Episode 41, UFC 300 Pereira vs Hill Recap, Top 5 Athlete Nicknames, and More!

[00:00:07] Speaker A: All right, welcome back to split decision. This week on episode 41, we're back. We got a recap. UFC 300, the greatest card to ever exist. Definitely the greatest card to ever exist. The greatest card I've ever seen, the most excited I've been. Cool fight. [00:00:24] Speaker B: Announcements Max Holloway is the BMF. [00:00:26] Speaker A: Max Holloway is definitely the BMF. Three title defenses or no one title exchange, two title defenses. It was a very fun weekend. We have top five athlete nicknames, and then we're coming at you with seven of our own picks each to wrap up the week. Make it an even ten peaks picks a week to round off week ten, and, yeah, that'll wrap it up. So, yeah, let's go. [00:01:02] Speaker B: UFC 300 somehow lived up to the enormous hype. Literally the best card I've ever seen in my entire life. [00:01:10] Speaker A: I'm ready to eat my words. I said at UFC 299 that I didn't know. [00:01:14] Speaker B: Yeah, that was the worst take, possibly. [00:01:17] Speaker A: The dumbest thing I could have ever said in the history of my life. [00:01:21] Speaker B: I might need a new co host just for that take. See if you redeem yourself. [00:01:26] Speaker A: All right, well, we have 13 amazing fights to talk about. Let me see if I can redeem myself. Cause I didn't redeem myself on picks or bets. You won both of those stakes or. [00:01:37] Speaker B: Takes you back to the except my. [00:01:40] Speaker A: Eight year old life. I told him I would shout him out. My eight year old beat both of us. He went ten and three. His strategy was sound. He went with all favorites, at least what he perceived to be the favorite. He said the bigger minus was who he was going with. [00:01:54] Speaker B: So, I mean, I think that's the definition of favorite. [00:01:57] Speaker A: Yeah, he did good. [00:01:59] Speaker B: Let's start off with the main event. And, boy, was it a main event. Alex Potom Pereira defends his lightweight title. First round knockout. Jamal Hill. [00:02:08] Speaker A: He's sweet dreams, is Jamal Hill. [00:02:11] Speaker B: Alex Pereira. I know he did. He's a monster. He's not the BMF. He is a BMF, though. Waves off Herb Dean. He gets kicked below the belt. Herbie tries to interfere, says, hold on, Herbie, I'm doing something right now. [00:02:25] Speaker A: Let me cook. [00:02:25] Speaker B: And within 10 seconds, he wins the fight. Yeah, it was incredible. An incredible sight. And then for the first time we've ever seen him, he was, like, cocky. Usually he's stoic and not doing anything. [00:02:35] Speaker A: He hit him with a copy. [00:02:37] Speaker B: Yeah, I told you so, like three or four times. [00:02:39] Speaker A: It was awesome. It was very. [00:02:41] Speaker B: All the shit talk Jamal Hill was saying all week, and he just said, let me show you something real quick. [00:02:46] Speaker A: I've seen videos, I think on his last embedded, he was talking a lot of English. He said that his kids learn English. [00:02:54] Speaker B: Yeah, he's trying to learn a little English. [00:02:55] Speaker A: So I, yeah, I think you're right. I think he 100% heard everything that Jamal Hill was saying. He saw the totem and he, like he said, you asked for my autograph. [00:03:05] Speaker B: He avenged his, his mentor. [00:03:09] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:03:09] Speaker B: Glover. To Glover, his last fight was a loss to Jamal Hill. He said, let me do something for you, Glover. [00:03:14] Speaker A: So he defended his belt heartily. First round knockout, 314 DC said it during the broadcast. [00:03:22] Speaker B: It was almost, and Rogan said it was almost like he felt a little bit of Jamal Hill's power early. It was like, oh, I got this. [00:03:28] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:03:28] Speaker B: Like he was no fear in him. [00:03:30] Speaker A: Right. [00:03:30] Speaker B: He, he just walked straight towards him and knocked him out. Left hook, his patent and left hook. He didn't even like Clan Lil landed it. Kind of grazed Jamal Hill and knocked. [00:03:40] Speaker A: And he just, yeah, he just went down. [00:03:41] Speaker B: Eyes rolled back the head and then a few ground shots to finish it all things up. [00:03:45] Speaker A: It was, it was a very strong performance. He's definitely going to have to defend that, that belt again, obviously. [00:03:52] Speaker B: But fuck that. He's thinking he's, he said put him in heavyweight. I mean, at this point, why not? I want to see him become the first three division champ. [00:03:59] Speaker A: I would like to see him do like Jon Jones did with the prep to heavyweight. You know, like take a little bit of. [00:04:09] Speaker B: I just think he just doesn't cut weight and he's good. [00:04:11] Speaker A: Maybe you have Jones and Mata who's in the two thirties, consistently fighting in heavyweight. And if he's not hanging on for dear life on a takedown, he, he does well in the division. Photon and Potan's bigger than him. [00:04:24] Speaker B: He set the UFC record. They have a power cube that they punch to see. [00:04:28] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:04:28] Speaker B: And Ganu had the record. Potan destroyed his record. [00:04:31] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:04:31] Speaker B: So I think he has no problem. He could go to heavyweight. His power translates. [00:04:35] Speaker A: Yeah. If he has to defend his light heavyweight belt first. Who do you think, Yuri? [00:04:41] Speaker B: I think Ankolev is the one that makes alive. He's deserves it the most. [00:04:47] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:04:48] Speaker B: But I would like to see him rematch. Yuri. I think that'd be the most entertaining fight because Uri's a dog. He proved it as we're gonna. [00:04:54] Speaker A: You don't want to see Magamed Johnny Walker again for no reason. [00:04:59] Speaker B: No, I would rather not see that. [00:05:00] Speaker A: Okay. Just checking my. [00:05:02] Speaker B: Go mad. Honestly, he's kind of undeniable. He deserves a title shot. But we've seen in the UFC, it's not always who deserves it the most that gets the title shot, right? [00:05:10] Speaker A: Yeah. And I think. [00:05:11] Speaker B: I think it's between those two guys are a heavyweight. He goes to heavyweight and fights somebody. [00:05:16] Speaker A: Yeah, I think because Yuri fought on this card. Once we get to him, I'll bring up Magamet again and Yuri, obviously. [00:05:23] Speaker B: But, yeah, if Potan moves up magomed in Yuri fight, winner gets pot on. [00:05:30] Speaker A: Yeah, I think that's a very fair thing, but let's move on to the. The women's straw weight. I believe it is women's straw weight. [00:05:37] Speaker B: Another. [00:05:37] Speaker A: Yeah. Woman straw weight title. [00:05:39] Speaker B: Nice performance from Zhang Weili, but honestly, yawn. [00:05:45] Speaker A: I'm screaming. I'm sorry. She got choked to sleep and then. [00:05:47] Speaker B: Came back and then fought pretty well after. She's probably lost every round, maybe won. [00:05:51] Speaker A: A couple, but, yeah, she might have won one or one. [00:05:55] Speaker B: I think she earned everybody's respect how she came back. [00:05:57] Speaker A: She definitely earned respect. [00:05:59] Speaker B: She was right there with Zhong Weili fighting. [00:06:01] Speaker A: Dude, I'm looking at the stats right now. 256 total strikes from Weili, 73 from Jan Yan. Yeah, it was a tough fight. It was a lot of, you know, it was a lot of ground game. Yan did a lot of work on the ground. She scored three out of three takedowns, but Whaley answered every single time. Six out of nine takedowns. Twelve minutes of control, almost 13 minutes of control, and she stayed just. [00:06:25] Speaker B: I think the per se strike coming out is Zhang Weili is almost a victim of her own success. We've seen her be so impressive, and this was still a fight where she easily won every. Nobody's saying she didn't win, but it just wasn't as impressive. But that's more props to Yan. I feel like Zhang Weili defends the title. I mean, this is a very weird. [00:06:45] Speaker A: One if you're looking at what's next for Zhang Wei Li, because you have somebody like Tatiana Suarez who hadn't fought in a while because she was injured, but she's. She's on a huge winning streak. She's like the number one contender in the division. [00:06:57] Speaker B: I think that fight makes sense. [00:06:58] Speaker A: Jess gone drod comes up when you talk about it because she's just been tearing through the division since she's been back in it or since she's been offer losing streak. She's been kind of impressive with her, you know, recurrence. [00:07:16] Speaker B: Fuck it. Bring Rose back. [00:07:18] Speaker A: Bring Rose back. I mean, I don't know. There's just so many options, I think Zhang Weili. But there's also so many people. Zhang we Li's already beaten. [00:07:27] Speaker B: Pound for pound. I think she's the best female fighter right now. As I said, a victim of her own success where wasn't as impressive, as dominant as a win as we've seen her, but she still probably won every single round, which just tells you how good she is. [00:07:40] Speaker A: But you got look like Amanda Lemos. She's like the third ranked contender. Whaley's already beat her. I mean, who. Who else? You bring Rose back? She's lost. She beat Rose twice. [00:07:51] Speaker B: No, Rose beat her twice. [00:07:52] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. Rose beat her twice. [00:07:54] Speaker B: I think the fight that makes the most sense. You mentioned her name is Tatiana Suarez? [00:07:57] Speaker A: I think, so. She should be pretty close to being healed. I'm gonna reach out on Instagram, see if I can get an answer, and we'll be back to talk about it. Any who's, let's go to the most. [00:08:09] Speaker B: Entertaining fight the night, the BMF. [00:08:12] Speaker A: I have been so excited to talk about this. I wanted to record it earlier. This is my favorite fight of all. [00:08:17] Speaker B: Time, I think it might be. And Max Holloway put on a fucking show. [00:08:22] Speaker A: But on top of that, it avenges my least favorite fight of all time, which was the Poirier head kick. As much as I respect it, I just. I hate seeing it. And then Gaethje getting slept as his. [00:08:36] Speaker B: Next one, just, I mean, everybody, if. [00:08:39] Speaker A: You'Re fighting for the BMF, it changes