MORNING KOMBAT WITH LUKE THOMAS AND BRIAN CAMPBELL - UFC Paris: Imavov Wants Title after Borralho W, Saint-Denis Subs Ruffy | UFC Noche, Canelo/Crawford

Episode Date: September 8, 2025

Welcome to a Morning Kombat Monday, live in studio! Brian Campbell and Luke Thomas are back to discuss the latest headlines in combat sports. First up, Nassourdine Imavov made his case for a middleweight title shot by outclassing Caio Borralho at UFC Paris. Did Imavov show enough to believe he's a threat for Chimaev's title? Also, Benoit Saint Denis took apart Mauricio Ruffy. Did this result prove that BSD is still a relevant force in the 155-pound title picture? Plus, the guys go over the latest storylines surrounding UFC Noche and Canelo-Crawford fight week.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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let's do topic number one yes I'm talking about UFC Paris I'm talking about a fight night card on Saturday that absolutely delivered Shout out to them fighting nerds. They had a bad weekend, but let's talk right off the top in that main event, one of two sort of unofficial slash official middleweight semi-final matchups to try to produce the next contender or challenger for Hamzat Chimayev. And after stuffing all five takedown attempts and beating Kyle Bolio in just about every

offensive category over five dominant rounds, Nasor Dina Imovov recorded his fifth straight victory and called for an immediate shot at Chamev's belt. while we still must have course wait for that October 14th, Vancouver fight Nightman event with Renair Derritter against Fluffy Hernandez to fully figure it out. Luke Thomas, did Imov show you enough

even with the right foot injury that he mentioned after the fight that stopped him from being able to get a stoppage against a still game ball holio? Did Imov lead you to believe that right now he's a threat to Chimaev's middleweight title? No, he did not.

Whoa. No. Let's talk about this. Let's unwrap this gift. The question you have to ask yourself, the one you ask, is an important one, but I think there's a couple of other ones we can ask along the way. First of all, as just a general disclaimer, you asked me, did I see somebody, basically,

who I thought could be competitive and potentially even beat Hamzat Chimayev? I mean, first of all, I'll say this. On the feet, of course. On the feet, I thought Imovov did some great stuff in this fight. In particular, what I loved, B.C., he was using that oblique kick to like a snapping front kick. Like a jab. Yeah, you couldn't tell which one was which. The slipping off the line and then the uppercut.

Dude, that's the exact same uppercut. Povetkin killed Billion Whitewitz, same exact one. I'm not saying he's as good as Pvettekin, but I'm saying some of those tricks look very familiar to me, and those are great. So it's not to say that Imovov performed poorly. I thought he performed for the most part quite well. And as you indicated, he appears to have some kind of right foot slash leg injury. To what extent it impacted his performance is a little hard to say, in part because he was the superior striker on one of the judge of score cards, which I thought was unfair. They had it at 50-45.

Unfair, you think? I thought it could have been 4-1 or 3-2. I could see the backdoor angle on 3-2. I had at 4-0 entering the 5th, and I gave the 5th to Boholio. I understood that he outstruck Immovov in some earlier rounds, but I thought visibly, visually, he was getting the worse of the exchange. When I say that, I don't think the judging was, I mean, the right guy won, so who really cares. But I get it.

Like, the rounds in certain ways were kind of close. So whenever that happens, you just never know which way it's going to go. But I thought he performed well, and I think there were four, excuse me, five takedown attempts in this fight by Kyobahalio. He attempted a takedown in every round except round five, and he got stuffed on all five. That says something. That says something. I don't think he mauve is some kind of scrub by any stretch of the imagination.

And here's the important thing that we really have to consider, separate from what BC is asking but relevant, which is, has he done enough to earn a title shot? And on that level, the answer is clearly yes. And what we had discussed pre-fight, remember, Imovov was a slight underdog, I believe, heading into this one. It's very slight, very moderate. How did the betters not jump all over plus imab money at home here too? Well, this is part of the answer. We had said on Friday, who's more well-rounded?

It's Baha'ahlio. And I think that's still kind of true. Sure. But as you can see, the defensive takedown ability of Imovov was as good as it needed to be. and on the feet you did not think that Cayo had better stand-up. So some of the ways in which he was more well-rounded was neutralized, right? He looked out of answers on the- Okay. But here's the problem.

Even granting that there was some kind of a potential injury that impacted his mobility or performance or whatever, the kind of take-down threat that Bohalio posed is not even on the same, like, bordering on the same level as Hamzot. That's a true fact. Two other things concern me. One, you would notice Bihalio would be able to get underhooks and then just walk Imovov to the fence. There was a information that came out that Imovov on Fight Night was 194. That's not necessarily a big middleweight. In fact, some middle weights routinely get over 200 pounds when they rehydrate, sometimes in the 205 to 210 range.

All right, so he's actually kind of small. He just got walked over with an underhook to that. Second of all, and this is the bigger problem, because this is a consistent thread throughout, he waits around a little bit. His offense, he did lead with some pressure, but again, the slipping and then the upper cutting, it's nice, but it's a lot of it as the fight went on, he was waiting for Bhalio to walk into something or to give him something to react to. And I just think all those factors together, and the long-winded answer, B.C. is,

I'm happy to say the guy earned a title shot, and I'm happy to say he performed well. But that's not the same as saying I saw anybody who I thought could give Hamzaa a fight. I did not see that. I'm not offended by that because it's weird. I saw a lot of a lot of the Twitter reaction being like, hey, nice win, but neither these guys would have a prayer against Hamzaa or nice win, but you're still boring, you're still this, you're still that. I was thoroughly impressed by what Imov did.

He completely took Bohlios game away from him. Obviously took it away by stuffing the five takedowns, but was levels above him on the striking, not just from the sharpness and the technical of being able to. who at times as the counterpuncher lure him in and land, or when he did turn on rounds three and four, when he started coming forward and leading with those little short elbows, like, dude, he was miles above Bolhalla, who was the betting favor coming in in the striking,

to the point where even the defense, Boholio could not even touch him until late in round four when he started to just slip in a quick power jab as Imovov was slowing down just a bit and probably that right foot injury caught up with him to a certain degree as well. And yes, by the end of the fight, Imov's face was marked up a little bit, like it was a real fight, but Holly was game for all five rounds, but he was almost auditing him through three rounds, like completely picking him apart.

And what that shows me is there are certain elements to his game that I have overlooked along the rise that I've sort of said, well, yeah, you know, hey, nice knockout of Adasanya, but you know, he's kind of this, he's kind of boring, he's kind of that. I didn't look at him as boring on Saturday. I thought he fought the perfect fight for most of that fight. And it's still a different hill to climb when it says, okay, but can you survive, is wrestling. That's a different equation that I'm not even sure anyone in this division is fully ready to answer, although obviously people like RDR and Fluffy, just by styles would

have maybe more interesting answers. But I felt like this was the performance where I finally was like, F it. I don't care about his lack of charisma. I don't care about this. This guy is championship worthy right now. Does it help that he's got this explosive-ass crowd exploding on everything he does? I mean, that helps hammer the point home. But I saw a guy who's striking was levels above Boholio and I'm like maybe there are elements to his timing to how he that like he almost looked like a poor man's out of sonia

in there on Saturday did he not especially when he was waiting as the counter as the waiting for him to come in okay some of the counters were clever nice smooth accurate linear yes I'll give you that like Boholio's used to flowing

he's got sort of that south paw machita like karate stance and the flow was cut off his job was not too chabby in fight. If I had to think of like one thing that did catch him all of, wouldn't you agree? Yeah, but it started really, like I just said, late in the fourth round. It wasn't happening in the first three and a half rounds. I really think it was, you know, the foot with with the championship rounds there were imov slowed down a bit. But look what I'm trying to say is, dude, he fucking shut that dude down. He made him look like he was a journeyman.

And that dude was the betting favor coming in. Did that not surprise you as much as it did me that it's like, oh shit, dude, this guy technically has a much firmer grasp of the operation than I realized. I think we felt the same things, but to different degrees. Because it's not like what you're saying is a foreign feeling to what I got from him. But I don't feel it so heavily. Like I expected him to be, I mean, what's he called? The sniper, right?

I expected him to have some of that, and you saw evidence of that. Again, also, the speed of his combinations at middleweight were fantastic. I thought that was great. He couldn't miss with the counter right hand. Could not miss with it. It was phenomenal. It was phenomenal in that sense. But I, to a degree, expected it, and I just didn't get much answered with the wrestling.

Also, we really need to talk about this. I can't affirmatively declare what role it played. But the fact that right after the fight, Bhalio says, I need to find something to get the fireback. And he had done all the traveling, all that extra weight cutting three weeks ago, which, again, having talked to people who measured their own fighter, you know, vitals, essentially, during weight cuts. Testosterone is one of the things that gets affected the most. You're straight up depleting yourself. Again, I am making some kind of supposition here.

It is very hard for me to see how that served his interests prior to this fight. At a bare minimum, I can say that. So, again, it's like, did he Mavov do the task that was asked of him? There's simply no question. And he may have done it with some kind of relative handicap based on the injury. but Baha'alio didn't give us a great look into what it means for Hamzot's potential chances against Imovov, whereas I feel like with UFC Vancouver's main event between RDR and Fluffy, one way or the other, we're going to get more useful information out of that fight.

Sure, especially if there's a stoppage in that, it could potentially give a one-up, although I think it was a pretty strong callout for Imov afterwards to have the crowd just around him and engulfing him, and that crowd was on fire all night, all five French, Five Frenchmen went five and O or French people, no, it was French, French men. Frenchmen, yeah. French men went five and no, ultimately. The French.

But like, I don't know, man. I mean, just to close on Bohalia here on this specific point, was the biggest issue, the inactivity, and remember, Nassar Dean Imov scored his two biggest wins, the stoppage of Israel, Adasania, and the decision win over Brendan Allen since Boholio last fall, 13 months ago. And then Boholio 13 months ago scored his best win, a decision win over Jared Canaaner,

who Imov had knocked out two months before that. So I'm trying to say is like I kind of was right the way I said coming in that it's the most, of the four, it's the guy who has the strongest case on paper coming in, imov against the guy who has the least strongest case on paper, Bajolio, and it just so happened that it played out that way. Did it play out that way, though, because of Buhailio's inactivity, because of the double weight cut, because we found out that he's just not on the championship level in terms of the technique there, or all of that combining together to work against it?

I'm going to say all of that worked against him. I think you listed the most relevant factors. The fact that, again, to what extent did the extra weight cut play a role? It's very hard to know. But based on the evidence of what we have, it is very hard to see how that couldn't have been anything but at least somewhat disruptive, potentially much more than that. That's the first thing I'd say. Second thing I'd say is you didn't mention, but I think it's important. Remember, Imov had losses on his UFC record, on his UFC record up until Saturday. Sure. Kyle Bajlio did not.

He was more consistent. And I do think that also played a role in how the odds ultimately came together. Right. He had, Kyle Buhlio hadn't lost in 10 years coming in. Right. Which is no small feat. Again, for Imovov to get a win over a guy like that. However, even though he was more consistent fight over fight, I felt like the bigger leaps technically over the course of the last few years in particular, were taken by Emovalvov. That's what it looked like to me.

