UFC 320 Pregame Preview: Magomed Ankalaev vs. Alex Pereira Presented By Cuervo® | Morning Kombat - MORNING KOMBAT WITH LUKE THOMAS AND BRIAN CAMPBELL

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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Reveale, reveale, Look at us now, timpt.

Speaker 2 (00:13):
Jesus as will be.

Speaker 1 (00:32):
It's time to bun. Oh yeah, back at it in
a big, big way. It is October third, Friday of
the twenty five, so this is Morning Combat and this
right here is pregame preview UFC three p twenty brought
to you by Quervo. Get yourself fired up. It's Brian

(00:53):
Campbell live from the uh Manhattan Meadow Larks Studios, but
directly from the Connecticut suburbs. You know, Luke Thomas from
Washington d Sizzle. How about as Luke would say, better
call y'all himself. Jed Mesh you number two of MMA
Fighting dot Com back in the building. Uh, we appreciate it.
This is gonna be a fun ass card. Are you
ready to get down and dirty with the boys? I

(01:14):
appreciate it.

Speaker 3 (01:15):
I am super ready. I'm I'm pretty pumped about this weekend.
I don't know if it's just because it's been a
while we had had a pay per view in a
hot minute, but it's a.

Speaker 1 (01:23):
Great mining card, great maker, really solid main card.

Speaker 3 (01:26):
Three total heaters of a fight. Let's get into it.

Speaker 4 (01:28):
Yeah, and then we didn't have a pay per view. Well,
we had Canelo and Crawford last yees. Yeah, but that's
a separate, separate I'm saying, you know that would be
a PA perview. Calr. We didn't have any UFC paper
reviews for.

Speaker 3 (01:37):
Six weeks, six weeks without it, so I'm pretty ready man.

Speaker 5 (01:40):
Heck yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:41):
This episode of Morning Combat, of course, is brought to
you by DraftKings, DraftKings. The crown is yours and Jed.
Maybe at this point in this show's vehicle's history, I
don't have to do this type of disclaimer, but I
hope you know what you're up against today. We expect
real talk like men do, like men do. Thank you
very much, thank you, and anything you see written below

(02:02):
Jed's name today is definitely true. There it is right there,
all right, great stuff? Uh LT When you hear UFC
three twenty this Saturday on pay per view Las Vegas
rematch of the light Heavyweight Championship card in totality? Can
you give me a grade? Can you give me an
excitement level? What can you give me.

Speaker 5 (02:26):
Besides FBA?

Speaker 4 (02:27):
What's FBA?

Speaker 1 (02:28):
Well blownhades?

Speaker 4 (02:29):
Okay, a little inside humor there. I'm gonna say it's
a good question. Wow hm hmm. I okay, Well, here's
the thing. Card quality is unimpeachably high.

Speaker 1 (02:43):
By the way, early prelims has both Patchy Mix and
Austin Vanderford not bad.

Speaker 3 (02:46):
That's also Macon Chason, that's a that's a top ten
women's band.

Speaker 5 (02:53):
Let's go, let's go.

Speaker 1 (02:54):
Love pronouncing her name.

Speaker 4 (02:55):
Yeah, it's difficult for me because my brain doesn't work.
I think the card quality is absolutely super super high.
I do wonder what kinds of fights, not the Yuri
and Khalil fight, but in the main and Comaine. To
what extent are they going to be action packed? I
think remains to be seen.

Speaker 5 (03:14):
Learn a lot though.

Speaker 4 (03:15):
No, no, you're saying it could be technical. It could
be Listen, they could be. They could be not bad fights.
But are they going to be barn burners. They could be.
We have to we have to see.

Speaker 1 (03:24):
There could be a set of tee ties, technical threats.

Speaker 4 (03:27):
I guess I'm just I'm just trying to point out
I like a good sight. I think the most important
thing to think about is did they put together high
quality fights? Do they put together high stakes fights, and
do they put together important fights that could end up
being good there's simply no question about it.

Speaker 1 (03:43):
Yeah, I think this is a solid A minus. This
is a bad ass car. Yeah, it's pretty good and
very top heavy with the good stuff as well. Let's
bring in the fourth member of our team quickly, the producer, director,
Bong enthusiast, and of course the man who's here on
a one way ticket from his Australian father's libido at
his Long Island Luke Nosita of the main card minute, Luke,
will you or will you not keep us updated during

(04:04):
this live program regarding the way in for Saturday night.

Speaker 6 (04:06):
I'll keep you guys updated. I forgot all about it.
I'm not gonna lie, but yeah, pull it up.

Speaker 1 (04:11):
I don't know why I'm hair actually, uh, Long Island, Luke?
You fired up for this card?

Speaker 6 (04:15):
I am fired up. I think an is a good
grade for it. I'm pretty freaking hyped, especially for the
main card. Dude, last three fights, bangers, banger.

Speaker 1 (04:23):
That's fantastic. All right, we should open the show by
the way with our friends from Cuervo here and do
it the right way and uh you know, of course
this opening shot is brought to you by Querrevo. Now's
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Speaker 4 (04:41):
All right? Well, what are we drinking?

Speaker 1 (04:43):
We're gonna do We're we we we had so much,
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Let's rocket here. Wyn't you dip into the new one'llay.

Speaker 4 (04:56):
The same one, that's jed.

Speaker 1 (05:00):
You've done this before, apparently you know time or two.

Speaker 3 (05:03):
This is this is my fourth trip here, guys. You
guys keep bringing me back for some reason. It's great
and I'm a big fan because you you feed me
delicious tequila, and I tend to spill it to when
I you are not the best poorer. We always also
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Speaker 4 (05:21):
Yeah take it.

Speaker 1 (05:22):
You know I am forty seven. I do have a
week shot these days. I had that surgery. It's not fun,
not fun at all, you know what I mean?

Speaker 4 (05:28):
Luke knows I've not had my ball bag rearranged, you.

Speaker 5 (05:33):
Know, should Luke need a chaser?

Speaker 4 (05:35):
For this.

Speaker 1 (05:35):
That's really you know, the the extrasdential chasing. He's just
making a redneck margarita. No salt on the.

Speaker 4 (05:42):
Rim, I I need I need some. I need some
on that round, right.

Speaker 1 (05:45):
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Speaker 4 (05:48):
You bajo alcanro touch?

Speaker 1 (05:54):
We're gonna do it so good, pretty good. No smoothing.
Uh No, that was just me, you know, freelancing in
the moment, free style, and no style is free except
the radio.

Speaker 5 (06:14):
Let's hit it now, main event, let's get fired up.

Speaker 1 (06:17):
In March at UFC three thirteen, we did see an
upset happened as twenty one in one Malcolm ed and
Klie of Augistan fame, despite getting all twelve takedown tempt
stuffed by one alex Poetan Pereira, who was fresh off
of the twenty twenty four Fighter of the Year honors,
became the UFC's biggest star. Had defended the title three
times in one hundred and seventy five days the previous year.

(06:39):
But gentlemen, while both have talked about that that first meeting,
they were not at one hundred percent, and that is
part of the fight narrative coming in there. Look, that
was certainly a tactical fight, not a thriller, not overly exciting.
We did learn a lot though the title changed hands.
We get this immediate rematch. Are we only getting this
reimmediate rematch though? Because it was he wasn't decisive the

(07:00):
first time around?

Speaker 4 (07:01):
LT?

Speaker 1 (07:01):
What do you got?

Speaker 4 (07:02):
Yeah, I mean, I think there's a couple of factors
in play. As you indicated, Poetson appeared to be injured.
If you look at the targeting in that fight, he
targeted the head I think sixteen or seventeen percent, whereas
in the Roundtree five he targeted the head seventy plus percent,
to an extent that is attributed to the right hand.
I guess we'll have to see.

Speaker 1 (07:22):
And then reported neurovirus and the fact that he said
I was at forty percent.

Speaker 5 (07:26):
Yeah, you can take that or leave it, but he
said it.

Speaker 4 (07:27):
I mean, guys, fighters routinely compete compromised that that would
I mean, how much is hard to say to quantify it,
but that he was probably, you know, not his best self.
I don't think is anyway controversial necessarily. Also recall that
that first fight took place where Unclelive had to do
his camp during Ramadon or these big portions of it anyway,
and so he said he only broke fast to make

(07:48):
the weight. Poetson challenged that narrative, but it's certainly part
of it.

Speaker 1 (07:53):
And he said he also didn't commit to following through
in the takedowns because he wanted to protect that guest tank. Yeah,
and he al Seprara was greasy.

Speaker 4 (08:00):
Yeah, interesting, I would say this. And then the thing
that really frustrated me about that first fight was that
neither guy was able to maintain or so I should say,
create any sustained offense. It'd be a little bit of
offense and then it would break, and then a little
bit of offense, and then there would be a tie up,
and no one was able to do anything. I think
the reason that it's happening again BC is that on
Caliv is not a star Poeton. There's a question about

(08:23):
like why the fans abandoned him, which I'm sure we'll
talk about in just a second, but certainly relative of
the two is the far more popular guy. And we
know the rules if you beat a popular champion, and
especially if the fight is in any way you know
kind of close or what you're gonna have to do
it twice, yea twice.

Speaker 1 (08:39):
This is this is the second and Poeton is a
very special fighter and was at that point the biggest star.
And let's not forget that first fight. Three rounds to
two on two scorecards. It's how I scored it. A
lot of people did, but jed, what did you ultimately
learn from that first fight?

Speaker 3 (08:52):
Honestly, my takeaway from that first way is it's one
of the very rare fights that delivered more questions than answers,
because like usually that's the point of the fight. Now
we know, Wow, I know that Maga man Anklaya is
better than Alex Prera.

Speaker 1 (09:06):
I don't know that. I don't know.

Speaker 3 (09:08):
How much the weight cut, you know, for Frank al
of training in Ramanon. I don't know how much alex
Prero's activity influenced it.

Speaker 1 (09:16):
The potential injury, I don't know.

Speaker 5 (09:19):
Shit head into this rematch is basically.

Speaker 3 (09:21):
Like, it is very rare that there is a rematch,
especially so close to the initial fight, where I feel
less confident in what is going to happen on Saturday night,
which makes it interesting. I'm not the biggest fan of
this fight. Sort of holistically, I think that Alex Shud
just bailed and gone to heavyweight. But now that it's here,

(09:42):
the reason I've gotten more excited about this car is
I've just spent a lot more time digesting the first
fight what this fight is going to be, and I
got no clue, Like I have a lot of thoughts
what could happen, but no idea how Saturday is going
to shake out.

Speaker 1 (09:56):
And that makes me really interested in it. Yeah, I
mean there's a lot to look back on. How much
are you going to take? What Poeton said, he fights
her all the time. Sometimes that'll catch up with you
if you do that, if you take fights on short notices.
I do believe looking back at that first fight that
he was compromised. I'm not saying that's the ultimate excuse,
and Calive was also compromised. But I think the right
question isn't necessarily what percentage were they both at in

(10:17):
the first fight. I think the question is if they're
both at one hundred percent in the second fight.

Speaker 5 (10:21):
And if Pereerra is as motivated as he looks.

