[music] Hello and welcome to the Hammer. I'm your host, Dave. Join us always by my co-host. Steve, hi. Greg cannot be here with us this March 2nd show. We've got a great show for you. As we always try to do, we're going to talk about the upcoming Strike Force and UFC Fight Night cards, as well as the past UFC card. You're listening to us live at 93.3CFMU and you can also find us at thehammer.com. Thehammer MMA.com. I always mess that up. It's been a while since we've been live. We've been pre-recording some weeks. We've bumped around at different time slots, but I think we're in good shape for the next four to your 50 weeks. Well, I certainly hope so. Basketball season is only once a year, but congratulations to the marauders for making it to the playoffs. So we're going to start our show by talking about the BJ Penn versus John Fitch, UFC 127 that just passed. This was an interesting card. A lot of good fights. UFC is actually picked up. They're not doing quite as many decisions, although there was three on this card. Well, if you have John Fitch headlining, you're pretty much guaranteed a decision. There you go, the George on Fitch. But they did a great job of getting almost all the fights on the card. So we managed to see Fitch versus BJ Penn. Now, this was an interesting one. The first two rounds were very, very close. BJ Penn was actually very surprising in this and that he was the one pushing the pace and going for takedowns on Fitch, which was a little bit interesting. He also was winning the striking portions. And both rounds managed to get on the back and really, really threatened with rear naked chokes. Yeah, well, that's the thing with BJ Penn. Like if he gets your back, the fight's usually over or very close to over, but he couldn't put away Fitch other time. He gave it a good shot, but it wasn't enough. Yeah, they're calling Fitch unstoppable. This was a good feather in his cap. But if you got BJ Penn almost locked in, you're really, really doing well. Now, both rounds Fitch was able to manage to get back on top. It wasn't enough to win him the rounds, in my opinion. In the third round, his corner told him, "Fitch, you got to go out there and you got to win this. You got to get the sky out of there," which I thought was interesting. It was almost like they were telling Fitch to try to finish a fight. Well, he went out there and he did textbook Fitch, though. I mean, he didn't finish the fight. He took him down. He stayed on top. He kept busy and he outmuscled him. And that was, like, really, you can't be surprised that that's how he fought. I just, BJ had nothing that third round. It was a 10-8 round and I have no debate with that. Absolutely. Fitch just got him on top of him in the first 10 seconds. He just leveled on with elbows and punches for basically four minutes and 50 seconds. BJ just cannot get out from underneath him. Just no answer. So, Fitch managed to get the 10-8 round there, probably deservedly so, and that puts it a little bit interesting. Some of the judges, well, one of the judges gave it a 28-29, giving Fitch the 10-8 in the third round and giving him one of the first two rounds. Both other judges saw it, 10-9, 10-9, 10-9, 10-9, and then eight, 10. So, they ended up with a majority draw for Fitch. Probably deservedly so. I thought it was a draw. I think we were all pretty much in agreement watching the fight, but that's a draw. BJ Penn wins the first two rounds, not below wins for the round, but solid 10-9s. And then John Fitch gets a very close 10-9 in the second round, which Fitch was on top a little bit more. Do you have an issue with the one judge giving Fitch round two? No, I don't, because round two was extremely close. BJ Penn definitely came closer to finishing with that rear naked choke, but Fitch managed to get back on top and near the end of the round and started to, you know, do the hammer now. She did finish every round strong. So, I mean, you know, you can definitely see round two going towards Fitch. I call it towards BJ Penn, because to me, it's about who's more trying to finish, not about who gets on top position, after, you know, BJ Penn got the takedown, won the striking, he almost finished, and then you managed to roll over on top of him. Yeah, that's not always how it's judged, but that's a good guideline. Yeah, well, but I mean, you know, it makes sense. Now afterwards, a lot of people are giving Fitch a lot more credit than he's due. They're saying that, you know, oh, he should have won the fight this and that. No, he won one round. He won one round very, very decisively. He didn't look great in the first two rounds. BJ Penn definitely held his own. BJ Penn obviously came out and said, well, you know, he beat me out and it'll feel like I deserved