The Ariel Helwani Show - UFC Paris preview, Anderson Silva gets $10 million, Kayla Harrison at the White House, more | The Boys in the Back

Episode Date: September 4, 2025

The Boys are back from vacation and jump into news and notes, including Bo Nickal getting booked against Rodolfo Vieira (01:50), Kayla Harrison's visit to the White House (04:25), and Anderson Silva's reported payout from the UFC antitrust lawsuit (11:06).Next, they preview UFC Paris from top to bottom (15:41), before making their picks (59:45) and debuting a brand new Fight Feasts focused on French cuisine (1:03:28).The Boys close the show by delivering their P4P rankings of "French" things (1:21:06) — anything with French in the name/title — and answering your voicemails (1:32:50) and Super Chats (2:09:19).

But boys in the back But boys, boys, boys, boys, boys. What is good, or should I say Bonjour! To the boys in the baguette for UFC Paris. Bienvenu a gauceau, a lait. I don't know if I got that one right. I don't know if I got that one right.

La Eriere. I like this, Jordan. I actually had no idea what this meant. I assume this is Boys in the Back in French. Nailed it. Nailed it. I am one-third of the boys in the baguette. Connor Burks, back with my beautiful beret,

with my French national team jersey on. Join alongside, as always, the man, the myth, the legend. And, like, the man who rocks the beret well, you wouldn't believe you've been walking around the office for the last, like, 90 minutes in this thing? Like, 15 compliments. I know, but I can't quite get the tilt, right? Like, I feel like you have it in, like, a nicer position.

but a lot of people commenting on the beret because they're used to me kind of just stomping around with a mad face on and this is different luck to them they're like oh nice Paris yeah you're a UFC fan they're like no what are you talking about so shout out we're doing a good I mean look at like can we also talk about how we're graphic correct here we've got the graphic in here the thumbnail as well and in that I'm wearing a black beret

and you're wearing a red beret I mean it's almost like we planned it. It's almost like we planned it. It's just too good. A lot to get into today. UFC Paris. We got a fight feast. Me and Frankie went and ate some snails. Pound for pound. Top French things. We'll explain what that means when we get to it. There is a caveat there. French in quotes. French. Top French things. And obviously the UFC Paris preview. We'll get a deep dive into that. But let's start with some news and notes here off the top. Last night we found out Bo Nicol has his next fight and will be taking place just up the road. You can almost see.

it right there on the through the window behind us. I almost said screen. You guys have made me believe your own conspiracy there. He'll be taking on Hidalfo Vieira main card prelims. He put out a tweet that said put me on the prelims. Yeah. It's a good reset, I think, for Bo. I think it's a good opportunity to get himself back in the wind column, see how he bounces back from his first loss, and a stage that he kind of like can thrive on and is familiar with. So, I think it's a good opportunity for Bo. It's a big opportunity for Hadolfo as well. Like to be able to get a name like Bo on his resume is going to be good.

But I think the intention here is obviously for Bo to kind of like recover and then be back on track because as we heard yesterday when Chale Sonan joined Ario, he's predicting that Bo Nickle versus Hamzaa Chamaev is going to be the headliner for the White House card. So Bo got to start now if he wants to make it happen. Yeah, we can take that with about a grain of salt on that one. Maybe a mound of salt. I'm with you. It's a good fight for Bo, but there will be a lot of pressure with it. Not only fighting in Madison Square Garden, but also, like, you can't go two losses in a row. Like the allegations of, like, oh, fraud checked against RDR, everything like that.

If you lose two in a row, then the questions will really start popping up. Yeah, and this, like, the thing with Bo is, like, he's the A side of this. even though the experience, the resume, the wins in the UFC are all on Hidalpho's side. This is one he's supposed to win even though by experience and by Nate, like, you wouldn't expect it to be. It's because of his wrestling pedigree. It's because of his credentials. It's because of what he was able to do prior to the UFC.

But as far as like, if you stack these guys up on paper, you're going to look over at Hidalpho and be like, oh, this guy's supposed to win, but this is a fight that Bo, not only is supposed to win, has to win in order to keep that momentum. Bellway. You mentioned Chale talking about potentially Bo versus Hamzot on the White House card. Not so sure. Why do you feel about that one, by the way? Not so sure that one's going to happen. Cue the

graphic of Bo Nichols saying he would be a minus a thousand favorite by the time him in Hamzot fight. That one didn't age that well. But we did potentially, I don't want to say news, but Kayla Harrison took the Instagram and posted a collage of photos when her and Dana White

went to the White House to meet with Donald Trump to talk about the UFC card to take place on July 4th of 2026, the 250 anniversary, I was going to say bicentennial, but the 250th anniversary. There they are. You can see some pictures in the back there if you look closely in the post. That looks like maybe the gift shop at UFCX that we went to on International Fight Week. So it seems like there's another picture of Donald Trump with clearly UFCX behind him, which is kind of like the fan fest at International Fight Week. week. So you would have to assume, if this does happen, July 4th lines exactly up with

International Fight Week, where better to have it than Washington, D.C. I mean, look at him, walking the grounds. The only reigning American champion currently in the UFC, Kayla Harrison, with Dana White and Donald Trump. I mean, an incredible moment and opportunity for Kayla, like, certainly. And then the revelation of the planning going ahead for this UFC event. The UFC X element of it is interesting to me, because, like, I can't imagine that. letting MMA fans into a expo near the White House is, like, logistically very simple and smart to do. But if they get it done, like, God bless. The event itself is one thing, right? You obviously need to get the fans in there. You need to figure out how to do the crowd for the event.

But if they're going to do the whole, like, international fight week, UFC X experience, the press, like all this stuff around that, I feel like it's going to be like gridlock in Washington, D.C. Like, it is going to be impossible to get around there. And the amount of time required to screen everybody to get into these things is going to be nuts. Well, you also add in the fact that it is the 250th anniversary, 1776, everything like that. So, D.C. is already going to be packed as it is. People are going to be there. Countless celebrations going down in that town that weekend.

It could be crazy. I have to say, I have to say it, I got to own up. I got to eat some crow. Like, I have been the biggest doubter for the UFC White House card happening. but I mean, Dana White and Kayla Harrison at the White House with Donald Trump and in the background is like graphics, plannings, blueprints for UFCX taking place. It's realer than you thought. It's way realer than I thought. I've now I'm on, I've jumped ship. I'm now on y'all side that like it's going to happen. It feels to me like this was an inevitable conclusion in the sense that the synergy, the times that Dana White and Donald Trump come together and UFC and Donald Trump to. come together has only been beneficial for Donald Trump's side.

Like it has always gone viral. It has always been good for exposure. It helped during the campaign run. It helped him appearing after it has benefited the UFC because there is a major portion of the fan base who wants to see that and is looking for that. It only has produced good things in terms of their individual like a sense. And so it would make sense for them to continue to try to do that. And this would be the biggest stage of them all.

This would be the one that is the most direct. direct tie ever. It is basically a White House Donald Trump hosted UFC event. Kayla Harrison, ending that Instagram post, the caption with essentially CU July 4th, 2026. Not only is she the only standing American champion right now. Yeah, right there. Here's to July 4th, 2026. Not only is she the only current American champion on the UFC roster. She also, you know, gold medalist has represented America before. Her next fight should be versus Amanda Nunez, which is one of the biggest fights that you can make in the women's division. So it would make sense for her to wait out until the White House. Yeah, it does

also make me think, like, as we talked about this White House card, I've continued to think about, like, do they want Americans? And if they want Americans, are they going to put them in a position to have an easy fight to win? Or are they going to put them in a position to have the biggest fight they could possibly have? As this thing kind of shapes out, it's going to be very fascinating to see what the like nationalistic uh side of this looks like is it going to be a tribute to america or is it going to just be this is the biggest this is the best this is the baddest ufc card we could possibly put on or maybe a combination of the two right you put a kela harrison on there all of a sudden you've got an american champion and and you've got some gravitas to

it but like does this improve the case for a john jones right like does this become hey we need our biggest American star. Connor McGregor is Irish and is now, as we saw earlier today, campaigning in front of the American president. But are they going to lean into the celebration of American independence and have those Americans on it? If Kayla is the only one, that would be,

I would be shocked. I'd be shocked if Kayla was the only, like, big American star. I think you need, like, I think Chale is smart in terms of why he's thinking, Bo Nickel, right? It's an American guy that you can get behind and go, we've got our American champion. He's taking on Hamzot, America versus Russia. There's a whole, there's a whole kind of thing there that makes a lot of sense if you are going that angle. So I like where Chales head was at. I don't know if Bo Nichol is on the fast enough track to get there. To me, the tone with

which Kayla Harrison is speaking in that Instagram post, the fact that she's having this meeting with Donald Trump and Dana White there makes me think that maybe that. Maybe that. million percent don't trust John Jones thing as this creeps closer might be out the window and maybe John Jones does find himself on this card. Yeah, Kayla Harrison is the only American champion right now, but you still have big names. They're also American UFC fighters. Michael Chandler, Sean Strickland, John Jones, you know, obviously championship pedigree from him. So there are American names that they could put on this card to fill it around Kayla Harrison being the only champion representing. It's going to be very interesting to see international fight week, 2026, maybe pencil it in.

UFCX anywhere near the White House would be insane. Maybe that was on the mall. Maybe they're going to put it in between the Washington Monument and Lincoln Memorial. Even being that close, just the scrutiny that is going to be required for people just coming to town, traversing that, getting into each venue, then going to the fights. It's going to be an undertaking. It's going to be like an Olympic level style like undertaking, which is nuts. And we'll be in those crowds. Yes, and we'll be there.

I mean, D.C. is a quick train ride down the road. Daniel Cormier or Washington? We will be there for sure. Absolutely. Book it. As Frank says that I like to say, we got it. We just got it. Yeah, I guess we got it. We got it. I feel like we got it. I'm brother who lives in D.C. I can crash at his place. Don't even worry about a hotel. It's all good. Can you watch it from his window, maybe? Close. You can get close. He is a Marine, so I maybe get some extra access there. It could be great. One last bit of news. Yesterday, John Nash took to Twitter reporting that the average payment from the UFC settlement will be $200. $131,022, the median being around $86,000. lowest 16K, the highest being $10.3 million. He then followed up that tweet and said the recipient of that $10.3 million will go to Anderson Silva. This is based on the final settlement fund for each fighter should get 32.7% of their total bout compensation earned during the class period plus $14,179 for each. each bout. Yeah, so there's methodology to kind of figuring out how he arrived at who would

be getting paid what he was able to look at the top stars and kind of determine who would have been owed the most during that time period. My initial reaction to this was like, oh shit, $10 million. Shout out Anderson Silva. And I think a lot of people will kind of have that reaction. I don't, you know, there was at least 10 people who texted or DM me and were like, you know, you see this? Anderson Silva's getting that $10 million check. And I was like, yeah, good for him. upon further reflection and thought on this, like... Oh, interesting. It's not that much...

Like, Anderson Silva's 010X that, if we're being completely real. Here are the Anderson Silva paper views during this time. Now, these are speculative, because pay-per-view numbers are a little bit dicey to get. They're kind of reported. They're based on other things. But I'm pulling this from Wikipedia, which has them listed here. Let's go Let's just go from like the 20

Let's go from UFC 101 We're going post UFC 100 UFC 101 Silver versus Griffin 850K Silver versus Maya 500K Silver versus Sunn and 600K Silver versus Belfort 725 Silver versus Okami 335

That's the lowest by far in that stretch Silver versus Sun and 2 925 Silver versus Bonner That was a replacement one 375 Silver versus Widman 550 Weidman v. Silva 2, $1,025,000. Silver versus DS 650, Silver versus Brunson 200. They start to go down from there as pay-per-view is not as prevalent.

But in total, over the course of his career, now this is like prior to that period, but over the course of Anderson's entire UFC career, he sold about 9 million UFC pay-per-views. So, like, if we broke that across, if we took that 10 million and broke that across all the paper views that he sold in the UFC, it'd be about a dollar each. It's not like, I'm glad he's getting it. I'm glad the settlement is working. I'm glad there are other fighters that are going to be compensated during that time.

But my initial reaction of like, holy shit, Anderson Silva getting $10 million is more now like, fuck, make it 100. Like this, every one of these guys, including Anderson Silva, who provided this many memories who was such an important star for the UFC at this time, man, like there can't be a number that's enough in my mind.

Not just the pay-per-view numbers, but also the interest, of the sport, everything that he provided to it. Yeah, I see what you're saying, but I will... No, $10 million is great. I was going to say, I'll play devil's advocate here. 10 million is better than zero. At least getting some there.

100%, and this is the point of that antitrust, or maybe not the point. I think the point kind of has been fluid in certain degrees. Some of the point of this lawsuit was to properly compensate the fighters who were not properly compensated at that time. So I'm glad that he is getting that,

as I said, and I'm glad that other fighters are getting it. But yeah, I mean, Make it 100. Anderson Silva deserves all our money. You hear that, Dana, make it 100. I don't think you can do that. The settlement is the settlement. But also, you mentioned John Nash.

I think we should say, like, he's been doing the best reporting on this. He's written a few things for Uncrowned as well. He's doing great at covering this story. There's more kind of wrinkles to this when the fighters are going to get paid. We heard Luke Rockhold yesterday on the show saying he thinks he's going to be getting that check soon. So, you know, stay tuned. John Nash has a good X handle. that provides a lot of updates on this, but there will be more that continues to trickle out.

