Episode Transcript
[00:00:07] Speaker A: Welcome back to split decision.
We're back for an exciting episode 39 leading up to UFC 300. We're going to recap last week, got.
[00:00:19] Speaker B: One more apex card before then came.
[00:00:22] Speaker A: Back from Atlantic City. Foiro versus Blanchfield. She dominated. That was awesome.
Moving on, we're gonna cover Brendan Allen versus Chris Curtis, like he said, the last Vegas card before the legendary UFC 300.
We're gonna get into top five, I think we're doing spring things, make it fun, festive, shout out spring, and then we're gonna settle up. Last week, see season two, week, six of stakes and takes, and we'll wrap everything up. Please, like, subscribe, follow head to splitdecisionpod.com for all of our recent podcasts, all of our things, graphics, all the stuff we make. All right, let's go.
[00:01:15] Speaker C: All right.
[00:01:15] Speaker B: UFC Atlantic City, a main card that was marred in some controversy a few different times. A lot of eye pokes, a lot of good finishes, though. A couple questionable judges scorecards.
[00:01:29] Speaker A: And the highlight of the day has got to be the ref, Gary Copeland. Right?
[00:01:32] Speaker B: The highlights got to be the ref.
[00:01:35] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:01:35] Speaker B: From judges to refs to eye pokes, it was kind of a shit show. Main card.
[00:01:41] Speaker A: It was the mobbiest card I've ever seen.
[00:01:44] Speaker B: Very suspicious to be in Atlantic City and have some of the things happen.
[00:01:46] Speaker A: It had some very soprano vibes, too, to it. And, you know, I mean, look, Copeland looked like he was in the mob for sure.
[00:01:54] Speaker C: He.
[00:01:54] Speaker B: He gave off the vibe, as they, as the kids say. Alex, how did say how the, the prelims go? Give us a little recap of the prelims.
[00:02:03] Speaker A: Prelims were great. They did a good job kicking off UFC Atlantic City. Keelin Luffran, the Don, he called in a hit on angel Isaiah Pacheco.
[00:02:13] Speaker B: Again, another good name for Atlantic City.
[00:02:15] Speaker A: Right? He won by unanimous decision and finished it up with a Raul Rosa junior.
[00:02:21] Speaker B: Call out, which always questionable to call out a 19 year old kid.
[00:02:25] Speaker A: He said he felt like a dick, so at least he's owning up to it. But he wants to move up the ranks, and if he's going to fight a name, that's. That's a good name to call going on from there, we had Jacob Malcoon. He was on tonight against Andre Petrowski. And Malcoon's hips didn't lie. Stunning. Petrosky finishing the fight with some ground and pound, you know, just like the Shakira song, you gotta. You pop him. You know, the hips don't lie. He knocked him out, put him on the ground finished it up strong. From there, still no controversy. Just a good ottoman. The last one, Ibo Azlan, he defeated the man whose face got no pleasure, Anton Turkaz. Turkal. It's t t u r k a l j. I just don't know where the j goes. They all say turkali to Kali.
[00:03:11] Speaker B: Yeah, sounds right to me.
[00:03:13] Speaker A: But anyway, they made it to the third before Aslan ended it with a hard right hand rebounding off of a two fight skid.
[00:03:21] Speaker B: So, you know, nice way to rebound, Dennis.
[00:03:24] Speaker A: The great Bazucha delivered some bad news to Connor Matthews, dominating until the third and grabbing the tko. So good showing by him.
[00:03:33] Speaker B: Always nice to get a finish out there.
[00:03:35] Speaker A: And then we move on to Gary Copeland's best performance of the night. That was where Julio arse was facing Herbert Burns, starting by younger brother of Gilbert checks. Yeah, not the brother of Gilbert. Starting by getting a few cup checks. Arse dominated, then kept the fun by getting a second round tko. You know, he got kicked in the balls twice and then knocked the dude out to respond to it. So you gotta love that little revenge.
[00:04:02] Speaker B: Sweet revenge.
[00:04:02] Speaker A: Sweet revenge. Verna Yandaroba showed her how dangerous she is on the ground, securing multiple takedowns and hunting submissions against Luby Godinyez, earning herself the clear, some unanimous decision victory. It was a good performance. It. It was a, you know, just a stopping, stopping show to go Dunez. And finally, Jamal Emers.
You know, he was up early against Nate the train land where Nate rallied. And look, the whole fight only lasted a round, not even the whole first round, but it was just inside, you know, the first. Nate was down big early. He rallied hard. Got the 50k bonus to got the 50k bonus. Ended it with a bloody brawl. Clean uppercut. Nate gets off at the right stop to give himself the bonus, the quick, you know, quick finish. And he earned himself a call out later on in the card.
[00:04:58] Speaker C: He did.
[00:04:59] Speaker B: And it was a good performance by him as one. One of the performances that stood out the most honestly, which is if you can do that on the prelims, it's always nice.
[00:05:05] Speaker C: He is.
[00:05:05] Speaker A: He's a good fighter. He showed.
He showed why, like, you don't want to count them out ever, truthfully. But, yeah, that was the prelims. Let's just jump straight into the main.
[00:05:15] Speaker B: Card because card, main event.
[00:05:17] Speaker A: It was just as actually, I mean.
[00:05:18] Speaker B: The whole thing, there was a lot going on.
[00:05:20] Speaker A: Two decisions in the whole fight. I know that there were some that that could have, you know, been swayed because of, you know, eye pokes or, you know, what have you.
[00:05:30] Speaker B: Technically, there was three decisions.
[00:05:32] Speaker C: Oh, yeah, that's true.
[00:05:33] Speaker B: It did get wide, man.
[00:05:34] Speaker A: Yeah, I forgot about that.
[00:05:35] Speaker B: But let's move on. The main event, it was one of the decisions, and it was maybe the most impressive decision of the night. Manon Foiro, the french woman, she dominated. Dominated. Blanchfield, kind of. Blanchfield, 24 years old, still very young, but she had all the. I don't want to say hype, but, like, there's a lot of people talking about her future champ and everything.
[00:05:54] Speaker A: Blanchfield was poised, I believe, to come in here and at least have the ability. You know, like, she didn't get knocked out. She fought well. When she could get inside of a.
[00:06:05] Speaker B: Range, she had the clear advantage coming in on paper, grappling it on the ground, she could not get for on the ground and for row just kind of pieced her up.
[00:06:13] Speaker A: Yeah, she stayed at range five rounds. She kept Blanchfield to no takedowns and grabbed one of her own.
[00:06:21] Speaker B: And grabbed one of her own.
[00:06:22] Speaker A: You know, which, as a wrestler, that's a slap in the face when you're like the.
[00:06:26] Speaker B: It was definitely, like, psychological thing. Like, oh, you think you can take me down? I'm gonna take you down, right? As they say, this was pitching a shutout. She won every round. I think she pretty clearly won every round.
[00:06:36] Speaker A: 50, 45 times. Three. Yeah.
[00:06:39] Speaker B: If you can get all. As crazy as MMA judges are, if you can get all three of them to agree on every round, you're doing a good job. You're doing something right.
[00:06:47] Speaker A: So she wants a title shot.
[00:06:49] Speaker B: I mean, I think that's the only fight to give her, is the winner of Shevchenko Grasso.
[00:06:53] Speaker A: Right?
[00:06:54] Speaker B: Three, four, whatever it is.
[00:06:55] Speaker C: Three.
[00:06:55] Speaker A: It'll be three.
And, you know, it's just kind of up in there. And when they. They decide to tell us what it is, we know, because they're doing.
[00:07:03] Speaker B: They're doing ultimate fighter coaches, right?
[00:07:06] Speaker A: So we know it's gonna happen. We just don't know the date. So if you, for all row at.
[00:07:10] Speaker B: This point, you get to just take.
[00:07:12] Speaker A: A nice, long vacation.
[00:07:13] Speaker B: She probably could have done that already because he beat Rose in her last fight.
[00:07:16] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:07:16] Speaker B: This just put the explanation point, like, don't fight again till you get that title shot.
[00:07:19] Speaker A: Now, you. You cemented yourself as number two. You're fighting the winner of grass over Shevchenko. Three. That locks it.
[00:07:26] Speaker B: And I know we don't always talk about the losers who they're gonna fight next, but I think Blanchfield, just being 24 years old. Still has like, the world in front of her.
[00:07:34] Speaker C: Dude.
[00:07:34] Speaker B: I think this is a good learning experience. I think the next. A good next fight for her. Possibly Amanda Reboz also coming off a loss.
[00:07:41] Speaker A: That would be a great fight.
