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You know my name yet? And Anthony Lionhardt-Smith.

All right, we're ready to rock. Chapsnicks on. Got to get it on. My lips are chaps as hell. For the last two weeks, I've had chap lips, but you're in blizzard conditions right now, Anthony.

Yeah, we had a snow day today. So the heathens are running around the house, and I gave them all tasks to accomplish while I'm on here. But you can bet your ass that there's going to be screaming and hollering and fighting and jumping up and down upstairs, and I'll probably come up to a bomb going off.

Okay. Now, when you say the heathens, you mean the children? What are the tasks? Because I want to know, because I'm always trying to think of stuff for my children, trying to give them chores and stuff like that. Rebecca is like, Leave I'm like, No, they live a very privileged, entitled life. They have to help. Sunday morning, I'm like, Ellie, pick up that dog shit. She was not very happy. I went out to use the sauna. There was dog shit everywhere. I'm like, Go and pick up that dog shit.

You don't have a pooper scooper?

Not one that I'm aware of.

You got to get one. It's pretty cheap. You got to just hire a service. They come two or three times a week.

Pooper scooper. It used to be a record that sang that back in the day, I think. Anyway, no, I don't have a pooper scooper. And even if you did, I wouldn't use it. What? It's cheap.

No, not that pooper scooper. I mean, like a service. They charge like $5 a week to come pick up the dog shit in the backyard.

The life of Anthony Smith.

It's like $5 a week. It's super cheap.

I need to get one then. No, I do have one. She's called Ellie Bisby. She did do it, to be fair. What are the tasks for your kids? Tired of the room?

Yeah, so they're going They're going to take me through all their clothes and getting rid of the stuff that doesn't fit. We've been trying to knock out the laundry. One of them is re-arranging their bedroom. My nine-year-old is making me coffee right now. She's supposed to bring it to me, so we'll see how that goes. I want to see if it's even drinkable. Just stuff like that. Right now, while I'm down here, the baby is taking a nap. So the task is to do something quietly for a while. I see. That's the task.

To be fair, I'm I'm joking, but it is nice because right now... Because Ellie is what? She's almost 21. So it's like I have two wives in the house. I have two women I can go for for sandwiches, for coffees, for snacks, and stuff like that, and for little jobs, picking up the dog shit. Anyway, welcome to the show, everybody. We have a lot of things to talk about. Francis Zingano is fighting Anthony Joshua. Dana White dropped me some bombs last night. We've got Dubronx Alvarez versus Saurukian. We've got Dustin Poeya fighting Benoît Saint-Denis.

Benoît Saint-Denis.

We got all the stuff to talk about. Harrington's put things in the news. We got MMA, we got non-MMA, and we have the number one trivia show that you can ever watch, and I'll try and not cheat and not interrupt Anthony this time, but can't guarantee anything. Should we start with N'Garnu, Mr. Smith?

Yeah. What was your first thought when you seen it?

My first thought was... Well, it's a long thought. My first thought was, if you look at Jake Paul going into boxing, and I'm not trying to rip on Jake Paul, but it's just what came to mind, picking off all these retired MMA guys and things like that. And there's Francis N'Garnu boxing the number one heavyweight on the planet, Tyson Fury, shocking the world, right? Coming up just short but dropped him. I would say that he won a moral victory, at least. And then you got a little loerker in the background.

Hey, Hey, nerd. Come here.

Hey, nerd.

Hold this in your ear. Get over here.

Who's this?

Hey. Hello. He asked your name.

What's your name? Aveya. Pardon me?

Aveya. Aveya. Yeah, Did you say, Hi, Michael? Hi, Michael.

How does a beautiful girl like you have such an ugly father?

He's not ugly.

He's not ugly. What did Santa Claus... What did Santa bring you this year?

He gave me clothes.

Oh, that's good. It is good. Nice.

All right. Beat it, nerd. Bye.

Bye. Sorry. A little cute. No, of course, I saw someone leaking in. Where was it? Yeah. He fought at Tyson Fury. Now he's fighting Anthony Joshua. I mean, unbelievable. Listen, he's going to get paid a tremendous amount of money, right? And a lot of people might say, well, I would do that for that amount of money. But jeez, Louise, that's impressive.

Yeah, I I thought... I actually thought, you're thinking more of the Inganu route. I was thinking more the Anthony Joshua route, the balls on that guy because he just watched Tyson Fury go in there and struggle with a guy like Francis Nganu who's never boxed, who's never been a professional boxer, and get all this. And I'm sure he's seeing all the hype and the fan push behind Nganu and the... I don't know, just the vision that he's brought to heavyweight boxing that maybe they've lacked a little bit recently after we got through the Tyson Fury, Deontay Wilder mess. So I actually want to tip my hat to Anthony and Joshua a little bit because he's been dropped, he's been hurt. He's been knocked out before. Francis N'Gana is still very much an unknown animal in there as far as boxing goes. So I think it's a big risk for him. And if If you're Francis N'Gana, you've already fought the best heavyweight boxer potentially of all time. Anthony Josh was not nearly as a heavy hitter as a lot of the other guys in the heavyweight division, and he's seen him hurt before, so I get it.

Hats off to both guys. It's a big fight. We don't get this much in boxing, though, where you get this surprise, exciting matchup of two of the most popular or better guys in the world. You don't get that that much in boxing. So I I think that's pretty cool.

Yeah, no, you're absolutely right, because AJ does deserve a lot of respect here, because as you said, you don't get that a lot in boxing. He has no need to box Francis N'Garno. He doesn't really gain anything with a win other than, I guess, solidifying another victory, them being four, four and 0 in his last four, if you will, and then probably getting the winner of Usik and Tyson Fury. But he probably would have got that anyway. I think this is happening because Deontay Wilder was probably the guy in the mix. They thought he would beat Joseph Parker. And then he didn't. Parker went out there, destroyed Deontay Wilder, made it look easy, dominated him from start to finish. Now he's on about coming over to mixed martial arts. Deontay Wilder, what, 37, 38 years old. Not going to happen, bro. Not going to happen. But that's another conversation.

That was going to be my next question. If you thought that Francis and Garner only got that fight because Deontay Wilder was probably the The guy that they wanted. They put them on the same card together for a reason, I would imagine. Anthony Josh was not necessarily known as a guy that takes a lot of risks. He manages his career. He very strategically. He wants everything the way that he wants it. He has no problem being called a pussy or duck in fights. He wants to do it his way. So I think that was the big shocker for me. It's just outside of his character a little bit.

Yeah, no, he is meticulous when it comes to his career, and he handles it like a He's very methodical. He doesn't take risks. The story about Anthony Joshua was that the fire had gone out, lost twice to Usik, got knocked out against Ruiz, didn't look himself. But this year, he's had three big wins, and now he's going to fight Francis N'Garnu. I think for Francis N'Garnu, it was great because for him, there's been a lot of questions answered. Can he compete with these boxers? Can he even land the glove? Can he take a shot from these guys? Does he have the stamina to go 10, 12 rounds? Does he have the ability to be able to maintain the power throughout that period as well? These were all questions. These were all unknowns. Well, the answer to all of those questions were yes. We saw that when he fought Tyson Furie. Now, Tyson Furie, even though he swears blind that he did train for that fight. Physically, he looked terrible. He did. He looked awful. He looked sloppy. His technique was crap. It was. Okay, he still beat Francis Zengar, still beat him, so he can't have been that bad.

But compared to how we've seen him look in the past, right?

Yeah, those wilder fights were a different person.

Completely different person. And the physique, listen, he's never had a six-pack or anything like that, but he looked heavy. Now, Anthony Joshua, he's not that guy. He's always ripped. He's always in shape. He's always training. I remember seeing it was one of his fights, and the next day, he was on Instagram doing a recovery swim. And that always made me think because when I was fighting, the next day, I was either still going or I was letting him in bed with a raging hangover.

I was trying to pull my ass out of bed before checkout.

Anthony Josh was there. He's having a recovery swim. To get the lactic acid out of his shoulders, I thought, if there ever was an athlete and a proper professional, That is that, man. By all accounts, though, and I'm not trying to be a hater here before anyone suggests such a thing because I'm really happy for the guy. Apparently, though, they lost money on the Nganu, Tyson Furry, apparently the paper his views weren't too big. So maybe it's good for Francis Nganu because he's going to get paid. But who else is there? Because I think Nganu with the MMA community around him, probably the next best choice, right? I would have thought.

Yeah. In terms of losing the money, over there in Saudi Arabia, I don't think they're super concerned with making money. No one wants to lose money. Even rich people don't like losing money. But I don't think that that's probably the focus of those fights happening, I would imagine.

To accumulate to accumulate, I believe the term is. No, they are. They're trying to turn Saudi Arabia into a real tourist destination, just like Abu Dhabi. And I was researching recently about Riyadh, what place is it, what to expect when you go there and stuff like that. It's like a real cosmopolitan melting pot. It's in the desert. Do you know what I mean? But I do look forward to going. And I was like, because in Abu Dhabi, you can't drink, but you can drink in the hotels, right? And everyone's going, Oh, this is an alcoholic. No, I'm just curious as to what to expect. So I was like, can you drink? And I came across this article. He said, yes, you can drink. And I thought, it must be like Abu Dhabi. You can drink. They have amazing beer. They have great wine, excellent champagne. And the best thing about Saudi Arabia is that you can drink and dry. And I'm like, What the F? I was like, Yeah. Because all the drinks are non-alcoholic. It is banned. Simple as that. And I thought, This guy's a dick. That's bullshit. We're going crazy on the raises, bro.

It's banned?

Oh, no, it's banned 100 %. Alcohol doesn't get in the hotels or anywhere. It is 100 % dry.

I have to be looking at a different event to work.

Well, because there's a potential that I was going to have a movie. I still might, and I might be in Saudi for a while. So that's why I was looking it up, and I thought, jeez, I will be in the best shape possible for that film. You give me a few weeks in Saudi Arabia, my God, 10-pack on its way. Headaches eradicated. Work ethic through the roof. Manners on point.

Sleep patterns. Incredible.

Look, 10 years younger. All we're going to do is move to Saudi Arabia. My God. Hey, listen, well done, Francis N'Garnu. Well done to Anthony Joshua. And that's happening pretty soon, right? March ninth.

March ninth, I think.

Something like that. And then obviously, we got Usik, and we got something else going on there as well. Anyway, so that's ever made. That's boxing. That's Francis N'Garnu. Lots to get to today. Moving on. These two fight announcements from Dana last night. Which one you want to start with, Anthony?

Probably the most surprising matchup is the Dustin Poirier-Benoît-Saint-Denis fight. If you listen to Dustin's interviews, he wants something exciting. He He wants something that's big. He doesn't have to fight. So he wants big money, big opportunity, all the lights, all the shine. He wants it to feel really big. So I was actually like, Man, this doesn't really make a lot of sense for Dustin. But if you really dig deep into who Dustin Poirier is as a person, I think he wants things that are scary. I think he wants things that make him nervous. I think he wants fights that keep him up at night a little bit. And I can relate to that a little bit, and I'm sure you can as well. It's hard to be motivated when you're Dustin Poirier, you got all the money, you're popular, you're famous, you got a lot of other businesses going on. I'm sure it's hard to get up for a lot of these other fights and really get motivated. But if you're scared or nervous about somebody, that makes it really easy to wake up in the morning and go to the gym or get your extra run in or do your diet and whatever.

So I think Benoît Saint-Denis is that guy. I think he makes Dustin Poirier nervous along with the rest of Benoît. Benoît.

Benoît, son de Nîmes.

He just sounds like he's a badass, too. Just his name. But he's probably a guy that- He is a badass. He is. He's a badass. And I think he makes a lot of it- Special Forces. Yeah, I'm sure he makes a lot of the division nervous. And I think that's probably what motivated. And I think he wanted to be on UFC 300 as well. So he said he wasn't in the UFC for UFC 100. He didn't fight on 200, and he's not going to be around for 400. So that makes a lot of sense to me. It's a crazy, dangerous fight. Huge opportunity for Saint-Denis. You could skyrocket- Saint-Denis.

No, you're right. I'm just looking at the lightweight rankings here. Islam, Charles, Charles is booked. We'll get to that in a minute. Justin Gagey, just lost to Justin. He is Justin Poey, so he can't fight him. Although everyone's fighting themselves, everyone's biggest opponent is themselves, and that's actually true. But But you can't fight him in an octagon. Michael Chandler, been there, done it. Mataj Gamrott, Benil Dariush, Fazeev. You go down, where is Benoît? Benoît on the official rankings is number 12. I thought I saw number 8. Benoît, five in a row now, five finishes in a row. And you're right, it's not like the big names. And people like, who was it? Was it Benil Dariush saying recently, like the Gagey and the Chandlers and the The Gece and the Chalers. They just keep going round and round in a circle, fighting the same people. I like this. I like this from Dustin Poey, giving somebody like Sandrine a chance. I think it'll be a tremendous fight.

It's like Gece given Fazeev a chance.

