The Ariel Helwani Show - The Boys in the Back: Celebrating UFC Apex 100, apex predator P4P rankings, more

Episode Date: November 7, 2024

The Boys in the Back, Eric Jackman (NewYorkRic) and Conner Burks (GC), are on the road to UFC Apex 100, so they're reminiscing about some of the best moments at the illustrious venue (01:54).Then, Mysterious Frank joins The Boys make parlay picks  (52:16) give their P4P rankings of apex predators (01:00:53), and answer your questions (01:26:56).

but but but but boys in the back but but but boys boys boys boys boys boys in the back good we are back another edition of back as you can hear on our our great intro song this is another edition of the boys in the back i am your host one of two hosts connor burks also known as gc join alongside me my man new york, Rick. Hello. How are you? I don't think I've ever been better in my entire life. Wow. What an endorsement. Rick, as you know. Frank, as you know.

I didn't ask. I was getting to a point here. Jordan, Andy, my fellow combat fans around the world. It's an important week in this nation's history. It's UFC Apex 100. We have finally made it to the destination.

It feels like this has been brewing for a long time now, and Dana White and the UFC delivered. Neil Magny, Carlos Prates, minus 750. It's certainly an Apex card. It is's certainly an Apex card it is most certainly an Apex card you said we got to the destination I do have to say though we didn't really get to the destination

because getting to the destination would have meant GC front row UFC Apex 100 we would have but maybe we will right now there's no not for. Right now, there's no, not for this weekend, not for this weekend. Right now, there's no UFC Apex cards currently on the schedule on ESPN.com. I believe they're about to do renovations.

What a way to end it. UFC Apex 100. When I say they nailed this, they absolutely nailed this. I also said we made it to the destination. But in life, man, it's not about making it to the destination. It's about the journey. Love that. It's about the moments you had along the way.

It's about the memories that you made and the friends that you made along the way. So why don't we relive Apex 1 to Apex 100? Everything in between, the pay-per-views, the fights the lad dumont cards the i think we have to touch on this though because the people who are not as locked in on the apex numbering and and follow this as closely as you do and i do obviously it's not the 100th event correct it is not the 100th event at the ufc apex obviously during covid the main purpose of the only purpose of the Apex really was to be able to continue to put on events, uh, through the pandemic. So there were pay-per-views there. Um, but I'm talking about like the Apex fight nights. Yeah. You're getting these random

main events that would not be in front of a crowd. Like it's, it's obviously, and we're going to go back and look through a lot of the best moments. Cause there have been some fantastic moments. You just see like this, just like steep decline across the 100 events. Like UFC apex four was like Dustin Poirier versus Dan Hooker. And like had a sick co-main event. And like, now it's just like 95 was like Tybura Spivak too. And it's just like the use of the apex during the pandemic was yes a massive massive

benefit to the ufc it was innovative it was intelligent it was incredible i mean we both worked at espn at the time yeah and there were no live sports that were going on except for korean baseball and the ufc shout out to the kbo getting up at 4 a.m betting on some korean baseball was good but betting on apex events events was a lot better. And it really changed the game. It took them to a completely different stratosphere in terms of casual fans going, I've got no other sports. This is the only thing on.

I will watch this. And then converting it to fans. It was massive for them. Yeah, and they were able to do it all throughout. But now it's sort of shifted to man we can save a lot of money by doing this here and we don't have to use up our high-end talent for cards that are going to be in front of massive fan bases and a lot of people like to make the argument like well at least we're getting fights at least we're getting fights we're getting the exact same

amount of cards that we were getting before the pandemic but before the pandemic they were always in arenas packed with fans. Yeah. It's like, that's always like, whenever I shit on the Apex, even if it's in jest, just having fun, people will always come to the defense, like, at least we're getting fights.

It's just like, we were always getting the same amount of fights, brother. We always were. In fact, they're contractually obligated to deliver those fights. 2019 was like 42 fight cards. 2023 was like 42 fight cards. Yeah.

It's always the same. But we are going to have some fun today with it. We're going to look back on some actual. I think it's important also to say we do have some fondness for the Apex, and it is not just all jest, right? It is not only like the idea of how ridiculous it is that they are fighting in a warehouse. When you compare it and contrast it to the fact that in front of fans, it's a completely different product.

There is utility to it. And also during the pandemic, it was crucial. It was essential as we've laid out. And there are some truly memorable moments that have happened in the apex that are part of the fabric of the sport. Now a thousand percent. And honestly,

it's, it's a real test on the casualness of a fan. If someone starts talking to you about the UFC and you're just like, Oh yeah, I was watching apex 93 last night. They're just like mefc and you're just like oh yeah i was watching apex 93 last night they're just like me too and you're just like oh shit seriously oh it's like you're actually a fan you're hardcore it's a it's a great gauge for it um so before we even look at ufc apex 100 we we have to look back how did we get here sometimes to look forward you got to look back and And that's exactly what we're going to do. Let's go all the way back to 2019.

I pulled this tweet from our guy, Damon Martin of MMA Fighting, now of MMA Fighting, our man, your man. January 11th, 2019. Hearing that the UFC purchased the building next to their HQ in Las Vegas with plans to gut it out, essentially turn it into a warehouse, and that it will serve as part of the upcoming campus they are planning that will include a full production studio as well as a facility where

Tough and the Contender series will take place. I don't know if he's the only one that had this scoop, but that's the one that came up. That feels like the birth of it all. Little did we know that it would become such an essential part. It was not just campus building. It would turn into something much bigger. had big plans this was uh the apex another very cool video that

i went back and found dana white tweeted this one out in uh i want to say october of 2020 but it was like when they finally got all the production up and running and they were they were fully a ufc apex powerhouse production megaplex uh i want to say this was from october 2020 i mean people Apex, Powerhouse, Production, Megaplex. I want to say this was from October 2020. I mean, people, they got the masks, they got the walls up in between. So, I mean, yeah, the essentialness of it really has been incredible. So, let's get into some of the moments, the best moments. Yeah.

All for Rip, what is your favorite moment that comes to mind? I think I'm biased, but it was, it was Kevin Holland talking to hubby through the cage because I have a fondness for Kevin Holland. I have a fondness for his trash talk. I had a fondness for the, in the,

um, in cage talking that he did, more particularly at that time, to the point that I made a super cut of, like we started at ESPN MMA when we were working on the social, we started doing the like, turn the commentary noise down

and bring up the mics and be able to hear that, caption it. We started kind of like doing that a lot with the social media platform. And so hear that caption it we started kind of like doing that a lot um with the social media platform and so kevin holland was kind of the star of that because he was talking so much in the cage and there was so much that you could kind of do with that um so i have very fond memories of that i made a super cut of all of his best trash talk i made a super cut of the habib one in particular that really stands out to me because i was so locked in on it

fight wise though yeah here we go showing that we're playing the clip i mean he is like yelling that really stands out to me because I was so locked in on it. Fight-wise, though, yeah. Here we go. We're playing the clip. I mean, he is, like, yelling at Habib from the cage, Habib with the plastic barrier even though they're— While it should be noted getting dominated by Derek Brunson, like, not winning the fight. Between every round.

If we have audio, can we play it on this? Control your hips. I mean, Habib is, a jake yelling to him. Don't do all this s***. Come on. Let's go. Let's go, brother. Control your hips.

Control your hips. Move. Move around. He's giving him wrestling advice. Next time. Next time, I will teach you. You have to. You have to.

You have to. What's hilarious about this one. Hips control. I mean, how good is this, by the way? Just how B, like, teaching him wrestling in the middle of a fight. Stay busy on your boxing. You have heavy hands. Stay busy.

And Kevin Holland, like, is, like, the perfect example of that. Like, just, like, between every round going to him. And you can't do that in a normal arena. No. No chance. No. And from that, it spawned, like, thelland on the plane going to dagestan memes like trying to learn wrestling um it was kind of a great moment fight wise though like fights

just isolated in a vacuum it's got to be poor a hooker for me how could it not be that is the one i mean like especially when you watch it back and they've the ufc has released a uh a video without any commentary of it and so all you're hearing is just these dudes completely just going to war. And you can hear the landing of every single shot on it. And I mean, it was just like an absolute banger of a fight. And these are in the early days of the Apex. I want to say this was like Apex 4 or something like that. But it was just an all-time classic, an all-time fight.

And it just happened to take place in the Apex. In front of a crowd, it probably would have been one that is talked about in legendary status. I do feel like it does kind of get a little bit lost in the sauce. Because if it was in front of a crowd the way Dustin Poirier and Max Holloway was in Atlanta, it would be remembered. Certainly, if you're a fight fan, you remember this fight. But I do think it lost some of its appeal because it was in the apex and people don't remember the raucousness and the and the reactions you know how after all the like huge um arena knockouts or crazy fights they

cut to the front row and you see every fighter being like oh my god you don't get that for this you don't have that memory of it but the fight itself was like all time and if it was in front of fans it would have taken it to like 10 levels higher and you don't get that memory of it, but the fight itself was all-time, and if it was in front of fans, it would have taken it to 10 levels higher. And you don't get that massive pop when they're just going to war with each other, trading huge shots. You miss out on all that, but you get hearing them talk shit and hearing every single punchline. It's fantastic. Before we get to my favorite moments, and it's going to kill me,

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I was about to remind, get your super chats in. Get your questions. We'll answer them at the end of the show. So ask those throughout, and we'll wrangle them up and answer them for you at the end of the show. My favorite moment, and honestly, going back and watching the clip reminded me of just how hilarious it is. It's the Mike Perry walking out.

And instead of what I thought was he thinking he wanted the Halo theme song, the epic halo theme song and instead he gets beyonce's halo it just is such a good moment because as he's walking you can hear him turn to his his guys i think we have the video for this like you can hear him as he's walking out like he starts making the realization turns to his guys he's like what the fuck is this and he's just like you know what let's just run with it obviously we can't play Beyonce on the air here but like he is all about it

he's just like let's do it he gets hyped for it he starts singing he knows the words for it and like it's just such an all time clip especially with where

Mike Perry has gone since then like this if I'm not mistaken it was one of his last ones it was either his last fight or his second to last fight but I mean it was just it's amazing how hype he gets If I'm not mistaken, this was one of his last ones. It was either his last fight or his second to last fight.

But I mean, it was just, it's amazing how hype he gets and like how he knows the word to Halo. And it's the wrong song. So there's actually a reason he knows the words to Halo. And I have some breaking news for you. Wow. On the program. Yes, on the program. We have video from Mike Perry. Oh, wow.

Explaining. Platinum in the house. What happened during that walkout. About the Halo walkout, you know, I picked Halo by Beyonce. He picked Halo by Beyonce. I like that song. I like to sing in the shower sometimes. But I changed the song that week on Fight Week to All of the Lights by Kanye West and Rihanna.

And I wasn't expecting Halo. So when it hit, I just rocked with it and got in the ring to fight, man. So breaking news here. It was not Halo, the video game theme song that he was asking for he had wanted halo but fight week he changed it to all the lights and then they actually played halo instead of all the lights so when he's going what the f it's because he had changed the song and they didn't change it back i have to say this this hurts the apex lore i think it's way funnier thinking he wanted a video game menu screen song.

And then he's just like, what is this? Actually, I know this. And he starts singing it. Then him loving the song and like just getting mixed up. Wow. Breaking news. All my dreams have been ruined. All my dreams have been crushed here.

