MORNING KOMBAT WITH LUKE THOMAS AND BRIAN CAMPBELL - UFC 318 Pregame Preview: Holloway vs Poirier Presented By Cuervo® | Morning Kombat

Episode Date: July 16, 2025

The fellas are back with special guest Jed Meshew to break down everything UFC 318. This edition of Pregame Preview is sponsored by Cuervo.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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party started. Brian Campbell, our special guest from MMAfighting.com, Jed Meshew, number two. Who does number two work for? Apparently you. Yes. Because there's not another here with us. So our third man at the table, Luke Thomas, is on his way directly from Newark, Penn Station, in which Amtrak has delayed his arrival. We'll see how spicy he gets when he gets here.

But if you're watching, if you're tuning in right now, thank you for watching on YouTube, audio only on the DraftKings network. You already know that today's episode of Morning Combat is presented by DraftKings. And of course with DraftKings, the crown is yours. Jed, we are fired up because we're gonna drink a little bit of this beautiful Cuervo tequila. We're going to set the stage for Saturday's New Orleans

return for the UFC pay-per-view machine and the final fight of Dustin Paui way when he takes on Max Holloway for a third time. And we are also going to speak in real talk like men do like men do so there's a different expectation in a show like this right? You know I mean you forgot I'm most excited that Luke's not here because the first time I was ever on this program We were late Not my fault. Yes, and Luke just could not let me go okay And so I'm excited to really you reap what you sow. Well, we hope that Luke will put down some Quervo today and not just try to take that

glass, you know, put that put that drink through college by sipping it. But Quervo has not just gifted us here with the beautiful Blanco, with the, you know, traditional now here, the tequila repo Zato, Reposado, Reposado. We also, for the first time on morning combat, have Jose Cuervo, Devil's Preserve, ready to go, ready to break into. Now, normally, you know, I'm a man of the other side of this, but, you know, for you, yeah, for UFC 318. All right. I'm here to tell you one thing and one thing only. And that's this.

You already know this program is brought to you by Cuervo and now is a good time as ever to enjoy the tequila that invented tequila. So why don't we do this? Are you ready for this? I'm ready. We little devil's reserve right here. We were doing a little research into what this might be like beforehand. And I'm I got to tell you, I'm excited. It could get a little spicy in here. OK, little sweet, little spicy.

Jed, you are Representing Atlanta, Georgia today the a okay always okay. Why why Georgia? Why right? Because it's always on my mind. Here it is. There it is a Rio Pobajo, Kyle, Boral. Oh, so goddamn bad at this. Okay All my colombians out there all right, thank this one is for all my Colombians out there. All right. Thank you. This is for UFC 318. I didn't expect that after that taste. That is smooth.

A little, a little peppery, a little spicy. No burn. That tastes like flavored water. It's perfect. That is, that was really smooth. That's the smoothest alcohol I've ever had in my, this isn't even a bit. Like that is unbelievable. Wow, wow. Wow, Jose, you've done it. It tastes like stolen valor. That is great.

I like the tequila blanco, but whoo. Like I was dangerously smooth. I we're going to I'm going to just do a lot of that. Yeah. There you go. By the time we get to the end of this, I'll be in a bad place. We see a represent and quaver over right here on the chest. You already know that representing morning combat on the hat.

And you can represent that just the same. Not only this check out Jed's fantastic shirt right here by checking out morning combat dot shop. Our special July exclusives are available to the great average Joe art for those in some time. Incredibly comfortable. By the way, I got all. Wow. Look, you know, for our merch, I like that. I'm just just letting you know, this is my first MK merch. Yeah, really? I'm pleased with it.

It only took you a few times on this show to get, you know, to get out. Really? I'm pleased with it. Alright. It only took you a few times on this show to get out. You know, you gotta leave him wanting more. If I just come in decked in MK, you guys won't respect me. I'd never come back. I don't know if we respect you anyway, but it's great to have you on the show today. Just the same, should be T-minus seconds away from Luke walking in. Which energy drink do you think he'll be coming in with?

You know, he's a once in a while C4 guy. He could be a pink monster at any time, but he's been rocking the Dana White, Anheuser-Busch form lately. Oh, what? Let's go off the board. What have you got like a rain on him? I just just a giant maybe old school monster really fitting with the UFC. Yeah. Yeah. Monster still reps them. I think so. Yeah. I think they're still in the center of that octagon right there.

Speaking of things unscrupulous rings, as you mentioned there, Conor McGregor. Really? We're doing this? I need another shot of the tequila. If you make me talk about Conor McGregor. I mean, you can see your here lower third right there I'm a professional and a journalist of course I did you should look at the unit on that guy Wow, right?

I mean I used to believe in the Irish curse until I saw those photos right that that was your major take away Well now wait on him or yes, it was you know fitness. It's a lifestyle BC Thing and okay here we go there it is Wow I just can't believe how smooth that devil's preserve I honestly I thought we were being tricked I thought I I'm not entirely certain or not I really kind of want to do another shot to confirm that that's as smooth as I think We'll go back to the well one more time here Lucas gonna walk in on a party all right I'm gonna tell you that look it's 318. We should be having a party

It is it is he's last ride one out for the man this one's for Dustin This one's for max That one's for Jolie all right wow you went you went That one's for Jolie. All right. Wow. You went you went. That guy. I can't see it. This is pouring onto the table from B.C. on this one. All right. Do you want to do you want to give us a.

A you want to what are we shooting to chicks without kids? What are we shooting? Well, yours is pouring out. This is a great one. I mean, I feel like I can run this on this show and probably to all the kisses I've snatched and vice versa. Oh, wow. And all the ass you. OK, here we go. Yeah. There's genuinely the smoothest tequila that has ever been created.

Holy shit. I'm going to be hammered at the end of this thing. That is you get that spicy after that little bit. You get a little bit of hammered at the end of this thing. That is you get that spicy after that little you get a little bit of that pepper at the end and wowsers. Wow. All right. Can't recommend that enough. Well, we talked about Connors Dong and we might as well stop killing time and get into the meat of this. And that's what you came to see.

That's UFC 18 in the pregame preview and the real talk that only two gross men can give you third gross man on the way. But as we look at this card as a whole, I know our knee-jerk reaction will be, well, not as deep as the other ones. I'll say first and foremost, I love that they went non-title main event. I know the BMF title is at stake, but I love when two stars established can come together for a pay-per-view and you don't need one. Think Rashad versus Rampage. Think a few times that's happened in history. Connor versus Nick. Nate, excuse me.

But somebody's got to speak to the quality of this card up and down and whether it's given us what we expect, what we need, what we deserve. What do you give for a letter grade for UFC 318? I think this is like a B plus A minus. I recognize BC. How smooth that was? It's incredibly smooth. I'm on an island here. Like I know a lot of people have already talked about it. Epstein Island?

You know, that's it's obviously fake news. There's no such thing. Based on current reports. No such thing. This is not a bad card. It's kind of a meaningless card. I'll grant you that like on Sunday What are the takeaways gonna be like are we gonna have a lot of things to talk about as far as movement and divisions? No, but I don't I don't see a way that it is not just a freakin banger of a main car what you're paying for the 80 bucks you're dropping one freaking banger of a main car, what you're paying for the 80 bucks you're dropping one. And we're going to spend half of the show talking DP Max three.

That's just going to be incredible. So you're going to end the night on a high almost no matter what. Well, I'll end the high. I'll end the night high. No matter. You'll start the night. How you'll actually I'll be on the broadcast for one. Manny Pacquiao returning against Mario Barrios this weekend. But you know, I'm going to be looking and listening out to what's going on down there in New Orleans. Are you heading down to the the Crescent City to cover this?

I am not. I can't. I've been in New Orleans twice and it almost killed me both times. That just did you do the did you stay in the midst of the what do you call that? The crazy the French court, the French court. That's where I stayed for that. WrestleMania a few years back and it was not it was not to like 630. Yeah, it was not it's awesome It's it's one of the most fun places in America, okay, and I can't be trusted so but what letter grade Did you give this car B plus? I?

Think I think that's aggressive. That's aggressive I think everyone is is looking at this wrong because all those fights on the main card are rippers and At the end of the night, you're gonna be like, man, I had a freaking great Saturday. Me and the boys, we were at, you know, some bar watching it. We ordered the pay-per-view at home. We had some Jose Quiro. They're all gonna go buy the Devil's Reserve

and they'll come to the same conclusions we have. And they'll be like, yeah. And then they're gonna be way too drunk because it tastes like water and they're going to have a great time. Let's bring in the fourth member of our team today, the the producer, director, bong enthusiast and a man who joins us on a one way ticket from a horned Australian man's ball bag. It's Luke Noceed of the main card minute.

Long Island Luke, the B plus offered here by one Jed Meshue seems like he's auditioning possibly for a role with the UFC But what do you grade it? Yeah, I gotta go lower than that. I don't know if I could go see letter grade I'll go be B minus about that. All right Well, you try a shot of this Devil's Reserve to I would gladly try a shot of that But you got to bring it to me out here. We don't have a extra bottle of it in here I have an extra bottle of them I mean, I think you could just come out and shoot it. You know all right

I'll go girls like it's better TV for you. Yeah, they're gonna better here than us to just leave yeah here We go here. We go By the way long Island Luke has been appearing on your podcast. He sure has which one is that called this week this? This one the one that he's yes, there's no bets barred. We talk gambling Ah, you know all right pull up our man push out glass there don't mess with Luke's one two three Margaritas here he comes though all right. Oh what time I mean you got it, but you got timing You got it. You got to shoot the devil's preserve the reserve right there, okay? Look at this guy

Take your time No, it's not a bit at all. This shit tastes like water with like a hint of cucumber. Exactly. The cucumber accents the water. It's unbelievable. The devil was not fooling around. But breaking news here into the

Morning Combat Pre Game Preview Studio. Live at this guy. Direct. Look at this guy. Live and direct from the Newark Penn station train. There we go. Hey, could you have less things set up? Yeah, meet Virginia.

