The Ariel Helwani Show - UFC 319 Post-Fight Show: Khamzat Chimaev dominates Dricus Du Plessis; Who's next? Ariel Helwani reacts

Episode Date: August 17, 2025

Ariel Helwani is joined by Petesy Carroll for their immediate reactions to UFC 319, starting with Khamzat Chimaev dominating Dricus Du Plessis to become UFC middleweight champion (01:24).After breaking down the fight, they wonder who Chimaev could face next, including reactions to a real-time callout by Sean Strickland (13:01).Helwani quickly recaps the rest of the card (23:37), before returning to individual performances including: Lerone Murphy's masterful knockout of Aaron Pico (30:04), Carlos Prates' return to form against Geoff Neal (38:18), another win by Michael 'Venom' Page (43:26), and Tim Elliott's major upset against Kai Asakura (48:37).Finally, they touch on Alex Hernandez's brutal finish of Chase Hooper (52:06) and dive into some reactions from Dana White and others to a memorable card (54:22).

Back in your life on this Sunday, August 17th, 2000, 25. Hello again, everyone. Welcome to our UFC 319 post-fight show seconds ago. It just concluded they're still in the octagon, and there is a new UFC middleweight champion, his name. Hamza Chimaev, one of the most dominant performances that we've ever seen in a UFC title fight ever. He beats Drix Duplessi in five rounds, unanimous decision, 50 to 44 on all three judges' scorecards that goes the distance. And the best way to describe this fight, in my opinion, was domination. Absolute total domination. Just listen very quickly to some of these numbers here.

Hamza Chamaev landed 510 strikes, according to ESPN's fight center. 510 strikes in this five-round fight. He threw 567. I'm no mathematician, but that's a pretty damn good ratio right there. 510 out of 567, that percentage has to be an all-time record. In addition to that, he landed 12 takedowns, 12 of 17. We'll talk about those five that he missed, but 12 of 17, especially early on. I mean, in the first couple rounds, it was just one takedown needed, and he pretty much just

was all over DDP for the duration of the round, and especially very early in the round. Also of note, control time. Look at the control time here. Where's the control time? I had it. It was around 21 minutes, 2140 for Hamza Chamaev, and like a minute and a minute and a half total for DDP a couple of minutes here and there just sort of in the ether as they were on their feet very sparingly total domination there were a couple of moments of hope for DDP in the fifth round

he's in half guard he goes for a guillotine but overall I mean you got to give DDP all the credit in the world he was smiling each and every time a round started he was telling his corner I'm going to do it I'm going to do it they were telling him you need to finish the fight not a lot of technique being shared at least from what I was able to hear they were not speaking in at all times. I was getting the translation, but it just didn't seem like they had any answers for what Hamza Chimaev was doing. Absolute total domination. I did see a lot of people in the YouTube chat complain that it was boring, complained, that it was predictable, complained that it was lacking any type of intrigue. If you asked me, because DDP is just so crazy and so unorthodox,

I was on the edge of my seat because I was just wondering if he'd be able to turn it around. And in the fifth, it looked for a brief second like he might, but no, it was never to be. how do you not respect that kind of brilliance? How do you not respect that kind of dominance? How do you not respect that kind of power? Hamza Chamaev has it all. And now officially the Chamsat Shamaev era begins. We thought it was going to begin probably in late 2020, 2021 max.

It took a little longer, but almost exactly five years after his UFC debut on Fight Island, that magical summer where he fought twice in the span of two days, he finally becomes UFC middleweight champion. champion. What a freaking performance. In addition to that, what a freaking card. We had, my friends, back-to-back, spinning back elbow knockouts, back-to-back, the ninth and tenth in UFC history. A shocking submission from an OG veteran, a very fun undercard, something for everyone on this card, in my opinion, up the top of the dome, the card of the year so far in terms of the the results, the action, the surprises, the knockouts, the fun that was had, it was a grand old time.

It's just myself and the patron saint of the Emerald Isle on this late Sunday slash early Sunday over in Eda. He is the host of the critically acclaimed podcast, The Cracky is the one and only Pizzi Carol Pizzi. You've been watching this game for quite some time, as have I. I don't know. Look, we've had great performances, right? We've had incredible performances. We've had shocking performances. We've had virtuoso performances.

We've had T.J. Dilleshaw somehow pull off the Incredible against Hennibara when no one thought he had a chance. Dominance like this for five rounds were prisoners of the moment. We're very tired. I don't know if we've ever seen this type of dominance from a challenger in a title fight to eventually win a belt, quite like we saw from Hamzaa Chamaev tonight. No, absolutely. And it didn't feel like at any point that DDP was going to turn this around. Like, I know he's not here tonight, but Chuck and Ben, folks,

among crowned, we're constantly talking about this idea where if this gets out of the first round, it becomes a different fight. If this gets out of the second round, it becomes a different fight. It just never really did. I mean, you spoke about those brief moments in the fifth jump in the gilly. He deserves the spirit of Parier Award for 2025 for that kind of outlandish stunt at the end there. And look, he can almost forgive DDP for going back to his corner and every time going, no, I think this one, he's going to have to come off the gas here because How long have we been hearing about it with wresters, Ariel? Back from Habib's days of dominance, we used to hear Carmier say,

you can't grapple for four, like three rounds. You know, you're going to have to take, if you grab for three rounds, you're going to have to take the fourth off. Hamzat just didn't take any off. He's so dominant. Look, I understand people wanting a finish, wanting a big spectacular knockout. You got two of them just before this.

If you can't marvel at the disparity between the champion going into this fight, Drickus Duplessi and Hamza at Shemoev here. I mean, I don't know what you're looking at. This is absolutely stunning performance with the Chechen. Yeah, one of the aspects of the fight that I was most interested in seeing in the aftermath was whether or not, you know, because we had Andy Foster on the program talking about the scoring a couple of weeks ago. And I was curious whether or not the judges would give these rounds 10-8s because they were

so dominant, but there wasn't a ton of damage inflicted. Yes, there were a ton of strikes thrown and landed, but not a lot of. damage inflicted. So, for example, I tweeted that I thought the first round was a 10-9, and I saw all the other media members say 10-8. In fact, according to the three judges, Cage side, it was 10-9-10-9-10-9. The only round, by the way, that they gave a 10-8 was the third round to Shemive, of course. That's why you had the 350 to 44s. But these are like the little intricacies that I was curious about because there was nothing really, you know, up in the air other than the fact that like could ddp pull another rabbit out of his hat what was what was um you know what was

being said leading up to the fight of course was if it goes late if it goes late it's ddp's fight well in the end i think chamsat answered all those questions i think he can uh he can he can put the bed the gilbert burns fight he could put the bed the kamara usman fight the last two performances were absolutely outstanding and now you you start to think like hey uh who can beat this guy and then if you're the UFC PT it's like okay we have something on our hands the visa issue has been cleared up he's an absolute star he has that star quality the the people in Chicago loved him all week long but can we get this guy to fight more than once a year because once you become champion more often than night you need to fight at least you know I don't know maybe twice a year historically over the last couple years he's fighting just once a year give or taker you know sometimes even a little bit longer than that this time His last fight was in October, he comes back and fights here on this card. And so they have something, you know, in the era where we're talking about stars and lack of star powered, like they have something on their hands with this guy.

