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Speaker 1: The John Annik and Kenny Florian Podcast. John Annik and

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Speaker 1: Kenny Florian, I love him.

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Speaker 2: I can't get enough of him.

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Speaker 3: Let's hear that boss tonight.

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Speaker 4: Job conduci, prank out.

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Speaker 5: I believe there are a couple of absolutely self involved.

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Speaker 1: You are your hosts, John Annick and Kenny Florian's.

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Speaker 2: What else you're doing on a Monday?

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Speaker 3: Though?

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Speaker 2: What are you doing on a Monday? We're live on

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Speaker 2: YouTube on the DraftKings Network and wherever you may be

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Speaker 2: listening to the Anak and Florian podcast. It is almost

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Speaker 2: twenty twenty five, but not before we put a bookend

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Speaker 2: on the year that was twenty twenty four. Great to

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Speaker 2: be back in the saddle. A little rusty after the

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Speaker 2: bye week. Perhaps not. It is Monday, December thirty, twenty

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Speaker 2: twenty four, Episode five, one hundred and twenty nine of

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Speaker 2: the Anakin Florian Podcast Ken Flow, final episode of the year.

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Speaker 2: Looking pretty good and purple. I might say, thank you.

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Speaker 4: This is my Charlotte FC shirt. Thank you for letting

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Speaker 4: me know. It's Monday. By the way, Like anytime, it's

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Speaker 4: like these holiday breaks, I have no idea what day

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Speaker 4: it is. It's just a blur and the house is

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Speaker 4: a mass. Everything's crazy, but it is good to be back. Brother.

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Speaker 2: Kids are home, so that you're home has an impact. Right,

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Speaker 2: it's a Monday podcast day. Traditionally the kids aren't necessarily

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Speaker 2: in the home. It might be some preschool going on. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: so a lot of different variables, but we appreciate everybody

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Speaker 2: being with us. Hope you enjoyed your Christmas or your

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Speaker 2: Honikah which is ongoing, or kwonzo whatever applies. Happy holidays.

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Speaker 2: We're very excited to ring in the new year with

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Speaker 2: you and excited to have you live today for what

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Speaker 2: is the annual af PA Awards, the tenth annual antik

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Speaker 2: Imploring Podcast Awards. And not unlike the name of this show, Kenny,

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Speaker 2: the Antikinploring Podcast, the AFT PUT Awards was just a placeholder.

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Speaker 2: We were trying to come up with something creative to

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Speaker 2: name our awards show. We're trying to come up with

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Speaker 2: something more juicy than the Antikmploring Podcast for the name

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Speaker 2: of this fucking program. But here we are, Kenny, ten

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Speaker 2: years in and ready to dole out some hardware today.

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Speaker 2: I know a lot of fighters are watching live, excited

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Speaker 2: to see who you're gonna give your Awards to no,

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Speaker 2: I'm just kidding, they really are not necessarily watched it live,

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Speaker 2: but thanks to everybody, we're excited to bring you the

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Speaker 2: tenth annual Antikmploring Podcast Awards, presented by Quervo. Now's a

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Speaker 2: good time to remember where tequila's story truly began. In

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Speaker 2: seventeen ninety five, Quervo invented tequila. Since then, Cuervo has

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Speaker 2: the same passion. Two hundred and thirty years later, we're

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Speaker 2: still there in every poor, every margarita, in every celebration.

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Speaker 2: So enjoy the tequila that started it all, Quervo, the

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Speaker 2: tequila that invents tequila Proxymoquervo dot com. Please drink responsibly,

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Speaker 2: all right, Kenny. A lot to celebrate in twenty twenty four.

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Speaker 2: And when Dana White says at the end of a

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Speaker 2: for twenty twenty five, I'm gonna blow the roof off

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Speaker 2: the place. It sounds hyperbolic, and yet the UFC perpetually

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Speaker 2: continuously delivers. Right if you say twenty twenty three was

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Speaker 2: a monster year, twenty twenty four was bigger, right, UFC

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Speaker 2: three hundred, the live event, It's Spear, the emergence of

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Speaker 2: or when we started this podcast in twenty fifteen, look

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Speaker 2: at Mixed Martial Arts now and it stands to reason

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Speaker 2: All Right, Ray Longo, the star of this show, will

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Speaker 2: interrupt our award show in about twenty minutes. We're going

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Speaker 2: next year. Also, Jason Anik, my twin brother Boston Ana

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Speaker 2: All right, we begin our tenth annual Anakin Florent Podcast

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Speaker 2: Award Show with the twenty twenty four UFC Rookies of

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Speaker 2: the calendar year twenty twenty four. Who was your top

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Speaker 2: UFC rookie Kenny this year? All right?

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Speaker 2: this is a category that is hotly contested and competition

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Speaker 2: She's about time. That's about as good as I could

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Speaker 2: your studio equipment, John, Both these guys were talking about

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Speaker 2: I'm told, Yeah, No, Kayla is the one. A couple

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Speaker 4: A guy right now that I could see beating legendary

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Speaker 2: Getting touched a lot by bulk.

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Speaker 4: Well, what what makes someone a star in this sport?

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Speaker 2: of the Year. Yeah, go ahead camp first.

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00:23:08,240 --> 00:23:09,879
Speaker 4: Oh, I was gonna say, I love the pick and

431
00:23:10,080 --> 00:23:14,680
Speaker 4: I'm always fascinated by these outliers who you know, South

432
00:23:14,760 --> 00:23:18,200
Speaker 4: Africa isn't known as this hotbed of mixed martial arts.

433
00:23:18,240 --> 00:23:20,440
Speaker 4: And the fact that they're able to produce a champion

434
00:23:20,520 --> 00:23:24,399
Speaker 4: in the UFC in what is the highest level that

435
00:23:24,480 --> 00:23:27,399
Speaker 4: division has been, the middleweight division, of course, says a

436
00:23:27,480 --> 00:23:32,440
Speaker 4: lot about Morne's style. His approach just very very impressive.

437
00:23:33,880 --> 00:23:37,200
Speaker 2: Hey, Jay. Part of the reason in years past Kenny

438
00:23:37,280 --> 00:23:39,320
Speaker 2: and I have given out two Coach of the Year

439
00:23:39,359 --> 00:23:42,440
Speaker 2: awards is because not unlike fighters, this is also a

440
00:23:42,840 --> 00:23:46,520
Speaker 2: very sensitive lot. So let me just say go ahead, Jay, please.

441
00:23:46,560 --> 00:23:48,359
Speaker 2: I was going to say, pahomp is probably already on

442
00:23:48,400 --> 00:23:51,280
Speaker 2: the way to your house between Moikano and the Cannibal

443
00:23:51,400 --> 00:23:55,560
Speaker 2: right right, he's down here quarterback and he likes that hardware.

444
00:23:56,200 --> 00:23:59,239
Speaker 2: What's up? I think he actually deleted my number at

445
00:23:59,320 --> 00:24:01,680
Speaker 2: one point in time. I don't know if it had

446
00:24:01,720 --> 00:24:04,880
Speaker 2: to do with some Amanda new Nest thing, but anyway, dude, Yes,

447
00:24:04,960 --> 00:24:08,680
Speaker 2: Pahoopa is obviously the most notable omission for US this year.

448
00:24:08,720 --> 00:24:11,359
Speaker 2: What he has done with Alechandre Pantosia is nothing short

449
00:24:11,560 --> 00:24:14,399
Speaker 2: of spectacular. Obviously, they realized the belt last year. They

450
00:24:14,440 --> 00:24:18,159
Speaker 2: have twice now defended it three times. I believe incredible.

451
00:24:18,200 --> 00:24:20,920
Speaker 2: Pahoopa obviously can flow and I think the most notable

452
00:24:21,160 --> 00:24:23,399
Speaker 2: omission for us. But you know, it kind of is

453
00:24:23,440 --> 00:24:25,439
Speaker 2: what it is. There's only so much hardware to go around, right,

454
00:24:25,480 --> 00:24:25,840
Speaker 2: I mean.

455
00:24:26,200 --> 00:24:29,440
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's right, and he's won it before with this, right,

456
00:24:29,960 --> 00:24:32,680
Speaker 4: pahoop is a stud man, not only again his work

457
00:24:32,760 --> 00:24:34,879
Speaker 4: with Pantosia, but all the fighters that he works with.

458
00:24:35,240 --> 00:24:38,160
Speaker 4: It seems like he's president at every freaking professional mixed

459
00:24:38,200 --> 00:24:41,120
Speaker 4: martial arts event that takes place. He's traveling all the time.

460
00:24:41,160 --> 00:24:43,640
Speaker 4: One of the hardest working and smartest guys in the game,

461
00:24:43,720 --> 00:24:46,160
Speaker 4: so absolutely deserves honorable mention.

462
00:24:46,920 --> 00:24:50,600
Speaker 2: Jay who o, there's John, Eric Nixon, Safe Zoo, Clino

463
00:24:50,720 --> 00:24:52,679
Speaker 2: Cruz And by the way, I could watch Plino Cruz

464
00:24:53,000 --> 00:24:56,640
Speaker 2: the Dance with poton for days. Just send a chair,

465
00:24:56,720 --> 00:24:57,520
Speaker 2: step touch.

466
00:24:57,640 --> 00:25:00,320
Speaker 3: I go for days. It is credible.

467
00:25:00,400 --> 00:25:04,399
Speaker 2: Yeah, Plentio Cruz, who just won the award for Coach

468
00:25:04,440 --> 00:25:07,120
Speaker 2: of the Year at the World MMA Awards ceremony in December.

469
00:25:07,359 --> 00:25:10,119
Speaker 2: Earlier this month, I should say, yeah, Eric, Nickxic the

470
00:25:10,240 --> 00:25:15,159
Speaker 2: general Safe sayoud, you can do right by all of

471
00:25:15,280 --> 00:25:18,280
Speaker 2: these men and women, right, I mean yeah, any of

472
00:25:18,320 --> 00:25:20,159
Speaker 2: these would be good choices, all right, Jay, Thank you.

473
00:25:20,280 --> 00:25:23,680
Speaker 2: That's it for Robert Follis Memorial Coach slash Cornerman of

474
00:25:23,800 --> 00:25:28,960
Speaker 2: the Year. Congratulations to our winners, Mike Valley and Morne Visser.

475
00:25:29,680 --> 00:25:32,560
Speaker 2: All right, upset of the Year can flow? You're going

476
00:25:32,640 --> 00:25:38,000
Speaker 2: with the local guy out of the great state of Massachusetts. Aya, yes, sah, yes,

477
00:25:38,119 --> 00:25:39,080
Speaker 2: sir so.

478
00:25:39,320 --> 00:25:41,880
Speaker 4: Kyler Phillips has been one of these guys that I've

479
00:25:41,960 --> 00:25:45,040
Speaker 4: talked about a lot over the years. You know, he's

480
00:25:45,119 --> 00:25:47,840
Speaker 4: impressive to watch. He's got a lot of different skills,

481
00:25:48,560 --> 00:25:50,440
Speaker 4: his physicality that he adds.

482
00:25:50,200 --> 00:25:50,680
Speaker 2: To the game.

483
00:25:51,000 --> 00:25:53,320
Speaker 4: He's beaten some big names over the last few years.

484
00:25:53,359 --> 00:25:57,520
Speaker 4: Sonya don Pedro Munos, how many Barcelos? I mean, he

485
00:25:57,640 --> 00:25:59,960
Speaker 4: just has a very unique and tough style for people

486
00:26:00,040 --> 00:26:04,159
Speaker 4: well to deal with. And you know, I guess you

487
00:26:04,280 --> 00:26:06,840
Speaker 4: look at Rob font over the last year or two,

488
00:26:07,040 --> 00:26:09,320
Speaker 4: He's he's had a lot of struggles. He was one

489
00:26:09,400 --> 00:26:13,280
Speaker 4: in four heading into that fight against Kyler Phillips and

490
00:26:13,600 --> 00:26:17,800
Speaker 4: he seemed to have lost his form. Well he you know,

491
00:26:18,040 --> 00:26:21,520
Speaker 4: brought his prime form right back in this fight against

492
00:26:21,600 --> 00:26:24,480
Speaker 4: Kyler Phillips. Had a rough round one, but then made

493
00:26:24,560 --> 00:26:28,159
Speaker 4: some amazing adjustments with Farasa Hobby in the corner and

494
00:26:28,359 --> 00:26:31,880
Speaker 4: came back and executed beautifully in rounds two and three

495
00:26:32,440 --> 00:26:36,560
Speaker 4: and made Kyler Phillips look lost out there. It was

496
00:26:36,600 --> 00:26:38,960
Speaker 4: an awesome fight. It was a technical fight, but Rob

497
00:26:39,080 --> 00:26:42,560
Speaker 4: Font was just he was just on point for the

498
00:26:42,680 --> 00:26:45,840
Speaker 4: last ten minutes of that fight and for me, looked

499
00:26:45,920 --> 00:26:48,800
Speaker 4: like he's back on track and ready to make another run,

500
00:26:49,080 --> 00:26:53,320
Speaker 4: perhaps at the UFC belt. So it was great to

501
00:26:53,359 --> 00:26:57,520
Speaker 4: see Rob Font back in pristine form and looking really

502
00:26:57,560 --> 00:27:01,040
Speaker 4: good against a very tough fighter, to beating Kyler Phillips.

503
00:27:01,119 --> 00:27:04,240
Speaker 4: So for me, Rob Font surprised me. It was an

504
00:27:04,280 --> 00:27:07,399
Speaker 4: awesome fight, It was a beautiful win, and it was

505
00:27:07,520 --> 00:27:09,360
Speaker 4: my upset of the year in twenty twenty four.

506
00:27:09,760 --> 00:27:12,280
Speaker 2: Yeah, plus three seventy five or so was Rob Font

507
00:27:12,359 --> 00:27:14,199
Speaker 2: at close and I was asked by our friends at

508
00:27:14,200 --> 00:27:16,960
Speaker 2: odds Shark to come up with fighters to keep an

509
00:27:17,000 --> 00:27:20,280
Speaker 2: eye on, I think going into twenty twenty five or

510
00:27:20,400 --> 00:27:22,200
Speaker 2: something like that with the championship ceiling, And one of

511
00:27:22,240 --> 00:27:24,160
Speaker 2: the guys that I mentioned before that fight against Rob

512
00:27:24,240 --> 00:27:26,800
Speaker 2: Font was Kyler Phillips. So that went a huge feather

513
00:27:26,880 --> 00:27:29,400
Speaker 2: in the cap of what one Rob Font. One guy

514
00:27:29,440 --> 00:27:32,600
Speaker 2: who knows a thing or two about upsets, and upsets

515
00:27:32,640 --> 00:27:35,840
Speaker 2: of the year is the great rain long ago.

516
00:27:36,640 --> 00:27:39,600
Speaker 3: Merry Christmas, guys, Merry.

517
00:27:39,400 --> 00:27:44,160
Speaker 2: Christmas, Happy holidays, Rain, hot baby, How are we doing?

518
00:27:44,240 --> 00:27:46,840
Speaker 2: It looks like you go five o'clock shadow during the holidays.

519
00:27:47,040 --> 00:27:50,879
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, five o'clock shadow all the way, John, whatever

520
00:27:51,000 --> 00:27:53,320
Speaker 3: the hell that means. But anyway, how are we doing? Guys?

521
00:27:53,720 --> 00:27:53,920
Speaker 2: Good?

522
00:27:54,040 --> 00:27:54,240
Speaker 3: Ray?

523
00:27:54,280 --> 00:27:54,639
Speaker 4: How are you?

524
00:27:54,840 --> 00:27:55,760
Speaker 2: Did you just wake up?

525
00:27:55,840 --> 00:27:59,919
Speaker 3: Or no? What did the fine just wake up?

526
00:28:00,880 --> 00:28:03,480
Speaker 2: Well it's twelve oh two pm Eastern. We are live.

527
00:28:03,600 --> 00:28:05,680
Speaker 2: Did you wake up within the last forty five minutes

528
00:28:05,760 --> 00:28:06,240
Speaker 2: or so? Ray?

529
00:28:06,680 --> 00:28:06,880
Speaker 3: Yes?

530
00:28:07,880 --> 00:28:14,280
Speaker 2: Yeah, yes, So I'm drinking a liquid death mountain water today.

531
00:28:14,320 --> 00:28:16,639
Speaker 2: And it is interesting when it comes to branding, right,

532
00:28:16,720 --> 00:28:20,040
Speaker 2: do you guys remember back in the day when these

533
00:28:20,160 --> 00:28:28,639
Speaker 2: gentlemen invented black water BLK? Maybe so the water's black, right? Like,

534
00:28:28,800 --> 00:28:30,840
Speaker 2: I know a lot of things, One thing I know

535
00:28:31,119 --> 00:28:33,000
Speaker 2: is that I don't want to drink fucking black water.

536
00:28:33,119 --> 00:28:35,159
Speaker 2: I know it doesn't make your teeth black, but I

537
00:28:35,200 --> 00:28:36,480
Speaker 2: don't want to drink black water.

538
00:28:36,560 --> 00:28:38,880
Speaker 3: I get to the native I think that's what I've

539
00:28:38,920 --> 00:28:45,320
Speaker 3: been drinking. Ha, I know it it You guys stopped

540
00:28:45,360 --> 00:28:46,440
Speaker 3: drinking the black water.

541
00:28:47,800 --> 00:28:50,400
Speaker 2: I'll stayed on the same page. If we all kept

542
00:28:50,440 --> 00:28:53,600
Speaker 2: drinking black water, our teeth would look the same. That's hilarious.

543
00:28:54,120 --> 00:28:55,840
Speaker 2: But no, I bring it up in the context of

544
00:28:55,960 --> 00:28:58,760
Speaker 2: liquid death, right because I'm drinking this can and some

545
00:28:58,840 --> 00:29:01,200
Speaker 2: people suggest and I'm sure can flow would tell you

546
00:29:01,400 --> 00:29:03,880
Speaker 2: drinking anything out of an aluminum cans probably not good

547
00:29:03,920 --> 00:29:06,160
Speaker 2: for you, right, like eating a can of corn, probably

548
00:29:06,200 --> 00:29:08,760
Speaker 2: not good for you. But it says on this can

549
00:29:08,960 --> 00:29:14,320
Speaker 2: Ray liquid death, murder your thirst, and it says something

550
00:29:14,360 --> 00:29:17,520
Speaker 2: else about yeah, recycle or die. So my son is

551
00:29:17,640 --> 00:29:20,520
Speaker 2: six and he's learning how to read. You know, sorry

552
00:29:20,560 --> 00:29:22,920
Speaker 2: if your kid read at three, Okay, my kids are

553
00:29:22,920 --> 00:29:25,200
Speaker 2: a little bit slower, but you know, it says things

554
00:29:25,280 --> 00:29:28,320
Speaker 2: like murder your thirst, recycle or die, and liquid death.

555
00:29:28,360 --> 00:29:30,240
Speaker 2: And my son's looking over at the can, like, Daddy,

556
00:29:30,280 --> 00:29:34,040
Speaker 2: why does your can say liquid death? Oh?

557
00:29:34,120 --> 00:29:35,760
Speaker 3: Because I'm trying to kill myself.

558
00:29:37,440 --> 00:29:39,000
Speaker 2: No, because I'm trying to get a sponsor for the

559
00:29:39,080 --> 00:29:40,000
Speaker 2: Ray long go minute.

560
00:29:40,120 --> 00:29:42,960
Speaker 3: And wow, we're having trouble with that.

561
00:29:44,240 --> 00:29:46,280
Speaker 2: We shouldn't be having any trouble with that, you know,

562
00:29:48,360 --> 00:29:49,480
Speaker 2: kee appearance.

563
00:29:49,760 --> 00:29:51,479
Speaker 3: It's liquida.

564
00:29:54,200 --> 00:29:57,560
Speaker 2: Anyway, Ray, go ahead, Ray, let me see the kid.

565
00:29:58,240 --> 00:30:00,800
Speaker 3: You want to see that, yeh, here, it's give them

566
00:30:00,800 --> 00:30:02,800
Speaker 3: a little shit. Wow, liquid death.

567
00:30:03,280 --> 00:30:06,320
Speaker 4: Is that the sparkling version? Irregular?

568
00:30:06,720 --> 00:30:06,920
Speaker 3: Kid?

569
00:30:07,360 --> 00:30:10,360
Speaker 4: Okay, I love the sparkling water. It's good.

570
00:30:10,480 --> 00:30:14,880
Speaker 3: Yeah. Is the only ret company's last name Kovokian? By

571
00:30:14,920 --> 00:30:17,080
Speaker 3: any chance? That's good.

572
00:30:17,200 --> 00:30:18,960
Speaker 2: That's good. That's good stuff from Ray long on on

573
00:30:19,000 --> 00:30:19,360
Speaker 2: on Monday?

574
00:30:19,440 --> 00:30:19,680
Speaker 8: Is it not?

575
00:30:20,160 --> 00:30:20,560
Speaker 2: Anyway?

576
00:30:20,640 --> 00:30:21,640
Speaker 3: Ray? How is your holiday?

577
00:30:21,680 --> 00:30:23,680
Speaker 2: How is your Christmas? Did your daughters buy you anything?

578
00:30:25,880 --> 00:30:30,520
Speaker 3: Yeah? Everything's good. Holidays were good. Uh. They had a

579
00:30:30,600 --> 00:30:33,440
Speaker 3: presence with NonStop you know, know the way it is

580
00:30:33,480 --> 00:30:34,240
Speaker 3: around Christmas.

581
00:30:34,640 --> 00:30:34,840
Speaker 4: Yeah.

