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Speaker 3: Probably all right, you do take an L on that.

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Speaker 1: He did lose, he got stopped, but he and he

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Speaker 3: W Do you think he retroactively now earned the title

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Speaker 3: I think I nailed that.

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Speaker 1: You keep bringing up the Roman Deledze factor like it's legitimate.

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Speaker 1: Didn't he fight a two of five this last year?

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Speaker 3: Well, Roman Delize was my fighter to watch, by the way,

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Speaker 3: Chian's man and also a middleweight to watch? And also

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Speaker 1: Furthest to Long Island, Luke, because I feel like this

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Speaker 4: Middleweight was pretty exciting between the top fifteen, a lot

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Speaker 1: Thank you, Ty goes to the runner here.

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Speaker 3: I'll let it go, all right, Uh, Luke, your overall

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Speaker 1: So dude, that's not a bad prediction. I mean, it's

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Speaker 1: You know, I don't know exactly how would have fit

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Speaker 3: Yes, I think for sure. I mean, you couldn't have

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Speaker 1: Would you say, yeah, I don't think he had a

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Speaker 1: put that. He had. All right, Yeah he had a

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Speaker 1: To watch this year. No, who he's banging adds nothing

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Speaker 3: I have to tell you, all right, let's go down

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Speaker 3: to welterweight, where one of Luke's favorite bonaires is on

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Speaker 3: While that obviously cannot be a ding, should you at

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Speaker 1: It's definitely more l than w fo Shore.

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Speaker 3: All right, well, you can keep taking l's, Luke, and

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Speaker 3: we'll keep getting recorded wins for me because my middleweight

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Speaker 3: I'm sorry, welterweight bold prediction was Ian Gary will be

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Speaker 3: Belbot was a number one contender. Look give me that ding, okay,

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Speaker 3: Look you got ding down okay, like al Joe.

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Speaker 1: All right, all right, that's what to say. You want

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Speaker 3: Yeah, But Luke, we did both take L's on our

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Speaker 1: Dude, that yes, betting on the PFL guys who were

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Speaker 3: So quarter credit me quarter of credit?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, partly Yeah, all right.

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Speaker 3: Let's go to the lightweight division and Luke Thomas. You

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Speaker 3: talked about Islamaha Jeff you said he will finish the

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Speaker 3: year untested in twenty twenty four, Yeah, dub he did

435
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Speaker 3: go one and oh what was he not tested of

436
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Speaker 3: by one? DP Dustin Plawiwe.

437
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Speaker 1: I think it was a good fight, but Poortier got finished.

438
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Speaker 3: So what do you make of the fans reaction to

439
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Speaker 3: our award show that neither of us even mentioned as

440
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Speaker 3: an honorable mention the submission of Mahachev over Poorier, which

441
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Speaker 3: a lot of people thought should have been the number

442
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Speaker 3: one choice for Submission of the year, if not a

443
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Speaker 3: Fight of the Year candidate. They say, we kind of

444
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Speaker 3: glossed over it. Your thoughts.

445
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Speaker 1: I mean, there's probably something to that that neither of us,

446
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Speaker 1: I mean, between the two of us, one of us

447
00:21:36,800 --> 00:21:40,000
Speaker 1: should have probably mentioned it. That's probably a fair criticism.

448
00:21:40,760 --> 00:21:44,600
Speaker 1: But the reality is, you know, we right or wrongly,

449
00:21:44,640 --> 00:21:46,640
Speaker 1: we do these ones from what speaks to us, and

450
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Speaker 1: that one didn't speak to me as much as it

451
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Speaker 1: did to other fans. Yes, so yeah, I get that,

452
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Speaker 1: like as a group representation, some kind of signal that

453
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Speaker 1: that should have been in the conversation is real. But

454
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Speaker 1: I pick what I pick, man, I don't know how

455
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Speaker 1: to tell you.

456
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Speaker 3: What's is that the best fighter in the world would dominate.

457
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Speaker 3: He largely did in that one appearance. Let's go to

458
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Speaker 3: my pick for the lightweight division. My prediction is very simple, Luke,

459
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Speaker 3: I just don't feel like we're gonna see Connor versus

460
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Speaker 3: Chandler at lightweight too. Well, maybe we're never going to

461
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Speaker 3: see it in lightweight. Maybe if it did happen, it

462
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Speaker 3: was going to be at welterweight. So it's a little

463
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Speaker 3: bit of a trick. Wrong question, But I mean, you

464
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Speaker 3: hear Michael Chandler talking about I'm waiting for Connor. I

465
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Speaker 3: still believe Dana even admitted we got a lot of

466
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Speaker 3: fighters here that are just waiting for a big fight,

467
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Speaker 3: like Colby did. Chandler is one of them. But Luke,

468
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Speaker 3: you never ever ever hear Connor talking about fighting Chandler,

469
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Speaker 3: and lately you hear Dana talking about it even less.

470
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Speaker 3: So we have debated in the past that they don't

471
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Speaker 3: necessarily need Connor at UFC three hundred. Right when Connor fights,

472
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Speaker 3: they kind of stop everything and put together a patchwork. Luke,

473
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Speaker 3: I obviously wasn't gonna nail that he would pull out

474
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Speaker 3: with a toe injury of that Chandler fight, which was

475
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Speaker 3: scheduled for a national fight week, and that they would

476
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Speaker 3: have the civil trial with the sexual assault. So I

477
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Speaker 3: still got it right. But uh what, even though it

478
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Speaker 3: now feels like a no brainer, automatic, it's insane to

479
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Speaker 3: me that this fight hasn't happened. When one did they

480
00:23:06,600 --> 00:23:09,720
Speaker 3: coach tough like a year and a half ago, two

481
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Speaker 3: years ago.

482
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Speaker 1: Yeah, Yeah, it's been some time. I mean, that was

483
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Speaker 1: a great prediction by you, that that was kind of

484
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Speaker 1: where I was with Jones and Miochic. I kind of

485
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Speaker 1: thought it would just kind of fall apart. Obviously did not,

486
00:23:19,000 --> 00:23:21,800
Speaker 1: but that one definitely did. They never even really well.

487
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Speaker 1: I guess they did get close UFC three h three.

488
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Speaker 3: Oh, they got real close.

489
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Speaker 1: They they got about a month out, and then the

490
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Speaker 1: whole thing just kind of fell apart the way that

491
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Speaker 1: it did. Interesting.

492
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Speaker 3: Look, I could go a bold one and say, and

493
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Speaker 3: I think I did in our prediction thing that that

494
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Speaker 3: Connor won't fight in the UFC in twenty five. And

495
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Speaker 3: I still think that's that could very well happen. But

496
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Speaker 3: where are you on the idea that McGregor versus Chandler

497
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Speaker 3: ever happened.

498
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Speaker 1: I don't think it does. I think of all the

499
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Speaker 1: possibilities of what Connor has left, there's just other ones

500
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Speaker 1: they're gonna go to at this point. There's just and

501
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Speaker 1: by the way, like besides Chandler, Like, who really wants

502
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Speaker 1: to see that one at this point? You know what

503
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Speaker 1: I mean? Like, do you think it'll.

504
00:24:01,240 --> 00:24:03,520
Speaker 3: Live in infamy the same way or not infamy, but

505
00:24:03,560 --> 00:24:06,040
Speaker 3: the same way. John Jones versus Rumble Johnson, which was

506
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Speaker 3: scheduled never happened, And then we were always like, damn,

507
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Speaker 3: I would have loved to have seen that. Is this

508
00:24:09,960 --> 00:24:11,440
Speaker 3: in there is this on that level?

509
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Speaker 1: Yeah, but worse because that one fell apart. Why did

510
00:24:16,840 --> 00:24:19,520
Speaker 1: that one fall apart, like somebody got injured, right, Rumble

511
00:24:19,560 --> 00:24:22,280
Speaker 1: got injured? John got injured? How did that one fall apart?

512
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Speaker 1: They were scheduled to meet they remember they had the.

513
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Speaker 3: Press John John got in trouble, right or something? Long

514
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Speaker 3: isn't Look what the hell was? I mean it's like

515
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Speaker 3: it's a big go card of John Jones. Instances didn't

516
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Speaker 3: DC the DC fought Rumble twice. Then this was Albuquerque.

517
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Speaker 3: This was the Albuquerque accident from John that was that

518
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Speaker 3: forced the UFC to strip him of the title.

519
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Speaker 1: Right pregnantly that could be correct. It was the hit

520
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Speaker 1: and run.

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Speaker 3: Okay, there we go, Jesus Luke your fighter to watch

522
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Speaker 3: at lightweight. He went one to know with a split decision,

523
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Speaker 3: went over Charles Olivera and he'll be fighting for the

524
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Speaker 3: title in just a couple of weeks. Ar months are

525
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Speaker 3: uk in?

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Speaker 1: You might became number one contender. I had a big

527
00:25:02,600 --> 00:25:04,679
Speaker 1: win at UFC three hundred and then also what the

528
00:25:04,760 --> 00:25:08,720
Speaker 1: darry ushwin? Yeah, I feel like that one panned out.

529
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Speaker 4: Darry Uschwinn was in twenty twenty three.

530
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Speaker 1: Okay, well close to fucking enough.

531
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Speaker 3: You get the Charles Olavera win. A better win for

532
00:25:15,119 --> 00:25:15,639
Speaker 3: him a right.

533
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Speaker 1: Yeah, much better win. That's the only time he fought

534
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Speaker 1: this year. Was that was it?

535
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Speaker 3: It is whether he's in line for the title. So yeah,

536
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Speaker 3: uh my pick. Tell me if I wanted to lost

537
00:25:22,960 --> 00:25:25,399
Speaker 3: this because he went one and one. The champion has

538
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Speaker 3: a name, Luke, and it was Charles Olivera. He lost

539
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Speaker 3: to tar Uh Tatar Verdian to Saryuki and by split decision,

540
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Speaker 3: and then comes back to get the decision over Michael Chandler.

541
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Speaker 1: Are you getting pretty good? Yeah?

542
00:25:41,480 --> 00:25:43,720
Speaker 3: Yeah, thank you, thank You're still in position for the title.

543
00:25:43,880 --> 00:25:47,280
Speaker 3: Let's move on to the featherweight division, where Luke, Thomas's

544
00:25:47,280 --> 00:25:50,640
Speaker 3: favorite fighter took over the sport. Let's see what Luke predicted.

545
00:25:50,840 --> 00:25:52,800
Speaker 3: I don't speak Russian, Luke, I'm not even in a hurry.

546
00:25:52,800 --> 00:25:53,800
Speaker 3: What do you got at featherweight?

547
00:25:54,000 --> 00:25:56,080
Speaker 1: Yeah, Elliott Suportia is going to be your next featherweight

548
00:25:56,160 --> 00:25:57,600
Speaker 1: champion in twenty twenty four.

549
00:25:58,160 --> 00:26:01,360
Speaker 3: Okay, that's just because he reps and you love Madrid

550
00:26:01,440 --> 00:26:03,760
Speaker 3: so much. Come on, Luke's show your cards.

551
00:26:04,680 --> 00:26:06,560
Speaker 1: I got a question for you. How come I can't

552
00:26:06,600 --> 00:26:09,480
Speaker 1: believe in things for reasons I actually believed? Why do

553
00:26:09,560 --> 00:26:12,320
Speaker 1: I have to believe in them for the phony reasons

554
00:26:12,359 --> 00:26:15,040
Speaker 1: that you invent in your head that I like them.

555
00:26:15,119 --> 00:26:17,359
Speaker 3: Show your cards, Luke, show your dog, brother.

556
00:26:17,760 --> 00:26:22,840
Speaker 1: It's a very irrelevant question. It's a very relevant questioned prediction.

557
00:26:22,880 --> 00:26:25,720
Speaker 3: One, by the way, and now looks easy, but he

558
00:26:25,800 --> 00:26:28,520
Speaker 3: knocked out Volkanovsky and then knocked out Holloway that this

559
00:26:28,560 --> 00:26:30,680
Speaker 3: prediction was before that, so like holy shit.

560
00:26:30,760 --> 00:26:32,440
Speaker 1: Yeah, and by the way, seriously, and I want to

561
00:26:32,480 --> 00:26:34,680
Speaker 1: be clear, like, obviously I thought he would be champion.

562
00:26:34,760 --> 00:26:37,840
Speaker 1: I didn't think he was going to run through well Vulk.

563
00:26:37,920 --> 00:26:40,920
Speaker 1: I thought was going to be in trouble. But remember

564
00:26:41,000 --> 00:26:42,679
Speaker 1: even before the Max fight, I was like, I'd be

565
00:26:42,680 --> 00:26:45,280
Speaker 1: surprised if he stops Max. And he fucking stopped Max too.

566
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Speaker 3: So my featherweight prediction did not go the way of yours.

567
00:26:49,960 --> 00:26:53,000
Speaker 3: Even Sully Sullenberger couldn't land this plane. Let's look back

568
00:26:53,000 --> 00:26:55,919
Speaker 3: at it. Featherweight, the old one four five. Obviously my

569
00:26:56,000 --> 00:26:59,960
Speaker 3: prediction is simple, right, A certain great featherweight will find

570
00:27:00,080 --> 00:27:03,080
Speaker 3: only come out of retirement and gain the UFC title

571
00:27:03,119 --> 00:27:06,400
Speaker 3: after years of us wondering, is either the great one

572
00:27:06,440 --> 00:27:08,480
Speaker 3: that got away? You know what direction I'm going there?

573
00:27:08,560 --> 00:27:10,359
Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, that's a bunch of silliness. Can I tell

574
00:27:10,400 --> 00:27:11,840
Speaker 1: you what's actually going to happen? Sure?

575
00:27:12,119 --> 00:27:14,359
Speaker 3: Wait, wait, you don't believe in zabat Luke. What are

576
00:27:14,359 --> 00:27:14,720
Speaker 3: you doing?

577
00:27:15,240 --> 00:27:18,240
Speaker 1: Isn't he a doctor student or some shit? I don't

578
00:27:18,280 --> 00:27:20,119
Speaker 1: know something like that. He ain't fighting.

579
00:27:20,920 --> 00:27:23,119
Speaker 3: Wow, that was a wing and a prayer and a

580
00:27:23,119 --> 00:27:23,920
Speaker 3: hope and a dream.

581
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Speaker 1: And I just want to point out I'm going gray

582
00:27:26,720 --> 00:27:29,520
Speaker 1: like it's a contest. Like even a year ago I

583
00:27:29,600 --> 00:27:32,760
Speaker 1: had significantly less gray. It's insane how fast I'm going.

584
00:27:33,200 --> 00:27:35,399
Speaker 3: My wife gave me an intervention sit down again the

585
00:27:35,480 --> 00:27:38,560
Speaker 3: other day, just basically saying, look, I know you like

586
00:27:38,640 --> 00:27:40,679
Speaker 3: the gray. I don't like it, but you got to

587
00:27:40,680 --> 00:27:43,200
Speaker 3: pick a color. You gotta stay in line with one

588
00:27:43,200 --> 00:27:45,200
Speaker 3: of them. You can't die for two weeks, you know,

589
00:27:45,280 --> 00:27:48,119
Speaker 3: for two months, and then not for three. And I'm like, well,

590
00:27:48,160 --> 00:27:49,720
Speaker 3: it's not like I'm looking, not like I'm on the

591
00:27:49,760 --> 00:27:52,560
Speaker 3: market looking for you know, looking for people here. All right,

592
00:27:52,800 --> 00:27:54,720
Speaker 3: we're locked up, lady for a long time.

593
00:27:54,760 --> 00:27:56,920
Speaker 1: Your wife was like, get your shit together.

594
00:27:57,240 --> 00:28:00,560
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, you know that. She's the thing that ever

595
00:28:00,600 --> 00:28:02,080
Speaker 3: happened to me. Look all right, you know what I mean.

596
00:28:02,119 --> 00:28:04,159
Speaker 3: I've I've held together an editorial marriage with you for

597
00:28:04,200 --> 00:28:05,760
Speaker 3: a long time, but not as long as right with

598
00:28:05,800 --> 00:28:09,600
Speaker 3: that lovely lady. Your fighter to watch at featherweight was young,

599
00:28:09,920 --> 00:28:12,480
Speaker 3: still young Aaron Pico who went one to know on

600
00:28:12,520 --> 00:28:16,640
Speaker 3: the year stopping Henry Corralis in a largely unnecessary Bellatur fight.

601
00:28:16,880 --> 00:28:18,840
Speaker 1: We didn't talk about this. Is he not a free agent?

602
00:28:18,920 --> 00:28:21,760
Speaker 1: Did we not hear that? I believe he's looked.

603
00:28:21,600 --> 00:28:26,560
Speaker 3: Like Don Davis put out some counter counter messaging on

604
00:28:26,920 --> 00:28:28,879
Speaker 3: Twitter saying we'd love to sign him. We'd love to

605
00:28:28,880 --> 00:28:30,840
Speaker 3: give him a title shot and a big opportunity. So

606
00:28:31,119 --> 00:28:33,400
Speaker 3: but the thing is, again, what I'm saying is you're

607
00:28:33,400 --> 00:28:35,639
Speaker 3: giving him what a Bellatur title shot? These are not

608
00:28:35,680 --> 00:28:36,320
Speaker 3: real belts.

609
00:28:37,080 --> 00:28:41,040
Speaker 1: Also in the world where a Patchie Mix is complaining

610
00:28:41,200 --> 00:28:45,160
Speaker 1: and uh Leandro Ego and Patricio Pitple how they can't

611
00:28:45,160 --> 00:28:48,640
Speaker 1: get fights. Also John Johnny Applin has complained, but certainly

612
00:28:48,880 --> 00:28:52,320
Speaker 1: Cory Anderson has complained, you know, like you would be

613
00:28:52,440 --> 00:28:56,160
Speaker 1: absolutely foolish to sign a deal I think without some

614
00:28:56,280 --> 00:28:58,280
Speaker 1: serious guarantees written into that thing.

615
00:28:58,400 --> 00:29:00,840
Speaker 3: Yes, he has been saying he to fight in the UFC.

616
00:29:01,000 --> 00:29:03,280
Speaker 1: By the way, Yeah, then there's that as well, you know,

617
00:29:03,400 --> 00:29:04,960
Speaker 1: But someone was asking me the other day, like, oh,

618
00:29:05,000 --> 00:29:06,920
Speaker 1: how would he perform against Ilia? Like it'd be a

619
00:29:06,960 --> 00:29:08,640
Speaker 1: good fight, and I'm like, I wouldn't mind seeing it,

620
00:29:08,720 --> 00:29:11,880
Speaker 1: but I I would not favor anyone at one five

621
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Speaker 1: over Ilia right now, I think you no.

622
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Speaker 3: I mean, Pico's insanely skilled in every category, but we

623
00:29:17,280 --> 00:29:19,080
Speaker 3: still need to see him put to put together on

624
00:29:19,120 --> 00:29:21,440
Speaker 3: the belator title level first, I guess you know, even

625
00:29:21,440 --> 00:29:23,239
Speaker 3: though I don't want those belts to be around. Put

626
00:29:23,320 --> 00:29:24,960
Speaker 3: him in the PFL Million Dollar Tournament?

627
00:29:24,960 --> 00:29:25,320
Speaker 1: Why not?

628
00:29:25,840 --> 00:29:27,720
Speaker 3: Why why do we do this PFL? Why?

629
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Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't know what he wants is

630
00:29:29,280 --> 00:29:30,560
Speaker 1: really the issue.

631
00:29:30,320 --> 00:29:31,880
Speaker 3: All right. So you don't get a point for picking

632
00:29:31,880 --> 00:29:34,080
Speaker 3: Aaron Pico because he didn't do anything really and neither

633
00:29:34,080 --> 00:29:40,440
Speaker 3: did my pick Patricio Pitbull, Freyetti, Luke Freer, he of

634
00:29:40,480 --> 00:29:43,280
Speaker 3: course stopped Jeremy Kennedy and his lone appearance in March

635
00:29:43,320 --> 00:29:46,120
Speaker 3: and now is complaining actively. Did you see Don Davis's

636
00:29:47,240 --> 00:29:51,480
Speaker 3: latest LinkedIn message, Luke, which was the the five worst

637
00:29:51,480 --> 00:29:53,240
Speaker 3: things that happened to PFL? Ish, I'm not doing a bit?

638
00:29:53,280 --> 00:29:53,920
Speaker 3: Did you not see this?

639
00:29:54,040 --> 00:29:57,520
Speaker 1: And number three was I believe he posted this on

640
00:29:57,600 --> 00:30:01,280
Speaker 1: LinkedIn that's the most pfl thing imaginable to all of.

641
00:30:01,200 --> 00:30:03,680
Speaker 3: His investor friends. And number three of the worst things

642
00:30:03,680 --> 00:30:05,240
Speaker 3: to happen was and like one of them was like

643
00:30:05,400 --> 00:30:07,920
Speaker 3: sponsor pulled out at the last minute. This happened, and.

644
00:30:07,960 --> 00:30:09,880
Speaker 1: Whatever it was that happens, I feel bad for them,

645
00:30:09,880 --> 00:30:10,080
Speaker 1: you know.

646
00:30:10,200 --> 00:30:13,600
Speaker 3: But number three was Belatur fighters complained publicly, making the

647
00:30:13,640 --> 00:30:16,040
Speaker 3: brand look bad. I mean that was like literally the

648
00:30:16,120 --> 00:30:18,480
Speaker 3: gist of it, Luke Like. It wasn't like, oh, we

649
00:30:18,520 --> 00:30:21,040
Speaker 3: need to get these fighters like direction or opportunity or

650
00:30:21,360 --> 00:30:22,200
Speaker 3: or like a date.

651
00:30:22,320 --> 00:30:24,720
Speaker 1: You know. It was. Yeah, the problem was they complained

652
00:30:24,720 --> 00:30:27,440
Speaker 1: about their behavior, not the behavior right uh.

653
00:30:27,560 --> 00:30:30,200
Speaker 3: I had Sorry the pit Bull, I'm sorry I was wrong.

654
00:30:30,360 --> 00:30:33,480
Speaker 3: You were wrong twice. You had Piko and pit Bull

655
00:30:33,480 --> 00:30:36,320
Speaker 3: as your featherweights to watch. Pico and pit Bull, not me.

656
00:30:36,920 --> 00:30:38,640
Speaker 1: They didn't have bad years, but they definitely didn't have

657
00:30:38,680 --> 00:30:39,520
Speaker 1: breakout years.

658
00:30:39,360 --> 00:30:41,840
Speaker 3: So they couldn't get fights. Let's go to mine. I

659
00:30:41,880 --> 00:30:45,200
Speaker 3: picked Arnold Allen, who I erroneously stated the other day

660
00:30:45,240 --> 00:30:47,040
Speaker 3: went to and O this year. He actually went one

661
00:30:47,040 --> 00:30:49,680
Speaker 3: and one, lost the close one to Ev Louev. Came

662
00:30:49,760 --> 00:30:53,840
Speaker 3: back in July against Giga Chikazzi, so he was one

663
00:30:53,920 --> 00:30:55,800
Speaker 3: and one this year is. I mean, he's a featherweight

664
00:30:55,880 --> 00:30:58,440
Speaker 3: to watch, but not the featherweight to watch. I also

665
00:30:58,480 --> 00:31:01,840
Speaker 3: threw out there Bryce Mitchell bouncing back from a couple

666
00:31:01,920 --> 00:31:04,520
Speaker 3: devastating losses in which he did look really good, although

667
00:31:04,520 --> 00:31:06,560
Speaker 3: it was against Chrome Gracie in the one appearance, so.

668
00:31:06,600 --> 00:31:08,280
Speaker 1: But he did he bounced back. I mean he definitely

669
00:31:08,280 --> 00:31:10,280
Speaker 1: it wasn't a huge bounce back, but he bounced back.

670
00:31:10,680 --> 00:31:12,760
Speaker 3: Yeah, do with that what you will. Let's go to

671
00:31:12,800 --> 00:31:16,280
Speaker 3: the women, Luke one forty five women's featherweight no longer

672
00:31:16,320 --> 00:31:19,959
Speaker 3: a division. What was our prediction last time, Luke Thomas,

673
00:31:20,000 --> 00:31:26,920
Speaker 3: you predicted that Kayla Harrison versus Chris Cyborg will happen. Yeah,

674
00:31:27,040 --> 00:31:29,800
Speaker 3: that's an l It didn't happen. Kayla went free agency.

675
00:31:29,880 --> 00:31:32,640
Speaker 1: How many of my predictions were contingent upon someone in

676
00:31:32,680 --> 00:31:36,440
Speaker 1: either PFL or Belator getting fights? That was dumb as shit.

677
00:31:36,680 --> 00:31:38,480
Speaker 3: Now I'm not keeping score, but it sounds like you're

678
00:31:38,520 --> 00:31:40,320
Speaker 3: like one in eight up to this point. I'm like

679
00:31:40,560 --> 00:31:41,240
Speaker 3: six and two.

680
00:31:41,960 --> 00:31:45,160
Speaker 1: I think I definitely think your predictions are doing better

681
00:31:45,200 --> 00:31:45,640
Speaker 1: than mine.

682
00:31:45,800 --> 00:31:48,000
Speaker 3: All Right, my prediction for featherweight for the new year

683
00:31:48,600 --> 00:31:51,920
Speaker 3: was that UFC would shut down the women's one forty five.

684
00:31:53,600 --> 00:31:55,240
Speaker 1: They didn't formally shut it down, did they.

685
00:31:55,800 --> 00:31:58,760
Speaker 4: Okay, so it doesn't exist on the UFC rankings more

686
00:31:58,840 --> 00:32:00,200
Speaker 4: so that on.

687
00:32:00,160 --> 00:32:04,160
Speaker 3: Long Island Luke. No, for they have never ever had rankings.

688
00:32:04,200 --> 00:32:07,440
Speaker 3: They have never ever ever had rankings for women's featherweight

689
00:32:07,600 --> 00:32:10,360
Speaker 3: on their on their UFC dot Com slash rankings page,

690
00:32:10,360 --> 00:32:12,840
Speaker 3: it has always had a header with no top ten

691
00:32:13,200 --> 00:32:16,000
Speaker 3: because they never had ten contender candidates for the title.

692
00:32:16,040 --> 00:32:18,080
Speaker 4: That right, but they at least had the champion listed.

693
00:32:18,080 --> 00:32:20,600
Speaker 1: They don't even know that, you're right, the champion, the

694
00:32:20,680 --> 00:32:23,720
Speaker 1: champion retired. They just didn't give the built to anybody else.

695
00:32:23,920 --> 00:32:27,560
Speaker 3: I would if it was still around, Kayla would have fallen.

696
00:32:27,440 --> 00:32:31,640
Speaker 1: For effectively, it is not there. In reality, it's not there.

697
00:32:31,680 --> 00:32:33,280
Speaker 1: But that doesn't mean they shut it down. That's a

698
00:32:33,320 --> 00:32:38,120
Speaker 1: different consideration. They're just not using they're devoting from shutting

699
00:32:38,120 --> 00:32:38,360
Speaker 1: it back.

700
00:32:38,360 --> 00:32:40,840
Speaker 3: Okay, not only are they not using the title, they're

701
00:32:40,880 --> 00:32:42,600
Speaker 3: not promoting featherweight fights anymore.

702
00:32:43,800 --> 00:32:46,120
Speaker 1: That doesn't mean they shut the division down BC. That

703
00:32:46,160 --> 00:32:48,440
Speaker 1: means they're actively not using I heard they didn't. They

704
00:32:48,480 --> 00:32:49,920
Speaker 1: didn't get out there and say we know are no

705
00:32:50,040 --> 00:32:52,120
Speaker 1: longer in the women's one forty five pound business. They

706
00:32:52,120 --> 00:32:52,720
Speaker 1: didn't l I.

707
00:32:52,800 --> 00:32:54,560
Speaker 3: L had me at ding. That's you know, that's all.

708
00:32:54,760 --> 00:32:57,560
Speaker 3: That's all I have to say there, Luke Okay. Luke's

709
00:32:57,600 --> 00:32:59,920
Speaker 3: fighter to watch at featherweight was no Wa.

710
00:33:00,640 --> 00:33:01,440
Speaker 1: Yeah, that was.

711
00:33:04,760 --> 00:33:09,720
Speaker 3: That one landing. But BC's featherweight to watch Kayla Harrison,

712
00:33:09,760 --> 00:33:13,480
Speaker 3: who went to and Zho but both not at at

713
00:33:13,520 --> 00:33:15,760
Speaker 3: one thirty five. Women's bandom weaight any.

714
00:33:15,520 --> 00:33:17,600
Speaker 4: The best part about that was you guys were debating

715
00:33:17,640 --> 00:33:20,040
Speaker 4: if Kayla could make one forty five and she ended

716
00:33:20,120 --> 00:33:21,640
Speaker 4: up fighting at thirty five twice.

717
00:33:21,960 --> 00:33:24,320
Speaker 3: Damn, look at that. Look at that right there.

718
00:33:24,320 --> 00:33:26,480
Speaker 1: Well, I don't think she made it one thirty five healthy.

719
00:33:26,880 --> 00:33:29,200
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go to my grave saying that one she

720
00:33:28,920 --> 00:33:31,400
Speaker 1: she did it because she can do the amazing things.

721
00:33:32,040 --> 00:33:33,480
Speaker 1: It's pretty bad for her to do that.

722
00:33:34,040 --> 00:33:38,080
Speaker 3: All right, let's go to men's bandamweight right now, Luke Thomas,

723
00:33:38,280 --> 00:33:42,480
Speaker 3: your prediction for twenty twenty five was combined prediction with

724
00:33:42,600 --> 00:33:46,160
Speaker 3: fighter to watch. You were concerned about Patchy mixed his

725
00:33:46,360 --> 00:33:48,600
Speaker 3: future in pf elatour.

726
00:33:48,960 --> 00:33:53,560
Speaker 4: Wow, this was another funny one in hindsight, because Luke

727
00:33:53,600 --> 00:33:56,920
Speaker 4: said something like, yeah, Bellator only has ten events scheduled

728
00:33:56,920 --> 00:33:59,160
Speaker 4: in twenty twenty four, and they ended up having I

729
00:33:59,160 --> 00:34:00,880
Speaker 4: think three yeah.

730
00:34:01,560 --> 00:34:03,920
Speaker 1: Right, that one nailed that one. That was the one

731
00:34:03,960 --> 00:34:07,480
Speaker 1: time I should have recognized I should have recognized that

732
00:34:08,000 --> 00:34:10,400
Speaker 1: I only made that prediction because he cleaned out everybody

733
00:34:10,920 --> 00:34:12,520
Speaker 1: and then they give him that Mega Man Mega made

734
00:34:12,520 --> 00:34:14,000
Speaker 1: off rematch, which ended up being a little bit closer

735
00:34:14,040 --> 00:34:15,799
Speaker 1: than we thought it would be, but nevertheless he won.

736
00:34:16,280 --> 00:34:17,640
Speaker 1: And it just wasn't clear where they were going to

737
00:34:17,680 --> 00:34:20,480
Speaker 1: go after that, and then sure enough they didn't go anywhere.

738
00:34:20,560 --> 00:34:21,000
Speaker 1: They didn't go.

739
00:34:21,040 --> 00:34:22,759
Speaker 3: So that's a point for Luke. But you got to

740
00:34:22,760 --> 00:34:25,600
Speaker 3: be the harsh judge here, the Polish judge, if you will, Luke,

741
00:34:25,640 --> 00:34:27,759
Speaker 3: do you have any Polish in you? I don't think

742
00:34:27,800 --> 00:34:36,319
Speaker 3: so wants Themthuitian, I'm Lithuitian, Luke. Okay please uh. Here

743
00:34:36,440 --> 00:34:38,640
Speaker 3: was my prediction for men's badhamweight in the new year.

744
00:34:38,920 --> 00:34:41,759
Speaker 3: But my prediction bold prediction for Bannaweit for next year

745
00:34:42,440 --> 00:34:45,000
Speaker 3: is twenty twenty four as MMA Fighter of the Year

746
00:34:45,360 --> 00:34:47,799
Speaker 3: is currently in this top ten, Luke, and he's going

747
00:34:47,840 --> 00:34:50,200
Speaker 3: to close the year as champion. Are you ready for this?

