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4 and UFC Vegas
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91 preview show here on
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mmafighting.com. Hello again, I am
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Mike Keck and what a crew we have
1:52
here. First of all, we
1:55
have Mr. Hot Take, Mr. No
1:57
Grey Area, the Farts score master himself.
2:00
Mr. Jed Michoud. Jed, how we doing
2:02
on this Friday? Vibing
2:05
just got done watching a brilliant film
2:07
that we will be reviewing later today
2:09
for this week's edition of This Is
2:12
Cinema. And you know,
2:14
gonna talk about some UFC
2:16
stuff, I guess. So
2:18
that'd be exciting, yeah. Yeah,
2:22
something tells her I'm not gonna spend a ton of time on
2:24
this card, but we'll probably just get it out of the way.
2:27
And joining me, cause I think we may need this when it comes
2:29
to talking about this UFC card, Prince
2:31
Positivity, my best friend, Alexander
2:33
K. Lee, Canada's own. That's
2:37
not Alex K. Lee. That's still him,
2:40
that's still Alex K. Lee. Hey!
2:43
Oh, did you hear the poo-pooing? The
2:45
poo-poo, did you hear that though? Yes,
2:47
AK's on one. How are you like?
2:49
Yeah, you didn't need, I'm good, man, I'm good. I'm
2:51
excited about the UFC, I'm excited about the
2:53
BKFC, excited about Jed's
2:56
movie we just watched. It's a good time all around,
2:58
man, I'm having a good time. Okay,
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you're excited about the UFC. I think you're the first
3:04
person I have heard say that. I've
3:06
been the one that has been trying to
3:08
sell this card as being not the worst
3:10
card. I've gotten, I got so many of
3:12
those on heck of a morning this morning.
3:14
Is this the worst UFC
3:16
card of all time? Is this the
3:18
worst Apex card? And
3:20
I think we've had worse this year on
3:23
paper, honestly, but
3:25
we'll get to Jed's Farts score in a second. I think you guys
3:27
already saw it, but AK, you're excited
3:29
for this card. How excited are you? What's the
3:31
gymnastics score for UFC Vegas 91? And
3:34
is this more on the
3:36
worst card conversation or
3:39
the, I think it's a little
3:41
bit better than you all think conversation. I
3:44
think name value wise, it's, I was gonna
3:46
say better. It's on par with the last
3:48
Apex card we just saw, right? Alan Curtis
3:51
too, I'm just looking at them right now.
3:54
Like, no, I mean, name value, I guess,
3:57
are we saying Brandon Allen, Chris Curtis are
3:59
that bigger name? wise than Nicola and Alex
4:01
Perez, it's equivalent. It feels equivalent. Ryan Spann
4:03
and the Comain and then you had Damon
4:05
Jackson, Alex and Hernandez. I
4:08
don't think you can comfortably say one is that much
4:10
worse than the other. There's a tier. There's a bottom
4:12
tier of Apex cards and
4:16
I think they just all go together. I don't know if
4:18
it's better, if it's worse. If I had to
4:21
give a gymnastics rating, whatever
4:24
I gave, I do not recall what I gave
4:26
Vegas 90. It would probably
4:28
be in the same range, 6.5, 6.4.
4:32
I don't know. I think that
4:34
landed pretty well. The card was, it
4:36
existed. Probably would give an even lower
4:38
rating. For me, it's like give me a decent night
4:41
of stuff happenings and I'm satisfied. I think we'll get
4:43
some stuff happenings
4:49
on Saturday as well. The
4:55
card existed. How much better does
4:57
this one exist, Jed? Remember,
5:00
we had Jars and your Rosenstuyck
5:02
and Shamil Gadsia have headline a UFC
5:04
event earlier this year. Marching Tyboro was
5:06
in the main event of a UFC
5:08
Apex card not that long ago. Two
5:12
and a half, farts? Yep,
5:15
lowest scoring card of the year. I think
5:17
it's the worst card on paper of the
5:19
year. I feel pretty comfortable with that. The
5:21
half farts almost was me being bullied into
5:23
giving it. Two. It was too far going.
5:27
It's just not... Fights can always
5:29
be fun. It's not to say this won't be
5:31
a good time. You have nothing else to do
5:33
on Saturday. Anybody can
5:36
have a fun fight. On
5:39
paper, these fights are meaningless. It is
5:41
what it is, man. I don't
5:45
know what to tell you. That too
5:47
is doing a lot of heavy lifting
5:49
there because definitionally Ariane Lipsky, Karina Silva
5:52
is a fart as they are two ranked fighters.
5:55
But If they didn't have those numbers,
5:57
I'm not entirely sure that that would
5:59
happen. would be a whole far unto
6:02
itself. So it's just, you know, I'll
6:05
provide to find out they turn
6:07
out well the Icy Destroy Court
6:09
is pretty clearly to be on
6:11
paper worse than the burned down
6:13
Curtis card which is awful. The
6:15
here to say it wasn't like
6:17
thoroughly some spots heading into that
6:19
or I saw Bluebird better and
6:21
I feel really comfortable given is
6:23
due to effort. So are you
6:25
were. You. Know that this
6:27
is the price we we have been
6:29
saying for months. This the price we
6:31
paid for three hundred up. I'll bet
6:33
money to pay that price. And
6:37
you know it's fine. We had a
6:39
weekend off, so now we get to
6:41
ease ourself back in before the monstrous
6:43
Yossi Three or one which I think
6:45
is going to be fort system cards
6:47
as opposed to her shoes or system.
6:49
Course jokes aside, was Vanguard this weekend
6:51
know Cobain is is the main event
6:53
for this weekend. Surely. I.
6:56
Am curious a as soon as just
6:58
out of curiosity. Main Event: Featured
7:01
fight that's each got a far right
7:03
burglary one far as as or to
7:05
have your unknowingly out of muscles. You're.
7:08
Telling me out of the rest of this
7:11
card, we couldn't get above a half. Anywhere
7:14
else the at the remaining fights
7:17
are all replacement level tussles. Of
7:20
I think it lakes are wose the half was the
7:22
other half. I gave I
7:24
combined Ryan Span who was arraigned fighter
7:26
of with runny I as actor Henry
7:28
because of as these kind of think
7:31
that's fine so vice versa. The three
7:33
of those together and sure bothered who's
7:35
got my guess is part of this
7:37
party as well. All of that together
7:40
can get into a hassle for a
7:42
thing for you know like single out
7:44
of this way Mike is none of
7:47
his. None of these fights happened outside
7:49
of the to ranked matchups. Would
7:52
you care at all of us? Are
7:54
you precise? Years a slave fell through
7:56
and replacing it with random continue shoes
7:58
match up. I would
8:00
not be impacted like if is tomorrow
8:03
or today to means we're scissors but
8:05
it's which I would say is probably
8:07
the best other find on the card
8:09
right? I guess it's the flight closest
8:11
to meriting of far outside of the
8:13
to the got it in my humble
8:15
estimation is our fight sell off today
8:18
because something happened though against instead early
8:20
marriage is gonna fight. Random.
8:22
Contender Series. sign up on on a day
8:24
which care I wouldn't wouldn't act my like
8:26
now not gonna watch your it's like odds
8:29
are good. For a
8:31
little worse. but it's all the same, the
8:33
same mill you of stuff so this is
8:35
it. You know these are all replacement level
8:37
tussles and hopefully they'll be fun. You
8:40
tube replacement players can be fun.
8:42
We all alone through the replacements
8:44
is terrific. Scabs, Scabs
8:46
that they were. still Fun movie so maybe we
8:48
can be fun. Aram.
8:53
Okay, Ah, I
8:56
mean I mean really nowhere to go with the
8:58
scarred honestly and I think they're probably speaks to
9:00
the to the system over more but I guess
9:03
like the biggest question on this entire guard a
9:05
cafe is obviously with the main event. Out
9:07
for as had a tough go of it
9:09
and ah he bad I have a spirited
9:12
showing and Sahaba Mci of but it took
9:14
him a long time to get back in
9:16
the octagon. It has an easy to get
9:18
him inside that octagon and Monday's Nicolaus kind
9:20
of head of a little bit of a
9:22
weird run swiss five min I'll cop on
9:24
a couple of different occasions now. He steps
9:26
into this headline spot. So. It
9:30
was the most to lose them as fight a case
9:32
like. I mean really, I think this
9:34
is the biggest question would have understood
9:36
sire card his leg like adding physically
9:38
fun fights with like there are literally
9:40
no and less Vinnie Six wins the
9:42
flyway title and even then I still
9:44
think both these guys are a little
9:46
bit far away. What?
9:49
Is at stake here. Who needs to
9:51
win? This. Fight more. Are
9:55
ya spreads Africa's offers of it as a thought
9:57
For stray I you've got out of, he's got
9:59
a pretty good. like reputation with the
10:01
company. He did fight for the title once.
10:03
They like that about him. He's a pretty
10:05
exciting, I think he's a pretty exciting
10:07
fighter, more so than Nicolaou is. And I like
10:09
Nicolaou. I like Nicolaou, but Nicolaou is definitely not
10:12
regarded as like a fight of the night candidate every
10:14
time he steps out there. He wins fights. He wins
10:16
fights and it's not always pretty. So
10:19
for a godly press, even though he does have a good standing
10:21
with the company, four
10:23
straight losses, boy, that's going to
10:25
be tough. And I don't know
10:27
what he's making money wise. I
10:29
imagine he's actually probably making a decent amount
10:31
for a flyweight. When it
10:33
comes time to count the beans, whenever the next round
10:36
of that is, the UFC is going to look at
10:38
someone like Alex Perez who's lost four straight and they're
10:40
probably, you know, paying him a pretty penny for now
10:42
and let it go. I hope that's not the case.
