BTL | Ilia Topuria Crowned At UFC 298, Pereira vs. Hill For UFC 300, PFL vs. Bellator

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🗓️ 22 February 2024

⏱️ 96 minutes

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Summary

A new UFC featherweight champ was crowned this past Saturday in the main event of UFC 298 after Ilia Topuria knocked out Alexander Volkanovski in the second round. While it's the dawning of a new era, it also puts an end to one of the most impressive title reigns in recent memory, Where will each fighter go, and will it be a rematch with one another next? On an all-new edition of Between the Links, the panel reacts to Topuria's championship victory, talks what it means for the featherweight division, and whether or not a rematch should be next. Additionally, they'll discuss other shining stars from the pay-per-view event, Dana White announcing the UFC 300 main event between Alex Pereira and Jamahal Hill, Saturday's UFC Mexico City card headlined by Brandon Moreno vs. Brandon Royval 2, the PFL vs. Bellator card this weekend, and much more. Host Mike Heck moderates the matchup between MMA Fighting's Jed Meshew and Morning Kombat's Brian Campbell. Follow Mike Heck: @MikeHeck_JR Follow Jed Meshew: @JedKMeshew Follow Brian Campbell: @BCampbell Subscribe to MMA Fighting Check out our full video catalog Like MMA Fighting on Facebook Follow on Twitter Read More: http://www.mmafighting.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Vox Media Podcast Network.
0:06.0	Live from MMA Fighting Studios, this is between the links.
0:15.0	And now, your host, Mike Heck!
0:20.0	The iconic voice of Esther Lynn welcomes you to a brand new addition of
0:28.1	BTL happy Thursday to us all as you're coming off a memorable UFC 298 event in Anaheim. We finally got our
0:36.6	UFC 300 main event question answered and there's a whole lot of them made this weekend so
0:41.6	we'll discuss that in much more no time to waste let's
0:44.0	introduce the combatants first he's in the middle of a short winter residency in
0:50.2	Tampa Florida he's mr no gray Area, Mr. Hot Take, the Canniball Kid, and after yesterday,
0:56.5	we can now add sunburns and but yet renowned videographer to the resume from
1:02.1	Emily Fighting.com, Mr. Jed Masu. Jen, how we do it? videographer to the resume from my money fighting dot com
1:03.0	Mr. Jed Michu. Jed how we do it my friend?
1:06.6	I'm doing great sunburnt as you can probably tell. Casey shout out to you
1:18.0	my first fory into videography, and I gotta say, I'm not coming for the title. The crown is yours, it's safe.
1:21.0	You do not need to be concerned about me taking your job.
1:24.0	Yes, uh, sunburned for sure. I'm sunburned as well.
1:29.0	Back on the show, one half of the award winning podcast tag team champions of the How are you and got the Portugal the man shirt on?
1:42.9	Shout out.
1:43.8	You know, I gotta represent the best damn rock band
1:46.3	in the world going on right now.
1:47.6	And I just wanna remind everybody that I'm also currently living rent free
1:51.5	in Jed's mind like a squatter in an outhouse and yeah I'm not going to wash my hands either all right yeah
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