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Sam and Joe return for a UFC 305 special where the lads pick their teams of fighters for the event which features the return of Israel Adesanya against Dricus Du Plessis.

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Duration:: 39m
Broadcast on:: 16 Aug 2024
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and we are back! We've got UFC 305 with the lance, we're gonna cover everything. It's Israel, Adi Sangah vs. Drikus, Du Pletsey, the big rivalry, very high/year, Sam won it all the buzz. It's died down a bit now, but hopefully going into fight week, we're all in. If we're all watching the show, I'm sure I would draft, we'll get everyone into it and so excited. But yeah, it's the UFC 305 draft, Sam, but first off, how are you? Yeah, good man, looking forward to this. Like you said, it's been a bit quiet this one. It's not bubbled up as yet, as we might expect. Although, as we recorded, the press conference is going on right now. So maybe after this, when we catch up on the press, maybe they'll be a bit more than a loving stare down at the end. But yeah, hopefully these press will get up some war awards in front of the crowd in Perth. Yeah, hopefully, I think it needs it. I think the last couple of fight nights since, obviously, the big UFC UK card, it's died down a bit so I think, I remember back in the day, when they never used to do with that many cards and each one, we have two or three big names on it every single time, Sam. And I think we're losing that slowly by the just the pure amount of card that Dan has put in on, which is good if you're just a die-hard for hype fans. But I think if you're more of a casual, it doesn't get everyone involved. They don't know what's coming up because there's some at random coming up week on week. What's your thoughts on this heavy booking schedule for them? Yeah, I kind of like it in it. And I don't. Yeah, some of the the Apex fight nights, like the one last week, we kind of missed the show last week for various reasons. But it was one of them where you look at it and it's like, this is a bit hard work. And it's like, do we actually need this one? I think sometimes before our pay-per-view, it'd be nice to have a two-week block into it so we can get a bit more press, the guys, another the finishing training camp and that kind of thing. But a bit of a longer lead up into it where we can get your chills on them and your DCs just focusing on all those kind of guys, all the media sites, just building up into the big pay-per-views and these kind of smaller Apex ones. I appreciate you. You've got to get guys out. They've got a lot of fighters and that kind of thing. But I think, yeah, just a bit of a better lead-up into the pay-per-views will be good. It tends to be kind of almost one a week, doesn't it? So three a month would be nice to me and build into these five weeks. Just a little bit longer, maybe get them in place, in position, in-perf earlier start, maybe a bit of media a bit earlier. I know that's easier said than done when you've got camps and things like that. But even if it's just that the pundits building it up and you have some special shows going on, I think that I just helped the hype. So I started down a little bit and everyone, I think a lot of the headline fights, everything's been really respectful, which is good in a way. But we've kind of lost that kind of trash-talking element. Even this rivalry that, as you said, was heated at one point. It's now just solely really about the match-up on Saturday night and we're kind of losing these storylines are kind of falling away. Yeah, well said. Well said Sam, I think that's exactly spot-on. So hopefully something changes. They make a couple of tweaks because they'll be feeling it themselves. Like I said, I don't think the numbers on the singles have been quite as high as they used to. I think that's been reported. So yeah, we'll say but hopefully they start getting things back on track and they get the hype. I feel like fans will just die out of fans who even seem worn out to me as well. They're not as if about things coming up and then they're losing the casuals. So yeah, let's focus. Sorry, Bob. Yeah, I think the other thing as well, I think just just trying to get out, get the kind of things sorted out and the John Jones thing sorted out. If John's, I don't know, I don't know, Dan has said this week, Connor's not going to fight in December. But I just like to get those guys out and done because it seems a lot of the news cycle is dominated by one John Jones and the time has been all thing of, you know, in fighting steepings, they're the time and it's in the pound-for-pound number one being John Jones and day in the constantly being asked about it and then ranting about it. And then the kind of thing with Chandler has been going on for so longer as well. And it just seems like those two things kind of sucking the life out of it a little bit and all these, you know, out of San Yidupa Sea at one