MORNING KOMBAT WITH LUKE THOMAS AND BRIAN CAMPBELLUFC 310 RECAP, UFC 312 Reaction, Maycee Barber Interview | MORNING KOMBAT
No where better to go after a huge UFC card then right here for MORNING KOMBAT! Luke and BC are back in studio to break down all the big results from the weekend. In the main event, Alexandre Pantoja submitted a feisty, but overmatched Kai Asakura in the second round of Saturday's main event. If he can't get a Demetrious Johnson fight, what should be next for him? Is Pantoja the second-best flyweight of all time?
Plus, in a huge co-main event, Shavkat Rakhmonov earned the decision win over Ian Garry, but is it fair to say Garry's stock might've risen more than Rakhmonov's? They also react to the rest of the important results across the full card, including a win for Ciryl Gane, and a prelim loss for Aljamain Sterling.
Looking ahead, UFC 312 was announced and the guys react to the news that Sean Strickland is going to rematch Dricus du Plessis in the main event of UFC 312 in Australia. Was Khamzat Chimaev snubbed? While, Tatiana Suarez will face Zhang Weili in the co-main event for the women's flyweight title. Suarez had two fights cancelled in the UFC and is now moving into a title shot. Is that fair?
Finally, Maycee Barber joins the show to update the guys on her return to the cage!
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It's time to bank. Oh yeah, Monday, Monday. Can't trust that day. But we are back to bang. It's Morning Combat Monday, December ninth, two thousand and twenty four, and you've reached the best damn combat sports show of all time period. Luke Thomas Monday, Brian Campbell and Luke. Speaking of popular music, how about jay Z. Seems like he's got a hundred problems now.
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Maybe he took that Wu tang is for the children line too, you know too?
Literally right, different different different boroughs in New York. Jay's from Brooklyn, tenants from Staaten.
That didn't prevent my joke from crossing over.
Wu Tang's from a few different places, including Long Island, Thank you very much?
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I'll walk that back that that's pretty great. Yeah, I thought you were gonna say like you got or something. I'm like, yeah, you can keep them.
He's still counting. So that is Long Island. Luke Usia, your producer degenerate director.
Dude, nobody will get in defense of Wu Tang clan more than white guys past their thirties. Yes, yeah, that's the number one.
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Yeah, he's just crawling over that line.
We have a fantastic MK episode for you today, not just an extensive breakdown of all things you FC three ten over the weekend from wow wow Wow, I'm sorry, protsky host. I meant to say Luke, of course, Alexandre, how about that breakthrough victory once again to continue his flyweight title streak, Ian Gary making believers, But maybe Schafkap was hurt.
We'll get into that.
May She Barber Live twelve thirty pm Eastern Time gonna stop and we'll find out when she's getting back into the cage, right hopefully. And also we'll look ahead. How about that UFC three twelve card coming up?
Gonna be a banger, Yeah, fun main event? Should it have been a different main event? That's the question right over there. Yeah, I'm okay about that. Yeah, thank you.
We're gonna find that out, Luke. We also have what I'm calling a fantastic batch of hysts.
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Shout out to that, all right, Yeah, we did good. We had a good time, got high and won some money.
You know, we're a plus boyfriends too, huh, the both of you. What yeah, what I'm saying, you're not spending seven hours, Like, how would I justify to your How would you justify to your wife when you're not on the road spending seven hours with your friends, smoking marijuana, watching fights without losing said wife? Well, he was working.
You know, it's a side gig.
It's a side Is that your side hustle? Yeah?
Yeah, side hustle.
You know, honey, I'm working over here, all right. You know, it's saying all right, great, Luke, do you have anything else you want to say? Great weekend for you in DC.
No. I was tired of shit. I was ruined by the lack of sleep. I did do that gig on Friday LFA, Yes, which was which was a little bit of a juggling act. They gave me a list, and I understand, I'm not blamited, buddy. You know this. In the fight game, sometimes they'll tell you, hey, Tank is thirty seconds away. Yes, and then they're like, right at the five second mark, Tank will be here in another two hours. Yeah, It's just how the fight game goes. And that happened a little bit. The fight card that I had received, but who was going to be on it didn't It didn't really match the one that was on.
The show, the vamp.
It wasn't so much vamping. I just didn't know who they were.
Remember that time, we were gonna call like three hours of pre LIMB card boxing, and like five minutes before, you like, I can't do it, I'm out.
Yeah, Well my kid had undred Yeah, a very serious situation.
I was still left on surviving. I got you back. I think about six months later. Was so with a similar type setup right there. But that's about it for our pre show rambling and don't buy our merch just just yet.
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All right, let's get into the show. We got a busy show. It's gonna be rip, rock and roaring, and it's ready to go right now. UFC three ten over the weekend from Las Vegas, the final pay per view of twenty twenty four for the world's leading MMA promotion, and in the main event in the flyweight division, we'll certainly get to what went down as Kayasakura made his UFC debut and the champ was the champ once more. But Luke Thomas topic number one supports what was the biggest storyline coming in and might be coming out? It was the number one contender fight in that comin event five rounds welterweight division and Shavcott Rockmanoff in the end earning the unanimous decision over Ian Gary through five rounds, three rounds to two on all three scorecards. But is it fair to say, however, despite the rock mont Off win, that Ian maschad Olgary Stock might have risen even in more higher than that of the victor Rochmanoff, who secured the title shot he had already secured against Bela Muhammad Luke. We were talking more about Ian Gary coming out. Should that be the right topic and storyline at this moment?
Oh? Okay, So we all watched the fight, and then I gave a reaction that I thought was pretty positive of Gary, most of which I'm not going to change on today's show. Watched the fight subsequent times, reached out. I can say that I reached out to Justin Flores, who was the judo coach of Ronda Rausi, a guy who has specialized his entias a whole system called wall waza. Ne waza is what they call sparring and judo or no, that's Randry, but it's a similar kind of concept and it's all up against the wall, and I asked him to like kind of look at some footage and give me some feedback and whatnot. And then there was the admission by Daniel Cormier play that that rockmanoff may have been injured. Let's play it so we can get the context for today's conversation.
Despight tonight because Romano did not look like himself, even though uh I learned after that he had an injury. I think amount of tours MCL going into the fight, granted, with a torn ligament in your knee, you're not gonna look like the killer that's looked like in fights prior.
I got all my results. Now, I don't know what that Russian or cyrillic alphabet was on the screen. If there was some, there was kil white other I apologize, I don't know. I don't know what any of that stuff says. That's from his YouTube channel for data Cormy's YouTube channel. I think here's where I'm gonna come down on it with a little bit of some of this information and some perspective included. To me, there is no way you can look at this performance from Ian Gary and decide that the only way he performed ably is to grate him on a curve. Some great on a curve is now inevitable. If what is true about Schoffcott Rockmanov has been revealed, but.
He's still he still kept the fight. He still took the fight and signed it.
He still took it. And also, let me just make sure I didn't hear back and that mat shows. I texted Danny Rube Danny Rubinstein.
Jahoma wrestler, and it has a hairline that's fighting just the same, right. I love that guy.
I texted him this morning. I don't know what time zone he's in. I think he's on the Vegas time zone about this news to see if he would tell me what's up. If he responds, I'll let you know. Ian Gary is a very good defensive fighter. Now. I know his stats actually speak to maybe being offensive, but I don't think that's what the tape shows when you're up against guys like Rockmanov and Jeff Neil and some of the other ones. But he is very good defensively, BC great great footwork, fast, makes snap decisions in certain circumstances that makes him really.
Slippery length length, and he's solid, you know what I mean. He doesn't get overwhelmed, and.
He fights a game where rather than us Trey, I'm going to invest in the part of the game that sets up all of the trading, and I'm going to define terms in that way. And I would ask folks to look at this and say, did that fight in the end look more like a shof caught Rockmanov fight or did it look more like an Ian Gary fighter. It looked more, for the most part like an Ian Gary fight. However, I'm going to say two things in response to that. All of that is true, and Gary stock must have gone up in the minds of its coming out. Got to be. It's gotta be. But I will say on the offensive end, he's somewhat limited. His finishing ability relative to Rockmanov is like not even close. Like some of the takedowns. His head is on the wrong side some of his submissions. His head is on the wrong side because real polish in the finishing. He just clearly hasn't gotten to yet. And I think that still holds him back to a degree. I also think this guy was up. We talked about it. You asked, what's the relevance of having trained together to some extent, all the places you need to be to neutralize a guy, and maybe it stalls out a little bit there, but you're mostly safe. I think some of that played out as well. And I also think Rockmanov's injury assumed injury BC. There was opportunities where was Gary defending along the fence in a way that was legitimate and tough to deal with, no question, But there's also moments where Rockmanov is waiting around in spots where he wouldn't have So I think you have to raise Gary Stock at twenty seven years old, dude, he is good. He is legitimately good.
He's title good. I just title ready.
And I did some of this on Saturday. I want to you know now I'm thinking a little bit about it. I think at the margins, at a bare minimum, some of the burying of Rockmanov a little premature. That's fair.
Does this give you a get out of a jail free card on the idea that Rockmanov didn't fully take advantage of the moment in the situation. You can understand it with the injury call, but I think you were right to point out that there was also periods where he just didn't seem to fulfill fill the gap, and when it was an opening, there was that hesitation due an injury.
It's hard to know.
I will say that that the more often and it didn't happen often, but the more often that Chavecutt let his hands go that he was throwing combinations. Yes, Gary's defense was blocking a lot of it. But it's not like Gary was countering and make making shav Cut in that situation where he you know, wasn't too much danger to stand there and throw. I think they both did not benefit from single strike offense for a lot of it, you know it was it was too technical and two pinpoint to be fair, I thought shot Cut on one's one one runs one god one the first and second round mostly due to just landing the better strike.
When it was just a couple of strikes each for the most part.
Right, But when you're talking about the poise that Ian Machadle Gary showed. Is his game perfect now and perfectly well rounded. No, but his poise, his i Q, his his stubborness and certain category where's the gas tank? To go five rounds and then to put in a position where he's putting the boogeyman of the division in legitimate peril down three rounds to one entering the final round, didn't get the submission, didn't get it done.
In a good fourth round, by the way, for rock Mono.
Absolutely rock Mono felt the momentum turning and stuffed it out by finally securing the fake with the with the with the punches, getting down, getting the double leg, and really putting on, you know, some decent ground and pound. But I wonder if the criticism against both for not being offensive enough really just came down to that this was a chess match where they they canceled each other out. So well, I wonder that does it pull back to a certain degree on the idea that this killing machine is just gonna finish everybody run to the title. Yes, and I think you're gonna have You're gonna It's gonna lead to a lot more people picking ballall to win that inevitable title fight. Provided that this injury won't keep shoff cut out.
Do we know that? So the again preliminary research, What the hell do I know he can last? You can get back to assuming he gets assuming he has a tornaments excuse me, mcl and assuming he has to get repaired surgically anywhere between three to four and then as late as six months. We'll have to see.
But regardless of how much shofcut was compromised, they both agreed to the fight.
Gary took it on three week notice.
Like there was a lot to like about both of their willingness to basically say, let's do it.
Let's do it.
It's better for business, maybe it's better for our careers.
All of that.
Shafcutt took a big chance too. But you cannot act like Gary didn't win this weekend and have the one of the better moral victories we've seen in a while. And I think it was punctuated by the time on the mic where he didn't embarrass himself. There wasn't cringey catchphrases. He was about business at hand, and I think he's accomplished it. Listen to his post fight thoughts and tell me if you agree.
I wanted to come out here and talk to you guys, because in victory and defeat, I'm still the same person. I still want to come out here and give you guys what you deserve, the knowledge I am humble in victory in the fee I always have been, and I do not feel like I lost it. My ham might not have got raised, but I came out and I fought a giant. I came out and I fought the Boogeyman, and I showed that he's fucking human. I went out down three weeks notice. I saved this event. I saved this card against the scariest man in division. And I went out there and I stopped almost everything. There was at no point where he looked like he was gonna finish the fight. I put him in two submissions. I took his back. I had fun. I show that I can hang with the single best in the division, and I prove tonight on short notice, that I can absolutely be a champion, and I can do it for five rounds and there's no holes in my game. There was nothing that man brought for me tonight. He won my opinion, and that's okay. That is okay I I am. I can live with that, and I'm very happy with my performance tonight.
I don't see any lies in there, and I'm not trying to become number one in the Ian Machattle Gary fan club. But I don't care if you believe that his wife's sex husband is a trainer and I like, I'm basically saying like, it doesn't even matter if you are the worst critical mind looking at him. The kid acted like a fighter past all the tests, and literally like, you can't say he won because he didn't win the fight. Did he win the event, did he win the story? Yes, but look, he did not lose this fight in terms of what that means. It's now on the record, the unbeaten record's gone, but everything elevates him moving forward. And I don't know how you can watch that fight and not think he's going to be back in a title fight two to three fights from.
Yeah, let me be very clear, I don't even like his fighting style. His fighting style does not please me. But to your point, his ability to enact it at a successful level is simply beyond being contested at this point. Yeah, there are limits to it like anybody else. And again, don't you agree on the offensive side, that's really where he's going to.
Look, he was so brilliant at shutting down what Shavcott does when he begins to build momentum against you, that that was where that energy went in my opinion, So again, it wasn't a perfect performance and he didn't win and no one's arguing that he won.
