The Ariel Helwani Show - The Boys in the Baku! UFC Baku preview, Fight Feasts from Atlanta, voicemails | The Boys in the Back

Episode Date: June 19, 2025

The Boys in the Baku start the show by reacting to Jon Jones’ recent comments about Tom Aspinall and Francis Ngannou (02:46), before moving on to the developing drama between Joaquin Buckley and Israel Adesanya (14:36).Next they preview the UFC's debut in Azerbaijan (21:34), headlined by Jamahal Hill versus Khalil Rountree Jr., along with the next round of the PFL tournament (47:58).After highlight Big Hitters from UFC Atlanta, the Boys make their picks (52:40), and premiere the newest Fight Feasts (1:04:49), where GC went home to a Atlanta for a food tour.They wrap up by listing their P4P best hills (1:20:54), listening to your voicemails (1:34:38), featuring mailman beef and some old favorites, and answering your Super Chats (2:11:30). 

Boys in the Baku. What is good? We are back. Actually we are here for the very first time. The boys in the Baku. This weekend UFC goes to Baku, Azerbaijan. So the boys in the back have become the boys in the Baku. I am one third of the boys in the Baku. Connor Berks joined alongside me as always. Mr. New York Rick, Eric Jackman. Frankie, how we doing back there, brother? Great, man, how are you? How we doing Baku there, brother?

That was a great intro there by you. The Baku is awesome. The Baku is awesome. I wish we were actually there. Unfortunately we're not, but we figured we'd get into the theme. We'd get in the spirit of the weekend in honor of this card. The first time the UFC will ever be in Azerbaijan. Yeah, hopefully not the last. It seems like there's a lot of excitement around the event.

They brought a really strong card to it, so maybe they'll run this back. Man, I mean from the the pictures and the videos that I'm seeing, it looks like an incredible city. Yeah. It really does look incredible. I saw, I was looking up some food for it. I think like plov, like a rice dish is like one of their specialties. It looks incredible.

So yeah, shout out. A lot of times, you know, we talk about how the USC goes to locations where they're paying site fees and trying to bring people in. A lot of times the governments of these countries or cities are paying for these events to happen so that tourists can come into town when the event comes and things like that. But it's also you'll notice every once in a while they're doing commercials and the broadcasts and things like this.

Baku, if this was funded by the tourism board, they got their money's work because I've been convinced that like Baku somewhere I want to go before I die. Like it has, it has delivered on what I, on, on the promise of what I expected when, when I see the visuals of it. When I, when I learn, when we were doing some of this and learning more about the culture, all the fighters have talked about how beautiful it is. Um, they've done well if, if that was was the goal. They have that and then they also have the F1 race. So I have seen some scenes before from there. It looks amazing. The land of fire.

Yeah. There's a natural gas fire that's just burning around the clock that you can just see there. So we're going to Baku at some point. The boys in the Baku. Flight to Istanbul to get the hair transplant and then off to Azerbaijan for the rest of the trip.

It'll be incredible. And then I can just use one of those sick hats to cover up the rest of the trip. It'll be incredible. And then I can just use one of those sick hats to cover up the hair transplant while we're there. So no one will be the wiser. We'll preview that entire card. We'll do fight feats on the back end of that. Unfortunately not for Azerbaijan. For my trip to Atlanta, I will take you around the 404.

We'll show you that later in the show. Pound for pound, voicemail, super chats, bets, all the good stuff. But before we get to all that, a little bit of news off the top here. John Jones went on the Full Send MMA podcast and had a multitude of things to say. We have some quote cards from it, essentially talking about Tom Aspinall, Francis Ngannou, where he's at in his fighting career. Let's just run through those. You can see here he says,

I think Dana, obviously referring to Dana, why he gets things done. I think business speaks before emotions. If Francis Ngannou presents himself in a humble way, I think he could very easily be back in the UFC. Okay, so this is interesting. John commenting on like whether Francis could potentially be back in the UFC.

Again, because it seems like John and Tom are not gonna potentially fight. But John has been outlining, oh, if Francis Ngannou comes back, that's a fight I'm interested in. So he's kind of been shifting the attention away from the fact that him and Tom is not gonna happen. Yesterday on the show, Ariel basically said,

we had a list of names of fighters including like Jorge Masvidal Nate Diaz Francis Inganu Connor McGregor Darren till how likely are they to return to the UFC? He had Francis and gone who like dead last on that list of returning to the UFC. I Still have hope because I think ultimately the UFC will be in a position where if this John and Tom fight does not happen, the only person that is walking this earth that I think people would be interested in seeing Tom Aspinall fight is Francis Ngannou. He's the only one that I think has any name cache. All due respect to Cyril Gaunt, who will probably ultimately be the matchup for Tom Aspinall.

I don't think people will think that's gonna be a competitive fight I don't think serial gone carries the the presence in the name that Francis and gone who does Suffice it to say that we've seen that fight and Francis and gone who beat serial gone with a busted knee So I think Francis and gone who was a name that would from a business standpoint be very attractive to the UFC The part that I kind of rub up against and and I hope it happens, I hope Francis Ngannou does actually come back to the UFC at some point. The part that I kind of rub up against is this idea of John saying, like, Francis needs to be humble.

Has Francis Ngannou ever been anything but humble, especially as it relates to the UFC? UFC has consistently acted like Francis Ngannou, like, fled and ran away and ducked and was like this guy who took tail when the John Jones fight came up. When in actuality it was just a contract negotiation, it was a money thing and Francis, and a respect thing,

and Francis Ngannou took his business elsewhere. But in the things that have been said about Francis Ngannou versus the things that Francis Ngannou has said back, he's been quite classy and quite humble and quite respectful. So I don't know where this idea that like Francis has this like inflated ego other than Dana White saying Francis Ngannou has an inflated ego,

but like this idea of Francis Ngannou humbling himself kind of confuses me as if he has been anything but humble in the past. I don't know if that means like groveling. Does Francis have to come back and be like, Dana, please, Dana, please let me back in the UFC, that will never happen. He could be referring to that just because it feels like the relationship, the ties between them broke

in sort of a bad manner, him going to the PFL, Dana talking about he'll never be back in the UFC, he'll never fight here again, yada, yada, yada. By the way, important to note, Dana himself has said it wasn't Francis and Dana having this conversation, it was always Hunter because he didn't wanna deal with this, it was Hunter and Francis. So like, does he owe Hunter Campbell he didn't want to deal with this. It was Hunter and Francis. So like, does he owe Hunter Campbell an apology?

Does he have to come groveling? I don't foresee that ever happening, so maybe that will be the barrier, but like, it makes all the sense in the world for Francis to come back to the UFC. I'm with you in the idea that if he has to grovel, it ain't happening. No, what does he have to grovel about?

The man's made, he's got his money, he's a champion, he doesn't need't do that now Do you think John Jones is bringing this up? Because he talks later in the in the interview about how he's just like man I don't really care about fighting right now. Let's show that quote. Yeah, go back to about him not being excited Okay, so this is about Tom specifically. He's not in a position to excite me If I whoop his ass there's gonna be a whole new fan base of somebody who everybody believes in so I actually agree with this quote But what we'll unpack this in a second

Let's go back to the idea of is he kind of like diverting attention away Do you think when he talks about Francis Ngannou his excitement would come back for a guy like Francis Ngannou if Ngannou comes back To the UFC that's how you get John Jones to fight again. Yes, but he's doing What he's claiming other people will do except in reverse and I'll explain. He's only excited about the idea of Francis Ngannou because the other option is Tom Aspinall who he's not excited about, whether I believe that or not I'm not sure, but he's claiming Francis Ngannou is this other guy that's now exciting. Francis Ngannou wasn't exciting to him when they were talking about Francis Ngannou versus John Jones.

He wasn't exciting to him and then Francis leaves the UFC. Now all of a sudden he's exciting. John is doing what he just claimed that other people are gonna do. He's like if I beat this guy there's gonna be a new name that everybody's all excited about. He's literally doing this. He's saying there's another name. Here's the and gunner he's presenting another name so it's kind of like John is talking out of both sides of his mouth and he's can kind of continue to do this as this whole saga has unfolded where he'd be like I'm still a fighter but I'm not retired but I don't know if I want to fight Tom Aspinall he's not exciting to me but like there's all these qualifiers there there's all these conflicting things that he talks about.

Ultimately, I do think he would fight Francis Ngannou, but I also think he's kind of rested on the idea of Francis probably isn't coming back, and he can just throw that name out there as a smoke screen while this whole Tom thing continues to drag on. He also, when he talks about Tom, he's just like, he's awesome, man.

He's great! I hope he goes on to have a great and illustrious career. Yeah, the fake humble John. So let's go to the Tom part. Yeah. He essentially says. He doesn't excite him. A, Tom doesn't excite me,

and B, I couldn't really care less about fighting right now. Though he did say I could care less about fighting, yeah. Here we have the quote. I don't wanna say that I'm retired because fighting's in my blood. Right now, I could really care less about fighting, yeah. Here we have the quote. I don't wanna say that I'm retired because fighting's in my blood. Right now, I could really care less about fighting. It obviously means I couldn't care less, you know, just a pet peeve of mine.

When the itch comes back, if it comes back, then I'll do it with my whole heart. So like, man, again, talking out of both sides of the mouth. It does not sound like this dude is fighting anytime soon. Well, it's like, if the itch comes back, blah, blah, like, then I'll put my heart into it. Okay, but you're saying that if Francis came, then all of a sudden, you're like on a dime,

your heart is back in it and you want to fight? Like, just, look, I blame John Jones for this like wishy-washy thing. Just say what you mean. I don't want to fight, God bless Tom Aspinall, I hope he fights Serol Ghan and I hope he has a great performance. And then just say, I'm done, I'm retired. I blame him for that

part of it. It's been very wishy-washy. He's not helping by just muddying the waters, but more than John, I actually blame the UFC. We've reached the point of ridiculousness with this whole saga. It has been a long time for them to strip John Jones. Like, don't put the decision in John Jones' hands. Don't, as Dana White, go out as early as earlier this week and be like, you know, a few weeks we'll give a deadline to John Jones. It should have been three months ago. Like there was a time for us to wait. That time is over. There was a time for Tom Aspinall to wait. That time is long over. Strip John Jones and just move on. It's the UFC's job to do that. Not John

Jones's job to be like, here, please take my belt. Could he have done that? Have others in the past done that? Yes, but that's not his responsibility. The UFC is the one who controls that and should have just taken the belt from him. So I blame them both, but I give the UFC the lion's share of the blame.

And man, in combination with Dana going from, oh, it's a thousand percent gonna happen. Oh, it's definitely gonna happen. Oh, we're gonna make it happen. And now it's just like, man, there's just a couple of weeks to go. And then John being like, man, I told the UFC my plans a long, long time ago.

I've known what I'm gonna do. It just makes it feel like there's just no chance that it happening now. I've never felt less enthusiastic about the chance of John versus Tom happening. When Dana White was at 1000%, I was at 0.0001. It was the decimal, like reverse the number and put the decimal on the other side.

There was no chance. There was just no chance when Dana White's doing the I'm 1000% sure it's gonna happen this and that, based on what? Like if it was gonna happen, it would have happened already. This feels a lot more in line with what my expectations were. I also agree with you in that it's on the UFC at this point. Strip John Jones or announce John Jones versus Tom Aspinall.

Those are the two options and it needs to happen now. By the end of International Fight Week, by the time Dana leaves the dais after being at International Fight Week, the post-fight press conference, we need a decision on what's going on here. Again, John has done himself no favors with this wishy washy shit.

Like no favors at all. It has really soured some people on him and made this swell of support for Tom Stronger. But it's not up to him. It is up to the UFC. And if they are still holding out hope, like we're gonna convince John Jones, I don't know how much more clear he could be

that he doesn't wanna fight. Another quote where he's like the fire's not there, especially for Tom Aspinall, maybe it'll come back one day. The guy doesn't wanna fight, it's pretty obvious. Let's just do it. I also couldn't disagree with him more. I know he talks about like the,

there will always be another guy and his fan base will get behind him and everything like that. What's gonna, Volkov, his fan base is gonna come at him. Jelton Almeida's fan base is gonna come at him. Like Tom Aspinall is the rightful interim champion. He fought against Stipe Miocic instead of going against the interim champion and unifying the belts. Tom Aspinall has the rightful interim champion. He fought against Stipe Miocis instead of going against the interim champion and unifying the belts.

Tom Aspinall has the shortest average fight time. He's blowing through everyone. He is just running through everyone like a freight train. He actually has a chance to beat John Jones. I believe on the odds for this hypothetical fight. Tom Aspinall is currently the favorite. Like, give me a break on this. Like, okay, he beats Tom Aspinall.

And then it's like, well, you gotta fight Jelton. Like you gotta fight, you gotta fight Cyril Gahn. I gotta confess something. No. That's the one part I agree with, but John Jones. I'm outta here with that. That's the one part I agree with. You gotta fight Jelton now!

Stop. There's always going to be a guy, he's right about that part. There's no other clear guy. Francis. I don't think there's any other guy that they're gonna be like, Francis. Dude, you are, no, no, no, I understand understand, but like there's not gonna be another guy. Francis

is, he's over in the PFL who would take a ton to get him back over to the UFC, but like this clear like, I feel like a lot of people are turning on him because they're just like, oh you are ducking Tom Aspinall. There is a clear contender that we think can beat you, that he thinks can beat you. I mean Tom Aspinall said in that post fight interview where he's calling John out, he's just like, nothing against you, man, I just think I'm better than you and I can beat you. Like, there's no one else like that in my opinion.

I don't wanna harp on it, but they said that about Francis and then all of a sudden Tom came. There will always be another. There will always be another, that's how this sport works. John is correct about that part, but that doesn't excuse him from the idea of you still need to fight Tom. If you are going to do anything, you need to fight Tom. If you're not going to do anything and you're just going to retire, see ya. We're good.

One of the greatest that ever lived. The greatest in my opinion. We're good. Okay, now let's move on. But it's up to the UFC. Strip him already. It's time. I imagine by International Fight Week this will happen. You think they hold out 59 days? What's 59 days? Then he would be the longest reigning heavyweight champion of all time. I imagine by International Fight Week this will happen. You think they hold out 59 days? What's 59 days? Then he would be the longest reigning heavyweight champion of all time.

He would break Kane Velasquez's record. No, I think by International Fight Week we will know what Tom Aspinall's next move is and I assume it will be fighting Cyril Gonn. And like it feels like International Fight Week, it feels like us going to Vegas has just been like, kind of like off in the ether for a while and it's just like next week. Yeah next week. So we're saying sitting here in a short 10 days time will

Potentially have the I think so I think so it is dragged on way too long because I guess well We have 318 and 319 I was gonna say like it's it's time for them to start start looking at booking the fall schedule Give us something else big to look forward to. Remember how long it took to book this one. Sometimes they just wait till the last minute. Facts. All right, so that was John Jones' couple of tidbits

from his interview with Full Send MMA podcast. Another podcast that had an interesting guest, the Pound for Pound podcast with Kamaru Usaman and Henry Cejudo had Joaquin Buckley on, which I thought was great sportsmanship from Joaquin Buckley to go on against the guy that just beat him. I wasn't able to listen to the entire thing,

but there were a couple funny tidbits of them talking about their fight this past week. Yeah, it seemed like Joaquin had tremendous respect for Usman, as you'd expect. When he's on the way up, that's the guy who was probably the champion that he most like identifies with and recognizes from when he was kind of on his rise. Very respectful and just like they kind of broke it down and he kind of attributed it basically to like wrestlers are always going to be a

problem. Not for him necessarily, but like the division is full of guys who can grapple, which is a fair point. You look at the top of that division, the Shavkats, even the Ian Garrys, who I think has underrated grappling, to Sean Brady, to Bilal Mohammed, to Kamaru Usman. It's a lot of guys who can really grapple. So it's going to be tough sledding if you can. And I think Buckley showed that he has levels to go in that. But yeah, respect shown toward Kamaru Usman, and then back from Usman to Buckley showed that he has levels to go in that. But yeah, respect shown to Kamaru Usman

and then back from Usman to Buckley. Yeah, he was very respectful in the cage too. They interviewed him afterward. I was at the event and he essentially just talked about, it's been an honor to be in here with Usman. I learned a lot and I'll go from here. Where he wasn't respectful was on his own YouTube channel. Israel Adesanya does his fight companion,

his watch along or whatever that he posts on own YouTube channel. Israel Adesanya does his fight companion, his watch along or whatever that he posts on his YouTube channel. And he was just like, man, I hate this dude. He's just so annoying. I don't know why he annoys the hell out of me. And then Buckley went on his YouTube channel and responded. He says, I don't know why you're on my dick anyway. You ain't no real fighter.

