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Heavy Hands

Connor Ruebusch

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4.8 • 541 Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2025

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Dustin Poirier goes out with class, and Max Holloway's legend continues to grow. Also Oleksandr Usyk. Good weekend of fights!

Read my huge, two part breakdown of Joshua Van vs Brandon Royval on Substack: https://open.substack.com/pub/facepunching/p/joshua-van-vs-brandon-royval-part?r=evbq&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Sumo is back, and that means more Heavy Henka with Miguel Class on our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/heavyhands

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CONTENTS

00:00 Intro
2:50 Holloway vs Poirier 3
33:19 Costa vs Kopylov
43:43 Holland vs Rodriguez
49:47 Usyk vs Dubois 2
1:02:27 Johnson vs Zellhuber

Transcript

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0:00.0	I'm I'm going to be. Hello, hello, and welcome to another edition of Heavy Hands.
0:37.0	I'm your host, Connor, with me.
0:38.1	As always, this is my co-host, Phil.
0:40.7	Hello.
0:42.1	UFC 318, Phil.
0:45.3	That's what happened this weekend.
0:46.5	Also, we didn't talk about it last week, but we are going to talk about it today.
0:50.8	Alexander Usik and his rematch against Daniel Dubois, a weekend of big rematches.
0:58.2	And really a pretty feel-good weekend as far as combat sports viewing goes, wouldn't you say?
1:09.5	Yeah, in a lot of ways, kind of want to warm the cockles of your jaded heart.
1:15.1	My cockles are heated right through.
1:19.6	My cockles are beaded with sweat.
1:21.9	Dewey cockles.
1:23.9	Ugh.
1:26.0	We've got Max Holloway versus Dustin Porriere 3.
1:31.8	That was the main event of UFC 318.
1:34.4	We're going to talk about that.
1:35.6	We will get to Uzik Dubois, too, later in the show as well.
1:40.3	But some other, you know, surprising, impressive results as well.
1:45.3	Polo Costa, whom we roundly mocked on last week's episode, showed up and fought a really good fight and frankly dominated Roman Koppelov.
1:58.6	Who saw that coming?
2:01.2	Daniel Rodriguez and Kevin Holland had a best bad fight of the year contender, if I've ever seen one.
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