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Did you see on Twitter the other day, I put on... There was another video, Oh Budgie got attacked again by Hawk. Did you see that video I put on?

I did. I comment that Hawk is a little menace.

Yeah, no, it wasn't the other Hawk, the Budgie that died. It was a Hawk, a legit Hawk that flew down. And this is what they did. It happened to us before. Our vet told us because Rebecca took him through a vet, they smashed into the side of bird cages to knock the Budgies or the parakeets for the American crowd off their perch, and then they stick their talons in and rip them out through the bars. So, yeah, Rebecca heard the two birds squawking and squeaking and all the rest of it. She ran outside. There's a giant Hawk on the cage. Robin, he was alliced open. Bless him. He's okay, though. Guys, I know everyone is very, very concerned about the pet budget. He's going to make a full recovery, I think. I don't know. He's still limping around a little bit. He's got one feather that's sticking up, so he looks a little disheveled. It looks like Mike Harrington after a good old fashioned bender. But never mind that. Welcome to the show, everybody. Hope you're all well today. 297 Preview Of course, lots of stuff going on in the world of mixed martial arts.

We've got the co-main event winner of last weekend and the man that will be fighting on UFC 100, 200, and 300, Jim A10 Miller, of course, will be joining us. Also, another guy that will be fighting on UFC 300, Alexander, the Rocket Racketj, will be joining us talking about his fight with Jury Prohasca, and what he's generally been up to and given us a few predictions as well. How are you, Harrington?

Dude, I'm doing excellent getting over a cold. So that's always the... I don't know. I feel like getting sick where you're coughing and sneak constantly, it just makes you way more appreciative of being able to breathe. So that last day of a cold might be the best time.

Yeah. Well, we're in a big health gig. January, you know what I mean? We're still doing it. I fell off the wagon a little bit at the weekend because I was in Vegas and nothing crazy. But Monday to Friday, I am killing it. Trying to, anyway. Trying to. So anyway, I hope you feel better soon. Speaking of feeling better, Drickis DuPlecey, Sean Strickland, they're feeling better about each other because as we know, Strickland said he's going to stab him if he mentions that again. There was a lot of bad tension. They had a brawl at 296, and then they encounter one another in the hotel, and it was nothing but love and appreciation and respect. It was a nice hug. Drickis even said good luck to him, which I I thought it was great. You know what I mean? This fight sells itself. Two great fighters. I'm very, very excited for this one. But I thought that was nice to see, given how high the tension got. For anyone that thinks it might have been strange for Drikus to say good luck, I totally get it. I said that to Anderson Silver right before we fought in the cage.

I said, Good luck. And what you mean is you mean, Look, listen, we're both professionals. We're both going to try and pummel each other to death. But at the end of it, hopefully, we go back to our families and we continue to live good lives. I don't know about you, Harrington, but I like that. I thought it was nice.

Yeah, especially somebody like Anderson in that case who was coming off a bad injury at one point there. It's like you just don't... You want to win a fight But you don't want somebody... You do wish good luck upon them. You don't wish the worst for this person.

Subliminally stripping down my win over Anderson Silva. Oh, Anderson coming off a serious injury. He just beaten nick Diaz or someone or Derrick Brunson. I don't know. Yeah, he beaten nick Diaz and Derrick Brunson.

I heard Anderson Silva was 115% for that fight, Mike Bisbing.

I heard Anderson Silva was juiced out of his mind as well. Old Hamilton, bloody hell. First comment on the show, trying to take away my accomplishments. It's a joke.

It's a bloody joke. I did not expect, though. The dap, the hug, those two, I thought if they got that close to each other, it's because war was coming.

Yeah, But Drickies is there with his lady, right? And I think at that point, anyone that knows how to behave, they're not going to start kicking up a fuss or a ruckus when somebody's with their partner. You know what I mean? You'd have to be a certain level of piece of shit to do that. And by the way, I didn't do that in New York because Jorge Masvidal, remember that, said that I did that? I didn't do that. His wife, and I didn't even know it was his wife, was pushing a buggy with a baby in it, and they walked past me. And then as I walked past Masvidal, he started chatting shit. We got to do a little altercation, but hope you're well, Masvidal. Anyway, the press conference is later today. What are you expecting at that press conference? Do you think it's going to continue with the cordialness, the niceties, the respect? Or do you think Strickland is going to go back to being good old fashioned Strickland?

Look, you put a mic in front of Sean Strickland, he's going to say some things because at this point, it feels like click farming. You know what I mean? Sean Strickland has figured out like, Oh, I can blow up on social media just like all these other guys. Let me go say some wild stuff. I don't think it's necessarily going to be directed at DDP, though. I don't think he wants to poke that bear because he doesn't want to poke that bear because he doesn't want Dreykis to go to that level. So then now he's in a position where it's like, Well, if I don't stab him, I'm a liar.

Well, look, here's the thing, guys. Here's the thing, right? You vote for Trudeau because he's blowing up on social media yesterday for his media day talking about Canadians and talking about reporters and talking about a lot of sensitive subjects, shall we say.

Castro Jr. Trying to turn Canada more Communist. Weird.

No, I know. What do we think about this fight? So I'll tell you this. I did a little video breaking down all of their skills, and Driguis DuPlece, for me, is ahead on all of them, well, most of them. I think if you look at striking, obviously, the fight starts on the feet. I think Drickies is more effective, he's more powerful. I don't think he's as technical as Sean. Sean, great footwork, good defensive skills, works behind that job. And once he gets his rhythm and his time and it starts to feel more comfortable, he follows up. But Drickies just walks people down. And I think it's going to be hard for Sean to play that game being on the back foot the whole time if Drickies is walking him down. So I give him an edge there. Maybe not in technique, but he's effective. He's very, very effective. When it comes to wrestling, I think he's the better wrestler. Did you see that video of Drickers submitting an entire Gracie team by himself at a quintet performance?

Yeah. He got three subs, and then he got the decision on the last guy? Yeah. Incredible.

No, exactly. And he's got a lot of subs on his record. I'll probably give him the edge in jiu-jitsu. Sean's very good on the ground, though. So that one could be even. Power, strength, I think you're going to I'll go with Drickus. Cardio, I'll give to Sean. Dreyas is shown that he gets tired quite a lot, but apparently, he's had the miracle nose replacement, Thinking Bob done. He's had surgery to fix that. And heart, It's probably an even Steven on that. Yeah.

What do you think? Those have to be the two most walk through a fire guys at 185 right now. So yeah, I agree on the hard thing. The cardio I found interesting because Dreyas did say he's like in ECF and these other smaller promotions, he has been booked in a number of five-round fights, and he's like, straight up, it never makes it. It never makes it to the Championship rounds if I'm fighting. So it's like, yeah, I do agree. Strickland's biggest advantage is the cardio, but can Strickland get to a fourth, fifth round with somebody who puts on the pace that Dreyas does?

Well, I mean, that's the big question. And that is why Dreykis does get tired because he does go forward. He is very reckless, not reckless, that's a bit mean, but he's aggressive, super aggressive, and maybe slightly to a fault, but that makes him an exciting fighter. Me and Anthony were talking about it on Monday, I think. You know what I mean? When you have a more conservative approach, you don't get as tired. Well, Drickies is red-lining. He's sprint. He's got the pedal to the metal constantly. That's why he gets tired, but he does have the heart to push through it. I was also saying on this video, it's like a lot of the time getting tired, it's a mental block. It's choosing to give up. It's choosing to say, I'm done. Choosing to say, that's it. I don't have the mental toughness or fortitude to push through to that next level because you can always dig that a little bit deeper. We all want to stop. We all want to curl up in a ball. We all want to say, time out. I'm tired. But more often than not, if you really want it, if you really push through it, you can find that next year.

And Drickies has done that every time, but he has got tired. You can't deny that. You know what I'm saying? So I do give Strickland an advantage in cardio, but I'll come out and say, I think my prediction for that fight, I've got Drickies. I think Drickies gets a stoppage. I think if there's going to be a decision, Sean Strickland wins by a decision. I can't see him stopping Drickis. You never know, it could hurt him and then finish him with a sub. But I don't really see that happening. Sean is going to be very confident in his power, obviously dropping Stopping Izzy, beating him over five rounds, beating Abus Magamedev in the second round. Previously unde. Say again.

Previously unde Abus Magamedev. Stopped him.

Yeah, he stopped him. Abus Magamedev did not pace himself, though, one little bit. But hey, maybe that's what Drikus does. Maybe that's what doesn't pace himself either. You know what I mean? So I've got Drikus. What do you think?

Yeah, I mean, I don't know. I've been saying Drikus all week. So I think I have to stick with that. I like the idea of a third-round stoppage, but I mean, man, if this thing does get into the Championship rounds, there's very little I could imagine scarier than being as tired as I've seen. Imagine the Driekis heading into the third round of that Darren Till fight, and then Sean Strickland coming at you with just clean one-tos, backing you up, just constantly pushing forward with that jab. There's very little more terrifying than that. And I could I see a situation where Driekis is just... He's so gassed out on the feet. Sean could just TK-O him with nothing but volume, right? Just put enough pressure on him and keep that jab and find where he's able to land seven, eight, nine, 10 shots unanswered before the ref has to just step in and call it. But I think Dreyas does get it done somewhere in the first three rounds.

Yeah. No. I mean, Sean's not an easy guy to finish. Yes, Alperreira knocked him out, right? Beautiful left hook, went to the body, said that shot up perfectly. But he's not an easy man to beat. He's not an easy man to be. He's not an easy man to be. That's why he's the champion of the world. But I have got a feeling Dreyas, 19 finishes out of 20 victories. You know what I mean? That's where I'm leaning. Brian, welcome to the show, my brother. Hey, what's up? Where are you? And what do you say?

I'm home, and I think that Dreykis is probably going to get it done, man. He's big and strong, and we've seen him knock a bunch of people out recently. We've seen Sean get cracked. His Philly shell is super awkward. I don't know if it's going to work against the bombs from Dreykis.

Basically, it's a BYM clean suite for Dreykis Duplece. We've got no counter argument.

No dissent here.

Who did Anthony pick on Monday? Do we know? Do we remember?

I think he also picked Dreykis, but I might be putting words in his mouth.

Okay. As long as that's all you're putting in his mouth.

Hey.

