UFC Paris Preview: Imavov vs Borralho, Saint-Denis vs Ruffy | Canelo vs Crawford Lookahead - MORNING KOMBAT WITH LUKE THOMAS AND BRIAN CAMPBELL

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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Really look at us now, tiptop.

Speaker 2 (00:13):
Jesus.

Speaker 1 (00:14):
Oh you using will be luck.

Speaker 2 (00:31):
For it's time to beg.

Speaker 1 (00:37):
Oh yeah, let's go. It's Friday. You ain't got ship
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September fifth, twenty twenty five. Hey, it's my dad's seventieth birthday.
How are you out there? Brian Campbell live in direct
from the Thank you, Thank you very much from the Hartford,
Connecticut suburbs. We did have a couple of minute late start,
but the toilets have been flushed, all has been cleaned up,

(01:00):
and I'm not talking about ass this time. I'm talking
about it issues, but we do have them with us.
From Washington, DC. It's Luke Thomas. Luke, how are you, bro?

Speaker 2 (01:10):
I'm well. I apologize with the delay. We We potted
up my computer and we immediately had issues once we
all logged into our system here, so I had to
switch everything. I'm on my laptop, yes, which I'm hoping
will do the trick. You know what I found. We
see the laptop is a Mac, the the anomal computer

(01:31):
that I use as a PC, and I have found
that PCs are much more difficult to maintain than Max
so interesting.

Speaker 1 (01:38):
Yeah, sorry, you tech bros out there, listen up. Luke
logged in and then he did hit the restroom legal
officially and logged off. I'm sure, but he's here. We're back.
We're ready to rock and roll at UFC Paris weekend.
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(03:09):
in his own right. At the main card minute, good lord,
we are happy there was once a horned up Australian
man so he could be here. It's Luke Nocita of
Long Island fame.

Speaker 3 (03:18):
Yes, what's up boys?

Speaker 4 (03:19):
How are we doing?

Speaker 3 (03:20):
I got a new episode of prop Quiz dropping just
after MK today one thirty. Oscar Willis taking on Dennis
from Submission Radio bangor matchup? Looking forward to everyone checking
it out.

Speaker 1 (03:32):
Very good stuff, right there, Long, I look you excited
for UFC Paris, bro.

Speaker 3 (03:36):
Yeah, but we did lose the pit Bull Cata fight
over that Cata mist wait and Pipple did not accept it,
so I understand why he didn't. But yeah, I'm a
little bummed at that. That was definitely like number three
on the card for me. But I'll be doing a
full card watch along for Paris, so you know I'm
hyped for it.

Speaker 1 (03:52):
Twelve new I'm ready to go. That's the tomorrow afternoon opportunity. LT.
What's going on in your life right now? As as
Zoe's butthole makes the rounds here on this stone.

Speaker 2 (04:02):
I have had an insane week here, but mercifully my
wife gets home from her business trip tomorrow, thank you Jesus.
And I'll be doing I don't know how. I'm not
doing a full card watch alone, but I'll be doing
partly a watch along for the main card and then
a postfight show for UFC Paris over on do personal channel.

Speaker 1 (04:19):
Wonderful. Also, there's a UFC press conference going on right
now with Cyril Gone and Tom Aspinall will have long
Island Luke updating us if anything crazy happens in that
I doubt it, but we're here just in case. LG.
You have had help from Abulita a boyl excuse me,
let me put some respect on her name. Is she

(04:40):
also ready to just hand off the monster or what?

Speaker 2 (04:43):
Yeah? I think so. I think she's pretty tired too.
Tuki is a handful, you know. I don't know how
the people who have single parents who have like multiple
children do it. It is quite a task.

Speaker 1 (04:55):
Indeed, indeed, But we love Tuki fantastic stuff right there.
We might as well get get into the damn show here.
We started a little bit late. We're gonna be talking
some Kenolo Crawford as we're just a week out. We're
gonna hit some latest news and close the show, of
course with Dead Wrong and fan subs Buffo. Now is
time for topic number one. This Saturday's UFC Fight Night

(05:17):
in Paris is a very good card, even with the
loss of Patricio Pitbull and the newcomer Kaita. The main
event is what we're focused on here in the middleweight division,
naserdine Imovov versus Kyo Balhaalio and considering UFC CEO Daniel
White has already laid out the parameters to determine the
next challenger for the newly minted middleweight champion Hamzat Chimaiev.

(05:38):
It'll be whoever looks better in either this main event
on Saturday or of course, the October fourteenth Nier de
Ritter Fluffy Hernandez main event. So Imovov Bohalio a very
much a playoff feel to it this weekend and also
an evenly matched fight between two contenders. Luke, when you
match up these two their skill sets against one another,

(06:00):
what do you believe is the biggest thing that separates
them entering this must win fight for a shot at
the middleway Crown, Wow, you know.

Speaker 2 (06:10):
What I was trying to see through tape study in
preparation for today's show, and how to answer this question specifically,
and to be clear, they have different competencies, right, Baholio
to me a little bit better, actually a lot better
on the ground, although against higher level opposition it's not

(06:30):
clear what his appetite for it is, or it's not
exactly clear how well the ground game would translate up
against the elite, like to what extent is it as
deadly there Like for example, Charles Olavera, his ground game
has limits, but it does extend to the elite. We
don't really know that about Baholio, but he does have,
you know, considerable skills there. Recall, he had a match
with Brendan Allen and Karate Combat at grappling match, which

(06:53):
he won, and Brendan Allen is certainly no slouch on
the ground obviously, though Neserdini Mova fought Brandon Allen Brendan Allan,
excuse me, and then beat him straight up in a
three round contest. I'm gonna say that the differences are real,
but to an extent somewhat slight. They opposite stance. In
Boholio you have a left hander. In Imavov you have

(07:14):
a right hander. I'm gonna say that of the two,
I think Imovov faster hands, better combination work with Baholo,
excuse me, with Imovov, and I think the data reflects
that to an extent, BC strikes landed PERMENI for Imovov
four point four to five strikes absorbed three point twenty six,
in part because he stands a little bit more in
the line of fire. Baholio not as active three point

(07:36):
six y one landed, two point three absorbed, He doesn't
take as much damage. In fact, you'll notice Boholio does
a really good job of rolling with punches. It's something
that actually is something that's pretty effective. Although you saw
in the fight with canone Ar he was able to
get through with his own left hook to a degree,
which is why that eye was all jacked up. I
think the thing that stands out for MEBC is really

(07:57):
it's going to be to what extent can Biholio force
pressure on a guy like Ivov if Imovov can stand
and box at range, I think in general not always,
and perhaps you know there's some differences there too in
terms of what Biholio could do. But I'm gonna say
in general that again, just think about it logically, what

(08:17):
is going to be Imovov's best path to victory. It's
probably gonna be him leading, standing at range, right pressing
to a degree, and then finding that boxing range. He's
got very quick, accurate punching. You saw him use it
against Izzy, You've seen him use it against many many guys. However,
there's a couple of things that have come to light. One,
his takedown defense is better than people realize. I know,

(08:38):
Alan was able to get him down and holding down
the whole first round, but then whifted on everything else
thereafter and went one for ten on takedowns. The interesting
part to me, BC is what you saw in the
like Delid fight was that Imavov had a hard time
kind of fence wrestling or the bare minimum I'm gonna
say it this way, getting his offense going when pressed

(08:59):
against the fence, meaning you have enough defensive awareness to
separate and then potentially launch your own offense. That has
been something of a difficult spot for him. He got
around that in the Cannoneer fight because he was able
to land better punches. The question is against a guy
who's much younger, fresher in theory, in Boholio, can he
do that? So to me, the real core questions are

(09:20):
to what extent can Bohalio press? To what extent can
he mix up his offense? It doesn't have to be
one or the other, but to the extent can he
mix up his offense? And to what extent can he
tire out and drain Imovov as the fight goes on
through some combination of that pressing which never lets whatever
lets Imovov get his offense going and never really lets

(09:41):
him get into that second kind of gear. But to
the extent that he cannot do those things, you can
imagine there's a number of scenarios where I think Imovov
can shine. So it's not a huge difference, and I
think the odds reflect that, but there are some core
differences there.

Speaker 1 (09:56):
Yeah, I mean, maybe Bohalio a little bit more well rounded.
Can he bring the thread of that ground game even
or even use some of that to tire out Imovov?
But they are so even across the board. Even if
you look at their stats, they have the exact same
reach length on their arms and their legs, and the
only difference in height is two inches taller for the
six foot three Nasardine Imovov. As we look at the

(10:18):
DraftKings odds, at the moment you nailed that, Luke, it's
almost a fifty to fifty here. Imovov a plus one
ten underdog to the minus one thirty Kyo Bohalio. Both
are red hot coming in Nasardine. Imovov has won four
in a row, two of those being you know, big
breakthrough opportunities in his last two fights, a finish with
a counter right hand of Israel Outisania, a decision win

(10:41):
over a streaking Brendan Allen. In fact, he's fought twice
those two fights since Bohalio even last fought one year ago,
but a Bohalio in general seventeen and one as a pro,
he's won all seven UFC fights he won his two
Dana White Contender Series appearances, including a finish leading up
to that. We are talking about two guys who did

(11:02):
get on the scales this morning to make weight. They
look ripped as heck, they are ready to go with
so much freakin' at steak here, Luke, Before we get
into some sound and a little bit of the back
and forth, I did want to ask you just in
general here, of this playoff setting that we have, do
you think it'll be enough to just win, to just
survive in advance to potentially get the title shot, or

(11:25):
do you believe maybe sort of like when Dana puts
an interim title on fights that don't necessarily need it,
but yet it ramps up the energy. Look at UFC
two thirty six, the main and co main event that
night in Atlanta, a legendary Knight, do you believe that,
knowing the stakes here, we're going to see both of
these guys fight a little bit more aggressive than normal,

(11:46):
and do you think they'll need to to get that call.

Speaker 2 (11:49):
I think there's a chance you might see Bohalio fight
a little bit more aggressive than usual because I think
he needs well, not maybe not than usual, but depending
on which fight you're talking about, but I do think
he's gonna need to fight aggressively again, tactically and strategically,
but with his foot on the gas a little bit,
no matter what. I just think that's it's hard for

(12:09):
me to see how he can win without really doing
something like that, to be on the back foot again
at times, I'm sure he will be, but as a
general posture, I just don't really I just don't really
see that as a method to success. I think someone
like Imavov, I know, he has faded down the stretch
in certain cases, but at the same time, I think
to an extent, he's repaired that and he is a

(12:31):
little bit more bend don't break. For example, that Brendan
Allen fight, he got taken down in Hell down basically
the entire first round, but then came back and had
a much better sense of distancing and what his weapons
needed to be and what his defense needed to be,
and then took the next two rounds and then ultimately wins,
you know, in a pretty convincing way. So to me,
that's I think the general kind of EBB and flow
of what we're likely to expect. I guess if some

(12:54):
of that gets messed up, then you know, the results
can go a few different ways. What I'm gonna sayough
about answer to the first question is is whining enough.
Winning is a necessary condition, but it's not a sufficient one.
It's necessary that you win. If you don't win, it's
that we're not even in the conversation. But just because
you win, as we know, it's not really by itself enough. Now,
winning in front of his parents crowd and the main

(13:14):
event could lift the Mavov's kind of you know, stature
to a degree, right to the extent that he becomes
a relevant factor. But at the same time, imagine the
fight between RDR and Fluffy, which I know they're headlining
that Vancouver card, but like, even if that fight is
very even itself, if it's like extra exciting, that could
make a difference. Or again, to what extent do they see,

(13:37):
I know, we're not selling pay per views anymore by
the time that these you know, but by the time
the next title is up for grabs. But what kind
of calculation are they looking for? Where does that fit
in in their international calendar? All of these factors are
going to be weighed here, and it's just really hard
to know what's going to win out. So the task
is the same in any case, you have to win,

(13:59):
and to the extent you can, you know, win convincingly,
and then the rest of it is just kind of
out of their hands a little bit.

Speaker 1 (14:05):
Uh Imavov born in Augustan. Obviously fighting out of and
representing France, will have that home court advantage there with
we know how much those Paris crowds can bring it,
which is gonna fuel even more buzz in intensity in
the arena. And of course Bohalio uh the founder of
Fighting Nerds, maybe the most red hot team in the
game right now and a very underrated game planner. But

(14:27):
in terms of the heat check between them, they've largely
been professional. If it has been spicy at all, it
seems to be one sided now. Bohalio did say that
he felt Imovov was ducking him when Imovov turned down
an opportunity to fight him earlier this year, and also
when Imovov turned down opportunity to be the backup for
the most recent middleweight title fight, which Bohalio ended up taking.