But interesting to see that Anderson Silva, $10 million, is the top kind of earner from the settlements that are going to be paid out. Yeah, that's at hey, not the face, John S. Nash on Twitter. And you actually mentioned the Luke Rockhold one where he talked about getting additional settlement money. And John Nash quote tweeted that and said, this is only true if there are settlements on these current suits, which are in large part dependent on how the courts rule on these arbitration agreements and class action waivers. so to be saying more more to come basically uh all right that's the news and notes let's dive into this weekend's action taking down taking place in the city of lights ufc paris uh fantastic card european centric card which i love this is a diehard fan base that you have in paris and i think

they're capitalizing on it with the fighters that they're putting on this card i just want to throw this out here yeah five debuting fighters on this card okay axel sola losangeta Robert Ruchala, Ante Delia, Harry Hardwick. What's crazy, though, Axel Sola, Ariz Lightweight Champion, Hussein Kada, Octagon 2 Division champion, Robert Ruchala, KSW interim featherweight champion, Ante Delia, PFL Heavyweight Tournament Champion, and Harry Hardwick, Cage Warriors, Featherweight Champion. Decorated. All of them from, other than the PFL, all of them from European promotions, all of them

champions, all have over 10 professional fights. I like to see that. I like to see that as you go into it. And then on top of that, every single fight has a European represented in it. There's only five French guys fighting on it, but every fight has a European fighting in, which I love to say. Yeah, it's great. They have, you know, Pizzi was talking about this card. Was it, when did Pizzi talk about?

Was it Tuesday or Wednesday? But he was talking about exactly what you're saying, which is like they've assembled a lot of the champions of European local promotions, guys that people from the area had been following for so long. that when this card is constructed, these are names and faces that people are instantaneously going to recognize. It's not just the like,

who's that debuting guy? These are stories. These are fighters that people have been following in the local scene for many, many years. And now we're seeing it on the biggest stage

in an arena that is going to be losing its fucking mind when these guys are competing. It's going to be incredible. It's going to be incredible. Paris cards, not only am I excited for the fights, I might be even more excited

to see how the crowd's going to react throughout. They're the best crowds sports right now. It's just crazy. Even when the WWE comes to town, like they are just rabid. The audience always delivers. I think they'll deliver again this weekend with having Frenchmen in the co-main and the main event, both of which could be very fun for it. Even the like the PFL, Cedric Dumbay headline shows are just nuts. They look absolutely nuts. Every time that they are, that a combat sport or any kind of sporting event comes to the area, the fans show

out. I mean, you have Killian and Boppe and half of PSG showing up for real. PFL event. Yeah. Like, could you imagine? I wonder who's going to show for this one. I'm sure there's going to be some, some big name, like football representation there. I mean, imagine like Patrick Mahomes and the chief showing up to a PFL event. In Kansas.

LeBron and the Lakers showing up to an LAPFL event. Yeah. You'd be like, what the fuck is going on? Yes, exactly. That is the level of support that is here. And as you said, it leads to like this atmosphere that even from home, even watching on TV, I am excited to, like, I'm the, like, I'm the guy who has been beating the drum of like, you know, the fights are not that different out of the apex from a television perspective. The Paris events, they are, from a television

perspective, the Paris events are different. These events are, they, you can feel the energy radiating through the TV in a way that like you can't elsewhere. And they've found this nice sort of routine, this sort of schedule the first week in September. They've been doing it since 2022. They've had Cyril Gan headline. They've had BSD headline before. They always find it early in September and they find a way to make these cards exciting and I can't wait for this one

let's start with the main event Nasserdeen Imov taking on Kyle Bahalio essentially one half of the middleweight Grand Prix where the winner will get the next shot at Hamza Tchamaya of the other half being RDR versus Fluffy Hernandez which is taking place next month

Bahalio undefeated in the UFC is on like a 16 fight win streak has looked pretty impeccable but haven't seen him fought since the January seen him fight since the Jared Cannoneer fight. Imov, riding a four-fight win streak, but over massive names,

Roman DeLitts, Zay, Zanja, Jared Canineer himself, Brendan Allen, big names in the division, two guys who are just on a trajectory towards the belt. It's as high stakes as it gets at 185. I think both dudes are at their peak right now. They're in their primes. I think this is going to be a fantastic fight. Yeah, until Dana White,

as you mentioned that other middle-way fight, until Dana White explicitly said that this was not guaranteed to be the next. next title contender. I think we all assumed this was going to be the next title contender, the winner of this fight, right? Imov's resume at this point, I think is the best one of the group. Like, I think you can look at his resume and go, like, he could have been fighting for a title already. Don't get me wrong. I think Hamza v. DDP was the exact right fight to make. But if you're looking

at Nasardine Yimov's resume, this guy is championship level and could be fighting for a title. Kayo, if he gets a win over Imov, like the resume that he's put together is quite impressive as well. This is, if it is not the next for the title, it's won away at most, right? You have to imagine that they can't take another fight that doesn't get them a title shot after this win. The fight itself, I think, is fascinating from the perspective that, like, I don't really know where it's going to play out. Like, I, most fights that I, that I visualize in my head, I can kind of see, like, okay, this is going to be this way or this way. I really don't have like a great read or expectation on this fight, I ultimately kind of land at the fact that I think

that Nassardine's pedigree is a little bit higher. Like I think his ceiling's a little bit higher. I think he has a little bit more opportunity to control where the fight takes place and also more of the finishing ability. And so that's where I land like when I'm trying to lean on this fight. But whether this is like they decide to kickbox the whole time or whether there's some clinch work or whether it takes place on the ground. I really don't have a great read for who's going to kind of control the action and where it's going to go. But I tend to lean toward Nastardine because I think the grappling and the striking are both like slightly in his favor. Yeah, I think it's razor close. I think if you feel very strongly one way or the other, I'm just, I'm just not sure how you ended up getting

there. I will say Baha'aulio, the last time we saw him out, I know it's been over a year, but like we saw him settle in for 25 minutes of striking against Jerry Cannonier. He was patient. He was able to knock down Cannonier. Actually, there's a knockdown. in his last three fights. Like, we've kind of seen the striking come together. We obviously know he has the grappling acumen to go with that as well. But something you mentioned, like, who has the bigger finishing capability? Neither of these dudes are really, like, heavy finishers.

I know we saw Imov knockout, Adasania. He also finished Canoneer. You know, Canonier wasn't too happy with that. He wasn't happy with that finish. It wasn't like he, like, absolutely starched him, put him out. A couple of people even called for the Adasanya one being early. I disagree with that. But, like, six of his 10 UFC fights have gone to his decision.

and Kyle, five of his seven, have gone to a decision. These dudes never really get finished. Even if I got finished once in his first fight of his career. Oh, no, never been finished before. The durability will play a factor. The French crowd, I think, will play a factor in what I think will go to a decision. So it really just comes down to who's having the bigger moments for me. And I just don't know.

I really just don't know. If they stay at range, I feel like Kyle will be patient. I think he's willing to make it boring for the crowd. I don't think he's going to play into the pressure of the French crowd. because, you know, if it's a low-volume striking affair, that crowd is going to get restless after a while, I would have to imagine, especially if Imov isn't having a ton of success. But I just don't know who's going to have the moments, and I don't know who's going to initiate the clinch work if it happens, who's going to go for takedowns if that happens,

or if they're both willing to just strike for 25 minutes? Is it fair to say, do you give Nasardine the edge on the feet? Let's just stay primarily on the feet. Do you give Nasardine the edge? I think I do when it comes to getting close and to having the more impactful shots despite what I just mentioned about Kyle dropping his last three opponents but like if they're just standing and striking a range

and like Kyle can just get in that karate stance and just like put up volume and just bounce in and out like he could just stay out of trouble and be landing more shots than him. I see that but I just feel like Nassar. I think Nassar Dens lead the dance on the feet. I think there he'll probably be the one who's taking the aggressive position. But again, like he's not like a super high volume guy. He's not this like mega output guy.

And Kyle in the fight against Jared Cannoneer, as you said, was able to kind of just get in and out, stay on his bicycle, land solid shots, and then just not be there to be hit by Cannoneer, who himself is a super high volume guy, Cannoneer. And put out the volume. He put up over 150 strikes in that one. Yeah, it's, it's, I wonder how successful that's, going to be against Nassardine is my thing, if it does play out there. I wouldn't be surprised if all of a sudden we start seeing some clinching, right? Lean on him a little bit. But then does it get to Kyle's world? Does it get to the ground? And maybe there's some real grappling exchanges beyond the clinch is going to be interesting to see. Ultimately, I'm like you, I just

really don't have a great read on this fight. I could see either guy winning. If you told me, Kyle went out there 50, 45 them and was just boxing his ears off, I wouldn't be that surprise, just based on that kind of near performance, I was extremely impressed with kind of how he looked on the feet. If you told me that Nasardian finished him in round three with some kind of TKO, I believe it. If he told him, you told me Nasirian kind of like won a 48, 47 decision, look like a Chris Curtis type performance. I'd be like, yeah, sure, that makes sense to me, too. There's really a lot of outcomes I could kind of see for this one. I don't have like a strong lean on how it's going to go. I don't know how it's going to go. I don't know who the winner ultimately

will be, but my hot take here is that it is going to go to decision with the durability of the guys and not like lethal finishing threats from either one of them. And I don't think, I think it's going to be a close fight. I don't think either dude is going to make this like stamp statement. And then the pressure is going to be on RDR and Fluffy to go out there and put on a show. That's just what I was going to say. Devil's Advocate, do you think somebody presses the gas pedal because they, and I guess the answer you answered it is no.

I think if someone does, I think it's going to be Imov in front of the crowd and also wanting to lock in a title shot. I'm thinking there's a change. Sorry to interrupt you. You have to get a confidence from finishing Cananeer and Adasania. Yeah. You have to walk out of that

Autasania fight after finishing him in the second round being like, I'm the fucking man. Yes. I can get these finishes and I can do it to Kyle Bahaliyo as well. Finishing Adasanya on the feet, like that's an impressive thing to do.

Like, you know, we are certainly not seeing the best years of Israel-A-Sanya right now, right? The prime was a few years ago. But I thought he looked fan. I thought, is he in that fight up until that point looked fantastic? Fantastic. And to be able to finish Israel

Adasania, to me, was a real confidence booster in terms of Naserdinimovov. It gave him more confidence, and it gave me more confidence in him being a real title threat. I think you have to ride that, and man, I think you probably do have to press that gas pedal. Will he? I don't know. But I think you have to leave no

doubt in the fan's mind, in the UFC's mind, that it can't be RDR, it can't be Fluffy Hernandez. It must be me. I've finished Adasania, and now I finish Cairo. Give me my fucking title shot. I feel like he has to. They're building the card around him in France. Wherever he was born or whatever, he's going to be flying that French flag on Saturday night. That kind of became a storyline a little

bit. Kyle himself said it was just like he's not an actual French too, but then obviously Imov responds with a promo of his own, reping French as hard as possible, you know, alumnus from the French national team being like, come on, this is French first Brazil, you're going to get it done. It's all on you. When he walks out with the red, white, and blue on Saturday night, that crowd is going to go nuts for him. Also, Dana White's saying that he's not sure who's going to get the next title shot, that could also put pressure on it. So yeah, I think if

anyone's going to press the gas pedal, I think it's going to be him above. I also just think, like, stylistically, like, what does Kyle pressing the gas pedal look like? He's not this, like, a bulldog, aggressive guy. It's going to, like, Kyle's, the brilliance of Kyle's style and the brilliance of the fighting nerds and the brilliance of him is just, like, this

mastermind is, like, he's strategic. He is an extremely smart. cerebral fighter who knows how to get a win. He knows he has figured out the game in a way that very few have. He is going to come in with a rock-sala game plan for how to defeat Nasserdeenimov.

And I bet that game plan is not run straight at him and try and take his head off. Like that's probably not the game plan. So I think he's not going to be scared to execute his game plan. If he does win though, and it is that kind of like, hey maybe he got a 49, 46, it didn't really necessarily go over super well

with the crowd because he's on, you know, an enemy territory, does that get you a title shot? I wonder if he has to worry about that. It's going to be fascinating. It's a high-level fight. I can't wait for. The crowd's going to be going crazy. I mean, it's everything you could ask for in a fight night, especially as the main event. It's going to be great. Let's go to the co-main event, Benoit Saint-Denie, another Frenchman taking on a member of the fighting nerds, Mauricio Huffy. You talk about the crowd going crazy. I think they're going to be on absolute tilt for this one. The only way that they aren't is if BSD just strictly goes to the wrestling

and that could be a game plan for him. We haven't really seen Hoofy's grappling and wrestling tested like that and, you know, standing on the feet with a guy like Maricio Huffy probably isn't the smartest idea, but I don't know if BSD's going to do that. There's no telling me if he's going to do that. Like we've seen him grappled before, but like with this crowd going,

Hoofie puts him into a firefight, we've seen him willing to engage the Dustin Poirier fight. Like the crowd starts going crazy. He just gives him to the crowd. Like, I don't know the game plan, but I think this fight has the makings of being a war. We saw in his last fight that BSD is capable of the smart strategy, right? We saw, but man, how much credit do you give like the Prepeleck fight?

He was minus 1,600 getting a guy on super short notice. 100%. You're completely right to point that out. But what we saw in that fight, as a minus 1,600 favorite, it would be easy for BSD to walk in there and just try to take his head off and be like, I have to perform this way. He was composed. He was patient.

he was grappling and he ultimately got to finish. It was a very smart game plan by BSD. I wonder if the fights prior to this, the losing skid gave him a little bit of a reset and an understanding of like, I need to be a little bit smarter about how I'm approaching these fights together. Or if it was just, hey, I need to get a win here and now that I've got this win back under my belt,

now I can go back to being this absolute wrecking ball of a striker. I imagine that the best version of BSD is one that combines all those things, right? Where he can be pressing the gas pedal, super aggressive, making it hell for you to stand with him, and then when there's an opening going for that takedown, utilizing that underrated submission game and trying to do it that way,

I think it's going to be very hard. With the way that Mauricio kind of like dances around, he's got that like bladed Connor McGregor, karate style sideways stance, it's going to be very hard to probably like, get into exchanges where you're controlling him as opposed to just kind of like floating around and you guys are trying to find shots.

