Episode 31

February 07, 2024

01:06:33

Episode 31, UFC Vegas 86 Pyfer vs Hermansson, Super Bowl LVIII Chiefs vs 49ers, Top 5 Champions, and More!

Episode 31, UFC Vegas 86 Pyfer vs Hermansson, Super Bowl LVIII Chiefs vs 49ers, Top 5 Champions, and More!
Split Decision
Episode 31, UFC Vegas 86 Pyfer vs Hermansson, Super Bowl LVIII Chiefs vs 49ers, Top 5 Champions, and More!

Feb 07 2024 | 01:06:33

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On this episode of Split Decision we recap the exciting start to Apex UFC with Nassourdine Imavov vs Roman Dolidze. We follow up that with our weekly Top 5, and this week its Champions. Afterwords we talk UFC Vegas 86, Pyfer vs Hermansson, and then Huddle up for some Super Bowl football. Lastly we wrap everything up with Stakes and Takes, our betting segment where we give you our best advice for this weeks matchups. Thanks for the listen and don't forget to like and subscribe to stay up to date with all our stuffs!

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UFC Vegas 85: #ufc #ufcvegas85 #thomaspetersen #thetrain #jamalpogues #thestormtrooper #landonquinones #lonewolf #marquelmederos #luanacarolina #dread #julijastoliarenko #leejeongyeong #blakebilder #elanimal #thekoreantiger #thembagorimbo #theanswer #peterodriguez #deadgame #azatmaksum #charlesjohnson #innerG #mollymccann #meatball #dianabelbita #princesswarrior #aliaskhabkhizriev #mahkmudmuradov #gilberturbina #charlesradtke #chuckbuffalo #mach #vivianearaujo #vivi #nataliasilva #randybrown #rudeboy #muslimsalikhov #kingofkungfu #renatocarneiro #moicano #drewdrober #romandolidze #thecaucasian #nassourdineimavov 

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UFC Vegas 86: #ufc #ufcvegas86 #rodolfovieira #theblackbelthunter #armenpetrosyan #superman #michaeljohnson #themenace #darriusflowers #beastmode #bradtavares #gregoryrodrigues #robocop #robertbryczek #ihorpotieria #theduelist #danige #50k #andrefili #touchy #jackhermansson #thejoker #josephpyfer #bodybagz

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[00:00:08] Speaker A: Welcome back to split decision. This week on episode 31, we're gonna recap UFC Vegas 85, Roman Dolize versus Nasardine imovov. Then we're gonna huddle up for Super Bowl 58, the San Francisco 49 ers versus the Kansas City Chiefs. And then in honor of that, we're going to draft our top five champions. And of course, lastly, but not leastly, stakes and takes. That's our betting segment where we give you our best advice for this week's games. But first, don't forget to head to splitdecisionpod.com, where you're going to find all of our episodes, our top fives, a couple t shirts that I designed. All right, that's it. Go to splitdecisionpod.com. Let's go ahead. [00:00:59] Speaker B: All right, so UFC Vegas 85 came and went. Not the most exciting card, but there were some highlights. Alex, tell us how the prelims went. [00:01:09] Speaker A: Prelims were fun. It was week one of ten straight weeks of UFC fights accomplished. [00:01:15] Speaker B: That's something to be thankful for, even though it's not Thanksgiving. [00:01:18] Speaker A: 13 total fights between the prelims and the main card. Kicking off the prelims, there were the lone heavyweights of the whole card, Thomas Peterson and Jamal Pogues. Thomas the train. Peterson and Jamal Stormtrooper Pogues, if you will. I guess you'll understand why. [00:01:35] Speaker B: The train? [00:01:36] Speaker A: Yeah, Thomas the train. It's a good nickname. From the start, it was honestly all the stormtrooper as the train was the droid he was looking for, Pogues earned a decision. [00:01:48] Speaker B: I see what you did there. [00:01:50] Speaker A: I'm trying. [00:01:50] Speaker B: Trooper droid. [00:01:51] Speaker A: I'll learn. Maybe he needs more of a robotic nickname, but I'll get better. Let's go. Pogues won the fight by unanimous decision. Landon Quinonez had a shot at redemption. He's the lone wolf in this fight. He took on UFC debuter Markel Metaros. Quinonez started strong, howling through the first round, but that couldn't last just because Metaros showed who the alpha was, securing the second and third rounds, winning the fight by unanimous. [00:02:24] Speaker B: He's not the pack leader. [00:02:25] Speaker A: No, Metaros is. Man, he took that alpha spot going down to flyweight. But up in excitement, Jalija Stolia Renko debuted in her new division to face. And I'll go out and say it, the overweight luana Carolina. [00:02:40] Speaker B: I mean, you missed weight by what. [00:02:41] Speaker A: Four, four and a half pounds, dude. [00:02:42] Speaker B: Yeah, that's fair. [00:02:43] Speaker A: She nearly lost the fight after suffering a brutal onslaught by stole Arenko early. Unfortunately for us, Carolina showed her dread. Showed stole Arenko her dread, I'll say. Knocking Solarenko out with only 8 seconds to go in the fight. Stalking forward, we move on to Blake L. Animal builder who took on Zhang Yong Lee, the korean tiger. The korean tiger kept builder at bay, utilizing his range and defense to win 30 27 by unanimous decision on all the cards. Because that's what unanimous would mean. [00:03:20] Speaker B: Yeah, typically. [00:03:21] Speaker A: Typically. At least in this reality, somehow not the best fight on the prelims, though. Themba. The answer Garimbo took on Pete. Dead game Rodriguez. [00:03:31] Speaker B: Dead game versus the answer. [00:03:33] Speaker A: This fight took only 32 seconds before Garimbo found the answers and threw a knockout blow to put dead game on the mat. [00:03:43] Speaker B: Yeah, your nickname comes back to haunt you when it has dead in it and you get knocked out, right? [00:03:48] Speaker A: Pete found out the hard way and was left searching for his own know. Found none, of course. Next up we have Azat Kazakh Moxon. God damn, that was hard to say. He took on Charles energy Johnson. The energy had enormous energy where he was put on his heroes early in the fight with Maxim's aggressive. [00:04:11] Speaker B: Positive energy or negative energy? [00:04:12] Speaker A: The first one's a negative energy, but despite that pursuit, Maxim faced Johnson's energy. That would be the positive energy where energy put up 29 28 to score the fight on all three judges scorecards. Another unanimous decision victory. Surprising everybody. [00:04:30] Speaker B: Lot of decisions on this card. A lot of bad nicknames as well. [00:04:33] Speaker A: And probably my favorite fight of the night, a big redemption story headlining the prelims, the fantastic showing. This is a rematch from 2019 ending in the same victory for Molly Meatball McCann. Just different style. The first one was the decision Diana warrior princess Velveeta took on Molly meatball McCann. The meatball rolled into the fight, taking control and dominating strong. She attacked early and often and sent the warrior princess, acting like a damsel in distress late in the round, taking her down. McCann locked in a submission around one. I think that's her first UFC submission. She just had, I think a Polaris submission when she was doing her little. [00:05:20] Speaker B: Campaign to see her win, get her back on the right track. [00:05:24] Speaker A: Yeah, I like it so good. Props to Molly McCann. Let's go straight into the main card. What are we looking at? So let's start. [00:05:31] Speaker B: Main event. De lidze imov. And it was a performance, I wouldn't say a great performance from imov, but I would say anybody watching that fight, except apparently for one of the judges, dude could have easily, I mean easily saw that imov won the fight, was the better fighter. Somehow a judge scored at 47. 47 draw, which I don't know how. So Imov won by majority decision. How'd you see this fight? [00:05:57] Speaker A: Look, and you're right, while it wasn't the best showing from Emovov, it's not. [00:06:02] Speaker B: A performance where it's a good win. But yes, but he's not coming out being like, title shot I deserve. He's going to fight a lower rank guy again, right? [00:06:10] Speaker A: Yeah, and I have questions about that in a minute. But to be fair to Emovov, he put out an excellent first round, an easy ten eight. First round. [00:06:20] Speaker B: Great first round, but he didn't get the finish and he kind of blew his load, it seemed like. [00:06:24] Speaker A: Right. I think that's why it wasn't the great performance we've seen from Emovov in past outings. I think he was kind of gassed. Had to take a round or two to recover because he threw like 115 strikes, honestly. And the ref wouldn't call the fight. [00:06:38] Speaker B: We've seen refs stop it for way less than that. [00:06:40] Speaker A: We've seen refs from that fight card stop it for way less than that. [00:06:44] Speaker B: Props to de lize for staying in there, but yeah, it could have easily been stopped in the first round, but. [00:06:49] Speaker A: Look, delice did hold more total, and then you get the first. [00:06:52] Speaker B: If you would have got the first round stop, then you can say, like, title shot, but because it kept going. [00:06:58] Speaker A: It didn't look, I'll say this was an impressive showing across the