585 - The Unstoppable Force vs the Uncoordinated Object

Heavy Hands

Connor Ruebusch

Sports

4.8 • 541 Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2025

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

An unreliable contender and an inexplicable champion make for one hell of a compelling matchup at UFC 319.

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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

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CONTENTS
00:00 Intro (UFC/Paramount Plus deal)
8:01 Du Plessis vs Chimaev
38:54 Murphy vs Pico
1:02:11 Neal vs Prates

Transcript

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0:00.0	I'm Hello, hello, and welcome to another edition of Heavy Hands.
0:35.4	I'm your host, Connor with me, as always, is my co-host, Phil.
0:38.8	Yo, Phil.
0:42.6	UFC 319.
0:47.4	I had to remind myself what the number was.
0:49.2	That is the card on our docket today, first and foremost.
0:54.2	Drikas Duplessi versus Kamsat Shimeyev is the main event.
0:58.9	They've finally got Chimayev in there.
1:01.1	They are cashing that Chech, cashing the Chech.
1:10.2	Is there a pun there? Oh, no. No no there is no pun there let's pretend it never
1:15.4	happened uh they finally are getting their uh their payday essentially out of chimaev as
1:23.1	one of the most exciting prospects to ever join the UFC,
1:27.9	who very quickly seems to be going nowhere.
1:31.2	He's here now, taking on the unique middleweight champion, Dreykis DuPlessy.
1:39.8	And the rest of the card, I'll be honest.
1:42.7	It is full of fighters I know in relatively interesting matchups.
1:50.4	It does sort of feel like what, you know, six or seven years ago I would have considered a good fight night card undercard rather than a real like banner pay-per-view.
2:05.5	There's not a lot of other really like title contender type matchups here, are there?
2:17.7	No, there's nothing that's making you think, yeah, not only in my watching, like, the present
2:23.7	top of these divisions, but I'm watching the, you know, I'm watching the future as well.
2:28.0	Right.
2:29.1	It's just like, it's a bunch of people that you're familiar with.
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