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brand new edition of On to the

1:44

Next One. Yes, we are back after

1:46

a week hiatus, as

1:49

was the UFC, as they returned to

1:51

the world's most famous apex for a

1:54

just memorable UFC Vegas 91 event. I

1:56

want an event we will go back

1:59

and watch. For years and years

2:01

to come heading into a

2:04

Paper view that I think we're gonna go back and

2:06

rewatch for years and years to come you have seen

2:08

301 but thank you for joining us

2:10

I am my tech and Collabing

2:12

with me as always on this

2:15

here program the co-host

2:17

the co-matchmaker Prince

2:19

of positivity and my best

2:21

friend Alexander Kay Lee the draft the

2:23

draft man did very very well And

2:26

I'm a fighting finally 2024

2:28

draft the people really liked what he's

2:31

doing with KSW. How are we doing? They K

2:33

my best friend. It's it's not me it is

2:35

it is the promotion it is KSW people love

2:37

listen people love there We should have include this

2:39

was the first year we did KSW and

2:42

we should have included them before they are

2:44

a very powerful global

2:47

brand again probably probably outside of

2:49

Europe, you know, not as big but to say that

2:51

they don't have a haven't had some success outside of

2:55

Some buzz that's out of North America. I think would be

2:57

wrong So I was very happy to do it and it

2:59

is certainly easy. You're having the number one pick Not

3:02

being the USC, which I was the first year

3:04

where you're just playing defense the whole time and

3:06

everyone's just taking your assets so Yeah,

3:08

so I didn't do better than like 20% of

3:10

the fan vote this time I pretty much just

3:13

get kicked off because you can't the

3:15

circumstance I had where all you Jesus you just couldn't

3:17

fail I got I got Connor and I got Francis.

3:19

I mean What

3:21

can you do from it? So yeah,

3:23

I might as well ask you a

3:25

K because obviously some big news happened

3:27

last night Yeah during the

3:29

BKFC knuckle mania for event your

3:31

first draft pick Conor McGregor, huh?

3:34

He's not gonna be fighting for us over

3:36

at BKFC, but he does have ownership stake.

3:39

He is a good owner I owe

3:41

you a C. I think I own you now

3:43

KSW now owns technically I own Conor McGregor. So

3:46

now I also own The BKFC

3:48

I think I've really what's the one of it. I

3:50

think you were leading right? You're you're in first place in the draft

3:53

your fan vote. Aren't you know? Yeah, those votes are

3:55

all mine now So I'm like I'm at like almost

3:57

50% of the vote Well,

4:00

I mean, I guess you're, they're co-votes.

4:02

So you get like

4:04

a percentage of them and I still think I

4:06

win. Ah, you know, only cause you're my best

4:08

friend. This was Jed, I'd be taking all those points. Oh

4:11

yeah. A hundred percent. Mercilessly, I'd be taking all those

4:13

points. Just as you took all of his, all the

4:15

fighters you wanted. This is

4:17

my favorite draft of all time. Not just because

4:19

I got BKFC, but just because of all of

4:21

that. So let's get into the

4:24

matchmaking for UFC Vegas 91. Like I said,

4:26

the go home show for UFC 301. Nickelmania

4:30

was a way better watch than this was, but

4:33

it was fine. It's just what an Apex card

4:35

is at this point. Shout out to Charlie Arnold

4:38

who played multiple roles.

4:40

Even she might be one

4:42

of the best ring announcers at MMA. Just, she

4:45

had no practice doing it. She had a great job. So

4:48

I'm sure she made history. I was trying to remember if

4:50

she'd ever had to do ring announcing

4:52

for WWE. I don't think so. I'm pretty sure

4:54

when she was with the WWE, the user in

4:56

kind of the same capacity, like backstage reporter. Um,

4:59

so like doing interviews and stuff like that. I don't think

5:01

she ever even, I'm trying to remember, did they bring her

5:03

an NXT? I don't think he's ever done it. But yeah,

5:05

she did. She got to do

5:08

what? The results of the Silva De

5:10

Silva fight and then introduce, um, Guskoff

5:12

and span. And then did

5:14

Joe Martinez come back for the Guskoff span decision or

5:16

he came back only for the main event. He

5:19

came back only for the main event. Okay. So she got to

5:21

do one hole winner. She got to do one hole, one hole

5:23

fight. Yeah. For, I tell you, for someone who, uh, like

5:26

you said, I think our caption of me fighting

5:28

was, was totally on the spot. And I think that's pretty

5:30

accurate. Like that is not an easy thing. That's not even

5:32

to do if you're prepared to do it. Much

5:34

less, I'm just saying, Hey, uh, you have a microphone in

5:36

your hand. We know you know how to talk. You get in there and

5:40

get in there on national television and do this. So,

5:45

I was curious to see, cause she seems

5:48

pretty bright. Like when it comes to

5:50

that stuff, I was curious to

5:52

see if she did get the main event,

5:54

how she would have done it. Would she

5:56

have just done what Joe Bartita does? She

5:58

already have her own plan, like main event.

6:00

tagline, like respect for its time. Like

6:03

I was very curious to see what she had

6:05

come up with, but she did

6:07

do a good job. It is a little crazy to see

6:10

her back on ESPN TV, considering she had

6:12

a acrimonious departure from the organization. Uh, and

6:14

by the way, you know what, I, I,

6:16

I'll just say like I, uh, so Charlie's

6:18

with like out kick and Fox news. So

6:21

I don't know. I don't, our

6:23

politics might be on the same page, but if we're

6:25

just talking about her performance, uh, on Saturday, it w

6:27

it really was honestly, it really was impressive. I

6:30

was like, cause we love Joe Martinez. Joe Martinez. I think

6:32

we all, most of us enemy fighting, I think we think

6:34

he's the best ring announcer in the game right now. And

6:37

replacing him is not easy. And again,

6:39

on zero notice step in there.

6:42

It's a little bit easier, I guess, cause it's the apex.

6:44

It might've been crazier if it was in some arena somewhere,

6:47

but I think she still probably would have done fine. So

6:49

yeah, that was, uh, I really,

6:51

I really, I really was impressed by her doing that.

6:53

And that was not, it was really good. So

6:55

different. You know, you know who else I was impressed

6:57

with on Saturday? Who Alex Perez.

6:59

Good. Very impressive. The guy

7:03

with the weight of the world on

7:05

his shoulders enters a main event fight

7:07

that he took on short notice against

7:09

Taos. Nick allow was

7:12

on a long losing streak. Hadn't won a

7:14

fight in, I mean, we were knocking on

7:16

the door for years since that

7:18

winter, reduce year for Miga hadn't

7:21

won since he got a title shot and

7:23

the weirdest topology page in all of

7:25

mixed martial arts right now, outside of

7:28

maybe J. Ellis, just so many gray

7:30

marks of canceled fights over and over

7:32

again, him and Matt Chanel, this should

7:34

just be like a 30 for 30

7:36

based on those two never fighting each

7:38

other, but he goes out there. It

7:41

was very aggressive. Fought like

7:43

a guy who was fighting for his, for

7:45

his career in a lot of respects. Not

7:47

to say that probably

7:50

his UFC career, not to say, cause he would've got

7:52

snagged up, he's got a name he's fought for UFC

7:54

title. If he could gone into free

7:56

age, someone to snatch them up. But as far

7:58

as his UFC career goes, he needed. to win

8:00

this fight. He took a big risk here and

8:02

he goes out there and delivers a great performance.

8:04

First round was super close and then

8:06

he goes out and just thumps up Mateus Nicola

8:09

proper, knocks him out in round two

8:11

with a beautiful, beautiful shot. And

8:14

now he's back in play because Flyweight

8:16

is such a strange division right now,

8:18

AKA, but how much in play is

8:20

Alex Perez right now? The commentary team

8:22

for some reason were

8:24

saying things like,

8:27

oh, he might just get a title shot after this

8:29

win, which I think is egregious. And I like Alex

8:31

Perez very happy for the guy. I've been interviewing him

8:33

for a long time. But a

8:35

title shot? Like, I think we're getting a little

8:38

too crazy here. Where does

8:40

he go? What's what's the right place for him?

8:42

Yeah, he sees two wins away. I mean, it's

8:44

not crazy to say he could fight for a

8:46

title still someday in the future. I know

8:49

we've all seen a lot of Alex Perez. I know,

8:51

like, he had his shot once upon a time. And

8:53

I think after losing Street

8:55

Fuel kind of wrote him up. I know I did. This

8:57

was a classic y'all must have

8:59

forgot performance. I mean, you look at the

9:01

people he lost to, and you're like, Micaiah,

9:04

Pantoja, the current champion, Biggie,

9:06

former champion, Joseph Benavidez,

9:08

those are his four UFC losses, Joseph

9:11

Benavidez, one of the greatest Flyweights of

9:13

all time. And yeah, it's very

9:15

easy to write someone off when you just see three straight

9:17

losses. Again, I had done the same thing. I thought, well,

9:20

he can't, you know, maybe he's just a notch below

9:22

elite guys. And Nicola was like right on the border.

9:24

I know people would probably not call Nicola elite and

9:26

I would probably also stop short. But I do think

9:28

Nicola was a legit like top seven or eight guy.

9:31

And I had him just out pointing

9:33

Alex Perez here and was super wrong.

9:36

Very high for Alex Perez, a great win.

9:39

He is one or two fights, he's two fights

9:41

away, I think. One

9:43

fight that will get him that much closer.

9:45

And I'm booking this fight now, essentially, it's

9:49

a magic wand, the most magic wandy of

9:51

magic wand picks, Mike, because there's almost no

9:53

chance this happens given both men's history of

9:55

canceled life. Oh, no, I'd like

9:57

to see him. Let's put it on paper at least.