point was the massive event. But now it's all about, really about these two, when you look at whatever new site you're on, you know, they're dominating the headlines. So I like to see Connor out in December, get it over with, get John's out in November, get that steepé fight over with. And then we can move on and talk about, you know, the rest of kind of the divisions and the other storylines that need to play out. Yeah, yeah. All right, well, a bit of commentary on the Eurovision, we'll get into it now. And we've got the UFC draft reviewers who maybe knew and pick out this show to watch. We do a draft system, we go five rounds, we pick a fighter each round. Obviously, it normally works out where the heavy favorites we pick first and it gets more and more risky as we go down. And we review our picks and see who wins at the end of the night. I am officially one nil up after the last event. We were drawing after the big UFC UK card. We both got four out of five, correct. Sam, a bit of a down week. I don't want to be critical of you, but we hit two out of five. I know Sam, but I got three out of five. So I wasn't much better, but I have got bragging rights going into this event. So I'm going to take them why I've got them, because I don't think it'll last long. So let's get into it, Sam. It's five rounds. I sent for the viewers five rounds, pick a fighter each round, follow along. We'll talk about the fights that their fighter is involved in. We do it from a betting perspective as well. Obviously, we like to do accumulators. We like to pick out knockout, right to pick out submissions. So follow along with us and hopefully you will support one of us going into the event this weekend. Sam, I'll let you pick first, round one of the UFC 305 draft. Sam, take us away. I'm going to go in for Steve Ursig off the bat. Obviously, we saw him at UFC 301, wasn't it? Yeah, against Pantoja for the title. He's done a bit of a whirlwind start in the UFC three and one. So far, he lost his title five, three and a half before that, knocking out much snell in March. We stirred out in of the year, and he faces Kakar of France here, who's kind of been around the top five for a long time in the flyweight division, a former title challenger himself losing to Brandon Moreno, a couple of fights ago. And he's just not been that active of late potentially. There's a couple like that. And obviously, he's had a pretty much a year off now. But Cara France, the same last scene, you're losing to Amir Al-Bazi at a close split decision last time out, lost to Moreno before that. That was back in 2022. So he's not been that active over the last couple of the years. Does that power in his hands? But I think Cara France is a bit susceptible to wrestlers. And I think, Ursig with his all-round game, a really good grappler, we saw it against Pantoja. He's got a really good submission record outside of the USC, six of his nine pro wins on the regional scene all by submission. He's really tall for this division as well and long. And I think even though Cara France can be good in the scramble, I think he can be held down by really good grapplers. And I'm going to go Ursig here to get a submission win and finally get his first sub in the USC. I like it, Sam. I like it. Yeah, going in nice and the co-main event to get us going. I'll don't. This is where I'm struggling. I like later picks, but you like to go a lock in these first few rounds, Sam, and I don't quite have one. I don't quite have one, but I want a nice, easy win. I'm going to go. I'm going to go a tough one here, Sam, and I'm going to live to regret it. I'm going to go with women's fighter, who was highly tipped. She's from the UK/ from Australia, got the mixed origins. It's Casey O'Neill. She's fighting Luana Santo, so it's a risk that I'm picking this early on. Luana is a great fighter herself coming off a nice win versus Maria Agapova. I think Casey O'Neill's just got too much. She's still 26. She's been hyped about, but the age is still on her side. It's not like she's anything against her, that a few cancelled fights, but one last stop versus Ariana Lipsky. She lost to Jennifer Meyer. That was the tough results. She's beat Roxanne Modifari in the past. She's beat Antonio. She have Cenco. I think Casey O'Neill just has too much in this fight, Sam. I think she's a good all-round fighter. She's good with her submissions. Obviously, she will need that versus Luana, and I think she'll have too much on the stand-up to follow Luana. Luana is still 24. I think take a bit of time to get into things unless they've got that extreme athleticism like some of them do. I think Casey gets the one here. She'll be too strong, too good on the stand-up and gets me a safe win going into round two of the draft. I don't know what you feel about that, Sam. I know I feel a bit risky even saying, but I've got a load of people all at the same level for myself, but I'll pick one and keep going. Yeah, get it out there. My first round draft pick last time out was the Russian