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I was in Florida.

Real American freestyle.

Dennis versus Covington.

Seruchian versus Georgio.

I'm going to share with you what I saw, what I saw behind the scenes.

Plus, of course, there's still talk.

Dana White says one thing, and John Jones says another,

I'm not certain that it matters.

You're going to fight or you're not.

Isn't that how it worked?

You know what, guys?

Let's start here.

I was in Florida over the weekend.

Real American freestyle.

Lots happened.

Let me tell you about it.

So anytime you come from one of these events,

and we do this in wrestling,

like we have an outstanding wrestler,

we give it a ward out.

And I'll think about that in my mind.

Who was the outstanding wrestler?

And in this case, it's complicated.

Look, let's start with Bob Asset.

I don't know that I've seen anything like this.

I'm not certain I've heard of anything like this.

Right?

I mean, there are stories that come around

before there was social media,

and there was an internet,

and everybody's holding a camera,

and you can document things,

and they become folklore.

Danny Hodge became folklore.

And how accurate are those stories versus the story goes on?

But it's just these amazing things,

where Danny Hodge could just do these amazing things.

He could grab a pair of pliers with his bare hands,

and he could break them.

To prove it, he'll grab an apple right now,

and he'll crush them in,

but they're just these things.

And when I was growing up,

Kerry Colott had entered the Midlands when he was 17.

Beat a number of all Americans came in third.

Midlands was viewed as the hardest collegiate tournament

in the world.

Much like the NCAA,

except the Olympic level,

the senior level guys could come in third.

This was huge that Kerry came in third.

And we're now living in a time

where these younger guys have taken over.

Aaron Pico kind of started that, by the way,

and I don't know that Pico gets enough credit for it,

but he was kind of that first younger guy

that could go on Henry Sohudo

without a collegiate experience.

So you get into Bo Bassett,

and Bo Bassett went out,

and he not only beat an Olympic champion.

He finished him.

He finished him 13 to three.

There's minutes left on the clock.

He didn't need them.

Now, in any form of combat, aside from wrestling,

if you beat a guy, you take whatever that guy has.

If you beat the UFC champion,

you take his championship,

and you become the UFC champion.

Just for example,

Bo Bassett just beat the Olympic champion.

To in any other form of combat,

we would consider Bo the Olympic champion.

He's a senior in high school.

I mean, this is just truly an amazing thing.

And then when you look to the future,

and I asked him straight up,

hey, you got a red shirt next year.

Now, I think the very common belief is,

no, he is not going to,

but I don't know that he's ever been put right on the spot

and asked that.

And he was very respectful.

And he said that's going to be up to

coach Robi and whatever he decides.

Well, you look at these amazing things

that Jack's just did.

Jack's is right in between, right?

If I'm looking to 2028,

Jack's is right in between being 133 pounds.

Is he going to drop down a weight class

or is he going to go up a weight class?

I'm very confident that I have the answer

that he's going to go up a weight class,

but that would still put Jack's

and Bassett in the same weight class.

In the drama behind that alone,

the fact that they grew up together,

the fact that they trained every single day

twice a day together,

I mean, it's just a really

incredible thing.

And Bassett is put such a gap.

Right? There's all sorts of things that can go wrong.

There are no,

there is no weight class that has more knee injuries

than the weight class that Bassett is at.

Just for example,

but I'm not convinced

that Bob Bassett with a torn up knee

can't still win.

Right? He has such a gap

that if things go terribly wrong,

he meets a girl.

His focus comes off wrestling.

He's not as motivated as he once was.

He, right, you start feeling the blicks.

He's still the guy.

It is truly an amazing thing.

And then he's polite on top of everything else.

All right, great.

Let's look at Dylan, Danison Colby.

This ended up like Dylan went out

and represented himself very well.

And there's no way

that Dylan walked into this match.

Regardless of what he says,

there's no way he went into that match thinking

he's going to get the jump on Colby.

Not under this rule set,

but he manned up and he made the walk anyway.