This one hurts. It is funnier if it was the Halo video game. And I had to look back. I was like, has Mike never spoken about this? He lost the fight. So he didn't do the interview afterwards. I'm sure it would have come up. Now, maybe somebody has asked him about it since, but it seemed like the Halo story about

the video game just like continued to propagate and people just kept going with that. It turns out he had Halo. Such a good moment. And then switched it. But him belting out halo like obviously as you said we're not playing the music because you know legal reasons um find the clip mike perry singing halo it's fantastic it really is so good and like if you're under the impression that it's supposed to be the video game song the way he turns to his people and he's like what the fuck is going on and

then he just turns back around and starts belting it and that was actually at usc 255 this is when they were doing pay-per-views. That's right. It was a pay-per-view. I think it was Figgie Moreno? Figgie Perez? No. Yeah. Figgie.

One of the Figgies because he did, I know he did back-to-back. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He did 55 and 56. It was, in fact, Figgie Perez. That was an all-time moment. Favorite fight?

Probably Yuri knocking out Dominic Reyes. What that was uh ufc apex 25 i know one of us might have been me it might have been more than one of us we picked that photo of that elbow oh it's crazy as like photo of the year i think i might have picked it i don't remember now it was it was there one of us picked it but that elbow like the elbow itself in the knockout of the video of the knockout is like gnarly but the photo when you see this like what what he did to to dominic reyes's face like it's unforgettable just re-watching it too and like it's the spin it's a spinning elbow that lands like so clean it's not even funny and like this was just yuri's second fight in the ufc

and like dominic reyes was still like we'reyes was still like, we're kind of wondering like how far he had fallen off. So yeah, I mean, I love Yuri too. He's one of my favorite fighters. So that is up there in terms of my favorite fight there. You can't go, you know, talk about Apex fights without mentioning Francis Ngannou. Yes. Winning the heavyweight belt over Stipe Miocic.

I mean, he becomes heavyweight champion then this starts this whole saga over the next year until he fights sirogan in 2022 yep uh and then is out of the ufc but the knockout that he put on to come back and beat stipe after the way the first one went and to beat him like this like those pictures are scary looking, man. The way his leg bent and everything. It was a massive moment in UFC history. This to me, this version of Francis, I don't think there's anybody on earth who would have beat him at that time. Heavyweight from the past, heavyweight from then, heavyweight from now,

Tom, John, all the guys that I consider the best in the world, that version of Francis, I don't think anybody beats him. He is too powerful. And if you don't have the power to stop him, to prevent him from walking forward, you're in trouble like there's never been before. His knockout power is touch of death, is like next level stuff. Truly. It did feel like he was just the predator, just unbeatable at that point. Another one, Anderson Silva retiring. Unfortunately, he goes out on a loss. feel like he was just the predator just unbeatable at that point um another one anderson silver retiring wow unfortunately goes out on a loss ufc apex 12 i believe that was against uh uriah hall

yeah um goes out i think it was like halloween or like around halloween it was halloween it was halloween night 2020 great memory great memory on you goes out with a loss goes out at the apex but still got a nice moment in there yeah i mean anderson silva is one of the guys that like is is in the story of how i became a fan of mma and the the legends that i respect and the ones that i when i first think like if i close my eyes and go who are the mma fighters that i think of his face is definitely amongst that crowd and so it was a little bit like sad for him to retire in that way. You know, there's not a lot of options at that point. You really can't

do much. And so it was, it was unfortunate timing and circumstances, but from there, it kind of like, he had like a rejuvenation, like after he left the UFC, it seemed like there was a rejuvenation there. And so maybe we needed that moment to kind of go, okay, this was, you know, a little bit sad and not the way we probably wanted to retire Anderson Silva. But then when he came back in the way that he did against Julio Cesar Chavez in the boxing realm, it kind of felt like we're back. And so yeah, maybe we needed that low to experience the high. But I do remember the feeling of just like, man, this is how Anderson Silva's legendary MMA UFC run ends is in this warehouse. And it just felt like unfulfilling, unsatisfied. Because you look at like, think about like how Robbie Lawler and all these fighters who are now getting Matt Brown and Michelle Watterson.

And they get like a video tribute and they get a package and they're in front of fans that are cheering for them and appreciating what they've done. It felt a little bit hollow, but again, like circumstances were what circumstances were. It was unfortunate timing, but Anderson Silva, like a goat, a legend. Yes. Top of the top. Mount Rushmore of the sport. A lot of people have him on there. Another one dripping in controversy and unhappy fans was Piotr Jan kneeing Aljamain Sterling.

And this is another one that was kind of like a, uh, you're benefiting from it being at the apex in the sense that you could hear everything going on. Like you can hear the refs whispering to each other. You can hear, uh, Aljo like agonizing in pain.

Like it was like this really like surreal moment. Like you're hearing all this happening. Uh, And then obviously Aljo upset after he wins. Just like a moment that like if you're a fight fan, like you're never

going to forget however you felt about it. Yeah. And led us to the Pyotr Yan. Oh, the Pyotr Yan. The legendary. Legendary meme.

Legendary meme. But. I mean, he was winning the fight. Like he was winning the fight undoubtedly. The moral victory. And then from there, it kind of like Aljo proved it again.

Like he came back and then showed what that was. But no, would that need be legal under the new rules? I don't remember what I'll just position was now. I'm forgetting. Uh, if he had a knee down, it doesn't matter then.

No. Um, so probably not. I think, I think his knees were down. I think that was the situation um but either way like changed changed the course of bantamweight history from there right because then aljo becomes champion we get the whole controversy where people are like you're not

supposed to be happy to be champion and this whole nonsense that don't get me started on i hate the the kind of way fans treat aljameain sterling and then aljo comes back and proves it and then we you know that runs into the sean o'malley era now we get into the marab era it was it was a real turning point for that division because i think a lot of people thought oh jan is not going to be tested for years like this is going to be jan's division to run was kind of the sentiment and then it just didn't happen that way like the title was was aljamain's uh pivotal even in 2021 after he beat uh cory sandhagen it was just like oh he's he's coming yeah he'll be back no worries um

uh those are like the fun or i mean not not the fun those are like serious moments in the apex history that like actually had major implications on the history of the promotion uh now i want to shift to uh some of the more fun things that have happened throughout Apex history. I mean, one just recently happened. I mentioned it. Tiberius Spivak 2, UFC Apex 95. Nikolay Veratenikov making his UFC debut, and he walks the wrong way to the octagon.

I mean, there's only so many places to go. Nikolai. Nikolai, man. Not through the gates. Not through the gates. Not through the gates. And then they get him on the right way. I mean, I feel like the barricades are there. It's pretty obvious.

They take you exactly where you need to go. It's very, like, Spinal Tap. Yeah, it is. How about the production team hitting the wide shot to show, like, where he's trying to go? Like, look at where this guy's going. Look at this dumbass. I actually can't even remember if he won or not. I feel like it's an indictment if he did not win.

I feel like he lost, actually. Well, I mean, he couldn't find the route. He did lose. He lost the split decision to Danny Barlow. You got to think the nerves affected him there. Yeah. You got to think the nerves affected him. One of my all-time favorites, and this card actually had two moments uh the fans or the

fans at hollyholm myra boina silva ufc apex 77 july of last year and they're just holding up the generic like espn plus ufc rules ufc slash espn super fan like these are definitely old dudes that are there for VIP, and they just got handed these. I love that. We're going to get a notice and be like, actually, that's a fighter family, and we're there to support.

They just fucking love the UFC and ESPN. ESPN Plus. Yeah, it's not even ESPN as a brand. ESPN Plus, they just love. Maybe ESPN executives? Maybe that's the way that they- Or they're lower-level ESPN employees, and they were with ESPN executives? Maybe that's like the way that they... Or their lower level ESPN employees and they were with ESPN executives. And they're just like, yeah.

They're the two guys holding up the sign. It's like that meme with Steve Buscemi where it's like, hello, fellow fans. Yes, that is exactly what it is, but for fandom. It's the Rob Lowe wearing the NFL hat at like the playoff game. Do you know about the Just Bleed guy? I do, yeah, yeah, yeah.

He's like too iconic for me to not know. Yeah, he's painted up and he does the flex in front of the camera. He ended up becoming just like an office worker, by the way. Of course. Just like a regular dude. What, do we think painting your body in Just Bleed leads to great success down the line? Maybe it could have ended badly, I was thinking. All right, yeah.

I mean, as long as he's just an office worker. He's just a regular dude. Just loves to get tanked on the weekends and watch yeah. I mean, as long as he's just an office worker. He's just a regular dude. Just loves to get tanked on the weekends and watch UFC. I mean, who did it? Another one from that card was Chelsea Chandler fighting Norma Dumont.

I don't know what happened, but Chelsea Chandler turns her back and straight up sprints across the octagon and gives us this legendary image right here. Like, Norma Dumont

is track sprinting. Like, she is fully like postured like great form and chelsea chandler is just like ducking out of the way this this was like an all time all-time moment the memes that came from this was so good what i loved about it also was chelsea like had fun with it after like she's enjoying it and playing i actually think she posted on ig and was like this is the moment i knew I fucked up. Yeah. It's funnier when she's in on the joke as opposed to being like, I was running for my life. How dare you? It's just so good that Norman Dumont is in stride and perfect form.

It's not like a walk down. She is legit running after her. It's fantastic. Another one, Derek Lewis versus Chris Dawkus. December of 2021, I believe it was, UFC Apex 45. He knocks out Chris Dawkus as an underdog and then gets interviewed, reaches in his pants, takes out his cup, and just like, there he goes, reaching the pants, cut man Tate coming up. He's like, man, what are you doing? Derek pulls out the cup. Who wants it? Who wants it? And, uh, he ends up launching this thing into the crowd.

I mean, this is my favorite part is that he throws it. And then he's like, oh yeah, we're going away, going away. Nope. We're going to,

we're going to get the cam shot on the fan. There he is going back up to his seat. Like a guy that got a foul. He like celebrates with it, right? He's got, he had the cup in his hand. I,

I don't know if we have the picture or not, but he's holding the cup. He's full on gripping the cup that Derek Lewis just fought in, which I can't imagine. He's so happy. Can't imagine that's too sanitary. Do you go home and tell your significant other like, hey, look what I was able to get at the fight tonight? I don't know what you do with that, man. They're like, you're sleeping on the couch tonight. And also, what do you tell people?

It's like, I got Derek Lewis's cup. If this dude is like funny and like people know him as being funny, then it's like you can be like, oh, he got Derek Lewis's cup. That's funny. So if he's just kind of like a diehard UFC fan and is just like a bit odd, then it's kind of weird. That math ain't nothing. The cup is not the souvenir I try to take away.

Listen, sometimes you have legendary cards in the Apex. We just mentioned Apex 77 last year, headlined by Holly Holman, Myra Buenas Silva. We got two moments from that. We also got two moments from this one. Dontel Mays was fighting Josh Parisian. We unfortunately can't show the footage because it is from a fight,

but gets in a north-south position with Josh Parisian, and the round is coming to an end. And he called him groin strikes, I think, later. But he basically just starts humping Josh Parisian's head. He's using his hips. Yes. If you see the image and you know what I'm talking about, then you know what I'm talking about.

