579 - The Future is Now
Heavy Hands
Connor Ruebusch
4.8 • 541 Ratings
🗓️ 2 July 2025
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
Ilia Topuria has now killed all of your favorite fighters. His next target: your mom.
Payton Talbott also got a big test at UFC 317 and, while it wasn't perfect, he showed real improvement. We're talking about that in our latest bonus episode: https://www.patreon.com/heavyhands
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CONTENTS:
6:36 Topuria vs Oliveira
29:50 Pantoja vs Kara-France
47:06 Van vs Royval
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you. |
| 0:02.0 | I'm |
| 0:04.0 | a |
| 0:05.0 | I'm |
| 0:07.0 | you Hello, hello, and welcome to another edition of Heavy Hands. |
| 0:36.9 | I'm your host, Mr. Connor. |
| 0:39.3 | With me as always, my dear friend, Dr. Phil. |
| 0:44.0 | What's up? |
| 0:45.4 | Not much, Doc. |
| 0:47.6 | Except UFC 317. |
| 0:51.4 | At least it was up until recently. |
| 0:53.9 | And now it's down. It's down in the books we talked about |
| 0:58.0 | this card fill last week as a bit of a gamble on the part of the ufc brass and matchmakers putting |
| 1:09.6 | the better part of their limited roster of bright, shining, |
| 1:17.1 | young stars or potential stars out there, and with the exception of Ilya to Pura, in the |
| 1:24.9 | main event, not putting them in easy fights. Not that that was expected |
| 1:31.7 | to be easy, but we were fairly confident that we liked the matchup for Tuporia, right? |
| 1:37.5 | But we also had Joshua Van on this card, the youngest actually good fighter, perhaps, in the UFC. |
| 1:45.3 | We had Peyton Talbot on this card. |
| 1:48.0 | Both of them in difficult fights. |
| 1:52.3 | And I got to say, I think the gamble paid off. |
| 1:57.3 | Yeah, hell yeah, undeniably. |
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