I can't wait to speak in a train train Osborne. Hey, Luke's here. Do you blame Amtrak this week or Comcast? Well, I replace Comcast. I have a rise in fires as of Tuesday. I'll have a rise in files We got just outside Newark and they said everyone were single tracking, you know single tracking is the death of your Insanity and then they go and we're getting Inconsistent train signals and I was like, where's my AK 47 motherfuckers? I'm about to have a falling down Well, no Michael Douglas style

Look my motherfucking ball, bitch The best thing we can say to you is we've been getting liquored up on this Cuervo Devil's Reserve All right, which one are we having smoother? Genuinely, I might finish that bottle during the show. So what is this smooth? That's what I'm saying Is it this is this is tequila? Yeah, it's made by made by the tequila that invented tequila. Yes, it is made by Cuervo here. Let's take this one. We already toasted to many a Colombian Okay, it smells like one thing no no no no got a little spice on it Yeah, no, it's so it's it if it's supposed to have your head from just run it in a minute. Okay, it is

It was shocking how smooth that is Yeah, would you say that it's just like the ocean under the moon? You thought you was coming in here and he might not be and he just poured show the people the full breadth of water I mean, he's got the kind of oven that can be so smooth. Yeah, right You should take it without the or you do using that for a chaser Like a real man would do It is like I'm gonna buy a bottle of that when I get I think you're just gonna take that with you back on the plane I don't think you guys do have you seen it yet. No, we've done almost nothing. We've drinking we've given a grade fuck

So so Jed gave a B plus for this card on the surface and that's way too generous. That's like way too generous. No, it's not. You guys are crazy. There's some gems on there. I'm not saying there's not some gems on there, but B B B plus it's going to be fun is the thing like I'm not saying that

we're going to talk about this card for months or we're advancing storylines. It's going to be fun. Well, so all you guys are in shots. I guess I'll be dancing storylines. It's going to be fun. Well, so all you guys are in shots. I guess I'll just do this one. I mean, I'll take a shot with you if you want. Not bad. You know, it'd be great if I had some tahini on the rim.

Oh, yeah. Just sick. Yeah. Well, thank you for joining us. Okay, we're going to have a great program today. It's great to have Jed back. One of our favorites. You know, St. Laz on Instagram and Tick Tock? No, no, St.

Laz. He was the one who was like, yeah, and you could put my balls on some pita bread with some hummus and eat that to the face. Mind your fucking business. That's what I want to tell the train conductor today, but I didn't. Right. Let's put that out there. That's very responsible of you to not cause a scene. There was a lot of elderly on the train today.

Yeah, I didn't want to be too menacing. So 318, right? That's daddy's number, right? Yeah. Okay. Okay. All right. All right.

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It took to key to Sesame Street over the weekend nice that what like like the actual street live show or live show the live show There's a live musical that they have as my wife calls it Well, what do they say they don't call it street? They call it As my wife calls it. What do they say? They don't call it street. They call it Sesame Plaza, that's why they say you think Burton Ernie and Ernie committed relationship or is it? I mean blowing each other was not part of the stage show Like I don't know I haven't kept up with Sesame Street, but yeah, they are yeah. All right. Well, hey look back to MMA guys We have a pay-per-view card this weekend We've talked after it was booked how excited we are that two legends can get together.

It just so happens to be for the baddest mofo title at the end of the day. Jed. You hear that we're going to get a trilogy between Max Holloway, the BMF champion and Dustin Poirier in his retirement fight in his home city. Your reaction is fucking awesome, man. Like, yeah, who's upset about this? Right. Like I could quibble and I really wanted to see Max fight Charles. Obviously, Charles did the Ilya thing and that was pretty sick. So it's cool.

Well, like their first fight happened a million years ago, but was still really fun. Their second fight is like one of the 12 best fights has ever happened. It just did win fight. And I happen the 12 best fights has ever happened. It just didn't win fight. And I had to be in the arena for that. So you see 236 to Atlanta. Yeah, Atlanta. And like that would have been fight of the year any other year, except for the fact that if not for the gas,

little Montessori had happened 30 minutes before it. Like, by the way, there's a lot of people that are hitting me up and saying, I know you love gas. Lom is he with that fight? The rematch was even better. No it's not. People made that argument at the time and like I get it it is it was an awesome fight and like at the end of the day we're talking about Dustin Poirier is one of the seven at

absolute worst most exciting fighters who's ever stepped foot into the cage and Max Holloway is not far behind him and Max Holloway is much more important like as just an all-time great There's just I don't see a way. This isn't just an Unbelievable going out party for Dustin Poirier that walkout should be special Yeah, that like the only the only quibble is I think max walks out last because he's the BMA Like they should the BMF belt doesn't even need to be up for this No one is talking or cares about it I'm not mad that they did it but it's almost to the point where

It's almost played out in a sense like this is badass enough on its own Retirement fight third meeting between them two guys with Bushido that love each other that the fans love them They're just gonna go in there and bang and we're gonna watch it's kind of like adult films to be very fair Yeah, oh, I don't know. I don't watch two dudes banging but short of that. Yeah, short of that Um, we don't judge we don't judge if that's what you're into. That's what I'm saying at the end of the day, right? You know, are you I am saying that if you're you know, I mean we don't judge at this show. So that's good I happen to think we have the best show in all of combat sports They don't really give us awards for it anymore. We're hanging on

best show in all of combat sports. They don't really give us awards for it anymore. We're hanging on by the red. No, no, no. Yeah, there we go. All right. Luke, what are you most excited about in this matchup? Well, as you guys indicated, the first fight, hard to really draw a whole lot of lessons from that. I think they're both pretty different. Second fight, you can definitely draw a lot more. What's really interesting to me was I, I guess a couple of weeks ago in anticipation for all of the media we were going to do, I hadn't seen the second fight in quite some time, maybe highlights, but like, you know,

sitting down and watching 25 minutes of a fight, I could not believe how I'm going to, I can't believe I'm saying this. I don't know, maybe this isn't quite the right word, but relative to who he is today, I could not believe how green Max looked, which is a very funny thing to say. Max was the featherweight champ when that fight happened. In fact, after that fight, Max went back to 45 and defended quite successfully against Frankie Edgar. And then prior to that, he was on a 13 fight win streak. And then the last three of those were back to back stoppages of Jose Aldo and then a stoppage

of Brian Ortega. I bring this up to say we kind of consider, I mean, I think, or at least some folks in our minds, there is some sense that Max as champion of featherweight, that was peak Max. And I guess that's inarguable in a way if you were a champion that doesn't get much higher than that. However, you just look at the guy who fought Justin Gaethje. Now the Ilya fight is a little bit different, but if you look at the fight against Justin Gaethje, it is so radically different for Max.

He had a little bit of not loose change on him in the Poirier fight, but he did not look shredded. He did not look bulked up. And against Gagey, he looked much more muscular, much more filled out. And oh my God, his skill has gotten way better since then. His footwork is better. His range management is better. He has more offensive tools. He doesn't rely on volume nearly as much. He's to go a totally different guy. Now I'm not saying that DP is on the decline, although obviously if you're retiring, you're probably not at your peak. What I'm going to say is this fight is going to be the most competitive of the three.

Um, this is the one I think Max, I'm not saying declared to you, he will win, but I think Dustin Poirier has a much tougher fight on his hands. The caveat. I know what you're going to say is, well, didn't he just come off a KO loss? Okay. but I think Dustin Poirier has a much tougher fight on his hands. The caveat, I know what you're going to say is, well, didn't he just come off a KO loss? OK, I don't know what to say about that. I don't know how that's going to affect things. I know somebody who has some things to say about that.

Who? Max Holloway, who caught up with our friend Shaquille Majore, MK and CBS Sports' own for a little something that we brought in our friends at Cuervo for shots fire. You already know that shots fired is brought to you by Cuervo and now is a good time to enjoy the tequila that invented tequila. We're enjoying it right now. Let's hear from Max. People are starting to have that conversation about, could he be the all-time pound for pound

greatest when it's all said and done? I mean for sure you know you can you can't sleep on it you know but it's just it's just tough right yeah he he has the names right he beat the name and you can't deny that but then you know when you look it just sucks that you know with everything with everything that's going on when you look at uh you know, when you look at that Vogue fight, with that Vogue coming off of what he did, that's kind of crazy. But people just look at the name. They're not looking at the record, they're just looking at, oh yeah, Alex was the champ,

and then me, and then Charles did what he did, with Charles on him, what Charles on him, one fight we'd shake. So at the end of the day just Just moments, you know, and it's his names. It is it is one of the greatest names for sure uh, like that he beat in the history, but The man is doing what he's supposed to do. You know, he's put it He's like people are like us here lining people up for him. He's just knocking them down, you know So fair fair play to him, you know, he's gonna have that doing his job He's just knocking him down, you know, so fair for play to him. You know, he's going to have that doing his job.

Good. Is that Max planting seeds for the hope of a future rematch? Should he defeat Dustin or is that Max shading? Helia to Poria, Luke's favorite fighter and basically trying to say that, like, maybe he ain't that shit. Maybe he ain't all that. Look at who he's beaten. Look at the times and the situations. I mean, we've kind of crowned him as the next greatest Oh, yeah.