[00:07:42] Speaker B: Kind of give her. Her confidence back to Blanchfield.
Obviously, for all. Rose at the top of the division. Near the top.
Get back a little bit. Get somebody a little bit lower. Get her confidence back. Get her momentum back.
[00:07:54] Speaker A: No, I agree. I really like that.
Somebody like that. At the very least, you know, at least. At least you're going to see an interesting fight. Win or lose for Blanchfield, it's at 24. You know. It wouldn't count her out of another rise to the top back in the future. Either way, I agree. That could be a very good outcome.
Number two, main or co main event. Not number two, new mansa Joaquin Buckley. He man, he capitalized on Vicente Luque's mistakes.
[00:08:24] Speaker B: Yeah, that's.
[00:08:25] Speaker A: That's number one.
[00:08:27] Speaker B: Usually you would think the guy that's. Even though Buckley's not. It's not like he's new.
[00:08:31] Speaker A: No. Right.
[00:08:31] Speaker B: But you would think like the guy Vicente Luca, has more experience. He would be the one capitalizing on mistakes. But it was the exact opposite.
[00:08:38] Speaker A: Right? Buckley walked in and he was poised. He, you know, had like commanded presence, as they say.
[00:08:44] Speaker B: And it seems like Buckley, he's a guy that's always been flashy. And we know he can do crazy things. I mean, his spinning.
[00:08:50] Speaker A: Right. That you got the foot kick of all time.
[00:08:53] Speaker B: But it seems like he kind of found his home at 170 now. And he's kind of putting things together. He's ranked now. So.
[00:08:58] Speaker A: Yeah, I mean, a ranking eleven. You know, he doesn't call people out anymore. He said that when he was calling people out. And he was calling out ranked people. They were saying, man, you're not ranked. So they wouldn't even give him the time of day.
[00:09:10] Speaker B: Well, you ranked now.
[00:09:11] Speaker A: He said, it's my turn. I'm not calling anybody out. He wants a sponsorship from Anheuser Busch.
[00:09:18] Speaker C: So. Not bad.
[00:09:18] Speaker B: Not a bad. You can't blame the man call out.
[00:09:22] Speaker A: Right? So we'll take that. But like. Like we said. He capitalized well on Vicente Luke A's mistakes.
[00:09:28] Speaker B: I was looking at the stats. He tripled strikes. Landed over Lukay.
[00:09:32] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:09:32] Speaker B: He was in the sixties. Luke a was in like the twenties.
[00:09:34] Speaker A: Look, we. We've talked about it a few times. But it goes to show, if you come in. If you come into the cage, and I'm not a fighter, but if you come into the cage with a one sided approach or a single, you know, two dimensional approach, you're not going to win.
[00:09:48] Speaker B: At this point in the UFC. If you want to be successful, you have to be well rounded.
[00:09:52] Speaker A: Right. Or, you know, stuffing a takedown or.
[00:09:55] Speaker B: Alexander per or Alex Pereira.
[00:09:57] Speaker A: Yeah, one of the two.
[00:09:59] Speaker B: But Buckley 30 now at 170, so definitely.
[00:10:02] Speaker A: So who do you think you should fight next?
[00:10:04] Speaker B: So I got a couple names for you.
[00:10:05] Speaker A: I have two.
[00:10:06] Speaker B: One I would really like to see Michael Venom page.
[00:10:10] Speaker A: Oh, I don't have that. I think that's a little bit too high.
[00:10:14] Speaker B: I mean, Michael Venom page, they're both newly ranked guys.
[00:10:19] Speaker A: It does entertain. It would be somebody that MVP would fight, you know, because it's not like a Steven Thompson, where it'd be like a chess match.
[00:10:27] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:10:28] Speaker A: Buckley has the power to get in there. It's not like a Holland. Where.
[00:10:32] Speaker B: Another good one I like is Holland. Rematch for Skevin Holland. They fought at 185. Holland knocked him out. They're both at 170. Pretty much exclusively now. Why not fight him at 170?
[00:10:41] Speaker C: See?
[00:10:42] Speaker B: Run it back.
[00:10:43] Speaker A: Okay. What about Sean Brady or Jeff Neil?
[00:10:47] Speaker B: I like Jeff Neil.
[00:10:48] Speaker A: I didn't have Sean Brady was supposed to fight Vicente Luque on this card. He got pulled out with another injury. Yeah, like two or three fights been staff infection or injury or something. He's had an unfortunate run and I think if he's hungry, that would be a great fight to put on. He's obviously, you know, ready for a camp. Buckley didn't take hardly any damage he wants. Buckley does want to be on the St. Louis card.
[00:11:11] Speaker B: That's what he wants from that could.
[00:11:14] Speaker A: Be a great opportunity, you know, for a near ish turnaround. Give Buckley's a little bit of time off to celebrate. His victory is ranking for a little while. And then a test of Sean Brady or Jeff Neil. One for St. Louis.
[00:11:26] Speaker B: We didn't mention that. I like which would, I think be best case scenario for Buckley because it's name recognition. He couldn't fight him quickly. That was Gilbert Burns. Yeah, inverse Gilbert Burns. That would be one where if you go out and be Gilbert Burns, even coming off of a loss, like, yeah, look.
[00:11:39] Speaker A: Look at JDM.
[00:11:40] Speaker B: That's a. That's a name to put on your resume.
[00:11:42] Speaker A: JDM now is just, you know, he's a highlight.
[00:11:44] Speaker B: So Buckley, undefeated at welterweight, could fight anybody, has a lot of options. Things are looking up for Joaquin Buckley.
[00:11:52] Speaker A: All right, next. This is where controversy starts.
[00:11:56] Speaker B: Fuckery starts.
[00:11:57] Speaker A: Well, I guess for, for us it starts, but for the night, it was like, this was the heat of it.
[00:12:01] Speaker B: This was like, what are we doing?
[00:12:03] Speaker A: All right, so I pokes on both sides. I think there was one to Weidman from Bruno, Bruno Silva. And then there was like three from.
[00:12:12] Speaker B: Wide, including on the finishing sequence.
[00:12:15] Speaker A: Yeah, so one pretty bad one. Now, on that sequence, Weidman also kind of got grazed with his own, you know, by like a knuckle or whatever. I don't, obviously, I don't think Weidman's the guy who's going in trying to throw anything crazy, illegal.
You know, there's always been some things, I think the judges.
It's just tough when the judges, the refs in this one were like just unprepared for the situation that happened over and over again and they just kind of got flustered and at that point.
[00:12:46] Speaker B: And it's tough when the finish. You have a finish. They go to the replay, he obviously poked him and it helped assist him to finish, but he was. But he still got the win. I don't think he was dominating. I think he was.
[00:12:58] Speaker A: It was in the third round and he was up two rounds to one easily, or two rounds.
[00:13:02] Speaker B: Yeah, I would say it was two rounds to one, but, yeah, it's just tough.
[00:13:07] Speaker A: It is tough.
[00:13:08] Speaker B: Tough way to lose. If you're Bruno Silva, you could understand why somebody like Bruno Silva would have complaints.
[00:13:13] Speaker A: Absolutely.
[00:13:13] Speaker B: Because technically, even though it looked like a TKO and ended up being, I think they call it a technical decision because they end up going to the scorecards.
[00:13:20] Speaker A: Right.
[00:13:21] Speaker B: And as you said, two to two rounds to one, pretty much Weidman, man. But if you're Weidman, if anybody deserves a break, it's wideman. It's Chris Wideman. So you can't really.
[00:13:30] Speaker A: So look, you break your leg, you break your leg in half, you take two years to recover. Your first fight back, Brad Tavares, just beating the shit out of your leg repeatedly.
[00:13:40] Speaker B: Hey, Wideman had some really good leg strikes in this.
[00:13:43] Speaker C: He did.
[00:13:43] Speaker B: He was throwing his legs.
[00:13:45] Speaker A: He looked honestly, take the controversy, the eye pokes and all that out. He looked pretty good.
[00:13:50] Speaker B: Weidman did look good.
[00:13:51] Speaker A: I was nice to see. I was nervous. He looked nervous coming into the fight. I was happy to see him win. Honestly, I don't. I don't have any, like, next fights or anything, like, me neither.
[00:14:00] Speaker B: I actually put his next fight, I hope he retires.
[00:14:02] Speaker A: Oh, see, I put.
Well, not for his next fight. That would be a good one, is after his next fight, if you know.
[00:14:08] Speaker B: I don't want him to fight again. I think, go out on top. You got the win. You came back from the broken leg. You proved it. You prove your good guy. Everybody likes you.