748
00:34:50,800 --> 00:34:54,160
Speaker 3: Rob devolished Willie Wow? Because if he gets a win

749
00:34:54,239 --> 00:34:56,640
Speaker 3: over Henry so Hudo, which I'm gonna assume he's gonna

750
00:34:56,640 --> 00:34:58,520
Speaker 3: be the betting favorite. Although that's a great fight to

751
00:34:58,600 --> 00:35:01,800
Speaker 3: start the year. Could do you imagine him then fighting

752
00:35:01,840 --> 00:35:05,719
Speaker 3: the winner of uh of the Champion O'Malley versus Cheeto

753
00:35:05,800 --> 00:35:09,560
Speaker 3: Ea and winning that championship to close there? Yes, I can. Look,

754
00:35:09,640 --> 00:35:11,960
Speaker 3: it's his time, it's here. I know there's been injuries,

755
00:35:12,000 --> 00:35:14,200
Speaker 3: I know there's been some things. But what separates him

756
00:35:14,400 --> 00:35:17,359
Speaker 3: the cardio because he's already proven that he can win

757
00:35:17,400 --> 00:35:19,840
Speaker 3: a crazy Now. To be fair, looky finished fourth in

758
00:35:19,960 --> 00:35:22,879
Speaker 3: my personal ballot for fight of the Year, but that's pretty.

759
00:35:22,560 --> 00:35:25,080
Speaker 1: Close, pretty close. That's definitely a dub. Dude, You've done

760
00:35:25,120 --> 00:35:26,920
Speaker 1: You did much better than me. These are very very good.

761
00:35:26,960 --> 00:35:28,920
Speaker 1: I got hoored by a couple of calendar issues on

762
00:35:28,960 --> 00:35:30,400
Speaker 1: Shopcott and UH.

763
00:35:30,600 --> 00:35:33,719
Speaker 3: But don't I lose all of my credibility based on

764
00:35:33,760 --> 00:35:36,560
Speaker 3: that zebeat Pick Cougars. Thats just my heart talking, you know.

765
00:35:36,960 --> 00:35:40,640
Speaker 1: Dude, that's dude. You. You would push me in front

766
00:35:40,680 --> 00:35:42,600
Speaker 1: of a bus, you would throw me into a pit

767
00:35:42,640 --> 00:35:45,680
Speaker 1: of alligators just to have the beat fart in your mouth.

768
00:35:45,719 --> 00:35:48,120
Speaker 1: I mean, it's what you would do it for him.

769
00:35:48,160 --> 00:35:49,920
Speaker 3: But he could put it in a coffee Contato and

770
00:35:49,960 --> 00:35:51,960
Speaker 3: Miller to me, that'd be great. All right. You picked

771
00:35:52,000 --> 00:35:54,239
Speaker 3: Patchy Mix would be your fighter to watch. We hit that.

772
00:35:54,920 --> 00:35:58,160
Speaker 3: You also picked Umar and Hermaga met Off as your

773
00:35:58,200 --> 00:36:00,239
Speaker 3: fighter to watch at vandam wait who went two and

774
00:36:00,320 --> 00:36:02,120
Speaker 3: O is on the verge of a title shot.

775
00:36:02,200 --> 00:36:05,080
Speaker 1: So uh yeah, I out. I don't think that's crazy.

776
00:36:05,200 --> 00:36:07,200
Speaker 3: Yeah, all right, what are you gonna grade my pick?

777
00:36:07,680 --> 00:36:10,720
Speaker 3: Al Jermaine Sterling, who's not even in the division anymore

778
00:36:10,760 --> 00:36:15,239
Speaker 3: and went one in one, beating Calvin barely losing to

779
00:36:15,360 --> 00:36:15,839
Speaker 3: ev Lloyd.

780
00:36:15,880 --> 00:36:17,920
Speaker 1: I mean, the thing is, he definitely didn't have a bad.

781
00:36:17,920 --> 00:36:19,840
Speaker 3: Year, not in that division.

782
00:36:19,880 --> 00:36:22,520
Speaker 1: So I lose, yeah, exactly, and against the fight against

783
00:36:22,520 --> 00:36:24,200
Speaker 1: most are he lost, but it was really good, you know,

784
00:36:24,239 --> 00:36:26,000
Speaker 1: he performed and he beat Calvin Cator. You know. But

785
00:36:26,000 --> 00:36:27,680
Speaker 1: to your point, it's just not a one thirty five.

786
00:36:27,520 --> 00:36:29,759
Speaker 3: Thing, all right. Women's Band and Weight, which is still

787
00:36:29,760 --> 00:36:32,560
Speaker 3: a division, by the way, Luke Thomas, your pick was

788
00:36:33,200 --> 00:36:37,200
Speaker 3: it will take years to fix this division as it

789
00:36:37,239 --> 00:36:39,880
Speaker 3: pertains to rivalries and storylines.

790
00:36:40,520 --> 00:36:46,440
Speaker 4: Oh I, there's only a rivalry slash storyline in the

791
00:36:46,440 --> 00:36:49,400
Speaker 4: title picture. The rest of the it's.

792
00:36:49,239 --> 00:36:51,560
Speaker 3: A three way right now because Amanda's coming back and

793
00:36:51,600 --> 00:36:53,759
Speaker 3: Penya wants to earn a remiss, but Cala.

794
00:36:53,719 --> 00:36:56,560
Speaker 1: We don't know where Amanda is. And also, like that division,

795
00:36:57,080 --> 00:36:59,759
Speaker 1: the only like they had to force a woman who

796
00:36:59,800 --> 00:37:02,440
Speaker 1: fall at nearly one hundred or of I competed I

797
00:37:02,480 --> 00:37:05,240
Speaker 1: should say at one hundred and seventy pounds in judo.

798
00:37:05,320 --> 00:37:07,120
Speaker 1: They had to get her down to one thirty five

799
00:37:07,280 --> 00:37:10,799
Speaker 1: just so they could inject some fucking adrenaline into this.

800
00:37:11,560 --> 00:37:14,440
Speaker 3: Guess who they let fight for the title. Somebody who

801
00:37:14,480 --> 00:37:17,560
Speaker 3: came off of one side fifty to forty five loss

802
00:37:17,560 --> 00:37:19,680
Speaker 3: and took two years off, Luke, That's who they let

803
00:37:19,680 --> 00:37:20,400
Speaker 3: fight for the title.

804
00:37:20,600 --> 00:37:23,200
Speaker 1: Yeah, and they won, and they fucking won. That's the

805
00:37:23,239 --> 00:37:25,919
Speaker 1: best part about it. They won. Shouldn't have but they won.

806
00:37:26,280 --> 00:37:30,000
Speaker 3: All right, you'll get the borderline win there my pick, though,

807
00:37:30,040 --> 00:37:32,239
Speaker 3: Oh my god, I'm so embarrassed by this, Luke. Are

808
00:37:32,280 --> 00:37:32,920
Speaker 3: you ready for this?

809
00:37:33,480 --> 00:37:34,080
Speaker 1: Yeah? I'm ready.

810
00:37:34,080 --> 00:37:36,680
Speaker 3: Holly Holm will fight for the Bandawey title in twenty

811
00:37:36,760 --> 00:37:37,239
Speaker 3: twenty four.

812
00:37:37,320 --> 00:37:40,120
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean just letting your horning this really take

813
00:37:40,160 --> 00:37:41,080
Speaker 1: over your dis It's.

814
00:37:41,000 --> 00:37:43,560
Speaker 3: Not letting the lack of depth in that division. Did

815
00:37:43,600 --> 00:37:46,080
Speaker 3: I think Kayla was gonna come here. No, So if

816
00:37:46,160 --> 00:37:48,839
Speaker 3: Kayla didn't come here, and if Holly had like one

817
00:37:48,880 --> 00:37:51,760
Speaker 3: a couple at forty three, she's forty three now, Luke.

818
00:37:52,320 --> 00:37:56,520
Speaker 1: Forty three, that's definitely that's definitely up there.

819
00:37:56,800 --> 00:37:58,600
Speaker 3: I mean, do you think she can keep going as

820
00:37:58,600 --> 00:38:02,239
Speaker 3: a as a middling banda yes, as a gatekeeper.

821
00:38:01,880 --> 00:38:03,799
Speaker 1: Yes, I think I don't know if she wants that

822
00:38:03,840 --> 00:38:05,560
Speaker 1: for herself. But could she do it? Yes?

823
00:38:06,400 --> 00:38:08,399
Speaker 3: All right? Longlan Loos gotta be the judge here, Luke

824
00:38:08,440 --> 00:38:11,879
Speaker 3: Thomas's women's bandam weight to watch was no one.

825
00:38:14,719 --> 00:38:15,520
Speaker 1: I feel like that.

826
00:38:17,000 --> 00:38:18,640
Speaker 3: I kind of want to give a half ding to that.

827
00:38:18,680 --> 00:38:21,840
Speaker 3: I mean, Harrison, Yeah, you're right, Kayla Harrison. Mine was

828
00:38:22,400 --> 00:38:26,560
Speaker 3: Irene Aldonna, who I thought was gonna look, she fought

829
00:38:26,719 --> 00:38:30,360
Speaker 3: valiantly in that Sphere brawl with Norma Dumont, Luke, but

830
00:38:30,400 --> 00:38:32,400
Speaker 3: she didn't get the win. She lost most of her face.

831
00:38:33,800 --> 00:38:37,640
Speaker 1: Yeah, yes, But also Kayla Harrison, I just didn't think

832
00:38:37,680 --> 00:38:38,879
Speaker 1: was ever gonna make one thirty five.

833
00:38:39,120 --> 00:38:41,600
Speaker 3: It's still crazy that she is. I mean, can't they

834
00:38:41,640 --> 00:38:44,080
Speaker 3: shut down thirty five and open up forty five now

835
00:38:44,080 --> 00:38:46,120
Speaker 3: and just let Kayla fight for the belt there you

836
00:38:46,120 --> 00:38:48,840
Speaker 3: would think at women's heavyweight come on, BC made that

837
00:38:48,960 --> 00:38:51,600
Speaker 3: up a while ago. Let's go to men's flyweight, one

838
00:38:51,640 --> 00:38:54,480
Speaker 3: of the most exciting divisions right now, and Luke Thomas's

839
00:38:54,560 --> 00:38:58,200
Speaker 3: pick was Brandon Moreno will get the title back in

840
00:38:58,280 --> 00:38:58,960
Speaker 3: twenty four.

841
00:39:01,719 --> 00:39:03,680
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's an l What did he do this year?

842
00:39:04,040 --> 00:39:06,360
Speaker 3: I thought he had a good year. Marino, who was

843
00:39:06,440 --> 00:39:09,480
Speaker 3: also your flyweight to watch, went one in one. He

844
00:39:09,560 --> 00:39:13,799
Speaker 3: lost a split decision to Brandon Royval and then beat

845
00:39:13,800 --> 00:39:17,080
Speaker 3: amer Al Bosi. So it didn't pan out, Luke, but

846
00:39:17,120 --> 00:39:18,920
Speaker 3: he was close and he's still in the title picture.

847
00:39:18,960 --> 00:39:21,680
Speaker 1: Based on that, he's still relevant. Yeah, he's definitely still relevant.

848
00:39:21,719 --> 00:39:24,160
Speaker 1: But that that's it, though he didn't do anything special.

849
00:39:24,640 --> 00:39:27,239
Speaker 3: All right, your boy BC finally going chalk here rather

850
00:39:27,280 --> 00:39:29,640
Speaker 3: than pulling Zabat and Holly Holm out of his rare end.

851
00:39:30,120 --> 00:39:34,120
Speaker 3: Pantosia will be the champ to end the year. Yeah,

852
00:39:34,160 --> 00:39:36,319
Speaker 3: baby right, I like it? Like that?

853
00:39:36,640 --> 00:39:39,319
Speaker 1: Pretty good? Pretty good? I have to admit, very good.

854
00:39:39,400 --> 00:39:42,719
Speaker 3: He was also my flyway to watch, Pantosia he went

855
00:39:42,760 --> 00:39:45,600
Speaker 3: to and oh, of course with defenses over Erskine, erskin

856
00:39:45,760 --> 00:39:49,880
Speaker 3: Er Seg and Kayastakura. Let's go over to women's flyweight,

857
00:39:49,960 --> 00:39:53,000
Speaker 3: which is on the come up. For sure these days.

858
00:39:53,360 --> 00:39:55,759
Speaker 3: And let's go to my prediction off the top here

859
00:39:55,840 --> 00:39:59,919
Speaker 3: about the champ My my big prediction might come true, Luke.

860
00:40:00,239 --> 00:40:03,279
Speaker 3: I doubted it as you did. Can Valentina Shantenko come

861
00:40:03,320 --> 00:40:06,040
Speaker 3: back and climb that mountain in the rematch against Grosso?

862
00:40:06,560 --> 00:40:08,400
Speaker 3: She actually did, Luke, And if they didn't screw her

863
00:40:08,440 --> 00:40:10,439
Speaker 3: on that ten eight round, right, she would have won

864
00:40:10,920 --> 00:40:13,799
Speaker 3: back the championships. So you get the feeling that they're

865
00:40:13,840 --> 00:40:16,480
Speaker 3: probably gonna do a trilogy here. And I just think

866
00:40:16,520 --> 00:40:19,640
Speaker 3: if anybody can do what Devison Figaredo did a couple

867
00:40:19,719 --> 00:40:22,919
Speaker 3: years ago at thirty four at Flyway Men's Flyway, come

868
00:40:23,000 --> 00:40:25,600
Speaker 3: back and win the title at an advanced age, and

869
00:40:25,680 --> 00:40:29,080
Speaker 3: in this case, because Chefchenko was already thirty five, would

870
00:40:29,120 --> 00:40:32,080
Speaker 3: add her name to the vaunted Luke Thomas stat of

871
00:40:32,160 --> 00:40:35,480
Speaker 3: doom that only Tyron Woodley has been able to stand

872
00:40:35,520 --> 00:40:40,200
Speaker 3: back and stiff arm and win a battle against Father Time. Luke,

873
00:40:40,280 --> 00:40:42,600
Speaker 3: they say Father Times undefeated. We don't know much about

874
00:40:42,600 --> 00:40:45,200
Speaker 3: Mother Time. So you know what, Chefchenko, I think she

875
00:40:45,280 --> 00:40:49,160
Speaker 3: gets the belt back with the fact that Blainchechfield's coming on.

876
00:40:50,600 --> 00:40:53,240
Speaker 3: Hey look, your boy kind of nailed that one, right.

877
00:40:53,760 --> 00:40:55,799
Speaker 1: Pretty good, pretty good. You did great last year.

878
00:40:55,840 --> 00:40:58,960
Speaker 3: I have to admit, like Figaredo, she had been finished

879
00:40:58,960 --> 00:41:01,360
Speaker 3: by the champion, came back in the rematch, you know

880
00:41:01,440 --> 00:41:05,040
Speaker 3: and and want it, so it's huge, Luke, your pick

881
00:41:05,160 --> 00:41:08,320
Speaker 3: didn't come to fruition. Although she bounced back. Aaron Blanchfield

882
00:41:08,360 --> 00:41:10,359
Speaker 3: will become the champ in twenty four.

883
00:41:11,440 --> 00:41:14,839
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, not enough, not ready yet, because she's she's

884
00:41:15,280 --> 00:41:16,960
Speaker 1: she's relevant. She's at the top of that division or

885
00:41:16,960 --> 00:41:17,560
Speaker 1: pretty near it.

886
00:41:17,640 --> 00:41:21,520
Speaker 3: But okay, was she audited by phireauh or was the

887
00:41:21,560 --> 00:41:24,480
Speaker 3: fact that Blanchefield rallied back with takedowns enough to say no,

888
00:41:24,600 --> 00:41:26,040
Speaker 3: she just lost.

889
00:41:27,480 --> 00:41:30,719
Speaker 1: The reality is fierro Is has a style that just

890
00:41:30,880 --> 00:41:33,120
Speaker 1: audits everybody. You know what I mean. I don't feel

891
00:41:33,120 --> 00:41:37,720
Speaker 1: like Blanchefield looked bad inasmuch as mean she looked limited

892
00:41:37,760 --> 00:41:41,000
Speaker 1: against an opponent like that. But Fiora is just tough, dude.

893
00:41:41,040 --> 00:41:43,520
Speaker 1: She's physical, she keeps distance, she has good takedown defense,

894
00:41:44,080 --> 00:41:46,520
Speaker 1: she can strike at range. She's hard to hit like,

895
00:41:47,640 --> 00:41:51,080
Speaker 1: she's tough, she's she's a tough opponent to look at against.

896
00:41:51,560 --> 00:41:53,719
Speaker 3: Indeed, indeed, I think she can still bounce back and

897
00:41:53,760 --> 00:41:55,319
Speaker 3: get into a title fight. But she's got to really

898
00:41:55,320 --> 00:41:57,960
Speaker 3: improve on that striking in the new year. She does

899
00:41:58,560 --> 00:42:02,279
Speaker 3: You're ful w wait to watch. At Women's one two

900
00:42:02,400 --> 00:42:04,759
Speaker 3: five was Macy Barber who did Go one and Oh

901
00:42:04,880 --> 00:42:09,279
Speaker 3: this year, beating Caitlin Sermonara, a former title challenger and

902
00:42:09,440 --> 00:42:11,520
Speaker 3: kind of being on the verge here of some big

903
00:42:11,560 --> 00:42:13,560
Speaker 3: business in the new year. Luke, I don't consider that

904
00:42:13,600 --> 00:42:15,719
Speaker 3: an l it's close to a push, but I'll take

905
00:42:15,760 --> 00:42:16,520
Speaker 3: it for you, all right.

906
00:42:16,600 --> 00:42:18,480
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, again, she didn't do poorly and then had

907
00:42:18,480 --> 00:42:20,160
Speaker 1: the injury where she was supposed to compete in the

908
00:42:20,160 --> 00:42:22,600
Speaker 1: second half of the year and didn't. But then we

909
00:42:22,640 --> 00:42:23,960
Speaker 1: had her on the show when we were talking about

910
00:42:24,000 --> 00:42:26,000
Speaker 1: our feces and she explained that she's ready to get

911
00:42:26,040 --> 00:42:26,480
Speaker 1: back at it.

912
00:42:26,520 --> 00:42:31,520
Speaker 3: So yeah, I mean she survived that moment. Well, Luke, Unfortunately, right.

913
00:42:32,000 --> 00:42:33,600
Speaker 1: There's about to be another one. I'm about to have

914
00:42:33,680 --> 00:42:35,240
Speaker 1: to go take a dump in the middle of this show.

915
00:42:35,480 --> 00:42:37,719
Speaker 3: Oh that's exciting, all right. My pick to watch in

916
00:42:37,760 --> 00:42:40,880
Speaker 3: this division, I've had two of them. They both have

917
00:42:41,000 --> 00:42:44,120
Speaker 3: the last name Silva. Natalia Silva did Go two and Oh,

918
00:42:44,480 --> 00:42:47,960
Speaker 3: wins over Vivian or Rougao and Jessica andraj to really

919
00:42:48,000 --> 00:42:50,680
Speaker 3: firmly put herself on sort of the knocking of the

920
00:42:50,719 --> 00:42:53,440
Speaker 3: outside of the door of the title picture. Karine Silva,

921
00:42:53,520 --> 00:42:55,560
Speaker 3: on the other hand, would go one in one on

922
00:42:55,640 --> 00:42:59,040
Speaker 3: the year, beating Livski losing to Arajo, So more of

923
00:42:59,080 --> 00:43:02,120
Speaker 3: a push there, Luke, do you take Natalia Silva seriously

924
00:43:02,160 --> 00:43:04,760
Speaker 3: as a title contender or you need to see more.

925
00:43:07,120 --> 00:43:09,600
Speaker 1: Both. I do think she's got what it takes to

926
00:43:09,680 --> 00:43:12,880
Speaker 1: contend for a title, but there's not quite enough momentum

927
00:43:12,880 --> 00:43:15,880
Speaker 1: built behind her, and so I think that we're not

928
00:43:16,040 --> 00:43:18,680
Speaker 1: far from a place where a title fight is really

929
00:43:18,760 --> 00:43:21,040
Speaker 1: in conversation. But at the same time, what was her

930
00:43:21,120 --> 00:43:22,960
Speaker 1: last fight was at the APEX, Right, I just feel

931
00:43:22,960 --> 00:43:24,759
Speaker 1: like you gotta graduate from that a little bit before

932
00:43:24,760 --> 00:43:26,520
Speaker 1: you're getting title shots, if at all possible.

933
00:43:27,000 --> 00:43:30,880
Speaker 3: All Right, women, strawweight is the final division that we

934
00:43:31,000 --> 00:43:35,400
Speaker 3: gave predictions for, Luke Thomas. Mine was the same prediction

935
00:43:35,480 --> 00:43:37,600
Speaker 3: I didn't realize I just gave the other day about

936
00:43:37,600 --> 00:43:41,160
Speaker 3: twenty twenty six, and that's Mackenzie Dern will have another

937
00:43:41,280 --> 00:43:45,160
Speaker 3: lackluster year. She kind of did.

938
00:43:45,000 --> 00:43:47,560
Speaker 1: Right going against these people at this point oh.

939
00:43:47,480 --> 00:43:49,759
Speaker 3: One and one, and like, I mean, look, she's a

940
00:43:50,120 --> 00:43:52,160
Speaker 3: did you see that? He boss is a minus two

941
00:43:52,200 --> 00:43:54,399
Speaker 3: hundred betting favorite for Saturday. By the way, UFC Fight Week,

942
00:43:54,440 --> 00:43:56,600
Speaker 3: We're back. We're back, baby, Okay, we're back.

943
00:43:56,640 --> 00:43:57,920
Speaker 1: Yeah, we'll talk about that on Friday.

944
00:43:58,520 --> 00:44:01,560
Speaker 3: Yeah. But that's the that's true, and it's been true

945
00:44:01,560 --> 00:44:03,040
Speaker 3: for the last five years. So she looks good in

946
00:44:03,040 --> 00:44:04,680
Speaker 3: one fight, looks bad than the other, usually in the

947
00:44:04,719 --> 00:44:07,920
Speaker 3: step up, but she's had inconsistencies in camp dedication. I

948
00:44:07,920 --> 00:44:12,200
Speaker 3: don't know your pick. Tatiana Suarez will have a big year.

949
00:44:12,360 --> 00:44:16,120
Speaker 3: She did not appear in twenty twenty four, but did

950
00:44:16,160 --> 00:44:18,040
Speaker 3: get the title fight that we've been waiting for her

951
00:44:18,080 --> 00:44:18,520
Speaker 3: to get from.

952
00:44:18,560 --> 00:44:21,320
Speaker 1: Most of my predictions were good for twenty twenty five

953
00:44:21,600 --> 00:44:23,120
Speaker 1: and not twenty twenty four.

954
00:44:23,360 --> 00:44:26,759
Speaker 3: Jesus Luke Thomas's fighter to watch at one fifteen and

955
00:44:26,800 --> 00:44:29,680
Speaker 3: twenty four was No One Luke Louf's with and just

956
00:44:29,800 --> 00:44:32,040
Speaker 3: what looks like In fact, if they can get an apron,

957
00:44:32,120 --> 00:44:33,359
Speaker 3: that was where I want to see them.

958
00:44:33,239 --> 00:44:35,799
Speaker 1: In twenty five. Right, I think that's a little much.

959
00:44:36,040 --> 00:44:38,120
Speaker 3: But wait, was there anyone? But to be fair, this

960
00:44:38,160 --> 00:44:40,360
Speaker 3: division did not have a great year. Did anyone have

961
00:44:40,440 --> 00:44:41,880
Speaker 3: a year to watch in this division?

962
00:44:41,960 --> 00:44:45,680
Speaker 1: Like? No, wait had a year to watch except to

963
00:44:45,680 --> 00:44:46,720
Speaker 1: go to Ditcheva.

964
00:44:46,880 --> 00:44:47,920
Speaker 5: Oh, jener Ova.

965
00:44:47,960 --> 00:44:50,520
Speaker 4: Maybe gener Oba had a decent year. She went from

966
00:44:50,600 --> 00:44:52,920
Speaker 4: like half this true people didn't know about her to

967
00:44:53,000 --> 00:44:53,720
Speaker 4: title contention.

968
00:44:54,120 --> 00:44:55,920
Speaker 1: Okay, fine, I mean she didn't have a she had

969
00:44:55,920 --> 00:44:59,480
Speaker 1: a fine year, but like, is she a breakout like fighter? No?

970
00:44:59,480 --> 00:45:02,040
Speaker 3: No, So my pick definitely was wrong. I was riding

971
00:45:02,080 --> 00:45:05,360
Speaker 3: the five fight resurrection win streak of Carolina and Covil,

972
00:45:05,440 --> 00:45:09,200
Speaker 3: Keevich and old KK went oh and two, losing to

973
00:45:09,680 --> 00:45:14,279
Speaker 3: Lucindo and Denise Gomez. But then did the the unscheduled

974
00:45:14,320 --> 00:45:17,839
Speaker 3: Christmas collaboration, and I think OnlyFans with PVZ I didn't

975
00:45:17,920 --> 00:45:20,680
Speaker 3: check it out, Luke, beyond the pictures that floated, did

976
00:45:20,719 --> 00:45:21,719
Speaker 3: you did you buy in?

977
00:45:22,520 --> 00:45:24,719
Speaker 1: I did not buy in. No, all right? Are you?

978
00:45:24,800 --> 00:45:28,160
Speaker 3: Are you surprised by that collab, Luke of social media behemoths?

979
00:45:30,320 --> 00:45:32,560
Speaker 1: I don't have much of a comment on something like this.

980
00:45:32,760 --> 00:45:35,120
Speaker 1: I'm trying not to shit in my pants. I'm really struggling.

981
00:45:35,239 --> 00:45:37,680
Speaker 3: Okay, all right, we'll talk about this in our Patreon later.

982
00:45:37,680 --> 00:45:40,000
Speaker 3: All right, there you go. Look, uh, Luke. We also

983
00:45:40,080 --> 00:45:44,040
Speaker 3: made general storylines and predictions for the new year. Let's

984
00:45:44,040 --> 00:45:49,560
Speaker 3: revisit them. My number two was Oh Boy, Morning Comrat

985
00:45:49,800 --> 00:45:55,719
Speaker 3: regains Best MMA Programming at the World MMA Awards. Luke,

986
00:45:55,800 --> 00:45:57,840
Speaker 3: we would lose for the second straight year of the

987
00:45:57,920 --> 00:46:01,120
Speaker 3: Dana White Contender series. Uh, we didn't have our best year,

988
00:46:01,160 --> 00:46:03,719
Speaker 3: but I will say we bounced back in the shittiest

989
00:46:03,800 --> 00:46:06,080
Speaker 3: year we've ever had to I think be doing some

990
00:46:06,120 --> 00:46:08,239
Speaker 3: great stuff the last three or four months. Am I wrong?

991
00:46:08,960 --> 00:46:10,960
Speaker 1: I think that's right. But it was definitely the shittiest

992
00:46:11,000 --> 00:46:13,040
Speaker 1: year we've had for sure. All right, let's see if

993
00:46:13,520 --> 00:46:15,719
Speaker 1: it's about to be shitty right now? I really have

994
00:46:15,800 --> 00:46:17,799
Speaker 1: to go take a dump. This is insane right now.

995
00:46:17,840 --> 00:46:18,839
Speaker 1: I can't control this.

996
00:46:18,920 --> 00:46:21,360
Speaker 3: Can you call into the stream from the dump and

997
00:46:21,480 --> 00:46:23,520
Speaker 3: just when you every time it bops or what.

998
00:46:25,360 --> 00:46:25,759
Speaker 5: U long?

999
00:46:26,000 --> 00:46:27,279
Speaker 1: Luke, how do you want to do this? Because I

1000
00:46:27,280 --> 00:46:28,920
Speaker 1: can't control this. I'm actually about to.

1001
00:46:28,920 --> 00:46:30,719
Speaker 4: Ship my pans if you got to go, go and

1002
00:46:30,800 --> 00:46:32,120
Speaker 4: we'll just have BC hosts.

1003
00:46:32,200 --> 00:46:33,799
Speaker 1: I mean, all right, see, I'll be back in like

1004
00:46:33,840 --> 00:46:36,080
Speaker 1: a few minutes. Okay, take me off, take me off screen.

1005
00:46:36,120 --> 00:46:39,040
Speaker 3: Yeah, we'll see take him off volume two and and

1006
00:46:39,160 --> 00:46:43,040
Speaker 3: uh wow, well, Luke attacks all of the census right

1007
00:46:43,080 --> 00:46:46,000
Speaker 3: hang around with him long enough, you'll smell him Luke's

1008
00:46:46,000 --> 00:46:49,040
Speaker 3: pick Long Island. Lucas number two storyline for the new

1009
00:46:49,120 --> 00:46:53,520
Speaker 3: year was one championship will be barely hanging on at

1010
00:46:53,520 --> 00:46:56,640
Speaker 3: the end of twenty twenty four. Yeah, I got I

1011
00:46:56,680 --> 00:46:58,960
Speaker 3: gotta ding that l I L right.

1012
00:46:59,200 --> 00:47:01,279
Speaker 4: That's pretty accurate. I mean, we don't actually know what's

1013
00:47:01,320 --> 00:47:03,439
Speaker 4: going on behind the scenes, but I have not heard

1014
00:47:03,480 --> 00:47:04,640
Speaker 4: one good thing from the Fighter.

1015
00:47:04,719 --> 00:47:06,440
Speaker 3: Well, I mean, they got another show this weekend. They're

1016
00:47:06,480 --> 00:47:09,000
Speaker 3: pretty consistent, but more and more we're seeing, you know,

1017
00:47:09,120 --> 00:47:11,680
Speaker 3: Muytai in the main event constantly, and I mean it's

1018
00:47:11,719 --> 00:47:13,080
Speaker 3: exciting with the Florance.

1019
00:47:12,680 --> 00:47:16,000
Speaker 4: Gloves, those Moi tark those early morning I think it's

1020
00:47:16,000 --> 00:47:19,399
Speaker 4: Friday morning. Mooy Thai cards are actually fucking sick. Yes,

1021
00:47:19,440 --> 00:47:22,200
Speaker 4: but I'm never up early enough to really catch all right.

1022
00:47:22,280 --> 00:47:26,880
Speaker 3: My number one storyline to watch out for was PFL needs.

1023
00:47:26,920 --> 00:47:28,680
Speaker 3: This is a direct quote from your boy BC a

1024
00:47:28,760 --> 00:47:32,960
Speaker 3: year ago. PFL needs Francis Anghanu or Jake Paul to

1025
00:47:33,040 --> 00:47:35,920
Speaker 3: fight on pay per view or the year will be

1026
00:47:36,000 --> 00:47:39,759
Speaker 3: a bust. Well, okay, in.

1027
00:47:39,719 --> 00:47:41,719
Speaker 4: Goda, you partial credit there, because.

1028
00:47:43,120 --> 00:47:45,040
Speaker 3: Gano did fight on pay per view and the card

1029
00:47:45,120 --> 00:47:48,040
Speaker 3: was a success. His result was a success. But this

1030
00:47:48,280 --> 00:47:50,000
Speaker 3: year was a bust, right, am I right?

1031
00:47:50,400 --> 00:47:52,480
Speaker 4: No, that's a good point actually, like PFL as a

1032
00:47:52,520 --> 00:47:54,839
Speaker 4: whole had a shit year and that was your your

1033
00:47:54,880 --> 00:47:57,839
Speaker 4: general take there, But I do agree that they need

1034
00:47:57,880 --> 00:48:00,960
Speaker 4: Francis to succeed or Jake or go to you know,

1035
00:48:01,000 --> 00:48:01,319
Speaker 4: a star.

1036
00:48:01,440 --> 00:48:03,640
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm with you on that one. Luke's number one

1037
00:48:03,680 --> 00:48:07,680
Speaker 3: general storyline prediction. Can't believe this didn't come true. The

1038
00:48:07,800 --> 00:48:11,280
Speaker 3: UFC Anti trust lawsuit will be the biggest combat sports

1039
00:48:11,320 --> 00:48:15,920
Speaker 3: story of twenty twenty four. Yeah, dude, that went away

1040
00:48:16,480 --> 00:48:19,239
Speaker 3: real fast, faster than Dana on New Year's Eve, right,

1041
00:48:19,640 --> 00:48:23,160
Speaker 3: faster than then? Who is that coach that bet on everybody?