to win the fight because he took a four minute beating. But realistically, BJ Penn had a really good strategy the first two rounds, a really good game plan completely through Fitch off his game. It looked great. The problem is he couldn't keep it up and BJ, maybe gas, maybe he just, I don't know, he had no answer for Fitch. Ultimately, though, here's what it was. When they came out for the weigh-ins, big John Fitch had to strip down basically naked to get make weight. Well, he cuts weight to make because he was cutting a severe amount. And I think he made it in at 171. BJ Penn didn't take off his shoes, socks, jeans, or take his wallet out. Well, he's been fighting at welter weight for a while. He paid 169. It's no surprise that he didn't weigh in. He weighed 168 or something like that. Yeah, this BJ Penn just way, way smaller than Fitch. I mean, in a big part of holding a wrestler off is he got to have the size to hold them off or to get them off you. And you're not going to have that against John Fitch unless you're BJ Penn, who, or I'm sorry, unless you're GSP, who is equally as big, or like, you know, rumble Johnson or some of those other monsters in the division. But BJ Penn certainly couldn't do it. So here's my thing. This was supposed to determine, I know, boy, contender for the welter weight title. GSP is likely, not guaranteed, but likely to be Jake Shields in Toronto. And the word is he's going to move up to middleweight and vacate his welter weight belt if he wins that fight. I was thinking that this was going to create a contender. I think maybe they should just have these two rematch for the vacant title. Well, both of these guys that come out and said that they're going to go for the rematch, and I have to imagine that that is the ultimate plan and that if GSP vacates, you do this for the vacant title. Can you think of two better guys in that division to be fighting for it? The only other guy who is really, really in the solid hunt right now, the only other two guys in the solid hunt and welter weight are basically Condit who's injured. Condit's injured and I mean, I love Condit, but he needs a big winner too first. And Jake Shields who is going to be coming off of a loss to GSP in all likelihood if the scenario goes according to plan. So he's not the right choice. So I mean, you know, Penn versus Fitch, it's a good choice. And also my dream and my goal is to see that Fitch versus Shields title match. Five round fight. Five rounds of Fitch versus Shields. So I'm thinking, you know, Fitch in a five rounder over BJ Penn, he's most likely to win that. And then he clears a deck for Fitch versus Shields. So that's the way I want to see this shake out. Well, I don't want to see that. All right, what else is on my card? We had Michael Bizping versus Jorge versus George Rivera. Thirty fight. Well, he's a waltzler guy fighting. So there you go. Bizping, he was apparently very, very ticket to heart Rivera's trash talk. He came out in the first round, showed a little bit of a mixed up game for Bizping. He didn't actually want to strike with Rivera. Rivera looked okay in the striking portion. But Bizping started going for a lot of takedowns and getting them fairly easy. Now during one of the scrambles, Rivera was getting to his knees. Bizping grabbed his head, pushed him down and need him in the head while he was on the ground. This was a very, very brutal, blatant illegal name, and pride it may not have been, but it was definitely illegal here. I mean, this should have been the end of the fight. Rivera crumpled. They brought on the fight doctors. The fight doctors said, you know, one of them said, at least, we don't think you should continue this fight. The ref came over and said, Jorge, can you continue? And Jorge was like, yeah, I'll keep trying. In the end, the doctors left it up to him. They did the beta. They left it up to him, and he's a tough dude. He didn't want to give up. He didn't want to surrender to Bizping. He put him with all the trash talk he was throwing around before the fight. He just couldn't. Yeah, he got trapped by his own mouth and continuing after this illegal knee. He could have backed out of the fight right there, got the win, and then he went too much pride, too much, you know, on the line. And Bizping just annihilated him, and now I think Bizping was, he was winning the fight beforehand. Anyway, I think he could have beat Rivera, but after that knee, dude didn't have a chance. Well, here's the thing. Dissected after that. Rivera came out after the knee for the kind of tuft out the round. The first of the second, the first couple seconds of the second round, he came out with a huge flurry club club Bizping with a good, good shot. Bizping went, went back like it was