00:00They're just getting random ring girls now to do the stare-downs for Zufa Boxing, but
00:04they chose a good venue to do it.
00:06They didn't do it at the Meta Apex, they did it at the Neon Museum in Las Vegas.
00:11Eileen Perez calls out Amanda Nunes for an interim title shot.
00:14It won't happen.
00:15If it did happen, Eileen Perez would get hurt very badly.
00:17She's also ranked number 7, so I don't know why she thinks she's entitled to an interim
00:20title shot.
00:21Some tickets on sale for Burns vs. Mallott, April 18th in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
00:26Worst main event ever.
00:27Out of the one schedule right now, it's definitely up there as one of the worst.
00:30The USC's mentality is it's a market they don't tap into very often, so they're going
00:34to sell out or come close to a sellout regardless of who's on the cards, so they don't really
00:38need to try at all for it.
00:39There's not much thought being put into it other than just throw some random Canadians
00:42on the card.
00:43Why is the main event in front of a crowd, but Buckley vs. Brady is at the Apex?
00:47Typically they have the worst main event at the Apex, but in this particular instance
00:51they're treating Winnipeg worse than the Apex.
00:53There's been a lot of talk about how the USC needs new heavyweights because their heavy
00:57weight division is lacking quite a bit, and that's why they have added Tyrell Fortune
01:00to their roster.
01:01Tyrell Fortune has a 17-3 MMA record.
01:04He's 35 years old, 6'2", 259 pounds.
01:07He fought in Bellator, he fought in the PFL as well.
01:10And Fortune's already in negotiations for his first fight in the USC at the end of this
01:13month, March 28th.
01:14He might be fighting March and Tybura, so he'd get a crack at the top 10 right away at
01:18USC Fight Night Seattle, March 28th.
01:20Volter Walker was the original opponent of March and Tybura, but Walker's leg is not healing
01:24as well as he had hoped to be, so Fortune may replace him.
01:28Fortune is in negotiations with Tybura for this fight, stepping in for Volter Walker.
01:32If March and turns down the fight, Tyrell will fight at a later date.
01:36Ideally, for Fortune, he takes the fight because he'd have a chance to fight to get into the
01:40top 10 right in his USC debut.
01:43Max Holloway isn't really a fan of the Paramount Network having him face off with Oliveira over
01:48and over and over again for some promos they're doing.
01:51The good thing with them is they're very chill and respectful and nice people, but if you get
01:54a couple hotheads who hate each other, that could end in a disaster, but maybe they wouldn't
01:59mind because that would be a good promo for them.
02:00We gotta do all that face off, that Paramount face off with each other now, which is absolutely
02:05ridiculous.
02:06I don't know why I'm going to be facing off with this guy for like three, four times before
02:09the actual fight now.
02:16Max Holloway, if he wins Saturday night, says he wants his wife to wrap the belt around
02:20his waist.
02:21Something unique that hasn't been done before.
02:23My wife is my wife.
02:24I would love her to wrap the belt around me, so if everything go great there, you best believe
02:28I'm going to be asking Dana White, be like, hey Dana, let my wife do this.
02:32You know, she's the real BMF.
02:33Everybody think I'm the BMF guy with the title.
02:34You don't want no smoke with her, I promise.
02:36You guys saw the clip.
02:37You guys saw the clip, bro.
02:38Her hand speed is ridiculous, bro.
02:40We didn't fast forward it.
02:41There's somebody walking in the background for it, so thank the Lord that that happened
02:44because a lot of people thought we fast forward her hand speed.
02:47I asked Charles the same question.
02:48He said he wants his father to do it, so it seems like it'll be a family affair no matter
02:51what.
02:51Yeah, that'd be sick.
02:52I did see Charles that.
02:53You know, if I had my way dead alive, I wish my grandpa could do it.
02:56I wish he was here with us and he could be seeing what I'm doing.
02:59And he probably slapped me in the back of my neck for, you know, the things that I decided
03:02to do in my life, but we're here now, you know.
03:05Holloway versus Olivera is one of those fights where both guys are fan favorites, so a lot
03:08of people don't want to see either guy lose.
03:10Holloway, funny enough, says he's gotten a lot of messages from fans hoping that the
03:13fight ends in a draw.
03:14Having the fight go 25 minutes might be a big ask in the first place, the way these guys
03:18fight, but if one of those five rounds happens to be a 10-8, maybe there's an outside
03:22chance of a draw.
03:23Unlikely, but it's MMA, so you never know.
03:25One of Holloway's long-term goals is to fight Ilya Tepuria at 155 and win the belt from him
03:30and revenge that loss.
03:31He was doing pretty good in the first fight until he got knocked out.
03:34You made it clear that the Undisputed title is the one that you still want to get your
03:37hands on.
03:37When you get that opportunity and fight for the belt, would you hold both of them at
03:41the same time or would you say at that point, like, hey, I'm going to give the BMF up for
03:44other people to try and fight it and I'll be the Undisputed champion?
03:46You know, we'll see what happens.
03:48We'll cross that bridge when we get there.
03:50You know, it would be cool to have two of them, but I mean, they're making everybody
03:53only have one belt.
03:54So, the one belt that I'm going to drop is definitely going to be the BMF one.
03:58When we get the Undisputed one, so I can't wait.
