Cory Sandhagen

That was the one that he was obviously going to win.

He comes back and beats Corey Sandhagen, but then he loses to Sterling in the rematch via split decision.

And then he loses another split decision to Sean.

I know there are some people who thought that he deserved that one, but the Murab one, he didn't look great in that.

Song Yedong can fight Mario Batista in a clear-cut number one contender fight because Batista's also on a two-fight win streak.

Just beat Corey Sandhagen.

kind of the odd man out of this title conversation.

And if you're doing Robin Umar, Jack had it right.

But, you know, I'm being a little bit sarcastic because it is, yeah, it is one of the reasons why I'm excited to watch this, why I'm glad we are getting this is not only because Evloyov at this point has absolutely earned it and it's just one of those ones where...

In the same way that with Corey Sandhagen, when he got his title shot at Bantamweight, you're just like, this guy has obviously been worthy of a title shot for quite some time.

And yeah, I'm just glad to see him in

there.

Uh, but I think, um, uh, I think I over-training, you know.

Uh, I take, uh, this last fight against Yan, two months after I fought Cory Sandhagen, and then it was only two months-

Mm-hmm

... between the fights.

He's better than everybody that he grapples with.

When he grappled with Sugar Sean O'Malley, Sean O'Malley had no answer for it.

When he grappled against Cory Sandhagen, S- Cory Sandhagen had no, you know, answer for it.

Even when he grappled Umar Nurmagomedov, it was very competitive.

And like Sean O'Malley one, uh, Two rounds, and then he tapped him in the rematch.

Umar, he, I think Umar, if memory serves, Umar won the first two, and then Marab, Marab'd him, and then Marab beat the absolute tar out of Corey Sandhagen.

So it's, it's a good title run.

Again, you're talking to a guy who was the only human alive who's like, he's not the GOAT Bantamweight.

...

I, I actually, I actually live in Colorado, and I heard that you were training with Corey Sandhagen.

Is that right?

Yeah, yeah.

And your defense is not usually super locked in when you're exiting a crash zone.

Corey Sandhagen talks about crashing a lot and he actually has a really good instruction on it.

But, you know, Andre Fialho just as they're exiting they're both kind of relaxed, throws up that head kick and boy, it lands flush and puts him out cold.

It landed right on the side of the neck.

It's okay if he fights Ilia Topuria next.

It's okay if he fights Corey Sandhagen next, or Chito Vera.

Like, that's fine.

That, those, one of...

I wanna see him fight, if...

I- ideally Cory Sandhagen would be great, but I know that he's, he's injured, so...

Mario Bautista, I don't know how you guys feel about that.

I would like to see that.

He did that against Umar in January.

A few months later, he fought Shug.

A few months later, he fought Cory Sandhagen.

And then a few months later, he's trying to break these, all these records, and then you run into Petr Yan, who Petr Yan's good and rested, and then takes it to him.