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UFC 247 JONES VS REYES! USMAN AND MASVIDAL WILL FIGHT!

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We are getting you ready for UFC 247. Does Reyes have a chance? If Jones wins, depending on how he wins, what's next? Heavyweight? Adesanya? Brock? Dana announces Usman vs Masvidal for International Fight Week. Is that the right fight to make? What about Conor?

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It is Monday, February third, twenty twenty, and it is time for Morning Combat. Donks. Welcome. My name is Luke Thomas. Along with Brian Campbell, we are the host of this program. Thank you so much for joining us. We really appreciate it. Before we get started, as always, housekeeping notes, please give the video a like subscribe to the channel. We haven't come up with a number yet, like what we're shooting for in.

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Look, we got a lot of stuff to get today, including all of that. But we have to start with the fact that it is Monday. But it's the beginning of UFC two forty seven Fight week. Let's start. So on Saturday, the Return of the King, the greatest fighter of the twenty tens, arguably ever ever. Look, maybe even that's what he's working towards is John Jones. He will defend his light heavyweight cround against upstart Dominic Rayes. This will be the Tyota Toyota sent excuse me in Houston, Texas. All right, let's let's play a little game here. Yeah, I like to let me pitch to you first, because I did the dissected and on it, I didn't do a reason to believe or not believe that Reyes might win. But rather, what does this game look like? What's he good at? What's he not so good at? So let's do it a little bit differently over here, Brian, Let's imagine you had to convince me of the case for Dominic Rayis, because I've noticed not many people believe. In fact, I gotta be honest, I think so many people either don't know who he is or don't believe. They're a little bit checked out on it. People are like, wow, that two forty six car was bad than two forty seven. One is even worse. It is even worse. I don't have that I don't. I'm a big fan of Dominic Rayis, I don't know how well he's gonna do. I think John deserves to be your favorite. Let's play the game, though, As I indicated, give me a really good reason, the best reason you can imagine for why Dominic Rayes can win this fight.

I can jump out easily and say size, but I actually think Dominic Rays's chances in this fight have a lot more to do with John Jones than they do with dom reys isray is fully credible of being a live dog of this being a potential gust of Sin part one all over again. Should John not take him seriously? Certainty, Certainly, dom reys is tall, volume striker, good leg kicks.

There's a lot of the functional things that.

You would want somebody to do to have a chance against this version of John Jones. The real question for me is who exactly is this version of John Jones.

This is an.

Odd sort of turning point moment for Jones potentially. Here's what I mean, He's really one win away here, Luke from cleaning out his division for the second time. A feat you rarely see this is Demetrius Johnson Anderson Silva GSP level territory and probably a move up to heavyweight after that. Yet at the same time, the version that we've seen posts Usada, You're gonna have to ask yourself, is this inefficient?

Just a clarification? Are you counting the second gust of Sin fight in that? Yes? Look pretty good in that fight, It look pretty good.

But it kind of plays into what I'm saying. Are we seeing an evolved thirty two year old John Jones who is learning about how to to be more efficient to offset the potential losses of speed and power in everything that comes with age, Luke, or are we seeing a guy who is.

Starting to become vulnerable?

Maybe vulnerable, not so much because physically, but maybe mentally. There was a lot of he's playing with his food being talked about how close that Thiago Santos fight was. I just went to rewatch that this morning. I don't know how much it was playing with his food, like I thought in person watching kpe sat as much as it was. He had a guy across from him who was going to make him pay a toll for closing distance, and he played that thing safe until the finish. If John Jones can fall back into that trap, don Reyes has to gain his respect early, has to be a volume striker. But if he can get John Jones to be a point fighter, the same version of John Jones we saw in the Maheta fight, in the osp fight, he has a chance to win this fight. If he somehow is not able to close a distance, is not able to gain that respect, then I do think he's ultimately fodder for a guy.

I do believe he's the greatest of all time. Yes, when you look at this, you think, what about the takedown threat from Dominic Rays. It's not it's not substantial. Takedown defense is interesting because John can get most guys down, But as we talked about on I dissected the second order takedown defense. When Dominic Rays is pretty good, he likes to get back to his feet, He's good about getting off the fence, and John doesn't like to expend a lot of energy when he doesn't have to. Speaking of which, not expending energy, he went five rounds with Rashad Evans in twenty twelve, then four Vitor Bellft, just the one against jail Son and then five against Gustufson. UFC won sixty five five against Tashera, five against Cormier, five against Saint Prue, three against Cormier, three against Gustafson, Okay, but then five against Anthony Smith, five against Tiago Santas. You know what, that reminds me of that last chapter before the sabbatical of George Saint Pierre, where he could win other ways, but he's a little bit burned out. I'm not saying that John is burned ou. I'm talking about GSP. He was a little bit burned out, and he knew that every time there was another challenge for him, the risk for what could go wrong was elevated. And everything you've been building can just go away in an instant. So let's take the variables out of fighting. Let's just make it the safest possible way. Let's wrestle these guys to the ground. And you should have understood that too. Stays the sabbatical, comes back, and he beats Michael Bisping. I think you're seeing either one of two things in those last two fights that you mentioned, because I think you're dead on about it. Is that a John Jones, who at I think thirty one years old, is he finally getting old? Because thirty one's not old, but he's been fighting for eleven twelve years.

At the super elite level for most of.

That stretch undefeated basically basically, So that's one consideration. Maybe that's that, or is that a little bit of truth or maybe none at all, combined with the fact that he realizes I'm building towards something. He says it outright. He says, when there's a debate about the greatest ever, I want it to be a short debate. Well, you don't get there through losses, and you can get there through wins, even if they go five rounds. So if he does that and he's a little bit conservative, that will hurt him. Fight Metric has told me that anyone who can box with him in a numerically close way can keep it. They're the ones who've done the best. So you're first and second Cormier. Up until the last Cormier, the loss and certainly the first gust of Sin fight, he was actually numerically outstruck in those ones with the hands. Well, that's exactly what dominic reyis is. Actually, that's what we're saying.

The blueprint is there, the body is there, the style is there. I think it comes down to John's mentality. You remember the first chapter, John was a seeking destroyer.

He the guy he didn't learn the amazing moves off of YouTube.

The fact that he was combining elite level speed power chin with technique that made him just transcended, next level superstar. He can mix in the flashy moves. He had the natural length on you. He had all everything going for him. The guy we've seen the last few fights though, is more like ninety three through ninety eight. Michael Jordan try to end at a jump shot to his career, to try to, you know, fight off the age curve. And you mentioned the second gust Of fight that was an efficient masterpiece. But what he did is the moment he knew he had gust Of sent tired, he went in there and rustled him down and finished it. He did not do that against Thiago Santos. The reason I think, having rewatched that fight is because the threat offensively was too much there that in John's mind, You're right, maybe he's going a little gsp going, you know what, I'm gonna win this fight by by decision. In my head, I've won this fight. But he left that back door open and Maheta on two broken down wheels made it to that back porch he got closed. What decision it comes down to whether John can reactivate the mentality of the old bones. If he can, if he's looking to wrestle, if he's looking to walk down and finish. This is a fight he's gonna win and has some potential look spectacular.

In doing so.

But if he's not going to be that straight killer that we originally loved about him, dom Reis is that perfect foil to give him.

A tough night. The last thing I'd say about this also is we talk about what defines greatness at MMA. Well, winning of course, but winning in what capacity, for how long, against who in what weight classes? And we live in this age where people are constantly changing weight classes. John has not done that. But I want to be very clear, I'm not here to demean what changing weight classes entails. It's incredibly difficult to do what Connor has done, to do what even going down or going up Dominic Cruz, any of the champ champs who have done it, Vjpan and Randy Gator, all of them. But what I am going to say is I do think that the single hardest thing to do in MMA is to be a weight class or in the UFC anyway is to be a UFC champion and then stand a post for wave after wave of challenger. Who saw Tim Elliott giving Demitris Johnson a really tough fight. Nobody did. I'm not here to say that that's an argument specifically for Dominic Rays, but rather it is examining the process, that process that he has been under. Dude, you got Dominic Rays who has never tasted defeat, and is he the athlete or the striker or the wrestler that John Jones is. Probably not, But you don't have to be. You just have to be on one time. They have to be sick one time, their ankle has to be not going well one time. Doubt has to creep in and everything can change. Put it together.

A win streak at this level, at the title level, and sustaining it is so insane compared to other sports.

There's so many ways to lose.

John Jones could have lost his title Anthony Smith by disqualification. Look, it very well could have happened. It was on the verge of happen, and yes it would have been another Matt Hamill type loss. They would have run it back. Jones probably wins it. But it just goes to show you when you're walking that tightrope.

It's hard.

If you're a fan of entertainment, though, you want to see Jones go back to his Mister Brownstone days. You want to see him go out there and finish this guy. Maybe be a little wild outside the cage, just go out there. You don't want him being so focused on protecting the legacy. Like you mentioned that, it could change his style and the chances that he takes inside the cage, because when you've got a Thiago Santos with two hurt legs just asking to be taken down and submitted, and you don't attempt that the old bones would have been in that he would have been up in that piece.

It is does on paper? Does Dominic Reyes look like the toughest challenge John's ever faced? Probably not. I would probably look at some other ones and say, well, Daniel Cormier seems like a much tougher challenge. On the other hand, Brian, you've got a guy on Dominic Reyes, as I mentioned, never taste a defeat. And if you ask Dominic Reyes, do you think you can win this fight? Unequivocally? He thinks he can win this fight. He is ready to rock and he got taken down on the Uzdemir fight. But he knows that John is a wrestling threat. Like, there's so much tape on John. It's not a secret what he's good at, it's not a secret what he's bad at. So it'll be questioning about whether or not Dominic Rays is the guy to implement that. But this is what I mean, dude, every time John goes out there, the book is written on him. Now, maybe it's an open book test and those can often be harder than the closed book tests. But still I take Dominic Rayes very seriously. I bet you even if John saying all this stuff like he was a scrub and he was never an athletically get the guard.

Just in the last twelve hours, John still going ham on Twitter.

Yeah, but you know who's not Michael Winkle, John, Greg Jackson, Brandon Gibson. They take him very, very seriously. And in the end, I don't think John is training like a chump either. So John can win this. John probably will and should, But I'm not sleeping on Dominic Rays even a little bit.