I wonder how much success he's going to have to, he's going to have even if you wanted to grapple. Ultimately, I think it'll probably be more of that striking battle. B.S.D. is super dangerous in that exchange, though. Even though he's been on the losing end of some of those exchanges. Like the Dustin Poirier is a great example of just like, look, he faced a guy who has power as well. And that guy got him before he got got.

although actually in the first round Poriaga got pretty good by BSD as well so he happened to come out on the wrong end of that but I don't know like this could be a too much too soon like BSD's been here the way the fans win is if it's just a 15 minute

striking affair that probably doesn't go 15 minutes and it's just like all action crowd going crazy if BSD gets a finish they just absolutely explode if Huffy gets a finish it's like oh my god this is so crazy that's how the fans win but man I could just like I can just see it now.

Like, who he's having like some decent success on the feed like three and a half four minutes in the first round and then like BSD just like blasts a double and just tackles him.

It's possible. It is possible. He's so springy though. Like I wonder if you can even get him to like plant his feet to be able to shoot that take down. I'm sure in when he, when he is planting his feet,

most of the time you're going to probably have to dodge something pretty gnarly like a spinning back kick or something that is super dangerous coming your way. If they do stand there and just trace, who do you favor?

If they just stand and it's a striky. Yeah. He's just too finesse. Like, it's just too much finesse. He's just like too clean. There's too much knockout power. Like, yeah, I would have to favor him.

But I do love the stylistic matchup of the finesse against sort of like the brute force of BSD. Like he just kind of like gets in close and just put your head into the canvas. God, we're seeing the images of that Bobby Green. God, that was a, yeah. There's so many ways that he can finish you. That's the thing. And like the yontop fight, like is the one.

one fight where he didn't get the knockout, but like, dude, the damage he put on yontop and also, like, the weight discrepancy there, missing weight, and everything like that, like, you just don't know how much that played into it. He just has so many weapons to finish you, and, like, he's just too springing moves in and out, just like the accuracy, the range of weapons that he has to finish you. If it just stays striking for 15 minutes, I have to favor Hoofee. Yeah. As I said, I think the best strategy for PSD is going to be to mix those things.

Right. Be dangerous on the feet. Exchange with who fee as much as you can, if it gets dicey, look for an opportunity to take him down and be able to kind of be in your world there. Because we've seen when he's able to do that, it's crushing there too. Like he has a real finishing ability once he's in that position. So, I mean, look at the stat right there, 10 of 14 wins by submission. Yeah. He's nasty on the ground. Not even just the submissions. When he gets you down, just the pressure that he's applying from the top is extremely kind of hard to deal with. But man, BSD, like, I also say, like, I favor Hoofie and he can finish him and yada, yada, yada, but, like, BSD is tough as fuck. Oh, yeah. Like, Hanato Moikano had the damn near kill him to get him out of there. Obviously, Dustin Poir, like, got him. He packs insane power into his punch. And then the Zalescu Santos one made it to the scorecards, but, like, somehow. Shouldn't have.

Yeah. But, like, the toughness that this dude has. Like, he's willing to go through the fire to get it. It's a banger, dude. It's a great fight. This, to me, is the people's main event. Like, this is the one I'm looking forward to most. What I love about this one is a lot of times when we're like, when we're calling

like, this one's going to be a strikers delight, this one's going to be a banger, a lot of times it's guys who are just going to box with each other. Like, that's how we kind of like have outlined the bangers. Like a lot of times it's like, oh, Iliad and Max Holloway are just going to stand in the middle and box with each other. This one's so kind of stylistically opposed, right? diametrically opposite. Like the way you said it of BSD is just like a, a, like, a, uh, a, uh, a, uh, a,

a pressure, like, fighter, a bull, a wrecking ball, and Hoofie is this kind of just, like, finesse guy with the range and the different movements. It's so fascinating stylistically to me. I love this fight. It's definitely my favorite fight on the card. Two guys that I really think will be aggressive that will really buy into the crowd and just, like, build on this atmosphere in here as you crescendo into the main event. I also just love the matchmaking.

It's a 13th first, 15th ranked guy, two guys who have built names for themselves off of creating highlights and taking really good fights, and you're getting BSD, the Frenchman, in the co-main event in his home country. Like, it's brilliant matchmaking, in my opinion. It should be a banger. As far as who's going to win, I guess I'll side with Huffy,

but like both these co-main and main events, it wouldn't surprise me if it goes either way. I feel like I'm leaning BSD. I love it. I feel like I'm leaning BSD. It's that beret you got on your head, man. Shout out. I'm feeling the energy.

It's speaking to you. Let's keep it rolling. The featured Battle of the Evening, Modestis Bukakis, taking on Paul Craig. Paul Craig coming off the weird one against Adolfo Bellado in Atlanta. I was at that. It ended up being a no contest. Kind of a crazy fight there.

And afterward, Paul Craig told Anthony Smith that if the UFC didn't offer him another fight, he was just going to retire, call it quits. Hasn't had a win in over two years. He's 37 years old. We've kind of fluctuated between weight classes. I just don't know where he's at. And then on the flip side of that, Modestis Buccas, sneaky, sneaky three-fight win streak is five and one since returning to the UFC.

Yeah, this is Modestis' fight to win. There's no other way to say it. It's just like two guys passing in the night. And it's like at this point, Paul Craig, like, you have to make whoever, unless he's fighting someone just way below his level, you have to make the other dude of favor. You just don't really know what Paul Craig are going to get in there. It has to go to the mat for him to benefit from it. I doubt Bukas is going to go there with him.

I think he's just going to try and strike and knock him out. You have to favor Bukakis. The problem with Paul Craig at this point in his career is, if you put him in there with a better striker, it's just going to be hard for him to win. He doesn't have the great entries into the takedowns. He doesn't have the great opportunity to get people to the ground. A lot of the times when he ends up on the ground,

it's either him being knocked down, there's a scramble, there's some kind of opportunity. He needs to generate those because most of the time he's kind of content to strike with people and then it somehow finds its way to the ground. If you put him in there with a better strike, he's just going to not compete. Like he's not that good a striker. Even this late into his MMA career

and this point in his UFC career, he's not really like super sharp on the feet. We saw it in the Bo Nickel fight, who himself is not, you know, just learning this kind of game and how to strike. Bo just sat there and boxed with him, and it just didn't look good. Yeah, Bukhauskis, though,

minus 400, 10, kind of tough to trust. No, I think that's a 5-1-1. Yeah, I think that's pretty good. I just like, hey, man, he's just sneaky. He's just sneaky. It makes sense. Could be a fun one, but I do imagine that Modestis is going to have the upper hand and the striky, and that's probably where that one is going to stay.

Let's keep it rolling. Belizei Okai taking on Mason Jones. We were at Mason Jones last fight. We were a monster favorite, like minus six, minus 700 against Jeremy Stevens. Jeremy Stevens gave him a scrap, man. He was competitive. Yeah, I mean, it was 30, 27 on all three judges' four cards, but, like, there were some dicey moments for Mason Jones. Like, Jeremy Stevens, like, he had some moments, kind of made him go to the wrestling.

he ended up getting eight takedowns in that fight. But he did get a hit. Jeremy Stevens made it exciting. I think it was just good for Mason to see one go through the net, you know, like have that. He left the UFC, he got his wins on Cage Warriors, came back to the UFC, got one in the UFC over a veteran in Jeremy Stevens. I think he kind of needed that win to show him like, okay, I belong, I'm back, I'm ready. He's very talented. He's somebody that people have been talking about for a long time as one of these, you know,

highly touted prospects I think this is another opportunity for him to show like I am of this level I belong here so I'm interested I'm interested to see because as you said like it wasn't one way traffic in terms of that like Jeremy Stevens gave him a fight

but I never felt like Jeremy Stevens was going to win that fight I think it felt more like he was kind of surviving as opposed to he was putting Mason in any like dangerous positions not an easy matchup for Mason Jones again like Oakey's a good striker and like this

has a chance if Mason Jones does not go the wrestling. We've seen, like, he either strikes for 15 minutes or he's going to end up getting like eight to ten takedowns in the fight. If he ends up just striking with Oki, like, there's a, very good chance that this is a scrap, like a war. Oki puts up over seven significant strikes a minute, Mason Jones, like five and a half. Like, there's a, there's a chance that this is one of those ones where it's like 147 to 139 significant strikes after 15 minutes of striking, and it's just a great fight that the crowd loves. And who do you give the edge to at this moment? I'm going Mason Jones. I, like you mentioned, like,

people have been talking about him for a while. I like the fact that not only can he put up the volume in the striking, he's a competent striker, but I also like that he can go to the wrestling if he needs to. Yeah, I was a little surprised that the line was as tight and as close as it is, because I do feel like Mason is the one with the name and the UFC experience and the one that people have kind of like pegged as like, this could be a guy, but it is, it shows the respect that people have for Oki. And I think it's, as you said, like, I think this has potential to be a really good fight.

I also think it has potential to be kind of a showcase for Mason Jones to be like, yo, I'm here now and I'm ready to make my UFC run and I'm ready to make it count. There really are some great scraps on this card. I think this could be one of them. Let's move on. Axel Sola taking on Reese McKee, Sola. Like I mentioned, Aries Champ making his debut. Has been fighting it lightweight for the last three years, though. Now he's making his debut on like two, two and a half weeks notice moving up to Welterweight against Reese McKee. I don't know a ton about Sola. I know that Reese McKee has had his struggles in the UFC. so like it feels like an opportunity for solo to make a nice debut

but the odds say otherwise it's it's a very closely lined fight so I'm just excited to watch solo make his debut yeah and I was talking about Mason Jones in this way like Reese McKee is a similar story right it's like the results have been super mixed in the UFC to the point that people are like oh is he kind of like what we thought he could be he's always going to have like physical advantages right he is just a long like kind of guy he has

he's an opposing figure um in there I ultimately Like he's he's the underdog Isn't he? Yeah He's the underdog One in four in the UFC I like you

I don't have a ton of knowledge About his opponent So it's going to be interesting to see Like if the experience In the UFC Leans his way And gives him a little bit of fever Even if he's losing these UFC fights

Is the experience just help Because the level The level is way higher It's tough man We've been talking a lot this year About just like it's tough To gauge these debutantes Like to know where they're going to be at

to know if they're really going to be UFC level. Sometimes they come in and they make massive waves and sometimes they come in and it's just like, maybe you weren't ready. I mean, not for nothing. Like, Reese McKee fought fucking Hamza Tchamayev. Yeah, this is not Hamza Tchamayev. No, this is not Hamzat Shemayev,

but like he's been in there with the guy, like this is the king of the middleweight. Like, he has been in there with such high level competition. You, the hardest thing for me to gauge, as you said, is like, debutante, but now debutante against guy who has been mixed results in the UFC is almost, like, even harder. A guy who's been, like, cruising in the UFC, you go, okay, he's going to smoke the debutante.

A guy who's been losing in the UFC, you probably go, oh, maybe he isn't really like UFC caliber. The guy who's kind of just been like, win some, lose some, don't really know. It's the hardest thing to gauge. It's interesting to me that he's an underdog, but, you know, I will have to just see how this one plays out. Sola, like, I know not enough about Sola to kind of have much of a lean here. If Sola is as good a prospect as,

the odds would reflect, right, to be a favorite in his UFC debut over a guy who has a decent amount of UFC experience, this will be the proving ground to do it. Like, this will be a big stage for him to go, okay, I've stamped my ticket, and now I'm ready to make a run. There's a lot of fights like that on this card, and I'm looking forward to him. The next one being the opener for the main card, Los Angeles K to take it on Patricia Pipple. We can throw shade all day at like Patricia Pipple, maybe not putting on the most exciting fights so far in the UFC, but we cannot throw shade on the activity. Last time we saw him, U.S. 319, seven weeks ago, picks up a win against Dan Egan.

First time we saw him was in April at UFC 314, I believe it was. So within five months of him making his debut, he's already getting in there for the third time. And he's taking on a debut time in Europe, like taking on this guy, Los Angeles, Keda, who Octagon Pound for Pound, number one, two-division champion in the sport, like kind of been like a hyped up prospect. Like, this is kind of a big deal that he's making the debut. And what a test he gets in his debut against Patricio Pitbull. Like this, this is a moment where you could potentially make a future star, especially in Europe. Like he talks, you know, on his Instagram and stuff, how he's already conquered Europe, you know, winning two divisions in Octagon, 16 and 1. And his one loss, you can go watch it on the Octagon YouTube channel right now is just like a freak injury breaking his foot.

I watched it probably 10 times and I can't even see where he broke his foot. Took 11 months off, has come back since. I believe he's 4 and 0 since then, was able to recapture a belt in Octagon. So like this is a debut that I really want to see what level he's. he's at. And against the guy in Patricio Pippel, I think that's a perfect gauge to see where he is at. Yeah, this is the debutante I know the most about because I've kind of been following his career. There's a guy who I DM with, unfortunately I didn't have time before the show to look up his name, but we would talk about like Cedric Dume Bay as he was kind of rising the local scene ranks.

LoCene is also somebody who we would kind of like tune in for his fights and then exchange notes about. This is tough sledding for Pipple, if I'm being completely honest with you. The version of Pipple that we have seen in the UFC has not. been super impressive. He does not look like the guy who kind of, you know, made his, cut his teeth in Bellator and became one of the best fighters in Bellator history, a top pound for pound, a top guy in that weight class for so long. We have not seen the version of that guy in the UFC.