But for what our expectations were. If he felt a little bit like a Boots versus chukasan which the anime fans are really not going to understand, where one guy was supposed to Cleani to the number one, not number two. The first fight between them where two Gatzan would just playing on the outside. It's like, dude, if a guy is playing defense on you and they're really not trying to do much more than play defense, it is hard to look good against them. When he and Gary's defense is again, he's stopping momentum before it ever starts. He's look at how good his inside head position was when they were wrestling, Like, he's shutting down a lot of these things so that they can't ever get to the next stage. He prevents the cascading, he prevents the tide from really coming in, and that's where he just kind of holds the fight. It's like the other part of it isn't there so much. But even the NBC you mentioned it was a double leg, it was not a double leg. He attempted a double leg rock Monov in the fourth he missed it, and then he comes over the top right around the neck and clubs him over whiles walking the knee. And the reason why that's relevant is he tries it again in the fifth Gary ducks under it. It goes past and so Gary spins him the other way to the mat. Like that is, if he can marry his defense with his defense, you can see the results right now. They're almost a little too segregated or ones minimized for more than the other one. But Ian Gary is a good fighter. He definitely, definitely, I mean that a bare minimum. I can say this. He earned my respect with this fight. I wasn't. The Irish are so proud of their own that they'll they'll sometimes like they'll back anybody, and then you watch them after a few fights, it's like, I appreciate the enthusiasm, but he's not that good. I was a little skeptical of him, and obviously he had been performing. You know, he beat up Neil Magnet. He did reasonably well against Jeff Neil, but it was like a fight and the MVP fight, I kind of thought he scraped through, even if Schaffcott was injured. He's talented. The kid is talented and just twenty seven years old, like he's.
Gonna get back.
He's gonna build those weapons.
That's the thing for me to already have that, those built in intangibles of no how knowing how to I mean again, he didn't win this fight, but he seems to have that know how of how to win close fights, right. He showed that against MVP, even if we didn't like fully the way that he went about it, and even in this case we're saying we didn't like that he wasn't offensive enough, but he he can play. He can cut corners, he can play the edges. He's he's smart in there. It's going to be able to take him very far. And this fight was was really to be very fair. Yes, a win would have gotten him a title shot, and that's what this is all about. But really this fight was about proving that the hype was there for a reason and he truly is a potential elite fighter.
And he won.
He showed us that and maybe that maybe it did help that he has the experience in there of having sparred, shofcut to some degree, but they still both signed up, they still went at it, and he did sort of make the monster look human.
He's right, we do.
Have Shoffcott, by the way, reacting to Gary's improvement since the time they start very quickly, he says he saved the event.
He did he did. If he's not on that fight and Shotcott has to fight like whoever the fuck that card was going to be a disaster or line coming in, you have to give him credit for that as well.
Well.
Jings couldn't again John Good minish him, but Jack Jings because them for sure.
He did a lot of work. He improved a lot.
It was a great position from him, and he's someone who didn't lost for a reason and what was a great experience for me.
Tons of class.
Yeah, I mean, I'm very impressed with the way Rocking Monoff handles himself in general. Right, And even if there is an injury that kept him back, he's not going to be the type of guy that's going to reveal it.
I'll say this too, you know, if he was as injured as Cormier is suggesting. And by the way, that's not the first time he's complained about having some injuries in his lower extremities. He did the same thing against Wonder Boys, I think for a different reason. But I'm just gonna point this out Long Island. Luke was talking to us before the show and he said, on Friday, if you had said Showcot versus Balal, who's gonna win, he would have said shot cut. He says, he's flipped, And I suspect many people feel that way. I don't even think that that's necessarily wrong. We'll have to see what the odds ultimately come to, but I don't. I think a Long Island look represents a lot of people. And b I'm not even I'm not in any way suggesting it's wrong. What I am gonna say is, if you are on Shovcot team, you cannot beat Balal Mohammed. This fucked up. If what you're saying is and again it's Cormier saying, so it's not their team. But if the implication anyway is that he was able to get this done in spite of being injured, that's impressive. It's very very impressive. It is not going to get the job done against Mohammad. So if surgery is needed and some kind of rehab is needed, now is the time to get it. Because what I don't want to hear is like, oh, I'm just don't want to get surgery and then find Muhammad and you look like a version of yourself that we can somewhat recognize, and they be like, well, I did my best. Go get the medical health that you need to perform at your best.
Well, before we get into the idea of Belal versus chav Cut, provided.
That he's healthy. If he's not, what becomes of the title picture right now? They might give it to somebody else.
I mean, who's knocking on that door for next in line?
The thing is this, I don't think Buckley is that close if he goes and starches, although.
That would help, would help scenario place.
I was just gonna say, but if he does start Colby Covington and they have to keep busy, did we just saw a Poeton versus Khalil Rowntree? You could absolutely get something like that, where hey, is he the number one contender in Buckley if he wins versus Colby, probably not number one contender? Close enough, close enough, We got to keep dude. The number one thing that the UFC needs is for the trains to leave the station on time when they need a welter title bout. They need the champion to be ready, and they need the contender to be ready, and if Shofcott's not going to be ready, I don't mind if somebody else gets it BC. I mean, it doesn't matter who the champ is by the time Shotcott returns. I just want to be very clear. If I still think very highly of Shofcott, I still am not changing my prediction. He will wear UFC gold, but he won't wear UFC gold this year. If he has to fight Mohammed and he actually has a torn MCL, it's not gonna ok okay.
The if Shafcott is injured, talk by remembering that Leon Edwards is the number one contender. Would he be would he get an opportunist would he get an opportunistic opportunity Luke to slide in there. We know that he told the Zone Roxing broadcast last week that he's.
Going to headline UFC London in March.
What if they said, hey, we need you to fight for the Wattroway title instead, could you go back to that matchup?
You could? I don't think that they would. I think that what are you going to do?
Kamara Uswan is still ranked numbers two, which makes no sense.
You could do JDM, but I think they're going to save him for that Australia card. We haven't heard that yet, but that's my implication. Uh, the Kamarrow one, you could do remember Kamaru and Blal had all of that trash talk.
Mao's got a lot of money in the bank. From the standpoint of of us, just accepting that he's still like a vibe.
I think washes him. I do, I think not at his peak. I don't know that. I think Kamara would probably win. I do not think that Kamara was even close to his peak anymore. He had a phenomenal career as champion, but those days arend.
Very well against Chamaiovan those circums.
He's not a scrub, but he's not what he was, not what he was, and I think I think Blaw is at the peak of his powers.
All right now. People are saying that the face off we did get in the cage afterwards, after shaf Cut came away with this unanimous but close decision victory and they called for the champ and there was haha, and Joe Rogan spoke into the mic and said what was probably true that the security didn't realize that Belah was the champ.
Luke.
People are saying this is the most underwhelming faceoff they've ever seen. I mean, Blall's like just wearing sweats like he's going grocery shopping on.
A Sunday here. I mean, I don't mind, Matt.
I kind of wanted a little bit more of like some.
Oomph, didn't you. Well, do we have a picture of it or I think we have Bla's comments let me let me hear.
I'm here with the UFC wel toweight champion Balow Mohammad, who has just watched the essentially eliminator fight between Chef Catratmanov and Ian Maschado Gary. Chef cat Ratmanov's going to be your next opponent. What do you say to that?
I'm excited, right because I was supposed to fight him now, so I was studying him, watching tape on him.
Now.
He just gave me actually twenty five minutes to watch. So I just want to get back in there spilling energy. Anytime you're had to fight live seeing your opponents in the cage, I'm hype. I just can't wait to get in there, and I can't wait to show the world that there's levels of this.
I'm the best in the world, and.
This is the first time chaft Cat's gone the distance the light. You said, there's more tape on him. Now, what did you see in that fight that maybe is a vulnerability or something not a week this zone has weak? Is this but something that you could capitalize on that maybe you hadn't seen before.
There's a lot of stuff right There's when I look at both of them, you could also take it in a different perspective. Right, they are training partners, so maybe they fought carefully for that reason. They've trained with each other. They see each other and shaft gout. This was the first fight like a year, So I don't I don't like to look at fights and be like, oh man, I'm gonna do this, I'm gonna do that. Obviously I could watch this fight and be like, I'm not impressed, I'm gonna walk through them. But from my mindset, I always try to take the best of every fighter that I'm facing, every opponent that I'm facing. So I just got to be smart with it and like I said, break down the tape, look at the little things that he does, see if it was something we count before, and then continue to break him down.
I gotta say I'm very exc I did about this matchup.
Provided Chopcott can do this, do you think, Bill, I'll watch some of those negative aspects of Gary's game, the defense, the spatial control, and it's thinking, I can I can take away this guy's danger just as easily.
I don't think he's doing that. I do think though, he watched that fifth round back take and was like, thank you Jesus. That's the one that think.
I don't know if he necessarily said that, oh right, and probably not that shout out just the same.
Fair enough, fair enough. But the one I want to make is I think he saw that and was like, Okay, there's a path here. And maybe you not just because of that, but that was a punctuated moment where you were like, wow, Gary was able to get the back and keep it and Chopcott. You know, what is the what is the negative through line between the Neil fight for Chopcott and then this one for Shofcott. Dude just defensively, way too reckless walking into range against Jeff Neil, unconcerned with his power, and then here letting Gary find the choke, you know what I mean, and you're not really fighting the hands for a pretty extended period. How scared were you?
How scared were you in that moment? Well, like I said, it wasn't Volkanovsky versus or take a level scared, but you were close.
Right, No, what great, great point. No, was not that scared. But I was watching it. Here's the thing. If Gary had been hand fighting and really just did better, I'd be like, you know what, man, fuck it like he was the better guy. But to not even employ your hands for the hand fighting, I was like, dude, what the fuck are you doing? That was the part that was a little bit disconcerting at first, but nevertheless he persevered, he got the reversal and it was what it was. I just feel like I forgot the fuck I was talking about Jesus Christ.
You were talking about Shavcot versus Blah Muhammad, and you were.
Oh, yes, But Mohammad, he's gonna have a very different approach. He is going to push into Rochmanov yes, and work to the back. And that is a very doable game plan against very good guys like can you see Balal taking three rounds out of five against Chopcot doing that? I think I think you should.
You have to avoid those sharp hammers, those counter shots that are coming after you in a way that Gary did not put himself in that billion percent.
And I did make this point. You saw this long on Luke, you said you saw my recap where if you're playing defensive long guard and you're snapping and you're you're interrupting your base and I can't really ever get going, and you're not letting me establish a rhythm, that's very different than just meeting Rockmanov head on. That's cockblocking' Rockmanov wants you, wants to wants you to meet him head on. That's where he likes to fight. Some of what Bolaal does, some of what Ballall does, will be that, and I think to that extent it more favors Rockmanov. But this is what I mean. That fight got more interesting because a lot of folks, including me, were like, yeah, rock Mono is gonna run him over. And now you're like to me kind of coin flippish, All right.
Let's set a line. Let's bring in our degeneratet GAMBROA long Island Luke Aussie rules, no Sita, what should be what's the Long Island Luke betting line for this fight.
I still think Ballall should be a dog, but it's gonna be close. I'm gonna say minus one fifty rock mount of plus one twenty five.
But I think that's about right. I think that's about right. Mmm. You like that?
I do kind of like that. We got to make sure Chef Gott's okay. We got to we gotta hear from him about the knee.
Yeah. Again, did Danny Rube get back to me? Hey, Danny answer my text messages? Danny Rube is, uh, yeah, there we go. I love that guy. Let's go to talk. When we talk, we talk about him on the show. He sent me a screenshot last week. People tell him, well they should.
Yeah, he's you know, we're like the best show in the game. He's one of the best managers in the game. It just makes a lot of sense. Hey, let's go to topic number two, and that's the man in the main event, the face of the flyweight division. I'm talking about Alexandre Pantoja, who submitted a feisty and dangerous but ultimately overmatched kai Osakura, who is making his UFC debut in this title fight. It took place in the second round of Saturday's main event, and if Pantosia cannot get a fight against me. Trees Johnson next, which he asked for, in which we will certainly talk about, uh luke, what should be next and what should we be saying about this thorough walking right into the danger and then humbling asakura. Dude, this guy Pantosia's pound for pound man like he's he's a real deal.
There's a question about where he goes pound for pound. I don't know if he's ranked highly enough. There's certainly debate because you're asking about the level of competition, which is perhaps the most critical component. Sure, but he's the second best flyweight in UFC history. That's that's who he.
Is, above Henry Suda. Well, the thing he put himself at three, behind DJ and Shudo.
I appreciate that. Certainly he's behind DJ. I mean, you're just no matter what, DJ's number one, and we're just gonna leave it that way. The thing about Sehuda is this, he has done more in combat sports and more in the UFC by becoming a two weight world champion. But if we're just looking about who reigned over flyweight the longest and the best, I think his resume has fled lightweight resume is better than shudos with the exception of the DJ win, but overall, in general, I think it's better. And the DJ one was questionable, was very questionable. I mean, it was a close fight, but it wasn't like, uh, he got finished the first time they fought, and it was very controversial to second, So there's that. I just feel like what he has done of late is so special. So so dude, this guy to bar from Teddy Atlas is a firefighter. He sees a burning building and he doesn't run the other way. He runs into the fire. Okay, you don't have to make him sound like he got hit in the head with a hammer. I mean you don't have to do that. You're making him sound like like like like Lenny from Mice and Men. I thought you gonna say Lenny from the Simpsons, but maybe that one too. He is all action, he is all courage, he is all excitement. He fights with absolute purpose every second of the fight. And more importantly, I want to make this point too, very very very at least in key portions of the game. There's some parts where he throws caution to the wind, but in general, very very technical.
I was gonna say getting technically better. It's title defense by title defenses.
No doubt about it. He had Kayasakura, who you know, faut spirited for as long as the fight lasted.
It was dangerous a shit with those flying knees.
Let's be honest, couldn't take his back, had him at one of these angles, like a t bone angle and use what's called a Kesoto hook to pull him off and run him in a direction, which got Assacura to plant his weight and then he just attacks over the back with that choking arm. Dude, I mean, this is what else do you want from a champion? I know what the answer is going to be. The answer is going to be we want some rivalry, we want some story, we want some bad blood. And honestly, that is a missing, critical component. But part of the reason that it's missing is that DJ is gone and Henry moved up and some of the bigger names are gone. The other part BC is because he is destroying that division by himself. The only other fight that is available that makes sense at this point. I know what you could say, you can run Rouvale back. I don't know what the I don't know how you justify that.
Two wins over Roval and three wins if you count the exhibition against Moreno. I don't see how either guy could get it next.
The answer is kay Car France because there's just no one else about Abazzi just lost. You just lost, dude, it's Kai Car France.
It really is.
