UFC Louisville Preview Show | Cannonier vs. Imavov; Plus, Do-Or-Die For Dominick Reyes?

Jared Cannonier has become the forgotten man in the #UFC middleweight title picture — despite winning two straight and four of five — as he returns to the octagon for the first time in a year in the main event of #UFCLouisville in a five-round matchup against Nassourdine Imavov. If Cannonier can pick up another win, is he in the championship conversation in the loaded 185-pound division?

Ahead of Saturday’s Fight Night event, #MMA Fighting’s Mike Heck, Jed Meshew, and Alexander K. Lee preview the promotion’s return to Derby City, along with the Cannonier vs. Imavov headliner and the stakes attached to it. Additionally, they’ll discuss Dominick Reyes’ return after a long layoff to face Dustin Jacoby in the co-main event, 19-year-old Raul Rosas Jr. looking to make it two straight when he meets Ricky Turcios, the quality of the event as a whole, and much more.

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PA mixed martial arts mixed martial arts how do we like our martial arts at the KFC Young Center sorry I am not Casey lden I did the best I could but welcome everybody to the UFC Louisville preview show here on MMA fighting. comom yes UFC out of the Apex back on the road and they’re in Louisville Kentucky and boy oh boy are the stakes high in Louisville Kentucky for this one we’re here to talk about this and much more I am M and look at the fellas here we got the whole crew we got Mr hot take Mr no grey area himself the baron of Boop Jed Michu and the prince of positivity and my best friend Alexander kitle with the MMA fighting t-shirt gentlemen how we feel fighting I work for fighting I just I wear the shirt every day like when I go out and do stuff just so people know I mean I do that are you saying that that’s not normal behavior I was waiting for you to chime in and say I also do this which you did this has been a great exchange how many ma fighting t-shirts do you both have I just wear the same one over and over again and never watch it you have two I I got I sneakily got a second um way back in the day when Danny saguro still worked with us and uh was living in New York and like going into the office one day he hit me up and was like hey I’m about to leave the office and this is obvious like preco um there’s a box of shirts and he’s like you want one I was like yes ship it to me so I got a second one I think I got the first one legitimately when we did the Meetup in 2016 so uh yeah I’m just a man without an MMA fighting shirt and uh it is what it is but gentlemen we’re coming off of UFC 302 a very tough hang a sloggy slog slog with a tremendous main event and a couple of cool finishes and now we head to Louisville and Jed we discussed this a little bit on BTL yesterday cards like this this is a this ain’t getting any Mulin Stars so if we’re not going Mulan Stars there’s only one way to go we’re going to the fart scale you were a little torn you weren’t really sure where you were going so let’s reveal what is the quote unquote fart score for UFC Louisville two and a half explain yourself two and a half farts so as if you’re new here and you don’t know what the fart system is it stands for fights above replacement tussles and this is a system uh myself and shahen a Shadi have pioneered to kind of just put fight cards in relation to other fight cards based on you know the principles of war or whatever from from baseball and it’s what fights are above average and this card is pretty low on fights that are above average and so like there’s a you a little bit of artistry there a little leaning but Baseline any Fighters ranked in the UFC rankings they get a fart like they get a half a fart each so our main event that’s one full fart I’m not enthused frankly by Jared Kennedy versus n ovov and the viewing potential of it but that is a fight with clear Stakes between top talent so it’s above a replacement fight our second fart goes to the Thiago Moes Klein fight neither of these dudes are ranked but kind of they’re both on the fringes of ranked they’re top 25 dudes and they’re just good Fighters like I am very enthused to watch this fight so I give that a second one and then as we were talking about in The Green Room beforehand boys do you know who else happens to be ranked on this fight card there are three ranked fighters on this card Jared koner nardine imov and Dominic Reyes somehow has a UFC ranking despite losing four in a row and he hasn’t won a fight this decade he is hanging on to the number 15 for reasons that don’t quite Mak sense but by definition meant that I had to give this two and a half I briefly toyed with the idea of bumping it to a full three uh just because you know R roses Jr is certainly a popular fighter but I don’t ultimately think that what he is doing right now matters all that much it is just being active I don’t think him fighting Ricky T is substantially better than just kind of any other regular fight so two and a half FS it’s uh one of the lows of the year I think it ties the the low or maybe it’s maybe the low is three it’s it’s either two and a half or three this is not the best fight card of all time okay for a different kind of rating what’s the gymnastics scale for this one first I feel like we I feel like the fart system should use our our rankings don’t you think like cuz by our rank no I’m being generous you’re being very I’m being generous yeah uh by our rankings it’s just caner and emop we just have we have caner five we imob at 11 we certainly do not have Dominic Reyes ranked uh I’m trying to think why I would even have him in my own personal rankings because I I just want to for reference for people uh Ryan span is not ranked and the last time Dominic ryes fought Ryan span knocked his head off so that’s weird on the other hand Ryan span also has not got a win since beating Dominic Ray and so I guess they had to drop him and then put Dominic Rees back in it doesn’t make I shouldn’t try and figure this out I don’t know why why I’m trying to figure this out it doesn’t make sense I think frighteningly enough I do have Dominic Rees like really close to the top 15 I shouldn’t hate in the you know what I shouldn’t hate in the UFC rankings panel they’ve got a hard job I guess um but they’re all idiots Dana told us because they all have is as the number one they’re all morons they’re morons wear morons everyone knows Islam number one is a because who would Bill Islam as the number one pound-for-pound fighter in the world no one would promote that right surely that’s not something a company itself would do um uh secondly Mike I uh I put up a poll I don’t know if you’re looking at the YouTube now um I care I’m supposed to be the prince of positivity but there the narratives in this are going into this card are so lacking are so uh light in importance for anyone but the Fighters themselves which is fine you know again for all these Fighters the most important fight of their lives that’s fine uh then I just made a poll about polls uh my poll is what should what should today’s poll be about who wins the main event who has the most to gain Saturday what is the sleeper fight how do you rate UFC Louisville so uh it’s very meta you know I’m doing a very meta thing here and I may not even actually make a second poll I mean I’m just curious what people think the poll should be that’s where we are with UFC Louisville that’s how how low wattage this card is uh it’s like a well here’s the thing here’s a here’s my bold statement here’s my and here’s my headline here’s our headline for our our uh post right here Mike UFC Louisville could end up if we’re just talking about like in cage action being more entertaining than UFC 302 that’s not a Super H bar would be that hard no UFC 302 UFC 302 on paper already didn’t look like the most exciting card and then it like played out even worse than I think our most optimistic projections or sorry least optimistic projections so there we go there if you want Prince of positivity this card I think has several fights that could go be back and forth action-packed uh I’m thinking least off the top of my head like five or six I think could’ be worth watching so um I gave 302 a pretty high rating just because it’s a pay-per-view so I’ll give this like a I’ll give this like a seven this is let’s settle on a hard seven which uh again that’s assuming we get three or four really competitive fights and some nice highlights and most importantly a good main event which which imab and caner their last two main events were really good so we’re guaranteed a exciting Main Event right Mike this I’m with you both they’re like this will be a fun watch if you sit back