Episode 32, UFC 298 Volkanovski vs Topuria, UFC Vegas 86 Recap, Top 5 California Things, and More!

[00:00:06] Speaker A: Welcome back to split decision. This week on episode 32, we're gonna recap UFC Vegas 86, Jack Hermanson versus Joe Piper. Then we're gonna draft our top five. This week, it's gonna be top California things. Next up, we're going to take a look at UFC 298 in Anaheim, California. Volkanowski versus toporia for the featherweight belt. And finally, stakes and takes. We're going to reveal the winner of season one. And then, as always, pick our top bets ahead of this week's games. But first, don't forget to, like, subscribe and follow. Then head to splitdecisionpod.com, where you're going to find all of our recent podcasts, our top fives, and more. Again, that's splitdecisionpod.com. All right, let's go. [00:01:05] Speaker B: All right, so UFC Vegas 86 has came and went. We had a surprise in the main event where the gatekeeper, he stood his ground at the gate and didn't let the up and coming prospect through. But before we get to the main card and the main fights of the night, let's take a look at the prelims. Alex, how'd the prelims go? [00:01:27] Speaker A: It was another solid fight week at the apex. We had 14 fights all night. [00:01:34] Speaker B: It's not bad. Not bad for an apex card. [00:01:37] Speaker A: No, it was no cancellations. I think they were almost, like, not thinking they were going to get one, but just. They booked it over. Just thinking that they had a bunch of Vegas fights in a couple weeks in a row, so if anything had to carry over or cancel out, it could. But this was good. So let's kick it right off. Opening up, we had heider the hurricane. Emil. He stormed through Fernie Garcia to win by knockout in the second round. This was Fernie Garcia's fourth fight in the UFC, but it was also his fourth loss. [00:02:08] Speaker B: Yeah, it might be his last fight in the UFC, unfortunately for him, I. [00:02:12] Speaker A: Think it might be. And then we go on to Bagdan Guzkov. I call him the Uzbekistani. Anthony Smith. [00:02:21] Speaker B: Yeah, I didn't see it until I googled his name, and literally, one of the first pictures you see is them two compared to each other. He looks like Anthony Smith without the crazy tattoos, right? [00:02:30] Speaker A: He ended Zach the Ripper Pauga's night with a brutal ko in round one. The ripper is going to need to find a new victim in the future. [00:02:38] Speaker B: Ripper got reaped. [00:02:39] Speaker A: Ooh, that's a good one. Oh, he's going to beat me here. Welterweight's Max Payne Griffin and Jeremiah Wells took center stage as two UFC vets were looking to rise the ranks. Max inflicted his pain as Jeremiah's well ran dry as a close fight ended with Griffin taking the split decision victory. Nothing on that one. That's like all the creative sense I had. [00:03:06] Speaker B: Keep going, keep going. [00:03:07] Speaker A: All right, cool. Devin the brown bear. Clark was turned into a little cub with his loss to Marcine Prakniao. Prachnia walked down the clark, slashing him and utilizing his power to win by unanimous like a reaper. There you go. The lone woman's fight of the night featured Loma Lukbumki. My apologies if I get that one wrong. [00:03:29] Speaker B: Most certainly did. [00:03:31] Speaker A: Most certainly. She took an advantage in her defeating. She really held the pace against Bruno, the special one, Silva. After three rounds of cautious striking, Loma won by unanimous decision, 29 28 on all the three judges. [00:03:47] Speaker B: Not so special anymore. [00:03:49] Speaker A: Following up that snooze fest, we move on to Belaja the Zulu warrior. Okie. [00:03:55] Speaker B: Got nothing to say on that nickname? [00:03:57] Speaker A: Nope, nothing here. Against Timothy Twilight Timmy Kwamba. I got nothing on that one either. [00:04:03] Speaker B: Twilight. Timmy's kind of. [00:04:05] Speaker A: Nah, it's just not that impressive of a nickname, especially when you get beat. The Zulu warrior. [00:04:11] Speaker B: Good night. [00:04:12] Speaker A: Dictated the pace and threw heavy power to earn the split decision victory over Timmy Kwamba. Moving on to the headliner of the prelims, Trevin. The problem. Giles took on Carlos Carloa Protez. Protez was debuting in the UFC and showed Trevin Giles that he actually was not the problem, scoring the ko victory in the second round of the contest, earning himself a 50k performance bonus on the night. And that should pretty much wrap up all the prelims. Let's jump into the main card. [00:04:47] Speaker B: Let's jump main card. And we're going to start main event. Maybe the biggest surprise of the night, in my opinion, it was Joe Piper losing by unanimous decision to the Joker Hermansen. Piper, everybody thought, me included. He's the rising star. He's about to establish himself as a contender in the division, like a championship contender with this win. And instead, Hermanson joker, he's a gatekeeper, as I said before, that's what he's quote unquote known as. Well, he stood his ground, and he proved that there's levels to this, and he's still probably on that upper echelon in the division, and that Piper still has. I don't think this eliminates him from being, like, a title contender in the future, but he still has a little bit to go to get there. [00:05:29] Speaker A: Yeah, it definitely showed more well rounded, that Hermanson was on a different level. Well rounded is a great way to say it. Piper did have moments in the fight. He showed some power. [00:05:39] Speaker B: I think he won the first round, possibly the second round. [00:05:42] Speaker A: Heavy aggression. I think the difference here was this was Piper's longest fight in his career, number one. So then you take that into Hermanson. [00:05:50] Speaker B: There's a big jump up in competition for him too, right? [00:05:53] Speaker A: You take that to Hermanson, who's got some experience there, fought a lot of top guys, knows what it takes to go 15 or five rounds, I should say. Sorry, 25 minutes. I think this is a big one. Big one for Hermanson as well. Not only just being. Not wanting to be seen as the gatekeeper or kind of the stepping stone for a guy to get into the top 15. He also defended six takedown attempts. Well, against Piper, he showed exactly why he deserves to be in the top 15 in the middleweights. [00:06:27] Speaker B: I agree with that. [00:06:29] Speaker A: Who's next? He called out Nosserdin. Emma law. [00:06:32] Speaker B: I think that's the fight that makes sense. Everybody ahead of him. A lot of the other rank guys have fights already, or stuff's going on. I think that's the fight to make Imovov. [00:06:41] Speaker A: So that's one. The other I got Chris Curtis just because his fight, I can't remember. It's either coming up, like, in the next week or two, so it's kind of the same timeline for recovery, or he doesn't have. [00:06:56] Speaker B: A couple weeks ago. [00:06:57] Speaker A: That's what it was. So the timeline for recovery is similar. [00:07:00] Speaker B: It's between imovov, Chris Curtis, and now Hermanson, like, well, some kind of fight between them. [00:07:06] Speaker A: My third option would be if Chris Curtis and Emov get lined up, you pair Hermansen versus Delize, who just lost to imovalv because Hermansen's lost to imovolve or deleteze in the past. Redeem that kind of two. Almost know imoval beat delize, so it's a different trajectory right now. I think that would be any one of those three, but I personally would love to see his call out. Nasserdin imovov as the next fight. [00:07:38] Speaker B: So let's move to the coma now. And this is probably the most exciting finish of the night. Dan Gay lived up to the name, knocked out 100 touchy feely first round, and it was an impressive knockout. [00:07:50] Speaker A: Yeah, just under three minutes. He walked in. Feely was showing his usual aggression. He was trying to dictate the pace, but Dan E. Gay walked in proving, trying to prove a point. Walked in with very hardcore power, man. He hit him with just one uncorked a right hand. Just one right hand. Dropped him. Had a follow up that bounced his head off the canvas. [00:08:16] Speaker B: Yeah, and you talk about bounce. He was out cold once. He was dazed on the ground, and then the second one was just sleep. [00:08:22] Speaker A: Basketball dribble. [00:08:23] Speaker B: Yeah, basketball