UFC 332 RECAP: Natalia Silva Is Champ, Talbott KOs Figgy, Damian Pinas Is a PROBLEM & Rosas Jr. LIVE

So UFC Freedom 250, we have said, gives 2026 a headstart on all of these other calendar years in terms of being the greatest year in UFC history, right? People look at 2016, Conor McGregor, Nate Diaz.

If you look bigger picture MMA, Pride, Grand Prix 2005.

I mean, there were a lot of amazing-

Yeah

... years.

1993, Royce Gracie.

On and on it goes.

But Kenny, my goodness, Verdict MMA, they do such a great job sort of trying to compile the best fights of the year, best cards of the year.

Kenny, this has been an unbelievable year, and I'd love to start with Natalia Silva and Wang Tong, and I promise we'll get there soon.

But this live event set the record for most first-round finishes, most first-round finishes successively, most knockouts, most knockdowns.

And to have a front row seat for that was, was truly an experience that I will never forget.

This was absolutely absurd.

I'm, I'm curious what it was like from your vantage point.

I know it's not your intention for me to kind of make this known, but you called it, my friend.

You called it, and, you know, so many of these fights, these fight cards, um, you know, get underestimated and they just deliver time and time again.

So, um, i- it's always worth, you know, tuning in, especially for th- these larger cards, and, uh, definitely delivered as far as action.

And as far as action in the main event, I thought it was a good technical fight.

I, I think Natalia Silva's speed really was, uh, the problem for Wang Tong.

I, I think that she did not have an answer to that.

You know, we'll get into that a little bit later, but, you know, I think when you are the longer fighter, number one, and when you are the slower fighter, you have no other choice but to be the aggressor.

You have to back that person up.

If you are waiting for a faster fighter and trying to counter the faster fighter, um, I think it's a recipe for disaster.

And I think by the time Wang Tong knew, um, what to do, it was really too late.

So I guess we'll get it out of the way.

I was surprised that a lot of people were talking about the pronunciation of her name after the fact, right? Uh, maybe we should bring back the segment on the program, but it is in fact the way Kenny just pronounced it, Wang Tong.