Correct. So that puts an end to that myth that they won't do this.

And Banil gave Gamrath a shot early, before Gamrath ever should have probably had one, typically.

Hamza got jumped up.

Do what? Hamza.

How did Hamza get jumped up? And how does he relate to the conversation?

He's like, Well, you were just talking about people jump in the line. He went from being unranked to fighting really high up in the rankings, like five. For sure.

When you look at Dustin Poey, he's only 34 years old, I think.

Yeah, he's not as old I think some people think he is.

Yeah, but he's had 35, 36 professional fights. So he's got a lot of wear and tear on the clock. He's been fighting at the highest level for a long, long time, where Son Danie, I just like saying his name, Benoît Saint-Denis, the crowd for him in Paris. That was crazy. It was wild. The French crowds are mad. You know what I mean? They are insane. So I don't know, man. Could you imagine how How bad would it be is the question I'm trying to get to. How bad would it be for Dustin Poey if he loses this five? Because it's quite the downfall, and that's always the risk. That's why you want to face someone in the top five. That's why you want to face these guys, because if you lose to someone like a Saint-Denis, not one of the superstars of the division, well, then the narrative is simple. You're done, you're damaged goods, you're washed up, you're on your way out. So it does take a lot of balls to step up and make this move.

Yeah, I'm in it right now. It's happening as we speak, where you're washed up, you're done, you lost to a low-rank guy, especially if you get beat badly. But the narrative is exactly just that. It's just a narrative. We won't know until it happens, until you end up in a Tony Ferguson situation. Where you're like, Okay, we heard the narrative at the beginning of the little run, but now it's absolutely true. I think the problem is Benoît is good enough to beat Poirier. He absolutely is. But how close are they really? You know what I mean? We don't actually know because he haven't seen Benoît fight at that level yet. We haven't seen him fight someone like a Dustin Poirier, and it's going to answer a lot of questions. Because we're part of the company, and we're part of the broadcast, and we're fighters ourselves, we know the truth that if Benoît goes in there and he beats Poirier, that doesn't necessarily mean there's something wrong with Poirier. It might just be that guy's that good. And he's just on his way up. And the problem is you never find that out until much, much later with a guy like...

I guess Brian brought it like Hamza. At the beginning, he was smoking people, but you don't actually know how good he is because he's fighting on the bottom part of the card. Now, all the people that were like the Jerold Mearshards and the guys like that that got beat up on at the beginning makes a lot of sense now. We don't really hold those losses so heavy over their head now that we've seen what Hamza turned out to be.

But as you said, There wouldn't be anything wrong with Dustin. You know what I mean? We know he's a great fighter. We know he's a fan favorite. We know he puts on dynamic exciting fights against the best fighters on the planet. This is the question here. Is Ben Ross on the knee in that conversation? Because it's a natural progression. Five and all, five stoppages. He's earned this position, to be fair. I remember at MSG, the last one in November, I was talking to him. I sat next to him. Harrington was there right with me, and I said to him, When are you I ended up, nothing lined up yet, nothing lined up. But I didn't, just to echo your sentiment, I didn't expect this matchup. I don't know why, but you know what? It actually makes a lot of sense because we always talk about in the UFC, the best fight, the best, which they do, which is incredible. And in boxing, when somebody gets knocked out, they wouldn't go then and face, I don't know, someone ranked two or three. He did just get knocked out to gage it pretty badly in round two, at the start of round two.

It was a vicious head kick. So This is a tough matchup, though. It's not like they're giving him an easy matchup. Do you know what I mean? It's like, Oh, you got to find your manager. There's a CM Punk. That is not this fight. No. This is like another top hungry contender that has earned the Dustin Poey. This isn't Dustin Poey deserves somebody ranked at number 10, 11, 12. No, it's a tough fight. This is Benoît Saint-Denis has earned Dustin Poey. That said, it is a tough time for him to be facing him, getting knocked out, getting a little bit older, Having the wear and tear, however, it ain't over to the fat lady's things. And as I said before, your toughest opponent is yourself.

Right. And just lastly on this matchup for me, I think what happens when people see a guy that's been at the top for a while, and he's always in that conversation in that mix, and then maybe drops one or drops two or whatever. It's like he's regressing, and he doesn't have it anymore. He's not that good. That's not always the case. It's not even a victim of circumstance a lot of times. Sometimes you see a guy at his ceiling, and he just stays at that ceiling for a really long time, and he's just not continuing to get any better. Is Dustin Poirier going to get significantly better from now to the end of his career? I don't believe so, but I still believe he has the ability to beat anybody in the world on any given day in his weight class. Now, is he going to be as consistently at that level every single time he goes out there? Probably not. But it doesn't necessarily it mean he's regressing. And maybe it just means he reached his peak of how good he's ever going to be. And the people that are coming up around him, maybe sometimes people have these spurts, these little jumps every once in a while where They're down there a little bit, and you can have the best performance of your life.

And maybe that's just a tad higher than Justin Poirier's consistent peak.

Does that make sense? Or maybe... No, it does make sense. Or maybe Justin Gagey, just calling him with a beautiful head kick, and Justin Gagey is the future lightweight champion of the world. You know what I mean? I don't think it's necessarily what Dustin did wrong. I mean, yeah, okay, he could have blocked the head kick. He could have taken him down. Of course, there's this hypothetical is what he could have done. But he was fighting Justin Gagey. He got caught. He's He just engage you in the past. You got to remember that as well. So I don't think it's a case of, can he get better? Is he declining? I think generally, when it comes skill-wise, I think human beings or fighters in general, we have a peak of where we can go. We have a peak on our max amount of ability, our max skill level in grappling, jiu-jitsu, all based upon our independent skills like Israel Adesanya will be able to become a better striker than a Michael Chandler. Because I've got given abilities, height, length, reflexes, things like that. Maybe that wasn't the best example. Or Chandler could be a better boxer than Izzy.

I just keep using them, too. But you know what I'm saying? We all have our max. But then at that point, when you start to in your mid-30s, like Poeya is, then it becomes about other things, about how you prepare for a fight, how you mentally prepare, are you doing your recovery? You know what I mean? So not necessarily skill for skill, because it does become a point where, yes, okay, as martial artist, we're always on a journey, and we're always trying to learn, and we're always trying to improve. But often the areas of improvement can come from within, meaning how you are preparing mentally, and when it comes to the physical side of things, not overtraining, you know what I mean? Not I'm doing as much hard sparring, maybe doing more hard sparring, whatever tweaks there are that need to be made. That's why towards the end of my career, my weight cuts were a piece of piss. I were flying in my weight cuts because I'd done it so many times. And mentally, I was getting better. Skill for skill, maybe incremental improvements with every training camp, because every camp you do, you get better.

But generally along the way, you max out skill-wise to a certain degree. But the preparation process in here gets much better.

Right. Again, I'm not trying to... I would never compare myself to Justin Poore, but I wonder if he's doing some of the things that maybe Glover talked to me about, maybe me having to do at this point in my career. I do believe on any given day I could pop out and beat anybody. But head and shoulders, am I going to consistently every single day be a better fighter, a mixed martial artist than the rest of the guys in the division? At this point in my career, I don't think so. And I don't think you need to be to be the champion of the world. I think that sometimes it's about taking the ingredients that you have and changing that concoction a little bit to benefit you in the times of your competition. So if it was you see in the NFL, they do those like the Pro Bowl thing where they have the quarterbacks do all the different drills, and you can see who the best quarterback is because he throws a longer football, he throws a more accurate to the receiver more times or whatever. Mma isn't necessarily like that. The better striker is not always going to win.

The The better grappler is not always going to win the grappling exchanges. The better wrestler is not always going to win the wrestling exchanges. So I think that will make a difference in Poirier's success moving forward. It's just how is he managing and changing the ingredients in his game to be successful? Because we've seen Glover having a really tough time for a little while, made a couple of tweaks and adjustments, and then go on to be the world champion. I think he beat several people on the way there. And as champion, they were probably better than he was. But he just figured out how to manipulate the game to benefit him when he was in there.

I would say the same thing as well that applies to my career. However, it doesn't. They were all cheating basters. They were all juiced out of their minds. They were all on steroids. They were all have veins popping out of their faces, their dicks, their asses. They're all on steroids. You start to come in and I wipe the floor with them all. It's a joke, by the way. Just adding a light bit of comedy relief. But you're right. The question is as well, staying on Dustin, how hungry is he? Is he still as hungry? Because the hot sauce by all accounts, is flying. He's made lots of money throughout his career. The Connor fights would have been very lucrative for him as well. I don't know what the cost of living is. He's in Louisiana.

It ain't a lot.

It ain't a lot. Do you know what I mean? It ain't a lot. So he's living large down there, whereas I do well and I'm broke in California. He's living like, I don't know, the man down there. He's living like Conor McGregor. He's living like Conor McGregor. In Louisiana. In Louisiana. Louisiana. Louisiana. If you find a little prick that punched me on Bourbon Street, find him and kill him for me. Now, today's episode is sponsored by Shopify. If you are a businessman, if you are a businesswoman, entrepreneur, or you simply have an idea, it's time to turn the idea into a reality. And that is what Shopify is going to let you do. It's going to allow you to have an idea, create a business, get online, sell the product to everyone on the Internet, take payment methods, and do it all quick, easily, convenient, and more importantly, cheaply. Shopify will even let you sell across all social media marketplaces like TikTok, Facebook, and Instagram. And of course, it's packed with industry-leading tools ready to ignite your Growth. Shopify gives you complete control over your business and your brand without having to learn any new skills in design or code.

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My initial thought was, that means one thing. That means one thing. What does that mean? Islam, Makhachev's fight and just engage you next.

That's not what Dana said.

Oh, really? I didn't actually watch the whole thing.

I saw the headline. No, he said, Islam's hurt, and the winner will fight Islam in the summer, is what he said. Okay. Now, that could always change.

Listen, it's Dana's company, and what do I know? I mean, I've literally... You're just telling me what was said. I think that Saurukian and Oliver will fight the winner of Gagey in Islam.

They'll fight the winner of Gagey in Islam, but I don't know. What if he's just being tricky and it's Islam versus Gagey for UFC 300? He just doesn't want us to blow it.

He might just be being tricky. Hold on, UFC 300, that was in April. I do believe March, April is around that.

They're not going to make UFC 299 better than UFC 300, right?

I tell you what, UFC 299, look at this, right?

It is a bar burner.

Ufc 299, you got Sean O'Malley, Chito Vera. You got Dustin Poirier, Benoît Saint-Denis, five-round core main event. Gilbert Burns, Jack De La Madalena, incredible fight. Kevin Holland, Michael Venet-Page. Welcome to the UFC, Michael Venin-Page. You joined us on Thursday, by the way, so don't miss that. Curtis Blaze, Zhael Tan Almeida, sick fight. Chukagian, Macy Barber, Harrington, Hold your Horses. Metales Gamrott, Hafeel dos Angeles, Pyoda Jansong, your dog, Pedro Munoz is on there. I mean, that's pretty much as close to being as good as you can get. That's a ridiculous fight card.

That's crazy. One would always think that There's got to be one massive name for UFC 300. Who is he going to be?

Is it going to be Leon? Is it going to be Leon and-I'm Brian.

I can't remember his name.

It's more Balal. I'm just kidding.

I'm just kidding, Balal. I'm just messing with you.

No, jump on Brian, Harrington, if you're both there. It looks like Harrington's got-He took a walk real quick.

He'll be back in a second. I'm sure he went to go He's going to get his bow tie.

I wonder what that is a code for. I wonder what he's actually doing.

I think he's actually going to get a bow tie.

Are you serious?

He's going to host the game show.

He's going to be a quick master. I'm not hating on Harrington, but what I thought he could go for the walk to get a bow tie before the show.

I have these thoughts all the time about him. I don't know what to say.

What would you assume? I don't know where Harrington lives. He's at the studio, I think. Is there a bow tie outlet close to where you are?

A bow tie out.

What happened? We can find out where he is right now.

How's it? Have you been bow tie shopping?

I have not been bow tie shopping. No, I got something for you guys for the competition today.

What do we know about UFC 300? Because we're just saying, or Anthony said it, and I agree, it's hard to imagine because UFC 299 in Miami is insane, right? How is UFC 300 going to top that? So what do we have so far? Supposedly, Balal versus Leon.For.

300.yeah. That's the rumor.

Yeah. We also have Bo Nickel is fighting...

Cody Brundage. Cody Brundage.

A great fight.

Great fight.

And then-Go for it.

Is it really energy?

No, Paulo Costa is on UFC 299, right?

Yeah. As of right now, it looks like there's only the four-foot fights booked. I have Bo Nickel, Cody Brundage, Calvin Qatar, Aljamain Sterling, Jiri Prohasca, Alexander Rakich, and Charlie Oliveira, and Armin Sarukin.