582
00:30:35,120 --> 00:30:38,360
Speaker 2: So I have a few questions for you today. Some

583
00:30:38,480 --> 00:30:41,440
Speaker 2: stuff on Marob Dwallis Willie, some stuff on maybe who

584
00:30:41,520 --> 00:30:45,520
Speaker 2: might end twenty twenty five as UFC Champion. But because

585
00:30:45,560 --> 00:30:48,840
Speaker 2: this is our award show, when you look at twenty

586
00:30:49,080 --> 00:30:52,600
Speaker 2: twenty four, most people would say they're male Fighter of

587
00:30:52,680 --> 00:30:57,400
Speaker 2: the Year is either Alex poet On Pareta or Ilia Topodia. Now,

588
00:30:57,440 --> 00:30:59,800
Speaker 2: a lot of champions had big years, of course, dreekis

589
00:30:59,880 --> 00:31:03,880
Speaker 2: Do plus C and Alechandre Pantosia, but tough year to

590
00:31:03,920 --> 00:31:06,920
Speaker 2: be competing against the likes of Poeton. And so when

591
00:31:06,920 --> 00:31:09,560
Speaker 2: you look back at this year, Ray, is there one

592
00:31:09,640 --> 00:31:11,760
Speaker 2: of those two guys or somebody else that stood out

593
00:31:11,840 --> 00:31:12,000
Speaker 2: for you.

594
00:31:12,880 --> 00:31:16,320
Speaker 3: Oh man, those are those are two pretty good guys.

595
00:31:16,360 --> 00:31:19,400
Speaker 3: That's hard to beat in that category. I mean every

596
00:31:20,320 --> 00:31:23,320
Speaker 3: I mean I think the difference might be like would

597
00:31:23,320 --> 00:31:27,680
Speaker 3: Alex Pereira, I mean with a polotown whatever, you know,

598
00:31:27,760 --> 00:31:28,880
Speaker 3: whatever you call him John.

599
00:31:29,200 --> 00:31:34,080
Speaker 2: I mean god like just I say, I have to

600
00:31:34,160 --> 00:31:40,840
Speaker 2: go Alex, like, oh no, it's not Alex and or Alex. Yeah,

601
00:31:41,000 --> 00:31:43,040
Speaker 2: I think with jail Son. And it's a bit like

602
00:31:43,160 --> 00:31:46,000
Speaker 2: when he does the Bla Hall or the Pieira. I

603
00:31:46,040 --> 00:31:48,560
Speaker 2: think it's actually a bit but it is funny, like

604
00:31:48,640 --> 00:31:52,080
Speaker 2: people are afraid to call to mess up Alex, so

605
00:31:52,160 --> 00:31:54,880
Speaker 2: they go Alex and it sounds like anal. Can you

606
00:31:55,040 --> 00:31:55,840
Speaker 2: just go Alex?

607
00:31:56,320 --> 00:32:01,560
Speaker 3: Or alexet down hill? Where is he at this morning?

608
00:32:01,960 --> 00:32:04,160
Speaker 3: He drew anal from Alex.

609
00:32:04,680 --> 00:32:09,160
Speaker 2: Yeah, as you were saying about, but I.

610
00:32:09,200 --> 00:32:12,680
Speaker 3: Think, but that's a guy you really get excited to

611
00:32:12,760 --> 00:32:15,480
Speaker 3: watch at this point because it's always and even though

612
00:32:15,680 --> 00:32:17,920
Speaker 3: you know to poory, I think probably the best hands

613
00:32:17,960 --> 00:32:21,400
Speaker 3: in boxing at this point basics like we went through

614
00:32:21,440 --> 00:32:25,720
Speaker 3: it before, fundamentally, you know, always punches in balance, he's

615
00:32:25,760 --> 00:32:29,040
Speaker 3: always moving forward, his defense is good. The other guy

616
00:32:29,240 --> 00:32:32,680
Speaker 3: just when he starts hitting reckon you. It's just makes

617
00:32:32,720 --> 00:32:34,920
Speaker 3: for a different type of feel, you know what I mean,

618
00:32:35,000 --> 00:32:39,960
Speaker 3: Like I think Alex he breaks you down just inch

619
00:32:40,040 --> 00:32:41,840
Speaker 3: by inch. The other guy seems to get you out

620
00:32:41,840 --> 00:32:44,520
Speaker 3: of it. It's kind of the same thing, but I

621
00:32:44,680 --> 00:32:47,600
Speaker 3: feel is a different intensity with what Alex, and I

622
00:32:47,640 --> 00:32:50,720
Speaker 3: think that's what makes him exciting, you know, And everybody

623
00:32:50,760 --> 00:32:53,280
Speaker 3: always likes the bigger guys anyway, I think that's probably

624
00:32:53,400 --> 00:32:56,240
Speaker 3: part of it also, But who doesn't want to watch

625
00:32:56,320 --> 00:32:58,800
Speaker 3: that guy fight? And even even his last fight with

626
00:32:59,680 --> 00:33:01,880
Speaker 3: round I mean, you know, like again it looked like

627
00:33:02,040 --> 00:33:04,960
Speaker 3: he was hitting a little adversity here and there, but

628
00:33:05,120 --> 00:33:08,400
Speaker 3: he just stayed steady, eddy to the course and just

629
00:33:08,600 --> 00:33:11,240
Speaker 3: those little shots here and there that we didn't think

630
00:33:11,320 --> 00:33:14,160
Speaker 3: we're doing anything. In the first two rounds started to

631
00:33:14,240 --> 00:33:17,280
Speaker 3: add up like in a heartbeat, like it just it

632
00:33:17,480 --> 00:33:20,680
Speaker 3: wasn't from me. It's not bit my leg's killing me.

633
00:33:20,800 --> 00:33:23,120
Speaker 3: This is the yeah. And then then he just starts

634
00:33:23,200 --> 00:33:25,800
Speaker 3: ripping you apart. And you can't sit there with a

635
00:33:25,840 --> 00:33:27,680
Speaker 3: guy like that, let him pee off on you. It

636
00:33:27,840 --> 00:33:31,560
Speaker 3: just looks as punching power to me, as just looks ridiculous.

637
00:33:32,240 --> 00:33:34,880
Speaker 3: So uh yeah, I think because he's bigger. I mean,

638
00:33:34,920 --> 00:33:38,440
Speaker 3: the same kind of outcome, same everything, But I think

639
00:33:38,480 --> 00:33:40,360
Speaker 3: the bigger guys are always going to get to shine

640
00:33:40,400 --> 00:33:40,600
Speaker 3: on that.

641
00:33:41,640 --> 00:33:44,800
Speaker 2: Yeah, it is interesting, and Kenny, I'm gonna have you

642
00:33:44,920 --> 00:33:48,240
Speaker 2: save your bullets, right. I have said, like, there are

643
00:33:48,440 --> 00:33:51,440
Speaker 2: women in this world that are so unattractive to me

644
00:33:51,520 --> 00:33:53,680
Speaker 2: that I would sooner like French kiss a dude. And

645
00:33:53,760 --> 00:33:56,520
Speaker 2: I like Ken Flow has this love affair with iliots

646
00:33:56,520 --> 00:33:58,280
Speaker 2: Opodia that I don't even have to get to the

647
00:33:58,440 --> 00:34:00,920
Speaker 2: end of the show to know. So that if there's

648
00:34:00,960 --> 00:34:04,200
Speaker 2: a category in which Kenny can give an award to

649
00:34:04,320 --> 00:34:06,640
Speaker 2: the Spaniard eliots Opoitia, He's gonna give it to him.

650
00:34:06,760 --> 00:34:09,080
Speaker 2: You know, Wow, You're not in a French.

651
00:34:08,880 --> 00:34:10,400
Speaker 4: Kiss Iliotoporia though I did.

652
00:34:10,920 --> 00:34:11,120
Speaker 3: You're not.

653
00:34:12,080 --> 00:34:14,839
Speaker 2: Maybe though if I lined up him next to some women,

654
00:34:14,920 --> 00:34:15,640
Speaker 2: you might kiss him.

655
00:34:15,680 --> 00:34:15,960
Speaker 3: I'm just.

656
00:34:17,840 --> 00:34:22,120
Speaker 2: All right, Ray. So morob Duallash Willie is putting his

657
00:34:22,280 --> 00:34:27,040
Speaker 2: undisputed UFC bantamweight championship on the line in nineteen days,

658
00:34:27,080 --> 00:34:30,359
Speaker 2: which to me is systematically insane. Now we have had

659
00:34:30,400 --> 00:34:35,239
Speaker 2: that conversation already in terms of the decision making, and

660
00:34:35,400 --> 00:34:39,880
Speaker 2: maybe my disagreement with him accepting this fight what do

661
00:34:40,000 --> 00:34:42,359
Speaker 2: you have for us on Morob and how you feel now?

662
00:34:42,719 --> 00:34:45,280
Speaker 2: I mean you must have an itinerary already to Inglewood,

663
00:34:45,320 --> 00:34:45,920
Speaker 2: this is crazy.

664
00:34:46,600 --> 00:34:50,320
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I told you man, I wasn't. I

665
00:34:50,400 --> 00:34:52,399
Speaker 3: thought it was a joke when they announced it because

666
00:34:52,680 --> 00:34:54,520
Speaker 3: I was out in Vegas with Aljo and I you know,

667
00:34:54,640 --> 00:34:56,480
Speaker 3: when I saw him, he go, no, no, no, it's

668
00:34:56,640 --> 00:34:59,920
Speaker 3: for real. But don't worry. Everything's good. I'm saying, good Rob.

669
00:35:00,080 --> 00:35:05,560
Speaker 3: It's just I thought it's insanity, but it is what

670
00:35:05,680 --> 00:35:08,000
Speaker 3: it is. Morob's gonna do what Morob's gonna do. I think,

671
00:35:08,760 --> 00:35:10,920
Speaker 3: no matter where he is, no matter how much of

672
00:35:11,000 --> 00:35:14,759
Speaker 3: a camp he has, Like if if the other guy

673
00:35:15,000 --> 00:35:17,560
Speaker 3: wasn't training and they both started at the same time,

674
00:35:18,160 --> 00:35:22,000
Speaker 3: Morob would be in better shape because he's always Like again,

675
00:35:22,040 --> 00:35:24,200
Speaker 3: I don't think he's You're not gonna deter him. He's

676
00:35:24,239 --> 00:35:26,879
Speaker 3: had an it's enough of a training camp for him.

677
00:35:27,680 --> 00:35:30,320
Speaker 3: Based on what I know that he's gonna be fine.

678
00:35:30,520 --> 00:35:32,799
Speaker 3: There's like, there's no question about it. I just don't

679
00:35:32,840 --> 00:35:35,000
Speaker 3: think it's right, you know. I mean, there's some guys

680
00:35:35,040 --> 00:35:37,000
Speaker 3: that can pull it off, and there's some guys that can't.

681
00:35:37,280 --> 00:35:39,480
Speaker 3: He's definitely a guy that could pull it off. So

682
00:35:39,640 --> 00:35:40,680
Speaker 3: he's just always going.

683
00:35:41,160 --> 00:35:43,360
Speaker 4: So what is your main issue with it? It's just

684
00:35:43,520 --> 00:35:46,640
Speaker 4: it's the quick turnaround because mentally you feel like it's

685
00:35:46,719 --> 00:35:49,080
Speaker 4: it's a problem for Marob because like the way I

686
00:35:49,160 --> 00:35:51,520
Speaker 4: see it, right, it's like he's gonna be in shape.

687
00:35:52,560 --> 00:35:55,520
Speaker 4: Morob isn't gonna change his style fight to fight. It's

688
00:35:55,560 --> 00:35:57,839
Speaker 4: not like, oh I gotta do something different. Mob's gonna

689
00:35:57,880 --> 00:36:00,560
Speaker 4: do what Morob does, as you mentioned. So for you,

690
00:36:01,480 --> 00:36:05,320
Speaker 4: why why are you hesitant or or not liking the

691
00:36:05,400 --> 00:36:07,280
Speaker 4: scenario optimally?

692
00:36:07,360 --> 00:36:09,840
Speaker 3: I guess I mean for me, it was just principal,

693
00:36:10,120 --> 00:36:11,440
Speaker 3: like you know what I mean, like he wanted to

694
00:36:11,520 --> 00:36:15,040
Speaker 3: fight in March, but because I guess, uh, the holidays

695
00:36:15,080 --> 00:36:18,200
Speaker 3: for whatever Ramadan is for them, it's got to be

696
00:36:18,320 --> 00:36:20,839
Speaker 3: before that. But it seems like just he's the champ,

697
00:36:20,920 --> 00:36:24,200
Speaker 3: he should be dictating what a little bit of what's

698
00:36:24,239 --> 00:36:25,160
Speaker 3: going on now.

699
00:36:25,200 --> 00:36:27,400
Speaker 4: So do you feel they're catering they're catering more to

700
00:36:27,520 --> 00:36:29,080
Speaker 4: Normonga Meno than they are tomorrow.

701
00:36:29,400 --> 00:36:31,320
Speaker 3: I mean, I don't know what if I say that

702
00:36:31,440 --> 00:36:33,680
Speaker 3: catering more than him, you know, all the crazies come

703
00:36:33,760 --> 00:36:35,000
Speaker 3: out like he scared it.

704
00:36:35,280 --> 00:36:37,120
Speaker 2: Well, would you like me to say it. I worked

705
00:36:37,160 --> 00:36:38,480
Speaker 2: for the company, you know.

706
00:36:38,560 --> 00:36:41,040
Speaker 3: I'm just saying, like, I don't know if I don't

707
00:36:41,040 --> 00:36:43,200
Speaker 3: think this ship makes sense to anybody.

708
00:36:43,480 --> 00:36:47,400
Speaker 2: Nobody the conversation paycheck.

709
00:36:47,560 --> 00:36:51,120
Speaker 3: So, man, when o'mellley beat Al Joe, what was his

710
00:36:51,280 --> 00:36:51,719
Speaker 3: next fight?

711
00:36:54,239 --> 00:36:54,960
Speaker 4: How was that?

712
00:36:55,480 --> 00:36:57,239
Speaker 3: Imagine if they would have made him turn around in

713
00:36:57,280 --> 00:37:00,000
Speaker 3: two months tell him you got to fight again. Not happened.

714
00:37:00,680 --> 00:37:02,360
Speaker 3: So I don't know what it is. What it is,

715
00:37:02,400 --> 00:37:04,439
Speaker 3: I don't know. I'm not it's crazy.

716
00:37:04,480 --> 00:37:06,200
Speaker 2: I'm not trying to get you going. But one of

717
00:37:06,239 --> 00:37:09,600
Speaker 2: the things that and he's certainly didn't want to get

718
00:37:09,640 --> 00:37:13,359
Speaker 2: him going in that capacity. But in terms of oh, well,

719
00:37:13,440 --> 00:37:18,120
Speaker 2: Morob's gonna do what he's gonna do, right, yes, right,

720
00:37:18,200 --> 00:37:21,440
Speaker 2: And I understand that Morob is this unique athlete that

721
00:37:22,080 --> 00:37:25,960
Speaker 2: your prototypical championship training camp is not applicable to him.

722
00:37:26,440 --> 00:37:30,160
Speaker 2: But he is emotional about this matchup. He is emotional

723
00:37:30,400 --> 00:37:34,239
Speaker 2: about this opponent. He is posting videos, perhaps in the

724
00:37:34,320 --> 00:37:40,280
Speaker 2: nature of content creation, but outside the UFCPI saying suggesting

725
00:37:40,320 --> 00:37:42,640
Speaker 2: that as the undisputed UFC bandaway champion, he's not being

726
00:37:42,760 --> 00:37:45,759
Speaker 2: let in because Umar is in there and they don't

727
00:37:45,800 --> 00:37:49,400
Speaker 2: want friction, right, this calendar is being laid out for

728
00:37:49,520 --> 00:37:53,240
Speaker 2: the challenger in front of Ramadan in no uncertain terms.

729
00:37:54,040 --> 00:37:56,239
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it seems like, you know, they want

730
00:37:56,280 --> 00:37:58,759
Speaker 3: to put everything in that guy's advantage. That's the way

731
00:37:58,760 --> 00:38:00,759
Speaker 3: it looks like to me. But I think it's one

732
00:38:00,840 --> 00:38:04,680
Speaker 3: hundred percent in the backfire. Morob's definitely a different tag,

733
00:38:04,920 --> 00:38:07,000
Speaker 3: you know. I just think, you know, you see him

734
00:38:07,000 --> 00:38:09,160
Speaker 3: go back to Georgia, let him enjoy the belt a

735
00:38:09,239 --> 00:38:12,399
Speaker 3: little bit. Man, the guy's fought one hundred times. He's

736
00:38:12,560 --> 00:38:15,480
Speaker 3: never shining away from a fight. I mean, the guy

737
00:38:15,600 --> 00:38:18,520
Speaker 3: finally gets to the pinnacle of what he's been doing

738
00:38:18,560 --> 00:38:20,640
Speaker 3: for the last fifteen to twenty years of his life.

739
00:38:21,560 --> 00:38:23,720
Speaker 3: I don't know, give him an extra two months whoop?

740
00:38:23,760 --> 00:38:26,080
Speaker 4: They do not to many Yeah, not to mention what

741
00:38:26,160 --> 00:38:28,399
Speaker 4: he had to do just to get there without a doubt.

742
00:38:28,600 --> 00:38:31,360
Speaker 3: I mean, I mean, I don't know.

743
00:38:31,800 --> 00:38:35,680
Speaker 2: I've been saying this for years, right dating to Jessica

744
00:38:35,880 --> 00:38:37,680
Speaker 2: andrage against Jeong Waylee.

745
00:38:37,920 --> 00:38:38,120
Speaker 5: Yeah.

746
00:38:38,280 --> 00:38:40,279
Speaker 2: And I hate to say it because I don't even

747
00:38:40,400 --> 00:38:43,480
Speaker 2: let my kids use words like this, but Kenny, one

748
00:38:43,480 --> 00:38:46,239
Speaker 2: of the dumbest things you can do is win the

749
00:38:46,280 --> 00:38:48,600
Speaker 2: on De Speeded Championship and then hastily put it on

750
00:38:48,719 --> 00:38:51,239
Speaker 2: the line three or four months later under less than

751
00:38:51,280 --> 00:38:55,160
Speaker 2: ideal circumstances. And we're sitting here with one of this

752
00:38:55,320 --> 00:39:00,440
Speaker 2: man's coaches, right, So you know, Pahoopa was prison with

753
00:39:00,680 --> 00:39:03,399
Speaker 2: something with Pantosia recently, and he almost was like, dude,

754
00:39:03,800 --> 00:39:06,000
Speaker 2: delete my number and go get a new head coach, right,

755
00:39:06,040 --> 00:39:07,960
Speaker 2: And I'm not asking you or John Wood to do that.

756
00:39:08,239 --> 00:39:11,600
Speaker 2: Robs his own man stylistically. I understand why he did this, right,

757
00:39:11,960 --> 00:39:14,600
Speaker 2: But when I heard that this fight was happening at

758
00:39:14,680 --> 00:39:17,160
Speaker 2: UFC three eleven, I didn't think it was a joke.

759
00:39:17,239 --> 00:39:19,080
Speaker 2: But I just couldn't believe it. I think it's a

760
00:39:19,239 --> 00:39:21,080
Speaker 2: very wayward decision by your guy.

761
00:39:21,960 --> 00:39:25,520
Speaker 3: Yeah, well I'm not. I don't think you're not going

762
00:39:25,600 --> 00:39:27,520
Speaker 3: to find one person to disagree.

763
00:39:27,160 --> 00:39:28,680
Speaker 4: With you, you know.

764
00:39:28,800 --> 00:39:32,000
Speaker 3: But fortunately for us, we have a guy that I

765
00:39:32,160 --> 00:39:33,920
Speaker 3: really believe at the end of the day, it's not

766
00:39:34,000 --> 00:39:37,080
Speaker 3: going to matter. He's just he's just that guy. But

767
00:39:37,200 --> 00:39:39,640
Speaker 3: you know, it's almost like you know what Teddy Atlas

768
00:39:39,719 --> 00:39:42,040
Speaker 3: always says, right, like, you become a champion, you get

769
00:39:42,080 --> 00:39:43,640
Speaker 3: twenty percent better. I don't know if it's him or

770
00:39:43,680 --> 00:39:45,920
Speaker 3: and it's just a saying in boxing, But I think

771
00:39:46,120 --> 00:39:48,040
Speaker 3: that applies when you have to wait at least five

772
00:39:48,160 --> 00:39:50,560
Speaker 3: or six months, Like when you win the title and

773
00:39:50,640 --> 00:39:52,800
Speaker 3: you defend it the next month, you don't even have

774
00:39:52,920 --> 00:39:56,560
Speaker 3: a chance to absorb that you're the champion. Yet. It's

775
00:39:56,680 --> 00:39:58,440
Speaker 3: just that I don't like it. It's all full.

776
00:39:59,280 --> 00:40:02,680
Speaker 2: I do think, Oh, if you're a fighter and you

777
00:40:02,880 --> 00:40:05,080
Speaker 2: are listening and you become the undisputed champion, if you

778
00:40:05,160 --> 00:40:10,560
Speaker 2: can somehow at least realize six months with that distinction,

779
00:40:11,440 --> 00:40:15,080
Speaker 2: because again, your guy is the betting underdog in that fight,

780
00:40:15,200 --> 00:40:15,920
Speaker 2: and I know the.

781
00:40:17,680 --> 00:40:17,759
Speaker 9: Right.

782
00:40:18,480 --> 00:40:20,799
Speaker 2: All very interesting, all right, So I want to play

783
00:40:20,800 --> 00:40:22,480
Speaker 2: a little game with you guys on the way out.

