It's the 10th of May 2021 and it is time everybody for morning combat.

Hello everyone. My name is Luke Thomas. I am one half of your hosting duo. I am from CBS Sports, the gentleman on that side of the screen. I think now wait this side of the screen, this side, that one.

He is also from CBS Sports. He's the king of Connecticut when apathy's not around. It's Brian Campbell. Hi, Brian Campbell. Hi, Luke. Okay. Hi. We're back. I'm back. Let's be back together. All right.

I can't quite read your sign back there. Don't really. It's an encouragement to people to understand where we are in the Great War. Don't bow guard the MK. All right. Don't don't don't hog it. Okay.

You know, breathe out so we can breathe you in. Spread the word. Tell your friends. All right. Let's make this thing as big as it can be.

Look, I'm so I was wondering, is this orange make me look bloated or would you say it's more of my diet choices of late? Outside of that, I am so ready to take this thing to the next level. That's all I don't know. I don't know what it is, but you definitely.

You definitely look. I wouldn't say quite the color of Country Time Pink lemonade, not that bad, but I don't know, you know, pre cooked hot dog kind of pink. Just lifeless flesh. That's you.

Thanks. All right. We have a lot to get to today. Thanks everyone who checked out our content last weekend for the Mohegan sun, but the train rolls on. We're going to have a whole bunch of UFC 262 stuff for you coming up this next week.

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Is the best and frankly, maybe the only place to reach the show. And yeah, BC, there actually was a fair amount of stuff over the weekend. Are you ready to get this party started with our very lifeless intro?

Yes, yes. We had a little of explaining to do. We didn't get to do the Belletour post-fight show, Luke, but outside of that, we're back at it. We're ready to go. We're ready to rock out.

Out of our hands, everything's fine from what I can tell. So all right, let's get this party started if we can hear first things first BC. I guess we have to go with what is actually the biggest story of the combat sports weekend.

Canelo Alvarez doing an unbelievable job in stopping Billy Joe Saunders. BC and I were disagreeing all over the place via text message over the weekend.

But BC, while we did hear from you from the instant reaction video, as is customary, I'd like to go to you first here if we can. Let me ask the question this way.

Canelo stopped Billy Joe Saunders basically at the end of the eighth round. He damaged him in the eighth. Billy Joe held on to finish that frame, and then essentially the fight was stopped at that point.

In terms of the totality of the fight, plus the ending, isn't this what we expected?

Yeah, in a sense, and I don't think that's, look, when somebody's dominant, right, Floyd Mayweather or anybody, do you sometimes get to a point of over correction where you're just looking for that fighter to be challenged again on a certain level?

We've seen Canelo just step up his level of domination since the two Galovkin fights in which let's give him his credit.

He won't stop getting better. He's in his absolute physical prime here at age 30. The experience, everything has come together. He's almost unstoppable out there.

So, I think your stance in this against me was sort of like, you know, Saunders wasn't the real, was never going to be the real. This was always the ending.

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