hands. [00:08:41] Speaker B: I think it was the most impressive we've ever seen. Max Holloway, he was faster than Gaethje. He was more strategic than Gaethje. I mean, he was beating Gaethje up for five rounds, then in the final 10 seconds said, fuck all this EMF. Let's stand in the middle. Gets one of the most dangerous guys in the UFC, and let's just swing recklessly. [00:09:00] Speaker A: But that's not the first time he's done that. [00:09:02] Speaker B: It's not the first time, but it's the first time you look back at. [00:09:05] Speaker A: The Dustin, the Poirier Holloway fight he was doing. [00:09:09] Speaker B: Him and Poirier were first at UFC 199. He was winning a fight, and he. [00:09:14] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, he didn't knock that guy out, though. [00:09:16] Speaker B: He didn't knock the guy out, but they just swung like that. Yeah, but 1 second left knocks Justin Gaethje not only knocks him out, he folded. [00:09:25] Speaker A: Justin Gaethje knocked him out cold. [00:09:27] Speaker B: Knocked him out cold. Face hit the ground. It was one of the most stunning, surprising. I think they said on the broadcast it was probably the biggest holy shit. Moment in UFC history. [00:09:38] Speaker A: Look, Dana was out there after the fight. Just commenting. Post it, like, don't care, everybody. [00:09:45] Speaker B: It was such a good fight. They gave. This is the largest bonuses in UFC history. They gave Holloway two of them. [00:09:51] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:09:51] Speaker B: The fight performance of the night. [00:09:53] Speaker A: Six hundred k to Holloway. Well deserved for. [00:09:56] Speaker B: Well deserved. [00:09:56] Speaker A: Very blessed Max Holloway. And I think it's a. The start of a long reign in lightweight, because this is. This is what we. We've been seeing Max Holloway since they said he was 19. I haven't seen him since he was 19, but he. He's been around since he was 19. [00:10:11] Speaker B: I don't know. I think he goes back to 145. [00:10:13] Speaker A: He's in his poria. He's in his prime right now. What I'm saying is, we're about to see a long reign from Holloway. He's still gonna take on Toporia. He's probably. I'd say he wins. [00:10:26] Speaker B: I mean, I like Taporia, but the reaction when they showed to Poria after the call, he looked like he didn't want any of Max Holloway. [00:10:34] Speaker A: I was so excited Twitter was going off or X was going off, and. [00:10:38] Speaker B: Holloway, I like how he called out. He said, I'll take teporia, I'll take Islam. [00:10:41] Speaker A: He called out McGregor after for the BMF title. He has options. I don't think. Obviously can't get the title shot next. [00:10:48] Speaker B: I think there's a little bit of. [00:10:49] Speaker A: A pecking order, but he's at the top of it. [00:10:52] Speaker B: His next fight could easily be for the lightweight title if you write it. [00:10:55] Speaker A: Yeah, we could be Islam. Islam. [00:10:57] Speaker B: Dustin. [00:10:59] Speaker A: There's so much that Holloway has. He has options. He has a almost any fight he wants next. It's super impressive. I'm. I'm happy I was able to see. [00:11:11] Speaker B: Max Hollow has always been one of my favorite fighters, but I think the performance he put on, I mean, he's up there like, that was one of the most impressive. That was like, if you're trying to get somebody that was never in the fighting, you want to show one fight, show him that fight. [00:11:25] Speaker A: Right? [00:11:26] Speaker B: It was incredible. Broke his nose in the first round with a spinning kick. Broke. [00:11:29] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. We didn't even mention that. [00:11:31] Speaker B: Like, dropped Gaethje multiple times, and then. [00:11:34] Speaker A: He'S still never been dropped. [00:11:35] Speaker B: They didn't get him count out. It was a drop. [00:11:39] Speaker A: I would say. That wasn't a slip, that was a drop. But, you know, whatever the UFC wants or whatever the judges wanted to score that as is what they did. [00:11:46] Speaker B: But in the end, it doesn't matter. Cause he said, meet me in the middle of the cage. Props to Gaethje. Because he was like, okay, yeah, Gaethje. [00:11:52] Speaker A: Is that real, dude, definitely props to Gaethje. [00:11:56] Speaker B: But Gaetch is gonna be back too. Max Holloway is the BMF, man. [00:12:00] Speaker A: The BMF for sure. I'd like to see him defend that belt, but I don't think I. I don't know where he goes from here. [00:12:07] Speaker B: I think he goes. I think his next fight is gonna be Illi Tipporea in Spain. [00:12:11] Speaker A: That would be crazy. [00:12:13] Speaker B: I think that's the fight. [00:12:14] Speaker A: He didn't get beat up. He definitely. Yeah, his legs. His legs kind of hurt. [00:12:19] Speaker B: I think that's the fight to make. [00:12:20] Speaker A: But I could definitely see him taken. Taken on Tippore and beating Tippore in his next fight at featherweight, if he. [00:12:27] Speaker B: Fights like that, he can beat. [00:12:29] Speaker A: I don't see why he wouldn't win. [00:12:31] Speaker B: He could beat anybody in the world. [00:12:32] Speaker A: The next one is a split decision. [00:12:36] Speaker B: This was honestly the fight that hurt me, that. The loss that hurt me the most in the whole card. [00:12:42] Speaker A: The cockiest bastard of them all. Crickets. [00:12:45] Speaker B: Charlie Olives, Charlie Oliveira. [00:12:47] Speaker A: Dubronx, man. [00:12:49] Speaker B: And look, I thought he had them. [00:12:51] Speaker A: The commentary from Joe and, and, and everybody. It really. It's about how you score the fight, you know, that's why it's a good split decision. They. Olivera had him on a deep submission in the first round. [00:13:03] Speaker B: I thought he had him in that, in the. The choke. [00:13:06] Speaker A: And they. First round, second round, obviously. I think Sarukian won. [00:13:10] Speaker B: I agree. [00:13:11] Speaker A: And then third round, he came back. He ended the third round it with a deep dart that Sarukian wasn't doing anything to defend. [00:13:19] Speaker B: He was just laying there holding out for the clock. [00:13:21] Speaker A: And it's like if you. You in the fight, you know, two rounds being sub. They're not sub being deep into a sub attempt. It wasn't Oliveira's strongest performance on the feet. You know, looking at the stats, watching the fight, you can say, yeah, I. [00:13:37] Speaker B: Don'T think any way you can say it's a robbery, but I would have scored the fight. Olivera winning two rounds to one. We've just. [00:13:44] Speaker A: We've seen that. This is why. [00:13:46] Speaker B: But I'm also Oliver fan. [00:13:47] Speaker A: Yeah, exactly. This is why it's dangerous being a fan. Because you're getting your feelings about, oh, Sarukian took him down, but Oliver ended up with control and then ended up with a strong attempt. But then Sarukian stayed heavy with his hands the whole fight. There's. There's a lot going on. [00:14:02] Speaker B: I think, honestly, if you look at it from the most unbiased position, Rukian probably won the fight. [00:14:08] Speaker A: Right. [00:14:08] Speaker B: I would have loved to see Olivera get the decision window. [00:14:11] Speaker A: I also picked Oliveira, but I did think that Surukian did enough. I just. The first round, I think he was in danger. I. I think the dars in the third round, Olivera had him. Had obvious control, but I don't think he was in, like, immediate danger by any standpoint. That's why he wasn't fighting. He knew the time was out. He heard the. [00:14:32] Speaker B: But we talked about Holloway getting the lightweight title shot. I think, honestly, Sarukian, he's in line where if he doesn't fight again, he could easily get. [00:14:41] Speaker A: Poirier updated the weight, the rankings today, and I think he's. He's actually 2nd, 2nd or first in the lightweight, you know, rankings. That makes total sense. He's in line. He's done the work to get there. Like, when was St. Denis? If he'd have beaten Poirier in their fight, he'd have been right in line for a title shot. Deservedly so. But, yeah, you got. Sorry, kid is the number one contender. He jumped everybody by beating Oliveira, as he should have. [00:15:09] Speaker B: It was a good win. [00:15:10] Speaker A: Yeah, it was a good win. Split decision against the number. He was. Oliver was the number one. Yes. [00:15:16] Speaker B: I think he can hold out and get his rematch with Islam. Or of course, a Poirier wins. He gets Poirier fight, and we got the smartest thing for him. [00:15:24] Speaker A: And we don't have to wait that long. We see. Or at least to find out who he. [00:15:27] Speaker B: 302, I believe. [00:15:29] Speaker A: Yeah. June 29, UFC 302. They announced it on the press conference of this card, Makachev versus Dustin Poirier for the lightweight belt. It's super exciting. I mean, it could be the Poirier, the diamonds last shot for the belt. We'll see. [00:15:46] Speaker B: It is gonna be his last shot for the belt. [00:15:48] Speaker A: He's gonna win it, though. I believe in him. Don't sleep. Let's go, DP. Don't sleep on Dustin Poirier this time. [00:15:54] Speaker B: So let's move on. It was the main card opener. [00:15:56] Speaker A: This is another fun one. [00:15:57] Speaker B: Controversial that it was the main card opener. Just cause of the who. [00:16:01] Speaker A: Who. [00:16:02] Speaker B: But Bo nickel, rising star. Everybody loves him. [00:16:06] Speaker A: Another good performance gets another. [00:16:07] Speaker B: He wasn't happy with his own performance. He had a second round submission of brundage. It was the first time we've seen him where he had to wrestle, I think, to win this fight. [00:16:18] Speaker A: All right, but let me. If he's not happy with his performance, that's fine, I'm happy with it. If you're a fan and you're betting on him at minus 2500 odds and he won, sure you're still happy. Nobody was upset with him out wrestling a wrestler. [00:16:33] Speaker B: I don't know. The fans were booing him. [00:16:34] Speaker A: I wasn't. Those were casuals. Some up, though. If you're going to UFC, fight UFC 300. But still. [00:16:41] Speaker B: But I mean, Bo nickel, he out wrestled brundage, striking. It was the first time we've seen Brundage hit him a few times. He definitely, first time he had. It wasn't much, but he had a little bit of adversity in the fight. So it was nice to see him just say, I'm just going to wrestle the fuck out of this