Episode 661: Remember UFC: Noche? Neither does the UFC, apparently

The Co-Main Event MMA Podcast

Chad Dundas

Sports, Leisure

4.8 • 698 Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2025

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Remember last year, when for about six months the UFC tried to pretend like UFC: Noche was a big deal — mostly because Dana White had to prove to the (almost entirely nonexistent) haters that he could pull off a fighting event at Sphere? Those times are gone now. This weekend’s UFC: Noche card (yes, it is this weekend) is pretty much being left in the dust by the UFC’s part in co-promoting the Canelo Alvarez-Terence Crawford boxing match on Netflix. In fact, UFC: Noche has been relegated to regular-ass FIght Night status, with Diego Lopes vs. Jean Silva serving as main event from the Frost Center in San Antonio (grandaddy of them all). Sad, man, sad— though Lopes vs. Silva will probably be a pretty cool fight. Plus, come for Ronda Rousey saying she “ain’t fighting at the fucking White House,” stay for Ben Fowlkes’ five-minute pro wrestling promo about how bad Jon Jones messed up his six-month “retirement.” 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.
0:18.3	That's right.
0:19.6	You're listening to another episode of the co-main event mixed martial arts podcast.
0:25.1	I'm Chad Dundas. That's Ben Fulks. We're both longtime MMA journalists. And for the last 13 years,
0:32.4	we've been meeting here every week to break down all the action in the wild, weird, and occasionally wonderful world
0:40.1	of mixed martial arts men folks once again, no shortage of stuff for us to talk about on
0:48.6	this week's show. You had Nasir Dean Imov go out there over the weekend pick up an important victory over
0:57.2	Kyle Bahaolo at UFC fight night in Paris who knows where that leaves him now in the middleweight
1:04.7	championship pecking order but we'll talk about that I think on this show we got some listener
1:09.6	mail coming up we We've got exciting updates
1:13.1	on both Rhonda Rousey and John Jones vis-a-vis fighting out there on the South Lawn of the White
1:20.6	House. So I know we're very excited to talk about that. But before we get into any of that, man,
1:26.1	this weekend coming up September 13th Frost
1:31.6	Bank Center granddaddy of them all down there in San Antonio Texas Diego Lopez and
1:38.3	John Silva featherweight main event of UFC Noche 3.
1:52.3	And man, it's hard not to romanticize and reminisce what we had last year, isn't it?
1:57.3	When you start talking about this year's UFC Noce, because we did it up big.
1:59.3	We did it up big last year.
2:00.3	Hold on. Are you saying that you don't think a fight night event that seems like we got down to plan D or E? And we're doing it in San Antonio, which was also not our first choice. And we're also doing it the same weekend as Canelo Crawford.
2:21.6	And we're also, maybe this time, not creating a fully immersive viewing experience
2:28.2	that takes us through the rich combat sports history of Mexico.
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