1042
00:48:24,239 --> 00:48:25,360
Speaker 4: Coach bet on everybody?

1043
00:48:25,440 --> 00:48:28,360
Speaker 3: Yeah, with the betting scandal, James Krause, Krause, they just

1044
00:48:28,400 --> 00:48:30,200
Speaker 3: put that. You don't no one ever talks about Cross

1045
00:48:30,239 --> 00:48:32,759
Speaker 3: at all anymore. That went away real fast, so did uh?

1046
00:48:32,800 --> 00:48:34,600
Speaker 4: Well, remember he put out that tweet saying he could

1047
00:48:34,640 --> 00:48:36,560
Speaker 4: make you millions in real estate or something and then

1048
00:48:36,600 --> 00:48:37,319
Speaker 4: he disappeared again.

1049
00:48:37,440 --> 00:48:37,920
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know what.

1050
00:48:38,040 --> 00:48:40,480
Speaker 3: Yeah, gross, he had a good run. But all right,

1051
00:48:40,520 --> 00:48:41,880
Speaker 3: so I guess we had a good run so long.

1052
00:48:41,920 --> 00:48:44,080
Speaker 3: I don't look without doing the math, would you say,

1053
00:48:44,239 --> 00:48:45,920
Speaker 3: you know, since he can only hear us from the

1054
00:48:45,920 --> 00:48:48,480
Speaker 3: stall from the throne that you know, I had a

1055
00:48:48,520 --> 00:48:51,320
Speaker 3: pretty damn good year picking, you know, picking the future

1056
00:48:51,440 --> 00:48:52,720
Speaker 3: in mixed martial arts.

1057
00:48:52,840 --> 00:48:54,480
Speaker 4: Yeah, had a great year. And as I was going

1058
00:48:54,520 --> 00:48:56,680
Speaker 4: through them trying to find the clips, I was like, shit,

1059
00:48:56,719 --> 00:48:58,560
Speaker 4: these are all going to be BC getting them correct

1060
00:48:58,560 --> 00:49:01,040
Speaker 4: and Luke getting them allver wrong. Luke did call Ilio, though,

1061
00:49:01,040 --> 00:49:01,879
Speaker 4: we gotta give him credit.

1062
00:49:02,120 --> 00:49:05,000
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, and my l's were more comical, my big

1063
00:49:05,160 --> 00:49:07,719
Speaker 3: l's of Holly Holme, and I mean, dude, come on,

1064
00:49:07,800 --> 00:49:09,560
Speaker 3: Holly Holme could have easily ended up in a title.

1065
00:49:09,840 --> 00:49:12,760
Speaker 4: My prediction for this year is Holly Holm will headline

1066
00:49:12,760 --> 00:49:14,680
Speaker 4: an event. So for you to say she'll get a

1067
00:49:14,680 --> 00:49:15,840
Speaker 4: title shot, isn't that crazy?

1068
00:49:16,520 --> 00:49:17,440
Speaker 1: That's true? That is true.

1069
00:49:17,480 --> 00:49:20,040
Speaker 3: All right, we only have a couple more topics, so

1070
00:49:20,080 --> 00:49:22,640
Speaker 3: we'll hold up and wait on Luke Thomas right there

1071
00:49:22,680 --> 00:49:27,640
Speaker 3: as he continues to purge continue his battle against porcelain. Wow,

1072
00:49:27,680 --> 00:49:30,239
Speaker 3: what a just disgusting fellow. I mean, long, isn't look

1073
00:49:30,280 --> 00:49:34,480
Speaker 3: you know? I have dealt with the the guilt, the

1074
00:49:35,160 --> 00:49:37,799
Speaker 3: lack of self esteem when I have to urinate mid

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Speaker 3: show because I'm supposed to be a professional, but I'm

1076
00:49:39,800 --> 00:49:45,440
Speaker 3: so well, you know, I'm fueled by these liquids that

1077
00:49:45,520 --> 00:49:48,160
Speaker 3: I don't I don't, you know, I'm not ashamed necessarily

1078
00:49:48,480 --> 00:49:49,960
Speaker 3: that I have to make, you know, press, but if

1079
00:49:49,960 --> 00:49:51,879
Speaker 3: you're gonna, if you're gonna take a dump mid show,

1080
00:49:52,920 --> 00:49:54,160
Speaker 3: you might need to look in the mirror.

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Speaker 4: I agree, and I'm totally with you on the mismanaging

1082
00:49:56,880 --> 00:49:58,840
Speaker 4: of fluids. In fact, I make a comment about you

1083
00:49:58,960 --> 00:50:00,960
Speaker 4: every show where I'm like, how the fuck does BC

1084
00:50:01,160 --> 00:50:03,719
Speaker 4: drink four drinks during the show. I can barely have

1085
00:50:03,800 --> 00:50:06,400
Speaker 4: a cup of coffee and I'm about to pee my pants.

1086
00:50:06,480 --> 00:50:10,759
Speaker 3: Like with the Long Island comes a couple of coffee talk. Yeah, yeah,

1087
00:50:10,800 --> 00:50:13,200
Speaker 3: it's very Mike Myers SNL in the early nineties, off

1088
00:50:13,239 --> 00:50:15,879
Speaker 3: year old like me. But yeah, I hear you. You know, Luke,

1089
00:50:15,880 --> 00:50:18,680
Speaker 3: You're right, Luke Thomas is just a disgusting human. But

1090
00:50:18,800 --> 00:50:20,560
Speaker 3: you know what I mean, we love him. We stand

1091
00:50:20,640 --> 00:50:23,960
Speaker 3: by him, just not while he's standing to wipe, of course.

1092
00:50:24,000 --> 00:50:26,759
Speaker 3: But you know, you wonder about this show sometimes, like

1093
00:50:26,800 --> 00:50:29,000
Speaker 3: what could we be if we if we cleaned up

1094
00:50:29,000 --> 00:50:30,600
Speaker 3: our act? You know what I mean, that's a thing.

1095
00:50:30,640 --> 00:50:33,919
Speaker 3: You know, we'll probably be canceled anyway, So maybe we'll

1096
00:50:33,960 --> 00:50:36,040
Speaker 3: just keep living on the edge. But thank you, folks

1097
00:50:36,120 --> 00:50:39,280
Speaker 3: as always for supporting the show, even during smoke breaks

1098
00:50:39,320 --> 00:50:42,080
Speaker 3: and crap breaks and ship breaks. There once again are

1099
00:50:42,120 --> 00:50:44,719
Speaker 3: our lovely handles. If you want more from us in

1100
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Speaker 3: the future, along Island Luke, Will we see be? Will we?

1101
00:50:48,000 --> 00:50:51,840
Speaker 3: Will we be seeing any content now that the UFC

1102
00:50:51,960 --> 00:50:55,920
Speaker 3: is back this weekend? A Fight Night Las Vegas card headline,

1103
00:50:55,960 --> 00:50:58,520
Speaker 3: of course, by that rematch between McKenzie Durn and Amanda

1104
00:50:58,560 --> 00:51:01,680
Speaker 3: Hebas at one one five? Will we be seeing content

1105
00:51:01,719 --> 00:51:03,120
Speaker 3: from your channel? The main card minutes?

1106
00:51:03,360 --> 00:51:06,680
Speaker 4: Correct, I'll be putting out the sixty second breakdown later today, yes,

1107
00:51:06,719 --> 00:51:08,840
Speaker 4: and I'll put out the ten minute breakdown tomorrow. A

1108
00:51:08,920 --> 00:51:11,239
Speaker 4: couple couple of fat dogs on this card, I'm looking at.

1109
00:51:11,239 --> 00:51:13,240
Speaker 3: Are you talking about female fighters? Because I would think.

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00:51:13,080 --> 00:51:14,680
Speaker 1: That's no, But I do. I do.

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00:51:15,320 --> 00:51:17,040
Speaker 4: I don't want to say I like Durn as a dog,

1112
00:51:17,120 --> 00:51:18,239
Speaker 4: but there's value there.

1113
00:51:18,280 --> 00:51:19,880
Speaker 3: But dude, that's the thing where you know, we're obviously

1114
00:51:19,880 --> 00:51:21,600
Speaker 3: going to preview this fight in length on Friday, but

1115
00:51:22,680 --> 00:51:24,719
Speaker 3: and I know she lost to Hebos the first time,

1116
00:51:25,040 --> 00:51:26,759
Speaker 3: but the every other fight thing, I mean, dude, like

1117
00:51:26,840 --> 00:51:29,160
Speaker 3: you know it's like every six months she puts it together.

1118
00:51:29,400 --> 00:51:32,120
Speaker 4: She's coming off a wind, so this will be a loss.

1119
00:51:32,200 --> 00:51:33,839
Speaker 3: Now now I said one, one, five, Is this really

1120
00:51:33,840 --> 00:51:34,600
Speaker 3: this is a strawaight fighter.

1121
00:51:34,719 --> 00:51:36,279
Speaker 4: Yeah, it is, at least I think it is.

1122
00:51:36,360 --> 00:51:38,840
Speaker 3: Yeah, he boss was floating between two divisions for a while.

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00:51:39,120 --> 00:51:40,120
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, actually it is.

1124
00:51:40,160 --> 00:51:42,080
Speaker 4: She came back because I remember looking at she's six

1125
00:51:42,120 --> 00:51:44,000
Speaker 4: and one as a as a strawweight, and this is

1126
00:51:44,040 --> 00:51:45,399
Speaker 4: at straw Luca is back.

1127
00:51:45,680 --> 00:51:47,839
Speaker 3: Oh he is back. He's back in the chair. All right, Luke,

1128
00:51:47,880 --> 00:51:49,719
Speaker 3: we just you know, we killed time. We talked shit

1129
00:51:49,840 --> 00:51:51,759
Speaker 3: about you and taking a ship. It was great really,

1130
00:51:51,760 --> 00:51:53,880
Speaker 3: to be fair, you know, it's fantastic content.

1131
00:51:54,440 --> 00:51:58,360
Speaker 1: It was good. Uh, you need a I think in

1132
00:51:58,719 --> 00:52:01,080
Speaker 1: I think in nearly twenty years of broadcasting, that's the

1133
00:52:01,120 --> 00:52:04,520
Speaker 1: first time I've ever had to interrupt it to shit, you.

1134
00:52:04,560 --> 00:52:06,960
Speaker 3: Have cigarette to celebrate. I mean, you look like you

1135
00:52:07,160 --> 00:52:09,680
Speaker 3: that was like you're Vinny Matt coming out of the

1136
00:52:09,680 --> 00:52:11,440
Speaker 3: boardroom this morning.

1137
00:52:11,520 --> 00:52:14,080
Speaker 1: This morning was the birth. That was definitely the afterbirth.

1138
00:52:14,280 --> 00:52:18,560
Speaker 1: I that was the death. Yeah, death of our appeals

1139
00:52:18,600 --> 00:52:20,080
Speaker 1: and cigarette butts, you name it.

1140
00:52:20,120 --> 00:52:23,719
Speaker 3: Speaking of number two, Luke, topic number two. Yes, what

1141
00:52:23,840 --> 00:52:27,000
Speaker 3: a transition right there. As we look back, now, let's

1142
00:52:27,000 --> 00:52:30,799
Speaker 3: look ahead. Our final preparational chat ahead of this new

1143
00:52:30,880 --> 00:52:33,560
Speaker 3: year is to look ahead at matchmaking in twenty twenty

1144
00:52:33,600 --> 00:52:36,040
Speaker 3: five in the sports of course, at boxing and mixed

1145
00:52:36,080 --> 00:52:39,760
Speaker 3: martial arts, with our three each per sport of best

1146
00:52:39,920 --> 00:52:43,000
Speaker 3: fights to make. Now, Luke Thomas, this isn't biggest fights

1147
00:52:43,040 --> 00:52:45,520
Speaker 3: to make. This doesn't have to be most important. These

1148
00:52:45,520 --> 00:52:47,279
Speaker 3: are in my in my how I think of it,

1149
00:52:47,640 --> 00:52:50,920
Speaker 3: three fights from each of us in each sport that

1150
00:52:51,120 --> 00:52:53,640
Speaker 3: satisfy our fighting heart the most, that would get us

1151
00:52:53,640 --> 00:52:56,439
Speaker 3: to go holy shit, forget work in it. I gotta

1152
00:52:56,480 --> 00:52:57,839
Speaker 3: be there as I might want to be there as

1153
00:52:57,840 --> 00:52:59,200
Speaker 3: a fan, you know what I mean? Like, Luke, what

1154
00:52:59,400 --> 00:53:01,880
Speaker 3: is going to get you out of bed for MMA

1155
00:53:02,000 --> 00:53:04,439
Speaker 3: in twenty twenty five? What is your number three fight

1156
00:53:04,480 --> 00:53:05,400
Speaker 3: you most want to see?

1157
00:53:06,120 --> 00:53:08,680
Speaker 1: Number three fight that I most want to see. So

1158
00:53:09,800 --> 00:53:12,200
Speaker 1: this one is pretty straightforward. In fact, two of the

1159
00:53:12,239 --> 00:53:14,520
Speaker 1: picks I didn't realize this. Two of the picks follow

1160
00:53:14,560 --> 00:53:21,000
Speaker 1: along from the twenty twenty four predictions. So my number

1161
00:53:21,040 --> 00:53:23,120
Speaker 1: three is pretty simple. That's kind of a title fight,

1162
00:53:23,120 --> 00:53:26,359
Speaker 1: but I really think it's a critical pivotal one. Bal

1163
00:53:26,520 --> 00:53:29,000
Speaker 1: Mohammed versus Chavcot Rockmanov. I mean, I think this one

1164
00:53:29,040 --> 00:53:33,200
Speaker 1: is so huge about the division one. If Balal Mohammed wins,

1165
00:53:33,239 --> 00:53:35,719
Speaker 1: I mean to beat Leon Edwards and then Shavkott to

1166
00:53:35,719 --> 00:53:38,560
Speaker 1: be a champion. I think given where he was maybe

1167
00:53:38,600 --> 00:53:40,080
Speaker 1: a couple of years ago in the stock that we

1168
00:53:40,160 --> 00:53:42,520
Speaker 1: had for him and the impression about what a ceiling

1169
00:53:42,520 --> 00:53:44,080
Speaker 1: looked like, a lot of us were wrong, including me.

1170
00:53:44,120 --> 00:53:45,239
Speaker 1: I thought he was good. I didn't think he was

1171
00:53:45,280 --> 00:53:48,120
Speaker 1: this good, and he has proven us wrong already. And

1172
00:53:48,120 --> 00:53:49,759
Speaker 1: then if he goes in there and beats what, you know,

1173
00:53:49,840 --> 00:53:52,200
Speaker 1: I think the Boogeyman labels probably off of Rockmanov at

1174
00:53:52,239 --> 00:53:55,600
Speaker 1: this point, but still a very very top undefeated contender,

1175
00:53:56,320 --> 00:53:58,239
Speaker 1: I think that'd be kind of huge. By contrast, if

1176
00:53:58,360 --> 00:54:00,960
Speaker 1: Rockmanov wins, now, I think you have this real formal

1177
00:54:01,000 --> 00:54:04,520
Speaker 1: turnover in the division where even if he wins, it's

1178
00:54:04,560 --> 00:54:06,720
Speaker 1: out of the frying pan into the fire where JDM

1179
00:54:06,840 --> 00:54:09,080
Speaker 1: is going to come up the ranks, and probably Sean

1180
00:54:09,080 --> 00:54:11,400
Speaker 1: Brady is gonna come up the ranks, and I suspect

1181
00:54:11,400 --> 00:54:14,200
Speaker 1: he's got unfinished business with Ian Gary, who has proven

1182
00:54:14,239 --> 00:54:18,719
Speaker 1: to be quite good. The division, the Weltaway division, you know,

1183
00:54:18,840 --> 00:54:21,560
Speaker 1: Leon kind of got rid of the Kolby and Usman

1184
00:54:21,640 --> 00:54:23,600
Speaker 1: era of it, but he was still kind of connected

1185
00:54:23,600 --> 00:54:26,560
Speaker 1: to it. And then Blall finished them off. But Ballall

1186
00:54:26,640 --> 00:54:28,680
Speaker 1: is still obviously closer to forty than he is thirty,

1187
00:54:28,719 --> 00:54:31,200
Speaker 1: which is sort of a rare thing for a champion.

1188
00:54:31,239 --> 00:54:33,960
Speaker 1: You get this official turnover. If rock Monof happens, or

1189
00:54:34,000 --> 00:54:38,200
Speaker 1: this turnover of how we ever perceived a guy like Muhammed,

1190
00:54:38,320 --> 00:54:41,560
Speaker 1: it would be interesting, dynamic, and a huge and massively

1191
00:54:41,600 --> 00:54:44,080
Speaker 1: important fight no matter who wins and which way it goes.

1192
00:54:44,520 --> 00:54:46,759
Speaker 3: Dude, that fight made a huge leap in my eyes

1193
00:54:46,800 --> 00:54:48,879
Speaker 3: in terms of my interest in it. And maybe it's

1194
00:54:48,920 --> 00:54:50,920
Speaker 3: just everything you said, and maybe it's just humanizing to

1195
00:54:50,960 --> 00:54:53,680
Speaker 3: some degree rock Monoff, and maybe I can stop for

1196
00:54:53,719 --> 00:54:57,480
Speaker 3: once and always, you know, underrating what Bilal can do.

1197
00:54:57,840 --> 00:55:00,399
Speaker 3: He already broke the age curse a well to wait

1198
00:55:00,520 --> 00:55:02,520
Speaker 3: or below. I really want to see that fight. Not

1199
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Speaker 3: in my top three, but Luke, I'm much more interested

1200
00:55:05,480 --> 00:55:08,239
Speaker 3: in terms of my expectations, and let's do that my

1201
00:55:08,320 --> 00:55:10,560
Speaker 3: number three though, Luke, I'm gonna go one division higher.

1202
00:55:11,040 --> 00:55:12,880
Speaker 3: I think we should see it next, but we're not

1203
00:55:13,040 --> 00:55:15,919
Speaker 3: because DDP will be taking on Sean Strickland a second time.

1204
00:55:15,960 --> 00:55:18,640
Speaker 3: And look, their first fight was so close, what a

1205
00:55:18,680 --> 00:55:21,399
Speaker 3: split or majority and whatever? It was a decision that

1206
00:55:21,560 --> 00:55:24,440
Speaker 3: thin over five rounds. They're gonna do it again. But

1207
00:55:24,520 --> 00:55:26,960
Speaker 3: if DDP gets his hand raised, the number three fight

1208
00:55:27,000 --> 00:55:29,520
Speaker 3: I want to see most this year hams out Chamayah

1209
00:55:29,640 --> 00:55:33,239
Speaker 3: going for the title against that physical behemoth in DDP, who, yes,

1210
00:55:33,320 --> 00:55:36,319
Speaker 3: is raw and aggressive, but he's also a gamer and

1211
00:55:36,360 --> 00:55:40,359
Speaker 3: a winner and currently on an incredible streak beating current

1212
00:55:40,440 --> 00:55:44,719
Speaker 3: and former champions one after another. Demolishing weight occur, demolishing

1213
00:55:44,719 --> 00:55:47,320
Speaker 3: out of Sonya, I mean, you know, rallying back against

1214
00:55:47,320 --> 00:55:49,839
Speaker 3: out of Sonya in a good fight, the close fight

1215
00:55:49,880 --> 00:55:52,759
Speaker 3: with Strickland. I mean, he's putting it together across there.

1216
00:55:53,120 --> 00:55:56,719
Speaker 3: But when Chimayav does what he did to Robert Whittaker,

1217
00:55:57,560 --> 00:55:59,680
Speaker 3: oddly enough, going against a guy who had a similar

1218
00:56:00,040 --> 00:56:04,399
Speaker 3: sort of just one sided takeover of Bobby Knucks there,

1219
00:56:05,600 --> 00:56:07,799
Speaker 3: you gotta see if he can do it on this level, Luke,

1220
00:56:07,920 --> 00:56:10,440
Speaker 3: is this the fight at the very least if it

1221
00:56:10,480 --> 00:56:15,239
Speaker 3: happens where we find out what Hamzat's made of over

1222
00:56:15,400 --> 00:56:18,880
Speaker 3: five rounds, Like if the cardio can go the full distance,

1223
00:56:19,000 --> 00:56:21,839
Speaker 3: if the wrestling can be stuffed and then we'll see

1224
00:56:21,880 --> 00:56:24,480
Speaker 3: what he does next. I almost don't count the Gilbert

1225
00:56:24,480 --> 00:56:26,920
Speaker 3: Burns fight because I still agree that chamayav while he

1226
00:56:27,000 --> 00:56:29,359
Speaker 3: did show us what he's made of, he was too

1227
00:56:29,480 --> 00:56:31,960
Speaker 3: focused in that fight on showing us what he's all

1228
00:56:32,000 --> 00:56:34,800
Speaker 3: about in his ability to take punishment and brawl, but

1229
00:56:34,920 --> 00:56:37,279
Speaker 3: yet other fights when he's committing I mean, look, is

1230
00:56:37,320 --> 00:56:41,279
Speaker 3: my hindsight wrong. Did Gilbert take away the dominant side

1231
00:56:41,280 --> 00:56:43,120
Speaker 3: of him? Or do you agree with what I'm saying

1232
00:56:43,120 --> 00:56:45,560
Speaker 3: where that was a shootout that maybe didn't have to be.

1233
00:56:46,080 --> 00:56:48,399
Speaker 3: I want to see him in a real five round

1234
00:56:48,480 --> 00:56:50,480
Speaker 3: barm burner at the title level. This might be the

1235
00:56:50,520 --> 00:56:51,040
Speaker 3: right fight for that.

1236
00:56:51,800 --> 00:56:53,720
Speaker 1: Well, that's just the thing I mean. I don't think

1237
00:56:56,640 --> 00:57:00,359
Speaker 1: the Gilbert Burns fight Chamaya have fought inadvisably, still got

1238
00:57:00,360 --> 00:57:03,640
Speaker 1: the job done, but he didn't fight He thought recklessly, right,

1239
00:57:03,719 --> 00:57:05,399
Speaker 1: I think it's a very fair way to put that.

1240
00:57:06,719 --> 00:57:09,000
Speaker 1: But you're asking about the DDP fight, and I gotta

1241
00:57:09,040 --> 00:57:12,160
Speaker 1: tell you, I don't really know how the DDP fight goes, because,

1242
00:57:12,560 --> 00:57:14,640
Speaker 1: first of all, DDP has to beat Sean Strickland. Let's

1243
00:57:14,640 --> 00:57:17,920
Speaker 1: not count our chickens before they've patched. But assuming that

1244
00:57:17,960 --> 00:57:20,480
Speaker 1: it is him. I can't tell if DDP is going

1245
00:57:20,520 --> 00:57:22,440
Speaker 1: to push him in ways that we never imagine and DDP,

1246
00:57:22,520 --> 00:57:24,560
Speaker 1: as we know it just finds ways to win that

1247
00:57:24,600 --> 00:57:28,000
Speaker 1: are just remarkable, or if he's gonna get run over too, Like, dude,

1248
00:57:28,000 --> 00:57:32,240
Speaker 1: I never saw Whittaker getting just like annihilated that way.

1249
00:57:32,320 --> 00:57:34,320
Speaker 1: I mean, like it was nothing. He ran through him

1250
00:57:34,320 --> 00:57:38,560
Speaker 1: like he was nothing. And we all know Robert Whittaker

1251
00:57:38,680 --> 00:57:40,520
Speaker 1: is a lot more than nothing. And so it is DDP.

1252
00:57:41,280 --> 00:57:43,480
Speaker 1: But is Ham's not gonna run through him too? Like

1253
00:57:43,960 --> 00:57:47,280
Speaker 1: this notion that like DDP, because he's the champion, is

1254
00:57:47,320 --> 00:57:49,520
Speaker 1: the guy best suited to take him five rounds? I'm

1255
00:57:49,520 --> 00:57:51,320
Speaker 1: not so sure that's true. I really don't know if

1256
00:57:51,360 --> 00:57:54,120
Speaker 1: that's true. Yeah, so it's hard for me to say

1257
00:57:54,120 --> 00:57:56,840
Speaker 1: I hope because that'd be awesome. But I mean, this

1258
00:57:57,000 --> 00:57:59,720
Speaker 1: is the Ham hams up schum I've experienced. It's reckless.

1259
00:57:59,720 --> 00:58:03,480
Speaker 1: It's sometimes it's very very quick and brutal and violent,

1260
00:58:03,560 --> 00:58:04,760
Speaker 1: like that's that's what you're gonna get.

1261
00:58:04,760 --> 00:58:06,160
Speaker 3: I want to see it a middleweight. We never got

1262
00:58:06,160 --> 00:58:09,080
Speaker 3: the welterweight title shot, which I would have loved to see,

1263
00:58:09,880 --> 00:58:13,960
Speaker 3: you know, as much as him versus sound Perreira, him

1264
00:58:13,960 --> 00:58:16,640
Speaker 3: and Poeton. As much as that's a weird idea that

1265
00:58:16,800 --> 00:58:20,720
Speaker 3: is like oddly intriguing in so many ways, contrast and style,

1266
00:58:21,080 --> 00:58:23,240
Speaker 3: star value, all of that, I wouldn't turn it down

1267
00:58:23,280 --> 00:58:25,840
Speaker 3: in a second. Damn we got to see it at middlewaight, first,

1268
00:58:25,840 --> 00:58:27,840
Speaker 3: come on, right, I mean, don't don't go too far

1269
00:58:27,840 --> 00:58:30,479
Speaker 3: ahead before we actually find out what this guy's really

1270
00:58:30,520 --> 00:58:33,000
Speaker 3: made of. At this level. It's hard when in the

1271
00:58:33,000 --> 00:58:35,600
Speaker 3: biggest fights he has absolutely run through people, and I

1272
00:58:35,600 --> 00:58:37,560
Speaker 3: don't consider Kevin Holland one of his biggest fights, but

1273
00:58:37,600 --> 00:58:41,040
Speaker 3: considering the scenario of missing weight that badly, having all

1274
00:58:41,120 --> 00:58:43,480
Speaker 3: the negative pr and then just going out there and

1275
00:58:43,600 --> 00:58:46,880
Speaker 3: mopping him up in seconds, it felt like, Dude, this

1276
00:58:46,920 --> 00:58:50,560
Speaker 3: guy has that extra gear that's just frightening. Don't let

1277
00:58:50,640 --> 00:58:52,160
Speaker 3: us see it for the first time at two five

1278
00:58:52,200 --> 00:58:53,360
Speaker 3: at that level, right.

1279
00:58:55,400 --> 00:58:57,120
Speaker 1: That might be the first time you actually do see it.

1280
00:58:57,160 --> 00:58:59,720
Speaker 1: Like the way you're describing the does he have to

1281
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Speaker 1: go another weight class? I know, does he have to

1282
00:59:01,320 --> 00:59:04,560
Speaker 1: go to another weight class? Dude, who beat Robert Whittaker

1283
00:59:04,680 --> 00:59:06,120
Speaker 1: the way that Hamzad beat him?

1284
00:59:06,320 --> 00:59:07,520
Speaker 3: Nobody only DDP.

1285
00:59:07,840 --> 00:59:10,800
Speaker 4: But that's after not even that quick is he the

1286
00:59:10,840 --> 00:59:12,040
Speaker 4: first time finished him too?

1287
00:59:12,400 --> 00:59:14,080
Speaker 3: Yeah? I don't think that was the best version of

1288
00:59:14,080 --> 00:59:14,800
Speaker 3: for de Yeah.

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Speaker 1: How long did the fight last with Chamia? A couple

1290
00:59:18,200 --> 00:59:20,240
Speaker 1: of minutes? I mean something like that, right, Yeah. No

1291
00:59:20,240 --> 00:59:22,640
Speaker 1: one beat the first one. Yeah, No one beat him

1292
00:59:22,680 --> 00:59:25,400
Speaker 1: like that. No one beat him like not Izy, not

1293
00:59:25,400 --> 00:59:26,760
Speaker 1: not not DDP, nobody.

1294
00:59:27,360 --> 00:59:29,760
Speaker 3: All right, look, let's go to your second most coveted

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00:59:29,920 --> 00:59:31,919
Speaker 3: MMA fight for twenty twenty five.

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Speaker 1: So this one might come as a surprise because my

1297
00:59:34,760 --> 00:59:37,680
Speaker 1: my honorable mention BC would have been what yours was,

1298
00:59:37,720 --> 00:59:40,040
Speaker 1: which is DDP versus Hamzap. But I don't want to

1299
00:59:40,040 --> 00:59:42,680
Speaker 1: double up on it. People are going to say that

1300
00:59:42,720 --> 00:59:44,280
Speaker 1: this is the wrong one, and I know that they're

1301
00:59:44,320 --> 00:59:45,880
Speaker 1: going to say this is the wrong one. I don't

1302
00:59:45,880 --> 00:59:48,480
Speaker 1: really care. I feel like this is more important for

1303
00:59:48,520 --> 00:59:51,320
Speaker 1: me and more important for the health of the sport

1304
00:59:51,360 --> 00:59:53,600
Speaker 1: that we kind of encourage these athletes to go in

1305
00:59:53,640 --> 00:59:59,680
Speaker 1: certain directions versus others for me. For me, I want

1306
00:59:59,680 --> 01:00:03,760
Speaker 1: to see Ilia Toporia versus Diego Lopez. I think I

1307
01:00:03,760 --> 01:00:06,520
Speaker 1: could accept. I could accept mos Are if there's really

1308
01:00:06,560 --> 01:00:09,240
Speaker 1: a lot of you know, as like a backup choice.

1309
01:00:09,240 --> 01:00:12,440
Speaker 1: If there's something that happens I know what everyone's gonna say, Oh,

1310
01:00:12,480 --> 01:00:14,400
Speaker 1: it should have been Illia versus Islam, But I don't

1311
01:00:14,440 --> 01:00:16,720
Speaker 1: really have a ton of inter I mean again, it's

1312
01:00:16,720 --> 01:00:18,120
Speaker 1: not quite the right way to put it. I would

1313
01:00:18,360 --> 01:00:20,840
Speaker 1: obviously happily take it if it's a fight that gets made,

1314
01:00:21,480 --> 01:00:24,920
Speaker 1: but I just don't. I feel like Islam fighting another

1315
01:00:25,000 --> 01:00:28,640
Speaker 1: featherweight is really not the best use of our time.

1316
01:00:28,760 --> 01:00:31,680
Speaker 1: I understand, going back to what we said previously, that

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01:00:31,720 --> 01:00:33,880
Speaker 1: if Ilia ends up beating Charles Lavera, if he gets

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Speaker 1: that fight in the Ale, so it becomes the number

1319
01:00:35,520 --> 01:00:37,880
Speaker 1: one de facto contender. Now it's a fight that there's

1320
01:00:37,920 --> 01:00:40,280
Speaker 1: a ton of hype behind. I fully grant that, but

1321
01:00:40,280 --> 01:00:42,120
Speaker 1: that we're getting the cart before the horse. You can

1322
01:00:42,160 --> 01:00:43,760
Speaker 1: look at some of my predictions from end of twenty

1323
01:00:43,760 --> 01:00:45,280
Speaker 1: twenty three for twenty twenty four, and they we're just

1324
01:00:45,280 --> 01:00:47,880
Speaker 1: way too early in certain cases. I don't know if

1325
01:00:47,880 --> 01:00:50,320
Speaker 1: we're gonna get there this year. You're asking about this year,

1326
01:00:50,920 --> 01:00:52,880
Speaker 1: and I feel like if Ilia is going to stay

1327
01:00:52,880 --> 01:00:54,760
Speaker 1: at one forty five, which he gave least some indication

1328
01:00:54,880 --> 01:00:58,120
Speaker 1: he would. I know people are down on the contenders

1329
01:00:58,160 --> 01:01:00,880
Speaker 1: for reasons I'm not fully I don't fully agree with

1330
01:01:01,040 --> 01:01:03,560
Speaker 1: I'll put it that way. I actually feel like Taporia

1331
01:01:03,640 --> 01:01:05,600
Speaker 1: versus Diego Lopez, and I don't he might fight Vulcan.

