You're listening to the Co-Main Event Podcast, and now your host, Ben Folks and Chad Dundas.

That's right. You're listening to another episode of the co-main event mixed martial arts podcast.

I'm your co-host, Chad Dundas from Bleacher Report.com. And joining me, as always, from

M.MA junkie and USA today. It's your friend and mine, Mr. Ben, Fulks. Ben, how you doing this week?

I'm doing fantastic. You know,

normally we would have some banter to begin the show about how hot it is right now.

Yeah, this is where we put insert banter here on our script. Uh, we would talk, we would talk

about your co-wreck softball team, undefeated, whether or not you guys went on and got another big win last week we did clark fork crushers i got to be

honest i'm feeling uh a little bit too surly for that to be to be perfectly frank with you well why

why chad well it has been a maddening and dispiriting few days in the world of mixed martial arts, specifically in the world of

mixed martial arts reporting, which can be a maddening and dispiriting place to do your work

from day to day.

You get used to a certain level of maddening dispirativeness.

And it just so happens that these last few days have been particularly maddening and dispiriting.

The volume has been turned up to 11.

And so, uh, we're going to go ahead and dispense with the normal format of the show, which we've

actually been doing a lot lately, uh, but just the wild nature of how this sport works kind

of demands it sometimes.

So we won't be doing three rounds this week.

We're going to do listener mail about some of the in the cage action, which was all terrific,

by the way, this past weekend.

And then we may spend the second half of the show talking about the UFC's

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