and you watch this card from the first fight to the last fight I think you’re going to have a good time by Tuesday we will not speak word one about this card we will be so far past it it’s not not even funny there’ll be so many other things to discuss and the stakes I like having stakes in fights I see Joseph Boza in there saying that the winner could get a title shot I think that is just an awful take Jared caner has not been mentioned in the middleweight conversation for like two years even when he was active in winning no one was discussing him in this conversation he’s so far out of the title conversation in the U and the way the UFC views things it’s not even funny and Nasser diova is in a very similar situation both these guys at worst proba no at best are two wins away they’re two wins away and they have to be whoever wins this fight has to be super impressive I’m goingon to throw a little take Ray here the fight on this card with the most actual Stakes on it is Andrea Lee versus Montana dear Roso because they are fighting for their jobs and they’re fighting for their roster spot other than that whoever loses is probably out of the UFC other than that this is going to be a fun watch but there’s just nothing of like aftermath significance really to this at all like even if caner wins it’ll be like a good win but who’s he gonna fight he’s not going to fight Hamot Sean Strickland’s not going to fight him again it’s just crazy it it’s just one of those things caner is just kind of that guy he’s almost Curtis blades Es at this point although unlike Curtis blades he’s actually gotten his shot at the title and it was one of the worst title fights in UFC history so he’s in a tough spot uh I’m sorry to say that I also forgot Lee and delosa is a rematch 2019 I totally did not recall how did you forget how I don’t I’m I’m em J I’m embarrassed I’m embarrassed but I want the people to know that I did forget it is a rematch and that this time with with a lot on the line as Mike suggests um yeah I don’t know if I can argue against that uh I’m trying to look at the other fights here Dominic r think he’s fighting for his job no probably not yeah but figh I think Dominic Reyes is fighting for his career he’s top 15 so I mean how I mean he’s I don’t know what you guys are talking about uh this will be five in a row not a lot of people get get a chance for six in a row Tony Ferguson Sam Alie most those had well Sam Alie for different reasons it’s a short list it’s a short list that that’s the point and that’s Mike I agree with you it’s like the fart system is very critical of this on paper because the stakes I actually do think that this won’t be a bad watch most of these are competitively build you can see that in the betting lines there aren’t that many Brad Kona is the biggest favor on the card and like it’s also Brad Katona so he could absolutely get upset because that’s a thing that might very well happen certain so like these are competitive fights and if you’re watching and you’re you don’t really care this is fast food MMA for you whatever it is just food you’re probably going to enjoy it well enough like it will be fine it’ll hit the spot you got nothing else going on on Saturday but it is these are as close to meaningless as as you can be certainly each individual fighter has meaning in these fights for them but in the grand tapestry of MMA these are not even footnotes of relevance for the most part well let’s talk about this Main Event Jed I know how excited you are to talk about Jared Kera you for a year until this fight card came to be and you actually forgot that these guys are even fighting in a main event until like a week and a half ago I think I blocked it out I think was like the man the man who shall not be named Jared koner taking on nardine imov off now I’m looking at this from a betting perspective Jared ker is coming off of maybe the best performance of his career nardine neova bouncing back getting a victory in his most recent fight but nerova is the favorite here Jed are you surprised by this like I understand Canon Air’s 40 and he’s coming off of an injury it takes a little bit longer to heal as a 40-year-old I can attest to this are you surprised OV off is the favorite here no because of that right like it’s Canon years coming off an injury been out of the cage for a while people just kind of forgot like also the way the betting Market works it would not Shock me if people were like the last time Jared koner fought it was losing to Israel disia because it’s not like the Strickland or vtor fights were especially memorable certainly the Strickland fight wasn’t the vori fight was a little bit better um but you know know like he’s four years old he is smaller uh he is injured or coming off an injury been out so like it makes sense and it’s not like imav is a massive favorite like the lons currently have him minus 125 plus 105 things been close to a pick them and I think that’s about right like we’ll get to our picks but I’m probably going to side with imov just for all the reasons that we’ve sort of covered but it wouldn’t shock me if you know imov is not an amazing fighter and at his Peak caner certainly has been better so if he still got a little juice left in the tank maybe but I think it’s justifiable for him to be a slight Underdog are you surprised by that AK that koner guy who fought for the belt two wins in a row four out of his last five including the spectacular performance against Marvin vtori where he broke all kinds of records are you surprised imov off’s entering as The Slight favorite here I mean it’s so slight it’s so I’m looking at DraftKings right now imov minus 125 Kennedy are just barely plus money like plus 105 and in this situation I think they’re just looking at their ages I think they’re looking at their current form I think when it’s this close you’re like uh the oddsmakers are always going to tilt towards and probably people putting money down are going to tilt towards the younger fighter which makes sense I I imagine that’s why a lot of people are probably picking ovol to win this fight um but it’s there’s no way anyone can definiely say imov is Advantage here like I think he’s looked really good um especially against delit I thought it was good really good performance but I thought canier looked really good against vtori too it was kind of a fun little sloppy fight at times and he’s like I think he’s impressed talking about caner I think he’s impressed against a higher caliber of competition not not that the guys being aren good but again there was a Strickland fight which I will never watch again but was officially a win some people still look back and like are like called a robbery it was a very very close fight I don’t think you can say robbery either way if you think Strickland won I certainly don’t blame you um but yeah I sometimes I lean towards young guy sometimes I lean towards experience and quality of competition in this case we’ve got caneer who’s just really proven that he can gut out five round wins um which may not always be great viewing but it’s why he’s still what pretty consensus top five I think top five in our rankings top five in the UFC why he keeps getting main events so I’m tilting the other way I mean I know we’re not giving our picks quite yet but I am leaning a little bit towards um caner so but the odds don’t surprise me at all you’re going with the younger guy you’re going with the the fresher Challenger it’s just a little more fun it’s a little more fun to bet on the guy who hasn’t fought for for a UFC title yet so when I mentioned the stakes Jed I felt like no matter what happens either guys two wins away at best from getting to a title fight it could even be longer for Kon air because like I said he got his opportunity and half the international fight week crowd left the arena before the fight even got to the third round so what are these guys fighting for Jed like seriously like are they just fighting to hold their ranking spot what is the actual Finish Line here on Saturday night for whoever wins this fight like where do they go so I do think that this is this is fighting to for a title Eliminator because I do think that either man is two wins away I know that if caner wins he’s going to come out and say I want to fight for the title because he’s basically said that every time he won since the Izzy fight like I know I can do better I want to fight for the title I’ll fight whoever gets me there I want to do that and you know I respect that he has a mission he’s trying to effectuate that maybe could go about it better but whatever like he’s won three in a row two in a row three in a row now um this will be a win that for