10:44
I hope a guy like Alex Perez, like
10:47
I said, who I consider to be a pretty exciting fighter, I hope
10:50
he can take a fourth straight loss and that
10:52
they keep him because guys like him are so
10:54
valuable. He does not become like the worst fighter
10:56
in the world because he lost four straight. He
10:58
shouldn't be an automatic cut, but if we're being
11:00
realistic, that is the
11:02
danger zone he'll be put in. I don't
11:04
think Nicolaou is quite in that same range. I also don't
11:07
know the contract status by the man. I'm not sure who
11:09
has an expiring contract. Sorry, like the last fight in their
11:11
contract, then obviously that's going to make a difference as well.
11:13
But assuming that neither guy is on the last fight of
11:15
their contract, it's Alex Perez, but it's a bit more to
11:17
lose here. But Nicolaou's
11:20
got impressed, man. If he puts together a Fox standard 49,
11:22
46, 48, 47 win, it's not going to do a lot
11:24
for him. Other than scoring some
11:32
insane highlight real finish, which is really not his
11:34
forte, not that there's a lot he
11:36
can do anyway to impress the matchmakers or move
11:38
himself closer to a title shot. But for
11:41
his side, the pressure is on to, I
11:43
believe he's favored. So the pressure is on
11:45
to impress here, Nicolaou. You're getting
11:48
yourself a main event. And yes, it's not the main event you
11:50
expected. It's supposed to be a rematch with Copp. And a win
11:52
over Copp would have done a lot more for his stock. But
11:55
it's still a chance. It's still your
11:57
headlining a UFC card in the year.
12:00
2024. And that has
12:02
some cachet to it. So hopefully if
12:04
Nicolau wins, it's an impressive fashion. But
12:06
I mean, there's a chance that neither
12:08
guy gains much from this.
12:11
And both end up losing. Like if Prez loses
12:13
the decision and Nicolau is just completely dull, this
12:16
might be a good case where it's good
12:18
that it's not in front of a crowd,
12:21
depending how this one plays out. Yeah. Jed,
12:23
what would say you, could you make a case that
12:25
Mateus Nicolau needs this more? No,
12:29
that's usually a really hard case to make
12:31
just because what AK said,
12:33
right? Like Prez just lost a lot.
12:35
Like four in a row, I've been
12:38
talking about with like other, certainly higher
12:40
end fighters, like guys like Alexander Volkowski
12:42
and some words, like once
12:45
you lose four in a row, your
12:48
career, it doesn't matter if you're just
12:50
losing to the best dudes in the
12:52
world. The rebound rate for that is
12:54
so low because the game is so
12:57
like focused on like confidence is such a
12:59
critical part to the sport. And
13:02
just the fact that like, well, you were still
13:04
at this peak, so they're not going to softball
13:06
you even on a four in a row, you're
13:08
not going to get somebody who's, you know, at
13:11
the bottom to, you know, a confidence boost, you're
13:13
still going to have to fight somebody tough.
13:16
And so it's just, you don't
13:18
ever want to lose four in a row.
13:20
It's really, really hard to come back from
13:22
that. And so, you know, it's
13:25
not great for either man to lose
13:27
here. And certainly Nicolau losing two in
13:29
a row at that point, like firmly
13:31
outside of the title picture, really. So
13:33
that's tough, but Prez's career
13:36
is on the line more or less this weekend.
13:38
So I think he, I don't think you can
13:40
make an argument that anyone this weekend has more
13:42
to lose than him. Well,
13:46
I mean, look, might as
13:48
well make a pick, right? According to our
13:51
friends at DraftKings, the day
13:53
is Nicolau minus 180 to come back on
13:55
Alex Perez plus 150. Anyone
13:58
picking the upset here? I'm
14:01
not. I can't do it. I can't do it.
14:03
Uh, Nicolas wins decisions. Nicolas wins decisions. So, so
14:06
I, I, I'm assuming this one's going to go
14:08
25 minutes. Uh,
14:10
this is just a Nicolas fight, man. He's going to
14:12
stand the outside. He's really going to annoy Perez. Perez
14:14
is going to try and get some flurries going, try
14:16
and maybe take him down. Nicolas has got a really
14:19
good ground game. So it's not like if Perez can,
14:21
it's not like pressing just wrestled into death. It's just
14:23
not a thing. Um,
14:25
and it looks like the odds aren't crazy. It's not, it's
14:27
not like he's, it's not like Perez is
14:30
a four to one underdog. Perez could win a decision
14:32
too. Like this, this is kind of how much of a
14:34
toss up this is. But if I had to bet,
14:36
I'm, I'm very confident in Nicolas decision. Um, he's just, he's
14:39
a point fighter. And I, I assure
14:41
you, I mean that in a complimentary way. Again, at the end
14:43
of the day, the point is to win, not
14:45
get hurt too much and collect two paychecks. And
14:47
Nicolas has done a pretty good job of that
14:49
in the UFC. So when I say point fighter,
14:51
I don't mean that derogatory, but it is his
14:54
way. Anyone who's watched Nicolas follow his career knows
14:56
that that's, that's how this man gets things done. And I think that's
14:58
how it's going to begin on, on Saturday. I'm
15:01
going to finish. I'm going
15:04
to finish for Nicolas because, because
15:07
when Perez loses, he just gets tapped a lot.
15:09
Like, like five or six
15:11
of his career losses are by submission. And
15:15
he's not a bad grappler, but he
15:17
does seem to have an, a knack
15:19
for like losing scrambles badly.
15:22
Like he's good until the moment
15:25
it's suddenly just catastrophic. And
15:27
Nicolas is a very solid grappler in
15:30
his own right. Um, I
15:33
just, I'm just kind of playing the numbers
15:35
just as because Perez is
15:37
so willing to exchange on the ground,
15:39
but somehow lets people get deep into
15:41
jokes before he's like,
15:43
Oh, this is bad. Uh, and
15:45
I think Nicolas is good enough to finish it. So I'm
15:47
going with the later, uh, later submission around three, around four
15:50
fights going to play out a little while. But I wouldn't
15:52
be shocked if it did go to the cards, but
15:54
yeah. I
15:57
actually think give a, I think if a stoppage
15:59
early. Who's gonna come from prose like?
16:01
I just think he is getting. Go
16:04
all out and. Hope some crazy
16:06
happens I'll be key land that. Fight.
16:08
Ending shot or. The
16:11
ends up in that fight ending
16:13
scramble where he is advantageous and
16:15
get the win. but I'm with
16:17
Nikolaus. Well either gets to stay.
16:20
Nail. Paint by number. Green.
16:22
Is grass sky is blue.
16:25
Decision. When like pretty much the way
16:27
a gay ironed an hour I think that's
16:29
how this by still play out. but yeah
16:31
doom and a nickel outta to get it
16:33
done and hopefully it's good. Fight an alice
16:35
for as couldn't get another chance because he
16:38
is one of the nice guys and sport.
16:40
Dude. Gone through the wringer to get
16:43
to this point in. Would
16:45
see what happens. Last thing I want to
16:47
discuss about this card or real quick their
16:49
own months. Ah clinical media because that's our
16:51
was anti toggle on on Saturday. Jed.
16:54
On the post Fight You On Saturday. The.
16:57
Of see posts fight show. What's. The
16:59
first they were in. are you talking about. What's
17:02
can be the lead software which can be
17:04
the biggest stories coming out of. this is
17:06
like looking at discard who's gonna be the
17:08
hero? The mvp of view of see Vegas
17:11
Ninety One. Ongoing
17:14
urged you not a D as or
17:16
deniers sorry or was a dear Sir
17:18
John's and these are. You.
17:20
Know knocks out on Duvall
17:23
right arm Austin Lane. It's
17:25
did. This is gonna be a highlight
17:28
and resides in. He says he's a
17:30
former going kick boxer and like that's
17:32
the that's a big selling point. Him
17:34
record kick boxing is the greatest base
17:36
for mixed martial arts at this point
17:38
time. you know my are you the
17:41
man who stole. The
17:44
one of Rock's Prayer for me So
17:46
you you understand the value of a
17:48
gorgeous boxing base and deniers has that
17:50
schools really great gorgeous boxes like Sun
17:52
and the lower end ones come into
17:55
but he goes out there. Gets.
17:57
a big guy light heavyweight knock out and
17:59
there will okay, let's see about
18:01
him versus Despond, right? Like that
18:03
seems like just let's
18:05
let two dudes who hit people real
18:08
hard, hit people, hit each other real
18:10
hard. That'll be fun. So in the
18:12
absence of literally anything else of interest,
18:14
I'm going to go with the Contender
18:16
Series guy making a debut that
18:19
has the biggest opportunity for a splashy
18:21
KO. Okay,
18:24
what's going to be the post-fight show headline?
18:26
What's going to be the
18:28
biggest talking point coming out? Who's going to
18:31
have the Chris
18:33
Weidman moment, if you will, or I mean, I'm
18:35
just trying to think of some
18:37
name that wasn't in the main
18:39
event, stealing the headlines. Mike,
18:42
sing it with me. Sing it with me. It's
18:45
just another manic
18:47
mandate. Ryan
18:50
Spanday. Come
18:53
on. Come on.
18:55
How is no one? Let me tell you something. Let
19:00
me tell you something. I made this Marnick man joke
19:02
on Twitter today. Before I did it,
19:04
because this is not her used to debut. This is
19:06
not of course, I'm talking about Marnick man. She's fighting
19:08
Kalan Sousa on the undercar on the freelance. I
19:11
googled like I searched tweets multiple times. I'm
19:13
like, has anyone else made this Marnick man
19:15
joke? Surely someone else has made this Marnick
19:17
man joke and no one did. So I
19:19
am claiming it. I was going to wait
19:22
to see if she won on Saturday. But
19:24
I'm like, there's a very good chance she
19:26
doesn't. And then I will not get to
19:28
make this joke. So I'm a little disappointed
19:30
in myself. I should have more faith, but I do
19:32
think Kalan Sousa is going to beat her. So and
19:34
yes, Mike, that before you say that was not an
19:36
answer to your question. I just wanted to get that
19:38
joke in there. I don't think we'll be talking about
19:40
Marnick man after it. I mean, if she does beat
19:42
Kalan Sousa, she certainly will be one of the storylines
19:44
of the night. It just seems it just seems unlikely.
