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What about hot cakes though? I want some hot cakes.

Now here's your host, ready to jump into the thick of things, Duane Calendar.

Hello and welcome to the show.

Got a lot to talk about because we've got the championship finals for the

AFC and the NFL.

Gotta talk some college hoops as well because we had Duke takedown Virginia

also gotta get into a little bit of the Premier League but first let's just start off with the absolute

disaster that was the UFC debut on ESPN last night because it was a weak card to begin with which was part of the reason why

it didn't feel like previewing it and it lived up to be the unmitigated disaster that it was. So to begin with obviously coming into this

there was a lot of talk about the fact that Greg Hardy was signed to the USC in the first place and not only signed but

was actually going to be the co-main event of the evening.

Again, this is Greg Hardyi, he of three actual professional MMA fights co-headlining a

U.S.C. event. Granted, it's not a pay-per-view, it just a U.S. fight night but at the same time

you're basically using Greg Hardy to promote a U.S.C. event for the inaugural event on ESPN.

I still, it boggles my mind that this was actually considered a good idea

by the powers that be at WME or if it came from Dana White himself.

A. Greg Hardy is not experienced. B, there's the whole Greg Hardy is a scumbag to begin with and beats on women. But hey, let's

build an event around him when you're also featuring a woman who is also a victim of actual domestic violence on the exact same card.

That's not a conflict of interest at all.

I mean, you know, it was comical for it to even go down that way but sure enough they got

Greg Hardy on the card and Greg Hardy proceeds to gas himself out in the fight and gets himself disqualified for throwing an illegal knee.

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