And by the way, I think he surprised himself.

I think he surprised himself.

I mean, Dylan was getting in on these singles.

He was defending some stuff.

There's a front headlock position.

Like Dylan was getting on the board.

He was stopping Colby on top a couple of times.

Turns into a really great match.

Colby calls out a couple of guys afterwards,

but primarily Chris Weidman.

And I think that's very exciting

because I think that match is going to happen.

Now, I haven't seen Chris's response.

But I trust he will respond.

And I trust that he will say,

yes, let's get to the main event.

You've got Soruchin.

Now, Soruchin and Giorgio have the sports viral moment

of the year in their first meeting.

They go out this time.

What is going to stop all hell from breaking loose again?

And anytime you've got a story,

you got a good guy and you got a bad guy.

But I must tell you,

I don't know who the bad guy was in this story.

Like both of these guys turned out to be pretty honorable men.

They live by a code and their code is a little bit different.

And it might complicate you at times,

but they still follow this code.

So as bad as this was to have armen on top of Giorgio,

punching him and a riot breaks out,

Giorgio understood it.

Like Giorgio's got just that little touch of crazy in him too.

Now, this match,

tried to get pilfered by a number of different organizations,

specifically a Jiu-Jitsu organization that was putting up just less

than $3 million.

And these guys said,

no, we've got to dispute,

but our dispute is under the real American freestyle rule set.

And that's where we're going to settle this.

That in of itself has an honor to it.

And they go out and this Giorgio is as tough as an old leather boot.

Then you look at Soruki and like, what would his motivation be?

What would his motivation be?

Soruki flies to a UFC two weeks ago.

He goes out to Brazil and takes on Moikaiyev,

where there's nothing to gain because Moikaiyev is a smaller guy.

He then gets on a plane.

He flies out to Florida and he goes and does this match.

It's going to be very hard.

Everybody knows it's going to be very hard.

Not to mention there's immense amount of pressure,

but Armand didn't really feel any of it.

He genuinely likes to compete.

And guys like that are very, very dangerous.

I don't know what Armand's sealing it.

But there's nothing that I have seen that would make me believe

it's anything less than World Champion.

And he also made it very clear.

I'm doing Jiu-Jitsu.

It's not my passion.

I'm doing wrestling.

It's not my pet.

I am doing Jiu-Jitsu and I'm doing wrestling

to prepare me for my passion,

which is to be the UFC champion.

And now there's just a question of

what's he got to do to get that opportunity?

He claims that he is the backup fighter.

And I believe him.

He has been back up fighter before.

He was back up fighter just to remind you

the night that the vacated title was contested between Charles Olivera

and Ilya Toporia.

And Armand claims that he is the backup fighter

for the White House card.

It would make a lot of sense

with everything that's going on on this White House card

and to pull this off,

that they would have a backup fighter for their main event.

I believe him.

But if you are the backup fighter,

history says after that match,

you then become the fighter.

There is only one time in history

where a backup fighter did not get the opportunity

next.

And I think that's very exciting.

I think that Armand is very exciting.

I thought that his match with Georgio was awesome.

With Kyle Snyder takes on TAS,

Olympic champion versus Olympic champion.

Oh, by the way, Kyle has yet to beat TAS.

He's 0 and 2 against him.

So Kyle finds a way.

He figures this thing out.

Tidescore 3, 3, go to criteria.

Snyder gets the win.

You look at Kyle Dayke.

He's out there with Keck Geisen.

And

Kyle Dayke is another one of these guys.

How many times can he get it up?

How many times

can he walk out there into fire,

which are the only kind of matches that he gets?

Only top guys in the world versus day

can he finds a way.

And history says the younger guy is going to come along.

And Kyle Dayke says,

history doesn't apply to me.

And it was just an incredible weekend,

all in all.

If I was to have one storyline that's coming out of this,

I am waiting.

I am eagerly awaiting the response of Chris Whiteman.

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John Jones and Dana White appeared to be in a fight,

but the fight appears to be manufactured by the media.