If John wakes up to the potential of what that wake up call against Thiago Santos could be. We should see the old John again. But it's just interesting. We never talk about the mentality of somebody who loses after the fact, but Don Reyes has passed all the tests in terms of just listening to his media scrum in Los Angeles last week, he talked about that first time at that press conference going head to head with John Jones, first time he was ever in the same area as him, and just not being impressed by the aura and just going, you know, to the length of he's just another man in front of me again, something we hear all the time from an opponent. But I'm just saying, if it's one of those things where after the fact we go back and look at it, he seems to be dialed into where he needs to be. Look, John Jones has a historic chin when you look back in some of the big.

Moment huge shots. Yeah, but Rays is a guy.

Who if Jones is going to leave that back door open, could lose a decision.

Also, I pointed this out on Dissected. One of the ways in which John gets hit a little bit. Sometimes he hangs on in the clinch a little bit of space. Who's got some of the best uppercuts in the light heavyweight division. It's Dominic Rays. Speaking of which, though, let's say that all this is for naught and he goes out there Dominic Rays and gets blasted into smithereens in thirty seconds, which also, of course could happen. So let's say John Jones wins. What happens next? Should the UFC pursue a unbelievable grudge match between current UFC middleweight champion Israel Attasania or at that point, does John then go to heavyweight and take on Steve A. Miyochich and Brian Campbell. The reason why we say step A miyochiic is because if you listen to his people, they say they're looking for a fresh matchup. Now you go down the line at heavyweight and you say to yourself, well, who could that be? Francis not a fresh matchup? DC, not a fresh matchup. Curtis Blades. You could do, but I don't think that sets the world on fire. JDS not a fresh matchup. He's already fought that guy twice. You're getting out to a point in the division where you're giving todas shots to somebody who hasn't even earned it. Partly, what I think is happening is that Steve Bay's people are bluffing because the big money fight at heavyweight right now it's Cormier and they all know. And I'm not saying it's a Connor McGregor Payde, but certainly better than Curtis Blades. But if you're really looking for a fresh matchup, if you really mean what you say, isn't the fight there a John Jones who wins and become somebody who no longer has any really credible threats at like heavyweights. Let's discuss this. What should the UFC do? Should they go with Israel at a Sonya if obviously he has to win his next fight against Romere, Let's assume that he does, or do they bump up to heavyweight? I gotta tell you, I am they are you much torn on this one. I can't wait to hear what you say. Let me go first if I can. The benefits of the first the Otta Soignia fight are obvious. You're talking interesting style matchup, right, You're talking grudge match that John hasn't had in a long time. Going both ways, Sometimes John attacks people and They're like, what before this one is very much back and forth. You're talking about sort of a global examination of how MMA has collided. It's a bit of a super fight because you have the middleweight champ going up to the fight the light heavyway champ. You've got every ingredient and you could possibly want. On the other hand, everybody and their brother has wanted to see John Jones go up to step A. Plus, you also have another super fight up there, a champ champ fight where the light heavyweight champ is going up to heavyweight. Now, that would make things difficult for Cormier because then I might make a Cormier fight at headweight. So for that reason, I'm gonna say, you go Israel out of Sonya versus John Jones is the fight to make. But I can at least acknowledge Brian Campbell. It's an embarrassment of riches. The only thing, the only thing that makes this a variable is how he looks against Dominic rays If he beats Rayes and he does it like he did against let's say Maheta, where Maheta took a scorecard on him, which no one had ever done before. It was a split decision, for folks don't remember. If he does that, I don't know, there's gonna be a lot of clamoring for him to go to heavyweight. They're gonna say, well, wait a second, now, I can see out of signya having the time he needs to get better. Now, it's all very doable. If he goes in there and blows the doors off of Dominic Rays, that might lean a little bit more towards the heavyweight fight. But I gotta tell you, while I lean towards Atasiganya just because it's my personal favorite, it's kind of hard to go wrong either way.

I like your enthusiasm. We did let you go first because you have producer credits. But I couldn't agree more. And I can't believe I'm in this spot because I'm the guy who is banging on the doors, standing out front with the American flag, going like this, saying John Jones, go to heavyweight already, because that's the ultimate sort of final mountain to climb in your legacy. We think you're the go. I think you're the go to really be the go, become the two division champion, go up there and beat all those heavyweights. Yet you only get one chance sometimes look for the perfect intersection, the perfect storm, to make these kind of super fights where it would really matter, It would really captivate so much attention and mean so much to the perspective legacies of both.

You make a good point.

If he beats dom Reis but doesn't do it in just absolutely dominant fashion.

Remember he's calling the guy a scrub, and Ada Sonia beats Romero in thorough impressive, dominant fashion, you might actually have a window where it would make sense.

There would be no pressure for out of Sonya to win. He could still benefit from a great performance and a loss, and John could still go up to heavyweight afterwards. It's kind of an embarrassment, like you said, and a win win for everybody. I just don't want to see it ultimately stun either of their perspective paths, though, the same way that the original superfight that gave Dana a bad taste in his mouth about this. You remember BJ GSP two BJ Penn never the same after.

That, right? That is also true? So for me, I will see how this all plays out. There's a lot of different possiblities that could go. But if it's a third fight in a row where John looks less than what we know his upper bound limits to be. I also think there's gonna be some questions about is he aging earlier because he started earlier or something I talked about the beginning of the show. People dismiss that the last fight because John's been so dominant for so long, And again, I don't know right now that that's the case. I don't know what's happening, but I don't think you can just handily dismiss it one last thing on two forty seven before we move along any other storyline on that card.

People are bagging on his car. But this card, this card is bad, Lucas. Basically, we bring the real takes right, we tell it like it is and how it could be do we I don't know? This is, of course how it should be.

Right here we go.

I mean, those who think it's dirty, they have a choice, right, Can you be normal?

Anyway? This card sucks.

Am I intrigued by the idea of Beefy Latifi going to heavyweight and fighting Derek Lewis and then just having a slop as fest. Yes, that should be fun to watch. Derek Lewis could use a victory there, but really, I think you had to dig a little bit deeper on the card and maybe say that Lauren Murphy KGB Leef fight could produce your next flyweight title contender. Should chef Chenko take care of business against Caitlin Chukgian, like we all believe, man, that's the co main event, Luke, this card.

Not a great car. I'm curious to see what happens with One Adams and Justin Tafa. One Adams was a heavyweight prospect coming off of Dana White choosing that Contender series. There's been a lot of Contender Series people that kind of were somehow like it's either it's either one or the other. It's like you get here. Macy Barbara had a bit of a bump in the road, but has generally been really good, like the one she had a Virgilian Robertson at UFC Boston was amazing. You know, Greg Hardy is sort of on his way.

Viewers reminded me last week that Edmund Shabazian probably the steal of that series.

At the moment, and that Derek Brunson fight I just can't say enough good things about. And then Chase Hooper seems to be on his way though he's very green.

Did you get your eminem's in the mail from the US?

You know what's funny? I got? And when did I get those? Last week? Some dude at Serious XM came to me. He's like, God, he's been sitting in the mailbox for you for like a month, asked me, did I have the eminem's? Did you have the ature fucking ass? I have those eminems? That was extra dramatic, but well they were all broken up and like kind of white. They look like dogshit quite literally. In any event, well the white part is on brand, keep going well, okay, But in any event, I want to see what has one Adams as last fight he looked bad. He just looked bad. So I'm curious to see where he actually is as a prospect, and justin top is probably a pretty good test for him to close.

On John Jones real quick if they don't do the out of Signia fight and he goes right to where he should. Really, there's nobody left right Johnny Walker's not ready for this level. No, do you agree with me that Jones against any core top three or four heavyweight is a monster paper If you're waiting to happen that the general public.

We'll latch onto the idea of John.

Jones going up and facing potential danger as a monster drawing card.

So your top five heavyweights are and we have to see what happens between Francis and Jarsina Rosenstruck, JDS, Curtis Blades, Francis and Daniel Cormier. Francis, Yes, if Arsenian, if Jarzini beat some, I guess, But the takedown of Vince is like not great. I think John would whoop his ass if that happens. JDS is kind of an interesting one, like is he too long in the tooth for John? Like rather I'm not to be not to win, but to be like a credible threat. It's kind of an interesting one. And then I guess you got Derek Lusien Volkov and over him. Yeah, I don't know. Top five, I don't know.

In twenty twelve, I predicted I didn't stand on the mountain top and predicted. I predicted to those listening to me that John Jones would eventually make his heavyweight debut against brock Lesner.

Still in play, Luke, It's still in play, right, you know, because it happen.

I don't know if you saw that sit down Dana Whitehead with Aaron Bronstetter where they did the betting game, and Dana was very candid and sort of his his predictions for this year of what would happen. He's still on board, saying, yeah, Brock's gonna come probably come back.

Wow.

I mean you could see them cashing it on that. Would you have any interest? I know Brock is so there's so much they had.

I'll tell you this, if they had picked up, if Brock had stuck around because he didn't have issues after UFC two hundred, I really, to honest to god, would uh And even around two fourteen when John beat him and then folks forget this, John beat Cormier and this is before he popped and everything. Then went on Good Morning America with Michael Strahand Do you remember that and called out Brock Lesner again called them in the cage after the wind he did, and then the pub was there at the Post five presser like I remember all of it, and then he went on Good Morning America. I was like, well, you know, okay, but dude, we're now at two forty seven, I mean forty seven pay per views. Later they would catch that though, oh they would do. I mean, you kid, there's a bear shit in the woods, of course, But all right, last thing, what story lamp pay attenched to you? Yeah? I get with the one Adams one for me. So let's go to our next topic. So super Bowl week, meaning everyone who as anyone was down there acting a fool. Dana White forgot. I think it was on Jim Rome Show, if memory serves, saying you know what we saw that Kamara Ousman, the UFC Walterway champ and then the BMF champ. Jorge had some words on radio row wasn't stage, was it not? I don't really care either way. But it's not going to be Connor versus Joorge. It's not going to be Connor versus Cold, but it's not going to be Connor versus Kamaru. It's going to be Connor in all likelihood fighting the winner of habib Toni, and for International Fight Week it's going to be Camaru versus Jorge. I have been over this a million times. I don't know who else Kamorrow is supposed to fight, given who else he has beaten in that top five and anchoring International Fight Week. I love it. I have no problems, But I gotta tell you I'm doubling down. Brian Campbell, you can go first. I'm doubling down. The fight to make is Connor versus Jorge. The fight to make is right now. Tell me why? Tell me how you feel about the fight now that's not not been announced but essentially almost announced and anchoring international fight with.

