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In this UFC 304 special Sam and Joe pick teams of five fighters each from the UFC 304 card as they go head to head. Let us know who you would have on your team? The lads also discuss how many UK fighters could get a win on this talent packed home card.

Duration:: 43m
Broadcast on:: 25 Jul 2024
Audio Format:: mp3

and we are back, Sam, for the home event, the big home event of the year. Sam, I hope you're going well before I get too deep into it. How are you doing? Really excited for UFC 304 in Manchester, but as I said, how are you doing and what are your thoughts for this weekend? Yeah, I'm good mate. We're really looking forward to it. Obviously, we are going to be there, doing a few bits. So we'll be at the show. We'll be enjoying that one through the night in Manchester, who we're just chatting with. But how does it work? Like drinking wise and all that kind of stuff. How are we going to strategically flip one in the evening? All the fighters have been doing it, getting up at various times. Tom has been all through the night, training. I was listening to Arnold Allen the other day. Staggering his sleep times over the last few weeks to get himself acclimatised for a 3am fight in Manchester. So the fighters have been doing it and we're doing it with the booze trying to work out. What's the best strategy? He's got any tips, let us know. We'll be on it Saturday night. Yeah, we'll be at it. There'll be plenty of content coming during the night. We'll be doing little videos, just keeping your fan obviously updated, showing what it's like to be at an event. Obviously, hopefully, maybe see a couple of you there. But let's get into it Sam. We've got something different today. Haven't we for the 3.0.4 event, obviously. We're going to do a UFC 3.0.4 draft. Bit American style, so bear with us. We'll quickly explain the rules. We're going 5 rounds. We're both going to pick a fighter in the first few rounds. In every round with a pick a fighter, that takes him off the board for the night. So if I pick Tom has been all of my first pick, that means he's off the board for Sam. The winner is who has the most wins out of their team of 5 for the draft. So we'll both go pick for pick and at the end of it we'll come to you next week and we can do a review of the event. We'll talk all about it and see who picked the best UFC 3.0.4 team for the night, me or the man himself, Sam. Sam, any other comments or what you're thinking before we dive into it? Yeah, I'm terrible on American sports and drafts, so you might have to guide me through a little bit, but I'm there. I'm understanding it. I'm ready to rock and roll. Let's rock and roll. So I've got the pen and paper here, Sam. We've got everything wrote down. So round number one, as you are a year, like you said, as you're still getting used to the American draft style, I'm going to let you pick first. I might let it if I lose, but you pick first, Sam, who is going to be your UFC 3.0.4 first round draft pick? I think I'm going to go off four. Tell me, that's been on. That first one we bled, obviously we only saw 15 seconds or so of it. I've been looking at it this week. I just feel blazed in that 15 seconds, though it was a brief snapshot, but he looked like he was willing to trade with Aspenol and get stuck into the fire. I think if you look at Blades's record, he's one of those guys, top five guys. He's come up against the best, and I'd have to take that next step. He's kind of come up short. He's lost twice to Umganu. He lost that one to Derek Lewis, and he lost the Pavlovitch as well before. Aspenol bought in for the interim title off the back of that Aspenol injury. I think Blades is a guy that could potentially draw this out if he wanted to with his wrestling style, although I do think Tom's got a really good takedown defense and a really good wrestling. With his camp and all the heavyweights in there, he's getting this kind of regular training and sparring with all different kinds of heavyweight styles. I think Aspenol is going to be too well-rounded. He's taking the game a lot more serious since that injury. He talks about changes to his health and his diet and things like that. Just his general attitude around fighting. Maybe he was winging it a little bit before then. Obviously, he's supremely talented. He moves incredibly well for a guy. Six foot five, 261 pounds for his last weigh-in. He's getting the finishes all pretty much all of his fights are ending early doors. Only one in the UFC has gone to the second round. Aspenol, when he hits you, they tend to panic when he catches him clean. I think he's going to do that to Blades. It's only going to be a matter of time. Obviously, it's heavyweight MMA. Blades could land, but for me, Aspenol is the one I'm looking at as the safe one. I like it, Sam. Just obviously, for people who are watching, that means I cannot pick Aspenol later in the draft. He's off the board. That's a good safe pick and probably one safe win for Sam going into the later rounds. For my first round pick, Sam, I'm