10:00

Let's put him and Menel Koff on paper. I'm sure

10:02

nothing will go wrong and I'm sure they'll make it

10:04

to fight night unscathed We already

10:06

tried this We

10:12

were that's how close we were Close

10:15

we were Boy, Menel

10:17

Koff's turnaround on Alex Perez was something

10:19

because he said some pretty horrible things

10:21

about him after Perez got ill but

10:23

then he put him over big time after this victory, so

10:27

Maybe a friendship could happen after all

10:29

this that is not where I went here I

10:32

went I honestly think I'm

10:35

with you to some extent like there

10:37

is a world where Alex Perez could get back to a title

10:39

fight but I

10:41

think we're talking three or four fights before that

10:43

can happen and I think

10:46

he's gonna be sort of in a position where It's

10:49

a great win and Mateus Nicolaou was a

10:51

top five guy entering this fight but

10:54

I think he's gonna have

10:56

to play sort of that

10:59

Defensive role where he has to sort of defend

11:01

his spot at least for his next fight so

11:04

I say Alex Perez

11:07

should face the winner of

11:09

a very intriguing matchup that was just

11:11

announced for June 1st UFC 302

11:14

a battle between flyweight

11:18

prospects One

11:20

Tetsuro Tyra Against Josh

11:22

Van I think that's that's the one

11:25

if Tyra goes through Josh Van like he's gone

11:27

through everybody else He was supposed Tyra supposed to

11:29

fight Tim Elliott, so they were gonna give him

11:31

like a top 10 guy anyways He

11:34

goes out there and just melts Josh Van I think

11:37

Alex Perez is a perfect next step and

11:39

if Josh Van goes out and beats Tetsuro

11:41

Tyra Who are we are incredibly high on

11:43

here at mafighting.com? That's

11:46

a huge win He should get a big name as

11:48

well and to do it on pay-per-view like that should

11:50

and that fight should open up the main Card in

11:52

my opinion because it's that good and it's that intriguing

11:55

So yeah Perez versus the winner of that fight. I think

11:57

is is a good next step It's

12:01

hard for me to say because

12:03

Tyra has had a little bit more UFC experience

12:05

so I think I'd like his chance to miss

12:07

Vrez more. And I know Van is a blue

12:10

chipper, I love that. But he's like 10 years

12:12

younger than Alex Vrez. So I

12:14

like the choice, I like the choice. I think I

12:16

would favor. I guess it

12:18

depends how, if Josh Van goes up there and

12:20

someone starches Tyra in like 90 seconds and obviously he

12:22

comes to the hot name of 125. If

12:25

Tyra submits Van, even if Tyra has like a

12:27

dominant three-round performance, I think he keeps sort of

12:29

the buzz that he's had around him. And yeah,

12:31

maybe either of them would go in favor against

12:33

Alex Vrez. But

12:35

man, I got to remember not to count these guys out. We

12:39

do it so quickly. I did it with Max Holloway,

12:41

I did it with Alex Vrez, I've done it with countless other names.

12:44

Somehow I never learned. Mike, today is the day I

12:46

learned. All right, today is the day I learned. I

12:48

will be picking Alex Vrez to beat either of those

12:50

guys if that match happens. I

12:52

will tell you, this is on record. This is on

12:54

record. All right. I'm going to end

12:56

this and I don't think that's a bad choice but

12:58

I think at this point, Baha'i

13:01

has already gotten those big names. A

13:03

lot of people feel like at this point Tyra might be

13:05

the better prospect or the more intriguing

13:07

prospect in terms of title implication

13:09

and where he could go, the longevity up

13:12

at the top of this division. And

13:15

Josh Van, like you said, is a blue

13:17

chipper. So yeah, I love that fight so

13:19

much. It's really good. I

13:21

love the Tim Elliot fight for Tyra but somehow

13:23

in a strange way, I like this one so

13:25

much more even though I'm typically the guy that

13:27

doesn't like to match up these prospects. Just

13:30

seeing the poster, I was like, you know what? Damn, this

13:32

is a really good fight. So I think

13:34

Alex Perez sort of awaits the winner and the good news

13:36

is all three of

13:38

these guys have the same manager. So this would be a

13:40

very easy fight to put together and that's

13:43

a beautiful thing. Let's move on to

13:45

the co-mate event. Possibly the

13:47

overall MVP of UFC Vegas 91,

13:49

not just for the work

13:52

inside the Octagon during the fight but

13:54

the work inside the Octagon after the

13:56

fight with the microphone in his hand,

13:58

Fogged on GooseGolf is just a pleasure.

14:00

to listen to. It's a pleasure to

14:02

watch Fight. He's a get-or-get-got guy and boy

14:05

does the light heavyweight division outside of maybe

14:07

the top five guys needs a

14:10

guy like this. Needs some interest, needs some

14:12

fun and Bogdan Guskoff

14:15

sort of checks off all those boxes, gets

14:17

a big win over Ryan Spann, gets the

14:19

finish in round two. Again

14:22

I'm gonna kind of go to the there's a

14:25

fight coming up very soon so let's do

14:27

the winner. There is a fight coming up on May

14:30

11th in St. Louis between

14:32

Alonzo Menafield and Carlos Olberg, two

14:35

guys who were on nice

14:37

winning streaks. I feel

14:39

like Alonzo Menafield might be have the

14:42

quietest winning streak in

14:44

the light heavyweight division because he's unbeaten in

14:47

like five fights and nobody knows that because

14:49

everyone's looking at Carlos Olberg. Bogdan

14:51

Guskoff versus the winner of that fight seems

14:53

like a very nice next test but there's

14:56

a lot of ways you go with Bogdan and I don't

14:58

hate a lot of them but I don't want

15:01

to shoot them up too too quickly if that makes sense.

15:03

So let's go with the winner of that fight. Yeah

15:06

I'm with you on not shooting him up too quickly. He's

15:10

gonna have a number next to his name in the UFC rankings

15:12

for sure. I think he might sneak in at 15 and ours,

15:14

Spann was 14 in the MA Fighting

15:17

Global Rankings so as long as only two

15:19

crazy happens, Guskoff should either take his spot

15:21

or slide in at 15 if

15:23

anything else happens at light

15:26

heavyweight in between now and

15:28

our next rankings update. Yeah

15:30

I sorry I had

15:33

a weird just pop in my in my here

15:36

my headphones there sorry guys. I

15:39

am being a little stubborn here

15:41

Mike. I'm gonna go with a matchup that I

15:43

wanted before when Guskoff won his

15:46

first fight, his second UFC fight. I

15:49

called for this and then he got booked with Ryan Spann

15:51

as dead which is fine. I still,

15:54

Mike I still wanted to fight you on Kuchilava.

15:57

It's a step back at this point. Oh Literal

15:59

step back. But I want him to

16:01

fight the the ice and other guys and win, Lose

16:03

or draw. For.

16:05

Us at a loser of the Phillipe Lens to to

16:07

Love a fight or the winner of that Fi Either

16:09

way, I really I just want to fight You wanted

16:11

to lava. I. Stand by it. I just

16:13

want some chaos and it's assuming that two scotches

16:15

must get back in there. Sooner.

16:17

Rather than later cause I saw some other fights there

16:20

some other fight the head as like i don't want

16:22

to wait for this winter that despite happening in June

16:24

and in the iron is warm right now I think

16:26

you wanna you wanna at least let things iron while

16:28

still warm? Like he said, he's kind of shown his

16:31

personality. We know he's a get her get got guy

16:33

fans. Love that the as he was that. So.

16:35

Give me more Chaos game. Gimme him a coup to love.

16:38

It's not going to help in the rankings and all of

16:40

anything. he will now be risking. Ah, The

16:42

spot that he has just earn. But I'm

16:44

confident he can win that and in a when it

16:46

live in a really fun way. My.

16:49

First choice was him versus Johnnie Walker

16:51

like immediately and Ojani his books already

16:53

against volcanoes to be or yeah so

16:55

if so be like the only changed

16:58

all this would be is if something

17:00

happens either those guys and we need

17:02

a like a short notice guy to

17:04

step in Ogden's. To do the weather's.

17:06

Johnny or Vulcan? I think that's

17:08

perfect. To have him to step in there

17:10

and. And. Try to play spoiler. gets one

17:12

of those guys the could be Apsley. Hilarious to

17:14

watch him and Johnnie Walker fight each other, but

17:16

that's my title June I just feel like it's

17:19

too long to keep them. I have the octagon

17:21

even now for that's that's one of those ones

17:23

that I think to build overtime. Much.

17:25

They. Just. The Gate. yeah, Max

17:27

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17:29

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interesting. We have up

19:40

and comers ready to make their move. It's kind

19:43

of slow rolling right now because of what's going

19:45

on at the top. But Karine

19:47

Silva just continues to go in there

19:49

and do the damn thing. She beats

19:51

Ariane da Silva, frequently

19:54

known as Ariane Lipsky. Good

19:56

fight. It was a good scrap between two of them. And

19:59

Silva goes... out and gets the unanimous decision.

20:01

When AK, where's Creenay Silva

20:03

going? Man, I like Creenay

20:06

Silva a lot. She's kind of

20:08

benefiting from the more hyped up Silva

20:10

and Italianati ice of course being ahead of

20:12

her because she's quietly putting together like a

20:14

really good win streak. I

20:17

thought this was a good win. I know it wasn't like

20:19

the most exciting win but man, she is a like, in

20:22

my prediction, again, another wrong one. Please don't look

20:24

at my pics guys on mmaefighten.com especially for this

20:26

card. Horrible, horrible pics.

20:31

In my predictions, I said I don't think she can

20:33

just like hulk her way to a win because she's

20:35

like such a strong grappler and some of her wins

20:37

were literally just grabbing the other woman and just just

20:39

dragging them down to the mat. I

20:42

didn't think she could do that to the

20:44

former Lipski, to Ariana da Silva but she

20:46

did that a lot. She's

20:48

got really good cardio. I don't know how this is going to work

20:50

against the best of the best but man,

20:52

that grappling is a weapon and she's real dangerous.

20:54

So yeah, 4-0 and the UFC, her first three

20:57

wins were by submission. I think she's one of

20:59

only like a few fighters to win her first

21:01

three, to win their first three UFC fights by

21:03

submission so very impressive. Nine

21:05

straight overall going back to her

21:08

pre-UFC career. Man,

21:10

where did we go with her? I

21:12

think the obvious matchup is

21:14

Tracey Cortez but

21:17

I feel like we keep matching up Tracey and she's just

21:19

such a wild card. We never know when she's coming

21:22

back. So again, I'm waving my magic wand and making

21:24

this happen. I have Tracey. I

21:26

still have Tracey like a spot ahead. I

21:28

could see people putting Karina above her which

21:30

totally makes sense. I think she's beaten slightly

21:32

better competition but I have Tracey

21:34

just ahead. So you know what, Karina can just click

21:37

for that spot and jump either jump take one

21:39

spot or depending on the press of the performances

21:41

maybe move. Maybe creep

21:43

into the top 10 but yeah, it's Silva, da

21:45

Silva and Silva and I guess now da Silva

21:48

taking over the flyweight division. I'm

21:51

looking at your picks in our Slack

21:53

channel. Oh God, this is a tough one. I've

21:57

been there many, many a time with these Apex cards.