Look, I get the rightful love and lust to see Connor Jorge right now. But if you have seen, you're sitting in that war room with the chalkboards and all that next to Dana's office, you know, the office with the machine gun, with the weird cocaine and all that stuff, and you're looking at what brand means more to us? What brand do we not want to gamble on? And you're essentially putting Connor up here and Korge up here. Well, it's going to go like this. So what that means is you're more willing to gamble right now when Jorge Mozreel's brand is at an all time level that he could potentially go into the Zuzman fight Luke and be one and done at the very highest level of the sport. Right, Let's say he lost it badly He's not going away. His brand isn't going away. But you know what I'm saying, he has a chance if he wins the title there to be golden.

He is a breakthrough superstar.

The reason why you put Connor and on the other side and wait for the winner for of how Bib and Tony is because you've got a chance for him to not just sell big pay per views by coming back, but if he can win back the title and stay in line as a legitimate top fighter, you're gonna take that chance. And putting him against Jorge, even with the potential for two million pay per view bys, even with the BMF title at stake, I think you're risking too much there for Connor's brand to take a knockout loss, to take something that just looks and feels bad when you have in your hands this hot commodity, that forty second knockout of Cowboy. Whatever we thought we learned from it or not, Stephen A. Smith, Joe Rogan shouting you out, on and on and on, it still was the greatest infomercial ever for how hot Connor McGregor is. Again, you put him in there against Jorge, you can damage it. You have to have him go up against Habib, fresh and hot. If Abie beats Tony and that rematch would be your biggest fight.

Ever, how do you and I'm being I'm asking in good faith, how do you not damage it? If you wait for the Habib Tony winner all the way, assuming Tony doesn't win, which you know, Tony's the only guy that can. Basically, that's a very difficult fight for Habib. And then Habib goes in there and smokes him again. Now where is he?

The reason why that works is because you still get away with Well, Habib's the worst match up possible for Connor. And now that Connor has beat now that Habib has beat Connor, Tony and Connor in succession, oh crap, this guy might actually be one of the greatest of all time on top of that, and so you would close the door on the idea of Connor McGregor being a one to fifty five title contender being legitimate. But you would then open the door to I'll move to one seventy and move to these BMF castion opportunities that would be closed. I believe if he goes out there against Horey Maslong, it's stopped. The worst thing that can happen to comrag gregor marketing wise is to get stopped Luke to get knocked out.

He got stopped against Habib getting submitted.

It looks bad. It's different though, it's sort of like, oh, that's a horrible style match of for him. He guessed, I know you can do all the memes and all that. This guy quits whenever it gets hard. But there's a difference optically with getting going toe to toe in your discipline and getting knocked the hell out, which is a possibility against Jorje Masvidal. When you're talking about brands at this highest level, when you're talking about the potential to make fights like Connor Habib tow that could move four million pay per view buys as Dana White is thrown out there or three or whatever, that are just astronomically next level. That are cultural moments that people.

It's Connor versus Masvidol, it's.

Connor versus Habib. And if you go down that route first Luke and he loses, like I said, Habib's royalty. Connor gets refreshed at one seventy. But if he goes now and fights Jorge for what pay per view buys in't a fake title. It's not the same thing.

Well, if you fight Kabeb and you lose, it's not. But here's the thing. If the idea is that Kamaru can only fight Jorge because there's just nobody else for him, I actually understand that argument and I agree with it. The math is unambiguous there when you just look at who nobody else, it's just nobody else. So if that's the reason you want to make it, I understand it, and I also do think and I take it very seriously that jorgem Maso all had a bit of a personal rebirth through that solitude that he went through. I take that very very seriously. Some people have dismissed it. I do not. I think it's real and I think it changed his mindset. On the other hand, he is still a imperfect fighter, because every fighter is an imperfect fighter. Kamara Usman is a bad matchup for him. That's not to say that Jorge can't win. It's not to say that Jorge won't win. It is to say he is up against it. Fight metric data is clear, and your eyes are very clear too. People who can spam him with take down attempts without gassing. They are just bad matchups for him. That is exactly what Kamara Usman.

Is an awful matchup for Connor. And that's the whole point. You sit down, don't you say which brand means more to you? Which brand?

I understand? And Connor's the biggest brand in the sport. And we all talked about the big bump. We didn't get to feel it because he had the one fight against a BIB and then he was gone again. Now that he's back, you begin to see that, Wow, he really is the biggest star in combat sports. Fair enough. I'm not arguing otherwise. I just mean to tell you, Yeah, if you want to cash in on which one can we afford to lose more of Connor versus anybody else? The answer is anybody else. I'm just saying, I don't think it's as detrimental to Connor to be up at one seventy and fighting Jorge when he's the hottest where by the way, that's still a reasonably competitive fight, Whereas Kamaru versus jogees not only a fight that Kamaru is probably likely to win, but not win in a way that gets anyone to really be on his side, he might get some benefit from beating it in terms of like, well, I beat this guy. I just mean to say, you're just cashing in Jorgey, because that's what you should do, because he's a top contender. Okay, fine, just don't tell me on how great that is with the division. Don't sell me on how great it is with potential matchups afterwards, Just say we got to burn this because there's nobody else. Well, not because it's the best promotional matchmaking choice. So also the gamble that if he wins, then everyone wins, there's that as well. Again, he can win that fight. I mean, he could land a punch when Kamara is not looking, and the whole game is different. Let me ask you this though quickly, because Jay is in my ear being don I'm not intimidated by that guy.

I don't care if he did a circle back kick and knocked down your ryah hole once while they were sparring. Okay, and he doesn't want that story to go public, but I'm here for that. He claims that Kamarrow versus Colby we all thought had the potential to be a very big fight. In Headline two forty five Triple header, you know December big card. Colby didn't play the part of Colby. The fight wasn't a dud as a build, but it didn't have that juice. We all said, the greatest gift for Kamaru may have been Colby, in the same sense that Chill Sonon was the greatest gift for Anderson Silva, who can't really talk to sort of have that foil. Can Jorge make Camaru marketable and make this international fight wee card which I'm sure they're going to load up the you know, a full main card like we're used to on these supercards.

Can that be a giant pay per view? Yeah? It can? I mean what you mean one million sales, million and a half. No, I don't think it can be that. But can it do really, really, really really well? Yes, I think it could.

And Leon Edwards says that that little scuffle they had Super Bowl uh stage stage. If it is, that's brilliant staging, by the way, But I don't think it is.

Though. Well here's the thing. It's like, are they both dudes that would do that kind of thing at Radio Row? Yes? Would it also be above UFC to like hey guys, no, so like either explanation is actually quite We'll say this.

Both of those guys during Connor Cowboy Week had had media scrumps in between the you know, during that long media day, and they were UFC security made sure they didn't have any chance of crossing paths like they made triple double shirt. They were like, I don't care if you've got an interview with Orgate, it's got to be off site, get him off the premises.

So the NFL doesn't realize quite what they're up against with those two. We move on now to the next fight, so to speak. It's coming up on Showtime this weekend. Gary Russell, Junior, Washington d c's for one of Washington DC's finds. I suppose defending his Featherway title. I believe he's defending one another one' up for grabs, the IBFIBO, one of the two is up for grabs against.

Ibo is not a recognized title. Okay, this is his WBC on the line.

Fair enough, Technically, there's another belt that you could win against. This guy's name I cannot pronounce King Tug as he's known Olympic silver medalist. This will be on Saturday and Showtime live from Pennsylvania nine pm and the E six pm in the West. I gotta tell you, Brian, I actually love this fight. It's a good fight because the criticism of Gary Russell Junior is not that he's not talented or even a bit of a showman coming out with the caveman bit that he's been doing the whole crudes thing. He's actually quite talented. He is, I think, somebody that people really want to invest in. And the Jojo Diaz fight in twenty eighteen I think was surprisingly competitive, Let's put it that way, right, But in general there's a criticism of his featherweight rain. This is the mandatory defense. The criticism has been my man's doing just enough to do just enough.

Oh, he's appearing once a year for that mandatory.

And he's not taking on guys that people really want to see him in there and challenging himself and getting after that. Now. I don't know if King Tug from Mongolia is that guy we're gonna end up seeing, but all indications are that he could be. This guy blew through the ranks to get to this spot much easier than folks had anticipated. As I mentioned, he's got the amateur pedigree, and he is in all action, all business, heavy handed kind of fighter who's not just a puncher. He can box as well. Now I'm not saying he's the boxer that Gary Russell Junior is, but I got to tell you, this is the first time in a while that I've looked at one of Gary Russell Junior's fights on paper and I'm been like, well, okay, it's the mandatory and in that sense, you know, he's sort of sleepwalking through it. On the other hand, this is just the kind of mandatory for me to go, all right, Gary Russell, you got your hands full.

This has that potential to be one of those great sneaky trap fights. And if there's any sort of defensive Gary Russell, he's always had hand problems, so the time off only fighting once a year has fully allowed him to rest and be up to his best. It's not acceptable, though, in twenty twenty for a guy of that talent level to only fight once a year. Him getting a fight this early in the calendar year Luke seems to be a smart move if he wants to fight two in three times in a crowded division and really have the potential to stand out at being the best. But why you have to love this matchup. Yes, Gary Russell is gonna have the insane speed advantage. His hand speed is off the charts. He puts it on you punches and bunches, but king tug tug shot neambr if I'm pronouncing that correctly. Yes, While he is your standard aggressive, horror heavy handed brawler coming at you, the fact that he has that amateur pedigree in that background, being a Mongolian silver medalist at the twenty twelve Games shows that he can do it smartly. He can do it in a way that can cut off the ring and set up. And if he can get Gary Russell Junior into a brawl, then you want to go back and rewatch the tape of that Jojo Diaz fight where Russell dominated early but then tried a bit too hard to get Diaz out of there, and suddenly that became a real fight for a few rounds. This is a very interesting spot because if Gary Russell Junior can dominate and really set the pace in the tone and control the control the terms of the fight, this could be a spectacular win that would lift him to fighting two or three times this year, and he can hear him in the past year. Finally call out the big name. Say I want Leo, I want Jervonte, I want anybody around my weight class. I'll go up to thirty five if I have to. Those are the words you want to hear from a guy this talented, but you got to get through this test first. And King tug I know that may have been your nickname in high school some lonely nights lay in the bathroom, King Tuggy, this is just his tenth pro fight. This is one of those guys who is daring to be great right now, is not going to be afraid, is going to empty that tank. We could see some interesting theater when we know what could be at stake in the future. Jojo Diaz, the f four mentioned guy this past Saturday, I'm sorry this past Thursday on his own in Miami one a time from Tevin Farmer survived a really vicious cut.

