Episode 589: Topuria triumphs at UFC 298

The Co-Main Event MMA Podcast

Chad Dundas

Sports, Leisure

4.8 • 698 Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2024

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Everything came up Ilia Topuria on Saturday at UFC 298, as the 27-year-old Spaniard fulfilled his self-avowed destiny with a thunderous second-round knockout of longstanding men’s featherweight champion Alexander Volkanovski. The outcome was bittersweet for longtime fans, signaling perhaps both the end of one great champion’s reign and the emergence of a bold new successor. Hold on, though, are we shoveling dirt onto Volk’s grave a little prematurely? And with no obvious No. 1 contender, what’s the right next move for Topuria? Plus, Bobby Knuckles wins, Merab puts on a show and Mackenzie Dern continues to baffle us. Plus, presidential trivia! 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.
1:18.4	That's right.
1:19.8	You're listening to another episode of the co-main event mixed martial arts podcast.
1:24.9	I'm Chad Dundas.
1:26.4	That's Ben Fulks. We're both longtime MMA journalists. And for almost
1:31.3	the last 12 years, we've been meeting here every week to break down all the action in the wild,
1:37.8	weird, and occasionally wonderful world of mixed martial arts, Ben. UFC 298 over the weekend from the Honda Center, Anaheim,
1:47.6	California, a sea change, I guess you might say, at men's featherweight, Ilya,
1:53.9	defeats longtime champion Alexander Volcanovsky second round, KO. The torch, I guess you could
2:00.8	say, is past, or at least that is the way
2:03.8	the MMA community at large seems to be taking this victory. In the co-main event, Robert Whitaker
2:10.2	defeated Paulo Costa via unanimous decision, their middleweight fight. Ian Machado, Gary, Marab Dwalisvili, and Anthony Hernandez also
2:20.8	picking up important wins on the main card. So obviously, we're going to spend most of this show
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