602 - Petr Perfect

Heavy Hands

Connor Ruebusch

Sports

4.8 • 541 Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2025

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

I hereby take back every criticism I have ever leveled at Petr Yan. He is God.

Talking about Royval vs Kape and the rest of UFC 323 in our latest bonus episode: https://www.patreon.com/heavyhands

Predatory instinct: how Max Holloway attacks: https://open.substack.com/pub/facepunching/p/predatory-instinct-how-max-holloway?r=evbq&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false

Heavy Hands merch: https://www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/64577943?asc=u

CONTENTS:

00:00 Intro
00:46 Yan vs Dvalishvili 2
43:26 Pantoja vs Van (and what's next)
51:33 Talbott vs Cejudo
1:03 Moreno vs Taira

Transcript

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0:00.0	Thank you.
0:03.0	I'm
0:05.0	The Hello, hello, and welcome to another edition of Heavy Hands.
0:37.9	I am your host, Connor, with me as always.
0:41.1	It's Phil.
0:42.6	Yoke.
0:43.5	Somehow, Phil, UFC 323 happened last weekend.
0:51.7	And somehow we had two title fights, one of which ended due to injury in less than 30 seconds.
1:05.0	I would argue the most highly anticipated bout of the card, at least it was for me.
1:13.3	And it ended with a disastrous anti-climax.
1:19.9	And somehow I came out of UFC 323 feeling satisfied by what I had seen.
1:30.7	Yep.
1:32.2	That was due to the magic of Pyotr Ian, who recaptured the form of his first championship
1:42.6	run and utterly defeated one of the greatest
1:50.3	bantam weights we've ever seen in Marab de Wallis-Willi.
1:55.2	I don't know.
1:56.8	To me, that's just the thought I lead with, that we had one of the most disappointing results possible, especially considering the anticipation surrounding the fight.
2:08.8	And yet, Peoriaean was so good and did something so impressive that when this card ended, I did not feel I had wasted my time.
2:20.1	Not even close.
2:22.2	Yeah.
2:23.3	I mean, you know, partially having that kind of caper on the event can be, it can turn what came before it into simply like notes in what you've seen.
2:40.9	You know, we got some crazy, horrific disappointment.
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