Jorge Masvidal sounds off on entire welterweight division! DC reacts to Gambred’s call outs of Burns, Chimaev and the champ Leon Edwards. Plus DC explains the new beef between Aljamain Sterling and Henry Cejudo ahead of their UFC 288 Bantamweight Title showdown. And don’t miss DC’s breakdown of why a rematch between Paddy Pimblett and Jared Gordon could be the fight to make! #Volume #Herd
The volume. All right, guys, welcome back to three rounds. So we've been off for a little bit. We had obviously the fight in London, and then last week I was gone because unfortunately we lost someone in my family. So I was trying to be supportive for my family and my sister, so I was gone trying to do that. But we're back now, right, And I've missed you guys, And even though we're going through our personal stuff, the MMA world has continued to move on, so I've got a lot to talk about and I'm excited to be back. So I've missed you guys, and I'm excited that we're back to three rounds. So it's time now to get to the fight. So let's go. So we're ready, Right, we're back. It's time for round one. Round one, Hory Mileswdal called out Kobe Covington, Hamza, Chamaya, Leon Edwards, Gilbert Burns. He pretty much called out everybody in the Walterway division. So game Bread is finally getting ready to fight again as he competes at UFC two eighty seven in Miami. It's a great opportunity for Oswdal and you can see in his behaviors. You can see in his approach that Mozwadal recognizes it. That's one thing about Mozwdal. While he has been on a bit of a slump in fighting, he's done a lot of things positively to help his career in terms of media, getting gamebread, boxing, going in everything else. But as he gets ready to get back into the octagon, it comes with the media rounds and you start to try to build hype around your fight. Well, last week you go to the biggest platform. They have an MMA Ariahwani show, right, and he spoke about his fight. He spoke about the state of the division. Obviously Kobe Covington in his disdain for him. Is on top of that, he spoke about Hamza Chamayah. He also spoke about the new champion, Leon Edwards. So you wonder about a guy that has lost as many in the role as he has, why is he talking about all these guys? Because he's a lightning rod and he understands that. So what do you do? Shot Number one goes to the guy that is considered the number one contender, saying he knows that Dana promised Kobe Covington a title fight, loves Dana, but ultimately recognizes that Dana says a lot of things, but believes whoever makes the most noise is the one that will get a title fight. Now, Masmadal can say that also because of his history with Leon Edwards. Lastly, he said Kobe Covington is only the champion of calling the police. So these words in regards to Covington, while they may seem odd because Covington won the last fight, they just fought each other in the last fight that both of them had, But these guys have a very bad history against each other. They can't stand each other. But he also recognizes that Kobe really doesn't have much of a pass with Leon Edwards. He's fighting Gilbert Burns, who's one two in a row, who's looked phenomenal, and he knows that if he beats Gilbert Burns, he recognizes that he then has the opportunity to make that jump to find himself against the guy. If you're in Miami, where he's gonna's gonna be a pro mos withdal crowd. He wins, gets in the middle of the octagon and tells Joe Rogan, I want Leon Edwards. Come get this biscuit. Come get this two piece dude. The world's gonna go crazy and they don't want to look at that and go, hey man, there's a lot of history to that. Then he took aim at hams At Jamayah. He said about the Russian star f you, you're missed way by eight and a half pounds. Get the explative out of here. And he's still talking about nobody wants to fight. You go make way before we talk about fighting. That's the first thing. Don't do steroids. Make the experative weight that you agreed upon as an explative. Man, you're gonna miss way by eight pounds. And then you're talking cool and you're calling people out. Get the expletive out of here. And then I saw him do a comment where he was calling out a lex beahator, who are you Hamzat, This is the world champion. You don't even have an effing win over a top fifteen guy. Get the out of here at one eighty five out of victual towards Shamayah. Because again, Lightning Rod, how do you get headlines? How do you get us talking about you? That that comment, that statement tells me whole Mazma Doll's coming out. Guns of blazing. Dude got to smoke for everybody, even Hamzat, who is by many considered the scariest guy at Walter. Wait. Even though now it sounds sounds like it seems like he's gonna be fighting at one eighty five Lightning Rod smart By, game Bread talk about him all but ultimately he's a three to one dog against Gilbert Burns. He still got that as an option, which he touched upon, saying he recognizes hout to Ugh he is, but he called Burns a frontrunner, and once you get him tired or hit him, Burns will start to falter. I don't know if I necessarily