00:00Conor McGregor and Max Holloway two fighters fighting at 170 pounds it's a far cry from where
00:08McGregor typically fights at in terms of NFL teams tell me who Max Holloway would be
00:19uh okay what would you that I would better teams yeah I mean they're like a fan favorite
00:27uh guy who's who's had some big wins in Denver Broncos Denver Broncos Rams no I was gonna say
00:37the bills but the bills have never won don't win yeah exactly and Max has won some fights and but
00:41he's a fan favorite it's fun to watch um that's a that's a tough one man expect that question mark
00:46oh sorry well I guess I don't know anything about who McGregor was fighting and I'm trying to see
00:51is he fighting a tomato can is he fighting so you've already told me he's fighting somebody
00:55legitimate it's legit fight yeah and so even on like Friday's show somebody one of the callers
01:01asked me what I thought was going to happen in a fight and my reply to him was I don't
01:06like the
01:07fact that the Conor McGregor's missed it hasn't fought in five years like that's not good and
01:12he's got some losses under his belt and you know when you get older in your career you're more
01:16susceptible to knockouts as you've been knocked out and you know he's coming off a broken leg and all
01:21these things it's just a lot stacked against him I don't think I'd be betting on Conor McGregor
01:26uh and then the fight happens so Saturday night I I get home watching some other things and and
01:33then I I'm like oh wait the McGregor fights on it's on I have Paramount Plus Plus is this just
01:37going to be am I going to have to pay anything extra this or nope it's right there in Paramount
01:41Plus
01:42and I flipped it on 10 minutes before the fight started that's the best way to play it it is
01:47the
01:47best way it's like the Kentucky Derby you don't do any of the hype you're there for the race there
01:51for
01:51the race and so I I come in and I'm watching uh watch him come to the ring and looks
01:57like he's
01:57struggling to get his shoes off of all things and then comes into the ring and to the octagon I
02:03guess
02:04the fight lasts 69 seconds 69 seconds the bell rings the gentlemen start going at each other and
02:18Conor McGregor goes aggressively towards Holloway and tries his like jumping uh right leg kick that
02:27doesn't connect and or left leg I guess but he has to plant on his right leg and looks like
02:33he
02:33lands a little awkwardly and he doesn't look comfortable there's a clinch and it seemed like
02:40right away Max Holloway knew something was up with Conor McGregor's leg and there were a couple times
02:45during that fight during the 69 seconds where he's like looking the referee like his knees out it's
02:51done he can't he can't fight but McGregor's not saying anything he's still trying to fight
02:55McGregor never once said oh my knee my knee he's just I'm ready I'm ready to go at one point
03:00he's
03:00on his back and he's just trying to play defense and and get him to come to the ground Max
03:05isn't
03:06doing that Conor gets back up and it looks like he labored to get back up and then tries another
03:10kick
03:10and it's not happening and lands awkwardly and eventually they stop the fight 69 seconds is all
03:18it lasted ton of hype for this fight Dana White said afterwards there were at least 80 million people
03:23that were watching those are the numbers that he had who knows what the real numbers are but
03:2980 million watching 800 million in bets it's a ton of interest in this fight because it's Conor
03:36McGregor and he's one of the the biggest names in the history of MMA really of sport you know when
03:42you think I mean people know who Conor McGregor is uh very bombastic very good but hadn't fought in
03:49five years so when we came in this morning and Kang is back from Vegas which is where the fight
03:57took
03:57place right oh yeah so not that you were at the fight but you were there for there was plenty
04:03of
04:03hype going on in Vegas while you were there I'm sure you got to be part of to see part
04:07of that
04:08but you are by far the biggest MMA fan here on the show and at the station I used to
04:13be and I still am
04:14up to an extent but nowhere near where you are at yeah you only watched the last fight dude I
04:19just
04:19watched and by accident by accident kind of um I saw highlights of some of the earlier fights that
04:25were there was a stunning finish earlier in one of those fights but no I follow I follow the UFC
04:30still not as closely as I used to but I still follow the UFC and Conor McGregor is I feel
04:35like
04:35this generation's Mike Tyson in many ways because whether you love him or hate him when he's gonna
04:41fight which hasn't been in five years it's a big freaking deal and you're right I was just in
04:45Vegas and Vegas was Vegas has always got energy and aura about it it's just great vibes when you
04:51go out there but this week there was the Conor McGregor fight first time in five years he's gonna
04:55actually enter the octagon which no one thought he would ever fight again you have the world cup
04:59where all the international fans are in town watching everyone's betting things like that
05:03you had summer league on top of that so it was just a big fourth of July weekend also last
05:08weekend
05:08so it was a big big week um very fun and speaking of the Conor McGregor fight the hype was
05:14there I
05:15mean I I took pictures of it's all on the billboards on the screens everywhere you couldn't avoid the
05:20after parties here at this club and that club like I said you could see people walking around you know
05:25just donning their favorite fighters gear whatever you know so yeah it was a big week so
05:30you know you're watching a fight and they go through the replay and all this and and Joe Rogan's
05:34talking about it so I think this is I think he blew his knee out I think he tore his
05:37ACL this
05:38happens here on the first kick you can see where he lands on his right leg to try to plant
