MORNING KOMBAT WITH LUKE THOMAS AND BRIAN CAMPBELL - Vegas Recap | UFC 276 | UFC Fight Night: Dos Anjos vs. Fiziev | Ep 319

Episode Date: July 7, 2022

On Episode 319 of Morning Kombat Luke and Brian recap a wild week in Las Vegas. The guys start by recapping their trip and UFC 276. Next up the guys discuss the biggest storylines heading into UFC Fight Night: Dos Anjos vs. Fiziev. The guys close out the show with Quick Hitters, HYSTS and Fan Subs. Morning Kombat’ is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, Castbox, Google Podcasts, Bullhorn and wherever else you listen to podcasts.    For more Combat Sports coverage subscribe here: youtube.com/MorningKombat   Follow our hosts on Twitter: @BCampbellCBS, @lthomasnews, @MorningKombat    For Morning Kombat gear visit:morning kombat.store   Follow our hosts on Instagram: @BrianCampbell, @lukethomasnews, @MorningKombat Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

it is Wednesday July 6 and don't worry, I'm completely sober. Hi, everyone. It's time for Morning Combat. I hope you're doing well. My name is Luke Thomas. I am one half of your hosting duo. I join you from the capital of the status unidos right here in Washington, D.C. I also joined by my friend to the left of me, I think to the right of your screen.

He's got a lot of names. One of them is hero in my book. He's the king of Connecticut. He's my friend in yours is Brian Campbell. What's up, BC? Finally, finally, you can call me Sully Sullenberger and let it not be a joke, Luke, because I landed the plane of that live show. Happy to hear you survived.

Here we go. We're back at it from our from our houses. But Luke, you know, it's hard to be in Vegas for six days, first of all. It's hard to exit Vegas after six days without some kind of receipt. I got a scratchy throat. I mean, my libido's dead. I mean, Luke, what else I got going for me? Thank you, Vegas.

I'm washed as shit, okay? Well, I always said I would be transparent, and I don't know if you can see this, but for the first time ever, I got a positive COVID test this morning. Oh, you are the father. Yeah, I am the father. That's right. I am the father of a botched Friday show, and I'm also a carrier of communicable diseases. For the record, I don't feel so bad at all. I have a cough and a little lethargic or whatever but knock on wood i don't feel so bad whatever i had in march i thought that was covid that was again thus far that was significantly worse than this so two thumbs up i'm here to do the show bc i hope you don't have covid but

can you catch covid from another man hugging you and then humping you from behind in front of a live crowd can that uh can that be a transaction area you know what youumping you from behind in front of a live crowd. Can that be a transactionary? You know what you can catch from that, BC? Feelings. That's what you can catch from that right there. Herpes. That's what you can catch. Matt herpes.

You can get Matt herpes and all kinds of stuff. We have a lot to do today, so we're going to recap Friday's show for all the good and all the bad. We'll get to as well. We do have some UFC 276 leftovers we have not gotten to yet as well. We're also going to look ahead to UFC Vegas 58 which is this weekend they're all of course they're Showtime Boxing this weekend as well plus maybe some Jake Paul news and by the way I think we're doing fan subs and have you seen

this shit today so a jam-packed show what's up BC yeah I was just wooing for the crowd there out of a little Wednesday have you seen this ish but Luke, in addition to all that shit, nobody hits you up with great bonus content like we do at YouTube dot com slash morning combat. You know, it's not just Luke. The live shows, the post fight analysis, which we did, by the way, after 276, if you want about an hour of that in our Iranian hostage room. Apparently, look, I don't know how that passed tech tests and channeling right there. But look, what we got right now, in addition to our interview with Josh Emmett, Featherweight contender on Room Service Diaries, which we took on the road. We're going to be unloading those in the next few weeks. That one was very timely news-wise, so please check that out.

How about, Luke, finally, High Court is Jon Jones the GOAT available now? And, you know, we got a pretty good response from this, Luke, after we've been keeping it on the shelf for a while. Yeah, yeah, people seem to like it. And don't forget, BC, I did do a little, you know, it's a no-frills podcast, but I did also do an extra credit that is also available. We talked a little bit about Cerrone, some of the prelim card stuff, some Dricus Duplice. But you're right, High Court was the big feature yesterday.

It's up. Me and BC debate. The dishonorable Chuck Mendenhall always lending his credibility, which we're ruining slowly over time. But it's a fun video just the same, so you can check that out. I love when the commenters are like, man, that could have been so fun, but if only BC had taken it seriously. I'm like, what kind of show do you think this is? I'm in a damn wig. It's called High Court.

I mean, it would have been better if they tried harder. God, I had no idea what that was going to look like months later. But luckily it was okay. It was okay. There's always room for improvement. But, you know, it's designed to be a little bit on the fun side. And hope you guys like it. If not, we will welcome your feedback just the same. Also want to remind folks, Showtime is the label that pays.

You're not going to see BC this weekend on Showtime Boxing. But there is Showtime Boxing back. You can go to Showtime.com, get a 30-day free trial. If you like it, keep it. If not, you can do whatever you want.com get a 30-day free trial if you like it keep it if not you can do whatever you want and bc the merch rolls on we got some new stuff coming out at morningcombat.store based on what rj dunkelkovid told us what are you most excited about you know this friday a merch item that i've been barking about wanting to see it on the website now granted i don't know what it looks like lu Luke. I'm going to see the design

hopefully later today, but we got new merch rolling out this week. Right now, morningcombat.store. You can look just like us. It's a low-T starter pack, Luke. You can get the dad hat. You can get the coffee mug, the whatever you need there. If you haven't been on our website in a while, go there.

morningcombat.store. We got the best merch in the game. That's it. Thin or thick, okay? We're the place to go. So check it out. You're going to like the way you look in it. I guarantee it.

I guarantee it. And, of course, morningcombat at gmail.com. That'll be for fan subs as we do them today, by the way, also for Dead Wrong. And, of course, by Friday's Dead Wrong, we're overdue for two weeks, so that bill is probably going to be real heavy. They're going to kill us.

But that is how that goes. MorningCombat at gmail.com. BC, you know what also is going to be very prevalent in our lives. Oh, sorry. Go ahead, buddy. What did I miss? I was going to say that normally after a trip out west, I'd be complaining about how bad the food in Vegas is.

And it is, Luke. But you took me off strip to one of those authentic places where the street workers go to eat before their shift, Luke. And I had, what else do I want, Charles? And it was just, you know, it was carnesada. And it was great. It was great, Luke. Are you doing a bit? I'm not ever sure what bit you're doing, but I have a feeling you're doing a bit. Skits and bits was great. It was great, Luke. Are you doing a bit? I'm not ever sure what bit you're doing,

but I have a feeling you're doing a bit. Skits and bits, Luke. All right. You borrow from those that are brilliant. In fairness, the place he's talking about is called Beer and Tacos. He's right. It's a couple miles off Strip. It's super good, sort of Tex-Mex food, not too expensive, services fast.

If you're ever in Vegas and you want to just get the hell off strip go to beer and tacos that's actually the name of the place so it was really you want to know where the where the strippers eat before their shift go to beer and tacos there you go all right i really hope i really hope the strippers don't go to beer and tacos before getting on the pole if you know what i'm saying um thank you uh bc i want to remind folks though that one thing i'm going to be hitting up now that i have uh the rona monster inside of me i'm gonna be hitting up some that vape stick or what the vape stick may or may i gotta dial that back a little bit i feel like but i will say this i will say this uh ag1 ag1 no matter what state you're in super healthy in the middle you got some work

to do to catch up and be normal again ag1 bc you know this as well as i do it's gonna do you right i mean i'm not only the hair club president with ag1 i'm also a client here inside this glass at work to do to catch up and be normal again. AG1, BC, you know this as well as I do. It's going to do you right. I mean, I'm not only the hair club president with AG1, I'm also a client here inside this glass at the moment. Here's the deal, Luke. One scoop a day. There's too many things you do that set yourself back physically, mentally, emotionally, if you will.

But how about taking something positive in the morning? I like it because it doesn't taste like medicine or super healthy, but it feels super healthy. Luke, that tropical taste. I wake up each morning craving it. I got to tell you, 75 high quality vitamins, minerals. You got whole food source, superfoods, probiotics, the works BC. And it's just one scoop. Simple to use.

And people always like, yo BC, what does it do though? Right? I'm like like how about supporting your gut health your nervous system your immune system your energy your recovery your focus your aging and hopefully soon luke after i talk to the proprietors your libido uh it's lifestyle friendly whether you eat keto paleo vegan dairy-free, it contains less than one gram of sugar, no GMOs, no nasty chemicals or artificial anything, while still tasting good. And, you know, take it on the

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there were plenty of negatives as well. And BC, I'll set it up just in that way and then pitch it over to you. My, my Sully Sullenberger friend helping out a friend in need. How do you want to start this conversation? What comes to top of mind first? Um, we did a live show on Friday.

We tried to one up what we did a year ago in las vegas for connor poirier way three we failed so we'll sit here you want dead wrong us on a wednesday we'll sit here and take the l uh you know true craftsman luke would dig a little bit deeper to find out why we failed which is what i hope to explain today along with you getting a chance to uh explain yourself to the people but before we do that great wizard, Jake the Documentarian, has sent us a little mashup of some of your greatest moments that he has for the doc from this show. We can get, if anyone that missed it can get a little taste of it.

Go ahead, Long Island Luke on the ones and twos. Thank you. Jake, where are you from, bud? Canada. Yo, fuck Jake. I'm feeling these margaritas, Brian Campbell. You may understand you grew up in Yuma? One race. Yeah, fuck Jake. I'm feeling these margaritas Brian Campbell. Yuma, ever since you grew up in Yuma? One race. Yeah, that sucks. Hey, can I get a prediction for the fight? Can I get a prediction for Max and Volk?

Hey, can I get my prediction for Max and Volk? I thought we were gonna be nice to our guests, but fuck him. Boo! Boo this man! Boo! People don't know this, Mike Bond is the ladies man. Bang your fans. That's what Mike Bond does Yo, fuck Mike Bond You can get back to Mike Boner Mike Bond, have you had a beer house by the way here in New York, New York Because you know, Luke, if you could chill for a second

Please, I'm supposed to be doing some drinking Alright, we can cut it now, it keeps going Uh, that was the wrong video actually That was sent in by a user who compiled all of your best moments i was talking about the other video the one i mix can we throw to that which pretty much encapsulates luke's uh luke's time uh atop the show yeah they don't have another video they're saying i mean you can air it on great production work by our team here. Great work here. There goes that one, Luke. All right.

Well, with those jokes painfully out of the way here, Luke, it was abrasive. It didn't really hit. Yes, there's a portion of our audience that are calling this just a shitstorm of success that's par for the course for this brand. And in some ways, boy, is it. In fact, the aforementioned Jake, Luke, you could agree with, has a lot to work with now in terms of the Doc 7 that he's currently compiling.

But Luke, how did we get here? You know, I think you panicked. Here's what the people don't know. We want to win. We want to win big. Right? You know, I think you panicked. Here's what the people don't know. All right? We want to win. We want to win big. Right? We had some tech issues.

No surprise, right? The history of the show. I couldn't pull off that well-executed joke I just had right there because we don't have the video, Luke. Okay? That happens in this show. In the end, everyone outside of the restaurant could hear us perfectly. Everyone going back to the bathroom or getting a drink could hear us perfectly. Unfortunately, the people who needed to hear each other perfectly couldn't. The crowd that was in attendance, hundreds of them. And by the way, Luke, they were

amazing. We can get to that in a second. Amazing. They couldn't hear us like every other word or every other sentence. And then Luke, on top of it, something you and I barked at during the show, I couldn't hear you for half of it. Often, I couldn't even hear the guy next to me, whether it's Bronsted or Rashad or, by the way, special thanks to Chuck Mendenhall and Mike Bone for showing up among many others. Jimmy Smith

stopped by and said hi. New Manza, Luke, was in the building as well. Joaquin Buckley was there? Yeah, he came up afterwards. But yeah, he pulled a Nate Diaz on aerial show type fly in at the last second. But Luke, I think because they couldn't hear us properly. And did we overcompensate and play to the house way more than we were playing to the, you know, 50,000 at home? I think yes, in the end.

Ideally, Luke, I wanted to give them the serious, intense breakdown of the fights, have real guests, and then completely go off the rails. I think because it looked like we were bombing, but in reality they couldn't hear us, we couldn't play off the crowd, we couldn't use the reaction of a joke as fuel to go into the next thing i think you may have panicked and went from zero to like pasty white girl drunk luke can we start there yeah and i don't i'm not here to pile on because look it's okay i'm not mad i'm not mad coming so you can do what you want i'm not mad because i've been that guy i've been that guy on this show right i've been

that guy a million times in my life, unfortunately, Luke, okay? I was mad we didn't deliver artistically to our goal. Yes. Yes, I was. But I think you may have panicked. How did you go, though, given your history of drinking, you know, different days, but, you know, 50-something to get you lit? Yeah.

You went from zero to Tasmanian Devil off of like off of like two margaritas Luke what happened it was the third one that set me over but yeah hardly a difference you're right I did panic so basically you you set it up correctly like for example Rashad was sitting in the middle of us if Rashad turned to BC I couldn't hear a word he was saying like nothing I could not uh I could not hear it at all in fact aaron bronstetter would look at me and he would like be yelling into the mic and i could barely hear him so what was happening was you were guiding it but there was the audience in an in behind us just wasn't reacting to anything and so i thought well this is a disaster and what the hell is going to happen

here so i rushed it to the part where we got into like crowd interactions, like the wheel or like the questions. But then that was one problem. Let me interrupt you to say, though, that we did have some big wins in that second half of the show. Yes, we did. So there were some definite wins. I mean, listen, here was the reality. I panicked a little bit because the audience behind... And also, it was really weird. I've never done a show where I'm directing to an audience that's actually behind me.

Every time I've done that at the Beer House, this is actually my fourth or fifth broadcast from there, I've done them with SiriusXM. So there's no video. So you face the audience that's in front of you, and then the audience that's listening on their car or their phone or whatever, they can hear you, and there's no difference. Here, there was an audience. We were talking to the cameras, and then there was another one we had to react to behind us.