I mean, there was a press conference over the weekend

and Dana gets more questions about John Jones.

Now, now this argument,

which I really don't know that I feel is between John and Dana,

I feel it's the media creating this between John and Dana,

but they're fighting over nothing.

There's nothing here.

There's one side of the story, which is,

hey, John Jones was offered $15 million.

There's another side of the story that

John Jones was never going to fight on the White House guard.

But again,

what difference does it make?

Right.

Like, it doesn't make one guy a liar to our understanding,

John and Dana never spoke.

So Dana's getting his information somewhere.

John's getting his information somewhere.

I believe there's even a manager involved.

So now, John's two degrees of separation

away from the actual response, but what difference does it make?

And I got to tell you,

I am on John Jones' side.

What side is that?

I'm not totally clear.

Why am I on John's side?

How can I pick a side if I don't even know the side as well?

I think John wants to compete.

I think that John has qualified

for a bit of selectiveness.

Now, selectiveness can drive us insane,

but there are guys that put enough time in

and they do enough heavy lifting that

there's a little bit of selectiveness that we put up with.

It's the White House that concerns me.

Like, there's something about that

where the story won't go away.

By example, when John tells the story,

I wanted to fight and I've got this financial thing

and it didn't really matter who the opponent was.

And I know we were talking about asphalt at one point.

We're talking about somebody else

that we all believe to be Alex Piera.

And I need this dollar sign and it need to be the White House.

To me, that was the test.

To me, that was the problem.

If we're going to do John,

we got to do him for a belt.

Right, we can all agree that John is that damn good.

And if you want to do an intro belt or an undisputed belt,

but we can agree that there's some kind of a title

that's got to be associated with a John John's fight.

Now, when you put the belt around somebody,

it's very important that four months later,

he defend that belt.

And four months after that, roughly,

he defend the belt again.

Now, that historically has always been a little bit of a problem with John,

but we will take him in his work.

John, are you still back or are you still fighting?

Is this something that you want to do?

I'm not clear on that.

John really went all in on White House.

And so the question becomes, okay,

but if we do the same thing,

but we do an international fight,

we can now you're in Vegas, you're in Timo.

Will, are we good here?

We do the same thing,

but we're going to take it out to the O2 arena.

It's going to be asked for all,

are we good here?

Or is it very specifically the White House?

Because I'm only doing the White House once.

And that's the one part of this

that I really don't have clarity.

A number of people have said,

hey, pay John, hey, get John, I get that.

But is that even an option?

Can we pay John?

Can we get John?

Is there a number that we agree to,

but not only do we agree to it,

we agree then roughly four months later,

we do this again.

Do you have in your mind that you're not fighting at the White House?

You're not fighting at Timo,

but you're not fighting at MSG.

You're fighting in the octagon.

Wherever I set this thing up,

are you in?

Because if we're going to put a belt around you,

it's, we've got, we just can't hold the locker room up anymore.

We can't jam this up, tie this up, log jam,

take this motivation away from guys.

I mean, look at the sacrifice.

I'll just use Volkov, I example,

but look at the sacrifice.

The Volkov's gone through anything to try to get

a world title fight.

And we hold that belt up, right?

It becomes a massive jam.

And I've got to go back to what Tom asked,

but all said in November of last year,

where he said, I am the undisputed active champion.

Tom was right when he said that.

And that mentality has got to carry on.

And if it's a cash grab and it's your last time,

there's places to fight.

It's just not what they do in the UFC.

So I do remain supportive of John Jones,

not to mention I love the idea of John versus Pierre.

But I don't have to see it.

I don't have to see it to know who the champion is.

If Pierre is so sincere that he will walk away from a world championship,

take all of the risk, come into a weight class that he's yet to fight.

Just to pursue a dream of champ, champ, champ stats,

I know that Pierre means it.

And Pierre by the way, did just sign a new contract.

And that contract does call for three or four,

five fights, whatever it is, but he plans to do them.

