HOAM | Would Potential Colby Covington vs. Islam Makhachev Fight Be More Intriguing At 155 or 170?

MMA Fighting

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🗓️ 5 October 2023

⏱️ 58 minutes

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It appears as if lightweight champion Islam Makhachev and upcoming welterweight title challenger Colby Covington are planting seeds for a future fight should both be successful in their next bouts. If it happens, would it be more intriguing to see Makhachev move up to welterweight, or Covington move down to lightweight? On an all-new edition of Heck of a Morning, MMA Fighting's Mike Heck discusses the back-and-forth between Makhachev and Covington, what weight class would be more interesting to host it, and how it might go. Additionally, listener questions include fighter pay, contracts in ONE Championship, the star power of Sean O'Malley, if Dustin Poirier could find his way into a welterweight title shot if Covington defeats Leon Edwards at UFC 296, Alexander Volkanovski's future at featherweight, the loaded UFC bantamweight division, where Michael Page could end up in free agency, and more. You can listen live to Heck of a Morning Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays at 10 a.m. ET on the MMA Fighting Twitter Spaces. Follow Mike Heck: @MikeHeck_JR Subscribe to MMA Fighting Check out our full video catalog Like MMA Fighting on Facebook Follow on Twitter Read More: http://www.mmafighting.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Vox Media Podcast Network.
0:04.8	All right, it is Thursday, October 5th, 2023, and it is indeed a heck of a morgue.
0:29.9	Good morning. We are live on the upmate fighting Twitter spaces. You can hear the show in its entirety.
0:34.9	Shortly thereafter on the upmate fighting podcasting network.
0:38.9	Hello again, everybody. I am Mike Heck. Hope everyone's having a wonderful week.
0:43.9	Hope everyone's enjoying the start of October. It is fall, depending on where you are.
0:50.9	The weather is cooling down a little bit. The leaves are changing colors. Halloween is upon us.
0:58.9	Which is crazy because I've gone to some stores over the last couple of days.
1:04.9	And I'm seeing Christmas stuff all over the place. We haven't even gotten to freaking Halloween yet.
1:09.9	So I don't know why that happens, but that's where we're at.
1:15.9	But what I hear to talk about that. We're here to talk about the wonderful world of mixed martial arts.
1:20.9	We got two events coming up this weekend. Both on Saturday.
1:26.9	We get the UFC in Bellator going head to head. We have UFC Vegas 80.
1:34.9	Which will get things rolling for PM Eastern prelims, 7 p.m. main card.
1:40.9	The main event, of course, grand toss and versus Bobby Green.
1:44.9	We got Joe Piper Abdul-Werzaka Hassan, Alex Morono versus Joaquim Buckley, Drew Dober, Ricky Glenn, Bill Algeau,
1:53.9	Alexander Hernandez. That is the main card. That's not bad.
1:56.9	We've had way worse main cards than that this year.
2:00.9	Philippe Lins versus the Dapper, Ewan Kuchalaba.
2:05.9	Did you see Ewan Kuchalaba in media day?
2:08.9	Shave face. He's wearing a suit.
2:11.9	Dude, looked like a couple of Billy.
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