And it was a little bit awkward for me. Then on top of it, I was totally mismanaging my alcohol intake and getting white girl wasted off of like five white claws in 10 minutes. And all of those factors compounded into what you saw there. Now, you did bring up that there were some wins. BC, I do think this is worth acknowledging. First of all, I want to say something to you. BC, you controlled that show, and it would have been significantly worse, but for you. So as your partner in this, I've already apologized to you personally, but on the air, I am sorry, dude. I really let you down. I let some

of the fans down. I acknowledge my role in it right up front. There's no denying that I contributed to how bad it was, and I'm the key contributor to how bad it was. Yes, we had tech issues, but I made it worse. There's just no denying it. So I apologize to you. Number one, I apologize to the staff who helped us out, whether they were beer house or whatever, whether they were Malka. Again, that was not the way it was supposed to go. And to what extent I had a role in that, which is a very large one. I apologize to them as well. And also to the fans at home, which I'm going to separate here a little bit to the fans at home, they were expecting something different. And again, I take full responsibility for that. I just didn't do a great job. I did quite a poor job and I made your job harder and it just

shouldn't have gone like that. What I will say is not so much in defense of me. This is actually more defensive. You number one, the fans in attendance, they did seem to like it. Dude, they stuck around a long time after that show was over and I didn't hear a single bad word. Dude, you had a line out the You had a Helwani-like line out the door. I took pictures. We did

hugs and hand pounds. A couple people cried. It was an amazing emotional time. Thank you to the fans that came out and shared their life story. Look, you had a line going all the way out to the mean, it was an amazing emotional time. Thank you to the fans that came out, shared their life story. Look, you had a line going all the way out to the arena, it seemed like, of people that just wanted a piece of you. Yeah, and so I tried to take a picture with every single one that asked, you know, and I just hung around. So none of those people complained to me. They all seemed to be pretty happy for whatever that's worth.

And perhaps most importantly, BC, and you know this as well as I do. So please, if I'm saying anything wrong, don't let it go unchallenged. But our understanding is that MGM loved it and can't wait to have us back. What have I said that's wrong that you feel like needs to be corrected? I mean, we can't go into the full details, but it was one of those, oh, crap, how many times do you think you can do this per year? You know what I mean? It was one of those type deals.

So we'll see. We'll see how we can build on it. Obviously, Luke, just from a fan user experience, they still got entertainment. To some people, that's how the show should be. It's legendary. It's Luke as, you know, Anchorman. You know what I mean? Whale's vagina there, San Diego.

What's the guy's name? You know what I'm talking about. I've actually never seen Anchorman. Ron Burgundy. Oh, at least once.. Oh, at least once. Come on, at least once. But we could do and will do so much better in the future on the road. You know, I mean, Luke, there was some debate beforehand.

Should this just be a live show for the live people in attendance? And I think it doesn't have to be. But I think in the future, sitting at at them making sure they can hear you playing off the crowd i don't think we can fail in that setting so uh it's only up from here luke okay we're gonna keep we're gonna keep keep so again i just want to be clear this will i will absolutely people like oh you're ever gonna drink on camera again fuckers i've been drinking on camera for 12 years i've only had one of these incidents so you know you're like i've been a closet drunk for a long time you guys just picking up on

it all right no no but i also i never hardly drink anymore i didn't have anything to eat that day before and it was dude it was just mismanagement for me from top to bottom you saved it there's no denying it i acknowledge it up front but i do think i do think i want to be i want to say one last thing yeah i am promising the fans i can't guarantee that it'll be a perfect show next time. But what I can guarantee is I, I will can and will do a significantly better job in many ways, not limited to probably going to dial back the drinking on air as it gets started. Right.

And you know, and we can always improve our segments and question writing and all that stuff. And we will, it was, it just, boy, did it go up in flames?

It did. But Luke, in your defense, I don't say this because I want some Barry Horowitz and going on, but we sold out last week. Some of the content you guys have already seen and you've enjoyed it. Some of it you'll see in the next few weeks and months. But, Luke, I mean, your immunity and resistance systems were down. You know what I mean?

You were like Bigfoot Silva in round five against Mark Hunt in the first five. You know, more exhausted and it was just the perfect storm of she-at. But I appreciate your honesty and your humility here and I do want to thank everyone who

kind of built their week around watching this and if it was a flat tire to you, again, we apologize. The doc's going to be great. we will definitely make it up in the future but luke staying with the good for a second oh boy here we go okay let's just go to it then okay this is a comedy of errors right here this is this time the hasselhoff is more than more all right yes so here's the uh footage jake captured immediately after the live show. Go ahead, Long Island Luke. Thank you.

Thank you for the... Yeah, there's the... Yeah. Wow, Luke. Burger. Fries. Yeah, all right. There we go.

We still got it out. I mean, that's like a... That is hilarious. I did have salmon after the show. I want to be very clear about that. No, dude, you were like, I'll say what. We went out to a dinner afterwards. I didn't know what to expect.

I didn't know if you were going to be in one piece. You were not only with it, but it was a little bit humorous when you're like, I thought that show was great. Did you guys? You know what's so funny? You know what's so funny is, what's so funny is dude my internal radar is absolute trash because i left the max interview and it like it's it's weird when you do one of those interviews because there's a bunch of people standing around and we had to get out of

there quickly because another crew was coming in and it may not look this way but we bc tell me if i'm exaggerating any part of this we had this dude from uh our camera and lighting guy was like this genius guy but he needs time to set up and then tear down so he had set up all the lights to make it look the way it did and blah blah blah and then when it was over we had to get the hell out of there because like i think the mac life guys were coming in and no one said anything like at all and so i was like oh man i think that interview went poorly and then everybody loved it and then friday i was like yeah it wasn't so bad at first when i wasn't thinking straight and then i was bc was like uh they're calling it the habib connor presser of mk shows and i was like oh shit and then i saw disclosure i did contact showtime and say maybe we should pull

the video full disclosure but you know what luke it had touches of a drunken best man speech at a shitty wedding there were some you know there's some good redeemable moments in there so uh i'm not mad and oh by the way for for full full disclosure the night before we interviewed josh emmet on the room service diaries couch which you can you know listen to right now and watch on youtube and b BC may or may not have all the gummies in Vegas in his tummy. I don't know. Dude, I went, I got there directly off of the eighth seat in row, row Delta there, Luke. And, you know, he's, I transitioned from, oh,

your brother died of drug overdose to, hey, bro, like you get a phoner lately in these fights. I mean, look, you know, I couldn't have been more of a rambling piece of crap. So it happens. That's it. Let's put it to bed. But I do want to quickly, quickly, you know, I couldn't have been more of a rambling piece of crap. So, it happens. That's it. Let's put it to bed. But I do want to quickly, quickly, before we get into real stuff, just hit your one-on-one with Punch Drunk Pete. I don't think

you actually know how like, that got to be. That guy, his real name's Greg. He's from Toronto. We love you, Punch Drunk Pete. I mean, did I think by the end of the show you might follow me home? Yes, but I would have clothed you and fed you, believe me. That's where it would have stopped, though.

Luke, he had been DMing me all week saying, if I get a chance, I've got to do a drink-off against Luke. I even wrote it into one of the failed Wheel of Death questions that you didn't spin on. Of course, for our bad luck, you had to spin on every failed question. It was written in the stars that you were going spin on of course for our bad luck you had to roll you know spin on every every failed question um it was like written in the in the stars that you were going to go one-on-one and you naturally called him out and challenged him luke well here's the thing you can see you can see that in my early to mid-20s i did a lot of drinking in the military and in the fraternity house i'm no longer good at it uh in fact i'm remarkably shitty but but you could see old frank the tank in there came out for a day and i mean it looked like it looked like nick diaz versus

robbie lawler too unfortunately but you still bodied him look you still came out with the win i look i'm not gonna lie that was a young kid you don't know about his background you you defeated him and then afterwards you know punch drunk pete was like he legitimately was he was like um he was like kobayashi in that interview after the bear ate the hot dogs look he was like he's he's the next frat guy you know he's the next frat guy so you know luke you did um retain something positive from that experience as a follower those years and you know you brought it up fair enough to, BC, you were the star of the show. There's no denying it.

I recognize it up front. I'm grateful for your understanding. I'm grateful for your professionalism. And I know, and I know, well, we can't do much worse, but I know, I know we can do better. Well, who do you think was the MVP? Because I got to shout out Anthony, little Anthony in the Imperials and his wife, Luke.

I thought he was Saul because I thought they look alike, two of our famous fans on fansubs. And then when I was like, yo, where's Saul at? Anthony's like, yo, over here. So I got fooled, alright? But Anthony and his wife, Luke, you talked to them for a while. Yeah. They got engaged

through MK fansubs. They're getting married through MK fansubs. And Anthony afterwards was like, we're going to conceive this child through MK fan subs. Look, what could we be expecting in our DM soon from this guy? I don't know, but he was an MVP and his fiance, I guess, was an MVP as well. Dude, there was a lot of people. There's a guy who's been following my career for a long time named Jason who showed up from California.

He drove all the way out. It was nice to see him again. There's a lot of people that, again, the in-person the folks who were there, I do think that they had mostly a decent time. But you live and learn. So there you go. I was going to say the MVP was Mike

from Arizona who had that tattooed Dr. Wife Luke. That guy was MK approved. He drove all the way just for us. Shout out to Mike there. Lots of MVPs in that audience. We appreciate every one of them. All right. With that in mind, BC, let's talk a little bit about UFC 276 that we did not get to.

Now, we did do a post fight show that is up on the channel. I did do a sort of a kind of a fast extra credit. But there's a couple of questions sort of hanging over the event. The first one is about Izzy's main event and how boring it was. There's a lot of complaints out there. BC, where are you on this equation? We talked about it a little bit on Saturday night, but I'd like to go back and do a little bit more now that we've had time to

reflect about it. How fair is it to say that through the majority of his title defenses, Izzy has been, again, according to some of these criticisms, a boring champion? It's certainly more unfair than it's fair luke and i'm very surprised that this is going on like do i expect the crowd to maybe boo because they wanted a war they wanted something different i get that okay do i expect fan tweets look i almost saw like journalism level tweet like i've seen a lot of

people i didn't expect kind of really push this hey Hey, is he may be great, but he's boring as shit. So here's the final score on this. From my perspective, you asked me, will it affect his, you know, commercial marketable seal? Well, yeah. Anyway, you know, anytime you're comparing him, which we're trying to do to the all-time greats in, in really particular Anderson Silva, he hasn't had that run that Silva had of making, you know, air Jordan moments happen, you know, pulling victory from the claws of defeat, doing sublime video games. He's had flashes of that. But he's his own fighter. We don't want him to be Anderson Silva 2.0.

So will it affect, will you not become the star you could be if you're not finishing dudes? Yeah. You know, there's very rare Floyd Mayweathers who can talk so many people into the building and then just dissect them, even if it's boring. You know, Adesanya has a little bit of that Mayweather flair going right now. And what I mean by that is, look, he has eliminated so many of the dangers in fights in order to play to his advantage, yet still operates right the heck in front of you.

Still operated right there against Cannoneer. Did the fans deserve more when he walks out with an urn with Jared's name on it? Look, you can argue that all you want. And there's always going to be a side of this audience that's just like, he doesn't entertain me, I don't care about him, he's not pound for pound great. Whatever. I can't believe how many mainstream people are buying into this, Luke. This guy's brilliant.

He comes forward, but unless you're willing to risk it all, it's probably going to be a boring fight. Luke, I got no issue with that. He's number two, pound for pound on my updated or sorry, number three on my updated CBS sports rankings. You can put him as high as one. If you want at middleweight where he operates, people are not touching him outside of that Gastelum fight. They're just not touching him. He's getting better. If that's not exciting to you, he's not fighting in a circling defensive style. He's standing in the pocket

looking to counter you and forcing you to make a mistake and come after you. Some people have tried to slow down and hold the ball like Romero. Came close. Didn't get the upset win. How are you going to beat this guy? You've got to fight him, Luke. if people want to hold it against him because he's not getting finishes it's not for lack of trying even if he's not demonstrably chasing guys down to finish him he's fighting in my eyes and entertaining somewhat risky style in the center of the cage what more

do you guys want from him it's remarkable to me i mean if someone wanted to say was the title run and the middleweight push of anderson silva pound for pound more exciting than izzy's you could make that argument i don't really have a problem with that that in fact i'd probably agree it probably was fight over fight more exciting but i'd say also people being like oh anderson silva never bored people like what fucking plan are you guys living on the cote fight sucked until cote blew his knees out then the talus lighties fight sucked and the demi and maya fight was so bad that his own promoter trashed him for months on end in fact you can't really explain the rise of chael son and the success he had without anderson silva being but for a time anyway hated reviled folks thought he was full of himself

and then didn't really want to you know didn't want to do anything for the fans because he was so full of himself he fought in a way that was too reserved that partly made the rise of chael son impossible like he was his character was assassinated for a long time now he eventually overcame that and there was other parts in between like the force griffin fight that really rejuvenated it but it's simply not true that when people say why no one ever booed anderson silver bullshit they absolutely Maybe not as much, but they certainly did. So that's the first thing I'd say on top of, you know, if you wanted to compare their reigns. The second part I'd say is, listen, if y'all found it boring, I don't, like, people are going to like what they're going to like, and you can't browbeat them out of it. You know, it is what it is. And did I think that that fight was super thrilling from an entertainment standpoint? No, of course not. I i mean it would be silly to say something like that however when you're dealing with a record of dominance like he has i mean again you're getting all of these contenders and in several cases these very top contenders getting multiple opportunities to go against them and they can barely do shit to him like when you have that level of greatness there should be a conference of some level of respect

about what that means and how difficult this challenge is. And I saw a tweet from the, I guess he's still the videographer at MMA Fighting, E.K.C. Layden, and he had argued like, what you see from the middleweight division is they figured out how to not get knocked out by Izzy. But they haven't

figured out a way to put offense behind what they're doing and also not get knocked out. So to me, if you want to put some blame on izzy for fighting a sort of mayweather-esque style i certainly think you can do that but you also have to put an equal and potentially more amount of blame on the fact that his contemporaries have tons of tape on him in certain cases getting multiple opportunities at him and they still can't do it he is the puzzle to be solved not the other way around i just hope folks understand you're dealing with a level of greatness that is different than other champions that should be respected and understood like i i think i rightfully ripped him

after the romero fight just to say this at that level you can't take that risk of not doing enough and hoping the judges preferred the little that you did. But Luke, he's never had that moment again. You know what I'm saying? Like when Costa was there, he walked him down and got rid of him. Vittori tried his best to walk him down and get rid of him. Kananir, we do have to realize, is a different level of danger. Yet he still stood in front of him and allayed the shit out of him.

