Episode 450: We all went on an emotional journey at UFC 261

The Co-Main Event MMA Podcast

Chad Dundas

Sports, Leisure

4.8 • 698 Ratings

🗓️ 26 April 2021

⏱️ 73 minutes

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From seeing Chris Weidman's leg shatter against Uriah Hall's leg to a trio of stoppages--at least a couple of them fairly shocking--in the event's three title fights, there were a lot of mood swings during UFC 261. An emotional toll was exacted, you might say. If nothing else, this won't be one we forget for some time. 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.
0:17.8	That's right.
0:18.9	You're listening to another episode of the co-main event mixed martial arts podcast.
0:24.2	I'm Chad Dundas. That's Ben Folks. 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 of the action in the wild, weird, occasionally wonderful, and this last weekend,
0:40.3	absolutely woolly world of mixed martial arts. Ben, we went on an emotional journey.
0:47.1	Yeah, we went through some things. Saturday night at UFC 261, we went on an emotional journey.
0:56.8	I don't know if you could say that this event will go down as one of the all-time
1:01.2	greats in UFC history, but I think it was certainly one of the most memorable events
1:08.9	we've ever seen.
1:09.6	There were some highs and lows in this thing.
1:12.6	You know what?
1:13.6	I feel like it brought us closer as a community
1:16.1	because we now share a pretty harrowing lived experience.
1:22.6	Yeah.
1:23.1	Altogether, you know?
1:24.7	Like we can all years and years hence look at each other and be like,
1:29.4	where were you when Chris Wyman's foot was flopping around, when Jimmy, Jimmy Crute got the
1:36.1	drop foot, and Jane Wiley got kicked upside her head, you know, it was, it's just buddy.
1:43.9	The thing is, too, as an event, a pay-per-view with three title fights goes, we got in
1:50.9	and out of there at a pretty brisk pace.
1:53.8	Yeah.
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