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You're listening to believe you me with Michael the Count Bisbing and Anthony Lionheart Smith.

Ladies and gentlemen, at the weekend, UFC 300 was one of the most spectacular UFC events, one of the best night of combat sports that we have ever seen. Okay? Top to bottom, ridiculous fights. Even though a lot of people went out there and talked shit before it.

You're all eating your words now.

And guess what? Look at this. Look at who I am joined by today.

The one, the only, the victorious at.

The weekend, Hinata money.

Moy Kano, brother, thank you for your time.

Thank you for having me here. You are legend and you know it. Thank you so much for the platform.

Michael B. Bro, we got a lot to talk about.

So Renato is going to stick with us for a little bit. We're going to go through some of the other fights and stuff as well, because I want to hear your thoughts. And Anthony Smith is in training camp, obviously.

So Jalen Turner, he's a bad man, okay?

He's a tremendous striker. Jalen, I honestly. I'm not just saying this. I've got so much respect for you and just as a person and as a fighter, you're incredible. And I know how amazing you are on the ground, and your wrestling game is good as well. But I was concerned for you in this fight.

I was.

I know Jalen as well, but we have a very good report, you know, so I was concerned for you in.

That fight, but you. I didn't say you'd lose, but I.

Was like, I don't know. I don't know.

But that makes you can say, you're not going to hurt my feelings, my brother.

No, no, exactly.

I'm not trying to hurt your feelings. I'm saying that I think everybody was like, shit, Jalen Turner is the real deal.

Yeah, right. Talk me through it. The floor is yours. I'm gonna.

I'm gonna tell you, he. Maybe not 100%. He's taller than me, he has more knockout power. He's a better striker. He has a good takedown defense. But Moikano cannot afford to lose. I'm not losing. You know, I can't afford to lose.

And if they.

If they throw me Max Holloway, if they throw me khabib, if they. I'm not going to lose to anybody. I will find a way to win. I'm going to find a way. You know, I am very well rounded. If. If somebody is better than me, at the strike, I will try wrestling. If they are better wrestling, I will keep the distance. You know, I am the real deal right now on the division and I'm going to prove, even though a lot of people still think that I'm in the underdog of the division. But like you say, Jalin Stoner, very, very tough guy to fight because he's so tall. Six three for the light weight is crazy. The range was, was hard to find the distance, you know, on the, on the, on the end of the first round, I was feeling okay. He started now. He was touching me. I was, I was okay, I'm winning the round, so I will keep on defeat. Like, take it easy and got the.

Round and he got me good and.

He almost knocked me out. But guess what?

I'm not losing, but let's talk about that.

Because Jalen's tall, but he's also ridiculously skilled. He's really good on the feet. You beat, you beat him. You beat one of the best kickboxers in the lightweight division or in the whole UFC. And he's got good takedown defense. Look at the fight with Mataj Gamrock, right? He was very, very competitive, but when he hit you with that straight right.

Hand, right, the whole arena just went.

Oh, yes, because you dropped hard, right? Yeah, it looked like you were unconscious, but you weren't unconscious. You were like clearly like still kind of sitting up. You just dropped your heart. Jalen walked away trying to get the walk off Ko. What was going through your mind right then?

My mind was this, have to pay right now and I'm going to make him pay.

I'm going to make him pay.

Don't do that mistake again because I'm not, you're not, you're not putting me away. I don't know if you remember, but I fought Rafael, dos angels and four day notice, five rounds. So I don't have a quitting me. I cannot quit.

And if I go to a fight.

I'm going to win. You cannot count me out.

And he did.

And then he paid for that.

Yeah.

No, no, he certainly did. I mean, once you got that takedown, that body lock takedown of yours, by the way, you get everybody with that very, very good work.

Then you get the mount and then.

You just go to town right after getting dropped like that to turn it around a complete 180 degrees. How good did it feel when you were on top in mounts, smashing down? Talk to me about that feeling.

I was just thinking, money, money. I want three hundred k.

I want.

The bonus but I knew what would be hard to get. Like you say, stellar card. We have former champions fighting the first fight.

But.

But to be completely honest with you, I was just happy. I'm happy right now. I have five wins streak on the lightweight division. That's not an easy thing to do. And I just hope I keep winning, keep doing my thing, and one day I will have the opportunity to be a champion like you.

Yeah.

I mean, right now you're on a three fight win streak.

Drew Dauber Brady on the lightweight, on the lightweight. Check the topology. I know, you're right. You're right.

Because what was Dos Angel's a catch.

161, 60.

Yeah. That's not like catch weight.

Yeah, yeah. So you went the distance with him as well. Alexander Hernandez, Jai Herbert, Drew Dober, and now Jalen Turner. So you're going to be highly ranked.

Now on the microphone, you were brilliant.

And we're going to get to the other stuff in a minute because I want to hear all about it.

But Parry, the body. Pimbler, talk to me.

Come on, Manchester.

Parry Pimbler. What's on your mind?

I don't know yet.

I was.

I saw people saying that he's going to fight Bobby Green, right. I don't know why. I think Bobby Green called him out. Right. I was too busy. But I don't know what UFC is going to do. But of course, if they want me to fight Paddy Pimblett, I will fight Paddy Pimblett. I think he's a high profile, everybody knows him, and I think it's easy money. I think Paddy Pimblett is easy. Mind. Today I watch his video, doing the reaction video of my fight and he say, no, I like Moikano.

Why did you.

Why did you. Why didn't you call me out?

But guess what?

One day we can maybe do the two of the ultimate fight. That we can be coaches on the ultimate fight. I say, okay, I think that. I think that's fair enough, but it's up to FC, you know, I'm not trying to rush anything. I just want to fight as soon as possible. BSP. I don't have much time to lose, so if UFC wants me, keep me busy. I want to fight in Manchester or I want to fight in Vegas. International fight week. I'm ready. I didn't have any injury, so I will rest this week. Next week I will be training and waiting for my next opponent.

Yeah, I'm well said. On the microphone you were talking about the economist. What was his name again?

Mises Ludovic. Von Mises.

Ludovic von Mises. Look at, look at this. Hanaud Monimoikano. Just when you think the man's a knucklehead, that UFC fighters.

But I am a knucklehead. I am a knuckle.

Me and you both. And the crowd knows that. What's his face. Jordan Peterson gave you a shout out on Twitter saying, the world has gone crazy when this, that and the other, and the prizefighters are quoting famous economists, something like that. I'm sure you know what he said.

Yeah, unreal.

Not only him, but Ben Shapiro. And if Elon Musk tweets something about.

It, I think people, people are in.

Need of this message, you know, because the reports of the last week, the inflation is going up again. It's just because the uncontrolled debt of all states is not only America. Every states, every state in the western world is spending more money than they are getting. So it's just like you're in your home. When you spend more than you keep it, you're going to be in debit. And that's why they keep printing money. And that makes the inflation war. So I think it's a cultural thing. You know, we need to understand about money and politics to keep that, because I know you live in America now for a long time. And think about the inflation. The houses in California, the prices are crazy, in Florida are crazy. Like in couple years, it's going to be hard for the regular guy to get a family.

It already is.

Yeah, but it's going to be worse.

Because if they try to control the yield and the interest rates, they're going to make worse because the rich is going to be rich and the poor is going to be poor because they will keep printing money and make stuff like stocks and houses even more expensive, and the richer people will buy these things will get more rich. And us, we're going to be poor. So we have to fix that. And we fix that through education, to economics, to money and to bitcoin.

Yeah, you're absolutely right with the bitcoin as well. But so Ludovig's message for people that don't know, tell them, because obviously you went viral for that moment and it was a great clip and what a way to use your platform. Well done, Renato. But for those people that don't know, and I might be one of them, tell people basically in layman's terms what he stands for and what the message is.

Let me show this is the book Louis Vivo Mises in Portuguese, it called six lessons. And why is so important? I recommend you to read a lot of things you have to understand about history.

I'm going to read this, I'm going to read it.

Read this. This guy, he was an economist, very well known, and he went to Argentina on the 1930s or something. And he did six lectures explaining people about economics. So somebody transcribed that to a book. So the first lecture was about capitalism. The second one socialism. The third one, interventionism. The fourth one about inflation. The fifth one about investments.

Abroad, right?

Like, I don't know, I don't remember the word. And the six one was politics and ideas. So in this book he explained how capitalism started on the Europe after the Middle Ages, right?

And.

Industrial revolution and what comes with that. And then he explained about socialism. He explained why socialism is not going to work because the value of the price. And then he explained the economy, the double economy, like the socialism and the capitalism together. And then we have interventionism and then we have taxes and then we have inflation, that is the people printing more money that we. That we need. And he goes to these topics and he explained in a very easy way, you don't need to be a scholar, you're just a regular guy. You're going to read that and this is going to blow your mind. He explains so much things about. And this happens over and over with many societies before us.

So this is a.

Every time that you start to degenerate.

The money, this is proven theory.

Proven theory, yes. Because every time that society start to give welfare, every time the society start to degenerate the morals and the money, you guys, the society is going to collapse. So it's a very easy book. Very. It's not big. And you're going to understand. I think you b u is Mark guy. You're going to sit and you're going to read that like in two, 3 hours and it's going to change your mind. Read that and then talk to me.

It's going to change your mind.

It doesn't need to change my mind. I'm with you, brother. I'm with you.

I know, I know.

And what was it? What was it called?

One more time.

The name in Portuguese is the six lessons.

The six lessons. The six lessons.

But I don't know in English, I think it's human behavior. Let me ask, let me.

Hold on, hold on. Can I give you the 7th lesson?

Yes.

You know what the 7th lesson is?

Nah.

Never underestimate Alex Pereira.

You know what I mean? Because I tell you what, go on. You're just looking up the english title.

Yeah. Human action attractees on economics. Human action.

Okay, all right.

So, obviously, crazy Alex Pereira.

Crazy, right? And the way he did, like, stop the referee.

Stop.

Yeah, yeah.

It was crazy, because, listen, I I.

Don'T know why, right? I just had a feeling it wasn't based upon technical ability. It was when I saw Jamal Hill interacting with Alex at the apex, and he kind of like. It was kind of like two gorillas establishing dominance.

You know what I'm saying?

It was like two animalistic beasts. Who's in charge here? And Alex is very quiet. So Jamal was doing all of the talking, and.

And when I saw that, I was like, that's it.

Jamal doesn't care. He's not scared. He's not intimidated, and he's got power and all the rest of it. So I just had a feeling that he was going to do it. Well, I was wrong on an absolutely gigantic level. I will never underestimate Alex Pereira again. I mean, as you say, he gets the kick in the groin.

He's like, no, brother, no.

I've backed him up against the fence. I've got him exactly where I want him. I'm cooking, bro.

Leave me alone.

Back off.

Yeah. What a guy.

Unbelievable.

But you know what is funny, because I had the same feeling. I just start a podcast. Show me the money. I gonna bring you to the show. We. I start a podcast with Gilbert Burns, and we doing. And we bring Jamal Hill. And he was so confident. You know, he was saying, man, I gonna fucking hit people. Not gonna believe. And I say, okay, this guy knows something that I don't know. So maybe he. He got a shot against Alex Pereira.

But when you.

You know that when you are striker, when you fighting a guy, that double champion kickboxing and that. And has that knockout power, it's just. It's just not good. Try to strike against him. You have to shoot for takedowns. You have to clinch at least on the first round, because he's too powerful.

Right?

And the technique is on point, too.

So what can you do?