784
00:40:22,560 --> 00:40:24,520
Speaker 2: I don't know if you have anything else pressing on

785
00:40:24,680 --> 00:40:27,040
Speaker 2: your mind, Ray, but I just want to talk about

786
00:40:28,280 --> 00:40:31,560
Speaker 2: where we might be at this time next year. So

787
00:40:31,719 --> 00:40:35,680
Speaker 2: Draftking Sportsbook right now has bettable odds on every single

788
00:40:35,800 --> 00:40:38,920
Speaker 2: UFC division and who you think will be the champion

789
00:40:39,440 --> 00:40:43,279
Speaker 2: of those divisions on December thirty first, twenty twenty five.

790
00:40:43,640 --> 00:40:46,239
Speaker 2: So we're sitting here, it's December thirty at twenty twenty four.

791
00:40:46,600 --> 00:40:49,279
Speaker 2: So I'm just going to rifle through, some might say

792
00:40:49,480 --> 00:40:53,440
Speaker 2: rapid fire rifle through these divisions and Ken Foh and

793
00:40:53,480 --> 00:40:55,120
Speaker 2: Ray are going to tell me what they think as

794
00:40:55,200 --> 00:40:57,000
Speaker 2: to where we might be at this time next year.

795
00:40:58,400 --> 00:41:01,080
Speaker 2: Are you ready, Ray? I mean your ready?

796
00:41:04,200 --> 00:41:04,520
Speaker 3: All right?

797
00:41:04,760 --> 00:41:09,040
Speaker 2: So to be the UFC heavyweight champion at this time

798
00:41:09,960 --> 00:41:13,280
Speaker 2: next year, Tom Aspinall is the betting favorite at minus

799
00:41:13,320 --> 00:41:18,959
Speaker 2: one thirty, John Jones plus one ten. Others receiving votes

800
00:41:19,040 --> 00:41:21,239
Speaker 2: Ji Yielton now made a plus three hundred, seedle Gone

801
00:41:21,280 --> 00:41:23,920
Speaker 2: plus five hundred, and Alex pad eight a plus one

802
00:41:24,000 --> 00:41:27,960
Speaker 2: thousand should he potentially get a heavyweight championship opportunity, ken Ful,

803
00:41:28,040 --> 00:41:29,480
Speaker 2: who do you think is the heavyweight champion at this

804
00:41:29,520 --> 00:41:30,080
Speaker 2: time next year?

805
00:41:33,320 --> 00:41:36,840
Speaker 4: I'm gonna go with Jones. Actually at this at this point,

806
00:41:37,440 --> 00:41:38,640
Speaker 4: I'm gonna go with Jones.

807
00:41:38,719 --> 00:41:38,919
Speaker 3: Yeah.

808
00:41:38,920 --> 00:41:42,879
Speaker 4: I think that aspital is probably the only guy who

809
00:41:42,920 --> 00:41:45,120
Speaker 4: could pull it off, and they could certainly pull it off,

810
00:41:45,239 --> 00:41:48,000
Speaker 4: but right now I'd give the advantage to Jones because

811
00:41:48,040 --> 00:41:50,520
Speaker 4: of his ability to put people on their backs. What

812
00:41:50,600 --> 00:41:51,160
Speaker 4: do you think, Ray?

813
00:41:52,200 --> 00:41:54,279
Speaker 3: Uh? I love what he said, but I'm gonna go

814
00:41:54,480 --> 00:41:55,480
Speaker 3: with the aspit Al.

815
00:41:55,800 --> 00:41:58,600
Speaker 2: Yeah, Aspinall minus one thirty. It's interesting. On John Jones

816
00:41:58,640 --> 00:42:01,880
Speaker 2: plus one ten, it is not at all out of

817
00:42:01,920 --> 00:42:04,520
Speaker 2: the realm of possibility. And I know fans are gonna

818
00:42:04,520 --> 00:42:08,160
Speaker 2: hate me for saying this, but that Jones versus Aspinaul happens,

819
00:42:08,600 --> 00:42:10,759
Speaker 2: but it happens in like twenty twenty six, and then

820
00:42:10,800 --> 00:42:12,719
Speaker 2: again John Jones plus one ten, he doesn't come out

821
00:42:12,719 --> 00:42:14,640
Speaker 2: all years, will ends the year as the champion. I'm

822
00:42:14,680 --> 00:42:16,920
Speaker 2: just saying he has now said that he wants one

823
00:42:17,000 --> 00:42:19,120
Speaker 2: or two fights in the next what three or four years?

824
00:42:19,160 --> 00:42:20,400
Speaker 2: He said something to that effect.

825
00:42:20,920 --> 00:42:22,920
Speaker 3: I mean, it'll they'll lead us to believe it's it's

826
00:42:23,000 --> 00:42:24,680
Speaker 3: Aspitaal and Jones though by everything.

827
00:42:25,080 --> 00:42:27,719
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, But would it surprise you if that fight

828
00:42:27,880 --> 00:42:30,400
Speaker 2: was booked for say, International Fight Week, and then got

829
00:42:30,440 --> 00:42:32,560
Speaker 2: delayed to Madison Square Garden and then got booked for

830
00:42:32,600 --> 00:42:35,239
Speaker 2: first quarter twenty twenty six. I'm just saying, stranger things

831
00:42:35,320 --> 00:42:38,080
Speaker 2: have happened to the fighting all right, to be the

832
00:42:38,239 --> 00:42:42,160
Speaker 2: UFC light heavyweight champion at this time next year. I

833
00:42:42,360 --> 00:42:46,240
Speaker 2: thought Khalil Rountree Junior at thirty to one was interesting

834
00:42:46,640 --> 00:42:49,320
Speaker 2: because I think the nature of his fight against Alex

835
00:42:49,360 --> 00:42:52,400
Speaker 2: Paeda is such that if he wins one fight, he

836
00:42:52,520 --> 00:42:55,840
Speaker 2: could get a championship opportunity, and damn near might win it.

837
00:42:55,880 --> 00:42:58,759
Speaker 2: He's thirty to one. Dominic Reyes is ten to one

838
00:42:59,160 --> 00:43:01,359
Speaker 2: to end next year's champion. I think he might get

839
00:43:01,400 --> 00:43:03,799
Speaker 2: some preferential treatment because of everything that he's been through.

840
00:43:04,040 --> 00:43:06,600
Speaker 2: Carlos Olberg. Could he get a title fight? He's seven

841
00:43:06,640 --> 00:43:09,319
Speaker 2: to one. But the favorite, of course to end next

842
00:43:09,400 --> 00:43:12,560
Speaker 2: year ray as light heavyweight champion is Alex Poeton Padata

843
00:43:12,640 --> 00:43:16,200
Speaker 2: minus one twenty, magamet Anklav plus one ninety five, Jamal

844
00:43:16,280 --> 00:43:19,200
Speaker 2: Hill plus one plus six hundred and on down from there.

845
00:43:20,440 --> 00:43:24,000
Speaker 3: Ooh, who we start? Well?

846
00:43:24,360 --> 00:43:27,000
Speaker 2: I mean, you guys are pausing when I'm doing this exercise.

847
00:43:27,080 --> 00:43:28,440
Speaker 2: Maybe I'll participate next time.

848
00:43:28,920 --> 00:43:29,880
Speaker 3: I'm gonna go with the.

849
00:43:32,280 --> 00:43:34,520
Speaker 2: Just go with Chalk again, Just go with the favorite again.

850
00:43:34,560 --> 00:43:36,759
Speaker 3: You think no, no, no, no, I'm gonna go with Alkolive.

851
00:43:37,000 --> 00:43:39,680
Speaker 2: Ooh, all right, Uncle Liab plus ninety five, Ken Flow,

852
00:43:39,680 --> 00:43:42,360
Speaker 2: a guy and magamat Anklive who many believe will be

853
00:43:42,600 --> 00:43:45,759
Speaker 2: favored to beat Podata should they fight. The question is

854
00:43:45,800 --> 00:43:47,560
Speaker 2: do he actually get the opportunity? What do you think

855
00:43:47,560 --> 00:43:49,640
Speaker 2: about two oh five at this time next year?

856
00:43:50,000 --> 00:43:52,400
Speaker 4: I like Alex Patata, but can we talk about a

857
00:43:52,480 --> 00:43:57,440
Speaker 4: possibility the rumor of Hamzat Chimayev potentially getting thrown into

858
00:43:57,480 --> 00:43:58,840
Speaker 4: the mix. Is there any credence to that?

859
00:43:59,120 --> 00:43:59,840
Speaker 3: Do you believe that?

860
00:44:00,120 --> 00:44:00,960
Speaker 4: Is that going to happen?

861
00:44:02,040 --> 00:44:05,360
Speaker 2: So Dana White is teasing something crazy, right, So no,

862
00:44:05,520 --> 00:44:07,440
Speaker 2: I don't think Kenny, that that is out of the

863
00:44:07,680 --> 00:44:09,240
Speaker 2: realm of possibility.

864
00:44:09,480 --> 00:44:10,600
Speaker 3: But I don't know that.

865
00:44:10,719 --> 00:44:12,200
Speaker 2: I saw another Let.

866
00:44:12,120 --> 00:44:12,600
Speaker 3: Me just see.

867
00:44:14,000 --> 00:44:17,520
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's fifty to one, so yeah, that's a good call.

868
00:44:17,680 --> 00:44:23,480
Speaker 2: Can Flow. So if you go on Draftking Sportsbooks application

869
00:44:23,680 --> 00:44:26,279
Speaker 2: right now and you click view more, it does open

870
00:44:26,360 --> 00:44:29,000
Speaker 2: up attack Kamzachimi, I have fifty to one to end

871
00:44:29,080 --> 00:44:31,520
Speaker 2: next year? Is light heavyweight champion? Very interesting? Ken Flow?

872
00:44:31,800 --> 00:44:32,120
Speaker 3: All right?

873
00:44:32,680 --> 00:44:36,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, to be the UFC midleweight champion at the end

874
00:44:36,080 --> 00:44:38,680
Speaker 2: of next year, Ray Kamza chim Iv is actually the

875
00:44:38,760 --> 00:44:41,520
Speaker 2: betting favorite at minus two hundred. Drikis two plus e

876
00:44:41,600 --> 00:44:46,440
Speaker 2: plus one twenty, Sean Strickland, Non Sordini, mavov Kyo bohal Yo,

877
00:44:46,960 --> 00:44:49,400
Speaker 2: Anthony Fluffy Hernandez eleven to one. Ray, Who do you

878
00:44:49,440 --> 00:44:51,279
Speaker 2: think is the middleweight champion at this time next year?

879
00:44:51,480 --> 00:44:55,920
Speaker 2: Chris Widman not an acceptable answer. I'm just kidding, It's

880
00:44:56,000 --> 00:44:56,560
Speaker 2: just kidding.

881
00:44:56,840 --> 00:45:00,840
Speaker 3: Wow, what what a motherfucking is awesome.

882
00:45:01,960 --> 00:45:08,359
Speaker 2: And just a flying knee flying Tony Hinchcliff. Right, we're

883
00:45:08,440 --> 00:45:11,279
Speaker 2: just having a little flat. Maybe one day there will

884
00:45:11,320 --> 00:45:14,080
Speaker 2: be a John Annak roast and everybody can come it.

885
00:45:14,480 --> 00:45:18,560
Speaker 3: Okay, Wow, that's a good idea. I'm gonna go. Well,

886
00:45:18,600 --> 00:45:22,799
Speaker 3: I'm gonna go with dric as due pluses. I say,

887
00:45:22,840 --> 00:45:24,439
Speaker 3: he holds on to it ken flow.

888
00:45:24,480 --> 00:45:27,879
Speaker 2: You think kas can maintain and sustain throughout twenty twenty five,

889
00:45:28,200 --> 00:45:28,400
Speaker 2: You know.

890
00:45:28,440 --> 00:45:32,359
Speaker 4: The big problem is that Chimaya kind of just does

891
00:45:32,440 --> 00:45:33,680
Speaker 4: everything a little bit better.

892
00:45:34,080 --> 00:45:34,200
Speaker 2: Uh.

893
00:45:34,600 --> 00:45:37,080
Speaker 4: And I think if you can survive the three rounds

894
00:45:37,120 --> 00:45:40,520
Speaker 4: and then I think definitely Chimaya is gonna be hard

895
00:45:40,600 --> 00:45:40,960
Speaker 4: to stop.

896
00:45:41,040 --> 00:45:41,160
Speaker 3: Man.

897
00:45:41,200 --> 00:45:43,520
Speaker 4: I think he matches up pretty well against Ricus. No

898
00:45:43,640 --> 00:45:46,480
Speaker 4: disrespect to the champ right now, who's done amazing things.

899
00:45:46,560 --> 00:45:49,840
Speaker 4: But I like jimaiav Man and.

900
00:45:49,880 --> 00:45:52,840
Speaker 2: Hopefully the All American Chris Wiman skips this five hundred

901
00:45:52,880 --> 00:45:55,040
Speaker 2: and twenty ninth iteration of the Anaic.

902
00:45:54,800 --> 00:45:59,960
Speaker 3: And Florida podcast. Yeah. Just I just texted him, don't

903
00:46:00,080 --> 00:46:01,000
Speaker 3: or he's not going to miss it.

904
00:46:01,760 --> 00:46:04,080
Speaker 4: Yeah, tell me, thank you, thank you. Yeah.

905
00:46:04,480 --> 00:46:06,720
Speaker 2: I can't wait for his Hall of Fame induction ceremony.

906
00:46:06,800 --> 00:46:08,640
Speaker 2: That's gonna be a very special night. All right, let's

907
00:46:08,680 --> 00:46:11,080
Speaker 2: go forward if we could, as we talk about who

908
00:46:11,200 --> 00:46:14,719
Speaker 2: might end twenty twenty five as the other Screy is

909
00:46:15,320 --> 00:46:20,400
Speaker 2: welterweight champion. Merry Christmas, Raymond. I've been back here for

910
00:46:20,640 --> 00:46:24,279
Speaker 2: thirty minutes. Great to see you. You have roll you

911
00:46:24,320 --> 00:46:26,960
Speaker 2: have me rolling back here, Raymond, and you look, you

912
00:46:27,040 --> 00:46:29,239
Speaker 2: look more awake now than you did fifteen minutes ago.

913
00:46:30,320 --> 00:46:31,719
Speaker 2: These guys get you going a little bit.

914
00:46:32,000 --> 00:46:33,960
Speaker 3: I'm waking up a little bit. Jason. Thank you for

915
00:46:34,040 --> 00:46:36,399
Speaker 3: the compliment that I never get from your brother. Thank

916
00:46:36,440 --> 00:46:37,680
Speaker 3: you very much. I appreciate it.

917
00:46:37,880 --> 00:46:42,120
Speaker 2: It was actually a backhanded compliment suggested right, Yeah.

918
00:46:43,800 --> 00:46:46,920
Speaker 3: He's got to jump in and Ruinette. It's a backhanded compliment.

919
00:46:48,520 --> 00:46:52,520
Speaker 2: I've suggested Jay host this show. You two motherfuckers alongside,

920
00:46:52,560 --> 00:46:57,200
Speaker 2: and I'll just get out. Okay, everybody loves Raymond, right, all.

921
00:46:57,160 --> 00:47:01,640
Speaker 3: Right, all right, Scrooge, let's move on. What we got next.

922
00:47:01,680 --> 00:47:03,719
Speaker 2: Yeah, we're gonna move on, and ray anytime that you

923
00:47:03,800 --> 00:47:05,800
Speaker 2: want to leave, you could just you know, hit that

924
00:47:05,920 --> 00:47:08,799
Speaker 2: leave studio button and we'll we'll take the range from there.

925
00:47:08,920 --> 00:47:11,120
Speaker 3: But no, it is, don't worry about it. I left

926
00:47:11,160 --> 00:47:14,000
Speaker 3: about twenty minutes ago. That's good.

927
00:47:14,239 --> 00:47:17,320
Speaker 2: He uses this as like his his col brew to

928
00:47:17,360 --> 00:47:19,759
Speaker 2: warm him up for his actual job. You know, to

929
00:47:19,880 --> 00:47:22,239
Speaker 2: hell with our viewership and listenership. We'll get him in

930
00:47:22,360 --> 00:47:24,960
Speaker 2: whatever form so he can be sharp for the private

931
00:47:25,000 --> 00:47:26,440
Speaker 2: coming up top of the hour. By the way, how

932
00:47:26,440 --> 00:47:31,560
Speaker 2: about the new branding at Long Gos MMA in Long Island,

933
00:47:32,520 --> 00:47:35,160
Speaker 2: New York. Can we talk about that for a second.

934
00:47:36,160 --> 00:47:37,920
Speaker 3: Yeah, let's talk about it. What do we got?

935
00:47:38,800 --> 00:47:40,759
Speaker 2: That's your cue to fucking talk about it?

936
00:47:43,080 --> 00:47:45,200
Speaker 3: You know I'm not a self promoter. Well you do

937
00:47:45,320 --> 00:47:47,800
Speaker 3: that to me for I don't know those guys. Steve

938
00:47:47,880 --> 00:47:50,719
Speaker 3: Lee's doing a great job down there, so I'm yeah,

939
00:47:50,760 --> 00:47:54,040
Speaker 3: Steve Lee is putting I'm not involved as much as

940
00:47:54,719 --> 00:47:55,359
Speaker 3: you think I am.

941
00:47:55,520 --> 00:47:58,520
Speaker 2: So so is Steve Lee taking all the money as well?

942
00:47:58,680 --> 00:47:58,840
Speaker 4: Or no?

943
00:47:59,440 --> 00:47:59,480
Speaker 3: No?

944
00:48:00,040 --> 00:48:03,080
Speaker 2: Okay? So right, all right, So shout out to Steve Lee,

945
00:48:03,600 --> 00:48:07,040
Speaker 2: manager to the stars, outstanding martial artist in his own right,

946
00:48:07,280 --> 00:48:10,720
Speaker 2: who probably right now is using the hand on face emoji.

947
00:48:10,840 --> 00:48:14,280
Speaker 2: When Ray gets an opportunity to promote the newly branded

948
00:48:14,360 --> 00:48:19,719
Speaker 2: Longos MMA on Long Island, New York, bags are packed.

949
00:48:19,760 --> 00:48:21,640
Speaker 2: If I were you, fighters, I would get on down there.

950
00:48:21,680 --> 00:48:24,120
Speaker 2: But I guess we'll We'll bring Steve Lee onto.

951
00:48:24,000 --> 00:48:27,879
Speaker 3: Actually, big stuff happened in twenty twenty five down there

952
00:48:28,640 --> 00:48:29,080
Speaker 3: there it is.

953
00:48:30,640 --> 00:48:33,959
Speaker 2: But it sounds like he's at a fucking funeral telling

954
00:48:34,040 --> 00:48:34,239
Speaker 2: us that.

955
00:48:36,320 --> 00:48:38,160
Speaker 4: I think he went to the Kenny Florian School of

956
00:48:38,200 --> 00:48:38,960
Speaker 4: marketing over there.

957
00:48:40,920 --> 00:48:44,000
Speaker 3: I went to the Monotone School of Marketing is where

958
00:48:44,040 --> 00:48:45,480
Speaker 3: I went. Nice.

959
00:48:46,120 --> 00:48:48,120
Speaker 2: Try to promote the guy's Jimmy's like what else we got?

960
00:48:48,160 --> 00:48:51,640
Speaker 2: All right? Ray, final category, Jay, I did want your

961
00:48:51,680 --> 00:48:54,200
Speaker 2: thoughts on this. As one of Blah Muhammad's best friends

962
00:48:54,239 --> 00:48:56,919
Speaker 2: in the world, Shapcott rock Monov at minus one point

963
00:48:56,920 --> 00:49:00,320
Speaker 2: fifty is favored to be the welterweight champion at this

964
00:49:00,440 --> 00:49:03,080
Speaker 2: time next year. Blow Muhammed plus two hundredly On Edwards

965
00:49:03,120 --> 00:49:05,640
Speaker 2: plus three fifty, which would imply that Leon would fight

966
00:49:05,719 --> 00:49:08,759
Speaker 2: twice next year, Joaquin Buckley plus three to fifty. In

967
00:49:08,800 --> 00:49:12,000
Speaker 2: in the Shadow Gary plus four hundred, Sean Brady's twenty

968
00:49:12,080 --> 00:49:15,480
Speaker 2: to one, Jack Dela Mattelana twenty two to one, and

969
00:49:15,800 --> 00:49:20,600
Speaker 2: Carlos Protests Parliament. Light in hand is fifty to one. Ray,

970
00:49:20,680 --> 00:49:23,560
Speaker 2: who do you think ends next year is the welterweight champ?

971
00:49:25,960 --> 00:49:31,120
Speaker 3: Uh think I'm not doing this. I'm not doing this

972
00:49:31,200 --> 00:49:34,360
Speaker 3: because you your friends, and I think I think I

973
00:49:34,440 --> 00:49:36,799
Speaker 3: think Blao is gonna hold on to it. I think

974
00:49:36,880 --> 00:49:40,319
Speaker 3: you know they've He's got the motivation, he's definitely got

975
00:49:40,400 --> 00:49:42,240
Speaker 3: the skill set. I'm gonna go with Blau.

976
00:49:42,800 --> 00:49:46,640
Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, Jay, Kenny, ken Full, what do you

977
00:49:46,680 --> 00:49:48,520
Speaker 2: think about the welterweight division? A lot of it has

978
00:49:48,560 --> 00:49:51,640
Speaker 2: to do with opportunity, and we don't know how healthy

979
00:49:51,800 --> 00:49:55,200
Speaker 2: Jack Dela matt Alena is. He's twenty two to one,

980
00:49:55,719 --> 00:49:59,239
Speaker 2: but I can assure you he's getting fast tracked. He

981
00:49:59,400 --> 00:50:02,920
Speaker 2: is a tough eliminator slash main event away from a

982
00:50:02,960 --> 00:50:05,000
Speaker 2: title fight, and his next fight might actually be for

983
00:50:05,080 --> 00:50:08,560
Speaker 2: a belt. Kenny, do you see value on anyone anywhere

984
00:50:08,880 --> 00:50:11,160
Speaker 2: in terms of these odds for twenty twenty five at

985
00:50:11,160 --> 00:50:11,680
Speaker 2: one seven?