To me, the big question is how often can they get him to fight and how, you know, how he can remain healthy enough to fight and have all those issues put aside so that he can be as active as possible. Absolutely. And look, I think this is a thing that we've talked about for a long time, Mahams. He reminds you of that kind of, that prodigy kind of talent like John Jones. and Dana White so famous he said all those years ago, like if anyone's going to get in John Jones's ways,

it's going to be John Jones. You feel that what Hamzat. He had that meteoric rise. Then it was the bad bout with COVID he had. Then we had Katteroff getting involved, all this kind of stuff. But the one thing I've taken away from this week, Ariel, and you've kind of mentioned it there, is the amount of fans, well, guys who I thought were finished with this sport completely,

the guys who I hadn't really felt were fans of this sport since the McGregor days, basically around Ireland and the UK, suddenly just Thursday night, Friday, and then today, the buzz around this card has been astronomical, way more than I expected. I'm looking online and people are saying, like, this felt big, this felt like the biggest card of the year. Look, we know that this guy's a star, but in some ways, I'm surprised by the buzz. Like, I did not see this coming. And, Have you noted that this week? Like, do you feel like, as you mentioned, like, you know, you think a star is born here when Shemoy have?

100%. You know, I sort of gauge it, like, how many people ask me to come on their show, how many people text me as far as like, who do you got, friends, family members, things like that? It's been a minute. Like, this way more than Ilya's fight back in June. And I'm not going to say it's like McGregor levels, but it felt like a big deal. It felt like a big fight. Chicago was absolutely, you know, foaming.

at the mouth, some of the stats as far as Chicago is concerned. Credit to those fans, they had been asking, they had been hounding the UFC brass for a show. The gate, a little over 11 million highest grossing event in United Center history. This is the arena, which, by the way, was home to the Chicago Bulls and Michael Jordan in the 90s for their last three championships, not the first three. The first three were at the old Chicago Stadium. Tendence a little over 20,000. This gate figure, according to Aaron Bronstetter, of Roger Sportsden in Canada, five times the total of UFC 238, which is the last numbered event in Chicago, and that was back in 2019, five times, five plus times higher than the last time the UFC was in Chicago. And that wasn't the worst card of all time that had CM Punk and Alistair Overeem, Robert Whitaker, on it as well.

So, you know, yes, and he was the start of the week. He absolutely delivered. By the way, just going back to some of those stats, like unbelievable. I mentioned, so, you know, they tend to like fix them a little bit in the aftermath. So going on UFC stats, 529 of 567, which is about 89% absurd. Significant strikes, though, just 37 of 47 of 47. So it just goes to show a lot of those were ground strikes. A lot of them were in crucifix.

A lot of them were when they were on the mat. Total strikes landed for DDP 45. So 529 to 45. That's, I mean, that's just kind of a shocking number to see. And again, I have all the respect in the world for DDP. Pete, the guy never quit. His spirits remained high throughout. It didn't seem like he was deflated and defeated.

But holy shit, what a freaking performance from Hamza Chameh. And you know what I loved about a PT? I love that they had Kyle Bahalio there. They had Anthony Hernandez there. They had RDR there. It was almost like one of those like lumberjack matches in WWE where all the guys are surrounding the ring and it's like, who is going to be next? Because I don't really know.

I guess it will be Kayo and Imov. If I'm watching that and I'm one of those guys, I'm like, what the fuck do I do to against this guy? Like, you know what I mean? What are those guys going to do to him? Yeah, I could hear them on the broadcast. And obviously, Carmier is kind of saying, like, RDR said, you know, I'm a grappler. Like, yeah, you know, like everyone's a grappler.

Like, but this guy, what this guy is doing is, he's not actually allowing you to grapple him. He's taking it down. Once top position is established against the rest or that dominant, it does. really matter how good your guard is. You know, like, Fluffy is an exceptional grappler as well, underrated if anything. But what this guy seems to be doing is just taking guys' legs out of, out of the equation immediately. He takes down, he moves to side control. And as we saw today with the Crucifix, just immediately going back to that. And I think Karmier pointed out some flaws with the technique. But one thing that it definitely does is forces the opponent to be just

completely defensive all the time. There is no time. Look, you mentioned there, 45 strikes. there's no time to get off any offense here you're fighting for your life when you're in there with him and he's at the best he can be like that's what i'm seeing here like there is no up he doesn't give anyone an opportunity to launch any offense in his direction very similar to have even that regard once he gets top i have no idea um and i knew this question was coming as i was watching that fight i was looking through the rankings going i know iriel's going to ask me who who's the best guy to take him on here i have no fucking idea buddy do you have any idea because I definitely don't.

Look, I think Kyle Bohalio and Nasr D. Nassar Dinaimov are the frontrunners. I think if that fight, for whatever reason, just kind of sucks. The UFC is not announcing fights as number one contender fights anymore. I mean, I can't remember the last time they did that. I remember there was a time where they would, like, say it in the commercial. Like, you would be watching TV and it would be like number one contender fight, that sort of thing. They don't do that anymore because I think they want to just kind of keep their options open. But I think we could all agree that the winner of that,

fight should be next. But I do think some style points are going to come into play. So if the winner of that fight wins an absolute stinker, let's say Kyobahaliyo wins a sticker. I don't think they're going to be beholden to him. If Imov wins, I think he'll come across as a superstar because it's in Paris. And so they'll make him seem bigger. But if the winner of that fight wins via some sort of stoppage, I'd say they're the frontrunner. Right behind them is fluffy and RDR. But I think that all of a sudden, this division has gotten really interesting because in a perfect world, of that fight fights chamsat and then those two guys fight each other they just kind of fought around the same time as each other so the the timing sort of works out r d rdr for uh fluffy hernandez have those

