Episode 36, UFC 299 O'Malley Trumps Vera, Top 5 Marches, and UFC Vegas 88 Tuivasa v Tybura, and More!

[00:00:08] Speaker A: All right, welcome back to split decision. This week on episode 36, we're gonna recap UFC 299. O'Malley is actually the first champion of 2024 not to lose his belt. After that, we're going to draft our top five marches, and at the apex this weekend, we've got fight night, UFC Vegas, 88 to Ivasa versus Tibura, and then we'll wrap everything up with stakes and takes. That's where we settle up our takes from last week and lock in our stakes for this week's games. Don't forget to, like, subscribe and head to splitdecisionpod.com. That's where you're going to find all of our recent podcast, our top fives, and more. Again, that is splitdecisionpod.com. All right, let's go ahead. [00:01:02] Speaker B: UFC 299. It's early, but it might be the card of the year. It had a lot of hype coming in. It delivered all the way from the prelims to the main card to the main event. [00:01:14] Speaker A: No, it was a very good fight card. I agree with that. It could easily be. It's definitely the best card of the year so far. It had the most hype behind. It had the best fighters going into it. It was good. I liked it. [00:01:27] Speaker B: I did, too. How'd the prelims go? Let's take a look at those real quick before we get into the main card. [00:01:33] Speaker A: Yeah, absolutely. So the prelims were great. Kyler Phillips, he entered the matrix against the young punisher, Pedro Munoz. They had a three round fight, ended with Munoz taking the red pill. He actually unplugged and lost the fight by split unanimous decision. [00:01:47] Speaker B: I think Phillips is a legit contender now, too, at 135. [00:01:51] Speaker A: Yeah, I rooted, not rooted against him. I picked against him just in who I thought was going to win and lose. I was wrong. I guess I took the red pill there as well. Next. After that, we saw the gamer Matus Gamrot toying with RDA. And that's not Richard Dean Anderson, that's Raphael dos Angios. [00:02:09] Speaker B: And, you know, RDA. He's older. He didn't look that old in the fight. He just got beat. No, he didn't lose because of his age, I don't think. [00:02:15] Speaker A: No, Gamerot just showed up. Absolutely. He did good Gamerot training with Poirier. Seems like that's a good training partner for them. [00:02:22] Speaker B: They american top team. [00:02:23] Speaker A: Yeah. Mutually beneficial. But Gamrot whipped out his controller and he played for his victory royale. He secured eleven out of 19 takedowns, which paved the way for his unanimous decision, win. After that, Macy Barber showed her future. [00:02:42] Speaker B: Living up to the hype. She's been talked about as a legit contender for a while. Had a little rough at the beginning of her career. A couple losses in a row since then. I think what, it's like four or five wins in a row now? [00:02:54] Speaker A: Yeah, I think four or five wins. She showed her futures bright. She took down the fighter formerly known as Caitlin Chukegi. [00:03:01] Speaker B: Yeah, that threw me off. [00:03:02] Speaker A: Yeah. I couldn't imagine on paper, because it's hard for me to say it now how hard it was for Anakin Rogan and all them to say sermonera. [00:03:11] Speaker B: Yeah, her new name, but yeah, she. [00:03:13] Speaker A: Took down the fighter formerly known as Caitlin Chukagan, the blonde fighter. Serenera didn't do anything to change her future. Losing to Macy Barber also by unanimous decision. Seemingly cocky into the second round. Gileton Almeida was on record takedown pace. [00:03:29] Speaker B: I think he's a heavyweight against one of the better heavyweight wrestlers in Curtis Blades, right? [00:03:37] Speaker A: Absolutely. It's very impressive, but like I said, kind of cocky going into the second round. [00:03:42] Speaker B: I mean, he was doing the same thing he's criticized for where he just takes him down and doesn't try to finish the fight right. And it came back to bite him. [00:03:49] Speaker A: He tried onto a single leg way too long. It paved the way for Curtis Blades to use those razor blades. [00:03:58] Speaker B: Hammer fist. Like a dent in his head, Dan. [00:04:01] Speaker A: Yeah, I mean, I always think that Jolton Almeida going at such a lightweight in the heavyweight division is an issue. [00:04:08] Speaker B: I mean, it was working for him until it is his game plan, I think. [00:04:11] Speaker A: Yeah, the game plan was definitely the big issue there. [00:04:14] Speaker B: He's got to start looking for finishes. [00:04:15] Speaker A: All right. But, yeah, that pretty much wraps up the prelims. [00:04:18] Speaker B: It was a very entertaining prelims, but nothing compared to this entertaining main card. And let's jump ahead to the main event first. Sean O'Malley. I think they said it multiple times during the broadcast. Maybe his most complete, dominant, beautiful performances against Cheeto. Vera didn't get the finish, but I mean, dominated the fight on the feet. [00:04:38] Speaker A: It's crazy that he still didn't even knock Cheeto down. [00:04:40] Speaker B: Cheeto's still never been knocked down. [00:04:42] Speaker A: That's nuts. [00:04:43] Speaker B: I don't know how Cheeto, I think it was in the second round, the knee to the face. O'Malley fractured his skull. Damn near fractured his skull. [00:04:50] Speaker A: I mean, I don't know how you. [00:04:52] Speaker B: Don'T get knocked out from that. [00:04:53] Speaker A: That's a near effortless belt defense, in my opinion. I mean, he won all five rounds. [00:05:00] Speaker B: I mean, he did what you want to do if you have what he said is a fluke loss to Cheeto. He came out and dominated him for five rounds. There was a split second in the final, like 10 seconds where Cheeto connected on a body shot. And right after the fight, O'Malley went to the ground. [00:05:14] Speaker A: Yeah, he even said in post fight, he said he rocked me with that body shot. [00:05:18] Speaker B: If that would have happened halfway through the fifth round, who knows what would have happened? [00:05:21] Speaker A: I mean, you could have easily seen a fight like, I mean, a few of the fights played out on the. [00:05:27] Speaker B: Dominated the whole time and then last. [00:05:29] Speaker A: 30 seconds or last two minutes of the fight, they lose. That's why mixed martial arts is really cool in my opinion. And it's dynamic. Like, we see the odds all the time. [00:05:39] Speaker B: One punch can change everything, right? [00:05:41] Speaker A: Money line really doesn't matter because all these guys, it takes one just perfect shot to end it. [00:05:46] Speaker B: But O'Malley, besides that, that's the alternate reality we're living in. He dominated the fight, won all five rounds. Even the fourth round where Cheeto came out strong for about the first minute and a half. Then O'Malley just took over the round again. Won that one. [00:05:59] Speaker A: Very strong showing. [00:06:00] Speaker B: I think it was 50 455-044-5044 maybe. [00:06:03] Speaker A: Yeah. Or maybe 250 45. Yeah. [00:06:06] Speaker B: Either way, it was every round for Sean O'Malley. A shutout, as they say. [00:06:09] Speaker A: So he called out Ilya Toporia, which. [00:06:13] Speaker B: I like that fight, but I think it's a little too early to start talking about double champ for him right now. [00:06:17] Speaker A: He's only defending the belt fight that's happening. I think he's fighting Marab next. [00:06:20] Speaker B: It has to be marab. Even in interviews after that, he even. [00:06:23] Speaker A: Said like, yeah, I'll fight Marab if I have to. [00:06:25] Speaker B: Yeah. And then a dark horse if it's not marab and not Ilya. Corey Sandhagen, that's always out there, he's deserving of a title shot. He's a guy. That would be a very entertaining fight between them two. [00:06:35] Speaker A: I could see it. [00:06:35] Speaker B: So I think any of those three, but I think Morab is the most deserving and most likely to happen. [00:06:41] Speaker A: Right. And after that, can we just jump straight into my favorite fight of 2024? Possibly. [00:06:48] Speaker B: I got the fight wrong and I've never been more happy to get a fight wrong. Dustin Porier knocked BSD Sandini out cold with the right hook. [00:06:59] Speaker A: So this was an emotional fight to start off. We've been nervous about these two fighters knowing that at some point they could cross paths. We did not think it was early. Yeah. And, I mean, there's a reasonable argument to say that Dustin didn't ever have to take the fight. He didn't have anything to prove. This guy. He gave him a chance. [00:07:19] Speaker B: But I like his said, you know, somebody gave me the shot. Eddie Alvarez, back in the day, I'm going to give this young dude the shot. Can