[SPEAKER_00]: Welcome to the Shoredog Radio Network preview for UFC fight night, two, fifty, eight, Emovalv versus Bahullio, also known as UFC Paris.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm your host, Ben Duffy of Shoredog.com, and back with me, I would say as usual, but it feels like it's been a month, it is Keith Shillin, the executive producer of the Shoredog Radio Network Keith, how you doing?

[SPEAKER_00]: What's up, brother?

[SPEAKER_00]: How you doing, man?

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm doing a, okay.

[SPEAKER_00]: I have a little inside knowledge because we talked for a minute before we started recording.

[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_00]: Even if we hadn't, I would say you look like you need a vacation from your vacation.

[SPEAKER_00]: Tell me I'm wrong.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_01]: So, so hold on a second.

[SPEAKER_01]: You're saying it's been, it's been all you said, like usual.

[SPEAKER_01]: And you said, I'm back.

[SPEAKER_01]: No, no, no.

[SPEAKER_01]: I have been back.

[SPEAKER_01]: I did UFC Shanghai.

[SPEAKER_01]: Uh, and it was no.

[SPEAKER_01]: They'll feed that was man.

[SPEAKER_01]: And hold on a second.

[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know if you caught the, uh, the paid, the paid review, the Shamayaf, uh, do plus a pay review.

[SPEAKER_01]: The roads I had to travel to get home to do the recapture.

[SPEAKER_01]: I started.

[SPEAKER_01]: I was in Texas as the pay review started and finished in my house in and all details in between.

[SPEAKER_01]: But I want to, I want to address something.

[SPEAKER_01]: So, uh, it's been honestly.

[SPEAKER_01]: It was what it was, it was a UC three, twelve.

[SPEAKER_00]: Three nineteen is the one, oh my god, I'm so far off.

[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, three nineteen, I even know.

[SPEAKER_01]: Three nineteen, the UC three nineteen.

[SPEAKER_01]: The preview was the last time we did a show, but that is not the last time we've talked.

[SPEAKER_01]: Me and Ben actually finally met each other in person in Texas.

[SPEAKER_01]: And I want to, I want to pull back the curtain because it was really honest with our listeners.

[SPEAKER_01]: The reason why we haven't done a show together, we had to, we had to recover.

[SPEAKER_01]: It did not go well.

[SPEAKER_01]: And let me tell you, Ben comes off like this nice guy.

[SPEAKER_01]: That's all a show.

[SPEAKER_01]: You couldn't believe how Rudy, first of all, he called me fat.

[SPEAKER_01]: And then he called my wife ugly and she called her a bitch.

[SPEAKER_01]: He called my kids little snobby brats.

[SPEAKER_01]: That's what happened.

[SPEAKER_01]: But now we're getting over it and we're going to try to bring back.

[SPEAKER_01]: We're going to be a TV friendly for the rest of the for our listeners.

[SPEAKER_00]: In my defense, when I said ugly bitch, I thought that was literally your dog.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm just kidding.

[SPEAKER_00]: Keith's wife is, I mean, we already knew that Keith's wife was a saint just to deal with Keith, but she's an absolutely lovely woman.

[SPEAKER_00]: His family's amazing and it was good to have a NASA.

[SPEAKER_00]: It was good to have a family.

[SPEAKER_00]: I wouldn't say put a face because again, I spent six hours a week looking at this guy's face.

[SPEAKER_00]: It was good to finally meet up in person.

[SPEAKER_00]: It was cool, man.

[SPEAKER_01]: It was funny.

[SPEAKER_01]: My fan was like, you see like you're nervous to meet him.

[SPEAKER_01]: I was like, I kind of am.

[SPEAKER_01]: I took this guy for forget five years.

[SPEAKER_01]: I kind of was.

[SPEAKER_01]: And then they're like, what a time.

[SPEAKER_01]: I took this guy for forget five hours a week.

[SPEAKER_01]: I could meet him in person.

[SPEAKER_01]: But yeah, my fan, my aunt and uncle were there and also they loved you.

[SPEAKER_01]: So it was super cool to realize that Ben is not like an AI figure that he really is real.

[SPEAKER_01]: Uh, since then, I've gone camping.

[SPEAKER_01]: During this, during this labor kid day, we can I also, I want to learn it.

[SPEAKER_01]: I want to learn the skin of concert Friday night with my oldest daughter, which was cool.

[SPEAKER_01]: And I'll tell you why I know you're, I know you're a fan of the good music that I am.

[SPEAKER_01]: Also, I've seen let us get in concert got.

[SPEAKER_01]: I've got no time.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's like, because of the times.

[SPEAKER_01]: And, uh, [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I've gone in big groups outside of Reno's with the tailgate and twelve of us.

[SPEAKER_01]: I've seen like good open and axe.

[SPEAKER_01]: ZZ top bad company poison.

[SPEAKER_00]: I saw I saw it was easy top.

[SPEAKER_00]: I wonder if it was the same year.

[SPEAKER_00]: Like probably the same tour.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, like kid rock.

[SPEAKER_01]: I see them.

[SPEAKER_01]: But much is filling a bunch of them.

[SPEAKER_01]: This is my favorite one because all the things that I get to experience, I get to watch my daughter experience for the first time and it was, it was, oh, he can saw and it was not, you know, it's not the outdoor.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's not, obviously, there's not a single member left.

[SPEAKER_01]: But it's cool when Johnny at the end.

[SPEAKER_01]: I know you see them, but like when they sing free bird at the end, obviously, my daughter's screaming free bird, you know, they're like, oh, what I'll go and see a lot of things after they sing sweet home Alabama, but, you know, they come back out of the sing free bird and her favorite pot was when [SPEAKER_01]: I always makes those a two brothers Johnny Vansant who's the one who's alive right and Ronnie's one who died takes his brother's hat he puts it on the mic and then there's like two verses he sings the first person in the last verses his brother a video of his brother singing it so like seeing her like I've seen this habit a million times I've seen her experience all this stuff and it was just cool I was really good time [SPEAKER_00]: For those that want to make the van's ant family tree really confusing, they have a third brother Donnie who's the singer for thirty eight special.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I've seen thirty I've seen thirty eight special open up foreign too.

[SPEAKER_00]: I've been press it all though that all these southern acts make it as far up as Rhode Island.

[SPEAKER_00]: They must do it in the summer like they.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_00]: Normally when Keith and I get onto this kind of side track before we even talk about the first fight, it's because we're about to talk about a terrible car and we're trying to put it off as long as possible.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to jump out and say that this one, this one isn't that bad.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's, we lost maybe the second best fight on the whole card when for as I am pulled out of his fight with Cowway Fernandez with, I guess he had a death, there's immediate family.

[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know any details, but obviously, you know, our best wishes are with him.

[SPEAKER_00]: But even without that, it has a main event that's could completely be a title eliminator.

[SPEAKER_00]: I think that's the most you can ask for in terms of divisional relevance.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's got, [SPEAKER_00]: a couple of obvious bangers been well sent to the versus Mauricio Huffie.

[SPEAKER_00]: It has a couple of mildly interesting debuting fighters and most importantly, they stuck every French fighter they could find on it.

[SPEAKER_00]: Like if you're gonna go on the road, give the fans something to come out for us so that the place blows up and they've got a bunch of French fighters on the card and I don't want to tip the hand too much in terms of whether they're favorites or underdogs, but they're not sending any of them out to get killed.

[SPEAKER_00]: which which is nice, you know, the French fans might have might have some things to be happy about at the end of the night.

[SPEAKER_00]: I kind of hope they're sad because I'm the guy that was here in Houston when surreal gone destroyed Derek Lewis and you could hear a pin drop in the Toyota Center.

[SPEAKER_00]: The other fight we lost that was mildly interesting, you nasi Dubin was supposed to fight the debut in Kennedy Freeman.

[SPEAKER_00]: That would be the daughter of UFC veteran Ian Freeman.

[SPEAKER_00]: Dubin's out.

[SPEAKER_00]: I don't think they're going to find another opponent for Freeman.

[SPEAKER_00]: All I know is, I saw Bella Meer fight down here in Houston a couple weeks ago.

[SPEAKER_00]: We could have Meer versus Freeman too in the UFC in a year or two.

[SPEAKER_01]: I know that.

[SPEAKER_01]: That was Bella's badass.

[SPEAKER_01]: She's pretty good.

[SPEAKER_01]: As far as this as far as this card.

[SPEAKER_01]: I'm with you man.

[SPEAKER_01]: I had it as an A until the Zion fight fell out because I was actually one of the best fights on the card so.

[SPEAKER_01]: for a fight nine, I don't think it'd be plus.

[SPEAKER_01]: I would say so too.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, a completely agree.

[SPEAKER_00]: This, and again, you know, the ZAM fight would, that's a big loss, but if the UFC's putting together cards that are not completely destroyed by the loss of one good fight, that's a good sign in and of itself.

[SPEAKER_00]: And with or without that fight, I think this is kind of the standard of what a UFC's road fight and I cards should look like.

[SPEAKER_00]: So good stuff, pick one fight for me other than the main event.

[SPEAKER_00]: actually other than the main in co-main to put in shrink wrap and make sure it makes it into the octagon on Saturday.

[SPEAKER_01]: All right, so those two that really jumped out to me.

[SPEAKER_01]: One, and I didn't guess this before he came to the OC, but he is actually one of the over.

[SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to go get Gustav Sin, fact for Dinoff.

[SPEAKER_01]: I'm Gustav Sin's maybe a believer, and I didn't believe before.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, that's the one I'd go with.

[SPEAKER_01]: That was one that was looking at for sure.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm with you on that.

[SPEAKER_00]: Aside from that, the other fights I'm most excited for.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's mostly one fighter.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm excited for.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm glad the UFC has a Lucena Cata.

[SPEAKER_00]: He's, you know, patricial people, so get no breaks whatsoever.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm interested to see what Cata can do in the UFC.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm interested to see, uh, where's Mattkins?

[SPEAKER_01]: What a weird matchup that is though.

[SPEAKER_01]: Like, people just beat Danny Gay gets his first UFC win.

[SPEAKER_01]: Now he's going to end in a territory take on a super hard prospect.

[SPEAKER_01]: What does that do for people?

[SPEAKER_01]: Like I don't get why he took that fight.

[SPEAKER_00]: Me either.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I think we'll let's just talk about it.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, because I have a few theories, but they're all just theories.

[SPEAKER_00]: We do have thirteen fights to talk about any other general thoughts on this card before we jump in.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, it's good.

[SPEAKER_01]: Let's do it.

[SPEAKER_00]: All right.

[SPEAKER_00]: First up, UFC Paris is a strongweight matchup between Sean Abannon and Sam Hughes.

[SPEAKER_00]: Bannon, the thirty-one-year-old Irish woman is seven and one overall.

[SPEAKER_00]: She's two and one since joining the UFC out of Invicta.

[SPEAKER_00]: She dropped her UFC debut at this point two years ago to Bruno Brazil.

[SPEAKER_00]: Since then, she has back-to-back wins over Alice Artilean and Puja Tomar.

[SPEAKER_00]: The most recent of those, the Tomar fight was back in March at UFC Fight Night Edwards vs.

Brady, that was a UFC London.

[SPEAKER_00]: and she arm barred Tomar in the second round.

[SPEAKER_00]: So she's looking for her third straight win in the octagon.

[SPEAKER_00]: In order to get it, she will need to get past Hughes.

[SPEAKER_00]: Thirty-three-year-old Iwan is ten and six overall.

[SPEAKER_00]: She's an even five and five since joining the UFC out of LFA.

[SPEAKER_00]: But five and five doesn't really tell the full story because she lost her first three fights right out of the gate in the UFC.

[SPEAKER_00]: And since then she's five and two and she has won her last two in a row.

[SPEAKER_00]: including her most recent outing back in March against Stephanie Luciano.

[SPEAKER_00]: That was at UFC fight night, Victoria versus Delizé, and she won a split decision.

[SPEAKER_00]: So she is also looking for her third straight win in the UFC.

[SPEAKER_00]: And she is comfortably favored to get it.

[SPEAKER_00]: I won't even bother quizzing you on this one.

[SPEAKER_00]: As Hughes is minus three ten, Bannon plus two fifty.

[SPEAKER_01]: Sam Hughes is minus three ten and a year C fight against the fighter who's one two and a row.

[SPEAKER_00]: or get someone who's one, two and a row.

[SPEAKER_00]: And on some level, I understand it a little bit.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's cool that Bannon has two wins in the UFC.

[SPEAKER_00]: Like I made fun and had some laughs at her expense, which you joined the UFC, just her profile photo in the short dog fight fighter.

[SPEAKER_00]: She looks like a rotisserie chicken.

[SPEAKER_00]: She wasn't that impressive to me in Victor.

[SPEAKER_00]: But, and especially someone who comes from a karate background and [SPEAKER_00]: definitely presents as a kickboxer, just see it or kind of get styleed on by Bruno Brazil.

[SPEAKER_00]: I was like, well, that's, she's not going to last, but she's at least good enough to sweep out the Alice Artileans and Pujotomars from the UFC.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm here for it.

[SPEAKER_00]: And none of her skills are really different than they were two years ago.

[SPEAKER_00]: She's more confident.

[SPEAKER_00]: She's more comfortable in the cage.

[SPEAKER_00]: And she's fighting.

[SPEAKER_00]: She's getting matched up down to a more appropriate level of competition.

[SPEAKER_00]: But Hughes ain't it.

[SPEAKER_00]: Like Hughes is unlike bad and Hughes is just flat out better than I thought she was.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I think she's improved since she's been in the UFC.

[SPEAKER_00]: She's one of those classic cases of [SPEAKER_00]: whatever we may say about the UFC's pay scale and their booking practices and everything, there is a definite step up when fighters from region the orgs join the UFC start making, you know, the, the twelve K, a fight and generally speaking are able to start training full time.

[SPEAKER_00]: She's just, she's physically stronger, she looks better, her skills are sharper, especially on the feet like I thought her striking was super super ugly when she got to the UFC.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's become at least functional and [SPEAKER_00]: I just don't think there's much here for Bannon outside of Pew's making a bad mistake or getting super tired and getting caught on the ground.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I don't think either of those things is going to happen.

[SPEAKER_00]: I think Bannon is probably going to try to fight it out, fight it on the feet against Hughes.

[SPEAKER_00]: I don't think Hughes is going to let her have it.

[SPEAKER_00]: Hughes is pretty good at just coming forward, pressing the issues.

[SPEAKER_00]: I think she's going to put Bannon on her back foot.

[SPEAKER_00]: I think she'll be able to force clinch exchanges against the fence where she can kind of beat her up, maybe drag her down onto the ground.

[SPEAKER_00]: Bannon's nifty arm bar on Pugetoma are aside.

[SPEAKER_00]: I still think Hughes has a better ground game than Bannon.

[SPEAKER_00]: I think she's physically stronger.

[SPEAKER_00]: I think this thing sees the final horn, but I think Hughes probably just wins all three rounds and makes it look kind of routine.

[SPEAKER_00]: I think it's probably going to kind of look like a women's straw weight fight where one person was a three to one favorite.

[SPEAKER_01]: Sorry about that.

[SPEAKER_01]: I had all these pop-ups out of my screen and I was putting on a confined screen where this was.

[SPEAKER_01]: I had to, I had to like remind myself that Bannon is from Ireland, because I sent them like, what a weird fight to have a girlfriend, Washington, fighting a girl from New Jersey.

[SPEAKER_01]: You know, in, in, in, like, boys, you're so Ireland.

[SPEAKER_00]: With that crispy blood hair and the.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it's totally some Jersey shore shit.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yep.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_00]: Like just, you know, and then say it.

[SPEAKER_00]: Same huge has that like Sarah Kaufman tan, you know, what?

[SPEAKER_00]: She's somewhere up north, but no, she's from Iowa.

[SPEAKER_00]: So yeah.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I was kind of baiting that, well, I didn't expect to be that big.

[SPEAKER_01]: I had a feeling that Hughes would, I was guess I'm not like two to one, and I felt pretty comfortable taking her.

[SPEAKER_01]: So I was already gave you a little more to pick, but as far as we got, I mean, Hughes has always been this, what box there is some good footwork, cuts, angles, real set up or shots, high output on the feet, quick hands, works by the nice Chris Jam, [SPEAKER_01]: You know, you're basically, you know, follow up across.

[SPEAKER_01]: She's been adding kicks a lot more into her game and she's been mixing with her punchy combination, which I like.

[SPEAKER_01]: She's a builder that kind of increases the violence as the fight goes along.

[SPEAKER_01]: Before I, she was kind of this, well, you know, this, this one-dimensional fight, but she's really turned into, I wouldn't call her a wrestler, but she's just sneaky take down on her just now.

[SPEAKER_01]: Usually, you know, close this in, it's working like that.

[SPEAKER_01]: She gets kicked out, she got kicked out, gets released, reed, is selling newness.

[SPEAKER_01]: She still needs to improve her defensive wrestling.

[SPEAKER_01]: That's something that she has a focus on.

[SPEAKER_01]: And I go back to the PR Rodriguez, take it down, let me take it down.

[SPEAKER_01]: But she has on top, I like her top control.

[SPEAKER_01]: If she's taken down, she works back to her feet.

[SPEAKER_01]: She has three submission wins on a record.

[SPEAKER_01]: And she has this winning streak.

[SPEAKER_01]: She has this high-quando fighter.

[SPEAKER_01]: She fights out of both stances.

[SPEAKER_01]: She doesn't move as much as you traditional.

[SPEAKER_01]: You know, Taekwondo style fighters, she'd more stands for him.

[SPEAKER_01]: Her striking, that's special, like her boxing.

[SPEAKER_01]: She lacks power because there's a lot of arm punches, she goes over extends on the shot, almost jumps at her opponent instead of keeping her base underneath her.

[SPEAKER_01]: She will attack with the same combination over and over again, as far as punching.

[SPEAKER_01]: She does have good kicks.

[SPEAKER_01]: She's, that's mostly her striking.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's a big kicking game.

[SPEAKER_01]: She was with body kicks from the south post dance.

[SPEAKER_01]: She has a good high kick.

[SPEAKER_01]: She likes to lead with kicks in the follow punches, which is something unique, which I like.

[SPEAKER_01]: She will close the distance or work on the clinch and look for some trips.

[SPEAKER_01]: And she gets on top.

[SPEAKER_01]: She has some busy ground up pounds.