986
00:50:11,960 --> 00:50:14,279
Speaker 4: Yeah, listen, three named Jack is a problem. I think

987
00:50:14,320 --> 00:50:16,480
Speaker 4: he's definitely a dark horse in that division, could get

988
00:50:16,480 --> 00:50:19,520
Speaker 4: it done. But I'm with Ray and a lot of people.

989
00:50:19,640 --> 00:50:22,160
Speaker 4: I'll say, but balal Mohammad, and people will go, oh, well,

990
00:50:22,200 --> 00:50:24,080
Speaker 4: he's a friend of yours. He is a friend of

991
00:50:24,200 --> 00:50:26,080
Speaker 4: John and Jays. He's not a friend of mine. I'm

992
00:50:26,080 --> 00:50:28,920
Speaker 4: friendly with balall. I just think he's that good of

993
00:50:29,000 --> 00:50:31,239
Speaker 4: a fighter. I think he's going to hold onto that

994
00:50:31,320 --> 00:50:34,279
Speaker 4: belt and surprise and continue to surprise a lot of people.

995
00:50:35,520 --> 00:50:38,120
Speaker 2: You know, Blao's health remains in question. I don't know

996
00:50:38,200 --> 00:50:40,120
Speaker 2: anything more than anyone else does in terms of that.

997
00:50:40,239 --> 00:50:44,240
Speaker 2: But what I'll say is, Kenny, what you said talking

998
00:50:44,239 --> 00:50:46,960
Speaker 2: about Choldcott after you Beaty and Gary, you said blow

999
00:50:47,000 --> 00:50:49,040
Speaker 2: can figure out a way to beat that guy. And

1000
00:50:49,080 --> 00:50:51,080
Speaker 2: we talk about Morob. It's a very interesting conversation you

1001
00:50:51,120 --> 00:50:53,479
Speaker 2: guys had about the turnaround time. But if Balal is healthy,

1002
00:50:53,680 --> 00:50:55,600
Speaker 2: most certainly he wants to fight two more times in

1003
00:50:55,680 --> 00:50:58,239
Speaker 2: twenty twenty twice in twenty twenty five, and we don't

1004
00:50:58,280 --> 00:51:01,520
Speaker 2: say defend it twice, fight for a different belt, two

1005
00:51:01,640 --> 00:51:05,200
Speaker 2: separate belts. But Shafcott's going to be next. Blaal loves

1006
00:51:05,239 --> 00:51:08,360
Speaker 2: his opportunity and the match up there and his ability

1007
00:51:08,400 --> 00:51:09,840
Speaker 2: to figure out a way to beat him, and so

1008
00:51:09,920 --> 00:51:12,040
Speaker 2: from a gambling teamp, I love Balal obviously, But from

1009
00:51:12,040 --> 00:51:14,880
Speaker 2: a gambling standpoint, for those of you out there, I

1010
00:51:14,960 --> 00:51:17,279
Speaker 2: would be looking if you like Balal or you like

1011
00:51:17,360 --> 00:51:19,440
Speaker 2: Shafcott in that next matchup, I'd be looking at who

1012
00:51:19,520 --> 00:51:21,600
Speaker 2: you think that next person could be?

1013
00:51:21,760 --> 00:51:21,880
Speaker 3: Right?

1014
00:51:22,160 --> 00:51:24,200
Speaker 2: I think there's a lot of juice in Sean Brady

1015
00:51:24,320 --> 00:51:26,719
Speaker 2: twenty to one, because it would I don't think that

1016
00:51:26,719 --> 00:51:28,360
Speaker 2: would be out of the realm possibility for him to

1017
00:51:28,400 --> 00:51:30,880
Speaker 2: get that sort of rematch opportunity. That right would have

1018
00:51:30,960 --> 00:51:33,040
Speaker 2: some juice for me as a fan if Billau were

1019
00:51:33,080 --> 00:51:37,320
Speaker 2: to beat Shafcott. But from a betting standpoint, Blal is

1020
00:51:37,680 --> 00:51:40,880
Speaker 2: the problem. Bllal is the boogeyman, not the guy with

1021
00:51:41,000 --> 00:51:41,719
Speaker 2: the cool hat.

1022
00:51:41,960 --> 00:51:42,160
Speaker 3: Yeah.

1023
00:51:42,200 --> 00:51:43,759
Speaker 2: I just don't see the value on him. At plus

1024
00:51:43,800 --> 00:51:45,839
Speaker 2: two hundred, you're gonna get a plus number on him

1025
00:51:45,840 --> 00:51:48,319
Speaker 2: against Shafcott rock Montov anyway, and we'll see if Sean

1026
00:51:48,360 --> 00:51:50,319
Speaker 2: Brady ends up getting Leon Edwards fight. This is Jack

1027
00:51:50,400 --> 00:51:54,160
Speaker 2: Dela Mattalena get the Leon Edwards fight, because that could

1028
00:51:54,200 --> 00:51:56,839
Speaker 2: potentially align for Sean Brady to close out twenty twenty

1029
00:51:56,920 --> 00:51:58,600
Speaker 2: five with the title shot. All right, Jay, thank you.

1030
00:51:59,000 --> 00:52:00,239
Speaker 2: We'll talk to you in a few minutes as we

1031
00:52:00,280 --> 00:52:01,000
Speaker 2: continue the awards.

1032
00:52:02,080 --> 00:52:04,399
Speaker 3: Jay, take it easy, buddy, Happy New Year.

1033
00:52:04,400 --> 00:52:08,560
Speaker 2: If I don't talk too Raymond, Yes, I look forward

1034
00:52:08,600 --> 00:52:10,800
Speaker 2: to seeing you in California in a few weeks. You

1035
00:52:10,880 --> 00:52:13,120
Speaker 2: can tell Chris Wyman if you talk to him later today.

1036
00:52:13,640 --> 00:52:16,359
Speaker 2: I was on Draftking sportsbook looking for a bedding line

1037
00:52:16,400 --> 00:52:18,200
Speaker 2: on him to be the Midway champion at this time

1038
00:52:18,239 --> 00:52:19,800
Speaker 2: next year, and I couldn't find all that stuff.

1039
00:52:19,960 --> 00:52:23,839
Speaker 3: He just can't let it go. I can't keep on going.

1040
00:52:24,480 --> 00:52:26,160
Speaker 3: What else we got? What are you doing for New Years?

1041
00:52:27,400 --> 00:52:30,040
Speaker 2: Absolutely nothing? A friend of mine asked me recently, like,

1042
00:52:30,080 --> 00:52:33,120
Speaker 2: what's going on December thirty first? I'm like, what, Like,

1043
00:52:33,200 --> 00:52:35,400
Speaker 2: I can't remember the last time I've stayed up for

1044
00:52:36,200 --> 00:52:38,239
Speaker 2: Dick clach Rock and Eve. Kenny, what are you doing

1045
00:52:38,320 --> 00:52:40,520
Speaker 2: New Year's Eve? I'm actually I'll.

1046
00:52:40,360 --> 00:52:44,160
Speaker 4: Be down by by you, buddy. I'm leaving tomorrow. I

1047
00:52:44,280 --> 00:52:47,960
Speaker 4: got a little New Year's Eve festivities tomorrow in Miami.

1048
00:52:48,080 --> 00:52:50,400
Speaker 4: Actually just an in and out, in and out, so

1049
00:52:50,440 --> 00:52:51,399
Speaker 4: I'm not stand too long.

1050
00:52:51,480 --> 00:52:56,000
Speaker 3: But all yeah, So wow, now excited now? Is that

1051
00:52:56,120 --> 00:52:58,400
Speaker 3: you're going to stop buy and visit your best friend?

1052
00:52:59,120 --> 00:52:59,399
Speaker 3: He said?

1053
00:52:59,400 --> 00:53:01,600
Speaker 4: You know what, It's a quick It's a quick flight

1054
00:53:01,760 --> 00:53:04,439
Speaker 4: in and out. I'm like literally getting there a couple

1055
00:53:04,560 --> 00:53:06,360
Speaker 4: hours before the party and then I fly out like

1056
00:53:06,400 --> 00:53:07,040
Speaker 4: the next morning.

1057
00:53:07,120 --> 00:53:10,719
Speaker 2: Otherwise I wow. Well, if you want to get in

1058
00:53:10,840 --> 00:53:12,640
Speaker 2: a roll, if you want to get in a role,

1059
00:53:12,760 --> 00:53:16,840
Speaker 2: can't after Are you going by yourself?

1060
00:53:17,160 --> 00:53:19,919
Speaker 4: Or will you be, I'm taking the wife. I'm taking

1061
00:53:20,000 --> 00:53:20,400
Speaker 4: a wife.

1062
00:53:20,960 --> 00:53:24,799
Speaker 2: Notice Ray, how like this party is certainly high brow,

1063
00:53:25,040 --> 00:53:29,480
Speaker 2: certainly like invite only how he won't tell him.

1064
00:53:30,400 --> 00:53:32,480
Speaker 4: I can talk about it after the fact, but probably

1065
00:53:32,520 --> 00:53:33,080
Speaker 4: not before that.

1066
00:53:33,280 --> 00:53:33,879
Speaker 2: See what I mean?

1067
00:53:34,080 --> 00:53:36,920
Speaker 3: You know, as long as he's not going to a

1068
00:53:37,000 --> 00:53:39,040
Speaker 3: freak o if I hope he is. No, it's not

1069
00:53:39,200 --> 00:53:43,840
Speaker 3: not freaking So he's not mentioning the party. It's very clandestine.

1070
00:53:44,200 --> 00:53:47,160
Speaker 3: He's in, he's out. It's like a Navy sealed mission,

1071
00:53:47,280 --> 00:53:49,080
Speaker 3: you know what I mean. He's got his fucking flip

1072
00:53:49,280 --> 00:53:52,440
Speaker 3: is on and telling you he's coming in. Are you

1073
00:53:52,560 --> 00:53:55,160
Speaker 3: going when you arrived there? Will you be coming out

1074
00:53:55,200 --> 00:53:57,800
Speaker 3: of the water or an aeroplane exactly?

1075
00:53:57,880 --> 00:53:59,759
Speaker 4: I'll mean, I'll be in one of those thrones that's

1076
00:53:59,760 --> 00:54:00,520
Speaker 4: over your jersey.

1077
00:54:00,640 --> 00:54:04,800
Speaker 3: Right now, we got nothing on this. It's a secret party.

1078
00:54:05,200 --> 00:54:07,480
Speaker 3: Right now? Do you find out where the address is?

1079
00:54:07,600 --> 00:54:12,399
Speaker 3: Like twenty minutes before you get on the plane? White?

1080
00:54:12,920 --> 00:54:15,400
Speaker 3: I think it's an ice white shut party exact.

1081
00:54:15,920 --> 00:54:18,160
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know why we're relentless because we haven't been

1082
00:54:18,239 --> 00:54:20,920
Speaker 2: invited to a party in our live that we couldn't

1083
00:54:21,000 --> 00:54:22,400
Speaker 2: talk about on the front end of it.

1084
00:54:23,560 --> 00:54:25,000
Speaker 4: I was surprised myself.

1085
00:54:24,760 --> 00:54:27,160
Speaker 3: When I got daddy. We're relentless because I'll be sitting

1086
00:54:27,200 --> 00:54:28,239
Speaker 3: on the couch with my dog.

1087
00:54:29,600 --> 00:54:31,600
Speaker 4: I want to go to the party with you, cheerings

1088
00:54:31,640 --> 00:54:32,120
Speaker 4: with your dog.

1089
00:54:32,239 --> 00:54:36,000
Speaker 2: Yeah good, This is like Michael Ruben's White Party or something, Kenny,

1090
00:54:36,320 --> 00:54:38,320
Speaker 2: anything you can do on behalf of the Anak and

1091
00:54:38,360 --> 00:54:43,600
Speaker 2: Florian podcast at this party of celebrities and yeah, rich people.

1092
00:54:43,840 --> 00:54:45,239
Speaker 3: Take anything your.

1093
00:54:45,239 --> 00:54:47,600
Speaker 9: Video taped, just a little bit of it. You know what,

1094
00:54:47,719 --> 00:54:49,640
Speaker 9: I'll try, I'll you know what they have, I'm gonna

1095
00:54:49,640 --> 00:54:51,840
Speaker 9: send you. They have those glasses with a camera. Just

1096
00:54:51,920 --> 00:54:55,279
Speaker 9: walk around and look at everybody. Nobody will know where,

1097
00:54:55,320 --> 00:54:56,759
Speaker 9: nobody will know anything that's right.

1098
00:54:57,360 --> 00:54:59,839
Speaker 2: Might be one of those parties where they maybe make

1099
00:55:00,080 --> 00:55:02,120
Speaker 2: put his cell phone in a bag when he gets there.

1100
00:55:02,239 --> 00:55:03,120
Speaker 2: Something I don't need you.

1101
00:55:03,600 --> 00:55:06,040
Speaker 3: Did you receive baby oil in the mail in the list?

1102
00:55:08,040 --> 00:55:10,920
Speaker 3: It's not one of those. All right, thank god, thank god.

1103
00:55:11,040 --> 00:55:12,840
Speaker 3: All right, we'll see what.

1104
00:55:12,920 --> 00:55:14,839
Speaker 2: You can do. You can't flow on the sponsorship front

1105
00:55:14,840 --> 00:55:17,359
Speaker 2: and all serious because at this point Ray can't get

1106
00:55:17,440 --> 00:55:19,600
Speaker 2: us five hundred bucks from the Chicken House.

1107
00:55:19,400 --> 00:55:29,480
Speaker 3: So hopefully shut up to the chicken pot. Unbelievable, what

1108
00:55:29,600 --> 00:55:31,120
Speaker 3: a tell me what you're looking for.

1109
00:55:31,360 --> 00:55:35,080
Speaker 2: I just want chicken man down here. I just want chicken,

1110
00:55:36,239 --> 00:55:37,840
Speaker 2: and I want you to a wing.

1111
00:55:37,840 --> 00:55:47,200
Speaker 10: Or something, you know, come on, unbelievable, Hey, Ray, ten

1112
00:55:47,320 --> 00:55:47,879
Speaker 10: years down?

1113
00:55:48,400 --> 00:55:48,560
Speaker 2: Is it?

1114
00:55:48,680 --> 00:55:49,520
Speaker 3: Ten years down?

1115
00:55:49,880 --> 00:55:52,880
Speaker 2: April will be our ten year anniversary. So thanks for

1116
00:55:52,960 --> 00:55:56,720
Speaker 2: your contributions. Hopefully we have served as your caffeinated beverage

1117
00:55:56,760 --> 00:55:57,200
Speaker 2: for today.

1118
00:55:57,680 --> 00:55:59,359
Speaker 3: This is This was fantastic.

1119
00:55:59,800 --> 00:56:02,040
Speaker 2: I think it was pretty good. All right, well, uh,

1120
00:56:02,680 --> 00:56:04,440
Speaker 2: we're gonna let you go on that. Get back to

1121
00:56:04,480 --> 00:56:10,400
Speaker 2: your black water. Okay, take it easy, dear Rick. But

1122
00:56:10,560 --> 00:56:12,640
Speaker 2: Ray long Goo met it every week here on the

1123
00:56:12,719 --> 00:56:17,279
Speaker 2: Anakin Florian Podcast real quickly can flow to be the

1124
00:56:17,360 --> 00:56:21,440
Speaker 2: UFC light heavyweight champ. Makashev is the favorite. Dan Hooker.

1125
00:56:21,520 --> 00:56:24,480
Speaker 2: Maybe some value at ten to one featherweight champ toputium

1126
00:56:24,520 --> 00:56:27,279
Speaker 2: minus one seventy five, but might not be long for

1127
00:56:27,400 --> 00:56:31,720
Speaker 2: the division. You know, you got Diego Lopez plus four hundred,

1128
00:56:31,880 --> 00:56:34,760
Speaker 2: Volcan plus eight hundred, Mobster, you have Loyal plus two hundred.

1129
00:56:34,800 --> 00:56:38,000
Speaker 2: You know the Umar morob thing Umar and Rimago Medov

1130
00:56:38,239 --> 00:56:40,560
Speaker 2: favored to be the bantamweight champion at plus one ten

1131
00:56:40,640 --> 00:56:42,960
Speaker 2: by this time next year. And then the only other

1132
00:56:43,000 --> 00:56:45,480
Speaker 2: thing I wanted to throw your way because Ray was

1133
00:56:45,520 --> 00:56:48,160
Speaker 2: getting a little bit testy there. Yes to be the

1134
00:56:48,280 --> 00:56:51,160
Speaker 2: UFC Women's flyweight Champion at the end of next year.

1135
00:56:51,280 --> 00:56:53,680
Speaker 2: Jeanwae Lee is ten to one now in front of

1136
00:56:53,719 --> 00:56:57,360
Speaker 2: her Valentina chef Chankomnold Fuel and Aaron Blanchfield. But sometimes

1137
00:56:57,400 --> 00:57:00,279
Speaker 2: I just wonder for jeanwe Lee if she is able

1138
00:57:00,320 --> 00:57:04,160
Speaker 2: to somehow get through Tatiana Swarrez, Does Vina JANGI Doba

1139
00:57:04,600 --> 00:57:07,800
Speaker 2: excite her? I mean, I love Ka Kada, right, But

1140
00:57:07,920 --> 00:57:10,759
Speaker 2: I just think for Jean Wee Lee, she's never to

1141
00:57:10,920 --> 00:57:13,560
Speaker 2: my knowledge, talked about being a double champ. I'm not

1142
00:57:13,680 --> 00:57:14,840
Speaker 2: sure what else there is to do.

1143
00:57:15,880 --> 00:57:19,560
Speaker 4: I know, I mean she's beating everybody. The Tatana Suarez

1144
00:57:19,640 --> 00:57:23,640
Speaker 4: fight that that is very intriguing to me, just based

1145
00:57:23,720 --> 00:57:27,080
Speaker 4: on Suarez's style, her wrestling prowess. But yeah, you're right,

1146
00:57:27,160 --> 00:57:29,560
Speaker 4: if she gets by Suarez, what's kind of you.

1147
00:57:29,600 --> 00:57:30,920
Speaker 2: Know, that's interesting?

1148
00:57:31,280 --> 00:57:31,600
Speaker 3: All right?

1149
00:57:31,640 --> 00:57:34,360
Speaker 2: Back to the Awards Upset of the Year, Can Flow

1150
00:57:34,440 --> 00:57:37,320
Speaker 2: gave you Rob font for me and you got to

1151
00:57:37,360 --> 00:57:40,080
Speaker 2: go back aways for this upset nearly a year ago,

1152
00:57:40,480 --> 00:57:44,240
Speaker 2: but it featured a tried and true American stalwart going

1153
00:57:44,360 --> 00:57:46,720
Speaker 2: north of the border to uh to ruin the night

1154
00:57:46,800 --> 00:57:53,439
Speaker 2: for a bunch of Canadians taking on the credential. Neil

1155
00:57:53,560 --> 00:57:59,200
Speaker 2: Magni live on pay Transition into Mountain by Magni.

1156
00:58:00,040 --> 00:58:02,160
Speaker 11: I want to jump by Magnet the part of half

1157
00:58:02,240 --> 00:58:02,800
Speaker 11: your ms.

1158
00:58:03,000 --> 00:58:03,680
Speaker 4: He's tired.

1159
00:58:07,520 --> 00:58:10,320
Speaker 2: If you look at Magnie.

1160
00:58:12,080 --> 00:58:19,360
Speaker 6: Picture he finishes this here, it's so sis Fancy's eating

1161
00:58:19,480 --> 00:58:23,280
Speaker 6: non stop shines here this could be Kenny start.

1162
00:58:24,880 --> 00:58:37,960
Speaker 2: Not consis Maggie rather the storm and added time and

1163
00:58:38,160 --> 00:58:39,800
Speaker 2: Pat neilkad of me.

1164
00:58:40,680 --> 00:58:45,240
Speaker 6: It's stending his UFC Walter Wait wins record and stunning

1165
00:58:45,360 --> 00:58:46,080
Speaker 6: the mass.

1166
00:58:46,440 --> 00:58:50,160
Speaker 2: And I'll tell you, I think you can tell just

1167
00:58:50,240 --> 00:58:52,840
Speaker 2: by my voice how stunned I was in the moment.

1168
00:58:52,920 --> 00:58:55,680
Speaker 2: You're gonna need a lot more than that to get

1169
00:58:55,760 --> 00:58:58,800
Speaker 2: Neil Magne out of there, Kenny. This was built as

1170
00:58:58,800 --> 00:59:01,040
Speaker 2: a showcase spot for Mike a lot on pay per

1171
00:59:01,160 --> 00:59:04,800
Speaker 2: view in Canada. And even if my favorite website on

1172
00:59:04,840 --> 00:59:07,600
Speaker 2: the internet, tapology dot com has this is maybe the

1173
00:59:07,680 --> 00:59:10,400
Speaker 2: thirteenth or fourteenth biggest and best upset of the year

1174
00:59:11,000 --> 00:59:13,320
Speaker 2: for me. This is the one that really stands out.

