Episode Transcript
[00:00:08] Speaker A: Welcome back to split decision.
Follow us this week on episode 43 as we recap Nickelow versus Perez and the entire fight card before we talk UFC 301 in Rio de Janeiro, we're going to draft our top five brazilian things, and as always, we're going to keep it loose from there. We're going to give you our predictions fight by fight for UFC 301. That's Pantoja versus Urseg. And then from there, we're going to continue our journey to becoming the best gamblers in the world with stakes and takes a little spoiler. This is our second straight week where someone has a perfect stat line. Shout out, it's me. Before we get this ball rolling. Like subscribe and head to splitdecisionpod.com. There you're going to find all this week's picks, previous top fives, and more. All right, let's go.
[00:01:08] Speaker B: UFC Vegas 91 did not have a lot of hype. Not a lot of people were excited about it, but, man, did it exceed expectations. Tons of finishes, exciting fights. Very entertaining card. Alex, tell us how the prelims went.
[00:01:24] Speaker A: It was a great, like you said, a great way to ease back into the fights. Fight week, fight night.
[00:01:29] Speaker B: We didn't ease back into them. They, they came with a bang. These were very entertaining fights. Lots of finishes, lots of big performances.
[00:01:38] Speaker A: Yeah, we. We kicked off the night with man who shot up. He ended his two fight losing streak, handing Gabriel Benitez his second loss of 2024. That's tough to see. Yeah.
[00:01:49] Speaker B: Two losses in four months.
[00:01:51] Speaker A: Not, not looking good for Benitez's year. After that, we saw Ivana Petrovic. She stayed patient. Patient.
And she worked on the Aang na into an arm triangle in the beginning of the round of round three. That's important because of her staying patient. You know, she didn't panic when Liang Na was going after, you know, being super aggressive. She rolled through the punches, she secured the arm triangle, secured the tap out. Chris taco Padilla saw that finish and said, let me put some hot sauce on it, as he forced takedowns and grabbed the rear naked chokes in the waning seconds of round one. So he secured a quick finish, and then Catlin Souza outlasted Marnick Mann to outwind by decision, flipping control and honestly, just being the fresher fighter. She held the. Held her pace throughout the way to earn herself the victory.
She kind of, in my opinion, inspired the heavyweights because those guys didn't want to quit.
Don t Mays, Kal Machado. Mays took home the decision score in a knockdown early in the first and then more activity in the third showing that he was the fresher fighter. But in that one, neither fighter quit. Both. Both fighters were swinging for the fences. They, you know, they kind of gave their own Bf BMF moment there. They, you know, stood there just trying to knock each other out.
It was good from there. You had Ronnie Yaya. He had his unorthodox, you know, forcing his takedown approach. It, unfortunately for him, didn't work. Ended with him being gassed in the third. And Victor Henry dominated that, you know, took advantage of that showing, stopped the takedowns, knocked him out or third round tko to seal off the prelims and, you know, to lead us right into the main card. It was an impressive prelims. You had a few decisions, couple submissions, a ko. It was a, you know, the great mix of how you want to start.
[00:03:48] Speaker B: The fights, and it set up for a great main card where out of six fights, we had four ko finishes or TK KO TKO. Let's start with the main event. And it was Perez versus Nicolao. Perez showed he's still a top contender in the division. After three straight losses to three of the best guys in the division, he comes out on short notice, gets a second round ko of Nicolao. Very impressive.
[00:04:12] Speaker A: You're right. It was a very impressive finish, and.
[00:04:14] Speaker B: It was kind of a one punch, like, obviously was in second round. So it wasn't like one punch in the whole fight, but it was a one punch finisher.
[00:04:20] Speaker A: Yeah, it was.
[00:04:21] Speaker B: And just dropped him.
[00:04:22] Speaker A: I would say it was Perez's best performance of his career, I'd say, and pretty much everybody else would say he won ten, nine on the first round. It was a good performance. He was. He was kind of walking Nickelodeon down get. Didn't give him a bunch of space, honestly. You said he's back. He said he never left. That's what he quoted. He was on a three fight losing.
[00:04:43] Speaker B: Streak, but it was the three of the best guys.
[00:04:45] Speaker A: It was.
[00:04:45] Speaker B: You had current champion Pantoja and then figueired a former champ.
[00:04:48] Speaker A: Right. It's nothing you want. You know, it's.
[00:04:51] Speaker B: With injuries in between.
[00:04:53] Speaker A: He had nine canceled fights in between his last two. I mean, that's. That's a tough thing to have to deal with.
[00:05:00] Speaker B: I think it was a good way. He came in on short notice. He was expecting the fight in June. Yeah, took this fight a little earlier to, and, you know, that's what you gotta do when you're on a losing streak and you're trying to turn things around, switch things up. That's what he did. And, man, I mean, he really stole the show. I think.
[00:05:15] Speaker A: I agree. Who do you think is next for that fight for Alex?
[00:05:20] Speaker B: Who's an.
[00:05:21] Speaker A: Sorry, who's a good next fight for Alex Perez?
[00:05:23] Speaker B: So I don't think he is going to get the winner of the, the title fight this weekend.
[00:05:28] Speaker A: No, I don't. I agree. I don't.
[00:05:30] Speaker B: But where he's at in the division and the guys he's beaten and the guys he's lost to, I think, you know, maybe like a Brandon Marino, throw him in there, title eliminator. I think he's one or two wins away from a title shot.
[00:05:42] Speaker A: So I agree. Brandon Moreno could be a good option, except, well, not except. The only issue may be Brandon Moreno may be taking a little bit of time off. They could sway him in with a good opponent like Alex Perez.
I think maybe a Brandon Roy Val, similar style.
[00:06:01] Speaker B: To who?
[00:06:01] Speaker A: Brandon Moreno just, you know, active right now. He just lost to Pantoja, so he's obviously not going to be getting a title shot, you know, again since seeing as he lost to Pantoja twice now. Um, or maybe a Tim Elliott. You know, Tim Elliott's 9th. Once you get, you get Alex Perez up there, you know, he'll be fifth. But he wasn't supposed to fight here. You know, he was supposed to fight somebody lower than him. So I don't know what the UFC is really.
[00:06:29] Speaker B: I just don't think he goes after this big performance, goes down and fights a Tim Elliott, who. No offense, Tim Elliott. He's not at the top of the division.
[00:06:36] Speaker A: You're right. No, he's less not.
[00:06:38] Speaker B: He was in less standing than Nickelown. Probably still is.
[00:06:40] Speaker A: Yeah, he's currently ranked nine, which is under where Perez was ranked previous. But I think Roy Val would be the right fight to make. Kai Kara France, you know, Manel cop, he just pulled out for injury.
[00:06:54] Speaker B: He was supposed to fight in this court.
[00:06:55] Speaker A: He was supposed to fight on this.
[00:06:56] Speaker B: Card, supposed to fight Nicola.
[00:06:58] Speaker A: But Perez has already fought him, so, you know, it's not going to. I can do that again.
[00:07:01] Speaker B: Well, you know, in this division, they fight each other all the time.
[00:07:04] Speaker A: That's true.
[00:07:04] Speaker B: One fight doesn't mean anything.
[00:07:06] Speaker A: So who's your favorite?
[00:07:07] Speaker B: I would like to see Moreno.
[00:07:08] Speaker A: Honestly, Moreno, let's write it down.
Let's move on.
[00:07:12] Speaker B: Co main event, it was another second round knockout. Another impressive performance.
Ryan Spann. Guskoff. Guskoff with the second round knockout.
[00:07:20] Speaker A: As I just said, honestly, it's a fight that we've seen before, but for multiple reasons, like the, you know, the doppelganger with Anthony Smith aside and then Anthony Smith knocking out Ryan Spann aside.
It's something we've seen Gus Gov do, weather some storms, you know, fight through some adversity. He.
[00:07:39] Speaker B: He lost straight ko win.
[00:07:41] Speaker A: He lost the first round and then came back in the second round, like you said, ko, second straight ko win. It was a significant performance.
[00:07:49] Speaker B: He moves to two and one in the UFC. That's two straight wins with two ko wins. Ryan Spahn, now, three straight losses. He's seven and five in the UFC. He's only won four out of his last nine fights. So he's in a tough, tough part of his career currently, man.
[00:08:02] Speaker A: What do you think about Gus Gov's power?
[00:08:03] Speaker B: I mean, he is. He is one of those crazy powers were like, if he clean touches you, especially at this weight class, how big these boys are, like, you have a chance to go out.
[00:08:12] Speaker A: You kind of saw what happened. It plays.
[00:08:16] Speaker B: Three's a big dude.
[00:08:17] Speaker A: Yeah. Big boys fighting out there.
[00:08:19] Speaker B: The central asian guys, they're always scary.
[00:08:22] Speaker A: Who do you have next for him?
[00:08:24] Speaker B: Give me some options. Who you thinking put his mettle to the test.
[00:08:30] Speaker A: Better fighter of the two gets to keep the name Anthony Smith.
[00:08:34] Speaker B: Him versus Anthony Smith. Well, Anthony Smith fights this weekend, so.
[00:08:37] Speaker A: I guess they're on the same kind of recovery timeline. Depends what happens.
[00:08:40] Speaker B: Anthony Smith, but, yeah, I mean, we know Anthony Smith. Say what you want about him. I know we kind of make fun of him a lot, but he's always down for a fight, so.
[00:08:47] Speaker A: And he is a good fighter. Yeah, he's just a corny commentator, just like me.
What about Nikita Krylov?