So I can take into consideration that it's the weight cut. I can take into consideration. Partly, I think some of his skill development has kind of topped out a little bit, as well as, you know, all the other factors that you enumerated. They all kind of worked together, not to create some bum,

but he was just behind the eight ball, basically most of the time. The whole fight and couldn't get out of it. So here's my harsh question that I've got to ask. Look, I'm not trying to do, you know, eight victory elaps. I'll just leave it on two. This is kind of what I predicted would happen,

although I said it would be a super much closer fight, more of a majority decision, split decision. But the whole instincts of what I thought coming in played out. So let me ask you about Buhlio. We can't overlook the double weight cut and the 13 months of inactivity. But it was said coming in that he's the founder of the fighting nerds. He's the game planner of the group.

I don't know if you watched the pre-fight interview package they do right before the main event. Kyle basically was like, I want to be remembered as the smartest fighter in UFC history, the way that I adapt during a fight, the way that I game plan and pick out my opponent's weaknesses. I wasn't the one in there. I'm a keyboard warrior.

He had zero adaptability in this fight. It was almost as if just as Imovov slowed down, while Haleo was doing the same things he was trying earlier, it's just that because he's a dog and he went after it, he was finally having some success and I scored the fifth round for him. But it was an overwhelming success. Where was that IQ, that adaptability? Did that all get swallowed by the end?

inactivity in the double weight cut as well? Or was this ultimately an audit? I don't really want to make it all about the fighting nerds audit, but that's how everyone's kind of framing it. Did you look at this and go, no, he really is not at that level. And it's not just the inactivity in the double way cut. I did. I did. I didn't see him able to really switch gears once the takedown was shut down.

And again, he went for it for most of the fight. But, you know, not, I think the first round, he went for two takedowns, both of which got stuffed. And then after that, it was just one around. Without it, he didn't really have a lot of answers. He, you know, and again, this was not a guy who couldn't get the underhook and then press Imovov against the fence, which point now you can just, you know, level change down. You couldn't, there's a lot you can do to reconsolate the position.

He just didn't seem to have another gear, right? We got high on the fighting nerds, and I enjoyed that high. I think the hiding, I mean, I think the lesson here, we'll talk about Marisa Hoof in a minute, but I think the lesson with the fighting nerds is there's clearly something to what they're doing. They've had a lot of success. But now that they're moving up the food chain, you're beginning to see the problems that emerge. Where, yeah, if they're fighting unranked or, like, top 15 guys, they tend to feast. Well, let's see what happens in top 10, top five territory.

Long Island, look, you had gone with the fighting nerds. Parlay, yeah, you're broke as fuck. So you definitely, I was thinking to you the whole time. I mean, it blew up like the world trade, unfortunately, for you. Did you feel this? No, I meant the 93. I was making the big. I know, I know.

Long Island, were you disappointed all. ultimately, or how disappointed were you ultimately and what Boholio didn't do? I want to say I was more disappointed in Hoofie, but I know we'll get to that fight. But Boholio, I do think the double weight cut probably affected him a little bit. We said when we were previewing this fight,

I was like, I think he Mavov has the better stand-up. I would hope Bo Jolio can implement his wrestling, and the fact that he stood with him for five rounds is like, all right, well, didn't expect that to go. What's what the comment afterwards? Go back and look at the wrestling attempts. They were poor. But what's what's what the common afterwards

where Bohlio said? And I like to call out to his son. Like, well, there's a good dude. I'm not trying to dunk on him. But the comment of, like, I wanted to give the fans a real fight for five rounds, so I kept it on the feet. Like, no, you got stuffed in your attempts to take it to the rounds. And also, also, please don't fucking do that.

Yeah. Like, guys, I wanted to give you an exciting fight. I would rather them say this. I wanted to give you an exciting fight, but I had to get that W. Yes. I can live with that a lot more than I wanted to give you guys an exciting fight. So I showed bad fight IQ. Like, no.

Yeah. Oh, we got a video of Imov exiting the arena going backstage and referencing that injury that we had talked about. I'm going to go to five rounds, just there's a little bit of a lot. I just to get too concentrated on my feet. It's shit. Oh, my friend. Yeah, it's good. One coach, please.

Luke Palestine flag around him. Yeah, yeah. I saw that. Luke Thomas gets political. We don't have to talk about that here. Okay, okay. But, but, you know, you can see him limping there, I guess, with the adrenaline wearing off. I don't know how much that affected him,

but it's like if he was that banged up and Bihalio still couldn't take him down, it's like, dude, do you think Hamzot wouldn't have got him down with an injury like that? Yeah. You know, yeah, dude. So here's the deal. So we do know that Imov and Hamzot

have trained together in the past. There's pictures of them. Yeah. This has the potential if Imov ends up getting the title shot to be what the first time in UFC history, two Muslim fighters meet against one another. So I understand that... I don't know, but maybe.

The fact that him and Chimaev, although not from the same region, are both Russians. They both have respect for each other. But I didn't necessarily love this next interview afterwards, where Imov was asked by a full send him to me to sort of send a message to Hamza. Okay.

Nassadine Imov, listen, congratulations, brother. And final message for Hamzaa Tchamayaev. Felicitation, I'm content for him. He has gained the center. It's someone that I know. I know that you're the next to combat for the center. Is he will have always the center at this moment? or maybe he will come to get to come to come out.

So I don't want to call out. I want to call out the cinture and I call out the cinture. It's a moment, yeah, yeah, yeah. He said, congratulations. He said, congratulations for the victory, for the belt. You know, I don't want to call him out, I want to call out the belt. If he has the belt, of course we're going to fight for the belt.

If he goes up in white class, I'm going to fight for whoever got the belt. My goal is the belt. the belt is not Hamzachima. Okay, I'm not saying he has to call the guy's mom or do something ridiculous. You'll fucking call his name out. Let's go. Like, like, you know, one step left on the mountain potentially.

That's why the Drick's fight ended up sucking for, well, for Driggas, I suppose. But the lead-up was great because Drickas wasn't backing down, you know. Why soft play this? Why'd be like, well, I don't want to call him out, but if he's got the bell. Let me ask, are, okay, within Russia, there are subgroups. Sure.

Are the subgroups that Imov and Chimae from? Are they in any way rivals? Well, Chimayev is Chechen Imov is from Dagestan. Obviously, he moved to France when he was four and was raised there. But I mean, there's something to be said for that. That's why I set it up. I mean, they're both Muslims. I'm just trying to say there might be cultural sensitivities that are affecting this that I don't know

how they play. But I agree. If that's not in play, if that's not a thing and he's just doing this because, you know, they're buddies, it's like, I agree. You got to dial it up a little bit. So it goes without I shouldn't even have to ask you. But if the UFC, we're like, okay, forget about October 14th. We've got the matchup now. You don't think that's justified right now. Imov did not. Imov put him in a good spot.

Yeah. But you're saying it's not stamped. This is not an automatic. We said it on Friday. This was an audition to show us who can give us the most interesting Hamzat Shimaia fight. We don't have enough information to make that call yet. Okay. We do have one more Imov video.

Here's to Imov talking about why he's not worried that the October 14th RDR Fluffy fight will upstage him. You said after the fight, you said there's no other option for me than the title shot. Obviously, we've got that fight in Vancouver, so will you even go out there to watch that fight, or you're just going to stay here? Whatever. Okay, I'm not aware of course. I've seen that they've announced, but I don't know where it's conversed.

Yeah, it's my next. Isn't this your language? My people, yes. Yeah, I'm the next. I'm not even worried about the next fight. I mean, you have to be realist. And no one did what I did for the last year. And I had just, you know, five, five open and five top ten guys, two finishes.

I mean, no one did that. He does have a, he has the strongest resume. Even though Fluffy's got more consecutive wins, no one has beat the competition. Even RDR's incredible run. No one has done what Imovov has done. He has the fan base behind him. I mean, put that title fight in Paris. Imovov has the best resume in terms of who did you beat to get this opportunity?

Yes. Imov is your clubhouse leader. But, well, Haleo took a step back and here's Sean Strickland on Twitter to go a little bit deeper. Is this justified or too much, Luke? Sean would type. Can I read it? Sure. This is Sean Strickland talking.

Quote, Kayo is my buddy, but he's an idiot. He trained with us and was useless. Me, what's wrong with you? Kayo, I'm cutting. I'm an alternate. So back to Sean talking. So you're giving up four weeks of your camp cutting weight twice while having a fight coming up. Whoever told you to do that, please hit him.

Yeah, he's fucking right. Yeah, and you warned us about that. Hey, he's fucking, dude, it's such, if you, if you have to cut maybe five to seven pounds, like it's a really moderate amount, maybe that's not a big deal. But if it's 15 or more, dude, that is such a bad idea. Stop doing it. And this thing where it's like, I want to please UFC, or, or, you know, I wanted to give the crowd something, you're trying to please and validate all these other external factors.

Buddy, stop worrying about all of that. The fans will appreciate and the UFC will appreciate. If you're able to maximize what you can do in the cage, if you're not doing that, yes, you might be doing a fan service or a UFC service, but ultimately that's not a use service. Use service has got to come first. I'm with you on that. Service yourself above all others.

Yes, I mean, whether it's an Arby's bathroom or a gas station pump, it doesn't matter. Get busy. Burger King, wherever you got to go. I am excited, though, about the playoff field that Saturday night's fight had that the October 14th fight is going to have. I mean, it puts strong opening statement from Imovov. But if either of those gentlemen, you know, get a TKO, get a submission win, October 14th, I wonder if that's the right edge.

But you also need that crowd to back you up. This was an extra, extra, extra special craft. We talked about this. This is one factor where, again, I don't know what the UFC's plans are or even really what their calculations are. But in a world where you don't need to be on pay-per-view anymore, part of the reason why they were on pay-per-view – I'm sorry, part of the reason why so many fights that were on pay-per-view, there are exceptions to Abu Dhabi card, the occasional UK card, but most of them take place, and again, in Australia too, I mean, they've moved around, but the vast majority of them take place in the U.S. or Canada, which is not

an accident because those are the markets that are paying for pay-per-view. BC in a world where you no longer have to cater to that need. Now, there might be other needs, hey, start time, we don't want to change that, you name it, but can you move a UFC title fight to Paris? Please do. I would say, in theory, you are unencumbered in ways that you did not used to be. Just like we always told PFL and Bellator in recent years, you see that reaction in Ireland? Keep going back.

Like it almost doesn't matter. I mean, obviously you want local people on the card, but it almost doesn't matter. These people just want big time. By the way, I think this was the highest gate for an MMA event at this arena ever. There you go. A look in one word describe your Washington Commander's weekend. Good. Good.