[SPEAKER_01]: She's a weak defensive wrestler.

[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, it was nice to see.

[SPEAKER_01]: I got a submission in the last fight.

[SPEAKER_01]: I still wouldn't consider a submission artist, but she does have good cardio.

[SPEAKER_01]: So like I said, I'm with you.

[SPEAKER_01]: I like you, Sarah.

[SPEAKER_01]: Ben and has a big kick in advantage and he's probably the better overall athlete.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, a response is probably a better.

[SPEAKER_01]: I think the same use, but I still expect use to press the action, land the cleanest punches, work in the clinch, grind in the clinch, area that benefits comfortable, she won't feel comfortable against use.

[SPEAKER_01]: I think she grinds, I think she has some take-downs, give me a use by decision.

[SPEAKER_00]: Welterweights take the cage next at UFC Paris, as Andreas Gustafson squares off against Renat Fakridinov.

[SPEAKER_00]: Gustafson, the thirty-four-year-old sweet, is twelve and two overall.

[SPEAKER_00]: He is one and oh, since joining the UFC as a veteran of Brave CFKSW, and most importantly, in this case, Dana White's contender series.

[SPEAKER_00]: He fought on the contender series almost exactly a year ago, [SPEAKER_00]: Got a knockout, debuted in the UFC back in June at UFC three, sixteen, where he won a unanimous decision over chaos Williams.

[SPEAKER_00]: So he's looking to build on the momentum of that successful debut and he will need to get past Fakridinov in order to do so.

[SPEAKER_00]: Fucker Dinov, thirty-three year old Russian, twenty-three, one-and-one overall.

[SPEAKER_00]: Five-one-one since joining the UFC, also out of Brave CF, has yet to suffer a single loss in the Octagon, up to this point, and he has two straight wins since his majority draw against Elizeo Zelensky dos Santos, about eight months ago.

[SPEAKER_00]: He fought most recently, last October at UFC three-o-eight, where he won a unanimous decision over Carlos Leel Miranda.

[SPEAKER_00]: So he's looking [SPEAKER_00]: for his third straight win, his seventh straight fight in the UFC without a defeat.

[SPEAKER_00]: The line is razor close on this one.

[SPEAKER_00]: Your favorite is minus one fifteen underdog even money plus a hundred.

[SPEAKER_00]: Who are they?

[SPEAKER_00]: It's actually a softson.

[SPEAKER_00]: This one's super super close, but there are a couple of books where faculty novice plus money.

[SPEAKER_00]: There are none where Gustafson is so he's actually the slight favorite.

[SPEAKER_00]: You mentioned right off the top that you are coming around on Andreas Gustafson.

[SPEAKER_00]: Do you think he has enough to get it done here?

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, the first time saying like, why is this fight so low on the card?

[SPEAKER_01]: This probably should be, I don't know.

[SPEAKER_01]: forth from the top.

[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, it's the probably put people based on his history above it better than Bucalska's versus Craig.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_01]: Can we can we just like do that preview that fight right now and just get on with?

[SPEAKER_01]: You can, I'm going to, you know, I've seen a few minutes luxury ride and then don't tell the listeners that someone is really into the Paul Craig fight.

[SPEAKER_01]: They have to like just search for it.

[SPEAKER_01]: You know, if you're a totally Paul Craig fight, you should have to search three hours to find it.

[SPEAKER_01]: Make it like a warehouse wall though.

[SPEAKER_01]: That's awesome.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, with Paul Craig.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I mean, he's got a tough matchup, but if I could eat off, I mean, he's he's a really good fighter.

[SPEAKER_01]: He's an action fighter.

[SPEAKER_01]: He's he's nonstop pressure and he loves to slide the pocket.

[SPEAKER_01]: He wins big big shots.

[SPEAKER_01]: He throws really hard looping power shots.

[SPEAKER_01]: He swings wild and sometimes he'll overthrow his shots.

[SPEAKER_01]: But if he connects, he can knock you out.

[SPEAKER_01]: He's got a great check left hook.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's probably the best strike.

[SPEAKER_01]: He does good body work.

[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, he hurt Selensky, those sandals with body shots in the fight.

[SPEAKER_01]: He hit super hard.

[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, he's got eleven chaos.

[SPEAKER_01]: He was dropping Nicholas Stahlby, which is a good sign.

[SPEAKER_01]: he gets a lot he lands a lot of strikes because of his threat of wrestling he's a good wrestler and when he looks to wrestle he's he's tough to stop he has a good mindset to get the takedowns if when he misses he just keep wrestling we saw this he gets to be he's got six mission wins and he's subbed Kevin Lee wicker fast [SPEAKER_01]: And it's cardio held up against Dalby, which is, which is a bit of accomplishment, you know.

[SPEAKER_01]: Obviously he slowed down anybody who fights Nick, his top is going to slow down.

[SPEAKER_01]: But I mean, like, he didn't completely gas out, like you expect so many of Nick Dalby's, you know, opponents, especially, I mean, I know it was a super close split decision.

[SPEAKER_01]: But then, you know, against Carlos Leal, his card, it looked better, too.

[SPEAKER_01]: So, I feel pretty good about his cardio, which I was a shirt because it's down.

[SPEAKER_01]: Now, Gustavson, he's a really big guy for the way class.

[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, you tell him about gas, and now it's like the all-way type of stoom.

[SPEAKER_01]: He's on the output, on the gas, insane output.

[SPEAKER_01]: He fights very strategically.

[SPEAKER_01]: He knows that his pressure breaks guy.

[SPEAKER_01]: I want to say he literally never steps back, but Evan uses the word literally wrong, but might be true in the case of Gustafson.

[SPEAKER_01]: He throws a lot of hard strikes.

[SPEAKER_01]: He has eight teeth.

[SPEAKER_01]: There's a lot of the cumulative, but he does load up with every punch.

[SPEAKER_01]: He eats a lot of shots and he's been rocked a lot.

[SPEAKER_01]: That's because he doesn't move his head, but all this stuff he's moving forward, because he's trying to close the distance.

[SPEAKER_01]: He's trying to get to that claim.

[SPEAKER_01]: He has this Grecker Roman background where I think they seem.

[SPEAKER_01]: He was a Greco-owned wrestler like twenty years.

[SPEAKER_01]: I love them this last fight.

[SPEAKER_01]: He just was draping himself over his opponent, just having them carry his weight in time.

[SPEAKER_01]: He's not doing anything and they're like carrying, you know, probably a hundred pounds of his weight leaning on him.

[SPEAKER_01]: He's a very good clinch strike or nice knees, nice elbows inside.

[SPEAKER_01]: When he's not striking, he's looking for clinch takedowns and his cardio is off the jerk.

[SPEAKER_01]: I like both these guys a lot.

[SPEAKER_01]: I had a really hard time picking this up.

[SPEAKER_01]: I'm glad that the line is super close.

[SPEAKER_01]: Fuckin' you know, it has all the skills to be special.

[SPEAKER_01]: You know, if you said to me who's gonna be a UFC champion, I would go with Fakridinoff.

[SPEAKER_01]: If I knew nothing about MMA, I feel comfortable taking Fakridinoff because when you look at what they do, just watching this skill sets, Fakridinoff is one of jumps out to you.

[SPEAKER_01]: But when you look at two thousand twenty five or really the last five years or so and seeing what has really turned in and it's a lot of its pressure.

[SPEAKER_01]: That's what Gustaston does well.

[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, he's he just built different.

[SPEAKER_01]: He has this incredible mindset.

[SPEAKER_01]: So I keep foot back and back and forth and I might go to a go skill to like go like it tangibles.

[SPEAKER_01]: I'm not feeling good at my pick.

[SPEAKER_01]: I think, Gustaston's got a pressure.

[SPEAKER_01]: I think that pressure's going to walk into some big shots from Frencinov.

[SPEAKER_01]: Maybe some take-down, especially early.

[SPEAKER_01]: I think Frencinov will have a hard time holding Gustaston down.

[SPEAKER_01]: I think he wins the first round.

[SPEAKER_01]: I think Gustaston comes on hard in the third.

[SPEAKER_01]: It comes down to, like, does Frencinov have enough to get the second round?

[SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to say he does.

[SPEAKER_01]: And he has to hold off a surge from Gustafsing where he gets scary.

[SPEAKER_01]: I can even see a draw on this one, but it can be fair if we do enough.

[SPEAKER_01]: I'll say super close can be fair if I split the system.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm gratified to see that you see this fight so similarly to the way I do because when I first heard this fight announced, and then when I first then I started thinking [SPEAKER_00]: harder about it, you know, within the last couple of weeks, I expected to come down heavily on the side of faculty enough.

[SPEAKER_00]: I was like, he's arguably more skilled everywhere.

[SPEAKER_00]: He's more experienced despite actually being the younger guy in terms of age.

[SPEAKER_00]: I expected to pick faculty enough hard.

[SPEAKER_00]: And then as I actually started watching both of their last few fights and think about it, the fights likely to play out.

[SPEAKER_00]: Kind of like you.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm like, [SPEAKER_00]: This fight feels much closer than maybe it should in terms of raw skill.

[SPEAKER_00]: And it feels like exactly the kind of fight where Gustafson could just jump up and kind of do his thing.

[SPEAKER_00]: But I'm seeing it really similarly to the way [SPEAKER_00]: to the way you do, and you mentioned the Dolby fight for faculty enough.

[SPEAKER_00]: I think of that one, and I also actually think of the LSA as a Lesquito Santos fight, because the only reason that fight was a majority draw is because faculty enough was firmly in the driver seat, and then LSA, a couple were turned on the jets in the third round, whooped faculty knows ass and got a ten eight round on two of the judge's scorecards.

[SPEAKER_00]: That's why it ended up being a majority draw.

[SPEAKER_00]: The thing is, as bad as he was putting it on fucker didn't have any, and he was whipping him on the feet, he almost tapped him out a couple times, fucker didn't have like, he never quit.

[SPEAKER_00]: He never looked for the way out.

[SPEAKER_00]: The wheels never felt completely off, because otherwise, I mean, a lot of UFC, well, to wait, probably would've gotten finished in that situation.

[SPEAKER_00]: Like, easy to sense, this is a mean dude.

[SPEAKER_00]: That kind of is the last thing that makes me lean in the direction of your pick, where I think a fucker dean of does hold on and pull this one out.

[SPEAKER_00]: But this is an absolute banger of a fight like you.

[SPEAKER_00]: I was surprised at this low on the card.

[SPEAKER_00]: And there's every possibility that that changes between now and fight night.

[SPEAKER_00]: I just kind of [SPEAKER_00]: try to go with what the UFC itself has announced, allowing for whatever changes have been made in the lineup.

[SPEAKER_00]: But as of right now, this is the second fight on the card, and it is a fantastic one.

[SPEAKER_00]: I also have faculty and off by decision.

[SPEAKER_00]: Next up at UFC Paris, we head to the middleweight division for a matchup between the A'sless veteran, Brad Tavarez, and relative newcomer Robert Brecheck.

[SPEAKER_00]: Tovara's the thirty-seven year old Hawaiian by way of Las Vegas is twenty-one and ten overall.

[SPEAKER_00]: He is sixteen in ten since joining the UFC over fifteen years ago at this point as a cast member from the eleven season of the ultimate fighter.

[SPEAKER_00]: For those keeping track at home, I think we're on season thirty three or thirty four right now.

[SPEAKER_00]: Brad Tovara's been in the UFC for a long ass time.

[SPEAKER_00]: He of course has been a just reliable midcard action fighter and occasional fringe contender for much of that time, but has run into a bit of a tougher stretch of late.

[SPEAKER_00]: He's lost four of his last six fights, but he is coming in off a win.

[SPEAKER_00]: He's already fought once this year.

[SPEAKER_00]: It was back in April at UFC on ESPN Emmett versus Murphy, where he won a unanimous decision over Gerald Mirshard.

[SPEAKER_00]: That snapped a two-fight losing streak for him against Jun Jong Park and Gregory Hodrigas.

[SPEAKER_00]: He will look to make it two-in-a-row, pick up his first win streak in the Octagon in over four years at the expense of Breichec, who is still looking for his first win in the UFC.

[SPEAKER_00]: Thirty-five-year-old from Poland is seventeen and six overall.

[SPEAKER_00]: He's owned one since joining the UFC last year out of Octagon, MMA, and several other European promotions.

[SPEAKER_00]: He debuted as Eorbitaria at UFC Fight Night, her mansion versus Piper last February, coming out on the wrong end of a unanimous decision.

[SPEAKER_00]: He's been on the shelf ever since.

[SPEAKER_00]: He steps back in the cage here and is unsurprisingly the underdog.

[SPEAKER_00]: To Varus as minus two-twenty, [SPEAKER_00]: Brechek plus one ninety.

[SPEAKER_00]: Brechever is he's been in the UFC since he was twenty two years old.

[SPEAKER_00]: He was twenty one in the tough house.

[SPEAKER_00]: He just one of those super super young cats.

[SPEAKER_00]: It seemed like he was never going to get old.

[SPEAKER_00]: One because he's kind of like a baby face dude and two just because he kind of put put put put it along.

[SPEAKER_00]: He [SPEAKER_00]: Until about two years ago, he had been the UFC's de facto gatekeeper to the middleweight top eight or so for a full decade.

[SPEAKER_00]: There's something to be said for that.

[SPEAKER_00]: Like he's, he's made a great living for himself and his family out of it.

[SPEAKER_00]: He's got other ventures going on.

[SPEAKER_00]: If and when he steps into the sunset within the next couple of years, hopefully he's well taken care of and we don't see him boxing YouTubers, you know, later.

[SPEAKER_00]: things are starting to to slow down and they're the obvious things that we're always going to be a little bit of a problem for red to virus.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, his hands are slowed down a little bit.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, his once underused wrestling and ground game.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's only become spotier, but most important to me is he used to be reliably super durable.

[SPEAKER_00]: That started to slip.

[SPEAKER_00]: And so much of his game has just been built off of giving one and taking one in the pocket that once that was gone, hard hitting fighters really started to give him trouble.

[SPEAKER_00]: Just people like, you know, Bruno, so like, like, help.

[SPEAKER_00]: Bruno, so the ice branch of ours, that's probably Silva's best win in his entire UFC run.

[SPEAKER_00]: punching hard is almost the only thing he does well.

[SPEAKER_00]: Gregory Rodrigues obviously as well.

[SPEAKER_00]: Just guys are clipping bread to bars and he's now getting rocked every time.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's now possible to follow up on him and get him out of there.

[SPEAKER_00]: Having said that, it, bright check as an opponent.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's one of those ones where Tavara's would have to commit a huge defensive laps, make a big mistake, or just have aged in an accelerated manner since the last time we saw him.

[SPEAKER_00]: Because, bright check still, to me just presents this kind of a raw, brawler.

[SPEAKER_00]: You know, he throws hard, but [SPEAKER_00]: being built like he is at a hundred eighty five house he should hit hard, but I mean all the defensive lapses you could imagine doesn't throw in combination as well as he should just a guy that's clearly kind of been used to being able to wing power shots on overmatched fighters in central Europe and put him away.

[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know if I shared this ahead of his UFC debut, but [SPEAKER_00]: I was the admin of the sure dogfight finder database for a year and then J.

Petri took it over for me, but I've remained involved with it ever since and fighters from different regions will send us photos for there.

[SPEAKER_00]: Uh, you know, for their shirt off profile.

[SPEAKER_00]: If they don't have one, if they have just a little default silhouette, they'll send us a photo and say, or they're, their manager will send us a photo.

[SPEAKER_00]: And usually these fighters or their representatives, they read the assignment.

[SPEAKER_00]: They, they look at the fight finer and they're like, okay, ninety nine percent of these photos are.

[SPEAKER_00]: shirtless photos from the waist up you know we're in like you know sports bra top for women usually usually like right before fight like we want to not in street clothes and not all cut up and beat up he sent us our our choice of two photos but they were both of him standing shirtless and flexing in a waterfall they looked like they were [SPEAKER_00]: I won't get myself in any further trouble by saying what kind of dating site, but there were some of the funniest pictures we've ever been sent in such an unintentional manner.

[SPEAKER_00]: Bless us heart.

[SPEAKER_00]: I think Brad Tavara's probably wins a pretty easy decision here, but the thing is, [SPEAKER_00]: Tavar is still good enough at the stuff he does well, that if bright checks not up the stuff, I could see Tavar is knocking him out late just through an accumulation of damage.

[SPEAKER_00]: And in fact, that's what I'm going to go for here.

[SPEAKER_00]: Tavar is a smart guy.

[SPEAKER_00]: He seems like a smart guy outside of the cage for a quote unquote action fighter.

[SPEAKER_00]: He's always been a pretty smart fighter inside the cage.

[SPEAKER_00]: I think Tavar is can see [SPEAKER_00]: There are going to be many more matchups for me from here on out where I'm at this clear and advantage in my own wheelhouse.

[SPEAKER_00]: I think tomorrow is kind of turns up the jets and puts bright check away with the TK on the third round after winning the first two.

[SPEAKER_00]: Give me tomorrow is my third round knockout.

[SPEAKER_01]: Man, right, Jack's waterfall photos.

[SPEAKER_01]: So you, when I said mine in, I messed up the assignment to you, you said shirtless and I said didn't pantless.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, that like if you ever look at Keith's yellow photo in the firefighter, the reason it's it's crop down so small to him just destroying Mr.

Irons it's because he had no pants on and we're getting dinged by Google.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, doing the original MMA never change if you want to crop it out, you want to crop that much either.

[SPEAKER_01]: All right, let's get let's get into this fight like I did.

[SPEAKER_01]: I think this card is, is it I am, and it's not that I like want to disrespect these guys like bread to bars.

[SPEAKER_01]: I'm just, I'm sick of breaking down bread to bars fights and watching them.

[SPEAKER_01]: I'm like, I just wish the UFC would stop caring these like older mid-level guys that have zero chance of like making your run or like, he's not as exciting fighter or anything like that.

[SPEAKER_01]: Just like, why is he still in the roster?

[SPEAKER_01]: I think he's a boxer, he's technical, he sets up his shots with both faints.

[SPEAKER_01]: He throws your basic one, too.

[SPEAKER_01]: Pretty good at slippery and countering, but he's not as fast as he used to be, so that's a little bit of an issue.

[SPEAKER_01]: He was never a much of a power puncher.