So I think I'm going to choose my words carefully here because I have a lot of respect for Jamal. You know this as a fighter. And I'll ask you about your nerves on Saturday. But it seemed like, you know, it's.

Easy to talk to the media and be confident.

It's easier to get on my podcast and be confident. It's easy to walk around and be confident.

But when you're stood in there with.

Alex Pereira and he's just given the bow and arrow, and you see him, and then all of a sudden, you're thinking about all of the knockouts and everything. All of a sudden, that confidence, it.

Goes out the window, you know, because Jamal.

I'm not saying he was scared. I'm not saying that at all, but he was very respectful of the threat, so he was being hesitant and waiting. They were playing with the lead hands. Pereira's doing that. He's kicking a little bit just to. Just to get the distance.

And then when he had it, boom.

One shot drops him hard. I mean, it was unbelievable. As a. As a brazilian, what is the. I hope you understand this expression. What's the temperature in Brazil over Alex Pereira? Is he a big, big name down there?

Bsp. I didn't know until I went to Brazil last time. He and Charles Oliveira are the biggest stars. Huge stars. Like, people love them because I think it's because the humble beginning is right. He used to work on a tire shop, so he was a. How colicky or something. So a lot of problems, overcome everything. And then beat Adesanya I don't know how many times, and then moved to the UFC with no three times, went to the UFC with no many fights.

And he's doing history. How crazy is that?

People are comparing him to Jon Jones if he moves to the heavyweight, and imagine if he beat Aspinall. He's going to be one of the best ever. A guy that doesn't have jiu jitsu, I know people give him the black belt, but let's be honest.

No, no. Has he got a black belt?

Yeah.

No, no.

Somebody just gave him a black belt.

On the canvas after the fight, they. They put a black belt on here and say, man, this is not the way to do it. Right?

No, this is what happens.

You know, there's so many black belts out there because they do well, and then the master wants to say, alex Pereira is a black belt under me, or whatever.

Yeah, he's my student.

He's my student. My God. I. That's just crazy. Him versus Tom Aspinall. I don't think that's a good idea. I just said, I'll never underestimate Alex Pereira again. Could he knock him out on the feet?

Yes, he could, for sure.

And there he is getting the black belt.

The black belt.

That's insane. That is insane. Nice shorts, though. Nice. Hey, what was your thought? Real quick, when they. When Max Holloway Pereira, and there was one more that got custom shorts and Bobby Green, I think, got money short.

Just engage. It just engage it.

Just engage it. Yeah.

Where was the moycano shorts?

It's all about money, but they didn't give me yet. But I like it, you know, because I like before when before Venom and Reebok, do you guys remember everybody had their own chore shorts? Say horn used to have a muay Thai short.

I like it that I think.

I think UFC should allow people to have more liberty with the shorts and stuff because that makes easy for the public to connect with the fighters. Right. I like a lot short of Max Holloway.

Yeah.

I'll be honest.

Yeah.

The max Holloway ones were cool. The Pereira ones were really cool. I understand they need to be venom, but I honestly don't understand why they can't do that every time, why they can't let you have your own design. And maybe you just say, okay, I want this design, and you'll keep it for a year every time. They can't be designing new shorts for 32 fighters every weekend, you know what I'm saying? But I don't understand that. And it does. It adds a little bit of personality and flavor and they could sell those shorts and make some money off it and stuff like that.

Anyway, Aspinall, listen, could Pereira knock him.

Out on the feet? Of course.

Right? But you know, Tom Aspinals, have you trained with.

To Aspinal? Have you training with him?

I haven't. My son has, though. Yeah, my son's like 240. He's big.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

I haven't trained with Tom, but when I do, I'm going to WHOOP his ass. I'm going to WHOOP his ass. I always say to him all the time, I'm like, I'll take you down, Tom. And he's like, come on, then, have a go. I'm like, well, not, not here. Not here. Later.

But the problem with Thomas Pinaw is he has jiu jitsu, has wrestling very fast, a heavyweight that moves like a lightweight. He's crazy.

He started jiu jitsu when he was, like eight or nine years old with his father. His father's a very good grappler, and he's got great wrestling as well. Anyway, never mind that. In just under three weeks, UFC will.

Be back in Brazil, Pereira versus magamed and kalaev, main eventing that.

Do you think that's gonna happen?

No, I don't think.

I don't think he should do that. I think Yankelaev is the worst fight for Pereira, because if you remember Pereira fighting Iryprocha, he committed, he made a lot of mistakes. On the grappling, on the.

He was.

He was like, not defending the takedowns very well. On the cage, he was like trying guillotines and pulling guards. I think Pereira still has a lot to improve. And a guy like Ankara Eve, I think, is the worst opponent for him because he's very around russian guy, good wrestling. And especially with that amount of time, there is not much time for him to prepare for Ankala.

I wish he.

He fought somebody else before he fought Ankalaev or even had time to train.

Yeah, no, absolutely. I think it's a terrible idea. You don't want to fly down on three weeks. Number one, he's got to do the weight cuts again. He's got to travel down there. He's got to go through the whole fight week, you know, and then he's got to fly.

He broke his toe.

Right? And he broke his toe and he's got to fight a daggy Stani. Yeah.

You know what I mean?

That's not good. Never good.

Okay, so. All right, all right. Tom Aspinall in Manchester. Screw it. Let's go.

Let's.

You mentioned Charles Olivera a second ago.

Do you know Charles?

You got a good relationship.

I know him. I know him. We are not friends, but I am a huge fan of Charles Olivier.

I think the things that he done.

For himself and for his sport and.

For his team, he had very good.

Accomplishes in this sport. So I like him, but I'm not friends with him.

Yeah.

Okay. Okay. Because as English speakers, it's hard for us to gage a fighter's personality when they're not speaking English, obviously, you know, just like, if they don't speak English, they can't understand me, me. They can see that I'm running around and laughing and being stupid and dumb and they're like, this guy's a idiot. You know that? But they can't tell what we're saying is funny or whatever. What is Charles Olivera like? What are you here? Is he. Is he a funny guy? Is he can't. Because he always seems very intense, but I only see him in the fight environment.

Yeah, that's good.

I don't think maybe he's funny, like, with the friends and stuff, but I feel like he's a intense guy, like you say. And I think he's very religious, you know? I think he's very, very, very religious. You know, the vibes that I get from his that, like, very religious. Very humble. Like, was poor when he was kid, so I think he's very grateful. For God all the time. And that's the vibe that he gave me, because we, we were cutting weight at the same sauna at the PI, and he was like, with, like, religious songs all the time, praising God and that. So I think he is that style usually, but I think with his friends, he probably is very funny.

Yeah, no, for sure. I want to talk about his fight in just a second. So you're not a religious man, Hanato?

No, I am a religious man. I am a relocation. Yeah.

Yeah.

Is there anybody in Brazil that isn't a religious man?

No.

Yeah, I know.

Is everybody religious? Like, everybody. What happens if you meet somebody and they're not a religious guy? Do you all like.

No, no. I think it is the roots. Right? Is the roots of, like, especially because we were colonized by Portuguese and they went to Brazil to. To spread the word, right? To put the Catholicism. And they built schools and they, like, converted the people. So 90% of the population is Catholic or, like, they are Christians.

And.

And it's funny, because if you see a brazilian, if you tell them something about God, they're gonna love you, brother.

If.

Especially if they fighting, if you go and say, godspeed, God gonna help you, they go crazy, my brother. Brazilians love that.

So I am not being disrespectful, okay? But I've got a question for you, and I would love to know the answer because I always.

What's the word? Every time.

And Brazilians always do it. Okay? And I love Brazilians. I love all people, you know? You know, as long as you're not a dickhead, and I'm sure you're the same way. And any fighter, not just Brazilians, any fighters, when they win and then they thank God, right?

And I always think, well, what about the guy that lost?

And what about that time when you lost a fight?

And then I think, if there is a God, does he not have better things to do than monitoring that cage fight in Salt Lake City?

Yeah, I know what you mean. Of course I know what you mean.

So.

So that's why I. When I pray, I pray to.

To be, uh, to not get hurt.

And to not hurt my opponent. And, like, everything happens for a reason. And maybe God is let you lose because you need to learn something.

And.

And let me tell you something. The moments that I learned most of my life when I was. When I lose, every time that I lost, I learned about myself. So I think God let you lose so you can learn, and then you can be victorious, actually depends on you, of course. But a little help is never bad, right?

So God has been helping me a lot. Good.

And I hope he continues to do so. A little bit of help, a little bit of luck goes a long way.

Yeah.

Every time I used to fight, same thing, same thing. Like when I fought Anderson Silva. Right before the fight started, we went to the center. The referee reads that, you know, we want to fair a fight, all that type of thing.

We hoped, and I said, good luck.

Good luck, you know, but it didn't mean good luck. I hope you win the fight.

I mean, yeah, we all go back.

To our families, and everything's fine. So Charles Olivera went out there Saturday night. Tough fight against Armin Sarouki, right? Sarukian. I kind of felt like he might have the antidote, the style to Charles. Charles is one of my favorite fighters. He's one of the most exciting fighters in all of the UFC. What was your thoughts on that fight?

Charles is very dangerous. He can finish the fight in every point of the, of the fight, but with the wrestling, and if the ground and pound and his youth, right. And his style, like the ground and power, then the elbows, I think Saru Kian is a hard opponent for everybody. He is very tough. The way he survived the guillotine and the sub emissions attempt, that shows he's a man on a mission. And like you say, our wrestler is always a tough match for a jujitsu guy. You have to be aware of that. And I wish Charles stand a little bit more on the striking, like outside. Right. But he always too much aggressive. He always like fighting on the pocket. I don't think that's good, especially if you fight a wrestler. Sarukian, if he get on top of you, he's gonna make a lot of damage, and he even sweep, Charles. So he's very, he's a very good fighter.

Oh, no, he's high level. I'll tell you what, I was impressed with Charles because when Sarukian slipped, when the fight first started, and he gets the guillotine and he jumps to the guillotine, I'm like, oh, this is it. It's over.

Because that was in deep.

But then somebody was telling me that they rolled with Saruki recently, and apparently.

He'S just impossible to choke out.

And then I saw him doing some breathing exercises.

I saw that, too.

Yeah, you saw that. I saw that, too. You ever done breathing exercises to not get joked out?

Yeah, I never, I never heard about.

Them, and I don't, I don't think they're gonna work either.

No, no.

The russian guys, right? They were in the streets like, and doing stuff.

I saw that.

I don't know, but it's good for the promotion, right? You have seen that shit.

Yeah, of course, of course. But the way Charles jumped to the guillotine and he had both legs, you know, the full guard closed, and then he was able to turn it into a mountain guillotine and trying that, I was very impressed. I thought it was the correct decision, you know, I thought it was the correct decision.

I think. I think he won in a decision on unanimous decision for me was not split. I think was easy. I think the judges, they, they gave too much for Charles because the submissions attempt. But if you see control time, like takedowns and score by the, the punches, I think Saru Kian did a great job.

Yeah.

No, 100% agree. What was your favorite fight of the night?

Of course, Max Hollow and Justin Gage. That was unbelievable.

We haven't even spoke about that.

Holy shit. Unbelievable.

Max Hollow is such a gangster. My brother is impossible to not like Max Holler. It's impossible to not like you.

I mean, we're going to talk about.

The fight in a second, but like.

Even after the fight, when he was.