He plans to do them and tell the wheels fall off and he can't do it anymore.

He's not going to hold anybody up, but he doesn't care who the opponent is.

And he will make that walk.

And he's done that hurt a number of time.

And he's done it at different weight classes.

He's getting ready to do it for his third time at a different weight classes.

He's done it over two different sports.

Like there's no questioning his sincerity,

which comes back to what Tom said about being the active champion.

And it is not just about who's the best.

It's about who's the best that's willing to compete.

If you're not willing to compete, what difference does it make?

And I would love to talk to John.

John watches my pieces and generally ends up mad at me,

but I would like to talk to John.

And I'm not going to stump him.

I would just like to clear up a couple of things,

just so we know if we're getting behind John,

what are we getting behind?

And the biggest thing,

I mean, the one constant that keeps on not being able to get worked around,

even within my own mind, is White House.

Was all of your willingness and all of your effort just into that

or is it into competing in the UFC in the Octagon wherever they set that thing up?

How much money has John Jones left on the table?

It's an interesting thing, guys.

And you can go about your career in a number of different ways.

And there's different things that will signal your brain and get you going.

If you feel that you're being disrespected in any walk of life,

it's very hard to go to work.

Like it's just a very hard thing to do.

So John, like many, we'll look at a fight and go,

hey, I need the big payday for this fight or this qualifies or I should get it, for example.

And I look at John's career.

John left off the top of my head,

but three years on the table.

It's when he left light heavyweight in order to go up to heavyweight.

And in those three years, that would average nine fights, right?

So nine fights and let's call it two million a piece.

I'm rounding, but I'm rounding down.

I'm being very conservative.

So nine fights at two million dollars, right?

That alone, we're looking at 18 million bucks.

Now, there has not been an 18 million dollar payday for John.

Just for example, these numbers that didn't work that are fictional and yet to be verified,

we're 15 million dollars for one fight.

So if you've done a bunch of small fights, right?

If you went out there and you hit single,

every now and then you're going to get a double and you can hope for a triple

and very suddenly you're going to get a home run.

But if each time you hit a single,

you know what the world of baseball does to you when your career's done?

They put you in the hall of fame.

Just go out there and hit a single.

So when you look at John,

you're okay, just those three years to bulk up between light heavyweight and heavyweight

conservatively rounding down.

We come up with 18 million dollars.

There was then two suspensions in there.

And I cannot recall without the research where those for 12 months was one of them 24 months.

But I know one of them cost UFC 200,

which is one of the, this is back under the paper view models,

but it was one of the most successful paper views of all time.

And would have garnered John again conservatively and rounding down three million dollars.

So you start to look at your man.

There was some massive amounts of money now.

Why do I bring this up?

One thing that guys never know until it's over,

myself included none of them.

Is that there is an end?

You're right.

It's just one of these things.

Eligibility is one of the words that I disrespected the most in my lifetime.

And I didn't value it until it was gone.

And I just share that if you're holding out, you're looking for the big fights, but

you only have a certain amount of bullets in the chamber.

You only have a certain amount.

And you don't know, you're pulling that trigger.

And you don't know when you fire your last one.

You don't know.

So you could hold out and wait five years for a 20 million dollar payday.

You could, and it may or may not come.

Or you can hit a whole bunch of singles.

And in that same time period, have 30 million dollars.

And I'm not here to say who's wrong,

but these are the choices that you get to make.

And so how much did John leave on the table?

It's an interesting question.

And I don't know at this point in his career that he would look back and have any regrets.

I just would think when he turns 45, when he turns 5,

right, the future is coming when it is no longer an option to make that walk.

It's no longer an option.

To have 3 million a night or say no to 3 million a night.

You look at it.

And you fired the same amount of rounds, right?

If John's got five fights left in him, he could do that over five years.

Or he could speed that up and do it in the next 18 months.

And have the same amount of money.

These are broad strokes, but I'm just sharing with you.

It's one of those tough things.

