Welcome to the Fantasy Throw Down Podcast, bringing you the latest updates from the world of sports,

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Now with over 200 episodes and ready to get after it again, here's your host,

Dwayne calendar.

Hello, welcome to the show everyone.

Got quite a bit to talk about, we're going to do a separate episode on the

NFL championship Sunday. Realistically I want to talk about a couple items that have been

going by the wayside but first

off let's talk about you have see last night uh... u fcc2 57 the return of

Connor McGregor and it went with a went out with a whimper to be honest as

McGregor gets knocked out in the second round by Dustin Poirier but this is one of those cautionary tales because it was an inflated line and we talk about this all the time

with name recognition and what that gets you into trouble with sometimes.

If you're just looking at the name and not looking at the specific matchup, you get yourself into these bad situations.

Connor McGregor was a minus 330, the minus 350 favorite depending on your sports book, against

Poirier.

Realistically, with the layoff Connor had and the fact that Poirier had been on an

uptrend in terms of his performances since losing the Khabag Madoff.

Man, was that fight two years ago already?

It's so much time.

Like the U.S.C. time, just like, I mean, even with the pandemic, the USC fight cards just keep rolling by so fast, but

Poirier's winning streak and the win over Gaichi, you know, Poirier was taking a lot of damage in some of those

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