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Jorge Masvidal EXCLUSIVE

Good Guy / Bad Guy

ESPN Radio

Sports

4.42.7K Ratings

🗓️ 6 July 2020

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

In his first interview since agreeing to fight Kamaru Usman at UFC 251 on July 11, Jorge Masvidal joins Ariel for a wide-ranging chat about how the fight got made so quickly, whether he’s happy with the deal, why he dislikes Usman so much and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Today's episode of Aria Hawani's MMA show contains explicit language that may not be suitable for all audiences.

0:06.0

Listener discretion is advised.

0:08.0

Hello again everyone. It's Aria Hawani. Hope you're doing well.

0:11.2

Of course we're being joined by the man who is the talk of the town in the world of mixed martial arts.

0:16.5

Everyone talking about Jorge Mazvidal, what an unbelievable weekend for him.

0:20.6

Three days ago he was not scheduled to fight at UFC 251 now in just what six days time.

0:26.7

He's about to fight for his very first UFC title. He's in Las Vegas right now quarantining.

0:31.3

He's kind enough to join us for a few minutes here. Jorge, thank you so much and congrats on getting the fight.

0:36.6

It's always a pleasure to be on the show with you. We go back ways.

0:41.2

So I mean, I have to like break the knees with you here, right? Isn't it the way it should be?

0:48.0

I think so and I appreciate that you you haven't forgotten about me since you know we've been talking

0:53.3

for so many years. So let's get into this. This is crazy. When you found out that Gilbert Burns was out,

0:58.3

did you or your team reach out to the UFC or did they reach out to you? How did this all start?

1:04.0

Let me ask you a question. What do you think happened?

1:06.9

What do you think everything was? I just want to just add a curiosity.

1:10.4

Is corporate Jake going to cut in here and like eight or five minutes left?

1:13.6

No, we got we got we got we got our questions to it. Yeah, yeah, let's go.

1:17.2

Okay, good, good. So what do you think I called them or they called me? You know me pretty good.

1:21.8

I think they called you.

1:24.0

Bingo. Did they call you Friday or Saturday?

1:29.5

When did we initially think Saturday?

1:34.9

Saturday, Sunday, Sunday, no Friday night, I'm sorry, I'm thinking to a more massive seven

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