What's up everybody? It's the Skatyeager here with another edition of Challenge Mania. This episode is brought to you by Challenge Mania Live Nashville, Tennessee. It's our first live show of 2020. It is happening on Saturday, January the 25th from Zainey's Comedy Club in Nashville, Tennessee. And we can be joined by Maddie Bro.

Tori Hall and Kendall Shepherd and Justin Noust. That's right. We're not going to make this an easy decision for you to skip this show. We've just added a big guest. That's right. Big easy. Eric Banks will be joining us as well. Tickets for this show and all of our shows available at Challenge Mania. Live. All right. You didn't come for me. You came for D and when it comes to ratings, he's the only 10 I see Mr. Derek Zinsky. What's up dude? Whoa, that comes from you. I never heard that. That's like a Tennessee joke.

Are you from Nashville because you're the only 10 I see it's like a it's like a pickup line. Oh yeah, I'm not I'm not looking for any pickup lines and speaking of big easy Scott. He's he would be the first to tell you he's so big anymore. And I got a problem with that. You want to know why I like big guys. I like big easy when he was big. You know, I know that it may be unhealthy to some, but I don't care. I like the big guys. I like the big bellies. That's but that's just me.

That's my preference. That's the 10 to my NSE. Well, I'll say this. I think nicknames, you know, like, you know, you can be the big something or big something without necessarily having to be big in size and stature. You know what I mean? Like you got the big dipper, you know, you got the bit. You got a big sexy Kevin Nash. You got a, you know, you got the big Shabang. You got all that stuff. So it's you know, it's one of those things where that name I think supersedes him and will be his nickname regardless.

Because he's tall guy. He's going to be he's going to be big easy till he's long in the tooth. I think so. I think that's what everybody knows him as from the show. He made his debut as many people did on fresh meat. If you haven't heard it yet, you can hear our three hour fresh meat podcast over patreon.com slash challenge mania or you can hear half of it for free in the iTunes feed. You just scroll down. We ran it a couple episodes ago. But today, we talked about this infinity war episode in detail last week at patreon.com slash challenge mania in the war room. But the person you gave your

medal of honor slash MVP to is our guest on the show this week. Miss Kayley Morris is back. Yes, she's just making big moves and and we get into we find everything out, you know, some of my reasonings behind her big mo, like her, the reasons why I picked her to have this, you know, this, this, I mean, we call it metal of honor. But I just, I think she won the episode because she's made a bunch of big moves and we get into it. But speaking of big moves, did you see this fight this past weekend?

Hmm. I did. And what do you think? So I thought overall was it was a fun card. You know, I do. There used to be a time where I used to watch like almost every single major UFC pay per view slash fight. I used to go to a ton of them. I flew myself to Houston to go to UFC. I used to be a massive UFC fan. And still am. I still read a lot of the results. But it's rare that I get to sit down, watch a full pay per view. But I actually did make it out of the house on Saturday. So I watched this entire pay per view. All fights, uh, five fights on the

main card, three of the four pre-limp fights. So I was there bogged down. I had to go early to get a seat at the place that I watched it. I'll say this, right? UFC, you know, the beauty of UFC and MMA is that it's real. You know, it's like, it's like a real version of wrestling. You know, if you're not into wrestling, you think it's fake or scripted or predetermined or whatever, UFC's for you. Uh, Nate Diaz goes and makes this comment, hey, why don't I fight Jorge Mazvidal? We can have for the BMF title for figure out who a bad motherfucker is, which is like a great line. And it's cool.

But like, say that like, oh, we're going to decide. But they actually created a belt D for this that they waved around all week. And like every time the commentators were like tonight for the BMF title. And they kept talking about it. Like it was an actual thing. I kind of died a little bit inside every time that happened. I'm not going to lie. I think that was a little bit of a stretch. So ironically that BMF title fight ended via doctor stoppage, even though Nate Diaz, a BMF obviously tells the doctor, hey, I'm good. I'm good. I'm good. Doesn't matter. Uh, New York State Athletic Commission says cuts too big fights.