This morning, I did. Don't get me wrong, great fight. That's a great start. This morning, I did an interview with some British journalist, and he said to me, basically, a very similar conversation to what we're having now. And his actual words were, What rabbit do you think they're going to pull out of their hat in terms of a main event? And I know we had this conversation last week. Anthony said, There's no way they're going to have 300 better than 299. 299 is effing ridiculous.

So I was thinking that this morning when I looked at the full lineup for UFC 299, I think UFC 199, it was probably my favorite pay-per-view from that era, and that was right before 200 as well. So they do like to stack them before and after.

200 was pretty fire, though.

No, it was. And, Harrington, the reason I did that is not because I was on 199 and I became the champ. No, got to get them in there, though. Do you think they consciously go, Right, okay, we've got the landmark event. Let's stack it before. No, it's the way the cookies crumble. They're booking fights. They've got people, they've got injuries. They've got venues. They don't say, Let's make 199. Or do you think they do, actually?

You don't think they save some fights for the big pay-per-views? They could have booked it maybe a month or two earlier, but they're like, Okay, let's save it for the big one.

I'm sure they do that for sure.

I got a good point here. Go ahead. They saved the landmark announcement for UFC 200 for the middle of UFC 199 because they expected every eye that would ever possibly buy 200 to already be on 199.

Is that when Ariel Hauwani got thrown out of the arena because he broke Lesner versus Mark Hunt?

Yeah. What if... I'm on my Brian train right now. What if there is...

That's it on everybody.

I'm being a little bit of a conspiracy theorist here. What if there's some smoke and mirrors going on and like, out of nowhere, it's Conor McGregor versus Michael Chandler at 300, and they just been messing with us this whole I wouldn't put it past them. That would be crazy.

Although is that not- It's Conor with the whole...

Maybe that was not the 185 thing, because Conor is training, according to social media and everything, what I'm I'm hearing he's training right now. He's getting ready.

He's trying to make you believe that he's not by all his little Instagram posts. Did you see the timeline thing? I almost pissed myself. I was laughing so hard. He posted it on his Instagram. It was on a story. It was 6:00 AM 8:00 AM, it's like Michael Chandler on one side, Connor on the other, and Michael Chandler is 6:00 AM, wake up, 8:00 AM, first workout. Connor's is like, Wake up at 11:00, yacht blowjob at noon.

That is funny. To Brian, bring that up, Brian. You might be onto something there, Anthony. I'm in for a bit for us to blow it. Do you know what I mean? I know.

Now I hope I'm not right.

Yeah, because we're all fired We're getting the Helwani treatment.

Yeah, we can't have that.

The question is, which one of us is going to cry?

There you go.

Walk along the What movie is that?

Is that Kickboxer? Scarface.

Oh, Scarface, of course. Have you seen Scarface, Anthony? No. Jesus Christ.

This is what we're going to do when we hang out, instead of filming cool shit where we go out into the woods and shoot things, we're just going to watch movies.

Anthony, Scarface is an absolute classic. You have to watch Scarface, brother.

We got it. We were supposed to be... Brian was supposed to compile a list. I sent you a list. That I was supposed to check off as the year goes. Scarface was not on that list.

You're also supposed to take your own initiative to see classic movies.

If I was an adult- You can't only watch what we direct you to to guide you by the hand. That's exactly what I want.

Scarface is a classic man.

Scarface.

I tell you, okay, you want to play? Say hello to my little friend.

The majority of that dialog is not safe for YouTube.

No. And Harrington pulled your face. What are you pulling your face at, Harrington?

No, I was just thinking, I was really just scratching my head for what's the rabbit Dana could pull out of his hat right now? And I once- To bring it back on track and say, Yeah, rescue the shot.

Well done, Hamilton.

Sorry, that's my ADD doing a good thing. It's good. Out of nowhere, I mean, and apropos nothing, maybe it's a special match, maybe it's 165, Khabib. Khabib.

I don't know.

I don't think Khabib is coming back, man. He said that he swore an oath. You know what I mean?

He was George St. Pierre. That'd be what if it was GSP versus Robbie Lawler?

No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. If GSP comes back, number one, he has to lose. He has to lose. Otherwise, he makes it... No, he has to win. I mean, he makes his dick out of me.

And he has to fight.

He has to fight.

I mean, he was the champion of one of his guys, Charles Strickland, the winner of Drickis and Strickland.

I try to go through the weight classes. Even if you had heavyweight, it's Tom, John, and Steepay, and I don't think any of those are going to happen. And then 205, everything's booked there. At 185, that's already booked. It's only the 170 title. 155, doesn't sound like it's happening. 145. That's what we booked. No, I know. I'm with you.

It's Jose Aldo versus Alex Portan Pereira. We haven't even talked about Saarouk and Dubronx Oliver.

Oh, yeah. Actually, everything I thought about when I seen that matchup was the things we're talking about right now. It just took a handful of other opportunities off the table because I don't think we're going to see Islam fight and not be Ge'chi or Olivera. Then we pull Olivera, you're like, All right, well, maybe that's it. Maybe it's Islam and Ge'chi. But Dana seemed to be pretty clear that Islam is hurt and it's not fighting until the summertime. It makes a little bit of sense because Islam doesn't fight that often. So that matchup made a lot of other things clear to me, I suppose. It's a great fight, actually. I'm excited to see the grappling.

I'm sure the UFC, they've been planning and working on this for a very long time. But Islam, pound for pound, Pantosha is fighting soon. O'malley, he could potentially make a fast turnaround, but he's going to-Pantosia just fought, right? Yeah. Volkanovski is fighting. Hinkie Bob, Teporia, Makhachev. Leon, supposedly going to be on there? Strickland's on next week.

Brock Lesner is coming back.

Do we want to see that, though?

Versus Tom.

I don't know.

Versus Tom.

That might be a crazy fight.

Let's get Tom paid. No, no, no. Do you know what? You know what? I was going to say, Yeah, but we had him on UFC 100. We had him on UFC 200. But that's why they're bringing back Brock Lesner. He is the man, the centennial man.

And it really doesn't matter who he fights.

100, 200, 200, 300. Never mind, Jim Miller. Step aside, bitch.

Brock Lesner versus Jim Miller.

Yeah, exactly. How many Jim Millers could Brock Lesner be? Not many.

Not two.

Not two.

One and a quarter.

One, maybe. If Jim gets a hold of a neck or something- Listen, I love Jim Miller, but Brock Lesner could be Jim Miller. Maybe. I think that's a 50/50. If Brock Lesner lands big, Jim Miller goes to sleep with you guys.

You're going to take $50,000 on your bank account, and you're going to bet it on Jim Miller or Brock Lesner. You're putting it on Brock Lesner all day long.

I'm not sure I would.

You're out of your mind. Listen, I love Jim Miller.

Maybe I have so much love for Jim Miller that I can't imagine him not catching Brock Lesner in a submission. That guy's nasty on the ground.

On the street.

Definitely Jim Miller on the street.

Oh, God, you are out of your mind. In an MMA fight? In an MMA fight. Two Jim Millers. Jim Miller and Dan Miller, two brothers, the Miller brothers.

That's a blood bath. They smoke Rock. They smoke Rock.

You have 300. How many...

Okay, here's a good question. How many Brandon Roy Vels would it take to beat Brock Lesner in a fight?

I don't know, but it'd be a really spazzy, crazy octagon to watch. You wouldn't know where to look. And with one eye, I'd be... Brandon Roy Vels would be spinning around everywhere. Referees would be getting knocked out. Cupmen would be getting elbowed. The ring card girls are going to get smashed to pieces as well because Roy Vels is a mental patient.

Jim Miller. Five Brandon Roy Vels and two referees, probably.

How old is Brock Lesner now, though? Because he can't keep coming back every few years. He was meant to come back to DC, right?

If I had to guess, 46 or 47.

Right.

Maybe. Harrington said 46.

46. Yeah. What about Dwyane the Rock Johnson versus The Rock? Sorry, Dwyane Johnson versus Brock.

I would love that.

I bet you would.

We'd break the internet. I like the old wrest. New ones, not so much.

Hulk Hogan. Anyway, all right. So it remains to be seen.

What we're saying is we don't know.

We don't know. We have no idea. But we don't have any ideas on this next subject either. Harrington sent this over last night. I saw a video on Twitter about this. It does look very weird. I thought Donald Trump posted it. It wasn't Donald Trump. It was Donald Trump news. You can't believe any of that. But there were some crazy things in the sky, and there's been a lot of madness happening around the city of Miami. I'm filling time here because as I'm filling, I should expect Harrington to magically appear, and he did. Harrington, take the floor because I don't even know all the ins and outs.

Yeah, so it's a couple of weird things. You're very low. I'm very low. Oh, okay. You're very low. All right. Fixing that now. So, yeah, there was a couple of things out of Miami. First, over the weekend, there was a Police were called to a mall that was completely shut down. And a lot of people on the scene reported seeing aliens. Right.

You You look here. Okay, so this is the response from the police. This is what- Hold on.

Hold on. Before you press play, before you press play, when we came on, when I signed on the show, you guys were talking about this, and you did a great job of laying I'm trying to get out. Imagine that I'm a viewer that knows nothing of this. You're not laying it out quite as well as what you did before. I'm not giving shit, everyone. I'm trying to help the viewing experience. Okay. Brian, step in. Brian, step in.

Okay, so On January first, I believe this happened, there was a huge police response in this mall in Miami. I'm just going to play this with a sound because it is obnoxious and just sirens. But it's just a huge police response. And what they said it was for was for a bunch of kids fighting in the mall, fighting with fireworks and sticks. But this seems like a lot. What they did is they shut the power off for over 6,200 people, killed the Internet, killed the airspace. It just doesn't seem like a reasonable, rational response to kids running around in a mall. Something else happened. I don't know what that is. People are saying that it was aliens.

Harrington, don't look so offended, brother. I'm just trying to help have the viewing experience. That is a lot of cops. That seems like a bit overkill if that was just children getting a little out of hand.

The official report is that they believe that the fireworks were people shooting in the mall. So they said this response was as if there was an active shooter.

There wasn't that many cop cars at Columbine.

No.

Even at an active shooter, that's a lot of cops.

So that's the official story is that it was kids fighting. Now, there's a lot of people on TikTok, clout chasing or whatever, or maybe they're telling the truth that they saw 8 to 10 foot shadow Monsters?

Yeah, before we get to that. So they shut down, they shut off the electricity, Brian, you're saying? They shut off the airspace.

To a big area around it. And I have a theory about why they shut off the airspace is because... So my brother got his kid a drone, and you need to call into the FAA if you want to fly it. It's, I guess, an automated process with the interface of the drone. So once they shut off the airspace, then your interface can't dial in to fly. So then your drone won't fly in the area.

That's crazy. Okay.

So to keep all the film and all the footage out.

Yeah, it'll keep a civilian drone from flying over because it'll say, No, this airspace is closed.

And it won't let your drone fly, correct?

And your drone won't be able to turn on or fly into the zone if you get it from outside the zone.

Got it.

So basically, nothing could be filmed, nothing could be captured on tape. And you're just going into there, people are talking about shadow monsters.

So if you want, I could disappear for a second and pull up a video of somebody talking about this, but they say that... Sorry, airplanes. There's like an 8 to 10 foot shadow monster. And then the shots fired report from the people on the ground are saying that it was civilians firing weapons at these things because it was a literal horror movie. But they weren't killing anybody. They were just spookily floating around. That's the reports from the people on the interwebs.

A lot of meth going on in South Florida, though. Let's be honest. A lot of cocaine. A lot of guns, a lot of meth, a lot of crazy people.

Just- Bathsault.

There was aliens. There were shadow monsters.

Bathsault is huge in Miami.

Bathsalt. There you go. Harrington, I sent to you last night, though, a video which was a little peculiar.

Yeah, that was also in Homeland, Florida, which is just... I'm sorry, Homestead, Florida, which is 30 minutes It's outside of Miami, a suburb of the place. You can see in that video that there are orbs moving through the sky.

Watch this. This is weird. It definitely is weird. This could be AI-generated. Watch this though. It's not the most compelling video right now.

I would be scared shitless if that was a missile or something.

Yeah, that looks creepy as shit.

Yeah, but watch this now. Now it's separated.

It could be fireworks still.

I guess it could be fireworks. The thing is in this day.

No, then they just hang out there.

Oh, that's weird.

Yeah, fireworks don't do that.

That's true.

That's so weird.

Yeah.

All right, quick poll. Quick poll. Do you guys believe in aliens?

Well, I was just going to say before we move on to that, look, they are just hovering there. With AI these days, though, and not just with AI, there's certainly the ability to do this, but it's easier now than ever, you know what I mean? To make these videos. Do you know what I'm saying? The Shadow Monsters, I don't know, the shutting down, all the technology of the aerospace, turning the power off. It sounds a little sauce, but who knows? Maybe it was an overreaction. Maybe they thought it was an active shooter. Maybe they thought there was something crazy going on. The world is a bit insane right now, but what is your theory?