female. Undefeated, and I thought I had a decent lock in there, but you never know where the women's fights do you? No, unless one of them is just that strong and powerful compared to the other way. You just know it's going to be an over strength, over speed. It's very close. It's very close and standard from top to bottom. So, yeah, we'll see, Sam, but I think Casey only will have too much in front of a crowd. That will be cheering around. Sam, win round two. Give us your pick. Round two pick, I think is going to be Carlos Paratez facing Li Jingliang here at the Brazilian. He's 30 years old. He's a relative newcomer again, like a singer to the UFC 2 and L. Both bouts in 2024, 19 and 6 as a pro. He's done the hard rounds, now in the UFC, and he's in a real hot street. He's got two UFC wins both by finishes, beat Charles Radke by in round one last June, finished Travis Giles before that in round two with a straight left dart on his debut. That was in February. He's on a nine-fight win streak. All of them come in by the way of finish. So, he's a dangerous guy and, like her said, he's long for the division. He's got a ridiculous reach advantage here over Jingliang. I think it's some of the seven or eight inches. So, he's got real long arms and he's used those to good effects so far in the UFC. We know with Li Jingliang, he's all action. He loves these stand-up wars. So, I think it's going to be good for Paratez, even though this is a step up in class four in Jingliang. He's not fought for a couple of years. Had a spine injury last year preparing to face Michael Chiesa. Obviously, a more of a grappling match up that one. So, he was going harder in training with his grappling, ended up with an injury that's kept him out this long. He's 11 and 6 in the UFC. Obviously, he's dangerous, but at 36 off this layoff, I'm fancying Paratez to come in and look good. It's a good opponent for him to look good. Maybe he may or may not get the finish. Jingliang's never been finished in his pro career, but he can lose and he's three and three in his last six. Lost a split decision to Danny Rodriguez in his last outing. That was back in September 2022 on the DASV Ferguson. That rearranged the last-minute card. So, that's how long he's been out for Jingliang. So, Paratez coming in with the momentum. Nine finishes in a row. Two of them in the UFC. I think they're fast tracking him a little bit and this potentially is a decent name for him to look good against and get the win. Like it sounds like it. It's a tough card to pick to draft for because normally you like a couple of locks. I don't think there's many locks that Paratez might be one of the only ones. But I do like the leech. I can never, I can't, I decided to stay away from him because I love the leech, love his style. He had a bit of buzz about him before. He's a, I think was it an HCL or something to do with his? I think he had a really bad injury that's took him out for like I said a long time now. So, I can't bet against the leech. I want to see where he's at before I, before I bet against all four of him in the future. My round two pick is a Chinese man in the, I think I believe the first fight of the night. Obviously, they changed it around a lot nowadays. So, you've never quite sure. But I'm getting you going early Sam. You're tuning early Saturday night. You're still away. You've still got a bit of buzz. Let's get a win on the board. I'm going to song the assassin Kenan. He's against Rick Glenn. He's had an up and down career song. But he's the, he's the gatekeeper to getting into a bit of buzz. I think he, he loses to the ones who then start rising up in the division. And I think if it's someone like Rick Glenn who's been around a bit but not never quite done it. Not quite a, not quite a name that I don't think's going to go on this big push to get deeper into the division. I think some will just have too much. He's a good fighter. He thought Ian Gary, I believe in, was it 2021? No, it was, where was it? It was, it might have been even further ago. I think it was 2021-40 and Gary is, oh no, 2023, sorry, last year. I'm around my years have flown back. He lost in around 3TKO but I thought he had actually an okay performance. I saw signs there and a good fighter. I just don't think he's good enough to push into the top 25. I know that's not an official ranking but that top edge of the division that I all started to push and I think he'll have too much. Let's get it started against Rick Glenn. Rick Glenn's 35. I don't think there's anything coming. Sunkenan has got this one in the bag all day long from me. Round two, I think Finnish gets the Finnish here. I won't say this is going to decision. I think Sunkenan is going to finish this off and make a name for himself and be that gatekeeper to enter in the UFC, I'd say. Yeah, got Sunkenan some first bite of the night. Let's get me started early. Nice, like it. Round three, Sam. That's where it gets tougher and tougher, especially on this card with not many big favourites. Round