He is facing a young, hungry finisher type fighter that I think is going to have his number on this night. Gets knockouts, six of his last eight wins are by knockout. He's been in Octagon for the last four. four years that he fought 10 times over an octagon like i mentioned was able to win two different belts over there only 27 years old if you go on his socials like he's kind of got the makings of like someone who has potential to be a star in this sport so yeah man you could immediately jump into the top 15 at 145 in the ufc with a win here get a get a name like patricio pit bull on your

resume like this is this is a massive opportunity you're opening up the main card this fight other than the co-main event is the one i'm looking forward to months most just out of the curiosity to see what Kate has got 100%. The reservation comes with what we talked about earlier which is like those lights get bright and we saw it for Pitbull himself who's a super experienced guy

those lights get bright and not even from the perspective of like when I talk about or anybody talks about octagon jitters I don't think it's necessarily this like oh shit I'm so scared to be in the octagon oh my god look at all these people looking at me

that's not what octagon jitters is at least in my mind like when I think about octagon jitters jitters. What I think about is, I'm pressing in moments that I might not have previously because I want to make an impression. Or now I'm all the way looking for this finish. I'm trying to make a stamp in my UFC debut and shit, I've gassed myself out. It's these like tactical errors that become a factor of I'm in the UFC. I need to show out on the stage. I need to make an impression. And it leads to these kind of mistakes. It leads to these mistakes and

strategy and tactics. It is not this like crippling anxiety, crippling fear of getting into the octagon. So when the bright lights are on, I think it's more of that like shit. I need to, I'm in the big show now. I need to have a big show performance. And sometimes that causes you to make some errors. That could easily happen to a debutante and often does happen to a debutante. You look at Aaron Pico, you go, if this was his third fight in the UFC, is he pressing Lerone Murphy that hard? Maybe because he is an aggressive fighter. But maybe he's not pressing that hard. Maybe he's like 70% of and was that a tactical error? These are the things that I think you need to kind of like fine tune and think about,

but the things that I think stack up against a debut when you're making that octagon debut, when those octagon jitters hit. Yeah, I'm curious to see, and I mean, being in front of a crowd like this as well, is, well, it's going to give an energy, but does that also work against them? It's like, I'm trying to take Pupol's head off in the first three minutes, and shit, I've got nothing left in minute seven. Yeah, I'm curious to see the game plan of Pipple here as well. Like, does he go to the wrestling?

Does he try to just stand and strike with this guy? He's never been like a super fast starter, so I feel like he's going to be like feeling out the approach, which will probably serve him well. Let's see how this looks at the 7 to 10 minute mark of the fight if it gets there. It's going to be fascinating. Very curious to see how that one plays out. Could potentially have a new guy on our hands in Los Angeles and Kada come Saturday evening.

Let's go to the prelims. William Go Me taking on Robert Ruchala. I mentioned that he is a KSW champ making his debut here as well. this is just it's like a william go me fight man there's there's only one way to describe it kind of similar striking styles i imagine it's going to be sort of on the lower volume end in a very very close fight william go me five ufc fights we got split decision no i'm sorry started majority decision okay went split decision got a third round finish split decision split decision so the four times he's gone to the scorecard it's either been a majority or split every single time it's always

He's just like, you're watching it and you're like, yeah, it looks pretty good. You're pretty sure William Gomey won the fight. If you give it to the other guy, I'm not going to be pissed. Like, definitely can't call it a robbery. Definitely can't call it a robbery either way. So, yeah, I just like, I don't know. I'd love to see Gomi kind of separate and put a stamp.

Like, he's got the one finish to his name, but like I'd like to see him in front of his home crowd, like really put a stamp on the debutante or the debutante come in and put a stamp and make a name for himself getting a win off William Gellman. I don't think you're going to get your, wish if I'm projecting. If I'm forecasting, I think it's going to be 29, 28.

Do we go split? No. Saldamato scores the fight? No, no. 2928. Anonymous. 2928. William.

Bird scores it. 2928. No, bird scores it. 3026. Yes, exactly. Bruchala. Yeah, exactly. Salamato scores it.

2927, go me. It's like, wait, what the fuck? Yeah. That's exactly right. Uh, yeah. So we'll see how that one plays out. Another Frenchman going, Umar C, taking on Brensen-Hiberio. This feels like a fight that is set up for Umar C to win here, but I don't know if it's

going to be that exciting. You're giving a guy who gets takedowns, a guy who has 0% takedown defense in Brinson Hiberio. Seven attempts have been made. Seven attempts have been successful. Oh, wow. So I would imagine Umar C's game plan is probably going to be, it's coming here, take him down.

it kind of just wear on him. Like, I don't know if we're going to get a finish. Maybe Hiberio gets aggressive and, like, ends up giving his back or gets into a bad position or something like that. But, like, Hibero's going to come in here and try and knocks his head off, but I just, I imagine a take down will come early and often for him. I feel like he's live for a finish. You don't think so?

Habario? No. Oh, see? Yeah, of course he's live. Once he's there on the ground, I feel like he can find something. Yeah, this feels like a setup fight. To give him that performance? But we'll see.

The game plan is there. Take him down. Don't stand his track with this guy. He will. He will try to knock you out. Marcine Taiboad taking on the debuting Ante Delia, former PFL heavyweight tournament champion. What does Ante Delia have for the UFC Heavyweight Division?

I think he's going to be interesting in this heavyweight division. He's also been a guy who's kind of like not exactly like, you know, blowing the doors off and announced himself in this major way but he's been a very capable and competent fighter for the PFL

to me this is kind of just more of a like where is Marsen Tibera at this point in his career he's 39 years old yeah like how long can he kind of be the upset guy

like how long can he kind of just be the guy that like everybody's like oh yeah we'll just put him in there with Marsen Tybora and then Marsen finds a way to win like that is exactly

how his career has gone this entire time. Yeah, I'll say for Marcin, like, he's 10 and 3 in his last 13, and his losses are two. Tom Aspinall, champ, Volkov, number two, and Sergey Spivak, who he also has a win over, who's also like a top 10 heavyweight. So it's just sort of like, is Ante Delia, like, is he a top 10 heavyweight? I was at the 2020 championships when he won, and the crowd went bonkers for him. He had a massive, I believe, Croatian outfit there. Yeah, they were going. for this guy. So I'm wondering if he'll have a big contingency at UFC Paris, but I don't know, man.

This has Buccecha written all over it, where it's just like Tibera comes in, 29, 28, decision, victory in the heavyweight division. On the other side of the ledger, his only losses are Moldovsky and two to Capulosa. What are the wins, York and the Castro, Maurice Green. Wait, does he have a fight against Marcien Tibera before they got to the UFC Before they got into the big show? Does he? Yes, I think he does.

Oh, wow, so this should actually be being... Is this a rematch? This should be marketed as Delia Tibera, too. They had a fight in 2015 and M1? Let me just verify. Yes. Oh, wow. Okay, so in that first fight...

We don't know ball. And it ended in a leg injury. By Delia. So, Delia's trying to get revenge for a legion. We should crush the tape on this one. We should go back and look at that one. This is actually us not knowing ball here. By the way,

that's now a legit decade ago. It's September... Almost to the week. September 20 and 2015. So a decade ago, I imagine that their careers have taken significantly

different paths and evolved since then. But yeah, like recent losses, it's Bruno Capoloza and it's Valentin Maldavsky. So, like, he has also been losing to elite talent

and winning against the others. And, like, he's got Jorgon DeCastro, he's got Mo the Pirate Green, like Hanan Ferreira. He's got, you know, UFC caliber talent

names on his win ledger as well. This is kind of a fascinating one. I don't really know which way it's going to go. Ultimately, I always kind of favor Marcyne to be able to get it done because he has been so successful at doing that. Like, the ones he's supposed to lose, he just finds a way other than the Tom Aspinall's and the Volkovs of the world. So I ultimately lean that direction, but at 39 years old, there is a limit to how long you

can kind of do that for. You can't be that guy forever. I wonder if this is one where Ante is able to sneak through. I'm fascinated to see it being like nearly a pickum makes a lot of sense to me. There's so many closely lined fights on this card. You got Hanat Fokker Dinov taking on Andreas Gustafin, minus 120 plus 100. You've got Tibera versus Delia, minus 115, minus 105. You've got Sola Axel, Axel Sola versus Reese McKeague, minus 130 plus 110.

Mason Jones, minus 130 plus 110 against Oki. You've got the main event, Kyloba-Halio versus Imov, minus 125 plus 105. A lot of very, very closely lined fights on this card, which is fantastic. I like it. It's the best when you don't know what's going to happen. We'll see if we've got a future contender for one Tom Asperon. Wait, is Delia on the list? On Aspenov's list of I can't fight because he's come to my house?

He might be, yeah, maybe. Was it Delia or was it? Who was it? It was the Serbian who just got cut, signed with Octagon. Why can't I think of his name? Oh, say his name. And he appears. Jesus Christ

James Tehuno No Why can neither of us come up to his name? Martin Budai, yes Bartin by Budai Thank you, thank you, thank you man We don't know our ball in our heavyweight divisions We didn't know this was Nellia Tibera too

And we didn't we couldn't read Remember Martine de Budai I do feel like there's some other guys on that list though Like of has trained with Tom Aspinall And come to the crib Shout out We keep rolling Yes

Kyle Fernandez taking on. Harry Hardwick, Hardwick. Super, super short notice. They debut Cage Warrior Champion. People are excited about that one. Yeah, we'll see. This is another one where it's just like, we'll see. I just don't know that much about the debutante.

It's nice to see they got belts. They've got, you know, 10, 12, 15 pro fights under the belt. You know, maybe they're good. We've got to find out once they get to the UFC. A lot of curiosity fights for me this weekend. Yeah, same. Sam Patterson, Trey Waters. Sam Patterson finally meeting his match and size.

Trey Waters is going to be 6.5 to San Patterson, 6.3. Could be very interesting, San Patterson. Three straight first round finishes since moving up to Welterway. So he's been putting on exciting fights and got finished in the first round when he was at 155. Is he actually 6.5? Jesus Christ. Trey Waters is a big boy. That is massive. I want to say Trey Waters fought.

Quinlan? Josh Quinlan. And it was like the biggest disparity in reach that's ever happened in the UFC. I want to say it was like something like 78 to 60. Maybe I'm just completely Remembering this wrong? Yeah, I am. I am.

77 to 72. No, maybe it was a different fight, though. Someone has a wildly short reach that I just can't remember. Maybe it was Jason Witt? Adam Fujit. I don't know. Maybe I'm just misremembering.

Just deep cuts there. Molly McCann. Brad Tavares sticking on Robert Breitcheck. Big Brad, still getting reps in, man. Yeah, I mean, he's going to be doing this forever. Brad Tavares could be in the UFC for the next 20 years, I feel like. Yeah, Bradtschuk won that great in Octagon, 4 and 3, and then he lost the Ehor Poetiaeria in his UFC debut,

and now he gets 26 fight veteran in the UFC, Brad Tavares. I like Brad's chances here. I like Brad's chance. I'm on the Bradside here. Renat Fakhredina, I'm thinking on Andreas Gustafson. I like this, man. I think Gustafsson's going to force Renat to engage. We're not still undefeated in the UFC.

though some people would say otherwise that sketchy decision out in the desert so yeah I think Gustafsson will bring the fight to him and it'll be exciting yeah agreed like people are very excited about

Gustafin and I think he what is a dog against chaos in his debut a couple months ago yeah he showed good man exactly he showed like his level in that fight against Chaos Williams Sam Page Sam Hughes

Sean Abannon kicking off the card for us I got Sampage I'm all over to the Sanpage Give me Sam Page You're not a believer in Bannon Yeah that last one Where she almost lost

That was Until she did it Ugh boy Everyone remembers Bannon Tomar The war Getting dropped by Tomar To me was like

You're not a part of Mama B's army This is an auto feed for a while Okay Sam Page That's the pick For one New York Rick Maybe he's parley the house pick Maybe we'll have to see Tune in later

We'll give you first pick Thank you. I already have PZ's pick. I know it's not that, so we'll give you first picks. All right. That is UFC, Paris, 14 fights starts at noon eastern over here in the States. I mean, this is what you ask for.

Like, you get that on the big screen. You get dual screens going with it, college football. There's a couple good matchups this weekend, and then you just enjoy. Probably around like 4 o'clock Eastern you'll be getting the main card of this, maybe 3 o'clock Eastern. Main card's delightful. A lot of debutants. on this card, but some great matchups as well.

A lot of stakes going on with Nassadine Imovov and Kyle Bahalio. Top 15 matchup in the Lightway Division, BSD, Mauricio Huffy. It's a good card, man. I'm looking forward to it. I'm excited about it. A European showcase. Exactly. Yeah, and as we said, the energy of the crowd, I think, is going to be unmissable.

It's going to be worth the price of admission. Quassants on Saturday morning at the Jackman household, a set of bagels? We usually actually have those in the house. Bacon, egg and cheese on a croissant? Nah, no, now you're getting too crazy. A little French press coffee? No, don't drink coffee. Wow.

I'll be abiding in both. It'll be great. Yeah, maybe some snails. Maybe some S-cargo later in the day as well. All right, we will get into our bets and picks. In just a moment, we're going to take a short breakstation identification. Don't worry, it's not as many as last time we heard your complaints. Please, please don't shoot the messenger.

my God, we heard your complaints. Just one here at the top of the hour. We'll be back in two short minutes. All right. UFC Paris picks, predictions, bets. Let's start with the parlay pals. Didn't hit at UFC Shanghai. Our hot streak has officially come to an end.

Hot stuff. Yeah, you guys nailed it on PFL. Me and Frankie didn't come through on. Okay, UFC was tough. PFL was all right. Okay. Yeah, lesson learned. Frankie loves those overs.

Frankie loves those overs. Pizzi already gave me his pick he went with Maricio Huffy in the co-main event Makes sense, I like it although even though I said earlier Oh, love it Love that, just like coming in as well

I like that, I like that We don't need to toss to it I like it just dropping right in It's fantastic So Pizzi going with Maricio Huffy Even though I said earlier I liked BSD this and then making me feel good about it

But you go first then Oh And then I'll go second And Frankie you can bring up the rear You're never going to believe this I'm going with Sam Hughes Oh, Sam Hughes, Sam Paid. Shut out.

Not part of Mama V's Army. I'm going with Sam Hughes. No, that's fucked. Sam Hughes, it is. Maybe you won't be mad at me. I'm going to go with the Frenchman, the biggest favorite from France on the card. Umar Sae.