Speaker 1 (10:23):
I mean, we've seen the stoic Chauma kind of break
his personality a few times and be offended by some
of the comments from Aclive, whether on social media or
in person. I feel like that's you mix that with
the idea that he knows legacy wise, could he lose
this fight move up to heav you anyway, Yes, but
I think he understands what it would mean to get
that title back to sort of right or wrong in

(10:44):
this situation, Luke, if it is one hundred percent versus
one hundred percent, we're not talking about bad training camps
or the fact that deliver tsher said this camp, we
didn't let him fly around the being ambassador for UFC.
We did the camp here to make sure he's in
the right shape. Does that alter how you handicap it?
Because for as much as Anklela I have deserved the
victory the first time never overwhelmed Perreira. He backed him

(11:05):
up with it with effective pressure. He hurt him that
one time, but it wasn't a solid all the way.
You feel like you got all your questions answered in
that one fight.

Speaker 4 (11:15):
Yeah, I don't know how you can look at that
fight and be like this was super impressive. I mean
you can definitely have you can commend the performance. Right,
he for five rounds, he didn't get hit with too much.
It was a couple of times Poton had some nice stuff.
The leg kicks didn't seem to affect him. The pushkicks
were really never there. Yes, he stuffed to take down,
but he had really no offense beyond that, or say

(11:37):
the defense was such a priority he wasn't able to
turn defense into offense.

Speaker 7 (11:40):
Not.

Speaker 4 (11:40):
I mean again, there was a couple times where he
did it, but in general he was backed up a lot.
To the case, backed up a lot. It was a
commendable effort, but to your point, it was hardly overwhelming.
It was hardly authoritative. He didn't take him down and
thrash him and then like cut him open or again
thirty seconds of a sustained beating or something. There was
none of that. It's a big shot, run him into
the fence, and then there'd be several minutes of clinching,

(12:02):
and it's like, don't get me wrong, one person is
taking the lead, and even what he's doing there is
quite difficult. But this is not the kind of performance
where you're like, oh, Poton is so outmatched that I
cannot imagine a scenario given more time where he could
make adjustments and win. Clearly, that is on the table.

Speaker 2 (12:20):
Now.

Speaker 4 (12:20):
I'm not saying uncle, I have won't win. I'm just
saying that performance is not so definitive that you can
just close the book.

Speaker 1 (12:28):
I agree with that, And because look, Poton likes to
keep things close to the best. He never wanted this
to come out that he was compromised the first fight.
He finally just kind of sort of agreed and said, yes,
I want to tell you the details. But he said
he was shocked he ever made it to the cage
the first time around. So let's give him that chance
to come back at full strength and full speed. But
I think the fact that Poton has been willing to

(12:48):
publicly say yes, it's getting harder to cut to two
o five now and I'm not sure I can continue
to do it, that does lead me to believe that
win or lose, he's going up to have you weeight
after this fight.

Speaker 5 (12:58):
If that's true, Does that change anyway.

Speaker 1 (13:00):
You look at this belt? It doesn't. It should be
win or lose. He should absolutely go to heavyweight.

Speaker 3 (13:04):
I don't. He should have should have gone heavyweight already.
I think this fight is relatively meaningless in the terms
of his career. It's not winning a belt. You know,
there are some interesting statistics. He becomes the first fighter
since Randy Gutour to win a belt in multiple weight
classes while multiple times or whatever. But like, at the
end of the day, a few wins or loses, we're

(13:25):
not gonna it's not gonna move him up or down
the goat list, right Like, this is kind of relatively meaningless,
so it should, but I that's not what this is about.
Like to me, the reason this fight is happening is yes,
to Luke's point, you gotta beat him twice.

Speaker 1 (13:40):
But if Alex wanted.

Speaker 3 (13:42):
To go to heavyweight, the UFC would have absolutely been like, sure, man,
go he This is a pride thing. This is a
I didn't give my best. I'm better than that dude.
And that also makes it interesting because to your point, BC,
they're talking a lot of shit, right like, they are
taking a lot of he was I was forty percent.

(14:02):
I'm not flying around like if he loses on Saturday.
He has built this to be incontrovertibly Oh I got beat.
There are no excuses baked into the pie this time.
And so I don't think the heavyweightness of this matters.
He knows what is at stake for him, and that
is why he is as invested as he is in
light of what he's saying.

Speaker 1 (14:23):
Is this a subtle referendum on whether thirty eight year
old Pereira still has it on the super elite face
of the brand level, both in the cage and maybe
even commercially.

Speaker 4 (14:32):
Yes, absolutely, And again part of this is who was
I talking about this with Dennis from Submission Radio and
he was kind of like, people lose to UNCLIAV. Yeah,
Dennis Scrototov, I love Scrutinov, Shakurdanov, Shakur Stevenson is really
but he made a point he was like, you know,
it's kind of true where if you lose to unclia

(14:54):
you kind of just get I don't know, you're kind
of like you fizzle out promotionally. It's weird, like few
come out of the fights where you're like.

Speaker 1 (15:02):
The Bermuda Triangle of fights.

Speaker 5 (15:03):
Yeah, right, got out a big arm, yeah and so.

Speaker 4 (15:07):
And so to that point, like you know, so he's
suffering from some of that. Imagine losing twice by the
way and what that might do to your stock. But
to the point you raise, you know, yes, this is
if he wins, he'll be the oldest active UFC champion
at thirty eight years old. Uncle, I have just thirty three,
so there's a big difference there, obviously. And to that point, yes,
B see, like what does he have left as a
promotional entity? What does he have left at the top

(15:28):
of this division or potentially at heavyweight? Again, you asked
a question early, are these great fights? And because of
the quality of them, there's no question. I don't know
how entertaining it will be, but like you said, it
will be very informative. You're gonna learn a lot with
this fight, and that is the most important thing.

Speaker 1 (15:44):
I think I'll give Uncle the benefit of the doubt
to say, if he's fully healthy, it could be a
different thing we see on Saturday. But if you're telling
me definitely, Pereira was compromised the first fight, didn't have
a great training camp, was potentially battling a broken hand
with norovirus whatever. But he's going to be hun percent
and motivated. I have to believe that the gas tank
will be there as well, and I think by proxy

(16:05):
we're going to see a much more exciting fight than
the first time, which really was sort of We're waiting
for something to happen. It never really happened. Suddenly the
fight ends and you're like, yeah, I guess Uncle I
have did it. I feel like this is going to
be a Poton who isn't working off the back foot
with this more technical opponent pressuring him. It's going to
be a guy that's trying to go after it. Is
a fully healthy anc going to be able to dial

(16:27):
up that technique and mute the aggressive, emotional, energized version
of Poton that wants to come back and fix that
hole on the resume. My strongest take.

Speaker 3 (16:38):
For this whole weekend is that the main event is
going to be a stone cold banger.

Speaker 1 (16:42):
Like I and I saw the first five.

Speaker 3 (16:44):
I've seen the first fight a lot, and I think
that after watching as much as I have, I think
that everybody has sort of short sold what Uncle Ia
did in that fight.

Speaker 1 (16:55):
I do think Alex was a little compromised.

Speaker 3 (16:57):
All that is true, but I also think, like I
watched Alex fight Kleil Realntree and struggle greatly in that fight,
and that some of this is stylistically, He's not as
good against South Paul's unless you're Jamal Hill and just
gonna you know, engage and also is.

Speaker 4 (17:13):
A pure boxer, like there's no extra threat with Jamal exactly.

Speaker 3 (17:16):
And I thought, Uncle, I have rewatching and like did
a lot of good things right like he he made
a really concerted effort to be defense first, and Alex
never felt confident to throw at the head right like
it just and he got buzzed. So I think that,
you know, looking at that fight.

Speaker 1 (17:32):
Maybe it happens again. I don't think so. I don't
know how who's gonna win.

Speaker 3 (17:37):
But I feel so confident that Alex, he has put
so much on himself, he's not going out like that.
If he's gonna lose, he's not gonna lose another like tepid, past, questionable,
passive thing. And Uncle, I have I think is he's
he's righting high man.

Speaker 1 (17:53):
He is high on the hall right now. He is
feeling himself.

Speaker 3 (17:57):
I think they're gonna come out and maybe there's a
little feeling out early and very quickly, Alex is gonna
stop backstepping and they are just gonna toss him. And
at that point both dudes can put the other down.
And so I don't know who's gonna win. I think
we're in for a much more exciting man. And so
if that goes down that way, I don't want to
disrespect Unclive. He's got finishes where he frontkicked a dude,
knock him down, finished him with strikes. He's got a

(18:19):
better array of strikes and he gets creditfied.

Speaker 1 (18:22):
I mean he's with Alex in the first fight. There
is a lot that UNCLIAV does great. But if this
turns into a bit of a war, a bit of
a shootout over twenty five minutes, we've said before that
Uncle Ive, I mean, if we're gonna it's real time,
real time time, if Donk Elia first team, all Donk
And sometimes that means he's too passive in the moments
that he shouldn't be, and he even admitted on the

(18:43):
Countdown show that he was too passive the first fight.

Speaker 5 (18:45):
He had openings where he could have.

Speaker 1 (18:46):
Either followed up on Poton when he heard him with
strikes or taken him down when he had him backed
up against the cage, and he either wasn't willing to
go that extra mile or was playing it too safe.
You mixed that with maybe he's a little mistake prone,
But is that a fair thing to say? About a
guy whose record is twenty one and one. He's in
the top ten most pompfer pound guys. I mean, are
you confident and if this becomes a give and take

(19:07):
that Aunkliab is going to be able to notch up
that safety even more and be able to execute without.

Speaker 4 (19:14):
I mean, I know I have doubts, though I don't
know what you're asking me.

Speaker 1 (19:17):
I'm saying that for all, for all the great we
could say about him, he's got a great record. He
looks great against B and B plus guys, he finishes them. Yep,
when you're on there with somebody who's either your equal
or better, and let's let's break him down.

Speaker 5 (19:27):
Is aunt Caliave more well rounded?

Speaker 1 (19:28):
Yes? Is that Dalia more technically yes? But Perreira is
more clutch. Perreira rises to the occasion. Perrera is more dangerous,
is he? If it's fought on a more even terms
of what they normally do, well, I would fear for
Anklav in the fight like this.

Speaker 4 (19:42):
You don't think he's more dangerous, Oh, He's more.

Speaker 3 (19:44):
Dangerous the more clutch things Just like I don't know,
Anklav has lost one fight ever in his whole life.

Speaker 1 (19:50):
And like that was That was literally by one second,
but I mean it.

Speaker 4 (19:54):
Was a it was a dumb ass loss though it was,
but it.

Speaker 1 (19:56):
Was literally by one second.

Speaker 3 (19:58):
Whereas like I've seen Alex Peyra lose more fights, like
the clutch thing feels more dangerous.

Speaker 1 (20:03):
It's out prayer man. Okay, But was he clutch against
is he after losing the first four rounds? In round
five when he knocked him out, that was pretty cluch
he was?

Speaker 3 (20:10):
Was he clutch against Unclive when he was up two
rounds heading into the championship rounds and turf no, maghen.

Speaker 5 (20:16):
Alive was the one.

Speaker 1 (20:17):
I mean, look, if all things are equal and everything's
jacked up and we're going strength against strength, even with
Ekelive having that technical advantage, he's better defensively. I don't know, dude,
I don't know here because this seems like a re
energized Poton, but I could be falling for the myth
of Poton. That's the whole thing you have to ask
yourself when you look at that.