19:48
I guess I might have to have an actual answer. You
19:52
know, no one's really talking about this genre. Well, they were
19:54
before I feel like this was one of the fights people
19:56
are talking about on the card and then it's kind of
19:58
gotten lumped in with people kind of. not want
20:00
to talk about the card. I love the
20:02
Jonathan Pierce, David Onama matchup. I
20:05
don't know if either
20:07
guy like long term is a
20:09
contender. I honestly couldn't tell you
20:11
it's such a deep division. But
20:15
I think one of these guys gonna follow the highlight. I'll say
20:17
I don't think it's fight of the night. I think I'll call
20:19
it now Pierce or Onama. One of them
20:21
gets a performance bonus. There you go. And yes,
20:25
for for lack of relevant storylines
20:27
as far as contender wise, championship
20:29
wise, etc, etc. controversy
20:32
and fingers crossed nothing too
20:34
controversial. I think we'll be talking
20:36
about one of them as having, you know, been a
20:38
highlight of the show. It's
20:42
probably gonna be bogged in goose golf for
20:44
better or for worse. Maybe. No ho
20:46
hank, baby. Yeah, either he lamps
20:49
Ryan's van or Ryan's van badly
20:51
lamps him. And either way, I'm
20:53
taking I'm taking a hank in that fight
20:55
for the sake of it. Just
20:58
because I don't know, Ryan Ryan's fans
21:00
burned me a lot. I'm just done with it.
21:03
You want to set up that bogged in goose
21:06
golf, Anthony Smith showdown. I just
21:09
want that. After Anthony Smith gets
21:11
obliterated next weekend, I'm not confident
21:13
that he'll fight again. But if
21:15
he does, then yes, let's set
21:17
that up. Anderson
21:20
will always fight
21:23
his clone. This is
21:25
the next best thing to that for us. Well,
21:28
yes, I believe this
21:30
is what this is a 4pm prelim
21:33
7pm main card affair. Pretty sure
21:36
that's what it is. Correct. Correct. Correct,
21:38
sir. Yep. Yep. Yep. Yep. That could
21:40
get it to a third part. Just
21:44
just slightly earlier start time. It's not that
21:46
bad. And this is
21:49
a one prelim for main card.
21:52
Eastern time. I mean,
21:54
definitely, definitely. They're
21:56
those fights are not above
21:58
replacement tussles. I just like
22:01
the replacement tussles better because of the
22:03
timing. But spiritually, yeah,
22:05
it helps. Yes.
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most of the combat sports community, you're going
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to be out and about. You'll probably spend
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that time taking the significant other out to
23:17
dinner or going to
23:19
the beach, maybe going for a
23:21
jog, rollerblading, whatnot. Because you have
23:23
your alarm set for KnuckleMania 4,
23:25
which is going down in Los
23:27
Angeles, California tomorrow. Of
23:29
course, the main event, Mike
23:31
Perry versus Tiago Alves.
23:33
We had the press conference yesterday. Wayans
23:36
going down later today will have coverage
23:38
on mafl.com. Casey will be in the
23:40
building for all of that stuff, including the
23:42
event tomorrow. AK, I
23:45
don't know. You know
23:47
what, Jen? I'm going to start with you. Because somehow,
23:50
the Fart scale has become a thing. It's
23:52
become a madness thing. And
23:55
then obviously, the Michoulin scale has its
23:57
own system. How do we rate KnuckleMania?
24:00
Is there a scale? Does
24:02
it even need a scale? Is
24:04
it like near far, pass fail?
24:06
Like how do
24:09
we grade BKFC
24:11
KnuckleMania events on
24:13
paper? Look, KnuckleMania
24:15
is, you don't grade
24:17
it. It's like, do you grade the
24:20
works of Van Gogh? No, it's
24:22
just a vibe. It's a feeling. You go
24:24
stand in front of the art at the
24:26
museum and you let it, you let
24:29
it penetrate your soul. And that's
24:31
really what KnuckleMania is. When the
24:33
UFC is churning out the same
24:35
kind of content week over week,
24:37
yeah, great. It's just, it's too
24:39
easy. KnuckleMania is finding new and
24:41
interesting ways to speak to you
24:43
spiritually. And that's what they've done this
24:45
weekend. I would not say this is their best
24:48
KnuckleMania. I don't think they would say that if
24:50
they were being honest, you know, if you get
24:52
Feldman off the record, you're probably like, no, but
24:54
like, we're happy with what this turned out. But,
24:56
you know, where we're chasing the dragon, we're trying
24:58
to get back to the highs of Eddie Alvarez,
25:01
Luke Rockwell, that whole thing that we had going
25:03
there. But this
25:06
is still lovely. So I won't, I
25:08
won't snoop to,
25:11
I won't defile KnuckleMania
25:13
with the FART system because
25:15
it is above that system.
25:18
It's, it exists in its
25:20
own plane. And that plane is something that
25:22
honestly is going to be the most traffic
25:24
driving thing for us this weekend. Undeniably, it's
25:26
going to be the thing that the most
25:28
people are interested in broadly and it's going
25:31
to be the most fun. Like if you're,
25:33
if you're watching fights this weekend, tune
25:35
in to KnuckleMania. Like you can watch them
25:37
both. Sure. But if you got to pick
25:40
one for whatever reason, KnuckleMania, drop, drop the
25:42
boys to pay-per-view money, totally worth it. It's
25:45
going to be a good time because these things always are. Okay.
25:49
How do you grade this? By the way, pay-per-view, 29.99, 30 bucks.
25:54
Next week's UFC 301, 80 bucks. Just
25:57
put that in perspective. AKA, where we
25:59
at? Well, BKFC, NuckleMania firmly
26:01
ahead in our YouTube poll. 60, I didn't
26:03
even really, the question is, I just put
26:05
UFC Vegas 91 or NuckleMania 4. So I
26:07
mean, I don't know if I'm asking which
26:09
one are you going to watch, which one
26:11
do you think is better? But
26:14
essentially, what would you choose in a
26:16
broader sense? 64%
26:18
BKFC right now. Not too surprising.
26:20
Though, when you consider that we are... Oh, yeah, that's
26:23
right. Well, I know there should be... I agree with 75 or
26:25
more. I think I keep my... Of course, there's rookie numbers. I
26:27
think I keep my... Of course, there's rookie numbers. Anyone
26:30
watching our shows are primarily MMA fans.
26:33
I mean, they're also... They
26:36
enjoy BKFC, they enjoy boxing, they enjoy other
26:38
martial arts, but generally, you would think our
26:40
polls will be biased towards UFC. So
26:42
for the fact that it's 64% is pretty telling. I mean,
26:45
this is a primarily UFC audience,
26:47
right? So yeah, a very strong number.
26:49
I agree. It could be
26:51
higher, but I think we're getting
26:53
the idea that more people are interested in NuckleMania 4
26:55
this weekend. So if I had to go pass fail,
26:57
I mean, it's a clear pass. I'm sorry, yes, a
26:59
clear pass. Yes, not as in pass. I'm watching as
27:01
in passes and passes with flying colors.
27:06
Love or hate, Mike Perry. I mean, listen, this
27:08
guy is a star. We're a broken record at
27:10
this point in the MMA media talking about what
27:13
a great move it was for him to go into bare
27:15
knuckle boxing, how he is... I
27:18
don't even wanna say reinvented himself because so much of
27:20
his act now is what he kind of built up
27:22
in MMA. But
27:24
it's going to feel that I think it's much more
27:26
suited to his skills and certainly his unique
27:29
brand of trash talk. I don't know who I saw
27:31
mentioned earlier today is like, don't
27:33
get into a juvenile insult contest with this
27:35
man because you
27:38
can't adequately go down to his
27:41
level. He has
27:43
a juvenile streak that is
27:45
perfect for these kind of press
27:47
conferences, for clipping for the internet.
27:50
If you're trying to outsmart him, you're
27:53
already playing the wrong game. So
27:55
it's not quite the level of booger man, but I
27:57
think he's... is
28:00
taking out. He's probably being bombarded
28:03
with pig snout emojis. And let's back
28:06
that. It's really bad. That
28:08
one is bad just because it's
28:10
like doesn't even really land. The
28:12
booger man is just unbelievable. But
28:15
Mike Perry also jumping in
28:18
on the
28:20
new era baby nuts
28:22
conversation was exceptional childish
28:24
behavior. So it was quality
28:26
work from him yesterday. Yeah. But it
28:28
is. It's I'm very happy for BKFC that they
28:31
know what they have that they that the iron
28:33
is so hot with my pair right now. And
28:35
they're just striking it over and over and over
28:37
and over and over and over again. They're not
28:39
getting cute with how they book them. They're not
28:41
getting cute with his opponents. I mean, like Tiago
28:44
Alves, we all want the Darren
28:46
Till fight, but that's not going to work out.
28:48
You just find another name find another name that
28:50
people know Tiago Alves himself just said that he
28:53
was essentially retired like this is not an elite
28:56
striker anymore. This is not like there's a reason why I'm
28:58
sure Mike Perry I haven't seen the odds for BKFC if
29:00
they're even our odds. I'm sure he's at least a three
29:02
to one favorite. This is meant
29:04
to be a showcase for Mike Perry and we
29:06
all like Tiago Alves. We've all seen him at
29:08
his best. But this is meant to
29:10
be a showcase and a walk over. And for a
29:12
spectacle like BKFC, that's what you
29:14
want. So just and
29:16
looking at the rest of the card, a fine
29:19
smattering of established BKFC people,
29:22
established MMA fighters. It's
29:24
good stuff. It's good stuff. A
29:26
definitely clear pass. Minus
29:30
475 from Mike Perry. According
29:34
to Caesars Sport. That sounds right.