[00:08:53] Speaker B: Krylov will be a good one. Honestly, I think Guskoff, he's open. He is an exciting guy to watch. So I think he's a guy that UFC will be happy to book. Yeah, probably in like the co main event again in a fight night. I think he's right there just because, you know, if he's going to come out there, he's going to be performing. It's going to be an exciting fight to watch.
[00:09:12] Speaker A: Yep. Last one I got Alexander Rachek.
[00:09:16] Speaker B: That would be a good one, too. I mean, Rachek coming off of the tough loss to Prohashka, where he was beating Prohashka. Yeah, pretty much the whole fight and.
[00:09:26] Speaker A: Then got to the end and then.
[00:09:28] Speaker B: Proshka is a durable dude. That shows you going back to my main poton, who's able to finish Prohaska. Cause Rachik couldn't, and then saw what happened after that.
[00:09:38] Speaker A: Yeah, no, you're absolutely right.
I would like to see any of those fights. You have a favorite?
[00:09:45] Speaker B: I'm gonna go. The battle of the Anthony Smiths.
[00:09:47] Speaker A: Battle of the Anthony Smiths. I like it.
[00:09:49] Speaker B: Who's becky? Anthony Smith. First the Anthony Smith. Let's see who wins.
[00:09:52] Speaker A: Winner gets to keep the name. All right, moving on.
This is my least favorite fight of the night. Not because it wasn't a deserved win by the judges. It was just.
It was. It was a sheer domination, but it wasn't impressive.
It was annoying is all it was, to me, like. And I know I. You know, it may sound like a bad take or whatever, but once Kareem goes, once.
[00:10:17] Speaker B: Kareem Silva, unanimous decision over Lipski.
[00:10:20] Speaker A: Right. Once she gets to the top ten, it's gonna be very tough for Karin Silva to do this one dimensional thing.
[00:10:28] Speaker B: But, I mean, she moves to four show in the UFC.
[00:10:30] Speaker A: Two big, good fighters, though. You look at the other women that she's gonna have to fight, like Rose.
Thug. You know, thug Rose, Macy Barber, Aaron Blanchfield. She's a couple fights away from that, and I just think she's going to infer a world of pain whenever, you.
[00:10:47] Speaker B: Know, I think that's a little harsh. This is their first. She's four. And as I said now in the UFC, this is the first time she hasn't finished anybody. She still came in, and she easily got the win. Not easily, but she. There was no question who won the fight. Right decision, win.
[00:11:02] Speaker A: I agree. She's the killer to win.
[00:11:04] Speaker B: I predicted she was going to get the finish in this fight. She didn't quite get the finish, but I think Silva, probably not the most impressive performance, but she's still right there. I don't think this hurts her at all. Hurts her stock at all.
[00:11:17] Speaker A: I think I just. I think it shows that. Cause Arianne, Ariane de Silva, Ariane Lipski, she's now Arianda Silva. She was wildly better on the feet. Like, that's why Silva forced it to the ground and refused to, you know, let. Let anything.
[00:11:36] Speaker B: Just an off night. And you're like, I'm gonna go the. I'm gonna go. What I know wins.
[00:11:40] Speaker A: Maybe if we see her, in my opinion, fight somebody like Macy barber, it's gonna be a different story altogether.
[00:11:49] Speaker B: Who do you think she fights next? Who's up for Silva?
[00:11:52] Speaker A: Natalia Silva or thug Rose?
[00:11:55] Speaker B: Battle the silvers.
[00:11:57] Speaker A: Yeah. You just had a battle of the du Silva versus Silva. She came out on top. Give her an Italia.
[00:12:02] Speaker B: Silver just predicted a battle. The Anthony Smith's. Now you're giving us a battle. The silvers.
[00:12:05] Speaker A: This might be the week of the doppelgangers. I don't know. But I do know, or at least I do feel. And I mean, my batting average is like 60% right. So I'm. I'm a little bit more right than I am wrong. I feel like she's not gonna be able to last in the top six, seven in the women's flyweight division.
[00:12:26] Speaker B: Well, I guess we'll see.
[00:12:28] Speaker A: That's my big take.
[00:12:28] Speaker B: But four, no UFC deserved win for. All right, let's move on. Next fight. It was another. The third 2nd round ko finish. We're going to talk about the former glory kickboxer making his UFC debut.
Danez, is that how you say his name?
[00:12:45] Speaker A: Jonata Denise.
[00:12:47] Speaker B: Jonatha Denise.
[00:12:48] Speaker A: Taking all sounds like a joke.
[00:12:50] Speaker B: Taking on the. The guy who's now at events. Two fights to be finished. He's been knocked out brutally. Austin Lane. Big guy, but, man, he has no chin. These other guys know how to find his chin, these slavery weights.
[00:13:06] Speaker A: Austin Lane is a massive, I texted.
[00:13:08] Speaker B: You, NFL defensive end. So he looks like it.
[00:13:13] Speaker A: He looks like he can fight. And honestly, he was, you know, his game up front, taking down Junada, you know, force in the first round. He. He won. You know, he had the first run the baby.
[00:13:25] Speaker B: That's a good game plan, but you can't.
[00:13:27] Speaker A: You're a guy who. That's.
[00:13:29] Speaker B: He's. That's not his thing. He was doing that because he knew how good on the feet the former kickboxer. Former kickboxer was. And the former kickboxer proved, unless you're way more dominant than him on the ground, like, you're not going to be able to stand a bang with him.
[00:13:46] Speaker A: Right, exactly. That. That's one of Lane's, you know, strong suits. This was, in my opinion, when you're.
[00:13:51] Speaker B: A striker and you're afraid, not afraid, because these guys aren't afraid, but he decided not to strike. That's a huge confident boost for the other guy.
[00:13:59] Speaker A: You're right.
[00:14:00] Speaker B: And he proved it in the second round with a knockout. First UFC win, he moves to 1070. Overall, he knows seven and, oh, with seven kos, I mean, that's pretty impressive.
[00:14:10] Speaker A: It's a great UFC.
[00:14:11] Speaker B: He knows what to do.
[00:14:12] Speaker A: Who do you think he should fight next? This one's, you know, it's a UFC debut, so there's not really a a ranking that you can throw out there. This is more of an obscure heavyweight fighter.
[00:14:22] Speaker B: I think at this point, it's just any heavyweight.
[00:14:25] Speaker A: I have two just fun ones because I know they're notable names and also boys that are just down to bang. Junior Taffa, the younger Tafa brother, give.
[00:14:33] Speaker B: Him one of the taffas. When in doubt, give him one of the tapas.
[00:14:36] Speaker A: Or Mohammed Usman.
[00:14:39] Speaker B: I like that one, too. I thought you were gonna say or Justin Tafa.
[00:14:42] Speaker A: That would also Taffa. Tafa. Another. You know, at some point, we need to see the Tafa brothers fight.
[00:14:48] Speaker B: I don't think that's gonna happen.
[00:14:49] Speaker A: That would be a crazy fight.
[00:14:51] Speaker B: I think what happens is one of them fights a guy, then the other.
[00:14:55] Speaker A: Porter guy that they both. I mean, that's a. That's a cool legacy to have, like, brothers just knocking the same dude out. Same two people.
[00:15:02] Speaker B: Like, if one loses, the other one avengers, his loss. Yeah, but then if you both lose and like, well, they just did, didn't they.
[00:15:09] Speaker A: Didn't they both fight somebody recently and they both lost all, or not recently, but they have both lost to the same guy. I know they've both beaten Parker Porter. Yeah.
[00:15:17] Speaker B: Poor Parker Porter.
[00:15:18] Speaker A: Either way, let's move on to orky Parker Porter. The main card opener of UFC Vegas 91. Jonathan Pierce taking on David O Nama.
[00:15:28] Speaker B: Well, I think this is.
[00:15:29] Speaker A: I'm sorry, second to second to opener.
[00:15:31] Speaker B: Second opener.
[00:15:31] Speaker A: I forgot about how quick Medici's fight was.
[00:15:35] Speaker B: Yeah. So on Ama Pierce, this was, again, one of the only ones that didn't. Wasn't a finish. You not a unanimous decision for Onama.
[00:15:42] Speaker A: Yep. And it's crazy because this was a very impressive fight for different reasons. Yeah. Jonathan Pierce's very aggressive, like, force wrestling style, where he's like, you know, dragging you to the ground. He's not giving you any space, he's.
[00:15:58] Speaker B: Not letting you breathe.
[00:15:59] Speaker A: Right. He's always trying to tap you out. But David Onama, not a, you know, heavy wrestling background of any kind, or at least that I knew of. He got, like, five or six reversals, the most reversals I've ever seen, and he ended up with control time, which, you know, led the way to him getting a unanimous decision win. It was a very impressive kind of flip of the script where, you know, the guy's tired, but he still. He didn't stop. He still went after the shots. He still kept with it. He never gave up. And like you said, it wasn't a decision like that. We gotta sleep on. It was an impressive decision.
[00:16:37] Speaker B: It was an impressive, well rounded decision for Onoma. He moves a four and two now in the UFC. So he's still, you know, six fights. He's not new in the UFC, but he's still building his way up. This was one of those ones that you get a win and, like, he got better because of this fight.
[00:16:52] Speaker A: Yeah, absolutely.
[00:16:53] Speaker B: He got better with this win.
[00:16:54] Speaker A: He was tested, and he tested positive for having that dog in him.
[00:16:58] Speaker B: Exactly. Cause he could easily, like, this guy's better on the ground than me, waiting.