You wanna be a little pretty boy. You can get this work any given time, bro. He had some other choice words as well. Oh, he had a lot to say. Yeah, he had a lot to say. He was going after Izzy hard. To me, it just feels like he's just clapping back at Adesanya talking shit.

And also with the weight classes being this close, we've seen Buckley at 185. It feels like Buckley, you know, priming himself up to fight Israel out of Sonia. It wouldn't be the worst thing he could do. It wouldn't be, and for Israel, that feels like a winnable fight, maybe something that he could be coaxed into.

He also mentioned in that YouTube video that he posted that he had ran into Israel out of Sonia at the PI and told him to his face, like, what do you wanna do, bro? Like, let's fight. And Izzy didn't have anything to say. I'd like to hear both sides of that story. But either way, it seems like there's

some tension underlying between Buckley and Adesanya. I do get the sense that it probably I don't even know if it's underlying. Yeah, you're right. They both come out and like, I hate this dude. I do think it's probably more one-sided than it would appear, right? I have a feeling that Buckley is more bothered by it

and also more anxious to talk about it than Israel is. I don't think Israel is gonna be too keen to continue this. I doubt we see how does Sonya address it. I think he was just kind of bullshitting in his living room. The dude was also fighting one of his close friends in Kamaru Ushman. So, yeah. Is he's been a champion before?

Is he's one of the most recognizable faces in the UFC. One of the biggest stars. He'd be doing- He's definitely a fighter. Yeah. He's definitely a fighter. That's a great point. He's definitely a fighter,

not just trying to be a pretty boy. If Israel were to fight Buckley, he'd be doing him a favor, not the other way around, right? Like it's not Buckley has everything to gain and Adesanya has everything to lose. It just feels like a no win and as he could just move on without this affecting his day too much.

All right, one last point of news. You brought this one up to me. One championship, Chaudhary and Arjun Buller seemingly going at it. Well, on the way out of the promotion, Arjun Buller had a fight where Chotri basically said he shamed himself, he shamed his country, really went in on him and he's been known to kind of do that on certain fighters or other people that he doesn't like. And Arjun's always taken

the high road and kind of been classy in keeping his opinions to himself. But earlier today on X, he went on a little bit of a Twitter stream in response to a tweet by Globesvcs, one of my favorite followers. He kind of covers the scene, but specifically won a championship. And Arjun had this to say, he said, told me purple man had a hamstring injury before our first fight date. I didn't even ask, but I guess he wanted to be my bestie then. So this was in regard to a fight that he had booked and Chaudhary interacting with him about that. The guy's a bum

car salesman who has burned through well over half a billion dollars before moving his accounts to the Caymans to hide and before getting Qatari money. He'll be remembered as the biggest failure in the history of the sport and have to change his name again. I'll be just fine. He continues, he would always apologize to me on a private call after which I never understood. At least have some balls to stand by your hate And lies I knew the game when I got into the sport though So never mattered but juicy purple man from Russia brought it all

Best was how he referred to himself as Lorenzo him being chatry and Matt Hume from one as Dana motherfucking Lorenzo's a true G who would eat him for breakfast and is a Multi-billionaire and you're 1 billion in debt one truth though He wouldn't be able to run the house of cards without his side piece Hume The guy the that guy real dirt. I guess he's saying like is real dirty Maybe learn or did the real dirt learn from pride and Joe Silva. So You know kind of scathing from Arjun but understandable especially how he was kind of treated on the way out the door and

As we can, like- When he refers to purple man, is he talking about Anatoly Malkin? It must be, yeah, because that's what he's, you know, he's referred to like a booking in the past, but- That's how he lost his belt in one and that dude is Russian as well. And then he even said in it,

juicy purple man from Russia. Yeah, seething from Arshin Bull. But more towards Chachriri if we're being honest. No, no, no, for sure, I'm not. He's just throwing it out there from Hulkin. He's going at Chachri. The biggest failure in the history of the sport. Well, he's talking a lot about like blowing through money

accepting Qatari money, all this stuff. Yeah, I mean. Seething. One's finances are always kind of like in dispute. And viewership. And one of the things that Bloody Oboe, things that Bloody Elbow, when that was still around, covered quite extensively. It just feels like one is not even really like a player in the MMA space anymore, right?

They have the Thai boxing and the kickboxing and that's kind of their lane. But it's always interesting to hear and who knows if Chachiro will respond to that. But I found it interesting that Arjun went that knows if Chachiro will respond to that, but I found it interesting that Arjun went that aggressively at Chachri earlier today. Yeah, it was drawing to see for old Arjun Buller who came in the studio just a couple months ago.

And so it's like he's an upbeat guy. Yeah, a super positive guy. Super positive dude. But good for him. I mean, the things that Chachri said probably deserve something to be said. And it seems like now he just. Dude that takes so much pride in his country to say the things that he did about him is wild. But interesting times and we'll see if Chachri or one has a response.

All right, let's jump to UFC Baku this weekend. That is actually quite a good card. You got a few Azerbaijani representatives on there. Main event is fantastic. It's a solid card. We get a noon kickoff here in the States on ABC. I'm really looking forward to it. There's the main card for you. Not bad, man. Not bad. You got Faziv Blades, Nazim Sadikov,

obviously repping Azerbaijan. Taufik Musayev repping Azerbaijan. Naimov repping the area. It's a good one. Let's start with the, there's the prelims right there. Our guy Obon Elliott, Iron Turtle on there, we could have gone with this, but no big deal. A very solid card, especially when you get

Hamdi versus Mo Usman as your curtain jerker. That's akin to Cody Garbrandt, Davidson Figaro, curtain jerker, UFC. I don't know if I can get there. So that was Hamdi. All right, let's go with the main event, Jamal Hill taking on K. I don't know if I can get there. All right, let's go with the main event, Jamal Hill taking on Kahlil Rountree.

Bang. Great fight. This is what you sign up for as a UFC fan, as a fan of mixed martial arts. This is the one. Let me just give you a couple statistics here. Hit me. To support the argument.

Neither of these gentlemen has a single submission victory on their record. Makes sense. To take it one step further, neither gentleman has ever successfully landed a take down in their UFC career. Have they shot for any? I don't know, I can't confirm that or not.

Okay. But it's straight zeros on UFCstats.com and they have quite a few UFC fights between them and then 16 of their combined 25 wins are way of knockout. I think this is a striker's delight and I think one of them probably gets sparked. They both have several losses by knockout as well. Both of them carry a ton of power.

Across 25 minutes, I feel like someone is probably gonna get got. Yeah, you also have to think that this is an important spot for this division, right? Oh man, for both of them. Whoever wins this, it feels like, re-enters a title conversation quite quickly. I think Hill's always kind of been in it

because he had this run-in with Alex Pereira and has always been calling his name. Magomed Ankhalyev seems like somebody that Hill could match up with pretty nicely. And Rowntree is fresh off, not fresh off, his most recent outing was that great performance against Alex Pereira that everybody was thrilled and awed by and so If he if he picks up a win here, he's kind of got that momentum back, right? It's like, oh man Roundtree is every everything that he showed in that Pereira fight and can be dangerous either again to Alex Pereira or even to

You know reigning champion magomed Akhalayev. So I think there's a lot on the line, which makes me think that they will be going for the kill. They will be trying to put their stamp on this because it can very quickly enter them into that title conversation, especially with Yuri off studying, doing his exams, and graduating university. Who knows who's the front runner, but if you put up

a great performance, I think you automatically kind of like skip to the front of that line. Now is there any argument, I know we all loved the Alex Pereira-Jaleel round tree fight, it was an unbelievable fight. He did take a lot of damage in that fight. He is 35 years old, and that was sort of a massive jump in competition, he handled it brilliantly, put on a fantastic performance that we all won't forget. He is staying right at that upper echelon of 205. Now, is there any concern with the age, with how much damage he took, this staying at this high

level of competition that maybe, I don't want to say too much for Khalil, but like this is a, this is lined at minus 115, minus one Oh five a fight. I just feel like Jamal Hill across his resume has, has fought the better brand of competition than, than roundtree. Okay. Let me answer the first part, the age I'm not concerned about because the miles is more important and he doesn't have as many miles. He's only got like 19 professional fights.

He's, he's not as worn, I think, as somebody. And also, for his age, I mean, look, you know, you just look at the guy's shape. It's absolutely ridiculous. He looks like an action figure. The abs are absolutely ridiculous. And so I'm not concerned about that part. I think he'll be in fantastic condition.

I think as long as the mileage is lower, which it is for him, he's not a guy. Like Alex Pereira, for example, has a ton of miles on him right and he's older in age but he was able to get it done I'd be more concerned on that end I'm not concerned about that part if you look at the level of competition all right let's do let's do it like almost like fight for fight right we've got Alex Perera and Alex Perera we'll cross those off they both unfortunately lost those yeah Jamal's got Yuri. That's a strong

name to have on your record. He did lose that one, but it was a great fight up until the knockout. 100%. Great fight. It was 1-1 going into round three. I don't think Khalil has anything equivalent to that. So we'll put that as like here, a big shining star for Jamal. But then you get lower than that and it's like Glover, Thiago Santos, like on the way out area, Johnny Walker, Jimmy Crewt, Paul Craig. Oh, and St. Perot? Yeah. I mean, it's not a Sterling residence by any means. It's not that much better than like Anthony Smith,

Chris Dawkus, Dustin Jacoby, Karl Roberson, Modestas Pukoskis. Like, it's kind of similar. It is a level above, but not much. Yeah, neither of them are like mind blowing. Marcin Progniolos, Kutulaba lost. It's the Yuri fight that really stands outside of it and he lost that fight.

They are, I mean, we talk about the damage he took against Alex Pereira. I mean, Jamal Hill has been knocked out in two straight fights. He also is 34 himself. I remember watching the round three Jacobi fight and I scored it heavily for the hand yak. I was like 29 28

jacoby in that one but yeah I mean it I think it's gonna be a fantastic fight I just don't know like I don't have an edge on who I think is going to win I just think who's able who's able to land more and who's able to land that shot that hurts the other guy. Well I think what makes this hard to assess is they both got the big fight and they both lost like they both got the Alex Poirier opportunity and it didn't it didn't go their way. And for both of them, it ended, Alex was able to finish them. So it wasn't like we learned much other than Khalil is tough.

I think Jamal is tough. I don't think like, even though he's been knocked out, I don't think he gets credit. There were some times that it looked dicey in the Uri fight, even before the finish and in the Alex Pereira fight where he hung in there. In the Glover fight he took some damage as well. Yeah, he's tough and I don't think the knockouts kind of disqualify that. So I expect that both of them are going to probably take and land some good shots before even the finish.

I don't think it's going to be this like one guy goes in and absolutely starches or blitzes the other guy early. I think we'll see some really like heavy exchanges and then ultimately maybe one is able to wear on the other. I don't know which way to lean. I truly don't have a good strong feeling on this fight. Yeah neither do I. I just feel confident that it will be a good fight. It's not one of those ones where I'm just like bury me out back if it doesn't go the distance or if it goes to a decision. If it goes to the cards, bury me out back. That's how much of a lock it is. a decision, if it goes to the cards, bear me out back,

that's how much of a lock it is. But I do think it's gonna be a very exciting fight for 25 minutes if it lasts that long. To that point, both of these guys, as we said, are tough. So I could see a world where either one is winning a technical decision, right? Like if Khalil is like heavy on the leg kicks and just kind of like bouncing in and out

and making Jamal kind of just like stay in place, or if Jamal is like slick with the Or if Jamal is slick with the footwork and on the outside with the boxing and just frustrating Khalil that way, I could see either of those outcomes. I don't think it's this guaranteed knockout. It won't be boring though. It won't just be this uncompetitive

karate point fighting look. These guys land heavy and hard, both fast, both explosive. It's going to be a good fight. So I'm with you. I don't think it's like guaranteed knockout, but I do think it has a very, very high chance of being a good and exciting fight. I think whoever wins is probably one away from the title.

That's it, you're right back there. Despite having both lost Alex Pereira for the title, I think whoever wins, I mean, you put them up against a Carlos Olberg, maybe a Yuri, maybe he needs one more. But that's Hill's biggest obstacle, right? With Roundtree, it's like, okay, the world's your oyster, right?

You get a win, you can fight a Uri, you can fight a Ulberg, and you're back, or you could even hop right to a title shot. People will be like, oh my God, remember last time, and put him back in there. With Hill, the loss to Uri and the loss to Alex kind of like slows that role. You might need Ulberg. Yeah, it feels like you need to put him against Ulberg and Uri and the loss to Alex kind of like slows that role. You might need Ulberg.

Yeah, it feels like you need to put them against Ulberg and Uri and Alex to both stumble. You need to have Maga waiting for you. Either way, it's a fascinating fight. I think the loser, maybe like a, maybe like a rackage. Sure. Maybe Dominic Reyes. Either way, the performance by Ulberg,

I don't think did enough to make people go Ulberg has to be the guy So take this opportunity and stamp it and make yourself the number one contender. Yeah, I agree. I'm not sitting on the fence I just actually I just don't know I don't know I don't know who's gonna win I think it's properly aligned at one point a week. I saw Haleel riding down to like a minus 150 minus 155 range But it's it shot back up with people putting money on hill. I feel like it's rightfully lined as a coin flip. I agree. Co-main event, Rafael Fazeve taking on Ignacio Bahamondes.

Talk about a guy that needs a win. Rafael Fazeve, three straight losses. Obviously- Okay, who are they two though? I was just about to say, the gamerat was injury, and then two to Gaethje. Yeah, and gamerat's also an absolute savage. Yes, I 100% agree with you, but you don't wanna have four red blocks next to your name.

Doesn't matter how you got them or who they were against. Yeah, the most interesting part of this to me is it seemed like after Ariel spoke to Raphael right after the Gachey fight, and it seemed like he was like, yeah, maybe 45, I'm not feeling too big in this division, and now he's in there with one of the bigger guys in the division.

I was just gonna say, this dude's talking about fighting at 145 and now he's gonna fight a dude that is 6'3", with a 75 inch reach. I don't love that. I don't love it either, but also this is the toughest test for Ignacio Bahamondes, I know he's on this three fight round one win streak right now, but his loss did come to Ludovic Klein,

who is similarly, similarly, similarly sized to Rafael Fazeev. Like, I feel like Fazeev's gonna have to go to the body. I think he's gonna have to mix in takedowns, which you've seen him have success in fights previously. Even against Gachey, just the last fight. Yeah, of course. I think he landed two takedowns in that one.