And the guys that don't have money problems or problems with the money

are just simply guys that say yes, they take the opportunity.

They understand the most times that they're going to go to work in a year is three times.

They don't want to miss those dates.

Single, single, single.

They just keep hitting them.

It keeps stacking up.

And that guy can retire when he's 28 years old,

but have the same amount of money.

Then if he would have extended it and stalled it and said no to matches,

that he would have when he's 35, the numbers don't really change.

Just how long do you want to be in the sport?

Some guys want to extend their career.

They want to be in a really long time.

They're not wrong.

They're not.

But if you do look at it, however many fights John has left, whatever that number is,

is not going to be different.

If he goes out and gets one big payday or he gets three paydays,

I think that three fights is a very realistic number for John Jones.

With his age, I could even bring numbers in to kind of support that idea.

He's probably got three fights left.

And when you have three fights left, by the way,

that doesn't mean that you're going to do three fights.

It means you're not going to do four.

That's what it means.

If you've got three fights left, you might come in under that number,

but you're not going to go above it.

I don't think that John would disagree if he was here right now.

Three probably sounds about right.

But that number is going to be the same.

Do you want to wait five years to get that money?

Do you want to get it all right now?

There's only so many bullets in the chamber.

And when that last one is fired, you were the last one to know.

And it's a little bit more of a philosophical question,

but it's one that every fighter at some point has to ask himself.

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Armand Sarukian says he is the backup fighter

for the White House.

Now, I ran that by Ian Parker, who said that I should fact check that.

That he doesn't believe that's accurate.

Now, I got to tell you.

I don't know that it matters from this perspective.

Has Sarukian been told, does he have an actual contract?

Is he going to get licensed, for example?

Is he going to get down a way to go through a training camp

and fly out like he did once before?

Ilya Toporia versus Charles Oliver.

Or is he saying, is he claiming it, right?

Kids used to do this on video games when I was growing up,

but it was called dibs.

They'd come and they put their core on the machine

to say, I got dibs, it means that I'm next.

And if nobody else has declared

that they're willing to step in,

if nobody else has declared dibs,

it would seem like Armand is the guy.

And by the way, the White House card, it's so big and it's so meaningful.

And it would seem like to protect yourself.

You would want a backup fighter.

Gachi is Mr. Reliable.

Ilya is not going to flinch, but things happen.

People miss flights.

Somebody gets sick.

I mean, things happen.

It would seem like maybe we should get that contract in place for Armand.

Maybe we should make sure that he's close to weight and his license.

Maybe we should book travel and have him there just in case.

And my larger thought on Serukian,

like he fell into a very weird purgatory

when his fight with Islam didn't materialize.

And one person who never disagreed with that,

one person who never said, I'm the victim.

I'm being mistreated.

Was Serukian.

As a matter of fact, if you remember that timeline, he went quiet.

We still do not have clarity on what happened.

Roughly one, two, three in the morning.

Dana White gets a phone call from Serukian's team.

There was rumors that there was a back issue,

but I'm just here to tell you, we've never really got that cleared up.

I mean, Serukian never came out.

He never came out with medical reports and a statement from a doctor

like a kid would do.

He never did any of those things.

He actually went quiet for a period of time.

When he came back, people were setting him up.

They were setting him up to declare this is what I should get.

This is what I mode.

He never did it.

He started taking any match that he could get.

And then he even went outside of MMA.

He started taking any jujitsu, Matt.

He went outside of jujitsu.

He started taking any wrestling match.

Like he's one of these guys where if you're in a purgatory and you got to buy your way out,

you got to buy your way out with good deeds.

He's done it.

He's done it in spades.

And if he says that he's the back of fighter,

look, history says and there's only one exception to this.

Anybody that's ever been a backup fighter has then got to fight for the title.

And there's only one exception to that.

Two, if you count Serukian.

Because we're talking about him, I'm not counting him.

And that was the night with with Charles and Ilya.

Serukian did not get an automatic title fight, but the division got weird.

Ilya comes off the board.