[SPEAKER_01]: He is good outside, though he will throw it out in the pocket at times, which is a big mistake at this point, because defensively straight, he backs straight up.

[SPEAKER_01]: He's been playing his backing, it's a fence a lot, and [SPEAKER_01]: which is not a good thing.

[SPEAKER_01]: We saw that against Drinkist Juplenty.

[SPEAKER_01]: And honestly, his chin is, he's been hurt a lot, you know, I'm worried about the one day he's just gonna completely be gone.

[SPEAKER_01]: He's still got a good kicking game, a lot of kicks of the body, hard calf kicks.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's easy and underrated wrestler though, he really hardly ever looks for takedowns.

[SPEAKER_01]: He does have good takedown defense, you know, your traditional Jose Aldo type sprawl brawl type fighter, unrated grappling all together.

[SPEAKER_01]: But again, he's been knocked out recently and I'm where the chin just might be completely going.

[SPEAKER_01]: Now, Bryce, he's just how you out put striker.

[SPEAKER_01]: He sets his shots well with faints.

[SPEAKER_01]: He's got a nice, overhand, I say, overhand left.

[SPEAKER_01]: She didn't know.

[SPEAKER_01]: I'm sorry.

[SPEAKER_01]: Like a left hook, but then he throws like an overhand right.

[SPEAKER_01]: He throws hard.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, he does have good power.

[SPEAKER_01]: He's got eleven TKO's, but he's very wild.

[SPEAKER_01]: a very, very well, like not let not very technical.

[SPEAKER_01]: He completely abandoned it as a kicks against ear, petoria.

[SPEAKER_01]: He is heavy on his front foot, so he's open to late kicks, not much of an offensive wrestler, but if he does get to the face of the ground, he does have some decent ground [SPEAKER_01]: To me, I kind of view this fight similar in the sense, not in the outcome of how like, to verse gets a knockout or gets a stoppage, but more of, this is basically a measurement of, is Brett Tavar's completely shot or not.

[SPEAKER_01]: Because skill-wise, technical-wise, if, if, if, if Tavar's is anywhere close to not, not, not even prime, but like, Brett Tavar's from three years ago, he wins this fight.

[SPEAKER_01]: I'm leaning towards that he isn't completely terrible.

[SPEAKER_01]: And I say he kicks Bryce Cherk a lot and he wins a low output decision kind of a snoozer type fight where Bryce X is swinging and missing a lot and Tavar is just moving jab body kick.

[SPEAKER_01]: Maybe it looks a lot like the Wyman fight.

[SPEAKER_01]: Give me Tavar as my decision.

[SPEAKER_00]: Up next at UFC Paris is I think probably the biggest fight the UFC could make at Welterweight right now as it is six foot four Sam Patterson against six foot five tray waters Patterson the twenty nine year old Englishman thirteen two and one overall three and one in the UFC but worth noting that he's three and one in the UFC three and know what Welterweight because as bizarre as he sometimes looks as they six foot four Welterweight [SPEAKER_00]: He fought primarily at a hundred and fifty-five pounds in his regional career and in his UFC debut against Yenal Ashmoz.

[SPEAKER_00]: Ashmoz knocked him silly in the first round.

[SPEAKER_00]: That was two and a half years ago.

[SPEAKER_00]: Since then he has three straight wins at a hundred and seventy.

[SPEAKER_00]: The most recent of which against Danny Barlow was back in March at UFC fight night, cop versus Amabaya.

[SPEAKER_00]: It was Patterson's third straight first round finish after losing his UFC debut.

[SPEAKER_00]: He has become [SPEAKER_00]: rather than the curiosity and actual person of mild interest, but he's gonna have to get past waters to keep the good vibes going.

[SPEAKER_00]: Waters, thirty-year-old Floridian, nine-and-one overall, two-and-oh since joining the UFC as a veteran of season six of Dana White's Contender Series.

[SPEAKER_00]: He fought on the contender series back almost exactly three years ago.

[SPEAKER_00]: He got tapped out by Gabriel Bonfim in the first round that is still waters only [SPEAKER_00]: professional loss.

[SPEAKER_00]: He got signed to the UFC back in twenty twenty three.

[SPEAKER_00]: He's two and a no since then.

[SPEAKER_00]: That's the good news.

[SPEAKER_00]: The bad news.

[SPEAKER_00]: He's been fighting once a year.

[SPEAKER_00]: His most recent outing was back in May of last year against Billy Gough.

[SPEAKER_00]: He won a unanimous decision at UFC on ESPN Lewis versus Nassie Mento.

[SPEAKER_00]: So he's looking for his third straight win.

[SPEAKER_00]: Patterson looking for his fourth straight.

[SPEAKER_00]: Patterson is favored to get it done.

[SPEAKER_00]: He is minus one seventy.

[SPEAKER_00]: Waters plus one forty.

[SPEAKER_00]: I won't insult your intelligence or our viewers intelligence Keith by asking you whether you think Sam Patterson is a future champ at one seventy, but have metal in a bit of watch out.

[SPEAKER_01]: Here he comes.

[SPEAKER_00]: Well, or or Makachev, depending on what kind of show it happens.

[SPEAKER_00]: But does he get it done here?

[SPEAKER_00]: Is he, I mean, does he have some staying power?

[SPEAKER_01]: I think both guys kind of have staying power.

[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, Paul Craig sold the roster.

[SPEAKER_01]: So what does that tell you?

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I mean, like you mentioned, both guys are obviously monsters, petists, and six four, obviously long and lengthy.

[SPEAKER_01]: He's not a good athlete.

[SPEAKER_01]: He's flat footed.

[SPEAKER_01]: He's plotting.

[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, this is bad.

[SPEAKER_01]: He's a good athlete.

[SPEAKER_01]: He was six four.

[SPEAKER_01]: He probably [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know, playing, I don't know, what's a tall sport for English people.

[SPEAKER_01]: Bad men and something.

[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know.

[SPEAKER_01]: Is there a British people good at sports?

[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, it's a, what's your main sport?

[SPEAKER_01]: But whatever, it was a bridge, too.

[SPEAKER_01]: On the feet, he sets up shots, what was fates, he's got a long jab, he throws a lot of double jabs, throws straight shots, especially his straight right.

[SPEAKER_01]: He will throw some lead up, which is dangerous, but he's showed, he's got that tall net, or we saw they against Danny Barlow.

[SPEAKER_01]: The issue with him, and this is a major issue, [SPEAKER_01]: But he has a big defense, which keeps the chin high in the air.

[SPEAKER_01]: He pulls his head straight back and then goes side to side.

[SPEAKER_01]: He'll throw some naked light kicks.

[SPEAKER_01]: You do have to question his durability.

[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, go back to the Ashman's fight.

[SPEAKER_01]: Ashman's not dead.

[SPEAKER_01]: He will close a distance and battle and clinch.

[SPEAKER_01]: He's surprisingly an underrated wrestler.

[SPEAKER_01]: If he gets to the fight to the ground, he is a good grappler, a good top control.

[SPEAKER_01]: He has a bad defensive wrestler.

[SPEAKER_01]: He is, he has a submission threat.

[SPEAKER_01]: He has seven subs on his record.

[SPEAKER_01]: What is also a massive wealth away?

[SPEAKER_01]: He's six foot five.

[SPEAKER_01]: He's a bit of a low output striker.

[SPEAKER_01]: He likes to counter strike, likes to slip and rip.

[SPEAKER_01]: I guess, you know, Philly fast-hands.

[SPEAKER_01]: He has some really good power, big kicking game, hard kifts to the cast.

[SPEAKER_01]: He will drop his hands, but unlike Patterson, he, he, he, he showed the rules a lot, which also I'm not a big fan of, but better than that moving ahead at all.

[SPEAKER_01]: I am also worried about his durability.

[SPEAKER_01]: He's been hurting a bunch of fights.

[SPEAKER_01]: He likes to get takedowns, but he is very good at it.

[SPEAKER_01]: But he did show sol take down defense against Billy golf.

[SPEAKER_01]: He's a submission threat.

[SPEAKER_01]: He has three sums on his record.

[SPEAKER_01]: I'm not hired.

[SPEAKER_01]: He's the guy.

[SPEAKER_01]: I think they got a very similar.

[SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to go the upset.

[SPEAKER_01]: I'll go waters because he's of the two.

[SPEAKER_01]: He's more defensively sound.

[SPEAKER_01]: I definitely think Patterson has the higher upside of these two.

[SPEAKER_01]: But I still want to see more defense on them.

[SPEAKER_01]: So I say they both throw down.

[SPEAKER_01]: I say they both land bigger shots.

[SPEAKER_01]: I see Patterson lens, the cleanest shot.

[SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to see Patterson puts them out.

[SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to see how water is going to be.

[SPEAKER_01]: Water puts Patterson out.

[SPEAKER_01]: Give me water's my first round ticket.

[SPEAKER_00]: I like the pick.

[SPEAKER_00]: I wish I could follow you there.

[SPEAKER_00]: The thing that prevents me from doing so will.

[SPEAKER_01]: Because water isn't good.

[SPEAKER_01]: Is that what it is?

[SPEAKER_00]: If that's all it was, I might as well at least flip a coin, because like you say, neither of them is great, but the Patterson in particular is a little better than I gave them credit for.

[SPEAKER_00]: The thing that's concerning about waters is that he keeps going a full year in between fights and it tends to be due to injury.

[SPEAKER_00]: So I don't know what he's going to look like when he gets back.

[SPEAKER_01]: If it's the golfing, he should go longer away from fights like a really long way from now until eternity.

[SPEAKER_00]: Now until your next vacation at least, like, yeah.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's a golf fight where four months ago, I feel more comfortable taking the upset, but I just feel as though two fighters with some similar tools, some similar deficiencies, but I have a better handle on what Patterson's gonna look like in the cage on Saturday.

[SPEAKER_00]: With Waters, that's just one more question Mark hanging over his head.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm gonna go with Patterson here to win the decision.

[SPEAKER_00]: For what it's worth, I mean, you mentioned that the Tavara's versus Braitech fight might be a little bit of a slog.

[SPEAKER_00]: This one should be a hell of a lot of fun for however long it lasts.

[SPEAKER_00]: And considering that Patterson has recently been a three minute man, I think that since over in the first round as well, but I'm going to go chalk here.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to say Patterson.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to go with the club itself.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, two of them in his last three fights.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to say the swing wild in the pocket.

[SPEAKER_00]: Both of them have their heads way in the air.

[SPEAKER_00]: Patterson connects first, you know, maybe guillotine's waters in the middle of a of a terrible take down attempt, but I'll take Patterson by first round sub, but would not be surprised in the least if the upset plays out here.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, these are two wild dudes.

[SPEAKER_00]: We stay in the Walterweight Division at UFC Fight Night-II-Fifty-eight as recent McKee faces off against the debuting Axel Solo.

[SPEAKER_00]: McKee, the twenty-nine-year-old Irishman, is fourteen, six, and one overall.

[SPEAKER_00]: He's one and four across two separate stints in the UFC.

[SPEAKER_00]: He is one and two this time.

[SPEAKER_00]: He debuted in the UFC back in twenty, twenty, twenty, twenty-one, had the misforging of drawing.

[SPEAKER_00]: Homes at Shemayev when we were still just figuring out who that dude was.

[SPEAKER_00]: lost two fights in the UFC quickly, went back to Cage Warriors, won the Walterweight title.

[SPEAKER_00]: And since he's been back in the UFC, he's one and two.

[SPEAKER_00]: But for what it's worth, the one win was in his last outing.

[SPEAKER_00]: He faced Daniel Friends up back in April at UFC on ESPN, Emmett versus Murphy, and hammered him into a doctor's stoppage between rounds one and two.

[SPEAKER_00]: So he's looking for a second win in a row here.

[SPEAKER_00]: He's going to need to get past solid again.

[SPEAKER_00]: Sola, twenty-seven-year-old Frenchman, uh, ten-oh-and-one overall.

[SPEAKER_00]: This will be his, uh, UFC debut, but he is the outgoing Aries FC lightweight champ.

[SPEAKER_00]: Uh, hit the majority of his European career took place on a hundred and fifty-five pounds, but as you'll see, on way in the day when he walks into the cage, he's a big dude.

[SPEAKER_00]: He's not going to give up much size to most of your UFC, uh, Walter Whites.

[SPEAKER_00]: odds here fairly close, but solar is your slight favorite.

[SPEAKER_00]: He is minus one thirty McKee plus one ten coming back.

[SPEAKER_00]: I am glad that Rhys McKee finally got a win in the UFC.

[SPEAKER_00]: Like flat out, I am, like because he's a dude that just [SPEAKER_00]: He debuted in the UFC when they were scraping up anybody they could to fill these cards.

[SPEAKER_00]: Had a rough draws first time around, then they bring him back and the first two people they feed him are ons, Losa and Chidi and Joko Wani.

[SPEAKER_00]: They're trying to kill this man.

[SPEAKER_00]: He finally got a win, and he's almost even money to get a second win here.

[SPEAKER_00]: But the problem for McKee, well, there's a lot of problems for McKee.

[SPEAKER_00]: And it's not to say that they're unsolvable.

[SPEAKER_00]: He is still just twenty-nine years old, but his nickname is Skeletor.

[SPEAKER_00]: Like, if you name yourself Skeletor or your teammate's name is Skeletor and you don't do anything about it, that acknowledges certain things about your physique and your game.

[SPEAKER_00]: He's a six, I mean, he's six foot one.

[SPEAKER_00]: He is fought at one fifty five as well.

[SPEAKER_00]: He was lanky and thin at one fifty five.

[SPEAKER_00]: He's a little meteor at one seventy, but still one of his primary problems is he's just not very physically strong.

[SPEAKER_00]: Getting blitzed by Hamza, Shamiya is whatever.

[SPEAKER_00]: Shamiya was going to do that to a lot of people before it's all said and done, but he also got soundly out wrestled.

[SPEAKER_00]: by my professor Alex Morono in his next UFC fight.

[SPEAKER_00]: That's not a good sign.

[SPEAKER_00]: Like, I know that Alex Morono knows how to wrestle very well because I take lessons from them.

[SPEAKER_00]: But between being able to teach that and being able to do that on most UFC welter weights, there is a gap.

[SPEAKER_00]: That was not a good look for McKee.

[SPEAKER_00]: Then again, it's Losen and Jokawani.

[SPEAKER_00]: He would need stylistically if he's going to get wins in the UFC, you know, like mid to out kickboxing fights and just pick out out struck by bigger sharper hitters.

[SPEAKER_00]: Like, Axel Solot isn't much.

[SPEAKER_00]: But he's a hard hitter who throws good volume.

[SPEAKER_00]: I think he's going to chew me key up.

[SPEAKER_00]: And this fight is low enough level that I'm pretty confident soul is going to wreck me key.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I might even be willing to put down my neither.

[SPEAKER_00]: That's his that ends up being soul is last win in the UFC.

[SPEAKER_00]: I just, I, I spent walking the night.

[SPEAKER_01]: He'll never win.

[SPEAKER_00]: Neither of these guys ever.

[SPEAKER_00]: No.

[SPEAKER_00]: For when it's worth, I almost hope Solus stays at one seventy no matter what, but I think Solus probably knocks me key out here.

[SPEAKER_00]: I think both guys will land.

[SPEAKER_00]: Solus isn't that sound defensively, but he has more power per shot.

[SPEAKER_00]: He's at least as durable.

[SPEAKER_00]: And Mickey looked pretty mean in his last fight, but generally speaking, Solus just [SPEAKER_00]: I hate going for these intangible Dana White Tuesday night words, but he just seems like a little more of a killer.

[SPEAKER_00]: Give me solo by second round TKO here.

[SPEAKER_00]: The jury is still very much out for me at least on whether he's UFC material for twelve to eighteen months from now, but I feel pretty good about him getting the win here.

[SPEAKER_00]: I got solo by second round TKO.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, uh, uh, speaking of wrestling and wrestling coaches.

[SPEAKER_01]: Did you see my man bone nickel, uh, picking up the big weight on the real American wrestling.

[SPEAKER_01]: First wrestling match in over three years came back to gone, you know, multi-time all American Jacob Cardina's taking the win for my man bow.

[SPEAKER_01]: Uh, standing.

[SPEAKER_01]: Also speaking of Skeletor, they would say the time mine was died because of Skeletor.

[SPEAKER_01]: No, what happened?

[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, yeah.

[SPEAKER_01]: When I flaked, I don't know, like a toddler or something.

[SPEAKER_01]: My dumbass mom was a good idea to let her toddler, like play with play at the beach with his like he-man toys.

[SPEAKER_01]: And of course, I'm playing and I put my skeleton down and I'm probably playing with he-man and she wrote something.

[SPEAKER_01]: And then in the water brought skeleton, I'll have to see him.

[SPEAKER_01]: My dumbass doesn't follow him.

[SPEAKER_01]: Trying to get him back.

[SPEAKER_01]: And I could, I was like a toilet, I could swim and I was driving.

[SPEAKER_01]: There you go.

[SPEAKER_01]: There's my skills.

[SPEAKER_01]: Sorry.

[SPEAKER_00]: Come on, Marshall.

[SPEAKER_00]: And you should at least have gotten a Merman because Merman could have some one back to Toronto's own.

[SPEAKER_01]: Like, damn, well, come on.

[SPEAKER_01]: Um, I made shoes.

[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know.

[SPEAKER_01]: Well, I was like a third kid.

[SPEAKER_01]: Maybe she's trying to have that happen.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's too many people in the herd a little bit.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, it's intimate to many of them.

[SPEAKER_01]: People at the beach were like, uh, you kid's drowning.

[SPEAKER_01]: uh...

yet this fight uh...

and the key i mean he's a he's a really poor athlete he is you know he's a big long-length guy he tries to be technical he works kind of good jab got some nice step in shots uh...

he falls in big looping punches he throws big combinations uh...

he throws some hard caff kicks uh...

but he'll throw those kicks without a set up uh...

he's a builder he gets stronger as a fighter on unfortunately for him let's play and go on that deep could get his ass looked uh...

he is good for range but he [SPEAKER_01]: He gets sucked into a brawl, which isn't a good plan for him.

[SPEAKER_01]: His defense is bad.

[SPEAKER_01]: He stands tall.

[SPEAKER_01]: He doesn't move his head.

[SPEAKER_01]: You know, he moves straight back and set aside to side.

[SPEAKER_01]: He is open to the body because also, like when you put your head straight back and you don't move your feet with it, your body is wide open.