22:00

pretty well. Casey, 9 of 4. 11 out of 13. Yeah.

22:02

I assume he chose Taco, right? Of course. He chose

22:10

Taco and Vicki Henry. Yeah. I

22:13

also picked Taco. I also picked Taco for the records. But

22:15

you know what? I should have followed Casey all along. I

22:17

don't want to pull the curtain back too much here

22:23

or call out my fellow MMA effort. But

22:25

I'll tell you right now, Casey, he did

22:28

not know who some of these people are on this card.

22:30

I'll tell you that right now. I probably

22:33

didn't before some of these fighters were

22:35

on this card. I'll admit it. But I researched.

22:38

I watched video. I look at their records. I listen

22:40

to people smarter than me. I look at what they're

22:42

saying. And I put a lot

22:44

of time into thinking about these picks. I

22:47

got like 4 out of 13 or something. That's

22:50

5. Thank you. Casey, 11 out of 13. And he won

22:52

USC 200, by the way. He also won our USC

22:56

200 picks. 10 out of 13 or 10 out of 12. Casey is

22:58

on a hot street. The man's just got, he's

23:02

got a feel for it. Sometimes he's got to feel it. He's got

23:04

to feel for it. He's got the good

23:06

vibes right now. He's got the good vibes. Great

23:09

vibes. As far as Creed

23:11

A Silva goes, hold on. What

23:13

does that sound? What does

23:15

it sound? Are they? No, not the

23:17

band. Not the band. Sounds

23:20

like a train. Sounds like

23:23

a train's coming. Chook, chook.

23:25

Chook, chook.

23:29

Oh, it says Chook, chook, but her name

23:31

is not Chook A. Gann anymore. It's

23:33

Caitlin Sermon hour time. This is

23:35

the one. Let's just

23:38

do that. I just don't know what else to

23:40

do. I already matched Lauren

23:42

Murphy up with Natty Ice

23:44

because I know Karina and Lauren Murphy were sort

23:47

of matched up before but Lauren wasn't ready to come

23:49

back just yet. I

23:53

like Creed A Silva a lot. I'm not telling

23:55

her that she needs to be like, hey, you're

23:57

taking everything I work for, M.E.F.R. She

24:00

didn't really have a name or anything, but I

24:02

still like in this division you could still get

24:04

decent competition without doing that So

24:07

I kind of feel like sermon aura is is really

24:09

the way to go here And I feel like the

24:11

clock is ticking on sermon our square at this point

24:14

And I think she's admitted to such over the last couple of

24:16

years So I think

24:18

she probably wants to get back in there relatively quick

24:20

after the Macy Barbara lost She didn't take like a

24:22

ton of damage in that fight. So I

24:25

think green a silver versus sermon our

24:27

masons Mike you went a long

24:29

way for that Chukka again, Chuk

24:31

Chuk Gag. Are you proud

24:33

of your very happy with that? What happened? I'm happy with it.

24:35

Oh Your reaction of

24:37

just like half laughter half get

24:39

me off the show was exactly what I was

24:41

hoping for Did

24:44

anyone do the thing on the microphone on Saturday?

24:46

I? Feel

24:48

like everyone I feel like everyone did the I'm

24:51

just I'm just looking to keep go stay busy or

24:53

or just I want to Fight someone up like I

24:56

don't feel like anyone had an echo did the thing

24:58

he called out somebody out. Who did he

25:00

called out? Help

25:02

me but he tests did he not I Had

25:06

to I do not remember. Yeah, he called out

25:08

Gabriel. We need talk. That's not bad. That's a

25:10

pretty smart call out Okay, I should I respect

25:12

that Yeah, I don't

25:14

know if anybody really did the thing bog didn't

25:16

had to have I would have I don't

25:18

remember who exactly he called Oh, yeah, no name. He had no

25:20

name. I think he said No,

25:22

he did not I appreciate he's gonna ask

25:25

him again. They asked him again post fight

25:27

and like the scrum and nothing no name

25:29

just Keep me busy. I

25:31

love the UFC. I love the matchmakers. Keep me busy Wonder

25:36

who David if David or not would call anybody. Oh, I don't

25:38

think anyone did I know a lot of it was a lot

25:40

of Just I just

25:42

want to stay busy Thank

25:45

you data white. Thank you matchmaker. This is a sister.

25:47

Yeah, keep do keep doing the thing everybody

25:49

You're you're just crushing it. Absolutely crushed it.

25:52

Let's go to the heavyweight division Junata

25:55

Denise going out there and doing

25:57

heavyweight things to Austin Lane tough

26:00

start for him but then Denise goes ahead and

26:03

puts the former Jacksonville Jaguar

26:05

drafty to sleep with

26:07

a nasty knockout. I've

26:09

been waiting and I still don't even

26:11

know if this is the right one to

26:14

match up with this individual but I just feel like

26:16

it's going to be super fun. We're not going to

26:18

get a ton of grappling or anything. It's just going

26:20

to be a stand-up war. I've

26:22

been waiting for the right fight for

26:24

this man and since Rocky Martinez doesn't seem to

26:27

be coming back to the UFC anytime soon, Janitz

26:30

and Denise versus Chris Barnett is where I'm going

26:32

AK. Yeah,

26:34

that's excellent. I thought about it. I don't know.

26:37

I think I want Chris to get a more,

26:39

I don't know, bigger name. Not that it matters. Not

26:42

that Chris Barnett cares. Not that we need that from Chris Barnett. Anytime.

26:44

Chris Barnett is the A side in any fight he's in so he doesn't need a

26:46

bigger name. I

26:49

cheated. I just went with someone who fought tonight.

26:52

He could get an exciting fight out of Dontaille Mays, right?

26:55

I think, win or lose, I think Denise is

26:57

getting an exciting fight out of Dontaille. Someone can.

27:01

And I think Janitz is that guy. Maybe?

27:05

No. I don't know. That,

27:07

that, I'm sorry

27:10

to not talk about it. Janitz, a great debut as

27:12

advertised. We know what this guy's going to do. He's just going

27:14

in there to knock people out. If he gets to put in

27:16

his back, he's going to, whatever, he's going to hold on for

27:18

a round so he can get up and then he's going to

27:20

try again the next round to just have him. Austin Lane, by

27:23

the way, the matchmaker's perfect

27:25

opponent. He

27:27

did not have the cardio to employ that strategy of

27:29

like, he could not do that. We all knew it.

27:31

I was not that worried for Denise. He did look,

27:33

I mean, Austin Lane did look really good in round

27:35

one, but you knew if it went fast, if he

27:37

didn't finish in the first with a

27:40

grounded pound, as soon as he came over for the

27:42

second round, you're like, oh, this is, this guy's toast. He's

27:46

a dead man walking. And sure enough, like once

27:48

they actually had to trade hands for more than like

27:50

five consecutive seconds, I've just put it on him. That

27:56

maze Machado fight was, I don't

27:58

want to say it was, it's not even. It's

28:01

just, and we could have said this about

28:03

several of the prelims. It was

28:05

so forgettable. It was just

28:08

such aimless clashes

28:11

of indeterminate

28:15

striking exchanges, no

28:17

real swings of action. Just

28:20

like what

28:22

a poor, poor, poor set of prelims.

28:26

The main card was like, fine. Have you only watched

28:28

the main card, or you started with this Victor Henry

28:30

Yahya fight even? You probably had

28:33

a decent time. You had a decent time. If you had

28:35

to watch this from beginning to

28:37

end, man, it was a slog for

28:39

a lot of the prelims. The main

28:41

card was okay. But yes, Janata Dinesh,

28:43

please, play Dontail Mays and get some

28:45

excitement out of him. Yeah,

28:48

I mean, I use this reference from time to time, but I

28:50

think this is the perfect one to do it. Dontail

28:53

Mays versus Kaya Machado was buying a

28:55

Toyota in the 90s. It was everything

28:57

we hoped for and more. It was

28:59

exactly what we expected. It's leafy greens,

29:01

as Jed likes to say. It was vanilla

29:03

ice cream. It was just

29:05

plain Jane. You know exactly what you're getting.

29:08

And it was a heavyweight. Maybe the easiest

29:10

bet on the entire car was going

29:12

heavyweight over that one and boy, the

29:14

deliver. And shout out to the commentary

29:16

team who tried to make it seem

29:18

like that was Max Holloway Justin Gagee.

29:20

So hard too. Even

29:22

when Dontail, he's got the knockdown in round one.

29:25

There was no part, and I didn't bet. I

29:27

wish I had. If I

29:29

had the over, I would not have been sweating for a second.

29:31

I would have been like, he's not finished. He's not following up.

29:33

He's not finishing this. I

29:36

think Mays, who did knock out Arlofsky? Fine, whatever,

29:38

he knocked out Arlofsky. We did knock out Arlofsky.

29:40

It was actually pretty impressive considering Arlofsky's decisions. That's

29:42

another fight I would have guaranteed an over. But

29:45

yeah, this was as over as it gets. If I were

29:47

still betting on MMA, I would have bet all

29:49

the money I have. All

29:51

the $25 I have in my checking account

29:53

on that going over. I

29:56

didn't actually take that one, but I did

29:58

take two underdog picks. and

30:02

won both of those so it's very

30:04

happy. Shoutout to Bob and Guskoff and

30:06

shoutout to Austin Hubbard for getting the

30:08

job done. Let's move on to David

30:10

Onama. He took on Jonathan Pierce. This

30:12

is a fun fight. Yeah. Really good

30:14

one. It was. David

30:17

Onama did miss weight which is never a good

30:19

thing. It didn't seem like he

30:21

particularly cared that much but again I say this

30:23

all the time if you are a first

30:27

or second tiered contracted

30:29

UFC fighter then who

30:31

cares at the end of the day. You get docked 20%

30:34

but as long as you go out there and you get

30:36

the win then none of it really matters because you get

30:38

that win bonus. I do think it cost, well

30:41

not him because he wouldn't have gotten it anyway. I

30:43

think it cost Jonathan Pierce a fight of the night.