(14:50):
Bohalio also did say that he doesn't necessarily feel like
Imovov is a real Daugistani and I think that's the
only thing that has really caused a lo little bit
of this one sided beef where Nasardine believes it is
very personal and he's kind of taken it to the
level where I believe it's fair that we bring in
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(15:17):
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focusing on the disrespect he feels that he has received
from Bohalio. But this guy is a.

Speaker 5 (15:44):
Dagistan's shame of you have shame.

Speaker 6 (15:46):
On you, Hi Sekkis who is.

Speaker 1 (16:44):
So you got a little bit of heat there, Luke,
what do you make of this with with this Brazil
versus uh France rivalry which will be in the main
event and colon main event, and a lot of people
have been comparing it to the Soccer World Cup rivalry.

Speaker 2 (16:58):
I have a lot of people been doing.

Speaker 1 (16:59):
That online, not in my circles, Luke, Okay.

Speaker 2 (17:05):
I think they're trying to build a little heat wherever
they can. The reality is they're kind of up against
it a little bit, right. I Mean, I'm sure that
France is an important market for the UFC, but it's
probably not the most important market, and this fight is
taking place there in the afternoon on a non numbered card.
Now it's the same for Fluffy and rd Are, But

(17:26):
I'm just pointing out that there are different ways in
which the stakes and the settings interplay, and this is
one where, you know, the most amount of buzz they
can generate obviously we know the game they're going to
be able to do that or sorry, the most amount
they can generate, the more valuable it can be. And
I just think we're at a place where they're trying
to you know, put together something that they can or

(17:48):
at least you know, you MoMA is trying to just
generate the kind of attention that he can to promote
this fight, and good on him. That's actually a pretty
good reel, if I do say so myself. But I
don't think it's much more than that. I don't know
there's really genuinely bad blood between them. It's just this
is a highly highly important fight in both of their
careers and they're trying to, you know, get any edge

(18:08):
that they can.

Speaker 1 (18:09):
Well, they both said opposite about whether this fight is personal,
and we do a video of that Long Island. Look
if you can go down the item D here. Let's
listen in.

Speaker 4 (18:19):
No personal, just business.

Speaker 7 (18:21):
Just two of the two of the best guys in
the workface in the child to see who goes with the.

Speaker 8 (18:33):
Good experience Posse Vanish finished should be too fair, isnt
she sets.

Speaker 1 (18:51):
A little bit, a little bit back and forth there? Uh, Look,
let's talk about some of the brass tacks on the
even deeper comparison between them. I believe there's an argument
to be made even though his winning streak of four
is not on the level here the of the of
the extended win streak of Bohalio, who just has the
one defeat in his second pro fight. I believe Imovav's
beaten better competition of late. He's also been extremely active.

(19:15):
I mentioned his last two wins, arguably the two biggest
of his career came since Bohalio last appeared when he
defeated Jared Cannoneer last summer. But he defeated Jared Kannaneer
by decision last summer two months after imovov rallied to
stop Cannoneer while down on the scorecards in a five
round main event. How much do you believe it will

(19:36):
be a factor if we could give both the competition
and the current form advantage, and then you add in
that home field advantage to Imovav.

Speaker 2 (19:45):
See that's the part about Imovov. I mean, if you
watch those fights, there's a bit of a problem where
for example, cannon Ear gets rocked in the third and
he did not deserve to get stopped there, and he
actually kind of rallied a little bit in the fourth,
but then he got beaten up real bad in the fifth,
and a lesser referee might have stopped it. It's possible,

(20:05):
and in fact, what you could argue is yes, Imovov
had cannony or on skates in their fights. I mean,
he was definitely hurt, there's no question about that, but
that that stoppage came a little too early. In fact,
I would argue that it did. It seemed a little
premature to me. But this just goes to show like
these are well matched opponents, you know, as you mentioned,

(20:27):
can excuse me, Mahalio more well rounded, but maybe not
as necessarily potent even where he is more well rounded
as he needs to be to have a significant advantage
of Riyamovov. Imovov I think better in the stand up,
but not so much that he can just rely on that.
And more to the point, you know, you got this
bend don't break thing with Imovov, like guys take leads

(20:47):
on him. Sometimes obviously didn't happen in the easy fight
per se, but you know in other cases you can
point to you guys take leads on him, they just
can't hold them. You know, that's the interesting part, at
least more recently. In the past that might have been
a little bit differently, but more recently that's been the case.
Another part too, I want to point out Balhalio thirty two,
Imovov just twenty nine BC just twenty nine, like really

(21:08):
entering the prime of his career, and not just that,
but like the part of his prime where he's still
getting consistently better. There's a question about like what you're
gonna get with Bohalio. Also, one thing we haven't really
talked about. You haven't asked me, but it's important to
bring up. Remember Baholio was the fill in recently for
the middleweight title fight, and he had to cut weight
for that, and then you're traveling internationally jet lag and

(21:30):
then you have to cut again. I'm not saying he's
gonna misswait. I don't know what the latest update is,
but what I am saying is, man, that's a lot
of weight cutting. That's a lot. It's just a lot
of factors between that home field advantage travel the whole
nine yards that you're giving your opponent in an already
close contest. I still think, based on the last odds,

(21:50):
correct me if I'm wrong on Island Luke, that Imovov
is still the slight underdog. Is that right?

Speaker 4 (21:57):
Correct?

Speaker 2 (21:57):
Yeah, they both made weight by the way the wig
ends are over. Fine. I was not expecting Bohalio to
miss it. That's not my point. But the point is
round four. You know, if the takedowns aren't there and
he's tired, what does that do. It's at least a
factor to pay attention to going forward, even though Bohalio
himself has been like, oh, it won't be a factor.
We shall see.

Speaker 1 (22:17):
Well, I'm glad you brought that up because that was
going to be my next question and I was almost
gonna lead to where I think you can keep making
all of these little points which we just did, which
continue to put a certain level of advantage into Immovov,
not just those two weight cuts in a short period
of time, the one year layoff for Boholio. How about this?
Imavov has a rock solid chin that has been tested

(22:39):
by the very best. He also has a recent history
of peaking in the championship rounds, as he's been a
consistent five round fighter in Fight Night main events. So
some people believe that Boholio's stamina can be here or there.
I think overall he's pretty darn solid. But I wonder
how many all of the how much all of these
advantages when it When it's already such a close fight

(23:01):
on paper, the betting odds are being so close. Yet
if it plays out so close in sort of some
form of a high speed chess match, then you're also dropping,
on top of that the potential home field advantage here
in terms of how will the cheering from the crowd
sway the judges if the action is close and back
and forth. All things to think about here is Kyle Bohollio, however,

(23:26):
getting away from trash talk and just straight up saying
what is the challenge of facing this technical counter striker
in him?

Speaker 2 (23:32):
Above?

Speaker 4 (23:33):
What about nastety Movov? Do you see and you go exploit?

Speaker 7 (23:36):
You're gonna make me put my game plan. He's really fast.
He just explodes. That's what he did with Adissana. I
will need to be aware of that positioning myself. The
position is going to make me see a little bit
far away.

Speaker 1 (23:50):
The winner of this fight is fighting for the title.
If what's about.

Speaker 7 (23:55):
It does the fighting makes sense, there's no point to
be waiting on the number one contendent to go to
the I think I'm one of the biggest prospects in
the division right now, sixteen win streak. All my fights
a fault like best Jerry Kananier. He had good fight,
but it was an early stoppers and nobody did what
I did to Jerry Connier. So I'm here in my prime,
no injuries and nobody wants to fight, and finally we

(24:15):
got it. He ran away a lot, but now I'm
coming to get him on his place and he's down.
I'll make this fight not that competitive as a thing,
as I did with all my fights, and that dominated
them all.

Speaker 1 (24:26):
Luke, is it fair to say that Imovov is the
most deserving of the four middleweights that are vying for
the attention of the matchmakers to get the title shot
in these two fights? But we know why. Maybe he's underpicked,
he's not a big trash talk or all that stuff,
and then maybe Bohalio is the least deserving, although I'm

(24:46):
not saying that to take away from the ability that
he's bringing in here as the favorite. It kind of
feels like that.

Speaker 2 (24:55):
Now, are you saying just among these two or among
all four? A.

Speaker 1 (25:00):
I look, Bohoalio's on fire from a win standpoint, I
don't think he's faced the competition that that that the
other guys have.

Speaker 2 (25:09):
I think that's right, it's certainly in this case. Well,
here's what I'll say, Baholio's UFC run has been much
more consistent. How about that? Right in terms of the
UFC correctly, if I'm wrong, it's a nine fight win
streak and in the UFC itself undefeated, right, I mean

(25:29):
that is, along with Fluffy in terms of like the
wind streak itself anyway, pretty remarkable and very very difficult
to do, frankly in any division, even though middleweight is
not necessarily the UFC's best, although at this stage it's
obviously very good, especially this level of it. I don't
I don't know if I I don't know if I
I don't know if I agree with the premise of

(25:49):
the question. I mean, dude, this is what's kind of interesting.
I was really thinking about this, man, you know, this
fight is and then and then are the RDR Fluffy fight?
Like this, these are to me, it's actually insanely intriguing
because you know, is Imovov or is Baholio the biggest names,
and is their matchup in some ways the most desired

(26:12):
And do you necessarily have well, I gotta see Hamsat
you know, Imavov, I gotta see hams a Bohelio. I
don't know about that. Some of the ones on the
other side of the ledge that people might feel a
little bit differently about, but you know, in general, I
don't know. But because these fights are so closely contested,
and especially in the case of the RDR Fluffy fight,
it's an interesting style clash also a very closely contested

(26:33):
fight at least one that we think will be closely contested,
that by itself has kind of I don't know if
it's and it's in a way raised my overall level
of interest, but kind of neutralized what I can expect
in the in a in a A And how do
I say this exactly. It's I don't know what to expect, exactly.
I just don't know what to expect. I think we
really got to wait and see what the results are,

(26:55):
because obviously who wins who loses a critical But I
mean the picture will come into clarity once we have
some resolution, not just about who is more deserving, who
can make a more interesting fight, who answered better key
questions about some of their upside, who answered better key
questions about some of the things limiting them as well.
They've got opponents, all four of them on either side,

(27:18):
that tell that that are going to get a lot
closer to some kind of you know, just a just
a just a better clearer picture of what we have.
And I'm really looking forward to that resolution. So I
just don't know how to answer the question the way
they asked it.

Speaker 1 (27:32):
I mean, it's a move, it's a mood point. Regardless
they are, they're all at the table. They have the
opportunity now to do what they have to do. But
as we go to this full screen long island Luke
showing Imovov's UFC resume, the only thing he's lacked is
charisma and a face. But maybe he'll get that from
this Paris crowd. I mean it is a perfect setting
for him. Look at that, most recently stopping pretty brutally

(27:55):
at a Sonya. You've got wins over a shrinking Brendan Allen,
a cannoneer. Before he had lost to Bojoalio Deleedes, Joaquin Buckley, Chabazi.
And yes there are losses to Sean Strickland and Phil Hawes,
but he also beat Jurassic back highness over there, Luke,
that's a pretty damn underrated run. And I had sort

(28:16):
of held him back in my mind for lack of sexiness.
It's not that he fights boring. You just sometimes want
him to pick up the pace and go for it
a little more because he's so long, technical, powerful, has
a great chin. But not everyone even knows that because
it has been a tough sell. This is his opportunity
to change that long. I will look before we make

(28:37):
our predictions here, Oh, before make our predictions, show this
flashback video of Dana also getting rock hard, touching him
in the back. Let's watch this.

Speaker 5 (28:45):
We just did the WANs up there. He came over
and I said good luck tomorrow, and I slapped him
on the shoulder. I'm not shitting you. I mean that
guy feels like a piece of metal. I mean, that
guy's fucking crazy.

Speaker 1 (28:55):
But uh, look, they've only said that about Joel Romero
in the past, just so you know, Okay.

Speaker 2 (29:01):
You'll romerroll a famous middleweight underachiever there.

Speaker 1 (29:05):
Well, that's also kind of true there Long Island. Look
from a betting standpoint, it feels like a coin flip.
But I feel like we just laid out a lot
of reasons why Imovov at home on plus money as
a hell of a bet. Yeah, there's value there.

Speaker 3 (29:18):
I'm not gonna say anyone's wrong for taking that, But
I'm riding with the fighting nerds on this one. Baby,
I'm actually parlay and Bohalio and Hoofy together.

Speaker 2 (29:26):
How do you think that fight goes? Like? What does
it look like? That main event?

Speaker 3 (29:30):
Yeah, I'm hoping that Bohoalio can implement his wrestling. I
did look into it and I Mavov's two UFC losses,
which were Sean Strickland and Phil Hawes. He got taken
down in both of those fights, so like Bohlio's just
got to take him down. Also, Bohalio did win his
last three fights without getting a takedown, so like he's
proven he can hang. I do favor Imvov if it
stays standing, though, I said on Submission Radio, I think

(29:53):
it's going to be a close fight, forty eight to
forty seven either way, definitely.

