The Ariel Helwani Show - UFC 321 Preview: The Tom Aspinall Era Begins, Fight Feasts: Best Fish & Chips in NYC | The Boys in the Back

Episode Date: October 23, 2025

The Boys in the Back are locked in for UFC 321, so join them as they preview the card, starting with the main event that pits UFC heavyweight champion Tom Aspinall against foe Ciryl Gane (01:51).After breaking down the the vacant UFC strawweight title fight between Virna Jandiroba and Mackenzie Dern (23:24), the Boys hit the rest of the stacked main card (31:40) and prelims (49:21).Finally, they make picks (1:03:14) and debut a brand new Fight Feasts, in which GC searches for NYC's best fish and chips (1:15:18).

But boys in the back. What is good? We are back with another episode of the Boys in the Back, this time on a very exciting UFC 321 Fight Week Thursday, October 23rd. I am one-third of the boys in the back coming in my heavyweight champion gear. Looking good. 202 on the sleeve there. Let's go. I am Connor Burke's joining alongside me. the man, the myth, the heavyweight champ. These days, yeah.

Does that enough to the double X-L? Yeah, you know, we'll do the thing. Oh, Mr. New York, great. Frankie, how are you doing back there? I'm doing great, man. Thank you so much for asking. The final third. I like this.

We're back to the short-handed answers from Frankie. Speaking of short-handed, right off the bat, we have to say this will be a shorter program today. We have got to go. We've got to leave. We've got something big in the work, something planned. You will see down the line, very exciting stuff. But for that reason, this show today will be shorter.

Don't bother with Super Chats. They will not get answered. Not that short, Frankie. Chill, brother, chill. Oh, all right, my bad. Super chats will not get answered. We got to bounce. No voicemails, no pound for pound.

We're keeping it nice and tight, nice abbreviated. We will keep it just to the 321 preview. Betts, Picks, Parlay Pals. You know, we've got to throw up another losing four-leg parley as we do with the parley pals as of late. and then a fight feasts in honor of Tommy Aspinall. Let's dive right into it. Just one thing.

We will make it up to you next week. Of course. There will be more voicemails. We'll spend more time. Promise that whatever the reason that we're doing this will be worth it. But we will make it up to you next week. It will absolutely be worth it. I cannot wait for this one.

This is the hard parenting here. You know, me being like, nope, we're leaving. You're being like, but we're going to make it up to you guys. Let's dive right in. UFC 321 going down this weekend, Tom Aspinall taking on Cyril gone. in the undisputed. Yes, you heard that right. There's no interim in front of that for this one.

Undisputed heavyweight championship of the world. I mean, you see the biases. I mean, right there, Tom Aspen. You see the shirt. Like, we are a biased program here. I think we openly admit that. I am also a fan of Cyril gone, though. Went to M.M.A. factory out in Paris when I was there.

I took a picture. I heard them training in the back, but the doors were closed. The gates were down. I didn't want to, you know. Sarah, you're in there, man? Cannot wait for this fight. Unfortunately, it's not the John Jones fight, but I think we've all moved on from that.

I am very much excited to watch Tom Aspinall fight. For me, this is, I'm happy to see Tom Aspinall back, and you touched on the most important part, undisputed, right? That is the critical factor here. This will start the momentum for Tom Aspinall. We'll get into kind of how we see the fight later. But this is the opportunity for Tom to kind of put the John Jones shadow, further and further and further behind him.

A big win here would allow him to do that. And for Cyril, probably the last chance, right? Like he's gotten a few title shots before. This would probably, you know, not certainly just because heavyweight is an absolute trash division and anybody could get a title shot at this point, but almost certainly going to be the last shot for him to capture UFC gold. So we'll see how it ultimately plays out. But I'm happy that this is happening because it will kind of.

it will put us further and further and further from the John Jones reign. Yes, Cyril Gondon on a two-fight winning streak beat, Sergei Spivak, and Alexander Volkov in a decision that, you know... He didn't win that fight. Personally scored it for Volkov, but alas, Cyril Gaut ends up getting his third shot at Undisputed Gold. He's 0.N.2, obviously, losses the Francis Ingano and John Jones. First time we're seeing Tom Aspinall back since July of 2024, U.S. 304 in Manchester. And I couldn't agree with you more.

I mean, it's just like, let's get this division rolling. Let's start getting up some defenses, or maybe we get a... new champion. If Cyril Gahn's able to pull it off, I'm just excited to see heavyweight rolling again. And there's a few great heavyweight fights on this card as well, which I love to see. Just off rip. I just have to say this before we get into this. I mean, you can see it on the sleeve, the 202 in honor of Tom Aspinall having the shortest average fight time in UFC history. Just digging into this, just before we get into anything else, I just have to go over this man's stats and what he puts up. Yeah. 202, shortest average fight time in UFC history.

Shortest, this is kind of a random one. Shortest time in bottom position in UFC history, one second. Most knockdowns per 15 minutes in heavyweight history, 4.09. That's good enough for second in UFC history. Wait, sorry, most knockdowns in heavyweight history already. No, no, not total. Most knockdowns per 15 minutes. Okay, got it. In heavyweight history. Most significant strikes landed per minute in heavyweight history, 8.07. That is third in UFC history. Largest striking differential in UFC history, 5. 1.18, so that means he... Per minute. Yeah, outlanding his opposition at the highest clip in UFC history. 3.27 takedowns per 15 minutes, 100% take down accuracy, 100% take down defense, and 100% finish rate. Yeah, nuts. Those are nuts. He's like a statistical anomaly.

Yeah, not only that, but when he gets the work, it is done very quickly, right? he is in there. The average fight time, the finish rate, the lack of anybody one second of bottom time. Nobody controls him. Nobody has success against him. He finishes the fight in two minutes and it's over. It really is. It's a cliche and I believe it's football, but it may have started another sport, but the best defense is a good offense. That's Tom Aspin, all right? You can't mess with this guy because he's going to kill you in two minutes. There isn't time for you to be able to do what you need to do. He's a marvel. He truly is like a different breed of fighter from heavyweights we've seen in the past. We talk about like Terrence McKinney when he fights.

Yeah. Who Tom Aspinall shares like, Terrence McKinney actually has been to a third round once before, I believe. Tom Aspinall has never been to a third round, win, loser draw. And we talk about anytime Terrence McKinney gets in there, we're just like, oh man, it's the agent of chaos. This one's going to go short. Bet the under on this one. Tom Aspinall, I have. average fight time, two minutes and two seconds. Terrence McKinney average fight time, two minutes and 25 seconds. Yeah. And it's just like, anytime I think of a Terrence McKinney fight, it ends like that.

And Tom Aspinall's are shorter than his. The thing that makes the Terrence McKinney one more chaotic and interesting is he's also susceptible, right? Even when he's on the losing end, he loses very quickly. The difference here is we have not seen Tom Aspinall suffer defeat other than the injury against Curtis Blades, right? And he against Curtis Blades, which took like 11 seconds. Yeah.

And then honestly, if you go back in his career, It was the Stuart Austin loss, like in his fourth professional fight, he got heel-hooked. That's really his only real loss. Yeah, that's the loss. A decade ago very early in his career. The other loss was a John Jones S, 12 to 6, illegal elbows, gets DQed, gets the loss handed to him. Yeah. And so the thing with Tom is, it's hard, like, and he makes this point a lot, it's hard to really know what Tom Aspinall is because the tape is so limited, right?

I think one of the things that's happened to John Jones is, I think John Jones is the goat, the best ever, whatever you want to call it. But as time goes on, there's more and more and more and more tape on John Jones, to the point that when you get to like a Dominic Reyes, this guy's been able to see years of footage about John Jones and come up with a game plan. For Tom Aspinall, there's not much tape. The tape is basically him blitzing people and killing them. Like, there's not really a lot of tape on Tom Aspinall. It serves them really well because you can game plan, but then what if his jiu-jitsu is as good as we think it is, right? What if his wrestling is better than we think it is? You really don't have a lot of opportunities to find the holes in Tom's game because he hasn't exposed himself in that way yet.

What if he actually has the cardio to go 25 minutes on top of all those things? He actually was asked at the media press conference day out in Abu Dhabi how he plans on winning this fight. and he says, yeah, man, I'm going 25 minutes. We've talked amongst each other. I'm going to switch it up this time, and we're going to go out there and win a boring split decision. He alluded to, you know, he's got one of the best heavyweight teams in all of MMA. He's got a lot of ranked heavy weights in the gym with him. They've decided him, Andy.

Andy's been pushing it for a while, his father, Andy Aspinall. He wants to see him go 25, prove he's got the cardio. They've decided, you know, we've showed the danger that we present to everyone. Now it's time to go to 25. He said he's just going to stick behind the jack. So I think we're going to see a different Tom Aspinall here. I think he means that for sure. For sure, that's exactly what's going to happen.

Tom himself, you talked about Andy wanting, Tom himself has literally gone to press conferences and begged for somebody to extend a fight. Like he wants to show his game. But ultimately what happens is you get in there and Tom is in front of you with the speed, with the power, and he's not giving them an opportunity to extend the fight. That's the problem. He is his own worst enemy.

If he truly wants to show off his 25-minute skills, he's his own worst enemy because once he's in there and he decides to stand in the middle end trade with a guy like Sergei Pavilich, he wins that exchange and then there is no opportunity to see more. But it's the blessing in the curse of Tom Aspinall, like in terms of I don't feel like I fully know about his game. As I said, his only blemish in the UFC is getting injured against Curtis Blainez. That's the only thing that you can look at and go, okay, and that's an injury, right? And that fight has also been corrected. They have fought since. Never forget. I will never forget in the fall of 2023 after, or the fall of 2022 after the injury

against Curtis Blades happened, which I believe took 11 seconds. And people were like, man, if you go back and watch that, like, Curtis looked good in that 10 seconds. If you watch that one exchange, like he looked pretty good. It was 15 seconds. I'm looking at it. 15 seconds. Like the justification is just like, brother.