[00:14:16] Speaker A: I don't know. Not others do. The Internet is, like, up in arms with him right now. Well, yeah, because how he defended it, he said, listen, I agree. You got eye poke. That's fine. He said, but if I poke you and I, you can't fall onto the ground as if, like, I just punched you in the face.
[00:14:32] Speaker B: And also, if you just want to fight, and the first thing people are saying is, like, you didn't win the fight, I would be pretty mad, too.
[00:14:38] Speaker A: Right? But either way, I think he's gonna take some time off. At the very least, you know, Dana's not gonna just let him go out and fight again. They're watching this dude, you know? Cause they don't want that leg to break on national tv again. But either way, let's go to another eye poke stoppage.
[00:14:55] Speaker B: Another I poke stoppage. Roosevelt versus dumas.
[00:14:59] Speaker C: Yep.
[00:15:00] Speaker A: Sultan Rusevov versus Cedric Dumas.
[00:15:04] Speaker B: Roosevelt with the first round ko. But as you said, an eye poke, literally in the leading. Yeah, literally in the sequence. He even, like, asked the ref to stop it.
[00:15:14] Speaker A: And as he had, as he's like, hey, look.
[00:15:16] Speaker B: Yeah, he just gets destroyed by Roosevelt. Roosevelt. I think that's his 10th straight first round finish.
[00:15:23] Speaker A: So I don't even really know what to say about that one for Roosevelt.
[00:15:26] Speaker B: Like, I mean, he dominated the fight.
[00:15:28] Speaker A: Stop him. The ref had no indication of stopping it. So he's like, well, you're not looking at me. I'm just gonna do tee off on you.
[00:15:35] Speaker B: Like, I mean, the first rule they say. They say it in boxing. I'm pretty sure they say it in May, is protect yourself at all times.
[00:15:40] Speaker A: Yeah, absolutely.
[00:15:41] Speaker B: So you can't fault Roosaboff at that.
[00:15:43] Speaker A: Point, just taking that, like, cleaning that dude's clock.
[00:15:47] Speaker B: But, I mean, Roosaboff, he was better on the feet. He was quicker than Dumas.
He was on his way. I know his first round, but he was winning the first round. It was just unfortunate, right?
[00:15:55] Speaker A: It was unfortunate.
[00:15:56] Speaker B: It takes away your whole. The whole credit of the fight if you get in the first round. Just because now, that one was. We're talking right now, in a couple days, it might be ruled to no contest because of how greet, how obvious.
[00:16:08] Speaker A: The I poke was that that caused him to stop fighting.
[00:16:11] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:16:13] Speaker A: He called out GM three. Gerald Merchant.
[00:16:15] Speaker B: I do like that he said, I think he's Uzbek.
[00:16:19] Speaker C: Yep.
[00:16:19] Speaker B: And the last guy marsh I beat was Uzbek. So he said he needs to fight over, like, a real Uzbek. Pretty much get the revenge.
[00:16:25] Speaker A: That's you know, he's an he's an avenger for his country.
[00:16:28] Speaker B: That's that's which you gotta respect. I like that.
[00:16:30] Speaker A: For Rusev, I would also take an to kind of match up with his style. You know, Roosevelt has some submission victories. He's got some knockout victories. You know, he's we know all the foreigners.
[00:16:42] Speaker B: I mean, he's been first arrest everybody.
[00:16:43] Speaker A: Right. I think we give him another foreigner, Ikramaliskarov or Andre Muniz, either one of those. Give him give him somebody who can fight on the ground so it balances at least one aspect of the man's game. GM three would balance him on the ground as well, but GM three is a little bit older. I would prefer a younger guy, kind.
[00:17:05] Speaker B: Of like the call up by Roosevelt. Because he knows he can go.
[00:17:08] Speaker A: He's gonna get that.
[00:17:09] Speaker B: And if he's safe and he doesn't get put to the ground, he can get a good. He could not Marshall.
[00:17:15] Speaker A: I think so. And I think he I think that's a high going to get because Mershot just fight. You know, he didn't get beat up himself. They can kind of segue. They're on the same kind of fight timeline, if you look at it, so. Yeah, I agree. That'd be a great, great option.
[00:17:30] Speaker B: All right, let's move on to another finish. Yeah. The first round tko.
Nelson over algeo.
[00:17:38] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:17:38] Speaker A: Bill. Bill senior. Perfecto. Algeo versus Kyle the monster Nelson. This was another good one. Underdog plus 175, I think, on the.
[00:17:48] Speaker B: This was another one where controversial.
[00:17:50] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:17:51] Speaker B: He was getting Nelson beating up algo on the feet.
[00:17:54] Speaker A: This one. I mean, borderline controversial on this one. Borderline where it started.
[00:17:59] Speaker B: It's as hard a first round Tko where the guy doesn't get dropped.
[00:18:03] Speaker A: But he had been, like, dropped right before that.
[00:18:07] Speaker B: He was getting beat up. I agree. He was getting dominated, and his legs were.
[00:18:11] Speaker A: He was doing the chicken dance for a solid minute.
[00:18:13] Speaker B: He was chicken dance now all around the cage.
[00:18:15] Speaker A: Look, I'm not saying he should have, like, one more punch. The guy's going on the ground. Let it happen. Sure. Let the guy drop, because Bill Algeo wanted to drop to the ground.
[00:18:25] Speaker B: But don't take anything away from Nelson, though, because he dominated the fight. He was hitting him early. He was hitting him often. It was a very impressive performance from Nelson.
[00:18:32] Speaker A: The Canadian, Bill started the fight off strong, you know, like the aggressor, as always. You know, he's kind of confident with. With his style and everything, as, you know, as he can tell, as he can always do. And, you know, he just, he performed, you know, Kyle Nelson did what he does. You know, he's a monster. That's why his nickname is what it is. He wants a brawl. He wants to do some damage.
[00:18:58] Speaker C: Yes.
[00:18:58] Speaker B: Overall, great performance by Nelson. First round tko. I mean, he can never, despite the small amount of controversy, can't complain.
[00:19:08] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:19:08] Speaker A: No, not at all.
[00:19:10] Speaker B: So let's move on to the opener. Opener of the main card was a split decision. That should not have been a split decision.
[00:19:19] Speaker A: This is where the judges lost credibility.
[00:19:21] Speaker B: This is, well, one judge.
[00:19:22] Speaker A: Yeah, the unnamed judge, just cause I don't remember his name, but. Chidi Jokuani. Jokuani versus McKee versus Reese McKee. This was a good one. It, uh, it was a tough fight for McKee because he couldn't get a lot going. You know, he only had like, like 30 or 60, like or 30 or 40 connected strikes.
[00:19:45] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:19:46] Speaker B: He really wasn't. He was struggling.
[00:19:47] Speaker A: Yeah, it was. He couldn't put it together.
40 total landed strikes should not have been a split decision. But we'll take it for the shout out aspect of the podcast.
[00:19:57] Speaker B: Yeah, I think two judges had it. 30, 27, 129. Jokini, how do you say his name?
[00:20:02] Speaker A: Joe Kuwani.
[00:20:03] Speaker B: Jokuani one had 29, 28 McKee.
[00:20:06] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:20:07] Speaker A: Which is a wild score.
[00:20:08] Speaker B: It really was.
[00:20:09] Speaker A: Because, I mean, 40 total strikes doesn't win you a fight.
[00:20:13] Speaker B: Joe Quani had to take down even though McKee was trying for the takedown. He had the clinch, strikes, had the leg kicks.
[00:20:19] Speaker C: Yep.
[00:20:20] Speaker B: I think it was pretty clear. I could see maybe 29, 28 in Joki.
[00:20:26] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:20:26] Speaker A: But definitely not anything when Reese's failure, you know, no call out for Joe Kiwani here because previous to this, you know, he was in the. He wasn't in the welterweight division. He was in the middleweight division. So previous to this, he was on an o three strike.
[00:20:42] Speaker B: So good way to pretty much. Guys were actually coming on three fight losing streaks.
[00:20:46] Speaker A: This pretty much saved Joe Kiwani's job.
[00:20:49] Speaker B: With this performance, you know, taken McKee's job.
[00:20:52] Speaker A: It could have.
[00:20:52] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:20:53] Speaker A: Giving him the spot on the roster, which I think we have one of those matchups for this week coming.
[00:21:05] Speaker B: Alright, so top five this week in honor of the new month.
April brings springtime. I think springtime actually starts in March. But April is like the month. Think of spring.
[00:21:17] Speaker A: Spring actually starts with the equinox. So it's about the moon phase.
[00:21:21] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:21:21] Speaker A: So it can just vary a little bit.