guys fight to see who fights next and now you're on to something and by the way ddp going into this fight had the third longest active winning streak in the ufc tied with ilia teporea tied with mobsar al buev and tied with lorone murphy who was another winner we'll get to him in a moment. This is a guy who should be back in that mix. Like, get him one fight, let him win that fight, and put him right back in that mix. I don't think that he should fall too far down the ladder. Now, it is going to be tough if he puts himself in position to fight for the belt again. It's going to be tough to sell that fight because this was so dominant. But there's just, there's something so kind of quirky about him and so unpredictable about him that I would be,

call me crazy. Like, I was not bored watching that. Am I crazy? And, and trying to Trust me, I would say I was bored. Like, I'm not trying to be the hipster guy who was like, those apex cards are the absolute best. Look, there was something very intriguing about the dominance and something very intriguing about the, like, is this guy going to be able to figure out? Like, is he going to be able to do something here

because he's that damn weird and awkward and unorthodox? So, like, I saw all the complaints. But trust me, like, I don't know about you. I have felt a hell of a lot bored watching UFC title fights at 1245 a.m. Eastern Standard Time, let alone what time? it's over there 545 in the past like this one i was not i was not bored i kind of i i don't know there was something there was something there was something entertaining about how dominant it all

was yeah um absolutely and i think he played a massive part in that lee you're talking about him going back to his corner i fully believed him at all times like i fully believe that ddp for as long as he's standing up here he's going to try to hail mary his way to do a victory here. And that adds something to it. Like, you know, when you're going back to a corner and the corner's despondent, there's a great example of it when Leon fought Bilal in Manchester.

Leon, who had this classic moment with Dave Levelle previously, kind of snaps at him. And it's just like, it doesn't feel like the vibe is there to mount this comeback. DDP at all times was like, I'm going to do this. And the reason why we believe them is

because we've had egg on our faces his whole UFC run. Like, as much as this is a perfect storybook ending to Hamzat and him coming in in 2020, had DDP won this, it would have been the most DDP shit of all time for him to upset the apple card for this guy. We've been counting down to becoming champion for five years. That's what his whole career has been. I don't, I did not expect him to become a fan favorite in the way that he has. And it really has come in the most unconventional way of just constantly proving people wrong.

I didn't know if he had the kind of personality that fans would latch onto, but all of the interest this week wasn't just simply because Shemoyev was in this fight. It was because DDP was there as well. All of these press conference moments, all of these kind of, as you say, a unique quirky guy. It's won a lot of fans over. So I in no way feel like this is, there has been champions who are dethroned and you're kind of like, well, do you obviously don't want to ever see these guys back in this situation? They don't want to see them back in the title fight. And as you just said, he's been dominated there, but I still absolutely believe

that the fan base has a huge appetite for DDP because of what he's done on this title run. Well, I do have to correct myself, Pizzi, because we did mention Kyle Bahalio, we mentioned Nasur Dean Imov, we mentioned RDR, of course, Fluffy Hernandez as well.

We did not mention the Pride of America, one Sean Strickland, who tweeted this moments ago on probably the only one in the UFC that can outgraple that little whore for five rounds. Well, it looks like I got to stack some Ws to fight that little bitch. L.M.A.O.

Also, he adds, yeah, man, I promise you, I outgrapple him in five rounds any day of the week. I mean, credit to him, he does acknowledge the fact he probably needs a couple wins to get in there. But very confident man that John Strickland after watching that. I respect the confidence and the delusion a little bit. much respect you have to have that i can't keep up with the beefs anymore and amma are they not friends did we not we're they're not friends at one point these lads they're not trying together they were i know costa isn't fond of sure fun yeah it's very difficult keeping track of who's mates or who who who it's fucking it's hard work man um i don't i think sean strickland's a very

underrated grappler to be fair i do but not underrated i think ddb is as well you know it's a different story here nobody is signing up for shan strickland putting a grappling master class on hamsatcham yf i'm not buying that for a second but you know i think as you said this breeds a lot of fresh air into the division and we have a load of contenders there uh brand new it does feel like a little bit like when belalcheim champion at welterweight and we had this build up of uh jack in shavkat uh wakhan like it does feel like this could be a similar thing for middleweight now and that's very exciting. Okay, there's some other tweets here.

I have some fluff on my face I just noticed. Is the fluff gone, guys? What's going on from the sweatshirt? It's like my hair is Velcro and it attracts all the fluff from the sweatshirt. Did you get more free shit off roots of way again? Is that what's out there happened? No, this is that box fresh, buddies? If you must know, the O stands for Oliver and the H stands for Halwani.

This was like the swag from his bar mitzvah. Oh, nice. Shout out to my son, Oliver. Yeah. Okay, okay, happy with the seat result today, no doubt. Oh, yeah, oh, 4-0. Come on. Here's Henry Sehudo. Hamza Shamaev is not human. So much love from the Olympic gold medalist. What else? We've got Dominic Cruz here who says Shamiyaev beat DDP with the same pace and style and pressure as always. Yes, thank you, Dominic. That's great analysis. What about Amon Zahabi? What an incredible performance by Shemayev. He will be one of the most dominant champions ever. Yes. Are you familiar? with the Magic Johnson tweets, P.T.? No.

Magic Johnson has a habit of like, let's say the Knicks beat the Pistons. And he'll tweet something like, the New York Knicks beat the Detroit Pistons tonight. Thanks to their MVP superstar Jalen Brunson, it was such a great performance. And he's sort of like the master of just kind of tweeting the obvious. Saying as it is. And I feel like the collection of tweets that we just read here were very, and Magic Johnson's. Shemiah beat DDP with the same pace,

style, and pressure as always. Yeah, I don't know, like, we're talking about I'm like inspiring all this enthusiasm. Not in the fucking, not on X evidently, huh? Jesus Christ, let's give us something to play with it. I know it's just skipped very quickly over Chook there. Yeah, maybe. I know it's just skip very quickly over Chooks to a day.

Well, I was trying to. It was eliminated from the. I was trying, I was trying to go to the actual, like, you know, I don't know. Fuck him. He's not here. Hello, Chuck. How are you? Thank you for your contribution. Winner of Bohalia Imov getting Shamiyev is a cruel setup for Paris. Or is it an incredible setup for Paris? I don't know. You tell me. Here's the question. Let's give a shout out to our guy Ovin, because he tweeted this.

If there's no COVID, there's no visa issues, when do you think Shemayev would have become champion and would he have been at least a two-division champion by now. I mean, I think he would have been fast-tracked into that situation, definitely. I think by the end of 21, right? I think COVID just derailed all of it. He would have been, and I think he probably would have fought for the 205 belt at some point between 21. It was, like, it's been five years since his debut.