1175
00:59:13,320 --> 00:59:15,160
Speaker 2: I had forgotten about it because it happened all the

1176
00:59:15,200 --> 00:59:18,480
Speaker 2: way back in January, but Mike Malott was trending and

1177
00:59:18,560 --> 00:59:21,880
Speaker 2: tracking towards the top fifteen, and a lot of people

1178
00:59:21,920 --> 00:59:24,160
Speaker 2: have gotten magnied like this. A lot of people have

1179
00:59:24,720 --> 00:59:27,600
Speaker 2: past this Magni test, the Michael Moraleses of the world.

1180
00:59:27,800 --> 00:59:30,880
Speaker 2: A lot of people like Phil Rowe and Michael Malott

1181
00:59:31,240 --> 00:59:34,840
Speaker 2: have not. Congratulations to Neil Magni, my winner for twenty

1182
00:59:34,880 --> 00:59:37,400
Speaker 2: twenty four. Upset of the Year closed plus three twenty

1183
00:59:37,520 --> 00:59:41,560
Speaker 2: or so. Jason annik slight betting underdog against me at

1184
00:59:41,600 --> 00:59:43,960
Speaker 2: Karate Combat in twenty twenty five, Jay, what do you

1185
00:59:44,040 --> 00:59:46,480
Speaker 2: think about Upset of the Year. As we go to

1186
00:59:46,520 --> 00:59:50,520
Speaker 2: the honorable mentions, you guys got me rolling backstage. I

1187
00:59:50,560 --> 00:59:52,680
Speaker 2: don't want to be backstage anymore, but I will say

1188
00:59:52,960 --> 00:59:55,280
Speaker 2: good selections there. And for those of us that watch

1189
00:59:55,280 --> 00:59:57,280
Speaker 2: all these Boston fighters, Kenny to sit and watch Rob

1190
00:59:57,360 --> 00:59:59,760
Speaker 2: font do that to Kyla Films at night, that was great.

1191
01:00:00,360 --> 01:00:02,320
Speaker 2: And in terms of your selection, Neil Magney, you know,

1192
01:00:02,440 --> 01:00:05,000
Speaker 2: sometimes those gatekeepers keep the fucking gate close. That's what

1193
01:00:05,040 --> 01:00:07,000
Speaker 2: I say, right, They keep the glades gate clothes. They

1194
01:00:07,000 --> 01:00:09,880
Speaker 2: don't let fucking proper Mike Malott in anyway. So John,

1195
01:00:09,920 --> 01:00:11,680
Speaker 2: you have a list of honorable mentions. Do you have

1196
01:00:11,800 --> 01:00:13,200
Speaker 2: that list by the way in front of you, John,

1197
01:00:13,240 --> 01:00:16,680
Speaker 2: the honorable mentions? Good? Yeah, yeah, because you're gonna read them,

1198
01:00:16,720 --> 01:00:18,640
Speaker 2: because there's a lot of pronunciations in there that I

1199
01:00:18,720 --> 01:00:21,640
Speaker 2: don't want to say. But my sneaky upset of the

1200
01:00:21,720 --> 01:00:24,920
Speaker 2: year is Hanato Moi Kano go into Paris, France and

1201
01:00:25,080 --> 01:00:28,280
Speaker 2: beating Ben la antony off that sort of loss against

1202
01:00:28,560 --> 01:00:30,920
Speaker 2: Dustin Pourrier. A lot of people thought the sort of

1203
01:00:31,160 --> 01:00:34,400
Speaker 2: French navy seal was still all the rage, and Hanato

1204
01:00:34,640 --> 01:00:37,960
Speaker 2: destroyed him, set up a fight I like very much

1205
01:00:38,120 --> 01:00:39,960
Speaker 2: him against our use coming up here next month. I

1206
01:00:40,320 --> 01:00:42,520
Speaker 2: but you know, Hanato, if he doesn't even mentioned here today,

1207
01:00:42,520 --> 01:00:44,400
Speaker 2: at least you know the upset there. I mean, what

1208
01:00:44,480 --> 01:00:47,640
Speaker 2: a year for Henato Kenny. I just wanted to throw

1209
01:00:47,720 --> 01:00:49,800
Speaker 2: some of these out there because there were so many

1210
01:00:50,000 --> 01:00:52,520
Speaker 2: big time upsets in twenty twenty four. I know, Rob

1211
01:00:52,600 --> 01:00:56,720
Speaker 2: font got your hardware, but forced to highlight one of

1212
01:00:56,760 --> 01:00:57,760
Speaker 2: these others can flow?

1213
01:00:57,840 --> 01:00:57,960
Speaker 4: Right?

1214
01:00:58,280 --> 01:00:59,320
Speaker 2: Which one are you highlighting?

1215
01:00:59,400 --> 01:00:59,440
Speaker 3: So?

1216
01:01:00,040 --> 01:01:05,200
Speaker 2: Jabriella Fernandez versus Wong Kong recently Aman Zahabby against Javid Basharat, Right,

1217
01:01:05,440 --> 01:01:08,200
Speaker 2: Sometimes these are tricky because maybe you and I think

1218
01:01:08,320 --> 01:01:10,960
Speaker 2: Amon's a live underdog going in or all the masses

1219
01:01:11,040 --> 01:01:13,800
Speaker 2: think that Dustin Pourier is going to beat Ben was Antony,

1220
01:01:13,920 --> 01:01:15,920
Speaker 2: So it doesn't necessarily stand up as an upset, But

1221
01:01:16,000 --> 01:01:18,560
Speaker 2: amon Z a Hobby was a huge underdog there. Brandon

1222
01:01:18,640 --> 01:01:23,600
Speaker 2: Royvall recently against Tatsuro Tyra, Mattauj Rounbetsky in a Fight

1223
01:01:23,680 --> 01:01:26,800
Speaker 2: of the Year contender against Muck Debck oral By round

1224
01:01:26,800 --> 01:01:29,800
Speaker 2: Betsky was a huge underdog there. That's one that I

1225
01:01:29,880 --> 01:01:33,720
Speaker 2: gave strong consideration too, So shout out to mattauj round Betsky.

1226
01:01:33,760 --> 01:01:38,280
Speaker 2: Thankfully he wasn't robbed of that win. Volkov against Sergey Pavlovich,

1227
01:01:38,360 --> 01:01:41,720
Speaker 2: Ken Flow Ballam Mohammed against Leon Edwards, and then Anthony

1228
01:01:41,760 --> 01:01:44,640
Speaker 2: Smith against Vitor Petrino Man a lot of entries for

1229
01:01:44,760 --> 01:01:46,120
Speaker 2: upset of the Year in twenty four.

1230
01:01:46,280 --> 01:01:48,720
Speaker 4: Gosh, yeah, absolutely, Well, you know, I think the ones

1231
01:01:48,760 --> 01:01:50,960
Speaker 4: that really stand out for me is the moy Kaino

1232
01:01:51,080 --> 01:01:54,040
Speaker 4: fight that Jason mentioned, and of course the ball All

1233
01:01:54,120 --> 01:01:57,080
Speaker 4: fight against Leon. You know, I don't think a whole

1234
01:01:57,120 --> 01:02:00,240
Speaker 4: lot of people gave him a chance in that championship fight,

1235
01:02:01,360 --> 01:02:05,240
Speaker 4: but yeah, maybe the Moikano fight for me. Uh Edges

1236
01:02:05,280 --> 01:02:10,040
Speaker 4: it out just because again I didn't I didn't think

1237
01:02:10,080 --> 01:02:12,400
Speaker 4: he was gonna be able to be that dominant with

1238
01:02:12,480 --> 01:02:14,360
Speaker 4: his takedowns the way that he was, and and then

1239
01:02:14,480 --> 01:02:17,760
Speaker 4: did so with what like a broken clavical or dislocated

1240
01:02:17,800 --> 01:02:20,200
Speaker 4: shoulder or whatever the hell that was. But moy Kano

1241
01:02:20,360 --> 01:02:22,840
Speaker 4: is an absolute stud and has had a tremendous year.

1242
01:02:23,600 --> 01:02:26,920
Speaker 2: Well right next category, and it pains us all greatly

1243
01:02:27,080 --> 01:02:31,320
Speaker 2: that Anthony Rumble Johnson is no longer with us. We

1244
01:02:31,520 --> 01:02:33,760
Speaker 2: bring to you this award in his honor. Of course,

1245
01:02:33,800 --> 01:02:36,880
Speaker 2: you know what it is, the Anthony Rumble Johnson Memorial

1246
01:02:36,960 --> 01:02:40,160
Speaker 2: Knockout of the Year. Ken Flow went shock with his

1247
01:02:40,320 --> 01:02:43,000
Speaker 2: selection and we don't blame him for it. UFC three

1248
01:02:43,120 --> 01:02:49,960
Speaker 2: hundred dateline, Las Vegas boy Justin Gaichie, both wearing special

1249
01:02:50,000 --> 01:02:50,600
Speaker 2: shorts tonight.

1250
01:02:50,840 --> 01:02:54,400
Speaker 6: There's no tougher guy in the UFC, and no Onlay

1251
01:02:54,440 --> 01:02:55,960
Speaker 6: has full guy that's more.

1252
01:02:55,840 --> 01:02:56,880
Speaker 9: Willing to do or die.

1253
01:02:57,480 --> 01:03:02,400
Speaker 2: Yes, kid, finally admit twenty five All the way shows

1254
01:03:02,480 --> 01:03:05,640
Speaker 2: some mortality. Look, that's just tell them to.

1255
01:03:08,520 --> 01:03:22,120
Speaker 6: The casually fact. Can Halloway, where is the bath title?

1256
01:03:22,240 --> 01:03:22,280
Speaker 3: He?

1257
01:03:22,920 --> 01:03:31,720
Speaker 2: My goodness, goodness, whoa my goodness? An absolute stunner.

1258
01:03:32,160 --> 01:03:39,320
Speaker 12: You sahrame shit if I again to go WHOA can

1259
01:03:39,400 --> 01:03:41,439
Speaker 12: I make that my call of the year by mister

1260
01:03:41,560 --> 01:03:42,520
Speaker 12: John Annick as well.

1261
01:03:42,960 --> 01:03:46,600
Speaker 4: Just tremendous stuff there, Johnny. Yeah, listen, you know when

1262
01:03:46,640 --> 01:03:49,000
Speaker 4: you're a fighter and you're in a fight, you can

1263
01:03:49,120 --> 01:03:52,640
Speaker 4: feel a certain flow, you have a certain intuition to say,

1264
01:03:53,120 --> 01:03:55,640
Speaker 4: I got this fight in the bag. I understand what's

1265
01:03:55,680 --> 01:03:57,400
Speaker 4: in front of me, I know what I need to do.

1266
01:03:58,240 --> 01:04:01,320
Speaker 4: That's one thing. But to go out there in round

1267
01:04:01,520 --> 01:04:05,200
Speaker 4: five against Justin Gaechie, one of the most dangerous knockout

1268
01:04:05,400 --> 01:04:09,880
Speaker 4: artists in the lightweight division, and Max Holloway is traditionally

1269
01:04:09,960 --> 01:04:12,520
Speaker 4: known as a one hundred and forty five pounder, and

1270
01:04:12,680 --> 01:04:15,040
Speaker 4: to point in the center of the octagon after you

1271
01:04:15,240 --> 01:04:18,800
Speaker 4: have dominated the majority of that fight. He at least

1272
01:04:18,840 --> 01:04:21,280
Speaker 4: won three of the four rounds. There's an argument that

1273
01:04:21,360 --> 01:04:24,240
Speaker 4: he wonted up all four rounds heading into that round five,

1274
01:04:25,120 --> 01:04:28,440
Speaker 4: and to trade with someone like Justin Gaegee and to

1275
01:04:28,680 --> 01:04:32,720
Speaker 4: end up getting that knockout and putting your opponent face

1276
01:04:32,880 --> 01:04:36,120
Speaker 4: down into the canvas like Max Holloway did, it doesn't

1277
01:04:36,160 --> 01:04:38,720
Speaker 4: get any better than that. That is a movie script.

1278
01:04:39,080 --> 01:04:43,600
Speaker 4: With one second left in the damn fight, Max Holloway

1279
01:04:43,720 --> 01:04:46,960
Speaker 4: is a Hawaiian legend for a reason, man, And just

1280
01:04:47,480 --> 01:04:51,160
Speaker 4: everything about that the call, the ending, the fight itself,

1281
01:04:51,800 --> 01:04:55,240
Speaker 4: the fact that it was for a BMF bel bro come.

1282
01:04:55,080 --> 01:04:57,720
Speaker 2: On amazing, Well, thank you for the kind words, buddy,

1283
01:04:57,760 --> 01:05:00,760
Speaker 2: and it is crazy right, you just promotionally can't draw

1284
01:05:00,840 --> 01:05:03,600
Speaker 2: it up any better. And the one thing on this

1285
01:05:03,720 --> 01:05:06,560
Speaker 2: award show, Kenny and I can't land on the same knockout, right,

1286
01:05:06,680 --> 01:05:10,080
Speaker 2: But how could any show get through knockout of the

1287
01:05:10,200 --> 01:05:12,440
Speaker 2: Year and not give it to Max Holloway. And when

1288
01:05:12,440 --> 01:05:16,240
Speaker 2: you think about how much money Max Holloway could potentially

1289
01:05:16,360 --> 01:05:20,360
Speaker 2: make in his life from that knockout, I would say

1290
01:05:21,120 --> 01:05:24,480
Speaker 2: seven to ten million dollars just based upon that knockout, right,

1291
01:05:24,920 --> 01:05:26,600
Speaker 2: And I would point to a couple of different things.

1292
01:05:26,720 --> 01:05:28,280
Speaker 2: First of all, he was already gonna make the three

1293
01:05:28,360 --> 01:05:30,480
Speaker 2: hundred thousand dollars for that being the fight of the

1294
01:05:30,560 --> 01:05:33,040
Speaker 2: night in all likelihood, but just in that moment, he

1295
01:05:33,120 --> 01:05:35,880
Speaker 2: made an extra three hundred thousand dollars, right, six hundred

1296
01:05:35,920 --> 01:05:40,160
Speaker 2: thousand dollars in bonuses UFC or ESPN I think it was.

1297
01:05:40,280 --> 01:05:44,040
Speaker 2: UFC Store may be released today the top sellers in

1298
01:05:44,160 --> 01:05:47,640
Speaker 2: twenty twenty four. Max Holloway second at UFC store dot

1299
01:05:47,720 --> 01:05:50,480
Speaker 2: Com to Alex Poeton Padata right. Think about how many

1300
01:05:50,520 --> 01:05:53,200
Speaker 2: people went on and bought like the floral shorts after that.

1301
01:05:53,440 --> 01:05:56,080
Speaker 2: You know at Knocko's gonna make Max Holloway a lot

1302
01:05:56,160 --> 01:06:00,480
Speaker 2: of money, And certainly I understand why you settled on that.

1303
01:06:00,560 --> 01:06:02,040
Speaker 2: When it came to your knockout of the year. I

1304
01:06:02,120 --> 01:06:04,280
Speaker 2: do think there's a little bit of a recency bias

1305
01:06:04,600 --> 01:06:07,640
Speaker 2: when it comes to awards and leaning towards things that

1306
01:06:07,760 --> 01:06:10,240
Speaker 2: happen in the fourth quarter. Brings me back to UFC

1307
01:06:10,320 --> 01:06:12,560
Speaker 2: two ninety seven. Drinkus dou plus is not getting any

1308
01:06:12,600 --> 01:06:14,280
Speaker 2: awards here today, and I think part of that is

1309
01:06:14,360 --> 01:06:17,400
Speaker 2: because he became the champion almost a year ago. But

1310
01:06:17,560 --> 01:06:19,440
Speaker 2: as to my knockout of the year, it goes to

1311
01:06:19,600 --> 01:06:25,480
Speaker 2: the inimitable Shara Bullet Magameta A hand got through for

1312
01:06:25,840 --> 01:06:28,480
Speaker 2: Magametov and now a body kick for shar Bullet.

1313
01:06:33,920 --> 01:06:46,760
Speaker 6: Bullet on real signed the bonus check. Now shutup Bullet

1314
01:06:48,960 --> 01:06:51,200
Speaker 6: is he often times does.

1315
01:06:51,560 --> 01:06:55,240
Speaker 2: Jo Yeah, the King of Abu Dhabi Ken Flow, shar

1316
01:06:55,360 --> 01:06:58,360
Speaker 2: Bullet Magametov. My knockout of the year for some people,

1317
01:06:58,480 --> 01:07:01,320
Speaker 2: not even top ten. There were so many great knockouts,

1318
01:07:01,320 --> 01:07:03,240
Speaker 2: and we'll go to Jay for the honorable mentions, but

1319
01:07:03,600 --> 01:07:05,360
Speaker 2: Charl Bullet with a big moment, and for me what

1320
01:07:05,520 --> 01:07:08,840
Speaker 2: put it over the edge familiarity with the opponent armand

1321
01:07:08,840 --> 01:07:13,760
Speaker 2: Petrosian and doing that against another striker whom I would

1322
01:07:13,840 --> 01:07:17,040
Speaker 2: qualify as world class. Also the first double spinning backfist

1323
01:07:17,080 --> 01:07:20,640
Speaker 2: in UFC history. Thankfully DC acknowledged it as such because

1324
01:07:20,640 --> 01:07:23,040
Speaker 2: it was lost on me in the moment, Charl Bullet.

1325
01:07:23,120 --> 01:07:26,120
Speaker 2: For me, Jay, what else you got? I'm just sitting here,

1326
01:07:26,880 --> 01:07:32,160
Speaker 2: John Jones, I was considered a knockout right, oh, because

1327
01:07:32,200 --> 01:07:34,200
Speaker 2: it's not on the honorable mention list And you talk

1328
01:07:34,240 --> 01:07:37,160
Speaker 2: about recency, Well, hey, you know you can prep too, bro.

1329
01:07:37,320 --> 01:07:39,280
Speaker 2: I was just sending you a few honorable mentions. No,

1330
01:07:39,480 --> 01:07:42,560
Speaker 2: I didn't prep today. This is your fucking show. These

1331
01:07:42,600 --> 01:07:45,360
Speaker 2: are the lists of honorable mentions. Okay, but no, John

1332
01:07:45,400 --> 01:07:47,400
Speaker 2: Jones popped in my head because wasn't that a very

1333
01:07:47,480 --> 01:07:51,720
Speaker 2: unique knockout sort of Kenny? Yeah, yeah, anyway, honorable but

1334
01:07:51,840 --> 01:07:54,840
Speaker 2: you nailed it, obviously, Kenny. Honorable mentioned couple here Walking Buckley, Winner,

1335
01:07:54,880 --> 01:07:59,800
Speaker 2: Boy Thompson, Alex Paneda, Jamal Hill, Iliataputia versus vulk Iliotapoitia

1336
01:07:59,840 --> 01:08:08,000
Speaker 2: verus is Max Vensius olived I Hope versus Bernardo sobaj Uhi. Yeah,

1337
01:08:09,320 --> 01:08:13,880
Speaker 2: so pi uh Poorie vers antani Ersk versus Schnell Prats

1338
01:08:13,960 --> 01:08:17,840
Speaker 2: versus Jing Theyung and Whittaker versus Alas scairaf a lot

1339
01:08:18,160 --> 01:08:22,200
Speaker 2: there geez, Yeah, yeah, we locked dog Venesius Olivera right,

1340
01:08:22,280 --> 01:08:24,960
Speaker 2: Robert Whittaker against Dick Romala scaiov I do believe though

1341
01:08:25,680 --> 01:08:29,519
Speaker 2: you're right again, Jay Man. Most notable omission might be

1342
01:08:29,880 --> 01:08:35,880
Speaker 2: John Jones with the spinning back kick to the body. Incredible,

1343
01:08:37,520 --> 01:08:39,840
Speaker 2: even add a category the body shot, right, That's what

1344
01:08:39,960 --> 01:08:41,639
Speaker 2: I was trying to think about, was the body shots

1345
01:08:41,680 --> 01:08:44,120
Speaker 2: of twenty twenty four. Yeah, the body shot knockouts that

1346
01:08:44,240 --> 01:08:48,360
Speaker 2: don't often sleep someone, but technically yeah, all right, good stuff,

1347
01:08:48,439 --> 01:08:53,160
Speaker 2: Jay plenty more from the underprepared Jason Addik throughout the

1348
01:08:53,200 --> 01:08:55,840
Speaker 2: rest of the Awards show. All right, submission of the year.

1349
01:08:56,640 --> 01:08:59,200
Speaker 2: This was cool, Kenny for a Brazilian jiu jitsu black

1350
01:08:59,240 --> 01:09:01,080
Speaker 2: belt like yourself with a bunch of stripes on it.

1351
01:09:01,200 --> 01:09:03,559
Speaker 2: Because a lot of the biggest fights of twenty twenty

1352
01:09:03,600 --> 01:09:07,000
Speaker 2: four ended by submission that included a Lightweight champions title

1353
01:09:07,040 --> 01:09:08,960
Speaker 2: defense at the Rock at UFC three to zero two.

1354
01:09:10,280 --> 01:09:13,680
Speaker 2: Prognosticators were not expectant that we would get to the

1355
01:09:13,800 --> 01:09:17,680
Speaker 2: final five minutes. Here they are between Dustin Porier and

1356
01:09:18,000 --> 01:09:23,400
Speaker 2: islam Ma Kasha. Dustin Fourier was well from pared tonight,

1357
01:09:23,479 --> 01:09:24,080
Speaker 2: so was Mahata.

1358
01:09:24,160 --> 01:09:27,920
Speaker 4: It's been a great fight. Looking for darts, Yeah, looking

1359
01:09:27,960 --> 01:09:33,200
Speaker 4: for dars. Dustin gotta be careful here. Oh that's tight.

1360
01:09:35,120 --> 01:09:40,320
Speaker 6: Baskashov with a submission.