[00:21:22] Speaker B: Shut up.
[00:21:23] Speaker A: Around April always, though.
[00:21:24] Speaker C: Shut up.
[00:21:25] Speaker B: Nerd.
[00:21:26] Speaker A: Nerd.
[00:21:27] Speaker B: So top five this week is gonna be top five spring things.
[00:21:31] Speaker A: I like it.
[00:21:31] Speaker B: I think I get to kick it off.
[00:21:33] Speaker A: Yes, sir.
[00:21:34] Speaker B: And I'm gonna kick it off with a guest pic from my beautiful girlfriend, Clara. Shout out. And first pick from Clara is gonna be the thing that spring's named after. The first thing you think of spring, the whole reason for the season.
[00:21:54] Speaker C: It'S.
[00:21:54] Speaker B: Going to be flowers and plants blooming, blooming flowers.
So springtime, you have all kind of new flowers, all new colors, all new smells from the plants. Leaves are getting back on the trees.
Everything is just blooming. Everything's beautiful. Life is.
Life is here.
[00:22:12] Speaker A: What's Clara's favorite flower?
[00:22:14] Speaker B: Clara's favorite flowers? Roses.
[00:22:18] Speaker A: Typical.
[00:22:18] Speaker B: And orchids.
[00:22:19] Speaker C: All right.
[00:22:20] Speaker A: At least, you know, I do know, like, that. That protects you for the future. And this is also in recording, so if you ever need to know.
[00:22:27] Speaker B: So, Claire, I know you're listening. I know your flowers.
[00:22:30] Speaker C: Boom.
[00:22:31] Speaker A: Well, I hope they're right.
[00:22:32] Speaker B: They are. I know.
[00:22:33] Speaker A: Okay, good.
All right.
[00:22:35] Speaker C: All right.
[00:22:36] Speaker B: Give us your first pick.
[00:22:37] Speaker A: Spring break.
[00:22:38] Speaker B: I had that on my list. That's a good one.
[00:22:40] Speaker A: That's not.
[00:22:40] Speaker B: So that.
[00:22:41] Speaker C: That's.
[00:22:41] Speaker A: I don't know. It's just the first thing I think about. It's.
[00:22:44] Speaker B: I agree. The only thing I was hesitant about is, obviously, we're not in school anymore.
[00:22:49] Speaker A: But without kids, you can take a spring break. Like, you don't have kids.
[00:22:56] Speaker C: You.
[00:22:56] Speaker A: You can take a week off of work for spring break and go on spring break, you know, go to a beach for a week around the beginning of spring.
I can do the same, but I have kids, so I think it's really a catch all at any walk of life.
[00:23:11] Speaker B: Like, I would disagree, but I see what you're going with.
[00:23:14] Speaker A: You know, I think it's a really.
[00:23:15] Speaker B: Good, I think it's meaningless if you don't have kids or if you're not in school, because I could take a vacation anytime.
[00:23:21] Speaker A: Right. But when does it change from, like, shitty weather to great weather? It's not too hot and everything. That's why spring break is. It's poppin, you know, it gives you a little bit of freedom right after the bad weather times. Spring break is.
[00:23:36] Speaker B: It's not a bad pick. I can't. I can't. Number one, what's your number two pick?
[00:23:43] Speaker A: Major League Baseball.
[00:23:44] Speaker B: Oh, I had that one.
[00:23:46] Speaker A: Oh, major League baseball starts in spring. We just had opening day a few days ago.
[00:23:51] Speaker B: Just had opening day of. Tani's already betting on games.
[00:23:54] Speaker A: He's already killing it.
You know, it's when you think about. Yeah, I guess that's another good one. You know, in school, we played a lot of winter ball, you know, growing.
[00:24:05] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:24:06] Speaker A: But in that spring ball and everything, it's different. You get to watch baseball. Me and you took once, one year and went to, like, nine baseball games in a season. That was a whole lot of fun.
[00:24:19] Speaker C: But, yeah.
[00:24:19] Speaker A: Major League Baseball, synonymous with springtime.
[00:24:23] Speaker B: It's not a bad pick I had on my list. I'm kind of upset you picked that one over me.
[00:24:28] Speaker A: But you got two options in a row. Now you got a second and third to go with. So let's see.
[00:24:31] Speaker B: I know what you got. So my second one, it kind of plays into my first pick of the flowers blooming. Kind of plays into your first pick of spring break. My first pick, my second pick is going to be the weather.
[00:24:43] Speaker C: Okay.
[00:24:43] Speaker B: When the weather changes, it's probably the nicest weather of the year where, as you said, not too hot, but still warm enough. Where you can wear shorts.
[00:24:51] Speaker A: Right.
[00:24:51] Speaker B: Can wear t shirts. It's not cold at all.
[00:24:54] Speaker A: It's breezy, it's comfortable.
[00:24:55] Speaker B: Sun's out, it's shiny.
[00:24:58] Speaker A: So weather eyes are clear.
[00:24:59] Speaker B: I think that's the best part of spring weather.
[00:25:01] Speaker A: Weather is a very, very popping part of spring, and it also lets you, like, you wear different kinds of clothes. You know, you're not having to wear, like, big ass jackets all the time.
[00:25:13] Speaker B: Where it's also some days you can wear your long sleeve stuff and still not be too hot.
[00:25:18] Speaker C: It.
[00:25:18] Speaker B: But you can also wear your shorts.
[00:25:19] Speaker A: Yep, exactly. I like that pick. It's a good one. Weather.
[00:25:22] Speaker B: So weather. My second pick and now my third pick. This is where I say it every week. Gets kind of hard. Where am I gonna go?
I think I'm gonna play into.
It's similar to what we're talking about, but I'm gonna put more daylight. There's more daylight in spring. The days are longer. They move the time back. So now it stays light till about.
[00:25:42] Speaker A: 08:00 so I'm gonna.
I had this on my list as daylight savings because it is like, it happens right around spring. So I don't know. I'm gonna just erase that off of mine because I guess it's the same.
[00:25:55] Speaker B: You just have more daylight during a day because they move the time back in the days along.
[00:25:59] Speaker A: Right.
[00:25:59] Speaker B: So it's just perfect. You have more time to do things now. Like, I get off at five. I get home at five. I still have like 3 hours of sunlight.
[00:26:07] Speaker A: Right.
[00:26:07] Speaker B: There's. Before it was like an hour.
[00:26:09] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:26:09] Speaker A: I think December 21 is like the shortest, shortest day. And then June 21 is the summer solstice.
[00:26:15] Speaker C: Yes.
[00:26:15] Speaker A: So it's like, leading into that, you know, you have the hour change and the. The day actually being on your side.
[00:26:22] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:26:22] Speaker B: So my number three pick, more daylight. What do you have? Number three.
[00:26:25] Speaker A: I like that. I like that. Number three.
This one is gonna be kind of weird for me. Or not weird. The pick might be weird.
I gotta go with Easter. Easter, you know, it just happened. It's always in the spring. It's right around the beginning of spring. Always.
Just because, you know, it's in March or April, and that's right when spring is.
But, you know, you get around with the family, you get the egg hunts, you get the candy.
[00:26:54] Speaker B: Best Reese's, the Easter Reese's.
[00:26:56] Speaker C: Oh, yeah.
[00:26:56] Speaker A: And I got, right now I'm like a mobster. I got loads of. Of the goods, you know, Easter, you know, it's just up there. It's a great holiday.
He has risen.
[00:27:08] Speaker B: Hashtag has risen.
[00:27:09] Speaker C: It's kind of.
[00:27:10] Speaker B: Kind of makes you wonder why Christmas gets more.
[00:27:14] Speaker C: Don't get me started.
[00:27:15] Speaker B: Just gets more pub than Easter. Because Easter is literally the reason for the religion. Well, Christmas. He was born Christmas, but Easter's like the whole thing.
[00:27:23] Speaker C: Yes. Yeah.
[00:27:23] Speaker A: Sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure.
[00:27:25] Speaker B: So Easter, not a bad pick.
[00:27:26] Speaker C: Yeah. Thank you.
[00:27:27] Speaker A: Thank you.
[00:27:27] Speaker B: Don't lose us followers, please.
[00:27:29] Speaker A: Right. I'm gonna just stop while I'm behind.
I'm gonna go with a local pick for my fourth pick.
[00:27:35] Speaker B: I know what you're going with.
[00:27:37] Speaker A: Festival international.
[00:27:38] Speaker B: Oh, that's not what I thought.