Speaker 1 (29:56):
Going majority decision or split of some kind. But here's
the thing, though, Luke and I like the analysis No
Seeda just gave. Bohoalio has evolved from a wrestler first,
to a wrestler striker to kind of a striker nowadays.
I wonder if that plays against him over a five
round fight where we seem to be in unison, that

(30:17):
it's going to be up for grabs when it hits
the twenty five minute mark. All those factors are pointing
me in the direction of the slightly more technical and
I guess thoughtful. I mean, look, Bohilio can carry out
a game plan. He also can be aggressive and raw
and athletic. I gotta lean Imovov here by very close decision.
Will he get the title shot? That's we're gonna have

(30:37):
to wait for October fourteenth to find out. But I
don't feel like there's enough reasons for me to take
Kyo despite this fight being this close.

Speaker 2 (30:46):
Man, I have struggled with this one. I don't think
your analysis is really wrong at all. We've kind of
been over the terms of it. By the way, I
staid a nine fight win streak. It is seven in
the UFC, but he had two wins back to back
on the Contender series, So within the zoof of family,
it's a nineth win streak, for whatever that is worth.
I mean, this is the funny part about Imovov, right,
Historically he has shown more weaknesses. Right, as I mentioned

(31:10):
nine again, I know that Kyo is not undefeated overall,
but inside the ZUFA family he is. He is undefeated.
He's been more consistent and to the point you raise,
I'm glad you bred that way. He's kind of a
grappler first, then he mixed it up and now he
can win on the feet exclusively, at least against against
the opponents he's fought more recently, he's been able to
do that, and that's a big development, no question about it.

(31:30):
But it does seem to me like the striking is
sharper with Imovov. And while some of his flaws have
been more you know, uh visible, become more visible and
and and been somewhat more documented and part of to
an extent, his identity. The thing that I wrestle with
on this one, no pun intended be see is that
one I mentioned he's a got of a bit of
a bend, don't break kind of style. And two he's

(31:54):
three years younger than Kyle Bihalio. Like some of his
failures have been on Front Street, but he's at a
state of his development where like big chunks and leaps
can be made. And then you add in the weight cut. Man,
it's like I'm in a perfect world BC. I probably
lean Baholio, but I think you know I'm gonna take
a flyer or any Mavov on this one. I just

(32:15):
feel like there's enough reason to believe that this fight
is gonna be insanely close. And then of course, if
you Mavov can't stop the take down, then he screwed, right.
I mean, there's really no point in discussing anything further.

Speaker 1 (32:26):
He is adequate wrestling. It's not a hole in his game, right,
I mean, it's.

Speaker 2 (32:30):
It's not his strong suit. I would say that it's
not his strong suit, but I agree with you. I
don't think it's like disastrous or anything like that. Again,
Alan went for ten takedowns, only got one of them.
That was it. He couldn't do shit aupter round one,
so something to be said for that. I just feel
like I do buy. I absolutely buy that Baholio is
more well rounded. I don't think the tape is necessarily
inconclusive about that, but some of the other factors give

(32:53):
me a little bit of pause, And for that reason,
I'm gonna give a slight lean to Imovov. But I
agree with Long Island Luke. I mean, it's gonna be
probable tied all the way down.

Speaker 1 (33:01):
Yeah, I do buy. Also, I also Abu Dhabi Luke
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topic number two, and it's the UFC Paris undercard this weekend,
more specifically a very good lightweight comine event. But let's
first get the business out of the way of the
big weight miss that we teased earlier. This was meant

(34:52):
to kick off the main card. Lo Sine Kayeta, the
Guinea Bourne, Belgium raised fighter who came in with a
reputation as a two division octagon champion. Making his UFC
debut against the veteran Patricio Pippoll and then missing weight aggressively.
Pitpull decided not to carry on. Pipole wants a short

(35:14):
turnaround at UFC HEO against Arnold Allen, but Kayeto would
post a video on x of him in the bathtub,
in which he said, for the first time in twenty
five fights, I failed to make weight and it had
to happen on my UFC debut. I wanted to continue
and would have given everything to make weight, but my
body didn't want it. I sincerely apologize to all my fans.

(35:34):
I will be back, like every time I fall in life.
LT This certainly sucks, but can we in hindsight say
maybe it wasn't the best idea to cut back down
to featherweight when he hasn't fought there in two.

Speaker 2 (35:47):
Years, yeah, and then doing it on three weeks notice,
no less, so like he hasn't as you indicated, like
the last time I think the last time I made
forty five was twenty twenty three, so you know, he's
been fighting in fifty five more recently and took the
fight on short notice. It's like, dude, I appreciate that
he took the fight on four not fight the fight
on short notice. I really do. But Pitt Bull doesn't

(36:07):
have time to fuck around with people who can't make weight,
and he's got, you know, a limited amount of time
left in the game. He's trying to make it work.
This I understand why he did not accept the fight.
I truly do. It sucks for us, but I sort
of get it, and dude, like, you know, if you're
gonna I have I just know. And for a lot
of good reasons, observational and otherwise, the UFC loves it
when you can fill in on short notice, but they

(36:28):
don't want you to fill in on short notice if
you cannot make weight. It's not what they want they
want you to you. They would rather you decline it
than do this right, because now look at the consequence
we don't have this fight an inauspicious way to begin
his UFC tenure BC not a death sentence or anything
like that, but it sucks for us, and you know,
don't take fights for in weights, you can't make it.

(36:49):
The UFC just absolutely hates it when fighters do that.

Speaker 1 (36:53):
I agree that he was a featherweight and lightweight champion
at Octagon, but had been competing out lightweight, miss his
weight by three pounds, and remember he was a minus
two to twenty five betting favorite over Pitbull coming in.
All right, let's talk about this co main event. One
hell of an explosive matchup between new school lightweights as
number thirteen Benoi Saint Denis enters as a slight betting

(37:14):
underdog against a streaking number fifteen Fighting Nerds member Mauricio Hoofy,
who is twelve and one as a pro, three and
zero in the UFC and is just six months removed
from a spinning wheel kick ko of King Green. On
the flip side, bsd enters having been stopped in two
of his last three fights. Luke, this is a very

(37:36):
good fight on paper. The odds will tell you that
as well. But how important in your eyes is the
head movement in defense of BSD, who does his fighting
on a one fight win streak after a recent decision
winning his comeback in determining if he can get past.

Speaker 2 (37:52):
Hoofy, man, this is this is an interesting one clear
striker ground blur kind of contest. You just cannot imagine
a world where BSD can win on the feet in
the event he can't get a takedown. I mean, MMA's crazy,
stranger things have happened, but it seems deeply unlikely. By contrast,
if Hoofy cannot stay on the feet, then I don't

(38:14):
know what he is gained. Well, I mean, I guess
we'll see what his ground game more readily looks like
tested against this level of opposition, But in general, it
just doesn't appear like that's probably his best chance to
victory either. And BSD, to his defense is terrible. His
defense is just biting down on the mouthpiece and kind

(38:35):
of just moving through punishment. It's really never getting around it.
It does. His game is predicated on just kind of
overrunning the need for defense. But then when you actually
need defense, because overrunning it doesn't work anymore, there's nothing
really there to protect him. I mean, he absorbs an
enormous amount of damage. I mean we've seen that more

(38:56):
recently in some of his fights, and then you know,
just in a visibly kind of spams takedowns, like he
doesn't set them up more methodically, he just you know,
presses the gas pedal and goes. And there's a question
because Hoofy has never been taken down in the UFC.
But at the same time, he's really never fought anyone
who just will aggressively go for it and can get

(39:17):
it in the way that BSD can. It's kind of
a really huge test. Now. I know there's a lot
of hype around Hoofy, and in fact, of all the
fighting nerds BC, my personal preferences, I'm I'm I'm intrigued
by him and Jayon Silva probably the most. That doesn't
that doesn't mean that I think that they're going to
go the furthest It just means like, right now I
have the most amount of intrigue about them, but that

(39:37):
you know, that can change. But certainly to me a
very intriguing striker. But at the same time, like you know,
it's not to say if you can't beat BSD, you
can't beat anybody, but if you can beat BSD, I
think that a guy with an exciting style like this
is just going to get rocketed to the front of
this division in a very very quick way. So a

(39:58):
really interesting test of like what can BSD put together
some kind of strategic attack and can Hoofy withstand in
onslaught in the kind of way that BSD tends to deliver.

Speaker 1 (40:11):
Yeah, well, Bsd's god of war mentality and Hoofi's excitement,
you know this has the potential to be fireworks. I
did want to dead wrong myself thanks to Long Island, Luke.
The comeback win for BSD was actually a submission of
Kyle Preppolek directly after being stopped by Dustin Pourier and
subbed out by Hincho.

Speaker 2 (40:30):
I mean, he did not look super awesome in a
win that he was widely expected to get. He got
the job, the job done, but like, he didn't look great.

Speaker 1 (40:38):
And it was the doctor stoppage against way Connell due
to that eye injury right there, Luke. There's been a
lot of Hoofy hitting the pads videos that have been
getting MMA fans more erect than Luke rock Hold talking
about Dylan Dennis. Look at this dude. This guy can pop.

Speaker 2 (40:52):
Yeah, I mean rock Hold will bang Dannis in the ass.
I mean we heard that. This guy looks amazing on
the path. I mean just you know, look at that
for yourself. Look at the angles, look at the pop,
look at the range, the creativity, the flow. It just
looks amazing. There's no question you let this guy cook
at these kinds of ranges, It's going to be real
bad for you. But of course you know BSD is

(41:14):
at least early not going to allow this. And so
what does that look like. It's a great match, It's
great matchmaking. The UFC did a good job with this one.
I really enjoy it. I like it, and I want
to see what both guys have.

Speaker 1 (41:26):
Hoofy're riding a seven fight win streak. He's won all
three of his UFC bouts, two by stoppage against King
Green and then a TKO of Jamie Malarkey, and his
debut also picked up a stoppage on the Dana White
Contender series Long Island, Luke. As we look at these DraftKings.
Odds minus one seventy five for Hoofy plus one forty
five for Song DENI who will be fighting in front

(41:48):
of the home crowd does bring extensive violence and knockout ability.
How are you looking at this from a betting standpoint?

Speaker 4 (41:56):
I gotta go Hoofy.

Speaker 2 (41:57):
I told you guys already.

Speaker 3 (41:58):
I'm parlaying Hoofy in boholliody their little fighting nerds. Parlay
you get him both at minus under minus two hundred.
It's great value parlaying together, it's plus money. I just
feel like BSD Luke was saying like he kind of
looked like shit against Kyle Prepplek, and I agree. And
Kyle Prepplec took that fight on like three days notice,
so like BSD.

Speaker 2 (42:17):
Should have really ran right through him.

Speaker 3 (42:18):
It went over one and a half rounds too, which
is like, shouldn't have gone that long. He's also finished
in the two fights before that. I just feel like
you can't trust BSD right now. It is intriguing him
at plus money, but I think there's a reason behind that.
I'm staying away until he can prove me wrong.

Speaker 1 (42:32):
So are you not moved by plus six hundred on
a BSD tkoko DQ No?

Speaker 3 (42:39):
I'm not because I think of BSD wins.

Speaker 2 (42:41):
It's probably by sub. I think Hoofy probably KOs well.

Speaker 1 (42:45):
If you like b bsd by sub by the way,
plus five hundred, that ain't bad, right there, Luke Thomas,
are you just gonna stamp Hoofy because if he gets
this win, if he extends that win streak, we're gonna
start talking about him like we do g and Silva
Bojalio and those other nerds.

Speaker 2 (43:01):
Yeah, big questions about Hoofie, Huge questions exactly how good
is he? I have no clue, but I think this
fight is obviously going to get us a lot closer
to getting an understanding of that, and I'm cautiously optimistic.
I'm gonna ride with Hoofi in this.

Speaker 1 (43:14):
One, all right, Luke, you said on Monday when I
brought it up. My Lithuanian British Brethren, Modestus bukowskis is
having a hell of a run in run number two
with the UFC, just one loss opposite five victories. He'll
be taking out of Paul Craig, who did re sign
with the UFC despite being thirty seven, despite relocating back

(43:35):
to the two five division, and despite losing five of
his last six. At this moment, here is bukowskis trying
to push back on your idea that he isn't a
future player at two five here on this newly changed
run he's having in part two of his career.

Speaker 9 (43:52):
Well, I think people that are finally starting to take notice,
you know, before you know, when you're coming back. Like
even then when I post the video up just just recently,
people are still talking more like I say, about the
knee injury and saying that this guy will never come back.
I'm like, well, did you watch the whole video about me?
But I think now people are, like I say, starting

(44:12):
to take notices, starting to realize that I mean business,
I'm not I'm not just here. And and essentially I
still feel like the comeback stories is still being written,
you know. I mean I feel like, yeah, if people
want to put an emphasis on that, they can, because
ultimately that can that can inspire and motivate people, you
know who who are sort of down in the dumb

(44:32):
so they've had a bad turn in their careers that
they they also have the power to to to change
their stars.