he jump into the. Be a top contender? [00:07:28] Speaker A: Exactly. I like that. [00:07:29] Speaker B: BSD, to his credit, won the first round. I mean, he was taking Dustin down. He was holding Dustin down. He was winning the fight. [00:07:36] Speaker A: Well, let's be honest, Dustin was taking himself down a few times. Don't be silly. Jump. The know, the memes are just pouring out at this point. But Dustin said, you miss every guillotine. You don't jump. [00:07:47] Speaker B: He's missed every single one. He jumped in MMA. No offense to Dustin, but he's never got a finish by guillotine. [00:07:53] Speaker A: Hey, but he said he's going to keep trying until he does. Even if it's a 1% finish rate, he will. [00:07:57] Speaker B: He said, you never know. Maybe I get Islam with it. [00:08:00] Speaker A: That would be. [00:08:01] Speaker B: And then he laughed. [00:08:02] Speaker A: That would be sick. But, yeah, fantastic fight. It was like we said it was El Diamante in the end. Second round knockout, man. [00:08:09] Speaker B: When's the last time we've seen him? Like, he knocked Connor out with the. [00:08:12] Speaker A: Hands, but he knocked Connor out cold. [00:08:15] Speaker B: It wasn't just a one punch. [00:08:16] Speaker A: You're out cold, right? [00:08:17] Speaker B: He knocked BSD out, then got an extra punch in on the ground. Yeah, he did sweet. It was a comeback. The crowd liked it. [00:08:24] Speaker A: And he was the underdog, so a bunch of people made bunch of money on it. [00:08:29] Speaker B: Underdog, he started talking to everybody after the fight outside of the cage, from Donald Trump to Dana White, he said to Steve O, we saw in the crowd, he's talked to. [00:08:37] Speaker A: You know what that means, right? [00:08:39] Speaker B: What do you think that means? [00:08:40] Speaker A: Well, not the Steve o or Trump thing. That means for our theory, the haircuts. [00:08:46] Speaker B: The haircut he had, the vintage Dustin. [00:08:49] Speaker A: He pulled out the fade. Yeah. I mean, he hadn't had a haircut. He normally has his nice hair. He's talking about his hair, messing with his hair during the fight. Comes out cue ball close to it, and puts on a great knockout performance. [00:09:05] Speaker B: There was fight of the night, too. They got 50K each. Not even performance tonight. Fight of the night. [00:09:10] Speaker A: Yeah. Dana said all the finishers got fifty K. Fifty K. And then Dustin got fight of the night or performance of the night, whichever one it was. But great showing for him. Next fight, I think. [00:09:23] Speaker B: I mean, right now it's looking like it could be. He could. I think it's by technicality, get Islam as the title fight next. [00:09:29] Speaker A: And if it's not Islam for the title, it's got to be Gaethje. [00:09:33] Speaker B: Well, I think it's either Islam, winner of Holloway Gaethje, or winner of Olivera Sarzukian. [00:09:40] Speaker A: Right? Like, there's. There's only so many took. He took his chance of losing the. [00:09:45] Speaker B: Lower guy, knocked him out cold, like, okay, I'm done with that. [00:09:48] Speaker A: Right? [00:09:48] Speaker B: That's what he told Dana White after he said, you give me these young guys, this is what I do. He told Dana White from the cage. [00:09:55] Speaker A: He told Joe, Joe said, you're the man. He said, I'm just a man, Joe. I mean, under pressure, that's like colt. That's pretty solid, man. [00:10:04] Speaker B: I'm just the man. [00:10:05] Speaker A: I would like to see Gaethje again. I mean, I want to see him redeem that loss. [00:10:09] Speaker B: I mean, it's one. [00:10:09] Speaker A: One. [00:10:10] Speaker B: They both knocked each other out. [00:10:11] Speaker A: I would like to see. It's know. [00:10:14] Speaker B: Well, he's never fought Islam. [00:10:15] Speaker A: Oh, no. He lost to. [00:10:18] Speaker B: I was thinking of Khabib Islam by extension. [00:10:20] Speaker A: That was what I was thinking of. But yeah, I would love to see any of those fights. Holloway or Sorukian as well. All of those are good options. What's next? [00:10:28] Speaker B: I saw, I forgot what MMA page it was, but they had a dark horse opponent form as Volk. Volk moving up and them fighting each other, which I would love to see that. [00:10:40] Speaker A: I just don't think it would. I would like to see it as a fan. I just don't think they would pull. [00:10:44] Speaker B: That off because Volk versus him, title eliminated, winner gets a title shot. [00:10:48] Speaker A: I just feel like there's a title because Volk's about to fight Tuporia. [00:10:51] Speaker B: He's got to fight Tuporia. I'm sure we don't know. [00:10:53] Speaker A: Volk's been there for so long. They're going to give him his respect. We don't know, but I'll watch anything at this point. [00:11:00] Speaker B: Let's move on to maybe one of the most. Dustin has an impressive fight, but maybe the most dominant fight of the main card. [00:11:07] Speaker A: Definitely the most technical. [00:11:09] Speaker B: Michael Venom page making his UFC debut against Kevin Holland. And Michael Page proved that he was. [00:11:14] Speaker A: The better of the two for sure. [00:11:16] Speaker B: He frustrated, showed Caven. He showed he's the better striker. I mean, he's entertaining. What a way to make your UFC debut. He's fun in the cage. He's a fun style. [00:11:27] Speaker A: He's cocky. [00:11:28] Speaker B: He dances around. [00:11:28] Speaker A: He said something very impressive. It was something like, Kevin Holland wants to get in the fight. I just beat. People know he stood at range the whole fight. He kept Kevin Holland couldn't touch him. [00:11:40] Speaker B: I don't know how many times he got Kevin Holland with that, like, back. [00:11:43] Speaker A: Elbow and look, I love Kevin Holland. I never want to see know go down by any standard. [00:11:49] Speaker B: But, you know, Kevin Holland was talking a bunch of shit before this fight, saying he hasn't fought anybody. He's been in Bellator, but he couldn't catch him and he could not. Michael Venom Page was way faster than Kevin Holland. Yeah, it's like, and like you said, I'm a big fan of Kevin Holland, but Venom Page was just on a whole nother level. [00:12:04] Speaker A: Absolutely. It's definitely a fight that had Holland frustrated. But to Page's credit, he's not in there to get hit. He went in there and he delivered a spectacular performance that did its job. Which leads me to my question for you. Who's next? He's not in a place to call anybody out. He's one and O in the UFC. [00:12:26] Speaker B: Everybody's saying if he wins a couple more fights, a huge England versus England matchup versus him versus Leon, but he's a couple wins away. Big wins. The one I would like to see, which I think would be a great technical fight, him versus wonder boy Thompson. [00:12:39] Speaker A: So two karate guys, they've talked about that already. And Steven Thompson's pretty much outright said no already. [00:12:46] Speaker B: Well, venom Page, they actually talked to him and he said, I don't think the fight would be as exciting as people think because we're both good at what we do. It was so technical, right? That's going to be a chess match where he does something and before he does it, I do something. [00:13:02] Speaker A: Right. [00:13:03] Speaker B: But I think it would be a entertaining fight. It would be a way to move up the rankings for him. [00:13:08] Speaker A: I got one. Who you got Gilbert Burns coming off of his loss to JDM. If you look at it. I'm looking at it right now. Gilbert Burns drops to six and Michael Venom Page is at 13. [00:13:23] Speaker B: I think Michael Venom Page is going to want to fight quicker, though. And Gilbert Burns might have to take a few months off. [00:13:28] Speaker A: He might. But also, I mean, you never know. I thought that would be a fun option. [00:13:32] Speaker B: That would be a good option. It's a way to move up. [00:13:34] Speaker A: And Gilbert Burns did just lose it would be a test for Burns in the way. Know his wrestling is strong and his power is strong, but how do you. [00:13:43] Speaker B: Can you even get to him? [00:13:44] Speaker A: Can you get to. Yeah, it's because Gilbert Burns, even though he lost to Madeline, he's proved that he's the full package. [00:13:50] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. You can't help but not like Gilbert Burns, right? [00:13:54] Speaker A: I mean, you got Sean Brady, Ian, Gary. I just don't see those fights happening with the Michael page. That's why I kind of moved all the way up to a Gilbert Burns. It just feels right at that point. [00:14:05] Speaker B: So that's a good segue to the next fight. Gilbert Burns, Jack Della, Madeline. Gilbert Burns winning the fight for two and a half rounds. [00:14:13] Speaker