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WEIGHING IN

JDM vs Prates Announced | Should Ilia Vacate? | WEIGHING IN #637

WEIGHING IN

John McCarthy & Josh Thomson's MMA Show

Sports

4.6531 Ratings

🗓️ 5 January 2026

⏱️ 111 minutes

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Who is really deserving of the WW title shot? Should Ilia vacate? Go to WeWantPicks.com/OFFER and use code ANDSTILL and claim your 10% discount. Use our link and claim a free LMNT Sample Pack when they make any purchase! The LMNT Sample Pack includes 1 packet of every flavor, no questions asked refunds on all orders – you don’t even have to send it back! This offer may be claimed be first-time and returning LMNT customers, ONLY THOUGH OUR LINK! http://drinklmnt.com/WeighingIn Follow Josh on X/Instagram @therealpunk Count Down 00:00 Intro 00:07 JDM vs Prates? 02:19 Who deserves the next title shot? 07:25 Topuria's Divorce Drama and Title Vacancy? 24:01 What direction does the lightweight division move? 33:27 Who should Conor McGregor fight? 36:08 Bryce Mitchell's Accusations 45:52 Travel Tales 55:58 Who will finish 2026 on the P4P list? 58:23 Reading and responding to the live chat 1:33:13 Wrap Up 1:47:00

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0:00.0

Well, here we go. We are live and look up with my boy, Angel. It's been a long time,

0:03.9

and I know we had some away visits. I was out visiting family in California. You were home.

0:09.6

You actually traveled a little bit. You were in Colorado. And we spent New Year's together. I came back just to

0:15.4

spend New Year's with you. There we go. I mean, look, I know you're waiting for some sort of dig

0:21.2

that's that was

0:22.3

i was prepared

0:24.2

that you love to do those little digs at me

0:27.3

at the end of your little

0:28.4

your little intros on all of our bad takes

0:31.0

you know oh you know josh thompson like

0:32.5

you know you were used to losing fights and

0:34.6

you know and this and that

0:35.7

these are these are

0:37.2

i mean look you tend to lose some I have like something like I have like 40 something

0:42.3

fights bro losing eight fights is not bad is it eight though yeah it's eight that's eight

0:47.7

I have no contest in there but a kid Yamamoto one yeah it's nine's nine. Josh. It's nine. CTE. Eight, nine.

0:57.3

In this day and age, six seven, six seven. Right. I got my daughter and my son run around the house.

1:05.3

My son doesn't say it as much anymore. It's not as cool as that is cool as it used to be.

1:08.9

I hope it stops being cool real quick because it's not. It's kind of done. It's kind of done. He's like, I've already moved on to 4-1. I'm like, mine said 9-11. It's like, ugh. You guys don't know what that actually is. Yeah, you might want to steer them away from that. Let's just go ahead and steer them away from that little area um look uh

1:28.5

i want to thank you guys hey dave sandan uh thanks for being a member again and uh look four months man

1:33.0

four months thank you so much for continues wait that's so weird what's his comment for his four

1:37.8

month membership i'm trying to read what that says just go ahead and put that on the screen so we can

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