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 Fulks.

We're both longtime MMA journalists.

And for nearly the last nine years, we've been meeting here every single week to break down all the action in the wild, weird, and occasionally wonderful world of mixed

martial arts.

Ben, I guess you could say UFC 259 had a little something for everybody.

And maybe some stuff nobody likes to see.

But, you know, we started off on kind of a tear, really, considering these prelim fights, just stoppage after stoppage after stoppage.

I started to get that special feeling deep down in my brain's heart.

Like maybe we were on the verge of something incredible here.

And then things bogged down a little bit toward the end. I'm not saying

it was a bad event. I still think it was a very good event. But to you, maybe the question is,

does this event to you seem like one of the more memorable ones that you've seen in a while,

not even attaching signifier like a good or bad, but is this one that you're going to be thinking about, you know, on into the next few weeks and months here?

Yeah.

I agree with the assessment that there was a little something for everybody.

Yeah.

Like if you had somebody who you were trying to introduce them to, here's what MMA has to offer as a form of entertainment.

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