going the featherweight. One of my favourite fighters, I think he's had a couple of losses recently. But I think he's got this one in a comfortable win. I'm going the featherweight Arnold Allen. Really, really like his style. Obviously, he's lost two in a row now to Max Holloway. I don't think there's any shame there. I don't think anyone's judging him for losing. Max has done the past couple of years to the likes of even people in the weight class above him to get you. And he's lost a close fight to that mob star, Evlo Ev. Probably butchering that name as normal. But yes, he's lost two in a row. But he's a great fighter. He's had a great fight against Max. By no means was it anything embarrassing. Didn't get knocked out as obviously we see Max can do. He went a five round decision. He's a good for stand up fighter and he's well rounded. He's a good for stand up. He's a good for stand up. He's a good for stand up. He's a good for stand up. He's a good for stand up. He's a good for stand up. 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Wasn't it towards the end of that fight? It was a bit unlucky with the knees as well. With every low end. Yeah, I like how I'm looking. That's a nice pick. Round two, Sam. Who are you going with for your first pick? Well, I thought you were going to go for Leon. So, I'm going to go for Leon. I'm second to talk to you guys on the car. In the title fight. So, I'm sitting with the most on the line. I'm just lightly on for this one. I just do probably out of all the fights. Maybe I'm doing Balal down. Balal gets them down by a lot of people. But I just think Leon probably has too much for Balal here. Obviously, Balal's got that kind of wrestling pedigree and background. He's striking as evolved in the last few fights. I was looking in his last two were, in fact, against Gilbert Burns. Even though Gilbert Burns was kind of one-armed, but most of that fight wasn't it. And again, Sean Brady, where he got the stoppage, that actually Balal's not shot a take down in either of those two fights. One of those that's maybe holding up with his hands a little bit. That attitude will be terribly dangerous against Leon, who's as we know, supreme kickboxer. But even if he does choose to wrestle, we've seen Leon against Colby. We've seen him against Osmond a couple of times now. And he has a really strong take down defense. He's come off the back of those fights. He struggled in the first one altitude against Osmond. But coming off the last two, he's shown what he's all about. He's a true mixed martial artist, Leon Edwards. And I just can't see Balal having his way. And it kind of ragged on him for five rounds, or getting success on the feet against it. So I'm kind of thinking Leon gets this done. Similar maybe to the Colby fight, I don't know. Maybe I'm being overly biased. But Leon Edwards got to be my second take if you're not having him. Yeah, I might leave true, get that one. Sam, I don't know who you would have picked as your second round one, but yeah, you've got the co-main and the main event ticked up. I don't think I'll be picking their opponents at any point during even at the end of the draft. So yeah, I think you've got two safe picks there. Sam Leon's ready to rumble. And he's not losing in front of this crowd. My second round picks Sam. I'm going to someone who most people I doubt would have heard of, the casual fans. I don't want to call them casual. To be fair, he's that well down that probably most fans haven't heard of him. He's against opponent. I don't rate very highly. And he's named Sam Paterson. He's in the welterweight division. He's a tall, lanky fighter. He's moved up a weight. He looked very skinny, a bit too light in the weight division below. He's now moved up. He's filled out a bit. And he's against a man that I don't rate very highly as a fighter. I hope I don't live to regret them words. But Keith for Crosby is a, if you're a fan of your fun, random fights, he famously thought Aaron Charmers in a bit of a celebrity. Even though Aaron Charmers did have a few professional fights to be fair to him. But Keith Crosby is the man who beat Aaron Charmers. He definitely, he doesn't look the same fighter since coming to the UFC. He looks a bit downsize. Looks like he's put on a bit of weight. It's not as trim, not as strong and muscle bound as he wants was. I think Sam Paterson's got this. He's a well-rounded fighter. He's learned from his mistakes. He's put on weight sometimes, being that weightful. It doesn't work out because you've not got enough muscle, not got enough power behind you. I think he's got too much for Keith for Crosby. Like he said, I don't think, I think Keith was an Irish. He didn't have a bit of a name to him. It wouldn't be in the UFC. Sam Paterson's 11-2-1-0 contest. I think he's got this one, Sam. So for the fans who are watching the early prelims, who may be still awake at this time at 11 o'clock at night, fancy tuning into the fights to get invested. Join me, put a bit of money on Sam Paterson. It should be an early win for you to get your night