29:36
That sounds right. That
29:39
sounds right. But I mean, who the hell knows? Who
29:44
the hell knows? Yeah, Mike Perry. Yeah,
29:47
minus 475. Let me see
29:50
what other odds we have here. Crystal Pitman
29:52
minus 230. Lorenzo
29:55
Hunt minus 225 against Mike
29:57
Terrell at heavyweight. So there you have it.
30:00
What's the depth of the DB Rothwald laws? God.
30:04
Let me see if we got any. I don't see
30:06
any. Lorenzo Hunt, McTorell's
30:08
interactions yesterday were the best thing of
30:10
the weekend by far. That
30:13
was great. You don't know where I've been.
30:16
You got to learn to see these things.
30:18
And I'm telling you that man is covered
30:21
in white supremacist tattoos. I
30:24
have a star of dammit on my stomach.
30:28
You're supposed to credible rebuttal on
30:30
taking a shirt off. I
30:32
have a storm dammit tattoo on my
30:35
stomach. What are you
30:37
talking about? Unbelievable.
30:43
It's covered in neo-Nazi. I'm
30:48
not seeing any better. I'm
30:51
not seeing any better. I'm talking about
30:53
Ben Rothfeld. Are there Julian
30:55
Lane? Have you any
30:57
credit? Now, Julian Lane
31:00
plus one 40 underdog. What
31:03
else we got Fernando Gonzalez, who you know
31:05
from Bellator minus 300 favorite. I
31:10
know. Maybe
31:12
they just don't know. Maybe they're just not
31:14
fully convinced that Ben Rothfeld and Todd Duffy
31:16
is going to happen. I think I don't
31:18
want to take money because they would feel
31:21
unclean by having gained money on Todd Duffy
31:23
fighting. Where
31:26
does Julian Lane rank among
31:29
fighters who have made
31:31
a career out of a
31:33
singular meme-able moment? He
31:35
has to be in the top five because
31:38
he's not very, very specific window,
31:41
but he's not good. Okay. One,
31:43
he's not good to, he's not super
31:45
exciting. Maybe I haven't been following his bare-knuckle
31:48
up. I will say an MMA. He
31:50
was not an exciting fighter. He had,
31:52
he had this, I believe he's,
31:54
I can't remember anyone. He's probably on another list of
31:57
guys who have said the most times that they're going
31:59
to knock someone out. out and never just
32:02
gone to decision after decision after decision
32:04
after decision. What a win
32:06
in his entire career. His entire career. And I
32:08
am not knocking any looks like a guy who
32:10
should like he's like, he's a super jack guy.
32:13
I am not knocking Julian Lane, by the way, I
32:15
have anything I'm applauding him for the career that he
32:18
has made. He's made a lot of money relative
32:20
to his skill level. It is it's
32:23
just that the you know, the dude that the chart like
32:25
skill level and money made is just like, inverted
32:28
skill level. I'm just trying
32:30
to think if it wasn't for that, let me bang bro moment.
32:34
This guy's not here. We're not talking about this guy
32:36
for the last like five years. It's so weird.
32:39
Good for him. Good for job. By the
32:41
way, I'm looking at BetUS
32:43
right now Mike Perry minus 725. Currently.
32:47
Yeah, I
32:49
might go to BetUS when this is over. Yeah, I
32:51
got it. Can
32:56
we get a pick? Jed, do you have
32:58
a pick? Do you have a pick for this?
33:00
Yeah, I would probably pick Perry. I got like
33:02
straight up I pick Perry to win because he
33:05
is very good at this specific thing. But Tiago
33:07
Elvis is like, no
33:09
joke. And the thing about Tiago Elvis he
33:11
has experience in this, you know, like you
33:13
get Eddie coming over and we can feel
33:15
some type of way about what Eddie is
33:18
like can kind of condition to do and sort of
33:20
how we believe but basically
33:23
every time someone makes their bare knuckle debut,
33:26
their immediate comments after like, that was just
33:28
way different than I anticipated it being like,
33:30
we trained in it for it. And it's
33:32
still just like live fire is just not
33:34
the same. You know,
33:36
our office has done this before this is not
33:38
his first rodeo. And so he's been off a
33:41
little bit and you know, was retired. But honestly,
33:44
like, would not at
33:46
all surprise me if he came in there. I'm
33:48
just like, he is a better striker. He is
33:51
an actively better striker than
33:54
Mike Barry. He might not be
33:56
a better bare knuckle fighter. We're going to find that out.
33:58
But I think that he is so. certainly a
34:00
live dog at that kind of a price.
34:02
The price is enormous. So yeah, we'll
34:05
see. That's why. It's a matchup
34:07
I never would have thought about, and this is what
34:10
Dave Feldman and BKFC do very well. I
34:12
love when you can make matchups that I've never thought
34:14
about but am interested in. This
34:18
is one I've never been like, that should happen. But what
34:20
was announced was like, you know what? Okay,
34:23
there's intrigue here. There's a story. There's
34:25
something to hook me in on this. And
34:28
again, they nailed it. So I'm
34:30
excited to see what happens tomorrow night. Hey,
34:34
K, are you going with Platinum Mike Perry as well?
34:37
Yeah, I think you have to. Right? I
34:39
think you have to. I mean, yeah, the odds
34:42
when you hear minus 7 to 25, you probably
34:44
think to yourself like this is the same guy
34:46
who was like a middling UFC fighter. And now
34:48
he's like minus 725 in bare knuckle bouts against,
34:50
as Jeddah pointed out, someone that we know once
34:53
upon a time when they were at their best was
34:56
way better than Mike Perry. Because the best person to
34:58
have all this is way better than Mike Perry. But
35:00
I don't think we're getting the best
35:02
person to check out this on Saturday.
35:07
I think he'll be fine. I
35:09
think he's some new of course, even though he said he's
35:11
essentially retired has been trained. It's not like
35:13
he's coming off the couch. I don't think he's been
35:15
training. He's been training. Oh, is he like a striking
35:17
coach at ATT? Sure. That's what I'm
35:19
saying. He's he's he's stayed sharp. But that's different than training
35:21
for a fight though. It's only different than training for a
35:24
fight. So and how old
35:26
is Tiago now? Tiago is 40. He's
35:28
a hard 40. This isn't like
35:31
this isn't a gentle 40. This is a 40
35:33
of a man who's been in some some serious,
35:35
serious, serious place. And while
35:37
I hope this isn't a one off for him, I know he's
35:39
getting it sounds like he's getting paid handsomely. And I
35:41
know if it's up to him, he takes this one fight gets paid win
35:43
or lose and goes back to coaching. I
35:46
would like to see him at least one
35:48
more time, at least one more time. I assume he
35:50
doesn't completely crap the bed on Saturday. Like we see
35:52
kind of the flashes of what
35:54
has made him such a such a well liked fighter over the
35:57
years. I hope we see more of Tiago Elvis, but this has to be
35:59
a win for Mike Perry. Um, well,
36:01
Mike Perry be able to knock him out or
36:03
finish with strikes. I don't think so. I don't
36:05
think so. I think still think that was pretty
36:07
tough. Um, so
36:09
I think we had an exciting, uh, exciting five rounder. Is there
36:11
exciting 10 minutes of furious action?
36:16
Yeah, honestly, I think this is pro like of
36:18
all the fights Mike has had. This
36:20
is probably the toughest one he's had. Like
36:24
Eddie Alvarez is like stylistically super
36:26
fun and a vicious guy, but
36:28
Mike was the bigger
36:30
dude. And like Jed said, until
36:33
you actually get in there and experience it,
36:35
it's like, it's tough, it's
36:38
very raw. It's a whole different feeling.
36:40
And I've talked to like certain fighters who have competed and they're
36:42
like, yeah, I thought this is going to be like
36:45
a normal thing. And then I got hit once and
36:47
you're just like, whoa, it's a whole different
36:50
feeling altogether. So, and Tiago's
36:52
last fight, it was, oh, what, three years
36:54
ago, I guess, Julie Diaz, that
36:56
shit was, was wild. Those two beat
36:58
the hell out of each other. And you'll, he
37:00
has the guy who had like the one second
37:02
knockout for BKFC, who's kind of a
37:05
wild man in his own, right? So I
37:07
do think this is, I think from a
37:09
betting perspective, I think Galviz is probably worth like
37:11
just a look, especially if that line gets up
37:14
anymore. But the pick for me is going to
37:16
be Mike Perry. I think like
37:18
fourth round TKO, probably like
37:20
a, a ref stoppage or
37:22
a doctor stoppage, bloody battle. I
37:25
think it's going to be a lot more fun and competitive
37:27
than people think it's going to be. But yeah,
37:29
my, there are very few people on this
37:31
planet who are being Mike Perry in a,
37:33
in a bare knuckle fight. And as much
37:36
as I respect Tiago Alves, I don't think he's
37:38
one of those people. So we'll
37:40
see what happens. It's going to be a lot of Mike. I
37:43
think you said the thing that is me, the
37:45
most excited about this. It's
37:47
going to be a battle. Like Mike
37:49
Perry's other fights honestly have not been
37:52
like MVP, I guess was, the,
37:55
that was also weird in spots,
37:57
but you know, there was back
37:59
and forth. they're going, but there was just
38:01
weird. It's probably isn't going to be weird, but
38:04
he's not going to run over Tiago Alves and
38:06
vice versa. Like they are going to be just
38:09
ripping chunks out of each other in there.