[SPEAKER_01]: He doesn't like being pressured.

[SPEAKER_01]: He wants to wrestle, but he's not very good at it.

[SPEAKER_01]: He'll shoot without a set up.

[SPEAKER_01]: He's a bad defense of wrestler.

[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, he was taking down, like you said, by ounce morale.

[SPEAKER_01]: He's, he's also not like Jim all head.

[SPEAKER_01]: He's like a hundred years old.

[SPEAKER_01]: He just had three subs on his record and he has carted to go deep in the fight.

[SPEAKER_01]: Alex Solit, he's so poor, nice jab.

[SPEAKER_01]: I say, okay, power.

[SPEAKER_01]: Maybe going to change away class and maybe that help.

[SPEAKER_01]: Hard calf kicks, not much of an offensive wrestler.

[SPEAKER_01]: If he's on top, he's got a good grind of home though, weak defensive wrestler.

[SPEAKER_01]: But if taking down, he's been inconsistent.

[SPEAKER_01]: Like I've seen one fight we get taken down.

[SPEAKER_01]: He gets back to the feet quickly.

[SPEAKER_01]: That's the one.

[SPEAKER_01]: He's terrible.

[SPEAKER_01]: So I'm not really sure.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I'm not that high in Solit either, but I'm still taking him here.

[SPEAKER_01]: Sure, he's beat up lower level guys, but he's kind of trashed some of them.

[SPEAKER_01]: I think he's fast to the McKee.

[SPEAKER_01]: I think he gets the better changes, but honestly, his name is Axel.

[SPEAKER_01]: My favorite band all time is Guns Arrosis.

[SPEAKER_01]: Like, I ain't been against Axel.

[SPEAKER_01]: It'll give me solo by second round TKO.

[SPEAKER_00]: Next up at UFC Paris is the only heavyweight fight of the night and less Sean abandoned is pregnant again and not telling us.

[SPEAKER_00]: It is March and Tibero versus the debuting on Tatalia.

[SPEAKER_01]: The last dust, a couple weeks, my wife has been everywhere I went.

[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, see, and I've never, we never did a Jersey.

[SPEAKER_01]: No.

[SPEAKER_00]: Tyvera, the thirty-nine-year-old from Poland.

[SPEAKER_00]: Twenty-seven and nine overall, fourteen and eight in the UFC.

[SPEAKER_00]: He's on a two-fight win streak since getting thrashed in his rematch with Sergei Spevak just about a year ago.

[SPEAKER_00]: He has back-to-back wins over genautogenes and Mick Parken.

[SPEAKER_00]: The most recent of those, the Parken fights was at UFC Fight Night Edwards versus Brady back in March.

[SPEAKER_00]: So he's looking for his third straight win looking to [SPEAKER_00]: show that even as he pushes forty and he will be forty in a couple of months, he's still very much a factor in the heavyweight top ten or twelve.

[SPEAKER_00]: Delia looking to prove that he belongs there in the first place.

[SPEAKER_00]: Long time stand out outside the UFC.

[SPEAKER_00]: Thirty five year old from Croatia is twenty five and six overall.

[SPEAKER_00]: Like I said, this will be his UFC debut, but he was a PFL heavyweight finalist in twenty twenty one.

[SPEAKER_00]: He was the PFL heavyweight champ in twenty twenty two.

[SPEAKER_00]: And after the PFL Bellator merger, he was right in line for title shot.

[SPEAKER_00]: He was supposed to fight.

[SPEAKER_00]: Not Nemkov, the his team of Moldowski, Valentin Moldowski, or no, sorry.

[SPEAKER_00]: He fought Moldowski and then he was supposed to fight Nemkov at heavyweight.

[SPEAKER_00]: He withdrew from that fight.

[SPEAKER_00]: I am not dead certain whether it was because of an injury or just because he's another one of the fighters who grew really dissatisfied with PFL after the merger.

[SPEAKER_00]: But for whatever reasons, his last fight in PFL was almost eighteen months ago.

[SPEAKER_00]: He requested and received his release.

[SPEAKER_00]: The UFC said, we're not ready for you yet.

[SPEAKER_00]: You need to prove yourself.

[SPEAKER_00]: And so this April, he went to Slovenia and he fought Southern New England Zone, Oregon to Castro.

[SPEAKER_00]: After that, forty one second knockout.

[SPEAKER_00]: Sean Shelby and McMahon are like very well.

[SPEAKER_00]: You may now enter the octagon.

[SPEAKER_01]: This will be his as you're ready for the you see like being you are getting the cash.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, so [SPEAKER_00]: It will be his introduction to the Octagon.

[SPEAKER_00]: It will not be his introduction to Tibera.

[SPEAKER_00]: These two fought each other already.

[SPEAKER_00]: And as luck would have it, almost exactly ten years ago.

[SPEAKER_00]: So, September, thirty is twenty-fifteen.

[SPEAKER_00]: They fought in M.

one global and I think it was for the, no, it wasn't for the title.

[SPEAKER_00]: But it was at least, you know, a title implications fight.

[SPEAKER_00]: It was over like two minutes because Delia broke his right shin on a checked kick.

[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, it's gruesome.

[SPEAKER_00]: The footage is out there.

[SPEAKER_00]: But yeah, he kicked.

[SPEAKER_00]: Tyborat, Tyborat checked the kick.

[SPEAKER_00]: Delia went down like a big Croatian Anderson Silva, like lower leg flopping.

[SPEAKER_00]: Luckily, it was March and Tyborough, so Delia didn't take too many more punches before the ref got there.

[SPEAKER_00]: But yeah, that fight even if it had happened a year ago, wouldn't tell us much about these two.

[SPEAKER_00]: This is yet another near pickup on this card, Keith.

[SPEAKER_00]: Your favorite is minus one-fifteen.

[SPEAKER_00]: Your underdog is available even money plus a hundred.

[SPEAKER_00]: Who are they?

[SPEAKER_01]: Tyborough is a favorite.

[SPEAKER_00]: it is actually to lia on to lia minus one fifteen or i mean he's he's on those those low hundreds and he did just be he wanted to capture he did just be you're going to castre i mean that's where that's where the push is coming from uh...

you know that they're like man to lia in the last two years is beaten more e-screen and you're going to castro he's ready for march in cyber uh...

that's exactly what they're thinking here [SPEAKER_00]: I've, I've wronged Marchantibera on this show.

[SPEAKER_00]: If, if you've been watching this show for the four plus years that we've been doing it, we've previewed a lot of Marchantibera fights.

[SPEAKER_00]: But I, I used to make the joke that not only did KSW not want to, but Poland won't even let him back there because he's like the least violent Polish fighter ever.

[SPEAKER_00]: I've come around on that.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's, it's not that.

[SPEAKER_00]: It, there's a real simple question.

[SPEAKER_00]: Can you wrestle?

[SPEAKER_00]: If you can wrestle and you want to sprawl and roll March and Tibera, you're probably going to do okay.

[SPEAKER_00]: If you can't wrestle, March and Tibera is going to sit on your chest and punch you until something bad happens.

[SPEAKER_00]: That's pretty much what it is.

[SPEAKER_00]: His record bears that out over like the past thirteen or fifteen fights.

[SPEAKER_00]: Like, what's his, what's his name?

[SPEAKER_00]: Sergei Spivak beat him on the ground and beat him on the ground quickly.

[SPEAKER_00]: But one, Spivak is even more of an example of this dynamic.

[SPEAKER_00]: And Tybori is, and two, Spivak might have wanted to prove something.

[SPEAKER_00]: But other than that, yeah, generally speaking, people that can stay standing and hit Tybori in the face a couple times hard have done well.

[SPEAKER_00]: Everyone else has done poorly.

[SPEAKER_00]: And the problem and the thing that makes us fight a little hard to pick and the thing that probably makes the line so close is that I'm not sure where Delia falls on that continuum.

[SPEAKER_00]: I know that left to his own devices, Delia would prefer to sprawl and brawl.

[SPEAKER_00]: Tyborah.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm sure he would prefer to have a fight with him on the feet and just piece him up.

[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know if he can stay up against him.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm leaning towards this light-up set here though.

[SPEAKER_00]: Like, Delia's been on the shelf a lot.

[SPEAKER_00]: Jokes about the Oregon to Castro thing aside.

[SPEAKER_00]: When that's one of two fights you've had in like the last thirty months, that's not, that's not great.

[SPEAKER_00]: Like, I feel more comfortable that I'm gonna know what, thirty-nine-year-old March-in-Tabura looks like in the cage on Saturday, then on to Delia, who's almost five years younger, but just has not been fighting decent competition in just way too long.

[SPEAKER_00]: I think this is probably a close fight, but I think Taibura ends up winning going away.

[SPEAKER_00]: I could see the league giving him some trouble early, like just catching him on the feet.

[SPEAKER_00]: Like Taibura tries to be fundamentally sound, but he's got slow hands and he gets clipped a lot.

[SPEAKER_00]: Luckily for him, he's very durable.

[SPEAKER_00]: I think he's gonna need it in this fight.

[SPEAKER_00]: I wouldn't be surprised at all if Taibura loses the first round, but give me Taibura to just crowd the Lea.

[SPEAKER_00]: Drape is [SPEAKER_00]: Tibera once he gets people down.

[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, it's like watching some animal planet video of a python swallowing a goat where they have to do the time lapse to hit two and a half hours for it to eat this thing.

[SPEAKER_00]: But there's never any question that the goat's gonna escape.

[SPEAKER_00]: I will get a little bit of that in the second and third rounds here.

[SPEAKER_00]: Whatever his faults may be and however old he may be, Tibera still has the gas to fight three rounds of a march in Tibera fight with no problems at all.

[SPEAKER_00]: I think he has to do that here.

[SPEAKER_00]: Give me Tibera to win two rounds out of three and to be clearly the fresher guy in the guy in control by the end of the fight.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, this fight.

[SPEAKER_01]: Man, I'm not interested in this fight.

[SPEAKER_01]: This feels like a fight that he had mine a PFL.

[SPEAKER_01]: Like, Tybor would be in the tournament and they'd talk it all off.

[SPEAKER_01]: Like, there was some huge fight.

[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, and they'd get like, they'd get, uh, Francis and Ghana won Zoom because he didn't bother to go to the arena.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I have to pretend he cares about the fight.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, how the winner will get Francis going on the biggest heavyweight battle of all time.

[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, he's well rounded.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, you know, he's he's never been a heavy hitter for heavyweight standards, but it does have I don't see high output, but he has like steady output for a heavyweight.

[SPEAKER_01]: He's constantly kind of moving forward forces upon not just back foot.

[SPEAKER_01]: He knows that like front kick.

[SPEAKER_01]: He wants to be the one.

[SPEAKER_01]: Pressing the action.

[SPEAKER_01]: He hates being pressure back himself.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, a fairly quick answer.

[SPEAKER_01]: I have you wait.

[SPEAKER_01]: He does, you know, follow his boxing into the clinch where he, that's where he really loves to do his work right in the clinch.

[SPEAKER_01]: He loves grabbing it onto hook and just pressing his opponent against the cage.

[SPEAKER_01]: He's really just about tying down his opponent.

[SPEAKER_01]: He'll drop down in a single and run the pipe and get a take down.

[SPEAKER_01]: He'll catch a kick and be throwable from the outside.

[SPEAKER_01]: He kind of just try to pull rush you to the ground.

[SPEAKER_01]: Good top game.

[SPEAKER_01]: He's a BJJ Blackwell.

[SPEAKER_01]: He's got each substance record.

[SPEAKER_01]: But he was someday a survey speed block pretty quick and pretty pretty slick.

[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, he's got really good experience with someone who's making his use.

[SPEAKER_01]: He doesn't feel like you're traditionally guy making his use.

[SPEAKER_01]: You mentioned that he broke his leg and he gets cyborr in the first bite.

[SPEAKER_01]: He's also a massive heavyweight, long and lanky, nice, long distant jab.

[SPEAKER_01]: He throws a big overhand rate.

[SPEAKER_01]: He throws a lot of uppercubbs inside.

[SPEAKER_01]: He's got good power.

[SPEAKER_01]: He can wrestle.

[SPEAKER_01]: He's very physically strong and grab a leg, kind of just drop down a leg and pick up and slam his opponent.

[SPEAKER_01]: uh...

from the outside of this big an idea to shoot on top of the outside but he he also will shoot without a set up with his concern if he gets a fed the gruddy he's got a good run out and he's also a good submission rc s seven subs on his record all but he will uh...

chase a submission and lose position uh...

try to take him down can tell we're taking that he does have some you know solitude on defense i'm not really having either guy anymore uh...

[SPEAKER_01]: I fucked up on this one.

[SPEAKER_01]: I could see Tyborr kicking, you know, kicking, delia's lace a lot, just kind of moving and kicking.

[SPEAKER_01]: I don't think you'll be able to grind into the clinch as much as he's been successful against other guys.

[SPEAKER_01]: I think it'll try.

[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know if he'll be as successful.

[SPEAKER_01]: I think delia actually has the power advantage.

[SPEAKER_01]: And he actually might be even, I don't know if he's a better wrestler, but like, I don't know who has advantage the rest of my, I should say.

[SPEAKER_01]: I'm not really sure.

[SPEAKER_01]: I can't flip flop back and forth.

[SPEAKER_01]: I understand why this is a close betting line.

[SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to say the power to Leah gives him a close to the decision when I'm going to say in his UC debut, he gets himself right and probably the UC rankings.

[SPEAKER_01]: Give me the lead by split the decision.

[SPEAKER_00]: Up next, at UFC Paris, this might be the top prelimit, it might be the main card opener, card is still kind of influx, either way, pretty good fight.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's Omar C for Super Interest in Hibato at Light Heavyweight.

[SPEAKER_00]: See, the twenty nine year old Frenchman is eleven and one overall.

[SPEAKER_00]: Two in one since joining the UFC out of KSW Octagon, Aries, several top-level European promotions.

[SPEAKER_00]: That's the good news.

[SPEAKER_00]: The bad news is that that one loss took place in his last fight.

[SPEAKER_00]: He fought most recently back in June at UFC on ESPN Usman vs.

Buckley, where he dropped the unanimous decision to Alonzo Manifield.

[SPEAKER_00]: That blunted the momentum of his wins over George Tocos and Darwin Jung to open his UFC run.

[SPEAKER_00]: So he's looking to get back in the win column here.

[SPEAKER_00]: He will need to get past he betto in order to do it.

[SPEAKER_00]: He betto.

[SPEAKER_00]: Thirty or sorry, twenty nine also, twenty nine year old Brazilian, seventeen and eight with one no contest overall.

[SPEAKER_00]: Two and three since joining the UFC out of season seven of Dana White's contender series.

[SPEAKER_00]: He's coming in off a loss.

[SPEAKER_00]: He fought most recently at UFC, three, sixteen back in June, where he got knocked out in the first round by Azamat Mirzakanov.

[SPEAKER_00]: That snapped a two-fight win streak for him, so he'll be looking to start another.

[SPEAKER_00]: He is not favored to get it done, as Omar C is the biggest favorite on the entire UFC Paris card.

[SPEAKER_00]: Minus four, twenty-five, Brencheson Hibeto, plus three, twenty-five coming back.

[SPEAKER_00]: I don't agree with the line being as wide as it is, but I do get why.

[SPEAKER_00]: Well, for one thing, and I think I said this ahead of his fight with Mercer Conov, he better buy the eyeball test.

[SPEAKER_00]: When you watch him actually fight in the octagon, he's better than his two and three record in the promotion would suggest.

[SPEAKER_00]: They've matched him rough.

[SPEAKER_00]: Like, Zhang Mingyang turns out to kind of be the real deal.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's starting to look like.

[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, yeah, he lost a Johnny Walker, but he also almost beat Johnny Walker.

[SPEAKER_00]: And if he did, he'd be in the UFC's top ten right now.

[SPEAKER_00]: Then he had to fight Azamatmura's kind of a couple months ago.

[SPEAKER_00]: I wasn't sure how much I liked Omar C.

[SPEAKER_00]: I like him now even even after the loss to men of field like he didn't lose that much ground for me just It's tough to beat along to men of field in a pure striking battle.

[SPEAKER_00]: He's an excellent kickboxer who's a very experienced tons of experience in the UFC That's a fight that may be see wins easily two years from now for all we know If I go with excellent, but okay You're gonna get to do it again.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yes [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, and I'm in a good mood.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's been a couple of weeks.

[SPEAKER_00]: Here.

[SPEAKER_00]: I think both these guys are going to want the same basic kind of fight.

[SPEAKER_00]: I just think it suits C better.

[SPEAKER_00]: He's a little bigger.

[SPEAKER_00]: I think he's a better athlete.

[SPEAKER_00]: Even though they're both good athletes, they both hit hard, but [SPEAKER_00]: I think C is probably a little more defensively sound.

[SPEAKER_00]: Just I think these guys are both going to get the exact kind of fight they want, but C is going to find he betto's chin sooner or later possibly sooner and he betto's not going to be able to come back from it.

[SPEAKER_00]: I do think it's kind of as simple as that.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I haven't seen much out of branches in he betto that makes me think that one [SPEAKER_00]: He'd be willing to spot that stylistic mismatch and to make any adjustments based on it.

[SPEAKER_00]: I think he's going to come out and fight a bridges and he better fight.

[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, this might end up looking a bit like the jungling young fight.

[SPEAKER_00]: Honestly, uh, see is another big striker.

[SPEAKER_00]: Only he's even bigger and maybe a little better than than the jungling young.

[SPEAKER_00]: Give me see by knockout late in the first round, but this won't be a real fun one for however long it lasts.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I'll go with C to win this fight.

[SPEAKER_01]: I disagree on the line just because of the, you know, the power of Romero, someone like that, you know, it's hard to be that big on the door because it has C.

Here's the guy that had a lot of hype coming in before the NFL fight.

[SPEAKER_01]: Obviously he lost a lot of buzz, but he's good at the fairly well-rounded.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's got some good footwork.

[SPEAKER_01]: He cuts angles well.

[SPEAKER_01]: He's a good boxer.

[SPEAKER_01]: He doesn't need to improve his output.

[SPEAKER_01]: He throws straight shots down the break.

[SPEAKER_01]: He does have good power in both of his hands, big kicking game, though he will throw some kicks without a set up.

[SPEAKER_01]: He's a good wrestler.

[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, he did take men to fill down.

