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 Chad Dundas alongside Ben Folks. We're both senior writers in MMA for the Athletic, and we meet here every single week to chop up all the prominent, newsworthy, and hilarious happenings in the world of mixed martial arts. Ben, how you doing this week?

Doing pretty fantastic. How about you?

I'm doing all right. Yeah. I'm not going to say pretty fantastic. That's kind of over the top.

You couldn't quite get there.

Well, that makes it sound like you're just, you're doing the best ever.

I'm doing, well, the best ever, if I was doing like absolutely fantastic. I'm doing pretty fantastic.

So pretty fantastic is like middle of the road for you. It's pretty good. It's not the best ever.

Okay. I'm just trying to get a gauge on your sliding scale here for how you're doing.

I don't know about you. We spent the weekend at Sir Nigel's wedding festivities. Yeah.

And one interesting thing was that that meant Saturday we didn't get to watch the fights

live.

Yep.

We were ostensibly socializing with our friend group.

And yet often what that actually looked like was you and I standing off in a corner somewhere with plastic cups of beer looking at our phones to check on the fight results.

Well, I mean, when you're right, Faber comes out here and wins in 40 seconds, that's something I got to go tearing across the reception just to tell you.

I know.

Yeah.

And so, like, everybody else there to celebrate love and matrimony and stuff.

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