38:11
And so it's going to be awesome. Like
38:13
it's going to be fun. And
38:16
that's why it, that's why it's a great matchmaking. So
38:18
I'm excited for it. And you know,
38:20
it's why BKFC wins the weekend. Oh
38:24
yeah. They definitely win the weekend and they
38:26
will win the weekend. They also will note
38:28
out there, if you're, I don't know,
38:31
promoter holding a boxing event, let's say
38:33
June 1st, they,
38:35
they put it on a weekend where they're not
38:37
facing a lot of competition as opposed to UFC
38:39
302. I don't know, just
38:41
pulling that out of the air. Maybe
38:44
choose weekends that have bad UFC cards
38:46
on them as opposed to great UFC
38:50
cards on them. Lessons
38:53
to be learned. Ladies and gentlemen, the more you
38:55
know, there's the graphic. All right. Let's bring Casey
38:57
in. Um, it
38:59
was answered questions. I mean, I really don't know what else
39:02
to say. Uh, Lorenzo hunt. McTorell is going to be fun
39:04
as hell. The build has been
39:06
great. The face off they had outside, like
39:08
the little ceremonial face off, like outside of it
39:11
in LA was hilarious. Cause Victor L just kept
39:13
talking about how much taller he was with the
39:15
Renaissance, like how much tall, how much
39:17
shorter do I need to be? He goes, how much
39:19
shorter I need to be to punch this guy in
39:21
the fucking face. And I, it just popped. It just
39:23
popped me the way that he said it. Uh,
39:26
we got Todd Duffy against Ben
39:28
Rothwell. We'll see Julian lane
39:30
back. Uh, we mentioned some of
39:32
their names. Uh, and Google, uh,
39:35
and Google, there was a
39:37
lot of, um, there was a lot of
39:39
Mexican media, um, at the,
39:41
uh, press conference for on Google in
39:43
particular. So, uh, uh,
39:45
I think for BKFC, I hope, uh, BKFC,
39:47
I hope they think and Google does well,
39:49
but it was really interesting. Uh, of
39:52
course, you know, a boxer passes prime, you know, but,
39:54
um, it's going to be a champion though, you
39:56
know, Oh yeah. Yeah. He was an
39:59
Olympian. medal at the Olympics? No,
40:01
sure. Yeah. I
40:04
don't think so. Bar Canelo, main event,
40:06
pay-per-view, you know, look, not lost Canelo,
40:08
but no big name boxer.
40:10
You 41-year-olds getting after it. I respect,
40:12
absolutely respect. He's going to do the
40:15
worst. The
40:18
difference between Barrenuckle boxing and boxing I've
40:21
come to decide is more vast than
40:23
the difference between Barrenuckle boxing
40:25
and MMA, even though I think that
40:27
is also major difference. Absolutely.
40:30
Absolutely. Just the glove size.
40:32
You just, your guard is, MMA
40:34
fighters come transitioning to Barrenuckle.
40:38
Their guard is essentially the same. For
40:40
boxers, you have to erase years
40:43
and years and years of muscle memory.
40:46
You're adjusting all that stuff. And because
40:48
the big thing that I think I've decided
40:51
that like listening to fighters talk about it
40:53
is like, sure. It
40:55
just feels so like everything about how your
40:57
life has been, has been conditioned to fight
40:59
in four ounce gloves. And
41:02
the shift to that is really jarring
41:04
and like difficult to do. Boxing
41:07
has that shift. And also they
41:09
haven't been trading in even four ounce gloves. So
41:12
it's like a, there's a tactical fundamental difference too.
41:14
So he has the biggest gap to cover
41:17
here. Yeah. And for one, from
41:19
what MMA fighters have told me, getting punched in
41:21
the face of Barrenuckle, not
41:23
the cuts. You get cut more, but the actual impact,
41:25
they say it pretty much feels the same. Game punch
41:27
of a four ounce glove. It feels similar. It's
41:30
just, it is just different. Yeah. Yeah.
41:33
So and for boxers, that's a totally different feeling. So Angulo, yeah.
41:35
It's not. And I think that's why we haven't seen
41:37
too many, like we
41:40
see pastor prime MMA guys to be successful, but
41:43
not pastor prime boxing guys be successful. We just,
41:45
you would think that doesn't make sense, but if
41:47
you really think about it, yeah, it's
41:49
very different. I mean, Austin Trout's
41:51
doing pretty damn good. Austin Trout, he is, he
41:53
is breaking the mold a bit. You know, so
41:55
maybe he's learning. He's got a
41:58
bare knuckle side and he looked fantastic. And
42:00
it's like yeah, I
42:02
think if you come in with the right
42:04
mindset But like I also think we don't
42:06
write like don't factor in how different two-minute
42:09
rounds are It's just a dead-ass sprint like
42:11
it is a dead-ass sprint Whereas boxing is
42:13
unless you're doing four rounders boxing is never
42:15
a dead sprint MMA is also
42:18
never a dead sprint in sort of different ways
42:20
I guess is like glory kickboxing you got
42:22
three rounds of nine You better just beat
42:24
the shit out of them as hard and
42:27
as fast as you can And
42:29
that's also just a huge change That's
42:32
a very good point yeah Yeah,
42:35
but that's also why some of the the guys who
42:37
have come over from boxing that have had success Have
42:40
been why they've been successful because usually the
42:42
guys they fight are like We're just gonna
42:44
sprint and go bananas and try to knock
42:46
this dude out But then they fight a
42:48
boxer who is at least
42:50
somewhat defensively sounds they can't touch him They
42:52
get tired and the boxer just picks him
42:54
apart the whole time and starts busted him
42:56
up And they get frustrated and
42:59
the frustration kicks in and that's why guys
43:01
like Isha and Austin trout Do
43:03
very well over here now not everybody's like that
43:05
and who knows what a a guy
43:08
on the back nine Who's 41 is gonna
43:10
do once he gets into that setting but?
43:13
It's a sport of Kings baby the sport of
43:15
Kings. All right, here we go. This
43:18
hit the super chats first This
43:21
week on the pitch, would you like fries
43:23
with that? People
43:25
are what make franchises run the person who
43:27
knows the business inside and out Yeah, not
43:29
someone who came off Wall Street because their
43:31
check clears Franchairs is the
43:34
first investment marketplace where people can
43:36
invest in franchises So you
43:38
said 800 billion is what this market
43:40
is a year and hundreds
43:42
of businesses are actually Franchised thousands thousands
43:44
and thousands there are more brands franchise
43:46
and there are stocks on the NASDAQ
43:50
You're raising a four million dollar price around and
43:52
what are the terms of that the 19 million
43:54
post money valuation? And
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listen to podcasts. Akiles,
44:17
Vegas 91 is so bad. I'm
44:20
actually looking forward to dropping any of those.
44:25
Jed, your hat is a fart. This
44:27
is an East Lake hat. I don't know. It's
44:29
a, this is a terrific hat. Also I showered this
44:31
morning, guys. It's exciting. Oh yeah. How'd that go? We,
44:33
we, we, we, we had to go to a neighbor's
44:36
house because the phone
44:40
can't solve my issues until tomorrow, but
44:43
we got to shower. So that was at least nice. But
44:45
you know, we, we rocked so well
44:48
with the pink East Lake hat yesterday
44:50
on BTL. I thought I'd bring it
44:52
back because there are certain subset of
44:54
our common section who it really irritates.
44:56
And I got to tell you, I enjoy pissing
44:58
those particular people off. Keep
45:01
it coming. I think we should all buy pink hats.
45:03
I have one somewhere. I got, I have a pink
45:05
hat too. I
45:09
wish we should call each
45:11
other and kind of plan this next time.
45:13
We'll do, we'll do it. We'll do
45:16
it for the movie podcast. Oh yeah. All
45:19
right. Uh, uh, I got a
45:22
super chat here. Um, this super chat is really
45:24
for, uh, oh, thanks. For
45:27
which we, I wish we had a former MMA
45:29
sports blogger, Mark or Monday here, but dude,
45:35
uh, to me, the Falcons went to the Mike
45:37
X school of taking graphics and other people need
45:39
more. This is a great super chat, by the
45:41
way. Excellent. Excellent.
45:43
I am so excited.
45:45
So Raymondi, Raymondi
45:48
was literally 300 yards away from
45:50
me. Like I can see his
45:52
apartment building. I'm like, take four steps outside
45:55
of the college. We figured this out last
45:57
week. Cause like you knew it was moving.
46:00
or chatting last week, it's like, if he's saying
46:02
about a place you frequent for breakfast, it's like,
46:05
yeah, I know exactly where that is, because it's right next
46:07
to me. And then we figured I was like, oh, yeah,
46:09
you moved within a rock's throw
46:11
from where I live. And obviously,
46:13
he's got draft stuff this week, but
46:15
we're going to grab drinks next week.
46:18
I'm so excited. So you've been officially
46:20
on the Falcons for like five days.
46:22
And then this happened. How
46:24
was your weekend, buddy? Can
46:28
you give me a close notes of what happened in
46:30
the draft? Because I've been actually hearing a lot about
46:33
this at Falcons. So the
46:36
close notes is the Falcons with the eighth
46:38
overall draft pick, which is a very high
46:40
draft pick and a very valuable draft pick
46:43
drafted a quarterback out of Washington,
46:45
Michael Pinnock, Jr., who is
46:49
old and maybe not good. But even if
46:52
you just assume he is good, that
46:54
would be okay. But for the fact that in
46:57
this off season, they spent $180 million to
47:01
acquire a different quarterback who
47:05
is contractually their
47:08
quarterback for at least two years, but
47:11
is one of the top 12 quarterbacks
47:13
in the league. And so likely their
47:16
quarterback for like three to four years.
47:19
Draft contract for right now. Yeah.
47:21
Yeah. But like, that's the void years back
47:23
into that they can get out of it
47:26
after two functionally. But Casey draft picks, if
47:28
you're a first round draft pick, it's five
47:30
years is what your contract is. So they
47:32
have functionally set up to
47:35
have taken a top 10 draft pick
47:37
for a dude who may well not
47:39
play on that contract.
47:42
It is horrifically bad
47:44
team building at a fundamental
47:46
level and deeply funny. Very
47:49
funny. We
47:51
have some guys, we have some weight misses. Oh,
47:55
oh, hey, this
47:57
is where you should play the guessing game. Wait, let's play
47:59
the guys. Who do we think is gonna...
48:01
I mean... I don't know what you... Don't...
48:04
Okay, it's not... Let me ballpark. Alright.
48:07
Alright, good. No, no one needs the main
48:10
event. Who seems like they would
48:12
miss weight on this card? There's
48:15
several heavy weights. Professional. Several heavy weights.