[00:17:03] Speaker A: For the bell to finish so he can get back up and, like, try to start the next round a different way. Now, this dude, like David O'Ner, really, he fought through a style that I think, obviously, you knew that was a style Jonathan Pierce was going to come in with, but he was able to overcome a good wrestling style that, like you said, I think he's grow. He grows a lot from that.
[00:17:24] Speaker B: Out to the ugandan, the silent assassin, Onama with the impressive performance. Who do you think he fights next?
[00:17:29] Speaker A: I got three options.
Two guys coming off of a loss, one guy coming off of a surprise win. Nate land where Nate the train.
Billy Q. Both those guys coming off a law or, I'm sorry. Nate land where's coming off a win just now. Yeah, he had the surprising win Atlantic.
[00:17:47] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:17:48] Speaker A: Billy cuse coming off a loss, and then Damon the Leech Jackson's also coming off of a win as well. I think either one of those three would be fun fights. It kind of gives Onama kind of back in his court, you know, a striker versus striker. We've proved that. You know, there's no sense necessarily in just forcing wrestlers down this guy's throat.
[00:18:06] Speaker B: Yeah, give him.
[00:18:07] Speaker A: Let him fight once, and then maybe another wrestler later on.
[00:18:10] Speaker B: I like all three. Give me land. We're. I think that would be a very entertaining fighter. Nama Lanware.
[00:18:14] Speaker A: Lanweir's got some crazy post fight interview.
[00:18:17] Speaker B: Too, so he's got that entertaining guy.
[00:18:19] Speaker A: That skill with him. All right, now.
[00:18:21] Speaker B: Now we got the main card open.
[00:18:22] Speaker A: The main card opener, and this was.
[00:18:24] Speaker B: The quickest of the main card.
[00:18:26] Speaker A: This is quickest of all the fights.
[00:18:27] Speaker B: First round ko, two minutes.
The doctor broke his hippocratic oath and ended Tim means with a first round knockout. So medic.
I mean, this was one of the most entertaining, we said it's the quickest, one of the most entertaining performances, the whole card.
[00:18:46] Speaker A: Yeah, it was. It was a great two minutes and 9 seconds. It was an impressive performance.
It was, you know, it was a very clean uppercut, and it was what?
[00:18:56] Speaker B: Yeah, I mean, it was like ground.
[00:18:57] Speaker A: And pound, you know? It's not like when Jalen Turner pretty much knocked out Renata Morgano a few weeks ago and then trying to get a walk off Uros. Medic is. Medic is paying attention.
He sees that he's got him rocked. He hits him hard, and he follows it up until the ref stops the fight.
[00:19:15] Speaker B: It was a good, very important, great performance. Good rebound for medic. After the loss in November, he moves to four and two in the UFC now.
[00:19:23] Speaker A: Nine and two is a complete record.
[00:19:24] Speaker B: Still has never been to the scorecard.
[00:19:27] Speaker A: Yeah, he's.
[00:19:28] Speaker B: He's a.
[00:19:28] Speaker A: He's a dog. Finish in all his fights, even, or he's getting finished.
[00:19:32] Speaker B: And out of his four us, that's his fourth UFC win. All four of them knockouts.
[00:19:36] Speaker A: Yep. Yep. I like two good options for him. Brian battle, Muslim Salikov.
Difference of opponent you got, you know, both guys who are strikers, both that offer, you know, present different.
[00:19:51] Speaker B: I would say brian battle, but it seems like Brian battle, and who'd he fight last time they sat some unfinished business after the way that fight ended.
[00:19:58] Speaker A: Luca.
[00:19:59] Speaker B: Yeah, the swiss. Yeah, they were pretty much about to fight after the fight.
[00:20:05] Speaker A: Yeah, some pretty.
[00:20:08] Speaker B: I think Luca told Brian, battery. He's gonna kill him. So let's. Let's wait for them to fight.
[00:20:12] Speaker A: Salikov, book it. Medic. Solikov, Muslim. Salikov. Book it. I like it. All right, that'll wrap up. UFC Vegas 91.
We got a lot right, a few wrong later.
[00:20:33] Speaker B: UFC 301 returns to Brazil. In honor of that, our top five this week is. Top five brazilian things.
Alex, I think I have the first pick. Is that correct?
[00:20:44] Speaker A: You do, sir. I had the first pick in last week's draft, so let's stop the bullshit.
[00:20:49] Speaker B: And let's just get down to it.
[00:20:51] Speaker A: The nitty gritty.
[00:20:52] Speaker B: Let's get down to the nitty gritty. My number one pick in top five brazilian things. I mean, I gotta go with it. We're a UFC podcast. It's gonna be the MMA. UFC stars of Brazil. Some of the biggest stars, best fighters of all time have come from Brazil. Besides America. It's probably the country that has the second most UFC fighters all time. And currently, I would assume. Okay, I mean, we got Alex Pereira, current double champ. We got Charles Oliveira, former champ. Manda Nunez, woman goat. Anderson Silva, possible total UFC goat. Jose Aldo, countless other guys. I mean, when you think Brazil is fan, like, Brazil's one of the countries you think of as the UFC.
[00:21:35] Speaker A: That is a good pick.
General, how do you want to, like, word that in a couple words?
[00:21:41] Speaker B: MMA stars.
[00:21:42] Speaker A: MMA stars.
[00:21:44] Speaker B: Brazilian. Brazilian MMA stars.
[00:21:46] Speaker A: Right? Brazil. Yeah. Yeah, of course.
[00:21:47] Speaker B: So that's my first pick. I think it's very fitting with UFC returning to Vegas. Our podcast is MMA related.
[00:21:54] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:21:54] Speaker B: So Brazilian stars, mma stars.
[00:21:58] Speaker A: I like it.
[00:21:58] Speaker B: My number one pick. What's your number one pick, Alex?
[00:22:00] Speaker A: That's a very good pick. I'm.
I'm going with something also related to our podcast.
[00:22:07] Speaker B: I think I know what you're going with.
[00:22:09] Speaker A: Brazilian jiu jitsu.
[00:22:11] Speaker B: I had that on my list.
[00:22:12] Speaker A: You know, while it originated in Japan.
[00:22:15] Speaker B: Carlos Gracie, BJJ didn't rip jJ jJ.
[00:22:20] Speaker A: But the BJ originated in Japan. Carlos Gracie learned and helped spread Gracie and brazilian jiu jitsu. Did you ever hear what it is.
[00:22:30] Speaker B: The origins, what they used to do when they were starting out? They would go in the Gracie's in Brazil, would just go into, like, the other martial arts gyms, and they were just gonna just beat the shit.
[00:22:40] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:22:40] Speaker B: Out of the.
[00:22:41] Speaker A: Everybody.
[00:22:42] Speaker B: The sensei.
[00:22:43] Speaker A: Right. That's how clean house to be. Yes. And they were like, this is why you need to learn this, because with such little movement, such little, like, y'all.
[00:22:52] Speaker B: Are way bigger than me, and I'm choking you out.
[00:22:54] Speaker A: Exactly. I'm completely dominating you. Right. So, yeah, brazilian jiu jitsu, it's, you know, it's what most fighters in the UFC specialize in is like a not striking.
[00:23:06] Speaker B: I don't know if they specialize in it.
[00:23:08] Speaker A: They utilize.
[00:23:09] Speaker B: Yes. They all train in it, and they all.
[00:23:12] Speaker A: You all.
[00:23:12] Speaker B: You drive. You have a basic understanding of BJJ.
[00:23:16] Speaker A: Right, to be a.
[00:23:17] Speaker B: In the UFC? Pretty much. So that's not a bad pick. I like it.
[00:23:20] Speaker A: Brazilian jiu jitsu, my number one, going straight into number two, I gotta go with the Amazon rainforest.
[00:23:29] Speaker B: Oh, that's a good pick. I had it on my list.
[00:23:31] Speaker A: So the reason I'm going with the Amazon rainforest specifically to Brazil is about 60% of it is in Brazil.
But most importantly, the Amazon rainforest absorbs, like, 25% of the CO2 on Earth. They call it a carbon sink.
[00:23:47] Speaker B: I'll see a library.
[00:23:49] Speaker A: Well, it helps us be able to be the industrial type of civilization we are because there's so much greenery in one spot. It does a bunch of work for us. Okay.
[00:23:58] Speaker B: Just.
[00:23:59] Speaker A: It also harbors 40,000 plant species, 1300 bird species, over 3000 fish. This one, uncontacted tribes, indigenous tribes with millions of people.
[00:24:10] Speaker B: Still, I don't know about millions, but.
[00:24:12] Speaker A: No, they estimate, like, 2 million people.
[00:24:14] Speaker B: Oh, wow.
[00:24:14] Speaker A: Yeah. It's crazy. Which is millions. That's plural. But, yeah, the Amazon rainforest, both of you know, that's kind of embodies a good chunk of Brazil and a few other countries, but Brazil, there you go.
[00:24:28] Speaker B: It's not a bad pick. I like that pick. I mean, everybody knows the Amazon rainforest.
[00:24:32] Speaker A: Yeah, you definitely heard of it.
[00:24:33] Speaker B: So popular.
[00:24:33] Speaker A: They.
[00:24:34] Speaker B: The biggest company in the world almost is named after it.
[00:24:37] Speaker A: What's that company?
[00:24:38] Speaker B: Amazon.
[00:24:39] Speaker A: Oh, dang, you're right. That is. That is it.
[00:24:42] Speaker B: So not a bad pick. So my second pick now.
[00:24:47] Speaker A: Yes, sir.
[00:24:47] Speaker B: This is gonna be my guest pick from my beautiful girlfriend, Clara.
[00:24:51] Speaker A: So when your guest pick gives you, like, all pics you already have, do you just get to kind of figure out your own guest pick, not just.