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action. And instead of leaving his chin exposed to huge counterstrikes, Benoit Saint-Denie relied upon heavy body kicks and relentless grappling pressure to produce four takedons, three full mounts, and multiple backtakes of Mauricio Hoofi on. route to a one-sided second-round submission win. Did this result prove that Benoit St. Denis is still a very relevant force in the 155-pound title picture after two straight wins, both by submission? Title picture, I don't know, but I will say this win is the most restorative for his brand

of the last two that he's had and certainly repaired some of the damage that has been. been done since the Poirier lost, B.C. I still think there's a lot of room to go before BSD shows us exactly how far he can go. We don't exactly know yet. To me, though, I'm going to say two things. The result of this fight is number one. Marisa Hoofie got found out. He has poor wrestling and poor grappling and there's really no other way to say that. It was a disaster. Straight up this fight was a disaster. It was a disaster. He, as good as he is on the feet and my lord he's a ton of fun he is woefully lacking on the ground but two i will say this for bsd he managed to fight in a way that he looked like himself he was moving across

the octagon he was initiating offense he was aggressive in ways that made sense but is it my imagination bc or did you notice a at least somewhat more thoughtful and you could see he was thinking through problems and had a plan here's what i want to do here's what I'm going to do in these situations as they as they reveal themselves and there was a bit of a methodical application of a game he didn't just go floor a gas pedal to the floor march across and then just have you know it exert a bunch of energy no it seemed like there was a plan in place that he was executing so in other words he and his team managed to keep him fighting in a way that seems like it's a natural extension of how he fights sure without being super reckless in that way did walk into a couple shots in round two yes so he's still himself kind of getting ding ding ding like it wasn't full chin out hey everybody let's go let's bang but it was a couple of those yes believe me i saw those two and i got a little nervous yeah i got a little nervous but at the same time i just feel like you'd be a little wrong to not acknowledge that there seemed to be a little bit more

method to the madness this time but bc the story of this fight is is hoofy brothers and sisters if you get mounted and they collect both of your elbows, I don't know how to explain this. That is positionally about as dominant as it gets. Short of getting teabagged, that's about as bad as it gets. I mean, you've got borderline teaback. When you get mounted so many, four, three times

a musical mod. Yeah, but if you're mounted and you can kind of keep inside frames, there's things you can do. The goal of anyone in those positions, well, I mean many goals, but one of the key goals, one of the ways you demonstrate the dominance in that position is not only achieving it, but then separating their elbows from

their body. That's the key. So you could see he would collect both of them and he'd be all up here and stuff like that. Dude, that is, that is big brother shit in Jujitsu. And again, in this particular case, it actually had some technical application along the way. But what killed me, the lack of hand fighting from Huffy, he would get his back taken and he wouldn't try and build height to shake him off. He just seemed lost out there like he had never even been with someone who had done this to him before and brother, it showed. Yeah, he was the guy who was the betting favorite. Close, but betting favorite he was the guy was the betting favorite yes and he had the momentum where people were like of all the fighting nerds this guy might be long term the best the most explosive he has the

intriguing stand-up but i mean jesus coming off of a wheel kick high you know knockout of the year attempt against king green like it was everything was coming up fighting nerds until it wasn't on this card and they did play up that Brazil france soccer rivalry as being sort of the yeah that's funny the ground floor of i mean by the way aspirin got booed to shit at holy shit he got booed yes wow they love them some serial gain right there but uh this has to be a bigger discussion unfortunately about the fighting nerds a great group of aggressive savage get after at fighters and multiple weight divisions but to have two very one-sided losses that were lacking like this i mean can we show the footage of uh maricio hoofy heading back to the front door the fighting nerds gym uh the next

morning oh oh what the fuck i mean look jokes aside Is it also a disaster for the reputation of this gym as we head into Lord G.N. Silva this Saturday against Diego Lopez, or you're going to catch losses at the elite level. Let's get back. Let's regroup. I don't know if you regroup from this. That was like... This is a little bit worse than just... I mean, I don't think it's fatal or something like that, but it's not merely did their stock take a hit?

It's the question is, did their stock take a deserved hit? Yes. Yes, it did. Carlos Prochus had a good rebound, but that loss to Ian Gary showed us some of his limits. Sure. In this particular case, Hoofie got completely audited. Now, again, BSD can achieve dominant positions and did get them on, for example, Dustin Poirier. But Dustin Poirier had enough otherwise scrambling ability to make things interesting or to slow him down,

whereas Hoofie felt like he was absolutely at BSD's mercy every single time throughout the range of different things that was happening. So that was a big deal. Who do we have? Kyo. I think Kio didn't fight poorly, but it looked like... I don't think he fought poorly. He just fought out of ideas. He just didn't have a lot of ideas.

Kyle fought poorly on Saturday or not. Yeah, he fought poorly. I think poorly's a strong... He didn't get finished, dude. I mean, there was no 10-8 rounds. I mean, it could have been a backdoor 3-2 loss, too, depending on the judge as well. I get what you're saying. I mean, he fought just lesser than is what it seemed like to me.

And now you got Hoofie getting audited. Now, Jay-on Silva, BC, did go up against Bryce Mitchell. Now, Bryce Mitchell left the weight class after this, but at least someone who was at one point ranked tested him in his wrestling. So you got a little bit there. And Diego Lopez is a decent wrestler, but not a lights-out wrestler. You would think this one might go on the feet for some period of time, which clearly favors Jayon Silva.

But I do think that this camp, yeah, oh, when they're beating the non-ranked guys, they feast. sure and slightly ranked guys they still feast but after that is when the problem start to emerge Dean Thomas was on the UFC post fight show we got a quote tweet here of uh he had some harsh words against hoofy constructive but he said maybe he's not as good as we thought he was he still got some work to do but tonight he did not show up and he did not look like he wanted to be out there so Luke that is you know only fighters and coaches can can be that aggressive it seems in their breakdown would you go to that level that that he didn't he he looked like he got the fight sort of taken out of him you know that he's

look like he didn't want to do it. Yes. When you're not fighting the hands, when you're not building height, when you're just kind of at the mercy of someone else. You're out of... Yeah. I mean, again, remember the levels in Jiu-Jitsu, survive, defend, attack. He was mostly just surviving and even that not very well.

Well, bad night for Brazil and the fighting nerds. Big night for France. Here is a little iron sharpening iron after the fight between BSD and Imov. Manif, magnificent. Yeah, man. Yeah, it's a pretty, so we've said, as we've been

magnificent. He's the puny, but it's, he didn't he wouldn't not your box, he couldn't not rest at the distance

of the box. He'd have a bit with the feet, but they're not terrible, but he'd foe you're getting,

you know, in fact, you know, you know, every time that he'd never, I'd ever, Yeah, I've seen a moment

of the new, it's just, where they're just there, he was there, he had been, he was good, he was good also, it was really, it was really solid,

yeah, I'll give him respect. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, beautiful. Beautiful. Yeah, but

it's very much, I think, it's not rapidly, you know, yeah. Get that tendon healed up there, healed up there in Mava. You've got to be ready. They were talking about their favorite straw weights for folks who don't

speak. Yeah, maybe that was like translated into that, but in reality, like, you see that? Yeah, okay, no. No, that's not there. Long Island Luke, confidence level at BSD against top 10 lightweights moving forward. I'm still not sold. I think this was more like an audit of whofy than it was like, oh, BSD is back in the

contending pool. You know, I got to see him. Did you agree that he fought at least somewhat more sensibly? Sure. But I still. don't think I've seen enough to know if he'll ever like intent for a title. Right, that's right. Would you make of what he said afterwards in the cage when he said basically

guys like this talking about Hoofee, they have one way to entry. This is, he was well overhyped. It was all about the media. He basically kind of pointed out there that like the media played up this idea that Hoofie was rising and BSD was struggling when in reality we saw what we saw.

Yeah, but the media also blew up BSD but he was some kind of world beater and then he failed in that one too. BSD after the fight would go on even greater. and basically say he put himself through hell for a year. And I liked how he kind of apologized to the fans, not like he don't need to do that,

but basically like you guys stuck with me through my downs. And now I'm back up. It does seem like, to your point, Luke, there was a strong level of looking in the mirror and figuring out what went wrong in those consecutive stoppage losses and how he has to humble himself. He used the word humble a few times.

So if that's what he needs to be a little bit more responsible defensively, which is the only thing that will allow him to get to the title level, he can beat anybody on any given night because he's probably, He's aggressive. He is a god of war. And I want to see him as this division unloads their legendary all-action names, reloads with contenders.

He's sort of right in the middle there at 32, two-fight win streak. I hope he continues to work on those holes because there is a lot to like about his game. A lot to like. There is. But I echo exactly your point. There still needs to be a significantly greater level of refinement

for him to go to really interesting places. I'm with you on that. Let's go to topic number three, and it's the rest of this UFC Paris undercard. But most importantly, the record-setting explosiveness. This fight night in Paris made history on Saturday for a modern-day UFC card with 11 stoppages in 13 fights and a whopping 9-KOs-T-KOs. It also featured an explosive crowd from literally start to finish. So Luke from Bukowskis to Mason Jones, Delea, to Breesek, to Fokretenikov,

or anyone in between, we had nine stoppages on Saturday and a bunch of breakthrough victories, which undercard fighter boosted their current stock the most after recording a finish in Paris. Got to be Modestis Bukowskis. Got to be.

Okay, okay. And you had asked me, I wasn't super high. Not that I thought he would lose. I thought he would win, but, you know, what could you really do from here? He looked to me pretty improved. You saw him throw in this fight and then make adjustments off of the previous kind of strike

he'd been throwing to modify it. I talked about this on my live reaction show where he has an underhook and head on the same side, and then he began to switch because that wasn't giving him the control that he needed. So you could see him problem solving in real time. Then Craig pulls guard. He immediately knows what to do and then started giving him the business with the ground. And he's trained with Aspenol as well? Yeah, that's right.

And started giving him the business with the ground and pound. And I was like, you know what? After the fight was over, who did he call out? He said, I'll take anyone in the top 15. he's earned it BC he's earned it I really I really thought he gave he looked like a fighter who was by the way in good shape of course but it looked to me like he's the kind of guy who does his homework yeah and I don't know what his ultimate ability is but I know he's going to come prepared on fight night and that's exactly what you got I will say though I will say if I can Mason Jones's comeback in this okay it was great and also Axel Sola everyone talks about how the stoppage was too early against Reese McKee and he's and it was. But who was dealing before the stoppage? Solah, I told you him out of Ares, the French promotion,

he looks to be the real deal with Holyfield as well. The proud was absolutely bringing it. Let's just close off this Paul Craig discussion. It is one thing to beat guys like Kutelaba and now Paul Craig. You got to beat the bigger names, the more explosive ones in the top 10. But Elise Bukowskas has put himself in position to be able to be that. But, Luke, this was the final walk for Paul Craig ultimately. And that was a absolutely vicious way to go out in your final fight with one.

second left in the round and just got cranked was that elbow lead elbow it was on the elbow and he came down with a thore again this one talking about we're talking about the homzat fight you have to create separation when chest to chest contact because that's where you can get the wind up and brother he wound put the gloves in the cage afterwards here's an emotional paul craig exiting the arena for the final time he is speaking english but it's Scottish so you may not understand you'll hear it in just a second I'm a hard But it's a read decision He can't a half-assist sport

I don't know what language that was But we love Paul Greggis Something like Cannot Is there a slang version of it 37 years old He did finish his career Losing six out of his last seven But he's got three victories

he's over former champions. He's the only fighter to defeat Magomed Ankleyev as a pro. He has the most triangle submission wins in UFC history. Luke, how will you best remember, a guy that we got to know through room service diaries pretty well? Paul Crank. What a delightful addition to the fight game. I have made this point on this show so many times.

Not so much about Paul Craig specifically, although I think he fits what I'm about to say, which is so much of what we discuss, understandably, is about what the champions do or what people on their way to the championship do. and everything kind of revolves around the very, very elite side of it, which again, I don't really have a problem with. That seems utterly normal.

But the point that I've tried to make to people is if you just focus on that side of the game and you don't have an appreciation for the other parts of MMA, you miss a lot of actually what makes it special. Paul Craig is one of these guys who had a skill set that's not supposed to work in the way that it did in modern MMA. He finished the current champion Maga Man-Live. He finished in the first round,

the former champion, Jamal Hill. he got wacky, weird wins because he had a wacky, weird game and an interesting dynamic personality. And by the way, was he a world beater? No, but he could beat some good guys along the way. This is what you want.

People who are interesting contributors maybe at the sub-championship level, but they're fun and they're different and they're dynamic and they're flawed and they're not the world beaters, but there's a special kind of magic to them. He's a specialist. I love specials.

