You're listening to the Co-Main Event Podcast.

And now your host, Ben Folks and Chad Dundas.

That's right.

You're listening to another episode of the co-main event mixed martial arts podcast.

I'm your co-host, Chad Dundas, a long-time MMA journalist, novelist, and podcaster, and joining me, as always, from MMA junkie and USA Today.

It's your friend and mine, Mr. Ben, Ful folks. Ben, we are back in the thick of it now.

Can you feel it? You feel the thick of it wrapping itself around you?

You had the Bellator Heavyweight Grand Prix wrap up over the weekend and UFC on ESPN Plus

2 is coming up on Saturday night. Plus, the weekend after that is UFC 234, featuring Robert Whitaker,

defending the middleweight title against Kelvin Gastilum. You know what? If I was Bobby Knuckles,

I might take extreme caution when it comes to defending my title against this smaller man in Kelvin

Gaston, because the big fella has not had a lot of luck in recent

meetings over the title in MMA.

That's true.

When you look at the long-term trends, it seems like it pays to be the smaller, quicker man out

there unless you happen to be Bobby fucking Knuckles.

And then maybe you don't worry about it, Chad.

Well, there's that.

There is that.

Then February 17th, you got the UFC on ESPN 1.

The Octagon's official debut on the actual worldwide leader.

And then February 23rd, UFC on ESPN plus 3.

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