[00:25:00] Speaker B: Take into account what she's giving me, and I just.
[00:25:04] Speaker A: I'm giving you opportunities to dig a hole, and you're just not taking it.
[00:25:08] Speaker B: But she came out with a great pick. This is something that.
[00:25:10] Speaker A: Oh, she came out with a great pick.
[00:25:13] Speaker B: This is something that, when you think of Brazil, you think of this. This monument, this landmark. It stands over the entire city of Rio. This is Christ the Redeemer statue.
[00:25:24] Speaker A: That is a good option, and it is on my list.
[00:25:26] Speaker B: It encompasses Brazil. It encompasses not only, like, you think of Rio, when you think of it, Brazil is a very christian, catholic country, and this. This symbolizes that.
[00:25:37] Speaker A: Right.
[00:25:38] Speaker B: It's one of the coolest. Regardless of what you think of it, it's one of the coolest monuments on top of a mountain, a giant Christ.
[00:25:46] Speaker A: It's definitely one of the most famous landmarks of all time. Of all time.
[00:25:50] Speaker B: And, you know, interesting thing, it's all. It was only built in, like, the fifties or the sixties.
[00:25:53] Speaker A: Yeah, the. The design. I have that written down. The design was started in 1922.
[00:25:58] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:25:59] Speaker A: And, like, construction went into. It was designed by, like, a french polish dude. Mm hmm. And then, like, the brazilian engineers teamed up with a bunch of people to put it together. Pretty cool stuff. That is a very good pick. I appreciate. You know, it's in a bunch of movies, like fast and furious. So, like, those things being iconic landmarks, you see it. You're like, oh, they're in Brazil.
[00:26:20] Speaker B: Exactly.
[00:26:21] Speaker A: Like, you know, exactly where. What it is, where they're at, it immediately puts you in the location. It's kind of like seeing the Statue of Liberty. You know, you're in New York.
[00:26:29] Speaker B: Exactly.
[00:26:29] Speaker A: Same kind of thing.
[00:26:30] Speaker B: So shout out claire for that pick.
[00:26:32] Speaker A: Shout out Claire. Good job, Claire.
[00:26:33] Speaker B: My next pick the third pick. Brazilian soccer. Brazilian football, just the whole thing. They have some of the biggest stars of all time. Neymar Pele. They're the most successful team in the World Cup, I think five World cup victories, their iconic yellow shirts.
[00:26:51] Speaker A: They are.
[00:26:51] Speaker B: The pinnacle of international soccer is Brazil. Everybody wants to be Brazil. Everybody's inspired by Brazil. They have the flair. They're exciting to watch.
I mean, brazilian soccer, that's one of the things you think of, in my opinion, when you think of Brazil.
[00:27:05] Speaker A: Yeah, dude. I literally have pretty much everything you just wrote down or you not wrote down. I have it written down. What you just said. Five time FIFA World cup winner.
I did. Also, I don't know if this is true. You can correct me, because I know you're a big football fan.
They're the only team to appeared in every World cup.
[00:27:23] Speaker B: That is correct.
[00:27:24] Speaker A: Is that still standing?
[00:27:25] Speaker B: Believe so.
[00:27:26] Speaker A: That's pretty cool. They hosted the 2014 FIFA World cup.
[00:27:30] Speaker B: They did.
[00:27:30] Speaker A: They got slaughtered by Germany. I found eight ones.
[00:27:33] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:27:34] Speaker A: Pretty brutal.
[00:27:34] Speaker B: They have a bunch of memes of the fans crying in the stadium.
[00:27:37] Speaker A: Oh, I'm there, there.
There are great.
[00:27:40] Speaker B: Because, like, a once in a lifetime thing to host the World cup for, even for Brazil.
[00:27:44] Speaker A: Yeah. And then I figured for Brazil, like, you know, the notable notoriety.
[00:27:49] Speaker B: I think the one before that they hosted was, like, in the fifties.
[00:27:51] Speaker A: Oh. It's like a once in, like, a. Like, a person's lifetime, like, experience, that event. I got what you're saying. Yeah. It's very, very cool.
[00:27:58] Speaker B: But, yeah, brazilian soccer, it's probably the thing.
Their two sports are like soccer than mma.
[00:28:05] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:28:06] Speaker B: So brazilian soccer. My third pick.
[00:28:07] Speaker A: That's it. That's a great pick. I can't. Can't complain with that at all.
I'm gonna go with. For my third pick, the brazilian carnival.
[00:28:17] Speaker B: Oh, I had that on, literally.
[00:28:18] Speaker A: So we're from Louisiana. It's literally Mardi Gras for us.
[00:28:23] Speaker B: It is.
[00:28:23] Speaker A: It's one of the most popular ones is held in Rio.
It's held the Friday before Ash Wednesday, and it kicks off the lent season.
[00:28:31] Speaker B: It goes back to what I said. They're a christian catholic country, like.
[00:28:34] Speaker A: Right.
[00:28:34] Speaker B: That's one of their things.
[00:28:35] Speaker A: Yeah. And it, like, literally Mardi Gras translated is fat Tuesday. We just do it the day before Ash Wednesday. They do it the Friday before. They have big festival parades, carnivals throughout the city. Brazilian carnival is like a heritage cultural thing that come being from Louisiana and knowing, you know, what we're about with it, I couldn't even imagine how awesome theirs is. I'm in person.
[00:28:58] Speaker B: It's amazing.
[00:28:59] Speaker A: It would put our New Orleans, you know, put it to shame completely. So brazilian carnival is what I'm going with.
[00:29:06] Speaker B: Not a bad one. So that's your third pick. What's your fourth?
[00:29:09] Speaker A: All right, fourth pick. This is where things get kind of, kind of different.
I'm leaving my quote, unquote silly pick to my fifth pick. I'm gonna go with the brazilian fans, the fans of brazilian sports.
[00:29:24] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:29:24] Speaker A: You know, you went with the stars, you generalized it that way. I'm going with the fans because they're emotional investments to their teams. It's like family to them, as it is with a bunch of other things. But we've seen you brazilian fight cards. You see, you're talking about the World cup being a once in a lifetime. People cry, crying, being beaten by Germany. They bring energy and vibrancy to the stadium. They all rep it. It's, you know, the common thing of, like, the country comes together. They back their team through and through. There's not the people, you know, rooting for Argentina, sitting in Brazil. No, they're. Everybody has the yellow shirt. Everybody's rooting for Aldo, everybody's rooting for Silva. It's the fan. It's the pride of your country.
[00:30:06] Speaker B: They have a strong fan.
[00:30:07] Speaker A: The love to your team, your. For your fighter, your sport, etcetera. Their fan base of Brazil is. Is powerful.
[00:30:13] Speaker B: It's not a bad pick. I like that pick, and I agree. I think they have some of the best fans. And as you say, it kind of brings the country together.
[00:30:20] Speaker A: Absolutely. So what do you have for your fourth and fifth pick?
[00:30:24] Speaker B: So my fourth pick, this is going to be something I think you think of. When you think of Brazil specifically, there's one you think of. It's the beaches of Brazil. You think of the Copacabana beach. It's the famous beach in Rio. They have white sands. You think of people playing volleyball. They're always packed. It's a beautiful beach, and I think it encompasses Brazil. One of the things you think of.
[00:30:44] Speaker A: Brazil, are you going with beaches or that beach?
[00:30:46] Speaker B: Beaches in parentheses. Copacabana beach.
I just think it's one of the, the biggest, definitely tourist attractions of Brazil, the beaches.
[00:30:57] Speaker A: Absolutely. That's a good pick. Beaches are.
Shout out to my wife. She hates going to the beach. I love the beach, but I love the beach. It's a. It's a great, great time for me. Just hanging out, going in the water, chilling. It's a great time.
[00:31:12] Speaker B: And my last pick, I'm gonna go with the city of Rio de Janeiro.
[00:31:16] Speaker A: It's on my list.
[00:31:17] Speaker B: It hosted a World cup final, two World cup finals. It's hosted the Olympics.
It's probably the biggest tourist attractions. Not the biggest city in Brazil. Surprisingly, a lot of people. It's Sao Paulo.
[00:31:27] Speaker A: It's the biggest Rio capital of Brazil.
[00:31:30] Speaker B: So Paulo. No, no, no. Brasilia is the right.
[00:31:34] Speaker A: Okay. Yeah. But it was changed, like, since we've been alive or something.
[00:31:38] Speaker B: Pretty close, maybe. I don't know.
[00:31:40] Speaker A: It holds Christ the redeemer.
[00:31:41] Speaker B: Holds Christ the Redeemer, holds Coca Cabana.
[00:31:43] Speaker A: Beach, holds the most famous carnival.
[00:31:47] Speaker B: Holds the most famous carnival. I mean, when you think of Brazil and you think of, like, going to Brazil.
[00:31:51] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:31:51] Speaker B: So Paula is the biggest city, but Rio, like, encompasses, I think, brazilian culture.
[00:31:57] Speaker A: Yeah. That's a good pick.
Rio de Janeiro.
[00:32:00] Speaker B: So that's my fifth pick. What's your fifth pick, Alex? Let's wrap this up.
[00:32:03] Speaker A: All right. My fifth pick. I'm gonna go with the brazilian wax.
[00:32:07] Speaker B: Brazilian wax.
[00:32:09] Speaker A: Yeah. So specifically, what that did for beaches from 1987 forward. So seven sisters from Brazil. This is how, like, the story goes, that I found out on the Internet, the brazilian wax was popularized by seven sisters, who opened a waxing salon in New York in 1987.