30:46

I said that on the post-punk show. They may

30:49

have still gone with the quad finish

30:52

bonuses but any chance

30:54

that Jonathan Pierce had of getting 50k

30:56

was wiped out by David Onama. Tough

30:59

hang man. Tough hang. Tough

31:02

hang. But it was a really fun fight. David

31:04

Onama dug deep down the stretch because he was

31:06

getting real tired. JSP was making him work. I

31:09

thought his game plan was perfect especially

31:11

in round one. Just let David explode and

31:13

get those reverses and get the sweeps and

31:15

the transitions and then JSP had

31:17

a great second round like a really dominant one and

31:19

then David Onama just I know you love

31:22

this so much AKA but David Onama proved he had a little

31:24

bit more dog in him than JSP. It was good stuff.

31:28

I didn't really give him too much

31:30

of a bump up. I think the wait missed so you don't really

31:32

get to get a ranked

31:35

dude or anybody truly that close to it but

31:37

I'm curious to see where you went. I don't

31:39

know if we somehow landed on the same name because I

31:42

could have because my guy planted the seed. So

31:45

perhaps whether you remember or not perhaps

31:47

this is the name you went with because this is kids

31:50

it pays to do your homework and

31:52

I brought up the Onama Pierce

31:55

winner as a possibility for this man. to

32:00

column one, Mr. Kyle Nelson. Um,

32:03

he has just been under, under dog

32:05

in it left and right. And his past three

32:07

fights, he would certainly be an underdog again in

32:09

this matchup. But this is how

32:12

you treat a fighter who

32:14

looked impressive, but did miss weight. You give

32:16

them a tough opponent, a winnable fight for

32:18

them, but also an opponent where they

32:20

don't have a lot to gain from it. If Onama

32:22

beats Kyle Nelson, he's not shooting up the rankings. He

32:24

really just holds, he's probably ranks behind

32:26

or around Kyle. So he really doesn't gain

32:28

a lot, but he

32:31

does get a chance to make weight, put on

32:33

an exciting fight, possibly score a bonus. Uh,

32:36

and again, get back in the good graces of the, uh,

32:38

the fans and officials because yeah, that, that was a bad,

32:40

he was like two and a half. That was a bad

32:42

weightness. Come on, David Onama and David is

32:44

really good. And we all want to see him kind

32:46

of, I think he's a top 15 talents. I really

32:48

do. Um, so yeah, let's give him a

32:50

little bit of a, of a road bump here and get,

32:53

give him a real test cause Kyle Nelson is tough.

32:55

Like I said, Kyle Nelson has been upsetting people. So

32:57

Onama, he's off his game. Nelson

32:59

Nelson's going to pick him another W. So I'd love to see

33:01

those two get matched up. Q

33:05

up the band. AK there it

33:08

is is what I would have said. Come

33:10

on, Kyle Nelson's most recent opponent had won

33:12

his next fight and you had gone with

33:14

him two times today. Two times today, Mike,

33:16

you gotta, I mean, you gotta train, you

33:18

gotta the train joke here, just pulling the

33:20

rug out from under the bed. Don't apologize

33:22

to me. Don't apologize

33:24

to me. I apologize to the band who haven't

33:27

played in like weeks. The

33:30

band's just getting paid to chill. I'm not

33:32

paying them. Yeah. Otno

33:35

points coming from, I mean, you know where your Otno points

33:37

are going. I think you're getting like a half a point,

33:39

but really give you a quarter point cause you got to

33:41

pay the band. Uh, Bill Algeo is where

33:44

I went with David Onama. I think that's just a

33:46

final fight. And again,

33:48

I'm not going to give David onama like

33:50

a huge step up after missing weight by

33:53

two and a half pounds. So great fight,

33:55

great performance, great win. And

33:57

Bill Algeo is still a. guy probably

34:00

in the top 30 to 35

34:02

range. So we'll see what he

34:04

can do. He gets a very tall, tough

34:07

puzzle at 145 pounds. Let's

34:09

go to welterweight. Jero Smedic, man, AKA,

34:11

this guy has really put it together.

34:14

He's coming on strong. A lot of

34:16

people kind of gave up on him

34:18

a little bit. Didn't think he was

34:21

really going to be a viable contender,

34:23

but he has come back and he's done very

34:25

well. He's won three of his last four. Look at

34:30

what his losses are. He's 10-2. His

34:32

losses are to Jalen Turner

34:34

and Mick Tebek Orleby, who is

34:36

just one of the scariest guys to come

34:38

into the UFC. Guy's going to have a

34:40

very, very good future, but he comes in

34:42

and knocks out Tim Means. Does

34:45

it with just a nasty, nasty uppercut.

34:47

He looks real good. I'm giving

34:50

him Brian Battle, AKA. I'm just going to knock this

34:52

out. Brian Battle, I know we didn't

34:54

really match-make for him last time because of

34:57

the weirdness that happened in that fight. He

35:01

was removed from Otno because there was no contest

35:03

after the weirdness that happened there. I'm

35:06

ready to match-make for Brian Battle. Again, I think him and

35:08

Jero Smedic would be fun as hell. I'm

35:11

going with another former metalweight. He just recently

35:14

dropped down to welterweight. Give me Med-H and

35:16

Cheetah and Jaquani. I think that would be

35:18

a fun contest. I don't know

35:20

what we have with Med-H. I feel like he's

35:22

one of those guys and I know we're pretty

35:24

early in his UFC career. I

35:26

feel like he's one of those guys who

35:29

some nights he's going to look like an

35:31

absolute, just like stunner, world-beater, KO machine.

35:34

There's other nights where we're going to

35:36

be like, wow, what is going on

35:38

with this guy? He doesn't belong near

35:40

the top 20. Again, the

35:42

results have been up and down. He's very fun.

35:44

He doesn't go to decisions. That's kind of the

35:46

consequence of when you only go to finishes. Sometimes

35:48

it's your night, sometimes it's your night.

35:53

I don't know where to go yet. Let me give him

35:55

Cheetah, a really good veteran test. Maybe

35:58

we got a better gauge of where he is. he's

36:01

in his prime, he's in his prime now and

36:03

the time to make a move is now, maybe

36:06

if he beats Cheetie I'm looking at a top 25

36:08

opponent but for now I'm just I'm holding off a

36:10

little bit Mike, holding off on the Giro Schmidt each

36:12

stock. Yeah I like that I

36:15

like that fight a lot. Let's go

36:17

to the wildcard round AK, we'll select one fighter

36:19

we have not match paid for yet, we'll match

36:21

paid for them right now. I'm curious where

36:24

you went with this, curious if

36:26

we went with the same person. I'm

36:28

curious if we actually went with the same fight because

36:31

I mean yeah to dig down pretty

36:34

deep to find something off of these

36:36

prelims or with someone

36:38

who lost on the main card but where did

36:40

you end up? I'm very sad Marnick Man

36:42

didn't win so I can make another Marnick Man day

36:44

joke. I've been pushing

36:47

it all weekends. Marnick

36:49

Man day and a ryan span day yeah

36:51

it was neither it was neither Marnick

36:54

Man day nor Ryan span day so again thank goodness

36:56

I also did not take that parlay. I was really

36:58

eyeing that parlay and I was like no I said

37:01

I'm done gambling on MMA for this year I didn't

37:03

do it and it's good because the first leg broke

37:06

and then the second leg even even if it had

37:08

second like then shattered. So that joke

37:10

is dead and I do think we also might not

37:12

see Marnick fight again in the UFC so it might

37:14

be it might be over for now but I'm glad

37:16

I'm glad I got it out of my system. Shout

37:18

out to the banks. Chris

37:21

Medea Mike do we both take Chris Medea?

37:24

We did not. I thought we were both

37:26

gonna shout out Chris Medea again coming in

37:28

five days notice not

37:30

like a huge underdog I think it's like two

37:33

to one I think I think because James Longtop

37:35

is oh no sorry I should say I thought three to

37:37

one so three to one three to one so a sizable sizable underdog

37:39

but it's not like James Longtop

37:41

has a lot of name value but he was coming in

37:43

with quite a bit of buzz very gaudy looking record and

37:47

he missed weight which I don't know if helped or hurt his

37:49

the odds there but the odds were pretty

37:51

stacked and Chris Medea it did look like you're

37:53

just getting lined up because I do think the

37:55

UFC see something in Longtop they try it they

37:58

work really hard so you guys doing stuff in the background They

38:00

worked really hard to keep

38:02

him on the card. Padilla was his third

38:05

opponent. So this had all the makings of a

38:07

showcase for Long Top. And Padilla said, uh-uh, no,

38:10

sir. Fought the right way when

38:12

the odds are against you, very aggressive, sticking

38:15

to his strengths. Just nonstop

38:17

pressure and gets to win first round submission. Shout-outs

38:21

to K.C. Leiden, one of Chris Padilla's training partners,

38:23

K.C. was super happy about it. Mike,

38:25

I think we reward Chris Padilla with

38:27

a trip to Manchester. I

38:30

think he gets to go to England. I would

38:32

like to see him fight John

38:34

Herbert. I think him and John Herbert could be really

38:36

fun. Padilla is very, very

38:38

experienced. Again, this is a situation where no one

38:40

knows much about this guy, knew much about this

38:42

guy before coming to the UFC. Very experienced. He's

38:44

been fighting for 10 years, over

38:47

20 pro bouts. He's fought several guys who

38:49

were either in the UFC or were later

38:51

in the UFC after fighting him. So,

38:54

you know, he's one to know now in the UFC, but

38:57

that does not speak to like the level that he's actually

38:59

at, his level of performance. He's 28, he's in his prime.