Think about this for a second. Guys win UFC titles and they're like, hey, I'm thinking about going up to the next division, and you're like, you haven't beat anybody yet. It turns out that the flyweight champion, if he beats kay Car France, has like the best argument for going up in weight because there's literally no one hit left for him to fight anymore. I understand that when you go up and wait, part of that is a celebrity cause that the fans have to kind of rally behind it and for it to make sense. So I'm not I'm not predicting it or even saying that it will happen. I'm simply saying his case for going up in wait is one of the strongest among active UFC champions because the dude has decimated this division.
If he beats Kaikar France, he would be ten and zero against people in the top ten if that's the next fight. But dude, it's he's getting better with each fight, and it hasn't been like full domination. I mean the r SEG fight came down to almost a miscalculation at the end. And what was the first title defense that was aval right, Yeah, a doubletore which was a five round decision and a competitive but clear win. In that regard, we really were questioning. We've been questioning every title defense when Father Time was going to knock on the door and say, you know, nice idea great run. Everything's going great, but you can only take that much punishment, or you can only stay at this level for so long. Yet he's getting better as he's getting older. And look, if you recall the shape he came in for this fight. Dude, did you see the abs had like that extra line below the pecks with the cross under. I mean, this guy is going all all in right now, and he's for as for as as reckless as his pressure can look at times, he brings technique and smarts and almost like almost like Charles Olivera in a sense, his ability to navigate responsively within the chaos that he creates by putting the pressure on you is the key to why he's so great. But he also has to eat it, wear a little bit of that. But if you noticed anytime Osacurra hit a big strike on him, instant counter one two, speedy as shit and tag guys Osacura with a receipt instantly after each knee or after each big punch. So it it almost began to take the you know, the air out of the balloon of what Oscar was trying to do. And then look when that second round happened, and when he saw the opening and got the back, I mean it was over. So I didn't think he would be able to bring this much sustainability, especially when you go back and rewatch the title win over moreno where it was just pour out the heart and the chin and the balls and the guts and just it was almost like risk it all, don't care about the future.
We want this one moment to win the belt.
Yet Luke, now he's figured out how to be sustainable, and now we're literally talking about is there anyone left where you can fight? And does this DJ situation make sense? It's worth having a conversation, we thought, except for the fact that Demitrius Johnson was watching the live broadcast when he was called out by uh by the champion here. So let's see his immediate response and then it will answer anything.
To the idea of business. Fight possible?
Did his fight? Is this fashion for some right here and fight? He don't fight anymore?
He retied his.
Hear, but did this something?
I's talking for you, Demitri Johnson, my black as come back?
Why would I do that? Boys? Boys?
The bank count said a nice and good thirty eight years old Levexec Todd defences.
Jam may come back.
I believe him because he's been He's built a reputation of not being about that right.
Also, I think he just on a procedural standpoint, he has fights left on his one deal.
So it seems like there's the Twitter rumors that there's one fight left on there is that something that can if you know? And Dana White was asked about it at the pros FI press conference. He seemed to have some level of interest. He didn't shoot it down at all. You can you buy out that deal.
If one would allow that to be bought. I'm sure that they could find a way to do that, but it might not be cheap or timely, and the UFC is cheap end.
And DJ doesn't seem to hurry to want it. But how excited would you be if that was really if Demetrius was watching live and said, yeah, let's call my people, let's figure out how to do this, Because yes, I get what you're saying about the contract. Reality, he retired at one. He didn't freaking love it.
I mean, I get, I totally understand DJ. I don't in anyone ways. Sit here, I saw people are like DJs. I saw people saying DJ is ducking Pantojo. I'm like, if you're retired, how the fuck is it ducking? Like, it's not You're not even eligible to be accused of ducking. You're not competing, you're out, You're fucking done. And he and it wasn't like there was any inkling that this fight was even available, Like they just threw it at him and all that.
I don't think he ever could or wants to cut to one twenty or probably could, but he doesn't want to have one.
I think he could do it, but that's right, I don't think he wants to either. But listen, how would it be as a fight due to be fucking great, and I think Pantoja would probably be a little bit favored just given the state of where DJ is at. It's still good, but not at his best, and we have to kind of countenance that. I just feel like, you know, we were at a place where again Pantojo, Oh, Brandon Moreno, the last fight was competitive. That was the third of them and Pantojo won them all.
Yeah, like what are we I mean, I think we just have to have see Moreno on Pantosia again. I'm sorry Moreno and Roy vallagain.
Yes, you could do that. I also feel like they're gonna have you know, they we didn't put it in the rundown, but Dana White was sort of all a fu sive with praise for rising. Yes, they might just bring over more Japanese fighters.
He had a question coming up about that, Oh we do in the d Yes.
I haven't seen that.
I have a possible matchup. How about Davison Figuredo moves back down to one twenty five. He already has a win over Pantosia and he's a former champion.
If he can make the weight, sure, I don't know if he can make the waight think about it.
He just lost in a fight that could have propelled him to abandon weight title shot.
Yeah, no, I would love to see it. I don't know if he can make the weight, Okay, I don't. I like that idea. I like that that's worth a call in a conversation, right for sure? For sure that is you can get him down to one twenty five. But remember it's like it doesn't make sense at one twenty six, like it really is no margin for err on that one.
I gotta be honest, though, I had him in my top ten pound for pound in the last couple of fights Pantoji. I had him in the back end for CBS Sports, But I had this lingering feeling like does he fully belong? What about the veterans that are in from ten to fifteen, the former champions, the guys that are still still showing us a pound for pound level, they're just not champions now. But I'm glad he had this performance to show us exactly where he's at.
Exactly where he's at.
Is he somehow even better than he was three fights to go? So this guy's trending upward. Let's see how high he can get on.
Here'll be thirty five. I think in April. Brazilians are different. They're different, They're different. We gotta, we gotta.
There has to be the asterisk on the on the thirty five and under ruler on the city. I mean too, Blof's skirting off age easily.
Here he yes and again for how much longer we'll see but uh that you know, yes in firstinc stuff, but hey shot out pantos so that's above one fifty five. That's different.
Do you feel like though, because the talk was about Schoffcott and Gary that once the main event happened, it was kind.
Of like, yeah, I was doing a live stream and then I lost like a bunch of viewers after the comain because people were like, I don't give a fuck, and the thing is this Kaiasa Kora. I saw some accusations that he kind of under delivered. I'm like, not really, that's fight for it now that the way that it went was one of the more plausible ways that it could have gone. He did land intercepting strikes on Pantojia that knee up the middle, right on the liver.
I was like, those finish that, those shots finish other people.
I'm serious under that's actually what dropped no I think it may have hit him on the chin, but it was one of the similar kinds of knees when Archie Letter shot in on him, Like, dude, those are powerful shots. It's just Pantoje fights with a certain kind of competitive fire that is psychotic. He's yeah, he is prison shower fight to the death. Yeah kind of intensity, man, that's what he's got. What do you call it? Get that guy a shive, right, he didn't need one.
Wow, All right, shout out to Pantoja. I'd be down for KKF. Let's keep this division moving.
Yeah. After that, though, I don't know what they're gonna do.
I hope he gets a chance to kind of maximizeize whatever the peak of his star stealing could be.
You know what I mean.
He's doing the right move.
That's the right move to quality. Yeah. At one five, Pantoja versus O'Malley. What do you think, O'Malley? But I'd like to see it.
There's that sparring footage of them. If you remember, O'Malley stops Pantojo with a body shot.
How long ago was it, that's.
A good question. It looks pre Shawn's UFC debut, maybe early on UFC days probably a few years old at.
This points, still pretty good to I still want to see it interesting.
All right, let's move on over to top number three. And it was the heavyweight rematch that offered big moves for the winner in terms of title positioning, or so we thought. Cyril Gong ends up getting what a lot of people believed to be was a gift decision in a very close three round fight. In the rematch with Alexander Volkov. Is it fair to say that not only has Cyril Goan failed to improve Luke, but maybe and I think he echoed that by running out of the cage and initially turning down the post fight victor interview. Is Cyril gon regressing after getting a win that almost nobody had it for him? I think Dani Sigura was the only prominent media member who scored two to one for gone Everyone else had it two to one or three nothing for volcoff two to one Volkov. It's not like a crazy robbery. It was a close fight where neither man was truly overly effective, but Volkov got the better of almost all of the striking components and seemed to have the better takedowns and control on top, I echoed Dana and maybe not so much in the f and robbed you or whatever, but they gave it to the wrong man. I quibble with those two, you know, and one of them is Adelaide Bird, So we're all we're thinking as one eighteen one ten canello every time that happens. But let's talk first about gons as a stock here on backwards Luke. I called him a donk, and some fans didn't like that. I don't mean to be rude to him, but he kind of dumped out in there a little bit.
Uh okay, So here's another case where you have to decide what the hell's happening. He put out pictures of an X ray where he had broken his big toe, and then the two next to it, So three toes he had broken on the fame.
Hey, that's not nothing. And if a guy that's known for movement, that's not nothing.
So I went back and I watched their first fight, and what you notice in that one is two things. On the gone side, he's like Robert Whitaker, bouncing up and down, up and down, up and down. If your feet are broken, or at a bare minimum, several of your toes, including your big toe. That's obviously going to be a lot harder to do. And if you notice in this second fight, he wasn't bouncing much. He was kind of stepping and sliding. Now. Also, I noticed he threw a kick and Wolkov caught it, which he never did in the first fight as well, and that kind of limited what he could do. So I do think it is worth we're gonna give Rochmanov at least a little bit of understanding that injuries can affect how you perform. Maybe giving Gon a little bit of that I think is important. I also went back and I was like, okay, because that was really harsh on him on Saturday. There was the volume striking, where was anything? I was looking at some of the takedowns, they were decent from him. Oh, he showed improvement in a certain areas, in certain areas, in certain areas. However, dude, I don't understand his grappling like at all. I don't think he doesn't. I don't he doesn't. There are two I could pick three scenario and let's talk about him, because I actually think this is pretty important.
And I'm glad you are because I get mad when Dana White tries to reframe the John story of ducking of not ducking Francis, and we be gone the best heavyweight in the world.
He was not the best heavyweight in the world. Let's be free. So there's three scenarios that I want to talk about that really pissed me off watching. I just like, what the fuck are you doing? The first one is he is caught in leg drag, then moves to side control and Volkov has a crossface like rule number one. If someone has a good now, if they're just holding it there's nothing going on, then it's different. But there's actually a little bit of force to it. You have to clear the cross face before you can do anything because the crossface is designed to drive their shoulder down and immobilize you. How can you effectively scramble if part of your spine is immobilized Rule number one. Clear it. He tries to fight off of the bottom without ever clearing it, and it's like, dude, I don't know how explain it to people. It's like trying to show up to put out a fire and you just forgot the water. Like, you can't even get this fucking process started until you have something like that. That was one. I really hated that one. The second one that drove me up the wall was when he was underneath in half guard. Do you remember this? In the third round he over commits positionally, stops scrambling, and then has this camora underneath, and I think it may be why he won the fight. I have to go back and check some of the judges' scorecards. Can you look up the judge of scorecards for that fight, the Gone Volkov two fight. I want to see how they scored the third round. If anybody scored the third round for Gone, I really think they got that one wrong.
I know Adelaide scored one and two for Gone and the third for Volkov.
Okay, that's a little bit more understandable, but that third round him sitting underneath the way he was the if you've never rolled that komora grip is very powerful. You cannot just rip your arm out of it, especial against heavyweight guys. They're just too strong. There is a point where he's holding on to it and he doesn't advance in any of the ways that you need to because he's completely on bottom, out of ideas and does not know what the fuck to do and just get stuck there. The whole time. I didn't mind the guillotine, remember the end of round one. I didn't mind it because it was close to the end of the round. But the one that drives me up the fucking wall is he standing over gone and he's got a leg and he chooses to go from a standing position to a sitting position nuts nuts to go for a shitty ass heel hook that is nowhere close. Of course, he gives it up and now they're both back to standing. You want me to take seriously, your foot is broken, Why are you giving up top contry? Not it wasn't on top of them, but why are you giving up a standing position to sit? B See, I cannot overstate this to you. My first month of training I started to do that, and I just I can see where I was in my time in my life when I had instructors being like, don't you dare sit on your ass to go for a either heel hook or Achille's lock. Pass his fucking guard. Pass his fucking guard, dude. Even if I want to give him a mulligan for the standing and maybe there is something to be said for that, his let me just say it outright. His decision making and somewhat his ability in the grappling department is terrible, terrible, terrible, not fit, not fit for the top of this division or any other division. Unbelievably poor.
Here's what's crazy is while he was having all that success initially before he got out wrestled by a one legged man against Ghanu, I used to ask that question every time of can he win a fight if he's not controlling all of the terms with his A game, and it's the answer is no. I mean, the answer is no in terms of an elite fight at this point right for the most part, and dude, he was.
There were no combinations.
Volkov was controlling distance with almost ease at times.
I don't know. I mean, it wasn't like Volkov was perfect in this fight, did volco?
Okay, let me ask you the question that I asked you coming in now that we're coming out of it.
Is Volkov the worst.
Of the elite title contending heavyweights or the best of that decided second tier?
I think he is. He should have been the worst of.
The title Like, he's getting pretty close. If that was a win, he's getting pretty close to a title shot.
So the other part there is Volkov is undeniably not like we should give you credit because you've been high on the Volkov renaissance. She also said he would he.
Would, he would have wrestling in long periods.
On top of Gone, No, no chance. He is much improved. And you could point to a couple things. Again, going back to the first fight, walking Gone down in this one made a huge difference. Gone can't Gone, can't bounce and go if he's constantly on the back foot. That was a big one BC. On top of that, his defense has gotten a little bit better. His awareness of how Gone would evade and then intercepting him as he ducked or ran. His striking variety too, striking variety. His timing was much better. He understood much better the assignment about how to keep Gone from being able to get his offensive rhythm going. So we're sitting here backing on Gone, which is well deserved, especially in the grappling component, but we also have to be fair. He was up again. It's a much different Volkov. But this is the point. Why wasn't Volkov up against a much different Gone? Why has Gone, at least in the grappling department. Has he added other skills, Yes, he has added other skills. He has not improved his decision making or foundational level of knowledge almost at all, or certainly not even close to enough. John Jones's wins are over the grappling of Cyril Gone and the ghost of Steve Amyoji, and people are like, he can do what he wants, fight fucking Tom aspinall because that ship doesn't count for anything.