Albeit somewhat controversially.

There's business to be made in and around twenty six. There's a lot of fun fighters. A lot of them have moved up to one thirty right around there. You want to see a lot of big names get together. Gary Russell needs to be in that conversation. We need to find out how great it could be. Luke just that one loss to Vassili Lomachenko.

He showed incredible hard what a majority decision, and he.

Hung in there and really took some heavy shots and kept coming.

But the problem is since then he just has not put his foot on the gas. Two more notes about that event. By the way, Germal Riggindeau was back against Lemorreal Solis. Oh yeah, so apparently Riggandell wants to like change the way another guy who lost the Limachenko and then everyone was kind of like fuck this guy because he kind of kind of quit I think again. People got the whole stephen A Joe Rogan thing one being like, oh you can't say a fight or quit, Well you can when they there's good evidence that they did.

And he moved up two way classes for that one.

He realized he's older, he's like thirty seven, thirty nine.

He gave a note, he gave a fu to the media. He was just basically like, you want to say all these bad things about me, here you go.

I'm walking away, So like you can say it when there's enough evidence to conclude that it's just Steven is totally out of his depth. The point being on this one is that's another element to this card. Secondly, I would say I always love these time off fighters because you're always like, ooh, Floyd took a lot of time off, man, he might be rustling, and then he comes back and just schools these fools right. On the other hand, there are other fighters who take time off and they don't have their time and they don't have their rhythm. And also I also get the sense with Gary Russell Junr a little bit maybe he is taking time off for the hands and for other issues. He's a little bit complacent. He's a little bit like, I'm just better than these guys. I'm not saying he's not training hard. That's not what I'm saying. I think is a serious professional. On the other hand, mentally, if you just know that all you have to fight is the mandatory, guys, are you really geared up to the right frame of mind if you're active? I suppose it doesn't really matter too much if you're inactive and you have to come back just with a mandatory against a guy whose nickname is King Tug for crying out life just the masturbader in chief. What are you really going to do? So to me, it's gonna be very interesting to see how he manages that time off against the challenger who has all the hunger.

And shout out to old Reriggandow because's where we're at right now. He's got a title fight against Liborrio, so least in that comin event, Old Riggandhal at what thirty eight thirty nine, he's lost just enough of a step where he's got to stand in that pocket and brawl. Did you see that fight with Julio? Say how that was all action all the time. We've always said what would happen when Rego finally slowed down and had to be in there? Because he hits hard and he's you know, he's got a flashchin. You can knock him down, but he digs in and fights. Remember that fight he had on New Year's Even Japan a couple of years ago against that real tall dude. He got dropped twice, he got back up and finished him. Broke the guy's face. Yes, this, this guy's this he can he can let it.

Go with Yeah. Yeah, he's a tough bastard. So it brings us to our last topic here. Super Bowl, as I mentioned, brings out the controversies, brings out the fun, brings out the personalities. According to his own it also brings out the world tour of sadness. You've had Jake Paul winning on Thursday against a pre diabetic gas station attendant, and then on I don't know if it was Friday or Saturday, but you had Antonio Brown, who is obviously having his own issues and a number of different comp His life is just going down the toilet rapidly, punctuated by the fact that he had a face off with Logan Paul. Now, I love Scott Coker. I truly believe he's one of the greatest promoters of our generation. But he was out there tweeting them and taking pictures with him. Now, Coker is always smart enough.

Better headshot of Coker than this, Yeah, what the fuck picture is there?

We go? Coker is smart enough to know. Like, the truth about freak show fights, which everyone seems to get wrong, is it's not that you can't do them. Every good promoter does them. They just do them very sparingly. It's a one off here, it's a one off here. Let a few months or years go by and maybe we'll revisit it again, usually under very different terms. They just they flirt with it and then they kind of go the other direction. Coker's done that, Dana White's done that. All the big promoters in them and may have done that. What the problem is, and this is so hilarious because I love people explaining YouTube to me. They have seven subscribers. I'm not Jake Paul, but I've got one hundred and twenty thousand that I've done by accident. I've I got a little bit of an understand of how YouTube works. But the point being is this. They always say this is a smart play by his own well sort of not really. Two problems with this, By the way, the question is how do you feel about it? Since I didn't get to that when I started grand standing right away, feel dirty? Keep going, Yeah, here's the problem with it. It's not as you couldn't do the the logan Paul versus KSI fight. You could. It's not you couldn't even do one more. That's okay too. It's two basic problems. One is the justifications for it are complete bullshit. Right, This is really good for boxing. It brings new fans. No, it doesn't, and no one is talking about Demetrius Andre who.

Was who was a knockout in the main event.

With a knockout win in the main event.

No one is talking discussion and is not and is not.

And even though he fought in the same card as Jake Paul, the idea that there is this halo effect is ridiculous. By the way, pop quiz very quickly, Brian camp the Heimi Mungia Spike O'Sullivan fight happened after the Jake the Logan Paul fight against Ksi? Did they sell out there before?

No, it happened after no Logan Paul Ksi headline that card the.

Logan pol headline. Do Mungia and O'Sullivan were afterwards? His move? I think that was the same card. This is what I'm saying to you. This is what I'm saying to you, Logan Paul Ksi happened. Then a little bit time transpired, okay, and then the Haimi Mungia fight when he moves up to one sixty fives, did they sell out the arena for Mungia versus A Sullivan? Because I saw a fuck ton of empty seats with that Golden Boy promotion. Oh so wait, second, you mean to tell me that there's actually either when they're on the card with them or not on the card with them, There actually really is no halo effect. There actually is no transference. It's a nonsense argument that hucksters sell gullible people because they're gullible. That's the first part about it. The second part is there is a place for freak shows. There's a tried and true method. But here's the problem with it. Good promoters use them and then move away. Use them and then move away. Bad promoters lean into them because what ends up happening is over time that becomes associated with your product. But if the Japanese market tells us anything, yes, the yakuza influence obviously was dramatically bad for them, But what we saw there was when you lean into freak shows and that becomes the predominant interest of your product, freak show interest doesn't last. Like, what's the long term play for the Paul Brothers. There is none. They can't fight for shit. Eventually, take videos at the end of the show. That's right. Eventually that's going to end, and when it ends, it's going to end quickly. Now, what do you have. The whole reason Brian Campbell, and I'll end on this one. Why they're doing it is because they paid a ton of money to get Canelo versus Triple G three and they can't. They paid a ton of money to get other boxers to do things they want to and other promoters are not working with them and even spending money to undercut them. Now, I'm not saying that's fair, but that's the reality. This is the stop gap because John Skipper, who used to run ESPN when you work there, has said unequivocally dezone no matter what market it is, Germany, United States, Canada, whatever, it can't win unless it gets the in this market, NFL, NBA, MLB.

Yes, So this is a holdover of the gateway drug to get in there to this.

This is a holdover until then. If you think this is a long term play, I don't know what to tell you other than you are profoundly confused about why they're doing this.

I'm just I've said it before, I'll say it again. I don't like mixing it together with real fight. Do you want to have this be a spinoff thing that Dez owned and Eddie Hern does that's fine. You know what, the best thing that actually happened in this Jake Paul fight. He finished that dude early. You had KSI in the ring. Now they're going head to head. Now you get the brother redemption angle. If you care about that, that's fine. That may even sell out an arena, that may even drive subscriptions. I just think you need to do that as its own thing, Luke, and I think you need to not be throwing these Annison Gibbs in our face. Okay, we know who the Paul brothers are. Now I get how many million instant you know, YouTube subscribers they have. Can't be wrong, But I don't want to see them keep going down the road of fighting other YouTubers I don't care about. You want to go to the root of Antonio Brown, you want to do an MMA fight, you want to get you know, Logan Palmer, then that's something a little bit new. Bellows Tour has been able to be a house of some of those horrors and get my interest right Force too. Dot A five thousand had that heart attack match. First guy's hard to stop. Even in a more noble way. You had herschel Walker, herschel Walker fighting Greg Nudge. It was a freak show most life versus Ken Shamrock was actually matchmaking in terms.

Of that doesn't you can go the freak show route if you do it smartly. There's absolutely a market.

For how gross do they want to go? Is this gonna end with Jake Paul versus Logan Pole? I feel like we're gonna end there.

Just say what it is. They're going that route because the entire business plan that they had for boxing it's not going the way it's supposed to, and this is their quick fix it which will not last. Can you imagine people watching five fucking years of Jake and Logan Paul fighting? No, of course you can't, all right, which you can watch ten years of John Jones, you can watch twenty years of Floyd Mayweather because there's actual substance there.

Would you care one time about a Paul Brother MMA debut?

You care one time?

Right?

Yeah? Probably one time? Again? There is a market for it. But this idea that like wow, like the zones really smartly outthinking the rest of the public. Okay, Boomer, you just don't understand, dude. This is a carnal that promoters have been doing since the nineteenth century. What on earth are you talking about? Just because it's new to you doesn't mean it's new to us. Just want to point that out. Okay, good first round finish for Jake Baul. Yeah. I mean, you know, when you're out there fighting your neighbor, you know who's exercise consists of weeding his garden once a month, you know you should win. I suspect. I mean it looked like he was training hard. I'm sure he's trying. But dude, if you start boxing in your teens and twenties, unless you're a heavyweight fighter, you will not have a career. You will get fucked up real quick against a real fighter, and it will happen sooner or later if they keep trying their hand unless they fight MKBHD or they fight you know one of the ault, right donks who's out there just making videos or whatever. I'm just pointing it out, this idea like they're like reinventing the wheel, Like, oh, this is so amazing. Okay, Rubes, All right, Well that in mind, let's go now to where you ask us questions. It's time now for dms with donks. Yeah, m's from dogs. I haven't been here in a couple of weeks, eat shit, Jake, all right from dong because if you ask me, let's go to our next question or first question here. I got it up here, you pop the control. They gave me a weird order here, so I want to make sure it matches. Yes it does, okay, Brian Brian, Brian Campbell, Brian Ortega and Pons and Nibbio Santiago Pons Nibbio. What the f man are those two are ever going to get back in the octagon? What do you think? I hope, so I hope put out a statement this week saying I think he has like a hand injury.

