MORNING KOMBAT WITH LUKE THOMAS AND BRIAN CAMPBELL - UFC Paris Preview: Imavov vs Borralho, Saint-Denis vs Ruffy | Canelo vs Crawford Lookahead

Episode Date: September 5, 2025

LT and BC are back on a Friday to help get you ready for the weekend in combat sports! First up, the fellas preview UFC Paris, including an exciting bout on the undercard: Benoit Saint Denis vs. Mauricio Ruffy. The guys talk Canelo vs. Crawford as the highly-anticipated boxing match is just a week away. Plus more news from the world of combat sports. Get MORNING KOMBAT merchandise now: https://morningkombat.shop/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Hey, it's my dad's 70th birthday. How are you out there? Brian Campbell, live and direct from the, thank you. Thank you very much from the Hartford, Connecticut suburbs. We did have a couple. minute late start, but the toilets have been flushed. All has been cleaned up. And I'm not talking about ass this time. I'm talking about IT issues, but we do have them with us from Washington, D.C. It's Luke, how are you, bro? I'm well. I apologize for the delay. We, we potted up my computer,

and we immediately had issues once we all logged into our system here. So I had to switch everything. I'm on my laptop. Yes. Which I'm hoping. hoping will do the trick you know what i found bc the laptop is a mac the the uh the normal computer that i use is a pc and i have found that PCs are much more difficult to maintain than max so you know you tech bros out there listen up luke logged in and then he did hit the restroom legally officially and logged off um sure but uh he's here we're back we're ready to rock and roll it's ufc paris weekend so let's get fired up today well before we get into everything going on, a reminder to like, subscribe.

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Wow. Looking forward to everyone checking it out. Very good stuff right there. Long Island, look, you excited for UFC Paris, bro? Yeah, but we did lose the Pitbull Kada fight overnight. Cata missed weight and Pipple did not accept it. So I understand why he didn't. But yeah, I'm a little bummed at that. That was definitely like number three on the card for me. But I'll be doing a full card watch along for Paris. So you know I'm hype for it. 12 new. all right i'm hyped i'm ready to go that's the uh tomorrow afternoon opportunity uh l t what's going on in your life right now as as zohy's butthole makes the rounds here on the street um i have had an insane week here but mercifully my wife gets home from her business trip tomorrow thank you jesus

um and i'll be doing i don't know i'm not doing a full card watch a long but i'll be doing partly a watch along for the main card and then a post fight show for ufc paris over on da personal channel wonderful also there's a ufc uh press conference going on right now with cyril ghan and tom aspinall will have long island luke updating us if anything crazy happens in that i doubt it but we're here just in case uh l t you have had help from abelita um abuela excuse me let me put some respect on her name is she also ready to just hand off the monster or what yeah i think so i think she's pretty tired too uh tuki is a handful you know i don't know how the people are of single parents who have like multiple children do it it is quite a task indeed indeed but

we love toky fantastic stuff right there uh we might as well get into the damn show here we started a little bit late we're going to be talking some canolo crawforders we're just a week out we're going to hit some latest news and close the show of course with dead wrong and fan subs but for now it's time for topic number one this saturday's ufc fight night in paris is a very good card, even with the loss of Patricio Pitbull and the newcomer Keita. The main event is what we're focused on here in the middleweight division

Naserdine Imov versus Kyle Bohalio. And considering UFC CEO, Dana White, has already laid out the parameters to determine the next challenger for the newly minted middleweight champion Hamzat Chimayev. It'll be whoever looks better in either this main event on

Saturday or of course the October 14th, Renair de Ritter, Fluffy Hernandez main event. So, evolve bohalio a very much a a playoff feel to it this weekend and also an evenly match fight between two contenders look when you match up these two their skill sets against one another what do you believe is the biggest thing that separates them entering this must win fight for a shot at the middleweight crown wow you know what i um i was trying to see through tape study in preparation for today's show and how to answer this question specifically. And to be clear, they have different

competencies, right? Bahalio, to me, a little bit better, actually, a lot better on the ground. Although against higher level opposition, it's not clear what his appetite for it is, or it's not exactly clear how well the ground game would translate up against the elite, like to what extent is it as deadly there. Like, for example, Charles Olivera, his ground game has limits, but it does extend to the elite. We don't really know that about Baha'uio, but he does have, you know, considerable skills there. Recall he had a match with Brendan Allen and karate combat, a grappling match, which he won, and Brendan Allen is certainly no slouch on the ground. Obviously, though, Nasserdei Mavov fought Brandon Allen, and then beat him straight up in a three-round

contest. I'm going to say that the differences are real, but to an extent, somewhat slight. Opposite stance. In Bhalo, you have a left-hander, in Mavov, you have a right-hander, I'm going to say that of the two, I think Imavov, faster hands, better combination work with Bhali, excuse me, with Imovov. And I think the data reflects that to an extent, B.C. strikes landed per minute for himov, 4.45, strikes absorbed, 3.26, in part because he stands a little bit more in the line of fire. Bhalio not as active. 3.61 landed 2.3 absorbed. He doesn't take as much damage. In fact, you'll notice Bahalio does a real good job of rolling with punches. something that actually is something that's pretty effective, although you saw in the fight with Ken and ear, he was able to get through with his own left hook to a degree, which is why that eye was all jacked up. I think the thing that stands out for me, B.C., is really, it's going to be

to what extent can Bahalio force pressure on a guy like Imovov? If Imovov can stand and box at range, I think in general, not always, and perhaps, you know, there's some differences there too in terms of what Baha'alu could do. But I'm going to say in general, that, again, just think about it logically. What is going to be Imovov's best path to victory? It's probably going to be him leading, standing at range, right? Pressing to a degree and then finding that boxing range.

He's got very quick, accurate punching. You saw him use that against Izzy. You've seen him use it against many, many guys. However, there's a couple of things that have come to light. One, his take down defense is better than people realize. I know Alan was able to get him down and holding down the whole first round, but then whiffed on everything else there after. It went one for 10 on takedowns.

The interesting part to me, BC, is what you saw in the Deleuze fight was that Imav had a hard time kind of fence wrestling, or to bare minimum, I'm going to say it this way, getting his offense going when pressed against the fence, meaning you have enough defensive awareness to separate and then potentially launch your own offense. That has been something of a difficult spot for him. He got around that in the cannoneer fight

because he was able to land better punches. The question is against the guy who's much younger, fresher, in theory in Bahalio, can he do that? So to me, the real core questions are, to what extent can Bahalio press, to what extent can he mix up his offense? It doesn't have to be one or the other,

but to the extent can he mix up his offense, and to what extent can he tire out and drain Imov as the fight goes on through some combination of that pressing, which never lets himov get his offense going and never really lets him get, you know, into that second kind of gear. But to the extent that he cannot do those things, you can imagine there's a number of scenarios where I think Imov can shine. So it's not a huge difference. And I think the odds reflect that, but there are some core differences there. Yeah, I mean, maybe Bohalio a little

bit more well-rounded. Can he bring the thread of that ground game, even or even use some of that to tire out imov. But they are so even across the board, even if you look at their stats, They have the exact same reach length on their arms and their legs. And the only difference in height is two inches taller for the six foot three Nassardine Imovov. As we look at the draft king's odds at the moment, you nailed it. Luke, it's almost a 50-50 here. Imov, a plus 110 underdog to the minus 130, Kyle Bolio.

Both are red hot coming in. Naserdine Imov has run four in a row. Two of those being, you know, big breakthrough opportunities in his last two fights, It's a finish with a counter right hand of Israel out of Sonia, a decision win over a streaking Brendan Allen. In fact, he's fought twice, those two fights since Boholio even last fought one year ago, but a bohalio in general, 17 and 1 as a pro. He's won all seven UFC fights.

He won his two Dana White Contender Series appearances, including a finish leading up to that. We are talking about two guys who did get on the scales this morning to make weight. They look ripped as heck. they are ready to go with so much freaking at stake here. Luke, before we get into some sound and a little bit of the back and forth, I did want to ask you just in general here of this playoff setting that we have, do you think it'll be enough to just win, to just survive in advance to potentially get the title shot?

Or do you believe maybe sort of like when Dana puts an interim title on fights that don't necessarily need it, but yet it ramps up the energy? Look at UFC 236, the main and co-main event that night in Atlanta, a legendary night. Do you believe that knowing the stakes here, we're going to see both of these guys fight a little bit more aggressive than normal? And do you think they'll need to to get that call? I think there's a chance you might see Baha'alio fight a little bit more aggressive than usual because I think he needs, well, maybe not than usual, but depending on which fight you're talking about. But I do think he's going to need to fight aggressively, again, tax. tactically and strategically, but with his foot on the gas a little bit, no matter what.

I just think that's good. It's hard for me to see how he can win without really doing something like that. To be on the back foot, again, at times I'm sure he will be, but as a general posture, I just don't really, I just don't really see that as a method to success. I think someone like Imov, I know he has faded down the stretch in certain cases, but at the same time, I think to an extent he's repaired that. And he is a little bit more bend don't break. that Brendan Allen fight, he got taken down and held down basically the entire first round,

but then came back and had a much better sense of distancing and what his weapons needed to be and what his defense needed to be and then took the next two rounds and then ultimately wins, you know, in a pretty convincing way. So to me, that's, I think, the general kind of ebb and flow of what we're likely to expect. I guess if some of that gets messed up, then, you know, the results can go a few different ways. What I'm going to say, though, about answer to the first question is, is winning enough. Winning is a necessary condition, but it's not a sufficient one. It's necessary that you win. If you don't win, we're not even in the conversation.

But just because you win, as we know, it's not really by itself enough. Now, winning in front of his Paris crowd in the main event could lift the Mavov's kind of, you know, stature to a degree, right? To the extent that he becomes a relevant factor. But at the same time, imagine a fight between RDR and Fluffy, which I know they're headlining that Vancouver card. But like even if that fight is very even itself, if it's like extra excited. that could make a difference. Or again, to what extent do they see? I know we're not selling pay-per-views anymore by the time that these,

but by the time the next title is up for grabs, but what kind of calculation are they looking for? Where does that fit in in their international calendar? All of these factors are going to be weighed here, and it's just really hard to know what's going to win out. So the task is the same in any case. You have to win, and to the extent you can win convincingly, and then the rest of it is just kind of out of their hands a little bit.