Oh, I scorecards.
If anybody give gone the third round?
Now all three judges gave Thank god.
Okay, I was so worried about that? Or did you have it long Island?
I had a two to one. I was glad I didn't bet on Volkov because I think he should have won, and I would have been very pissed.
Okay, it does it come up like when Dana comes out, races him down or not, you know, just walks over and grabs Volkoff and was like, I thought, you gotta fin screwed on the cards. Does that mean he'll get a favorable matchup next and they'll treat it as a winner, Just treat it as a no contest and move forward.
They'll probably do him something of a solid but They're not going to give him a gimme. I mean, there are gimmes in that division, but I don't think he even wants that. He's trying to ascend. Yes, So it's like, will he get a fight that is a premium heavyweight quality, Yes, but it's probably gonna be a tough one. It might be Blades night mane something like that. You know. Interesting.
Let's hear from Volkoff, who was upset about the way this fight was scored, although he could be just as upset about his own hair choices and.
Worst corn rows I've ever seen.
My respect to Cyril gun he he he wasn't like a guy who just woke out from the gauge after the decision because he didn't feel this too. So nothing bad to my point, and just I just don said it was a commission.
I again like this.
He was in here and he said that he injured his toe after the first kick of the fight and that affected his performance. Did you feel that he was hurt and was changing or did you just think he wasn't able to keep you off him with your wrestling and your ability.
I was feeling he was absolutely broken. Like mentally he was like and the fact he broke his finger is a damage that I give to him. So it's there one more fact that I get this fight. How can the guy who was less active and come with a more damage like took from the fight convince the fight like, I don't, I don't know the senses.
Did he make a good point there? He caused the damage ultimately, so why are we talking about it?
Hard to say. I mean, like if you break your toes on someone someone's body when you're striking. I mean, yes, they did it, but they didn't do it like with great intention. They just did it by being there, partly by being you know, who knows how they blocked it really hard to say. It's a little bit. It's a little bit taking credit for something that is hard to say. It's hard. Zones would love to fight him.
Maybe a perfect title defense for John Jones because of the speed disadvantage.
Yeah, and he likes to wrestle guys who are that's not their you know, primary base.
Does he ever get there? Do you think Volkoff ever gets to the title show?
He might? He might, I mean, depending how things go. It's not like the problem is if aspinall ends up either beating John or just becoming the champion outright, depending how this goes. It's like, dude, Aspinall, if you did you ever go back and watch Aspects.
I was ready for Volkoff to make the leap in that fight. I didn't know as was that great, and I.
Was just like, what just happened?
And it was.
It's like a uniquely bad matchup because Aspinall is so fast and so athletic. It's made them look cless on the ground. It's kryptonite for a guy like Volkoff. But you know, you just can't walk away from this fight being like, oh, that's the same volkof God looks shittier. God looks shittier or at a bare minimum static in key portions, that is a much better volcan.
I mean, the post fight interview was about Gone revealing that he doesn't have the answers to the questions against him. He doesn't understand why that performance came out the way he did. I'm not saying he's not trying and not training hard, but there's a same thing I said, the mojo it seems to be gone. You know that the way that he used to carry himself, and there's a disconnection between the game he's trying to accomplish and maybe the understanding of it or the time put in.
I don't know what. I don't know enough about what happens at MMA Factory to declare that, you know, breaking ties is the most important thing. But I do think it's probably safe to say he needs to get wrestling training outside of MMA Factory, and he needs to get a lot of training more generally beyond MMA Factory if he wants to stay with him in a you know, and instilled some important capacities and to you know, ray Longo doesn't train all his guys but then whole corner them. I think that's fine. He desperately needs some supplemental training. But again, it's like, you're thirty four, how are you? How are you still making grappling decisions?
This bad well is the answer, because he literally went from the first day of MMA training to fighting in the UFC within something like.
Twelve or thirteen months probably, I mean that kind of probably, And guys just didn't know how to beat him yet, and Volkov had a much better idea about how to beat him and got pretty goddamn far with it.
Good performance, good ass performance, But who would you think anyone specifically should be next or will be next for either.
Or Also, he couldn't finish the von fluchoke. I was just like, oh my fucking god, Bro, you lock up the van Flu when you don't even really try and push it. It's like, I mean, what do you do?
Gon goes back to the spevac the Tabua level. Yeah, even though we got to win here.
Yeah, no, dude, he needs work. Yeah, can he beat them doing his A game? To your point, yeah, he can beat some of these guys, but then that falls apart against the A level guys and then he has to bring out the BEE and then the B is just I mean it's an F. Yeah, that's be honest. He goes from A to F. That's really there's really no in between.
All right, Let's go to topic number four, and it was who else on the UFC three ten performed well, Luke, what's the biggest storylined? Bull Low, the heavyweight fight and the two title fights atop the.
I'm gonna say how bad Chrome Gracie looked, but I would like to focus on the winners instead, if that's okay, And dude, there's a lot of directions you can go, but we have to go with arguably the best fight on the card, Mosar if Loy versus al Jamaine Sterling. What a fun ass fight, what a contrast in grappling styles, competitive the whole way through. But mos Are is tough at one forty five. His strength on top is incredible, his balance, his understanding of how positions are about to move, and getting there before even Sterling could get there. I thought Sterling made a great account of himself. He absolutely threatened mos Are in ways that we really haven't seen him, not even Diego Lopez could do. But Mozar is that dude. He is so talented, so strong and in just sugar in any form he looked, I mean diiced to the socks that guy is. I thought it was really really impressive. And don't you agree, Well, Luke, that was a fun ass fight, was it not?
Yeah, totally backfired in the UFC's face, being like, this is a boring ass fight. Let Aurian on the prelims. It turned out to be one of the best fights.
Al Jamayn gave I thought everything he possibly could. I thought Mosar was pushed in ways he wasn't before. I don't it was intriguing.
It wasn't thrilling. It was intriguing.
Yeah, yeah, No, it wasn't like the edge of your seat, but it was. You could see the chess. You could see that. I mean, these guys were getting after it. They weren't stalling by any show.
But that style is going to hold Mosar back from getting extra opportunities. And he said it afterwards ready more or less said I'll fight. It doesn't matter if they line up one hundred guys to get to the title shot, I'll beat them all.
It might have to be that way.
It might have to be that way, is what I'm saying in this division.
Whether exciting guy at the top that they I mean, do I want to see Taporia versus ev looy? Sure? Sure, But if you've got options with Taporia, especially if Islam is one of them, you're gonna have to wait a little bit. That's true.
I mean al Jo deserves a shot at that at that decision. I remember I wasn't scoring it, like officially, but loosely, I'm like that me two one, al Joe.
Crazy to show?
You got to show me which to Let's go to the man from Long Island.
Am I crazy?
I mean I was a little biased, but I had Aljoe with the spread, so I liked that a lot. I don't think there's a case for him to win it, but he looked competitive.
I'll say that he did. He did, But how how far are you from just selling your car to feed this?
I'm very lucrative, Luke. We do well on main card minute.
And I'm not saying I'm not saying I don't know what you're doing, but I know a lot of people have known what they're doing. You know, I had to explain to their wife why they they drained their savings.
You know, well, I told you that the Volkoff resurgence was upon us, and despite the loss, maybe I was right. I told you bet On doohu CHOI. Now he didn't ultimately, No, he did ultimately get the stoppage that we were looking for here against a largely ineffective Nate Land where who took the l like a man and put out a video afterwards where he just just owned it. But for being away from the sport and now back to back good performances here coming off the bill, al Jao, when you said coming in that you know we're not like booking this guy for a path to the title. He's a fun you know, TV fighter to some degree, but he surprised you with the he looked.
You know, here's the thing, the biggest difference. Striking looks smooth, which we'd seen before, but he looked smoother. Yeah, tight, but he cared about defense. He'd pop into range and pop out of range that was never there before. That was never there before. And how about he hit one of the throws he hit to get land weird to the ground. It is called a sasai. You block the outside foot and you turn him. He hit that, which was crisp, but those are hard to do. It's like it's a real difficult move to hit. And then you know, finishing from mounted crucifix, it was like, dude, it wasn't just a good performance, it was a complete performance. I'm wondering if there is a run for this guy. Thirty three years old, missed four years of his prime hed he missed like twenty eight to thirty two, Like no, and he took some damage in those took a shit. Years helped, Yeah, four years probably helped, But nevertheless, I don't think so.
I love having Koreen Zombie in his corner and seeing that mentor ship. Although you wouldn't think defense would come from coach Green zom.
He's got a defensive coach. But like you got to feel good about where he is now. Yes, you gotta feel good like you can. I mean, how many great matchups can you make with Choi? A gazillion, yes, a gazillion.
Also in that featherweight division, it was a dunk Donkerson performance to some degree from Crohne Gracie and even Dana got sick of people, you know, setting him up to dunk on him afterwards, and he was pretty salty in that post fight press conference. But Ryce Mitchell did what he's supposed to do, but he got a lot of it. Seemed like he got a lot of positive feelings coming out of here. Back on the win track. It was two losses in three fights, but like devastating ones when you consider what Taporia did to him and then one of the most brutal one punch knockout losses to Josh Emmett, I guess it was good to see him back. Whether you agree with his seatbelt or flat earth theories, does this propel him forward to an interesting fight moving is just still kind of stuck in the middle of pack.
As I mentioned, he's only thirty years old. Thirty years old. He's very good, he is, I think respect we kind of we know him as like the ground specialist, the guy got the twister, but he's pretty well rounded Bryce. Actually, I feel like he's got you know, can he go on a run to the title just with his hands?
No?
Probably not that, But could he beat really good guy? Did he beat Dan Egay just before the fight with Josh Emmett, So like he's beaten quality guys out of here. That's no small achievement. That was a close fight though, I mean I kind of thought it was a little controversial. But you see what I'm saying, Like, yeah, the traditional markers of quality.
Dude.
His two losses are Josh Emmitt and Eliot's to Portia. Maybe maybe, and he's thirty years old, maybe pumped the brakes on. Granted, granted the stoppage lost at to Poria was really bad, and the one to Emmett was a nuclear meltdown bad or bad Okay, But and they gave him a bit of a soft landing here. Sure, I'm thirty years old. I think he'd be very foolish too.
And he shouted out JC in the post That's the only man that I.
Think JC got shouted out by literally every single winner on that card, right, Yeah, I was. I was down with that.
I also want to shout out throw a shout out to Michael Kisa for not only the win, considering how kind of inactive he is in this portion of his career in the.
Dominant submission, but he shouted.
Out Derek Thompson, the UF employee that I s work with the ESPN back in the day. Who you knew him who passed away?
Yeah?
Yeah, I worked with him for a long time at ESPN and loved him and seen him through the years. So you know, that brought a tear to my eye to see that that shout out and to do that in the post fight interview.
I love that.
But that was the good. There is some bad coming out of there, and the idea that Anthony Smith with the performance there against Dominic Reyis and maybe Chris Widman too, maybe even Clay Guida all three, is it time to go.
It's time to go. It's time to go. Lake Guida has had a nice long run. I don't know how much he's adding to his quality of life when fighting is over. He didn't get like super beat up, but I just don't. You're risking bad injury continuing to fight out there when you made your UFC debut in two thousand and six.
I mean, it's incredible longevity. Like I do give those guys, the Jim Miller guys. To give those guys credit for sure.
Hundred percent. I give him credit. Chris Wyman, we said it before. The fight needs to retire. It's just so low. I mean, the amount of damage he's doing to himself. Yes, to me, is really just kind of heartbreaking. At this point, I would really wish he would stop. And then do we have the clip of Dominic Reyes Anthony Smith, who we've had a you know, I've had a good relationship with for a long time and you know you more recently as well. Great guy. He should not have fought on Saturday. Was heartbreaking to watch. Let's play this clip.
Anthony's a true warrior and he's gonna he's gonna fight to the end, and he wanted to fight to the end. He needed to feel something tonight, whatever he's going through. But he kept moving right the ref said, come on, Anthony, and he would move, so he gave him a little bit more more more leeway. So when I went in the cage, I haven't been around Anthony much in my life for the record, but when I went in the cage with him, he was emotional, right, And that's a dangerous man that has he said it. You know, he's fighting for his friend, right, and he doesn't care about the outcome. He just wants to feel something. A point in the first round when he put his hands down and just like punch me in the face, and I oblige, right, So that's my job. My job is to finish you and get you out of there. Whether you're going through something or not. You're gonna give me free shots or not, I'm gonna hit you. And that's what we're professional fighters. This isn't It's a very dangerous game, you know. And God bless Anthony, you know, all the best to him, you know, prayers for him and his team and his teammate. He lost family. Losing someone's never easy. I've lost some really close people to me this year as well, and it's terrible. I'm glad he got to come out and be the Wawrier that he is. This is his outlet, right, So, like Cormier said, it's my job to not care and my job is to win. My job is to go out there and give my best performance.
And that's all I was.
It was hard to watch the whole thing, right, you know what I mean. I'm glad Anthony tried to honor his friend and coach in that.
Way and can get hurt doing that. Absolutely.
And look, we'd already sort of thrown around in question like should this be it for Anthea Smith? He does seem to have a really good burgeoning podcast you know, TV anchor, TV analyst career going. But this is twenty first pro loss too, Like, this guy's been fighting, this guy's got sixty something pro fights.
Right, this guy has been a survivor in this game. He rescued his career. He mean, this guy was fighting at victory fighting, oh yeah, in the middle of nowhere for a time and then really kind of turned himself into a John Jones title content.
As an iron will as a refusal to quit, right. I mean we saw he kind of a kind of had an emotional breakdown in there.
It was tough to see.
