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Jack Slack Podcast

227 - Dustin Fights His Heart Out, Retires, Leaves Void in the Soul of the Sport

Jack Slack Podcast

Jack Slack

Wrestling, Sports

4.9561 Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2025

⏱️ 37 minutes

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0:00.0

Ooy, it's your boy, the Adam Fugget of Crotch Chopin and asking you to Sug it.

0:05.6

Jack Slack, it's the Jack Slack podcast, and we're coming at you, following UFC 318,

0:10.9

not as bad as it looked.

0:13.0

I think most of us were reasonably skeptical because it was a bunch of unks on the main card.

0:19.0

Michael Johnson, Patricio Pitbull, Daniel Rodriguez, Paolo Costa, all arguably washed.

0:24.8

However, all of them won, which was pretty hysterical, to be honest.

0:30.4

And they weren't bad fights either.

0:31.9

And then the prelims, to be fair, the prelims were a bunch of massive favoritesites in execution matchups, scoring lopsided stoppages.

0:42.6

But then the main card also had a lot of heavy favourites, and they lost.

0:46.1

So, karma maybe, or God laughing?

0:50.2

One or the other.

0:52.0

Main event is the one that I'm going to wax lyrical about, because in my preview, I was like, that's the good fight on this card, but I also can't have, I can't say much about it because I've talked about it so much since the second fight. I feel like I've talked about these guys more than anyone else in the sport. I was having a chat with a friend over the weekend, and I, uh, I was joking about, like, how bad the state of MMA is generally, because

1:11.9

they asked how work's going. And I sort of came round to it because I was like, oh, actually,

1:17.5

in about five years, maybe less, Holloway, Poria, Gaichi, Olivera, McAchiev, probably all

1:25.0

going to be retired. And I'm going to be looking back going,

1:28.7

damn, we had it really good.

1:33.9

And this was the start of it with Dustin Poria, bowing out very gracefully.

1:39.0

Wasn't quite the perfect retirement because he didn't win, but you can't plan for that stuff.

1:41.8

The stuff that they could plan for, they actually got it right this time.

1:45.3

MMA and the UFC especially is a very strange place for retirements because they'll do a massive video package, especially for

1:50.0

Michelle Watterson, who, I mean, she's not really like that well liked as a fighter.

1:56.9

And then they'll let Steve Amiochrich go out for last fight, and they'll remember to do a video package next week

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