They popularized the brazilian wax to look smooth on the beach. So I can only imagine how beaches were previous to 1987.
Rocky in so many senses.
[00:32:39] Speaker B: Bw.
[00:32:40] Speaker A: Yeah. Um. So I gotta go with the brazilian wax. It's kind of silly, but I don't think I could be alive in that era where, like, trying to, you know, get the sand out of everywhere always, but. Yeah, but the brazilian wax I'm going with for my fifth pick.
[00:32:57] Speaker B: Interesting pick. Not a bad one. I'm not criticizing it. Just an interesting pick.
[00:33:00] Speaker A: It definitely has its value in brazilian society if they are the ones who, in fact, created it, which the Internet.
[00:33:06] Speaker B: Sounds like they are. So let's recap our top fives. Alex? My top five. Number one, the MMA stars of Brazil. Number two, Christ the Redeemer statue. Number three, brazilian soccer. Number four, the beaches, specifically, Copacabana beach. And number five, the city of Rio de Janeiro.
[00:33:22] Speaker A: That's a great top five. My number one is brazilian jiu jitsu. My number two is the Amazon rainforest. Number three, the brazilian carnival. Number four, brazilian fan base, and number five, the brazilian wax. I can't wait for you to see this graphic.
[00:33:47] Speaker B: The UFC returns to Brazil for UFC 301, and we got a card full of brazilian fighters. Alex, you mentioned the brazilian fans. They're gonna be loud. They're gonna be heard on Saturday night.
[00:34:02] Speaker A: They will, they will. They will make their self. Their presence known multiple times.
[00:34:07] Speaker B: I think the thing they chant in Portuguese, it's the rough translation to the fighters fighting the Brazilians when they're walking out is, you will die. It's like, you will die here or something. Very intimidating.
[00:34:21] Speaker A: I like that.
[00:34:22] Speaker B: We're gonna cover the whole main card. It's a five fight main card, as all pay per views are. And we're gonna start with the opener. Paul Bear drew Craig, the Scottish 36 year old, taking on chow bar eight. Boralho Borralho. You always got the pronunciations.
[00:34:42] Speaker A: Yeah, man. We got the technology at our fingertips. I give the name a goog, I.
[00:34:48] Speaker B: Should probably do that, but fuck it.
[00:34:49] Speaker A: One of these days you might.
[00:34:51] Speaker B: We got the bearJew, the scottish bear jew, taking on the brazilian natural. Chao is five and oh. In the UFC, one sub four decisions. Bear Jew Paul Craig. Nine, seven and one. In the UFC, he's coming off of a bad submission loss to Brendan Allen.
Chow coming off of a first. I mean, a unanimous decision. Winning is Abbas Magamedoff.
[00:35:14] Speaker A: Yep, it was a. It's been a tough go in the past five for. For Paul Craig. Two and three in the.
[00:35:20] Speaker B: Paul Craig, he's one of my favorite guys, but, man, he makes it hard to be a fan of him. Cause even in the fights he wins, usually he takes a beating.
[00:35:26] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, he does take a beating off, and he gets that nose pretty clobbered up. I mean, it take looking at him healthy. His nose takes some pretty crazy angles. So, you know, imagine they straighten it out a couple times when they hit him.
[00:35:40] Speaker B: Out of his 17 career wins, 13 of them were by submission.
[00:35:43] Speaker A: It's impressive, but it also shows like, he's been knocked out four times.
[00:35:47] Speaker B: He's only been to the decision the card once.
[00:35:49] Speaker A: That's impressive.
[00:35:50] Speaker B: 25 career fights.
[00:35:51] Speaker A: Yeah, that's impressive. That's an impressive stat as well.
[00:35:53] Speaker B: That means he's either choking you out pretty much. Are he? You're knocking him out.
[00:35:58] Speaker A: Yeah, odds are so cow baral ho. He's like a decision king. You know, he's in power.
[00:36:05] Speaker B: He's fun to watch, though. He's a decision guy, but he's respectful.
[00:36:09] Speaker A: You know, he looks. He's looking at him. He's kind of looks cocky.
[00:36:13] Speaker B: He's never been very respectful.
[00:36:16] Speaker A: You know, he means business when he goes in there to fight.
[00:36:18] Speaker B: Anytime you have a dumbass neck tattoo, you look cocky, but he's not cocky at all.
[00:36:22] Speaker A: Yeah, and he would kill you. For saying that.
[00:36:24] Speaker B: He probably would, but.
[00:36:25] Speaker A: And he could.
[00:36:26] Speaker B: So never gonna meet him.
[00:36:27] Speaker A: I'm gonna send this clip to him, so just don't worry. Hopefully, that will encourage him to meet you. Either way, I think the odds, being as crazy as they are in Brauho's favor, are painting the picture exactly how it's gonna go out. I think Kyle Barral, who's gonna win.
[00:36:43] Speaker B: The fight, I think he goes out there and dominates for three rounds.
[00:36:46] Speaker A: Yeah, I think he's just gonna. He's gonna keep a distance. He's gonna stuff the wrestling of the bear Jew, and he's gonna do everything it takes to win the fight. Probably secure his 8th decision victory.
[00:36:56] Speaker B: Pretty much. If you're fighting Paul Craig, when you're beating him, don't get caught in a crazy submission.
[00:37:03] Speaker A: Yeah, don't.
[00:37:04] Speaker B: Cause he's known as, as you're beating him, he'll throw up a triangle or something and choke you out or break your arm.
[00:37:09] Speaker A: Right. If you're Jamal hill, he'll do both.
[00:37:12] Speaker B: So just watch out for that, and he should be good. So I got chao winning the fight.
[00:37:15] Speaker A: Next up, staying in the middleweight division, we have Michelle de Molador Pereira, the brazilian, taking on ihor, the duelist po Tierra.
[00:37:24] Speaker B: I didn't realize, I like Pereira. I like watching him fight. I didn't realize how hot he's been. Seven straight wins, eight and two in the UFC.
[00:37:32] Speaker A: But that's across two divisions. He had trouble making weight. You know, one of the first podcasts we had, when the audio was all he fought, he missed weight by, like, three pounds, and he just didn't give a fuck. Then he came out and just dominated.
[00:37:47] Speaker B: Which is trying to do the same thing against wonder boy. Wonder boys like, nah, yeah, I'm not fighting this guy.
[00:37:52] Speaker A: So then after that missed weight, they forced him to go up a weight class, and he has not changed at all. He's just been able to kind of get bigger.
[00:38:01] Speaker B: I mean, he's one of the guys. You watch him, he is one of the craziest guys in the octagon. Some of the shit he does now. And it's been working for him.
[00:38:08] Speaker A: Yeah. On the other end of that ihor Potiera, he's come down from heavyweight to light heavyweight. He's now in middleweight, which is his last fight. He beat, you know, Robert Brychek, I.
[00:38:22] Speaker B: Think his name was, by unanimous decision.
[00:38:24] Speaker A: He showed a lot of. Lot of good things there. It was the first time fighting at that weight class, but he showed that, like, he had a lot more power. He wasn't gassed. He was wearing the weight well. I think with this camp, he's going to be a little bit better. So, yeah, he's not quite there yet to face somebody like Michelle Pereira.
[00:38:42] Speaker B: He's two and three in the UFC, as you said. He's only fought one fight at this weight class. His previous three losses, though, at the higher weight class, all three knockouts.
[00:38:50] Speaker A: Yeah, I think that was a big problem because you had natural heavyweights or light heavyweights.
[00:38:55] Speaker B: Yeah, that should have been cutting a little bit of weight.
[00:38:57] Speaker A: Right. He was fighting at natural weights or, like, gaining a little bit of weight just because he's a good.
And you can't always do that. You know, we. We see that, you know, in a few different cases throughout, you know, all the cards we. We watch, you see that become apparent and, you know, it's why it doesn't always work out. Yeah.
[00:39:16] Speaker B: So I got Pereira winning this fight. I think he is the. I think he continues to streak eight straight wins. I think he's a guy. He's slowly moving up towards that serious contender status, right.
[00:39:27] Speaker A: With ihorpo Tierra. One in three. He's 25% as an underdog. I don't see him winning.
I pick Michelle Pereira as well.
[00:39:37] Speaker B: So let's move on. The next fight, we mentioned this guy's doppelganger earlier. We mentioned him as a possible opponent for his doppelganger. We had Anthony Smith also.
[00:39:47] Speaker A: Two and three in his last five.
[00:39:48] Speaker B: Two and three in his last 512 and nine overall in the UFC. 37 wins, 19 losses overall in his career, taking on the undefeated brazilian fighter Vitor Petrino, 40 in the UFC. He has two finishes, one ko, one sub in that. His last one was a unanimous decision over Pedro. He's a guy. Undefeated rising star.
He's a guy that a lot of you say, momentum. There's a lot of talk behind him, especially with that undefeated record.
[00:40:20] Speaker A: Yeah. Vitor Petrino is the 15th ranked light heavyweight. Anthony Smith is the 10th ranked. Obviously, Petrino is trying to go claim that spot.
Weird stat. Anthony Smith has only beaten Ryan span September of 2021.
[00:40:36] Speaker B: I saw that.
[00:40:37] Speaker A: Yeah. His last almost.
[00:40:39] Speaker B: You mentioned two and three, but his last two wins are both over Ryan Spine.
[00:40:42] Speaker A: Right.
So that's not great coming off of.
[00:40:45] Speaker B: A ko against Roundtree and ko loss against Roundtree.
[00:40:50] Speaker A: Roundtree's got power, so you can't really be, like, mad about it.
