You're listening to the Co-Main Event Podcast,

and now your hosts, Ben Folks and Chad Dundas.

That's right.

You're listening to another episode of the co-main event mixed martial arts podcast.

I'm Chad Dundas. That's Ben Fulks. We're both longtime M.MA journalists. And for nearly the last 13 years,

we've been meeting here every week to break down all the action in the wild, weird, and

occasionally wonderful world of mixed martial arts. Ben, it is UFC pay-per-view fight week.

UFC 313 going down at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, a home game for the UFC.

Alex Pereira, going to defend his light heavyweight title against Magomed Ancolaev in the main event.

Bit of a makeshift co-main event with Justin Gaichi taking on Raphael Fazeve after Dan Hooker was forced to drop out of that one.

It's a fight that's been a long time coming.

It feels like Magamette Anka Live, not one of the guys that the UFC necessarily seemed like it was falling all over itself to try to give a title shot.

So we'll talk about that coming up on this episode.

We'll talk a little bit about what we can expect from Gaichi versus Fizziv. If we have time,

we'll get into the horseshit fight night from last Saturday. First, though, we got to start

here, Ben, because combat sports people slapping each other with food

items threatens to become an epidemic as this week it was k sly slapping dylan danis across the face with a pancake headed into their boxing match at Misfits boxing.

Now, in case anybody didn't hear, remind us the boxer who hit the other guy with the egg last week.

Chris Eugbank Jr. hit Connor Ben an egg, and it was honestly perfectly executed.

Had the egg sort of secreted in his hand, leaned in as if to listen to something that Connor

Ben was saying in a busy press conference type environment, and then just piao egg all across the face slapped him

got the egg on him and that man was so mad he was so so mad about it so that one was pulled up

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