The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Postgame Show: UFC 295 LIVE From The Mecca

Episode Date: November 13, 2023

Tony takes you inside MSG for UFC 295 where the Heavyweight (interim) and Light Heavyweight Title are won in real time. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You're listening to Giraffe King's Network. These side marios all you can eat is all you can munch a soup, salad, and garlic homo. Mom, me, I gotta move out of here! What's up everyone, it's Tony Cloudy and welcome inside of the world's most famous arena Madison Square Garden where we sit high atop with a bird's eye view of the octagon. Through 11 months of 2023 the UFC has been on fire. Amazing fights, new champions, legends made and endless storylines. Possibly none bigger than what UFC 295 was supposed to be. The coordination of the heavyweight go between John Jones and Steve Bemiyecic and a new

champion in the once highly touted Light Heavyweight Division that lines up former Light Heavyweight Champion Yuru Pohaska versus former middleweight champion Alex Pareda. After nearly three year layoff and a move up to the heavyweight division, Jones made quick work of number one contender Cyril Ghan and was crowned heavyweight king. And with Francis Lingano out of the promotion, there would be only one fight that would have the gravitas needed for a legacy cementing heavyweight bout. John Jones vs. Deepa Miichich, book for tonight, November 11th at MSG. Then the unthinkable happened.

In late October during a sparring session Jones tours peck off the bone and was scratched from the card and the fight has been rescheduled to a later date. Which now allows us to set the table, UFC 295's new main and combing event. The light heavyweight title fight has now been moved up to the main event. We're almost a year to the day. In the same building he teaked, middleweight King Israel Asanya, Alex Pareda Poetan, which literally translates into stone hand, has a chance to win a second belt in two divisions in a year's time.

The man standing in his way former light heavyweight champ Yiri Pahasca, the last samurai who submitted legend Glover Tashira at UFC 275 in 2022 and is rehabbing from a shoulder injury that was dubbed by Mani to be the worst at doctors and seeing the sport. He's back to claim his belt in his first fight since 2022. Two of the best fighters in the world ready for controlled chaos and violence and in the chomein event as heavyweight champ John Jones rehabs his torn peck muscle, two of the most promising heavyweights will do battle in the UFC Interim heavyweight title, both fighters hopped in with less than two weeks notice.

After a need tear cost him a year fighting, Tom Aspinon's ready to battle Russian KO machines Sergei Pavlovich for the right to be the next contender in the heavyweight division. This post game show will be a little different than the ones I've usually done. I'll be reacting right after each fight live in the moment with the crowd behind me. John Joe and DC are ready, Bruce is ready, Mr. Bockel of auction, Bronson is ready, and so am I. UFC 295 post game show starts right now. All right, let's get to the co-main event of tonight, the heavyweight in and title between Tom Aspenal and Sergey Pavlovich. Tom Aspenal just knocked out Sergey Pavlovich.

And in the night this all, three knockouts under two minutes. Tom Aspenal hit Sergey Pavlovich with a right hand. He did not see coming right in the temple. Hit him once, hit him twice, sat him down after chopping at the front leg for the first couple. Seconds of the fight they were feeling it out. An incredible showing jab over the top right hand that landed with Pavlovich's temple down. He goes hammer fist all the way home. Pavlovich is real life. Ivan Drago from Rocky and we just saw the interim title for the heavyweight

belt go to England for the first time in the heavyweight division. Tom Aspinall my God. Just an incredible fee for a guy who had missed the last year with an MCL injury with a knee injury that he didn't know if he was going to be able to come back be the same fighter he beat Marcin Tibera earlier this year and when John Jones and Steve had to call for fight because of John's injury Tom stepped in in two weeks notice took a fight against a guy who had was 18-1 15 knockouts one of the most deadly guys in the UFC,

and Tom just hit him with two punches and sat him down. Just watching the emotion on his face right now, he's hugging his team, he cannot believe what he just did on short notice with a guy who is that deadly. Let's listen in. Ladies and gentlemen, reprieve and we're ready, I'll tell you. Let's go to self-dust contest. At one minute, the The end of the ball. Tom! And the end of the ball.

Dana just strapped on the inner and belt to Tom Aspenal. He's crying emotional right now. He can't believe it. What a night for Tom Aspenal. Tom Aspenal celebrates with his dad. He's got the inner interim belt over his shoulder. Again, guys, I cannot describe to you what the feeling was for a guy who was looking across from him with a literal polar bear standing six foot three 84 inches of reach.

Tom Aspen on set it during the press conference with Joe after the fight. He said, look, I was struggling with this length. His arms are crazy long. I felt a bit awkward trying to get in, fainted in with a jab, hit her right hand over the top on the temple, and it was lights out for Sergei Pavlovich. Tom Aspenal, sending him back to London with the interim belt right now.

He's glowing, he's looking across. The MSG here, people are cheering for him right now. He's got the belt up in his hands. One incredible night. As Steve A sits down in the crowd waiting and watching as John Jones and Steve A Looms. Let's get to tonight's main event, the light heavyweight championship of the world between Yuri Pohaska and Alex Pereda. Alex Poetam Pereda has just won same building a year apart two championships in the UFC.