I don't know about the Shadow Monster things. I absolutely believe that there's another life form out there somewhere. I definitely believe there's something else out there. I don't know if it's your quote unquote aliens with the big head and the weird eyes. I don't know what they are, but I think there's absolutely something. I don't know that they would have been hidden this long and not showing themselves to just pop up in Miami, smoke some bath salt, and climb up buildings and shit. I feel like they're smarter than that. But I also don't believe... I found myself going down this rabbit hole. I'm getting close I'm getting closer and closer to Brian every day.

I just don't-It's called brain damage, bro.

That's a fact.

Tge. You're one of us, brother, finally.

Got me.

I don't believe anything. I'm not trying to get us thrown off of YouTube here, but the deeper I read into this Epstein thing, the more it connects to everything else in the rest of the world, their government being super.

Yes, it does.

Well, the whole thing's crazy. I just don't believe what we're being told, like I used to. Like, okay, they said it was just a bunch of kids, and that was just a little bit of maybe it was an overreaction. Like, okay. I think in the past, I would have believed that. Now I'm like, I don't know. I don't I don't give anything to the mother's sake.

Yeah, well, certainly since COVID times, we've learned that the government... I mean, I was, generally, didn't concern myself for too much stuff, and I was like, Whatever, I'm just living my life. But I think if COVID taught us nothing else, you can't trust a the damn word that the government tells you, generally, these days. I forgot where I was going to go there, but I was going to say something else. What did you just say a minute ago? You're talking about aliens or something. I'm thinking about my next point. I just went, Just dead in this because I'm talking about the CT Anthony's hit me.

Anthony sent me a video. Oh, sorry.

No, go ahead. You're good.

I was just going to say, Anthony sent me a video the other day where it was something incredible and weird. And I was like, I saw it, and I was like, Holy shit. How is this on the Internet? And then I was like, This might be CG.

You remember what you said? Sorry. I apologize just for a minute there because we've got about five different things going on. It's not easy, bro. You mentioned Jeffrey Epstein. We're talking about the government lying to you and all the rest of it. It was the Jeffrey Epstein thing because obviously, the lists have all come out and all the rest of it. And I was thinking about this the other day because you can't turn the news on without it. You certainly can't go on Twitter or look at Jake Shields' page without reference to lots of madness. Jake Shields is a mad one on Twitter. That's for sure.

I love it.

By the way, I am not making any excuses For any people, right? But just because you went to Jeffrey Epstein's Island doesn't mean... Take that look off your face. No, this is true, though.

Because if you went to Epstein's Island-I don't know, Mike.

This is true. This is true. This is true. This is true. He's an elite liberal Democrat.

He's been in trouble.

No, no, no, no, no, no. Just because you went to Epstein's Island, that's like saying that every person, because sadly, in this day and age, there's a lot of sexual deviance and child molesters, and there's a lot of nasty shit goes on, and they're everywhere, all over the world. That's like saying every pedophile, every rapist, anyone that was a friend with that person, anyone that went around to their house is also guilty of the same things.

Maybe not guilty, but you have to... There is now a suspect light on their friends, though.

You see the angle I'm going down, though? Yeah. I don't think Stephen Hawking.

I don't know, man. I don't know. I honestly don't know. Stephen Hawking. I don't know. His wife divorced him for cheating on her.

Oh, really? Yeah.

The man got around. Have you seen Bobby Lee and the guy he does the podcast with talk about like they pretend that they're Stephen Hawking at Epstein's Island?

Dude, Andrew Santino is one of the funniest people.

It's the funniest thing I've ever seen. Yeah. You guys I've been listening to the last. You guys have to look it up and check it out.

I went on his podcast a couple of times. We had a great time. He is a great fellow. I haven't seen that. All right, well, who's some of the other surprising ones? I mean, Michael Jackson.

That's weird. Yeah. I mean, not weird. It's not weird. It's not weird. Yeah.

Was he on the list? I'm assuming he was on the list, right?

Yeah, at this point now, though, with the new documents that have come out, turns out that the schmintons are... I don't know anything. I do not have evidence or nothing. Please, I'm also not suicidal.

Just before this all ends, I just want everyone to know.

I am also not suicidal. Just get out there for the record.

I do not want to kill myself. I just wanted to know that before we talk about the Clintons. Look into it.

Who was it who said that recently, though? Someone came out, or was it just something I saw? It's a meme now when people talk about the Clintons, where they just-Who?

Wait, what? The Schmlintons. The Schmlintons. Wow. Well, it's just like people say something, and they'll be like, I do not want to kill myself. And it's just like, oh, well.

Tate said that right before jail, too. And it's like, they're in common for you, bro. Knock it off.

So I got a question for Talking about all this madness in Miami, talking about people running around with fireworks and all that type of stuff. Did you see Sean Strickland running around with fireworks and Nina Drama? They had a little firework fight out in the desert, it looked like.

Who's Nina Drama?

Nina. I think she calls herself Nina Drama. She interviews all the fighters. Have you ever been ?

She does those TikTok videos.

Yeah, it's Nina Marielle or something.

I know who you're talking about.

She's a nice girl, Nina Drama. She put a video with Sean Strickland. They're running around the desert. Most people have helmets on, motorcycle helmets and stuff like that, and they're having a firework fight. Sean Strickland is running around shirtless because he's always shirtless. We got any sound for this, Brian?

We're going to have to get it up.

How do you feel about kids?

How? Oh, my God. All right, so we get the idea. We used to get the mill bottles. All mill bottles, we put them in and do it with the neighbors when we were kids. My dad used to... That was my dad instigating that. But I'm not talking about the shock of them having a bit of fun with fireworks. A lot of people get their hands blown off every year, so be careful with the fireworks. They're not toys, ladies and gentlemen. Psa. He's fighting Drickish DuPlecey in two weeks. Would you run around? Now, granted, you do take fights on short notice, right?

That you don't need to get- Whatever the question is, you already know the answer.

I know, exactly. I'm asking the wrong person here. Let me ask Hamilton. We'll get a better answer out of Hamilton. If you had a World Championship fight, a title Defense. Your first ever title defense, both of you, do you think it's smart to be running around the desert, playing the fireworks, doing that when you show it off, when everyone else has a motorcycle helmet on?

If I'm afraid of a Roman candle, I'm terrified of Drickus Dupleci. I need to do that.

No, in all seriousness- I probably wouldn't go that deep into it.

But I probably would have worn a shirt just to avoid the small superficial burns. He was I wear an eyewear. I don't know if I'd wear a helmet, but I get it, though. You know how we are, Mike. You know how we're built. Oh, yeah, for sure. This thing is a bad idea.

Yeah. Well, until you take a firework to the eye and you've only got one.

Yeah, that's a problem.

And then you be effed. I'm just thinking, because I'm not saying that there's any conspiracy. I'm not saying that show is trying to get injured so the fight doesn't happen or anything like that.

It's not smart. It's not smart, for sure.

No, exactly. But doing these hard core events because there's some of the fighters that have... There was a couple of things, and Dana came out. He said he didn't want somebody doing something one time. I forget what it was. It might have been Charles Oliveira doing the chariot racing or something wild. I forget what it was now. Don't Donal Cerroni got in a little bit of trouble. Who did?

Donal Cerroni has gotten a little bit of trouble.

That's what I'm talking about, Donal Cerroni.

What was he doing? I've got my ass tuted a couple of times. I get it.

What were you doing?

It happened twice. The first time, it happened twice First time I was skiing, leading into... I think I was skiing when I got the Jones fight, and they were like, All right, we're going to need you to come home. I was like, No. Finishing my trip, what are you talking about? So there was that.

Was there any bull riding or something?

Yeah, he was doing something crazy. And then- Skydiving. The other time I was jumping, I had posted a video, like two weeks before a fight. I was jumping a rental razor into a pond off of a... It was way up in the mountains in South Dakota, and there was this pond, this body of water we found. And there was a burn on one side. And it was a rental because something happened to my wife's razor, and then she went back with the kids. So me and all the boys took out their lasers and then this rental, and we just this thing up all day. It had three miles on it when I rented it. I took it back with 300 miles on the ground and probably 100 miles in the air. We were jumping it off of this burm into the middle of the pond to the point where the water was up to your chest and neck and then barely getting it out of the water before it sank. And so we did that for an hour, and I kept posting videos of it. It was like two weeks before I fought. They were pissed.

This is what I'm talking about. Call me a company man, all you will. But if I'm spending millions of dollars on a fight, if we're renting out arenas, we're flying all the staff, we're selling tickets, we're putting on a big show that requires a tremendous amount of organization and capital to put on, and your stars are doing shit like that, I'd be like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Now, I'm not trying to rain on anyone's parade. I'm not trying to stop anyone's fun. But just imagine, if I was doing Tell us from the Octagon, which had nowhere near the amount of planning, I didn't even know what I was doing until the day before. Do you know what I mean? And Tom Aspinal was like... In fact, I did. Tom Aspinal went and did a podcast day off and I rolled A rolled an eye. Only one. I rolled an eye. I was like, bloody hell, Tom. You know what I mean? Imagine if he was doing something crazy. And the thing is, that could get infected. I know I sound very much like I have a vagina when I say this? No, no, no.

That could get infected, right? And the athletic commission, it's not Sean. The athletic commission could pull him from the fight. Do you know what I'm saying? Yeah. So who knows? Maybe that was short weeks ago.

No, I get it. You're 100% right in everything you're saying.

I do That definitely sound like a vagina. No. That could get infected. No. But when you're training so hard and there's a legacy.

Plus, vaginas are pretty tough. You sound like a ball sack because ball sacs are fragile and painful and can't take a lot. But vaginas, those things are tough.

Who's the liberal Democrat now?

Anyway, no, I 100 percent- You know what I'm saying? I 100 % agree with what you're saying. But these things happen. I say this all the time. Some of the qualities and mindsets that fighters have that they have to have to go in there and do what we do at a high level, sometimes you're going to have to deal with some of the negative, too. Oh, yeah.

Oh, no, no, I'm with you. I'm with you.

Sometimes my wife, I see her put her hands on her face and just look at a friend and say, he can't help it. It is true, though.

He can't help it. And by I'm throwing these topics out there as conversation starters. Yeah, you're right. It's who we are. It's in us. Having to put here in the chat, they say you can't snowboard, weight board, bungey jump, all kinds of ridiculous things. Horseback riding, yeah, which I own horses, and I will not ride them. So I guess I just have to sit down with Dana and figure this out. But that's who I am. I'm just wild and crazy, and I need these things. I can't get painted into a corner is what I'm saying. So I got to figure it out. I'm assuming, Harrington, that's Cowboy.

Yeah, that was Cowboy in response to the UFC put a provision across the board in their contracts that said, You technically can't do any of those things a few years back.

Especially on social media these days, because everything you do is going to be on social media, which is a sad story.

I got myself in trouble.

Masvidal, Ben Asgram. We talked about Masvidal coming back. Ben Ascren says, If Dana called me, he'd come out of retirement right now. Are you interested in that? I got to say, I don't want to sound like a hater. I don't think I am.

No, I'm interested in watching Masvidal fight. And honestly, I'm interested in watching Ben Ascren fight, but not each other. I think they're What do we want out of Masvidal? We want wild striking exchanges. We want wild trash talk. We want the fun interviews, the fun fight. If Masvidal goes in with Ascren, the fight is going to start exactly the same way. Ashton looking for a takedown and Masvidal trying to do something crazy, and that can't happen that many times. So I think it'll be a grappling type of fight. There's no reason for Masvidal to come back for that.

No, of course, he would say that because Why wouldn't he? You know what I mean? Because Masvidal comes back. That was the quickest knockout. It was five seconds. We all know for a fact, regardless of how many times Masvidal practiced that flying knee, he's not going to do it again. He's not going to land the same knee in five seconds. But I mean, Ben Ashton came to the UFC, beat Robin Law, lost to Masvidal, lost to Damian Meyer, and then retired in 2019. He's been away for four years. Of course, Masvidal coming back, that stalks his fire. And Ben Ascren is a very nice guy. I got nothing against him. But if Masvidal does come back, like you say, I would like to see him against another wild striker, someone that's going to bring some fireworks, this type of fireworks that could get you pulled from a card in Toronto. No.

Exactly.

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Absolutely free. Text 231231. Enter the keyword believe. 231231. Enter the keyword believe. What else have we got, Harrington? Because we're going to get to the we're going to get to the Trivia quiz shortly. But, Harrington, we are going to talk about the fight card this weekend as well because you have an insight into that. But is there anything else, Harrington, in the notes that we haven't got to?

Tom Aspenal. A couple of things about him. One, he said he'd be open to defending the interim title against the winner of Curtis Blades versus Almeida. He How did he say that? He said that last week. But then over since then, he's been posting about the things that have happened since Steepe Miocic last won a fight, since Steepe last fought, etc. So much so that Steepe actually responded and said that after he unifies the belt, after he beats Jon Jones, he'll talk about unifying the belt with Tom.

I don't know which way to take this.

I will take it our way, we're live.

Okay, I'll take it our way. I, obviously, am friends with Steepay, and you're very close with Tom. I like Tom a lot. And so it's uncomfortable, I think, for the both of us here.