Yeah. It was 15 seconds. Imagine if he had gotten injured against Sergey after Sergey kind of caught him in the beginning and he's like, well, Sergey looked great. It's just like, let the fight play out, man. He also, speaking of, you said, you know, extending fights also extends the arm.

He was asked that the media day why he does that. He did it back in cage wears as well. He's actually, I've done it with him. I've shared the moment of the shoulder. What a moment. They asked, are you getting the reach? Are you checking everything? Because Cyril Gama's kind of shit on it.

He said it's just purely, yeah. I'd say it's around 95% romantic. It's just to kind of, you know. Tom? It really gets central. Loose this camp. Tom? Am I out of place saying it?

Am I just buys? It feels like he's like the star of the week. Oh, he's definitely the star of the week. Of course he's the heavyweight champion and everything, but it feels like most of the clips are being generated by him. Oh, definitely are. There's a lot of big names on this card. Oh, we can get into that.

This card is like Taylor, maybe. This card is very good, but the man of the hour, right, is Tom Aspinall. This is the Aspenol show. Cyril Gan has a big chance to, like, upset the Apple card here. But yeah, this is the coronation. This is undisputed. Tom Aspinall is stepping into finally earn it in the octagon. He's getting the custom shorts.

He's getting the championship treatment. Yeah, the custom shorts. Custom shorts, man. I try to be a defendant. Don't even put up a picture of those pieces of shit. You know, we've seen better. Do we have the picture? No, I don't want to see it.

My biggest gripe as a Manchester man, as a manch man, as they say, they pay the homage. with the Manchester B, which when you go to Manchester, you see it everywhere. It's like it's the thing there. It's essentially the logo for the city, you know, hardworking, busy bees over there in Manchester. But then on the other side, they have the London eye. It's just like if this was a Philly guy. Have we confirmed it's the London eye? I don't, I didn't see any Ferris wheels when I was in Manchester. Maybe I'm wrong. Should I Google that? I don't know. Manchester Ferris wheel. That would feel extremely disrespectful. There's a wheel of Manchester. I'm just, there is no longer of Ferris wheel in Manchester. The wheel of

Manchester was dismantled and moved to Edinburgh in April of 2012. So yeah, I think it's the London Eye. If that's the London Eye, it's like, imagine if there was a guy from Philly and you had like the Liberty Bell on one side and then you had the Empire State Building on that joint. If I'm wrong with this, if a true Manc man can explain that to me,

someone from the Chester could explain that to me, we'd appreciate a clarification, but yeah, they're not the best. No, they're horrible. They're fucking garbage. They're clipart bullshit. Like there were all these choices. Gold either? We can't get some gold on there. It feels like there should be gold on every championship shorts. Either way, it does feel like the coronation. But you mentioned, Seerogon has a chance to upset the Apple Card, man. This is heavyweight MMA. Like, anything can happen. Tom Aspinall has looked like a world beater. Serogon has struggled in these spots when it comes to championship bouts. But he is still a very talented fighter, and it is heavyweight MMA. Absolutely. My analysis of this fight ultimately comes down to one thing. thing though, which is, it is heavyweight MMA, and Cyril Gahn has been quite successful

operating in this division, but against a fighter the caliber of Tom Aspinall, I think his flaws will be on full display. And his biggest flaw, in my opinion, beyond, like, we'll get into the wrestling, which I think is important to address, depending on what game plan Tom Aspinall implements. But the power, the lack of power to me is going to be the death blow for Cyril Gond because if you can't keep Tom Aspinall from advancing, if you can't keep Tom Aspinall from getting into where he wants to be

in his positions, if you are in the pocket with Tom Aspinall for any extended period of time, you need to have that power. You need to be Sergey Pavlovich. You need to even be Curtis Blades, right? Curtis Blades is somebody who has that power. Now granted, I don't think Curtis Blades is half the striker that Cyril Gond is, especially when it comes to the footwork, the technique, and the things like that, the various, the variety of weapons. But in terms of that sheer power, that heavyweight power, Curtis Blade certainly has

that. Cyril Gun doesn't have that. And that's going to be a major problem for me when it comes to this fight. Couldn't agree with you more. There's, there's not much for me to add in that sense. It's kind of how I felt about it since the fight was made, even since the rumblings of it happened. Cyril Gan is wildly talented. He's a very accomplished striker. He looks good in there, athletic, fast. It's great that we're getting a heavyweight matchup where both guys are actually in shape. It's not like the heavyweight blobs

that they throw out there every once in a while. Like two guys that are very athletic in shape are going to put on a great fight. But like you said, man, Siraghan has one, like we talk about Tom Aspinall, 202 average fight time, everything like that. Cyrilgan has one first round finish in his UFC career and it came in his debut.

He's been to decisions with the likes of Rosenstrike, Taito Ivasa went long, you know, Volkov went to a decision as well. He takes time to get going and it's more of an accumulation of strikes when he does get those finishes. It's not going to be beneficial to him against the guy like Tom Aspinall. I feel like the way for Cyril Gaon to win this fight is to weather the storm that is Tom Aspinall and then essentially hope that Tom Aspinall's cardio doesn't hold up and he can out point him, start accumulating that damage and get the finish. But with the lack of power he presents,

I just imagine Tom Aspinall is going to go into the fire and he's going to be like, If that's all you got, man, I'm all good here. Like, I'm going to be able to just bum rush you. Or, like you said, the wrestling, the grappling, just blast a double leg on this dude and be able to submit him as well. If you're Cyril gone, how do you stop Tom Aspinall from advancing, right? If you're just jabbing, if you're just teeping, that's fine. And you can do that for quite a while. And if you're Tom Aspinall in the camp with Andy and everyone, how are you not saying, how does this guy stop me from advancing as well?

If you're Tom Aspinall, you bum rush them. And by the way, this is what Tom Aspenol. Aspinall does, right? Tom Aspinall chases that fire. He wants to be in that fire and he goes into it against guys, as I said, who are more dangerous than Cyril gone in that fire. A guy like Sergey Pavlovich, especially at the time that Sergey was operating, was nukeing people in that position. And Tom stood and traded with them and got the better of him. So if you're Cyril, the game plan has to be that movement. It has to be preventing him from getting close, certainly stopping him from getting a takedown. But if you're Tom, if you walk forward, I don't like. Cyril Gahn's chances. I like Tom Aspinall's chances a lot more. You mentioned extending the fight, right? You mentioned, like, we don't know what Tom Aspinall looks like in later rounds. And I've touched on that as well. This has been a common theme. To the point that Cyril gone, actually at the media day, talked about taking Tom Aspinall into the quote unquote deep waters. Here's the quote from Cyril. If I want, I can also go really fast in

the very first round. So saying, like, if Tom wants to fight in, you know, quick, I'm willing to do that. Or maybe I go into the deep waters for Tom Aspinall. So he's, he's, he's nodding to the idea of like, look, I can blitz, I can fight quick, I can fight early. If he wants to stand and trade, we could do that, or I can take him into the deep waters. Tom Aspinall was asked about Serilgan saying that because other opponents have said this before. And Tom had a great response, which was everybody who said the words, quote, deep waters gets knocked out in the first minute, go back and check the tape. So somebody out there should probably put together like a compilation of people saying, like, I'm going to take Tom Aspinall into deep waters and then getting obliterated. but I don't know that I believe Cyril Gahn has the capacity to take Tom Aspenon to Deep Waters, if I'm being honest.

And Tom, like, by the way, that response by Tom Aspenor is brilliant just because if you go back and watch, I mean, his last three fights has taken a combined three minutes and 22 seconds. Deep Waters. That's Deep Waters for Tom. But, like, his ability to mix the martial arts, especially if you want to get going in the first round, like, go back and watch the Arlovsky fight. Like, the way he finishes that one is like he's just. just unloading strikes on him, and then Arlofsky goes down and, like, they're not calling the fight, so he just switches up and just grabs a choke, and it's just done for him. The Volkov fight, my God, like, if you didn't become an Aspinol fan after that with the chance and the main event and getting up on the cage afterward, and the way he was just like moving in the Matrix,

and he's switching, changing levels and getting the takedown, and he gets a beautiful choke to finish it. Like, he is just a complete mixed martial artist that has better finishing capabilities than Cyril Gahn, and I just can't see a world unless he gets caught, that Cyril Gahn's able to figure out the puzzle, able to go through the fire, come out the other side and get his hand race. Yeah, there's a lot of fights that, like, I think are complicated because you don't know where the fights are going to play out and the phases and who's going to be able to be the one pressing the gas and who's going to be on the front foot and all these kind of like

different things that come into it. But sometimes there's a fight like this that I feel pretty strongly about where just by approach, I think I know the outcome. of the fight already. Now, famous last words, and I can be proven wrong. In fact, one example of this is I felt very strongly that if Alex Pereira just got on the front foot, he'd be able to knock out Magameda and Kalayev. In the first fight, I had to, I had some egg on my face because it didn't look that way. In the second fight, we kind of saw what the correction to history happened. And I feel pretty strongly about this fight in the way that if Tom comes out the way

Alex Pereira came out against Magameta Kalayev, who, again, not a lot of power, but craftier, has the cardio to go five rounds. Stylistically, it kind of reminds me of this, except the difference being that Cyrilgan, I don't think has nearly anywhere near the grappling of Magamatta Kaliv. But like Magamata Kaliv, he relies on footwork, movement, being a technical striker. If you don't have something that Tom Aspinall has to respect,

and I don't believe Cyrilgan does, I think teep kicks and jabs are nice and I think one-toos are nice, but I don't think he has anything that Tom Aspenal has to give a lot of respect to. if Tom Aspinall takes the stance that Alex Pereira did, which is I'm going to step forward and I'm going to be in this zone. And if you can hit me, God bless, Tom's going to win that fight every single time. And so I feel pretty confident in Tom winning this fight. Line curling sits at minus 400, Tom Aspinall, Cyrilgan, plus 300.