[00:40:54] Speaker B: Shout out, Roundtree getting that fight against Jamal Hill coming up.
[00:40:56] Speaker A: Yes. UFC St. Louis. That's good for him.
[00:40:58] Speaker B: No, no, no.
[00:40:58] Speaker A: Or it was announced before.
[00:41:00] Speaker B: It's UFC. Like 302.
[00:41:01] Speaker A: Yeah, 302.
[00:41:04] Speaker B: Anthony Smith is tough, though. As much as we give him shit just for being corny and he's kind of lame, he is tough, but he's a tough guy.
He's always down to fight. To.
[00:41:15] Speaker A: The thing with Petrino, though, he often takes fights to the ground and then he beats you up while he's on the ground. Like he was only going to the decision three times out of his eleven fights in his career. But he's. He's still finishing guys. He just got his first submission victory. But in all of his fights in the UFC, he's at least attempted takedowns, most of them. He's gotten multiple takedowns.
[00:41:37] Speaker B: He is undefeated. But say what you want, this is a step up in competition form against Anthony Smith. It's a guy who's fought for a.
[00:41:43] Speaker A: Title before stats that make me think Petrino is going to win. Other than the Ryan Spann being the only victory since 2021 and that robber.
[00:41:52] Speaker B: That tried to rob his house, he beat up.
[00:41:54] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, I forgot about that guy. But he is five and seven as an underdog in the UFC. That's Anthony Smith.
So that makes me lean on the odds with Vegas again saying V tour, Petrino is going to win this fight.
[00:42:06] Speaker B: Yeah, I'm agreeing with you. I think Petrino wins. I think the crowd is going to play a factor as well. But yeah, Petrino remains undefeated. Twelve and oh five and O UFC. Let's move on to co main event.
[00:42:17] Speaker A: Alex bantamweights. That means any boys?
[00:42:20] Speaker B: The return of the king.
Jose Aldo, the king of brazilian.
[00:42:25] Speaker A: Yeah, the brazilian king.
[00:42:26] Speaker B: Actually, he's the king of Rio. That's what that was his claim to fame.
[00:42:29] Speaker A: Former chain ran into the crowd and they like hoisted him up. Yes, I remember the highlights.
[00:42:36] Speaker B: He's regarded by some as the best 145 or ever. I think Max Holloway and Volt kind of taken that reign from him. But at one point he was. But he's taken on Jonathan Martinez, a guy who's 919 wins, four losses, ten and three in the UFC with four of those by ko. Coming off of a second round tko win with a six fight winning streak. Martinez, the guy that's hot. And he's a guy rising up, taking on a guy coming out of retirement.
[00:43:01] Speaker A: Yep, he's rising quick in that six fight win streak. He has two leg kick kos.
[00:43:07] Speaker B: I think he's lost two wins or late kick. Kosher.
[00:43:10] Speaker A: Yeah, maybe. Or one, one space in which maybe a decision went in between but, yeah, definitely two recent leg kick Kos, which is very dangerous against the guy who's.
[00:43:19] Speaker B: Been boxing his last three, quote unquote, professional fights in Aldo. So maybe that could play a factor. You can't leg kick in boxing.
[00:43:27] Speaker A: Yeah, it's strange to see Aldo coming out of retirement, but I understand why he's coming to fight with this home crowd in Brazil and they're all saying he's Dana. Why call him?
[00:43:35] Speaker B: He's saving the card, you know?
[00:43:37] Speaker A: Oh, yeah.
[00:43:38] Speaker B: Like making this a, making it a.
[00:43:39] Speaker A: Noteworthy, like, buy worthy.
[00:43:41] Speaker B: Yeah, exactly. See the king of Rio come.
[00:43:45] Speaker A: Martinez is nine, a nine and one against orthodox fighters, and Aldo is one in one against southpaws. You know, so it kind of shows where the advantages come in, in my opinion. Martinez is also six and one is the favorite.
I like all these things in favor of Martinez. It makes me kind of feel like, you know, the odds on this one are pretty close. Not really a toss up, slight favorite, few interesting stats.
[00:44:10] Speaker B: All right, so although his last fight, it was a loss.
[00:44:14] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:44:14] Speaker B: But it was a decision loss to Marab. Yeah, Marab.
[00:44:18] Speaker A: So regarded as he's his last name.
[00:44:21] Speaker B: Marab is getting the title shot next.
[00:44:23] Speaker A: Devas.
[00:44:24] Speaker B: His last. He won three wins before that.
It wasn't that long ago. His three wins before that were Chito Vera.
[00:44:30] Speaker A: Yeah, he retired in 22.
[00:44:31] Speaker B: Rob Font and Pedro Munoz.
[00:44:33] Speaker A: And those are still, those are still.
[00:44:34] Speaker B: The top of the. So I don't think Jose Aldo, some washed up guy.
[00:44:38] Speaker A: No. But saying, how do you say he lost to Mara by decision, right?
[00:44:43] Speaker B: By unanimous decision, right.
[00:44:44] Speaker A: It's not like the guy's chin left. Last time he got knocked out was in like 2018. 2019 was Peter Yan saying that.
[00:44:51] Speaker B: I think Aldo's gonna come in game. I think he's gonna come in fighting well, but I think the guy that's active and it's on a six fight winning streak in Jonathan Martinez, I think he's going to be the only American to come in on this main card, the only one to take down a brazilian fighter. And I got Jonathan Martinez winning.
[00:45:08] Speaker A: I agree that Jonathan Martinez wins and I think he's going to utilize that heavy leg kick that him and his camp utilize him. Chris Gutierrez, the, the whole team, they utilize that hard leg kick and it, it very obviously damages fighters. I think they're going to use that to either hurt Aldo or, you know, break down his defenses to make him, like, think about everything. And then at that point, the striking just kind of goes ham Jonathan Martinez for the win.
[00:45:32] Speaker B: So let's move on the main event of the evening.
[00:45:35] Speaker A: The what?
[00:45:36] Speaker B: The main event of the evening.
[00:45:38] Speaker A: All right, let's go.
[00:45:40] Speaker B: We got Alexander Pantoja, the champ. The Brazilian. 27 wins, five losses. Eleven and three in the UFC. Making a second title defense against, no offense to Steve Urseg, one of the most undeserved title shots and random title shots we've seen in a long time.
[00:45:58] Speaker A: I agree that it is random and.
[00:46:01] Speaker B: Undeserved in terms of UFC wins.
[00:46:03] Speaker A: Right. In terms of saying he can't come.
[00:46:05] Speaker B: In and win the fight, but it's undeserved in terms of resume.
[00:46:08] Speaker A: You're right. The only thing that makes it kind of like the reason Pantoja took the fight was because nobody else. Yeah, he's beaten everybody. The new guy at the top of the division. So Steve Ursag, number ten, number twelve, something like that.
[00:46:25] Speaker B: And he's twelve and one. Now he's three and on the UFC. So it's not like he's been losing or anything. He's been winning.
[00:46:30] Speaker A: Right. He's got some behind him.
[00:46:32] Speaker B: Eleven. He's three and no UFC, but eleven total wins in a row. He's a ground guy. He's Aussie. So he's making the long trip over. I mean, this would be the ultimate upset if RSA came in and won this fight, man.
[00:46:45] Speaker A: Look, Pantoja, he's shown a lot. A lot of great things. Don't want to take anything away from that.
[00:46:55] Speaker B: Sounds like you're about to take some things away from it.
[00:46:57] Speaker A: No, he's a great wrestler.
[00:46:58] Speaker B: Neither guys ever been finished.
[00:47:01] Speaker A: I don't think. I don't think this is a fight where there's a finish happening. I think this is a decision fight where I think the odds are kind of like, right there. You could. You could see Pantoja winning because of how great he is. He's a great striker. He's great on the ground. He's never been finished. Like, he only loses by decision.
But Steve Ursig's the same guy, but younger.
[00:47:24] Speaker B: You know, it's experienced, less experience tested.
[00:47:27] Speaker A: Right.
[00:47:29] Speaker B: Not a champ.
[00:47:30] Speaker A: Maybe not, but I think it's one of these fights that it's. It's. It's not like Paul Craig, Cal Barrel ho. Where it's, you know, pretty much cow is going to win. I think this is more of a toss up kind of fight.
[00:47:42] Speaker B: I don't think it's as that big of a toss up. I'm surprised the odds are this close, honestly. I think Pantosa is going to come in. I think he's going to show the. There's levels to this and that he's the champ and that earth egg, great fighter. Twelve and one. He's not at this level yet.
[00:47:56] Speaker A: I will say that having home field advantage, you know, if you're Pantoja having home field advantage, the odds are not, like, great, surprising. Right? Like, there's, like we. We've heard there's just a wall of noise in Brazil when you're fighting. So, like that. Translating for Pantoja would be. What is it? -210 favorite.
[00:48:16] Speaker B: -210 that's a lot like that was when it opened.
[00:48:19] Speaker A: It might be a little bit less now, you know, with a little bit of hype going to earth egg, we don't know. By the time the fight comes on Saturday, could be almost dead even. I think Earth is going to surprise the world and win the title at 28.
[00:48:33] Speaker B: Thank you.
It's a little pipe dream from you, I think. Pantoja comes in, as I said, he proves he's the champ. He proves his levels to this.
I'm going to say Pantoja finishes our segue. So this week, I think he gets a submission win.
[00:48:47] Speaker A: This week on UFC, it's going to come down to one. One fight amongst us again, I think so. I'm taking the champ, you're taking Pantoja.
[00:48:55] Speaker B: See how it turns out.