Does he get a finish? No. Decision? Pretty boring 30, 20th century. All right. That's my prediction. We'll take it. Frankie?

You know what? It's going to be Pitbull and Kita going over one and a half rounds. Oh, we're taking an oldover. Yeah, got to mix it up a little bit, but still and over, got to stay on brand. All right, I don't mind that. I don't mind that. I'm looking forward to that fight very much. And now I guess we're going to have some action on. There it is. Plus 205. Wow, the over one and a half on that is minus 425, huh? Damn right, it is.

Still in the green, though. Still in the green. All right. Cash that check. Yeah, I'm not going to do that. I'm not going to do that just because Charles Johnson was looking like he was going to go over until he didn't on U.S. C. Shank. high, which was unfortunate. All right, let me run through my bets real quick. We will start with an underdog. Trey Waters. I like that he's the same size of Sam Patterson. I think he can just outstrike him. I think he can even get a finish here in this one. I know Sam Patterson, three straight first round finishes, but I like Trey Waters' chances here to use his size, use his range, and get this one done. We roll along. Mason Jones, talked about how I like he can put up the volume in the striking

and also go to the wrestling if he needs to. I just thought he should have been a bigger favorite. So it minus 135. I will take them. A few gimmick parlays will start. Sam Page, Sam Hughes, Umar, Si. One half of the parley pals, minus 157. We roll along. Maricio Huffy, Kyle Bahalio, that is a fighting nerds parlay. It worked for me on UFC 319. I'm going back to the well to see if it'll work for me again. If it does, I'm just the biggest fighting nerds. fan on earth and then the french favorite parley umarcy william gomi axel sola is that going to hit i have no idea but i'm just backing the french favorites in those uh and those are the picks those are the bets for ufc paris i do have a prop parley some overs over one and a half uh in imabov caio go me ruchala

and ranat versus andreas i kept the french favorites there didn't update that we'll get the graphics department on that. Lickety split. And those are the bets for UFC Paris. Looking forward to the card this weekend. Nice little afternoon card. And in honor of UFC Paris, me and Frankie, we said we got to try some snails. So we did a fight feast for UFC Paris. And we did just that. We tried snails. We tried steak friates. We tried many, many French fruits throughout New York City just a couple of weeks ago, hopped in the Winnebago, took it around New York City. Please enjoy. ah bonjour the ufc returns to the city of light this weekend with a highly ranked middleweight matchup nazardine imov taking on caiobahili so in honor of the promotions return to paris we are

going to try the best french food new york city has to offer we're going to eat snails we're eating fucking snails today but we're going to start at la bon soup some french onion soup fight feats episode 26. All right. Only way to start your morning in France is with a big crock of French onion soup. La Bon soup. I haven't had French onion soup in a while. Oh. Can you hear it? It's like caramelized over. It's it's beautiful. Cheese all around it. Here we go. We're going right in. Oh. That's a lot of cheese. Let's try one more, Frankie. pull trying to top the Chicago one I don't think we're going to get it got my boy Dev here legend he asked is the soup gonna be hot

hmm it's incredible bone broth onions bread it's incredible bone broth onions bread I don't know how you can't like this. The cheese is never at me. Is this the ugliest anyone's ever eaten in a french onion soup? As a man who's had many french onion soups, this is especially good. At the end you get to slurp it through the tray like you just finished up all of cereal. There's a lot of cheese. It's a lot of cheese.

Escargo time. This is a special dish for Escargo. This is snails. Snail coffins. We've had shark on fight feasts. We've had kangaroo. We've had crawfish. This is far and away the one I'm most nervous for.

Growing up, Gary was always my favorite character on SpongeBob, so this feels a little sacrilege. I'm uncomfortable right now. I'm really not looking forward to this. Frankie, can you, you got to try one with me. Yeah, no. Come on. I saw him.

Pick that up off the sidewalk. Here we go, Frank. All right. Cheers. It tastes pretty good. It tastes like butter and garlic. No, no consistency similar to oysters. That's pretty good.

This is better than I was expecting. Shout out. Here we go. Cheers. I just think of it as the cheese. No, it tastes like butter, garlic. I'm down. Snails, actually out of everything.

Shark, kangaroo, crawfish, everything. Snails are actually the best. I'm nervous for nothing. Now, every time I see a snail on the sidewalk, I'm just gonna... Cause it in the old gullet. Croke madame. Next up, ham and cheese sandwich with

Eschamel, a cream sauce, that they've toasted on top with a Friday. with a Friday. Not the monsieur, not monsieur, madame. Just open that egg up, let it flow. Okay, so just one slice of bread, not a full sandwich. One slice of bread on there, ham, bechamel, crook man. Oh yeah, you can see the caramelization, the crispiness on the edges.

It's pretty fucking good. It feels like a French take on eggs Benedict. Benedict. Instead of a Hollande sauce, it's the Bay Chameau. Instead of English muffin, it's a piece of whatever bread this is. French red, sourdough, baguette, brioche. Grisat. Fantastic. I could start a Saturday morning with this any day of the week. That actually didn't make any sense. That are Saturday morning with this any day of the week. Moving forward, rest of the day, probably smaller bites. Alright, Ratatoui with barata in it. I'm not going to lie, it was anticipating something a little prettier than this.

than this. I've only seen pictures online. I've never had Ratatouille before, so like it was probably pretty in the pot and they had to scoop out some. Here we got Ratatooie first time never. Barada in the middle. There it is. Yeah, a little barata, you know. Radituo, a little barata, a little tomato, little zucchini. Mmm, it's cold. I was expecting it to be hot. It's frigid, it's ice cold. It's not anticipating any of that. This Ratatui has just been a roller coaster. You told me a rat made this stewie? Cold seasoned vegetables with a little bit of stinky cheese? This is more of Frank Thaler, go ahead, Frank.

There you go. All right, we guzzled up all the French onion. Now the best part. I scrape all the cheese off the side of the croc. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Nice stinky cheese. Let it fall into the bath of your backwashed beef broth.

Mmm. All that cheese and it's not even new yet. A lot of cheese. Heavy on the cook mons. Croquemonse. Actually, we had the croquemada, heavy on the cheese, heavy on the cheese and the French onion. Yeah, gonna need to make sure I'm getting my fiber and go be backed up. Don't be backed up. That'll do it for le bonce. Let's go eat some more snails. Get some steak frees.

And some croissons. There's probably going to be more cheese. Yeah, more cheese for sure. Bienvenu a place Deux, uh, uh, Frenchette. Here in the West Village, we're going to try some eggs and snails. I think it's Boulande, something like that. Probably messed that up.

Action Branson says it's one of his favorite dishes on earth. We're going to find out just how good it is, maybe a little steak frit. Anything else is French they have to offer. French yet, it's about two. This is the dish, the brew yard, slow-cooked eggs, luxuriously soft, butter, cream, and right there in the middle, escargo. We add snails to it to make it that much more. Luxurious second snail of the day.

These are the vine. We've got our baguette here. Go ahead and rip this guy open. Waiter said it goes, it goes great with this. It almost like has like grits consistency. Here we go. Snail number two of the day. Wow. Eggs are tremendous. Like they're not even eggs. I can't even describe the consistency. I don't. I've never had anything like it. It's like a soup. It's like halfway between soup and grits. Creamy, buttery, salty. I think I'm a snail guy. I think we're good to say that now. I think I'm officially a guy who eats snails. Chad de Bronson. That would come back for this.

On a Saturday morning any day of the week, you know? Steak frieze. This is seasoned butter on top. Look at that. Beautiful. Steak freets. Here we go. So it's the French's take on a steak and mashed potato. A good steak.

Great steak, actually. French rice feel a little odd. This is good. This is good. I don't know why I had something different in mine. I don't know, but I mean, it lives up to its name. It's steak and french fries, so. Eat you hot out, Halwani.

Look at that dripping blood. Still kicking. Not even cooked raw. Look at this. This is a bouquet. parsley? Okay, a little refresher before we go get some dessert, some huacons, the elixir of the French. Ah...

Best sugar on earth? Refreshing. Straight from the mountains. Water captured right at the source in France, straight to Maine. Straight to me. Perrier before her croissant. Perrier. Perrier. As refreshing as it gets. Spat number three.

The portemont foyer. We're getting croissant. Thank you so much. Have a good rest of your day. We just got her croissants from a parthamon for it. Now let's go fucking eat them. Look at these croissons. normal croissant chocolate croissant croissant pistachio rose croissant and raspberry almond quoson

well they all these look unbelievable uh... potumont for f all right how do we go about this frankie come hold the box for me here brother you know let me let me properly do this hold on red beret for the croissant match my jersey uh all right let's go with this is the normal one first let's get that oh flaky oh flaky cross-section not too crazy on this one oh we're oh yeah this is buttery this is flaky buttery crispy crust yeah yeah you eat ten of those it's buttery it's flaky it's perfect chicken salad on there would be unbelievable ham and cheese on there would be unbelievable uh egg bacon and cheese on there would be unbelievable just with your morning coffee would be unbelievable out of one out of ten that's an eight and a half chocolate oh yeah

Cosaun or chocolate, as the French would say. Not a ton of chocolate there, I have to say. This is light on the chocolate. This is not much chocolate there. That bite, zero chocolate. Tana chocolate? Not so sure about that. Flaky is an understatement.

Flaking everywhere. Okay, the bite with the chocolate is unbelievable. The bite with the chocolate, 10 out of ten. What's it, Frankie? I want more chocolate. There you did. Some guys just run by. I feel like such a fat-ass stuff in my face with croissants.

It looks like it snowed croissant flakes directly onto me. I look like a fat fuck. Camera got Nick's now trying the croissant. There she goes. She just ordered for it like a toddler. She was like, I need croissant. Pistachio rose? This looks like a cookie right here.

I don't know what's going on there. Do they slide a little cookie dough on top? Cookie dough on top, is that just like the crispification of it? Wow, this thing is moist. Oh, it's filling, too. There's pistachio filling in there as well. This is, this is going to get crazy. Mmm.

This is fucking incredible. This is an 11 out of time. This is the best thing I've eaten the entire day. Fuck the snails, bro. This is, this is incredible. This is like cookie on top, pistachio on the inside. Moist, crispy, flaky, buttery. Mmm. I legit need to take a shower. I'm covered in so much shrapnel. That is something serious. It almost becomes a cookie. Like it's smashed up.

Here we go. Raspberry almond. Same style. Feels like a cookie. Feels like a cookie. Raspberry inside. Here we go. Just as good as the pistachio. I want to say it's better, but I love pistachio. That's unbelievable. The flavored ones, I mean, this is disgusting. Can we just get a body scan of me here? This is, I'm a disgrace, I'm a toddler. I am a failure of a man. This is, the flavor just elevated them to a level that I can't comprehend. The normal croissant was great. The flavors were unbelievable.

I got to go take a shower. That was, the point of my 4F, skip the normal, get the flavor, they're unbelievable. All right, we've made it to the end of Paris flight feast. Nostradine Imov. Kyle Bahalia going down this weekend. We ate snails. We ate quassons. Steak frites.

Croc madame. Norman soup, madame. French onion soup. Snails. Did I mention that we ate snails? And then we close it out with a super slim cigarette, a little espresso. Baguette is... Didn't make it the whole day there, but we tried our past.

Overall, a successful day. Steak Freets, I guess you get it from the name, you know? An espresso and a cigarette. This is going to be a deadly duo. Are you even allowed to smoke in the parks? Is that a thing? Snails, I'm officially a snail guy. I feel like I'm rambling at this point. That's it, Feifee's episode 26.

How do you say goodbye? Enchante. See in the next one. That look cool. So in honor of the promotion's return to Paris. Fucking bikeling, fucking bikeling! Technology old palm, the bread technology we've come up with. Is it a microphone? Is it bread? We don't know.

Use some cigarettes to that. Look at this. Look at this fucking guy. Huh? Look at this guy. Balancing the baguagie. Oh, revoir. Merci. Ah, bonjour.

Croson. Oh, hon-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h. Shout to the super slums. I need another one in a minute here. Yo, I look French as fuck. Some guys just walked by and I said, bonjour to him, you definitely thought I was French. Yo, a shot of espresso and cigarettes really do a number, huh?

Uh, Tony, Parker, Victor Wimbignyama. Ah. You're telling me a fucking rat. cook this to me? You're telling me a rat cook this to me? All the fucking phone. You telling me, a rat cook this to me? I need a shower and a teeth brushing after this.

Georges Saint-Pierre. Georgia-Rash-Jose-Rash-S-Pierre. Eiffel Tower. You shut the fuck up when you sit the fuck down, right? You shut the fuck up. I need answers You're trying to sit here You're sitting here in front of me

Look at me dead in the face And you're telling me a fucking rat Cook this to it Uh huh Oh Shout out Yose Paris Oh man

Got me to try snails It was a good time And enjoyed them Yeah Frank hated him Frank hated him Did not like it You were when it was telling me That it was going to be good

I've had it before I liked it I was walking Connor through I was like no don't be nervous that's why I cheersed him I don't know if I got I was uncomfortable I got the fattest snail

and it just wouldn't go away I'm like watching Connor eat his oh I really like it I'm like why is mine not disappearing and all I could think of was like the little antenna like touching the top of my mouth I'm like I'm done

so you psyched yourself out more than the flavor yeah it was the chewy part of it was not what I've experienced the smaller ones that we got at the second place that's what I'm used to not this giant fat snail

that I to be on I think it's still inside of me. That's weird. The end of you just talking to yourself for four minutes was absolutely incredible. I stunk to high heavens by the end of the day. It's just covered in stinky cheese and food and cigarettes and espresso, and it was bad. It was bad, but it was a very fun day. We missed you.

Have you had snails before? Oh, yeah. I did not have Frank's experience. I quite liked it. Jordan, you like snails? He's eating one right now. Love them, actually. Shout out, yeah, they kind of just take on the flavor of what they're in, butter and garlic.