04:00You could do an Ilya and just buy both and wear them at the same time?
04:03I got two.
04:04I got two.
04:05I actually got three of them.
04:07If you want to get crazy, I got like five, six of them at home, so I don't need to
04:11buy
04:11nothing.
04:11I'm not going to spend my money on that.
04:12Alexander Volkanovski thinks that Max Holloway will finish Charles Oliveira in the later rounds.
04:17Alexander Volkanovski knows Max Holloway better than anyone.
04:20He spent one hour and 15 minutes in total fighting him.
04:23Max Holloway, you go 100%.
04:25Now, he is going to get you tired and he's one guy that knows how to capitalize on someone
04:30being tired.
04:31If he sees you tired, he's going to make you pay more and more and more and he can definitely
04:35mentally and physically break you down.
04:37Does that give him opportunities to get the finish?
04:39I am going to say yes.
04:40I think Max is going to be the favorite.
04:41I don't think he's...
04:42I think you'll get some better value at him getting the finish in the third or fourth round
04:48even.
04:48I can definitely see it.
04:49I think Max Holloway can definitely start to do that, start to land, get in a position
04:54where Charles is more shelling up, trying to grab, not really working and you can just
04:58see Max just start getting the finish and the refs just sort of stopping it.
05:02Again, it's just Max is that type of guy that can put that type of pace on you.
05:06Charles is going to be dangerous enough to put him in danger but the only thing is you
05:10can't do that for five rounds with someone like Max.
05:12It's either Charles lands and gets a finish early or he gets finishing them later rounds.
05:18That's what I'm thinking.
05:19Can it go with a decision?
05:20Of course it can.
05:20But I just think that I'm leaning more towards a finish than a decision for Max.
05:26Israel Adesanya is not jaded.
05:27Conor Ben is getting $15 million from Zufa boxing but he also feels that the UFC fighter
05:32should be valued as well.
05:33I'm trying to think how do I feel, wait I'm like do I feel jaded by it?
05:37But I understand like these like we know these guys are top class boxers.
05:41They're the best in the world at what they do but so are we.
05:43This is the UFC and if one guy can command that kind of money for one fight and that's
05:48from the same company Zufa and this is what's been keeping the lights on is the UFC.
05:53We love ultimate fighting not limited fighting.
05:56I don't feel jaded but I'm like I want $15 million for one fight too.
06:00Oh, I mean you guys are taking kicks to the head of me.
06:02Not even, I'm joking, you know, like just saying like.
06:04Yeah, the bonus is going up but that's not guaranteed.
06:07No, that's a drop in the ocean.
06:09Exactly, but that's not even guaranteed.
06:10Ultimately the Conor Ben signing was kind of a TKO slash Zufa flex on the boxing world
06:15like this is what we can do.
06:16Also a stab at Eddie Hearn.
06:18A lot of UFC fighters got pissed off along the way but TKO slash Zufa, Dana White and the execs
06:24there don't care about that at all.
06:25Those gruntled employees don't affect the UFC's bottom line unless they sue them but they have
06:29waivers to try and prevent that.
06:31Now, Misha Surkinov's lawsuit against Zufa may change that part of their argument is that a private
06:36contract cannot be used to insulate a company from federal antitrust laws.
06:39They're essentially saying you can't sign away your right to sue a company for being an illegal
06:43monopoly.
06:43If Misha wins it creates a pathway for current and future fighters it would mean that those
06:47waivers are legally paper thin and cannot stop an antitrust lawsuit.
06:50Fighters signing with the Zufa boxing organization or UFC in 2026 would still be able to join a class
06:55action lawsuit in the future because the waiver they signed would be deemed unenforceable.
06:59In the Lee versus Zufa antitrust case it ended up being a $375 million cash settlement.
07:05In this case they're seeking injunctive relief so they want the court to force the UFC to change
07:09how it writes its contracts.
07:11RDR is shaped for his last fight on the left and is shaped for this fight with Kyle Bahaio this
07:15weekend
07:15in the co-main event of UFC 326.
07:18For his last fight with Brendan Allen he gassed out by round two and then took a beaten and could
07:21not continue after the end of round four.
07:24Armin Sarikian and Hamzat Chmaev once again training in California.
07:27Charles Oliveira says he has a better fight resume than Islam Mahashev and Habib Nurmagomedov.
07:31Some people question that.
07:32No question he has the most subs in UFC history though he'd like to take this fight to the ground.
07:36He has a 40% takedown accuracy and the takedown defense of Max Holloway is 83%.
07:42And Dana White says the entire White House card will be announced this week maybe Friday or
07:47perhaps even Saturday during the UFC 326 broadcast between 8pm and 10pm Eastern Time.
07:52They will be simulcast on CBS so they may choose to announce it then.
07:56I'll announce the whole card this week.
07:58The card's done.
07:59Yeah, the card's done.
08:00We've been so secretive about this so I have all these boards which I'm sure you've seen
08:04hanging in our war room.
08:06This isn't even on the board.
08:07We bring in a white board, we write the fights down, then we erase them
08:11every time we have a matchmaking meeting, which usually matchmaking meetings are every Tuesday.
08:15They've been every day for the last, you know, two and a half weeks.
08:19Is Conor McGregor going to be on that card?
08:23We'll see.
08:23We'll see, brother.
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