48:18
Yeah, several heavy weights not missing. I
48:20
got... I had a spoiler earlier,
48:22
but I... My teammate took
48:26
a very short notice by Chris
48:28
Tocopedia. He made weight,
48:30
correct? Yes, he did. Wow. So...
48:33
Okay. I'm gonna take a guess. I'm
48:36
gonna take a guess. Gabriel Benitez. That
48:39
was gonna be my first guess. Incorrect. How
48:41
dare you, the veteran Gabriel Benitez.
48:43
Mowgli. Mowgli made weight. How
48:45
dare you question Mowgli. Mowgli making weight. He was like the
48:47
third or fourth person to weigh in to, I think. Uh,
48:51
JSP? Incorrect.
48:54
Boy, you guys are... I kinda didn't believe
48:56
it, but I just know he's fought... He's
48:58
fought at lightweight before, so I'm just trying
49:00
to figure out who... Ariana
49:04
De Silva. No one's jumping out at me
49:06
as someone who would make miss weight. No.
49:09
All right, I'm done with the game. Tell me
49:11
your thing. Is it one of the heavy weights? It
49:13
is not one of the heavy weights. All right, we got a
49:15
couple here. She and El Shadi is keeping an eye on it,
49:17
just sent to me. David Onama.
49:20
Oh. Two and a half over. Damn.
49:24
Yeah, not good. Not great, David. Not
49:27
great. I gotta keep an eye
49:29
on this fight, because this is a really telling moment here.
49:32
So I don't know. Okay, so
49:34
David Onama, 148.5. And
49:37
the man fighting Taco, Casey,
49:39
James Lontop. Oh,
49:42
wow. Half a pound over. Yeah, a
49:44
little disappointing. So James, so the thing
49:46
with Lontop is he was originally scheduled
49:48
to fight weight. He was one of
49:50
the first fighters I think announced for this card. He
49:52
was fighting Londo Bonata. Londo
49:54
Bonata had to withdraw, and Bonata got
49:57
replaced by someone
49:59
else. And Gabe Green
50:01
got replaced by your boy Taco. So James
50:05
is the one who's kind of like they've been kind
50:07
of going out of their way
50:09
to find him an opponent. And then he
50:11
now he misses. Now, again, I don't know what's going
50:13
on with James on top. It's possible. I
50:16
don't know if maybe he got screwed up
50:19
by their moments where he wasn't sure
50:21
if he was invited yet. This is
50:23
the first weigh-in. This
50:26
is the first weigh-in. There is, well, there's only 10 minutes
50:28
left. So I
50:30
don't know if he gets an additional hour, I think. Las
50:32
Vegas? Yes. Yeah. Okay.
50:36
Just get in the bucket. Half a pound. Half
50:38
a pound. Yeah. Cut your hair,
50:40
hippie. I
50:42
mean, yeah, cut your hair. Cut your hair and you're
50:45
there. Yeah. I do
50:47
wonder if the opponent changes might have screwed up his whole like cutting
50:49
procedure. Maybe there were times like where he's like he wasn't sure if
50:51
he was going to be able to stay in the card. Okay. I
50:54
just make excuses. I just don't want to, you know,
50:56
necessarily say that he was Nick Washington. I mean, I think he's
50:58
flat out like this weight, but two so far. So I think
51:00
that'll be it though because heavyweights, I
51:02
think we're still waiting on, you know what? Let me
51:04
give you guys an update when I have one. So
51:07
we can move on from there. All right. All right.
51:10
Thank you much. Thank you for the update.
51:12
Okay. Thank you. Las
51:14
and one more. Oh, one more super chat
51:16
coming in. Chase,
51:19
do you have seen making fans watch a damn
51:21
ballal fight at 4 to 5 a.m. is equal
51:23
to Chinese water torture. Also, Janet,
51:25
they make the Shopkite fight. I'll buy dinner from
51:27
wherever you want. I hope.
51:29
I don't think they will, but I was
51:32
allowed to do what spoke to me personally, and so
51:34
I did it. Yes. All
51:37
right. It'd
51:40
be the right call. I mean,
51:43
other than this, maybe it may be the fight of the year. You
51:45
never know, but that is going
51:48
to be. Did we expect Brennan Allen, Chris Curtis to
51:50
be what it was? No,
51:53
we didn't. True. We
51:55
did not expect that to do it away, and now it might be
51:57
the fight of the year. I don't think it
51:59
is, because you have to. the BMF title fight, but
52:01
it's going to be, it's a top
52:03
seven fight of the year already. We'll
52:05
mention it. That's
52:09
at least not outside the realm of
52:11
possibility just because both of those fighters
52:13
individually have been in fun fights. Both
52:18
Ballon and Leon are not
52:20
in fun fights individually. And
52:23
this is not a two wrongs make a
52:25
right situation. Two negatives did not make a
52:28
positive. I love
52:30
how we all, I think in the media and
52:32
fans, I feel comfortable speaking for the majority here.
52:34
We all know that this fight should happen. We
52:36
all know the inevitable should fight Ballon Muhammad. I
52:38
agree. But very few of us, it's
52:40
like we just want to get it over with. We
52:42
want it to happen so we can all move on.
52:44
We can all move on. You never have to mention
52:46
Ballon. That's it. You know what it is? It's
52:49
leafy greens. Just get
52:51
it done so we can go on
52:54
to other things. Yeah. It's leafy
52:56
greens so you can get, so you can earn you
52:58
that dessert later. We need
53:00
the roughage. It'll be good for the digestion. It'll
53:03
help the, you know, the colon out, but
53:05
we're not pumped about it. We just want
53:07
it over. Is
53:09
there an equivalent in the past of
53:12
Leon Ballon? Like in terms of like,
53:15
it's a fight that made sense, but we just,
53:17
no one wanted to see it, but we finally
53:19
got it. And then I don't know. It may
53:21
be it was worse than advertised. Was
53:24
it Leon Holby? No, no, no. Oh
53:26
no, that fight didn't make sense. It's
53:28
actually Leon Ustman, but then it ended
53:30
up having that head kick KO. If
53:33
that head kick KO doesn't happen, then
53:35
it is exactly that fight because we're
53:37
like, yeah, Ustman won.
53:39
It was boring. There
53:41
we go. But Leon broke
53:43
the universe with the, I
53:46
really agree with that. One second. Yeah.
53:48
Yeah. That fight was not a
53:50
good fight. The fight was miserable. Yeah. If
53:53
you try to rewatch it. You're not going to be
53:55
around because Leon gets top position. You're like, Oh, something's
53:57
happening here. And it's like, actually, no, Ustman is doing
53:59
very. things and then it suddenly
54:01
happened. And so, but that
54:03
fight was 60 seconds away from being
54:05
what this fight is now. So maybe
54:07
Ballal does something similar and this will
54:09
also live on forever. Could happen, but
54:12
I just want it to happen. So we're done with it. Yeah.
54:15
Yeah. All right. Uh, thank you much. Trying
54:17
to, there's gotta be other, I'm going to
54:19
keep looking. Yeah, maybe, uh, it's gotta be
54:21
other ones out there. All right.
54:23
Um, uh,
54:26
hold on a second. Did you do, oh, I like this
54:28
question. What
54:31
fight would you swap from the apex guard?
54:33
Take place in knuckle mania. That is easiest.
54:37
It's probably the easiest question. It's
54:39
probably a very easy answer. Great
54:41
question. Austin Lane and Denise. That's
54:44
a good one. I wouldn't pick that one. I think that
54:47
is a good one. AKA. I like that one a lot.
54:49
Um, that's a great one. You
54:52
may even, maybe someday we'll see that we'll see
54:54
those two guys square up with us. I don't
54:56
know how much I care about. I
54:58
don't know how much they care about half of this, but Tim
55:01
means feels like he should be in BKFC. So,
55:03
uh, me and the message, I guess, I
55:06
don't know how much I care about message being
55:08
there, but Tim means fits. It's
55:10
Ryan's fan bogged in goose cuff for me.
55:14
Bogdon could be a
55:16
star over there. Just
55:19
seems to fit him really well. I
55:23
mean, he could, but Bogdon is just like, when
55:26
does it losses don't really
55:28
matter in BKFC? Like if you
55:30
can just get after it and bleed and have
55:33
a get or get got style, like you could just be
55:35
a star in that regard, even
55:38
if you don't win a lot of fights, which
55:41
ain't bad. I like that. I like that business
55:43
policy. I like it. Yeah. I
55:45
like it. All right. Uh, Casey, I'm
55:47
going through lists of championship fights. This
55:50
is just related to the, what other
55:52
leafy green fights were out there. Right.
55:54
And the, the first one that jumps
55:56
to mind is like, yeah. So, uh,
55:59
John Jones. versus Alexander Gustafson, the
56:01
first one. That
56:04
turned out pretty well for all of us. And
56:08
it's like Anderson Silva, Talos Leitus,
56:10
which is a funny
56:13
fight, but not a good fight. So I think
56:16
the hit rate is mostly failure. And
56:18
the thing with Leitus Silva, it's not like there was
56:20
this long try-out build up to it. Yeah.
56:24
We've been talking a long Leon for like two years. None
56:27
of them have, I don't think any
56:29
fight has that level of a long
56:31
draw-out thing. But he's kind of looking
56:33
at past UFC title fights. Like, did
56:35
it? Aljo Yahn, the first one. No,
56:42
people didn't think that was a good dream.
56:44
We're so pumped for that one. Oh yeah.
56:46
Really? Right. Was that was that was that
56:48
Aljo's first title shot? Right. That was his
56:50
first ever. Yeah. Okay. This is the
56:53
one where we're like, yeah, we have a main event,
56:55
but we're all, but Aljo and Peter
56:57
Yahn are about to fight. Like this is the
57:00
people's main event. Really? Okay.