A: And look, I was looking at the stats earlier. Outside of the takedowns, the fight was close. It was close. Madeleina was very active where the takedowns are. Yeah. That matters the most. [00:14:25] Speaker B: But he gets up from that last takedown. Gilbert kind of, if you look at it, kind of almost, he's a vet, and I don't want to say, but it was almost like a panic, like, I'm just going to take him down real quick again. JDM saw that coming. A perfect knee. [00:14:38] Speaker A: Oh, my gosh. Just stunned him. [00:14:40] Speaker B: Perfect knee. Stunned him. Got him on the ground, few shots away. This is by far JDM after a few lackluster performances. [00:14:48] Speaker A: And, yeah, this was a big test for him. And like you're saying after a few, I wouldn't say lackluster, but less than. [00:14:56] Speaker B: Not as impressive as we saw him early on. [00:14:58] Speaker A: Right. This was a breath of fresh air, him being able to turn it back on. I think there was like a minute and 15 seconds left in the fight, whenever they called it. [00:15:06] Speaker B: By far his biggest win of his career. [00:15:08] Speaker A: That's what the comment Maine is undefeated. Always talking about. Whenever they're saying, you know you're down, you just need to throw your hand, throw everything, even if you're going to lose in the last seconds, throw anything and everything, because you could win. And we saw that multiple times where the tides turned late in the fight, where, in Sean O'Malley's case, he could have lost had that fight gone on two minutes. Yeah. You know, so I got an interesting. [00:15:33] Speaker B: One for you for JDM next. [00:15:35] Speaker A: All right. [00:15:35] Speaker B: Undefeated JDM. [00:15:37] Speaker A: He did have a call out. [00:15:39] Speaker B: Undefeated. Ian Machado. Gary. Okay, that's the fight I would like to see next. I think that would be who's hype train versus hype train. Undefeated versus undefeated. Rising star versus rising star. Aussie versus Irish. Let's make it happen. [00:15:54] Speaker A: He jumped Ian Gary in the rankings. He's fifth, and Ian Gary's 7th. So that's pretty close. I like it. JDM called out Shovkat Rockmanov, and he pretty much agreed on the spot. [00:16:09] Speaker B: Shafkat did. Yeah, I would like to see that. But I think Shofkot, he could wait. [00:16:12] Speaker A: Out for a title. And all the fans are basically, like, digging the grave for JDM now. [00:16:18] Speaker B: They're like, shopkot's one of those dudes, like, until he loses. [00:16:23] Speaker A: He's a scary dude. Massive respect. He gives respect to everybody, but I think that actually makes him scarier. [00:16:29] Speaker B: Yeah, I agree. [00:16:30] Speaker A: I also have a fun one for you. Bilal always down, and they're just doing. [00:16:38] Speaker B: Anything they can getting a title. [00:16:40] Speaker A: He has to get a title. Well, that's what I'm saying. It seems like they're doing anything they can to not give him a title shot. So he has to get the title. If he doesn't get one, give him JDM. And if he's with Morab, it's like. [00:16:51] Speaker B: You have to give him the title shot. [00:16:53] Speaker A: Especially now that Aljo's in another weight class. Absolutely. [00:16:56] Speaker B: You have to. [00:16:56] Speaker A: Yeah, there's nobody else. He's gaslighting everybody in the division beneath him, but, yeah, that's a good one. Let's move on to the finale or the beginning. But our finale of UFC 299, Peter Yon is back. [00:17:10] Speaker B: Somewhat kind of. It was a nice win for Peter Yon over Song Yadong. [00:17:14] Speaker A: Peter Yon had some mercy against Song Yadong where against Aljo, he did not. That was the true no mercy because he was kneeing him in the face. [00:17:23] Speaker B: While he was on the ground. [00:17:24] Speaker A: Yeah, this was a good fight. I liked it. [00:17:27] Speaker B: Song. Yeah, he lost, but it wasn't a bad performance from song. [00:17:31] Speaker A: Right. [00:17:31] Speaker B: I thought in the first round, at first, I was like, oh, no, Peter Yang might be done. [00:17:36] Speaker A: Right. I thought he was like, oh, man, he looks kind of rough. He wasn't fighting for. I mean, his last fight was almost exactly a year. Know, with that kind of layoff, you never know what's going to happen. [00:17:46] Speaker B: It was a good response from Yon, though. [00:17:48] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. Moves him back into the win column. [00:17:51] Speaker B: Back into the win column. And just like, mean, he's a win or two away from. He had a close split decision loss to could. He's a winner. Two away from legitimately being like, I deserve a shot versus O'Malley again. [00:18:03] Speaker A: But at this point, I think O'Malley would just piece him up. [00:18:07] Speaker B: Honestly, he could, but you never know. You never know what could motivate you. But, yeah, O'Malley is moving on. He's getting better and better. [00:18:14] Speaker A: He did that thing where the champs just get that whatever percentage, like 30% better. Whatever it is, it was good. But anyway, the Yon Song Yadong fight, it was close, but obviously Peter Yon. [00:18:26] Speaker B: I think he won the last two rounds. I believe so close first round. [00:18:30] Speaker A: Who do you think is next? This one was weird because the division's got so much going on in it. [00:18:35] Speaker B: I would like to see him fight Cheeto next. I think that would be a good fight for both of them. I think Cheeto is probably going to take a while off. [00:18:41] Speaker A: Cheeto is going to take a year off. I would. [00:18:44] Speaker B: He probably needs to. I don't think Jan can afford to take those layoffs again, so I don't know if he's willing to wait for. [00:18:52] Speaker A: So let's. [00:18:53] Speaker B: Let's say Henry Cejudo comes back still fighting. Maybe Yon is not retired anymore. Yon versus cejudo. [00:19:01] Speaker A: That could work. What about if the crazy things happen? If O'Malley fights toporia, make Peter yon fight Marab? [00:19:11] Speaker B: They just fought. [00:19:12] Speaker A: I know. [00:19:13] Speaker B: And Marab beat the shit out of. [00:19:14] Speaker A: I know. Make it happen again just to do it. Or Sanhagen make this. Give it a. That's the only thing. Not like if it's not Henry Zahudo. [00:19:27] Speaker B: The top of the wrestler guy who undefeated. One that Anik loves so much. [00:19:34] Speaker A: What's his name? Eveloev. Yes. [00:19:38] Speaker B: Eveloev. [00:19:39] Speaker A: Yeah. That would be a good one. I'd see. [00:19:41] Speaker B: That would make sense. [00:19:42] Speaker A: Yeah. That's better than Sanhagen. [00:19:44] Speaker B: Because maybe if the winner of Garbrandt figueredo next month. [00:19:50] Speaker A: Yeah, because both of them have to take time off anyway. I mean, they're always laid off for at least three months and if they can't book anything. Yeah. [00:19:57] Speaker B: So there's some options for yon. I think he's still a few wins away from being a legitimate title contender again, but he's back. [00:20:04] Speaker A: Like we said, somewhat back. [00:20:12] Speaker B: Welcome back to top five. Last week we had top five Florida things. If you missed it, check it out on our website, splitdecisionpod.com. This week we again return to the Vegas apex, UFC Apex. So we got to be creative with our top five. And what better way to welcome the new month? Halfway through the month, I realized I'm. [00:20:38] Speaker A: About to get paid. Nice. [00:20:39] Speaker B: Our top 5 march things. Now, this could be anything from literal marches to the month of March. To whatever you can somehow relate this to. As always, very open ended, top five marches, as always, very contentious. I think it's your pick first. [00:20:57] Speaker A: Yep. Would you remember your top Florida thing from last week? [00:21:01] Speaker B: My top Florida thing from last week, I believe was the beaches. [00:21:04] Speaker A: Right. [00:21:04] Speaker B: It was beaches. [00:21:06] Speaker A: Good job. Just want to make sure you're paying attention. [00:21:09] Speaker B: So that was my top pick from last week. What is your top pick? March things from this week. [00:21:15] Speaker A: Man, I got to go with a classic march madness. [00:21:19] Speaker B: That was my one one. [00:21:21] Speaker A: It's a kickoff march for sports. After that we have the sports drought for a little while. Not us because we have UFC. [00:21:30] Speaker B: Well, not necessarily because we have NHL players. [00:21:33] Speaker A: I'm not watching playoffs. I'm a watch soccer. [00:21:37] Speaker B: We got. Yeah, but it's baseball starting up. [00:21:41] Speaker A: It's a big basketball tournament. It's synonymous when you think of the word march and you're a March