Asked, getting asked about Ilya Taporia on ESPN, didn't say anything bad, so respectful, because Ilya Tapore was just like, yeah, he looked bored, or a blank expression or maybe he was just tired or who knows? You know, he could have twisted that. Max Holloway could have said, look at that. Yeah, I wouldn't be chatting either. I'd be keeping my mouth closed. That's right, Ilya Taporia doesn't want this. But he was like, no, maybe he's.

Just a quiet guy.

Maybe he's socially awkward. And I'm like, max, your legend just keeps getting bigger. I mean, how can you not love this guy? Now, let's talk about the fight.

That fight.

Ridiculous as we know. I think Justin Gagey made a lot of mistakes.

A lot of mistakes.

I think everybody I was underestimating, not Charles, Max too, because I thought, okay, Holloway, he has a lot of volume, but he's not a power puncher, right? So I thought he would, like, try to overwhelm Gaethje with volume, but Gaethje would land the better shots and he would beat Max in a decision. I was completely wrong. I think 155, Max is the better version of Max. He looked strong.

I think he put a lot of.

Weight, you know, he's strong. I don't think he should go back to 145, even though I would like to see him against Topura, I think, on a 55, especially a performance like that. I think he is, of course, a contender on this division, too.

Yeah, we'll let you go in a minute because I know you're running out of time, but, yeah. So for Justin Gagey, he was trying to knock him out with every single shot. And, you know, anytime you work with a striking coach, they always tell you don't look for the knockout. When you're looking for the knockout, you generally don't find it. You load up, you telegraph if you miss, you're going to be off balance. And that's every single shot. And granted, that's what makes him exciting, but I think the fact that he knocked out Dustin Poirier, the fact that he's known for his power, I think he just thought, I'll catch him, I'll just keep swinging and I'm going to get him. You got to set things up. When you look at Max on the flip side, he's on the outside, he's calm, he's jabbing, he's going to the body, he's moving around the ring. The footwork was beautiful. The spinning back kick to the face that almost knocked him out at the end of round one, I think that played a big factor. And then from there, it just started going downhill for Justin the entire way.

And then 10 seconds left in the fight. I mean, could you imagine? That's crazy.

Imagine if you're coaching a fighter, right? You're coaching a fighter. You're coaching a fighter and it's a big fight. It's UFC. You're going up a weight class, you're fighting. Just engage you. Everyone says you're going to get knocked.

Out and you win it.

Not only are you winning, you're almost finished him on multiple occasions. It's not even close. And then with 10 seconds left, you.

Point at the crown and say it.

Let'S just go for it. Let's just go. Yeah, let's just have a tear up. If you were coaching them, you'd be like, what are you doing?

But that what's making him legendary. You know, to be legendary, to be a. A fan favorite, you have to do these things. You have to create your brand mark, and he has his brand, and it's this, my brother, when he does that, you better run because Max Holo is going to knock you the out of humor. And he did that with Ricardo Lamas and, man, was just a beautiful finish for a great card. I think that made UFC 300 even more special. I think that's going to go to the history, one of the best cards. Especially because that fight in Pereira was just amazing.

Yeah, no, that was the highlight of the night, for sure. What Pereira did was phenomenal. But of course, that. That stole it.

Yeah.

Because five rounds. Five rounds in a knockout against Gaethje. You're going up in the division crazy with 1 second.

With 1 second. This is not an original thought. Everybody's been saying it. Oh, it was like something out of a movie. But if you saw that in a movie.

Yeah.

In a rocky film, you'd say, bullshit. That's too far fetched. That's too far. Nobody gets knocked out with 1 second.

Left, especially winning the fight.

Right. Taking the risk and doing that. This is a movie thing.

You're right. Yeah.

No, it was amazing. All right, listen, I know you're very busy. We've probably kept you a little bit too late. First of all, what's the name of the podcast with you and Gilbert?

Show me the money podcast. And we have money moycano channel. And I want to say something, too. If you want to support the cause, moneymoykano.com and buy some merch.

Okay. Thank you so much.

I got one more question.

Yes, of course.

When are you gonna have me on the show?

I don't want to bother you. I know you are busy, man.

I'm not working.

I saw you on every pay per view, my brother. I'm not gonna. I'm not gonna bother you. I know you're busy, bro.

Busy is an understatement. But here's what I do. Anytime people come and do my podcast like you have and Gilbert have, I always repay the favorite. If they've ever been on my podcast, then that's just the deal.

You know what I'm saying?

So. And I've got so much respect for you and Gilbert, so I would love to come on, as long as you speak in English and not Portuguese.

Perfect.

We're going to do in English. I'm going to talk with Gilbert. Maybe we do next week. I will message you, and if you can, it's going to be great, and it's going to help us.

Okay? Renato, you are the man.

Congratulations on a sensational victory. You deserve all the success. I'm a fan for life. You take care.

Thank you so much.

I am your biggest fan, my brother. Always remember that.

You, too, can take care, brother.

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UFC 300, as I said before, there was a lot of people criticizing, right?

That turned out to be one of.

The very best events that I can remember. The best event, I think.

I mean, the whole week I was there in Las Vegas and the energy in the city for UFC 300 was ridiculous. It really wasn't. The fights delivered from top to bottom.

All right, Aljo Mane Sterling's fight, that.

Was a snooze fest, let's be honest, right? Not talking shit about Aljo. I think Aljo is a great guy.

But we can't pretend, you know, you.

Can'T polish a turd and say, that was great.

But I will. I will say this.

He was coming off the back of a knockout. He just got knocked out against Sugar Sean O'Malley. And when you get knocked out of somebody, you know, the next time you fold, next time you step in the octagon, you don't want to take chances, you don't want to take risks, and you just got to get the win.

And he got the win.

It wasn't even close. It was a clear, clear victory. One of the only things I really.

Had an issue was with was when.

He took down Calvin Klein. I think it was round two. He took him down and he was on top. I think he was in half guard or maybe the side control, and he had him clinched with his arms together, round his body whilst down on top of him.

And it was like, unclose your hands.

At the very least and turn that into an underhook. That's all you got to do. You still got great control, and at least then you can pretend that you're trying to fight a little bit. So other than that, he got the win. So well done to Aljamain Sterling. But I just want to talk real quick. UFC 300. Do you know what was so impressive about UFC 300? And it's the UFC in general, because, and I'm not being a company man before you all bloody star, we all.

Need to appreciate and respect the UFC.

For what we have, for what we see, for what we get to enjoy, what we get to talk about these fighters journeys and their lives and the. The bouts, the unforgettable fights that we get to experience every weekend. Because if it wasn't for the UFC, we wouldn't be seeing these. It's just true.

Okay. And the prime example of what the UFC are doing is Alex Pereira. Because Alex Pereira two years ago, I.

Think that's accurate or round about that wasn't even in the UFC, wasn't even a part of the promotion.

And now he's, without question, one of the biggest stars. He, Stark, will have went through the.

Roof on Saturday, beating Jamal the way that he did. And he just goes to show, because.

Remember a while ago, well, what they're going to do when Chuck Liddell retires.

What are they going to do when Ronda Rousey retires? What are they going to do without Conor McGregor? GSP, the list goes on and on and on. Two years ago, this guy wasn't even in the UFC, and now he's headlining that and no one had a thing to say. Yes, some people bitched, but they ain't bitching now.

It's unbelievable what the UFC have accomplished. Yeah.

I mean, every single. I mean, you know, Dana white, you know, it's weird. Like, I remember it was kind of prophetic, right? Like, he was talking about UFC 300, and he was like, when we talk about the first fight on the prelims, you're going to go, holy shit, I can't believe it. And sure enough, like, talking to people during the day of UFC 300, they were like, what time are you planning on tuning in? I said, bro, first fight of the night, bigger radio versus Garbrandt. They were like, yo, how is that the first fight of the night?

Right?

Like, it.

Dana knew what was coming with this one. He told us what was what. What we should expect, and everybody went absolutely bonkers with it. And then you look day of, and it had the exact effect he promised you it would have. Absolute banger card.

You know, in terms of, you know, the people criticizing.

I'm going to say this because they.

Were like, do you know what the issue was? It's that the fight card was so ridiculous. And then it was topped off with Jamal Hill and Alex Pereira, which, of course, is a tremendous fight. Was a tremendous fight. But it's not this bonkers superstar main event. It's not GSP versus Habib or something like that. If they would have announced the main event first. I said, guys, UFC 300, Alex Pereira, a two weight division 50 champion, taking on the former champion, Jamal Hill, people would have gone, wow, great card. And if he said, don't worry, wait until you see the undercard, and then started dropping all the other ones like that, I think. And I'm no marketing genius, and I'm certainly not criticizing the UFC. I'm bigging them up, but I think if it was done that way around.

You know, then maybe it would have.

Silenced all those dickheads online, and you know who you are.

Yeah, but sure, but those dickheads, right? Talking about a card like UFC 303 four months out, only helped to build that.

That.

That anticipation and the expectations of the card, and then for it to deliver like that and 100% silence those guys just shows the. The UFC does kind of know what they're doing. They got all you guys to talk about it, all you guys to shit on it, and then it delivered like that. Now who's eating crow?

Speaker zero.

Yeah, so I'm looking at the fire card right here. Obviously, we just talked about Renato McCann and Jalen Turner. Jessica Andrade was very effective and successful. Figueiredo choked out Cody Garbrandt. It was a bit of a slower start to the night, but, you know, it was a technical performance.

Bobby Green, Jim Miller, Bobby Green.

Was just too fast, too quick.

And that was always a tough matchup for Jim Miller.

He's got miles on the clock. He's never been the fastest, most dynamic striker, very, very skilled in every era of mixed martial arts. But just on paper, that was always a tough matchup, and it proved to be in person. Just looking to see what else before we get to the main event. What about Diego Lopez?

That's what I was saying. Oh, my God.

I was like, yo, give that man his 300k. After that knockout, I don't know how you could put on a better performance. Right? He lands two clean shots. Both of them drop. Sadiq Youssef in a fight where Lopez was the. He was a slight favorite, but I think a lot of people were picking Yusef coming into this fight.

He made it look easy.

Yeah, no Diego Lopez, man, he's got a bright future. So we know that Max Holloway got two bonuses, and we'll talk a little bit more about that in a little bit.

Who got the other two?

It was Yuri and Justin.

Oh, yeah, of course. Fight of the night. No, but there's two people in the fight of the night, and then there's.

Two of the bonuses of Max Holloway and Yuri. Oh, Yuri.

Yes, sorry. Pardon me. Okay. I mean, how about that 300,000 each? 600,000 if your name's Max Holloway. Max Holloway. I want to talk more about this.

The doors that he has opened, you.

Know, the opportunities that he now has before him is phenomenal. It's just incredible. Listen, never mind. As a person, let's remember it wasn't that long ago the narrative around Max.

Holloway was Hall of Famer, former champion.

One of the best featherweights ever to do it. But his championship days are probably behind him. He's the second best featherweight. Then Teporia comes along and, well, he can't beat Volkanovski. He probably won't beat Teporia. Shouldn't be stepping in there with Justin Gagey, because that's just crazy.

Knocks him out in the fight of the night, fight of the year, one.

Of the best, most cinematic, high drama fights you'll ever see.

And now look at the options.

He could stay at 155, potentially fight for a belt soon.

He's now a BMF champion. He has a potential fight with Ilya Toporia because I think. I think now and then, by the.

Way, I'll go back to that point in a second. And also a red panting out against Conor McGregor for the BMF belt, if he still has it at the time. So there's tons of opportunities, massive amounts of money to be made, and just.