like it was almost ragdolled. And then after that, Rivera just stood completely still. Bizping kicked him in the leg. Rivera didn't move didn't check it. Bizping punched him in the face. Rivera didn't move didn't check it. And at that point, I was just like, Rivera's gone. He's got nothing. He can't move. He can't defend himself. And then Bizping smelled blood and just went in with elbows, elbows, elbows, and got the TKO at a minute, 54 seconds into round two. Now here's the thing. Could Bizping have won that fight? In all likelihood, he was going to win this fight. That's why we called him to win this fight. Bizping was probably going to get the takedowns and outbox Rivera to win the fight. He is a better all around fighter. Yeah, he's a much better fighter. You know, that's the ultimate truth of it. Could Rivera have possibly caught him with a right hand and melted him, had this fight been a three round fight with no foul? Absolutely. That is absolutely a possibility. It's unlikely that we said, you know, there's there's a chance that could happen. Rivera's got the punchy chance, but Bizping was likely to win that fight. Would Bizping have won by crushing elbows on a completely stunned and immoral while Jorge Rivera had this fight gone as natural course? No, most likely not. The illegal need changed the complexion of the match. You know, like the best face facts. Bizping was likely to win this fight. That's why everyone called him to win this fight. He wasn't likely to get a crushing TKO in round two as Rivera went completely limp. That was because of the Rivera token the legal need of the head. Now, afterwards, Bizping went nuts, went over to Rivera's corner, spotted his corner, went over and started screaming at Rivera afterwards. And then in his post fight interview, he said, Oh, I went too far because I'm an emotional guy. I'm sorry, Mr. Dana White. You know what? Dana White, I didn't maybe I didn't see the match that he was in that night, but I didn't see him taking the legal need of the head. Dana White's gonna be okay. He's gonna be all right. You know who took an illegal need of the head? Jorge Rivera. Hey, you know what? I gotta say, if you want to make the fight personal in the build up to it, then you can't expect hugs and kisses after the fight, man. Yeah, but you know what? Bizping is a trash talk every single one of his foes. He's normally the guy instigating the trash talk. And let's face it, he was the guy who did the illegal need. And that was one of the fight. I make no excuses for the illegal need at all. But you know what? Rivera wanted to build the fight up with trash talk and insults. And you can't expect this to be gentlemen afterwards. The need was garbage. You know what? Rivera Rivera's clownish talk clownish fight build up tactics. Sure. But Bizping is normally the king of that. The fact that he went so insane with rage that he's one of the knee a guy in the head while he's on the ground, which is a hugely illegal move. And it's best it was careless at it's worst. It was awful. You know what? Here's the thing, like Bizping afterwards is like, oh, it was it was completely unintentional. Well, you know what? An accidental need is if you're doing a Jiu Jitsu pass trying to get to North South, and you need close the guy in the head. Or if the guy's falling and you knee at his shoulder and he just happens to fall in the way of your knee. When you grab a guy in a Thai clinch, push his head down and smash your knee into his face, that's an intentional need. Now you can say, oh, it was I was emotional when I did it. That doesn't mean that you didn't mean to do it. You still meant to do it. You did it because you were angry. That's the exact definition of an intentional need. Well, he said he got carried away. Yeah, but I mean, like, his intention was needed to go in the head and he did it. So no, it's not, it's not making excuses. This was an intentional need because he was angry. Yeah, you can't say you've never seen a guy who's been down and the guy waits and he throws a knee when he thinks the guy's getting up. Usually it works. This obviously did not. But you know what? Here's the thing. Bizping saw that the guy was on the ground. He paused. Then he grabbed the back of the guy's head and he could see from where the guy was that his head was nowhere close to being equal to his own head because Rivera is taller than Bizping. Bizping definitely knew this was an illegal need. He definitely knew the guy was illegal and he needed him anyways because he was angry at the guy and that's what happens sometimes is fighting. It's a sport. But with that being said, you know, let's not, let's not say that. Oh, well, you know, Bizping meant to throw a clean knee and there was an accident