Yeah, that's the thing. Like, if you're going to season, then it's like they taste like that, but yes. Quite enjoyed. Shout to UFC, Paris. Didn't realize there were so many French fruits to try. We just barely even scraped the iceberg. Culinary powerhouse, Francis. It seemed like the croissants were the winter of the day.

Winter of the day. The flavor of croissants were unbelievable. Unbelievable. Okay. French food is also quite a good. good. These croissants, better than the local French restaurant that people line up to get croissons? Oh, Lafayette? Yeah, better. The penwheel ones? Better. Yeah, yeah, better. And it's crazy because this one did no line. No line. He just walked right up. It looked like a little small

walk-up shop. You just get in there and get out. Yeah, there's two locations. There's one in Manhattan and one in Brooklyn. That's great. They'll talk to them on Ford F. Shout out. Shout out to them. Shout out to them. Shout out the front chat. Those eggs. Fantastic. I will be back for those. Love it. Eggs and snails. Shout out. All right. We continue with. We continue with our French theme pound for pound rankings this week. Top French things. Easy. Top French things. The caveat being French

has to be in the name. A word, a title, a description. It must be French. It has to be French. But the French has to be in the name. Top French things. If you picked the Eiffel Tower, it does not apply to this list. That is not a French thing. This is going to be a great time, guys. I can't wait.

That is a French thing. It isn't a French thing. You know what I'm saying? it must we're not using quote like air quotes like to say like the sarcastic

like this doesn't we literally mean air quote like these quotes are literal you literally did not mention this French what's the order Frank the order will be frank then Connor then in quotes

Rick all right kick us out I'll take it my number one or number five excuse me is French's mustard oh great choice

you did understand need a sign no no i didn't but french isn't the name on this one and it's the best yellow mustard you could get put it on a hot dog put it on a i don't know a turkey sandwich fucking eat it straight out of the jar if you want put it on a snail i guess it's my number five my number four also sticking with the uh the mustard theme great poupon oh boo fritch is on the bottle or the the the jar here. Oh, let's see, this is bullshit. And Jordan tried to warn me.

I was like, no, man, you're wrong. This isn't a pound for pound mustard list. Oh, well, then I'm doubly wrong. Okay, um, my number three mustard. Wait, what? No, no, no. Number three French things, keesh. But they got to be like the bite-sized keesh that you have at a party.

Not like, don't give me a whole fucking pie. Save that for pie date. These little keesh, you just got to eat them, throw them down, eggs, maybe some bacon. Scallions. What is this? French is mustard is not actually French. So you understood the assignment

for the first one and then he just threw it to the win. I even gave him like three chances. Be like, hey man, do you want to redo this list? I had a conversation with Connor

where he was like, well, I was thinking we could do it. It has to have French in the name and then I thought we agreed to not do that. Whatever. Okay, I will admit. So what is your list?

Usually it's a bit where it's like, no, no, I misunderstood. Like this one I literally do not. What is your list then? It's just French things. But the first one is, not French.

All right, I was threatened by death, but one of the producers I'm not going to name any names. Connor looked dead me in the face, and he was like, if you don't put French mustard on your list, I'm going to fucking kill you. Wow, that's the only reason you put it. What's your number two, man?

This is also a terrible list if you're just doing it. My number two is... Wide French things. Charcoterie. Some of my favorite charcutory boards are the one that comes in a plastic tray. Maybe the other one that comes in

four different plastic trays. This is a lunchable. and no no no charcutory is french for lunchable this is the shittiest i've ever heard if you're in brooklyn and you're feeling fancy they'll they'll put this shit together i don't know it always looks so pretty i'm afraid to eat it because i'm like this is something to look at not to eat and my number one french thing is daff punk you gotta love him dude Followed up is Connor. We gotta start writing this shit down.

Like, what the actual thing is. Daffed punk is your number one French thing. Oh my God. I'm crying. You've really taken the wind out of our sales here, Frank. This is my fact that I had such an argument with Jordan about it. I was like, no, no. And then all day today you guys kept saying French and you put air quotes up.

Oh, my, I got this. This is fine. things. Could he use his own name if you want to do something French. No, Frank, you know. You just added French as mustard

because of that empty threat that I mentioned. All right, my number five. Started off great whenever you go to a party French onion dip. Gotta be with the ruffles with the ridges.

That's a requirement. It's so good. Forget the soup. Is this your number one dip? The soup is great. Not my number one dip ever. We can do a pound-for-pound dips list, but this is up there.

Okay. I mean, this is a great dip, especially if it comes with the ruffles, with the ridges. I'm not eating it. Otherwise, number four, French fries. No-brainer. I mean, any kind. The stray cut, get a nice aoli with it, ketchup, curly fries, waffle fries. I do not discriminate against French fries.

Absolutely love any kind of French fries. Shout out sweet potato, if you're feeling it, steak cut. I'm down for anything. Love French fries. Number three, we leave the food realm when we go to French Bulldogs. that's still food great type of dog look at this

I mean how can you could you ever be upset with someone that looks like this I mean look at the face the dumbest face you've ever seen on earth coming many shapes many colors many sizes

look at the face I mean shout out to a nice mustard shout to a nice Frenchie gotta love a French bulldog number two we're going back to the food

breakfast food this time though you can stack them high you can stack them in many different ways French toast get it nice and crispy don't discriminate here either fruits chocolates,

cinnamon sugar. I'll even do a French toast stick. Throw it in the microwave, dunk it in

the sauce. For sure. The sauce being maple syrup. Shout out the French toast. Shout out the French toast sticks.

And numeral uno. Hmm. The French Open. Oh. Tennis tournament. On the clay, the rich clay of Roland Garros

happening in Paris. I've been myself. Look at that. I mean, absolutely beautiful. Iconic. Raphael Nidal. Oh, there I am am at Aldar.

I think I actually a picture of me and there I am with Nadal celebrating his trophies you can see me on the left zoom in

that's me on the right on the right French Open though shout out no daft punk not no daft punk missed opportunity

if it was if it was French daft punk you could have put it in French punk yeah French punk okay I also understood

the assignment so I'm going to go number five this one's just an appreciation appreciation fine apparel. And that's the French made.

Jesus. What? Look at the outfit. Shout out. I didn't even think of this one. This one's more of a, if you know, you know situation. Like, the French made outfit, let's just say, like, perfect. Like, we've perfect French made outfit.

What's next? French kissing? If you know, you know. No, that didn't make the list. He's actually in the studio. That might have been a, that might have been a, uh, that might have been a, uh, uh, honorable mention, but yes, the French made outfit, well done, well done

to you out there. Number four, the phrase pardon my French. I love pardon my French. This is nice. This is nice. I heard it when I was a kid and I kind of like didn't understand. I then now in the course of this list looked up

and had a better understanding of where this comes from, where the expression comes from, and it was like there were, they would slip French into the English when they were trying to speak English they would slip French in by accident and then it became part of my French

but now it became kind of synonymous with like the cursing aspect love the phrase have used it myself and I quite enjoy when people say it say it right before I'm about to just rip off some bad words just curse up a storm

part of my French number three I go culinary here too I'm a big fan of the French dip I really enjoy the French dish. The sandwich. You get yourself that roast beef. You're dipping it in the Aju.

Quite tasty. I believe it is not French like many of the other French foods. It's all right. None of them are French. But I understood the assignment. French dip. Really enjoy it. My number two, same as your number two.

Stack those bad boys up. Give me the slices of French toast. Love me some French toast. But here's an important one. one, brioche. Give me the thick. Give me the brioche. Give me this like thick cut bread,

delicious, love French toast. My number one, I only recently discovered this, but it had to be number one. I love it. It's the French leave. And if you are not familiar with the French leave,

you may know it better by its other name, which is the Irish goodbye. The French leave is actually the original name. Is this AI? Is this AI? That is AI? Jesus.

She couldn't just find a picture? No, there's nobody like quite, like I tried to search for photos of people like leaving parties. There really are no photos of that. And if you're doing a proper French leave, nobody's really going to get a photo of you doing that because you've left unannounced. And so it's quite hard to capture that moment. I am not somebody who likes to do a whole round of goodbyes when I'm leaving.

I'd rather just slink out and let everybody else. continue their fun. Shout out to the French leave. Shout out to the Irish goodbye. Love leaving unannounced. That is, that is something that I quite enjoy. But I did not, I was not aware that it, that it originated with the French leave. I was not aware that that was where this started. I had always heard Irish goodbye, but it turns out it's French. French leave. Shout out. Who would have known? Shout out to pound for pound French things. Frankie, horrible job. Yeah, wow. I mean, I'll take the L on this. this is like the time we did what pies and you said uh i mean see that was like i was trying to be funny this one i really feel like you guys just fucked me Part of my French.

Fucked you by explaining it exactly? No, no, no, no, you guys have your own, like, you know, couples language. Are you like, oh, you know, French? Oh, yeah, French. Let's do French. Okay, French. Frank, you went? I'm like, uh, I have a couple questions.

Oh, fuck your questions. All the times. You have a couple of questions? Frank, the amount of times that you're like, all right, so we're doing this for the pound for rankings? And it's like Monday at 8 a.m. I still don't understand. Would you slow down a little bit?

All right. Honestly, Daft Punk shit's all over both of your list together. I'm going to read a text message straight to, frank giving you a heads up conners and rick's list are all things that have the word french in it do you want to change what a coincidence i thought they're two peas in a pod i'm not surprised that they both did that thanks for the heads up jordan i'm going to continue to move forward frankie's uh missing the mark on this is like all time this is a legendary frank performance on this one as i said i can't tell if he's trolling or not i don't this one i fully accept i just

misunderstood. Okay, I had some honorable mentions, did you? Oh, yeah. French press? French press. French Riviera? French Alps

out to the mountains. What else you got? I had fry, but you had fries. I had French open. You had, you, yes, we know. The point was that French is in the title, Frank. Just so you're clear. French in title.

French cuffs. I like a French cuff. I'm quite a fan of that one. What is that? Is that legit or not? I don't know. Yeah. It's the cuff style where they have the two ends of the shirt meet outside.

Okay. And then you clip it. And then you put the cuff link through as opposed to the flat round. Got it. I like that style. Very important. French Montana. Shout out French Montana.

How good. You know, nobody have mentioned French Montana. Legend of the game. Yeah, but French is not in that name. That was that. French Stewart as well. Ah, shout out the French Stewart. Shout to French Stewart.

All right, that's the pound for pound French things list. That was our best one. Frankie, we got any of voicemails, brother? You do. Voice sales. It's going to have to give me a second here. No, it's all good.

Go ahead and figure out your list, man. Oh, hoie, hoie? Boys in the back. J.B. from D.C. here. What's up, J. I got a question, I guess, kind of revolving around nostalgia. So growing up, playing video games, were you guys more for, like, Sega Genesis, or were you Super Nintendo?

Were you gaming hard on that Sonic the Hedgehog with tails following you around? Or were you some Super Mario World with Yoshi? And while we're at it, what about Mortal Kombat or Street Fighter? Maybe Star Fox or Legend of Zelda. Anyways, let me know. Thanks. Best question ever. Zelda, Mario. But Star Fox and Zelda, actually, both Nintendo.

Yeah. You mentioned Sonic? I was a Spiro guy. Right. But the question was Genesis or Super Nintendo? I'm not that old. Yeah, you weren't old enough for that. N64, GameCube, PlayStation. So no Dreamcast?

Xbox. No Dreamcast, but I've played it before. But you're in Nintendo pretty clearly. I had a Gamecast. Gamecast? What is game cast? No. They're like the Timo GameCube? Malibu's Most Wanted.

Those who know, no. Oh, I don't know what that is. You don't know what Malibu's Most Wanted is? No, no, I know what that is. I don't know what game cast is. Yeah, it's a scene in it. He's like, man, I got a game cast. And this is exactly what happens.

People are like, what the fuck is a game cast? Moving on! All right. I've seen, oh, so it's in Malibu's... Yeah, I didn't watch that movie that closely. Legendary movie. Super Nintendo for me eventually became Genesis

They're both perfect I was both They were both incredible for me I was all over Sonic For sure Sonic player Had all the Mario's The gold cartridge Legend of Zelda

Like I was I was on both of those Those were core After that I started becoming more Like PlayStation I had an N64 Like the N64 Once I got that out of my system I started going Sony

And then I became PS2 PS3 PS4 But now you're an Xbox guy I have an Xbox I really don't play a lot I don't play games really but hopefully I can get my kids into Switch Don't need to buy Uncle Frank I'm actually I just started up tears of the kingdom

Legends Zelda it's fantastic It's fantastic There's another Zeldas are there at this point Oh there's a shit done yeah there's a shit ton I mean all the OGs and then on N64 There was Ocaryana of time and Majora's mask And then there was Wind Waker and Skyward Sword This gets Twilight Princess

Twilight Princess on GameCube as well Yeah there's a million but these These last two, Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom, have been unbelievable. Oh, Conquers Bad Fur Day getting a shout out in the chat. Shout out. This is actually, I have to do this. A quick little fact about Twilight Princess. Came out on GameCube. Then they had to release it on the Wii, but they were like, okay, Wii is going to have the controls, emotion controls, right? But they were like, Link is left-handed. And now most people who are playing this game are going to be right-handed. This is weird.

So what do they do? They mirrored the whole fucking game. So if you get it on the Wii versus the GameCube. It's the same game, but everything is mirrored. Wow. That is quite interesting. What's up, guys? It's Daniel from Chicago. I'm actually the person that dropped the game of Steve's. This is our insider. This is our newsbreaker.

So I just wanted to clarify that. The other thing I wanted to say is I had a friend last week who based on my model won $560 off a $10 bet. I remember you guys used to post like crazy flips. I was wondering if you guys

still had an option, like, to send those in because I hit quite a few off my models, so I was hoping to show it off. Shit, shout out to the model. So take care, guys. Shout out to Daniel. Well, Dan, send, uh, send the slip on Twitter. Send the model. Love a good model.