I saw him limping HFC cards ago in Vegas. He really had some commentary and I saw him limping pretty bad. There's a guy I wanted to try to find it quick. I can't get there quick enough. Who is all over my ig d ms every single minute? Bro Okay, it's at Jay Winchell. One, Jay Winchell, get out of my dms. But you're not wrong. No one's talking about Ponz Andnibio. The reason is because he's hurt. Yes, we want to see him back. We want to see if he's a potential sleeper at Walter Waite if he could be this uh, this slice into this division of all these wrestlers, I don't know. The bigger story here on the comeback is our Tega. We want to see him get back in there. Max hollow I know, I mean he may he may have produced a tap against Holly Berry. I hope he did, but training for that movie that they were working on. But outside of that, we haven't seen him since he was willing to walk through hell against uh Max Holloway in this division has just been flipped upside down and reloaded here now with lolkanovskan top, so many great matchups. I just want to see this guy. Bet we don't really talk about it. I'm not convinced he's not going to be wearing the belt in a year.

Yeah, we haven't talked about it. And obviously he didn't get he didn't have a yusata issue. He had a you know, he lost that fight, was looking for the right one. Then he was supposed to come back against Gcreen Zombie and the Tori's acl to a degree, right, So it's not a yusata issue. But I'm saying, like, you know, these guys who get the two year USADA punishments and then are gone for two years. It feels like that, Yeah, it feels like he's just missed a chunk of his early part of early to mid part of his prime, and it's just terribly unfortunate. And obviously I hope he can get back together because he's a phenomenal and amazing talent, part of that whole growth of the young part of the featherweight division.

And seriously, not you know, I know that he's got the Modell sponsorship, but he a future star in the making, a guy who we thought was one dimensional as a submission expert and yet has really added a great striking game, has a tremendous gin, has a great backstory overcoming so much, you know, a bad upcreaming, bad upbringing in Los Angeles, having seen so much crap.

But great guy too, And it's and it stands to reason that, like, if you're a Chase Hooper who's twenty and I think we're taking as like what twenty five, twenty six something like that, you're going to attract a younger audience. MMA always needs its younger fighters to bring in their generation their peers, so to speak. So it's just a loss all the way around. A full hair too.

Have you ever let it go? Have you ever gone for it?

No? My hair sticks out like my hair grows this way right, my hair doesn't grow down.

Being a big death metal head, I would have thought at some point you just gave up.

And I'm more like phil Anselmo. Did you ever own a trench coat? In the military, they make you wear one. Oh, okay, but outside of that, no, we think I'm in the trench coat.

Mop Well, the music you listen to is sort of an afrodisiac for mass shootings?

Is it? I want to go on a mass shooting on this fucking stage? Guy over here? This guy not death metal, but okay, let's go on. This is from uh Well, if you pronounced the X like a z ZoZ are one thousand. I have a question. Do you think there are any current beltoor fighters who are good enough to become champions in the UFC? If so, which ones? Well? First of all, patrisa pitbull might be, you know, easily capable of winning the UFC featherweight title. He is just a ridiculous and I I was late to that party. I kind of thought, well, you know, because I saw Joe Warren beat him. Did you watch Super Bowl last night? Yeah? Did you see all the crowd shots of the Kansas City fans in that the downtown area of Kansas City. Yes, that was where the Beltore held an event down there, and that was where Joe Warren wrestled pit Bull many many moons ago. Uh, and that's where let's see who is the Native American guy who Ben Askron fucked up? Forget his name, but it all happened down there in any event, So for me, producer Pipple's the obvious and easy answer anybody, I will.

Believe that Ryan Bader has evolved to the point that he could be a legitimate title contender at two five or heavy with the UFC.

No, No, but I do think he's better than the guy who fought John Jones the first time.

Douglas Limo would be an answer that I would is a great one, I vp I'm very shaky on No, he would not.

Who who's he gonna beat? That's really got over there?

No, I mean, Pico's got a long way to go, a very long way to go.

A j McKee seems interesting. He's still prospect you know, but you put him up there. Any of the women Cyborn, I.

Was gonna say Laborg certainly, what about a Lima Le Do you think she's.

I do think so, but I think she's still like, here's the thing, she became champion really early in her career, Like, if you talk to her, she's almost like, do I even deserve to be here? She's got a bit of that imposter syndrome. So I think she actually really talented. But I also think it's good that she's in Deltore because she's getting that seasoning. So give her her a year or two and I think she'd be very competitive. Right now, I'm a little bit less convinced about that, so that's not no for me.

Is what about in this very entertaining featherweight Grand Prix? Obviously you mentioned Pipple, anyone else? I mean, Durian Caldwell has really start.

Caldwell when he When Caldwell is at his best, he's a tough out man. He's a really tough out but the problem is he's kind of flaky in that regard. Yeah, I mean, Adam Borich just showed something that was the thing. Adam Borich is really good dude and cal Caldwell.

I mean you need those losses, though, you need those losses.

Yeah again, Patrisio Pipple is the I was the big one there wanat Treletta I thought pretty good about but he's obviously had run to a little bit of difficulty. Who we sleeping on anyone of that heavyweight's over there? No? Because they kick each other in the stick a lot. Yeah, yeah, a lot of ball, Yeah kicking. Yeah. Is ball kicking legal in beltiware? If not, it should be, it should be, it should be. Yeah. Okay, So the next one, what is the largest animal that France is in Ghanu? Could ko? It's from Riggins thirty two. That's a great question. Yeah, there we go.

Rigg is thirty two a regular right Texas forever.

This guy's all over our show. Yeah, what's the largest animal? And gun it? Could ko? Do you want to see something crazy? Go ahead and pick your answer. If someone sent this to me and I almost like ship my pants.

Well spoiler alert, Luke, we're going to see based on your love for it, We're gonna see some animal and human violence and some have you seen this ship?

All that? All that I care about it? But could I ghanu knock out a right. Look at the size of these grizzly bear paws? Yaikes? Is that not as you see it? Look at that ship? Is that not crazy? So? I don't think he can beat a grizzly bear.

I don't think he can beat a rhino or a No, I think I could it just short of a bear.

Worry, hold on, he could beat a dog, right, Oh, yeah, he could beat the fuck out of a dog.

What about a large catapuma attacked him?

Could he not get cold? I think he could see everyone else. All I remember that guy who was like, oh, this hiker fought back against this mountain lion and killed it. And then you look at the mountain lion. It was like thirty two pounds. So do my daughter is twenty five pounds? Like, you know, I don't find that impressive. Okay, what about the let let's let's shake things up a little bit. What about Francis versus a dolphin. What if Francis just jumped into taking the water, just jumped in to take a SeaWorld and just started laying the hammers down? All right?

What about Francis against both Paul brothers at the same time.

Oh, dude, I wouldn't be able to watch that fight with my pants on. I'd be so excited about Francis. I'd be king tug for that fight. Watching Francis decapitate those two zero's, Oh my god, that'd be the happiest day of my life. So that's good. And those are also low level primates, so you could count that they'd be in the primate house, those two idiots.

The problem is if he doesn't ko these animals, he's he's getting mauled because I.

Mean, they've all got teeth. With my dog and that jaws just yeah, if you could beat up, could he beat up? Like remember Van Dam in the one of those movies like took the Snake and then he was like popping it with the other hand. Was it fuck you know, hard to fuck or whatever the movie.

I don't put Van Dam in that elusive group with the Schwarzenegger stallone segal. I think he's a step down, although I do respect that.

Sorry we just touched. Does that mean that was almost tip on? That was our first but it was more like the Sistine Chapel where God was touching Yeah.

Wow, I would say though that that sudden death you know the hockey movie, although that's very I mean.

No, no, no, no, the Kumaite one blood Sport, that's the killer. Well that's that's that's Hall of Fame material. But uh, that hockey movie I thought revived his career. But it's not believable though, that some martial arts master can just walk in on the Stanley Cup Finals, put on the goalie gear and then shut down the other team and win the game. That's true, that's true. That's actually been disproven by a five thirty eight. I'll go pick pick an animal. I'll go the highest he could beat. I'll say I'll say a a A runt of the letter black bear. Those are the smallest bears and the bear family.

You take out any skinny bodied want a deer, a kangaroo deer?

He has a good one. You ever see that dude, that that redneck fight that deer. Once he sprayed himself with like the the attraction spray when the deer's were in heat. Hold that thoat, hold that thought. Oh yes, yes, yes, Watching rednecks get beat up by animals is my favorite thing in the world. All right, Next, what do you guys think about that barbaric foot stomp rule. I think it's dirty, and a lot of them fighters barely use it. Imagine John Jones, who's never lost a fight, gets terribly foot stomped on his bad toe to the point he's compromised and possibly loses. Brian Campbell, I like it.

I like that there's still barbaric elements in this game where uh, you know, sidekick to the knee.

People think that's dirty.

It's part of the game, you know, block it, get out of the way of it.

It's it's I don't know, it's only dirty when John Jones does every other fighter does it. No one says anything.

You know, you're Professor Salt and Pepper. A little spoiler alert on your dissected This week there's the cheese grater against the I love things like that where you can use elements of the fight game that brings me back to the early UFC fields. Luke like we just bleed. It's still real with me, dammit. I still have that hook back to the early days where I know it needed to be sanitized and cleaned up. In the game is real martial arts and it's real fighting, and there's commissions and all that. But I still love that outlaw feel and having these rules in there. I don't need soccer kicks, you know what I'm saying. I don't necessarily need twelve to six elbows, although it's a little ridiculous to ban that when you can do so much other stuff.

