603 - RIP ESPN

Heavy Hands

Connor Ruebusch

Sports

4.8 • 541 Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2025

⏱️ 99 minutes

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Summary

Rest in piss to the ephemeral sports programming network.

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
13:05 Kape vs Royval
22:02 Vallejos vs Chikadze
31:06 Misc.
34:22 RIP ESPN
1:06:21 205 before Jones

Transcript

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0:00.0	The
0:07.0	The Hello, hello, hello, and welcome to another edition of Heavy Hands.
0:38.3	I'm Connor.
0:39.2	That's Phil.
0:40.8	Nope.
0:43.7	It's the end of something, Phil.
0:46.3	Do you ever feel like you came in at the end of something?
0:52.0	Sometimes.
0:53.5	You know, things were good, and you get in there and you're like i could just tell
0:59.3	there's no future in this everything's going down it's the the the bleak midwinter of the soul
1:08.5	you ever have that feeling?
1:11.4	Mm-hmm.
1:13.4	Every day.
1:21.3	Last weekend, we witnessed the final fight night card.
1:23.9	I would love to say the final apex card.
1:26.4	I would God would I love to say that.
1:28.5	But I'm afraid that is impossible.
1:37.8	I must simply say the final card of the ESPN era of the UFC.
1:41.9	It's, uh, it's over.
1:50.8	The long nightmare is over. a whole new nightmare is about to begin but for the time being i'm feeling genuinely optimistic you know i don't know i don't know
1:58.0	exactly what the experience is like for you over there, Phil.
2:08.4	But over here, we are going from a service where we're expected to pay, like, I don't know what it is now.
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