1332
01:01:05,720 --> 01:01:07,640
Speaker 1: The whole thing can get disrupted there too, b see.

1333
01:01:07,720 --> 01:01:10,200
Speaker 1: But assuming that that fight gets made, I actually think

1334
01:01:10,200 --> 01:01:12,120
Speaker 1: it's a very difficult fight for Ilia. I think it's

1335
01:01:12,120 --> 01:01:14,200
Speaker 1: a very fun fight, a very competitive fight at least

1336
01:01:14,200 --> 01:01:17,800
Speaker 1: in spurts, and I think that Ilia will get his

1337
01:01:17,840 --> 01:01:20,080
Speaker 1: hand raised in the end. But it's one of those

1338
01:01:20,080 --> 01:01:22,280
Speaker 1: fights where it's, like, dude, I say this every time.

1339
01:01:22,440 --> 01:01:24,840
Speaker 1: People always think, oh, it's that guy who's gonna stop

1340
01:01:24,880 --> 01:01:27,640
Speaker 1: that guy, and sometimes that happens. But when you're talking

1341
01:01:27,640 --> 01:01:31,600
Speaker 1: about champions standing a post and accepting wave of contenders,

1342
01:01:31,840 --> 01:01:34,120
Speaker 1: it is often the ones you think the least amount

1343
01:01:34,200 --> 01:01:35,840
Speaker 1: or you just you don't really quite see the picture

1344
01:01:35,880 --> 01:01:37,760
Speaker 1: of how they get there, they end up causing a

1345
01:01:37,800 --> 01:01:42,440
Speaker 1: lot of trouble. Diego Lopez has offense absolutely everywhere, and

1346
01:01:42,480 --> 01:01:45,640
Speaker 1: for a careful but deadly striker like Ilia, that could

1347
01:01:45,680 --> 01:01:47,880
Speaker 1: be a lot of problems for him that could shut

1348
01:01:47,960 --> 01:01:50,280
Speaker 1: him down, disrupt his rhythm, make things a little bit

1349
01:01:50,280 --> 01:01:52,840
Speaker 1: hard for him. Obviously on the ground, Diego Lopez has

1350
01:01:52,880 --> 01:01:55,920
Speaker 1: offense there too. I actually feel like it's the most

1351
01:01:56,080 --> 01:01:59,000
Speaker 1: underrated fight the UFC could make. Between how good it

1352
01:01:59,080 --> 01:02:02,320
Speaker 1: is and what the fan level of enthusiasm for it

1353
01:02:02,400 --> 01:02:04,760
Speaker 1: is is a yawning gap. And I really think it's

1354
01:02:04,760 --> 01:02:08,320
Speaker 1: a mistake. That's a great, great, great fight, and I

1355
01:02:08,360 --> 01:02:09,680
Speaker 1: really hope you get a chance to see it.

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01:02:09,800 --> 01:02:12,000
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a fantastic fight. I didn't think you can

1357
01:02:12,080 --> 01:02:13,760
Speaker 3: pick that off the menu like that. I mean, I

1358
01:02:13,760 --> 01:02:18,440
Speaker 3: thought Islam versus Shavkot could be your number two for example.

1359
01:02:18,440 --> 01:02:22,919
Speaker 1: Maybe I hear okay, so I toyed with that one too.

1360
01:02:22,960 --> 01:02:24,400
Speaker 1: But here's the problem with that one. BC.

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Speaker 3: Yeahn't tell me about it again.

1362
01:02:26,680 --> 01:02:29,280
Speaker 1: If they made it, would you be like, oh, terrible, No,

1363
01:02:29,360 --> 01:02:31,200
Speaker 1: it's fine, it's great. It's terrible.

1364
01:02:31,280 --> 01:02:33,240
Speaker 3: I'd rub it. I'd rub it all over my skin, Luke,

1365
01:02:33,360 --> 01:02:34,160
Speaker 3: this is great.

1366
01:02:34,560 --> 01:02:37,240
Speaker 1: Here's the problem that we run into, though, the problem

1367
01:02:37,320 --> 01:02:40,080
Speaker 1: is that let's assume Shafcot wins against Bolau, which, by

1368
01:02:40,080 --> 01:02:41,720
Speaker 1: the way, no guarantee, but let's assume for the sake

1369
01:02:41,760 --> 01:02:45,520
Speaker 1: of argument, that he does. If he does, you're gonna

1370
01:02:45,520 --> 01:02:49,840
Speaker 1: tell me that his first title defense is against a lightweight.

1371
01:02:50,080 --> 01:02:53,959
Speaker 1: And it's like, I understand that there's star power value there,

1372
01:02:54,040 --> 01:02:56,240
Speaker 1: and like there's reasons to make the fight because if

1373
01:02:56,240 --> 01:02:58,560
Speaker 1: there's enough demand, that's really the only thing that actually

1374
01:02:58,640 --> 01:03:00,960
Speaker 1: kind of matters in the end. But it just seems

1375
01:03:00,960 --> 01:03:03,720
Speaker 1: to me premature. The best kinds of superfights are when

1376
01:03:03,760 --> 01:03:06,080
Speaker 1: you have people who have and they never made it.

1377
01:03:06,160 --> 01:03:09,040
Speaker 1: But it would have been GSP Silva where the GSP

1378
01:03:09,120 --> 01:03:11,520
Speaker 1: had reigned over Welterwaite, Silva had rained over one to

1379
01:03:11,560 --> 01:03:13,640
Speaker 1: eighty five, and then there was this meeting of two

1380
01:03:13,840 --> 01:03:18,080
Speaker 1: you know, Colossus basically coloss I. I guess that's not

1381
01:03:18,120 --> 01:03:21,000
Speaker 1: what you have here. You have a guy in Rochmanov

1382
01:03:21,040 --> 01:03:23,720
Speaker 1: who is still obviously undefeated in your top contender, but

1383
01:03:23,840 --> 01:03:26,760
Speaker 1: his stock came down to earth a little bit. And

1384
01:03:27,040 --> 01:03:29,120
Speaker 1: even if he wins, that's just winning the title. You're

1385
01:03:29,120 --> 01:03:31,560
Speaker 1: gonna send him right into a super fight against a

1386
01:03:31,600 --> 01:03:34,680
Speaker 1: one to fifty five. Again, It's not like that would

1387
01:03:34,680 --> 01:03:36,640
Speaker 1: be the worst thing in the world. It just that

1388
01:03:36,680 --> 01:03:39,920
Speaker 1: doesn't to me. I think they should make super fights

1389
01:03:40,360 --> 01:03:43,680
Speaker 1: when the timing is right, not just because they want

1390
01:03:43,720 --> 01:03:46,280
Speaker 1: to pit two names together for the fuck of it.

1391
01:03:46,360 --> 01:03:47,320
Speaker 1: That's that's where I'm at.

1392
01:03:47,400 --> 01:03:48,959
Speaker 3: I mean, I can't say I don't get it, because

1393
01:03:48,960 --> 01:03:51,640
Speaker 3: that's essentially the same argument I have why don't want

1394
01:03:51,680 --> 01:03:54,160
Speaker 3: to see Pereira versus Tremaiev next in a lot of ways.

1395
01:03:54,480 --> 01:03:57,520
Speaker 3: But with that said, good lord, is that a sexy matchup?

1396
01:03:57,520 --> 01:04:00,240
Speaker 3: That doesn't sound like it would be forced under My

1397
01:04:00,320 --> 01:04:04,120
Speaker 3: big prediction for twenty five that Mahachev after if he

1398
01:04:04,160 --> 01:04:07,080
Speaker 3: beats tar or a tar R Yukino second time. Excuse me,

1399
01:04:07,240 --> 01:04:10,440
Speaker 3: edmend sorry for that movement, that he would just kind

1400
01:04:10,440 --> 01:04:12,520
Speaker 3: of naturally at thirty three. Want to move up and

1401
01:04:12,560 --> 01:04:15,560
Speaker 3: go that way. But uh yeah, back to Diego Lopez.

1402
01:04:15,600 --> 01:04:17,920
Speaker 3: This this would be a very interesting fight, the hunger,

1403
01:04:17,960 --> 01:04:22,040
Speaker 3: the explosiveness. I like that pick for you, my number two.

1404
01:04:24,160 --> 01:04:26,040
Speaker 3: I put it at number two because I couldn't see

1405
01:04:26,080 --> 01:04:28,720
Speaker 3: this countdown without having it on there. Even though it's not,

1406
01:04:30,160 --> 01:04:32,960
Speaker 3: you know, in a matchup sense, there are more, There

1407
01:04:33,000 --> 01:04:36,040
Speaker 3: are fights. I want to see more. But look, I

1408
01:04:36,080 --> 01:04:37,640
Speaker 3: don't have to explain to you why we need to

1409
01:04:37,640 --> 01:04:40,640
Speaker 3: see John Jones versus Tom aspinall. We need to see it.

1410
01:04:40,680 --> 01:04:42,880
Speaker 3: We need to see it for the sport, for the

1411
01:04:42,960 --> 01:04:46,120
Speaker 3: health of meritocracy. I know that maybe that's a little overblown.

1412
01:04:46,200 --> 01:04:48,680
Speaker 3: John's an aging guy who's either going to retire or

1413
01:04:48,680 --> 01:04:51,440
Speaker 3: he's not. But due to everything we've been through in

1414
01:04:51,480 --> 01:04:55,160
Speaker 3: this division with Francis, you know, coming up as John's

1415
01:04:55,160 --> 01:04:58,320
Speaker 3: away and leaving just as John's coming in, and to

1416
01:04:58,440 --> 01:05:00,600
Speaker 3: not get a fight that is such a lam dunk

1417
01:05:00,640 --> 01:05:03,840
Speaker 3: and would be such a monstrous fight would do more

1418
01:05:03,880 --> 01:05:06,919
Speaker 3: harm for the sport and the future of guys looking

1419
01:05:06,920 --> 01:05:09,160
Speaker 3: to duck each other than anything else. In my opinion,

1420
01:05:10,520 --> 01:05:14,120
Speaker 3: I wish John didn't look as old against even older

1421
01:05:14,160 --> 01:05:16,840
Speaker 3: and more compromised Stepay at times, so I would be

1422
01:05:16,920 --> 01:05:19,320
Speaker 3: more excited about this matchup, meaning more excited to the

1423
01:05:19,360 --> 01:05:21,840
Speaker 3: idea of John's chances of winning. For the record, I

1424
01:05:21,880 --> 01:05:24,360
Speaker 3: think John can win this fight. It's part of why

1425
01:05:24,360 --> 01:05:27,240
Speaker 3: I want to see it. But I certainly wouldn't favor him.

1426
01:05:27,640 --> 01:05:30,560
Speaker 3: But I want a spectacle. I want fights like this.

1427
01:05:30,640 --> 01:05:33,240
Speaker 3: We were having Usik Fury one in two in boxing.

1428
01:05:33,440 --> 01:05:36,960
Speaker 3: Better bevol one in two. Yes, with the big pageantry

1429
01:05:37,000 --> 01:05:38,760
Speaker 3: of Saudi Arabia and all the money in the glitz

1430
01:05:38,800 --> 01:05:42,160
Speaker 3: and glamour, but it's putting such beautiful wrapping paper on

1431
01:05:42,320 --> 01:05:45,919
Speaker 3: such fights that are so monumental and historic. This has

1432
01:05:45,960 --> 01:05:49,560
Speaker 3: that potential for UFC, especially if they're willing to move

1433
01:05:49,640 --> 01:05:55,480
Speaker 3: past Dana's understandable push back against the viewer experience and

1434
01:05:55,800 --> 01:05:57,840
Speaker 3: wanting it to be an Arenas because he could control

1435
01:05:57,880 --> 01:06:00,640
Speaker 3: every aspect and being anxious about out the idea of

1436
01:06:00,680 --> 01:06:03,120
Speaker 3: having it in a stadium, and there's there's weather, there's

1437
01:06:03,160 --> 01:06:04,760
Speaker 3: other things, although you can have it in a closed

1438
01:06:04,760 --> 01:06:09,120
Speaker 3: dome easily without issue weatherwise. I want them when they

1439
01:06:09,160 --> 01:06:11,600
Speaker 3: have fights that are this big, like you just explained

1440
01:06:11,800 --> 01:06:16,360
Speaker 3: the super fights, like GSP versus Anderson Silva. This isn't

1441
01:06:16,400 --> 01:06:21,160
Speaker 3: Annaple's comparison to that, but it decides the hierarchy and

1442
01:06:21,200 --> 01:06:24,120
Speaker 3: the division that we need. It's cemments John's opportunity to

1443
01:06:24,120 --> 01:06:26,600
Speaker 3: walk away to the sport unquestioned as the greatest of

1444
01:06:26,600 --> 01:06:30,120
Speaker 3: all time. It could launch the next great star out

1445
01:06:30,160 --> 01:06:32,680
Speaker 3: of the UK and the heavyweight two point zero that

1446
01:06:32,720 --> 01:06:34,880
Speaker 3: we thought Gon could become. But it might really be

1447
01:06:34,960 --> 01:06:37,720
Speaker 3: as but all. If they do it in a stadium

1448
01:06:37,720 --> 01:06:40,920
Speaker 3: and give that grand feel, it would be a spectacle

1449
01:06:41,040 --> 01:06:44,880
Speaker 3: an event. I want UFC to give that to the fans,

1450
01:06:44,920 --> 01:06:47,640
Speaker 3: to the business, to the industry, to itself. So I'm

1451
01:06:47,640 --> 01:06:49,720
Speaker 3: gonna put that at number two, Luke, because i can't

1452
01:06:50,120 --> 01:06:53,040
Speaker 3: see the year go by without this happening. It's going

1453
01:06:53,080 --> 01:06:55,360
Speaker 3: to happen. There's not Chell sun and telling it to you.

1454
01:06:55,640 --> 01:06:59,600
Speaker 3: I don't have inside information. It's just it's lining up.

1455
01:06:59,680 --> 01:07:01,720
Speaker 3: They got pay that man his money. You saw the

1456
01:07:01,760 --> 01:07:04,840
Speaker 3: report of Joe rogansain publicly that he heard the offer

1457
01:07:04,880 --> 01:07:07,160
Speaker 3: that John wants is thirty million from the UFC luke.

1458
01:07:07,160 --> 01:07:09,200
Speaker 3: I know you've tweeted out a response to that a

1459
01:07:09,240 --> 01:07:12,800
Speaker 3: couple of times. Pay that man his money. Let's do

1460
01:07:12,960 --> 01:07:15,600
Speaker 3: this absolutely huge fight. Let's go.

1461
01:07:15,920 --> 01:07:18,520
Speaker 1: Let's go just on the money part. I saw people

1462
01:07:18,680 --> 01:07:24,360
Speaker 1: like it's weird, like there's this everyone seems to criticize

1463
01:07:24,440 --> 01:07:27,320
Speaker 1: John Jones like the wrong way. And here's what I mean.

1464
01:07:28,640 --> 01:07:30,560
Speaker 1: That's not quite true. But on this level it's true,

1465
01:07:30,680 --> 01:07:32,920
Speaker 1: which is they're like, oh, I saw someone reply to

1466
01:07:32,960 --> 01:07:34,880
Speaker 1: me and he wasn't alone being like, oh, he doesn't

1467
01:07:34,920 --> 01:07:36,760
Speaker 1: have a top ten gate in you our top ten

1468
01:07:36,800 --> 01:07:40,560
Speaker 1: by rate in UFC history. And it's like, well, back

1469
01:07:40,640 --> 01:07:43,480
Speaker 1: up a step here. So if you take out McGregor,

1470
01:07:43,840 --> 01:07:45,880
Speaker 1: and you take out Rousey and you take Lessner, I'm

1471
01:07:45,920 --> 01:07:49,480
Speaker 1: guessing that gets you that. I'm guessing that alone occupies

1472
01:07:50,600 --> 01:07:52,440
Speaker 1: all of the top ten. I haven't looked at that,

1473
01:07:52,520 --> 01:07:55,800
Speaker 1: but I'm assuming that's what you're gonna get. People think

1474
01:07:55,840 --> 01:07:58,280
Speaker 1: that if you're not doing that, you're not really making

1475
01:07:58,280 --> 01:08:00,840
Speaker 1: the UFC money, and I just have to counter that

1476
01:08:00,880 --> 01:08:04,520
Speaker 1: in the strongest terms possible. This isn't always true, but

1477
01:08:04,520 --> 01:08:06,080
Speaker 1: if you look at what is available in terms of

1478
01:08:06,080 --> 01:08:08,600
Speaker 1: the public data, there is a significant amount of pay

1479
01:08:08,600 --> 01:08:12,600
Speaker 1: per view buys that John did somewhere typically between five

1480
01:08:12,680 --> 01:08:16,759
Speaker 1: hundred to seven hundred and fifty thousand buys. I cannot

1481
01:08:16,800 --> 01:08:20,519
Speaker 1: overstate to you if you are putting consistently, pretty consistently

1482
01:08:20,520 --> 01:08:23,320
Speaker 1: anyway pay per view by rates in that range. It

1483
01:08:23,360 --> 01:08:25,920
Speaker 1: won't top McGregor, and it won't top Lessoner, and it

1484
01:08:25,920 --> 01:08:30,879
Speaker 1: certainly won't top Rowsey, but you are making the UFC money.

1485
01:08:31,160 --> 01:08:35,760
Speaker 1: Hand over fist, hand over fist. Seven hundred thousand is

1486
01:08:35,880 --> 01:08:39,840
Speaker 1: a phenomenal by rate, a phenomenal buy rate. It's not

1487
01:08:40,040 --> 01:08:44,360
Speaker 1: record setting, but it is massively lucrative. And so if

1488
01:08:44,400 --> 01:08:47,920
Speaker 1: you combine that reality right where he's selling again not

1489
01:08:48,040 --> 01:08:50,960
Speaker 1: record setting but consistently well, is the way I would

1490
01:08:50,960 --> 01:08:54,120
Speaker 1: put that. There's a couple of aberrations, but basically consistently well.

1491
01:08:54,680 --> 01:08:56,559
Speaker 1: And then on top of it, you recognize that he

1492
01:08:56,680 --> 01:08:59,280
Speaker 1: was paid like what most guys were You know, the

1493
01:08:59,360 --> 01:09:04,120
Speaker 1: UFC never had spend approximately twenty percent year over year

1494
01:09:04,200 --> 01:09:08,400
Speaker 1: in terms of fighter costs. You realize that in asking

1495
01:09:08,400 --> 01:09:11,400
Speaker 1: for thirty million a they would still if they paid him,

1496
01:09:11,439 --> 01:09:13,080
Speaker 1: that they would still make all their money back and

1497
01:09:13,120 --> 01:09:16,920
Speaker 1: then make a profit. That's number one. Number two, you know,

1498
01:09:17,360 --> 01:09:19,360
Speaker 1: the UFC can easily afford it even if they were

1499
01:09:19,479 --> 01:09:21,120
Speaker 1: to take a loss on this event, which they're not

1500
01:09:21,200 --> 01:09:23,920
Speaker 1: going to. And more to the point, you know, I

1501
01:09:23,920 --> 01:09:25,679
Speaker 1: don't know if you want to call it wage theft,

1502
01:09:25,840 --> 01:09:29,519
Speaker 1: but the reality is he has made the UFC a

1503
01:09:29,760 --> 01:09:32,920
Speaker 1: ton of money that under even a fifty to fifty

1504
01:09:33,000 --> 01:09:36,559
Speaker 1: arrangement BC he is left wanting in terms of what

1505
01:09:36,640 --> 01:09:39,280
Speaker 1: he earned them versus what he's been given. You know,

1506
01:09:39,360 --> 01:09:41,280
Speaker 1: I've got a lot of problems with John, but like

1507
01:09:41,400 --> 01:09:44,400
Speaker 1: when he if it is true he's asking for thirty million,

1508
01:09:45,400 --> 01:09:48,120
Speaker 1: he's more than right to ask for that. He has

1509
01:09:48,200 --> 01:09:50,640
Speaker 1: earned that multiple time, at least the opportunity to have

1510
01:09:50,640 --> 01:09:54,479
Speaker 1: a paid a of thirty million multiple times over. And

1511
01:09:54,800 --> 01:09:57,519
Speaker 1: people saying, well, he doesn't sell as much as McGregor

1512
01:09:57,880 --> 01:10:02,000
Speaker 1: are deeply deeply seeing the point. He's been a consistently

1513
01:10:02,200 --> 01:10:05,400
Speaker 1: high earner for them and has not been relative to

1514
01:10:05,439 --> 01:10:08,559
Speaker 1: even a fifty to fifty mark paid anything close to that. Yeah,

1515
01:10:08,560 --> 01:10:10,480
Speaker 1: he deserves thirty million for this. Absolutely.

1516
01:10:11,080 --> 01:10:12,960
Speaker 3: Look, at the end of the day, does this fight

1517
01:10:13,000 --> 01:10:16,519
Speaker 3: appear in if it happens in twenty five T Mobile

1518
01:10:17,080 --> 01:10:22,639
Speaker 3: Kingdom Arena in riod or Allegiant Stadium slash Jerry World

1519
01:10:22,720 --> 01:10:26,320
Speaker 3: meaning the Raider Stadium in Vegas or the equally big

1520
01:10:26,360 --> 01:10:27,920
Speaker 3: Dome in Arlington, Texas.

1521
01:10:28,520 --> 01:10:30,280
Speaker 1: I think the only two places that are going to

1522
01:10:30,360 --> 01:10:32,960
Speaker 1: happen are Team Mobile. I can for sure see T

1523
01:10:33,120 --> 01:10:36,559
Speaker 1: Mobile that's it seems like a no brainer or MSG.

1524
01:10:36,920 --> 01:10:39,120
Speaker 1: I think those are probably the places they're going to

1525
01:10:39,160 --> 01:10:41,920
Speaker 1: put that. I don't think they're gonna put in Allegiance.

1526
01:10:41,960 --> 01:10:44,479
Speaker 1: I don't people keep talking about Saudi Arabia. It's like, dude,

1527
01:10:44,560 --> 01:10:48,080
Speaker 1: the UFC retains control over their product. Look what Saudi

1528
01:10:48,120 --> 01:10:51,519
Speaker 1: Arabia has purchased with their relationship with UFC, now not

1529
01:10:51,560 --> 01:10:55,439
Speaker 1: with boxing, but with UFC. With UFC they sponsored the

1530
01:10:55,479 --> 01:10:59,639
Speaker 1: Noche UFC event. But did anyone there say, by virtue

1531
01:10:59,640 --> 01:11:02,160
Speaker 1: of the Kingdom's involvement financially that they got to bump

1532
01:11:02,160 --> 01:11:03,800
Speaker 1: and pay. No, you did not see that.

1533
01:11:04,200 --> 01:11:06,200
Speaker 3: No, But the UFC got bailed out on the price

1534
01:11:06,200 --> 01:11:08,479
Speaker 3: of it. It was it was called re odd season presents.

1535
01:11:08,560 --> 01:11:11,120
Speaker 3: UFC notes, what does.

1536
01:11:10,960 --> 01:11:12,760
Speaker 1: That have to do with fighter purse? That has nothing

1537
01:11:12,760 --> 01:11:14,800
Speaker 1: to do with fighter purse. It only has to do

1538
01:11:14,840 --> 01:11:16,440
Speaker 1: with the UFC's administration.

1539
01:11:16,520 --> 01:11:18,960
Speaker 3: Can okay, can I just count you? I'll say, Look,

1540
01:11:19,040 --> 01:11:22,160
Speaker 3: the Sphere was about the inflated cost of running the dome.

1541
01:11:22,680 --> 01:11:26,200
Speaker 3: This fight, if it struggles at the negotiation table, in

1542
01:11:26,240 --> 01:11:28,880
Speaker 3: my opinion, would only be about paying John the money

1543
01:11:28,880 --> 01:11:31,240
Speaker 3: he's asking for. Couldn't Turkey fill in the gaps on

1544
01:11:31,320 --> 01:11:33,200
Speaker 3: the John money, just like you filled in the gaps

1545
01:11:33,200 --> 01:11:36,320
Speaker 3: for Dana on the Sphere money.

1546
01:11:36,680 --> 01:11:39,439
Speaker 1: How many different ways I can say this, the UFC

1547
01:11:40,120 --> 01:11:44,479
Speaker 1: does not like to be leveraged. They can afford whatever

1548
01:11:44,560 --> 01:11:47,439
Speaker 1: he's asking. I cannot overstate this. They can afford whatever

1549
01:11:47,479 --> 01:11:51,479
Speaker 1: he's asking easily, not not like they have to like

1550
01:11:51,560 --> 01:11:55,480
Speaker 1: find like the pennies in the couch. They can easily

1551
01:11:55,760 --> 01:11:58,360
Speaker 1: afford what he is asking. It's not a money issue.

1552
01:11:58,400 --> 01:12:01,479
Speaker 1: It's a leverage issue. And they don't want the I

1553
01:12:01,520 --> 01:12:03,240
Speaker 1: don't think they want to set a precedent for any

1554
01:12:03,280 --> 01:12:05,479
Speaker 1: of their A listers to be like well, create some

1555
01:12:05,560 --> 01:12:07,400
Speaker 1: demand or however you can do that or let there

1556
01:12:07,439 --> 01:12:09,400
Speaker 1: be demand and then just say I want, you know,

1557
01:12:09,560 --> 01:12:11,600
Speaker 1: Uncle Saudi to come in and come brain cash on me.

1558
01:12:11,920 --> 01:12:13,640
Speaker 1: They don't. They don't want to set that precedent. So

1559
01:12:13,640 --> 01:12:16,280
Speaker 1: those last thing, last thing, last thing. The only other

1560
01:12:16,280 --> 01:12:18,280
Speaker 1: thing that Said Arabia has purchased are the events that

1561
01:12:18,320 --> 01:12:20,880
Speaker 1: have taken place there, which are good events, but even

1562
01:12:20,920 --> 01:12:22,960
Speaker 1: then are not marquee events, and if you have pay

1563
01:12:22,960 --> 01:12:26,120
Speaker 1: per viewpoints, it's not really involved. They've kept Saudi Arabia

1564
01:12:26,120 --> 01:12:28,560
Speaker 1: in terms of having a hand over decision making and

1565
01:12:28,640 --> 01:12:33,000
Speaker 1: bouts at distance boxing promoters, they just they just put

1566
01:12:33,040 --> 01:12:35,160
Speaker 1: their butts in the air and said, you know, you know,

1567
01:12:35,240 --> 01:12:39,320
Speaker 1: this is what we will do whatever. So that's where

1568
01:12:39,320 --> 01:12:42,040
Speaker 1: we are. I just put my butt on the ground

1569
01:12:42,040 --> 01:12:44,240
Speaker 1: and I had an enormous, enormous shit.

1570
01:12:46,040 --> 01:12:48,240
Speaker 3: So you're saying that instead of you know, Dana fifty

1571
01:12:48,280 --> 01:12:51,280
Speaker 3: k in the postfit interview. They don't want, Hey, uncle Turkey,

1572
01:12:51,760 --> 01:12:53,639
Speaker 3: bail me out. They don't want that. They don't want

1573
01:12:53,640 --> 01:12:54,080
Speaker 3: that all right.

1574
01:12:54,120 --> 01:12:57,400
Speaker 1: From what I have seen, the relationship between the UFC

1575
01:12:57,520 --> 01:13:01,320
Speaker 1: and Turkey has not translated any way to an increase

1576
01:13:01,360 --> 01:13:04,040
Speaker 1: in fighter purses. I don't think that's accidental.

1577
01:13:04,240 --> 01:13:05,840
Speaker 3: I can argue and just counter that and say it's

1578
01:13:05,840 --> 01:13:08,160
Speaker 3: because the UFC doesn't want to raise fighter persons, but

1579
01:13:08,200 --> 01:13:09,680
Speaker 3: this would be a scenario where it might be the

1580
01:13:09,720 --> 01:13:11,840
Speaker 3: only way they could do it to the greatest fighter

1581
01:13:11,840 --> 01:13:13,200
Speaker 3: of all time, and the only way they can make

1582
01:13:13,240 --> 01:13:16,320
Speaker 3: the fight work. So call Uncle Turkey, get the you know.

1583
01:13:16,320 --> 01:13:19,200
Speaker 3: It's sort of like when you have your like confirmation

1584
01:13:19,320 --> 01:13:22,240
Speaker 3: as a kid, or your you know, bar mitzvah. It's like, oh,

1585
01:13:22,280 --> 01:13:24,960
Speaker 3: we don't talk to our second uncle and the talent

1586
01:13:25,040 --> 01:13:27,280
Speaker 3: over except for when we have these big events because

1587
01:13:27,280 --> 01:13:29,040
Speaker 3: he's gonna put five hundred dollars in the n film.

1588
01:13:29,160 --> 01:13:31,439
Speaker 1: I mean, I'll say this, if there is any fight

1589
01:13:31,479 --> 01:13:33,920
Speaker 1: where they could break the rules to make that happen,

1590
01:13:34,600 --> 01:13:38,000
Speaker 1: it probably be this one, because I you know, it's

1591
01:13:38,000 --> 01:13:42,400
Speaker 1: such a huge fight. I'm just saying it's worth reflecting

1592
01:13:42,479 --> 01:13:46,200
Speaker 1: on what the relationship has been to this point before

1593
01:13:46,240 --> 01:13:48,880
Speaker 1: we just lazily be like, oh, the Saudis can afford it.

1594
01:13:48,920 --> 01:13:52,000
Speaker 1: I'm like, guys, this is not an issue of the

1595
01:13:52,120 --> 01:13:55,800
Speaker 1: UFC not being able to afford it. That's not the

1596
01:13:55,840 --> 01:13:58,360
Speaker 1: hold up. The hold up is that they just don't

1597
01:13:58,400 --> 01:14:01,400
Speaker 1: feel like that kind of money should train for one

1598
01:14:01,439 --> 01:14:04,080
Speaker 1: particular about period and they don't want to be leveraged

1599
01:14:04,120 --> 01:14:04,439
Speaker 1: for it.

1600
01:14:04,520 --> 01:14:08,280
Speaker 3: That's the my final connor would be that's the mission

1601
01:14:08,280 --> 01:14:12,040
Speaker 3: statement of the ZUFA era.

1602
01:14:10,840 --> 01:14:11,240
Speaker 1: We're the.

1603
01:14:13,000 --> 01:14:16,000
Speaker 3: T KO era have haven't. Would they prioritize the big

1604
01:14:16,040 --> 01:14:18,880
Speaker 3: event over the one time precedent. I think they prioritize

1605
01:14:18,880 --> 01:14:19,719
Speaker 3: the big event if they.

1606
01:14:21,560 --> 01:14:23,360
Speaker 1: I can't rule it out, I'm not. I'm not going

1607
01:14:23,439 --> 01:14:24,960
Speaker 1: to sit here and say that they won't do it,

1608
01:14:25,040 --> 01:14:27,240
Speaker 1: because I don't know that either. I'm just trying to

1609
01:14:27,320 --> 01:14:32,200
Speaker 1: say they guide their business by a very clear directive,

1610
01:14:32,439 --> 01:14:38,439
Speaker 1: typically speaking and extraction extraction, and I just don't feel

1611
01:14:38,479 --> 01:14:40,240
Speaker 1: like I want to be clear. I'm not saying that

1612
01:14:40,280 --> 01:14:42,320
Speaker 1: they won't make the fighter John won't get his money.

1613
01:14:42,439 --> 01:14:44,519
Speaker 1: I'm really not making. I'm going to remain agnostic on

1614
01:14:44,560 --> 01:14:47,880
Speaker 1: that until it does or doesn't happen. I just feel like, oh, well,

1615
01:14:47,920 --> 01:14:49,880
Speaker 1: we need we need the Saudis to bail us out.

1616
01:14:49,960 --> 01:14:53,000
Speaker 1: It's like the UFC wants to set that precedent. I

1617
01:14:53,040 --> 01:14:54,840
Speaker 1: don't think that they do. I have a very.

1618
01:14:54,760 --> 01:14:56,960
Speaker 3: Saudis may not be here forever, so get your ship

1619
01:14:57,000 --> 01:14:58,840
Speaker 3: paid for now while they're around. You may have to

1620
01:14:58,960 --> 01:14:59,959
Speaker 3: the UFC wants.