Amov, born in Dagestan, obviously fighting out of and representing France. We'll have that home court advantage there with. We know how much those Paris crowds can bring it, which is going to fuel even more buzz and intensity in the arena. And of course, Bajalio, the founder of fighting nerds, maybe the most red-hot team in the game right now in a very underrated game planner. But in terms of the heat check between them, they've largely been professional if it has been spicy at all it seems to be one-sided now bohalio did say

that he felt imov was ducking him when imov turned down an opportunity to fight him earlier this year and also when imov turned down an opportunity to be the backup for the most recent middleweight title fight which bohalio ended up taking bohalio also did say that he doesn't necessarily feel like imov is a real d'agastani and i think that's the only thing that has really caused a little little bit of this one-sided beef, where Nassardine believes it is very personal. And he's kind of taking it to the level where I believe it's fair that we bring in our friends at Cuervo for a little shots fire. And of course, Shots Fired is brought to you by Cuervo now is a good time to enjoy.

The tequila that invented tequila. I don't know if you guys have been following Imovov's Twitter account over there on X, but he's been putting out these trailers and skits. Here's his latest focusing on the disrespect he feels that he has received from Boholio. Imavov. Imavov. But this guy

is a f***ing, good. It's not Dagestan. Dagestan is shame of you. Have shame on you. Hello. Asha is a frango of Kayu, Pramini. Okay. Boy, I don't know any of Coyle, no.

Cahill, no. Cahill? Cahill, Caryl, Mett. Who, Coyle? No, no, man, man, man. Cahill? Cahill. Cah!

Cah! Cah! Cahill? Cah, what I know is this is this, here? He's an elephant. What is this, Cah? What's this Cahill, man? So you got a little bit of heat there.

So you got a little bit of heat there. Luke, what do you make of this with this Brazil versus France rivalry, which will be in the main event and calling main event. And a lot of people have been comparing it to the soccer World Cup rivalry. have a lot of people been doing that online not in my circles luke i think they're trying to build a little heat wherever they can the reality is they're kind of up against it a little bit right i mean i'm sure that france is an important market for the ufc but it's probably not its most important market and this fight is taking place there in the afternoon on a non-numbered card

No, it's the same for Fluffy and RDR, but I'm just pointing out that, like, there are different ways in which the stakes and the settings interplay, and this is one where, you know, the most amount of buzz they can generate, obviously we know the game, they're going to be able to do that. Sorry, the most amount they can generate, the more valuable it can be. And I just think we're at a place where they're trying to, you know, put together something that they can, or at least, you know, Imovov is trying to just generate the kind of attention that he can to promote this fight and good on him. a pretty good reel if I do say so myself. But I don't think it's much more than that. I don't know if there's really genuinely bad blood between them. It's just this is a highly, highly important fight in both of their careers. And they're trying to, you know, get any edge that they can.

Well, they've both said opposite about whether this fight is personal. And we do a video of that long. I'm Luke. If you can go down to Item D here, let's listen in. No personal. Just business. Just two of the two of the, two of the, two of them. best guys in the world face in each other to see who goes for the bell.

It's too late, it's too late, well, it's personal. You'll have to attend a massodine detentue, with a lot of experience, to be posed, and who will go to search the finish. I'll do all the limit. He just a role. He's not so seren than that.

He has a reason to show him, but he's not sure. I just know to recognize a person who has said all of all. A little bit, a little bit back and forth there. Let's talk about some of the brass tacks on the even deeper comparison between them. I believe there's an argument to be made, even though his winning streak of four is not on the level here of the, of the extended win streak of Boholio, who just has the one defeat in his second pro fight. I believe him of his beat in better competition of late. He's also been extremely active.

I mentioned his last two wins, arguably the two biggest of his career, came since Bohalio last appeared when he defeated Jared Canaanier last summer. But he defeated Jared Kananir by decision last summer two months after Imov rallied to stop Cannoneer while down on the scorecards in a five-round main event. How much do you believe it will be a factor if we could give both the competition and the current form advantage? And then you add in that home field advantage to Imovov. See, that's the part about Imov. I mean, if you watch those fights, there's a bit of a problem where, for example,

Kennineer gets rocked in the third and he did not deserve to get stopped there and he actually kind of rallied a little bit in the fourth but then he got beaten up real bad in the fifth and a lesser referee might have stopped it it's possible and in fact what you could argue is yes Imovov had Kenanier on skates in their fights I mean he was definitely hurt

there's no question about that but that that stoppage came a little too early in fact I would argue that it did It seemed a little premature to me. But this just goes to show, like, these are well-matched opponents. You know, as you mentioned, can't, excuse me, Bhalio, more well-rounded, but maybe not as necessarily potent, even where he is more well-rounded as he needs to be to have a significant advantage over he Mavov.

Imov, I think, better in the stand-up, but not so much that he can just rely on that. And more to the point, you know, you've got this Ben Don't Break thing with Mavov. Like, guys take leads on him sometimes. Obviously, it didn't happen in the Izzy fight per se. But, you know, in other cases, you can point to you, guys take leads on him. They just can't hold them. You know, that's the interesting part, at least more recently in the past, that might have been a little bit differently.

But more recently, that's been the case. And the other part, too, I want to point out, Balhallyo 32, Imov just 29, BC, just 29, like really entering the prime of his career. And not just that, but like the part of his prime where he's still getting consistently better. there's a question about like what you're going to get with Baha'alio also one thing we haven't really talked about you haven't asked me but it's important to bring up remember Bhalio was the fill in recently for the middleweight title fight and he had to cut weight for that and then you're traveling internationally jet lag and then you have to cut again I'm not saying he's going to

miss weight I don't know what the latest update is but what I am saying is man that's a lot of weight cutting that's a lot it's just a lot of factors between that home field advantage travel the whole nine yards that you're giving your opponent in an already close contest i still think based on the last odds correct me if i'm wrong long island luke that imov is still the slight underdog is that right correct yes they both made weight by the way the wayans are over okay he was the only guy fine i i was not expecting bohalio to miss it that's not my point but the point is round four you know if the takedowns aren't there and he's tired what does that do it's at least a factor to pay attention to going forward, even though Boholio himself has been like,

oh, it won't be a factor. We shall see. Well, I'm glad you brought that up because that was going to be my next question. And I was almost going to lead to where I think you can keep making all of these little points, which we just did, which continue to put a certain level of advantage into Imovov, not just those two weight cuts in a short period of time, the one year layoff for Boholio. How about this? Imov has a rock, solid chin that has been tested by the very best. He also has a recent history of peaking in the championship rounds as he's been a consistent five-round fighter in fight night main events. So some people believe that Poholio's stamina can be here or there. I think overall he's pretty darn solid, but I wonder how many all of the, how much all

of these advantages when it, uh, when it's already such a close fight on paper, the betting odds are being so close. Yet if it plays out so close in sort of some form of a high speed chess match, then you're also dropping on top of that the potential home field advantage here in terms of how will the cheering from the crowd sway the judges if the action is close and back and forth all things to think about here is Kyle Boholio however getting away from trash talk and just straight up saying what is the challenge of facing this technical counterstriker in imabob what about Nassadine Mavov do you see and you go I could exploit you're going to make me put my gameplay out here I mean you know I have to tell

Hey, he's really fast. He just exploded. That's what he did with Adesanya. I will need to be aware of that positioning myself. The position is going to make me see a little bit far away. The winner of this fight is fighting for the title next. Like there's no if what's about it. That's the fight that makes sense.

There's no point to be waiting on the number one contender to go to the belt. I think I'm one of the biggest prospects in the division right now. 16 win streak. All my fights have fought like beasts. Jericho Neer, he had good fight, but it was an early stoppage. And nobody did what I did to Jared Kennedy. So I'm here in my prime, no injuries, and nobody wants to fight. And finally we got it.

He ran away a lot, but now I'm coming to get him on his place and he's down. I'll make this fight not that competitive as you think, as I did with all my fights. And I dominated them all. Luke, is it fair to say that Imovov is the most deserving of the four middleweights that are vying for the attention of the matchmakers to get the title shot in these two fights? but we know why maybe he's underpicked he's not a big trash talk or all that stuff and then maybe bohalio is the least deserving although i'm not saying that to take away from the ability that he's bringing in here as the favorite it kind of feels like that now are you saying just among these two

or among all four among all four among all four i look bohalio's on fire from a win standpoint right i don't think he's faced the competition that that that the other guys have have. I think that's right. Certainly in this case, well, here's what I'll say, Bhalio's UFC run has been much more consistent. How about that? Right. In terms of the UFC, correct me if I'm wrong, it's a nine-fight win streak and in the UFC itself undefeated, right? I mean, that is, along with Fluffy, in terms of like the wind streak itself anyway, pretty remarkable and very, very difficult to do, frankly, in any division. even though middleweight is not necessarily the UFC's best,

although at this stage, it's obviously very good, especially at this level of it. I don't know if I, I don't know if I agree with the premise of the question. I mean, dude, this is what's kind of interesting. I was really thinking about this, man. You know, this fight is, and then the RDR Fluffy fight, like this, these are, to me, it's actually insanely intriguing

because, you know, is Imovov or is Bahabha, the biggest names and is their matchup in some ways the most desired and do you necessarily have oh i got to see hamzat you know uh imovov i got to see hamzaboh i don't know about that some of the ones on the other side of the ledger that people might feel a little bit differently about but you know in general i don't know but because these fights are so closely contested and especially in the case of the rdr fluffy fight it's an interesting style clash also a very closely contested fight at least one that we think will be closely contested that by itself has kind of I don't know if it's in a way raised my overall level of interest,

but kind of neutralized what I can expect in a, in a, in a, and how do I say this exactly? It's, I don't know what to expect exactly. I just don't know what to expect. I think we really got to wait and see what the results are because obviously who wins and who loses is critical, but I mean, the picture will come into clarity once we have some resolution, not just about who is more deserving, who can make a more interesting fight who answered better key questions about some of their upside who answered better key

questions about some of the things limiting them as well they've got opponents all four of them on either side that tell that that that are going to get a lot closer to some kind of uh you know just a just a just a better clearer picture of what we have and i'm really looking forward to that resolution so i just don't know how to answer the question the way that you asked it i mean it's a it's a moot it's a moot point regardless they all they're all at the table they have the opportunity to do what they have to do. But as we go to this full screen, Long Island Luke's showing Imovov's UFC resume.

