598 - Now or Never
Heavy Hands
Connor Ruebusch
4.8 • 541 Ratings
🗓️ 13 November 2025
⏱️ 105 minutes
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Summary
Why has Islam Makhachev chosen this moment to go up to 170? Is he at the end of his prime? Or maybe it's just because Jack Della Maddalena SUCKS.
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CONTENTS:
00:00 Intro
7:29 Della Maddalena vs Makhachev
54:33 Shevchenko vs Zhang
1:20:18 Edwards vs Prates
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | The Hello, hello, and welcome to another heavy hands. |
| 0:38.6 | I'm Connor, with me as always. |
| 0:40.6 | It's Phil. |
| 0:41.9 | Hey. |
| 0:43.0 | Hey, Phil. |
| 0:45.8 | How's it going? |
| 0:47.1 | Not too bad. |
| 0:47.7 | How are you? |
| 0:49.4 | I'm pretty good. |
| 0:51.1 | I'm excited about a genuinely good. |
| 1:01.3 | Pop to bottom stacked UFC card. How long has it been? |
| 1:09.1 | I remember there was a pretty good one. I want to say, 22. It feels like it's been a long time. It feels... It does. 2022? |
| 1:13.0 | It feels like it's been a long time. |
| 1:14.1 | It feels... It does. |
| 1:16.1 | Like, we've had ones |
| 1:17.7 | which have good main events, |
| 1:21.7 | and we've had ones which are, like, |
| 1:23.1 | good, top to bottom. |
| 1:24.5 | But it really feels like it has genuinely kind of been years since we've seen them firing on all cylinders like this. |
| 1:34.2 | I'm sure if I thought about it, like I would say that the, you know, maybe like the first, um, the first card, you know, the big card that they did at the sphere or something might have |
| 1:46.2 | been stacked to this degree. But yeah, this is a card where it's just, it's just really good. |
| 1:52.8 | And the fights aren't just, like, meaningful in terms of being, you know, relevant, famous people that the UFC can put forward because they're, you know, stars or champions or whatever. They're interesting. |
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