Hey. Oh, But yeah, core main event, of course, Raquel Pennington, Myra Bueno- Silva. I'll just keep this one a bit shorter. I like Raquel Pennington. I like the way she fights. She's been in there with so many great fighters, lots of former champions, Amanda Nunez, Holly Home, Jemim DeRandame. She lost to all of them, but granted, she showed up. She's been in there. She's got the experience. I think she's on a five-fight win streak, if I'm not mistaken, but hasn't been too active. I think she's coming back from an injury. But when I still, the last time we saw her gets Holly Home. All right, granted, that was overturned because of a failed test with Usada, right? I think she got a short suspension, but she looked bloody good in that fight. She's fast, she's dynamic, she's powerful, she's got great submissions. What Was it a Ninja choking round two against Holly Home? Holly, even though with respect, she's getting a little bit longer in the tooth, she's not an easy person to beat like that. I've got Bueno Silva. Come on, Harrington, this is your forte, women's MMA. Sean Strickland doesn't like women's MMA.

Mike Harrington loves it. Who's your favorite MMA fighter, Harrington?

Well, I mean, somebody who Raquel Pennington beat, Misha Tate. That's your favorite? No, come on, man. I'm messing around. I'm playing the game here.

Who's your favorite female MMA fighter? Because Sean Strickland hates them all.

My favorite female MMA fighter, I mean, Amanda Nunez is gone now. I mean, so probably Rose. Try to not get excited for Rose Namajuna's fight. I dare you. Unless she's fighting Carlos Fawzia, obviously. That goes without saying.

Yeah. No, listen, I love Rose as well. I think she's phenomenal. But really, really, out of all, what about Jean-Way Lee? That's not doing anything for you.

I feel like it's I'm not going to hack to just pick a champion.

You want a young J. Chegg? Valentina Shebchenko? Tatiana Suarez? Valentina Shebchenko? Come on.

No, I'm taking Rose, dude. Rose is just dynamic, dude. There's something about her that's... I don't know. It's very fun to watch, and she's the only one who could be Zhang Weili. So yeah, I'm taking Rose.

What was it that Strickland said yesterday? Because I did a live on my channel yesterday, and everyone, because I must have missed this, because I normally, I scroll Twitter and stuff like that, and there's all the MMA stuff. I was aware of most things, but everyone in the chat was like, Did you see what Strickland said about women's MMA? I thought, I didn't see it. Now I have, but just remind me, what did he say?

He said, I'd rather watch two lions fight, not two cats.

Well, I'd rather see two lions fight over two cats as well. You got to be careful what you say here. There is some great female mixed martial artists, but I think it's also fair to say the talent pool is as deep. It's not as deep. When did it start? '13, '14 in the UFC, 2013, I think, when Ronda Rouser came over. It's just not as deep. It's like, imagine... I mean, okay, it was a thing before the UFC signing them, but we use that as a benchmark. Imagine if men's MMA had only been going for 10 years. You know what I'm saying? So they wouldn't be as good. So the talent pool is not as deep. I understand Sean's point. I think he says things to be controversial, but he said, Listen, what would you rather watch, two men doing MMA or two women doing MMA? I tell you what, Jean-Way Lee, you're on a on J-check. That was an incredible fight, fight of the Year, if I'm not mistaken.

Yeah. I mean, it's interesting because there are outliers like that, but it also does set women's MMA up for lack of success when you have 10 men's fights on a card, two women's fights. For the most part, like you said, that talent pool isn't there. At best, one of two of those fights is going to be good if there's two female fights on a card. Just sheer lack of talent. But at the very top upper echelon, these are very entertaining fights. Now that Amanda Nunez is gone, Myra Buena still, but this might be the beginning of a long interesting rate.

Yeah, well, I think at Bantamway, it's going to be like a hot potato for want of a better word. Now that Amanda Nunez is gone, there's a lot of people vying and lobbying for that top position. But it's a fun one. It's good to have the pay-per-views back. It's freezing cold in Toronto right now. What is it? Minus 10, something like that in Celsius. Blumming cold. Charles Strickland, of course, didn't just limit himself to talking about women's MMA. He was talking about Colby Coffey, and I thought this was pretty funny. Give me the quote.

Yeah, let me pull it up here. He's just fraudulent. I think to be a UFC fighter, it's a sense of entertainment, WWE, but you want to base your character on authenticity. Then you have somebody like Kolby, who is a fictional persona that he's created when he's not trying to fall on Trump's dick. It's the most cringeworthy shit, and it's so F that Trump left the arena while he was giving his speech. It's like watching the ugly girl get rejected at a party. You feel bad for the guy at this point. Don't worry, Kolby. He knows your name.

Yeah. Oh, God. He knows your name. I do feel bad for Kolby at the minute because he's getting shit from all angles. Granted, he was out of line what he said about Leon's dad. The fight did not live up to expectations. Donald Trump did walk out of the building. But listen, you know what? We always talk about Kolby, and we always say, Oh, but the character, the character. But in real life, he's a nice guy. The reality is, though, playing a character or not, when you are playing that character, you're still responsible for things you say and how you act and how you behave, ultimately. You can't just go, I was in character, which he did to Leon at the way in, if you recall, he walked to go, Just in character, bro. I think because afterwards, he probably realized, Wow, shit, that was a messed up thing to say. But yeah, I feel bad for Cole because he's not a bad guy deep down, but got to get it together, man. Got to get it together.

I liked the conversation he had with Usman in the cage that was picked up when he was like, Yeah, man, sorry for all the stuff. I was trying to make you money. He did that with Leon ahead of time. He did it with Leon at the weigh-ins where it's like, That's not the time to do You do that after you guys have fought. Don't let Leon know that you're already cracking, that this persona is fading while you're going to the weigh-in. But it's like, Dude, I don't know, man, you reap what you sow. You put that much negativity and nonsense out in the world and pick these fights with so many people and put yourself in a position where if you fail, you know you're going to get ridiculed. Well, then don't fail, dude. I don't know what to tell you.

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What on Earth?

So the idea for this company, it's a New York-based company that sells Icelandic style yogurt. The concept is like we're stripping away a lot of the nonsense and fillers and stuff you don't need in in in yogurt, and they want to do the same thing for your life, right? So it's like they're going to send you a flip phone, so you'll be able to make calls and probably use the old T9 system to send text messages. But on the flip side, you don't have to deal with all the apps, the TikTok, the Instagram, everything that could possibly take your time and attention away from you. You put that in a lockbox. By the end of the month, if you have not opened that lockbox up to mess with your cell phone, you get a check for 10K, and they're going to reward you with, I'm assuming, a month's supply, 60 cups, 2 cups a day of their brand of yogurt.

Well, you can take the 60 cups of yogurt and shove it up your ass. I'm just on the website here. I was trying to see the ingredients because they're giving it all what they do and lardy down, we're so good and pure and all the rest of it. I guarantee that yogurt is not the best organic good stuff for So take the 60 cuts, but there's a lot of people out there that could do with $10,000 right now. Harrington, do you need $10,000?

More than any.

Brian, does Harrington need $10,000?

I don't know about him, but I know I sure should do.

Well, why don't you guys sign up? Okay, we should start a petition. We'll get the believers. I would pay money. So hold on, they lock you in a box. How much? So you have no $10,000. You put it in the goddamn notes, Harrington.

You would give me 10 grand to do this, Charles.

I'll do that in a parp. We'll start a petition with Icelandic Yogurt. We will cover it on the podcast. We will get you on. You will be selected. Give us all a break. In fact, yeah, I will. I'll give you $10,000. No, to be fair, I do like that because we are all on our smartphones too much. I was telling Lucas yesterday, because every time I look round at Lucas now, he's always on his bloody phone. And granted, to be fair, when we were kids, I guess we watched too much TV. And TV isn't really a thing now, is it? Other than streaming services, other than the news or live sports or cops, reruns, and Jerry Springer and bullshit. There's not much on these days. So, yeah, I get what they're doing, but $10,000, I would have thought there'd be many people signing up for that.

Yeah. So they're expecting a lot of people to. Entries opened yesterday, and they're going until the 31st. So you have to go to their website, and they have a Google Doc.

You be by Iceland at Yogurt. You're directing everyone to the website and the rest of it.

I have not said the website because I don't want anyone else to join. I want this 10 grand to have a phone.

We're having a conversation about the thing. So what you're going to do is you're going to sign up at www. Icelandic yogurt. Com. You know what I mean? I guess it's not a bad little way to try and get some social media, some news, some PR, and all the rest of it. But I didn't know that's what it was. I thought it was more about not using your smartphone. I mean, I guess it is. I guess that's what it's all about. Would you want the 60 cups of yogurt?

Yeah, obviously. My girl loves that stuff. And my baby. My baby has been eating a lot of the full fat Greek yogurt, so for sure.

This morning, that's what I had. Greek yogurt, strawberries, honey, some like, what is it? Cacao with that, mushrooms, powder and stuff like that. All the rage, buddy. All the rage. Superfoods. Superfoods, Lion's Mane, Four of the steps, doing all that. Brain fog, be gone. That's the plan. I've been getting a lot of brain fog. Everyone's like, He's got CTE. Just real quick before Jim joins us. This one made me laugh. I saw this one. It was all over the news this morning. A new study suggests that men have a better sense of direction than women. I'm like, You do not need to spend a lot of money paying it to scientists doing a survey, okay? Men have better senses of direction than That's it. Plane and simple.

I found it interesting the way they brought up this study because they said that back in the day, what people assumed was that men were better with directions because as hunters, we would have to go further away from the home while women would gather closer to the home, which would make them worse with directions. They found that's not even true. Women can go further. They just get lost. They get lost like crazy.

No, no, no. So Rebecca moved from Australia, and we lived in a small town called Clithero. We had this house, and there's a convenience store chain called Spar. And the Spar was around three corners. She would get lost multiple times on the way to the Spar. Do you know what I mean? I'm like, Jesus, a wheeze, Rebecca. She gets lost. Women's directions are terrible. Granted, I think women are better than men and many, many things. Not many, many things.Cooking.

Cleaning, making babies. Yeah, we get it.

What was Sean Strickland's T-shirt? A woman in every kitchen and a gun in every hand. He never stops for a second, does he? Just trying to put forward this persona. I don't think it's a persona. But no, so Rebecca got her 23 in me done, the DNA stuff. And it came back that she was like 10% Neanderthal. And she looked up qualities of Neanderthal. Neanderthals throughout history, apparently, were known for having terrible sense of direction. I don't know how they know this. I'm sure they were doing surveys in their time, but it's like, yeah, no shit, 100%, you're definitely Neanderthal. She gets lost everywhere.

