612 - The Gatekeeper
Heavy Hands
Connor Ruebusch
4.8 • 541 Ratings
🗓️ 26 February 2026
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Summary
Having finally perfected the art of fight picking, Phil is now the main host of Heavy Hands.
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CONTENTS:
00:00 Intro
00:30 Strickland vs Hernandez
27:31 Neal vs Medic
36:50 Ige vs Costa
52:45 Moreno vs Kavanagh
1:17:40 Vera vs Martinez
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I'm I'm going to be the I'm Hello, hello, hello, and welcome to Heavy Hands. |
| 0:35.8 | I'm Connor, Joining me as always. |
| 0:37.9 | It's Phil. |
| 0:39.5 | Yo. |
| 0:42.1 | Phil, |
| 0:42.9 | I've mentored you for a long time. |
| 0:48.8 | And it's been a difficult road. |
| 0:52.7 | You know, the path to mastership is not always straightforward. |
| 1:01.2 | And I would say you've been in the journeyman phase of your apprenticeship for quite some time now. |
| 1:06.4 | But you have finally achieved a Connor Rebush level of fight picking ability. |
| 1:16.4 | You saw Sean Strickland versus Anthony Hernandez perfectly and then talked yourself out of it. |
| 1:28.3 | Hooray! You said, and then talk to yourself out of it. O'ray. |
| 1:31.0 | You saw this shit coming. |
| 1:32.5 | Also, how dare you call me your apprentice? |
| 1:35.5 | You're not my real dad. |
| 1:38.2 | Now, son. |
| 1:40.0 | I don't want to have this conversation again. |
| 1:44.7 | You saw this shit perfectly. |
| 1:48.4 | You were like Sean Strickland is, can Anthony Hernandez deal with Jab and Circle? |
| 1:54.5 | Can he deal with that? |
| 1:57.6 | When there's no easy avenue into getting takedowns, |
| 2:01.2 | like isn't he just going to be stuck getting poked by Sean Strickland |
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