I mean, Klein mixed in the takedowns, you know, headshots, of course, but also mixed in work to the body. I feel like that's what Faziv's gonna have to do. And I think he's equipped to be able to do that. For me, I agree with everything you just said. Like I believe that there are ways to win for Faziv and Bahamundes has looked vulnerable before

against people who are the same size as Fazeve. My thing though is, I think Bahamundes is better than that version that lost a climb. Like it feels like right now he's at such a dangerous point like in terms of how dangerous he can be that I don't know that whatever Fazeev is going to do, try to do, is going to be effective against this version of Bahamundes. He just really looks like he's putting it all together, and his ability to finish fights

is just absolutely ridiculous. The creativity and the arsenal that he has at his disposal. If you just look at it, on Contender Series, he got a front kick against Roosevelt Roberts at the buzzer, one of the craziest finishes I've seen in 2021, the wheel kick. In 2022, he gets a Bravo choke over Rong Zhu, then a couple decisions, head kick against Guiyagos, Manuel Torres counter right to ground strikes,

and then Jalen Turner, a nasty triangle choke. Yeah, after also pounding him, like battering him around the cage. Finishing every fight in creative different ways. Yeah, I just, I'm struggling to see how Fazeve is gonna be able to close that gap. Even against Gai-Chi, he had trouble in a lot of instances in closing that gap and navigating that size,

because Gai-Chi's, you know, a big lightweight. Like, maybe he's moderately sized lightweight. Ignacio is going to be even tougher. Can he do it? Yeah, I think he can do it. But man, it feels like physically, this is the wrong type of matchup for a guy who was just talking about going to 45.

Faziv is a brick shithouse, but he's just a fire. He's a fire hydrant. He's stocky, and his back know the size of most humans bodies, but The height the reach is gonna be so hard to overcome and Baja Mondays is such an absolute killer, man I just feel like he's gonna find somewhere is he gonna finish him? Maybe not if he's even shown to be extremely tough even against Gachey rock multiple times like he's just he's tougher than a $2 steak but Baja Mondays is is such a physical specimen and such a good finisher that I can't, I don't feel comfortable finding the way

for Fazeev to win as easily as it is for me to go, yeah, Baja Mondays is gonna find it. And if you look at Fazeev's record, he's never really fought like a gigantically tall dude. I mean, there's a few in that division. Six, three, seven inches taller is, that's a large difference. a Gigantically tall dude. I mean there's a few in that division six three seven inches taller is that's a large difference Yeah, that is a large difference and by the way like Jalen Turner another huge Lightweight Bob Mundus there was a time where he looked a little scrawny. He's growing into that man body like 27 years old He's only getting better with each fight. Yeah, he looks it he looks it and

Jalen Turner kind of is like a physical physically imposing dude, but I'm on does didn't look like he was he was being imposed upon in That fight so yeah, I'm concerned about how that's gonna go for Fazeve But I do I think there's a path to victory, but I don't think it's gonna be easy Even if he is able to get it done. I think it's gonna be a great scrap Yeah, and if Bahamondas wins, now you got another player at 155. He'll jump into that top 12, top 10 range. You could do worse than get him behind this dude who is a highlight reel waiting to happen.

He's got the last three fights, you said, first round finishes, three performance of the night bonuses on that one. He had that wheel kick against Roosevelt Roberts. Like this dude puts on exciting fights and could be a name for a long time. Puts on exciting fights, gets insane finishes, and reps Chile.

I imagine the UFC has not had a significant Chilean fighter. Yeah, and now they have a guy, and they've been great at this, right? You find one individual country, the country gets behind this guy, you keep rising him in the ranks. I think this could be something special.

So Eileen Bahamundes here. actually haven't looked at the line in a minute What what is the line on this one? This one was the same thing as as the main event? It was it was close to a pick them Bahamundes getting some betting right now minus 130 Bahamundes plus 110 Rafael Fazeef I probably leaned toward that Bahamundes line And that's a closely behind fight both the both the co-main and the main are just fantastic. Great fights, man. Great fights. Let's keep it rolling to the featured Battle of the Evening.

Curtis Blade's taking on Rizvan Kounyiv. There's a few guys making their UFC debut on this card, Rizvan being one of them. We saw him in PFL. He beat Hanan Ferreira and then he tested positive for like eight different types of steroids. And that one got overturned to a no contest. He looked good on the Contender Series this past August.

Getting Curtis Blades as your debut and like the UFC has been determined to make this one happen. This is the third time it's been booked and we're finally getting it. It's a lot to ask on your debut, man. Getting a top five heavyweight. I know it's not the deepest division,

but still, this is a dude that has fought the best of the best of the division. And if you don't knock out Curtis Blades, I mean, the stat is actually, he is 18 and 0 if you don't knock him out. All of his five of his losses are by KO's. If you don't knock him out, he's probably gonna win. That's basically what I was gonna say.

This is a Curtis Blades fight. If Curtis wrestles, he wins. If he doesn't wrestle, he might get knocked out. That's basically how these go. What is the odds on this one? Right now, this one's coming in as well. Curtis Blades minus 235, Kouniiv plus 200. Yeah, that makes sense, because basically, it

would be minus 400, 500 if Curtis Blades hadn't always lost by knockout and feeling like that's such an obvious path to victory for everybody. If he comes in, mixes in enough of the striking, and is able to implement his wrestling, I don't think this will be a hard night at the office for Curtis Blades. I think it will ultimately just be one-way traffic for Curtis. If he stands on the feet too long, who knows? Who knows? I mean, I know we've seen people have success in their debut before, but it feels like we're on a run of debutants not having the best time, and they're getting tough matchups.

No, this is extremely tough. For not only Rizvan, but the next fight, Metabek Oralbae taking on Tofik Musayev, who is from Azerbaijan. We've seen him in Ryzen. He's fought Alexander Shabli. He's fought Patrik Pippel. He's fought Patricky Pitbull. He's fought really good competition, but this is a tough debut in the UFC, man. Oral-Bai is tough as a $2 stake.

He's got good ground game. He's got cardio. Like, Musayev's gonna have the advantage on the feet for sure. I mean, he's got massive knockout power. He's got like 18 KOs on his resume. But man, if this gets to the ground and there's not a ton of tape on his ground game,

if this one gets to the ground, I feel like Oral-Bai is gonna be able to do a lot of good work and again, it's just a debut that is not easy. I think that you're right about that part because Oral-Bai I think is one of those prospects that everybody loves, especially because of his toughness, like as we saw in the last fight.

The difference between this fight and some of those others that we've been talking about, and even Blades versus Keneave, is Mosayev has actually fought the better competition. Yeah. He's not been in the UFC, but Mosayev has been doing this longer and against tougher opposition than Oral Bayh.

So actually, even though he's the one making the UFC debut, if you're going resume for resume, it's not even close. Moussaieff has fought way better competition. So I think it comes down to like, what is the projection for Oral-Bai and where is he actually now at this point in his career? I think we all think Oral-Bai is really good

and can be really good and has a high ceiling, but it actually might be too early for Oral-Bai. That's how I'm viewing this okay Because Messiah was like way more experience against sure guys that I would consider like tough matchups for oral by like it's Again, I'm high on oral by it could be it's just like Messiah was like he comes in and oral by is as good as everybody thinks and he does get it done, but Or resume for resume. It's on the other side. Yeah, I mean, Patrick Pippel, Roberto de Souza over in

Ryzen, went over to Bellator, Sydney Outlaw, Alexander Schaubly, he's foughtin' good dudes, switchin' up between Bellator and Ryzen, essentially for the last seven years. It's gonna be interesting, it's gonna be great. If it stays standing, I think Oral Bayh's cooked. No, for sure. I think he's cooked for sure. It doesn't matter how tough he is.

But maybe in that toughness, like in the, was it Klein? What was the fight with Oral-Bai? No, it was- Rebekky. Rebekky. In that fight, even on the feet, when he's getting absolutely battered, he's able to find a leg somehow and take him down.

He's just impossible to kind of like deal with, but if it turns into primarily a striking battle, I do think he's at a significant disadvantage. I just don't think it will be wholly a striking battle. He's too good at kind of finding that way, especially if he finds himself hurt to just get into a clinch or get into a position where he's on top.

It'll be interesting to see how each of them deals with the opposition's kind of offense. And Musayev, feel like he had to have benefited from the UFC going to Baku. 100%. Because he reps Azerbaijan, it felt like a no brainer. Put him on there, yeah. Oh dude, you fought some great competition,

you get knockouts, you fight in this country, we'll throw you a bone, give you a chance here. Even in Bellator and his early career, he's had a small but very vocal following. He's somebody that has been on the radar for a long, long time as somebody that people have really wanted to see, and I'm glad he's getting this opportunity,

but certainly, as you said, if it's not in Azerbaijan, maybe it happened somewhere else, or maybe it doesn't happen at all this feels like an obvious easy layup It feels like the the the crowd is gonna be turning up the the one before this is Nassim Sadikov versus Nicholas Moda And then we go into Musayev Then you get a break with with blades and Kouni even then Rafael Fazeed versus Ignacio Bahamondes. That's where all three of your Fighters from Azerbaijan will be fighting almost. I wish it was three in a row, but I understand Fazeev being in the co-main.

That's gonna be fantastic. The crowd is gonna be on one for sure. The Sadikov-Motov fight, Sadikov minus 400 in that one. He looked good in the comeback, so I understand. I get that. Yeah, I mean the knockout against Bonfim was nasty. Yeah, so I'm understanding, but Modus tough man,

like I don't think this is, how do I feel about minus 400? Maybe the line should be a little closer than that. When he got Bonfim off, like it didn't even come out for round two. Nicholas Modo, like he's had ups and downs, three and two in the UFC. He's on his 400 though.

Yeah, he's on a two fight win streak. He's got to finish over Tom Nolan. two in the UFC. He's on a two-fight win streak. He's got a finish over Tom Nolan. I don't know, it feels like a, I'll say it this way. It feels like a dangerous fight for Sadiqov. He has to be sharp. Like, I don't think he can take this one lightly, but it didn't look like he, what, like, he looked very good in that comeback.

So I'm excited to see what he can do. He's somebody that everybody's kind of been high on and I think in the last fight he showed why. Muhammad Naimov taking on Bogdan Grad. Naimov is gonna have a lot of fans in attendance. Tajikistan not too far from this area. I feel like they're gonna come out in droves. We saw the videos of when he got his first UFC win. Everyone was going so crazy. So I think he'll have a good crowd there. Pretty big favorite, but I kind of get why.

A dude with a lot of power going against a dude in Grodd that can keep his hands low and doesn't have a ton of striking defense. Yeah, agree. Yeah. Our guy. Shout out. Ovan Elliott.

A minus 500 against So can Coe I Don't know if I've seen enough from from Oban Elliott to be a minus 500 But also I don't know a ton about Coe so I can't really speak to it that much Was he a favorite or a dog against Brian Mosh? He was a big favor, right massive like a minus 600 like an even bigger favorite Okay Yeah, if look he's getting a lot of respect off the Basil Hafez fight, deservedly so. That was the performance. I think that was the performance that he kind of like was expecting and promising as he came into the UFC, and we saw some decisions, they were close. This one was

the one that put the stamp on it. If he looks as good as he did in that last one, that line kind of makes sense. If it looks more like the Val Woodburn fight or the Preston Parsons fight, like, I don't know, man, that's a steep price to put on Obann. But as you know, like, we're fans of Obann over here. I expect that he'll get it done and cut a fantastic promo.

We'll be riding with him. Yeah, we're riding with Oban. Either way. Another guy that's a friend of the program, Jun Young Park, Iron Turtle. Shout out. Taking on Ishmael Nardive, who's on his second stint in the UFC.

Picked up a win against, I believe Bruno Silva in his return to the promotion, but this is, I mean, this is Iron Turtle. This is our own turtle territory. That's the breakdown for you right there. We should note, if you haven't already, check out his interview with Ariel Hawhani right here on this channel. That was on Tuesday?

Yeah, Tuesday. That was Tuesday, I believe it was. So check out the show from Tuesday. Ariel spoke to the Iron Turtle. That was highly anticipated. On this card, you have Iron Nicholas Moda. Okay, June Young Park iron turtle and then Daria Zelenia Kova the Iron Lady Wow Triple iron a lot of iron on this card

Frank that would have been a good drop time. No iron deficiencies on this card But I mean I think think, you know, best one iron turtle, obviously. Easily, easily. Best nickname. There's no question. Best fighter. There's no question about it. Maybe the potential goat.

Who knows? Alexeyva versus Saigula, the Russian Ronda. I feel like she gets it done there. Saigula, I don't rate very highly. Togirol and Bekov, early on this card, man. Russian Ronda, huh? All right. Yeah, shout out, Arena. Alexeyva. Togirol and Bekov early on this card man. Russian Ronda huh? Alright. Yeah shout out Irina Alexeeva. Togirul and Bekov versus Azat Maksim a combined 31 and 3 between the two guys and they are the second fight of the night. Yeah it feels

like a like a demotion for Ulan Bekov who's kind of been around for a long time and fighting top guys. Also you look at Maksim's list of of names, like he's been pretty good too. It does feel weird. I mean he was undefeated up until the Charles Johnson fight. Yeah, it feels weird that this is so low on the card, but um... It's probably not gonna be the most exciting fight. Just going off of both their styles. Okay, I'm gonna say... Okay. Hate counter? I think it will.

Okay. I think it is gonna be exciting. I like it. I think the styles are gonna clash and they'll end up having actually a pretty good as exciting or more exciting than Hamdi versus most No, I think Hamdi and most ones gonna be more exciting as somebody's going to sleep. I think nah nah decision I think this is a sloppy decision, but this is does the does the sloppiness cancel? You know I'm saying like maybe Is it like so sloppy on both sides that somebody slips into, you know what I'm saying?

Yeah, I see what you're saying. I like it. I like it. Because typically what you see is like sloppy versus technical, right? You see like, okay, but like they both are just these guys who like swing meat hooks and I feel like somebody like accidentally goes to sleep.

Is that fair to say? Maybe. We'll get some takedown attempts in there, I'm sure. But they're gonna be sloppy. No matter what, at noon Eastern, I will be seated on my couch, ready to enjoy. There's a lot of decisions on these records, that's for sure. Ready to enjoy. It's gonna be fantastic.

I'm excited for Baku, especially the main card. I'm going knockout, potential fight of the night number, in fight number two. That's my hot take. All right, knockout between Mo Usman and Hamdi, fight of the night bonus for fight number two. That's my hot take. Knockout between Mo Usman and Hamdi. Fight of the night bonus for Tagheer and Axel. Potential, it'll be a good fight, potential. If both those things happen, we'll be off to a hot start out in Baku.

There's the main card for you, Jamal Hilkhail, round three, Rafael Faziv, Ignacio Bahamondes, Curtis Blade, Rizvan Kunyev making his debut, Taufik Musayev also making his debut against Mikhtabeck Oral Baye, Azeem Sadikov repping Azerbaijan versus Nicolas Moda, and then Muhammad Naima versus Bogdan Grad. Prelims, Argyle Oban Aliyev, Iron Turtle, and then the other fights that we just talked

about. There are some more fights this weekend happening tonight. Yes. PFL, just a couple of them. Kevin Lee in the main event is a plus 1100. Rising Prospects, PFL Prospect. PFL Prospect against Godzai Rabadonov. Godzai minus 2500, Kevin Lee plus 1200.

Do we have the bracket? I just wanna see what happens if, okay. So here's the bracket, lightweight bracket. Good names left in the tournament, I'll say that. So the winner of this gets the winner of Brent Primus versus Alfie Davis. Yeah, I don't know. Lee was replacing who?

Did Mads or, Mads won the first round, right? And then I guess he must've gotten hurt or something and we got Kevin Lee, but I don't remember, did I have, I think I had Rabadonov winning this tournament, did I? I did for sure. All right, so we both might have had that. Oh, let's see here. No, I had Shobly.