That makes a lot of sense to me. I agree. I favor Tom strongly, but again, it's heavyweight MMA, anything can happen. So I feel like this line is correct. There is also an argument to be made in the case of Cyril gone is that you see some of these guys who are just running through everyone, like a Hamzot, for example. And then when they finally get extended,

like the Gilbert Burns fight, was the first time we really saw him get extended and get tested. Now, granted, he still won that fight, but it was just like, oh, man, this dude isn't completely untouchable. Yeah. Now, like, there's a world where, like, you go into a fight, and it's just, like, killing everyone, killing everyone, killing everyone, killing everyone. And then it finally does get extended.

Like, sometimes you just can't go to your career. Yeah, I don't know if it's broad checked. I think it's just like you didn't. completely bowl someone over. Like a freight train. Like a freight train. Like, there is a world where, like, say this is entering round four, and it's just like, I think it's like, is this 2-1-0 gone? Like, if it does get extended, like, sometimes, like, the freight train just doesn't

roll through the station. Bad night, whatever it is. Like, as I said, Alex Pereira, bad night, right? Like, against Magamana Kaliv in that first fight. We know that he's capable of doing what he did in the second fight, but he had a bad night. There's always, look, I was thinking about this recently. MMA is very unique, right, in other sports, specifically the sticking ball sports and all the kind of mainstream sports that we have here in the U.S., but even soccer and others. Bad night, two days later, a day later, a week later, you get to correct the record. You get to come back and show, hey, it's just

a bad night. I'm back. I'm still the superstar. For these fighters, for Tom, how many months has it been? What is that? It's like 15 months. 15 months? We haven't seen him in action You have a bad night And then you don't get to go For another year, 15 months That's a rough thing to deal with Last time we saw him

I was still in Atlanta I have moved apartments twice Since the last time this dude fought Nuts The Olympic opening ceremonies Was the night before The last time you found Hawaii at the Olympics

Was that long ago Yeah, it's been a minute Yeah It's been a minute So my point being You can't afford to have bad nights in MMA. You just can't. Like, that's how this goes. You have to be on every

single night. But there are nights where it just doesn't go your way. And if that happens, I'm not counting Cyril gone out from that that possibility, right? Anybody can have a bad night. Cyril's at his best, Tom's at his worst. I think there's a fight to be had. But if

a relatively decent version of Tom Aspinall comes, I just think his strengths are so much so counter to Cyril's strengths and so counters to Cyril's weaknesses that I just don't see the path to victory for Cyril, other than a really bad night by Tom Aspinall. Yeah, I'm with you.

I think at the end of the day, we both heavily favor Tom Aspinall to get it done. The odds reflect that. But, you know, there's always the chance. Yeah. There's always the chance. Cannot wait for that one. It's going to be great to see Tom back in there. Hopefully this ignites the heavyweight division, at least the top end of it, no matter what

the result is. Let's go to the co-main event. Virna Genjiroba, sitting atop the... the corner of this set right here has graced our presence for for many, many months. I mean, almost three years she's been on now. She earned the honor by walking out to Island Boys. Yes. God, that's how long it's been.

That trend has been dead for years. Either way, shout out to Viener Genji Robes. She finally gets her shot at Undisputed Gold, taking on McKenzie Dern. Sort of a circumstantial shot here for McKenzie Dern. She's on a two-fight winning streak, but she's two and two in her last four. This is only happening because Zhang Wei Lee is going up to challenge for the flyway title.

Four and four in her last state. She's number five. She has losses to number three and number four and number nine as well. This is like the Tom Aspenall's stats. This is the inverse. You're doing the McKenzie during like low light.

She's getting this title shot like circumstantially. And I think she admitted as much in a media day. She's since cleared it up essentially like I wouldn't be ready to fight Zhang Wei just yet. She has cleared that. up. But yeah, she's getting this because she's moving up and Verna and Zhang have essentially

cleared the way. And obviously she has the star power. Like she is, she garners the most attention at straw weight. She is obviously very skilled. She's on a two-fight winning streak. And, you know, that's kind of the name of the game. Like be available at the right time and like you'll get your shot. She doesn't have to be like a world beater. She just has to be better than Verna on one night, which I think is completely in the realm of possibility. Or sure. She's already done once before this is a rematch yeah and so like all that other stuff kind of goes away and like if i'm mackenzie durn i don't care i got my shot and i'm going to make the most of it like i kind of like just i like the way mackenzie kind of handles herself like she's realistic about where she's at

and um you you mentioned like even kind of alluding to the fact like i might not be ready for jean right now i'm totally okay with a fighter admitting that like i don't think that's a some people might look at that and be like that's a sign of weakness right she's not kill or be killed she doesn't think she can beat the best in the world. Maybe, maybe not, but she only had to, in order to be UFC Strawway champion, undisputed, like there's one belt right now. All you have to do is beat Vernon on this one night, and I think she's completely capable of that. So I kind of like, and I've seen some stuff about like, you know, the embedded things and people reacting, like, is her eye on the ball? Like, I don't really think that's much of a factor here.

It's going to come. In the embedded thing, she legit was just like in a jacuzzi. Yeah. Like, she said it was recovery. Like, what else is she going to do? Like, how else can you kill your time in Abu Dhabi. I think maybe too much is being made of that and too much of the idea of like, she doesn't quote unquote deserve it. She's got one opportunity and it's against an opponent that I think she's perfectly

capable of beating them. We've seen this fight already. And she is minus 160 to become the undisputed strawweight champion of the world on Saturday night. This is where I would push back a little bit. This is where I don't necessarily agree with that line. I mentioned she's four in her last age.

She was the favorite in six of of those, including several of them being greater than minus 200 in matches that she ended up losing. Yeah, if you do look at the body of work, right? Again, as I said, this is one night, one matchup. But if you do look at the body of work, especially the recent body of work, Verna's been very impressive, man. Like, she is the clear cut, no doubt number one contender. She would have been next for Zhang Wei, no doubt in my mind. And so I just have to think that in this fight, like stylistically, I think it's relatively even, right? Maybe you give a slight edge to McKenzie Dern on the feet just because of the toughness, right?

It is extremely hard to get into a brawl with McKenzie Dern because she's tougher than nearly everybody who's going to be across from her. The striking isn't exactly super technical, but she brings it and she's able to take it. With Verna, it's a little more clunky, it's a little more rudimentary. But when it hits the mat, the one who's more decorated is certainly going to be McKenzie Dern, but the one who's been more effective in MMA grappling, to me, has been Verna. When you see some of the stuff she does on the ground, especially the scrambles, the transitions, her ability to get to finishing positions, Verna is nasty, man.

And I've been kind of like on this train for a while. I've had her pretty highly ranked on my pound for pound, my women's pound for pound for a bit. I think Verna has an advantage here. I'm a little bit, I'm not surprised by the line because of what I think the attention on Mackenzie Dern is. But I think people are kind of like sleeping and unaware of how good Verna is. Yeah, I mean, it's a fight that like my brain's kind of in the blender. because you mentioned the striking. Neither of them are, like, incredible at striking.

Mackenzie Dern is willing to go in the fire and just let it rip, like, toughness on another level. But sometimes that costs her, and sometimes she gets significantly outstruck, and sometimes she gets dropped. Like, the Jess Gondrutch fight, she got dropped four times, got dropped by Amanda Lemosch as well. I don't know if Vierna poses that threat, like you said. It's sort of, you know, rudimentary on the striking,

but where she shines is the wrestling. McKenzie Dern, a lot of the times, she wants to get it to the mat, but she has like a 15% takedown accuracy. But once she does get it to the mat, that's when she shines. But now, like, Virna isn't really the one to, you know, knock her on her ass on the feet. But McKenzie, like, Verna also is not the one that McKenzie is just going to be able to get to the mat and submit easily. Like, Verna is a decorated BJJ Black Belt. She has 14 submissions in her own right. She's never been sub before. You know, I know McKenzie Dern has some nasty submissions, but, like, Like up until the Hibas fight, she hadn't gotten a submission in almost five years. Over the course of like seven or eight fights, I don't think Vyrna is going to end up getting submitted here. I know she's had like the Janjohn-N fight. Mackenzie Dern had her in like really, really sketchy positions, but she was able to get out of them. I don't think McKenzie Dern is going to be able to submit Vyrna.

Now it's just can Virna get her to the mat and be able to inflict damage once there? Yeah, the MMA grappling for me has been. significantly more in the favor of Verna. Like, if we're just looking at, like, what's out there, Verna has been much more effective. And as you said, especially in terms of, like, dictating the grappling, like, identifying where it's going to go and things like that. So I'm, I'm not, as I said, I'm not surprised by the line.

And I also think McKenzie, because of how game she is, because of how tough she is, because of the fact that, like, even in bad positions, she tends to find a way, if not to win from that position. but to escape from that position, I really do think that she's going to be live in this fight. But at the moment, I just lean toward Verna. It feels like she has the momentum. She has the path to victory.

And if she can kind of just avoid any really huge shots from McKenzie Dern, I think her grappling is going to be superior. I'm also going to go with the dog here. I've kind of been a Dern Fader, like, since the Marina Rodriguez fight. That's like four years ago. Yeah, just like her performances don't match the way that, like the odds are aligned for her. And I always feel like people are just like Dernsub, Dernsub, Dern sub. And, you know, she's got one sub. It's more like Vernesub, Vernesub, Vernon sub. So yeah, I mean,

it's an interesting fight that like I'm not certain how it's going to play out. Like, are they just going to stay striking and like what is that even going to look like? Or is Verna going to be able to have success going back to the wrestling? That's where she's found the success on this five fight win street. Yeah, Verna is sneaky. Sometimes she has some success on the feed, but ultimately, I don't think over the course of five rounds, it can kind of last. She needs to at some point get it to the mat. And as I said, I think if she does, I do think she's going to be in the advantageous position. So, yeah, I lean toward Verna.