It's like if people are just saying, look, we'll never love him like we love Anderson because he doesn't do Anderson things, that's fair. If people say, look, I think he could be a bigger pay-per-view star, but this part of his game holds him back, that's also fair. But for people to say he can't be pound for pound in the top, you know, three, four, five, because he fights boring, he doesn't freaking fight boring. He fought boring in one fight. You know what I know what i mean like again to win the championship you got to go

after the champion and beat him okay or at least got to beat him for three of the five rounds okay dude what what i i'm i'm really blown away by this luke and also like you know eugene behrman told the boys at submission radio shouts to themouts to them, he told them that let's see what your guys look like in 10 to 15 years versus mine. Now Dan Hooker I think would be the exception to that rule. I think he's taken a lot of abuse so this is not a fully true statement. But in the case of Izzy, dude, you know

this as well BC, you get these high IQ boxers. Once they realize they don't have to take damage to win, it's hard to go back to taking damage. It's hard to go back into that fray where you're just kind of willing to accept that as a normal condition of fighting. It's an acceptable volley that they're willing to have.

Izzy's just not willing to take damage. You want him to take damage, you got to force it on him, and they can't. They can't do it, again, with some cases, with multiple tries multiple tries you know if that's not for you it's not for you but you can't sit there and sit there and be like well that's an enlightened position it's not an enlightened position at all now i don't get the hate look what's the source

of the hatred because like dude isn't he doing enough has always hated izzy they've always hated him i did a whole retrospective on this through his rise. They turned a little bit after the first Whitaker fight, right? Where he knocked out Robert and became the champion. It was a big deal. They knocked, they, they, they, they dialed it back certainly for the Kelvin Gastelum fight, but even then they're like, Oh, look how vulnerable he was. Robert Whitaker is going to beat his ass. And some of that went away. And then of course he did himself a lot of good with the Costa fight, but dude, they've always been that their reflexive position is he's overrated. He's ready to be exposed. He's not that good. He's overhyped. They're

constantly doing this. This is just the default return position. I guess they like learning the hard way. I don't know. Yeah. I mean, it's, it's just weird, man. It blows me away. And it's like, he still talks trash. You could, you could hate the Elsa jokes. It's kind of lame. What I'm saying is he's still charismatic, talks trash, did the whole Undertaker bit which people loved I thought it was corny Luke I don't know if I need that level of of characterness you know walk into a UFC fight but I'd rather have someone swing and a miss like that than than the than the default so it's like yeah whatever let's keep it going all right so I already talked a little bit about this on extra credit so I'll pitch it little bit about this on Extra Credit,

so I'll pitch it back to you very quickly. Donald Cerrone retired. We didn't get a chance to talk about it on Saturday night. Number one, your thoughts on his retirement. And someone asked me this question. Also, I'll ask you the exact same one. What is your favorite Cerrone moment? It doesn't have to be a win, but it could be something that really stood out to you.

Thoughts on retirement, favorite Cerrone moment. My favorite Cerrone moment will always align with my favorite Cerrone win. And I think pound for pound, you could argue that this was the best performance of his career. When he welcomed Michael Chandler into the UFC, he's had higher profile fights, Luke. No, you mean Eddie Alvarez. I'm sorry. Eddie Alvarez. Thank you for that flip-flop there.

And here's the point why that was so impressive to me. Before that, Luke, I liked Cowboy. He was a character. Ultimately, I'm telling you, his full-on legacy right now. One of the most iconic characters this sport's ever seen. Lunch pail, bud can guy who people can just get behind and relate to. But I always looked at him as more like warning track power, a guy who I never saw him as getting over the top. I a performance against eddie alvarez there that was just smart technical tough

i was always impressed by that and said look you know i i've been i've been maybe on on fairly harsh on this guy maybe luke it's because he doesn't like interviews it's never been the side of the game he cares about he you've interviewed him as much as i have over the years he can be cantankerous he could be ridiculous he could just not try or not care. But what is he always given? Entertainment, willingness to fight anybody literally on any notice. If it was up to him in his prime, he would be fighting five, six, seven times per year. And I like that he's always been up front.

I like to go have a good time, take my boats out, drink a lot, race. I want to have the money to do it, Luke. He was always more about I'm that guy. I'm that guy you can trust for entertainment, to fill in, and I'm that guy. That's why he had a chance in his final fight to

singly hold the record for most wins. He's up there in most appearances. But Luke, commitment to being that guy in the end, I do think stopped him from meeting what would have been his full ceiling individually as a fighter. He had, you know, you could argue two legitimate runs where he was becoming a true title contender. And, you know, the dad Cerrone comeback was really good to see. But I do think playing the cowboy full time in real life prevented him from legitimately maxing out at the title

level to see if he could have added that level of immortality he's one of the rare superstars that i believe belongs in the hall of fame despite never winning a major title here and you know has traded wins and losses with the absolute best did he hang on too long yes i did though like hearing that he realizes it now after the fact that he lost the love after the Conor fight. The Conor fight, Luke, will unfortunately go down as a major sort of, you know, drop the ball, major fumble in the way he sort of imploded there. But none of that takes away from what he was, iconic character who was absolutely freaking legit

and has the receipts to show you that, Luke. Do you agree, though, that that stopped him from maybe finding out how great he could be? Maybe you can argue that the way he fought and you're to your point, I mean, accepting challenges against guys when it wasn't necessarily in his best interest, either from a stylistic match point or he was higher ranked and they weren't

or whatever, or going to someone else's hometown. He just did that willingly. And that these kinds of this, this sort of lack of discretion over these elements negatively impacted him. That is probably a fair argument to make, but I would say that the way in which he fought, right? These, these sort of things that we're bringing up, the fact that he had as much success as he did, even with that is remarkable. I did this on morning around, excuse me, on an extra credit BC.

I know this sort of is silly when you read off the Wikipedia list, but let's just be very clear about his wins here, dude. Danny Castillo, Razor Rob McCullough. I know folks don't remember Rob McCullough, but that dude was a hammer and Cerrone beat him. James Krause, Ed 9mm Ratcliffe, Jamie Varner, Chris Horodeski, Paul Kelly, Wagner Hocha, Charles Oliveira, Dennis Seaver,

Jeremy Stevens, Melvin Gillard, KJ Nunes, Evan Dunham, Adriano Martins, Edson Barboza, Jim Miller, Eddie Alvarez, Miles Jury, Benson Henderson, John McDessie, Alex Oliveira, Patrick Cote, Rick Story. That Rick Story win might be his best in terms of just how amazing it looked with that combo at the end. Matt Brown, Yancy Medeiros, Mike Perry, Alexander Hernandez, and Al Iaquinto dude that is a fucking unbelievable ledger especially when you consider how many of those he probably took on late notice especially when you consider how many where he was the b-side or the guy who didn't didn't need to take the fight and just did an amazing amazing accomplishment that he has had do you think Luke um in a we do this often because UFC Hall of Fame has some legitimate holes in how people get

selected and the process and the criteria. Just like WWE and unfortunately, Luke, a lot of Hall of Fames. But if the UFC Hall of Fame had a criteria and stiffness akin to the Baseball Hall of Fame or pro football, because obviously the basketball one's got some issues too,

do you think Cowboy would be deserving of a Hall of Fame nod? Without having won a major world title. I think, Luke, like Arturo Gotti in the Boxing Hall of Fame, which was a controversial selection, even though he'd won a world title before, he was known as just an all-action attraction.

Cowboy had some of that. Not apples to apples. He had some of that. I still think, Luke, track record, you know, the sum of the whole. I actually would say yes here. It's a controversial call because to that point, he doesn't have any world titles, and he did have opportunities to fight for them

and then got wrecked in the process. So it wasn't like a guy who never got the chance and then blew out his ACL and then whatever. But dude, those wins, I mean, how many former champions are on that ledger? A lot. A lot. It's controversial.

I would say this. If he got in, I wouldn't complain. I wouldn't complain. Yeah. And he'll clearly get in the regular UFC Hall of Fame as he should, Luke. Look, that's a compliment from me because I'm normally stern in that regard. You've got to be a serious compiler to get in the Hall of Fame without having won a world title in a lot of cases unless you were in a different era.

He's a serious compiler. Yeah. But, you know, Luke, I give people respect. Think of RDA's legacy. Anthony Pettis, even, the second half of his career, which had holes, but he still always fought the frickin best and traded wins and losses with him. Cowboy, to me, is in that category. Look, he did. He was looking to fight anybody at any time.

And you have to respect that to still be a old school gunslinger in the modern game is not easy to pull off. It's not. All right. And last but not least, BC, this is not a story that got a lot of attention. I don't even really know what to say about it exactly. So Nate Diaz was being interviewed or something was happening backstage with the Full Send podcast. Now, I don't know what the Full Send podcast is, but I'm told it's quite popular. But here's the thing.

The guy put a microphone in his face and Diaz slapped the microphone out, not like super hard, but authoritatively, and then kind of slapped him somewhat upside the head knocking his his hat off I am told although I have not seen the tweets in question that may have caused this I am told that that guy had maybe said something critical about one of Diaz's teammates I mean here's my attitude on this first of all Diaz has always been incredibly professional with me in fact one time when I told the story before when I accidentally texted him and I was shit-talking to somebody who I fucking hated, he actually let me just talk to him about it

and made jokes about it. The guy is... I think he's been mistreated in the industry. I've always said that. And to me, he's always been professional. You obviously cannot go around hitting, however softly, people you don't like. I think the full send guys were credentialed.

And I did see, by the way, Diaz's manager in the video with him, who was a very smart guy, who I think probably was like, please don't fucking do that again. But, you know, he can't be doing this either. BC, where are you on this whole thing? Yeah, we'll be seeing video of this and have you seen the shit not too long from here, Luke. But, yeah, I mean, clearly I didn't love it because we fill that job. I don't know the history between them like you do. If I'm an interviewer, though, I have to expect it could go badly off the rails. I mean, Nate at this point isn't Mayhem Miller, but you're still talking with the Diaz brothers.

Luke, you don't know what was said or if they think you're someone else. I mean, dude, it's on brand for them to stocked and slapped the shit out of everybody, including Dana White in that famous video that keeps resurfacing. So again, it's like the Mike Tyson plane situation. Now, I don't know if he was baited into a response like that, but when you gamble with people like that, you're going to get it, Luke. You're going to get served sometimes. It happens so um do i like that for interviews no but i'm not surprised mother effers right luke yeah and then last but not least i didn't put us on the rundown but i am curious to

see whether you think it's a big deal or not what about cormier admitting he leaned on the towel in buffalo because some folks are like oh haha and i did think it was funny that he admitted it because some folks like oh haha you know it's hilarious and other folks are like well oh, ha-ha. And I did think it was funny that he admitted it. Because some folks are like, oh, ha-ha. You know, it's hilarious. And other folks are like, well, dude, if any Olympic athlete admitted they had done some rough equivalent of that, they'd have their medals taken away. And I'm like, right. But, like, MMA is a clown show. So I'm not trying to say that, like, you know, Anthony Rebel Johnson, I don't think, cared.

That was the fight there. And whatever. It was just a couple pounds. But is it a big deal or not? It should be a bigger deal. You're right. But this is the type of sport for us to just laugh at what was really a funny, incredible delivery at the Hall of Fame.

Shout out to both DC and Habib for going in together because they were, in all interviews, they were winning, Luke. They won the weekend in a lot of ways because the humility and the joy that they showed. But you are openly admitting that. You're right. I mean, is it like

Mike Scott, Luke? You remember him from the Astros in the 80s? He still won't officially admit that his split-fingered fastball was doctored, but whenever they do lookbacks at the 86 NLCS, Luke,

against the Mets, where if it had gone to Game 7, Mike Scott was going to pitch and they were going to win, but Mets rallied in the sixth, he does give a laugh and a nod to let you know that, fuck yeah, he was doctored in the baseball, Luke, and until anyone was going to be able to catch him,

he's going to keep doing that. So you always say if you ain't cheating, you ain't trying. I guess this is the sport where it's, I mean, dude. Here's my only thing. Here's my only thing. Do I think everybody on that podium ever took something? Yeah, I do, Luke. So what do we, you know, at this point, what are we doing, right?

Here's my thing. I don't really care all that much because I don't think it contributed all that much to the win. Although, yes, you could argue he had to drain himself to get down to the weight. It would have. Anthony Rebel Johnson doesn't seem to care. UFC doesn't seem to care. Although Mark Ratner wasn't pleased with it. Did you see when they put the camera on his face?

He was like, what the fuck? He didn't seem to be loving it too much. But number one, there actually wasn't a rule on the books on the new york athletic commission at the time about not touching the towel they have since added one after the fact i think i catch all rule but it wasn't technically illegal in that sense and i think the other thing i would say is i don't really care that cormier did that but the commission didn't strip charles ol. The UFC stripped Charles Oliveira by virtue of what happened with the weigh-in in his last fight. If you're going to laugh off what happened to DC,

Charles should get his belt back. I mean, what, what is the issue with that? Like he got railroaded. If we're just going to laugh this off and I'm okay with it, but Charles got fucked. If that's the case.

Yeah, I agree with you on that. I also, by the way, agree that the... Are you on board believing the Jon Jones-Matt Hamill fight should be a no contest when it's all said and done as well? Yes. If you can fix these things retroactively, do it.

Yeah, do it. There's a lot of that. I'll look quickly on DC, though. Another reveal he had was that... We know about him, his friendship with Ariel Hawane. They did a show on ESPN together. But he revealed publicly on a UFC stage that they've been friends a long time. In fact, Ariel on BT Sport this week referred to them as secret lovers, Luke.