Oh, you didn't get Shobly. Shobly who has fought. You did. Yeah, I had Rabadonov. Okay, so now does that change now that rising prospect Kevin Lee is it now not at all you think Robin Donna could have said yeah Kevin Lee's plus 1200 for a reason that feels I feel this respect feels disrespectful it feels like the one where 47 seconds after the fight

you're like okay I guess it wasn't disrespectful I. Okay, I think Kevin Lee is gonna win. I love it, wow, all right. Kevin Lee wins the main event of PFL, takes it straight into Baku, curtain jerker, KO. Why am I doing this right now? By the night versus Tagheer. I don't know why I'm doing this specific thing. Liz Carmouche also on the card.

She's like a minus 675. She will certainly get it done. I definitely think she gets it done. Yeah, against Alora Dana. I think she's gonna win that whole tournament. Mansour Barnow versus Archie Colgan, which according to the PFL official Twitter account, is the title eliminator to fight Usmanar Magomedov,

but contrary to Jonathan Coachman Ramagomedov, but contrary to Jonathan Coachman saying, don't trust the PFL official Twitter account, look at my Twitter account. So I don't know if Colgan Barnow is the title eliminator. Do they know if it's the title eliminator? I'm not quite sure. It's a great fight though. And I'm really excited for the continued kind of run

of Archie Colgan. I'm interested to see how far he can go and how far he can push it. It wouldn't be, look, I'll say it this way. It wouldn't be a bad title fight. I think that'd be a great title fight. But the fight that we all want is Paul Hughes versus Usman and according to Pizzi it seems like that's not the the sentiment at the moment that's not what they're leaning toward based on what how Pizzi was

reacting when we talked about this yesterday so Paul Hughes reacted yeah the way Paul Hughes was reacting to it so maybe they are gonna do Twitter admin bro I mean I'm feeling good no I don't know you know the X I don't think we blame the Twitter admin, bro? I mean, I don't. Can't be feeling good. No, I don't think. Oh, you know the actual Twitter admin? I don't think we blame the Twitter admin. I think we blame maybe some mixed messaging. Okay. You know? Mixed messaging. We love the Twitter admin over at Twitter. No, we love the Twitter admin, legitimately.

Legitimately, we love them. Jake Hadley also on the card. Yeah. White Kong. I know somebody picked him. It might have been. I did. You picked him to win the whole thing. Yeah, I think. yeah, I definitely did. Yeah, I did, let's go!

Jay Cadley! I might have had like, Hego or something. Yeah, the Andre Hego. Wow, so. Fucking hell. Yeah, yeah, shout out, shout out. Jay Cadley, a slight favorite over Alvis De Silva. Damn, your brackets are looking good, I gotta say.

These are, a couple other ones are not looking as great. What time does this card start? Do we know? Earlier. Earlier? Yeah. We have a 9 p.m. start, all right, that's better than 11. That's better than 11.

You wanna know the saddest part? I was traveling last weekend, I stayed up all the way for the Fat Gene split decision victory. No, it was a great fight. Yeah, it was a pretty good fight. Your voice went so high there. Yeah, yeah! I mean, the first round voice went so high there. Yeah, yeah. I mean, the first round.

The first round when he dropped him and everything, that was nice. To me, it was more carried on just the shock of like, oh shit, all right, Thad Gene. You beat Jason Jackson. Yeah, you just beat Jason Jackson. All right, I didn't think it would happen this early. Okay, Thad Gene, let's see what you got.

To me, it's giving a little bit of like, Dakota vibes. It's like, all right, you're young, but like, oh shit, maybe you're the truth. Like maybe you're the future of this. So that was more where I was excited about that. Yeah. I mean, if he wins the tournament, that'll be great. That'll be a great first for him, man.

That'll be big for them because now they have another homegrown talent if they can kind of keep the house in order. So shout out to Thadjean. All right. There's some good fights this weekend. I am certainly looking forward to it and we'll be done with them by like 6, 7 p.m. on Saturdays. It'll be fantastic. You can enjoy your evening.

You can enjoy the rest of your weekend. Let's do some picks before we do that. Let's recap last week. I finished up like 0.9 units at Atlanta. It was like one of those ones where it's just like, ah, I won like 45 bucks. I mean, can we round it up? Let.9 units at Atlanta. It was like one of those ones where it's just like, ah, I won like 45 bucks. I mean, can we round it up? Let's call it a unit. Eh, we got a unit back at UFC Atlanta. The Parlay Pals, we were going into the main event.

10-17 on the line, green on the line. Just fall flat at the finish line. Just fall flat at the finish line. Just fall flat at the finish line. Told Pizzi we need a winner. Yeah, we're not saying any names. We need a winner this week, Pizzi. We need a winner this week. So didn't win Parlay Pals, but we did win a little bit,

a little bit of green on my bets. Some people did win some green on UFC Atlanta though. Let's rip through the big hitters for this past week. We start with Narrative Nation, Geo Gennaro. Same game parlay, plus 9,000. Cody Brundage most strikes landed. Cody Brundage most significant strikes landed. This is bet 365, they allow you to do that,

which I think is wild. Mansour Abdulmalik by decision or technical decision, which is what he ended up winning by technical decision. What the fuck? Turned $5 into 455, absolutely. How do you even arrive at this bet? How do you think that Cody Brundage is gonna outstrike the KO guy,

and then the KO guy is gonna win by decision, and you've Parlayed these things together and hit it. That's why it was plus 9,000. Holy shit. That's why I was nine thousand We keep rolling along Bossy sauce at bossy sauce one. He went 13 leg parlay. He got Lucky with his pick on Hedolfo Bellado, he got saved by the no contest, hit all the other ones, turned $25 into $150.59. 25 cents. 25 cents, I'm sorry.

Imagine if he had just put like, if you had just put five bucks on that, you'd be 20Xing this. If he had just put five bucks on it, you would be looking at like three grand. Great calls there, bossy sauce. All right, let's keep it rolling. Michael B's back, Michael B gambling.

Alonzo Menofield by decision, dart, 75 bucks into 11.25. Just crazy. Yeah, I'm thinking Alonzo Menofield. Plus 600's not enough, let's go by decision, plus 1,400. Good shit, Michael B. We keep rolling. Pagan, P, two, three, two, four, four shit Michael B. We keep rolling. Pagan P2324, four pick parlay, Jamie Lynn Hurth by decision,

Ricky Simone by decision, Rose Namiunas, Kamaru Usman by decision. I love how we went, decision, decision, decision. Just in case if Rose finishes or I'm just gonna do Rose money line. No need to do Rose by decision who won by decision, but either way turns 50 Canadian into 1,500 Canadian. Wow, shout out to Pagan P there.

We keep rolling. Draco Dejen, I believe is the next one, yeah. Talk about a dart. Cashes this one out. Cashes this one out. 13 pick parlay, essentially a pick on every single fight across the board, and then had Joaquin Buckley in the main event, cashed it out before the main event. So he turned

his $200 into $50,547.31. So having Buckley, what would the number do you think have been? Like 80k or something that he actually would have? Yeah probably something like that because Buckley was like a minus 250 or something like that and like at that point it would have been you know a 13-pick parlay but man insane, snipe on the cash. Wow. Snipe on the cash out. I love that. It must have been offering him a decent cash out too if it was just Buckley left. I think the 50 is the payout. No no it is the favorite. That's the line adjusted I believe to his payout. But I'm saying they must have been offering him a nice cash out because Buckley was the last leg and he was the favorite. Oh yes yes yes. But man, shout out to

Draco DeGente. That is insane. Can you imagine having the 50k and then you watch Usman round after round, take down, mauling, take down, mauling after round take down mauling take down mauling take down mauling you're like Yeah, I'm a genius 50 Genius yeah, we talked about putting $200 on like what must have been like a plus 30,000 originally insanity Next up while sneeze 38 wish I had done one. All main card fights to go the distance. What? This book, which I believe is Bovada,

graded it as a W despite the technical decision in the Cody Brundage fight. Plus 20,000, only put a dollar, but still, crazy bet. I wish you hadn't hit this as someone who was in the building for it, but still a crazy bet. Oh my God. Wait a minute. To say the least. But how does the technical decision count

as going the distance? I don't know. I think he got lucky with that one. Wow. I think he snuck by on the hair of his chinny chin chin on that one. Hell of a pick. And then I think lastly, we got one more, Dravy.

One of the sharpest dudes on Twitter, very, very sharp. Phil Rowe by KO, round three plus 2,500, and he bet it twice, 75 Canadian, 50, 1,300, 19, I'm counting over three grand Canadian on Phil Rowe. Can you imagine when he was grabbing Ange loose his head and just throwing the uppercuts in there and you're just like, go, go, I got that, I got round three, KO plus 2 3k l plus 2500 crazy crazy so shout

out we gotta get people instead of submitting just tickets like videos of them react please we we got one a few years back of a dude who was in he was in a country in the Middle East watching one of his tickets cash and it was like 6 30 a.m. and it's him and all his boys and like the Sun is out and they're going crazy but they have to be quiet because his mom is upstairs sleeping they're like yeah yeah yeah so like if you ever take a video and you want to submit it out we will gladly pay let us get the video of you watching that cash out on the on the Buckley and you're just sitting there grinning ear to ear as Kamara Usman takes him down over and over legit dude could you imagine like it round three and it's just another maul and you're just sitting there grinning ear to ear as Kamara Usman takes him down over and over. Legit dude. Could you imagine like at round three and it's just another mauling you're like, thank God I did that.

Thank God. You would have had zero dollars instead of 50k or the Phil Rowe. I can't even imagine how crazy you'd be going on that one. So shout out to all the big hitters. Congratulations to them. Some crazy tickets as always man. Some crazy tickets as always. All right, let's do the parlay pals. I asked Pizzi for a winner What does he got? He gave me a little round tree minus 115. He did? Yeah I feel like that's sort of like we don't know where to go in this fight. Pizzi's like I got you That could be risky. Yeah, Pizzi just a little round tree. Feel like he like he's always determined to go main event He tried to go KSW main event last week. We were like, we can't do KSW, we're not getting lines here.

And then he was like, all right, give me main event at UFC. Guy loves a good main event. All right. Guy loves a good main event. All right, Frankie, let's throw it into the randomizer. Do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do. Bang, I will go first, yes.

Look at that. I got dibs on someone. Frank, you'll go second, Rick, you'll go third. No questions asked, Iron Turtle, thank you. Iron Turtle, very nice. Iron! There it is, thank you. I'm gonna go with... Fucking out.

Nice, nice, nice. Can we get a sound effect for Rick's pick? I don't think so. What is his pick? Archie King Colgan. Oh yeah. Oh shout out. future title challenger according to PFL Twitter,

not according to Jonathan Coachman and Paul Hughes. Yes, I'm taking Archie Colgan money line. Archie Colgan like a minus 360. Man, he's the truth. James Zahunna? No, not James Zahunna, Archie King Colgan. Oh, there we are. Oh, with the boys in the Baku graphic in the top right,

let's go. I mean the branding, the branding are. Oh, with the boys in the Baku graphic in the top right, let's go. I mean, the branding, the branding is on point plus 343. That gets us into the green. That gets us into the green. Oh boy. Oh boy. Things are getting in the green last week.

Yeah, we should have. We should have. I'll let the guy who owes the crack know tomorrow. Well, can we cash out the parlay before a pizza's back? Can we just, can we just? That should be the thing. That should be the thing parlay before a pizza's pick? Can we just, can we just? That should be the thing. That should be the thing.

We always hedge on pizza's pick because he always chooses the main event. So he's always last. So we're always three and O going into it. And then we have to hedge on pizza's pick. Yeah, you know, it's a parlay. Do I feel amazing about it? Eh.

Do I feel amazing about it? Eh. It's a four leg parlay. Do I love it? it? Eh. It's a four-leg parlay. Do I love it? No. But we're gonna see what happens. We're gonna see what happens and we support our brother. So we'll see what happens.

All right, my picks, I will run through them quickly here. First up, Saigula Alexeeva, fight does not go to a decision. I mean, the graphics team was on point this weekend. The boys in the baku. Yes, Saigula do not rate well. I think Russian Ronda gets her out there. She finished Egger in round one. I rate Egger higher than Saigula. I think Russian Ronda finishes

this fight. Plus 100. I like that. We keep it rolling. June Young-Park, enough said. Iron Turtle Moneyline, baby. We keep rolling. Mick DeBeck, Oral By. Yeah, I'm gonna know fairly quickly on how I feel about this one. Just like, let's work to the ground, let's go clinch work, let's close the distance and not stay at range too long with Taufik in this one. But yeah, I think that the cardio, the toughness,

the ground game can get this done for Mick DeBeck Oralbae here. Plus, there's not a ton of tape on his ground game. He is making his UFC debut. I know he's got a great resume, but Oralbae is the pick for me. And then I got a couple of parlays to finish this off. To Girol Embekov, I like him to get it done against Fight of the Night, Rick says. Potential. Azzam Maxim. Maxim getting his second straight loss after starting undefeated in his career. I like Naimov. I think I think he can get the knockout. Don't love the the striking this defense of Bogdanov-Grad. And then a a prop parlay for you.

Oh yeah, I also forgot I also have Curtis Blades. I like him against Dave Ewing, Riz Van. And then a prop parlay for you here. Hill Roundtree under four and a half. Eight of Hills last night, I've gone under the four and a half. 11 of 15 in Roundtree's career have not gone the distance and then on the over one and a half Fazeev seven of nine are over one and a half and Baja Mondes I know he's got three straight round one finishes but this is a big this is a big step up in competition so I don't think he's gonna get Fazeev out of there too

early those are the picks for the weekend. That is the breakdown for UFC Baku for the PFL fights. Let's go back to last weekend, UFC Atlanta. You see the shirt, I got it. UFC Hawks collab. Look at the back of this thing too. Pretty nifty. Damn.

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Sick shirt, though. Shout out to the UFC. I like these collaborations for the hometown teams. While I was in Atlanta, did a food tour, went to the Varsity, went to Hankook Taqueria, and maybe a couple other special places. You just have to find out. Fight Feast Atlanta, food tour around Atlanta.

Take a look. Ah, Atlanta, back in my old stomping grounds the ATL the 404 city in the forest. Hotlanta just kidding don't call it that shit. Not only is Atlanta home to UFC Fight Night Buckley versus Usman but it is also my hometown. If you've ever wondered why they call me GC it it stands for Georgia, Connor, because I spent the first 25 years of my life in this beautiful city. There's a million places I could take you on my trip here, but I'm gonna take you to two of my favorites, Fight Feast, episode 23.

Let's go. Hey, excuse me, gentlemen, just a quick survey here. If I had two places to go in Atlanta, where would I go? I would probably recommend Varsity. I heard Varsity's pretty good. And then there's a Korean taco shop that's... Oh, shit, we're actually going to those places. Oh, sure, maybe I'll see you there.

All right, here we go. The tourist attraction portion of the video, the Varsity, famous spot. Presidents have come here. Muhammad Ali, Evander Holyfield, the list goes on and on. Some locals don't really like it, but I'm under the belief you just gotta know what to get.

And I can't come to The Varsity without the man that showed it to me, Papa Burks. He's on his lunch break. Ignore the height differential here. He's just an ogre, six foot six tall. I swear I'm over six feet. The Varsity, what do you have? Let's go.

Let's go. All right, we got the order. Couple crucial parts here. Got the slaw dog, got the pimento cheeseburger, got onion rings. These are my three favorite things at The Varsity. Peach pie for dessert is fire if you want it. I also got a frosted orange just to share what it's about. This is like a dreamsicle frosty. It's unbelievable, it's fantastic.