going. Yeah, like it. Yeah, Sam Paterson. Yeah, I fancy him as well. I've said that not got lost in his first fight, bounced back. And yeah, you would think that's too much for Keith for Crosby at this stage of his career. This is where it gets interesting, Sam, because I think the odds get a bit closer here. And then you start having to be brave with your picks here. So we're in round three. Who's going to be a pick? I'm going to go also down the cards for this, so we can maybe have early goals. We can have a bit of drama. And maybe I could potentially go one little up here with Mick Parkin. Another heavyweight, basically Lucas Bresnick, a bit of Polish power or not, maybe as the case may be, or I could look to regret that. But Parkin, 28 is 3-0 in the UFC. 9-0 is a pro, also unbeaten as an amateur. I've actually seen him a couple of times in the amateur days, when he used to do some of the streaming stuff back then on all mighty fighting championships and stuff like that. So I've seen Mick Parkin a couple of times in the early days of class. But in the UFC 3-0, which is difficult to do as a heavyweight, you've got an anonymous decision against Mohamed Usman last time out. And Usman, another guy that has come in, he's won almost one kind of guy. You're in that heavyweight division finding defeat. So I think it's a goal 3-0 for Parkin, he's decent. He got a submission win on the contender series. He was regularly KO'ing people. You know, free UFC on the kind of scene before then. He's truly with Aspen all out of that Wigan heavyweights beast gym. And yeah, I just fancy to get the win here. Breski's 1-3 in the UFC. He's got a losing record. He lost to Wildo Ocote. Ocote's a coster. We've got a knockout lost to him. He's winning the UFC was against Johnny Walker's brother, Walter. But I think Mick Parkin looks a pretty sad bet to me in this one. Hopefully go and get the knockout win and start to make a bit of a statement after 3-decision wins. Mick keep Parkin for me to get the heavyweights off to a good start. So I'm absolutely devastated. You've stole my food around picked to be honest with you. That's literally who I had loaded up. I was ready to give a similar speech to you now. You've seen him at the amateurs obviously. So I'm happy you got to pick him and talk about him more. But yeah, out of the Tom Aspen all gym, this free heavyweight dream where there's about five or six of them all at the heavyweight division. All training with Tom. I think that's going to pay dividends in this one. So yeah, every state, you've stole my pick. And yeah, you might get that might make you one up. I think the rest of the fights are all pretty close in odds where that was the, I think that was the last one for me where it was like you said pretty, not evident, but you can never say that in heavyweight. UFC, Kanye, but pretty struck confident that Mick Parkin was winning that one with yourself. Yeah, double state. So my food round pick, I'm going to go. I'm going to say a person who, I hope I don't fall for the social media, the social media curse here because I've been following the fights, been following a lot of the buildup. And this person is in the best shape of a life. I'll give it away. She looks incredible. She's lean. She's rich. She looks hungry as ever. And obviously after a couple of losses, she's been up and down all the career after famously running around with the belt saying I'm coming. Didn't quite work out for her, but I'd, I've watched during 2018 on the Wonder Boy V, my Darren Till card where she got knocked out. I don't think she's doing it again. She loves fighting in England. Like I said, she's in the best shape, but I don't, that's what they're all saying. Paddy said it. If you watch the videos of her, she looks mean. She looks hungry. I don't think this Brunner, Brunner Brazil can match that. Paddy's been saying Molly's ground game's been getting even better. And we know what she can do on the stand up. She can throw flying elbows. She's got good hands. She cannot people out for the women's division that do struggle to not people out simply because they sometimes don't have the power. She does. She's coming and she looks nasty. She looks hungry for one final run. I'm going Molly Meatball McCann Sam as my third round pick. Yeah, I like it. Yeah. I think Molly wins here. Yeah. I think that's a decent shout. Yeah. She is looking in good shape. And I think mentally she's looking a lot better as well. Obviously now it's draw weight as well. So I think, yeah, I think Molly gets it done. Yeah. So that's a decent, decent pick. So we can build level maybe at this point. I don't know. I don't. I don't. You've gone. You've gone. I like your team better than mine at Melbourne. I've got some late ones coming for you Sam. Well, yeah. It's your pick round four. Who have you got? Yeah. Where the money's made Sam? He's getting tough. I'm going to go I think for Nathaniel Wood. He's a great fire. And I think here against Daniel Panerais. Perhaps just got too much for him. But for now, 38 years old. He's not been seen since