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friends. And evening,

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friends, and welcome

1:34

to the See me!

1:36

Awards. The most prestigious

1:40

annual the

1:42

most prestigious of award show

1:44

in all of mixed martial

1:46

arts the show where

1:48

we honor the most notable

1:50

achievements in combat sports. sports

1:53

for for worse. worse. I'm

1:55

Chad Chad and I'm

1:58

joined as always by

2:00

my faithful confidant, my

2:02

platonic life partner. He's always trying

2:05

to fuck, but he doesn't eat

2:07

that ass. You know him, you

2:09

love him. You can't live without

2:11

him, ladies and gentlemen. Mr. Ben

2:14

Folks is here with us. We

2:16

are less than 60 seconds into

2:18

this thing. That's what you chose

2:21

to go with. Can you feel

2:23

the anticipation? I gotta tell you,

2:25

I'm so excited for this year,

2:27

Siamese. I feel like I'm nervous.

2:30

I feel like I'm sweating. over

2:32

here. I can feel my heart

2:34

racing. Obviously, everybody knows that the

2:37

Siamese is the most popular episode

2:39

we do every year to the

2:41

point where I wonder why other

2:44

MMA related websites and or podcast

2:46

don't take up the idea of

2:48

doing like a year-end awards thing.

2:50

It's strange that we're the only

2:53

ones that do this. This is

2:55

the only year-end MMA award show.

2:57

It's a night for majesty. It's

3:00

a night for wonder. Tonight we

3:02

celebrate the winners, the losers, and

3:04

the absolute goofs out there who

3:06

made this year worth continuing to

3:09

pay attention to MMA. Congratulations in

3:11

advance to the winners and as

3:13

always to those just lucky enough

3:16

to be nominated. Suck at you

3:18

scumbags, you just weren't good enough.

3:20

Better luck next year, you absolute

3:22

idiots! I

3:27

brought some sound effects. It's a night

3:29

so big, you brought your own soundboard.

3:31

Yeah. We've been talking for a long

3:34

time about how we need to get

3:36

a soundboard for the CME. Here you

3:38

are. You've got it. It's, I don't,

3:40

it's high tech. You got a high

3:43

tech soundboard over there. Yeah, this costs

3:45

me $80,000, but worth every penny. I

3:47

think you will agree. Daddy too. You

3:50

know? What did that say? It's like

3:52

if you start getting on me for

3:54

spending $80,000 of the podcast money on

3:56

this soundboard, I'll just hit you one

3:59

of these. Daddy chill.

4:01

Oh, daddy chill Chad's daddy chill. I got

4:03

you. I I got you. I got you.

4:05

Loses something when you don't know when

4:07

you can't understand what it's saying, what it's

4:09

saying. Now I get it now I get it. See now

4:11

I get it. Yeah. I got I got dozens of

4:13

these on here. So I got dozens

4:16

of these on here, so

4:18

already a prepare yourself. I can't

4:20

wait. Which is already a splendid

4:22

evening been another is fitting because it's

4:24

been another truly magical year of mixed martial

4:26

arts. We can't wait to get things rolling.

4:28

rolling. as as we celebrate this year's nominees, we

4:30

have a lot to get to, so sit back.

4:33

have a this to get to.

4:35

So sit back for this

4:37

year's, see me! Awards.

4:39

This This year, we're coming

4:41

in in a brand a award, new

4:43

award we think is gonna

4:45

get this year. See me!

4:47

gonna get this year's see me! Awards

4:50

off on on the right foot

4:52

this year. We'd like to like

4:54

to introduce to you. you. The

4:56

how about you you suck my

4:58

dick, bro? How about

5:00

you suck my balls award? We want

5:02

to start with that, huh?

5:05

Okay. award! it out. We're

5:07

We want to start with that, huh? the

5:10

we're getting it on. We're starting It's like when

5:12

the Oscars start with best supporting actor out out

5:14

the gate so that you get get You

5:16

get things started on a high note. on a

5:18

high note. This award Ben

5:20

celebrates the best

5:22

random character. character who became

5:24

a thing. a thing. on on this year's

5:26

podcast. podcast. There are so are so many

5:28

random characters that come in and out of our

5:30

lives on this podcast and out of only a

5:32

few were good enough to get nominated for

5:34

the award. The nominees are. good enough to

5:37

get My daughter's volleyball coach.

5:39

the award. The nominees are. My

5:41

daughter's volleyball cousin, who brought

5:43

a tender date to the family

5:45

reunion. to the family

5:47

Flicker! The Northern Flickr!

5:50

And all Ben's quote unquote friends. Now what the

5:52

what the fuck is that supposed

5:54

to mean? mean? What do you mean? What does

5:56

it mean? What does it mean? Explain

5:59

yourself. It's... Why is it

6:01

quote unquote friends? It's self-explanatory because

6:03

you have never to my knowledge

6:05

come up in here and started

6:08

telling an anecdote about someone who

6:10

you referred to by as your

6:12

quote unquote friend who later turned

6:15

out to be male. That's not

6:17

true at all. It's a female

6:19

every single time. that fucking bird

6:21

who started pecking a big ass

6:24

hole in the side of my

6:26

household about the size of a

6:28

golf ball. This little fucker was

6:31

able to drill in just a

6:33

couple of days. He became a

6:35

guy, a capital G guy on

6:38

the podcast for a couple of

6:40

weeks, and it was a contentious

6:42

discussion because my original idea was,

6:45

I'm killing this fucking bird. And

6:47

then some of the good Samaritans,

6:49

the animal lovers over on the

6:52

the discord, talked me out of

6:54

it. So I went down to

6:56

the hardware store, I got some

6:59

of the flash tape that makes

7:01

it look to the eye of

7:03

the bird like the house is

7:06

on fire. I tacked it up

7:08

on the outside of the house

7:10

and the flicker hasn't been back.

7:13

Did the trick. Now, could I

7:15

say something controversial here? Yeah, you

7:17

absolutely can. That's what this night

7:20

is for. Neil's cousin who brought

7:22

the tender date to the family

7:24

reunion was robbed. Okay, because what

7:27

people who are just maybe tuning

7:29

in for the Siamese, because it's

7:31

the most magical night in mixed

7:34

martial arts and everybody knows that,

7:36

and maybe if they miss that

7:38

particular conversation, where they don't realize

7:40

is that Neil's cousin brought a

7:43

tinder first date to the family

7:45

reunion, which seems like it could

7:47

be a disaster, and then at

7:50

one point, I believe it was

7:52

Neil himself, who walked into the

7:54

garage to find this tinder date.

7:57

With her tits completely out comparing

7:59

pure with one of Neil's family

8:01

members or a spouse of a

8:04

family member or something right there

8:06

in the garage. Yeah, yeah. I

8:08

mean, you know what? Maybe Neil's

8:11

cousin will do something notable next

8:13

year. I feel like maybe we

8:15

even fucked up by saying it

8:18

was the cousin who is the

8:20

nominee here and not the tinder

8:22

date because she seems like she

8:25

likes to party. Yeah, I agree.

8:27

I agree. Well, you know, a

8:29

lot of people are going to

8:32

be mad when it comes to

8:34

a war show night. You know,

8:36

not everybody can be a winner.

8:39

There's no way around that, I

8:41

suppose. The next award, this year,

8:43

one of your favorites, the most

8:46

artful application of Dundaso Award, aka

8:48

the You Mad Bro award. Now,

8:50

Ben, last year's winner was Connor

8:52

McGregor for playing out the string

8:55

on drug testing until the UFC

8:57

literally fired Efired USadausada. He was

8:59

the you mad bro award winner

9:02

in 2023. I mean, that is

9:04

impressive, honestly. This year's nominees are

9:06

Nasordine Imav for soccer kicking Roman

9:09

Deleads in the fourth round of

9:11

their main event fight back in

9:13

February. Imav was deducted a point,

9:16

but he still won the fight

9:18

because that's done Daso, baby! And

9:20

it kicked off a three fight

9:23

win streak for Imav this year.