[SPEAKER_01]: He likes to wrestle a lot.

[SPEAKER_01]: He's a very good grappler.

[SPEAKER_01]: Some slick backtakes.

[SPEAKER_01]: He's some mission readiness force subs on his record.

[SPEAKER_01]: If he, if he ends up on top, he lands hard, right, a pound.

[SPEAKER_01]: He's a bad defensive wrestler though.

[SPEAKER_01]: I'm surprised how, um, then he gives up take downs.

[SPEAKER_01]: He has a gas a little, uh, especially against done on John.

[SPEAKER_01]: I don't own John, I'm sorry if I'm saying his name on.

[SPEAKER_01]: Habero, you know, well-rounded, obviously, he's at that eighty-one inch reach that was gonna talk about.

[SPEAKER_01]: He wants to work from distance.

[SPEAKER_01]: You know, when he's pressing the action, he follows his opponents, he struggles to kind of cut off the cage.

[SPEAKER_01]: Very an Orthodox style of striking, very wild.

[SPEAKER_01]: He needs to improve his output.

[SPEAKER_01]: He tends to load up and try to land the perfect strike on every blow.

[SPEAKER_01]: The thing is, he's so big and long, he can land from, you know, [SPEAKER_01]: a mile away.

[SPEAKER_01]: He has a bit of brawler when he gets inside when he should be a point fighter from distance.

[SPEAKER_01]: He'll throw a lot of looping punches.

[SPEAKER_01]: He has a really big power though.

[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, he has nine TKOs.

[SPEAKER_01]: He knocked out Merzekan off.

[SPEAKER_01]: He mixes punches and kicks together well.

[SPEAKER_01]: He's got a great high kick.

[SPEAKER_01]: He's got some good team kicks, good calf kick.

[SPEAKER_01]: He has heavy on his front foot.

[SPEAKER_01]: He's open to lay kicks himself.

[SPEAKER_01]: He also keeps his chin high in the air.

[SPEAKER_01]: He's been knocked out in the past.

[SPEAKER_01]: He will wrestle, but he isn't great at it.

[SPEAKER_01]: I don't expect him to out wrestle, see.

[SPEAKER_01]: If he is on top, obviously, his huge host has, like, Johnny Walker, type Derek Lewis with a huge guy that they can grab upon because, you know, the force that they can bring down is incredible.

[SPEAKER_01]: He got six subs on his record, but he's a weak defensive wrestler.

[SPEAKER_01]: He also makes a worse result.

[SPEAKER_01]: Jumped Giateen, and if he's upon his back, he struggles to get back up.

[SPEAKER_01]: He's also gasped out a little bit in the past, but he's kind of looked better against Kyle Machado.

[SPEAKER_01]: I think it's a really good fight.

[SPEAKER_01]: He asked me what fight was I most interested in and I said, fuck, we didn't offer him some good stuff.

[SPEAKER_01]: And this is the one that I'm actually a little higher.

[SPEAKER_01]: I think Bulket has some upside.

[SPEAKER_01]: I see, see, I think is a guy that's a little more special, so I'm taking him.

[SPEAKER_01]: He has stopped dropped more than me.

[SPEAKER_01]: I don't think he looked good against men I feel, but I think [SPEAKER_01]: I kind of generally agree with your overall statement.

[SPEAKER_01]: I still think he will prove that he was what we projected he was in the past.

[SPEAKER_01]: He's one of the top contenders of the vision.

[SPEAKER_01]: I expect him to close the distance.

[SPEAKER_01]: I expect him to get hit by a barrel down and he's going to take him down.

[SPEAKER_01]: He's going to beat him up.

[SPEAKER_01]: I think eventually he's going to get a stoppage with Grant and Tom.

[SPEAKER_01]: I'll say C by third round.

[SPEAKER_01]: Grant and Tom stoppage.

[SPEAKER_00]: up next at UFC fight night two fifty eight and again this one might be a top prelimit might be the main card opener will see either way it's good one it is William Gomez welcoming Robert Ruschalla to the UFC at featherweight Gomez the twenty-eight-year-old Frenchman fourteen and three overall four and one in the UFC he started as UFC run [SPEAKER_00]: with four straight wins over in over increasingly stern opposition before running into hi-to-remel back in March at UFC fight night cop versus on a bay of he dropped the split decision to a meal so he takes a step back needs to reclaim his place as one of the more impressive young prospects in that division and he'll need to get past Rochalla in order to do that.

[SPEAKER_00]: Rochalla from Poland just twenty seven years old I was a little surprised by that he's eleven and one overall as I said this will be his UFC debut but he is the outgoing uh...

he's a former uh...

ksw featherweight champ uh...

he fought most recently back in no member [SPEAKER_00]: It was a, it was at the big KSW, one hundred like Bash, like one of the big stadium shows.

[SPEAKER_00]: But anyway, he got a third round TKO on the ground.

[SPEAKER_00]: He elected to kind of wait things out and come to the UFC where he gets a pretty stern test in his very first outing in the form of Gomez.

[SPEAKER_00]: And that is probably reflected in the line, which has Gomez at minus two thirty, Rochalla plus one eighty coming back.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm gonna flip this one to you first, but I'm gonna say something first, and I have no idea whether you're gonna agree, respectfully disagree, or tell me I'm insane, but I think you're insane.

[SPEAKER_00]: Well, okay, but specifically for this, if you, if you gave me a hundred bucks and said, okay, if it, if it, if it, if it, if it, if it, if it, if it, if it, if it, if it, if it, if it, if it, if it, if it, if it, if it, if it, if it, if it, if it, if it, if it, if it, if it, if it, if it, if it, if it, if it, if it, if it, if it, if it, if it, if it, if it, if it, if it, if it, if it, if it, if it, if it, if it, if it, if it, if it, if it, if it, if it, if it, if it, if it, if it, if it, if it, if it, if it, if it, if it, if it, if it, if it, if it, if it [SPEAKER_01]: Um, yeah, it's a like, I think who else is on my option.

[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, yes, Serogon.

[SPEAKER_01]: I Serogon.

[SPEAKER_00]: You got any.

[SPEAKER_00]: You got any.

[SPEAKER_00]: Serogon.

[SPEAKER_00]: Like, any mob off?

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_01]: I get, I can see, I can see gone getting like a interim panel one day because there's keep giving them tile shots.

[SPEAKER_01]: Uh, a mob off, and who else you say?

[SPEAKER_00]: Uh, Ben Washington, he is in the coming event.

[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, yeah, definitely not say to me.

[SPEAKER_00]: Uh, and it's because of the division as much as anything.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I mean, I had maybe I could move off just because he's how close he is.

[SPEAKER_01]: I understand what you're saying with governments, like the possibilities there.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, the one I wish it would be to be Morgan Sharrier, but I'm not putting any money on that.

[SPEAKER_00]: Just go on with his physical tools, the way he's been improving just in his time in the octagon, how young he is.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'd plunk down that hundred bucks on that future, even though right now I wouldn't favor him against any of the top five.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm just saying as an investment in the future.

[SPEAKER_00]: Anyway, I mean, tell me what you think of this one and who gets it done on Saturday.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, it is a little bit of a weird fight like Gomez on this random surprise.

[SPEAKER_01]: He's kind of putting in this fight similar.

[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, that's what we'll get to the, we'll get to the people fight.

[SPEAKER_01]: That's a really weird one, but nothing about you.

[SPEAKER_01]: But Gomez, I think what you said, he's, he's a South boy.

[SPEAKER_01]: He's on the feet.

[SPEAKER_01]: He needs more output.

[SPEAKER_01]: He's a little bit of a low output striker.

[SPEAKER_01]: He's good.

[SPEAKER_01]: He's a good kickboxer.

[SPEAKER_01]: He does hang his hands low.

[SPEAKER_01]: He kind of uses the counter strike.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, quick hands.

[SPEAKER_01]: The really straight shots on the plate has a good power.

[SPEAKER_01]: Big kick in game.

[SPEAKER_01]: He uses his length well with those team kicks.

[SPEAKER_01]: He'll throw some spinning attacks.

[SPEAKER_01]: He isn't a wrestler, but he can sneak in some take downs.

[SPEAKER_01]: Especially, I think a reactionary take down if he's pressured too much.

[SPEAKER_01]: So we're trying to close the distance on him.

[SPEAKER_01]: He's got a very good top game.

[SPEAKER_01]: He showed good take down defense against Francis Marshall in their fight.

[SPEAKER_01]: He needs to improve his get-up game though if he gets taken down and I mean, you know, in a scenario I think is a really good fighter.

[SPEAKER_01]: He showed good submission defense against show and a pretty no.

[SPEAKER_01]: So there's a lot of things like Rochella, you know, former KSW champion so you like that coming and someone that kind of peter you coming and you'll see.

[SPEAKER_01]: He switched his stance a lot on orthodox striker kind of like herky jerk, his style a little wild.

[SPEAKER_01]: He likes spinning attacks, uses a lot of faints, a lot of kicks, who kind of just flick kicks out there so easily.

[SPEAKER_01]: He will throw them, but sometimes they'll throw them without a set up.

[SPEAKER_01]: He likes space, he doesn't want to be pressured back.

[SPEAKER_01]: He doesn't defensive.

[SPEAKER_01]: He keeps his chin too high in the air.

[SPEAKER_01]: He pulls his head straight back.

[SPEAKER_01]: He will look for take downs, but no setup on his entries.

[SPEAKER_01]: He's got three subs on his record.

[SPEAKER_01]: He needs a weak defensive wrestler.

[SPEAKER_01]: You know, usually like KSW champ, then he's I think he's only an interim champion.

[SPEAKER_01]: But I'm not that presser of Shala.

[SPEAKER_01]: Like, I don't like use these like good.

[SPEAKER_01]: I think Gomez is way more technical, more polished.

[SPEAKER_01]: I think he picks up him apart from range.

[SPEAKER_01]: I think when Shala crashed the park, I think Gomez got to land take those.

[SPEAKER_01]: And I think it was kind of crazy.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's give me Gomez in a pretty easy decision.

[SPEAKER_01]: What was the odds in this fight?

[SPEAKER_00]: He said, Gomez is minus two, thirty.

[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_01]: I first close over to locked it, but I lost over that big.

[SPEAKER_01]: But yeah, Gomez goes and goes by decision.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I agree.

[SPEAKER_00]: I agree with your assessment of Gomez, but yeah, at twenty eight and just barely twenty eight, the things that are quote unquote wrong with his game are ones that I could see working themselves out over the next couple of years.

[SPEAKER_00]: I could see that that Hyderamil fight being one where [SPEAKER_00]: He takes stuff back to the drawing board.

[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, you mentioned that one of his big issues at this point is that he doesn't throw in a volume.

[SPEAKER_00]: He either meal does not have that issue and that's, I mean, that's what at least one of the rounds in that fight really pinched on was like neither guy really hurt the other that badly, but that meals coming forward, forcing the issue like out throwing him two to one in a real close round that was enough.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I like his physical tools.

[SPEAKER_00]: I like how well rounded he is at this point.

[SPEAKER_00]: Good, you know, good wrestling, especially in transition heavy top game.

[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, for a fighter from the role of these from.

[SPEAKER_00]: I like Rushala being in the UFC.

[SPEAKER_00]: He is a very KSW fighter.

[SPEAKER_00]: He's even younger than Gomez, but this is going to sound like a double standard, but even though he's like a year younger, he's just twenty seven.

[SPEAKER_00]: He has been the same wild man for so long.

[SPEAKER_00]: He was doing this wild man shit in KSW, where a smaller Polish promotion, but he was like twenty.

[SPEAKER_00]: He may just be who he is.

[SPEAKER_00]: He likes, he likes space.

[SPEAKER_00]: He's a long, tall, long, limbed featherweight.

[SPEAKER_00]: He likes space because he likes through spinning stuff.

[SPEAKER_00]: Honestly, that was his one brief flirtation with Glory when he fought solidine Parnas like two years ago.

[SPEAKER_00]: He hit Parnas with his gorgeous like spinning back drop, dropped him.

[SPEAKER_01]: I think it's more off-knowledge.

[SPEAKER_01]: He was kind of back away from the spinning attack.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, but it was enough to get the radical.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, crowd, but crowd went nuts, but.

[SPEAKER_00]: Pronoss, well, for one thing, Pronoss is one of the best fighters in that weight range outside the UFC right now, but he's just been everywhere and he.

[SPEAKER_00]: He came back quickly, really started to put it on Rochalla and and wrecked him by the end.

[SPEAKER_00]: I think the skills disparity between these two is going to be similar here.

[SPEAKER_00]: Like, Gomez and Pernas are not the same fighter, but like the gap in skills where Gomez is arguably better everywhere is going to be similar.

[SPEAKER_00]: The difference here will be that Gomez only has three rounds to work with and Gomez just doesn't step on the gas as hard as Saladin Pernas does.

[SPEAKER_00]: My long way around to saying, I'm picking it the same way you are, uh, Gomez wins this pretty easily.

[SPEAKER_00]: And unless Rochalla nails him with something wild and hilarious, there won't even be much suspense about it.

[SPEAKER_00]: I got Gomez by decision as well.

[SPEAKER_00]: We stay in the featherweight division at UFC fight night two fifty eight as Petricio Pippel for a day.

[SPEAKER_00]: Welcome to Los Angeles any case at the UFC.

[SPEAKER_00]: Pippel the thirty eight year old Brazilian is thirty seven and eight overall.

[SPEAKER_00]: He is now one and one since joining the UFC kind of at the beginning of this year as [SPEAKER_00]: Bellator's greatest ever homegrown talents and for much of the last eight or ten years, you know, arguably the best fighter outside the UFC at any weight.

[SPEAKER_00]: However, you assess that since he's been in the UFC this year, he has a unanimous decision lost to AIER Rodriguez in his debut back in April and then a unanimous decision win over Dan Egae in his sophomore appearance back in July at UFC three eighteen.

[SPEAKER_00]: So people [SPEAKER_00]: And you know what, I normally say what these fighters are looking to do.

[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know what Pitbull's looking to do.

[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know if he's looking to catch a few more checks for he swings off into the sunset.

[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know if he's looking to make a last minute run at the title.

[SPEAKER_00]: I have no idea, but [SPEAKER_00]: I'm almost certain he's looking to get a win on Saturday and it's going to have to come against Lucena Cata who is the new exciting signing by the UFC in this division.

[SPEAKER_00]: Twenty seven year old Belgian.

[SPEAKER_00]: I believe he's originally from the Congo, but you know, been fighting out of Belgium forever.

[SPEAKER_00]: He is sixteen and one overall.

[SPEAKER_00]: He fought.

[SPEAKER_00]: He is a former octagon featherweight champ.

[SPEAKER_00]: He fought most recently back in December.

[SPEAKER_00]: getting a second round TKO of Ronald Paradezer.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'll say right out, Kata's favorite to win this fight.

[SPEAKER_00]: He's minus two hundred.

[SPEAKER_00]: Pitbull plus one seventy.

[SPEAKER_00]: Adding a bit of interest to this is the fact that this fight is taking place at Featherweight.

[SPEAKER_00]: Los Enicaeta is the former Octagon Featherweight champ, but he [SPEAKER_00]: vacated that title over a year ago and his last three fights have all been at the hundred and fifty five pounds.

[SPEAKER_00]: When you see him on the scale.

[SPEAKER_00]: At the or at the, you know, ceremonial way ends when you see him in the cage on Saturday, that'll make sense to you.

[SPEAKER_00]: He's a muscular dude at any rate.

[SPEAKER_00]: So that adds a little bit of intrigue.

[SPEAKER_00]: The fight before the fight is going to be to see how comfortably KTek can make his old weight limits ahead of his UFC debut.

[SPEAKER_00]: But yeah, KTek minus two hundred people plus one seventy.

[SPEAKER_00]: Keith, I'm really excited to have LoCentica in the UFC.

[SPEAKER_00]: I end up following [SPEAKER_00]: KSW and Cage Warriors and Octagon, at least on a surface level, just because, you know, I do all the video production for sure dogs, so I end up producing all of Shonshians, European stuff.

[SPEAKER_00]: But if somebody had asked me to...

Never heard of it.

[SPEAKER_01]: I heard a Shonshian, but this year I'm a place, and I heard of that place.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's this little island.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_00]: If you'd ask me to say, yeah, this time last summer to give me a list of top five European regional champs or prospects I'd like to see fighting in North America, I might not have put Kate on the list just because he was so young and had so much upside and was doing so well in octagon, like packing stadiums.

[SPEAKER_00]: That's not realistic.

[SPEAKER_00]: Let's try for him again in three years.

[SPEAKER_00]: So I'm surprised to see him in the UFC, but I'm excited.

[SPEAKER_00]: I think he's a very good fighter who probably still has room to improve and he's a generally exciting one.

[SPEAKER_00]: Should be fun times.

[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, let me know what you think of the signing.

[SPEAKER_00]: Let me know what you think of this fight and who you think gets it done.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, I would say there's a lot of buzz in this guy.

[SPEAKER_01]: Would you say he was, he was how big of a female?

[SPEAKER_00]: Minus two hundred.

[SPEAKER_01]: minus two hundred men like he's he's coming in to you to the uh...

you see and uh...

yeah two-to-one favorite to beat someone who just beat Danny gay yeah so they go and you know obviously the you know are you with the greatest fighter in uh...

belt or he i'm not i shouldn't say are you it's he really is the greatest fighter in belt history yeah based on basically what they did in belt on the other relations [SPEAKER_01]: Man, not a pressure on the kid though.

[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, but then on the thing, since I'm like, like I said at the top, I thought it was really weird matchmaking because what does Pitbull game by winning us?

[SPEAKER_01]: He wins.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's, yeah, he beats somebody.

[SPEAKER_01]: Some guy never had a play, but it's almost, you know, the average UC fans are gonna say, you know?

[SPEAKER_01]: And if you wins, it's a better win than Danny Gad, at this point probably.

[SPEAKER_01]: Now, I'm glad that Pitbull got a UC win.

[SPEAKER_01]: I still think he's passed his prime, but he showed he's still good.

[SPEAKER_01]: Danny Gay is still a good win.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, he's a pressure shaker, but his, his volume has greatly declined.

[SPEAKER_01]: He was gunshot against Javier Rodriguez.

[SPEAKER_01]: It was better against any gay.

[SPEAKER_01]: Obviously, it was a lot of grappling with that fight, but something I'd like to see a little more.

