Episode 573: UFC 294 is some tasty chicken salad

The Co-Main Event MMA Podcast

Chad Dundas

Sports, Leisure

4.8 • 698 Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2023

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

So, just a couple weeks before the UFC is set to head to Abu Dhabi with a fairly marquee card, they lose BOTH their co-main event and main event to some unexpected misadventure. In this case, it was a cut to Charles Oliveira and surgery for Paulo Costa that forced them out of their respective bouts. This type of swerve might spell disaster for any other promoter, but not so for the UFC. When you've got the power and influence of an organization that controls more than 90% of your chosen market, you just reload, brother. The UFC brought in featherweight champ Alexander Volkanovski to take Oliveira's place in a lightweight title fight against Islam Makhachev and former welterweight titlist Kamaru Usman to sub in for Costa in a middleweight bout against Khamzat Chimaev. In other words, still pretty awesome. Damn. Must be nice. 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.
1:18.3	That's right.
1:19.4	You're listening to another episode of the co-main event mixed martial arts podcast.
1:24.6	I'm Chad Dundas.
1:25.7	That's Ben Fulks.
1:26.8	We're both longtime MMA journalists, and for the last
1:29.7	11 years, we've been meeting here every week to break down all the action in the wild, weird,
1:35.4	and occasionally wonderful world of mixed martial arts. Ben, we had this fight night over the weekend
1:42.8	where Edson Barbosa came back from the dead
1:46.2	to defeat Sadiq Yusuf by decision in the main event.
1:51.4	Not that you would know it if you looked around the headlines on Monday morning, most of which are about misfits boxing.
1:59.9	So that might tell us more than we need to know about the state of affairs in combat sports right now,
2:08.3	where even the MMA sites, I think we got a listener mail question about it.
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