three, who are you taking? Yeah, I don't know. I've got a lot that I'm unsure of. I think I'm going to go for Mateus Gamrock against Dan Hooker. Obviously Gamrock, he just sits on the edge of that lightweight new vision. I think he's ranked five but he's all those kind of pay-per-view stars ahead of him, you know, in lights of Gagey and Justin Poirier and Charles Oliveira heading into those kind of guys that are ahead of him and obviously Saruki, who he does have a win over and the champ, Maka Chev. So he's kind of on the edge of things, looking for that big fight, doesn't maybe have that star power, you know, but real solid fighter. He's got that grappling style, you know, which is probably held him back a little bit. He's quite a cool customer as well, so, you know, he's not the kind of guy that, you know, he's going to get drawn into any kind of trash-talking or any kind of wars necessarily. But against Dan Hooker, you may not have an option, Hooker's, I think a fighter, we all obviously do well and win. But I'm just not sure, you know, he's on a two-fight win streak, Hooker, last seen last year against beating Jalen Turner by split decision. Got a win before that. He's kind of been up and down the weight division. He tends to only lose to, you know, the better fighters. You know, Maka Chev Poirier, he's lost to Chandler when he dropped down. He lost to Arnold Allen as well. But his best win, you would say, probably a few years ago, you know, against the likes of Paul Felder and Gilbert Burns. Whereas Gamnot still seems to me like he's, he's up there. I know he also beat Turner by split decision. There was the win against Fizzibh with Fizzibh at the leg injury and he beat RDA last time out in March. But maybe there are signs there for Hooker and encouragement. But I think it's the right style for Gamnot to be able to impose his wrestling game on Dan Hooker. And I think, you know, he's on a three-fight win streak itself. And I still think he's got, you know, plenty of life in him. He's only lost twice at Gamnot like I said. He's got a win of Ramans, Saruki, and as well as, you know, since that defeat has been on a tear to get himself in position to fight Maka Chev. So, you know, on his night, Gamnot, you know, he's still, he's still up there for me. And I think he's just got a bit too much for, for Dan Hooker, even though, you know, it'd be great to see, you know, a real redemption story if Hooker could come in and get the win. But just, yeah, perhaps can't see it. Fair enough. Yeah, big pickaxe. Maybe later in the draft, you might see my opinion otherwise, I'm not sure. Yeah, I'm still undecided. Never been too impressed by Gamnot. But like you said, he's wrestle heavy if Hooker's, that is Hooker's famous weakness. He does get drawn in, but then he's not the best wrestler. So yeah, we'll, we'll see. But yeah, it should be a good fight. Hopefully Hooker does get some stand up away and doesn't just get wrestled to the death of the fight. My round three picks up. That's why it gets tough. And the main card for me, apart from Steve, obviously, is against Kai Carr and Francis. It seems like the setting up the, seems like the setting up the OCR and a hostile Asian fighters here, because there's not many that, there's not many that I think are favorites going into the bag. I'm going to go, I'm going to go. Drickers do Plessy on that main event, and I'm taking on Drickers do Plessy. I'm nervous saying it. You can hear it in my voice, but I think do Plessy's the hungry fighter. I think he's the more athletic fighter. I think he's obviously got the momentum behind him. As I've said about Israel, I decided before, I think his motivation might be there this fight, this is where I might have maybe gone on, but I think his motivation then last couple of fights before he lost to, obviously, Strickland. It was waning. He didn't seem as interested to me. Didn't seem as excited about fights once he beat Peraira before and after the Peraira, obviously fights and getting that rematch. He just doesn't seem as into it. You look like the pressure of the fans, the craziness of his stardom was getting to him. Like I said, then he's lost to Strickland. I don't know. Sometimes when that goes on, it never comes back. That's what I'm gambling on. It's a gamble, it's a punt. If you know me and know my other shows, it's a good punt. I think do Plessy's has too much. I think he's just so athletic, so strong. His nose jobs, fixes breathing and his fitness has just shot through the roof. I think DiPlessy has too extreme, he's too athletic, too strong, too hungry. I think he's winning the pride of Africa match up this time around some. I think I'd go that way as well. I'm probably not going to pick out his own in my last couple of picks. I agree. The motivation thing is just, oh no, you can come out on top of the talk this week. It's about legacy. It's about taking heads and all that. It might be not motivated by the belt anymore. What is it really? Is it to be in good fights? Is it