Episode 452: Bellator won the weekend. Does it matter?

The Co-Main Event MMA Podcast

Chad Dundas

Sports, Leisure

4.8 • 698 Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2021

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

There's no doubt that Bellator's Friday night event on Showtime was the best MMA card of the weekend. With MVP's whole-shit-broke KO win, Rumble Johnson having a fun one with Jose Augusto and Young Serg upsetting Juan Archuleta for the bantamweight crown, we packed a whole lot of living into this event. But with the UFC now firmly entrenched on ESPN and cranking out content every weekend--cough, Rodriguez vs. Waterson, cough--how much does it matter when Bellator steals the show on a single night? 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 hosts, Ben Fulks and Chad Dundas.
0:18.0	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 Folks. 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
0:39.6	arts.
0:41.1	Been a weird thing seems to happen on some of these weeks where you might otherwise expect
0:47.0	that there ain't shit going on.
0:49.6	And that is sometimes on these weeks, it turns out that this is when you got the most
0:54.0	storylines.
0:55.6	We had, you know, all the way from Fabricio Verduem, the Tom Brady of MMA, having an unsuccessful
1:00.9	debut in the PFL.
1:02.4	We had Bellator out here, squeezing a whole lot of damn living into their showtime event.
1:08.8	And then, of course course the UFC on Saturday
1:11.3	with fights falling out
1:12.6	last minute replacements
1:14.4	kind of a scrambled card
1:16.4	we come out of it on Monday
1:18.3	I know that I said this
1:20.5	regarding the Patreon movie club
1:22.4	but it's a little bit of a grab bag
1:24.5	to be honest
1:25.1	it is you can grab
1:27.2	damn near anything you want out of that bag.
1:29.9	But first things first, Jed.
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