You're listening to the Fighter versus the writer. I am Damon Martin this week,

as I am always so happy to have as a co-host.

I am always welcome to talk to this guy.

One of the top analysts in the sport, calling fights,

doing analyst gigs, just staying busy, doing podcasts, you're doing all kinds of stuff.

Always my pleasure to welcome in Alan Joe Band.

Alan, how are you?

I'm doing good brother, always happy to be here and jump on with you.

Absolutely, man. So obviously you so obviously you were just calling fights this last weekend.

I know that's kind of been like a passion thing for you getting into calling fights.

I'm telling you, they're going to call you in for the U.S.C. one day soon.

It's got to happen. It's coming, man.

I think what I think the path to get there is starting to kind of,

it's starting to kind of present itself.

You know, I do the road to the U.S.C. which is kind of the

Asian tournament that the U.S. who puts on and it looks like this year I'm going to get to do the

color commentary on it. I was supposed to do it last year but I got sick. So I think they're

giving me another shot at it which would be my first color kind of color commentating

debut and then I and then after that I would love to jump on the contender series I think that's the one that just makes sense it's a smaller show

They don't need the big guys to do it at first.

And guys like me can go in there and get repetitions. But it's coming, man. I think we're on path to getting done.

Absolutely. Well, Alan, obviously always a lot going on in the MMA world. We are gearing up for a very busy couple of months. I mean, we are basically a week, a little over a week away from USC 299, which is a ridiculous card.

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