Guys like him, guys like Matt Brown, who's a different kind of thing, but, you know, similar kind of place that he holds in the fight game, they bring me so much joy as a fan. So I really salute him. He had, B.C., did he have an elite career? No. But did he have a good career?

I would argue that he did. And how many guys out of Scotland can go and beat and submit the Ankalievs in the hills of the world? When you beat three former champions, not one of them is an aging showgun. We get it. But when you beat three former champions, it means you've had cups of coffee with being elite. Like you've been close to it. And, you know, some of his biggest wins came after he took a beat in and would do it in dramatic fashion.

Long on Lou, correct me if I'm wrong, I don't have it in front of me. The oncolive win was like the last second in the third round, no less, right? Yeah, and he was losing 3027. Yeah, this is what I mean, dude. He injected a little bit of personality with a fun, different, flawed, but cool game. Didn't they ask him once on that social video, who is one person living or dead that you'd like to have lunch with? And he was like, McKenzie, dear.

So the internet. No, it was, who would you like to take home to Thanksgiving or something? Something like that. The internet streets will forever fondly remember him. Now, Luke, you did mention Bukakis as one of the biggest winners. I've got a shout out Auntie DeLeia. Dude, could you want more from your UFC debut to have an emotional story about hard work coming in? Have the storyline setup of your facing Marchine Tibera, who at this point is that sort of litmus test at heavyweight?

If you're for real, and you've got the story of him having beat you 10 years ago when you broke your leg. And, look, I didn't realize the details. He was essentially out of the sport for three years after that. broken leg, kept trying to come back. It took a while for him to get back. Now look at this, a almost instantaneous, demolishing knockout, but, well, he may, and I want to find out if you feel like he looks instantly like a heavyweight title contender here in his debut, is that positive news offset by the reality that he trains with the current

champion, Tom Aspinall? No. It's not. The only way for him to get money is to go fight Tom Aspinall. No. What can he do in this sport to make himself money other than a road? I mean, again, maybe time. I'm saying does that make it not as exciting as it could be of a debut because he's not going to fight the boss at the end?

No, no, I don't even think. These guys, no, I don't even. There might be cases where I consider that. This will not be one of them. But that was a hell of a victory. Man, again, we said it. What does it mean to be marching Tibura? Well, it doesn't tell us that you're going to be champion, but it definitely tells us you're not going to be a victory.

also ran in this division and he ran over him pretty quickly you know moved to a different country without his family to get this training in to join Aspinall's gym so you see as we go to the videotape here of Aspinall's reaction in the crowd it got emotional Hey! Hey! Let's go!

Oh yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yeah! Come on! I mean, those are some man tears right there for his boy. You love to see hard work rewarded. It was it was inspirational degree. Here's DeLeah afterwards talking about the impact of that relationship with Aspen.

I'm feeling amazing. I work hard 20 years for this moment. This is my last change. I'm 35 years old champion, Tim Espinal, helped me to sign to UFC. And this is my dream and this amazing moment. for me for my family and yeah i don't know i i believe myself i believe i'm knocking out him in a two round i work every day with tom espinal and smash me years and half and i know i'm ready for tibura and everybody guys yeah i i say this is my my dream this is my last last

chance and i'm so happy it is is too hard yeah i'm broken And too much injury, I'm 10 operation and it's hard, hard, but I'm today. Dude, that's, we came in thinking it could be a big night for the fighting nerds. How about the Aspinall gym there with two guys, Bukovskis and Dele, kind of getting our biggest props on the undercard afterwards? That's a breakthrough moment for that gym. Long Island, Luke, do you see anti, not uncle, anti as a potential contender here? Yeah, but I'm like you, B.C., where I'm like,

I'm kind of bummed out. Like, oh, great, we got a new contender. Oh, he trains with Tom. I mean, if Dealia, if Dealia, is that how we say it? Or I'm getting the comedian. Anteade Delea. If Delea knocks out all the contenders, I kind of feel like you have to make a business decision at that point, right?

And just say, we've come this far together, but now we're going to fight, right? Yeah, again, this is not AKA where Fitch and Kosteck were neither champion. And they were taking their turns trying to get St. Pierre. D.C. and Cain. You know, D.C., well, again, they change divisions. True. And Dahl, obviously, made some money with PFL, but, like, if he wants to make real money,

well, here's the other part. We would have Aspinall loses to God, in which case, great, if you're Dahlia. So he's trying to see what his options are. But if it comes time to sign on the dotted line, they're going to sign on the dotted line. I mentioned it was a big day for France. Can we go to the graphic here? Five and no for the French fighters fighting in Paris this weekend. Imovov in the main event, BSD, Sola, like you mentioned, got the,

the stoppage win. William Gomez, who got one of the two decisions on here along with the main event, he also continues a strong run to kick it off. Strong run is overselling it completely. All right. It was a big, I know, I'm trying to stay. Utterly unremarkable. Okay, but Umar, see, that was a good one? His was pretty good. That was a good win. Yeah, Axel Sola thought was great. What do you make of the punching power of Robert Breach? How do I say that? Breachick. Recheck? Now, I'm going to ask you a more important question about Robert Breachek. But first, did you like the power? And that in the finish that he brought? You know, he was, he was having some trouble, but he kind of

just kept swinging the axe a little bit and then eventually overcame. He looks like a decent athlete. Heavy hands, but what did you make in the post-fight speech in broken English? This was my kind of post-fi speech. I wish we could play it, but we can't because of copyright. But the quote was, never, ever believe in yourself and give up. I've been saying that for years. I've been saying that for years, right, Long Island? And I said on my watch Along that that was literally a Luke Thomas quote

I've been saying this whole time it's all futile But you know Finally someone does it on the big stage It was the borderline curtain jerker But dude rena up fuck Retinoff Took Bain Gustavson To the woodshed now Bain was not Took Mr. Tattoos that are questionable

Was not using any defense Was just walking into it but Frick Fok Retnikov excuse me That name fucks you up It does more than Chezon for you He is now 6-0-1 in the UFC and it looks like his work in ATT

is making him like a quasi contender, am I wrong? Yeah, but his fight against Carlos, was it Laos? Was that who it was in the last one, Long Island? Yeah, he arguably lost that one. He arguably lost that one. It was kind of shitty. Okay. So to me it's more that Gustafin, you know, might have issues

beyond being you know, covered in tattoos that you would get in a prison for joining a racial gang. But that aside, it's a nice win and he bulldozed them but I don't know exactly what it means

it's the problem with some of these fights like the fights were all very exciting but it's like what does it mean well it's a nice win onto the next kind of a thing all right well who else was there anyone else you want to shout out of here the prelim prelims oh you know what Mason Jones dude Mason Jones comeback

in that fight and I will also say this on the prelim card Sam Patterson defeating Trey Waters is not nothing also Sam Hughes defeating Shauna Bannon dude I mean bullied her Yes, that was impressive.

People were like, next stop, only fans after that kind of loss. You know what I mean? I didn't say that. They did. MMA Twitter said that, but that was... They probably did say that. But in any case, your performance of the night winters, BSD, Mason Jones, Ante DeLea, and I can't pronounce his name.

Oh, we have to say this. Harry Hardwick losing to... Is it Kauai? Cowie? How do you pronounce that? I don't know, man. Your guess is... I keep forgetting.

But the Fernandez kid... Broke is just straight up destroyed his leg. Harry Hardwick talked a gang of shit about Anthony Smith and how he's a quitter and the shit fighter. And it's like, there are criticisms to be made. of the way Smith fought, particularly later in his career. But he has shown the ability to beat much better people and, you know, was collecting his teeth in the fifth round against Glover.

It's like maybe don't talk shit about those guys until you're on the level, yeah? Yeah, yeah. He exit, we'll see that and have you seen this shit. He exited in a Paul Pierce-style wheelchair, unfortunately, because he got his legs taken out from underneath him. In general, we referenced the Paris crowd just being sensational. want to see big pay-per-view there. Like, I want to see everything.

How do we get U.S. crowds like that? Is it just not possible in our culture? Is the fact that certain foreign spots are so on fire? Is it because of the love and support for their athletes in their country where in the U.S. team sports is always going to trump this. And there's not like people don't, you Americans don't tend. You do get the USA chant, but Americans aren't tuning into the card going, John Jones is from this country.

We're going to cheer the shit out of him. It's not like that in this country. It's not. I don't really know. I do feel like MMA crowds were a little bit more in the U.S. enthusiastic maybe 10 or 12 years ago. I want that. I want that.

I mean, think about the ticket prices now, dude. Who are you getting at these shows in the States? I don't know what the prices are like in France. I mean, again, they set a record gate. But like the people that are coming to these shows, they're not rock-ribbed fight fans. I mean, some of them are there. But there's a lot of people there. I would just, you know, there because it's expensive and they can afford it.

The same jealousy I have when I watch the U.K.K. stadium boxing matches. I'm like, I want that in the U.S. so badly. Those are so bad. Not even the, I mean, the stadium ones are amazing. But, dude, even some of the arena shows are fucking loud and insane, you know? Yeah. Three Arena in Dublin is bananas when, you know, the right kinds of people are fighting there. You're damn right there.

I was there for Callum Walsh, and they lost their shit and threw beer into the sky. Fun of Card over the weekend. 11 stoppages and 13 fights, crazy crowd. Yeah. We got some storyline in the rankings, you know, information. I wish the main event could have been a little bit more competitive. It would have felt like a better fitting end to the card, but Imovov did his job.

Yeah, I'm Team Imov now. I'm Imovov. That's my guy. I needed this performance to come around completely. All right. And be like, I believe in him. Now, I'm not saying that he survives Chamea's wrestling. We need to see that stopped.

The Gilbert Burns fight to me is still an aberration. It was still Chamaev willing to knuckle up and show what he's made of. Yeah. But what happens when he commits to the rest? I mean, Camaro, didn't Camaro kind of stuff that? certain degree. Not everyone's Camaro, though. Tomorrow is kind of special. That is also true. Good, good point on that one. All right, let's go into topic number four, which sets the stage for this Saturday with the

return of Noce UFC. Are you fired up? That's really what we're going to get into right now. But this topic right here, the road to Noce UFC is brought to you by total wireless, the official wireless provider of UFC, get unlimited data that won't slow you down with total wireless. Luke Thomas, there is a UFC card this Saturday. But, but does it really feel like it should be? Is this the red-headed stepchild to what TKO is also offering Saturday night at Allegiance Stadium live on Netflix with Canello versus Crawford? That's the real question right here. This fight was downgraded from a pay-per-view originally in Wadalajara, Mexico, now a fight night in the States in San Antonio, and the main card will air at 6 p.m. Eastern, so not to

clash with the big boxing main event. Did the promotion, Luke, in your eyes, as we head into all things, Diego Lopez versus G.N. Silva in the main event, did the promotion make the right call you believe in changing that start time? Or does this feel like maybe you could have pushed this fight card off another week because UFC is going to be off next weekend? That's two in September that they're idle. I just don't know why they had to rush this in there. Same day, right almost at the same time is Canelo Croft. My guess is they want to use it as a commercial to get MMA fans to watch.

Canelo Crawford. That's my expectation. That's not a bad idea in that. And I get that it's a Mexican Independence Day weekend. So I understand the timing of this. So think about it rationally, right? If you're a Mexican boxing fan or an American boxing fan, you don't need Noce UFC to be promoted to you. You're ready to go, right?

