Fighter vs. Writer: 2023 Year In Review With Alan Jouban Talking Jon Jones’ Return, Sean Strickland’s Upset and Much More

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🗓️ 26 December 2023

⏱️ 73 minutes

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The Fighter vs. The Writer returns with a special year-end episode with UFC analyst and retired fighter Alan Jouban joining MMA Fighting senior reporter Damon Martin to discuss the biggest moments from 2023. Islam Makhachev and Alexander Volkanovski put on a possible Fight of the Year in February as two of the top pound-for-pound fighters in the sport battled it out in a five round classic. One month later, Jon Jones made his return to the octagon and he finally conquered the heavyweight division while taking out Ciryl Gane in the first round. By June, Amanda Nunes was defending her title and then calling it a career, which dramatically affected two different divisions in the UFC. In September, Sean Strickland pulled off one of the most epic upsets in the history of the UFC when he thumped Israel Adesanya to become middleweight champion. Follow along with us as we go through the biggest moments in 2023 and start looking ahead at what’s to come in 2024 on the latest episode of The Fighter vs. The Writer! Subscribe to MMA Fighting Check out our full video catalog Like MMA Fighting on Facebook Follow on Twitter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:27.0	You're listening to the Vox Media Podcast Network. Welcome back to the fighter versus the writer. It is hard to believe that 2023 is coming to an end I'm
0:54.4	Damon Martin and today I'm happy to be joined by one of my favorite people to
0:58.0	talk about with the sport he is one of the top analysts at the UFC we're
1:02.1	gonna talk about everything that went down this year.
1:03.8	There's always my pleasure to welcome in.
1:05.1	Alan Joe Band.
1:06.0	Alan, how are you?
1:07.8	I'm good man.
1:08.3	I'm glad you called me, dude.
1:09.4	We were just catching up about how there's such a gap in time between the next now and the next fight that I'm glad we're doing something
1:16.4	in a mama related to kind of keep my sanity a little bit with all that with with the
1:20.9	lack of things going on.
1:22.8	It's so weird like we have we keep such a busy schedule with the U.S.C.
1:26.5	And we're like man there's a card every weekend, this car, that card.
1:29.4	We have like a month-long break and now I'm like, I don't know what to do with myself.
1:32.4	I'm like, this is so what to do it myself I'm like this is so
1:33.1	odd not to have fights this weekend you get used to it right you get used to an
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