Speaker 4 (44:39):
And and you know, make things happen.

Speaker 1 (44:41):
So good for him, Luke, but he's gonna have no
problem as a minus three fifty five favorite against Paul Craig.

Speaker 2 (44:47):
Correct. Yeah, I mean the thing is, Blukowskis is definitely
better this run, no question about it. It's just that
Paul Craig's striking defense is, you know, just not where
it needs to be. And obviously he's extremely clever on
the ground. But I would imagine you would you would
think that Bukowskis of course knows this and has trained
around it. You know, in the event that he pulls
guard and the event that he wraps an overhook and

(45:08):
pulls guard or you know whatever leg entanglements or whatever,
you would imagine that they've got a kind of plan
for that and he's gonna have to slug it out.
And if he has to slug it out, I definitely
would pick Bukowskis over Craig for sure. So just to
kind of a test exactly, not of Bukowskis's upside BC,
but definitely like, has you know, to what extent can

(45:29):
he shore up the bottom right? Can he make sure
his defensive responsibilities are exactly where they need to be
when they need to be. And that's not nothing, that's
actually pretty important, but it's a doable task for him.

Speaker 1 (45:42):
Yeah, he's coming off that split decision win over Evon,
He's beating Tyson Praige Pedro. He subbed out Procneo, but
hasn't had a real standout when Paul Craig's got a
good name and the odds are against him here. Look,
I wanted to go a little bit down on the
prelimb just to bring this up. We know UFC badly
needs heavy weight bodies, and at age thirty five, former

(46:02):
twenty twenty two PFL Heavyweight Tournament champ Aunta Delija is
here for his UFC debut. He's got a six foot
five frame, a twenty five and six record, and KO
wins over Jorgan de Castro, Hennin Fajeda, Matteis Cheffel twice
and has decision wins over UFC vet Maurice Green and

(46:23):
Dennis Goitsov. Is he a threat to the division in
your eyes as he enters his debut in a rematch
against Marching Tybura or is he just another body here
at heavyweight? And by the way, ty Bura scored a
Tkovia leg injury against Delisia back in twenty fifteen.

Speaker 2 (46:43):
Threats to the division? I don't know. He's certainly massively
improved relative to what he was even just a few
years ago. Tybora is relatively old at thirty nine years
of age. That doesn't help him necessarily, But you know,
Tiboria is one of these guys where it's like, definitely,
here's what I would say that this matchup means to me. BC.
It's not really a question at least at this point,

(47:05):
about exactly where Deleah fits into the division, other than
to say, hey, if you can't beat Tybora, you know,
not that he's some kind of bum, but if you
can't beat him, it's just hard to believe you can
really go far in this division. By contrast, if you
can get past a guy like Tabora, it at least
puts you into more interesting matchmaking scenarios. Right, So getting

(47:26):
past him is a pretty important litmus test. This is
a good gauge to see, you know, what kind of
heavyweight are you going to be? What can you be
for us? What did the PFL run really do for you?
We're gonna get a pretty good answer. As a consequence,
Taibora has value in that way.

Speaker 1 (47:41):
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(48:09):
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Speaker 2 (48:17):
Sr in uar see.

Speaker 10 (48:18):
I am fighting USC and my friend Ivan eers and
also fight. Just two fighters and everybody. People from the
Balkan give support. I'm in my prime and I think
I'm in this fight. I give my blood, my life,
everything gives for the win.

Speaker 1 (48:36):
My wife, Look, this is a pickam according to DraftKings
In minus one away to Tybura minus one twelve to
the Slight slight favorite the Lea. Let me get that right,
just like the banned comedian Luke Chris the lea.

Speaker 11 (48:50):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (48:50):
This guy's auntie for our luck, though he's probably gonna
get subbed out by Tiborro and we have no one
else in heavy we right, it's.

Speaker 2 (48:57):
Not looking great. It would be nice to see the
Leo win. Notuse I have anything against Tybora specifically, but
we definitely, I mean you would agree. I think most
people watching would agree. Some new blood, some exciting you
know names in there would be great. One thing to
keep in mind, BC. One thing to keep in mind.
Remember we had Martin Boudai Boude. Yeah, it was seven

(49:17):
and one in the UFC and UFC was like, yeah,
I get to step in. We don't care. You know,
it's not really I mean, yes, winning is critical, like
if you don't win, then forget it. But it turns
out at heavyweight, you know, they want to see people
who can get the crowd on their feet a little bit,
and there's been times Deli has been able to do that,
but against Tibora it's you know, unless you're really good,
that's going to be kind of tough to do. So,

(49:39):
you know, this is what I mean. Heavyweight is not
in a great place. But the matchmaking here I can
see some of the thought that went into it from
the matchmakers, and there is there is a fair amount
of sense that goes into it. I understand.

Speaker 1 (49:52):
Yeah, the other fight I have circled on the deep undercard,
and then I'll ask you your opinions of what else
we got here. He is the borderline, the curtain jerker.
But Walter Wait's Andreas Gustafsen of Bain fame and Rina
fok Retnanov are going to bang. You got Gustison as
a minus one twenty two favorite against the plus one

(50:14):
h two fok Kretanov. If you remember Gustafson's debut, he
had like the uh satanic tattoos, and he also.

Speaker 2 (50:22):
Well, I don't know if they were satanic, there were
something else.

Speaker 1 (50:25):
And he also just beat down and gassed out Chaos
Williams to get the win he's got. There were a
lot of videos I could have picked from here, Luke,
including one in which he went off on Liver King aggressively,
But instead, here is the very controversial Bane Gustafson telling
us why Sean Strickler is actually a prophet.

Speaker 12 (50:46):
I really like Sean. He's he's funny, he's I agree
with many things he stands for, so I really like him,
and I think it's right. Actually in maybe not everything,
but many thing he stands for is right.

Speaker 4 (51:07):
When you talk about men to be a man.

Speaker 12 (51:11):
You need to know how to protect your family and
you need to You need to know how to be violent.
You don't have to be a violent person, but you
need to know how to fight and how to protect
your loved ones.

Speaker 4 (51:31):
That's how a man should be, not just go out
in the street and fight.

Speaker 12 (51:35):
And but if somebody threatens you, you got you gotta
know how to eliminate them.

Speaker 1 (51:46):
Look your thoughts.

Speaker 2 (51:52):
What do you want me to say?

Speaker 10 (51:53):
Bro?

Speaker 2 (51:53):
What do you want? What do you want me to say?

Speaker 1 (51:55):
I mean, I mean, I don't know what do you
fish with a premas Hill or prom Looke? You know
what I mean? Probably?

Speaker 2 (52:01):
But whatever, Probably with a you know, fishing pre meth
would be quite acceptable. I don't know what you want
me to say.

Speaker 1 (52:08):
They're gonna bang, by the way, and that's just hilarious
commentary on John Strickland. By the way, look what else
we got on this undercard that is making your eyes open?

Speaker 2 (52:15):
Well, as we mentioned, I think it was on Tuesday
or maybe I don't know when we've talked about it.
But like you know, the the kit to fight being
off is with Pippole's freakin' bummer. But I'm going to
remind people that there are some other signings on this one.
Anti Delia is one like a great kind of signing
from PFL that they got. I mentioned it previously against
I always say rise, but you corrected me correctly. It
is Reeze Reese McKee taking on axul Sola actual sola

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out of aries. Also, I want to put some respect
on the name of Harry Hardwick coming from Cage Warriors,
a good signing going against. I don't have pronounce to
do his first name, cow Ka Fernandez. Please forgive me.
The pronunciation is a little bit wonky. BC. Do I
have this right? If Brad Tavares wins this weekend, he
will surpass Michael Bisping's total amount of wins in the

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middleweight division for the most ever. Is that right?

Speaker 1 (53:05):
It could be I have not heard that right. The
guy's been around for for plenty of minutes. Luke, you
know what I mean. So he's the Jim Miller of middleway.
I like that congratulations.

Speaker 2 (53:15):
Something like that, something like that.

Speaker 1 (53:17):
Yeah, all right, long Island, Luke, you have any other
thoughts to sprinkle on this card? I mean it is
a good, good ass card. I'll say that all loud.

Speaker 2 (53:23):
It it is.

Speaker 3 (53:23):
There's I just look, there's four fights on the prelims
that are like under minus two hundred or closer range,
So like very good value on this card.

Speaker 4 (53:32):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (53:33):
Umar c Taken on Bredston Hebero.

Speaker 3 (53:35):
I mean Brenson Obero throws down, He's probably gonna get got,
but you know, we'll see what happens there. Sam Patterson
taken on Trey Water. Sam Patterson likes to get the submissions.
Trade Waters likes to get to knock out a little
striker versus grappler, or see what happens there.

Speaker 2 (53:47):
I mean, it could be fun. It'll be fun.

Speaker 4 (53:49):
Tune in, guys, all.

Speaker 1 (53:50):
Right you you uh yeah, you got me fired up there.
Maybe I'll tune into the main card minute with you
and Gaffney Jim over there all this. What do you
say to me? I said, join, yeah, yeah, three pm
Eastern main card. By the way, the UFC paris tomorrow.
Good shit. Right there, Let's go to topic number three.
We are exactly eight days out from the Big One.

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It airs live on Netflix Saturday, September thirteenth, Canelo Crawford
the undisputed super middleweight Championship. So as we continue to
get you fired up for this one, I've concocted five
fill in the blank questions for Luke Thomas to stir
up some chatter about this. We know that the names

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at stake, we know what they're fighting for, we know
everything here. Apparently Netflix is about to roll out a
couple episode primer documentary series to get us fired up
for this. So fill in the blank time Canello Crawford
number one, Luke Thomas. Should Terrence Crawford pull the upset
next Saturday, it will most likely be because of blank.

Speaker 2 (55:02):
And this can be any factor.

Speaker 1 (55:04):
Yes, what do you think will be the leading cause
of Crawford getting the job done in this very close
fight on paper?

Speaker 2 (55:13):
How do I answer this? It's a great question. My
boxing answer is going to be Crawford's movement and angling
angles in particular, less so just pure movement, but angles
using his feet and using superior angles and footwork to

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make Canelo play catch up as he turns him right.
That's gonna be my boxing answer. But my real answer, BC,
I mean, it's sort of a more technical answer. Honestly,
my real answer is going to be, you know, it's
if Canelo or I should say, if Crawford pulls the
upset it's gonna because of Canelo's hubris, you know what
I mean. Canelo is at the stage of his career

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where he's taking what he thinks are Obviously this is
a huge pay opportunity, right, but you know he's not
in it at this stage to risk a losing to
people he thinks he actually has to risk losing to.
And I don't think he has taken a fight in
quite some time that makes you think otherwise. So I
think he believes that Crawford, and with good reason. B See,

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it's not like a crazy thought. Yeah, Crawford's good, but
he's quite relatively speaking, quite old, older than Canelo, who
has more miles, so somewhat of a different debate. But
you know, older than Canelo, and the weight class jump
is insane BC. Someone brought this up to me. Now
the comparison doesn't quite work, okay, but someone brought this

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up to me in my live chat. Ilia Taporia did
fight at thirty five once. He tried to do it
a second time and missed weight, but he did make
thirty five. And if you think about it, if he
fought Islam at seventy, that would almost be to a degree.
Somebody who's gone thirty five to seventy. But of course
there's a couple problems with that, not least of which is, yes,

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Toporia technically made thirty five, but he didn't have any
sustained campaign down there. Bud did, right, Bud was a
champion at that weight class. But it goes to show that, like,
look at what Bud is attempting. Yes, he's gone to
fifty four. He had the fight against Madromov if he
looked fine to good but not great, but he looked
fine to good, you know, And now this is two
more weight classes above it. I mean, think about that.

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Be See if I asked you a question, who at
thirty five in the UFC do you think could get
a belt at one seventy either now or ever? Who
would that be? Damn right? You know what I'm saying.

Speaker 1 (57:39):
That's tough.

Speaker 2 (57:40):
That's tough. That's a tough thing to ant. Like, look
at what Bud Crawford is up against, very difficult circumstances.
So no, no, I don't Canelo should win this fight.
He should win this fight.

Speaker 1 (57:54):
Crawford will be thirty eight, has fought just once in
the last two years. That was at one fifty four,
a close title capture against Israel Madrumov, but it's a
virtual in some ways three division leap against a Canelo
at thirty five who has been very active. As we
look at the DraftKings odds at this moment, this is
wild that it's this close. It really is Canelo minus

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one point eighty Crawford plus one forty five. I mean,
there's a lot of respect being given to Zoe's backside
and Crawford's chances in this fight. On that On that line,
let's go to number two on fill in the blank,
defeating Terrence Crawford would rank as the blank biggest win

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in Canelo's career. And let me hedge this by saying,
I asked a similar question to Rap Bartholomew yesterday on
Inside the Box, and he made an argument that because
of Crawford's class, this is the biggest potential win in
Canelo's history. I didn't agree with that. I didn't agree
with that.