39:02

Let's give him another stiff test. Again,

39:05

if he loses to John Herbert, great moment in

39:07

Manchester. If he plays a spoiler, hey, and then

39:09

you got another up and comer at lightweight. Another

39:13

fun guy that you can throw in the mix with

39:15

pretty much anyone. So, big hats off to Chris Padilla

39:17

and I would love to see him get a spot

39:19

on that pay-per-view. Shout-outs to

39:21

Taco. Love seeing those stories

39:23

come to fruition. A guy who probably should have got

39:25

the call like three or four years ago, just

39:28

kept grinding, kept battling, kept

39:30

winning. And he got his opportunity and boy, did

39:32

he make the most of it. I went

39:35

with kind of a similar story to

39:37

Chris Padilla's. Victor

39:39

Henry. Victor Henry goes in, fights

39:42

Hanayah. Great performance. That

39:44

fight was really fun early on. The

39:46

scrambles were incredibly fun. Listening

39:49

to Dominic Cruz try

39:51

to predict what was about to happen, because

39:53

DC's like, oh, Victor Henry's gonna scramble him. Dominic Cruz

39:56

would be like, no, it's Hanayah, man. He's done. This

39:58

is what the rest of the round. going to

40:00

end like it's just being proven wrong left and

40:02

right and left and right but that's kind of

40:04

the story of Dominic Cruz's night. So Victor Henry

40:06

goes in there, nasty body work, finishes honey yada

40:09

in round three. I

40:12

think they got something with this guy and

40:14

I knew it when they first signed him

40:16

but I feel like he just has been

40:18

getting the push and unfortunately for him he's

40:20

known as the guy who got kicked in

40:22

the balls as hard as anybody has ever

40:24

been kicked in the UFC and

40:26

people are doubting that it actually happened when

40:29

you could actually see the pain in this

40:31

man's eyes. You can't you

40:33

can't fib that. So shout

40:36

out to Victor Henry, goes out and gets a big win and

40:39

Honey I.S. spoke to our own gearman, Cruz, heading

40:41

into this fight and Honey I.S. sort of ironed

40:43

out and mapped out what

40:45

he feels he would deserve and

40:47

what he wanted with the victory

40:49

over a guy like Victor Henry but

40:52

unfortunately that didn't happen. So the

40:55

winner gets the spoils, the winner gets

40:57

the draw and I think this fight would

40:59

be super interesting and it would really make me happy

41:01

to see it. Victor Henry

41:03

taking on the former UFC Ben

41:06

and weight champion won Cody Garbrandt.

41:10

That is some beautiful matchmaking. That

41:12

is some beautiful matchmaking. When I figured out where you're

41:14

going with it I was like oh yeah yeah yeah

41:16

yeah yeah yeah yeah honey yeah

41:18

yeah one might say. Yeah it's unfortunate for Honey

41:20

that he didn't get because that also would have

41:22

been like that also would have been intriguing in

41:24

some of my Honey versus Cody Garbrandt but I

41:26

do think Victor has now won the Cody Garbrandt

41:28

sweepstakes. That'd be a great name for him

41:30

to have on his resume. Victor

41:33

Henry is just so much fun. Another

41:35

guy like I'm glad this guy's getting his shot. I'm

41:37

glad he's getting relatively high profile

41:39

opponents. Again yeah yeah one of the veterans of the game

41:41

been around to WEC man. I mean this guy's been putting

41:43

in work so to finish him is not easy. I know

41:45

he's a bit up there in age. I'm sure people look

41:48

at honey and say oh this guy's just like people

41:50

just gonna walk over him at this stage. No he's

41:53

still very talented. I think what he's lost

41:55

in whatever physical attributes you

41:57

could see the experience you can see how different

42:00

is for pretty much any style. So

42:03

yeah, I'd love to see Victor Henry pull that one

42:05

off, and I would love to see him pull off

42:07

a win against Cody Garbrandt, too. That's the way to

42:09

go. Everything

42:30

is fair game. Tune in on

42:32

May 5th at 5 p.m.

42:34

Pacific Time for the roast of

42:36

Tom Brady, live only on Netflix.

43:00

They exist to make you happy. You

43:02

want to make out? No. Because I

43:04

don't either. It's not what I'm into right now. What

43:06

are you into? Talking. Yeah.

43:09

The Fall Guy. Only in theaters May 3rd. Read

43:11

it PG-13. Who wants Otnoe

43:13

Points, AK? Who

43:15

wants Otnoe Points? All right.

43:17

Oh, you know what? A

43:20

smattering to everyone who called for Roundtree

43:22

versus Hill right after USC 300. I

43:26

don't know if they expected it to be booked so

43:28

quickly. I don't know if they thought it would happen

43:30

at 303, but it's happening. And

43:33

it got announced less than two weeks after

43:35

Jamal Hill got brain by Alex Pineda. So

43:38

there you go. So

43:40

good job, everyone who had the foresight for that. I

43:43

love that pick. I probably would have said, if I had

43:45

done a pick for Jamal Hill, which we didn't, I

43:49

don't think I would have gone Roundtree. I might have gone

43:51

a different way because I probably would have said, oh, Hill

43:53

should take some time off and recover from that knockout, make

43:55

sure that that Achilles injury is fully – is all together.

43:58

Not that he's ever complained about it. He's never said

44:00

that it's been an issue. So

44:03

I thought he'd want to you know, I work on that taking a loss

44:05

like that but Jamal Hill again right

44:07

back on there pointing Khalil and huge

44:09

opportunity for Khalil who Mike we have said many

44:11

times on this show How

44:13

cool would it be if you fought Alex Padeta? He's

44:15

the glory killer, right? He's the

44:17

glory killer Maybe he's the guy it's under

44:20

down the road to knock Alex

44:22

Padeta off the 205 off the top of the 205 pound Not

44:25

assuming it's not like ankle. I ever someone else.

44:28

I love it for Khalil and can't wait for that

44:30

for you Yeah,

44:33

your pick excited the entire family I

44:35

heard that that's a crash of excitement

44:38

People were very excited about Jamal Hill versus

44:40

Khalil Rountree being both They wanted opportunities for

44:42

Khalil Rountree. He doesn't have to do it

44:44

at the apex, which is even better co-main

44:47

eventing a Conor McGregor card huge

44:49

sick huge. He's come a long way. What

44:51

a story that is So

44:54

shout out to all 17,000

44:56

of you who selected that fight after

44:58

we tip the band you will get a

45:00

portion of an auto point So direct positive

45:02

into your auto account. All right, you guys

45:05

already know the rules. No do do we'll

45:07

call it out Don't be that

45:09

person. So I only got a couple of

45:11

pics I think people are just like let's just get to 301

45:13

in fact Let's just get past this entire

45:15

month and just get right to 302 We'll

45:18

start with John Ray. He he led

45:20

off with Don't tell me is a okay That's

45:22

how memorable this card was for him. He led

45:24

off first choice was Don't tell me is he's

45:27

going with the WCA

45:31

the Spain winner. I Don't

45:34

know if you want to throw the Spain in there with Don't tell me is

45:38

Yeah, no, I I Don't want

45:40

to see him and Waldo is gonna happen someday. Take

45:42

the over. It's definitely gonna happen take the over WCA

45:46

might just be the correct answer When

45:49

those honestly, I've given WCA a lot of

45:51

crap on the show. He's actually like more

45:53

exciting than I thought it's Rodrigo. Nascimento who

45:55

is Way less exciting

45:57

and I thought I got them confused slightly

46:00

UFC St. Louis headliner Rodrigo Nascimento,

46:03

excuse me sir. God,

46:05

the amount of times I try to hype that fight

46:07

up. It's just

46:09

a bad main event man. By

46:12

the way, if you're in the St.

46:14

Louis area, there are plenty of tickets

46:17

available for that card. Plenty.

46:19

Really? More than I've seen

46:21

for a UFC card in quite some time. So

46:24

if you want to see Rodrigo Nascimento in his

46:26

first main event, could

46:28

be a trivia question. Who did

46:30

Rodrigo Nascimento, UFC heavyweight champion beat

46:33

on his way to the top in his first main event? Although

46:36

I don't think that's really good. What game would have

46:38

this as a trivia? Where are you finding this trivia

46:40

question? I don't know man. It could be like, well

46:42

we're doing live shows on the road in like 2027.

46:45

Maybe that could be a trivia question. But he also

46:47

likes Victor Henry versus Cody Garbrandt. He's

46:50

also with you AK as well. Euros

46:52

Medich versus Kyle Nelson. He's

46:54

with me again. David O'Nam versus Bill Augeo. And he's

46:56

with me again. Karina

46:59

Silva versus Caitlin Sermanara. He even

47:01

wrote Chook Chook. The

47:03

train is coming. He did not. Guskoff

47:05

versus Felipe Linz. Nicola versus

47:08

Ulaan Bechoff. Alex Perez versus

47:11

Kai Kara France. And then

47:13

our friend Left Lane is coming AKA Reaction

47:15

to the Sticks. Was that site booked?

47:18

I thought I was gonna say they fought but I

47:21

definitely didn't fight. It was okay. It has been booked.

47:23

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm cool with the Perez card friends.

47:26

Alex Perez has had so many fights booked. I

47:29

keep thinking he's fought all these people and

47:31

he hasn't fought like half of them. It's

47:34

wild. And Left Lane, the only

47:36

other pick I have unless... Let me just check

47:38

and make sure nobody came in last second. Yeah,

47:40

yeah. Get those buzzer beets in there.

47:42

That's usually what happens. Nobody did. Like I

47:44

said, people are just ready to move on. Alex

47:46

Perez versus Ulaan Bechoff. Guskoff

47:49

versus Anthony Smith. Winner losing against

47:51

Petrino. He likes Karina

47:53

Silva versus Amanda Hibas. Denise

47:55

versus Tafa. Almost

47:57

went there. Justin.

48:01

Justin. Okay. Okay. David

48:04

Onama versus Tiki Yusuf. I can't do it. I

48:06

thought about that, but I just can't do it. After missing weight by two

48:09

and a half pounds, you don't get to play with Yusuf. No, he doesn't

48:11

deserve it. He doesn't deserve it. Euros

48:13

Med H versus Santiago Ponzinibio.

48:15

I like that fight. Wow.

48:18

I like that fight a lot. Big fight. Big fight. By

48:21

the way, Austin Hubbard versus Michael Felix

48:23

might be the best-matched prelim in UFC

48:25

history. Those two guys are so

48:27

evenly matched. It was one of

48:30

the closest fights I ever watched. They were too evenly matched

48:32

though. It was like I said, it

48:34

was, I'm not putting it on the Machado-Maze level. It was certainly

48:36

more insane than that. Oh god, no. But it

48:38

was just so hard to parse

48:42

who was winning. And that doesn't make it a bad fight. Don't worry.