and, you know, he got confused by the ring lights. No, he didn't. He meant to throw a knee to the guy's head because he was like, this guy's dumb and tough. He's probably going to get back up and continue to fight. And after I've need him in the head, he's not going to be able to do that as effectively. Agreed. Not cool. But when all of a sudden done, he lost his point. Rivera had the option to get the two in the fight and he didn't take it. Yeah, Bizping traded a point for crushing TKO. He could have taken the 30-27 win, but he wanted to get the truck crushing TKO. But like, let's call it. This was a cheat. Bizping cheated his way to the one hand. You know what? It was, it was dirty, but it's not, he lost a point for it. He didn't cheat. It's not like, well, that's exactly, if you lose a point for it, that's because you found the guy. That's a cheat. Duke could have taken the win. He didn't take it. I think the knee, as I've said a thousand times, the knee was not cool, but in the end, it's not like Bizping lied and cheated his way to victory. He just did something dumb. No, he did something dirty. There's a difference. He wasn't dumb because he knew it paid off for him and he knew it was going to pay off for him. So there you go with that. Seaver vs. Soderopolis. This was the story of Soderopolis as good as you are in the ground. Doesn't matter if you can't get him to the ground. This is also the story of Dennis Seaver having awesome takedown defense. Seaver apparently trained nothing but takedown defense. Soder kept going for singles. Could not manage to trip Seaver down from there. Seaver just kept outboxing him and not working him. Ended up picking the win. You name his decision. 30-28, 30-27, and 29-28. And that's another future lightweight title contender down. We lost Evan Dunn in last month. And now Soderopolis is at the University. Soderopolis is on a picture as well. And Seaver, I don't think, is in the conversation after this win. He's... Dude's top 10 now. Yeah, he's top 10, but he's not quite in a title shot. The yard is looking like he might actually get that shot after things shake down between Pettis, Guida, for Maynard and Frankie. And then you've got Jim Miller in there. If he beats Shelters, that's your division right now. Miller and Guiard are the closest to it. Back to the drawing board for Soder. Soder has got to pick up a couple wins from this. Seaver, I think, needs one or two more. But the lightweight division is really getting anyone. Anyone lost is going to take you to that title hunt for at least a year. So, unfortunately for Sodero, it doesn't matter if you're good on the ground unless you've got good takedowns to get them there. Soder, very impressive win. Chris Lydell versus Brian Ebersall. Everyone thought that Lydell was going to pick this one up easily. That was his fight to lose. Ebersall came out looking to make it a show of it. Now, dude's a journeyman. He's been in dozens and dozens and dozens and dozens of fights and nobody expected that with a few days notice that he could do anything in this fight and made such a name for himself. That was such an entertaining fight. This was an incredibly entertaining fight. Well, for the night. He decided to lead off the fight with a cartwheel kick out of Capoeira. Kind of botched, but he did it. What stunned me most about this cartwheel kick was that Lydell kind of saw it coming and managed to block it anyways. Who expects a cartwheel kick is the first move? Oh, no. I've seen video. Ebersall has done it before. He just maybe assumed it was going to happen. He's done it before. So, every entertaining fight, Lydell, very, very game. Ebersall managed to get him down and pound him a couple times. It was in round two. There was a vicious need to the head where Lydell was actually legal. So, Ebersall showed his precision as a striker, took Lydell a lot of life out of Lydell for years off his life, pounded him for the next round, third round, very entertaining, very close. But Ebersall picks up a unanimous decision victory. Fun fight, very, very entertaining. Well-earned fight of the night. Lydell was on a huge run, four or five wins in a row, back to the drawing board for him too. Well, you know what though? Walter Wade, he wasn't in the title competition after those four or five wins. He'd be kind of. He would have been. You know, if he'd be kind of, he might have been, but Ebersall, what a way to make an aim for yourself. And Lydell's not that bad leader. Good job. He got the bonus, everything. Good for him. I can't wait to see him fight again. Kyle Noke took on Chris Kamozi in the first fight of the night, won this one by submission, we're going to make a choke in round one. There's no real nothing to say about it. hometown