So for Reus it's a second straight stoppage win. It continues his sort of comeback story at thirty four's there's still some life for him to make a little bit of a run here in this division that's not that deep, right, a lot of aging warriors. I was happy to see for domint least in that regard.
Yeah, I would agree.
I don't know how much value you put in the win, but it was you know.
He did his job. Sure good to see him get his hand raised because I'm sure he worked hard to do it, and that alone, I think is a process you want to honor. All Right, Anthony Smith should retire.
We can almost talk about every fight in this card because there was a lot of things that we're talking about. Chase Hooper at twenty five at lightweight. Now Rogan was making it seem like this guy's almost ready to fight for the title, like they were playing up. And he has made a nice turnaround for how remedial his striking was in the beginning, and he's improving every aspect of his game. But are you looking at him as somebody who's put it together in time to really start stacking wins and making noise here?
I don't know how to answer that. I'm not going to say yes or no. I just feel this way. He's what twenty five years old. His jiu jitsu skills are fantastic. I think one thing we also have just really need to notice is how much more bulk he has. He's really filled out in his frame. To me, Clock starts now like everything that came before this. I'm not saying it's irrelevant, that's not my point, but like you're asking bigger questions about how far can he go, we can't even start evaluating that until right about now.
Yeah, and he's not doing those looping helicopter punches, and there's some sharp shots.
There's much sharper everything as much crisper as putting together. But like Clock has just begun about what we can use as footage to be like, oh, this is something that we can figure out what he's gonna look like at twenty eight, twenty nine, thirty. It starts now, And so for that reason, you gotta love the improvement. You gotta love how less how much less damage he takes. But he was fighting a claig Wita who needs to retire at the same time, So that's no fault to Chase Super. Chase Super look good. I want to be clear, he looked very good. But how far can you go? We're gonna fight.
We do have a clip about a potential next fight for Chase Super. Let's sef this interest you.
You said you want an intriguing matchup next.
I saw a couple of people online after your win suggest Jim Miller, what would you think about that?
I mean, I don't see why not Jim's Honestly, I felt kind of the same way about Clay. It's like he's he's an older guy for sure, but he's still doing the damn thing. Like he's still in here going against these young guys and he's still doing well, Like Jim's still out, he's still subbing guys like and that'd be a good fight, like if it wasn't on such a stack card like this. I felt like me and Clay could have main card on a lot of events. But yeah, I mean, I think I'd be a fun one and why.
Not love it and sounded like him, but could fight like him.
I'd talk shit at everybody. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, I just get a guy to follow me on camera and then just put people's reactions on YouTube and make money.
All right, you got to shout it. Also, Vicente Luke against Garimbo. He went in there and did the deep rock ride to the bathroom and came back and it was all over.
He dropped him with the right hand, locks up the Anaconda gator roll finish. He is fucking nasty dude, Vicente Luke. Remember he was he had a brain bleed situation. Yes, I thought his career was over and he's still out there dropping people and then subbing him with his techniques.
I mean, I'm just happy it wasn't Nick Diez.
I'm really happy. Yeah, that was probably good that they did not do that, all right.
Brian Battle gets a win in the catchweight fight caused by himself missing weight by more than four pounds, which seemed still unexplainable when he was asked about it by Rogan and the cage afterwards, and he was still doing the heel thing and calling the crowd on. It went over Randy Brown, who was streaking and moving on. I mean, it doesn't do a lot for us. It wasn't that great of a fight. It wasn't that great of a performance. But I feel like every part of his stock seemed to go down even though he comes away with the wind.
I thought Randy should have won, and Brian Battle missed weight, and then he did the heel thing on top of it. I mean, I guess the heel thing. It doesn't really matter because in the end, you know, you're just trying to get a reaction in this game. It doesn't matter if it's negative or positive. But it was not confidence inspiring. Yeah, am I missing something that it was not confidence inspiring?
And when Eric Anders beats up on Widman, they're like, that's the best win of Eric Anders's career.
It's like and then Eric gets on the mic and he's like, yeah, I'm not even looking for championship fives. I'm just looking for fun ones, which, by the way, fair fleet. But like, no, no, no, I don't I actually prefer that.
I actually am glad he's like I felt it was an insult to him to say that's his best win against like that version of Widman.
Like, come on, is that Eric and his best win? It's a great question. I mean, it might be.
Didn't have that talk me into into saying the head kick one should be.
So he's got the No, he's got Jamie Pickett, he's got this, Chris Widman one, Kyle Daukas has got one. Darreon Stewart, the dentist, Gerald Mierstartz a pretty good one, split decision one. He's got there.
Just in this circumstance, it was just it was just.
Alway's got a win over Brendan Allen in LFA. That's his best way to go. There you go.
And also Luke josh Van against Cody Dernton. That fight was he and he looked awesome.
Yo, did you not long out Luke? How good did josh Van look? Because I know he got that. He got fucked up one time playing too loose with it. He looked much better this time. He looked great.
That fight was awesome. If anyone didn't see that, definitely go back and watch.
That for sure. I love that. I love that reaction. All right.
We also have Dana who was very salty in the post fight presser asked about Connor McGregor.
I want to talk about this for just a second. Yeah, before we moved here.
That's the thing about Connor McGregor came down. Any reaction that you have since the conviction in the civil court and the penalties he faced.
What do you mean, what's my reaction?
Do you have any comment about what his him?
I had a comment, I would have put it out already.
What about his status with the UFC?
Any is there?
He hasn't been fighting here and I don't know how long, but.
There's been you know, you've not some at three zero three, there's been talking he's gonna fight, right, I mean does that impact him in any way?
Or well, if he does fight, it'll be sometime next year. Yeah, so we learned nothing.
But hey, I only was pushing.
I always was the only one who did it. I mean, here's why this comment to me is so insane. It's like, what do you mean my what's my reaction? It's like, it's like, Dana is in charge essentially of a publicly traded company. What the fuck do you think we're looking for a reaction for, because this is a literally public facing, publicly owned property for which Dana White is ostensibly, for lack of a better description, it's it's manager. Why would we want to know where you stuck? Do you think sexual assault is bad?
He's the most famous fighter in the sports history. Of course, We're gonna ask every time anything happensult.
Like, it's a relevant question, what is your company's stance on any number of things? And the answer is this, b See, the answer is the very bare minimum that capitalist forces will uh do in a worst case scenario. Let me give you an example, Jerry Sandusky Vince McMahon with this terrible lawsuit. In other words, the only way that anything will ever happen to any bad actor is if the capitalist forces essentially quit on them in a worst case scenario. And I know what folks might say, because I know there are folks who think, oh, well McGregor's innocent. What on to that thought for just a second, Let's say you believe that. Let's say you believe he actually didn't do this whatever the court says. You don't believe it. You must understand that a policy where you're punting to the basement level capitalist forces to be involved, gives leeway to any other bad actor that you may or may not like to do almost not anything, A ton of unethical shit. That is what that policy enables. And the last thing I'm gonna say on this is if this is the game that they want to play, where we just we the UFC wants the public to say that they don't have a relationship that the UFC does to a fighter's misdeeds. That's what they're dealing with.
Oh, the famous you know how much Connor paid and legal fees, that's all the punnis.
But also like, hey, whatever's happening in their private life, they're independent contractors. That's for them to deal with. Yeah, if that's the game that they want to play, okay, But then you don't get to tell us about all of their community work that they do. You don't get to tell us about how laudable they are as fathers or mothers. You don't get to tell us how great they are.
I feel like you're speaking directly the Netflix documentary people that handle the Connor doc.
It's just here's the thing. If you want to tell us that you don't take responsibility in any way or have any relationship to any misdeed that any of the fighters have, you don't get to parade how laudable they are on the other side and then ask us to accept that because you also now have no relationship to that either.
I don't know if that was the thing that set Dane off, but did you see the rest of when people were asking him about from Gracie's poor performance, They're asking him if Smith and Wideman should retire, And finally he got to the point where he snapped on the medium and was like, oh, you guys have his negative quest I should say, no, one wants to talk about the positive. But it's also like the way that is set up, that's the only time people really get to talk to him.
Right, you know, So it's you understand. So I want to sort of correct something I had said. Someone asked me on Twitter. They were asking about the pre fight press conference, and nobody asked Connor about anything, or nobody asked anything about Connor. And someone asked me on Twitter. They were like, Hey, do you think that the UFC told people not to ask? And let me just say what my I don't know what your experience is. Let me tell you what my experience is. Granted I don't go to shows hardly at all anymore. But in all the time that I ever did go to shows, no one from UFC has ever even bothered to ask me something like that. When there was other forms of controversy or whatever. It's never happened. So I found it kind of strange. But then Stephen Morocco found an example from twenty eighteen when staff did ask media around the Greg Hardy situation to keep it just focused on the fights at that time. So I don't know if they did that at the pre fight press conference, but there at least is some precedent for it. Sure, it's just nothing I've ever personally experienced.
All right, let's move it on to topic number five, and that is what is going to be going down at UFC three twelve, Sydney, Australia.
What is the date on that March, I'll look it up here, give me a second.
Sean Strickland is going to get the rematch in the main event, not Hamzat Chimayev against Strikis Duplessi, and in the co main event fired Oh Jean way Lee will finally make the return eleven months after her fight in at UFC three hundred and April, and Tachiano Suarez, who has not fought since late twenty twenty three, has been in and out of eligibility in terms of her health and the lineup. We're finally going to get that. But first and foremost on the main event, Luke. First of all, these are two. In my opinion, very good fights. I'm excited about it. Let's go UFC three twelve. But is that the right opponent Considering Sean Strickland is fresh off of a split decision when over Polo Costa and Hamzat Chimayev just ran through Robert Whitaker.
Let me first say I actually I know no one is ever allowed to be surprised on the inner anymore. I was surprised a little bit by this not crazy, but supplies the way.
The way they released it, which was like between fights on the UFC broadcast when they showed Suarez in the crowd and then they put underneath that she's gonna be fighting way Lee and then they come back and they're like, oh, yeah, breaking news DP versus Strickling two.
Yeah, I suppose that too. I suppose that too. But I thought, after what Hamzad did to Whittaker, and given that it's a fresh matchup and all the trash talk and everything else, I you know, maybe there were visa issues related to getting into Australia. Who the fuck knows. You can never really tell this to me the answer, right, It might be because I his, here's what we know. You know this as well as I do. Historically speaking, sitting on a title shot and waiting almost never pays off. They just don't like that. They like guys who stay active. Now, granted, Sean had done them a number of favors and taking a bunch of fights, so maybe they felt like they owed him one on the other end, but like, if you're just looking, he had the fight with DDP, which was close. I thought DDP did it in real time, and then afterwards I thought Sean won. He gets the rebound against Paulo Costa, which is not much of a rebound. It wasn't a great fight. And then he gets back here and you're like, dude, hamzat, Okay, he's got his problems. But then he goes in there against Whittaker and absolutely obliterate. I mean real he rearranged Whittaker's face and you thought, I thought that was that. That's going to be it. This is the guy. So if if it's not because of either calendar planning or where this guy can get into based on his real world allegions, is.
Do you have a health step back that we don't know about it?
No?
I wonder if the CADIROV stuff extends far beyond the United States.
In terms of being They don't want to say that publicly, right.
Right, because they're trying to get once again, the only the only civilizing force in the industry is what basement level capitalism will do for you. That's it, that's all.
Is this the topic that got Data pissed off at the post fight press coffs because he was also salty about when people were like, why.
Is it not Jamaiah.
He got pissed off at jose Young's about asking about Crome Gracie's performance, and then this he got heated too. And it was the kind of thing where it's like, I think you're onto something where it's Hamzak can't get into Australia or something. Because Dana normally would be like, Strickland's the guy. What do you mean Hamzad doesn't desert you know, he'd heat up the guy. Instead, he was like, of course we tried to make this with Hamza like pissed off about it.
I'll just say this, I don't feel super strongly about it for two reasons. One, Strickland's got a case that he won the first fight. It was a very close fight, Yes, he's got a case that he won the first fight, and I think also the second fight could be somewhat I won't say meaningfully different, but different enough for DDP to be kind of an interesting Jess battle. I am surprised. Correct me if I'm wrong Long Island Luke. Does Australia have different rules about speech about what can be criminalized and what can't be, because I do recall the first time Sean Strickland went down there, there were a lot of folks, including the in the Australian government, who were really upset with some of the stuff he had said. And I'm not here to like parse it just as like a risk that you run if you're bringing that guy back to the same area. Yeah, is there anything to that?
I'm honestly not the person to ask.
I have no idea. Ask your father.
All right, all right, well you know, well, look it's going to be a great fight. But I can sympathize with with Dana's tone if they did try, and they couldn't right now because with Chamaiav's inconsistencies with his health and his schedule. If you get the window, you got to make the fight. Because he's Championship. Ready, the dude's ready to jump through our screen.
Edp versus TREMAIAV would have been sick right now. Yes, but I do like.
This fight, but I love the Colemane. Dude, are you getting moved on? That same thing with Suarez. It's like, you don't know how when the calendar is going to arrive where she's healthy at the right time. The right time is now, then.
So correct me if I'm wrong. She was supposed to fight Verna Jenji Roba, yes, and that fight fell through, and there was another fight she was supposed to have and it.
Was a weird thing where she where someone on Twitter said she was hurt and she was like, where'd you get that room? Or that's not true? And then the next day of the UFC an.
Yes, sir, And then that fight fell through and you're like, okay, well she's still trying to build back as a contender, and then she she just gets the fight. So yes, she was supposed to fight Verre and a Genji Robot as well as she was scheduled to fight Amanda Lamosh and then she had to withdraw and then was replaced by Mackenzie Dernt. So she said the Lamos fight, as well as the gen Robo fight, where we were supposed to get a better look at exactly where she was. I have to tell you, though, you might think, well, god's fucking cold in here. Hold shit, it's so fucking golden. Ere Ken wants to see our nipples. I think, can do you want to see our nipples? The only thing that stands out to me about this is here's my reading on it. They've been trying to move her up, trying to move her up, trying to move her up. They're like, you know what, fuck it, just put her to the front of the line. The clock's ticking. If we don't give her a title shot now, her health might fail us before she even gets a shot.