57:04
When in history, because I remember the whole,
57:06
was it Aljo re-signing? I remember for
57:08
a long time, Aljo was like, no, he's never getting a
57:10
big fight. Like that
57:12
was like his storyline before. Yeah. That was, but
57:14
the fans actually, it's like almost the opposite of
57:16
Balan. Like back then, that was fans actually liked
57:19
Aljo. For the most part, fans liked
57:21
Aljo. And we're like, why is this guy never on main
57:23
cards? Why is he not getting his title opportunity? And then
57:25
he finally got it. It's almost the opposite with Balan. We're
57:27
just like, uh, just, there's
57:29
just not a lot of demand for it. And we
57:31
know it's going to happen, but we just don't. Which
57:34
is wild too. Like
57:37
the man has done literally nothing wrong.
57:39
No, he's not. I mean, he just is literally,
57:41
he's a, he's a good dude. He's personable. Yep.
57:45
You know, not the most fun
57:47
guy. He
57:51
beat the hell out of Sean Brady. He
57:53
beat that ass. Like real bad. He'll
57:56
burn something proper on two or three
57:58
weeks. back and watch
58:00
again? No, but he took out short nose and beat his
58:02
ass. The guy has
58:04
done nothing wrong, but yet the
58:07
MMA community, UFC fans in general have
58:09
all decided to just completely turn on
58:11
him. And he's become a gimmick where
58:13
it's like, how funny can it get?
58:15
He's done a lot of things wrong. The
58:18
community has turned on him, but I guarantee the
58:21
majority of the community still says, yes, he should
58:23
get a title shot. And this is what we're
58:25
saying, just so we can stop talking about this.
58:27
He's obviously done enough to... You cannot dispute that
58:29
there's a title shot over many other people at
58:32
170. But it's just, I
58:34
don't know, but there's no... Yeah,
58:37
I mean, as a human being
58:39
and as a fighter, from a
58:41
meritocratic standpoint, he should have
58:44
gotten it two years ago. If he
58:46
had made better decisions when the lights were
58:49
bright, especially with the microphone in
58:51
his face, he would have got a title
58:53
shot two years ago. So that has hurt
58:55
him in that point. But at this juncture,
58:57
after those last two wins, what
59:00
the hell else does this guy have to
59:02
do? Just hope Shopkot slips on a banana
59:04
peel in training or something? Is
59:06
that it? He just has to be the last
59:09
guy available? Kind
59:11
of. So he's just the victim
59:13
of the worst circumstance in that
59:15
while he is undeniably the most
59:18
deserving, there are other fighters who
59:20
are deserving, which tends to
59:22
not be how this situation breaks out. It's like,
59:24
well, I just wait, and I'm the only guy
59:26
who makes sense at this point. Now I get
59:29
to it, read Leon Edwards. I'm
59:31
like, that's how Leon got there. The only dude who makes
59:33
any sense at all right now. But
59:36
there are other ones. And I honestly think
59:38
part of it is that it's Leon. If
59:40
this was Blal, like if Shopkot was the champion,
59:42
people would be like, yeah, it'll
59:44
be fun. Him fighting anyone's fun. Leon
59:48
versus Blal is gonna be
59:50
awful to watch. And so
59:52
there's just no momentum to
59:54
let merit win the day
59:56
when the cost is gonna
59:58
be a lot. It's just not going to
1:00:01
be a fun fight. I don't think they'll always be
1:00:03
wrong. Hope I'm wrong, but I think
1:00:05
all of it works against him right now. All
1:00:10
right. Thank you much. And
1:00:14
being real lame, but whatever.
1:00:16
Yeah. No, Cisco,
1:00:20
JetEaglesGoat recently started a YouTube channel and
1:00:22
y'all are huge inspiration. Could you support
1:00:25
from enemy fighting family for the scrappers?
1:00:27
Thank you all. Shout out
1:00:29
to For the Scrappers and Cisco.
1:00:32
Let's go. Good luck. I'm
1:00:37
not going to give my stamp of approval to anything
1:00:39
that I don't believe is good. So I'll have to
1:00:41
check it out before, you know, shouting
1:00:44
out the, for the scrappers, but we'll see.
1:00:47
Love just, you know, keep firing bullets.
1:00:50
Yeah. You are our competition.
1:00:52
I cannot support you, Cisco. I
1:00:55
know you got your shout out, but you're now the
1:00:57
end. Cisco, if you happen to have Saudi money DM
1:00:59
me because I am a vehicle at
1:01:01
a certain place,
1:01:08
if you would like the, in
1:01:10
your words, not mine, goat on
1:01:12
your team, you're the price for
1:01:14
that. Make
1:01:17
sure you do a draft and steal everybody. Jed wants
1:01:19
to draft and he'll love you even more. A
1:01:22
kid to arrest a man. He went, what car in
1:01:24
a recently released UFC fighter would get the biggest pop
1:01:26
if they made the jump to be GFC tomorrow night.
1:01:29
Someone realistic. Biggest pop from who,
1:01:31
from me, Nate Landwehr. There you
1:01:33
go. I
1:01:35
don't, I don't know. And
1:01:38
did I say this last time you saw it was like,
1:01:40
he just needs to be in BKFC immediately. I
1:01:42
know everyone. We all want to see it. Yeah.
1:01:44
We all want to see it. I don't know
1:01:46
if he has quite the name value. That could
1:01:48
say he gets the biggest pop, but he's on
1:01:50
his way. Like his, his UFC fame isn't quite
1:01:52
at that level, but he is so made
1:01:55
for BKFC, man. And he's made for the UFC too. I don't
1:01:57
want to see his UFC run any, uh, and anytime soon. I
1:01:59
love him in the. UFC as well, but I
1:02:02
hope whenever he's done with the UFC that there's
1:02:04
he's gotten up left in the tank and I
1:02:06
think he does Or he will excuse me to
1:02:08
do some pkfc because that is nate
1:02:10
land where's world isn't the answer a
1:02:12
titu evaso. Oh That'd
1:02:14
be good. I mean actually Yeah,
1:02:16
I'll say Derek. Oh sure. He's more. Yes,
1:02:19
the more your gluis. I actually think it's
1:02:21
even more so than titu evaso though Neither
1:02:24
is the wrong answer. Yeah, okay. Yeah
1:02:27
But I would I'll also just go to what
1:02:29
I said yesterday on BTO After
1:02:33
June 1st for him osser all
1:02:35
makes all the sense in the world to fight Mike Perry
1:02:38
Man owns a bare-knuckle promotion Obviously
1:02:41
grew up bare-knuckle fighting in boatyards
1:02:44
Would just make a ton of sense and you
1:02:46
know, he's not released from the UFC But it
1:02:48
feels like he fits the qualifications here would obviously
1:02:51
be like a Feldman came out in July and
1:02:53
was like, hey We've booked
1:02:55
Mike Perry versus soy masvidal for
1:02:58
September I would be a massive
1:03:01
massive announcement. So that'll
1:03:03
be my answer but So
1:03:06
that's that's the answer. That's the answer Mike Perry
1:03:08
beats Tiago Aldez and he's getting his hand raised
1:03:10
and he's cutting a promo and then like the
1:03:12
whites go out and the scar face theme hits
1:03:15
and Mazel all comes walking out and they go
1:03:17
face to face. They have a taking a little
1:03:19
part I mean that would be
1:03:21
incredible that would be friggin incredible So
1:03:23
I think they've got the answer. It's gotta
1:03:25
be exact of that plus masad all defending
1:03:27
is striking coach Longtime ETT
1:03:29
coach Tiago Aldez teammate, etc. There's
1:03:32
a storyline here EMF
1:03:34
versus king of violence like it's
1:03:36
oh my god, Miami boatyards to
1:03:38
the beach like there's just it
1:03:40
It makes so much sense that
1:03:42
if it doesn't happen, I
1:03:45
will be legitimately disappointed Sean
1:03:47
Wheelock will be like, oh my god. It's or am
1:03:49
I sit on Chris. I was like, holy shit Everyone
1:03:52
just goes crazy. It'd be such a pro
1:03:54
wrestling moment and like the best
1:03:56
possible way Okay, but we know Mazel at all
1:03:58
can't show up tomorrow Oh, Saturday for
1:04:01
for necromania. Who's a current? Connor
1:04:04
McGregor. Connor McGregor would. I'm
1:04:07
talking like signed. I'm not talking just an appearance. I'm
1:04:09
talking like, but Mazel could
1:04:11
fight for them. Chad Mendez was
1:04:14
a UF. Mind fighter when
1:04:16
he beat KFC. All right. I'm just, what are
1:04:18
you trying to say? Well, I
1:04:20
mean, he has a fight coming up. I mean,
1:04:22
I'm just, I mean, I've
1:04:24
been not going to fight tonight. We're
1:04:27
setting it up for sub time. Cause like at the
1:04:29
end of the day, like he's the boxing X and
1:04:31
Nate Diaz. Is anyone going to be like, nope, not
1:04:33
watching that fight. Cause he's lost a tip. He lost
1:04:36
a split decision and Nate Diaz in
1:04:38
a pro boxing match. I don't think if that
1:04:40
changes anything. You
1:04:43
still have a chance for Darren to see what, see what's going on
1:04:45
with that story too. I mean,
1:04:47
that'll be a big fight. That one, that
1:04:49
one would get over with fans, right? Like that
1:04:51
one doesn't speak to me. It would get over
1:04:54
with us anyway, but it doesn't get over to
1:04:56
me. I don't know
1:04:58
how I can see fans being in
1:05:00
on that particular. As Perry's built it so well, but
1:05:02
that's one of like, I would care way more about most of all
1:05:05
than I would about hell personally.
1:05:08
Yeah. I don't know. You might make fun of me for this
1:05:11
one, but I just, I just imagined it. Imagine
1:05:13
if Holly home came out at Nickelmania tomorrow.