dribble. Off the canvas, he was done. [00:08:26] Speaker A: That was another fight. Danny Gay won performance bonus. Earned his nickname, dan gay. [00:08:34] Speaker B: Who do you think he's fighting next? [00:08:36] Speaker A: So he called out Diego Lopez. [00:08:39] Speaker B: I would like to see that. That would be an exciting fight. [00:08:41] Speaker A: And then he also called out the loser of Yair Rodriguez versus Brian Ortega. [00:08:48] Speaker B: That'd be a good fight. Also, it's refreshing to hear a guy that's like, he's not dumb. He knows he's not going to get the winner of that fight because the winner of that fight is probably fighting for the title. [00:08:56] Speaker A: Right. [00:08:56] Speaker B: That's a smart one to be like, I'll take whoever loses. [00:08:58] Speaker A: The only other one I picked in the division that kind of had some time open that deserved time, you know, because you expect somebody with his, you know, reputation to get an up fight, not a down fight. Right. So I think Arnold Allen would be a top option as well if they could line up any one of those other three, because he was trying to say for Mexican Independence week at the sphere, or the other fight being a little bit later down the line for maybe international fight week or something like that. [00:09:34] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:09:35] Speaker A: But I don't know. Any of those options would be great. Let's go forward now to another close contest. It was really a card filled with decisions, which is good in a way, because it showed us a lot of good fights, and it was one rare one where the judges didn't fucking ruin know for all the fights in general. Robert Brickcheck versus Ehor the duelist Protaria. Both fighters showcased very good striking skills, big power. But later on into the fight, I think Protaria moving down a weight class helped him develop more power. [00:10:15] Speaker B: Brickcheck's first UFC fight, too, and it wasn't a bad performance from him, but you could see the guy, even though he's one in three in the UFC in Pateria, he had the experience of that level. [00:10:25] Speaker A: Well, it's like you said with the Piper fight, there's levels to it. So when you go from kind of dominating your regional circuit, even if you did well in the Contender series, you have to understand that everybody in the contender series is coming off of their regional circuit. So, Brick, check coming into the UFC, his first fight in the UFC, facing real UFC heat from a guy who moved down in weight class. [00:10:47] Speaker B: It's got to feel good for Potera, too, because he's lost his last two fights by ko before coming into this. And he fought a guy that pretty much all he does is he kept. [00:10:55] Speaker A: He kept Brick check. Potaria kept Brick check at range in the second and third round. He held strong defense, and all of that really edged Potaria forward on the cards. Overall. The pressure from Potaria really dictated that unanimous decision victory. He didn't have any call outs because he is new to the weight class. It is really his debut as well. [00:11:19] Speaker B: Two and three in the UFC. So it's kind of like you take. [00:11:21] Speaker A: What you get, right? He said that he cut 32 pounds in six days, and he still missed weight by, like, three pounds for this fight. [00:11:29] Speaker B: That's not good, but that didn't bode well for the future, him being in this division. [00:11:34] Speaker A: Right. I think moving forward, if he's going to move forward, he's going to make weight. He's got to stay in this division, but he can't be up anymore. He can't do that. Patty, the baddie routine where he gets big and then has to cut 50 pounds before a fight. [00:11:50] Speaker B: Yeah. So let's move on to next fight. Michael Johnson, Darius Flowers. Michael Johnson, one of the guys that's been in the UFC for the longest. He's fought some of the best guys, and his experience showed in this fight. [00:12:02] Speaker A: Right, but before we do that, let's talk about Gregory Robocop Rodriguez and Brad Tavar. [00:12:08] Speaker B: I did skip a fight, didn't I? Yeah, dude. [00:12:10] Speaker A: I panicked for a second, and then I was like, oh, we should pause, but now let's just move right through. [00:12:15] Speaker B: Yeah, I did skip that one. [00:12:16] Speaker A: Robocop. [00:12:17] Speaker B: And this was the best. Besides Dan egay, this was the best finish of the. [00:12:21] Speaker A: This is my personal favorite fight of the night. [00:12:23] Speaker B: I don't see how you can't like Robocop. He's impressive. [00:12:26] Speaker A: He avenged my man, Chris wideman. [00:12:29] Speaker B: He's impressive. He looks like he's having fun out there. He's smiling. He's exciting. And he avenged Chris Weidman's leg. [00:12:34] Speaker A: Yeah. Brad Tavares walking out in that last fight just. It made me want this tko for Gregory Rodriguez, possibly more than he wanted it for himself. [00:12:42] Speaker B: Rodriguez was beating him up, winning the whole fight, and then finally got the finish right in the third round. [00:12:47] Speaker A: Yeah, I think under a minute, 55 seconds. [00:12:50] Speaker B: 55 seconds. [00:12:51] Speaker A: Yeah, it was a good fight. Good fight. [00:12:53] Speaker B: Good showing. Good way to get the finish, even though you're winning the fight. He went for it and got the finish. [00:12:57] Speaker A: DC made some not impressive. DC is impressive, but the comments were impressive. Some insightful comments about how everybody's always talking about Robocop being a grappling specialist, but he's had so many kos in the UFC. He's had like five. [00:13:14] Speaker B: So much power. [00:13:15] Speaker A: He's not even had to use all his wrestle. Maybe his wrestling defense. He's had to use a little, you know, just great for him moving forward. Like you said, happy guy. [00:13:27] Speaker B: His last five fights now have been finishes, I think for him, but still. [00:13:31] Speaker A: I think for him. Who we have next in his division? Middleweights, of course. Possibly the winner or loser of the Anthony Hernandez Roman Koppalov fight we'll be talking about for this coming week. Yeah, the only other one is Abbas Magomedov. Abyssupian Magomedov. He lost to Sean Strickland. He's a tough middleweight fighter, but I think it's pretty. Now that Tavar has lost to Rodriguez, that rank is going to be swapping. Right? So I think it's time for Rodriguez to truly be tested. [00:14:09] Speaker B: Yeah, I think he's a guy moving up the ladder, as we say. So now let's move to Michael Johnson. Michael Johnson, a 37 year old, taking on Darius Flowers, a 29 year old. Both guys similar. They don't have the same stance and everything, but similar game plan going into a fight where they're standing up. [00:14:27] Speaker A: Definitely similar game plan coming into a fight is the right way to say it because I'll be honest with you, I should have watched film like I normally do. I decided to be cocky and say that Michael Johnson was old and kind of washed and Darius Flowers having a similar style. At least what I would say was a similar style prior to the fight. [00:14:48] Speaker B: Michael Johnson won every round in this fight. [00:14:50] Speaker A: Absolutely. Darius flowers with the karate style. That's a hard fight to win. That is a hard fight to win. Having a style like that. [00:14:58] Speaker B: It's a good showing from Johnson, too. He's fighting a guy, know, knocked guys out. He got knocked out in his last fight. Lost six out of his last eight. So it was a very good performance and good win. He showed. He still has it. You can't just throw anybody out there and they're going to beat him. [00:15:15] Speaker A: Right. He rendered the style of flowers useless. He had good defense. He picked his pace. [00:15:22] Speaker B: This was a nice matchup by the UFC for Michael Johnson. [00:15:26] Speaker A: Yeah. 30, 27 across all the cards. Michael Johnson wins, no call out. [00:15:31] Speaker B: Yeah, I think he's the guy. [00:15:33] Speaker A: He's just trying to fight body. Yeah, he knows he probably doesn't have. [00:15:36] Speaker B: A legitimate shot at the title. He's just trying to fight. [00:15:40] Speaker A: Right. And look, if we got anything right, me and you called this fight, this next fight, the main card opener, Rodolfo the black belt hunter Vieira facing