It's a model play. It's a model play. All right. We're trusting the model. I love it. Send, uh, yeah, we have the big header segment. So send it to GC after a bit of that. But shout out to you for that breaking news.

Thank you. Shout out for the breaking news. Shout for the, what would that be if you won $560 on a $10 bet? That's like plus $5,600. Yeah. Shout out. What up, boys? Joey from Ohio.

Something like, exciting life of an account over here. She said the exciting life of an account? The lows and lows of highs. Anyways. I recently hit a PR on Benchpress. Got 255 yesterday. I don't feel for a yoke. Fuck, yeah.

It's got me thinking, of any U.S.U.C. fighter on the active roster, who can bench for us the most? Historically, you probably throw out Brock or Horsesney-Auster or probably pumping 405 for reps. But right now, I don't know if there's anyone that could even hit 315. Anyways, put your thoughts on that. Thanks, boys. Yeah, that's a good question. I mean, Jelton Al-Meda, I feel like could throw up a pretty big number. No, because he's smaller for the heavyweight. You got to go probably, like, one of the bigger heavyweights. Is it Tom?

Can Tom maybe put up the most? I think Tom could, could wreck the $1,000. Sergey Palovich could probably put up some numbers. Black Beast? 255, though. Shout out, man. No, probably really puts it. Salsa boy.

Salsaboy. Hell of lucky we didn't have a show after that Shanghai card. A hate watch was on, baby. Shout out to you. Congrats on the personal record. Hope you guys are having a good day. This is Jacob, Colin from Denver, Colorado. Born to Express, a little gratitude for you guys.

I just got back from Montana moving my sister into college. And yeah, so I'm just going to get the first time in the whole life that I'm without my sister. And I also moved out of my mom's place for the first time. So, you know, it's like a super tough position. I'm starting college. myself and you know like life is like so high thick and crazy right now and uh well like appreciate you guys for you know it's like being like you know a place that i can like go and like you know listen to you guys and just like take a break from it all you know and like not feel so

stressful thank you for that and um yeah just like if you guys have any advice you know like i am like short in college and like i'm scared and uh it's like so much work and uh yeah i'm just i'm freaked out i know i can do it but uh yeah i'm scared so if you guys have any advice uh just like fun like growing up i'd appreciate it thank you congrats on moving out of your mom's place that's huge congrats on starting college congrats on moving your sister and man a lot of a lot of things happening a lot of things changing in your life uh it's exciting yeah it can be scary but it's something to be scared of you mentioned a lot of work yeah

you got a lot of work in front of you uh just getting through college and getting into the the job space whatever you choose to do uh but it's exciting time man i'll tell you right now i wish i could go back to my first day of college college College will likely be an amazing time for you. Yeah. Couldn't agree more with G.C., like the years of college, I think, are amazing. The, like, coursework of college, I think is probably the more daunting part, but I wouldn't, like, I wouldn't be scared. There's nothing to really worry about.

Everybody I know who I, like, talked to about this didn't really do what they have their degree in, right? Like, I have a degree in marketing, not using it all, never used it, completely did something else. don't put so much pressure on yourself to think that you have to decide everything in your life that's going to stem from this. Like your major is not going to likely be your career. Maybe it is. Maybe it is. Like I hope you find something that you love that early in life. But ultimately, don't put so much pressure on yourself to make this like a finished thing.

Enjoy your college years. Work hard, study, do all those things. But don't put so much pressure on yourself to like make this the final thing. You've got so many years ahead of you. Enjoy the time and you'll be fine. Nothing to be scared of. It's going to be amazing, man. Good luck. Hey, guys. This is Kevin from Columbia, South Carolina.

I've been listening over and over again at times where they say the James Tahuna clip. And I've just been wondering where did that originate from. I'm sure there's other people, guys who've been listening, just wondering where that originated. If you could let us know, I'm sure we'd appreciate it. Thank you. Bye. one of my all-time favorite moments that happened earlier this year during an interview with Halwani and Taitui Vasa where Halwani mistakenly thought James Tihuna had fought.

Do we have the clip, Jordan? Hey, James looking good in the boxing ring. James Tihon. Yeah, you saw him. When did he fight? He fought a few, maybe like one or two months ago. He had a big win, and then he called out Jake Paul. James Tehuna?

Yes. I think you're talking about the wrong person. James Tehuna, boxing. Are I tripping right now? You're tripping. No, it was James Tehuna? Am I crazy? I think you're crazy.

James Tehuna is like the first Aussie U.S. Yes, I know who James Tehuna was. Guys, didn't James Tehuna have a boxing match? He was like calling back to us. Yes. And now I'm like losing. my, maybe I've lost my mind. What are you talking about Tyson Pedro?

Tyson's lighting up a joint. I told you I was right. You think you know everything, see? That's how happened. Hey, I've been on the air for three. By the way, the best part about this is you lighting up the joy while correcting me. See? Oh, what a moment.

All-time moment. And I was, I was in the back absolutely dying. That, that long, long pause where Ariel goes, yeah, he was in the ring and he called out Jake Paul. And Ty's just like, James Tihona? He's like, there's no way this is the right guy. I think we also have our reaction to this happening on the show. What was the, what was the boxer? I was fucking dying back here.

That was very Davy Ramos-esque of you. Ariel always says that James de Hooster He's like James Tehuna He's like man What the fuck are you talking about? He's like am I dripping

He's Tyson Pedro As he's As he's lighting up the joint He's just like He's just oh man I was dying back here dude I could not stop laughing He's lighting up the join

He's like you're talking about Tyson Pedro I looked up James Tahuna. He's 44 years old and hasn't fought in 10 years. You know what's so great about that scene? I feel like that's a scene that you have with your boys. But you are smoking? Yeah, that's right. Literally, you just finished smoking, I'm blown with your boys.

And it's just like, man, do you see the James Tihuna fight? Everyone's like, James Tahuna fucking fought? It's like, yeah, it's crazy. Then they're like, no, no, not. You meet Tyson Pedro Oh my gosh I'm sweating so much Golly

I was legit dying back here I was rolling All time moment That is a legendary clip All time moment on the show Oh man To the point where I was told

That James Tohuna Was brought up in the voicemails And I just Googled the James Tahuna thing And I found this The first result When you type in James Tahuna

Question mark Is this shirt on Etsy What James Tahuna MMA fancy Ariel Hawani show reference. This is from Fight merch store. I believe this is a store based out of Australia, if I'm not mistaken. And in the description for it, James Tahuna, a shout out to the infamous running joke from the Ariel Hawani show.

This T is a playful nod to one of the show's funniest moments. Whether you're a fan of Ariel's hilarious insights or just appreciate some MMA humor, this shirt's for you. Shout out boys in the back. Wow! Insane. Shout out to the Fight merch store. That's incredible. Shout out. So good.

James Tehuno? I almost want to order one. That moment will always get me. Rewatching that, it got me again. Like, it's just too perfect. You can show me that 10-second clip of Ty Tuivasa sitting there, just like stone face being like, what the fuck is this guy talking about? He's like, James Tehuna.

And also just like, this is no shade at all to James Tehuna, but like it wouldn't work if it was Steve Johnson. The fact that his name is James Tehuna makes it so much funnier. All-time moment. Tai Tui Vasa, just blasting joints the entire time. We're all wearing the Bam Bam Bud's merch that they sent over. Shout out to their team. The best part of this is in some time, at some point,

there is going to be an Ariel James Tahuna thing that will happen and it will all have stemmed from that one moment. I can't wait. The sit-down interview with James Tahuna will happen at some point and it will all have stemmed from that incredible moment. I want like a really sick design James Tihuna shirt where it's like says James Tihuna and then it's like all these sick pictures of him. Yeah, it's all these sick pictures of Tyson Pedro.

But it says James Tahuna, question mark. It's like James Tihuna and then it's Tyson Pedro pictures. The best part of that is if you wear that around and somebody goes, bro, you know that's Tyson Pedro instead, right? That's what the question mark is for dumb ass. I know. Is it James Tuhna? No, it's Tyson Pedro.

Oh, fuck. It's all time. I'm actually going to work on making that. I'm just going to make a one of one. No, no, I want one. I'm going to wear it in one day, and no one's going to be the wiser. No, I want one, though. Oh, that's incredible.

All-time moment. What's up? It's Nico calling from Miami, Florida. I'm a daily listener of the show. My man, appreciate you. From Rochester, shout out Rochester. Shout out the 585. Shout out 585, bro.

Thank you, G.C. for the show. God damn, nailed it. I wanted a call and say, I joined the Strava group. yesterday. I'm excited to be a part of the uncrown team. I'm actually a collegiate runner here in Florida. Oh, the Strava group! Shout the fuck out! Let's go.

I think I got up on my cigarette smoking numbers just to reach my maximum fitness. Yes, sir. I'm going to keep working hard and just keep training. Keep it up, man. I get my opportunity on that Avron bike. You're fucking right. You at the top. Thanks for

entertaining me every day. See you at the top. Thank you for listening, brother. We really appreciate it. Thanks for joining the Strava group. I've been having fun on Strava, man. I ran a 10K yesterday. A little test 10K run. Haven't run one in a while. Signed up for one at the end of October.

Look at you. Actually, the morning of UFC 322. So hopefully I don't, oh, hopefully I don't shit my pants doing it. It's a Halloween one that I'm very much looking forward to. Ran it in like 4830 yesterday. I'm going to go for sub 45 on race day. Look at you. There's some fast dudes in there.

There's a dude from, maybe that was him, but there's a dude from University of Miami. That's a collegiate runner. Oh, like a real runner. Yeah, but there's, like, no way for us to compete. Like, who can do the most miles, who can have the fastest pace. Like, Strava's kind of limited with that. But we do have a group event on Saturday at the UFC Paris Fight Day 5K. Love it.

Hopefully they'll be like a leaderboard for it. But yeah, I'll be running a 5K on Saturday morning. Shout out to the Strava group, man. That's incredible. Keep pounding the pavement, baby. I'm getting back into it. I've run like a marathon and a half marathon before, and that kind of, kind of like killed my joy for it but like trying to run as fast as possible on these five

and ten kids have been fun so shout out of this travel group hey guys so i'm driving with my wife right now and i was trying to explain to her the boys in the back and just about how you guys answer questions so she's got one for you here oh here we go okay i'm wondering hypothetically we had like a pack of hyenas all right which one gorilla who would win i was telling her it's going to depend on how many are in that pack but anyway it's like regular pack size I don't know four five five hyena versus

one gorilla three hyenas would win all right five hyenas one gorilla let us know light work yeah smash the fact that we even had a had a discussion a debate about a hundred men

versus one gorilla and now we're only throwing five hyenas what are the hyenas gonna do laugh I mean what is this uh no I'm taking the gorilla in that one that gorilla would pick the first one up and smash the second one with it. Yeah, I was going to say because once he gets one, then

now you're down to four. That's just basic math right there. And that's getting knocked down to three pretty quickly. It's cooked. And like, bro, you're cooked. You would need to legitimately take out like an adult gorilla, the hyenas would have to have enough of a number

that they're swarming and can like push it over. If that gorilla's just standing there in the middle, five hyenas ain't getting it. Yeah, you've got to get it on its You got to, like, push it. Hainas aren't that big either, man. They're the size of, like, a normal dog. They're not big enough.

Guerrillas are standing in the middle there and just swinging those hyenas. I was going to say the power that a silverback has, too. Also, let's talk about, like, the balls on these hyenas to go after the gorilla. That'd be crazy. But thank you for the call. Shout to you. Shout to your wife, man. Appreciate it.

Guerrilla. How about boys in the back? This is Adam, the resident caller from the netherals. My God, what's up, Adam? I appreciate the mentions on the show. No, you're the man, brother. My question for you guys today is regarding this kind of middleweight Grand Prix we have with four potential contenders. Boy, RDR.

I actually have an opinion here. I love RDR, but I'm actually, I really think that Imov is getting hard done by here. If you compare the four, their resume is their body of work. I feel like Imov is the one who could have, you know, that argument to sit out, and I just wait for a title shot. If you look at, I mean, he knocked out, he beat Deleuze in a main event. He knocked out in a main event.

Tenonier was a man, I think. Tenonier was a man, man, as well. I mean, what more of the guy got to do? Anyway, so this is my two cents. Let me know what you guys think. It's a complete case. Shout to Amsterdam. And I think we agree, right?

Imov has the best resume. But it's kind of not a resume thing anymore with the UFC. Like he needs an impressive win. If you can get that on Saturday, I do think it's his. Yeah. Yeah, especially in front of that crowd. People going nuts. It's going to be huge for him.

Yeah. It's going to be very interesting how this plays out. I love the fact that they're taking place a month apart. And it's kind of just like, who's going to fight Hamza on next? and then the matchmaking that you can make from there with the winner that gets snubbed and the losers of the fight. It's going to be great.

Boys, we finally did it. It's August 23rd, 723 a.m. Eastern Standard Time. And Sergei Pavlovich has finally defeated that little bugger Waldore Cortez-A-C. We made it, baby. We made it. The salsa ends. The dance has gone quiet. Yeah, it was a brilliant performance by Sergei Pavlovich.

Yeah, just a great team effort all around. The salsa rain is over. What I love about that is... The salsa era has come to an end. This gentleman was there in the morning of the fight. The first thing he thought when Sergey won was, got to call my boys. Dial him up.

Dial him up. Dial him up. He needs to know. Shout out. Shout out to you. Shout out to you for being part of this. It's cheers. It's really been a long journey to get here, but we did it.

We did it. Boys in the back. Matt from Nashville again. Woke up at 2 a.m. yesterday to watch that China card. Stub. I had a cat on my lap. My wife was asleep on the couch next to me. Wow.

Life's pretty good, man. Life's blessed. Hope you guys are enjoying the vacation. Can't wait until you all get back. Peace. Peace, brother. Thank you. Great call.

We're back. Yo, boys in the back. It's Jammer. It's Jammer. Jammer. I'm just sitting on the beach in Italy right now. You guys basically timed your vacation perfectly, man. I literally had the same exact days off, so I went, took a trip to Italy.