He starts using the hips, but he is just straight, just humping Josh Parisian's face. Even the commentators were like, uh, what are we doing here, man? As you would. You would not know what's going on. Someone took a screenshot

of Herb Dean when he split him up and the screenshot is him looking at him just like, what the fuck, man? What I want to know is were those counted

as significant strikes or just strikes or not even strikes? I pray they counted as significant strikes. That would be so good. Hip thrusts. Another one,

Reese McKee at UFC Apex 14. Felder versus Dos Anjos. That's how long we've been going at this. Another one where we can't show the footage, but just a couple pictures where he lost his mouthpiece.

I remember this well. And like, they thought it was on the map and then they thought it was under the octagon. Like, this is kind of hard to tell what's going on here, but they are searching underneath the octagon for his mouthpiece like

they spent they spent a while looking for this uh and then it ended up being like it just bounced and got caught in the fence like you can barely see it there but it's just stuck within the fence i remember it was like a five minute hunt dude for the mouthpiece oh it might have been longer than five minutes yeah like they you saw reese mckee standing there like I remember it was like a five minute hunt. Dude. For the mouthpiece. Oh it might have been longer than five minutes. Yeah. Like they. You saw Reese McKee standing there like that. Like it was just like the most ridiculous thing.

You got the security guards crawling under the octagon. All time moment though. Like that. Just feels like that's not happening at like a pay-per-view. Or at like the United Center. Like I feel like they're just like. Just give him another mouthpiece. Yeah.

The randomness of that. And. I remember so many of these moments because my job at that time was to create social media. And so these were the moments that would go to social media, right? The memes of Chelsea running. The meme of all these people searching for the mouthpiece. Like this is the stuff that I would have been doing at the time. So I remember all these very fondly. And I love it because like these moments go like viral on like diehard MMA Twitter, like people that are watching every apex card.

It's just like this small knit community. That's just reacting to these like absurd scenes that are going on at this warehouse in the desert. I, I really do love it. The apex it, as much as I rip on it, it does have a

fond place uh in my heart uh rafael fazeev calling out vince vaughn um and like the way that he did it like he had to be like hold on what's his name what's his name oh yeah uh vince vaughn i'm gonna call him vince vaughn uh and that that was during the string where he was calling out like hasbala vince he was always trying to do something he called out rafael nadal that's right that's right he fought rda yeah there he is big vince vaughn and then vince is there uh he he fought rda this was actually in the apex as well and it was like the battle to prove who the real rafael is and then he beat him and then he called out rafael nadal to be like oh yeah let's let's really find out who the real rafael is it was good hey shout out to Fazeev, man.

When's the last time we saw him? Dude, Gaethje? 2023? Is that for real? Have we seen him since then? Man, it's been a minute. He is an action fighter, bro. We need him back.

Yeah, we need him back. I was just thinking. Like, bad. Damn, when's the last time we saw Fazeev? It really might have been. No, Mateusz Gamrot. Oh, yeah. Last year.

Oh, yeah. And he hurt his leg. That's right. Yeah. That was unfortunate. Was that in the Apex? It sure was. Yeah. Last year. He hurt his leg. That's right. That was unfortunate. Was that in the Apex? It sure was. Yeah. It sure was in the Apex.

That one's not going to make the top list, but get well soon. I want to see it for Steve. One time Stipe showed a lot of personality after UFC 252. I think that was beating Cormier in the third fight. Trilogy, yeah.

But yeah, he shared this moment with with some of the reporters there steve fight for it fight for it believe it or not that happened once i lost quick on the draw there from the reporter to just be like, no, no, I can't do that. I've actually, I've done that and I lost. Also, love Stipe showing the personalities, trying to get him to fight over the mic. I remember all these things through the lens of my job at the time of the social media. And it was that at that time we put together a super cut. Because of that moment, I thought to myself, really, there are moments where Stipe like kind of shows himself and has this personality, but they're not, they're infrequent, they're few and far between. From that, we put together a supercut of like funny Stipe moments. And it was one of the best performing things we did at the time, because he just doesn't show that all the time. And people when they see it are reminded like, oh, he's actually kind of like got a personality he just like actively tries not to show it i mean we had stipe on many times ariel's interviewed him

a hundred different times he's hard to get stuff out of at times but moments like that where he is a little relaxed and in his element he can be like an engaging character and you kind of forget that and that was one of those moments where you're reminded like yeah i like this guy yeah get him a ufc belt get a couple beers in them maybe we'll see it next week next saturday you're you imagine the personality we'll see from steve amiochis if he uh shove it in everybody's face if he beats john jones yeah next week that would just be absolutely uh madness um zuckerberg taking over the apex apex 61 i i actually can't believe it's been two years since this i remember this like it was yesterday man like he rented it out there was like will he won't he

yeah uh mackenzie dern like kind of leaked it during the week and like there he was man like there were some rumors like ah he's just he just is in love with mackenzie dern that's why that's why he rented it out uh but it was like something for meta, like meta employees all got to come. Yeah. He rented out the Apex. Honestly, that's kind of like, that's kind of good use of it. Like I know fans get to go, but they're paying exorbitant VIP prices to go

to that. It's not like you're taking tickets away from like people that just want to go see fights. No, if you're a rich dude, that's what I would be doing. If I had that kind of money, I'd be like, yeah, I'm renting out the Apex for UFC Apex 100. I really can remember that one like it was yesterday, man. I remember exactly.

I actually watched that card with you, Frank. We were out and about in the city. Any memes, Frank? He probably doesn't remember it. Oh, yeah, I remember that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It was great. Great time.

Sure, he remembers it. Sounds like it. One last one that kind of ties us back in to UFC Apex 100. Gene Silva. Before we really knew who he was, I actually believe it was his UFC debut, UFC Apex 84. That was actually earlier this year. Uncle I have Walker, too.

He ends up taking four minutes to get to the octagon and i think the fight itself was four minutes and 12 seconds this is not slow motion by the way people this is this is how he's really walking this is how he is really walking he took this long the entire way through just took his sweet time i think since then they've told him to to speed it up a little bit more and i think he's gotten away a little bit from like the i'm just like an intimidating like presence guy like the specter to now he's just like smile he's like a smiling killer he's he's just this like bundle of energy and personality who is also a crazy person who is extremely violent throw the uh throw the nerds glasses on and yeah the party

yeah um so yeah i mean those were those were some of the best moments best memories i'm sure a lot of people are forgetting some i want some in the chat too like chat us in some of them and then at the end of the show we can we can run down yeah because i know i'm missing so we definitely one last video i want to play before we close this out. Our man, I'm forgetting his name right now. We have it on the video of every poster of every fight card that has taken place at the UFC of ACS. Just Bleed Radio on X. I mean, look at this. Yeah, Portier Hooker in there.

Like, oh, Miocic, Cormier 3. I mean, Covington Woodley was a great card. Felder Dos Anjos. As we start getting up in numbers here, you sort of start seeing the drop off, you know, title fights, pay-per-views. Brunson Holland. Wow, I forgot the original Bilal versus Leon. Yeah, you had Whitaker in there.

Strickland, I think that was his first main event. Oh, man, now we're getting into Meyer. Vieira Tate, that was an all-timer. Cater Chikadze. Oh, yeah, Fontvera. Man, that one I was in Europe for. There was an all-timer. Cater Chikadze. Oh, yeah. Font Vera. Man, that one I was in Europe for. There was the Rafael versus Rafael.

Grasso or Rujo, great one. Great one. Strickland there was. Strickland with the back-to-back. That was all-time. Oh, we're catching up now. We're almost back to it. Oh, we're moving.

Luque dos Anjos. Oh, yeah. Son Gutierrez. Yeah, we're flying through these. Now, I know at some point somebody was keeping track of this. Who is the current leader of Apex fights? Who has the most fights in the Apex?

I don't know, but Sean Strickland has eight fights. He's main evented five. I am almost certain... No, Kevin Holland has to have that beat. I'm certain that he has the most main events. Okay, that might be true. He's also seven and one. he might have the best win percentage at the apex how many apex fights does kevin holland have i have no idea but there's there's got to be

somebody who knows this jedi goodman or somebody somebody somebody's been tracking this somebody somebody out there uh let us know who has the most apex fights um yeah apex 100 and now and now we've gone through all those events that we just showed on the screen and now we're here at ufc apex 100 yeah uh kevin holland fought one two three four times in 2025 times in 2020 2021 you have to think all of these like six seven yeah dude he he he might have him beat i might i might have counted eight for kevin holland so far i know you guys are asking the chat to give some more moments towards the end of the show, but a poll was put up and the results are already in. Do you want to hear that now?

Yes, of course, of course. So ultimately they had four options. Yelling at Khabib. Oh, it's like best, what's the best moment? From the ones that we. Got it, yeah, yeah. Perry's Halo moment, Big Francis wins the belt, and the friends that we made along the way.

And there were roughly almost 300 people who voted, and the number one one is the friends we made along the way. Oh, you got to love it. You got to love it. Our fans are so sweet. Apex 100's in the chat. We're all just bonding here on the boys in the back. I'm spamming the chat with Apex 100's right now.

Shout out. Shout out. Yeah, shout out to Dave Sandeen. He says that video of all the posters was from him, LazyBed, me, and Just Bleed Radio. So shout out to them, man. Shout out to them. It's been a long time coming, but, you know, we made it. We made it.

We made it, and we made a lot of friends along the way, a lot of memories. So let's get into it, man. UFC apex 100 it's an apex card it is a 2024 apex card it certainly is and obviously we lost the nicholas dalby uh alesky zalesky dos santos uh fight which is a bummer especially because dalby the known brazilian killer undefeated against brazilians he's also beaten dos santos before uh in Alizu staying on the card Thankfully Cause he's one of my favorites He's an exciting guy to watch

But yes That fight itself Was gonna be Fun Yeah he might get Zach Scrogan might be Getting fed to the dogs With Zaleski in his opener

Uh And then obviously You lose former champion Former headliner Cody Garbrandt Which is Never fun to see Yeah this card's

Taken some hits It's uh It's very apex-y Uh Yeah hits. It's very apex-y. Yeah, it's really apex-y in the fact that Neil Magny is the A-side. But then going against Carlos Bronte, who is on just an insane run, I think his last nine wins are coming by way of knockout. 15 of his 20 wins in his career have also come by knockout. And since contender series in August of last year, four fights, four wins, all by knockout. And now he's going for, what will that be? In 14 months, he will have a little over 13 months.

No, a little over 14 months, he'll have gotten five wins, potentially five by knockout if he gets it done that way. Yeah, I mean, we're kind of seeing this more and more where these guys are just coming through the UFC quickly and then just racking them up. If they're willing to fight, if they're willing to come in and sometimes take things on short notice or even just jump into an opportunity, now he's headlining a

card, you can get this. And we talked about Gene Silva. He's a perfect example of somebody like that, like continues to fight fight fight always shows up uh protest is uh is a very exciting and like kind of marketable guy right some of the things that he does talks about and does after the fights before the fights is also kind of picking up steam with the mma community so um i'm excited to see how this plays out. The Carlos Prates workday is just really something to behold. Show up, get the glasses on, get the chain on, come out, quick night at the office.

Oh, you don't think any stoges even before that? You don't think pulling on a few stoges before the fight? I think that he rushes outside because he goes no-sigs during training. I don't know if that's been confirmed at all, but I think as soon as he's done, he's waiting on Herb Dean and Bruce Buffer. He's just like, yeah, can we announce this? I got to go get the smokes, man.