Speaker 4 (20:33):
Well, I mean, he definitely did this camp better, right,
He's not flying to Sydney, Australia and doing Shama World
tours before the fights, so like, I think the hope
and the renewed optimism for him is quite genuine. But
to the point you raise, Unclelive is more well rounded,
Unclive has more ways to win. We think that's what
we believe that the tape shows. I just think for me,

(20:57):
Uncliav might have been somewhat diminished in the first five.
But I think this is really a question about Pooton.
This is this is a this is a referendum. It's interesting,
right because Unclelive is the champ, but this is a
referendum on Poeton. He made big claims about what he
was in the first fight and the diminished state that
brought him to that moment. It's now his job to

(21:17):
fix that. And he has said that there are so
many things that went right this time. You see the
face off where he said, I don't want to go
back to the tire shop. Yeah, you know what I mean.
And a lot of that is for you know, dramatized effect.

Speaker 3 (21:27):
But it's a call back to the uncle I have
you know, shot at him.

Speaker 4 (21:30):
Yeah, yeah, but still you know, like dabbling in it
and leaning into it, and he just seems like he's
got a little bit more focus less so swagged, but
certainly more focus about this whole thing.

Speaker 1 (21:40):
Dude, I feel like Uncle I's trying to talk himself
into this big ONC energy moment. You say he's kind
of running, riding high on the hog. I wonder if
that's a bad thing for someone like him. He's almost
better coming in under the radar, like he kind of
did the first fight, like not talking too much shit,
do his technical stuff, control the fight on his own terms,
which he was able to do and get the win.
Wasn't overly exciting, but we weren't debating who won it

(22:01):
at the end. This is a time where he's talking
about him. If you saw On the countown specially, which
I thought was a good episode of that, where he
basically said, this story isn't about Perera coming back. This
fight isn't about Pereira coming back to eventual loss and
get his title back. This fight is about me finishing him.
That's really the core of my fear on Nklive here
that he is saying, Look, I was a little too

(22:23):
passive the first fight. I had him in dangerous situations
that I didn't follow through, And maybe he's underestimating what
a refocused, fully trained, fully healthy Poeton is going to do.
I can imagine a scenario that he walks into a
left hook and we are suddenly in a We're on
on Q Street, as they say in boxing, and that's
where the real men hang out.

Speaker 3 (22:40):
I like his energy, Like, if he walks into a
left hook, I don't you could say that that happened
because he took him. I don't he walks into left
focus because Alex Pere is really good at fist fighting.

Speaker 1 (22:49):
He's been doing it for a really long time, really
good at it.

Speaker 3 (22:51):
And if he doesn't, then he's he is. He's brought
big on time to the to the forefront. If he
goes out there and does it, he knocks out act
to your point, he actually kills Alex this time, just
when he puts a statement on it.

Speaker 1 (23:06):
Yeah, then then we're good.

Speaker 3 (23:08):
It's like, Okay, well that's the guy and we don't
have any questions. And I think that's the energy you
should bring to this sort of you're the champ now, man,
there's no debate in your mind. Every fighter psychopathically thinks
of the best in the world. He's got a belt
to prove it, and so I love the energy he's
bringing I love the energy they're both bringing. That's why
I'm so confident this is going to be a banger like.

(23:29):
I think they're going to get after it in a
way that was not present the first time around.

Speaker 1 (23:33):
I love the energy he's bringing. It's kind of like
Dale Senior post crash Dead.

Speaker 4 (23:37):
I mean, I want to be clear, I don't mind
those jokes. Okay, sorry, sorry, yeah, you'd be surprised.

Speaker 1 (23:46):
Look, there is a there is a what if here,
and if that's we're undermining how much? Sorry ankle Ive
was compromised by training during Ramadan and that that negatively
affected his wrestling ability. Here. Is there a scenario here?
I want to ask you where he can like where
this second fight is what people thought the first fight was,
where he comes out successfully, the lands takedowns, tires poetan

(24:07):
out for Luke Thomas. This is the part of the
show where BC's gonna predict that and Gon's gonna out
wrestle gone. Is there a flip side here? The fact
that Pereira stuffed all twelve takedowns show us that he
has almost unnaturally evolved his game at such a freaking
rapid level. It's ridiculous. No one sided this side of
Gokinsak thought he was gonna come in there from kickboxing

(24:27):
and be credible in the areas that you would expect
him not to be.

Speaker 5 (24:30):
He's evolved so quickly.

Speaker 1 (24:32):
Is there a deeper evolution with him and Glover that
we're not experience or predicting here? That shows maybe he's
a submission thread on the ground if it does go there.

Speaker 4 (24:39):
I mean, you never know. I didn't think Morob was
going to be a sub threat against O'Malley, and sure enough,
that's exactly what you got. So you don't want to
be too dismissive. I mean to say that, though, I
think you'd just be kind of guessing, like what would
you unless you've tricked?

Speaker 1 (24:53):
I guess we're vibes.

Speaker 4 (24:53):
That's what you are, the vibe guesser. That is true.
I would say that, like, I mean, he did ticked down?
Is he in their first well, okay, first mm A fight? Right? Yeah,
it's hard to number them, so.

Speaker 1 (25:04):
He can't really take him down in the kickboxing fighter.

Speaker 4 (25:06):
So yeah, well I'm trying to figure out what number
fight it was, and the overall scope of them is
A three and four, but it was number three, right,
So the first MMA fight, he took him down. You know,
could he surprise onn caliave that way potentially? BC. You
mentioned the takedown defense. That was true, but also didn't
you feel like watching that fight, like, okay, Uncle lab
was like trying for the takedown.

Speaker 1 (25:25):
But he wasn't.

Speaker 4 (25:26):
He wasn't trying for the trying for the takedown.

Speaker 1 (25:28):
He was happy to have the the the positional advantage
in the standing clinch.

Speaker 4 (25:32):
A lot of That's what it seemed like to me, and.

Speaker 1 (25:35):
Wanted the clinch.

Speaker 4 (25:36):
Yeah, well, I was saying, Poton was all too happy
to be like, all right, we can.

Speaker 1 (25:39):
Maybe maybe Uncle was protecting that guest tank thro Ramadan.
Maybe that's where it was, you know, I mean it
could be that.

Speaker 3 (25:43):
Mostly it's just like, oh, I'm winning this position, I
am ahead here, and I can suck the clock away
from the dangerous guy.

Speaker 1 (25:50):
Like that's that was just good tactics. It's boring. Was
good tactics. Do you believe in position over submission or
are you just like a boring missionary guy?

Speaker 4 (25:59):
How are you laughing at that? How are you that
much of a simpleton?

Speaker 3 (26:03):
I do you know?

Speaker 4 (26:03):
I was laughing before I can hear you you can't.

Speaker 5 (26:06):
Yes, well we could Long Island.

Speaker 1 (26:07):
Luke, could you please share the DraftKings odds up to
the minute of this main.

Speaker 6 (26:11):
Event plus two twenty Poton minus two seventy's a big price.

Speaker 4 (26:17):
Hey, are you going to put money on Poton for that?

Speaker 6 (26:19):
I already did.

Speaker 4 (26:21):
What is your read on the value there?

Speaker 6 (26:24):
I mean, just like BC was saying earlier, it was
three to two the first fight Poton was injured. I'm
just like, hopefully he's telling the truth and it's coming
in healthy this time. I'll take his one punch knockout
power plus two twenty and a twenty five minute fight.

Speaker 4 (26:37):
Yeah, I forget.

Speaker 1 (26:37):
Poton's been saying the big onk on my worst night,
you couldn't drop me air finish, And now you're saying
that's just the worst argument all my worst night, you
beat me, is what he's saying. It's just a terrible
like sure did, buddy. Okay, what does the world look
like here if Poeton loses? I mean we touched on

(26:58):
it earlier talking about sort of the reference him on
his stardom, on his ability at this age. It'd be
wild to see him loose twice consecutively, and to see
Uncliath essentially enter the top five pound for pound, right,
I mean, that's where we would be headed with this.
It would reset the available matchups at light heavyweight because
of the recent dominance of Poeton. But are you ready
to live in a big ONC world for the second time?

Speaker 3 (27:19):
Yeah, because I've been ready for this for a while.
I've thought on Clive was the best light heavyweight for
a hot minute, but like you know, he's in the
mavasarv luev Bermuda triangle of They don't like him, yes,
despite the fact that he historically he's had some snoozers.
I'm not here to say everyone's a banger, but like
he's that true with him, He's been h I was
in a lot of them.

Speaker 5 (27:39):
Quickly pulled out of that quickly.

Speaker 3 (27:41):
Yeah, But yeah, like I think he's probably the best
light heavyweight and so it's okay to be there. If
Prayer beats him, that's cool. But then on Clive will
just fight for the belt again soon because Alex.

Speaker 1 (27:54):
Is just not long for two.

Speaker 3 (27:56):
There's nothing left for him. There's this fight because he
lost the first one.

Speaker 5 (28:00):
That's it.

Speaker 1 (28:01):
Like, do we care about Carlos Oldberg? Maybe you do
that reporter did to ask that question at you see
the picture of them backstage afterwards?

Speaker 4 (28:09):
Wait, who remember that we played.

Speaker 1 (28:10):
On have you seen this? Have you seen this?

Speaker 4 (28:12):
Ship?

Speaker 1 (28:12):
The female reporter who during the press conference was like, hey,
Dominic res handsome. I mean he's a very handsome man.
We can all agree. I think there was a smash
burger with extra cheese and I'm not afraid to you know,
imagine that anyway, were you no no am I on Crystalino,
But I believe that the tradition and al Blanco. Uh,
here's what I want to say on by fourth round, TKO,

(28:34):
what's gonna happen?

Speaker 4 (28:35):
Okay?

Speaker 1 (28:36):
Because he is angry, focused, redetermined, he was he was
gambling on the run that.

Speaker 4 (28:43):
He was on before.

Speaker 1 (28:44):
Well, yeah, I could take any fight short, shorthanded or
hurt or injury or whatever. Well I will we see
even a veteran Calive from the first fight. Yes, I
think Uncle Ive probably goes up to oh in this fight.

Speaker 5 (28:56):
Maybe it looks in some.

Speaker 1 (28:58):
Weird ways almost like uh a replay of the Khalil fight.
But I think Poeton is going to have the gas
tank here to set up that one big shot that
he's going to need to turn the fight in his favor.
I think he could stop banklive here. Am I crazy?

Speaker 4 (29:11):
I don't think it's crazy, but I guess I think
the honestly, if I'm being serious. The reason why I
like this about so much is Listen, Sometimes you look
at about and you're like, man, fighter A is about
to beat the living fuck out of fighter B. And
of course that can always happen in mma is crazy,
but in this one, it's like genuinely mysterious to me,
you know what I mean? Like, is Poeton over selling

(29:32):
how banged up he was? Maybe? Is he underselling it?
Maybe is on Calive exactly who you saw in that fight?
Or is that also, you know, a clearly diminished version.
And if they're not both diminished and they both open up,
what is it? I don't know the answer to these questions,
And for that reason it makes it a little hard
to make a.

Speaker 1 (29:47):
Pick, all right, So no pick from Luke Thomas Jed.
Are you willing to put your money where your mouth is?
You put a lot of things, it's just.

Speaker 3 (29:56):
Unbelievable, including some traditional very true, very true. I have
bet on Alex Prayer because like Long Island, Luke, that's
just a really good price.

Speaker 4 (30:06):
Yeah, I will. I will say this at that price,
it was a really good that makes a lot of sense.

Speaker 1 (30:10):
It's a really good price.

Speaker 3 (30:12):
Uh. I think it's a total coin flip, But I
will side with sort of historical precedent and go that
the younger guy who just unseated the champion gets it
done again.

