Episode 619: Alex Pereira saves the day (again!)

The Co-Main Event MMA Podcast

Chad Dundas

Sports, Leisure

4.8 • 698 Ratings

🗓️ 7 October 2024

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

UFC 307 was not one for the record books. In fact, right up to the point that Alex Pereira and Khalil Rountree Jr. took the cage for the light heavyweight title fight main event, it was sort of a stinker. But then Pereira and Rountree went to war – and it was pretty glorious. Shoutout to Rountree for showing up and showing out better than we had any right to expect. Ultimately, though, it was Pereira once again proving that not only is he the best 205-pounder on the planet, but he's also the UFC's MVP. Seriously, though, don’t call him again for a while. He sounds like he needs some time off. 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.
0:17.5	That's right.
0:18.7	You're listening to another episode of the Co-main event Mixed Martial Arts podcast.
0:23.9	I'm Chad Dundas. That's Ben Fulks. We're both longtime MMA journalists. And for the last 12 years,
0:31.0	we've been meeting here every week to break down all the action in the wild, weird, and
0:37.2	occasionally wonderful world of mixed
0:40.5	martial arts, Ben, UFC 307. It had a twin bill of title fights from the Delta Center down
0:49.6	there in Salt Lake City. Probably not one for the record books, I would think. Last week on this show,
0:57.5	we described this as a bit of a weird pay-per-view due to some of the matchups and your main
1:02.3	event there with Alex Pereira and Khalil Roundtree, kind of a surprise, light heavyweight title
1:07.2	fight. I would say that it lived up to its billing as weird. You had some weird
1:11.5	stuff happen on this pay-per-view card, some weird judges' decisions. You got to see a neck-crank
1:17.7	submission like you're playing the pride video game back in like 2005. So yeah, some some wild
1:27.3	and woolly stuff happened here.
1:29.9	But you know what?
1:31.5	What an unexpected treat, I think, in the main event of this thing.
1:35.3	Two terrific performances, really, from both Alex Pereira and Khalil Roundtree, Jr.
1:41.6	Pereira ultimately emerges your light heavyweight champion retaining the
1:47.0	title with a fourth round, TKO stoppage of Roundtree. And so we are going to spend some time
1:54.7	here talking about that. We'll have some listener mail coming up toward the middle of the show.
1:58.9	I think second half of the show, maybe we'll get into talking about
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