9:25

Nominee number two. Chris Wiedman. for

9:27

poking Bruno Silva in the eye

9:30

multiple times so badly that later

9:32

the commission had to change his

9:34

method of victory back in March.

9:37

He originally won by T-K-O, but

9:39

they went back in to change

9:41

it to a technical decision, but

9:44

he still won. Because that's Dundasso,

9:46

baby! Yeah. And the third nominee

9:48

this year, Michael Chandler. For Elboin,

9:51

the shit out of Charles Olivera's

9:53

head at UFC 309, this is

9:55

probably the most high profile instance

9:58

of Dundaso this year, but... Michael

10:01

Chandler lost the fight. the fight. So this

10:03

winner. winner is Chris Wideman.

10:05

This Wideman taking home to

10:07

you mad home the

10:09

you this runaway runaway Victor and that

10:12

one. I mean I think in that one.

10:14

I mean, I think that one

10:16

just makes sense. thing thing that

10:18

we should pause to to appreciate about

10:20

Michael Chandler's kind of kind of his

10:22

way through a couple way through a

10:24

couple fights recently lost. But

10:26

also sort of went out there

10:28

and did did. of a career done to

10:31

on us. on us. Okay. You know, right? Because

10:33

he found a way to, despite found

10:35

a way to, despite of that of

10:37

getting his ass kicked for most

10:39

of that play it like he was the hero of.

10:42

end. Or he it like he was

10:44

the hero by the end says, fuck it, throws himself

10:46

he has Charles over on his back

10:48

get it mic down there up the gonna get

10:50

on the mic and outs just work

10:52

up the crowd like call of and stuff

10:54

as if had one in of act like he

10:56

had one in that post fight interview.

10:58

interview. Well, Well, the next one's a big

11:00

one. a big is one of the is one

11:02

the fan favorites of the year. favorites

11:04

of the a silly little guy

11:07

award. little guy award. little guy award.

11:09

Everybody loves that silly little guy. Everybody

11:11

you will recall little guy.

11:13

Now you will recall. It's a silly

11:15

little guy. I don't year's

11:17

winner was Last year's winner was

11:19

Perhaps the original Perhaps This

11:22

year, the nominees This year, the

11:24

nominees are Charles Radke for

11:26

for demanding payment

11:29

for interviews. after UFC Vegas 85.

11:31

Dustin Poirier for proclaiming

11:34

for proclaiming himself, goose

11:36

after goose. against his

11:38

fight against Benoit

11:41

Mirab Dwalish Vili, just in

11:43

general. Yeah. Tyson, general,

11:45

Alexander Usik, for Tyson

11:47

Fury at each other for 10 staring at

11:50

each other for 10 minutes during

11:52

their stare down. And finally, Volkinevs

11:54

for dressing up like an

11:56

old man. man. and

11:59

the winner. of this

12:01

year's silly little guy award

12:03

is, it's Marab. It's gotta

12:05

be Marab. Nobody has gone

12:07

a tour to force of

12:10

silly little guy behavior all

12:12

year long, better than Marab.

12:14

Ben, the social media was

12:16

on point, the interviews were

12:18

on point, the going into

12:20

the crowd to fight random

12:23

dudes was on point. This

12:25

is a, you know what?

12:27

Marab Ghosh Vili right now.

12:29

He's a silly little guy

12:31

in the prime of his

12:33

silly little guy career. Yeah,

12:36

it's really an impressive body

12:38

of work at this point.

12:40

It's not one specific instance

12:42

the way everybody else has.

12:44

It's really just a whole

12:46

attitude that he brings, a

12:49

whole persona, and to make

12:51

it even more fitting for

12:53

him to be the silly

12:55

little guy of the year.

12:57

He's actually little. You know

12:59

a lot of other people

13:02

like Apollo Costa. We saw

13:04

it. Oh, he was a

13:06

little guy, but he was

13:08

a pretty big silly little

13:10

guy Who's sick and furry

13:12

couple big silly little guys

13:15

Dustin poor average silly little

13:17

guy, but Marab He's little

13:19

he's silly. Chad. That's a

13:21

silly little guy energy from

13:23

Marab Wallace feeling The next

13:26

award this year Ben it's

13:28

the that boy good award

13:30

for Best rookie or prospect.

13:32

You remember who won this

13:34

last year? Was it Shavkot?

13:36

That boy good! Shavkot Rockmanov,

13:39

the winner of last year's

13:41

That Boy Good award. This

13:43

year, the nominees are. Jean

13:45

Minyong, a light heavy weight.

13:47

All of his 18 career

13:49

wins are by first round

13:52

stoppage. He had two wins.

13:54

He had two wins. in

13:56

the UFC this year. Dakota

13:58

Ditcheva for winning a bunch

14:00

of fights in a... in

14:02

the PFL that nobody really

14:05

noticed. And finally this year,

14:07

all the fighting nerds. Carlos

14:09

Pratez, who won four fights

14:11

this year, Jean Silva and

14:13

Mauricio Rufi, all of the

14:15

fighting nerds are nominated this

14:18

year for the Boy Good

14:20

award. And the winner is.

14:22

Ben, it's the fighting nerds.

14:24

Those boys good, Ben. You

14:27

had Carlos protest go out there.

14:30

He had won four fights in

14:32

a row this year five fights

14:34

between November 2023 and 2024 Jean

14:36

Silva won three fights this year

14:39

all by K-O or T-K-O and

14:41

then of course Mauricio Rufi won

14:43

twice this year and he is

14:45

11 and 1 overall those boys

14:48

good. Now some people might say

14:50

it's kind of cheating for us

14:52

to give the award to several

14:54

different people. It's the

14:57

Siamese Awards. There are no

14:59

rules here. That's true. There

15:01

are no rules at the

15:03

Siamese. We can do anything

15:05

we want. Do anything we

15:07

want. All right, here's another

15:09

one I look forward to

15:11

every year. It's the worst

15:13

take of the year award,

15:16

both of ours. Who's what's

15:18

your worst take of the

15:20

year? Last year's winner? Was

15:22

Ben. for announcing he was

15:24

going to stop betting on

15:26

MMA and then immediately started

15:28

betting on MMA again this

15:30

year. The nominees this year

15:32

are. Ben, for his anti-ass

15:34

eating stance, people shouldn't be

15:36

doing it. And Chad, for

15:39

my take, go to the

15:41

sphere, don't go to the

15:43

sphere, who gives a fuck?

15:45

You want to do the

15:47

winner? You want to do

15:49

the winner? Want to say

15:51

the winner? The

15:55

winner is that Ben doesn't like

15:57

it when other people eat ass.

15:59

Yeah! Ben doesn't like a man

16:02

doesn't like it when other

16:04

people eat ass. It's the worst

16:06

take of the year. That's That's

16:08

interesting to me that you particularly,

16:10

now I'm wondering about Chad Chad, Dundas's activities.

16:12

I have already said. said,

16:15

what? Brah. Brah. I've already said, I'm just already

16:17

said to just shame. to kink

16:19

ass, don't the ass. I eat the

16:21

ass believe that don't believe I just

16:23

at you. I just don't

16:25

believe they're really doing it

16:27

it. I I think that they're all just

16:29

having some fun with us. I think it's

16:31

a great big joke. us. I That's what I

16:34

think. All right, well, That's what I are so many

16:36

better things to eat. many it, we don't

16:38

have to just create new things. don't have to

16:40

just create new of a Son of a

16:42

bitch. The the next award this year. year.

