Episode 658: Khamzat smesh? Or Khamzat smush?

The Co-Main Event MMA Podcast

Chad Dundas

Sports, Leisure

4.8 • 698 Ratings

🗓️ 19 August 2025

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

He done did it. Khamzat Chimaev basically pitched a perfect game against Dricus du Plessis at UFC 319, making it look EASY en route to one of the more lopsided decision wins you will ever witness in a championship fight. DDP showed up looking uniquely ill-equipped to stop Chimaev’s all-out takedown assault. And Ya Boi Borz? He looked so dominant people got mad at him for not doing more. So, now that the long-heralded Chimaev Era is finally underway at 185 pounds ... shouldn’t we be more excited? Plus, how does Michael Page keep doing this? And where are we at with Aaron Pico now? Also, what do you get when you cross one of light heavyweight’s most dangerous knockout artists with the guy who routinely gets knocked out in the funniest possible way? You get UFC Fight Night: Johnny Walker vs. Zhang Mingyang. 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.
0:18.0	That's right. You're listening to another episode of the co-main event Mixed Martial Arts podcast.
0:24.3	I'm Chad Dundas. That's Ben Fulks. We're both longtime and MMA journalists.
0:29.6	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.
0:41.3	Ben, the people can probably hear it in my voice.
0:44.1	I'm losing my voice over here.
0:46.2	I'll be honest, you don't sound like you.
0:48.4	And I'm starting to feel a little suspicious.
0:51.6	I'm starting to feel like maybe I'm going to get on some BJ pen shit here in a minute and accuse you of being an imposter because what happened is you went
1:00.5	away last week. You left middle of the week, left me to hold down the fort here by myself.
1:06.2	And then you come back, your first podcast back, you don't sound like Chad Dundas.
1:12.0	Yeah, man, I wish I was an imposter. That'd be the most exciting thing that had happened to me in a while.
1:18.5	I feel like now I've got to ask you some questions that only Chad Dundas would know.
1:25.8	How'd you get rid of that woodpecker?
1:30.2	Flash tape hung up some flash tape.
1:32.6	Damn it, anybody listening to the podcast could know that one.
1:35.2	I got to come up with something better.
1:36.7	What does Ben Folks' secret tattoo say?
1:39.8	It says mom.
1:42.6	You know, that's not a secret that I love my mother.
1:45.9	That's not a secret at all.
1:48.2	You know, you miss some stuff.
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