dude. His wrestling is unbelievable. [00:17:01] Speaker A: It was obvious that once he, once he saw Brundages, he was like, I'm not really ready for that, like today. [00:17:09] Speaker B: No, if I say he's not really. [00:17:10] Speaker A: Ready, he was just, I wasn't feeling it. [00:17:11] Speaker B: Let me just. [00:17:12] Speaker A: And he was like, yeah, I'm just gonna. In this way. [00:17:15] Speaker B: I know, I'm just gonna go ahead, dominate. So he took him play around at. [00:17:18] Speaker A: All, subbed him when he could. He took two sub attempts and then. [00:17:24] Speaker B: I don't know if he's d one be zinc double a wrestler. I think it was d two. [00:17:27] Speaker A: Yeah, d two. [00:17:28] Speaker B: Nickel showed he was a all american national champion wrestler. I mean, his wrestling is unbelievable. [00:17:34] Speaker A: It is. It's top tier and it. [00:17:36] Speaker B: His positioning, he deserves the props he gets. [00:17:40] Speaker A: And that's why he keeps becoming these heavy, heavy odds favorites coming in. Because if he doesn't like to strike with you, you can't do anything about. [00:17:48] Speaker B: He's one of those guys. If he decides to wrestle and you don't catch him on the. [00:17:51] Speaker A: When he's entry, you're fucked. [00:17:53] Speaker B: Yeah, you're fucked. He gets ahold of you, right, you're fucked. Six and oh now in the UFC or six. No overall three and oh three. No three. No UFC all finishes. I think he just keeps going up the ladder. [00:18:05] Speaker A: He called out Anthony Hernandez, who has a fight coming up. [00:18:07] Speaker B: I would like to see him fight fluffy because that would be a good one. [00:18:11] Speaker A: I don't know if so. It depends on the how many times Bo nickel wants to fight this year. I don't know if that will be the next fight, but it definitely think it's a fight he could get. I think maybe in the meantime, because he doesn't have too much to recover from in these encounters, he keeps fighting. Jung young park, the Iron turtle. [00:18:31] Speaker B: Be a nice one. [00:18:32] Speaker A: Another wrestler who can strike. [00:18:34] Speaker B: I don't think he's ready for it, but he keeps talking about Comzat. [00:18:38] Speaker A: Yeah, he's saying, like, you see, soon. [00:18:40] Speaker B: He'S gonna fight Comzat, is what he's saying. So I think probably two or three fights from now. [00:18:44] Speaker A: Right. But the reason is, if he beat somebody like Fluffy, he's, like, three spots away from Comzat in the red. If you become unreasonable for him to be safe, like, he's one fight away from being. Being right there. [00:18:55] Speaker B: If you beat Tom's eye, title shot, especially the. [00:18:59] Speaker A: With the way they're spouting about him. Yeah, absolutely. I'll take it. [00:19:01] Speaker B: So he wasn't happy with it, but I think it was a nice performance from Bo Nickel. I think if you're gonna have a quote unquote bad performance like he's saying he has, and that's your bad performance. [00:19:11] Speaker A: I'll take it every time. [00:19:12] Speaker B: Yeah, you can take that every time. [00:19:13] Speaker A: Sure. Just ride that check to the bank. [00:19:15] Speaker B: So that was the main card. We previewed the whole card. So we're gonna go over the whole card. [00:19:20] Speaker A: Yeah, we're just gonna keep rolling straight through. Yuri versus Rachik for the. [00:19:24] Speaker B: He's a crazy motherfucker in this fight. He's a warrior. [00:19:29] Speaker A: Don't call him not a samurai either. [00:19:31] Speaker B: Yeah, you. [00:19:31] Speaker A: Cause he will just walk you down, you question. [00:19:34] Speaker B: He'll take every leg kick you have, he'll take every punch in the face, and then he'll come and knock you out, make you chicken dance. [00:19:39] Speaker A: Half of Rachek's total landed strikes were leg kicks, which did. Did crazy damage. [00:19:46] Speaker B: Fucking Yuri's leg up. [00:19:47] Speaker A: But he just said, decided, no, he was not dealing with it. [00:19:50] Speaker B: Yeah, I'm a samurai, and I wish. [00:19:52] Speaker A: He spoke better English, because what Joe was asking him didn't really translate. He was like, you were. You were looking disdainful. You were looking like you hated that he was saying these things about you, and he's like, no, I am this way. Okay, I get it. It was a great performance. Yeah, a little bit lost in translation. He threw him to the ground, or drug him to the ground once he wobbled him and just proceeded with the ground and pound. [00:20:16] Speaker B: And the crazy thing is, this was, what, his fourth or fifth UFC fight? [00:20:20] Speaker A: Yeah, his own. [00:20:20] Speaker B: Still barely in the UFC. [00:20:22] Speaker A: He's 34 and 134 and one. His last loss was to Pereira for the title. [00:20:29] Speaker B: It was still questionably an early stoppage. He definitely got dropped and he was hurt, but it was a little early to stop. [00:20:34] Speaker A: Yeah, but it was one of those things he kind of like Jonathan Almade did. He held on to that takedown for too long and took those damaging, damaging elbows. [00:20:41] Speaker B: I agree, but I'm just saying, like, yuri, his loss isn't a bad loss. Like, he's still right there. He could easily, I could see them rematching against Alex Pereira. [00:20:50] Speaker A: I only see two. So he has call out, obviously, before he's, he was before the, the title shot. So he was calling out the winner of Hill versus Pereira. I think if Hill would have won, he would have had, like, no, no worries at all. No chance at all, like, worrying about getting the title shot. But because Pereira defended it, I think Magamet on Goliath probably gets the, the shot first. But Yuri wants, unless, like we said. [00:21:19] Speaker B: Pereira moves up heavyweight. Yeah, give Yuri versus makamed off. Winner gets Pereira at lightweight. I think we're seeing heavyweight. [00:21:27] Speaker A: I think we're seeing those, some combination of those three people fighting for the belt next or fighting Jamal Hill. [00:21:34] Speaker B: Let him fight Jamal Hill. [00:21:35] Speaker A: Somebody could. I think with this performance, Jamal, everybody else is kind of poised to fight again, and Jamal Hill needs takes. [00:21:42] Speaker B: They were supposed to fight for the belt originally. [00:21:44] Speaker A: Yeah, you're right. [00:21:45] Speaker B: So put them up against each other. They both vacated the belt up their injuries. [00:21:48] Speaker A: So you talk about booing people were booing the shit out of sterling on the next fight, which I get you're. [00:21:57] Speaker B: Booing him, but, like, he was dominating the fight. Boo Calvin cater if you're gonna boo anybody. Boo Calvin cater. [00:22:02] Speaker A: Yeah, they were, they were chanting caters name and booing Sterling, which, as a not big fan of sterling, I love. [00:22:10] Speaker B: I'm liking Sterling more and more. [00:22:12] Speaker A: I like, he's just so corny. [00:22:14] Speaker B: His game plan was perfect, though, and his first fight at 145 could not have gone better. [00:22:18] Speaker A: Yeah, he says he was not motivated by money at all for this fight. He was motivated by his game plan, and he did not, like, teeter off of it one inch, which he beats Calvin Kater. [00:22:28] Speaker B: And now he's instantly like, he's probably a fight or two away from legitimately being like, I'm fighting. Give me a title shot. Former champ, either way. [00:22:37] Speaker A: He's like, yeah, he's 8th. [00:22:39] Speaker B: Yeah, former champ. He wants to fight one, maybe two fights. [00:22:43] Speaker A: Yeah, it was, I mean, you don't. [00:22:44] Speaker B: You can't tell me if his if he doesn't get caught, like, he could easily do that, say, poria could have easy match up horribly from Elliott's a Poirier or Max Holloway if he didn't. [00:22:56] Speaker A: Get caught by biomalle. That's that being a wrestlefuck kind of game plan. He could have retained the title. [00:23:03] Speaker B: Exactly. [00:23:03] Speaker A: I mean, it's just, it's, you have to have the power to put that guy, that kind of guy out before. [00:23:08] Speaker B: He'S still right there. And I honestly, I think it was an impressive performance. He showed his strength, and this is probably as good as he was at 135. This might be like his net. More natural and better weight class. Don't cut weight and you can still wrestle. Fuck these dudes. At 145. [00:23:23] Speaker A: Eight out of 13 takedowns. 89 out of 128 total strike. So he's striking accurately in the division. Now, granted, it was easier to get takedowns against cater because he's like a judo brown belt, they were saying, or blue belt. One of the two mean Calvin Kater looked like. He looked. [00:23:38] Speaker B: He was not ready. [00:23:39] Speaker A: I don't understand how, you know, speed. [00:23:41] Speaker B: Factor, how you're fighting Al Joe and like, he was just not ready for this. [00:23:44] Speaker A: Yeah, that, that was, that was a weird, weird performance by cater, but it was a good performance by sterling. It put him right there in the mix. Who do you think is the biggest test that Aljo is going to get next? So he was calling out Brian Ortega. He wants top five. He wants top three. [00:24:02] Speaker B: Another ground guy, another. [00:24:04] Speaker A: I'd give him Volk. [00:24:06] Speaker B: Volk would be good. [00:24:08] Speaker A: Or yair Rodriguez. Couple losses make him one big test. As like the gatekeeper in the top. [00:24:14] Speaker B: I think any of those three are good fights, and I think any of those three, if he comes in and wins, what's your favorite of the three? [00:24:21] Speaker A: Volka or, like, see him? [00:24:24] Speaker B: Ortega. Just because it's like strength for strength. We'll see if Al Joe's really about it, which I think he is, especially Triangle City. [00:24:32] Speaker A: Can Triangle City beat the funk master? [00:24:35] Speaker B: The funk master? I would take funk master net. I think that's a good fight. I think TC t City is a white third. [00:24:41] Speaker A: Yeah. 3rd. 3rd. Right now. Holloway's still first, but he's, I think, with. With how well Max Holloway performed, I think he's getting the title shot. So that you're not gonna rematch to porio versus Volk yet. So don't think is, man. [00:24:59] Speaker B: Max Holloway beats the poria, gets the belt. You heard who he wants to fight. He said, give me Volk again. [00:25:06] Speaker A: Yeah, I mean, you're only. Your last three losses in the UFC. [00:25:09] Speaker