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The Co-Main Event MMA Podcast

Episode 427: Five Questions About the Light Heavyweight Division

The Co-Main Event MMA Podcast

Chad Dundas

Sports, Leisure

4.8698 Ratings

🗓️ 9 November 2020

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

So, Glover Teixeira pretty much handled Thiago Santos in their main event fight Saturday night. This week, the CME turns its attention to the most vexing questions facing the 205-pound division, including: In a world where Jon Jones is absent, could Teixeira be the best light heavyweight in the UFC? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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

0:10.9

And now your hosts, Ben Folks and Chad Dundas.

0:17.6

That's right.

0:18.7

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

0:23.9

I'm Chad Dundas. That's Ben Fulks. We meet here every single week to chop up all the prominent, newsworthy, and hilarious happenings in the world of mixed martial arts.

0:34.5

Then it's another week that just doesn't fit neatly into the co-main

0:39.3

event podcast three-round format. We noted on Friday during the power hour that ain't really

0:46.1

shit going on leading into the weekend. You had, you know, not a terrible UFC card on Saturday

0:53.1

night from down there at the apex in Las Vegas,

0:55.5

but at the same time, not necessarily one that gives us a ton of fodder for discussion,

1:03.1

especially leading into an event this weekend that has already lost its main event with Islam Makachiev pulling out of his

1:14.0

fight with Hafeel dos Anjos. And so as it seems like we are frequently these days, we're left

1:21.9

to scramble a little bit, to break away from our normal format, to do something a little bit

1:27.1

different. Hopefully the kids

1:28.2

will think it is fun, but here's what we're going to do. We're going to spend the first half of

1:32.0

this show with some listener mail doing some odds and ends from this UFC event over the weekend.

1:37.3

And then the second half of the show, you and I are going to discuss the light heavyweight division,

1:43.1

including Glover to shear his win over

1:45.0

Tiago Santos from Saturday and, you know, some other speculation, future prospects,

1:52.4

things like that, that could help define this division, which struggles to find its feet now

1:58.6

after John Jones has apparently vacated for the heavyweight class.

2:02.4

So we're going to do five questions about the light heavyweight division. Two of those questions,

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