But it's one of those where if McKenzie wins this fight, I'm not surprised even a little bit. Like, this is a completely winnable matchup for her. If it gets into a scramble or if it spends too much time on the feet, there's a real opportunity for McKenzie here. So I think this is a great matchup for her where I do think that I give the slight edge to, Verna, but this is a great matchup for McKenzie. You're not going to do better than this. Against Zhang, I'd really be concerned about her chances there. Against Verna, I think this is a completely winnable fight for her. Yeah, I feel essentially the same way. I'm going Verna, but this is a very close fight. That's going to be interesting to watch play out. Let's go to

the featured bout of the evening, Umar Namakamatta, back for the first time since his title fight lost to Marab Du Alishvili, taking on heel, baby favor? Fan favor? He said at the day that the Jose Aldo fans are still on him about that fight and that they're way worse than the umar fans so mario batista is back putting his eight fight win streak uh on the line two questions here does the winner of this fight get marab if he gets past yon in december i think so yes i think it's a clear title shot i think i think aboutista is on a nine fight win streak and he gets past umar it's like bra give him the title shot especially with the way that division lines up if marab's able to get past yon and then if it's umar the name value the bounce back you know the first fight yeah

the first fight you know he was able to push him 48 47 if he doesn't break the hand who knows what happens yep um second question does mario bautista actually turn baby face if he's able to give umar his second loss of the year no i think the now it's gotten to the point that people just enjoy the like josea aldo ribbing with mario batista so i think that will continue um he we also were secretly last time rooting for him to turn heel and just, like, really, like, lean into it and be, like, Pio Bartista. But he's not willing to do that.

Naturally, he's just not that guy. He's very nice and respectful. Ultimately, oh, there it is. I noticed Frank said it before the show, before we went on air. I also noticed Ariel said it yesterday on the air as well. Rubbing off. I noticed myself saying it in everyday conversation, too.

Listen, it's, you know. The ultimately fighting championship. I don't want to say I'm an influencer, but let the, you know, just the, That's out there. It's on wax. Ultimately, means we're about to get the fight prediction and how you think it's going to play out.

I think Umar's going to be too good. I, man, I was so impressed. Like, obviously, Umar's been extremely impressive in the lead-up to the Marab fight, right?

Like, he's not really shown much of a hole. Like, he's had some fights where he's been in dangerous positions, but I've never felt like he was really in danger. In the Marab fight, I was extremely impressed with those early rounds. Like,

I was just like, this guy is every bit as good as advertised. I think, you know, we made it very clear that we were shocked by Marab being an underdog to Umar, and we were riding that. But I think Umar lived up to everything that people expected of him because he had not really faced that level of competition yet, and that was the question mark, right? Can Umar be as good as a Marab? Can Umar be as good as the guys that are at the upper echelon of this division?

To me in that fight, he proved that he is. I think Mario Batista has the potential to be up there. I think he can be one of those guys that we consider a top. guy, but I think Umar's just a little bit ahead. And when it comes to the grappling, like, there aren't going to be many people on this planet that are going to be better than Umar there. That loss has has aged nicely. I mean, like, it's just like 48, 47 on two of the judge's scorecards, was up to O on two of the judge's scorecards, uh, did have a broken hand. That was confirmed after the fight. Um, and like, he's really the only one to like give

the champ a run for his money, man. You, you really wonder how that would go. And I think that builds perfectly to, if he can clear this obstacle, right? If he can get past Mario Batista, it's right there for them to do that rematch. And I think Maraub wants that as well. I'm with you, man. I mean, not only is the grappling and the wrestling great on Umar, that's just the striking is slick, dude. It's slick, man. I think, I think Mario is, you're going to favor him on putting up more volume, being more active.

But in terms of the danger that Umar presents, I like him on the feet there as well. And then when it comes to the grappling, I think he's just going to be able to mix it up too much. I'm going to go Umar by decision and put an end to the Mario Batista eight-fight win streak, but I do, I would say, I think it's closer than like the minus 700 or whatever, minus 625 Umar and Amagamatov plus 475

Baltista, I'm seeing as big as minus 750. What's always wild to me about Umar is the lines are always like this, but like... The name? It has to be because he's kind of Marab, right? And we talked about this when we were breaking down. Marab versus Umar. I see them as very similar, right? The striking is pretty damn good. It's good enough. The grappling is where they shine. Umar may be a little bit more control. Marab may be a little more a little bit more volume. But stylistically, the way they win fights is pressure, pressure, pressure, and you can't withstand what I'm bringing to you. Marab has been an underdog. Marab is only minus 300, but Umar is in these crazy like blown up lines. I don't get that part. But. this is a question that I asked when we were talking about Marab versus Corey Sanhagan.

Against a guy like that, against a guy like Maraub, against a guy like Umar, is it better to have one hit or quitter, no doubt I'm going to kill you knockout power and pray for that shot that you probably won't get? Or is it better to be like Mario Batista or like Corey Sanhagen where I'm good everywhere? I might be great in a few places, but I'm just not good enough in that one area that you're the best in the world, right? And that grappling, Umar is the best in the world. If it's not Marab, or it's one of those two.

And so I wonder, we kind of just saw what happened in the Corey fight. I don't imagine it's going to go much differently. I kind of see it playing out the same way. Mario Batista is extremely well-rounded. He's good everywhere. But if he's not good enough to stop Umar from implementing his game plan, if he can't handle that pressure, what do you have? Right.

He's good everywhere. He's got high fight IQ. You don't go on an eight-fight win streak and switch up game plans depending on your opponent to not have good fight IQ but man yeah just like you have to imagine also umar coming off of his first career loss you have to think that ignited a fire within him yeah and again i wonder if you even views it as a loss i wonder if he's i don't think he's licking his wounds i don't think he's going like i lost him a rob i'm going to bounce back i think he's going if i don't hurt my hand i'm the ufc champion and i'm i'm coming for it so his mentality that whole team's mentality is

is different, right? We've seen what the guys from Dagestan are, like, in terms of that room and how they think about fighting. This to me feels like Mario Batista is an obstacle that is just in the way of championship, which seemingly would be next for him. So, yeah, I expect an extremely motivated Umar, but stylistically, how do you stop Umar? Yeah, I'm going to Omer. I'm going to take him to win.

By a unanimous decision, let's keep rolling on the main card. Intervolkov versus Jelton Almeida, Volkov fighting on the same card as Cyril Gahn after his questionable loss to him. He won. Last time out, I thought he won as well. Mahadino is back. I posed the same question that I just posed with the last fight. Does the winner of this get the next title shot?

Probably, right? Like, I think there is some interesting kind of other factors in play, right? Alex Pereira has voiced his desire to go up to heavyweight. Now, he has mentioned John Jones specifically by name. But I don't know if that heavyweight Alex Pereira is out there, if I'm Tom Aspinall, I don't know if I don't want to push in that direction. So I think there's other potential things at play, but the most obvious would be the winner of this fight. I actually believe that Tom was asked about that. I mean, it would make sense number two versus number five.

Tom's already beat number three and four if Tom is the next one. I believe we have the quote panel of what he said in regards this. It's pretty obvious that they're going to do winner versus winner of me and gone versus winner. of Volkov and Al-Meda. Yeah, I mean, it just makes the most sense. It makes the most sense. As we have both said multiple times, I thought Volkov beat Cyril Gahn.

Are you surprised by the line on this fight? No. Interesting, because I am. I am a Mahalhadino truther. You do know that. Volkov's going to have his patented height and reach advantage, but doesn't matter if you're on your back. This is the issue here

is that Volkov, this streak that he's been on has mostly been against strikers that have given him striking matchups. Yeah, so the names are gone, Pavlovich, Taitou Ivasa, all strikers. Romanov, kind of a striker. Romanov, kind of a striker.

He's a grappler, but he mostly strikes. Rosenstrike. He loves the wrestling. I think he's actually, is it, I think he's on the RAF show this weekend, actually. Romanov, also in the PFL. Oh, shot up. Sort of like, you know.

Gas bag. Rosenstrike striker, no doubt, and Tom Aspinall striker, like, kind of. Strick that went to the grappling. They utilized the grappling there. I think Curtis Blades landed

like 15 takedowns on him. Like, Jeltao Meda is going to go for the takedown. It's like, there is no question. We saw it in the Curtis Blades fight when he got like 10 takedowns in the first round. He will lose committing to the takedown before he doesn't commit to the takedown. Because if it stays standing,

if he's like, you know what, I'm going to show off the strike. I'm going to go 15 minutes with an elite kickboxer who has 50 professional MMA fights that has height and reach advantages over me

he's going to get pieced up he's going to lose this fight he has to go for the takedowns and then he has to be vicious once he gets some my concern is that my concern even if he gets some

is he going to be able to finish Volkov is he going to be able to like just do what he wants to Volkov like when when Almeida is

flowing and dominating he's very good but when there's a little bit of an obstacle when there's a little bit of pushback we see the holes and a big concern for me is size like you mentioned the height and reach

but just strength physicality like Volkov is not just like long he is thick he's a big boy and so I have concerns about even if Almeda is able to get him down what that looks like Now, Derek Lewis is a fight that comes to mind for me for Almeida. I mean, he held him down for like 22 minutes.

Because he just held him. Yeah. I do wonder if he was just playing with his food a little bit or if, look, Derek Lewis is a big, strong guy. And I do wonder if that's kind of the path to victory here for Volkov is like, if you have to know he's going to try to take you down, right? On the feet, I think we can agree. This is not a contest.

