605 - MMA is Too Hard

Heavy Hands

Connor Ruebusch

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4.8 • 541 Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2026

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

Do MMA fighters have bad defense because the sport is just too hard, or are they all missing the forest for the trees?

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0:00.0	The Hello, hello, hello, and welcome to another edition of Heavy Hands.
0:39.3	I'm Connor.
0:40.4	This here is Phil.
0:43.0	Yo.
0:43.8	Howdy, Phil?
0:44.9	How are you?
0:45.8	How's the new year treating you so far?
0:50.7	It's already proven to be quite a crazy year
0:54.9	just in the world in general
0:57.4	what have been?
0:59.6	Apparently some stuff's been happening
1:01.2	I haven't heard
1:02.7	like yeah you're a countryman
1:04.7	I've been doing some weird stuff
1:05.9	and
1:07.0	that doesn't sound like I'm like
1:08.4	yeah
1:09.9	like some extra weird stuff.
1:12.2	And, but yeah, I had a good holiday.
1:13.9	I had a nice, uh, Christmas and a relatively quiet, chilled new year.
1:19.0	But yeah, 2026 hasn't, hasn't immediately kicked off leading me thinking that it's going to be, uh, like, this is where we turn it all around. A like a nice peaceful chilled year in and of itself
1:30.6	this one's going to be different yeah yeah well for those of you wondering there was one person
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