BTL | Khamzat Chimaev's Dominance At UFC 319, DDP & Pico's Next Moves, UFC Shanghai, More

MMA Fighting

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Sports News, Sports, News

4.6 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2025

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Summary

Following UFC 319, Khamzat Chimaev is the brand new UFC middleweight champion after delivering a lopsided victory against Dricus du Plessis in the main event. While Chimaev was in full control for 99 percent of the bout, the performance has garnered from groans from UFC fans and the MMA community. Is that fair, and if so, which fighter should take the blame for it? On an all-new edition of Between the Links, the panel discusses the UFC 319 main event, the backlash it has received despite the impressive showing from the new champion, and what's next for du Plessis following his first UFC loss. Additionally, they react to Lerone Murphy's sensational knockout of Aaron Pico, if Murphy is definitely Alexander Volkanovski's next challenger, what the next step for Pico should be, Saturday's UFC Shanghai card headlined by Zhang Mingyang and Johnny Walker, Anthony Hernandez vs. Reinier de Ridder being announced for UFC Vancouver, Jake Paul vs. Gervonta Davis, and more. Host Mike Heck moderates the matchup between MMA Fighting's Jed Meshew and Morning Kombat's Long Island Luke. Follow Mike Heck: ⁠@m_heckjr⁠ Follow Jed Meshew: ⁠@JedKMeshew⁠ Follow Long Island Luke: @maincardminute Subscribe:⁠ http://goo.gl/dYpsgH⁠ Check out our full video catalog: ⁠http://goo.gl/u8VvLi⁠ Visit our playlists:⁠ http://goo.gl/eFhsvM⁠ Like MMAF on Facebook: ⁠http://goo.gl/uhdg7Z⁠ Follow on Twitter: ⁠http://goo.gl/nOATUI⁠ 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.
0:09.2	Live from M.A. Fighting Studios, this is Between the Links.
0:16.2	And now, your host, Mike Peck.
0:22.6	The iconic voice of Esther Lynn welcomes you to a brand new edition of BTL.
0:29.6	Happy Thursday to us all.
0:31.6	We got a lot going on in the wonderful and wacky world of mixed martial arts.
0:39.9	And we have a fun match for you on the program today.
0:43.7	So with no further ado, let us introduce the participants first.
0:44.9	You know them.
0:45.9	You'll love them.
0:52.3	The hot tag kid, Mr. No Gray area, the man who will just climb, he will fall down.
0:53.7	He'll climb again.
0:56.8	He'll fall back down and he'll just keep on climbing from M-Afighting.com. Deadbushu. What's up, buddy? You did just remind me I need to build
1:03.0	climb graphics for this week, so thank you. I forgot to do that. So, um, hey everybody,
1:09.5	excited to be back. We have sad things to talk about, and I guess we Excited to be back.
1:13.6	We have sad things to talk about.
1:15.4	And I guess we're going to talk about them.
1:18.7	Do you want to reveal your climb bet yet?
1:20.6	Oh, yeah.
1:27.3	My climb bet's, I revealed my climb bet on the live watch party for UFC 319, it was always going to be Zhang Mingyang.
1:30.9	And it is Yang like he's, uh, he's going to win this weekend.
1:36.3	Though I do think that fight is like, as I looked into it, it's a little more competitive
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