Last year was a middleweight championship. This year he just knocked out Yri Pahasca to win the light heavyweight title after a chess match fight that had a bunch of back and forth a lot of ground control from Yiri in the first round. Alex caught him with a right hand that he did not see coming combo with the left hand vicious elbows on the ground and it was over. A fight that was very rigid at times. Ooh, a left hand that connected, I'm watching the replay right now, a left hand that connected from Pareda.

That was just a sender block. Yeri looked a little rusty today. He didn't want to go all in on certain takedowns, on certain punches. It felt like he was worried about that power from Bayeda. And for good reason, because Bayeda landed at left hand that absolutely shocked Yuri Prohaska. Mark Goddard broke up the fight. Yuri still wanted to keep going, but it was no use. He was throwing 12-6 elbows. While Yiri was trying to take them down, Alex Poetan, Berredan. One of the scariest people

on the planet, scariest guy on the UFC roster, just fought a guy who is very unorthodox, a guy who is an absolute killer inside the octagon and flattened him with a left hand and elbows to the temple with a couple hammer fist standing. Guys wouldn't incredible fight. What an incredible card. This entire card has been knockout after knockout after knockout after knockout. Sub two minutes for everything. Alex Pareda continues to be one of the baddest men on the planet and if you want me to be honest I think he can go down to 185 and 185 and fight Sean Strickland again

to be a two division champ because he just has that ability and we already know what he did to Sean Strickland last year, flatlined him. This is yet another flatlining, another KO of a champion that I did not see coming. And when you look at this fight earlier on in the first round, they were kind of filling each other out. There was a lot of chopping of the front leg from Poetan to Yuri Prohaska. Try to make them switch a stance.

Let's hear Bruce Buffer call the champion, the new and new for Alex Poetan Perreira. Ladies and gentlemen, Upper Avar Garner is going to stop in this contest. At four minutes, eight seconds of bound number 2. We're going to play the winner, one, two, go! And you! I love this good dinner, the U.N.T. What an incredible night here at Madison Square Garden. We sit high atop after the aftermath

of two titles, one in term, but two titles being won by Tom Aspenal, the in-term heavyweight title, he beat Sergey Pavlovich in a knockout in 69 seconds as you can hear. People are singing Tommy Aspenal in the crowd, but 69 seconds, he knocks out Sergey Pavlovich with two right hands to the temple and then a bevy of hammer fist right after that and a fight that was again literally 69 seconds. Tom Aspenal too quick, too powerful and ready for the winner of Steve Aversa's John Jones. He's the future and the the future is bright for the heavyweight division if Tom Aspenal is a part of it and then we got to the main event where just having a couple of seconds to think about it now after you heard the initial reaction here's the

post-game reaction the post-post game reaction if you will in a fight between Yuri Pahasca who looked a bit rusty to me he looked like he didn't want to completely engage but he had in some ways obviously understanding that his power is dynamite but he felt a little hesitant to me and he didn't finish his punches, he didn't finish his takeouts the way that he probably would have a year ago knowing that Beteda has nuclear power in his hands. He felt it in the second round where opened up and Beteda threw him a left hand that just landed square. Beteda was standing with his back on the cage. Your kind of falls over, tries to take him down,

and then Alex hits him with about 16, 12, six elbows in the back. And Joe was talking to Eury and said, hey, me and DC thought it was a little bit of an early stoppage. And Eury basically confirmed, hey, I was out. There was nothing I could do here. I got to come back better next time. But again, two belts in one year in the same building on the same weekend, basically one day apart from when he won the original middleweight championship from his route. Asaña fast forward

a year, he beat the year he pro haska for the light heavyweight title. And as Alex does, calls out his old foe, Israel Arasanya, who said he wasn't gonna be fighting in a long time, right? He was joking at the Tyson Fury and got a new fight that I'll see you guys in 2027. Alex Pate, a calls him out, says, you need to move up to Light Heavyweight. And come see me, he said,

something's the effect of either come see your daddy or daddy's home Something like that the light heavyweight division is a bit in flux right now because there really is no true contender Jamal Hill with the torn Achilles We're gonna see where he ends up in the next couple of months to maybe year But an isra of sania and Alex pared a light heavyweight fight would be very intriguing. Those guys, again, beefing up. Last time we saw Izzya, Light Heavyweight,

it did not work out for him, but this is another foe with another belt that is he can go and get, especially after that loss to Strickland, a bit of avenging himself. Transitive properties, he beat Alex, Alex beat Strickland. Strickland beat him.

Can he beat Alex to write all those wrongs? We shall see but it's been another fun one here at UFC 2.95 I love bringing these to you guys. I'm hoping that this was a bit of a different Listening experience for you having the crowd in it having Bruce Buffer on the background I appreciate you guys for listening and next one is UFC 2.96. I have a family wedding that I can't get out of. It's gonna be an absolute banger So maybe we can do some pre and post content for that but stick around the MMA hangout and we'll be bringing it back to you in 2024 coming out super strong with some with some interesting stuff. Hopefully we can get off the ground running But love you appreciate you guys. Thank you for listening. Peace guys, thank you for listening. Peace.