Madness fans. March Madness, it's an easy one. [00:21:51] Speaker B: One great tournament. I love filling out the bracket. [00:21:54] Speaker A: Yeah, we're going to be doing that shout out instead of for the tournament. For the weeks of the tournament. We're not going to be doing picks. [00:22:00] Speaker B: Are going to be that, right? [00:22:01] Speaker A: We're going to be figuring out a way to do our own bracket, keep ourselves alive some way, shape or form. But yeah, march madness top one. One pick. [00:22:10] Speaker B: I can't even hate on that. That was going to be my one one. Think that's a good pick. [00:22:13] Speaker A: Sweet. Appreciate it. What you got, sir? [00:22:16] Speaker B: So my number one, this is actually my guest pick. [00:22:18] Speaker A: Uh oh. [00:22:18] Speaker B: This is from Clara. [00:22:19] Speaker A: Shout out, Clara. [00:22:20] Speaker B: I think it's the thing most synonymous when you think of March. It's spring. It's the weather changes. Springtime. Best season of the year. Best weather of the year. Finally, it's not cold anymore. No more cold droughts. Sun's out, grass is green, flowers growing. I like sunlight. Springtime, I just think it's synonymous with march happiness. It's all about like the new, this is like the real new year, like regrowth and everything. Springtime. [00:22:47] Speaker A: Yeah. No, I agree. That is a good pick. The spring is the kickoff. You got the spring cleaning that's happening right around now. Everybody's a good refresh. Yeah. Getting back out there, getting that winter fat off for the summer. It's when you start. [00:23:04] Speaker B: Exactly. Perfect. I like springtime. My one one, courtesy of Clara. My second pick. This is where we can go a lot of different ways at the second pick. The second pick. And I'm going to go away. That's going to win the hearts of America. I'm going to go the march on Washington, the I have a dream speech from Martin Luther King. I mean, most famous probably speech of all time. It's american history. It's about civil rights. It's about everybody being equal. I mean, I have a dream. Everybody knows that. [00:23:34] Speaker A: I agree. It is a good pick. [00:23:36] Speaker B: It's iconic, him just standing at the podium saying that. I mean, it's one of the best marches of all time. [00:23:42] Speaker A: I have no issue with the pick itself. [00:23:44] Speaker B: I hope you don't. [00:23:45] Speaker A: I just have issues with your obvious. Pedaling with the pick. [00:23:50] Speaker B: No, that's a gray. That's no pedaling at all. [00:23:52] Speaker A: We'll see. [00:23:53] Speaker B: Who am I pedaling to? All ten people listening. [00:23:56] Speaker A: Fair. But maybe, I mean, you are pedaling to them. You just said, I'm going to steal the hearts of America. [00:24:02] Speaker B: So my second pick, the march on Washington, I have a dream speech. [00:24:06] Speaker A: That's a good pick. That is a good pick. You're right. This is where things get weird, because. [00:24:16] Speaker B: You can go a lot of different ways. [00:24:17] Speaker A: Right. And my second pick for the top five marches, it's simply going to be the month of. [00:24:27] Speaker B: The month of March. [00:24:28] Speaker A: Yeah, march. The month of march. Yeah. [00:24:31] Speaker B: That's a lame pick and you know it. [00:24:32] Speaker A: Yeah, but it's up there. When you think of March, what do you think of the month of March? [00:24:37] Speaker B: I think of March Madness. Honestly, going back. Yeah. [00:24:40] Speaker A: That's why I have my first pick. And what do you think of second? [00:24:42] Speaker B: When you bring. [00:24:43] Speaker A: Oh, okay. Yeah, sure. [00:24:45] Speaker B: And then I have a dream. [00:24:48] Speaker A: Never think about March when March comes up. I get it. Yeah, whatever. Yeah. [00:24:53] Speaker B: It's kind of a lame pick, but whatever. What's your third pick? [00:24:57] Speaker A: Third pick? I don't know when I'm going to fit in a guest pick, if I have one, to be honest with you. [00:25:05] Speaker B: Good luck with that. [00:25:06] Speaker A: I'm going to go with March of the Penguins. [00:25:09] Speaker B: I did not have that on my list. [00:25:11] Speaker A: The movie march of the Penguins. It's a very good movie. It's wholesome. [00:25:15] Speaker B: It's Morgan Freeman. [00:25:18] Speaker A: Yeah, he narrated. I was trying to think of the word narrator while you were saving me, so I appreciate that. Great narrator. He played God. [00:25:28] Speaker B: It's a good documentary. [00:25:29] Speaker A: Is a very good documentary. [00:25:31] Speaker B: They try to like. Who knows if they're even showing you the same penguins and they make these storylines about them. They could just be showing me any old penguin. [00:25:37] Speaker A: They probably are. But it's one of those things, like kind of how we said it a while back, in a world of total misery. At least we can have some happy things. And if those things are, I agree with you. [00:25:50] Speaker B: That's a very happy go lucky, right? [00:25:53] Speaker A: Yeah. It's a simple but happy pick. So, yeah. March of the penguins. Shout out penguins. [00:26:00] Speaker B: Not bad. Not bad. [00:26:01] Speaker A: And also goes into my bird thing for later on. Yeah, later. All right, so what you got for three? [00:26:07] Speaker B: So, my third pick. I'm going to go, somebody born in the month of March. Ooh, he's a great mind. One of the great minds of the human race. [00:26:16] Speaker A: Let me guess. Give me a decade or an era that he was born in. [00:26:22] Speaker B: How about I just tell you my pick? [00:26:24] Speaker A: That's fine. [00:26:24] Speaker B: Albert Einstein. [00:26:26] Speaker A: I would never have guessed him. [00:26:27] Speaker B: Albert Einstein, born March 14, 1879. I mean, he's a great mind. If you say smart person, he's the person you think of. [00:26:37] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:26:40] Speaker B: For being born in 1879, everybody knows. [00:26:43] Speaker A: He's also, like one of the original memes, too. [00:26:45] Speaker B: Everybody knows who he is. He had that picture with him and his tongue out. [00:26:48] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:26:49] Speaker B: So, Albert Einstein. I mean, hard to beat. Old Al. Also, he's even an Oppenheimer. [00:26:53] Speaker A: I was going to say relevant now because of Oppenheimer. Well, not because. [00:26:56] Speaker B: But he was the one that brought back into. You know, this probably is not. [00:26:59] Speaker A: You pretty much ruined the whole planet because you're a smart guy, too. [00:27:03] Speaker B: It's ticking time bomb now till we're dead. [00:27:05] Speaker A: Good job, buddy. [00:27:06] Speaker B: Albert Einstein. My third pick. [00:27:08] Speaker A: Yeah, I like it. [00:27:09] Speaker B: And then my fourth pick. I think you might be a little upset with my fourth pick. [00:27:13] Speaker A: Oh, I'm looking at it. I know what you're going to. [00:27:15] Speaker B: The imperial march from Star Wars. I mean, it's iconic, the song. Even if you don't know Star wars, you know, the Imperial March song, it's synonymous with Star wars. Everybody loves that song. It's a great song. [00:27:30] Speaker A: Everybody loves. No, not everybody. [00:27:31] Speaker B: Even Star wars. Even, like, college bands for football games and stuff play that. [00:27:37] Speaker A: That's very common in college. [00:27:40] Speaker B: Like a marching band. [00:27:41] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:27:42] Speaker B: So the Imperial march, I think, is just iconic, hard to beat. It's definitely a top 5 march. [00:27:47] Speaker A: No, that's good. I can't really complain about that at all. I am peeved. Does kind of not piss me off. But you knew you are the Star wars. You knew what you were doing. [00:28:00] Speaker B: I thought it was going to be earlier. You're going to pick it earlier. [00:28:03] Speaker A: Yeah. I probably could have gone with that for third and done something other than the month of March and second. But whatever. We live and we learn. I'm going with the Ids of March. [00:28:15] Speaker B: I had that one, too. Just March 15. [00:28:18] Speaker A: Yeah, but specifically written out like the Ids of March. Like the fate said it. [00:28:26] Speaker B: Do you know what happened on the eyes of March? [00:28:28] Speaker A: Man who died? [00:28:30] Speaker B: Julius Caesar. [00:28:31] Speaker A: That was Caesar. [00:28:32] Speaker B: Did you know there's the eyes of every month? [00:28:34] Speaker A: Forgot. We're videoing it now. To be honest with you, I was trying to google quickly, and then I realized that people can see me googling quickly, but yeah. Ids of March and Caesar. A two brute. It's one of those famous