Only get it here. Got the fries, if you go for the fries, gotta add paprika to the fries. It's crucial, it's fantastic. Also, another crucial part of this, don't go too much. It's easy to overindulge here. It's hearty food, it's heavy, it's deep fried. You can't go too much. You'll be feeling bad later. Same. It's hearty food. It's heavy. It's deep fried. You can't go too much

You'll be feeling bad later. It's a light lunch. Need a nap after this. Pimento cheeseburger One of the best things you can eat in Atlanta. Greasy, nasty, cheese in the middle This is as good as it gets. The melted pimento cheese. If you're not from the south, you've never had it I don't know how to explain it It hits every time. It's a fast food burger. Gooey pimento pimento cheese unbelievable if you're tasting this and you say it sucks I we can't agree on some things in between get a couple bites onion rings true onion rings sliced onion deep-fried that's all it is you say no for bullshit mmm the best thing at the Varsity, the cream of the crop, the main event, this is art.

I don't know what it is. It's three ingredients. It's hot dog, it's bun, it's slaw. But it just all comes together so beautifully. Tremendous. You want to try? Can we have Nick, you want to try? Peach pie, one of your options for desserts.

They also do milkshakes, they do ice cream. In my opinion, it's peach pie or it's frosted orange. Those are the two best. The peach pie, it looks like an empanada. Like it just looks, it's just a pocket of fried goodness. It's absolutely beautiful. Proper pie stuffed with peaches. Fucking, excuse my language, sorry, Deb.

What do you say to the people that don't like the bar street? Don't know what you're missing. You don't know what you're missing. You'll sorry dad. What do you say to the people that don't like the varsity? Don't know what you're missing. You don't know what you're missing. You'll love it. What do you have? Give you a bite, dad. A bite? All right.

Rolls have reversed. Look at us swagging out in our hats, let's go. All right, lastly, the dessert, frosted orange. It's like a frosty from Wendy's, but it's a dream sickle flavor. Grew up eating these things, like I'm talking about some of my earliest memories are having varsity frosted orange they used to have one where I went to school

where my dad went to school over in Athens it's unbelievable. A little brain freeze there. Fun fact about the varsity. 96 Olympic Summer Games came here. They had a car hop from the varsity carry the torch for the opening ceremony part of the way. That's how ingrained it is in Atlanta's history, shut up. I don't know how this is gonna be, it might be. Not as good as I was expecting. Let's just get just the flake. Dunk just the flake.

Oh no, I almost lost it, I'm gonna lose it. Again, not that good, don't know why I did it. Frosted orange, perfect way to end the meal. It doesn't need a rating, I love the fucking varsity. Excuse my language, I know they just fall out of me. I love the varsity, it's fast food, but it's good fast food, it's what fast food is supposed to be.

What do you have? I'll have it all. All right, Dad, what do we say to people that don't like the varsity? Fuck you! What if I told you no, F-er! All right, Dad, what do you really want to say to the people? Go dogs!

To Georgia alumni, go dogs. Alright, sun's out, gun's out. You see, got the matumbo on. We are here at the local place now, Handcooked Tocariya, the hole in the wall spot. It's gained a lot of popularity as of late. Guy Fieri came here, but for the last decade and a half, this has been hands down my favorite place to come in all of Atlanta. If I have people visiting, we're going to Hankook, Tocarrillo. There's no question about it. And now you get to come with me.

Let's go. All right. Kimchi, fries. You've got kimchi on here. Queso, you've got sriracha. You've got fried eggs all on top of fries. This is an actual work of art. I don't want to eat this.

I just want to like freeze it over and display it in my house that's how pretty it is this place everything they make is unbelievable I usually just get the tacos but you guys are with me so we'll get the kimchi fries this time get everything in there definitely you need a few people to take these things out. These are not a solo mission. Look at how beautiful these are. The Korean tacos. This is the staple. This is what you come here for. I normally get three. I'm eating a lot today. I only got the two. I went with fried chicken and fried shrimp. Anything you like. They got all sorts of options. Beef,

grilled chicken, veggie, bulgogi, beef. I don't know. Look at the menu. Favorite thing to eat in all of Atlanta right here. Hits every time. Hits every single time I come here. A decade and a half long run. Never changed anything. You got the chicken, the cheese, marinated lettuce, chipotle mayo. Unbelievable. I really don't think there's better tacos out there. Seems to have a little bit of hot sauce on there. Same thing, simple. Compliments to the chef, they're not that pretty. But they taste so fucking good. I eat the taqueria every time.

All right, here we go, bonus content. We're at the Braves game. We got the oversized blizzy, the perimeter dog. Bacon, pepper, jam on here. Some sort of pickles something lemon pepper Dijonase in Atlanta style like we couldn't even pick up on it. How do I even attack this thing man? I can't be doing this on camera man.

I'm putting this on camera, man. All right, it's pretty good. It's pretty good. It's an absolute mess. Glizzy slipped through the bun. That's horrible bun control right there. The bun integrity is absolutely gone. The lemon pepper Dijonais is fire, the bacon jam is fire. It's a mess, we're turning this into a sandwich.

The allegations right here is crazy. I mean, fantastic hot dog. Perimeter dog. Solid hot dog. Reason it's named perimeter dog is OTP ITP in Atlanta inside the perimeter outside the perimeter that's where you live. I mean crazy crazy word. We got the baseball beer bad. You can't drink the beer bad alone. I found the guy from the bridge from earlier and he had a beer back too. Shout out. Cheers mate. Bray's just tied it up. Here we go. Give him a head start. I'm the best chugger in the world. He needs it. Best chugger in the world just working through it. One more sip. This ain't sitting with the glissie well.

Best chugger in the world, light work. A lot of foam here. A lot of foam. Seventh inning stretch. Take me out to the ball game. Last step. Home run. Bat done. Take me out to the ball game baby. Alright, last stop on Fight Feast. More bonus content. getting dinner before the fights at the Sundial Restaurant and Bar.

As you can see behind us, the Bank of America Plaza, tallest building in Atlanta. What else can I see? I can see Emory, Truist, I can see my parents' house. Yeah, there it is, I can see my parents' house. They call it the Sundial Bar and Restaurant because I don't know if you've noticed, I'm moving right now.

360 degree views of Atlanta as you slowly rotate around. Don't believe me? I'm catching up to my drink. I'm not there yet. I'll be there in just a second. That's gonna be a wrap for Fight Feast episode 23. What a weekend here in Atlanta. Time to go watch some fights. Time to go support our boy Walla, Malcolm Wellmaker. KO round one. We're about to find out, and just like that, chugga chugga choo choo, we're at my drink. Cheers to Atlanta to Fight Feast, episode 23. I don't even know if I'm on frame anymore,

the sundial is carrying me to another part of Atlanta. Either way, let's go watch some fights. Hotlana? Hotlana? Atlanta. We're standing over a dirty highway. There's graffiti everywhere. What more could you want? Episode 23? Oh, let's go. Episode 23? Let's go. Episode 23, let's go episode 23 let's go episode 23 let's go Atlanta all right brother have a good one man now fuck you man what you guys at

the bridge earlier I hate to burst your bubble buddy I never seen you before in my life what bridge are you you talking about? Or fucking real toys. Or toys. Tuesday. At least. You're going to mathematical. Bo-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh. Snoring. Alright dad, what do we say to people that don't like the varsity? Fuck you!

Nah, these are so much. After eating the varsity, like, I don't have anything else to say. That's it. Whew, I'm full. Time to go watch the fights. Am I still in frame? Peace. Right here. Shout out to the sundial.

I don't know what to say anymore. At this point, I'm miles away from the camera. Bloodsport time. Time to get violent fancy dinner to some violent wars. And there it was. was fight feast Atlanta. Had a ton of fun doing that. Got made some new friends from the bridge. Got my dad involved.

They look like nice guys. Yeah, it was great, man. Two of my favorite spots. There really is a million places you could go, but those are definitely two of my favorites. Loved your new bridge friends. Shout out. Even chugging with you at the stadium.

Your dad getting very uncomfortable every time you cursed and you intentionally doing it. The OG plan was he was like, I'm not going on camera. I was like, all right. And then when we got there, I was like, you're going on camera. And he still didn't want to? No, at that point he was like, all right.

He was like, all right, that's fine. And the return of the Connor British accent also made me very happy. Yeah, so honestly, shout out to my boys Jake and Deb. They were with us and they were doing different accents at each place we went to when I was just like, oh, the guy's from the bridge. Yeah, it was just as dumb as we could possibly be doing.

But yeah, shout out. A very fun time there. I'm already ready to go back for another one. I'm thinking Magic City for sure and Tqueria del Sol something like that I mean we could really have a we could really have a good time if we go to Magic City I might have to come out for that one just keep going through it was a great time in Atlanta though maybe my last fight night maybe my last fight night ever I mean do we need to address the curse you know what let's save it let's save it

We'll talk about it later. We'll talk about the curse is rough and also the ticket prices. I saw they put the 319 tickets on sale Today that's Chicago. Yes, okay. I was like 500 something for nosebleeds. I have some friends in Chicago Die hard UFC fans go to everything this guy tweeted at us Tony James Just tried to get tickets for UFC 319, 500 plus for the cheapest nosebleeds, 800 plus for the cheapest 100 level. Tweets at all the UFC guys. You're all destined that way.

Oh my God. And then tweets at us. Maybe we could have, maybe I should have blurred that part out. Hopefully that's for the above group. Yeah, yeah. And not the below group. Yeah, hopefully that is for the above.

Hopefully it's for no one though. But yeah, I kind of feel you. 229 for nosebleeds at UFC Atlanta for a fight card that all the main card fights went to a decision. I have, I kind of feel you, 229 for nosebleeds at UFC Atlanta for a fight card that all the main card fights went to a decision. I have a friend, Steve in Atlanta, in Atlanta, in Chicago, he actually left a voicemail last time, great dude.

Said the same, he goes to a lot of stuff. He's come to like our live shows in New York City, he flies all over, he goes to WWE events, goes to UFC events. He's like, man, like this is a steep ticket price. Like UFC is hot right now, they, this is a steep ticket price. UFC's hot right now, they are continuing to increase the ticket prices.

They also know how much demand there was for this event in Chicago. It's gonna be hefty to get in that building. I'm not saying they're not gonna sell places out, but they're pricing people out. Oh no, yeah. They're pricing out a good amount of people. It ended up being five of us at UFC Atlanta,

but OG was supposed to be 10, and five people were like, I'm not paying that much for a UFC event. I don't think they're pricing people out to the point that they're not going to be super successful. They're pricing real fans out. They're pricing the people who are like the hardcore fans that really want to go to this,

and they're getting maybe a more casual audience that is like, okay, this is in town, I've never seen UFC before, Let me come out to it. Of course. But the hardcore fans can't afford to, they're paying for ESPN plus. They're paying for these pay-per-views. Now they're going to pay for tickets when you come to town.

It's a hefty price to be an MMA fan in 2020. Also something you have to put into context with all of this is that people have favorite fighters and you would have to really luck out for your favorite fighter to happen to come to your city. So let's say it's your favorite fighter's fighting in Vegas, now you gotta fly out to Vegas, you gotta pay for a hotel, you gotta pay for all the shit that comes with that,

and then you have to pay for these exorbitant ticket prices on top of it. You really are like pricing out the everyday fan that really loves going to these events because we've seen it, Des Moines, I saw it at Atlanta. When it isn't just like all action violence, people start booing, boo, this sucks, boo, this sucks. Whereas like, some of them are decent fights.

There started being some boo birds during the Cody Garbrandt fight. I was like, this fight's pretty good, man. What are you all booing for? Yeah. End of the second round of Rose Nama Eunice was a crazy one. So yeah, I mean, I don't know. It's, as they say, it's tough.

But the business is booming. Business is booming for sure. They're making good money on it. Business is booming for sure, but it's tough for some fans, man, with how expensive it is. Cause it's not just, it's not just like, it's so funny, like I posted that joke picture of just like,

oh, like he's grabbing the cage ref. And like a bunch of people just like, it's so funny, like I posted that joke picture of just like, oh, like he's grabbing the cage ref. And like a bunch of people were like, ah, damn, you broke ass all the way in the nose bleeds. Like, ah, Yahoo can't afford better. But it's like, dog, these tickets were 229 bucks, man. Like that's not, that is not a cheap amount for a ticket. It's not like I was just like, nah, let me get, let me buy the $30 cheap seats again.

And it's like, 229 is expensive no matter what you're doing. Yeah, those days of UFC are gone. Those days of UFC are gone. Yeah, will it ever change? Probably not. No. Because they are killing it. All right, let's go to our pound for pound rankings

this week. Yes. In honor of the main event in Baku, clear roundtree, Jamal Hill. Yes. Oh. Best Hills. Hills. Yes. Oh. Best Hills. Hills.

Slash mountains. No, Hills. Best Hills slash mountains. What is the differential between a hill and a mountain? I don't know, that's why I'm only doing hills. It's like a- A mountain is just a giant hill. It's like a square is a rectangle, but a rectangle ain't a square.

Exactly. Best Hills and mountains. Frankie, what's the order? The order is gonna start with me. Yeah. Okay. then we're gonna tap it to some GC. Okay, and then we'll have Rick finish this off Okay, all right Don't like the phrasing on that but cool. All right So let's thrust right into mine My number five is a hill. It's Capitol Hill. Wow, nice. This makes the list, huh? It makes the list.

It's an amazing hill. Put a building on top of the hill, make people march up and down, do your thing for the Union every day. This is the hill. That's the hill. My number four, another hill, we got the Uppington White Horse.

This is a hill out in England where there was like a prehistoric Talk hill right it's a nice hill, but there was like a prehistoric art form of some people Have made a giant horse that you could see from above like that's crazy to think that these people They could even see it from above. That's a sick hill man. Good call great hill my number three also a hill Mount st. Helens. Yeah, a little Before and after here BAM there it is like, you know 1980 and then BAM there it is 1980 But like a few hours later, which is insane a little story on this one There was a photographer who was actually on the mountain before it erupted and he realized like man, I shouldn't even bother trying to leave

I'm not gonna make it so he stayed and just documented it and sacrifices life so we could died. Yeah Yeah, so he just chilled out there snap pictures and I was chillin But he was like, you know my journalistic integrity like if I go at least we could get something out of this if I stay Behind and Daniel this is not the photo because this is clearly from a distance That's crazy, and then my number four and you didn't even grab any of his pictures So sorry, I just want to make sure that I have this right the number goes the order goes five four three five four All right, you know, I always tend to screw up. I just want to make sure that that's I literally typed this out It did the same thing. Okay, I said Frank, you know the that's correct. I literally typed this out. I typed it short and did the same thing.

OK, I said Frank, you know, the numbers are off. He said, no, man. It's good. Let's go with that. Number 2B, here we go. So your four is? My four is Sir Gregor Clegane from Game of Thrones. His nickname is the Mountain.

The guy is tall as hell, man. look at the cropped image of his bloody Why is it cropped? Abs or lack thereof but uh to finish us off at our number Five or number one depending on which way you're looking at this list looks like Mount St. Helens is still your know your highest rank I mean, I see where it's like a bell curve is what you're saying. Would you say it's the tallest? It's like a hill. It is.

Thank you. Yeah, I thought, yeah. It's literally like a hill. But my number five or one, however you look at it, if you're upside down, whatever, is Mount Vesuvius. Shout out. The one in Pompeii that blew up. Look at that.

I always wondered if they call people pompous as a reference to Pompeii because like they're like, I will stay, we'll be fine. It's like, that's awfully arrogant pompous of you. Turns out no, that was just me. Got him. I think Dotson are not there. Got him.

