Magomed Ankalaev

James Tuhuno? Who was the champ? Yeah, Alex Pereira.

Alex Pereira fought Magomed on Goliath.

Ah, he got his belt back.

That's right, he got his belt back.

And you said Carlos Shields from surgery.

Could it be Magomedov against Khalil? Jiri against Paulo, which leaves you as the next band up.

You fight around number nine, number seven, and Azamat.

I mean, it was really a great premonition to what has just happened.

I'm gonna say...

I think Ankh beats Olberg then.

No, I think it's Yuri.

Yuri already got smoked by the champion.

And if he wins that, we're gonna be in the Basharat business of gonna have to keep doing this as he kinda makes his way up if he's good enough," right? Like, and we might d- And, and I can guarantee you this factors in now to, [chuckles] do we wanna do that, or we wanna just sorta like push him out now, you know? Um, because we've seen it.

Ankalaev, for instance.

Y- Th-They don't want him near the title at this point, you know what I mean? Like, there's just certain guys, and I, I just don't think that you want Basharat.

Now, you're right.

Carlos Ulberg.

He's the champ, but who's under him? Ankalaev.

There we go.

Prochazka.

The champion's hurt.

Pereira's right there though.

But the Ankalaev-Pereira fight could happen again to fight for-

Pereira's gonna fight again?

no you're not gonna wait no look that's why i think strickland knows the game he said he's like i'm just gonna fight out my contract i might fight it out at 205 who cares i'll just go in there collect my paycheck and then fight it out then you know ride off Um, but obviously it doesn't go that easily.

Like his next seven fights are going to be against a guy named Magomed, but it is what it is, you know?

And on top of that, for Strickland to do what he wants to do, what he's saying, it would make more sense to do.

He would have to go out and win.

Yeah, so you probably don't wanna go through those weight cuts again.

So I don't hate the decision that he's made, especially that he was able to regain the light heavyweight title by finishing Ankalaev.

Um, but yeah, and it's, it's a dangerous and it's a risky fight, uh, for Alex Pereira, but it-- you need, uh, someone...

I, I was wondering maybe Volkov would've maybe been a safer fight.

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At least Ankalaev won, so, uh, I look like I predicted it.

Oh, that would've been bad if, if he just got slapped-

Actually, this is going up after.

Yeah.

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Now suddenly I like Ankalaev.

Sam would've had a, uh, pain tattoo if otherwise if he had won.

They ended up changing that at the last second.

Ankalaev gets thrown.

They still did a 4.1 million.

Yeah.