Episode 627: UFC 310 is worth watching, actually

The Co-Main Event MMA Podcast

Chad Dundas

Sports, Leisure

4.8 • 698 Ratings

🗓️ 3 December 2024

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Yeah, we know what you’re thinking. First of all: Men’s flyweight pay per view main event? Second of all: Who the hell is Kai Asakura? We get it. From 15,000 feet, maybe UFC 310 doesn’t look like the greatest PPV of the year … and it’s not. But you know what? It’s actually a pretty deep fight card. Not only do you get to see the former two-time Rizin (Risin’? Risen?) bantamweight champ Asakura drop to 125-pounds and fight for the title against Alexandre Pantoja in his UFC debut, but you get to see Shavkat THAT BOY GOOD Rakhmonov and Ian (Machado!) Garry square off in a battle of undefeated prospects. Plus, you got Ciryl Gane vs. Alexander Volkov (for the interim interim interim heavyweight title, maybe) and Bryce Mitchell vs. Kron Gracie (uh, wut?) as well as appearances by such luminaries as Nate THE TRAIN Landwehr (If he doesn't lose, he'll probably win!), Vicente Luque (thankfully NOT fighting Nick Diaz), Aljamain Sterling (fighting on the prelims for some reason) and Chris Weidman (still fighting for some reason). Don't tempt us with a good time, UFC! 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 Folks and Chad Dundas.
0:17.7	That's right, you're listening to another episode of the co-main event Mixed Martial Arts podcast.
0:24.5	I'm Chad Dundas. That's Ben Fulks. We're both longtime MMA journalists. And for the last 12 years,
0:30.9	we've been meeting here every week to break down all the action in the wild, weird, and
0:36.8	occasionally wonderful world of mixed martial
0:40.5	arts. Ben, we got UFC 310 this weekend coming to us from the T-Mobile arena down there in
0:49.9	Las Vegas. Of course, you got your men's flyweight main event of the champion, Alexander
0:57.0	Pantosia, going to square off with UFC newcomer, Kai Asakura in from Risen, and then your
1:03.9	co-main event, Shavkat, Rakmanov, and Ian Machado. Gary in a welterweight contender fight.
1:11.9	We had to shuffle the lineup for this one not too long ago.
1:16.8	And so maybe we come in with a little bit of an under the radar pay-per-view.
1:22.2	I wanted to start us off this week with this question from our guy's chest pants shoes because i feel like it gets
1:30.9	to the root of the matter he says if a flyweight headlines the last ufc pay-per-view of the year
1:37.2	does anyone notice despite all the intriguing storylines such as the fact that alexander
1:43.2	pantosia is nine and no against the top 10 in 10 in the UFC flyweight division and now is welcoming an unknown challenger.
1:49.2	We also have the undefeated prospect bowl in the co-main in addition to a semi-number one contender fight at 145 with Sterling versus Evilev.
1:59.1	But yet this weekend seems to be quiet as kept regarding media
2:03.2	fan noise. Do you feel the same? I guess for starters, Ben, I feel like it's natural for this
2:09.4	pay-per-view to fly under the radar a little bit first, because as I said, you had to scramble the
2:14.3	main event several weeks ago. It was supposed to be Shavkat,
2:17.7	Rachmanov, and Bilal Muhammad. Belal Muhammad had to back out. So now you have a bit of a redo here.
2:23.5	Second, you know, the UFC's put on a ton of great events this year and not all of them can be
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