And DC reveals that Ariel was writing his post-fight call-outs as if they were wrestling promos this whole time behind the scenes, Luke. Oh, I didn't hear that. Does that make you change? When you find out your favorite rock star doesn't write his own songs, you're like, man, you know what I'm saying? Yeah, like when you found out Jay-Z wrote the lyrics to Dr. Dre's comeback song, Still D-R-E.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I was like, wow, these rhymes are really good by Dr. Dre. He's mostly a producer. Oh, Jay-Z wrote them. Okay, all right. I don't, I mean, good for them. I mean, those parts of the interviews, that's for all y'all. I don't, I don't, I don't hate it or love it.

It doesn't mean much for me. If people thought they were good, that means it tells you Ariel knows what he's doing. This is transcendentally connected to the Hall of Fame, which also featured Habib. Ariel also said on a BT Sport clip from outside the arena on Saturday, I believe, Luke, that he guarantees Habib will fight again within the next two years. Guarantees, Luke. I would love to see it. Someone asked me over the weekend, who's your favorite?

Who gave you the most entertainment for a fighter who is now retired? And it didn't even take me two seconds to answer. It's Habib. Habib brought me genuine joy joy to watch fighting i loved what he did so yeah i will do that uh bc before we transition to topic number three very quickly i am drinking tons of water because i got the rona so i have to urinate quite badly can i set you up with this question and then you run with it and i'll come right back uh yeah definitely luke you can you know i've been having too many morning margaritas, BC.

You know, if you're crowning like the king of England, you need to, you know... No, no, no, it's number one. It's not number two. As my daughter would say, it's Chi-Chi, not Po-Po. All right. BC, that's so gross. We go to this weekend.

There is a UFC event. It will start at 6 p.m. for the prelims and the East 9 p.m. for the mains in the east 9 p.m. for the main card it is UFC fight night I believe fifth or excuse me UFC Vegas 58 I think it's UFC on the ESPN like 30 something but it's a hell of a main event at lightweight the former champion RDA taking on Rafael Fazeev or Fazeev I forget how the guy corrected us at. BC, I'm going to pitch it over to you and then I got to run. Was this the original main event or did this just get bumped up? What got canceled?

So these two were supposed to fight on a different card and it got moved over to this one. It's the best fight on the card, although there are some decent ones. But if I had to ask you what you think centrally RDA versus Fazeev is about, by the way, Fazeev having a back and forth with Conor McGregor on Twitter today. What would you say? This is about placement in the title rankings and opportunity because, you know, RDA is on a two-fight win streak and he's proved that he can cut back down to this weight.

And when you're a former champion, when you have that legend status of a guy who's always willing to face anybody, like it doesn't care about the wins and losses, you're going to get, you know, preferred treatment for that. Look, you get a win here in your RDA. You have an opportunity to parachute in and crash the actual top tier of the title picture. Obviously, you know, there's a little bit of a holdup at the moment. Oliveira doesn't even have the belt.

We want to see Mahachev finally get the call. Like, what the heck's going on here? RDA could move big there. And on the flip side, Fiziev, five-fight win streak, and has shown you just, you know, a lot that you have to love next level. So when I talk about the resetting of this lightweight division, and, you know, we just saw, by the way, Jalen Turner get a big win over Brad Riddell over the weekend at 276.

The top is recharging quickly here in terms of pumping out new potential contenders. And Fazeev is there. He's potentially one of them. But this ain't no easy fight against this version of RDA who's still freaking got it. How RDA is able to stay this

prime and this tough at this age, floating between the two weight divisions. I mean, you're really talking about one of the greats right here but what's the central storyline you know who's coming or going fazeev also could make a serious leap here because all of those aging names are more likely to be matched up against one another whoever looks great coming out of there i'm talking about the you know the poor yeas the the gaichis uh you know ferguson the mcgregors they're all kind of lingering in the middle, not knowing which direction they're going in the rankings.

The new breed has a chance here. If you're Fazeev and you can get a sixth straight win and get it against a former champion right here, again, you're getting that hall pass to the front. So no shortage of stakes in this one and no shortage without question in the potential for excitement. I mean, this could be a brutal five-round fight in terms of, you know, grit, not a grit going to need to be shown here.

It's going to go to the ground. There's going to be a lot happening here. I am fired up for it Saturday night at the Apex. The rest of the card, you know, am I gaining movement from looking at this? Yeah, not a ton. Not a ton. No, no, Luke, not a ton. Not a ton.

But, you you know you are coming off the one of the biggest pay-per-views of the of the year at least we get a badass main event but luke nothing i said there was was false or out of bounds but do you have the same feeling i do if rda gets three in a row and does it over a guy that's this red hot he's gonna get another title shot look it's gonna happen yeah so there if you look at the rankings RDA is sitting at seven Fazeve and again if I'm mispronouncing it please I apologize sitting at 10 so 7 and 10 respectively I don't think a win by Fazeve jumps him into the top five because there's no champion so Olivera's one Poirier two Gaethje three Makachev four and Chandler five I don't think he bumps one of them out but I do think it puts them on the bubble and we'll see what happens with like benil daryu so i think if fazeev wins this even rda if he wins

this they get themselves a top five opponent afterwards does that seem like a fair assessment of the stakes absolutely yeah but i gotta tell you it's interesting one we gotta be fairly happy what's going on a lightweight i mean gamrot just made a big chess move, Saryuki and we all expect to come back because he's on that freaking level Islam's gonna get that call any minute, Jalen Turner just got a big win, how about now you know, the winner of this is gonna be right there

I mean, Luke, I hope Islam is next, but whoever's next after that in the next few slots, this is gonna be fun for a while at 155, Luke, because whoever comes out of the old side of the bracket too, like, I mean, Luke, would you, what are the odds that of those Poirier-Gaethje types, one of those guys is going to get another title shot eventually.

They're going to work their way back in. Yeah, seems like one of them is due for it. I don't know if Chandler's going to get it because Oliveira was calling for McGregor. By the way, McGregor's sitting at 12 in the rankings. 12, which I realize is fair in the sense of he's not been active, so whatever. But I bet he looks at that number and can't stand it because he's sandwiched by Armin Saryukian and Dan Hooker.

Well, look, he hasn't had a win in the division in six years, though. That's a little damning, right? A little damning? No, no, I don't mean that it's unfair. In fact, you could argue he's still somewhat inflated. I just mean for Connor, who's always sort of seeing himself as the highest level of the game, sitting at 12 probably doesn't sit well with him. But in any case, something you had brought up was this turnover in lightweight.

Dude, if you go from eight on down, there are some recognizable old head names there. But eight is Gamrot, nine is Ferguson, 10 is Fazeev, 11 Sarjukian, McGregor's sitting at 12, and then Hooker, and then Turner at 14, Ismagulov at 15. Dude, the new generation, here they come. And they're starting to slowly take the place of

and then replace outright the generation that came before them. Oliveira is your top dog dog and he deserves to be but dude that is going to be a tough belt to hold on to no doubt about it hey luke um bantamweight saeed nurmagomedov is going for a third straight win yep will we be adding him to that list that russian hammer list that uh you know Khabib was on Usman Nurmagomedov is on the other Nurmagomedov is now on Magomed Magomed there's a lot of Magomed's in in this Luke um are we going to be talking about Saeed on that level after this fight Saturday? Saeed I keep looking this up and I can't get accurate information I don't know how related he is to habib i think he is distinct uh they obviously share the same last name but of course he's from that same area uh he's taking on

a tough dude douglas silva de andrage is not the technician that nurmagomedov is so i certainly expect nurmagomedov to win but dude silva de andrage might be the most muscular dude pound for pound in all the ufc he is an absolute horse out there and um it's not and he's resilient as well so Nurmagomedov should win but I wouldn't look I wouldn't sort of assume it's like automatically a given that's I guess so we're not at the point that we got with the Gracie family somewhat quickly we're like you know the 19th cousin removed by marriage with with no Gracie in his name is suddenly calling himself Joe Gracie

and then he goes out and loses his TV debut. We're not in the bootleg Nurmagomedov territory yet. We're like people from the same town are just like, yo, that's my last name, man. Also, I'll put this out. Opening the card, Michael Johnson, who finally got a nice win in his last bout, taking on Jamie Malarkey,

who I think is coming in off a loss, if memory serves, a dude out of Australia. Yes, to Jalen Turner, which you're like, okay, well, Jalen Turner is awesome. Yes, fair enough. On the other hand, Michael Johnson, you know, dude, when he's on, holy crap, he's on. But when he's not, which, you know, is fairly frequent as well, he's beatable.

This is a, this is, mean if michael johnson performs up to the level at which you know he can fight he should win this but i have no idea if he's going to perform up to the level at which we've seen him before it's uh it's it's hard to know the answer he's a wild card luke are you pumped up that jared vanderah is putting his three fight losing streak up against chase sherman's four fight losing skid and this heavyweight main card attraction comes Saturday. I mean, the job is so tough. I'm not going to sit here and just bash him,

but it's not the fight I'm looking forward to most on the court. I will say the co-main event. You're like, where's Acosto Sakai when I need him, you know? Bro, I will tell you this. The co-main event with this dude, Kaio Bohalio, who has the tattoos all over his neck and shit, who's super athletic off the Contender Series, fighting another hammer off the Contender Series,

Armin Petrosian, who just loves to to just i mean he from the word go he's slinging the dogs that should be one hell of a fight love that middleweight contest nice so you're made in the co-main it's pretty good yeah yeah a couple uh bc slop fest on the uh on the prelim card luke cynthia calvillo against nia Nunes. I'll tune in for that. Also, Luke, at the same division, Antonina, who could use a win big time against Courtney Casey, Luke. This isn't the last time we see big sister, right? I mean, she's 37 and she's, you know,

she's lost four of her last seven, Luke. Yeah, if she loses this, it would be three in a row. I doubt that this is a swan song if she loses but okay i you know there's gonna be some big decision making in the extended family which might include myself luke after if if this goes down as an l we'll see what happens we will see what happens indeed all right bc so let's go to topic number four here now we don't know exactly what to say about this because jake said one thing, which was that they have moved on from Tommy Fury. They have severed whatever agreement they had with him. He will no longer be the replacement opponent. Now Showtime has not confirmed this. We don't really know any better just to be very clear. But Mannix has reported that it's going to be Hasim Rahman Jr.

Now Hasim Rahman, a famous, famous of course heavyweight champion from the 90s and so on from there. This is his son. BC, number one, who is Rahman Jr. as a boxer? What do you make of him? And two, if this is true, which again we don't know for sure, what would you say in terms of this fight being better or worse than the fight against fury

it's still a little bit of a crap shoot in terms of trying to figure out how good jake is at this level against this level of boxer now these are boxers who you know have some name regard tommy fury brother of t, Hasim Jr. But they certainly haven't lived up to huge expectations that come with a name. They're works in progress. Now, Jake did indicate in that tweet that he's going to have a formal announcement tomorrow if it ends up being Rockman. It's interesting, Luke. Now, the good about Hasim Rockman is he's a 6'3 heavyweight junior you're talking about, right?

Dad, of course, knocked out Lennox Lewis in South Africa. Major upset to win the heavyweight championship. And then got splattered in the rematch, Luke. One of the best grunge, you know, revenge, sort of gritty comeback knockouts there from Lennox. The son is, what, 12-1? But he's coming off a fifth-round TKO loss to Tommy Morrison's, one of his sons, Luke. There's two fighting sons of the late Tommy Morrison, former heavyweight champion himself. And kind of gassed out in that fight, but has a good record outside of that against very middling level of competition.

We don't really know, Luke. Kind of like the Tommy Fury fight. From what we've seen on tape, we weren't all that impressed. We wondered, maybe this is a fight Jake can walk down and dominate. We do have to remember, though, that when you step up to the level of not just an ex-NBA fighter or MMA fighter and somebody who is a boxer, you know, they got some flaws. Hasim Jr. does. Yes, Tommy Fury does. But they're also real fighters at heart.

Luke, could it get fun? Could this turn into a real fight? We're going to have to tune in to see August 6th, Madison Square Garden, Showtime boxing pay-per-view if it ends up going this direction. But I don't hate it, especially not as a last-minute replacement to get a guy who actually is a real boxer that comes from a good pedigree here. Yeah, what I would say is, to me, as a fight, I don't know what this will mean for sales in the UK now that Tommy is not there. Probably not good things.

I don't know what it's going to do with the box office. I don't know. I don't really have a good read on that. But just in terms of the fight itself, I'm actually more interested in this one than I was Tommy Fury. I mean, we saw Tommy Fury on his brother's undercard in the fight against Dillian White, and there wasn't a whole lot there

candidly. I just didn't it wasn't an inspiring performance. I think I can say it that way. Now candidly, Rockmon Jr. you can go and watch his fight against Kenzie Morrison who is the son as BC indicated also of a legend and he doesn't have the best

fight there either. I think he gets stopped in the fifth but to your point he he is a legitimate pro. He does have legitimate knockout wins. And the only thing that sort of stands out to me, BC, is what weight is this going to be? Because he's only getting a month notice, and Rockman Jr. is a heavyweight, so what are they going to do? Some are saying that these two were sparring partners in the past.

Luke, I'm going to have to research that a little bit more, but that also could play into this. But look, Rothman is a 6'3", southpaw heavyweight, but he's been fighting in the lower 215-220 area. I don't know if this is some kind of catchweight in between cruiserweight and heavyweight or not, but look, for anyone that said, okay, you beat former MMA welterweight champion Tyron Woodley or you beat 5'7", Nate Robinson, well, Luke, now we, MMA welterweight champion Tyron Woodley, or you beat five foot, you know, seven Nate Robinson.

Well, Luke, now we had a full heavyweight. So, you know, that part of it, at least there's something there for sure. I wanted to read the statement Tommy Fury just put out on social media while we were filming this, Luke. He says, I'm gutted and disappointed in regards to the issues I have faced with entry to the U.S. This is something that myself or my team could have never anticipated happening. This situation has been left with my lawyers

as being denied entry to a country is obviously a very serious issue and it needs to be resolved subsequently. I'm confident this fight will happen when this issue gets resolved and we come to a solution. I want to clarify that I will fight in a neutral country that both parties can enter.