48:44

That does not make it a bad fight. It's

48:46

just, it was such a weird, like, I don't

48:48

know. Somebody at the prelim felt just blobby to

48:50

me. They felt middle-weighty. A little middle-weighty. And

48:53

I apologize to Hubbard and Big Black because that is not

48:55

an accurate description of how well

48:57

they fought. It's just, again, I don't know if

48:59

I will remember the Hubbard-Big Black fight a

49:02

week from now. And it's neither man's

49:04

fault. It's just like you said, they're so closely

49:06

matched up that their

49:08

skills really blended almost to

49:11

the point of being indeterminate

49:13

as far as what was happening. I don't know. Maybe I need

49:15

to learn how to watch MMA. Yeah,

49:18

it was really interesting. Hubbard versus

49:21

Maha Shatta, who got a decision

49:23

win on the card, although

49:25

most people believe he didn't. I'm

49:28

one of those people who thought Benitez won that fight, but it's

49:30

okay. It wasn't like a robbery or anything. The

49:33

Tafas are going to be busy, AKA.

49:35

Dontail Maze versus Junior Tafa from

49:38

Left Lane. Maybe we can throw that on the same card.

49:40

We really should just say, you know what, I asked you

49:42

to clarify which Tafa was for. We really just should just

49:44

say Tafa. Now that we know apparently

49:46

they're allowed to just switch out willy-nilly. I

49:49

think, you know what, from now on, anyone in the

49:51

future, if you just say Tafa and you don't specify

49:53

which one, that's not doo-doo because you're right. They

49:57

are just one entity. They are one Tafa. Apparently

50:00

again Justin wants to step in for for junior.

50:04

It's allowed junior could step in for Justin. No issue. I Don't

50:08

know anymore like think of the fun you can have

50:10

just doing that Yeah throwing both those guys like in

50:12

the mix throwing keeping them in the same training camp

50:14

You could have both come out and like lucha masks

50:16

and like the opponent doesn't even know which one it

50:18

is And he has like pick

50:21

one But he doesn't know which guy's fighting until

50:23

he actually removes the mask and fight I or

50:25

a wheel all of these things It would

50:27

be more fun if they had different styles Like I wish like

50:29

if they're gonna go to that gimmick one of them needs to

50:31

become more of like a wrestler So you really

50:33

don't know what's gonna happen. You're like, oh, I think

50:35

it's junior I think this is the one who's like

50:37

he just got us his brown belt and and

50:40

jiu-jitsu. I think I gotta be careful Oh, no, he's

50:42

like he's throwing haymakers and that's it's Justin Justin. So

50:44

I would love it I would love it if that

50:46

happened, but it's hard. It's you know, it's probably not

50:48

beneficial to their careers to make that kind of change

50:51

this would be a great gimmick for PFL just

50:54

a tremendous gimmick and He

50:57

wraps up with Taco Padilla versus

50:59

Roosevelt Roberts AK I

51:02

actually like this fight a lot. Yeah. Yeah, it's

51:04

good one Okay,

51:07

you're okay, that's it man. I've only

51:09

got a few more Jay Donaghy from

51:11

a via via the emails Fred's

51:14

cop love it. Nicola will unbecc of goose come

51:17

Anthony Smith again, Mike We we can't have this

51:19

common Anthony Smith actually fight each other. Can we

51:21

we don't want this. Do you want this? Nobody

51:23

wants it? I

51:25

don't want it. I'm with you. Okay. I don't want it.

51:27

I want them to be like buds Like

51:30

just think of the content those two guys

51:32

can make like yeah If Bogdan goose cough

51:34

is not on believe you me this week.

51:37

It is a fail and I have It

51:40

just is those who guys should be doing a

51:42

program together Damon I think Damon needs to get

51:44

him on fighter versus writer as well. I just

51:46

think he should be getting all these opportunities He

51:51

Should fight Petrina right if Petrina beats Anthony

51:53

Smith, he should just be like the Anthony

51:55

Smith Follow like the

51:57

cleanup guy clean up guy. Yeah Whoever

52:00

winner lose to every nt smith fights. I

52:02

don't want to see them fight What do

52:05

you got jenise and mick parkin undefeated heavyweight

52:07

overs? Yeah, probably Medici

52:10

Phil row Jake Matthews winner leaning towards

52:12

a row and wild card Victor Henry

52:14

Pedro Munoz I'd like to see that

52:17

someday, but I just don't think We

52:20

need to see picture Henry Munoz now. I get

52:22

to experience guys would be a very fun fight

52:25

Gerard Piagan, I'll just read this one. I

52:27

saw a lot of people picking this Alex

52:29

Perez and Amir Al-Bazi Yeah,

52:31

I think that's a really good pick. Where is Al-Bazi

52:33

as far as we know just recovering from whatever Forced

52:36

him to withdraw from last fight I guess from

52:38

the marina play. Yeah, sure He wants

52:41

the Tyra van winner for Nick allow. Uh, I don't

52:43

think Nick allow can get that fight now I think

52:45

whoever wins that fight might be a little too a

52:47

little too spicy for Goose

52:50

cop OSP Karina Silva Natty Silva

52:52

not not now. No, no, no

52:55

I mean if they're both top five someday, it's

52:58

not technically doo-doo But in like my

53:00

eye that is doo-doo. What no, you

53:03

can't do it. You just can't do it now Natty

53:07

Natty ice is like It's

53:09

not like Natty ice is calling out everybody but

53:11

she's doing the thing in a much different way

53:14

She is the what like you push In

53:17

Karina could end up being the better fighter or

53:19

all and all like it's possible But

53:21

in terms of what the UFC is trying

53:23

to accomplish and what their business practices and

53:25

pushing prospects like Natty ice They should be

53:28

pushing her to the moon right now Like

53:31

she should be that they should their

53:33

focus in that division should be how

53:35

do we get Natalia Silva to a

53:37

title fight? In 2025 that

53:39

should be their their motivation for this entire

53:41

division How what are the steps we need

53:44

to take to get her to a title fight? It's

53:47

not that way with Karina right now. I'm

53:49

sorry. It's just a bad recommendation. It's just

53:51

a bad recommendation. It's too soon It's

53:54

too soon and I just coming from a guy

53:56

who Loves

53:58

tetsuya retirer vs. J Josh Van. I think

54:01

it's perfect timing, it's a perfect division for that.

54:03

Same weight class, but just, you

54:05

know, but at the end of

54:07

the day, it's just, I just

54:10

don't want to see it right now. Maybe for

54:12

a number one contender fight, but it's just too

54:14

soon. Let's get Karina in there. Let's throw the

54:16

Wily vets in there with these young up-and-comers. Like,

54:18

let's build them both up. And if

54:21

they fight for a number one contender ship, fine. They fight

54:23

for the belt even better, but I

54:25

don't want to see it right now. Sorry,

54:27

Gerard. Maybe just a little too early with this

54:29

pick. She's too. Victor

54:33

Henry and Fareed Bosharat. So,

54:36

kind of using Victor as a veteran test.

54:38

Yeah. Both of them are not locked in. Are

54:40

they not? No,

54:43

didn't... No, one of them is Fareed

54:46

the one... One of them is still

54:48

undefeated, I believe. Let

54:50

me check real quick. I thought Fareed

54:52

lost his last time. This one just

54:55

came. No, Javed lost. Fareed is the

54:57

one who is still undefeated. No, Fareed

54:59

won. Fareed won. My apologies. Yeah,

55:01

Javed is the one who lost. Eamonn's

55:04

a happy, very good performance play by Eamonn. So

55:07

yeah, so now I've... Okay, so he wants the

55:09

undefeated one. Yeah. Again, I'm not

55:11

against it. I don't really want to use Victor as

55:13

just a building block for younger guys, but the

55:16

UFC may see it differently. I'm not sure. Let's

55:19

go to Tino Alvarez.

55:21

Victor Henry versus Daniel

55:23

Marcos. Sexy Mexi winner.

55:26

Who's the sexy Mexi? John

55:28

Castaneda. John Castaneda. Sorry, John Castaneda. I should

55:30

have remembered that. Okay, I'm

55:33

fine with that. Jeroz

55:35

Medich, Manuel Torres at the Spear. I

55:38

like this one. Onama, Yusef Zalal. I actually

55:40

thought about that as well. Yusef, I don't

55:42

think, is booked. No,

55:45

he just got a nice victory. He

55:47

did. Oh, he came back. Right, right. He came back

55:50

and really impressed us with how

55:52

he's come along. Yes, Billy Q. Alex

55:55

Fresno, El Cap. Yeah, I'm all for it. All

55:57

right, let's finish with our Twitter beasts here. Chris,

56:00

what's up Chris? Longtime listener, a close

56:03

friend of the show. Denise

56:05

and Dontail Mays. Denise looks like a fun prospect to

56:07

watch. Yeah, listen, Chris, I'm with you again. I think

56:10

you can get a trip on flight out of Dontail.

56:13

Braden O'Neill. Let me see if we got anything new

56:15

here. Guskov Murzakanov.

56:19

Janise Lukasz Brzezki.

56:21

Brzezki? Brzezki? Brzezki?

56:24

Brzezki. Onama Kaczaris-Woodson

56:26

winner. I

56:29

don't hate it. I don't hate it. Interesting.

56:31

What else we got here? Mays versus

56:34

Ghaziz. Oh

56:36

my lord. Apex

56:38

main event. Smash the...

56:40

Oh god, that's... That's not even

56:43

a joke. That's not even

56:45

joking. I'm joking. I am joking. No.

56:48

It's a thing that could happen, my friends.

56:53

Petrovitz, Jamie Lynn Hors, Mahasatay, Natan, Libby.

56:55

I just really need some deep cuts.

56:57

Biglak versus Yannal Ashmouz. And

57:00

Jonathan Pierce and Juicy J. Julian Arosa.

57:03

I swear in my mind that's happened,

57:05

but I'm also pretty sure he's right, that that has

57:07

not happened. Just one of those fights I've

57:09

seen. Who is this, by the way? That

57:11

was Braden O'Neill. Braden O'Neill. I

57:14

have a message for you, Braden O'Neill. Whoa. Let

57:17

me just... I'm going to turn my hat around for this

57:19

one. A

57:21

plus job here. Now

57:24

if you want... This is exactly... This

57:26

is a wily veteran. I

57:28

don't remember hearing this name that often, but this is a

57:30

guy who's been listening to the program, and

57:32

he's waiting to pick his spots. He's

57:35

going through different algorithms. He's putting out

57:37

different formulas. How do I get the

57:39

most value on Onto the next one?

