Helwani Island 2 feat. Action Bronson, John Kavanagh & ATT’s Mike Brown

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🗓️ 20 January 2021

⏱️ 97 minutes

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Summary

Conor McGregor’s coach at SBG Ireland, John Kavanagh, joins Ariel for their usual pre-fight chat to discuss McGregor’s maturation in and out of the Octagon, the team’s ambitious plans for 2021 and why McGregor’s motivations are different than they once were (1:01:17). Mike Brown, Dustin Poirier’s coach at American Top Team, then talks about Poirier’s evolution since 2014 and why they feel they’re prepared to beat McGregor this time around at UFC 257 (1:26:25). But before all that, another edition of Ariel Helwani’s MMA Show LIVE featuring Action Bronson, the return of the (controversial) Helwani Nose Trivia Challenge with NewYorkRic and TST, as well as a fan Q&A session. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to R-Re-R-E-L-H-O-W-E-S-M-C-E-S-O!
0:12.7	Hello again everyone, welcome to a special VVVVVIP edition of the Halton Wani show.
0:30.8	It is Tuesday, it is UFC 257 Fight Week.
0:34.7	We are doing this for all of you because we are revved and ready to go.
0:38.4	We are excited for UFC 257.
0:40.2	And of course, we want to say thank you to our good friends over at DraftKings.
0:45.7	Yes, we are presented by DraftKings America's top rated daily fantasy app without them.
0:51.6	None of this is possible.
0:52.7	So thank you very much to DraftKings.
0:54.1	I'll tell you more about them a little later on in the program.
0:57.2	But this is the fifth time that we've done this.
1:00.3	Two in person, we did it in Chicago in June of 2019.
1:04.9	Remember the Hawani knows trivia challenge?
1:07.6	One by Steve Amiatchuch. A lot of people saying these days that I say one incorrectly.
1:13.1	Like they say I should be saying one.
1:15.8	I think it's one. They say one.
1:18.6	Anyway, one by Steve Amiatchuch.
1:21.6	Then we did it in December of 2019.
1:24.4	That one was one by Yawani and J-Check, shockingly.
1:27.9	So wait, actually this is the fourth time we've done it.
1:29.5	My four time, yes.
1:31.5	Then we did it July of this past year prior to UFC 251.
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