That's a long-ass time. Yeah, it's crazy. And it's just, it's kind of shocking how good he is. like every every time he puts in one of these performances it's kind of like you know i think we did we we kind of uh sobered ourselves up on the usman and burns fights to some extent but he wasn't right after that belt with covid right like that was reported like he he had a he had what did i call it long covered or he had some type of a respiratory issue afterwards and people remember they were like booking him and then he wouldn't come back and then it was said like oh yeah there was lots of he

might not fight again he hasn't recovered in the right way so we don't know if they were some kind of hangups with that illness or whatever it was going on like that guy grappled for five rounds there like it seemed like a piece it seemed like he could have done it for another 25 minutes in there tonight he didn't seem out of bread at all right like it just seemed like a machine in there incredible it really was also by the way i was i was trying to look at ddp like ddp didn't look exhausted as well it just i don't know there was something the smiling in between rounds like it was a weird one but yes to have that kind of stamina and to have that kind of cardio when you're shemayev holding a guy down like that for that long yeah we i don't think we need

to talk about his cardio anymore okay can we talk about the rest of this card let me just go through the results here ptc because this was i mean this was one for the scrapbook this was unbelievable In the chief support, we had Lorone Murphy welcoming Aaron Pico to the, before we get to the, I don't want any spoilers here. Can I just go through this dramatically because this was something else. Lauren Murphy welcoming Aaron Pico to the UFC, all this hullabaloo, putting Pico into the Mofstar Evov fight, bringing him over from Beltoor. He's fighting, he's fighting Evelov.

He gets removed from that fight. And now he's put in the co-main event against Lorone Murphy on a paper. view. And here's Lerone Murphy, who had won eight in a row, had a draw on his debut, had been searching, searching, and clawing for just something either A. Out of the Apex and B, a spectacular finish that gets him in the mix at 145 pounds. Part of that great Manchester top team over in Manchester, England, led by the great Carl Prince, who's working wonders with the likes of Murphy, Atiba Gautier and others. And here he is, really the guy who was kind of playing opponent, in my opinion.

I think everyone thought that the UFC wanted Pico to be in that spot with his chiseled bod and all this stuff. And there's Lerone Murphy landing a spinning back elbow for ages. I mean, Pico look great. The pace was great. The pressure was great. The striking was great. Literally 15 seconds prior to getting knocked out, the commentary team was remarking how great his striking look, how crisp he looked, like how ready he looked for the moment.

And this in the year where we saw Patricia Pitbull lose his UFC debut coming over from Bellator slash PFL. We saw Apache Mix come over and not look good in his UFC debut, lose that one as well. So now they're 0 and 3 as far as the big names that have come over from PFLOTor. Lorone Murphy stamps his ticket, nine in a row now. He has the third longest winning streak, active winning streak, tied with Mofstar Evalvev also has nine in a row. But wow, what a performance. And wow, look at my screensaver going off. Yes, that is unbelievable. That's what kind of a night it was. I've been sitting in front of this thing for multiple hours. Okay, let me just go through the rest. Carlos Prachas, prior to that fight, Jeff Neal,

spinning back elbow at the buzzer 459 to be exact of the first round Carlos Pratchez is the first man to stop Jeff Neal via strikes Carl's Pratchez coming up that very frustrating loss to Ian Machado Gary he the score is it so that was number nine all time as far as spinning back elbow chaos in UFC history and then Murphy number 10

back to back they went back to back like Drizzy Drake unbelievable Carlos Pruchess with the walkoff spinning back elbow K-O freaking unbelievable both guys, Neil and Pico out cold, the shots, the picture is unbelievable and by the way, Praches at the post-fired press conference right now

up on the dais, smoking a siggy on the dais. This guy's a freak, look at this guy right here. The freaking man, I mean, look at that with the stash, he's celebrating his birthday today, August 17th, happy birthday to him. By the way, I also noted, I don't know if you saw this, they were announcing the bonuses

in the cage tonight. Did you notice that? Very different. Yeah, I noticed there. Yeah, they gave Leone one after he got that spinning back out of his head, and there's your bonus. And Prochers, too. Rogan was saying, you're getting a bonus. I don't know if this is a sign of the times. Okay, prior to that, Michael Vanne Page, Jared Cannoneer, MVP, second fight at middleweight,

2 and 0 now at midway fighting the former title contender, dropped him in the first. It was kind of like a drop push in the second as well. A lot of theatrics, a lot of killer crossovers. I don't know if he was Alan Iverson or Tim Hardaway. Every time he would drop him, he would bring him back. to the middle of the cage. Not sure what Dana White thinks of those theatrics,

but it was very much... I have a good idea. I have a good idea, I think. An MVP showing. Cannonier wins the third round, but it wasn't enough. MVP now. 2-0 afterwards saying he'd love to fight

Carl's Pratchez in Rio, in October, Prochis, saying he wants to find Rio. Dana White obliging, but he would have to, of course, move down to 170s. Still going through it. Tim Elliott, what about that?

Tim Elliott, with the submission win over Kaya Sakura. He was one of the biggest dogs on the card, and especially after the first round, Kai Sakura, looking great. Tim Elliott, looking like four square Gump earlier in the week. He comes in there, looks fantastic in the second round, and catches him with the guillotine choke, the old man, 38 years young. Now, all of a sudden, Kai Sakura,

0 and 2 in the UFC after debuting it, it's Alessandre Pantoja. What about Baisangur-Susur-Ka-Ev? How did he do it? What was the chant? What was the chant? What was the chant? Everybody, Ba-Singor! Bye! That's enough thank you. Okay. Cheers. Didn't fucking catch on in Windy City, I think. Yeah, and it wasn't catching on in that first round, right? Eric Nolan, on short notice as well, had him a little bit in trouble in that first round, but he was able to figure out the teammate of one Chamsat Shamaia of the man who got a UFC contract on Contender Series just back on Tuesday. They had him do the quick turnaround thing.

Shades of one Chamsat Shamaia back in 2020, everyone said that he wins via rear-naked choke in the second round. Michal Oleg Sheshachuk wins in the first round via K.O., he beats Gerald Mirchard. Did you see this stat about Mikhail al-Keshach? I still can't believe this stat. Did you see this crazy stat about Michael Al-Ele-Ech-Sachuk? Okay, Michael Oleg-Shaegh, let me get it, working towards it. Working on the weekend, like you do. Efforting.

Efforting. This third most first round KOs. Yes, did I say that right? Third-most first-round KOs in UFC history. In UFC history, the third most first-round chaos, Vitor Belford 11, Anthony Rumble Johnson, may he rest in peace, nine, Mikhail Olok Cheshuk 8.