Hound for pound king, biggest star in the sport. What do you make of what Max said? I think Max does ball. Like I don't think he's trying to shade Ilya, but like that is true and it doesn't you can't you can only fight the guys in front of you. It is not Ilya's fault that Volkanovsky is coming off a KO loss that Max is, you know, been through so many

wars or whatever and probably on the decline. Like he can't do anything about that. But that doesn't make it any less true. Like there is at least a little piece of this run of Ilya that is maybe has more of a shine than it necessarily will in hindsight. Yes. And like this, but this isn't also necessarily new. John Jones sort of had some of this happen as he rose up. And it ultimately didn't matter. He still became who many, if not most, people think is the greatest fighter of all time. Ilya, if you just keep winning, all this shit will go away.

And Ilya seems poised to do that. But I loved hearing Max that say that, because I was like, yeah, that's right. Come on. Yeah. And chicks are still taking their pants off for John and driving naked. Luke. I don't know if you saw the recent headlines, Luke. I saw the headlines. What do you make of it?

Because that's that was a little unexpected to see him go down. It's a little unexpected. I mean, usually he gives opponents win or lose a fair amount of props, especially when he beats them. Right. So it's very weird for max to beat a guy and be like, this guy's amazing. And then you get, you know, kind of viciously stopped. And then you're like, well, how great can he actually be? So I'm not, I'm not really worth shit. So what he knocked me out. Who cares? It's a little weird to be like that. Windstreak's not shit. It's like max, you're on it. Like,

I don't, I don't listen. What is one of these things where it's like, as it pertains to Ilya, I, it's silly to think any guy is unbeatable in any sport where they have to compete against the very best all the time. The best guys lose all the time. Like it's not some kind of scandal. So is he winning in some kind of a way where he's being boosted by a set of circumstances beyond his control? Of course, of course he is but I'm sorry

Alex was gonna go to sleep no matter what Charles was gonna go to sleep no matter what to me max was the one I wasn't So sure about and he went to sleep too Like we're till we're dealing with a guy who's generationally great and I don't know if max recognizes that but it's obviously that's who you're dealing I think it's playing for a fight because I think about your point to your point to your point He's clearly trying to set up a few like Dustin doesn't have a, in theory, Dustin doesn't have a future beyond Saturday, but Max does. And Max is thinking about that. And I bet it burns him that that fight went the way that it did.

He wants to get that one back. So there's probably part of him setting it up. In fact, you know, I've talked to MMA managers previously where they had said guys coming off of losses who were trying to get big fights. We're talking like, you know, higher level guys here, more established names that they had a specific way that they wanted to talk in the media in order to set things up. They had a specific talking points that they want to deliver. I actually had a conversation with MMA manager last week about this. So is Max doing those kinds of things? It seems to me impossible to consider he's not. I mean, but if he defeats, we're getting ahead of ourselves here, but if Max who knocked out Justin Gaethje, who could have been fighting for the lightweight title next, he had sort of secured

a spot in the conversation of it. If he goes from beating at lightweight, not at featherweight, Gaethje and then beats Poirier in the retirement fight, he kind of is in the conversation for a title shot against Ilia. Right. Or wrong. I mean, he's in the conversation, but I don't think he's jumping out in the conversation just because he just lost Ilia. And I know that's a different weight class, but like you, you can't parse that to a casual fan. Like, didn't we just see him just smoke this dude?

Like, why didn't have a lot of success early this dude like, why are we doing this back? Success early. It was a very good fight. A lot of strong word. Yeah. He had some success. He had some. And then also how much success can you have when you get knocked down the third round? I guess it just is truth. And so that's a hard sell, especially when you have somebody like, yeah,

we're not nobody here is going to be like Patty Pimlet, the most deserving title challenger, but that's business and The business they're giving you right there on the screen That was as a coach too, which makes it even more disturbing long out Luke Can you give us a DraftKings line on the main event as you're in the Epstein fight right now? I Wasn't prepared for this. so give me one minute well Please tell me about that you gotta put the bong down tell me about the devil's reserve because did you just enter that second layer?

Like I did where I'm like oh there really is Just just arrived. I just really want more of it. Can we do another one? I'll do one alone if I can't wait for this to catch up to you. That's what I'm saying Well, I'm gonna take at least three of these live odds right now max Holloway minus 142 Dustin Poirier plus 120 Let me ask you this as a better I mean you gotta the guys two and oh against max and he's the underdog. I would imagine that there's substantial betting Value on Poirier. No 100. I was saying to Jed I thought this was a 50 50 fight in my head as soon as I started doing research on it

A lot of signs pointed to Poirier the fact that he's also plus money. I hopped on that all day He is saying no stones unturned. He's training like this is a title fight. He's in Poirier Yeah, I mean if you've seen the pictures of him he always comes in shape though What is he saying like there's nothing to leave behind he will not he's gone on record saying I will not be looking for a Toporia fight if I win I'm walking away for good. So there's already, I think, sort of a, you would take plus money on Poirier anyway in this matchup when he's defeated Max twice. But I think there's a reason to do that now. But Max at 33.

With the mileage, what age is he really? And I say that knowing that we've been, there's been a few times we thought we were counting him out. From when he pulled out of that fight against Habib through, you know, I mean, there was a few of those, right? The Fox Sports situation with Biz Bing. There was a few of those where we're like, I don't know if he can come back and be the same guy. He tends to come back and be the same guy at 33. Is he a 33 year old or is he kind of in the same spot that 36 year old pori is in terms of Mileage he is definitely not a 33 year old like he started fighting at 18 like so he's got 15 years in the game of of doing this like hard we were talking off air beforehand about Pacquiao and And sort of like and well, you know, of course as men do yeah Well, like, you know, this is the same thing and like credit to Max

I thought he would start declining much earlier I mean about doing Nice Really how producers got you man. They got there wow you were really having a field Well like yeah max has been doing this for 15 years at the highest level for most of that like he's just not He's not your average 33 year old, right? No, he's not. I mean, did you, I mean, I'm aging, like it's a fucking contest.

He looked 33 or he's 33. Did you see how he looked at the shit? And I love Max Max. Don't listen to this. I mean, also not for nothing. The second party fight, he got banged out, man. Like dude, Poirier put it on him and his face afterwards. What made it exciting was how fucking resilient Max was.

And then he would have these punctuated moments of offense that were like, whoa, is he going to turn the tide? But in the end, he couldn't do it. So like, dude, I mean, I realize he dealt to Cater, but like he's had moments where he's been dealt to say nothing of the toporia knockout itself, which we've never seen Max have to come back from. Right. Easily the biggest question.

When the odds makers are installing Max as the favorite, which is weird because he lost the first two. Same thing happened in Serrano Taylor. Yeah, he looks so good against Gagey. I actually get why he's the favorite. So I want to ask you why like from a betting standpoint is the idea because it's not the idea that he's gonna knock him out, but the idea that he will be his volume will be better. He'll have a better chance to I don't think he's as much of a volume guys.

He once was actually think his volume is a little bit less. He'll have a better chance to outpoint us. I don't think he's as much of a volume guy as he once was. I actually think his volume is a little bit less. He has more weapons now. I mean, consider, in the Gagee fight, the spinning back kick that broke his nose, some of that was fortuitous in the way that it landed. But go back and watch the first fight with, or excuse me, the second fight with Poirier. He didn't have any of that shit. He had a couple of knees up and close. Well, that's my question. In the second fight, he fought so well, but the power and size difference between the

two, and I get that he can now take more time to build his body up to be a true lightweight body. I get that. But they were on even terms, but the bigger guy with bigger power ultimately won out and felt like he was going to win out as long as they were willing to stand there and fight. Remember. Is the idea that Poirier's passed it and that his output will be so low that the new weapons of Max. That's what I'm saying. I think we're headed toward potentially a repeat of the second fight. Maybe not as gnarly, but no, I don't think so. Max's range management is so much better. His footwork is so much smoother at this point. It's like night and day fucking difference. And the way in which he built his body up to take some of those punches from Gagey at 55. The one thing I think is saving Max here is he's not going doing another 45 cut. He was doing another 45 cut after the support.

You're KLS. I'd have real questions, but he's got a little bit of a cushion. Relatively speaking. So I actually feel like, um, parry. I'm not going to say is on the downswing. I mean, again, he looked good against BSD. He gave Islam, you know, a pretty good fight. Actually. In the end, he looked quite good against BSD. He gave Islam, you know, a pretty good fight actually. He looked quite good against any elite. No, no, not about it. I don't think he's like flagging in some kind of way, but I don't think he's at his peak. To me, the story of what could go different here is, you know, some stuff with Poirier, maybe it's really Max is much bigger in the right way this time. Dude, for the second Poirier fight, I talked to his manager at the time. They

just did the exact same stuff they did for 45, just a little bit less. They didn't build up at all, which is why he looked so much more physical in the Gachey fight. And remember Gachey, don't play too much MMA math here, obviously, but the reason Max has the belt is because

he knocked out the guy who knocked out Poirier. Again, you don't want to play MMA math. I'm just saying, I think he at 55 is a different fighter now that he once was. That's a massive difference in terms of again. Oh, Max's peak is the guy who knocked out Aldo.

That might be the high watermark of accomplishment. But in terms of how he looks on tape, he's much better now. That's interesting because on my boxing podcast, Rafe was arguing that Usyk right now at his age is actually at his peak because of the experience and all that goes into that. That can certainly happen with these fighters, but are we walking? Usyk takes less damage, though.

Certainly. Are we walking into another great action fight, or is it gonna be more what Long Island Luke is trying to put out into this world when we were off camera? A technical thriller could be upon us this Saturday. Maybe both. Why not, poor Kayla?