Speaker 1 (30:23):
But I think he's gonna knock him out. I I
genuinely wow, wow.

Speaker 3 (30:26):
I think Alex is gonna come in with a lot
more fire on the ground, on the feet. I think
I think they're both just gonna throw and people underestimate
that ankle. I have swings a pretty big hammer himself,
and Alex is thirty eight.

Speaker 5 (30:38):
Okay, if.

Speaker 1 (30:41):
Tools in a real fight, if he's willing, yeah, it's
just we haven't seen it at his biggest fights. We
haven't seen that same willingness. He gets a little, he
gets more technical in the biggest who yes, like.

Speaker 3 (30:50):
If he buzzes him again like he did the last time,
I think this time he'll he'll pursue it a lot more.
I mostly just think they are going to trade hooks
at some point, and whoever gets their first is probably
gonna be the guy who wins and I don't know,
we've never seen Uncle Ive knocked out. I know he's
been dropped before. I think Thiago Santas put him down once.
But like Alex is old man and a lot of

(31:11):
miles because even he's relatively mma young.

Speaker 1 (31:14):
It's been fighting since twenty twelve something like that, And
you wonder how a pushing against my own pick, but
you wonder how much last year took out of him
fighting three times in such a short window while hurt,
while sick. Yeah, you know, I mean it, it's almost
like masvid all the same thing happened. You had this
incredible bounce back year and put everything into it. It
was great, but you're like, you really sustain that at
that age? We do have to ask that about Yeah,

(31:36):
I think it's a coin flip.

Speaker 3 (31:37):
So if Alex, if Alex is the one who gets him,
sure like that either happened, but historical precedent suggests the
younger champion who has only kind of lost once is
probably something.

Speaker 4 (31:49):
Historically also just a poet to talk about it too,
like there are ways, like once you lose the UFC title, yes,
some people get it back. Some people get it back
by changing weight classes, some people get it back by
rematch is whatever. But the but the overwhelming majority of
time is once you are separated from that title, you're
separated for good.

Speaker 5 (32:06):
It's very very gsp.

Speaker 1 (32:08):
Got it back, Bulk got Valentino is he is?

Speaker 4 (32:12):
He got it back on Gutur took turns between the divisions.
It is rare.

Speaker 1 (32:16):
We're talking about the great Yeah.

Speaker 4 (32:18):
Look at the names we're talking about, Like, it's very difficult.
And then again is he got it back and then
lost it immediately right after.

Speaker 1 (32:23):
New got it back as well? Yeah, we're talking about
the greatest of all time.

Speaker 3 (32:26):
It has happened a lot more recently. And Alex is
one of like Alex is one of those guys who'd
be like, Okay, yeah.

Speaker 1 (32:31):
Sure he's out fits if it's a dicsion, Yeah, he is.

Speaker 3 (32:34):
In the mold of the fighters who would reclaim One.

Speaker 4 (32:37):
More point if I made do we buy Dennis's theory
that like Maga mat Uncle Ive just had and the
and the fight itself kind of being harmed, like why
why was every why was twenty twenty four of the
year of Poeton? And then he loses and everyone's like,
go fuck yourself. I don't Yeah, I was like, what happened?
Where was all the Shama chance?

Speaker 1 (32:56):
Because uncle I have is the Bermuda triangle of fighters?

Speaker 4 (32:59):
That's your theory, honest to god?

Speaker 3 (33:01):
Yeah, because the UC has been so not promoting him
in general. Yeah, so it's like, oh, you lost to
this guy that pretty clearly the promotion didn't really like
that much. It's like if mavsarevlv ever gets to fight
for a belt and wins it, everyone will forget about
the featherweight division because the UFC is so concernedly not
promoted that, right, right, right, So I think it's similar.

Speaker 4 (33:23):
Yeah, I think I think that that's the best explanation
i've heard.

Speaker 1 (33:26):
Quick phoner check on that UFC cutter card one of
your early stops in your life tour.

Speaker 4 (33:31):
That's right. My dad was in the state.

Speaker 1 (33:35):
I know, but I just didn't realize. You, dude, between
this home main event of Blah Mohammed versus Ian Gary
and this main event of Hooker versus Sarukian, give give
me some levels here.

Speaker 4 (33:45):
How you you going? Okay? So you're more of an
Ian Gary guy than I am.

Speaker 5 (33:49):
That matchup is great, phenomenal.

Speaker 4 (33:51):
I'm not hitting on the matchup at all that again,
speaking of a fight that could be boring but is
packed with information that you're gonna learn. That one is,
I mean, chief among them. The one that's interesting to
me is the sarr Yuki and Hooker one because you'll
note gam Rock beat sar yukin some controversially, but he
did beat him. However, Chandler, a wrestler boxer type, knocked

(34:13):
out Hooker. However, Gamrot himself couldn't beat Hooker, so you
have to ask yourself, what kind of wrestling style does
sorry you can need to have and what does he
have that's gonna be a problem for Hooker. I think
it might actually a little more Chandler where you actually
wrestle boxing, whereas gam Rock was a little bit more
just my offense starts once my wrestling begins. So I

(34:35):
think that fight is interesting and someone mysterious, but it's
the main event that is No, No, that's the main Sorry,
the Comaine, that's the one that's like. Is that a
five round comain?

Speaker 1 (34:45):
I don't know it should be.

Speaker 4 (34:47):
You know, if it's a five round, it's actually three.

Speaker 1 (34:49):
Oh it's three.

Speaker 4 (34:51):
Well that favors Gary, doesn't it. I think this movement
is going to be right.

Speaker 6 (34:57):
Now, Gary's minus one six two plus one third former.

Speaker 1 (35:04):
I think that price is low.

Speaker 4 (35:05):
The mail of the file on that little genuine you know.

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I would have to say that the main event could
be the worst day for a hooker since Heidi Flies
lost the Charlie Sheen trial. Any of you watched that
recent Netflix I'm pretty.

Speaker 3 (35:15):
Confident there have been worst days for hookers.

Speaker 1 (35:17):
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The first man will come up with mid nineties references
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Speaker 4 (36:51):
That's a question for Long Island.

Speaker 1 (36:53):
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you mean not just when are you gonna be giving it?
Am I on it? Yeah?

Speaker 4 (37:04):
When do I?

Speaker 3 (37:05):
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Speaker 4 (37:09):
That's a good question.

Speaker 1 (37:10):
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Speaker 4 (37:14):
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Speaker 5 (37:15):
Side literally about to be like, I'm not not doing that.

Speaker 1 (37:20):
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Speaker 5 (37:21):
Certainly not you with with what is it?

Speaker 1 (37:24):
FBA not doing that? There's a fantastic comain event. We're
cann get into it right now. The third title defense
for Morob Devolish Willie of that bantamweight belt, top five
pound for pound, thirty four years old, riding a thirteen
fight win streak, and if he wins on Saturday, one
short of Islamaha Jev's too short of Anderson Silva's UFC
record of sixteen, so big fight odds are maybe oddly

(37:47):
aggressively in Morob's favor. But I have to say with
Corey Sandhagen end of the show, we love the guy.
He's been to the dance a bunch of times. Could
not break through, is he or.

Speaker 8 (37:59):
Is he not?

Speaker 1 (37:59):
Jed? The toughest style matchup, just style matchup to date
of Morob's incredible bandon weight run.

Speaker 3 (38:07):
No umar is I know, I know Marob b to Umar,
but that's just a testament to Morob.

Speaker 1 (38:12):
Like, okay, you don't think san Higan's a little more
dynamic on the potential of like catching Morob coming in
with one of those jumping knees or something.

Speaker 3 (38:21):
Yeah, when Frankie was old and BKFC version of frank early,
there is no BKFC Frankie. Actually we got rid of
hot thank thank goodness. Uh, you know it's Umar. I
mean the Umar fight was still close. Morob won undeniably,
but like, this is a fight I'm very interested in,
very excited about.

Speaker 1 (38:39):
I was, that's just grossy it's baptized in the motor oil.

Speaker 4 (38:43):
That is awesome.

Speaker 1 (38:44):
This is gross.

Speaker 3 (38:46):
Uh. But like to me, this looks like it's setting up,
for all respect to a friend of the show, Cory Sandhagan,
a classic Cory Sandhagan fight where he looks good, he
proves that he's one of the best guys in the division,
and he proves he's not the best guy because just
like the Umar fight, just like the fight.

Speaker 2 (39:06):
Like.

Speaker 4 (39:08):
People kind of oversell that one. Like to your point,
Morob was better an he won, and in fact I
thought it was actually between that and the O'Malley fight.
Those were so impressive by Morob, but dude, Umar was
giving him the business at certain points in that fight
and was a bare minimum quite competitive throughout this idea
that like Morob just ran over him.

Speaker 1 (39:27):
Is I think he was saying the Umar Cory fight.
I'm sorry, Yes, yes, I was basically saying, look Cory's
bender Emily the al Jo number one contender fight when
he got subbed, Like, we've seen him get so close
to this level. But if we're building a case for Corey,
wouldn't we say, great gas tank which you need against Morob,
can wrestle and sub off its back, can hurt you
with all four limbs, which his stances could Hey potentially

(39:50):
lt because you break these fights down like no one else.
Is sanm Hagen the Maybe he's not as good as Umar,
and we learned that when they went to head to head.
But does he have the best chance to slow Morob down,
make him think and make it a little bit more
of either chess or hesitation for Morob because of that
versatility and unorthodox nature.

Speaker 4 (40:09):
Well, maybe let me throw a little wrinkle in here.
I found out something this week by accident. I didn't
even I just stumbled upon it. I spoke to Ryan
Hall this week. Uh, and he's not working with Corey
anymore and did not work with him for this camp,
which I found quite surprising. I don't know what the
nature of working women. Yeah, yeah, yeah, but I mean

(40:29):
he's still working with some other people that I know,
like for example, ton Lee and Ryan and the Corey
are working together, and ton Lee is still working with Corey.
I don't know. I don't know what happened or I
don't think it's I don't think it's a bad, but
I just don't think they're working together anymore. But that
surprised me because I would have imagined that's exactly the
guy you would want, who, to your point, could like
introduce the element of surprise into the grappling. To answer

(40:51):
your question, I think a lot of people have fought
Morob like you fight any other elite guy, which is,
you know, there's a certain sort of conventional norms that
you adhere to, but Morob do You can't. You can't
do that shit with him, Yeah, because there's no amount
of labor you can throw at him that's going to
be enough.

Speaker 1 (41:07):
Labor is not that chin is almost as insane as
his guest.

Speaker 4 (41:11):
Hear me out, hear me out. If you're you asked
me like, can Cory be more dangerous with a mindset change? Yes,
if your plan is he takes you down or a
bare minhium gets to your back and then Matt returns
you and I'm gonna just wrestle up to my feet.
If you play that game long enough, it's a guarantee
you're gonna lose. You have to switch it up. You
have to reset the grappling attack with an inversion, some

(41:34):
kind of role whatever. There's various different ways, and you
can you can manage that. I would have imagined that
having Ryan Hall on your game to come with a
game plan for these exact scenarios would be that. Now,
the good news is Corey's talented on his own. You
saw what he did against Devison FIGUREDO. I think something
relatively akin to that gives you your best chance of

(41:56):
beating Morob. But we haven't seen anyone really do that
to Morob yet. And Morob has to know that some
of that might be coming. And how does that change
how he approaches his top control and his takedowns. This
is to me honestly, who's better on the feet? It's
not a it's not It's not a mystery. Who's better
on the ground Morob, it's not a mystery. But can

(42:19):
sand Hagan through jiu jitsu? For example, if someone tries
to take down Charles Olivera, they're setting the terms. But
if Olivera in the process jumps guillotine, now he is
setting the terms. I'm not saying it's to jump guillotine, jed.
What I am saying is would be bad. Idea what
Charles it's good for everyone else is pretty bad. But

(42:39):
what I am saying is sand Haagan has to take
control of the process. You're not going to out wrestle
and out labor Morob. Do something else in that process
to establish the attack.