Most first-round KOs in UFC history, who would have thought? Lupi Godinez, unanimous decision win over the former champion, Jessica and Drudge, Alex Hernandez with the first round knockout of won Chase Hooper. That was dramatic and incredible as well. Choucar closed unanimous decision win over

Edzibarbosa, Karin Silva, unanimous decision win over Dionne Barbosa, and what about Joseph, Morales, winning the tough contract, returning to the UFC some several years after he left, winning the flyweight, tough contract, Team Chil Sunnan, Reign Supreme. He wins in the current Jerker via second round triangle choke. Okay, now all the way back to Lorraine Murphy. You've been following this man for a long time.

You've been following Manchester top team for a long time. Come on. Did you ever expect a spinning back elbow knockout against Aaron Pico from Lorone five decisions in a row? Tell me your thoughts. I fancy the knockout tonight I did not fancy a spinning back elbow knockout it's because of the way we've seen Pico fight before I was talking to Ben about this on Friday

Lorone look you mentioned Carl Prince the top there what he's done over there in Manchester it's so concentrated like this isn't just something that fell together he's been going off and getting these guys to come over from Cameroon offering them an opportunity to fight in this kind of gym and get opportunities with pfl with ufc and the likes of of this and when he started manchester top team it was kind of an amalgam of a gym he was running

and then a wrestling gym that was close by that was run by a dude from dagastan one of the guys he inherited with that group of three guys three or four guys as it was back then was a bragamoff who we know is this absolutely brilliant undefeated prospect on pfl's roster and he's undefeated he's a fantastic wrestler basically what shem i have done tonight to ddp is what bragamov's early career has looked like so far he's a he's a blue chip prospect by everyone's estimation he's a featherweight and i know that lorone was going to be using him to prepare for this guy and i really think that he did so well in those grappling exchanges early on and i think he was he was going to force pico who has brilliant hands into these exchanges but one thing that we've seen from lorone is that

he doesn't mind taking a clip you did see that early on it looked like he dropped to a knee in the very first exchange but it was like he kind of felt his power and said right this is what I'm going to be living with now he he stood in the fire and I think he backed himself as well

comes away with the best moment in his UFC career and really felt like all the stars were aligned for Laurent this week even at the press comments I was kind of blown away there was this weird dynamic between Shemoef and DDP DDP being booed and Shemoef being greeted like the local hero. Similarly for Lorone,

when Pico flashed up on the screen for the first time at the press conference, it was a chorus of booze, and then Lorone was getting cheered on. So it felt like the people were behind him, and then to do something like this, it kind of just rams it down the UFC's throat that he is right there in this title conversation.

I don't think he's immediately going to be next. I think this is the best thing he could have done to put himself there. I'd say Evalo F is going to be jumping up and down looking for that shot. everyone knows if this was a meritocracy he deserves it most if he's not going to be next lorone murphy v yarrier rodriguez is a foyer i'd like to see ariel okay so let me ask you a couple things here and uh here's alex wokenovsky saying see you in december lorone murphy congrats now

he also said way back when that he was going to fight most sorry evelov and then they booked him against uh aran pico so no no no no no but i appreciate his willingness to always kind of like pick off the hot guy that's alex wokenovsky a true fighting champion here's the the thing. First of all, shout out to Lorone Murphy. He did get a bonus. As we said, Chamsat Shamaev got a bonus as well. I had it up here. There's so many damn tabs that I have up here. It's unbelievable. It's sickening. Carlos Prachas had, yes, thank you. Carl's Prachas got a bonus and Tim Elliott got a bonus as well. You just said something that has actually blown me away. You just said something that like legit knocked my socks off. I was wearing socks and now

I'm no longer wearing socks. Can I say something wrong? Did I misspeak or something? No, no, no. You didn't fucking misspeak. How is Lorone Murphy not the number one contender? How you just said if this was a meritocracy Lorone Murphy doesn't get it and Moffstar gets it. Excuse me, they both won nine in a row. So where's

the meritocracy? They both literally won nine in a row. Now, shall we go tit for tat with the resumes? Now, all right, fine. Moffstar's last win, Al Jermaine Sterling, former champion, but historically a bantam weight. Not going to take anything away from it. Tremendous win.

but he won via unanimous decision. Lorone, spinning back elbow knockout of one Aaron Pico that everyone was going Gaga over, right? Okay, so who wins that? I don't know. Let's keep going. Moffsar's previous win? Arnold Allen, very good. Was it controversial?

I don't know. You tell me, Lorone, dominant win over Josh Emmett. Previously, Diego Lopez, Moffsar. All well and good. Very good. But when did Diego take that? fight on like five days notice. Yeah, that was his debut,

right? Was that his debut or a second point? Yeah, yeah. No, this is the crazy part. That fight, his third fight, if you go down the list, was Lopez's debut, May of 2023. That's how inactive Mofsar is. Meanwhile, third fight for one,

Lorone Murphy, Dan Igay, prior to that, Etze Barbosa, prior to that Joshua Kulbao. Why do I stop at Joshua Kulbao? Because Mofsar Evluev, when he beat Diego Lopez, it was May of 2023. Since then, he has fought twice.

Since May of 2023, Lorone Murphy has fought five times, including tonight. He's more active. He just got an incredible knockout. He beat a guy that everyone was going crazy and that the UFC was preparing to give a title shot to. Why can't it be

Lorone Murphy? Same amount of wins in a row. Overall, if you want to talk about their records, Murphy's 17-0-1. Mofsar, 19. know. It's all pretty much the same. Give it to Lerone. Mofsar had his chance against Aaron. He got hurt. It sucks. Lorone takes the fight on short notice, scores an incredible knockout, and the champ wants to fight him in December. It's Lerone Murphy. No, if ands are buts. Mofsar versus Yaird. I think that's a great show, yeah. I think you've made a perfect argument from there.

I'm just going to clip this off and send it to Carl Prince and the boys because I can't believe. My socks have been knocked off. It's come at exactly the right time as well, right? Yeah. Like, you know, to have a statement like that being put in the biggest spot of your career, like we were, we were complaining about Lorone not getting spots on a UFC London card and we were talking spots like that we weren't talking, put him in the main event, put him in the common event, it was like, oh, wouldn't it be great if Lorone could get

some love from the UK, he wasn't on the Manchester card. I think this makes up for it, you know, comaint event spinning back elbow. uh before the shemoya fight which we said everybody was absolutely buzzing to see so yeah absolutely man forgive me six 30 in the morning you know what i mean sorry i'm kidding i'm kidding uh dana i'm just i'm just messing dana white uh is at the press conference right now and erin bronsteader is uh live tweeting it as always he was asked dana white was about wolkenovsky wanting to fight lorne murphy in december that would be in las vegas and his quote was i love it so it seems like uh dana white is on board I'm really happy for the moment.