last June against Alex Casserais. Well, he lost that fight. I think he's five and six in the U.S.C. and he's second run now with the U.S.C. I just didn't know if I knew Wood's just too good here. He's seven and three in the U.S.C. 19 and six as a pro. He lost in his last fight against the name of, that was back in October at U.S.C. 2-9-4. But before that, he was on a good little street. And Andre Fealy, Charles Jordan, Charles Roelzer as well. The other thing about Wood, I don't know how he's someone that's quite talented. He's had a bit of a start start. He's actually been in the U.S.C since 2018. I don't think he's probably meant the progression that he would have wanted to. I think many people would have thought that he would, but at 30 years old, still young in the game, still level to progress. He's a good striker. And I think just against Daniel Pineder, I think that could be a fun fight at this one. And I just can't see Wood to get it done. I like it, Sam. Yeah, I'm saying with you, I think he has watched his last couple of fights, especially the ones that he loses. He seems to have an unlucky angle to it every time. I think he, in the last fight that he lost, he got a need in the, in the never region and the ref did nothing about it. It definitely affected his performance. And I thought, well, that's right, that he lost. And I think, I think was it a dodgy decision or close decision that it just went, didn't go his way. So it's, I'm with you. I like Wood. And I love to seem to have a bit more of that nasty streak in him, Sam. A lot of it, the few English fighters, I think Leon himself, sometimes where they don't have that streak where they just go for the kill. I think Darren Till didn't have it either. He'd get, he'd knock them down and they'll just, I don't know. I want to see a nasty streak rather than seeing this beautiful performance. I want to see him get in there, get the finishing and the night nice and early and have a good night for him and he can move on pretty quickly. Because I think he can, I think he can do it. It's fun with you. I like the pick. I'll never stay to the game. My fourth round, I'll have to go risky here. But I do think he gets the win. I'm going Paddy the Vaddy. I'm going Paddy Pimblet. I do think he gets the win. Obviously, we all know what Paddy is. Mega Star. Talk, talk two years ago, two or three years ago. We're talking Mega Star. Talking the next rising, surging stars. Obviously, I had a rough couple of years to be fair to him. Obviously, that decision, win that he got, that everyone, 40 lost. He's, obviously, he's world on social media. He's not quite gone the way of good. Like the 40, it was. He's done the interview, destroying Ariel Hawani. That rubbed a lot of people the wrong way. I think this is a get right fight for him. I think Bobby Green, 39 years old. He's had loads of fights in the UFC. I just think, unless Bobby captures him for the knockout, I think Paddy's got too much in the ground, in the grappling. Paddy's, he's definitely got a few weaknesses in the stand-up. He's very chinny. He leaves his chin open. So, he's definitely there to be knocked out and caught eventually. But I think history tells you he doesn't actually get knocked out. He gets hurt and he does get beat. And he has been beat, before, obviously, on the three losses. But I don't think he gets clean, I don't think he gets clean knocked out. And I don't think Bobby's got the outputs and the overall game just to win this one on decision. I think Paddy, the baddie, does get his hands on him, does win around or around and a half easily with his grappling. And then, hopefully, the stand-ups close enough that he gets the win here, Sam. Obviously, if we look at both performances versus Tony Ferguson, a common opponent, I thought Paddy was much more impressive than Bobby Green's win. Paddy absolutely dominated Tony. I was shocked about it. I thought it might be a rough match up with Tony as a ground game also, being famously pretty good, but I think Tony's probably gone now. I don't think he's got that quite talent, that same scramble speed that he had. But, yeah, I think Paddy gets the win here. Bobby's an aging fighter. There's still some left in Paddy. And I think with the fancy, there'll be some fans cheering, there'll be some fans booing. But it's time to get the English crowd back on his favour. And I think he'll do it with a good performance here. Yeah, I fancy Paddy as well. Yeah, I'm going to go Paddy, I think. Bobby Green, he's obviously been there. He's loads of experience on his record, but 13 and 10 in the UFC. And I think when he comes up against these days, someone a bit more youthful. Yeah, he kind of comes up short. I think he's good for kind of those kind of veterans match ups. And he'll tend to win those like he did against Jim Miller at 300. And I think if he's finally all the guys, he can beat them, you know, like a Tony Ferguson as well. But, you know, putting him against, you know, someone a bit younger, a bit harder in ability at the stage. Then, yeah, I think he comes up short. So, I'd