There's nothing to You're comfortable about this for me in the slightest?

I think up to this point, I think everything Tom has done and said and the route that he's taken publicly has been right until the Steepay thing. We can't all forget Tom knew exactly the situation that he was getting into when he took that fight, that the Jon Jones and Steepay fight was going to happen no matter what happened in the interim fight. But I absolutely can understand the frustration for Tom. I think when those things are brought to you, you take the fight, you go in, and you're just focused on that. It doesn't matter what you hear, what they say, or any of that, because you're so focused on Serge Pavlovitch that it probably goes in one ear and out the the other, and you don't even have an opportunity to digest what that actually means. So now that he goes, he fights, he wins, the dust has settled a little bit. Now he's like, Okay, I'm ready to start getting ready for a fight, because that's what his body is used to. He fights, takes a little bit of time off, starts to get back in the gym, you skill build a little bit, and then you get ready to take a fight.

I think he's now at that point, and now he's realizing the true ramifications of what is going to have to happen first. So initially, Actually, he said, I believe he said he was going to wait for the winner and not fight. And now he's like, Okay, now I want to fight. It's easier said than done to wait for a specific fight to happen first before you to move forward. So I think he looks at how long that potentially could be. Then they fight. Maybe it's a wild and crazy fight. Neither one of those guys fight that often. And then a whole nother training camp. It could be a year from right now, maybe at the earliest. So I think we're seeing the frustration from Tom when he's now... It's really digested what it actually means and how long he's going to have to wait. And he's getting frustrated. And I understand that I've been the guy at the bottom of the... Not at the bottom, but I've been the guy that's worked my way up through the rankings, and now your career is on hold or your next move forward is on hold because of somebody else.

So I understand it, but I don't think there's any surprises here. That's what I'm getting at. He knew what was happening, and everyone knew what we were getting ourselves into with this situation. And I think the frustration is boiling over a little bit for him.

You know what? The way you laid it out just there, you can't... Listen, I'm very good friends with Tom, and I'm a big supporter, and I'm a big believer in Tom, as we all know, so I don't need to go into that. You're absolutely right. You're absolutely right because I've never considered that before. If going into a situation, here's the situation, as you said, I'm repeating what you said. Jones and CP are going to fight. They're going to fight. You can fight for the interim belt. He might give me a slap when he sees me, but you can't bitch about It's not about it now. You can't bitch about it. Those were the terms and the conditions going into it. You're absolutely right. I'd never actually considered that before, and I forgot about that point because that was already set in stone.

Nothing has changed. And again, I want to echo this. You're right.

I'm going to get a shitty message off Tom.

No, I feel for him. I feel for him. You could have told me, if you put Tom in that same position again, you say, all right, Tom, you're going to go in here, you're going to fight. If you win, we're going to chop off both of your legs and we'll move forward. We're going to go on. It would just go in and out. You wouldn't even catch that. All you're hearing is I have to go in and I have to beat Serge Pavlovitch. It's a hard stop there. You don't hear shit after that because you got to do that first before any of the other shit matters. So I get it. It's just really sinking in now, I think, for him, and it's frustrating. So I think he needs to go and just defend the interim title.Go fight. Tom said-Go fight. Make some money.

Last time, Steve here, 4 to 1, GTA San Andreas had just come out on PlayStation 2. He will fight for the undisputed heavyweight title ahead of me, who's the interim champ, active, ranked number one in the world right now. This makes me quite upset. He goes on to say, Steepay is one of my favorites. Loads of respect to him as far as his resume. His is far superior to mine right now. That being said, the UFC has never been about this. It's about who's the best right now, and I believe that's me. And it's only right that I get to prove it. #freeaspinal. Surely if you're the interim champ, your next fight should be for the undisputed. Come on. I agree he is a legend on about Steepay, but I'm selfish and I want to prove I'm the best, so I'll cry if I want to. So on and so forth. He says, Final fun fight since Steepay last won, August 20, the year I think. I have blown my knee out, went through rehab process, and had a year off, also had seven UFC fights, including four wins versus top 10 ranked opponents and won the interim title on two weeks.

They're all great points. They're all valid points, but they are all superseded from the point you say. If we're being objective, if we're being factual, that's a great point, Anthony. That was laid out, I think, pretty adamant.

Very Very clear.

Very clear, black and white by Dana White. This is the situation. They will rematch next year. Tom can become the interim champion and probably defend. So it's great to hear that now he's come out and said that he fancies the winner of Curtis Blazer, Zalton Almeida. Because that's what he should do. We spoke about this. It tells from the Ops gone on stage, and he was very adamant whilst on stage that he didn't want to do that, that he was going to wait. And I was not trying to bleed with him, but I was trying to bargain with him to say, Tom, I feel like you're making a big mistake there. I feel like right now you're You're in your prime. You want to continue to improve. You want to go through training camps. You want to state your case even further. You want to defend the belt multiple times, stack up loads of money, cement your legacy. And that fight will be there whenever it comes around. Or the alternative is that you sit on the sidelines for 12 months, 18 months.

You never know. And you don't get any better at something by not doing it. And I don't think anybody beats him anyways.

No.

It's like Curtis Blades is a wild card, but overall, I would favor him over Curtis for sure. Jalton Almeida is not going to beat him. I just go stack him up- on the feet, but Tom's too well-rounded, I believe. Yeah, he's too good on the ground. I think Tom goes out there and wins one, maybe two, fights. And we build this super fight once the winner of the Jones, the Steepay thing comes through. And then you might even convince one of those guys to stick around. That's the bigger problem is the waiting around. Maybe they fight and one of them retires, and you end up the undisputed champ anyways. It's a win-win. But the bigger win is that now you build something. Jon Jones is always about he's never avoided a tough challenge. What Jon has avoided is being bored. Maybe you win a couple of fights, you get the hype of the fans, and now Jon has a reason to try to prove someone wrong. Same with Steepay. They're looking for challenges at this point. They don't care about money and titles and all that stuff. They're looking for legacy. And maybe Tom can build himself to a spot.

We're like, okay, one more. Let's beat the one last young buck and then sail off into the sunset.

Well, that's it because I don't know whether it's Steepay or Tom. Sorry, John. Just for It's not hypotheticals. Let's just say John, okay? And I'm not ripping on your boy. I'm just saying it's a hypothetical situation. Let's just say John Jones, the greatest of all time. He's still the heavyweight champ in, let's hypothetically say, 14 months time from now, the fight goes down, it happens, or even 12 months from now, regardless. So Jones is there. In the meantime... Sorry, Tom's there. He's the champ. If in the meantime, he has defended the belt two times, three times, we've now got a guy with the same amount of defenses thereabouts as Steepe Mihać, which made him the greatest heavyweight of all time. There is no way on Earth that John Jones could say, I'm going to retire, because he knows for a fact, and Steepe for that matter, That all the fans forever will say, You are running. You are ducking Tom Aspenal. How can you, as a champion, how can you look in the mirror and call yourself a champion? When the champion has a name, the man that's been defending the belt, and you're going to retire.

So I think for Tom to do that, to continue fighting and continue defending, if he can, is his way of guaranteeing that that fight actually does take place.

By doing that, you're going to attack their ego. Nothing Tom can say in an interview or with a microphone in front of him is going to convince either one of those guys to stay. It's going to be what he does and what everyone else says about him. And that's essentially what you're saying. He's got to give them a reason in fighting and defending and saying their name with a microphone in front of you in the middle of the octagon after a title defense, that matters. The interviews and stuff isn't going to get-I'm just trying to think. Because Steepay doesn't care, and neither does Jones.

When Jones with Drew, and there was a big announcement, and it was Tom stepping in against Serge Pavlova, the fight was going to be delayed. I don't recall it at the time because I was in Vegas. I think I was working Power Slap or something. Dana would have done one of those little videos. He would have done one of those little videos, right? Yeah. If I was Steve here, or John, I just pulled that video and said, What are you talking about, bro? And I'm not ripping on Tom because we all know I'm good friends. I'd say, Shut the fuck up. You We got that opportunity because we got injured, right? Yeah. Okay. We're going to settle our business, then we'll fight. Shit. Sorry, Tom, but it's true. Come on, you had an idea.

It has nothing to do with this conversation. Yes.

Good.

Guess who gets to be a guest body catcher Super Bowl weekend.

You mean at Power Slap? Yeah.

You brought up Power Slap. I'm going to be there. My arms are getting me in Force Griffin. I'm catching bodies. I don't even know if I'm supposed to call it funny, buddy.

Is that the new nickname? Line Heart's Out of the Wind, Anthony the Body Catcher Smith.

Catching Bodies. Catching bodies. That reminded me. Yeah.

Yeah. Well, good. I'll see you there.

Are you working?

I am the Power Slap commentator. Anyone comes for that job, I'll fight the killer.

Are you working the fights that weekend, too?

No.

I'm working the fights.

Hold on. Is that UFC 300?

No, it's a fight night. It's I wish I was. February 10th.

I love a double bubble.

Yeah, right. One travel for two checks.

God damn. There's fights that weekend, is there? Hold on, what is the date?

February 10th, I think.

Hold on. Let Let me look.

Do you think the Super Bowl is the 11th, maybe.

I don't know. Maybe I am.

Shit.

Hold on.

Slap. Slap is the ninth.

Yeah. What is that on the 10th? I've got something on the 10th. Lunar New Year. I wish Apple would stop doing that.

I know. It pisses me off.

I don't care about Lunar New Year. I just look at my thing, there's a little dot there, and I think, Oh, I've got something.

Oh, I got something that day.

What is my commentary, though? I've got a couple in. What's that? Groundhog Day. Jesus Christ. I'm sure I've only got one in February. I'm sure I had two. I'm sure I had two.

I've got a little dot here.

Commentary.

Come on. On the 24th, I'm going to Baby Shark at 10:00 AM with the baby.

Well, it's ash Wednesday on February the 14th. Mark Wahlberg will be going mental on social media. President's Day, February 19th. These are all big dates in my calendar.

These are big dates.Oh, I do.We don't have anything.

God, I'm sure I had two in February. I do have two in February. I know for a fact, I just haven't put them in my bloody calendar.

All right. Well, you need to do that, Mike.

I know. I never do. I never do. And then I drive the UFC crazy because I'm like, So when am I commentating again? They're like, Mike, put it in your calendar. Anyway, we've been waffling on for quite some time. It is now time for me to annoy everybody and you because it is the 2024 MMA Trivia Quiz of the Year where people's knowledge on the greatest sport known to man, no man alive could take my title. Because last year, I was the winner.

Didn't you cheat?

No, I didn't cheat. I would.

There was no cheat. We had the gaming commission here making sure nobody cheated, Anthony.

We had an official adjudicator. Okay. So dictator. I'm not saying we had a Jew dictator. We had a Jew dictator.

Mike Harrington left, but in his stead, we have Don Herringbone.

Oh, yes. There it is.

Okay.

That's quite the jacket.

That is quite the jacket. You couldn't have shaped your chest, though?

No, I needed that. I needed that.

Absolutely. Non-herringbone.

It's very '70s. It really is. Don I'm not coming in anymore. No, you're the quiz master. This is your show, Harrington. Imagine this is your audition for hosting Wheel of Fortune or whatever it is. That's how I want you to treat this. So three, two, one. We're live, baby.

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to The Greatest Trivia Show on Planet Earth, UTC, The Ultimate Trivia Challenge, starring Anthony Lionhardt-Smith and Michael, the Count Fisping. Gentlemen, you know how this one goes. We have four questions per category. I'm going to go one and one. If one guy cannot get it right, the other has a chance to steal. At the end of every category, I have a list. You guys are going to have to go tip for tap, back and forth, naming names. Last one to name a name, loses the point.

Hold on, hold on, hold on. I want to know some small talk from Anthony. What does he like to do in his spare time? You know what I mean? You should have done that as the host. Anthony, tell us a little bit about yourself.

Okay. Are you telling me I don't know how to run Jeopardy? We do the first round, then we have the guest small talk, then the second round, then the final Jeopardy. All right.

My bad.

All right. So, gentlemen, the first category.

Hold on, hold on, hold on. I was too busy Getting ready to criticize you. I didn't listen to the rules. So do we just shout it out if we know it?

No. I'm going to come to each of you individually, one by one. And then if you cannot get that question right, your opponent has a chance to steal. Each question is worth one point in this round. Anthony Smith. First question. In old school, who is the first fighter from England to get a win in the UFC?

The first fighter from England. I mean, I want to say it's Michael Bisping, but I don't know that to be true. But I'm going to say Michael Bisping.

That is incorrect. Michael Bisping. Can you steal?

God, I just thought of it.

Ian, the Machine Freeman.

Michael Bisping is on the floor.

I was going to say, Well done, Harrington. I was going to say, Now, don't be throwing Anthony all the questions that he's going to know the answers to. And then you came out with that- Then you hit it with a question about English fighters. I was going to hit me with, Who's the first fighter from Arkansas? We know this is going to go, guys.