That's not serious. That is pretty much it. I'm afraid, sir. I'm happy for the guy. Soft-spoken, incredible story. I remember your initial interview with him, talking about the, you know,

just the freaking bullet to the face through his cheek, the miracle. Like, the guy has added on, like, if his story can get out to the broader public,

it's, I mean, how do you not fall in love with this guy? How do you not want to root for him? He's just, I remember, I remember when he took the fight, and I was talking to his coach, and he's like, yeah, and even his manager is like, yeah, he's a hard guy to get in touch with. So like, let's see if we can get him to come on the show. And then he comes on the show. And then I see on his Instagram story, he writes, I am not answering my phone for three weeks. Everyone leave me alone. Something to that effect. I was like, I was like, wow. What happens to get him on the phone that day? What was the ordeal like? I don't know. But man, that's a guy who's like freaking locked in, right? Unbelievable.

Um, so then prior to that, Pratchez with the, which one was better? I don't even know. Is that even a fair conversation to have Pratchez with the walk off spinning back elbow knockout against Jeff. That did add some drama to it, like being on the bell and everything that.

But, um, yeah, unbelievable, like that guy. So both of those dudes, Lorone and Carlos are two of the coolest motherfuckers. Yes. Honestly,

like, aren't they really different ways, right? Lorone's all business. Carlos is the guy you want to go party with. Yeah. Yeah, absolutely. Like, you know he's on the piss immediately after this ripping Sigs.

And I respect the fuck out of that. But like, as you're saying about Laron, I think, sorry to bring it back to Lerone just really quick, but like, you know, I think a lot of people hear that like shot in the face story. And I think he was kind of worried about what's, what's that putting out in his neighborhood. Like he wants to be like a role model. He wants to be someone that's going to be like, oh, I can turn my life around like Lerone did. And that's exactly what he's doing. I know he hates talking about all this stuff.

but they like you know getting shot and everything like that but it makes what he's doing now so special like you you know carl uh the way he talks about um lorone being this guy for the rest of the gym to look out look up to like lewis mcgrillans uh bragamov as i spoke about earlier like he he is um atiba as well all these guys are looking up to him because he is showing them that like if you can stick to this path the opportunities will come and uh just a fantastic fantastic fantastic guy. And honestly, I think Carlos needed that today, Ariel, because I think a bit of the showing was knocked off him through that

Ian Gary fight. We just never see him, seeing him so tentative for four rounds of that fight, Ian Gary, and he does this to people, and Ian Gary deserves the credit for this. He is a very, very difficult puzzle to solve. I wonder how you feel about, like, in terms of momentum, who has more now?

Gary has better wins than Pratchez, but Pratchez is this guy that he has the fan base eating out of his hands. Yeah, no. 100%. I mean, I think Gary doing well for himself. That was a great win. I think the fans are starting to turn, like turn, not turn on him, but like turn the corner and start to appreciate him. Walter Wade is obviously fascinating right now with JDM fighting Islam in New York. And then you've got, you know, Michael Morales out there banging the drum. You've got Leon Edwards out there banging the drum. And that's before we get into the the shove cuts, the Sean Brady's and the Ian Garys. I think that it's, I think that it's probably going to be something like Ian Gary versus Sean Brady. I think Schofcutt is still not ready to come back. I think they're going to want to try to do Carlos Prachas versus Leon Edwards. Carlos called him out for Rio. Does Leon want to go to Rio though? Is he going to want to

have an away game? Obviously, like he has less leverage these days because he's lost a couple in a row and the last one wasn't great. I don't know. What do you think? That to me is probably the fight to make for him. There was some talk of Morales. I think it would be an easier sell to get Leon to fight Prachos than Morales. Morales is like a little bit below those guys. I just don't know if they can get him to fight in Rio.

What do you think? That's a big fucking ask, isn't it? That's a big ask of the former champ, yeah. By the way, there is Camar Usman out there as well. Yeah. Usman does shit like that. He is the type of guy that might end up going to Rio. He would do that.

I do feel like the vultures are circling around Leon Edwards because so many people know he's a former champion. He is a power play if you can get a win over him. He's seen me and Gary talking about him. Look at Brady when he got that win over him, went over there, meant the world to him. It's a tough spot for Leon to be in. And what I'd say is, as bad as really,

is I don't think they're going to be giving you favorable ones for a long time. It's almost the case of pick your poison at this stage for Leon. Like it's going to be a tough fight, but the reward for taking one of these tough fights is propelling yourself right back into the title conversation. Yeah, but you know, you know

what's so fun about this? All of a sudden, for the longest time it felt like 85 and 170 were just like stuck, right? Stuck with these guys, these older guys at the top wanting to not fight anyone. Yes. Defend their ranking. Now, these two way classes, I feel like have this influx of really fun new names,

new faces, new talents. So I absolutely love it. And what a, what a superstar. I mean, again, the team over there at the fighting nerds, Alexeshik wins, Silva wins, Prachas wins. It's just amazing the success that they've had. And he is like, he has superstar written all over him. I mean, he's up there smoking. Dana White showed up at the post fire press coverage. He's like, who's smoking in here? He had no idea. because the dude was lit. It was actually lit. I don't even know if that's allowed.

Can you do that inside the United Center? Unbelievable. So shout out to Carlos Prachas. Can we talk about Michael Venn and Page real quick here? When I'm watching this, we love MVP and we appreciate and we've been watching him do this all the way back in the Bama days

and prior to that. But the number one thing that I kept thinking was, does Dana like this? Well, Dana appreciate this? When he's doing the basketball? Were you asking yourself? Were you asking yourself or were you saying It's more like a rhetorical question.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know. But he did drop him in the first. That's what I was thinking. Oh, fucking stop doing it, mate. He's going to, if someone asks him about that in this press conference, he's getting boat barrels. There is no doubt about it.

Yeah. But that's who he is, right? But look, the way Dana would see that is, like, you had him down twice and you decided to showboat instead of pursuing it. And then you're in the third round. and, you know, Canineer has an opportunity. He's on top position.

He's looking for head and arm chokes. Like, that's the type of stuff. Dana just wants us to be absolutely smelling blood in the water and going after a finish in that situation. I, we love MVP. We've been watching him do this shit for years.

It's very, very entertaining. I do think he finds himself in hot water sometimes because of it. He did in that fight because he knocked, he knocked Canine Air down twice pretty clean. And what did you think of that second one? The second one looked more like a push. Like he landed a couple big shots and then he pushed it. Whatever.

I think they did score it as a knockdown. The first one, no, he was down. Oh, it was beautiful. The first one might have been his, his like number one highlight in the UFC so far. You know what I mean? Yeah, absolutely. By the way, I said Bama, I meant UCMMA.

