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

And now your hosts, Ben Folks and Chad Dundas.

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You're listening to another episode of the Co-Main Event Mixed Martial Arts podcast. I'm Chad Dundas. That's Ben Fulks. We're both longtime MMA journalists and we meet here every week to break down all the action in the wild, weird, and occasionally wonderful world of mixed martial arts.

Ben, I think we're in agreement that things came down squarely on the wonderful side

with the UFC's debut on ABC on Saturday afternoon.

Obviously, we will talk about some of those individual fights and some of the fallout

from that coming up later on this show. But, you know, considering hashtag everything that's been

going on, both inside the sport and outside recently, it seemed to me that this event went off

exactly as you would have wanted it to go off if you were the UFC

making its debut on a new network and also exactly how you would have wanted it to go off

if you were just a fan sitting at home trying to watch because this this event turned out

to have some good fights turned out to be a lot of fun all the way Yeah, you remember when we were talking beforehand about what you'd be hoping for, if you're UFC or the TV executives on the ABC side, what you would want to see, ideally.

And how Max Holloway versus Calvin Cater seemed like the kind of matchup that was Taylor made for that because

is going to go a few rounds probably and it's going to be an action fight.

We could not have imagined at the time that it would be so much what you'd hope for because

not only did it go all five rounds and just a ton of action, Max Holloway setting strike total records,

throwing basically a strike every two seconds in this fight,

which is absolutely insane.

But it also is the kind of fight where you can't believe

the inhuman amount of punishment that Calvin Cater is able to take.

It's not hard to imagine people getting on the old text machine thing to their friends and

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