Flipped the script completely.

You know, I don't think anybody ever disrespected Max Oliver. They always knew how good he was, but it was like his championship days. Maybe, maybe we're done.

But now it's like he could be.

A champion of multiple weight classes. He could even go up to 170 and do big things there.

What would you like to see him do?

I mean, the McGregor fight cropped up across my timeline. He was talking to some reporter at the airport in Hawaii, and he mentioned McGregor as his number one option. I mean, he is going to need some time off. He said that after the Gaethje fight, that ate up his legs.

Going to.

Going to need some rest, recovery. Max doesn't usually fight more than once or twice a year anyway, so no rush for him to get back in there. He's got some time with McGregor at 03:03. And tell me, what's a better story for McGregor? Right? Because Max Holloway just hit crossover status. I was listening to Bill Simmons, a massive, like, mainstream sports podcast, on the way in, and that's what he was like. He kept teasing that the whole episode. He was so excited to talk about it. This guy is getting talked about on, on way more places than either of the champions at 155 or 170. So he makes the most sense for McGregor.

To Ocho Cinco.

Ocho Cinco wants that heat.

So.

So just, just tell me. Ojo Cinco. I thought he was a baseball player. He's a basketballer, right?

Football. Football player. Oh.

I'm saying it for the english audience. They have no idea who Ocho Cinco is. Who is Ojo Cinco? Real quick. The internationals. He was people in Uganda listening to this podcast. Them two people, he was at one.

Time, like the second or third best wide receiver, wide receiver in the NFL. And he parlayed it into a very lucrative media career. Ocho Cinco is eight five, his jersey number, right?

Okay. Yeah. So he wants easy, reckons he can beat Max Holloway. Shannon Sharp was like, what are you talking about? You'll get knocked out in 30 seconds. Oh, here we go. We got a little clip.

UFC. That's why, that's why UFC fighters have to go to the boxing ring. Ain't no box, right? Going to do nothing with no guy in the UFC.

It's going to be all the matter.

So I'm. Okay, let me, let me, let me.

Ask you a question now.

Let me ask you a question, because I was state wrestling champ in 82, okay?

You know, you see my hands go, I got hands.

So at what point do you think.

Max Holloway would beat me if we were to get an octagon?

Like round one, two, or 330 seconds? Wait, what, you mean 36? You out in 30. Why you.

Why you putting all this?

I'm putting all my money. I'm taking all the money. I got everything I own and put. So you think, I don't know, about.

30 seconds, but it's gonna be quick. It is going to be quick. Max Holloway isn't a wrestler. We take him down. Listen, we've had those conversations about non mixed martial artists many times. I want to talk about just engage. I was saying before he loaded up with every shot and kind of telegraphed.

His shots, that was a bit.

And listen, I've got a tremendous amount of respect for Justin Gagey, whether or not he was talking a little bit of crap. After I commentated Usman versus Leon, I said at the time, that's just him being a good teammate, and I respect that. And then when I said that Dustin Poirier was probably going to be next for Islam Makeachev, and that upset him.

Well, that fight is made.

We're going to talk about that in a bit. And then when I justified it, he said, oh, bisbee's talking bollocks. Well, I wasn't talking bollocks, was I?

I wasn't just engaged.

He isn't going to be fighting Islam.

Makachev, but he's still one of the.

Most exciting fighters in all the sport, and he'll be back. I just think he underestimated the threat of Max Holloway.

I think he thought that he would go right through him without a scratch and then challenge for the bell. And if he hadn't done that, then maybe he would have done, you know.

Because they didn't make the fight, from what I understand, between Poirier and Islam until Saturday night.

And they actually offered it to Armin.

Sa rukian first, and Sarukian turned it down. Injuries, whatever. Maybe he wants a full training camp, doesn't want a quick turnaround. So then they went to Dustin Poirier. So that's well done to Dustin Poirier for just engage, you know? Yeah, I just.

I just think he underestimated Max, and.

You just can't do that in this sport, not against somebody like marks.

I agree. There is part of me, though, that thinks going into that second round, Gaethje kind of had him where he wanted him until he ate that, that, that spinning back kick that broke his nose. And I think that did change the whole complexity of the fight.

That was the end of the first round. He didn't have him where he wanted. He was getting out pointed, then he got his nose broke, then he got pieced up, then he got picked apart. Then he got shot to the body, then he got right on to the face, then he got wobbled. Then he almost got finished. Then he almost got finished again. Then he got poked in the eye twice, which is a shame. Max didn't do that on purpose. I'm not shitting on Justin Gagey. I think he's phenomenal and I'm a big fan. I always will be. Regardless of what he says, he's just a proud man. But Max Holloway was phenomenal. I was going to say something else a second ago.

What have you got, Harrington?

Anything you want to mention on UFC 300?

I mean, one of these satisfies I've ever seen was, was Gaethje's parents watching the. Watching the knockout. I saw that leak on social media today. So whoever's putting that out for content, by the way, maybe think twice about that.

Yeah.

What kind of person have you got to be to stand there and thank you for bringing that up. Good point, Harrington. Kind of person have you got to.

Be to sit there and think, ah.

Those Justin Gage's parents. He's just been knocked out, face planting, vicious ko. No parents want to see that. Certainly nobody's mother wants to see that. And then thinks, I'm going to film.

Them and then thinks I'm going to post it.

Like, to embarrass them or whatever, or.

To get some weird clout for being.

That close to them in the audience. Look how good my seats were or whatever. That's just a very, very bizarre thing to do. It's not respectful in the slightest.

Sean O'Malley's coach Tim Welch.

Timbo.

Timmy, timmy, timmy, timmy.

I take it back.

I take it back.

We need sugar on the podcast.

Delete that bit, Brian.

It's a little classless.

It's a little classless, but whatever.

Whatever.

Again, I'm just astounded at UFC 300 and the success. I can only imagine how good the pay per view sales were. I hear that ESPN's numbers were through the absolute roof. I had a great time. I was busy as hell, doing a lot of content. We had power slap on the Friday night.

I was exhausted.

That's why, by the way, everybody, we were going to do the podcast yesterday by the time I got because I did a post fight show for ESPN, then I did a post fight show for TNT Sports. By the time I got back to the hotel, it was like 230 the day before. I had a crazy day as well. And then I had an early flight.

And then when I got home, I.

Was exhausted, Anthony was exhausted, and more importantly, I had no voice.

My voice is back. Yesterday, I was talking like this.

So I'm like, one, the podcast is going to be shit because I got no energy to. I can't even talk. So anyway, we're here on Tuesday.

I want to ask you, I mean, UFC 300, milestone event, obviously, all the big stars under one roof. What was like the. The coolest thing, just being there in Vegas for the week that you got.

To do, you know, nothing really stands.

Out as like, oh, that was the thing, seeing.

Do you know what it was?

Seeing the appreciation that people have for this sport. And because it's such a monumental event, you could see the excitement of everybody. You could see how much. Everybody knew how much of a deal this was. And just to think that all these.

Years ago, a lot of fighters, they.

Didn'T get the respect. They weren't considered athletes. They were considered thugs. They were considered idiots, meatheads, whatever, when it used to be no holds barred or cage fighting and things like that. And now to see it ESPN. That's why Sunday morning, I was at the airport flying back. I got myself a little beer while I'm waiting at the gate, and I'm sitting there, and I was just thinking about it all and thinking about how far this sport has come in such a short period of time, 30 years, you know, it's phenomenal. And I was just, like, very, very.

Grateful for what it's done to my.

Life, how it's changed the lives of so many fighters. There's so many fighters now that have had a crack at life, that have made money, whether you're a millionaire or just making hundreds of thousands of dollars, they have turned their skill, which they may was maybe was God given, to use a phrase.

Or maybe it's because of the adversity.

That they had in life, which can be one of many different ways. Poverty, violence, neglect, whatever the case may be, being bullied, whatever, and they be able to take those skills now and.

Turn it into something positive, you know.

Exercise their demons, mature, and become a.

Better human being and make a really.

Good living at the same time. It's just phenomenal to see how the sport was so received all over Las Vegas. That was probably my favorite thing. Just that realization and then just seeing all of that.

Damn, that's cool.

I wish I was there. That sounds like a very, very fun weekend.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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So we had a couple of announcements.

We had a lot of announcements. Where do we start?

We got Sean strickers versus Paulo Acosta.

Conor McGregor, Michael Chandler, and we also have.

Is that my Kachev? Dustin Poirier. Now, hold on a minute.

Hold on a minute. Hold on a minute. We got to talk about Zhang Weili and Yan Xiao Nan. We'll be quick, though, because we haven't got all day and we're not going through every single fight. But Yan Xiao nan, phenomenal. We know how good Zhang Weili is dominated the first round. I thought it was over. She's getting choked out. It's done, it's done, it's done. Clapper goals, 10 seconds. She just makes it. She's like this. She's all over the place. She's pretty much unconscious. What, are you pulling her face out?

I do.

You said she just makes it. I don't believe that she did.

I know. Did buy one of the corners or something? Say I can wake her up?

Yeah, kind of.

Yeah, I know.

We put, like, the Vaseline under her nose. Some people were accusing smelling salts. I found out that's not the case, but I think that was. It was just to do Vaseline under the nose to like. Yeah, exactly that.

Wake her up high in the desk.

Where we do the ESPN show, we don't have the commentary. So I think DC said something on commentary. Right? Did he say, oh, they just said I can wake her up.

Yeah.

One of the corner.

Well, that is crazy.

That is crazy. So, fair play. And then she gets dominated again in the second round. And then round three comes out and almost finishes her, drops her multiple times. I mean, that woman's a warrior. And then Zhang Weili got it done again. Four and five. Respect to her staying on women's mma.

Kayla Harrison is legit. I agree. I agree.

This time next year, Kayla Harrison is the bantamweight champion of the world. Is that a shocking statement to you?

No, I just. Look, for me, I think it doesn't make sense to put Rocky Pennington to put Rocky Pennington up against Pena right now. Like, I think she just got jumped in line by Kayla Harrison. She's. She's the name people want to see. And at the end of the day, she's the name that could entice Amanda Nunez back.

So in my mind, we've seen Raquel Pennington and Nunez.

No, no, I said Raquel Pennington. Raquel Penning is, like, reportedly supposed to fight Pena next, but that fight isn't inked anywhere. It's not book.

So Julian and Pena. Yeah, yeah.

So forget that. Let's do Harrison versus Rocky Pennington for the title. And when Kayla Harrison wins that fight, that might coax Amanda Nunes back out.

And at that point, I could see Amanda Nunez having that belt, but that's the only way I don't see it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Okay, phrase it another way. She's going to be the champion.

She will be champion by this time next year.

Yeah.

I mean, listen. Yeah. Respect to Holly harm.

She's 42 years old, you know, incredible career, just phenomenal. But age catches up with you, and.

Nobody'S ever done that to her. No one's been that physical. Bullied her the ground and pound the finish as well. The physicality, throwing head kicks for a Jude orca.

I mean, just a really, really strong, solid performance.

She put the entire division on blast. And then, you know, you do something.

Good when Amanda Nunes is like, you know what?

Oh, I might just come out of retirement. So well done to her.

Bo Nickel got the job done.

I was a little.

Anthony was being a good teammate on.

The post fight show. Did you see the post fight show?

I did not watch the entire thing.

Oh, he didn't watch it.

You two friends are on ESPN together. Does it even tune in?

Brian, let me ask, did you watch the pulse fight show?