[00:48:56] Speaker A: Let's go.
All right, we're back to recap.
Another week of stakes and takes.
Like I said before, this is our journey, our road to becoming the world's best gamblers or pickers.
[00:49:20] Speaker B: We're making steps, we're making progress.
[00:49:23] Speaker A: Yep. How'd you do? Let's go with the. Let's go with the takes. The total takes from last week. How'd you do in UFC?
[00:49:31] Speaker B: I had pretty good week of UFC. I went five and one.
[00:49:33] Speaker A: Nice.
[00:49:34] Speaker B: The only loss I had was the main event. I had Nickelow over Perez and we talked about earlier, Perez, the second round ko. But I got every other fight, right?
[00:49:42] Speaker A: Yep. I had Nicola winning as well. I went four and two in the UFC. The other fight I had was Ariane da Silva or Arian Lipski. I had her winning and Kareen Silva won that fight in a dominant fashion, I'd say. What about the picks you brought to the table?
[00:50:03] Speaker B: So I brought four soccer picks. I went three and one. I got Everton over Brunford Wright. Ten. Everton. I got Arsenal over Tottenham, right? Three two. Arsenal. I got Rangers over Saint Marion. Right? Two one. Rangers. The one I lost PSG, the biggest favorite of the whole one. They tied Lahar three three. So disappointing. PSG kind of just.
[00:50:26] Speaker A: So what does that mean? You know, like, there's not many sports that have ties and stuff. What does that mean when a sport ties or when soccer ties three and three? It goes into the draw column. But is that, like, how does that affect them?
[00:50:40] Speaker B: I mean, it just means they probably.
[00:50:42] Speaker A: It's good because they scored goals right.
[00:50:44] Speaker B: Now, but you would rather. You'd rather score less goals and let up less. Like, it's worse that they let up three goals and this then it is good.
[00:50:52] Speaker A: Six final would be terrible.
[00:50:54] Speaker B: Especially if you're the better team.
[00:50:56] Speaker A: Yes. Okay. Okay. That still doesn't make much sense to me. But we have a long season. We'll get there.
[00:51:01] Speaker B: Three and one, I'll take it. Eight and two overall.
[00:51:04] Speaker A: I like to.
[00:51:06] Speaker B: How'd you do?
[00:51:06] Speaker A: There's nothing to complain about. With eight and two overall, I went seven and three forward to UFC three and one and bringing my own.
I brought two baseball, two. Basketball. I got the Celtics over the heat.
What was it? Game one, I believe. And I had thunder over the Pelicans. Game three or was game three for both? Game three, I got both of those right. I had the Braves over the Guardians got the Braves right. And then Friday game and then the Orioles. I thought, we're gonna beat the A's because the A's have pretty much given up. So they can leave Oakland, but they ended up beating.
[00:51:47] Speaker B: You don't have very good luck betting Oreo games.
[00:51:51] Speaker A: I don't know why I always think they're gonna win because they're bet well.
[00:51:54] Speaker B: Last time you see, you bet for them and they won. You bet against them and they won.
[00:51:59] Speaker A: Yeah, but see that, like, they're a good team. They're always a good kind of good team, but I just feel like they're not gonna perform. And then they won the AO to perform. So I guess I'm just like off on the metric with how I'm thinking about them. But either way, seven and three on the week, pretty good for me. That moves me to a total on the takes standpoint to 70, 38 and two. And Mister Christian, you're 72, 36 and two. So you're bridging that gap little by little or spreading the gap, I guess you could say. Little by little. Moving on to our stakes for the week, how did you do?
[00:52:35] Speaker B: They pretty well. Went four and one. I was plus on my units. So the ones I got right, I had four units on Arsenal. -115 they won't nice. Had two units rangers. -255 they won. Nice two units. Silva. -155 she won one unit. Everton. Plus 140.
They won.
[00:52:57] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:52:57] Speaker B: I got wrong. Was the one unit on Nickelow. Thank God I only put one union on a -185 so that left me almost plus six for the. For the week.
[00:53:06] Speaker A: Yeah. That brings you to plus .9.15 total.
[00:53:10] Speaker B: I think. I think unit wise, it was one of my best, if not my best week.
[00:53:17] Speaker A: Yeah, I think last week, your five year five and a week might have been like six plus units. Yeah, I think that's what it was. Cause I know you did like four units on arsenal or something like that. It was pretty crazy, but yeah. Good run. I mean, over the last two weeks, you're nine and one in stakes. You've been on like a rocket ship. Fire seven and o. Last week's pick. Pick your own picks. Pretty awesome.
[00:53:39] Speaker B: Think I found my niche in the soccer.
[00:53:42] Speaker A: Yeah, the soccer. Like, I'm learning a lot. I'm starting to trust betting on soccer a little bit. So that's been very informative for me. I think I can name, like, I can name four soccer players. Mbappe Messi Ronaldo and Harry Kane.
[00:53:58] Speaker B: There you go. Look at most popular soccer players in the world.
[00:54:01] Speaker A: Yeah. But look, pretty soon, I implore you, I think you're gonna get me to five or six. But I actually went five and o on stakes this week. At a perfect week.
I got the medic money line. Early first round knockout. Ohnama money line. Guskov money line. They all, I don't want to say dominantly handled their opponents, but they did what they had to do. Then I had the thunder beating the pels and the Braves beating the Guardians. Cashed out. All five went, plus 9.57 units this week. Biggest week of the season.
[00:54:33] Speaker B: Pretty good.
[00:54:33] Speaker A: Biggest week in my personal recorded eleven week history on it. But that brings me to 14.81 up units on the season. 3117 and two for me and 3317 for you. So we're pretty close on all that. I got a couple cancels out there that I didn't get to do anything about, but I'm pretty excited. What are you bringing to the table this week?
[00:54:57] Speaker B: So we're going to go with picks first, right?
[00:54:59] Speaker A: Yeah, let's go with picks first.
[00:55:01] Speaker B: We're.
[00:55:02] Speaker A: So we're picking the whole main card.
[00:55:04] Speaker B: So that's five. And then we got five. Pick your own picks.
[00:55:06] Speaker A: Exactly. Exactly. So I have five. Soccer.
[00:55:08] Speaker B: I'm sticking with soccer. I'm sticking with Brahmin to the dance.
All of them are on Saturday. Nice first one we're going to go to is the English Premier League. We got Arsenal taking on Bournemouth. Arsenal beat him 40 earlier in the year. Arsenal riding high. They're fighting for the title right now. I got Arsenal winning that one.
[00:55:27] Speaker A: I have to say Arsenals, like in the. In the amount of times you've bet on them, kind of put them into.
[00:55:32] Speaker B: My scope, having to like, been playing pretty well.
[00:55:35] Speaker A: They've scored a bunch of goals for. They haven't let up a bunch against at least, you know, like I said, in the limited scope I paid attention. But they've been playing pretty lights out.
[00:55:43] Speaker B: They have been.
[00:55:44] Speaker A: I hope they lose this week.
[00:55:46] Speaker B: Yeah, fuck you. The next game we're gonna go to is in Spain. So la Liga. We got real Madrid also first place in La Liga, taking on the 18th place. Cadets. Cadiz.
[00:55:58] Speaker A: I've seen a match with you against or with them this season.
[00:56:02] Speaker B: Real beat him in November of this season. Three nil. That was on the road, I think. Real at home in Madrid. In Santiago Bernabeu. They get the win.
[00:56:13] Speaker A: Say that four times fast.
[00:56:15] Speaker B: So I got Rio in that one. Then we're going to go to Germany. The Bundesliga. Fifth place, Borussia Dortmund taking on 8th place, Allsburg. They tied earlier in the season. That was at Allsburg. This one's in Dortmund. One of the toughest places to play in Europe.
[00:56:28] Speaker A: Why is that?
[00:56:29] Speaker B: They just have a great crowd.
[00:56:31] Speaker A: Oh, it's kind of like the brazilian fans from earlier.
[00:56:33] Speaker B: Great crowd. They have one section that just stands up the whole game. It's a thing. I got Dortmund winning this one. They're still fighting for a Champions League spot. So they got a lot to play for. Then we're gonna go to France.
[00:56:43] Speaker A: Man, I hate to interrupt. That's one thing I never pay attention to. What they have to play for the position in the season. Like NHL a couple weeks ago. Completely goofed that it was the last game of the regular season and they clinched everything. They had no reason to even start anybody. All right, continue.
[00:56:58] Speaker B: So then we go to France. We have the surprising team in France this year is Brest. Their third place. They're fighting for a champion.
[00:57:04] Speaker A: Ooh la la.
[00:57:05] Speaker B: Ooh la la. Indeed. Third place in Ligue. They're taking on knotts, who's 14th place. They don't really have too much to play for. Brest. Still trying to get that Champions League spot. Breast won early in the season on the road. Two nil against knots. I think breast gets the win here again.
[00:57:22] Speaker A: I gotta lean with you there, man. I think breasts do get the dub, generally speaking.
[00:57:29] Speaker B: Yeah, I see what you're trying to do. Then we're gonna go back to England but not to the Premier League. We're gonna go to the championship, which is the second tier, second league under. So you get relegated to the championship. It's confusing.
[00:57:42] Speaker A: I remember the Ted Lasso joke.
[00:57:43] Speaker B: But we got the team that has already clinched the championship.
Leicester City. They've already. They've already clinched the championship. In the championship they're taking on 19th place Blackburn Rovers.
[00:57:55] Speaker A: So even though they have nothing to play for, do they still, do they stand to like care?
[00:58:02] Speaker B: Last game of the season, they're gonna care. They're going back to the Premier League after one season out of it. They won four one earlier in the season.