They ended up doing an interim championship, but that wasn't established yet.

Serukian gets put in what we're told as a number one contenders fight with Dan Hooker.

He wins the fight, but then there was the headbutt the day before like there was just things

that happened, but one guy who's never complained and never said I'm owed anything and never

said I'm a victim was Serukian.

He just went to practice.

He took opportunities.

He said yes when his phone rings like all of that sounds to me like he's the number one contender.

All of that sounds to me like he's the guy who should get dibs if something is to happen

between Ilya or Gachi.

And by the way, if you don't have a backup fighter like that, that would be a very interesting

hypothetical. Let's say Ilya doesn't show up to that fight for whatever reason,

but let's just say that Ilya doesn't make that fight. That is the very reason that you have an

interim champion. If your undisputed champion gets booked and cannot compete, there would be no

stronger argument to elevate your interim champion to the undisputed champion.

That would be the number one reason. So what would happen in that scenario?

I think that that

Arman would then fight Gachi for the undisputed belt winner to take on Ilya. Now this is a

problem just for a debate just for fun. And you can sort that out later, but I don't know that anyone

has ever played the hand they've been dealt better than Serukian. And I also think this is at a

perfect time where the locker room needs a leader. And I really hope that the other guys are

looking to the example set by Serukian. If we had a roster of 700 plus athletes,

men and women in all the divisions, and everybody had the attitude that Serukian has,

which is any rule set any time you call me my answer will be yes. That would be the dream

position that we could be in as MMA fan. I want Serukian to be announced the number one

guitar. I want him to have dibs. I want that statement to be true. And whether it was accurate at

the time that he said it or it's just coming into the universe, let's get behind him. Let's back him

up. Let's tell people, let's spread the rumor. Let's make sure that Serukian is the backup guy

should anything happen to Gachi or Toporia. What did caught him a Gregor mean when he said,

and I quote, the rumors are true. Mr. Confidence returns to save fighting again. Call your grandma,

nanny. We did it. Watch and pay me. F you pay me. You fat Irish prick. You don't have my money.

I put your brain to sleep. That's poetry. I got to tell you it's poetry because that's open

to interpretation. Now look, I have confirmation I can share with you. Conor McGregor's contract is

done with the UFC. It was reported to us that last Monday, Conor's longtime manager,

business partner, Auditor went to the UFC and met face-to-face with Dana to clear up so that

everybody had an understanding that worked. That meeting work. Everybody is now on the same page.

Conor McGregor's coming back. Look, it is very important for Conor's legacy that he come back.

Now, it's not as important and we can get to this. Who does he fight? Does he win? Where does that

take him? Those are separate entities. Conor McGregor returning is important because one thing

that Conor has never done to you. He's never lied to you. Conor has made some big claim over time.

Conor claimed he could beat Jose Aldo. Conor claimed he was going to go up to 155

and defeat Eddie Alvarez. Conor claimed he was going to go to boxing and take on Floyd Mayweather.

Conor claimed he was going to open a restaurant and bar. Conor claimed he was going to start a

successful whiskey business. Conor claimed they've all been true. The only thing that Conor has

ever told us that has not yet happened is that he's coming back and I can tell you I spoke to him.

He's sincere. He means it and I can now tell you the USC's on the same page and he has a deal.

I also think that Conor's coming back sooner rather than later. I think international fight weekend

is very real for Conor. Now, I'm going to speculate. When I just told you, it's fact. Now, I'm going

to speculate. I think it's Ian Gary. I think it's Ian Gary for a couple of different reasons.

Conor says in this quote though, right? He says Mr. Confidence return to say fight and he's talking

about himself. Now, he's never referred to himself as Mr. Confident. He's the notorious and he's

the node Stradamus. He said that many times that he's got a crystal ball and he can see the

future. He's never called himself Mr. Confident, but he's talking about himself. Call your grandma

nanny. We did it. Now, this is very in line with red panty night. Hey, honey, we did it.

