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

And now your host, Ben Folks and Chad Dundas.

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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 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.

And this week, Ben, everybody knows rankings have been in the news a lot lately in MMA, especially since Dana White reaffirmed his longstanding hatred of the rankings kept by his own organization in the UFC.

We all know he's gone as far as to, I mean, I guess at least allegedly commissioned Mark Zuckerberg to come up with some kind of, I mean, again, allegedly impartial, unfortunately probably also earth destroying AI system to keep track of the rankings.

I mean, will you say that?

You say it as if they're sitting there having a conversation where he's like, Mark, will you create automated rankings for me?

And Mark says, yes, I will, Dana.

I'll go right back to the office, right?

I mean, what we're talking about, really, is Dana's like, I will have my factor call upon your

grace's factor.

My guy will talk to your guy about it.

Just whatever guy I don't have busy trying to figure out how to hell to do an event on the

White House lawn is going to get with whoever Mark Zuckerberg doesn't have busy talking about, you know,

how we can get around antitrust legislation or some shit.

They're going to get together.

The smart people will figure it out and then they'll come back to us with an idea.

But then it also didn't seem like we've been a while since we heard anything.

Didn't he say at one point that Zuckerberg was on board? Didn't he? Wasn't there like an update where he was like, I've, I've connected with Zuck and and he's he's into it. I thought that that happened, but maybe I'm just making it up. But I mean, you know, Dana White joined the board of directors for META, so certainly there's a relationship there,

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