[00:27:39] Speaker A: Is always in the springtime in Lafayette, Louisiana, we get. It's actually a very big festival that, you know, I kind of took for granted. I didn't realize it's getting bigger and bigger. You get a bunch of different places, people out here fast. Festival international.
[00:27:53] Speaker C: Duh.
[00:27:54] Speaker A: Louisiana think is what it's called specifically. But yeah, festival International, you know, springtime, get out downtown, get all the shops, you know, the food and all that stuff. Get completely hammered. That's all I do at festivals that. But yeah, do.
[00:28:12] Speaker B: Not a bad pick. Kind of a one that if you're not from Louisiana, you don't know what you're talking about. Not from Lafayette.
[00:28:18] Speaker A: But maybe we could get some people out here, some one person to experience.
[00:28:23] Speaker B: It, maybe we can. So not a bad pig festival. I do enjoy going to the festival.
So it's my fourth pick now.
[00:28:30] Speaker C: Yep.
[00:28:30] Speaker A: You close it. Close your side up with four and five, sir.
[00:28:33] Speaker B: I'm gonna go with animals. Slash birds emerging from their winter sleeps. I know birds are around. They just not around as much during winter. But bears, chipmunks, they're all in hibernation. They come back out, there's more animals. There's more life.
[00:28:51] Speaker A: Animals waking up. I like it.
[00:28:53] Speaker B: Animals waking up. Who doesn't love?
[00:28:56] Speaker A: Who doesn't waking up?
[00:28:58] Speaker B: They have the pictures of the. The bears coming out of hibernation. They're always sleepy as fuck, and they.
[00:29:02] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:29:02] Speaker A: Like, their eyes look like any in the morning.
[00:29:04] Speaker B: They're super skinny.
[00:29:05] Speaker A: It is pretty funny when you wake up. It's like, did you been sleeping for, like, four months? What have you been doing?
[00:29:11] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:29:11] Speaker B: So animals. Birds emerging from their hibernation. That's my fourth pick and then my fifth pick.
[00:29:18] Speaker A: This is where you could just go with anything.
[00:29:20] Speaker B: Yeah, I'm going. This is kind of a semi local thing.
[00:29:23] Speaker A: You have a very tasty. A realistic spring like setting is what you painted a picture for right now.
[00:29:30] Speaker B: So my fifth pick is gonna be boiled crawfish. Oh, this is the season for boil crawfish. This is when everybody has. In fact, this past Friday was probably peak.
[00:29:41] Speaker C: Oh, yeah. Good boyfriend.
[00:29:43] Speaker B: Good Friday. That's when everybody has a boy crawfish.
[00:29:45] Speaker A: Around here, for sure.
[00:29:47] Speaker B: It's so good. It's seasonal. It's springtime.
I think it's just if you're from South Louisiana or pretty much anywhere that has crawfish, springtime is crawfish season.
[00:29:59] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:29:59] Speaker A: No, yeah, that. You're spot on.
[00:30:03] Speaker B: So why don't you give us your last pick, Alex?
[00:30:05] Speaker A: Last pick is gonna be my guilty pleasure.
You know, it kind of goes with that. That restart with spring. It's gonna be the spring cleaning, man. I love to get a good, like, organization going. Kind of get that.
[00:30:18] Speaker B: I like the idea of it.
[00:30:20] Speaker A: The beginning year restart, where you get to, like, clean the slate and almost like, take. Take another approach at the year if you want.
[00:30:28] Speaker B: Yeah, it's like the real start of the year.
[00:30:30] Speaker A: Right. That's real new year, spring cleaning.
[00:30:33] Speaker B: That's not a bad pick. I had it on my list. I just couldn't.
[00:30:36] Speaker A: You wouldn't.
[00:30:36] Speaker B: Like, I actually.
[00:30:38] Speaker A: Right. I accomplish it. Like, I'm doing it right now because we're about to have the kids birthday party. So full force, but it just makes you feel good. Once you do it, you know, like, even if you don't want to do it, once you.
[00:30:49] Speaker B: No, I agree with you.
[00:30:51] Speaker A: It's accomplished. But, yeah, let's run through those top fives.
[00:30:54] Speaker B: So my first one, maybe we can.
[00:30:56] Speaker A: Give a couple honorable mentions after flowers, plants blooming.
[00:31:00] Speaker B: My number two was the springtime weather. My number three, more daylight. Number four was animals emerging from hibernation. And number five, boiled crawfish.
[00:31:09] Speaker C: Good, good.
[00:31:10] Speaker A: Top five. My number one was the spring break, two is major league baseball, three is Easter, four is festival international de Louisiana, and five is spring cleaning.
[00:31:25] Speaker C: Yes.
[00:31:25] Speaker B: And one of the audible mentions I had was just the color green. I think that's, like, synonymous with spring.
[00:31:30] Speaker A: I had pastel colors.
[00:31:32] Speaker B: Pastel, yeah. That's kind of the same line.
[00:31:34] Speaker A: Right?
[00:31:35] Speaker B: Moods improve, you said. Kind of goes with yours. Fresh start.
[00:31:38] Speaker A: Yeah, I had stuff like hiking and, you know, like, outdoor activities. But then I did do outdoor exercise. Yeah, I do like running a lot more in the spring than any other.
Running in the summer is the absolute worst.
[00:31:53] Speaker B: So, yeah, that's our top five spring things.
UFC Vegas 90 returned to the apex this weekend with a six fight main card. With a few fights that kind of stand out, we're gonna go over the whole main card right here, give you a little preview, give you our picks. Alex? Let's start off with the main card opener.
[00:32:20] Speaker A: Trevor Peak versus Charlie, the purple people leader.
[00:32:26] Speaker B: The cannibal.
[00:32:27] Speaker A: Oh, yeah.
[00:32:27] Speaker B: Sorry.
[00:32:27] Speaker A: Campbell. Charlie Campbell. He is the favorite. He's -210 he's eight and two in his career.
[00:32:36] Speaker B: One and. Oh, in the UFC, Trevor Peaks, the.
[00:32:38] Speaker A: Underdog at plus 175. Nine and one in his career.
[00:32:41] Speaker B: Two and one in the UFC.
[00:32:43] Speaker A: Hey, go.
A couple things I kind of noticed about this is with their win records and everything, they're similar fighters.
[00:32:51] Speaker B: They're gonna stand and bang, stand and bang.
[00:32:54] Speaker A: But one thing, digging into the not UFC fights, because a bunch of neither one of these guys have a lot of UFC tenure, I noticed that Trevor Peak looks for takedowns consistently in his fights. He doesn't always get them, but he looks for them consistently he should think about. Right? So with him mixing that up, I've also noticed that when he secures at least one takedown, he typically wins the fight. The only fight that I saw, he didn't secure a takedown or he won, like, quick enough to where a takedown wasn't, like, even relevant is his loss. And that was in the UFC's two fights ago.
I think Charlie Campbell's going to win because through his UFC career was UCFC fight, UFC and contender series. He's defended for takedowns as he met.
[00:33:48] Speaker B: A man like Trevor Pika.
[00:33:49] Speaker A: I think we'll see.
[00:33:52] Speaker B: I think this is a pretty even fight. I think I like the matchup between these two guys. I think it's. It serves for entertaining fight because they're both going to try to stay in and knock you out.
[00:34:02] Speaker C: Right.
[00:34:02] Speaker B: You said peak does have the takedown attempts in his game and does get some takedowns. But both guys, if they had their way, they're gonna stand and punch each other, which I think always makes for a good, entertaining fight.
[00:34:12] Speaker A: And lightweights, that's. That's kind of their mo. You know, all the smaller, not smaller guys, but like the featherweights and lightweights, they are just bangers.
[00:34:23] Speaker B: And I actually disagree with you. I'm going with Trevor Peak in this. I think.
I think he gets the win.
[00:34:28] Speaker A: I think you think he's gonna get that takedown.
[00:34:30] Speaker B: I think he has a little more power. I think he's gonna get the takedown. And I'm taking Trevor Peak, the Alabama native, to get the win.
[00:34:38] Speaker C: All right. All right, cool.
[00:34:40] Speaker A: Moving on. Let's go to Valter, the clean monster.
[00:34:43] Speaker B: Walker, the Brazilian.
[00:34:45] Speaker A: That's a crazy name. Valter.
[00:34:47] Speaker B: Valter. And then the mascot, the nickname, the clean monster.
[00:34:51] Speaker C: Yeah, that is.
[00:34:52] Speaker B: I guess that's a, I'm not taking steroids. Which instantly makes me think, are you.
[00:34:56] Speaker A: Clean or are you on the secret juice? Yeah, he's taken on Lucas Bresky. I don't know if I'm saying that. Right, because he has consonants where consonants don't belong.