boy, I love it. Ross Pearson managed to outpoint Spencer Fisher. This is a very tight fight. Fisher looked great in the first two rounds. Pearson just kept landing the power shots. Who's entertaining? James Tejuna versus Alexander Guffesen. Guffesen got a much needed submission here at four minutes and 20 seconds. Good minutes. Good win for Guffesen. Nick Ring versus Ricky Fukada. I want to talk about this one, so we're going to come back to it. They managed to get almost all the fights in. Zeng Tequan got a great submission over Reinard. Perot, she managed to get a great submission over Blackledge. Mark Hunt was another hometown boy who was very, very favorite. Got a crushing knockout on Chris Tuxcher. This was savage. He almost ripped his eyelid off. Yeah, it was pretty gross. Tuxcher is like, I think there's something in my eyes like, yeah, it's your eyelid. It was pretty cool. We were wondering during the night where all the blood on the mat came from. That was the fight. Yeah. Mark just pulverized Chris with his knockout. And did the super cool punch them and then turned around and walked away before his hands up before he even knew the fight was over. He's new. It was done. He called his shot. It was good. So that one knock out of the night and Kyle Moak won submission of the night. Let's go back to Nick Ring versus Ricky Fukada. And Greg is not here because I want to make fun of him because he's the only Nick Ring fan in this room. Nick Ring was expected to win this. Ricky Fukada came out looking awesome, dominated him all three rounds, took him down at will. I'm going to say he was one strike. I'm not going to say he looked awesome. Nick Ring did not look good. Yeah, Nick Ring looked lethargic and lazy like he met a bad cut to get to it. Looked like he was coming off a bad knee surgery. And Fukada was I mean, he won the fight. He clearly won that entire fight from beginning to end. But it's not like he looked like a world beater. He beat up a guy who really sucked. Yeah, but I would have called this 3027 for Ricky Fukada. Absolutely. And we were you we were all three of us watching this fight. I thought it was 3027 for Nikki for Ricky Fukada coming to the third round. After losing the first two, Greg Jackson turns to Nick Ring and says, you've got this. Just stay back and use your range. Sure enough, at the end of the fight, the judges call it 2928 all three judges for Nick Ring. How in the world did Nick Ring win those first two rounds? That is early candidate for robbery of the year. This this is more egregious than Shogun versus Machita because at least Machita hit Shogun with a couple punches. I agree. You know, this is ridiculous. There's no way that Nick Ring won this fight. Nick Ring's a Canadian guy. I don't mind Nick Ring. Greg's a big fan. This was a robbery. This was theft. Nick, Fukada got mugged, not in the ring, but by the judges. So let's make sure not to forget this when we do our award show for biggest robbery. Oh, it was terrible. Nick Ring, I'm embarrassed for you, you know, just embarrassing. So if you ever want to go see if someone get basically their pocket picked by three judges, look this fight up. This was this was a disgrace. I don't know what the story was. I literally have like it was almost the point I turned to Greg and Steve afterwards. I said for Greg Jackson to honestly think that Nick Ring was winning that fight going the third round and say, oh, you've got it. I honestly want to find out what Jackson had talked about with a discussion with the judges before that fight and if money changed hands, there's no way to me that as in any kind of competent corpsman, you can look at your guy after he's given up seven or eight takedowns and lost a striking portion of the battle and been like, you got it, bud. You're all good. Hey, I'll tell you this. I've seen with the exception of the Carlos Conde, Rory McDonald fight, I have, I've seen Jackson do that same strategy other times where it hasn't worked. Dude's hit or miss with this coaching. I don't think there was any foul play. I just think that was a horrible, horrible decision. That was insultingly bad. Honestly, those three judges need to be fired. It was ridiculous. So we go forward to strike force. They've got their card coming up on March 5th. This is going to be headed off by Kawakante, Feijau, the light heavyweight champion versus Dan Henderson, a guy that they want to be. Absolutely. Can't quite seem to get there. I think you can do this fight though. Kawakante, he beat King Mo Lavel to win this light heavyweight title, who's a very good wrestler, but he was still very new in the sport. Dan Henderson is not new. Henderson is as veteran as you get. Kawakante is a good boxer with OKBJJ. I don't seem to be