No Los Dos, or whatever, however that goes. Why not? Poor Kailor? No Los Dos. Or whatever, however that goes. He's speaking... Los Dos is both, so yeah. Yeah, there you go. Okay. I'll get Trejos out here. Let's do it. Absolutely do it. I'm trying to manifest this. I had Trejos in college, dude.

Yeah! You only had three? Yeah! At the same time! That's four years. That's not a lot. I had girlfriends in college, which in retrospect was a bit of a mistake. He was in a frat house. So lame, right?

Absolute mistake. So lame. I'm trying to manifest this. I think Dustin Poirier is going to come out and point to the ground in the opening ten seconds. Because Mac said he's definitely doing that. Like, just because, fuck it, let's do it, man. Why wait until the end?

Just open out. So they're just going to bang. You don't have to spin the whole time time like in foot in the tire going after it But just kick kick the shit off and let's go. It's your final fight ever Why not one thing that was a big factor surprisingly in the second fight that I think is overlooked is when here we can salute Thank you. Luke. Could you leave this to a Reba?riba. We gotta do it the right way. Arriba, al centro, par entro. Yes, par entro. Thank you. This one's for Danny Segrja. Thank you. There's no J in his name.

Um, Poirier wrestled towards the end of that fight. That's so wild. Poirier wrestled towards the end of that fight. And he stalled out a little bit in the end of the fifth round in particular, just kind of holding Max up against the fence. Max's takedown defense is awesome. He's very hard to get down and he's especially hard to hold down But poor a slowed the fight down when you would see max built some momentum. I suspect you might see something similar here So the question is does max have a better answer for?

Extracting himself from being pressed against the fence by poor a it's gonna be a big test Theoretically because his footwork is better So like it should it should be harder for poor a to suck time out of the fight if he needs to. Yes. And also when Max is doing that, you're right there on top of the guy and it's much easier to like just level change underneath it. Whereas Max now is very high up and down. He's really calculated with his movement. He keeps a nice balanced stance the whole time. So I'm saying man, like Poirier will have the superior firepower. About that I have very little doubt. And another thing that caught him in the second fight was just

Poirier's counter punching really, really good. So you add the counter punching with the power, dude, Max was up against it. But he's gonna have to solve some of these problems this time. We're not going to the ground at all, right? Well, we just talked about the fact that he wrestled Max considerably in the end of the fourth and the fifth rounds. I won't think I was here for that. I think I was deep in the Devil's Reserve.

Yeah, the Devil's Reserve. He did it. He would he would he would be able to get Max to his hip for just a brief moment. That wasn't the issue. The issue, BC, was he would press him against the fence and then keep him there Who's the referee for this one? Do we know? Do we know who it is long? I don't look I don't know I could look it up though I'd be curious to know who it is. Are they good with separations? Are they good with standups?

Are they good with you know, do they smell like cold cuts and do they smell like hooch? I don't know Peterson Yeah, there it is all right oh man it's Mark Goddard mmm okay would you say the best in the game right now would you say no no Shaolin Shaolin is great Shaolin fucking rips Shaolin Vito Herbera oh yes I didn't know we call him Shaolin on he was the one that took a point recently what was that fight I don't remember but I remember being like I remember being like oh Shaolin's the best Shaolin didn't fuck around he immediately took a point recently what was that fight? I don't remember, but I remember Kayla Harris Oh, Shaolin's best

He did a job. He took a point. I was like he's the best I was like alright let him know How come Josh Rosenthal doesn't get the gigs anymore? Well, you know you go to jail for drug crimes they tend to frown on that even though you know Oh they could hang though right? I mean theoretically yeah, like I don't know I don't know what drug crimes you went for so marijuana like hundreds of pounds like hundreds of pounds of Maybe like some Nate Newton shit, you know if you know I'm talking about you know probably but I don't know we sold those hats Yeah, and it barely fits my large melon, but you know I love this color right so yeah, that's you and your

little super cross-. Yes. Looking back on the prime will fair lineup, if you could if you could pick one lady in her prime jewel. Was she a little bit? Is that so? That's I believe she did perform. OK, if she did, then that's so clear. This is some real old man shit.

This is not I don't have a really I literally listened to the entire clips album and I was like it's fucking it's great It's great But I was like I don't even know if it's great because I don't know what the fucking kids Care about anymore. It's not great for the kids. But like also clips is your age So it's exactly what you graduate high school Jed. Oh six. What high school did you go to? I went to HV Jenkins high school in. Oh six. What high school did you go to I went to HV Jenkins High School in Savannah, Georgia a Warriors What a were y'all one double five five a so but it's

No, we didn't pull like we would play them in like playoffs and stuff. Okay, you ever been to Big Chicken Marietta I I have driven by but I've never been to the big check. Oh, it's it's a real thing People orient around it like I just go Asians nowadays, huh Asians this What something about the Orient? I'm like that's such an outdated phrase. you know I mean He's four shots deep at the Devil's Reserve, you know your four shots in three. Oh, we're only three in Yeah, it's been a good run so far Luke I think you need to try it without the Mountain Dew it really is

You should try it without it. Just you don't have to do like a full shot. Are you under the impression I've not had alcohol? No. Like before? You've never had you've never had Devil's Reserve. Don't you want to take a whole shot? Just just take a nap. I don't need lecturing and prodding from you. Peer pressuring sacks of shit.

I think I just want to know your opinion on it. I'm sure. Yeah. Listen, it's great. I'm going to drink sacks of I just want to know your opinion on it. I'm sure it's Yeah, listen, it's great. I'm going to drink it how I like. I'm a 45 year old man. This is the stage of the life I'm in. Did you buy a ticket just for

yourself or also your Vegeen? Okay, fine, fine. I know. I would love to find out if he could speak to us on how smooth it is. You know, you know, maybe we'll keep going on. You know what? With my Mountain Dew Zero, it's fantastic. Yeah, I'm sure it is. Back to this main event, Jed. That's awesome. It is pretty damn awesome.

We haven't asked the right question, which is please, which is. What do we say about the career of? Of Dustin Poirier at this point, a model citizen in a sport filled with absolute fucking goons. Would you say he's the new Randy Couture in a sense? Like that's interesting. Beloved American hero. And Couture had higher achievements. I saw Josh Gross tweet that Randy's back home from that NHRA accident in which he was airlifted from the fire. Shout out to Randy. He'll be on at 1230 today.

I'm saying from like the beloved backbone American man who perseveres. That's the ultimate drive of his legacy. He's like what the fight game is supposed to be all about and not in the best case scenario because if it was best case he would have won a million titles. But what I mean to say is here's a guy who came from nothing, who had a lot of ability, committed himself to his craft, never got in trouble once he did. Obviously he came from a life of trouble, but once he committed, never did it, never had a falling out with his gym, never had a falling out with his coaches. The only time there was any kind of falling out was as it related to Colby Covington, who is, you know, a professional agitator basically. Um,

and no one really counts that family guy set up a philanthropy, the philanthropy gives back to his community, made him and his family rich, securing his children's future. This is what it's for. Yeah. This is what it's fucking for. This is how it is done. And he did it. And the end, the fact that he did it without actually ever winning a full weight class title in some ways makes it even more incredible. He is a credit to the fight game. And when he leaves in terms of what he represents, who is the next guy doing that? I don't know who that would be. You wouldn't go as far as saying he's the greatest fighter not to be

an undisputed UFC champion. He's in the conversation. He's definitely in it, but he's not the top of that. I would say though that I'd rather have his reputation, resume, and legacy than most guys or girls who have won a championship, including some who have won multiple championships, right? Like, wouldn't you want to be talked about, beloved, and remembered the way that Dustin already is? Yes. There are very few fight careers I would rather have than Dustin Poirier's,

because he is a... Well, Luke, he's a good person. Like, he should be the Aspirational thing for all fire in his high school sweetheart like all this like it just all of the stuff that he has done like there's No neck nobody has anything bad to say about him except Conor McGregor who's Conor McGregor and Colby Covington who's Colby Covington? I'm trying to see what the hell we've put there once studied abroad no longer allowed within 500 feet get it Yes, you can tell BC wrote that one that one that one is not the best effort

Never happened. We got like who there are not 10 careers that I'd rather have than poriers given he did accomplish a lot even if he was never an undisputed champion Made a shitload of money and was a great dude and that that's just like, that's all you can ask for any blood. And a good teammate. Like how many times did I watch Bellator and he's in the corner of like Sabah home Aussie, you know what I mean? Like just staying low key, helping out everyone else time away from his family to help out other people.

Like it's really fucking remarkable. Now to the point that you raise who is the greatest UFC fighter to never win a full weight class title. It's an interesting conversation because a lot of folks might say Dan Henderson, but Dan held two pride titles simultaneously. You know, he also won a tournament. Right. So you could also say Uriah Faber, but Faber had a WEC title. If you take out the people who had major titles in major organizations outside of UFC and then just focus on the UFC ones. Poirier's got a case for number one.

Is he got a case? If he beats Max, if he beats Max, I'll have had the interim title and you could put whatever value on the BMF title. But again, he would have taken it off of the guy who took it off of him, which represents something ending at a high water or something of a high water mark. It puts him in very interesting conversation and part of the generation of the very best lightweights to ever do it. Right? These generations of the Dustin's and the Justin's and the Eddie Alvarez's, you can throw Dos Angios in there, Conor McGregor

you would throw in there as well, and many, many other names, Charles Olivares in there as well. All those guys in there, fucking war horses that brewed a generation of fight fans and even Dan Hooker on a tangential side because of the fight they had in the apex. All of these guys lifted the fucking sport. This is what I mean. What the fuck else do you want out of a fighter dude? Dustin Parier was that fucking guy. He also knocked out Conor McGregor. Fucking knocked out Conor McGregor. Twice. I mean, it's remarkable.

