604 - When welterweight was good

Heavy Hands

Connor Ruebusch

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4.8 • 541 Ratings

🗓️ 1 January 2026

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

When did welterweight become the new middleweight?

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

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0:00.0	Thank you.
0:02.0	I'm your host, Connor, with me, as almost always, this is Welcome one and all to another edition of heavy hands.
0:38.0	I'm your host, Connor, with me.
0:40.3	As almost always, is Phil.
0:43.0	Yo.
0:43.9	Phil, who was not available last week.
0:47.7	Some of you listeners out there may have noticed there was no episode last week, but I am here to tell you right now, I actually did record just a day or two ago with a friend of the show and knowledgeable American Phil almost.
1:06.2	If you're thinking about guys with a flat affect and a dry sense of humor. Ryan Wagner.
1:13.3	Isn't he Canadian?
1:14.9	Yes. Oh, you're right. Well, he's American in one. They're, you know.
1:18.8	Also, I believe we are contractually obligated to refer to him as enemy of the show.
1:24.0	That's right. Fuck! I's start over. Start over.
1:34.6	No, I had, I had Ryan Wagner, and we had a wonderful discussion about wrestling in MMA.
1:46.4	He wrote an excellent piece on takedown entries, but we also talked about the place of the wrestler in modern MMA and discussed the idea that we're getting fewer wrestling prospects than we used to, at least from the Americas. And so you're going to have a double dose
1:52.4	of heavy hands this week, just because that one got recorded so late in the week. And also,
1:57.0	I had some power outages and stuff, which prevented me from working on it.
2:01.2	But you're going to get two of those this week.
2:03.7	And for those asking, where are the handies?
2:06.5	Wait till January.
2:07.7	They are coming.
2:08.8	Never you fear.
2:10.1	But this week, we're just doing some topics.
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