him is definitionally defending ranking but he beats imov after he’s beaten Marvin vtori after he’s beaten Sean Strickland he’s got a win over the former champ Sean Strickland now he kind of is in that spot where all right I’ve got enough wins together I get to demand a title Eliminator I know the middleweight picture is a little muddy but it will come maybe it comes at the end of the year I honestly think there is a nonzero chance a fight with Shan Strickland is on the line because I know Sean Strickland is saying I will sit and wait if Hamza chamaya wins he can’t really sit and wait anymore like I guess theoretically he could but if hamach chamaya beats Robert Whitaker we are all under the impression he will be challenging the winner of the DD DP Izzy fight that I think that that’s almost carved in stone at this moment in time and at that point then Strickland probably will need to fight somebody and running it back with caner and a no doubt about it title Eliminator I I think is reasonable if Naser ovov wins it’s the biggest one of his career Jared caner is a top five ranked middleweight in the UFC’s rankings I think he’s outside ours but I’m honestly not sure I’d have to look that up and so this will get him a spot to hey I just be the top five guy I am now a top five fighter and more importantly I’m a top five dude who hasn’t really fought the other guys I am at least a new name even if I’ve been around but you know I’m still he’s still below 30 and he’s fought Sean shukin but he hasn’t fought the rest of the top five so it’s hey I can get a fight with Robert Whitaker or Sean or Israel disa you know something like that and maybe get myself in position so I think that they are fighting for a chance for the next fight to be a title Eliminator which isn’t a bad place to be it’s just it’s tough you know when normally the main event means a little bit more than this weekend it’s one away to being one away do you agree with that AK let’s not forget Brennan Allen is hanging out there just beating everybody at this point I kind of feel like he’s the dude in Waiting is probably like the best case scenario for either guy right now unless Allen ends up getting the vtori fight but maybe enough time passes that Brandon Allen just awaits sort of the winner of this fight next I just had I just had the hilarious thought of uh Strickland caner 2 happening uh also inside the Apex making it the first making the first two fight SE two fight Main Event series to happen strictly can 2 USC Apex 100 that’s exactly what I was thinking title fight shot nothing we’re talking nothing would epitomized the UFC Apex experience more than Strickland caner 2 uh I do think Strickland is maybe too popular now to be put back in the Apex I could be wrong uh again because they’ve had popular fighters have to compete there before there’s no there’s no rule that’s says I mean but I I do think they’ve seen the reaction he gets from live crowds and you know you guys know how I feel about I’m I’m not a fan uh but he has plenty of fans and he really rils people up and it almost seems like a huge waste to take that and then like put it back in in the in the UFC Apex but it would be very very funny if it happened um yeah jar Jared is I know we should be talking as much about imov as well but it does feel like Jared is someone who um could much easier line up one of these bigger fights whoever shakes out of this kamza Whitaker Strickland equation you know that doesn’t get the um that doesn’t get the winner of DDP and Addis and that’s even assuming I I have this horrible feeling DDP be some super close fight and then they b a rematch I don’t know but uh yeah I feel like caners is a little bit closer I know what I said earlier about people wanting to see a fresh challenger but again imov has also uh still like has he just doesn’t have quite that proven record against top 15 competition while kir again he’s probably much only fought top 15 competition for the last few years um so yeah I I I do think it’s along the line I do think we’re pretty spoton with the two away um the top of the middleweight division has been pretty compelling over the last few years so you know nothing’s guaranteed someone could always leave frog in like you said maybe Brenan Allen maybe Kyle Balo has a big performance and then they push him there’s a Brazil show they got to do uh maybe sh bullet I don’t know makes some mad rush to the top of the charts it’s very possible and just Leap Frogs koner or OV but if things play out in a logical way which they always do in MMA then um yeah whoever wins on Saturday should uh be talking to their management talking to the UFC and letting them know that yeah their plan is to fight for a title soon and don’t forget iela scara’s fighting next week too be a name he’s going to be a name that’s going to be a problem B nickols on the come up so there’s going to be a lot of this division is going to get real salty real quick so if you’re going to make a move now is the time to do so let’s make it official Jed Nasser neov off the favorite minus 125 according to our friends at DraftKings Jared kir comes back a plus 105 you said you feel like you’re probably going to pick OV off is the probably turning into definitely here yeah I’m picking ovov um if caner still has some juice then this will be at least competitive and interesting um long layoff coming off the injury old I I just got to see it I can’t trust that and ovov is a big dude who is going to work more than caner and so it will be up to caner to land kind of fight altering shots I mean he and he can do that certainly that’s kind of how he got the the Nodge from Strickland Just Landing more but uh I think historically this all of the trends lean towards ovov and so I’m I’m back backing ovov my decision for what it’s worth AK caner I’m going caner decision yeah I I uh I wanted to pick a knockout I was hoping Something’s Gonna Give uh caner has never been finished at middleweight uh I think imov has never been ko’ed he might have been submitted Once Upon a Time yeah he’s subed once but never been koed so it does feel highly unlikely that this ends inside the distance but imab was pretty close to finish delit in his fight I feel like kener would have uh the way he fought um um what’s it vtori excuse me would have knocked out anyone that wasn’t named Marv vtor because he cracked him with some some bombs and there was a time when kir was a pretty uh uh strong finisher then you know you raised the level of competition unit those Knockouts certainly become less frequent I’ll I’ll be boring here and say can nearby decision but damn I’d really like to see one of these guys hurt the other guy and just go For Broke and find a finish and really make a statement give us give us some give the people something to talk about on the post bite show but if I’m being reasonable and measured which is my name my middle name really then I have to go kir by decision yeah I mean if kir was like fully healthy and like didn’t have to come back from a tough injury at the age of 3940 I probably would pick Canon air but yeah the youth just all of that man it just catches up to you as talented and as good as koner has been I just kind of feel like I’m going with the young buck here um I do not think this will be Brandon Allen Chris Curtis 2 by any stretch of the imagination I think it’ll be competitive I don’t think it’s going to be a fight we’re going to go back and watch a second time but it will be it’ll be very chess matchy and things could get a little gritty down the stretch but I’ll go with emoov to win a decision to close the night off but I do think this is one of those it’s a close fight it could go either nothing would really surprise me here but I will go ovop based on the youth and yeah it’s really it and him not coming off of a pretty significant injury at 40 years of age so good fight looking forward to it as you mentioned we do have Dominic Reyes versus Dustin jacobe big one there we have R roses Jr coming back now 19-year-old R roses Jr taking on Ricky turos Jed I’ve I have to ask you this I’m you know I dabble into the uh picking the the ponies for certain cards in fact I’ll be joining you on no bets bar next week uh some breaking news breaking news I feel like R roses Jr at minus 225 might be the steal of the century considering that he’s fighting Ricky Jos who cannot defend a single take down toic to take Downs you can’t can’t do them he’s not a not into it it’s opposed yeah uh it’s I’m on that bet because I also have a bit of a flyer play on r Rus Jr by KO TKO just because for situations like this like the the price gets Juiced on sub but just getting a TKO finish with punches on the ground