I got to get the smokes in. We have a picture. I mean, yeah, the first thing he does, this is him finding out he just got a 50K bonus. He's just outside ripping heaters, which is just so good. He's already got the chains and the watch on and everything. I'm thinking about picking up a pack of Marlboros just in honor of Procter.

In solidarity with him. Can we find out what kind of cigs he smokes? Because there's something nice about a heater after a long day's work. It's going to be the P-Funk, man, the Parliament Lights. You think Procter is smoking on the Parliament Lights? I think that's what it is. Grandma cigarettes, right? If anybody can confirm what kind of cigs Procter is'll i'll i'll cheat you know what maybe he hand rolls them

who knows maybe he's got his own our boy pizza hand rolls them so it wouldn't it wouldn't shock me if if carlos protest hand rolled his as well the man uh the absolute man and this this feels like a tough matchup for neil magni man he's coming off a knockout loss in the first round to michael morales who yeah he might be a little thicker than Carlos Prate, but he's kind of built in the same way, man, like six feet, 78 to 80 inch reach, dangerous young guy, knockout power. It's just like, it's a tough matchup, man. And Neil Magny is not one to shy away from anyone. I was going through his resume before this, and I'm just like, even when he loses, dude, it's like Shavkat, Gilbert Burns.

He is losing to Ian Gary. He is losing to really good guys. These are the only fights that Neil Magny fights at this point. He only fights these top guys, these young, hungry guys, or the cream of the crop. He's one of the most game fighters that exists. Carlos Prates, minus 750. Makes sense.

To go even further than that, Carlos Prates by knockout, minus 350. That's like a Frank Singano number on the knockout. That part, yeah. I guess if he's going to win, he's going to knock him out, right? We assume. Yeah. His last fight was finishing the leech. What was his last fight?

Yeah, knocking him out. Yeah, who also is like a durable iron chin kind of dude. I think of Magni as durable. I know he's been finished before, but sometimes it tends to be like submissions, and it's not like usually the one hitter quitter, but Proctus feels like he's one of these guys who is gonna make a name for himself doing that patience that he showed in that in that leech fight too was yeah he had a rock several times and kind of just waited for the right moment sniping on him uh he's super fun to watch he's very exciting this whole fighting nerds team is man they're so good man they're so good

they're so aggressive they're so hungry and like they got this swagger about them and i love the you throw the glasses on like instantaneous marketing it's sick man it's sick so like i i can't help but cheer for them like it's it's always cool when you kind of have like a not a gimmick but like you see this team kind of rising like this and watching them have this success is awesome and not only that but they're exciting fighters too It's not just like they're having success, but they're grinding. Like, they all come to go to war and it's, it's, it's wild right now.

They're actually all exciting and they all have personality. Yeah, that too. Like, Gene Silva barking at the cameras. Carlos Bronte's outside ripping heaters.

Caio Bahayo is always willing to cut a promo. Yeah. He's just like, I am the son of God, Caio Bahayo. Like, is it Natty Ice also,

uh, from that team did i make that up you might there there is a ratio huffy is also on it another great one i i'm pretty sure there's a female fighter maybe it's not uh natalia silva it's somebody if natalia silva is on that i don't think she is so somebody else is part of that fight nerds team but so they have a pretty cool logo i have to say yeah everything about it i'm loving what they're doing yeah i mean they're killing it uh according to the topology page uh tiago moises also fights out of there um like i said mauricio huffy um and then just i mean it's a it's a who feeds back at uh at uh msg right i think he i think he's on that card you know so he i actually uh can confirm

that he is yeah that's james lintop they've got some they got some momentum going man i'm i'm a big fan of what they're doing yes uh i am as well i'm very excited to see what carlos protez has this weekend massive favorite uh but probably deservingly so when you win uh nine straight fights uh by way of knockout. Then we're getting into some Apex territory. Komen, Ricky Tercios, Bernardo Sopa. Sopa, second straight fight. I mean, it's just his second fight in the UFC. Lost his debut to Lockdog.

Lockdog, my guy. Another great Apex moment, the flying knee. I mean, just got absolutely flat lined Tertius some up some down I mean the lost name is a hobby like throwing like 12 punches Kevin not the doubt split

decision and then you know choked out by Raul Rosas I don't know this is an apex co-main event right here I'm really not sure why they don't just have GM3 Reiner de Ritter. I was just going to say

that fight makes more sense as the co-main. Like that fight I am actually looking forward to Reiner de Ritter was, was undefeated for a while and won, became a one double champion.

Um, but like he just, he just met, uh, Anatoly Malkin, who's just like this cannonball beast of a man. Um, and just like, it just wasn't a good sizing matchup for him.

Bad. I mean, Malkin's kind of a dangerous dude for anybody, but yeah, like if, if you're primarily a grappler and you're in there with a guy who hits as hard and is, is composed as Malkin,

then like, yeah, not going to go well. I think this is a much more favorable style matchup for him and also an opportunity to kind of introduce himself to a fan base that may not have known about him when he was in one. I'm really excited about that one. I feel like that could have been, if not even co-main,

I think that could have been the main. I really do. Like, this guy has been in huge fights. That was an undefeated versus undefeated fight when he took on Anatoly Malkin for the first time. A champion in another organization. Yeah. I mean, he put his belt on the line against a really tough test,

and he unfortunately wasn't able to get it done, and it happened again in the rematch, but he bounced back in a fight at UAE Warriors, got a first-round knockout. So I feel like GM3 is a good test. I mean, Randy Ritter he he gets a lot of submissions and gm3 might be the guy to thwart that and we're gonna find out whether or not he's ufc level i like this matchup right off rip for him correct me if i'm wrong but didn't gm3

get the most finishes in middleweight history in his last fight like i think he's the now the leader in the clubhouse probably because he gets a sub every single fight like he just it's it's just like a you think he's dead and then he doesn't he has uh 11 he actually has never won a decision in the ufc 11 wins by sub in the ufc won by knockout yeah this would it would be disingenuous to say this is like a low-key banger because i don't think there's anything low-key about it like i think this is the one that everybody can look at the card and be like yeah that's the one that's the one i really am interested yeah for sure um and then beyond that the one up in yarrow, Jillian Robertson.

That should be fun. Grappling exchanges should be okay. I think that'll be all right. Jordan says GM3 12 finishes. Jordan, that is what I said. Yeah, 11 and 1. 11 submissions, 1 knockout. Yeah.

Simple, basic math there, man. You're just adding the 1. I appreciate you though. Thanks, Jordan. Thank you on air, Jordan. You just really derailed us there. I was about to get in a huge tangent about Jillian Robertson. Jillian Robertson, massive favorite

in this one. Really? What's the line? Minus 375, Luana Pinheiro coming back at plus 310. You want to know what's kind of crazy looking at this? Luana Pinheiro, if I'm not mistaken, dates Matthias Nicolaou. Okay. There was a moment where he was getting some wins, she was getting some wins. Yeah, yeah she was on a streak it's kind of like this like uh you know like brazilian power

couple they might be the next big thing now matthias nicolaou has actually been cut and uh luana pinero has has lost uh two in a row um and her last one was a split over michelle watterson i know she's lost two in a row but like that line also feels off to me. Like I know, nah, I don't know. Robertson's been look good lately. And certainly if it hits the ground, you expect that she'll be able to work and do her jujitsu.

But I don't know. So I don't know if I love that line. I swear Jillian Robertson wins every single fight I watch her in. And then she's like 14 and eight overall. Yeah. But she has one, uh, I think five of her last six four of the last five she's looked she's looked very good lately i just i feel like if it stays on the feet though it's going to be a most of the time she's able to get it to the

ground what do i know almost exclusively yeah she's able to get it to the ground um that's a that's that's not a bad fight not a bad fight uh and then you know you're kind of working with what you're working with on the on the apex card quite a few debuting guys on here carolina kovalevich though yeah carolina massive dog to denise gomes a lot of lopsided fights minus 550 denise gome yeah kovalevich29. I mean, she's very old. Denise Gomes has quite a bit of power. I feel like Radke and Semelsberger could be fun. I feel like... I know that can be fun

because Semelsberger loves getting like, dropping his opponent like six or seven times every fight and not finishing him. And then getting finished or getting close to getting finished, yeah. And then Chuck Buffalo, he's always exciting to watch. I think that can be a good one.

Cody Stammen, Daman Blackshear. It's going to good one. Cody Stammen, DeMond Blackshear. It's going to be interesting. Cody Stammen's wrestling, and DeMond Blackshear obviously has a nasty sub game. I believe he's got a twister on his record. Yeah, he has a twister, yeah. Yeah, I mean, that'll be a fun fight. There's some fun fights on this card. The best news about it is in true Apex fashion, 4 p.m. start time on the East Coast.

That's just you're out by 10 o'clock i mean they they they made this the most apex card of all time you lose a couple good fights apex of the apex right it's the apex of the wow frank how about you sitting on that one for a while a couple good fights a lot of debuts a lot of guys from uh from contender series a lot of fighters with under 10 professional fights. Oh, boy. One, two, three, four, five, six. Six fighters. This is what we deserve.

Six fighters with less than 10 professional fights. I mean, it's certainly interesting. Mansur Abdul-Malik versus Tusko Todorovic. Tusko Todorovic. I feel like that's setting up for a KO. Yeah. Abdul-Malik, we saw him on Contender Series. All six wins by way of knockout.

Tusko Todorovic. I'm not sure if he's UFC quality. He likes to throw, though, so I think we'll see something. Yeah, I think someone probably gets knocked out. Tough asking for Zach Scroggins going up against Eliz zaleski uh stepping in on short notice yeah trish on gore i feel like trish on gore has fought 800 times and somehow his professional record is still only four and two he came on to tough with a very low record i think he was like two and oh or three and oh when he came on to tough he's the runner-up to brian battle who now we see like ascending and

then becoming a thing gore was kind of the guy that everybody actually thought was gonna be there was gonna be the guy because he had such insane knockout power and had like the knockout of the season i think that guy's still there so we'll have to see um i think it's gonna be interesting to see where he goes because brian seems to have found it like brian has like whatever he needed to sort out after tough he has gotten in order and he's been active and now finding it. Brother, he's gotten in an order.

He started ripping promos. He's doing everything right. Speaking of that, if you haven't already, you can go to uncrowned.com and Chuck Mendenhall did a great interview with Brian Battle

talking about that promo, but more just about, like, overall his ascendance into his personality and who he's become and the, he used to be

nicknamed Pooh Bear. Now he's the Butcher. And kind of what all that... The Butcher is a sick name. And also BBB, right? Oh, Triple Bs. He's the Butcher. And so, a great article.

Chuck's the best. Go check it out. Chuck actually is the best. He paints a picture. He writes a movie script for you that you just get to read. So I'm going to have to go read that as well. So yeah, that's the card.

Looking forward to watching Carlos Prates. It'll be crazy if Neil Magny upsets him, derails it. Really looking forward to Reiner Ritter's debut going against GM3. There's some intrigue. There's just not stakes. You know, there's nothing really on the line, but there's stuff that, like, could be interesting. You mentioned the butcher.

