So, just before we get into all of the disgusting action set for UFC 316 on this episode,

we wanted to take a moment here at the top of the show to pay what pitiful tribute we can

to Jordan Breen, who passed away this week.

Phil, well, what do you have to say about one of the original pillars of the MMA media landscape?

Yeah, I mean, I don't think you could come up with like a more formative figure in MMA media for me,

honestly, even Jordan.

Yeah.

Yeah.

You know, like many of us, I came up through Sherdog and then made my way to bloody elbow later.

And yeah, I think, you know, like for me and for many other people, like Jordan was the first, like, was either the first or one of the first, like, real examples of, you know, how do you think about this sport as like an analyst?

Like, you know, how do you look at how it's functioning as a sport?

You know, what do you talk about?

How do you analyze the fighters?

And he was just someone who you could count on to be just endlessly thrilled

about all the weird, crazy stuff that was going on in the sport.

And yeah, I mean, it's incredibly tragic.

You know, the Sherdog Radio Network, the beat down off the bell, the Jordan Breen show,

you know, they got me through some tough times in my life

I can remember you know times when I would just

I like I wouldn't have a job or anything

and then I would I would go into a park and I would sit down

and I would listen I would just put on you know

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