is also like equally as likely uh but yeah I mean this fight requires no breakdown Ricky teros cannot defend takedowns and R roses Jr is only gonna try and do one thing he’s probably gonna succeed so yeah uh great matchmaking I mean this is this is how you do it boys and girls this is how you build yourself a star but uh we know what’s about to occur were you gonna say something AK I’m sorry I want to raise a question M but I wasn’t sure if you’re done if you want to finish your card rundown little rundown there first I pleas please chime in I I thought about this before when I was trying to come up with again anything to talk about this card who on outside the top three fights let’s go outside the top three fights I think we can all agree uh R roses Jr is a future UFC Apex main aventor what a prestigious title uh who outside of the top three fights will eventually Main Event a UFC Apex card it’s great question it’s tough it could be I think you’re no let’s say you have to pick one you can’t say no one you can’t say no one say no one yeah well I mean there’s let me check to see I’ll say first time that has not that is not let me check to see if this man has actually done it already because I’m sure everyone’s saying Thiago Moises and they’re forgetting that he I was thinking like Dustin jacobe feels like a guy who would Main Event in Apex outside the top yeah outside the top three yeah outside the top three um uh I mean there’s one clear answer right it’s got to be Bruno fetta because he’s at least fun yeah like what like he just kill like get or get got so if he just gets a couple of people and then they put him in there against Jared Kanan or random middleweight feels like that could happen I can see man this is really tough there’s no one else maybe maybe Danny Marco like maybe Daniel Marcos I could see I could see them chucking in good old Chuck Buffalo into a main event they like him they like him I mean he’s gonna I don’t think you can have a man who’s not allowed to speak on a microphone in the main event of an apex please dude that’s perfect for the Apex that’s perfect that’s perfect Apex headliner right there they really like him he speaks his mind all that stuff I D boy I mean in today’s UFC none of these dudes would surprise me being a main event there Cody staman now for it but yeah uh Taylor lapis maybe I mean I know he just lost to a boser but like he still got some some shine to him and losing to a bash’s not really bad yeah not a lot of Main Event options here I’ll throw out eduarda MOA if she once she gets out of strawweight I think she has realized maybe she’s not a draw weight back toback weight misses did she she miss weight she did half a half P my girl half a pound this time the first time three and a half pounds for her used to debut so two for two wait misses maybe go to 125 but she’s got intrig she has finishing power she’s undefeated uh so I don’t think she’d be the aside I don’t think it’d be like MOA ver like whatever UFC Apex 104 MOA versus it’ll be like you know some some veteran we know at flyweight versus MOA so I’ll go eduard Mora I think we we’ll see her in an apex Main Event someday uh maybe 2025 I love her coming off Contender series and I love she’s cheating um she wasn’t a top prospect because she’s old but I was like she got enough game she’s gonna be good and then she’s coming in and I’m betting on her and she’s missing weight to give me that extra Advantage uh that’s really I gotta tell you guys that is the key to gambling I’ve decided because as a fighter you are losing money as just a person betting on them you actively want your Fighters that you’ve bet on to miss weight because they’re just getting more more points of Edge on them so way to go Mara love that for you baby let’s do the thing on Saturday yes uh Bruno Ferrer Dustin stus on the main card Julian Marquez Zach Reese on the main card I don’t think either of those fights get to round two and then we’ll also have Miguel bayaza he’s back so many people have been asking where he’s been uh he’s fighting Puna Sorano who drops to welterweight after a tough stretch at 185 Lova Klein versus Thiago Moises a lot of people excited for that Charles racky Carlos PES Andrew Lee Montana De la Rosa loser leaves town one would assume Brad Katona huge favorite nearly minus 700 against Jesse Butler Danel Marcos John cassan should be fun Ed MOA versus Denise Gomes Cody samon Taylor lapis and then curtain jerker Ryan do Santos versus Puja Tomar Jed lowkey banger what’s the fight you’re looking forward to the most uh whether people are talking about it or not where are you at I mean we’ve talked about it a bunch it’s one of two fights on this card that got a fart and it’s Thiago Moyes lud Klein um it’s the prelim main event for I think pretty obvious reasons ter Moes is just awesome like he is a really really fun fighter uh Jose mentioned this on BTL yesterday but like we’ve been talking about all week we talked about on no best part this week he’s only lost to hitters and like he’s fought a bunch of hitters and so that’s tough like losing to Beno sandini and Arman or Islam makev and Joel Alvarez and Benny derush like that’s everyone loses to those people so there’s that’s no knock on you and then when you’re not doing that you are just being a really fun very very talented fighter he is like the exact litmus case that I present when I’m like hey in just about any other weight class a dude with this level of skill and ability would be a top 15 fighter and he can’t get there at lightweight because it’s just an impossible at this weight class like it’s so hard to crack into that spot because you might randomly get you know Demus mul off or whatever is here’s gonna be a guy that you have to face and like well that sucks for me man he’s awesome and Ludovic kin has been on like a very very good run right now like uh was it like five six in a row something like that there’s a draw tucked in there somewhere but like a really good run uh cincin land wear fight like has been showing that he is improving he’s better and this is just going to be a like a good fight dudes who can fight in All Phases it will be a competitive lightweight scrap AK I actually think because there’s so much on the line I do think the Andrea Lee Montana Del Roa fight is going to be just a just a good back and forth possibly quite bloody brawl I think I think we’re GNA see some some damage being done here by these ladies Matana delosa is like a you know as a finisher I mean she she it’s unfortunate that her um we’re saying her UFC career is on the line because she’s really pretty exciting when she’s in there uh Andrew Lee I would say maybe not so much does tend to go to some uneventful decisions here and there but she’s had some she’s had some good fights in her career as well and I do think putting them together is probably the right decision at the stage of their careers um so I’ll I’ll go with that I like that one I I had to say I had to bring up about um Brad Katona being such a monster favorite uh it makes sense Jesse Butler the last time we saw him well weirdly it was two weight classes up he was fighting he had to fight she just jumped in a short notice to fight Jim Miller he’s not a lightweight he’s a he’s fighting at 135 in this fight and unsurprisingly got annihilated in 15 seconds by Jim Miller so I don’t think Jesse Butler is quite that bad but Brad does have a habit of handling uh mid to low tier Talent pretty easily like that’s kind of his you know if you look at brona’s record it’s like yeah he fights he he’s he’s a mid-tier guy but he’s like the top of the mid tier he’s a high tier mid-tier guy if that makes sense um but I I am a little shocked that over one and a half rounds is only minus 450 I guess that has do the fact that they think like Butler is that far like beneath Katona as far as like their their talent Gap goes but yeah I didn’t know that I’ll be uh Brad Katona I was looking for a third leg of a bay and that that sounds like I just found it he’s my fellow Canadian I like I just found that he’s my fellow Canadian he does not finish me full he just does not finish J SP a lot of money on over don’t I needed a third leg to over one and a half well that’s a over one and a half over one and a half is- 450 450 shocking to me like any braaton by over one a half should be like minus 10,000 it it’s just shocking to me love the guy does not finish fights he will probably win on on sck don’t mind me I’m just on our dear friend at DraftKings right now please so there’s there’s one so there might be one bet I might place on this card I don’t think Cody staman should be a plus 225 Underdog to Taylor lapis I really don’t I just don’t see