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Good Guy / Bad Guy

Kevin Lee, Demetrious Johnson, Deiveson Figueiredo on UFC 256

Good Guy / Bad Guy

ESPN Radio

Sports

4.42.7K Ratings

🗓️ 9 December 2020

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

After Ariel provides the day’s breaking news, fan favorite Kevin Lee, who has fought both Tony Ferguson and Charles Oliveira, joins Ariel to look back on his experience against each guy and also to give the latest on his injury recovery and plans for fighting the UFC’s biggest names, like Khabib Nurmagomedov and Conor McGregor. Then, ahead of his UFC 256 flyweight title defense, Deiveson Figueiredo (and translator Wallid Ismail!) tells Ariel about how this fight came together immediately after UFC 255, his desire to fight Henry Cejudo for a BMF belt, his beef with Saturday’s opponent, Brandon Moreno, and more (24:15). Lastly, legendary flyweight Demetrious Johnson breaks down Figueiredo vs. Moreno and his future at ONE Championship (41:27). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello friends, it's your Opal area, Hawaii back with another episode of the Wednesday,

0:06.7

Hawaii show and it's UFC 256 week. Yes, the final pay-per-view of 2020. What a year it has been.

0:15.1

So we'll talk all about that. On today's show, we got some breaking news. We got a lot to get to,

0:19.1

but before we get to all of that, do want to let you know about ESPN Daily, the podcast. What a great

0:25.1

show this is hosted each and every day, Monday through Friday, by the one and only Pablo Torre. I

0:30.6

love Pablo. He's great. What a lovely guy. I'm just seeing him at the Seatport. Anyway, he hosts

0:37.1

that show Monday through Friday and over at the ESPN Daily podcast, they cover the biggest sports

0:42.5

stories of the day. Every day, Monday through Friday, have I said it's Monday through Friday,

0:47.9

it's five days a week for God's sakes. It's amazing. It's a great lesson, and if you want to be a

0:53.0

smarter sports fan, I strongly suggest you check out the ESPN Daily podcast wherever you find

0:58.0

your favorite podcast. All right, onto today's program, which may contain some language that's

1:02.6

not suitable for all audiences, so listen to discretion as advised. Enjoy.

1:32.8

Back in your life on this Wednesday, December 9, 2020. Hello again, everyone. Welcome back to a brand

1:46.3

new edition of the Hawaii show. We have arrived, my friends. It is the final UFC pay-per-view fight

1:54.8

week of 2020. The last pay-per-view of the year goes down this Saturday. Of course, there's one more

2:00.1

show next weekend. December 19th, it was supposed to be headlined by Hamza Chimaya versus Leon Edwards.

2:07.2

You know by now that fight's not happening, so depressing. Let's not go over it. It is headlined by

2:11.8

Wonder Boy Thompson versus Jeff Neal, but we'll talk about that next week. For now, though,

2:15.8

let us focus on this weekend's pay-per-view. We've got the return of figure, figure, figure,

2:20.0

figure. Can't you see? Davis in figure eight, oh, putting up his fly-way title on the line,

2:25.3

21 days after his last fight at UFC 255. Remember, late November, he beats Alex Perez. He walks out

2:33.4

of the cage. He goes to the back. He's pissed off that he doesn't get a bonus. They ask him to fight

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