601 - Age of the Wrestler
Heavy Hands
Connor Ruebusch
4.8 • 541 Ratings
🗓️ 4 December 2025
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
Someday, scientists may recreate the wrestler, possibly using frog DNA. Until then, we have to appreciate the ones we have left.
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CONTENTS:
00:00 Intro
5:48 Dvalishvili vs Yan 2
36:15 Pantoja vs Van
57:50 Cejudo vs Talbott
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you. |
| 0:02.0 | I'm Hello, hello, and welcome to another edition of Heavy Hands. |
| 0:36.6 | I'm your host, Mr. Connor. With me, as always, Dr. Phil. |
| 0:42.3 | And we have, uh, well, it's a big card to talk to you about this week. UFC 323. As Phil was sort of identifying, uh, as we were, you know, deciding which of these fights we want to hit, |
| 1:00.5 | there are quite a lot of bouts that seem, they may be defined by a wrestler just absolutely smothering, |
| 1:10.6 | a more exciting type of fighter? |
| 1:14.4 | There may be some like, okay, one way or the other kind of matchups here. |
| 1:20.6 | But it's still a good card, right? |
| 1:24.3 | Yeah, I mean, it's a... It's a pretty banging card. |
| 1:28.4 | And... |
| 1:29.3 | It is largely, like, dominated by smaller fighters. |
| 1:34.6 | So... |
| 1:35.4 | Yeah. |
| 1:36.0 | Even on the, like... |
| 1:38.2 | Even on the chance that it is, like, a... |
| 1:42.0 | a quote-unquote boring series of performances where |
| 1:47.6 | like the wrestler wins |
| 1:49.2 | like there's a level of difference |
| 1:52.1 | between like what a top control |
| 1:54.6 | focus |
| 1:55.2 | fight looks like in |
| 1:58.5 | like middleweight |
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