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The Big Brown Breakdown

Brendan Schaub Calls Out Dana White's UFC Pay Argument | Big Brown Breakdown Ep. 505

The Big Brown Breakdown

Thiccc Boy Studios | PodcastOne

Comedy, Sports

4.05.6K Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2026

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Brendan Schaub breaks down Dana White's recent comments on UFC fighter pay and explains why comparing the UFC to boxing misses the bigger issue. Schaub dives into how the UFC scouts talent, why young fighters deserve better opportunities, and what separates MMA from other major professional sports.

Also on this episode, Schaub discusses Khamzat Chimaev's reported weight-cut disaster before the Sean Strickland fight, Conor McGregor's new UFC deal and future plans, the UFC White House card, Darren Till's career resurgence, Rico Verhoeven's controversial loss to Oleksandr Usyk, and the biggest stories happening across combat sports.

Big Brown Breakdown delivers UFC analysis, MMA news, boxing discussions, fighter psychology, business breakdowns, training insights, and behind-the-scenes perspectives from Brendan Schaub.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

right through the city like brinnishaw i'm on the mission to get it all right through the city like brinnishaw

0:06.6

if you ain't thick please don't get involved and now brandon six boy shop what's popping fam may 28th boy may is flying by summer is upon us kids it is 9.45 a.m.

0:30.1

What's popping? What's going on? Best time of the year here in Austin. Uh, locked on on the

0:36.7

real housewives of the UFC MMA in general.

0:40.4

We got a lot of news is popping.

0:42.5

A lot of news is popping.

0:43.5

Dana White sat down with Rolling Stones.

0:46.4

So I'm sure there's going to be a lot to discuss when we get into that.

0:51.7

I posted the, I'm going to start to show off with this today so I posted uh how boxing is the

0:57.9

easiest sport in combat sports listen I expect the backlash especially with the boxing heads

1:04.3

uh you know they're uh they're a club that doesn't play well with others I've learned this for my

1:10.5

time being around boxing

1:12.3

and you know i worked the floyd mayweather con mcgregor fight uh we're at to get heavy into boxing

1:20.6

especially the boxing heads and you know they're this older club and they just don't like

1:27.3

newcomers and that's what it is.

1:29.3

And the fan base is similar. You know, the fan base is like, oh, you don't know what you're

1:34.7

talking about, blah, blah, blah. And you got to realize, I'm not saying boxing's easy.

1:42.0

None of this stuff is easy. I was saying out of all the major

1:46.1

disciplines that it takes to compete in mixed martial arts or combat sports, it would be the

1:51.8

easiest. And I laid out the whole examples that I gave you guys. But what I find interesting

1:58.2

is now I'll have promoters, all sorts of people, you know,

2:03.4

some people doing for clicks, and actual legit boxing promoters, like, if you think it's so easy,

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