57:42

With the show being what it is and,

57:44

you know, just continuously growing and being

57:46

just a part of everybody's lives every

57:48

single Sunday after UFC event. The

57:52

deep cuts is exactly what you need to

57:54

do. This is how you get full

57:57

Onto points. You might be somebody

57:59

who... is like, yeah, I get

58:01

an 0.4, Cleo Rountree versus Jamal Hill.

58:03

And but so did a thousand other

58:06

people. But if you're throwing out games

58:08

like Jamie Lynn Horth for fights, which

58:10

are very, very viable, very possible, this

58:13

is how you get full points. This is how you just

58:15

jump on everybody. So the people who got like 12 OTTNO

58:18

points, 12 predictions correct, but are

58:20

sharing it with a thousand other people, if you

58:22

just get like two of these to hit, you

58:24

win. You win. So tremendous

58:26

effort. And I think there should be,

58:29

I think you should teach

58:31

a class on this. I think you should teach

58:33

a class on this. Seriously. Charge people

58:35

like 10 bucks to come in and be like,

58:37

yo, look at this fight night card. If this

58:39

person wins, here's the names and like the

58:41

top 60 that you can match these people

58:43

up with. And if any one of these hits, you

58:46

got it. So there you go.

58:48

Well done, Braden O'Neill. You sounded like, Mike,

58:50

you sounded for a minute there like one of those

58:52

YouTube ads that plays before, where it's

58:55

like you're the first five seconds, like what? Listen,

58:57

you think this is how you do OTTNO picks?

58:59

You've been doing it all wrong. This is this

59:02

is the secret to making quality OTTNO picks and

59:04

becoming rich overnight with getting points. And then like

59:06

we all have skip ad before it actually plays

59:08

out. But you almost sound like that for a

59:10

second. I thought, but yeah, Braden, listen, high praise

59:12

from the man himself. Tremendous. He's being very sincere.

59:14

I thought he was doing a bit for a

59:16

second. Oh, no, this is no bad. This is

59:18

no bad. This is this is how you do it.

59:21

This is how you win. Hmm. Braden,

59:23

I probably owe you some points, too. So please, I

59:26

don't always keep a good track of the

59:28

past picks, guys. I apologize. So if you if you

59:30

see a fight get announced, Braden, and you called for

59:32

it, just think DM me anytime.

59:34

You are very, very dedicated sending your picks

59:36

in. I really appreciate it. Mike,

59:38

I forget, did you read four corner sports? You did, I think. I

59:41

did not. You did not. Oh, four and a quarter sports.

59:43

What's up? What do we got here? Some we've already seen.

59:46

Ryan Spann, Jimmy Crute. Did that not

59:48

happen? My memory is

59:52

completely shot. Did Jimmy Crute

59:54

even? He's still.

59:57

Yeah, I know he didn't

59:59

retire, but no. like taking a sabbatical from

1:00:01

the sport for a while? Yeah, recover from injuries.

1:00:03

I think he came back too soon after the

1:00:05

last one and I think he's realized

1:00:07

like, let me get my body to as close

1:00:09

to 100% as possible. But it's still eligible to

1:00:12

be picked. I have no problem with it. Sorry,

1:00:14

they were booked way, way back 2019.

1:00:16

I knew it sounded familiar to us and I think they've

1:00:18

been hovering around each other in the rankings for quite some

1:00:20

time. So yeah, I still like that pick. I would like

1:00:22

to see that fight for whenever Jimmy Crute comes back, but

1:00:25

I imagine Spann may fight for that. David

1:00:27

Onama, Charles Jourdain. Yes,

1:00:30

yes, that's that makes a lot of sense. I think

1:00:33

that's a good one. He's with you with

1:00:35

Medic in battle and Jonathan Pierce, Cub

1:00:37

Swanson, Andre Steely winner. Sure, sure.

1:00:40

I'm for it. And

1:00:42

we'll close out here with Barry O'Reilly.

1:00:45

Let's hope Celtic and St. Mirren win today in

1:00:48

progress as this as we

1:00:50

were recording Celtic wasn't one nothing. My

1:00:53

picks are my shot date

1:00:55

Francisco Prado. Okay, if I'm a petri

1:00:57

risk, Kettlin Sousa, sure. Just throw them

1:00:59

in there together. Wait, Kettlin Sousa. Those

1:01:01

were Kettlin Sousa

1:01:03

and wait a minute.

1:01:06

Oh, different weight classes. Oh,

1:01:09

different weight classes. Barry Kettlin drops to

1:01:12

straw weight for this fight. She this

1:01:14

was her UFC straw weight debut. I

1:01:17

don't want to call that dude. I can't call a

1:01:19

fellow Celtic supporter due to on that but just a

1:01:21

little a little sprinkle on the wrist as

1:01:23

it were a little a little dooky

1:01:25

sleep on the wrist. That's that

1:01:28

seems almost forced. Don't tell

1:01:30

Ty to evasco. I'm looking at this more for Ty who needs

1:01:32

to step back and it wouldn't will fight that isn't just to

1:01:34

give me not many of those in the

1:01:36

top 15 and if Ty can't beat May's and he isn't

1:01:38

your see caliber anymore. True,

1:01:40

but I just don't want to see this.

1:01:42

Who is this? This is my boy Barry

1:01:45

O'Reilly. Barry, what I

1:01:47

said about Braden O'Neil, I say

1:01:49

the opposite to you.

1:01:51

How dare you match

1:01:53

Ty to evasco with Don't Tell

1:01:55

May's? Like, rebellious

1:01:58

to Spain is the correct answer for that. this

1:02:00

when rebellious to Spain goes out there in

1:02:02

St. Louis and does what he does, the

1:02:05

correct answer is to Spain versus tied to

1:02:07

Ibasa next. There is just no other fight

1:02:09

to make. This is the one and I

1:02:12

think everybody should be on board with this. Just

1:02:14

get on board because this is the direction we

1:02:16

need to be going. Not Sontail maze for tied

1:02:19

to Ibasa. Come on, because Sontail basically just tackle

1:02:21

tied to Ibasa. We don't want that. We

1:02:23

don't want that to happen. We don't want the chance of

1:02:25

that happening. So, no.

1:02:29

David Onama versus Chepe Mariskal. No, he doesn't

1:02:32

deserve that fight. That would have been

1:02:34

a great pick. If he had made weight

1:02:36

and won the way he did, I would

1:02:39

love to see him in Chepe, but sorry.

1:02:41

That is a gift and not as a

1:02:44

gift entry as in a high profile exciting

1:02:46

fight. And sorry, David. David Onama did not

1:02:48

serve that fight. Chepe's stock is very high

1:02:51

right now and he should be moving up

1:02:53

a little further. Karina

1:02:55

Silva, Lauren Murphy. Yes, a very good

1:02:57

pick. I just don't know if when

1:02:59

Lauren comes back, not that

1:03:01

she's ever super picky with her fights, but

1:03:04

I think she's enjoying whatever time off she's

1:03:07

taking against her. Rest, relax. She's had a

1:03:09

lot of fights in her career. She's been

1:03:11

fighting for a long time. She ain't doing

1:03:13

any of that, man. She is incredibly busy.

1:03:15

She's incredibly busy. She would fight Karina Silva.

1:03:17

I definitely think she'd fight her. Oh, 100%.

1:03:20

She doesn't say no in fights. She really

1:03:22

doesn't. I know. I

1:03:24

know. But you can find it. She's

1:03:26

just not fighting anybody right now. I mean,

1:03:28

if they offer like a title fight, she'd

1:03:31

probably take that, but she

1:03:33

just, she's got other things. She's trying to

1:03:35

focus on those. So she does. She did

1:03:37

tell me she plans on fighting this year.

1:03:40

She was totally fine with being taken

1:03:42

out of the UFC rankings for quote

1:03:44

unquote inactivity. She can give two shits.

1:03:46

Honestly, I know people are up

1:03:48

in arms about that, but I can assure you she cares

1:03:51

not at all. So neither should we.

1:03:53

But yeah, she'd fight Karina

1:03:56

Silva. She would absolutely take that fight. Maybe it's

1:03:58

Karina then. What did you think? of, I can't remember if

1:04:00

we heard this before, Guskav and Rakhic.

1:04:04

Oh man. I

1:04:08

gotta be honest with you, that

1:04:11

was my first thought. I

1:04:13

thought about it as well, yeah. But then the

1:04:15

more I thought about it, maybe it's just after taking

1:04:18

in all of knucklemania and just

1:04:20

the chaos that brought and seeing

1:04:22

people like maybe doing things a

1:04:24

little too quickly, I realized

1:04:28

maybe that's not the way to go. Let's not throw

1:04:30

Bogdan into a situation like that. I

1:04:32

don't, if the UFC did that, I'd be fine

1:04:34

with it because this is the UFC just being like,

1:04:36

alright, we're planting our flag here

1:04:38

on this guy and we want to get

1:04:41

him to a title fight. Like we think he could be a star.

1:04:43

That's a super tough fight. But if somehow

1:04:46

Bogdan pulls it off, it beats a guy

1:04:48

like Rakhic. He's in a

1:04:50

great spot. We could be living in

1:04:52

a world where we get Bogdan Guskav

1:04:54

versus Yuri Prahashka in a number one

1:04:56

contender fight, which would be incredible. It

1:04:59

would be incredible if we got that. But

1:05:02

I just feel like that'd

1:05:04

be a really tough fight for Bogdan, at

1:05:06

least right now. So I

1:05:08

think it's a little too soon. Let's slow our roll.

1:05:10

Just a touch. We should give

1:05:12

him a name, give him a ranked guy. But

1:05:15

throw him in there with a guy like Rakhic. Just

1:05:18

seems like a little much, even though I did think about it.

1:05:20

He also said like he's a guy, he wants to go in

1:05:22

there with people who are kind of willing to slug it out

1:05:25

with him. And

1:05:28

Rakhic doesn't really fit. Not that Rakhic can't knock him

1:05:30

out, but it wouldn't be in the way that Guskav

1:05:32

likes. It wouldn't be like a back and forth. It's

1:05:34

just like hammering. He'd be picked apart or

1:05:36

something like that. I

1:05:38

mean, we didn't think we'd get that from

1:05:40

Rakhic against Yuri. And

1:05:42

that was a slugfest, man. It

1:05:47

turned into what Yuri wanted to become.

