584 - Middleweight is a Joke
Heavy Hands
Connor Ruebusch
4.8 • 541 Ratings
🗓️ 6 August 2025
⏱️ 86 minutes
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Summary
A meaningful but deeply depressing middleweight main event, plus a discussion of how to counter MMA's fast-paced, pressure-fighting meta.
Predatory instinct: how Max Holloway attacks - read my latest breakdown on Substack: https://open.substack.com/pub/facepunching/p/predatory-instinct-how-max-holloway?r=evbq&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
KotoshoWHO? Discussing the shocking results of the July sumo tournament on Patreon with Miguel Class: https://www.patreon.com/heavyhands
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CONTENTS:
00:00 Intro
8:34 Dolidze vs Hernandez
32:12 Erceg vs Osbourne
44:10 Fili vs Rodriguez
59:43 Countering the Pressure Meta
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. |
| 0:35.8 | I'm your host Connor with me, as always. |
| 0:38.3 | Is Dr. Phil? |
| 0:39.9 | Yo, it's Roman Delette Fight Week. |
| 0:42.4 | Let's go. |
| 0:43.6 | Get hype. |
| 0:45.6 | Who, who, who, who, who, who. |
| 0:47.6 | Roman Delizze. |
| 0:50.0 | Roman Delidzee number one chess fan in MMA, but you wouldn't fucking know it from the way he fights. |
| 0:56.2 | Let's go! |
| 0:58.2 | Yeah. |
| 0:59.7 | 600 Elo chess player, Roman Delizzi, and 400 Elo MMA technician. |
| 1:07.7 | Let's get it. |
| 1:09.8 | Yeah, folks, we are, the UFC is back on their bullshit, which we knew last week, |
| 1:17.2 | which is why we asked you all for some topic suggestions. |
| 1:22.8 | And we have picked one of those up from you wonderful, helpful people in the YouTube |
| 1:27.0 | comments. Those of you that weren't just coming out of the closet and were in. have picked one of those up from you wonderful, helpful people in the YouTube comments, |
| 1:28.0 | those of you that weren't just coming out of the closet and were in fact, you know, doing what |
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