board because in the middleweight division, specifically every, we normally talk about who's next, right? I'm having trouble finding out who to talk about for who's next because one. [00:07:15] Speaker B: Through, like, he's not getting the guy ahead of him. They're all booked, right? [00:07:19] Speaker A: One through ten are all booked. [00:07:20] Speaker B: The only fight that makes sense to. [00:07:21] Speaker A: Me is the rematch versus Chris Curtis or Sean Strickland. Since Sean just lost, that's the only opening. [00:07:28] Speaker B: I don't think he's going to get Sean. I think Chris Curtis, it ended in no contest. Head butt, he was winning the fight, but it ended no contest. [00:07:35] Speaker A: Look, that's couple that with the bad blood that imaval was showing in the cage from the. [00:07:41] Speaker B: Because Chris Curtis was in the corner. [00:07:42] Speaker A: Of like Herb Dean was pushing him back, saying, I'll disqualify you if you keep walking to that corner and talking when delete was on that timeout. So that kind of thing I could see the UFC making because it would show to be a high level. I think Chris Curtis, off of memory, he's probably got, I think, 17 kos. [00:08:00] Speaker B: Yeah, he's got a lot ko guy. He's coming off of a pretty good performance. [00:08:04] Speaker A: I would definitely see that fight. Let's go to the comain comaine. Frustrating for me. It really pissed me off because I. [00:08:11] Speaker B: Think we both picked Dober. We both thought Dober could neutralize the ground game and then win on the feet. [00:08:17] Speaker A: And he did a hell of a job getting out of the leg, know, getting back to his feet when he could. But damn, Moikano has some good ground game. I got to give it up to him. It's by all means a fair calling from the judges. [00:08:31] Speaker B: Yeah, unanimous decision. Moikano. [00:08:33] Speaker A: I'm just going to say that Moikano is a cuck for fighting like that. [00:08:36] Speaker B: He's not a cuck, he's just fighting. They say you fight the least possible resistance. That's how you should do it. The easiest way to get the win. [00:08:45] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, he did. He did his job. I respect the hell out of his game. It just aggravated the hell because I was just rooting for Dober on this one. I like Moicano. I like money bags or whatever. They decided they wanted to call him money Moikano. Yeah, that's what it is. [00:08:59] Speaker B: Pfeiffer is money bags. The fight coming up later next week, dude. [00:09:03] Speaker A: But that was also good showing by Morgano. I can't say much about it. [00:09:08] Speaker B: Disappointing from Jude Dober. [00:09:10] Speaker A: Hard to. [00:09:11] Speaker B: It wasn't a horrible performance, but it was just I wanted more from him. [00:09:15] Speaker A: And when you look at the stat, if you purely look at the stat sheet and you see that Moikano hit like 108 out of 145 strikes, most of that was close quarter, non damaging shots like, yeah, of course it weighs over time, but in a close fight. [00:09:30] Speaker B: Like this, yeah, every strike counts. [00:09:32] Speaker A: So I agree that the decision was correct. So who's next? He called out Dan Hooker and Dan Hooke. [00:09:42] Speaker B: I think either one makes sense. Him versus Dan Hooker, I would like. [00:09:45] Speaker A: To see he previously lost to Rafael Fiziev. I think that would be a cool know. See that run also coming off a loss as. [00:09:55] Speaker B: So I think Dan Hooker coming off the injury. Perfect fight for him. [00:09:58] Speaker A: Yeah, he just had surgery. [00:09:59] Speaker B: Jeff Sambachamp. Both guys have. It would be a pretty even fight, I believe two strengths or a stand up guy. A little bit of ground game versus super ground guy. I think that's the fight to make. [00:10:11] Speaker A: Or Jalen Turner is my only other option just because I always want to see the tarantula fight. [00:10:15] Speaker B: Yeah, he's so tall and lanky. It's just always interesting to see how he matches up against everybody. [00:10:19] Speaker A: Yeah, because he can wrestle. But it's also, if Moikano is going to rely on Turner, you can't. He's so long. [00:10:25] Speaker B: He's so long, it's hard. [00:10:27] Speaker A: He can fight any weight class that you ask him to as well, so it's pretty fun. [00:10:31] Speaker B: All right, so let's move on. Next fight. Danny Brown, Muslims. [00:10:35] Speaker A: Danny Brown, Randy Brown. [00:10:37] Speaker B: Randy Brown. Danny Brown, the rapper. Shout out, shout out Muslim. Solikov. [00:10:42] Speaker A: Shout out Muslim. [00:10:43] Speaker B: This might be the most. We had a lot of decision on this card. This one wasn't a decision. It was a brown ko. Maybe the fight. [00:10:52] Speaker A: 317. Three and a half minutes. [00:10:54] Speaker B: Maybe the most exciting fight of the card in that fact that it was a finish and an exciting finish. [00:10:59] Speaker A: This was a cool one. Watching the fight, it looked like Salakov's game plan was strong. Attacking the lead leg with the kicks, getting that damage in early, kind of forcing the shorter guy, the smaller guy with less reach to getting close by, damaging, taking the power away. And then Randy Brown slipped away and just caught him clean. And Solokov just dropped like a sack of potatoes. [00:11:24] Speaker B: Yeah. Rude boy was a sniper out there. It was a good performance from him. Great win for him. Great. It's one that people are going to see. They're going to talk. You know, unlike the main event, it's a win where you can propel yourself, fight somebody better than you. Make the next jump up, who do you see Rainey Brown fighting? [00:11:42] Speaker A: Okay, so it's funny that you say that. Propel yourself up. Yada yada. You know who his call out was? Michael Chiesa. Michael Chiesa was at the fight. They talked about it backstage, and they've already verbally, between the two of them, agreed to it. I personally would like to see him fight Neil Magne or JDM? Jack Della Matalina. I know Jack Della. [00:12:04] Speaker B: They both got fights scheduled already. [00:12:06] Speaker A: Yeah, but this guy just fought two fights and they coming. [00:12:11] Speaker B: Jack is fighting in 299, right? [00:12:13] Speaker A: That's what, a month and a half away? That's no time for a quick recovery from either guy. I think the Kiesa fight is probably going to happen just because they were already both actively talking about it. Kiesa likes to fight, and they're from the same area, so I think that's probably the most likely fight booked. But I would like to see a. [00:12:35] Speaker B: Just don't think. I don't know if that JDM thing is going to work out if JDM wins, I don't think he's fighting Randy Brown? [00:12:40] Speaker A: No, definitely. If he wins, he's not, because he'll be just even higher up the rankings once. [00:12:46] Speaker B: But overall, regardless of any of that, Randy Brown, maybe the most impressive win of the main card. So let's move on to the next fight. [00:12:54] Speaker A: All right. [00:12:55] Speaker B: The only female fight we had out of Julio, out of juro. [00:13:00] Speaker A: Damn, I wish I could roll the r like some people do. [00:13:03] Speaker B: Me, too. That'd be cool. [00:13:04] Speaker A: Look, she lost a closely contested but very clear fight decision loss to Natalia Silva. Silva never stood still, never stopped moving against Vivi. She held good defense against Vivi and her nine takedown attempts. She only allowed her to score one, like one for nine in takedowns against a predominant striker who wins by decision because of her movement and striking skills and being able to kind of tag you and get out of the way. That's very impressive. Judges scored this 129 28 across. [00:13:43] Speaker B: Yeah, I think that's fair. [00:13:44] Speaker A: Yeah. Close fight. But like I said, clear gives her her 11th straight win and her perfect five and O record in the UFC. Who do you think is next for that one? Now, this is another one that pretty much the whole division is booked. You got Blanfield booked. I mean, everybody. I wrote down the names. It was easier to write down the names that were not booked than it was to write in the top 15 that were booked. Tracy Cortez is not booked, which I would like to see that fight just because it would be a banger. [00:14:19] Speaker B: Yeah, let's see that fight. [00:14:21] Speaker A: Alexa Grasso is not booked, which I'm. [00:14:23] Speaker B: Not getting a title. [00:14:24] Speaker A: Right. And Val's not booked. She's not getting Val either, because I think Val and Grasso, after the draw, they're just going to run that back. You kind of have to go one. [00:14:33] Speaker B: She might fight somebody else, but it's not going to be. [00:14:36] Speaker A: I think Tracy Cortez is the fight. [00:14:38] Speaker B: I think Tracy Cortez, that would be the fight to see. [00:14:40] Speaker A: It's honestly the only fight that you can book in the coming, and I. [00:14:44] Speaker B: Think it'd be a close, entertaining fight. As you said, a banger. [00:14:47] Speaker A: A banger. Women fights are always, like. [00:14:49] Speaker