1:05:49

Yeah. So maybe Bogdan has that same

1:05:51

ability. Maybe he can impose his

1:05:53

will on people. He kind of, again, did it to

1:05:55

Spann. After Spann looked

1:05:58

like he had a really good game plan in round one. and

1:06:00

then for whatever reason, maybe he got

1:06:02

tired. I think that's what Goosecaw said after. He's like, he

1:06:04

thinks they got tired, that's when he got tired and had

1:06:06

no choice but to stand and kind of trade with him.

1:06:09

So yeah, maybe Goosecaw is a poor man's

1:06:11

house potato. Maybe he has that same

1:06:13

ability to take fighters who have a game plan and

1:06:15

just take them out of it, right? After a round,

1:06:18

right? Barry

1:06:20

closes off with the house president, El Cap. Again, I

1:06:22

love this. He says, wrong to keep rewarding this guy

1:06:24

after weight misses and other stuff. I'm talking about Cap.

1:06:27

But I really want to see Cap versus Pantoja and a

1:06:29

win here should steal that for Cap or we'll push Perez

1:06:31

closer to a title shot. Yeah, I think that's the logic

1:06:33

with that matchup, right? Cap

1:06:35

would get a title shot after Perez would be at

1:06:38

least back in the conversation. Seriously back in the

1:06:40

conversation. And he says that. Thanks for all

1:06:42

the great content. Looking forward to the podcast. Let me ask you

1:06:44

this. I

1:06:47

kind of feel like even

1:06:49

though he missed Wayne and even though he pulled out of this fight,

1:06:52

the longer Manel Cap doesn't fight, the

1:06:54

better his position in the title conversation

1:06:56

has gotten. He's

1:06:59

leaped over so many hurdles without

1:07:01

actually walking to the Octagon. And

1:07:04

even missing weight. The longer

1:07:06

it takes him to fight, he's

1:07:08

getting in a better spot. He might

1:07:10

just be the next title challenger at 125 right

1:07:12

now without

1:07:15

fighting anybody with how this

1:07:17

is all played out. It's

1:07:19

very possible. It's very possible. That's

1:07:22

how this business works, right? It's not always about

1:07:24

results. It's about timely

1:07:27

results and some of the stuff

1:07:29

you do in between and the kind of reputation

1:07:31

you can build. So anyways guys, that's it for

1:07:33

this week. The listener picks. Please send more. Send

1:07:35

them every week to Alexander. Well, not next week.

1:07:37

Not next week. Not next week. Because we, sorry

1:07:39

Mike. I was looking at the card and I

1:07:41

just assumed it was a fight night and we

1:07:43

would be doing a normal show. But it is

1:07:45

a pay-per-view. It is

1:07:47

a pay-per-view next week. I

1:07:50

mean by definition it's a

1:07:53

pay-per-view. And this, this is

1:07:55

tough to spend your $80.

1:08:00

on after UFC 300 ladies and gentlemen. And

1:08:02

after seeing what 302 and 303 look like, it's

1:08:07

just, it's fine. I honestly think

1:08:09

it's going to be like a

1:08:12

pretty decent watch. Yeah, I

1:08:14

think on paper, some of the match-ups are really

1:08:16

good, are really excited just but name value

1:08:18

wise, this is... Yeah, this is a... We're

1:08:21

not comparing to 300 to 299. We're saying like

1:08:23

compared to your average pay-per-view last

1:08:25

year or in 2022, this is very...

1:08:30

It's lackluster. It's lackluster. It's just in terms of star power.

1:08:33

A lot of talented fighters in this card. A lot of...

1:08:35

A lot of... A lot of

1:08:37

talented fighters in this card. Maybe future stars, but

1:08:39

current stars, nothing. This would be...

1:08:42

Like if this was UFC St.

1:08:44

Louis, this would be a

1:08:46

tremendous fight night card. Awesome. It'd be

1:08:48

a... Like, we've even had like

1:08:51

better fight night cards on paper than this.

1:08:54

Like on the road shows, this

1:08:56

would be just a tremendous fight night card. Like

1:08:59

a really good one at a decent

1:09:01

arena. It would be

1:09:03

exceptional. It'd be like what every

1:09:05

road show fight night card should

1:09:08

look like as a pay-per-view, especially

1:09:10

after 298, 299, and 300. Like

1:09:12

this is the let down pay-per-view if there ever was one.

1:09:15

Although I do love... From a

1:09:17

just a stylistic and intrigue perspective,

1:09:21

Steve Erseg, the chance... I'm

1:09:24

sorry, Vincenzo Erseg. If

1:09:26

Vincenzo Erseg somehow leaves

1:09:29

Rio with the flyway title, I

1:09:31

mean what a friggin' story this

1:09:33

guy would be. To

1:09:36

actually win the belt before Balal Muhammad

1:09:38

gets a title shot would be...

1:09:41

I mean just be puzzling. It'd be

1:09:44

one of the craziest things I've ever seen. But

1:09:46

he's got to beat Alexander Pentosia to do that.

1:09:48

I think Steve Erseg has a chance to do

1:09:50

it if this fight could remain standing.

1:09:53

I'm intrigued by it. I can't lie.

1:09:55

Jonathan Martinez versus Jose Aldo. Jose Aldo,

1:09:58

final fight on his UFC deal. And

1:10:00

then he is just free and clear from the company. It's

1:10:03

going to be interesting. Anthony Smith versus

1:10:05

Vitor Patrino is a featured bout in 2024 on

1:10:07

a pay-per-view. Michelle

1:10:10

Pereira versus Ehor Poteeria. That's

1:10:12

going to be fun as hell. It, he

1:10:15

is, if he knocks out Ehor, it

1:10:18

is going to be the pop of the night because even

1:10:21

more than, maybe even more than the return of Giselle though,

1:10:23

because I do not think Brazilians

1:10:25

like Ehor Poteeria after what he did to Shogun.

1:10:27

I think this will be a cathartic experience for

1:10:30

everyone. If he beats Pereira, oh boy, it's going

1:10:32

to put a, wow, whatever. Real damp

1:10:34

running. That fight's going to

1:10:36

be nuts. It's going to be incredible. I can't wait

1:10:38

for the watch party for that fight in particular because

1:10:41

GC and I are going to

1:10:43

lose our shit. It's going to be incredible theater.

1:10:45

Paul Craig versus Kyle Boraleo. I mean,

1:10:48

look at Kyle Boraleo getting demoted from

1:10:50

Mr. Comain event to Mr. Main Card

1:10:52

opener. Like, what the hell are we

1:10:54

doing here? Uh, Joanne Sombrito

1:10:57

versus Jack Shaw, really good fight. Carolina

1:10:59

Kovalkiewicz versus Yasmin Lissendo, really good fight.

1:11:02

The people's main event, AK. This is,

1:11:04

this is my main event. Elvis

1:11:06

Brenner versus Mick Tebek Oral-Bye. Just

1:11:08

shout out to Mick Maynard and

1:11:11

Sean Shelby. This is A plus

1:11:13

matchmaking. I can tell you right now,

1:11:15

Dana White had nothing to do with this fight

1:11:17

because he probably has no idea who either of

1:11:19

these two guys are, but we know, and it's

1:11:21

going to be fan freaking tastic. Uh,

1:11:24

John Silva versus William Gomi. Joachim

1:11:27

Silva versus Drakar Close.

1:11:29

Mauricio Huffy versus Jamie

1:11:31

Malarkey. Deoni Barbosa

1:11:34

versus Ernesta Caracady.

1:11:37

Ishmael Bonfim versus

1:11:39

Vince Pichelle and

1:11:41

Alessandro Costa versus

1:11:44

Kevin Borjas. That is UFC

1:11:46

301, ladies and gentlemen, AK.

1:11:48

Not a bad card. It's

1:11:51

not a bad card. I would tell people, definitely, obviously, if

1:11:53

you have ESPN plus, you know, check. I

1:11:55

actually like the prelim card quite a bit. Yes, it's

1:11:57

lacking star power, but you know, put it on. if

1:12:00

you're doing something else. You got other sporting events

1:12:02

on, NBA playoffs, whatever. Put

1:12:04

some of these fights on. There's going to be some

1:12:06

bangers. I do think some of these names that we

1:12:09

mentioned as well are going to be future, maybe not

1:12:11

champions, but like contenders, mainstays and their divisions. So

1:12:14

don't put that on. And if it delivers,

1:12:16

you know what? Then make the main card

1:12:18

buy a game time decision. Don't commit to

1:12:20

spending that $80, but if that card is

1:12:22

rolling, if you're seeing a lot, if

1:12:24

you're still feeling a buzz in the air after the

1:12:26

first, what is it, seven, seven, eight prelims? Nine? Oh

1:12:29

my God. Nine prelims? I

1:12:32

didn't realize how many prelims there were. That's

1:12:34

a lot of prelims. If

1:12:36

you're feeling that buzz in the air, then

1:12:39

maybe consider plunking down that 80. But yes,

1:12:41

I think the current read is, you

1:12:43

know, if you only have a budget for six

1:12:46

to eight UFC peer reviews a year, you

1:12:49

know, you might not be crying if you missed this one.

1:12:53

Yeah, I think it'd be okay. mafine.com.

1:12:55

mafine.com guys, we'll get, we'll have you covered. If

1:12:57

you don't have a chance to watch it, we'll

1:12:59

have you covered. Like you got, you got two

1:13:01

pay per views coming up in June. Yeah. If

1:13:03

you really want to have like a combat sports

1:13:05

night where you want to just watch

1:13:07

everything, June 1st could be a

1:13:09

really busy day between boxing between UFC

1:13:11

302 between like weird boxing with

1:13:17

Mazatl and Diaz. Like if you will, if

1:13:19

you buy the UFC card and Mazatl Diaz,

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you're spending $160 on

1:13:24

UFC June 1st alone. Then

1:13:27

you have the return of Conor McGregor,

1:13:29

June 29th against Michael Chandler. Maybe

1:13:32

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We'll tell you everything that's going to happen. You can

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spring is sprung. You might want to

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1:13:45

weather. And you know, if it's raining,

1:13:47

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the 80 bucks and watch some fights,

1:13:51

you know, but we're

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Going to be watching and we'll tell you everything

1:13:56

that happens. And Then we'll have a live program

1:13:58

on Sunday morning after the fact. That's

1:14:01

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these fighters and goes out. the wins then

1:14:05

we don't have many forms early. Good even

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