587 - Despair
Heavy Hands
Connor Ruebusch
4.8 • 541 Ratings
🗓️ 28 August 2025
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
A thoroughly dispiriting night of fights with two bright spots: Charles Johnson letting out his inner G, and Sergei Pavlovich beating a top heavyweight prospect by being only slightly good at MMA.
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
Talking about how MVP is the only Bellator/PFL guy currently killing it in the UFC, plus Loopy Godinez, Lone'er Kavanagh, and more in our latest bonus episode: https://www.patreon.com/heavyhands
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CONTENTS:
00:00 Intro
2:40 Walker vs Zhang
18:23 Sterling vs Ortega
38:29 Pavlovich vs Cortes-Acosta
47:44 Johnson vs Kavanagh
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. |
| 0:37.2 | I'm Connor. |
| 0:37.9 | That's Phil. |
| 0:39.4 | Yep. |
| 0:41.0 | We are here to talk to you today, gentle people, about the thrills and spills and chills of Johnny Walker versus Jean Mingyang and his undercard. |
| 0:58.5 | And to capture the feeling of this card, I'm going to continue thinking of words that rhyme with chills and spills for the following 55 minutes. |
| 1:09.1 | Bills. |
| 1:13.0 | Will's. |
| 1:13.9 | Feel free to pitch in, Phil. |
| 1:16.5 | I am leaving you to die on this one. |
| 1:22.0 | This was a... |
| 1:25.1 | I would describe this as a largely |
| 1:27.9 | dispiriting experience |
| 1:29.9 | I mean it was |
| 1:35.5 | it was all kind of interesting |
| 1:36.9 | was it |
| 1:38.3 | sort of |
| 1:40.7 | I mean look |
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