This can be anytime, anyplace, anywhere, end quote, except for August 6th in New York. Luke, do you come away from that statement believing the Jake side that Tommy fumbles and never really wanted this fight? Or is the Kinahan-Fury family situation enough for you to go, hey, they couldn't get it done, but we'll never see it again, most likely. Yeah, I mean, you know, I don't really buy that he didn't want

the biggest payday of his life. I really, really, really don't buy that. I really do buy, in fact, that he was prevented from entering the country, and that's ultimately what caused the issue. And they apparently wanted to keep, my understanding is they wanted to keep that date

and august 6 in new york they couldn't move the fight to london that was in where they i guess they could have done it so either tommy was going to be able to get here or he wasn't you know it looks bad because he pulled out with injury and he haggled previously and jake is setting it up to make it a function of cowardice i don't think it's a function of cowardice frankly i still think jake would have won i mean jake kind of held on for a long time be like Tommy this is your last chance and then like two months later this is your last chance Tommy it's like dude you gave him a lot of last chances but in the end no I just don't think he could get over here and that's their that's their issue to figure out I don't know how fair it is to keep Tommy versus well really anybody attached to that I don't know I don't

know I frankly don't know enough about the details and it is unfortunate, but I will say as a fight, even if you still think Jake's sort of playing with house money here to me, this one should be, should be more competitive than that for whatever. And that's what we need here. Do whether you're a fan of the Jake Paul show and experience, or you just,

or want someone that says, look, step up. Now it's time to step up. This is a step in the right direction. Luke. It is easy. There's an evolution to the matchmaking, which I can respect.. It's time to step up. This is a step in the right direction, Luke. It is. There's an evolution to the matchmaking which I can respect.

We'll see whether this lives up. Look, I've been saying it all along. He gets in one brawl in which he wins, Luke. He's going to gain a lot of momentum on this journey. I think that's the one thing he's sort of been lacking. The knockout of Woodley in the rematch was, that's a hell of a viral

piece of advertisement. But he gets in a situation where maybe he gets dropped but gets up and then finishes that fight and wins. That could do a lot in gaining the public's care level, Luke, and support. Because at the end of the day, if you're going to be a fighter and act like one, they want to see you behave like one. I don't think he's misbehaved at all. He's behaved like a fighter up to this point. But that's ultimately the best currency you can give for legitimacy is going out there and getting in something, but getting your hand raised at the end.

I think that's right. I think he, you know, obviously there's a lot of ways this could fight go, but one way they could go is Jake looks pretty good, potentially scores a stoppage, but either way from an eight-round fight or something like that and ends up having a performance against a guy who you can say whatever you want about his ability, but he was a legitimate pro boxer with some legitimate,

you know, knockout wins on his record. That is something he hasn't done yet. So that would be something of a milestone. I don't get Petrozzelli Kimbo vibes, which was, you know, last minute night before change.

And, you know, Kimbo just didn't know what he was in for. This is, this, this guy's got time. I think Jake, you can say whatever you want about him, but he makes reasonably calculated decisions.

This one feels to me like a decent bet on Jake, but a more interesting one from my vantage point. Luke, was that a Showtime fight? Was that an Elite XC Showtime card? I believe it was, yes. Kimbo Petruzzelli? Mm-hmm. All right.

Shout out to Scala, scala the old gary people forget about old gary shaw the promoter he had his day for a while he had his day he had his sweatsuit still has him luke luke i did listen to scala's uh debut rap cd called coffee and chronic yeah not bad not bad shot the scala coffee and chronic not the album per se but the combo uh all right last but not least bc we go to quick hitters now this was surprising felice herrick who I do love Coffee and Chronic. Not the album per se, but the combo. All right. Last but not least, BC, we go to quick hitters. Now, this was surprising. Felice Herrig, who had a career in kickboxing before MMA

and then retired from UFC slash MMA, feels like a couple of weeks ago at this point, has apparently signed with BKFC. BC, you're the resident BKFC scholar and historian. What do you make of this signing? I'm torn, Luke. On on one hand they got a fun division there where everyone's close enough in a way and you've got faces like page van zand rachel otstavich britain heart taylor starling was making a lot of noise in that in that sort

of bracket couple other names you know there luke and they make really fun fights but the reason why i'm torn is this is brutal as shit and you, you know, Felice Herrick, I always had a lot of respect for. She journeyed a long time in this game to even end up right around the 500 career record, Luke. I mean, she fought greatness and was always game, even up until her last loss in which she retired after. I mean, are we past the point of, like, damning BKFC for being so barbaric and feeling like fighters should be better than this? Because I kind of feel like she should be better than this, Luke. But maybe I'm the asshole. You tell me. are we past the point of like damning bkfc for being so barbaric and feeling like fighters

should be better than this because i kind of feel like she should be better than this luke but maybe i'm the asshole you tell me i just don't know once you leave a career in fighting what you again there's going to be plenty of exceptions here or there but in general it's going to be hard to command similar kinds of paydays like what you're going to do get a real estate license i mean yes that would be a long-term transition plan obviously but uh and of course they will have to because you can't fight forever but it you know these are dude bkfc seems like they're spending money they seem like they're spending money and i think it's attractive to people who get outside the ufc and worry like are the payday is going to be worth it is this something i can still do and she comes from a

striking background obviously she's worked on the rest of her game but she comes from a striking background they're probably going to pay her you know relatively speaking pretty well but it's brutal shit luke it's brutal it's i mean you can get carved up in this game you know it is it's a risk you run but again they're they i think they're financially you know for a non-ufc promotion they're probably making it worth her while so take that for what it's worth i mean look if this is the if this is the lake house she's been dreaming of and this fight gets her that, go for it. Go for it, okay?

Yeah, I mean, how many of these will she actually have? I guess we'll have to see. Ray Cepho from PFL says, I can't believe it's taking him this long, but PFL is considering adding a men's bantamweight and women's flyweight division. Now, BC, the bantamweight division is a no-brainer. It's the strongest division in the entire sport right now, arguably. And women's flyweight, people will be like, well, women's flyweight division. Now, BC, the bantamweight division is a no-brainer. It's the strongest division in the entire sport right now, arguably.

And women's flyweight, people will be like, well, women's flyweight. But I think long-term, that actually does have a lot of potential. Yes. Got to say, better late than never, but I like the idea. I do like it as well. And we've always been honest and saying straight up, we didn't really care about the PFL until last season when they really stepped things up across the board, and this season's been fun. Luke, how much, like how long can this depth outside of the UFC last, though?

Because we have a fair amount of companies who I'm sure all position themselves as the number two in the game at the moment in their own eyes and are fighting for their own strand of relevance. Even Habib's promotion, which has good push from ufc fight pass behind it is there enough are there enough will there be enough that's what we got to see i don't think is enough i do i do think that they can get enough in either of those divisions long term to make it worth the investment. I do believe that.

But the Bantamweight one, hardly a – that's a no-brainer to me. I mean, I don't know what took them so long to get to this point, to be quite honest with you. Bantamweight has so much talent. Go get some of it. I like that idea a lot. Luke, how would you rate their announced team individually on scales of 1 to 10?

I like their announced team. I think Sean O'Connell is maybe the most underrated guy in the sport, considering he won the PFL tournament, is a UFC vet, and is also a real broadcaster. You saw Adesanya after the fights being like, I could do your job. He could do some of the jobs. He couldn't do all of them certainly there's many different ones but you see a guy like Sean O'Connell putting it to work in real life like actually really doing

the job which means all the homework all the ad reads all the he does a radio show for Sirius XM as well where he covers I think Pac-12 football or something like that like that dude's a real and he was a broadcaster he was a DJ when when he was a ufc fighter so like he's really he's finally making excellent use of all of that experience in both worlds and i think he's one of the most underrated guys in the sport i genuinely believe that that wasn't a one to ten rate but i do rate him very high luke and for not being able to remember his name last season he's come around he's the legitimate play you know elite play-by-play guy so i want to you know i want to shout about that but dude randy couture is a 10 out of 10 on the uh still as an analyst i

don't care what you say luke i think he's the best fighter analyst in the game today really you think is that good i do i really do maybe i just really like him and we wear the same type of hats luke and probably have the same t level yeah oh shit oh boy You know what I'm saying, Luke? You can, you know, you can. All right. I may have. How much is that Mayweather versus? Oh, Jesus. Not Broner, but.

Birdo, brother. Birdo. How much is that Mayweather versus Birdo shirt either raising or lowering your tee? Yeah. My tee-tees. Yeah. Get off of that move look. Yeah yeah it's raising it a lot look i feel great after i put this on thank you i put on the full disclosure i from the closet this

morning i did grab the bc hawaiian shirt with the pineapples and in my face on it but you know i just felt like an asshole wearing it luke and i you know i i feel like an asshole enough of my day so uh also don't forget maxio versus Vargas will be Saturday on Showtime plus the return of Brandon Figueroa. We'll talk more about that on Friday, but I did want to put a note out there just the same. Thank you. Okay, BC, it is your show, good friend.

Oh, you, one more thing. Don't forget, Patrycki Pipple is out of the Bellator 283 card. He was supposed to fight Sidney Outlaw in a lightweight title defense. But Luke, that's coming up soon. Isn't it like July 23rd-ish? Yes. I'll look up the date here in just a second.

But they announced a replacement there. It was already on the card, but now it's going to be the five-round main event. Douglas Lima taking on Jason, the ass-kicking machine, Jackson. That's a big fight, dude. That's a huge fight. And I got to say, for Jason Jackson, if he gets that win, easily his best win to date. And for Lima, wow, man. I'm not saying losing to jackson is

some like oh you know you obviously suck no jackson's a good great fighter but the losing skid would be really bad for lima that's a high stakes welterweight affair for a lot or no doubt a lot at stake and going five rounds now like the winner's gonna really have to earn it luke i'm looking forward to that can't wait uh do you want to do the shit now, Luke? Is that what you're trying to throw at Mike? Yes, sir. Now is your chance to act up and my chance to be the disappointed dad. Let's do it. Every Monday, but today's Wednesday,

I scour the globe for the good, the bad, the ugly, the in-between, the highs and lows from combat sports and essentially beyond by the end of it. We call this, have you seen this shit? All right, let's catch some feels here, Luke. There was a lot of fighting going on at UFC 276 in Las Vegas. We almost had one outside the cage.

Rate your hang down after watching this. Michael Chandler and Dustin Paulyway needed to be separated after talking that shit look at this luke prohachka uh shaved off his like antenna ponytail yes uh luke the pay-per-view main event no title needed bmf style i mean you'd be down for this right i think it's the fight to make at at lightweight i gotta tell you they just seem like they're on a collision course it's a fun fight it's an action fight it's a winnable fight in either direction yeah like i don't know what's i mean i'm not saying there aren't other good fights you could make with either of them of course you could but michael chandler versus dustin poirier what's bad about that not much it's great dude that is they hate each other right now because it's like looking in the mirror, Luke.

They see too much of themselves in each other. And they're like, there's only one of us. There's only room for one of us here. So I must end you. Look, that could be a brutal fight. Oh, yeah. As long as it lasts, they're going to they're going to demolish each other. No, like not only is it guaranteed action, it could actually be brutal as shit.

Luke, it could look like, you know. No, I agree. Yeah, yeah, you got that right. Okay, let's keep it going. Luke, let's hear some audio here. Here's Jared Cannoneer, who unfortunately came up empty, if you're a big fan of Power Crystals on Saturday. But here's what he said just days before of how he was going to beat Izzy.

I just picked this up late. Coming in there with the same self-belief, the same confidence, the same energy, BDE that I plan on using to get the win. Now, Luke, like Jared, I also

have BDE, but I'd have to imagine his looks different than mine. You know what I'm saying, Luke? Also, it didn't do him a ton of good. It's nice to have, but he didn't get that dub, did he? Could've used it. Here's the post-fight presser. Here's Israel Adesanya being

asked about Jon Jones saying some shit on Twitter. Look, let's go to it. Oh, I didn't see this. Fuck Jon Jones. Fuck Jon. I don't want to hear about that bitch. What is he going to talk about my nails for? He's just jealous and insecure as a fuckboy. He could never rock shit like this. He's a bitch.

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in full and on time every month. Level up from bill payer to reward slayer. Terms and conditions apply. Damn! I gotta say, that's the most... I haven't seen Izzy that short-tempered in a while he was real short-tempered with a lot with a lot of the stuff post fight i don't know if you noticed that yo izzy would love our new uh high court episode probably then i know people think that like we're

arguing for things like we passionately believe we like draw straws like okay you got to defend you got to attack there you go yeah i mean look yeah hindsight could i've done a better argument but you know i also believe john's the goat okay he is dude he's fucking go i mean habib's in that conversation i'd love to debate that any day of the week because because it'd be bad but also like don't you feel like with that comment and some other ones than the one about the media he seemed a little bit sensitive slash short tempered, no? Absolutely, Luke. Absolutely. We'll see what that manifests inside the cage.

Will they ever fight, Luke? Will they ever fight? You mean like ever before they all call it a day? Yeah, Jon Jones versus Israel Adesanya. I'm going to say yes. I'm going to say yes. Okay. Luke, you know who was disco dancing his way to a comeback knockout win,

which may have been the fight of the night. How about welterweight Brian Barbarina challenging his inner Saturday Night Fever here? Luke, you like this? You know, for a Latin guy, this is a little bit disappointing. Maybe he was starting the mower, Luke, to rev up and get ready you know maybe he was just pulling out pubic hairs and then chucking them yeah bring a tear to his eye if he did though luke believe that okay i mean i do you know we didn't talk about it much but that dude had to walk through some shit to get that win that was a good job hell yeah luke i'm gonna turn 44 in about two weeks and you know every day goes by, you and I do not try to fool the audience or ourselves that we are cool or that we understand cool.

I've been telling you for a long time, I don't get Sugar Sean O'Malley. Love the fighter. Don't really love the game. Here's his fans, Luke. You tell me what you see. Juggalos. It's just an ICP concert, Luke. i don't know what's going on now all right listen we don't like bc and i have no effing clue what cool is anymore we just couldn't possibly tell you i don't know i'm so far removed from it and we like to your point we don't hide from that

uh and i do respect sean as a fighter i think he's a very high level fighter but i don't hide from that. And I do respect Sean as a fighter. I think he's a very high-level fighter. But I don't get everything else around him either. Not that I need to. It's not for me to get. I get it. You're old. You got to accept it. You got to lean into it. I do.

But do I understand this? I don't. Check out this taunting move by O'Malley. I got behind this inside the cage, Luke, against Pedro Munoz. Your thoughts? Oh, is this where he spins and makes fun of him? Yes. Oop. No, I like that. spins and makes fun of him? Yes. Oop.

