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 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 been the early days of the Paramount era started to take shape over the

weekend. As Dana White made an announcement during halftime of the Thanksgiving NFL game between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Dallas Cowboys that Justin Gaichi and Patty Pimbleau would fight for an interim lightweight title as the main event of UFC 324 on January 24th in Las Vegas and the women's bantamweight super fight between Kayla

Harrison and Amanda Nunes would be the co-main event we also learned the men's

featherweight title rematch between Alexander Volcanovsky and Diego

Lopez will headline UFC 325 on February 1st plus a slew of other fight booking, some of them, interesting, some of them not.

So kind of a big news week and oh yeah, it's also UFC 323 going down on Saturday at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.

Rob Dwalis-Fili defending the men's bantamweight title against Peter Yon and Alexander

Pantosia, defending the flyweight title against Joshua Van.

Who, we got a lot to talk about this week, brother.

And of particular interest, I think, to fans at large is the dawn of the Paramount era and exactly what we are going to get from the UFC as we transition to this new broadcast partner.

If there are going to be any changes, what we can expect, the look and feel, et cetera, et cetera.

So before we get into breaking down the pros and cons of these actual fights that I just

mentioned, they did have Dana White go on CBS during halftime of what I have to imagine

is a very highly rated football game between the Chiefs and cowboys to make this announcement and then

later went on his Instagram live to, to do a little bit more announcing and whatnot. That's got to be

a pretty good sign, right? Just in terms of the promotional, at least the initial promotional power

put forth by Paramount to try to get the word out about

this stuff. Yeah, in terms of just sheer visibility, it does seem like we're really putting

our backs into it from Paramount, which is something that we had wondered about at various times

during the Fox deal, maybe even at various times during the ESPN deal.

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