Three years old, but undefeated and dominant.
So they just said, fuck it, forget the other contenders. Just get to the front of the queue, and to your point, BC has a fight. I like it. I love it. I like it. I love it.
Look that my beloved one fifteen division not as deep as it used to be.
But this is the best matchup you can make. Roseanne here, that's the best matchup you can make.
So let's let's see it. I do think we have a Strickland video we can throw to here about his comments, caud you see that tweet first from Hamza that showed a picture of himself, He wrote at Strickland it was a picture of himself with a with a large assault rifle in his hands. Yes, and then Strickland says, I love how cumshot. We'll try to talk shit to me, bro, You're not a man character level, fucking dog shit crypto scams. Hoard yourself out to Cadira for cars, fled to the Middle East when the pimp and got too strong. Stay in your lane, Swedish man.
All right.
So Strickland already planting the seeds if he can get the title from DDP and if we don't need an immedia trilogy.
By the way, he went on to say other things. Also, the three way trash talk between DDP, TRAMAIAV and Sewn Strickland's also pretty good. Yes, Because then DDP got on Twitter and was like, the first one they called the robbery, the second one they're going to call attempted murder. I was like, oh shit.
Dude, this middleweight division's fund right now at the top level.
Very very very funny. Well, that was the thing. That's why you kind of thought Hamza was going to introduce some electricity into it and like you know, shake up the established order or things. And then they went back to the well with the fight they had before. I didn't love the first fight. I didn't hate the first fight. I thought it was somewhat intriguing.
It was a technical thriller.
Thriller's doing a lot of heavy lifting there. Technical, yes, and I think a totally fine fight. I don't have I'm not, Oh, it was terrible. No, it was absolutely not terrible. That's totally not the case. But it wasn't like dude, I mean, Sean has a way of making every fight trench warfare. Yes, that's a tough thing. Yeah, he just defines it. Maybe he loses the trench warfare battle, but it's still trench warfare. I don't know.
All right, In just a few minutes, Macy Barbara will join the program. But those are our five topics, and before we welcome our special guest and UFC.
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All right, let's see what Rick Rickerson's we have here. The first one is from is Underscore. He will ballall Muhammad's pace, cardio and wrestling be too much for shot Cut to handle over five rounds.
That's a direct question. Look, I think it absolutely can be. I think put it back out.
But you're hoping that this man was mcled. You were hoping that we get that the next time we see him, it's full power, full strength chafka.
Yes, but that's this is what I mean. If he's got injuries, I'm not I'm not interested in seeing him compete again. If he's gonna again, he didn't say it, but if it's going to leak out later, it's like, oh, you know, he had his fucking ball sack amputated a well, you know, three bag, three needles to the bag. Brian Campbell still shows up and does the show.
You know what I mean, like took my manhood but not my soul.
I'm just trying to point out I'm not interested in seeing you know, Hey, this is sixty percent shot got yeah, you can get the fuck out of here, like none of them are ever one hundred percent. Give me ninety percent or give me nothing.
How about that give me liberty or give me freedom and death and something like that.
Also, Danny Rube and answer your text messages.
Uh.
This second one's from at Mike prin nishin nineteen ninety five. Do you think that the UFC should pull back on the five round comains? They feel pretty underwhelming and often unnecessary. This feels like a minority opinion, right.
I don't agree with it at all. I thought I love five round co main events.
Well, look, I wonder if there's a compromise to be made here. If a fight is involving two highly ranked guys, and especially if they have yet to fight five rounds in their career, then a five round non title, highly contending fight is perfect because we find out who's ready and who's not for the title level. But what if it is a a co main event that doesn't demand that. Should we automatically put it on there or should it only be for the exact type of fights like we saw a Shavkav versus Gary.
If you have two guys or two ladies in your comaine event and they're not fighting for something approximating number one contender, and you wanted to go three rounds. I don't hate like not fight night Comaine shouldn't be five rounds, depending depending I mean, no ch UFC. The first one was a fight night, So I don't have a problem with the comin and something like that being for five rounds, but just to do it, to do it, I don't know what the point of that would be. Yeah, but this one clearly needed to be five rounds. Rockmanov and Gary would have been a travesty at three. Yeah. And by the way, think about how much you learned more in the fourth than the fifth. I mean, Rockmanov would have won either way because he was up to one I think after three, right, That's how I had it two to one, So he would have won either way. But look what you learned in the fourth about Rockmanov. Look what you learned in the fifth about Gary. Like, I'm very glad.
That they want to seeking is if you've got a loaded fifteen fight card on a big pay per view and you've got you know, three title fights are two title fights and a five rounder, because sometimes it happens on the really the big juice up cards.
Dude, you're gonna go super late into the night.
I mean that main event didn't start to one am Eastern anyway on Saturday night. For all the the shit that Dana gives boxing for having bad pacing, and they do that Boxing has terribly bad pacing. These UFC ones, do they need.
To be that late? You can, you can get rid of a few power slap ads and you can tighten that up a little bit. I think, what do you do? Start earlier promote less fights? What's the deal here? Again? I live through the very very very very very brief era when they moved the pay per views back to nine pm. They claim to not like the results that they got.
I love.
I don't know what the metrics are. I have no way of knowing, but I fucking love. I'm old as shit.
Let's go to number three. This is from at It's not cage fighting, then, what is it?
Okay?
Which three risin fighters would you most like to see in the UFC next? Now, who's this Adam weight that somebody asked Dane about, Who's like the best in the world.
And Dana agreed in the post by pressure that.
This person could did not hear it, and this person tweeted at a bunch today to support that.
Oh this person printhing.
Yeah that they said, that's the type of person you would build like the division around if they did start that long. Look, you don't know anything about this person, right ren hero Moto, Yeah, that's it. Do you know much about this gentleman?
I would be pretending if I did, is this is men's This is men's Okay? Do you think there should be women's animely? I do? I do actually believe instead of one, that's where all the talent is. That's when Victor has an ADAM weight championship, Like absolutely, that's where they That's where all the dude we've we've known from MMA in Japan in the early two thousands that that was the case. I know you disrespect Magoomi Fuji, but.
Did you see that clip from the UFC Wayne Show where Loris Senko read out her accomplishments in dan Helly admitted that he doesn't know anything about her either.
Yeah, but Shota dan Helly, who's a DC sports legend, I'm not going to sit here and bespirch the name of a guy who who gave me a lot of great great knights on NBC four along.
With I didn't follow Lindsay's Arnie from Sports Center.
Lindsay's Arnie I got her start on the exact same channel as Dan Helly.
Okay, all right, So, Luke, is there are there any other Rise and Fighters that you would like the UFC? Because do you agree with what people are saying that because the UFC actually broadcast Rise in highlights and because they hauled Osacre on the screen former Rise and Champion, do you think this is a pipeline that sak Karaba and Dana, who have been close.
Are opening. I hope. I think it's good for Rising, by the way, to get any kind of talent sharing if that's the way they can go. I don't know what Dana's going to do in that regard, because he was really he really resented how talent sharing with Pride went and sending Chuck over there and not getting vander Lay was really a thorn in his side. But we're in a different era and I feel like, dude, promoters working together is what MMA needs more of, not less. So any version are you.
Talking about Turkey being the middleman between Don Davis and Dana White to make John versus for him.
Well, there's things that you know, I mean, unless Jesus can come back and turn water into wine, there's a limit on what we can do in the natural world. You know what I'm saying.
That's interesting, I do, I do.
There is a lot of talent Rison, would you agree with that? Yes, of a certain kind of weight class range, but yes, yes, of course interesting. You're not going to find your next best middleweight there, but you'll definitely find some guys at one hundred and thirty five pounds or give it, you know, around that We're going to be real good. Let's go to number four.
This is from at Jimmy Underscore read over under five and a half on the number of current champions who will hold on to their belts at this time.
Let's go through it next year. But he he's talking about the UFC. Yes, so let's go through it ready now. Part of this, like John Jones could end up winning against aspenof they make the fight, but then retiring anyway, So I don't know how that would qualify. But let's go through here. Very good, Pantoja.
I mean I would have said no coming into this fight, and now I'm like.
Now I'm gonna say yes. Although he's gonna be thirty five in April, so or right around zillions built differently asterisk okay, morob fuck no, no, I don't think so yeah sorry morob Ilia unless he moves up and no, but at forty five yeah yeah, yeah, okay Islam.
I'm waiting for him to just shock us after a win by saying thank you had a great run here, and now I need to let usmanner Magametov come over here.
I'm going up to middle of weight right now, I'm gonna say we. I'm gonna say he stays champed. You say he stays champed, all right? No mean neither trickis That's the interesting one.
Right now, I'll say yes.
Right now I say yes, I'm gonna say no.
So I'm adding in the factor that Chimaiav is inconsistent in terms of showing up.
Where are you at?
I'm gonna say yes because like you, he's gonna beat Strickland and then maybe he doesn't get another title till next year.
Hold right, if he beats Strickland, do you think he beats Tremaiev.
I didn't say that, but like we said, with Tamaiav's health, oh, several issues, you know, they might not Pooton.
Now that's not before you say, oh yeah, it would be pooton On. Caliv is a donk, but he can win that fight. I think, well he can win it. I think Poeton will still be the champion, all right, same and then the end of the one about Jones is the interesting one. I'm gonna say no, I'm gonna say aspinall.
I'll agree with you.
So where are we over and under it? I think, oh, how about the it was five and a half. I think we found five.
I mean there is a there's a lot of turnover in this era.
John Wiley, I don't think we'll be championed by the end of the year. Valentina Chefchenko, I don't think we'll be championed by the end of the year. And then Pania it's a harder one to say, and O Kayla probably beats her, that's right, So you definitely you definitely get some significant turnover.
Interesting stuff. Our final dms from the Digities will come to us from at von Beck cal and this person says, if you could get one gift from Dana this Christmas. Look, if you could fall in on those sixteen days of Christmas that Dana White is doing for the UFC fans.
What would it be? And why? One Christmas gift from Dana White? What would it be?
An ELK boy's bag. I mean, I wouldn't turn down two hundred and fifty k in a paper bag.
Un I take two to fifty K one gift from Dana. Okay, I hate the framing of the question because it turns them into this avuncular figure that I don't think is inappropriate framing. But if we're gonna go with the game, this one's easy for me. John Jones, Tom Aspital, Don Jones, Tom Aspinal doesn't have to be in the UK all that crazy ass shit. No, you can make it in New York, you can make it Vegas. Just make it anywhere around this area. Title Unification pay per view main event, and I will I will be happy in twenty twenty five. That's the guest. I don't think they can make that happen. I'm still just over fifty confident that it happened. That's pretty pretty confident.
I would want to take the money, the resources and the time that they put into Power Slap, which seems to still be aggressive, and throw it all into boxing and take your swing. And I think they might, you know, when you hear Dana talk and the rumors of a Turkey partnership, a lot of things. Whatever it's gonna be, take your swing. We've been hearing about this for years.
I want to see what he can do. I want to see what role he can play. Let's go take your swing, go all in. Here's my hope instead of doing power Slap, take all the money that they use for that and put it towards a better cause by setting it on fire. Is really want to just that's fair. Just live streams like you know this, this power Slap event cost four hundred grand. Just create a YouTube channel where you take four hundred grand and you set it on fire as a way to like truly entertain us and make valuable use of that much more valuable use anyway of that of that time.
Well those were the d ms from Donks. Thank you for playing slide back in next week. Okay, for next Monday's episode, Luke, we have a couple more minutes before our guest joins, Yep, before we get into that, she app I mean if I if I urinated right now, would you be very mad at me?
Now you're saying urinate on your pants? No, just like you know, run to the no ship. Can I tell you that I don't know who it was in the office, So I went into the U. I didn't use this restaurant, used the one in the back. You know, yeah, you have to punch the code in.
Which fifty percent of the time, no one's taking a dump here.
So two things happened to me, and they were both you know, I needed a trigger warning that you saw George Michael and no, no, but one guy in the forestall I didn't see who it was. He was making noises with his anus that sounded like the t Rex roaring in Jurassic Park.
Now, and the deer's looking at you. Do you think he's it was not the deer goes like this, that was not a deer.
And then a guy while while I'm hearing velociraptors scream in the corner, there was a gentleman who stood next to me who unzipped his pants and did this number. Now he's just like wait, wait, no, no, I'm in the stand up stall.
The number six and nine put together number you got for me.
I'm in the stand up stall. The guy gets next to me and he does this number. He unzips his pants and goes ah and then audibly fart. Oh.
So I'm like, that is but that's like an eighties old guy move to just walk in and be like oh, like finally we're away from the window.
We got the velociraptor in the corner, and then we've got an old man at the gym audibly farting next to me at the urinal. I needed I needed to get out of there as soon.
As you should have just tripled deck did Joseph a Beg style and just been like you want a war, I'll give you a war.
Or I should have done with what Randy Quaid did in in the bowling movie What was the bowling movie? Kingpin? Kingpin? Where he just took a dump in the Europe.
Okay, that's disgusting. Hey, on that note, why don't we welcome our fantastic guests this week? One of the top women's flyweight contenders in the UFC.
What what the future?
The future is now just twenty six the future is now. Let's bring in Macy Barber on the program. Macy, welcome, Good morning Combat. Great to see you. We are itching to see you back in action. How's everything going?
I know I can't wait.
Well, first of all, you guys introed me on like the most random conversation that I got to walk in.
I was like, what are they talk about?
We don't We didn't mean it personally. The guy that I blame on, the producer, he was like, just just talk about anything for five minutes. So I talked about anything.
Oh boy, this is definitely anything. I was like, what are they introing? Wow?
Good?
Okay, but yeah, no, I'm excited to be back.
Let's talk about your status. We thought you were coming back into a lot in July over the summer and you had a setback. How is everything going with your health and when could we see you back in there?
Everything is going great now. It has been a long journey. I was so bummed when I was well.