agree with that, but I get it, and I don't disagree with the way that he's playing the game because I know that I'm more interested today than I might have been initially the moment the fight was announced, excitement. Then it starts to falter because the world moves as they go into training camp. But with that one appearance, game Bread has made himself the talk of the town again. He hit Chamayah, he had Covington, he hit Burns. Masmadal understands the game and all these quotes that he's doing. That's promotion rule number one. Like I said, he's a three to one dog. But if you listen to him, mad doesn't question if he gets the job done. This guy wins impressively with his star power. I could see him right in the conversation for a fight against Leon Edwards. Great job, game, Bread, exactly what you were supposed to do. So we're in the round two and we got to talk about Patty to Batty. Patty Pimblet had some words for Jared Gordon from the hospital. Look, man, there's you could tell when guys don't like each other. But if you're in the hospital and just having surgery and you're taking time to make a statement and not only just a statement, like a mad statement, and not hold back while in the hospital, you're big mad. Patty Pimblet was big mad. He said that he wants to punch Jared Gordon's head in towards the end of the year. He said he wants to run it back. He hopes that Bobby Green gets beat by Jared Gordon because he said he's going to snap his arm in a round. He said that he had a boxing match with him and still won. He goes, I hope Jared Gordon watched this. You're a big dog shit at my worst, you couldn't beat me at your best, injured, everything going wrong, and you couldn't beat me on my worst day, and I beat you on your best because you're a little bump. Now, look, Patty Pimblet got a lot of virtual and public kick back after that fight against Jared Gordon, as he should, because one thing that I thought was odd about the Pimblet Gordon situation was Pimblet got the decision. It was a very close decision. It was a very disputed decision. But when he walked to the Senate of the Octagon, I thought that was mistake number one, Right, he just acted as if it wasn't even competitive. Hey, hindsight is I don't know if it's fifty fifty or some shit people say in the world like it. But now looking back, at least he admits that the fight was closer than he originally thought. But he's saying that he was hurt, injuredan like he said his best day, Gordon couldn't beat him. But he I think he has to take a bit of a different approach with this Jared Gordon's situation, because I don't know, if I interviewed him before the fight and he almost dismissed Gordon right like Gordon wasn't on his level, and now he's saying he's going to get him out there very early. I think the approach maybe needs to change a little bit to where he respects Gordon a little bit more after spending that fifteen minutes in the octagon with him. I'm not saying fear of him. I'm not saying be hesitant in your approach against him. I'm saying respect him to the point that you don't suffer from maybe having an expectation that when it doesn't come to fruition, you seem a bit confused. Because Pimblet did do some good things in that fight. Like, let's just be honest about it. I know people want to shot on him, and people want to talk about UFC bias and all that. That's that's not the case. I mean, how somebody last week scored the fight for Cheeto Vera. I love Cheetovera, but dude, he didn't win that fight. He barely won any moments in that fight. If anything, he won one round. So to think that people just said Patty Pimlet needs to win. This fight was kind of crazy. Judges make mistakes a lot of times. Judges make mistakes a lot of times they make mistakes, and I believe that was one last weekend with Cheetoh and Corey Sandhagen, who look great, but nobody is telling the judge how to score the fight for Patty Pimlin. But I think Patty himself needs to get a healthy respect for Jared and then I believe that he would. Then I believe that he would maybe be able to have the type of performance that he expects of himself, because when you put that respect on your opponent, it really does make you prepare better. It makes you more ready to pivot and turn when things don't go as planned. It just raises your awareness. Now, he does not like Jared Gordon, but he should respect him because in the first fight, really close fight. Generally we don't get these rematches early in career, or the guys have to kind of come back together after winning when they want rematches. But I will say this, I'm interested in this one even more now because I gotta know if Patty Pimblic can do it better or what maybe Jared Gordon completes the job as he thought he didn't fight once, So this one has some meat on the ball. Now, guys, this one I'm really excited about. And I think it's possibly because of how close I am to the situation. But it's Henri Shudo and Al Jermaine Stirling. This fight initially maybe didn't feel as big or it didn't feel as as important as it should in a weight class that I feel is