Episode 440: Real Champ Shit from Kamaru Usman

The Co-Main Event MMA Podcast

Chad Dundas

Sports, Leisure

4.8 • 698 Ratings

🗓️ 15 February 2021

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

After a first round where it looked like Gilbert Burns was on the verge of capturing the UFC welterweight title, Kamaru Usman put his foot down. The power jab, the low kicks, the third-round TKO victory--all these things served to make Usman look like an ever evolving puzzle for the rest of the 170-pound class. All things being equal, Usman would probably be a much bigger star. Unfortunately, we know that's not how it works in this sport. 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, and now your host, Ben Folks and Chad Dundas.
0:17.5	That's right. You're listening to another episode of the Co-Main Event Mixed Martial Arts podcast. I'm Chad Dundas. That's right. 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'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.
0:40.9	Ben, we had UFC 258 this weekend. Kamara Usman weathered some early adversity to retain his
0:48.7	welterweight title with a third round TKO of Gilbert Burns. And of course, we'll talk plenty about that coming up on this week's show.
0:57.6	But before we do, I wanted to start here.
1:01.2	It was another week and another instance of the UFC's continuing war on illegal pay-per-view streaming,
1:10.5	or at least it's alleged war against illegal pay-per-view streaming, or at least it's alleged war against illegal
1:14.5	pay-per-view streaming. UFC President Dana White continued over the weekend to float without
1:21.0	evidence, I will say. This notion that the UFC is basically scaring the biggest illegal pay-per-view streamers into submission.
1:30.9	And yet, if you look in the comments section, if you look in the message boards, it sure seems
1:38.3	like the people who normally illegally stream UFC pay-per-views are still doing it.
1:45.7	Nobody is out here reporting that they can't find a stream or that their normal streams
1:50.2	are no longer available.
1:52.6	I'm going to read this quote from Dana White from Stephen Morocco's story over there on
1:57.0	MMA fighting.
1:57.9	He says, not a lot of them were streaming tonight, White said at the
2:02.7	UFC 258 press conference. We're going to, we were going to go after another one of the big
2:08.5	ones tonight and they did not stream tonight. So we'll keep doing what we're doing. Ben,
2:14.5	what's really going on here?
2:25.4	So what we are led to believe, you tell me if you think I'm understanding correctly,
2:32.6	is that this war on illegal streaming, Dana White got people outside your house,
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