Number two, Mr. Bisping, who is the first fighter from Nebraska to get a win in the UFC?

You're actually going there. Jesus Christ. I am indeed.

I know this one.

Oh, God, you do know this?

I think.

First fighter from Nebraska. Well, it ain't Anthony Smith because that would just be stupid. Nebraska, I'm going I'm going to say, I don't know, it's going to be old school. I'm going to say somebody, I don't know it, so I'll just hazard a guess. Pat Milletich. I know he's not from there.

No, he's from Iowa.

That's from Iowa.Incorrect..

Anthony Smith?It was around the same time, though. His name was... Oh, my God, I just lost it.

There's a time limit.

There is a time limit. Hold on, hold on, hold on. I'm not on my phone. Man, it's going to drive me crazy. I know I'm going to get it wrong. He used to train Ryan Jensen. He was a cop.

Police officer.

I don't know.

Steve, Jennam. Steve Jenim.

Steve Jenim. God damn it. He won.

Steve. Ufc 3.

Yes, he did. From Omaha. He was an Omaha police officer, too.

God damn Steve.

All right. Anthony Smith, you're back up. Ufc 112 was the first fight that happened in Abu Dhabi. The fight included Anderson Silva versus Demi Amai at the top of the card. It was also the last appearance from one of the Graces. There is only one fighter from that card who is still active in the UFC. Name that fighter.

You're making these hard.

Oh, that's not easy. Oh, yeah.

Yeah, that's a hard one.

It's a tough one.

I don't even know who else was on the card, to be honest with you. So I'll pass it to Michael. I don't know it.

It was Anderson Silva, Damian Meyer. That was the main event. I think we had B. J. Penn, and it was like a Jim Miller or someone like that. Who did B. J. Fight? And he won. Or he lost a very close fight. Frankie Edgar. Ricky Edgar. But Frankie Edgar is retired. Retired.

That's the only other fight I could think of.

And I'll go,. Don't, I'll pass.

The next one down the card, it was Rafael Dosanos.

Who did he fight?

I don't remember. I'll look that back up.

You put in all the effort into the Jacky.

Oh, my goodness. Yeah. No, I put in about five hours on this quiz over the last two days. Okay.

Just give us the answer, though.

All right. I will- You did give us the answer.

It was Terry Adam.

Terry Adam. That was it. Oh, wow. Yes, yes, yes. Okay, this one is for Mr. Bisping. On the UFC's first international card, what fighter made their debut, won, and then never fought in the UFC again?

Oh, he made these hard.

On the first ever international card, what fighter made his UFC debut? Ryan. Do I get bonus points for the event or anything like that?

I mean, here's the thing. I think if you get the event, you've got the guy.

I'm going to say, I'm going to say UFC Japan. I don't know about any other international events. He had one fight in the UFC, and that was that. I'm going to say UFC Japan. Was it Brazil? Was it UFC Brazil? Was it UFC Japan? Or was it UFC Canada? I'm going to say UFC Japan.

It's got to be a name.

He's got a one fight. If you guessed the event, that would mean it wasn't Kuzuchi Zaharaba. Are you talking about one fight in the UFC or one fight, that's it?

Never fought in the UFC again.

Kuzushi Sakaraba.

That is correct, Mr. Bisping. Yeah.

All right. It's a good one.

Thank you. All right. So that is two for Michael Bisping. Oh. Leading Anthony Smith. But Anthony Smith can get back into it with this one. We're going to come to you first. This is a list question. There's seven people on this list. You guys are going to go back and forth until one of you cannot name any more.

I did the Okay, who goes first?

You're ahead, Michael Bisping. So I'm going to start with Anthony Smith.

Okay. That doesn't make sense.

Yeah, that's how it works. Nfl draft style. Last, you I'll go first. Tito Ortiz finished seven people in his UFC career. Name those people.

In his UFC career?

In his UFC career. So we're not counting Bellator or any other organizations.

Oh, my God. 205. Let me think here. I hate getting put on the spot. I'm not going to get one. God damn it. I'm terrible at this right now.

This is the Hunter to Beach bad boy, bro. He's one of the greatest pianists of all time.

I remember he fought Ryan Bater One. Fuck it.

Michael Bisping, can you name one person that Tito Ortiz finished?

I will say UFC. I believe it was 42, and the name of the card was Vanzetta, and the opponent would be Ken Shamrock.

Nice recovery at the end there. It wasn't Ken Shamrock.

That one is on the list.

All right, so three points coming out of old school for Michael Bisping. Damn it.

First You can you keep going.

If you'd like to, there are no additional points to be earned.

There's no additional points?

No, I was thinking about adding that, but it would get the scores could get too early.

It would get too early.

Okay, it's too early. Just for verification, that session is over, correct? Yes, sir. And we can't go back in time.

No.

Because Ryan Bader, he did finish Ryan Bader.

That's what I thought, but I was like, that doesn't make sense. You never said it. I know.

He finished... Was it in the UFC?

Yes, he was in the fine UFC on short notice, but we can't go back in time.

We can't change things. In my head, I kept thinking, I think he finished Ryan Bater, but I was like, That doesn't actually make any sense.

He did finish Ryan Bater. I thought he did, yeah. That was nice. You just have to We also see. Let me have the people that he did finish because I don't know.

So on my list, I had Wes Alberton, Jerry Bollinger. Oh, Wes.

Oh, Jerry, too.

Yeah, Guy Mesger, Yuki Kando, a slam that you brought up on last year's Trivia Show, Evan Tanner, Elvis Siancik, and Ken Shamrock, as you said.

Do not misspeak Elvis Siansik's names. Elvis Sinisik.

Sinisik, there we go.

And Ryan Bater.

I knew I was saying that wrong. I fought him. I beat him. He's a legendary fighter. That's how old I am. Quizmaster. Yes, sir. Is it 3-1?

I think we're out of the old school category.

It is three to nothing, actually, after old school.

I should have got Ryan Bater, though.

You shouldn't. You hesitate.

Even if I would have said it, he would have said it was wrong.

You can't. I don't want to look.

I would have. And I want to look like a fool. So thank you for saving me, Anthony Smith. I appreciate that. As a result, we're going to come to you first in first or last. Category is first, last. These are all going to be first or last things. Joe Rogan's first pay-per-view with the UFC.

Is that me or Mike?

No, it's you, Anthony.

Oh, shit. I wouldn't even think. I thought it was Mike. His first pay-per-view, UFC... Was it a named one? It would have been- They all had names back in the day, Anthony. Yeah, I know. They were number two. I'm just going to take a guess and say UFC 32.

Right. That's wrong.

I don't know it, but I do know that it's something, and it's either something along the lines of UFC 10 or UFC 12. I think it's one of them two. I'm going to say 12.

You nailed You nailed it. Bonus. Oh, man, I had one for UFC 10 as well. Is it UFC 12? It was UFC 12.

Nice.

Oh, God. By the way, I have not seen these questions.

No.

I just have no life.

Yeah. I guess I'm also a hack. All right. So speaking of the old-school UFCs with the numbers and the names, Michael Bisping, what was the last UFC pay-per-view that included the tournament format?

Oh, that included the tournament format? It was pre-10, I believe. Just because it's a nice round number that would have people in a tournament, the bracket would be eight. I'm going to say UFC 8.

That is- That's why. That's why. Incorrect. Anthony Smith.

I was going to say UFC 7.

It was UFC 23.

Really? I was way out.

Yeah, they kept on for a while with those. They would stop them for a few and then bring them back every now and again.

Ufc 23. Quiz master general, you just need to up the quiz masterishness a It's a bit of a bit. It's dipped off.

You're dipping.

You are not taking Steve Harvie's job anytime soon. You came on with a razzle-dazzle, you know what I mean? And now that has gone to a frazzle.

You need a better hairpiece to take Steve Harvie's job.

No, I like the hairpiece I like... Oh, yeah. Steve had a better suit. Steve Harvie's got some expensive suit.

He's got some nice suits.

Come on, man. You think he's getting two-day delivery on those suits, though? I don't think so. Overnight. What's up?

Come on, baby. Come on. Let's go.

All right. So, Anthony, I'm going to give you a first last time. I'm going to give you a last this time.

Okay.

Anthony, what is the last UFC pay-per-view to feature a Shamrock?

Fuck, these are hard. You know how old... What year was it? Not that it matters. It's not going to change anything for me.

2006.

Yeah, it was like '16, '15. A Shamrock, I was there. I was there. What was the numbered event?

Yes.

I don't even know. Mike talked about it. Was it when he got probably finished by Tito Ortiz? I don't know. Ufc 42.

Incorrect.

Yeah, I think it was there. So it was Tito Ortiz, Tito Ortiz and Ken Cham When they coached the ultimate fight of season three, but when they did fight, he smashed him really easy, so quick that they did it again. I think that was the idea. Or did he smash him quicker in the rematch? But they had it twice, didn't they? There was some controversy for the fight. But the next one, I believe, was on a fight night.

Yes. The second one was on a fight night.

Yeah. The third. The first one was UFC 42 or 44. That was vendetta. Then they remarched. And I'm going to say it wasn't UFC 59. I was at UFC 59 at the Honda Center. But I'm going to say UFC 59.

It was UFC 61. I'm I'm sorry about that. Nobody's going to get the points for that one.

I think that. He's a four-point lead. He's sleeping tight at night.

Michael Bisping, the first for you. What was the first UFC card to have judges.

Oh, jeez, Louise. I mean, come on, nobody knows this. First UFC card to have judges. Would it went down in the great state of Nevada. Now, 2001 is when they cleaned up the sport. They brought in the regulation, the regulatory, the Nevada State Athletic Commission, 2001, to cut the bullshit, but you see my logic.

You see the-Yeah, I see you're working.

I'm trying to figure it out, but it would still be a guess. Well, hold on, UFC 39 was the brawl at the hall. That was in 2003. So UFC 32.

That is incorrect. Anthony Smith, want to take a shot at this one?

Yeah, I'm going to guess. We'll say- One above or one on there. Ufc 29.

You guys both shot way too high. They had judges as far back as UFC 8, actually. Why are we just stupid little people out today?

Listen, I'm so bad with the numbered events. I don't even know the numbered events that I fought on.

Wow.

Okay. I don't even know what numbered event I fought for the title on?

Nobody knows the answer to these questions unless you work for the Nevada State Athletic Commission.

I mean, you got four points.

Yeah, but I'm special.

We made it difficult last year, so we just had to up it a little bit this year.

I know. I'm joking. Nobody knows the answer for these unless you're a clerk at the office of the Nevada State Athletic Commission. You know what I mean?

It is interesting, though, because you said Joe Rogan was between 12 and 10. The other one I had for that category was when did Bruce Buffer make his debut? That was UFC 10. So I think you just have a good memory for facts.

It's okay. Look at the size of those traps. They're fucking huge. You know what I mean? It's not flex because I'm cruising ahead. Just carry on the quiz, bro. What's the score? You did a great job. What's the goddamn score? Just remind us, what is the score?

What is the official score? The official score is four points to Michael Bisbing, zero points to Anthony Smith, but there's still plenty of time to catch up.

.

Let's get it as some-Zero point, Anthony.

That's okay.

This list question should be right at both your alleys. There are 10 fights that have ended in the first nine seconds or the last four seconds of the fight. I'm looking for the 10 fastest finishes or 10 latest finishes.

Say that one more time. You're looking for the 10 fastest finishes or the 10 latest finishes. Yeah.

I have 20 fights in front of me. You guys are going to list them until you run out.

All right. Who starts? Anthony Smith, I'm assuming, because he's the guy.

Anthony Smith starts.

Paul Craig, Magga Dead Uncle Life.

Yes, that is on the list.

We were talking about it earlier. I'm going to go with Jorge Masvidal versus Ben Askert.

That is number one on the list.

Oh, my God. This is stupid. This is... God, the alpha male guy can drive me crazy now.

I only have one in my head. I'm past this next one. I'm done.

Do I need the whole fight or just the winner?

Give me the winner. That's fine.

James Irvin.

For fastest? Yeah, you're correct. Yeah. He is on there.

Conor McGregor, Jose Aldo.

Let me double-check that. I don't- Thirteen seconds. No, no, no.

I No, no, no, no. That was 13 seconds. No way.

I've got one. I've got one. It was a misspeak. I know. That is incorrect.

That is incorrect. Mr. Bispang. Anthony Smith gets the point.

I'm on the board.

Do you have a follow-up?

Do what? Do I have one? No, I didn't have a follow-up. It was T. J. D. D. D.'sha's coach. He went to fight in... It was actually five seconds.

It Dwyane Ludwig. You're looking at your phone on today.

I'm looking at the coffee. The old classic look at the coffee cup. For a bonus point, you could have gone with Mark the Wizard Weer.

Was that a late one or early?

Seven seconds, I believe.

Seven seconds. Seven seconds.

Or nine seconds.

It was Wayne Ludwig. That was the one I couldn't think of his name on my head.