Speaker 1 (42:51):
Indeed, indeed Morob. By the way, I've seen this hi
as a four to one of them favorite as long
Island Looke looks it up. By the way, mob can
become the eighth champion in UFC history to defend the
title three times in one year, and we know he
wants to do it a fourth time in December. We'll
see if he gets. What are the odds at the moment.

Speaker 6 (43:07):
Minus four forty.

Speaker 4 (43:12):
All right, is this are you putting? Are you putting
money on Corey?

Speaker 6 (43:15):
No, I took Moro. I got him at minus three fifty,
which still have Okay, but if.

Speaker 4 (43:18):
He was if he was from you know, I don't
know Australia and not Long Island, would you have done
the same thing.

Speaker 6 (43:25):
I don't know, man, because you know I've been back
in morab for a while. Now, that's my guy.

Speaker 4 (43:29):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (43:30):
People accuse you of eating the microphone. Are you eating
it right now?

Speaker 6 (43:32):
No, it's because I'm talking into a fucking Gooseneck talk
box and people think I have like a Legiti mic
back here. So for anyone always like Luke, you're popping
your piece.

Speaker 1 (43:40):
Yeah, in your peace.

Speaker 4 (43:42):
As my father would say, a poor carpenter williams his tools.

Speaker 6 (43:46):
This ain't my studio, bro, you know.

Speaker 1 (43:48):
It was a great carpenter and he didn't tap, so
no figgat.

Speaker 4 (43:52):
I've seen the T shirts Okay, definitely didn't tap. At
one time went to an m M A fight where
the whole team fought with the Jesus didn't tap shirts
and the fight was at a gun range. I saw
I called. I called fights in a gun range where
guys had Jesus didn't tap t shirts, No wonder. My
dad doesn't like it, no wonder.

Speaker 1 (44:13):
Look, so here's the deal with Morab. They were almost
saying at Thursday's press conference. It was almost like people
were saying, like, you know, could he be on the
verge of becoming the true bandam weight goat Although respects
to Dominic Cruise and TJ. Dillishaw, But if you really
think about it, doesn't Cory Sandha can kind of represent
the last guy of Morob's era, of the Morab al
Joe era there that he hasn't fought. It is interesting
and it played into a little bit of trash talk

(44:35):
that came. Whether started it fun went a little bit,
you know, a little bit competitive by the end. But
we heard a little bit of trash talk on Thursday,
and we we're already here with Quervos, So why don't
we do a little shots fired, A fire a shot.
This is Shots Fired, brought to you by Quervo, and
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(44:58):
Let's listen in on Marab from Thursday as we pour
another one. Let me, let me enjoy my shot.

Speaker 6 (45:04):
It makes you feel you could knock him out, and
how aggressive will you be in trying to land that punch.

Speaker 7 (45:10):
Nobody give me any problems even in striking. You know,
I put Pittery and I put Jose Aldo, I put
Sean Omalley two times.

Speaker 1 (45:19):
Nobody can do ship. So I'm the goal.

Speaker 7 (45:22):
I'm the champion, and I will prove it again. Whatever
the fights will go, I'm ready, but my goal is
to knock him out. I said I would finish may
second fight.

Speaker 6 (45:32):
I did so.

Speaker 7 (45:33):
Now that's this is my second.

Speaker 4 (45:36):
He would go on to say say that suit wasn't bad,
that was a nice suit.

Speaker 1 (45:39):
No, And he would go on to say that Cory
san Jagan has small balls?

Speaker 4 (45:44):
Did my man really put his balls on?

Speaker 1 (45:45):
No, it's it's a running joke from Corey Who's who
did a dry humor skit on Instagram that that said
he started only fans. He made a ton of money.
Morab either fell for it or was playing into the joke.
And then Rob said, I think I think we know
which one. I have big Georgian balls, and I know there's.

Speaker 4 (46:00):
Gonna be people like wow, how could he not know that? Well,
partly because I'm old and washed. But put the camera
on me for just a second. You're looking at your future.

Speaker 1 (46:08):
I mean.

Speaker 5 (46:10):
Fantastic.

Speaker 4 (46:11):
I have a suggestion, are you taking? Why don't you
the back side of my balls and tell me what
they taste like. I've been I've been farting on them.
You can put some taen on there if it makes
it easier.

Speaker 1 (46:23):
It tastes like a Joseph Baybank's double breasted.

Speaker 4 (46:26):
Okay, yeah, do you know the story? No, bro, One
time I was on M Street. Do you look us
up on the Google Maps. It was on Nineteenth and
M I was on M Street. Yeah, so dude, I
h I one time had the ship of a lifetime
and I was like, oh, my fucking god, where am
I going to go? Nineteenth and m There's like it's
just businesses there. There's just no like like you're fucked right.

(46:47):
So I just saw Joseph a Bank and I was like, yo,
I'm looking for a tuxedo, right. I got to give
him some excuse and like, but first I need to
go to your bathroom. And they're like, oh, you have
to use the employee won in the bathroom a triple
flusher and a.

Speaker 1 (47:02):
Sponsored segment, by the way, say right, Okay, this is
the magic of MK shots fired. So as we shoot this,
luke to hear that Morob's four to one, it says
a lot a lot.

Speaker 5 (47:18):
It says a lot about who he's beaten.

Speaker 1 (47:20):
It says a lot about the run he's on, the cardio,
the chin, the fact that he's evolved in striking so
much that you heard him in that clip he's predicting
a knockout? Are we overlooking the Sandman here? Bro? This
is all the single women in America.

Speaker 4 (47:34):
Thank you? Yeah, I think so smooth. I think that
the problem is for the perception of things, Morob is
on the hot streak of all hot streaks, certainly in
this division. Right. You can make the argument obviously that
for example, Dominic Cruz is the goat, but he doesn't

(47:56):
have a winning streak continuously uninterrupted by injury and stuff
like that like this, Yeah, this is the hottest streak
at bantamwaite history, I think. And then it's up there.
If it's not number one, it's up there competitive and
more to the point, Corey Sandagen also on his own
hot streak. But to the point you raised, there's just
been these moments where it's like, Okay, he's obviously good,

(48:16):
but he's fallen short a little bit, and now you're
running headlong into that. You just get the situation. Dude,
Corey sand Haagen is fucking dangerous. There's no doubt in
my mind. But dude, I'm not picking against Morob until
somebody shows me what it's like to make him lose.

Speaker 1 (48:36):
I've been making the argument all week on CBS Sports
of the danger that don't want to overlook Sandagen. There's
real danger here. But marab By fourth round submission is
not a horrible pick. What do you got fourth round? Yeah,
I think there's gonna be synergy in the air.

Speaker 3 (48:51):
I'm actually closer on this one with you because I
think we're going to get a finish. I think the
under here is long Island.

Speaker 1 (48:58):
Luke.

Speaker 3 (48:58):
You can pop us the numbers, but I like the
un here because I think we've got two factors to
play one.

Speaker 1 (49:04):
I think Mob's getting better. It was just like I
didn't think he was gonna attack.

Speaker 4 (49:07):
Dude.

Speaker 1 (49:08):
He said he's gonna fight till he's fifty yesterday. Well
sure that's he said, fighters say, shit, that's fine.

Speaker 3 (49:13):
Uh this. I was surprised by the O'Malley finish because
it was like, I don't know. Immediately ahead of that fight,
I was like, I don't like Morob and I still
stand on that. He is not a fighter that I
generally consider interesting. Will never say he's not great. He
is amazing, one of the top pound find fighters in
the world. That fight made me think, huh, maybe he's

(49:34):
got a Habib esque Oh now I'm the champion. I'm
just gonna dust you fools like I'm gonna start putting
guys at the Yeah, he's gonna start putting guys away.
And I think playing into that, this is Corey's one shot,
and Corey knows it. He's never getting back here again.
It's just and bandam Wade is bandam weight like he's not.

(49:55):
He's gonna leave it all out there. I don't think
Corey Santagan is going to be I'm down three rounds.
I will just lose with dignity. Yeah, he's gonna go
for broke as the fight starts slipping away from him,
which I expected to, and that will just open up
more opportunities.

Speaker 4 (50:11):
And so I does make him dangerous in short windows.
It does make him dangerous and short win. That's really
the question here to what extent. People have been asking like, oh,
for example, like Okny flying knee when Rob shoots in
and I'm like, look, you know, yes that that's that's
all the table. But like that is a Tom Brady
throw in the middle of winter at Gillette Stadium that

(50:34):
like only one guy. I mean, the possibility of landing
that is real but remote, you.

Speaker 3 (50:39):
Know, Alston tom Brady. It's more like a sure Tim
Tebow can win a playoff game.

Speaker 4 (50:43):
You know what I'm saying. It requires a Tom Brady
level to find that little window over the short football.

Speaker 1 (50:50):
Game in Saudi, that's really the reference point.

Speaker 4 (50:51):
Do you know how much money they're paying Brady to
do that?

Speaker 1 (50:54):
It's Saudi, you think all the money.

Speaker 4 (50:56):
I think it's like fifty million, some absurd number.

Speaker 1 (50:58):
Tell me if I'm crazy here. If you're Hagen and
you lose, the bad news is you're Joseph Benavidez. Historically,
the good news is you go home to Megan Olivia.

Speaker 4 (51:09):
I'm just gonna let Long Island Luke. Please listen to
me very carefully. We need to add crickets to the soundboard. Yes,
you can definitely well time. No, No, because of effort,
Because because first of all making a leave. Wonderful lady.

(51:31):
Congratulations of the brother of a child. However, if we're
gonna hip hop horn and when they're good, because sometimes
they're phenomenal, you see me laugh. We all laugh on
the show. But when they're bad, I want you to
dunk on this bitch.

Speaker 6 (51:42):
Sure, I'm down to do that. I want to touch
on quick because Jed ass the under four and a
half is plus two sixty on this and smash it.

Speaker 1 (51:50):
Boys.

Speaker 6 (51:51):
You guys were talking marob by sub plus eight fifty by.

Speaker 1 (51:55):
Oh I really like that too.

Speaker 4 (51:56):
That's interesting. That is a big Here's what I'll say
about Corey. Corey's got pretty at some defense. He's pretty tough.
He also underrated chin. He is a two dollars state.
So this one actually, to me, has the likelihood of
going the distance I think normally will.

Speaker 3 (52:11):
My My thing, My thought is just Corey is going
to sell out when he's behind, because he just has to.
He's like, oh I'm losing, I'm going to try to win.

Speaker 4 (52:19):
He's even said I can't win this via decision, just.

Speaker 3 (52:24):
Not like maybe Umar on a great night can beat
Morob on the cards.

Speaker 1 (52:28):
I think if he works on his Cardio. This rematch
Umar mob if wins, is going to be fantastic.

Speaker 3 (52:33):
I'll pick Umar whenever they rematch.

Speaker 1 (52:36):
The first fight was so close, and I mean, fix
your Cardio. I just mean, oh shit, I'm going against truly.