sayings or famous quotes. [00:28:47] Speaker B: I like just how it flows. Ides of March. [00:28:51] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:28:51] Speaker B: Sounds very. [00:28:54] Speaker A: It's up there with Cinco de Mayo. It's like one of the ones you get in either old saying or other. [00:29:04] Speaker B: Yeah, not a bad pick. So what's your last pick? [00:29:07] Speaker A: Ides of March. I'm going to go with a marching band. But the specific oldest marching band. The Notre Dame fighting irish marching band. Oh. [00:29:19] Speaker B: If you're going to go marching band, you got to go to southern or grambling. [00:29:23] Speaker A: That would be my wife's pick, so shut up. [00:29:29] Speaker B: The Notre Dame. The Catholic marching band. [00:29:32] Speaker A: Notre Dame fighting irish marching band is the name of them. So that's the fifth pick. Shout out Maddie, is what it is. Thank you for the fifth pick. I appreciate it. Notre Dame fighting irish marching. [00:29:45] Speaker B: My fifth pick is going to blow your mind. You know how they have days that are like random holidays, like national pancakes? [00:29:52] Speaker A: Oh, wait, you were being serious. It might be, like, actually interesting. [00:29:56] Speaker B: Okay, now they have, like, national Pancake day or National Potato Day. [00:30:01] Speaker A: National Juneteenth and such. [00:30:03] Speaker B: Well, Juneteenth, a real holiday. This one is. [00:30:08] Speaker A: You're saying national Pancake day is not exactly. [00:30:11] Speaker B: Oh, this is more along March 3. Every year is national. What if cats and dogs had a posable thumbs day? [00:30:23] Speaker A: We're going to need a bigger graphic. [00:30:25] Speaker B: We might need a bigger graphic. I mean, just think about it. They could open doors. [00:30:29] Speaker A: What if cats and dogs had a posable thumbs? I looked it up. [00:30:33] Speaker B: It's a real day, too. It's been for a few years. [00:30:35] Speaker A: What day is that? [00:30:36] Speaker B: March 3. [00:30:37] Speaker A: Oh, third. I wish it was the 13th. That would be tomorrow. [00:30:40] Speaker B: But there's all kinds of things, like people celebrate by not using their opposable thumbs for the whole day. People, they try to. I just thought it was interesting. I thought it was funny. It's funny to think about what if. [00:30:52] Speaker A: Cats and dogs had opposable thumbs day? And you're not allowed to think about that any other day of the year. [00:30:58] Speaker B: You're not allowed to. [00:30:59] Speaker A: So we're committing crimes currently. [00:31:01] Speaker B: We're committing crimes currently. I mean, what if. Just think what if. No, you're posable thumbs. [00:31:08] Speaker A: Oh, now I'm an accomplice. This isn't cool. Yeah, that's interesting. All right, let's run down the top five so we can jump into the top. Sit. No, I'm kidding. [00:31:18] Speaker B: My first one was spring. This is top five marches was spring. Number two, the march on Washington, in quotes, I have a dream speech. Number three, born in March. Albert Einstein. Number four, the imperial march from Star Wars. Number 5, March 3. What if cats and dogs had a posable thumbs day? [00:31:38] Speaker A: Man, you're right about blowing my mind. That's a good pick. My number one for top marches is March Madness. Two is the month of March 3 is March of the Penguins. Four is the ides of March, and five, the Notre Dame fighting irish marching band. [00:32:03] Speaker B: Okay, so we went over UFC 299, gave you the recap on that, gave you our top 5 march things. Now let's move on to the card upcoming. This weekend, we return to the apex for UFC Vegas 88, a six fight main card. Yes, some interesting fights. A little bit of a letdown compared to last week, but I don't think any card could live up to last week. Maybe save UFC 300. [00:32:30] Speaker A: I don't know, man. I'm less excited about UFC 300 after coming. After experiencing UFC 299, I'm kind of less excited. [00:32:38] Speaker B: I don't know. The second fight on UFC 300 is figure eight overs. Cody Garbrandt. [00:32:43] Speaker A: I don't know. [00:32:45] Speaker B: But anyway, we're going to jump into this one. We're going to cover the main card. First fight we're going to cover is the main card opener. Gerald Meershett GM three. Brian Bam Bam. Barbarina Meershett comes in 35 wins, 17 losses, with a ten and nine UFC record. He's taken on Barbarina, 18 wins, eleven losses. He's nine and nine in the UFC. So both guys kind of hovering around that 500 mark in the UFC. Up and down. Both guys also coming on losing streaks, right? [00:33:14] Speaker A: I was going to say two and three in their last five. [00:33:18] Speaker B: Yeah, so Meershat has lost his last two. Barbarina, he's lost his last three. Yeah, two of those by submission, too. [00:33:27] Speaker A: Yeah, but look. [00:33:28] Speaker B: And Mearshat is a submission specialist with 27 out of 35 wins coming by sub. [00:33:33] Speaker A: Yeah, that's a lot. But I want to point out for Mirsha. To Mirshat's credit, he did lose to Joe Piper. Joe Piper Petrosky and Chris, man, I'm going to butcher this one. Chris. Doditas, Joe. Sure, the first two, way more important of a loss, but I couldn't say two of them. [00:33:51] Speaker B: One of Barbarina's losses is by RDA, too, so that's not a bad loss. [00:33:55] Speaker A: Right. But just to say, but both guys. [00:33:57] Speaker B: Trying to come in and write the ship, you would say one interesting thing, mirshat. I just mentioned how good he is on the ground. His last seven victories have all been by submission. [00:34:08] Speaker A: Yeah, 27 submissions in his career. I mean, I'd imagine the guy's shooting a few about. [00:34:14] Speaker B: So he's a guy that's going to come in and try to get a sub. And Barbarina is a guy who, you know, in his mind, coming into this fight is all right. I've lost two out of my last three by submission, three in a row. I cannot get subbed. So sometimes if you come in just thinking that it could hurt your game plan. How do you think this fight goes, though? Well, because it seems like a mismatch, just stylistically for Barbarina, I was about. [00:34:39] Speaker A: To say that very thing. Stylistically, it's a big mismatch. I mean, you have somebody who, like, this will be the third time, 27 submissions. That's just astounding to have a professional fighting career. [00:34:51] Speaker B: And you submit, you have 27 wins, let alone 27 submission wins. [00:34:54] Speaker A: Right? And then of Brian Barbarina's eleven losses, three of them have been subs. When he's just the power guy, he's got eleven Kos in his side. Now, I will say GM three is four and o when he's the favorite. So that's good. [00:35:12] Speaker B: In my opinion, he's a slight favorite in this one. [00:35:14] Speaker A: And he's ten and seven against fighters with shorter reach. [00:35:18] Speaker B: That's an interesting stat. And I say slight favorite. It's actually -220 pretty good favorite. [00:35:23] Speaker A: Pretty good. So ten and seven against fighters with shorter reach. Brian Barbarino, on the other hand, is three and seven as the underdog. [00:35:32] Speaker B: So everything in this screaming that, especially. [00:35:36] Speaker A: With this, like, we're talking stylistic matchup, the reach disadvantage for Barbarina. Barbarina coming in as a dog, plus 200 dog. I'll add that to me screams Gerald Meershat, GM three to win this fight. [00:35:52] Speaker B: Yeah, I got GM three winning, too. I have to agree with you. And I think, and honestly, he said goofy meme, he's like, I'll do it again. He's going to get a submission win. [00:36:00] Speaker A: I was actually saying, seeing the line on this one, if he's minus 245 money line, that still sounds like a method of victory by sub would still be like a small plus favorite. It's definitely going to be better ODs than that. So I may end up just going with a couple pesos on a little sub victory for him. Like you're talking. [00:36:24] Speaker B: So we both agree on that. Let's move on to the next fight. I think it's the only ladies fight we're going to cover. [00:36:30] Speaker A: It's Chelsea Chandler's actually fighting. [00:36:32] Speaker B: She's fighting on that. [00:36:33] Speaker A: On the prelims. Yeah. [00:36:34] Speaker B: Which is know Chelsea Chandler last we saw running, literally running out of the octave. [00:36:39] Speaker A: It was hilarious. But anyway, we digress. [00:36:42] Speaker B: Let's move on. Panny khanzad. Kanzad. Bonsai. Bonsi. The Swede taking on the Louisiana girl, Macy Chasson. [00:36:52] Speaker A: Shout out. Macy Chasson. [00:36:54] Speaker B: Bonzay. 