[00:35:06] Speaker B: This is.
[00:35:07] Speaker C: Yeah, exactly.
[00:35:08] Speaker A: His name. Just all over the place.
[00:35:10] Speaker B: He's from Poland.
[00:35:11] Speaker C: This is a fight.
[00:35:12] Speaker B: Walker comes in undefeated. Eleven and, oh, making his UFC debut. I think the UFC wants him to stay undefeated. I think they want to give him some confidence because they're giving him a guy that's owing three in the UFC.
[00:35:21] Speaker A: Are we talking, like, roster swap?
[00:35:23] Speaker B: You know, I think it might be roster swap.
[00:35:25] Speaker C: It's.
[00:35:25] Speaker A: You got Brezky, who's zero three and one out of four, including the contender series. So he hasn't performed, knocked out.
[00:35:32] Speaker B: He's been defeated by decisions.
[00:35:35] Speaker A: Walker has four ko straight. He's finishing 64 of his total fights. 64%. I'm sorry, of his total fights in two different circuits.
[00:35:45] Speaker B: One interesting about Walker, he's born in Brazil, fights out of Russia.
[00:35:48] Speaker A: Oh, no.
[00:35:49] Speaker B: So I don't know what to think of that. He's only 26. He's six. Six. I, like I said, I think the UFC is kind of setting it up, setting him up for success in this fight.
[00:35:58] Speaker A: I gotta see something.
[00:35:59] Speaker B: They want him to come have a clean, clean fight, have a good debut, kind of get people excited. I think Walker comes in, I think he knocks Bresky. Bresky, the Paul ski the bull. I think he gets. I think Walker gets the knockout when stays undefeated. Makes people talk about him in his UFC debut.
[00:36:19] Speaker C: Yep.
[00:36:20] Speaker B: Kind of get the hype train going.
[00:36:21] Speaker C: Yep.
[00:36:22] Speaker A: I agree with everything you just said. I think because. Because of breast, what Bresky shown in the UFC are shown to, you know, the content through the contender series and in the UFC. I think once Walker wins, they're just gonna kind of, you know, yeah, one.
[00:36:38] Speaker B: Guy and one guy out.
[00:36:39] Speaker A: Right? Yeah. Walker is gonna earn his contract and Bresky is gonna be fulfilled of his tenure.
[00:36:46] Speaker B: So, yeah, so we agree on that one. Let's move on to the next fight. I think it's probably my favorite name on the fight. The Chilean Ignacio Bahamandez Lahuala. Lahuala. As I said, the Chilean. Only 26 years old. 14 and five. Three and two in the UFC. He is coming in off of a loss. He's taken on Christos Gagios, the Spartan.
Six and seven in the UFC. So he's had a good amount of UFC fights. He lost his last fight and he's lost three out of four.
[00:37:16] Speaker C: Yep.
[00:37:17] Speaker B: 20 and eleven. Overall.
How do you see this fight going? There's a big age difference. 26 year old for Bahamandez, 34 years old for Gagios.
[00:37:25] Speaker A: So Giagos is one and three against fighters when he has the shorter reach. So if, like, me and you fought, I would be giagos and you would beat me three times. I would only beat you once, so that's not great.
Baha? Mandez, like you said, is coming off of that loss to mister Ludovic Klein.
Ludovic Klein is, you know, he's up there. He's lost too. He's on his rise. So I don't think you take too much away from Baha? Mandez there.
[00:37:54] Speaker B: A learning experience. He had three wins in a row before that.
[00:37:57] Speaker A: That's a great way to say it. A good learning experience for Baha? Mandez.
On top of that, Gigos has only won 22% of the time as a dog in the. And this is UFC stat. So it's not like when he was, you know, in his best.
[00:38:13] Speaker B: On his rise.
[00:38:14] Speaker A: On his rise.
I think all of those things with just like you, like we're talking about the learning experience from the Klein fight. I think that just means Baha Mandez is going to win. You know, he's already a bigger and bigger and in my opinion, a better fighter.
I think he's going to find a way to get the w. To be.
[00:38:32] Speaker C: Honest with you, I agree with you.
[00:38:34] Speaker B: I think Bahamas gets the win. 26 years old, I think he's a guy. He's learning, he's evolving.
Coming off of a loss after three straight wins, a good, good chance to bounce back, and he's taking on a guy, Gallagher, who 34 years old, has been the UFC a while. It seems like he's kind of on the downturn. Three, lost three out of his last four. So I think, I think it's kind of the same thing where young guy getting better, older guy kind of staying stagnant. I'm picking the younger guy, Baha Mandez.
[00:39:02] Speaker A: Yeah, I agree. So another, well, the last one was lightweight, so that was two lightweights in a row. But another small guy fighter, featherweights. We got Morgan Cherier taking on Chepe Mariskal. This one's going to be fun because it's like a toss up on the odds. Number one, neither guys lost in the UFC.
[00:39:20] Speaker B: Cherie, 10, Marskal, two and o.
[00:39:24] Speaker A: Right.
But both are rocking. So Cherie is rocking a three fight win streak and Mariska's rocking five. Both, you know, extending into those, his.
[00:39:33] Speaker B: Last fight, a first round body shot ko, which is always nice to see, body ko.
[00:39:39] Speaker A: We like similar styles because it forces it almost in a similar style fight. Those guys aren't typically going to wrestle. Yeah, they're, they're going to fight like just straight up, stand up and bang. Because you know that if you're just sitting there on the ground, one mistake, you're done. You're caught, at least in the fight, like a stand up you can trade for a while before some bad shit happens.
[00:40:02] Speaker B: Marsk, on his last fight, he had the rare against Jack Jenkins. The rare verbal tap. Yeah, they counted as a tko. If you remember, it was the card in Australia. It was when Adesanya lost. Strickland.
[00:40:13] Speaker C: Yep.
[00:40:14] Speaker B: Jack Jenkins. I think he got hurt.
[00:40:15] Speaker A: Yeah, he's the mullet. The mullet Aussie.
[00:40:19] Speaker B: Exactly. Which that narrows it down.
But yeah, I think this is a pretty even fight. I think this has the potential to be maybe the best fight of the main card, as you said. I think it's a toss up. I think either guy could win. But I got to go with the frenchman. I got to go. Cherie, he's exciting. He has, as you said, he has a winning streak. Although both of them have a winning streak. I think Cherie comes in. I think he gets a finish in this fight.
[00:40:46] Speaker A: So I disagree upon looking at my data. Chepe Mariskal.
I mean, even though it's slight underdog, he's won it as underdog before. And he's like. He's only fought twice in the UFC. One of those times was underdog. So he's like 100%. You know, I know it's not really the stat line to go off of, but this is more of a toss up on the cards than anything. And I think, you know, with everything, I like the guy with a little bit more, not more experience, but a little bit more UFC experience who he's just faced one more guy. I think he's just got the little edge that he's going to need.
[00:41:24] Speaker B: So another one. We disagree. And I always like when we disagree.
[00:41:26] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:41:27] Speaker A: Because then spices up a little. It causes chaos.
[00:41:30] Speaker B: So let's move on. Co main event, we got Alexander the great ape Hernandez, a guy, 14 and seven overall. Six and six in the UFC.
[00:41:37] Speaker A: Two and four in his last six.
[00:41:40] Speaker B: Two and four in his last six, including losing three out of his last four. And he's taking on Damon Jackson, the Leech, 22 wins, six losses, one draw, one no contest in his career. He's five wins, four losses, one draw, one no contest in the UFC.
Both guys coming in on a little bit of a downturn lost their last fight.
[00:42:02] Speaker A: Yeah, Jackson lost his last two.
[00:42:04] Speaker B: Jackson lost his last two after winning six out of seven.
[00:42:07] Speaker C: Right.
[00:42:07] Speaker B: And as we said, Hernandez, already he's lost three out of four. Four out of six. So really it's which guy can bounce back, which guy can get their career back on track.
[00:42:16] Speaker A: I think Damon Jackson's problem, honestly, with those last two losses is what we talked about prior, where you have that one one dimension where you just kind of hunt that takedown too much.
[00:42:28] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:42:28] Speaker B: He's known as the Leech because he has 15 out of his 22 wins submission. So sometimes that can work against you, as you said, where if that's your only game plan coming in and the other guy knows that he can.
[00:42:39] Speaker A: Or he can defend that.
[00:42:40] Speaker B: That's what I'm saying. He can defend. He knows his whole camp is like, don't get submitted.