[SPEAKER_01]: I think he lost some handspeed, but he could still crack.

[SPEAKER_01]: He can identify with a strike with either one of his hands.

[SPEAKER_01]: He still springs forward.

[SPEAKER_01]: Um, throw some serious power hooks.

[SPEAKER_01]: He's got some thudding kicks.

[SPEAKER_01]: He's like, and I said this before the Danny gay fight, and I said it, I said, I hope to see him wrestle Danny gay.

[SPEAKER_01]: That would be a good out of victory.

[SPEAKER_01]: That he did.

[SPEAKER_01]: I think he's a grossly underrated grappler.

[SPEAKER_01]: I think he's an underrated wrestler.

[SPEAKER_01]: He does good to get the claims to get inside trips, but he can also let me start against it.

[SPEAKER_01]: He gives a shoot take down from the outside.

[SPEAKER_01]: He took, he gave down five times.

[SPEAKER_01]: Good top game.

[SPEAKER_01]: He has a submission threat.

[SPEAKER_01]: I love his guillotine.

[SPEAKER_01]: He does play BJD too much when he's on his own back.

[SPEAKER_01]: But he's like I was back.

[SPEAKER_01]: We saw that against Rodriguez.

[SPEAKER_01]: He spent a lot of time in a still almost like court of submission off his back.

[SPEAKER_01]: I am worried of his durability.

[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, obviously he's been worse forever.

[SPEAKER_01]: He's guy who's going up the lightweight before coming.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, most of his careers at featherweight.

[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know if that's a good thing for him at this point in his career.

[SPEAKER_01]: I think he's so many might be actually better if you moved up, but [SPEAKER_01]: He's been knocked out a couple times.

[SPEAKER_01]: He's been knocked up.

[SPEAKER_01]: He's been rocked a bunch of times and he's taken a lot of damage over there.

[SPEAKER_01]: Even his guys suddenly can completely fall apart and obviously get to the kind of guy that can do that.

[SPEAKER_01]: Now, Kira, when you watch this guy, there's a lot of things like these fast, really nice snap on his shots.

[SPEAKER_01]: He attacks with big combinations where he comes at his springs and he throws like four or five punch.

[SPEAKER_01]: uh, blows he has massive power because he really steps into his shots.

[SPEAKER_01]: He loads up on everything.

[SPEAKER_01]: He throws a lot of looping shots, a lot of looping hooks, a lot of overhand rides.

[SPEAKER_01]: He will eat a shot because he stands directly in front of the opponent and just kind of holds his garnish on swinging wildly.

[SPEAKER_01]: Very like, vandaly silver type, like, [SPEAKER_01]: in that where he just I'm going to swing wildly and I'm going to be faster and hit harder and, you know, maybe even like a prime mentally eight a lot of shots.

[SPEAKER_01]: Go back to his last fight.

[SPEAKER_01]: He was dropped in his last fight.

[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, it was more than the most [SPEAKER_01]: brutal shot, but he was, you know, he did, they get clipped and dropped briefly.

[SPEAKER_01]: I like his step in ease.

[SPEAKER_01]: I like that a lot.

[SPEAKER_01]: He'll throw us in spinning attacks.

[SPEAKER_01]: Not much of an offensive wrestler.

[SPEAKER_01]: He's a weaker defensive wrestler and we get up game.

[SPEAKER_01]: No substance record.

[SPEAKER_01]: So as far as prediction goes, [SPEAKER_01]: I don't understand this line.

[SPEAKER_01]: Obviously, here I could crush people with a single blow.

[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, he's got that kind of power with that kind of special.

[SPEAKER_01]: And obviously, I think Vegas is also betting on that.

[SPEAKER_01]: This isn't pit bull from five years ago.

[SPEAKER_01]: And I think that's fair to say.

[SPEAKER_01]: I think we all agree.

[SPEAKER_01]: This isn't pit bull for five years ago.

[SPEAKER_01]: But people still have really data is fighting for anybody at any time.

[SPEAKER_01]: Especially someone making his UC debut in that area of the world where you're super popular.

[SPEAKER_01]: He's coming from KSW.

[SPEAKER_01]: So it's not like he's not used to huge crowds and pressure and everything.

[SPEAKER_01]: But still, I don't care what he says.

[SPEAKER_01]: The UC is still different.

[SPEAKER_01]: I don't care who you are.

[SPEAKER_01]: I can see people just doing exactly the same thing he did against Danny Gay.

[SPEAKER_01]: I think he could get the fight to the ground, take the down, and beat him up to the ground.

[SPEAKER_01]: Say what you want to do?

[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, people, he's not a dumb fighter.

[SPEAKER_01]: He knows when to take chances.

[SPEAKER_01]: He's had fights where you see him just come out wrestling.

[SPEAKER_01]: I think he had to make some mistake and he does these big blows and people times him coming in and takes him down.

[SPEAKER_01]: I think he starts getting beat up.

[SPEAKER_01]: I think he makes me say, I'm going to say, people subsome.

[SPEAKER_01]: Give me people by third round sub.

[SPEAKER_01]: This is my upside that I [SPEAKER_01]: But wait a second, I don't make upset on the night calls.

[SPEAKER_01]: I do locks the night.

[SPEAKER_01]: So let's do it.

[SPEAKER_01]: I'm locking it in, dude.

[SPEAKER_01]: I'll call the biggest, I don't know if I've been dead a big upset.

[SPEAKER_01]: I'm picking a huge upset win and I'm locking it in the night.

[SPEAKER_01]: This is disrespect to put people, this big upset against a guy.

[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, I know this guy is special and everything.

[SPEAKER_01]: Put give me break.

[SPEAKER_01]: This is still pitiful.

[SPEAKER_01]: This ain't, this ain't patrickey.

[SPEAKER_01]: This is pitiful.

[SPEAKER_01]: I'm locked at him.

[SPEAKER_01]: This is my upset.

[SPEAKER_01]: Locker than I bet the house on it.

[SPEAKER_01]: Give me people.

[SPEAKER_00]: I like it.

[SPEAKER_00]: We're two for two.

[SPEAKER_00]: I got people here and you cut right to the heart of it.

[SPEAKER_00]: People is not a dumb fighter at all.

[SPEAKER_00]: For the several years there, just he and [SPEAKER_00]: Alex Vulcanovsky were just kind of like puttering along in parallel like these undersized but athletic extremely well rounded fighters that just fought extremely smart and brilliantly every time out.

[SPEAKER_00]: he's even as the physical tools might be eroding a bit he still has a rest of that and I agreed this is a weird fight like that doesn't seem to do much for him I said I had some guesses about that when we were introducing the whole card there's a couple possibilities one [SPEAKER_00]: Which is your people is kind of a salty guy in a bit of a loose cannon.

[SPEAKER_00]: He made us to pissed off somebody at the UFC.

[SPEAKER_00]: Like, uh, Dana White is said, and certainly Joe Silva, I assume had this on a plaque on his desk.

[SPEAKER_00]: If you don't like, you know, if you don't like the fight off, or you're definitely not going to like the next fight out for you, he made just to piss somebody off.

[SPEAKER_00]: The other side of it is, he may want to fight like this.

[SPEAKER_00]: He is a supremely confident guy.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's the same thing I said about Aaron Pico ahead of his, you know, UFC debut where he was going to fight moves, or I have a lawyer, and then, you know, and then he ended up fighting the guy I thought a couple of weeks ago.

[SPEAKER_00]: I get, yeah, thank you.

[SPEAKER_00]: I could totally see people like turning down easier fights, you know, or ones with a better risk reward ratio, because however smart he is in the cage, again, just a supremely confident guy outside of it.

[SPEAKER_00]: But Kate says the real deal.

[SPEAKER_00]: I do think at the very least he's a guy that could stick around for a good while here.

[SPEAKER_00]: I think there's a possibility he's a future contender in one of these divisions, but the matchup of [SPEAKER_00]: Pit bulls offensive wrestling and top position grappling against Cate's take down defense is concerning and then on top of that you've got Cate's a fighting in the UFC for the first time and dropping back down to further weight for the first time in three fights almost a year and a half.

[SPEAKER_00]: all those unknowns.

[SPEAKER_00]: Push me further and further in the direction of the upset here.

[SPEAKER_00]: I've got the exact same call as you.

[SPEAKER_00]: People takes down Kate to early and often makes it look surprisingly easy.

[SPEAKER_00]: Kate will absolutely have in moments on the feet.

[SPEAKER_00]: You know, he fast.

[SPEAKER_00]: He hit super hard.

[SPEAKER_00]: He throws in combination.

[SPEAKER_00]: You know, people's going to have his work cut out for him, but I think he gets Kate to down in at least two out of the three rounds and in round three when he gets him down.

[SPEAKER_00]: Kate said, maybe beat up, maybe just tired, maybe sat by the cut.

[SPEAKER_00]: People really goes to work and we get a round three tap out.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's unanimous.

[SPEAKER_00]: Light heavy weights are up next at UFC Paris as modest as Bucalskas faces off against Paul Craig.

[SPEAKER_00]: Bucauscus, the thirty one year old Lithuanian by way of England is eighteen and six overall.

[SPEAKER_00]: He is six and four across two separate stints in the UFC.

[SPEAKER_00]: Six and four doesn't sound that great, but worth noting that he is five and one since being back this time.

[SPEAKER_00]: He joined the UFC back.

[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, what was it?

[SPEAKER_00]: About twenty twenty as the outgoing cage warriors light heavyweight champ.

[SPEAKER_00]: Lost three in a row and got cut, went back, won the case where you're title again, got called back to the UFC, about two and a half years ago.

[SPEAKER_00]: Again, since being back, he is five and one with the only loss coming to V Torpetrino.

[SPEAKER_00]: Since the Betrino loss, he has three straight wins over March and Procneo, Rafael Cercada, and it is most recent outing at UFC three, fifteen back in May.

[SPEAKER_00]: He won Kudalaba, over whom he won a split decision.

[SPEAKER_00]: So, Bucascus.

[SPEAKER_00]: Looking to pick up his fourth straight win, go six and one since being resigned to the UFC and against all appearances five years ago, maybe become a ranked fighter in this division and start cruising towards bigger and better things.

[SPEAKER_00]: He's going to have to get past Craig in order to do so though.

[SPEAKER_00]: Craig, thirty seven year old Scott, seventeen nine and one with one no contest overall.

[SPEAKER_00]: He is an even nine nine and one in the UFC with one no contest.

[SPEAKER_00]: That one no contest was in his most recent outing where he hit a doffle ballado with an illegal up kick back in June.

[SPEAKER_00]: The fight ended up being declared a no contest.

[SPEAKER_00]: That's almost good news for Craig because that at least snapped a three-fight losing streak for him.

[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, that fight aside, he's lost five of his last six.

[SPEAKER_00]: So it's an exact mirror of Bucalcus' recent run.

[SPEAKER_00]: But yeah, Craig's ship has been taking on water for a couple of years now.

[SPEAKER_00]: He steps back into the cage here and looking for his first win since July of twenty twenty three.

[SPEAKER_00]: He is not favorite to get it as Bucascus is the second biggest favorite on the card.

[SPEAKER_00]: He is minus three fifty Craig plus two eighty.

[SPEAKER_00]: Keith I won't say someday I'll tell my kids because my kids are all adults and a lot of them already watch MMA.

[SPEAKER_00]: I might have grandkids in the next couple years one day I will take my grandkids on my knee and say [SPEAKER_00]: In the early twenty-twenties, there was a fighter in the UFC named Paul Craig.

[SPEAKER_00]: He was this huge Scottish guy that would paint his face like we were in the warless way in, but he also had Beach Boys lyrics tattooed on his chest and he pulled guard in half of his fights.

[SPEAKER_00]: It was the crazy, it was a crazy time to be a fan.

[SPEAKER_00]: This?

[SPEAKER_01]: Well, the Beach Boys might be able to beat him right now.

[SPEAKER_00]: I think Mike Loves about eighty four years old, but as long as he doesn't get in cut in the triangle, I would be like Mike Loves, you'd end up in a decision.

[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know, the beach boy, the one guy that used to let Charles Manson and his crew stay with them.

[SPEAKER_01]: That guy might be able to take him.

[SPEAKER_00]: Well, Brian Wilson, like, passed away.

[SPEAKER_00]: So, sort of a say on's.

[SPEAKER_00]: We're not getting that one.

[SPEAKER_00]: But, uh, his car.

[SPEAKER_01]: Have you seen his clothes price till it's been a striking?

[SPEAKER_01]: Oh.

[SPEAKER_00]: Man, the fun, the fun is over for Paul Greg, the like the end is nigh.

[SPEAKER_00]: I always thought that he might have one of those games that would remain sneaky, effective into his forties, just because he's always been a poor athlete.

[SPEAKER_00]: If you are an old-time fan of the show, probably the first one liner that ever came out of either of us that made me laugh out loud, [SPEAKER_00]: to the point that I still remember it like four plus years later was when Keith asked, do you think Paul Craig can dunk a basketball like this said, like full stop, you know, this professional athlete in the highest organization in the world for his sport, who's like six foot four, like Kenny dunk a basketball like that, that and the answer was no then and it's probably no, I don't know.

[SPEAKER_01]: Well, basketball.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_00]: I do, he lives in Scotland.

[SPEAKER_00]: He might not be able to find a basketball ice.

[SPEAKER_01]: So yeah, it's being a basketball.

[SPEAKER_01]: I was only camping this weekend.

[SPEAKER_01]: It was like, it's not like a campground.

[SPEAKER_01]: It wasn't like the great woods.

[SPEAKER_01]: It was like a pickup basketball game.

[SPEAKER_01]: It was like started with like me and my son shooting him together and then like two of the kids like asked the join and that also turned to like a basketball game.

[SPEAKER_01]: But it was like the campground was like the middle three-year-old kid.

[SPEAKER_01]: I'm driven off the court.

[SPEAKER_01]: Like all by kid and like different three-year like shoot it, you know.

[SPEAKER_01]: All of a sudden that all of a sudden there was like teenage or you probably like fifteen.

[SPEAKER_01]: They just did not get the setting of like we're dribbling up and I'm handing them all to a three-year-old or the Kim White on a three-month, like he's kidding on age.

[SPEAKER_01]: They shoot it.

[SPEAKER_01]: The kid's like throwing up between his legs can't reach the hoop, kind of thing.

[SPEAKER_01]: And then this is kidding, like getting the rebound and like going past my son and like fast-breaking and shit.

[SPEAKER_01]: Like one point goes like around his back and like what is this kid doing?

[SPEAKER_01]: And he did some finally I'm like I fucked this kid.

[SPEAKER_01]: And he gave her out of it.

[SPEAKER_01]: And he went to do a layup.

[SPEAKER_01]: But I freaking swatted like the camp in my tumble.

[SPEAKER_01]: Like knocked him off like knocked him off into the pool area.

[SPEAKER_01]: And then I was like I did.

[SPEAKER_01]: And I'm like actually I'm freaking forty three as all.

[SPEAKER_01]: Like what the tears of the years go.

[SPEAKER_01]: Before you like freaking play your Achilles.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's so shit.

[SPEAKER_00]: And then an hour later, Tony Ferguson walked by and the exact same thing happened.

[SPEAKER_00]: Tony just started playing way too hard with a hack.

[SPEAKER_00]: Like, could you just see?

[SPEAKER_00]: It's okay to laugh again because he, because he won a boxing match over the weekend.

[SPEAKER_01]: Tony Ferguson just walks up to the basketball.

[SPEAKER_01]: Oops, that's kicking the pole for some reason.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_00]: So yeah Craig's game has not aged well.

[SPEAKER_00]: He was always a terrible striker and obviously a good submission artist who's also a terrible wrestler.

[SPEAKER_00]: So it just it always ran on his opponent either getting tired or making a mistake and it usually ran on Craig himself having to take a lot of punishment on the way there and all those windows of opportunity have just closed.

[SPEAKER_00]: One, most of his opponents are wise to him now and two, he can't take the punishment.

[SPEAKER_00]: The people that can box Craig up in the first round are just finishing them.

[SPEAKER_00]: There was a time.

[SPEAKER_00]: Two years ago, whatever the lime was, this would have had Craig upsets Bucascus written all over it.

[SPEAKER_00]: But the thing is, [SPEAKER_00]: But Cascus has always been a little younger than I thought he was.

[SPEAKER_00]: I've always been surprised anytime we preview one of his fights.

[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, gosh, he's still only twenty nine.

[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, he's back in the UFC.

[SPEAKER_00]: He's not even thirty yet.

[SPEAKER_00]: Again, he's still just thirty one now, which at Light Heavyweight means he's got another solid five to eight years of his health holds up.

[SPEAKER_00]: But he's actually fixed some of the holes in his game.

[SPEAKER_00]: But when he arrived in the UFC, [SPEAKER_00]: He was a guy that wanted a distance kickboxing match by preference and simply didn't have the footwork, the native athleticism or the physical strength to force it.

[SPEAKER_00]: He couldn't stay away from people that just wanted to either crowd the pocket and not let him kick and just mug him inside or that wanted to take him down.

[SPEAKER_00]: And he just for a big guy that looks like a fighter from a movie just didn't seem very physically strong for the division.

[SPEAKER_00]: A lot of those things have been fixed.

[SPEAKER_00]: Part of his success, since he's been back, has been down to level of competition, just Tyson Pedro, Zac Pauga, not great, but you know what?

[SPEAKER_00]: His last three wins.

[SPEAKER_00]: March in Procneo, Rafael Cicada, and Iwan Kudalaba, none of the remarkable fighters.

[SPEAKER_00]: And even though Kudalaba is, like, honestly, his split decision win over Iwan Kudalaba, [SPEAKER_00]: made me think a lot more highly of Bukascus.

[SPEAKER_00]: Because that's exactly the kind of fight that Bukascus would have lost badly a couple years ago.

[SPEAKER_00]: Like, you want Kudalaba has some of the worst fight IQ in the worst fight IQ division in the UFC.

[SPEAKER_00]: But one thing he absolutely is never known to do is just sit patiently outside and let a Modeskus Bukascus type like Kafka, Kikum and Jabham from outside.

[SPEAKER_00]: He always runs forward.

[SPEAKER_00]: He always swings haymakers and he always tries to get his hands on the other guy.

[SPEAKER_00]: run under the cage and dump them on the ground.

[SPEAKER_00]: That's what you want could a lot of does.