B: Were two volk and everybody else. [00:25:11] Speaker A: You're literally, you're dominating. And, like, volks, not a huge guy. Like, he's five. 6145. [00:25:17] Speaker B: Bad matchup. [00:25:18] Speaker A: It's just a bad matchup. Yeah. So if he can. If he's figured it out, a lot. [00:25:22] Speaker B: Of exciting things in the UFC, especially the 145. [00:25:25] Speaker A: The smaller weight classes are on fire right now, and let's move on. [00:25:28] Speaker B: Next fight, maybe one of the most impressive UFC debuts we've seen. Kayla Harrison, one of those. She was about the hype there. She had a lot of hype coming in. [00:25:38] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, absolutely. [00:25:39] Speaker B: And she came in, and she, against Holly Holm, dominated a vet. [00:25:43] Speaker A: Her arms are absolutely massive. [00:25:45] Speaker B: Yeah, she's a bit. She's a big lady. And not in a bad way. [00:25:48] Speaker A: No, she's the right places. [00:25:50] Speaker B: 135. [00:25:51] Speaker A: I don't want to show my arms. It made me feel, like, embarrassed compared to her. [00:25:54] Speaker B: She was worried about. She's been worried about making the 135. That's why she took so long to get to the UFC. [00:26:00] Speaker A: Yeah. In PFL, she was fighting at 155. [00:26:02] Speaker B: Yeah, she's fighting at lightweight, but if she can. If she can consistently make a 135, she is a problem. I mean, they're already talking about give her. [00:26:11] Speaker A: If she, like, walk through Raquel Pennington. [00:26:14] Speaker B: She would destroy Raquel Benning. [00:26:15] Speaker A: There's no question in my mind that Raquel pilling, not. Not to be mean at all, but Raquel Pillington, in the bantamweight division for the woman's title, looks nothing like Kayla Harrison, has no similar wrestling game. [00:26:29] Speaker B: Kayla Harrison would get ahold of her and. And just choke her, do whatever she wants. Just kind of like what she did to Holly Holm, and Holly Holm did. [00:26:35] Speaker A: Everything she could, but she was only able to get off, like, 17 total strikes. [00:26:39] Speaker B: I mean, you're facing a two time Olympic gold medalist judo your entire fight. [00:26:44] Speaker A: You're worried about, don't give up my back. Don't let her take me. Don't let her take me. Don't let her take me. Even people that as soon as she does, there's nothing you can do about it. [00:26:52] Speaker B: I mean, just think about it. Even the best judo performers in the world could not stop Kayla Harrison. What makes you think a boxer or Holly Holm? No district Holly Holm, but, like. [00:27:03] Speaker A: Cause she's strong. She's amazing in her own right. This was a heavily lopsided performance. [00:27:09] Speaker B: And Kayla Harrison, right away, she's in the title picture. You give her Raquel Pennington, as you said, right now she's that she wins the UFC title. [00:27:16] Speaker A: So if not Raquel, which I think is probably next, right? [00:27:20] Speaker B: I think so. But they might give her one just to make her earn it a little more. [00:27:23] Speaker A: Alright, if she has to earn it. Julian, opinion? Yeah, my rebuyness, I mean, she call. [00:27:28] Speaker B: It out Pennington, like either. I don't think. [00:27:32] Speaker A: I think that or my Rebuyna Silva just cuz she's right up there. She beat Holly Holm, who Buena Silva already beat. Regardless of what the scorecard. Yeah, the steroids say. I think either one of those three. I think Raquel's probably likely, but Pena hadn't fought in a while, so hasn't fallen a while. [00:27:51] Speaker B: I think Kayla Harrison's a problem for anybody in that division. [00:27:55] Speaker A: It's like how when Chris Cyborg walked out, just started stomping through the divisions because there was nobody, like, who could even touch her. [00:28:01] Speaker B: Oh, shit. [00:28:02] Speaker A: This is one of those situations. [00:28:03] Speaker B: I agree. Sky's the limit for Kayla Harrison. Let's move on. One of the. I wouldn't say if it was a normal UFC card. You would say it was one of the most impressive performances. But because of the fights we've already been over, it's crazy. Got overshadowed. But Diego Lopez against Yusuf. Diego Lopez proved he's that dude too. [00:28:20] Speaker A: Yeah, but see, this is one of those where like, it while I was watching it live. So I got up, went make a drink, got some chips, sauce, you know. It was at the first fight of the prelim, so I barely made it home from work at this point, like, getting things ready. I look up and use this on the ground, sleeping. It's like a goddamn. Now I got to rewind this thing already. I was able to watch the fight four or five times before the next fight. [00:28:43] Speaker B: Luckily, first round ko. [00:28:45] Speaker A: But it was. It was a great performance by Lopez. And it's exactly what we thought was gonna happen. [00:28:50] Speaker B: He proved is that, dude, that's three straight first round finishes now. [00:28:53] Speaker A: Yeah, he's got, like, in. I think it's three fights in the UFC, and he's got 90 seconds, 89 seconds. [00:29:00] Speaker B: His fourth fight, he lost his first one, and then he's won three in a row. [00:29:03] Speaker A: Right. He had a decision to evolve evoluev, and then his last three fights were 98 seconds, 90 seconds and 89 seconds. [00:29:11] Speaker B: It's incredible. I mean, he proved the UFC. You can start to see he was in all the embeddeds. Yeah, like, they're trying. They're getting behind him. He's an exciting guy. [00:29:20] Speaker A: Humble, humble, humble, humble. Humble. [00:29:22] Speaker B: He has a unique look. Like everybody that sees him is like, yeah, I remember that guy. Oh, so his second fight, so exciting. [00:29:27] Speaker A: So his first fight through evil, evelywev. I don't think I saw, or I might have just seen a replay of the second fight. I remember I was like, no way am I voting for this dude to win. He's got this crazy chest tattoo, this. This crazy hairstyle. No way I'm voting for this guy. And he walked out and he just demolished the guy in 90 seconds. Then it kind of flipped me. I'm like, I like him. Now. I might be a big fan of Diego. [00:29:51] Speaker B: One of those guys you see at first, you're like, look at this dude. And then you watch him fight, like, oh, shit, look at this. [00:29:56] Speaker A: Yeah, he can look however he wants because he backs the shit up. [00:29:59] Speaker B: So seems like a nice guy. [00:30:02] Speaker A: He actually had a pretty good call out, in my opinion, because he's on a similar trajectory now as evil Ev. His call out was for a rematch. He thinks he's ready, which I, at this point, I would like to see. [00:30:13] Speaker B: That I could understand if Evelyweb's like, not yet, but they're both in the top 15. [00:30:18] Speaker A: If he doesn't get that, I say give him a Giga Chicago or an Arnold Allen. Arnold Allen has lost a couple in a row, so, you know, he needs. [00:30:28] Speaker B: I think either one of those would be great for Diego Lopez in terms of step up in competition. And if you win that, you're right in the mix. [00:30:35] Speaker A: So who's your favorite giga? Chikadze. The rematch with Ev Loewev or Arnold Allen? [00:30:43] Speaker B: If I had my pick, I would pick the rematch with Evlueev just to get his loss back. But I think the most likely one is probably Giga. And then second would be Arnold Allen. [00:30:52] Speaker A: I like Giga as the next one. Cause it gives him a test to break the top ten. And, you know, he can kind of go from there. He went from, he's. He's the 14th ranked guy now. Giving him ev lovable. Give him a top five matchup. Giving him Arnold would be six. Chikaze is ten. So it is a most probably reasonable. [00:31:10] Speaker B: Where we go from there. [00:31:12] Speaker A: I agree. I agree. All right, four fights left. Let's get deep. The early prelims, man, these are still impressive as hell. [00:31:19] Speaker B: We're still impressive. [00:31:20] Speaker A: These could be. These could stand alone as an all their own fight card. Jalen Turner thought he had the walk off knockout. He couldn't. [00:31:27] Speaker B: The 300K got in his head and he tried to get that walk off ko, man. [00:31:30] Speaker A: He wanted the visual of pop and you're done. And he had. I mean, he had Renato hurt early in the first round, and then he hit him again with the same shot and it dropped him. So if you're coming off of the. I destroyed Bobby Green and they go too long. I understand him being like, trigger unhappy where you're trying to protect your, your fellow UFC fighter, but like Chris Weidman said a few weeks ago, do not stop fighting and protect yourself at all times until the ref stops you. Punch that man when he's down, hit him and you would have won the fight otherwise. Renato gets app gets. App gets up and dominates you into the second round to where he knocks you out. And now he's the one talking shit to Joe Rogan. [00:32:17] Speaker B: He got the ground knockout. I mean, honestly, it sucks for Jalen Turner. Props to Moikano. It was a way to turn the fight around from him. Sucks for Jalen Turner. But as you said, that's why you go until the ref stops you. [00:32:29] Speaker A: Yeah, absolutely. [00:32:30] Speaker B: Because, yes, you knocked him down. It was a hard hit, but he definitely wasn't out. They defy should definitely not have been stopped. [00:32:36] Speaker A: No, not just off of that at all. [00:32:37] Speaker B: So you, you know, that's on you. And Moycano rebounded and he came out and he had a very impressive performance. And now he's the guy that everybody's talking about. Everybody's talking about. He had the highlight. [00:32:50] Speaker A: Exactly. Ronaldo Morgano, he breaks. What is that? He breaks top ten. He's the 10th ranked fighter in the lightweight division. So now he's got the. [00:32:59] Speaker B: He's a guy with a ground game where, like, some of these strikers that may be ranked ahead of him, they don't want to deal with that guy. [00:33:05] Speaker A: Yeah, a lot of. A lot of these lightweight strikers, not that they don't have a ground game, but they've been so heavy in the striking. They've been going into these wars. [00:33:13] Speaker B: He's a hard matchup for a lot of people. [00:33:15] Speaker A: He is. I mean, look at his last fight. Who is it against now? I'm blanking on it. But he dominated by winning on the ground. He took him down, he was uncomfortable. He laid on him and he did what he had to do. Who do you