In a weird way though, isn't his most important and arguably best win, the second one against Max Holloway? Gave him the interim title and allowed him to say that 25 minutes. The big one was Conor, right? That's the most important one. The second.

I don't know, the rematch. It's not his best win, but it's his most important one. I mean, that made an MK real based on my reaction. That's true. That's what I mean. Like it's a fucking big deal. His best one is either Max or Eddie, maybe or Gagey one. It's like given where he was. I know, but just think about the fucking murderers row of dudes.

He's had eight opponents. They've been going up on on Twitter and shit all day. It's like graphics was like, oh, yeah. All he fought was stone cold hitters, stone cold hitters one after the other, after year after year after year. And it wasn't a perfect run. It was a fucking good one. Well, it's not like Edson Barbosa resume,

except for he won a lot more fights in that run than Edson. Right. Luckily, they didn't play the retirement video for John Jones because now he's going to be back on the White House lawn. He sure is not. What type of treatment will Poirier get? Or, you know, just like jumping over the fence or even like they know this is going to happen. It's a headlining of a pay-per-view in his home city. Win or lose.

What type of treatment does Poirier get? Full on video tribute, full on like like what is this going to be? He's going to be treated like a fucking god in that arena, and he should smoothie King arena right mm-hmm correct downtown It's nice. I was just in New Orleans for spring break. It was it's right down there It would near the the dome and near downtown I mean you tell me but I I feel like when if he wins the the roof is gonna get blown off that place But even if he doesn't there's just gonna be tears and tributes and everything in between Candy crush I'm checking the text from our producer, but he's got to be the adult in this room. Okay. Yeah

He's definitely getting a video package. Like there's no doubt about that. He'll get the he'll be the last to speak even if Max wins Like there's no doubt about that. He'll get the he'll be the last to speak even if Max wins They'll do the whole thing and the place will love him because they should he's beloved for a reason man Earlier I was calling that Cuervo Devils reserve the wrong name Devils reserve Yeah, I'm gonna be gonna be on that in the future So shout out right there We got to get into the prediction here of what what happens and how this ends and what this fight looks like. I think we're getting an action fight. I know it's going to be competitive. I would put money down that it's going the distance. That's where I stand right now.

First who wins? I don't know. I felt like it was going to be Max coming in. A lot of the pre-fight video banter, embedded countdown, I come out of there going, maybe it's, you know, the same, maybe Max is fighting the same kind of uphill battle against someone who's like him, but a little bit bigger, more power. I guess I gotta lean Dustin by decision here. What parts of my summation are wrong? I'm going Dustin by decision.

And I don't know if I believe that or if I just want to believe it because it's the better outcome. And you love Dustin as much as you hate Chandler and Toporia, right? Everyone loves Dustin. You don't like Toporia? no, I don't have any issues Oh, I don't love to porius personality that has manifested where he is. I

Get why he's doing it. I don't blame him for that Lali end up bullshit Oh the Lali end of those that was the moment was like he walked it back He had some kids about it then credit to him for figuring that one out man But like no I hate Chandler, but I don't- I don't hate to Poirier, and I have to come to grips with it. Poirier's gonna be in my life for eight years as one of the best fighters on Earth. Yeah. Everyone loves Poirier. I love Poirier. Poirier, he's not the most meaningful fighter to me in his career. Like, Justin Gaethje is a meaningful fighter to me. Poirier is just like a tear down from that.

Yeah, but it's like you tear down from that. Yeah. But it's like you, everyone wants him. We get so few like good retirements in this sport. Give him the Robbie Lawler treatment plus one. Like give him the full on. Yeah, it's that to the next level because it would be Max. And if Max loses, it doesn't really burn him down.

Right, like he's still competing. It'd be a setback, but he's not fighting for the belt immediately anyway. It's way better. So I'm, I'm hoping he wins. And I do think he has a really good chance because I am the big thing. I don't know how Max is going to look coming off of the first KO. Like he, and you're right, he has improved dramatically from the second fight. He was getting tuned up at spots in that.

He was, it has never left me when he was going back to the corner and be like, he's blocking weird and couldn't get past the defense of Poirier and then was getting hurt. I think some of that can still exist and especially with the chin. Like where is it? Like we, I don't know, because you mentioned earlier Vol Volk was always gonna lose to Deporia. I think that's true. I've watched that fight a lot. And it... Volk was not the same dude coming off a KO loss. And I don't know if Max is gonna be... Max's chin has been legendary forever, and now it's not. How does he react to that?

There's gonna be a Liddell situation where once you crack that code, the code's busted forever. Luke, who wins on Saturday Gonna take a leap of faith here. I'll say max think Maxwell review, baby Right the ship this time I said to pay back for all the love you give to poor you before and after the I don't owe anyone anything for that other than a fuck you because I was right about it the whole motherfucking time so So spicy like like some devil's Or you took the whole thing down yes All right time for margarita number two Okay, I'd love to see this guy shoot. I might have to go piss though

Can we call it talk? I'll take a break not from the broadcast but just my participation in the broadcast Let me go piss because I had a bunch of drink on the train. I had a fucking one. Yeah He's definitely gonna crap his pants. Don't use the non-shitting. I no longer shit in logs just piles Okay, thank you very much speaking of piles. Let's go to the rest of this card Like a goddamn bear This train wreck of a show will roll on let's go to this co-main event Paulo Costa the Brazilian slugger Who hasn't beaten a fighter? I saw the stat under age 38 and like what how long like oh eight years or something

Luke has it cuz Luke brought that up to me yesterday, and I didn't real what is the stat under age 38 and like what? How long? Like, oh, like eight years or something. Luke has it because Luke brought that up to me yesterday and I didn't realize. What is the stat? I don't know it off the top of my head, but he hasn't. He only beat Luke Rockhold in the last like five years or something. You got to be old. Costa has lost four of his last five against a Roman Roman Kapilov, who has won six of his last seven. Yet there are levels and differences in how we perceive these two fighters.

Long Island Luke, what is the current Draft King's odds on this co-main event? We got Roman Kapilov at minus 238. Interesting. Paulo Costa plus 195. So they do, based on recent form, have that affiliated there. Where are we at in the Paulo Costa experience? Because that might explain or define what we see on Saturday. Do we still see him as a viable contender or just an exciting dude

who who makes secret use jokes? He's not a viable contender. Middleweight has come so far in the last two years. Like there's been this big turnover. It's it's a vibrant, exciting division. We've got DDP. My boy. Theoretically, Homs may, in fact, be the champion in like a vibrant exciting division. We've got DDP, my boy. Theoretically, Hamsot may in fact be the champion in like a month from now. He won't. DDP is gonna win that just so you guys know.

Hamsot looking ripped in these pre-fight photos. Yeah, it's gonna suck for him after he doesn't win in the first round. DDP crushes him. Wow! But you have been a day one. I've been a day one DDP guy. Kyle Borrello's coming, Nasrin and Imaovov, like they're they're doing that thing. I mean they're knocking. I don't I wouldn't let them in though. And you know, we'll see. Kyle Boralho maybe, but like middleweight has come so far and Paulo Costa has been oddly

absent from doing things lately. But don't you think he's better than Roman Kapilov on the surface not counting recent history? I don't know that at all. You don't honestly like I he's got some better wins but even at the time Paulo Costa felt like He were giving him an Izzy title shot because there's not a lot of other people and he is fun But like he didn't win like a ton of super impressive. I'm with you I'm with you on that and would you is there is the argument fair to say that he's never been the same since the red Wine incident against Izzy that he's never been as dangerous or as committed to a game plan

He goes in there these days winging it and it broke it broke Yeah, but it seems extra it broke some mystique cuz there was the mystique that he was just gonna march forward and just wing hard shots of you and then is he really embarrassed him. And he's had some okay performances since then, but. Also he's just doing all that other shit. Like I don't, the man is online in the worst ways. Yeah.

And so I don't know. He's super hardcore online. So after getting stopped by Izzy, he loses a decision to Marvin Venturi, then takes a decision from old Luke Rockhold in a wild ass fight. It was a really fun fight. And then drops back to back decisions to Robert Whitaker

and then by split decision to Sean Strickland last time. Luke, I asked Jed where we're at in the Polo Costa experience. He's a betting underdog coming in. He's lost four of his last five. He's creeping up there into his mid thirties. Is he just a fun attraction now? Yeah, that's about it.

I mean, he could be Kopilov, cause Kopilov, I wouldn't say has bad defense, but you know we'll throw down at times where he can be hit But copy love is a better striker than him. He's more explosive. He's faster. He has more weapons He's hard-nosed about it, too. Like he's got a real punishing style of kickboxing He just had kicked Chris Curtis earlier this year. Yeah, and I mean like you know the reality is kickboxing. You just had kick Chris Curtis earlier this year. Yeah, and I mean, like, you know, the reality is, like, as I said, Kopilov is not without his limits, but Kosta has to have you up against the fence for a KO, really, really, against

a guy who is as violent and authoritative of a striker as a kickboxer anyway that Kopilov is. I think it's going to be, he's not going to have a whole lot of opportunity. Again, it could happen. It wouldn't be the craziest thing, but I that Kopilov is, I think he's not gonna have a whole lot of opportunity. Again, it could happen, it wouldn't be the craziest thing, but I think Kopilov's gonna fuck him up. Jed gave this card a B+, which is preposterous. What do you give this co-main event? It's gotta be a low grade, man.