The only thing he's lacked is charisma and a face. But maybe he'll get that from this Paris crowd. I mean, it is a perfect setting for him. Look at that. Most recently stopping pretty brutally, Otisanya. You've got wins over his shrinking, Brendan Allen,

a cannoneer before he had lost to Boholio, Delizze, Joaquin Buckley, Shabazzian, yes, there are lost. losses to Sean Strickland and Phil Hawes, but he also beat Jurassic back, Hyannish over there. Luke, that's a pretty damn underrated run. And I had sort of held him back in my mind for lack of sexiness.

It's not that he fights boring. You just sometimes want him to pick up the pace and go for it a little more because he's so long, technical, powerful, has a great chin. But not everyone even knows that because it has been a tough sell. This is his opportunity to change that. Well, now, look, before we make our predictions here, oh, before we make our predictions, show this flashback video of Dana also getting rock hard touching him in the back. Let's watch this. We just did the Wands up there.

He came over and I said, good luck tomorrow, and I slapped him on the shoulder. I'm not shitting you. I mean, that guy feels like a piece of metal. I mean, that guy is fucking crazy. Look, they've only said that about Yol L. Romero in the past, just so you know, okay? Yul Romero, a famous middleweight underachiever. That's also kind of true. there long island look from a betting standpoint it feels like a coin flip but i feel like we just laid

out a lot of reasons why imov at home on plus money is a hell of a bet yeah there's value there i'm not going to say anyone's wrong for taking that but i'm riding with the fighting nerds on this one baby i'm actually parlay and bohalio and hoofy together how do you think that fight goes like what does it look like the main event yeah i'm hoping that bohlo can implement his wrestling i did look into it and imavov's two ufcc losses which were sean strickland and phil haws he got taken down in both of those fights so like bohalio's just got to take him down also bohalio did win his last three fights without getting a takedown so like he's proven he can hang i do favor imov if it stays standing though i said on submission radio i think it's going to be a close fight 48 47 either

way definitely see a goal in the distance majority decision or split of some kind but here's the thing though luke and i like the analysis no cita just gave well hollio has evolved from a wrestler first to a wrestler striker to kind of a striker nowadays. I wonder if that plays against him over a five-round fight where we seem to be in unison that it's going to be up for grabs when it hits the 25-minute mark. All those factors are pointing me in the direction of the slightly more technical and, and I guess thoughtful. I mean, look, Bojillo can carry out a game plan.

He also can be aggressive and raw and athletic. I got to lean Imov here by very close decision. Will they get the title shot? We're going to have to wait for October 14th to find out. But I don't feel like there's enough reasons for me to take Kyle despite this fight being this close. Man, I have struggled with this one. I don't think your analysis is really wrong at all.

We've kind of been over the terms of it. By the way, I said a nine-fight win streak. It is seven in the UFC, but he had two wins back-to-back on the contender series. So within the Zufa family, it's a nine-fight win streak for whatever that is worth. I mean, this is the funny part about Imavov, right? Historically, he has shown more weaknesses, right? As I mentioned, again, I know that Kayo is not undefeated overall, but inside the Zufa family, he is undefeated.

He's been more consistent, and to the point you raise, I'm glad you bred it that way, he's kind of a grappler first, then he mixed it up, and now he can win on the feet exclusively, at least against the opponents he's fought. More recently, he's been able to do that, and that's a big development, no question about it. but it does seem to me like the striking is sharper with him all involved and while some of his flaws have been more you know uh visible been become more visible and and and have been somewhat

more documented and part of to an extent his identity the thing that i wrestle with on this one no pun intended bc is that one i mentioned he's a got of a bit of a bend don't break kind of style and two he's three years younger than kyle bohalio like some of his failures have been on front street but he's at a stage of his development where like big chunks and and leaps can be made and then you add in the weight cut man it's like i'm in a perfect world bc i'd probably lean bollio but i think you know i'm going to take a flyer on imov on this one i just feel like there's enough reason to believe that this fight is going to be insanely close and then of course if yamov can't stop the take down then he's screwed right i mean there's really no point in

discussing anything further he has adequate wrestling it's not it's not a whole hole in his game, right? I mean, it's... It's not his strong suit. I would say that. It's not his strong suit. But I agree with you. I don't think it's like disastrous or anything like that. Again, Alan went for 10 takedowns, only got one of them. That was it. He couldn't do shit after round one. So something to be said for that.

I just feel like I do buy. I absolutely buy that Bahalio is more well-rounded. I don't think the tape is necessarily inconclusive about that. But some of the other factors give me a little bit of pause. And for that reason, I'm going to give a slight lean to Imava. But I agree with Long Island

Luke. I mean, it's going to be probably tight all the way down. Yeah. I do buy also. I also Abu Dhabi, Luke. Let's transition out of this one and tell you that this podcast sponsored by Total Wireless, the official wireless partner of the UFC. You know, when you're streaming the fight,

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Pipple decided not to carry on. Pipple wants a short turnaround at UFC Hio against Arnold Allen, but Kaito would post a video on X of him in the bathtub. in which he said for the first time in 25 fights, I failed to make weight and it had to happen on my UFC debut. I wanted to continue and would have given everything to make weight, but my body didn't want it. I sincerely apologize to all my fans. I will be back like every time I fall in life.

LT, this certainly sucks, but can we in hindsight say maybe it wasn't the best idea to cut back down to featherweight when he hasn't fought there in two years? Yeah, and then doing it on three weeks notice, no less. So, like, he hasn't, as you indicated, like, the last time, I think the last time he made 45 was 23. So, you know, he's been fighting in 55 more recently and, and took this fight on short notice. It's like, dude, I appreciate that he took the fight on fortnight, the fight on short notice. I really do. But Pitbull doesn't have time to fuck around with people who can't make weight.

And he's got, you know, a limited amount of time left in the game. He's trying to make it work. This, I understand why he did not accept the fight. I truly do. It sucks for us, but I sort of get it. And, dude, like, you know, if you're going to, I have, I just know, and for a lot of good reasons, observational and otherwise, the UFC loves it when you can fill in on short notice, but they don't want you to fill in on short notice if you cannot make weight. It's not what they want. They want you to you, they would rather you decline it than do this, right? Because now look at the consequence, we don't have this fight. An inauspicious way to begin his UFC tenure, B.C. Not a death sentence or anything like that, but it sucks for us.

and, you know, don't take fights in weights you can't make. The UFC just absolutely hates it when fighters do that. Agree that. He was a featherway and lightweight champion at Octagon, but had been competing at lightweight. Misses weight by three pounds. And remember, he was a minus 225 betting favorite over Pitbull coming in. All right, let's talk about this co-main event.

One hell of an explosive matchup between new school lightweights as number 13, Benoit St. Deney enters as a slight betting underdog against a, streaking number 15 fighting nerds member, Mauricio Hoofey, who is 12 and 1 as a pro, 3 and 0 in the UFC, and is just six months removed from a spinning wheel kick CO of King Green. On the flip side, BSD enters having been stopped in two of his last three fights. Luke, this is a very good fight on paper. The odds will tell you that as well. But how important in your eyes is the head movement in defense of BSD

who does, is fighting on a one-fight win streak after a recent decision win in his comeback in determining if he can get past Hoopie. Man, this is, this is an interesting one. Clear, striker, grappler kind of contest. You just cannot imagine a world where BSD can win on the feet in the event he can't get a takedown. I mean, MMA's crazy,

Stranger Things have happened, but it seems deeply unlikely by contrast. If Hoofie cannot stay on the feet, then I don't know what he is, game well i mean i guess we'll see what his ground game more readily looks like um tested against this level of opposition but in general it just doesn't appear like that's probably his best chance to victory either and bSD do his defense is terrible his defense is just biting down on the mouthpiece and kind of just moving through punishment it's really never

getting around it it does his game is predicated on just kind of overrunning um the need for defense but then when you actually need defense because overrunning it doesn't work anymore there's nothing really there to protect him i mean he absorbs an enormous amount of damage and we've seen that more recently in some of his fights um and then you know just inadvisibly kind of spams takedowns like he doesn't set them up more methodically he just you know presses the gas pedal and goes and there's a question because hoofy has never been taken down in the UFC, but at the same time, he's really never fought anyone who just will aggressively go for it and can get it in the way that BSD can. It's kind of a really huge test. Now, I know there's a lot

of hype around Hoofy, and in fact, of all the fighting nerds BC, my personal preferences, I'm intrigued by him and Jayon Silva probably the most. That doesn't mean that I think that they're going to go the furthest. It just means like right now I have the most amount of intrigue about them, but that, you know, that can change. But certainly to me, a very intriguing striker, but at the same time, like, you know, it's not to say if you can't beat BSD, you can't beat anybody, but if you can beat BSD, I think that a guy with an exciting style like this is just going to get rocketed to the front of this division in a very, very quick way. So a really interesting test of like what can BSD put together some kind of strategic attack

and can Huffy withstand an onslaught in the kind of way that BSD tends to deliver? Yeah, well, BSD's God of War mentality and Huffy's excitement, you know, this has the potential to be fireworks. I did want to dead wrong myself, thanks to Long Island Luke. The comeback win for BSD was actually a submission of Kyle Prepeleck directly after being stopped by Dustin Porriere and subbed out by Hainato. But not a great. I mean, he did not look super awesome in a win that he was widely expected to get. He got the job done, but like he didn't look great. And it was the doctor stoppage against Moycano due to that.

eye injury right there. Luke, there's been a lot of hoofy hit in the pads videos that have been in getting MMA fans more erect than Luke Rockhold talking about Dylan Dennis. Look at this, dude. This guy can pop. Yeah, I mean, Rockhold will bang Dennis in the ass. I mean, we heard that.

This guy looks amazing on the pads. I mean, just look at that for yourself. Look at the angles. Look at the pop. Look at the range. The creativity, the flow. It just looks amazing. There's no question you let this guy cook at these kinds of ranges. It's going to real bad for you. But of course, you know, BSD is at least early not going to allow this. And so what does that look like? It's a great match. It's great matchmaking. The UFC did a good job

with this one. I really enjoy it. I like it. And I want to see what both guys have. Hoofie riding a seven-fight win streak. He's won all three of his UFC bouts two by stoppage against King Green and then a TKO of Jamie Mularky in his debut. Also picked up a stoppage on the Dana White Contender series. Long Island, Luke, as we look at these draft things odds minus 175 for hoofy plus 145 for son denie who will be fighting in front of the home crowd does bring extensive violence and knockout ability how are you looking at this from a betting standpoint i got to go hoofy i told you guys already i'm parlay and hoofy and bohalio together a little fighting nerds parlay you get them both at minus under minus 200 it's great value parley him

together it's plus money uh i just feel like b sd luke was saying like he kind of looked like shit Kyle Preppleck, and I agree. And Kyle Preppolec took that fight on like three days notice. So like BSD should have really ran right through him. It went over one and a half rounds too, which is like, shouldn't have gone that long. She's also finished in the two fights before that. I just feel like you can't trust BSD right now. It is intriguing him at plus money, but I think there's a reason behind that.