This is anti-neanderthal All propaganda. What do they say? Winners write the history books, so that's what that's all about.

Ryan, have you got anything to add on this conversation while we're filling and waiting for the one and only A10 Jim Miller to join us?

I know that one of the reasons why they'd speculated, one of the reasons why Osi Osborne has survived so long doing so many drugs is because he has an inordinate amount of Neanderthal DNA in his mind. Oh, really? Yeah. The doctor who was looking at it was like, Oh, that might have something to do why you survived the '80s.

Osi Osborne, what a legend he is. He's one of the funniest human beings.

He's still scuttling around occasionally.

Yeah, he does He does scuttle. He does scuttle. Obviously, Black Silb has some great music as well, but he's just funny as hell. What was that? What did he do recently? Was he singing at a basketball, baseball game or something?

That was two, three years ago, right? What was it? Yeah. Yeah, it was atrocious.

It was so bad.

He was hammer drunk.

Yeah, the Aussie Osbaum. I've read his book. Have you read his book?

Yeah, I'm I'm like a huge Aussie fan growing up, so I have all the things.

He turned 75 yesterday.

Yeah, well, he looks about 95. Let's be honest. Speaking of that, it's on that tone. This morning on the news, check this out. Oh, there he is. We'll pick up that conversation later because we are joined by the one and only Jim Aten Miller. Ufc 100, UFC 200. Now, UFC 300. But before we get to all of that, how the Where the hell are you, Jim?

I'm good. I thought you were talking about me saying I look like I'm 95 or something. We were talking about Ozzie Osborne.

He's 75. He looks about 95. We were just saying we don't know how that man's still alive.

Oh, yeah. Yeah.

We don't know how you're still alive, Jim. What is that? 43 fights in the UFC now?

Yeah, 43 in the UFC. Yeah.

Saturday night, you look phenomenal, mate. Let's just talk about that really quick. I thought that was one of your best before performances against a really good opponent. The striking was beautiful. Leg kicks were on point. Of course, you got the finishing round three. Yeah, talk to me about that fight in general.

I knew what to expect. I had basically a full camp for Gabriel a year prior, and unfortunately, he pulled out of that fight. I knew what it was going to be like going in. I had done the prep for him. I had watched tape on stuff, and I knew he was a tough dude. I knew he threw good straight punches, hard leg kicks. When you fight with somebody that you know he's going to kick you, I find the best way to prevent them from kicking you is to kick him back. So make them pay for every one of those leg kicks that he threw. So that was the goal. I didn't want to rush on the ground, knowing that I would have an advantage there. I just dominated that position in the second round and I was waiting for my opportunity, but I didn't want to force anything and fatigue myself. And yeah, the The opportunity came in the third and was able to get the submission.

Did you happen to see him afterwards? Because I was saying on commentary, I said, I don't think this guy is going to be walking tomorrow because his lead leg was chewed up. It was black and blue. Dean Thomas said you should have gone to the calf instead of the thigh. I'm like, Jim Miller is an old-school guy. Only these new-school dorks do the calf kicks. Jim kicks the thigh like a real man.

Well, I do kick the calf. I know. I do. The thing is, I find, even though Dustin is a southful as well, and we ended up getting into that calf kick battle, I personally find as a lefty, I like to kick righties to the calf a bit more on the inside, as opposed to going the outside. I just find that it's easier for my opponent to check that calf kick when you're going to the outside. So yeah, D can say all he wants not being the one throwing the calf kick because it hurts both guys. So it's that you got to give a little to take a little type strike. It's always there. It's in my head that I could do it, but it hurts.

Yeah, no, it bloody It bloody hurts. Right. So another sensational win. It's just another day at the office for you at this stage. I'm joking, of course. Ufc 300 on the microphone. There was talks of Bob Lesner. There was talks of Matt Brown. That one caught me by surprise. There was talks of Paul Felder. And now, as everybody knows, you're taking on Bobby Green at UFC 300. How did this fight come about? Tell me, how are you feeling about this?

It came about really fast. Just the other day, I was I really went for a walk. We had gotten some snow. I went for a walk with my son, and all of a sudden, my phone starts blowing up in my pocket, and I'm like, I got to have to take this one, buddy. So, yeah, I ended up getting a call from Sean and Dana and Hunter were there, and They just said, Hey, Bobby Green, 300. What do you think? And initially, I was like, not again, right? Because I've had three opportunities, three booked fights with Bobby so Oh, really? Yeah, this fight's a decade in the making. We almost fought in 2014. He ended up hurting himself a couple of weeks out. I fought Yetsy on two weeks' notice. We were supposed to fight in early 2021. He had a bad weight cut. The fight ended up getting scrapped the day before the fight. Then I was supposed to fight him again in 2022. One or another thing came up. He got pulled from the card. Unfortunately, I was able to fight Donald and take the all-time win list number from him.

That's the way to do that, by the way. Exactly. The guy that has it, not just to do it by being somebody else, actually beat the guy with the record.

Yeah, we were tied up and it was like, Man, this can't work any better. The fight with Bobby was like, Hopefully, he doesn't screw up my opportunity at 300 here. Shit happens. I'm not expecting anything like that to happen. It's been a fight that I've prepared for for six months out of my life. I've had three full training camps for Bobby Green, so it was a really easy one to take. He's a very difficult puzzle. He's very unique stylistically. So it is that little bit of a different thing because there's nobody that fights like Bobby Green does. But like I said, I've had six months preparation through It took me 20 years to fight Bobby, so it was a no-brainer.

Yeah, and I guess in some ways that doesn't make it easy, but certainly, you haven't got to do the research. You haven't got to do, you haven't got to figure out a style and all this thing because as you said, three camps, pretty much. You're in shape. You just made weight. April, what is it? 18?

Thirteen.

April 13th. Pardon me. Yeah. Pardon me. April 13th. Yeah, just go out there and have some fun. I mean, Bobby's a fun guy. So in fact, obviously, that didn't go his way with Jalen Turner. But what was your initial thoughts? So they said Bobby Green, you were happy. You were like, Okay, let's go. Because I know you wanted Matt Brown. You wanted to take out another man with the record.

Yeah. The Matt Brown fight really intrigued me. There's something about also stepping up in a weight class and going after somebody who's a legend at 177. But yeah, Bobby Green is ranked. He's ranked number 14. So it's like, Here's my opportunity to get back on that list and fight at 300 and continue on with the career and the goals. Yeah.

So the career isn't going to be over at UFC 300?

No, that's not the plan.

We know I lose. I mean, it's inspirational. I said that Saturday night. Now, I'm going to get my producer to ask this next question. I'll bring up this topic because Harrington, are you there? But maybe he's gone off on his treat in the baby. Oh, he's there.

Oh, I'm here.

He put something in the notes, Jim. I said, This was a conversation from a while ago. He said, No, it's resurface. Harrington, take it away.

So Daniel Cormier saw your comments from your post-fight presser the other day about how you guys had the same record after 15 fights in the UFC, but you've now got about three times as many fights in the UFC. And he said, Essentially, if we let guys in for having a record for the most wins, and that win, that record then gets broken down the line, what are we doing here? So that was his response.

And like I've said plenty of times, he's entitled to his own opinion. That is a silly statement because it's like, that means that guys in baseball that had the home run lead, we're home run or hit leaders or stolen bases leaders. It's like, you can't let them in because they've got the record now. And it, you know, Sammie Sosa might come around one day and be juiced out of his gills and take Bay Bruce's record. That's a weird argument, but listen, my goal is to keep fighting, keep doing what I'm doing, and I'm getting the UFC 300. So the new goal at this point is to win over Daniel Karmia.

No.

I will not stop. I will not stop. I took Russian in high school. Maybe I got to take that back up so I can talk like some of the guys that he trains with at AK. But yeah, my goal from this point forward is to win over Daniel Karmia.

Fried chicken. That's all you're going to do about that cake and chicken. I've never seen a man eat so much food whilst commentating. And obviously eating and talking at the same time is not an easy thing to do. But if anyone could do it, it's DC. Now, I'm not just trying to agree with you because you're a guest on the show, but I've said this publicly a few times. I don't think being a champion necessarily means you get into the Hall of Fame, because otherwise, that almost means a prerequisite is to be a champion, and therefore, every champion gets in the Hall of Fame. I'm not kicking your ass. I think you got to make a difference in this sport. You've got to make an impact. You got to leave a mark. Having the most wins, that's just one of your records. If I look at your Wikipedia page, you'll know them more than me. You've got many, many records, and I think everyone would agree. Do you disagree with DC?

It's not that I disagree with him. It's more so that I'm not even entering that conversation. The more he talks about it, the more good press for me. Because as I continue on through my career, people are just going to come over to my side. If I get another couple more fights, they're just coming over to my side. They're not going to his. As I continue on with the legacy, with the career and the stats, he can talk about me all he wants. Fortunately, to bring up the food, I'm pretty good in the kitchen, so I think I got it. Well, I've been known to make some decent free old food, too. Oh, nice. Maybe I'll really go after his heart's strength.

There you go. Just bring him a plate of some gumbo or something like that. There you go. He'll be a happy man. It's funny you say that because on Monday, me and Anthony were doing the show, and as you know, we reached out and we said, Jim's off doing something wholesome. He's not looking at social media. He's come back. He's with the kids. He's having good old-fashioned family time. He's probably out there chopping wood, hunting, things like that. What did you do when you got back to Victorias once again?

Exactly that. Got back into home life, which is pretty laid back for me. The kids, they're doing all their sports and stuff like that, so we're still running around with that. Stoking the wood stove and shopping the firewood. Just living the life, living the dream.

I've got your accomplishments up here, and I'll say them so, it was here, five of the night, seven times, most wins, performance of the night, five times, submission of the night, three times, most wins in UFC history, most wins in UFC Lightweight division, most bouts in UFC history, most bouts in the UFC. It's repeating them twice, second most finishes in UFC history, most finishes in the Lightweight division, tie Charles Olive for the most submission wins in UFC Lightweight division, on and on and on. Now, when we look at your story career, Jim, some of the victories that you've had, they're very impressive. Charles Olive is one of them. Of all the names that you've been in there with, I mean, Donald Cerroni, that was a great performance. Clay Guida, hold on. You beat Charles Oliveera, though, didn't you, one time? Yeah. Yeah, of course, because I just saw a loss on that. What is your most satisfying victory in the UFC or fight, win or lose?