So we're gonna tap into GC. I like that. That was a good list of hills, man. It was a good list of hills. Some hills. All right, number five, big hills, rolling hills, down in Peru, Vinicunca, also known as the Rainbow Hills.

Holy shit. It gets its colors. Sick hill, yeah, sick hill. Fucking hell. Colorful due to the presence of various minerals that have been exposed and oxidized over millions of years. Oh, look at that. Shut the fuck up.

Unbelievable, I swear to God. That's not real. In Peru, I swear to God, it's real. You can go ride like llamas and shit at that. Shut the fuck up. Unbelievable, swear to God. That's not real. In Peru, swear to God it's real. You can go ride like llamas and shit through this. What the fuck? Yeah, yeah. Shout out to Vinnie Cuncker. It looks like something from a Dr. Seuss book.

This is insane. It sure does. It sure does. Big hills, big hills. Gonna go with one of the most iconic hills in the entire world, right on the border of Italy and Switzerland. Crooked, looks like the Grinch would live up there. Matterhorn, great hill.

Look at this thing. Oh yeah, that's a hill. That's steep. That's a steep hill. Tell me the differential between a hill and a mountain because that looks like a giant hill to me. Yeah. That looks like a hill that I don't,

I don't wanna climb that hill. That's not a hill for climbing. That's not a hill to climb. Actually, I don't wanna climb that hill. That's not a hill for climbing. That's not a hill that's dying on it. Actually it is for climbing. People do climb on it. People also do die on it. I'm sure at some point someone's died on it as well. I'm sure multiple.

Number three, Rick actually introduced me to this one. Sick hill out in Hawaii. Actually the tallest in the world, but it starts underwater, Muana Kea. Ooh. And it's a volcano. We have a size disparity between it and Mount Everest. Look at that.

It's actually, it's taller than it. 10,200 meters, Everest 88, 48. It just starts underwater. Pretty incredible. Pretty incredible. That's a bad ass hill. Look at that. Look at that hill Pretty incredible. That's a bad-ass hill. Look at that. Look at that hill.

Yeah. That's an insane hill. Number two, in my opinion, the most beautiful hill in the world. Absolutely stunning. Iconic, someone say, in Japan, Mount Fuji. Unbelievable. Just look at the pictures.

Oh, with the cherry blossoms. Iconic classic. I mean, it's unbelievable. It's as good as it gets. That is just like, it's perfect. It's perfect. Like nothing else in its way. It just stands alone. It's not in a mountain range.

Like it's just beautiful. When the Olympics were there a couple of years ago, they did cycling and they rode up Mount Fuji. It was incredible. It was awesome. Would love to go there one day and see that in person. Then number one, this isn't about beauty, this isn't about awe.

Looming in Pakistan and China, a savage that's forgotten about because of just a mere 850 feet. Huh? The Lil Bro to Mount Everest, but it is still a Goliath in his own right. I'm talking about K2, baby. Sickest name for a hill, also known as a mountain.

Look at this, look at this. You ain't climbing this thing. It's an absolute savage. Less than a thousand people have ever summited it. Over 100 deaths. Home of the 1986 K2 disaster, 13 lives taken. Home of the 1986 K2 disaster, 13 lives taken. Home of the 1995 K2 disaster, 7 lives taken. Home of the 2008 K2 disaster, 11 deaths. You ain't climbing this thing. Don't go and do it. There's no need. There's no need. Stay at home. You don't want to walk up this

hill. K2, number one hill in the world. Mountain know that the guts of agro crag was modeled after K2 mmm makes sense that thing was a beast savage wow actually that should have gone on the list savage mountain badass you said 800 feet 850 feet lower than Mount Everest okay I was like holy shit that didn't sound second tallest mountain in the world second tallest mountain in the world behind Everest but everyone's like, ah, Everest. Nah, K2.

These are good lists. I just wanna read something real quick. Please. Just for the record. This guy's gonna have Jamel Hill one. A mountain generally defined as a high landform that rises steeply above the surrounding area while a hill is lower.

Sorry, a mountain is generally defined as a high landform that rises steeply above the surrounding area while a hill is lower, sorry, a mountain is generally defined as a high landform that rises steeply above the surrounding area while a hill is generally lower, more gently sloping elevation, just. Generally, generally. Okay. Generally, being a bit of an asshole. Some good lists, some good, I mean,

not generally, like nearly all the time, pretty certainly. Some good lists. We're gonna start with number five. It is not Jamell Hill, as you have suggested. I know, Jemele Hill's your one. Maybe, who knows? My number five, Drew Hill.

Shout out to Drew Hill. Hey, shout out. Just insane list of bangers. Also, I mean, the swag, the outfits that they wore, this is, I believe at the premiere of Wild Wild West because they did a song that was featured on the soundtrack of Wild Wild West with Will Smith. Look at those fits, bro.

Look at those fits. Look at the fits. Look at Cisco, just thriving. How deep is your love? We're not making love no more. In My Bed, just iconic R&B group, insane harmonies. Shout out to the legend, Cisco. I mean, look at this man.

Like, couldn't be happier in every picture. Always bringing it. Drew Hill, R&B legends. Number four, when I, you know, you talked about the ferocious like obstacle it is to climb some of these mountains. You talked about the tenacity that's required to summit some of this. You required that same kind of like drive and tenacity if you

were going to battle on the boards with Tyrone Hill. Tyrone Hill who had a stint with the Cleveland Cavaliers. Ferocious Rebounder. Just boxing out was his religion. When I think of that era of Cavs, I think of Tyrone Hill looking up at a board and just boxing out two or three guys. Also incredible jerseys at that time. Shout out to Tyrone Hill, one of the workmen of the NBA in that era,

and somebody that I fondly remember on the Cavs. Number three, Haunted Hill, but specifically the house on Haunted Hill. A movie from 1999, I believe, concept. You're going to go to a haunted house and if you survive you win a million dollars. Sick. Incredible concept. A remake of an earlier made movie kind of falls apart in the second half or maybe the last third But there is an iconic scene where? One of the characters is walking through with a with a camcorder

Pointing it at an empty operating table Nothing in front of her looking through the camcorder She sees these people doing surgery and you're hearing like screams and things that moment is when they all look up at her so she's observing them through the camcorder they're all doing the surgery and then they all turn to her insanely scary movie scene at the time not like it's not my favorite movie but it but it's pretty decent as I said it falls apart in the in the latter third but worth a watch haunted hill the house on haunted hill number two If you are of my age, I'm in I'm in my mid to late 30s You definitely were captured by a certain horror video game series now

Some would say Resident Evil is the one that did it but I would actually argue it was Silent Hill. A video game series first one being on the original PlayStation yeah I mean one of the sexiest. A continued franchise that I think has like six seven eight different versions at this point. I used to see this in like arcades when I was younger. There was a Silent Hill shooter. There was like the gun game. I was like, I'm not playing that shit. This character, Triangle Head. Oh, is that House of the Dead? No, no, they had a Silent Hill one too.

Thanks though, Frank. I'm gonna look. Pyramid Head, thank you. Looking at pictures of it, thanks though, Frank. Appreciate it. And this was like one of those that like, when you were a teenager, you were kind of like scared to go through. Like there were a lot of like jump scares at that time,

but the thrill of it was very exciting to me. I really enjoyed those types of games. I did also like Resident Evil, but Silent Hill, I liked a little bit more. And then number one, can't believe you guys didn't have it. Like a tower amongst other towers. Grant Hill, number one pick. Legend of the Detroit Pistons,

especially Rock in that incredible jerseys. We did our jerseys, one of the all time 90s jerseys. Like the original kind of hybrid player, like a six foot seven, six foot eight guy who could handle the Rock, rebound, pass, score. Had some six-feela shoes that I used to have that I bought at Models at the time. If injuries didn't derail this man's career he would have been even greater than his already all-time great status. Grant Hill is an

absolute legend, love Grant Hill. Shout out. That's my list of Hills. God, three really different Hills. Frank had actual hills. I had mountains mostly. You had people named Hill. And two video games. A video game and a movie. A video game and a movie. Shout out some of our best work there. Look at those graphics.

Boys in the back. The team is killing it. Killing it. Shout out, that's the pound for pound list for this week because of Jamal Hill who fights in the main event at UFC Baku this weekend. None of us had Jamal Hill. Missed it on that one.

Fuckin' hell. Yeah, forgot him. Surprised we didn't get Jamal from you. A couple honorable mentions, Machu Picchu. Lombard Street out in San Francisco, the curvy one. Any other honorable mentions? Jonah Hill. Mount Everest. Jonah Hill, that's a great great call Mount Everest is great but I feel like

Mount Olympus little too overrated Mount Olympus is great Bunker Hill yeah Bunker Hill nice nice I gotta say the horse Hill and and the colorful hill that you displayed like those really sick sick hills Sick hills. All right, Frank, we got any voicemails? I think we do, let me check. ["Voicemails"] Voicemails. Sick. Shout out boys in the back. This is Jeremiah calling out of stock in California.

I got one question for you guys. With inevitable fight between the Man Uñas and Kayla Harrison, would the USC be smart to put that at 145, but also do a tough version of that like they did for the 125 pound division to try to bring it back? Thanks guys. No, no one cares about tough.

There's no point, so we don't need the tough. 145, I love it. Put the final 145 fight on the line for the belt for Kayla to have the double champ status and not make her cut the 135. And then that fight is no more 45s after that. Yeah. They retired the belt. Done. How did they? Okay. Belt retired. I agree with you. I don't want to see a 45 pound season of tough. I don't really want to see any seasons of tough. Oh my god. How do they get more 135 pound women in the UFC right now? I think 135

is uh only has so many days left. Yeah it's it's not great. I think 135 is, only has so many days left. Yeah, it's not great. I mean, we felt this way about 45. Now I'm starting to feel this way about 35. Like it's just like- It's just a question of like, what's beyond this? Yeah. What are the other fights? I would watch, you know,

I know it might not be a popular opinion. I would watch Julianna Pena versus Amanda Nunes. If she beats Kayla Harrison, I will watch Julianna Pena versus Kayla Harrison again. But beyond that like what what really is left in this? Norman Dumont? Yeah it's rough it's rough out there. But I don't think tough is the answer. No. Hey what's up guys first time caller long-time listener back when the show was on AOL back when New Yorker was the original disembodied voice, and then back before Frank.

Wow, who me? I was just going to ask one question for everyone that works on the best, funniest MMA show out there. I was just wondering if you guys were vetted as talent, on camera talent, in if you guys were vetted as talent, on camera talent, in addition to your production skills. You guys are the funniest, know how to chop it up. I'm wondering if that was part of the interview process and if that's reflected in your salary, honestly, because it should be.

Anyway, thanks so much. The vetting process was, who was going on camera? That was essentially the entire vetting process. Yeah, I probably have the most experience with it because back then there was just me doing, as he said, just my voice coming on air. Then it was like, we go on camera. No, but it's not part of that.

It's more like, can we do the work? And then as Ariel has said, he's inspired by Howard Stern. And the idea of the people on the show becoming part of the show, like he's inspired by Howard Stern and the idea of like, you know The people on the show becoming part of the show is something he's into and now it has turned into we have a show and all These things so I appreciate the kind words I have to admit I thought he was gonna swerve it when he was like the funniest of this I thought he's gonna be like that other show but then you guys Yeah, that's a very nice call. Yeah, we appreciate that but no, I mean honestly, it's more just

We feel our way through then we find natural chemistry then we start to add more wrinkles now Frank is a bigger part of it all of a sudden now Jordan is a part of it Andy's a part of it and their roles grow like it's just it's just we feel it out and we Ride the vibes Boys in the back it it's Preston from North Carolina. I'm a recent college grad. I just wanted y'all to give me some advice on how I can work my way up. I want to graduate with communications, want to make my way into the MMA media field. Give me some advice, appreciate y'all. Of course Preston, start. That's it. Start.

Social media, YouTube, writing, however, you just got to start. Create something and email people. Reach out, call, you know, text, call, tweet, DM, see how many connections you can make and if anybody's looking for something. But start building that skill set and create something. Doesn't matter if it sucks. Doesn't matter if you don't think it's good. The only way to make it better is to is to work at it. So yeah, just start. Just start. What's up, boys? This is Evan from St. Mary's, Georgia. Hey, shut up. Just calling in to see what's up with these these jokers that say they're mailman I'm the one true mailman of this show I'm an MMA fighter, I've had well 13 fights, I'm from Georgia, there can only be one mailman for the boys in the back and that's me

I'd wet both their asses, so Connor, just like he said, fly us out and let's see what's good Yeah I got you, flying all the fucking mailman out. Okay, real question. Do we need to start, like they had the ice hot, the BKF- Mailman Fight League. Do we need to start Mailman Fight League? Yeah.

We need to get promoter's licenses and bring in these mailmen. I think so. Instead of like an octagon, we just make a giant mailbox and that's what you have to fight in. And we close it. We close it behind. There's a camera inside.

Think smaller, think the back of a mail van. Wow. You're really making it small. No, no, no. You get walked out by getting driven up in a mail van and then we put you in a giant mailbox. I got a better one. Moving locations. They have to do it on their route. Wow.

You're fighting on lawns. This lawn, round one. Next lawn, you go deliver that mail. If you can make it to the next mail, to that next house, round one. Next lawn, you go deliver that mail, if you can make it to the next mail, to that next house, round two. A giant cardboard box. I actually- Mailman Fight League has legs. We just need to tighten this up.

We need to tweak it. But I had the staff, after somebody had listened to that, see if we could find this Evan on Tapology. And I believe... Did we? It might be. Evan Hayes. It might be.

Fighting out of St. Mary's, Georgia. But I could only find one person fighting out of St. Mary's. So if that's Evan... I do name Evan fighting out of St. Mary's, Georgia with an amateur record. Last fought in 2024. 33 years old. Just turned 33. Happy birthday, Evan.

Happy birthday. On Monday, turned 33. All birthday, Evan. Happy birthday. On Monday, turned 33. All right, so we got a lightweight. We got a lightweight contender for the Mailman Fight League. Let's see now that we have somebody who says they have some fights. Let's see if the other mailman still want the smoke, you know?

Yeah, anytime someone gets a knockout, you have to say like a sick catchphrase, like special delivery. Yeah, it's like Arnold Schwarzenegger taglines. All right. I'm all in on this. I'm all in on this. Let's contact Venom and get custom mailman shorts.

Custom postal shorts. Yeah, custom postal shorts for all the fighters. This is sick. Or do we have, a la GFL, do we have like teams? Do we have UPS drivers, FedEx, DHL, USPS? So it's just delivery. It's not mail necessarily. So you're talking about the DSL of mailman fight leagues.

Yeah. Yeah. All right. I'm going to start thinking about the promoter's license. Protect your package. Whoa. OK. Is early enough for you, Frank?

Double date. I'm alive and well. He's back! DSL mobile package underneath a secure location It's early enough for you Frank DFL mobile underneath a secure location within the Which is top in trust arena Of course the debut and then they prospect heavenly With car moose on the card shout out take heavy on the card. Shout out. Take heavy on the card. Shout out. Shout out. Got a lot to discuss.

Okay. The Cal Repkinstreet is not broken. Yes, it is. A call was made. Too late. And forces beyond either of our control intercepted it, obviously. There are some concerning images going around of, you know, we are efforting to find out if it is some sort of highly condensing body double AI technology.

There may be Zidio, we don't know. But someone who looks an awful lot like myself, again, you know, Don Davis, of course, with a disgraced former, some called him a comedian, Russell Brand, at the event last week when my call was missed. I had a sad Gene versus Jason Jackson. Now, of course, I'm going to be calling after that event has occurred. It's not like he's doing a promo anymore, but it's a hell of a matchup for Gene. And Jason Jackson's been looking incredible. So shut up before, may the best man win, onto the semi-finals.