This ain't quite a butcher, you know. There's not a lot of stakes going around here not a lot of stakes i really honestly the real stakes are protest like can he continue to ascend can he be a contender rainer to ritter can he yeah ufc man they could really use a guy like him i think i think i mean at the same time i guess gm3 is a guy like him you know gm3 is kind of like that guy that that rainer could be i just do think there's probably like you know he he's he's a younger guy has has a potential ceiling that could be interesting to see realized so we'll see if if the jump to the ufc is

successful successful for him uh someone might be able to to call me on this and tell me if i'm wrong but neil magny coming in Magny coming in at 15th in the welterweight division might actually be the only ranked fighter. No, Jillian Robertson is 14, and Luana Pinheiro is 13. Okay, I'm sleeping. Okay, see, man, everything about this is pointing to me to be like, what's up with the line for Pinheiro and Roberts? I guess they're just like, she's going to spam a takedown and get her down in the suburb, but I don't know, man. It feels like a closer to even match.

I'm seeing plus EV there. Maybe I'm crazy. Maybe I'm just like not remembering. But that one stood out to me for a second. Well, if it stands out to you, what's the number on it? It's a great segment. It's Pinheiro plus 270 or something you said?

Plus 310. Plus 310. Plus 310 on the one of Pinero. I might be tempted. All right. Let's bring it right in. Let's go to... Parley?

Let's make our Parley Palace picks. Yeah, let's just do that off rip. I have already gotten Juliana Pena's pick. Just want to double check this. Just confirm that what I'm thinking is true. It is. The over two and a half in the Cody Stammen and Daman Blackshear fight. Minus

395. Really? Okay, so they're thinking Stammen's going to tough out any submission attempts. They're going to bang on the feet a little bit. Okay. Interesting. That is very interesting. By they, I didn't mean Julian Opinion. I meant the odds makers because that is a very high number For over two and a half

In a three round fight It is yeah Especially with a guy like Blackshear Who can't get finishes Blackshear can finish it But I see it I see it Let's throw the rest

Into The randomizer Oh Computer's getting hot I will go first Rick second Frank You'll go third. The caboose.

The caboose. That's what they call you. I mentioned them earlier. Oh, you what? That's what they call you. They call me that? Frank's like, that's news to me. Oh, is this your first time hearing that?

Yeah. Oh, yeah. FCL. Frank caboose. Yeah. Caboose. Frank the caboose. Frank the caboose. Yeah. FTC, baby. Frank the Caboose Frank the Caboose yeah FTC baby Frank the Caboose

Mansour, Abdul, Malik that's who I'm going to be taking I really don't think Moneyline yeah Moneyline 95 as well don't think Tutorovic is UFC grade and I feel like they're going to scrap and I think Abdul Malik is going to get a knockout here get it

I'm going to scrap and i think abdul malik's going to get a knockout here get it uh i'm gonna go i'm gonna go we were talking about i'm gonna go trish on gore money line okay like i feel like he's gonna prove something that's a little bit of a fade on tricali i i think gore is gonna have a performance in him so i'm going with gore and by the way i think georgia boy i think he's i think he's from atlanta or or the georgia shout out my god the state of georgia we have to back him um but i'm going trayshon gore and uh to you frank putting out of south carolina yeah i think uh some nice picks i'm gonna go with jillian anderson as money line who's jillian anderson oh my god that's the uh actress from um the x-files stand behind my pit can we get the x-file themes? Yep, that is the pick. All right, so Gillian Anderson is the pick.

What's her line? Actually, it's Gillian Robertson. Wow. She's messing around with you guys. You took it well. Disrespect her. Get her name wrong. She would laugh at that.

You know it. Also disrespect Rick after Rick being like, I feel like that line's off. I feel like that line's off. Yeah, I know. Now you're just pouring it on that one. Okay. We'll see what happens.

All right. So the picks. Stamen, Daman Blackshear, over two and a half, minus 395. Jillian Robertson, minus 395 from Frank. I went Mansour Abdul Malik, minus 395 as well. Three minus 395. That feels kind of weird. Oh, look at Jordan with the production value.

And then. Me with Treshawn. Treshawn Gore for Rake. By the way, American top team Atlanta fighting out of Lawrenceville, Georgia. Oh, yeah, Lawrenceville. Shut up. Georgia.

American top team Atlanta. A Sun Tzu used to fight there? Or was that American top team? Alpharetta. Damn, I didn't know that Georgia had it like that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, and here I am, never trained once in my life.

I'm a scrub. Can we actually put that graphic back up real quick, the Parley Pals graphic? Is that possible? I just needed everyone to look on the right side of that thing. 2-0 in the new age, the new era, plus 4.62 units. No big deal. I mean, the champ remains undefeated.

It's real quiet when you're winning, and then when you're losing, the chirps come, you know? I look forward to the chirps. They keep me going. They keep me humble. All right, let me rip through my bets real quick. I'm keeping it light. At one day and age, I was like, I'll have a bet on every fight for UFC Apex 100.

Then I saw the card. No need to have a bet on every single fight on this card. So let's kick it off. You mentioned Treshawn Gore and Antonio Tricoli. I'm actually going to take this one to not go to a decision. I like Gore here as well. I don't really rate Tricoli. And he gets finishes in his fights.

He's also been finished. But, I mean, in his UFC career, he has been to one decision, only had two other fights, but they both got finished. I feel like this one's going to be exciting, and I'm going to say that Trish Angora gets a second-round finish. That's going to be my official prediction, but I like the line on this one. Next up, another fight that I think is going to be exciting, Matthew Simelsberger. I've just always had this weird ability to trust Matthew Simmelsberger

even when I shouldn't. He has lost three straight, and Chuck Buffalo has looked good as of late, but I like the size advantage here. I like the toughness of Simmelsberger. I want to say I like the finishing ability. I like his knockdown ability. He does nearly kill somebody every single time. Every time you think you're about to catch a Matthew Semelsberger bet

and then he loses by split decision. Not only has he lost three straight, he is one and four in his last five. But I'm going to trust him. I like this matchup for him.

I like the striking. I like the size advantage. And I'm going to say that he gets it done. Two parlays. It's actually, again, half the parlay pass. I'm going Jillian Robertson. I think she's going to be able to get it to the mat and likely get a

submission or just rack up control time. And then I like Abdul Malik to get a knockout. And then just the chockiest of chock prop parlays that have been working for me lately. Gomez, Kovacic, over one and a half. Stammenblank, over one and a half. Prates, Magny, under four and a half. Neil Magny, finished in six

of his last eight losses and obviously, Prates, nine straight wins. The under four and a half really looks like 44.5, doesn't it? Really?

Yeah, the font's tough. I was like, what is this? I think I need to get a cleaner font. We're using the font that we used for the logo. I feel like we need to get a cleaner font. We're using the font that we used for the logo.

I feel like we need to get a cleaner font. Yeah, maybe just a little cleaner. Maybe just a touch cleaner. I like it. I like it. We've been on a roll. You've been on a roll. I've been on a roll as well.

The Barley Boys have been on a roll. It's nice. Yeah, we're feeling good. We're feeling great. Let's keep it rolling at UFC Apex 100. We owe it to ourselves. And then obviously the bets are going to be flowing next week. Jake Paul, Mike Tyson.

UFC 309. There's a lot going on. Can I get two picks next week? If you want it. Who's it going to be? Amanda Serrano and Jake Paul? Oh man. It's like you have ESPN or whatever. We need to have, I do have ESPN. I also have Hulu and Disney Plus. I got the whole bundle.

We need to have a bet, Frank, because I'll go Katie Taylor ever since I got the 23 in me and found out that I'm Irish. I have to support Katie Taylor. What's your percentage of Irish? 88, if you want. I thought you were going to say 23. I thought you were for Gazi. 15% Swedish.

2% Swahili. I'm all over the gaff. You're actually not. You're very like super Irish. Shout out to Belfast. That was the number one city. Shout out to Belfast.

All my people in Belfast. Belfast has just written back. Thanks for the shout out. Shout out. Throw some Apex 100s in the chat. You know, you got to support Katie Taylor, dog. I mean, I'm just spamming. I don't know if y'all are, but I'm just spamming Apex 100s in the chat.

Throw the hundreds up. I mean, let's throw some 100s in the chat. The algorithm loves that. The algorithm loves that. Custom emojis. Spent all night on that. So, yeah, I will be going

Katie Taylor. You will be going Amanda Serrano. I will be going Mike Tyson. You will be going Jake Paul. Oh. We need a point system. We need, like,

you are the evil empire. You are the Death Star. No, no. I'm the new hope. I am the young Jedi. green lightsaber, all that. Decepticons versus Autobots. I like it. Nailed it.

So we need to have some sort of wager going here, Frankie. You got it. And we'll be watching it live on this very channel because we'll be doing a watch party for it. Yes. As well as 309. Back to back. I'm sleeping here. Back to back watch parties.

I'm not even kidding. I actually discussed sleeping here. I hope none of the maintenance or security in the building is watching right here i might sleep here there's a there's a shower there's couches there's a beautiful restroom that we've discovered an incredible it that's not a restroom that's a spa uh i might be sleeping here we'll uh he still doesn't know about um we're we're we're committed to the game that's all i'll say that's all i'll say uh speaking of being committed to the game uh That's all I'll say. That's all I'll say. Speaking of being committed to the game, I really had a better idea in mind for that transition.

I was going to say, let's go to the pound for pound rankings, but committed to the game didn't really work. So let's just go to the pound for pound rankings. Two weeks ago, we did Halloween movies and I got too hot. So I had to take off my hoodie and this was my undershirt. Doesn't mean to be an outfit repeater.

That's a bad sin of mine. Don't like doing it but i had to do it today because today we will be doing in honor of ufc apex 100 we will be doing our pound for pound list of apex predators uh really excited for this one me too that's why i'm rocking the tiger shirt shout out i have a feeling there's there might be something there might be a tiger on a feeling there might be something to do with that. There might be a tiger on my list. There might be a tiger on my list. So far, this will be the third one to be done of these. Third one.

Where does this rank in terms of your passion toward it? Where does this rank in terms of how excited you were to make it? Probably second. What was number one? Probably candy, just because that's something that I've done my whole life. But like, I actually had, ended up having the most fun making this one. I think this was my number one as well. This one was, I got deep on some stuff.

Is it going to be a pound for pound, pound for pound list? No, maybe, yeah, maybe at the end of the year. Yeah, at the end of the year we do that. I feel like we're cooking one up right now. After a year we do a pound for pound list of the pound for pound list. I like this. I like this. I do want to tell the chat that when for pound list of the pound for pound list. I like this. I like this. I do want to tell the chat

that when we were discussing what the pound for pound for this week should be, we were told there's no stupid suggestions. I made a suggestion that like, that's a dumb idea, Frank.

Connor and I will figure it out and so you can tell who said that to me and that's what we did. Wow, you can tell who said that to me? Because I said that someone said.

You can tell who said that to me? What was your shitty idea again? Why was it so shitty? It was probably something like a pound for pound of pound for pounds. No, that's actually a great idea. Thank you, sir. Frank, there was actually nobody in the chat who said that. Frank just came up with it.

No, I'm explaining this to the chat because I know that they like these details. Frank, since you're being such a curmudgeon, how about you kick us off then? Yeah, why don't you kick it off? Oh, really? You're trying to throw me under a bus. Why don't we? Okay, we'll do that.

Let's do it, Frank. So we're just listing Apex Predators, right? I like how he's asking how this works in the third week in a row. What do you mean, man? Give us your reasoning. Why are you doing it? Top five, go. We start at five and go to one?