Now I'm about to head back, and you guys will be getting your shows back on the road right as they get back. works out perfectly but anyways got a question for you guys this week between francis and gano and jake paul what do you think was the biggest failure of a signing for the pfl not saying that either of them failed by signing with the pfl obviously they made the bag and you know their lives are better off for it but i feel like the pfl wasn't necessarily the greatest investment to sign jake and francis and only get one fight out of the two of them. So, yeah, guys, let me know. Anyways, glad you guys are back. Shout out, GC, shout out Frankie, Rick, the whole crew, Andy, on Air Jordan. Love all you guys. Duceus. Shout to you, brother. I hope you enjoyed the vacation, man. Appreciate the call.

We are back. We enjoyed ourselves. It's been great. Don't forget, on top of Jake Paul and and Francis and Ghana, they also signed a Manus Serrano, who I would imagine is never going to fight for them. And I just can't, I can't imagine a world where Jake Paul fights for them as well. So just, I believe I'm correct on this, I think that Jake Paul one was a partnership as opposed to a signing, right? I know, but they did the whole photo shoot and all the shores. And if he fights MMA, he's going to fight for them. I think that's probably the answer anyway, just because even though Francis has only fought once, his association with the PFL has been hugely beneficial. For one, they got this, like, Africa division thing going. But two, just like, he's the biggest name PFL fighter. So anytime somebody's like Francis and Gano, it's PFL as opposed to UFC. So I don't think it could be Francis. I think it could be Francis. I think. he's done good for them, even though he has done limited work for them and been more in the boxing scene, they need a name that, like, people know. And Francis Ngano is a name that people know. So I think it's probably the Jake Paul part of it. But, you know, I don't think anybody

expected them to really fight MMA. All right, we will continue with your voicemails after a quick break. We're hopping off fast. We'll continue the rest of the show. Last break on YouTube. All right. Welcome back on YouTube. We're not done for the breaks today. We heard you out. I think we were doing some from like eight down to two. Seven. Seven down to two. We're chipping away to get that down to get down. And a little more engaging.

Just got to chip it down. She's got to keep grabbing that hammer. We did hear you guys, though. Let's finish up some voicemails, get to some super chats, and get on to the weekend, UFC Paris. Boys, it's your boy, Jersey, Mike. Shout up to 201. Hey, doing. Sandwich on me.

What is the losing bet that still haunts to you? For me, my first bet ever, my favorite fighter, Jose Aldo Moneyline versus Cona McGregor, December 12th, 2015. I remember talking up this fight to everybody, my family, my friends, Frank's mom, my co-worker. Aldo had more win a longer win street. The man hadn't lost in over 10 years and then gets knocked out in 13 seconds. You know what I do? I just forget about it. me every day. But Jose Aldo, he's still my boy. Thanks, fellas. Take an agent.

Great call. That's great question. I have too many losing bets to know the answer to this. I've been betting for like 12 years at this point. There's been a lot. There's been a lot that hurt bad. Most recently, I went to, I went out to the U.S. Open, had an all-day parlay, several of them, and they all finished with Andriva versus Taylor Townsend. And, and, you know, And I had And DRIVA, she goes out, she gets a break in the first game. She goes up two games to love. I'm like, we're rolling. We're bank rolling here.

About to finish four or five parlias. She completely collapses and gets smoked, and I had to sit there and watch it live. That one stung pretty bad. So, like, you know, it depends when you catch me. I got a new one every month. There's not one. I mean, I bet on Volk against Tporia. That was, looking back, I was like, man, I bet on Whitaker against DDP.

I've taken some favorites that got super. smashed. So yeah, shout out. There's many more losses to be had. Legitimate question for you. Do the losses hurt more than the ones that you wish you took? For me, the ones that I'm like, I should have bet that are the ones I think about way more than the losses. Not the losses hurt point. Oh, really? Yeah. Okay. For me, it's the opposite. Because if I didn't take it, that means I didn't feel that strongly about it. Yeah, maybe I'm just, uh, something's miscalibrated. with me but I'm looking out there and I'm like I see these things and I'm like ah I feel that way and then I never take it yeah these days nut up or shut up scared money don't make money

yeah the losses the losses hurt far more yeah yeah what up boys Brett from Nebraska shout out Nileau Paul shout out said Miles Paul I don't even know what that is Connor I have a once in a lifetime investment opportunity this Saturday at 630 p.m. as the greatest college football team in the country for Nebraska Cornhusker is only 34 and a half-point favorite over the accident zip. But I know something that Vegas doesn't know,

which is that for the first time of my life, I will be there as a season ticket holder. I've waited 24 years for this, and I will be there with my beautiful fiancé. And we will be there four quarters, no matter what, screaming our ass off because we love, love corn. Nothing we love more than corn.

And we are in sports At least a touchdown on the spread Vegas doesn't know that I'm going to be there And I'm worth that much Go big red See you at the top 34 and a half point favorites Against the Akron Zips

The last time Nebraska won by More than 34 and a half I'm I'm going back pretty far here Oh 56 to 7 They were on the losing end of that game Northern Iowa Wouldn't have covered that last year

I'm in I'm in Brett I'm in sign me up Nebraska minus 34 and a half With all this betting talk, actually another terrible loser, I texted you as I lost this one, I texted the group chat. I had like a crazy significant strikes, alt significant strikes combo prop, and it was like plus 10,000. It was to turn like 20 into like two grand. And all I needed was the Amanda Hebas fight, I think. It was some women's fight to go over. And they were cruising towards it. And there was a takedown in the third round and they just sat on it. It was the Angela Hill

fight. Sat on the takedown for the last five minutes of the fight and they didn't get any strikes in the third round. I think I needed like six or seven. They got none. It was painful. It was painful. All right. Nebraska minus 34 and a half, though. Here's the thing though. He said Paul Miles. The only person I've been able to find, I mean

Miles Paul. The only people I've been able to find, including one for Nebraska, is Paul Miles. Yeah, Paul Miles Nebraska football. Like, he likes going random. He went fucking random. He's actually referring to Niles Paul. Who's that? Washington football player.

Oh, shut up. I spoke to him many times. I was an intern down in D.C. It's a rookie year. Get the fuck out of here. Yeah, I had to interview him a few times, no big deal. Interesting. Glazer for sure.

I'm looking at Paul Miles, 1983 running back at Nebraska. All right. Niles Paul. Shout out to Niles Paul and Brett for that poll. I doubted him for a second. I was like, oh, you got the name wrong. He did not. It did not.

In all purpose yards at Nebraska, Niles Paul. Oh, yeah. This is for sure him. Yeah, University of Nebraska. Wait. What? What all time? How many? Fifth all time. Fifth all time. Holy fuck. Niles Paul. Yeah, shout out to Niles Paul. I'm looking at him in an oversized Nebraska t-shirt. Oh, he's got on a great beard now. Shut out. Jordan's boy.

Hey, guys. Ben here from Tucson again. What's up, Ben? Watching the aerial show right now. And I had a question. I saw somebody say Dylan Dennis versus all the mailmen. Does that include DoorDash, Uber drivers, any of those

as well. Yes. Because I have a guy. Oh. My buddy. 320. 320. Samoan. Oh. What's he doing?

Ordering DoorDash. Should be a bouncer, right? Dillon Dennis. Come get it. I don't want to see that versus Dillon Dennis, but we'll take him in Mailman Fight League. Yeah, yeah, yeah, we got to fight for him in Mailman Fight League. Potentially, if he gets a few wins, we could slate him again, still in Dennis and Misfits.

But right now, we'll start him on the Mailman Fight League. We'll open up the delivery driver, app-based delivery driver circuit within the Mailman Fight League, because then we'll also have to have restaurant-based delivery driver circuit, the Pizza Hutts, the dominoes that have drivers provided by the restaurant. So, yeah, we're ever expanding, ever-growing. growing big things going on at the end of now. 320 Samoa, this can be hard for us to find a matchup for her, but we'll, we'll, we'll, we'll get out there.

I got someone in mind. I got someone in mind. I'm still in the back. This is Trey. I'm South Dakota. Shout out, South Dakota. Shout out, Frank. I was me and you last phone calling. You weren't even there, but damn. You deserve the honesty that I did it, and I apologize. It was such a long week, not having. your guys' show on. They're like in celebration

of it being back. I'm going to eat a bowl full of strawberries and blueberries. It's 10 o'clock a night right now. Just to think of aerial, you know. I was going to say, yeah. But anyway, what was your guys' favorite thing that happened this last weekend?

We're with all the events that were going on with no UFC. And that's it. Shout out the crew. Shout to the crew. Shout to the crew. Shout to you for eating. strawberries and blueberries because you know it would give Ariel horrendous

grass at 10 p.m. in the evening. We still don't have an explanation. That's a great tribute for that. Shout out. My favorite thing that happened, probably the Tony Ferguson win. I'm thinking, I like the Darren Till Luke Rockhold, because it just feels like Darren's got some good momentum right now.

Like, I feel like, oh man, Tony though, Tony getting back on track. That's what I said. I thought you're going to say the Darren Till, Luke Rockhold post-fight photo at the bar. If anybody's seen that, we didn't get to do a full breakdown. I know I'm really putting Jordan on the spot here. I don't know if he still has it.

It's the picture of them with their arms around each other and they're drinking beers. And like it looks like there's like an AI filter over it. It looks like it looks like Darren Till has transformed into like some sort of ventriloquist dummy. And like Luke Rockhold has his hand up his ass and he's making him like talk like a puppet. It's it's a wild looking picture. It's quite crazy. So yeah, that was actually my probably my favorite part of the week. again.

What up, boys? Double D, D, B, B, B, Lens. It's a thrill in the agony over the last two weeks in my world. So we're going to start off with a thrill. PFL's Headshot Dead moment. You can't script it. Unbelievable. So happy to see that.

So happy for the entire Edwards family. And really excited for the matchup with Van Steenis. Sorry, Johnny Eblins. Big signing coming soon to heavyweight. Not going to get in any more trouble. Breaking news here. Oh, speaking of that. Don?

Coach man? All right, no, we're good. He said coachman? Now to the agony. Kiefer Crosby, closes a minus 3.85. Too honorable for his own good. The points were in my hand and would have gotten back. to zero and

uh keep across he was a massive go out like that assume McGregor's taking care of them doesn't need the win doesn't care about my points uh

going out honorably after getting need directly in the face and basically coming immediately back to the fight okay this video game second of the call is sponsored by regenerate

from the umbrella corporation regenerate dead cells for a useful side effects may risen here risen and even shut out trombone champ I did it, 100% of it. Did you get to the end, Frankie?

Did you figure out the mystery of the baboons and murderge the face and trouble class? Go ahead and explain that one to the boys. That's all I got this week. Thanks ahead. John Bones. Go up from here in the fantasy league. Take care. See you next time.

Thanks, Don. We appreciate it, as always, man. Another brilliant phone call from one and only Don Davis. Coachman? Trombone hero, Frank. Is that you? I mean, it is. pretty awesome

yo boys in the back it's jimmer Jim again I said to a question earlier this week okay but no fuck that question

all right fuck that question I was in Italy and Ariel was there at the same time as me how the fuck what I probably cross past with them

and didn't even know that's crazy to me man but it's big country anyways I'm glad you guys are back I took I was basically it lined up perfectly I was in Italy for the entire time that you guys the show was gone so I didn't miss anything um yeah that's high love you guys do this all right see you Jim

Jim Rannario in Italy hey boys are back to Sammy um just wondering what you guys think if they've been back the old-to-fighter international For example, like USA versus Dagestan. Ooh. Or USA versus Ireland. Ooh. Or any countries you think should be, if you think they should bring back the year,

ultimate for the championships international. Maybe you know what you think, guys. Have a great show. Appreciate the call, brother. Yeah, Dagestan getting a team of prospects. The rep would be pretty sick. America. If it's just a card, yes.

If it's like a tough, you know, like they used to do like tough smashes. If they do that, no, I'm out. I don't want to watch that shit. Oh, no, we can't do a reality shit. No, we don't have the time. If they just do country versus country, I think that works well and I like that. I mean, that's kind of what they do when they go to a local market. It's like, you know, France versus the world or whatever.

Like Canada, it's always Canada, Canadians kind of holding court. So I'm down. Dagestan would probably have a pretty gnarly lineup. Yeah, hard to imagine if they wouldn't. Oh, is it from voice? Anything left? That was all of them. Any super chats, brother?

Sub-chats. We do. Oh, sick. Fight will be as Ariel says. Come see, come a car. Com see, come-sa. Thank you, plus money. Not sure which fight you're referring to,

but thank you for confirming that Frank cannot read. Electric boots, sir. G. eating like a detective that's always way over his head? Do you think his name is Electric Bootsa? Is that not what it says? But there's like

an ellipsis. Electric Boots something afterward. I'm not really sure what that means, but I like it. It's provocative. It's hilarious. Gets the people going? Yeah, it gets the people going. Like a detective that's way over his head. I like that. I like that. What is the ideal

female superfight that could go on the White House. I know you can't read, but he wasn't open. He wasn't open. You fucking struggled, my man. Put that back up one more time. My man had the fat fingers just banging. What is the ideal of Femolo

super fight that could do to go on the White House card? We got there eventually. Frank actually read broken gibberish better than... Yeah, that was nice. Kayla Harrison Amananuneas. No brand. 100%. No. 100%. That's all she was

wrote. That's all she wrote. Wow. Thank you for sending in the superchats. Thank you for sending in the voicemails. Thank you for watching today. That'll pretty much do it for us. UFC Paris Saturday. The crack tomorrow and then we're back. Full schedule of programming next week starting with the Arawanee show on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, then us on Thursday. Crack on Friday. This is kind of the warm-up week, you know? Yeah, it feels good to be back, though. I'd say it came out with a bang with yesterday's show and now today's show. Enjoy the fights. this weekend enjoy everything else

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