No, I like that. That's my type of stuff in a fight. Yeah, I'm about it. I'm about that. Like, that's kind of funny. Also, Pedro Munoz having to eat shit and release his medical report because people think all fighters who get injured are malingerers. Again, this is like the Izzy debate.

I've seen a lot of people that are more journalists than fans be like, oh, yeah, it was clear that he wanted out. Do you guys know who Pedro Munoz is? Are you guys new to this guy? I mean, are you kidding me? He won the first round on two of the three judges' scorecards. Like, what? Yeah, like four fingers jammed into his skull.

Damn. People are going to say what they're going to say. All right. If Chandler Poirier facing off didn't get you fired up, Luke, how about this one? This happened two days before 276, I believe. Backstage, Henry Cejudo, or offstage, there's no stage around, versus Aljo, Luke, talking some friendly talk,

but this could be a big fight. Your thoughts? See, the Cejudo-Volk fight to me is like i mean no thanks i don't see that as interesting or competitive but this one i see as absolutely can't miss to me aljamain sterling i think i slept on him and i need to just eat crow for it and i have been his obviously ability to to find the back and then use grappling and distance striking is magnificent and suhudo i think has unfinished business in this division he's a tough fight for anyone at 135 maybe the best 135 there is this is obviously a little staged or whatever but uh yeah like what's my what's my phoner level for for suhudo versus

sterling it's it's throbbing that's what it is bc dude i'm fired up by the way because suhudo versus Sterling, it's throbbing. That's what it is, BC. Dude, I'm fired up. By the way, because Suhudo took all this time off, he also could come back very fresh. He could also come back rusty, of course. But look, if he comes back and regains the title, he's going to make historic leaps.

I mean, he made pretty big leaps when he became a two-division champion, even if I didn't think the path he took was rewarding of how much he had accomplished at that point. I think he was there yet to get that call. He got it. He won. Dude, if he can come back and not just make big fights, but win them, he may have a chance

to short-circuit his way to a spot among the greats, Luke. Seriously. I agree. You take time off like that, come back, and then become champion again? Shit, shit dude you're doing something special beyond what he's already done which is already incredible i i'm i'm happy i just don't i was like i just don't want to see the fight at 145 with volkanovsky like to me that just doesn't make it seems like a waste of his time there's too many factors that don't make it competitive but there's a lot of other fights that are i think he would have to re-establish himself at the level of actually regaining the bantamweight a waste of his time. There's too many factors that don't make it competitive, but there's a lot of other fights that are.

I think he would have to reestablish himself at the level of actually regaining the Bantamweight title to really get that call, although I have shown interest in it in the past. Now I can talk myself into him against Aljo, him against Jan, him against Sanhagen,

him against everyone, him in a rematch with Dillashaw, him against Aldo. I mean, this is great shit, Luke. Great shit. All right, here's the video we talked about backstage at 276 nate diaz versus the full send guy um this doesn't look like a joke i will say that luke yeah yeah i mean listen you can't go around just like slapping people you don't who said things you don't like not that he like you know it's not like he's over

here abusing him or something or you know i realize he could have he, like, you know, it's not like he's over here abusing him or something, or, you know, I realize he could have done a lot more. But, you know, at the same time, you just can't be doing stuff like that. Didn't Nate and Schaub almost mix it up backstage at some event? Yeah, I think it was after, correct me if I'm wrong, I believe it was after Mayweather-McGregor, and they had, I don't understand the source of the disagreement I thought

maybe Schaub thought he won a bunch of rounds and Nate told him he was wrong and then it kind of turned ugly I don't know I don't fully remember but I do think it was after Mayweather McGregor I don't think Schaub was trying to escalate I think he was trying to de-escalate rightfully respects Nate but Nate was about it he was like let's let's fucking go right now then you know it is about it but again at the same time dude it's like you don't want to get – here's the thing. It's not like this guy got – this guy from Full Sand. By the way, and UFC is just giving credentials to guys who aren't – I realize their podcast is huge.

I mean, I'm told it's like a significant podcast. I'm not demeaning it in that sense. But they're not like – I always say it. The role of journalist is very distinct from what they do. There's some overlap to it, but they're not the same. It's not a good look to go around smacking upside the head people you don't like because nothing bad

happened here and I think it's not that big a deal in the end. But if you do it again, things can go wrong and you just never know what could happen and why imperil things if you don't have to. That's all I'm saying. Luke, coming this September, it's Triple G Canelo Part 3. We've been getting fired up with these stare-down videos.

How about this? Canelo and Gennady going to Yankee Stadium about a week and a half ago. Here's Canelo warming up in the locker room. Your thoughts? He doesn't have great mechanics. You know, he could beat me within an inch of my life and then some, but he kind of throws like a Tyrannosaurus Rex. All right.

That's fair. Good golfer, though. Definitely good golfer. Yes. I'm told he's actually pretty good as a golfer. Oh, he goes on those celebrity tournaments. He does very well. Very well.

Here they are staring down at home plate at the new Yankee Stadium. Dude, it's – yeah, yeah, Luke. Yeah, I got to say, these stare downs have been – dude, this time, I'm telling you, Canelo's always been annoyed with him. This time, he can barely stand the sight of him. This one should be good. You think that home plate has any smart qualities to it, Luke? Does it call it Uber for you, like the PFL smart cage?

That's a good segue. Let's go to Atlanta. Here's PFL. I think it's Atlanta from Friday night, Luke. This started at the tail end of our live show, so we didn't catch it live. But here's Kayla Harrison advancing to the playoffs, dominating again against replacement what, Caitlin Young was her name, Luke?

Yes. Caitlin Young is a legend in the sport, but she was badly overmatched. I mean, let's just be real. Oh, good lord. Kayla, body She's getting manhandled here. Couldn't quite finish it, but you know.

Speaking of domination, remember Ray Cooper III, the defending welterweight champion, had that really bad fight last time out, Luke, where he just kind of was gassy and wasn't into it. Dude, he made up for it here against Brett Cooper. Watch this barrage, as the French would say, probably. Oof. Oof. Brother. Brother. Dude dude up against the fence ray cooper is gonna put some hands on you son oh oh oh man what referee's just like yo son you're gonna have to take a lot more damage

before i step in to save yo ass dude that was like was like John Jones versus Shogun Hula. That was just an ass-kicking loop. Yeah, it was. Ray Cooper. Ray Cooper, he's tough. Hey, Luke, remember that awesome scene in Indiana Jones? What's the first one called, Luke? Temple of Doom and all that shit. No, no, Temple of Doom was the second one.

The first one, Raiders of the Lost Ark. Raiders of the Lost Ark. Remember that scene where that ninja guy was by the airplane, and then Indy just pulled out the gun and shot him they tried to recreate that i think here luke are we gonna look like a murder then it looked like that other indiana jones scene look oh boy good lord oh oh it's some kind of uh some kind of latin airline did you see that it was like chile espana on the thing you have to unpack your own bags look in this in this one is this like spirit on steroids i will tell you that like there's an airline that's like the rough equivalent that's not quite spirit but it's not great which is copa copa is the one you take to go to like

you know it's like the cheap version of flying to south america it ain't great bro it ain't great are there chickens and cages on it luke or is that extremely i have seen that shit culturally misappropriating right there all right luke let's get right into this countdown of the best fails of the week that's what people care about brought to you by the white folks uh hey kid why don't you uh why don't you stop drop and roll already on this one luke oh jesus christ oh my god luke he he got a little on him there luke a little overzealous you know i'd like to say this is a learning experience but i'm guessing these guys don't spend a significant portion of their life learning he should be able to star in that mask redo remember that movie from the 80s luke yeah it's like i'm just gonna turn my face into uh

into oh jesus oh my god i didn't think this was part of the video take this down already good lord long island luke come on we're trying to clown the guy not relive his pain with him wow sending a message there. PSA, fellas, don't put that shit in your mouth. I think HR might be sending us a message after that. Hey, at least the guy didn't die like that circus performer that time. R.I.P. Luke, let's go to the boat launch.

You're always going to catch white fails there, Luke. Oh, the car. Oh, you're going to get one over. Say goodbye. Say goodbye. Say goodbye. Oh, boy.. Oh, you're just going to get run over. Say goodbye. Say goodbye. Say goodbye. Oh, boy. Yeah.

All right. It ain't summer, and it ain't fail season unless you're setting up a ladder to jump into a pool. And you're also white. Oh, Jesus Christ. Oh, eat a dick. Just. All right. Even on the.

I mean, could there be something less surprising than this WT having above ground pools and then his ladder fails? I mean. He had a warning track around his pool. That should have let him know he was getting close. Just like this outfielder, Luke, in a major league baseball game, joining our fail list this week. All right.

Deep to center field. It's the warning track. Oh. You know what it looked like, the movie The Naked Gun, when they ran that highlight video, Luke, of the tiger coming out to eat the shortstop? You know what I'm talking about? This is me after Friday's show thinking everything was going great

and then sitting down at dinner, you guys are like, that was a disaster. Well, Luke, it was a double knockdown. I endured it with you, and so did this regional MMA double knockdown where anything can happen. Good Lord. So I guess if you can stand after getting brain damage, you win. Yes, yes.

Good news, the winner gets CTE, but so does the loser. Luke, there we go. That's good. Okay, Luke, your favorite game on this show, Would You Eat It? Here we go, Luke. I think they call this an Italian dish.

Spaghetti and shitballs, Luke. Is that like a tennis racket? What the fuck is that? It's just colander. It's a strainer, Luke. It's wow. You gotta really be hungryiner luke it's it's it's wow that you gotta you gotta really be hungry luke to cook it this way you know what i mean or maybe you just like to eat shit wow i like how this came from shannon the cannon briggs's account okay uh who who wants left who wants that there we go Okay. Luke, was that a no? I think that's a no.

Yeah, not a big fan of pasta cooked in feces. That's sort of a rule that I have. How about this? How about this condiment, Luke? That can't be real. I try it. I would try it at least once. I'm not a huge mayo guy, but if you give me a little sweetness in that, Luke, I'll try it once.

You ever try the rootbeard-flavored barbecue sauce that Sweet Baby Ray's put out, Luke? Don't try it. Don't try it. That sounds awful. Luke, you've been a huge Pepto-Bismol fan during your earlier bad health days when we first started Morning Combat. Mm-hmm. fan during your earlier bad health days when we first started morning combat. So what do you think about mixing this with your other favorite vice dot

soda? Oh, I drink the hell out of that. Yeah, you would. Yeah, you would. What is the label say? Savor the pink? Yes. Yes. That's a good advice for life i think steven tyler was into that too luke when he

was uh you know you know pink when he okay uh luke finally uh this is more of a southwestern delicacy but would you eat this luke oh my god wow is that chris lieben wow i've eaten cactus before but only when it's been pulled of its like okay yeah i mean it makes you tougher luke it puts hair on your chest all right it also destroys the inside of your mouth for no apparent reason but okay yeah but so did tobacco palette palettes you know put that little a little beanbag in your mouth for no apparent reason but okay yeah but so did tobacco pallet pellets you know let's put that little a little beanbag in your mouth yeah a little bandits yeah yeah it's big it's big in podcasting all right this week in boxing luke let's start off with this from down under isaac hardman that's his real last name look at this ko he delivered first round jesus i say hard man who grew up with hugh direction luke apparently as well that's great look at that

that's yeah also you know today is the day for you to get all these out because i can't really shit on you today you know i gotta take my l's so today's the day my friend just have a blast uh luke former bantamweight boxing champion Zolani Tete. He's known for his calling card. When he knocks people out, he sings them the lullaby song, Luke. Here's him sending Jason Cunningham to the deep, dark depths over the weekend. Two southpaws. Oh, boy.

Oh, yeah. Not necessarily fully to sleep, Lukeke but a nice finish just the same uh look a trend on this show lately in boxing is uh boxers end up getting knocked the hell out of the ring let's continue that trend i feel like it's happening a lot these days oh uh oh oh oh geez louise oh he's Oh, he's up. Look, he's up. Yeah, he's a little bit wobbly and not just because he's overweight. I wonder if the floor kind of revived him, Luke.

Yo, the floor is lava. All right, Luke, tweet of the week. The Iron Sheik, the WWE Hall of Famer, sending boxing scribe Dan Rayfield to the depths of hell as well. Luke, did you see this? No. The Dan Rayfield one definitely can put away more of the hot dog than the Joey Chestnut, no question. So, dude, some of my favorite food in the world is Persian food,

and Iron Sheik is from Iran. And in high school, I'll give a shout-out to her. I don't even know if it's still around, but my favorite restaurant in Atlanta that served Persian food and Iron Sheik is from Iran. And in high school, I'll give a shout out to her. I don't even know if it's still around, but my favorite restaurant in Atlanta that served Persian food was called Salar. And I used to go to Salar as much as I could. And I went to Salar one time and I was looking on the wall and I was like, there's no way they have an Iron Sheik thing here.

And sure enough, on the wall, who had eaten there was the Iron Sheik with the two owners of Salar. And I was like, I will always come back here. As long as it's a standing, I will always come back here. God bless him. I love that. Great story. Alright, speaking of hot dogs, Luke, it was the Nathan's annual 4th of July hot dog

eating contest yesterday. Luke, he came in tied with Rafael Nadal for the most wins in sports majors history with 14. And now Joey Chestnut stands alone, Luke. He ate 63 hot dogs in 10 minutes to claim his 15th title. And I think he probably blew a few guys after, Luke. What a performance, right?

Well, sort of. In previous years, he had cleared 70. Now, obviously, he's got a lead on his peers by a significant margin. But, you know, his performances relative to his peaks has declined. I'll agree with that. But he has 15 titles overall. And, I mean, does this help his love life, Luke? Seriously.

I don't know. I will say this. Number one, where is Takeru Kobayashi, who before Joey Chestnut was like the man and then he had a falling out with the competitive eating league and didn't like them? Dude, make a comeback already. Make it competitive, all right?