I don't know. The They're all satisfying right when it happens. I thoroughly enjoy the lifestyle, the training, and being in the gym and bettering myself every day. But man, even as a young kid, it was a drag sometimes. You're just beating the tar out of yourself day in, day out. So anytime you go in there and you perform well, it's like, yeah. All that paid off. I don't know. I don't know what's the most satisfying or my favorite. They're all important in the grand scheme of things. Honestly, I can still... It wasn't my favorite fight to be in because it was absolutely exhausting. But my first fight with Joe Lozan, I can still hear the crowd in between rounds.

What were they doing?

Booing, cheering? They were screaming their heads off. I can still hear it. That one definitely left a mark in me in more ways than one. Got a little beat up in that fight, too. But I wouldn't say it was my best performance or the most satisfying win, but it's one that I think I'm always going to come back to as one of those fights that I was really proud of.

Did you wrestle at high school?

Yes.

College?

One year in college, yeah.

One year in college. So you've been wrestling. You've been putting your body through it for a long time. You're 40 years old now, most wins in the UFC, most fights, sorry, pardon me, and most wins, right? I think. But there you go. My body is destroyed. I'm only four years older than you. My neck, I'm in pain all the time. I've got two total knee replacements. Everyone knows about the one eye, my wrist is buggered. It goes on and on and I'm very interested to know your recovery protocol and what you do, because one thing that I regret was after every training session, I never really stretched. So that's something that I'm trying to undo now. I spent about 45 minutes today having a really good stretch after my workout. Talk to me about your recovery protocol and how you managed to still do this at a senior age for a professional athlete. Politely. That's an old bastard in the sport. Yeah.

Honestly, I think it's the lifestyle. I don't fall into some of the same traps that some of our peers fall into. I'm not in front of a computer screen or TV screen or my phone all day. Because I talk to Max Holloway the one time when we were signing posters, he's like, Yeah, I'm a streamer that also fights the octagon. It's It's like you're making money outside fighting doing it. So great, awesome for you, but I just can't do it. I eat good food. I try to eat as good of food as I can, as clean of food as I can. That takes a lot of time. It takes a lot of effort. I try to grow or hunt as much as I can. I really try to get that eight hours of sleep. That's something that I've been big on the last couple of now. It's a performance enhancer. It honestly is. I was a five or six hour night guy. I still, if I get five hours of sleep, I wake up and I'm ready to go. But then it starts to catch up to me. Those injuries don't heal. Two good nights of sleep in a row and it doesn't matter if my neck's banged up, my back's banged up, my shoulders.

Two or three good night's sleep, and those injuries the injuries fade away and fade back into the background. But yeah, there's nothing super crazy. I was doing some ice bath for a bit. It's one of those things I feel it helps with the bruising, but it's not like anything that I find helping with the joint issues and other stuff. But yeah, I just try not to eat processed crap.

The process crop, I mean, this Isn't it? The amount of chemicals. I wasn't always like that, but just recently, we're doing that whole thing. We're trying to move to a different part of the country where we've got land where we can grow our own vegetables and some cows and stuff like that.

It's a good life, Daniel.

That's what we're turning in. You know what I mean? We're leaving California. We're getting into that stuff. You're still in New Jersey, Brunswick? Yes. Is that right?

No, I'm way far away from Brunswick. I'm in a little town called Stillwater, named after a swamp. I think I live in it. I'm right next to the Appalachian Trail. I'm on the western side of the state.

Oh, nice. Sounds beautiful. Cold as hell right now?

Yeah, it's pretty cold right now. It's not too warm out there, 20 degrees.

Do you keep up with the fight stream? Are you a fan of the sport? Because some people aren't, and that always surprises me. But do you follow it pretty closely?

I do I follow it. I don't catch every fight on every pay-per-view. I'm more of a catch-highlight type stuff. If there's a fight that I really want to see, I will make a point of watching it. But it's like Yeah, I definitely don't stay up and go to Buffalo Wild Wings to watch all the cards.

Because you're on the East Coast. Yeah. They're late. I hear, though, a little rumor you might be making your desk debut. Is this correct? Oh, yeah.

No, you know what? I don't know.

Paul Felder said something. I don't know. Maybe I'm wrong.

I threw it out there. I threw it out there. You can't get things you don't ask for. We'll We'll see. We'll see how it goes. I'd have to keep this wearing down to a minimum, I think.

You haven't sworn once on here. I'm the foul mouth. The reason I ask you about the fight is because this weekend in Toronto, obviously, Drix DuPlece, Sean Strickland. Have you got any thoughts on that fight?

I think it's an intriguing one. Sean seems to have, I don't know, he's hit this growth period where he's just looking great. When he beat Israel, it caught me off guard. It really did. Ddp, he's a great, well-rounded fighter as well. I I try not to get caught up in all the banter back and forth.

That's a good word. That's a polite word, the banter, the bullshit, the shit talk, the craziness.

Yeah, that's That seems to be just all what it's about. I fell in love with the sport of MMA for what happened inside the cage or the ring. I was watching the early UFC and pride and all that stuff. It's like half the guys over at Pride didn't speak a lick of English, so you couldn't understand them anyway, or at least I couldn't. So, yeah, I just wanted to watch the fight. So I'm interested in the fight. I think Sean, if he He didn't keep it up and standing. I think he outstrikes him, but it's a tough one. But, yeah, the other stuff, yeah, I don't need all the chirping.

It's funny that you mentioned pride there because when I first started, when I first discovered what mixed martial arts was, I started watching pride, and I was just obsessed. I couldn't believe it. And I remember watching the 2000... Was it 2004 or 2005, Grand Prix, where Shogun, who won it. Were you watching back then?

Yeah.

Who was your favorite fighter back in pride? Because even though I fought him, Vanderlae Silver was one of my favorites. I think he's a bit of a dickhead these days. But But he was one of my favorite Shogun, of course. It was some crazy fights back then.

Yeah. I was always a big fan of Shogun. Yeah, Vanderlae was always high on my list, and Fedor as well.

Yeah, just the absolute violence. All right, well, listen, Jim, thanks for joining us. Bobby Green, it's unbelievable what you've done, man. It really is. You have to see 100, 200, and 300. Congratulations on a great career. Congratulations on Saturday. Thanks for your time again today. And we'll let you get back to making the world a better place, chopping down trees, growing free range vegetables, donating to charities. Is there anything this man can't do?

Win over DC. That's what I'm doing.

There you go. We're going to do it. We're going to do it. All right, buddy. Thanks again. Take care. Have a good one, Mike. All right, today's episode is brought to you by 8 Sleep. Let me tell you right now, I love this product, okay? You will love it, too. If you give it a try, you will not be disappointed. The high-tech solution to your age-old sleeping issues is here, provided by 8 Sleeps pod cover. It's a cover which slips right over the mattress, and unless you heat it or cool it on either side of the bed. In my house, it's fixed. A big problem. I was always too hot. Rebecca's always too cold. You can set it as low as 55 degrees on your side. If you're a mental patient like my wife, you could have it as high as 110 110 degrees on the other side. I don't know why you would want it 110 degrees, but hey, whatever floats your boat. So you will sleep fantastically. Sleep science has shown that in order to get your best sleep, the body temperature needs to drop in the early and the middle part of the sleep, and then it needs to rise in the morning.

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Dude, you'd be hard-pressed to find one.

Hard to find. I'm telling you, what a guy. We said that on Monday, we were joking, saying he's probably out there doing something wholesome. And showing off, yes, he was. That's interesting that he's trained for Bobby Green three times. He just had a hard fight. But even though it's a fight like that, he got to round three before he got the submission. You still are throwing kicks. Anytime you throw a kick and When you just land on somebody, it still hurts you. Sometimes you can kick an elbow, you break little metatorcils in the foot or things like that. There's still a tremendous amount of impact on Jim's body. What all he's going to do, rest up, jump in that ice bath maybe once or twice, and off he UFC 300. Let's go. We got a few minutes before Alexander, the Rocket, Rackage, joins us. Harrington, throw me a subject.

All right. Well, since we just had Jim Miller talking about UFC 300. We're about to have Alexander Racketj talking about UFC 300. I figured this one made the most sense. Tom Espanol says that he would welcome a fight at UFC 300 against Alex Pereira if that's what Pereira wants to do. But he's He's making it clear that he's not a weight bully, and he's not calling him out. But if Pereira makes that challenge, he would accept it.

Well, I'm like, Listen, of course Tom fancies that. You can't go and bully someone and say, I'm not a bully. You know what I mean? That's like saying, No disrespect, but go fuck yourself. Do you know what I mean? And then continue to disrespect them. No. Do you know what Tom said this back in New York? He said, Just the way that Pereira was looking at it, he wants it. I think Pereira said that he would fancy it, right? Over the last couple of months or whatever it's been. Don't think that's going to happen. But I tell you what, would you be intrigued?

I mean, I could not think of a more fitting thing for UFC 300 than somebody attempting to become a three-weight division champion for the first time in UFC history. So just for storyline alone, yeah. And I mean, obviously, anytime Tom Asperal steps in, I'm intrigued. Anytime Alex Praira steps in, I'm intrigued. I don't know. It seems to make the most sense, especially given the gaping hole we have. I mean, this is a stacked card what we have so far, but that top of the card could use a little bit of spice.

Well, let me tell you this, because a lot of people, and by the way, listen, yeah, table money. I'd love to see it. Would it last long? That's no disrespect to Pereira. Tom Aspino is a smart guy. He knocked out Serge Pavlovitch. He's a finishing machine. He can also wrestle like a maniac. He take it down. I think he'd balling pretty easy just with the size of the strength. Tom Aspino is gigantic. But changing subjects slightly on that. I see it on Twitter, people are bitching about UFC 300, and I think they're out of their mind. When they did these analysis, they were like, Oh, what's this? What's this? We're waiting for this big announcement. Every single one of these fights could be a main event. Jim Miller, and don't start with the company man bullshit. This is facts. Jim Miller, Bobby Green, on a fight night, that's a main event and a sensational fight. Former champ, Figaredo, Well, taking on former champ, Cody Garbrandt. Brilliant. Bo Nickel, one of the brightest prospects in all of combat sports, taking on Cody Brundage, which is the next logical match up for him. It's a step up the totem pole on the peck in order.