16:44

The things. We didn't place through

16:47

these these man. man. You You

16:49

think? I mean, we go ahead. We mean,

16:51

we go ahead. awards some awards some awards to

16:53

We got some awards to get

16:55

to. When does a musical guest

16:57

come on? on. Middle of the Middle of

16:59

the show. Middle of a little

17:01

of the show is when the, is

17:03

when the the award, when the

17:05

musical guests show up show up. we

17:07

did see, of the year things

17:09

did not go great for

17:11

your boy great for your boy. bet of

17:14

the year award. You will, you will

17:16

recall last year's

17:18

winner was me was

17:20

me for sprinkling Israel out of

17:22

Sonia on every bet. at UFC 293

17:24

only to have him go

17:26

out there. out there and

17:29

lose the title to to

17:31

Sean Strickland. Yeah,

17:33

That was a big one for you. big

17:35

that was bad. That was a Yeah, that Bad

17:37

bet by me. a bad bet,

17:39

bad nominees are. This

17:41

year's bet on are

17:43

Chad's bet defeat John

17:46

Jones. to

17:48

defeat John Jones. And

17:50

Ben having three

17:52

bets. bets. featuring

17:54

Israel Adesonia

17:57

to defeat DDP. Also,

18:00

he lost four straight Super Bowl

18:02

bets, but nailed the coin flip.

18:04

That's right. I made five Super

18:06

Bowl bets for having to do

18:08

with the actual game, lost every

18:11

single one of them. The only

18:13

Super Bowl bet I won was

18:15

on the literal flip of a

18:17

coin, but I was right. This

18:22

year's winner of the worst

18:24

bet of the year award

18:26

things did not go great

18:28

for you, boy. It's

18:31

me. It's me for talking

18:33

up Steve A for months and

18:35

months only to have him

18:37

go out there and get his

18:39

ass thoroughly kicked by John

18:41

Jones. It's the that's the that's

18:43

for you. That's the worst,

18:45

the worst bet of the year.

18:47

But you know what? Weirdly

18:49

enough, this is two years in

18:52

a row where theoretically speaking,

18:54

oh God, I've come out on

18:56

top in the actual $20.

18:58

We never wanted to see betting

19:00

competition. But somehow won the

19:02

things did not go great for

19:04

your boy award for the

19:06

worst bet of the year. Listen,

19:08

nobody's coming out on top

19:10

in our betting competition. It's just

19:12

bad and worse. That's all

19:14

there is. But you did spend

19:16

a long time telling us

19:18

how you would not be surprised

19:20

if Steve A went out

19:22

there and won that fight. You

19:24

criticized me for saying this

19:26

was not the fight to make

19:28

Steve A wasn't Steve A

19:30

anymore. This wasn't going to be

19:32

the competitive fight that people

19:34

hoped it would be. You were

19:36

like, Steve A is still

19:38

good. He can come out there.

19:41

I can see how he

19:43

could win. And then and then

19:45

did not win a single

19:47

second of that fight. And

19:49

my told you see, that's what

19:51

makes it really the things did not

19:53

go great for your boy of

19:56

the year is because I told you

19:58

I tried to talk sense. You

20:00

You weren't hearing it. it. In my

20:02

defense, the in my I said was,

20:05

The thing that I said probably

20:07

win this will probably win

20:09

this fight. surprised wouldn't be

20:11

surprised! is more of a

20:13

is more of a live dog

20:15

than he turned out to be

20:17

Steepa Miyoch went just went out there

20:19

and won this fight, I wouldn't be surprised. That's

20:22

what I said. That's what

20:24

I I did, however, please, I

20:26

bet. a bet. on

20:28

Steve A. to win during $20 we never

20:30

want to see again. we never

20:32

want to see that

20:34

that was incorrect. was incorrect

20:38

was incorrect

20:40

indeed. The The

20:42

next award this year, this

20:44

year, Ben. It's the so

20:46

long and thanks for

20:48

all the for all the

20:50

Achievement Award. achievement

20:52

award. Last

20:55

year's winner. Scott Coker.

20:57

sailing away

20:59

into the sunset. Maybe

21:01

for the the last time. Bellator

21:03

was sold to the was sold

21:05

to the all seen how that's And

21:08

we've all seen how that's turned out. these guys

21:10

would these guys would be out

21:12

here getting mad, complaining about not getting

21:14

their fights if Cokes was still there?

21:16

I doubt it. there? I doubt it.

21:18

Cokes would be taking care of his be like he's

21:20

always done. of his boys just like

21:22

he's This year's

21:24

nominees nominees are... Demetrius

21:27

Johnson for walking

21:29

away on his own terms.

21:32

getting super sad sad.

21:34

in bed he one night in bed,

21:36

he started figuring out how much money he

21:38

had made fighting for the UFC. for

21:40

the then still turning

21:43

down. down, in his

21:45

words, millions of dollars. for

21:47

a for a comeback this year. so

21:49

long long and thanks for all

21:52

the cheese, Johnson. Johnson.

21:54

Yeah. Yeah, I I mean you

21:56

when you're you when

21:59

you're laying in bed up at the

22:01

ceiling doing a sad sort

22:03

of arithmetic tick and still

22:05

say no to those millions

22:07

you're gone I believe you

22:09

so long and thanks for

22:11

all the cheese the other

22:14

nominee this year it's steep

22:16

a it's steep a for

22:18

going out there against John

22:20

Jones not winning a single

22:22

second of that fight And

22:24

then getting on the mic

22:26

after it was over and

22:29

delivering the most steep a

22:31

meowchage possible retirement announcement Where

22:33

I think he was like

22:35

yeah, that's it. I'm done

22:37

The the steepest way anybody

22:39

could have ever scripted it

22:42

up is for him. Just

22:44

be like like he wasn't

22:46

going to mention it If

22:48

you didn't ask and then

22:50

when asked it's just like

22:52

oh no I'm done Okay,

22:54

end of the career of

22:57

on paper, the greatest, most

22:59

successful U.S.C. heavyweight champion in

23:01

history. And it ends as

23:03

if you were asking him,

23:05

like you're telling him, you're

23:07

going up to get another

23:09

drink, does he want anything?

23:12

And he's like, no, no,

23:14

no, no, I'm head out.

23:16

That's it. That's how it

23:18

ends. But he got that

23:20

bag on the way out

23:22

the door. You

23:25

made me nervous that we're going

23:28

too fast now is what you've

23:30

done. You've made me nervous. Slow

23:32

play in it. Well, I just

23:34

wanted to see where we are

23:36

in the CME is how many

23:39

awards we got left. We're not

23:41

quite halfway done. Okay. We're 22

23:43

minutes into the show. We could

23:45

take a musical break. We could

23:47

hear from the sponsors any time

23:50

we want. But I think we're

23:52

doing okay. Okay. I'm glad you're

23:54

thinking about pacing now though. And

23:56

the winner is, did we say

23:59

the winner for this? Not yet.

24:01

It's a tie! What? Meotrich and

24:03

Demetrius Johnson finish in a Dead

24:05

Heat during the So Long and

24:07

Thanks for All the Cheese award.

24:10

I don't know how you could

24:12

give it up to one of

24:14

these guys more than the other.

24:16

They both got to do their

24:18

stuff this year in terms of

24:21

how they were going to walk

24:23

away. Very Demetrius Johnson, very steepay

24:25

in both of the ways that

24:27

these guys said so long. And

24:29

thanks for all the cheese. Unusual

24:32

to see two guys share the

24:34

award, but in this case, yeah,

24:36

I can see it. I think

24:38

it makes sense. Next award this

24:40

year, it's the Joe Son, Don't

24:43

Google the Fighters Award. Last year's

24:45

winner, Ben, Ian Gary, was the

24:47

winner of the Joe Son, Don't

24:49

Google the Fighters Award. It was

24:52

a stance on immigrants? What was

24:54

it? It might have been, maybe

24:56

it was the Jeff Neal, the

24:58

whole Jeff Neal thing that happened?

25:00

Jesus, last year seems like a

25:03

million fucking years ago. How am

25:05

I supposed to remember what what

25:07

anybody did last year? I don't

25:09

know, probably, probably if you Google

25:11

Ian Gehry now, you wouldn't get

25:14

the same results. No. Maybe that's

25:16

lost to history unless anybody wants

25:18

to go back and listen to

25:20

last year's seeming worse. This year,

25:22

the nominees are. Michael Kiesa. Oh,

25:25

see that, that thumbs me out.