And the other part is I would ask, dude, I asked this on Instagram. A serious question. What are the long-term health outcomes of people who eat competitively? It can't be great. I can tell you, Luke, because I wasn't sanction sanctioned but i did eat out of gas stations competitively for 35 years luke and uh the diagnosis ain't good i'll tell you that much uh luke you said joey wasn't up to his

normal standards i think i got footage of why this is not doctored video while joey chestnut was i did see this was doing this a prot a soy boy, comes running out, Luke. And look at Joey Chestnut putting on him. Joey was like, yo, rear naked choke time, Darth Vader. Oh, God. What does this goofball sign say? Expose what? Battleship.

Battlefield Death Star? um battleship battlefield death star i i think that the name it's like mythfield or something like that i think there's some type of uh uh i don't know what he i'm gonna be honest i don't know what he was protesting luke bro vader hasn't taken an l like this since obi-wan chopped him up in episode three and left him on the side of the volcano river. From the higher ground, of course. Show the second angle of this. We have a lower angle like this. I thought it was a doctored video at first, but Joey Chestnut was about it, about it, Luke. He's like, get the fuck off the way. I got innards to destroy.

I think he just turned into Chewbacca right there. That was great. He could feel that Sith presence. Well, the Sith always comes in twos. Good lord. Damn. Old Joey wasn't having it. And Luke, for the 15th time, here's footage of Joey after

the event. I mean, it must be torture, Luke. it must be torture for that asshole luke right how many times have you been in a situation like this wow and i was talking about his body part not him as a person luke joey chestnut is a legend no seriously how many times have you been on the commode where you were like relatively like this this in the past week on vegas food luke uh actually uh often but thank you very much all right uh luke also i don't know if you see they for the second year in a row they added a chug contest your winner a hot dog veteran eric badlands booker who chugged an entire gallon of pink lemonade the fastest to get the win good

god we should just mainline sugar into his eyeballs what are we what is this wow wow diabetes diabetes indeed luke damn um you know who should compete in that ronnie deutsch from uh from internet drinking oh yeah oh yeah i'd love he would absolutely You know who should compete in that? Ronnie Deutsch from Internet Drinking. Oh, yeah. I'd love to see that. He'd actually house Badlands Booker. Damn right. Luke, did you see this boxing presser from two weeks ago? One guy in the UK brought a dildo.

You heard that right. A dildo to talk trash to the other one. And, Luke, they don't like that shit. I mean, I feel like oh oh oh shit you know that woman's just like yo this is what guys do they just put dildos in each other's face imagine like when her mom called her after how was work today honey you know well yeah she's like well two guys behind me who were not gay or at least i'm not sure if they were gay fist fought over a dildo so normal you know normal normal day all right hey look let's go back to the uh major league were not gay, or at least I'm not sure if they were gay, fist fought over a dildo. So normal?

Normal. Normal day. Alright. Hey, look, let's go back to the Major League Baseball diamond. There's some hijinks. Check out this White Sox fan going to great lengths to catch a ball, Luke, taking off her prosthetic leg. Does this turn you on? That's a winner in so many ways, my

friends. That is a winner in so many ways. Life gives you lemons. You make motherfucking lemonade out there using das boot to haul that in uh let's go to the astros at enron field smells like oh come on just fair question no no she's she's an overcomer she's a survivor look please yeah no come on. Let's see this poor Astros fellow, Luke. Fuck the Astros. Why don't you go bang on some garbage cans? Oh, boy. Karma.

Use your secret camera to film that, dude. Yeah, as my wife would say, Castigo Divino. How about that? Yeah, indeed. Damn right, Mrs. Thomas. Yeah. Oh, boy. Hey, did Tukey like her Crocs or no Damn right, Mrs. Thomas. Yeah. Oh, boy. Hey, did Tookie like her Crocs or no?

Oh, bro. She lost it. I got my girl some Crocs on. They were on sale. There was a Crocs outlet in Las Vegas, and then there are Minnie Mouse Crocs that light up when you walk. She loves them. Oh, love that.

Love to hear that. Let's stay in the old ballpark. Check out this hero using one hand to prevent injury from other people. I've done that when I played Little League and just chucked that shit like a million miles. Oh, yeah. This guy fielding the grounder like it's nothing. Bro, he just caught that bat like a superhero. I don't know who that is.

Me neither, even though I'm a Mets fan, Luke. But I'm taking a few decades off. Why do baseball players wear the Jan six glasses? Have you noticed that they love those? The J Aaron glass. What? No. We got more Luke.

Here's another fall ball mishap. Let's check this out. Here's the pitch. Oh, that's not good. That is. Wow. is this a minor league team i didn't even notice yeah i think it is uh that guy could have because there's no netting behind behind home plate nope oh boy right in the old i think was that in the bear cup the beer bear beer let's see it topples it into him oh hold that amazing amazing uh look a lot of requests

for this one to show up uh philly's at mets i believe or maybe it's the other way around but check out the behavior here in the crowd after this zealous mets fan talking a little jay oh wait oh he's out he's in he's Philly, and they just chucked his phone. Yeah, you don't do this in Philly, bro. Looks like they're in New York, actually, right? No, that's Philly. No, they're in Philly. Yeah, they're in Philly.

Bro, who taunts Philly fans in Philly? Yeah, I mean, come on. You're asking to get your ass whooped in the parking lot, or the men's room, or any other part, really. Dude, they don't give a shit in Philadelphia. There you go. Look at that mom with her kid just taunting him to her face that's that's how it is in philly look i've said this story before my entire baseball life experience coming up was shea stadium and yankee stadium sitting in the bleachers of yankee stadium where like you know they clip your ticket once if you did something really offensive and then throw you out at two and they'd put you in the jail downstairs,

Luke. And dude, like if you showed up with other clothing on the late 90s to the bleachers at Yankee Stadium, it got taken off of you and thrown. Like it doesn't matter if your wife or kids are with you. Like kids weren't a lot. You don't want to bring your kids to that shit. Batteries getting thrown, food, whatever. Luke, I told you this story before.

2001, I go to a Cubs game, sit in the Wrigley Field bleachers, take my shirt off like a bleacher bum, get vicious sunburn to where I had scars. I still have scarring today, Luke. But I was like, yo, to my friend, tee up Jim Edmonds, and I'll say really foul things about his mom. Because, Luke, that's how it's done in places like Philly and New York. And when I did that shit in the Midwest they called security

on me even though I was taunting the other team the Cardinals Luke and they came and like got in my face and like bitched me out dude they're like we don't do that in Chicago I don't know shit about Chicago to say that fuck Chicago then

okay I mean I like Mike Ditka and Ray Flores but fuck Chicago alright I like Chicago Chicago's a cool city alright hey Luke how about you rate this tat check out this overzealous Batman fan but I think you're gonna like the technique here holy shit that is an excellent tattoo

wow yeah that is I wouldn't want it, but that is extraordinary. Okay, okay. Good to see you didn't become the... Very, very good. ...the fun police and take away from this guy. But speaking of the fun police, Luke,

we got a few of them this week. This is definitely you in retirement taking a rent-a-cop security job and telling those stupid skater punks where they can throw it, Luke. Oh, hell yeah. Fuck these kids. That's my number one rule in life is fuck them kids.

Let's move on to the parking lot here, Luke. This guy's trying to be an entrepreneur. He's trying to start a second business. He calls it tease for titties, and the local police not so happy. What's wrong with that? That's a good deal right also this guy is probably gonna has a hard time seeing titties in real life like you know give him help him out yeah yeah look you ever talk to like your old grandfather he's like we used to play tackle football in the street and you're like yeah right grams apparently it's a thing look let's check out check out these fine young men in the urban setting.

Nice little screen pass. Oh, yeah. Tell that garbage who's boss, Luke. I like this route he's running. He looks like a mixture of radio and what was that, Adam Sandler football movie? I don't know. I guarantee he's still better than any running back the commanders have.

Bobby Boucher was the one I was looking for. Not Waterboy. Yeah, Waterboy. Yeah, yeah. All right. Luke, our fight of the week did not take place in the octagon. It took place by the pool. Did you see these two old white bastards?

One probably stole the other's uh high noon luke or white claw this is actually me and bc after the friday show and uh you know we had to we had to fight it out you know i accept there's bc punching me i accept a short right hand i like that yeah yeah i accept it and uh you, just ducking and nearly falling into the water. I mean, look at these off-balance fatsoes. It's just unbelievable. Oh, Jesus Christ. And then he's just getting whooped up on here. Oh, man.

He's going for the Homer Simpson sweep. Yeah, he got the Homer Simpson sweep on him. That's nice. Get the high crotch. Run the pipe, bitch. Look at the... This is the saddest shit. And then doing, like, women's MMA from, like, 1999.

Fucking bro. That was a judo toss, Luke. Come on. Head toss. I mean, it's just the saddest shit on earth. And then some nice dude is breaking it up in sandals. You just know if someone's breaking up your fight by the pool in sandals, you're a fucking bum.

That's what you are. Luke, a lot of people don't like A-Rod because he just won't stop being his cheating-ass successful self. Here's A-Rod playing hoops on a yacht. Rate his game here, Luke. Or don't. All right, we got some bonus content right here, Luke. Did I send the wrong link?

It's possible. It's very possible. Well, here's some white people risking death for no apparent reason. Here's what Dana White won't do for sure. Luke had. Why am I? By the way, dude, did you hear anything? I obviously hear a gazillion rumors.

Did you hear anything concrete about why Dana was completely absent from the biggest weekend of the year? A lot of COVID rumors, but I did not get anything concrete. And I would only be speculating, Luke, beyond what people have rumored or speculated themselves. But I hope he's OK. Look, we need him in this game, okay? Alright. We do. He won't be doing that. I don't know what's next. What do we got? One more? We got this

No A-Rod clip. Alright. Luke, he hits like a fall-away jumper on the yacht and then like talks all this game like a rich piece of crap. Luke, we do have one final guy. This is not you at the live show, but check out this drunk guy just ruining this wedding, Luke. He don't care.

Yeah. Oh, he's white. How out of character. Here's Luke talking to the crowd at the live show. This is me talking to BC. Yeah. Trying to hump him. He's like, no, the wedding's going great, right?

Yeah. Yo, what is this fucking redneck about you just oh jesus christ well you know what i gave a little bit all right all right my man's got working a little bit there somebody turned the jason aldean back on i mean he's got the most he's got the most ill-fitting clothing and the worst shoes you could ever wear to a wedding but you know what it came in handy he's definitely packing heat too there's no quite look that dance like seven weapons on him every He's got the most ill-fitting clothing and the worst shoes you could ever wear to a wedding. But you know what? It came in handy. He's definitely packing heat, too. There's no question.

Look, that dance floor could get him. Oh, he had like seven weapons on him. Every time I go, like, it's weird. Like, you've never been. By the way, next time we go to Vegas, A, I hope I don't get a communicable disease. And by the way, hilarious that I don't get any problems until I go to red state America, which Nevada's a little bit purple, but even blue. But you get the idea with how many donks are there who are not from blue state America. But either way, we you can't condemn everyone who votes right wing luke i mean don't no i'm not but

it's like i've you know i have no problems not getting covid here and then there's minute i go to las vegas or the minute i go to florida i get communicable diseases but yeah to be fair i hate both sides including you luke but yes that's, that is more than fair. Neither here nor there. The thing I was saying was we got to go to a range. You can always tell how good the shooting range, and I'm being dead serious, by how in shape the range safety officers are. So if you go to like, I went to one place,

I won't even say this name, it went up in flames, and people would routinely kill themselves there. You had the fattest people on earth, they would have nothing but a fucking batman belt filled to the brim with knives fucking handguns the whole thing and then you go to the like the locked on ones where the guys are like either reservist or former you know military guys and they're all in shape if you the range safety officer is in shape yo that range is locked on if you got a fat so up there i'm not trying to fat shame but the reality is what it is. You've got a proud boy who's just hiding in plain sight, who doesn't know

shit, and you're probably going to have someone off themselves next to you. Wow. Okay. All right. As Jim Gray once told Gervonta Davis, Luke, enough is enough there. Thank you. All right. That's the shit of

the week luke saw thank you uh was wait which place did you take your wife to on your first date the latter or the form no forget it forget it i took her to uh silver eagle which was the which was a good range very good it didn't burn down like that great white concert in rhode island oh jesus in rhode island no no that. No. All right. Luke, we have one other segment we do on Wednesdays normally. And morningcombat at gmail.com is your path to get there. Please don't DM me unless we have that. All right? No, you can DM me.

I don't care. Don't send me your fan sub. Send it to Mikey Mormarle, our proud host from CBS Sports, our producer, our man. Luke, the first one comes in from, oh, sorry. Every week you make your artwork and your tight T-shirts work for us. It's called fan submission. Viewers. We've got mail.

Yes, Luke. Viewers. Viewers. Do we have any female viewers who weren't accompanied by another man at the show? We had a couple, right? Melissa Loves Nachos was solo, I think. I don't know if she was solo, but what a sweetheart. It was great meeting her along with so many of the people that.

It's like you know their name, Luke. You know them from fan subs. Then you get to meet them. By the way, Luke, some guy glad-handed me some contraband, by the way. It happens on the road, Luke, okay? Was it Jizz-filled Landjager? What was it? We'll bring it up later.