[SPEAKER_00]: And Lukas stayed upright and stayed in his preferred range at least enough to get what for him was honestly a very tough stylistic matchup.

[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know why I'm still talking about this because Paul Craig isn't going to do any of those things.

[SPEAKER_00]: And unfortunately, I don't think he's going to do much of anything.

[SPEAKER_00]: Two or three years ago, I was saying that Craig striking was improving.

[SPEAKER_00]: You always disagreed with me and it turns out that even if I was right, even if I won the battle, you won the war because Craig striking is back and worse than ever.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, he's going to be stuck.

[SPEAKER_00]: Whether this is a long fighter or short fight is really just going to be down to how hard Paul Craig feels like running into the woodchipper.

[SPEAKER_00]: Because I don't think he can run down with Calcus.

[SPEAKER_00]: And if he catches with Calcus, I think with Calcus now has enough confidence and enough just physical [SPEAKER_00]: diesel to just do the crock up, give double underhooks and shuck you off thing and go back to kick in your legs.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, this is going to be a brutal mismatch.

[SPEAKER_00]: I think it's going to look more lopsided than the one fight on the card that actually has a wider line.

[SPEAKER_00]: Give me Bucascus by second round knockout and I think he wins every minute of the fight up until then.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_01]: I refuse to do it.

[SPEAKER_01]: I refuse to break time for a great fight anymore.

[SPEAKER_01]: But because it would be the best.

[SPEAKER_01]: Because it's not come out and like the first one, I'm just I'm done with Paul Craig.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_01]: Sorry, just a time to say, which is move off.

[SPEAKER_00]: If you're really dying for that trademark, Keith Gillen.

[SPEAKER_00]: breakdown of skills.

[SPEAKER_00]: Just go to the fight finder.

[SPEAKER_00]: Look at any Paul Craig fight in the last five years.

[SPEAKER_00]: Click on the preview for it.

[SPEAKER_00]: He's got a report has not changed much.

[SPEAKER_00]: All the changes are haircuts and like the lighting in the background.

[SPEAKER_01]: There was somebody.

[SPEAKER_01]: I like the guy and I get this thing.

[SPEAKER_01]: I get this thing.

[SPEAKER_01]: He's a, he's a news guy.

[SPEAKER_01]: He's a, every news guy.

[SPEAKER_01]: I see always wants to be like positive and get to be good with every manager and like I get it.

[SPEAKER_01]: And he posted once, like, Paul Craig resigned with the UFC.

[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know whether you have four fight contract.

[SPEAKER_01]: I'm so excited that you have back.

[SPEAKER_01]: I'm like, that's just, I'm like, why?

[SPEAKER_01]: He's not good.

[SPEAKER_01]: He's fight suck.

[SPEAKER_01]: He, he brings nothing other than I, yeah, he paints his face cool.

[SPEAKER_01]: cool, like, that, that five-second of the state on that, that, that, from way in is like, what is worth having to watch the most terrible boring asphalt for fifteen minutes or here again knocked out, like, why?

[SPEAKER_01]: He, like, well, and fantasy for this, like, yeah, but he could, he could take the worst guys in the vision anyway.

[SPEAKER_01]: Is there anybody that, honestly, is anybody that you see, like, anyway, division you take, you take poker over in her?

[SPEAKER_00]: No.

[SPEAKER_00]: No, no, no, not even like, like, if your material is still around or something like not even that.

[SPEAKER_00]: No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no [SPEAKER_00]: No, and I still, I don't believe you just talked about like Adam Martin and James Lynch that way and knowing King and like, no, no one might not have.

[SPEAKER_01]: It wasn't Nolan.

[SPEAKER_01]: I love Nolan that Nolan will now put his very strong opinion on Twitter.

[SPEAKER_01]: No, no one will do the bait shows.

[SPEAKER_01]: He'll do the bait shows.

[SPEAKER_01]: I give him that.

[SPEAKER_01]: No one to knows my boy.

[SPEAKER_01]: He's he's did knows.

[SPEAKER_01]: I like James and I like Adam both of them.

[SPEAKER_01]: I'm not saying it's one of those guys, but, uh, yeah, it was one of the couple they come and did.

[SPEAKER_01]: Come on.

[SPEAKER_01]: But you're not a fairness.

[SPEAKER_01]: I think both Canadian.

[SPEAKER_00]: James definitely is.

[SPEAKER_01]: I think you're not asking me into.

[SPEAKER_00]: Well, you know, it's like it's the Canadian.

[SPEAKER_01]: They're nice being.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's like the part of the nature.

[SPEAKER_01]: They have to be nice like even the Polk Craig.

[SPEAKER_00]: Even the Polk Craig.

[SPEAKER_00]: Like one of them is holding a door for Polk Craig someplace right now.

[SPEAKER_00]: Just in case, like [SPEAKER_00]: Next up at UFC Paris is a lightweight matchup between Balaji Okhi and Mason Jones.

[SPEAKER_00]: Okhi, the twenty-nine-year-old Belgian, is ten and two overall.

[SPEAKER_00]: He's two and one since joining the UFC out of season seven of Dana White's contender series.

[SPEAKER_00]: He lost almost exactly a year ago to Chris Duncan, by first round, submission of technical submission.

[SPEAKER_00]: He got Giateen all the way to sleep.

[SPEAKER_00]: He bounced back from that in May, [SPEAKER_00]: with a unanimous decision over Houston's finest, Michael Aswell.

[SPEAKER_00]: So he's looking to put his first UFC loss further in the rear view mirror at the expense of Jones.

[SPEAKER_00]: Jones, thirty-year-old Welshman, is sixteen and two with one no contest overall.

[SPEAKER_00]: He is two and two with one no contest across two separate stints with the UFC.

[SPEAKER_00]: You see cards, got a lot of people on it that have bounced back and forth between cage warriors and the UFC.

[SPEAKER_00]: Anyway, since being back this time, [SPEAKER_00]: the former lightweight and Walterweight champ in cage warriors is one and oh with his unanimous decision when over Jeremy Stevens back in May.

[SPEAKER_00]: And yes, that's May of twenty twenty five.

[SPEAKER_00]: So both of these gentlemen, looking for their second win this calendar year.

[SPEAKER_00]: Your favorite is minus one fifty underdog plus one twenty who are they Keith.

[SPEAKER_01]: I'll say, um, Jones the favorite.

[SPEAKER_00]: You were correct.

[SPEAKER_00]: Jones is the favorite.

[SPEAKER_00]: And that is one that I would have guessed wrong, because I was a little surprised at the lines.

[SPEAKER_00]: Tell me how you see this fight, who you could win?

[SPEAKER_01]: Well, in fairness, Ben, when we talk about bedding lines, I mean, trying to compete with me, I guess he bedding lines.

[SPEAKER_01]: I'm at like, twenty five percent.

[SPEAKER_01]: I saw ten, like, you know, watch out.

[SPEAKER_00]: You're better than Johnny the Greek.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_00]: I don't take that back.

[SPEAKER_01]: That's what I see.

[SPEAKER_01]: Jones.

[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, I think it's a really fun fight.

[SPEAKER_01]: This is the one.

[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, either one of these guys could be contenders, but I don't see them like that, but I think this could be a fun action fight.

[SPEAKER_01]: I am intrigued how it's good at it on.

[SPEAKER_01]: Jones is, you know, he's a pressure counter striker, high volume.

[SPEAKER_01]: He's a good boxer, he keeps everything tight, nice jab, good at slipping and ripping.

[SPEAKER_01]: He's got a slipping pass upon getting in the pocket on the unloading like a big combination.

[SPEAKER_01]: He loves to brawl.

[SPEAKER_01]: I'd say it's plus power.

[SPEAKER_01]: Nice kicks.

[SPEAKER_01]: I am worried about his durability.

[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, he eats a lot of shots.

[SPEAKER_01]: Go back to like the movie.

[SPEAKER_01]: Klein five minutes really gets triggered by Klein blasted him.

[SPEAKER_01]: He's a good wrestler, he's got some quick entries, me and Gratapound, he has three submission wins.

[SPEAKER_01]: But if he's put on his own back, he will struggle to get back to his feet and we saw that against Client again.

[SPEAKER_01]: Oki, Oki also is a counter striker.

[SPEAKER_01]: He works best from distance, though he still pressures well himself, good volume on the feet, quick hands, nice jab, those straight shots on the play, he attacks with combinations, he's got really good left hook, [SPEAKER_01]: He like I love the ghost of the body.

[SPEAKER_01]: That's what I think he should go to do gets Jones.

[SPEAKER_01]: He's got really good power.

[SPEAKER_01]: He's got a good high kick.

[SPEAKER_01]: Not an offensive wrestler at all, but he's a bad defensive wrestler.

[SPEAKER_01]: And he got caught in submission against Chris Duncan.

[SPEAKER_01]: I think Jones could win this five of you six to a game plan, but because he has this reckless advantage style, I can see him getting clipped, coming in.

[SPEAKER_01]: He had a big chef and mokey, but he still have a huge advantage on the ground and if he could force close distance and force.

[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, to kind of have to like even defending the takedowns is better than having, you know, standing at distance striking with Loki.

[SPEAKER_01]: I want to say Jones does.

[SPEAKER_01]: I want to say he, you know, he gets inside, he lands some big shots, he gets to take down, starts batting on top, give me Jones by decision.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I, like I said, I was a little surprised that I thought the line would be close, but I was surprised that Jones was the favorites and [SPEAKER_00]: There are some clear avenues to victory for him, but you kind of circled around it that he loves getting in brawls, enough that I am concerned about him necessarily fighting to his best advantage.

[SPEAKER_00]: Because just standing and swinging it out with Balaji Okhi is probably the worst possible approach you could take to this fight, but he's gonna do it at least for the first three minutes of the first round.

[SPEAKER_00]: That might be all the doki needs.

[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, Okhi is not [SPEAKER_00]: Alex put it out there and he doesn't throw enough volume a lot of the time, but he's a sharp accurate striker with good power everywhere.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to lean towards Jones in the decision here as well, but I think this will be [SPEAKER_00]: Maybe closer and a more enjoyable fight that it needs to be and in both cases, maybe because of Jones spending a little too much time testing his luck on the feet.

[SPEAKER_00]: But far be it for me to want him to make this into a boring fight.

[SPEAKER_00]: So yeah, Jones by decision, not a ton of confidence in it for me.

[SPEAKER_00]: That brings us to the co-man event of UFC Fight Night, two, fifty-eight.

[SPEAKER_00]: A lightweight matchup between Native Frenchmen, Bomo Santeney, and Brazil's Mauricio Huffie.

[SPEAKER_00]: Santeney, the twenty-nine-year-old, fourteen and three with one no contest overall.

[SPEAKER_00]: six and two in the UFC and worth noting that, uh, sorry, six and three in the UFC six and two at lightweight.

[SPEAKER_00]: He made his debut in the UFC on short notice up a weight class got absolutely chewed up by, uh, Elizeo Zaleski Dos Santos.

[SPEAKER_00]: He was, everybody's beat down to the year.

[SPEAKER_00]: The ref called a lot of flag for not stopping the fight, but sent any, uh, [SPEAKER_00]: survived and exceeded the modest expectations of that poor debut and like I say, he fought his way into contention.

[SPEAKER_00]: He lost both of his fights last year against Dustin Poorier, UFC two, ninety nine, and then against Hinata Moicono in the headliner of UFC, fight night two, forty three in September.

[SPEAKER_00]: But he bounced back with a second round submission of Kyle Preplek at UFC three, fifteen, and it was enough to get him another fight with top ten implications in the form of Oofie.

[SPEAKER_00]: The Brazilian also twenty-nine years old, twelve in one, overall, a perfect three-in-o since joining the UFC out of season seven of Dana White's contender series.

[SPEAKER_00]: He debuted last May, knocking out Jamie Malarkey in the first round, since then he has wins over James Yon top, and in his most recent outing, Bobby Green.

[SPEAKER_00]: whom he iced with a spinning wheel kick back in March at UFC three thirteen it was a sensational highlight real moment at just the right time and in just the right place and he's a member of just the right team to kind of cut the line a little bit at one fifty five because of that these are two gentlemen that are fighting in a fight with top ten implications in a division were normally [SPEAKER_00]: Some people have had to put in a lot more work than this before getting there.

[SPEAKER_00]: Like, which is not to say that they don't deserve it, just that it's it's interesting to see it play out that way.

[SPEAKER_00]: The line is not close.

[SPEAKER_00]: Maria Huffie minus two hundred.

[SPEAKER_00]: Ben was sent any plus one seventy.

[SPEAKER_00]: The funny thing about Ben was sent in he is [SPEAKER_00]: Like once once we got past the LZO's Lesquitos Santos fight, we could barely learn anything about this guy because after the first two minutes of the fight, all he did was just get absolutely brutalized.

[SPEAKER_00]: But since then, once we discovered, okay, no, this guy at one fifty-five is actually a very, very good fighter at a very exciting fighter.

[SPEAKER_00]: I don't feel as though much has changed about him.

[SPEAKER_00]: He is an athletic, aggressive guy pretty good size for the weight class with the full arsenal offensive tools.

[SPEAKER_00]: He's a very good offensive striker, tons of power, throws well in combination, and he's a very comfortable grappler as well.

[SPEAKER_00]: Even in his losses to Porea and Moecano, [SPEAKER_00]: I don't feel as they'll either of them expose some unknown weakness about the guy.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's like, but I'm not sent to any at age.

[SPEAKER_00]: Twenty nine is who he is.

[SPEAKER_00]: People like Porea who's a top three fighter or moikano who's, you know, somewhere between a number eight, number twelve fighter, can beat him.

[SPEAKER_00]: Nobody else can and against everyone else.

[SPEAKER_00]: He makes it look really, really nasty.

[SPEAKER_00]: So, [SPEAKER_00]: I feel like that kind of like who boom was Anthony is.

[SPEAKER_00]: When I, when I said earlier on the show that if I have to plunk down a hundred bucks on any French fighter to eventually win a UFC title, it might be William Gomez or Omar C, it's because I feel even though all three are around the same age, I already, I think I've seen Ben was Anthony's ceiling, whereas with someone like Gomez in his losses, I've seen stuff that, you know, I bet he's gonna get better from this.

[SPEAKER_00]: So with Ben was sent to me, it really is down to matchups a lot of the time.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's easy to forget that he was beating Dustin Porea until p.cott.

[SPEAKER_00]: Like he was doing really well.

[SPEAKER_00]: Like I would obviously we recap that show afterwards.

[SPEAKER_00]: around into that fight.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm like, oh, man, we're going to have to have this depressing conversation about is just employee a completely shot.

[SPEAKER_00]: Should we be calling for him to retire?

[SPEAKER_00]: Like, what would be some winnable fights?

[SPEAKER_00]: And then all of a sudden, he lamp sent in e and he's like laughing and talking about how he's never going to stop jumping the guillies like a whole great.

[SPEAKER_00]: We love you, but anyway, [SPEAKER_00]: Mauricio Huffie is not, he's not the guy that Ben Wolf sent and his game is going to work on.

[SPEAKER_00]: He can, like, [SPEAKER_00]: Sentinel's best avenues to victory in this fight would involve getting Mauricio Hofi onto the ground.

[SPEAKER_00]: And it's not like Mauricio is it's not like he's a slouch on the ground.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's he's not.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's not like Steven Thompson or like Dwayne Ludwig or something where there's this like magic key to just beating him easily if you can take him down like he's a good grappler to just he's a deadly striker.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, this is going to be a fantastic firefight, but as hard hitting and accurate as they both are.

[SPEAKER_00]: Marisa Huffie is probably a little harder hitting, a little more accurate, and more importantly for purposes of this fight, he's a little more defensively sound, and I think he's more durable, and that makes the whole difference to me in this fight.

[SPEAKER_00]: If this fight plays out like I think it will, we're gonna have a great first round where Marisa Huffie's probably starting to pull ahead a little bit, and this thing is over about three minutes into the second round in some just vicious knockout.

[SPEAKER_00]: But even if it plays out exactly like I'm predicting it, I'm not going to think any less of Ben wasons than he afterwards.

[SPEAKER_00]: He is who we thought he was.

[SPEAKER_00]: A guy that's going to stick around the top ten for a while, but help.

[SPEAKER_00]: We could even call him kind of the new dust employee.

[SPEAKER_00]: He's going to occupy that slot in some ways, whereas we still don't know whether Marisa Oof is a future UFC champ.

[SPEAKER_00]: But yeah, my pick is who if you buy second rounds, TKO, but I'm really looking forward to this fight.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I wouldn't hate being wrong about it.

[SPEAKER_00]: Like, yeah, good fight.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, um, I would say that they he, uh, say to the after the some of the beatings he's going, but then they give him cow privilege.

[SPEAKER_01]: So it's like, all right.

[SPEAKER_01]: So he's got a better tree for the some people have had.

[SPEAKER_01]: Uh, this is the fun fight.

[SPEAKER_01]: Um, [SPEAKER_01]: You know, say, then he's he's he's a South boy.

[SPEAKER_01]: He's get some good footwork.

[SPEAKER_01]: Good.

[SPEAKER_01]: I'll put on the feet.

[SPEAKER_01]: He matches forward.

[SPEAKER_01]: Ken trying to force his opponent back on that on their back foot.

[SPEAKER_01]: He's got some fast hands.

[SPEAKER_01]: He throws a lot of rare like leading with his power punches.

[SPEAKER_01]: Like his rear right hand.

[SPEAKER_01]: I just want to try and think.

[SPEAKER_01]: He's left hand.

[SPEAKER_01]: He's got it.

[SPEAKER_01]: He's explosive, he's got a big power, he's got a lot of kicks, he's got a great high kick.

[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, go back to the math level a week, perfectly time to high kick as he was trying to escape, which was beautiful.

[SPEAKER_01]: Obviously, the best moment probably was career.

[SPEAKER_01]: He eats a lot of shots though, he keeps his chin to, he doesn't move his head.

[SPEAKER_01]: We said this before, he's probably the toughest match in the life.

[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, go back all the way to like the Los Santos fight where he was hit.

[SPEAKER_01]: beat the shit out of go to my cano my cano beat the shit out of a polio obviously knocks him out.

[SPEAKER_01]: He he likes to close the distance and and battle in the clinch.

[SPEAKER_01]: He's very physically strong guy.

[SPEAKER_01]: He's got the judo background.

[SPEAKER_01]: He rushes a lot.