16 wins, seven losses, five and four in the UFC. Chasson, eight and three overall with a six and three UFC record. This is again, both girls coming off. So coming off, not coming off losses. [00:37:09] Speaker A: I have a question. [00:37:09] Speaker B: They're trying to turn it around. [00:37:11] Speaker A: What do you consider Panty's style if all of her wins are going to decision? [00:37:19] Speaker B: She's a point fighter. [00:37:21] Speaker A: Okay. That's what you want to. Okay, cool. So I think that's going to be the downfall for her here, to be honest. [00:37:29] Speaker B: One interesting thing, though, she has alternated her last four wins losses. And she's coming off of a loss that I would tell you, maybe a win. But Chassal, she's lost two out of three coming off of, I think, what? [00:37:41] Speaker A: 22Nd body kick Ko from Irene Aldana. [00:37:46] Speaker B: But it was a while ago. It was September 2022. So she's taken a while off. [00:37:49] Speaker A: And look, she's only eight and three in her career. She hasn't fought that much where Panty has fought 23 times total. [00:37:58] Speaker B: But Chassis fought. They fought actually the same amount in the UFC. [00:38:01] Speaker A: Right. Six and three. Chassaun's record in the UFC. I honestly think because with her trying to get back into the win column, Chasson is four and one as the favorite win. The favorite in the UFC. That's really all I have is my leg to stand on here because they both kind of had rocky roads in recent times. And I love that ICE cream. [00:38:26] Speaker B: That's a great ICE cream man. [00:38:28] Speaker A: Maybe ICE cream draft coming up, possibly next apex card. But yeah, I think Macy's chassis is going to win when she's the favorite. I think she lays that power in. I think in her two fights. If you break it down or not. Two fights in her. Eleven total fights in her career. You break it down. Her finishing percentage is incredibly high in comparison to panty's finishing percentage. So I think that Ko power is really going to shine through for Chassau also. I rooted for the Louisiana kid last time. I got to go back. [00:38:59] Speaker B: Yeah, honestly, I think that's what I'm kind of banking on this time. I'm taking chassis, I think by decision, probably, but I think she comes out ends her little losing thing she's got going on and she gets the win. [00:39:14] Speaker A: Yeah. Let's go to the next one. Christian C. Rod Rodriguez, also known as. [00:39:20] Speaker B: The guy who beat Rosa Jr. Thank God. [00:39:25] Speaker A: Yeah. He would be the one guy that delivered. 18 at the time, I believe. [00:39:31] Speaker B: I think he was 18 at the time. [00:39:32] Speaker A: 18 year old. His loss, his lone loss in the UFC. Also, Christian Rodriguez has a very clever nickname. It's a real thinker, c Rod, like Arod. Alex Rodriguez. It plays the whole thing. He's taking on the Midwest Choppa. Isaac Dolgarian. The last name is impressive. Dolgarian with a D, six and O. So he's coming in the favorite. [00:40:00] Speaker B: Only his second UFC fight, though, spouting an undefeated record. His first UFC fight was a first round TKO. So, I mean, you can't start off any better than that to start your career. But I mean, as you said, Rodriguez is no slouchy. They're ten and one, three and one in the UFC with three straight victories. [00:40:15] Speaker A: Yeah, he's never been finished. He beat Cameron Simon. He's done good. [00:40:21] Speaker B: Cameron Simon, that's a good win. In his last fight. [00:40:23] Speaker A: He was a very impressive. It really was. [00:40:25] Speaker B: He's well rounded, too. He can do it. He can do it stand up. He's good on the ground. But then again, so is the Midwest chopper. [00:40:33] Speaker A: So the thing with Isaac, I think he's going to know. The thing that you kind of have a problem with when you come into the UFC not having a large professional background is there's not a lot of game plan to go against you. So the fighters who you're just. They're planning on what they hear. Right. The other thing is, Delgarian is going to just consistently face test after test after test because he has to prove himself here. He never really got a chance to prove himself in his regional circuit and then kind of get hype. He's got to show up here and do the four Kos to submission. He's got to finish. [00:41:13] Speaker B: These are both guys, I think, trying to prove themselves right. [00:41:15] Speaker A: Now. Right. [00:41:16] Speaker B: Because both guys are. They get a win here and a couple more wins, they're now looking at a ranked opponent. [00:41:21] Speaker A: Right. [00:41:21] Speaker B: And once you get ranked and both know, you start stacking up wins, it's just a matter of time. [00:41:26] Speaker A: I think given Christian Rodriguez is slightly more experienced in the UFC, I think given his three fight win streak, I think he's kind of got a little bit more hype around him. I think he has what it takes, and I think he is going to take down Isaac Dulgarian. [00:41:46] Speaker B: I agree with you. I like every fight I've watched of Rodriguez. I've been impressed. He seems like he's getting better. I think the UFC experience is going to play a factor into this. I think he gets his fourth straight win. I got Sea Rod getting a dub as well. [00:41:59] Speaker A: Sea Rod. [00:42:00] Speaker B: So let's move on. Next fight from 220 year olds fighting now. We got a 40 year old fighting a 31 year old. We got OSp ov st pro, the Haitian. Coming in, 26 wins, 17 losses. Get this. 14 wins, twelve losses in the UFC. That's a lot taking on Kennedy. And help me with this last name, Shakuwu. The african Savage. Twelve wins, four losses. He's coming off of a loss in August of last year. First round TKO to Jacoby St. Pru. Also coming off of a loss, but it was last February. 1 round TKO. He's lost three out of four, all by KO as well. [00:42:39] Speaker A: That's interesting. [00:42:40] Speaker B: Very interesting. [00:42:41] Speaker A: OSP lost to Felipe linds by knockout. Felipe Linz was a big underdog who just won a couple weeks ago. So that's big OSP. Though. [00:42:53] Speaker B: He does have the Von Fluke choke they renamed it after him. He's had it so many times. [00:42:57] Speaker A: Yeah, he's like the only guy that's doing it. [00:42:59] Speaker B: St. Pruchoke, they call it, which I. [00:43:02] Speaker A: Don'T know if that's a good thing or a bad thing. If you're the only guy doing it, maybe it's hard to defend, but that just makes it even harder to get. [00:43:08] Speaker B: I mean, he's had it, like, three or four times in the UFC, though, so, yeah, shout out to him. [00:43:12] Speaker A: So the american savage has been koing people throughout his time in the UFC. Savage, that's what I meant. Sorry, I was looking at Ovin St. Peru. He says he's from Knoxville, Tennessee. He's fighting out of Knoxville now. [00:43:26] Speaker B: He played at football at University of Tennessee. [00:43:28] Speaker A: That's cool. I didn't know that. I'll say this. Kennedy fights crazy. [00:43:35] Speaker B: He fights crazy. [00:43:36] Speaker A: He fights with a lot of power. [00:43:37] Speaker B: He's a guy. It's like one of us is getting knocked out is kind of his mentality. [00:43:41] Speaker A: Yeah, he's like one of us is. [00:43:42] Speaker B: Leaving here in the last fight, him getting knocked out. [00:43:45] Speaker A: Right. [00:43:46] Speaker B: I think the youthfulness and the size are going to play a factor into this. So I think Kennedy probably comes in with that same game plan. [00:43:53] Speaker A: Yeah, just kind of go out crazy and look, Kennedy also has that thing where if he needs to and you just won't go out, he'll choke you out. [00:44:02] Speaker B: He can choke you. [00:44:03] Speaker A: He doesn't do it often. He's only done it once, but he's only fought eleven times. So he's shown that he knows how to do it. He just prefers to end it soon. Quick. [00:44:15] Speaker B: I think Kennedy gets the bounce back win. I think he comes in OSP, a loss right here. Another KO loss, four to five. If he loses this, maybe time to think about wrapping it up, but who are we to say that? But I got the african savage getting the KO win. [00:44:31] Speaker A: Sweet. Yeah, I'm right there with you. [00:44:34] Speaker B: Next up, co main event. [00:44:36] Speaker A: Co main Brian the butcher battle. [00:44:39] Speaker B: Pooh bear. [00:44:41] Speaker A: Ten and two, three Kos, five subs, two decisions. [00:44:45] Speaker B: Five and one in the UFC. He's a fun guy to watch, too, because he can do it all. [00:44:49] Speaker A: Yeah, he was unrecognizable. Nowadays. He used to have really long hair. And I'm going to key you in. He had a haircut after his last loss to Renat Fakraden. [00:45:02] Speaker B: Two straight wins, including over our boy, AJ Fletcher. [00:45:05] Speaker A: Yep. Lusa has been fighting so far by decision in the