1621
01:14:59,720 --> 01:15:02,519
Speaker 1: To keep Uncle Turkey's money. They don't like you to

1622
01:15:02,560 --> 01:15:03,320
Speaker 1: get it, you know what I'm saying.

1623
01:15:03,360 --> 01:15:05,160
Speaker 3: All right, look, let's let's have you put your money

1624
01:15:05,160 --> 01:15:07,639
Speaker 3: where your mouth is. As you're a journalist and fan,

1625
01:15:07,680 --> 01:15:09,559
Speaker 3: what fight do you want to see most in twenty

1626
01:15:09,600 --> 01:15:10,120
Speaker 3: twenty five?

1627
01:15:10,600 --> 01:15:13,479
Speaker 1: I would say that we kind of have been discussing it.

1628
01:15:13,479 --> 01:15:17,200
Speaker 1: It's John Jones versus Tom aspinall well, number one, this

1629
01:15:17,439 --> 01:15:20,160
Speaker 1: is number one. This is the fight to make. This

1630
01:15:20,320 --> 01:15:23,280
Speaker 1: is it? And again, is it gonna be John gonna

1631
01:15:23,280 --> 01:15:24,840
Speaker 1: get his money? I don't know. Is it gonna be

1632
01:15:24,840 --> 01:15:26,880
Speaker 1: in New York? I don't know. Is it even gonna happen?

1633
01:15:27,000 --> 01:15:30,280
Speaker 1: I don't know. I think that this is the most

1634
01:15:30,280 --> 01:15:32,839
Speaker 1: important fight that they can make. It's the heavyweight division.

1635
01:15:33,040 --> 01:15:35,479
Speaker 1: It's the last of John Jones. Again, if he loses,

1636
01:15:35,520 --> 01:15:38,040
Speaker 1: I suspected there might be another one after that BC right,

1637
01:15:38,640 --> 01:15:39,200
Speaker 1: which is by.

1638
01:15:39,840 --> 01:15:41,479
Speaker 3: No for sure if he gets if he gets stopped,

1639
01:15:41,479 --> 01:15:42,639
Speaker 3: do you think he's gonna come back.

1640
01:15:42,600 --> 01:15:44,760
Speaker 1: Or let's talk about that in a second. But either way,

1641
01:15:45,439 --> 01:15:48,439
Speaker 1: either way, it's a huge fight. It's a great fight,

1642
01:15:48,560 --> 01:15:52,680
Speaker 1: A literal generational fight, right because John Jones isn't that

1643
01:15:52,880 --> 01:15:56,080
Speaker 1: much older than Tom, But they represent two different eras

1644
01:15:56,120 --> 01:15:58,200
Speaker 1: of MMA, to be quite sure, one the past and

1645
01:15:58,200 --> 01:16:01,040
Speaker 1: certainly won the future and also the present to a degree.

1646
01:16:01,120 --> 01:16:03,439
Speaker 1: He's already defended the title of the interim title twice

1647
01:16:03,479 --> 01:16:05,040
Speaker 1: at this point, or at least whatever it was once,

1648
01:16:05,080 --> 01:16:09,080
Speaker 1: but he's had it now for multiple bouts. This is it,

1649
01:16:09,200 --> 01:16:11,479
Speaker 1: This is the big one. This is a this is

1650
01:16:11,520 --> 01:16:15,240
Speaker 1: a generational fight, it's a unification fight, it's a star

1651
01:16:15,360 --> 01:16:18,200
Speaker 1: making fight. If Tom Aspinall can find a way to win,

1652
01:16:18,360 --> 01:16:20,719
Speaker 1: it's just so. And by the way, just on fight

1653
01:16:20,880 --> 01:16:23,920
Speaker 1: terms itself, Tom Aspinall has not been tested by a

1654
01:16:23,920 --> 01:16:25,960
Speaker 1: guy that we think like John Jones has the ability

1655
01:16:26,000 --> 01:16:28,240
Speaker 1: to test him and vice versa. Right, There's just so

1656
01:16:28,439 --> 01:16:32,200
Speaker 1: many different questions, so much interest. This is the one

1657
01:16:32,240 --> 01:16:34,360
Speaker 1: and again I've got my differences with John Jones, but

1658
01:16:34,400 --> 01:16:37,400
Speaker 1: whatever he's asking for, if it's thirty million or less,

1659
01:16:37,760 --> 01:16:41,639
Speaker 1: I absolutely believe he has earned that. I absolutely think

1660
01:16:41,680 --> 01:16:43,840
Speaker 1: he should be paid that. This is the fight to

1661
01:16:43,920 --> 01:16:46,360
Speaker 1: do it. This is the time to pull that trigger.

1662
01:16:46,640 --> 01:16:49,760
Speaker 1: This is the big one metaphorically and literally make it.

1663
01:16:50,320 --> 01:16:52,559
Speaker 3: Well, it's the JV big one. The real big one

1664
01:16:52,600 --> 01:16:55,439
Speaker 3: is John versus Francis, and we would only get there.

1665
01:16:55,800 --> 01:16:57,240
Speaker 1: I don't think if I agree with that anymore. I

1666
01:16:57,280 --> 01:16:58,960
Speaker 1: don't know if I agree with that anymore. I certainly

1667
01:16:59,000 --> 01:17:01,559
Speaker 1: think it like by twenty twenty three or twenty twenty

1668
01:17:01,600 --> 01:17:04,880
Speaker 1: fours measurement, you know it would be the JV one,

1669
01:17:04,880 --> 01:17:06,200
Speaker 1: But like, honestly.

1670
01:17:05,960 --> 01:17:08,080
Speaker 3: May Francois is not a big pay per view mover.

1671
01:17:08,240 --> 01:17:09,519
Speaker 3: I acknowledge that.

1672
01:17:09,720 --> 01:17:11,760
Speaker 1: There's that, And also like you know, dude, Tom might

1673
01:17:11,800 --> 01:17:13,760
Speaker 1: be that guy. We don't know, that is what I'm saying, Like,

1674
01:17:13,800 --> 01:17:15,560
Speaker 1: we don't know. Let me ask the question though, and

1675
01:17:15,560 --> 01:17:17,599
Speaker 1: I would love to get long I after I get

1676
01:17:17,600 --> 01:17:20,840
Speaker 1: your response. If John were to lose, and I'm just

1677
01:17:20,880 --> 01:17:22,439
Speaker 1: gonna leave it at that. You can set the terms

1678
01:17:22,479 --> 01:17:24,479
Speaker 1: about what that means. But if John were to lose,

1679
01:17:24,479 --> 01:17:25,960
Speaker 1: do you think he would want to run it back

1680
01:17:26,160 --> 01:17:29,400
Speaker 1: or would he be content losing on his last fight

1681
01:17:29,479 --> 01:17:30,519
Speaker 1: of his career.

1682
01:17:30,880 --> 01:17:33,080
Speaker 3: It would depend, in my opinion, on how much that

1683
01:17:33,200 --> 01:17:36,599
Speaker 3: invincibility the unbeaten record means to him. Mind you, look,

1684
01:17:36,880 --> 01:17:40,160
Speaker 3: they haven't overturned his defeat, his defeat to Matt Hamill

1685
01:17:40,200 --> 01:17:43,360
Speaker 3: by DQ like, but no one counting that as a

1686
01:17:43,360 --> 01:17:45,120
Speaker 3: as a loss. So in a sense, kind of like

1687
01:17:45,160 --> 01:17:47,400
Speaker 3: when Roy Jones only had that one loss by d

1688
01:17:47,560 --> 01:17:50,000
Speaker 3: Q to montell Griffith that he avenged by nasty first

1689
01:17:50,080 --> 01:17:52,280
Speaker 3: round knockout. It was the idea where he doesn't need

1690
01:17:52,280 --> 01:17:54,000
Speaker 3: the oh, but we're still looking at him as an

1691
01:17:54,040 --> 01:17:56,960
Speaker 3: undefeated fighter. If that means everything to John and that

1692
01:17:57,200 --> 01:18:00,040
Speaker 3: was part of his hesitance and why he's been so

1693
01:18:00,200 --> 01:18:03,920
Speaker 3: openly publicly sort of putting his thoughts in his head

1694
01:18:03,960 --> 01:18:06,040
Speaker 3: out on a microphone and saying, I don't know, I

1695
01:18:06,080 --> 01:18:08,559
Speaker 3: don't know, you know, like or is it really only

1696
01:18:09,200 --> 01:18:12,040
Speaker 3: about showing disinterest? So the UFC will raise that price

1697
01:18:12,080 --> 01:18:14,880
Speaker 3: and give him what he deserves in that regard, Luke,

1698
01:18:14,880 --> 01:18:17,320
Speaker 3: if it's more about the money and not about the O,

1699
01:18:18,040 --> 01:18:21,800
Speaker 3: then if he loses, then again I still don't know,

1700
01:18:21,800 --> 01:18:23,880
Speaker 3: because if it's about the O and he didn't have

1701
01:18:23,920 --> 01:18:25,640
Speaker 3: to protect that anymore, if he lost, let's say it

1702
01:18:25,640 --> 01:18:28,679
Speaker 3: was a competitive fight, but he lost the decision. Maybe

1703
01:18:28,680 --> 01:18:31,000
Speaker 3: if if you saw, you know, the competitor in him

1704
01:18:31,040 --> 01:18:33,840
Speaker 3: going all right, I'm no longer undefeated, but I know

1705
01:18:33,880 --> 01:18:35,560
Speaker 3: I can beat that guy. Let's come back and do it,

1706
01:18:35,600 --> 01:18:38,519
Speaker 3: and it's gonna be a ton of money. Under that scenario, Yes,

1707
01:18:38,880 --> 01:18:41,080
Speaker 3: under the scenario that he loses dominantly, No, I think

1708
01:18:41,120 --> 01:18:44,160
Speaker 3: he'd walk away and be done because I don't I

1709
01:18:44,200 --> 01:18:47,800
Speaker 3: don't get the feeling. Like again, this whole front he's

1710
01:18:47,840 --> 01:18:50,600
Speaker 3: been putting on could be largely fueled by money. It

1711
01:18:50,600 --> 01:18:54,240
Speaker 3: could just be public negotiation one on one. But I

1712
01:18:54,280 --> 01:18:56,840
Speaker 3: think there's been enough weirdness coming out of what he's

1713
01:18:56,880 --> 01:18:59,160
Speaker 3: actually saying that has led me to believe that he's

1714
01:18:59,280 --> 01:19:01,680
Speaker 3: questioning him self. So if he goes out there and

1715
01:19:01,720 --> 01:19:04,040
Speaker 3: finds out the question that he's not on the level

1716
01:19:04,040 --> 01:19:06,400
Speaker 3: of aspinall at this age, I don't. I don't know

1717
01:19:06,439 --> 01:19:08,240
Speaker 3: why he would come back again.

1718
01:19:08,360 --> 01:19:10,160
Speaker 1: Luke no cida. What do you think if he loses

1719
01:19:10,200 --> 01:19:12,360
Speaker 1: and again you can decide what that means, does he

1720
01:19:12,400 --> 01:19:12,880
Speaker 1: fight again?

1721
01:19:14,520 --> 01:19:18,160
Speaker 4: I think, barring nothing happening outside of the cage, yes,

1722
01:19:18,360 --> 01:19:19,639
Speaker 4: they fight again if he loses.

1723
01:19:20,000 --> 01:19:20,479
Speaker 1: Interesting?

1724
01:19:21,120 --> 01:19:21,439
Speaker 3: Interesting?

1725
01:19:21,520 --> 01:19:22,800
Speaker 1: Yeah, And I don't know how to to your point,

1726
01:19:22,840 --> 01:19:24,760
Speaker 1: B see like it's a it's an interesting question too.

1727
01:19:24,840 --> 01:19:26,800
Speaker 1: Let's say he would be at least willing to come back,

1728
01:19:26,840 --> 01:19:29,439
Speaker 1: but like, if he loses split decision, does he go

1729
01:19:29,479 --> 01:19:31,240
Speaker 1: through it again? If he gets stopped, does that make

1730
01:19:31,240 --> 01:19:32,400
Speaker 1: it more like.

1731
01:19:32,360 --> 01:19:35,960
Speaker 3: There's flash stoppages right? Like like there's flash knockdowns and boxing.

1732
01:19:36,000 --> 01:19:38,639
Speaker 3: You could get startched for one second and the referee looks,

1733
01:19:38,680 --> 01:19:40,960
Speaker 3: then you're knocked out. And in that situation, did you

1734
01:19:41,000 --> 01:19:43,679
Speaker 3: get dominated. No, you got hit by one shot. There's

1735
01:19:43,720 --> 01:19:45,640
Speaker 3: a difference between that and the kind of beating that

1736
01:19:45,760 --> 01:19:46,920
Speaker 3: John gave Shogun Hua.

1737
01:19:47,080 --> 01:19:47,320
Speaker 1: Right.

1738
01:19:47,439 --> 01:19:49,920
Speaker 3: If John takes an extended beating, no, he's not coming back.

1739
01:19:50,000 --> 01:19:50,599
Speaker 3: That's what I'm saying.

1740
01:19:50,640 --> 01:19:52,720
Speaker 1: Okay, Okay, there you go. All right.

1741
01:19:52,800 --> 01:19:55,280
Speaker 3: My number one for twenty five, Interesting enough, Luca was

1742
01:19:55,280 --> 01:19:57,320
Speaker 3: a fight that in one of your earlier preambles you

1743
01:19:57,320 --> 01:20:00,200
Speaker 3: said you're not interested in for a lot of certain reasons.

1744
01:20:00,720 --> 01:20:03,240
Speaker 3: Unfortunately for you, Luke, it's the fight I'm most interested in.

1745
01:20:03,439 --> 01:20:06,400
Speaker 3: Even though my bold prediction was that Mahachev, your Palm

1746
01:20:06,439 --> 01:20:08,640
Speaker 3: for pound king, would move up from lightweight if he

1747
01:20:08,680 --> 01:20:11,760
Speaker 3: defeats Saryukin in a second time and go takes his

1748
01:20:11,840 --> 01:20:14,280
Speaker 3: business to welterweight, allowing the door to be open for

1749
01:20:14,280 --> 01:20:16,960
Speaker 3: teammate Usmandner maga Metov, who's still got to get through

1750
01:20:17,000 --> 01:20:19,479
Speaker 3: Paul for Hughes later this month and get to the UFC.

1751
01:20:20,120 --> 01:20:21,920
Speaker 3: But with that said, who is number one and two

1752
01:20:21,920 --> 01:20:24,160
Speaker 3: in my current Pomp for pound top ten in the

1753
01:20:24,240 --> 01:20:27,759
Speaker 3: UFC on CBS Sports dot Com. It's a Slamahachev and Ilia,

1754
01:20:27,840 --> 01:20:31,479
Speaker 3: Taporia and Luke when somebody has liked to Poria not

1755
01:20:31,640 --> 01:20:33,960
Speaker 3: only climbs the throne like he did in twenty four,

1756
01:20:34,000 --> 01:20:37,360
Speaker 3: but does it in the most demonstrative terms possible with

1757
01:20:37,520 --> 01:20:41,599
Speaker 3: knockouts of two former champion future legends, both who were

1758
01:20:41,600 --> 01:20:43,040
Speaker 3: in the top ten of pom for pound when he

1759
01:20:43,080 --> 01:20:45,200
Speaker 3: did it, which is what allowed him to edge out

1760
01:20:45,360 --> 01:20:47,920
Speaker 3: Poeton in one of the closest Fighter Fighter of the

1761
01:20:47,960 --> 01:20:51,400
Speaker 3: Year ballotings that I can recall. It's the idea of

1762
01:20:51,479 --> 01:20:53,519
Speaker 3: if you did that, and by the way, Hollow I

1763
01:20:53,560 --> 01:20:55,759
Speaker 3: put up a hell of a fight before that finish.

1764
01:20:55,920 --> 01:20:58,760
Speaker 3: If you did that on these terms at this level,

1765
01:20:59,200 --> 01:21:01,160
Speaker 3: what the hell can you do one division north? And

1766
01:21:01,200 --> 01:21:04,599
Speaker 3: since he's already talking about openly the hard way cut

1767
01:21:04,600 --> 01:21:08,360
Speaker 3: and wanting to do it, dude, like, I know, we

1768
01:21:08,400 --> 01:21:10,400
Speaker 3: don't always have to do this. I know some people

1769
01:21:10,479 --> 01:21:13,120
Speaker 3: didn't want to second Volkanowski versus Mahacha fight. I get

1770
01:21:13,120 --> 01:21:15,840
Speaker 3: all of that. This is different from that. This isn't

1771
01:21:15,880 --> 01:21:19,000
Speaker 3: you know where Volk had a knockout before against Mahachev

1772
01:21:19,000 --> 01:21:20,920
Speaker 3: and now he's coming back down to do it This

1773
01:21:21,040 --> 01:21:23,439
Speaker 3: is the arguably the two best fighters in the world

1774
01:21:23,479 --> 01:21:25,160
Speaker 3: could have a chance to meet up at the same weight.

1775
01:21:25,960 --> 01:21:28,040
Speaker 3: That's why you get into the sport as a fan

1776
01:21:28,120 --> 01:21:30,720
Speaker 3: to see the best fight the best. I love the

1777
01:21:30,800 --> 01:21:33,760
Speaker 3: style contrast. I love everything about this fight, the well

1778
01:21:33,840 --> 01:21:37,560
Speaker 3: rounded games of both. I love it. Give me Mahachev

1779
01:21:37,640 --> 01:21:39,880
Speaker 3: versus Tiporia. I mean, look, that is the ultimate, Like,

1780
01:21:40,800 --> 01:21:42,800
Speaker 3: holy shit, I might have to be there fight, whether

1781
01:21:42,840 --> 01:21:44,920
Speaker 3: I'm there as a fan or a journalist, Like hold

1782
01:21:44,920 --> 01:21:48,960
Speaker 3: my calls, I I damn don't you. It's not on

1783
01:21:49,120 --> 01:21:52,400
Speaker 3: GSP versus civil levels in historical stardom and what they've

1784
01:21:52,400 --> 01:21:55,120
Speaker 3: combined accomplished since they're earlier in their careers. But it's

1785
01:21:55,160 --> 01:21:57,360
Speaker 3: pretty damn high up there, Luke. And it's rare when

1786
01:21:57,400 --> 01:21:59,240
Speaker 3: you can get one and two pound for pound to

1787
01:21:59,320 --> 01:22:01,200
Speaker 3: match up in a way where we find out I mean,

1788
01:22:01,280 --> 01:22:02,640
Speaker 3: we may have just done it. No, we didn't do

1789
01:22:02,680 --> 01:22:05,400
Speaker 3: it recently with Volkanovski and Toi Poria because Taporia wasn't

1790
01:22:05,400 --> 01:22:07,400
Speaker 3: there yet, but he's there now. After the Max fight,

1791
01:22:07,920 --> 01:22:09,040
Speaker 3: I mean, dude.

1792
01:22:08,800 --> 01:22:10,280
Speaker 1: Fulk Islam was one and two.

1793
01:22:10,400 --> 01:22:11,960
Speaker 4: I think that was one and two vocus on the

1794
01:22:11,960 --> 01:22:14,000
Speaker 4: first that was the storyline going into it, Okay.

1795
01:22:14,200 --> 01:22:16,519
Speaker 3: I mean, obviously, you know, Luken, both sports, it's very rare.

1796
01:22:16,840 --> 01:22:18,559
Speaker 3: This would be one of the biggest fights that could

1797
01:22:18,560 --> 01:22:20,519
Speaker 3: promote in a while, potentially too, wouldn't it be.

1798
01:22:22,439 --> 01:22:24,840
Speaker 1: I don't hate the fight. It's a great fight, it's

1799
01:22:24,880 --> 01:22:27,080
Speaker 1: a lovely fight. I would love to see it. I

1800
01:22:27,439 --> 01:22:28,360
Speaker 1: just doesn't.

1801
01:22:28,439 --> 01:22:30,040
Speaker 3: Don't you want to see what your boy's made of?

1802
01:22:30,120 --> 01:22:31,840
Speaker 3: Don't you want to see that. It's the same reason

1803
01:22:31,880 --> 01:22:35,400
Speaker 3: why when Floyd was running through that that undefeated run

1804
01:22:35,520 --> 01:22:37,320
Speaker 3: that people like me were like, did he go to

1805
01:22:37,360 --> 01:22:38,840
Speaker 3: middleweight once? Just to show us?

1806
01:22:38,880 --> 01:22:39,000
Speaker 1: Like?

1807
01:22:39,400 --> 01:22:42,080
Speaker 3: You want to see the best take on the very best, Luke,

1808
01:22:42,479 --> 01:22:43,840
Speaker 3: Do you want to see if he can dance at

1809
01:22:43,840 --> 01:22:44,360
Speaker 3: that level?

1810
01:22:45,040 --> 01:22:48,759
Speaker 1: So what's been a weight in boxing? One? Fifty four? No, sixty,

1811
01:22:49,400 --> 01:22:53,880
Speaker 1: sixty Jesus, you wanted Floyd at sixty even pack.

1812
01:22:54,160 --> 01:22:57,080
Speaker 3: I mean, in hindsight, it's too it's too far, you know.

1813
01:22:57,120 --> 01:22:58,519
Speaker 3: And he did well in the three big fights he

1814
01:22:58,520 --> 01:23:00,280
Speaker 3: had at fifty four. He showed us enough. But I'm

1815
01:23:00,280 --> 01:23:02,760
Speaker 3: saying the reason why I would even say that back

1816
01:23:02,760 --> 01:23:06,520
Speaker 3: then was because somebody is so great and so dominant

1817
01:23:06,520 --> 01:23:09,000
Speaker 3: against fellow elites that you're like, I gotta see the

1818
01:23:09,040 --> 01:23:11,040
Speaker 3: limits to that. I got to see what this guy's

1819
01:23:11,080 --> 01:23:11,880
Speaker 3: actually made of.

1820
01:23:12,320 --> 01:23:14,600
Speaker 1: I know, I know, I know everyone's gonna disagree with

1821
01:23:14,640 --> 01:23:17,160
Speaker 1: me on this one, and I understand that it's just

1822
01:23:17,200 --> 01:23:21,640
Speaker 1: a personal preference thing, but I really feel like the

1823
01:23:21,680 --> 01:23:24,040
Speaker 1: timing is not ideal. I can think. That's the way

1824
01:23:24,040 --> 01:23:25,840
Speaker 1: I would say it. The timing is not ideal. And

1825
01:23:25,840 --> 01:23:28,680
Speaker 1: of course the counter to that would be, well, you

1826
01:23:28,760 --> 01:23:30,679
Speaker 1: kind of have to make the timing like the timing

1827
01:23:30,760 --> 01:23:32,800
Speaker 1: like how many times you're gonna get an opportunity to

1828
01:23:32,800 --> 01:23:35,840
Speaker 1: put these two guys together or the other combination which

1829
01:23:35,840 --> 01:23:38,640
Speaker 1: is Islam and shof Cut. And I grant that that

1830
01:23:38,800 --> 01:23:40,840
Speaker 1: that window is narrow, but I'm not like dying to

1831
01:23:40,880 --> 01:23:42,640
Speaker 1: see either of these. I gotta be honest with you there.

1832
01:23:42,680 --> 01:23:45,680
Speaker 1: And they don't. Okay, I love them. They great. If

1833
01:23:45,680 --> 01:23:47,519
Speaker 1: they announced them tomorrow, I would I would be like,

1834
01:23:47,640 --> 01:23:50,320
Speaker 1: these are cool. But if I'm not, I'm not pining

1835
01:23:50,320 --> 01:23:50,639
Speaker 1: for them.

1836
01:23:51,640 --> 01:23:53,640
Speaker 3: Let's keep the shav Cut Islam one out of this.

1837
01:23:53,720 --> 01:23:55,479
Speaker 3: Let's do number one versus two pound for pund am

1838
01:23:55,520 --> 01:23:57,320
Speaker 3: I being too much of a fantasy video game maker,

1839
01:23:57,360 --> 01:23:58,519
Speaker 3: or is this the best fight you can make in

1840
01:23:58,520 --> 01:23:58,880
Speaker 3: the sport?

1841
01:23:59,120 --> 01:24:01,120
Speaker 4: Well, you just said, let's leave Islam shof Cut out

1842
01:24:01,120 --> 01:24:02,720
Speaker 4: of it. I was going to say, personally, if we're

1843
01:24:02,720 --> 01:24:06,040
Speaker 4: gonna throw Islam into two division super fight like that,

1844
01:24:06,080 --> 01:24:08,160
Speaker 4: I want to see him versus shaf Cut rather than

1845
01:24:08,240 --> 01:24:11,200
Speaker 4: versus Ilia. Also, Luke, is the reason you're so hesitant

1846
01:24:11,200 --> 01:24:13,000
Speaker 4: on this is because Ilia might lose.

1847
01:24:14,479 --> 01:24:16,880
Speaker 3: Somebody brought the whispers that have been going on behind

1848
01:24:16,920 --> 01:24:18,240
Speaker 3: the in the dark to the light.

1849
01:24:18,320 --> 01:24:27,599
Speaker 1: Luke, am I worried he would lose? Why would that?

1850
01:24:27,600 --> 01:24:28,240
Speaker 3: That's your guy?

1851
01:24:29,120 --> 01:24:32,200
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't want John Jones to win anymore.

1852
01:24:32,240 --> 01:24:34,360
Speaker 1: But that doesn't mean that, like I don't want to

1853
01:24:34,360 --> 01:24:35,920
Speaker 1: see a fight where he could win.

1854
01:24:38,360 --> 01:24:40,920
Speaker 3: Like, I don't think it was a question that the

1855
01:24:41,080 --> 01:24:43,720
Speaker 3: that the that the world was asking themselves, Luke, and

1856
01:24:43,760 --> 01:24:45,200
Speaker 3: but Nosita had the guts to bring it.

1857
01:24:45,880 --> 01:24:47,720
Speaker 1: I mean, the guy just polished off two of the

1858
01:24:47,720 --> 01:24:50,759
Speaker 1: best featherweights of all time. You know if he lost

1859
01:24:50,880 --> 01:24:52,640
Speaker 1: up a weight class, I don't think it would be

1860
01:24:52,720 --> 01:24:57,800
Speaker 1: that damaging, to be honest with you. Also, also the

1861
01:24:57,800 --> 01:24:59,960
Speaker 1: bed wedding on this show that would take place if

1862
01:25:00,000 --> 01:25:04,600
Speaker 1: he knocked out Islam YouTube, Oh yeah, I'd have to

1863
01:25:04,640 --> 01:25:08,120
Speaker 1: get a life raft to survive years. That would be

1864
01:25:08,200 --> 01:25:10,439
Speaker 1: streaming down your face and then filling up the room.

1865
01:25:10,880 --> 01:25:11,559
Speaker 3: Oh, I'd be so.

1866
01:25:13,600 --> 01:25:15,360
Speaker 1: Yeah, now say that.

1867
01:25:15,479 --> 01:25:17,560
Speaker 3: Now, all right, let's go to the best sport in

1868
01:25:17,600 --> 01:25:20,000
Speaker 3: the world. Look, they call it boxing. My number three

1869
01:25:20,040 --> 01:25:21,840
Speaker 3: pick for fights I most want to see. Look, this

1870
01:25:21,880 --> 01:25:24,120
Speaker 3: is like another video game fantasy fight, only it's a

1871
01:25:24,240 --> 01:25:27,160
Speaker 3: very possibility it could happen. We all know David Benavidez

1872
01:25:27,439 --> 01:25:29,680
Speaker 3: is now fighting at one seventy five because he's not

1873
01:25:29,720 --> 01:25:32,599
Speaker 3: gonna wait for Canelo. The David Morrell Junior pay per

1874
01:25:32,680 --> 01:25:35,280
Speaker 3: view on February first is gonna be musty TV. But

1875
01:25:35,360 --> 01:25:38,040
Speaker 3: if Benavidez wins, we already know he's being set up

1876
01:25:38,080 --> 01:25:41,639
Speaker 3: in riad season to fight the winner of the February

1877
01:25:41,640 --> 01:25:45,240
Speaker 3: twenty second Better bv Bevaal rematch for the undispeeded light

1878
01:25:45,240 --> 01:25:49,960
Speaker 3: heavyweight title. It's actually possible in twenty twenty five that

1879
01:25:50,240 --> 01:25:54,040
Speaker 3: Arthur Better beev if he beats Bevall second time stays undefeated,

1880
01:25:54,560 --> 01:25:57,920
Speaker 3: could take on unbeaten David Benavidez for the undisputed light

1881
01:25:57,920 --> 01:26:01,799
Speaker 3: heavyweight title. I would have thought we'd already seen Canelo

1882
01:26:01,840 --> 01:26:04,479
Speaker 3: Benavidez one and two by now we didn't, And I

1883
01:26:04,520 --> 01:26:06,439
Speaker 3: don't know if we're ever gonna see it. But Luke,

1884
01:26:07,120 --> 01:26:10,120
Speaker 3: holy shit, this would be a spectacle, like you got, like,

1885
01:26:10,640 --> 01:26:14,519
Speaker 3: you know, could you could you favorite Benavidez First, let's

1886
01:26:14,520 --> 01:26:16,760
Speaker 3: see what he did against Morrell, But who cares about that?

1887
01:26:17,160 --> 01:26:19,840
Speaker 3: He'd be an underdog coming in, But this would be

1888
01:26:20,040 --> 01:26:26,320
Speaker 3: a manly, hectic, highly skilled but aggressive fight. It would

1889
01:26:26,360 --> 01:26:30,200
Speaker 3: be absolutely incredible, especially if better'd be a wins the

1890
01:26:30,240 --> 01:26:33,360
Speaker 3: second time. Is that old dog pushing forty still, you know,

1891
01:26:33,400 --> 01:26:36,400
Speaker 3: fighting for the palm for pound number one consideration against

1892
01:26:36,439 --> 01:26:39,559
Speaker 3: a Benavidez who would have really, despite you know, never

1893
01:26:39,560 --> 01:26:43,160
Speaker 3: getting Canelo stepped up some quality steps, you know, plant

1894
01:26:43,520 --> 01:26:46,840
Speaker 3: on Andreid now this you know Vodzig and his debut

1895
01:26:46,840 --> 01:26:50,200
Speaker 3: at one seventy five and now Morrell First, Luke, how

1896
01:26:50,280 --> 01:26:51,320
Speaker 3: much would that interest you?

1897
01:26:52,280 --> 01:26:55,040
Speaker 1: Is this fight at one seventy five or one sixty eight.

1898
01:26:54,920 --> 01:26:57,240
Speaker 3: One seventy five they're full timers now a one seventy

1899
01:26:57,240 --> 01:26:58,720
Speaker 3: five Morel and benevide.

1900
01:26:58,400 --> 01:27:00,800
Speaker 1: I need to see how Benavidez look. I mean, it's

1901
01:27:00,800 --> 01:27:02,759
Speaker 1: not just a win here, because he looks fine against

1902
01:27:02,800 --> 01:27:04,360
Speaker 1: Vosdik but not overwhelming.

1903
01:27:05,000 --> 01:27:06,800
Speaker 3: Yeah, like he might not beat Morel just so we know,

1904
01:27:06,920 --> 01:27:09,000
Speaker 3: like we don't know, right, that's why that fights so good.

1905
01:27:09,280 --> 01:27:11,360
Speaker 1: Exactly, or he could beat morel but like by the

1906
01:27:11,360 --> 01:27:13,679
Speaker 1: skin of his teeth, in which case you're like, let's

1907
01:27:13,680 --> 01:27:15,360
Speaker 1: slow down. So I need to see how he looks.

1908
01:27:15,360 --> 01:27:17,040
Speaker 1: But I'll say this, if he looks like he looked

1909
01:27:17,040 --> 01:27:19,360
Speaker 1: against Andre or you know, not even that, but a

1910
01:27:19,400 --> 01:27:23,080
Speaker 1: plant or something, then yes, I'd be highly interested in

1911
01:27:23,120 --> 01:27:24,680
Speaker 1: seeing a showdown with better be.