Come on, Frank. I just want to make sure I got it right. But if I do get it right, which I believe I do, number five is actually the dingo. Okay. Now, for those of you who may not be familiar with this ferocious animal, I don't know why

I'm just laughing now. Yeah, it looks horrifying. So, in 1980 in Australia, a poor woman was out camping with her nine-week-old infant whom disappeared. And when she was being interviewed about where the whereabouts of her child was, she very emotionally cried that she didn't know, but that she felt that a dingo had taken her baby. And this became kind of a meme before even the internet was where seinfeld made jokes about it frazier made jokes about it this is all to say that as years have gone by and the investigation took place they do feel that in fact the baby was taken by a dingo

so everyone laughed at her because like oh look at this guy it's just a fuzzy little dog looking thing but no apex predator to the max took a child away from a mother turned her into a laughing stock for decades that spells apex with a p e i want to make sure you know what you know what apex predator means right one body on his name in the last 44 years and it's an infant it's an infant you you know take it from a tent you are aware of what apexpex Predator means, right? I just want to make sure. I have a feeling that because you've asked that twice,

that no matter what I say, you're still going to know. All right. Let's see number four. That was all I had. No, at number four, we have... Dingo. Five times. I thought about that.

By the way, for Halloween candy, I thought about just doing Reese's Reese's Reese's. Guys, it wouldn't be a bad one. We could do that? I didn't realize. No, we can't. Go ahead. That's why we need your number four.

At number four, we have the alligator snapping turtle. Wow. Okay. This is better. I can't believe you're shitting on the dingo. Anyway, back to the alligator snapping turtle. Look, I'm sure they're going to show a picture at some point, but this thing is ferocious. Oh, that thing is scary looking. The first time i got to experience it was actually at a pet shop

in tempe arizona where they had this guy this guy was like 38 years old like because they live to almost their 50 it's insane and he was just there and here was the coolest thing for five bucks i could feed him a live mouse so i put my five dollars on the table. They handed me the mouse. I was able to throw it and watch this thing just devour it in one gulp. And the thing is, I was like, well, how do I know if he's hungry? He's like, he's always hungry. If you want to do it, pay us the money. We'll let you do it. And oh my gosh.

After seeing that amount of snapping power, I was like, this guy is an apex predator. So far on Frank's list, we've got one infant and one mouse. These are truly the cream of the crop when it comes to apex predators. He's ferocious.

Be sure to keep that in mind when I walk away from him. You might want to bring a pack of dingoes with you and turn the other way and walk around. When I walk very briskly around. Here we go. Let's go to three. Number three is the orca. Now we're getting into real talk. It has a nickname three. Number three is the orca. Okay. Now we're getting into real talk. The orca has a nickname.

Finally. He's known as the killer whale. He's got the bushiest, biggest eyebrows I've ever seen on any animal, period. I don't know if you know that's what that white spot is. Oh, that's hair. It's an eyebrow. Yeah. Wow.

I did not know that. Growing up in Texas, I got to go to SeaWorld a lot. Wow. Is that the original SeaWorld? No, right? I didn't know you. Growing up in Texas, I got to go to SeaWorld a lot. Wow. Is that the original SeaWorld? No, right? I didn't know you were a pro at SeaWorld. That's where we had Shamu. For those who don't know, Shamu.

Legit. Shamu was in the Texas SeaWorld. That's San Antonio SeaWorld. Wow. I didn't know that. Legend of the game. I didn't know that. Real ones remember Shamu.

There was a plane that would take you from Houston to San Antonio, and it was dressed up as a killer whale. Oh, that's sick. That's sick. I'm Googling that right now. Frank has turned this list around. I'm really enjoying number three. It's a top five list.

You get progressively better as you go through the list. Number three is great. This is fantastic right now. Holy shit, I'm looking at the killer whale plane right now. Yeah. The Orca Jet, this thing is sick. It was from Southwest Airlines, right? I was just about to say, it's Southwest.

That thing is sick. I got to say, every time Frank drops some like Texas knowledge on me I'm like Damn Texas really got it Texas is a big state I'm looking at the Orca jet taking off right now This thing is badass So something that's been happening more recently with the Orca

Which I find interesting is There have been people out on like their little yachts And everything that have all of a sudden been capsized or attacked by a group of workers like the workers are teaming up to destroy humanity craft like as much as they can and it seems to be some sort of organized things I'm as far as to say that the orcas may be they are intelligent they're becoming sentient and they're like you know what we don't want these boats out here partying all night drinking your champagne.

We're going to knock you over. So for anybody, avoid camping out with the dingoes, feeding mice to the snapping turtles, and try not to go party too hard in the middle of the night in the middle of the ocean. Yeah, free Willy. Shout out. Another legend. Yeah. A lot of legendary orcas, man.

It's too many, to be honest. Shamu, I don't think, is with us anymore, right? RIP Shamu. Shamu, I don't think, is with us anymore, right? R.I.P. Shamu. Shamu's with us. R.I.P. However, at number two, we have the tiger. Uh-oh. Just tiger, period?

Yeah, man. I mean, it's a whole species. I don't know if you're aware. So the tiger is because, look, I love cats. I think all cats could be considered an apex predator in their own environments. But the tiger specifically, it's a classic. I know a guy who wears a t-shirt he's always apologizing for doing it i'm like look you you rep the tiger i love oh that's you by the way um they got the spots they are ferocious but also something that i i would love to just go and pet and spend time

with like i don't know if you know this but ariel hawane seems a little afraid of big cats he expressed this to you before no well I mean if I could have if I could own a tiger that would you know who did fighting next week Mike Tyson that's why I'm allergic to cats I'd fight through its owner tiger I think I think you

might not be allergic to big cats something you don't shed the fur maybe yeah it's the saliva that you're actually allergic to and because they lick themselves the fur gets on the ground it has the saliva on it that's what the problem what i love more about these pound for pound lists is frank's esoteric knowledge it's not a educational it is no i like this i'm i'm not being you know how people say like oh i love when and they're being sarcastic no i truly love what is happening right now i'm enjoying it all right so at number one we have the ferocious

yoja what is the yoja is a creature that was first discovered in the jungles in 1987 special forces officers and ultimately i might know it i might have known it was later discovered in los angeles in 1997 where there was a middle of a gang war and it actually was helping pick sides of what it what it is and what's funny is it has one of the most notorious cries of all the apex predators that i just need you to listen to real quick This is good on you, Frank. Frank, I'm getting word here. It's actually ya-oot-ja.

Oh, really? Because you're wrong. I'm getting word here. So you may know him as the Predator or the Hunter. This man is no one to mess around with. As I said, there have been multiple sightings. He definitely gets the job done. What we just heard was actually Peter Cullen doing the laughing bit there.

That if you haven't seen the original Predator, you ought to, so you have some respect for this thing. Peter Cullen was the guy who did Optimus Prime and the original Transformers. So again, that is my list of top five. I respect it. Can I just ask you, you're aware that like number one has to be able to beat number two has to be two has to be able to be three four has to be like

it has to be the predator could easily take on a dingo no but yeah but do you think like the snapping turtle is beating the dingo do you think like the what like do you think the tiger is beating the whale uh damn straight okay fair enough i'm down You ended very strong 3-1 Number one especially was fantastic That was I I haven't watched Predator So that caught me off guard That was good on you Frank

Who's next is it you or me Let's start with number five We're going to go very specific here We're going with the Mako Sharks from Deep Blue Sea Now if you've not seen Deep Blue Sea, why this matters is because what they did in Deep Blue Sea was they took Mako Sharks and turned them into brilliant, smart creatures. They were trying to find a gene that would allow them to cure cancer. And instead, what they did was make the sharks smarter to the point that they're genius level sharks. And so now you're combining the force

of an 8,000 pound Mako shark with the brilliance of high IQ human life. And so you've got the ultimate killing machine, these Mako sharks. I wanna read you a quote here by the character played by Samuel L. Jackson in the movie. So he says, they're trying to figure out how to defeat these things because naturally these things are trying to kill the humans now and he

says so here's the riddle what does an 8 000 pound mako shark with the brain the size of a flathead v8 engine and no natural predators think about and the answer is just like survive like kill everything yeah because they're the fucking ultimate predator so the mako sharks from deep lucy if you haven't seen deep lucy it's a it's a hilarious movie um and it's got smart sharks it's basically the the apex predator um but there are a few that i would have above it um unfortunately this is kind of an ocean-based creature right so naturally things that could go inland or ocean are going to beat it um but if you're in the water these are these are a true terror number four 2021 francis and ganu okay wow you you teased this earlier i teased it uh nobody was beating that man um in 2021 he

was and i mean i don't have to spell this out for everybody but i will nickname the predator the true ape i mean just look at this man if you're standing across from this guy you know that you're in and unfortunately for steve mjotric he was standing across from this man in 2021 i don't think there's a uh fighter on earth in 2021 if they were transported then that was going to beat francis baddest man on the planet nobody was topping this guy and naturally i feel like look if he's outside the water like the mako shark's gonna have a tough time with francis and maybe he gives it one punch to the nose and we've got a new heavyweight champion francis um okay number three yaucha the predator wow are you shitting me

the predator uh what's so great about the predator and i by the way i picked like the not only real real ones will know not only did did I pick the species of the predator, but I picked the predator that is the top predator, like one of the most accomplished and decorated predators that has appeared in the movie. I mean, real ones know. So you'll have to kind of dig deeper if you want to on that one. great about the predator is their entire story their backstory the reason we have predator movies is they are hunters who look for other um dangerous predators forget they they're their their sport is to find other dangerous predators and hunt them so they are the apex they are the other top of the top of the top they go to other uh universes they go to other worlds to try to dominate other

apex predators that's why we get the alien versus predator movies uh they're trying to kill the xenomorphs they are they are the cream of the crop now in a battle i i francis could probably do pretty good but i'm gonna have to go with with a predator i'm not the predator over francis number two before you move on how would francis take down the shark like can you describe well it's more that how is the shark going to take down Francis if he's standing on the land? Yeah, touche. Real limited there from the make-go on water. So if you're in the water, though,

yeah, you don't stand a chance. But if Francis is standing two feet on the ground, like, make-goes don't really got a shot, you know? Francis can arm up and get some tools. Okay. Perfect. Thank you, Frankie. Number two, a classic, Tyrannosaurus rex um goat i mean this this one like we don't need to say like jurassic park like you've seen the damage that this thing can do

when plopped down in in the middle of a city um tyrannosaurus rex the the king now the name do you know about the name no this is the derivative of the name the name derives from Tyrannos greek for tyrant Soros Greek for lizard and rex Latin for king so Tyrant lizard king He practically has apex in his name Yeah he is the apex

He is the king of all dinosaurs At the time that they roamed They had no known natural predators Now certainly we're kind of going by fossil data. We don't know. There might have been some bigger creatures that hunted them. The evidence at the moment says they were not hunted and that they were the apex of the dinosaurs. And when we're talking about something this size, like, unfortunately, I don't think a real predator, you know, from an alien planet is going to have a chance against Tyrannosaurus Rex.

But the one thing that I do believe might be the Tyrannosaurus Rex. Wait. When you think of T-Rexes, do you think of them being covered in feathers? No. I do picture the scaly Jurassic Park, but I am aware that they were covered in feathers. Who takes on this T-Rex? I mean, it's easy. Titanus Gojira.

Oh, God. The ape of the king. When you dropped City, I knew you were going god's i'm embarrassed this is it the king of all monsters i mean just look just look at the picture here uh the kaiju to end all kaijus nobody is more terrifying than godzilla um it would take many many t-rex it would take many many francis and ganus uh to beat godzilla i i i would be shocked if there is something that can beat Godzilla. Okay, yeah.