B: Both are tough. [00:14:50] Speaker A: Yeah. Like, brutal fights in the UFC, for sure. Just to point it out, we had an eleven second no contest for the Kisriv Murdoch. [00:15:01] Speaker B: We talked about Randy Brown being the most exciting fight. This is the most disappointing fight. Dude, 11 seconds. I was excited for this fight, too. [00:15:07] Speaker A: I was excited, too. And Kizriev walked out. It was, of course, on accident, but Kizriev walked out. And poked him very, very hard in the eye to where Murdov's eye was swollen completely shut. [00:15:20] Speaker B: I hate when they get poked in the eye. [00:15:22] Speaker A: It makes me feel so bad and so uncomfortable. [00:15:25] Speaker B: Remember, everybody just gave Bilal shit. Freaking poked in the eye where his eye closed. [00:15:29] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:15:29] Speaker B: And he was so unlikable, though. Everybody was like, fuck you, Bilal. [00:15:33] Speaker A: Yeah. Don't care that you can't see. We don't like you. [00:15:36] Speaker B: Swollen shut. [00:15:37] Speaker A: Yeah. Dude crying because he thinks he's never going to be able to see again and Twitter's going off like pussy. Yeah. All right, first fight of the main card and last fight, we'll cover broke ass Charlie. I mean, Charlie. Buffalo Chuck. Buffalo Charlie. Radkey. Not broke ass. Sorry. [00:15:55] Speaker B: He's not broke anymore. [00:15:57] Speaker A: He did not win the 50k bonus, so he is kind of broke. [00:16:00] Speaker B: Yeah, probably so. He probably got $20,000 total. [00:16:03] Speaker A: He did hold near perfect striking, even though he was an asshole in the press conference. [00:16:07] Speaker B: Yeah, I mean, he got the first round ko. So overall, if you don't like the guy, that's one thing, but it was an impressive performance from him. [00:16:14] Speaker A: Absolutely. Arbina. He got dropped once, got back up, showed a little bit of poise. It almost looked like a false drop where you get hit, you slip at the same time. But then it was clear that the dude was wobbled. He was just kind of poised after because Radke hit him one more time and it was just like he fell apart. I mean, that was good from Radke capitalizing on a weakened opponent there. Strong power. I want to see him fight. Just he's got to do better in his microphone interactions, if you will, because. [00:16:48] Speaker B: I agree, last fight, he's looking at somebody like Sean Strickland. It's like, do I have to do better? I can just say whatever I want as long as I'm winning these fights. [00:16:56] Speaker A: Yeah, just probably lay off the homophobic slurs at the very probably. [00:16:59] Speaker B: So probably help with getting maybe some sponsorship deals if you lay that off of those. [00:17:04] Speaker A: I don't even have anybody who he could fight. Not low ranking, but he's not up there on the rankings yet. [00:17:11] Speaker B: So if I was him, I'm just looking for another fight where I can. [00:17:14] Speaker A: I'm looking for a quick fight because. [00:17:15] Speaker B: I didn't get damage. [00:17:16] Speaker A: I'm looking to fight before UFC 300. Honestly, if I'm trying where you can. [00:17:21] Speaker B: Have an exciting finish, that's going to be something exciting like that. Keep getting your name out there. That's how you move up. [00:17:26] Speaker A: Yeah, I totally agree. [00:17:34] Speaker B: All right, so this week, in honor of the Super bowl, which crowns the champion of the NFL, our top five is going to be the top five champions. Again, as usual, this is a very open ended top five. Lot of leeway. You can pick anything, but let's jump into it. I think this week is I get the first pick, right, Alex? [00:17:57] Speaker A: Yes, sir. [00:17:58] Speaker B: So this is a hard first pick because there's a lot to choose from. You can go all sorts of ways, but I think my number one is going to be one of the guys that is, at least in american sports, is most synonymous with winning and being a champ and having that killer mindset, that winning mentality. [00:18:18] Speaker A: Jeff Bridges. [00:18:19] Speaker B: My number one is going to be the goat. Michael Jordan won six titles. Six and O in the NBA Finals. He won six for like eight years, two, three peats. I mean, you think of him, you think champ, you think winning Michael Jordan. One one. [00:18:35] Speaker A: Chicago Bulls. [00:18:36] Speaker B: Chicago. [00:18:36] Speaker A: Didn't you have the. [00:18:39] Speaker B: What do we do, franchises. [00:18:41] Speaker A: Top five teams. [00:18:42] Speaker B: Top five teams. Ninety s. Bulls. He is the shout out, episode 30, split decision. Yeah. Shout out, episode 30. Shout out Michael Jordan. [00:18:50] Speaker A: Shout out Michael. [00:18:50] Speaker B: One, one pick. Top five, champ. [00:18:52] Speaker A: That's pretty good. I had him on my list. [00:18:56] Speaker B: I hope you had him on your list. I think everybody had to have him on your list. [00:18:59] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:18:59] Speaker B: Just in general, what's your number one. [00:19:02] Speaker A: One, man, I got to see your. Oh, yeah, I got two in a row. [00:19:06] Speaker B: I'm sorry, man. [00:19:08] Speaker A: My one one two and one three. Yeah, I got to go. Tom Brady, man. [00:19:12] Speaker B: Tom Brady. That's a good one. [00:19:13] Speaker A: Seven Super bowl rings. Just so many passing, not passing records. So many records in his name. I believe the passing record. [00:19:23] Speaker B: I mean, he's the ultimate. [00:19:24] Speaker A: He's the ultimate for know, like what. [00:19:27] Speaker B: Michael Jordan is to NBA, he is to NFL. [00:19:32] Speaker A: Right. [00:19:33] Speaker B: I agree with that. That's a good mean. [00:19:36] Speaker A: There's. There's some close seconds, but there's no Tom Brady, right? [00:19:40] Speaker B: Yeah, that's a good pick. Number two. [00:19:45] Speaker A: What's your number two? Damn, this is a hard one, dude. This is another hard one. I got to go. Something that hits a little bit closer to the podcast for us. A fighter. [00:19:56] Speaker B: Well, I have a couple fighters on my list. [00:19:59] Speaker A: I think I'm gonna go with Mr. Anderson Silva. [00:20:03] Speaker B: Oh, that's a good one. [00:20:04] Speaker A: One of the greatest champions the sport has ever seen. Not just UFC, but MMA as a whole has ever seen. Anderson Silva, in his prime, could beat anyone. If you have ever seen a Joe Rogan clip of him talking about Anderson Silva, he's our modern day Achilles. He would be a warrior in the roman times, Anderson. [00:20:29] Speaker B: I think most UFC fighters nowadays, they'd say the guy that inspired them to be a fighter is probably Anderson Silva. [00:20:35] Speaker A: For a lot of Brazilians especially, I. [00:20:38] Speaker B: Think even for Americans, just the way he fights, he's exciting. [00:20:43] Speaker A: Watching his comebacks. Even when he was older, he was still better. [00:20:45] Speaker B: I think that's a good. [00:20:46] Speaker A: Everybody. [00:20:47] Speaker B: That's a good pick. Anderson Silver, number two. [00:20:50] Speaker A: What do you have for your number two? Damn. I can already tell this is going to be a truly goaded list for both of us. [00:20:55] Speaker B: So, my number two, I see your Anderson Silva, and I raise you a John Jones. He's the ultimate champ of UFC. He's fought more championship fights than he has other non championship fights in the UFC. He's never lost one. [00:21:10] Speaker A: That's wild. [00:21:11] Speaker B: I mean, he's been a champ longer than we've been interested in the UFC. John Jones has pretty much been a champ, has a belt. When he hasn't, it's not because he lost or anything. It's because he probably fucked up or he just took a few years off. [00:21:24] Speaker A: Right. Or like, now he's injured, has to. [00:21:26] Speaker B: Have surgery, and he's still the champ. [00:21:27] Speaker A: Yeah. Crazy. He just has to take time, I think. [00:21:31] Speaker B: Jon Jones. I love Anderson Silva. I think John Jones is the goat of MMA. I think he's the best MMA fighter. He hasn't legitimately lost. The only one he lost was controversial. Stopped by the ref for elbows. Yeah, but John Jones, my second pick. MMA goat. MMA champ. The ultimate MMA champ. [00:21:52] Speaker A: One of the cool things about UFC or MMA that separates itself from other sports is you're allowed to have more than one goal goat, not goat. More than one goat across. Know, because there's so many divisions in the UFC, you can have Anderson Silva in one division. John Jones is the heavyweight, and of course, John Jones is in consideration for one of the best fighters ever. I agree. What do you have for your number three? [00:22:20] Speaker B: So my number three again, this is a hard one. My number three, though, is going to be one of the ultimate Olympic champs. It's going to be Usain Bolt, man. [00:22:28] Speaker A: That'S on my list as well. [00:22:29] Speaker B: Usain Bolt. I mean, not only is an Olympic champ, he's won however many gold medals. He did it in sprinting. Probably the most exciting event in