Episode 637: Was Magomed Ankalaev really that boring at UFC 313?

The Co-Main Event MMA Podcast

Chad Dundas

Sports, Leisure

4.8 • 698 Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2025

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

If we told you going into UFC 313 that Magomed Ankalaev would go 0-for-12 on takedown attempts in his light heavyweight title fight against Alex Pereira, would you have thought that shaped up as a win for Ankalaev? Yeah, we wouldn’t either. That’s what happened, however, with Ankalaev using a surprisingly effective striking attack coupled with a suffocating clinch game to take the strap from Poatan. And look, we get it. Everybody loves Pereira. We do, too. Literally nobody (besides his friends and family) is excited for the Ankalaev Era. But was Ankalaev’s performance really as boring as some people are saying? Or is that just our sadness about Pereira getting the best of us? Plus, Dana White says a rematch is probably next for both guys. Is it, though? And we all know Justin Gaethje’s got that dog in him, but we shouldn’t lose sight of the fact that he’s also really, really, really good. 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 host, Ben Folks and Chad Dundas.
0:17.8	That's right.
0:19.2	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 MMA 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
0:40.5	world of mixed martial arts. Ben, we are going to get into talking about the UFC 313 main
0:48.1	event and co-main event on this episode of the show. But before do that a programming note before we forget because
0:57.0	we are known to forget these things yeah but you and i are both out of town next week for
1:03.2	spring break here spring break here in montana so no show the next week and then we will
1:10.2	reconvene the final week of March for the proper.
1:14.6	So just so everybody knows, don't freak out next week when there's no show.
1:19.3	Just picture us both sitting on the beach drinking those Pacificos.
1:24.1	Picture us just out there on some girls gone wild shit just popping the tops off going crazy on spring break
1:32.2	woo I don't know whose tops are getting popped but stay tuned everybody stops all right
1:40.0	UFC 313 Ben Magoemen on Kolaev dethrones Alex Pereira over the weekend.
1:49.7	A lot of people forecasted that Magoamette Ancolaev's diverse skill set would be
1:55.0	Alex Pereira's most difficult challenge at light heavyweight.
1:59.2	And that certainly turned out to be true.
2:02.2	Ancolaev rebounded from a tough first round and takes the next four straight, at least on the
2:08.0	judge's scorecards and wins the unanimous decision. I saw a lot of bad reviews of this fight
2:15.3	floating around online after it was over. People said it was boring. I even saw a few
2:20.2	people questioning whether Alex Pereira should have won the decision. Which I don't agree with that,
2:25.8	but that sentiment is out there. I have to admit, I didn't really think this was a bad fight, man. I
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