able to take Henderson down. And Henderson is a very, very savage boxer, tremendous knockout power. I think he can out power Kawakante and win this one. And we've seen lately, we've seen Henderson come out, and when he's not gassed, he's incredible. So as long as he can keep from getting tired, he can win this fight for sure. Absolutely. So you're definitely in the knockout power. I got to call Henderson. Same air. This doesn't seem like every time we call him though, he loses. Yeah. Oh, in that case, I call Feijau. So when we go to the women's welterweight championship, this is going to be Marlous Conan defending against Liz Karmouch. It was supposed to be Misha Tate. She got injured this week. Absolutely. But she pulled out and Liz Karmouch stepped up. Karmouch is a tough, tough fighter. She's five and all she's all around. She's tough. I liked her in her last strike force fight. I thought she looked really impressive, but she can't win this fight. I don't think. You don't think so? Just the range. Do you see how Conan looked in the fight against Sarah Coffin? Yes. She looked really, really good. Conan is definitely, definitely tough. She looks good when she's not getting beat up by side. I have a lot of love for Karmouch though. Karmouch has got a rock jaw and she's got a very good submission defense. I actually think she's going to be able to point out this one and she'll take it by decision. That's a reasonable decision. I like option as well. I'm still going to pick Conan though. I'm looking forward to that fight, although I would have looked forward to the Misha Tate fight more. Well, yeah. Well, I always look forward to Misha Tate, but I like Karmouch too. So we've got Tim Kennedy versus Melvin Manhoff. Manhoff is an incredible striker from K1. Tim Kennedy, I do not know a lot about. We've seen him fight on strike force a lot. He's pretty well-rounded. He's been a contender. I think this will be a good fight. I have to pick up Manhoff by knockout for this one. Manhoff is an incredible striker. I like Tim Kennedy unless I'm not totally sold on Manhoff. I'm not anymore. Okay. Billy Evangelista is going to be making his return. He's undefeated with his last man over Joaquin's spirit wolf. Oh, your favorite. I love saying that. And he's going to be taking on Jorge Masvidal, who is a boxer who lost to Paul Bailey as shark fights. Now, I watched that shark fights card and I might be the only person in the world who thought that Masvidal won that fight. I thought that that was a robbery. I thought he looked good in that fight. I think he could win this one. So Masvidal is your call. Billy Evangelista is a tough, tough guy in a sport. He's a good, great record. I'm calling him Evangelista to win this one. I think he's going to be able to point Masvidal. What's your take on this card? I don't really think it's that great. It's not the best card, but they've got a good championship fight. They've got two good championship fights, actually, two really, really interesting ones, and a couple undercard fights that are, eh, but why not? Because we're coming off three or four awesome strike force cards. There's some good ones coming out. I think this is one that's going to fall into the radar. Hando's got tremendous knockout power. Manhouse got tremendous knockout power. And Evangelista and Masvidal both have tremendous knockout power. Yeah. So this is going to be a card with a lot of finishes in my opinion. I think it's going to be entertaining and fun. So why not? Oh, okay. Like I said, why not? And we also have a fight, UFC official fight night tomorrow. Unfortunately, there's really not a lot to say about it, because the show is going to be on the internet for about a day before it happens. Yeah, that's tomorrow. We shouldn't really talk too much about it. But I do like the main event. I am very much looking forward to seeing Jago Sanchez versus Martin Kamen. Yeah, these guys are two contenders in the Walter White. Sanchez really needs to get a win to establish himself. Kamen, he's looked okay, but he's managed to not take it on top competition. He's in all of that. I mean, he had that fight where, I mean, I think he may have beaten shields. I think he might have beaten shields, but he didn't beat shield. Yeah. Basically, that's why she has got the Hellshot and Kamen doesn't. Kamen is very, very close to that title shot, but he just can't beat that last guy, that last top contender to get his way in the ring with GSP. Actually, in a lot of ways, I think these two are on just about the same level. They have the same amounts of wins and losses recently. But I think in the division, they're right there. They need a couple of wins, including this one. And they could be in the conversation. One win gets him