1912
01:27:25,560 --> 01:27:28,080
Speaker 3: Hell yeah, let's go. What do you got for me,

1913
01:27:28,120 --> 01:27:28,920
Speaker 3: Luke number three?

1914
01:27:29,120 --> 01:27:37,000
Speaker 1: For my number three, it's you know, uh, you just

1915
01:27:37,080 --> 01:27:39,760
Speaker 1: have to see it or I'm gonna guess that there's

1916
01:27:39,760 --> 01:27:43,240
Speaker 1: a significant amount of market appeal for it. Devin Haney,

1917
01:27:43,280 --> 01:27:44,360
Speaker 1: Ryan Garcia.

1918
01:27:43,960 --> 01:27:46,240
Speaker 3: Too, Oh, hell yeah, give me that.

1919
01:27:47,840 --> 01:27:49,840
Speaker 1: Just seems like a no brainer for a fight that

1920
01:27:50,000 --> 01:27:54,679
Speaker 1: has I mean, everyone is suing everybody. Ryan Garcia's burning

1921
01:27:54,760 --> 01:27:56,439
Speaker 1: crosses allegedly or something like.

1922
01:27:57,640 --> 01:27:59,439
Speaker 3: It's a it's.

1923
01:27:59,320 --> 01:28:03,080
Speaker 1: A it's an I remember, I cannot even I know

1924
01:28:03,120 --> 01:28:07,040
Speaker 1: that I said that Ryan Garcia was gonna get tuned

1925
01:28:07,080 --> 01:28:08,760
Speaker 1: like a guitar, and that is, I mean, one of

1926
01:28:08,760 --> 01:28:11,559
Speaker 1: the all time worst predictions ever, And I understand that,

1927
01:28:11,600 --> 01:28:14,920
Speaker 1: but I do want folks to remember the madness of

1928
01:28:15,000 --> 01:28:20,200
Speaker 1: fight week, where Garcia had like party voice, was drinking

1929
01:28:20,240 --> 01:28:23,360
Speaker 1: in the club until late at night, missed wait, I

1930
01:28:23,400 --> 01:28:26,840
Speaker 1: mean just a circus beyond circus, and then went in

1931
01:28:26,880 --> 01:28:30,040
Speaker 1: there whenin the first minute of the first round rocked

1932
01:28:30,080 --> 01:28:31,760
Speaker 1: Devin Haney shit with a left hook. And then, of

1933
01:28:31,800 --> 01:28:34,960
Speaker 1: course people also forget Haney collected a bunch of rounds,

1934
01:28:35,000 --> 01:28:38,160
Speaker 1: like rounds three through six or seven or so, where

1935
01:28:38,200 --> 01:28:40,360
Speaker 1: he was doing really quite well, and then everything kind

1936
01:28:40,400 --> 01:28:42,160
Speaker 1: of came off a couple more times when he got

1937
01:28:42,240 --> 01:28:44,880
Speaker 1: dropped subsequently in that bout I think two more times

1938
01:28:44,880 --> 01:28:47,559
Speaker 1: after that, if memory serves, so the whole thing was

1939
01:28:47,600 --> 01:28:51,280
Speaker 1: just the whole thing was fucking madness. Devin Haney saying

1940
01:28:51,320 --> 01:28:53,280
Speaker 1: he's gonna be back in March, obviously not against Ryan Garcia,

1941
01:28:53,280 --> 01:28:55,599
Speaker 1: who's still suspended. So there's a little bit of business

1942
01:28:55,640 --> 01:28:57,880
Speaker 1: to be conducted, and you know, we'll see what kind

1943
01:28:57,920 --> 01:28:59,640
Speaker 1: of state Ryan Garcia is in by the time he

1944
01:28:59,760 --> 01:29:02,960
Speaker 1: is reinstated from his one year ban as well. But BC,

1945
01:29:03,360 --> 01:29:05,320
Speaker 1: I mean, am I lying and saying that there is

1946
01:29:05,360 --> 01:29:07,439
Speaker 1: just an enormous I mean, it's one of the biggest

1947
01:29:07,439 --> 01:29:09,519
Speaker 1: rematches you could make. Oh yeah, and if not the

1948
01:29:09,560 --> 01:29:10,720
Speaker 1: biggest rematch you could make.

1949
01:29:10,720 --> 01:29:13,360
Speaker 3: In the year, and it's going to be so palatable

1950
01:29:13,400 --> 01:29:15,360
Speaker 3: to the calsual fan to jump over and be like,

1951
01:29:15,439 --> 01:29:17,200
Speaker 3: oh yeah, I know that's I know that story, I

1952
01:29:17,240 --> 01:29:19,720
Speaker 3: know that that fight. Let's do it again a second time, Luke,

1953
01:29:19,800 --> 01:29:21,760
Speaker 3: my second fight is going to be right involved there

1954
01:29:21,760 --> 01:29:23,760
Speaker 3: with the Five Kings, if you want to call him that.

1955
01:29:23,840 --> 01:29:26,000
Speaker 3: Of in and around the one thirty five to one

1956
01:29:26,000 --> 01:29:28,800
Speaker 3: to forty division, we've only seen two iterations of this

1957
01:29:28,840 --> 01:29:31,880
Speaker 3: group fight each other. Both have involved Ryan Garcia, once

1958
01:29:31,880 --> 01:29:34,360
Speaker 3: against Tank Davison. Of course the first fight with Haney.

1959
01:29:34,640 --> 01:29:36,639
Speaker 3: Damn right. I hope he rematches Haney and that would

1960
01:29:36,640 --> 01:29:38,679
Speaker 3: have been my number four pick. But my number two

1961
01:29:38,680 --> 01:29:41,880
Speaker 3: pick is a fresh matchup. How about Ryan Garcia versus

1962
01:29:41,920 --> 01:29:45,040
Speaker 3: Tao Femo Lopez Junior. And I know Tao and Devin

1963
01:29:45,080 --> 01:29:47,439
Speaker 3: Haney have been talking trash. We'll get to Devin Haney's

1964
01:29:47,479 --> 01:29:50,200
Speaker 3: future in a second, but Luke, Ryan Garcia versus Tao

1965
01:29:50,400 --> 01:29:55,080
Speaker 3: in the ring would be so quick, twitch, fiber explosive.

1966
01:29:55,520 --> 01:29:58,639
Speaker 3: It would be incredible. And the lead in with how

1967
01:29:58,720 --> 01:30:01,559
Speaker 3: you know, we think of Ryan Garcia as unfortunately at

1968
01:30:01,560 --> 01:30:05,240
Speaker 3: times being crazy dude. Teo has been wild out of

1969
01:30:05,240 --> 01:30:09,120
Speaker 3: control lately. I mean, both guys have used the N word. Unfortunately. Look,

1970
01:30:09,200 --> 01:30:10,680
Speaker 3: that's not the direction I wanted to go here with

1971
01:30:10,680 --> 01:30:13,360
Speaker 3: this matchup, but it is the reality. Tell me, this

1972
01:30:13,400 --> 01:30:16,479
Speaker 3: wouldn't be an offensive, just joy to be whole to

1973
01:30:16,520 --> 01:30:17,200
Speaker 3: watch in the ring.

1974
01:30:18,680 --> 01:30:22,120
Speaker 1: Yes, it would certainly be the kind of madness that

1975
01:30:22,200 --> 01:30:24,040
Speaker 1: you tend to prefer. I think it's a good way

1976
01:30:24,040 --> 01:30:24,639
Speaker 1: to put it, right.

1977
01:30:24,760 --> 01:30:27,479
Speaker 3: Hul Klego be the special guest referee, right, you know,

1978
01:30:27,840 --> 01:30:29,880
Speaker 3: Dog the bunny Hunter would be the time keeper, would

1979
01:30:29,880 --> 01:30:30,439
Speaker 3: be Gray.

1980
01:30:32,240 --> 01:30:38,919
Speaker 1: Oh that's hilarious. Yeah, but listen, there's a market for chaos,

1981
01:30:39,000 --> 01:30:41,120
Speaker 1: and that fight brings it and.

1982
01:30:41,240 --> 01:30:42,640
Speaker 3: The one forty title. Let's do it.

1983
01:30:42,720 --> 01:30:45,200
Speaker 1: Let's do it. It would absolutely work. I can't say

1984
01:30:45,240 --> 01:30:47,880
Speaker 1: otherwise it would work. It would work all right for

1985
01:30:48,000 --> 01:30:51,920
Speaker 1: my number two BC. I struggled with this one because

1986
01:30:51,920 --> 01:30:53,760
Speaker 1: my number one is clear, and so I didn't know

1987
01:30:53,800 --> 01:30:56,920
Speaker 1: which direction to go for my number three. Honorable mention,

1988
01:30:57,160 --> 01:31:02,599
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say Canelo and but but I just don't

1989
01:31:02,600 --> 01:31:04,400
Speaker 1: think it's very likely to happen, So I can't really

1990
01:31:04,400 --> 01:31:05,200
Speaker 1: put it on my list.

1991
01:31:05,600 --> 01:31:08,760
Speaker 3: Oh it looks they're talking about it. It's still kind

1992
01:31:08,800 --> 01:31:10,320
Speaker 3: of out there as a possibility for I.

1993
01:31:10,400 --> 01:31:12,959
Speaker 1: Just find it unlikely. I don't know, I find it unlikely.

1994
01:31:13,240 --> 01:31:15,240
Speaker 1: I hope I'm wrong. Jesus, I hope I'm wrong, And

1995
01:31:15,240 --> 01:31:17,040
Speaker 1: based on my twenty twenty four predictions, there's a good

1996
01:31:17,080 --> 01:31:22,599
Speaker 1: chance I am right. Virtual or Teas and Boots, that's

1997
01:31:22,600 --> 01:31:24,800
Speaker 1: the one I want to see. I really want to

1998
01:31:24,840 --> 01:31:29,720
Speaker 1: see that one. Boots had a big debut signing with

1999
01:31:29,840 --> 01:31:33,559
Speaker 1: match Room, and it's not gone poorly exactly, but it

2000
01:31:33,600 --> 01:31:36,519
Speaker 1: has been no boost from his fortunes at Well again,

2001
01:31:36,680 --> 01:31:39,280
Speaker 1: at PBC. We know he's not really a PBC guy,

2002
01:31:39,280 --> 01:31:43,479
Speaker 1: but you know, had a PBC friendly essentially relationship. It's

2003
01:31:43,479 --> 01:31:46,080
Speaker 1: been no change and in fact, maybe even worse. And

2004
01:31:46,120 --> 01:31:47,920
Speaker 1: some of the things that people have said about him,

2005
01:31:47,960 --> 01:31:49,320
Speaker 1: like he's duck in this guy, and he's duck in

2006
01:31:49,320 --> 01:31:51,599
Speaker 1: that guy, and he's duck in this one. You know,

2007
01:31:51,720 --> 01:31:53,640
Speaker 1: I think some of that might be overstated, but not

2008
01:31:53,760 --> 01:31:56,040
Speaker 1: all of it. BC Like there has been a moment

2009
01:31:56,080 --> 01:31:58,639
Speaker 1: where we've kind of been waiting for Boots to break

2010
01:31:58,640 --> 01:32:02,719
Speaker 1: out and he just hasn't broken out. And not only

2011
01:32:02,760 --> 01:32:05,040
Speaker 1: that this fight would be all action, it would be

2012
01:32:05,080 --> 01:32:08,040
Speaker 1: important for well I mean one fifty four essentially, I

2013
01:32:08,040 --> 01:32:09,680
Speaker 1: mean I know he was saying I might go one

2014
01:32:09,720 --> 01:32:12,400
Speaker 1: fifty four seven, but certainly in fifty four.

2015
01:32:12,920 --> 01:32:15,080
Speaker 3: To interrupt you, the latest news is that Boots is

2016
01:32:15,120 --> 01:32:18,439
Speaker 3: talking with stanionis about a welterweight title unification, which is.

2017
01:32:18,439 --> 01:32:20,400
Speaker 1: Fine, but that's not on the level of this one.

2018
01:32:20,479 --> 01:32:22,559
Speaker 1: I mean, it's just not, you know, in terms of

2019
01:32:22,560 --> 01:32:24,960
Speaker 1: the interest level. Virtual Ortiz is not the slickster. I

2020
01:32:24,960 --> 01:32:27,240
Speaker 1: don't think that a guy like Boots is. But he's

2021
01:32:27,240 --> 01:32:30,559
Speaker 1: hard nosed, he's devastating, he's very good, he's in your face.

2022
01:32:30,600 --> 01:32:32,280
Speaker 1: The kind of guy I think that could give Boots,

2023
01:32:32,479 --> 01:32:36,320
Speaker 1: who is defensively lazy or at a bare minimum not optimized,

2024
01:32:37,240 --> 01:32:40,320
Speaker 1: could cause real problems. Like it's just a moment for

2025
01:32:40,360 --> 01:32:42,320
Speaker 1: Boots to either show us who we thought he could be,

2026
01:32:42,840 --> 01:32:45,040
Speaker 1: or for Ortiz to sort of set the record straight

2027
01:32:45,080 --> 01:32:47,519
Speaker 1: about what the pecking order actually looks like. And either

2028
01:32:47,560 --> 01:32:50,040
Speaker 1: way you're gonna get a dynamite fight out of it.

2029
01:32:50,640 --> 01:32:52,559
Speaker 1: I love that one, BC. I really hope they find

2030
01:32:52,560 --> 01:32:53,599
Speaker 1: a way to make that one happen.

2031
01:32:53,920 --> 01:32:56,080
Speaker 3: I love that pick my number one pick. Look, I'm

2032
01:32:56,080 --> 01:32:57,960
Speaker 3: gonna be consistent. I say it all the time whenever

2033
01:32:58,000 --> 01:32:59,559
Speaker 3: we talk about what's the fights you want to see

2034
01:32:59,560 --> 01:33:02,559
Speaker 3: most it's not as sexy at the moment because both

2035
01:33:02,600 --> 01:33:04,920
Speaker 3: haven't had great years in terms of marketing themselves by

2036
01:33:05,520 --> 01:33:08,200
Speaker 3: staying busy and upgrading their competition. Although I credit Tank

2037
01:33:08,280 --> 01:33:10,840
Speaker 3: Davis for that, Frank Martin win, he just hasn't been

2038
01:33:10,880 --> 01:33:13,000
Speaker 3: busy and who knows if he's even fighting Roach in March.

2039
01:33:13,040 --> 01:33:15,400
Speaker 3: I hope, But we saw that weird cryptic tweet from him.

2040
01:33:15,800 --> 01:33:18,240
Speaker 3: We saw that new hairstyle on social media yesterday, which

2041
01:33:18,240 --> 01:33:21,519
Speaker 3: was interesting as well. But you know, at the highest level,

2042
01:33:21,520 --> 01:33:24,400
Speaker 3: I love skill versus skill. Dude, Tank Davis to Shaquer Stevenson,

2043
01:33:24,479 --> 01:33:26,559
Speaker 3: give it to me, Give it to me at lightweight,

2044
01:33:26,920 --> 01:33:30,880
Speaker 3: unify the titles. Finally, this would be the fight that

2045
01:33:31,080 --> 01:33:35,240
Speaker 3: both badly need. For Tank, it would be the highest

2046
01:33:35,320 --> 01:33:38,800
Speaker 3: level critical opponent where people would probably be split or

2047
01:33:38,920 --> 01:33:41,320
Speaker 3: you know, some pick in Shakur to beat him there,

2048
01:33:41,439 --> 01:33:44,400
Speaker 3: where he'd have to prove against a contemporary, same weight,

2049
01:33:44,479 --> 01:33:47,559
Speaker 3: same age group, you know, same era here that he

2050
01:33:47,600 --> 01:33:50,040
Speaker 3: can do this on the level of him, and that's

2051
01:33:50,040 --> 01:33:52,960
Speaker 3: what Schaquer has shown. For Shakur. It certainly would be

2052
01:33:52,960 --> 01:33:54,479
Speaker 3: that same thing, but it would also be that one

2053
01:33:54,560 --> 01:33:57,519
Speaker 3: giant commercial fight that he's been grasping for but hasn't

2054
01:33:57,560 --> 01:33:59,320
Speaker 3: been able to get and I know he hasn't always

2055
01:33:59,320 --> 01:34:02,080
Speaker 3: been his own best advocate inside the ring, got boot

2056
01:34:02,120 --> 01:34:04,760
Speaker 3: out of his own home arena switch promoters. I know

2057
01:34:04,840 --> 01:34:07,280
Speaker 3: everything that's happened, had an injury recently. But if you

2058
01:34:07,320 --> 01:34:10,400
Speaker 3: put these two together, the ones that know, the hardcores know.

2059
01:34:10,840 --> 01:34:13,000
Speaker 3: But that's as great of a fight as you can

2060
01:34:13,040 --> 01:34:15,880
Speaker 3: make in the entire damn sport. I want answers. I

2061
01:34:15,880 --> 01:34:17,679
Speaker 3: want these guys to fight each other while they're still

2062
01:34:17,680 --> 01:34:20,719
Speaker 3: in their twenties and in their primes. Come on, five kings,

2063
01:34:20,800 --> 01:34:23,840
Speaker 3: five princes, whatever we're calling. You make this era great

2064
01:34:23,880 --> 01:34:26,280
Speaker 3: by fighting each other and going out of your way

2065
01:34:26,320 --> 01:34:28,400
Speaker 3: to do it. Uncle Turkey's there. If we need a

2066
01:34:28,439 --> 01:34:31,880
Speaker 3: financial boom, any five booms, we can get that too, Luke,

2067
01:34:32,120 --> 01:34:34,439
Speaker 3: let's make it. I want to see skill versus skill,

2068
01:34:34,560 --> 01:34:36,040
Speaker 3: best versus best. Let's go.

2069
01:34:38,280 --> 01:34:41,200
Speaker 1: That's a good one. It doesn't move me, well, okay,

2070
01:34:41,280 --> 01:34:43,439
Speaker 1: it does move me quite a bit. I just find

2071
01:34:43,479 --> 01:34:45,920
Speaker 1: it so unlikely. I just don't. I mean, I'm not

2072
01:34:45,960 --> 01:34:47,320
Speaker 1: even sure I we're going to get to the Lamont

2073
01:34:47,360 --> 01:34:50,240
Speaker 1: Roach finish line, much less the Shaquerz Stevenson finish line.

2074
01:34:50,920 --> 01:34:54,320
Speaker 1: But if they made it. It would be fucking epic.

2075
01:34:54,439 --> 01:34:57,040
Speaker 1: It would be huge, it would be fantastic. I would

2076
01:34:57,160 --> 01:34:58,920
Speaker 1: love it. I have not a single bad thing to

2077
01:34:58,920 --> 01:35:01,639
Speaker 1: say about it, other than I just don't know how

2078
01:35:01,880 --> 01:35:05,080
Speaker 1: likely it is. But for my number one BC, this

2079
01:35:05,160 --> 01:35:06,760
Speaker 1: is an easy one. I don't think anyone's gonna be

2080
01:35:06,800 --> 01:35:09,519
Speaker 1: super surprised by this. I'm not saying it's the biggest

2081
01:35:09,520 --> 01:35:11,920
Speaker 1: fight for anybody else, although I do think for some

2082
01:35:12,040 --> 01:35:18,040
Speaker 1: it will be simple Tyson Fury versus Anthony Joshua. It's

2083
01:35:18,080 --> 01:35:21,040
Speaker 1: not what it once could have been. Okay, fair enough,

2084
01:35:21,320 --> 01:35:26,080
Speaker 1: but it's still pretty great, and it's still big important

2085
01:35:27,360 --> 01:35:32,400
Speaker 1: set up for phenomenal atmosphere, could set up for phenomenal action.

2086
01:35:33,000 --> 01:35:36,479
Speaker 1: I think it's still settles something pretty important. And you know, BC,

2087
01:35:36,560 --> 01:35:37,920
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna put it on the same level of

2088
01:35:38,000 --> 01:35:40,840
Speaker 1: like it's the heavyweight British version of Garcia Haney. I

2089
01:35:40,880 --> 01:35:43,840
Speaker 1: don't think that's quite right. But I do think between them,

2090
01:35:44,080 --> 01:35:46,240
Speaker 1: you're gonna get a crazy guy acting out in Tyson

2091
01:35:46,280 --> 01:35:48,360
Speaker 1: Fury and sort of the straight man as it were

2092
01:35:48,479 --> 01:35:52,120
Speaker 1: in either Devin Haney or in this particular case, Anthony Joshua,

2093
01:35:52,160 --> 01:35:54,960
Speaker 1: and you're gonna get a fun contrast in the build

2094
01:35:55,040 --> 01:35:56,680
Speaker 1: up to it. I think that fight has to go

2095
01:35:56,720 --> 01:35:58,640
Speaker 1: in the UK and not necessarily in Saudi Arabia. I

2096
01:35:58,680 --> 01:36:01,600
Speaker 1: don't know. I don't know how Saudi Arabia feels about that,

2097
01:36:01,640 --> 01:36:03,960
Speaker 1: but I'm just pointing out that fight for me would

2098
01:36:04,000 --> 01:36:08,920
Speaker 1: be so fun, so interesting, so weird. It's my number

2099
01:36:08,960 --> 01:36:09,840
Speaker 1: one boxing fight. To make it.

2100
01:36:09,840 --> 01:36:12,280
Speaker 3: Oh, look, it's a great pick and it has to happen.

2101
01:36:12,360 --> 01:36:15,360
Speaker 3: We need it. Turkey was willing to put Dubois versus

2102
01:36:15,400 --> 01:36:17,439
Speaker 3: Aj in front of what was that ninety six thousand

2103
01:36:17,479 --> 01:36:20,599
Speaker 3: at Wembley. This fight. If you can cram more bodies

2104
01:36:20,600 --> 01:36:22,920
Speaker 3: into that building, they'll find a way. This is that fight.

2105
01:36:23,120 --> 01:36:25,160
Speaker 3: And as much as you would rather see this fight

2106
01:36:25,520 --> 01:36:29,240
Speaker 3: if both were unbeaten champions unifying to get an undisputed champion,

2107
01:36:29,760 --> 01:36:32,200
Speaker 3: it didn't go that way. But his second best option

2108
01:36:32,479 --> 01:36:35,040
Speaker 3: is two former champions who still have something in the

2109
01:36:35,080 --> 01:36:37,559
Speaker 3: tank and a chip on their shoulder from recent big

2110
01:36:37,600 --> 01:36:41,160
Speaker 3: time losses looking to redeem themselves against one another to

2111
01:36:41,280 --> 01:36:44,679
Speaker 3: work their way back into that undisputed title shot. It's

2112
01:36:44,720 --> 01:36:47,639
Speaker 3: central casting still even at this point, even with both

2113
01:36:47,680 --> 01:36:51,320
Speaker 3: having a couple losses here, So yeah, great choice. Need it.

2114
01:36:51,439 --> 01:36:54,200
Speaker 3: Hope we see it, think we'll see it next. It's

2115
01:36:54,240 --> 01:36:56,639
Speaker 3: a perfect re odd season in London. Fight, let's do it.

2116
01:36:56,720 --> 01:36:59,920
Speaker 3: So there you go, Luke. Before we get to DM

2117
01:37:00,040 --> 01:37:02,000
Speaker 3: from Donks, I need one answer from you. A quick

2118
01:37:02,000 --> 01:37:04,960
Speaker 3: shot of a couple right here. Number one, best MMA

2119
01:37:05,080 --> 01:37:07,400
Speaker 3: fight this year you want to see outside of the UFC.

2120
01:37:07,760 --> 01:37:10,360
Speaker 3: I would have said, as I've always said, Usman Andr Maga,

2121
01:37:10,360 --> 01:37:12,960
Speaker 3: Mettal versus AJ McKee. We never got that one. I'll

2122
01:37:13,000 --> 01:37:14,880
Speaker 3: take Usman versus Paul Hughes. This is going to be

2123
01:37:14,920 --> 01:37:16,479
Speaker 3: a hell of a fight in just a couple of

2124
01:37:16,520 --> 01:37:18,920
Speaker 3: weeks here. And to kick off the road to Dubai series.

2125
01:37:19,120 --> 01:37:21,240
Speaker 3: Are there is there any fights outside of UFC that

2126
01:37:21,280 --> 01:37:21,840
Speaker 3: you're itching for?

2127
01:37:23,520 --> 01:37:27,280
Speaker 1: Definitely that one. I'll be very curious see what they're

2128
01:37:27,320 --> 01:37:29,320
Speaker 1: going to do with Dakota Ditscheva. It's not a name

2129
01:37:29,400 --> 01:37:31,160
Speaker 1: that you're asking, or you're asking him. I don't have one,

2130
01:37:31,160 --> 01:37:34,680
Speaker 1: but like that seems to me like appointment viewing for

2131
01:37:34,680 --> 01:37:37,360
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five. Trying to think through the rest of

2132
01:37:37,360 --> 01:37:39,679
Speaker 1: their champions. Obviously, I want their guys to stay busy.

2133
01:37:40,439 --> 01:37:42,360
Speaker 1: I think what happens with Francis on the MMA side,

2134
01:37:42,360 --> 01:37:45,000
Speaker 1: we didn't really talk about It's kind of been I

2135
01:37:45,000 --> 01:37:46,599
Speaker 1: don't know who they're going to put him up against.

2136
01:37:46,600 --> 01:37:48,519
Speaker 1: That I saw people saying, Nimkov, I don't know if

2137
01:37:48,520 --> 01:37:51,080
Speaker 1: Francis comes back for that. That seems a little speculative.

2138
01:37:52,920 --> 01:37:54,679
Speaker 1: I'd have to think about that one a little bit more,

2139
01:37:54,760 --> 01:37:56,720
Speaker 1: because here I was last year being like, I've got

2140
01:37:56,720 --> 01:37:59,080
Speaker 1: all these plans for pfl Belatore, No, you have. Nothing

2141
01:37:59,080 --> 01:38:01,519
Speaker 1: don't come true, so I'll have to see. But like,

2142
01:38:01,560 --> 01:38:03,360
Speaker 1: for sure there are some And again, I would love

2143
01:38:03,360 --> 01:38:05,479
Speaker 1: to see Patchy. I mean that's sort of relatively simple.

2144
01:38:05,479 --> 01:38:07,639
Speaker 1: I would love to see him just in action more

2145
01:38:07,680 --> 01:38:11,320
Speaker 1: regularly and then kind of let drama and different feuds build.

2146
01:38:11,400 --> 01:38:14,160
Speaker 1: But right now there's just not a lot building.

2147
01:38:13,960 --> 01:38:15,800
Speaker 3: Right, Okay, what about if they did some kind of

2148
01:38:16,000 --> 01:38:20,280
Speaker 3: crawd catchway Patchy mixed Patricio Pippule, make them both happy

2149
01:38:20,320 --> 01:38:22,879
Speaker 3: you fight each other. There's not much meaning there outside,

2150
01:38:22,880 --> 01:38:25,960
Speaker 3: you know, because the beltser beltzer secondary. I mean, they're

2151
01:38:25,960 --> 01:38:27,479
Speaker 3: giving away belts if you win a pay per view

2152
01:38:27,560 --> 01:38:30,120
Speaker 3: fight at this point, So yeah, I got an RP

2153
01:38:30,720 --> 01:38:34,400
Speaker 3: quickly close Luke MK in twenty five, do you have

2154
01:38:34,439 --> 01:38:35,479
Speaker 3: any predictions to make?

2155
01:38:36,000 --> 01:38:39,640
Speaker 1: Oh? Jesus, fuck no.

2156
01:38:38,400 --> 01:38:40,160
Speaker 3: Do you have any like where will we be one

2157
01:38:40,240 --> 01:38:40,920
Speaker 3: year from now?

2158
01:38:42,520 --> 01:38:49,160
Speaker 1: I hope not dead. Here's the thing. I got beaten

2159
01:38:49,240 --> 01:38:51,920
Speaker 1: like a dog this year, so it's very like.

2160
01:38:51,880 --> 01:38:53,120
Speaker 3: A dog tar.

2161
01:38:53,280 --> 01:38:53,519
Speaker 1: Yeah.

2162
01:38:53,720 --> 01:38:54,960
Speaker 3: Yeah, you're tuned up like one.

2163
01:38:55,040 --> 01:38:56,800
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, I got to I got I got tuned

2164
01:38:56,840 --> 01:39:00,240
Speaker 1: up like a fucking guitar this year. So it's a

2165
01:39:00,280 --> 01:39:03,640
Speaker 1: little hard for me to be optimistic. And you know,

2166
01:39:03,680 --> 01:39:06,840
Speaker 1: in a ready for show kind of way. I mean,

2167
01:39:06,840 --> 01:39:08,400
Speaker 1: I'll let you take this one away, bec because I

2168
01:39:08,400 --> 01:39:09,840
Speaker 1: feel like you've got a better vision for it.

2169
01:39:09,880 --> 01:39:14,120
Speaker 3: Anyway, get us on the road a few times this year, agreed,

2170
01:39:14,320 --> 01:39:19,080
Speaker 3: Get us in a studio, a funhouse studio, or or

2171
01:39:19,120 --> 01:39:21,799
Speaker 3: a consistent setting where we can bring back a pregame, preview,

2172
01:39:21,840 --> 01:39:24,439
Speaker 3: bring back an RSD. You want to be there for

2173
01:39:24,479 --> 01:39:26,479
Speaker 3: the three or four biggest events, boots on the ground

2174
01:39:26,479 --> 01:39:28,599
Speaker 3: doing the content we used to do. We get back

2175
01:39:28,600 --> 01:39:30,680
Speaker 3: to that with two strong shows a week like we've

2176
01:39:30,680 --> 01:39:33,160
Speaker 3: been running of late Long Island. Luke raising the rent

2177
01:39:33,200 --> 01:39:36,080
Speaker 3: around here, Mikey's lingering. We got, you know, we got

2178
01:39:36,080 --> 01:39:38,479
Speaker 3: the skeleton core of what we were, and we add

2179
01:39:38,520 --> 01:39:40,600
Speaker 3: a couple more back and we build up and we

2180
01:39:40,600 --> 01:39:43,320
Speaker 3: build stronger. We could be entering twenty six a year

2181
01:39:43,360 --> 01:39:46,200
Speaker 3: from now, Luke. I mean you never want to say

2182
01:39:46,880 --> 01:39:48,800
Speaker 3: regaining where we were because we used to have a

2183
01:39:48,800 --> 01:39:52,840
Speaker 3: stupid budget and hindsight while but regaining that spot we

2184
01:39:52,920 --> 01:39:56,920
Speaker 3: had in the minds of our contemporaries, of the viewers,

2185
01:39:56,960 --> 01:39:58,400
Speaker 3: of the fans, you know what I mean, where it's

2186
01:39:58,400 --> 01:40:02,040
Speaker 3: like shit, no matter what's happened. Yes, I gotta see

2187
01:40:02,040 --> 01:40:03,960
Speaker 3: what MK says about it. Let's get back to that.

2188
01:40:04,040 --> 01:40:06,120
Speaker 3: I think we'll get there, all right, Luke Thomas. That's

2189
01:40:06,160 --> 01:40:09,439
Speaker 3: the end of us answering our own questions while we

2190
01:40:09,520 --> 01:40:12,759
Speaker 3: killed a lot of shows with not much. So that's great. Oh,

2191
01:40:13,040 --> 01:40:16,040
Speaker 3: Devin Haney, sorry really fast. So Devin Haney, the news

2192
01:40:16,120 --> 01:40:18,320
Speaker 3: is that he's going to come back in March, and

2193
01:40:18,400 --> 01:40:21,160
Speaker 3: it looks like the report that will be on BLK

2194
01:40:21,320 --> 01:40:25,439
Speaker 3: Prome against Adrian Broner isn't necessarily true as the true

2195
01:40:25,479 --> 01:40:27,800
Speaker 3: opponent of his return has not been revealed or what

2196
01:40:27,800 --> 01:40:31,440
Speaker 3: the platform situation is, and obviously with Ryan garcia suspension

2197
01:40:31,479 --> 01:40:33,720
Speaker 3: not being up until April, we know that this is

2198
01:40:33,840 --> 01:40:35,559
Speaker 3: in some form. We're going to be a tune up fight,

2199
01:40:36,280 --> 01:40:40,080
Speaker 3: so we think, Luke Haney has not handled the fallout

2200
01:40:40,080 --> 01:40:42,040
Speaker 3: of his loss to Garcia well in my opinion from

2201
01:40:42,040 --> 01:40:45,160
Speaker 3: a PR standpoint, suing him afterwards all that he hasn't

2202
01:40:45,200 --> 01:40:47,160
Speaker 3: fought since then, Whether that was to heal the jaw

2203
01:40:47,320 --> 01:40:49,200
Speaker 3: or not, I don't know, Long Island, Luke. Can we

2204
01:40:49,240 --> 01:40:50,840
Speaker 3: show the footage that he put out this week of

2205
01:40:50,960 --> 01:40:54,559
Speaker 3: him getting back into training, Luke, what do you want

2206
01:40:54,600 --> 01:40:57,280
Speaker 3: from him in March? How tough of an opponent? How

2207
01:40:57,360 --> 01:40:59,640
Speaker 3: much should he jump back into this pool? Because we

2208
01:40:59,720 --> 01:41:01,320
Speaker 3: know close the year we got to see him in

2209
01:41:01,320 --> 01:41:03,920
Speaker 3: really big fights in and around this one forty way class.