So it's 4-1.

That's okay. I got one.

No, I'm only 75% ahead.

Okay, so I have a list here of the champions, right? This whole thing is- Game Show Hosting. Game Show Hosting. So this next category is about championships, all about champions, where they fought, who won, who beat who? Et cetera, et cetera. This first question, there is actually two answers to it. I will give you a point for each, and you can both steal that bonus point as well. So Anthony Smith, you're up first. Who entered the cage as a title challenger the most times?

As a title challenger the most times. Yes. Who challenged for a belt the most times. That's a great quote without ever winning.

That is a great quote. No, I didn't say that.

Just the most times.

Just the most times somebody challenged for a belt.

I'm going to go out on a limb here. Uriah Faver.

That is not either of them. Michael Bispin? Yes.

The reason you're thinking Uriah Fader, because that might be, who had the most title shots known to man?

Uriah Fader- Wait, wait, wait. Say the question again. I'll go in. Obviously, I got it wrong.

Yeah, exactly that. Who fought for a title as the challenger the most times?

Okay. Well, you said it was not either of those. I was confused about that.

No, no. So when you said who- It's a tie.

There's two. There's two guys who were tied at this number. So I would have taken either.

Who fought for the belt most times and lost?

No, I didn't say that. No. Who fought as the challenger?

I thought you meant, and I'm glad you clarified this, who stepped into the cage pre-fight to-Challenge for the title. Challenge for the belt in a high piece.

No, no, no. Who entered fights as the challenger the most times?

Entered fights as the challenger the most times.

Which is why I thought it was your right favor.

Oh, God. It would be. Yeah, that's a good answer. I don't know why it's not George St. Pierre. He had a lot of title fights as the champion. Let's go through some of the lists. Not John Jones. He had one, and that was it. Who fought for the belt loads of times, didn't win, but they kept giving it to him because they wanted him. Was he brought Lesner? I don't know. He wasn't brought Lesner. Fought for the belt the most times as a challenger. Brought Lesna.

That is incorrect.

Wait, give me the weight class of one of them. You don't get it. No, just for fun.

Multiple weight classes for both.

Kenny Florian.

Marillo Bustamante. No? No.

All right, go give it to us.

Marillo Bustamante.

Randy Couture fought for the title six times. So did B. J. Penn.

B. J.

Yeah. Between welterweight and lightweight, they both bounced around a lot. I Keturah had three runs at heavyweight. All right, this one is also a two-parter, Michael Bisping. What men's weight class has had the highest number and Which weight class has had the lowest number of unique title holders? For this one, because it's so much shorter, there is a hard time limit.

Hold on. Which weight class has the most title holders and which weight class has the least amount title holders? You want an answer from me right now? Right now? I'm going to give you the answer right now. I'm going to give you the answer to both right now. The one with the most champions is the light heavyweight division. The one with the least is the flyweight division.

Both incorrect. Anthony Smith, a big chance to get two points here.

Okay. You almost sold me, Michael. Repeat the question, please. Question master.

Okay. So I need from Steve- Don't kiss his ass. What men's What men's weight class has had the highest number and the lowest number of unique title holders?

I'm going to say the weight class with the most is going to have to be middle weight. The weight class with the least, I would say probably Bantam weight.

Both incorrect. Again, the weight class with the most champions. What? Heavyweight. The oldest division is heavyweight. The weight class with the fewest, this is where it was tricky, I thought, featherweight. Only four guys have ever held the featherweight belt.

Interesting. Yeah, they brought that weight class in later, too. And then Jose held it forever.

We got no points.

All right.

Everything is the same.

Yep, 4 to 1 still, but there's still quite a few questions left.

How many questions? People have got lives to live. I did not. Jesus Christ. People are loving this. I'm joking. You're doing a great show. Just going to game show it up a bit, bro.

All right, you got it. Well, we're going to get to interviews after this. But first, Anthony Smith, who is the first title holder from a major organization outside the UFC, Pride, Strikeforce, WEC, Bellator, WSOF, PFL, to fight for and win a belt in the UFC?

Repeat it one more time quickly. The first First fighter from an outside organization to come into the UFC and win a title.

First title holder from an outside organization.

To come in and win a title.

Yeah. So they had to have won a title in another major organization, come into the UFC, fight for and win a title. So people like Jose Aldo who were made the featherweight champion when they came over, doesn't count.

Okay. I would say... I want to say it's Rampage, but there's I got to be one before that. I'm going to go Rampage because this one popped in my head.

To clarify, I don't believe, if I'm not mistaken. No. I don't believe Rampage ever held the belt.

He was not the prior champion.

He's not the pride champion. He was not the pride champion. Bucks, and that changes everything. I know who it is.

I was going to say, are we going deep? Yeah, I know who it is. I'm sure he was the champion of Rage on the Streets, Tennessee. You know what I'm saying? I'm like, wow. So champion of another organization, one of the only organizations back then. How deep are we going? Are we going like... Are we talking Pancrish? Would that count?

No, the oldest one that I included on this list was Pride. Pride. Yeah, but undisputed title.

Yeah. So I think I might have mentioned him earlier. I'm not saying it's either a Marillo Bustamante, or it might have been the other way around, or it could be an Anderson Silver. Was Anderson Silver even a Pride champ? He wasn't. Because we had pride Sengoku, which was the lighter weight classes. Sengoku, you got Sangoku on there? How many of you got Sangoku on there?Unlikely. It's not Anderson Silver then. No. Are you going to tackle the carrot, Anthony? You got to figure it out. Hold on, hold on. Well, let's just make a guess for the sake of fun of games. It's not N'Gara, it's not Mandela Silver. Oh, no, it's not Mandela Silver. Became a UFC champion or fought in the UFC?

Became a UFC champion. Yeah.

I'll say Anderson Silver. I can't think of anything.

This was a sneaky one. Didn't see this one coming. Benson Henderson was the WEC champion.

Wec champion.

Dropped it when he came over to UFC.

I thought there was someone before that.

What year was that?

That was 2012. One of One of the pride guys came over and won an interim title but did not win the Undisputed Championship until Benson Henderson. Not many guys pulled that off.

I'm sorry. Wec doesn't count for me. Okay. I'm sorry. It doesn't. It doesn't.

I included it on the list. All right, hold on. All right, fine. Then you know who the number one would be? Who? Luke Rockhold from Strikeforce.

All right, my fair deus, Luke Rockhold.

That's what I was going to say. That's my answer. I'll take the point. I got to use the bathroom really bad, though.

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And once again, thank you to our sponsors for providing the lovely gift package that our players are playing for today. Moving on. Michael Bisping. How many champion versus champion fights have there been in the UFC?

Oh, God. Oh, God. I'm just going to pick a number. I'm not going to go through. I'm not going to waste time. I'm going to say six.

That is incorrect. Anthony Smith for the steal.

For the steal, I'm going to say, I think it's less than that.

I'm going to say-Not 6, so it's 50 % more, 50 % less.

I'm going to say 4.

It is eight. You went to the wrong direction. 8 people have come up to five for a title. We suck at this. It was six until this year, Alexander Volkanovski added his name to the list twice.

All right.

So the list question for this round is, how many times has a vacant belt been challenged for in the UFC?

A vacant belt?

Ever.

So you just named me a fight that was for a vacant title, and last one who can name a fight loses or wins.

Okay. Does it have to be one that's happened?

Yes.

Or one that's booked on the cards going down in just over a week? Just over a week. Mara Brueno-Celva taking on Raquel Pennington, and Harrington's gone at that. I don't blame him, to be quite frank. He's doing a great job.

His surprise kicked his internet off when you said that. Oh, yeah. I'm sure he'll be back in just a moment. But I also have the answers here. Okay, let's go then. I'm going to fill in. Interim question master. I'm the interim game host.

You're the vacant belt I will have the interim host. Who has to start this? You do. I'm not a baby. I believe. Yeah.

Jamal Hill, Glover to share.

All right. Michael Bisbing.

Alex Pereira, Yuri Prohaska.

That is correct.

I'm sorry, my tab just shut down.

You're fine. The interim host doing a great job. We're tearing away. We're on round three. Anthony, just to bring you up to speed, said Jamal Hill and Glover Tashira. I quickly followed that up sensationally, by the way, with Alex Pereira versus Yuri Prohaska. Now, the ball's back in Anthony Smith's court.

Magomed on Kalaia versus Jan Blowovitch.

You're a prick.

That is on the list. You're a prick. I already got another one.

Oh, God. Pressure mounting. Demetrius Johnson. I have not froze.

I was like, This is who?

There was a lot. Ian McCall. Joseph Benavides. Joseph Benavides. Demetrius Johnson. Joseph Benavides.

Technically, yes, it was a tournament for a belt that was vacant. I'll give that to you.

Skin of my teeth.

Islam Makhachev, Charles Oliveira.

That is correct.Son.

Of a God.I got another one.

All of a sudden, Vacant Belts. Jon Jones, Cyril Garn.

That's on the list.

That's a very good one that I didn't have. Oh, God, I just lost it. Hold on, hold on, hold on. There is more, right?

Oh, yeah. I got a bunch on this list.

Would have been the '45 title when Connor relinquished it. No, because there wasn't... No, there wasn't an interim. Shit. I got 10 seconds. God damn it.

Go ahead. Let's hear. What was it?

I was thinking no, because they get the title back to DC. I don't got one.

So I get the point.

Yes, you do, Michael Bisping. It is five to two.

For a bonus point, can I throw out there Khabib versus Connor? Or was that even for the belt?

That was for the belt, but it was Khabib who fought Aya Kinta for the vacant belt when Connor vacated.

It doesn't matter, though. It doesn't matter. That format, that question was finished. Made it You are in the clear. Okay. 6-2.

I had a 5-2.

I had it 6.

I didn't have you getting any other ones from this five. I just got one now.

It's five. It was four but four.

I'll take the five. Come on. God damn it. I'll take the line.

Okay, so this next round is 2023. Questions that all involve 2023. Anthony Smith, who is the only fighter to win four times this year?

Diego Lopez. Hmm.

Nope. Michael Bisping.

Oh, jeez. Four times this year. Four What time?

He's just three.

Jack Dela Madeleina.

That is incorrect. It was Loopy Godine, yes. She got her first win back in March and then put four together. Loopy. Yeah? All right. Michael Bisping. Only one person fought five times this year. First time that's happened since 2021, Kevin Holland did it. Who is that fighter?

Oh, God. I know who it is as well, but I don't know the name. Jack DeLaMadeleina?

That is incorrect. Anthony Smith.

Five times. Sorry, I'm going to push you for an answer. Yeah, I know. Man, I don't know.

Oh, okay.

Are you saying that you officially pass?

Yeah.

You're tapping out.

I quit.

You're giving up.

I am. I don't know. I don't know who is it.

You didn't even hazard a guess.

I didn't.

It was Jessica Andrade.

Oh, of course. She got on one of the first cards for the year.

Yeah, and just kept going. She had a very active year. Apparently, she had some...

Not the best year, though.

Whatever.

I don't want to talk about someone's misery, but she did talk about the reason why she's been very active, and it's the reason why you don't marry someone you don't want to stay the rest of your life with.

That's all I'm going to say. There we go.

Jesus Christ. Failed marriages.

We're going to bring this Jesus Christ.

Listen, people give it a go. They go with the best foot forward. They pledge allegiance, okay? They say for sickness and in health, for better or for worse, richer or in poorer, sometimes it doesn't work out, Harrington. You can't sit there and just judge Everybody that went against the holy sacruments of marriage.

He's living what he preaches. He's not married yet.

Correct.

I'm terrified of it. Okay, back to you, Anthony Smith. Who Who is the only fighter this year to secure three submission victories?

That's got to be Diego Lopez.

Someone's got to be Diego Lopes.

Someone's got to be Diego Lopes.

That is incorrect. Michael Bisping for the still. Are you sure? I am positive.

It's that guy that's always doing submissions. Yeah, that one. Old subby Sam. Three submissions.

It's going to be a high-level black belt. I think I know who it is.

I'm going to say he's Brazilian. Tom Asminal has been off for a while. Tom has been getting a few. It's not Michael Quiesa. He did Yeah, I don't know. I don't know. I'll throw it out there real quick. I don't know. Pass.

Is it Bow Nickel?

No. No, he didn't. Man in the Coonskin Cap. Brandon Allen.

Oh, shit. Yeah. That makes a lot of sense. The Coonskin Cap. Raccoonskin.

That's just, you know what I mean?

I feel like that's like, I don't know if you had a guy that wore a white hat. Like, Hey, guy, I was wearing the Klan hat.

Yeah, exactly.

I like my dating rocket. All right, Mr. Bisping, who is the only fighter in 2023 to score three knockout victories.TKOs.

Count, of course.Yep. It's not Islam. It's not Islam. It's not John Jones. God. Oh, God. Three knockouts. No hands up.

Stop shaking your head, Harrington. We He's giving him clues.

Ben was on the knee.

Is that your final answer?

Yes, that's my final answer.