25:27

Just makes you sad, doesn't it?

25:29

Doesn't it? Other nominee this year?

25:31

Wait, wait. What Michael Kiesa do

25:33

to get on this list? Michael

25:36

Kiesa has always seemed like such

25:38

a smart and nice guy. Yeah.

25:40

And then he came out as

25:42

a Trump guy this year. Well,

25:44

I mean, aren't they all though?

25:47

Yeah, but that's the point of

25:49

the whole thing. That's the spirit.

25:51

It was like, well, at least

25:53

we've got Kiesa. He doesn't seem

25:56

like he would go in for

25:58

that and then there... Here you

26:00

go. Congratulations, Mr. President. This guy's

26:02

been down so many times. They've

26:04

tried to knock him out. They've

26:07

tried to do various things. And

26:09

he just keeps coming out on

26:11

top. Michael Kiesa, praising Donald Trump.

26:13

Right. I mean, while I don't

26:15

share his political views, this is

26:18

a war named after like a

26:20

rapist kidnapper. Okay, fine. The other

26:22

nominee this year, Shara Bullet. Ben,

26:24

this was your nominee, why don't

26:26

you tell us why Shara Bullet

26:29

made the list of the Joe

26:31

Sondo and Google the Fighters Award.

26:33

So I know people got excited

26:35

about Shara Bullet coming into the

26:37

UFC, Shara Budin Magalmetoff. If you

26:40

go though and actually check out

26:42

the man's Wikipedia page, you will

26:44

see this under the heading controversy

26:46

and the subheading shopping center attack.

26:49

Megametov was involved in an assault

26:51

at a shopping center on March

26:53

15th 2022 in Dagestan. Megametov verbally

26:55

took offense to a man and

26:57

woman kissing in front of him

27:00

on an escalator. Afterwards, Megametov confronted

27:02

him and the man punched Megametov

27:04

in the face, bystander separated them,

27:06

and Megametov walked out to an

27:08

exit. Moments later, camera footage showed

27:11

Megametov waiting for the man at

27:13

the exit where he succor punched

27:15

him and stomped on his head.

27:17

The criminal charges are still being

27:19

decided by the courts. Under these

27:22

circumstances, his contract with the U.S.C.

27:24

ended up being postponed. Now, we

27:26

know he eventually got into the

27:28

U.S.C., but what the fuck, bro?

27:30

First of all, you would act

27:33

like I'm close-minded with my ass

27:35

eating stance. Imagine if Charable heard

27:37

people are out here eating ass.

27:39

He sees a man and a

27:41

woman, presumably in some kind of

27:44

relationship. Sharon a nice moment having

27:46

a kiss in front of him

27:48

on an escalator in a shopping

27:50

center and he's like well this

27:53

I obviously cannot abide and then

27:55

he's going to wait after the

27:57

dude punches him during a face-to-face

27:59

conversation is going to wait and

28:01

ambush the guy on his way

28:04

out and stomp on his head.

28:06

And this is a professional fighter.

28:08

What the fuck, man? What the

28:10

fuck? Okay, first of all, I

28:12

don't host a podcast with Sharabullet.

28:15

If I did, more people would

28:17

probably listen to it, frankly. The

28:19

thing about Sharabullet is, have you

28:21

seen him? Have you seen the

28:23

guy? I seen him. I don't

28:26

feel like you could be that

28:28

surprised. about his various antics once

28:30

you've once you've seen him. He

28:32

looks like the bad guy in

28:34

a 1990s like Arnold Schwarzenegger action

28:37

movie. Okay, that's true. Yes, he

28:39

was so surprising. Yeah, it's a

28:41

bummer. It's a bummer. This year's

28:43

winter Ben, you know what? I

28:45

had Michael Kieser with death, but

28:48

it's actually sharp. That's too bad,

28:50

man. That's that's too bad of

28:52

a thing to find out when

28:54

you Google him. It's got to

28:57

be him. You understand why it

28:59

can't be you. All right,

29:01

and changing this on the official

29:03

score sheet, Sharah. Man, this is

29:06

gonna create some questions about the

29:08

legitimacy of these awards if we're

29:10

changing them up last minute. Now

29:13

I feel like, okay, I can

29:15

make a case, I can get

29:17

on here, make a case and

29:19

change the results. Too bad you

29:22

didn't do this several awards back.

29:24

Yeah? It's like I guess. You

29:26

might have avoided the worst take

29:29

of the year award. I could

29:31

show up on the stage at

29:33

the Academy Awards and just be

29:35

like, okay, but actually Schindler's List

29:38

was a piece of shit, hear

29:40

me out. Next award this year.

29:42

It's the undone by Google Award.

29:45

This is my favorite one, I

29:47

think. The fighter who did or

29:49

said the most obviously wrong thing

29:51

that could have been undone, simply

29:54

why? going online and using the

29:56

Google machine. Did we have this

29:58

award last year? I don't, I don't

30:00

necessarily think we did. I don't know that we

30:03

did. I don't know don't think there was a way I

30:05

don't know think we had one. think there

30:07

was a winner last nominees

30:09

think we had one. This year's

30:11

Ortega. Brian telling that

30:13

story about how an eagle crushes

30:15

its beak off. We all know

30:17

the story, yeah. know the story. Yeah. The

30:20

The next nominee this year, this Hill.

30:22

Jamal Hill, various claims and a

30:24

general lack of reading comprehension

30:26

skills, plus like plus how

30:28

to yawn. yawn. You You know mean? I

30:30

mean? Like, feel like you could look

30:32

online and find numerous people yawning. people

30:34

yawning. See, this is one

30:36

where same way got got nominated

30:38

for his whole body of work,

30:40

work. Hill. Hill is getting, because will

30:42

tell you a story about an

30:45

event that happened and that

30:47

he knows was captured on film

30:49

on film, it was a fight, a it

30:51

was a confrontation, a whatever, he will

30:53

tell you an entire story. you an about

30:55

a thing. about a thing that

30:57

was... recorded all time. and

31:00

And then will will compare his

31:02

version and the version told

31:04

by your lie-at-eyes, and you will

31:06

find that they do not exactly match up. match

31:09

up. true, maybe the most undone undone

31:11

thing that happened to Jamal Hill

31:13

this year was his confrontation. Hill this

31:15

with Alex his at the

31:18

PI. with Alex because he had

31:20

told us one thing. had told us

31:22

and then the video. then the video made it

31:24

seem like something else entirely. else

31:26

entirely. Yeah. Do I Do I even

31:28

have to tell you who the winner

31:30

is here? Can you just guess? here?

31:32

Can you guess who the winner is? Can

31:35

you guess be that winner off gotta be that eagle crushing

31:37

off the book going on at length. And

31:39

then he the story by saying, I don't

31:41

know if you guys know this. know this.

31:43

Yep. Yep. That's that's the best best part is that

31:45

one. He told the story. he

31:48

said, he he started it off as I I don't

31:50

know if you guys know this, know

31:52

was gonna kick some knowledge. kick some knowledge

31:54

about eagles how they they live. it

31:56

ended up being some kind

31:58

of of... internet-ass

32:01

meme story that had been debunked

32:03

by Snopes like five years prior.

32:05

And let's just say the tenor

32:08

of the Snopes response written by

32:10

an actual like eagle biologist right

32:12

yeah was so just like it

32:15

crushed their spirit they were so

32:17

sad that someone might believe this

32:19

obviously bullshit story about how an

32:22

eagle goes up to a rocky

32:24

area and crushes its beak off

32:26

and then lives in solitude until

32:28

its new beak grows back and

32:31

then returns to the wild. That's

32:33

for the eagle living in solitude.