Calvin Cater, fan favorite at featherweight. Former champion, Alderman Sterling moving up a weight class. Brilliant fight. Intriguing fight. Yuri Prohaska, former champion, taking on one of the top light heavyweights who's returning. His last fight, he former champion, Jan Blerowicz. Rakic, joining us in just a second. Number one contender match up at 155 pounds. Former champion, Charles Oliver, taking an arm and saw Rukian. Tell me, that's not a ridiculous fight. Justin Gagey versus Max Holloway for the BMF. But we haven't even spoke about that. We didn't talk about that on Monday, did we? Why is that not in the notes, Harrington?

It's the first thing in the notes.

But why didn't you bring it up sooner? We'll get into that in a minute. I can't believe. No, it's not. I don't think it is. And then, of course, Zhang Weili taking on Yann Zhaunan. But never mind that. Look at this. Look at this. It's been a long time since we've spoken, my brother. How are you doing, Alexander?

I'm good. I'm good, my brother. Long time, no see. Happy to see you.

Long time, no see indeed. Last time we did see you was against Jan Blerowicz in the octagon, of course. You blew your knee out. What was the injury there?

Completely ACL, torn and menisk.

Right. Oh, shit. Oh, well. You're back. You're better. You're healed, you're rested, you're hungry. You're in Vienna right now?

Yes. Better than ever.

That's where you live, Vienna?

Yes, I live in Vienna. Yeah, I'm born there. I live there. I train there. I've been overseas as well to train. A lot of places training, but I have a very good training We're going to have a lot of winners here. Spark partner is going to come.

Nice. So what have you been doing since we last saw you? We'll talk about the fight with Yuri in just a minute. In your personal life, you've been good. Anything new in your world?

No. I mean, it was a hard time. Of course, one and a half years is a long time. I've been working on my rehab and working on my skills when I was able to train again, like the boxing, kickboxing, all martial arts, and I'm improving constantly. I took my time. It's God will. It needed to be happened because this showed me my patience to be calm, calm I think this is the one thing what was missed in my career, to stay calm. If we are talking, let's say, example, before the Jan fight, I was not calm. Now I do. I believe more in myself, in my abilities. And this calmness just made me a better fighter, better athlete.

Yeah, that's what it's all about. You're I'm over 31 years old, and it took me, I think, until almost the end of my career to master this. Because as you said, the calmer you are, the better you perform. I always say this, when you're in a crazy, frantic state of mind, you're never the best version of yourself in anything, regardless of what you're doing. So if you're going in, fighting the best fighters on planet Earth, and your mind's going a million miles an hour, and you're angry, and you're acting out of emotion, how are you supposed to fight and beat the best martial artist on the planet? No, not possible.

No, you need to be ice cold, no emotions, because if you get emotion and the crowd get under your skin, the opponent gets under your skin before the media or something like that, then you already lost the fight. Because if you are emotional, you don't see the details. And you know it by yourself. One small wrong step, one inch showing border and the fight is over.

Yeah, no, absolutely. So we're going to try and get you mad now, though. We're going to try and bring back the old Alexander Rackage. Come on, buddy. We need a bit of shit talk because normally on Mondays, we have Anthony Smith on here, right? Yeah. And Anthony said to ask you about Yuri Prohaska. He said, because Alex says, and this is not my words, Yuri, if you see this, this is Anthony Smith. I am merely a vessel. Yes. He Alex says that this whole martial artist thing is bullshit, and you will tell us all about it. He said, You don't like Yuri one little bit.

Oh, he's a fake Samurai. He's fake.

Oh, Come on.

No, honestly, I believe he's living this thing, Samurai thing for a couple of years right now, and he's building... Ufc loves this shit to see him like a Samurai, going with a sword, training, hitting the tree, and this and that. It's good, man. A couple of years ago, you didn't know about it. You know how he became Samurai? His coach gave him a book, and he wrote a took 50 pages, and then he became a Samurai. Man, are you joking or what? Stay real. It's okay. They call me Rocket, but I'm not I'm not living like a rocket. I'm not in a lab. I don't like putting something on my... You know what I mean? I don't believe this. Honestly, I don't believe it. He's a great athlete, and maybe he found this thing for himself that worked out very good. Maybe he need also to be more calm because probably he was not calm at a young age. That's what I hear, some bar fights, hooligans, that and this and Because you need to think we are living not far from each other. We are like living two hours by car. It's like maybe from Los Angeles and Vegas, it's this amount.

Manchester to Birmingham is nothing.

Yeah. And you have some friends, and from them, the friends are talking, I hear about that. I only hear things. I don't nothing, it's 100 %. But those stories don't came up like normal.

Yes. So it was Anthony that told me to ask that. To be fair, and I don't know, but I think a lot of mixed martial artists, I mean, I was wild when I was younger. Anthony Smith was. He's been very open about that. And Yuri, I think he's even told us. I think he told us once at fight meetings when he was younger, some crazy wild street fights and things like that. He's living in the Czech Republic, bro. That's a tough place.

Yes, it is.

We all grow as people.

Like you said now, 100 %. I myself, I was also in the park in the streets, I fought my ass off there. I had also my things. But sport saved my life. Sport saved me from... I grew up in Vienna, not the best place where a lot of crime is drugs, gangs, blah, blah, blah. But coming back for this Samurai thing, probably he found his way to calm down, to get away, and to not be aggressive like he used to be. That's good for him, but let it be for him. Don't publish so much. I'm getting tired of this.

Is there a little bit of tension between you two? I'm sensing a little bit.

Yeah, it could be. We are just figuring out who the king of Europe is. It will be a very good fight because he's a very competitive, attractive fighter with a lot of hype on it, very unique style, and even the look. So he's like to see. After Jan pulled out, for me was only one name that I want to fight, and that's Yuri Prohaska.

Yeah, and it makes sense. And it's a huge fight card, and it's great to have you back, Alex. I love watching you fight. It was a knee injury to Jan Blerowicz. Other than that, you've only got one loss in the UFC.

And this was split decision, they robbed him.

They passed it. The judges did it again against Volkanouj Demir.

Like Dana said, never leave it to the judges that he is 100 % true. But if I rewatch the fight, he will... But anyways, two Two losses in UFC. One, I got dropped, one, I got injured. If I can decide to lose a way, if I can decide how I want to lose, I would never going to choose to be injured. But if they give me a loss, only robbery. So basically, I'm unbeaten in the UFC. Nobody beat me.

All right, there it is. Alex, the unbeaten racket. You got to change the name.

Yeah, true.

Alex, the unbeaten.

I have a couple more years.

They say, never let it go to the judges. Nobody's letting it go to the judges. We're all trying to finish our opponents. It's just hard when you're fighting really good guys. Real quick before we talk about your approach, what do you think of Jury's performance against Herrera back in Madison Square Garden?

Honestly, until he got knocked out, for me, he was winning the fight. Good first round He took him down. He took some calf kicks. He took some... But with Alex, he's very experienced, and he kept calm. He didn't panic. Even he came into the second round knowing that he lost When he was the first, he didn't panic. And that shows you how experienced this guy is. Like I said, until the finish, for me, was Yuri the better man. But like I said before, one small inch, one small step, one small wrong one thing, and then this. When the fight got ended, I was surprised because I thought it's an early stoppage because Yuri came up really fast after he land on the ground and Alex over him on the mount, I think. So for me, it was a little bit early. But then later on, Yuri said on his social media that it was okay. So when he says it's okay, then for me, this is over.

I think everybody did. I was there in the crowd, and I remember thinking, Whoa. Mark Godard is an old friend of mine, and I was like, That was a bad stoppage. But then Yuri came out and he was like, No, I was out. I thought that was very honorable. That is something that maybe a Samurai would do.

You're always bringing that.

I'm joking. I'm No, he was hats off.

He was honest. He said that. I don't know if I would say that in that situation right now, but maybe he said that in the cage after he got knocked out. He still don't remember anything. But later on on the social media, he told us again. So he was honest. It He will come back 100%. He's still young. He's the same age like me. So I think we're going to be in the top for a while.

Magabed and Ancaleya have got a big win at the weekend. Looks phenomenal against Johnny Walker. Looks like he's probably going to face Pereira next. What do you think about that?

Very good fight for the division. Ancalyev looked good. First round, you can give it Walker. You could. But I think Walker was thinking with his style, the axed kicks and the spinning back kicks and the capoeira shit to put Magomed out of balance, to get emotional. But you can't do it with Magomed. He's also an experienced guy. But I was a little bit sad about the performance of Walker. I think he didn't even throw one proper right-hand. Probably he going to fight Pereira, and I see a slight advantage for Anca Live in that fight.

Yeah. So do you think if you beat Yuri Prohashka, you could be next? Because your record is phenomenal, as we said. If you beat Yuri, a former champion, and then if Magamed beats Herrera, just playing matchmaker here. Who else is there? Is there anyone else that has a real wrong claim? It's Hill.

Hill is here. Of course. But I don't know how long he going to take for recovery. Because this Achilles, it's a very serious injury. They call it also career-ending injury, so you never know. But I think Hill will come end of this year, probably. But I believe if I finish Jury or put a great performance on UFC 300, it doesn't matter if it's a finish or a three-round domination, I would be in the title picture. And of course, if I look good.

Yeah. Well, you always look good, buddy. You're always fun to watch. And I guess we'll see how all of that stuff plays out. For people that don't know you, Alex, talk to us. Where did you grow up? What was life like for you when you were younger? Give us a bit of your background, a bit of your story, if you don't mind.

No problem. I was born in Vienna. My parents are from Serbia, and I'm fighting also from Serbia. Serbia is not far away from Austria, like five hours. I've spent a lot of time there, and I feel like a true Serbian. But I'm very thankful that I grew up in Vienna and Austria because my parents moved When the war starts from '90 to '95, they move to Vienna. So as a kid, I was always hyperactive. Kids, I was always searching for action, fights, everything. I played soccer until '13, and then I was too violent in the games, so the coach kicked me out. And then there were a kickboxing gym five minutes from our place where we lived. So I started kickboxing with '13. With '14, I had my before my first match. I did kickboxing six years until I was 19. I did like some 30 or 40 fights, Austrian champion, and I did also some pro fights. Then kickboxing was also to Too boring for me, so MMA was the next thing. With 19, I switched to MMA, and immediately in that time, 2011, there were no amateurs. So you go in right away pro.