[00:58:09] Speaker A: I forgot about relegation.
[00:58:10] Speaker B: Lester's in promotion now. They're getting promoted back to the Premier League. Lester, I pick them winning against Blackburn Rovers again. I think it's going to be like a celebration.
Have the title there.
[00:58:23] Speaker A: That's nice.
[00:58:24] Speaker B: It's going to be a nice atmosphere. I got Leicester winning. So those are my five picks.
[00:58:28] Speaker A: I like the picks. I like the takes on the week.
Obviously, like you said, the five UFC fights, we only differ on the main, main event. You have Pantoja, I have ersag. Everything else is you wanna just run through them real quick. You have Jonathan Martinez, you got pantoja.
[00:58:46] Speaker B: Martinez, Petrino Pereira and Barauho.
[00:58:50] Speaker A: Barau. Perfect. So that's all ten of Christian's picks for the week. Follow those if you like them. That would be, you know, he's doing pretty well right now. I have to say my five that I'm bringing to the table before I recap my UFC. I'm going NBA playoffs, game five.
We're gonna go Celtics over the heat.
[00:59:10] Speaker B: Game four just ended. Celtics won.
[00:59:12] Speaker A: Game four just ended, Celtics won. But that.
[00:59:14] Speaker B: Do you think they.
[00:59:15] Speaker A: The.
[00:59:16] Speaker B: Who you going with?
[00:59:17] Speaker A: Celtics. I think this.
[00:59:18] Speaker B: You think the Celtics close the series out?
[00:59:20] Speaker A: Okay, series is ending at home.
Okay, game five, series is ending. Jason Tatum has been playing well even though he just caught a little ankle stinger.
[00:59:28] Speaker B: That's fine.
[00:59:29] Speaker A: Jalen Brown's been playing well. They're not pulling them out. They're going to make them, you know, finish this series strong. Then they can have a rest day or two.
Next up, I'm going with West NBA playoffs, game five, mavericks versus the Clippers.
[00:59:44] Speaker B: It's been a back and forth series about to say.
[00:59:45] Speaker A: It's been very contentious. You got a crazy good team up now with Luca and Kyrie. They got some you know, they've had some time to vibe together thinking Kawhi.
[00:59:53] Speaker B: James Harden, Paul George.
[00:59:56] Speaker A: I think James Harden is going to do his typical playoff bullshit.
[01:00:00] Speaker B: He's been playing kind of well, right?
[01:00:02] Speaker A: I think he's going to do the thing where they need him to do different. He's not going to be able to do it. I think the Mavericks win game five of the NBA west playoffs and then I've got something I never, never done before.
[01:00:15] Speaker B: Yeah, this was, you told me this when we were talking about our picks earlier and I'm surprised you did this.
[01:00:20] Speaker A: That I believe, look, I've been paying attention. They're a good team. I believe in them.
I think Friday through Sunday. So Friday, Saturday and Sunday. So these are my next three picks.
[01:00:33] Speaker B: So you're going baseball, baseball series.
[01:00:35] Speaker A: Baseball series.
Braves versus the Dodgers.
[01:00:39] Speaker B: So two of the best teams in.
[01:00:41] Speaker A: Major League Baseball on Friday, on Saturday and on Sunday the Braves are going to beat the Dodgers all three days. They're gonna sweep the Dodgers. Reasons being last year Braves went four and two against the Dodgers in total games.
[01:00:59] Speaker B: They didn't sweep them once.
[01:01:01] Speaker A: They went three and one in the last series was a four game series.
[01:01:04] Speaker B: So they didn't sweep them.
[01:01:05] Speaker A: They didn't sweep them once, but I believe in them. The Braves are a good team. They're better than the Dodgers. This year Dodgers have think twelve losses, 18 wins. Twelve losses. Braves have 18 wins, seven losses. They're both great teams. Braves have the number one batting average in the, in the MLB right now. They have the number one on base percentage. They're hitting good, they're pitching well, they're scoring runs, getting the bat on the ball. I think the Braves are going to sweep the Dodgers Friday, Saturday, Sunday.
[01:01:38] Speaker B: Very bold. Very bold.
[01:01:40] Speaker A: And it's also fun.
[01:01:42] Speaker B: It's fun.
[01:01:43] Speaker A: It's fun.
[01:01:43] Speaker B: If you like losing, it's fun.
[01:01:45] Speaker A: All right.
Yeah, I could lose. I definitely think that's a distinct possibility. This week I'm taking the underdog on the title shot and a sweep on the Braves. Either way, those are my five. Bringing my own picks for the UFC 301. To recap my picks real quick, if you want to follow any of these, I got Steve Irseg winning the title over Pantoja. I got Jonathan Martinez in the co main event. From there I got Petrino, Petrino, Michelle Pereira and Cal Barrel ho to finish it. Yeah.
[01:02:21] Speaker B: So the only one we differ on is the title.
[01:02:24] Speaker A: Right?
[01:02:24] Speaker B: Let's move on the stakes.
[01:02:26] Speaker A: What we betting on this week? Are we laying it down? How are we putting our money where our mouth is to, like I said before, try to be the best.
[01:02:34] Speaker B: We've both been doing pretty well, too. I got two UFC bets and I got three soccer bets.
[01:02:39] Speaker A: I have two UFC and three other is what I'll call it.
[01:02:43] Speaker B: So I'll give you my two UFC bets. You give me your two UFC bets?
[01:02:46] Speaker A: Yeah, let's do it.
[01:02:47] Speaker B: I got pantoja moneyline -210 and I'm putting three units on that. I also have Jonathan Martinez moneyline -150 and I'm putting one unit on that.
[01:02:57] Speaker A: I like that bet Martinez won specifically. I think he's going to win that fight. I differ from you in one of my UFC bets. I got Rseg moneyline. I put one unit on it because I am scared. He's 28 year old, like we said before, largely undeserved of a title shot at this point in his career, but I think he's gonna surprise some people.
And then I have my first parlay ever. I believe I'm picking Petrino versus Pereira. It's a two pick, two units -320 moneyline on the two. Yeah, combined because they're both like plus or minus.
[01:03:31] Speaker B: I didn't want 500.
[01:03:33] Speaker A: I didn't want to do like two units on a -500 because I'm gonna. I'm gonna win like points, two units.
[01:03:39] Speaker B: I get it. I get it.
[01:03:39] Speaker A: So just evening out a little bit, try to take a couple picks there. But yeah, that covers my UFC bets or SEC money line and then a two pick parlay with Petrina and Pereira moneyline at -320 yes.
[01:03:50] Speaker B: So then I have three soccer bets. As I said, I have one unit, lester City, -165 five nice. Two units breast.
-140 breast. And I'm throwing three units on my team, Arsenal. -450 is it safe to say that.
[01:04:04] Speaker A: Arsenal is your favorite football soccer team?
[01:04:07] Speaker B: Yes, by a large margin, they are my favorite.
[01:04:10] Speaker A: Nice.
[01:04:10] Speaker B: Unequivocally.
[01:04:11] Speaker A: All right, so I got Braves. So one of my bets is Saturday's game. It's a 910 game Saturday night Braves money line. I got three units there. Obviously, there's no odds out for it yet. I will update those as soon as I can get them. It'll have to be Saturday morning.
I got the Celtics money line, that two units on that game five. Game five, that those odds are going to come out in the next few hours or so. I'll update that as soon as possible.
And I have the Mavericks money line, two units on that one over the Clippers game five as well. Put them a lead in to lead the series and to give them hopes to advance in the playoffs. Yeah, those are my three other bets. Recap your five. I recap my five, then we'll go home.
[01:05:02] Speaker B: Yes, I got Pantoja, three units. -210 Martinez, one unit -151 unit. Leicester City. -165 two units breast -143 units. Arsenal.
[01:05:15] Speaker A: -450 I forever will be childish when somebody says a word like breast.
Anywho, I got Celtics moneyline, two units.
I got the Mavericks money line, two units. I got the Braves Saturday game. Oh, I guess the. The NBA games are game five. Specifically vice. I got the Braves Saturday game, money line. I got earse taking the title from Pantoja, money line plus 175 and a two pick parlay with Vitor Petrino and Michelle Pereira. Both money lines -322 units.
[01:05:51] Speaker B: There.
[01:05:52] Speaker A: Yes.
[01:05:52] Speaker B: I think that about wraps up episode 43. Check us out next week. We're gonna recap this great UFC Brazil 301 card. We're gonna recap our picks.
[01:06:03] Speaker A: I guess, actually, I guess I'll be recapping everything. Oh, yeah. I say we, but you're gonna be overseas, my boy. In France.
[01:06:11] Speaker B: I will be overseas. I will be partaking. I'll probably watch breast.
[01:06:16] Speaker A: Nice. Are you gonna be able to see any games?
[01:06:18] Speaker B: Live soccer games? Yes.
[01:06:21] Speaker A: Nice. That'd be fun. See it in possibly kind of the home turf, if you will.
[01:06:26] Speaker B: Exactly. So, Alex, you're gonna recap 301.
[01:06:30] Speaker A: Might have a surprise guest, might not. I don't know. We'll see.
[01:06:32] Speaker B: You're gonna look ahead to UFC St. Louis. Louis versus Masamino.
[01:06:36] Speaker A: Yep.
[01:06:37] Speaker B: You're gonna give us a top five. Maybe you're gonna give us some pics. Also give my picks. I'll text you my picks. Yeah, but, yeah, check us out next week. Episode 44.
[01:06:47] Speaker A: All right, peace.
Sa.