the Olympics. The 100 meters dash he did in that. He did in 200 meters dash, he did in the relays. Usain Bolt, he had a long. I think it was three Olympics where he won medals. At. I mean, ask anybody now. USA Olympics. One of the first athletes in modern times that pops into your head. Usain Bolt. And it's because he's a gold medal champ. [00:22:57] Speaker A: Fast as fuck, boy. [00:22:58] Speaker B: Fast as fuck. I think he still has the 100 meters record. [00:23:01] Speaker A: Dude, being fast is almost better than being smart in some ways. I don't know. It's crazy how fast he is. That's a good pick. I like that. [00:23:17] Speaker B: So you saying bolt three. What's your third? [00:23:20] Speaker A: My third. I got to go with another sport. Trying to kind of check all my boxes here, trying to give respect where respect is due. My third. And now I'm realizing I can take this as my fourth pick instead of my third. So I think I'm going to take Kobe Bryant. [00:23:40] Speaker B: Kobe. That's a good pick. [00:23:41] Speaker A: I'm going to take Kobe. He doesn't have as many championships as Jordan, but through and through, he's up in the consideration for one of the best basketball players of all time. He's consistently in the know. Rest in peace, Kobe. I don't want to say too much, but Kobe's just a g. He was. [00:24:03] Speaker B: A great ultimate, just like Michael Jordan. He's that ultimate, like, winning mentality. Workhorse. [00:24:08] Speaker A: He's going to outwork you. [00:24:09] Speaker B: Not going to do everything he can to win. [00:24:12] Speaker A: Right? And my fourth pick, it's kind of where I feel like I got the steal just because I made it to the fourth with it. Instead, fourth pick for me is going to be Serena Williams. [00:24:23] Speaker B: Oh, that's a good pick. [00:24:24] Speaker A: 39 grand slam titles. That's like the most of anyone ever. It's just ridiculous. She's got 16 more than her sister. [00:24:36] Speaker B: I mean, why you got to put her sister down like that? [00:24:38] Speaker A: It's just crazy to say because Venus has 21, which is another, like, an absurd. [00:24:43] Speaker B: Michael Jordan has six more titles than his brother, who didn't play in the NBA. [00:24:47] Speaker A: There you go. [00:24:48] Speaker B: Why you got to talk shit on Venus? [00:24:50] Speaker A: No, I'm not. I'm just saying, like, venus has 21, which is a ridiculous amount, but Serena has 16 more than her, so Serena Williams, my number four kind of great value number four pick, if you will. [00:25:06] Speaker B: It's not a bad pick. Not a bad pick. So now it's my number four. [00:25:10] Speaker A: Yes, sir, your number four. And then follow it up with your draft finisher. [00:25:15] Speaker B: My number four is going to be the ultimate goat and champion of golf. It's going to be Tiger Woods. I mean, Tiger woods without a doubt had the greatest run, ten year run in golf history, where he was just untouchable, where if he was even close to the top of his game, he was winning by multiple strokes. Still the biggest. Brandon golf. I mean, he still won the Masters a few years ago. He just showed up in one out of nowhere. I still think he probably has one, maybe two more surprise majors in him. [00:25:48] Speaker A: You just got to get healthy. [00:25:49] Speaker B: You just got to get healthy. Tiger woods, though, the ultimate champ, the ultimate goat of golf. He's my number four. And then it's off to my number five pick. [00:25:58] Speaker A: Right off to your number five, sir. [00:26:00] Speaker B: So my number five pick, I said last week, I did a guest pick. I'm doing a guest pick again. Clara, my girlfriend, shout out. She gave me another pick. She is a. [00:26:11] Speaker A: What was her pick last week? Oh, it was french national team. That was a good pick. [00:26:16] Speaker B: She is a division one tennis player, or was a division one tennis player, is a current pickleball champion. So this pick kind of makes sense when you see that aspect of her. [00:26:28] Speaker A: Right. [00:26:28] Speaker B: My number five pick from Clara. Roger Federer, the tennis goat. [00:26:33] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, Roger. [00:26:34] Speaker B: Yeah, Roger Federer. I mean, at one point when he was in his prime, he was like one of the most. Even non tennis fans could appreciate how good he was, especially on the grass. He does so much control. [00:26:45] Speaker A: Federer is like a household name. [00:26:46] Speaker B: He's a household name. Yeah. He's a classy guy. [00:26:53] Speaker A: Not like Mike Tyson. [00:26:54] Speaker B: There's like, nobody that knows him, really doesn't like him. He's just a nice guy. Great champ. Ultimately, he's a cool guy. Swiss guy. Roger Federer, my number five from Clara. [00:27:09] Speaker A: I asked my wife for a pick. [00:27:13] Speaker B: For a guest pick. [00:27:14] Speaker A: Yeah, I did. She looked at me like I was stupid, and then she said her defense. I am. Yeah. I'm not saying she's wrong. I'm not even disagreeing with her, but I decided not to go with her pick just because I think mine's better. [00:27:32] Speaker B: Shout out, Maddie. [00:27:33] Speaker A: Shout out, Maddie. Lance Armstrong. [00:27:37] Speaker B: Oh, but he got all his titles taken away. [00:27:39] Speaker A: Yeah, but he did it with one. [00:27:43] Speaker B: That's a. He got all his titles taken away with not even a champ. [00:27:47] Speaker A: Yeah, I don't care. Do what he did with two testicles. [00:27:54] Speaker B: Mean, this is. Somebody does it every year. [00:27:56] Speaker A: Yeah. Not as good. And everybody. To his defense. I saw the documentary. Everybody was doing it. Lance Armstrong, probably a goaded champion in his own right. Paying back, like, the postal service an x amount of millions of dollars. But you still won. At the end of the day, he did win all. [00:28:15] Speaker B: Why is the postal service advertising, though? [00:28:17] Speaker A: Right? It's a government. [00:28:18] Speaker B: We have to use it. [00:28:19] Speaker A: Yeah, we don't have a choice. You don't need advertising. Just get my mail where it needs to go. Please stop having looters. [00:28:26] Speaker B: But anyway. [00:28:27] Speaker A: Yeah. All right, so let's add. I guess we could try one little thing we have, like, an honorable mention, but. [00:28:33] Speaker B: Honorable mention, but not. I think it needs to be more like an obscure one. That's a good one. You just didn't want to put in your top five. Okay, I'll go first. [00:28:43] Speaker A: Yeah, that's fine. [00:28:44] Speaker B: So mine is going to be the brand champion. Damn good shirts. You got good hoodies. They used to be a cool brand and then became a poor people's brand. Now they're back a cool brand. They've had the ultimate roller coaster of their brand, like, in terms of value and coolness. Champion, the brand. Let's go. [00:29:07] Speaker A: That's a good one. Yeah, I like that, man. Mine's got to be the United States inside of a world war, just because we act like we don't want to be involved. I don't want to be in it. I don't want to be in it. But as soon as we get involved, like, two years later, it's finished. [00:29:29] Speaker B: Done, son. [00:29:30] Speaker A: So, two time world champ. World war champ, if you will. Once USA gets involved, we just lock that shit down. So that's my obscure honorable mention top five. [00:29:43] Speaker B: So, to recap, my number one is Michael Jordan. Number two. What's my number two? John Jones. [00:29:50] Speaker A: John Jones. So good, you can't remember it. [00:29:52] Speaker B: So good, I can't remember. Number three, Usain bolt. Number four, Tiger woods. Number five, roger Federer. Honorable mention champion. The clothing brand. [00:30:01] Speaker A: That's a solid honorable mention. That's a worthwhile in the top five. [00:30:06] Speaker B: I thought about it. [00:30:07] Speaker A: That is my number one, Mr. Tom Brady. Two, Anderson Silva. Three, Kobe Bryant. Four, Serena Williams. Five, Lance Armstrong. And my honorable mention is the United States inside of a world tournament. [00:30:27] Speaker B: All right, so let's jump ahead. UFC Vegas 86 is this weekend. Solid main card, it looks like. Coming up, another apexer. Another apexer, of course. Six fights. Let's start off with the main card opener. It's Armin Superman Petrosian taking on. [00:30:50] Speaker A: I guess you can't read your own handwriting. [00:30:52] Speaker B: I guess so, or I spelled it wrong. Vieira, the black belt hunter. Black belt hunter comes in nine wins, two losses, eight of those win submission wins, taking on Petrosian. Also nine wins, two losses, zero submission wins, six kos, three decisions. So it's a fight between two different kind of styles. [00:31:12] Speaker A: This is the first of four middleweight matchups on the main card. [00:31:15] Speaker B: There's a lot of middleweight. One interesting thing we talked about black belt hunter Vieira, eight submission wins. Petrosian, never lost by submission, neither of his two losses. Petrosian, three and one in the UFC. Vieira, four and two in the UFC. [00:31:28] Speaker A: Flip