I was also on my way home very drunk.

Oh, okay.

To be fair, we were cleaning up from a live stream that we did, and it was playing, so you guys got the view from us. We still supported. We were just busy and couldn't watch the whole thing.

Let me know in the pulse. Sorry. In the comments, how many of you guys watched the pulse fight show your pricks? It was a good show. No, he was sticking up for Bo nickel. I'm like, yeah, listen, I get it, teammate. Sorry, Cody Brundage, I might get it, your teammate.

But he didn't really do much, did he?

And fair play to Bo nickel, he.

Was aware of his performance.

He put his thumbs down, which I thought was the great thing to do. But he can take more chances. Bo Nickel can take more chances. Why? Because he can pretty much take down them.

Take his opponents down whenever he wants.

That's how good his grappling is.

So if you have them down, take a chance.

Posture up, rain down, elbows, throw punches, whatever. Make it a little bit exciting. I've always been high on bone nickel. I've always said he's got a great future. And let's be honest, people like Habib, namago, Madoff, look at him. His fights back in the day weren't exactly thrilling. Can't miss fights. But it's the dominance. It's the dominance that kind of inspires people and, like, blows their mind and turns them into fans. That's why I was talking to someone.

Recently, and I was like, I wouldn't have Alex Pereira fight Tom Aspinall, because if Pereira loses to Tom, even though it's at a different weight class, only.

The hardcore fans know that to build somebody into a massive star is the casuals when the casuals come on board, when they're coming along for the ride, that's when you become a major superstar. And the casuals won't know or remember or give a shit that it was against Tom Aspinall, that heavyweight. They'll just see Pereira losing again.

You know what I'm saying? What?

It's just red ink on the Wikipedia page.

Nobody looks deeper than that. We won't even be ready.

You just have to look at the. Like, the details. It won't even be highlighted in red. So anyway, Sabo, nickel, well done. Got the job done.

And then our last one, we'll do this one. Yuri prohaska versus Alexander rakic. Wow. Prochaska is a maniac, right?

I said he leaves openings.

He did. I said, he'll get caught in these openings. He did.

Alexander Rakic looked phenomenal. He looked effective. The boxing was great. It was just all round, a really, really good performance.

But Yuri is such a monster that.

If you can't put him to sleep, and you gotta be pretty special to put him to sleep, if you can't do that, you better bet your bottom.

Dollar he's gonna continue to come, and he's gonna come, and he's gonna come.

And he's gonna swing with all of his power. And he's gonna do everything he can to knock you the f out.

And he won't stop. He won't stop.

And he'll take shots, and you'll still come.

And that's why the man is a samurai, dude.

He is. He really does seem like the unstoppable force. There was one point, I think it was maybe 20 seconds before the knockout. Racketch hit one of the cleanest crosses you're ever going to land on a man.

Right?

Like, Yuri coming forward. Hit him right in the chin.

Totally stopped him. But Yuri didn't. Like, he didn't.

He didn't buckle. He didn't waver anything. And I saw it in Rakich's eyes.

Like, just the defeat.

That was the cleanest shot I can possibly hit this guy with. And it didn't move him a millimeter. Like, I feel like in that moment, he won that fight. And it was just a matter of prochaska putting on the gas at that point.

Because Racket's new.

It's a shame for Rakic. You know, I thought he looked phenomenally. Stock went up. He reminded the world who he is. Would have got fired the night if it wasn't for Max Holloway, because that was phenomenal. So, yeah, I mean, listen, he came back, he had a bit of ring rust, and he went up against an absolute monster. Do you know what I really liked about Yuri? His post fight speech. Because there's all this talk about the samurai, and that kind of makes him the butt of some jokes, people talking and rakich, that was part of his trash talk. The man's not a samurai. He's from Czech Republic. What are you talking about? And I thought what he said was great.

He's like, listen, we all need something.

To aspire to or to be inspired by. And he has been obviously a fan of japanese culture. He's a fan of the samurai way, the samurai code that inspires him as a human being. And therefore he's kind of directed his life that way. And it's been a big influence. And he's absolutely right. So, yeah, he might not be japanese and born and raised with a samurai sword, a katana.

You know, he's not going to be.

Popping up on kill Bill. He's saying that he might do. He's definitely a character out of kill Bill, but it has inspired him. And I love what he said because he's right. As human beings, as men in particular.

We need to be inspired.

We need something that inspires us as young men or young men are women, let's be honest. But I think men lose their ways a bit more. I think women are generally mentally stronger and hold it together. Men need something to inspire you.

And I thought that was a powerful message. And the proof is in the pudding, right?

Like, you know, say what you want about him, but that visualization, the meditation, that video, the fan posted of him standing outside of the T Mobile arena doing the, doing the thing. Like, I watched that myself. I saw him do it outside of MSG after he lost to Pereira like that. He actually lives this stuff. He's very present in the moment. The proof's in the pudding. He's rode that to a UFC world title before.

What?

Who are you to criticize him?

Who are you? Yeah, yeah.

You know, you asked me before what, what was one of my favorite moments of the week? I'll tell you what one of them.

Was Friday night, I got to go.

And have dinner with Teddy Atlas and his family.

Wow.

And just getting to know Teddy and his family, for me, it was beautiful because I got picked up at eight in the morning. I did the Wayne show. And then from the Wayne show, I went immediately to the ESPN desk, did 2 hours of live tv, finished immediately back to the apex. Cold power slap.

By the time I got back, I was exhausted.

No, that was.

Yeah, Friday.

So I'm talking Thursday night, then.

Thursday night? Was it Thursday night? I don't think it was.

Which bloody night was it?

I wasn't there.

It was one of the nights. I don't know. It's all a bloody blur. Anyway, so I get invited for dinner by Charlie, the ESPN guy, right? Charlie's a legend as well, and he's good friends with Teddy Atlas. They walked in, and Teddy's there with.

His wife, his son, his son's wife and grandchildren.

Just a whole family there. And he was in this old school italian restaurant, and they were just like, such nice, warm, you know, people and just getting to know new people and seeing the families interact and stuff. And the way Teddy was just, like, revered by all of his family. And then sitting there and talking about fights and boxing. That man is an absolute encyclopedia when it comes to fights and fight history. As we were walking out, there was a. Because it was one of those restaurants, you know, where they have, like, pictures of all the celebrities that have been in the restaurant. It was one of those. And Teddy's son, who's also called Teddy.

Legend of a guy.

Shout out if you see this, by the way. He was a very successful guy in his own right as well. He says, oh, look at that. That's. That's Max Bear, who was a boxing champion, I believe, back in the day. Yeah.

Lost it to Braddock. Yeah.

And.

I get confused, and with Max.

I say, oh, he was german, wasn't he?

He was german. And Teddy Atlas goes, oh, no, no. You're thinking. You're thinking of Max Schmeling.

You're thinking of Max Schmeling, right? And then he goes in off the top of his head, all the history about Max Schmeling. He was the german heavyweight champ who knocked out Joe Lewis. Then they had a rematch in New York City in the height of world war two. You know.

You know, the western world versus Germany.

And Japan and who else? Italy. Yeah, yeah. So you can imagine the pressure in that fight. And he told me all about the story and set the scene for it and everything.

I was like, man, you are one.

Sick bastard, you know, but in the best way possible. He was great, man. What an inspirational dude. And his family were absolutely beautiful.

Just.

Just that, to me, that was.

And everyone in the restaurant, oh, just. There's Teddy Atlas. I'm like, yo, bro, I'm in the. I'm in the hall of fame, and.

I'm a former champion.

No one gave a when Teddy Alice.

Is there, everyone's playing second fiddle. And shout out to him, just an absolute legend. Guess what? Every day for lunch, we can leave this in the show. Brian. He gets one every day. We just stopped down for a quick break so I could get some ibuprofen because I got a headache. Stole a piece of Lucas pizza. She makes him a slice.

Sorry, a pizza every day after school. You know he's going to be a jujitsu.

God, look at Mikey Mizamuchi.

Do you know what I mean? I just tried to steal a slice and he gets very, very upset. Very upset.

Anyway, Sean Strickland has been announced as.

The co main event underneath Islam Mahachev versus Dustin Poirier. So three or two. Newark, New Jersey. That is the location.

What's the date?

I believe it's June 1.

June 1. I'll take it.

Sean Strickland versus Paulo Costa. So was complaining a bit, spitting the dummy out, sulking a little bit.

Look, listen, I get it, I get it.

It was a close fight against Dracas Duplessis. He wanted the immediate rematch. He's not going to get it. You weren't a long time champion. I've said these thoughts before, so I'm not going to repeat myself.

He's got to fight again.

Paulo Costa just lost against Robert Whittaker. They like to put losers against losers and winners against winners generally, not always.

So I think it makes all the.

Sense in the world. I think stylistically, I think it makes for a really, really fun fight. I think it's also a tremendous coal main event.

And again, look at that this year. 298, 299, 300. 300.

301 and 302.

Right.

Three or two is going to be a banger. Three or three is Conor McGregor. They're on a roll. It's insane.

This might be tough fight for Sean Strickland now, is it?

Do you really think, like I. This feels like the fight that's kind of custom made to get Sean Strickland back in the win column. And that's not taking any, anything away from Paulo Costa.

Yeah, he does have.

Have big power, but I don't think he's had a ko tko in. In maybe five years or something like that. So I'm not going to say he's lost that power, obviously.

Power.

The last thing to go. But I feel like Strickland knows how to stay safe against these, like, one hitter big guys, with the exception of Alex Pereira, you know, and I think this is. I have this pretty clear. 50 45.

Sean Streckliff.

Yeah, well, I'm not saying he loses the fight. And by the way, it's a call. Oh, it's a five round coleman.

Five round co main.

Yeah, five rounds definitely favors him, you know, saying that Paulo Costa went five rounds against Marvin Vettori, where he was clearly messing around. Came in 20 pounds overweight, and he went five rounds. The thing that always impresses me about.

Paulo Costa, number one, you can't take.

The guy down, pretty much. Look at bloody Joel Romero. Stuffed most of those takedowns. Joel Romero's power didn't bother him.

Marvin Vettori hits hard, right? He did not blink.

He took all. A lot of heavy shots. Paulo Costa, don't underestimate this man. I'm telling you, I don't underestimate Shawn Strickland. What I'm saying is, for both men, it's a tough fight, and I think that's what makes it such a compelling.

Matchup, because they're what you want to.

See anytime a fight's just a. He's just going to get slaughtered.

That's not fun.

That's not fun. But this is a lie. It's a. It's a really hotly contested matchup, and it's good for Sean. I'm happy for him, happy to see him back in there. He's got a lot of fans. You're going to continue fighting and state your case, and the best way to do that is to fight again. Beat somebody like Paulo Acosta, who's a household name, in the middle of a.

Division, beat him, and then you can start saying, hey, hey, where's my title shot? You know what I mean?

Cause we've seen it before, right? Like, guys have been, you know, like, the Hamza versus Whitaker is supposed to be for the number one contender, but anything can happen, right? Drake is versus Robert Whitaker was supposed to be for the number one contender. Sean Strickland ended up getting that shot, right?

So.

So I wouldn't put any kind of, you know, real kind of weight or merit behind that. Like, you're fighting at 302 against a top ranked guy in the division. If you're coming off a win as a former champion, you have as good a case as anyone.

Yeah, no, for sure. Without question. Especially when that title fight is only one fight removed. So well done. I think.

I'm really a fan of Costa's style.

You know what I'm saying? Like, he just.