But yeah, the question is self contradicting. I think it's dirty and a lot of EMMY fighters barely use it. Well, if the fighters barely use it, what does that tell you it's not especially effective. Yes, you've never seen a high level fighter lose a fight or even really be affected by it, because it's a waste of time. Yeah. People are always like, welly don't they just titty twist each other? Yeah, it's not you know, why don't you just tickle someone in jiu jitsu? Because it doesn't work? Yeah, why don't you just check their oil? Actually, I think there's rules against that. That. Well, that's when you start to get weird. Yeah, of course, of course you the you know you would you would go that direction. So yeah, the answer is leave it. And also, here's the thing. I like certain techniques that are just mean. I like the ones that are just a little bit mean. It's mean, but covering their their but it doesn't work very well, so who cares? All right? Last one? Uh, this is from Tylareans. If you both happened I'm gonna read it as they wrote it. If you both happened to be professional fighters and had the opportunity to give each other nicknames. Oh Jesus Lord, oh God, I know what you're gonna call me? What would they be? And why? I'll let you go first, Brian.

So many directions I can go here, Luke, I wish I was prepped on this.

You know, you have a choice here. You have a choice to say something nice and cool, or you have a choice to be a little So which choice are you going to take? Here?

What do you want me to call you? The the stupe Professor, Luke Thomas?

I mean, come on, something you could call me like the DC Strangler or something. I don't know. That's kind of man, I can get behind that, right yeah, I mean it doesn't make any sense, but we're just giving you the nicknames. Why not? All right? I like the Dutch Oven, Luke Thomas. That's kind of.

Because I always imagine every time I walk on a plane, triggering my way, I just imagine you crop dusting the whole first class section.

So the whole first class buddy, I'm landing planes because of coronavirus. Right, what would we call you like Brian the bus stop masturbator Campbell? Oh that's not fair?

Is that the direction we go? That's not nice or fair? You know, Prince Tug? I mean where we going, Prince Tug. That's a great one. I don't know have you ever thought about, like, what does your friends call you?

In high school? Everybody in my size loser and face. Everybody in my.

Hometown of Noggs, Connecticut, from third grade through age twenty eight when I moved out.

Called me soup.

Jesus, that's a sad nick to the level that there are generations of people who didn't know I had a first.

So why did they call you soup? Because you sat alone eat soup all the time? Probably because my life you're talking about me being the trench cope Maffia.

Probably because my last name is Campbell. I don't know if you could get that connection any.

Well, you grew up with some zero's.

I mean, I grew up in a factory town, Luke, and I'm damn.

Yah, it's showing. It's showing all right, let's give a nickname to you, Brian Campbell. Yeah, but see, you don't want to do the thing where it's like, you know, Curtis Razor Blades or you know what I mean, the thundering turd. That's a decent one. Okay, it's a decent one. Yeah, you know what. I like that. It's a little bit. But you give the Brazilian way. You gotta Why don't we know, no, why don't we just call you fat Lance bass.

Those Yeah, yeah, that is that is uh my Wade.

Nick names work is someone's got to give it to you. You know that happens in jail too, Yes it does, but they're very different nicknames are With that in mind, speaking of jail and weird jokes, it is your turn.

Hey, it's time for us to span the globe for the good, the bad, and the ugly and combat sports.

It's time, Luke for have you seen this shit? Luke?

I know it's always dick jokes and people getting knocked the fl How about some good news for once to start the show. Do you remember paralyzed X heavyweight boxer Maguma Abdu Salamos, who's the guy in New York, New York. He lost that fight to Mike Presdent twenty thirteen, was paralyzed. He has made a miraculous comeback to the point that he can communicate with his family. And this is him in the gym, actually working out and hitting the pads. If you're not touched by this, having known even a you know, a smidgen of his story, this is amazing. He's a you know, good for him, a dad, a husband, and I love to see this.

Luke. Well he wasn't. I mean, I don't know if he was expected to survive. No, he was not, much less him getting into some degree of mobility.

Yes, him getting to this level where he can actually talk and communicate is a massive miracle. So when I saw this, I was good for him, very moved by that. All right, now to the fun ish Are you ready here, Luke, You're a big star.

I was like, Wow, this is gonna be a morbid turn if you're making you're a big star.

Wars guy watched Floyd Mayweather, five time champion used the Force to close that door.

You like that? I like that more than the Force Away or the Return of the Rise of Skywalker.

Look at Floyd, he just just has to just has to wiggle the fingers there and people in.

Yeah, but what's he doing with the left hand.

It's like you in college. You'd wiggle the fingers and all the doors would close for potential hook cups.

Right, it's terrible thing.

Not terrible, right, all right, that's not actually the best use of the force in public. Have you ever heard of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson? Watch him use the force on this camera?

Oh my god, former mayor of London.

Yeah yeah, check that out again. Look you just leave the Yeah, yeah, let's get the hell out of here. Yeah, nice, done right there, All right, let's see some violence here. I like slam Ko's you.

Know, don't let the boys be boys, right, yes, slam.

This is from Cage Steele in England. Oh my god.

Wow, he's doing the whole bit like he's reaching out there for someone's you flip them off afterwards.

Oh my god, he's never gonna see again.

How do you come back from that? Watch his knee touch his nose, his nose. Watched himself watch the knee touch.

The Oh my god, that is.

That's actually how you passed the guard. Henzl Gracie always talks about it.

That is violent.

As he always says, if you're gonna pass with the pressure pass, the rule of thumb is make him smell their own knee.

It start wow. It started making me, uh, you want to smell my finger? They started making me up.

You can't. I can't bring up any any like sense like hearing or sight or smell without you sexualizing in the most word weird way. You have therapy session. Did you have conversations with your kids like this? You just take it out on me.

Look, this is how you seen this shit. It's wild.

Anything can happen.

I started wondering if that's the nastiest k I've ever seen? Shot out rampage a couple of times. Look at this throw back to twenty sixteen. Do you remember this from legacy Gerald Harrison, This man to Hell looke, that's still violent. That still gets me.

It's only cad.

In fact, the man who sent this in at Skeleton Mitch on Instagram, he said this is a five star hotel with complimentary breakfast in Hell courtesy of Gerald Harris. Look at that.

Yeah, when they're looking off into the sunset, that's when you know that it went badly in their brain. Man, that's a pro wrestling move. That's a finish right there. It's just so weird that you can't punch to the back of the head but you can slam them to the back.

Of the Yeah, they call that a sitout power bomb and pro wrestling. Oh and look at he gave him like the you know, peace out right, He gave him the the deuces.

He chucked the deuce. Wow, I can't say I'm forty all right, Hey, Luke, you ever heard of UFC veteran Clay Collared.

Yes, lost boxing once, lost to Max Halloween in twenty fourteen, big upset of unbeating prospect Raymond Guihardo. This past weekend.

He actually looked pretty good too PBC.

On Fox in Beau Ravage in Biloxi. Our friend Ray Flores on the call. So in round one it was while both guys hit the canvaas. But Collard comes back in round two and just gives it to this guy Guhardo and stops him in a massive Collared years ago, I think he had like a one to four record in the UFBC. He did poorly, but Loudabella tweeted at him and was like, hey, call me. I want you know, I'll put you on one of my cars. By the way, did you see the post fight in ring interview? No, Guhardo did the old Macy Barber bit where like they're interviewing the Winter and he just comes over and he's like, I want to thank everybody forst Griffin Steele moment.

Yeah, that was not great, Bob, not nice upset right there?

All right here, I was in Disney World over the weekend, but this actually took place on the Vegas Strip. You see this brawl. Look at Minie Mouse.

Look at that right hand right there, bron Mouse went to work on this.

Oh wow, Look even Nicky got hit.

Did you see that doesn't stop moving? See the big big red there from uh she she stopped then.

To get full mount? I mean, will you let Mini Mouse give you full mount?

Right? That is just wow?

Kind of looked like their their their honeymoon. Right?

That was? What was that Disney movie is called like the Wild where the girl has red hair? Is that what it's called the cartoon? I don't I don't know. I don't have Disney Plus yet. All right, but do you saw Mandalorian? Yeah? What's it called Illegally? But brave, brave. It's like it's like the overweight brave version.

Let it go, right, can't hold me back anymore?

But did you understand if you have this job, you've seen these dogs in.

Times squad and gross.

Yeah, but also like, dude, that's like that's a job that will I mean, you know, if that's not rock bottom, it's pretty close.

Look at Mickey get that hook.

Wow. Well, here's the thing. These are not people to play with. She fight a security guard? So what actually?

Ye do this?

What started this? Who knows? But the point being is due. These are people down on their luck who have tough jobs. Don't mess with them. Yeah, don't mess with them.

Speaking of that, random street fights, people are bringing MMA moves now into street fights. You want to check out this one. Watch this spinny shit all that's a trained person and then watch what happens next. That's what's your favorite superheroes. That's a trained person. That is a I'm not saying an expert, but these are relatives here.

What's going on here? Are you being racist again?

People have different cultures, can fight outside, Yeah.

They're sure list fighting in a brickyard. You didn't pick it because you thought it was a regal environed.

I didn't even mention coffee or cocaine.

I'm just saying, you know, God, you're so racist. First of all, watch watch when he does a spinning back kick, he looks around. Look so how he looks first. Yes, that's a trained person. Everyone who's never been trained, they just throw their body around. But you have to look. You have to see what you're throwing at. If you don't, so, yeah, dude, this is basically some old man. You know, I've noticed I like it when animals beat up humans. You like watching young people beat the elderly. That is your favorite thing. This is like the fourth Week where you're like, yo, watch this old guy get hit by al All right, hey, this is Luke's favorite time.

Now it's man against beasts. Do we start out here? Redneck versus a deer? Is this one you were talking about?

See? This is animal abuse. But if the dude gets sucked up about.

It, God, look at that rights and left. This guy's getting off.

Yes, this loser out of there.

You're saying he sprayed the the.

Uh this is not the one. So the one I saw was actually in the field. This is like his friends clowning him.

Oh, and you've seen this one making the rounds. Look at this.

No, I'm not do house cats.

Lilia this. This cat's got gotten m in my background. Look you you messed with.

The cat is clearly annoyed.

Oh what's this? Hammer fist? Hammer fists trying to is that Holly Holm?

What is going on? Mittens? Look at mittens. Welcome Mitten's patient, patient patient.

What that cat does does not fight like a pussy.

Oh my god. Yep, and I said stay off me and clean.

My litter box already. I love that ship all right. Hey, speaking of animal and human violence, you want to see this one of this guy against a cow. Watch this. Oh, this is utterly ridiculous. Look you're seeing this.

Oh my god, milk was a bad choice.

Luke, what is going on right now? Can I get any comments out of you?