You fight right away pro. So I fought pro. I lost my first fight because of the lack of grappling. Then I focused on the grappling, and then I put one win after the other. But growing up in Vienna, you have 23 districts in Vienna. So every district has his own mentality, an old culture. So I grew up in the 16 districts where a lot of immigrants are living, like Serbians, Croatians, Bosnians, Turks, now Arabs. And a lot of cultures together live, there's always some trouble. So on a daily basis, I had fights. I saw someone got stabbed. I saw drug selling. I saw that and that. So you don't know when you don't see it. And a guy, maybe in America, if you tell him Austria, Vienna, it's beautiful culture. Yes, it is.

To me, because I've never been there and I'm really looking forward to going. In my mind, I think Vienna. Wow, beautiful. So rich in culture and museums and classical music and stuff like that. That's the image that I have. But you're saying, yeah, maybe that's there, but there's another- It's 100 %.

You have right. It's 100 %. We have all these things, but you have always a dark side as well.

It's like Americans. Americans think, and I say Americans, some people, they have this image of England that everyone's very posh and proper and very well-spoken and all the rest of it. I'm like, Dude, come up north. Do you know what I mean? Even in London. And as you say, with the immigrants, I mean, listen, it's a real tough situation because it's the same in the States right now and all over the world. It's a real messed up situation. But these people are desperate. You know what I mean? Yes, 100 %. And it's just desperate people do desperate shit. So, dude. So you Oma Hasca?

Yes.

How are we getting this done? What is the prediction for you?

I know. Honestly, I know you don't want to hear this, but I was so- No, I want to hear it. No, I was out for a long time, and in April, almost two years that I didn't fight. So let me talk into the cage. Let me talk in a cage. Let me with my fist, with my kicks, with my elbows. And let me show that I got better from the last fight. And let me show the Rocket 3.0, 3.0, please.

Yeah, I love that. I love that because when was it? Let me just look right here. It was 14th of May, 2022. Yeah, it's going to be two years. That's a long time. Do you feel like you've got to reintroduce yourself because the sport is getting bigger and bigger all the time? Yeah.

I need to remind the people in the UFC who the Rocket is to put explosive kicks, good wrestling, good grappling, to show them that I'm the best all-rounder in the division, and I truly believe that I am because I'm working hard on every aspect of the game. I don't want to mention any names in the division, but there are some really lacks of grappling, wrestling, or striking. And I'm a complete version. I think next to Anca Live, he is also very complete. Me and him are the most completely guys. So that's the reason I need to show this on UFC 300. And what a better way to have a comeback on this card, man. I was so happy, and I'm so glad. And I thank UFC, thank Mike Maynard for giving me this opportunity against a former champ, Yuri Prohaska. I'm so motivated. I want only to fight, and I want only... And some people are going to say, Yeah, you didn't fight for two years. You have Ringros, and this, fuck that. You are going to have ring-ross if you believe it. If you don't believe it, you're not going to have it.

Yeah, that's what a lot of people say. They say it's a mental thing, and it all comes down to the amount of sparring that you do. And I'm assuming you do a lot of sparring, Alex.

I spar really hard. I love hard sparring. I spar 18-ounce gloves, sometimes double shin pads.

Interesting. Sorry, Or you can go harder. You put on huge gloves, 18-ounce, and double shin pads.

Yes.

I like that. I've never heard of that before, but it sounds obvious.

Yes. I mean, for striking, for hard kicks, for hard punches. And if you wrestle with the big gloves, you have a big thing. What you can't use is your hands, the grappling. But what you need to use is the other part of the body, the forearms, the shoulders, the hips, the knees. So if you get used to wrestling and grappling with the big gloves, of course, I spar also with small gloves. But if you get used to the big gloves, and then when you switch off, and then you have this big tool, the hands, it's an extra gift. So this is my thinking of that.

Yeah, you're smart because you're putting yourself at a handicap. And then when you get the small gloves on. It makes everything way easy. It's like tie boxes. Tie boxes, of course, they got the big gloves on, but they have tremendous clinch work and foot sweeps and things like that, and they do all of that. As a man that's Austrian, that's Serbian, That's speaking to me in English. Europeans generally put the Brits to shame because you speak multiple languages. How many languages do you speak? I feel like it's three.

Yes, it is. I speak Serbian, I speak German, and I speak English. But former Yugoslavia had eight countries. So if I tell you that I understand Croatia and speak Croatian, speak Bosnian, speak Serbian, speak.

You're just showing off now.

Brother, it's the same language. It's English and English in the States. It's just a dialect. So three.

These Viennians, they're normally so humble. How do you say Q Harrington in Serbian?

What? Q?

Yeah, Q Harrington. Harrington is our producer. That's what everybody says when they send them a question. It's just a joke.

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Serbian, I would have thought that was Russian.

It's similar, yes. Some words are... I mean, not some. A lot of words are very similar. And when they talk, some kinds I understand, maybe 40 %, 50 %.

Yeah. I always say I'm going to learn another language. I pick it up pretty easy, but then I never stay there for long enough or whatever. Speaking of Harrington, Yerbeser Harrington, get on. Was that good? Was that right?

Yerbeser.

Yerbeser. Yerbeser. Yerbeser. Do we have any I have some questions on Twitter for the Rockies?

Yeah, we have a couple, but can I just say for the believers out there, send that in, dude. Just hit me with that. I won't even be a little bit offended. I love it. That's a beautiful language. Okay, so BanksHorse wants to know, do you think Blockovich or Yuri is the tougher fight?

It's a very good question. If you're asking me, Physically-wise, physically, it's harder for me, Jan Blachovitch. Style-wise, going to be harder, Yuri.

Interesting. You know what? I've got a quick question. Stay on, Hamilton. You don't have to jump I'm thinking before I ask this question, because I don't want to be insensitive. Anthony Smith, you've shared an octagon with him. You know how capable he is. He's a great fighter.

Yes, it is.

And as fighters, we have ups and downs and all the rest of it. Would you have any words of advice for Anthony Smith right now?

I would love that he comes to Vienna and we can train together and share the mat together. I think he can learn from me and I can learn from him because everybody knows anything, and he's a great guy. I like him a lot. No, I don't think. I know that he's going to come back on this winning streak because he still has the fire in it. But talking about the last fight, it was a short notice fight and against a very unique fighter that you really need the to get ready for it.

Yeah. I've got one question to follow up. Can I come with you? Because I want to go to Vienna. Yes, please. I want you to show me around. I don't know about how much training I'll do. I will. I'll train. I'll come in. I've still got it, kids. But I want to believe you meet special to Vienna. Yes, please. That sounds amazing.

Please come. We can organize after the fight, after my fight, you and Anthony for a week. We can train. We can have some time together I'll show you Vienna, I'll show you some things outside of Vienna, beautiful. Probably if you want, we can go also to Serbia. It's only five hours by car. You eat some very good food.

I don't want to put any extra pressure on you. If you win, we'll do this. If you lose, it's off the table.

No, let's go. I'm 100% in.

That gives us a good to come and visit a beautiful place. Harrington, what else do we have?

All right, this is a pretty silly one. Jim Miller was the other guest on this episode, and Carl Heward wants to know, how many Jim Millers do you think you could beat at one time?

I apologize.

Oh, my. No, this man is a legend, man. Correct. I respect him 100%, and I can't answer this because maybe he's He's submitting me in five seconds. You don't know.

He would submit, brought Lesnan with a camora. That's what he said. Alex, you got one more, Hamilton?

Yeah, so I just thought this one from Skuzski was interesting. You've had nearly two years out of the octagon by the time you fight at UFC 300 here. What have you been doing the past the time?

Recovering, watching a lot of fights, studying the fighting game and training when I was able to, all martial arts. And what I found a new sport for me is bicycling. I bought a very good, nice bike in the Sometimes on the road, it's very good for my head to just not think. This is the first thing what I learned, what I figured out for me that when I'm doing that, I don't think on anything. Because if you do MMA, if you do any martial, you always need to think the next steps. So on this, I just drive and I'll think. And this I've been doing.

Yeah. No, it's good to clear the head. Cleared the head and just be alone with your thoughts and things like that. A hundred %, yeah. All right, well, listen, talking of being alone, we will leave you alone. Alex, really appreciate your time, brother. It's been a long time since we spoke. I'm a big fan of your work. I cannot wait for the comeback. It's going to be a great fight, and I wish you nothing but all the big success. So thank you, Alex.Thank you, Mike.

Take care. Thank you, Mike, and see you in Vegas.

See you in Vegas, buddy. All the best. Thank you. There he is, the one and only, Rocket. Another nice guy.

Very much so. Very respectful. How many guys who would come on here who would be like, Yeah, I could take three Jim Millers. It's like he shut that down instantly. Very respectful.

I'm not giving you shit, Harrington, but I put the tweet out And believe it or not, I do visit the tweet and see what the responses are. I saw that one. I shimmied right past it. I'm like, We're not asking that. We've been through that. We had that. And Harrington just zeroes in on it straight away. Of course. It is the first number one, sorry. You're absolutely right, Harrington, in the notes. There it is. You were correct, and I apologize. Ufc 300, of course, Jim Miller and Bobby Green. We spoke about that. Justin Gagey taking on Max Holloway. I was a little surprised. Obviously, we just had Islam recently put that tweet out saying Justin Gagey, June 8, I think he said, and now it's taking on Max Holloway. I don't want to be disrespectful to Max Holloway because the man's an absolute legend. But I think most people are probably going to favor Justin Gagey in that matchup, even though Holloway is incredible, he's a great striker. I just think, and again, I could be very, very wrong. So it's not like an official prediction, but my initial thoughts when I heard about that is that you probably favor Justin Gagey, given how competent is striking, is how fast, how much he's still improving.

Obviously, that fight with Fzevi looked incredible. Not knocked out Justin Poey in round one. But of course, it's two human beings, two professional fighters. Max Holloway was a dominant champion for a long time, and the second best featherweight on on planet Earth right now. Of course, Ilia Teporia might pip him to that post, if you will, if he beats Volkanovski. In some ways, it's still a little bit of a risk. What do you think?

I don't understand why it's a risk. For me, at least, I guess I understand.

Because if he loses, I guess that takes in the short term, a fight with Mankachev off the table.

