Episode 542: UFC 286 preview + Merab's dominance

The Co-Main Event MMA Podcast

Chad Dundas

Sports, Leisure

4.8 • 698 Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2023

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Leon Edwards and Kamaru Usman are going to do it again, brother, for the third time on Saturday at UFC 286 in London. The champion is going off as a fairly significant underdog and conventional wisdom says this time around Usman just needs to NOT get kicked right in his head and he probably reclaims the title. Yet Usman has also reportedly been plagued by hand problems and he'll turn 36 years old a couple months after this PPV. Is it possible Edwards can get lightning to strike all over again? UFC 286 also amounts to the third time in about a month the fight company has asked fans to pay $80 to watch some fights. This time, it goes down just a week after Merab Dvalishvili turned in what will surely be one of the year's most dominating performances against Petr Yan for free (relatively speaking) on ESPN+. Will the people dig into their pockets one more time? Oh, and did you guys see Bellator? Or hear about it, at least? Usman Nurmagomedov retired Benson Henderson and Michael Page did something absolutely horrendous to Goiti Yamaguchi's knee. This episode is brought to you in part by NordVPN. Grab your EXCLUSIVE NordVPN Deal by going to nordvpn.com/comain or use the code comain to get one free bonus month as well as their exclusive 30-day money back guarantee. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:07.8	You're listening to the co-main event podcast.
1:11.1	And now your hosts, Benks and Chad Dundas.
1:17.6	That's right.
1:19.0	You're listening to another episode of the co-main event mixed martial arts podcast.
1:24.2	I'm Chad Dundas.
1:25.3	That's Ben Fulks.
1:26.9	We're both longtime MMA journalists, and for nearly the last
1:30.5	11 years, we've been meeting here every week to break down all the action in the wild, weird,
1:36.3	and occasionally wonderful world of mixed martial arts. Ben, uh, we gave short shrift last week to the weekend's UFC fight night event, both on
1:48.5	this show and over on the Patreon page. And maybe that was unfair. As it turned out, Marab
1:55.4	Dwalashwili's win over Peter Yon at least has the potential to have a pretty significant impact on the title
2:02.3	picture at Men's Bantamweight, not only for Dwalish-Fili, but also for the former champion,
2:07.8	Peter Yon. So we're going to give that fight the time it deserves today. But the problem last week
2:12.8	was that we still had so much to clean up from UFC 285 and John Jones's big win over Cyril
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