Break out the red panties. Right. Conor said things like this before. So we know what he's saying.

Then he says watch me and pay me. F you pay me. All right. With most fighters, that's the way out.

But it's not in this case, right? With most fighters, it's hey, I'll do it. I'll do it. I go. And

then they price themselves out of the market.

Conor's got a deal done. So Conor has not priced himself out of the market. And this is not him

laying groundwork to price himself out. He's got a deal. It's done. I'm telling you. Now,

he says you fat Irish prick. You don't have my money. I put your brain to sleep. I gotta tell you,

I don't know what that mean. I don't believe that Conor would be referring to Dana. Dana

happens to be Irish. And he says something about money. Well, the person paying him would be Dana.

I don't think he's talking about Dana. The line is a bit incoherent, almost like he did a voice

to text. I want to read it to you again. You fat Irish prick. You don't have my money. I put your

brain to sleep. I don't know what it means. But there is a nether Irish person that's involved.

Potentially. And that's Ian Carey. Now, nobody would call Ian fat. I don't think

that I'm a little confused by the entire thing. But I like the idea. And I don't think Conor

is going to walk into a softball. And many people do predict that like this story will never go away

that the UFC protects people or the UFC carries people. That story will never go away.

It's just historically not true. You couldn't go back and look at a time pack. Okay,

hey, this guy was carried in this guy. And he was given this because they were trying to build him.

They were setting this guy up. It's just one of these things that's not true. Dana made a brand

promise many years ago. And it turned out to be spot on, which is the best are going to fight the

best. So even if you're Conor McGregor and even if you move the needle greatly, they're not going

to bring in another legend. They're not going to bring in the ideas. That rumor doesn't go away.

They're not going to bring in George Mosvedal. And by the way, that's been a strong rumor.

I heard that as recently at a conversation with Helen Yee and Shmo and Mosvedal has been saying

I'm going to come back and they got something big for me. And so a lot of people are speculated

like there was a time when Conor was the biggest drawn the sport. And Mosvedal was the second

biggest drawn the sport. Like there was a time. You guys remember Steve O was pushing for that

fight trying to get it because he was buddies with Mosvedal. We were behind it too. And I don't hate

the idea that we would bring in a legend. I don't hate the idea of a Nick Diaz. I don't hate the

idea of a Nate Diaz. I don't hate the idea of a George Mosvedal. I just don't believe that's the

direction they're going to go. And even the evidence that we have is recently as three weeks ago,

which was passing in on Rhonda versus Gina. And Dana said, well, the reason we passed is we didn't

have anywhere to go with that. They both want to come back one time and they're both kind of

selective that they want to fight each other. I need somebody that's going to fight. And then it

it leads into something else. Dana was very open. And for some reason, the public and the media were

resistant. But almost like this was a promoter talking. But I'm just here to remind you if you

follow the tape and you unwind it, that's very in line. And that's where somebody like in Ian

Gary makes a lot of sense. Look, this isn't a pill battle for Connor. It's one of the coolest parts

of this story. Connor can talk about pay me and he can talk about FU. He can talk about all these

things. Connor's not fighting for money. He's just not as much as you don't want to believe that

Connor's not fighting for money. Money is a byproduct. Connor, it turns out wants to fight.

And there's something inside of him that's not complete. I don't know what that is.

I speculate that it's a challenge to himself. Connor in his last fight had his leg broken into an

injury that we've only seen two other time. Cory Hill, Anderson, Silva. And when they came back,

they were different. And they were both really good and they were really special. But they were

different. And I think that that is part of Connor's motivation. I think he's got something he's

attempting to prove to himself. But I like it. And I do think the biggest part of the story

is not yet. Who does he fight? I don't think the biggest part of the story is what weight class?

What's the significance? I think he got to beat one battle at a time. And it's very important

to Connor McGregor who has never lied to you. I think it's important that he follow through with

this. And I think he's going to follow through with this. I think you're going to have an announcement

about Connor McGregor and his next opponent a lot sooner than you might think.

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