armin superman Petrosi. [00:15:53] Speaker B: Yeah, it's a guy. A stand up guy versus ground guy. [00:15:56] Speaker A: And we called it. I'm happy when we do something like this to say that, especially how we did it. We said that if the hands are somewhat equal, Vieira is going to win because he isn't. [00:16:07] Speaker B: Because he's the ground. And typically when you have a ground. [00:16:09] Speaker A: Guy versus a strong ground guy, very strong ground guy. [00:16:13] Speaker B: Yeah, versa. [00:16:14] Speaker A: I mean, your nickname is the black belt hunter, and he lives on that. Petrosian is a black belt. Not in jujitsu, but it's in like kickboxing or something like know. So good for him. Claimed another one for the record. Once again, no call out. But that's now. [00:16:33] Speaker B: Six out of his seven fights in the UFC for Vieira have ended in submissions. That's a good five of those. [00:16:39] Speaker A: And he's got hands, dude. [00:16:41] Speaker B: He's got hands striking so dangerous he can stand with you, and then, God forbid, you get to the ground with him. [00:16:50] Speaker A: I think Vieira. [00:17:08] Speaker B: Is going to be the top five California things. So pretty much any California noun you can think of eligible for this list. And Alex, I believe you have the first pick. So whenever you're ready, let's kick it off. [00:17:23] Speaker A: I'm going to go with a guy, a positive guy, a workhorse. [00:17:30] Speaker B: I think it's positive. And some people might not think that. [00:17:34] Speaker A: Well, they can go fuck themselves. I'm going with Kobe Bryant, rest in peace. [00:17:39] Speaker B: Oh, so you're going with a man from Pennsylvania who has a California memorialized the Lakers in California on the side of a mountain. [00:17:53] Speaker A: Ouch. Yeah, I'm going. [00:17:55] Speaker B: Maybe I went too far. [00:17:56] Speaker A: Yeah, you might have just a touch, but. All right, we'll recovery is a great player. [00:18:02] Speaker B: Jesus, I love Kobe, too. I'm just trying to shit on your pick, but yeah, great pick, Kobe. [00:18:07] Speaker A: God, yeah. [00:18:08] Speaker B: All right, Kobe Bryant. Number one. One. [00:18:13] Speaker A: What is your one? [00:18:15] Speaker B: What did you say from that? All right, so let's get back on the right track. My number one is actually similar to your number one. [00:18:22] Speaker A: Why did you choose violence like that? [00:18:25] Speaker B: My number one is very similar to your number one. I'm going to go, dead guy. The professional sports. Professional sports. California has the most professional sports team at any state in the union. They have multiple in every single sport. [00:18:40] Speaker A: Is your pick professional sports? [00:18:42] Speaker B: California. Professional sports. One. One. They have the most out of anybody. [00:18:47] Speaker A: That is the stupidest pick I've ever. [00:18:50] Speaker B: But okay, they have multiple football teams. They have multiple basketball teams. They have multiple baseball teams, multiple hockey teams. They have a team in every sport that has been good. Won championships. Won multiple championships. When you think of reachy picks, when you think of professional sports in America, a California team is always going to be one of the top ones, including the LA Lakers. [00:19:16] Speaker A: Yeah, but you're saying San Francisco quantity is better than quality. [00:19:19] Speaker B: No, they have both. It's their sports. [00:19:22] Speaker A: No, no, because of their quantity. [00:19:24] Speaker B: No, that was one of one quantity that works. [00:19:29] Speaker A: Like the Dodgers spending every dollar under the sun. [00:19:33] Speaker B: You're trying to reach because I made a Kobe joke. Cope harder. [00:19:40] Speaker A: Imagine if Vanessa heard this. [00:19:42] Speaker B: California. I hope she does. I genuinely hope Vanessa hears this. [00:19:46] Speaker A: Yeah, I would love for her to hear this. [00:19:49] Speaker B: So California sports team. Professional sports team is my one one. My one two. Excuse me? The one two. What's my number two over my two? Not even overall? [00:19:58] Speaker A: I can't get a whole overall. [00:20:00] Speaker B: Your second pick, what's it going to be? My number two is going to be very general. [00:20:06] Speaker A: Oh, the California pro sports wasn't general. [00:20:09] Speaker B: It's going to be Hollywood in general. The whole movie industry. [00:20:13] Speaker A: Like Harvey Weinstein. You're supporting that now, too, right? [00:20:16] Speaker B: Like Titanic. Like everything you've ever watched. [00:20:20] Speaker A: Like Airbud. [00:20:21] Speaker B: Like Airbud. [00:20:22] Speaker A: Harvey Weinstein was the executive producer of Airbud. [00:20:24] Speaker B: Got him like the Godfather. Like Quentin Tarantino. [00:20:30] Speaker A: I wish you would have just named, like a movie that was filmed in New Orleans or something. [00:20:34] Speaker B: I was making sure not to say like Marvel or anything. [00:20:37] Speaker A: Yeah, you got to be very California. [00:20:39] Speaker B: I mean, that's where the world's film industry. Like, you talk to anybody in the entire world and you say Hollywood, they know exactly what you're talking about. [00:20:46] Speaker A: I'll be honest. It's on the list. It is up there. I'll see you with that. [00:20:52] Speaker B: So my number two is Hollywood. What's your number two? [00:20:55] Speaker A: My number two, I'm going to nitpick you out here is the, you know, it's a big touristy thing. It's an iconic landmark. [00:21:05] Speaker B: I like how we're choosing violence in this one. [00:21:08] Speaker A: I don't know why we're doing this, but this is what's happening. [00:21:12] Speaker B: You picked like, a bunch of wood. [00:21:15] Speaker A: I picked a sign that is iconic. [00:21:17] Speaker B: People pictures of it. Do you even know the tourist attraction? Do you know the origin of it? Because I looked it up. [00:21:22] Speaker A: What is it? [00:21:24] Speaker B: They were building a neighborhood and they were trying to advertise the neighborhood as Hollywood land. That's what it originally was, Hollywood land. Then the county bought it. And we're like, no, fuck this. We're going to take off land. We're going to take off land and make this like a know, I saw it. [00:21:39] Speaker A: It's pretty cool, but it is hard as shit to get to. Oh, yeah. [00:21:44] Speaker B: I mean, you got to hike. [00:21:45] Speaker A: I'm saying, like driving to it, it's just like, oh, you got to go here and then here and then it's a hassle. It's a pretty cool sign, though. It is obviously an iconic landmark. That's why I'm going with in my second overall California thing. When you think about California, it's one of those, it's in the full house intro. Like, come on. [00:22:05] Speaker B: The Hollywood sign is not in the full house intro. [00:22:08] Speaker A: Watch it. [00:22:09] Speaker B: Full house is in San Francisco. [00:22:11] Speaker A: Oh, shit. I'm an idiot. [00:22:12] Speaker B: The Golden Gate bridge might be in that. [00:22:14] Speaker A: It is in that. I'm an idiot. X nay on that. My third pick is going to be the Hollywood walk of Fame. To further nitpick your Hollywood pick to. [00:22:24] Speaker B: Kind of take mine is better. [00:22:26] Speaker A: No, it just takes all the good derivatives of mine. Shitty generalization. You're taking all both of your picks so far. I'm the only one willing to be precise. [00:22:34] Speaker B: Wait till my next pick. [00:22:35] Speaker A: The Hollywood Walk of Fame. All the good guys and some bad people have stars. [00:22:40] Speaker B: Harvey Weinstein. [00:22:42] Speaker A: Hey, look, you did it too. It happens. What's your third pick? [00:22:48] Speaker B: My third pick, this is actually my guest pick. This is from. [00:22:51] Speaker A: Damn, your guest pick made top three. [00:22:54] Speaker B: Yes. It's iconic. I had to listen to her. [00:22:58] Speaker A: You had to listen to. [00:22:59] Speaker B: She actually lived in California. Have we lived in California? [00:23:02] Speaker A: I've been. [00:23:03] Speaker B: You've been. She lived there. She knows it's going to be the California bear. It's on the flag. It has one of the coolest flags. It's an icon of California. [00:23:12] Speaker A: Is it very cool bear specifically? [00:23:15] Speaker B: Yes. California