[SPEAKER_01]: A lot of body takedowns.

[SPEAKER_01]: He could shoot takedowns from from the outside.

[SPEAKER_01]: He's he's a very good grappler.

[SPEAKER_01]: Um, except when he's put on the bottom because he's strolling off the body.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's my cano.

[SPEAKER_01]: He does have ten subs on his record.

[SPEAKER_01]: Uh, he will jump first though instead of trying to stuff a takedown, which is which is dangerous.

[SPEAKER_01]: Um, [SPEAKER_01]: He was swept by Matt for a while when he was taken down.

[SPEAKER_01]: I'm sorry, back when he swept Matt for a while, which was when he wouldn't for a while taken down.

[SPEAKER_01]: He's grounded on and can stare at voices.

[SPEAKER_01]: brutal and he's got a good submission defense.

[SPEAKER_01]: Ruffy, I was thinking about this as we have two fighters on the car and I'm like, we should have a debate one day is who's the best fighter in the fight nerds because it's probably like five different options in Ruffy obviously is one of them.

[SPEAKER_01]: I mean that obviously is a combat.

[SPEAKER_01]: You can be first, you can be fed, and it's still a hell of a accomplishment with that team.

[SPEAKER_01]: He's super athletic.

[SPEAKER_01]: He's a sensational striker.

[SPEAKER_01]: He switched his stance a lot.

[SPEAKER_01]: He hasn't like bladed karate style stance.

[SPEAKER_01]: He has fast hands, he's accurate.

[SPEAKER_01]: He sets up his shots, both fanes.

[SPEAKER_01]: He also likes to hand fight the lead hand, which I'm a big fan on.

[SPEAKER_01]: I hope you like measure your shots.

[SPEAKER_01]: He uses faints well and then he kind of pulls him into his power.

[SPEAKER_01]: And he pulls him into the power and he does a step back right hand, which is definitely his best weapon.

[SPEAKER_01]: Good at time because opponents attack and beat him at the point of contact.

[SPEAKER_01]: He throws his right hand right over his opponent's left hand, left hand's lead strike.

[SPEAKER_01]: He has some fun spinning attacks obviously is that incredible spinning wheel kick KO Bobby Green.

[SPEAKER_01]: A big power big kicking game throws hard kicks to the body got a great high kick.

[SPEAKER_01]: You're a little wild with it.

[SPEAKER_01]: Like you put himself in bad position to turn be exciting.

[SPEAKER_01]: He does move his head well, which is good.

[SPEAKER_01]: But he needs it because he kind of keeps his hands wide and low.

[SPEAKER_01]: He doesn't need to tuck his chin a little bit more.

[SPEAKER_01]: He has opened the lake, he has a wide stance.

[SPEAKER_01]: He's not much of an offensive wrestler.

[SPEAKER_01]: He's not really much of a defensive wrestler.

[SPEAKER_01]: And he doesn't really have any subs on his record.

[SPEAKER_01]: I think the line can be closer because I can see, in his home country, he's saying to me, coming out, wrestling roofy, he's getting take down, especially if he does some spinning thing where suddenly, [SPEAKER_01]: As he does that, saying to me, it's got his back and taking them down.

[SPEAKER_01]: I just say the issue is going to be the striking for the distance and I think we're going to be too fast too accurate.

[SPEAKER_01]: I expect it's worth it with hard and win a lot.

[SPEAKER_01]: I want to get the spectacular knockout, but St.

[SPEAKER_01]: James is so freaking tough.

[SPEAKER_01]: I say he survives, but I see we see, I think we see St.

[SPEAKER_01]: James getting asked what to get.

[SPEAKER_01]: I think he takes it with you, like really bad beating one more time, give me a roofy by the upside decision.

[SPEAKER_00]: And hey, you may be able to do some extra thinking on that who's the best fighter from that camp because there's supposed to be opening up a location in your neck of the woods.

[SPEAKER_00]: In fact, it is more easy, Oofie, that said he was going to open a fight nurse location in New Hampshire.

[SPEAKER_01]: That's not my next clue.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's like, you could be a New Hampshire before I could be halfway to Dallas.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's a whole state in between Rhode Island and Hampshire.

[SPEAKER_00]: There are several counties in between me in San Antonio, but you only have to do that.

[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know if anything came of it, but ahead of his fight in March, he was saying that he was going to open up.

[SPEAKER_00]: With that, we come to the main event of UFC Paris, a high-level middleweight contenders fight between Nasredini Mavov and Kaiobahalio.

[SPEAKER_00]: Imavov, the third year old Frenchman, is sixteen and four with one no contest overall.

[SPEAKER_00]: He is eight and two with one no contest in the UFC, and he is on a four fight with streak since that single no contest.

[SPEAKER_00]: Last time he did not have his hand raised after a night of work in the Octagon was a little over two years ago when he and Chris Curtis clashed heads for about the fifteenth time in their fight.

[SPEAKER_00]: The outcome of that fight was plain enough that they never even bothered re-making it.

[SPEAKER_00]: They basically booked him off as if he'd won.

[SPEAKER_00]: Since then, he has wins over Roman Delizé, Jared Cannonier, Brendan Allen, and in his most recent outing, back in February, Israel, Alessagna, whom he knocked out early in the second rounds in the headliner of UFC Fight Night, two-fifty.

[SPEAKER_00]: So, Emovov, again, has followed up the Curtis fight with four straight [SPEAKER_00]: pretty impressive wins over fighters ranging from the top fifteen to the top five.

[SPEAKER_00]: Here he steps in to headline a card in his native country against another high level contender and one that as we set off the top could easily justify title shot for him in his next fight depending on what else plays out in the division.

[SPEAKER_00]: The only thing standing between him and being perhaps the most accomplished French martial artist of all time is Kyobahaliyom.

[SPEAKER_00]: Thirty-two-year-old Brazilian is seventeen and one with one no contest overall.

[SPEAKER_00]: He is seven and a no since joining the UFC out of season five of Dana White's contender series.

[SPEAKER_00]: He fought twice on the contender series that fall.

[SPEAKER_00]: three weeks apart, got sure why.

[SPEAKER_00]: He looked great both times, but at any rate, since he's been in the UFC, a perfect seven and a no.

[SPEAKER_00]: He fought twice last year, knocking out Paul Craig in May, and taking a unanimous decision over Jared Cannonier in August in the headliner of UFC on ESPN-Sixie-Tune.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's been almost exactly a year since then, and Bahaulia was back in the cage for the first time.

[SPEAKER_00]: The line is a pretty close one here, so I'll quiz you on it, Keith.

[SPEAKER_00]: Your favorite is minus one thirty, underdog plus one ten, who are they?

[SPEAKER_00]: He is, Kaiobahalio minus one-thirty, Natsurdeen, Emovov plus one-ten.

[SPEAKER_00]: As is always the case, when I'm looking at these odds a week out from fight night, and I'm looking at an agglomeration of eight different sites, there's some range, but Bohalio was not in the plus money anywhere, and Emovov was, so, you know, he's legit underdog.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to flip this one to you for your I mean for your analysis for your pick question.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to throw out at you If you remove off's coaches are you Telling them are you telling your man to try and take ball you down and try to keep it standing like if it's clearly one or the other [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I don't think it's clear one of the other.

[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's part of why you so damn good in it.

[SPEAKER_01]: But both of guys, both guys are very well-rounded.

[SPEAKER_01]: This is a very tough fight for it.

[SPEAKER_01]: If I'm going to write a little short, you know, he's been messing so well lately.

[SPEAKER_01]: And if this got to me grappling, I want to be the top guy.

[SPEAKER_01]: So I would say maybe the Russell, maybe sneaking some takers.

[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know if that's the right answer.

[SPEAKER_01]: You know, like, like, do that.

[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know if that's gonna happen when.

[SPEAKER_01]: But also, like, if I was by, I was, well, you know, I probably tell them the same thing.

[SPEAKER_01]: You know, I mean, like, like, if we have grappling exchanges, I want to be the one on top.

[SPEAKER_01]: As far as striking.

[SPEAKER_01]: If I'm behind, I want to be in the pocket, even though he's a huge guy.

[SPEAKER_01]: I just want to get past the kicks of him off.

[SPEAKER_01]: And if I'm going to, if I want to be in the kicking range, I want to keep kicks up the middle.

[SPEAKER_01]: I want stuff like that.

[SPEAKER_01]: So if I was breaking down these guys, yeah, there's the reason why I think it's hard fight to pick, because I really like both these guys.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's both well-rounded.

[SPEAKER_01]: I think him off is a really good athlete.

[SPEAKER_01]: He's a long and lengthy middleweight.

[SPEAKER_01]: He's elusive.

[SPEAKER_01]: He moves really well.

[SPEAKER_01]: Good footwork.

[SPEAKER_01]: He's well-rounded.

[SPEAKER_01]: He's a good striker.

[SPEAKER_01]: Very relaxed and poised.

[SPEAKER_01]: I'd say he's best like a distance striker.

[SPEAKER_01]: He doesn't want to be pressured.

[SPEAKER_01]: We saw a good chance trickling the best way to beat him.

[SPEAKER_01]: Just stay out of the pressure.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's actually one of his best wins.

[SPEAKER_01]: And he did him both similarly.

[SPEAKER_01]: He did, I know, I know.

[SPEAKER_01]: He is, he's a counter striker.

[SPEAKER_01]: His best counters are like his feedback counters, if you kind of collapse on two quickly.

[SPEAKER_01]: He's got quick hands, he attacks the combinations, he's accurate, nice snap on his shots.

[SPEAKER_01]: He has some power, more powerful than you think of me.

[SPEAKER_01]: He knocked out Jared Kennedy, he knocked out Israel, Ossania.

[SPEAKER_01]: Good, good, deep kicks.

[SPEAKER_01]: He does drop his hands with a little bit of an issue.

[SPEAKER_01]: He can wrestle.

[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, you, you tell, you were of that Chris Curtis, like he got three takedowns against Chris, Chris Curtis.

[SPEAKER_01]: He took down Jared Kennedy in a choice.

[SPEAKER_01]: Both guys, you know, not known for their takedown defense, but, you know, not that I chose the elbow, but they, they're tough guys to take down.

[SPEAKER_01]: And so, again, five takedowns against those two guys is pretty, pretty impressive.

[SPEAKER_01]: But he's committed, he's relentlessly a takedowns.

[SPEAKER_01]: He's got a good top control, good grat and pound.

[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, go back to like the Ian, I mean, it's almost like we're forever going really.

[SPEAKER_01]: Ian Heine is and and mentioned by asian he'd like be to shed out of those guys destroy them on the ground.

[SPEAKER_01]: He's he's shown solid takedown defense in the past.

[SPEAKER_01]: He's a bit of submission artists.

[SPEAKER_01]: But he did struggle on the bottom against Brandon Allen when Allen was a top maybe that's maybe that's something you go if you buy over.

[SPEAKER_01]: You can try to rust it on top.

[SPEAKER_01]: Brandon was a very big guy by.

[SPEAKER_01]: I was a very big guy.

[SPEAKER_01]: Maybe that's a little bit.

[SPEAKER_01]: He also guessed out a little bit against Allen, which is maybe nothing you look for.

[SPEAKER_01]: Vio's, I mean, he's also, they're very built very similar.

[SPEAKER_01]: Like, that's somewhere like, Vio's, I don't think he's at, he's a long way to get to, but he's like thick, he's a thick guy, he's a big middleweight, he's a South ball, very athletic, he presses forward, march it down as a opponent.

[SPEAKER_01]: He was a little too patient against a boost mega made off, but when there was opening, that's when he had his best moments.

[SPEAKER_01]: He's a counter striker, he's slipping rip guy.

[SPEAKER_01]: Um, good.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's flipping shots.

[SPEAKER_01]: He's accurate.

[SPEAKER_01]: He's got a great left hand.

[SPEAKER_01]: He's got a nice follow up right.

[SPEAKER_01]: Right hook.

[SPEAKER_01]: He's he's got plus power.

[SPEAKER_01]: He's got a good kicking game.

[SPEAKER_01]: He loves flying these to close the distance.

[SPEAKER_01]: He's probably.

[SPEAKER_01]: too many shots from my liking for an elite level fighter, guys, you know, top of the division guy, he's a little too much.

[SPEAKER_01]: He's a clear-up as defense.

[SPEAKER_01]: I hope he gives it a little too high sometimes.

[SPEAKER_01]: He's a good offensive wrestler.

[SPEAKER_01]: I would definitely say he's more of a grappler than I was a wrestler, really an opportunistic wrestler.

[SPEAKER_01]: And in that sense, he's not a nutritional blessing.

[SPEAKER_01]: He's kind of guy.

[SPEAKER_01]: But he gets to fight the ground and get good top control, tends to like inch and slowly advance on the ground, not rushing things.

[SPEAKER_01]: He's got some super slick back takes.

[SPEAKER_01]: If he gets, he hooks it and it's almost impossible to get those long legs out, such a good backpacker.

[SPEAKER_01]: He doesn't really rest in missions, though.

[SPEAKER_01]: The one fight he did, who was against Macho and Maradoff, that was probably one of his worst performances in the UFC.

[SPEAKER_01]: But he gets on top crushing ground up, he is a big submission artist.

[SPEAKER_01]: He's a weak defensive wrestler.

[SPEAKER_01]: He'll get taken down.

[SPEAKER_01]: And he struggled, like I said, like, more out of head success.

[SPEAKER_01]: And that was such a long time ago.

[SPEAKER_01]: And then, and again, I think that was one of his worst performers in the UFC, probably part of the worst performance.

[SPEAKER_01]: He showed great cardio in that fight, though.

[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, he was going hardly in the third round.

[SPEAKER_01]: I think it's a great matchup.

[SPEAKER_01]: I like both guys.

[SPEAKER_01]: The winner can easily jump to the title shot next.

[SPEAKER_01]: If someone gets a stopage, I think they definitely got to get the title shot next.

[SPEAKER_01]: Well, I shouldn't say that.

[SPEAKER_01]: They're like two guys that are possibilities have been created in the.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's in Hernandez and.

[SPEAKER_01]: I ran into rid of both guys probably in the, should do, but as far as the outcome is for, I've really flip-flopped.

[SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to go with the fight nerds.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's almost impossible to be against them right now.

[SPEAKER_01]: I've seen people pressure a lava from win.

[SPEAKER_01]: I expect the nerds to do, to have the same strategy with behind you.

[SPEAKER_01]: I say pressure and get to a lava of [SPEAKER_01]: I think by our lands and big shots, I think the leader of the fight goes, that's when the pressure will really get.

[SPEAKER_01]: I think we get some grappling stages.

[SPEAKER_01]: I think in my office, that's the fate.

[SPEAKER_01]: I think by our pressure, that's helping him get takedowns, wind scrambles.

[SPEAKER_01]: I think it would be really close.

[SPEAKER_01]: I think it's going to go all five.

[SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to say behind it was a close decision.

[SPEAKER_01]: And made event coming in at that fight in Orange School, Tunao, ruining the plans for the French fighters to go all into.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's Keith is picking a pretty quiet arena at the Akkor in Paris on Saturday.

[SPEAKER_00]: Again, as a guy that was in the Dead Silent Toyota Center after a serial gun destroyed Derek Lewis, I hate to see it happen, but I'm actually going the other way on this one.

[SPEAKER_00]: I love that fight.

[SPEAKER_00]: I agree that it's hard to pick for all the same reasons that you did, Keith.

[SPEAKER_00]: And of all the things, [SPEAKER_00]: that give me pause in picking eMovov to win this one, you kind of hit on the one that worries me the most.

[SPEAKER_00]: EMovov, despite having fought past, I think it fought past the third round in, at any rate.

[SPEAKER_00]: As a guy who probably has more five round experience than Bholio, he's nonetheless the one that we've kind of seen fade laid invites even fights of the weren't five rounds.

[SPEAKER_00]: But I'm picking him to have enough rounds banked away to eke out the decision here.

[SPEAKER_00]: I think when they're both fresh and at their best and if they're both fighting reasonably to their best advantage, [SPEAKER_00]: I like Yamavov's chances a little better.

[SPEAKER_00]: The thing that I keep coming back to is his fight against the Leedsay, which I think was Yamavov's first UFC headliner, because the Leedsay definitely wanted to get the fight on the ground, and he's not as good a fighter as Baja.

[SPEAKER_00]: He's not quite the athlete behind you as, but he's kind of like behind you.

[SPEAKER_00]: He's a huge tank of a guy that wanted to come forward on Emovov, crowd him, run under the fence, drag into the ground.

[SPEAKER_00]: And for most of the fight, Delizé had a hell of a time getting Emovov down.

[SPEAKER_00]: Like, Emovov was just doing stuff like just like embracing, you know, his forearm against his neck against the fence, shoving him off.

[SPEAKER_00]: It was the first time I'd seen Emovov [SPEAKER_00]: fight a little less like a finesse fighter and a little more like a guy that realized he was going to have to beat some asses if you ever wanted to get into the title picture.

[SPEAKER_00]: It it almost comes down to the thing I asked you at the beginning of this segment where you know if you're his handlers which way would you go because I almost feel like with you mom of somebody has got this little remote control and there's just a dial that has France at one end and Dagestan at the other because always remember this guy's Dagestan he was born in Dagestan and [SPEAKER_00]: I'm not saying that he's a better fighter one is at one stream extreme or the other, but like someone is just kind of like turning that dial and fine tuning it.

[SPEAKER_00]: Like are you going to be the the technical outstriker?

[SPEAKER_00]: Are you going to be the aggressive wrestler with a mean streak against the fence?

[SPEAKER_00]: Give me Emovov and his coaches to hit that balance to the point where maybe [SPEAKER_00]: He wins the first two rounds or he's up two rounds to one at the end of three and maybe has to hold on but wins the decision here in a fantastic man event or neither guy takes much of a step back.

[SPEAKER_00]: I could be wrong.

[SPEAKER_00]: One of these guys could just blow the other out of the water in three minutes.

[SPEAKER_00]: If one of them does, it's probably behind you.

[SPEAKER_00]: But give me this to be just a damn good fight nightman event and one where it's good enough and both guys look good enough that we wouldn't complain if they met again for higher stakes a year or two from now.

[SPEAKER_00]: Both of these guys are still pretty young.

[SPEAKER_00]: But yeah, that's the Shirtog Radio Network preview for UFC Fight Night, two fifty-eight.

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