Speaker 2 (58:55):
You gotta go out, get to the second Triple G fight.

Speaker 1 (58:57):
That's what I'm saying. But I get the r argument.
At least it's a hipster argument, but I get it. Bud,
Really is that dude on Canelo's resume in a lot
of ways.

Speaker 2 (59:11):
Wow, I don't know, man, I like that, dude. That
the the original campaign that he went on at sixty eight.
I mean, is Caleb Plant the same kind of fighter
as Bud Crawford. No, but the campaign he went on,
you know, beating Billy Joe Saunders and Callum Smith and

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and then you know, we were there in Vegas when
he beat Caleb Plant and whatnot, like and then Covial
ev and it's a cole A seventy five. But you know,
still that's a tough one. Man. I agree that if
you're talking about, hey, what are the best pound for
pound guys? If Canelo wins, where would Bud rank? And yeah,

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like pure pound for pound, Bud is maybe the most decorated,
but because of the weight difference, BC, I don't know
where to put him. I honestly, I just here's what
I would say. I definitely cannot rank it above the
second Triple G fight. I can't do that. I can.

Speaker 1 (01:00:12):
I think it would get more value if Crawford turns
out to be super competitive in it and it's this thriller, right,
then you're like, okay, that raises the value. But if
I'm gonna right now as we speak on Friday, September fifth,
I'm leaning Canelo here by decision and feel firmly confident
in that I would have to go triple g number
two as his biggest win, beating Miguel Coto for the

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middleweight title, you know, seven rounds to five being his
second biggest. You can throw in the knockout of covialv
Those are probably the three I put in there, because
you know that was him moving up to one seventy five.
Obviously he's lost to greatness in Floyd and Bevall. But uh,
it's it's a hard thing to answer because of that fact.
Crawford may end up being literally the best guy he

(01:00:55):
ever beat in terms of the performance, but he's also
thirty eight and hasn't fallt Like it's wild, Luke, it's
a it's a real if.

Speaker 2 (01:01:02):
What if Crawford gets washed, you know what I mean,
Then it's hard to know, like what value this has
at all. I mean, obviously you have some, but it's
tough to tough to categorize.

Speaker 1 (01:01:11):
Yeah, I'm with you on that, all right, Let's go
to number three here on filling the blank. Canelo Crawford
debuting here for the for zoof of Boxing being on
Netflix without an up charge inside Allegiant Stadium two Legends
is the biggest fight in boxing sense blank. It's a

(01:01:32):
hard one also to answer, by the way, it is,
because there's there's other.

Speaker 2 (01:01:36):
You're talking about the biggest fight, so it's I mean
it's definitely the Okay, at a bare minimum, it's the
biggest sense better be of bevol two right, bare minimum?

Speaker 1 (01:01:52):
Oh god, yeah, I mean again, my knee jerk is
to go all the way back to Mayweather McGregor. To
be honest with you, that's my knee jerk. But then
I'm like, then you have to kind of think about.

Speaker 2 (01:02:03):
Was is that true? I don't know how true that is.

Speaker 1 (01:02:05):
I mean, it was fury usk in a stadium bigger.
What do you do with Tyson? Paul? Like this is
why it's hard to really answer right now.

Speaker 2 (01:02:13):
Until we've seen the fight and we can measure it,
it's very difficult to know. I'm gonna say fury usic. Okay,
I'm gonna say fury u sick. It's the biggest fight
to me since then that was a huge fight, not
stateside obviously, but well I mean, it was a big
fight here in a sense, but you know what I mean,
like it wasn't it didn't take place here. Yeah, I'm
gonna go that one. I mean, could it get to
a place where it has this massive cultural impact in

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the way that may wither McGregor did? I don't think so.
I don't. It sounds like I'm shitting on it, And
I want to be clear, I'm absolutely not shitting on
this fight. Like it's gonna be big, it's gonna be
a spectacle. But we've already kind of said that it's
probably the case that Jake Paul versus Dravante Davis is
gonna be bigger and dude, I hate to say this

(01:03:00):
because that fight sucked the backside of my my butthole,
but I'm sorry to tell you Jake Paul versus Mike Tyson,
if we're asking how big.

Speaker 1 (01:03:10):
That's that's the wild card part of the question to me.

Speaker 2 (01:03:13):
Right, that was a big I mean, dude, I remember
going to my like the local neighborhood restaurant where I live,
and then sitting down and then hearing people in my
orbit talk about it. I was like, holy shit, this
fight is fucking huge. So honestly that that's probably the
right answer, even though I hate to even put that
in the conversation because of what it was.

Speaker 1 (01:03:30):
All right, if we removed the attraction fights like Maymac
and Tyson Paul, I wonder if you're you're really looking at,
is it the biggest sense shriple g Canelo two or
Tank versus Ryan We got to remember too, you know.

Speaker 2 (01:03:45):
What I mean? Or just it was big. Yeah, that
was a big one.

Speaker 1 (01:03:50):
But there were some heavyweight ones along that way, involving
Fury ouse I remember Fury Wilder two and three were
massive too.

Speaker 2 (01:03:56):
But this one question is the question is if you
take out if you take out of Jake Paul side shows,
and you ask, what's the biggest boxing fight? You know?
Sense you know? Or or to answer the question that
you're putting was what was the last time asked the question? Again?
How are you? How did you phrase it?

Speaker 1 (01:04:17):
So this is the biggest fight since what?

Speaker 2 (01:04:18):
Since what? But imagine we said biggest fight that took
place in the US.

Speaker 1 (01:04:25):
Right, yeah, yeah, then you can start to part of
it out to be Spence Crawford. Yeah, I think it's
it's it's bigger than that in every category I do.

Speaker 2 (01:04:34):
Okay, yeah, I mean, but that's what we're talking about,
like it's something around something like that.

Speaker 1 (01:04:38):
Great stuff. Here, let's go to number four on fill
in the blank from age two, size too, inactivity. The
biggest disadvantage on fight night that Crawford will be up
against when he fights Canelo is what Because those are
maybe the three biggest things going against Crawford in this fight.

(01:05:00):
The fact that he's thirty eight, the fact that he's
basically a welterweight, and the fact that he's fought once
in two years.

Speaker 2 (01:05:08):
Size size has got to be the answer for me.
I think that Bud has the inactivity clearly doesn't help.
At the same time, I do think generally speaking, Bud
has not taken an enormous amount of damage in his
career and has generally speaking taken very good care of
his body just as a professional athlete during camps, after camps,

(01:05:32):
during the course of his professional career. So to me,
those are limiting factors, But you're asking about the biggest one.
The reality for me is the size. I mean, he
this one. I mean, I've said it a million times.
I sound like a broken record, but like you know,
if Bud and Canelo. I mean, I realize they're going
to be the same size on fight night or whatever
certain way in day anyway, but if they were naturally

(01:05:56):
the same size, I would pick Bud ten times out
of ten. I think he's a much more skilled boxer
than Canelo, even though Canelo was obviously in his prime,
very very skilled. But that weight difference. And again one
more time, it's not just like what kind of power
Canelo can't unleash? And we know he's got dynamite power.
His power carries up another weight class beyond him, not fully,

(01:06:17):
but it hasn't against those sort of an over the
hill Covilev. But the issue for me is BC, Dude,
Canelo has a fucking rock chin. Yeah, he's got a
legendary chin, maybe the best chin I've seen during the
course of my like watching boxing you guys who were
contemporaries during my time, that's a tough thing to beat.

(01:06:37):
And BC then it gets another problem that you have,
which is how many times have you seen Canelo in
a fight where you were sure he was down on
the scorecards and then they read the decision and it's
Canelo gets another win. And this is why Bud has
such a difficult problem. You're going against a guy several
weight classes above you who's got an all time chin
and also is a darling to the judges. Dude, that's

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a very difficult guy to be.

Speaker 1 (01:07:04):
It is. Luckily Bud is one of one, and we're
all under the agreement that if anybody can do it,
it is Bud Bud. I do love that he's leaning
into I'm not gonna come in here as a welterweight
or a junior middleweight. I'm going to bulk up. He
seems to be taller than Canelo and Luke. Here's some
video of him ten days out working out, and a
lot of people talking about if this is what super

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middleweight Bud looks like. We know he's got that like
natural amateur wrestling strength. To Luke, I wonder if he's
got ideas of kind of doing what andre Ward did
against Covialev, which is try to get inside and bully
the bigger man. I mean, it's kind of what Canelo
did to Kovillev too as well. It's interesting.

Speaker 2 (01:07:43):
Yeah, it could happen. I tend to think he's gonna
kind of play on the outside a little bit, but
we'll see.

Speaker 1 (01:07:48):
Here's a video from the Netflix documentary series That's I
Think Out Now about Crawford talking about putting on the
muscle and moving up and wait.

Speaker 4 (01:07:59):
Well.

Speaker 13 (01:07:59):
Training camps are typically grounded in familiar routines and rhythms.
The forty second fight of Bud Crawford's career presents a
sizeable new challenge. He's moving up two weight classes, from
one hundred and fifty four pounds to the super middleweight
limit of one hundred and sixty eight, which means, among

(01:08:19):
other things, in Canelo Alvarez, he'll be facing the heaviest
opponent of his career and likely so the hardest punch
is too.

Speaker 2 (01:08:30):
Yip.

Speaker 1 (01:08:30):
Step off, we got the biggest challenge ahead of us.

Speaker 14 (01:08:33):
Step off without what makes fighters great, and they go
out and get the biggest challenges they can get much.

Speaker 1 (01:08:41):
Don't let anyone tell you that the weight doesn't matter.

Speaker 13 (01:08:45):
It makes this a monumental accomplishment for Crawford.

Speaker 15 (01:08:50):
Putting on muscle on actually mean that you're going to
be slower, but you punch a little harder.

Speaker 4 (01:09:00):
He is willing to take a risk.

Speaker 7 (01:09:02):
This is literally unshot at TERRITORYE for terror squol.

Speaker 1 (01:09:10):
Look that makes you want to believe he's gonna fight Canelo,
not box and fight him.

Speaker 2 (01:09:16):
Sounds like it makes you want to believe.

Speaker 1 (01:09:17):
That it's us. I love storylines. Here's a little lego
promo that they got too. The things are finally picking up.

(01:09:39):
I hope that was enough to sell Tookey.

Speaker 2 (01:09:41):
On it, Luke, Probably not all right.

Speaker 1 (01:09:43):
Our final question here on filling the blank Tyson versus
Paul last October did sixty five million concurrent viewers on Netflix.
Insanity Canelo Crawford will do blank from the standpoint of
concurrent viewers during the main.

Speaker 2 (01:10:04):
Event, somewhere around half.

Speaker 1 (01:10:06):
Of that, which is still massive, dude, Like.

Speaker 2 (01:10:10):
Massive, dude. Even dude, if you have thirty let's say,
do you have thirty two, thirty three concurrent view or
million concurrent viewers? Dude, that's you know, you're talking like
an NFL game or a big time NFL game, Like
that's a huge audience. I don't think folks realize how
big that is for combat sports, for a fight. That's
why that's why I'm saying that Paul Tyson thing is

(01:10:32):
like clearly the answer to the question you would ask again,
it's a sideshow bullshit ask fight. We all know is
in fact, it soured me so greatly on anything Jake
Paul related, but it did have a massive, massive audience.
I just think it's deeply unrealistic. Is Canelo a big star?
Of course? Is Netflix a powerhouse platform? Of course? Is

(01:10:52):
TKO giving it you know, some level of a good
push here, Yes, I mean you could quibble with some
of it, but you know they're not doing nothing. But
the problem is, you know, I don't know how big
of a star Crawford is and BC one criticism you
can make is that, you know, he beats Spence in
this like insanely spectacular performance and then didn't really capitalize

(01:11:13):
on the fame that was supposed to come from that.
He did some interviews, he did a little bit to
get his name out there again, certainly, but you know,
you would have thought he would have like fought Charlo
right after that or something like that, and that didn't
really happen. And so he's just not as much of
a star, dude, Jake Paul. You can like him or
you can hate him, and believe me, I don't have
any love for him, but he's not People think he's like, oh,
he's irrelevant and not popular. I'm sorry to tell you

(01:11:34):
he's arguably America's most popular boxer, and you know, Bud
Crawford is not, you know, and Bud Crawford is like
obviously eight gazillion times better than him. But you know,
I don't know what the ingredient would be. Oh, it's
a more legitimate guy versus a more legitimate guy. Cool,
that's great, But this is a star power business, and
star power is what determines what kind of audience you're

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gonna get.