I'm staying away until he can prove me wrong. Are you not moved by plus 600 on a BSD TKOKO KODQ? No, I'm not because I think if BSD wins, it's probably by sub i think hoofy probably chaos on the well if you like b s d by sub by the way plus 500 that ain't bad right there uh luke thomas are you just going to stamp hoofy because if he gets this win if he extends that win streak we're going to start talking about him like we do g n Silva bohalio and those other nerds yeah big questions about hoofy it's huge questions exactly how good is he i have no clue but i think this fight it's obviously going to get us a lot closer to getting

an understanding of that and I'm cautiously optimistic. I'm going to wry with Hoofee in this one. All right. Luke, you said on Monday when I brought it up, my Lithuanian British brethren, Modestis Bukowskis, is having a hell of a run in run number two with the UFC. Just one loss opposite five victories. He'll be taking on a Paul Craig who did resign with the UFC,

despite being 37, despite relocating back to the 205 division, and despite losing five of his last six at this. moment. Here is Bukowski is trying to push back on your idea that he isn't a future player at 205 here on this newly changed run he's having in part two of his career. Well, I think people are finally starting to take notice, you know, before, you know, when you're coming back, like even then when I posted a video up just recently, people are still talking more, like I say, about the knee injury and saying that this guy will never come back. I'm like, well, did you watch the whole video about me.

I think now people are, like I say, starting to take notice, is starting to realize that I mean business. I'm not just here. And essentially, I still feel like the comeback stories is still being written. I mean, I feel like, yeah, if people want to put emphasis on that, they can because ultimately that can inspire and motivate people, you know, who are sort of down in the dumps or they've had a bad turn in their careers, is that they also have the power to change their stars and, you know, make things happen.

So good for him, Luke, but he's going to have no problem as a minus 355 favorite against Paul Craig, correct? Yeah, I mean, the thing is, Bukowski is definitely better this run. No question about it. It's just that Paul Craig's striking defense is, you know, just not where it needs to be. And obviously, he's extremely clever on the ground. But I would imagine, you would think that Bukowski's, of course, knows this and has trained around. it, you know, in the event that he pulls guard and the event that he wraps an overhook and pulls guard or, you know, whatever, leg entanglements or whatever, you would imagine that

they've got a kind of plan for that, and he's going to have to slug it out. And if he has to slug it out, I definitely would pick Bukowskis over Craig, for sure. So just to kind of a test exactly, not of Bukakis' upside B.C., but definitely, like, has, you know, to what extent can he shore up the bottom, right? Can he make sure his defensive responsibilities are exactly where they need to be when they need to be. And that's not nothing. It's actually pretty important, but it's a doable task for him. Yeah, he's coming off that split decision win over Ivan Kuaywana. He's beating Tyson Pedro. He's subbed out prokneo, but hasn't had a real standout win. Paul Craig's got a good name and the odds are against him here.

Luke, I wanted to go a little bit down on the prelim just to bring this up. We know UFC badly needs heavyweight bodies. And at age 35, former 22, PFL heavyweight tournament champ ante deletia is here for his UFC debut he's got a six foot five frame a 25 and six record and ko wins over yorgan de castro henan faheda matthias shuffle twice and has decision wins over ufc vet maurice green and dennis goitsov is he a threat to the division in your eyes as he enters his debut in a rematch against marchine tibera or is he just another body here at heavyweight. And by the way, Tibera scored a TKO via leg injury against Deleesia back in 2015. Threat to the division, I don't know. He's certainly massively improved relative to what he was

even just a few years ago. Tibera is relatively old at 39 years of age. That doesn't help him necessarily. But, you know, Tibora is one of these guys where it's like definitely, here's what I would say that this matchup means to me, B.C. It's not really a question, at least at this point about exactly where DeLea fits into the division other than to say, hey, if you can't beat Taibora, you know, not that he's some kind of bum, but if you can't beat him, it's just hard to believe you can really go far in this division. By contrast, if you can get past a guy like Taibora, it at least puts you into more interesting matchmaking scenarios, right? So getting past him is a pretty important litmus test. This is a good gauge to see, you know,

what kind of heavyweight are you going to be? What can you be for? us. What did the PFL run really do for you? We're going to get a pretty good answer as a consequence. Tibera has value in that way. Yeah, if you don't, if you want to ante up with a little more information, here is the new UFC correlation heavyweight. Hello, I'm UFC Harriet Antedalia. My professional record is 25 events and the six wolves fight. I'm first to start training in my bone channel in Dubrovnik. After I come to Zagreb training with Mirko Krook Cup is MMA legend and Kalyan. Last year's and half training in England with Tom Aspinall and the Espion, Mick

Parkin, Pink DeFries and Modest. Croatia is a small country, just 4 million people and no too much fighters in the UFC. I am fighting in the UFC and my friend Ivan Erson also fight just two fighters and everybody, people from the Balkan give support. I'm in my prime and I think I'm in this fight. I gave my blood, my life, so everything gives way furthering. My wife, Luke, this is a pick-um, according to Draft Kings. A minus 108 to Tibera, minus 112 to the slight, slight favorite.

Delia, let me get that right, just like the band comedian, Luke, Chris DeLia. This guy's anti. For our luck, though, he's probably going to get subbed out by Tibera, and we have no one else in Heavyweight, right? It's not looking great. It would be nice to see DeLia win, not because I have anything against Tibera. specifically, but we definitely, I mean, you would agree. I think most people watching would agree.

Some new blood, some exciting, you know, names in there would be great. One thing to keep in mind, BC, one thing to keep in mind, remember, we had Martin Boudai, Boudet, who was seven and one in the UFC, and UFC was like, yeah, get to step in. We don't care. You know, it's not real, I mean, yes, winning is critical. Like, if you don't win, then forget it. But it turns out at heavyweight, you know, they want to see people who can get the crowd on their feet a little bit. And there's been times DeLea's been able to do that. But against

Taibora, it's, you know, unless you're really good, that's going to be kind of tough to do. So, you know, this is what I mean, like, heavy weight is not in a great place. But the matchmaking here, I can see some of the thought that went into it from the matchmakers. And there is, there is a fair amount of sense that goes into it. I understand. Yeah. The other fight I have circled on the deep undercard, then I'll ask you your opinions of what else we got here, is this, It's borderline the curtain jerker, but Welterweight's Andreas Gustafsson of Bain fame and Rina Fakhretnanov are going to bang. You got Gustafsson as a minus 122 Fokkrettonov.

If you remember Gustafsson's debut, he had like the satanic tattoos and he also. Well, I don't know if they were satanic. They were something else. And he also just beat down and gassed out Chaos Williams to get the win. He's got, there were a lot of videos I could have picked from here, Luke, including one in which he went off on Liver King aggressively. But instead, here is the very controversial Bain Gustafsson telling us why Sean Strickland is actually a prophet.

I really like Sean. He's funny. He's, I agree with many things he stands for. So I really like him. And I think he's right. Actually, maybe not everything, but anything he stands for is right. When you talk about men, to be a man, you need to know how to protect your family and you need to know how to be violent.

You don't have to be a violent person, but you need to know how to fight and how to protect your love. That's how a man should be, not just go out in the street and fight, but if somebody threatens you, you got to know how to eliminate them. Luke, your thoughts? What do you want me to say, bro? What do you want me to say? I mean, I don't know. Would he fish with a pre-meth Hitler? Probably, Luke, you know what I mean? Probably, but whatever. Probably with a, you know, fishing pre-meth would be quite acceptable. I don't know what you want me to say.

They're going to bang, by the way, and that's just hilarious commentary on Sean Strickland, by the way. Luke, what else we got on this undercard that is making your eyes open? Well, as we mentioned, I think it was on Tuesday, or maybe I don't know when we've talked about it, but like, you know, the, the Kaita fight being off is with Pitbull's a freaking bummer. But I'm going to remind people that there are some other signings on this one. Antidalea is one, like a great kind of signing from PFL. that they got. I mentioned it previously against, I will say Rise, but you corrected me correctly. It is Reese, Reese McKee. Taking on Axel Sola, Axel Sola out of Ares. Also, I want to put some respect on the name of Harry Hardwick coming from Cage Warriors, a good signing going against, I don't have pronounced a dude's first name, Cal K Fernandez. Please forgive me

the pronunciation is a little bit wonky. BC, do I have this right? If Brad Tavares wins this weekend. He will surpass Michael Bisping's total amount of wins in the middleweight division for the most ever. Is that right? It could be. I have not heard that, but I have that right. The guy's been around

for plenty of minutes, Luke. You know what I mean? So he's the Jim Miller of Middleweight. I like that. Congratulations. Something like that. Something like that, yeah. All right. Long Island, Luke, you have any other thoughts to sprinkle on this card? I mean, it is a good, good-ass card. I'll say that all it is. It is. I just look, there's four

fights on the prelims that are like under minus 200 or closer range. So like very good value on this card. Umar C taken on Brentson Habero. I mean, Brentson Habero throws down. He's probably going to get got, but you know, we'll see what happens there. Sam Patterson taking on Trey Waters. Sam Patterson likes to get the submissions. Trey Waters likes to get knockout, a little strike reverse grappler. We'll see what happens there. I mean, it could be fun. It'll be fun. It'll be fun. Tuning in, guys. All right. You, you, uh, yeah, you got me fired up there. Maybe I'll tune in to the main card minute with you and Gaffney, Jim over there. Join us, B.C.