2210
01:41:04,280 --> 01:41:06,640
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know. I don't know. I don't know

2211
01:41:06,680 --> 01:41:08,320
Speaker 1: how I feel about an opponent, but I do think

2212
01:41:08,360 --> 01:41:10,840
Speaker 1: he needs a tune up. There's just no question in

2213
01:41:10,880 --> 01:41:12,519
Speaker 1: my mind that was a bad loss. He took a

2214
01:41:12,520 --> 01:41:16,200
Speaker 1: lot of damage against Garcia, and his stock fucking collapsed.

2215
01:41:16,240 --> 01:41:18,200
Speaker 1: Like everyone who decided they didn't like him came out

2216
01:41:18,240 --> 01:41:22,000
Speaker 1: of the woodwork on this one, and he needs he

2217
01:41:22,080 --> 01:41:24,400
Speaker 1: needs to get back into it. I think in an

2218
01:41:24,439 --> 01:41:27,599
Speaker 1: easy kind of way, boxing is good for this relative

2219
01:41:27,640 --> 01:41:30,200
Speaker 1: to MMA anyway, So you would be better than I

2220
01:41:30,240 --> 01:41:32,040
Speaker 1: would about a name. I have no fucking clue who

2221
01:41:32,040 --> 01:41:34,559
Speaker 1: it would be other than it should be a tune up.

2222
01:41:35,880 --> 01:41:37,599
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'd like a little more than a tune up.

2223
01:41:37,600 --> 01:41:39,080
Speaker 3: I know he's already beat in Regis Progress, so I

2224
01:41:39,120 --> 01:41:41,599
Speaker 3: don't want him, but somebody like that, an aging veteran

2225
01:41:41,600 --> 01:41:43,720
Speaker 3: who may be able to give him some trouble, but

2226
01:41:43,720 --> 01:41:45,720
Speaker 3: we want to see him get the mojo back. Look

2227
01:41:45,760 --> 01:41:47,680
Speaker 3: a bit. I wouldn't even hate, by the way, the

2228
01:41:47,680 --> 01:41:49,680
Speaker 3: Broner fight. I know that's saying a lot because he

2229
01:41:49,760 --> 01:41:52,040
Speaker 3: just got schooled by Blair the flair on the comeback,

2230
01:41:52,280 --> 01:41:54,000
Speaker 3: but I mean like the idea of just let's see

2231
01:41:54,040 --> 01:41:55,599
Speaker 3: him look good in a fight that we might care

2232
01:41:55,640 --> 01:41:58,320
Speaker 3: about for that night only. But he's got to rebuild that.

2233
01:41:58,600 --> 01:42:00,880
Speaker 3: The interesting thing, obviously, is that he's emotional free agent.

2234
01:42:00,920 --> 01:42:03,200
Speaker 3: He could, in theory kind of go out anywhere. You

2235
01:42:03,200 --> 01:42:05,799
Speaker 3: can go anywhere and any anyways now with Turkey around.

2236
01:42:06,120 --> 01:42:09,439
Speaker 3: But let's see a step up to some degree, shake

2237
01:42:09,479 --> 01:42:11,559
Speaker 3: off the rust, and then you gotta go big. Look,

2238
01:42:11,560 --> 01:42:14,599
Speaker 3: you gotta go, in my opinion, right back into Ryan Garcia,

2239
01:42:14,720 --> 01:42:17,400
Speaker 3: meaning no matter who he fights in March, make Ryan

2240
01:42:17,400 --> 01:42:20,640
Speaker 3: Garcia as soon as possible, May June whatever, because I

2241
01:42:20,640 --> 01:42:23,120
Speaker 3: think the only true way to get the Mojo back,

2242
01:42:23,240 --> 01:42:25,680
Speaker 3: get their reputation back. Is to go back in there

2243
01:42:25,720 --> 01:42:27,679
Speaker 3: and have the result against Ryan that we all thought

2244
01:42:27,680 --> 01:42:30,240
Speaker 3: the first should have been the first time around, and

2245
01:42:30,240 --> 01:42:31,720
Speaker 3: it would make him a lot of money too. I mean,

2246
01:42:31,760 --> 01:42:33,519
Speaker 3: stop with the lawsuits, all right, let's get through this.

2247
01:42:33,600 --> 01:42:34,760
Speaker 3: Let's get past that point.

2248
01:42:35,640 --> 01:42:35,760
Speaker 1: Right.

2249
01:42:36,120 --> 01:42:37,800
Speaker 3: Would you be moved by Tayo Femo as we show

2250
01:42:37,880 --> 01:42:39,920
Speaker 3: quickly the tweet as they had a back and forth,

2251
01:42:39,920 --> 01:42:43,920
Speaker 3: Tao Femo now questioning the blackness of Haney's ska Tao

2252
01:42:43,960 --> 01:42:46,479
Speaker 3: Fema on this racial attack of late.

2253
01:42:47,920 --> 01:42:50,240
Speaker 1: He's got real issues about this.

2254
01:42:50,800 --> 01:42:53,000
Speaker 3: Yeah, and Hani would call him out for that and

2255
01:42:53,000 --> 01:42:55,240
Speaker 3: then say stay off them pills you love so much

2256
01:42:55,280 --> 01:42:57,479
Speaker 3: and you know exactly what I'm talking about too. You

2257
01:42:57,520 --> 01:42:59,080
Speaker 3: also see Tayo Femo is trying to get up on

2258
01:42:59,160 --> 01:43:00,960
Speaker 3: Nina drama. I mean, this guy's all over the place

2259
01:43:01,000 --> 01:43:03,599
Speaker 3: lately on socials. You know, we love Tao buddy, He's

2260
01:43:03,640 --> 01:43:04,639
Speaker 3: a wildcard, Luke.

2261
01:43:04,760 --> 01:43:08,400
Speaker 1: What was he doing with Nina first?

2262
01:43:08,640 --> 01:43:09,120
Speaker 3: Reacting?

2263
01:43:09,600 --> 01:43:13,240
Speaker 1: Oh, I see, just being horny on the internet.

2264
01:43:13,200 --> 01:43:15,360
Speaker 3: Something like that. All right, that's from us. Let's hear

2265
01:43:15,400 --> 01:43:18,080
Speaker 3: from you now. You know, every Sunday night at morning

2266
01:43:18,080 --> 01:43:20,439
Speaker 3: combat on Instagram and Twitter. We put out the call

2267
01:43:20,520 --> 01:43:23,200
Speaker 3: for your questions. We got five of them. We're gonna

2268
01:43:23,240 --> 01:43:32,080
Speaker 3: answer them. This is DMS from Dogs. Alrighty, let's hit it, people,

2269
01:43:32,120 --> 01:43:34,040
Speaker 3: What do you got for us? This first one is

2270
01:43:34,120 --> 01:43:38,280
Speaker 3: from at Emery Nix. In your opinion, who was the

2271
01:43:38,320 --> 01:43:43,000
Speaker 3: toughest MMA fighter of all time? Someone who just kept

2272
01:43:43,040 --> 01:43:44,240
Speaker 3: going forward no matter what?

2273
01:43:44,479 --> 01:43:44,679
Speaker 1: Luke?

2274
01:43:44,720 --> 01:43:47,040
Speaker 3: This is different than who has the greatest chin, although

2275
01:43:47,040 --> 01:43:49,920
Speaker 3: that certainly helps to be in this category. But is

2276
01:43:49,960 --> 01:43:53,479
Speaker 3: there someone that you've identified that's just tougher than the rest?

2277
01:43:54,280 --> 01:43:55,840
Speaker 1: I don't know about tougher than the rest. They're all

2278
01:43:55,880 --> 01:43:58,519
Speaker 1: pretty fucking tough, to be honest with you. But I

2279
01:43:58,520 --> 01:44:01,240
Speaker 1: think one guy that the current generation might not realize

2280
01:44:01,360 --> 01:44:04,040
Speaker 1: or appreciate was really, really, really tough in his day

2281
01:44:04,200 --> 01:44:07,320
Speaker 1: is the original dentist Josh Near. There were a bunch

2282
01:44:07,320 --> 01:44:09,400
Speaker 1: of guys who copied that nickname after him, but he

2283
01:44:09,439 --> 01:44:12,799
Speaker 1: was the original, and in his prime he was limited.

2284
01:44:12,960 --> 01:44:16,160
Speaker 1: He was limited, but he was I mean, you know,

2285
01:44:16,360 --> 01:44:18,360
Speaker 1: if you actually I think it's the Drew Thicket fight

2286
01:44:18,439 --> 01:44:21,960
Speaker 1: where they're talking about it and in UFC and you

2287
01:44:22,000 --> 01:44:24,000
Speaker 1: can even hear Rogan being like, this is just not

2288
01:44:24,040 --> 01:44:26,680
Speaker 1: a guy. You're probably gonna stop unless you just put

2289
01:44:26,760 --> 01:44:29,200
Speaker 1: him unconscious like he's not He's not ever going to

2290
01:44:29,320 --> 01:44:33,920
Speaker 1: tap you know you, He's not ever gonna quit. You

2291
01:44:34,000 --> 01:44:36,320
Speaker 1: have to you have to separate him from consciousness in

2292
01:44:36,400 --> 01:44:39,120
Speaker 1: order to win. And he did. He was again, he

2293
01:44:39,120 --> 01:44:42,400
Speaker 1: wasn't the best fighter, but he was insanely fucking tough.

2294
01:44:42,560 --> 01:44:45,800
Speaker 3: Josh Near, would you throw lion? Heard Anthony Smith in

2295
01:44:45,840 --> 01:44:46,520
Speaker 3: this discussion.

2296
01:44:47,000 --> 01:44:48,960
Speaker 1: Sure, sure, absolutely, I mean we're.

2297
01:44:49,040 --> 01:44:51,160
Speaker 3: I mean, it's not like the ability to take punishment

2298
01:44:51,160 --> 01:44:54,240
Speaker 3: should be like a highlighted skill. But the dude was

2299
01:44:54,400 --> 01:44:56,839
Speaker 3: just tough as freaking nails to his own detriment.

2300
01:44:56,920 --> 01:44:59,519
Speaker 1: You know, someone was asking me the other DAYBC, like,

2301
01:44:59,560 --> 01:45:02,719
Speaker 1: how come you look at promotions like cage Warriors relative

2302
01:45:02,760 --> 01:45:04,479
Speaker 1: to the UFC and then cage warriors will have a

2303
01:45:04,560 --> 01:45:07,599
Speaker 1: higher finishing rate relative to UFC fighters. And the answer

2304
01:45:07,680 --> 01:45:09,800
Speaker 1: is a bunch of things, one of which is you've

2305
01:45:09,840 --> 01:45:13,240
Speaker 1: got more mismatches at the international regional level, right, You'll

2306
01:45:13,240 --> 01:45:15,000
Speaker 1: have guys who eventually go on to UFC versus guys

2307
01:45:15,040 --> 01:45:17,320
Speaker 1: who never get close, and that means that the defense

2308
01:45:17,400 --> 01:45:18,640
Speaker 1: is not going to be as good. But the other

2309
01:45:18,680 --> 01:45:20,640
Speaker 1: thing that I think people really sleep on is I

2310
01:45:20,680 --> 01:45:22,040
Speaker 1: make this point all the time. Bec See, if you

2311
01:45:22,040 --> 01:45:25,640
Speaker 1: go to a local MMA show, right, like just the

2312
01:45:25,720 --> 01:45:28,280
Speaker 1: dudes around the way that are fighting, they'll be like

2313
01:45:28,360 --> 01:45:30,680
Speaker 1: twenty or more fights on a card, and they do

2314
01:45:30,720 --> 01:45:33,920
Speaker 1: that because the fights last like thirty fucking seconds. Most

2315
01:45:33,960 --> 01:45:38,360
Speaker 1: people don't realize how Yes, the guys at UFC level

2316
01:45:38,400 --> 01:45:40,840
Speaker 1: have good defense or whatever, but more than that, they

2317
01:45:40,880 --> 01:45:44,760
Speaker 1: just have unnatural chins. Most people just take the one

2318
01:45:44,800 --> 01:45:46,680
Speaker 1: single shot and it's over. And of course even for

2319
01:45:46,720 --> 01:45:49,200
Speaker 1: tough guys that can be enough too, but typically it's

2320
01:45:49,200 --> 01:45:50,800
Speaker 1: a little bit more for them. If they these thick

2321
01:45:50,840 --> 01:45:54,600
Speaker 1: neck motherfuckers, Dude, they're hard to put away. And you

2322
01:45:54,640 --> 01:45:56,840
Speaker 1: can see guys at the regional level who have good

2323
01:45:56,960 --> 01:46:00,720
Speaker 1: skill but just don't have that same kind of durability

2324
01:46:00,720 --> 01:46:04,720
Speaker 1: that no Gara level durability. And so that explains partly too.

2325
01:46:04,760 --> 01:46:06,840
Speaker 1: And I've seen guys get to the UFC level who

2326
01:46:06,880 --> 01:46:12,080
Speaker 1: are not necessarily that great, but just fucking old shoe leather.

2327
01:46:12,200 --> 01:46:13,559
Speaker 1: You just can't put him away, you know.

2328
01:46:14,040 --> 01:46:14,599
Speaker 3: Matt Brown.

2329
01:46:15,720 --> 01:46:18,240
Speaker 1: Matt Brown's pretty tough. I wouldn't he was more technical

2330
01:46:18,240 --> 01:46:19,160
Speaker 1: than you're giving him credit.

2331
01:46:19,479 --> 01:46:21,960
Speaker 3: No, at the very peak, yes, but but that the

2332
01:46:22,000 --> 01:46:23,719
Speaker 3: toughness certainly reigned supreme throughout.

2333
01:46:23,760 --> 01:46:26,640
Speaker 1: He was more enforcer more than like durable guy, but

2334
01:46:26,760 --> 01:46:29,559
Speaker 1: like no Gara in particular, was like one of those

2335
01:46:29,640 --> 01:46:30,759
Speaker 1: durable guys I've ever seen.

2336
01:46:30,640 --> 01:46:33,559
Speaker 3: So pride knocked the shots that Big Nog would take

2337
01:46:33,600 --> 01:46:35,639
Speaker 3: in Pride and and just keep going.

2338
01:46:35,920 --> 01:46:39,840
Speaker 1: Was just badly in the in the Bob Sap fight

2339
01:46:39,960 --> 01:46:41,800
Speaker 1: and then went on to fucking arm bar the guy

2340
01:46:41,960 --> 01:46:43,840
Speaker 1: like and he was. Bob Sapp was pushing four hundred

2341
01:46:43,840 --> 01:46:47,080
Speaker 1: pounds in that contest. Is as another level.

2342
01:46:47,439 --> 01:46:49,920
Speaker 3: Brazilian's built different. That's gonna be a new T shirt

2343
01:46:49,920 --> 01:46:52,080
Speaker 3: for MK that I'm gonna sell and make millions off of.

2344
01:46:52,160 --> 01:46:56,400
Speaker 3: Let's Go to Cormac o'hagen sounds like a fine Irish lad,

2345
01:46:56,439 --> 01:46:59,640
Speaker 3: I think, says. If DJ Mighty Mouse Demetriz Johnson came

2346
01:46:59,680 --> 01:47:01,679
Speaker 3: back and got the title shot at one twenty five,

2347
01:47:01,880 --> 01:47:04,320
Speaker 3: would he be favored over Pantosia. We must add, by

2348
01:47:04,360 --> 01:47:07,320
Speaker 3: the way, that DJ's basically been fighting at bantamweight since

2349
01:47:07,400 --> 01:47:10,639
Speaker 3: going to one Championship due to their rehydration clause said

2350
01:47:10,680 --> 01:47:13,280
Speaker 3: he he stopped being a one twenty five fighter after

2351
01:47:13,320 --> 01:47:16,280
Speaker 3: the Suhudo rematch. Luke, do you think he could cut

2352
01:47:16,320 --> 01:47:18,160
Speaker 3: down to one twenty five one more time if he

2353
01:47:18,280 --> 01:47:20,479
Speaker 3: wanted to, and what would be the line on that?

2354
01:47:22,600 --> 01:47:27,280
Speaker 1: The line is a question for no Cita. But do

2355
01:47:27,360 --> 01:47:28,920
Speaker 1: I think he could do it? Yes, what would the

2356
01:47:28,920 --> 01:47:30,080
Speaker 1: line be, No Cita.

2357
01:47:30,600 --> 01:47:33,759
Speaker 4: I'm gonna put DJ as a slight dog just because

2358
01:47:33,880 --> 01:47:36,080
Speaker 4: time off. You gotta you've got to Yeah, but it

2359
01:47:36,080 --> 01:47:38,760
Speaker 4: would be close. I'm gonna say DJ plus one twenty five.

2360
01:47:38,840 --> 01:47:42,160
Speaker 3: Let's on a run right now? Okay, even though I

2361
01:47:42,160 --> 01:47:44,960
Speaker 3: picked against him with KKF, but well, he's in a run.

2362
01:47:45,040 --> 01:47:48,240
Speaker 1: I favorite Pantoja as well, but obviously it's DJ. You

2363
01:47:48,280 --> 01:47:52,600
Speaker 1: gotta be. You gotta be respectful of that, right, you

2364
01:47:52,680 --> 01:47:53,160
Speaker 1: gotta be.

2365
01:47:53,640 --> 01:47:58,599
Speaker 3: You gotta be it wise. Next one, this one's from

2366
01:47:58,600 --> 01:48:02,599
Speaker 3: inside Underscore Spectrum. Who would be the most likely candidate

2367
01:48:02,640 --> 01:48:05,479
Speaker 3: to become the three weight world champion? We're not talking

2368
01:48:05,479 --> 01:48:07,800
Speaker 3: about it Anatoli Malakin with three hydration rules in one.

2369
01:48:07,800 --> 01:48:10,880
Speaker 3: We're talking about the traditional way. Also, hypothetically speaking, if

2370
01:48:10,920 --> 01:48:13,559
Speaker 3: Alex and Ilia do become the threeweight world champions, wouldn't

2371
01:48:13,600 --> 01:48:15,840
Speaker 3: Ilias status be higher because he did it in a

2372
01:48:15,880 --> 01:48:18,200
Speaker 3: way more competitive weight class? You certainly could argue that,

2373
01:48:18,200 --> 01:48:21,040
Speaker 3: but Luke I always thought it'd be Connor right now,

2374
01:48:21,120 --> 01:48:23,760
Speaker 3: Poeton's probably got the best chance to go for it.

2375
01:48:23,920 --> 01:48:26,200
Speaker 3: So Hudo at one point tried to push himself into

2376
01:48:26,200 --> 01:48:28,680
Speaker 3: a Volkanovski fight to get it. Who will be the

2377
01:48:28,680 --> 01:48:30,439
Speaker 3: first fighter to actually do it? I know that's an

2378
01:48:30,479 --> 01:48:33,040
Speaker 3: impossible thing to predict, but do you are you lean

2379
01:48:33,080 --> 01:48:35,280
Speaker 3: in one way? I mean, Poton's got the best chance

2380
01:48:36,120 --> 01:48:40,000
Speaker 3: because heavyweight isn't that far of a leap. It's a leap, dude,

2381
01:48:40,000 --> 01:48:41,600
Speaker 3: I mean, it's a fricking leap, but it's it's not

2382
01:48:42,240 --> 01:48:46,320
Speaker 3: impossible with his power? Is it? Tapooria? Are you gonna

2383
01:48:46,320 --> 01:48:47,559
Speaker 3: Taporia me right now? Luke?

2384
01:48:48,560 --> 01:48:52,479
Speaker 1: I don't think it's Taporia. I mean, yes, obviously one

2385
01:48:52,640 --> 01:48:55,559
Speaker 1: five is a maybe. I don't know how likely it is,

2386
01:48:55,600 --> 01:48:59,040
Speaker 1: but you certainly couldn't rule it out one seventy I

2387
01:48:59,040 --> 01:48:59,400
Speaker 1: don't think.

2388
01:48:59,400 --> 01:49:00,960
Speaker 3: I mean Chamaya if it would have been that, dude,

2389
01:49:00,960 --> 01:49:02,720
Speaker 3: if he had already collected the one at welterweight and

2390
01:49:02,720 --> 01:49:04,479
Speaker 3: then was done there, then you're like, okay, I could

2391
01:49:04,479 --> 01:49:05,679
Speaker 3: see him winning at middleweight.

2392
01:49:06,000 --> 01:49:09,000
Speaker 1: Fory I really don't. I think somebody could do it

2393
01:49:09,040 --> 01:49:12,519
Speaker 1: coming up from bantamweight. I think that's possible, Honestly, I

2394
01:49:12,560 --> 01:49:14,479
Speaker 1: don't think anyone in the current roster does it. But

2395
01:49:14,520 --> 01:49:17,040
Speaker 1: you're right, the best chance is going to be Poeton

2396
01:49:17,600 --> 01:49:20,040
Speaker 1: because he could fuck around and you know, he's a

2397
01:49:20,040 --> 01:49:23,120
Speaker 1: big power and you never know at heavyweight. I wouldn't

2398
01:49:23,120 --> 01:49:25,120
Speaker 1: I wouldn't like his odds, but he's got the best shot.

2399
01:49:25,400 --> 01:49:28,320
Speaker 3: Long Look, we messing anybody that that would be perfect

2400
01:49:28,320 --> 01:49:29,559
Speaker 3: for this? Can this idea?

2401
01:49:30,080 --> 01:49:33,920
Speaker 1: M No? Honestly, I'm thank you.

2402
01:49:33,920 --> 01:49:35,599
Speaker 3: I don't have anyone that's the best. That's the best

2403
01:49:35,600 --> 01:49:37,720
Speaker 3: insight we can produce. I appreciate that. Thank you so much.

2404
01:49:37,880 --> 01:49:39,280
Speaker 1: Let's go to our next I'm gonna hit this.

2405
01:49:40,400 --> 01:49:42,360
Speaker 3: Let's go to our next question here so we can

2406
01:49:42,360 --> 01:49:45,120
Speaker 3: fit in that ish. What do you got for me here?

2407
01:49:45,160 --> 01:49:49,439
Speaker 3: From at von beck cal is BKFC the second most

2408
01:49:49,479 --> 01:49:52,559
Speaker 3: successful combat sports and entity Right now, now you have

2409
01:49:52,640 --> 01:49:54,200
Speaker 3: to add this into the well, let me ask you

2410
01:49:54,240 --> 01:49:57,559
Speaker 3: this as much as we can say, is is PFL

2411
01:49:57,680 --> 01:50:00,840
Speaker 3: number two in m M A is one championship combat sports?

2412
01:50:00,880 --> 01:50:02,760
Speaker 1: That means he's including all of boxing too.

2413
01:50:02,920 --> 01:50:04,640
Speaker 3: I get okay, maybe you're right. What if we do

2414
01:50:04,720 --> 01:50:07,080
Speaker 3: what if we throw BKFC just in the MMA competition.

2415
01:50:07,080 --> 01:50:08,680
Speaker 3: Here's the one thing that they do have going for them.

2416
01:50:08,840 --> 01:50:12,280
Speaker 3: They're gonna put fifteen thousand people in Philadelphia for Eddie

2417
01:50:12,320 --> 01:50:16,040
Speaker 3: Alvarez versus Jeremy Stevens and that sort of WrestleMania, not

2418
01:50:16,160 --> 01:50:18,679
Speaker 3: what do they call it, knucklemania card they do Luke.

2419
01:50:19,360 --> 01:50:22,080
Speaker 3: Very few combat sports promotions can do that right now.

2420
01:50:22,200 --> 01:50:26,439
Speaker 3: Maybe in boxing there's more in BKFC isn't traditional MMA

2421
01:50:26,560 --> 01:50:29,479
Speaker 3: or traditional boxing, but they need more respect than we

2422
01:50:29,520 --> 01:50:31,920
Speaker 3: probably give them for their health and staying power at

2423
01:50:31,920 --> 01:50:32,280
Speaker 3: the moment.

2424
01:50:32,760 --> 01:50:36,240
Speaker 1: I admit that if we're just talking about MMA brands,

2425
01:50:36,240 --> 01:50:38,519
Speaker 1: which can they're not, but they're kind of closest to it.

2426
01:50:38,560 --> 01:50:40,280
Speaker 1: Based on who they sign and what their fan base is,

2427
01:50:40,920 --> 01:50:43,200
Speaker 1: then you could maybe make a case that they're number two.

2428
01:50:43,320 --> 01:50:46,320
Speaker 1: I think you could do that. They have a fan

2429
01:50:46,360 --> 01:50:49,240
Speaker 1: base PFL really does not, and I think that's a

2430
01:50:49,240 --> 01:50:52,880
Speaker 1: big difference. But at the same time, it's not like

2431
01:50:52,960 --> 01:50:55,519
Speaker 1: it only works because it's not MMA, and it's certainly

2432
01:50:55,520 --> 01:51:00,000
Speaker 1: not number two in all of like all of that's transport.

2433
01:51:00,360 --> 01:51:03,080
Speaker 3: That is definitely true. But credit to them because they're

2434
01:51:03,160 --> 01:51:04,880
Speaker 3: driving the one thing that a lot of people are

2435
01:51:04,880 --> 01:51:08,080
Speaker 3: having trouble with, consistently moving tickets right like they're doing

2436
01:51:08,160 --> 01:51:09,960
Speaker 3: that to some degree for their big events for sure,

2437
01:51:10,080 --> 01:51:12,680
Speaker 3: right for their big pay per views. Yeah, yes, and

2438
01:51:12,680 --> 01:51:15,200
Speaker 3: they've got McGregor for Better or Worse, which is interesting.

2439
01:51:15,439 --> 01:51:15,760
Speaker 1: All right.

2440
01:51:15,800 --> 01:51:17,439
Speaker 3: One more from the fans. Let's hear what you have

2441
01:51:17,479 --> 01:51:19,920
Speaker 3: to say. This is from at MMA fan Belfast. Question

2442
01:51:20,040 --> 01:51:23,320
Speaker 3: for Luke, what is your top three? My dad is

2443
01:51:23,360 --> 01:51:27,160
Speaker 3: so tight he wants dot dot dot. We know this man.

2444
01:51:27,280 --> 01:51:32,639
Speaker 3: Robert Thomas once gave RBS and Roy Rogerskubon's as Halloween gifts.

2445
01:51:33,120 --> 01:51:36,680
Speaker 3: I also was raised by a cheap dad who, you know,

2446
01:51:37,160 --> 01:51:39,800
Speaker 3: would would refuse to pay five bucks a month in

2447
01:51:39,800 --> 01:51:41,680
Speaker 3: the nineties for caller ID so we didn't have to

2448
01:51:41,680 --> 01:51:44,800
Speaker 3: stop answering the phone from solicitors. The certain things my

2449
01:51:44,840 --> 01:51:47,559
Speaker 3: dad was always saying, certain things he would just never entertain.

2450
01:51:47,760 --> 01:51:50,040
Speaker 3: Other things he'd spend through the through the you know,

2451
01:51:50,200 --> 01:51:53,080
Speaker 3: spend through the window for. But what was your dad like,

2452
01:51:53,360 --> 01:51:55,519
Speaker 3: you know, like we never had air conditioning growing up

2453
01:51:55,560 --> 01:51:58,400
Speaker 3: until I was just about to enter college. We always

2454
01:51:58,439 --> 01:52:00,599
Speaker 3: had to deal with it in the summer. Just suck

2455
01:52:00,600 --> 01:52:03,280
Speaker 3: it up. He's never had a c in the summer,

2456
01:52:03,800 --> 01:52:05,880
Speaker 3: not until like at the very end of high school.

2457
01:52:06,600 --> 01:52:09,480
Speaker 1: Holy shit, So you would just cook in August huh.

2458
01:52:09,120 --> 01:52:11,400
Speaker 3: Oh, yeah, so you you just you put a fan

2459
01:52:11,560 --> 01:52:16,600
Speaker 3: like what directly next to the bed and just yeah.

2460
01:52:16,640 --> 01:52:18,360
Speaker 1: Here's an example of him being so like the Roy

2461
01:52:18,439 --> 01:52:21,240
Speaker 1: Rogers one is great handing out Roy Rogers coupons. That's

2462
01:52:21,280 --> 01:52:23,599
Speaker 1: a great one on Halloween. Another one was he one

2463
01:52:23,600 --> 01:52:25,320
Speaker 1: time asked me to I think I was wanting like

2464
01:52:25,360 --> 01:52:27,920
Speaker 1: some money. He's like, well, wash my car and I

2465
01:52:27,960 --> 01:52:30,439
Speaker 1: was like, well, we need car washing equipment and he

2466
01:52:30,560 --> 01:52:32,160
Speaker 1: I'm not, I'm not doing a bit. He asked me

2467
01:52:32,200 --> 01:52:37,920
Speaker 1: to wash his car with tied like like closed detergent.

2468
01:52:38,760 --> 01:52:41,439
Speaker 1: It was all yeah. I was like, we could just

2469
01:52:41,479 --> 01:52:43,320
Speaker 1: go we can just go to the store and buy

2470
01:52:43,360 --> 01:52:45,559
Speaker 1: this ship. He was like just use that and I'm like, okay,

2471
01:52:45,640 --> 01:52:49,400
Speaker 1: all right, Well that's that's a terrible fucking idea. What's

2472
01:52:49,439 --> 01:52:52,240
Speaker 1: an I mean? He was just constantly fucking cheap like

2473
01:52:52,320 --> 01:52:55,559
Speaker 1: it was everything. It's like if the standard was X,

2474
01:52:55,640 --> 01:52:58,519
Speaker 1: he was sub X all the fucking time.

2475
01:52:58,680 --> 01:52:59,880
Speaker 3: He had Beta Max Player.

2476
01:53:00,280 --> 01:53:01,960
Speaker 1: Shout out to that, that's right, we instead of begetting

2477
01:53:01,960 --> 01:53:04,120
Speaker 1: a VCR, my dad had a fucking Beta Max Player.

2478
01:53:04,160 --> 01:53:05,519
Speaker 1: He was like, the rest of the world uses this,

2479
01:53:05,600 --> 01:53:06,880
Speaker 1: and it turned out if we didn't, And so it

2480
01:53:06,880 --> 01:53:10,280
Speaker 1: didn't really matter if you're used the goddamn Beta Max.

2481
01:53:10,560 --> 01:53:12,240
Speaker 3: Did he use the metric system in your house too?

2482
01:53:12,240 --> 01:53:13,360
Speaker 3: Did he force them out?

2483
01:53:13,360 --> 01:53:15,120
Speaker 1: Oh, he didn't do that. I'm trying to think it

2484
01:53:15,120 --> 01:53:17,120
Speaker 1: was anything else. But then you know the one time,

2485
01:53:17,120 --> 01:53:18,920
Speaker 1: and then then this is I told you guys this before.

2486
01:53:19,000 --> 01:53:20,720
Speaker 1: But like the one time he came off of his

2487
01:53:20,800 --> 01:53:23,920
Speaker 1: pockets and he got his rebock pumps with the basketball

2488
01:53:23,960 --> 01:53:26,320
Speaker 1: on the tongue. My parents were divorced and my mom

2489
01:53:26,400 --> 01:53:28,040
Speaker 1: made him send it back and I never got to

2490
01:53:28,080 --> 01:53:30,640
Speaker 1: wear them one time. It was devastating for me.

