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Fighter vs. Writer: Paige VanZant Reveals Details Behind AEW Signing; Chris Daukaus On What Went Wrong Against Derrick Lewis

MMA Fighting

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4.51.6K Ratings

🗓️ 22 March 2022

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

On episode 28 of The Fighter vs. The Writer, Paige VanZant joins the show to detail how she ended up signing with All Elite Wrestling and her plans for a long career in professional wrestling. VanZant will also discuss her plans to continue fighting in bare-knuckle competition for BKFC and how leaving the UFC was ultimately one of the best moves she could have possibly made for her career. Also on the show, UFC Columbus headliner Chris Daukaus drops in to preview his upcoming main event showdown with Curtis Blaydes while also explaining what exactly went wrong in his loss to Derrick Lewis including underestimating just how much of a difference it makes fighting in the smaller octagon that’s housed in the UFC APEX. All this and much more on the latest episode of The Fighter vs. The Writer.  Subscribe: Apple Podcasts Subscribe: Spotify Read More: MMA Fighting Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome back to The Fighter vs. The Rider, I'm your host is always Damon Martin

0:23.6

this week, I am happy to have two guests on the show, of course.

0:27.6

My first guest is all over the headlines these days because she just signed a contract

0:32.4

to cross over into all elite pro wrestling, all elite wrestling, I should say to do her

0:37.7

pro wrestling debut, she's also of course still under contract with BKFC and a former UFC

0:42.7

superstar in her own right, we're going to talk to Paige Vance and in just a moment we're

0:46.5

also going to speak to the man who will headline this weekend's UFC fight night card in

0:51.7

my town, Columbus, Ohio, he takes on Curtis Blades on Saturday, the fight of course from

0:57.9

the nationwide arena here in Columbus, so I'm looking forward to speaking to Chris Dockas

1:01.9

as well.

1:02.9

So let's just get things rolling, let's talk first to Paige Vance and of course as I said

1:07.5

she's been all over the news lately after she signed a deal to join AEW, so we're going

1:11.5

to find out more about that contract, what exactly that entails, this is long term deal,

1:16.0

short term deal, also what's her future would be KFC, you know, obviously all she's been

1:21.3

doing since leaving the UFC, so we're going to touch on all of that as well as her recent

1:25.6

let's say mishap at the the local airport when she was trying to fly out for an appearance,

1:30.8

which is rather hilarious as well, so let's talk right now to Paige Vance and Damon Martin

1:35.5

MMA fighting here with BKFC veteran UFC veteran and now AEW superstar Paige Vance and Paige,

1:45.1

how are you?

1:46.1

Welcome in.

1:47.1

Thank you for doing this today.

1:48.1

Thank you, of course, I'm doing really good, I'm in Florida and Miami, so it's always

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