UFC, so he's got two wins and a loss. [00:45:11] Speaker B: Lusa from the Congo did not know. [00:45:16] Speaker A: That the last ninja, brian battle is three and O is the favorite. So that's a big one. [00:45:22] Speaker B: Brian battle, big finisher. Lucia, never been finished. His three career losses all by decision. [00:45:26] Speaker A: Brian Battle is also five and one with reach advantage. [00:45:30] Speaker B: He's also five and one in the UFC. [00:45:32] Speaker A: Look at that. Makes me say with the haircut, smash the Brian battle button. Last time out I picked against brian battle. Not doing that again. I think he's on a. [00:45:47] Speaker B: Both guys on a two fight win streak. [00:45:49] Speaker A: I think he's going to be on a good tear this time. [00:45:50] Speaker B: Both guys on a two fight win streak. Both guys battle. As we said, five and one UFc lose a two and one in the UFC. So both kind of maybe getting the hang of the UFc. But I agree with you, I think Brian battle. I love watching this guy fight. He's exciting. He was on the ultimate fighter a few years ago and won. [00:46:07] Speaker A: Yep. [00:46:08] Speaker B: I'm taking Pooh bear. I got Brian battle getting the dub. [00:46:10] Speaker A: Let's go. Getting that honey pot. All right, main event. Bam bam, bam bam. [00:46:17] Speaker B: The second bam bam of the card tied to Ivasa. [00:46:20] Speaker A: Hey, if you put the two bam bams in the ring and make him fight for the death, this guy's walking out. [00:46:25] Speaker B: Yeah, he's way bigger. [00:46:27] Speaker A: Yeah. Significant. He would literally eat Brian Barbarina. He's facing marcine tiber. Tibura. Tuivasa has been finished three straight fights. [00:46:38] Speaker B: Three straight times. [00:46:39] Speaker A: But he has huge power. [00:46:40] Speaker B: Tibera also has huge power. He's coming off of a first round KO to aspinal, which is. I mean, everybody's getting koed first round by aspirin. [00:46:47] Speaker A: Right. I get it. [00:46:49] Speaker B: Tibera been in the UFC. He's eleven and seven. He's been in a while, 38 years old, the thing. Been in a while. But he's only 30 years old, so. Eight and six in the UFC. But as you said, three straight losses. So he's kind of what's happening. [00:47:01] Speaker A: My thing with Tuivasa here is Tuivasa was finished three straight, but he lost to gone Volkov and Pavlovich. Like, he lost to three people in the top seven, I think. [00:47:14] Speaker B: But, I mean, Tiberia is right there, too. [00:47:17] Speaker A: Yeah, no, I'm kind of going to say that. [00:47:20] Speaker B: The polish man, he was also quickly. [00:47:22] Speaker A: Defeated by aspinal, but he hasn't lost three straight, so it's a bit of a play on. [00:47:27] Speaker B: Regardless, I don't think this fight is lasting that long. [00:47:30] Speaker A: No. Second three round at most guys. [00:47:32] Speaker B: Although Tibera does have nine decision wins. Twelve out of his, what, 32 fights have been decision. [00:47:39] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:47:39] Speaker B: So, I mean, for a heavyweight, he can go to the card and win. [00:47:42] Speaker A: Tuivasa wins 78% of the time as the favorite. That's my little stat. [00:47:47] Speaker B: 14 out of his 15 wins are by Ko. [00:47:50] Speaker A: Bad. [00:47:50] Speaker B: Crazy bad stat. [00:47:52] Speaker A: If you're taking two Ivasa Tibura is three and one against South Paws. The one would be aspinal. Yeah, you get a pass if you lose to Aspinal. [00:48:02] Speaker B: I mean, I think this is a fight that's pretty up in the air. I think either guy could finish each other pretty quick. [00:48:08] Speaker A: Yeah. Look at the Ods. Minus 130, plus 110. [00:48:10] Speaker B: I'm going to go with the guy. Not on a three fight losing streak. I'm going to go with Marcine Tibira. [00:48:16] Speaker A: I'm going with Ty. [00:48:18] Speaker B: I love bam bam I just think maybe his. You get knocked out a bunch of times like that. I don't know, especially in a row. But, yeah, I got Tibiru. [00:48:27] Speaker A: Yeah. I'm taking two Ibasa, so I guess disagreement, but that's the only fight we disagree. I think so. Sweet. All right, let's run it. Okay, good. All right. Stakes and takes. Let's settle up with last week, and then we're going to jump into this week. [00:48:52] Speaker B: Yes, let's settle up. [00:48:53] Speaker A: God, I hate this part when I don't do good. I went three and two in the UFC. Three and two in pick. My own picks. [00:49:00] Speaker B: I went four and one and four and one. [00:49:02] Speaker A: I didn't do good in picking my own pick. Like, I was able to bring. I mean, you put up a goose egg a few weeks ago, so that's okay. But I was able to bring my own picks and it's aggravating. Anyway, I went six and four total. [00:49:20] Speaker B: Eight and two total. [00:49:21] Speaker A: Me. Sean O'Malley was right. I got Dustin Poirier. Right. I got Madeline. Right. Peter Yon beat song Ye dong and Kevin Holland beat Michael Venom. Page beat Kevin Holland. Yeah. [00:49:34] Speaker B: The only UFC fight I got wrong, which I'm happy about actually, is. [00:49:39] Speaker A: Braves lost to the Orioles in spring training. So that. [00:49:43] Speaker B: Get that out of your system yet? Betting spring training baseball, I was going. [00:49:46] Speaker A: To say that pretty much solidifies. I'm done with that. But I'll be betting Braves heavy or picking Braves heavy in the regular season. Once that starts up. Houston beat Kansas, which is awesome. [00:49:58] Speaker B: Yes, that was us. I saw that one. [00:49:59] Speaker A: Kentucky beat Tennessee at Tennessee's home, which was awesome. [00:50:04] Speaker B: It was a nice win. [00:50:05] Speaker A: Duke lost to the tar heels and BYu beat the beavers. Oklahoma State. [00:50:12] Speaker B: That's the Cowboys, sir. [00:50:13] Speaker A: Oh, the Cowboys. Yeah. The other one is Oregon State. Oregon State, Yep. My b. Yeah. BYu won and then you did four and one again. Yeah. Soccer. [00:50:22] Speaker B: I got Barcelona or Majorca. Right, over Majorca. Right. I got PSV over. Go ahead, Eagles. [00:50:28] Speaker A: Right. [00:50:28] Speaker B: Byron Munich beat Mines, eight to one. I got Arsenal over Brentford. Right. [00:50:34] Speaker A: Can you say that again? Byron Munich beat Mons. [00:50:37] Speaker B: Mines, mines, eight to one. [00:50:40] Speaker A: My grandma used to say, mine is close. Gross. [00:50:43] Speaker B: Close to what we're talking about, but not really. [00:50:45] Speaker A: Gross. [00:50:45] Speaker B: Arsenal two to one over Brentford. The only one I got wrong soccer wise, because Lionel Messi did not play Inter. Miami lost to Montreal. [00:50:53] Speaker A: Is that the read? [00:50:54] Speaker B: Three to two? I mean, most likely, yeah. It at least scored a goal. [00:50:58] Speaker A: And they scored all of their goals late, right? [00:51:00] Speaker B: Yeah, because it was 20. And I watch at halftime, and I stopped watching, but yeah. So four and one. UFC four and one. P op piops. So eight and two overall. I'll take that. [00:51:12] Speaker A: Yeah, I did six four overall. That brings me to 20 712 and one. And that puts you at 20 811 and one. So you edge back up. [00:51:26] Speaker B: Got a game lead over you. [00:51:28] Speaker A: I'm going to edge myself back forward next time. Next week. Let's go on to the takes. I just had a bad week overall. I went two and three, so I got two right. I got stakes. That's what I meant. Can't even get my own thing right. Yeah, we're going to go with the stakes. I didn't do great. Two and three. Yedong lost. The Braves lost. Duke lost. And you want to know what's worse? Of my ten units, I put six of them on those three. So it's off. It's not a good day. I won Matalina and I won O'Malley. I went down 5.3 units on the week. Wow. Not good. [00:52:10] Speaker B: I went four and one in bets. So JDM, right. Michael Venom Page, right. Arsenal moneyline. Right? PSV Eindhoven, moneyline. Right. [00:52:19] Speaker A: Whoa. [00:52:20] Speaker B: And then again, intermiary was my loss. [00:52:23] Speaker A: Yeah. Good. [00:52:24] Speaker B: So what did that? My units. I went up on units. Finally. [00:52:27] Speaker A: Yeah. Plus 1.29 units for you. [00:52:30] Speaker B: I'll take that. Stop the bleeding. [00:52:31] Speaker A: To eleven and nine in total stakes. So I still got the slight edge in stakes. I'm twelve. Seven and one, plus 2.27 units total. You're eleven and nine -6.7 you're still. [00:52:43] Speaker B: Way ahead of you total. Don't worry about that. [00:52:45] Speaker A: Yeah. I want to win every week. It matters to me. [00:52:48] Speaker B: I get it. [00:52:49] Speaker A: It matters to me. Yeah. So let's give out our picks for this week, figure out how we're going to do that, and then jump into or. That's our takes for this week. And then we'll jump into our stakes for this week. [00:53:02] Speaker B: So I took a page out of your book. I'll give you my picks first. I did a theme this week. [00:53:07] Speaker A: Awesome. I like themes. [00:53:08] Speaker B: So my theme this week. [00:53:09] Speaker A: Do I have to guess? Because I already forgot what you told me it was. [00:53:12] Speaker B: No, because you're not going to guess it. [00:53:14] Speaker A: Okay, good. Just tell me again. [00:53:16] Speaker B: All soccer, but my theme this week is league leaders. [00:53:19] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. I would never. [00:53:20] Speaker B: Each of my picks is the league leader in their respective league and we're going to start off in the Netherlands. I got PSV Eindhoven taking on FC 20. PSV, first place, 22 wins, three draws, zero losses in the league. 