think is next for Renato? Money? Moikano. I got two options. Vanille Darush, kind of on a, you know, a little bit of a lost streak to two big losses, or Dan Hooker hadn't fought in a minute. But he had some crazy injuries. [00:33:45] Speaker B: I mean, we know Dan Hooker's always game. [00:33:47] Speaker A: Yeah, he'll fight anytime he's. [00:33:48] Speaker B: I would like to see that fight. Daru. That'd be a good one. He's coming off, what, two first round knock. He lost the arm and Oliveira right twice in a row, which, I mean. [00:34:00] Speaker A: To be those, to be your last two losses, whatever. I mean, not whatever, but it's like. I get it. [00:34:06] Speaker B: Yeah, but they were bad. [00:34:07] Speaker A: The top ten in that division at any point lightweight is like, yah, you throw it out and. Yeah, I believe anything could have happened in the top ten of that division. [00:34:16] Speaker B: Give me boy Khan. Oh, Dan Hooker. [00:34:18] Speaker A: Book it, book it. All right, I'm a circle it. Next, we got Jessica bait, Escada Andrade, in my opinion, whole handedly beating Marina Rodriguez. [00:34:30] Speaker B: It was a split decision. We both picked Rodriguez, but I think, as you said, andraj was the. I don't know how it splits. [00:34:39] Speaker A: This is like she's lost. Marina Rodriguez lost three out of four. This is like the third time her fought. Her fight has gone where she's, like, just completely gassed out and had nothing to give. And that's why she's lost. I mean, honestly, like, Andrade was just the fresher fighter later. They kind of kept it even. Andrade got her. [00:34:58] Speaker B: She had the obvious reach advantage, and she couldn't take advantage of it. Rodriguez. [00:35:02] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:35:02] Speaker B: You said she just gassed out. [00:35:04] Speaker A: Yeah. It was unfortunate because, like, the significant strikes were close. She had it like, she just let her. Not let her, but she didn't stuff the takedown. You don't fight the head, you don't fight the hands. You just go to the ground when you're gassed and hard, it's hard. [00:35:19] Speaker B: And just the visual of you being gassed in the other fight or not, when it's already a pretty even close fight. [00:35:25] Speaker A: Yeah, that plays a lot for the judges. [00:35:27] Speaker B: It plays a lot, and it should, I think. [00:35:28] Speaker A: Yeah, absolutely. I agree. [00:35:30] Speaker B: So, honestly, a great win for Andra. She proves she's still right there, despite some, you know, as we talked about earlier. [00:35:36] Speaker A: Yeah, she had a few setbacks in 2023. She had five fights, lost three of them. [00:35:41] Speaker B: She's still one of the most consistent. She's always fighting, so props to her. Yeah, she's one of most active fighters, not only in her division, but like the UFC, right? [00:35:48] Speaker A: Absolutely. So in the straw weight division, for the women's straw weight division, because you don't want her fighting in the men's straw weight division. She's now ranked number four, there's only three above her in the champ, so she wants a title shot. She thinks she's ready. If not, I got Tatiana Suarez, Amanda Lemos. But we. I mean, they've already fought, so I just don't know if Xiaonan Yan, after her performance with Weili, there's nothing to count her out against. Maybe give Andrade one more test before you give her the title fight. If they make Tatiana Suarez versus Weili or something like that, I would like that fight. [00:36:28] Speaker B: I just don't think after this performance, although it was a win, although I think she performed well, I don't think she deserves a title shot off of this. So give her Yan. That's who I would pick. [00:36:36] Speaker A: I say yan, as well. That was the most. Cause I think it would give her the most trouble. But it also gives her a similar opponent to Weili, where it's almost like she would accept it so she could test herself. Am I ready to, you know, take that last. Last jump to make, to try to be the champion? [00:36:53] Speaker B: All right, let's move on. Next fight. It was probably. [00:36:55] Speaker A: This was hurt. This was painful. [00:36:57] Speaker B: I was about to say, as a fan, as a big UFC fan, this was probably the one that hurt the most. [00:37:01] Speaker A: Jim fucking Miller. [00:37:02] Speaker B: Jim fucking Miller. Just. He got dominated by Bobby Green. [00:37:06] Speaker A: Yeah, he didn't have it this. This week. [00:37:07] Speaker B: Bobby Green was faster than him. He was hurting him. I mean, by the end of it, Bobby Green was caught, like, show me cocky. [00:37:14] Speaker A: He was cocky the whole fight. He was cocky every fight. [00:37:16] Speaker B: He was cocky every five, but it was like. It was the cocky where it was like, rub. Not rubbing it in, because he does do that every five, but it was like. It was talking embarrassing for Jim Miller. Yeah, and which sucks to see, because Jim Miller's a true legend of the sport. [00:37:28] Speaker A: Yeah, he won in UFC ₩100. In UFC 200. He had. He didn't miss the opportunity to win at UFC 300. I mean, he was able to perform at all three. Props to Jim Miller. [00:37:40] Speaker B: Miller. But it was a great performance from Bobby Green. [00:37:43] Speaker A: It was definitely how you want a fighter who suffers a bad knockout loss. In his previous fight, he fought Jalen Turner. [00:37:51] Speaker B: Just come beat the shit out of old man. [00:37:53] Speaker A: Well, just for him to be able to fight, like, coherently, like, dominatingly for three rounds, you had scorecards 292-739-3025, and 29. 26. There are multiple ten, eight rounds, everybody. [00:38:07] Speaker B: It's probably. [00:38:08] Speaker A: It's probably right, though. [00:38:09] Speaker B: Probably right. But that's a tough one. Tough fight. [00:38:13] Speaker A: Props to Bobby Green. He called out the slimy, sugary Patty Pimblett because Patty said his name last time he last. What was it, January or February? [00:38:24] Speaker B: I mean, that would be a good fight. I don't. [00:38:26] Speaker A: I'm cool with it if you're not giving him, him the only other option I have in the division, because lightweight, like, everybody's fighting and lightweight the past two weeks, they got to take some damn rest at some point. I got RDA because he hadn't fought a while. Bobby Green could just be the old man. Massacre is because he's old in himself. [00:38:43] Speaker B: 37. [00:38:44] Speaker A: Yeah. He's not the youngest guy. RDA is, like, 40. I think it'd be a cool matchup because RDA is losing by decisions, which means he's still got it. [00:38:51] Speaker B: Yeah, I think RDA still has. I would like to see him versus RDA. Him versus Patty would be a good fight, too. [00:38:58] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:38:58] Speaker B: I think Bobby Greens, he's not a legit contender in a division, but he's a guy. He'll put entertaining fights for you, and he's. [00:39:04] Speaker A: It's just one. Is one of those guys you can't, like, keep him out of the, like. [00:39:08] Speaker B: Top 15, and, like, every one of his fights, something exciting or crazy is gonna happen. [00:39:13] Speaker A: Yeah. Either he's getting knocked out or he's. [00:39:15] Speaker B: He's beating the shit up an old man. [00:39:16] Speaker A: Right. And I love it. I'm here for it. This is why we love the UFC and those exact reasons. [00:39:21] Speaker B: Let's move on to the opening fight, which is probably the greatest opening fight in terms of who was fighting in UFC history in their resumes. [00:39:29] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:39:29] Speaker B: Two former champs, Davis and Figueiredo, had the second round sub against Cody Garbrandt. Figueiredo now two and o at 135. He proved he's for real at this new division. [00:39:39] Speaker A: Yeah. Two and o in the bantamweight division. That, I mean, over him and rob him over Rob font him over Carter, Cody Garbrandt. [00:39:48] Speaker B: I mean, those are two great wins to start off your 135 career. [00:39:51] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, absolutely. It was a great performance, a great showing to say, like, hey, I'm ready. I'm like, I'm not worried about, you know, anybody else. I'm going for the title. I'm going up. I'm on the rise. Figgies back? [00:40:06] Speaker B: I think so. And I think he's. I mean, I'm honestly, we've seen worse performances from Cody Garment, so props to him. [00:40:12] Speaker A: He. [00:40:12] Speaker B: He's now claiming he had vertigo mid fight, any kind of lost balance. I saw that headline today, but Figueiredo I think he's right there. Now he can. I don't think he gets title shot next, obviously, but I think he's. What does he rank right now? Like top five? [00:40:29] Speaker A: Let's see. [00:40:30] Speaker B: He's definitely top ten. [00:40:31] Speaker A: I almost said Marab. He is six. [00:40:35] Speaker B: Six. [00:40:36] Speaker A: So you got Cejudo, Cheeto, Peter yan, Sandhagen, Marab and O'Malley. [00:40:41] Speaker B: I think he called out. [00:40:42] Speaker A: He called for a title shot. He wants a title shot. [00:40:45] Speaker B: But he also mentioned Corey Sandhagen. [00:40:47] Speaker A: He did mention Corey Sandhagen. I would like that. Obviously. I think we know, like, we can expect at any point in the future for them to book O'Malley Maraab for the title. Like, I think it has deserved one. I think that's next. So lock that up after that. I. I have on the paper Sandhagen. [00:41:04] Speaker B: Because I think Sandy Davidson Sandhagen. I think that'd be entertaining. [00:41:08] Speaker A: Sandhagen is a monster with, like, calculation. He's very, very precise. [00:41:12] Speaker B: Sandhagen, on his own could say, like, give me a title shot. [00:41:15] Speaker A: Right? And if, and if you're gonna fight, Sandhagen's one of those Dan hooker types. He's always willing. He'll fight anywhere, anytime, anyone. And that's. He's faced those tests. That's why he could say, give me a title shot at any given point. [00:41:36] Speaker B: Top five this week. Top five athlete nicknames. [00:41:43] Speaker A: I like it. [00:41:44] Speaker B: I like it, too. This is one of the most fun researches we've done. There is so much to choose from. [00:41:49] Speaker A: Yeah. There's almost any sport. Like, they have, like, boy, every sport. Well, there's just some that. It just doesn't make sense to us, I guess that would be no baseball. [00:42:01] Speaker B: Nick, just joke. [00:42:02] Speaker