that, though. If you look at Petrosian's record, he's never been finished by submission where he's been, ko. They kind of flip their own records. They're the same guy, but polar opposites. Rodolfo's got eight subs. Superman's got six kos. One's only lost by sub. One's only lost or by sub. And decision. One's only lost by ko and decision. [00:31:48] Speaker B: One interesting thing, Vieira, five out of his last six UFC fights have ended in submissions. He's won four of those, lost one of them. Right. And as we said, petrosian, no submissions. So does that trend keep going? [00:32:00] Speaker A: Yeah, I think kind of like, stylistically, like we're talking, it is a vastly different matchup. Vieira, like you said, four and two in the UFC. Petrosian's three and one in the UFC. But Petrosian's won all his fights by decision in the UFC. Yeah. [00:32:13] Speaker B: So it's a guy that gets finishes, doesn't go to the scorecard a lot versus a guy that pretty much since he's gotten the UFC, has only gone to the scorecard. [00:32:20] Speaker A: Now, I want to point out Petrosian, knockout. He's leaning towards knockouts. [00:32:26] Speaker B: Right before he got to the UFC, he was like knocking out every single guy he was fighting, right. Since he got into UFC. Not the case. [00:32:32] Speaker A: His only three wins in his career in the UFC are decision. And he's three decision wins in his. I mean, it kind of goes together. Now. I want to point out one good thing about. [00:32:44] Speaker B: He has won two in a row, though, Petrosian. So you got to watch out for that. [00:32:47] Speaker A: Right? Viera withstood Chris Curtis's power. Now, he may have lost the fight, but he lost the fight by decision. Right. So he didn't get knocked out by, I think we said it earlier, Chris Curtis has something like 17 knockouts. He has serious power. And Vieira was able, a submission guy was able to withstand. [00:33:07] Speaker B: He doesn't get knocked out. As you said, nine wins, two losses. None of those have been knockouts. [00:33:11] Speaker A: Right. Consistently getting takedowns. I pick Rodolfo Vieira to win this fight. [00:33:16] Speaker B: I actually agree with you. I think the black belt hunter, I think his ground game is going to be too strong for Petrosian. Even though Petrosian has pretty good ground defense in terms of getting avoiding submissions or anything. I think that comes to an end. I think he gets subbed. I think Vieira gets the win and. [00:33:33] Speaker A: At the very least I think it could be a fight where one or two takedowns with a lot of ground control and ground movement makes for an interesting fight. But know concise decision if Viera is able to get him on the ground. Moving on. Let's go to Michael the menace Johnson. [00:33:52] Speaker B: In lightweight taking on Michael Johnson, maybe. [00:33:56] Speaker A: It'S a big layoff. [00:33:57] Speaker B: I mean, he has been in the UFC for so long, since 2010 and he's taken on. I'm sorry to cut you off, Darius Flowers beast beast mode so it's a guy. Darius Flowers, 20 912 and six and one overall. Only one UFC fight, which he lost. And he's taken on Michael Johnson, who's been the UFC since 2010. 41st career fight, 21 wins and 19 losses. So I mean, he's pretty much. We don't know what's about to happen. And he's fought everybody. He has wins against Tony Ferguson, Edson Barbosa and Dustin Porier. Those were at this point about ten years ago. [00:34:30] Speaker A: It's crazy. [00:34:31] Speaker B: But he still has those wins on no. [00:34:32] Speaker A: Yeah, you can't erase him. That's what the history. [00:34:34] Speaker B: But he's also lost six out of. [00:34:36] Speaker A: His last eight, right? I was going to say he's two and three in his last five. He lost twice by decision, once by ko. [00:34:42] Speaker B: Coming off of a ko. [00:34:43] Speaker A: That was in May. May 23. May of 23, I should say not May 23. Flowers was subbed in his debut in the UFC against Jake Matthews. That was. I don't want to say a fluke, but he didn't get a full camp. He had to walk in. [00:34:58] Speaker B: But White, no glaring thing about Flowers is he's twelve and six. Five of those six losses have been by submission. [00:35:04] Speaker A: That's obviously where that's his weak point. [00:35:07] Speaker B: But he's also a guy that gets kos, right? [00:35:10] Speaker A: Neither guy's done a lot of work, a lot of work on the ground in the UFC, kind of alluding to your point. But with Johnson, he's five and ten as the favorite on the ods. [00:35:22] Speaker B: That and he's a slight favorite in this fight. [00:35:24] Speaker A: Right? With him being the -130 at this point, going into his 40th career fight, he's five and ten as the favorite. That means he's losing twice as much as he's winning. I have to lean Darius Flowers not only with that stat in mind, but the stat where with no guys kind of looking to get a submission, I think the fresher, younger Darius Flowers is kind of going to have what it takes here. [00:35:48] Speaker B: I agree with you, Flowers, he's coming off of his first loss. I think he is going to rebound from that. Before that, he had four straight wins. As we said, his weak point of submissions is getting submitted. Michael Johnson, not a huge submission threat. I think flowers, he's a guy who's 29. I think Michael Johnson obviously on the down Nivet's career. I think the younger guy wins in this fight. I agree with you with Darius Flowers, get beast mode. [00:36:14] Speaker A: Getting the win man the house pick on an underdog. Let's go. [00:36:18] Speaker B: All right, so let's move on to the next fight. Maybe one of the fighters that is least liked now in the UFC and only because of his last fight, Brad Tavar. Brad Tavares, where he just straight went after Chris Weidman's leg, which I get it. If I'm fighting him, I'm doing the same thing, but I'm still getting paid. [00:36:37] Speaker A: I'm worried about myself first and foremost. [00:36:39] Speaker B: But Tavares taking on Robocop, Gregory Rodriguez or Robocop. He's an exciting fighter. [00:36:46] Speaker A: Yeah, I like watching him fight. He looks like his spinal cords fuse together. [00:36:49] Speaker B: He has a good personality where it's kind of crazy. He's exciting. Robocop, 14 wins, five losses, five and two overall in the UFC. He's taken on Tavares, who has 20 wins, eight losses, 15 and eight in the UFC. He's also. We talked about Michael Johnson, been in the UFC since 2010. Tavares also has been in the UFC since 2010. He's fought some good guys, too. Izzy Duplexis, Whitaker. But unlike Michael Johnson, where he has some, if you look back at his resume, some nice wins. Brad Tavares has lost against pretty much all the big guys he's fought, big names he's fought. [00:37:27] Speaker A: One of the good things about Tavares is with the camps or with the team he fights with. They do a lot of taking less damage, hitting at range, a lot of leg kicks. You'll see that in the wideman fight. That's why he has 13 decision wins on his 13 decision wins. [00:37:45] Speaker B: His last finish as a win was in 2018, so it's been a low offer. [00:37:49] Speaker A: Tavares, stylistically, though, this is a very similar matchup. You got two orthodox strikers who I know Tavares's last finish was in 2018 2019, but he can put you down if he gets the right strike thrown. Rodriguez, obviously, he has more power. He has more output. He has a propensity to mix in takedowns better. He's a favorite on the ods. I did a little bit of math. I think, like, 75% of Tavares's wins are by decision in the UFC, and 72% of Rodriguez's are by ko. Those two things kind of bouncing together for me, when Rodriguez is not losing by decision very often, it just tells me that Rodriguez is winning this fight. [00:38:41] Speaker B: Yeah, I think Rodriguez, his last four fights, all finished in the first or second round. He's won three of those four fights. [00:38:49] Speaker A: And we've seen him get beat up. [00:38:50] Speaker B: I think that trend continues, though. I think Rodriguez goes in. I think he just kind of blitzes Tavares. I think Rodriguez gets, like, an early finish in this fight, probably first round. [00:39:00] Speaker A: It'd be cool to see him sub him in the first. All right, let's go on. You got a replacement? We got Robert Brickcheck in the middleweight. [00:39:12] Speaker B: Another middleweight fight, making his UFC debut at 17 and five against ehore the duelist Potaria, who's making his fifth UFC fight. He's one in three in the UFC, 19 and five overall, two straight losses. [00:39:25] Speaker A: Brick check comes into the UFC trying to hold on to a five fight win streak. [00:39:32] Speaker B: All kos, all first round. [00:39:34] Speaker A: Isn't it nuts? Now, he's coming into a different level of talent, but I don't have a lot of film on the guy. It's hard to get those local fights. [00:39:44] Speaker B: So one of the notes I wrote is, the biggest thing is, can the power translate to the UFC? And that's going to be the question in this fight. [00:39:51] Speaker A: Well, Potari is coming off of back to back losses, both by Ko, both by Ko. [00:39:56] Speaker B: Now, all his UFC fights have ended by Ko, TKO, and he's only won one of them out of those four. So that's now tough. [00:40:05] Speaker A: One thing I will say, pataria here, he's dropping from light heavyweight to middleweight, taking 20 pounds off. I think that may help him. [00:40:17] Speaker B: I don't know. That's a lot to cut. Think it could drain him? [00:40:21] Speaker A: Think that power is going to help him translate? I think that kind of. That is the question of this fight, actually. The whole question is Brick check's power going to translate from his regional circuit to the UFC, and is Ehor's power going to translate down a weight class? [00:40:37] Speaker B: I think Brick check's power is going to translate. I think Pateria is a guy that's been getting knocked out, and I think that continues. And he's facing a power puncher. I got Brick check. Winning the fight. I think he kos him. I think he gets another first round Ko, and he's a guy that he's going to do it, and everybody's going to get excited and people are going to start watching him in the UFC. [00:40:59] Speaker A: There's only one way I know how to say this, sir. I think you're wrong. I think Ehore Potaria, his power is going to translate beautifully into the middleweight division, and I think Brickcheck is going to walk in and not know what hit him, literally, when he wakes up from this KO. [00:41:21] Speaker B: Well, I think that's the first one we disagree on. [00:41:23] Speaker A: I think so. Something like that. [00:41:25] Speaker B: So let's move on to the comay. Now. We got the vet. Another vet coming in. Danny gay. Fifty k. Seventeen wins, seven losses. Taking on still probably one of my favorite nicknames, andre. Touchy feely. [00:41:36] Speaker A: You got to have a good last name to have a good nickname. [00:41:39] Speaker B: Yeah, I agree. 23 wins, ten losses, one no contest. Touchy feely comes in. Eleven wins, nine losses, one draw in the UFC. So he's kind of been 50 50 since 2013. Two wins, two losses, one no contest in his last five. Coming off of a first round win. Taking on Dan E. Gay. Guy that's never been finished in the UFC. Two and three in his last five. But he fights tough guys. Lost to Bryce Mitchell last time out. Nine and six overall in the UFC. I mean, he's a well rounded tough guy. What do you think about this is. [00:42:13] Speaker A: This is a tough one. These two are very similar. [00:42:16] Speaker B: I know you want to say e Gay is like the vet, but you realize, like Feely, he's been in the UFC longer than Dan E. Gay, right? [00:42:22] Speaker A: You want to say that somebody like Dan E. Gay you've seen for forever, but you look at his dob is 32 years old. Feely's 33. 33. It's like, what the hell, Feely? Like you said, he's got more experience in his career, but Danny Gay has kind of left a better impression, if you will, or a bigger impression. [00:42:47] Speaker B: Yeah, I think Dan Egay has come closer to being to that USC title than touchy Feely has. [00:42:53] Speaker A: Danny Gay's list is the favorite. He wins 86% of the time. And honestly, this is what I have to go with on this fight. It's a fight where I'm just letting the stats do the talking for me because I'm kind of concerned with my own headspace on it. I like both fighters yeah, I do as well. And I think the range for Feely might have something to do with success. But also, I still want to say that Dan Egay's experience is going to be what excels him. [00:43:22] Speaker B: For Egay is coming off of a loss. [00:43:24] Speaker A: Feely. [00:43:25] Speaker B: Andre Feely is coming off of a win, but he's alternated his last four, so which means he's due for a loss because of that. Like you, I'm going with the stats. I think e gay gets it done. I'm picking Dan E gay. Fifty K. I think he gets to win over touchy Feely. [00:43:39] Speaker A: And now the moment you've all been waiting for. [00:43:44] Speaker B: Coming fresh off of his Joe Rogan experience performance. Now, Joseph bodybacks. [00:43:50] Speaker A: Pfeiffer, you want to know the last UFC fighter that was on Joe Rogan's podcast and then fought? [00:43:55] Speaker B: Who's that? [00:43:57] Speaker A: There aren't many. Sean Strickland was one of them. He went and took the belt from Izzy after body bags. [00:44:03] Speaker B: After listening to his. Rogan. I'm a fan of him now. [00:44:05] Speaker A: I was a fan before that just. [00:44:07] Speaker B: Kind of solidified they kind of solidified it. So Piper taking on a guy that's been in the UFC a lot longer than him. [00:44:13] Speaker A: Joker. [00:44:13] Speaker B: Joker. Hermanson, the Swede. 23 wins, eight losses, two and three. In his last five, he's taken on Pfeiffer, who's three and O in the UFC. All finishes, two kos, one sub. Pfeiffer is a guy. [00:44:26] Speaker A: Piper. [00:44:26] Speaker B: Piper. I think it's Piper. Piper. He's a guy. You watch him the way he fights and the way he finishes people. You can almost see like right away, like, yeah, this guy can be a legitimate contender in the 185 division. So this is the next step up for him. And he's taken on a guy who can knock you out, is good on his feet, but he's really a ground specialist, right? So it's a different kind of matchup for Piper. I'm interested to see how he responds. Five straight wins overall, I think, truthfully. [00:44:59] Speaker A: I think Piper is going to show you in this fight that he has maybe not a better ground game, but very good ground defense. [00:45:07] Speaker B: I agree. [00:45:08] Speaker A: Not to the point where Hermanson's not going to be able to get a takedown. I think this fight is going to be a grueling one. I think this fight may go the distance, may go four rounds before something happens. That's very impressive, but I think this fight is going to be a clear test for both fighters. [00:45:28] Speaker B: One interesting about the joker, his last eight fights, he's alternated to wins, losses, and he lost his last one. So he would be due for a win. But his last fight he got ko, second round. And that was back in December, 2022. So he's taken a very long time off. [00:45:43] Speaker A: He did take off all of 2023 trying to get back in the gym. Right. [00:45:47] Speaker B: Taking on a guy who last fought in October who's been fighting a lot. [00:45:51] Speaker A: Piper's three and O in the UFC. Two kos, one submission. [00:45:53] Speaker B: I think Piper, he's hot. He's a guy that's hot. He's been more active. I think he's a guy whose career is rising. Hermanson's kind of. I'm not going to say he's declining yet, but he's kind of on a plateau. [00:46:05] Speaker A: Right. [00:46:05] Speaker B: I think Piper comes in, makes a statement. I think he gets a knockout. I think he gets an early knockout. I think he makes a statement where after this fight, he's going to be one or two wins away from getting a legit title shot. [00:46:17] Speaker A: I got choke by for winning as well. Body bag. [00:46:26] Speaker B: Ready? Said hood. Let's huddle up. For the last time of the season, it's Super bowl week. It's bittersweet. It's the best game of the year, hopefully, but it's the end of the football season. [00:46:42] Speaker A: I like the hopefully. [00:46:43] Speaker B: And we got a good one, which seems to be a good rematch, pretty much. 49 ers. Been one of the two best teams all year long. Chiefs defending champs. [00:46:53] Speaker A: Can't ever count them out. [00:46:55] Speaker B: So it's really, I mean, the Super bowl, nobody's surprised. It's these two teams playing in the Super bowl, which I think makes for a great Super bowl. And as I said, san Francisco. 49 ers, 14 wins, five losses overall. Taking on the Chiefs. 14 wins, six losses overall. A rematch of the Super bowl from four years ago. Three years ago. [00:47:17] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:47:17] Speaker B: 2020 Super Bowl 54 in which the Chiefs won despite the 49 ers having a two score lead in the fourth quarter. [00:47:25] Speaker A: That hurts. [00:47:26] Speaker B: Different quarterback for the Niners, different running back. A lot of the same guys. Besides that. I'm so excited for this Super bowl. [00:47:33] Speaker A: Yeah, dude, this Super Bowl 58, they're just loaded in with top tier talent. It's going to be a matchup. You got Mahomes taking on Purdy. You got kiddo versus Purdy. [00:47:48] Speaker B: Can Purdy step up? This is where Purdy, he has a lot of. [00:47:53] Speaker A: This is a problem. A lot of people don't career. [00:47:56] Speaker B: But if Purdy gets this win, he's a legit like he's the guy. He's that guy. [00:48:03] Speaker A: I don't want to say Tom Brady's replacement, but for being the last pick. [00:48:06] Speaker B: In the draft, being like a late pick draft. [00:48:08] Speaker A: Right. [00:48:09] Speaker B: He's had one season where he almost went to the Super bowl, but he got hurt, broke his shoulder or whatever collar. This season in the Super bowl. Say what you want about him. The guy wins games. [00:48:18] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:48:19] Speaker B: Throughout the Patrick Mahomes, who you said Purdy might be the next Tom Brady. [00:48:25] Speaker