a guy who's a top contender to see, "Are you going to be in a championship fight?" And both guys have always struggled with that last guy. But this is a fight to see which of them gets to get that shot again. Cool. Well, by the time most people listen to this online, it'll be over, but I'm going to call Diego. Diego's a great call. Kamen, I think he's too much for Diego to handle. He's a lot lankier, and he's very, very weird, because his build is so hard to get a hold of. And he's so hard to out-strike, because he's got such long reach. I think Kamen is going to be able to point Sanchez. That's what Kamen does. Yeah, I really do like Kamen, but I have trouble calling against Diego. Yeah, everyone loves Diego. I mean, I wouldn't be surprised if it won either way, because they're very, very close. I just think Kamen's a really great point in fighter. And Sanchez, I don't think it's the ability to finish Kamen. So I think it's going to be decided by points, and I think Kamen is better at getting points. Yeah, so that's on Thursday, March 3rd, I believe. We'll talk about what happened next week. We'll talk about what happened next week. We also have CB Dollway versus Mark Munoz in the card. Knockout artist, Ellis Yosakara versus Chris Weidman. Brian Bowles versus Damasio-Page. And the prelim cards, we've got a lot of guys that were previously stars, Joe Stevenson, Sirio D'Abiti, Shane Roller. Looking for the same roller fight again. And Ruzomar Paul Harris. All, Ruzomar Paul Harris versus Dave Brance. I don't even know why that's in the prelim card. That's not even the meantime. This is a Real Fighters card. There aren't a lot of names on it. Diego and possibly Martin Kamen aside. But I think the fights are going to be really fun and he'll play him right. Yeah, the fights are going to be fun. A lot of great fighters on this. Also keep in mind, there's only four fights in the main card right now. So one of those prelim fights is definitely going to get bumped up. Definitely. So you know what else I think is going to be fun? The ultimate fighter, well, this season with Brock Lesnar and Judo Santos is going to be good, but they just announced that they're going to do the long, discussed featherweight and bantamweight season following that. So I guess that would be this summer in June, maybe? I don't know what time they do it. But the idea is to do favor versus Cruz. Provided favor wins is the next fight. Provided. But favor and Cruz actually have a legitimate, serious dislike of each other. So I think that that's going to play really, really well on TV, particularly because they're both pretty fun and entertaining guys. They both have some personality. And I don't think that the smaller weight classes are quite over with everybody yet because unless you watch WBC, the average fan doesn't know all these people. So this is a great idea. The ultimate fighter is such a great way to get people familiar with stars in the division. I think the favors got a lot of star power. He might be the only guy in the lighter weight divisions who does, but favors got a lot of star power. Cruz should have because he's such an amazing fighter, but he doesn't yet. This is a good way to introduce those guys. And I mean, you're going to be following Brock Lesnar versus Junior de Santos. So there's always going to be that rating swell from what they're going to build it up to. But they also have just announced the crew that Brock well, Lesnar and Junior de Santos has been, is going to be training. Honestly, no one really exciting, no huge names, no Kimball slices or anything like that. But they're going to be Walter weights. It's going to be fun to see how Brock Lesnar is training Walter weights. Well, even Junior de Santos, it's huge compared to these welter weights, but Lesnar is just going to be like a giant. Lesnar may well be triple these high sizes. That's right. You know, at least double. And speaking of heavy weights, we were correct last week. We had heard that they were signing title fights for the strike force show in April, which is supposed to be the Grand Prix. Well, all the heavy weight Grand Prix fights are off that car. They've been pushed back to June. But Paul Daly won his fight this past weekend, so he's getting the title shot against Nick Diaz in April. So yeah, so there's some good strike force cards coming up. And the Grand Prix fight is most likely moved to Texas because Josh Barnett can apparently only fight legally in the United States in Texas. It's Bob Wild West Yeah, hey, it's easier to get cleared there. So there you go. Thank you for tuning in guys. Hope you enjoyed the show and you can find us at 93.3 CFMU and also TheHammerMay.com. And AddictedMMA.com. Thank you, AddictedMMA. Have a great show.