32:35

Returns back to the wild better

32:38

than ever. The best part was

32:40

that not only was the eagle

32:42

scientists sad that they had to

32:45

to tell people at all that

32:47

people would think that this was

32:49

real. You could tell like this

32:51

eagle scientists the the subtext of

32:54

the comments was oh now you

32:56

guys want to hear about my

32:58

expertise on eagles now you want

33:01

to hear some eagle facts and

33:03

it's over this dumb bullshit the

33:05

scientists even said at some point

33:07

in the story like there are

33:10

a lot of fascinating things about

33:12

eagles this is not one of

33:14

them it was just like I

33:17

have years has spent years and

33:19

years of my life studying the

33:21

eagle. I have this information. I

33:24

have a lot of knowledge. I'm

33:26

excited about it. I would love

33:28

to share it with you. And

33:30

the only time you want to

33:33

talk to me is over this

33:35

dumb bullshit. Just disappointed. The next

33:37

award this year. It's the Tracy

33:40

Dickinson Unfetter Discourse Award for the

33:42

most insightful and discussed listener mail

33:44

question. Always a competitive category. Now

33:47

here's the thing, I feel this

33:49

way also about the suck my

33:51

dick bro, how about you suck

33:53

my balls bro award, is that

33:56

you can make a great case

33:58

that Tracy Dickinson should win one

34:00

of these awards, just like... Perhaps

34:03

the guy who became the biggest

34:05

capital G character guy on the

34:07

CME this year was in fact

34:10

the fifth grade kid on the

34:12

playground He said how about you

34:14

suck my dick bro. How about

34:16

you suck my balls? You love

34:19

you're not going to get tired

34:21

of saying that It's popular. It's

34:23

a popular saying By virtue of

34:26

having the award named after you

34:28

Maybe that's good enough. You know

34:30

what I mean? That's how you

34:33

leave your mark So that's a

34:35

lasting legacy. Just having more seemed

34:37

after you. That'll stand the test

34:39

of time right there. Last year's

34:42

winner of the Tracy Dickinson unfettered

34:44

discourse award for the most insightful

34:46

or discussed listener mail. It was

34:49

David Lottiree for telling that story.

34:51

Remember when he found the guitar?

34:53

Yeah, his uncle's guitar. The very

34:55

guitar and then he presented it

34:58

to his uncle. Had it restored.

35:00

the nominees are Thomas G for

35:02

his story about going to see

35:05

a Boy's to Men concert and

35:07

thinking that they died at the

35:09

end. Oh my god I think

35:12

about that one once a week

35:14

at least. Boys to men were

35:16

like what will really make people

35:18

feel like they had an unforgettable

35:21

concert experience when they when they

35:23

come to see us live? How

35:25

about if they think we all

35:28

perished? in an on stage accident.

35:30

And then we all pop out

35:32

and be like now we're good.

35:35

And they did that probably like

35:37

80 nights a year. Over and

35:39

over again. The next nominee this

35:41

year, David E. Lauder Ray's heel

35:44

turn. You know what is makes

35:46

a great heel turn is you

35:48

announce that you're making a heel

35:51

turn is you're making a heel

35:53

turn. You tell everybody you're a

35:55

heel now, and then you start

35:58

doing some heel shit. The

36:01

final nominee this year, it's T.R.T. Tom

36:03

for his story about eating Chinese food

36:05

while he's sitting in his car. Yeah.

36:07

Houss and a whole Chinese meal. The

36:10

thing, you know, what was really good

36:12

about that story is that he first,

36:14

he mentioned it offhand. that he was

36:16

just he ate an entire Chinese meal

36:19

that wasn't even the point of the

36:21

comment that he was leaving he just

36:23

mentioned in the comment that he had

36:25

sat there in the front seat of

36:28

his car ate an entire Chinese meal

36:30

super fast and then each time he

36:32

had to follow up with an explanation

36:35

the next week it only raised more

36:37

questions yeah because he was just like

36:39

oh the reason why I was doing

36:41

it is because I was waiting for

36:44

my dog to finish his agility classes

36:46

and we were like okay what and

36:48

then People were like, like, why didn't

36:50

you just buy the Chinese food and

36:53

then take it home and eat it

36:55

there like a human being? And he

36:57

was just like, I didn't even consider

36:59

that as a possibility. And we just,

37:02

we went down a rabbit hole with

37:04

that one. TRT Tom also, I think

37:06

he sent, he had a listener mail

37:08

this year also where he was sticking

37:11

up for Sean Strickland. That was hilarious

37:13

and could have made the cut, could

37:15

have made the cut. This year's winner.

37:17

It's Dave. Dave is

37:20

a repeat winner back-to-back wins

37:22

in the Tracy Dickinson Unfettered

37:25

Discourse Award. What is that

37:27

one? Hold on. That looks

37:29

really good. That looks really

37:32

good. What is this thing?

37:34

What is this thing that

37:36

you're using? Oh, I got

37:39

a couple of them open.

37:41

I got a couple of

37:44

them open. You

37:47

gotta give to the system, Chad. You gotta

37:49

give. This is just, these are phone apps.

37:52

Uh, these are just websites on the phone.

37:54

Tell the kid. Tell the kid? I can

37:56

do this all day. This one is a

37:58

specific. I think you should

38:00

leave should leave sound. I'm

38:03

gonna I'm gonna push this one, I don't even know

38:05

what this one does. don't even know what this

38:07

one does. What do you I'm

38:09

bookmarking that one for

38:11

sure I got for

38:13

sure that one for sure. For

38:15

next, congratulations to Dave, frankly,

38:18

for our aisle. to Dave, being

38:20

a back -to -back winner. being

38:22

a back to back A lot of

38:24

people are probably gonna have some

38:26

complaints about that into court, honestly. People

38:28

are gonna be like, what the

38:30

are going even be allowed. what the

38:32

fuck? Shouldn't even be

38:34

allowed. Next this year. this

38:36

year. It's the the Dana

38:38

White Scumbags in the media award

38:41

for the person who

38:43

accomplished something nobody thought was

38:45

possible. thought was possible. Who

38:47

won this last year? won

38:49

this last year? winner year's

38:51

winner was Sean Strickland.

38:53

was. For it was out going

38:55

out there. out there. A UFC 293,

38:58

the the event where I had

39:00

every one of my bets. having

39:02

having something to do with Israel

39:05

this fight. winning this

39:07

fight, won the fight. became

39:09

the UFC, fight, Strickland

39:11

became the UFC Strickland became

39:14

the UFC Middleweight for something

39:16

somebody did in an

39:18

actual MMA fight something

39:20

somebody did in an

39:22

year's nominees fight. This year's

39:25

nominees nominees. for

39:27

forcing the the to

39:29

settle one of its antitrust lawsuits

39:32

and thereby tacitly. I and

39:34

thereby legally, but tacitly. I

39:36

mean, not legally, but tacitly. to

39:38

take this to We don't want

39:40

to take this to trial. that we don't know

39:42

that we want anybody. presenting to a to

39:45

a jury. that we have the

39:47

way that we have become the

39:49

most successful mixed martial arts

39:51

organization in the in the not sure.

39:53

not sure. we we could win in

39:55

court based on the merits. merits

39:57

of our of our argument. Something

40:00

we thought would never happen.

40:02

Something we thought could not

40:04

be done. The other nominee

40:07

this year, it's Dana White

40:09

himself for pulling off an

40:11

event at the sphere. Something

40:13

none of the scumbags in

40:15

the media thought he could

40:17

do. And he did it.

40:19

He pulled off an event

40:21

at the sphere. They said,

40:23

how will this live sports

40:25

event company ever pull off

40:28

a live sports event? at

40:30

a live event space. Can't

40:32

be done and he can't

40:34

get it. He did it.

40:36

Put it right in the

40:38

face of all the media

40:40

scumbags. This year's winter, I

40:42

mean it's got to be

40:44

the fighters. As much as

40:46

I would love to sit

40:49

here and give it to

40:51

Dana Light for pulling off

40:53

the unbelievable near impossible feet

40:55

of holding a live event

40:57

at the sphere. It's got

40:59

to be the fighters for

41:01

doing a thing. We never

41:03

thought possible getting the UFC

41:05

to settle one of its

41:07

class action antitrust lawsuits. Congratulations

41:10

to the fighters. They will

41:12

receive in addition to this

41:14

award money from the UFC.