2491
01:53:31,960 --> 01:53:34,280
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, where would we Where would you be right

2492
01:53:34,320 --> 01:53:36,120
Speaker 3: now if you had if you had those? You know

2493
01:53:36,120 --> 01:53:37,320
Speaker 3: what I'm saying, lay it a.

2494
01:53:37,280 --> 01:53:38,360
Speaker 1: Lot more content.

2495
01:53:40,560 --> 01:53:42,840
Speaker 3: Thank you for your questions, dm ors. Don't forget again.

2496
01:53:42,880 --> 01:53:45,320
Speaker 3: Our email addresses morning combat at gmail dot com. Get

2497
01:53:45,320 --> 01:53:47,680
Speaker 3: your fans hubs in, get your dead wrongs in for

2498
01:53:47,760 --> 01:53:50,759
Speaker 3: this Friday's episode. Our final segment is the best segment

2499
01:53:50,760 --> 01:53:53,080
Speaker 3: in all of Combat Spouts. It's when I searched the

2500
01:53:53,120 --> 01:53:54,519
Speaker 3: Internet for the HIGs and lows, the good, the bad,

2501
01:53:54,560 --> 01:53:56,320
Speaker 3: the ugly, the in between the worlds of combat sports

2502
01:53:56,360 --> 01:54:07,760
Speaker 3: and beyond. This one's called have You seen this. Hey, Luke,

2503
01:54:07,800 --> 01:54:10,040
Speaker 3: it's the new year, so let's kick things off with

2504
01:54:10,080 --> 01:54:12,960
Speaker 3: some big booms. Let's head over to the balcony. The

2505
01:54:13,000 --> 01:54:22,759
Speaker 3: fireworks are about to start. Oh damn your titty. Wow,

2506
01:54:22,960 --> 01:54:24,759
Speaker 3: it's a fully luke. Wow.

2507
01:54:25,080 --> 01:54:27,759
Speaker 1: Yeah, where those Fox Sports one offices are different?

2508
01:54:27,880 --> 01:54:31,479
Speaker 3: Oh wow, there we go. Speaking of big booms, Luke AJ,

2509
01:54:31,720 --> 01:54:34,720
Speaker 3: Big AJ and Big Justice had a cameo where they

2510
01:54:35,800 --> 01:54:37,920
Speaker 3: laid some respects to a fallen person.

2511
01:54:38,360 --> 01:54:40,400
Speaker 1: Oh, we're so sorry to hear about your brother that

2512
01:54:40,440 --> 01:54:42,320
Speaker 1: passed away. He gets five big booms.

2513
01:54:42,760 --> 01:54:50,880
Speaker 3: Boo boo boo, boo boo. That's gotta be a I edited.

2514
01:54:50,920 --> 01:54:53,040
Speaker 3: It's like best with They couldn't have said that.

2515
01:54:53,560 --> 01:54:55,120
Speaker 1: It's the saddest thing I've ever seen.

2516
01:54:55,520 --> 01:54:58,000
Speaker 3: They couldn't have said that, Luke. They couldn't have come.

2517
01:54:57,880 --> 01:55:00,120
Speaker 1: On, who is the person who paid for that? And

2518
01:55:00,240 --> 01:55:01,080
Speaker 1: what did they pay for?

2519
01:55:01,200 --> 01:55:01,280
Speaker 4: Like?

2520
01:55:01,320 --> 01:55:02,040
Speaker 1: How much was that?

2521
01:55:02,560 --> 01:55:04,560
Speaker 3: I don't know? But that's that's brilliant content.

2522
01:55:04,720 --> 01:55:06,160
Speaker 1: But we need to get we need to get some

2523
01:55:06,320 --> 01:55:11,280
Speaker 1: boom cameos like I got gonorrhea but they caught it early.

2524
01:55:11,400 --> 01:55:12,760
Speaker 1: That goes five booms.

2525
01:55:13,200 --> 01:55:16,000
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, indeed, Look, you know it is time to

2526
01:55:16,000 --> 01:55:18,240
Speaker 3: get those holiday decorations away because you don't want to

2527
01:55:18,240 --> 01:55:21,280
Speaker 3: be that person in your neighborhood. But watch uncle here

2528
01:55:21,480 --> 01:55:23,920
Speaker 3: trying to mess with the tree. You gotta be careful.

2529
01:55:25,120 --> 01:55:32,120
Speaker 1: Fall Okay, thank you, I hear it.

2530
01:55:36,480 --> 01:55:38,720
Speaker 3: Yeah, time to put it away for the air.

2531
01:55:38,760 --> 01:55:42,000
Speaker 1: After that, uncle cancel, Christmas cancel. Twenty twenty five. Who

2532
01:55:42,000 --> 01:55:44,360
Speaker 1: puts a giant fat man on top of a chair,

2533
01:55:44,440 --> 01:55:48,000
Speaker 1: on top of a table and thinks that's a good idea.

2534
01:55:48,280 --> 01:55:50,760
Speaker 3: Hit it all for the gram Luke. In Connecticut, we

2535
01:55:50,800 --> 01:55:54,400
Speaker 3: have roof rakes to prevent the uh one from icing

2536
01:55:54,440 --> 01:55:56,480
Speaker 3: up and dripping down. Yeah, watch this guy turn it

2537
01:55:56,520 --> 01:55:58,080
Speaker 3: into a treadmill to save his own life.

2538
01:55:58,120 --> 01:55:59,960
Speaker 1: That's not a roof raake. This is just a.

2539
01:56:01,480 --> 01:56:04,240
Speaker 3: Wow. He almost didn't make it there. Wow.

2540
01:56:04,640 --> 01:56:06,640
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's not a roof break. That's just a man

2541
01:56:06,720 --> 01:56:10,480
Speaker 1: running in place like a dog on linoleum floor or something.

2542
01:56:11,040 --> 01:56:14,000
Speaker 3: Oh look, there's Christmas, but then there's the morning after

2543
01:56:14,120 --> 01:56:16,760
Speaker 3: when you gotta deal with this. You know that during

2544
01:56:16,800 --> 01:56:17,960
Speaker 3: the show.

2545
01:56:19,000 --> 01:56:20,880
Speaker 1: By the way, BC, did you see who responded to

2546
01:56:20,920 --> 01:56:23,080
Speaker 1: my They tweeted about it on the show account and

2547
01:56:23,120 --> 01:56:23,560
Speaker 1: I reached you.

2548
01:56:23,640 --> 01:56:24,080
Speaker 3: That's great.

2549
01:56:24,640 --> 01:56:27,760
Speaker 1: Social shouts to Eric Bickell. Eric Bickel is one of

2550
01:56:27,800 --> 01:56:29,800
Speaker 1: the hosts. He's been the host here for thirty years

2551
01:56:29,800 --> 01:56:32,400
Speaker 1: on the morning show on A one to six seventh,

2552
01:56:32,400 --> 01:56:35,000
Speaker 1: The fan here in d C, the Sports Chunkies. He

2553
01:56:35,080 --> 01:56:37,560
Speaker 1: replied to me, he was like, you do what you

2554
01:56:37,640 --> 01:56:39,400
Speaker 1: need to do in the middle of a show. Don't

2555
01:56:39,400 --> 01:56:42,480
Speaker 1: feel any embarrassment when you gotta go, you gotta go,

2556
01:56:42,520 --> 01:56:43,640
Speaker 1: shouts to eb I see you.

2557
01:56:44,000 --> 01:56:46,440
Speaker 3: Oh well, look, the winter's here in d C. You'll

2558
01:56:46,480 --> 01:56:48,800
Speaker 3: be out on the sidewalk shovel and let's tune into this.

2559
01:56:51,440 --> 01:56:52,920
Speaker 1: Oh big Mamas about to have it.

2560
01:56:54,760 --> 01:56:57,160
Speaker 3: Make sure you put that rock soce out.

2561
01:57:01,120 --> 01:57:04,760
Speaker 1: Oh wow, all right, and dude, she did the split

2562
01:57:04,800 --> 01:57:07,760
Speaker 1: and you could hear a thousand fucking tendons and ligaments

2563
01:57:07,800 --> 01:57:10,640
Speaker 1: snap and rip in real time, and then she just

2564
01:57:10,680 --> 01:57:13,280
Speaker 1: slides down the fucking by the way, did you hear

2565
01:57:13,320 --> 01:57:16,440
Speaker 1: her huffing and puffing? Oh yeah, someone get her an

2566
01:57:16,480 --> 01:57:20,480
Speaker 1: ox someone, someone get Albert Hainsworth over there, a fucking

2567
01:57:20,480 --> 01:57:21,200
Speaker 1: oxygen tank.

2568
01:57:21,320 --> 01:57:23,640
Speaker 3: Oh my god, that's her last Christmas loop. She gave

2569
01:57:23,720 --> 01:57:25,800
Speaker 3: us her heart, you know what I mean. Wow, Oh Luke,

2570
01:57:25,840 --> 01:57:28,040
Speaker 3: it might be time to return those weird Christmas gifts

2571
01:57:28,040 --> 01:57:30,720
Speaker 3: you got. Let's go back to home goods with this one.

2572
01:57:31,120 --> 01:57:36,200
Speaker 4: No no, no, no, no.

2573
01:57:35,040 --> 01:57:36,680
Speaker 1: No, yeah, that's the Fox Sports one.

2574
01:57:37,200 --> 01:57:40,880
Speaker 3: Okay, uh luke. I just recently went to Paris and

2575
01:57:40,920 --> 01:57:43,120
Speaker 3: my wife won't stopped talking about the wine. The bread.

2576
01:57:43,160 --> 01:57:45,080
Speaker 3: It doesn't make you feel gross. They didn't pump it

2577
01:57:45,080 --> 01:57:47,400
Speaker 3: full of American chemicals trying to kill you. But did

2578
01:57:47,400 --> 01:57:49,480
Speaker 3: you ever wonder why the French bread tastes so good?

2579
01:57:49,680 --> 01:57:50,160
Speaker 3: Watch this?

2580
01:57:52,080 --> 01:57:56,800
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you get that dooky bread. Oh yeah, yeah,

2581
01:57:56,840 --> 01:57:59,320
Speaker 1: you get that, You get that butthole bread. Oh yeah,

2582
01:57:59,360 --> 01:57:59,880
Speaker 1: that's all that.

2583
01:58:00,320 --> 01:58:02,160
Speaker 3: And then hold on you get to the store and

2584
01:58:02,200 --> 01:58:04,640
Speaker 3: then you know, oh yeah, you gotta check him.

2585
01:58:04,800 --> 01:58:11,640
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, just like oh yeah yeah.

2586
01:58:12,360 --> 01:58:12,600
Speaker 1: Look.

2587
01:58:12,640 --> 01:58:14,920
Speaker 3: This next clip brings new meaning to the term got

2588
01:58:14,920 --> 01:58:15,720
Speaker 3: that dog in you?

2589
01:58:16,960 --> 01:58:20,520
Speaker 1: Oh how's it going? Man? It's going terrible? Why is that?

2590
01:58:21,360 --> 01:58:22,800
Speaker 1: I just found out I have that dog in me?

2591
01:58:23,520 --> 01:58:26,280
Speaker 1: Isn't that a good thing? You think this is a

2592
01:58:26,280 --> 01:58:27,680
Speaker 1: good thing? Oh god?

2593
01:58:33,440 --> 01:58:34,720
Speaker 3: Okay, all right.

2594
01:58:35,560 --> 01:58:37,560
Speaker 1: Where is the drive by shooter when you need one?

2595
01:58:37,880 --> 01:58:40,960
Speaker 3: Yes, look, let's check in with the homeless. They're getting

2596
01:58:40,960 --> 01:58:42,520
Speaker 3: more politically.

2597
01:58:43,720 --> 01:58:49,560
Speaker 1: Do anything for a dollar? But no, okay, all right, listen,

2598
01:58:49,800 --> 01:58:51,960
Speaker 1: beggars can't literally be choosers.

2599
01:58:52,000 --> 01:58:54,200
Speaker 3: You understand, well, they can if they find a great

2600
01:58:54,240 --> 01:58:56,440
Speaker 3: place to sleep. Look at this homeless motel, Luke, this

2601
01:58:56,520 --> 01:59:11,640
Speaker 3: is innovation. No, the fucker's sleeping in there, warm right, you.

2602
01:59:11,600 --> 01:59:15,280
Speaker 1: Know what to the victor, go the spoils. He claimed

2603
01:59:15,280 --> 01:59:19,160
Speaker 1: that he manifest destiny. He claimed that that's actually ingenious.

2604
01:59:19,360 --> 01:59:22,360
Speaker 1: There's like a tcby fucking signage there. He took that out,

2605
01:59:22,360 --> 01:59:23,640
Speaker 1: and I was like, you know what, gonna call this

2606
01:59:23,720 --> 01:59:24,600
Speaker 1: home suck a dick.

2607
01:59:25,160 --> 01:59:35,720
Speaker 3: The panhandlers need to stay off the skateboard though, all right,

2608
01:59:35,760 --> 01:59:36,920
Speaker 3: I look like the NYC sign.

2609
01:59:37,000 --> 01:59:40,240
Speaker 1: I always just assume that if you're was that a

2610
01:59:40,240 --> 01:59:42,120
Speaker 1: white guy with dreads? It was a white guy with dreads,

2611
01:59:42,160 --> 01:59:50,760
Speaker 1: right right? I always look yeah, no, because the stop

2612
01:59:50,800 --> 01:59:54,560
Speaker 1: sign in the back says patre or it's a stop sign,

2613
01:59:54,720 --> 01:59:58,200
Speaker 1: so it's it's Latin America. But I just assume that

2614
01:59:58,480 --> 02:00:03,480
Speaker 1: if you're, if you you culturally appropriated dreadlocks, and that's

2615
02:00:03,480 --> 02:00:07,440
Speaker 1: not like where you come from. I assume you're naturally

2616
02:00:07,440 --> 02:00:09,720
Speaker 1: a little sick, like I assume like you him vomiting

2617
02:00:09,760 --> 02:00:11,120
Speaker 1: that way, just sort of like you know, it all

2618
02:00:11,200 --> 02:00:13,360
Speaker 1: kind of lines up as like a singular identity, you

2619
02:00:13,360 --> 02:00:14,120
Speaker 1: know what, I'm saying.

2620
02:00:13,920 --> 02:00:17,080
Speaker 3: Interesting, Luke, ark of the week from boxing. Look at

2621
02:00:17,080 --> 02:00:18,080
Speaker 3: this ropeitge here.

2622
02:00:23,520 --> 02:00:26,480
Speaker 1: Give him a soft landing right there, right weeble's wobble.

2623
02:00:26,560 --> 02:00:27,720
Speaker 1: But they also fall down.

2624
02:00:27,880 --> 02:00:30,680
Speaker 3: I mean, wow, Luke, have you heard about the weekend

2625
02:00:30,720 --> 02:00:32,000
Speaker 3: at Bernie sequel that's coming on?

2626
02:00:38,880 --> 02:00:43,400
Speaker 1: You know, I thought Jimmy Carter, Oh boy, I mean

2627
02:00:43,640 --> 02:00:46,320
Speaker 1: they say not. They listen when there's a solar eclipse,

2628
02:00:46,320 --> 02:00:48,440
Speaker 1: they say not to look right at the sun. But

2629
02:00:48,560 --> 02:00:50,400
Speaker 1: low pan over there is on his last leg.

2630
02:00:50,440 --> 02:00:54,000
Speaker 3: So let's just be time for MMA fighters in the wild.

2631
02:00:54,040 --> 02:00:56,320
Speaker 3: We always ask what if the MM fighters were like

2632
02:00:56,360 --> 02:00:59,200
Speaker 3: one of us, Luke, just a slob like one of

2633
02:00:59,280 --> 02:01:04,000
Speaker 3: us behind in RB's Uh you ever get any good dad,

2634
02:01:04,120 --> 02:01:06,040
Speaker 3: any any good stuff to huff out there?

2635
02:01:06,520 --> 02:01:09,400
Speaker 5: Whippings back in the day, not the dental guess. Back

2636
02:01:09,440 --> 02:01:10,720
Speaker 5: when I used to work at a restaurant, we used

2637
02:01:10,720 --> 02:01:12,560
Speaker 5: to pack them whippings.

2638
02:01:12,560 --> 02:01:15,080
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I knew DP was like us, Luke, I

2639
02:01:15,160 --> 02:01:15,480
Speaker 3: knew it.

2640
02:01:15,560 --> 02:01:18,120
Speaker 1: Let he who was without sin cast the first stone.

2641
02:01:18,880 --> 02:01:19,000
Speaker 2: Uh.

2642
02:01:19,040 --> 02:01:22,200
Speaker 3: Look, you know Phil Rowe right, the UFC fighter. Yes,

2643
02:01:24,120 --> 02:01:26,920
Speaker 3: he used to spar with David Benavitaz back in the day.

2644
02:01:26,920 --> 02:01:27,680
Speaker 3: Listen to this story.

2645
02:01:27,720 --> 02:01:30,000
Speaker 2: So I trained with David Benavidez for a while. No way,

2646
02:01:30,360 --> 02:01:32,840
Speaker 2: let's go So twenty thirteen, I was falling him a lot,

2647
02:01:33,240 --> 02:01:36,160
Speaker 2: and honestly, he was like kind of wide in box.

2648
02:01:36,320 --> 02:01:38,840
Speaker 2: He would me up bad effortlessly. People like Phil you

2649
02:01:38,840 --> 02:01:42,400
Speaker 2: can box. I'm like, yeah, but this fat Spanish kid

2650
02:01:44,760 --> 02:01:47,360
Speaker 2: and they didn't know him. Yeah they knew him. Yeah,

2651
02:01:47,640 --> 02:01:50,480
Speaker 2: I swear. I would go everywhere and tell people about

2652
02:01:50,480 --> 02:01:52,360
Speaker 2: this guy. He was like six and at the time

2653
02:01:52,360 --> 02:01:54,360
Speaker 2: he only had fat in Mexico. He wasn't eighteen, and

2654
02:01:54,400 --> 02:01:58,880
Speaker 2: he would people up. He would spar Ryan Bader, wow down,

2655
02:01:59,040 --> 02:02:03,480
Speaker 2: CB Dollarway bow down. But he's on the level though, dude,

2656
02:02:03,520 --> 02:02:04,640
Speaker 2: bro he was seventeen.

2657
02:02:04,760 --> 02:02:05,919
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's so crazy.

2658
02:02:06,000 --> 02:02:09,400
Speaker 2: Whatever you wanted to pop bow Down done for the day,

2659
02:02:09,520 --> 02:02:09,920
Speaker 2: I'm done.

2660
02:02:10,840 --> 02:02:12,200
Speaker 3: Yeah. He won a world title at twenty.

2661
02:02:12,280 --> 02:02:14,720
Speaker 1: By the way, jots of that podcast, those guys are

2662
02:02:14,760 --> 02:02:17,760
Speaker 1: cool man. Uh. I would love to collab with him

2663
02:02:17,840 --> 02:02:19,760
Speaker 1: in the twenty twenty five There's ever an opportunity.

2664
02:02:20,000 --> 02:02:21,400
Speaker 3: Is still a whole host on there?

2665
02:02:21,880 --> 02:02:24,160
Speaker 1: I don't think so. I think it was just a guest, okay.

2666
02:02:24,440 --> 02:02:26,480
Speaker 3: Uh Luke. You know, Roman Delije came out on this

2667
02:02:26,560 --> 02:02:29,320
Speaker 3: same segment and you know, spoke out against you know,

2668
02:02:29,400 --> 02:02:32,360
Speaker 3: artificial bond making in the nations Georgia. He's not gonna

2669
02:02:32,400 --> 02:02:33,360
Speaker 3: like this. Next chick.

2670
02:02:36,040 --> 02:02:37,840
Speaker 1: Fucking Morgan. Oh my fucking god.

2671
02:02:37,880 --> 02:02:40,000
Speaker 4: You know, death don't bother me. Death, don't bother me.

2672
02:02:40,080 --> 02:02:40,280
Speaker 2: Death.

2673
02:02:40,280 --> 02:02:42,280
Speaker 3: Bo dude, bother me a little bit, just a little bit.

2674
02:02:42,320 --> 02:02:43,760
Speaker 3: Oh my god, bitch, you got this. Oh my god,

2675
02:02:43,760 --> 02:03:12,920
Speaker 3: Oh my god, Oh my god. Look that was just

2676
02:03:13,000 --> 02:03:15,120
Speaker 3: Christmas morning at the NOCA. Does that ww that gut

2677
02:03:15,160 --> 02:03:15,600
Speaker 3: in there?

2678
02:03:15,680 --> 02:03:17,840
Speaker 1: Yeah, Long Island. Look, that's very big of you to

2679
02:03:17,880 --> 02:03:21,000
Speaker 1: put your your the women in your life on the show.

2680
02:03:23,080 --> 02:03:23,600
Speaker 1: No comment.

2681
02:03:25,920 --> 02:03:28,080
Speaker 3: Look, I just realized right now that we've actually run

2682
02:03:28,120 --> 02:03:29,680
Speaker 3: this next one before. But it's so good we had

2683
02:03:29,680 --> 02:03:31,080
Speaker 3: to bring it back. You know what they say about

2684
02:03:31,080 --> 02:03:32,080
Speaker 3: Pierce titties.

2685
02:03:31,840 --> 02:03:35,240
Speaker 1: Right, Pierce titties taste like house key.

2686
02:03:35,360 --> 02:03:40,760
Speaker 3: Okay, talk for your t shirts of the week. Let's

2687
02:03:40,800 --> 02:03:41,120
Speaker 3: hit it.

2688
02:03:42,600 --> 02:03:45,440
Speaker 1: Feeling cute, might clog the toilet later. That's your boy,

2689
02:03:46,240 --> 02:03:47,960
Speaker 1: that's your boy.

2690
02:03:48,000 --> 02:03:50,080
Speaker 3: Speaking of bowels, let's go to the next one.

2691
02:03:51,480 --> 02:03:54,280
Speaker 1: God knew I would be too powerful if I had

2692
02:03:54,320 --> 02:03:55,680
Speaker 1: regular bowel movements.

2693
02:03:56,480 --> 02:03:57,640
Speaker 3: Yeah, I could see you wearing that.

2694
02:03:57,880 --> 02:03:59,600
Speaker 1: That's a little much. He knew.

2695
02:03:59,640 --> 02:04:01,680
Speaker 3: He knew, right, all right, let's keep it going. Watch

2696
02:04:01,720 --> 02:04:02,760
Speaker 3: the carpets here.

2697
02:04:03,480 --> 02:04:07,160
Speaker 1: Boss, please dress comfortable but casual at the Christmas party.

2698
02:04:07,280 --> 02:04:13,600
Speaker 1: Me BUKACKI ruined my car. Okay, what the fuck? Put

2699
02:04:13,600 --> 02:04:16,800
Speaker 1: that picture? Put that picture up. First of all, look

2700
02:04:16,800 --> 02:04:19,320
Speaker 1: at this place and look what he's eating. My man

2701
02:04:19,400 --> 02:04:20,760
Speaker 1: is just eating hot dogs.

2702
02:04:20,880 --> 02:04:21,920
Speaker 3: Looks like a halfway house.

2703
02:04:22,600 --> 02:04:26,280
Speaker 1: He's looking at what's in the back there and underneath

2704
02:04:26,320 --> 02:04:28,440
Speaker 1: his left hand. What's in the back like on crates

2705
02:04:29,240 --> 02:04:31,640
Speaker 1: some it's like modello or something.

2706
02:04:31,680 --> 02:04:32,080
Speaker 3: Possibly.

2707
02:04:32,280 --> 02:04:35,080
Speaker 1: Yeah, this is this is the weirdest Christmas party. And

2708
02:04:35,120 --> 02:04:36,440
Speaker 1: of course they've got a camera in the upper right

2709
02:04:36,480 --> 02:04:39,280
Speaker 1: hand corner. You better on these freaks.

2710
02:04:40,160 --> 02:04:41,920
Speaker 3: Uh, Luke, we have a bonus for you. It's a

2711
02:04:41,920 --> 02:04:42,560
Speaker 3: hat of the week.

2712
02:04:43,920 --> 02:04:47,120
Speaker 1: Call me the twin Towers. The way her bush has me,

2713
02:04:47,480 --> 02:04:54,000
Speaker 1: oh my god, oh wow, my oh boy god.

2714
02:04:54,200 --> 02:04:57,120
Speaker 3: Okay, speaking of that, let's go to this next video.

2715
02:05:04,440 --> 02:05:12,000
Speaker 3: Carry all right, that's that's too far. That's that's too far. Well, Luke,

2716
02:05:12,040 --> 02:05:14,760
Speaker 3: New York City, speaking of has a subway system that

2717
02:05:14,800 --> 02:05:16,680
Speaker 3: can kill you. We've seen it a few times.

2718
02:05:16,720 --> 02:05:30,880
Speaker 7: Check out this guy, baby all day.

2719
02:05:33,240 --> 02:05:35,000
Speaker 1: Look what you get on this want to be clear,

2720
02:05:35,040 --> 02:05:37,160
Speaker 1: I want to be clear to everyone when you see

2721
02:05:37,200 --> 02:05:40,320
Speaker 1: clips like that of the New York City Subway BC,

2722
02:05:40,480 --> 02:05:43,000
Speaker 1: and I can tell you it is as accurate as

2723
02:05:43,040 --> 02:05:45,600
Speaker 1: you might imagine it to be as advertise. That is

2724
02:05:45,720 --> 02:05:48,160
Speaker 1: what it is like. It is like that.

2725
02:05:48,880 --> 02:05:54,120
Speaker 3: Yep, let's keep the fun going on the subway. It's

2726
02:05:54,160 --> 02:05:57,320
Speaker 3: also like that too, Luke, okay.

2727
02:05:58,320 --> 02:06:02,160
Speaker 1: Dog, I cannot over say to you. I cannot overstate

2728
02:06:02,200 --> 02:06:04,640
Speaker 1: to you how accurate this is. This is accurate.

2729
02:06:05,320 --> 02:06:08,520
Speaker 3: Look, you know, one of my favorite content creators is

2730
02:06:08,520 --> 02:06:10,360
Speaker 3: that guy who goes to department stores and farts in

2731
02:06:10,360 --> 02:06:10,880
Speaker 3: front of people.

2732
02:06:11,640 --> 02:06:23,120
Speaker 5: Let's check in on him.

2733
02:06:24,760 --> 02:06:25,320
Speaker 1: You want some.

2734
02:06:32,160 --> 02:06:38,160
Speaker 3: Oh, look that's you in first class, without question, with

2735
02:06:38,200 --> 02:06:38,760
Speaker 3: no class.

2736
02:06:39,360 --> 02:06:41,480
Speaker 1: I have a little bit. See here's the difference between

2737
02:06:41,520 --> 02:06:43,800
Speaker 1: me on airplanes, Like do I fought? Do I fart

2738
02:06:43,840 --> 02:06:47,520
Speaker 1: audibly on airplanes? Yes, However the difference is because of

2739
02:06:47,560 --> 02:06:50,280
Speaker 1: the sound of the engine. It's usually round out. But

2740
02:06:50,360 --> 02:06:52,919
Speaker 1: I make no effort to conceal that's the reality.

2741
02:06:53,080 --> 02:06:54,840
Speaker 3: That's the guy who holds that mirror up when he

2742
02:06:54,840 --> 02:06:57,000
Speaker 3: goes to Walmart and takes videos of like, you know,

2743
02:06:57,240 --> 02:06:59,120
Speaker 3: his eyes through the mirror looking back at them. As

2744
02:06:59,280 --> 02:07:02,320
Speaker 3: what that's creepy. Let's go to the crowdsurfing always a

2745
02:07:02,400 --> 02:07:12,120
Speaker 3: dangerous activity, Luke. You got to watch out here. Oh boy,

2746
02:07:12,160 --> 02:07:15,240
Speaker 3: there's a man down. Okay, Well, it's a very inclusive environment.

2747
02:07:15,280 --> 02:07:17,200
Speaker 1: Though. You gotta know they tried. They made a good face.

2748
02:07:17,240 --> 02:07:17,720
Speaker 3: They tried.

2749
02:07:17,760 --> 02:07:19,760
Speaker 1: They didn't think that the physics threw very well.

2750
02:07:20,360 --> 02:07:22,360
Speaker 3: Your wrap bars of the week here delivered.

2751
02:07:22,800 --> 02:07:25,920
Speaker 1: This is my area, and I'm afraid to fuck you

2752
02:07:25,960 --> 02:07:31,880
Speaker 1: because you're as full of bargaria. Oh right, A constant

2753
02:07:31,920 --> 02:07:33,880
Speaker 1: problem that we all run into is really.

2754
02:07:33,800 --> 02:07:36,880
Speaker 3: Indeed, Luke, one of your marine buddies got interviewed by

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Speaker 3: barstool this week. The divis decision that you made this

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Speaker 3: past year. I banged a pro without a honor. She

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Speaker 3: was forty dollars a lot. Wow, thank you for your service.

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Speaker 1: I think that's a joke.

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Speaker 3: No, not really.

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Speaker 1: Honestly, I think that the Armed services keep more more

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Speaker 1: of street prostitution in business than maybe any other entity.

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Speaker 1: Your government tax dollars at work.

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Speaker 3: The soldiers fill the hotels on the weekends.

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Speaker 1: Luke. If you know what Iet week fleet week?

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Speaker 3: Wow, I got a couple more for you, Luke. Have

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Speaker 3: you ever met the strongest mf or in the world.

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Speaker 3: We have them on video.

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Speaker 1: I'm the strongest motherfucker in the world.

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Speaker 6: I think you were high when you put that into

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Speaker 6: the Probably, Luke, our last one just good news, Just

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Speaker 6: one hundred and fifty thousand more YouTube subscriptions on the

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Speaker 6: Morning Combat channel.

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Speaker 3: Until you and I are forced to do this, I'll

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Speaker 3: meet you at the middle, Luke.

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Speaker 1: Okay, we're not gonna Lady and the Tramp a fucking banana.

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Speaker 1: Do you understand. Yeah, yeah, we are not gonna do No,

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Speaker 1: we're not doing that.

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Speaker 3: That's all the shit I could find this week, Luca,

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Speaker 3: I hope you saw it.

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Speaker 1: There we go. See how you getting home? Are you?

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Speaker 1: Did you stupidly decide to take the bus again?

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Speaker 3: Like, no, no, I'm getting on the train. There's no

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Speaker 3: snow in New York or Connecticut.

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Speaker 1: Oh that's right.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it all went down to you. So we're fine.

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Speaker 3: You know, I just have to brave the.

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Speaker 4: Subway being told it's snowing outside BCS.

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Speaker 3: All right, that's fine whatever, you know what I mean, I'll.

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Speaker 1: Get a little bit of snow, won't matter. It's when

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Speaker 1: it gets like, you know, eight nine inches, that's when

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Speaker 1: of the problems emerged.

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Speaker 3: Look, I thought today's episod would last about forty minutes.

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Speaker 3: We gave them two hours and nine minutes.

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Speaker 1: Okay, and by the way, Friday, we'll have a we'll

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Speaker 1: get everyone ready for the fight night. Fights are back.

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Speaker 3: Rejoice durn heboss two. Let's get fired up for it Friday.

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Speaker 3: That's all we got for this week's episode, though, Long Island. Luke,

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Speaker 3: thank you so much for taking care of us. Don't

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Speaker 3: forget to email our show at Morningcombat at gmail dot com,

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Speaker 3: follow us, like the video, subscribe if you have not yet. Guys,

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Speaker 3: work We're coming hard this year. Aggressively yes, yes, consensually.

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Speaker 1: Yes, the only way.

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Speaker 3: All right, Luke, that's it.

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Speaker 1: I got a train to catch, all right, bro, Thank

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Speaker 1: you guys for accommodating me. I'll be back in the

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Speaker 1: studio next week, assuming that we're not pelted again by snow.

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Speaker 1: But yes, love you.

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Speaker 3: All for l I l the LT. I'm the BBC

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Speaker 3: with that BDE. We loved having you take care of yourselves.

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Speaker 3: We'll see you on Friday, but until then we are out.