What did you say to me? I said, join us. Yeah, yeah. 3 p.m. Eastern Main Card, by the way, the UFC Paris tomorrow. Good shit right there. Let's go to topic number three. We are exactly eight days out from the big one. It airs live on Netflix Saturday, September 13th, Canelo, Crawford, the undisputed super

middleweight championship. So as we continue to get you fired up for this one, I've concocted five fill in the blank questions for Luke Thomas to stir up some chatter about this. We know the names at stake. We know what they're fighting for. We know everything here. Apparently Netflix is about to roll out a couple

episode, Primer, documentary series to get us fired up for this. So fill in the blank time, Canello Crawford, number one, Luke Thomas. Should Terrence Crawford pull the upset next Saturday? It will most likely be, because of blank and this can be any factor yes what do you think will be the leading cause of Crawford getting the job done in this very close fight on paper how do I answer this

it's a great question my boxing answer is going to be Crawford's movement and angling. Angles in particular, less so just pure movement, but angles, using his feet and using superior angles and footwork to make Canelo play catch-up as he turns him. Right? That's going to be my boxing answer. But my real answer, B.C., I mean, that's sort of a more technical answer, obviously. My real answer is going to be, you know, if Canello, or I should say, if Crawford pulls the upset, it's going to be because, of Canello's hubris.

You know what I mean? Canello is at the stage of his career where he's taking what he thinks are, obviously this is a huge pay opportunity, right? But, you know, he's not in it at this stage to risk losing to people he thinks he actually has to risk losing to. And I don't think he has taken a fight in quite some time that makes you think otherwise. So I think he believes that Crawford, and with good reason, B.C., it's not like a crazy thought.

Yeah, Crawford's good, but he's quite, relatively speaking, quite old, older than Canello. Who has more miles as somewhat of a different debate, but, you know, older than Canello. And the weight class jump is insane. B.C., someone brought this up to me. Now, the comparison doesn't quite work, okay? But someone brought this up to me on my live chat. Ilya Teporia did fight at 35 once. He tried to do it a second time and missed weight, but he did make 35.

And if you think about it, if he fought Islam at 70, that would almost be, to a degree, somebody who's gone 35 to 70. But, of course, there's a couple problems with that, not least of which is, yes, Toporia technically made 35, but he didn't have any sustained campaign down there. Bud did, right? Bud was a champion at that weight class. But it goes to show that, like, look at what Bud is attempting. Yes, he's gone to 54. He had the fight against Madrimov. he looked fine to good, but not great, but he looked fine to good. You know, and now this is two more weight classes above it.

I mean, think about that, B.C. If I asked you a question, who at 35 in the UFC do you think could get a belt at 170, either now or ever? Who would that be? Damn. Right? You know what I'm saying? It's tough.

That's tough. That's a tough thing to answer. Like, look at what Bud Crawford is up against. very difficult circumstances. So, you know, I don't, Canelo should win this fight. He should win this fight. Crawford will be 38 has fought just once in the last two years.

That was at 154, a close title capture against Israel Madrimov, but it's a virtual in some ways three division leap against a Canello at 35, who has been very active as we look at the draft king's odds at this moment. This is wild that it's this close. It really is. Canello minus 180, Crawford plus 145. I mean, there's a lot of respect being given to Zoe's backside and Crawford's chances in this fight on that line. Let's go to number two on fill in the blank.

Defeating Terrence Crawford would rank as the blank biggest win in Canello's career. And let me hedge this by saying I asked a similar question to Rafe Bartholomey yesterday on Inside the Box. And he made an argument that because of Crawford's class, this is the biggest potential win in Canello's history. I didn't agree with that, Luke. I didn't agree with that. You got to go glock and too. How was that bigger than the second triple G fight?

That's what I'm saying. But I get the argument at least. It's a hipster argument, but I get it. But really is that dude on Canello's resume in a lot of ways. Um, wow. Yeah. I don't know, man. I like that, dude, the, the original campaign that he went on at 68, I mean, is Caleb Plant the same kind of fighter as Bud Crawford?

No, but the campaign he went on, you know, beating Billy Joe Saunders and Callum Smith and, and then, you know, we were there in Vegas when he beat Caleb Plant and whatnot, like, and then Kovalev and it's a cold of a 75, but, you know, still, that's a tough. tough one man um i agree that if you're talking about hey what are the best pound for pound guys if canela wins where would bud rank and yeah like pure pound for pound but is maybe the most decorated but because of the weight difference bc i don't know where to put him i honestly i just here's what i would say i definitely cannot rank it above the second triple g fight i can't do that i can't i think it would get more value if cross offered turns out to be super competitive in it and it's this thriller right then you're like okay that raises the value but if i'm gonna right now as we speak on friday september 5th i'm leaning canello

here by decision and feel firmly confident in that um i would have to go triple g number two as his biggest win beating miguel koto for the middleweight title you know seven rounds to five being a second biggest uh you can throw in the knockout of covalve those are probably the three i put in there because, you know, that was him moving up to 175. Obviously, he's lost to greatness in Floyd and Beavall, but it's a hard thing to answer because of that fact. Crawford may end up being literally the best guy he ever beat in terms of the performance, but he's also 38 and hasn't fallen. It gets wild, Luke.

It's a real. What if Crawford gets washed? You know what I mean? Then it's hard to know, like, what value this has at all. I mean, obviously you have some, but it's tough to, tough to categorize. Yeah, I'm with you on that. All right, let's go to number three here on fill in the blank. Canelo Crawford debuting here for Zufa boxing,

being on Netflix without an upcharge. Inside Allegiance Stadium, two legends. Is the biggest fight in boxing sense? Blank. It's a hard one also to answer, by the way. It is because there's other... You're talking about the biggest fight. So it's...

I mean, it's definitely the, okay, at a bare minimum, it's the biggest sense better be a Bival too, right? Bare minimum. Oh, God, yeah. I mean, yeah, again, bare minimum. My knee jerk is to go all the way back to Mayweather McGregor, to be honest with you. That's my knee jerk, but then I'm like, then you have to kind of think about was. Is that true?

I don't know how true that is. I mean, was Fury Usik in a stadium bigger? What do you do with Tyson Paul? Like this is why it's hard to really answer right now. Until we've seen the fight and we can measure it, it's very difficult to know. I'm going to say Fury Usoc. Okay. I'm going to say Fury Usoc.

It's the biggest fight to me since then. That was a huge fight, not stateside, obviously, but, well, I mean, it was a big fight here in a sense, but you know what I mean? Like it wasn't, it didn't take place here. Yeah, I'm going to go that one. I mean, could it get to a place where it has this massive cultural impact in the way that Mayweather and McGregor, did. I don't think so. It sounds like I'm shitting on it. And I want to be clear, I'm absolutely not

shitting on this fight. Like, it's going to be big. It's going to be a spectacle. But we've already kind of said that it's probably the case that Jake Paul versus Dravante Davis is going to be bigger. And dude, I hate to say this because that fight sucked the backside of my my butthole. But I'm sorry to tell you, Jake Paul versus Mike Tyson, if we're asking how big an event was. That's the wild card part of the question to me. Right? That was a big, I mean, dude, I remember going to my, like, the local neighborhood restaurant where I live and then sitting down and then hearing people in my orbit talk about it. I was like, holy shit, this fight is fucking huge.

So honestly, that's probably the right answer, even though I hate to even put that in the conversation because of what it was. All right. If we remove the attraction fights like May Mack and Tyson Paul, I wonder. if you're you're really looking at is it the biggest sense triple G Canelo 2 or Tank versus Ryan we got to remember too you know what I mean

Or just Yeah that was a big one That was a big one But there were some heavyweight ones along that way involving Fury Ousey I remember Fury Wilder 2 and 3 were massive too But this one is The question is if you take out

If you take out the Jake Paul side shows And you ask What's the biggest boxing fight um you know since you know or are to to answer the question that you're putting what was the

what was the last time that asked the question again how are you how did you phrase it so this is the biggest fight since what since what but imagine we said biggest fight that took place in the US right yeah yeah then you can start to

to carve it to be spence Crawford yeah I think it's it's bigger than that in every category I do okay yeah I mean that's what we're talking about like it's something around something like that great stuff here let's go to number four on fill in the blank from age to size to inactivity the biggest disadvantage on fight night that crawford will be up against when he fights canello is what because those are maybe the three biggest things going against crawford in this

fight the fact that he's 38 the fact that he's basically a welterweight and the fact that he's fought once in two years um size size has got to be the answer for me i think that bud has the inactivity clearly doesn't help um at the same time i do think generally speaking but has not taken an enormous amount of damage in his career and has generally speaking taken very good care of his body um just as a professional athlete during camps after camps during the course of his professional career. So to me, those are limiting factors, but you're asking about the biggest one. The reality for me is the size. I mean, he is, this one, I mean, I've said it a million times. I sound like a broken record. But like, you know, if, if Bud and Conno, I mean, I realize they're going to be

the same size on fight night or whatever, certainly way in day anyway. But if they were naturally the same size, I would pick Bud 10 times out of 10. I think he's a much more skilled boxer than Canello, even though Conello was obviously in his prime, very, very skilled, but that weight difference. And again, one more time, it's not just like what kind of power Canelo can't unleash. And we know he's got dynamite power. His power carries up another weight class beyond him, not fully, but it hasn't against the sort of an over-the-hill covalib.

But the issue for me is BC, dude, Canello has a fucking rock chin. He's got a legendary chin. Maybe the best chin I've seen during the course of my like watching boxing. you know, guys who were contemporaries during my time. That's a tough thing to beat. And BC, then it gets to another problem that you have, which is how many times have you seen Canelo in a fight where you were sure he was down on the scorecards and then they read the decision and it's Canelo gets another win.

And this is why Bud has such a difficult problem. You're going against the guy, several weight classes above you who's got an all-time chin and also is a darling to the judges. dude that's a very difficult guy to be it is luckily bud is one of one and we're all under the agreement that if anybody can do it it is bud bud i do love that he's leaning into i'm not going to come in here as a welterweight or a junior middleweight i'm going to bulk up he seems to be a taller than canelo and look here's some video of him 10 days out working out and a lot of people talking about if this is what super middleweight bud looks like we know he's got that

like natural amateur wrestling strength, too, Luke. I wonder if he's got ideas of kind of doing what Andre Ward did against Kovalev, which is try to get inside and bully the bigger man. I mean, it's kind of what Kinello did to Kovlev, too, as well. It's interesting. Yes, it could happen. I tend to think he's going to kind of play on the outside a little bit, but we'll see. Here's a video from the Netflix documentary series that's, I think, out now about

Crawford talking about putting on the muscle and moving up and wait. While training camps are typically grounded in familiar routines and rhythms, the 42nd fight of Bud Crawford's career presents a sizable new challenge. He's moving up two weight classes, from 154 pounds to the super middleweight limit of 168, which means, among other things, in Canelo Alvarez, he'll be facing the heaviest opponent of his career. And likely so, the hardest punches, too. Yep, yep, yep, step off. We got a big-ass challenge under us. Step off. That's what makes fighters great when they go out and get the biggest challenges they can get.