Volkov will piece him up on the feet. A thousand percent. We had him winning a striking battle. with Cyril Gan last fight. And he was on a, what was his run? And he danced around Pavlovich and like he did it to Tai Titu Ivasa. Taito Ivasa, he beat the brakes off of. He is, he is a very good striker. I think he's one of the most underrated guys in the UFC, definitely the most underrated in this division. He knows that Joltenhammeda is going to try to take him out. If he can make life difficult for Jaltan Al Mada once down there, whether it be getting up, scrambling, just staying

safe, I do think he's going to have opportunities and I do wonder if the game of Jolton starts to just slowly fade and disintegrate. I do think the clearest path to victory is very obviously Jelton-Ometa to take him down and make his life hell, sub him, do whatever he can

down there. But I am not as sure about it as the line would indicate is where I'm basically at. I think Volkov's pretty live in this fight, especially if he can push it. Yeah. I can't make an argument against that. He has to be live. on the chance that

Giotrana doesn't have success with takedowns, and if it stays striking, he's going to be out of his depths. Like if Almeida comes in weighing I don't know, what were... 35 or something. Yeah, let me look at what his last couple of weights. But like he's been sort of that same weight and like you said, dude, like he was able to take

down Derek Lewis. Now he was able to take down Curtis Blades a lot and not be able to do anything with it. And honestly, the finishing that one was weird. Like, he committed to a double leg, had his hands locked and just let Curtis blades rain down elbows until he was finished. Like, you have to think, like, hey, man, let's not do that again if you're in on a takedown and it's not working. But if you're Volkov, you also have to look at that

and go, okay. Like, I have a chance here if I can figure out ways to do that. No, I will say, like the tide sort of turns similar to Mario Batista on Jilton Almeida. He was running through everyone, and then he gets to Derek Lewis 25 minute. Everybody's going to hate that and hate you if you go 25 minutes with Derek Lewis and just hug him and just lay on him the entire time. And then sort of like the bonehead mental error. against Curtis Blades, but he has come back in his last two fights and gotten first round finishes in both of them.

Yeah, so here are the weights for the last couple of fights, right? Okay. For Volkov, 255, 254.5, I'm just rounding. 258, 263, 258, 256.5. So he's in the 255 to like 260 range, right? Almeda, last couple of fights. 235, 241, 241, 236. So it's going to be like 20, 15 to 20.

You're getting 15, 20 pounds. Like, that's not insignificant. Yeah, I agree. Especially for a guy as big and rangy as Volkov. That's my real fear. Ultimately, like, I kind of like a dog play on Volkov because I do think he's live and I think the line's a little irreflective of that. Like, I don't think it's necessarily accounting for that.

but as I said the simplest path the most obvious way this fight goes is dump him on his head sub and then we're out of here and Jelton Almeda's onto a title shot

Yeah I'm going Jelton but man if he doesn't get those takedowns it's just like well he didn't get the takedowns so he got pieced up but even if he that's my thing even if he does it's not always a finish right away it's not over I agree with you

but that is the path to success that's the path I'm I spoiler alert for the staff picks I'm going to pick Volkov but only because I just think this line is off. Like, I think it's, he's being undervalued here, and so I'm just riding with it.

Let's go to the first fight on the main card. Alexander Rockich, taking on Asamot Mirzikanov. Undefeated, Osamot Mirzikanov, Alexander Rockich, trying to avoid a four-fight losing streak. At one point, this was like, the next guy at light heavyweight. Now he finds himself winless since 2021. I think this is just going to be a kickback. boxing match. I just can't imagine either of these guys are going to go for takedowns.

And with the size advantage that Rockich has, I believe it's going to be five inches, six inches of height, seven inches of reach, the experience that he's gone against. The three-fight losing streak over the span of like four years, essentially. You had Jan, which was a one-one fight going into round three before the injury. And then the two losses are the Yuri Prahashka and Magamadankalayaev, and that Magamadankalaya fight that took place on the Abu Dhabiqar last year, was extremely close. 29-28, razor-thin margins. Like, if you went back and watched the watch party,

like maybe we ended actually scored it for Rockets. Like, it was a very, very close fight. Whereas Merzacanov has not been going against those guys. This is essentially his first ranked opposition. Now, he's got a massive, massive power advantage, I think. Like, I think it's five of his last six have ended by knockout. Like, he can absolutely put you out. But I think with the size, with the range that Rockich has,

back against the wall in a coin flip fight on the odds, I like Alexander Rockich to bounce back. I like Rockich's chances here. I like his physical gifts. I'm concerned about the power. I'm concerned about the power. It's a valid concern. Rockich has shown to be just defensively irresponsible at certain times.

He can be got to, and I think Merza Kanov is very good at when he has those opportunities of closing the door on it like just shutting that door I feel I this feels like a coin flip fight to me but if I have to give that 1% if I'm going 5149 I lean merzikhanov because I think that power is is going to be hard for Rockich to avoid for as long as he's going to be in there

but am I going to be shocked if Rockich is able to just stay long do kind of the things he did against Magamad right like you stay on those teeps you stay you keep long you kind of threaten with power but then you bounce in and out I would not be shocked, but I do think there might be a point where Mersikonov is able to find that button. And so I lean 5149 toward Mersikonov. What's funny is that we kind of saw a similar size matchup in the Bukayev-Belgrusi

fight last week. And obviously it worked out for the dog in that situation. We'll see what happens on Saturday night. But I'm going to go Rockets to keep the range and bounce back here, the power shot. If he doesn't get knocked out, I think he can easily win a decision. Oh, for sure. Like, as you said, he's somebody that, like,

people have been wanting to kind of, like, make that run. He's an extremely talented guy. He's technical. He's long. He has all the tools. His problem has been, like, once he's up there,

he just falls a little bit short. And also that, as I said, the defensive lapses at times, just being in a, sometimes he enters a range where he shouldn't be. Sometimes he's just a little bit too close on a time that he should have been out. He's in when he should have been out

or he's out when he should have been in. If he can keep it on a perfect night, he's as good as anybody on the feet in this division. So I would not be shocked. I'm going the other way, but just flip a coin on it for me. I love it. Last two on the main card, we are disagreeing on. Let's go to the prelims, Nasrod Hakparas. Taking on Kill and Sal Kill. Shout out to that guy a few weeks ago that was dying to know why he wasn't on the perfect card. Now you get him on the Abu Dhabi card. You get him on a pay-per-view in the feature. featured prelim. This is interesting matchmaking to me, man. Salkout's still very early on in his UFC career, 25 years old, only has two fights, and you're going up against the guy in Nasrod,

who's on a five-fight win streak, has been in the organization for years now. I think he has 13, 14 UFC fights. He's 10 and 3 in his last 13. The guys he's losing to are the Bobby Greens, the Dan Hookers, the Drew Dovers of the world. Man, I just feel like with the run that Nasrod is on. Salkild getting this essentially on short notice. I know Nasrod as well, but I think that experience plays a massive advantage. And I think he gets it done. I think this is kind of just like a little bit too soon for Salkild and the vet gets it done. I'm in the exact same take, which is like, Nasrott's been fighting a long time in the USC longer than like you realize until you look at the record and the guys he's lost to are

the upper echelon of the division at a time. And by the way, those are like far back now. That's like 2021. Yeah. Okay. That's 2021 Bobby Green. That's 2020 Drew Dober, like when it was ironclad. When they were peak dangerous, and he was earlier in his career. He's only getting better. I think this is Nasrots' fights to lose. Yeah, I mean, he's still only 30 years old. Yeah.

Solid striker. We saw that take down defense on display against Jared Gordon. This one, I am like a little bit surprised by the odds. That he's not a bigger favorite. I haven't placed the wager, but yeah, I mean, it's what? Minus 12, Nasrod, minus 108, Sal killed? Listen, the Quillin hive, you know? Yeah, man.

People ask him for when he's coming back. The scores of Sal killed fans out there supporting their Aussie boy. Let's keep it rolling. My main event of the evening, Icram Alaskaroff, taking on the Iron Turtle, baby. I mean, this card is tailor-made for us, Alaskarov. 16 and 2? Wait, is that your main event of the evening? I have several main events of the evening.

I feel like there's a few others that might be yours. But anyway. Ikram Al-Scarov, though, 16-2. The two losses, early knockouts, Robert Whitaker, Hamza-Chamma. Pretty good. Those are good. Not bad. unfortunately on Saturday

it becomes 16 and 3 and the list becomes Hamzaa Chimae of Robert Whitaker and Juniung Park the Iron Turtle baby we're going to rely on the cardio we're going to rely on the pace we're going to rely on the pressure I love the wee I'm loving this

we avoid the big shot when we get to the wrestling we get back up then we start we start tough we start stuffing the takedowns late Ikram starts breathing heavy June Young Park's just getting started baby, he's bloodied up, but he's smiling through it. 29, 28, split decision victory.

June Young Park gets it done. Rounds two and three. I do think Iqram is going to win this fight, but this does feel like the type of fight where I think June Young Park can be dangerous. And like he finds himself in these types of fights where he's going to be able to, I think he's going to be able to keep it closer

than people would expect just based on like Iqram being a two to one favorite or whatever he is. So I think he's live here. I think this is the type of fight where maybe he could squeak out that type of decision, but I do favor Iqam to probably get this done. Ikram minus 225, Juneau Park. Lines dropping people get in while you can, plus 190. I took it to plus 220.

Iron Turtle, the people know that's going to be a good one. Either way, I think it's going to be entertaining. Iron Turtle always puts on good fights, and I think I'm going to bodge in that. Let's keep it rolling. Speaking of good fights, speaking of bangers, the ballroom. Brawler, Mateus Rombecki is back this weekend against Ludovic Klein. Go back and watch Rebecca's last three fights. It's unbelievable.

He has taken insane damage in the Chris Duncan, in the Oroby, and the Diego Fahara fight fight. Like, dude's just like, let's just scrap, man. He goes to war. I'm not going for fight of the night. I'm going for fight of the year, baby. I'll be damned if I win. I'm just looking for the honors of fight of the year.

I think it's going to be fantastic. I don't think we saw Klein last time out, the windstreet, get snapped against Mattesh Gamrott, I don't think Rombetsky is going to have the same grappling success. I think Klein sort of stays patient, tries to avoid getting in the brawl that Mattias is going to go for, and I think Ludovic Klein gets back on track. If he loses. If Rombechki can get him into the war, if he can drag him into that, you do have to think the guy who's been in that, like, he thrives there.

