Is Topuria Trippin’ + Vacating the Middleweight Belt?

Good Guy / Bad Guy

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🗓️ 21 April 2025

⏱️ 37 minutes

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On this episode of Good Guy / Bad Guy…Ilia Topuria almost broke the internet when he recently sat down with Joe Rogan and went in about his move to the Lightweight division. Find out what the guys think about Topuria saying he won’t fight unless it’s against the Champ Islam Mahakchev. Plus, could there be an interim Middleweight title fight in the near future? After injury reports surrounding Middleweight Champ Dricus Du Plessis, shock waves are being sent throughout the division leaving many to ask…should he vacate his belt and who could fight for the interim title if he does? Khamzat Chimaev? Caio Borralho? Nassourdine Imavov? And, DC & Chael are still reeling in the magic of getting the VIP treatment at WrestleMania 41 in Vegas. You do not want to miss what they have to say about everything that went down at the biggest weekend in the world of Wrestling Entertainment! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	So, Chale, are you breaking news right now that John Jones is fighting Tom Aspinall at International Fight Week?
0:19.0	Bad guy partner, we just got back from WrestleMania.
0:22.5	Where would you like to begin?
0:25.4	I mean, hey, I would like the whole show to be about WrestleMania,
0:30.0	but I've been tasked with saying we're going to talk about it,
0:34.4	but it has to wait till the end of the show.
0:37.0	We get it, we get one, no, no, we get one.
0:40.4	We get a statement, right?
0:42.7	And then we have to kind of tuck it back into our pockets until we get to the end of the show.
0:47.2	Hey, jail, they're on this today because I mean, the chat already has, you know, hey,
0:53.5	we're starting with Ilya, but we got to start with at least a comment., you know, hey, we're starting with Ilya,
0:54.8	but we got to start with at least a comment.
0:58.2	Dude, what about the seats that they gave us in the treatment
1:01.2	that they gave us this weekend?
1:03.5	Unbelievable.
1:04.1	I mean, I don't think you can buy those seats.
1:06.0	And then I'm a name dropper.
1:07.1	I'm in a little town in West Lynn.
1:08.4	So when I'm sitting two seats down from the guy that was Brian Cranston's co-star in Breaking
1:12.8	Bad, it's a big deal for me.
1:14.5	When I'm sitting next to the guy that is the lead stuntman for This Is Us and he's
1:19.3	talking to my son the entire time, which is three rows behind Rick Rubin and Jellyroll.
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