1361
01:09:39,800 --> 01:09:43,639
Speaker 2: In row five. The throne remains in Mama's kama.

1362
01:09:44,360 --> 01:09:49,479
Speaker 6: Wow, what a fight and what a moment for the

1363
01:09:49,600 --> 01:09:53,280
Speaker 6: team as they mom Islama Kashev so in all the

1364
01:09:53,479 --> 01:09:58,599
Speaker 6: heart be fitting a champion. He was tested by Poorier,

1365
01:09:59,240 --> 01:10:03,360
Speaker 6: but Islama Kashev still the best in the world.

1366
01:10:03,479 --> 01:10:07,360
Speaker 2: At one fifty five, John a.

1367
01:10:07,400 --> 01:10:11,479
Speaker 4: Good grappling sequence leading to a submission. It is always

1368
01:10:11,560 --> 01:10:14,519
Speaker 4: impressive and beautiful to watch because it denotes a certain

1369
01:10:14,720 --> 01:10:18,920
Speaker 4: level of artistry and doing so at the highest levels

1370
01:10:19,000 --> 01:10:22,839
Speaker 4: of the sport, and doing it against another really solid grappler,

1371
01:10:22,920 --> 01:10:26,840
Speaker 4: and Dustin Pourier when it counts, when Dustin Pourier was

1372
01:10:26,920 --> 01:10:32,360
Speaker 4: gaining momentum in that fight, is just so impressive, just

1373
01:10:32,960 --> 01:10:36,840
Speaker 4: clean fundamentals. You do not want Isla Mahashev on top

1374
01:10:36,880 --> 01:10:38,280
Speaker 4: of you when he has a hold of your neck,

1375
01:10:38,280 --> 01:10:41,200
Speaker 4: because he most likely is going to finish every single time.

1376
01:10:41,920 --> 01:10:44,479
Speaker 4: It just shows how good Isla Mahashev is and how

1377
01:10:44,520 --> 01:10:48,200
Speaker 4: good he deals with pressure when it matters. And of

1378
01:10:48,320 --> 01:10:50,559
Speaker 4: course he's already one of the best pound for pound

1379
01:10:50,600 --> 01:10:54,880
Speaker 4: fighters in the sport. But doing something like that, you know,

1380
01:10:55,120 --> 01:10:59,960
Speaker 4: really solidified that and not trying to bring it back

1381
01:11:00,080 --> 01:11:02,400
Speaker 4: to the call. But do you hear my emotion in

1382
01:11:02,520 --> 01:11:06,640
Speaker 4: that moment, right, It's just natural to what is transpiring.

1383
01:11:06,840 --> 01:11:11,439
Speaker 4: I was so blown away by that takedown and that

1384
01:11:11,720 --> 01:11:14,280
Speaker 4: sequence by Islam at that point in time to take

1385
01:11:14,360 --> 01:11:17,360
Speaker 4: the judges out of it, and I think you can

1386
01:11:17,439 --> 01:11:18,040
Speaker 4: hear that emotion.

1387
01:11:18,160 --> 01:11:19,920
Speaker 2: So I like that you landed on that. You know,

1388
01:11:20,120 --> 01:11:23,720
Speaker 2: I almost pivoted to drink is DUPLESSI here just out

1389
01:11:23,760 --> 01:11:27,040
Speaker 2: of respect for how long ago it happened. I couldn't

1390
01:11:27,080 --> 01:11:31,559
Speaker 2: do it. My winner also gets the takedown of the year,

1391
01:11:31,600 --> 01:11:33,840
Speaker 2: I think, with respect to Islam for twenty twenty four.

1392
01:11:34,200 --> 01:11:37,360
Speaker 2: Also my submission of the year for twenty twenty four.

1393
01:11:37,439 --> 01:11:40,280
Speaker 2: Let's get to it, go ahead, line it percent of

1394
01:11:40,320 --> 01:11:43,320
Speaker 2: five He changed me better than rewards for sustainable choices.

1395
01:11:43,720 --> 01:11:45,599
Speaker 2: Robert Whittaker is still a young man at thirty three.

1396
01:11:45,640 --> 01:11:48,040
Speaker 2: Comes out Chi Maya. The betting favorite is thirty Chimaya

1397
01:11:48,120 --> 01:11:50,960
Speaker 2: two inches taller. He will have a reach advantage Robin

1398
01:11:51,040 --> 01:11:54,599
Speaker 2: inch and half. Whittaker was submitted one time pre UFC

1399
01:11:54,720 --> 01:11:58,639
Speaker 2: had welterweight thirteen years ago, back in twenty eleven. Never

1400
01:11:58,680 --> 01:12:02,639
Speaker 2: at eighty five. She Mayah taken his time, maybe trying

1401
01:12:02,680 --> 01:12:04,799
Speaker 2: to get an elbow home right on the eerie lands.

1402
01:12:06,840 --> 01:12:14,000
Speaker 2: Oh no, coming to a title fight near you?

1403
01:12:14,760 --> 01:12:16,000
Speaker 3: Comps up, she maam?

1404
01:12:16,280 --> 01:12:17,519
Speaker 5: Is that God?

1405
01:12:18,720 --> 01:12:19,479
Speaker 4: Is that? How's tall?

1406
01:12:19,600 --> 01:12:20,320
Speaker 2: That crypt this day?

1407
01:12:20,320 --> 01:12:23,560
Speaker 4: I've got that jady tamn fast. It wasn't under the

1408
01:12:23,640 --> 01:12:27,800
Speaker 4: two though, shut it down? Oh Robert, point you's face

1409
01:12:28,760 --> 01:12:29,719
Speaker 4: Holy come.

1410
01:12:31,479 --> 01:12:36,120
Speaker 6: So some sort of face crank the submission in round one?

1411
01:12:36,400 --> 01:12:40,599
Speaker 2: Wow, coms ut she Maya, Ladies and chollo hody.

1412
01:12:40,680 --> 01:12:41,960
Speaker 4: I think he messed up his jaw.

1413
01:12:44,680 --> 01:12:47,280
Speaker 2: He's the most electric fighter in the sport, and to

1414
01:12:47,439 --> 01:12:51,920
Speaker 2: do that against Robert Whittaker is otherworldly. COM's out, she

1415
01:12:52,040 --> 01:12:55,160
Speaker 2: Maya of Kenny. I know for you right there. Runner

1416
01:12:55,240 --> 01:12:57,680
Speaker 2: up for twenty twenty four Submission of the Year, just

1417
01:12:57,720 --> 01:13:00,320
Speaker 2: An incredible result, and it came in what you could

1418
01:13:00,400 --> 01:13:04,000
Speaker 2: argue was the most anticipated non title fight of twenty

1419
01:13:04,120 --> 01:13:08,400
Speaker 2: twenty four. So Hamzaschimaia, congratulations My winner for twenty twenty

1420
01:13:08,439 --> 01:13:11,479
Speaker 2: four Submission of the Year, Jason Anik. Other than just

1421
01:13:11,600 --> 01:13:15,160
Speaker 2: outstanding hair, what else do you have on submission? Well,

1422
01:13:15,240 --> 01:13:17,280
Speaker 2: Cody mar Cody Merrow put in the chat another A

1423
01:13:17,400 --> 01:13:19,519
Speaker 2: plus call by mister Annik, right, And I know I'm

1424
01:13:19,560 --> 01:13:22,639
Speaker 2: your brother, but Bro, that was great man, And listening

1425
01:13:22,640 --> 01:13:24,800
Speaker 2: to that back, I don't even in the moment watching it,

1426
01:13:24,880 --> 01:13:26,880
Speaker 2: and I wasn't in the building. I was at home,

1427
01:13:27,000 --> 01:13:30,080
Speaker 2: but I'm paying attention to Whitaker's teeth. I'm not, you know,

1428
01:13:30,240 --> 01:13:33,360
Speaker 2: but really well executed man like that. Well, I was

1429
01:13:33,400 --> 01:13:35,720
Speaker 2: gonna say something if Cody didn't, even though I don't

1430
01:13:35,840 --> 01:13:39,320
Speaker 2: like giving you your flowers. But by the way, the UFC,

1431
01:13:39,479 --> 01:13:41,320
Speaker 2: as we relive all of these moments, does it not

1432
01:13:41,560 --> 01:13:43,920
Speaker 2: like deliver? Like John, aren't you looking forward to wheels

1433
01:13:44,000 --> 01:13:46,120
Speaker 2: up to la? I mean like for UFC three eleven,

1434
01:13:46,200 --> 01:13:48,680
Speaker 2: like and all these fans anyone watching this, like, can

1435
01:13:48,760 --> 01:13:51,640
Speaker 2: y'all not wait till this gets going again? My let

1436
01:13:51,680 --> 01:13:54,920
Speaker 2: me just say on that, right because when I put

1437
01:13:55,000 --> 01:13:58,479
Speaker 2: the headset down on December seventh at UFC three ten,

1438
01:13:59,160 --> 01:14:02,680
Speaker 2: I needed a break and huh yeah, man. A few

1439
01:14:02,760 --> 01:14:05,120
Speaker 2: days later, I'm like, all right, you know, and I

1440
01:14:05,240 --> 01:14:07,800
Speaker 2: do think I can relate to Alexander Volkanovski. I'm my

1441
01:14:07,920 --> 01:14:10,920
Speaker 2: own worst enemy when I have all of this recreational time.

1442
01:14:12,240 --> 01:14:14,360
Speaker 2: But the UFC three eleven is absolutely stacked. But a

1443
01:14:14,360 --> 01:14:16,880
Speaker 2: couple of honorable mentions for Submission of the Year twenty

1444
01:14:16,920 --> 01:14:21,200
Speaker 2: twenty four Alschandre Pantoja versus cayas A Kora recency there

1445
01:14:21,520 --> 01:14:25,960
Speaker 2: duplus E Versutasanya Ortega versus Allo Rodrigez, Patti Pimblet versus

1446
01:14:26,040 --> 01:14:30,160
Speaker 2: Bobby Green, Lima versus Naimov, and Figuredo versus Garbrer. And

1447
01:14:30,200 --> 01:14:31,559
Speaker 2: I just want to touch on that one real quick.

1448
01:14:31,720 --> 01:14:35,040
Speaker 2: Figuredo versus Garbran, which opened UFC three hundred. It was

1449
01:14:35,080 --> 01:14:37,240
Speaker 2: a great night for Davis and Figuretto and Cody Garbrant

1450
01:14:37,320 --> 01:14:39,559
Speaker 2: was ready prepared. I thought he fought a good fight.

1451
01:14:39,800 --> 01:14:41,640
Speaker 2: And when that fight ended, he turned very close to

1452
01:14:41,720 --> 01:14:44,360
Speaker 2: the broadcast booth, just like looking like that guy is

1453
01:14:44,479 --> 01:14:45,240
Speaker 2: just an animal.

1454
01:14:45,320 --> 01:14:45,560
Speaker 3: So I know.

1455
01:14:45,640 --> 01:14:48,400
Speaker 2: Figoredo did meet his match in his last spout, but

1456
01:14:49,000 --> 01:14:51,720
Speaker 2: a lot of great submissions in twenty twenty four. Yeah,

1457
01:14:51,760 --> 01:14:53,479
Speaker 2: I'm curious to see what we get out of Davison

1458
01:14:53,520 --> 01:14:56,559
Speaker 2: Figuretto in twenty twenty five. Maybe a return to Flyway,

1459
01:14:56,640 --> 01:14:58,479
Speaker 2: perhaps not. I'd like to see him in abandon weight

1460
01:14:58,520 --> 01:15:01,000
Speaker 2: title fight. But yeah, that's it's a good acknowledgement there

1461
01:15:01,040 --> 01:15:03,639
Speaker 2: by you new category. By the way, in twenty twenty five,

1462
01:15:04,240 --> 01:15:08,000
Speaker 2: we will have Takedown of the Year, the best single

1463
01:15:08,640 --> 01:15:13,479
Speaker 2: takedown executed in the octagon that year. All Right, seventh

1464
01:15:13,560 --> 01:15:16,840
Speaker 2: of ten categories. I love Kenny's pick here Stefan Bonner

1465
01:15:16,960 --> 01:15:19,600
Speaker 2: American Psycho Fight of the Year. This award named in

1466
01:15:19,680 --> 01:15:22,759
Speaker 2: honor of our late, dear friend Stefan Bonner, who competed

1467
01:15:22,800 --> 01:15:25,400
Speaker 2: alongside Kenny on Season one of The Ultimate Fighter back

1468
01:15:25,439 --> 01:15:28,400
Speaker 2: in two thousand and five, and who passed away unexpectedly

1469
01:15:28,439 --> 01:15:31,519
Speaker 2: in December of twenty twenty two. All Right, Salt Lake City,

1470
01:15:31,640 --> 01:15:34,400
Speaker 2: Utah was the backdrop for Ken Flow's Top Fight of

1471
01:15:34,520 --> 01:15:38,440
Speaker 2: twenty twenty four. Beat is extraordinary.

1472
01:15:38,520 --> 01:15:40,840
Speaker 4: Oh, he's a clean right hand, but it's a.

1473
01:15:40,880 --> 01:15:42,799
Speaker 2: Nice champ to follow it up from the channel.

1474
01:15:42,920 --> 01:15:45,360
Speaker 3: It's hard not you know, many thought that would get

1475
01:15:45,439 --> 01:15:45,880
Speaker 3: him out of there.

1476
01:15:46,000 --> 01:15:47,800
Speaker 13: Let's get kicked to the body by prayer that might

1477
01:15:47,840 --> 01:15:48,280
Speaker 13: have heard on it.

1478
01:15:48,760 --> 01:15:55,120
Speaker 6: Oooh strong response in round three from the champion.

1479
01:15:56,040 --> 01:15:58,040
Speaker 2: He's doing his best to try to stay in there,

1480
01:15:58,120 --> 01:15:58,799
Speaker 2: but he's broken.

1481
01:15:59,560 --> 01:16:01,120
Speaker 1: Yeahs beaten down.

1482
01:16:01,080 --> 01:16:04,200
Speaker 2: Man nice angle on the knee, pot potata.

1483
01:16:05,320 --> 01:16:08,439
Speaker 4: Oh he up the middle. Hear the beginning at the end.

1484
01:16:09,360 --> 01:16:10,680
Speaker 2: Dontree Junior hanging.

1485
01:16:10,479 --> 01:16:17,439
Speaker 4: Top phone, Loh, my goodness, what hall, what heart?

1486
01:16:17,840 --> 01:16:18,280
Speaker 1: What hard?

1487
01:16:18,320 --> 01:16:19,880
Speaker 2: But it just doesn't have much left.

1488
01:16:23,080 --> 01:16:27,760
Speaker 6: Body that will indeed do it and still body ex

1489
01:16:27,920 --> 01:16:33,880
Speaker 6: potato Wayne suclaime, Wow, shut.

1490
01:16:33,720 --> 01:16:37,519
Speaker 2: Up, I mean what a chopin That guy is hell.

1491
01:16:37,880 --> 01:16:42,320
Speaker 4: He's blood all over the table and Ana take a

1492
01:16:42,400 --> 01:16:45,799
Speaker 4: picture it to me, please, Joe, look at my phone.

1493
01:16:47,080 --> 01:16:47,519
Speaker 3: I love it.

1494
01:16:47,600 --> 01:16:47,760
Speaker 5: Well.

1495
01:16:47,840 --> 01:16:51,360
Speaker 4: DC's ending that call with look at my phone. Why

1496
01:16:51,479 --> 01:16:54,000
Speaker 4: because there was blood all over the desk and in

1497
01:16:54,080 --> 01:16:57,160
Speaker 4: front of you guys. It had everything right. It was

1498
01:16:57,320 --> 01:17:00,840
Speaker 4: brutal and it high stakes. It was tech nicol as well.

1499
01:17:01,280 --> 01:17:03,479
Speaker 4: That was my fight of the year. And you know,

1500
01:17:04,080 --> 01:17:07,400
Speaker 4: I think if people saw Khalil Roundtree winning that fight,

1501
01:17:07,600 --> 01:17:09,920
Speaker 4: it was gonna be because he just caught him right.

1502
01:17:10,439 --> 01:17:12,640
Speaker 4: He was gonna land that one shot that would have

1503
01:17:13,320 --> 01:17:17,200
Speaker 4: knocked out Pereira. Well, he was actually out tecking Pereira

1504
01:17:17,400 --> 01:17:20,200
Speaker 4: in rounds one and two and it was up you know,

1505
01:17:20,400 --> 01:17:22,960
Speaker 4: two rounds on my scorecard anyway, and I think a

1506
01:17:23,000 --> 01:17:25,840
Speaker 4: lot of the judges scorecards heading into round three, and

1507
01:17:26,200 --> 01:17:28,320
Speaker 4: I know that there was rumors about Pereira dealing with

1508
01:17:28,400 --> 01:17:30,960
Speaker 4: an illness. We should acknowledge that if that is true

1509
01:17:31,040 --> 01:17:35,160
Speaker 4: or not. But Khalil Roundtree was fighting or had the

1510
01:17:35,280 --> 01:17:38,560
Speaker 4: fight of his life. He was executing beautifully, he was

1511
01:17:38,640 --> 01:17:39,880
Speaker 4: doing all the bright things.

1512
01:17:40,520 --> 01:17:40,640
Speaker 3: Uh.

1513
01:17:40,840 --> 01:17:44,960
Speaker 4: But then Alex Paeda's body shots, his leg kicks started

1514
01:17:45,040 --> 01:17:48,560
Speaker 4: to add up and Roundtree started to run out of

1515
01:17:48,720 --> 01:17:52,120
Speaker 4: gas and run out of steam and was immobilized largely.

1516
01:17:52,680 --> 01:17:57,679
Speaker 4: And Pareeda's body shots and then ultimately his head shots.

1517
01:17:57,760 --> 01:18:00,400
Speaker 4: Getting a done in round four was just a thing

1518
01:18:00,479 --> 01:18:05,360
Speaker 4: of beauty to make those adjustments did The fight really

1519
01:18:05,439 --> 01:18:07,880
Speaker 4: had everything. It was just such a beautiful fight to

1520
01:18:07,960 --> 01:18:11,479
Speaker 4: watch by both men. That was my fight of the year. John.

1521
01:18:12,280 --> 01:18:14,040
Speaker 2: I think we see it again, I really do. If

1522
01:18:14,080 --> 01:18:16,160
Speaker 2: they can somehow get that cut on the bridge of

1523
01:18:16,200 --> 01:18:19,439
Speaker 2: Khlo Rowntree Junior's nose to heal. Have you seen him, bro,

1524
01:18:19,720 --> 01:18:22,080
Speaker 2: Like it's two and a half months later, still hasn't healed.

1525
01:18:22,320 --> 01:18:25,200
Speaker 2: Crazy or maybe not so crazy if you saw what

1526
01:18:25,240 --> 01:18:27,720
Speaker 2: the broadcast booth looked like. Every time I see Colo

1527
01:18:27,840 --> 01:18:31,880
Speaker 2: Rowntree Junior, as I'm hawking to social media, has that

1528
01:18:31,960 --> 01:18:33,280
Speaker 2: thing healed you? Oh no, it still hasn't.

1529
01:18:34,200 --> 01:18:37,040
Speaker 4: So much toughness in that fight crazy crazy.

1530
01:18:38,000 --> 01:18:40,920
Speaker 2: So, as I have said repeatedly, my favorite show of

1531
01:18:41,000 --> 01:18:44,320
Speaker 2: the year, the most memorable UFC show I have ever

1532
01:18:44,600 --> 01:18:49,040
Speaker 2: called trumping Habib versus McGregor and everything else, was that

1533
01:18:49,200 --> 01:18:51,479
Speaker 2: live event its sphere, and it just so happened to

1534
01:18:51,560 --> 01:18:54,800
Speaker 2: feature what Joe Rogan I believe suggested was the best

1535
01:18:54,840 --> 01:19:06,960
Speaker 2: fight he has ever called. In a fight like this, like.

1536
01:19:09,200 --> 01:19:13,960
Speaker 6: This gay come out, My goodness, So humans in big

1537
01:19:14,080 --> 01:19:16,559
Speaker 6: trouble rather the shy to close the.

1538
01:19:16,640 --> 01:19:21,240
Speaker 2: Show, stop just doing everything in front of the white show.

1539
01:19:24,520 --> 01:19:27,080
Speaker 2: I'm not sure suber is that's anything about to listen.

1540
01:19:28,439 --> 01:19:29,759
Speaker 4: There's why the body.

1541
01:19:31,560 --> 01:19:35,679
Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, that flight is crazy. Oh my goodness.

1542
01:19:37,880 --> 01:19:39,240
Speaker 4: I took tell over here.

1543
01:19:42,320 --> 01:19:45,600
Speaker 2: Won a war and saluber a man, I went to

1544
01:19:45,680 --> 01:19:54,400
Speaker 2: the unbelievable. They learn to rids. It's the best man

1545
01:19:54,800 --> 01:20:01,080
Speaker 2: is a fight. There are probably a hundred fifty UFC

1546
01:20:01,280 --> 01:20:03,960
Speaker 2: fights that are Hall of Fame worthy that will never

1547
01:20:04,080 --> 01:20:06,560
Speaker 2: get in there and let's just hope one day the

1548
01:20:06,640 --> 01:20:09,120
Speaker 2: Hall of Fame opens its doors to this fight. And

1549
01:20:09,240 --> 01:20:12,479
Speaker 2: I think the sphere backdrop will help Esteman Ribevicks and

1550
01:20:12,560 --> 01:20:17,000
Speaker 2: Daniel zel Houber. My word, Kenny, what an amazing fight,

1551
01:20:17,520 --> 01:20:20,000
Speaker 2: had that requisite back and forth that you'd like for

1552
01:20:20,080 --> 01:20:22,920
Speaker 2: a fight of the year. And yeah, as memorable a

1553
01:20:22,960 --> 01:20:25,200
Speaker 2: fight as certainly I called in twenty twenty four, and

1554
01:20:25,280 --> 01:20:27,160
Speaker 2: I think that one's going to withstand the test of time.