[00:42:45] Speaker A: But you got to see, there's a lot of guys that come in facing the leech knowing he's going to do that and they're like Khabib. They're rendered helpless. It's like, oh, damn. Like when he, prior to these two, he won six out of seven.
[00:42:55] Speaker B: Six. He was choking people out, right?
[00:42:57] Speaker A: And it's like, well, what are you gonna do? This guy's just seemingly unstoppable. I think now they have some tape on him, so they've started to figure it out. He lost two in a row. It's now up to him and this camp to have, you know, not just the camp at the time, since the losses, what have you done to grow? Are you still coming in here with the same one? Not same one dimensional, but are you coming in with a one dimensional approach?
[00:43:21] Speaker B: That's gonna say you're gonna mix it up a little bit?
[00:43:23] Speaker A: If you mix it up a little bit, I think Damon Jackson is going to win.
[00:43:25] Speaker B: Can you get Hernandez thinking and not knowing what's going to happen?
[00:43:29] Speaker A: I think that has been the biggest fault of Hernandez lately. You know, why he's been losing more is because they've made him, you know, they. They made him question. You know, he's been subbed in the past couple of years. He's been knocked out. He's been beaten by decision. Both of these guys have lost multiple fights.
I think this is Damon Jackson's opportunity to kind of wake back up, if you will, you know, come out here with a better approach and have a good fight. So I think Damon Jackson is going to win.
[00:43:58] Speaker B: I actually agree with you on this one. I think, as we said, we've been saying it, both guys looking for a chance to bounce back. I think Damon Jackson, the Leech, is going to be the guy to bounce.
[00:44:07] Speaker A: Back also, Hernandez only wins 37% of the time as the favorite, so there's that.
[00:44:13] Speaker B: But, yeah, I'm taking the leech. I think the leech shows them a little bit on the feet, then ends up getting a submission.
[00:44:21] Speaker A: Boom, there we go. All right, main event.
[00:44:24] Speaker B: Main event. This is the most. The one. The fight I'm most excited for is typically the main event is. I would hope the Louisiana.
[00:44:31] Speaker A: This was. I would say that was a strange co main for a co main.
[00:44:34] Speaker B: It is, because I don't think it's even this. It's not even close to second best fight on the card.
[00:44:38] Speaker A: No. Like, there's other better fights. But May. May, I don't know either way. We talked about it already, but Louisiana.
[00:44:44] Speaker B: Native Brennan Allen, all in all, in 23 wins, five losses, he's eleven and two in the UFC with six straight wins. He's been on a killer run, submitting.
[00:44:54] Speaker A: The hell out of guys, four straight submissions. He said submissions. Paul Craig.
[00:44:58] Speaker B: When you submit Paul Craig, that's a.
[00:45:00] Speaker A: Bruno Silva, Andre Muniz. And don't know his first name, but his last name is Jodko. Cause I can't pronounce his first name.
[00:45:08] Speaker B: I should say, who's he taking on? But he's taking on the guy he lasts long. Lost to Chris Curtis. Yeah, the action man. 31. ₩10 no contest. Five wins, two losses. One no contest in the UFC.
[00:45:20] Speaker A: As we said, they fought earlier, it.
[00:45:22] Speaker B: Was in December of 2021.
[00:45:25] Speaker C: Yep.
[00:45:26] Speaker B: Chris Curtis with a second round tko of Allen. Since then, Allen's been on the tears. Been a new fighter. Different man. Chris Curtis. I wouldn't say he's been up and down, but he hasn't been on the same tear since then. Lost a couple times.
[00:45:38] Speaker A: Exactly.
[00:45:39] Speaker C: He.
[00:45:39] Speaker A: He hasn't been able to put together the, you know, like, the back to back wins. He's won and then lost and then won a couple of no contest or draw.
[00:45:47] Speaker B: He hasn't put anything close to a six fight win streak.
[00:45:49] Speaker A: No.
[00:45:50] Speaker B: Brendan Allen's in the position now. He beats Chris Curtis, avenges his losses. That's seven fights in a row he wins. I mean, he's right there knocking out the door of a title.
[00:45:58] Speaker A: I mean, if he. Let's see if Brendan Allen wins, what's his rank gonna look like if he beat. Beats Chris Curtis?
[00:46:06] Speaker B: So one crazy thing. Brendan Allen, as I said, eleven and two in the UFC, seven submission wins, as you said, four in a row. But seven out of eleven wins in the UFC submission. That's impressive.
[00:46:17] Speaker A: Oh, my bad.
Brendan Allen would only be. Would stay 6th because Chris Curtis is 14th currently.
[00:46:24] Speaker B: But he stays still. Right in the mix where, man, I think.
[00:46:27] Speaker A: I think Brendan Allen call. Should. Calls out Sean Strickland.
[00:46:30] Speaker C: That would be a good fight.
[00:46:31] Speaker B: I think he beats up his buddy. If he beats Chris Curtis is his friend. Beats up his friend. And then he goes.
[00:46:37] Speaker A: He takes on the Internet, the guy that the Internet hates, Sean Strickland, goes and subs him and demands a title shot.
[00:46:45] Speaker B: But I think this is the perfect opportunity for Brendan Allen to prove he's a improved fighter. He is the real deal. He's a serious contender, Avenger.
[00:46:53] Speaker C: Last loss.
[00:46:54] Speaker B: Still only I don't know how. He's only 28 years old.
[00:46:56] Speaker A: It's crazy.
One interesting thing, though, Chris Curtis has not been subbed since 2014.
[00:47:03] Speaker B: Chris Curtis is a dog.
[00:47:04] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:47:05] Speaker B: He's durable.
[00:47:06] Speaker A: I mean, he beat. He knocked at me, knocked Brendan Allen out.
[00:47:08] Speaker B: Knocked Brendan Allen out. And that's always a possibility when Chris Curtis is fighting that if he gets. If he touches your chin, there's a chance you get knocked out.
[00:47:15] Speaker A: Imagine that drop like you work your. You're 28 years old. You worked your ass off. You're the 6th ranked fighter in the world. They do. Knocks you out again and you just have to drop all the way back down to 14. It's like, fuck, I gotta work all. I gotta start.
[00:47:27] Speaker B: Yeah, I don't think he would drop all the way to 14 if he lost. But I got Brendan Allen winning the fight. I think he avenges the loss.
[00:47:37] Speaker A: Me too.
All righty, sir. We're back with steaks and takes recapping season two, week six.
How did you do?
[00:48:00] Speaker B: I did well with my pick. Your own picks? My soccer. Three in one.
[00:48:04] Speaker A: I feel like you. No, there's been a couple times. There's been a couple bad ones. I was gonna say, I was.
[00:48:09] Speaker B: Yeah, I did absolutely atrocious in UFC picks two and four. So that brought me to a record of five and five overall, I will.
[00:48:17] Speaker A: Say that is a rare occurrence.
[00:48:18] Speaker C: We.
[00:48:19] Speaker A: We both normally get about 60% of the UFC picks. Right. I got four and 260.
[00:48:26] Speaker B: What?
[00:48:26] Speaker A: 67%. Right. Right on the money. But my pick. My own picks were complete dog shit. Evidently.
You know, I got picked Arizona over Clemson.
That didn't work out.
[00:48:40] Speaker B: Pick North Carolina over Bama. That didn't work out.
[00:48:42] Speaker A: I picked Houston over Duke.
[00:48:45] Speaker B: That didn't work out.
[00:48:46] Speaker A: But then I got low. Tennessee over Creighton.
[00:48:48] Speaker B: Tennessee over Creighton.
[00:48:49] Speaker A: Good thing I didn't pick the next game.
[00:48:52] Speaker B: Yeah, my soccer. I got Aston Villa over Wolverhampton. Right. I got Liverpool over Brighton. Right. I got Atlanta United over Chicago fire. Right?
[00:49:01] Speaker A: Was it Chelsea?
[00:49:02] Speaker C: Who?
[00:49:02] Speaker B: Drew. Chelsea. And Burnley Drew. So that was the one I got wrong.
[00:49:05] Speaker A: Dude, I have to say, looking up all these football logos for all these things, they have some pretty interesting logos out there for all these soccer teams.
[00:49:14] Speaker B: Yes, very cool logos. A lot of them been around for a long time, too.
[00:49:18] Speaker C: Sweet.
[00:49:18] Speaker A: So we didn't have any bets last week because of the solo. Christian was a sickly boy.
[00:49:24] Speaker B: Sickly boy.
[00:49:25] Speaker A: But anywho, we're off to week seven.
[00:49:27] Speaker B: I'm a healthy boy now.
[00:49:28] Speaker A: He's a healthy boy.