I mean, this is the point, I didn't get a chance to say it earlier, obviously, but if this card was free on ABC, just as it is, I would have a pretty high opinion of it, or certainly a much higher one What were you gonna say? Let me ask so I think that's a great point What if it just had a good co-main because this is a dog shit co-main like as a co-main What if the co-main was I don't know? Women's flyaway title fighters some generic co-main that is a title fight like way against or Morav

Yeah, like verna against way Lee Morav or something. Yeah, like Verna against Whaley. Honestly, Morav would be terrific. Morav versus Corey, that'd be kind of good. Morav versus Corey, yeah. But like, just give it a, not like a top tier, you know, thing that would obviously be a main, but a generic co-main. I mean, I said this on submission radio, which was, if you actually just go fight by fight, there's actually quite a bit to like in terms of action.

Sure. But for example, Kevin Holland is fighting, who's he fighting? Daniel Rodriguez. Or D-Rod. This is a fight that I have no problem with as a fight, but there's nothing, there's no storyline to any of this. There's a huge storyline to the main event and then everything after that, there's no rivalry between the fighters, there's no connection between the fighters, there's no narrative,

there's no connection between the fighters, there's no narrative, there's no nothing. And so it's like the only thing that's got story is a fight that we love with two fighters that are beloved, that do have history. And that's why the countdown episode was basically just them. They didn't basically nothing else. Well, why is that? Because there's no fucking story to tell. It's like, it's just... Fights. Well, the only story is that Holland is turning around on 42 days and is going to continue this fourth fight of the year. This is going to be his fourth fight of the fucking year. Him and D-Rod are coming off a two-fight win streak, which is better than the opposite.

D-Rod, though 38, hasn't shown us lately that he is, even with the two wins, that he's going, I guess, in the right direction. But is this, if we have to assign meaning to this fight, is it about Kevin Holland continuing to take, I want to say take it serious at welterweight and make a run at it? I think, yeah, this is just a welterweight campaign. You look at his most recent losses, you know, he lost earlier this year to Renear DeRidder. Well, okay. I mean,

he shouldn't have been fighting him anyway. We can just be honest. Future middleweight champion. Yeah, maybe so. Exactly. Like that loss will not age poorly, other than to say, it's like, Kevin, why were you fighting guys like this? He's the new cowboy. Yeah, but he might be a little bit, I mean,

it might be a little bit, it's hard to say if he's better or not, because we haven't seen that fully tested. But there are reasons to believe that maybe he could be the new cowboy even a little bit better. He can thump. He's durable He's actually got pretty good submissions in certain cases. He's built for 170. He's in the right weight class now There's some reason for optimism depending on how many children he sired. He could be the new cowboy Olivero People forget he was competitive with the current welterweight champion like the Jack Delafay and Kevin Holland was

Scrappy like he's he's just a welterweight and doing the middleweight shit was always very very stupid and he wants to stay active Okay, but this is this is that this is the cowboy like just commit to one goddamn thing and see if you can make a run At it because maybe good. Well now look you have a line on the Holland versus D rod fight Yeah, give me one sec. Kevin Holland minus 500. Whoa! D-Rod plus 380. Whoa! Kevin Holland's beating much better guys than D-Rod that's the issue. That D-Rod two-fight win streak involves a split decision over Alex Morono and then a stoppage of Santiago Pontenibbio. Also he's almost 40. Yes. He is definitely not at his peak anymore. So it's kind of a filler fight. Let's be fair

This is what I mean. It's like do I hate this fight? Do I hate this fight? I don't hate this fight at all. But like what does it mean? All right, let's go on further down the car. Let's go into this featherweight calories Yeah on this but they're all tasty calories. Well, this will be a tasty fight this will be a tasty action fight at featherweight Danny gay coming in there against a Patricio Pipple who Was disappointing in his UFC debut despite being up there in age in his late 30s against Yair Rodriguez This I guess gives him that opportunity to get a UFC win under his belt and redeem it Dan Ege coming in though at age 33 still in the mix of it

What are our expectations in terms of the meaning and what we're gonna see in this fight? I do think this fight has meaning because this is do or die for Pippel like if he loses this, we're just, the Pitbull came too late, came to the party too late and that'll be a shame and we'll talk about that for a long time. I don't know what the stakes are for Ige other than he's like, Ige is Ige. He's just a rock solid. He's been in the top 10 forever. Probably will be in the top 10 forever.

Just stop Sean Woodson. That's not nothing. That guy was on a streak. be in the top 10. Stop Sean Woodson. That's not nothing. He's still like he is people hate the term gatekeeper, but it's it is a noble profession. Someone's got to protect the city from the goddamn barbarian hordes. And that's Danny Gays job at the top 10. He's going to fucking he is the litmus test. He's the marker of excellence. You want to be a top guy. You got to beat Danny. Simple as that. There's no other way to say it. Shout out to Eric Nixik, his coach.

Yep. And by the way, Pitbull, you know, I just, I want to say one thing. It drives me fucking nuts when MMA fans are currently like, oh, you know, these Bellator guys are bums. And I'm not putting Bellator on the same level as Strikeforce, but what I am going to say is you're not getting a prime fucking Pitbull. He is very much post prime. He's lost three of his last four combined. Right.

One win is Jeremy Kennedy. Yeah. I mean, it's like, you got to understand what you're getting here. You know, getting, if they had pulled over the Bellator roster when he was at his peak, you would have gotten a very different experience. I, everyone said the same thing about the WEC roster and then those guys dominated and said the same thing about strike force. Then those guys dominated. I'm not saying that that is what is in store

for Pitbull, but what I'm saying is the sanctimonious look around like all these other promotions can't do it. It's like, well, one, we're a different level of MMA and also this fucker is old for 45. He's old. So like, you know, if he gets a win at all, a win here would be what's the odds on this one for Pitbull? Minus 218, EGAY plus 180. That's about right. I mean, it's kind of a this is an uphill fucking climb for him. We got DROT at 38 on this main card, Patricio Pitbull at 38. Michael Johnson in the opener also at 39.

So we are there. I saw him recently at XFC. Yeah, they are rolling out some old folk there, but specific to Ege versus Pitbull, can Pitbull redeem himself and put a UFC win on the border? I think it's unlikely, but possible. I mean, he does have power. How about that guillotine he's got, man?

He does have good submissions. It's just... I'm not gonna say he's got an antiquated skillset. I don't think that's quite right, but I think the way in which Ege sets up offense is a little bit more fluid and new and For a guy who's kind of aging out a little bit I think it might be too much you think the captain should maybe take the focus off fashion and focus more on Captain Eric Eric Alvarez. Yes my one of my favorite people in MMA. I

Don't think that fashion will help him pitbulls. Just look you had it. He had a great run He's just old like I don't I don't know you're will help him. Pitbull's just... Look, he had a great run. He's just old. Okay. So you're going Igay here? 100%. The only way I think Pitbull could maybe have some success if he does go to the grappling, but Igay's historically been pretty solid at not getting taken down. But like, Pitbull's not going to kill him.

And that would be the other thing, just try and hit him real hard. Danny Igay doesn't die. He can't really be finished. So it's just a really hard look for him here. He did not get the E. And I thought the year fight made sense for Pitbull. Like that was winnable. You would have got a title shot if you won that.

Yeah. And it was a winnable. Like that's probably the most winnable of those matchups you could give him in that range. And he couldn't get it done. I think the time is just gone for him. He came too late. All right. Is the time still here? And our opener of the pay-per-view is 39 year old Michael Johnson, who's on a little bit

of a resurgent streak with two wins, brings in a brawler and Daniel Zellhuber, who's coming off of that fantastic sphere fight, the split division loss to Esteban Riebevich. Is this about action and nothing else? Or are we looking at a bounce back and someone you can build in Zellhuber? They don't want to build the young Mexican kid. Twenty six. I think he still is. Rangy Michael Johnson is enormous.

Yeah, Michael Johnson can thump, but he you know, he's up. He's down. He's up. He's down. He once knocked Dustin Poirier out cold in the first round, no less. What party threw an uppercut with no setup as his lead punch. So that's a no no. But yeah, I mean, I think this is really about Daniel getting a nice win over a name that fans might recognize against a guy who's aging. But, you know, we'll fucking slug it out with you. You damn right that he will. All right.

That is your pay-per-view main card. That was a brief discussion. What I mean, that should have been, this should be a show on ABC. But that's I'm telling you, talk to me on fucking Sunday morning. You're going to be like, I had a fucking great time Saturday night because all of that's action. Are we going to talk about it for weeks? No, we're not going to talk about any shit for weeks anyway.

Abu Dhabi is next week. The road to Abu Dhabi starts Sunday morning. Like we will talk about the Max Dustin thing and everyone be like man That was fucking great night. When are you going to Vegas? Tomorrow where's the rocks project X sneakers during it? Can't can't say I do that. Oh, those are our top fights there We know he's not paying you to do it You already know that this episode of morning combat is presented you by D DraftKings, and the crown is yours. And fellas, when we're talking about pick six from DraftKings,

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I'm smashing the over for Max. 135, he can do that in two rounds. If that fight goes to the distance, we can see that right there. Luke, when you're looking at some of these matchups and some of these breakdowns here you can see takedowns you can go over under for example you can see significant strikes like we're talking about total strikes 64.5 is the over under total strikes for Paulo Costa in that matchup for example. I take the under on that. I might do that considering. I think he's gonna be doing a lot of defending. Indeed indeed in that

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spamming wise in a match up with Patricio Pitbull. Is he a spam puncher? I don't think that's quite right. He can be certainly. He can put up some volume and he's probably not. And he's probably not going to finish finish pitbull so he'll have more opportunity Pitbull used to be made of fucking iron and now he's he's not chinny, but he's not it's true You know, I'm less confident. He's not gonna finish him than I would have been like two three years ago What we have else on this card our preliminary featured fight is in the Bantamweight division as Kyler Phillips takes on Venicius Olivera.