41:16

If they show up to

41:18

get it. Unless you opt

41:20

it out because you were

41:22

going to put your name

41:24

down as somebody testifying on

41:26

behalf of the UFC and

41:28

against your compatriots. Then maybe

41:31

you don't want it. You

41:33

didn't think it was necessary

41:35

did you? Yeah, you don't

41:37

want that dirty money opt

41:39

out All right This next

41:41

one's a big one It's

41:43

the are you fucking kidding

41:45

me award for the most

41:47

ridiculous happening of the year

41:49

Wow You'll remember that last

41:51

year's winner. This is perhaps

41:54

the only time this has

41:56

ever happened before it was

41:58

a tie Last year's Are

42:00

You Fucking Kidding Me award

42:02

was also a tie? It

42:04

was split! Dana White slapping

42:06

his wife in the face

42:08

in public on video at

42:10

a nightclub in Mexico on

42:12

New Year's Eve, and then

42:15

proclaiming that any punishment to

42:17

him would only affect other

42:19

people. And therefore, he was

42:21

not punished. Dana White shared

42:23

that award with Dana White

42:25

for his various claims about

42:27

power slap. So

42:30

wait, you're saying to

42:32

me that he tied

42:34

the word was a

42:36

tie, but both Both

42:38

were Dana White. Yes,

42:40

he got two awards.

42:42

He shared the award

42:44

with himself. Okay This

42:46

year's nominees thought you

42:48

were gonna throw a

42:50

bra in there. This

42:52

year's nominees Alex Pereira

42:54

for saying no to

42:56

pausing the fight for

42:58

a low blow immediately

43:00

Kowing Jamal Hill and

43:02

then doing that awesome

43:04

gesture with his hands.

43:06

That's pretty good. Next

43:08

nominee this year, the

43:10

U.S.C. for going all

43:12

in on Donald Trump

43:14

during this year's presidential

43:16

election gave him his

43:18

own walkout, his own

43:20

walkout music, Kid Rock.

43:22

The final nominee this

43:24

year. Mike

43:27

Tyson versus Jake Paul Just

43:29

the whole fucking thing whole

43:31

fucking thing was are you

43:33

fucking kidding me worthy from

43:35

start to finish including that

43:38

they had to postpone the

43:40

thing Because because Mike Tyson

43:42

was defecating tar on an

43:44

airplane or whatever and then

43:46

then they ended up doing

43:49

it anyway Also real quick

43:51

though anybody else remember how

43:53

they did a locker room

43:55

interview and Mike Tyson had

43:57

his whole ass out on

44:00

Netflix Just real quick Then

44:02

that's not even the most...

44:04

Are you fucking kidding me?

44:06

Part of that event. That's

44:08

just a piece. That tells

44:11

you what a rich tapestry

44:13

of, are you fucking kidding

44:15

me, that night really was.

44:17

Yeah, yeah. I mean, I

44:20

have written down the UFC

44:22

for going a full magga

44:24

this year, but now that

44:26

I've remembered Mike Tyson's ass,

44:28

I don't know. Should I

44:31

change it? You're inviting people

44:33

to second guess you here.

44:35

So see me so anything

44:37

can happen. No, we're going

44:39

with the U.S.C. There's a

44:42

close vote. We're going with

44:44

the U.S.C. for going for

44:46

a model. Yeah. You got

44:48

everything. You got everything out

44:50

there. I got everything. Absolutely.

44:53

A little bit of everything

44:55

on there. Something for everybody.

44:57

Next award this year Ben.

44:59

It's another big one. It's

45:01

the spirit of the CME

45:04

Award. Last year's winner, you

45:06

may recall, was our guy

45:08

Bota for taking care of

45:10

Andrew Millington after his fall

45:12

down there in Colorado, displaying

45:15

the true spirit of the

45:17

CME. Yeah. This year's nominees

45:19

for the spirit of the

45:21

CME Award, it's Trey Roms

45:23

with Hay. For leading a

45:26

year-long dungeons and dragons campaign

45:28

on the discord I Played

45:30

in one of those it's

45:32

fun. Do you win number

45:34

two? I didn't die. Does

45:37

that does that mean that

45:39

I won? Sure? T. Tom

45:41

for taking over the book

45:43

club? Running that shit this

45:45

year All

45:48

the moderators over at the discord for

45:50

giving their time and their energy and

45:52

their attention to making sure that the

45:54

no assholes rule. over there there

45:56

on the Discord,

45:58

although I will say

46:00

I will say, to have

46:02

pretty good luck. to

46:04

have with no good luck up on

46:06

the Discord. showing up on

46:09

and then the final. And then the

46:11

final year, Michael this year,

46:13

Michael for keeping track

46:15

of the $20 we never

46:17

want to see never want year. against

46:20

something he did out of the goodness of

46:22

his own heart. of now, of

46:24

unnecessary. I don't. frankly,

46:26

I don't like it. I don't

46:29

like it. We We have to say. say, it's

46:31

possible Michael Westifer and

46:33

Ryan Robinson. Ryan Robinson

46:35

will be will be teaming

46:37

up next year. year to do some

46:40

to do cooler cooler the for

46:42

the CME. That's a a little tease.

46:44

That's little tease about what could happen.

46:46

what coming up next year. coming

46:48

up next this year.

46:51

winner this year, of course. of

46:53

course, the winners, not

46:55

only are you the you

46:57

the patrons, but also us us. being

46:59

surrounded by such cool people, cool you,

47:01

you, lifeblood of the CME universe.

47:03

They're all gonna share the award

47:06

this year. share the award this year. Yeah. This

47:08

is for everybody out there in out

47:10

there in the CME the spirit

47:12

of the CMB award, of the

47:14

CME award, award in most prestigious

47:16

award in the world. I

47:18

thought it was going to keep playing.

47:20

I thought I was going to keep was gonna

47:23

keep playing. I thought it was

47:25

gonna keep playing by Kuleo, but it it

47:27

stopped there just a... to the intro I was hoping

47:29

for hoping for the beat to drop. Well, we

47:31

got to. We have to have under

47:34

fair use. some of

47:36

these some of these copyrighted. sounds. We

47:38

don't want don't want to get this

47:40

pulled off the the because because the the

47:43

algorithm recognizes that we remember

47:45

to play that, play that.

47:47

it? it sometimes it be like be like

47:49

that. point at one point. And

47:52

our YouTube video got pulled down

47:54

because it was like violating the

47:56

the copyright? Kane Brown sometimes

47:58

it'd be like that. I think everybody wins

48:01

the spirit of the CME award

48:03

this year. Thanks to Trey, thanks

48:05

to TRT Tom, thanks to all

48:08

the moderators over at the discord

48:10

and thanks to Michael Westifer for

48:12

keeping track of the $20 we

48:14

never want to see against stats.

48:17

All right, moving on. Next award

48:19

this year, it's the worst comeback

48:21

of the year award. Yes. This

48:23

is another one that I don't

48:26

think we gave out last year.

48:28

I don't think there was a

48:30

worst comeback of the year award.