Punch, cats, go. Don't let anyone tell you that the weight doesn't matter. It makes this a monumental accomplishment for Crawford. Putting on muscle don't actually mean that you're going to be slower, but you punch a little harder. He is willing to take a risk. This is literally uncharted territories for Terran Skorke. Look, that makes you want to believe he's going to fight Canello, not boxing, fight him.

Sounds like it makes you want to believe that. It does. It does. I love storylines. Here's a little Lego promo that they got, too. The things are finally picking up. I hope that was enough to sell Tuki on it, probably not.

All right. Our final question here on fill in the blank. Tyson versus Paul last October did 65 million concurrent viewers on Netflix, Insanity. Canelo Crawford will do blank from the standpoint of concurrent viewers during the main event. Somewhere around half of that.

Which is still massive, dude. Even if you have 30, let's say you have 32, 33 concurrent viewer, million concurrent viewers. Dude, that's, you know, you're talking like an NFL game or a big time NFL game. Like that's a huge audience. I don't think folks realize how big that. is for combat sports for a fight that's why this is what i'm saying the paul tyson thing is like

clearly the answer to the question you would ask again we it's a sideshow bullshit ass fight we all know is in fact it soured me so greatly on anything jake paul related but it did have a massive massive audience i just think it's deeply unrealistic is canello a big star of course is netflix a powerhouse platform of course is tk o giving it you know some level of a good push here yes i mean You could quibble with some of it, but, you know, they're not doing nothing. But the problem is, you know, I don't know how big of a Star Crawford is. And BC, one criticism you can make is that, you know, he beats Spence in this, like, insanely spectacular performance and then didn't really capitalize on the fame that was supposed to come from that.

He did some interviews. He did a little bit to get his name out there again, certainly. But, you know, you would have thought he would have, like, fought Charlo right after that or something like that. And that didn't really happen. And so he's just not as much. of a star do Jake Paul you can like him or you can hate him and believe me I don't have any love for him but he's not people think he's like oh he's irrelevant and not popular I'm sorry to tell you he's arguably America's most popular boxer um and you know but Crawford is not you know

but Crawford is like obviously eight gazillion times better than him but you know I don't know what the ingredient would be oh it's a more legitimate guy versus a more legitimate guy cool that's great but this is a star power business and star power is what determines what kind of audience are going to get yeah indeed uh one final note here interesting video from tim bradley i mean i feel like a lot of the experts it's still split but i feel like a lot of the experts are picking canello but the fighters are continuously name after name picking bud and here's tim bradley putting the exclamation point on it Netflix listen up when he when this man get the knockout because he's going to knock out canello arvarez when he get the knock out

Don't forget Miss Deborah, get that shimmy dance, get that dance from Miss Deborah, get the camera, get the family on camera, yo, so we can document this because this is going to be one of the greatest performances you've been ever witnessed in sport of boxing by Terrence Bud Crawford, knocking out somebody that's been in the ring with some of the heaviest punches in the game. Heavyest punches. Triple G is legendary. Then put a din in Conello. Now just watch what Crawford does to his body. Behind. Yeah, y'all talk about thudding power from Canello. What about sharp power and timing like a manny Packow has? Yeah, y'all don't know nothing about there. It's a huge difference. That sharp power where it sting you for a man momentarily and that follow-up shot comes and come sweeping and knock your behind out. That's Bud Crawford. And you know he can turn it on when he want to turn it on. He can turn it off and he can turn it on. Canello ain't got that in him. He ain't got that in him. Yeah. He ain't knocked nobody out in four years. Four years, he ain't knocked nobody out. You expect him to go in there and knock out the best fighting in the world, the most skillful fight in the world because you think he's small? Hell no.

It's not about the size of the dog. It's about the size of the fight in the dog. Don't ever forget that. Anyways, that's my time, and I'm out. I like, he's like, that's my time. This is what people used to say when they would have long rants on my, when they would call in on my radio show. But anyway, you know what I mean?

He's like, he's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, Tim from Santa Rosa. What you got? All right. Here's what I got to say. First time, long time. Yeah. Luke, that's aggressive. I mean, even Sugar Ray Leonard, which is one of the comparisons you can make for what

Bud's doing. Ray moved up one way class, but it was after a three and a half year retirement and he beat the best middle weight of all time. And Hagler, he didn't knock him out, though. You know what I'm saying? Like, like, that's, that's, that's wild. Also, also not for nothing, but you can score that fight for Hagler, too, right? True.

but like is there anything to the quick sharp punches here i i understand how knockouts work it's not who hits the hardest it's who hits you perfectly on the chin when momentum's not going your way i mean i mean just ask yourself a question right so like who's had success against canello okay for i mean you could argue the second triple g fight but just to make it clearer first triple g fight you could point to yes is that something that bud can do does he have that kind of thudding power to press him like that. I don't know. And then you could point to, for example, Bivall, Bivall kind of worked him over, but Bivol was able like with, you know, yes, he was firing accurately and off timing, but dude, he had power to press. I mean, I remember there was times where Canello was like up against

the ropes, just getting kind of battered. And it's like, I don't think, I don't think, Bud can do that. So what way does Bud have to win? And I'm not arguing he can't really want. I want to be clear. I think Connello should win. I really hope Bud does. But he's going to have to beat Canello. It seems like BC in a way that no one else who's had success against Canello has done. Yeah, let's see. This is what greatness is all about. We're going to find out.

Let's go to topic number four. Quick little boxing news and notes segment. Luke, we might as well mention it overnight. Something called CSI Sports has announced that Lloyd Mayweather and Mike Tyson are now going to have an exhibition. There's no network. There's no date. but it's signed for spring of 26 what are we doing here dude bro i mean i don't even know what to say i suppose this is inevitable right isn't this the natural conclusion of where all this has been

headed yeah it's just recycling old names into like meaningless stunts for publicity that you know uh have some kind of sizzle to like for people who have like a romanticized idea about what they could be or what those guys still represent but we all know it's going to be the worst thing we've ever seen dude fucking tyson look terrible against jake paul and i realize that floyd is much smaller and also much older but like who gives a shit you know like i mean it just is it's see dude and especially like you know we're just looking around like what are the big fights being made in the u.s it's shit like this you know i feel like they're they're just used that announcement as an advertisement to try to get a tv provider or somebody to pay for it

They didn't announce what it was going to be. I did notice that. Nor location, nor a date, you know. And look, the thing, the one thing about Tyson Paul was, on paper, it was a real fight and not an exhibition. Now, in hindsight, that's ridiculous and disgusting. But that was part of the thing holding together that, like, train wreck element of Tyson coming back. He was also fighting like a novice boxer. I mean, this is just like, oh, actually, yeah, I mean, no, no.

All right, Luke, rapid fire here. lightweights Esauk Pipple crews and Lamont Roach Jr. are reportedly in talks for a possible December showdown in Englewood, California. Is that the right step for Roach now that the tank rematch has dissolved? I mean, if he wants to do relevant, interesting stuff, this would be at 35, correct? I believe so, yes. Then this is who you got to fight. I love the fight. I wonder if Lamont has bit off more than he can chew because, yes, Tank beat Pitbull and arguably Lamont beat Tank and so you could play a little bit of math, but you got to have real, go back and watch how Tank beat Pitbull, you know, there's a lot of ringcraft. He basically solved him, but was on the

back foot turning, turning, turning, turning, and, you know, was just kind of out striking him by sort of clever boxing. Pitbull is when he's come forward, you know, you love him for it, when he's like, you know, Mexican in your face downhill kind of marchers, the ones that we all, like the five fans love. And if you don't know how to handle that, that can be overwhelming. It takes real skill to do that. And I do think Lamont is skilled, but it's going to test him. That's a big, like, Pipple's a big test.

Now, he's been battered a little bit since the tank fight. So I love the fight, but it's, it's a bit of a nail bit of a nail biter for those of us here in the D.C. area. Yeah, I'd love to see that fight. Also, Shakur Stevenson reportedly in talks about moving up to 140 to challenge for Teo Fimo Lopez Jr.'s WBO title. It would top a January supercard, which boxing scene reported, is being planned by Turkey Al-A-Sheek. We all know Teo Fimo gets in and out of fight negotiations and then disappears of late. But, Luke, if that fight goes down, Shakur versus Teo at 140.

And Shakur has even said publicly, he'll do it in an 18-by-18 ring, if that's what it needs to be. Who would you favor from a betting standpoint of that? At 40? Yep. um maybe teo because of the size and i mean i think shakur would be naturally faster but could get overwhelmed as a consequence uh or not because of his speed because of the size disparity but that's an interesting one did you see shakur get real mad at friend of the show dan canobio for being like that fight would be a snoo fest and i saw andre ward get mad at that

conversation i didn't see shakur oh shakur got bitter at him too they he got because basically dan didn't say he hated the fight but then it would be just be kind of boring based on like you know styles make fights right and uh they didn't like that too much they got after him for it i'd love to see it look chikor's coming off a performance that you cannot call uh boring right what he did to william zepeda who was game in that fight and how he just stood in there and mixed it up dude i'm favoring chikor on paper in this one and i would love would love to see this fight uh stephen fulton junior is going to move up on that october 25th thurman Fondora, PBC pay-per-view, and challenge Oshaki Foster for a third title in a third division at 130 pounds. But at Wednesday's press conference, he said if he wins that fight, he's immediately going up to 1.35 to chase a fourth title. Luke, is this a good idea for Scooter? Jesus.

My hunch is to say no. I don't know if his game would translate up in the way that he imagines. Do you, I'm guessing you share that opinion, right? I have, I want to see first what he looks like at 130. Here's the face off between them. We can speak over it. But like he was, he felt small, even at Featherweight where he won the title in the rematch with Figueroa wearing the Tims.

But, you know, he does have great skill. I don't believe the power would carry up. He's not really known for being a power puncher, but it is interesting, ambition for a guy who has successfully rebounded from that disaster against Inouye. Also, Oshaki, obviously rebounding after being hurt by the judge's decisions and getting his belts back eventually, you know, can kind of play a little bit low volume. And I wonder if Fulton might be able to like sneak through as a consequence. That's an interesting matchup itself right there. Yeah, very good on this card. I don't know how many paper views will sell here, Luke,

but we will have an interesting main event with Thurman and Fondora. Here's the video of Thurman getting on the stool. You know what? God bless Keith Thurman trying to sell this fight. I mean that sincerely. Do PBC needs people who are going to get out there and do something to, you know, even if it's a small gesture. Because Fondora, as good as he is, B.C, he ain't that guy.

