D'Arcy Waldegrave: Sportstalk host on Navajo Stirling signing on with the UFC

Kiwi mixed martial artist Navajo Stirling is being unleashed on the UFC.

The light heavyweight's knockout win over Phillip Latu on the latest Contender Series card in Las Vegas has earned him a contract with the company.

Sportstalk host D'Arcy Waldegrave explains further.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Darcy water Grave sports stalk Coasters with USA das. Hello, Heather, So,
never host Sterling? Tell us about the sky.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
Who have not heard of Never host Sterling. Well, if
you're not in the fight scene, he wouldn't have done.
He has a kickboxer and he's moved to MMA. He
works for said he kickboxing gym, which is where Israel
du and Dan Hooker and Quikarta, France and all the
rest of them came from. He was over in the
States at a thing called the Contender Series, which is
the next level down from the UFC. Dana White, the

(00:27):
empisary of all of that. He watches this competition and
then awards contracts to the main event the UFC based
on what he's seen. So never host Sterling. This afternoon
where everyone else is watching the Donald Trump bloke and
the other bloke, I was like, I'm going to watch
some violence, and so I'll watched that instead. And Latsu
was the name of his opposition, and second round he
wiped him out with an incredible left hook. He just

(00:50):
cleaned his clock and afterwards, Dana Whites seid have been
watching you. Your big powerhouses are light heavyweights about six
foot four in the old money he carved of granite.
It looks like he goggles marble. I mean, this guy
there's something else. And he has been accepted. They said
we're giving a contract.

Speaker 1 (01:09):
Remarkable about his left hook was it wasn't it didn't
like there wasn't a massive drawback on that one. A
He didn't sort of pull back and come and smash
it into the guy's face. He just kind of launched
it from a midpoint.

Speaker 2 (01:19):
And so you can tell that he has been because
I've been showing go check this out a lot of angles.
It was. It was quite something else. But he's been
talked about for a long time in the circles, especially
up at City Kickboxing, and now he's had his opportunity.
I think five and Zer going into that as far
as his record so far in MMA, and he has
proven that he is something that they want to chase.

(01:41):
So another one from City Kickboxing.

Speaker 1 (01:42):
Breakers are going back to TV and Z, which is
good for the Breakers, right because this will increase their
fan base.

Speaker 2 (01:47):
You'd think. So it's still going to be on Sky,
it's still going to be on ESPN because that's part
of a deal that the National Basketball League in Australia
have with ESPN that their games are all shown, but
now Sky don't have to do it, so they don't
have to pay for the production values because it's about
eighty thousand dollars a game to go on there and
produce a game on the floor, so they're not doing it.

(02:11):
They've worked because they also don't want to pay for
two things, right, they don't want to pay for the
breakers and then pay for their NBA and their ESPN coverage.
What's the point they're going to get the breakers anyways,
It's like, why we do this? Makes sense? So TV
INZ rolled and mel Robinson's going to join us Tonight's talk.

Speaker 1 (02:25):
About TV and Z covering the production costs.

Speaker 2 (02:27):
We find out more about it when we talk to Malwaite.
They've got no money of course there Please.

Speaker 1 (02:33):
Press them on this because this is my big concern
about TV and Z getting into the free to air
sports is that it costs so much to produce that
I just worry that they're gonna.

Speaker 2 (02:43):
They will be picking up what ESPN are doing because
ESPN have a contract with the NBL to provide that
all they're doing is putting it on free to wear
on TV and Z Plus and on TV and Z
on Duke when they can because it does clash sometimes
with the Super Smash, but it's always going to be
all the breakers games live and free on that playful,

(03:05):
which is great for sport in this country. That's slowly
but surely it's going back to the day. And I
was talking to Alex Pale, the digital editor of The
Hero and before I said, oh, you remember, of course,
you know, way back when when pay TV started, and
was like, oh, there's no way it's eving going back
to free to wear. And you know what he said
to me, I'm a bit younger than you, mate, I've
never seen free wear sport. It's paid TV since I

(03:25):
can remember.

Speaker 1 (03:26):
I was like, oh, how good, Hey, thank you. Darcy. Okay,
Darcy's back seven o'clock for Sports Talk.

Speaker 2 (03:30):
YEP Mel Robinson joining us to talk about that acquisition
and what else may or may not go on? What
else we're going to buy? Have we've got no more money?
You're going to answer that, can't.

Speaker 1 (03:38):
You know they've got lots of money. We can burn
through it. Darcy water Grave For more from Hither Duplessy
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