48:32

There may have only been a

48:35

best comeback of the year award

48:37

for last year and this year

48:39

we decided. Let's go negative with

48:41

it. Yeah. You know, let's go

48:44

negative. First nominee this year, Mike

48:46

Tyson for not even showing up

48:48

in his fight against Jake Paul

48:50

in one of the most watched

48:53

combat sports events of all time

48:55

and need we remind you. We

48:57

remind you. We remind we remind

48:59

you. He also showed his whole

49:02

ass on Netflix. Next nominee this

49:04

year, Tony Ferguson for notching his

49:06

eighth straight loss with an August

49:08

defeat by Michael Kiesa and still

49:11

saying he's not quite ready to

49:13

call it quits. Okay, but yeah,

49:15

you gotta really expand that one

49:17

because he didn't just, he laid,

49:20

he laid one of the gloves

49:22

down and he kept one. And

49:24

he kept one. And then he

49:26

threw it in the crowd. He

49:29

couldn't just do something or nothing

49:31

with the gloves. He couldn't just

49:33

do the usual thing of leaving

49:35

the gloves in the cage or

49:38

keeping them not doing it. He

49:40

kept one. And then, and he

49:42

was like, I'm holding on to

49:44

this one in case I need

49:47

to come back and then threw

49:49

it out, and then decided, no,

49:51

he's not retiring anyway. He half

49:53

retired. He left one glove. In

49:56

the case of a bunch of

49:58

gestures that ended up not meaning

50:00

anything. That's so Tony Ferguson though.

50:02

It is. The final nominee this

50:05

year, it's Crone Gracie for showing

50:07

up and just flat out not

50:09

being a UFC level mixed martial

50:11

arts fighter in the year of

50:14

our Lord 2024 with his loss

50:16

to Bryce Mitchell. Jumping guard and

50:18

laying there in the year of

50:21

our Lord 2024. The winner this

50:23

year, I mean, it's gotta be

50:25

Tony, right? There's just no way

50:27

around it. Gotta be. Gotta be.

50:30

It's got to be Tony. Like

50:32

you said, every year feels like

50:34

we've lived a million lives in

50:36

this sport. Was this the year

50:39

that he also did the David

50:41

Goggins shit? Did he do that

50:43

in 2024? Or like he was

50:45

doing hell week with David Goggins,

50:48

the Navy SEAL guy, and pretty

50:50

much everybody was like, Tony, your

50:52

problem is not cardio. Like getting

50:54

tired is still not a thing

50:57

for you. The tired is, or

50:59

the problem is that you keep

51:01

losing all these fights. Isn't that?

51:03

Was that this year? I think

51:06

that was the end of last

51:08

year before he fought Patty Pemlet,

51:10

right? Who's to say? He also,

51:12

as you'll recall, flipped his car

51:15

upside down on somebody else's car.

51:17

Was that last year? That was

51:19

last year. So that's the stuff

51:21

he was coming back from this

51:24

year to make it the worst

51:26

comeback of the year. It

51:29

only makes B.J. Penn and

51:31

now holds the record for

51:33

the longest losing streak in

51:36

U.F.C. history. It only makes

51:38

sense that the next award

51:40

this year is the best

51:42

comeback of the year. Last

51:44

year's winner Alex Pereira, after

51:47

losing the middleweight title to

51:49

Israel out of Sanya in

51:51

April, he bounced back to

51:53

beat Yani Blackjacks and then...

51:56

Be Eerie P to win

51:58

the light heavyweight title. that

52:01

he still holds last year's best

52:03

comeback with Alex Pereira. This year's

52:05

nominees are Cub Swanson who was

52:07

probably losing his fight to Billy

52:09

Quantillo before he stormed back to

52:11

win by a crazy one-two-punch combination

52:13

Kayo thereby pulling off an awesome

52:16

fight late in his career. Yeah,

52:18

that one could more of a

52:20

comeback I think for just being

52:22

a gentleman of a certain age.

52:24

and still showing not only can

52:26

you go out there and win

52:29

a U.S.C. fight you can still

52:31

pull off a walk-off co that

52:33

you might or might not end

52:35

your career on. That, Cub Swanson

52:37

could turn out to be a

52:39

nominee in the so long and

52:42

thanks for all the cheese awards

52:44

category next year. We'll have to

52:46

see. Some might even say we

52:48

hope that he is such a

52:50

nominee. The other nominee this year,

52:52

big Fran. Francis Ingano had not

52:54

fought in MMA for two years.

52:57

He got terribly knocked knocked out.

52:59

by Anthony Joshua earlier this year.

53:01

He lost his son in a

53:03

terrible tragedy and then he comes

53:05

back, he returns to defeat Hannon

53:07

Ferrera on the ground then with

53:10

some ground and pound to win

53:12

the big time mega awesome totally

53:14

cool PFL Superfight title or whatever

53:16

they're calling it. I don't know,

53:18

but he did make a triumphant

53:20

return. He sure as shit did.

53:22

The winner this year is big

53:25

friend. Big fan leader. Come

53:28

back fighter of the year. I

53:31

can't keep that guy down. No,

53:33

so it is the comeback of

53:35

the year just in all regards

53:37

Meanwhile the UFC is over there

53:40

trying to scrub his name Off

53:42

the record books any chance anybody

53:44

mentions them we're editing out the

53:46

video like it's not the pettiest

53:49

dumbest bullshit ever and Big Fran

53:51

Just keeps right on smiling and

53:53

winning through it all All All

53:56

right, are you ready? for the

53:58

actual fight related awards. No. You

54:00

want to make up You

54:02

wanna make up some non-fight

54:04

related awards? awards? No. Okay. I I didn't

54:07

think you were ready. You can't be

54:09

ready for these. can't be ready Let's do

54:11

the submission of the year. do the submission

54:14

year's winner was year's

54:16

winner was Alexa Grasso

54:18

for Face Cranken, at

54:21

UFC Shevchenko at Now,

54:23

Ben. Now, Ben, it's It's

54:25

possible that you will

54:27

notice a recurring theme here.

54:29

here. that I was not aware of

54:31

I was not aware of until we

54:33

started coming up with the nominees

54:35

this year, but this be you'll be be

54:38

able to pick up on it, I think. to pick nominees

54:40

this year. The nominees

54:42

this year. Hamzat Chamaev

54:44

for face I'll

54:46

see face at USC That make

54:48

me sad Reminding me

54:50

that happened That's

54:59

not what I thought it was. I thought it I

55:01

thought I thought it worked works.

55:03

I thought I thought don't even wanna

55:06

be around There There we go. That's the

55:08

one. You used that one already. That's

55:10

the one. But it fits. Yeah. one, but

55:12

it fits. Yeah. Yeah. Okay that

55:14

man's teeth all in and

55:16

all Yeah, he did. what gross.

55:18

did is via Yeah via face crank

55:21

Next nominee this year, this

55:23

year DDP for for

55:25

submitting Israel out of Sonia the

55:28

face crank at UFC 305. We

55:30

will be cranking each other's

55:32

be cranking each other's faces. what

55:34

you're telling me. You're starting to see the pattern? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

55:37

The final nominee this

55:39

year this year, Islam Makachev for

55:41

his Bravo choke on Cool Dusty

55:43

at UFC 302. That one was

55:45

pretty dope. Pretty cool setup

55:47

on that one. setup on of this

55:49

year! The winner this year.

55:52

crushes Bobby Knuckles'

55:54

face. Knuckles's hate this one. this

55:57

one. Yeah. But but it's the clear

55:59

winner. winner. It's got to

56:01

be the submission of the year. It's,

56:03

it makes me sad, but I guess

56:05

I gotta do this. That's a sad

56:07

Airhorn. I don't know if you could

56:10

tell there's a nuanced difference there between

56:12

the Airhorns. That's the, that's the melancholic

56:14

Airhorn. I think you could also chalk

56:16

this one up to one of our

56:18

worst takes of the year. Because we

56:21

were both sort of. Out here saying

56:23

we liked the match up for Bobby

56:25

knuckles for Robert Whittaker. I think we

56:27

both placed bets on him Yeah, that

56:29

week and then He just he made

56:32

it look good for like two minutes

56:34

did okay, and then he got his

56:36

face smushed in fairness What we said

56:38

is that it had to make it

56:40

out of the first round that homs

56:43

out from a starts fast if he

56:45

can get past that first round Then

56:47

he could start to take over the

56:49

fight. I I'm gonna sit here now

56:51

and sit shed He

56:54

would have won if he hadn't

56:56

lost by getting his whole face

56:58

smushed. Okay. All right. We didn't

57:00

do it would have won if

57:02

he hadn't lost award. No, that's

57:04

real oversight on our part this

57:06

year, but we could have we

57:08

could have nominated Robert Whitaker there

57:10

for that. No, I mean see

57:12

that's me saying that Robert Whitaker

57:14

He's not an I would have

57:16

won if I hadn't lost kind

57:18

of guy, but you know Frankly,

57:20

let's go ahead and just not

57:23

even fuck around with nomineeses and

57:25

say Jamal Hill when I would

57:27

have won if I hadn't lost

57:29

a ward. Late endurance here during

57:31

the CEMEs. Next award, this year

57:33

Ben, it's the K-O-of-the-year award. Last

57:35

year's winner was Josh Emmett for

57:37

murdering Bryce Mitchell at UFC-296, just

57:39

absolutely destroying that man with one

57:41

of the scarier K-O- those K-Os

57:43

that I've ever seen. Man

57:46

woke up talking about how he

57:48

doesn't believe in seat belts. That's

57:51

how bad a ko that was

57:53

might need to roll out of

57:55

the car, man nominees this year.