1555
01:20:27,200 --> 01:20:29,840
Speaker 2: It's amazing when I think about some of the fights

1556
01:20:29,880 --> 01:20:32,920
Speaker 2: being considered for the UFC Hall of Fame's Class of

1557
01:20:32,960 --> 01:20:36,599
Speaker 2: twenty twenty five and how impossible it is to pare

1558
01:20:36,640 --> 01:20:38,880
Speaker 2: it down to one. And for us just doing this

1559
01:20:39,040 --> 01:20:43,320
Speaker 2: exercise annually. Good segue to our honorable mention Jay Justin

1560
01:20:43,400 --> 01:20:45,360
Speaker 2: Gaetchee versus Max Holloway. I think for a lot of

1561
01:20:45,400 --> 01:20:48,479
Speaker 2: people was the fight of the year. I probably would

1562
01:20:48,479 --> 01:20:50,920
Speaker 2: have gone Alex Peneta versus Khalil Rountree Junior hit Ken

1563
01:20:51,000 --> 01:20:52,880
Speaker 2: Flow not gone in that direction, but I feel like

1564
01:20:52,960 --> 01:20:57,080
Speaker 2: this fight between Ribevick and zel Huber deserves some hardware.

1565
01:20:57,120 --> 01:20:59,000
Speaker 2: We send these guys cash as well, so that's kind

1566
01:20:59,000 --> 01:21:01,040
Speaker 2: of nice too. I think you guys nailed it. Before

1567
01:21:01,040 --> 01:21:02,439
Speaker 2: I gets to a couple of the honorable mentions, I

1568
01:21:02,560 --> 01:21:05,240
Speaker 2: just quick Stephan Bonner story because the award is named

1569
01:21:05,240 --> 01:21:09,000
Speaker 2: after him. At at John's wedding flow, I'm going for

1570
01:21:09,120 --> 01:21:11,680
Speaker 2: a jog on the treadmill, like a jog, right, and

1571
01:21:11,760 --> 01:21:14,560
Speaker 2: then the six foot three inch fucking psycho gets on

1572
01:21:14,640 --> 01:21:18,600
Speaker 2: the treadmill next to me and puts the whatever it is,

1573
01:21:18,680 --> 01:21:23,000
Speaker 2: the incline all the way up and just starts fucking sprinting,

1574
01:21:23,160 --> 01:21:25,680
Speaker 2: you know, and I'm just like jogging and like night

1575
01:21:25,760 --> 01:21:28,760
Speaker 2: and nicest guy on the planet. Yeah, and was so

1576
01:21:28,960 --> 01:21:31,880
Speaker 2: impressive physically and just worked his ass off everywhere and

1577
01:21:32,000 --> 01:21:34,120
Speaker 2: was just such a good human John. Sorry, So the

1578
01:21:34,240 --> 01:21:38,160
Speaker 2: treadmill rap starts coming off, right, the screws start coming

1579
01:21:38,200 --> 01:21:41,120
Speaker 2: out of the treadmill as Bonner is literally like eating

1580
01:21:41,280 --> 01:21:41,639
Speaker 2: the thing.

1581
01:21:41,840 --> 01:21:42,000
Speaker 5: You know.

1582
01:21:42,360 --> 01:21:44,880
Speaker 2: Well that didn't happen, but he had just beaten I

1583
01:21:44,960 --> 01:21:47,240
Speaker 2: believe Carlos Vemmela Kenny as you know, because you were

1584
01:21:47,240 --> 01:21:49,920
Speaker 2: at the wedding a couple weeks prior, and so yeah,

1585
01:21:50,040 --> 01:21:51,519
Speaker 2: he was a little bit busted up. He had a

1586
01:21:51,560 --> 01:21:53,800
Speaker 2: black eye, maybe a couple of stitches or whatever it was.

1587
01:21:53,880 --> 01:21:57,240
Speaker 2: And it's like dude, could you ease up on the treadmill, Stephan, Like,

1588
01:21:57,280 --> 01:22:00,320
Speaker 2: are you trying to break it? Or are you just

1589
01:22:00,400 --> 01:22:02,640
Speaker 2: sprinting up hill? But anyway, Yeah, But and that was

1590
01:22:02,680 --> 01:22:04,559
Speaker 2: when John and I were sort of had just entered

1591
01:22:04,600 --> 01:22:07,200
Speaker 2: into this mixed martial arts world and you immediately the

1592
01:22:07,320 --> 01:22:10,439
Speaker 2: hum You're so humbled, You're like, oh yeah, like yeah,

1593
01:22:10,680 --> 01:22:14,200
Speaker 2: I'm me and he's him. Yeah, Like totally different worlds.

1594
01:22:14,400 --> 01:22:17,479
Speaker 2: A couple other honorable mentions. I mean Gagee Holloway, yes, uh,

1595
01:22:17,680 --> 01:22:19,160
Speaker 2: Fight of the Year, shot of the Makasha Poye. You

1596
01:22:19,200 --> 01:22:23,000
Speaker 2: talk about oral By versus round Betski, Hope I pronounced

1597
01:22:23,000 --> 01:22:26,519
Speaker 2: that right, Mataje Gamrock, Dan Hooker over your left shoulder,

1598
01:22:26,600 --> 01:22:29,519
Speaker 2: John Dupelace versus a Asnia prohsco versus Rocket, It goes

1599
01:22:29,560 --> 01:22:33,639
Speaker 2: on and on, Olivera so Pie, any of those, Johnny,

1600
01:22:33,680 --> 01:22:38,320
Speaker 2: I'm telling you, Kenny, like Vnisius, Olivera versus Bernardo so

1601
01:22:38,520 --> 01:22:42,080
Speaker 2: Pie was back and forth. That definitely deserves consideration. But dude,

1602
01:22:42,560 --> 01:22:44,800
Speaker 2: I feel like I could have given fucking matajs round

1603
01:22:44,840 --> 01:22:47,559
Speaker 2: Betsky a couple of awards today, Upset of the Year,

1604
01:22:47,960 --> 01:22:49,599
Speaker 2: and dude, that fight was insane.

1605
01:22:50,040 --> 01:22:52,760
Speaker 4: Dude, No, shortage of great, great choices in twenty twenty

1606
01:22:52,800 --> 01:22:57,080
Speaker 4: four for sure, but I mean the Ribavik's zell Hooper fights.

1607
01:22:57,200 --> 01:23:00,519
Speaker 4: As frustrated as I was because I picked Zolhuber that flight.

1608
01:23:01,040 --> 01:23:04,360
Speaker 4: I was blown away by how many knockout punchers were

1609
01:23:04,400 --> 01:23:07,280
Speaker 4: thrown during that fight and just going, how the hell

1610
01:23:07,800 --> 01:23:11,400
Speaker 4: are these guys staying standing throughout this fifteen minute war?

1611
01:23:11,760 --> 01:23:13,400
Speaker 4: It was an absolute classic.

1612
01:23:13,479 --> 01:23:16,360
Speaker 2: Dude, I love that pick, all right, just three categories

1613
01:23:16,439 --> 01:23:19,479
Speaker 2: to go. It brings us to our Women's Fighter of

1614
01:23:19,600 --> 01:23:23,200
Speaker 2: the Year, can flow You are going outside of the UFC,

1615
01:23:23,320 --> 01:23:26,479
Speaker 2: and I think rightfully so you're twenty twenty four Female

1616
01:23:26,520 --> 01:23:27,320
Speaker 2: Fighter of the Years.

1617
01:23:29,040 --> 01:23:32,080
Speaker 4: Yeah. I went with Dakota Ditschiva and you know, just

1618
01:23:32,280 --> 01:23:35,680
Speaker 4: knowing how brutal the year is in the PFL, having to,

1619
01:23:36,200 --> 01:23:38,960
Speaker 4: you know, fight four fights in a calendar year is

1620
01:23:39,160 --> 01:23:42,360
Speaker 4: no joke. I don't know who Chelsea Hackett is. That

1621
01:23:42,560 --> 01:23:46,200
Speaker 4: was one of the wins on her resume, but Lisa Malden,

1622
01:23:46,439 --> 01:23:50,160
Speaker 4: very good fighter, very tough overall, you know, grappler, striker

1623
01:23:50,479 --> 01:23:53,719
Speaker 4: type fighter. Jenna Bishop, a tremendous Brazilian jujitsu black belt,

1624
01:23:54,360 --> 01:23:56,559
Speaker 4: and Tylo Santos of course, who you know very well

1625
01:23:56,600 --> 01:23:59,160
Speaker 4: who fought in the UFC at a high level. She

1626
01:23:59,320 --> 01:24:02,519
Speaker 4: went through all of those women in less than a

1627
01:24:02,680 --> 01:24:06,880
Speaker 4: year and did so by finish. Dakota Ditchiva is an

1628
01:24:07,000 --> 01:24:10,240
Speaker 4: absolute star. I would love to see her over in

1629
01:24:10,240 --> 01:24:13,280
Speaker 4: the UFC at some point. But what a year for

1630
01:24:13,400 --> 01:24:13,840
Speaker 4: her men.

1631
01:24:15,000 --> 01:24:17,439
Speaker 2: Yeah, I feel like on this show, with respect to

1632
01:24:17,640 --> 01:24:20,000
Speaker 2: all of the women in the UFC, that it would

1633
01:24:20,040 --> 01:24:22,160
Speaker 2: have been unanimous, right, like if I was part of

1634
01:24:22,240 --> 01:24:25,680
Speaker 2: some voting body, right straight meritocracy and I had to

1635
01:24:25,720 --> 01:24:28,000
Speaker 2: pick the twenty twenty four Women's Fighter of the Year,

1636
01:24:28,400 --> 01:24:30,320
Speaker 2: I think it is Dakota Ditchiva, and I think she

1637
01:24:30,360 --> 01:24:33,120
Speaker 2: has a great chance uh to be that fighter for

1638
01:24:33,200 --> 01:24:35,479
Speaker 2: a lot of people in twenty twenty five. For me, though,

1639
01:24:35,840 --> 01:24:40,080
Speaker 2: there was one individual performance in twenty twenty four that

1640
01:24:40,240 --> 01:24:44,440
Speaker 2: didn't get nearly enough credit for its worth, for its dominance,

1641
01:24:44,520 --> 01:24:48,560
Speaker 2: for its execution, fight IQ just overall MMA chops and

1642
01:24:48,720 --> 01:24:52,200
Speaker 2: acumen championship medal. So I'm going to celebrate here what

1643
01:24:52,320 --> 01:24:55,800
Speaker 2: I believe was an incredible championship effort and hand up

1644
01:24:55,840 --> 01:24:58,519
Speaker 2: my hardware for Women's Fighter of the Year.

1645
01:25:00,280 --> 01:25:04,080
Speaker 4: That people will be fighting to see them fight again, well.

1646
01:25:04,040 --> 01:25:07,200
Speaker 13: Especially after such a dominant performance by Valentino, and this

1647
01:25:07,360 --> 01:25:11,840
Speaker 13: is not a close fight. Even though Alexis had her

1648
01:25:11,880 --> 01:25:15,519
Speaker 13: moments and had her opportunities, this is mostly a Valentina

1649
01:25:15,560 --> 01:25:21,440
Speaker 13: Shevchenko victory. Valentine is just determined to win these exchanges.

1650
01:25:21,439 --> 01:25:24,880
Speaker 2: I mean, that's the word, and that is a personal best.

1651
01:25:25,000 --> 01:25:31,960
Speaker 11: Eight takedown secured will cure you shortly, as Valentino chef

1652
01:25:32,040 --> 01:25:36,520
Speaker 11: Teko Turnton one of the better performances of her seventeenth

1653
01:25:36,640 --> 01:25:40,960
Speaker 11: fight UFC career. The women's flyway title is headed back

1654
01:25:40,960 --> 01:25:46,240
Speaker 11: to Kyrgyzstan unless we received the most wayward scorecards in

1655
01:25:46,360 --> 01:25:47,400
Speaker 11: UFC history.

1656
01:25:51,760 --> 01:26:00,120
Speaker 6: Uf F wayn oh the woldo.

1657
01:26:08,760 --> 01:26:12,000
Speaker 2: So when we recap No Cha UFC, there was plenty

1658
01:26:12,080 --> 01:26:15,720
Speaker 2: two unpack on the Alexa Grosso side. Her performance was

1659
01:26:15,800 --> 01:26:18,800
Speaker 2: sort of listless. A lot of the credit, rightfully so

1660
01:26:18,960 --> 01:26:23,200
Speaker 2: went to Chevchenko. But promotionally, there's no way they would

1661
01:26:23,200 --> 01:26:25,679
Speaker 2: have put that fight as the co headliner at Sphere

1662
01:26:27,200 --> 01:26:29,360
Speaker 2: if they thought that it was going to under delivered

1663
01:26:29,400 --> 01:26:32,280
Speaker 2: to that extent. Now, certainly Grosso's Mexican heritage had a

1664
01:26:32,320 --> 01:26:35,720
Speaker 2: big role in all of that, right, but as a

1665
01:26:35,800 --> 01:26:39,760
Speaker 2: whole Kenny because the last two fights at Sphere were

1666
01:26:39,880 --> 01:26:43,720
Speaker 2: so underwhelming we lost sight of how brilliant an execution

1667
01:26:44,880 --> 01:26:47,799
Speaker 2: this was by Valentina Chefchenko. One of the best fights

1668
01:26:47,800 --> 01:26:51,280
Speaker 2: I thought performances a for seventeen year seventeen fight UFC career.

1669
01:26:51,960 --> 01:26:55,080
Speaker 2: I feel like in terms of this series with Alexa Grosso,

1670
01:26:55,240 --> 01:26:59,439
Speaker 2: she actually made people forget that she got like face

1671
01:26:59,600 --> 01:27:03,040
Speaker 2: cranked the point of discoloration in the first meeting, right

1672
01:27:03,120 --> 01:27:06,160
Speaker 2: then they fight to a draw retention by Alexa Grosso.

1673
01:27:06,760 --> 01:27:10,760
Speaker 2: No need for a fourth meeting after Valentina chef Chefchenko

1674
01:27:11,280 --> 01:27:15,680
Speaker 2: systematically dismantles Alexa Grosso. To me, that was good enough

1675
01:27:15,680 --> 01:27:18,519
Speaker 2: for Valentina Chefchenko Jay to get twenty twenty four Female

1676
01:27:18,560 --> 01:27:20,840
Speaker 2: Fighter of the Year. Yeah, good stuff out of both

1677
01:27:20,840 --> 01:27:23,120
Speaker 2: of you. A couple of honorable mentions Kayla Harrison, obviously

1678
01:27:23,240 --> 01:27:25,760
Speaker 2: we've she's gotten some noise on the program already. I

1679
01:27:25,920 --> 01:27:28,120
Speaker 2: just want to mention Jeong Way Lee. Right, you know,

1680
01:27:28,320 --> 01:27:30,040
Speaker 2: we talked about the sphere being the greatest night of

1681
01:27:30,080 --> 01:27:32,040
Speaker 2: our lives, right, DC and I will he talked about

1682
01:27:32,120 --> 01:27:33,679
Speaker 2: Jongwa Lee at one point, I think being the greatest

1683
01:27:33,680 --> 01:27:35,800
Speaker 2: athlete like on the planet man or woman, and I

1684
01:27:35,960 --> 01:27:38,800
Speaker 2: just jan Shaunon was game that night in that five

1685
01:27:38,880 --> 01:27:41,639
Speaker 2: round unanimous decision win at UFC three hundred, even though

1686
01:27:41,680 --> 01:27:44,439
Speaker 2: she only fought once greatest female fighter for me in

1687
01:27:44,479 --> 01:27:46,120
Speaker 2: the world, Jong Way Lee right now, so I think

1688
01:27:46,160 --> 01:27:48,120
Speaker 2: she deserves menches good stuff.

1689
01:27:48,880 --> 01:27:49,200
Speaker 3: All right.

1690
01:27:50,120 --> 01:27:55,519
Speaker 2: That brings us to one of the most important awards today.

1691
01:27:55,600 --> 01:27:58,240
Speaker 2: Thanks everybody joining us live on YouTube for these tenth

1692
01:27:58,240 --> 01:28:01,639
Speaker 2: Aannuel Anakin Florent Podcast Awards. It is our Adam snacks

1693
01:28:01,680 --> 01:28:05,280
Speaker 2: Geller Male Fighter of the Year. And as I'm prepping

1694
01:28:05,360 --> 01:28:08,160
Speaker 2: this show, I always go back and google our dear friend,

1695
01:28:08,240 --> 01:28:10,920
Speaker 2: the late Adam snacks Geller Can Flow, who we worked

1696
01:28:11,400 --> 01:28:14,400
Speaker 2: very closely with, and there's some great videos on the

1697
01:28:14,520 --> 01:28:17,360
Speaker 2: character that was Adam Snackskeller, who passed away from colon

1698
01:28:17,439 --> 01:28:21,040
Speaker 2: cancer in twenty seventeen. All Right, we mentioned earlier Ken

1699
01:28:21,120 --> 01:28:23,439
Speaker 2: Flow has a man crushing mixed martial arts and this

1700
01:28:23,560 --> 01:28:26,559
Speaker 2: award show gives him the opportunity to pay his respects

1701
01:28:26,640 --> 01:28:29,280
Speaker 2: to said man. Here's Ken Flow's Fighter of the Year.

1702
01:28:30,760 --> 01:28:32,439
Speaker 4: Tia is terrifying.

1703
01:28:32,479 --> 01:28:34,559
Speaker 2: That guy's an animals A few of those guys.

1704
01:28:34,439 --> 01:28:35,520
Speaker 4: Like Ilia Taporia.

1705
01:28:35,840 --> 01:28:38,280
Speaker 13: Like Ilia Tapooria is a perfect example of a guy

1706
01:28:38,320 --> 01:28:39,240
Speaker 13: who has no weakness.

1707
01:28:39,680 --> 01:28:42,519
Speaker 4: He's so good at grappling, he's so good at striking it.

1708
01:28:42,680 --> 01:28:46,639
Speaker 4: He's a fucking Sabbage. Tapoi is a monsterble to boys,

1709
01:28:46,640 --> 01:28:47,360
Speaker 4: a monster.

1710
01:29:02,280 --> 01:29:05,160
Speaker 2: The way shut in of the world.

1711
01:29:20,400 --> 01:29:22,519
Speaker 4: I'd be curious if we ran one of those polls

1712
01:29:22,560 --> 01:29:25,320
Speaker 4: that you like John on Twitter, how many people would

1713
01:29:25,320 --> 01:29:27,759
Speaker 4: have picked or what percentage of people would have picked

1714
01:29:28,200 --> 01:29:32,920
Speaker 4: Eliot Taporia to beat both Volkanovski and Max Holloway in

1715
01:29:33,080 --> 01:29:35,880
Speaker 4: one calendar year. And I would also like to see

1716
01:29:35,920 --> 01:29:39,000
Speaker 4: what percentage of people would have picked him to finish

1717
01:29:39,600 --> 01:29:42,360
Speaker 4: both of those guys in one calendar year. You're talking

1718
01:29:42,400 --> 01:29:46,200
Speaker 4: about two of the greats in the sport, let alone,

1719
01:29:46,320 --> 01:29:48,720
Speaker 4: just the featherweight division, and the fact that he was

1720
01:29:48,760 --> 01:29:52,519
Speaker 4: able to do that shows how great, not good, how

1721
01:29:52,840 --> 01:29:57,240
Speaker 4: great he is. This is a guy whose technique, his prowess,

1722
01:29:57,360 --> 01:30:02,120
Speaker 4: his aggression, his intelligence is just simply above everybody else

1723
01:30:02,240 --> 01:30:04,800
Speaker 4: is in the game. Right now, What do those guys

1724
01:30:04,880 --> 01:30:06,680
Speaker 4: do when I talk about this all the time, how

1725
01:30:06,800 --> 01:30:10,400
Speaker 4: rare this is, they elevate the sport as a whole.

1726
01:30:10,600 --> 01:30:15,000
Speaker 4: Everybody looks towards that fighter and goes, Oh, that's how

1727
01:30:15,080 --> 01:30:17,040
Speaker 4: good I need to be. That's what I need to

1728
01:30:17,120 --> 01:30:22,840
Speaker 4: implement into my game. That's how good Iliotoporia is. And yeah, man,

1729
01:30:23,160 --> 01:30:25,439
Speaker 4: I would love to hate the guy, you know, he's

1730
01:30:25,479 --> 01:30:28,120
Speaker 4: got it all, but you know I can't. The guy

1731
01:30:28,439 --> 01:30:30,679
Speaker 4: is simply head and shoulders above a lot of people

1732
01:30:30,800 --> 01:30:32,800
Speaker 4: right now, and he's my Fighter of the year.

1733
01:30:33,400 --> 01:30:36,240
Speaker 2: It really is amazing to hear pro fighters like yourself

1734
01:30:36,439 --> 01:30:40,120
Speaker 2: talk in these superlative terms about Iliotopodia. I'm not surprised

1735
01:30:40,160 --> 01:30:42,000
Speaker 2: that he ended up being your male Fighter of the

1736
01:30:42,080 --> 01:30:45,840
Speaker 2: Year for twenty twenty four. And my friend Luke Thomas

1737
01:30:45,920 --> 01:30:49,320
Speaker 2: honestly believes that it is blasphemous to suggest that anybody

1738
01:30:49,360 --> 01:30:51,840
Speaker 2: else is the twenty twenty four Fighter of the Year.

