You're listening to the co-main event podcast.

And now your hosts, 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. That's Ben Fult. We're both longtime MMA journalists and for nearly the last nine years.

We've been meeting here every week to break down all the action in the wild, weird, and occasionally wonderful world of mixed martial arts.

Ben, MMA's 2021 schedule begins in earnest this weekend.

We've had a little break here over the holidays, but that ends on Saturday as the UFC presents

its debut event on the ABC network.

We're headed back to the fight Atoll for Max Holloway versus Calvin Cater.

So we're going to spend the better part of this show talking about that event and the stakes for both guys involved in the main event, the rest of the card,

and what exactly MMA fans could or should expect

as the UFC returns to network television this year. I guess, first of all, I got to ask you,

how you feeling about these early start times? Man, you know I love an early start time.

Rolling here, Saturday afternoon, you know, get me some chips and some dip, watch some

MMA while it's still light outside, wrap up at a decent hour, maybe even have time to sit

and reflect at the end of the day about what we have seen.

Oh, you're looking forward to a quiet moment of reflection.

Yeah, quiet moment of reflection. Yeah, quiet moment of

reflection. That's right up there on my list. And, you know, head hits the pillow around 9.30 p.m.

in the one true time zone, I'll feel like I've had a chance to digest rather than doing the thing

that we usually do where we just drag it out until like midnight

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