And Thurman is, you know, probably going to get, like, absolutely battered here. But he's trying to do his best to sell this thing as Fondora joins us from a time machine and it's set in the 1970s. I love this fight. I do. It's weird, but I kind of like it. Here's Thurman on what we can expect. You want a 12-round fight?

Huh? What do you want? Knockout. Huh? 12 rounds? You want a knock-out. Six-round fight. You want a six-round fight?

Or you want that Hagler Hurd, baby? You want two rounds of my fucking madness. We're one of us got to go. Because when two brids go toe to toe blow for blow, someone's got to fall down. Hashtag Timber! I'm telling you, man, this is just a warm up. I'm looking forward in this fight.

I'm looking forward to the height. You guys who got eight weeks of action, follow, tune in, stay. in stay glued because it's only going to get better as we get closer to october 25th thank you once again god he's working overtime i hope he doesn't get caoed luke because fundora's found a new groove and after that zoo rematch he's he's he's going to get i mean fundora you know i can't ever forget about the brian mendoza loss but in all likelihood he's going to splatter keitherman find out thurman's only lost to mattie packio on a split decision topic number five time we

a little MMA news and notes on a slow-ish week. But Ariel Hawani on his show did provide a lot of the news. First and foremost here, former UFC light heavyweight champion Alex Pereira, now admitting that he really was mad at the promotion and that his angry tweet was not hacked regarding the prospect of him getting skipped over for the Ankolaev rematch in favor of Yuri Prohatska.

Here is Poetan on the Hawani show talking about it. Was it true from your perspective that they tried to offer a yeary a fight against Ancolaev? Is that accurate? A little bit was miscommunication. So a little bit was miscommunication because Alex kind of found out through social media, stuff like that, and he was upset

back then. That's why he sent a Twitter. But he regret he was wrong because he didn't know talks that was going on, anything that was going on. So it was kind of miscommunication between camp manager and the UFC's, and all UFC's fault. So can we clear that up because you did send a tweet from your account and it seemed

like you were upset and then you took the tweet down? Can we clear up that that was him actually in the moment upset? Yeah, he just said that, actually. There's any of his position. 100% was lack of communication. It was a little bit impulsive from him. He acted a little early because he didn't talk to our manager. Like, you know what I mean?

Found out from Hunter. He saw the Internet stuff, and he felt a little bit hurt because he was promised to act out of shot, and then he sees that. Instead, you just have a more mutual communication between Camp, Hunter, and everything. So, yes, 100%, it's all straight up now. I like one guy's pushback against authority. And if he, it may have been impulsive, but if he felt like, hey, what else can I do to save all of your biggest cards of all time by coming in injured on short notice? Also, Luke McKenzie Dern in the same week, in the same show, revealing that she found out she was fighting for the title on Instagram.

So I think there are communication issues there. Yeah, I suspect that that could be tightened up a little bit. but the idea that you know all i was hacked and it was a very specific ufc related complaint you know i don't i think most of the audience probably realized that that there was not much to that yeah there you go uh luke rochold also came by the a h show and hinted at retirement from combat sports at age 40 yet then told ariel hawani he's willing to fight dylan dennis the two of them had a backstage melee at misfits 22 and rockold took it uh a lot more aggressively than we needed here let's listen i would fucking kill that kid i would

i would come back to fight that kid that's all right now you're back retirement's over with two hands behind my back i would fuck that kid in the ass fuck oh god uh that's a whole different type of fight geez hey i'll bring it i'll bring it i'll make it real dirty for that little swamp oh man swamp brat look rockel will become the first man to turn a man and a woman gay in like a one year period after that. I just want you to know. At times we've been the best of friends, at times we've been the worst of friends, but I've never had a

desire to sodomize you. I want to be very clear about that, okay? With my arms tied behind my back. With my arms tied behind my back. It's never ever once crossed my mind. I want to be clear. Good. All right. The biggest headlines probably came from the Rampage

Jackson sit down with Ariel where he announced he's actually cut off ties with his son, Raja Jackson, following that unfortunate pro wrestling debacle and the heavy assault, which is still being dealt with, here's Rampage talking. Are you at all worried about his well-being?

Yes, my son. I am worried about his well-being. How many kids you got? I got three. All right, so why are you asking some stupid-ass shit? Well, can I be real with you? Yeah. I can't imagine what it would feel like

to see my son do that. I also don't think I would cut my son off if he did that. So if you are worried about his well-being, why are you not talking to him? Because he just honored my name. But he's still your son. Listen, I know he's my fucking son. I'm not cutting him off forever. I just haven't talked to him.

But this is the worst moment of his life. He needs you now more than ever. Now, listen, I talked to him after this shit happened, and he hid the fact that he did this shit. and, you know, he put my other kids at danger based off what the other people said and I just can't talk to him right now. I just can't. I'm not saying I'm never going to talk to him again.

I just can't talk to him right now. I need some time. I'm dealing with his attorneys and all this shit, but I'm very disappointed in Roger. Like, yeah, I'm not a perfect parent, so I don't know what's the protocol to how much time you stop from talking to your son when he fucking goes out there

and hurt somebody he put a guy in a fucking hospital Luke I like talking about stuff like this as much as you like talking about MMA power couples or MMA power bottoms but is this the right move from a father's perspective I mean we're both dads

you have more kids than me I have one I don't know I mean dude what do you do can you imagine your son's doing anything like this you know and what that would do to you like it can't be easy but here's the thing about rampage that i just don't get it's like dude didn't he wasn't he streaming like the next day or like the day after he was streaming when it happened dude he was like okay okay but that's one thing and then you absorb the weight

of it and then you process it but then he was out like the next night bowling or some shit yeah i'm like i'm like dude take a fucking day off man like like you this is deadly serious, quite literally. You know, I would not wish this on any parent. I would not wish this on anybody. And, you know, I'll say this to BC and you can, you know, for folks who are not parents yet, it's harder than it looks. It's so many situations are crystal clear of what you should do. But it seems like almost an equal amount or maybe more. It's not exactly clear what the right choices and what you're doing is right and um you know how you navigate something with them especially something as insane as this well i'll tell you this much i don't love to hear that he's

not speaking to his kid i think raja has serious fucking issues that he needs to address clearly but i don't know how even if it's temporary excommunicating them gets you to a better place you know what i mean i'm with you on that it it is um i don't know if he's trying to protect his own name for marketing purposes for the future or if he feels betrayed by his son's action i mean it's just it's just a horrible awful situation and i mean it's attempted murder it really it really was um all right enough of that let's keep it going here uh bud crawford sat down with the full send podcast after net and yahoo was finished luke and uh he was asked an interesting question who do you watch in the ufc that you think my guy what's in

Toporius, Cody Garbrandt? Yeah, he, he the best, he the best UFC boxer. Have you seen Toporia? Have you seen his fights recently? Yeah, but I don't know, man. Cody got them hands. Not, but he, Cody's not, like, I'm not shitting on him, but he's not on the. But I'm saying, we're talking about straight boxing.

Straight boxing? Yeah, we ain't talking about nothing else. We're talking about straight boxing skills. I just think Cody got the best boxing skills, you know, and UFC. That's just my opinion. Wow, look, I thought he was going to say best boxing skills. face tattoos but um he has hands right i mean here's the thing it's not like like it's not like c c i kind of question what first of all how much tape has bud watched right i mean partly there's a

question there and yes it's like if you watch like if you watch cody move he's got good movement again relatively speaking for a ufc fighter and he's got good technical skill in that way but bc isn't part of what makes you like a good boxer the extent you to which you can leverage that to win fights yes you know what i mean yes like i so i don't does he mean like cody looks most like a boxer when he's shadow boxing or probably because he does have that movements he's got some highlight real one punch chaos that's that's that's a i i couldn't i mean and obviously bud knows fucking way more about boxing than us two idiots i'm just saying it's a little hard for me to under i don't know what what like set of tape he's looking at to make that determination you know

Luke Anderson Silva in the news as the UFC antitrust lawsuit payouts continue to fill up the direct deposit holes of these ex-fighters. And we found out that the lowest payout from the settlement was 16,138 and 45 cents. But the highest payout was $10,334,240. And it went to the spider Anderson Silva. do you like in this case that the most money goes to the guys that already made the most money? Is that the fair way to do this?

Yes, those guys got cheated the most. Yeah, I guess you're right. Yes. Yes. First of all, I have to say, like, now that the money is being handed out, obviously this was true before, but now that the money is being handed out, like, dude, those fighters who fought this for 10 years

to get people paid, people owe them a debt of gratitude. Yeah. I just think that's a fact. People owe them a debt of gratitude. Second of all, a lot of people want to say, oh well didn't the spider make millions before yes yes he did of course uh but the question is not did he make millions the question is relative to what he generated how much was he compensated and that's

why he's getting this big fat check because there is a gap there is a gap dude a 10.3 million dollar check i mean he didn't make that to fight jake paul you know what i'm saying there's no way he made that kind of money he probably made closer to the five to seven million range which is still you know pretty significant but um dude 10.3 million at this age in his life Good for him, dude. Good for him. He earned it. That will go very far.

You got to feel happy for him, and I certainly do. Yeah, red panty night in the Silva house. Yeah, no kidding. And he didn't have to do anything extra to get it. I mean, that's fantastic. Well done right there. Finally, Luke, coming off of his first pro defeat against RDR, Bo Nickel has agreed to his next fight.

USC 322 MSG in November against Hodolfo Vieira. Is this the right matchmaking? to give Bo a chance to get back on track? Sort of. I mean, the thing is this is like, does Bo want to take down Hidalpho Vieira, who has not turned out to be the MMA fighter that he was in terms of like how he was one of the best grapplers

of the 2010s, right? I mean, just an insane level of achievement, highly technical, built like a brick shit house, you know, the whole nine yards, but then his MMA career has not been as great. But if he's got skills, B, C, they're on the floor, like his, you know, in general,

that's where he's going to win. And so, like, now nickel's going to have. It's funny, right? You see, they gave him Paul Craig, and now they're giving him Hidalpho Vieira. It's almost like they want him to work on his striking. You know what I mean? Yeah. Like they're telling him, get better at that shit.