to beat DiPlessy? Is it to go and do something else after a couple of fights? You're not quite sure. Like you said, DiPlessy, he's an animal. He'll be there unless you can knock him out, which has only been knocked out once in his 23-5 pro career, which I think shows how tough he is. He's going to be trying to hang there until the end. That was in case W in 2018. The last time that DiPlessy suffered any kind of defeat, he's a bit on a real tear in the UFC. I mean, that's a strong pick really, given we just don't know without a Sunday. I'm sure he'll be there. He's a champion. He's been around a long time in kickboxing as well. I'd kind of edge towards DiPlessy if I had to make a pick. When I kick someone, I'll get the Sam Votal. Round four, this is where it gets really tough. Two picks left. There's not many favourites at all. I'll let you take us away. Round four, Sam. Yeah, I've maybe done myself over there, not picking out a sound yet. It would have been a 50/50 shoot out, but I'm going to go, I think, for Giazinho, Rose and Streik. I kind of agree a little bit like you say the main car looks like they're maybe setting up some of the fighters. This one could go either way, but I'm just going to go for it regardless. You're both are quite similar records. If you look at title, a Vassar and Rose and Streik, eight and seven in the UFC for two Vassar, eight and five for Rose and Streik. Two of Vassar's, 14 and seven as a pro. Rose and Streik's 14 and five as a pro. Rose and Streik's the older guy. One last time out against Gassia, medium retiring in round four. He's kind of been pretty inconsistent. He's almost kind of on a win-one-lose-one record, which might suggest that he loses this fight, but he kind of loses to the better guys, to two men, Garno, to Garn, to Blades, to Volkoff, to Almeda, wins against Junior Doss Santos, Zaki, Dalcus and Gassia have lost time out. But two of Vassar was kind of on a similar run where he beat the lower down guys and he'd lose to the better guys, like Pavlovitch when he was on his tear, like Garn, like Volkoff. But he lost to Tibera last time out, which on a four-five losing streak for two of Vassar, he feels a little bit to me like entering that Tony Ferguson territory. What's he doing it for now? He's kind of on this thing where he's on the street where he's losing a little bit too much and he's struggling to get it back. And that performance last time out against Tibera was just concerning to me. It was only in March, and it was around one on a submission. But he just looked all over the place. And I think Rose and Stroit, with eight wins, all of his wins in the UFC, coming by KO or TKR. Two of Vassar's going to have to knock him out. And he's only been knocked out by Volkoff and Garno. And I don't know, two of Vassar is his chin up up to it after the four successive defeats that he's suffered. I'm going to go for Rose and Stroit. Risky pick with the heavyweights, but I'm going for him, regardless. Well, I keep saying, yeah, yeah, I'm staying away from that fight, so I'm doing what you were not, you were brave enough to do. I'm going to go against you now, Sam. I think with these next two picks, make it exciting for us. There will be a definitive winner. I'm going to go KI-Kara France. I think Steve Versegg's a brilliant fighter. It's not an anti-Steve Versegg pick. It's not a massively pro KI-Kara France pick. I think he's just, I like KI. I think his brilliant stand-up, his motivations self-admittedly, I believe, from his interviews, wind up and down, up and down. And I think this is a fact we're getting hungry. He's in his home crowd. It's hard not to be fully motivated when you've got your crowd behind you. You've got the fans cheering. As we saw in the UK, it's, it is a big advantage. Obviously, Earthsegg's, I'm saying that, but Earthsegg's the same advantage, so I guess I'm talking myself into failure there. But yeah, I think KI's, I just, I like the way he fights. I think he's exciting. I think Earthsegg's still fairly new. He's only 14 fights in KI's 35 fights into his, well, 36, including the no contest. 36 fights into his MMA career. I think Earthsegg's still learning, as we saw against Pantell, just some, some little mistakes to getting over the line. And I don't know if the veteran's got one last run in him, and I think he does. I think he does. I think I really like the way he fights. Brilliant stand-up fights are electrically fast and can survive in the grappling exchanges. And I think this is where KI gets the win here. I think he just, I think he survives more than he loses. The grappling exchanges keeps it standing, keeps, keeps active. I think his speed gets him some advantages on that. And I think, I think KI, I think KI gets the decision victory here. I think he points fights him into a, into a blivian over the three rounds and gets, gets the win here, Sam. So I'm going to go KI car. I fancy to go against you. And I said, I respect Steve Earthsegg so much. His last fight, he's unbelievable once it likes