Luke, this was from Rob with two Bs. Seriously, two Bs on that? Hey, Donks, I'm currently taking a year-long sabbatical from work travel through Central America and South America. I'm in Mexico, and I have two things to bring to your attention. While in Puerto Escondido, I couldn't help but notice

some potential copyright infringement issues that this t-shirt printing company may be committing by using Luke's face without permission. Luke, what does that word below it, that sentence mean? I don't know. I don't know what serigraphia and sublimation

it mean exactly uh i'm guessing it's just printing uh but i don't know that's you that's like well here's like going here's what i realized it's actually it's actually not me but what i would say is there's probably every town in latin america probably has an old bitch like me and so this is this is whoever the local old bitch is it's like european vacation when they got their camera stolen and then all the pictures of uh of uh of beverly d'angelo were all over on like side of buses and stuff luke remember that yeah you may find yourself in like a men's club one day all right uh and secondly following my morning run recently in Puebla, I came across what can only be described as the ultimate structure

to pay homage to everyone's two favorite washed dads. Luke, is this a tip-on-tip art installation here in Puebla? Yeah. This is the highest level of art. Now, it's not quite the same art as the guy and his friend who got the tattoos of the guys grabbing dicks together, but it's certainly on par. I respect this thank you so much rob and ps says rob speaking of tips my next stop is columbia luke what advice and suggestions do you have

while i'm there other than bbl spotting and margarita guzzling it's mk it's all day it's nearly every day it's rob from edinburgh scotland the birthplace of sean my experience is they don't drink a ton of margaritas down there i mean they have them but it's not like a super prominent thing my best advice and i mean this sincerely doesn't matter where you go columbia has a ton of fruits that literally aren't even sold here you can't buy them at whole foods you can't buy them at farmers markets they don't they don't exist lean into some of that get the foods there you cannot like especially the fruits that you cannot get anywhere else there's a ton of them the biodiversity in columbia is wild so do that i'd be interesting in sampling that with rob but this is

the real saul luke not the pretender not anthony that i missed up by the way i also missed up jeremy oh and our live show. It was a different Jeremy O. I mean, listen, it wasn't our best day. I'm washed. Well, also, I mean, I was a little messed up too, Luke, okay? That's true, all right? Yeah. Little secret, you couldn't tell because I was running around like I was on fire,

but BC was a little fucked up too. When I wasn't spilling drinks all over myself. All right, this is from Saul. I hosted a cookout and pool party this weekend and smoked my first brisket it took 12 hours and it was the first thing that was gone compared to the hot dogs brats and burgers all while wearing the only merch worth wearing and spreading the word of love of mk first all day that hot dog is an abortion i mean let's just call that what it is yo that That hot dog is an abortion. I mean, let's just call that what it is. That hot dog is an abortion.

I mean, Roe vs. Wade would eliminate this hot dog. What are you going to do? All right. The brisket looks pretty good, except BC. Now, I'm not a brisket expert. Pull the full frame back up for just a second.

Mac and cheese looks all right. Beans look all right. Dude, this looks like heaven little except for those pickles dude those pick first of all pickles are just dressed up cucumbers like trying to look fancy at night on their vinegar like they still suck okay get those off pickles are great but that they don't put pickled like chips in a fucking hot dog bun i mean that's look i have five enemies in life okay spiders pickles black licorice thunderstorms and me oh and chicks who smoke cigarette cigarettes look okay those that's about it all right yeah i like pickles but they don't and i don't even mind a pickle spear and a hot dog like chicago style but But this one is a Cannibal Corpse album. I mean, what are we doing here?

Alright, but the real Saul love the guy. And did you accuse me of saying that all Saul's look alike as if it was some like, you know, Anthony looks like him, Luke. They're just different sizes. He does. I agree he does. Saul, thank you for repping us there with your hat at the

party. You did great. All right, let's go over to Henry from Los Angeles. Happy 4th or 5th, since it's the day after. I woke up this morning after a brutal 4th. I thought your hawking of AG1 could help me recover, but alas, it did not, as I've run out. Don't know why my phone was recording me at exactly the time I woke up, but hey, thought you guys deserved to see this. Thanks, RJ Dinkle Thumper Grundle Humper for the hat. I appreciate it. Let's see this Donk Henry here.

He don't fuck chicks, Luke. There's no chance here. Let's see what this guy looks like. He looks like the rapper Esoteric. Oh my god. We doing a bit here, Luke? Skits and bits from Henry? Skits and bits. Yeah, you know, listen.

I love the mouth breathing. Oh, we got the AG1. The AG1 would have worked. It would have revived you, Henry. Yo, buddy. Yeah, sorry, bro. That's hilarious. That's well done.

Look, I didn't know Henry before this. Maybe he's been on this segment before, Luke, but he ain't Saul. He ain't the David Appleton, all right? This guy's coming on, though. Here's Timmy Poo sliding in. What's up, Luke and BC? During last week's fan subs, you received a sub from a donk named Chewy

who mentioned he was called a donk while walking through DC. That was me! We passed each other during an intersection at the National Mall. It was one of the hottest days of the year and we were both sweating buckets, so I said, sup donk and kept walking. Here I am with my big beefy rescue dog apollo in front of the u.s marine corps war memorial i was a

zero three five one from 2010 to 2015 luke your thoughts on timmy poo yeah infantry he was infantry um and you can tell he looks like a hoss marine also that quote there is like one of my all-time favorite quotes from admiral nimitz uh uncommon valor was a common virtue um from the pacific campaign battles i really that's one of my that's one quote like you know the marine corps gives you a lot of propaganda and and some of it sticks some of it doesn't that one that quote has always stuck with me did you ever see the 80s war movie Uncommon Valor with Gene Hackman and Patrick Swayze and a few other big names, Luke? No, but I think I've heard the Vinnie Paz and R.A. the Rugged Man song using that quote. Yeah, yeah, great shit right there.

Timmy has one more. The second photo is a little bonus Rate My Tat featuring my dog Apollo. Party Man is a reference to the Prince song from 1989 Batman you two big oafs are on the east coast so when are we gonna get an east coast meetup the degenerates near Vegas have been spoiled enough love everything you do seriously MK every day till I pass away, rate Timmy's tat. It's okay. I know that voice. Dude,

Mr. HeBoss all over again, I know that voice. I know that delay. It's not great. It's not great. But it's not terrible. It's okay. Okay. Listen. I'm just trying to explain this to people.

First of all, I have terrible tattoos too, tattoos too number one number two you get them for yourself you don't get that i know that seems hard to believe because people think i'm getting it to show you and i suppose there's some level to that but like in general you get it to reward something about your life so it doesn't matter if i like it what matters is if he likes it and obviously that dog by the way the dog is awesome can we both agree on that the dog is tremendous love that dog love this guy timmy too you know he was a marine luke and that's not x or former he is a marine to me by the way when you were here did you go by the eighth and i area i went across the mall through the world war ii memorial and i didn't know that the... The 8th and I is the opposite side of that.

It's on the other side of the Capitol. It's past Capitol Hill. It's where the Marine barracks are, and it's where the Commandant of the Marine Corps, who's like the top general, lives. But I'll try to explain this to people. One, it's just a row of restaurants and bars. You should go check it out.

But the other one is you'll see Marines standing guard with big-ass rifles on the street because they're guarding the Commandant's house. And then that's where they have the silent drill team who puts on shows all summer. It's a cool thing to go check out. Remember Commandant Lessard, Luke from the Police Academy films? That guy was the best, right? I remember

Hightower. He was big and strong. I mean, how cool was that guy who made voice noises, Luke? I mean, it's probably annoying to be married to, but that guy was the best, right? Yeah. Yeah, his best man speech was just like R2-D2 fucking jizzing or something. Who knows?

Wow. Yeah. It'd be a good comedy routine, Luke. This is from John, who says, this is BC's cycle. We'll see what that means. Okay. I don't quite get it. I don't get it either luke they just swapped our heads so if i put on muscle i'll look like the guy on the left and if you

yeah but i i i don't have a lot of muscle i'm i don't look like i mean okay okay all right thanks john we'll try again next week i think mike mikey's away today maybe he didn't uh maybe you know what the quality control was missing let a loose one in here uh let's go over to alice is that a chick representing mk at the ufcx which was the fan festival see the attached it's your fan alice that's hilarious oh i like that last name is upon so yeah you get to me i did one of those at a canelo fight one time luke i was staring down against canelo i like that shout out to alice luke shouts to alice

female viewers we got one we got one all right uh luke this is from david me and my lovely lady have been rocking the mk gear i got for father's day yes that's an mk hat as well as the live international fight week show was hilarious luke turned into a full frat boy and bc wasn't the belligerent one for once what a turn of events fuck yeah mk all day from shady south florida Live long and stay high, donks. And P.S. Don't mind the Snapchat filter my girl took. It is what it is, bruh. Max Holloway voice. It's David.

Luke? You like this man? I was going to kill him for the filter, but now that he acknowledges it, I have nothing to say except thank you for the support, bruh. Yeah, he got his beautiful lady involved. This is, you know, he's spreading it it he's spreading his seed our seed on his family i'm into that look believe me okay yeah you get what i'm saying here okay there we go uh this is

scott he says uh made it over to the strip for your beer house show not brew house beer house show after work i understand how you think nobody works in Vegas, but maybe a five 30 or six star would have been better. You East coast pieces of time travel garbage. Anyways, I was able unlike Luke to show some skin behind the OG other guy, BC, like the dude at his press conference question appearance. I wasn't as focused as a,

as him blame your traveling circus of freaks, crew and equipment. Just kidding. They made you bums look good. I wasn't trying to wait in line and rub dongs with y'all. You got male viewers, though, that showed up but took some underground background stalker pics. Thanks for coming out.

Hopefully, y'all survived. It's Scott. Yeah, I didn't see this donk, Luke, but I appreciate him coming by just the same. Yeah, I don't recall meeting him in the line but if he came by i appreciate it there's a dude who was like seven three that came in our line luke yeah that was luca oh no well luca fury showed up the uh the handicapper and uh i didn't i remember the the name of the other guy who was tall as shit i had to look up to him which is pretty rare rare. He was tall. Hey, we got fans of all sizes, Luke.

I like that a lot. I guess we close with Danger Mouse because that's the rule in these parts, Luke. Hi, BC. Is he going to kill me? I'm back again from my regular slot. I suspect Luke might have already taken a beating in this segment, so I'm going to start with you,

with your abandonment of your co-host on Thursday when you could have hung out with Luke on his own show but instead went shopping. Maybe that's what triggered Friday's events. There was this. There was this. We got out Thursday morning. I'm like, hey, BC, what are you up

to? He's like, I'm going to go get records with Aaron Bronstetter. And by the way, not you, pussy. And I was like, that's a little strong, but okay. You hate records, bro. You hate it. they have a second one here from danger mouse anyway back to luke for his recipe for friday night's entertainment i mean yo the only point about this is i can clown as he spelled margarita wrong i like that part but yeah yeah the gist of the joke is that this is about the most

perfect meme you could think about yeah well done uh he closes with finally i'd like to wish all you treacherous colonel bastards a belated fourth of july from the mother country and leave you with luke as the patriot that's right me and mel gibson except i try not to be racist look he was at the fight so was vince mcmahon what a he was at the fight. So was Vince McMahon. What a wild night at the office. We weren't even at the fight. Bro, did you see Vince McMahon? My man looked like he aged 40 years in the last 40 days.

Dude, I tell you, watch that WrestleMania match he just had, Luke. They should not have allowed that. Holy shit, he looked bad. Not in terms of wrestling. We know he looks bad. He's 70 fucking years old, but he just looked like an old bastard, Luke. That's the shit this week. I want to shout out one more fan luke um i forgot his name maybe you remember the guy who told us he he came here from india on vacation yes i forget his name as well but yes he's he came up to me and he goes you know i'm from india and i represent my

home country i'm like luke but he goes bc i'll tell you one thing every single 90s lyric that you drop i pick it up i get you you know i mean i i see what you're putting out there so unnamed fellow from india who traveled on his vacation to see us and ufc 276 thank you brother thank you so much yeah and thank you to everyone who again for whatever your experience was positive or negative from friday show there were a lot of people who's show, there were a lot of people who, by the way, there was a lot of people from Vegas who showed up, which is cool, but there was also a lot of people who traveled there from Arizona, California, wherever.

We appreciate them as much, if not more, given what the challenges they had to overcome to get there. So thanks to everybody. Again, you know, one more time, sorry that I played a role in the biggest one in making it not great, but we will do them again. They will be better.

You can be sure of it. You can bet nothing more than that. We'll utilize our guests better. It'll be great. As long as you can hear us live, then it's going to be a great show, really. I also like, the beer house was great, BC, but I do wonder, like, I'm just making this up, but if we had done it in a coffee shop would it have gone off the rails you know

something like that I don't think it would have or a church or an elementary school yeah elementary school stuff together yeah well I want to remind everyone obviously there are some fights this weekend for UFC but also Showtime.com 30 day free trial if you like it keep it if not you can bounce that's

up to you but you can go do that. Now you want to email the show for Friday's Dead Wrongs, and I imagine there's going to be a metric ton of them. MorningCombat at gmail.com will be the place to be. You want to get some merch? Easy to do that. You go to morningcombat.store. We've got some cool stuff heading your way,

so be on the lookout for that. BC, any final message for the folks here before we call it a day? Donks, we did that trip for you you voted us in on those awards you showed up you showed out people watched at home they spoke whether they liked it or they didn't you heard our retraction redaction apology today we love you

we do this fun shit whether it's high court or room service diaries or whatever because you guys dig it you guys get us and that I mean mean, thank you. Thank you to all. Friday's live show debacle is not the end of MK. In fact, it's just going to fuel an even better documentary.

It's going to fuel an even tighter relationship between two sexless men. That is the foundation of this show. Okay, Luke, you're great. I love you. Even if you secretly hate me when you're drunk it's cool luke okay it's cool most people in my life secretly hate me okay i listen i turned i turned into uh listen where you know this you know this we grew up in an era where when guys got drunk they and they still even now but like we just shit on each other all the time there's a right

time and a wrong time and like you can have the volume up to five, or you can have the volume up to ten. There was a lot I didn't calibrate, but it's all for show. You're the best. I'm so glad you're my friend and my business partner. My quarterback. That's right, bro. So next time, I'm going to make sure everyone gets exactly what they had hoped for

and then maybe a little bit better, and we will. What do you think about that Donks question, though though will there ever be an east coast meet and greet does it have to be vegas international fight week think about this i mean i don't know who's gonna be there but like do you think mma fans are gonna show up for the jake oh you're not gonna be there for the jake paul fight are you i'll be there for the fight not for the whole fight week not for the whole fight i was gonna say my birthday is the day before the fight my birthday is august 5th there could have been an opportunity there but if you're're not going to be there, I guess not. But the answer is, dude,

UFC is going to go back to New York City eventually, right? Like they're going to go. We'll just do it when they go back. We'll just do it when they go back. All right. And look, I want more of this to be a thing. Everyone, you know, we staggered the times without really planning it,

but people came to ours. They went to Ariel's. All good. All great at the end of the day. Okay. Support. Look, the Colman the day, okay? Support. Luke, the Colman event podcast guys had their own get-together. Yep.

This is great from the fans. Let's keep it going. Absolutely. There's room for everybody. All right. So for Showtime, for CBS Sports, for Malka, for Brian Campbell, I'm Luke Thomas, and everyone else in the MK universe, we appreciate you guys watching.

We'll talk to you on Friday, and until then, may all of your gains be loyal.