First of all, I was so excited to fight Rose because not only was I fighting Rose, but I was also fighting in Denver where I made my UFC debut. So for me, it was my first main event It was a very huge opportunity for me, and I was so excited, and then I was so devastated when I was told, hey, look, you're not gonna You're not gonna fight on this card and you're obviously you know, the health is more important. So I was very devastated. But I have made a lot of progress coming forward and I can't wait.
To be back. This is great.
Do you have a plan set in mind a time frame?
Yeah. Actually, I was just messaging with Mick and Hunt Hunter called me as well, I'm hope for April, honestly. I mean, I know it's still is a little ways out, but it for me like that's that's the timeline that I was given. And so originally I thought I was gonna be until July August of next year, but it's looking like more like April.
All right, Well, we can't wait to see you back. You're a big player in a division that suddenly Macy has a ton going on for it, big names. I feel like three, four or five women could be champion right now in terms of the how stacked it is at the top.
How would you assess this.
One hundred and twenty five pound division as.
We speak right now.
Yeah, the division has had a lot of changes, obviously. It's it's one of those where I am so frustrated with like wanting to be there, Like I want to be there so bad because I know that to be honest, like I feel like I'm the best contender for being the champion, you know, and I can't wait to get that shot and to have the title shot because I feel like we've seen how Aaron has matched up against you know, the top, top opponents, and I don't think that she's gonna be up there, you know. I mean she's obviously she's a great fighter, but she's not champion worthy. Uh Man is a great fighter as well, However, I don't think she has the champion capabilities as well. And then you know, we have the top we have Alexa Grosso who was uh got her rematch, and then I feel like I just want to be there, you know, Like I know for me, like I have the most exciting fights, I have what it takes to be there, and I just want to get back there so I can have that belt.
All right. I want to go through some of these individual pieces if I may. First things first, you were supposed to fight Rose on the July card. Obviously it didn't work out. We'll hope to see you back in April. How did you think Rose looked more recently?
To be honest, when she thought Aaron, I thought that that that was a boring fight. But I also thought that Rose won that fight. I thought that Rose won three of five rounds, and the judges obviously gave it to Aaron, but I thought that that was not fair to Rose because I did think that Rose had done everything she needed to do to win that fight. So for me, I mean, I don't think that she looks as good as she has looked in the past. You know, she used to be a really dominant champion. She used to be a phenomenal She still is a phenomenal fighter, but it's different now, you know. And you can see that she's changed ever since. She's been with different coaches, and there's just been a lot that's happened in her life, and I mean, she's getting older. So I just don't think she's the same fighter that she used to be. However, I do believe that she'd beat Aaron, and that's that's what was tough to watch.
Let me follow up on that, because I get asked this question all the time, and folks are like, well, she is bouncing or she has changed anyway. Bouncing is not quite a fair way to put it, but changing some of her coaching. When you're a fighter and you're looking at another fighter who has changed their coaching and you could say, ah, this is why they fight differently, what would you point to specifically in the case of Rose that would lead you to believe that the coaching change itself is playing a big role in how she's fighting. I mean, it really.
Depends because there's fighters like myself who have bounced around a lot. You know, I've been known as someone who goes from Jim to Jim and coach to coach like I and that's something that a lot of people have talked about with me. However, like with Rose, I mean, she didn't do that before. Like she had Trevor Women as her coach for the longest time, and I think that that played a huge advantage in her career.
You know, Trevor is a phenomenal coach.
And from what I picked up, you know, she should have stayed with Trevor, and now that she's not with him, whatever the circumstances are like, however that came about, She's never been the same ever since.
Okay, let's talk about the top of that division for a second. I would love to get your perspective. This blew my mind. No ja UFC. Valentina Chevchenko defeats Alexa Grosso and over the course of their rivalry, Grosso's wrestling somehow got worse. How is that possible? How did how did it regress to the point where Chevchenko was just able to use that as like the sole means of winning in a five round contest?
I mean, did Grosso's wrestling get worse?
Died it?
Valentina's get that much better? You know, Like it's it's a tough thing to answer because I don't I mean again, I don't know. You know, you don't know what happens in other people's camps. You don't know whether injuries play apart. There's a huge thing to be said for I mean, everyone talks about it mentality in a fight, and the whole fight game is a is a mind game. So you don't know what has gone on. You know, whether she might have been training in it, it would have you know, maybe she didn't have a lot of success in her wrestling in terms of training, and she didn't have as much confidence in it going into the fight. Maybe maybe Valentine did just you know, get that much sharper in her wrestling. And there's a lot to be said for all of that. So I mean for me to go and say, yeah, Alexa Grosso's wrestling got worse, Like, we don't know what played a part in that, but I mean I could tell you for sure, like I have seen fighters where if you don't ever find success in the gym, it's really hard for you to take that and go into a fight and be confident in it, and that's when the mentality turns into a big factor as well.
Well.
Chifchenko, the all time great, the legend, the champion once again, it appears, although we haven't heard that, if I'm planning out her future, number two, men On Farroh seems to be the most deserving of that next title shot. Do you agree? And how would you see that fight going down?
You know, I actually was talking about a fight offer against men On, and then I was also told that she does not want to fight unless for the belt. So there's a lot of things that are going back and forth in that division in with you know, I do feel like as far as a fighter who has put in the fights and who has beat the people she needs to beat and put herself up there, I do believe that Manon is the best contender for that next title shot, you know, and it could be a good fight, you know, to see Valentine in her fight and then me get to get the winner of that or and then see who I get to fight for the belt. But I do think that she, like right now as it stands, is the is the best next candidate for the title shot.
Well, you're currently the number four ranked women's flyway. You're riding a six fight win streak. When you look back to the two losses that at the time sort of slowed your momentum when we thought you really were on pace to become the youngest UFC champion, I know that was a big goal of yours. Do you look back at those losses though, as a gift and you know that does that work in hindsight?
Now?
Did you grow extensively from that experience? I do?
You know the things that I've learned, I mean, obvio, like, uh, the first loss that I had to be honest, like, I felt like I had one of the best camps of my life. I was at the time, I was training at Rouf of Sport, and I had a great camp. I had an amazing weight cut, and I was super confident going into that fight. And I remember actually talking to a few people and one of those was actually James Krause, and I was like, because I used to ask him a lot of opinions on my fights and matchups and everything, and I asked him and he was like, you know, you you win this fight ten times, ten out of ten times. The only time you would ever lose this fight is if you had a freak accident and you got injured and you couldn't continue.
And that was maybe like an hour before the fight.
And then I went out and I while I was like an hour before I went to the fight, obviously, I went out and I fought, and I tore my acl and I think the things that I took away from that was I showed that no matter what, like if I get hurt, if I get obviously severely injured, like I'm gonna keep going and I'm gonna keep pushing and I'm not just gonna keep pushing and try to survive. I'm gonna try to keep winning, you know, Like I feel like I showed a lot of people and my coaches and my own family and like myself, you know, like the thing that I have inside me, which is a heart, and coming off of that loss, like it was really hard to be sad about Oh I didn't do enough.
You know.
What I really took away with that, and the sadness that I had was damn it, I lost. And I know that I could have won that fight and had circumstances been different. And also I can't fix it for a whole nother year, Like I was looking at going into a surgery and facing a whole year layoff of like rehabbing an ACL and going through that process with that feeling of like, wow, I really want to just go out there and show like what I know I could have done. And actually when I got offered that, like I asked to go and fight her again, and she turned it down. Obviously it was her retirement fight you wanted to win and which actually I don't. I don't know if that worked in her favor because she fought Casey o'neillen and didn't win. But then when I fought Alexa, the thing that I took away from that was, you know, obviously I had another loss that I had come off of, and I really learned in that camp specifically and in that fight, how important the mentality is, how important it is who you have around you, who you have coaching you, who you have.
Speaking into your life. Because again, no excuses.
When I fought Alexa, like I went in there, if I go into a fight, I know, I'm like, look, I'm ready to fight, and I'm I'm gonna fight and I'm gonna win.
However, like she was.
Better that day.
But for me, I learned, you know, the coaching that I had at the time was not the was not the camp that I needed to be with. I was actually learning a completely different style than what I should have learned, and it was not me at all. You know, someone who wanted to be more of a counter fighter, and I'm not a counterfighter. I'm a pressure fighter, and I'm known for brawls and I'm known for pushing the pace and that's what I feel like. You know, I showed that in the third round when I pushed the pace and I won that third round from being myself. But I really had to get out of that, get out of that other style that I had been working on and trying to like be this person that I wasn't, you know, And I dealt a lot with like and a lot of external things that I learned. You know, you can't let outside factors come into your mentality because if you do, it's it's gonna cost you a lot. And I lost that fight and that was a bitter taste in my mouth because I truly did lose that fight, And even though I won the third round, you know, I got to learn, you know, I need to be who I need to be for me, and when I'm not, I have a lot of success.
Well, there was some close decision wins to start the six fight win streak. Was there a point where you felt like you did fully get your mojo back where you were allowed to sort of release the dog again and you felt comfortable in that dominant attack style that you that you performed so well.
Yeah, I mean, like I said, coming off of Alexa Grosso, like I had had a different style and I had a lot of external things that I allowed it to my life and influence my career. And then I tried to shift that, you know, I realized in that third round I needed to shift it. And then I carried that into the next fight, and the next fight was a little bit better, still way closer than I wanted it to be. Uh The next fight was even just just like that, you know, it was a little bit better but still close. And I feel like I really started to feel that, you know, after after like two fights after that, you know, and then I when I fought Jessica, I when I fought Montana, and then obviously when I fought.
When I fought uh yes, Amanda. When I fought Amanda, I felt that a lot.
You know. I was like, this is me, this is who I was meant to be, this is what God created me to do, and like this is like the person that I am, and I like finally got to feel that again. It felt great, you know, and then I got to carry that on into Kaitln. The fight with Kaitlin, and obviously, you know, like the tougher the higher up I go in the division, that the tougher the girls are gonna get. And so I just want to make sure that no matter what, like I'm always going out there with the actual, the true me, and the one hundred percent Macy Barber that I have because I believe that when I do that, I'm unstoppable.
Let me follow up if I can on Aaron Blanchfield. Give me imagine we've never seen her fight before. Give me the Macy Barber scouting report.
The scouting report would be she's a solid wrestler and grappler and her striking is very low level.
Uh, she does, but she makes it work for her in certain fights. I would say that she does get success in certain fights with it because she's a pressure fighter, very similar to like. She likes the pressure and she likes to be aggressive, which is what gets people down to the ground. And obviously that's where she has most of her success. But if you watch her, like, her striking is not it's not clean, she doesn't have good defense, and against the right fighters, like she's gonna get hurt. You know, we did see that with Man who was a good striker. Against a good striker, Aaron Blanchefield is not going to have very much success at all. And then also, you know she's just not she's not an exciting fighter. She's not someone that you're like, oh, I have to watch this fight. You don't see a lot of brawls with her, You don't see a lot of devastating wins. You just see someone who goes out and can win sometimes and has made it pretty far for herself because of that, you know. But she's not someone that's like, oh, this is a devastating fighter.
Okay, same exercise, but this time for Menon Fiero.
For Menona, I would say that she's a very well rounded fighter. Her striking is is good, she's long, her second is just good. It's it's really good. She's done really well with it. I feel like she has more success in the stand up and the strikes, which then you know, you don't see a whole lot of wrestling and ground game from her, but her her whole game as a whole is well rounded and her technique is championship level. However, I feel as though the rest of her, because being a champion isn't just about just fighting, like you can be a champion and just fight, and to be honest, you're a boring champion. So she needs she doesn't have like that full well rounded champion of a fighter. However, her fighting style is championship level.
Okay, So then if Chevchenko fights Froh, give me the Macy Barber prediction. How how does that one? How does that one look? And if you have a strong feeling about whom I win, I think.
Fierro is tough. I honestly could see that going to a decision. Think like I don't.
I mean, obviously, we've seen that Valentina has knockout power. I don't know if we have seen men on have knockout power. I feel like a lot of her fights have gone to decisions, and so I just think, you know it, but she's also tough, like I don't know if she's been put away too many times either, So if someone wants to catch I'm I think it's gonna go to a decision. I think Valentina is on her way out, like I think she's older, and she's just also not the same fighter that she used to be.
She's just kind of getting a little bit old for where she's at. So I think it's gonna go to the decision.
Interesting stuff right there.
How's the Macy Barbara brand doing right now? I see you with a lot of different sponsorships. I see you on some you know, viral crossovers with Demi Bag Beyond the Internet. How's life as Macy barber these days?
It's great, you know, I'm honestly, I'm trying to maximize and take advantage of this off time, you know, like whenever I'm out, whenever I'm not able to fight. Obviously, the number one thing is I want to be back in the gym and I want to be training when I'm not able to do that. I know that I have to be as proactive as possible because this career is very short.
And I need to build it up.
So I want people to want to watch, I want people to pay want to pay attention. So I've tried to do everything I can to stay busy and to create lifelong partnerships that aren't just gonna be with me through my fighting career, but are gonna be with me through life and through that. I have met Demi and she has been amazing. She's helped me a lot, and she's doing great things and I'm doing great things. So for us to come together and collab has been really incredible. So yeah, I mean, honestly, Macy barbera is blessed and looking forward to the future.
All right, if ill and this is injuries, time off. All that's behind us. Let's close with this map out a perfect twenty twenty five for us. How does Macy Barber go from the number four war raking to where your goal has always been championship level?
Here?
Ah, the perfect hat. If I was to have every fight that I would want right now. I mean, obviously I talked about having a five with men On. I would love to have at least one fight to come back obviously off my layoff, and then I want the belt. I want to have the belt by the end of twenty twenty five.
Oh, there it is. Speak what does it speak? Receiving?
I don't want to have the belt.
I'm going to have that.
Yeah, there it is.
There it is Macy Barber in the house. We appreciate your time so much. Best of luck getting back out there into the cage. We're looking forward to it.
Thank you guys.
Good stuff right there, you're.
The number four Women's Flyway contender, Macy Barber. Luke, there's only one other thing we have to do to close the show.
BC's feast. I mean, I feel, I mean, I.