My bad. And there you go, there you go. Of course. I saw your face. When I said that, I saw your face. It said it all, so I had to double check. Why don't you correct? correct me.

I was like a UCM we're going to be fucking bawling about this. I already got a DM. I already got a DM. I don't think the UFC are going to be trying to hook MVP up after this. I love watching the guy for you. I think he's a great lad too. I like the way he's done business even. Like to get himself in a situation where he is in the UFC,

do you know how many people five years ago would have laughed in your face if you were like MVP is going to beat Jared Cannon Air in a UFC fight? You know, like he is constantly proven that it was complete bullshit what everyone was saying about him like, oh, he's this cancruisher. He's an incredibly gifted fighter. He's so quick. He fights in a way that is completely unique to himself. He is an entertainer, as we've seen today, which we appreciate. But every time he's in there, I just get the feeling like, I don't know if this is going well for you. Like, look, you won. You won a fight that a lot of people five years ago, I'd say 90% of the people who are giving you shit online, they would have never said

he could have win this fight, but somehow I feel like he's coming away, having not got the full merit of a win with the brass of the UFC. So you want to see him stay at 185 or 170? That's the thing. Like, I kind of feel like he's more of a natural 170 pounder, but like, look at the success. It's hard to, I was very worried about this fight. I was worried about this fight when it was nice, because I thought it was going to be such a, such a difference.

He looked fucking huge in there. I did. let's let's not forget like this guy is to fight a heavyweight like MVP looked absolutely massive and he might not be cut and everything like that but he doesn't seem small for a division which I thought he would

I think he can just I wonder how he feels about just having fun fights as opposed to pursuing a belt like I know he wants the Edwards fight again that's the chum in the water as we're saying everybody wants a piece of Leon right now like is that for the intentions he said it was when he was on your show

last time like the implications would have on the UK, it's kind of a legacy moment for him and Leon, or is he trying to push himself towards a title? Because if he's kind of saying, like, I just want to have showcase moments, I want to put on the biggest fights, I like the idea of him kind of being this Ronan between 170 and 185. I doubt it happens, but what do you think of MVP versus Izzy? Love it, actually. I think they're mates, but it would be fun, right? It kind of makes sense. I do wonder if they didn't like this performance

I do wonder if they ask him to go down to 170 and fight Morales because that would kind of be an incredible fight too but do they want me maybe but you know what he's so frustrating

maybe he you know I don't think you put a prospect against him I don't think yeah yeah I don't think I think there's a reason

where he's voting the kind of airs of the world you know like he's like he could be a he could really fuck up someone's trajectory towards a title. Yeah, that's a good one. That's a good one.

Because Buckley's coming off a loss. Like, he doesn't have the same momentum. Like, that's putting, like, he doesn't have the same jeopardy if he loses the MVP, if he get me. What about Sean Strickland? Sean Strickland's getting ready to outgrapful. He did say he needs a couple more wins. Oh, sorry.

Yeah. That's a great clash of personalities. I mean, that would be fun. I'd be down. I thought I would be absolute down. What about Tim Elliott, 38, last win, last fight in the UFC, December of 2023. He was looking like Forrest Gump earlier in the week. You saw that, right?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, like the scene where he's, like, running and he's got the long-haired beard. I don't know why he messed it up. He went and got it all cut and cleaned up. He looked fantastic, in my opinion. But he wins via sub against Asakura, unbelievable. Man, Asakura, I feel so sorry for him. Like, this guy, like, coming in, like, this could be.

one of the saviors at these new savers of the japanese market for the ufc he had the baptism fire in the title fight and this is like this is a good step back with with the greatest of respect to tim elliott this is like a step back from the title situation this is a by most people's logic this was an opportunity for asakura to have a statement win that would push him back up there and we could generate some more interest in him it seemed pretty obvious early early on that his hands weren't going to get to Tim in the way he had hoped. And Elliot was just great. He did adopt a full Boston Celtics fighting stance there at one point, the Donnybrook.

But Asakura, like, I feel like he just wasn't ready for how, once again, unorthodox this guy is. Like, it's so weird with Elliot. Like, he's brilliant on the ground, which we would later see. But he seems completely content to mix it up with guys on the feet, just basically have an old school shortless, colorless kind of fight that you'd have back in the 1900's shipyard or something. And then if it goes to the ground, he'll use the skill set

there. It was a very Tim Elliott performance and unfortunately for Asa Currier kind of looking at him now going what can he add to this division at this point having just been like, you know, six months ago kind of been like this guy could be a serious fixture here. I love it for Tim

and I don't know if this ultimately affects it but I was really hoping for that that Tatura, Tyra versus Kai Socorah showdown in Japan next year. And this sort of feels like it halts that momentum. I don't know. Maybe not. Maybe it's big on its own.

But it does seem like it loses a bit of lust or after this. It would have been huge. It would have been fucking huge. Yeah. There's no doubt about it. And look, I think we all have, we have romanticized the idea of a Japanese where they're coming and ruling in the UFC because of the influence they've had on mixed martial arts. No holes barred.

like that from the Hicks and Gracie Day, Sakaraba, all that kind of stuff. I think just as guys who've been consuming the sport for so long, I think we're really like, we would really like the idea of that happening. We kind of embrace it. And I think that does put a lot of pressure on guys when they're coming over here because they know we have this kind of romanticized view of pride

and everything that happened over there before, pancreas and all that kind of stuff. So I do feel like it comes with added pressure being a Japanese prospect coming to the UFC, given that we've been on this countdown for the first Japanese champion since whenever. Yes. Elliot did say in the post-fight interview, something to the effect of hopefully this gets me a new contract. So perhaps that was the final fight on his deal.

Something tells me they'll be giving him a new contract after that performance. Well, if you would have said the same for Martin Boudeté, huh? Yeah, well, that's a good freaking call. Although, I mean, a guillotine when you're a big underdog in the second round against a stud, like Asakura, not quite the same as Boudeté's decision win over Buccecha, but but I do understand what you are saying. What about Sussurekayev, Oleg Sheeshach, Godinez, Alex Hernandez, Draccharclose, Karin Silva, Joseph Morales.

Anyone you want to give flowers to here in the wee hours of the morning? Anyone you want to give flowers to? I don't know, to be honest with you. Okay. I mean, this is the type of insight and analysis that you get right here on the post. This is usually jokes, final thoughts, you know? This is why he's usually here. Well, I'm happy for one, Joseph Morales, getting the contract.