And by the way, we'll talk about it later. I saw all the preview shows, the two episodes so far. it's pretty good it's pretty good actually i was ready to hate on it and i was like that's pretty good all right but does this feel like but anyway this is this is a commercial to get the entire ufc audience to watch that and and i get i get the strategy behind that do you feel like this is an afterthought to a detriment or it just is what it is it's a fight night a good main event by the way just go enjoy mexico there it's clearly an afterthought now it's a strategic afterthought it's not a negligence afterthought. So the UFC clearly made a calculated decision here to make this secondary, or in this

particular case, you know, preemptive almost, you know, precursor, I should say, programming, right? It's useful as it's got utility as a setup for something else. So because of that, naturally BC, it can't take preeminence. It can't take prominence. More to the point. Now, maybe what they should have done BC is put it a separate weekend. But the problem is Mexican Independence Day is not closer to next weekend, or I should say two weekends from now. It's closer to the coming weekend. So they're kind of just, you know, a little bit working with what the situation is based on what they had previously built. Remember, Dana White did the first Nocha UFC. It was like, we're going to do this every year. It's like, okay, well, Canelo also does it every year. And if you're going to be in

these businesses, then they have to be coordinated. So I understand. But to your point, to go from, Hey, maybe Volk might fight Yair on this card, which was not a fight that we wanted to see, but, you know, a champion defending a belt to now a very, very cool main event, but a lesser kind of prominent card. Clearly there's been a downgrade. I would just say as a combat sports fan,

if you're an MMA fan, you don't like boxing, you might be a little annoyed. But as a combat sports fan, I think Saturday is going to be great. So I'm not in the business of complaining about this. There are promos where Dana's calling it the biggest day in combat history, Yeah, I mean, it's not even close.

That's a little hyperbole. That's not even close to women. And they did try a little on that co-main event. It was supposed to be Rob Fon against Chihuis until an injury pulled Rosas out of there. Now we have a last minute replacement, David Martinez. How would you sort of grade this card? It is what it is, great main event, and we move on or what?

I would say this fight has a few decent fights on it. The Gastilum Stoltz-Fuse fight doesn't do much for me, but I will say that the Hernandez and Carlos Degga-Faheta fight is actually amazing. as of right now. Yeah, which is on the prelims. Tatiana Swartz versus Amanda Lamos is also kind of interesting. So how does she go from fighting for a title on a co-main event of a pay-per-view to now fighting on the prelims against a decent opponent in Lemos?

Is this like you need to prove your way back up here after that performance? I mean, she had a, you know, she had a limited showing against the champ. And I realized that Lemos is not the champ, but I could understand whether the UFC might be like, you know what, we need, we need to rethink this. You know, so there's some questions. about that. I will say in general, it kind of is what it is. It's a lot of like guys you might see on apex cards against, you know, Mexican fighters that they have on the roster. And then obviously that, you know, it's kind of set up to be a bit of a Mexican showcase. And you're right,

they did lose Chuiwis in that Komi, which would have been Font versus Chuiwis. That's a big question time for Chuiwis, which you lose. So again, what you've got is a sensational main event. I love that. We just call them Chihuahuiis. Like, no explanation straight. Well, the reality is, You've got a sensational main event. I have not one bad thing to say about it. Then give me one best thing. Storyline-wise, what are you most focused on in this Lopez coming off? A title lost to Volk for the vacant belt.

Gian Silva may be carrying the fighting nerd reputation on his back as he continues to climb. What do you love about them? I think that, again, we're talking about the pecking order is constantly changing. But right now, I think it would be rational based on the information that we have to have Jayon Silva as maybe the best of the fighting nerds, which, again, they'll have some wins going forward. People don't, it was a bad weekend for them, but there's no need to turn on them just yet.

But I think there's big questions here about both guys, exactly how good is Jayon Silva? And more to the point, Diego Lopez has some real foundational issues, particularly around cage cutting and changing some of his game up. To what extent can he level up with the time he has remaining in his athletic life? These are huge stakes. Also, you know, both guys are Brazilian,

but obviously Diego Lopez is sort of, you know, repping Mexico based on his associations there. So you got some fun rivalry along the way. I just think it's one of these fights where it's like two action-oriented fighters somewhat, not entirely proven, but if Jayon Silva wins this BC, I mean, he could be a real bad matchup for Volk. And he could be a star because he could be. He maximizes his look at me factor.

He is always, like saying, look at what I can do and what he did against Bryce Mitchell was impressive. Let's see how impressive Diego Lopez looks in terms of getting into tip-top shape. I saw MMA Twitter loving this. Can we go to that long? He's just saying, yeah, I'm a chef. I work in the kitchen, yeah.

He's been working. Let that guy cook. Yeah, but here's the reality. that everyone's fit is that the yeah i don't give a fuck if i mean does it has let me ask a question has him not being in shape ever been a problem no but that i feel like when someone looks fucking ripped it's like okay they're red they're they're super serious now oh yeah let's go yeah that doesn't that's not what that mean i mean it could mean that i can't say that it actually doesn't mean that but it could just mean he's done a lot more of the same old shit

in which case there might be a problem i mean in a second we're going to show terence crawford's new look and it's pretty fucking see that's different though because he's changing weight classes very true uh long island look you love fight night under cards i'm sure you're going to be live streaming in the afternoon next saturday what do you like about this undercard anything i got to give a shout out to my guy jared gordon new yorks own taking on rafa garcia i mean that's going to be a fun fight uh now this card is pretty you know not much to be desired here i'm not going to lie oh wow an honest take from uh i mean i'll be live for it either way you already yeah yeah yeah all right hey how did that uh how did that uh how did that

trivia game go out on Friday. I watched the first half. It looked like it was really exciting. It was fun. I mean, I don't want to spoil it for anyone who didn't see. But yeah, go check it out. Oscar versus Dennis. All right. Let's see. Maybe I'll advance on and take on one of these guys. You'll never, you'll have to wait and see. That is UFC, or excuse me, Noce, UFC this Saturday. And this podcast, by the way, sponsored

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sports event from a legion stadium in Las Vegas and the first boxing event for Zufa boxing in their new partnership with Turkey Alashik Saudi Arabia it is Canelo Alvarez versus Terence Crawford for the undisputed super middleweight championship.

I mean, it's almost enough said right there, Luke. Big time stakes, big time star power, big time network involved in the big time everything. It's all big time. So when you're looking at this, as I cue up my thing here, sorry about that. There we go, there we go. It's here.

It's finally here when we're talking about the fight itself. It's a little teaser ahead of our Friday preview live in Las Vegas. What is the sort of biggest question that can only be answered in the ring that you most want the answer to right now as we are closing in and counting down the days to this fight on Saturday. How the punching power affects

the two-way effect of the punching power. Does but have enough punching power not just for any old 168er, but for a 168er who has never been down in his career. For a 168er who ate Triple G's best shots, for a 168er who is, if he stopped today,

would go into the Hall of Fame and has one of the most legendary chins I've ever seen among an active fighter during my lifetime. On the other hand as well, to what extent can Bud absorb the punching power from a Canello where, even if you want to say Canello is not washed, but

he's certainly off peak. I think it's probably fair to say that. He's off peak. Or is it selectively off peak? Well, we don't know. That's part of the issue. But to what extent can a guy like Bud weather that? I mean, I do think Bud is not going to get hit as much necessarily, but he is going to get hit.

It is a boxing fight. To what extent can he tolerate it? What does it do to him? Does it change his strategy? Sure. Or can he ride with it because he's now put on a considerable amount of bulk? How that plays out, BC, is central to everything. That's everything about this fight.

That's the thing that we're all tuning in for. That's the thing we've been talking about with Bud rebuilding his body is the layoff of only fighting once in the last two years and being off for a full year. Bad? Or is this situation where he's already wanting? of one in an alien, and it gives him that time incrementally to build up. Remember, he beat Spence in the summer of 23 at Walterweight. He moved up to 154 one year later to take the title from Madrimov.

Now, an additional year after that, he's going to make the debut at 168 pounds. And this is what the internet is going nuts about, the latest training photo. I got the internet going nuts. Dude, you have to say, for a just recently undisputed Walterweight champion, he's like, he's all in on the idea, like, what did your men? Mel Charlo do awful in 2023 when he moved up two weight classes against Canello. Well, A, he didn't let his hands go, but B,

he didn't bring his body up with him. He took it as a one-off. I'll cash the attack, I'll give it a chance. Put it back up real quick. But this is Bud saying all or nothing. Like, in this situation, Luke, it does tell you something about the mindset, does it not? Yeah, you know what?

I mean, first of all, the fact that he can bulk up and still have abs is actually quite remarkable. The fact that Bowmack's his trainer, and he looks like this is quite remarkable. This is like inverse Bowmack. Yes. You know what I mean? But I'm serious.

Most of the time when you bulk up, think about it, you add a bunch of muscle. But in order to do that, you have to add a bunch of fat and then you cut it back down. He's able to add bulk and he's going to be close to 168 with abs. Like that is, that's actually quite remarkable. I would say that's the first thing I want to say. But the more important thing is BC, here's what I picked up on that. I didn't fully appreciate until I watch. If you've not seen the two, there's only two episodes.

They're on Netflix. We're on Netflix. Yes. I watched them both today. I think Terrence Crawford wants this more. This means more to him. Did you get that vibe? I did get the vibe on that.

Like, Terrence still has a real hardcore chip on her shoulder because he sort of sees Canello, not without good reason, as boxing's golden boy who had opportunities given to him where Crawford was never selected for that or seen in that way. And he's had to, with the same people around him, prove people wrong to get to this opportunity. whereas Canello, again, this is the kind of the theory of Crawford, has had a lot of those things and has already made it

and has all of these accolades and adulation and just a way that, you know, Canelo lives his life. I mean, in the, in that show he seemed very comfortable. Whereas he bought like $9 million of watches just like that. He seemed much more comfortable, whereas I got a little bit more hunger out of Terrence Crawford. Well, think about it like this. Canello didn't want this fight. He definitely didn't want the Benavita's fight.

also didn't want this fight because he didn't think he was going to get any credit. Then the fans started talking about this for, you know, a year and a half. Then suddenly Turkey's involved, Dana's involved, and now there's going to be an insane amount of money on the table. It's going to be in a dome in the U.S. And it's going to be live on Netflix with no upcharge. So for Canello, we've said, talked about this, you know, in our chat's coming in. I think all of the pressure is on him.

Yes, Terrence Crawford is defending that unbeaten record and, and, you know, to some degree defending his place in history with the opportunity to add on. a ton of it, but like, odds-wise, most people-wise, he's the smaller man, he's not supposed to win. He's not only the smaller man, he's the older man and more inactive man. Like, there are a lot of things on paper going against him. I agree with you. I think there's no pressure on Crawford,

yet because he's been systematically building up his body for this moment and studying Canelo, and I'm sure he's got the think tank with Bowman, Andre Ward, Shakur, like all the people that are, you know, on his side of the fence business-wise. And, you know, I brought up before what Andre Ward did against Sergei Kovola when he moved up and weighed and they did, you know, they fought for the light heavy with championship in those two fights in that it was, uh, in some ways Ward sort of the smaller man, even though he had already moved up to that division, he went in there against the bully and ultimately in the rematch bullied the bully, got inside on him and outfought him. There are a lot of people who say, look, Canello does almost everything great, but does he do great fighting back going backwards? Or did Beevall show you that? he doesn't. Now look, Terrence Crawford isn't Bevall, but Terrence Crawford is a one-of-one alien an all-time great that if anyone can do it, he can do it. I wonder about that mindset.