But as you said, like if Klein is able to, like, look, he lost the Matej Gamerat. Like, we know how good that guy is, right? It also has to be something that he said. If he loses this one, is it a Mateus issue? Does he just lose to Mateus? Is that the issue here? If you had that first name, we cannot fight. The Polish is his kryptonite here?

I mean, it doesn't make me feel great about Rombetsky that two and a half months ago he was in a war with Chris Duncan. Like, took a lot of damage in that fight. That's how he fights. That's just what it is. but if look if he can keep it clean i i favor klein like there's no doubt but is there a world where rambachki can drag him into one of these types of wars i definitely think it's possible like Klein's kind of a game or two it's not like he's just like this like super finesse

type guy and so i think it's possible but but as you said like if if they're if they're clean if it's not like a dirty fight and i don't mean dirty as in like a legal blows i just mean like grimy type of fight, I like Klein's chances here. But it's almost a coin flip for me. Man, once we get to this fight, Rambeski Klein, like, we're off to the races, man. Yeah. The last eight fights on this card are sick. Like, I cannot wait for him. They're freaky good. Let's continue on the card, though. Abdul Karim, Al-Sawadi taken on to Matthias Camillo.

This is sort of like a, you know, hometown kid in Al-Sawati. He's from the region. Camillo is early on his UFC career. They're both kind of getting going. I favor Camillo in it. I think he'll bring a fire fight to Al-Sawadi, but like this is one we kind of got to see. We don't really know a ton about these guys. Yeah.

Al-Sawadi losing to Razabanov, like, who's got dropped pretty bad in the first too before getting, he had a nice balance back second round, but got knocked out in the third. Loik is pretty good. Like, Loik, he's pretty good. So again, like, don't know much about him,

but yeah, I lean Camila. Your guy, Volter Valker. Shout out. Taking on Louis Sutherland, who was supposed to fight on that Perth card, ended up getting pulled off. He's making his debut. The Great Scott.

This is a fantastic personality battle. Go and watch Red Quarter MMA's piece on Gore MMA in Moscow. It's highlighting Walter Walker and Bogdan Gouskov. Walter Walker's an interesting cat, man. He's just as crazy as Johnny, but he trains in Russia, speaks Russian with like a Portuguese,

accent. He's a madman. Him in Sutherland, we saw the announcement video that he put on. He's, you know, got traps the size of basketballs. Like, this is a nice personality matchup. I don't know if he's going to come in with his personality. Yeah, I don't know if he's going to come with the giant traps. Well, yeah, it's a personality, biting the kangaroo and everything.

All for not, it ended up not being able to fight in Australia. But ultimately, I think this is like a perfect matchup for Walter Walker to get a fourth trade heel hook. This just feels like a regional guy making his debut. It wasn't that great on the regional scene. Now he gets a guy who's on a nice run in the UFC and is unfortunately stopped. If not a heel hook, it does feel like an opportunity for the grappling game and the submission game of Walter Walker.

It's like the matchup of the fall starts, right? Like they were booked. They got canceled and now they're getting their opportunity. I'm predicting one-way traffic for Walter Walker. Honestly, give Volta Valka top 10 of Mahon if he wins here. The division is so bad. Match him up against like Ante Della or something. Yeah.

Get a top 10, you know, premier matinee fight on an apex card or something. Let's do it. Sign me up. Let's keep rolling. Jose Delgado versus Nathaniel Wood. You know I love a good Nathaniel Wood fight. One of the most aesthetically pleasing fighters on the roster when it comes to the fight itself. The striking is beautiful, technically sound.

Delgado on the other hand is more of like the danger threat riding a nasty finish streak I think it's seven straight fights for him he's 2 and 0 in the UFC I don't know I think the veteran prowess of Nathaniel Wood gets it done here man

I mean you got him again this slight underdog spot oh he's an underdog yeah all right Nathaniel Wood won bro as a veteran he's got more UFC fights than Delgado's got professional fights he's still only 32 like he's young in the game he's won five of his last six he's in good form

I think the technical advantages of Nathaniel Wood gets this done I think he outpoints Delgado to a victory avoids getting starched I've always been scared of the Nathaniel Wood underdog

because he cashes it and then the Sharié fight was like my last like time I will ever doubt Nathaniel Wood as a dog he's sneaking like one of those Kevin Holland types like I think when he lost in this five and one stretch

he was like minus 400 yeah it's just like just give me that like slight dog give me that slight dog Nathaniel Wood and we're taking it to the bank. And there's nothing better than you got like a nice plus 140 on Nathaniel Wood

comes out there just like putting up volume. Just pop pop pop. It's like man that jab looks crispy. Jam looks crispy, baby. Maybe a knockdown around two makes a little dicey. Come on, just get behind that jab Nathaniel.

Like you're just watching a technically sound guy who gets it done and puts everything into it. It's fantastic. All right, let's move on to the actual. Yes. The main event of the evening. Yes. The heavyweight fight we are all talking about

that we are all waiting for. Chris Barnett taken on Hamdi Abdel Wahab. We've cleared the charges, the PEDs that's in the past for Hamdi. Chris Barnett, we're back after a year off. The scenes last year when he got into the Octagon and injured his foot in the pre-fight warm-up just to take on a man nine inches taller than him was absolute cinema. It was magic.

He's back. The man hailing from Athens, Georgia, but also reps Spain. away the five nine freak it's it's chris barnett it's beast boy it's huggy bear uh how can you not love this guy yeah he's he's oh yeah yeah who shout out he is a fan favorite we all love him he he's an all-action fighter he brings it i don't he's got to reach a band i don't know if he's going to win the fight chris barnet has to reach a band but as respectfully as i can put this i would not take Hamdi at minus 400 range against anybody you're crazy against anybody if this gets out of the first round humdi's a dead man walk yeah i i can't see a world where hamdi is minus 400 against

anybody so i kind of just like think about chris from that perspective uh yeah he just can't be minus 400 or or greater against anybody uh but man chris barnett god love him fan favorite he has some flaws in the game like there is just there is just a reality about that But if he comes out there, maybe you throw a spinning wheel kick at Hamdi's head, and then you'd count one, and you just walk off into the sunset. You know who was a minus 400 against Chris Barnet? Who? Jake call you.

Got finished in the second round. Who else? Kennedy was like a minus 700, minus 900. He did pretty good. He did pretty good. Yeah, Martin Bidioz is pretty good. Listen, listen, listen. Here's the good news.

For the last several years, we're lost, win, loss, win. loss, win. Oh, it's an alternating. We're coming off a loss. Oh, all right. Beast Boy does not lose too straight. Get that Beast Boy ticket in. Except for winning, one he went on a three-fight losing in 2017.

No, no, but since then, since then, alternating, alternating, alternating. Beast Boy, Huggy Bear, Chris Barnett. There's a great video of him. One time he was at UGA, the school that I went to at a basketball game. He heard of it. He was like the celebrity in the beginning. They were like, UFC fighter, Chris Barnett. That's pretty cool.

And he, like, let a chant, go dogs chant. I bet that was one of the more fun ones. He just seems like a fun dude if you want to hang around. Yeah. Shout out to him, man. Yeah, throw a flyer on him. Also, I say, like, rep Spain for some reason? He was born in Spain.

Oh, there you go. So let's just clear that up. Azat Maxim taking on Mitch Raposo is another one sort of like guys early on in their career. Someone's got to win. Raposo's own two. Ozat's one and two. Raposo lost on Contender Series. Not sure if he's UFC caliber.

I feel like Ozza just uses the wrestling, but, you know. Yeah, I think Ozot's going to win. Jacqueline Amoryam taking on Mizuki Inouye. She's back after a two-year layoff. Yeah, she's got three fights in the last six years. She's not very active. She's one and two in the UFC, and she's taken on a girl in Amarim that has been finishing everyone.

She's fighting four opponents. I mean, even the four opponents on this win streak that she all finished have landed a combined 12 strikes against her. And honestly, the Sam Hughes fight, she could be undefeated in the UFC but you know Sam Hughes was able to survive some some sketchy situations I think Amory probably gets it done here

I love Mazuki she's sick 16 year old champion she's a great striker unfortunately she's gonna get taken down and that's gonna be the end of the fight but man Mazuki's sick go back and watch some Mizuki fights this is not gonna be the one that's gonna be the highlight real but I'm a fan of Mazuki I'm happy to see her back

she's tough too oh she's extremely survives you know maybe she's live nah she's gonna lose this fight that's UFC 321 though, man. This card is stacked. We have the graphics of the graphics team. Put this together. Look at that man. Tom Aspinall, Veering a Janjarova. Two title fights. God damn. Look at Tommy with that belt.

Look at him, baby. Gold gloves that'll be updated to black gloves with the Union Jack shorts. That'll be great stuff. Can we just talk about title fight, title fight? Then two fights with title fight implications. Yep. And then you're getting Alexander Rockets versus Undefeated Osamaers account up.

Main card is absolutely stacked. I love the prelims as well. Afternoon card. Main card starts at p.m. Eastern? Like, are you, are you kidding me? And don't forget, Saturday, you'll be with us all afternoon. Look at Walter Walker, man. Legend. I'm telling you, go watch that Red Corner of M.A. It's on their YouTube channel. Louis Southerner, not looking quite... The traps are not as trapping. Quite as tough in the USC pictures. Do you think they were tested on the region? That's neither here nor there. I'm looking forward to that one. All right, let's get into

bets, parley pigs. I do have one big hitter that I have to shout out as well. The recap, Parley Pals lost again. We're just on an infinite losing streak. This has got to be the one that we bounce back on. I feel it. I can feel it in my plums. I can feel it on my plums. Blue a shoe. Ready at the market. Real ones, no. Shout out the Wolf Farrow. Let's shout out the big hitter first. We don't need to go over our losing slip. The big hitter, unbelievable. Steady Ready. Steady reads X. What? On Twitter. Calls all five first round finishes on last week's card. I just want to get all those because you can't see him in the slip. You can see the Croton fight ended in round three. The Bukoya fight ended in round three.

