Is Islam scared of Ilia? + Underappreciated Champs

Good Guy / Bad Guy

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🗓️ 17 March 2025

⏱️ 37 minutes

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On this episode of Good Guy / Bad Guy…Is Islam Makhachev duckin’ Ilia Topuria? Does Topuria deserve an immediate title shot in the Lightweight division after vacating his Featherweight belt? Find out which matchups the guys want to see next at 155lbs. Plus, there’s a new group of Champs in the UFC with a combined record of 53-0-1 that some fans are calling boring. The guys discuss why they believe this new era of title holders are underappreciated. Then, the UFC is coming to Iowa! And the Bad Guy’s taking credit for Bo Nikal’s matchup on the card against Reinier de Ridder. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	It was a 15 minute drumming.
0:02.0	Joe, but everybody, the grappling of the jiu-jitsu, of the wrestling, of the punching, of the boxing, of the cagemanship, of the damage of the control.
0:09.0	All of it favored Islam. It couldn't be any worse of a beaten.
0:13.0	What's up, guys? Welcome to a brand new episode of Good Guy, Bad Guy. I'm Daniel Cormier. That's my man, Chale, Sonny. Chale P. We're back home, bro. How you feel, Chale? I'm so happy to be back at my house.
0:33.8	Bro. I got to tell you, exhausted, there's levels to exhausted, and I think I generally just throw that word out until I'm truly exhausted. Today is exhausting. What an experience. What an awesome and fine group of young men. It was a real privilege and honor to be there. But Daniel, it went around the clock. There was something going on and all uh hours of the day yeah it's nice to be
0:57.8	home sometimes it's just good to be home chill i got home on thursday i laid in bed till like 10 a
1:05.7	a m then i made coffee then i watched a movie chill I put blackout curtains all up in my room. I watched
1:14.3	a movie. Dude, then on Friday, I wasn't doing anything. I made barbecue. I was just having, like,
1:21.2	the most enjoy your Daniel time I've ever had in my life for two days, Chale. What movie?
1:27.7	I literally saw no.
1:28.4	I saw my kids and my wrestling team.
1:31.1	Outside of that, I was doing nothing.
1:33.9	What movie did you watch?
1:35.3	Yo, I watched Craven the Hunter.
1:37.1	You know, I watched Craven the Hunter because it was one of those UFC movies that was on the
1:41.5	mat for a while.
1:42.6	So I figured I'd watch it and it was really,
1:44.5	really good. So I watched a movie jail. It was raining. It was perfect. It felt like I was in
1:50.8	Oregon. Because you know in Oregon when it's raining and it's like the rain drops are hitting
1:55.3	the house. You grab your wife. You watch some TV, watch a movie. You live in life, right, Jop? Sure. Now you're
2:03.8	describing it perfectly. That's really what it's like. It was the best, bro. It was the best weekend I've
2:08.6	had in a really, really long time. And by the way, the football season is done, right? I'm not going to
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