For Gechi, you mean it's a risk? Yeah, okay. I thought you were talking about for Hollowway. It's like, Hollowway is the... This is the dream spot for him. Yeah, for Geiji, I don't know. I guess the other alternative is you're just sitting on the shelf for over a year. It's for somebody like Geiji who is in the prime of his career who can capitalize on... He won this BMF title, which everyone was saying is It's as good as an interim title, right? It's a cut the front of the line for the next lightweight title shot. But I mean, we're now being told Ola Vera versus Arman is the number one contender fight. So it's like, where does that leave Justin Gaeci? If he's not going to fight anyone but for the title at 155, what else are you going to do? If anything, this is... We've seen Max Holloway at Lightway before. To me, he does not belong at Lightway. His boxing is extremely crisp. He can do X, Y, and Z, but he does not have the most power, even at 145. So now going up against these 155-ers, it's like, I don't know.

To me, this is the best way for Gece to stay active.

Yeah, I guess, and this is just my assumption, which, of course, can always be wrong, I assumed that Oliver and Sal Rykian will be fighting for the number one contender spot after Gece. Because I feel like most people I expected Gagey to fight Makhachev, so I just assumed that. Maybe that's incorrect, but I would have thought in the meantime, in the interim, Makhachev and Gagey fight, and the next contender will be Arman or Olivera. And you're right. Look, listen, this is why people love Max Holloway so much. He's gone up to lightweight before against Dustin Poirier to fight for the interim belt. He wasn't successful when the distance with Poirier. But Gagey, he's bigger, he's stronger. I don't think he'll wrestle because he just never does. But he has that in his back pocket if he wants to. I don't think Holloway would be successful. And again, I'm not saying this as like I'm ripping on Holloway, far from it. I'm just looking at the facts. I don't think Holloway would be successful with a takedown approach, and that's not his style anyway. That's not what he goes for. And even at 145, as you mentioned, he's more of an accumulator.

He wears people down, and that's when he gets to finish his in the later rounds. He He's not a one-punch KO guy. So on paper, it seems like a tough matchup, of course. On the flip side of what I was just saying, yeah, there's nothing to lose for Max Holloway, because Holloway is in a tough situation. I don't think there's a massive outcry for the fourth fight right now with Volkanovski. And I guess Holloway, in some ways, maybe might hope that to Portia dethrones Volkanovski, of course, because then that opens the door for him to make a return. So, yeah, I guess he's just staying active, taking on big fights, trying to become a BMF, taking on tough challenges. That's what it's all about. When it's all said and done, When you retire as a fighter, you want to look back and be like, You know what? I had the big fight. I took on the tough challenges. I tested myself. It's no fun going out there and having fights that you know you can win. Don't get me wrong, there's one side of it that's fun. You get paid, you get that rush of being a winner, you get the applause from a certain subsect of fans.

But one could say that that's being a bully, like a Tom Aspinal taking on Alex Pereira. Most fights You go in there and you don't know if you're going to win. And this will be one of those situations for Max Holloway, which is, again, why I respect him so much for taking this fight, because that's going to be one of these situations where it's like, shit. On paper, everyone says, I lose this So I'm going to work my ass off. I'm going to prepare accordingly. I'm going to do everything I can. I'm going to make the reads. I'm going to study his fight, and I'm going to come up with a tremendous game plan, and I'm going to get the win. But that's a very risky move. Granted, if he loses, he doesn't drop down in anybody's respect, I don't think. I think he's standing at 145, will not be affected at all. I think it's a fun fight for the fans. It's an incredible addition to UFC 300. A BMF belt, strawweight belt. Yeah, initial thoughts on that, Harrington.

Well, I mean, for Max, he fits the descriptor perfectly. What's more BMF than being like, Okay, I'm 0-1 at lightweight, but I'm going to go up and face maybe the most dangerous, hardest hitting, the human highlight reel, Justin Geisha. I don't know. Certainly, he qualifies just accepting the fight. He qualifies the fight for the belt. But on the flip I do have an issue with just one thing you said there. It could affect his standing at 145 in the sense that if Ilyia Teporia does get this win against Volkanovski, it would make sense that Max would be the next in line. If he gets stopped by Justin Geci, that's probably no longer the case.

No, that's a fair point. That is actually a fair point because I forgot that. That fight is taking place before. That's going down, what is it, next month? Yeah, next month. In your backyard? I'll be calling that one. Yeah, in my backyard. And you're absolutely right. Yeah, that's a very good point because if he beats Volkanovski, what do you think? Do you think they would do an immediate rematch? Because generally, people that have defended the belt as long as bulk, sometimes they do. And it wouldn't be a shock if they did. But if they didn't, the next person will be Max Holloway, Ilia Teporia as a matchup that's phenomenal for Max Holloway in terms of in a personal situation. It's incredible. Finds himself back fighting for the belt again. So yeah, you're right. There's definitely a risk there. In fact, there's a huge risk because I think generally, I think the general consensus would be if you ask people to choose right now, they will probably say Justin Gagey for all the reasons that we just spoke about. And one thing, I saw a meme doing the rounds when it first got announced. Will this be the end of Max Holloway's legendary chin?

Because when you go through Justin Gagey, 25 wins, 20 knockouts. Knocked out, Dustin Poey. Raphael Fazeev, busted him up pretty good. Didn't get the knockout, but he busted him up well. Michael Chandler, Fight of the Year. Incredible performance. An absolute bro. Tony Ferguson. That was the beginning of the end for Tony Ferguson. Donald Cerroni. Was that the beginning of the end? I don't know, but he knocked him out in stunning fashion in round one. Edson Barboza, round one. James Vick, oh, James Vick. That knockout over him. One punch, boom, just sat him down. That was amazing. Michael Johnson in his UFC debut after getting pieced up a little bit at the beginning And he found the range, got the stoppage in round two. So I saw this meme, yeah, and the question is, will this be the end of Max Holloway's legendary chin? And that could be another potential risk.

Yeah, I mean, somebody like Max Dating back to, what is it, six, seven years ago now, when you called him out heading into the thing. I've had that on my radar since then. When is Max's chin finally going to get cracked? And it's like, now you're going in there against the guy who that's all he does to be. And it's like, that is... It's absolutely terrifying. And the fact that Alexander Volkanovski was saying, please don't let Ilyott to poria fight Max Holloway. You know what I mean? He asked to keep him away from Holloway. And it's like you're putting yourself in potential danger. But I mean, that is, I guess, where you do get legends from. Because if Max Holloway can somehow find a way to get this done against Justin Gechi, a whole new world is opened up.

This is why, again, you got to love Max, because remember, I think it was when the whole Connor and Habib thing went down, I think it was, Max Holloway stepped up on short notice. Was it then?

I believe, actually, it was when Tony Ferguson got hurt, but I- No, you're right.

It was. It was, yeah. And Holloway stepped up, short notice, withdraw from the fight. What happened? Was it the wake-up or something like that?

It was the wake-up. Yeah, he had a medical issue during the way cut.

Yeah. And then who stepped in? Alaia Quinter. And Alaia Quinter actually gave Habib a pretty decent fight, if I recall. Well, he did. I do recall it. I remember it- Went the distance? When the distance and did all right, was able to stop the takedowns. And we saw the Khabib striking. We saw him using that jab. The very, very good effect. But listen, first and foremost, you just got to say respect, Max Hollow. Absolutely respect. Stepping up against Habib. The people that he's beaten, you forget. You forget because when you think of Max Holloway now, you think about, Yeah, okay, he lost three times to Alexander Volkowsky. But when I go down, I'm scrolling down to it here, Shanksung Jung retired him Singapore. Arnold Allen ended his 11 fight streak. Jair Rodriguez, who was the interim champion recently, beat him. Kelvin Keita, I'm the best actor in the UFC bra. Frankie Edgar stopped Brian Ortega, stopped Jose Aldo two times in a row, stopped Anthony Showtime-Pettis, Ricardo Alamos at UFC 199. Remember that fight where they just pointed at the ground? Well, Hauleway pointed at the ground, said, Come on, let's do this. Let's throw down.

I mean, that's legendary shit. Jeremy Stevens beat him, has a win over Charles Oliveira, a TKO in round one. Cub Swanson, guillotine joke, Cole Miller, Akira Kana-sana. You got to go all the way back to Conor McGregor. I mean, you want to talk about a legendary career, and a man that has gone out there, defended the belt. God, how many times did he defend? So he won the belt from Joe... No, he won the belt of Anthony Pettus, the interim, unified against Jose Aldo, defended against Jose, beats Brian Ortega, fought for the interim, lightweight belt, tried to become a double champ, lost, defended again. So he defended one, two, three, four times. He defended the featherweight belt four times then lost to Volkanovski. I mean, unreal. Unbelievable. Love that guy.

He's had an absolutely incredible career, and this I'm for this. I'm glad he's on 300.

No, me too. You didn't do a good enough job of shit during the DC thing with Jim Miller. I'm just going to throw that out there. You were too polite.

I was. I found the quote just a little bit too late for that one, so my bad.

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I'm always a fan of Polyana Viana, Mike.

Who's she going up against? Oh, Gillian Robertson. There you go. So that's Brian's somewhat unexpected choice.

No, I think it's Arnold Allen. Who's he fighting? Mossvar. Mossvar. Yeah, I think that fight is be a banger. All right. Stole your pick, Harrington.

There goes my first and second pick. You know what? I'm just going to say the fight that I'm most excited for on this whole card, Mike Malott in Canada. The people go crazy for that guy. Remember when the stanchion for the barricade fell off? Last time that guy was making the ring walk in Canada, I feel like the crowd is going to go absolutely nuts for him. This is a big spot against Neil Magne. So, yeah, I'm high for this one.

Yeah. Well, let's start the main card. Arnold Allan, Mofsa or Evloiv. Love Arnold Allan, love what he's done. Rebounding off that lost to Hollow Way and taking on Mofsa, he was 17 and all. Stylistically a tough matchup, a Russian boxer, great strike, and decent subs as well. I got to go with Arnold Allen now. I'm a big fan of the Almighty one. Arnold's great. What do you think?

This is a situation where I would like Arnold Allen to win, but he's fighting a guy whose last name ends in O-V or Evy. Close enough.

Brother, at the time, they talk like this. You know it's very bad situation. You're in trouble. It's number one bullshit.

That's how I see it. That's how I feel about it.

Diego Lopez nearly caught him, though, several times in submissions when he took him down because he wasn't like him what was going on on the feet. Arnold on the feet is very slick. He's got good box and he's got big power. He's a ridiculous athlete as well. Maybe I'm just trying to will it into existence, but as I say, my pick is Arnold.

I'll tell you right now, Movesar Ivalov, he's a favorite in this fight. If this fight happened before Arnold Allen fought Max Holloway, Arnold Allen would be like a minus 150, minus 170 favorite. So I feel like the reason that he's an underdog is because everyone has the Holloway fight in his mind. And Holloway just makes people who are very, very good look average. So I'm going to say Arnold Allen is a good spot here.