He also called the Drew Dober fight ending in round three. The Bruno Silva-Hunzong Park fight ending in round three. And the Stephanie Luciano Ravina Olavera fight ending in round three. He goes five for five. And by the way, that all happened on the prelims. That is plus $2,672,9003 into $80,190. Is this like the best ticket we've ever seen? Second best. Andrew Collins, that we named it after back in the MMA hour days,

hit a $1 to win $427,000. Holy shit. That was a five-for-five main card, exact round and method parlay. And one of them was Alexa Grasso by round four submission against Valentina Shipchango, which was like plus $3,000. All right, all right. Fair enough. This is second best.

This is unreal. I went on his Twitter and he was just like, I'm just pissed. I didn't put $10. Which is like the classic thing, but $3.80, man. Call the tax, man. Make sure the IRS don't come knocking for that one because that's unbelievable. Just so I understand that ticket, he predicted all. of those fights to end in round three, and they all

ended in round three. All ended in round three, all on the prelims. So by the main card starting, he's up 80K. He's up 80K. Absolutely. All three bucks. Wow. Absolutely insane. Congratulations. Congratulations. The steady reads X. Parley Pows, I've already gotten Pizzi's pick. He's going with the champ, Tom Aspinall, and still, that's what he says. Frankie, you kick us off. Then Rick. Then I'll go. Well, I'm going to kick us off by just asking that. Yeah, kick us off, man. Almeida gives us the dub.

Wow, you're saying, you're saying, fuck, Craig. I mean, this is an analysis, and you're like, I already have this locked in. He made some good points, but this is still my pick. Okay, all right. Nah, it's still live. I like it. Oh, yeah? Me?

Let's try to run back what we did two weeks ago. Let's go Walter Walker. Come on. Get it done to me. I was going to take Walter Walker, shout out, legend. Fighting out of Russia. Fighting out of Russia, yeah. Go to the right corner of May.

documentary. It's great. I will go with you know what? I'm going to go over to the boxing. I'm going to go over to Joseph Parker. Oh, shout at the O2 this weekend. I'm going to go with an Englishman. I'm going to go, oh, he's an Aussie. I'm actually going to go with an Aussie in England fighting at the O2 against Fabio Ward. I'm going to take Joseph Parker minus 400 to get it done. Friend of the show. Friend of the program. Shout to the Big Ouse. Is that Australia or is that New Zealand? I always get it mixed up. I think Uss is like Samoan, so I think it like is allowed.

Shout to the Anzac. Yeah, yeah. That's what it is. Shout out the Anzac. There it is. Plus 197, we're minus 1.96. We're back in the green with a dub. I can feel it.

This is a dub. This looks pretty good to me. This is a dub. I know you hate the Jelton one, but. I don't hate it because I think it's the most obvious pact of victory. I hate the line. Mahadino knows. Shout out to him.

That'll go down. You can watch us have reaction to it on the watch party on Saturday, right here, 145. The daytime. You'll be able to see big Empire State behind us on Saturday. Daytime card, my absolute favorites. Let's go to my picks. I've got a lot.

I've got quite a lot. I always seem to on these Abu Dhabi cards. We started off with Nathan Wood. I mean, it's written in stone. If Nathaniel's a dog, I'm sprinkling. And by sprinkling, I'm making a full wage run the guy. I think he just gets it done, technically sound, out strikes him, out volumes him, gets his hand rapes by decision, avoids the big shot, ends the Delgado reign of tear, seven straight

wins by finish. We keep it rolling. Metteus Camillo, I like a man, 24 years old. I think he's going to bring the firefight to Al-Sawaddi, and I don't think Al-Sawaddy likes the firefight, and I think that's going to be adventation for him. I'm going to go with him to get it done by finish. We roll along. Wait, that said money line. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You're just predicting. I'm predicting he gets a finish, but at plus 100, I'm just going to take the money line. Ludovic Klein, like I said earlier, I don't think he engages in the brawl that Ron Betzky is going to give him. I think he gets back to the winning ways. Nice win streak before the Gamrod Fight. I don't think this Mateus poses

the same grappling threat. Klein, gets it done. We roll along. I will not explain what is already known next. Love it. Alexander Rockich. As a plus 100 dog, same thing, avoids the power shot. I've got a few of these guys that could be looking good, and then the next second it's like, well, that's a loser. That's a loser. That can very much happen in this fight. But just with the experience, the size advantage, man,

he's going to be much taller. He's going to have a lengthy reach advantage. I think it's just going to be a kickboxing match. If he can just stay at range, I can see him out pointing him and handing Merzacanov, his first professional loss. We keep rolling. Maladino. I got out on this one earlier.

This is one Iron Turtle I took last week. Grapple, bro. Grapple. If we get halfway through round one and he's still striking, I'll rip up the ticket. It's all good. I mean, that's grapple, bro. The path to victory is there.

And I know he's going to do it. I know he'll commit to it. He'll get finished on the way to committing to it, as we saw in the Curtis points fight. Yeah, no. Positive vibes. Omar and Magamatov, but I'm going to take him by decision. I'm not taking that minus 625.

I do think this is a closer fight than that 625. 25, says thing Mario Batista is obviously incredibly talented, but I just think Umar, there's just a little too much in the striking, a little too much in the grappling. I think it's probably a 3027 on maybe two, and then a 29, 28 on one.

And it's kind of like, oh, Batista made a good show on himself, but Umar was just a little bit too much. We go to the co-main event. All love to McKenzie Darren. All love to McKenzie Darren. She'll be a great champion for the strawweight division if he wins, if she wins. But if you've been following me since since 2021 since I joined the program

I think literally like two weeks into me joining it was the Marina Rodriguez McKenzie there main event and I've been fated in McKenzie there since you're going to keep giving me dog price tags on our opponent you're going to give me one again on Varyngenegra I'm going to have to take it. That's just the rules I don't make them.

Main event, prop Aspinall gone. Does not start round three. This is available on draft kings right now minus 145. If you saw Terrence McKinney fight does not start round three at minus 145 would you take it? Aspinall goes shorter than Terrence McKinney. He is the agent of chaos here.

He brings the fight. He dictates where the fight is. He has all the finishing capabilities. And if he gets caught, he gets caught. This would still cash. Aspenol, I don't buy it. I don't think he's actually going to go for a split decision. I don't think he's going to point fight behind the jab.

I think he's going to bring the fight to God. I think he can knock him out on the feet. I think he can take it down to the mat. Sub them there. Too many ways for him to get this done. Advantageous. Never seen a third round before. think we start on Saturday.

Minus 1.45 on that. I don't want to unload the clip just because I have other Aspinall bets, but minus 1.45 on that. Let's go to the Parlix. This one from a couple weeks ago, Joel Alvarez. Oh, yeah.

What card was that? Is that Rio? Yeah, I think that was. Joel Alvarez from the Rio card with Tom Aspinall. That was a large wager. Got about 300 down on that. Finish it with Tom Aspinall. Oh, wow.

Yeah, six units. I was fairly confident in that one. Alvarez made it look easy. hopefully Aspinall does the same on Saturday night. Another one. Amarim, take it to the mat. I think she gets it done there. Too vicious. Don't love the activity level for Mizuki Inouye. And then Walter Valker, same thing.

Take it to the mat. Don't love the regional scene action for Louis Sutherland. I think he gets it done. And then one more parlay. I feel confident. Joseph Parker, the Big Goose, Tom Aspinall, the heavyweights, get it done on Saturday night. And those are the bets. You got some hefty action across.

these. Yeah, I like to do it on the paper views and I swear like the last few years I really like to do it on the Abu Dhabi cards. It wouldn't surprise me because they're usually good. They care when they go to those regions. They try to stack them up. When the fighters are more well known, when you have more tape, when you have more history on these guys, it's always the paper views. I always do better on the paper views than I do on the fight nights. And when you got guys like this, when you got Iron Turtle fighting, I'm not going to not bet on Iron Turtle. Oh, Nathaniel Wood Dog? Nathaniel Wood Dog? That's Otto.

Walter Walker? In. Should we take a vault or Walker? Fade and McKenzie Dern? In. There's just some things. There's principles that I live by that I have to continue. I mean, like, McKenzie, there, I got a bait.

The rules of engagement here. Those are the bets for UFC 321. That is the preview for a fantastic card come Saturday. The kickoff to three great pay-per-views to end the year. This, 32, and MSG, which is just... Yeah. stacked and then 323 which is sort of a hardcore delight uh those two those two for me are yeah in terms of like the you know bantamway flyweight's going you know it's not going to be

your boy's not going to be hitting you up like pantosia versus van but for the hard they should be that's that's that's that's the one um so a great stretch to end the year in 2025 uh before we go i was going to say me and frank hopped in the winnebago and rode around new york and tried the best fish and chips but he bailed on me not once but twice he bailed on me

anything to say for yourself friend couldn't make it work he went to there for one of them we went to three we went around town we tried a touristy spot

we tried a like authentic British scouser behind the counter telling me I had a manned city hat on in honor of Tom Asim being like you gold some shit on your hat and I'm just like

this is exactly what I wanted then Thank you. I'll take the fish and chips. Really appreciate it. And then we went to like a bougie like Michelin star chef place that we had to get a reservation for. It was great. We went, we found the best fish and chips in all of New York City. Fight Feast, UFC 321 in honor of Tom Aspinall. Enjoy. All right, as you can see behind me by the beautiful billboards, we are in the seventh layer of hair, Times Square, the single worst place in all of New York City. As you can see, I've got my Tom Aspinall uniform on shirt, shorts, hat, Man City. I've seen him wear man-you stuff that's neither here nor there.

