This is our passion. That's the spirit we bring to this show. I'm Luke Thomas. I'm Brian Campbell. This is Morning Combat.

All right, my daughter is home, which means you're going to hear Godzilla rampaging through downtown Tokyo just outside this door in a matter of moments, but hi everyone.

It is the 14th of April 2021 and it is time for Morning Combat. My name is Luke Thomas from CBS Sports. I am one half of your hosting duo today. I'm joined by the gentleman on the other side of the screen.

He's our Florida correspondent just so happens to be a UFC Hall of Famer as well as a combat sports analyst for CBS Sports as well. It's sugar, Rashad Evans. Mr. Evans, how are you, sir, on this fine Wednesday?

I am great this fine Wednesday. Just enjoying another beautiful day in sunny South Florida.

How many days out of the year as a Florida resident would you say you actually make it to the beach? Now, not necessarily in the water, but maybe on the beach laying out, hanging out with friends.

Something where the beach is involved in some kind of leisurely activity.

I try to do it at least twice a month. You know, there are times where I go without, you know, months and months without going and then I'm just like, when I go to, I'm just like, why don't I go here every day?

You know, there was a time where I was going every single morning, but, you know, that can be time consuming.

If I lived in the beach, I'd like to think that I would go most days, but I don't know, I've never lived in a beach town except for, you know, the week of spring break or something like that, which doesn't really count.

I would imagine it would be pretty tempting, but all right, we have lots to do today, Mr. Evans. We have, let's see, we've got some breaking news to get to, we've got some fight previewing to do.

We've got the, let's see, the, the asker in the poll fight that comes this weekend. We have Bellator. We have a lot with UFC. We have a lot of stuff.

So we're going to start to dig our toes so to speak into the sands of those fight stories. If you are new to MK or your regular either way, please give the video a thumbs up.

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Let's get into it if we can here, Rashad on this Wednesday edition of the show. Let me ask you first before I bring up the actual way in which I want to have this conversation. This is a broad overview.

Where are you on the YouTube boxing thing? What is your general? Forget about the fight as we can, you know, exactly. Just in general. What do you, how do you view that enterprise?

I mean, it's entertainment. You know, I give it that for the fun factor. It's fun to watch. But outside of that, there's really not much, there's really not much to it. I mean, you know, but however, however, with all that said, I'm very interested to see been, been fight this weekend. I really,

I want to talk about Ben a little bit later, but I want to start the conversation here because I want to get a general tenor of your stuff. My attitude is there's quite obviously a market for it, how big is debatable, but it's there is one.

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