Holloway makes them hollow. There's going to be some play on words there.

Yeah, he hollows them out.

Chris Curtis, the actionman, taking on the power bar, Marc-Andre Barriol. I think Curtis is faster. I think he's more powerful. Andre Barriot is a good fighter. He's Canadian. He's going to have a crowd on his side. He's going to want to go out there, put on a big performance. Chris Curtis, though, he's proving that he can beat these guys that aren't the top dogs, so to speak. He lost to Gastilum in a close fight, and yeah, granted, Gastilum has lost quite a bit. Jack O'Manson, lost to him. Other than that, he's had some great wins. Jack O'Manson was a weird fight, that one. I called it in London. I think Chris Curtis has the tools, the speed, and the striking to get this one done.

I think, wasn't Chris Curtis on four days notice for that fight, too. I feel like he was supposed to fight Darren Till, maybe, right? And then Chris Curtis came in last minute. If I'm remembering that correctly, because there was rumors Darren was going to be in his corner, again, could be 100% wrong on this. But yeah, I agree, dude. I think Mark Andre Barriold, he lands six strikes per minute, but he eats another five. And the way Chris Curtis lands on people with Mark's level of defense, I don't know, dude. He finds good counter shots. I feel like he has the power to put him down. I'm going to go with Chris Curtis on this one.

With double the professional fights or more than double the professional fights, I would say that he probably has a little bit of edge and experience. Let's go with that. It's all back Chris Curtis.

That's a great, logical, I haven't done my research answer. It was great. It was. You know what I mean? That's what you do. You piggyback, Oh, yeah, great, guys. I actually like that. That's a great point what you made there. I'm good at bullshit. No, of course. Half of this job is just bullshitting your way through life. You know what I mean? Because I was talking to Callum as well because he was like, he's trying to find a job and all the rest of it. And he's like, there's some jobs in sales. He's like, I don't know anything about sales. I said, Do you think I knew anything about commentating or working on TV when I started? You know what I mean? You fucking learn. You get on with it. You dig your heels in, you get stuck in, you figure it out. I said, And if a last resort, you just bullshit your way through it. He goes, Yeah, I'm pretty good at that. I said, Yeah, that's life, bro. You're bullshit your way. You fake it until you make it.

That's how we're here now.

Yeah, dude. Just tell him about how great you were at door-to-door sales, dude. Just give him a little pep talk.

I don't think he's doing door to door, though. Neil Magnet, Mike Mallard. Mike Mallott, keeping out on that name, 10 and 1, all stoppages, free athlete, great submissions, great striking, all finishes, as I said, in the US CFC and throughout his career. Neil Magnet, we love the guy. How can you not like him? He's a fan favorite. Miles on the clock, very tall, very long, very experienced. I think this is a springboard potentially for Mike Mallott to go out there on a pay-per-view on a main car to get the recognition that he deserves, to turn him into a star, to harness that Canadian fan base. They've given him the opportunity, but he's going to rise to the challenge. They'll set you up like this, but you still got to go out there and beat Neil Magnet. This is not a gimmick. It's a give in terms of opportunity. You know what I mean? But it's now when opportunity knocks, can Mike Malott answer the door? Because if not, Neil Magnet will knock him in the face. But But I do think Mike Malott probably takes this one, certainly after the performance that Neil had against Ian Gary.

Right. It's like Ian Gary was literally sitting there being like, I could have finished him. I just didn't want to take any risk. Mike Malott is not built that way, dude. Mike Malott, he goes for it at all times. The guy is a finisher. He's made that his brand. Neil Magne has the most wins by decision. This ain't goal to be a decision. I'm just I'm going to pick Mike Malott by submission in the second round.

That's very specific. I like Mike Malott in this fight. I don't know how it's going to happen, man. Neil Magne has not impressed me over the past, I don't know, two years.

I think- Everybody- I think- Oh, sorry. No, go ahead.

Sorry, I thought- I was going to say everybody who he's fought with any decent name in the company, he's gotten finished or finished or went to a decision, whatever. He's lost to him. Paul.

I just feel I have to outdo Harrington with his specificness. So I'm going to say, Mike Mallott, first minute of round three. It's going to be 47 seconds into the round. He's going to give him a beat down in round two. Neil Magnum is going to be on shaking legs. Round three is going to pick it up. He's going to pick it up. Somehow that transition will happen where my A lot will take the back and it will win by a rear naked jump.47 seconds.

You heard it here.47 seconds.

I'm betting that.

That's crazy. You can bet the individual minute that it ends.

Yeah, that must skyrocket your odds. Myra Buena Silva talked about that earlier. I think she becomes the champion. The potential that she defends it for a while, boys, who you got?

Go ahead. I think Raquel Pennington is good in pretty much every aspect of MMA. She's a very well-rounded fighter. It's why she keeps finding herself in the top five and constantly in title contention. Myra Buena Silva is special in a couple of areas, and one of them being, obviously, the Ninja Chokes she got Holly home with. So I'm going to favor Silva in this fight.

And then Giuliana Payna. She will be coming to the forefront. Yeah, and I think that's a big, big threat for her. And then, of course, we've got the main event, Drikus DuPlece, Sean Strickland. The press conference will be It's happening very shortly, actually, so I'll be tuning into that. We picked that. We've all got Drikus. Best of luck to both men. They've made it very entertaining, and that's why I love this sport because of all the unique characters.

Sean is by far my favorite UFC personality in a long time.

I wonder why that is pain.

Hey, man. It's because he's been telling it like it is.

No, he does tell it like it is or how he thinks it is. But I respect his honesty. I do. I love that about the guy.

We're missing a lot of that.

And this isn't anything personal. I just feel when I look at them both as fighters, I lean towards Dreykis and the violence that he's provided. So far, it's been so far, so good, and I think he continues maybe fight Cisrael Adesanya next or Hamza, who bloody knows. But I think there's some fun time for big paydays ahead for Drikus DuPlecey, but got to get through it. Listen, guys, if you got a question, please send them in to bympod@ gmail. Com. The more interesting, the more obscure, the more off the beaten path in terms of questions, the better.

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Nice, Lita.

All right. Our first question here today, you might have to break down the accent here, Mike, but this is from Adam.

What's up, boys? Adam from Gloucester in England here.

A huge fan of the show.

Bitspin, you're the fk man.

You're just awesome, dude. Quick question.

If Dana come up to you, Mike, and offered you a skating job for young British talent in the UK to bring him to the UFC, Would it be something you would consider maybe further down the line?

Also, if you could shout out my brother Stevie.

He's the biggest UFC fan I know, and he loves your show more than anything.

So shout out for him. It'd be awesome. Brian, please bring back Conspiracy Corner weekly.

I love that shit. It's awesome.

And Harrington, thank you, bro.

But you're saying anyway, I quite like you. Yeah. Well, thank you, Adam. We appreciate that, the love and support. And what was it? How do you say in Serbian?.

I think you nailed it.

Yes. I think you are on mute, Harrington. Yes, you're on mute. As I should be. You're on fucking mute. Yes. So now, Joe is for real. Adam, thank you very much. What was his brother? No, that was Adam. What was his brother called?

Stevie was his brother.

Stevie. Shout out, Stevie. Stevie from Gloucet, big fan of BY. You know what? When I went back home to England for Christmas, and this is just like kissing our own asses for a minute, so I apologize. But the amount of people that I bumped into that were big fans of the podcast. So I really appreciate that. It's great. I sound like a wanker now, but when people stop me, Hey, this has been great fight, whatever. Can I get a picture or whatever? I'm always like, Yeah, sure, sure, sure, for the most part, unless I'm in a rush or whatever. But regardless of what I'm doing, if someone says, Love the podcast, boom, you got my attention straight away because I'm like, Wow, that's awesome. You know what I mean? Because obviously, the fights, they're international. Do you know what I mean? They're put on by the UFC. But our little rinky-dink show, if people are like, Oh, no, I love the podcast. We watch it every week. I'm like, Man, come over here. Give me a hug. Give me a kiss. What's your phone number? We should be best friends. What was his name again?

The brother?

Stevie.

Stevie. There we go. Sorry, Stevie. All the best Now, if Dana offer me a job recruiting younger talent in the UK, of course, I would bite his hands off. I would do that in a heartbeat. I do want to get into coaching and stuff like that. I love mixed martial arts, and I know I've been talking to I mentioned it again. We are going to move someplace with land and get all the rest of it. One of the things that I'm going to do is open my own gym on there. It's going to be feeling sick, and I don't know where it's going to be, but local fighters because I'll need something to do. If I'm out in the wilderness and my back is milking cows, I'm going to need something to fill my time with. But that ain't going to be England. But to answer your question, and I do want to do something in the UK, we have UFC gyms, which hopefully Hopefully, we'll be spreading and growing rapidly over the next few years, but there's a great next generation of fires just waiting to be discovered. So there we go. There's the answer.

That seems like the coolest job.

Was that talent scout?

Yeah.

All right. Sorry, we have choices here. There is a vaguely silly question, and then something doubling back to something we talked about last week.

I want the vaguely silly question without question.

All right. Well, you asked for it.

Okay. If you were in a guillotine, would looping your finger up and sticking it in your opponent's ear be a good way to get out of the joke? You weren't kidding. It was a stupid question. But I will say this, it's a very serious man. That's like Brian, the voice of God. If you were in a guillotine with a finger up and put it in their ear. No, it wouldn't. It wouldn't do jack shit. First thing you want to do if you're in a guillotine is fight the hands. You got to grab the hands here and try to separate the grip. If you can grab this part of the thumb here, If you can get it there and start pulling that, then obviously you can start breaking the grip. Another thing what you can do is if you're pulling on the hands here, sometimes you can take this arm, put it under their head, and then you turn on your side and you put a bit of shoulder pressure in their neck as you fight in the hands. And then hopefully, you open the hands, you open one leg, you pass guard, all the rest of it.

I haven't done jiu-jitsu for a little bit. Getting back to it soon. But I'm going to get back to my family. I'm going to get back to my life. I'm starving. I've only had a little bit of fruit and yogurt. And with the ring away, Harrington, big price this weekend. We'll be back on Monday with Anthony Smith going through all of the action at the weekend. So please stay tuned. Subscribe and ring the bell as Harrington said. Enjoy your weekends. See you on Monday.