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Good Guy / Bad Guy

Darren Till, Valentina Shevchenko & Deiveson Figueiredo

Good Guy / Bad Guy

ESPN Radio

Sports

4.42.7K Ratings

🗓️ 18 November 2020

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Two title defenses at UFC 255 on Saturday, and both champions join Ariel in today’s show. But first, the always entertaining UFC middleweight Darren Till stops by to discuss why he made the decision to drop out of his Dec. 12 main event against Jack Hermansson, his partnership with fellow Brit Leon Edwards, why Instagram removed his account, and much more. Then, UFC women’s flyweight champion Valentina Shevchenko talks about Saturday’s co-main event against Jennifer Maia and why she’s even more motivated heading into another title fight. Lastly, UFC men’s flyweight champion Deiveson Figueiredo (alongside Wallid Ismail) tells Ariel about his old jobs as a hair stylist and sushi chef. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello friends, it's your old pal, Ariel Hawani back with another edition of the

0:06.5

Hawani show on this here Wednesday and today my friends we've got a lot to

0:11.4

discuss of course UFC 255 is coming up this Saturday a sneaky good card a lot of

0:16.9

people sleeping on this card but I'll tell you in a minute why I think it's a

0:20.7

sneaky good card and we'll talk to two of the champions competing on that card

0:26.6

on this here podcast we'll also talk to the one and only Darren Till but first I

0:30.6

do want to tell you it is a huge week in the world of the National Basketball

0:35.9

Association you got trades opening up again you got free agency starting later

0:40.4

in the week the draft on Wednesday night I can't get enough of it I love

0:44.6

everything about it and on Monday I told you about my man Adrian Wojcowski aka

0:49.5

Wojc dropping that three-part podcast series about the two-time NBA MVP Janice

0:56.4

Antitakumpo it's a great listen if you haven't listened to it yet do yourself a

1:00.6

favor check it out it's an incredible listen about the series of twists and

1:05.2

turns that led up to the night the Milwaukee Bucks selected Janice this skinny

1:10.8

Greek kid that no one had heard of who was who was playing in like the fourth

1:16.6

tier Greek league against guys who were smoking cigarettes at halftime they

1:20.6

drafted him 15th overall in the 2013 NBA draft it's a tremendous story even

1:26.4

if you're not a fan of basketball if you're not a fan of the Bucks or Janice

1:30.9

like if you're if you're into good storytelling trust me on this one it's

1:34.7

worth checking out it's called the Janice draft all you have to do is search

1:38.2

for the Wojc pod wherever you get your podcast and then you can listen to it and

1:43.0

enjoy it all right now into today's program which definitely contains some

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