This is an interesting one to me. Kyler Phillips has looked good on tape. I know he had a recently lost. But he's also got to win over Houni Barcellos as well as Pedro Munoz. He for a while looked pretty good, but looked a little green, didn't quite put everything together. I don't know how this one's gonna go. I don't know how y'all feel about it, but I'm still I think what is he just 30? Problem is Loke dog has looked real good of late and he gets stronger as the fight goes on Tough one. I think I think Kyler might be up against it. I don't know. It's awesome. That's like this is gonna be really fun I looked are coming off contender series I I just thought he needed a lot of development and he has done that quite quickly in his UFC career. Like I think he's more dynamic

and I guess I'll favor him to win, but like this is perfect matchmaking. Odds on this one, Long Island? Last I looked, I'm pulling it up right now. Let's see, Kyler Phillips plus 124, Vinicius Oliveira minus 148. It's about right. Yeah. As we move on far down this card, you feel like at this middleweight fight,

Marvin Vittori versus Brendan Allen, it almost feels like a loser. The casino. Yeah, it really does. Marvin Vittori has lost three of his last four. And Brendan Allen from being considered at one point a contender in this division has lost two straight. So I guess the question is, which going in that direction and Brendan Allen still 29 Which is well Luke you had the Brendan Allen has he beats everyone who's over like the age of 34 or some shit That was Kevin Hollis. Kevin Holland. Oh, sorry and Paul O'Costa. Oh, oh, oh 38 and over. Yeah, it's unbelievable

Yeah, Marvin Vittoria's washed and Brandon Allen is still decent. I saw Marvin Vittori on Embedded working out with fellow Italian Alessio Sicara talking about making a return until he's gonna be a threat to knock people out. The whole idea of I've got a great chin I can go five rounds against anybody is gonna leave you to lead you to five round defeats the more you step up I mean, we've kind of seen it. Is there still time to change Vittori's game or no? Well, he went to ATT, he left the west coast. I mean the thing with Vittorio is like he's so fucking big and just looks like a like he's like the what you would want out of like a big middleweight like oh wow he's got a rock chin and he looks the part but then he just his skillset just hasn't grown.

He just stays. Just stagnant. Stagnant. Brendan Allen is up and down, but he's definitely got a little bit of moxie and he's got good grappling. I'd like to see him keep fighting Fluffy Hernandez. They do make fun fights against each other.

Yeah, well, Fluffy's at this point, I think maybe a bit of a bad matchup, but you know, Brendan Allen is more skillful from what we've seen, but he also is a bit of a bigger risk-taker That one is an interesting ish kind of thing Is there any other fights on this deep undercard you guys care about because I would just want to talk about have you seen The shit basically you know we go to that I mean Jimmy Crute Marcian Procno is incredible because Jimmy Crute's like a massive

Betting favor, and he hasn't won a fight since 2020 which is the worst haircut in MMA incredibly funny And I really like the opening fight of the evening, but we don't need to talk long I'll look you usually have some undercard betting gems I'm sure the main card minute will be hopping and poppin this week will definitely be hopping and poppin PFL and UFC this week Oh, I this card is there's PFL this week, South Africa Sorry, sorry, yeah, yeah, Corey Anderson. I thought they were in like fucking you know This card is there's pfl this week South Africa I thought they were in like fucking you know I Don't know Oklahoma City or some shit. No. It's just Cape Town South Africa, but yeah, we're doing it

T bugatti a on the prelims. I mean yeah, yeah, the Cameroonian guy This this card doesn't it has a lot of one-sided matchups on the prelims. It's really it's a lack of storylines I think that's really it up and down. It's just very it's very fight night thrown together It's amazing storyline in the main event and then just will Dana show up Yeah, it's poor his retirement. He sure that don't mean shit I'll say yes showed up in Nashville. I was very surprised by that I wonder if now that's a function of how much the Tourism Board is paying Like the Bacu. I haven't considered that but that's. Why was he in Bacu? He just wanted to visit Azerbaijan. Yeah, they paid for him. Bocu bucks in Bacu. They paid for him to show. Before we get into the missing

Feces left over from BC's Feces on Monday, although we had a great guest in your house. Hey, Craig Jones in your house, Craig Jones. And by the way, that interview is performing well for us, performing very well. So well done on that. Great. Would we want to hit the Devil's Reserve one more time? Or is that too much to ask? No, let's go. Everyone has 888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888 So, before we pour this and get it ready, we scour the globe on Sundays. We're going to push it off to today. We have Jed to join us. This is the highs and lows, the good, the bad in combat sports and beyond.

This one's called, Have You Seen BC's, BC's Heart. Hoo-ah! I'll drink to that. Wow. All right, Luke. One more time for the people that once more to the breach. You just go right to the top with your board because Luke gives me so much. Yeah, because you cheat like a hoe. That's why. Well, there ain't no cheat on this one, bitch. I poured two of those. Three of those in this motherfucking enjoy your chaser. Suck my dick. Enjoy your chaser. Suck my dick.

Way, way down yonder on the Chattahoochee. It gets hotter in a hoochie coochie. Now we lay rubber on the Georgia as well. Down in the Tennessee hills. Every time I hear that song, which is not often, but every time I hear it, I'm always like. I say to you, do you listen to you cue that up a lot in your morning? You know Luke Alan Jackson had some hits in the day. You'll be traveling soon for vacation I've got some packing tips for you. Okay packing for a four-day trip Let's get our underwear day one day two day three day four

Put my pants put my pants put my pants put my pants and and my pants. OK, maybe just don't travel. Look, that's you and you know it. All right. Let's keep it going. Look, I hope you pack this shirt for your beautiful vacation coming up. Feeling cute. My clogged the toilet later. Hell, yeah. All right. Also, Piles Jed has donated a hat for you to wear with your family. I sort of it's butt cracks. Yeah. I don't know if my wife would let me wear that in public. We really haven't getting your take on on

eating ass It's always ass-eating season. Yeah, I mean BC. Have you do you eat us I? Don't think I'm gonna talk about this in public the answer is no. Thank you That's cuz you're lame Also, Luke you got a backup hat if you needed to this weekend. Less nagging, more gagging. That's a fucking great one. There we go. All right.

Hey, WWE Smackdown was in was over the weekend and we saw a washed celebrity show up. Check out Fred Durst of Limp Bizkit. What a beard. I didn't realize Santa Claus was such a juggalo. Yeah. Damn, he looks bad, right? I mean, not like he just has a very a beard. I didn't realize Santa Claus was such a juggalo. Yeah. Damn. He looks bad. Right. I mean, not like he just has a very white beard in a sense. You know, he doesn't look too honestly.

He could look worse given how the late 90s early 2000s. Well, some middle aged guys like Oscar De La Hoya, they're just holding it together. You know what I mean? You mean through surgical intervention? Speaking of Oscar, let's check this out. Hey, how does it feel when people bring up the fishnets? You mean through surgical intervention speaking of Oscar. Let's check this out He steered all the way into that yeah, I believe him on that one only way to survive that is just to completely Get into it. He just ripped but like Boulanger was trying to bring that to him, which was obviously very stupid,

because he wasn't fighting. Oh, yeah. And this fucking idiot has been trying to tell me for two years that Boulanger is actually good. And finally, he's not as bad as everyone says. There's no chance he's horrible. He got knocked out, but he went in there to fight. He fought well until he got knocked out. I'm not vouching that he's going to be a world champion. That's true of anybody who gets knocked out to a degree.

All right. All right. Luke, you always say I'm not cultured. I don't try food from around the world. Have you ever tried bread? You don't know. You're food racist. Have you ever tried bread from Finland? Finnish bread? I don't know. Check this out. You mean to tell me that Finnish people would sit down for dinner,

look their mother or father dead in the eye, and say, down for dinner. Look their mother or father dead in the eye and say, will you grab me a piece of that juicy pussy? You guys are fucking. I've always been a fan of bread. Yeah, they had that bread on Billy Bush's bus to Trump out of slice. Hey, let's keep it going. Are you big? But let you do it into boating. I love boating. I could see you. Are you a Lake Lanier fucking redneck? So I've had to do. I love boating. I could see you. What is are you a lake linear fucking redneck? So I've had to do I grew up on the coast so I want to be in the real water But okay, you live in Atlanta. It's really your only fucking option

There's it's dangers in boating especially when you bring alcohol in let's watch this Sometimes you get a little on those waves. All right. Sometimes just fuck your friends. You know, we're big on elder abuse. We also have to show the other side of it. It's child abuse. Let's head over to the bumper cars. Look, you got to put to keep behind that seatbelt just in case.

Oh, my God. Oh, wow. Jesus. Oh, I blame the parents. Yeah, let's keep the kid injuries going. Let's go to the water slide. Oh my god. Oh wow. Jesus. I blame the parents. Yeah, let's keep the kid injuries going. Let's go to the water slide.

Yo, kids get motherfucking maimed on this **** You want it? You got front row. Oh wow. Oh, it's like being for a Gallagher, right? Oh god damn, dude. That was how I just pissed in that toilet out there. I just sprayed that portion. Did your

pants look like this afterwards? You know, I gotta tell you, third world firearm safety is not the highest standard. Well, Luke, the golf course is the golf course is becoming a dangerous place. Have you seen ex NHL enforcer Nick Tomaski? Who did he play for? I don't even know. I don't really speak hockey.