it he’s fought way better dudes he’s a little older now he gave morab a pretty tough fight and from all accounts everybody that I’ve talked to who has like been in the gym with Cody just like conversationally just asked them like who should we watch out for that no one’s talking about without me even finishing the sentence it’s Cody staman unanimously like everybody that’s training at extreme Couture right now like dude he’s locked in different cat wait to see what he does in the cage and I just plus 225 just seems so wide I feel like there’s a ton of value on him at plus 225 so I might pull a trigger on little Cody stamman bet at plus 225 he’s kind of like be involved in any of these people this week if he was like plus 150 I probably wouldn’t do it but plus 225 seems awful wide for especially with the level of competition he’s fought he he’s also like made a career of being a spoiler kind of I mean I know that’s maybe that’s kind of how it started maybe it’s not the way it is now but I remember so Tyrion wear no okay he was favorite there Tom dukw he was definitely the underdog uh Al Perez he was F okay but I do remember people having definitely having bigger names than him and him for the most part doing well I guess that’s not the situation here but yeah I like I like your thinking Mike I agree it’s um it’s a little a little disrespectful to Cody to be two to one Underdog andopolis is good but uh I will shout out not for gambling purposes I’d say we got Puja Tomar the first Indian uh born woman competing in the UFC so good for her uh pretty sizable Underdog plus 270 and that makes sense she’s very not good at fighting listen uh I do think and I think Randa Santos is actually very good at fighting I know she lost in her debut but it wasn’t like it wasn’t like she got smoked or anything um so yes the odds here I think are fine are very accurate but I just want totally reasonable odds history in the making I’m just saying history in the making don’t bet but uh I will say Tune In Tune in please and you if you have a free afternoon tune in to the here’s the shout out that the Puja deserves because shout out to her team and her manager because she she did this right because if you’ve ever seen this woman you saw her getting wailed on in one Championship periodically for the last like four years because all she did was lose in one championship and then clearly they sat her down and we’re like hey this isn’t working here’s what we’re gonna do we’re gon to put you into a place called Matrix Fighting Championship I’ve never heard of this it’s fine you’re gonna fight Stone Cold bums you’re gonna fight a couple of them real fast and look good and then we’re going to send that highlight reel to the UFC and suddenly you get to be in the UFC see it’s exactly what happened credit to her that’s how you manage your career yep that’s good man that is very very good management and she came from losing to stamp Fair Tex and fought a z00 fighter like that is managing a career and guess what for for all time she she’ll be the first Indian woman to compete in the UFC yeah win or lose she doesn’t have to win a single doesn’t matag Denver wins she’s now in the history books no hate here I love people who know how to work the system that’s what khabib did when everyone’s like khabib had all these cans actually he had one year where he fought eight dudes back to back to back because they just wanted to get into the UFC so like fight dudes every other weekend it doesn’t matter if they’re bums because he fought some good people when he was doing the normal progression and it was like here’s seven dudes in 20 like 2007 or whatever it was kill them all and then the UFC is gonna hire you because you have a 16 and0 record and that’s exactly what happened it worked that’s how you build Fighters all right well let’s take a let’s take a few questions before we get out of here I think we’ve exhausted like all the relevant story lines here we have one Super Chat Mike I don’t know if you say it’s not a question what Super Chat we do we do or or not it’s not Super Chat it is a I guess it’s a comment from a member I don’t know how these things work where’s Casey where’s Casey it’s not a super chat it’s a can we just said wearing my Jed Hearts Canon share to the event there you go nice um nice loves can oh there’s there’s one Mike I just don’t want I don’t think it’s a good question but it is I mean I’m not gonna read this but uh it’s a question about the just fine promotional work that walking Buckley and Jamal Hill have been doing over the past few weeks Jed who’s been worse walking Buckley or Jamal Hill again there so we talked about this at the very end of yesterday there is a world where what Jamal Hill was trying to execute this week was a good idea poorly executed but a good idea of I it seems like three three might be in trouble maybe if I talk a little bit of greasiness I can get a rematch with Alex pra who will jump in to save the card if that was the kernel of the idea it’s a good idea wildly miscalculated his his handling of this but there’s the least that I don’t understand I mean I understand them they are just fundamentally bad ideas and poor execution from walking Buckley I will not defend Jamal Hills comments um because I think they’re very silly walking Buckley coming for Cub Swanson was not on my bingo card for 2024 and shouldn’t have been on anyone’s bingo card because it’s a very very silly thing to do he gains nothing for it but looking like at best he looks like a bully to a like a beloved 145 and at worst he looks like an idiot because he says a bunch of factually inaccurate stuff and that’s the route he went by the way because I don’t know guys Cub Swanson has been ranked and actually was ranked much higher than you’ve ever been ranked walking Buckley so Buckley is doing by far worst job uh it’s just been it’s tough tough for the Michigan boys right now Jed is right I think as far as uh fight relevant trash talk though but Hill definitely loses for the weird um I’ve got 20K come down to the gym whoever’s critici wa I was he I don’t know maybe I didn’t watch the video was he saying just come down anyone come down spar with me and like get in the cage with me and I’ll give you $20,000 or something like that what was he made he made another video to clarify I go get my ass yeah I was like give that’s fine what what did he what was the clarification Mike like you got to go in there and do work against him what if you if you beat it like I guess if you beat him you get 20 grand oh you have to beat him you have to beat him okay yeah but I’m like how do you not make that clear the first time because that’s a good clarification for him to make that’s not how the internet works just like me I only saw the first video I only heard about the first thing I guarantee you 90% of the people who are aware of this this stunt that Jamal Hill tried are only aware of the first part they don’t care about the clarification it sounded stupid just offering any random J sounds stupid even even if it’s you have to beat me because I don’t know if you understand this you beating being better at fist fighting than me does not mean my opinions are incorrect what like what what Jamal like Jamal I mean listen on the rank on the list of dumbass things that Jamal has said this doesn’t even probably make the top 10 but it is recent and it is just continuing a string of stupid uh so I did I that I hated so I’ll go I’ll give the point point the point I guess to Jamal here we’re giving points we had a discussion on uh the ranking show about most annoying Fighters uh right now pound-for-pound and Jamal and Buckley just go just battling it out at the top just really for fluctuating poor Henry cejudo can’t keep up anymore no I’m sad like I know I I do want to take Jamal Hills thing and just I just want to bite it and now i’ be like I will challenge any man who is talking about me in the comments to a spelling bee for $6,000 and if I win then you need to shut up because my ability to spell clearly means that what I have to say is more relevant it’s just the most childish I’ve ever heard it’s too bad too because he was the MVP of UFC 300 fight week he made that fight way more interesting and could all been fine it’s just yeah would have all been fine if you’re just like yeah man I lost even if like even I know how much you hated the dare to be great thing but even if he was just like dare to be great hats off live with it you win yeah I could at least live with that even if I hate it but like it has always baffled me how much people have stolen from Connor and Chael and that and just like I’m going to do this bit and not gotten the full bore of the