But the fact that this like anti hero, I back when I started watching UFC, Nate Diaz wasn't dislike beloved character. You know, he was very much like these reality TV characters that we that we we we watching we observe and we talk about every week. This dude manifested like a sold out Madison Square Garden. Got his own belt created the baddest motherfucker title. And had a lot of fun.

And had the fucking president there. Donald Trump was at this thing. I'm just saying we've heard of like Obama, like go to like a North Carolina game, you know college game or something like that. But to show up six rose back or five rose back or whatever. At this thing, like, I'm blown away that the how this all happened. I mean, this was like number three versus number seven. You know what I mean? And they had to rock and give out the title. This was like a fight that normally this would be a fight that like the diehard MMA fans were really.

Into and they were obviously this is like a dream fight. If you like like exciting fights. If you like the BMF first for sure, right. But you would always assume that this has to be like the second to last fight. And you like you have to have like a real title fight.

In the main event, you have to have a John Jones, you have to have a big name, etc. But no, this successfully became. I mean, I'm I'd imagine this thing did pretty well on paper.

If you are a lot of people talking about ourselves like the number two search on Google over the weekend after after daylight savings. We all Google acts. We want to make sure it's actually happening.

But as you said, Donald Trump in the house, of course, I don't know if you know this Dana White actually spoke at the Republican National Convention leading up to Donald Trump's election. So so so Trump and and the UFC as well and Dana White are in kind of includes their Trump, of course, owning several casinos and whatnot has hosted several combat sports events.

Probably been to 50 boxing matches. He's been in the front row at a couple of WrestleMania. He's in the WWE Hall of Fame. So he's a combat sports guy. You know what I mean? He went to the World Series last week. And I'm sure he's going to go to any big ticket event. But Trump has a three, four decade past in history with combat sports.

So didn't get the best reaction when he walked into the room, but he was there. As you mentioned, Dwayne the rock Johnson was there giving out the belt. The rock also announced he's doing a movie where he's going to play Mark Kerr. I don't know if you know Mark Curry is one of the kind of early heavyweight pioneers in the UFC had his drug problem and they made this great documentary on him called the smashing machine. So Dwayne the rock Johnson is going to play him in a movie that he's producing as well.

So this event felt big, felt huge, cool fight. Obviously doesn't end the way you want one of these things to end. You don't want it to end with a doctor stop. That's the sad realization that sometimes happens with this real fight with this real sport is that WrestleMania ain't never going to end with a doctor stop. Because you'd be an idiot to write that. So unfortunately unscripted sport, unscripted finish, not the best way to send everybody home. But it was still cool to be excited and to go and watch this fight and everything like that. It was the most I've thought about the UFC in a while.

I mean, I know we watched the Michelle Waterson fight when we were in Philly, but other than that, and when we actually you and I, it's funny, the last two UFC's I watched with you because I saw the we went and watched Nate Diaz versus Pettis and steep A and Kormier when you were here in New York. So I think I just saw right here the last listener has stopped listening. So now we can start talking about the challenge.

Yeah, shout out to Jorge Mazvidal, who won the fight and shout out to Nate Diaz for saying that the Rock shouldn't have gave the baddest motherfucker title out. It should have been Mike Tyson. Okay, I'm going to end it there. Scott, let's get into our Mike Tyson's of the challenge world or my Mike Tyson for this for this particular episode.

I looked it up actually. I just want to throw this and I looked it up. So the first UFC I ever went to is UFC 32. This was UFC 244. The first one I ever went to is in 2001 at the metal and UFC 32 speaking of Jorge Mazvidal, who of course is from Miami. That's where we will be on December 21st. You guys know we're bringing CT Tamborello. You know we're bringing down against Alice and you know we're bringing Josh Martinez, but we have another guest to announce for you.

We are giving him a Hall of Fame ring on November 23rd. The Godfather Mark Long will not only be in Chicago for that show. Meet and greet already sold out. He will also be there in Miami. So a fourth guest. We are bringing to the stage at the Miami improv Saturday, December 21st. One of the many shows you can get tickets to at challenge.

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