him. We all followed it, what he did. So I hope it's not a bad loss for Steve. But I think KI's got, just got that veteran while he, I think he's got one last run in him, and he's so quick. So I'm going KI car, friends. Okay. Yeah. All the boys out of City Kit box in this week, sound really confident, only. I think that's, that's my, like, main concern for, for some of these, when you listen to Hoka, when you listen to, to Kaira, Cara, France, and even now your Addison, you know, they are sounding quite confident. So, um, not that they wouldn't be, but yeah, they kind of seem a little bit refreshed, particularly Cara, France, again, another one off coming off a lay off. So, yeah, I, I just think, you know, six, probably a bit too strong, but yeah, hopefully it's a, a good fight. I think it would be quite wild because Cara, France, he's just, he's that guy, isn't he? So, yeah, should be a good fight. Sam, I'm going to let you, yeah, round five, the final peak, with, I think I'm really all struggling now. So, take punt, Sam, have some fun in the, see what, yeah, let's see what you come up with. Yeah, I've got a choice of three, three to make ones down the card, early doors. But I'm tempted to just, just go a little bit high. I'm tempted to just take another risk, risky one. I'm not sure. Yeah, I'm going to narrow it down to two off the top of the prelims. I've got Junior Taffa against Walter Walker and Josh Cule Bow against Ricardo Ramos. So, I'm going to pick from, and I think, do you know what, I'm going to go for the double heavyweight. I was going to pick Cule Bow because I think Ricardo Ramos, I'm not sure, but I'm going to go for, yeah, I want to go for Taffa, I think, to beat Walter Walker, I think. Yeah, Taffa's probably been a little kind of unlucky. He's got a losing record in the USC Bow for these lads do. Obviously, Bow for had brothers in the UFC, but Junior, 27 years old, did step in for his brother last time out. That late notice, UFC 298, wasn't it, where he just fell out really the last throw of the dice. It was only like less than 24 hours that Junior Taffa stepped in to face. Marcos Rodriguez de Lima at the last minute was finished by him, but that was a huge step up in class for him that stage of his career. So, he's had that bit of experience going up against a better opponent. His fight after, which he was scheduled for, I think his brother took in the end. He's got a win over Parker Porter, first round to K.O., where he showed what he's about, you know, his K.O. power that, you know, coming from his kickboxing and boxing grip background that he's going to be good on the feet. And he lost on his debut to Mohamed Usman, who took a few shots early doors, but then, you know, the Usman name came out and Taffa got wrestled in that fight. So, I think that Taffa here could look good against Walter Walker and his record, you know, of one and two in the UFC. He's probably, you know, slightly better than that, whereas Walter Walker, who is interested in the fact that I've seen, he's cut quite a lot of weight for this camera. I think he's lost 26 pounds since his last fight, which was his debut in the UFC against Lucas Bredski, who we saw obviously get K.O. in the first round by Big McParkin at UFC 303 in Manchester. He's got, Bredski's got a one and four UFC record. So, if you lose into that guy, then, yeah, to be honest, not too sure about you. You know, he's six foot six. He just has a reached advantage here, but you know, Taffa, you know, good on the feet. I don't think he's going to be overly concerned by that. Walker did have four stoppages in a row before being signed to the UFC, but it's just that loss to Bredski that's, who isn't that good. McParkin dispatched him really easily. Taffa's been in there, he stayed in there with Usman for the three rounds, despite being record. He's got a knockout win. He's fought higher competition, stepping in at the last minute. So, the Walker thing losing the weight, he looks a bit skinny now for heavy weight as well. So, I think maybe, I think his fight was in April. So, you know, he's lost 26 pounds since since April to compete, you know, heavy weight. Maybe that's going to deplete him a little bit in terms of his durability. So, I think these signs for me are strengthened in my case for Taffa, both novice heavyweights. Obviously, anything can happen. So, it's a risky one, but I'm going to offer junior Taffa. No, I can't know. I think that's one of the safest picks left in the option, Sam, to be honest with you. I think, like you said, I think you broke it down really well. So, yeah, nice picker. I think I've missed one out there. Do I play safe or do exciting? Do I go for the show? If I'm going for the show, I've got one or two picks. I could go directly against you and obviously, like you said, decide to win it. Or the reason, as I'm looking over here, I can be really safe. I might hold my win here, Sam. Like I said, I'm one, I'm one, I'm one fight night up at the moment. And I'm going to try to scrape