Speaker 3 (52:42):
I think he underestimated how much that was going to
be a factor. I would pick him in the rematch.
But like credit to Morob, I thought he had no
chance in that fight and.

Speaker 4 (52:49):
He's proved what he's robs. Takedown defense in that fight
was so fucking good, so good.

Speaker 5 (52:54):
At least continue. Let's continue on down the card.

Speaker 1 (52:58):
We have a top five heavyweight duel that is gonna
be a banger. I mean. This road to UFC three
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(53:20):
fight right here. Both gentlemen are fresh off of victories
over former champion Jamal Hill. Both gentlemen were stopped in
title fights by former champion Alex Pereira last year. You
can make the argument that whoever wins this, especially if
UNCLIAV should beat Pereira a second time, could be in
line for a title, although obviously black jag Olberg is

(53:42):
writing a non fight win streak.

Speaker 5 (53:44):
Just dispatch.

Speaker 1 (53:44):
Don mcrays the UFC is gonna have a difficult time there.
But Jed, when you look at this matchup between sluggers,
one of them more technical, one of them a little
bit more unorthodox, although that unorthodox gentleman now has a
master's degree. What are your ex expectations for this one
on Saturday? Bringing chaos?

Speaker 3 (54:03):
My expectations are for Luke to have to eat Crow
and accept that urbraska and rules.

Speaker 4 (54:09):
And you know he reached out to me, did he?

Speaker 3 (54:12):
Was it after you trash talked him when I was
in studio and you're like, I like good fighters, Like.

Speaker 4 (54:17):
It was after I did so after he beat Jamal Hill,
when he listened to me and turned defense into offense.
He wrote me a note and asked me to do
a little bit of a favor for him. So I
did so.

Speaker 1 (54:31):
So is the reason that's what he said. No, no, no, no,
no no no, are you writing his game plan for this?

Speaker 7 (54:39):
No?

Speaker 4 (54:40):
Let me be clear, absolutely not. When I said the
favorite was small, was infintensically small, but he was receptive
to the things I did in my brain because you
wanted him to stay an interesting and delightful mediocrity. I
wanted him to maximize potential eat.

Speaker 1 (55:00):
That's not the only former UFC champion that's actually reached
out to Luke for tape research. I really mean that
right there. Luke is a phenomenal in that area. You
expect fireworks, yeah, but do you expect not to have
like is it going to be technical intentative until it
gets crazy or is this just crazy? Because look, Yeeri
was known for craziness, but you got to dial it
in if he's going to get back on top a

(55:21):
second time here.

Speaker 4 (55:21):
But man, jump in here, yeah to you, wouldn't you
agree that watching that Jamal Hill fight, that, on the
one hand, clearly a better defensive effort and again Jamal
a little bit more predictable because it's basically just boxing.
On the other hand, you still got a little bit
of that razzle dazzle for Yerie.

Speaker 3 (55:38):
He does, which is why this I was about to
say anyway, is like I think I've made no secret
of this, Like justin Gaigie is one of my favorite fighters,
because he should be everybody's.

Speaker 1 (55:48):
Favorite fucking fighter, right.

Speaker 3 (55:49):
I think Yeri is about to have the second half
of Gaigie's career.

Speaker 1 (55:54):
Oh shit, where it's.

Speaker 3 (55:55):
Like because when Gage came, when Gagi came to the
UFC was like he said, it was like, when am
I going to find a dude who can can bang
like this?

Speaker 1 (56:03):
Right?

Speaker 3 (56:03):
And then he found two of them and they whooped
his ass. And then he went back and he and
Trevor Whitman controlled the chaos in spurts and then added
tools and he just he's a much better fighter than
you know his WSOF days or whatever, but he's still awesome.
I think year he is in the exact same situation
of he can ruled man and then Alex knocked him

(56:25):
out and the first time underrated one of the funniest
thing that's ever happened in this sport. They like, Alex
didn't beat me because he's good. He beat me because
the Amazonian spirits.

Speaker 8 (56:34):
That one of the funniest things that's ever happened, And
nobody talks about how funny that is that he was like, ah,
it was the spirits of the Amazon And if he
would be an honorable.

Speaker 1 (56:45):
Foe and not bring those spirits.

Speaker 3 (56:47):
I think the second loss he had to be like, oh,
maybe it's not Amazon spirits.

Speaker 1 (56:52):
Maybe I just should.

Speaker 4 (56:54):
Maybe block one reminder, the second fight against Poeton was
even worse for him than the first.

Speaker 1 (56:59):
Exact same fight, worse condensed.

Speaker 3 (57:01):
I think that fight because to your point, he obviously
looked better technically against Jamal Hill.

Speaker 1 (57:07):
And it's not huge, it's just adding a couple of
layers total, and so I think it is.

Speaker 3 (57:12):
I think he's about to be the he is always
spiritually just engaged yet light heavyweight.

Speaker 1 (57:17):
It's the same thing.

Speaker 3 (57:18):
He's going to still have controlled chaos. He's going to
be a little bit better about not being totally reckless.

Speaker 4 (57:25):
We'll see this though. Rountree fast, explosive, kicks the shit
out of your legs, kicks the fuck out of your legs. Now,
he had a more disciplined, moderate game plan against Hill
because I think he was just trying to get to
the next thing.

Speaker 1 (57:38):
But he found new life from that Paririph fight. You
have to give that to you, dude.

Speaker 4 (57:41):
We talked about tonight. Tonight is I think it's even
started now? Is the Usman and Number made off and
Paul Huscord for PFL. Someone asked me, like, what's the
biggest difference for Paul Hughes's time around?

Speaker 1 (57:51):
He believes.

Speaker 4 (57:53):
We talked about this on Monday. He believes, and I
think the same thing happened to Roundtree. Yeah, he lost,
he got stopped, but his chin held out up. For
I mean, holy shit, is chim held up?

Speaker 1 (58:02):
He won the first two rounds.

Speaker 4 (58:03):
He won the first two rounds, and like, dude, he
thought awesome. Yeah, he thought awesome in that fight. So
I think there's no question he believes. And this is
the most important thing. Dude, if you don't believe you
can beat these fucking guys, even if you can, it's
a rap.

Speaker 1 (58:15):
I mean I believed in that old Levy joke, Like
I really put everything I had into like the delivery
of it and everything. Look, if you hadn't believed that
super one, listen still didn't.

Speaker 4 (58:24):
Here's the problem.

Speaker 1 (58:25):
Just because you believe in it, belief is not enough
on It's.

Speaker 4 (58:29):
A necessary but not sufficient condition, you know what I'm saying.

Speaker 1 (58:32):
I'll give round Tree a lot of credit, and he
is exciting and explosive but also technical at times. But
YEARI I have this feeling is going to be much
more careful. They talked about this at the press conference
on Thursday. Will that bring out instead the opposite and
round Tree? Will we see round Tree going after him
and maybe taking some chances.

Speaker 4 (58:51):
That's a great question. I think Yuri's gonna make them.
I think Yeri's just gonna be in his fucking face,
right Yeah, like you know, pill will I was trying
to play that kind of distance and the fight kind
of sucked as a consequence. Obviously, you know, Browntree was
the better of the two, dude, I mean, Geary, you're
I think Gary's gonna you know, he's gonna be tactical
about it, but he's gonna be in his grill and

(59:13):
he's just gonna Okay, hold on, he's cooking something. Boys
and girls, you just know you can you can do.
I want to say some about Brian Campbell. I want
to say some about Brian Campbell. You can literally be
like my whole family that was burned alive in the
house fire, and I want to tell you about the
depth of sadness that it's brought me to. And you'll
watch his face be like this.

Speaker 1 (59:36):
He'll literally do that.

Speaker 5 (59:37):
Ship to you sometimes I got something that I just
love it.

Speaker 4 (59:44):
Anyway. The part I'm trying to make is to answer
the question simply, I just I don't see anyway YERI
doesn't make him engage, right, all.

Speaker 1 (59:52):
Right, So we're getting to finish, correct, And am I
right in saying that if Anklia have wins, we really
could see especially with a finish on the.

Speaker 5 (59:59):
Top matchup, we really It's sorry, Olburg, but we really
could see this, right.

Speaker 4 (01:00:04):
Well, you think so? I think if it's on Caliav
and Yurie who win on Saturdaydberg's.

Speaker 1 (01:00:11):
Next fighters for the belt.

Speaker 3 (01:00:13):
But it might not be next because I like, he's
not gonna have to fight again after that. Ye but
if you have to give, Yeah, but if Yeeri and
big An both win, they're running that and Olberg can
be the backup fighter and sit and do the whole
you know, pony show. But dude, they'd love YEARI I
love YEARI do it for me UFC because Yearie should

(01:00:34):
be exclusively in title.

Speaker 1 (01:00:35):
Right.

Speaker 5 (01:00:36):
This feels like a coin flip. What are the odds here?

Speaker 1 (01:00:38):
Because I'm leaning Yeerie, former champion. I think he's a
little bit better. I think he's a little more dangerous.
I don't want to discount roundtree in those lake cakes.
What do you got from me over there?

Speaker 6 (01:00:47):
Minus two?

Speaker 3 (01:00:48):
Eighteen YEARI more money is coming year.

Speaker 1 (01:00:52):
Look, would you have the guts to go round here?

Speaker 4 (01:00:54):
Here?

Speaker 1 (01:00:56):
I don't discount his ability price it's getting pretty decent.

Speaker 4 (01:00:59):
I'll say this, I don't discount his ability to if
YEARI is fucking around, yeah, he could absolutely lose this one.
But I just feel like the time off. The guy
was like, I have to get a graduate degree just
to work on my memory. And I was like, oh, yes,
of course you.

Speaker 1 (01:01:15):
Did the master's degree, sold lou.

Speaker 5 (01:01:17):
He's like, oh, higher ed.

Speaker 4 (01:01:20):
But it wasn't the degree, did you what he said
he got to work on his fucking memory. And I
was like, that makes no sense, but that's amazing. And
I just feel like it's one thing about year two
we all lose sight of. He's very athletic. I mean,
he's a big, durable to a fiver the straw that
stirs the drink for him, He's fucking athletic as shit.

Speaker 1 (01:01:41):
Dude. He hasn't gone the distance since twenty sixteen. It's insane.
It's insane.

Speaker 4 (01:01:45):
So I just feel like I don't discount the threat
that Roundtree poses. He's a worthy adversaries, but I just
feel like it's Yeri's fight told.

Speaker 1 (01:01:54):
In great story. We're the adversary. But I'm going yeerie us, well.

Speaker 4 (01:01:57):
Your point of your rare. Not many good guys in
the game. Yeah, two of them here, so true.

Speaker 3 (01:02:02):
I'll give you that one year. He's been my boy forever.
I'll back him forever. I will say, if you are
trying to believe in Clil Roundtree, you like him totally reasonable.
There's absolutely a world where like all of Yeri's defense's
head movement and that is meaningless because Khalil's gonna kick
his leg off and he doesn't. He doesn't check those
So like, there's absolutely universe words just like oh Cleo

(01:02:22):
chopped his leg out and then year he couldn't do
anything because he couldn't walk out.

Speaker 1 (01:02:26):
To John Wood have syndicate. By the way, he's in
Roundtrees corner. He's in Morob's corner. Yep, he had a
great sit down with She loves the gloves, you know,
out of out of the Nation of Georgia.

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(01:03:38):
loser though of three of his last four, including most
recently against the streaking Laron Murphy taking on a Useef
Zilal who nobody is talking about it featherweight This budy
seven fight win streak. The hell are we expecting in
this fight?