bear. That's pretty much what it's known as. It's the state animal, the grizzly bear. Fun fact, grizzly bears haven't even been in California since 1924 because we killed them all. [00:23:26] Speaker A: Hell yeah. America. [00:23:27] Speaker B: And then they made it the state animal. But the California grizzly bear, it's iconic. It's all in the flag. I mean, everybody knows it. [00:23:35] Speaker A: Yeah. What are the words on the flag? [00:23:39] Speaker B: California Republic. [00:23:40] Speaker A: California Republic. I wanted to say the Republic of California. Yeah. That is a pretty solid pick. Cali bear. [00:23:46] Speaker B: So that's my third one, and now it's my fourth one. [00:23:48] Speaker A: Fourth pick, sir. [00:23:49] Speaker B: So where do I go with four? Where do I go with four? I've already kind of generalized myself out of maybe some of my picks. [00:23:57] Speaker A: Maybe you go with a person, maybe a Gavin Newsom type. [00:24:02] Speaker B: I'm going to go with Silicon Valley. Silicon Valley. I mean, every major. Yeah. [00:24:10] Speaker A: If you want to be judged for sure, go there. Me and you would not last, like, every major minute. [00:24:17] Speaker B: Invention or technological advancement of the past, like, 25 years has originated out of there. [00:24:23] Speaker A: They should rename it to Gatekeep City. [00:24:25] Speaker B: I mean, apple, Google. Yahoo. [00:24:30] Speaker A: Yahoo. You remember when that was all around. [00:24:34] Speaker B: Yeah. Used to be a Super bowl commercial, but, yeah, Silicon Valley. Every great piece of technology from there. I think it's iconic for California. That's my fourth pick. [00:24:43] Speaker A: That's pretty solid. [00:24:44] Speaker B: Pretty solid. [00:24:47] Speaker A: My fourth pick is going to be Disneyland. [00:24:50] Speaker B: I had it on my list. That's a good pick. [00:24:51] Speaker A: Yeah, I went there. [00:24:52] Speaker B: I mean, it is the inferior. [00:24:55] Speaker A: It definitely is the inferior, but it's pretty cool. They now have some marvel stuff that the other one does. So now they're not doing them like identical, but with less. They're doing different at each. So now it's almost like a money grab. Force you into going to both, but, yeah, that's pretty cool. Disneyland. It's an attraction. I would say that everybody should go once in their life to both, at least at this pretty. Both places are pretty cool. A lot of fun. Obviously iconic. I think that's kind of what we're going with. [00:25:30] Speaker B: Not a bad pick, right? [00:25:32] Speaker A: What you got for. [00:25:33] Speaker B: It's your fifth pick. You get the fifth. [00:25:35] Speaker A: I know, I'm trying to think. I was trying to stall. Can you not be so smart? There's a lot of ways to go, man. My fifth pick. I'm going to go with Napa Valley. [00:25:48] Speaker B: Oh, that was going to be my pick. [00:25:50] Speaker A: Another good location. Another iconic location. It's wine country, as they say. We're going up to wine country. It's not going to be a big deal. Napa Valley. Get you some good drink going on. Get you some somaliers telling you about some oak flavors, some apple scents, and some notes of tree bark, making you feel good about your $780.06 ounce flight of wine. Napa Valley is my fifth pick. [00:26:20] Speaker B: It's not a bad pick. Not a bad pick. I have a lot of ways I can go. There's fast food. I could go iconic fast food. [00:26:26] Speaker A: Like, never mind. [00:26:28] Speaker B: Not even the one you're thinking of. There's an even more iconic one that's from California. [00:26:32] Speaker A: The ice cream one. [00:26:33] Speaker B: No, but I'm going to go nature. I'm going to go the giant redwoods as my fifth pick. The trees, if you ever have seen them, they're like, unbelievably big. They're like a natural wonder where it's like, how the fuck did this? [00:26:50] Speaker A: Aren't they all like a couple of hundred years old? [00:26:52] Speaker B: Yeah, they're all super old, super tall. [00:26:54] Speaker A: Super wide, and they're still all growing, right? Or not all, but there's. [00:26:58] Speaker B: But there's a whole forest of. It's like, unfathomable how big they are. It's a very cool thing to see. Yes. That's my fifth and final pick. Do you have any good honorable mentions? [00:27:08] Speaker A: I didn't want to pick it because we were choosing violence for whatever reason, for the top five. So I stayed away from Comic Con. San Diego Comic Con. [00:27:19] Speaker B: I would have roasted you. [00:27:20] Speaker A: Right. But I mean, it is a big thing in California. George Lucas is from California. [00:27:27] Speaker B: It's not a bad. [00:27:27] Speaker A: Tony Stark. [00:27:28] Speaker B: Tony Stark. [00:27:29] Speaker A: Arnold Schwarzenegger. The governor. He's not from there, obviously, but he's a governor. [00:27:34] Speaker B: I had Ronald Reagan, Alcatraz. [00:27:36] Speaker A: I had Alcatraz. [00:27:37] Speaker B: Ronald Reagan, governor of California. In and out burger. But McDonald's was started in California. [00:27:45] Speaker A: Was it started or stolen? [00:27:47] Speaker B: It was started. The first McDonald's. [00:27:48] Speaker A: Where was it stolen? [00:27:49] Speaker B: The first McDonald's was in California. The first franchise, I believe, was in, like, Indiana or something. That's stolen. [00:27:57] Speaker A: Golden Gate Bridge obviously skateboards. [00:28:00] Speaker B: The dude from Big Lebowski, Death Valley. Avocados. Like, 90% of America's avocados come from California. [00:28:08] Speaker A: Big Bear, National park. [00:28:09] Speaker B: Big bear. There's some good ones, but the gold rush. The gold rush. [00:28:13] Speaker A: 49 ers, lakers. You said sports teams. So that kind of wrapped them all up into one. [00:28:19] Speaker B: So let's recap. My number one was. [00:28:23] Speaker A: See, even when you're laughing about it. [00:28:25] Speaker B: You understand how stupid it is. It's a great pick. California professional sports teams. Number two, Hollywood. Number three, the California bear. Number four, Silicon Valley. Number five, the giant redwoods. [00:28:39] Speaker A: Overall, that is a solid top five, even though number one is a foolish pick. Number one, Kobe Bryant. Number two, Hollywood sign. Number three, the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Number four, Disneyland, and number five, Napa Valley. I'd like to follow it up to say that I did have a few bottom five of California's on my list. [00:29:00] Speaker B: We had homelessness, Gavin Newsom, as you mentioned earlier. [00:29:02] Speaker A: Gavin Newsom. Corruption, taxes, liberals, and that is all. [00:29:11] Speaker B: Well, there you have it, California top. [00:29:13] Speaker A: Five. [00:29:19] Speaker B: Second pay per view of the year is here. It's in Anaheim, California, and it's this weekend. UFC 298 has a great main card, a title fight, a lot of big names on it. And we're going to start off with the main card opener, the pay per view opener. And it's Roman Copylov, the 32 year old Russian, taking on Anthony Hernandez, the 30 year old American, Copylov. Twelve and two. Hernandez, eleven and two. What do you think about this fight? [00:29:47] Speaker A: This is a fun one. The traditional clash of styles. You got fluffy Hernandez coming in with two ko victories, seven subs, two decisions. [00:29:58] Speaker B: Yeah, I think this is just kind of like one of the fights we talked about in the last card, the opener of that main card. [00:30:05] Speaker A: Oh, Vieira Petrosian. [00:30:06] Speaker B: It was a obvious striker taking on a ground guy, but a ground guy that has some hands, too, because I think Hernandez has some hands. [00:30:15] Speaker A: One of the things that kind of paints the picture for why this matchup was made is the two career Roman Kopolov losses. One submission, one decision shows that he's weaker on the ground than he is because he's never been finished any other type of way than submission. Obviously, he's a KO artist with eleven. [00:30:36] Speaker B: Ko victories coming off of a nice body ko. [00:30:38] Speaker A: He's never subbed anybody. So it's that kind of deficiency that they want to test. They want to know, can he be trusted to move on? Because everybody in the top ten of the middleweight division can throw down. Yeah, everybody can knock somebody out. But