20 is not a bad team, though. They're in third place, but going to Eindhoven, this is the third time they've played this season. PSV won the first matchup, three nil. Won the second matchup, three to one. [00:53:46] Speaker A: Okay. [00:53:46] Speaker B: I think Eindhoven keeps that going. PSV first place continues to be first place. [00:53:52] Speaker A: Fair enough. [00:53:53] Speaker B: Now we're going to go to Germany. SC Friedberg, let me not simmer down. The 8th place team in the Bundesliga taking on Byron by your. Not Byron by your labor Cuesen. Okay, labor cues in first place again, no losses in the league, 21 wins, four draws. They've played once this year. Labor Cusen won two to one. Obviously labor cues in first place. Told you my theme. [00:54:20] Speaker A: Yep. [00:54:20] Speaker B: Got Labor Cuesen as my pick on that one. Now we go to Italy international, Inter Milan, taking on Napoli. Milan, first place. Napoli, 7th place, third time they've played this year. Napoli still hasn't scored on them yet. First was three nil. Second one was one nil. Enter. I think enter at home continues to win. So enter is my pick. And then finally we're going to end in France. Montpelier hosting the league leaders. PSG. Montpellier, 13th place. PSG. As I said, league leaders, first place. They met in November of this year. PSG was three nil winners. I think it's more of the same. PSG is my pick. [00:55:05] Speaker A: So you picked all first place teams to just win? [00:55:10] Speaker B: I did. Two of them on the road. None of them that big of favorites. Only one is more than. [00:55:17] Speaker A: -200 when you say the theme, it sounds kind of like, oh, that sucks for me. Like, I'm just going to get completely shit on this week. But it's not necessarily the case like you had. Enter Miami. [00:55:29] Speaker B: You know how soccer is. [00:55:31] Speaker A: A lot of draws. Yeah, a lot of draws. All right, next I got. I actually have a soccer pick, this. Oh, but I'm going to go to Friday first because that's the day before Saturday where all the rest of my picks are. I got the Hawks on the road playing the Jazz. [00:55:46] Speaker B: The Atlanta Hawks. [00:55:47] Speaker A: The Atlanta Hawks playing the Utah Jazz. They won the last three out of five. Hawks have better overall stats. I have the Hawks winning. I got a big bird theme this week. Took the penguins. [00:56:04] Speaker B: Big bird. [00:56:04] Speaker A: Big bird, Sesame street. Let's start counting up these wins. Hawks are going to win over the Jazz after that. I got another NBA on Saturday. Trail blurgers. The trailblazers are going to get on the road, fly down to the south, play the New Orleans Pelicans. [00:56:24] Speaker B: Trailblazers aren't the birds, though. [00:56:26] Speaker A: They're playing the Pelicans. [00:56:27] Speaker B: Yeah, but why are the Trailblazers flying? [00:56:29] Speaker A: Because they have to get on a plane. The team has to get on a plane. [00:56:32] Speaker B: Yeah, but if your theme is birds and you talk about flying in your analogies, you can't. [00:56:35] Speaker A: I didn't write this down. So Pelicans are at home. Pells won last time. They're four and one. The last five when they played last time and Pelicans beat them. Zion didn't play. I expect him to play this week. I picked the Pelicans. Next little NHL action. I got the Rangers at the Penguins. [00:56:58] Speaker B: Pittsburgh Penguins. [00:56:59] Speaker A: Boom. Bit of a losing streak for the Penguins. I'll be honest. [00:57:04] Speaker B: They're not so many bird teams. [00:57:07] Speaker A: It was an issue for me. I'm not going to lie. I believe that Sidney Crosby is going to turn it on this game. The Rangers have been beaten before. I think they have like 18 losses. [00:57:21] Speaker B: Yeah. It's like saying a baseball team has been beaten. [00:57:23] Speaker A: I believe in the Penguins. And the Rangers have one of the worst defense. They allow a lot of goals. So I think it could be a high scoring game and at which point the Penguins could benefit. And then my lone soccer pick. I'm just hoping I don't ruin the ball game for myself. Fulham at Tottenham Hotspur. [00:57:46] Speaker B: A London derby. [00:57:48] Speaker A: Thank you for telling me where or what. [00:57:51] Speaker B: Both in London. [00:57:52] Speaker A: Four and last game. Three and three and one. Their game before that. So seven goals for one goal against in the past two games. They're fourth for goals, four in their league. And I couldn't name a single person on the team. But outside of that, I still think Tottenham Hotspur is going to win. I don't even know what kind of bird is their logo, but it's like. [00:58:15] Speaker B: A rooster or something. [00:58:16] Speaker A: Yeah, it's a bird. So I got all the birds winning this week. If the Eagles are playing in the Super bowl, I'd still bet against them, though. That was just a jab for. No, that's ours. Yeah. [00:58:29] Speaker B: They didn't even play in the Super Bowl. [00:58:31] Speaker A: I know, I was just being mean, but, yeah, that's my takes and your takes. [00:58:37] Speaker B: Let's go to our stakes. [00:58:38] Speaker A: I like stakes. I got three UFC, one NBA and one other. [00:58:45] Speaker B: I got two UFC, three. Football. [00:58:48] Speaker A: I got a football. Macy Shassaw. Money line, minus 210. I'm putting two units on that. You have any of that? [00:58:56] Speaker B: No, I do not. [00:58:57] Speaker A: Brian battle. I'm putting three units on that haircut to win. -175 money line. [00:59:04] Speaker B: It's not bad. [00:59:05] Speaker A: Christian Rodriguez plus ods. [00:59:08] Speaker B: I do have that one. I have Christian Rodriguez plus 125, one unit. [00:59:12] Speaker A: I'm thinking it's probably plus 125, not plus 160. I have it written down as plus 160, but I'm probably wrong. I got one unit on that one. And what's your other UFC? [00:59:23] Speaker B: My other UFC is the main event. I got one unit, Marcine Tibura plus 110. [00:59:28] Speaker A: Sweet. I'm taking the Pelicans money line at home against the trailblazers. I think they're going to win. They're significantly better than the trailblazers. I just don't have a money line out because they have, I think, a game tomorrow that they got to play first. But I'm dropping two units on that. And then before you go to soccer, I'm going to cover mine. I got Tottenham hot spur money line plus 105. I'm putting two units there simply because they're like seven to one goals, four to against, and they're like fourth in goals, four in their league. So I'm just going to smash that one. [01:00:04] Speaker B: Not a bad pick. [01:00:05] Speaker A: Let's go. What you got? [01:00:07] Speaker B: So my three soccer. I got one unit, Paris St Germain -175 over montpelier. I got three units. PSV Einhoven over FC 20. And then I got four units, Inter Milan over Napoli. [01:00:24] Speaker A: That'll be where the bread is exchanged for sure. Hopefully we'll see. [01:00:30] Speaker B: So I think that about wraps up episode 36. Check us out next week. We're going to recap UFC Vegas 88. What card is next week? I have no idea what card is next. We haven't looked ahead yet. [01:00:43] Speaker A: It is UFC. I think it's UFC Vegas 89, actually. [01:00:48] Speaker B: 89? [01:00:48] Speaker A: Yeah, something like that. I didn't look, but we got UFC fights up until UFC 300. It's going to be fun. It's actually Reba nama. Eunice Rose is back. [01:01:00] Speaker B: Okay, so that's not a bad fight. [01:01:01] Speaker A: And it is in the apex March 23. So yeah, we'll be back to cover that. Recap this, cover that. [01:01:07] Speaker B: Have a new five, have a new stakes. [01:01:10] Speaker A: Oh, if we're in the apex, we might be able to get an ICE. [01:01:12] Speaker B: Cream draft going, possibly to be announced. But yeah, check us out next. [01:01:17] Speaker A: I want to win a scratch.