Shout out to him. Hernandez had a great post-fight presser as well. Fernandez, excuse me, not Fernandez, Hernandez, it's late here as well. Hernandez has a really fun sort of delivery and a sort of like no-nonsense style. And I guess I didn't notice this, but I guess his team keeps changing their name every time they fight. Every fight week, they keep changing their name. And so a reporter, forgive me for not remembering the reporter's name, asked him, what's your, no, not quite, asked, it's different. It's different at this hour. A reporter asked, what's the team name? And he said, team, no thanks. And then the guy, and then the reporter said, can you explain why you chose that name? And he wrote, and he said, no thanks. I don't quite get it, but that's pretty good.

So shout out to Alex Hernandez. Did the person laugh? Did the person laugh when he said it? I didn't see him, but he kind of laughed, so it was good. Jessica and Judge is scheduled to fight next week, by the way, in case you were wondering. Thank God, I was wondering. She hit a spell of an activity there. night I was like

And in case you missed it Oleg Shakeshuk has the third most first round stoppages in UFC history. Thank God we got that stat Thank God we got it. I thought it was a pretty good stat I don't know you didn't like it fucking out. Let's go back to Bronsteader's little notes here before we call it tonight. By the way

a lot of people saying Goddard had a few questionable stand-ups there later in the fight. I don't know. What did you think? You didn't like that? Well I think it was almost as if the broadcast team preempted that. Did you notice that they were like, if he's going to keep taking him down and he's not, he's not going to hit him, like, and there's no progress to the position, he's probably

going to stand up. So it's kind of flagging it then. I get what they're saying. Joe Rogan always gets very upset about this because he thinks that there should be no time the limit. Sure. They should fight each other in a field with no clothing or gloves on. So he's always like, ah, what the fuck are they doing here?

to be fair not a lot of significant strokes being landed and it was there was just some positions they were stalling out in because DDB was doing such a good job I mean I didn't think it was terrible and I don't think Hamzad did either

because literally 10 seconds later they were back on the ground again Dana White saying that he thought the fight was going to be the fight of the night the main event said he didn't think it lived up to those expectations She might have found his path and stuck to it.

Actually, Dana, and Doug Crosby thought that every round, aside from the final round, was going to be a 10-8, but he was wrong about that. He said he loved that Volcanowski wanted to fight Murphy. He was very excited about Prachez. He said Aaron Pico was transported to the hospital. He said Susser Kaev has had a lot of pressure to deal with. Some of these notes that don't seem important. Oh, Brian Battle. What about Brian Battle?

You guys spoke about him yesterday. Here's an update. He said he missed weight, two straight fights. Hasn't thought about it, but we'll sort it out when they get back to Vegas. So not quite a thing began for Brian Battle. Yeah, just really no update there as far as Brian Battle is concerned. White says Shemive could be the biggest star in the sport. Okay.

He would consider Shemive defending his title in Abu Dhabi, but is waiting for Tuesday. Abu Dhabi, they ain't putting Shemayev and Aspin on the same card, do you think? With two fights left on ESPN, they're saving that shit for Paramount, right? Not a hope. Yeah, yeah, I think they're going to want them in the U.S.

as much as possible. Shemayev at the White House, let's go. Makes sense to me. I can't see why I don't have an issue with that. Trump brought him in. He had his boy Putin there yesterday. Why not? It's all the same, right?

Till, like, you know, Connor, it's, how the lad's getting in. Maybe it's not the same. Anyway, Dana White says that he is not considering changing the show win structure.

Dana White says he has no idea where the report came from that they were going to expand the apex to 10,000 people. That was from the Las Vegas biz. We cited it. It was like a local Vegas paper. I feel like a lot of people have been talking about this like for a long time i feel like also also gc and rick said that they were there they saw

the whole thing being like they were like touting this they were talking about expanding the car park yeah yes the freaking ticket window the the cotton candy vendors and everything they said they said it gc and rick lawyers as well huh fucking that's all coming out of the watch today you said that you said that they're they're in the freaking uh they're in there like um the little communal area now eating pretzels they would they would respond they would respond they're having the free food

right now I have to say I thought they'd chime in at this point no if oh they're just they're not chiming in a blanket they've got blankets over them they hit they hit 13K they hit 13K concurrence their love and life okay what else what else

just a couple more Dana White says a billion to one odds that he puts John Jones the White House card. One billion to one. Well, he gave us 100% on John Jones and Tom Austin's happening, right? So, by the way,

remember that same press conference? He said he had something huge plan for 2025. What do you think that was? Do you think it was the... That he's not expanding the apex. Okay. And he's happy for Joseph Morales, Paramount deals.

This is like, we should go. Have someone look over these before he started running through them. I don't know, I don't know, okay. I'm just making sure, I'm just making sure we got to everything. Did we get to everything, guys? Is that it? I think that's it. I'm just looking through, yep, that's it, that's it.

Oh, here's another good tweet from Oven. No, I'm kidding. Chuck, any final thoughts before we let you go? No, I'm kidding. I don't have anything. Chuck says wonderful at the end of these things. It always sounds like a poem and we're just like. He's going to say, he's like,

You know, I was thinking about the first time I laid eyes on Hubsat Shabayev, and it reminded me of the first time I, uh, I learned of Socrates. You ever watch a cherry blossom grow, Ariel? That's what Hubsat Shabayev's beard looks like. Okay. Let's get the hell out of here. Congratulations to Chbzat Shabayev. Congratulations to all the fans of Chicago.

Now you can stop. asking us when the UFC is going to return for at least six months. I'm crying. I don't know about you, but I'm actually crying. Who's United playing tomorrow? Oh, Arsenal. Arsenal's a big one, yeah. Wow. I'm fucking worried about this one, man.

I'm not looking forward to waking up tomorrow. Home or away? Home, it's an old traffic. So, like, if it goes wrong tomorrow, it's just going to be straight back into hell. I've had the few weeks of convincing myself, everything's going to be fine this year and then he just played up for his game you're like oh god it's not fine it's not fine let's see if only you had a star like james mackety coming to town or perhaps omari

hushinson but that's a different conversation for a different day congratulations chamsat congratulations lorone carlos mvp michael vennepage united fan by the way tim elliott and all the big winners tonight what a fun show was ufc 319 it is come and gone by the way bit of a bit of a break now as far as far as as the UFC pay-per-view schedule is concerned. Their next one, October 4th. So stay tuned for that. We'll be back Monday, not Pizzi. Pizzi won't be there, but the rest of the team will be back there.

And we've got a couple of big guests already lined up. Should I tell them who they are? Yeah, yeah, yeah, dude. Nah, fuck it, they'll wait. Oh, the music ran out. What happened to the music there? Oh, okay, sorry. Good night, everyone.

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