can you wrestle? Can you keep it interesting on the ground? Or is somebody like Renato Moikino just going to lay on you for 15 minutes like you did against Drew Dober and win the fight that way? No, they want competition, and this is how you root it out. I think Anthony Hernandez is going to win. [00:31:14] Speaker B: The fight could be his fifth straight win. [00:31:16] Speaker A: If he wins, defend his number 14 rank in the middleweight division. And I think he's going to do that because he's only ever really been tested in a couple of fights heavily, but he can knock people out when he needs to. He's a submission artist. I think he's got what it takes to beat Roman Kopilov this weekend. [00:31:37] Speaker B: I actually agree with you on this one. [00:31:39] Speaker A: God damn it. [00:31:40] Speaker B: Here we think. I think it's going to be a case where he can hang, Hernandez can hang on the feet. He can more than hold himself on the feet. I know Kopilov is great on the feet striking, but Hernandez, his ground game is going to be the difference. And I think because of that, I'm picking Hernandez as well. [00:31:58] Speaker A: Let's go. Did we look out how to say Marab's last name? [00:32:03] Speaker B: We did not. And I think even if I looked it up, it would be hard for me to say, all right, let's call Marab the machine. Everybody knows who we're talking about. [00:32:11] Speaker A: Ranked two in the bantamweight division. [00:32:14] Speaker B: Arguably, he should be getting a title shot, but he stupidly. In fact, Dana White said he would get a title shot, but he didn't want to fight Aljo. [00:32:21] Speaker A: He's such an idiot. An idiot in the terms of I don't want to fight my friend for the belt. Amen. If I'm the number two and you're the number one and it stands for me to get paid, we got to. [00:32:32] Speaker B: Do what we got to do. [00:32:33] Speaker A: We got to do what we got to do. I'll love you. To the end of time, Dana was. [00:32:36] Speaker B: Pretty much saying it's like plenty of guys and friends have fought each other in UFC. [00:32:39] Speaker A: Yeah, look at last week. Danny gay, Andrew touchy feely, but he's. [00:32:44] Speaker B: Taking on Henry Cejudo. Cejudo. I mean, say what you want about the guy. He has one of the best resumes in mixed martial arts history, including an Olympic gold medal. [00:32:53] Speaker A: Yeah, look, he's coming off a loss to Ajermaine Sterling, but prior to that he had three kos in a row. [00:32:59] Speaker B: But the only problem was those three kos were all in 2020, 2019. [00:33:04] Speaker A: You're right. [00:33:04] Speaker B: He had one fight since then and it was last year and he lost to Aljo. So how's he going to look? He's 37 years old. Does he still have it? He's taking on a guy, Marab, who? Cardio is his main weapon. He's just going to wear guys out. [00:33:19] Speaker A: Yeah, the man's got twelve decision victories. He's got lungs for. [00:33:22] Speaker B: He just wears on you. And he just keeps coming. And look what he did to Peter yon in his last fight. [00:33:28] Speaker A: Yeah, he just dominated. [00:33:30] Speaker B: We've seen Peter Yon lose. We've never seen him get dominated. Morocco just dominated. [00:33:34] Speaker A: Right. Watching that fight, it made Peter Yon look washed. [00:33:38] Speaker B: Yeah, it was like, how is Peter Yon washed? [00:33:40] Speaker A: Because Peter Yon lost Al Jermaine Sterling to a little legal knee. So it was like, oh, well, he's up there at the top. [00:33:47] Speaker B: And then he had a controversial loss to Sean O'Malley. Right, which a lot of people had Jan winning the fight, but you could have gave it to O'Malley. [00:33:53] Speaker A: But then you go to this fight and it's like a completely different guy and it's like, no, this guy doesn't change. I think that shows one year how. [00:34:00] Speaker B: Crazy Morab's cardio is and how good he is. And Cejudo, though, he has very good game plans. He has a lot of iq, mma. So how's he going to game plan. [00:34:12] Speaker A: And look, I guess to Cejudo's credit, even when he's not fighting, he's around the fights. He's always a coach. He's in somebody's videos where he breaks. [00:34:21] Speaker B: Down fights and he's very good at right. He sees things and talks about things. [00:34:25] Speaker A: Like, oh, shit, he underscores their minds. So it's not to say that he can't come out and win. [00:34:30] Speaker B: He makes the most out of his talent. [00:34:31] Speaker A: I just think Morab is the fresher fighter. I think Marab is going to come out and win. A little stat for you. Marab is eight and O since 2018 is the favorite. Another kind of bad stat to back that one up, though. So Hudo is three and O since 2018 as the favorite. So I don't know, but I'm going to go with my gut. [00:34:54] Speaker B: Yeah, I think the machine, Marab, I think. There you go. [00:35:01] Speaker A: The machine, he's a guy rising. [00:35:03] Speaker B: Cejudo. I don't want to say he's going down, but he's kind of think, you know, he's had his peak in his career. It's like a Marab. [00:35:10] Speaker A: All right, moving on. [00:35:12] Speaker B: Another hatable fighter coming up. [00:35:14] Speaker A: For you or for me? [00:35:15] Speaker B: I think in general, a lot of people don't like this guy. Yeah, I liked him, but he's very talented. He's a very good fighter. [00:35:21] Speaker A: Liked him a lot up until like July. [00:35:26] Speaker B: If you just didn't know anything about, like, I would love him. If I just watched his fights, I would love him. [00:35:32] Speaker A: We got Jeff hands of Steel Neil in the welterweight division, taking on the undefeated Ian the future Gary. 13 and seven kos, one submission, five decisions. [00:35:44] Speaker B: Superstar. [00:35:46] Speaker A: He's replacing Connor, who won't fight McGregor. Maybe. We'll see. Can he take on and win against Jeff Neal, who's 15 and five? He has nine ko victories, two submissions, four decisions. [00:35:59] Speaker B: I mean, he's seven and three in the UFC. Jeff Neal's like a lot of people don't I'm not going to say respect him, but he has an impressive resume. He's a guy that you can't mess around with. [00:36:08] Speaker A: No, they do kind of not respect him, though. They don't talk shit on him, but when they're choosing his fights, they do the whole gatekeeper thing. You're going to be the stepping stone for my new highlight. And they make him fight everybody, which is good for Jeff Neal. It kind of proves that he is that dude most of the time. I think this is one of the times where he's not in Gary's six and the UFC. Three kos, three decisions. His striking is good, his ground game is solid. This fight can go either way in terms of being a stand up fight or a mixture of a ground takedown sub type of fight. I think Ian Gary is going to go 14 and ods are looking minus 235 for a reason. I'm not ballsy enough at this point in our brand new season to say, oh, he's going to win by knockout. He pulled out of his last fight, so I don't know why Ian Gary did that, but I think he's going to come out strong and win this fight. [00:37:15] Speaker B: Yeah, I got Ian Gary as well. I think he moved seven. No, I think he, despite what everybody thinks about him, he's a great and he's a talented fighter and I think he can compete at the top of the division. So let's move to the comain now from a fighter a lot of people don't like to. I think a fighter everybody loves. [00:37:35] Speaker A: Robert the Reaper Whitaker, that's the one everybody loves. [00:37:39] Speaker B: He's the one everybody loves. Bobby knuckles, 24 and 70, is coming off of a surprising knockout loss to Dracos, middleweight champ. [00:37:48] Speaker A: Though now, at this point, we can't, even if we don't like it. [00:37:52] Speaker B: So his only recent losses are to Adesanya and champion champ and to Draco. [00:37:57] Speaker A: So it's like, okay, yeah, I mean, the dude's a killer. Robert Whitaker is a dog. [00:38:04] Speaker B: And he's taking on Paulo Costa, who 14 and two, great record was twelve and he's lost two out of his last three. He did win his last fight against Luke Rockhold. I mean, gassed in that fight, dude. It was a slug fest, but yes, they were. By the end of it, neither one of them could even stand up straight. [00:38:21] Speaker A: So he does that against Robert Whitaker. [00:38:23] Speaker B: Robert is killing him, I think. [00:38:24] Speaker A: So. If Paolo Costa, Paulo Costa has to go to decision with Luke Rockhold, what does a fresh out of a good camp Robert Whitaker do. What does Bobby knuckles do? I think Bobby knuckles finishes Costa. [00:38:42] Speaker B: I think so, too. I think he's going to outbox him, frustrate him, and then catch him like Izzy did. [00:38:47] Speaker A: Right. [00:38:48] Speaker B: And just beat the shit out of him. [00:38:49] Speaker A: Because at this point, Costa is kind know he's in. You know, he's. The UFC's not very happy with. [00:38:55] Speaker B: Costa's got to prove he still has it. [00:38:57] Speaker A: Right. [00:38:58] Speaker B: He's been overweight until he does that. [00:39:00] Speaker A: Not overweight, but he's know coming in lazy a lot of times, like you said to me before, a lot of talent, but he's wasting it. [00:39:09] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:39:10] Speaker A: He's either got to be serious about it or not. And I think that's what we're going to see here, is that Robert Whitaker is going to come out very serious because he got beat last time, and we're going to have to see what Costa does. I don't think he's going to stand up to the challenge. I think Robert Whitaker wins. [00:39:27] Speaker B: Agreed. So let's move on to the main event now. [00:39:29] Speaker A: Alexander the great Volkanovsky. And he returns through and through again, turns to featherweight, defending his featherweight title against El Matador, Ilya Toporia, who's a scary guy. [00:39:44] Speaker B: He's an impressive guy. Undefeated 14 and seven and O in the UFC. [00:39:51] Speaker A: So Volk, is this where Volk goes. [00:39:53] Speaker B: Down, or is he still. How bad is. What's his response to getting Koed? [00:39:58] Speaker A: All right, so Volk is 26 and three, right? [00:40:01] Speaker B: 26 and three. [00:40:02] Speaker A: His two losses in the UFC in the past eleven, 1011 years were to Islam. [00:40:08] Speaker B: He's 13 and two in the UFC. [00:40:10] Speaker A: So his only two losses in the. [00:40:12] Speaker B: UFC, two fights against Islam, were only. [00:40:16] Speaker A: Two losses in the UFC. Two of three losses in his career. His first loss in his career was in 2013. Pre haircut. That's important to mention. A lot of fighters. Pre haircut change. Post haircut. [00:40:28] Speaker B: Yes. That is a stat, people. [00:40:31] Speaker A: We're paying attention. [00:40:32] Speaker B: I mean, Volk is. With his resume, it's hard to beat the goat against 145. [00:40:37] Speaker A: I think close Ods -130 for Volk, plus 110 for Toporia. But who has Toporia fought? He's beaten. Notable names are the two. I'll say, bryce Mitchell and Josh Emmett. [00:40:49] Speaker B: But he finishes, guys. [00:40:51] Speaker A: He finishes. [00:40:51] Speaker B: He submitted Bryce Mitchell, which is like a. [00:40:53] Speaker A: He did. He didn't finish Josh Emmett. [00:40:55] Speaker B: Yeah, he didn't finish Josh Emmett, but. [00:40:57] Speaker A: We thought that Josh Emmett was going to be, like, kind of washed his last fight, and then he came out and like you said, he reset Bryce Mitchell. [00:41:06] Speaker B: I've never seen somebody get knocked out like that from hands. [00:41:10] Speaker A: Yeah, that was bad. Bad. [00:41:11] Speaker B: That was crazy. [00:41:12] Speaker A: That was like a video, man. [00:41:14] Speaker B: Like a guy not fighting a non fighter, getting punched by a fighter. [00:41:18] Speaker A: Yeah, it was bad. It's hard to bet against Volk. Toporia is on a six fight win streak and he is talking some mad shit. [00:41:28] Speaker B: He is talking a lot of mad shit. [00:41:30] Speaker A: I think Toporia has kind of a better, a slight advantage in know on the ground. But Volk didn't lose to Islam. He didn't lose to Makachev by submission. He lost to him by decision. [00:41:49] Speaker B: Yeah, but that's all he was focused going to. It's not going to be always focused on right here. So he could catch Volk in different positions in Islam quadruple. [00:41:58] Speaker A: I think Volk going back to his home in the featherweight division is going to do exactly what he needs. I think he's going to win. I think Volk retains his belt and I think he takes 2024 and just a defense, a defend his belt type of year. He's not going to be going back up to try to take a third shot against Makachev or anybody. I think he's just going to sit in featherweight. [00:42:23] Speaker B: Well, he didn't say Islam, but he said 155 is definitely on the table still. [00:42:28] Speaker A: Yeah. Who are you going to fight? Michael Chandler. [00:42:31] Speaker B: Well, I mean, if he doesn't want to cut weight anymore, he can move to the, he stay there. [00:42:35] Speaker A: Yeah, no, yeah, he'll definitely do. He just doesn't need to fight Makachev anymore for sure. I think Volkanovsky is going to win. I think he's going to retain his belt and I think he just has what it takes. [00:42:47] Speaker B: I'm going to take a leap of faith. Since this is the first week and I lost last season by one game and picks, I got to start taking more leaps of faith. My initial gut feeling and my initial gut feeling is there's something happens when you get to a certain age in MMA and you lose, even if it's losses where it's against great guys. I think those losses and Volk being 35, that's usually around the time careers start turning down. I think Toporia might be the challenger in 145 to finally get Volk. Volk's not unbeatable anymore. People have seen him lost. Yes, it was against a great guy, but it put something in your mind. I think Deporia rises to the occasion and this is a new era in this division. [00:43:32] Speaker A: I got Ilya Deporia. [00:43:34] Speaker B: I think he might knock Alexander Volkanowski out. Fourth round. Fifth round. [00:43:40] Speaker A: We'll see. All right, stakes and takes. Let's wrap up season one. How'd you do last week in UFC Christian? [00:44:01] Speaker B: I did about as average as you can get. Three wins, three losses. Honestly, really? That Joe Piper loss, we both had it, but that one hurt. [00:44:11] Speaker A: Yeah, I did four. That's probably the fight I was most. [00:44:13] Speaker B: Confident in on this card. [00:44:15] Speaker A: It really was. I thought that was kind of my favorite fight coming in, was that one. [00:44:20] Speaker B: And then I also picked. [00:44:22] Speaker A: Bryce Jack. Bryce Jack. Brick check. [00:44:24] Speaker B: Brick check. Yes. [00:44:25] Speaker A: Yeah, he lost. [00:44:26] Speaker B: And then I picked. This is a dumb pick, too. Darius flowers over Michael Johnson. [00:44:30] Speaker A: Yeah. Watching tape on him. [00:44:32] Speaker B: All the guys I picked got finishes, though. I'll take that. [00:44:34] Speaker A: It was good. It was a good fight card. I went four and two. You went three and three. We had Super Bowl. I went one and o on the Super bowl. Let's go, Chiefs. Three Super bowl rings for Patrick Mahomes. [00:44:46] Speaker B: Yeah. Impressive. [00:44:47] Speaker A: You want to break down that game right after we. Not break down. Little recap right after we go over our picks. [00:44:53] Speaker B: Yeah, but, yeah, I had that, too, obviously the game, but I had the 49 ers and they lost. Heart breaking fashion. That's when the 49 ers, they got to be. That one's got to hurt because they could have easily won that game. [00:45:05] Speaker A: Yeah, they could have. It was up there for them to win, for sure. [00:45:08] Speaker B: And then I think we did each. Did four. Pick your own picks? [00:45:11] Speaker A: Yes, I did four. NBA. I went two and two. I thought the Pelicans were going to beat the Lakers. They didn't. And I thought the Nuggets were going to beat the Kings. Dude, the Kings beat the Nuggets by like 32 points or 27 points. [00:45:24] Speaker B: It was a lot happens. [00:45:25] Speaker A: It was a lot. NBA, what did you do for yours? [00:45:28] Speaker B: So I did three. Soccer, one college basketball, how to work. [00:45:33] Speaker A: Out. [00:45:36] Speaker B: Two wins, two losses. So, still average. [00:45:38] Speaker A: Okay. Just not a great week overall. Yeah. [00:45:41] Speaker B: So this one I had Man City winning over Everton. They won. I had Arsenal beating West Ham. They dominated. [00:45:48] Speaker A: The one that really had six goals. [00:45:51] Speaker B: Yeah. It