1739
01:30:52,040 --> 01:30:56,160
Speaker 2: And when I go back to a thought process involving

1740
01:30:56,240 --> 01:30:59,040
Speaker 2: a voting body and a true meritocracy, when you look

1741
01:30:59,160 --> 01:31:03,200
Speaker 2: at knocking out Alexander Volkanowski and Max Holloway, crazy the

1742
01:31:03,320 --> 01:31:06,680
Speaker 2: consensus to greatest featherweights of all time with respect in

1743
01:31:06,960 --> 01:31:09,960
Speaker 2: side a calendar year. Yes, and as quickly as he

1744
01:31:10,080 --> 01:31:14,479
Speaker 2: did it and sort of just saying sort of as

1745
01:31:15,840 --> 01:31:18,200
Speaker 2: an eventuality in the front of the fights that this

1746
01:31:18,360 --> 01:31:21,479
Speaker 2: is what was going to happen, Right, How does he

1747
01:31:21,600 --> 01:31:24,519
Speaker 2: not get the award? But for me, when I think

1748
01:31:24,680 --> 01:31:28,479
Speaker 2: back ten fifteen years down the line to twenty twenty four.

1749
01:31:28,880 --> 01:31:30,479
Speaker 2: You know what I'm gonna think, Ken Fluwman, I think

1750
01:31:30,520 --> 01:31:32,760
Speaker 2: it's the year of the wood Dragon. No, I'm not

1751
01:31:32,800 --> 01:31:35,439
Speaker 2: gonna think it's the year. I'm gonna think it's the

1752
01:31:35,560 --> 01:31:37,760
Speaker 2: year of Poeton.

1753
01:31:40,640 --> 01:31:47,439
Speaker 6: When that motherfucker walks out, he's the scariest motherfucking when

1754
01:31:47,479 --> 01:31:49,080
Speaker 6: he walks out because he stands there.

1755
01:32:04,520 --> 01:32:08,679
Speaker 2: Stop the fighting world deep. I mean, my goodness, my hers.

1756
01:32:11,160 --> 01:32:14,360
Speaker 2: They shouldn't let him stand on, No, put him sitting.

1757
01:32:17,000 --> 01:32:20,679
Speaker 1: Stop. He didn't get here.

1758
01:32:28,360 --> 01:32:37,880
Speaker 2: Goodness. I'll lex poltoon Pdado my twenty twenty four Male

1759
01:32:38,040 --> 01:32:41,840
Speaker 2: Fighter of the Year. It's wild to think he didn't

1760
01:32:41,880 --> 01:32:46,800
Speaker 2: even compete until April, and then he three times saved

1761
01:32:46,840 --> 01:32:49,040
Speaker 2: the day for the UFC. They didn't have a headliner

1762
01:32:49,080 --> 01:32:51,320
Speaker 2: in UFC three oh seven in Salt Lake City, Utah

1763
01:32:51,600 --> 01:32:53,680
Speaker 2: needed somebody to step up at UFC three oh three

1764
01:32:53,760 --> 01:32:56,920
Speaker 2: during International Fight Week. Of course, UFC three hundred goes

1765
01:32:57,000 --> 01:33:00,680
Speaker 2: without saying, and yes, you can argue you're a Prohaska

1766
01:33:00,800 --> 01:33:03,800
Speaker 2: and Jamal Hill and Khalil Rountree Junior may not go

1767
01:33:04,000 --> 01:33:07,880
Speaker 2: down as all time greats like Max Holloway and Alexander

1768
01:33:07,960 --> 01:33:11,080
Speaker 2: Volkanowski in terms of strength of schedule, quality of wins,

1769
01:33:11,520 --> 01:33:14,680
Speaker 2: signature wins, right, But in Uri Prohaska and Jamal Hill,

1770
01:33:15,560 --> 01:33:18,000
Speaker 2: you're still talking about two former champions, even if a

1771
01:33:18,080 --> 01:33:21,760
Speaker 2: division that isn't as highly thought of maybe skill for

1772
01:33:21,880 --> 01:33:24,519
Speaker 2: skill as one hundred and forty five pounds. But dude,

1773
01:33:24,520 --> 01:33:27,280
Speaker 2: it's Pooton's world. Like when he finished Khalil Roundtree Junior,

1774
01:33:28,240 --> 01:33:30,080
Speaker 2: I didn't even know what to say anymore. I don't

1775
01:33:30,120 --> 01:33:32,200
Speaker 2: plan any of my calls, but I think I said

1776
01:33:32,280 --> 01:33:34,800
Speaker 2: something like he reigned supreme because I didn't know what

1777
01:33:34,920 --> 01:33:36,840
Speaker 2: the fuck else to say. I mean, maybe I'll drop

1778
01:33:36,880 --> 01:33:39,240
Speaker 2: a Danbury, Connecticut on you next year if he successfully

1779
01:33:39,280 --> 01:33:42,280
Speaker 2: defends the title. Alex Pooton Pareta my Male Fighter of

1780
01:33:42,320 --> 01:33:45,439
Speaker 2: the Year for twenty twenty four, Jason Annick, anything else

1781
01:33:45,479 --> 01:33:47,840
Speaker 2: in terms of guys we might have forgotten for twenty

1782
01:33:47,920 --> 01:33:51,760
Speaker 2: twenty four Fighter of the Year. Listen to Flow breakdown

1783
01:33:51,920 --> 01:33:54,679
Speaker 2: Iliot Taporia like that, you know just I can listen

1784
01:33:54,720 --> 01:33:57,720
Speaker 2: to that all day and Pooton correct me if I'm wrong.

1785
01:33:57,920 --> 01:34:02,120
Speaker 2: Was in neither of your top five pound for pound list?

1786
01:34:02,600 --> 01:34:04,600
Speaker 2: When forced to do it? Am I wrong? I know

1787
01:34:04,760 --> 01:34:08,160
Speaker 2: that sort of add whatever, but right, Johnny, Yeah, I

1788
01:34:08,240 --> 01:34:12,160
Speaker 2: mean and whatever, bro Yeah, fight or the air, Joe,

1789
01:34:13,600 --> 01:34:15,720
Speaker 2: are you trying to get everybody going again on that?

1790
01:34:15,960 --> 01:34:16,320
Speaker 3: Or no?

1791
01:34:16,800 --> 01:34:19,160
Speaker 2: No, And and for all of you minute man out there,

1792
01:34:19,280 --> 01:34:22,520
Speaker 2: I ain't no motherfucking minute man. But the three honorable

1793
01:34:22,640 --> 01:34:27,160
Speaker 2: mentions are Yeah, that's my dog, Blao, Mohammad Morob Dwallash,

1794
01:34:27,160 --> 01:34:33,639
Speaker 2: Willie and Diego Lopez flow just ye certainly worth mention, right.

1795
01:34:33,680 --> 01:34:37,400
Speaker 4: Absolutely absolutely? But you know what about Periri? Could would

1796
01:34:37,439 --> 01:34:40,120
Speaker 4: he win Walk Out of the Year pretty much every

1797
01:34:40,240 --> 01:34:41,000
Speaker 4: single damn year?

1798
01:34:41,080 --> 01:34:41,240
Speaker 3: Dude.

1799
01:34:41,280 --> 01:34:44,519
Speaker 4: I hear that music and I see the stare and

1800
01:34:45,479 --> 01:34:50,679
Speaker 4: it's like anything in sports, like the dude is something else.

1801
01:34:50,800 --> 01:34:50,920
Speaker 10: Man.

1802
01:34:51,360 --> 01:34:54,080
Speaker 2: I get chills every time Joe Rogan talks about Poeton

1803
01:34:54,520 --> 01:34:58,680
Speaker 2: on any platform. All right, thanks, Jay, we'll get back

1804
01:34:58,720 --> 01:35:02,680
Speaker 2: to you as we close out these Awards show with

1805
01:35:02,840 --> 01:35:06,040
Speaker 2: our Personality of the Year, and you want to talk

1806
01:35:06,160 --> 01:35:13,120
Speaker 2: about personality that transcends verbal communication and languages and language barriers,

1807
01:35:13,720 --> 01:35:17,360
Speaker 2: behold Ken Flows twenty twenty four Personality of the Year,

1808
01:35:18,479 --> 01:35:22,680
Speaker 2: also with US Alex Pa and Bellow Muhammad, two of

1809
01:35:22,760 --> 01:35:26,599
Speaker 2: the better pounderful pound fighters in the world today.

1810
01:35:27,600 --> 01:35:28,840
Speaker 4: Hi thought that you're not.

1811
01:35:37,200 --> 01:35:54,400
Speaker 3: Well, does he smile, does he have fun like? What's he? No? No, no,

1812
01:35:58,600 --> 01:35:59,439
Speaker 3: you were?

1813
01:36:09,600 --> 01:36:19,120
Speaker 4: And I have one last thing to say, Oh man,

1814
01:36:19,280 --> 01:36:23,320
Speaker 4: I'm absolutely fascinated by that man, Alex, Alex Poets and

1815
01:36:23,880 --> 01:36:27,680
Speaker 4: pet Ada. You know, listen, I had no idea he

1816
01:36:27,840 --> 01:36:29,840
Speaker 4: was as funny as he is. You know, he's got

1817
01:36:29,920 --> 01:36:32,240
Speaker 4: that kind of cold stare and all that stuff. And

1818
01:36:32,320 --> 01:36:34,400
Speaker 4: there's probably only one of two jobs you would think

1819
01:36:34,439 --> 01:36:37,120
Speaker 4: he would do. It's either like contract killer or fighter.

1820
01:36:37,280 --> 01:36:39,719
Speaker 4: Like when he's got the ship dead and he's staring

1821
01:36:39,840 --> 01:36:43,240
Speaker 4: down the camera, you know exactly what that guy is

1822
01:36:43,320 --> 01:36:46,760
Speaker 4: all about. So just impressive in that regard. He just

1823
01:36:46,880 --> 01:36:49,080
Speaker 4: has a certain aura that not a whole lot of

1824
01:36:49,120 --> 01:36:53,200
Speaker 4: people have when he walks out to fight. It just

1825
01:36:53,400 --> 01:36:57,200
Speaker 4: feels special every single damn time. And the fact that

1826
01:36:57,320 --> 01:37:00,360
Speaker 4: he's kind of, you know, brought on this other side

1827
01:37:00,400 --> 01:37:02,800
Speaker 4: of him, which is really funny. He doesn't smile a lot,

1828
01:37:02,880 --> 01:37:05,639
Speaker 4: like DC said, doesn't laugh a lot, but the dude

1829
01:37:05,880 --> 01:37:08,240
Speaker 4: is hilarious and I think the fact that he keeps

1830
01:37:08,240 --> 01:37:10,400
Speaker 4: a straight face is what makes it so funny. But yeah,

1831
01:37:10,439 --> 01:37:13,639
Speaker 4: he's a personality of the year for me. Man, It's

1832
01:37:13,680 --> 01:37:17,040
Speaker 4: an unbelievable fighter and maybe now John people will get

1833
01:37:17,040 --> 01:37:19,200
Speaker 4: off my back for giving him a reward, but he

1834
01:37:19,320 --> 01:37:19,760
Speaker 4: deserves it.

1835
01:37:20,320 --> 01:37:26,400
Speaker 2: Shama Shama Cody has designed a T shirt for himself

1836
01:37:27,160 --> 01:37:30,400
Speaker 2: with the word Shama on it. I have Poton merchandise

1837
01:37:30,479 --> 01:37:32,360
Speaker 2: in my closet. I got merch for a lot of fighters,

1838
01:37:32,400 --> 01:37:36,360
Speaker 2: but I bought Poeton merchandise, and no fighter sold more

1839
01:37:36,400 --> 01:37:39,840
Speaker 2: merchandise at UFC store dot com in twenty twenty four.

1840
01:37:40,479 --> 01:37:42,760
Speaker 2: Then I'll lex Poton today to ken Fellow's Personality of

1841
01:37:42,800 --> 01:37:46,479
Speaker 2: the Year for me, though, I think anybody who has

1842
01:37:46,560 --> 01:37:49,719
Speaker 2: watched this program dutifully over the past year knows acutely

1843
01:37:49,840 --> 01:37:52,520
Speaker 2: the direction in which I am going for my personality

1844
01:37:52,760 --> 01:38:05,920
Speaker 2: of the Year. What an amazing jog Olson is doing

1845
01:38:05,960 --> 01:38:06,240
Speaker 2: it on me?

1846
01:38:06,560 --> 01:38:10,920
Speaker 6: Both guys, it's people start start stop either moment we

1847
01:38:11,040 --> 01:38:14,439
Speaker 6: just I would list. I would exchanged the old Roses

1848
01:38:14,640 --> 01:38:15,799
Speaker 6: was able to go act the better.

1849
01:38:15,640 --> 01:38:17,040
Speaker 3: Pant everybody on.

1850
01:38:17,160 --> 01:38:20,080
Speaker 2: Detrida, No, what's running? So on the counter?

1851
01:38:20,240 --> 01:38:20,479
Speaker 3: Three?

1852
01:38:21,360 --> 01:38:23,680
Speaker 2: I want everybody description weewies with me?

1853
01:38:24,600 --> 01:38:26,960
Speaker 4: One two three?

1854
01:38:30,560 --> 01:38:31,360
Speaker 2: What does that mean?

1855
01:38:31,760 --> 01:38:32,720
Speaker 3: Chee wee Wee's right?

1856
01:38:32,760 --> 01:38:34,680
Speaker 2: I should kind of do it, but hey, before we

1857
01:38:34,800 --> 01:38:38,040
Speaker 2: started this interview, Uh, let's get up chee wee Wee.

1858
01:38:38,640 --> 01:38:40,200
Speaker 4: Yeah, chee wee.

1859
01:38:40,080 --> 01:38:43,520
Speaker 2: Wee chee wee wee che wish.

1860
01:38:44,280 --> 01:38:46,040
Speaker 6: Chee wee wee chee.

1861
01:38:51,320 --> 01:38:56,000
Speaker 2: Buffalo bills are on board Cheeweewies. If you notice my hat,

1862
01:38:56,080 --> 01:38:58,120
Speaker 2: I'm wearing my chee wee Wee's hat. It is the

1863
01:38:58,200 --> 01:39:01,160
Speaker 2: most comfortable hat I own. See, I buy a lot

1864
01:39:01,200 --> 01:39:04,439
Speaker 2: of fighter merchandise. But yeah, Raoul Rosace Junior and the

1865
01:39:04,520 --> 01:39:08,120
Speaker 2: whole chie wee wee'ze movement. My personality of the Year

1866
01:39:08,760 --> 01:39:11,479
Speaker 2: for twenty twenty four. My honorable mention as we go

1867
01:39:11,640 --> 01:39:14,559
Speaker 2: three wide and welcome Boston Anakin the conversation one final time.

1868
01:39:15,080 --> 01:39:18,920
Speaker 2: It's new Mansa Joaquin Buckley, an acquired taste for some

1869
01:39:19,200 --> 01:39:21,400
Speaker 2: for some, a taste they don't ever want to acquire.

1870
01:39:21,960 --> 01:39:24,280
Speaker 2: Give me all that new, Give me only one four

1871
01:39:25,360 --> 01:39:27,760
Speaker 2: all day long. A couple other honorable mentions before I

1872
01:39:27,840 --> 01:39:29,920
Speaker 2: give out my Personality of the Year, because why not,

1873
01:39:30,439 --> 01:39:34,080
Speaker 2: You're gonna give it to blal or No. No, come on, man,

1874
01:39:34,160 --> 01:39:37,080
Speaker 2: let me talkba Wallace. Give me in the fucking back room.

1875
01:39:37,120 --> 01:39:40,880
Speaker 2: I'm ready to fucking eat this microphone, all right, morob

1876
01:39:40,960 --> 01:39:41,320
Speaker 2: da Walla.

1877
01:39:41,320 --> 01:39:43,360
Speaker 14: It's Wally like I'm watching you guys, I usually listen

1878
01:39:43,360 --> 01:39:45,439
Speaker 14: you guys want to fucking running. You gotta look at you, guys,

1879
01:39:45,800 --> 01:39:47,800
Speaker 14: this guy with his fucking red white hat. All right,

1880
01:39:48,080 --> 01:39:52,320
Speaker 14: so honorable men, morob Dawallas, Willy Oban Elliott, who I've

1881
01:39:52,439 --> 01:39:54,640
Speaker 14: met this year. Love that cat Brian Battle, but my

1882
01:39:54,760 --> 01:39:55,519
Speaker 14: personality the year.

1883
01:39:56,240 --> 01:39:58,400
Speaker 2: Show me the money, money, Moi Kano and not to

1884
01:39:58,560 --> 01:40:01,040
Speaker 2: Moi Kano, right, show me and I to Mikano financial

1885
01:40:01,080 --> 01:40:03,280
Speaker 2: statement end of twenty twenty three, her and not to

1886
01:40:03,400 --> 01:40:06,080
Speaker 2: Makano financial statement end of twenty twenty four. Conquering the

1887
01:40:06,080 --> 01:40:09,360
Speaker 2: bitcoin world, winning fights in the octagon too. He says

1888
01:40:09,400 --> 01:40:11,320
Speaker 2: he can't afford to lose. You can be sure he hasn't.

1889
01:40:11,479 --> 01:40:14,640
Speaker 2: And not though money Moikano, UH can't get enough of him?

1890
01:40:14,680 --> 01:40:16,920
Speaker 2: Love him as a person too. I think that's great

1891
01:40:17,000 --> 01:40:20,559
Speaker 2: that Hanato Mokano is your personality of the year. Less great.

1892
01:40:20,640 --> 01:40:23,160
Speaker 2: When you start to talk about him, you change into

1893
01:40:23,240 --> 01:40:24,960
Speaker 2: this weird accent thing. I don't know if you know

1894
01:40:25,040 --> 01:40:27,439
Speaker 2: you're doing it. When you're like and to like him,

1895
01:40:28,200 --> 01:40:30,599
Speaker 2: will you sound fucking Mexican or Spanish? You don't sound

1896
01:40:30,680 --> 01:40:33,719
Speaker 2: really really like is bek account the end of twenty

1897
01:40:33,760 --> 01:40:38,120
Speaker 2: twenty three compared to the end. I think I'm just

1898
01:40:38,240 --> 01:40:41,800
Speaker 2: trying to make get everybody toward the finish line. But no,

1899
01:40:41,960 --> 01:40:44,280
Speaker 2: I love when he's when he would talk about ben

1900
01:40:44,360 --> 01:40:47,200
Speaker 2: ro Antoni and be like B S B. I can

1901
01:40:47,280 --> 01:40:51,280
Speaker 2: visited that all day, like like flow. Let's talking in

1902
01:40:51,880 --> 01:40:54,200
Speaker 2: beach wave in your hair. It might you might need

1903
01:40:54,280 --> 01:40:55,680
Speaker 2: some more products, so we'll let you go.

1904
01:40:55,880 --> 01:41:00,639
Speaker 4: Oh, I'm available. I'm available for Portuguese accent lessons Monday

1905
01:41:00,680 --> 01:41:01,599
Speaker 4: through Thursday.

1906
01:41:01,600 --> 01:41:03,280
Speaker 2: I well, Kenny, I'll see you at that thing in

1907
01:41:03,360 --> 01:41:08,599
Speaker 2: Miami on Yeah, that's good so far. You can put

1908
01:41:08,640 --> 01:41:10,920
Speaker 2: them back in the back now, Cody. Thanks, there you go,

1909
01:41:11,479 --> 01:41:14,479
Speaker 2: all right, Thanks everybody for indulging us. Tenthanuel anikin Flooring

1910
01:41:14,520 --> 01:41:19,040
Speaker 2: Podcast Awards are in the can with finality. Thanks to

1911
01:41:19,160 --> 01:41:21,720
Speaker 2: our executive producer Cody Merrow putting it all together. Thanks

1912
01:41:21,800 --> 01:41:24,799
Speaker 2: to our great family at DraftKings and the DraftKings Network.

1913
01:41:24,840 --> 01:41:27,439
Speaker 2: Of course, our friends at Cuervo for presenting this program

1914
01:41:27,560 --> 01:41:29,840
Speaker 2: for you folks today. Thanks to the star of the program,

1915
01:41:29,960 --> 01:41:32,600
Speaker 2: Ray Longo and Jason Anik for all of his contributions

1916
01:41:32,640 --> 01:41:34,960
Speaker 2: to the show, some of which you see and some

1917
01:41:35,160 --> 01:41:37,400
Speaker 2: of which you don't. We are right back on Monday,

1918
01:41:37,640 --> 01:41:39,640
Speaker 2: January sixth, we will get back to what we do

1919
01:41:39,800 --> 01:41:43,120
Speaker 2: best and get your preview for the first UFC fight

1920
01:41:43,240 --> 01:41:44,600
Speaker 2: night of the year and the main event between a

1921
01:41:44,680 --> 01:41:48,320
Speaker 2: Man of Heboss and Mackenzie Dern. With that, we wish

1922
01:41:48,360 --> 01:41:50,679
Speaker 2: you all a very happy and healthy new year. Onward

1923
01:41:50,720 --> 01:41:53,280
Speaker 2: to twenty twenty five. Ladies and gentlemen. For Ken Fulum,

1924
01:41:53,360 --> 01:41:55,720
Speaker 2: John Anak, thanks for watching. We'll see you next year.

1925
01:41:55,800 --> 01:41:57,639
Speaker 2: Until then, you'll fucking later.

1926
01:42:00,280 --> 01:42:15,800
Speaker 5: Boneut Bonut, Hey, I had him out to please bake bread.

1927
01:42:17,120 --> 01:42:18,200
Speaker 2: He's gone, Brad