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, Ben, this is probably the last episode of the CME proper of 2025.

We'll have a full week of Patreon content this week and then sometime in the dead zone around Christmas and New Year's will drop our annual

See Me's award show, our yearly award show.

The Seamese.

Always one of the most highly trafficked episodes of the year.

But just the way the production schedule works out for the days this year, it'll be hard to try to do much during that holiday time unless we get like really, really bored.

So I think we might do a little bit of 2025 look back this week on this on this episode.

We've got some listener mail that we want to get to uh you know

stuff happening even though there isn't there aren't any fights booked for a few few weeks

for i wanted to i guess first of all get into what i am colloquially colloquially describing

as this iliotopuria bullshit.

Okay.

And what is going on with him?

We found out, obviously, a couple of weeks ago, he was stepping away from the sport, at least in the interim, in the near term.

We're going to have this interim lightweight championship fight

between Justin Gachie and Patrick Pimbled. And now we get some more information this week. He

released a fairly lengthy statement, essentially saying he's being extorted, claiming that he's being

extorted for false claims of domestic abuse and that he's he's

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