But a big story here. Who is impersonating me? I would never in any way associate with someone in the position that Russell Brand finds himself in. That's why I find myself in a secure location in the PFL mobile smart back cage. And we are efforting to find out who is trying to smear the name of the real Don Davis.

So if you see someone who appears to be me, if you see AI images, video, audio, think twice, okay? I'm the real guy. I'm the guy calling in every week. And I know this is a long one, but bear with me, you know, this is serious stuff to be dealing with. And Frank, I think I forgot about you, buddy. is i'm not convinced that you're not a part of this

you know the call got lost somehow you know i think uh... i'm double d you're called granddaddy grand pappy whatever they call you i think we're gonna have to start calling you double b for blue balls alright i tell you what's this all feeling. Me and Sean Braden playing Turbo graphics 16. And you're not invited pal. Wow. No, we've been playing Dune Awakening. So massively multiplayer online

game. Check the Dune universe. You're not invited. What the hell? Let's see if this call gets on. Maybe we can mend some bridges. Check out the PFL app and stay frosty. Someone might be impersonating you and making it seem like you're hanging out doing peace signs with Russell Brand. Take care, boys. PFL has an app?

Yeah. Wow, that's incredible. Jonathan Coachman in the post fight said, that's where you can see all the press conferences. Shout out. Go to the PFL app. Shout out, shout out, Jonathan Coachman. Look at his Twitter, not the PFL's. TurboGrafx-16 is a gaming PC engine that came out in October of 1987.

Yeah, it's the PC engine in Japan, the TurboGrafx-16. So Don and, Don and Sean Brady have been ripping that together, and it looked like it never came out in the US. It got, It the more advanced Sega Genesis and Super NES. Frank, do you feel like that was enough

to get Don back on your side? Like Aaron, this call? Yeah, yeah, I mean, look, it's not like Don has not ever made a mistake, you know? Well, it sounds like that was AI. But shout out to Don making it up for last week. Shout out to Don Davis it up for last week. We appreciate you, man.

Hey, what's up guys? Listen, these last couple of weeks I've heard these two mailmen go at it. Now listen, a new player has entered the chat, all right? I'm a mailman myself. I listen to you guys the 10 to 12 hours a day I work. So I ask these guys if they're on the overtime list odl Don't know what it is if they're real no no he's using the lingo one last thing you guys talked about the dogs On your dog top top list I am the dog

I don't even carry the dog spray when I'm delivering the milk or so I found the dog Have a dog bites me tries to buy me I bite it first These mailmen to get on the overtime list. The ODF. Who was that? He didn't say his name. Did he say his name? No, I don't think he did, but shout out,

we now have four mailmen. No, honestly, we've got like five. There's another one that we didn't even. Five mailmen. Where was he from? We have a St. Mary's, Florida. We have a, I mean, a St. Mary's, Georgia. We have a Tallahassee, Florida.

And then two unknown locations. We're building the Mailman Fight League quickly. The Mailman Fight League is coming together fast. It's gonna be incredible. But we're gonna expand to delivery, right? We're open to FedEx. We're open to USPS. Or do we start the Mailman Fight League a la PFL,

take a book, we sit down and meet with Don Davis, we start the Mailman Fight League, and then we start like PFL Africa, PFL, take a book, we can sit down and meet with Don Davis, we start the Mailman Fight League and then we start like PFL Africa, PFL Europe, then we start the UPS Fight League, the FedEx, the DHL, things like that. Are we going to get though, some people who are not mailmen, who are maybe like better fighters, taking jobs with postal services so that they can be ringers to fight. To get into the mailman fight league. We're gonna have to be really strict. Our purses will be very small

so I don't think there'll be a ton of incentive to do that. The checks will be in the mail for that. The checks will be in the mail. We'll see. We can promise you. It's good luck getting there. UPS, USPS screwed me last week on my Malcolm Wellmaker shirt, so shout out. Yo dude, Sean Greedy hopping on the horn again. Sorry I missed you last week. That's all good, Sean. Didn't end up seeing you in New York, had a high back on 95. Sorry I missed you guys.

Give you a quick life update, being number one contender, pretty sick. I've been most of my times K&A buy that one pound cheesesteak place, hitting up Delaware Ave, fricking heading over to the other corner of Aeson Walnut with my boy, Big Steve. It's a great life. For Connor, with the bicycle thing, I heard Joe Pfeiffer last week,

he don't know the full story. Dude, here's the deal. My Uncle Penny is a great landlord and Connor between you and I we both know dude he never got that deposit right I don't know I don't know like if you thought that it was like a digital transfer or like what okay we can get that positive so why don't we tell everybody what's going on? What the real issue is here? Because we never got there's fun, dude

so You bring that up. Maybe you can clear the air on there So I'm gonna leave that there for you nice like little rooster egg a big Frankie I know you're veteran of the consoles dude sorry I can drop in all these casual consoles for you nice like little rooster egg a big Frankie I know you're veteran of the consoles dude sorry I've been dropping all these casual consoles for you so why don't you hit me up on the real one I know you got the live access I know you got the cabinet hit me up on Polybius dude Frank I'm calling you out me and you mono e mono dude Bolivia

Came that supposedly existed that when people played they would die so there was like an urban legend At one point someone has actually made the game and they show it at like video game conventions to be like oh yeah Bolivia's is here. That's a deep Know you got the console. I know you got the cabinet. Polybius is a popular urban legend about a mysterious 1980s arcade game said to induce intense psychological effects and potentially mind control. There's no evidence that the game ever existed.

It's a deep cut. So Sean Brady owns it. Sean Brady does own it. Also, what did he say, his uncle is a landlord? His uncle Tony. Yeah. Yeah, he, that was a fantastic call. Another banger from Sean Brady.

We'll forget the bike, man. It's all good, dude. Do your thing, you're the number one contender. I know you're busy. It's all right, man. Hanging out with KNA. Shout out to Polybius. What's up, boys?

Jamie South Jersey here. What's up, Jamie? I just wanted to give a quick shout out to Polybius. What's up boys, Jamie, South Jersey here. What's up, Jamie? I just wanted to give a quick shout out to the two mailmen that are beefing. Oh my fucking God. I just wanted to let you guys know. I'm the original mailman on the show, all right? I had an on the nose question

about tipping your mail carrier a year or two ago. I even got a DM with Rick on Instagram. Oh, you've DM'd with Jamie from South Jersey. So, shout out, Jamie. Basically, a con is gonna fly you guys Instagram. Oh, you've DMed with Jamie for Shelf Jersey. Shout out, Jamie. Basically, Akon is going to fly you guys out. Yeah, I got you. I'll drive on. Drive up, I don't care.

But I'm going to watch the fight. I'm going to watch you guys box. That's what we all love. We're all here for that. So just let me know. Let me know the dates. I'll all up in the car. I'll show up.

I'll show out. And not trying to fight like just trying to watch, you know what I mean? But just to let you guys know, I'm the original. All right, fellas, love the show, Frank's the man, love Andy, love Jordan, love y'all, be good. So Jamie doesn't want to squabble.

You're the man, Jamie. But he wants to watch. If you're gonna be a mailman, you gotta suit up in the mailman fight. You gotta fight, Jamie. You're no good to us. You're the man, Jamie. But he wants to watch. If you're gonna be a mailman, you gotta suit up in the mailman fight league. You gotta fight, Jamie. You're no good to us if you're not fighting, man. We're trying to build a roster here, okay? Maybe I can convince him over the DMs, you know?

Like, we'll go back and forth. We'll see if we can get the DM. Yeah, let's offer him the John Jones price and we'll get it done. I just accidentally lowered myself. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Mailman fight league is shaping up. That is three mailman calls on this week's voicemails.

I love it. What up, boys in the back? Hunter the mailman here. Someone got a little butthurt about a fraud comment a couple of weeks ago. I need to write these down. Offered a box me in the streets of New York, but I've got a better idea.

Lord knows the company needs a marquee fight right now. So I'm proposing, Hunter the mailman versus Matt the Mailman in the PFL smart cage. Let me know what you think. Let's get Don Davis on the horn. Don Davis on the show, give us a little promo. Love you guys and Matt, don't be scared, homie.

Don, if you're watching this live, call in. We need to know if you're willing to put on the Mailman fights. Okay, so just to be clear, we had Matt. Who was the guy in St. Mary's? Evan, Evan the Mailman in St. Mary's, Georgia. We have Jamie the mailman in South Jersey. We have.

Matt the mailman might've been. Tallahassee. The Tallahassee one. In Tallahassee and then Hunter the mailman in We Don't Know and then the no name mailman that just called everybody out. Can somebody who's been following this saga just go back to the voicemails and tweet us

with who's from where, what's the beef? So right now we have five mailmen in our catalog. If we can get three more, we'll just do a no-weight class Grand Prix. A little smoker show. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. And then we do a Grand Prix, a one-night mailman Grand Prix.

This is shaping up nicely. This is how we get up nicely. This is this is how we get into into fight promotion. I love it. Hey boys in the back. What's up man? It's Thomas from Jackson Heights, Queens. Thomas. I'm here watching UFC Atlanta and I just can't stop thinking about how the Conor curse might be real. Yeah, me too. Conor Birx attends the UFC event. And it's usually a good prelim,

but a shit main card. Cheeks. Conor Birx, what's going on man? I think you're gonna have to stop going to these events. New York Rick, I have a question for you. Why in the world did you grow up, obviously in New York Rick, I have a question for you. Why in the world did you grow up, obviously in New York, but you didn't go for any New York teams? What is wrong with you? Stop. Good question. A legit hater. Was it like a traumatizing experience? Did you

not want to go through the struggle with us? I just want to know Frank I love you get a man shout out to Andy love you boys keep up with the work the boys in the back thanks thanks man conspicuously conspicuously absent Jordan you know didn't get a shut up I don't think that's conspicuous. Do we address the curse? There is a curse. I mean, the t-shirt curse was real and now I've been to four UFC events and they've all been asked.

Two ended by injury. One was Aaron Blanchfield, Manon Fioro, and then this most recent one, all five, all six fights on the main card with him. Devil's advocate. Okay. Instead of you causing the cards to be ass. Are they just ass cards?

Is it possible that there is a higher, is there a higher prevalence of ass UFC cards? I think that's it. I think I need to go to a pay-per-view, a proper pay-per-view, and see what happens. I think there might be two things. I think it might be you are attending and it's like, ah, you know, Connor's in the building, ass, but also there might be two things. I think it might be you you're attending and it's like, uh, you know

Connors and building ass but also there are more ass cards. I think that's I'm thinking How are you gonna say Frank? Well, like two things like if you could have gone to Baku Like that's technically a fight night. Would you pass that up or would you give that a shot to see if maybe it redeems itself? I don't know and the other one maybe this one's a kind of more of an obvious answer, but like if you got tickets to go to the Apex before you were able to go to pay-per-view, would you consider it or would you be like, you know what, no, I've been wronged too many times. Now I'd go to the Apex just to experience it, but I know that card would be shit. So you're coming in full expectation, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. But we're talking Baku. Maybe not even something exotic like that. Just not in

Des Moines not in Long Island, you know Atlanta and Long Island are like stack cards. Yeah, no, I'm just thinking no flight nights, man. Gotcha. Yeah It's not that the cards themselves on paper look bad. It's that the results are terrible Yeah, and I've lost money it no I got I got like 45 bucks this weekend Hey picked up one unit. Yeah, we'll round up. Um My parents were not sports fans. They didn't pass any sports teams down to me My friends were all like Yankees and Knicks and all this stuff. I just I Didn't get drawn to it. I feel you I feel you

So boy, I'm in Nebraska. Right. Let's go. Shout out Isaiah Roby. I'm sitting here with my cat named Lou. Get after Lou Dort. Wow. Obviously big time win tonight for the thunder.

But we got some got some conundrums. We're gonna have to throw out here. All right, let's hear them. So first off, I'm gonna die hard like die die die hard and got a couple screenshots I emailed over New York Rick. February 9 2021 me text don't let that distract you from Thunder 2025 champions and I've kept that for the last four years, anytime anyone asks. 2025, 2025, 2025. March 28th this year, I actually had my girlfriend add June 19th to our calendar as the day that Thunder were going to win the championship.

Wow. We got hotel rooms booked in Wichita for June 20th, which is halfway between where I live in Oklahoma City so I can make it down to my parents for the parade, which is gonna happen on 21st or 22nd, you know, depending on when they do the parade stuff. The real two questions now are one, how much money do I need to have on Thursday's game? That's obviously, you know, I've been predicting this for months. And two, last day of summer school is Friday and I've got to teach, I gotta teach a bunch

of sixth graders. Should I still get absolutely plastered Thursday night and then try to teach the youth on Friday? Okay, before we answer. Appreciate you guys. Appreciate you. Shout out Raymond Felt. Shout out Raymond Felt. The Isaiah Roby was much more random. Another Nebraska legend. Before we answer, confirming, these have been sent to me.

I sent them to On Air Jordan in the hopes that this person would call in. Brett confirming these texts. Friday, March 28th, just had Lindsay at June 29th to the calendar as that's the day the Thunder will win the championship. It's gonna be beautiful. June 19th, save the date.

And- February 9th, 2021. Don't let that distract you from Thunder 2025 champs. Wow. Brett had it all along. Brett had it all along. Brett had it all along. He knew. Brett going military time too, respect.

Okay, now questions. How much money is he putting on the Thunder to win tonight? Ooh, I don't know, man. You have all this emotional investment, like why not let it ride? You're gonna be so happy if they win. I guess you'll be double happy. Are you double happy and double sad?

Like how does it work in terms of that? Thunder also minus 225. Like you don't wanna take the spread and get screwed there which is so easy on basketball. I don't know. I feel like you just let it ride. You're obviously a diehard Thunder fan. You're gonna be so happy without the money part of it.

I say Connor's right. Like just enjoy it. I say just let it ride. B, you're this diehard of a Thunder fan? Yeah dude, just go out and get blitzed with your boys and then wake up and go teach the youth of Nebraska. Last day of summer school, they're not gonna give a fuck. I agree with Connor again. Some of them are probably Thunder fans too.

Yeah, get smashed. Get smashed, enjoy it, man. You never know when it's gonna happen again. It's gonna be incredible. Chuck, it's you. God, what a poll. 2021 prediction. What a poll. March, you're calling the exact date that they're gonna win. What a poll. I hope you have a future on them date that they're gonna win. I hope you have a future on them You're talking about better. I hope you have a future on them if they win tonight

Shout out congrats to you Brett. I had the breath from Nebraska great calling I Just got off the phone with mr. Don Davis himself It was insisting that I patch him through to talk to you guys. I told him it doesn't work like that, I had to explain the technology, what's limiting all of that. So he just asked me to deliver a message

that Mailman Hunter versus Mailman Matt is on. And that he is listening and. In the PFL SmartCage. Exactly, and then I had to, he kept wanting to chat my ear off, like how great the show is, I was like Don, you have to go and then you don't have to succeed Yeah, you also started talking shit again about missing the call last week

So I'm gonna run them all right it happens mailman hunter versus mailman Matt is booked PFL smart cage in the in the coming months I also appreciate Frank maintaining order here like you can't just like barge your way on you have to be invited But but we do appreciate Don calling in. Holy shit incredible thank you Don. We appreciate you getting that done man. Give them the fight the people want. Okay what's up guys this is Greg from Los Angeles. Just a quick question. They dropped the task for the challenge on MTV season 41. Ben the Bane Davis is on. Are we supporting him? Of course.