Speaker 4 (01:03:53):
Dude?

Speaker 3 (01:03:55):
I think this fight is probably not gonna be that
interesting if I'm being honest.

Speaker 1 (01:03:58):
It's fun, though, touch and go, yeah, because the Law's just.

Speaker 3 (01:04:01):
Gonna dictate the range and Josh Emmitt, I mean, in general,
you see this with all fighters. The older you get,
you just become a trope of yourself, like you you
have the A game and those are the only weapons.
Josh Emma's just gonna swing a real big hammer and
hope it lands. It won't because the law will dictate
range too well. And this is a meaningful fight. I
do not mean to run this down like I'm interested

(01:04:22):
in it, because it's also the interesting part.

Speaker 1 (01:04:25):
Is obviously the biggest opponent.

Speaker 3 (01:04:27):
It's the Law's ever faced right like he'd be Calvin Cator.
He was the fourth guy in Calvin Cator's current five
fight losing streak. So you like, how much do you
weigh that Josh Emmitt still has the goods despite being
forty years old? But my guess is the odds are huge,
probably a little bit bigger than they should be. My
guess is the law just dictates range this whole fight.

(01:04:48):
Emt never gets going. Of the main card fights, I
think this is the one with the highest likelihood of
being the least interesting.

Speaker 1 (01:04:58):
All right, all four fighters in the main Coleman event.
By the way of Wade in, we're all set for Saturday.
Josh Emmett, he's an interesting spot. Three or four. He's lost,
but he's forty. You can knock out anybody at any time.
Ask ask a primeth Bryce Mitchell on that one now
being trained by TJ. Dillashaw.

Speaker 4 (01:05:14):
Well, they were always Team Alfamel together.

Speaker 1 (01:05:16):
Have you seen how big Dilashaw looks in the photos?
He dwarfs in it.

Speaker 4 (01:05:21):
I mean it was like, dude, you got to come back. Yeah,
it's so bad. This is the thing about Emmett, who,
by the way, we did Room Service Diaries, a fucking
amazing story. Great love the guy again, I think a
pretty a pretty good person in the fight game, which
are pretty rare these days. But more to the point,
this is the thing though they killed me Jed He
was like, man, I you know, I was working out
with TJ this camp, blah blah blah. It's like I

(01:05:43):
really went back to the lab and worked on my
power and I'm like.

Speaker 1 (01:05:48):
That was the thing he needed.

Speaker 4 (01:05:49):
I was like, Josh, you already had nuclear power. What
are you trying to get?

Speaker 1 (01:05:56):
Sounds like the American war budget Now we already have that.

Speaker 4 (01:06:00):
Said, don't get me wrong, like okay, sharpened the sword
or whatever, but like, this is not a fucking weakness,
my guy, this is this is your he told us
and the RSD.

Speaker 1 (01:06:09):
He's like, I have no game plan every fight. I
just come out. He told us.

Speaker 4 (01:06:12):
He was like, bro, I don't got no motherfucking game plan.

Speaker 1 (01:06:15):
Honestly, I love that energy, but yeah, but yeah, and
it's like here's the problem.

Speaker 4 (01:06:19):
That's apparently will that's the issue. So to me, it's like,
is he going to come in shape? Yep? I mean
if he lands on you, it's fucking armageddon.

Speaker 1 (01:06:27):
Born in.

Speaker 4 (01:06:29):
But he was born in He was Morocco, Yes he was.

Speaker 1 (01:06:34):
Isn't that where you was born there as well?

Speaker 4 (01:06:37):
Oh? I thought, you said Josh, And I was like,
I was like what, I was like, I thought he
was born in California.

Speaker 1 (01:06:43):
I don't know if he's been there, because he's been
everywhere in the world.

Speaker 4 (01:06:45):
It's actually never been to Morocco.

Speaker 1 (01:06:47):
No, do you think that Josh Immitt or Luke has
a better beard.

Speaker 5 (01:06:50):
Is that Quervo talking?

Speaker 4 (01:06:51):
Are you right now?

Speaker 1 (01:06:52):
Because I like this direction?

Speaker 3 (01:06:53):
Definitely, Josh, We've only had three This is his flight home.

Speaker 1 (01:06:58):
It's going to be great.

Speaker 4 (01:06:59):
Yeah, yeah, you're gonna dude, I'm gonna watch you on
TikTok getting thrown off of Frontier airlines. I refuse urinating
in the exit row.

Speaker 3 (01:07:08):
I just refuse to verbally commit to like oh yeah,
I'm in the exit row, sure, and get.

Speaker 1 (01:07:12):
Thrown out like well now look, give me a thirty
second answer? Is Yusef's the law for real?

Speaker 6 (01:07:16):
At featherweight, he's probably still like two or three fights away,
even if he wins. I just I feel like they're
not like favoring him. There's so many other guys at featherweight.
I feel like they favor above him. He's one of
those guys I think is gonna have to win unless
he starts getting it done emphatically. His last fight a
little boring.

Speaker 4 (01:07:34):
Tell you what you stop Josh Emmett? I mean unlikely,
But if you stop Josh Emmett, you're on your way.

Speaker 1 (01:07:38):
You're on your way.

Speaker 4 (01:07:39):
But Josh also forty, so it's.

Speaker 1 (01:07:41):
Like Yusef has stopped Billy Q. And Jack Shore in
his last four fights. He's fresh off of decision went
over Calvin Cater.

Speaker 4 (01:07:47):
Yes, he's quite good again. The touch and go that
he talked about is gonna be on the table. But
I wish Josh Emmett had worked on other things.

Speaker 1 (01:07:56):
You know, all right, he's forty and looks unbelievable. I
just think I wish I look like Josh. You still
can though, at.

Speaker 4 (01:08:03):
The you can turn this for nothing. He went the
distance with Ilia when a bunch of guys can't do that.
Both of them have what's the biggest a different fight?

Speaker 1 (01:08:13):
Yeah, well earlier, what's the biggest threat to your fitness
and in diet, health journey my personal happiness. Yeah, that's
a fair. It's fun that you do whatever you want,
gas station, Delta, Aid's, you know, fast food. I've been there.

Speaker 4 (01:08:29):
You know I have liver liver society.

Speaker 1 (01:08:32):
There is tough all right, Let's close out the main
card here with a middleway about not a plane train
or an autobilt mobile, but a bus. Smug metof is
riding a three fight wind streak against something that.

Speaker 4 (01:08:45):
Was good.

Speaker 1 (01:08:46):
It's gonna show pa data and uh others. I mean,
it's not been an overly impressive one Worley Alvis, one
of the other ones he'd beat. He will be taking
on a Joe Piper, who has had a stop and
start sort of opening since his be like Joe Pifer
run on Dana White and Tender series. The big thing
about body Bags this week is he wants to change

(01:09:07):
his nickname. But I can't wait for Luke to respond
to this one to no body Cam Pifer, which means
lu you'll see that actual quote before they.

Speaker 4 (01:09:17):
Watched the I watched the media day, Yeah, before they
killed I don't I don't think naming yourself after secret
police abuse, Yeah, that's it is the best idea. But
I'm just thinking out loud.

Speaker 2 (01:09:27):
You know it was.

Speaker 1 (01:09:28):
I was absolutely stunned.

Speaker 4 (01:09:30):
Now, let me ask a question. Did he plant that
and then the media guy asked? Or did the media
guy just ask?

Speaker 3 (01:09:34):
I think the media guy asked, because like I remember
that happening, but his response being like, yeah, like I
saw that out there and it was supposed to be
people calling me racist, but I think it's funny, Like
that's that's a bad.

Speaker 1 (01:09:46):
Sentence to exist.

Speaker 4 (01:09:48):
You know, I don't know what to say, all right.

Speaker 1 (01:09:51):
Pifer's twenty nine five and one in the UFC seemed
to have bounced back from that humbling decision lost to Jackermanson.
He stopped Mark Andre Barrio.

Speaker 4 (01:09:59):
He took it to.

Speaker 1 (01:10:00):
Decision from Kelvin Gastolom. In theory, if he beats a
somewhat streaking a boost Macca Metoff, that's say a launch forward. Luke,
do you believe in Joe Pifer as a future middlewaight
tier contri.

Speaker 4 (01:10:10):
The problem is Mega Madoff probably won't tell us much
because he fades down the stretch, whereas Gastolm doesn't, and
Gasolm is kind of having his way a little bit
by the end of that fight. Obviously, to your point,
you know Piper was the rightful winner. It's like, dude,
Pifer is shot out of a cannon. He comes out
with fucking blinding power.

Speaker 1 (01:10:26):
Hates his parents.

Speaker 4 (01:10:27):
But that's the reason an accurate combinations something serious like
he's he's a handful early. The problem is that just
he can't maintain that. If he doesn't get you out
of there, he can still win the fight, but he
doesn't maintain that same level of first round dominance and
a boost. Mega Medov is like talented or whatever, but
can't maintain his game at all down the stretch. And
it's like, well, you know, I don't know what's supposed

(01:10:48):
to give her first, but Pifer's got better wins and
seems like he's better, so he should win. But it
doesn't like, oh, does this renew my confidence if he wins?
About long term potential? Not necessarily.

Speaker 6 (01:10:57):
No.

Speaker 1 (01:10:57):
Outside of the nickname in the childhood trauma, is there
any big drawback to Joe Pifer rising in these ranks
here at middleweight.

Speaker 3 (01:11:04):
I mean, they're certainly gonna make him. They seem really
invested in Joe Pifer. I don't think there's a drawback
to it. Like I think the drawback is I don't
believe he's very good.

Speaker 5 (01:11:14):
I think he's fine.

Speaker 3 (01:11:15):
He's not a bad fighter, but like he's very one
note to Luke's point, like he has he's got a fastball, Yeah,
and you can make the majors with just a fastball, but.

Speaker 1 (01:11:25):
Like he doesn't have a speed.

Speaker 3 (01:11:26):
He doesn't and you know you can beat Kelvin Gastolom
who's washed with just your fastball, but like there's there's
nothing else to it, and he's still young enough. I
think he's twenty nine, he could develop more, like I'm not.

Speaker 4 (01:11:38):
He trains with good people.

Speaker 1 (01:11:39):
Yeah, I'm not trying to throw him out right, nolly yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:11:41):
But like I I personally, if I was invested in
the Joe Piper experience, would have hoped that the lost
to Jacker Manson would have been like, oh, I need
to add I need to develop tools, and I got
beat by a jab that's functionally what happened, Like I
need to figure and it was just like, no, I
probably should have won that fight anyway, And it's actually

(01:12:02):
Mexico's fault that I missed weight because that country sucks.

Speaker 1 (01:12:06):
Like he doesn't seem to.

Speaker 3 (01:12:07):
Have the introspective and this is this could be wrong,
Like I don't know him personally. This is what I
am interpreting from the outside, but like he needs more
tools because he beat a washed Calvin Gaslom with a
big right hand, yeah, and building enough of a lead early,
and that's good enough to beat Abos.

Speaker 4 (01:12:24):
Frankly, let me just say something too, like to the
point you raise, it's a good point, which is you know, listen, Mayweather,
I don't know how academically bright he is, and obviously
mayb whether there's like, you know, one of the best
fighters or boxers ever. But you see, you would agree
with this. You just had a real keen sense of self.
He understood himself, his limits, He understood with fine detail

(01:12:46):
what his opponents were going to do in certain contexts.
And Pyford just seems to be like brute force. I'm
gonna beat you with brute force. And I think that, like,
as long as that's your mentality, you're never going to
take that next level of introspection to maxim game.