Luke? The exit is that way? Oh?

Keep it going, Jay, keep it going. It gets better. Look at this tombstone. It's not over yet though. This guy's still Oh wow, laugh it up.

Cow. You are in desperate need of You are in desperate need of psychological intervention.

He did, he did, speaking of he did break out the titty twister in there? Do you see that the nipplenook?

How did you find this?

It found me, Luke? If it obviously found me? Look at this matrix style?

Right, so this must have been made relatively recently.

Is that milk that that's getting shot?

Which secretion? Is that? Luke? All right, we can get off that.

We do have one more potential human uh, presidential candidate Mike Bloomberg shaking hands in Okay?

Why was this so caught?

Moles? What is going on? What is it with presidential candidates putting their hands where they shouldn't you give? Just grab her by the biscuits? I have a dog. I wouldn't greet the dog by putting my hand in the in the.

Watch the dog's mannerisms. The tail never stops and he just yawns and he's cool.

Who shakes a dog by the grizzle hair?

I mean this year? Here's my point, nobody, but here's the thing. And Bloomberg sucks. But here's the thing. What is the whole point of having a dog if you can't greet it like a Monty python sketch? Isn't the whole point that you can rough it up and play with its ears and shake its snout and make a dance with you. That's the whole point of having because you can't do that with the cat. We saw what happens with the cat. Cat says I, having none of that. The whole point about getting a dog is a dude, a dog is basically a loyal, stupid friend. Why not get Why not?

Are you defending Bloomberg here?

Yes, you're this is not a big deal. Have I ever done that? I've never done that.

But what is your hand in a dog's mouth that you've never met?

Like? Oh, blow it up, Jay, one more time? Blow it up Jay. He doesn't put his hand in the mouth. He grabs his skin along.

Met my wife, honey, bend over like, I mean, like, where are we going with this?

He didn't put it in any other orifice other than the mouth. Don't be weird. Don't be weird. I know you're weird. Don't be weird. Resist the urge.

Oh, this is air defense from you.

It's not, dude, This is a This is a bunch of people claiming to like, not like a thing. That's not a thing. People all the time like I'm scared of clowns. No, you're not all your friends in school said that you just continue it because you don't want to be different. I'll be different. There's nothing wrong with this. Having a dog is all about being able to rough house.

I've see I've been bitten by many a dog. I would never, for an opening move go in there.

I mean it's like, well, some of us have better relationships with dogs.

Everyone crocodile dal Dundee wanted to find out who he was talking to, and he just went right underneath and grab.

You can't do that. Yes, that was transphobia of the eighties and nineties. You can't just put your hand in a dog's mouth. Yes you can, Yes you can if a dog is mild mannered. And you're like me, I'm like Caesar Milan. You know. I go in there and I just dominate the space. I can do whatever I want.

I can't wait for your your parenting years to evolve.

I've got two dogs, bro, You at like I've never done this before.

It's going to be a great case there, bro.

I go in there with my dogs and I let you know, there's one alpha in the pack.

So you can put your hands anywhere, is what you're saying.

I don't I don't molest my dogs. I'm simply saying.

That this is the opening green.

The only thing wrong with this greeting is that it's unusual and goofy. Other than that, there's no problem. And the whole point about having a dog is that you can be goofy with it.

Hey, you want to do some head kicks from hell? Yes, here's volume one. Check out this capaera kick from Ali Flint at shock in aw uk shout out you at Simon Gallagher thirteen for some is that kick?

Why wouldn't it be jump man eight eight eight seven seven seven five five.

I mean that's perfection, Luke.

Yeah, when they bounce off the canvas like that, that's pretty great.

Oh yes, all right, I got another one here. It's an insane Falloway kick.

Luke.

Watched the guy in the Red Schwartz. He's tweaking on a whole new level gfunk step to this.

I dare you? Wow? Oh? Is he going to testify in church? Let's see? Does he testify? No?

Here?

Hold this? Do you know testifying in church? Yes? I do, I do. We've been through this on when the head flops back and in the hands we got but.

Have you seen this before they catch the kick and they basically just turn it into like a switch kicks and any pettis. I mean, that's that's fantastic.

Oh, you know it's kind of similar. Do you remember who is andre Berto's brother, Edson Berto? Yes? Remember Edsen Berto got hit with that knee from Eves Edwards. So Eves kicks Edsen Berto. Edson catches it and they're kind of holding the leg, and out of nowhere, Eves just jumps in while the leg is caught and knees ets it in the face. It's kind of similar to that.

Know. Andre Berto's late father was an alternate at UFC ten in the tournament.

I did know that.

I thought, uh, in the and then off TV bout and.

Then those Berto is a tough bastard. Yeah, but if you're gonna show great head kicks.

Jay had to add this in due to his history sparring with Uriah Hall. You remember this from twenty thirteen. Good, this is this guy's name, Adam Sella more like Adam Hella. You've been sent directly. Wow, it's I mean, it's look, what is that some street fighter stuff going on?

Oh? No, that was a nice ko though.

I mean yeah, thank you j for the hot duken. This was probably the scariest thing I've ever seen.

Oh, I've seen scarier KOs than that. You ever seen felony fights? No, I don't. I don't dip that far down the field Reddit, I regret it. So I've seen some pretty nice.

Hey, you know what has given us a lot of fun on this show? And have you seen this ship through the years? Punch machines, you know those things.

At the ark.

Let's go to some Europeans here. Well, this guy's not European, but I don't know if he'd be ping for look at he very could be.

Let's not turn the show into Honord guy is Europeans.

You see how badly this guy missed this, Luke. Lookay watch me, I'm gonna go fisting. Oh man, yikes.

Going to go fisting. How did I get suck with you again?

Okay, hey, that's that's uh. Let's move on.

Let's see more people embarrass themselves.

Look at this Father of the Year. He put his kid on Queer Street and.

You didn't even know it through Just wait, wait, wait, I'm not what hits the kid. I'm the following through with the right hand. No, the left and left elbow.

The left elbow is a spinning back elbow. Oh man, bro that poor little kid, he's checking his score though.

You got to give that dad credit for commitment. We can.

Let's bring in a European old lady. How do you think this is gonna end?

Luke badly?

Yeah, let's check this out. Jay in the back. If you got it, Oh wow, you hit it right in the tooth, Luke.

Oh man, yeah, I thought you know it gonna be honest. I thought when she rolled up on camera, I'm like, something is about to pop out. Yeah, and yeah, I don't mean her shoulder. It would have hit the ground too. This is not And I was glad that that's not what happened.

Yeah, I think we got one more for you.

Ah.

That's not how you do it. That is not how you do it, Luke. Yeah, yeah, that's enjoy that concussion. Wow, all right, maybe he set the record on the machine. Hey, Luke, we made it through all the way through.

Have you seen the ship? Wow? With no no stick, no dongs.

We gotta get going. It's to odds and endsta what is no? No?

What is this? Shotgun? And bang?

What's up? With that thing. I want to know, how does it hang?

Luke? I didn't.

This is no Jay, no, no good ball movement on that though. Right, it's like the seventeen New York Knicks.

Who hurt you? Old Marietta, who hurt you? Yeah? By proxy? Yeah? How are you? How are you this old and this enamored with Dill doos? Yeah?

Well you know, I'm a man of the people. This is what the people want, all right.

I didn't. I don't.

I don't write this ship, you know. Just all right, thank you, those are your viewers. Okay, time for odds and ends. I will go first. Super Bowl was yesterday. Yeah, man, I have to tell you you got some hot takes for me.

No. I thought it was a I have to tell you most of the time, the game is not that great or it's a bunch of teams I don't give a shit about. The commercials are overrated, the halftime act is some lame ass whatever the hell, and it ends, and I'm like, well, that was another four hours of my life wasted. I thought the game was a little bit slow at first, but picked up pretty great. Great game. I thought the halftime show was great. The commercial I know I just.

Know I'm racist somehow because I didn't like the halftime show.

I mean, who does it?

Like?

How on I married a Latin woman? So like, obviously they're my weakness. Okay, guilty is charged? Who how I just gay or straight? How could you watch that? If King Tug and I were watching it together?

But it would have been fantastic there, but you know with my wife, my kids just gone down to bed.

Suddenly there's your kids. If they had watched the whole thing, they would have their twelve Yeah, that would have been an education, buddy. They're going to start sprouting under arm hair. Yeah after that. Yeah, you're welcome, Shakiro. I mean anyway, the point being is, I thought the halftime show was great.

By the way, how many people googled age of both both.

Forty three and I think fifty? Wow? Pretty? I mean, dude, Shakira has been like shaking her hips since I was in college. Bro, Like unbelievable. It's still not lying exactly. And then I thought, Shreeper, come out on, hold on. And then I thought the commercials were not bad, the whole Aquaman benching, the bar thing. I was moved by the commercials this year I did not like the one who's the country western guy who did the dance off with Little nas X for the Doritos.

Sam who Sam Elliott from Sam.

Elliott from UH was like, dude, Sam Elliott would not.

Lose from this swayzy movie, the yeah, what do you call it?

The Samue would not lose this the bar with the bar, the double down, what's it call?

What's the dame?

But the hun day who parks itself? And everyone was Captain America and everyone was doing the Boston accent. I thought, you know what, the section turned out to be a pretty enjoyable Super Bowl roadhouse roa roadhouse, Yes, yes, the one that Ronda ROSSI was supposed to remake.

And then well not all yeah, what a I don't want to go NFL breakdown on you, but Mahomes three years in the.

League, I'll say this m VP. I'll say this super Bowl Champion, and that those two drives, those are like career three drives because they came back to twenty to ten and put hung twenty one rear making moments. Yeah, he was not great up until he needed to be, and then he absolutely was and a star was born by the way to me, everyone's better at Shanahan about some of his play calling. You know, when I picked up one, tell me if you agree with this. Uh, yes, the timeout probably could have and should have been taken. They didn't want to give the ball back. But the way he talks about it, and you know the lack of throws from Jimmy G. By the way of Jimmy G lands that that last throw was on a third down, it's a completely different ball game. I don't think Kyle Shanahan trust Jimmy G. I think i'd explained some of the play calling.

They didn't go to Kittle at all, which you think he thinks Jimmy G is more of a game manager.

I think that dilfer. Yes, I think that's exactly what he thinks. Wow.

Meanwhile, Jimmy G thinks he's Tom Brady.