Speaker 1 (01:11:56):
Yeah. Indeed, one final note here, interesting video from Tim Bradley.
I mean, I feel like a lot of the experts
it's still split, but I feel like a lot of
the experts are picking Canelo, but the fighters are continuously
named after name picking Bud. And here's Tim Bradley putting
the exclamation point on it.

Speaker 14 (01:12:17):
Netflix, listen up when this man get the knockout, because
he's gonna knock out Canelo Arvarez when he get the knockout,
don't forget Miss Deborah, get that shimmy dance, get that
dance from Miss Debra, Get the camera, get the family
on camera, yo, so we can document this because it's
gonna be one of the greatest performances you've been ever

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witnessing for the boxing by Terrence, Bud Crawford knocking out
somebody that's been in the ring with some of the
have these punches in the game.

Speaker 1 (01:12:47):
Have these punchers triple G is legendary? Then put it
in a Canello.

Speaker 14 (01:12:52):
Now just watch what Crawford does.

Speaker 4 (01:12:55):
Tis behind.

Speaker 14 (01:12:56):
Yeah, y'all talk about thudding power for Canelo. What about
shot power and timing like a man he packout has.

Speaker 1 (01:13:04):
Yeah, y'all don't know nothing about there.

Speaker 14 (01:13:05):
It's a huge difference that shot power where stingy fore
man momentarily and that follow up shot comes and comes
sweeping and knock your behind out. That's Bud Crufford. And
you know he can turn it on when he want
to turn it on. He can turn it off, and
he can turn it on. Cannelo ain't got that in him.
He ain't got that in him. Yeah, he ain't knocked

(01:13:26):
nobody out in four years.

Speaker 1 (01:13:28):
Four years, he ain't knocked nobody out.

Speaker 14 (01:13:30):
You expecting him to go in there and knock out
the best fighter in the world, the most skillful fight in.

Speaker 1 (01:13:34):
The world, because you think he's small.

Speaker 14 (01:13:36):
Hell on, Now, it's not about the size of the dog.

Speaker 1 (01:13:40):
It's about the size of the fight in the doll.

Speaker 4 (01:13:42):
Don't ever forget that.

Speaker 14 (01:13:44):
Anyways, that's my time, and I'm out.

Speaker 2 (01:13:48):
I like, hew, He's like, that's my time. This is
what people used to say when they would have long
rants on my when they would call in on my
radio show. Anyway, you know what I mean. He's like,
he's like just He's like, it's like Tim from Santa Rose,
what you got? All right, here's what I gotta say.

Speaker 1 (01:14:02):
First time, long time. Yeah, Luke, that's a aggressive I mean,
even Sugar Ray Leonard, which is one of the comparisons
you can make for what Bud's doing. Ray moved up
one way class, but it was after a three and
a half year retirement and he beat the best middle
weight of all time in Hagler. He didn't knock him out, though,
you know what I'm saying, Like, like, that's that's that's wild.

Speaker 2 (01:14:20):
Also also not for nothing, but you can score that
fight for Hagler too.

Speaker 1 (01:14:24):
True, But like, is there anything to the quick sharp
punches here? I understand how knockouts work. It's not who
hits the hardest, it's who hits you perfectly on the chin.
When momentum's not going your way.

Speaker 2 (01:14:36):
I mean, well, I mean just ask yourself a question, right, So, like,
who's had success against Canelo? Okay, for I mean, you
could argue the second triple G fight, but just to
make it clearer, first triple G fight, you could point two, Yes,
is that something that Bud can do? Does he have
that kind of thudding power to press him like that?
I don't know? And then you could point to, for example, Bivoll.

(01:14:57):
Bivoll kind of worked him over, but Bivall was able
to like, you know, yes, he was firing accurately and
off timing, but dude, he had power to press. I mean,
I remember there was times where Canelo was like up
against the ropes, just getting kind of battered, and it's like,
I don't think. I don't think Bud can do that.
So what way does Bud have to win? And I'm

(01:15:17):
not arguing he can't want I want to be clear,
I think Canelo should win. I really hope Bud does,
but he's gonna have to beat Canelo. It seems like
BC in a way that no one else who's had
success against Canelo has done.

Speaker 1 (01:15:32):
Yeah, let's see, this is what greatness is all about
we're gonna find out. Let's go to topic number four,
quick little boxing news and notes segment, Luke, we might
as well mention it. Overnight, something called CSI Sports has
announced that Floyd Mayweather and Mike Tyson are now going
to have an exhibition. There's no network, there's no date,
but it's signed for spring of twenty six. What are

(01:15:54):
we doing here, dude, bro?

Speaker 2 (01:15:56):
I mean, I don't even know what to say. I
suppose this is inevitable, right, isn't this the natural conclusion
of where all this has been headed. It's just recycling
old names into like meaningless stunts for publicity that you know, uh,
have some kind of sizzle to like for people who

(01:16:17):
have like a romanticized idea about what they could be
or what those guys still represent. But we all know
it's gonna be the worst thing I've ever seen. Dude.
Fucking Tyson looked terrible against Jake Paul, and I realized
that Floyd is much smaller and also much older. But like,
who gives a shit? You know, Like, I mean, it's
just as it's dude, and especially like you know, we're

(01:16:37):
just looking around, like what are the big fights being made?
In the US. It's ship like this, you know.

Speaker 1 (01:16:41):
I feel like they're they're just used that announcement as
an advertisement to try to get a TV provider or
somebody to pay for it.

Speaker 2 (01:16:47):
They didn't announce what it was going to be. I
didn't notice normal, you know.

Speaker 1 (01:16:52):
And look the thing, the one thing about Tyson Paul
was on paper it was a real fight and not
an exhibition. Now, in hindsight, that's ridiculous and disgusting, but
that was part of the thing holding together that like
train wreck element of Tyson coming back. He was also
fighting like a novice boxer. I mean this is just
like extally yeah, I mean no, no, all right. Luke

(01:17:14):
Rapid Fire here Lightweight's Esach Pitbull Cruise, and Lamont Roach
Junior are reportedly in talks for a possible December showdown
in Inglewood, California. Is that the right step for Roach
now that the Tank rematch has dissolved.

Speaker 2 (01:17:29):
I mean, if he wants to do relevant, interesting stuff,
this would be a thirty five, correct I believe?

Speaker 1 (01:17:37):
So?

Speaker 2 (01:17:37):
Yeah, yeah, then this is who you gotta fight. I
love the fight. I wonder if Lamont has bit off
more than he can chew, because yes, Tank beat Pitbull
and arguably Lamont beat Tank, and so you could play
a little bit of math, but you gotta have real
Go back and watch how Tank beat Pitbull. You know,
there's a lot of ring craft. He basically solved him,

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but was on the back foot turning turning, turn earning, turning,
and you know it's just kind of out out striking
him by by sort of clever boxing. Pipule is when
he's come forward, you know, you love him for it.
When he's like, you know, Mexican in your face, downhill
kind of marchers, the ones that we all like, the
Five fans love, and if you don't know how to
handle that, that can be overwhelming. It takes real skill

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to do that, and I do think Lamot is skilled.
But it's gonna test him. That's a big look. They like,
Pipple's a big test now he's been he's been battered
a little bit since the Tank fight. So I love
the fight, but it's it's it's a bit of a
nail bier for those of us here in the DC area.

Speaker 1 (01:18:33):
Yeah, I'd love to see that fight. Also, Shaker Stevenson
reportedly and talks about moving up to one forty to
challenge for Tao Femo Lopez Junior's WBO title. It with
top a January supercard, which Boxing Scene reported is being
planned by Turkey Ala Chic. We all know Tao Femo
gets in and out of fight negotiations and then disappears

(01:18:54):
of late. But Luke, if that fight goes down, Schakor
versus Tao at one or has even said publicly he'll
do it in an eighteen by eighteen ring if that's
what it needs to be. Who would you favor from
a betting standpoint.

Speaker 4 (01:19:07):
Of that.

Speaker 2 (01:19:09):
At forty yep? Maybe Tao because of the size, And
I mean I think Shakur would be naturally faster but
could get overwhelmed as a consequence or not because of

(01:19:30):
his speed, but because of the size disparity. But that's
an interesting one. Did you see Shaker get real mad
at friend of the show Dan Kenobio for being like
that fight would be a snooze fest.

Speaker 1 (01:19:39):
I saw andre Ward get mad at that conversation. I
didn't see Shakur.

Speaker 2 (01:19:42):
H Shakurg got bitter at him too. They got because
they basically Dan didn't say he hated the fight, but
that it would be just be kind of boring based
on like you know, styles, Mac fights right, and they
didn't like that too much. They got after him for it.

Speaker 1 (01:19:53):
I'd love to see it. Look, Shakur is coming off
of performance that you cannot call U boring, right what
he did to Williams Ofpata, who was game in that fight,
and how he just stood in there and mixed it up. Dude,
I'm favorite Chakor on paper in this one, and I
would love would love to see this fight. Uh. Stephen
Fulton Junior is going to move up on that October
twenty fifth Thurman Fundora PBC pay per view and challenge

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Oshaki Foster for a third title in a third division
at one hundred and thirty pounds, But at Wednesday's press conference,
he said if he wins that fight, he's immediately going
up to one thirty five to chase a fourth title. Luca,
is this a good idea for Scooter.

Speaker 2 (01:20:35):
Jesus? My hunch is to say no, I don't know
if his game would translate up in the way that
he imagines. Do you? I'm guessing you share that opinion,
right I have.

Speaker 1 (01:20:53):
I want to see first what he looks like at
one thirty. Here's the face off between them. We can
speak over it. But like he was, he felt small
even a featherweight where he won the title in the
rematch with Figueroa wearing the tims. But you know, he
does have great skill. I don't believe the power would
carry up. He's not really known for being a power puncher.
But it is interesting ambition for a guy who has

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successfully rebounded from that disaster against in a.

Speaker 2 (01:21:17):
Way, also Oshaki obviously rebounding after being hurt by the
judge's decisions and getting his belts back eventually, you know,
can kind of play a little bit low volume, and
I wonder if Fulton might be able to like sneak
through as a consequence. That's an interesting matchup itself right there.

Speaker 1 (01:21:37):
Yeah, very good on this card. I don't know how
many pay per views will sell here, Luke, but we
will have an interesting main event with Thurman and Fondora.
Here's the video of Thurman getting on the stool.

Speaker 2 (01:21:47):
You know what, God blessed Keith Thurman trying to sell
this fight. Yes, that sincerely, dude. PBC needs people who
are gonna get out there and do something to you know,
even if it's a small gesture because Fandora, as good
as he iSBC, he ain't that guy. And Thurman is
you know, probably gonna get like absolutely battered here, but
he's trying to do his best to sell this thing

(01:22:08):
as Fandora joins us from a time machine and that's
sitting in the nineteen seventies. Uh. I love this fight.
I actually I do.

Speaker 1 (01:22:17):
It's it's weird, but I kind of like it. Here's
Thurman on what we can expect.

Speaker 4 (01:22:21):
You want to.

Speaker 15 (01:22:25):
What do you want?

Speaker 1 (01:22:27):
Knockout twelve? Knockout round?

Speaker 4 (01:22:32):
You want?

Speaker 6 (01:22:34):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (01:22:34):
You want to handle with her?

Speaker 2 (01:22:37):
You want too for.

Speaker 12 (01:22:41):
We're one of us.

Speaker 1 (01:22:43):
Gotta go because when two brids.

Speaker 2 (01:22:46):
Go toe to blow, someone's.

Speaker 1 (01:22:49):
Gotta fall down. Hashtag too telling you man, it's just
a warm up I'm looking for in this fight. I'm
looking for into the hype you got. Got eight weeks
of ashes. Follow tune in, stay.

Speaker 16 (01:23:10):
Lune because it's all They're going to get.

Speaker 15 (01:23:12):
Better as we can get closer to October twenty fifth.

Speaker 4 (01:23:16):
Thank you once again, got mine.

Speaker 1 (01:23:18):
He's working overtime. I hope he didn't get kaoed Luke
because Fundora's found a new groove and after that Zoo rematch.

Speaker 2 (01:23:25):
He's he's gonna get I mean, Fundora, you know, I
can't ever forget about the Brian Mendoza loss. But in
all likelihood he's going to splatter Keith Thurman.

Speaker 1 (01:23:34):
Find out Thurman's only lost to Maddy Pakia on a
split decision topic number five time we do a little
MMA news and notes on a slow ish week, but
Ariel Hawani on his show did provide a lot of
the news. First and foremost, here former UFC Light Heavyweight
champion Alex Pereira now admitting that he really was mad
at the promotion and that his angry tweet was not

(01:23:55):
hacked regarding the prospect of him getting skipped over for
the Uncla remat in favor of Yuri Prahatska. Here is
a poeton on the Hallwani show talking about.

Speaker 17 (01:24:06):
Was it true from your perspective that they tried to
offer Yeerie a fight against Uncliev Is that accurate?

