Michael Chiesa

Correct.

Al Michaels is getting up there in a...

And, and again, I'm not trying to be disrespectful at all, okay?

No. He's a-

But-

Al Michaels got, has to be close to 90.

How old is he?

He's gotta be, dude.

At 2:30, uh, Niko Price, "The Hybrid," is gonna be joining us.

You know, he retired after losing to Michael Chiesa in March, and then they called him up and said, "Do you want a proper retirement fight? Do you want to be the A side in your retirement fight?" And he said yes, and he fought, uh, this past weekend against Leon Shabazzian, and he won, and it was a great moment for him and his family, got to go in the cage.

He's got seven kids, by the way.

Uh, I think he's transitioning over to, uh, some landscape business that he's, uh, working on with his family.

PT will join us as well.

But for now, uh, excited to talk to Niko Price.

Back in March, he fought Michael Chiesa.

Chiesa retired.

You know, this warmed my heart, to be completely honest with you, because Nico, obviously, was going to retire with the Chiesa fight.

But we knew way ahead of time that this was Michael Chiesa's retirement fight.

The UFC had all the notice in the world to make it about him.

We got a ghost in there, Michael.

Like for instance, the Nico Price type thing, like this is a guy who had been around, he's been around the fight game a long time.

He tried to retire last fight, but he tried to do it on top of Chiesa, who was having the big ceremony in Seattle.

Um, so he comes back, and who do they give him? They give him the, you know, Shaba- the lesser-known Shabazyan brother and, you know, you're like, "What?" I'm not sure the dude has, you know...

Should he be in the UFC? No.

It's so bad.

Dude, the, the Niko Price thing is hilarious though, like objectively hilarious.

Isn't it like he tries to retire on the night that Michael Chiesa's having a whole celebration, just like they're trying to give him in this one, and, like, he gets completely pushed to the side.

So you feel bad for the dude.

You've stepped up when we needed you to.

Your fight with Michael Chiesa was supposed, supposed to be a retirement fight.

Didn't go your way.

W- we'll give you one more, and we're gonna give you..." And, and I mean this, and, and I've said it on other shows, and it wasn't even tongue in cheek, I really meant it, and maybe they just caught me on a grumpy day where I said this into a live microphone, but I truly mean it.

Do any of them do amateur shows?" Uh, no.

Of course not.

Uh, I mean, well, s- I mean, look, Joe Ban has been doing, and Kiesa as well.

Uh, I think Felder did some CFFC stuff.

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... and because it was, uh, it was Michael Chiesa's retirement fight as well, no one noticed.

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So they picked him up, and he's back.