A: I have. I picked, like, pretty much a list by, like, the top four big sports or, like, the top five athlete nicknames, if you will. [00:42:13] Speaker B: It makes sense. [00:42:14] Speaker A: Wow. There we go. [00:42:15] Speaker B: So top five athlete nicknames. I think I have the first pick in this one. [00:42:18] Speaker A: You do, ma'am. [00:42:19] Speaker B: And I'm gonna go with one. Everybody knows. Some people might not even realize it's a nickname. My number one pick athlete nickname is Tiger Woods. [00:42:29] Speaker A: Eldrick taunt Woods. [00:42:31] Speaker B: Eldrick. Tiger Woods. I mean, who doesn't know Tiger? He's the face of golf, if you just say the word good. [00:42:39] Speaker A: He's like, taking up all the screen time at the Masters weekends ago, I watched it while I was at work. [00:42:45] Speaker B: Everybody's watching Tiger. [00:42:46] Speaker A: Yeah, he was, like, not performing well. [00:42:49] Speaker B: And he made the cut and finished last place at everybody that made the cut. And still he was. They had a camera just following him. [00:42:56] Speaker A: Him and his group. It was great. I watched. That was most of the coverage I watched was Tiger woods the most popular golfer. [00:43:01] Speaker B: He's the richest golfer, most successful golfer. When he was in his prom, Tiger woods, he made golf, like, mainstream. And he has a great nickname. Who doesn't love tigers? [00:43:13] Speaker A: Yeah, that is a. [00:43:14] Speaker B: It's a cool nickname. [00:43:15] Speaker A: It is a very cool nickname. And like you said, it's one that a lot of people won't even. No, don't even think is a nickname. And they think it's his real name. They. [00:43:25] Speaker B: And everybody knows who Tiger woods is, even if you don't follow any sports. [00:43:29] Speaker A: Yeah, I think. I think that's one of the things that's important. [00:43:32] Speaker B: He's one of the guys that transcends everything. [00:43:34] Speaker A: Well, I think when for, especially this top five, if you're picking, like, a nickname of some dude that nobody's ever heard of, it's not a good pick. [00:43:42] Speaker B: Well, unless it's a cool nickname. [00:43:44] Speaker A: I guess we'll see. [00:43:45] Speaker B: I guess we'll see. So that's my number one pick, Tiger woods. Why don't you give me your number one pick? Alex the juice. [00:43:52] Speaker A: I'm going with OJ Simpson. Rip. Rip. Although nobody's saying that they do not want this guy to rest in peace, which. Not getting into that. The juice is a great nickname. [00:44:03] Speaker B: I mean, if your name's OJ, the juice is the perfect nickname. [00:44:06] Speaker A: Right? I mean, it goes hand in hand. [00:44:09] Speaker B: I just think the murders kind of take away from your pick a little bit. A little bit. [00:44:12] Speaker A: It's a very. It's a very hard strung first pick. But I'm not going with what you did in your life. I'm going with what you did to earn the nickname Heisman trophy. [00:44:23] Speaker B: One of the best running backs and in his of his time. [00:44:26] Speaker A: Nrip. OJ died April 10, 2024. Not a great guy. Great football player. [00:44:33] Speaker B: Bold pick. I think you could have got that at number five. [00:44:36] Speaker A: Oh, well, I'm going with OJ the juice. My draft might be wild this week, but I realized something. I like what I like, and it doesn't matter. [00:44:48] Speaker B: All right, so Jason the juice, number one. [00:44:50] Speaker A: Juice is my number one. [00:44:52] Speaker B: Give me your number two. [00:44:53] Speaker A: Man. I gotta go with another iconic one. I'm gonna go with the notorious, another breaker, another bad dude. But a name that transcends it. If, you know, you hear the name the notorious Conor McGregor said, I disagree. [00:45:15] Speaker B: With you because I think his name is more. Is bigger than his nickname? I think there's plenty people that know Conor McGregor that don't know his nickname. [00:45:23] Speaker A: It goes hand in hand for sure. I think the notorious goes hand in hand with Conor McGregor. Think if you hear his name, you're not surprised you've heard his nickname. You know his nickname? I think the notorious is Conor McGregor is a great pick. [00:45:40] Speaker B: It's not a bad pick, and I. [00:45:41] Speaker A: Don'T care what you think. [00:45:42] Speaker B: Not a bad pick. [00:45:43] Speaker A: What's your number two? [00:45:45] Speaker B: My number two pick, it's another one where I think most people don't even realize it's not this dude's name. He was one of the greatest NBA players of all time. He's a great owner. Still around on tv. I'm going with Magic Johnson. I mean, as a point guard, he was almost seven foot point guard. What other nickname describes you more than magic? Big guy? He can move down the court. He has the handles. He was great. [00:46:09] Speaker A: He got some other magic in him, too. [00:46:12] Speaker B: He had charisma. [00:46:14] Speaker A: He came back, pretty much got what he wanted. [00:46:16] Speaker B: He got what he wanted and a little bit of what he didn't want. [00:46:19] Speaker A: Why did he not want Irving? [00:46:20] Speaker B: Magic Johnson? He was a NBA champ. He was a NC double a champ. He was part owner of the Dodgers, been GM of the Los Angeles Lakers, been on tv. [00:46:31] Speaker A: Great. [00:46:31] Speaker B: I mean, Magic Johnson. Magic is a great nickname. [00:46:33] Speaker A: Is he, like, the least affected by AIDS person there has ever been? Yeah. [00:46:37] Speaker B: He's the proof that they always say, like, yeah, there's a cure to it, because if you just have money, you're fine. [00:46:42] Speaker A: Yeah. That's pretty much the narrative I've heard so far. Magic Johnson. [00:46:46] Speaker B: Magic Johnson. My number two pick. [00:46:48] Speaker A: What's your number three pick? [00:46:49] Speaker B: My number three pick is gonna be another laker. Great. And this is actually my guest pic from my beautiful girlfriend clara. I asked her to give me the best athlete nickname, and she gave me the black mamba. Kobe Bryant. [00:47:03] Speaker A: Oh, nice. Good pick. [00:47:06] Speaker B: Kobe Bryant is iconic. And his whole Persona, the black mamba, was about being ruthless, about striking, about just being clutch. I mean, I think black mamba, you think of that name? I think his charity is named after that. Everybody loves Kobe Bryant. [00:47:23] Speaker A: Yeah. It's hard to hate on Kobe Bryant. It's hard to hate on that pick. It's a good pick. [00:47:27] Speaker B: I agree. I think she did a great job with that pitch. [00:47:29] Speaker A: I can't be mad at that. Kobe Bryant was a legend. Basketball. A lot of basketball people have pretty cool nicknames. [00:47:36] Speaker B: Like, more. [00:47:37] Speaker A: More than you would expect. [00:47:38] Speaker B: Basketball's a good nickname sport. [00:47:40] Speaker A: Yeah, basketball, baseball. Those are two really big nickname sports. UFC, obviously, because everybody has a nickname, or most people have a nickname name. My third pick, I'm going with wrestling. WWE. Oh, stone cold Steve Austin. [00:47:58] Speaker B: That is a good pick. [00:48:00] Speaker A: It's. [00:48:00] Speaker B: I mean, is that a nickname, though, or is it a character name? [00:48:04] Speaker A: Well, it's a nickname. [00:48:06] Speaker B: That's like saying Ross from friends is a good nickname. [00:48:09] Speaker A: Well, what do you think of him as? Do you think of him as Ross from friends, or do you think of. [00:48:15] Speaker B: Him as David Austin, or do you think of David Schwimmer? [00:48:18] Speaker A: David Schwimmer. [00:48:19] Speaker B: I think of him as David Schwimmer. [00:48:20] Speaker A: I think of him as Ross because what else did he do after Ross or after friends? Maybe that showed Joey. [00:48:27] Speaker B: Maybe think he made an appearance in entourage. [00:48:30] Speaker A: He did make it appears in entourage. [00:48:31] Speaker B: As himself, as David Schwimmer, not as Ross. [00:48:35] Speaker A: But everybody thinks of him as Ross. They're like, oh, that's the guy from friends. [00:48:38] Speaker B: I mean, if you're gonna go, you know it, you win WWE. And that's not even the best one. [00:48:44] Speaker A: Who's the best one? [00:48:45] Speaker B: Well, you may find out. [00:48:47] Speaker A: All right, so my fourth pick is Dwayne the rock Johnson. [00:48:51] Speaker B: God damn it. [00:48:52] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah, the rock. Obviously, this is, like, probably the number one. I'm just happy to have gotten it at number four. [00:49:01] Speaker B: You could easily got OG at this point, gun the rock number, right. [00:49:05] Speaker A: I don't know what I was thinking, but it doesn't matter. I got them all anyway. I'm collecting them like Pokemon the Rock. Nobody knows him as Dwayne Johnson. I guess people do now because he's a movie star. But growing up, nobody knew of this guy as Dwayne Johnson. He was only the rock. [00:49:22] Speaker B: He was the rock most until the past, like, probably in movies. [00:49:26] Speaker A: I want to say. Unless this is, like, one of those Mandela effects. [00:49:29] Speaker B: No, he was known as the Rock until, like, ten years. [00:49:31] Speaker A: I want to say, like, all on the movie posters, he was the rock. I'm pretty sure he was not Dwayne Johnson, but, yeah, the Rock is, like, one of the most iconic nicknames of all time. Like I said, I'm happy to have stolen it at number four of my draft. Getting a stone cold stunner in there right beforehand. Yeah, that's three and four. What you got? [00:49:53] Speaker B: So my next one is a guy. He was. He had a great NFL career. He was famous in the NFL, played in the major league baseball, and now he's a college football coach, and everybody still knows him as his nickname. I'm going prime time Deion Sanders. [00:50:07] Speaker A: So on my list, he's one of. [00:50:09] Speaker B: The most iconic athletes of all time. He was a dual sport. He's one of the only guys that went MLB and NFL, played both at the same time and like, did well. Did well in both, was hall of fame in one and was very good in the other. And then he became a college coach where he. His first year, I mean, at Jackson State, he did great first year. Colorado, he didn't do the best, but they were one and they won one game before that. They won four games his first year. I think they're going to do better this year. [00:50:36] Speaker A: Right. But it was more like the optics of how the season started. [00:50:40] Speaker