Speaker 2 (01:24:12):
What would you? So?

Speaker 16 (01:24:16):
A little bit was miscommunication because Alice kind of found
out through social media stuff like that, and he was
upset back then. That's why he sent that twitter. But
he regretted he was wrong because he didn't know talks that.

Speaker 2 (01:24:26):
Was going on.

Speaker 1 (01:24:27):
Anything that was going on.

Speaker 16 (01:24:27):
So it was kind of miscommunication between camp manager and
the UFCS and all UFC's fault.

Speaker 2 (01:24:33):
So can we clear that up?

Speaker 17 (01:24:34):
Because you did send a tweet from your account and
it seemed like you were upset and then you took
the tweet down. Can can we clear up that that
was him actually in the moment upset, he just.

Speaker 4 (01:24:43):
Said that actually the name.

Speaker 16 (01:24:46):
How the person was like a communication was a little
bit impulsive from him. He acted a little earlier because
he didn't talk to our manager like you know what
I mean. Found out from Hunter he saw the internet
stuff and he felt little bit hurt because he was
promised the neck title shot and then he sees that
instead to just have a more mutual communication between Camp
Hunter and everything. So yes, one hundred percent, it's far

(01:25:07):
straight up now.

Speaker 1 (01:25:09):
I like one guys pushed back against authority, and if
he it may have been impulsive, but if he felt like, hey,
what else can I do to save all of your
biggest cards of all time by coming and injured on
short notice. Also, Luke Mackenzie Derna in the same week
were in the same show revealing that she found out
she was fighting for the title on Instagram. So I
think there are communication issues there.

Speaker 2 (01:25:31):
Yeah, I suspect that that could be tightened up a
little bit. But the idea that you know, all I
was hacked and it was a very specific UFC related complaint,
you know, I don't. I don't. I think most of
the audience probably realized that was there was not much
to that.

Speaker 1 (01:25:46):
Yeah, there you go. Luke Rockold also came by The
Ah Show and hinted at retirement from combat sports at
age forty, yet then Toldariojwane he's willing to fight Dylan Danis.
The two of them had a backstage melee at Misfits
twenty two, and rock Hold took it a lot more
aggressively than we need it here. Let's listen.

Speaker 13 (01:26:08):
I would fucking kill it.

Speaker 4 (01:26:09):
I would come back to fight that kid.

Speaker 17 (01:26:11):
And now you're back, the retirement's over with two hands
behind my back.

Speaker 1 (01:26:15):
I would fuck that kid in the ass.

Speaker 2 (01:26:17):
Fuck. Oh god, that's a whole different type of fight.

Speaker 4 (01:26:20):
Jeez. Hey, I'll bring it. I'll bring it.

Speaker 15 (01:26:23):
I'll make it real dirty for the little swamp.

Speaker 2 (01:26:25):
Oh man, swamp rat.

Speaker 1 (01:26:27):
Look, rock Hole will become the first man to turn
a man and a woman gay in like a one
year period after that.

Speaker 2 (01:26:34):
I just want you to know at times we've been
the best of friends. At times we've been the worst
of friends. But I've never had a desire to sodomize you.
I want to be very clear about that.

Speaker 1 (01:26:42):
Okay, with my arms tied behind my back.

Speaker 2 (01:26:45):
Here, with my arms tied behind my back, I've never
It's never ever once crossed my mind.

Speaker 1 (01:26:50):
I want to be clear, all right.

Speaker 2 (01:26:53):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:26:53):
The biggest headlines probably came from the Rampage Jackson sit
down with Ariel where he announced he's actually cut off
time with his son, Rajah Jackson following that unfortunate pro
wrestling debacle and the heavy assault, which is still being
dealt with. Uh, here's Rampage talking.

Speaker 2 (01:27:12):
Are you are you at all worried about his well being?

Speaker 11 (01:27:15):
Yes, my son, I am worried about as well being.
How many kids you yet?

Speaker 2 (01:27:20):
I got three?

Speaker 4 (01:27:22):
All right? So why are you actually some stupid ass shit?

Speaker 1 (01:27:24):
Well?

Speaker 2 (01:27:24):
Can I can I be real with you?

Speaker 4 (01:27:26):
Yeah?

Speaker 17 (01:27:27):
I can't imagine what if it would feel like to
see my son do that. I also don't think I
would cut my son off if he did that. So,
if you are worried about his well being. Why are
you not talking to.

Speaker 11 (01:27:39):
Him because he just undered my name and he's still
your son. Listen, listen, I know he's my fucking side.
I'm not cutting him off forever.

Speaker 17 (01:27:48):
I just have him talked to him, but this is
the worst moment of his life. He needs you now
more than ever.

Speaker 4 (01:27:53):
Now. Listen. I talked to him.

Speaker 11 (01:27:54):
I talked to him after it happened, and he hit
the fact that he did this shit and know he
put my other kids at danger based off what the
other people people saying, and I just can't.

Speaker 4 (01:28:06):
I just can't talk to him right now. I just can't.

Speaker 11 (01:28:09):
I'm not saying I'm never going to talk to him again.
I just can't talk to him right now. I need
I need some time. I'm dealing with his attorneys and
all that ship. But I'm very I'm very disappointed and
Roger like yet I'm not. I'm not a perfect parent,
So I don't know what's the protocol to how much
time you stop from talking to your son when he

(01:28:30):
fucking goes out there and and hurt somebody.

Speaker 4 (01:28:33):
He put a guy in the fing hospital.

Speaker 1 (01:28:37):
Luke, I like talking about stuff like this as much
as you like talking about MMA power couples or MMA
power bottoms. But uh, is this the right move from
a father's perspective.

Speaker 2 (01:28:49):
I mean, we're both dads. You have more kids than me.
I have just one. I don't know. I mean, dude,
what do you do? Can you imagine your son doing
anything like this? You know, and what that would do
to you? Like it can't be easy. But here's the
thing about rampage that I just don't get. It's like, dude,
didn't he wasn't he streaming like the next day or

(01:29:09):
like the day out?

Speaker 1 (01:29:10):
Oh, he was streaming when it happened.

Speaker 2 (01:29:12):
Dude, he was like okay, okay, but that's one thing
and then you absorb the weight of it and then
you process it. But then he was out like the
next night, bowling or some shit, you know. Like I'm like, dude,
take a fucking day off. Man, Like like you, this
is deadly serious, quite literally. Uh. You know, I I
would not wish this on any parent. I would not

(01:29:33):
wish this on anybody. Uh. And you know I'll say
this to BC and you can you know, for folks
who are not parents yet, it's harder than it looks.
It's so many situations are crystal clear of what you
should do, but it seems like almost an equal amount
or maybe more. It's not exactly clear what the right
choice is and what you're doing is right. And you

(01:29:58):
know how you navigate something with them, especially something as
insane as this, Well, I'll tell you this much. I
don't love to hear that he's not speaking to his kid.
I think Roger has serious fucking issues that he needs
to address clearly. But I don't know how, even if
it's temporary, excommunicating them gets you to a better place,
you know what I mean.

Speaker 1 (01:30:18):
I'm with you on that it is. I don't know
if he's just trying to protect his own name for
marketing purposes for the future, or if he feels betrayed
by his son's action. I mean, it's just it's just
a horrible, awful situation. I mean, it's attempted murder. It really,
it really was all right, enough of that, let's keep
it going here. Bud Crawford sat down with the Full

(01:30:39):
Send podcast after Net and Yahoo was finished Luke and Uh.
He was asked an interesting question.

Speaker 14 (01:30:47):
Who do you watch in the UFC that you think
my guy.

Speaker 15 (01:30:54):
Cody Garbrant the best eat the best UFC boxer.

Speaker 9 (01:30:57):
Have you seen Taporia?

Speaker 16 (01:30:59):
Have you seen his fight three?

Speaker 2 (01:31:00):
Yeah?

Speaker 15 (01:31:00):
But I don't know, man, Cody got them hands.

Speaker 1 (01:31:03):
Not But Cody's not like I'm not hitting on him,
but he's not on the.

Speaker 15 (01:31:06):
But I'm saying, you're talking about a straight box right boxing. Yeah,
we ain't talking about that notes, We're talking about straight
boxing skills. I just think Cody got the best boxing
skills you know in UFC.

Speaker 4 (01:31:19):
That's just my opinion.

Speaker 1 (01:31:21):
Wow. Look, I thought I was gonna say best face tattoos,
but he has hands, right.

Speaker 2 (01:31:27):
I mean here's the thing. It's not like box like,
it's not like Cody doesn't have great skills, but you see,
I kind of question what First of all, how much
tape has Bud watched? Right? I mean partly there's a
question there, And yes, it's like if you watch, like
if you watch Cody move, he's got good movement again
relatively speaking for a UFC fighter, and he's got good

(01:31:49):
technical skill in that way. But b see, isn't part
of what makes you like a good boxer the extent
to which you can leverage that to win fights? Yes,
you know you know what I mean? Yes, Like, so
I don't. Does he mean like Cody looks most like
a boxer when he's shadowboxing.

Speaker 1 (01:32:05):
Or probably because he does have that movements, he's got
some highlight reel one punch case.

Speaker 2 (01:32:09):
That's that's that's a I couldn't. I mean, And obviously
Bud knows fucking way more about boxing than us two idiots.
I'm just saying it's a little hardfeat under. I don't
know what what like set of tape he's looking at
to make that determination, you know.

Speaker 1 (01:32:23):
Luke Anderson Silva in the news as the UFC Anti
Trust lawsuit, payouts continue to fill up the direct deposit
holes of these ex fighters, and we found out that
the lowest payout from the settlement was sixteen thousand, one
thirty eight and forty five cents, but the highest payout
was ten million, three hundred thirty four thousand, two hundred

(01:32:45):
and forty dollars and seventy two cents, and it went
to the Spider. Anderson Silva, do you like in this
case that the most money goes to the guys that
already made the most money? Is that the fair way
to do this?

Speaker 2 (01:32:59):
Yeah, those guys got cheated the most. Yeah, I guess
you're right, yes, yes. First of all, I have to say, like,
now that the money's being handed out, obviously this was
true before, but now that the money is being handed out, like, dude,
those fighters who fought this for ten years to get
people paid, people owe them a debt of gratitude.

Speaker 4 (01:33:16):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:33:16):
I just think that's a fact that people owe them
a debt of gratitude. Second of all, a lot of
people want to say, oh, well, didn't the Spider make
millions before? Yes, yes he did, of course. But the
question is not did he make millions. The question is
relative to what he generated. How much was he compensated?
And that's why he's getting this big fat check because
there is a gap. There is a gap. Dude, a

(01:33:36):
ten point three million dollar check. I mean, he didn't
make that to fight Jake Paul. You know what I'm saying.
There's no way he made that kind of money. He
probably make closer to the five to seven million range,
which is still pretty significant, But dude, ten point three
million at this age in his life. Good for him, Dude,
good for him. He earned it. That will go very far.

(01:33:56):
You gotta feel happy for him, and I certainly do.

Speaker 1 (01:33:58):
Yeah, Red Penny Knight the Silva House.

Speaker 2 (01:34:00):
Yeah, no kidding, and he trustedn't have to do anything
extra to get it. I mean, that's that's fantastic, you.

Speaker 1 (01:34:05):
Know, well done, right there. Finally, Luke, coming off of
his first pro defeat against RDR Bo Nickel, has agreed
to his next fight USC three twenty two MSG in
November against Judolpho Vieira. Is this the right matchmaking to
give Bo a chance to get back on track?

Speaker 2 (01:34:24):
Sort of? I Mean the thing is this is, like,
does Bo want to take down Judolpho Vieira, who has
not turned out to be the MMA fighter that he
was in terms of like how he was one of
the best grapplers of the twenty tens, right, I mean,
just an insane level of achievement, highly technical, built like
a brick shit house, you know, the whole nine yards.
But then his MMA career has not been as great.

(01:34:46):
But if he's got skills bese either on the floor
like his you know, in general, that's where he's gonna win.
So like, now Nichol's gonna have It's funny, right, b See,
they gave him Paul Craig and now they're giving him
Hudolpho Vieira. It's almost like they want him to work
on his striking, you know what I mean. Yeah, Like
they're telling him get better at that shit, and he's

(01:35:06):
you know, listen, everybody including me, piled on bo Nickel
after he lost. But this is his chance to shut
me and everybody else up about what he's been working on,
dialing in getting better. And this is a good chance
against a guy who is not like I mean, he's
very vulnerable in the stand up. So if bo Nicchol
has been working on stuff, this is a good I

(01:35:28):
kind of like the matchmaking, to be.

Speaker 1 (01:35:29):
Honest with you, Yeah, I'm not against it. I'm interested.
That's another sort of interesting feature fight to add to
a huge pay per view.

Speaker 2 (01:35:35):
I'm down.