Canello has to defend being the bigger man. Canello has to defend, you know, he doesn't want Terrence Crawford's all-time ranking to be made on his back, on Canello's back, right? There's a lot of pressure on him in that regard. And yes, what is hungry as shit? Let's show one more time the final stare-down. Of course, we're going to get updated ones at the press events this week, But the final staredown of the three, the three spot media tour they did around the globe, that's the one where Bud got into Canello's face and it was actually a shove there. Now, you can always say, oh, that's just gamesmanship. They're talking it up.

But if you notice over press stops two and three, Bud was actively trying to send that message of like, I'm not here to collect a check. I'm not here to out box you. I'm here to fucking fight you. Most people, you'd be like, all right, that's cool, that's cool. You know, like Mayweather fights. There's all this talk coming in that Mayweather's going to do Mayweather, right? he's going to pick you apart and be Mayweather.

I like that in hindsight, how he got right in Canelo's face. He's actually taller than him. They're not, the size difference isn't that much. It's not crazy. It's not like... No, the natural size difference is a lot.

The amended size difference may not be that much, but that is not the same as being naturally the same. And that doesn't mean I'm picking Crawford. I'm still, at this point, Ryan Canello is going to win this and should win this, but it's compelling. And maybe that's why the odds are so close with Conello

still as a slight favorite. I just feel like one thing that didn't really occur to me until, you know, relatively, I guess today, I suppose. Bud wants to fight Crawford, excuse me, Bud wants to fight Canelo in part because I think he still wants to stick it to the fight game. He still wants to show boxing. They made the wrong decision

in not getting behind him earlier. Right, right. That he was improperly ignored and not given an opportunity. He keeps talking about. about it. Oh, I just needed an opportunity. I just needed an opportunity. And this is the biggest opportunity of his entire career. I still feel like Canello to him represents everything in boxing he never got. And he wants to conquer Canello to show he was right about himself all

along. That's our motivation in this media game at times too, right? It's like, oh, you didn't pick me. I'm not your favorite someone. Look at us now. I understand that. Yeah. I do. Well, yeah, sure. you ain't you ain't you ain't crawford in the media space brother are we expecting heat this week between yeah yeah you do you think crawford will continue to send the message that like you miscalculated this matchup i'm not like charlo i'm not like these other guys i don't think he's going to be crazy and go do something you've never seen him do before but i definitely think he might play a little bit of mind games and is absolutely going to crawford whatever else might happen on saturday crawford is absolutely convinced he's going

to win. And I think he's going to try and declare that pre-fight in a way that is unambiguous. All right, what do you make of this interaction between Turkey Al-Asheek and Terrence Crawford this week on the treadmill? Or the stairtank. Hey, I appreciate you.

Everything that you've done for me. You and Riazzi, you, You must, you must return it. Yeah. Job ain't done yet. Yeah. Saturday, they deliver the job. But listen.

I appreciate the opportunity. No retirement. Let's get it. Yeah. So some people were playing on the finish the job thing as if the fight is fixed. I think Turkey just loves being with the fighters and pumping them up. But what do you make of Turkey going OT? Like, don't retire after.

Don't fuck retire after. I think he's going to retire after. You do? Yeah. Win or lose walking away? what else is there for you to do? Imagine if he won and was like, yo, Benavitas, do you want to finally do this at 68?

I'll do what came out? I'll say this much. I think that even if Crawford wins, you don't imagine he'd win by K.O., right? That just seems so insane. Tim Bradley does, but yeah. Okay, what Tim Bradley? You listen, Tim Bradley might be right.

I don't know, we'll see. But in the very unlikely possibility that he just wipes Canello out like he did Spence and KOs him, okay, I might entertain a Benavitas fight under that scenario, but I just, that doesn't seem too likely. All right, a couple of lightning run of questions here. would this fight be bigger

if it was Canelo versus Benavis because you could argue this should be Benavita's moment right here Yes It would be bigger Yeah it would be Properly promoted and all that Yes

Do you think Benavita's Lament's this fight happened I mean I know he's gonna headline His own ring card Bro he did everything he could He did everything he could You can't make Canelo not duck If he wants to duck

And Canello got rich ducking I mean he did Like to your point They open it up And he's buying How much does this watch $900,000? much as this one, 1.4 million. Yeah, I want them all.

You know what I mean? And again... He never normally does that. That's a Floyd move in the pre-fight document. You know what I'm saying? Like, dude, I'm telling you, I'm enjoying this stage of his career. And Bud is still on the fuck you stage of his career. At 38, he's still doing that. Yeah, exactly. I got a big different read on their motivation here. All right. What do you make of about three weeks ago boxing Twitter was, I don't want to say an uproar, but they made a lot of conversations about this. Canello had leaked footage of training with Geron Boots Ennis. And then that unbeaten Cuban middleweight from PBS. Yoenli Hernandez, remember the real long, lengthy athletic guy. What does that tell you?

That Canello will come prepared. I thought that that was a good thing to do. I don't, I'm not going to put boots on the level of Crawford, but that's definitely a very good sparring partner to have creativity, speed, you know, to the ability to at least some degree mimic Crawford. I saw that they were trying to make a lot of like facial marks and whether they were there or not. And some of that seemed photoshopped. I don't know what to say about any of that. I'll just say, yeah. Look, Conello doesn't come.

Canelo was taking fights he shouldn't have taken, but, you know, he came in reasonably prepared for all of them. He knows what it takes to win, certainly. And I do think he's taking Crawford more seriously than he did for like Jaime Mungia or something. So yeah, he's definitely,

I think, doing more work this time around. This is what I've been struggling with. Is it better for boxing if Canello or Budwood? Not that it matters, but you think about, okay, What's a, what's a, I mean, it is, is it better for boxing that the underdog story happens?

The smaller fighter proves his greatness. Because if he beats Canello, they're going to compare this to Ray Leonard, Mani Pachial, Roy Jones going up to heavyweight. He'll get his flowers in that regard. I'm going to say that it almost doesn't matter as long as the fight is really good. Fair point. Because what boxing needs is for the Canello Crawford fights to be good. And then for the Jake Paul versus Tyson or Jake Paul versus Jervante. Davis fights to be obviously the side shows that they are.

Tyson versus Maywe. But what I don't want is for the Jervante Davis, Jake Paul fight to be somewhat entertaining and then for this Canella Crawford fight to eat shit. Jake gets up off the canvas and hurts tank. But I'll say if like what's better for boxing history, like what's more momentous? Terrence Crawford winning, for sure. I mean, I guess a great fight is always the answer in this circumstance, the possibility of a rematch or the possibility of unlikely fights that it creates, you know, if an unlikely

result happens certainly bud stopping him would be very unlikely uh in that regard but man so much to talk about and we will of course have a full preview with you on friday i did have uh you're not a big karma guy but canello has been riding i've been eating shit for karma for a long time canelo's been riding good karma look he's lost to legends in floyd mayweather and dmitri bevall and the bvall one had a huge size uh a huge but a size disadvantage yeah he looked like the smaller man yeah but he's also won a ton of close decisions that could have, and in some cases maybe should have gone the other way. Is there boxing karma chasing him for not fighting Benavitas

and still fighting Crawford? And could that lead to a disastrous loss? Hard for me to believe that the worm's going to turn now, but this is partly why this fight is kind of intriguing. Okay. Does his luck, you know, the CJ Ross card for even the fight he lost was still bananas? Yes. How did we get there?

1114. You know, early Austin Trout scoring, I thought was wildly off the mark. The Erislandi Lara fight, the first triple G-five. Those are, like, a lot of those are close and you can argue it, but when it's happened four and five times. That's exactly right. It's like, each one of those is like, can you see, but the first triple G, I don't know. But for the rest of them, can you see a case for Canelo, not the Mayweather one either. But you know what I'm saying?

Like, there's a bunch of those. We're like, yeah, of course. But the fact that everything just kept lining up for him year after year, controversy after controversy, it was like, oh, my God, this is the golden child. But this is why Terrence Crawford's up. up against it. You got a rock chin on one side and a judge's favorite on the other. Brother, that is a very unenviable task up three weight classes. Who do you think Turkey is pulling for for his future business plan?

Crawford winning and then rematching. Because if Canello wins, he'll never give a rematch. And finally, if this fight is a success from the entertainment factor, from the numbers factor of live viewers and from the factor of holy shit. TK.O. Zufa just jumped into that dome and put on a badass crowd. We know that UFC is, according to Mark Shapiro, looking at

two to three of these a year on Netflix. What would be the next logical one? Is it Benavides better be of or not enough star power? Honestly, for American boxing fans, I genuinely don't know. I genuinely don't know. Is Canelo's leaking that he's still interested in rematching Bevall

for the light heavyweight championship if he wins? That would be on that level. Could you get Tyson in Fury on Netflix? Would American fans still care? Yeah. This is the problem with the estate of the American boxing establishment. Dude, that's the whole reason why this fight is kind of weird. Like, Bud and Canello probably should not be fighting each other, but if you're talking

about the big stars in American boxing fighting one another, this is the best thing you can kind of gerrymander together, guys who are very far apart in weight class and trying to kind of put it all together and then asking an extraordinary talent in Bud Crawford to just do the impossible. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know how they're going to get around this. Damn, I can't wait. I cannot wait for Saturday night.

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This one's called DMs from the digity. Now that that animal has come to full. Yeah, there you go. Yeah, it's disturbing. All right, what do you got for us this week? From V. Sanchez underscore 88 between Imov, Fluffy, and RDR. Right now, who has the best chance at actually dethroning Hamza? Not who's going to get the call.

Who has the best chance to beat him? We have limited information, but based on what we have, I think I'm still going to say Fluffy, but I, but, you know, these are, these are very conditional calls RDR is a Swiss Army knife here right I just feel like he'll surrender bottom position too much and Hamzad is too careful about that but

Do you think the Imovov fight is one-sided in the wrong direction for him against Chimayev? It could be I think the other thing too about RDR like this is one thing that I do think works in his favor if he fought RDR in the same kind of way he fought DDP right so maximum control I feel like RDR would have some like backdoor

submissions he would be ready like buggy chokes and shit. That seems well percentage, but those can work. Weird times. Like random jumping knees in improper times that land. Yeah. So the question is if he gets past RDR's guard, what does RDR do? Sure, sure.

And I don't know the answer to that, whereas I feel like Hernandez is just going to be ready to scramble at all times. So that makes him a little bit more interesting to me. You may tire Hamzot out. That's the other part, too. He makes, again, we don't know if the way in which he fought Hamzot, DDP, was him rationing his offense because he had to ration his offense. or just because he was being smart about it.

But I think Fluffy seems like the guy who's best able to test that theory. Hard not being a fickle analyst in this game when you're only seeing guys twice a year. I know. You just don't have information to make good calls. Two fights ago when Fluffy was ill and his rematch with Brendan Allen were like, good win, but I'm not seeing the next level stuff. And then he did what he did to Roman DeLidzei, which no one's been able to just drag him around dogwalking. Now you're like, yeah, I feel like he can do that against anybody.

So it's wild in that regard. Long Island, look, who are you picking? Who can beat him? I'm going fluffy, but I also weirdly, like, I know Ballaglio kind of looked like shit, but I still kind of put him, like, second or third. Would you please stop it? I'm not saying any of them are going to do it. I'm just saying if we're making a top three.

Not him, though. I mean, look, what just happened? I just feel like he has the skills. Where were those skills on Saturday? Yeah, I don't know. Okay. Yeah, all right. Thank you very much.

