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. Top of the art to you. It's Friday. You know what that means. You ain't got shit to do. It's time to buckle up. Get ready. Get in gear for the best day of combat sports show.

Period. Yeah. It's right here. It's Morning Combat Friday, August 18, 2023. Hey, Luke Thomas may have been advertised in that opening monologue, but he ain't here and we don't need him. I'm the BBC with that BDE.

The beige guy, the American Alpha, Brian Campbell, friend of the family, friend of the program. He's not only is here when you call, but he's always on time when we need him and he's back with a bang is Shaquille, Missouri, the Prince of Persia, CBS Sports his own and shack anytime I get to mix it up with you. I get fired the heck up, but we are what 24 hours out from UFC 292 in Boston. So are you ready to we are you ready to bang.

Well, listen, I have not been shy about the fact that you and Luke have been big influences on my career. So I got up this morning, watch Max versus Volk, grab myself an energy drink and I am ready to see to hit the vape pontificate and maybe just maybe leave halfway through this show to defecate.

Oh, wow, on point right now, Shaq, I love in that. Well, well delivered. I'm a little sketchy though. Is that the, is that the t-shirt you wore in that EDM festival cow outfit that we continue to clown you about?

Listen, man, I don't mess around, man. You want to, you want to roast me mercilessly? I will eat into it. Everyone needs a gimmick and I guess this is mind PC.

Move, move, indeed, right there. Thank you to Gaffee or Long Island Luke on the ones and twos from Alka. We love you. We appreciate you. Great show for you guys today.

We're going to look back at the fight week in the buildup, including Thursday's interesting press conference ahead of UFC 292 and make our picks. Also, PFL playoffs begin this evening. And hey, you don't know much about this guy.

Shaq, how about we get to know him a little bit better later in the show. And Shaq, we're going to offer you up as a sacrifice here. I wanted to find out how P1 are a real P1.

So I've created, excuse me, a 10 question, MK trivia, P1 challenge. You're going to be the guinea pig for it to find out how well you actually know the boys from MK. All right. You ready for that?

You know, I officially got diagnosed with ADHD a couple of weeks ago. So if I bomb this, which I probably will let's, let's pull that card out.

All right. All right. Already setting himself up for failure. I can appreciate that. I do appreciate you waking up early on the left coast there in, in BC with the boy from BC in British Columbia.

The dedication knows no limits, Shaq. So welcome back to this great family here. Have we ever outfitted you in this fantastic merch? Are you still on the outside looking?

Listen, man, I don't want to call you guys out. You've been so good to me, but I can promise you that I have never seen even like a fabric taken off of a piece of MK merchandise.

I'm sitting here empty handed. I'm like, I listen, I'd rocket if I could, but I can't. All right. Hopefully, RJ Gangbanger can get you outfitted as well. It's speaking of merch, including this fantastically hetero t-shirt we have right here.

You go to morning combat dot store to figure that one out for yourself. And although it's not quite ready yet, I saw an average Joe's arts Twitter account that the collaboration that's been I don't know years in the making at this point is pretty damn close to happening between MK and what average Joe was doing.

In fact, didn't average Joe add you to the to the family of what does he call those those lovable stuff?

Combat, buddy, right? Combat, but indeed what an honor. Are you in big E from the WWE, right?

I am, I am honestly thrilled. It only reinforces the fact that I look like a serial killer, but hey, man, my face is my face can't do anything about it. He's a fantastic artist, and I can't draw so much as a stickman.

Yeah, I'm not going to sit here and complain. I'm not going to try to act like we have many single ladies in the MK family. I'm sure, you know, I'm sure we've got a lot of strong divorce women and remember, you know, these two cares.

If don't nobody else care, but Shaq, I have to tell all these lovely females that you are off the market. I wanted to congratulate you on your wedding. I hope your wife knows you've got to play her for life. And that's no bullshit. No, no two pop congratulations. And how does it feel to be unionized here? Right off the market.

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