A: This is. [00:48:26] Speaker B: Mahomes is the next Tom Brady. [00:48:28] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:48:28] Speaker B: Without a doubt. This is his fourth Super bowl overall. He's trying to win his third title. [00:48:34] Speaker A: Mahomes is out here smoking on that NFL pack. [00:48:37] Speaker B: He's been a starter for six years. He's made at least the AFC championship games all six years. Six years. And he's been to the Super bowl four times. That dude, all he does is win. [00:48:47] Speaker A: Yeah, dude. It's absolutely nuts. And you can't talk about the Chiefs or the 49 ers without highlighting people on each team. You got CMC, the number one running back year after year. [00:49:00] Speaker B: Debo Samuel, George Kittle. [00:49:03] Speaker A: They got Brandon IU, one of the. [00:49:04] Speaker B: Best tackles in football. [00:49:06] Speaker A: Joey Bo Williams. [00:49:07] Speaker B: They got Joey Bosa, they got Fred Warner. This team is stacked. They got chase young and nobody even talks about it. [00:49:14] Speaker A: Yeah, because everybody else is being talked about. Flip it to the, not the packers, the Chiefs. [00:49:19] Speaker B: Chiefs. [00:49:19] Speaker A: Travis Kelsey, Patrick Mahomes. Pacheco Rice. Rashid Rice. [00:49:24] Speaker B: Tony Kadarius. Tony, he's crazy, but every once in a while he can just show up and go off. [00:49:29] Speaker A: Hey. And I will say Edward Zilair, MVP, not for the season, but in moments where they needed him. [00:49:37] Speaker B: They got sneed, the cornerback, Harrison Butker. Harrison Butker, absolute dime kicker. Then you got two great coaches. Andy Reid, who's probably with Bill Belichick not having a job right now. Andy Reid is the best current head coach in the NFL, without a doubt, going for his second straight Super bowl, and he's taking on Kyle Shanahan, one of the best young coaches in the NFL. [00:49:59] Speaker A: Great career ahead of him. [00:50:01] Speaker B: This is already his second Super bowl appearance, going for his first win. I mean, I'm just so excited about this game, so many storylines. I think this is. [00:50:10] Speaker A: And we're not even talking about Taylor Swift. [00:50:12] Speaker B: Taylor Swift's going to be there and it's in Las Vegas for the first time ever. [00:50:17] Speaker A: Dude, you were telling me that the players can go to the casinos, but they're not allowed in any sports books in Vegas, which they shouldn't be, but. [00:50:24] Speaker B: It'S just very strict rules for the dude. [00:50:28] Speaker A: I think. I think Patrick Mahomes is coming out here, this Super bowl, this Super Bowl Sunday. I think he's going to cement his dynasty. Take the third Super bowl in four appearances. I think he's got it, man. I think Patrick Mahomes is going to come out here and does what the Goats got to do. He's going to eat them w's. [00:50:51] Speaker B: I keep saying, I don't know why I keep picking against the guy, but I'm picking against the guy. I'm picking the 49 ers. I think they're the more talented team. Something tells me purdy steps up. I think the Niners get the win. I think they figure out a way to get the win. They get revenge. And who knows, maybe we'll see these teams in a rubber match Super bowl in the years to come. But I got the Niners win. [00:51:20] Speaker A: All right. Lastly, but not leastly, as always, we have stakes and takes. Last week we had UFC and some pick your own plays. That what we call them? [00:51:36] Speaker B: Think so. First week preview of no football. We got one game this week, so it was interesting to see how it panned out. [00:51:43] Speaker A: Yeah, I did pretty good. Kind of positive. Overall. UFC, I went two, three and one. That wasn't good. We had the Kisriv no contest. I lost on the urbina call, which I think you lost on as well. [00:51:59] Speaker B: Yeah, I had the same record, actually as you. Two, three and one. [00:52:02] Speaker A: Oh, nice. Did we go the same way? I had Urbina, I had Silva, which we won on Silva. I had imovov, which I won on imovov. Dober lost. [00:52:13] Speaker B: No, because I had de Lidze, but I had Randy Brown, you had Solikov. So that was the difference. Yeah, there's the difference. Both ended up same record. [00:52:22] Speaker A: Yeah, same record, different way to get there. Not fun when you go two, three and one. Either way. I had four NBA bets, which pretty much capped off my whole thing. Went three and one in those, so very good for me. You had one NBA as well, right? [00:52:36] Speaker B: I had one NBA. We actually shared it. It was the Pelican. Yeah. [00:52:39] Speaker A: Whooped the spurs ass. We like that. We like that. [00:52:42] Speaker B: They didn't WHOOP them. They won. Like at almost a buzzer beater. [00:52:46] Speaker A: We like looking at it. [00:52:47] Speaker B: My picks. Besides that one, I didn't do too well. I had one soccer, Dortmund versus Heidenheim, which I picked Dortmund to win. It was a draw, their first Scoreless game in the Bundesliga since 2019. And of course, was the first game I picked on them. [00:53:02] Speaker A: Ouch. [00:53:03] Speaker B: Then college of basketball went one in one. I had Kansas beating Houston. I made the late switch. Houston beating Kansas. And of course, Kansas won. [00:53:11] Speaker A: I actually wore my Kansas sweater for that game. [00:53:13] Speaker B: Wrong on that one. And then I picked UNC North Carolina over Duke. And that one panned out. North Carolina got the win. So overall, four wins, five losses, one no contest. [00:53:25] Speaker A: I went, not a great week. Four and one little positive week. How'd you do on bets? [00:53:32] Speaker B: So bets not the greatest either. Two wins, two draws, one no contest. The no contest. Still the same thing. Curiev. I had curiev Moneyline. What was it? Eleven second. [00:53:46] Speaker A: Eleven second. No, I poke no contest. Yeah, I went three, one and one, same no contest. [00:53:52] Speaker B: My UFC. I lost the leads a. I had him moneyline, but I had Randy Brown money line, which won. [00:53:59] Speaker A: See, I had Dober money line, which lost. But I had Silva Moneyline and imovolved Moneyline, which won. And then I threw in a Clippers money line on my NBA side, which put me at my three, one and one. [00:54:11] Speaker B: Yeah. My other two bets were soccer, Dortmund. I had them winning their money line, they lost. Then I had Arsenal winning. They beat Liverpool. So two wins. [00:54:19] Speaker A: That's a big game for them. [00:54:20] Speaker B: Big game for them. Two wins, two losses, one draw. Not the worst week. Not the best week for me. [00:54:27] Speaker A: I get it. Look, Super bowl week. It's the last week. Season one comes to an end. We have all these picks and we're close. Dude. I'm at 203, 108 and five. You're at two. 3107 and five. And for our bets, I'm at 86 59 and five. And you're at 87, 63. [00:54:50] Speaker B: Yeah. So it's going to come down to this. We already gave our UFC picks, which I think we only had one that differed. We differed on the Super bowl. So now we're going to bring our own picks. Pick our own picks again this week. [00:55:03] Speaker A: Yeah, let's go to another week of pick your own picks. [00:55:05] Speaker B: I think we each come up with four again. [00:55:07] Speaker A: Yeah, we'll do four just because the UFC, I don't ever want to jinx it, but with a six fight, fight card, main card, they typically have one cancel. And I just don't want to end up with a tie. So we just went with eleven just to try to make sure we could finish this thing this week. So you got the NBA. What you got going on this week? [00:55:28] Speaker B: I got zero NBA. I got one college basketball and three soccer bets. [00:55:32] Speaker A: Okay. I just went with straight again. Like I did last week. [00:55:35] Speaker B: You went three and one. Stick with the NBA. [00:55:37] Speaker A: Yeah, I didn't want to overthink it. Four NBA bets this week for me, so let's. [00:55:42] Speaker B: I say you do year four. I do my four. [00:55:45] Speaker A: That sounds good to me. All right, so first up, I got the Hawks. We're recording this. You have to keep in mind on Tuesday, so there's like a game or two before they actually play. So the records aren't going to be 100%. Somebody might even get injured in the time that I might get screwed over. But I'm staking my claim right now. Hawks versus the 76 ers. Trey Young. Over the past, what, like ten games, he's been averaging 27 points per game, almost eleven assists. Embiid's potentially going to be out. I don't know how serious his injury is. I think the Hawks are going to surprise some people here. They don't have a great record on the season, but Trey Young's been showing out. I think with Embiid being know, kind of having them to play from behind, I think the Hawks are going to win. So the Hawks are my first over the Sixers. Hawks over the Sixers. That'll be a Friday game. Moving to Pelicans versus the Lakers. I think this is a big matchup. Close in stats and record. The Lakers take on the Pelicans at home. At the Lakers home, I should say crypto arena in LA. Zion, McCullum, Ingram, they