gimmick because both Connor and CH when they have lost have been unbeliev ably classy about it like both immediately and later like then they might change their tune a little bit but it has always been hey man better guy beat me I’ll show up to the press conference and talk even in defeat because like that’s the business that’s what is done and so few like so many people want to do the I’mma hype this fight up and then don’t want to follow through on that point and it’s so frustrating to like do it but just do all of it and what the other thing that makes Hill worse is like we know Hill is a really good fighter like I think Buckley’s good too I think Buckley’s good but we know Hill has like can he’s beaten someone in the top five tasher was was the champion he the CH he won the freaking title well I mean he wasn’t the CH he was the vacant whatever vacant title but tasher was at worst one of the top three ranked light heavyweights in the world at the time you know so we know that Hill has that upside Buckley maybe down the road will too we don’t know but he hasn’t proven it yet uh Hill is just so irritating because he’s a good fight and his fights are exciting like the as much as it sucked to see him beat up Glover like it wasn’t a bad fight it was a it was an awesome fight it unbelievable performance I was rooting for Glover all the way but he’ll beat his ass and it was a really good fight I would I would rewatch that fight I mean it was it’s a very good fight um and so for him to like throw away so much Goodwill with this weird just just just a turd burglar attitude of his is like so frustrating to see so I hey it’s getting him attention I understand this is the game like you said jet everyone wants to have their own sort of McGregor Edge weird Edge thing and just just don’t do it right but a lot of them feel like it’s getting them more attention than they would otherwise maybe we’re talking about J Mill more than when he was just winning fights I know that’s not the case with us specifically I think if you go back to shows when Jamal Hill was up and coming we were all saying like this guy’s a future champion this guy’s exciting like we C we we liked Jamal Hill I we really did I you can find go watch a show where I preview or or do a post fight show on after Jamal Hill fight I know there’s at least one where I’m like this guy absolutely could be a top five guy this guy could be a champion and uh now I just don’t feel like talking about that aspect of him at all because of all the other stuff this is not the attention you want though like this is XB he this is this is tur the channel heat you don’t want that like this is not what you want Buckley is like turn the channel heat right now Jamal Hill is getting there too and let me tell you something if he goes out and gets dusted up by Carlos olberg which is very possible on June 29th he’s effed like he is in deep deep trouble in this division I’m G look like a genius if that happens are you calling it yeah no I’ve just like I said after the Glover fight I was like I was pretty consistent that was such an outlier unbelievable performance that I can’t help thinking Cody garbrandt we’re like Cody garbrandt was good and then his performance in dominant Cruz was so outside of the realm of expectation because it was so unbelievable and then he never got there again I was like kind of feels like maybe Jamal Hill might be that dude and you know we got a long way that could be not the case if he lose the alberg we’re we’re working on it AK one thing off what you said though the fundamental difference between these two individuals is that Buckley I believe is trying to do this like this is Buckley trying to get famous I think this is just Hill being himself but like who he is is this very deep down and he is personally offended by comments on the internet which is a really bad way to live your life but like I I comped him yesterday and I have thought about this overnight and I think it’s absolutely on the money Jamal Hill is just Jon Jones if Jon Jones Lost like if Jon Jones wasn’t as good because this is exactly how Jon would react for everything that’s happened in the same way because we see how John reacts when good things happen like he I just they’re just the same kind of person in that regard into the what they take as slights and how they view it and being very online and it’s it’s not good it’s not good to be too online I encourage everyone to get offline more yes it’s been tremendously helpful uh to me this year uh I’m barely online for anything Celtics gamees like I might retweet something or just throw one thing up I’m not on there like tweeting every five seconds I I just can’t do it I gotta stay away Gotta Stay Away Joseph BOS had two questions we’ll go with this one because you already answered the other one uh if Dominic Reyes loses that’s five in a row is he a name that Dana keeps or is there talks about his future if Dustin jacobe wins I think you or Jed said it earlier that it’s not the UFC that’s going to need to talk to him maybe his friends and family in this team need to but it’s so weird because uh I get it we talk about things in MMA years more than like their actual years because 34 is old for an athlete young for light heavyweight young for light heavyweight he’s he’s in great shape still right I mean it’s it’s the chin we’re all worried about for sure it’s maybe the reflexes have lost a step which again you can’t really afford to do when you’re dealing with Heavy Hitters in this Division I it’s like part of me once say that this time off and now this will be what 18 months or something like that is has been so good for him because as far as I know he didn’t have like a notable injury right um uh uh he’s been he’s just been taking time off right and that’s like something we always act like we always wish Fighters had the luxury to do so if that’s the case and it’s not like health or some other things going on in his life that has catch him out of the cage then this is a good thing maybe he really is resting recovering mentally physically just getting whatever you can like regenerate of that chin like it never comes back all the way but maybe it can help him and then who knows maybe he can he can rattle off another like seven or eight UFC fights I don’t know I don’t know a fifth loss would be extremely troubling um it’s so weird to say that he’s just like done done uh but yes how can he and his family and his team not have that conversation after so I think it’ll more yeah the decision will more come down on his side than uh than the officials it just he’s had some BL clots um say I thought he was injured after the year fight but I can’t recall because I know he had a big layoff after that one I thought that that was because he got hurt in that fight but yeah I mean the blood clots were why the Carlos elberg fight fell apart um Oh I thought that was elberg injury or was it both of them oh wait it got rescheduled it was elberg then him then him yes that’s dude the yuie one was just bad man like that was one of the scariest Knockouts I’ve ever seen that was my knockout of the year that year and that was coincident enough I think I was the only one who had that that was my fight of the year that year as well that fight if you guys have never seen Dominic ryes versus Yuri prashka I know if you’re newer fans and you hear that fight now it probably scares you a little bit and boy does the ending scare you but before that ending happens it is fire it is fire those two beat the out of each other guys is this actual Tom Aspen in our chat because Tom if you’re are here watching I want to be really clear there’s been no bigger stand of you than me so no way be on top of it I mean I can’t speak whether that’s true or not Tom aspal official it is 100% not Tom aspal that’s definitely not him could be Tom Aspen I I checked I checked Tom aspal went on the Mixed Martial Arts hour the most important program in all of MMA was in studio AR helani and said once his fight Camp begins once his fight is announced he will not be on social media he will not be on YouTube he will not be texting anybody oh yeah that’s true this is us you know like just like CH yeah it’s like when I like the real beis and butt hit are here the real chill p sunon is here I mean all the CBS in our chat right now I know this is the real Brandon qfg this better be Brandon qfg this better be the real you otherwise oh I see cross cross love to have you here man the real I hope this is a real cross oh it’s the best um there you go there’s Jed’s arch nemesis Aspen with two L’s how about that love love it Tommy Aspen asol and mostly I was just trying to not talk about Dominic gyes because