was crazy. [00:45:51] Speaker A: That was a monster performance. [00:45:53] Speaker B: It was a great performance from them. The one that really. [00:45:55] Speaker A: Did anybody get a hat trick or double or anything? [00:45:58] Speaker B: Soccer, I believe. [00:45:59] Speaker A: Cool. [00:46:00] Speaker B: He got a brace, not a hat trick. So that's two braces. [00:46:02] Speaker A: Two. [00:46:03] Speaker B: Two goals. [00:46:03] Speaker A: What do they call a single? Just goal. [00:46:05] Speaker B: Just a goal. [00:46:07] Speaker A: Sick. [00:46:09] Speaker B: But then the loss that really fucked me was Barcelona losing to almost last place Granada. Now, they didn't lose three three, but that's pretty much a loss. [00:46:17] Speaker A: And look, for me to know they drew, that must be important because I was nail biting. [00:46:21] Speaker B: Three. Three, and they almost lost. [00:46:22] Speaker A: I was nail biting because that single pick. Well, I guess the Super bowl was technically the final pick of the weekend. It was a Super bowl, but the final two picks for you. Barcelona beating Granada. [00:46:38] Speaker B: Drew with Granada. [00:46:39] Speaker A: Yeah. Or your pick was them beating. [00:46:41] Speaker B: They're both heartbreaking. And the 49 ers lose. [00:46:43] Speaker A: And 49 ers lose. [00:46:44] Speaker B: That's how you won season one. [00:46:46] Speaker A: Caused us. [00:46:50] Speaker B: By the way, Gonzaga losing to Kentucky and Gonzaga, in fact, beat Kentucky. [00:46:55] Speaker A: Right. Yeah. Caused me to win 210 picks to 112 losses. Christian had 209 wins and 113 losses. It was an impeccable first. [00:47:08] Speaker B: Literally one game. [00:47:09] Speaker A: That's one game. But that just goes to show you. [00:47:12] Speaker B: And it was a Super bowl in overtime. [00:47:15] Speaker A: That just goes to show you how everything is everything. It's the perfect name. Split decision. It's this close all the time for bets. Last week, I did four and one. I got wrong. Not a lot. It was more just frustrating because the Nuggets, like I said, got beat by the Kings. I know it happens, but it's frustrating because it's the joker. He's been so dominant. They've been so good all season, and they just got blown out. Went four and one on bets. Chiefs three. UFC bets. Robocop, Potaria, Viera. And then we tied. Same amount of 90 wins. [00:47:58] Speaker B: Yeah, because I went three and two. [00:47:59] Speaker A: Last week and I just wanted there to be some sort of concern. [00:48:04] Speaker B: And again, the 49, the Super bowl, if the Super bowl wins, goes the other way. Niners. [00:48:08] Speaker A: You win, you win both. Yeah. [00:48:10] Speaker B: That's crazy. Right. [00:48:11] Speaker A: But see, that just goes to show you can't bet against the Chiefs. [00:48:14] Speaker B: Yeah. That's literally the last time. Well, I even said it coming in, and I was like, this is stupid. [00:48:19] Speaker A: There was a couple weeks prior to that where you bet against the Chiefs as well, and I just never did. Yeah, I think that's kind of the rule moving forward, is you just don't bet against. [00:48:31] Speaker B: I kept saying that to myself, that I was rooting against them, and I let my emotions take hold of me. [00:48:35] Speaker A: This is going to be a good season, though. Before we get into this season's antics and what we're going to do, let's talk Super Bowl 58. Heartbreaking loss for the 49 ers. [00:48:45] Speaker B: 100 second Super bowl. This is the second time they played the Chiefs in, what, four years in the Super bowl. [00:48:50] Speaker A: Yeah. They played 2022nd time. [00:48:52] Speaker B: They've blown a ten point lead every Super bowl. [00:48:55] Speaker A: That Patrick Mahomes won, has won with a ten point. Yeah, dip point deficit. [00:49:01] Speaker B: They came back. They won in overtime. Mahomes was clutch, Kelsey. He wasn't doing much the whole game. In the end, he ended up being clutch. [00:49:08] Speaker A: Hey, if you got to rub up on Andy Reid to get that juju back, you got to rub up on Andy Reid to get that juju back. My boy does what he got to do. I'm going to say it. I don't think Patrick Mahomes is on his way to a dynasty. [00:49:24] Speaker B: Well, no, he is. Their dynasty, three out of four. [00:49:27] Speaker A: I think they were a dynasty before then. [00:49:30] Speaker B: They pretty much are, but now it's. [00:49:31] Speaker A: Like, now it's definite. [00:49:32] Speaker B: He's like literally one of the best quarterbacks ever. [00:49:34] Speaker A: Now I know he meant tracking to be better. Like everybody's saying, oh, he's tracking to be better than Tom Brady. He is. He's already better than Tom Brady. [00:49:43] Speaker B: Well, he's better than Tom Brady was. At what age? 28? [00:49:46] Speaker A: He's like 28. He's won three Super Bowls. 28, three Super Bowls. I'm 29. I've won none. [00:49:55] Speaker B: I got a lot of work to do. [00:49:57] Speaker A: I've got debt and things and Bills. [00:50:01] Speaker B: But yeah, Mahomes. I mean, I like my job, but. [00:50:03] Speaker A: I'm not an MVP quarterback of the Super bowl. Two out of three years. [00:50:08] Speaker B: Don't ever let me bet against Patrick Mahomes. Andy Reid. [00:50:12] Speaker A: I'm going to remember this. If we ever do like heavy, heavy bet plays, don't bet against Mahomes. Always, whatever he's on, do the over. Fun fact, though. [00:50:24] Speaker B: Always pick the russian Muslim and always bet Patrick Mahomes. [00:50:28] Speaker A: I was in the UFC. In the UFC, always pick the russian Muslim and then always go with Patrick Mahomes. Those are two things we have learned in the 32 episodes of split decision. [00:50:41] Speaker B: All right, so picks this week or bets this week? [00:50:44] Speaker A: Let's jump into bets this week. Little change of how we're going to do them because we don't want another tie. [00:50:50] Speaker B: We're going to dictate the units on season one. I mean season two, week one. [00:50:56] Speaker A: Week one. This is going to run it up now. This season is going to run from now until week one or the, I guess, preseason, week four, week three of the NFL. [00:51:11] Speaker B: I would say week one of college football. [00:51:13] Speaker A: Okay, whatever. Week. [00:51:15] Speaker B: The week before. [00:51:15] Speaker A: Wait, does week zero count for week one? [00:51:19] Speaker B: No. Week r1, week one. [00:51:22] Speaker A: So week one will be the start of the next season. Week zero will be the last week of this season. [00:51:28] Speaker B: Pretty much labor Day. Now till Labor Day. [00:51:31] Speaker A: So season two, week one, what do you have for your bets, sir? [00:51:38] Speaker B: So did you explain the units we're doing? [00:51:40] Speaker A: I figured you could just say it. [00:51:41] Speaker B: They would each going to do ten units a week picking our bets the same exact way. We're just putting more units if we want to put a unit on, if we're that confident in the bets. With that being said, out of my five bets, I'm going to spread evenly. Two units each one. So just keep that in mind as I read these off. I got three mma and two soccer this week. [00:52:04] Speaker A: I got three mma as well. [00:52:06] Speaker B: Okay, so my mma ones I got Robert Whitaker. Moneyline. Minus 225. Again, two units. [00:52:12] Speaker A: I've got Whitaker. [00:52:13] Speaker B: I got Ian Gary Moneyline minus 235. [00:52:16] Speaker A: Same. [00:52:17] Speaker B: And I got Marab. -195. [00:52:19] Speaker A: Nice. I have Volk. [00:52:21] Speaker B: All those money lines. [00:52:22] Speaker A: Moneyline as well. My UFC bets. Ian Gary Moneyline. Whitaker Moneyline. I put three units apiece on both of those. I'm a little bit more confident than you. Volk. I bet him did one unit on that one moneyline as well. I think he's going to win, but it's better ods and I'm a little less. I'm more nervous, I guess I should say, about that. Pick. Overall, what do you have for soccer? You said you had two soccer. [00:52:51] Speaker B: Two soccer. [00:52:51] Speaker A: I have two college basketball. [00:52:54] Speaker B: Okay, so my two soccer. I got the Arsenal Moneyline over burnley -300 and the Ix Amsterdam Moneyline over Ned Jamine. NEC minus 245. [00:53:06] Speaker A: I'm proud of you for at least attempting to say that correctly. I'll never be able to correct you