And he's, you know, listen, everybody, including me, piled on Bo Nicol after he lost. But this is his chance to shut me and everybody else up about what he's been working on, dialing in, getting better. And this is a good chance against the guy. guy who is not like, I mean, he's very vulnerable in the standup. So if Bo Nickel has been working on stuff, this is a good, I kind of like the matchmaking, to be honest with you. Yeah, I'm not against it. I'm interested. That's another sort of interesting feature fight to add to a huge pay-per-view. I'm down. The final thing I want to mention is I found the quote

from Patricio Pipple reacting to Kaita missing weight and this fight getting canceled. Patricio said, I'm absolutely sure he didn't try going to the bathtub to cut more. There's plenty of ways to try. he was surrounded by kids there was no one older to put him in place and say stay there go make wait at 9 a.m. he weighed in he was over and instead of trying until 11 a.m., which is the limit, he was eating baby food. Fuck you, man. If you want to blame anyone, blame my opponent. Black Panther. He's more like Fat Panther. End quote. That's great. That's just great stuff right there. All right. Those are our five topics for this week. Now we'll transition into some fan segments. and the way to get in our holes inbox-wise is to email us at morningcombat at gmail.com.

Mikey is on the other end for your dead wrongs, your fan subs, your complaints, or if you need a friend, Mikey's there, show them your private parts. Our first segment is where we take the stand for some bullshit we said, but you better have receipts and you better man up. This one's called Dead Wrong. Oh-ha from Hawaii, Luke, it's Das, baby. Back up on that ass and give these motherfuckers a blast from the past. Das says that 15620 of Monday show during BC's feces.

He mentioned that Deshawn Jackson getting anesthesia for a back tattoo to which L.T. mentions, quote, the wide receiver. I thought I said Deshawn Watson. That's what I thought I said. Did I say the wrong name? Well, that's what I didn't understand because Deshawn Jackson was the wide receiver. Oh, maybe I said, I meant to say Watson. Maybe I said Jackson because my brain is failing me. And then BC responded with the QB.

Both LT and BC were close, but no cigar. The NFL player in the video was Deshawn Watson, Cleveland Brown's quarterback, not Deshawn Jackson, retired wide receiver. As always, appreciate all the content on MK, BCX, LT, main card minute, one more round, and the JBR podcast. Wow, shout out the San Diego. Dean's old balls. Sean Jackson, he played in Philly a long time, and he played here briefly in D.C.

as well, that's why I was like. Yeah, he was fast balls. Daz closes with L.T. I will be rooting for Jaden Daniels and the commanders, along with you. I've been a fan for 30 plus years. Dude. No way. Yeah, dude, season opener, 1 p.m. on Sunday.

I'm pretty pumped. Go scant. Go manders. Yeah, there you go. Our last dead wrong comes from, oh, I'll take the L. on that if I said Deshawn Jackson. I mean, I've been serving up L's left and right lately.

Here's Greg. He says on the September 2nd episode at 8 minutes, 30 seconds of the YouTube video, BC said Darren Till had lost six of his last seven UFC fights. This is slightly pedantic, but it is dead wrong. He actually lost only five of his last six.

Be that as it may, Rockhold was seeing darker visions than BC's liver when Till sent him to bed early. Okay. So Till had lost five of six, not six of seven. Two L's for your boy, B. Sizzle, that's the end of dead wrongs. Our final opportunity is for pretty much Saul to put pictures of himself wearing MK while he's out with his wife. And it's fantastic, right?

You also can see artwork. This one's called fan subs. You've got mail. Viewers. All right. Dave S is here. and he says, apparently my recent fan subs were deemed too controversial. Oh, this is Sandin, Luke.

So I decided to show off some pleasant pictures of some of my MK merch and whatnot. The first picture is me installing lights in my MK hoodie. It's fantastic quality and is perfect for work and outdoor activities. Also included as a picture of your number one canine, my dog, Shotri Sit Yacht Tong. Bro, look at that. He's got the MK sticker on the windshield. Oh, that's pretty badass. And lastly, our pictures of MK decals,

made for my mk side by side it gets used hard for work in place so i'm going to have to make new stickers soon dude on the four wheeler is my brother who i'm helping build his dream home Airbnb in colorado cheers i always appreciate the content that's god's country out there man yeah man look at sandine representing mk luke definitely definitely would have taken a ride on that train as we know but you know we can regret things right also the pooch looks pretty happy well done yeah shout out to shot tree the dog um there you go right there who tells the truth unlike most shot trees luke it's interesting uh our second one comes from luke and j it says greetings luke bc and l il from two washed english dads

luke and jay on top of a welsh mountain training for a 50 mile race here in november please don't ever pick us if you're going to visit donks in their natural environment because LT will proceed to complain about the British food and subsequently obliterate the commode came for Luke but I keep on coming for BC and he spelled it the gross way guy on the left kind of looks like Brendan Lynch yeah a little bit a little bit as he have jizzutes like him these are two Welsh dads or English dad sorry Luke and Jay on a Welsh mountain

well done guys well done gentlemen thank you for your support I greatly appreciate it. Yeah, look at those tats on that guy's leg. He's wearing the B.C. Thrill. Yeah, he's almost got a full sleeve on his leg there. Yeah, you think he gets the ass cheeks done like Sean Brady in your dream? To get the butt cheeks tattooed?

Yeah. Yeah, it doesn't look like it's made its way up there yet. But, you know. I mean, why not just get the whole shaft done, Luke, right? No. BC, I don't think having a full piece that extends past your belt line as an arbitrary line and doesn't flow with the body is the best way to do that. But, you know.

All right. We have one from Lazy Bed here from Just Bleed Radio fame. He says, Brian, what about all those burgers you ate? What bag, yeah, he mumbles from behind his beef and cheddar. I give you Brian Campbell from an alternative timeline where rather than finding combat sports, he found a 30% off employee discount at Arby's. Wow, dude. That is awesome.

Holy shit. That is amazing. I got to tell you, though, I got to tell you, do Arby's look like this these days? I don't know, but I kind of look handsome in that, in that like more white trash version of me, right? I want to be clear. You do not look handsome. I want to be clear.

I kind of look like a rock star, right? You kind of look like a roadie. What big. That's so good, lazy bed. Our fourth one comes from Evan. He says, do it for date. Watch out for turn four. Or do it for Dale.

watch out where the fuck is my uber driver taking me i don't get it it's dale earnhard on turn four at the 2001 day total 500 my god are you kidding me how did this one get i mean don't get me wrong i listen this is a place where we make fun of everybody including ourselves how did this one get past the north korean sensors that is wow wow i'm rarely shocked but uh this one did it we run a text thread about this one and it got approved by the sensors okay north korean sensors you know sometimes i i can predict me sometimes i can't oh my god that is so funny that was evident well done finally we have a

video from jonas who says the best part of the cnnnn interview with luke that the producers never had the guts to air. Everyone needs to lick my balls. Everyone needs to lick my balls. Yeah, that is so good. Wow. Have you seen how they'll do this? Like, so for example, the Cowboys traded away Michael Parsons, right?

It was a big trade. Someone will take this, whatever technology, I know it's AI, but I'm saying, whatever, whatever the specific program is that they do this, and they'll write a script for Jerry Jones. And it'll be like, Jerry Jones will be like, you know, the Micah, Micah Parsons was a cancer in this locker room. And if anybody knows anything about Dallas, only I can be a cancer in the locker room. And, you know, he talks about like taking drugs and begging whores. And it's, they put them out after every one of these like losses or big sporting events. They make me laugh. So, of course, this one made me laugh as well. That is very, very funny.

Well done. Those are fan subs. You can get yours on the air. If they pass the sensors by emailing us at morning combat at gmail.com. I can't tell you how many people email me being like, dude, why didn't you guys play my fan subs? And I'll be like, send it to me. And I'll be like, yeah, there's a good reason why we didn't do that. Well, we don't choose on Mikey filters them with the staff. But we have seen the ones that haven't been approved and they are out of control.

They are really just, wow, wow. But any cake lady one, I'm going to pop for, you know, when Luke and cake lady are married. Fuck you. How about that? Yeah, there you go. Long Island, Luke, got anything else to say today yes my episode of prop quiz dropping in 40 minutes with oscar and dennis and i'll be live in about 24 hours for full card ufc paris watchwalk join all right

you got some fresh bud for that hell yeah you know it okay you don't have fresh plans with your girl i know that's for the rest of the week lou come on okay uh reminder that our september merch exclusives are out there on morning combat dot shop get your black liver Society t-shirt and hoodie from the great artist we know as our average joe also cracker barrel luke on there with the mk logo and you can get your autographed until they last morning combat t mn t posters also we got evergreen items mix and match your colors it's all there for you at morning combat dot shop the best way to support the show all proceeds go to the three of us gentlemen right here luke thomas can you tell the people anything else about life live live

the pursuit of happiness? Well, pursuit of happiness has been a lifelong struggle, B.C., so I don't know how to answer that one. But what I can say is, if anyone knows what the fuck is wrong with my computer,

where I have like a blazing internet connection, but it just drops the shit and I don't know what's happening. Please email me, Luke Thomas News at gmail.com. My laptop held up, B.C., it held up. Hopefully everything holds up for tomorrow because I'm going to go live

at a bare minimum for the main and co-main, and I will be doing a post-fight show for UFC Paris as well tomorrow. tomorrow so coverage for that stay tuned follow us below like and subscribe the video uh this episode of morning combat has been brought to you by the way by draft kings and with draft kings the crown is yours we will be back monday in studio n yc with our boys ken and nadir what else you got i bought uh i'll be riding the new amtrak train on monday oh the the the one with the giant bathroom yes the one with the giant bathroom and i'm going to okay all right

Right. 11 a.m. Eastern morning combat will recap UFC Paris and continue to bang that drum for Canello Crawford. We'll both be in Vegas next Friday. So we'll figure out how to do a live show together right there. If you're in Vegas, say hi to us, but only from a comfortable distance for Luke Thomas, Luke Nocita, your boy, B.C., Zoe, Zoe the cat, come have a moment with me, right? Yeah, going to be the first one on that euthanasia list. don't bite don't play okay i'll hold that okay we're out of here that cat push on the face that's when you know you're about to get fucking smacked you know peace and everyone needs to lick my balls this is an i heart podcast