I mean, I don't... Throw a dingo in there and it was like the best list ever. Yeah. But right now, it's a great list. I don't have any argument with that.

I mean, you went sort of like, we included movies and like fantasies. I stuck more to... More traditional. More to real life. I mean, all of my... Wait, Godzilla's not real?

All of my animals existed or have existed. Francis Ngannou was a real threat to humanity, just so you know he that is true was francis and gano your only real one no t-rex i had francis t-rex uh all right mako sharks are real just like they're not they're not the super one yeah they're not super smart would take a mako shark uh all right here we go mine Five real apex predators. Number five.

We're going to kick it off with the largest living lizard. That is the Komodo dragon. Oh, what's so scary about a Komodo dragon? Well, they're 10 feet long and they're up to 350 pounds. And you're like, oh, well, I'll just get away from it. Even if I get bit, I can just run away. Their teeth aren't that sharp. Yeah, man.

If you get bit, venomous saliva will just creep into your body and kill you within 24 hours uh oh well a kimono dragon couldn't eat me psych 350 pounds they can eat up to 80 percent of their body weight in one meal uh that's a whole lot more than i weigh so i am done uh they'll follow you for miles after they bite you and just stalk you until the poison gets you wow and then just eat you up and then last but not least these guys are true sickos shout out to komodo dragons absolute savages they will out in the wild go to villages human villages and dig up graves and eat the corpses of old loved ones. Wow. That is like, wow. Komodo dragons are some sickos.

Plus like- Is there a metal band called Komodo dragon? Because there should be. There should be because they are badass and they are huge. And I didn't bring in the footage, but I watched a like two minute video of them scrapping it out in a village, like near, I think Komodo is a location. And there was all these villagers around just watching these two Komodo dragons, like fight, like Duke it out. They were throwing

haymakers lefts and rights. Like they, that's the closest you get to the Godzilla. They get after like Komodo dragons are savages. They're, they're absolute savages. Uh, next up Siberian tiger. I'm going with the biggest, the baddest, the strongest, the fastest tiger out there. I'm with you, Frank. Tigers are badass and they are terrifying creatures. This one will eat bears. It'll eat elks. Look at the vert on this guy. Get this guy in the NBA. Get a jersey on this man. Look at this. You give him some meat. Look at the vertical on my Siberian tiger right here. This guy's 80 inches up there. He is airborne. Makes the grab, gets it in the mouth, possession, two feet down, sticks the landing. He's off with the carcass

and he's eating it. That's a catch. That's for sure a catch. 12 feet body length, up to 900 pounds. These bad boys stay in the snow of Russia. They move silently. They can jump 30 feet in a single leap. Let's run away from it. It can run 50 miles an hour. Okay, let's get in the water. Sorry, these are also excellent swimmers. Let's climb a tree and get out of the way of it. It can also climb the tree. If this thing is

hunting you, it is going to get you. It can eat up to 90 pounds of meat in one sitting. The Siberian tiger is after you. One other thing, though. It's curtains. They're freaking cute, man. That's also a thing that's important. So are bears.

Bears are also very cute, I will say. Yeah, but when a Siberian tiger is eating a bear alive, who's the cutest one? It's the tiger. True that. True that. Number three, I'm agreeing with my man, Frankie. We have it in the exact same spot. Orcascas killer whales

uh yeah they can look at this thing okay everyone wants to be like the great white sharks are the apex of the ocean uh great white sharks are nothing more than carriers of livers for orcas these things use their they use echolocation to immediately just go right, look at this, right at the liver, rips the stomach open, and eats the liver of this thing. It hunts livers of great white sharks. Oh, great white shark's going to get away? Nah, big bad orca's coming back this time. Pull ya on under, and it's curtains.

Great white shark. I don't think people know that they're in such different weight classes. No, they're huge. Yeah. Are typically 20 to 26 feet, can be as long as 32 feet, weighing in at over 20,000 pounds. Yeah. This thing weighs as many as five cars,

35 miles an hour under the water. These things would be breaking the speed limit if they were driving in a school zone. I said it, rip an echolocation pinpoint onto their prey. They hunt great white sharks like we just saw. And then last but not least,

they look sick. I mean, they're painting planes after these things. They look absolutely badass. Shout out to Orchid. Shout out to Killer Whales, the true kings of the sea. Number two,

coming in, the real apex predator, it's Mr. Sean Strickland. Eight fights in the apex apex predator it's mr sean straight like eight fights in the apex seven and one ufc champion nine and five outside of the apex in the ufc seven and one inside the friendly confines of the warehouse of the desert five main events there more than anyone i actually don't know if that's true i'm just guessing that it's true five main events there more than anyone he is truly the king of the apex just one one loss, and it was a split decision loss to Jared Cannon here. I don't even know if he really lost it. You can almost say he's eight

and oh. He is the apex predator. Shout out to Sean Strickland. Last but not least, 40 feet long, 20 feet tall, 15,000 pounds, can eat up to 220 pounds Of flesh in a single bite Eyesight of a hawk Sense of smell like a vulture Can move silently like a tiger It's the one The only Tyrannosaurus rex

There doesn't get anything The feather variants or the scale variants Doesn't matter if it's got feathers or scales It's gonna kill you man 60 banana sized teeth chomping through you uh they say based on bite marks of a triceratops species fossil uh it is actually presumed they would decapitate their prey and then go in through the neck to eat all the nutritious ends that's uh that's efficient did you know where they got their name apparently tyrannosaurus comes from the fact of tyrant,

and Rex actually is Latin for king. No, it was tyrant lizard. You messed up the lizard part. Saurus was lizard. Who the fuck is that? Do you think Sean Strickland's beating an orca? Is it the same argument as me? I just couldn't make Sean Strickland one.

But I had to put him on there, and i didn't want to put him five like i wanted it it was basically for the bit i wanted animal animal yeah randomly sean strickland um yeah i really had a ton of fun doing this i mean i was getting into a lot of nat geo videos and stuff like that you definitely did the most like animal research on this oh you had the facts i was diving deep there was some the shout out to the golden eagle could get up to like 120 miles an hour they're the full list right there uh well obviously i i feel like i'm i'm a little bit mad that frank also had predator but i probably should have known oh yeah uh yeah even worse we both did the actual species i thought that was going to be my joke and then frank did the same thing what's that can i break the fourth wall please yeah i also had

francis and uh super producer jordan was like hey man you might want to readjust that one nice no one had so because i had francis you took francis off is that why we got such a shitty pick and dingo excuse me you know i'm i'm sorry like you're gonna hear some scratching at your door tonight on amityville and your wife's gonna be like what's that the door stays closed and nothing happens. You know what I'm surprised? What? No humans. What do you mean? I mean, we picked Francis.

No, no, no. Say what you will. I'm saying, like, just the human race. Like, the apex predators. I'm using Francis as, like, the apex of the human race. You know what I mean? Like, he is the best of us, and so I'm considering him in that. I blew it.

I forgot it. I asked Jordan to bring it in. Do we have the uh vitor bell for it uh i meant to show this this is the tyrannosaurus rex uh knockout puncher tremendous accuracy superb ground skills no known weaknesses this was the t-rex back in the day i actually read a statistic that adult t-rexes were apex predator number one child like young t-rexes were apex predator number two. That's how much they just wiped out the competition.

Yeah. I forgot to mention during mine, and I meant to, but I'm bringing it up now. Francis Ngannou's punching power is equal to getting hit by a Ford Escort going as fast as it can. Holy shit. More powerful than a 12-pound sledgehammer from Full Force Overhead. I don't know if you guys have heard that one. But remember, he ducks John Jones. He ducked John Jones.

But yeah, he hits like a car, so he's pretty good but uh man he's no godzilla you know godzilla you know number one great idea this was rick's idea fit in perfectly with the apex 100 theme uh but this one was very fun uh it's fun doing some research on shamanos shout out to golden eagle you guys got any honorable mentions golden eagle bald eagle like 120 miles an hour locked in But this one was very fun. It's fun doing some research on Chimano. Shout out to Golden Eagle. You guys got any honorable mentions? Golden Eagle. Bald Eagle. Like 120 miles an hour.

I was pretty locked in. Dingo trumps all of that. I did think about also going like movie. Like I was going to maybe think about the Anaconda from Anaconda, which was like seven billion feet long. But then I was like, eh, is it too much movies? Predator had to be on there. Godzilla had to be on there. And we kind of found it from there. I mean, T-Rex much movies? Predator had to be on there. Godzilla had to be on there.

And we kind of found it from there. I mean, T-Rex. T-Rex had to be on there. I applaud you for having it number one. It's the hands that bother me. I don't know. You don't need the hands. The Velociraptor seemed a lot more efficient.

The Velociraptor? They're not doing shit to a T-Rex. Oh, Velociraptor? Yeah, because Velociraptors were the apex predator of that day. The kill count in Jurassic Park was higher to the raptors. Yeah, that's because the T-Rex- Quality over quantity, dude. We don't need these weak-ass wins. Exactly, so let's bring the dingo back in.

You already said humans are on the apex list. Dingo's got a baby under its belt. Where did dingo come from? Honestly, if you look up apex predators, it shows up on all the lists. One baby on their name over the last 45 years. And we know of this one kill for decades. Name one person killed by a T-Rex. predators it shows up on all the list one baby on their name over the last 45 years let's and we know of this one kill for decades name one person killed by a t-rex i'll isn't the notorious thing like that the that the kangaroo is actually the more dangerous thing in the outback that like

they are or or i don't know i just please show some respect to the dingo it's not like i just pulled out some silly animal if there is a predator if there are some experts out there come come teach i was doing heavy research i i did see dingo on there a lot um no bears no yeah we had no bears i really i was trying to find a way to put them in there but uh i was happy with my list no lions uh someone wanted to point out a tiger that there was no randy orton which is an absolutely criminal his name in in the WWE is literally the Apex Predator. Yeah. Here's the problem.

We could have gone a Predator like the Nashville Predators, P.K. Subban or something. There's a generator from Harbor Freight called the Predator that almost made the list because those are important. Shout out to Harbor Freight, man. Here's the problem with the Randy Orton one. There's a few guys who clean his clock like old Francis. And even, let's be

real, Sean Strickland. He couldn't make it for me, so I'm sorry to Randy. That's the Apex Brothers list. Do we get any questions? Do we have any super chats, any feedback, anything worth reading out? Anything we gotta do before we leave here? We do have someone that had paid

some money earlier. Their name is actually, what is their name? Slido. Slido. And they just wanted to say that they saw Pratis knock out Radke in Louisville, and they've been the favorite ever since. Yeah,

Pratis is a fun one, man. He's a badass. It'd be, you know, it'd be a cool moment to go be outside the Apex after he wins, and you share a stogue with Protest? If I smoked a cigarette with Carlos Protest,

my life would be complete. If I smoked a cigarette in the Apex parking lot with Carlos Protest, and then while we're hanging out there, he gets a bonus. If you paid for the price to sit at the Apex and that was part of the experience, I feel like it would be worth it. Apex, you pay a little bit extra and there's a to sit at the Apex and that was part of the experience, I feel like it would be worth it.

