00:00We know that Islam has been good enough all the time to get it done and hasn't lost a fight
00:07since
00:072015, which is a long time ago. And I'm intrigued by Gary, quote unquote, the future, who is now
00:2028 years old, because people just don't like him. So especially in the MMA world right now,
00:28like it's, you know, people flat out don't like him. Like he's doesn't have a lot of ton of fans.
00:33He's a vegan. He's this, he's that. And he's, you know, I don't want to get into it. And even
00:38he said
00:39at the press conference, don't ask me about anything stupid. Like, don't I know if you want
00:45to talk about the fight, ask me about the fight, but I'm not going to answer questions that don't
00:48bother asking me dumb questions. But a lot of times that people don't like a fighter, you get value
00:54on a fighter. Right. And I think it's a classic example here. But the problem is Makachev is just
00:59so effing good. And I want to throw this out here too, because there was a video of, there's a
01:05bunch
01:05of videos right there in Philadelphia and stuff, but there's video of a dude like harassing Makachev
01:11for a, for an autograph. And I'm thinking like, what the hell do you care about this guy's autograph
01:15for? How much would like, I get he's a UFC champion and he's great, but how much would his
01:20freaking autograph be worth? But surprisingly enough, the UFC sort of like memorabilia market
01:25and card market and stuff is bigger than I realized, to be honest. Like his prime stuff
01:31is selling for three to 500 bucks, like a real nice card, this 300 and blah, blah. I don't
01:37know. He's still cutting weight. So he wasn't in a good mood, but there was a little hostility
01:41there. And there was another video of, and I don't know why Gary brings his freaking kid
01:45to this thing is his kid wanted to meet Islam Makachev for some reason. Islam didn't want
01:52to meet the kid and kids started crying and stuff. And now Josh Hogan said that he would
01:57have punted the little kid. Like, it's just like over the top, the virile that's coming
02:02into this fight. What do you think is the number overpriced? Is there value with Gary here
02:10at plus 275? Islam's a minus 350 favor right now, Tom?
02:16Yeah, honestly, I do think there's value. And if you really break it down, I say this
02:23every, used to be pay-per-view, but now every numbered card, I guess we'll call them. If
02:30you go back, could you tell me, do you think you know, when was the last time both champions
02:36retained when there was two, two champions on the card? Wow. You have any idea? It's
02:41almost now, now I almost know it must be crazy that it doesn't happen like the way you set
02:46it up. So what, what is it? So the last times there's been two championship fights on the
02:52card, what is the ratio of retention? What, what happens? So over the last five years, it's
02:59100% that one of these champions loses. Over the last five years, huh? You got to go back
03:05to 2021 when Kamaru... How many cards has it been? How many cards has it been? I want to
03:11say, was it UFC? It might have been... No, I'm just saying like how many times do we have
03:19two champions on a card, you know what I mean, in the last five years? It's almost every pay-per
03:23-view
03:24that we do get two champions. It's almost every pay-per-view. So it's basically once
03:30a month. Two champions of fights, yeah. I guess you're right, eh? Because you're what, 11?
03:33Yeah, I guess you're right, yeah. Every once in a while you'll get one, but over the course
03:37of the last five years, when there's two champions on the card, one of the champions, or both,
03:44lose. Like, it's crazy. And we go into these cards and we talk about, you know, Islam, he's
03:52not going to lose. Everybody always feels unbeatable before, Tom. Everybody always feels
03:56unbeatable. Yeah, yeah. I go all the way back, man. Like, I do. I mean, Frank Mir has seen
04:03it all, right? I mean, the guy's a ref now, but like great fighter and all that. I used
04:07to do a show with him, and I remember like how many times he would say, I got chills now,
04:11like laughing, like goosebumps, and I had so much fun. But like how many times he would tell
04:16me, look at me like dead serious, Tom. He'd be like, Brock Lesnar's never losing. Like, nobody's
04:21ever going to be Brock Lesnar. And like six months later, Kay Velasquez beats the crap
04:25out of Brock Lesnar. But it would be a lot of times he'd say that. Oh, and like, Leona
04:31Machina. Yeah, he was like, Leona Machina will not lose until he retires. I remember that
04:36was another way. Leona Machina, he's too good. He won't lose. And then boom, you lose. But
04:42you're right. Like, college football is a little like that. College football. I remember coming
04:45in, like, the Florida Gators were stacked. He both came back. People were like, there's
04:49no way they lose. And then they lose.
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