05:42to kick
05:43with the left and it's just not there and it sucks right and if you've bet on this fight
05:47you're livid you know here it is 69 seconds is all lasted you thought McGregor was going to give
05:52more of a fight than what happened but hey injuries happen it's part of it a lot of things can
05:57be
05:57freak injury we've seen guys go to kick somebody and the other uh fighter checks the leg next thing you
06:03know the legs in two pieces because it happens in MMA weird things happen but then they start that
06:10you start to speculate what what really happened here right did he hurt himself there or not because
06:15like I said if you watched him walk into the octagon when he takes off his shoes he kind of
06:22stumbles
06:22while he's taking his shoes off and now that you know that his knee is blown out you're like well
06:27when
06:28did it get blown out was seriously was it on that that first kick or did it happen here did
06:33it happen
06:34here and then people like wait a minute or did it happen earlier did it happen in training and they
06:39just kept their mouth shut so when Kang came in this morning he literally said guys I could talk for
06:46four hours about this fight this is like okay so to set it up like you you mentioned how big
06:51of a week
06:52it was like you're if you're a fight fan at all this was a humongous week like you never thought
06:59Conor McGregor was ever gonna fight again in the octagon it just it's been five years he's got so
07:04much money doesn't know what to do with he's maybe he's on steroids he's ballooned up to 200 pounds he's
07:09like you know he's not even the same weight class he fought him before and so when I finally watch
07:14him
07:15and like other fight fans you watch him guys walk into the octagon just his lead up into it it
07:21was surreal
07:22like is this really happening and you start breaking down all week and you've been thinking
07:25like how is this fight gonna work you know the logic can he does he have enough gas tank to
07:30even
07:30last five rounds is what's Holloway gonna do is he gonna stand with him all this stuff like you're
07:34going through all these scenarios that you never thought you're gonna go through and he's walking
07:38to the octagon and you just the nerves of like you know fight night energy gator yes I know any
07:43big
07:43fight whether it's my heart's pumping I get excited that's what I felt like I'm like I can't
07:48believe this happening Conor McGregor the song and the music everything the smoke
07:51this is gonna happen and then they touch gloves and they say fight and there was no fight nothing
07:59nothing nine seconds this was not a fight like I would rather have seen him get knocked out in 10
08:05seconds in like you know they exchange a hey let's just stand in the center and exchange blows and get
08:09like one of his other like one of his earlier fights it was like Jose Aldo 13 seconds whatever
08:14that fight that's a fight this was not a fight he went out there and you can debate whether he's
08:19hurt
08:19before it got hurt in the octagon threw a Bruce Lee jump kick for some odd reason I have a
08:26reason
08:26and then followed it up with another kick fell down both times then threw a punch and fell down
08:32at first I thought oh my god oh he's slipping on what there must be maybe it's one of the
08:36decals on
08:36the on the octagon floor the mat the mat's really wet or his feet are all sweaty because it's so
08:41nervous
08:41it's five years you know I mean the adrenaline dump all the stuff and the excitement and then when he's
08:46like I said when he slipped on the punch I'm like oh no something wrong then you see Max Holloway
08:50talking to the ref I'm like oh god why is he talking to him what's that he's telling him to
08:53call off the
08:54fight and now I'm looking I'm like is the leg bent in the wrong direction what do we got here
08:57is he
08:57seeing something but Grever is not giving any indication facially that he's messed up that fight
09:03made Tyson Paul look like thrill in Manila quite honestly I mean that was actually a fight what
09:10happened here is he injured it before the fight I gotta do a move that looks like I could have
09:17injured it here well that's what I think happened because this is this is where you get into the
09:20whole betting aspect right and you said was it 800 million dollars are waging on this fight
09:25it's a lot obviously and the last thing that the UFC wanted to do was cancel a main event like
09:32this
09:32where they know that there might be 80 million people watching this fight and if you have that kind
09:37of you know fanfare around this thing you want to deliver the last thing you want to happen is to
09:42have to cancel the main event or the co-main event however they build it um the evening of the
09:49show
09:50but then I go back and I saw some other footage other footage Conor McGregor warming up warming up in
09:56his dressing room and he's literally doing the same kick that he started the fight with and looked like
10:03he was fine he wasn't showing like oh his knees out so I'm thinking well if he got hurt when
10:08did
10:08he get hurt somewhere between warming up in the in his dressing room and walking into the octagon
10:17because I do think he was hurt going in again I say if you watch him take his shoes off
10:22something's
10:23not right but he's not going to say and he's not going to say because there's a payday involved
10:31he's going to give it his all and if he can throw a kick and make it look like he
10:35got hurt during the
10:35fight that's different this is my speculation on it it's it's yours as well I want to get what
10:42Kang speculation is what the hell happened was he hurt was he injured before he even showed up to the
10:47arena 248-539-9797 is a telephone number same number to text us as well we're going to get into
10:53this next year 97.1
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