He headlines UFC 321 this weekend, trying to defend his heavyweight belt for the very first time. So in honor of him, we're going to try and find the best fish and chips all of New York City. Why are we in Times Square? Our boy, GR, Gordon Ramsey, just open up a shop around the corner. We're going to go check it out. We're going to go touristy, Gordon Ramsey. We're going to go fancy, a place called Dame. And then we're going to go traditional British chip.

be assault and battery. Fight feast episode 29, 30 something. I don't fucking know. Let's go. All right, first stop, Gordon Ramsey's fish and chips. When I said stone throws away from Times Square, I'm talking. Stones throw. There it is. We are three seconds from where we just opened the video. Time Square is right there. This is it. The tourist spot. My expectations are in the absolute gutter for this. This is no better than an olive garden or something like this being in Times Square. Yeah, let's go get hooked at Gordon Ramsey's. This is exactly what I thought it was going to be. This is like just a dumpy tourist fast food spot. We got a British flag here. Golden Ramsey signed off on it. All right, Gordon Ramsey's fishing ships. We are just mere steps away

from Times Square. We are in tourists out right now. No kidding. We got the Union Jack. We got the Gordon Ramsey, people a little bit dirty when we walked up. I'm not going to lie, this wasn't my choice. This was Frank's. Where's Frank? He's nowhere to be found. Bailed on me not once, but twice. We tried twice. He bailed both times. As you can see, we got three pieces of fish. We have got fries. We have got no lemon. Joy, a nice lemon squeeze. No lemon here at old G.R.'s, House of fish and chips. We're going packets of malt vinegar. not the uh not the classic bottle squeeze her out gordon starter made by gordon gordon ramesi at some point sarache aoli let's give it a go looks looks like a fish stick looks like i pulled this out of

the freezer looks just like a typical fish stick here we go all right fair play all my shit talking it's actually pretty good it's actually pretty good i'm not gonna lie Nice crispiness. Fish tastes good. Fried beautifully. Let's try the serratiaoli. All right. All right, fair play, Gordon.

It's solid. Could you use some lemon, but I mean, it's solid. Let's try to, let's try the fries. Oh, vinegar. Breathe in the vinegar. Coughed all over the milk. Fries are decent. Nothing crazy.

Run in the mill. potato french fry with the sarache aoli it's pretty good i don't know what i give this out of 10 but like i think if i wasn't on time square doorstep and it wasn't like a dirty touristy like nasty restaurant i would i would enjoy it a lot more but taste wise i'm crunch on that fish much better than expected compliments to you gordon i have to call you because i was hating i came in here and i was just like oh i'm gonna fucking hated. I took a bite of the fish. I couldn't lie. It was pretty good, man. It's pretty fucking good. I'm sad you're missing it, man. You know what? Enjoy your fish. Let me know how this

please. I'll save a piece from Monday for you. I'll just put it in my backpack. You can have it on Monday. All right. See that piece of potato fall out of my mouth? Look at Big Gordon. Look at him. Even the same fish and chips as me. He cooked it just like he cooked mine today. Thanks Gordon. We love you. I mean when in time square you got to you got to enjoy yourself. right taking the sights oh we're doing caricature right yeah yeah who is she who's she huh that's my cameraman we call it nick everybody who walks by looks at it me like one of your french girls eh uh not gonna lie a guy just walked by and was saying that corn rames's fishing chips is one of the biggest scams uh i hope the mic picked that up

Done. What is this? What is this shit? It's actually looks pretty good. I wanted like a real character sure where I looked like a fucking... where I looked like a dweeb. Why that buff? Shout to the Aspinall heavyweight shirt.

The gun show really came out. 35. 20. 55. 50, 50. You're crazy. Alright, spot number two, a salt and battery, a proper chippy. Is that Australian or was that British?

Spot number two, a salt and battery, proper chippy as they say over across the pond. Great name. Actually, a sister restaurant to the place we got the English breakfast earlier this year tea and sympathy. Can't speak highly enough about them, so I got a high hopes for this one, a salt and battery. Let's go. All right, that place is proper. Scouse are running the counter. Go up there, he's like, they go to a bit of shit on your hot lap.

I was like, oh, they got the Arsenal game on. I was like, oh, you're an Arsenal fan? He's like, oh, you're not saying, I can't hear the scouse on you. I haven't ate the fish and chips yet, but you gotta finish it off with the Malteseers and it drank a little Lucaseid. Oh, this is Lucasade energy.

So this is sparkling with caffeine? We're going to race against time. There's a band right behind us that's about to start playing. Can't get over how much I love that place. This thing is absolutely beautiful. Okay, so we're back to, now we're back to just the one piece. I have to apologize to all Brits out there. There's no lemon in here either.

I don't think that's a thing with fish and chips. So that's on me. I'll bite the bowl with that one. Gigantic piece of sprayed everywhere. We just got a... Oh, that's beautiful. Beautiful, nice frying. It's got a dunk in the tartar sauce.

It's hot. It's hot. This is fresh fried. Oh, yeah. that. Gordon Ramsey's was good. This is like going from a McDonald's cheeseburger to a professionally made burger. This is fantastic. It's so hot. It's so hot. Chips try.

These chips were made to have vinegar dunked all over them. These are fantastic. Altogether, this is shitting on Gordon Ramsey's. I'm tripping. I don't even know what they do with this. I should have gotten a fork. Look at that fish, though. Beautiful white fish, fried to perfection.

Also, their tartar sauce is fantastic. I'm not going to lie, it's so hot, that I cannot eat it. My f***le. If I'm racing against the drummer behind me, who's about to start playing. Holy shit, it's hot. Why did I get the large?

I've already had like six cods worth of fish today, and I got the large skerplunk. So comparing place to place when we go assault and battery to Gordon Ramsey's, atmosphere and assault and battery was on tent. Tiny, tiny place, scouser behind the counter. He was going to be one of those, you know, talking shit to me about the man city hat, clean. It just felt like you were taking a trip over to England. No question assault and battery. over at Gordon Ramsey. We'll find out with Dane, the power of production. We'll go to our third

and final place, which is so fancy and so special. We had to get a reservation on a separate day and do that. So let's, you know, let's jump to that night time. We'll play Dane. And then I'll come back with my final rankings. A spot number I don't know because this is a different day. Look at how dark it is outside. We had to make a special reservation for this place. Dane, Michelin Star Chef. This is the fancy spot. We're doing the touristy spot. We're doing the British spot. Now we're doing the fancy spot. Dane, if you get a party of more than You got to rent the whole restaurant now. Very small, tight quarters, fresh caught fish.

I don't know what spot this is. It's Wednesday. We're recording the rest on Saturday. All right, as flaky as it gets, just breaks apart on you. Piping hot, freshly fried, big dunk of tartar sauce. Mouth is scorched, lava hot. Terrible move. I should let it cool down. I don't even know if I can get him in honest raining at this point.

Lava hot. Fair play to them? This is the first restaurant when we went to. We had to get a special reservation. I don't know how anything stopped in this. Let's try the chips, the fries. A little garlic aoli. I want to see any brick come over here and tell me

this is not good. It falls apart. I mean, I'm talking as flaky as flake gets. You'd think it was a snowstorm in here, the amount of flakes that are going on. Look at that. Fresh out the fry. You can see the steam coming out of it. I don't know if you can see it on camera, but...

$30 for a piece of fish and some fries, it better be worth it. This is worth it. The fries are crispy. If the music wasn't wearing, we'd be getting a crunch. I'm no fishing chips expert, but this is worth it. I'm a fish and chips expert, but this is, uh, this is top knox. Look at it falling apart in my hand. Is fish and chips a fork food?

I guess we're gonna learn along the way. Only way to finish a British meal with some Maltese is straightened it. Overall, successful day. Got a beautiful, accurate portrait done to myself. Rankings though, that's why we're all here. Number three, no questions asked. Gordon Ramsey, not even close, bottom of the barrel. The fish stick itself was decent. I'm doing you with this service, Gordon. The fish itself was pretty good.

Fries were ass, atmosphere was asked. Number two. Drum roll please, because that gives us our number one. Dame. It was fantastic. Done. Top of the line, fancy chef. You got to get reservations. It's a beautiful restaurant, blah, blah, blah, blah. Fish was fantastic. The chips were good. But there's something about that salt and battery. The way that the chippy is set up, I'm really hoping that's what people call them over there, because I've been saying it throughout this entire video. the way the shop's set up the scows are behind the counter the fish itself beautiful battering beautiful fish beautiful tartar sauce it's unbeatable it felt like the real experience best fish and chips in new york city stamp it assault and battering u sht 221 this weekend tom as well cereal gone and still i'm out all right that was fight feast uh i feel confident in my ranking system i i feel I feel quite good about it.

Sneaky learned, like, kind of love fish and chips. Like, fish and chips is a solid meal. It's a solid. It's a reliable solid meal. I went to the best one, in my opinion. In your opinion, but you only went to one. So how could you have another thing? Because after I had it, I was like, I'm done.

I mean, you saw it in the video, but, like, there's something about getting yelled at by a scouser as you order your fish and chips that just brings it out of you. And then you finish it with some Malteseers. That was fantastic. Shout out to the fish and chips. shout out to Tom Asmore. Shout out to UFC 321. Like I said, at the top of the show, short, shorter for today.

We got to go because we got something big planned. We got to run. We got to skate. We got to go do something. Don't be mad at us now. We'll make up for it next week on the Halloween episode. We got some great costumes playing. We'll do pound for pound. We'll do super chats. We'll do voicemails. We'll do it all. But I promise us leaving early is going to be worth it. I can guarantee that when the payoff happens. Thank you so much for tuning in.

enjoy the fights this weekend the card is absolutely stacked you got boxing as well make sure you're right here 145 eastern UFC 321 watch party watch the crack tomorrow back on monday hawani show big post pay-per-view monday in store i can guarantee it appreciate you watching till saturday peace I'm going to be able to