go Paddy as well. Right, Kit Sam, well, we're in the final round. There's not many obvious choices anymore. There's one or two names I'm considering, but I'm nervous about. But it's your pick, Sam, who is your final UFC 4 draft show pick to go into fight? And I will be sat next to each other. We'll be slaughtering each other. But this is where the money might be named. Yeah, I was looking at two. I'm going to give the way the other one. I'm looking at two. One, I think both, actually, are underdogs in the betting house. Yeah, they are. All for underdogs. One would end a UK hype train. The other would also end kind of a UK hot streak. And I think I'm going for the second one, which is on the main card. I'm going to go for Robocut Gregory Rodriguez to get the win of Chris Leroy Duncan. And she just... I'm thinking here is that I was kind of watching a bit back of Rob Rodriguez's fights. And he can get drawn into a wall, which I think would benefit Duncan. He's got really good strike, and he's three in one in the UFC. He gave him the space, so he's going to create some great angles. He's got lots of great kicks, great strikes, elbows. He's got everything in his game. But I think the thing that's with Leroy Duncan that's kind of not been tested yet too much is the grappling side of things. They both have a common loss these two to Arbonne Patrosio. And in that third round against Patrosio, Leroy Duncan was coming on a bit strong, but Patrosio managed to get the take down and kind of see out the fight in those final moments. And it was a really easy take down. And Rodriguez obviously has got this wrestling background to him, even though he does have five knockout wins from six UFC victories. So he's definitely got power in his hands. He must have a scrap, but he does have a wrestling base. And then he's last fight against Frativares. He wore him down. He wrestled in those first couple of rounds, tied him out, and then got the finish on the feet in the third round. And if I was in that, I'd be my game to one here. You know, wrestle early doors against Leroy Duncan. Try and suck the energy out of the crowd a little bit, even though we don't want that. At 2.30 in the morning in Manchester. And then, you know, come a letter in the fight. End of round two, into round three. When Leroy Duncan's a little bit tired, he starts to log in. And, you know, this guy, again, does that a lot of vicious strikes in his arsters. So these great elbows, you know, so I'm thinking that if I'm Rodriguez, I kind of follow that and try and follow that. 10 game planners against Frativares. And I think that would be a factor victory against Leroy Duncan. But I would like to see Leroy Duncan win and carry on his streak. But yeah, I think that's an underdog. Gregory Rodriguez is a good one. So I think that's my final pitch. Well, I keep going brave to get the win, I think, there. So I like it going on an underdog. You're going to hate me here. So I'm going to play safe. I'm not my all English team. I'm playing safe. I'm playing boring. I've got to go the undefeated fighter. I actually like him. I like his personality. He's hungry. And it's Mohammed Mukayev. He's got a tough test. He's toughest test of his career. He's against Manel Cape. I think you're going to go Cape. I think the person you're alluding to. I've got it all on. But I think Mukayev, I think he gets the win. I think he's two shorties. It's obviously a world champion. No British champion wrestling. He's got brilliant ground game. Obviously, Park Daggett Stanney. So he's got that. He's trained over there. He just needs to work on his stand up. But I think he can do it. His wrestling is just unbelievable. Can Cape stop him taking him down? Maybe he wants it to ice. But Mukayev is a mauler. He's going to keep coming. He's got his ads. Some of the crazy submissions in UFC's ads. Yeah, his ads. Was it a Sullyev stretch? Let me just search that all. Yeah, yeah. He had a Sullyev stretch. He's had the arm triangles. He's had neck cranks. He's had some brilliant submissions. He's had some close fights. He can definitely get beat on the stand up. He's bought Alex Perez. He's bought a few where they've definitely beat him on the stand up. But man, I think he gets the win. He's not losing. He wanted to be the youngest UFC champion of all time. I don't think he can do that anymore. He's had injuries. He watched his fight where he nearly had these knee ricks outs. One of the scariest fights on the same. But he come through. That is tough and durable. I don't think Cape. I think Cape will have to one punch knock out, one kick knock out. Because obviously he's a kick boxer. I think he'll have to get one shot. Because as soon as he Mukayev gets close, he wins this one. I think Mukayev tries to finish this in the first round. Gets him out of there. He doesn't mess around with that stand up. He can mess around with his stand up against someone. A bit less experience and a bit less talented as my L.K. I'm going first round submission here for my day of Sam. That's my take. Yeah, I wish I'd have gone for