57:58

Jones K.O. of Matt Fervola at

58:00

a U.S.C. fight night in September.

58:02

I don't know if you remember

58:05

this one. They were up against

58:07

the fence kind of in a

58:09

clinch situation and then Matt Fervola

58:12

got need right in his face

58:14

and was he was in the

58:16

dreamland. He was in the black

58:19

lands. In the final second at

58:21

U.F.C. 300. We all remember that

58:23

one. The next nominee this year,

58:26

Shahra Bullet with the double spinning

58:28

backfist Kayo of Arman Patrosian at

58:30

UFC 308, something that I don't

58:33

think I've ever seen before. And

58:35

then the final nominee this year,

58:37

Big Fran, for going ground and

58:40

pound on Hannon Ferrera at the

58:42

PFL. But I think, yeah, there's

58:44

a runaway winner here, right. There's

58:47

one runaway winner and of course.

58:49

It is Justin Gaichi and Max

58:51

Holloway at UFC 300. Just back

58:54

to the enthusiastic air. That's yeah,

58:56

that sounded way more enthusiastic than

58:58

the last one. This, I think,

59:01

is the consensus knockout of the

59:03

year across the board at all

59:05

of the other MMA, end of

59:08

the year award spectaculars that we

59:10

have never heard of. It is

59:12

the responsible for a noticeable uptick

59:15

in fighters trying to do the

59:17

Max Holloway thing of pointing at

59:19

the center of the cage, except

59:22

the differences when their opponent obliges

59:24

and comes to the center of

59:26

the cage to brawl with them.

59:29

They back up. Which you can't

59:31

do that. I mean, it's harder

59:33

than you think. It's harder than

59:36

you think to be Max Holloway.

59:38

Yeah. Just like it's harder than

59:40

you think to go full heel

59:43

like like trail did. It's not

59:45

easy. It's not for everybody. Nope.

59:47

All right. fighter of

59:49

the year. Last year's winner was

59:52

Francis Ingano for departing the UFC

59:54

and then having that big. money

59:56

boxing match with Tyson Fury. Last

59:58

year's winner, Francis Ingano, big fan,

1:00:01

fighter of the year. This year's

1:00:03

nominees, Alex Pereira, he came into

1:00:05

his own sort of as the

1:00:07

go-to star of the U.S.C. this

1:00:10

year. He won what he win,

1:00:12

four fights this year, all by

1:00:14

stoppage, three or four. He was

1:00:16

basically the man this year for

1:00:19

the U.C. The next nominee, Ilea

1:00:21

Topuria. He won the U. The

1:00:23

U.S.C. Feather featherweighted title. knocked out

1:00:25

Alexander Volkinevski and Max Holloway during

1:00:28

the same year. At this point,

1:00:30

he's basically poised to be a

1:00:32

huge star for the UFC. The

1:00:34

final nominee this year, Dakota Ditcheva,

1:00:37

again, for winning. She won like

1:00:39

50 fights this year or something

1:00:41

in the PFL, but because it

1:00:43

was in the PFL, nobody noticed

1:00:46

until like three weeks ago. That

1:00:48

is sadly accurate. The winner this

1:00:50

year, Ben. I think it's up

1:00:52

for debate, man. I think it's

1:00:55

up for debate because I've always

1:00:57

said Alex Pereira, I think you're

1:00:59

saying Iliato Puria. Up for debate?

1:01:01

That's the up for debate horn.

1:01:04

Yeah, okay. I'm saying Iliato for

1:01:06

you and here's why I'm saying

1:01:08

Iliato for you. Branded, he didn't

1:01:10

fight a fucking million times like

1:01:13

some of the other people. He

1:01:15

just fought twice against two of

1:01:17

the best to ever do it

1:01:19

in his weight class and he

1:01:22

knocked them both out. two guys

1:01:24

who do not get knocked out,

1:01:26

especially at Featherweight. He went out

1:01:28

there and did some shit that

1:01:31

people just simply do not do,

1:01:33

and he did it twice in

1:01:35

his only two fights of the

1:01:37

year, went from being a guy

1:01:40

who the hardcore is new to

1:01:42

being a guy who's out there

1:01:44

on the cover of magazines and

1:01:46

newspapers that typically only feature soccer

1:01:49

players, he's an international superstar at

1:01:51

this point. That man, Doug came

1:01:53

up, Chad. It's hard

1:01:55

to argue if House Breira and or Ilea Toperia.

1:01:58

fighter of the year,

1:02:00

you be the judge. the judge.

1:02:02

This is it. This is This is the

1:02:04

last award. This is what is

1:02:06

what it all comes down to this

1:02:08

year. It's the It's the Year of the year award.

1:02:11

Last year's winner. was Francis

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Ingano versus Tyson Fury. Not

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even an MMA MMA Not even

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an MMA fight last last year's

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fight of the year. No

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boxing nominees this year.

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You got Gaichi versus that

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UFC 300. 300. You You got Islam Mahatja

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versus UFC 302.

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at And then you 302, and

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then you got Alex Pereira at

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UFC 307. UFC 307.

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This This is another one where

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Kana where Kana seems in the seems in Kana

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seems self tank, kind but you've got

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to say, fight of the year is

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Justin, Gachi and Max you got to say

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fight of the year is Justin

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Gache the unanimous Holloway. Nobody could possibly

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disagree with that. That one was

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an incredible fight, an moment. fight, kind

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of wish we could give it

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to I kind of wish we could give it

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to Kaleo Round Tree though. Like, just,

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did he off ass his ass off did better

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than anyone thought he would do made thought music

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video about it a fucking right. I would love

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to be able to sit here and give

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it to I would but you can't I don't

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think this year Give it to anyone else

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Round Tree, but you can't, I don't this that

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doesn't hurt that it was on that

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card. else. No, it it really doesn't hurt.

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I mean, there were a lot of other

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great fights this year of probably competitive, crazy,

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back -and -forth fights, but as far as

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just... crazy back and forth fights.

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fight and moment one one

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is. fight and really tough

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to top is really, really tough to top.

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That's it, that's the CEMES. The

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CMEs. A night of

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pageantry and majesty. Magistrate.

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Magistrate? The Magistrate

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here. I think I I think

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I to to say majesty. Magesty. That's

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the majesty horn right

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the Magistry horn right there.

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Thanks everybody for listening! It takes a

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villa. over here at the

1:04:01

CME. I think I think this is the

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last time we'll talk to you since you

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2025. 2025. Sort of a C. you next year.

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See you next year. year. It's nice

1:04:09

to see what year. Yeah. you It sounds

1:04:11

like it's going to be a long

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time from now, but it's really not. see

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what you're there? Yeah. Write that in the yearbook.

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Anyway, that's it. time Thanks everybody for

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listening. We hope you enjoyed the not. Write us

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in the We're back next year. If not

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before, we'll talk to you then. Thanks

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for the support. We appreciate it. For

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right now, now. we're done.