Nick Tarnaski. Long out, Luke. You know this fellow? No, I don't know what to do. Can you look up who he played for? Yeah. Nick Tarnaski getting into a fight on the golf course. Watch this. You guys need to get off the golf course. Yeah, we will. Go now. Go now. Go now. into a fight on the golf course watch this you guys need to get off the golf course this one the best clip we've ever shown this is incredible it's a really good one man we had a

million fights with a attorney like this come on man so that's Tarnaski throwing him in the water. Yeah, just get in the water. Hey Now bitch Price is wrong Look and he just comes back like Look at him. Ah Hold that bitch With each punch Shit, honestly, he's really And honestly, he's taking these that's the thing is he's being really reasonable for most of them delivering the bang with

He tossed that motherfucker like trash toss the trash But he keeps tossing on the grass. He's not launching him into the car path. And the kid keeps coming. He's cool hand-lukes it. He played for Tampa Bay, Florida, and Nashville. Okay. Alright. Also involving golf and fighting. You ever go to Topgolf? I've been there. Yeah, they need to put some fences up. Watch this.

Nothing beats a jet-two holiday. And right now now you can save Got him I got an award in there too. Oh and smacked him for good Sumo bang bang the staff intervening I'm like, oh, no. Sumo. Bang, It's pretty good there, and if you've got friends you can try this fart trick that Luke tries on me often Discussion on the show about whether or not you could fart in an MMA fight and to what extent that we weaponize people weaponize cardio We've got a hundred percent fart on somebody and it was like we do that. They're fucking fucking gross Anyway, they always smell awful like I just want to say Brady He's Stan beat Garrett Armfield and got Brady tweeted after and was like Garrett that fart you ripped mid-fight was like brutal

And they both left it Position you just sit up and you know if you want to get gnarly go Justin Kish level just let it all go You know if you want to get gnarly go Justin Kish level. Just let it all go Right just BC BC strategy MMA fighters to take a dump in your hand and then throw it like a howler That's wonderful a new new shadow boxing trick. You can work on here check this out I'm gonna show you how to dodge, okay? You gotta work out on vacation, right? One, two, look now One, two

Okay, I don't know if that's legal I did not know where that was going. Alright, you ever go back to- I'm assuming that that was reasonably consensual. I mean not exactly, but mostly, but kind of. You ever go back to old movies from the 80s and 90s that we grew up with? It's just pro-rape. It's just straight rape.

It's pro a lot of things that you shouldn't. You'll never remember. You're always blown away at what you hear. Check out this from Home Alone 2. Excuse me, where's Mr. Epstein? Down the hall and to the left. Thanks. That one ain't Yeah, that is wild. Alright.

At the Waldorf Astoria. You know who woman Luke hates more than any other in the world? I couldn't fathom a guess. The weird French cake lady. The cake lady. Let's check it out. Oh yeah, why don't you eat that you fucking disturbed alien. This kind of turns me on in a sense.

Oh, yeah. Just put it in your mouth. I mean, look at her. Oh, yeah. Oh, nice. Absolute demon from another dimension. One day she's going to do a John Wayne Bobbin and just cut it off. Yeah, just take a bite. Why don't you just eat the floor, you unbelievable skank? OK. All right. Oh, hey, Luke. Why don't you eat the wet wipe to fucking billy goat every time we go on the subway? We see homeless ass crack. We see a lot of crazy thing this never happens to me on the New York City subway

Would you like some? I 100% would. I take food stamps, I take quarter, and I take neutral. So we have this debate in my life many times. In the year 2000, I worked at an old folks home in the kitchen, and at the end of the day after you made all the meals and you spray down the shit, all the crap ends up in the drain. You know, there's like a it drops down a bit. Then you pull it out. You empty the drain in the midst of that, which is all old food and grossness

and ridiculousness. There was a dime bag of purple haze at the bottom of it. And I picked it out and I was like, oh, my God. And the guy I work with goes, you smoke that or what? I'm like, absolutely. Fuck, you just went home to the big orange bong Julius I respect all my friends we came over I don't think I've ever been higher than I don't think we when I played beer pong in college I don't think we wash those solo cups. Oh

We never clean the floor so when the ping-pong ball was there and then we never like al Bundy's grill with the never never clean it You're both goddamn degenerates. Yeah, you wouldn't smoke that no god Now one time I had a weed dealer who would bring to us weed that would come in like these plastic boxes and the boxes would have a like it'd be vacuum sealed with tape on it and the tape was like not like scotch tape but Like a nice layer of tape I one time left one of those in my beer fridge for a year And then I found it when I cleaned it out. I did smoke that I'm into that I also got high as fuck there it is worked at the end of the story you got high as fuck

Let's get a little elder abuse mixed in check out this guy at the oil change place I Only it gets worse for this gentleman We got one more elder abuse for you, You know, playgrounds in the 80s were wild. You know what I mean? They weren't for handicapped folks. Playgrounds now, the floor is bouncy. Yeah. Yeah. No, that was not how we grew up.

Not where it was back in the day. Let's check out this lady. I get that everybody wants to take part, but you got to be careful. They put her on fucking. Oh, centrifugal force. It'll fuck fuck that was that was so for she got loose in turn four like Dale senior at Daytona, right? Wow. Also, we got one more for you Maybe you know, maybe we should send this to Anthony Smith. This is how you defend a break

This is how I would defend myself if a bunch of men broke into my house and wanted to rob me Wow gentlemen You've arranged yourselves in such a beautiful circle. Let's see I'm a very accommodating host Stay here. Stay here. Stay here. You may want to rob my crib. I'm gonna rob your sack first That is the correct response to that oh what the fuck that's all the shit we got for you this week I Didn't like the last one so much. Sorry, Luke. I tried to try to produce emotions. The way to defend you. The way to defend your home is to gangbang the people home invading. I mean, I didn't create the clip.

You know what I mean? I just shared it with the world, unfortunately. Thank you for playing this week, guys. Morning Combat at Gmail dot com. If you want to reach the show, we'll of course be back with you. Not this Friday, but next week Monday morning I'm out of here though. We'll be on vacation next week. We'll have some special guests, but we'll be back Monday 11 a.m Eastern to recap this loaded weekend

UFC Pacquiao Usyk BAM PFL South Ames fighting this weekend. Yeah unification. Oh It's kaffu. Yeah, there you go. You follow the show at the social channels their follower extended YouTube channels Do you watch Luke Thomas gets political? I've seen a lot of the clips. I've yet to I am subscribed to his whatever thing I don't you know his upstack. Yeah, that's the word. I was your you have I have a view he's like it's whatever to me I just didn't remember the word, but I I've seen some of the clips of the stuff you've done. I'm interested

It's going much better than I thought it would I'm happy. I'm very happy for you I jet you do great work at MMA fighting calm anything that you're willing to plug We're doing between the links tomorrow by the way. Do you want to come on between the links to our time 1230? No, cuz we with Michael heck yeah, no we um Let's talk. I'm gonna show you talk after we the answer is I might be able to okay So that's happening tomorrow Luke may or may not be there Watch party do a watch party every pay-per-view at Mike hex me and Mike heck in South Carolina in South How do you get there? I drive down How far is that so my parents live he moved like an hour away from my parents live so I?

Stay with my parents for the weekend I get to see them and then pop over for takes an hour to get there and watch some fights How long from your house to your parents house? It's like four hours And then you sleep at Mike's house. No no no I go back to my parents We don't we don't have that kind of I don't know if you were the meat in a sandwich or not. You guys blow each other when the show is over. Like, how's that? Well, that's just that's just me and B.C. thing. There you go. Long Island Luke, we thank you for your cooperation in today's show. We can check out your reactions, I'm sure, on the main

card minute. Yeah, I'll be live all weekend Saturday, 2 p.m. for PFL, 6 p.m. for U.S.G. Three. He must have an understanding. Wait, PFL is on Saturday or Friday? Saturday. Saturday. The prelims are 10 a.m. But I'm not doing the prelims. I'm just doing the main at two. All right. The goddamn Iron Man. He's going to do PFL.

Oh, did you see the second Ben Ashgren clip that came out? He's like looking a lot better. I've been cheering for him in that regard. So to him, Randy Couture and everybody else, let's go. Let's get better. Let's get well here. Jed, it's been fantastic to do this with you, brought to you by Cuervo and, you know, hanging out with the Devil's Reserve.

It's been a fun day. I've had a great time. I'm legitimately going to buy a bottle of that. That's what I'm talking about. And just shoot it. And of course. And. Morning Combat Dot shop for all of your fantastic merch needs, including this hat, that cup,

Jed's shirt and a few other things, should we be selling some some searings after that? That's a common rings after that, Connor. I'm not talking about McGregor's Packer. We opened the show. Yeah, he he just like me to. Yeah, just like we got to talk about I don't want to talk about it You tell custom weights. I mean were you did you think it was AI considering like the Irish curse is typically a thing Once again BC. I hope you get AIDS

For our great team including Ken in their. I mean, they're not sober. Okay. Thank you. I called them Chief Keef because they hate being sober. Enjoy UFC 318 on Saturday. Luke, you'll be going coming on after. Yeah, I got a red eye flight on Friday. So no coverage from you.

I'm going to bring a little bit of camera equipment in case I feel like the need, but don't count on it. All right. Check me out this weekend. PBC on Prime, Pay Per View Saturday night, 8 p.m. Eastern. I'll also be calling a three fight undercard before that. I'm going to call on Pacquiao Barrios Pacquiao Barrios. What do you 46 year old Pacquiao?

What do you think? You think Pac wins? I know because he's 50 years old and he's been fighting for 30 years. Hashtag PEDs. I didn't say anything. I didn't say the I didn't say anything. I didn't say anything. I didn't say anything. Honestly, I hope that he is. I hope he's on all the gear. Oh, yeah. Look at him.

He's got that Lever King gear. All right. For all of our team and for us, thank you for playing. We are out of here. Ah, come on. Why is this taking so long? This thing is ancient. Still using yesterday's tech?

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