him now. I like Mukayev. He's sometimes hard to watch. He's very technical. I like you said, but he's stand up. He needs to improve a lot. I don't think if an L.K. was in a bit of form. I fancy probably a little bit more. But he's kind of had a weird couple of years. That's a very stop start, 20-23. He's fired shots out with Cara Frans Figurado. Alex Perez as well. He's not maybe had to run into this that you kind of want. He's got a potential title, a lemonade, a flyweight. He's four and two in the UFC. He's got a good takedown defense. Actually, it's 77%. Like he said, that's going to be tested extremely by Mukayev. He's not going to stop as soon as the bell goes. But my thinking was, if I was going to go after him, he would potentially have that ability to catch Mukayev. His stand up has wanted and needs to improve. The potentially cap has the power to put him away because you're catching with a knee as he comes in or something like that. Hopefully Mukayev wins and goes on. We want to see the bridge goes. Get in the wins. I'd have started with with cats. That's going to have a little extra spice to that pick on the note. Well, there you go Sam. We've got our teams. We obviously talked about quite a lot of the fights there, and obviously a lot of predictions, a lot of bets. So listening to all our commentary on each fighter, because a lot of bets and a lot of angles are revealed there. Sam takes through the next part of the show. Yeah, we're going to quick fire and just go through because actually, I think it shows the strength of this kind of UK pay per view, is that actually there's a UK participant in all the fights, bar one, which is shown abandoned against at least Ardeline Island against Romania. So in Socorade style, we're going to go through the card just quick fire and see how many UK wins we can get on the card. So we've touched on some of them already, but we do have a real UK core to this card, which is good. And I think it's good for the USC as well. I was thinking about this week when I was starting to look at this card because we've had like 300 and two nine nine was so heavy. The fact that three or four is so UK heavy. We're not relying on the big American stars to really come over and fill this. I'm three or five as well. Going to Australia is kind of filled with talent from that part of the world. That kind of gives the USC a bit of a brief though in terms of these pay per views and we're going to end up with obviously a decent kind of the sphere and I think the back end of the year is going to be jam packed as well. We were kind of struggling on some of the cards a little bit to match them with every home without in cover that first quarter of two nine nine and three hundred. But yeah, we'll quick fire through the UK. The Polish starting off in the order that I've got them with McParking against Lucas Breske. Obviously I went for McParking in the pick. I think he pretty much said that you were going for. Same as you. Yeah, I think that Tom Aspenall, Jim, that he's got, I think he's got two much nine and now let's have McParking the first English winner on the nine. There we go. So that's one. Neil for both of us. Sam Paterson against Peter Crosby. I'm your Sam Paterson. Yeah, you know me. One of my picks. Sam Paterson gets the win comfortable here, Sam. Mark Hamid, Mokkaev against that man. Mokkaev. Well, put a match on that one. I'm going to go. Kat was just waiting there online for us. So that's a high one to the UK in our picks. Oh, Ben Elliott against Preston Parsons. When we didn't touch on in our picks, not in any of our squads for this. Joe, who you going for? I'm not convinced by Oban Elliott. He's beat Val Woodburn, but that's like me beating a guy off the street. No offense to Val Woodburn. But yeah, go on. I'm going Oban Elliott. I think the English is just leaping up. Come on. I hope for him as well. So that gives us 7-1 UK. Modesto Cowskus, born in Lithuania, moved to the UK when he was three years old. Brought up in the UK fights out of here as well. He's facing Marcin Prochenio from Poland at White Heavyweight. Can you go for it, Joe? It's my first loss for the English. I'm going Marcin Prochenio. Sorry for Cowskus. When I was doing my picks as well, I also went for him as well. I think they both got this weird record. Perhaps I've got a losing record in the USC. But Cowskus may as well, or pretty much afterwards, have him won. This is second running in the USC. It was cut first time round. So yeah, they've got three and four for Cowskus. It's two and one in this second run. So it's in a better form. But yeah, I'm going to go for the Polish power in this one as well. And so that gives us 8-3 for the UK. We've got Colin Lockrond against Jake Hadley. Had we stepping up on short now? It's for this Bantamweight one island against the UK. And again, none of these in our squads for the draft, Joe. Here we go. We've got Colin. We've got the 9-1 fight. Hadley's moving up in weight. I didn't realize when I was just saw the fight. He's moving up and in his previous fights, he looks... He's