Well, then I'm sorry to tell you it's incorrect. Anthony Smith for the steal. You got any idea who got three knockouts this Three knockouts this year?

No. No. Gatey won by decision. I don't know. I don't know. I pass.

It was Roman Koplow.

Koplow. Yeah, that makes a lot of sense. That all.

That all Koplow. If someone else should be able to pronounce the names correct.

Yes. I'm sorry that I'm no John Anick, Michael. I will work on it.

Copy love. Brother, brother, this is number one bullshit. Now, next question, please.

It's the list question. Sixteen individual records were set this year.

How long is this quiz?

I got this, a grab bag, then a final question.

No, you're doing great, Anthony. Thank you, sir.

I have 16 individual records.

I still want to know who Anthony Smith is, though. I still want to know who you are. Hey, so what do you like to do in your spare time?

Mr. Smith, I hear you like to ride ATVs quite a bit.

I do. I like long walks on the beach. I like running my snowblower. I like beer and Moscow Meules.

Don't we all, Mr. Smith? Don't we all? Mr. Bisping, I hear your wife is a noted equestrian. Give me a funny story about being from a horse family.

Well, just recently, she decided to give up the equestrian. But I also enjoy a Moscow mule, but not a straw. Only some dork would like that. But I just want to say I'm having a great time. It's really great to be here. Shout out to them. I'm a clither of people out there. Let's go. Next question.

And we certainly love having you, Mr. Bisping. Next question is up. It's a list. The 16 individual records were set in 2023. That includes records for divisions or just for the UFC overall. I'm going to need you guys to list off records until one of you can.

Oh my God. Like the record that was set?

The record that was set this year, yes.

Okay. All right, Sergeant?

Yes.

I think the significant strike record was broken.

By?

You all have to know by who.

You can't just throw out a record. You got to have some details. Otherwise, I could say, Oh, the amount of time spent in the octagon.

I think the significant strike record was broken by Max Holloway. But I think it's his own record.

I will have to double-check that, but I do not have that on my list.

Every time he fights, he breaks the record because he's at the leading front of it.

Now, just to clarify on the rules here, I don't need to give an answer, and I automatically get a point?

No, you got to answer.

That's how it works.

That's how it works. It's the last one to answer the question gets a point.

Yeah, he got it. He was the first and the last to answer it.

So I get the point.

Yeah, he All right, I'm going to give you one. I'm going to give you one. A record, bro.

Are you sure mine's wrong?

Yeah, because you can't break your own record.

Of course, you can. The record goes up every time you fight.

No, you can't. Yeah, but it doesn't count as a new person setting a record.

But it's a new record.

That bitch is mental.

Okay, then this list is 87 people long. It's the 16 people that got records this year.

I'll give you a record that was broken this year. The number of failed title fights by Kobe Covington in quick succession more than anyone else getting shots at the belt. That's a real record.

Not on the list, but we will allow it.

We allowed that bullshit, my Max Holloway once you count.

Yes.

It did.

All right, so Anthony Smith, you're up then.

Yeah, I don't have one.

I'll give you one. Again, it's in the spirit of my last one. Longest time somebody has waited on the sidelines for a fight that was booked to actually materialize, and the winner goes to Michael Chandler.

Okay. I'm going to give you guys both a point for this category, so congratulations.

I'm throwing out hard facts, solid info, statistical information.

Sure, you are. I was looking for things like, Derek Lewis reclaimed the knockout record after Matt Brown tied him.

A guy that already held the record got the record again?

He was tied for the record and set in- No, it's fine.

I see this bullshit favoritism.

I'm going to take responsibility for this. We didn't go over the list before we started the show.

Anthony, are you questioning the authority of the quiz master. You see his jacket?

That is screaming to be questioned.

Moving on. I've never questioned anything, especially my sexuality. He's rather than being Rubik's cu.

I wasn't talking about your sexuality. Are you nervous?

No, I've never been nervous. All right, so this last one is going to be a grab bag. There's four different categories. I'm going to give you the list of the categories you pick them, and that'll be where your question comes from. Every question in this category is worth two points. Okay. So the categories are Anthony Smith.

Snatch the victory from the jaws of defeat. Explain the question again. I don't get it. It's a grab bag. They're worth two questions, and they're in the style of what?

So there are two- So there's an extra question from each category that we have here, leftover.

And are we letting them pick?

Have we decided that? You're picking your category. So the categories are first and last, Old School, 2023. And then one is a callback to something else that we've already talked about on this quiz. Like I said, each one is worth two points.

So we just choose the division.

You choose which category. I will give you the question from that category, and you have to give me the answer.

And by the way, when the person can't answer the question, we can also steal for two points. And of course, in the spirit of the show, Anthony Smith goes first. No, it's true because you're behind.

Okay, category. We'll do the callback.

All right. What is the shortest time between rematches in UFC history?

Is this in months form or numbered events or the shortest time between rematches?

Seconds.

Yeah. Months. No. I'll say...

Oh, no. I want the fight, the fighter who fought the shortest rematch.

The winner?

Give me one of the guys in the fight.

Okay. Shortest rematch. B. J. Penn.

That is incorrect. Fuck. Michael Bispect.

What category was this in?

This was in callback.

To old school.

It was a callback to just something that we've talked about on this quiz before.

I don't know. Volkanovski, Islan Makhachev.

That is incorrect. The shortest distance between rematches with Saku Raba actually fought the same guy twice on the same night because Tank Abbott had to bow out.

Of course, it was right there on the tip of a time.

I was going to say that one.

Yeah.

It's like a robber Tank Abbott.

It feels like a trick question. Okay, Michael Bisping. What's left is first and last, Old School, or a question about 2023.

Old School.

Old School. You're going to kill this one.

All right. Don Fry made his professional MMA debut at UFC 8. He amassed a 10-1 record with the promotion. Who is the only guy to beat Don Fry?

The only guy to beat Don Fry.

In the UFC.

In the UFC, I don't know, but I'm going to say Mark Coleman.

That is correct for two points. Yeah!

Damn it.

Read out the score.

It's the only old-school one I knew. Read it.

Read the score.

It is- The score is It's 8:03.

It's not what I had, but I'll take it.

In favor of Michael Bisby.

At 7-1.

2023, come on.

All right, 2023 was the seventh year in a row with at least one disqualification in the UFC, who was that one DQ?

One DQ? Oh, my God. It was a DQ. God damn, it's right here on my head. Hold on, hold on, hold on. I remember. Oh my God, who was it? Oh my gosh. Mike, do you have it?

It's going to drive me crazy. It's going to kill me. It's going to kill me. It's going to say it. Yeah, I know.

I can see it. I don't know.

It was controversial. It was. Everyone went crazy, including the commentators, right? Because it shouldn't have been a disqualification, but I don't know it, Harrington.

It was Jacob Malkoon.

Malkoon over Cody Brundage.

God damn Cody Brundage. I'm going to have that one.

What team may tell you, Anthony? Shame on you.

God damn it.

All right. Michael Bisping is the last one in the category. What question's left? I have this one, and then I have the grand final question.

Okay. All right. Not that I'm going to join myself. I was just curious. I'm just going to keep going until Anthony just... We have to have a limit on this.

All right, Michael, who was the first UFC fighter to appear on the cover of Sports Illustrated?

See, straight away, I went to Anthony Petties, but that was the Wheaties box. On the cover of Sports Illustrated, It's an educated guess. Sports Illustrated is back some time when the UFC was booming, who were the first poster boys? You had people like Tito Ortiz, definitely a candidate, but not Dana White's favorite person at the time. So therefore, I'm going to forfeit him. Who was Dana White's favorite person? And one of the people to definitely be responsible for the big boom in the UFC, rocking a Mohawk with Ken Paul, Jujitsu tattooed on him going by the name of the Iceman, Chuck Liddell.

Unfortunately, Michael Bisping, that is incorrect.

Anthony Smith- I told myself into it.

For the steal with two points. I mean, it does sound cool, but- I don't I can picture him.

He's a 55er. He's from the Philippines, I think, or... What the hell is his name? This is another one that's going to drive me crazy. I know what I just blanked on his name. He's really pretty, though.

All right.

Well, back in. Now, go ahead.

Back in 2007, Roger Huerta raced the cover of- Roger, he trains in the Philippines and Thailand a bunch.

I just couldn't remember his name.

Roger bloody Huerta. That's a throwback name. He was sick as well back in the dead. Yeah, he was good. He had a crazy fight, then he got into a crazy street fight. And then went off the radar for a bit.

Yeah, he was in Bellator for a little while.

He was good, though. Shout out Roger Huerta.

All right, so we have one final question, and wouldn't you know it, it's worth 10 points.

Okay. No, no. You can't do it.

And it's coming to me. It is actually- You got to do that.

That makes the rest, the last dog, bloody mind numbing. An hour and a half. It's the final question. You got to dominate from beginning to end, Michael Bisbing.

I'm not quite on run away just yet. For this question, I'm going to need you both to text me the answer because it is a number. The thing I'm looking is a number. I don't want one of you guys say it, then give it a edge to the other guy. I'll get them at the same time. Whoever comes closest wins. The question is... Two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10. Eleven different people fought for and won a world title this year. I want to know what their combined ranking heading into the fight was. If they were not ranked in this era. Hold on.

Hold on. This is a silly question. I just want to start that off. It's ridiculous. We're excluding the viewers by having a technical answer.

It's impossible to Google.

It's impossible to answer. The question, I still don't even understand it.

Okay. If they're ranked five, then that's a five. If they're ranked seven, then you add seven to five.

Yes. Give me the total for all 11 challengers who won a belt this year.

First, you're assuming that we know off the top of our heads who are all the 11 challenges are. Then we need to know their name. Then we need to know their ranking at the time. Then we need to be able to do the math to put all those numbers together. That's why we have service on our phone to text in.

It is a 10-point question for a reason.

Michael Bisbein, this is a bug. This is not a bug. It is a feature.

This is...

Okay, let me think here. I'm already rolling. So whoever's closest wins the 10 points.

Whoever is closest wins the points. Going over doesn't matter.

Hold on. The people that fought for a belt this year, they're ranking at the time.

Who won a belt this year, they're ranking at the time. Trust me, this was not a quick thing to Google. This took a long time to find out what this number was.

Eventually.

Okay, it's just sent it.

A lot of fighters, a lot of big fights.

I sent. I'm just going to say mine.

Okay. Did you get it?I.

Have yours, yes.

Okay.movina, Anthony.No, no, no.

No, no, no. No, no, no. I have a man of honor, guys.

I'm going to say, I still don't quite fully understand the question. I apologize to all the viewers. And I'm going to give you a bit of breakdown the way I did it, right? So Pantosha is the champ. I think he was ranked as something like number three, so that would give you a three. O'malley was probably five. That's an eight. Wojkowski was already the champ, so we're still on eight. Islam was still already the champ, we're still on eight. Liam was the champ, we're still on eight. Strickland was about eight, ranked eight, so that gives us 16. Alex Pereira was probably around at light heavyweight this time next year. I don't even think he was ranked. I don't even think he was ranked at light heavyweight. He was middleweight, wasn't he? But I will say five, so that's 21. Jon Jones was not ranked at heavyweight. Oh, no, he was probably the champ. I don't know. I'm just going to say 28 just because we got to move this on. 28, but you see my logic, you see my work, and you see it in the mind of the Michael Bills fan.

Okay, so what's the answer?

28 was exactly nine off the total.

What did Anthony say? I don't want to see the text, Prick.

The total was 37.

Anthony Smith said 44, which makes him seven away. And this year's ultimate, premium, championship winner, Anthony Lionheart Smith.

Thank you. I just want to thank all my supporters, my sponsors, everyone that has been supporting me through this whole time that I know sometimes it looked like we were going to lose. Here at the end, we always pull it out. That's what the Lionheart is actually about. If you want to send any gifts or want something signed, send them to Gas Digital, and they'll get them over to me. Thank you very much, everybody. Please, no more applause. Everyone, sit down. Enjoy yourself.

I'm not going to lie, this hurts. This hurts. Okay? It was a scum. It was And now the quiz master general just kicks off. He just goes because he knows they've had me.

I was going to ask you if there was any closing words you wanted to give, but you already jumped on it. I'm good.

Yeah, but ladies and gentlemen, I just want to say that once again, the judges have stiffed me, okay? Whether it's the athletic commissions, the steroid cheats, or the judges themselves. But I will say you're going to be gracious in defeat and humble in victory. Anthony, you're a great champion. Thank you, brother. I look forward to perhaps maybe next year getting revenge. Anyway, that was a long, drawn-out affair. Thank you for sticking with us. Anthony, thank you, and congratulations. You're pricky, but not technically. I won. I will always say that. We'll be back on Thursday. We got Michael Venam, Page. He's fighting the one and only Kevin Holland, the UFC 299, I think it is. 298 is one of them anyway. So tune in for that. Anthony, congrats.

Thank you. Thank you very much. First time I had a win in a while, and it feels really good.

That's the show.