it’ll be like he is he is a I honestly think the only fighter I’m I’ve ever pity rooted for like I don’t have a huge emotional connection to Dominic Reyes I don’t frankly Care One Way or Another what occurs in his fights but like I desperately want to win just for some semblance of of life to be okay for him because when you think about it this man should have gotten the win over Jon Jones his legacy whatever happened afterwards should forever be I’m the guy who beat Jon Jones he was robbed of that and then hasn’t won a fight since that is so disheartening in such a like significant way that despite me not being like a Dominic great as fan or honestly caring I really want him to beat Dustin jacobe just because he like deserves something good to happen to him yeah see you want to talk about the quality of the card and the stakes there’s like no questions about this no I I I asked I sent out another call for questions and uh all right uh I’m I’m G throw this one up there yeah why not uh I of hear M journalists need to keep him professional when giving their takes when did Jed decide to say F that and start giving spicy takes on the regular like his Ortega hate now here’s a couple things I want to say one uh I feel like as a as an entity we are the most like objective and honest crew like if something is bad we’re going to tell you it’s bad uh if it’s great we’re going to tell you it’s great that’s just the way that it is not everything is great just like in every other bit of sports coverage if the Thursday night football game sucks probably going to tell you that it sucks as will they but that’s besides the point we’re we’re here to tell you what we know and we’re here to be honest with you we’re not here to be phony balone there are some people who will do that we are not going to do that we’re going to keep it 100 the other thing I will say and I’ll let Jed respond to this as long as I have been here Jed never said f that and started giving spicy takes do drop spicy takes on the r it’s always been that way um you know some things have built up Ortega steepe Michael Chandler Etc but you’ve always just become gimmicks yeah but BT like your first appearance on BTL I immediately was like all right he’s gonna be here every week because this is just this is what we needed I need need somebody yeah you’re you’re never missing a show and I think you’ve been on 187 times since so I guess talk about like was there an F that moment or has it just always been like this for you so there’re just I just have two related answers and one is I actually think I am professional still um agre like I am not I am not buttoned up you know in that way and that’s kind of sort of how I’ve always been but like I I try and draw pretty clear lines of I don’t like make personal attacks on who Fighters are as humans other than to say like generically Michael Chandler sucks you know but I’m not like I try to keep at least some level of professionalism in there where I am just saying my opinion on stuff and not like running someone down as a human being unless frankly they deserve it so I do think that there is like a line that I have pretty clearly in my mind on what I would and wouldn’t do uh but mostly the answer is like I agree that I am not historically professional or however you want to phrase this like am not like the general concept of that but I’ve never wanted to be or cared to be that because this isn’t like I’m just trying to like live a gimmick or be Stephen A Smith I don’t know like I don’t want to work for ESPN or like I you know if they want to pay me a bunch of money I’ll work for anyone but that’s not how I in like interact with the sport and so it would be weird to come on like these programs and be very buttoned up and mind my p’s and q’s because I view this as I mean I mean you guys are legitimately my friends outside of our work thing but I view this as an extension of the way I would interact with my friends about sports and stuff like it is toned down a little bit I don’t say the same jokes I would say with my buddies out on the golf course or whatever like that is kind of the professional line but this is still a fun thing that we are doing and I want to interact with people in the sport like this like a real human being and not like a newscaster because I’m not a newscaster and so that’s kind of just where I’ve always been is I have thoughts and I’m going to say it and sometimes I’ll turn the thoughts up to 11 and sometimes if something’s hitting then maybe that does become a gimmick and maybe like maybe I offhandedly one time said Michael Chandler sucks because I was feeling that and now that’s just like part of my personality and I’m okay with that but like that’s just kind of where it is because I’ve I you guys answered this the other day on your Q&A for on to the next one and I loved your answers about like the hey I to get into MMA and this is what I want to do and what advice would you give me and as I was listening to it are kind of the thing that I thought and that I have given when people have asked me is you just gota just be yourself and be as much of yourself as possible because it’s like you’re never going to succeed in this business and you’re never going to succeed in life in general it’s just really hard to like climb the ladder of anything and so just do you and do you to the maximum and then even even if you don’t find your your community and people gravitate to you you can still be happy with what you have done and produced and that’s it like I I like that people that there are people who like you know my thoughts and the way things happen but if everyone tomorrow was like that dude sucks not hate him but that’s fine I had fun and that’s because that’s the thing that matters most boom nailed it completely agree well said uh I’ll take a couple more Jed Mike and AK question how long before the UFC is completely out of the Apex for good oh excited for this L crowd yeah AK over under never over under never uh way over over I was say what does that mean over okay yeah duration of time uh way over it’s just it just there’s just no reason for them not to use it as long as they plan to do eventually they’re going to want to do 52 weeks a year and the Apex probably want to do more than 52 you know what probably do more than two cards a year eventually they’ll start wedging in uh not even cting Contender series I meaning more than 52 UFC cards a year and they’re going to need that Apex to just keep shotting these bodies in and out and getting those uh getting those broadcast deals and yeah they’re they’re never going to leave it it it just the operating cost is just so low uh compared to again the benefits of having it available and what they can do in there if you’re a business person it just makes too much sense to keep it so it’s never it’s never going away we’re going to get less of it but it’s never going away ah the man who’s wrong most of the time milles Jr just adding to cracked me up I saw it and I chuckled I was like M six J sucks Mike sucks this card sucks I mean way to use that’s efficient 10 words perfectly I mean well done true that is true that is true Mavs and six no it this is not happening guys like it’s just not happen last night wasn’t inspiring for that bet no the Celtics like played well they played pretty well for three quarters but they still haven’t played great they still haven’t and this the m just don’t have the dep half that’s pretty good man it was solid the Celtics team is so so talented it’s so well built it’s upset it was me it was khabib Ali quenta that’s what it was they took the third they literally took a quarter off and still won by double digits against a team that can score this I never root for the Celtics but I’m rooting for Al Horford also I met him in real life by accident once and just an obnoxiously large human being there’s no way that the Dallas Mavericks can beat the Celtics team four out of seven times which is not possible be shocking baring like a a plane crash that kills like half the Celtics team that’s about it I honestly don’t see how they even win you should not put that into the world I hate Boston so uh it’s fine G to do it it was that was the best that I will say this it was the best that was the best game they played all postseason for sure even though they took off the third quarter that was the best game they played all postseason they could have been up what were they up after the first quarter like uh um 19 or something like that they could have been up like 17 they could have been up like 25 like they oh at half they missed they missed open shots like I’m like this is no nothing that I saw in that game and I’m not saying that