Next question, please. From Cosmat, B-17, Hasma, excuse me, rank the fighting nerds. Of course, it's Kyle, Hoofie, Carlos, and. Jan, most likely to fight for a title. I feel Lord Silva is the leader, but middleweight is still open for Kyo, and Hamzat will need challengers. Luke, let's rank in terms of most likely,

or who will get there quickest. I'll go Jayon, Kyo, Carlos Hoofy. I mean, it's hard to not put Hoofie last after this. He looked bad. He looked bad. I'm not a Kyle believer. I wasn't before. I'm not after.

Okay, but he was in a, number one contender fight like he's not a scrub he's good who does he beat him besides canonere um who had gotten knocked out two months earlier by imov i admit that you know there are some issues i i'm still not understanding how he was so overhyped coming in with the layoff with everything there's just you know what it's probably to be more about lingering doubt about imovov seems to me like he doesn't quite get the respect he deserves even though you know we were saying I don't know how he's going to do against Hamzot, but I do think, like, the things he is good at,

maybe that's the point, right? Because you've noticed it, you've felt it. The things he's good at, maybe he doesn't quite get enough respect for it because you're like, well, how does that match up against Hamzot? It's like, I don't know, maybe not great, but he's pretty fucking good, you know? Like, what if he starts stuffing takedowns?

Yeah, or that, too, yeah. And then, I don't know, I don't know. Do we feel like we know everything about Silva? No, we definitely don't know everything about Silva. And all that clowning shit, you can do it against Bryce Mitchell I don't know how far that's going to take you up the food chain All right, Prattesh took a big step forward

Is that big enough to believe that he will fight for a title? No, not at 170, no Okay Okay He's not completely out of the picture No, and he rebounded nicely from the Gary Very nicely from the Gary fight All right, let's go to our third question from our donks

From M.T. Bumble, you could be animated into any cartoon What the fuck kind of question is this? That's a great question. I mean, we were on a Beavis and Butthead T-shirt. Wouldn't it be awesome if we were animated next to them on the couch? Would you pick The Simpsons here, Luke? You love anime and weird stuff like that. I don't love anime.

I don't know any anime ever. I've never watched anime. In fact, it was kind of funny. I went to recently watch my favorite movie ever on the big screen, and the ads were all like upcoming anime movies. And I'm like, I don't have even the slightest fucking interest in any of this. Okay. I took Isaac to Jaws in 3D.

for the 50th anniversary and it was an incredible experience and during the same previews the same anime one comes on me and he taps me on the shoulder and goes dad who would ever pay money to come sit and watch this

and this is a kid who watches almost anything and I'm just like it's like the Japanese seem to love it I don't know MMA fans love anime too so I'm not trying to share by the way I'm not saying anime is bad

I'm just saying I don't watch it all right I used to love to get to come home from the bar and get real high and watch space coast coast coast but that has like the mixture of real people with the I'd like to be a real person on

you remember Space Ghost that was cool yeah of course you know what honestly my favorite cartoon is I made me not favorite one of my favorite cartoons the 90s cartoon the Batman series do you remember what it was called

it was like very cleanly animated loosely here I'm trying to think back it was obviously episodic each episode's about 20 minutes 30 minutes or so I just remember thinking that those were so well done

so perfectly told Something like that would be kind of cool. I felt the same way about 80's GI Joe. That was a badass cartoon. I did like 80. Do you remember Bionic Six? Yes. Bionic.

Bionic Six. We are together. There you go. We fight for lives. Superfeiture family. They're so very proud to be the Bionicinic Six. Yay. That thing was pulled that from the rare.

Yeah, there you go. You got any more questions? Booble. Let's go from Emery. Nick Six, who was the most intimidating fighter that you have ever interact? That's a great question. Because sometimes you do feel that

oh shit, I have to sharpen my questions a little bit because this, I mean, I will say this. Covering, because they're being covering prime Floyd, he always made, he was always made it welcome to the media, but he was always sharp. And like my first question I asked to him

at Canelo, uh, Floyd Canello on the stage after the press conference. I remember I was like running my mouth like, hey Floyd, who are you going to fight if you're going beat this and he stopped and he goes who were you you must be new here and everybody's laughing and i'm like and he goes you don't know how we do this now we take it one fight at a time and put all the focus on this opponent so i don't even care who i'm going to be fighting next and like just shit on me and i was intimidated i'm like okay i'll take an l right here i'll take a big l um i'm trying

to think who i was the most intimidated but sometimes they physically intimidate you because of their like quasi craziness like well they snap on you yeah i would say the most i've ever been was not like I've interviewed like you know big heavyweights like Ben Rothwell and stuff like that but they were pretty friendly uh honestly the most I've ever flubbed because I was trying to you know focus but it was hard was prime Lucas Matissee really yeah prime Lucas Matisse I interviewed him before the Danny Garcia fight that was on that Mayweather Canelo card and I had a hard time getting going because he was just giving me this death stare the until he lost that fight too

but he was giving me the death stare during that, and I was a little bit like... He's like, stop taking our Latin women. Body for days over here, you know? So that one was a little tough. But other than that, it was fun. I would say Mike Perry, I interviewed him once at... Remember pre-9...

Pre-COVID, UFC media days when you could wait in line and get your one-on-one with the person. And I was being funny, and I was asking him about face tattoos. And, like, I could tell he's calculating his head. Is this guy making fun of me, or is he whatever? And then, like, there was one moment

where he kind of just was like, what did you say? and I was Sergey Kovlev too One time I was like Your wife and kids must be so happy And he thought I He thought I asked him something inappropriate about his wife And he was like would you see

And he got like all mad and he stood up GSP got mad at me once because he misunderstood me But I wasn't intimidated I was more just like trying to explain to him Like I did not meet that did not You're taking it wrong Yes Which he actually listened to so did you ever meet Kimbo

I interviewed Kimbo Was it intimidating because I know people say he's a great dude But like he so he was big and larger than life and he came in with an entourage, so, like, you know, you had to be ready to go. But honestly, dude, by the time I was interviewing Kimbo,

was his Bellator days, he was so fucking friendly. That's all you hear from everyone. Dude, he was so friendly. And he, yeah, no, I was not intimidated by Kimbo because he wouldn't let you be. You know what I mean?

Yeah, I'm with you on that one. Very interesting. Hey, good questions today from these people. Yeah, very good question. That's it, Long Island, right? Oh, wait, one more. Oh, one more from Flannels and Jits, the aforementioned.

What are your favorite? fall. This is the best season of the four. This is the damn best season. Masturbating in a flannel. Technically, it's a fall activity, yes. I mean, do you get pumped up for pumpkin, pumpkin everything? Do you like to go pick apples with the leaves falling? Do you, okay, I love backyard fires with a crack in the air. Okay, fires in the crisp cold air.

Yes. Not cold air, but cool air are phenomenal. Those are phenomenal. Just that smell of the leaves falling. I mean, it's the New England thing. But like the pumpkin beer. shit i'm not into i'm not into i don't but it doesn't change my order at starbucks but i'm into i don't go to college games anymore but like i love that feeling of going to a big high score college

game different from the nfl fall is the king of all seasons it is like and you know that high school and college feel it's different from the pros it's just more of like traditional feel of like you mean like the day drinking feel being being at the tailgate being out you know the smell and just being you know having a nice hoodie on with friends yeah yeah i admit that that's a fun time Thanksgiving. What's your favorite fall activity? Hitting the bong outside? Yeah, that's a year-round activity.

Just going to like a brewery or something, you know, rocking a hoodie. Huddies are, a hoodie is the best. Yeah, hoodies are nice. I like hoodies. We've got Black Liver Society hoodies. Yeah, we did. Morningcombat. Was it morningcombat.combat.

Yeah, check that ish out right there. All right, great question. Oh, there it is. You get your exclusives for September right now at morningcombat. Dot shop. You want to see how you fit in this tie-dye? Check it out. Mix and match the colors.

Thank you very much. That's all for that fan part of it. We've got one final segment that's for the people. Buy one person, though. This man, the man, myself, who scours the globe every Sunday on the Internet for the good, the bad, the ugly, the highs and lows, the in-betweens from combat sports and beyond.

These are weird videos meant to make Luke Thomas emo. Have you seen this shit? You know, if I may, I emote. The problem is that I often have silly emotions. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. But it's not true that I don't emote. No, this segment is meant to produce your emotion.

But like independent of this segment is your... No, the problem is you... Whatever you're going through, it comes out onto this, so you emote all over us. Yes, that's true. That's true. This show is successful based on the patterns of Luke's mood, but we've come to accept that. UFC was in Paris, and I know it's the end days for... ESPN Plus, but here's your ESPN Plus

highlighted the night from Saturday. I can't wait. I can't fucking wait until UFC dumps these turds. Please don't buy Fight Pass ESPN. Please, please stay the fuck out of MMA. That was an editorial from Luke Thomas, but that was rough on Saturday. My feed went

a few times. Several times. Yeah, yeah. This was what was happening in the crowd when Maricio Hoofi got subbed by BSD. Let's watch the interaction here from Ian Gary and Carlos Prato. This is the hoofy fight? Yep.

A lot of people are criticizing Layla, Gary's wife, for filming all this and putting it on the internet. Why? Because, like, protest was crying over the flag. Okay, but Tom was filming his stuff. Are we mad at him, too? No, no, no. Well, then what would be, I'm asking?

I don't know. I'm just saying, you don't have a problem. Tom wasn't consoling, you know, a teammate of someone who just lost, who he also fought and kind of putting on like a little buddy. I don't know. It seemed a little more inauthentic to you. Yeah, yeah. Okay, I can buy that a little bit.

I'll just say this. I've seen so many UFC fighters now. They show up and they get the cage side seats and then they have a guy filming them for reaction stuff. It's like, I don't, I mean, it's not content for me, but they all seem to do it, I guess. I don't know. Yeah, that's true.

They even have the announcer cam on the UFC for all the announcers to go sick. Yeah, they go bananas. Yeah, they did it for me too at XFC. There you go. In case you go bananas, we'll use this. They saw one time when you were like, wow, you're like. And I'm like, I'm, I'm, I have 75,000 milligrams of THC in my tummy right now. Thank you very much.

The aforementioned Harry Hardpick made his UFC debut on short notice. All right. Got the, trying to hype up the crowd with the wheelchair. It just didn't work, Luke. He got the shit kicked out of that. Yeah. Again, like, I get it. Young guys.

I've done it. Well, not professional fighting. But, you know, letting your mouth say things about you that you may think are true. and then reality comes crashing down on you and you have to rethink it. Let's see where he goes from here, but that was not necessarily a great look. And a lot of dunking on the fighting nerds, including Islam Mahachev, one of the pound-for-pound best.

Train more, speak less. That's the key to success. And win or lose, Hoofee has zero grappling. I mean, if zero is a strong word, but, you know, the spirit of this is pretty correct, actually. All right, that was UFC Paris. Topic number two is regional MMA, where, of course, Luke, anything can happen let's go to prime fighting league what's up with the lime green oh fucking hell what are

the rules in this uh there we go it's melee time well you know what and there's a Cyrillic alphabet oh look at this this is nuts these guys are all calm like yeah maybe we should look you got his phone right away he's like i'm just gonna film this shit fuck you i'm getting on instagram i don't know what country that is i don't know if it's sponsored by prime energy drink i don't know i don't know either there you go uh look i'm a couple late months late in posting this because i didn't see the DM. We have an MK fan named Noah Gashow. Okay. G-A-S-H-O, Noah Gashow

who fought in his pro debut for LFA. He's the one in the blue. Watch this. Oh. I don't know if that's his pro debut, but it's his LFA debut. And got the finish, dude. We shot out our people like Christian DeGiro. How about Noah Gashow right there?

