Dan Ige

Done.

You might remember a night more recently where Dan Ige wanted an opportunity.

And even if it was opposite Lopez on 20 minutes notice.

But he called up and he explained, he showed his passion.

Subtle difference, but it makes all the difference because if your shoulder is against the fence, you are sort of side on and the guy can step around you, start running you towards where your chest is pointing and off balance you and lift you.

Perfect example of this is Evloev versus Ige.

When Ige's shoulder is to the fence, he takes him down easy.

He off balances him and then picks him up and slams him.

When Ige's head is into the fence and his butt's straight back towards the center of the cage, Evloev can't do shit.

And there were instances of the same thing against Arnold Allen, Aljo, and Leroy Murphy.

So I was really intrigued to see where this went.

Last time he, I mean, even Lopez, some people thought that Lopez should have got it for offense from his back.

The guy's been in the UFC since 2019 and hasn't lost a fight.

He's beat guys like Dan Ige, Diego Lopez, Arnold Allen, Aljamain Sterling, Lerone Murphy.

That's a crazy run, even if every one of them was a decision.

And of course, that's in part why it took this long to get him into a title fight.

And kind of just...

I think just was the first person to really put bad cracks in Dan Ige's chin.

Yeah.

When he hit him with that colossal step knee.

Yeah.

That was the first time I'd seen Dan Ige get really badly hurt.

And from that point on, Dan Ige started to get hurt much, much, much

more.

He's got a tough road, man.

Dan Ige, you know, was no punk, especially in 2022.

Beat him.

Diego Lopez, it's pretty good, right? Beat him.

The, the Korean Superboy fight.

Jamal Emmers, Dan Ige.

I, I, I just think he's been fighting such a le- high level of competition, and I'm sorry, Nallo fought terrible regional competition up until he gets in there with Jai Herbert.

I think I agree with you.

I, I don't know.

And I, I, I don't wanna glaze it too much, but like Nate Landwehr, God, th- these last five guys that he's lost to, Cub Swanson, Morgan Charriere, Juhu Choi, Dan Ige, and Julian Erosa, if I was to make a list of like 10 action featherweights, those five would be on the top 10.

Those guys are like-

I, I, I'm gonna put this out there just, just, just, just, you know, to, to, to, to say it, the youngest Canadian fighter on the card is Mike Malott at 34.

Ah, I bet that dude's at the gym right now working his ass off.

I better go." You know what I mean? I, it's, it's like, um, you know, it, it's funny 'cause, you know, Dan Ige, love Dan Ige and, and obviously what a cool story that was.

Remember when he stepped up off the massage table on, like, an hour's notice and went to the T-Mobile arena and fought? And it's funny 'cause it is amazing that something like that happened, but it, but at the time I kinda laughed 'cause it was like bro, everybody on the roster would do that, you know what I mean?

Yeah.