B: They had a huge upset win in week one. We started like 30 and then won one game the rest of the year. [00:50:46] Speaker A: But it was a hell of a performance to start this season. [00:50:48] Speaker B: Hell of a performance. Everybody's talking about in prime time. Whatever you think about him, he's one of the most. [00:50:53] Speaker A: He's only got like three toes on 1ft. [00:50:55] Speaker B: He's one of the most. That's true. Iconic, which is crazy entertainers in american sports history. [00:51:01] Speaker A: He's also like a part time barstool personality. [00:51:04] Speaker B: Prime time Deion Sanders. My number four pick. [00:51:07] Speaker A: That's a good pick. That is a good, good pick. [00:51:10] Speaker B: And then my number five pick. I mean, we're a UFC podcast. I gotta go with one UFC and it's another one just like my first two ones. [00:51:19] Speaker A: What do you think is the best UFC nickname? [00:51:21] Speaker B: Well, I'm about to tell you what the best UFC nickname. [00:51:23] Speaker A: Oh, shit. Mighty Mouse. [00:51:25] Speaker B: That is a good one. [00:51:26] Speaker A: That is a good nickname because it's because of his size and everything. [00:51:29] Speaker B: This is one that even when he fights in the UFC, they don't even put his real name. They just put his nickname on there. He just retired recently. The korean zombie. I don't even know his first name. Just because he pronounced his first name the korean zombie. I mean, that's a badass nickname, especially for a guy who until his last. [00:51:48] Speaker A: Literally his last fight against Holloway, well. [00:51:51] Speaker B: He was knocked out against yair, too, but he was known as, like, having an iron chin. He kept walking forward. He was exciting fighter. [00:51:58] Speaker A: And that's the only reason he's not, like, he's not fighting is because his chin's gone. Like, he's not holding out like other guys where like, they're just wasting their time. [00:52:06] Speaker B: He has the whole country of South Korea behind him. I mean, korean zombies, one of the coolest nicknames. You could come especially for a fighter, dude, his last fight against Holloway. [00:52:15] Speaker A: Yeah, but like the reception, like, oh. [00:52:17] Speaker B: Yeah, like walking out to zombie and. [00:52:19] Speaker A: Then the song on, like if you go look at the YouTube comments, they were just like his two chinese or. [00:52:25] Speaker B: Whatever characters or they do the zombie emoji. [00:52:29] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, there was. There's like 10,000 comments on the YouTube vivo like music video of that song. It was pretty cool. But yeah, that is a very good pick. It's a very good nickname. [00:52:40] Speaker B: So what's your last shout out? [00:52:41] Speaker A: Korean zombie. [00:52:42] Speaker B: Shout out korean zombie. [00:52:44] Speaker A: I can, man, there's just. There's so many nicknames everywhere. Honestly, man, let's go with King James. LeBron James. He's known as King James just because he's been dominant in the sport for how many seasons now? [00:53:08] Speaker B: I mean, he was known as King James before he was dominant in sport. [00:53:11] Speaker A: Yeah, but he's been known for it for how long now? [00:53:13] Speaker B: 20 something. 20. [00:53:15] Speaker A: It's a crazy amount of seasons to be known for to be this good. [00:53:19] Speaker B: Now he's trying to play with his son next year. [00:53:20] Speaker A: He's about to. I mean, at this point he probably should retire pretty soon cuz he's. [00:53:25] Speaker B: He's not playing bad. He's not playing bad. [00:53:27] Speaker A: No, they're just team sucks. It's like, what are you doing this for? [00:53:30] Speaker B: Just play with his son just to hang out. [00:53:33] Speaker A: But yeah, King James, he's an icon in the sport. I just think wide regarding is great. [00:53:40] Speaker B: But I don't think his nickname is great. [00:53:42] Speaker A: My last name is King, so I put a lot in. I put a lot of. I like the king thing a lot as a moniker. [00:53:50] Speaker B: Do you think. You think you're King? Cuz it's like an english name? A lot of the names are like in jest. So do you think like it was because your family sucked our king? That'd be funny. [00:54:01] Speaker A: Ours is English is the old one. That's the K ingen king. And it 100% is in jest. We are not good people. We do not come from greatness or anything like that. I'm not like royalty by any standpoint. If anything, we were actual jesters. There is some small piece of history that does point to that. But yeah, we are, if anything, the least serious bunch of any people. [00:54:31] Speaker B: So let's recap our top five nicknames. I have number one, Tiger woods, number two, magic Johnson, three, black mama, Kobe Bryant, number four, primetime Deion Sanders, and number five, the korean zombie. [00:54:44] Speaker A: And my number one is the juice OJ Simpson. Number two, the notorious Conor McGregor. Three, stone cold Steve Austin. Four, Dwayne the Rock Johnson. And five, King James. LeBron James, man. That's the one thing that I do wonder, amongst all things, do you have to just real. I just thought of this. Do you have to change your impression because of the microphone difference, or does it come through the same way? No. Mister Superman. No, no. Here. Like, stuff like that. Does it come through the same way or does it, like, translate? [00:55:32] Speaker B: We're recording right now, so I guess we'll find out. [00:55:34] Speaker A: I know I did that. Okay. All right, let's move forward. [00:55:37] Speaker B: Recapping stakes and takes. [00:55:39] Speaker A: Steaks and takes. So last week we brought you 13. [00:55:44] Speaker B: The whole UFC 300 card. [00:55:45] Speaker A: UFC 300 card. [00:55:47] Speaker B: No other sport. [00:55:48] Speaker A: And no other sport was needed. No, it was talked about. UFC 300 was everything we expected. I got a few wrong. You got a few wrong. You did better than me. I got eight and 5858 right. Five wrong. Would you do. [00:56:04] Speaker B: I went nine and four. [00:56:06] Speaker A: All right. I got Jim Miller wrong. I got Marina Rodriguez wrong. I got Jalen Turner wrong. Those were in a row that didn't feel great for me. [00:56:14] Speaker B: I got those same three wrong in a row, too, so I feel your pain. [00:56:17] Speaker A: And then I thought Calvin Kater was gonna win. [00:56:19] Speaker B: I got that one right. I had aljo. [00:56:21] Speaker A: I thought Oliveira was gonna win. [00:56:22] Speaker B: That's my other loss. [00:56:25] Speaker A: All right. [00:56:25] Speaker B: And that's it. [00:56:26] Speaker A: And that's it. [00:56:27] Speaker B: So the. The only difference we had on was Aljo. Calvin cater. [00:56:31] Speaker A: Dude, in. Previous to that episode, we talked about it, and we actually. This is the crazy thing. When we're talking about fights, we don't. We don't do it beforehand. We don't talk about the fights. We're just like, hey, this is the fight card we're doing. And we. We talk about it pretty much live right now or whenever we're recording. [00:56:50] Speaker B: We agreed on everything. [00:56:51] Speaker A: We agreed on every single. [00:56:52] Speaker B: I made the last minute switch to Aljo. [00:56:55] Speaker A: That. That's what's crazy about that. It's all. Often that we come with very similar picks and we. We come out with very similar records. [00:57:01] Speaker B: So thank you, master, for. For backing me up. [00:57:04] Speaker A: Yeah, he wrestles. He wrestle. Fuck the shit out of Calvin Kater there. But anywho, eight and five for me, nine and four for you. That brings the total stakes standpoints. I'm sorry, the takes standpoints correct to 51, 57, 34, and two for me. Christian, you're 59, 32 and two. So you have the slight edge advantage right now for the stakes portion of the weekend. I chose poorly. I did two and three. It was, I mean, that just, I. [00:57:36] Speaker B: Hate what you get wrong. I got, you picked every, almost every one of your wrong picks was your bet. [00:57:42] Speaker A: I got a miller wrong, turner wrong or levera wrong. Oh, and then I got Pereira and Prohaska Wright. [00:57:48] Speaker B: I went four in one. I got Pereira and Prohaska right. I got Lopez right. I got figgy right. But I also picked Oliver with you, that was my lone miss my bets. [00:57:59] Speaker A: Not a bad week. I went down like less than half a unit total of it all because I just. Matt, that kind of went even. So 20, 414 and two for me total. Now through the, what week? Ten? I think it is something like that. So it brings me to plus 4.94 total. Christian, you go to 24 and 16 total. So you got that slight edge there as well. Plus our -2.97 units. So it's pretty good. You've come back a lot. You got a rebound this week. [00:58:36] Speaker B: I had the minus ten week. [00:58:37] Speaker A: Yeah, the minus ten week hurt pretty bad. You don't want that, but you got, you're recovering well. [00:58:43] Speaker B: Trying to. [00:58:44] Speaker A: We got seven picks. We're bringing to you this week because there's no fights. And honestly, we need just a. We need to take a week to breathe because we just need to think about those fights and let those simmer for a week anyway. So it's good. Let's move on. We got seven picks. Let's go by days. What do you have on Thursday? Anything? [00:59:03] Speaker B: I have nothing on Thursday. [00:59:04] Speaker A: All right, I got one on Thursday. It's an. Actually, I have two on Thursday. I'm sorry. I picked two NHL games. Do you have any hockey? [00:59:11] Speaker B: I have all soccer. No hockey. [00:59:13] Speaker A: Nice. All right, so I got the Sharks at the Flames. Flames are three and two in their last five. They lead the stats in most categories, so I believe the Flames are going to win. That's number one. [00:59:24] Speaker B: Flames over the Sharks. [00:59:25] Speaker A: Flames over the Sharks. At home in Calgary, we got the Ducks at the Golden Knights. Now, the Golden Knights are two and three in their last five. [00:59:33] Speaker B: So these are like the last few games of the regular season of NHL. Two. [00:59:37] Speaker A: Nice. Didn't know that. [00:59:39] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:59:39] Speaker A: Suds for what I'm talking about. [00:59:41] Speaker B: So this could mean they're resting guys. [00:59:43] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:59:43] Speaker B: They've already clinched playoffs. [00:59:45] Speaker A: Didn't