[00:49:29] Speaker C: That's good.
[00:49:30] Speaker A: We're off to week seven. Standings are as follows, 1711 and two on the stakes.
16 and 14 on the stakes. Yeah, that last week before you got.
[00:49:44] Speaker B: Sick was a tough one.
[00:49:46] Speaker C: Why.
[00:49:46] Speaker A: See why you got sick? I would have been sick too. Jesus.
37 21 and two. Or, I'm sorry, 42 26 and two for these takes. And then 43 25 and two for the takes.
You're down 9.35 units. I'm down 1.54 units because we both had a horrendous betting week.
[00:50:09] Speaker B: But we're gonna regroup.
[00:50:11] Speaker A: We're good. We got a long season ahead of us.
Let's go through our picks that we're gonna bring to the table this week.
[00:50:18] Speaker B: I think we actually got two of the same games because we both picked final four games.
[00:50:21] Speaker A: Yeah, I picked Purdue the game. Purdue and North Carolina State and alabama and Connecticut.
[00:50:29] Speaker B: I did as well. I have Purdue over NC State. I think Purdue one of the best teams all year long.
[00:50:34] Speaker A: Well, Purdue's your bracket winner, so I have to assume you're going to pick them.
[00:50:38] Speaker B: I think they continue to do it. Big man battle. They have like the giant seven foot dude up Purdue. Then they have the fat dude at NC State. That's really good.
[00:50:47] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, they like, burn. Supposed NFL execs have been like, oh, we want you as a lineman.
[00:50:52] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:50:52] Speaker B: And he's been. He's super athletic and he's very good. He's Zach edie who's about to win a second player of the year in a row.
[00:50:59] Speaker A: I think Purdue is going to win.
[00:51:01] Speaker B: I think Purdue does, too. NC State's a nice story. They're the underdogs, but I think Purdue, they're the better team. I think they get the win and then UConn, Alabama.
I think UConn's been the best team all year long. I think they continue to be. Alabama is a team where they shoot the point.
[00:51:17] Speaker A: They've tried. They're tried and true. Now they shoot the ball very well.
[00:51:20] Speaker B: Where if they get hot, they could compete and beat anybody. But I think UConn's just a better team. I got uconn over Bama.
[00:51:26] Speaker A: I disagree. I think Bama is going to beat UConn. I think it's going to be that small upset because, like, you're saying Alabama can shoot that. Think they're going to get hot. You know, they've already had a couple upsets. You know, they're fourth rank seed, so, you know, they've had to have. They've stood. Stood the time of tests a few times already.
[00:51:44] Speaker B: They've only had one upset, but, yeah.
[00:51:48] Speaker A: I think they're going to win. This would be number two.
[00:51:50] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:51:50] Speaker B: So we disagree on UConn Bama, but agree on. Agree on Purdue. NC State. You both have Purdue.
[00:51:57] Speaker A: I got baseball for my two. Since we had opening day, I felt, you know, it was only right to go with some spring baseball.
[00:52:03] Speaker B: I thought about it. I'm going with two soccer instead. Soccer's back full force.
[00:52:08] Speaker A: It was it not before you picked soccer for like seven.
[00:52:11] Speaker B: Yeah, but the clubs went on international break for a couple weeks. Now they're back.
[00:52:17] Speaker C: Oh, nice. I'll go.
[00:52:18] Speaker B: My soccer picks first. Arsenal goes to Brighton. Arsenal is second place right now in the Premier League. Brighton, 9th place.
They played earlier this year, earlier this season, December. Arsenal won two nil. I think Arsenal continues. I got Arsenal over Brighton at -160 odds. And then we go to Germany. We have the leaders in Germany. The undefeated Bayer Laverkes. And 23 wins, four draws, zero losses. As I said, in first place, taking on Union Berlin, who comes in 12th place in the Bundesliga. Leverkusen beat him earlier this season. 40. I think Laverkusen continues. I got Laverkuzen at -180 odds, beating Union Berlin.
[00:53:01] Speaker C: Nice.
[00:53:03] Speaker A: It does both good. I got first. Major League Baseball. I forgot that you'd started with the Arsenal. Then I looked down and realized I had already marked it off.
Starting off with major league baseball. For me, I had a slight panic moment just now because I realized that they play the baseball games in series. So if I just said something without specifying the date.
[00:53:24] Speaker B: We need the date.
[00:53:25] Speaker A: Yeah, that's why I panicked. So anyway, I'm picking first game. I'm picking Braves over the Diamondbacks Saturday.
[00:53:34] Speaker B: Saturday. Braves over Diamondbacks Saturday, April 6.
[00:53:36] Speaker A: Both games I'm gonna do on Saturday to keep it.
[00:53:38] Speaker C: Keep.
[00:53:38] Speaker A: Keep it easy. But I'm also going to go with Orioles over the Pirates. At time of recording, the Pirates are undefeated. Five and.
[00:53:44] Speaker B: Oh, I think Orioles. Like three and one.
[00:53:46] Speaker A: Three and one.
I think. And look, the Orioles, they. They always start their seasons, you know, kind of. Well, to be honest with you, they get a couple years, a bunch of good stuff going, and then they completely screw it up. And I. I think this is not a game where they're gonna screw up. I think they're gonna. They're gonna beat the Padres.
[00:54:10] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:54:10] Speaker B: Baseball is such a crapshoot. You never know what's gonna happen. But not bad picks?
[00:54:15] Speaker C: Yup.
[00:54:15] Speaker A: What you got for stakes, sir?
[00:54:18] Speaker B: So my stakes? I have two UFC, one NCAA basketball and two soccer.
[00:54:25] Speaker A: Nice. I have three UFC, one basketball, one baseball.
[00:54:30] Speaker B: I'll give you my UFC. First, I have two units. Brendan Allen, moneyline -210 and then I have one unit. Morgan Shashery, moneyline -135 sweet.
[00:54:42] Speaker A: I'll follow you on that. Brennan Allen minus, you know, two units on that.
[00:54:46] Speaker C: I think it's.
[00:54:47] Speaker A: -200. 210, something like that.
I got Damon Jackson plus 175. I think the leech is, like we said, I think the leech is going to turn it around here. Also have Charlie Campbell putting two units on. Across the board on all of them this week. Charlie Campbell on this one. You know, like I talked about before, I think he's gonna be able to snuff out those takedowns. I think he's gonna have, you know, have what it takes to accomplish those -210. Odds in his favor.
I picked Purdue -450 to also have.
[00:55:21] Speaker B: Purdue minus 452 units on that one. I put four units. Purdue. -450 I just.
[00:55:26] Speaker A: I wanted.
[00:55:26] Speaker B: -425 I'm sorry.
[00:55:28] Speaker A: Not. Not a safety net, but I wanted a.
Something that I was more comfortable with because I can't just take baths like that. You know, I can't go, like, one in four.
[00:55:38] Speaker B: Yeah, Purdue, one of my brackets. So I just. I went heavy on them, and I.
[00:55:41] Speaker A: Don'T have odds for my last one yet, but I got braves money line for, you know, the Saturday.
[00:55:47] Speaker B: Saturday, yeah.
[00:55:48] Speaker A: So once we. Soon as we get odds for that game, they'll be on the graphic. Post it up, and we'll see.
[00:55:54] Speaker B: My other two bets are one unit, Bayer Laver Cusin, -185 and then have two units, arsenal -160 let's go.
So I think that wraps up stakes. I think that wraps up takes, and I think that wraps up episode 39 of split decision.
[00:56:09] Speaker C: Yup.
[00:56:10] Speaker B: So check us out next week. Big episode. Not only is it episode 40, nice even number. We're gonna look ahead to possibly the biggest UFC card ever. UFC 300, from start to finish. First fight to last fight. It's bangers. It's fighters, you know? So along with that, we're gonna recap UFC Vegas 90, and we're also gonna give a little recap of the final four. By this time next week, we will have a national champion, the winner of our bracket. The winner of our bracket, which I'm.
[00:56:42] Speaker A: Out, by the way, I guess.
[00:56:44] Speaker B: So between us. Have one.
[00:56:45] Speaker A: Yeah, you beat me in the bracket, but there's, like, two or three other.
[00:56:49] Speaker B: People who could technically beat you.
[00:56:51] Speaker A: I think there's 16 people in our bracket that made. That made the entry because we did it a touch last minute, but, yeah, it was great. Do it again next year, I think, you know, just keep running it like that. That was pretty fun.
[00:57:02] Speaker C: Yes.
[00:57:03] Speaker B: So check us out next week for the big week.
[00:57:05] Speaker C: Yeah. Thanks.
