. Yes. Dude, high school is full of stuff like that. That's great. Yeah. Do you know what the regional MMA scene is full of?

Losers. Ridiculousness. Watch this sequence. Okay. He's getting walked down and oh, he iced the referee with the rolling thunder. Indeed. Indeed. Can't be doing that. Payback for not calling that eye poke, Luke, right? What? What? Could you be more out of position referee? Jesus. Bah. Damn. Jesus. you guys win again. Luke, you ever played double dutch as a kid with jump ropes? Were you into that? Yeah, of course. That was big in the mid 80s when I was little. Yeah, huge

duck, duck, duck, duck, duck. But what happens if you don't have a jump rope? This village solved that problem. This seems unethical. I don't. Is, is Bernie, is Bernie alive I I am uncomfortable watching this I have to tell you this is And dude they threw him like has Bulla Fucking like he's true yesterday's trash. Holy shit. Look do you mess with feet much? You know I mean I just got my I just got a pedicure for the first time. That's true. I always felt it weird that they called the balls of your feet.

Like it doesn't really make a lot of sense. Watch this video. And then turn the foot to the outside and work the testicle area, which is on the lateral side of the foot. Again, midway between the ankle bone and the tip of the heel. Execute both of them right now.

You both of them right now. The testicles of the foot. Hey, Lucas just caught the fucking heel, but okay. All right. That's fair. It's time to get flatulent. So we're going to have some fun with this. Okay. Uh, speaking of Taco bell, have you ever, have you ever had Taco bell

and then one at the end, right? You know what I'm talking about watch what this guy did When you combine all Taco Bell sauces into one master sauce, dude, that's a Devastation right there, right? That's that's for amateurs. I can have their hottest sauce and it does absolutely nothing to me. All right Maybe we had the wrong store. Maybe that was the Joseph a banks post Yeah, that was all I mean I completely demolished that one I'm not sure. Alright. Uh maybe we had the wrong store. Maybe that was the Joseph A Banks post. Yeah, that was all. I

mean, I completely demolish that one. Uh you ever get the the samples at Costco? I've never seen this one offered. I have. Yeah. How are we supposed to sample this? Why is she wearing gloves? I might take that into the bathroom.

Know what I'm saying? Uh you know, you remember that movie Eat, Pray, Love. They, I think they're working on a book. Yeah. It was a book, Connecticut based actually, but let's see it. Eat shit and die. You know what? Those are words I live by, uh, the author of that book, by the way, I used to buy my Christmas trees from her parents at the house she grew up in in Litchfield,

Connecticut, randomly enough. I'm always thinking of the joy luck club, which was Amy Tan, who is the author of E. Pray Love? Elizabeth something I think I don't remember. Warren, I don't know something like that. I could be Senator. Oh yeah, Elizabeth Warren, the Senator. I don't know if she wrote that book too. Anyway, let's keep the toilet fun going, Luke. Sometimes it can get rough in there. Have you thought about installing this in your house? Oh, sorry. Well, yeah. Yeah, you might need to

My home is the fart room. Yeah. Oh god. I got it. Well, you could try this in your actual bathroom Let's keep the fun going Those are for motor homes by the way Luke, but I could see you using that in your bathroom. I needed that at Joseph a bank. That's what I needed and I didn't have any help. And if you really want to get big in the toilet game, you'll, you'll add in the Bose speakers. Check this out. Bo Bose noise canceling toilet wife. What do you want for your birthday? Me? Oh, I don't want noise canceling at all. In fact, I would prefer to have noise projecting.

There you go. That's the way you really dominate your kingdom. A long Island. Luke reminding us that Elizabeth Gilbert of Connecticut wrote eat, pray, love. Thank you very much. Finally, Luke, our final segment is about never forgetting. What are your thoughts on this Pakistan airlines promo? Didn't have to be this way. Yeah, I agree with you. It kind of reminds me of something,

right? Yeah, a little bit maybe. Yeah, I don't think we need to be remembering that on this show. I mean, we, you know what I'm saying? Anyway, we got one more clip. Let's watch it. Bro, look at these sweet ass beard tires. We got this shit's fucking sick Oh, what the fuck? But that's the shit of the week I hope you saw Thank you. I saw this reel on Insta where it was some guy being like it was like it had like the the year written below him he's doing a bit obviously and it's like 2000 it's like 2002 and you know it's a question about like

9-eleven jokes it's like man what's wrong with you why would you do it and then it's like 2012 and it's like all right man like you know that's funny but you know let's move this along and then it was like 2022 and it was just straight up hardcore 9-eleven humor. And I was like, I didn't even know that was a thing until Brian Campbell entered my life. And now I can understand the reels. Now I get it. Now I thought that ended with that man opening a 9-eleven ridiculous souvenir store. Yes. Yes. Look what we have. Yes. Like a spirit Halloween store of 9-eleven. Anyway, that's the that no more morbid crap. That's it. That's it That's the damn show

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the people at all? Are you like already on the I will be in five minutes. Goodbye. the people. All right. Thank you. Thank you very much for Luke Thomas. I'm BC Take care of yourselves. We love you. Thank you for tuning in We'll be back with some MMA this week and we're gonna hit it hard until then gains loyalty and wipe Sitting because it's like what normal people would do. We're out of here. Yeah, that's great