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most of you watching this and listening to this program

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will feel the same way. You will

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prefer the bearing of

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the knuckles to the covering of the

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knuckles that I feel very confident in

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to welcome you to the KnuckleMania

1:44

4 and UFC Vegas

1:46

91 preview show here on

1:48

mmafighting.com. Hello again, I am

1:50

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,

3:01

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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bluenile.com. I think

23:10

most of the combat sports community, you're going

23:12

to be out and about. You'll probably spend

23:15

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

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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

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