Speaker 1 (01:35:36):
The final thing I want to mention is I found
the quote from Patricio Pipple reacting to Kaita missing weight
and this fight getting canceled. Patricio said, I'm absolutely sure
he didn't try going to the bathtub to cut more.
There's plenty of ways to try. He was surrounded by kids.
There was no one older to put him in place
and say stay there, go make weight. At nine am

(01:35:57):
he weighed in, he was over and instead of trying
and eleven am, which is the limit. He was eating
baby food. Fuck you, man. If you want to blame anyone,
blame my opponent black panther. He's more like fat panther.
End quote. That's great, That's just great stuff right there.
All right, those are our five topics for this week.
Now we'll transition into some fan segments, and the way

(01:36:19):
to get in our holes in box wise is to
email us at Morning Combat at gmail dot com. Mikey
is on the other end for your dead wrongs, your
fan subs, your complaints, or if you need a friend,
Mikey's there showing your private parts. Our first segment is
where we take the stand for some bullshit we said,
but you better have receipts and you better man up.

(01:36:40):
This one's called dead wrong than Wrongloha from a lot
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Speaker 2 (01:36:52):
Back up on that ass and give these motherfuckers a
blast from the.

Speaker 1 (01:36:55):
Past, Dad says at one fifty six twenty of Monday show.
During BC feces, he mentioned that DeShawn Jackson getting anesthesia
for a back tattoo, to which lt mentions, quote the
wide receiver I thought, I said, Deshaun Watson. That's what
I thought I said. Did I say the wrong name?

Speaker 2 (01:37:13):
Well, that's what I didn't understand, because DeShawn Jackson was
the wide receiver.

Speaker 1 (01:37:17):
Oh I maybe I said I meant to say Watson.
Maybe I said Jackson because my brain is failing me.
And then BC responded with the QB. Both LT and
BC were close, but no cigar. The NFL player in
the video was Deshaun Watson, Cleveland Browns quarterback, not DeShawn Jackson,
retired wide receiver. As always, appreciate all the content on

(01:37:39):
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the JBR podcast Wow shout out the San Dene's Old Balls.

Speaker 2 (01:37:48):
L Jackson was played in Philly a long time and
he played here briefly in DC as well.

Speaker 1 (01:37:52):
That's what I was like, Yeah, he was fast balls.
Daz closes with LT. I will be rooting for Jaden
Daniels in the command along with you. I've been a
fan for thirty plus years.

Speaker 2 (01:38:04):
Dude, no way, Yeah, dude, Season opener one PM on Sunday.
I'm pretty pumped.

Speaker 1 (01:38:10):
Go Skim go Manders. Yeah, you know our last dead
wrong comes from I'll take the al on that if
I said to Shawn Jackson. I mean I've been serving
up els left and right lately. Here's Greg, he says.
On the September second episode, at eight minutes thirty seconds
of the YouTube video, BC said Darren Till had lost

(01:38:30):
six of his last seven UFC fights. This is slightly pedantic,
but it is dead wrong. He actually lost only five
of his last six. Be that as it may. Rock
Hold was seeing darker visions than BC's liver when Till
sent him to bed early. Okay, so Till had lost
five of six, not six of seven. Two l's for

(01:38:51):
your boy, b Sizzle. That's the end of dead wrongs.
Our final opportunity is for pretty much Saoul to put
pictures of himself wearing MK while he's out with his wife.
And it's fantastic.

Speaker 2 (01:39:05):
Right.

Speaker 1 (01:39:06):
You also can see artwork. This one's called fan subs.
You've got mayl feures all right. Dave s is here
and he says, apparently my recent fan subs were deemed
too controversial. Oh, this is Sandne Luke. So I decided
to show off some pleasant pictures of some of my

(01:39:26):
MK merchant whatnot. The first picture is me installing lights
in my MK hoodie. It's fantastic quality and it's perfect
for work and outdoor activities. Also included a picture of
your number one canine, my dog Chatri sit yacht Tom Groll.

Speaker 2 (01:39:40):
Look at that he's got the MK sticker on the windshield.

Speaker 1 (01:39:42):
Oh, that's pretty bad ass. And lastly, our pictures of
MK details. I'm made for my MK side by side.
It gets used hard for work in place. I'm gonna
have to make new stickers soon. Dude. I'm the four wheeler.
Is my brother who I'm helping build his dream home
Airbnb and Colorad cheers. I always appreciate the content.

Speaker 2 (01:40:04):
That God's country out there. Man.

Speaker 1 (01:40:06):
Yeah, man, look at Sandine representing MK. Luke definitely would
have taken a ride on that train, as we know,
but you know, we can regret things right.

Speaker 2 (01:40:15):
Also, the pooch looks pretty happy. Well done.

Speaker 1 (01:40:17):
Yeah, shout out to Shatri the dog there you go
right there, who tells the truth unlike most shat trees.

Speaker 4 (01:40:23):
Luke, it's interesting.

Speaker 1 (01:40:25):
Our second one comes from Luke and Jay. It says
greetings Luke, BC and l I L from two washed
English dads Luke and Jay on top of a Welsh
mountain training for a fifty mile race here in November.
Please don't ever pick us if you're going to visit
donks in their natural environment, because LT will proceed to
complain about the British food and subsequently obliterate the commode

(01:40:48):
came for Luke, but I keep on coming for BC
and he's spelled. He spelt it the growth way.

Speaker 3 (01:40:55):
Luke I on the left kind of looks like Brendan Lynch, Yeah,
a little bit.

Speaker 2 (01:41:01):
A little bit a little bit.

Speaker 1 (01:41:03):
Does he have his jesuits like him? These are two
Welsh dads or English dads. Sorry, Luke and Jay on
a Welsh mountain.

Speaker 2 (01:41:09):
Well done, guys, Well done, gentlemen. Thank you for your support.
I greatly appreciate it.

Speaker 1 (01:41:14):
Yeah, look at those tats on that guy's leg. He's
wearing the BC throat.

Speaker 2 (01:41:17):
He's almost got a full sleeve on his leg there. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:41:19):
You think he gets the ass cheeks done like Sean Brady.

Speaker 2 (01:41:22):
In your dream to get the butt cheeks tattooed. Yeah, yeah,
it's made its way up there yet.

Speaker 1 (01:41:28):
But you know, I mean, why not just get the
whole shaft done?

Speaker 2 (01:41:30):
Luke? Right? Well, b see, I don't think having a
full piece that extends past your belt line as an
arbitrary line and doesn't flow with the body is the
best way to do that. But you know, all right?

Speaker 1 (01:41:43):
We have one from Lazybad here from Just Bleed Radio
fam He says, Brian, what about all those burgers you ate?
What beg? He mumbles from behind his beef and cheddar,
I give you, Brian Cambon Campbell. From an alternative timeline
than finding combat sports, he found a thirty percent off

(01:42:03):
employee discount at Arby's.

Speaker 2 (01:42:05):
Wow, dude, that is awesome. Holy shit, that is I
gotta tell you, though, I gotta tell you. Do Arby's
look like this these days?

Speaker 1 (01:42:15):
I don't know, but I kind of look handsome in that,
in that like more white trash version.

Speaker 2 (01:42:19):
I want to be clear, you do not look handsome.
I want to be clear.

Speaker 1 (01:42:22):
I kind of look like a rock star, right.

Speaker 2 (01:42:24):
You kind of look like a roadie?

Speaker 1 (01:42:29):
What biga? That's so good? Lazy bed. Our fourth one
comes from Evan. He says, do it for Date watch
out for turn four, or do it for Dale? Watch
out for.

Speaker 2 (01:42:42):
Where the fuck is my uber driver taking me? Ye,
it'll get it.

Speaker 1 (01:42:48):
It's Dale earn Hard on turn four at the two
thousand and one days, five hundred.

Speaker 2 (01:42:53):
My god, are you how did this one get I mean,
don't get me wrong. I listen. This is a place
where we make fun of everybody, including ourselves. How did
this one get past the North Korean censors? That is wow? Wow?

(01:43:13):
Tell you I'm rarely shocked, but this one did it?

Speaker 3 (01:43:18):
We run a text thread about this one and it
got approved by the sensors.

Speaker 2 (01:43:22):
Okay, North Korean censors. You know, sometimes I can I
can predict them. Sometimes I can't.

Speaker 1 (01:43:27):
Oh my god, that is.

Speaker 2 (01:43:30):
Well done.

Speaker 1 (01:43:32):
Finally, we have a video from Jonas who says the
best part of the CNN interview with Luke that the
producers never had the guts to air.

Speaker 2 (01:43:39):
And everyone needs to lick my balls. Everyone needs to
lick my balls.

Speaker 8 (01:43:51):
That is so good.

Speaker 1 (01:43:52):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (01:43:53):
Have you seen how they'll do this? Like so for example,
the Cowboys traded away Michael Parsons, right, it was a
big raid. Someone will take this whatever technology. I know
it's AI, but I'm saying whatever, whatever the specific program is,
that they do this and they'll write a script for
Jerry Jones and they'll be like Jerry Jones, be like
you know, the Michaeh. Parsons was a cancer in this
locker room. And if anybody knows anything about Dallas, only

(01:44:16):
I can be a cancer in the locker room. And
you know he talks about like taking drugs and begging whores,
and it's they put them out after every one of these,
like losses or big sporting events. They make me laugh,
so of course this one made me laugh as well.
That is very very funny.

Speaker 1 (01:44:29):
Very well, those are fan subs. You can get yours
on the air if they pass the censors by emailing
us at Morningcombat at gmail dot com.

Speaker 2 (01:44:37):
I can't tell you how many people email me being like, dude,
why did you guys play my fan subs? And I'll
be like send it to me and I'll be like, yeah,
there's a good reason why we didn't do that.

Speaker 1 (01:44:45):
Yeah, well, we don't choose a Mikey filters them with
the staff, but we have seen the ones that haven't
been approved and they are out of control. They are
really just wow wow. But any cake Lady one I'm
gonna pop for and Luke and cake Lady.

Speaker 2 (01:45:01):
Mary, fuck you?

Speaker 4 (01:45:02):
How about that?

Speaker 2 (01:45:02):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (01:45:03):
There you go along. I'll look you got anything else
to say today?

Speaker 3 (01:45:07):
Yes, my episode of prop Quiz dropping in forty minutes
with Oscar and Dennis and I'll be live in about
twenty four hours for full card UFC Paris watchlow joined.

Speaker 1 (01:45:16):
All right, you got some fresh bud for that?

Speaker 4 (01:45:20):
Hell yeah, you know it?

Speaker 1 (01:45:21):
Okay, Hey, you.

Speaker 2 (01:45:21):
Don't have fresh plans with your girl?

Speaker 3 (01:45:23):
I know that that's for the rest of the week, Luke,
come on, Okay.

Speaker 1 (01:45:28):
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(01:45:49):
got evergreen items mix and match your colors. It's all
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to support the show. All proceeds go to the three
of us gentlemen right here. Luke Thomas, can you tell
the people anything else about life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness.

Speaker 2 (01:46:06):
Well, a pursuit of happiness has been a lifelong struggle BC,
so I don't know how to answer that one, but
what I can say is if anyone knows what the
fuck is wrong with my computer where I have like
a blazing Internet connection but it just drops the shit
and I don't know what's happening, please email me Luke
Thomas news atgmail dot com. My laptop held up, BC,
it held up. Hopefully everything holds up for tomorrow because

(01:46:27):
I'm gonna go live at a bare minimum for the
main and comine and I will be doing a post
fight show for UFC Paris as well tomorrow, so coverage
for that stay tuned.

Speaker 1 (01:46:36):
Follow us below, Like and subscribe the video. This episode
of Morning Combat has been brought to you, by the way,
by DraftKings, and with DraftKings, the crown is yours. We
will be back Monday in Studio NYC with our boys,
Kenan Nader. What else you got I bought?

Speaker 2 (01:46:54):
I'll be riding the new ampraktrain on Monday.

Speaker 1 (01:46:57):
Oh, the one with the giant bathroom.

Speaker 2 (01:46:59):
Yeah, with the giant bathroom.

Speaker 1 (01:47:01):
When I'm gonna okay, all right, eleven am Eastern, Morning
Combat will recap UFC Paris and continue to bang that
drum for Canelo Crawford. We'll both be in Vegas next Friday.
So we'll figure out how to do a live show together.

Speaker 2 (01:47:17):
Right there.

Speaker 1 (01:47:18):
If you're in Vegas, say hi to us, but only
from a comfortable distance. For Luke Thomas, Luke Nocita, your
boy BC, Zoe Zoe the Cat, come have a moment
with me, right yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:47:30):
It gonna be the first one on that youth anasia.

Speaker 1 (01:47:34):
Don't bite, don't bite, okay, ah hold that, Okay, we're
out of here.

Speaker 2 (01:47:37):
Cat push on the face. That's when you know you're
about to get fucking smacked. You know, everyone needs to
lick my balls.

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