He's a brute.

It's not the most technical. He's an effective striker. He does have a lot of power. He takes shots well. I mean, look at that spinning wheel kick he hit Whittaker with. I mean, that was nice. That was a nice kick. So I think he's more powerful and a faster striker. Shaun's probably technically a better boxer, but I think he is out powered in that regard. It's a close fight. It's a close fight. I'm not sure who wins that one.

And then in the main event, Islam.

Mahachev returning, taking on Dustin Poirier.

I mean, unreal.

We knew this was going to happen the way that he beat Benoit Saint Denis, the excitement that he's brought, the career that he's had.

Right. But the big question is, can he do it?

Dustin Poirier has been a fan favorite for so long. He's had such an epic career. He's a solid dude, right? He puts on exciting fights. The two knockouts over Conor McGregor were phenomenal. Every time he fights the winds over Justin Gagey.

Who?

Michael Chandler.

Eddie Alvarez.

Did he beat Eddie Alvarez?

Oh, yeah, yeah.

I mean, that was the, like, that.

Was the original BMF fight.

Kinda. Yeah.

Yeah. You know, it's just unreal what he's done. But can he be Islam Mahajev?

What do you think? I mean, it's.

It is tough because this, this to me should be the. The hardest fight for Islam in the division, right?

Like there.

I just. I don't know, man, I can't count Dustin Porian.

I do, I do.

I mean, I, you know, I've seen Armand fight Islam, right? And I think that what everything, everything Arman is, is very, very, very good at Islam. Is great at, you know, so I don't. I just think there are intangibles that Dustin Poirier has, you know, edges in Islamaha.

Yeah, you're probably right. Looking at the rankings here, Armin, I see what you're saying. He's beating once before short notice, granted, but you know, Olivera beating him, gagey just lost, so he's not getting a shot anytime soon.

Matouj Gamrot.

Don't think he gets it done. Benille Dariush. And then it's Chandler Fizive.

So.

Yeah.

Dustin Poirier.

Dustin Poirier.

Should we do a non MMA story?

Oh, sure.

What?

Did you see any that struck your fancy?

Well, well, well. I don't know if I did, if I'm honest.

Okay, Brian, are you. I've got a.

Have you got a non MMA?

Well, it's really funny that you ask that, Mike. I was just scrolling Twitter and I was wondering if you guys were interested in the latest chapter of Ryan Garcia's mental breakdown.

See, this is what I'm talking about. This is exactly what I do when I talk about, because it's not exactly MMA, but it's around combat related. But it's outside of analyzing a fight and breaking shit down.

Give me the.

Give me the lowdown.

Well, I just scrolled upon this hilarious video, Mike.

Oh, I haven't seen this.

Go on.

Ng doing what I do.

All white, looking nice. Okay, come through. I don't know if Ryan Garcia is taking a fight serious or not. Yeah, hold on a minute.

That is.

I mean. Yeah, no, hold on a minute. Number one.

Number one, that could be the best.

Just mocking your opponent you've ever seen.

I don't give a about you.

I'm gonna sit here and do that.

He just failed the drug test and.

He doxxed his management all in one stroke.

He put the.

Yeah, can we bring that up? Not, not, not because of the emails, but. So he just failed the VAR, the voluntary anti doping association. So is that fight going to be off? That's the biggest story. Number one, Ryan Garcia should not be fighting. I think he's well documented and I think the public opinion is that he's clearly having a mental breakdown.

And Devin Haney's right.

He ain't taking the fight seriously. He's not even thinking about the fight. The man is going through some things right now, I think. And I don't think doing twelve rounds potentially with somebody like Devin Haney is going to help his problems. And I think he's really going to have an issue getting licensed. He was talking shit. The NY, the New York commission recently, did he get commissioned? Has he got a license?

So New York State Athletic Commission, his beef with them was that they said they were going to make him undergo, like, psychological evaluations before they clear him for the fight. And he started kicking up, kicking up a storm about that. But everything is moving ahead with the press obligations for the fight. So I have to assume they're sanctioned now.

Not necessarily.

Not necessarily because the promoter, you know.

In my case, it was the UFC, they're still going to promote the fight because they're under the implication that you're going to fight.

You know, that's down to the New.

York State Athletic Commission. You don't know what's going on behind the scenes. And, you know, I had no problem with a little rappy thing that he was doing, clicking the fingers and all the rest of it. I thought it was funny, you know, but his.

His big problem, his big problem is.

He should not be fighting the.

Go on.

I was going to say, I saw a video of him out at a club last night with his shirt off, like, rapid, like, MC'ing, essentially for, like, a dj set at some, like, hot new York nightclub on a Monday night.

Right, of fight week.

If you're doing that, is that not like the big.

It is.

It's not good.

But Chuck Liddell was famous for that. Yeah, Chuck Liddell used to do that all the time.

Chuck Liddell was always at nightclubs and stopping out late. And I don't know if he was partying, drinking, or just like, just being there, hanging out because he wasn't going to fight late at night. So you could look at it one.

Way and be like, well, no, he's.

Not fighting till 10:00 at night. Tomorrow, he's going to stay out late. He's going to enjoy time with his friends. He's going to enjoy the limelight, because.

You know, it does feel good to.

Be so appreciated everywhere you go. Being the superstar of the UFC. Who knows? Maybe he had a few and he's fine, but, yeah, I remember 2006, UFC 66, I was fighting at the MGM grand in Vegas, and I had a film crew from England following me around. They made a documentary called Britain's Ultimate Fighter. And the next day, talking to the.

Crew, and they're like, oh, yeah, you're.

Not going to believe this. I said, go on.

He said, last night, we all went out for a drink. He said it was about 03:00 in.

The morning, and we get in the.

Elevator and Chuck Liddell walks in, two.

Girls with him, one on either arm.

You know, and they're like, how's it going, champ?

Yeah, I'm good.

And like, you're not going to fight tomorrow?

I said, don't worry about it. Don't worry about it. And of course, he went out there.

And just destroyed t's, you know, so who knows?

Maybe Devin Haney's fine. The reality is, before Harrison, I couldn't actually find the note for some reason. But I do have the notes here.

Why do you want to talk about Mark Cuban's tax bill? Speaker two.

Oh.

I mean, I just thought it was absurdly high number for one man to be paying in taxes.

He sold a bunch of stock.

Yeah, it's not.

It's not.

Yeah, it's not when his income was shares that he sold, like, you and I know you don't like people getting.

$15 minimum wage, whatever it was gonna be. If you make a ridiculous amount of.

Money, you get taxed on it. If you're a billionaire, 288,000,000 doesn't sound that much.

So, actually, initially, this is where taxation was supposed to come from in general.

Like, people.

Like, the federal income tax came kind of later. Taxes were supposed to be off of, like, business and business sales and shit like that. So I'm okay with this. Even though taxation is.

Is theft.

Well, it kind of is theft if you live in California, because we get taxed ridiculously on everything, and the place is literally falling apart. There's potholes and litter and shit. Not where I live. I'm lucky. We live in a nice, quiet area, but certain parts of California are just awful.

They're just destroyed.

And the amount of taxes, it's like, fix it.

I was in San Francisco once when I was a kid, and it was, like, beautiful, right? And now I'm hearing all these stories and seeing pictures, and I'm like, I'm so glad I went when it was still, like, habitable, because apparently now it's a nuclear wasteland.

Yeah.

To be fair, it's just one part of San Francisco. I forget what it's called now. Rebecca said it the other day. Yeah. And he saw it when she went to see Callum recently. And I was with Chael son, and I asked him, I said, hey, Portland, that's supposed to be a bit mental. Is it as crazy as what they say on the news? Same thing he said.

Yeah.

He said, there's one specific neighborhood that you just know what you're going to get. You just know it's going to be awful. And drug addicts and needles and people passed out and all the rest of it. Same in Philadelphia. Paul Felder talk. Felder told me that as well. There's a lot of bad areas.

What's that?

What's that?

K and A. Kensington and Allegheny. Everybody on the east coast knows.

Stay away from there.

What about New York? You would think that New York would have an issue with that.

Yeah, for sure. I mean, even where the studio is located, I. I see people shooting up on the street all the time from the train to the studio.

You got people like Lewis floating around.

I'm talking about the homeless people outside.

I know. I'm joking. I'm joking. Yeah, yeah. I have. I have no problem with billionaires paying their taxes.

Listen, we all want to pay less taxes.

Of course. I'm not. I'm not saying that, but all I'm saying is when you're going, what was it, $20 for the Uber driver or something? I tell you what. Whatever I earn, and it's a damn sight less than Mark Cuban.

If I got to pay my taxes, he better pay his.

I want everyone less taxes.

But if I'm paying 50 odd percent.

On my earnings, which drives me crazy.

Because you live in the communist state of California.

It's not a communist state, but if.

I'm paying that, then I would. Then every girls can. You know what I mean?

But we should bring it down, baby.

So what I was thinking would be pretty cool if the government had to report back to you the following year, everything they spent your tax money on.

From the year prior, right?

They want to know what I'm spending all my money on. Tell me what you're spending my money on.

Yeah, well, right now, it's going to a lot of crazy things. It's going to immigrants for free health care, and it's going to. I don't even want to say we'll get kicked off YouTube, but a lot of crazy stuff. Anyway, we're not here to talk politics because it's not a political show. We will talk about this, though.

Because I saw it. Number one, because we didn't talk about Arvid. Sal Rukian taking a swing at somebody.

In the crowd on his ringwalk. If you haven't seen it, UFC 300, Arvisol Rukins walking out to fight Charles Oliveira, and then rushes at someone in the crowd, and there's an overhead shot that somebody must have got. And he proper took a swing, and I think he had, like, a flag or something, and he was sticking the finger up, right?

Yeah, yeah.

So Armand.

Yeah, yeah.

You can see him giving him the finger right there. So Armand said in the post, by presser, he said, he say you to me?

You don't say you to me.

I'm from Russia. We handle that.

All right.

Is that what you're gonna do, though, throughout your life?

Listen, listen.

I like it. I like it. But number one, if he had assaulted.

That fan, it'd be in trouble.

It'd at least be a fine. It wouldn't be. The UFC don't want fighters walking out.

Getting heckled, you know?

Listen, I like Arman Saruki, and I'm not chatting shit. I'm just saying, as a human being, when you put yourself out there on a platform, by the way, hey, fair play. You chat shit, you get banged, right?

There he is. No, no, no.

I'm not saying that's not the case. Charge it, you get banged, whatever. But also, you've got to be mature enough to not do that.

Right?

Because the avalanche of bullshit that's going to come your way after it, is it really worth it? And this is more from an advice perspective for people listening. Young men that maybe have a temper problem. Look at. Look at the. Look. Unfortunately, he never connected. He could have a lawsuit on his hands. He could have a massive farm from the commission. The UFC could let him go and say, listen, we ain't condoning our fighters walking out, punching fans because it's a sporting event.

Right?

Sporting events, people chat shit, okay? It just comes with the territory. So, like, Armin just needs to learn and grow and mature as a human being. That's like, listen, you put yourself out there for the world to judge and talk shit. A cheer or hate, let it blow over the top of your head.

Say, hey, you're buying a ticket.

See me fight, dickhead.

Okay? Right?

And you're the one sitting in the crowd.

I'm the one under the spotlight, Brian.

Well, he is getting awful little lucky. The man told bloody elbow earlier that he'd like to apologize to Armin for provoking him by flipping him off. He was buzzing all day, and the moment got to him. It was his first time at a UFC event, and he was, you know, he was just feeling it too much.