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Take the over.

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Yeah, that's smash.

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Take the over.

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Speaker 3 (01:14:03):
I don't know, that's tough.

Speaker 5 (01:14:04):
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The main event and the main that means like total
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Speaker 4 (01:14:34):
Think he could give up a takedown. I think he
might give up a take.

Speaker 1 (01:14:37):
On one takedown, but that's one, all right.

Speaker 3 (01:14:39):
Alex is a way better defensive wrestler than people think.

Speaker 4 (01:14:42):
Well.

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that right now, the featured pre limb, it's a middleweight
bout between a taba a bega. Well, halio, thank you Colombians.
Gautier versus trust In Vines.

Speaker 4 (01:16:09):
Why Justin Vines is filling in on short notice?

Speaker 1 (01:16:14):
It's supposed to be.

Speaker 4 (01:16:15):
Yeah, Gotier is the Cameroonian dude who looks like he's
fucking Captain America is.

Speaker 3 (01:16:20):
New age Melvin Manhoof, and they're gonna let this dude
blow up.

Speaker 1 (01:16:24):
Thank you, no rules.

Speaker 4 (01:16:26):
He's going to send that fucking kids chin into orbit.

Speaker 1 (01:16:28):
Okay, expected expected there before.

Speaker 4 (01:16:32):
What the line is on that one getting out of
the first, But I wouldn't.

Speaker 6 (01:16:34):
I was just gonna say, Jed and I have been
waiting a few days for this line.

Speaker 5 (01:16:37):
They have they dropped one yet they did so.

Speaker 6 (01:16:39):
It's minus sixteen fifty.

Speaker 3 (01:16:41):
Gautier plus have they dropped the KO line.

Speaker 4 (01:16:45):
They have not. They just have over under money line.

Speaker 1 (01:16:47):
Yeah, he's got no Wikipedia pages in this fight, but
you will see violence. But how about this? It has
been Shabbazi in at middleweight against Andre Munese. We have
a twenty seven year old Chabazi and who's been to
Hell and back a few times and he's riding a
two fight win streak. Do you believe in head movement?
He's not with Edmund any anymore.

Speaker 4 (01:17:06):
Yeah, he's over.

Speaker 1 (01:17:08):
Quervo. Can we can happen?

Speaker 4 (01:17:10):
Wow? I'm good. I have a headache. Wow from all
the Cuervo, from all the sickness.

Speaker 1 (01:17:15):
I'll say probably not because this is.

Speaker 4 (01:17:18):
Probably from the FBA. You know what I'm saying.

Speaker 1 (01:17:21):
I guess it is all you know?

Speaker 3 (01:17:24):
Uh?

Speaker 4 (01:17:24):
I like Shabazi in here. I think the last two
fights have been Oh my god, look at you too.

Speaker 1 (01:17:30):
I mean, sure, we'll call that. Are you talking calling
this warning track?

Speaker 4 (01:17:34):
Power?

Speaker 1 (01:17:36):
Calling it something? This one's for now. All the divorced
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Speaker 4 (01:17:41):
Here's the swimming with bow legged women.

Speaker 1 (01:17:46):
God, that's good.

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No, it is good. I'm just sick.

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Speaker 3 (01:17:53):
I've hated Tequila my whole life until I started doing this,
and now I'm like, oh, Cuervo's unbelievable.

Speaker 4 (01:17:58):
It's fantastic.

Speaker 1 (01:17:59):
You need has lost three of four, So this is
an opportunity for Shabazi to keep rising back, is it not.
He's an Armenian. You love him.

Speaker 4 (01:18:05):
I do love him. He's been up and down. It's
a fair way to put it, but I do like
the I think he's just got It's just he's finally
putting together a well rounded game, let's put it that way.
I think he should win this when Moonies started hot
and has fallen off a cliff.

Speaker 3 (01:18:19):
You know, I don't believe in him, Yeah, I just
I believed in Jake Matthews, who I thought was putting
together and then Neil Magny got him.

Speaker 1 (01:18:26):
It's the same thing. He's the same fight. Chris Gutierres
has won two since losing that decision to Sadan. Yes,
Yong you, that's right. Sorry, mister favor on that one song,
you don excuse me. He'll be taking on for Reid Basharat.
What do you guys think about this?

Speaker 4 (01:18:46):
Very technical? Yeah, great fight, but he kind of fell
short and I don't know if his last one of
the one before that is you indicated very very technical.
I think has more ways to win.

Speaker 1 (01:18:55):
He's thirteen and oh yeah his brother has his.

Speaker 4 (01:19:01):
Brother that lost? Please forgive me. Yes, the only issue
is a bit of a decision machine. No, and so
Gutierras might have Who's I think a little bit more
of a punisher between them, but I think Basharat more
well rounded.

Speaker 1 (01:19:12):
Wow, this is that assessment. Do you care about featherweight
Daniel Santos against you jew Song? That's probably fun?

Speaker 4 (01:19:20):
Yeah, I mean as as prelim card stuff. All right.

Speaker 1 (01:19:23):
To close out, there's names on this early previum. Earlybly
jumped down to Mix. Fought in a fight last time
out against uh Mario Bartist who's on a win streak
in which a win probably would have gotten him a
title shot. Yes, in his second UFC fight there at
bantamweight instead, like Tatiana Suarez, a significant other who went

(01:19:45):
from losing to Waye in a cole main event for
the title to being on the early prelims on the
noch UFC card, He'll be taking on a Jacob weak
Lots who is the defending with a. He was sixteen
three and two record was the defending KSW Bannam White champion,
making his UFC.

Speaker 5 (01:20:04):
Debut and on a hot streak. Right now, what do
we say about PATCHI?

Speaker 1 (01:20:08):
The run he had through through Bellachoor into PFL was electric.
I mean he'd beat Horra Gucci, he beat Malga, Mattof,
he'd beat Pettis. I mean it was a name after
name by stoppage most of the time. He did not
move his head in this fight at all and got
completely exposed. Is it bounce backable?

Speaker 4 (01:20:27):
Have you seen Wicklets fight not recently?

Speaker 1 (01:20:31):
He's fun.

Speaker 3 (01:20:31):
Yeah, I mean the moving his head is not going
to be an issue.

Speaker 1 (01:20:35):
Wickless is basically Martine held like. He's very similar.

Speaker 3 (01:20:38):
He's a super fun like tricky grappler, can't really strike
all that well, so like PATCHI can probably just keep
this on the feet, ye or entertain him on the
car so he could win the ground too. It to
b c's point, it really shows like, oh here's where
PATCHI was. Now you're facing a guy who's tough, but
nobody knows.

Speaker 1 (01:20:59):
On the early pre this they have lost all confidence
in him massive, But the fight, I.

Speaker 3 (01:21:04):
Think the fight is actually really really fun because I
think Wigglets deserves to be in the UC is very good.
We've seen KSW champions have success in the promotion. I'm
really looking forward to this, especially if they get to grapple.
It'll be super fun if they get grappling.

Speaker 1 (01:21:18):
Look are you moved by the featured early prelim at
Women's bandam weight when Macy Chazon is going up against
a rising Janna Santos who knows all about that hammer
on a two fight win streak.

Speaker 5 (01:21:34):
On the chest.

Speaker 4 (01:21:37):
That's what you meant, though, too right, that's definitely what
he meant. I'm gonna say that, No, I mean yeah,
I don't hate it. I don't hate it. Look at him,
Look at him. Put the camera on. That's the face
he's gonna make when you tell him your wife was
brutally murder you'd be like, yo, my wife was murdered
him that face.

Speaker 1 (01:21:57):
There we go, all right, we got to get out
of here. Also, Puna Lehi Soriano was back.

Speaker 4 (01:22:02):
Yeah. Did you see him tell Mike min about training
with Islam? He said Islam? And when he when? When? When?
When Poona was at middleweight he trained with Islam one
day Extreme Coutur and Islam beat the living funk out
of him.

Speaker 3 (01:22:14):
Yeah, tracks Puna is an awesome welterweight. Like his drop
to welterweight, I'm really excited just because.

Speaker 1 (01:22:19):
He's been a heater.

Speaker 4 (01:22:20):
But yeah, he gave me a little confidence. I was like,
I don't know man. Puda was like he told me
like I could do nothing to.

Speaker 1 (01:22:26):
YERI just came in at two hundred and six pounds.

Speaker 5 (01:22:28):
So he's in for that feature my guy.

Speaker 1 (01:22:30):
And also Austin Vanderferd former Belator MBA fighter, mister Age
van Zand is going to be making a second UFC appearance.
Last minute, they put him on the card here against
Rami's Brahimaji.

Speaker 4 (01:22:40):
I think it's Brahim Mai, but but there might be.
There is some debate about like.

Speaker 1 (01:22:45):
Boston shot out to him, he can wrestle, he's game.

Speaker 4 (01:22:48):
I mean he kind of fell apart against Musasi which
broke my heart a little bit. But yes, in general, he's.

Speaker 3 (01:22:53):
That's a middleweight, he's a welterweight. Feels like a nerve weight.

Speaker 1 (01:22:56):
Class form port in the Curtain Jerker at women's flyweight
Broken Walker take on front of the program for Veronica Hardy.

Speaker 3 (01:23:02):
Who's likes five the second biggest favorite on the card
minus seven hundred.

Speaker 4 (01:23:09):
Jesus B.

Speaker 1 (01:23:11):
Walker hasn't fought in thirty months. Great card, T Mobile
Arena Saturday Night, ESPN plus pay per view. Check it
out UFC three twenty. Thank you to Quervo for today's
pregame preview, and thank you to MMA Fightings. Jed Meshu
number two? Who does number two work for Joseph Abanks?

Speaker 4 (01:23:29):
That's what for?

Speaker 5 (01:23:30):
All right?

Speaker 1 (01:23:31):
Jed?

Speaker 5 (01:23:32):
Can you tell the people about yourself?

Speaker 4 (01:23:34):
They got a sponsor the show? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:23:36):
Do you think they want to be associated with that story?

Speaker 4 (01:23:39):
I think there's an upside. Jed.

Speaker 1 (01:23:41):
Can we watch your work somewhere or something?

Speaker 3 (01:23:43):
And mayfin dot com baby watch party this week. It's
great website and uh yeah, you know, and hopefully back again.

Speaker 1 (01:23:50):
I hope that I didn't have too much Quervo to
not get invited back. You did push me to a
fourth shot, and I'm very happy about that.

Speaker 4 (01:23:55):
Thank you.

Speaker 1 (01:23:55):
I'm really pleased with it.

Speaker 5 (01:23:57):
Luke Thomas.

Speaker 1 (01:23:57):
People can check out your work this weekend. Luke Thomas.

Speaker 4 (01:24:00):
If it gets me back on time tonight, I'll have
number get made off and Hughes coverage but either way
for sure Tomorrow watch a long post for.

Speaker 1 (01:24:07):
Me next Marine and you should be following any train
except for Yeah, Bloomer Marine for Long Island, Luke the Great, Jedmashee,
the Deuce, and Luke Thomas. I'm Brian Campbell. Thank you
for joining us. Enjoy the fights this weekend. We'll be
back in this studio Monday morning to break it all down.
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Speaker 5 (01:24:38):
Thank you.

Speaker 4 (01:24:38):
We are out of here.

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