know that. This hurts. Anywho, two and three in their last five. They also lead in most categories, so I'm also going with the Golden Knights. [00:59:53] Speaker B: Knights over the Ducks. [00:59:54] Speaker A: Knights over the Ducks. [00:59:55] Speaker B: Where are they playing? In Vegas? [00:59:56] Speaker A: Or in Anaheim, at home for Golden Knights. [00:59:58] Speaker B: So in Vegas, okay, defending chance. [01:00:00] Speaker A: And that's. That's it for. I got on. Well, that's it for what I have on Thursday. [01:00:04] Speaker B: I got one Friday. [01:00:05] Speaker A: I have a couple Friday, I believe. [01:00:07] Speaker B: So my one Friday we go to Turkey. I got Istanbul to be. [01:00:12] Speaker A: Everything for me is Saturday. [01:00:13] Speaker B: Okay, so Istanbul, to be exact, I got Besheektis taking on Ankara. Gooku bashiktas fourth place in the Super League. [01:00:22] Speaker A: I'm gonna put those words somewhere around here. [01:00:27] Speaker B: I got Besiktas their fourth place in the Super League. Enkar Goku is 13th. They played in December. They drew one one. But this one is in Istanbul. Besheek does home. Bashik does have a disappointing season. But I think they rebound, I think they get the dub. So I got Besheektas with the dub, Bajictus winning. [01:00:45] Speaker A: I'm surprised I can even say that at this point, but, yeah, move on. [01:00:49] Speaker B: So that was my only Friday. So I got two Saturday. I believe I got two Saturday. [01:00:54] Speaker A: Cool. The rest of mine are on Saturday. So give me your two Saturday and I'll give you the rest. [01:00:58] Speaker B: So my two Saturday. I have Wolverhampton Wanderers, the 11th place team in the Premier League, hosting Arsenal. Who's in second place in the Premier League? Arsenal one. In December, 2 to one, I have Arsenal winning again. They have the best attack and the best defense in the Premier League currently. [01:01:16] Speaker A: Do they have like, most goals for in the Premier League? [01:01:19] Speaker B: That's what. So the most goals for least goals against. Nice. That what you just said? That is what I just. [01:01:24] Speaker A: Okay, but next time can you say it in English so like the normal people know? [01:01:30] Speaker B: You mean american, I believe. [01:01:31] Speaker A: Yeah, that's what I mean. American. [01:01:33] Speaker B: I have Arsenal going on the road, rebounding after the loss last week, beating Wolverhampton. And then my other pick is we go to Spain. I have Griona, third place in La Liga, the surprise team of the year. They're hosting cadiz. Cadiz, 18th place. So we have a team fighting for Champions League versus team fighting relegation. Gueronia won one nil earlier this year. I think they do it again. I got gronia. [01:01:57] Speaker A: Winning regular relegation is still the craziest thing in the world to me. And I'm. I love it. I think it should happen in every sport. [01:02:04] Speaker B: It's the greatest thing. [01:02:05] Speaker A: All right, I got the rest of mine on Saturday, the rest of mine are on Sunday. [01:02:10] Speaker B: So give me your Saturday. [01:02:11] Speaker A: All right, so Saturday I got nashville at Miami. MLS soccer ML enter Miami intermiam Messi. Now, as of recording. They're one, two and two in their last five. They're -250 favorites coming in there first and goes goals for and first and assists. I think Miami is gonna win, not draw. I think it's gonna be a w in the column for Miami. From there, we're going not very far, just to Texas. We're going to Houston at Austin. The dynamo. [01:02:46] Speaker B: So mls? [01:02:46] Speaker A: Mls as well. Dynamo at Austin. I don't even know what's an FC. [01:02:50] Speaker B: I believe FC. [01:02:51] Speaker A: Yeah, that's what they are. Four and one. The last five is what the Dynamo are. They have the edge. They're -200 favorites on the game. I'm sorry. -145 moneyline favorites on the game. Four in one of their last five. Like I said, they lead in goals. Four. I think they're gonna win. Houston Dynamo, major league baseball. I got the Rangers at the Braves, the Saturday game. Specifically, Charlie Monton starting the Braves team. Batting average at this point is. .301 so it's first in the MLB. [01:03:28] Speaker B: You can just say 300. They're batting 300. [01:03:31] Speaker A: So they're doing pretty good. They just need to put together the sticks, like more consistently. They've, they've lost a couple high scoring. [01:03:38] Speaker B: Games now, like ten and four. It's early. [01:03:40] Speaker A: Nine and five. [01:03:41] Speaker B: They're doing great. [01:03:42] Speaker A: They're doing great. But it's, they just lost a couple high scoring games, which they really shouldn't have have. That wasn't fault to the hitters at all. [01:03:48] Speaker B: Major League Baseball. [01:03:50] Speaker A: So I got the Braves beating the Rangers. Moving on to the Marlins at the Cubs. Cubs are leading in all categories. Michael Bush is fourth and home runs, he's on a hot streak. And I think the Cubs are going to win. And lastly, the Astros at the Nationals. Astros have a 273 batting average, as good for third in the major League Baseball. 21 total team home runs, fifth in major League Baseball. [01:04:17] Speaker B: But they're doing horrible. [01:04:18] Speaker A: But I think there's gonna do like they always do and start putting things together. I know it's early in the season, but that's kind of what it takes. Knock the rust off with a few bad games, get back out there playing the already bad at Nationals, or at least so far this season, bad. I think Houston is gonna win. So I got the Astros there. [01:04:39] Speaker B: All right, so the rest of my picks are on Sunday. So I have four picks left. First we go to FA cup semifinal. Coventry City taking on Manchester United. Manchester United has not had a great season, but they're taking on a team in the lower division. [01:04:53] Speaker A: Are they about to get relegated? [01:04:55] Speaker B: Manchester United does not know their 7th place in the Premier League, but it's bad for them. The last time these two teams met was 2007 and which Coventry City won't, but Manchester United. I think they're going to win this game. I got Manchester United. Then we go to Spain. The biggest rivalry in world soccer, El Clasico. Real Madrid, first place in La Liga, taking on Barcelona. Second place, La Liga. They've played twice this season. Real's won four to one and two to r1 is at home. I think Real gets another dub, Real Madrid with the win. Then we're going to go to France. We got the league leaders, Paris Saint Germain. PSG, led by maybe the best player in the world, killing Mbappe. [01:05:37] Speaker A: Mbappe. [01:05:38] Speaker B: First place, as I said, in Ligue, taking on one of their traditional rivals, Ligue, Lyon. Lyon. 7th place. They've had. Excuse me, Lyon. [01:05:49] Speaker A: Lyon. Oh, Lyon. [01:05:52] Speaker B: They've had a tough season. They've actually been playing well lately. PSG did beat them four to one earlier this season. PSG is playing at home in Paris. I believe PSG gets the win here. And my last game, we come all the way back to America. All the way back. Full circle it, to Los Angeles. The LA Galaxy, first place in the Western Conference, hosting the last place team in the Western Conference. San Jose earthquake. [01:06:18] Speaker A: Do they have relegation in MLS? [01:06:20] Speaker B: They do not. That's one of the complaints about MLS, is they do not. [01:06:24] Speaker A: Where would they relegate them to? [01:06:25] Speaker B: They have lower leagues. [01:06:27] Speaker A: Ooh. So they're just protecting them. [01:06:28] Speaker B: They are just protecting him. The way galaxy, they won three to one, actually, last month over San Jose, and I think they do it again. I get the galaxy. I think they have a way better team. So I got Galaxy win, and that's my last pyop. [01:06:44] Speaker A: All right, let's jump into the stakes and then we'll sail off into the sunset and wait for next week. What you got for you? Have any of your Thursday Friday steaks? [01:06:57] Speaker B: I got one Friday steak. [01:06:59] Speaker A: All right, I got a Thursday. I think the Golden Knights are gonna win. Money lines. Not out yet as far as the odds are concerned, but trust me. Golden Knights, two units, smash it. Money line. [01:07:12] Speaker B: I got one unit. Besheek this. Moneyline -140 everything else I Saturday, let's see, I have one on Saturday. My one Saturday is two units arsenal. Moneyline -272 units arsenal. [01:07:30] Speaker A: You've been. I don't know how many you lost on Arsenal, but they hadn't been many. [01:07:34] Speaker B: No, they've been. They've been reliable for me. [01:07:36] Speaker A: All right. Everything else I have, I'm going with Messi. Anytime. Goal score. [01:07:41] Speaker B: It's a nice pick. [01:07:42] Speaker A: -175 so if he doesn't play or something like that, and it's like a. They void it, then it'll just be in the dash column because there's really no way I could update that any sooner. Houston Dynamo -145 over Austin Fc. [01:08:00] Speaker B: Okay. Okay. [01:08:01] Speaker A: Two units as well. Two units on Messi. Braves money line, Saturday game over the Rangers and the Cubs money line over the Marlins. Two units across the board. So my going five and o this week. You can go five and o as well. It's all up. I ain't worried about it. [01:08:20] Speaker B: My last three are on Sunday. I have one unit, Manchester United -220 okay. I have one unit, LA Galaxy -180 and I'm putting five units on El Clasico. I got five units, Real Madrid -135. [01:08:37] Speaker A: Okay, if you score that, you're gonna be. You're gonna be up on the whole season. Finally. [01:08:43] Speaker B: Finally. So after a minus ten unit week, good luck. Thank you. And I think that gives our. We gave our stakes, we gave our takes, we recapped the great UFC 300. We gave our top five. So I think that wraps up episode 41. So next week we're gonna go over our picks, give a little recap of our pyops. We have another Vegas card, another UFC apex card. UFC Vegas 91, Nikolab. Nicolao. [01:09:09] Speaker A: Nicolau. [01:09:10] Speaker B: Nicolaou first Perez. So we're back in action with MMA and we'll have a few more pyops to go over. [01:09:17] Speaker A: Sweet. So, yeah, don't forget to head to split decision. Dot splitdecisionpod.com. All the stakes and takes top fives. You can go check all the podcast stuff like subscribe, follow. Alright, peace. [01:09:33] Speaker B: See you soon. Branching.