the best weight class in the UFC. So last week we had Henry and Al Jermaine on DC and RC. The interview was crazy. When these guys, I mean, he can't stand each other, and it's very apparent right because something has changed, something's drastically changed between these two. And you might say it, well, it's promotion, right, it's promotion. Do When we went to Henry's house and had those two together, it was cordial. When we were driving there, there was a bit of nervous energy from me. There was a bit of nervous energy from Aljoe in terms of like, what's this gonna be? Right, I'm going to this man's house who potentially could be my next opponent. But once we got there, Henry put that at ease. I mean, we hung out like literally did the interview and then we hung out, like literally sat and hung out. You couldn't get those two to hang out anymore. Right away, aljo was annoyed with him because Henry was a bit late. The first interview. It almost seemed like Aljoe was just kind of like getting talked at because you could tell that he respected Henry because he was in Henry's trophy room, he was at Henry's house, and al Jermaine Sterling, if he's nothing else, is a student of the sport and the student of the game and the student of combat sports. So you could tell that he respects Henry, and Henry almost spoke at him almost like al Jermaine, this is what I'm gonna do to you, Aljemane this, and Algol kind of sat there like he had his answers, but they weren't like this is this is my this is my reality opposed to what your reality is not this last time not last time. I believe the biggest difference in that second interview from the first was alga main Sterling because he was not going to just take and absorb with Henry. Cehudo was saying to him he wasn't going to be sad and talked at He wasn't he was going to talk his talk, he was going to respond, and he knew his truth. Al Joe knew his truth in that second interaction. And if you don't know, I look at the numbers the video on my channel four or something thousand, the video last week on ESPN channel three hundred and fifty thousand, four hundred thousand. People are interested in these two and their interaction. And why wouldn't you be Because at the end of it, through all the talk, they are amazing fighters, absolutely amazing fighters. Henry has done nothing but win his entire life. And Al Jermaine Sterling, if you didn't respect him before, you're I don't respect him now because what he does in that octagon is really special. And as I talked to Henry Sehudo, I tell him that I was in Phoenix yesterday interviewing Henry for a feature we're doing down the Line in the built to the fight. We had somebody with Aljoe yesterday in New York, and I said to Henry, God, this dude's different man. You gotta respect al Jemanine Sterling for who he is. And he while he does he still feels like he's too much. Henry let me into his process yesterday. Guys. It's like nothing I've ever seen before. He's got this tablet. It has these peeking phases up and down. It's like he's got five sets of combat for mental, mental body strength. Henry Shudo is not just going to practice every day and saying I'm getting ready for a fight. His process is different, and that's why so many seek him out as a coach. He's good. He's really good in preparation for what he has coming up athletically. So even though it may not feel like he respects al Jamaine Sterling, I saw that tablet, and that tablet tells me that he absolutely does. But this one's different. And guys, it'll be a competition between the two best bannom weights in the world, two of the best bannom weights of all time, and it goes to Newark, New Jersey, and I cannot wait. All right, So now for my final thought. So a reporter told Dana White the other day. Daniel Cormier said, but all Mohamed should be next for the title fight, and Dana goes, well, DC, while this is a nice statement, doesn't make these decisions. I don't. I just sit up here and I speak to you guys. But here's the thing about media. We are always looking for ways to draw clicks. So you leave out particular parts of the argument. I did say that based on merit and win streak, it should be Mohammed, but there was another minute of reasons why I said, Unfortunately, it's probably not gonna be because at the end of the day, it doesn't always just come down to merit. In round one, I spoke about game Brand and Kolbe and Hamzad and all those guys, because all those guys have that history and that ability to draw, and in business sometimes that always takes the front seat. Belah Mohammed has something big in the works. He gets through that, he possibly gets that title fight that he wants so bad. But I stand on that in terms of wind streak and the things that he's done, he deserves it. Sadly, I don't think it's gonna be him. And honestly, in business, sometimes Merritt doesn't always garner you what you think that you deserve. Until next time, guys like subscribe and keep telling your friends about DC's YouTube channel. See you, guys, next week from Miami. 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