EP. 583: UFC Houston Preview featuring Michael Chiesa, Mario Bautista, Russ Mikowski from 3PunchConvo, and Ray Longo
The Anik & Florian Podcast
iHeartPodcasts
4.6 • 919 Ratings
🗓️ 16 February 2026
⏱️ 105 minutes
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Summary
Welcome back to another LIVE edition of The Anik & Florian Podcast, coming to you raw and uncut in partnership with our guys at @allthesmoke and @atsfight. We are fresh off a massive weekend of fights and we have a stacked room today to break it all down. First up, we need to address the elephant in the room. UFC welterweight scrapper Michael Chiesa joins us to discuss if this is in fact his last MMA fight. You are not going to want to miss this. Then, we bring in the legendary @raylongoMMA for the "Ray Longo Minute." With all the talk about Ilia Topuria switching camps, the UFC White House Card, and Yan's surgery, Ray gives his no-nonsense takes. Then, Russ Mikowski from 3 Punch Convos joins the show to talk about the platform and your chance to win $1000 in cold hard cash for guessing every fight right on the card this weekend. We also have red-hot bantamweight contender Mario Bautista in the building! Fresh off his slick submission win over Vinicius Oliveira at UFC Vegas 113, Mario is here to run it back with us. We get his immediate reaction to the win, his thoughts on the division and more. Plus, betting expert @ianparkermma joins us to drop the knowledge for UFC Fight Night: Strickland v. Hernandez. We are breaking down the odds for Delija vs. Spivac, Neal vs. Medic, and that banger of a main event between Anthony Hernandez and Sean Strickland. IN THIS EPISODE: (00:00:00) Live Show Open
(00:02:00) Headlines: ATS Fight Partnership & Big Energy
(00:10:50) Michael Chiesa Interview
(00:26:00) Ray Longo Minute
(00:50:30) Russ Mikowski Interview: 3 Punch Convo joins the show
(01:01:00) Win $1000 from 3PunchConvo
(01:02:40) Mario Bautista Interview: UFC Vegas 113 win, Sandhagen rematch, Yadong response
(01:13:50) DraftKings NBA Live Read
(01:15:00) Ian Parker Joins
(01:20:00) Main-Event Challenge for Strickland v. Hernandez
(01:40:00) PLACE YOUR BETS for UFC HOUSTON
(01:43:00) Outro: Jon & Kenny’s Final Thoughts
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| 0:00.0 | The |
| 0:07.0 | The The John Anick and Kenny Florian podcast. |
| 0:32.9 | John Anick and Kenny Florian. |
| 0:35.3 | I fucking love him. |
| 0:36.6 | I can't get enough of him. Let's hear that boss. next. Big job there from Duffy and Frank Mears hurt now. Don't go, Stuffy on call! Frank Meier does it again! Rock them, sock, of robots here. Oh my goodness! I per believe. There are a couple of absolutely self-involved bullshit artists. Here are your hosts, John Anick and Kenny Florian. |
| 0:58.3 | And still not self-involved. |
| 1:10.1 | We did the show for five years for free |
| 1:12.5 | if you are celebrating president's day and perhaps you're home with your children |
| 1:19.8 | sledding or seeing the sun or doing something uh hope you're enjoying the extra day off no |
| 1:25.0 | days off here Kenny were your kids on vacation last? I guess they're a little bit younger than mine. Let's see. So they had a half a day on Friday, and then they have today off. Right. So, yeah. So they're in the general vicinity for you or no? They are. I think they went on some kind of, I think they went to the museum today with my wife. |
| 1:46.6 | So got them out of the house while I do the podcast. |
| 1:49.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:49.6 | Get out of daddy's head. |
| 1:50.8 | So it is interesting when your kids are on vacation because there's just a lot of parenting |
| 1:57.6 | involved. |
| 1:58.2 | I went to Florida last week with two of my three kids. |
| 2:01.0 | And yeah, one more day off today. |
| 2:03.0 | And then pack your bags, pack your lunches. |
| 2:05.6 | Get out of here. |
| 2:06.7 | Run along now, scurry. |
| 2:08.6 | And we'll see at 3.30 quarter of four. |
| 2:11.6 | Thanks to everybody for being with us. |
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