1:05:15
Honestly, I would actually know that would be,
1:05:17
so that would be total. That would make
1:05:19
all the sense. 41
1:05:21
just coming up a bad loss and then transitioning
1:05:23
and getting good paychecks. She's a prize fighter. Hall
1:05:26
of Fame UFC fighter Hall of Fame boxer. She's
1:05:30
the only person probably ever
1:05:32
those two credentials. And
1:05:35
she's like, honestly, that actually is a really,
1:05:37
really good idea. Casey. I
1:05:40
don't know why you said we were in far. I
1:05:44
think that's actually a good thing for you. That's
1:05:49
good. Christine for you. Yeah. That'd be awesome.
1:05:51
I mean, yeah, yes. Sorry. Christine
1:05:55
for real, but that's. That's
1:06:00
an awesome fight. Yeah. All right. Thank
1:06:03
you, Lazybed. That was a fun conversation. I'm
1:06:06
glad you pulled that one out because I saw that
1:06:09
and was like, yeah. I hope we
1:06:11
can all call that one. Lazybed,
1:06:13
I'll call it a blanger. So take a couple more. Super
1:06:20
chat. Chase. Who
1:06:22
do you guys think fights Tom? Gone or
1:06:24
blades? I hope it's blades. I
1:06:27
really hope it's blades. It's definitely
1:06:29
blades. It should
1:06:31
be blades. It's a question at this point. I
1:06:34
like Seattle, but it should be blades. It
1:06:36
should be blades. I would fight first. But
1:06:39
blades has been the heavyweight belal for
1:06:41
like nine years now. I mean, this
1:06:43
guy just cannot get a title fight.
1:06:46
He cannot. So I
1:06:49
feel like, because I don't know
1:06:51
if any of these rumors
1:06:54
and reports are true from the social media world
1:06:56
that Cyril Gone is like, nah, I can't fight.
1:06:58
I'm acting in this big movie. I don't know
1:07:00
if I believe any of that shit. But
1:07:05
I think if the UFC had both guys available
1:07:07
for that date, who
1:07:09
do you think the first call is? Blades.
1:07:12
Gone. I think it's gone. I think
1:07:15
the first call is gone. I think
1:07:17
it's gone. This is
1:07:19
the UFC. This is the UFC. I know
1:07:21
what you're saying. Yeah, yeah. That's true. No, I mean, of
1:07:23
course it should be blades. Of course it should be blades.
1:07:26
Literally any metric it should be blades,
1:07:28
because in the world where
1:07:31
Gone accepts and then beats Tom Aspinall,
1:07:33
then there's a 0% chance John Jones
1:07:36
fights again. Like he fights
1:07:38
Stipe and he's not going to fight Gone
1:07:40
again for what? To what point
1:07:43
in purpose? You can't tell that
1:07:45
fight. Unsellable. Yeah, it's unsellable. Unsellable.
1:07:47
Like he's not going to fight
1:07:49
Tom anyway. But at least you
1:07:51
could convince yourself of the lie
1:07:53
that maybe he fights Tom if
1:07:55
Tom wins. Maybe that happens. If
1:07:57
you're creating an outcome where John
1:07:59
Jones fights deep a and it is
1:08:01
a hundred percent guaranteed that that's the end
1:08:03
of his career. That's just really bad promotion.
1:08:06
You want to, you want to open doors,
1:08:08
not have closed paths. So, uh, that
1:08:10
being said, I'm pretty sure gone actually as the guy who gets
1:08:13
the first call. Yeah, for
1:08:15
sure. The blade. Well,
1:08:19
they both want it. They both said it. There's no reason
1:08:21
not to do it. Just do it. Just do it. So
1:08:23
it's so simple. Do the thing. Don't
1:08:27
do the thing. Don't
1:08:29
don't mark her mind to you. All right. He's
1:08:33
a verb now. And last question. Is
1:08:37
Alex versus back answer while he's lost three in a row
1:08:39
at the loss? I mean, we've, we've already really, we've
1:08:42
already touched. No,
1:08:44
no, we, is he going to be released? That's where
1:08:46
we, this is the, I doubt he gets his walking
1:08:48
papers. Short notice. I don't think so either. He's
1:08:52
fighting career relevancy for sure. For
1:08:54
sure. It also wouldn't shock me because hold on.
1:08:56
We've got one. Like, cause he's the most cursed
1:08:59
man in the sport right now, or one of
1:09:01
them with the, like, if you go to his
1:09:03
topology, it's just all gray. Yeah. It's him. It's
1:09:05
him. It's amazing that the
1:09:07
guy they found to replace a
1:09:10
cat with the other most cursed
1:09:12
fighter in the flyweight division somehow, but at
1:09:14
least at least cap is winning
1:09:17
fights occasionally and people like him, whereas
1:09:20
I feel like people mostly don't know
1:09:22
or care about Perez and he's lost
1:09:24
a bunch of fights. So if
1:09:26
you take the combination of not being all
1:09:28
that popular, lost four in a row, and
1:09:30
also it's impossible to book you because
1:09:33
the gods don't want to see you
1:09:35
fight, that's a
1:09:37
combination that wouldn't stun me
1:09:39
if they're like, yeah, you just, you're, you're
1:09:41
gone. Go pursue other interests elsewhere. Cause
1:09:44
this just isn't working out for any of us.
1:09:46
And again, somewhat cynically, I mentioned this at the top,
1:09:49
whatever Alex Perez has been around for a while. He's
1:09:51
fought in a title fight. He probably makes a decent
1:09:53
chunk of change for a flyweight. You,
1:09:56
you could sign probably five or six contenders.
1:09:58
No, maybe not three. Two or three, you
1:10:00
got two or three contender series people off of Alex Perez's
1:10:02
salary. So that's why, for anyone asking, wait, why would they
1:10:05
release him? They still need to fill up his cards. So
1:10:07
yeah, they need to fill up cards. They need as many
1:10:09
bodies as possible. And unfortunately, like
1:10:11
Perez's salary is probably, they're doing the math
1:10:13
as we speak and wondering like, Oh, if
1:10:15
we had to let this guy go, how
1:10:17
easily can we sort of replace him and it's like,
1:10:21
this is my contender series with this folks. There's just a lineup of
1:10:23
bodies out there. So I'm sorry. I didn't realize this. I
1:10:26
didn't realize this until looking at it. Of
1:10:28
the billion cancellations, five of them
1:10:31
were Perez, like Perez
1:10:33
withdrew and five of these, like, that's
1:10:36
a lot of withdrawing. The UFC is
1:10:38
deeply not supportive of
1:10:40
you being the cause of fights falling through. Yeah.
1:10:44
He might get his walk in papers. I didn't think so,
1:10:46
but yeah, he might get his
1:10:48
walk in papers. He's a pretty small. I
1:10:53
hope not. I like Alex Perez. He's
1:10:56
doing them a solid. And
1:11:00
he is stepping on a short notice. He is doing them a
1:11:02
solid. So, you know, they take that no cap. Go
1:11:05
compete in rising. Like you won't be
1:11:07
unemployed. Like he's very employable. Doing
1:11:11
PFL aside him in five and
1:11:14
Don Davis will talk about how they just signed PFL
1:11:18
opening a flower. Biggest, the biggest
1:11:20
current free agent in all of
1:11:23
MMA, much like all of you
1:11:25
and Cedric Dume Bay did Alex
1:11:27
Perez chose the PFL overall other
1:11:29
organizations. Co-leader baby
1:11:32
hit the beer. No disrespect.
1:11:34
No disrespect. Alex. We're
1:11:36
in the music. This is my way of organization for
1:11:39
me before I hit the music. Sick. I do
1:11:41
a big shout out to my five teammates fighting
1:11:44
this weekend. Brandon, the Villa, Derek,
1:11:47
Drake, Flores, James, the coast. They're
1:11:49
fighting the Indiana and this wonderful post-apocalyptic
1:11:51
scrap. And in the
1:11:53
UFC apex card, Victor Henry
1:11:55
and my teammate, Chris Taco Padilla
1:11:57
is fighting, so make sure you
1:11:59
check. I know you haven't heard of Taco yet. He's
1:12:02
awesome. Very short nose fights. I'm very worried I
1:12:04
know you have a real train to camp but
1:12:06
also check him out on tops good. Oh, yeah
1:12:12
It's a very tough fight tacos awesome and
1:12:14
yeah, he just beat up a former tough
1:12:16
vet I
1:12:19
forgot his name but He
1:12:21
was he was he was in the UFC. He
1:12:24
just beat him up But yeah So check in
1:12:26
early for the prelim. I gotta say I have
1:12:28
to say just if I hit like
1:12:30
the weird vibes If I'm looking for like a
1:12:32
off the board vibe Taco
1:12:35
has Tristan Connelly vibes
1:12:40
He has Tristan Connelly vibes I get where he's a
1:12:42
good snips in Plays spoiler
1:12:44
maybe even gets a fight of the night bonus
1:12:46
on top of it Cuz that's
1:12:48
why I like stylistically it's gonna be fun. Oh
1:12:50
shit. Taco is a very By
1:12:53
facing an o facing an overweight South
1:12:55
American fighter. There's some vibes here Okay,
1:13:02
okay Still over
1:13:04
wait. He's gonna make wait. No, he's gonna
1:13:06
make me I don't know I'm gonna make
1:13:08
way you have to be like Charles Olivera
1:13:10
and just game time UFC
1:13:13
comm has put in that he is miss wait, but
1:13:15
again, I don't know if they wait him in again
1:13:18
I'm just saying as of now he's a bitch in this
1:13:20
way I Was
1:13:22
meaning the scale it's a half-town grow up.
1:13:24
It's fine Say
1:13:27
the way to walk away. Yeah, the Vegas This
1:13:30
is the Vegas scale guy. That's what he does all the
1:13:32
time That's how you know, it's a bad miss because he
1:13:34
didn't give him the extra that means there's problems I mean,
1:13:36
it's probably one and a half true These
1:13:40
is probably four pounds Well
1:13:46
Well stupid that may find a calm find out if
1:13:48
you makes way for Jed aka for Casey I and
1:13:50
my cat What's going on tomorrow? Make
1:13:53
sure you spend your Saturday with us. Good night everybody
1:13:57
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