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The Co-Main Event MMA Podcast

Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 59 (7/9/13)

The Co-Main Event MMA Podcast

Chad Dundas

Sports, Leisure

4.8698 Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2013

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Don’t know if you guys heard, but UFC middleweight champion Anderson Silva (who has long been regarded as pretty good at fighting) lost the title to Chris Weidman this weekend at UFC 162. It was sort of an upset and that makes episode 59 of the Co-Main Event Podcast a pretty big one. Ben and Chad take a fairly indepth look at the fight itself, including the many machinations of public opinion in the wake of Weidman’s second round victory. They also contemplate the future of the 185-pound division and exactly how much of the UFC’s future planning went up in smoke at the moment the challenger landed that left hook to the champion’s jaw. In middleweight news of another kind, the guys also wonder about the future of longtime fan favorite Chris Leben, whose career appeared on thin ice after his own loss to Andrew Craig. All that, plus the return of Sir Nigel Longstock and MasterTweet Theatre, AYFKM and Just Sayin’ Stuff. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

You're listening to the co-main event podcast, and now your host, Ben Polks and Chad Dundas.

0:16.0

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

0:22.5

from espn.com chad dundas and joining us as always from mma junkie dot com and u s a today it's everybody's

0:30.4

friend ben folks ben you're fresh back from las vegas where the world stopped a turnin how are you doing? How are you, how are you, how are you coping

0:40.9

with all this stuff? I know some people are having a tough time with it. Yeah, it was, it requires some

0:45.4

adjustment. I mean, sitting there and watching it, I got to say, there was a moment where even

0:52.7

when Anderson Silva went down off a punch

0:55.0

where I started to think, man, he is really committed to this just fooling around stuff.

0:59.6

Yeah, no, I saw that.

1:00.6

It looked like when you watch the knockout on slow motion, his face, he's still making the same face like, oh, what a lark until he hits the ground.

1:10.5

And then Chris Widman knocks him unconscious with a punch on the ground.

1:14.9

You know, and the thing is, I couldn't decide if that's because he does a really good impression of a wounded fighter.

1:21.5

I mean, when he does the wobbly legs and everything, like, he really commits to it.

1:25.3

And he got to admit, like, that's a good impression that he does. It's all fun in games till someone gets knocked out doing the

1:30.6

stanky leg. Yeah. One of our listeners emailed us to say this week as part of the, I think,

1:36.5

one million emails we got about Chris Wyatman versus Anderson Silva. And obviously,

1:41.9

that will probably take up the bulk of the show today discussing that

1:45.2

fight and its ramifications. Yeah, so if you sent us a listener mail question about that,

1:50.1

I mean, I guess thanks for your input, but. Well, we don't want to, you know, I don't want to do

1:54.0

any spoilers, you know, until we get to listen to mail. Who knows what we'll be reading.

1:58.9

But Ben, before we go any further, I think we would be remiss if we did not remind everyone,

2:03.2

the time is running out in the co-main event music contest.

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