making the weight division below. So I think it's a crazy pick. Against the 9-1 fight, he showed a bit of talent. It's a strong, strong lad. So I think he'll think size alone. He wins this Sam, I hate to say. As a 5-foot-5 man myself, I hate to give someone the size advantage. But I've got to go the size wins this one, even if Jake Hadley may have the talented advantage. Yeah, I'm going. Lockrond as well. Yeah, pretty much agree with that assessment. So there we go. UK 8, Rest of the World, 5. That's going to be evolved to Molly McCann against Bruna Brazil. Joe, you've already nailed your colours to the mast of Molly. Yeah. I'm going to go for Molly as well. Yeah. I think it will be your earlier assessment. She's been looking in good shape, mental shape as well. She seems a lot calmer these days. And yeah, I just don't think Bruna Brazil has enough. Next one, Nathaniel Ward against it. He nailed it. I went for Ward in the draft pick. Who have you gotten, Joe? Yeah, with you, Ward. Like I said, I think some unlucky losses over the years. Really like spikes. I want to see him have that killer instinct. Maybe the losses will inspire that. Go finish the fight, Ward. And go get a good finish for the English balance start of the prelim. Arnold Allen against Giga Chikaze. You went for Arnold Allen in the squad in the draft. And I'm also going to go for Arnold Allen, I think, in this one. Yeah. Arnold Allen gets it done. I went for Rodriguez in my draft pick. He's facing Christian Leroy Duncan, the UK. Who are you going for, Joe? I'll go with the English Sam. I've got to go with it. I think Christian Leroy Duncan. I think he's a, like I said, great stand up. Yeah, I'm not convinced Sam, be honest. I'm not convinced by him yet, like you said. But I'll go the English gets the win. The high train, the fan, when he walks on. He's in the main event, it's saying here. So I think when he walks on, the fans will get behind him. And I think that energy will push him through for the win. Yeah. Menka slop. Yeah. Yeah. I think this is potential for the night written all over it. As potentially does Bobby Green against Paddy Pimlet. You went for Paddy, looking in great shape. I said I'd go for Paddy as well. So I don't have to speak with that. I am tempted a little bit by Bobby Green, but. Tom Aspenoka is blades. I think I know the answer to this. I went for Tom Aspen. All my first round draft pick. Yeah. He was you, Tom. You know, what a legend. Can't wait to see him fight. It's probably a lovely ombre. I'm probably more excited to see Tom than anyone. I've ever been excited to watch. Love his fighting. He finishes him in the first round. And he's even got Jiu Jitsu, which I respect about him. Like if it goes to the ground, I'm not too worried if Kurtz gets that early, early takedown. Tom's brilliant on the ground. Obviously had some great submission finishes. I've got Tom Aspeno winning this one some all day long. Yeah. Yeah. Has that one submission window there? In the UFC, Tom Aspeno. And then the main event. I picked Leon as my second pick. Yeah. He's going to get it done too strong, I think, in all areas. But from the loudest slightly better. I think his takedown defense will hold up. Joe. Yeah. Same as you. Takedown defense. Similar to Tom, even if he does get it. Even if the loud does get a takedown or that. Leon's got very, as we've seen against Carl Bay, as we've seen against Usman. He can come back. He can get up and he can fight back. Well, if any, if that second does win fights, got anything to go off, it might actually, it might actually win some of these grappling exchanges, which would be amazing for Leon. And then on the stand up, there's only one winner. So, yeah, Leon winning this one some. Oh, there we go. So that gives us combines 21-6. That's the UK. Joe's pretty much picking them all. But I think it was pretty even there across the, across the house. Yeah. Going to be interested in, hopefully, a very good night for UK MMA on Saturday at Manchester's caught wide arena. Yeah. So there we go, Joe. That is a job done for another week. Yeah. And we shall speak again on Saturday and see if we're on Saturday, hopefully, passing up a few videos from the event and seeing how a draft pick goes. Are you happy with the squad? I should have picked one of the, I should have picked Leon or Tom in my first round. So obviously you've got Tom, so I should have picked Leon as my first one. But other than that, yeah, very happy. It should be a great night. Maybe you, a bit of interest, a bit of, so we can get stuck into it a bit on the night. Could, like I said, in English fights are pretty much in every single fight bar. Sorry, a UK fight bar one week. We extend to the whole United Kingdom. We've got an Irish person in there. So yeah. Modern night for the aisles, the British aisles. We're on. It should be good. And yes, Sam can't wait to see you on Saturday loads of content coming. Let's, let's have it. Well, it's rock and roll. We shall see you again on Saturday, but the show will be back next week. Thanks for watching. Thank you, Sam.