like every you know every game’s different but like that the Mavericks can win the series I there’s no way there’s almost no way if both teams are healthy there’s just no way white regg I was a hater man man good Lord he is a Mavs fan so salty and angry he might be a Mavs just that Luca that Luca just played his heart out last night and it just wasn’t good enough man just wasn’t good enough you guys are just beat winners you’re the worst winners this is I’m with you I’m with ched listen they’re gonna win it just just get used to they’re they’re gonna win I don’t have to watch it that’s fun I watched the first quarter and then bailed because like this game is over yeah I watched like a half I watched a half and that was about it it’s tremendous man like it was just it was it was solid it was solid it’s just way more fun to watch Boston people wallow in failure and when you get the Celtics to get one then you don’t have to be sad anymore and it’s much more enjoyable like one of my best friends is from Boston and I gotta tell you I don’t believe it like Tom Brady is unequivocally the go to football like it’s not it’s not up for debate it’s deeply fun to watch him have an existential crisis every time Patrick momes is in the Super Bowl it is the most fun I have all year just been like that gu pretty good look at him Tom couldn’t scramble around back there like that and just lose his mind it’s it’s quite fun to watch Boston news so would be the worst go Ms go Ms I hope I’m I want Horford needs a ring but yeah be fun Horford does Al Horford definitely deserves a ring I have to say and I’ll be I’ll be completely honest with the world someone had asked me this on heck of morning and I and I stand by it if I could get one whether it be the Celtics or the Bruins winning one I would have picked the Bruins I would have picked the Bruins this year why why were they just better were they better than the Celtics yeah it’s just I mean I just like I love I love all my teams but it’s it’s Red Sox Patriots Brewing Celtics like I’m a I love the Bruins man but they all always win didn’t the Bruin they’ve won a sanley cup in the last decade haven’t it hasn’t been that long since the last am I crazy 1 like over a decade ago we haven’t won in so we haven’t won in so long it’s 201 it’s only been like it’s like I’m just kidding I’m kid 201 dude look we are spoil like trust me I team left for Winn AAG forever Thrashers forever Thrashers for Thrashers games are fun as now they’re in Winnipeg see you you guys are all saying like how like I am as a Boston fan if this was me on MMA fighting doing a live show like this 10 years ago the the energy levels would be a million times higher I would be insufferable right now I would be insufferable win lose like I could I would have to be banned from shows every time a Boston team is in the the postseason like it would just be awful so just just be happy that my life like where I rank these sporting events is nowhere near as high as it once was because it was bad I I was that that you all that you all hated we all know we all had them in our that it is for not a very large city Boston seems to have bured 10 billion people because everyone has friends in their friend group yeah yeah even they pervasive it’s very you’re a very weird species yeah but see then you got Maine New Hampshire even like parts of Connecticut Rhode Island they all claim Boston they all claim none of all of the people I know from like that are you know socks Pats fan they’re all actually from Boston and it really boggles my mind how a small City can can export that many massholes Mike I mean I see it I see yeah we see it I think this be a good good question to sign off on because this we should be we should be answering this every day right I think we need daily updates because I don’t we answered then we can put it in the headline yeah sure UFC Louisville preview show does Conor McGregor fight Michael CH UFC 303 you could do a lot more you could do a lot worse I’m open to that being the headline Conor released some training footage Wednesday late Wednesday evening we okay that could be we don’t know when that’s from honestly that could have been from like two weeks ago we don’t know but there’s training footage out there obviously he he and his team know what they’re doing they’re just trying to you know uh whatever wet people’s appetites maybe make them convince them that the fight’s still happening it probably will but the whole lack of explanation from him and from the UFC is so bizarre it’s not bizarre it’s not bizarre I’m sorry it’s not bizarre it’s actually typical um but it is frustrating it is frustrating it doesn’t make it easier to take I I am honestly strongly leaning towards the fight not happening on the 29th but I have that’s just a gut feeling I have no Insight information I have no it’s not based on anything particular that I’ve seen from or not seen um but I think I’m leaning towards no I’ve now come all the way around when we did the ranking show I was 6040 that it would happen after that I was like it just started looking way less likely and then I was of the opinion that the reason everything has been so quiet is because they are trying to find a solution so they can present never present your boss with a problem present your boss with the problem and the solution for that problem and I was like that’s what they’re trying to do here and then I’ve come all the way back around I’m like 85% that this fight is still going to happen so um both because Ariel you know has said that he very positive and just kind of the energy feels like this fight is going to happen and uh maybe one day we’ll get to know why all of this weirdness happened for this week maybe it was all a clever ruse to get us talking about something other than the lackluster Louisville card but uh I’d love to know what happened I assume that one day we will get that information but I I feel pretty confident we’re getting it the fight now yeah guys you know what’s going to happen Dana chose up in Louisville which by the way if the Celtics had lost last night I would have completely blamed Dan way because I think he’s like 0 and 116 going the Celtics playoff games oh that’s not a good resume sort of go me and as soon as I saw him in the crowd I’m like they’re gonna blow this lead and they’re done because he is a jinx in these situations but I’m telling you like Ariel laid it out perfectly if Dana is asked about this at the UFC Louisville press post fight press conference he’s going to say something to the effect of don’t listen to the media it’s you didn’t hear from us they’re just drumming up stuff to get their clicks like that’s what he’s going to say even though we kind of know what’s going on I’m gonna pre-write that Med pretty clearly not even said anything the media said that the press conference was canceled which is an objective fact postponed postponed as if they’re going to reschedule which there’s no way you can res fly Michael Chandler during his weight cut to here n here’s a good comment here’s a good comment Jun would rather see blamed become a double Champion than see Boston win we’d all want that funny yeah who wouldn’t want that no one wants that everyone that’s pretty pretty I think B’s gonna beat Leon I think I’m selling myself on that you might it would really I’m selling myself on below you’re selling yourself on it you don’t want to regret it Jed the fight’s gonna be just the worst watch you’ve ever seen like it’s going to be very close 12 strikes a round per person greens as you laid it out uh lazy bed with the message digestion dear Jed see you next week sincerely landscaper that was you with the YouTube video that was some A+ yesterday that that was great stuff great stuff uh guys one Championship as an event they’re still around at least for a little while longer is that going on right now I don’t know when that happens ryzen’s got a card coming up like late Saturday night NXT he is at the uh the world’s most famous Apex yes for Battleground no ksw is happening right now is tonight build the austo Sakai let’s go oh God uh we’ll have a people’s pre-fight show tomorrow 30 minutes before UFC Louisville post fight show all that stuff AK and I oh no you’re not going to be here AK are you not this weekend no no that’s right that’s right so ched you sign up for on to the next one duty on Sunday or I mean I’m I’m actually working Sunday morning so sure maybe go Jed and I will do some matchmaking and then uh yeah we’ll get ready for the UFC’s return to the world’s most famous Apex that’s Z Tyra versus Alex Perez so for AK for Jedi and mikek hopefully Casey’s back next week or tomorrow good night everybody love y’all