Are we rooting for him? Yeah. All right, thank you guys, bye. Hell yes. Question heard and answered. I will be embarking on my first season of the challenge and I will be supporting Ben the Bane Davis and if he gets knocked out, I'll be hooked for the rest of the season, so it's be supporting Ben the Bane Davis, and if he gets knocked out,

I'll be hooked for the rest of the season, so it's all good. It's a tremendous show. I'm very excited for you to join us on the journey. I could not be happier for Ben the Bane. I think it can really, like, he's done so many cool things that have kind of like put him into different stratospheres of notoriety.

BKFC, grappling, karate combat, play-by-play, yeah, there's gonna be a lot combat. This is. Play by play, yeah. There's gonna be a lot of isms. Like real mainstream shit. Like there's some people off these shows that. What if he wins? I mean, hell, we're rooting for him to win. I think, I hope he does.

I'm looking at some real, real Degenso stuff. There's just no way. It's a pre-recorded show, so I don't think they would do it. Yeah, I was gonna say, what if you could get odds on an offshore book? I'll take odds on Ben the Bane. What if you could get odds on an offshore book? I'll take odds on Ben the Bane. What if you could get odds on an offshore book?

Somebody tweeted me, I've long talked about how CT is like the monster of the show and I picked him in different towns and things. Is he on this season? He's on this season. And there's a game called Hall Brawl. And the game Hall Brawl is, there's two sheets of plexiglass about this wide,

this wide. And the objective of the game is you two run headfirst at each other with helmets and football pads on and whoever makes it to the other side wins. Wow. And so somebody asked me on X if Ben, if I'm taking Ben over CT and Hallbrow and you're goddamn right I am.

Oh, sign me up. It's gonna be great. It's gonna be great. It's gonna be great. Ben will truck. I can't wait. Nothing like a good summer reality show, you know? We're cheering for Ben the Bane. Big, heavy.

Sup boys in the back. What's up man? This is Chunk from South Carolina. Chunk. First time, long time of the show. They have got a little jujitsu tournament coming up this weekend. That's sick. And you know, there's got a little jujitsu tournament coming up this weekend and you know, there's always a little bit of nerves leading into it.

But I have to say the first time I entered a tournament maybe a couple years ago, that was one of the most nerve-inducing things I've ever done in my life. I wanted to ask what is a moment that you recall as to ask what is a moment that you recall as being super nerve-inducing? Was it an athletic competition of some sort? Was it something related to school or work? Maybe a production related to the show or the channel? Proposing for marriage, I would assume, is pretty nerve-wracking. I've never done it. But anyways, just curious what your answers are, and love the show, and keep it up. Thanks, see ya. Nerve-inducing. I've had to have a couple surgeries and I hate getting surgery. Whenever I go under, I'm always very nervous. Is it right

before? Is it leading up? When's the? It's usually leading up. It's like the weeks before you're like, ugh. I'm like, fuck, I do not wanna go do this. Even though I've done it and come out the other side each time, I don't know why, it's just like the idea of like getting put out. I'm always nervous for it, shouldn't be though.

Yeah, for me, it was like the like, right before I had Avery, right before we had our first kid. Yeah. This idea of like, all right, there's another person in my life who I'm now responsible for and I cannot fuck this up. That is a crazy thing to think about now, obviously little old hat, you know,

we've got three kids and Avery's fantastic and the nerves are less now because we're more experienced in it and we've been doing well, but that first couple, like when it became real that I was gonna be a parent, that was some weird trippy shit to think about. Oh, I can only imagine. Frank, anything?

I think you knocked it out of the park. Oh, thanks Frank. Frank's never been nervous. Hey boys, this is Nick from Colfax, California. I'll shout out. My question is for Connor. Connor, do you have any other kids other than Sean Brady? Yeah, thank you guys.

Rick, Jordan, Adé, who else? Everyone on the bike. We're all his sons. Everyone on the bike. We're all his sons. All my children, might as well be a soap opera in here. Yo, boys in the back. Oh, it's good. It's Jimmer. It's Jimmer. Jim! Took a week off last week from calls. Was too depressed after Sugar took the defeat to Marab. He was on the track and train. The question for you guys this week is what's the worst defeat in sports that you guys have

had to overcome? This one's getting me pretty bad guys, but he'll be back. Let's fucking go. Shout out Andy. He's the best. Love you guys. Deuce. No brainer 28 to 3.

Never felt like that after anything sports related in my life before or since that was just like, and then 28 to three and then within the calendar year, like that happened in February and then the next January, Georgia was trying to end its national championship drought against Alabama, was up double digits in the fourth quarter, blew that, lost in overtime. So like in a 365 day span, I watched both my teams collapse in the fourth quarter, blew that, lost in overtime. So like in a 365 day span I

watched both my teams collapse in the championships and this was at a time where I was in a complete championship drought. There was a whole theory that Atlanta had sold its soul to get the 1996 Olympic Games, like the Braves won in 95 and then 96 the Olympic Games come and they had no championship since. Luckily now 21 Braves, then 21 and 22 Georgia. So like I'm all good, I'm all set. But yeah, 28 to three, 28 to three was, in the moment it was brutal. And like you don't need any advice to get over a sports loss

as the sports loss, it really doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things. But like, just give it a couple of weeks then you'll be like, oh, that actually doesn't matter at all. We're fine. Yeah, for me, I tend to be pretty realistic about my team's expectations So I don't feel like I have like one where I was like crushed by a sports loss 223 was like we won the Super Bowl and then like he came and just like took the Lombardi away and it was like yeah I did. Yeah, I had not been there. I've been on the other side of it

I was I had the Cavs in 2016 where it was like it looked like it was fucking done and they came back Which was incredible. I guess like the closest is man I was really excited for BJ Penn versus GSP and I was like finally my guy BJ Penn is gonna show the world and Then GSP just trounced his ass like bad like it was fucking horrific and I was pretty disheartened and disappointed by that but the one in my real life was when When you're growing up and you're like like I was like one of the best at basketball in the neighborhood that first time somebody else comes from them from outside the neighborhood and you learn that there's levels to this shit and you're like

Oh, I'm not the best person in the entire world. Like, it doesn't work like that. Actually, not even that good, period. That shit really fucking, that was an eye opener. It was like, oh fuck, like there's levels to this game and I need to be a little more humble with my shit. That one really like, that sat with me for a week where I was like, oh damn, all right, like I'm not that good, huh?

Like there's people out there that are just way better. Yeah, it's crazy But I guess the BJ Penn wants the closest comp like that. He got beat the fuck up You know, this is 24 stubs On down the road to Dween Reedy to some Godforsaken bodega and by the man a fan. That guy was sweating his balls off. Ariel's like, do I turn the AC?

Ariel, once in a large building, once the AC is too hot, it takes hours for it to cool. It's over. The guy's got to do something. Do I need to do do I need a Super Channel to have a fan spot here? I'm out. Okay, so he's obviously referring to Paul Walterhauser who was sitting right here yesterday.

And it was hot. I see some sweat glistening on your forehead. Dude, it's warm in here right now. Let's open the window. Oh, we forgot to mention, we forgot to mention Happy Jutienta top of show, but that is a company holiday for Yahoo. Empty in here. We're the only only people in here and there's no air on

It's getting toasty. I have to admit. Yeah, I'm starting to feel a little bit of the brow glistening um We can't get a fan because then Frank's gonna kill us. Yeah Frank's like all like all fidgety about the audio He ran in here during fight feces like the's like, the mic's turned at your shoulder. I need to just adjust it. We could never do a fan. Is that really how I talk? Yes, it's unbearable, Frank.

Sorry, man. Hell, Juan likes to keep it toasty. It's also 90 degrees in New York right now, so it's hot. Yeah, it's warm. But yeah, shout out to Paul Walterhauser, who's a mensch. Yeah, we're not doing a fan. If you get warm in here, just take a shout out. Yeah.

You know? Yo, this is JR from Cali. First time caller. And yeah, I just had a question for Connor specifically. What does hell or high water mean to you? What does I'll be there at any cost, no matter what the cost mean to you? What does I'll be there at any cost, no matter what the cost mean to you? Because I've been coming to International Fight Week

for the past 30 years since you said that, and I haven't seen you, or anybody. What's going on, man? Nah, just kidding, just giving you guys crap. But big time fans, I'm hoping that you guys are there this week. Or two weeks. We will be. I'd love kidding, you guys crap. But big time fans, I'm hoping that you guys are there this week. Or two weeks.

I'd love to see you guys. Yeah. So yeah, shout out. And Frank, if you can add me on chess.com, let's get that one D1 going, like you promised me years ago. Bye. Come, here we come.

Chess.com, let's go, Adam. I'll actually add you, I'm on chess.com as well. I think it's Cold-Blooded Berks is the name. Wow. Wow. Yeah, well, I mean, that's how I am on the chessboard. Don't sleep. Yeah, I made a promise in 2022, 2023, and 20, not 2024, 2022 and 2023, I think that's what he's referring to.

Heller, high water and at any cost. Yeah, made promises, I didn't deliver on them, but the good news is, next next week we will be there. UFC X, UFC International Fight Week, UFC 317, few Hawani shows, a watch party, yada yada yada, post shows, it's gonna be great, it's gonna be great. We will be there. We will be in Vegas. Got the flight booked, fly out on Wednesday, can't wait.

Hope to see all you there. That was the last voice. I actually appreciate him calling my shit there. flight book fly out on Wednesday can't wait hope to see all you there that was the last voice I actually appreciate him I'm calling my my shit there I appreciate that thank you for the calls any super chats Frankie wouldn't be a show without super chat sure wouldn't so good Wow we were both thinking that at the same time that That's great. JN, can we assign some blame to Tom for doing nothing to spark John's interest? Yes, the rubber duck is cute, but come on. There's so much work. What is it?

What is there to work with? Name the things that there is to work with other than finishing everyone in two and a half minutes. I think what he means is like Oh, John's personal life stuff. You're saying like really get personal. Okay. All right. All right. I think what he means is like, someone John's personal life stuff. Oh, you're saying like really get personal. Really get him pissed. Okay, all right, all right. I see what you're saying. No, I don't blame Tom. He's done everything he can.

Nah, come on, man. He's interim champ. He's owed the title shot. What they have, what fans have to understand is Tom is in a very difficult position. Tom is not John Jones. Tom can't just like demand everything he wants.

He's not that guy. He hasn't established himself in that way. He can't be out there doing things that the UFC Doesn't want him to do in the way that John Jones does right John Jones has has Seemingly free reign to be able to do this Tom has to stay in line to a certain degree And so if the USC is like give us patience. Don't really talk about this We're gonna try and work on the John Jones side of it. Tom has to fall in line there because at the end of the day, the UFC is going to be his

partner for a long time and hopefully and I assume that the UFC is going to be his partner for a long time. He has to keep that relationship and manage that relationship and also put himself in line for when John Jones is potentially out of the picture for him to be their champion and do the things that he's capable of doing. So he's straddling the fence, he's riding like the fence, he has a tricky position to kind of navigate all these things. It's not as easy as just being like, fuck you John Jones, like you're this, that, the other, because there's the business side of it and he has to maintain appearances here first for a certain degree when it comes to

what the UFC is asking him to do so difficult position for Tom I don't think that would have gotten it done anyway and it will just this saga I truly believe will be over very shortly thankfully Jordan Wallberger GC where in New York City for best chopped cheese sandwich? Bodega. Just go to a bodega and ask for a chopped cheese. You'll be good. That's it.

It is kind of just like a Philly cheesesteak. Chopped cheese is not that great. It's fine. It's pretty good. It's pretty good. I mean, if you're in New York, get one. I mean, there have been several nights where you get home from the bars

and it's like, might as well grab a chopped cheese. It's a good late night. But like, I never am like,, might as well grab a chopped cheese. It's a good late night, but I never am like, I'm going out for a chopped cheese. I would never in my life have before a show, go get a chopped cheese for lunch. No. You'd never go.

It's too much food. You'd never seek it. If you're drunk, as you said, and wandering the streets and you're like, there's a chopped cheese right there, you get it 100%. But it's not like, you're not going for it. You're not specifically seeking it. Corbin comes in, Khalil Jiri would be a wild fight. I'm all for it also unrelated best comment I've read. Oh looks like you just discovered fire. That's not nice

Hello versus Yuri would be amazing. Yeah, it'd be sick Jet eerie as Frank says yeah, it was missing the accent mark right we know you can't read man. It's all good Sarp Says hello mr. Berks and boys Sculptor of FV awards here so sad Oh, yeah, it's simple plus buck who trip didn happen. Waiting with lots of dolmas and food in Istanbul for y'all anytime. Let's eat and talk, sculpting the annual nose awards.

Okay, leave this up for a second. Yeah, what is he talking about? All right, so Turkey currency, I believe that's what he's paying in, the Turkish lira or ira, one of the two. Yes, this dude made the full violence yearly awards. Oh, no way. The sick like gold ones.

Oh my God, those were incredible. Incredible, so I followed him on IG. Can we put it up just one more time just to shout his name out? I believe that's what his name is on IG, yes. Sarp Angor, the absolute man. I wish I was in Istanbul. I would crush a million dolmas with you,

get my fake hair, and some extra food there as well. Okay. But shout out to him. Talking, sculpting the Hawaiian. The nose awards for next year would be fire because he absolutely killed those four violence awards. Oh my God, they were so fucking good. They were so good. They were so fucking good. So good. Wow so good

Yeah, I follow him on Instagram. I'll shoot him a DM. Sorry. I thought out to you. I have to start We appreciate the the 220 Turkey right here. Yeah Cito coming in with the last one here top five round trees. Yeah, that's a good point. That's on you number one tree Huh? What I couldn't pronounce this. I looked up what the bow bad name is Adesanya number one tree. Huh? I couldn't pronounce this so I looked up what the Bowbab? Name is Adesanya. What? Adansia.

What are you talking about? What are you saying right now? I'm looking at it, I don't know what you're saying. All right. There's no way that says Adesanya. I think he's saying, and I don't know, cause Frank before also was talking to Andy and me and like did not speak English at all.

Are you okay, man? Are you having a stroke? I love that we now have concern. I don't have a stroke. I think what Frank is saying is that the Baobab tree, it's also called the Adesanya, is that correct? What? Yeah.

Interesting. My favorite round tree is the Sequoia tree, giants out in Cali, yeah, shout out. That could have been a great list. I mean, technically all trees, are they round or are they like? Yeah, they're round. Okay, yeah, the Baobab, oh. What's the mistake is?

Adansonia. Yeah. Adansia. Frank can't read, but we already knew that. We already knew that. Adansia could be, yeah. Frank will be going to urgent care after this. Yes, yeah, you were kind of like leaning heavy to the left and like the left side of your face was dragging

There goes Frank Smell like burnt hair to you Frank something about toast toast. No burnt toast. All right. That's all the super chats That was it. Then I think that'll do it for us. We did UFC Baku a little PFL, the John Jones stuff, everything like that. Keep in mind, crack tomorrow. Make sure you watch that at your regular scheduled programming hours. But then Monday, Hawaiian Show at 1. Then we're back on Tuesday, so go ahead and get your voicemails in. We will break down everything with UFC 317 and then crack Wednesday and then how want to show Thursday live from Las Vegas. How want to show Friday live from Las Vegas,

watch party, post show, how want to show live from Las Vegas on Monday as well should be stacked with guests, should be a grand old time. And don't forget, we'll also be at Fanatics Fest. Fanatics Fest tomorrow, it is a busy schedule. We don't take any days off around here. I saw 60. Shout out, shout out, shout out, shout out, shout out, shout out, shout out, shout out,

shout out! That's nine more for you right there. Seventy-what?! You should have slowed down. I think we're off with that one. I think we're off with that one. It should be 69. That'll do it for us.

Thanks so much for watching. We really appreciate it. Watch the crack tomorrow. And then International Fight Week Next week cannot wait. We are Sin City bound until then We'll see you later