Fucking amazing. Congratulations. Yeah. And he really rocks with M-K. So I appreciate that. Got some dogs who can actually do some stuff. And we also had an interesting way on the regional level to break a submission. Did you see this shit, Luke? The guy's in a head scissors there. That's the triangle.

Sure. And he tickles the foot to get out of it. And it works. You see this shit? It made him loose in the position. The guy ended up getting out of it. Oh, did he? Yeah.

Yeah. Most people ask, why don't people just tickle? Or just poke the asshole, right? Yeah, is that it doesn't work. But maybe there are circumstances where it does. Look, if I'm getting choked out, I'm changing someone's oil. That's my last ditch effort. Wouldn't you just be grabbing the dick and balls?

No, there's a cup. There's, you know, it's like a... I mean, not that I'm really interested in any of these. You can get up under that. Okay, okay. Luke, throwback to 2003 when Marseille and AFC Ajax fought, or sorry, played soccer. And look at this Bob Marley thing from the fans. That is so good.

That is, that is amazing. I hope that's Real Weed and everyone's getting high. That'd be great. Get a contact high at the game. Hell yeah, brother. We may have played this already in the past, but I had to bring it back one more time. Your sound bite of the week comes from Australian TV from Luke Noseita's dad. Question.

There's a video. Have a look. It's better say when we made those changes, we didn't focus enough on taste. So to overcome that, we've listened to consumers and we've decided to bring back that classic Kiwi taste. What is the classic Kiwi taste? Yes, Mel. My pussy! that's a rat

yep shall we all just go home let's pack it up everybody the rest of the show will just be that sorry that was in that you happen to have her contact that was New Zealand

that's her schedule moving forward though shout out to I'll be in touch yeah wow that was an interesting take right there your license plate of the week I'm ordering this currently for Connecticut Les Baru

as Luke continues to hound me for The car, I don't even drive anymore. My kid's-closer I am to find. Luke, sign signs everywhere, there's signs, blocking up the scenery and alerting you to what's up ahead. Huge boobs ahead. I bet there are.

Yep. Let's go over to the car wash. Somebody get me this address, please. Car wash. We give the best hand job in town. Well, that's where I'm taking my vehicle. Speaking of signs, they bet this fellow Steve's six bucks that he couldn't jump over this sign.

Who are you taking here? Let's see. Here we go. Steve's making six bucks right here. He's got to clear that sign. He is about to go face first into the pavement. Six bucks. Come on, Steve, you can do this.

Here we go. He's dressed like every white guy in the South Africa. Of course. Of course. About the most predictable thing, imaginable. Luke, anything can happen in regional MMA. It can also happen in South American concerts. This is Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin.

Fame, live on stage in Buenos Aires. Watch this. Nice full work, right? It's like 80. That's not bad, right? Actually, the security guard ran a mentor in a little bit. Yeah, the security guard did like the Krav Maga back instructor a bit, but it worked actually. All right, Luke, it's time to rate that 10. TAT, 1 to 10, 10 being artistically beautiful.

Here's the WWF title tat. That's a zero out of $8 billion. Come on. That is the worst thing I've ever seen. You wouldn't just give it for the actual quality of the tat. At least give it a three. Even the quality has got some issues. That is horrendous.

Wow, all right. Honestly, if you're a tattoo artist and your client is asking for that, maybe decline the money. All right. What about this next one, Luke? One to 10. That's a solid eight. Okay.

The line work is, in fact, quite good. Shout out to that night circumcise. Let's go to Dana White Contender series. I don't know the fellow's name, but tattoo on Titty with a scarface. They were using the R word to describe his. Tommy McMillan. Yeah, they were using the R word to describe his tattoos on social media.

The not nice R word. Oh, boy. You know, the, the, anyway. Well, here's what I'll say. Can you go back to that? The tattoo over his right side with the Al Pacino one is not super poorly done. Okay.

The one over his left is much more questionable. And the overall, I would say, artistic aesthetic is as low as it gets. Okay. So, yeah, these are not, they're not terrible tattoos necessarily, although some of them are. But the artistic quality is extremely low. All right. The balance between artistic quality and placement is interesting on this last one. representing Star Wars.

So this will be what they call new school. For a new school tattoo, it is quite good. But you got to wear that on the side of your face. You got to wear it on the side of your motherfucking head. And that's a negative 9 billion out of 100 billion. Oh, right. There you go. Luke, let's go to the old ball field here in Major League Baseball. Watch the specifics of this tag by Shohei Otani.

Yeah, right on the balls. That's what you get for being. in Baltimore. That's what I'm talking about right there. Shout out to Shohay. They got Shohay pitching? They got him doing everything. I know. I'm not asking a stupid question. Like, I realize that that's what makes him famous, was the pitching and hitting. But I thought that they

were going to retire him from pitching because he's such a good hitter. I don't watch enough Bezboleton understand. I guess I forgot about it. I guess I missed under two. I only watch moments like this in the crowd. Watch this. Luke. I go for one of them, too. Well, it's it?

What's that? I'm sorry. What? It's it. What's an, it's it? Yeah. For the folks at home, I, on behalf of Chris Carey, I will apologize. Okay. You are a handful, Chris. Let me tell you.

That's a bully right there, Luke. Wow. That's assault, brother. That is, that is something. Luke, we call the next one Glizzy and the Tramp. We're on TV and come over here. Yeah. Kind of going lady in the tramp on the hot.

Yeah, that's right. and then they find out that everybody's seen them on TV yes hey we're blowing up I support this come on send them both to that prison Seikot in El Salvador you know that's most of our viewers dream is that you and I

would meet in the middle on a glissie how much would you have to get paid to do that a lot also throwback alert best MLB interview ever comes after the Houston Astros one of the recent World Series wins Exactly, exactly. Hey, what do you have to say to everyone who still considers the Astros cheaters? Fuck y'all.

All right. Sorry, guys. Did not mean to do that. It is on television. Anything you can happen. That's right. It's like regional M.M.A. That's a 10 out of 10 delivery right there.

Wow. Okay. Let's go to the restaurant. Here's an HR video that's interesting. You may thought that was funny, but what if it was the other way around? Fire them both. Send them to El Salvador, please. Luke, it's time to play my favorite subgame of Would You Eat It?

Are you ready? Okay. You actually sent me this. This is in Asia. The toilet restaurant? I did send you this. The poop restaurant in Taiwan. It's a real place.

Everything is shit-themed. Would you eat there? I'm afraid to tell you the answer is yes. Dude, you drink out of a freaking travel. Yeah. Travel urinal. Like my grandfather used to carry those in the truck with a woman I would at least try. Also, when you weren't looking, I would urinate in

your food. Okay. This is interesting. All right. Next, Luke, would you eat the Jalen Brunson meatloaf? I know this is not racist, but it feels that way. Okay. What the fuck is this? All right, if not that one, would you eat the bebe loaf? There's some people that need to go to jail in this country Yeah, I think the one who puts these clips together Luke, tough week for toasters in New York City See this fucking toaster? Fuck this fucking toaster.

I love New York. I love New York, dude. New York is the fucking best. Oh, I love New York. Also a tough week for bullfighting. I don't usually put these highlights in, but only if the humans die. Look at this. Brother, yeah.

Oh, he did the old Tuatungo Vailo a bit. Also, watch this reporter get a little too close to the action, Luke. Oh, fuck, no, dude. Someone's dying. Oh, no. Someone's dying. Someone's dying. Someone's dying.

Oh, little gore up the A-hole there. Wow. Come back for more. Do you have a thonging? Bro, every time the bull wins, I cheer. What about when the ball wins? the bulls going up against the BBLs you still cheer that's the case by case basis well let's check it out dude what the fuck what are we doing here dude also these aren't BBL these are just T's

these are just Tia's somebody get them T's safety oh boy she'll never she'll never conceive again wow that was a horn right to the horn look good Lord get on your feet look how look how immobile these people are. Yeah. Wow. Bro, you will never realize how out of shape Americans are until you ride Amtrak. I've said it a million times.

Until you ride Amtrak and ladies have to put their luggage over their head. Brother, when I tell you that the women of America cannot do it, I am not exaggerating. Two to three months in Dagestan that will fix that. Let's keep it going. Kids do the darndest things. You can speak to Grandma, but don't be pulling on her

parts, all right? Okay, that's theft. that's theft that scared him for life look at that face wow all right also you never know who you'll meet or what you'll meet at a train station let's go to piccadilly i know what the fuck you'll meet go to piccadilly in london that's a circus wow yeah yeah that's sanitary yeah and i bet he smells delightful you know what he needs mando it's 100% also look Have you ever met Tommy Nunchucks? This guy bangs.

Oh, shit. Oh, shit. Hell yeah, Tom. What? Yeah, Tom. Fuck. Holy shit. Yo, this motherfucker fucks, bro.

This guy doesn't need a condom at all. Imagine bringing him to a party. Hell yeah, we're bringing him to a party. We got to get this guy's information. Dude, this guy is a hero of mine. Imagine just having him sitting here with every show Just be, like, we should move in New York. Making points, and he's just doing nuncho drills in the back.

That'd be fucking sweet. Finally, Luke. Why can't you do that, Long Island, Luke? You got no talent. You guys have never asked me to show you my nunchucks. Yeah, well, now you're on the clock, fucker. Finally, we have one more for you. They're innovating on the cars.

They're giving you, like, up, you know, new gadgets and stuff. Yeah. Would this solve everything for you? All right. Opens up. Is that a cooler or a commode? A commode. This would solve an enormous amount of problems that I have.

and then I would just Dave Matthews band it you know what they did with the tour bus and they just threw them motherfucker out yeah that's all the shit we can handle this week that's a B-minus but you know you try as long as I get above that C level you know what I can't believe we went all this time we did see women get absolutely mauled by animals

but we did not see any 9-11 jokes and for that I one more week without being fired really is quite nice Dale Sr. lives another day here you go all right they get bitter about the Dale senior jokes he is the yeah he's everything

I don't get bitter bottom thank you very well thank you uh i'll be hitting the road uh so will luke we'll see you in vegas on friday 11 a m eastern morning combat canello crawford be early morning for us ufc no or sorry nocha ufc picks here is our social handles please if you like the show like subscribe on youtube tell a friend all right shout out to everybody uh follow our extended youtube channels and long island luke you got anything to plug yeah i'll be doing a watch along for Contender Series tomorrow, new Prop Quiz this week. That didn't break to everything, guys.

Full card watch along, both on Saturday, Canelo Crawford and Noce U.S.C. Let's go. This channel, main card minute on fire at the moment, right? What do you think? I mean, prop quiz is changing the game. I like Prop Quiz, but, you know, him going live for the prelims of Noceau UFC is just absolute negligence as a boyfriend on your part. So far, who's number one on the Prop Quiz power ranking?

Who's the most... Mike Heck. Mike Heck is being fitted for a crown or now? number one pound for pound wow who is last is it luke might be me uh last of the winners or last of the losers yeah who's just been the worst contestants oh i think it's been jed actually oh wow so much for that law degree there you go yeah he got that motherfucker from the university of somola um finally shop morning combat dot shop is your merch uh opportunities for the september exclusives black liver society brought to you by average jo art check out luke and the mk sure of uh of a little

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It didn't have to. I mean, this wasn't one of those deals. Please, all right? This really was. This really wasn't. Was it? Okay. I just, I'm a big Ken fan. We all are. We all are. That's morning combat for Monday. Take care of yourselves. We're out of here. Thank you. This is an IHeart podcast.