Should have apologized again to Macy that we transitioned her in on a feces conversation.
Right, listen, you came on Morning Combats.
I bet you're like, like the quality control was on you in that regard. I scoured the globe, the internet actually yesterday.
You know what I do on Sundays, Right, That's what I do.
I've got the highs and lows, the good, the bad, the ugly, the in between, people getting hurd Hey, it's have you.
Seen this shit hood? Here we go?
Hey.
UFC three to ten was in Las Vegas this weekend and Luke Shafcott literally tore Ian machadlegary a new ass. Have you ever seen this wardrobe malfunction before? Did that come from the cage?
I don't know what the hell I know. I think he talked about it. I missed it, but yeah, it was strange. That was strange. There you go with that.
Connor McGregor. Luke was you know, he hasn't been in the news for good reasons, but he put out a audio reaction to Bala Muhammad and the face off with shaff Cut. This security doesn't know he's a jump Look, god, stay it is called the security does now he's the champ. No, I'm not surprised. Motherfuck up? Oh may he is an ashole I d I'm a fan of he was.
We can go get it.
I mean, if you were a pr for him, would you be?
Uh?
His his attorney's had to deal with some of the stuff he posted about the try afterwards. Judge didn't rule yet, but they might hold him in contempt for it.
All right, we mentioned Alexander Volkov had the same hair of any nineteen year old girl who went to the Caribbean for the first time. Look, h wow, this was a decision.
I like how you put your own tweets in have you seen this ship?
But you're saying that check MAJORI style.
It's a good point. He did the old check majory. Uh, he looks like the worst thing I've ever seen.
Okay, so you're saying he actually deserves the loss based on the hair.
I'm not going that far. But it's like I get that they got they do the corner road thing because it's functional, right, he keeps the hair out of your face.
Yes, he used to Comba's hair in the corner is better than that.
But then you just end up looking like Malibu's most Yeah. Yeah, there you go.
Nate Diaz was back through his cornering of Chrone Gracie, which meant, what is Nate Diaz do? He gets into water bottle throwing wars backstage, this time with Islam. Is this planning seeds?
I mean, we're all above thirty and out heading towards forty in certain some of these cases. What are we doing here?
This is planning a seed for him to get a lightweight title shot.
That's what it is. I can't say no to that, But do you make lightweight one more time for a title fight? Probably could? Okay, that's interesting. I'm also a little over the bottle throwing.
Speaking of Chrome Gracie, you know who sent him to hell? On Twitter, saysar Gracie Caesar.
Never a good idea to pull guard in MMA like that? Never?
Right?
Yeah, you want to talk about a guy who? I mean, I believe Gracie's best win Krone is over Tessuya Kawajiri, which is like a really good win. I don't know what I mean, dude, I like you realize, like there's Niemon Gracie still out there, but like with the exception of him and Crone, like the Gracies are done as a fighting said, he's a gray sie. He's a grasie. I'll better put some respect on that grin.
I'm Bryce Mitchell's back with me. I'm back with Bryce Mitchell.
He's a loon, but a very good fight.
Could we get him on the show.
I would only do it in studio.
Rice, if you're listening out there, he's friends with Big Tuna Ben Parrish, My guy.
Oh, we do like Ben Parrish. We should get big for both of them. Oh my god, so much Arkansas. You'll tell me milk and steak? How about that?
Nina Drama asked Asakura a dumb question and got a inappropriate answer.
Are you ready?
What's the first thing you washed in the shower?
Oh?
Okay, okay, all right. Uh Luke, we talked about it's the first thing you washed in the shower. I guess I've never thought about that. My face, My face is the first.
Yeah, with your ass, also, Luke.
UFC three eleven, we got fired up for armand Serrukian was in Las Vegas to do the press conference for the rematch with Islamachev, and he was also there to do one final meal before training camp.
Did you see this tomorrow? God, that's savage right there? You think he ate the whole thing? I would say the meal is a little excessive.
Would you dip your paylote in that sauce right there after he did, Yes.
I would dip my pet.
Would you say he's your currently your third favorite fighter due to his Armenian background?
Probably? Okay? I mean I'm going to grade him on a curve every time.
You're not worried about him not making weight after this feast?
No, this fiesta? All right?
Weird couple days from Rob devalisheey right, weird couple days.
He brings it on himself, all right.
He nearly came to blows with Umar backstage once again. What I said, why is this?
Why this respect?
Like the heat between them?
I like it?
Come here?
Yeah, It's like, dude, everywhere Morob goes, he's getting into confrontations. The confrontation isn't following him. He's bringing the content.
Well, then, at the actual pressor him and Umar sounded like divorce beaches, didn't they?
It was interesting.
I kind of liked it.
Let's listen, I don't care about you.
Listen talking personally, okay, for you, I was always respectful for you, Okay, I.
Said about your country, about.
You, about your personal what I said?
Nothing?
What I said interesting between the two of them. Have an update from Danny Rue shot cut rock model. Please. All he is committing to is saying that they are sure of the extent and they're going to get an MRI this week. Good move, let's get that going.
Also, Luke Morob did did or a zinger back at Umar during the press or did you see this?
Umar?
You and Islam have shared so many memories together.
I want to know what's your best moment with him about Jauzi?
Focus on?
Focus on the fight?
Okay, don't you don't?
What do you think about Islam closing it with like, what's like, what do you say about the belt? Put some respect on it? Yeah, like act like a champion basically, Yeah, I agree. Okay.
Well, then Morab after cornering Al Joe as he was walking out, a fan aggressively grabbed Morob's arm and it started this sequence which led to one of his teammates throwing punches with the guy. Ah turns out, and Morob would tweet this out that that guy is a regular in the Dagistan camps.
Yeah he is, so he was a plant yeah, it doesn't matter. Once again, it is not hard to not get into a fist fight in public. Actually, for the most part, not always, but it's for the most part very easy to not get into a fist fight.
Is it easy to get on a scooter and not fall?
Once again, context is important here. What are they white?
Is that the question?
Well? Are they eight hundred pounds? Find out?
Oh, this is a skateboard?
Sorry, bother, he's gonna bust his teeth? Right, let's see. Oh he's pulling, not wearing a helmet? You fucking oh bo?
Yeah?
Yeah, right, look at them titties just crashing?
Can I lingis?
Yes?
He can't?
He die?
He was crushed by a giant set of.
I think he accidentally got sent to Poundtown. You agree, Let's go to the next clip.
Yeah, one way ticket to Poundtown of the gunner. I went to Poundtown today. I went to Poundtown on the Poundtown on dir a double take, passing by this bait and tackle shop.
There are some.
Social media posts that maybe are taking at the wrong way. Maybe they their mind all the gutter. I don't know what's but there is an innocent at all. We used to always say, oh, we're going to poundtown. You're pounding the jigs off the bottom. You're pounding the fish.
For anyone who might be.
Yeah, but you've pounded a couple of tortimes in your life.
Huh.
All right, Luke, let's keep it going. You love when people film themselves at the gym?
You love it? I hate it? Oh dude, you can cause real damage doing that.
Oh you can also cause damage doing this in the layup line. Watch oh clean up on? Uh, yeah, we're not playing today when that happens. Good lord, wow, okay, uh, let's go to the Chris Cat Luke, this is what this is how Reggie Jackson acts, and he has no remorse. I did that guy have a coming for the How over the top that reaction was?
You bring those animals into the house. You know you need to know what time it is? All right?
New segment alert. This one's called would you eat it?
Are you ready? Luke?
This one's called a burger dog? Would you eat it?
So far? Yes? Brilliant? Right?
Why we could have we never thought about this?
Yeah, sure I'd eat that.
Yeah, Longland, Luke, automatic that later.
It's a little like circular meat loaf. But yes, Okay, what about this too, combo meal? Would you eat this? Call me a veterinary assistant. The way I'm about to put a couple of dogs.
Shout out to market basket with the two dog and fried deal for two ninety nine. All right, now, let's go to the UH food competition. All you can eat here, the choice made or drinket. And then well, this is the this is tonight, this is take it far left you.
He's not giving up. Look at this and said the heck with beard. Look at the contest of nothing but whites.
All right, let's go over to grandma. She's got to get her SIGs.
Yep, Granny, that's just a new cigarette to spencer, and then we catch it. Hold the bottom, hold the bottom. That where's meet? Yeah, and I left hard. Oh my god, Oh you had a nice one.
All right, Oh this is easy.
Oh I need cigarettes so day long, now, all day long.
Every grandmother of my tongue growing up, someone needs to use in. Okay, all right, uh luke, is this how you're gonna celebrate sarr Yuki in becoming UFC lightweight Champion?
Yeah, I'm not gonna call that green firearm sacred.
Different cultures look different standards.
All right, Yeah, I mean I'm not sure this is a I don't know what's happening here that they're not all tackling him and then beating him within an inch of his life.
All right, I mean there's children around.
That's wild.
Hey, let's go over to this weekend in boxing and the BKFC, Luke Justin Watson said a new combat sports record with a two seconds koop.
Take that it's over with right face first, damn with your butt in the air.
Also unto his own main event, Richardson Hitchins took a split decision from leam Paro in Puerto Rico to win a one hundred and forty pound title and then found out he wasn't the father.
No, that was the joke for this sweet I took it.
But look, it was a very aggressive celebration and I'm here for it.
Shout out to Richard's good for having world champion. And he was calling people out on Twitter too. I saw that afterwards.
Indeed, let's go over to Manuel Navarette arriving to the arena in classic style as all the fighters.
In the main and Comaine did in this one in Phoenix. Look at that I don't know much about this kind of color culture, but I do like that car. Oh yeah, with the hydraulics. That's what I'm talking about. This is what the gangster rappers would do in the nineties videos. You know what I'm talking about.
Love it Navarette, Oh yeah. He would then go into the ring and score three knockdowns to finish Oscar Valdez. In the rematch with somewhat easy. You would say this was a left hook to the body to finish it. Oho tough to see Valdez, the great Warrior just kind of run out of steam there get overwhelmed. He definitely definitely did, so did Robes Ramirez. Although now people might be changing.
Their stories, they were murdering.
They were murdering him when we have the footage against Raphael Espinoza. This was a rematch of that incredible upset from last December.
He just says I'm done. He no.
Most people were written Bradley Joe Tess was aggressive on the on the announcing it would turn out. Karl Mridy of Top Rank would report that it was a broken.
Orbital and not just a broken orbital on the outside. On the inside of the interocular pressure so.
That's that's tough loss for for Robasi. Who remember when two Olympic oldn get that from Cuba. Also, we have a new game.
Let's watch this.
My name William and Barry, and today we're gonna see how many eggs I could take this stet without hurting.
Wish that should have been our Okay, bet payoff. He is jacked for an absolute moron. Yeah, probably is going to get a Darwin Award before as his method of dying.
Look, I don't have elder abuse, but I do have some child abuse.
You don't. I'm a little I'm less high on that. All right, let's see if you like these.
Oh no, okay, okay, let's go over to the boxing ring. I mean this gentleman's house. Okay, I mean we try to be all ages.
We try to welcome based on who their father is. I'm guessing that they weren't headed for mathematics PhDs. You know what I'm saying.
Yeah, well, it can be dangerous sports. So can be taking a picture on a beautiful bench, get in that water. That bench was a swing luke, and they didn't realize it somehow.
There you go.
Okay, a couple more for you. Let's head to church. You gotta be careful, watch your step. Next up hell luke? Wow, okay, oh boy, I don't know how to set this one up. Oh running of the bulls. You gotta be careful. You can get gord. Okay, you could also lose your pants. You gotta really watch it.
Oh we did have elder abuse. Sorry about that. Oh here we go.
Oh boy, this this asshole just getting good I have.
I mean, it's something I don't feel bad for these guys. Oh my god, it really turns ugly.
Oh it's getting ugly now I see full crack.
Oh my god, it tig ticket pants off. Bitch, it will be my prison bitch.
Oh wow, do you see that guy just asked ass lists there?
Wow, that's great stuff.
Okay, I got one more.
Remember he walked her. I loved you, my son. Yes, they turned around. It's like it's just a big old mic eyes And.
Okay, I got one more for you.
Okay, who am I here with today? Steve?
Steve, what would you say the best day of your life for us?
Probably when I have my first child. And what made that be so special? Well, you know, just being a parent.
Come on, man, all right, Maybe I love the ball. This was for me that Sorry, that's all the ship I have this week.
If you ended that clip with him being shot, yes, that would have been better for you. I would have much prefer I heard that, all right.
Maybe this shit, you know, you throw it out the wall, you see if it sticks, you know it slipped it.
There's definitely some good one. It was a good guy who fell into hell at church was a good one.
Oh that's all the shit we got this week. But don't forget Morning Coombat at gmail dot com is your email just for Friday show Dead Wrong fan subs. You can email the show. Let your voice be heard. Just don't send any stick picks to Mikey anymore.
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That's the show for today. How would you grade the show like.
It was efficient? Did an efficient job? Yeah? Macy Barbera in the house, Macy Barbara in the house. I did not want to get up at four thirty this morning when I got out. No, I got up at four twenty two, and it was not fun. It was cool. It was so cold. I was just not feeling it. Yeah, but you know that's that's the commitment we give to this game because we live and breathe this, love this shit.
And this year's almost over. What a crazy, difficult, ridiculous year. But you know, no, Cito, would you agree? I mean, there's nowhere to go but from here, but up twenty five is going to be a slam dunk. It's going to be the best year of our lives.
We're going to the top, baby, you hear that?
Hear that? Yeah, I don't believe that.
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Thank you so much.
Also the main card minute starring Luke Nocita and Gaff Pierre. It's just it's a slantastic event going on. Anything else you want to say, We'll be back Friday, of course, eleven a m. Eastern time to set the state. What's going on this weekend in combat sports?
Anything, isn't it? When twenty first? Oh, I think this weekend is there's a couple a couple of fights on halfway decent. Yep.
All right, well we'll be back to do some weird stuff on Friday.
Then that's all. I got for you this week. Okay, that's it, that's it, I'm gonna that's it. I'm done, all right. May all of your gains be loyal.
