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The Press Box

Ep. 93: McGregor Retirement With Ariel Helwani

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The Ringer

Sports

4.43.2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2016

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

The Ringer's David Shoemaker talks to six-time MMA Journalist of the Year Ariel Helwani about Conor McGregor's retirement announcement, Jon Jones vs. Ovince Saint Preux, and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

0:05.0

Yeah.

0:06.0

Yeah.

0:07.0

Welcome to Channel 33.

0:12.0

We got huge news in the world of MMA to talk about.

0:16.0

But we had to do it over the phone to the sound quality in this episode.

0:20.0

It's not going to be great.

0:21.0

It's weirdly the most important podcast I've ever done.

0:24.0

I felt like it's a big day in the MMA world.

0:28.0

And I'm here with Ariel Hawani.

0:31.0

How you doing, man?

0:33.0

I'm doing great, David.

0:34.0

No way this is the biggest podcast you've ever done.

0:37.0

That's absolutely false.

0:39.0

Well, I appreciate that.

0:41.0

I am David Truemaker, by the way, to fill that in.

0:45.0

The, you know, I'm here.

0:46.0

I'm here.

0:47.0

I have like a pile of notes that I had by yesterday, mid morning.

0:52.0

I have the most controversial MMA journalist in the world as my co-host.

0:57.0

We have a fight this weekend with the most controversial fighter in the whole world of mixed martial arts.

1:03.0

And yet that's not what we're going to start off talking about.

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