He ain't. He ain't. He's a poor man's he's not even. I mean, that was like a Kirk Cousin's kind of performance, to be quite honest with you. So it was like RG three today, type of no. RG three is barely can barely walk. We're gonna see RG three get beat up by somebody on have you seen this ship? Because he's gonna be elderly and then some kid is gonna walk there with a hammer and then you know, knock out his teeth or something, and they're gonna be like, hello, well look at the older you get sucked.

Up odds and ends on. You saw Yoanna Young day Check's little joke on?

Yeah, she's so funny.

Okay, I didn't hate this?

Is it? Is? It?

Is it bad taste? Yes, it's awful, But luke, do you just tell me if you agree or disagree in the fight game there should still be room.

For don't you dare say racism not racism? No?

I guess I can't back this up advocates for racism.

White against Asian superstar. Yeah, okay, I'm take me out of that that lane. I'm not in that lane. Okay almost.

You know how about this? They should be able to say mean ship to each Yes, that's my whole point. Okay, I agree.

Was this bad taste? One hundred percent? I wasn't offended on the level comparative to Actually.

I have a I said this in my lat Chat. I actually know some I have some Chinese friends out in town and their kid at school got bullied because kids came up to him because he was Chinese. They were like, oh, you must have the coronavirus. I'm not saying that's what you want to and j Check was doing, and I agree, people are gonna say mean shit to each other in this game.

I just think, look, whether we're talking about the real fight game, we're pro wrestling, all of that is just such a carnival of We're watching people, you know, getting grudge matches against other and strike each other.

You kind of need. Here. Here's my only problem. I don't what she actually said was not I didn't. I didn't think it was that big a deal. It wasn't great, but I'll like, you know whatever, people just say awful things. The problem was when she doubled down and then she held up the Chinese noodles and then gave herself the slat. She goes, oh, I love Chinese people, and then she like pulls the was the fake apology that she put out there? She did that the Chinese rewind the show taken and then uh, you know, she also told Claudia Gadilli to go back to the jungle where she belonged. Here's the thing, and here's the thing. The problem with the fight game is you have to allow for people to be mean to each other and to say things that bother you. But then you get to situations where like Mike Perry is out there like calling people the word, and you're like, well, this is so clearly far past the beginning, except and then what the boundary is often gets a little bit difficult to part one is obvious, one may not be. So, you know, in the end, I don't think what she said the first thing was that big a deal.

He doubled down that bad.

Bad She ended up deleting it later, but yeah, go look that up. I was like, dude, what are you doing? In any event? But you know what, my brother said this to me, and one of his friends did too. They're like, do you really expect these people to have enlightened worldviews about, you know, anything? And I'm like, well, sort of, I guess I do, you know, but maybe maybe not. I don't know. I don't know what the answer is, but.

I guess I just think we shouldn't burn them down for it.

We should be left it just at that. To me, it's that's that's what I would consider permissible territory, distasteful one hundred percent distasteful is fair game if you ask. Speaking of distasteful, it's making the rounds.

That video it was in Miami at what a celebrity basketball game.

It looked to be on a basketball court of some kind. Going by Gionte Davis is what would you say when the rising stars of boxing? It appears that his next fight, in all likelihood, after beating Ricardo Nunez and then HARRYS Cambo in his last fight in Atlanta, is all set for a bit Wellvin Farmer Tevin Farmers out of over running, but a big, a big fight on pay per view.

That could be a pay per view date with Leo Santa Cruz.

We hear those rumbling. He's also like the next big star I think in the urban community after American communit, Floyd Mayweather has metaphorically and quite literally put his arm around him. He's like on the come up in a real way. The problem is this video surfaced in the stands where he rolls up on I don't know who the woman was, and it looked at first like he was choking her. I don't think that's what he was doing at all, actually, but nevertheless, he was grabbing the clothes. Let's just be honest, like almost like police escorting somebody. I think she was the mother of one of his Uh, okay, what do you want to say about it? It is an obviously horrible it's.

A horrible it's a horrible also, dude, in any era, in any year, it's just a horrible.

Look. That was brazen. Yeah, to do that in the era of social media, and then just in front of everybody. It's one thing to be like, well, this is a thing you should condemn, yeah, obviously, and another one it's like, dude, what's wrong with you that you think you can just a do that to women and be in public like, no, no sense.

It's a potentially awful black eye that I hope he in his camp address.

Yeah they have, they have to address it. Yeah, they have to. And it's not like you owe me personally an apology, but the world should know that. You realize, dude, you can't under no circumstance could you ever, And.

You just don't want to say.

I saw people being like, oh, well, what did she do? Dude? Unless she burned his family at the stake, it's irrelevant what she did. What do you mean, what does she do. She's a person, she's entitled to her own agency. You don't put hands on a woman like that.

Ever, you hate to see that when somebody has that right of a potential, because this is somebody who's been a babyface, a guy who were saying is like the Mike Tyson of the small Wave just had a guy with a giant marketable future and an ability to make such huge fights and become he's ready to make that pay per view leap.

You want him staying on, going down a much different path. Yeah, dude, this is this is I don't think this is going to end his career, and I don't think it's the kind of offense that should end his career. On the other hand, this is not effective behavior. This is not effective risk management. This is terrible. And again I'm not here to say, oh, well, you know what, that's it. Boxing career is over. On the other hand, holy shit, dude, you what was I don't know what he was thinking.

I mean, we've seen a lot of this behavior in combat sports in the NFL. It sucks hopefully that we're at a point now where can we just wipe this out?

And also social media, so I hope to and by the way, you know, hope the boxing we're addressing it on this show Boxing media should ask him about it, and hopefully he has an effective answer, which is I wasn't thinking clearly. I'll never do it again, and I apologize to everybody who saw that, and of course to the woman involved as well. And here's the promise and a guarantee it'll never happen again. Okay, all right, that would be a good first step, I think, So we'll see how it goes.

Well, that's the show for this week. I was in Disney over the weekend. I don't want to bury that lead. My kids turned twelve, A nice little surprise getaway.

Have you been in Disney lately at all? Only as a kid, not a long time?

Oh okay, they've really stepped.

Up the ride. Did you go to the Star Wars exhibit? I did? How was it at the art?

It's good at Disney's Hollywood studio. So you have to get there. You have to basically wake up at five am, get to the park more than an hour before it opens. They let you in the park, but only halfway. And then the second the park opens at seven, you get on your app and you have to try to get a reservation for this Rise of the Resistance, which is like their super ride. They got a couple of New Star Wars rides in a full area, but this one ride. If you don't get it, then that five seconds when you hit the button, you can't go on it. There's no fast pass, there's no lines. You have to make it correct, and we made it. We were in the tenth group, and it is like being in the movie. There's different stations, different vehicles you're traveling in, and then you're actually in the ride and it is legitimately how the people that work there, they're dressed up as the Empire and they're treating you like your rebel star heard it is worth. It's worth the whole hoops you have to jump through to get there.

Did you boys have a good now? You tricked them because they didn't know they were going on vacation. Did did Did the trickery work? It worked? It was fantastic. The surprise reveal was great. I used to not be into the stuff because I was a selfish. I'm still kind of selfish, but like now that having a kid investing in their joy and their joy only I don't do it to get joy back, but just watching my daughter get happy with things I do for dude, like it fills off.

Even though they're twelve. So they're able to get into the mode of being in the magic of Disney at a level that I never thought was possible at that age because I was too what's the word I'm looking for at that age, to expose to too much, to to spoil, to ruined at that point to where it even allows me, as a dad in that moment, to get into that. And I'll can tell you what Star Wars, what Disney does great. They never They've never been one for out of control thrill rides. And now that I'm old, now that I'm forty one, I can't go on many rides without getting affed up, like without getting legitimately like touch drunk.

Coming off of there. Do they still have Space Mountain?

They do, And that one hurts bad. That's about the limit for me. They are making these new roller coasts. They have the Seven Dwarfs Mind Train, which is arguably the best ride in all of Disney.

It's so smooth, it's so perfect.

Anybody of any age can feel like they're in a throw ride without actually but Rock and Roller Coaster at Disney Hollywood Studios, the Aerosmith Ride.

Still, I think the best one is expensive. Still, I've heard it thisy it's crazy to be expensive.

We bought park Opper tickets and yeah, it's if you don't get Amazon Prime to deliver groceries to your hotel room, which we didn't do, you're doing it wrong and you're basically eating chicken fingers and burgers every single meal and then you feel gross and want to stick it, stretch out a hanger and stick it down your throat and retrieve all.

The My daughter's only nine months old, so it hasn't been thrust upon me.

Yeah, my kids hanger, so you can presas stretch.

Out you know what I'm saying? Like I turned how old lasting on this one because we had to move Alonge. How old should a kid be before you take them to here's the thing? You took your kids there and they don't remember it.

So until my kids have been there five times in ten years and most recently four years ago, they don't even.

Remember from four years money bags No, I worked at ESPN. There's bags cam.

Look, there's a hook up at ESPN. That that the people that have worked there know about. Okay, you get free admission, half price at the resorts, no, thirty percent off food, twenty five percent off merchandise. Yeah, it's it's uh, it's next level ish. My parents live right now there too. Didn't have to pay for hotels.

Then you got to work at ESPN and you got to be a part of the problem. So yeah, there's that. I mean, just taking a cheap dig. All right, let's do this. Guys and ladies really appreciate you watching. Please give the video a thumbs up. They've lost some female viewers along the way. Yeah, we've we we punted on female viewership seven shows ago. Like the video, subscribe to the channel, hit that notification bell. So anytime Morning Combat uploads anything, because remember they piece out portions of this conversation and they make separate videos for it. Spread it around, Tell a friend, subscribe to the channel. We really want your support. We really want to grow this show.

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We ever revealed? I mean, once you open up that Pandora there, you know.

It's like revealing a skin tag. Do you really need to do that? I could just yeah, it's like revealing dandrus. You don't have to put your head down something by not seeing it down.

A bull's asked to get a good look at a tebow one steak. You know, I could just take the Butcher's word for it. You know, it's like, no, you no, it's your bull. Actually I don't know what you're saying, So I'm gonna move along. We have to go. I have another job to go to. We appreciate you guys tuning in. That's Brian Campbell. I'm Luke Thomas. Until next time they all of your games. Be loyal, Please don't be weird.

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