And then he's.

He's not suing him. He congratulated him on his win, and he hopes to get tickets from Dana for the event.

Well, do you know what, again?

And I. I believe, and I find that totally understandable, first time going to.

A UFC event, right? You buzzing. You're a young man. You go to a fight. This shit's quite older.

Maybe it's even better, you know?

It's even better in person, you know? Oh, my God, did you see that knockout? And, of course, you're drinking a bit of alcohol, you're having fun, and then the guy walks out, and you're a big Charles Oliveira fan.

So you're like, yeah, you. You know.

You know what I'm saying?

You just didn't. That.

It becomes almost like a pantomime thing at that point.

You know what I'm saying? I don't like that guy.

So sorry, that's not the guy I'm here to support. So that guy now becomes my enemy. But you're not going to meet him. You're not going to go and have dinner with him. You're not going to exchange phone numbers or work with him on Monday. So it's just like, yeah, boo. Or cheer or boo.

You know what I'm saying?

But then Armand saw Ruki, tries to crack him in the face, lets him know that shit's real. And I thought that that was a great response. He's like, listen, I was just in the moment.

Whatever.

I don't blame him, but he wants free tickets.

Ah, good luck, buddy. Good luck.

Yeah, that was, that was quite a bit. But do you think, do you think Armand reacts like that just on the street, or do you think it's the adrenaline of like, I'm about to go fight a man in the Octagon and you're telling me to go myself?

You, buddy.

Well, you do turn into a certain version of yourself when you're about to fight. You know, some people might say you take on the moniker of the warrior.

You know, you do a, you know.

You a split personality, like Quentin Rampage Jackson.

Rampage, he's Quinton, but he only becomes rampage when he goes out to a fight.

That's what he used to always say. Goes, he becomes a different person. This other side of his personality comes out and that's when it gets super mean and starts howling and all the rest of it, you know, and some people are like that. You flip a switch, you go out there and you're revved up. However, in a professional sports environment, I'm not, I'm not. I'm just giving you both sides of the coin.

But in a professional sports environment, you.

Gotta, you gotta be trusted not to start just attacking members of the public. You know what I'm saying?

Oh, but he's fire. He's a fighter. Yeah, but he just drop kicked a.

70 year old lady thumb down as he walked past. You know what I mean?

That's an extreme example, but you just.

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Did we? We didn't really touch on 303 at all. The returning caller, McGregor versus Michael Chandler.

Well, well, yeah.

I mean, it's been talked about for a long time. It's not exactly a shock. It's great to see that he's back. And we've had these conversations so many.

Times about McGregor and Chandler. I'm happy it's happening.

I mean, three or three, three or two. The pay per views, they've just been on a roll.

McGregor's back.

It's official.

I saw him in a post on social media.

He slimmed down a lot already.

He's made adjustments to the diet.

He's not taking in as much protein. So he's definitely slimmed down for sure. It's going to be 170 pounds.

What is there to say? How good is he going to be.

After three years away? I know for a fact that when.

I had injuries, when I came back, I was okay.

I was fine. Yeah, I had one eye. There was an adjustment period to that. I'm talking about the time off when I had a couple of surgeries on.

My knee, time away, I was fine, but I never took three years off, and I didn't take three. Three years is a long time. A lot can change in three years.

But I also didn't take three years.

Off where I was an absolute global superstar who was worth insane amounts of.

Money that could literally do whatever you want. I could fly around the world on a private jet, on a Lamborghini yacht, you know, with all these famous friends.

And have a hell of a time.

Right?

Fair play, fair play.

He's having a great old time.

I don't know, Mike.

I saw he looked like he was.

In pretty good shape, you know, like fight.

Yeah.

Oh, he was buff, but not fighting.

Shape, so, yeah, I mean, that's the big question.

How's he going to be? I think one round is dangerous.

After that, he's probably a spent force, but he's going to be dangerous in round one.

He always is.

You're on mute.

Leave this bit in, please. Brian, this is a bit now, man. You're just still on mute.

I am a bit.

I'm a bit much. So I was going to say 18 months. Couldn't agree more. Michael Chandler, 18 months off for the first time in his career.

Right.

Because of the long layoff for Conor. So I think both guys are going to be dealing with ring rust here, which might be interesting, because, as you said, I think McGregor. I think you're right. I think McGregor's got a round in him, but if both guys are a little tentative due to ring rust in.

The first round, I don't know what that does to the fight.

Well, I said one round. I think McGregor's got more than a round in him.

I mean, what are we in now? April, April, May, June, June. Yeah, very end of June. Yeah.

So he's got.

We're almost done with April, so maybe April, May, June.

So he's just got over to, like, two, probably about 910 weeks, something like that. So it's not exactly bags of time. He's gonna have to train his ass.

Off, and he's done it before he's got in shape.

So I. It can be done.

Of course it can.

Of course it can be done. To get in shape, to go five rounds at a hard pace, and to get back to kind of who he was before it can be done. The problem is, as we know, with all that kind of wealth and fortune and fame and adoration and mainly distraction.

Around you, is he gonna do that?

You know, that's the question, you know, because the famous saying about the silk sheets. And people are sick of that analogy. But the reason is, is because the.

Reason that works is because when you've got no money and the only path.

You have got to making something of.

Yourself and paying the bills and securing.

Financial freedom in the future is by winning fights.

You bust your ass. You go for it because you want.

It, because it's like, I need to do this. You've got pressure from your family.

Not from them.

I mean, from them existing.

You know what I'm saying? I want them to live well.

I want to give them that life.

I want them to go to a good school. I want them to.

I want to be able to go on vacation sometimes.

We're not talking insane stuff. That was never the thought for me.

My thought was never to be rich. I thought, I just want enough money so we can live a decent, normal life. I never wanted to be rich.

That was never my goal.

It was like, I just want us.

As a family to not have to.

Stress out every time Rebecca goes to.

Buy groceries because she's buying the branded detergent, do you know? As opposed to the cheap stuff, you know?

You know what I'm saying? Like, oh, I do.

Yeah. I'd be like, is this you get.

Lady at the Tesco's own brand? You know, you don't have to get that.

You know?

Michael, that's terrible. I'm like, babe, it doesn't matter. It's for cleaning the floor.

Oh, you really think we got downy money? Interesting.

Yeah, exactly. Exactly. I just didn't want to have that. So you, you know, you sprint your head up on you, on your runs.

You go hard on the pads, you.

Kill yourself in training. Rebecca, come here.

Come here, come here.

It's just me and Harrington, so come here. Did you hear what I was just talking about? Look at Rebecca's fancy skirt. Everybody step aside. It's got the leather. She's got a tiger on it.

That looks great, Rebecca. Oh, thank you. I was just talking about when you used to go shopping and come back.

And we'd have an argument because I was buying all the branded, like, cleaning products and stuff.

Remember?

You come back and I'd be like, why did you buy this one? Why didn't you get the Tesco's brand?

Oh, yeah.

He used to argue with it. Like, I don't know. I'd used to go shopping and used to look after the kids, but I used to come back and he'd just have a disagreement with everything I bought. Like, no, you did. No, you did.

Because you're buying the expensive stuff and.

We didn't have any money, dude. We. There is.

You cannot compromise uncleanliness, brand name bleach and the disinfectant. And it's just. I need to be clean. But anyway. Yeah, I don't know. You never used to like what I bought.

No, no, hold on. This is not attack me. I'm just talking about that. Jesus, criss eyes.

Yeah, I don't know.

I mean, now I like a good bargain.

I do like a good bargain.

Now we can afford it. She's like, yeah, I don't want that good shit. I like to be a woman of the people and, you know, get the homeless people's leftovers.

I love bargains, and I'm often, like, trying to find.

Stare for a bit. Stare for.

I'm often trying to find, like, the cheapest option and comparing prices. But maybe before. Back then, I was younger, I didn't.

Care about this stuff.

I'm like, we need it. I'm buying it. I didn't, like, balance the books or anything, you know, like, we needed it, so I bought it.

Have you got an earpiece in?

I have an earpiece.

Oh, do you have your headset in? Yeah. So I was saying that to Harrington, talking about fires, you know, talking about Conor McGregor's motivation, because he doesn't have that, you know? So when the going starts to get tough, perhaps he's like, well, fucking. He hasn't got that innate need, want, and desire. But anyway, as I was explaining that Harrington's like, you know, like, when Rebecca used to go shopping and he was.

Like, oh, oh, I know this phenomenon.

I'm living through right now. Yeah.

Are we talking clothes?

Are we talking groceries?

No, I mean, specifically with the grocery stuff. Like, I'll go with Alex and be like, look, this is literally the same thing. I'll show her the active ingredients and be like, this company just spent $10 million marketing. This company didn't. Why do you.

Why.

Why are you paying that marketing budget?

Yep, yep.

Sometimes that's the case.

Oh, I'm so sorry. Carry on talking.

Sometimes it's the case, sometimes it's not. Some things. Shampoo, conditioner, skincare. No.

Oh, yeah, that.

That's.

We need generic.

Drugs aren't always as good as the branded labels.

But, um, yeah, sometimes.

I agree with you on that one, but, um, sometimes you just want to splash out and get the, uh, I don't know, get the Clorox instead of the krogers or something.

Okay, okay. Okay. See this? Rebecca's here because I don't know what. This is number two on the walkie talkies.

Oh, okay.

I didn't go in for this one because I thought, we've got nothing to talk about on that one. Now, Rebecca's here. You might have an interesting take.

Okay.

So a woman got her son walkie talkie so that he could, you know, talk to her, talk to, you know, other friends, whatever. Just little kids with walkie talkies as they do. She said she walked into his room late one night while he was sleeping, and she heard a man talking on it. She didn't realize that, like, these little walkie talkie sets that you get, if you have, like, a big, powerful walkie talkie, you can tune to that channel and just talk to children who are playing with a toy.

Well, yeah, no, no, of course.

I mean, that is so scary. But I have heard that. I have heard that before. That's awful.

Yeah.

I mean, in my generation, and obviously before walkie talkies was about as cool as you could get. In fact, when I was. When I took the fight against Luke.

Rockoff for the championship, I was looking.

For walkie talkies to buy Lucas. And she was like, he has an iPad. Why does he want. And I know, but I was just, like, in my mind, because his best friend Lucas lived next door. I'm like, they could share. They could have a walkie talk. I. That was always my dream as a kid.

Like, on the movie.

Yeah.

Talk.

Yeah.

In, like, the eighties films, you know? I mean.

Yeah. Oh, yeah.

What are you doing? Should we climb out the bedroom window? Which no one ever did, but I was like, that just looks so cool. I'm gonna get into walkie talkies. And I said that. She goes, yeah, and they've got mobile phones. What are you doing? But of course, you can tune them in. And you just keep tuning on the CB, and you'll find kind of all sorts. What are you looking up feverishly, Harriet, I can see you look in your eyes like a man possessed.

So I was looking up the other. The other part of this article was saying that there are a lot of children, toys that are connected to the Internet that will take recordings of your child's voice. They will do, like, eye scans. They can steal privacy. And, like, an Amazon echo, right? It's just listening at all times. So, like this. These companies are getting a ton of data off your children.

Like, for example, what kind of toys?

It did not say the exact ones in here, but I.

Great, amazing article. And, you know, by the way, there's toys out there that do that. We don't know which ones.

So walkie talkies are like a major red flag now.

Oh, yeah.

Wow.