a draw here. I think I've took a few risky picks in the middle of the round and I'll try to scrape a draw. I don't know too much about this, and it's why I've left him off. He's new into the UFC, but his opponents, I think, it's on the dying end of things. And his name's Jack Jenkins. He's a drinking as Australian fighter that's coming up against Herbert Burns. Herbert Burns is obviously someone who's been around the MMA jujitsu landscape for many years now. He's getting older. He's never been that impressive in the UFC like his brother. He's never gone on a run like his brother. And I think this Jack Jenkins formed a champion in the divisions of the ocean. Is it called Australasia now? When I was at the kept changing, it was from Melbourne, Australia. He'll have the fans behind him. And I think he'll take the win versus Herbert Burns, who was probably on the tail end of his career here. Jack is 31. So it's not like he's this young gun surgeon that he has 15 fights in MMA. So that's concerning all good. He's not a weathered veteran, but he's not a young gun who's going to make some mistakes against a very big grappling veteran in Herbert Burns. So yeah, I think I think Jack Jenkins is coming up. He lost his last fight versus Jose Mariscal, but he's beat Jamal Emmers, Don Shanice, Emilio Linarrez. He's gone on a big run like he said lost his last fight, but I'm not impressed by Herbert Burns anymore. Yeah, I think he gets the win in front of his home crowd. Herbert Burns has lost his last three fights anyway. So I think it's the end. I think it's the end for Herbert Burns. And I think I've got a late win here that we both missed out from. Jack Jenkins takes the win here. But as I was talking, I got more and more confident because I don't know. I've missed a lot of Jack Jenkins's fights over the year last spring. He lost versus he lost through an arm injury scene here to Jose Mariscal. I missed that fight. I must have gone through my beer watching the Addison history Clinton card. I can't remember it off the top of my head. So I think he, if it was just a random arm injury, I think he takes the win versus Herbert Burns. They're pretty comfortably. We've done a big losing streak. Come on, Sam, I've picked a late gun and I'm scraping a draw for this draft and I'm staying one up. Like it. Yeah. I think Burns is a replacement as well, isn't it? So he's taking this on short analysis as well. Just looking at it. Yeah. Yeah. This was only an ounce. I'm just looking at, I was just looking at. Jenkins is, Jenkins is Instagram. That's what I used to say. I used the guy with a tash, isn't he? He's got the mullet and the tash. So he's got more. He's got the look for it. Yes, this was only a couple of weeks ago. Took her out. Burns in. So short nights for Burns as well. So I think that's a good pick. I think that's a solid one. So yeah. Well, I've got a couple of risky ones with the heavy weights. You've got a couple that you're not a hundred percent. Some risks as well. So yeah, could be interested this one by the end. And we're only head to head one. So is that right? Yeah. And we're going to head to head once on the the OSEC Cara France fighter. Hopefully we've got something to play for by then. And it's maybe we're drawing heading into that fight. That'll be a nice way to finish. That bit of dreams. So good luck, Sam. Thank you for yeah. Thank you for doing this. Yeah. So we'll see this weekend. Should be good. It should be good fights. I think it was struggling because the fights are all pretty even. There's not many big money favorites. And I think a couple of other ways we've put in. But otherwise, yeah, just enjoy a good fight night. Go get some bets on. Enjoy it. There'll be some money to be made if you think you've got the edge on the bookies this time around. If you've watched a lot of these fighters, go get going some money. Because like I said, there's no big money. There's no big money favorites that are just going to ruin, well, not ruin bets, but make the night not as exciting for the better. So yeah. Sam, any last words? No, yeah, just to enjoy the fights and give us a like, give us a subscribe and we'll be back soon. Hopefully next year, I don't even know that the schedule now, like you say, the life's been sucked out of us a little bit. The next one is how we're. Hello, for Alio, who we watched a couple months ago versus Jared Cananea. Decent fight, but then I'm just looking down and yeah, it's not as exciting further down the car. We've got Gerald Mershark fighting on the main car. So we know we're struggling against that. We're on UFC, get your stuff together, make these fights an act a bit more appetizing for the viewer because GM3 at this point of his career should not be near any main event fights over the kratty combats that he's done. Let's leave him to kratty combat. I don't know how he's fighting in the main garden 2024, but fair enough. We'll keep it going Sam. See you hopefully next week. And see you again. Yeah, see you then. Thanks everyone.