BTL Roundtable | Ngannou vs. Gane, Moreno vs. Figueiredo 3, Kattar's Big Win, More

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🗓️ 20 January 2022

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Could Francis Ngannou have too much on his mind ahead of his first heavyweight title defense? That storyline is discussed on this week’s Between the Links ahead of Ngannou’s main event bout with Ciryl Gane at UFC 270 this Saturday. In addition, the panel talks the trilogy fight for the flyweight championship between Brandon Moreno and Deiveson Figueiredo, the UFC’s first pay-per-view event under the new price increase, Calvin Kattar’s incredible bounce back win against Giga Chikadze at UFC Vegas 46 and where that puts him in title contention, the ongoing battle between Dana White and Henry Cejudo, and much more with MMA Fighting’s Mike Heck, Jed Meshew, along with UFC bantamweight Brian Kelleher fresh off of his victory over Kevin Croom this past Saturday at the APEX. Follow Mike Heck: @MikeHeck_JR Follow Jed Meshew: @JedKMeshew Follow Brian Kelleher: @brianboom135 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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1:26.2	Yes, the iconic voice of Esther Lynn welcomes you to a brand new edition of Between the Links. We're doing a
1:32.6	live roundtable edition of the program. Some friendly banter to discuss all the big news going on
1:38.3	in the world and mixed martial arts. Thank you for having us on. We're hoping for the big
1:42.5	championship battle to go down next week between Jedmishu and Phoenix, Karnavali. But lining up
1:48.8	the schedules has proven to be very difficult, but we will get it done at some point. But I figured
1:53.8	we can banter, keep it somewhat friendly and have some fun on this Thursday afternoon. Speaking
1:58.6	of Jedmishu, he is here right now, the reigning undisputed BTL champion. Although you don't have
2:04.4	your first title defense, Jed, you are here to to talk some MMA. How are you, my friend?
2:09.0	I am not. We talked about this. Whatever week it was at this point. I am not the reigning. I am not
2:15.0	the undisputed Phoenix, Karnavali. Again, unlike Al Jermaine Sterling, when I say something,
2:20.6	I mean it. And I am not the champion until I beat Phoenix. So you can give me that paper title.
2:26.8	I'm going to put it down and I'm never picking it up. You're not going to find any images of me
2:30.9	online with that belt because I'm not the real until I beat the real. At some point that's going to
2:36.6	happen in the interim. Happy to be here in chat with you guys. Chef should be fun.
2:42.0	Yeah, I mean, I did all this work to put this tournament together and it means nothing.
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