Well, well, well.

Certainly because I don't.

The amount of bloody pedophilia that we see, and I don't know if it's because Twitter X shows so much of it or if. Because on social media and news just seems to get out there more or there just seems to be more goddamn.

Crazy perverts around, you know?

But it's crazy.

You're saying it seems to be more prevalent these days.

Seems to be. I mean, come on. I mean, there's always been sick people around, I guess, but, yeah, maybe we're.

Just hearing about it.

Maybe we're just hearing about it more.

Hopefully they're catching them more. That's why we're hearing about it.

Yes.

So I feel like it was, you know, for you guys generation, maybe, like, even less so than mine, but, like, I hear people talking about, you know, growing up, there was always the, like, kind of dodgy guy, lived up the street, and all the kids knew never to go buy that guy's house. Don't get candy from or anything like that.

Well, listen, don't get me wrong.

I mean, you look at the catholic church going back hundreds of years, there's a lot of very, very nasty stories. You know what I'm saying?

This got dark very far.

It did get dark. What did it start with? I don't know how much you just talk about walkie talkie talkies in the title. I saw walkie talkies and a four year old boy and I thought, oh, it's kids. That's Rebecca.

She knows about kids.

Yeah.

I don't know about pedophilia.

Thankfully the Lord for that one. Jesus crisis.

Yeah.

Anyway, here's.

I'm proud to say this.

I don't know much about pedophilia. Good. Okay. Yeah.

That's a good sign.

No, I know. I'm saying. So, like, in what respect? Just in general, like, where they are, how to find them, like, what they do.

You know what I'm saying?

Finding them, I think, is much easier in the US than the UK because they have.

We have the sex offenders list.

No, no, they have that here. But.

But some people don't get on it.

Like, in the US, you can just type in where you live and it will basically show you the exact address where there are registered sex offenders.

And I don't know if the UK has that. I have.

Did it say our address? There's one there. Six foot one, really handsome one eye.

I don't think this is anything to joke about, Michael.

Well, run.

Yeah, yeah, exactly.

But, yeah, I think we should. I think it's good information to have when you have young children.

So just tell them again. What, so you just google it?

There's certain websites, and I can't actually remember, I think. Is it Megan's law?

I know it is Megan's law. You're right. Yeah, it is.

Or is that in England, or. No, that's in England.

Megan's law is in England.

That's in England.

Oh, it's here as well.

But I think Megan law is here.

I think that originated in the UK.

Regardless, it doesn't matter anyway.

It originated through very tragic, extreme, awful circumstances. And that's sadly the reason why we need to have these kind of databases. And I wish we didn't have no idea.

It's a. It's a sick world.

Anyway, we're going to get off that UFC do. Hung in at the weekend. You were watching with Ellie.

What did you think?

No, no, that's not what I'm gonna ask. As, like, a fan. As, like, a, you know, a woman. Yeah. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. I know you're not a hardcore fan, but you enjoy. You've been around for a long time with me. What was your favorite thing about the fights or, like, something that stood out or your favorite fighter?

Everyone knows what I'm gonna say.

What I.

The gage in Holloway.

Oh, it was, of course, nothing comes close.

Like, nothing comes close. That was the highlight of the whole night. And everything that came after, it was like, eh.

Yeah.

You know, the energy out of the room.

Yeah, it did. It was like. That was the pinnacle of the night.

You just made me think of something. And have you ever seen.

What we.

Do in the shadows?

Yes. The movie or the tv show? Both.

Well, both, but on the tv show, and if anyone hasn't seen it, you need to go and see. But on the tv show, there's a type of vampire that's an energy vampire. Instead of sucking your blood, he sucks your energy. And that is now my favorite description for anybody in Vegas. I was like, oh, God. He said. I said, it's an energy vampire. And someone was like, what do you mean? And when I gave them the context, they were laughing their heads off.

You have to watch that show.

Energy vampires, man.

Energy vampires everywhere.

Max Holloway is an energy vampire. To all those people in the crowd, that was the. That was the point.

Yeah, but the energy vampire is so boring that he literally sucks the life out of you and puts you to sleep.

Harrington's an energy vampire. When Anthony's not here, they're like, great. Bisbee's co hosting with an energy vampire. Or maybe Anthony.

People actually love when you come on. Rebecca. Hi.

I love to come, but, yeah, the mood. Have you seen the movie as well?

Oh, yeah. So good.

Brian, do we have any good questions deviated from just mma stuff that Rebecca can stick around for, or is it just like her?

Very non technical.

What's your favorite combination in the gym?

I think most of them are MMA related today.

Okay, well, we'll save them for when we have. Give us a. Give us something. Give us a headline that Rebecca and I can talk about. We can get your input as well.

You're gonna stick around for questions, Rebecca?

Yes.

Oh, my God, guys, my left leg.

I've got like weight on my foot as well as on your knee because.

I'm sorry.

We're going away soon for our 25 year anniversary.

Oh, where to?

Costa Rica.

Wow.

We don't know where to go.

Any tips? Let us know.

Yeah, we were going to go to La Fortuna, which is way in the middle. And when you land there, it's a six hour car ride. But the hotel was just amazing. And the hotel we saw, I was like, wow. And you can walk through the jungle on these aerial bridges and the sloths.

Wild.

And there's natural springs and you got a, uh, like a real mineral, mineral pool, hot spring. Hot spring in your own suite and everything. And we're like, oh, we gotta go there. We gotta go there. Then when I googled it.

Yeah, I don't know.

But people said you only need two days there, tops, because there's not that much to do. And we're going for eight days, so now we don't know where to go. So if anybody knows in the comments, let us know. Costa Rica, where should we go? If you got a question though, please send it into bympodmail.com.

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All right, Brian, so what do we got?

Okay, so we got a bunch of MMA questions, so I think we should save those for Thursday. But I did find this silly thing on the Internet about this tick tock kid who was making millions of dollars, and. And now he had a breakdown because it seems like the dollars have stopped coming in.

There's 11,000 people in here. There's 11,000 people in here.

And you guys are not tapping the screen, okay? Make sure that you're tapping the screen. There's 11,000 people in here.

There's 11,000 people in here, okay. Tap the goddamn screen. Okay.

Tap the goddamn screen.

Okay, you see this button right here? Press the button. Okay. Press the button. Thanks to father.

You guys are amazing. Hold on. First of all, what's a galaxy?

I was gonna ask.

So, a galaxy is like one of the donation stickers, right? So, like, each. Each sticker you buy has a certain monetary value attached to it. So he was asking for galaxies, which are, you know, like, the higher value ones.

Kind of form of currency, if you will, is making a donation. Look, listen, if he's got 11,000 people.

On his stream, he's obviously used to.

Getting quite a lot of donations and stuff like that, because 11,000 people on. That's a lot.

And in this, I don't know, I.

Guess certain people that go viral like this and build up these big followings, they kind of come to expect it at all times. But ultimately, if you're not giving a service or any information or valuable information or strong opinions on something that they need or request or desire, you're going to burn out and fade away eventually.

You know?

You can't break that. I wouldn't call that a breakdown. Or Brian. I was just, like, him saying very strongly, urging people to do it.

Well, why weren't they, though? Like, do they normally?

But he's dressed like a dress like Mario from Super Nintendo.

What was the issue with this particular stream?

So, with NPC streams, the bit there is you just kind of stand there, like, doing a thing until they send you a donation, and then you do a corresponding, like, action to whatever they sent, right? So, like, someone will send an ice cream cone. You go like, ooh, thanks for the ice cream.

I don't think I should use that right now.

That sounds pretty dangerous. Those smell amazing. Thanks. What the are you talking about? Hey. Me. Val, enough of those in my book. Hey, turn out the music. Turn out the bass. Turn out the music. Turn out the what? Have you ever been in the game? GTA or something? Oh, my God.

And people wonder about this generation coming through.

Hey.

We must be way too old.

So old.

I don't know.

Dumb shit like that on TikTok and people just like give donations.

So this bought a purple lambo off.

Of these donations, however much he thought he was making. And yeah, it seems like he's probably not going to make this month's payment.

I mean, look, listen, he's an absolute fool. He's an absolute fool. If you don't have money and if you become some social media YouTube sensation.

Or whatever, until you have stacked millions.

And millions and millions of dollars, what on earth are you doing buying a God damn Lamborghini? Of course he's a fool.

He looks about 17. Like, what does anyone expect? He looks incredibly young. Course he's going to make.

Why a Lamborghini? I know, do sick cars.

Of course, because you see Mister Beast.

Buying one on YouTube and you think that's what you're supposed to do when you have crazy YouTube. But you know what I mean? Like, it's.

It's that thing to do anyway.

It is such a douchey thing to do. But he's young, is young.

How do you buy a Lamborghini without having owning a garage to put it in? You know what I mean?

Or a house that have a garage. Yeah, you know what I mean? I guarantee he hasn't got a house. Anyway, this is when you know that we are definitely scraping the barrel of mixed martial arts podcast. I mean, this is a new all time low. Rebecca, what's going on in your life so much. Come on. Come on, give us something. Give us a strong opinion on something. Come on.

What's going on in my life? I showed you my really lovely compost before.

Oh, she did. Go on.

I'm composting.

That's great.

Of my latest batch.

That is a hell of a badge. I'll tell you this, though. I'll tell you this.

The compost, where it's going, right? This is.

I went off to UFC 300. I was away for a week. She wants to put some new fruit trees around. I'm like, okay, in the grass. In the grass. The nice lawn that we have, like in the corner, I'll plant one there. And the other side of the lawn, I'll plant one there. I've come back and there's two little tiny because the baby trees, whatever you call them, seedlings or whatever, they're more than seedlings. They're not like. They're like that big, and they're about. They're about that thick.

If that slap bang in the middle.

Of the lawn, I'm like, that is not where they go.

No, it's not in the middle. It's towards the back of the side.

It's in the middle of the bloody lawn.

It's the fence.

They need room to grow.

Yeah, I know, but when they grow, no more lawn. Do you know what I mean? But what about an area to recreate, to play ball games with children, to throw a bat on a ball.

Anyway. You don't even go on that lawn.

I was going to do it this summer anyway.

I got someone else to do it. I didn't do it.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. The gardener did it, and I guess he knows what he's talking about.

Exactly. We had a very in depth conversation about it.

Well, he's fired.

That's the best.

He's fired. He went specifically against my wishes.

I said, it's gonna look amazing. And I've got some amazing compost for my new.

How did you make your compost?

Well, you took shit. No, I did.

I took horsepoo. But also I have a compost bin. Obviously, you need, like a. Mine's like a thing, sort of vivo sun. I just got it on Amazon. And then you just put your leftover vegetables, fruits, whatever you don't use, you just chuck them in there and then let it, like, fester over a few months, and then you get these beautiful compost. It's just like pure nutrients for the ground. But it's really good because obviously everyone buys vegetables that you just don't use. And it's so heartbreaking just to throw it away, don't you think? It's so wasteful.

Every time I've thrown a banana peel away, I swear I have cried.

When you buy legit, no tangerine skin.

When you buy.

Going to waste.

When you go to the supermarket and you're in, like, a healthy mood and you buy a lot of fruits and vegetables, and you're like, yes, I'm going to do a stir fry. I'm going to do this, I'm going to do that. And you don't use any of it, and you have to throw it away. I'm putting it back in the earth.

And that thing is today's episode, the UFC 300 spectacular. To believe you me, and believe you me, we will be back talking a lot of MMA on Thursday. Take care.