This is our life. This is our passion. That's the spirit we bring to this show. I'm Luke Thomas. I'm Brian Campbell. This is Morning Combat.

Oh, yeah. We came. We saw. We consummated. It's Morning Combat. The best damn fight talk show in the world. Period. Yes. You heard it right here Friday, September 10th, 2000 and 21. Welcome on in. They gave me the microphone first because I can bust like a bubble with BC and LT together, man. You know we are trouble.

It is Brian Campbell, CBS Sports Showtime. The labels that pay me to hold this microphone like a damn grudge. Motherfucker. Yeah, I dropped an F bomb this early at Showtime. What do you even do about it? My co-host is, he's an edgy fella, but I got to be honest. He might be the best in the world at what he does. A bearded brethren in this game. Luke Thomas. It's Friday. You ain't got shit to do. How you feeling? I'm on my second cup of coffee, but it is a delicious cup of Joe and I'm excited for

Friday's show. I just rhymed about that hard bars with a Z Brian Campbell. Yes, extra hard bars. You have been doing a lot of solo parenting of late. Are you ready to throw in the towel at all? Yeah, I'm tired. My kid woke up at 540 this morning when she wasn't supposed to and I fell asleep at my desk last night doing research for today's show at one in the morning. I woke up. Wow. So your boy is not exactly refreshed, but you know, nothing that a cup of coffee can't probably fall asleep. I mean, did you fall asleep like this or was it like forward?

In this very chair, I did this number. Like you ever seen your, you've had kids. So you ever propped them up in your car seat, but you didn't get the balance quite right. So that when they sleep, they kind of fall forward like that. That's what I was doing. I was falling forward like that. And I woke up and there was drool all over my desk. It was, listen, I'm not a proud man anymore because the proudness has been beaten out of me, but I am a ready man for today's show. I actually did all my homework. So I feel pretty good. Wow. Look at the dedication from this guy, Luke Thomas. We thank you for the dedication. Of course, of our fans. So continue.

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And as Luke often says, if you don't like it, go F yourself or pound sand. Either or either or it's a nice or way to say it. But we hope you take that Pepsi challenge as Luke would say as well. A lot of Luke would say stuff here. Why not just let Luke host? Oh, I don't know why because on Fridays. It's so good with BC here. Luke lot of people saying maybe this should have been the original plan. I just speak for the people by the people speaking of people that are supporting us. Luke, how about our folks over there at Draft Kings? I want our people are listeners to realize that as they already do it. Look, it's NFL season.

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Not a bad deal. Luke, if you can get it, luckily for our listeners, they can. Okay. And I'm looking at the app. When I'm looking at everyone, things are reading my emails. I'm not. I'm actually on the sports book app right now.

You can see it. I'm only pulling up a little bit closer. Yes, there it is. And I'm looking, of course, we'll talk about this later, BC, but my Washington football team plays the L.A. I keep going on San Diego, but they are the L.A. Chargers. And I cannot believe this. They've got the Washington football team as a minus 130 favor. They're banking big on the defense there. And some fits magic, maybe. So we'll talk about that later. Yeah. And BC is far from a football expert or a swammy, but I did tell you on Wednesday show, take the Cowboys here. And they did cover the damn spread. Even though Tom Brady's vital

citizens lifted him to an important win on opening night. All right, Luke, they have told us our people have said, Hey, can you quit the one hour intros and get right into the meat of it? It's time to bang, bang beef. Let's do it here. We're going to start off our weekend preview with our first topic. Whether you like it or not, it's going to happen Saturday night, Hollywood, Florida. It's Triller Fight Club. And they're back with a pay per view. And we know the sketchy details. Is that the right way to say it? Oscar De La Jolla has COVID. Luckily, he's out of the hospital. But he's out of the

main event. It will not take place in LA. Evander Holyfield is in on six days notice to fight an eight round official boxing match with two minute rounds against 44 year old V Tor Belford of TRT and MMA fame. Luke, let's just say it, right? We've already done the morality ethics play on this. Is this event going to be a disaster or those concerns overblown as we are 24 hours away from this sloppy,

super ball comes Saturday night. I would say this about almost any combat sports event from the trillers to the UFC's to boxing at a low level. When I say low level, I mean, like necessarily corrupt or something. But, you know, regional boxing club level boxing. I would say it's no matter what combat sports is part of its appeal is that it is inherently unpredictable. And every one of us, cynic skeptic fan, whoever should always have a little bit at a bare minimum.

A little bit of humility about how this might go. So with that acknowledgement, I will say, do I know exactly how tomorrow's going to go? Of course, I do not. I do not. Is there a possibility that it could, if not be, you know, the most thrilling thing in the world, you know, reasonably entertaining for another of the audience to get something out of it. It is certainly possible. But BC, I was thinking about something ahead of today. We've talked about, of course, you know, 58. He was suing Triller.

Six days notice, the whole commission shopping, the whole thing we got into it. The one thing I want to do was I remember when Holyfield will be 59 in less than a month. But when he was 42 BC, at Mass and Square Garden, he fought Larry Donald. And that bout is actually pretty significant because it was after that bout that the, excuse me, the New York Athletic Commission said, we just can't sanction you anymore. They didn't stop other states from sanctioning them. But they said your days here as a competitor are over. Well, it turns out you can find that fight on

YouTube. So I went back and I watched the entire broadcast, which they had miraculously someone had taken the entire thing. Dude, this was, first of all, a terrible performance. Larry Donald was a guy who had once had a, you know, a shot against

Bo, I think in shit, the bad and by the time he had gotten Evander, he was very much damaged goods or a guy who had never really ascended to the level of which they thought he was going to ascend, but understand something heading into this contest. He had just lost two James lights out Tony. By the way, first time Evander had ever fallen from the body shot. And this by the way was a guy who used to be what?

What would you, what was the lowest James? Don't ever was middleweight, middleweight in boxing, middleweight. So he got dropped by a body shot with a guy who used to be undergraded. That, you know, James lights out Tony is a very special fighter, but I don't want to point out something. I took notes on this. After that fight. And then before the Larry Donald fight, Don Turner, his long time trainer left Evander, his manager, Jim Thomas left Evander. It had been seven years since his previous KO. Of course, all of those KOs usually come from out working opponents, which he could do.

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