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🗓️ 6 June 2023
⏱️ 61 minutes
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To kick off pay-per-view week, Chael discusses the following on today's episode:
Plus, Chael defends Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his jiu jitsu side hobby (51:06).
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0:00.0 | What's happening guys? Happy Tuesday and thank you for joining. |
0:11.3 | Another special episode of your welcome. It's a UFC paper view week and I gotta tell |
0:16.8 | you this one snuck up on me but I'm gonna get into the top two UFC 289 fights and the |
0:23.6 | betting odds on today's program plus I'm gonna tell you what Steve A.B.O. |
0:29.1 | Chitch has signed or at least allegedly signed as it pertains to John Jones and I'm also |
0:36.3 | gonna come to the defense of Mark Zuckerberg once again. All of that coming up later but |
0:42.0 | I want to begin with what we saw over the weekend. |
0:45.4 | Oh Dana White was in rare form at the press conference over the weekend now. I stole those |
0:57.2 | words from Bloody Albo. Yes I admit it but he was. He wasn't rare form. He was in this |
1:03.9 | great mood. He was very open and talkative. The conversation of Connor and Chandler came |
1:10.7 | up and the truth will set you free. We all know that but in the world of promotion and the |
1:19.3 | world of storytelling right you can't you come and go in some different directions you're |
1:22.7 | building interest. It's part of the job and I felt as though Dana kind of just put the |
1:28.3 | swords down as far as Connor and Chandler goes and he goes look it is really hard to make |
1:34.8 | fights when these guys are so financially successful. I change his words. That's what he |
1:41.6 | said though right exactly what he said without being verbatim and that is the elephant in the |
1:48.8 | room. I mean that has been the secret within the business that never gets discussed from jump |
1:56.4 | street of the narrative the fighters are paid enough and you can never hang your hat on that. |
2:03.7 | You could never come think thinking you're going to win an argument you could never come out and say |
2:07.6 | hey I to get a return on my investment I have to have a guy multiple times I just I can't do it |
2:15.7 | one or two I'm going to lose here but I can make down the road like this is our model and plan |
2:20.6 | and if I pay him too much I can never get him there like you just you're not going to win you're |
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