Apex, you pay a little bit extra and there's a smoking section within the Apex. And it's practice. Oh, practice gets to come right afterward. Someone said Chris Hansen, he actually caught predators. Yeah, that's clever. We thought of that, but... Bill Stymance, however, paid to say the following. Bill, legend. Sending much love to you both and huge appreciation for the incredibly entertaining content.

I was crying laughing yesterday when you guys were discussing Ariel's quote unquote blowout. Blowout for real. I mean, can we talk about that for one second? I was actually thinking about it last night. I was like, he shit his pants and it ended up all over his shirt. Not only did the man shit his pants and end up all over his shirt, he's still thinking about it 30 night i was like he shit his pants and it ended up all over his shirt not only did the man shit his pants and end up all over his shirt he's still thinking about it 30 years later and he brought it up on live streaming on youtube and nobody asked him to and i'm i i have a new respect for him i actually really respect the hell out of it because i had about seven or eight

stories in my head that there is no way i would ever share the world yeah no no i'd share them to people in the friendly confines, but I can't put it out in the world. This technically is work. If you told Connor, 13-year-old Connor, that he got to talk about someone shitting their pants at work, and that would be the actual subject of the job, I'd be like, dude, sign me up.

That's amazing. Yeah, now you've got a reputation. I'm truly living the dream. Yeah, shout out to Ariel for revealing that but um i mean he must add something nasty bro bubble guts is an understatement for that yeah because he said his brother and i assume it's mark but maybe it's david uh also got sick um and uh yeah bad scene man when when he said it got on when he was describing the shirt the see the part that when it clicked for me is when he's talking about this he started talking about a shirt now naturally

when you're talking about a story like this and for anybody who hasn't seen it you can go back to yesterday's on the nose on the ariel hawani show wednesday's episode he started talking about the shirt now naturally i'm like wait he's not talking about the pants why is he not talking about the pants and so when he was gonna talk about this already no the pants Why is he not talking about the pants You knew he was going to talk about this already No because I knew He was talking about the clothing So I knew something was going to happen to the clothing But when he's talking about it happening to the shirt

I was thinking to myself How did it happen to the shirt It must have been horrific If this story is going the direction that I think it's going And then when he revealed that it was true What I was thinking was true I was like man this is one of the roughest epic proportions i mean listen we've all you know but you'd be talking about your pants yeah oh yeah he was talking about the shirt and

that's where i was like what also the way he was just like i went to let one rip like he was basically describing we're getting really nitty-gritty here he's basically describing like he sharted into his pants but it sounds like he just went in completely to the bathroom in his pants uh yeah i don't know god whatever they ate it was something something gnarly it was it was something absolutely gnarly uh yeah diaper helwani might be a new mythical we had uh we had a good time yesterday on on the nose it was fun the peetsie the peetsie old-timey lot of fun. The Pizzi old-timey football comparison and then you doing the old-timey voice just destroyed me. Yo, a couple people in the chat.

Yeah, Bonfish just wants to know, when's the last time you've shat your pants? One time I was in Nashville for some school event and I had to go to some big ceremony and i drank way too much the night before and got up and had like a greasy breakfast and oh no yeah i was walking in and it was more along the lines of uh of what ariel was describing yeah that you know you thought you could squeeze one it was actually two and i was like oh yo guys i gotta run back to the hotel and they're like what's wrong i was just like i'll meet you oh yo guys i gotta run back to the hotel and they're like

what's wrong i was just like i'll meet you in there well i mean you're you're in a good scenario where at least you had the opportunity to go back and change and you couldn't you know my worst nightmare is we go on the air at one o'clock at like 12 57 that happens that that's worse now while he was going through the airport like you even really have options here it's kind of like you're stuck and dude when i'm when i'm flying, I am just like no risks. No risks. Just like PB&J, maybe some rice, keeping banana, keep it really easy on something.

I'll eat. I will eat when I get to wherever I'm going. But on the plane, all that, I keep it nice and simple. Colin Avery said, you guys need to do a pound-for-pound list of mythical UFC fighters. Oh, that's a great one. Yeah, Motivated BJ, C-Level Kane. Yes, that's a great one.

Yeah, I think we can really get into that. Old Vitor is one. We showed the old Vitor. Certifies Knows It All, who's actually Harry Jenkins in the chat. Shout out. Let's go. My guy.

He told me to keep an outlook for him. But yeah, a lot of people. Oh, Aristocat Media just shat his pants. I can't believe how... I was going to say my latest is right now. Coleman T1. I shart almost every time I'm sick. I don't know. I can't help it. We get it. I was in a Chevy and I felt something heavy. That's the

diarrhea song? I was just trying to tell you my story. Oh, okay. Any Duke Frank? It sounds like GC just made up that story to make you my story. Oh, okay. Any, Frank, do we have any others? Crosshead, it sounds like GC just made up that story to make Ariel feel better. No, I didn't. I didn't.

It was real. Hattie B's? No, I didn't have Hattie B's that day, but maybe it was the day before. Real deep content. I'm truly locked in. You know, that's what you get. Diaper Helwani, new mythical character.

Diaper Helwani in the house. Does he make the pound for pound? Yeah, he might. No, no, no, no. He might. He might. He might. Yeah, it just feels like now we're just getting...

Oh, man. Eric Guzman, California traffic after eating too much fiber. Yeah, that's a nightmare. Colby, GCU, what's the procedure

when you shave your head? Turn on the clippers and go. What's the level? Zero. Zero. Zero it out and I got to do

one of these bad boys. Turn on the camera to Zero. Zero it out and I gotta do the, I gotta do one of these bad boys. Turn on the, turn on the camera to make sure I don't miss anything. I mean, there's sometimes I walk out of the house and it's just like, I mean,

I almost walk out of the house and it's just bad, but yeah. There we go. Shout out. That's, this is how I do it. Oh,

gotta get, yeah. Thanks for the sound effect. Do it on my own and then, you go to the barber. Diaper Helwani is goaded cemented in history diaper Helwani Howard Disc Golf eating a stuffed bell pepper

right now Derek the dad have you ever had an emergency poop on a first date no I would just leave I would just make up an excuse if I really like the girl there's no way I'm going anywhere near a bathroom while she's around yeah i will leave i'll be like my mom is in the hospital and i gotta go you'd rather start off the relationship on a lie than admit that you

poop look at them of course you would a thousand percent are you kidding me i've just been out of the game so long you know i've been off the market for a long time and nice nice flex man no it's one of those congrats on the sex things um but no i i've just like these what i'm trying to get at is these thoughts have never even crossed my mind like to be in the scenario where you have to decide am i gonna poop in front of this like i just i've been with my wife i don't even fart in front of my wife and i've been told by my doctor like because i've been talking about abdominal pains and everything and they were like yo how long are you joking you're not serious you can ask her like i am real weird about it you're insane what shit with the door open after two

months after two months what shit with the door open oh my god just to show who the real apex predator is yeah you assert your dominance you assert this is what i what i mean i've been in that mode like i've been in that mode for now nearly 20 years so i haven't even thought about the idea of like being like cordial around my you know what i mean like we're just we're in it now yeah i i thought it would fade away after some time i still just can't do wow that's a psychological thing that's that's so chivalrous. My doctor says I'm an idiot.

Yes, you're an idiot. You're an absolute idiot. Like, oh, you have stomach pain? Do you want a PhD to figure out why, you idiot? Someone said Frank would not even show up to the date. He would be too busy playing a Zelda game for the 40th time. That's a deep dig. That's a fact.

I love it. I love it. That's fantastic. It sounds like Frank's aligned with you, though. He's not even farting. He's keeping everything. Hey, El Torito 94, welcome to the nose-it-alls.

Yeah, I can't believe you don't even fart around her. Your stomach is just in shambles. You live with her. It's horrible. But what's weird about that to me... Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.

Hold on, hold on. Where do you go to fart and everything? Do you walk outside? Sometimes outside. Yeah. So you'll get up. I even say,

hey, I need to decompress. Okay, but here's the thing. You're addressing it. Why not just do it? You're having a conversation. Do you want to know what it really is? Yes, please. I don't have a sense of smell because of allergies and things like that. Is that for real? For real, yeah. If I smell something, it's

real bad. Okay. If there's a gas leak in here and I start reacting, like, I'm assuming you guys are already- Yeah, we're already passed out, yeah. Yeah, but so because of this, I guess I have a fear- You're terrified of it. That something's gonna be so bad that she's like,

I can't even look at you. Stop, stop. Yeah, I get it. 24-inch Stubbs wants to know if she farts in front of you. I've never heard, I don't even know if she poops. I don't think, is that a thing that women do? I don't. Is he being serious?

Someone said. Good man. Good man. Fart directly in her face one time, and then you make every fart situation less critical afterwards. This is not a bad strategy. Yafet said, worst timing is having to take a dump at a bar when Usman versus Colby 2 is starting, and the bathroom's packed.

That is way too specific. Y yo wow wow as soon as you got into like the specificity of the fight i was like this is gonna be great all right bro all right i feel like that's enough i love how we continued the thread from yesterday thanks to bill steinmetz for getting us on the poop train. Omar M. Jed Mishu punching hair right now that his boy left for on ground to talk about farts without a card.

Shout out to Jed. How do we end this? Derek the Dad with the second super chat. This time for $5 just to say, wow, Frank, my wife rips them more than me. Just do it, man. I can't believe this is all we're talking about. Do we have any thoughts from Andy and Jordan?

They won't even look at me now. Yeah, I feel like it's got to be awkward there in the room right now. They're just awkwardly on the other side of the room just turned to the right wall. But at least they know that you're not going to rip one and they'll just keep it. Brandon says to line your underpants with fabric softener sheets and then you can just fart away.

That's actually a clever idea. That's not bad. Damn, dude. If you have the maturity of us, this has been a great segment. If not, then you will never listen to this program ever again. But yeah, another day at the office this day

We got a new nickname UFC Apex 100 to look forward to No Fart Frank, Diaper Wani This is great, man Someone said to cover Bret Hart's ears Eric Stank The whole crew hit the pendulum in the day. Facts.

Facts. Stanky. Yeah, we get to hit the pen and then come talk about farts. It's good shit. That was fun. I really enjoyed our Apex thing. Do we want to be more aligned on the direction or do we want to continue to be like, mine is a little more fantasy? I feel like it works better that way.

I like it when it's just overplayed. Anything goes. I i like that frank comes up with the weird list and then we kind of what's wrong with my way all right last bathroom thing bonfish said i'm just gonna shit in my pants if apex 100 is on and i have to go to the bathroom that's dedication you have to be locked in howard disc golf when you let them rip, just say, who, me? Frank, hit it. Who, me? There we go. Ah, yeah.

The chat was having fun with this one today. Oh, Bill Steinmetz said we should now change the name to Boys in the Bathroom. These are pretty good singers. These are good singers, man. Thursdays are for the boys. Who needs Sunday? You're damn right. Yeah. Can't believe the Benjamin got the shout-out on the air. Always dubs. Shout- are for the boys. Who needs Sunday? You're damn right. Yeah. Can't believe the Benjamin got the shout-out on the air. Always dubbed.

Shout-out to the Benjamin. Penn Roethlisberger. Someone did ask me earlier if we are planning a fight feast for UFC 309. Oh, you bet your sweet ass we are. We're going to film it tomorrow. Can't wait. Wear adult diapers

like that astronaut lady. Apex 100's in the chat. Apex 100's in the chat. Yeah, yeah. Spam it up. Spam it up. Apex 100. All right.

Apex 100. See you next week.