need to protect the ball. They need to be careful with the turnovers. You have dogs like LeBron and Anthony Davis. I will say this. A lot of the times when I've seen the Pelicans play the Lakers. LeBron James sits out. I don't think he's going to be doing it at home this time, but I still think the Pelicans are going to win. So. [00:57:15] Speaker B: Pelicans over Lakers. [00:57:16] Speaker A: Pelicans over the Lakers. Moving on. I got the Nuggets versus the Kings. The Joker Nikolai Jochik is leading the Nuggets impressively high powered offense. You got De Aaron Fox with the Kings. This is a good contested matchup. Jochik has been putting up ridiculously high, know, rebounds, assists, points altogether. He's been doing good, being a great teammate. [00:57:42] Speaker B: He's been doing that for like five years at this point now. [00:57:44] Speaker A: Right? But consistency is key. I think coupling that know the team they've been building around the Nuggets, I think the Nuggets are going to pave the way to beat and already good Kings this week as well. And lastly, Thunder versus the Mavics. Shia Gilgis Alexander has been playing very well. The Thunder are leading the league in block shots and they're moving the ball very well. [00:58:11] Speaker B: They're young team. [00:58:12] Speaker A: A good young team. They're playing well. [00:58:15] Speaker B: As of today, they were the one seed in the west. [00:58:17] Speaker A: They are. I think the Mavericks, with Luca playing lights out, I think tonight, Tuesday night, he's got like 60 pra. Kyrie's got like 37 points or something like that. Kyrie's back, his thumbs all better. Whatever. Luca's ankles seems to be better. I think the Mavericks are going to start turning around. I think we can look for a Mavericks upset over the Thunder this weekend. And that's all for the ones I got. What do you have for your, let's do basketball to keep the trend the same, and then you could just kind of teach me your football. Soccer. [00:58:51] Speaker B: I got one basketball game. It's Gonzaga at Kentucky on Saturday. Kentucky. As of today, they've lost three out of four after a great start. [00:59:00] Speaker A: Those two names you just said, gonzaga, Kentucky. Those are big tournament names coming up. [00:59:04] Speaker B: Big tournament names. Kentucky is number 17. They were number ten when I wrote this. By the time we're recording now, they moved down to 17 after losing three out of four. Gonzaga they've had. This is one of their worst years in a while, at 16 win, six losses, not as good as usual, but they're still a team to watch out for. This is a late non conference game. Usually you're only playing conference games at this point. Gonzaga going to Kentucky. I think going cross country this late in the season, I got the Wildcats stopping their little slide and getting a nice win over Gonzaga. So my first pick is Kentucky over Gonzaga. And now I'm going to move on to soccer and I'm going to start Saturday morning. Premier League, Manchester City, 14 wins, four losses, three draws. Coming in on form, taking on Everton, who's drawn their last two games, lost the one before that. Everton coming in 18th place out of 20 in the Premier League. Man City currently third. They did play earlier this season in December. City won three to one. This is a title contender in Man City taking on a team, trying to stay in the Premier League, trying to avoid relegation. In Everton, I think the better team wins. [01:00:17] Speaker A: I think you have some pretty impressive ods here, too. [01:00:20] Speaker B: Pretty impressive odds. I think Man City is like minus 475. I got Man City winning at home. So that's my second pick. Man City over Everton. [01:00:27] Speaker A: Dude, I'm just going to say this right now. You're ballsy to be picking soccer picks, seeing as they can lose in two different ways. [01:00:34] Speaker B: They can. But that's a good pick. [01:00:36] Speaker A: I think the next one NFL could technically. It's just more rare that it happens. Yeah. [01:00:42] Speaker B: The next one I'm moving on to. This is Sunday morning, also in the Premier League. English Premier League. It's a London derby. West Ham, Arsenal. Arsenal currently second place. West Ham in 7th place. West Ham hasn't had a win in their last five. Arsenal has won three in a row. [01:00:58] Speaker A: How many draws in their last five? [01:01:01] Speaker B: Three out of the five were draws. Two losses for West Ham. Nice. Arsenal have. [01:01:04] Speaker A: What about goals scored against, do you know? [01:01:07] Speaker B: Not off the top of my head. I know Arsenal is like plus 14 over West Ham. [01:01:11] Speaker A: Okay. [01:01:12] Speaker B: In total goals. [01:01:12] Speaker A: Good differential. Damn. [01:01:13] Speaker B: But they did play in December. Arsenal had an off day and West Ham won two to zero. Two nil. Two nil. But I think Arsenal coming off of a huge win. I think they continue the momentum. I think Arsenal beat West Ham. So my third pick, arsenal over West Ham. [01:01:29] Speaker A: What league is that? [01:01:30] Speaker B: That's the English Premier League. And then my last pick is we're going to move from the Premier League. We're going to Spain. La Liga. Barcelona taking on Granada. Barcelona, third place in La Liga. Currently they've won their last two matches. Taking on Granada, who does not have a win in their last four matches, losing three of those, much like Man City versus Everton. This is relegation versus title race. Barcelona in the title race in third place. Granada in 19th place, trying to avoid relegation. I think Barcelona is going to be too strong. I got Barcelona as my last pick. [01:02:05] Speaker A: I like those. One of the good things with soccer. Can I say soccer? Do I have to say football? [01:02:10] Speaker B: You can say soccer. [01:02:11] Speaker A: I think a lot of our listeners, if any, would assume, if we're saying football, we're talking about NFL. So I'm going to say soccer. One of the cool things about soccer, when I'm looking on the apps that let you place the little wagers, the ods are always impressive because it's like there's. [01:02:31] Speaker B: You can get plus ods for both teams winning, right? [01:02:34] Speaker A: And even if either team could be the favorite and you still get plus ods, it's like. I like that because it almost makes you feel like your gambling is worth it. [01:02:45] Speaker B: It's enticing. [01:02:46] Speaker A: It's enticing for sure. All right, so let's move on. [01:02:50] Speaker B: So we got our picks. Let's move on to the bets. [01:02:52] Speaker A: All eleven picks are locked in. We got five bets. Let's run them down. [01:02:58] Speaker B: So let's get it out of the way. I think we both have a Super bowl bet. [01:03:01] Speaker A: I have a Super bowl bet. [01:03:02] Speaker B: My Super bowl bet. I do as well. I have the 49 ers. Moneyline -125 and I have chiefs plus 110. [01:03:09] Speaker A: Okay, so that cancels. [01:03:11] Speaker B: So now I have two mma bets. How many do you have? [01:03:13] Speaker A: I have three. [01:03:14] Speaker B: So my two mma bets. I got Joe Piper, main event -220 moneyline. And I got comain Danny gay. Fifty k, minus one hundred and eighty. Moneyline. [01:03:23] Speaker A: Cool. I don't have any of those. I got Rodolfo Viera. Moneyline -125 think he's going to prove that he's worth it? Rodriguez, moneyline -240 against Brad Tavares and Ehore Potaria. Moneyline -160 over Robert Bryce. Check. Or Brick? Check. [01:03:44] Speaker B: And then I have two other bets. I got the Arsenal moneyline at. -180 that's them over West Ham. [01:03:50] Speaker A: Right? [01:03:50] Speaker B: Them over West Ham. That's one of the ones I previewed. And another soccer game I previewed. I got Manchester City moneyline minus 475 against Everton at home. [01:03:59] Speaker A: Nice. My last bet are going to be the Nuggets money line they're taking on. Like I had said before, the Kings, that's a top tier matchup. Both teams high up in the rankings in the division. I got the Nuggets -160 what do you got for upset? [01:04:18] Speaker B: So the upset, I didn't pick a lot of upsets this week, but I'm going to go. This is a slight upset. I got Darius Flowers over Michael Johnson at plus 115. [01:04:28] Speaker A: I feel the same way. I had that written down. The only reason I didn't go anything different was because the only other upset that I had picked was one of my bets. So the Chiefs. So you can kind of take whichever one you want there. I think both are going to win. The Chiefs and Darius Flowers for the upsets. [01:04:46] Speaker B: So I think that about wraps up episode 31 of split decision. Check us out next week for episode 32 where we recap Vegas 86. Take a look ahead to the first pay per view of the year. Is it the first pay per view. [01:04:57] Speaker A: Or the second pay per view? [01:04:59] Speaker B: Second pay per view in UFC 298. Alexander Volkanovsky, Ilia Taporia. And we're also going to have a little Super bowl recap. [01:05:51] Speaker A: It's cracking. It's cracking. Scratching it. Kosha.

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