because I'll never say that correctly myself. I got two basketballs. Texas Tech over Iowa State this weekend. I got one unit on that one. I think with how good their defense has been, they've beaten several top 25 teams already this season. I think they're going to walk in. [00:53:29] Speaker B: Coming off of a big win. There's going to be a game between us. They're playing, but they just beat the shit out of Kansas. [00:53:37] Speaker A: Yeah, but I think they're going to win. I got one unit on them beating Iowa State and then Kansas I think is going to beat Oklahoma State. I got two units on that. Both of those teams are Oklahoma, not Oklahoma State. Yeah, sorry, I forget that. You can't say the state on everybody. I got Kansas beating Oklahoma. Both of those teams lost to Texas Tech recently. But I think Kansas being the better team they're going to win here. I got two units on that one. College games are kind of weird because we're recording on Tuesday. Ods aren't really out yet, so we're going to get ODS as soon as they come out and they're going to be on the socials. [00:54:18] Speaker B: All right, so those are our five bets for week one. Let's move on. We're picking our own picks. [00:54:24] Speaker A: Pick my own pick. [00:54:25] Speaker B: So we did five mma. We're going to do even ten picks overall. [00:54:28] Speaker A: So that's five. [00:54:29] Speaker B: Pick your own picks. I have four soccer and one college basketball. [00:54:34] Speaker A: I went straight all five college basketball. Do your soccer first because I think we talked about it earlier and we have an intersecting college. [00:54:42] Speaker B: Yes, we do. Cool. [00:54:43] Speaker A: So talk about all your soccer and then we'll go to the all college route. [00:54:47] Speaker B: So my first soccer bet, I mean, pick game I'm bringing to the table is Arsenal versus Burnley. I picked Arsenal, my bet earlier, obviously. So obviously I'm picking them to win that man. [00:55:01] Speaker A: If they score another six goals, that would be nuts. [00:55:03] Speaker B: It's possible. Burnley is near bottom of the table. [00:55:06] Speaker A: Oh, so you're just trying to get an advantage early on in the season against. [00:55:12] Speaker B: I've been picking Arsenal every week. [00:55:13] Speaker A: That's fair. You have done them several weeks. [00:55:15] Speaker B: The other ones. Yes. [00:55:16] Speaker A: Though. Fair enough. [00:55:18] Speaker B: I got Ix Amsterdam. As I said earlier, they are playing NEC nejamine. I have Ajax winning that one. Then I go to the England second division, the championship it's called. I got Leicester City playing Middlesboro. I got Leicester City winning that one. And then I go to France. I got Leo taking on Laharre. I got Leo winning that one. [00:55:44] Speaker A: How do you spell Leo? L-I-L-L-E. Do you think I'd know anybody on their team? [00:55:50] Speaker B: No, probably not. [00:55:52] Speaker A: Okay. All right, well, I guess I'll learn this weekend when I watch their game. Yes. [00:55:57] Speaker B: And then I think we're going to jump to college of basketball because as you said, I think we have one of the same college of basketball picks. [00:56:05] Speaker A: Yeah. Well, you want to do that one first? You want me to jump to my earlier in the day on Saturday picks? Because I think your early day picks. [00:56:15] Speaker B: And then we'll end on our joint pick. [00:56:18] Speaker A: I got Texas Tech at Iowa State. Iowa State's ranked ten, but I think Texas Tech has been playing very well lately. Pop Isaacs got like almost 17 points a game, beating Rashawn Gilbert's 13.9. They protected the ball a little bit better. So I think Texas Tech is going to win. I got that feeling. They beat Kansas. They've been playing very good teams. Yeah, they beat some good teams. I got Kansas versus Oklahoma. Both teams have lost to Texas Tech recently. That's kind of my thing this week is looking at Texas Tech a lot. Kansas needs to rebound strong because they only put up 50 points against Texas Tech. They lost 50 to 79. It's a bad, bad performance. Oklahoma also lost to them, like I said, but it was a high scoring game. It was like 84 to 83. The Jayhawks lead college basketball and assists, which is great. And Kansas has been just a way better team when Kevin McCullum Jr. Has played or played well. I think Kansas is going to win in this matchup against Oklahoma. Then we got Kentucky playing Auburn. Both are coming off losses here. Kentucky lost to Gonzaga, of course, like I said, recording this on Tuesday, Auburn lost to the Gators, both high scoring teams in the league this season. Kentucky kind of has a small favorite on points, points per game. They also lead the league in threes this season. First in the league in threes, which is pretty cool. [00:58:00] Speaker B: Is that the NCAA or NCAA? [00:58:03] Speaker A: Yeah, I'm going total college football. Basketball or basketball? Sorry, I'm so used to saying basketball. Auburn does have a slight advantage in rebounds and assists though, showing that they're playing kind of pass friendly ball with better defense. I still think Kentucky is going to win. And then right before our mix up pick, I got BYU versus Oklahoma State. BYU is 19th in points per game and second in the league in assists. Where Oklahoma is off of back to back losses, where Jackson Robinson is scoring 13.5 points per game and 3.4 rebounds per game. Jaron Small is scoring 14.2 points per game and 5.2 rebounds per game. Making me think BYU is going to kind of keep that rank of 19 or get a little bit better after this weekend's games. [00:58:59] Speaker B: So you're picking BYU. [00:59:01] Speaker A: BYU for the pick. Okay. [00:59:03] Speaker B: And now let's move on to the game we have in common. It's probably the best game of the weekend. Number one, Yukon. Number four, Marquette. This is the first meeting of the season. They do meet again in like two weeks. This one is in Connecticut. Yukon, as I said, number one, they've won their past five games. So is excited. I'm actually excited for this one. And I don't really get into college basketball yet. I got Yukon winning. I think they're the better team. Marquette's kind of. It's not the first year they've been good, but Yukon has been good for a while. Marquette's like a new team, I think. [00:59:40] Speaker A: Dude, Yukon hasn't lost since December. That's a long time. [00:59:46] Speaker B: 22 wins, two losses. They're twelve and one in the league too. [00:59:50] Speaker A: They're playing great defense. They've got a bunch of assists. They're passing the ball very often. [00:59:56] Speaker B: Biggie's basketball is back with it. This brings it back into prominence. [01:00:00] Speaker A: I don't know what that means. [01:00:01] Speaker B: Continues to be in prominence. It used to be like the best basketball league. Then the football changing of conferences happened like 20 years ago, ruined the league and then now it's kind of back. Basketball wise. [01:00:15] Speaker A: Marquette has been playing tough. If they're going to win, they have to protect the ball better than they've been protecting the ball. They've been having too many turnovers. [01:00:25] Speaker B: Where do you think Marquette is located at? [01:00:27] Speaker A: I have no idea. I didn't even pay attention when I was looking at it. [01:00:31] Speaker B: I was just curious. Wisconsin Milwaukee. [01:00:34] Speaker A: Their logo. Nothing about their name screams Wisconsin. [01:00:39] Speaker B: Yeah, no, no idea. [01:00:42] Speaker A: But I think Connecticut's going to win, if that's any consolation. [01:00:44] Speaker B: Yeah, I pick Yukon, too. [01:00:46] Speaker A: Sick. Well, look, that's our stakes and our takes for this week. [01:00:51] Speaker B: Not only is that stakes and takes, I think that's the episode for the week. [01:00:54] Speaker A: Episode 32 covers everything. [01:00:56] Speaker B: Think so? So check us out next week, episode 33. We're going to recap UFC 298, see if Volt keeps his title. We're going to look ahead. The UFC, Mexico City. We got Moreno, Roy, Val, two. [01:01:09] Speaker A: We're going to go be an interesting fight, dude. [01:01:12] Speaker B: We're going to go over the picks we just made and give you some new picks. [01:01:15] Speaker A: So check it out. Scratching scratches. [01:01:39] Speaker B: Close. [01:02:04] Speaker A: Satisfy heart.