Khabib the leak? + These Fighters will be Champs in 2026!

Good Guy / Bad Guy

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🗓️ 4 August 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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On this episode of Good Guy / Bad Guy…Did Khabib Nurmagomedov just leak the Main Event for this year’s PPV at Madison Square Garden? Khabib revealed that Islam’s next fight will be at the world-famous arena, and we can only assume it’s against Jack Della Maddalena for the Welterweight Title at UFC 322 in November. But what does DC know about the leaked info? Then, Max Holloway says he’s out till 2026 with a hand injury. So, what does that mean for the Lightweight Division? The guys are matchmaking its top fighters and the results are absolute BANGERS! Plus, find out who DC & Chael believe will be UFC Champions in 2026. And, we take a walk down memory lane for this week in MMA History when UFC Legends Tito Ortiz and Rashad Evans faced off for the second time at UFC 133 almost 14 years ago to the day! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	And Daniel, I can never get my way.
0:01.7	Like, like, nobody, I can never get my way with like a magic wand in matchmaking.
0:06.1	But please, somebody, please, reserve hooker for Max Holloway and let's do it for the title.
0:13.1	We got to put the belt up.
0:14.9	Dude, you just actually made the next BMF title fight.
0:27.2	What's happening, guys?
0:29.9	Welcome to another episode of Good Guy, Bad Guy.
0:30.6	I'm Chale.
0:31.5	He's Daniel.
0:33.1	We're happy you're all here.
0:36.9	Daniel, the eve, the day after of the Great Summer Slam.
0:37.6	How are you feeling?
0:41.9	I hired, man. I got up this morning at 4 o'clock in the morning, me and my daughters to come to L.A. So luckily, I have a great partner who is always willing to adjust.
0:48.4	There are people in television, jail, that would go, no, this does not work for me. But
0:53.3	Chale goes, hey, listen, I just watch
0:56.0	my news before the show, opposed to after the show and we're good. So like, that's good to me.
1:01.4	And SummerSlam, SummerSlam was good. It delivered. It really did, especially on night two,
1:06.7	because the beast came. I couldn't believe I saw it brought back.
1:09.8	Hey, they popped for him.
1:11.2	Daniel, I'm glad that they, I'm really glad that that happened actually, but they pop for him, man, and it works. Long-haired Brock. Like, whenever you bring a guy back, you got to tweak him, even if it's only a little bit. They tweaked him a little bit. With the hair, I thought it worked. I thought it worked and I thought he looked tremendously.
1:08.8	He looks huge going back out there and still looks like a guy that A little bit with the hair. I thought it worked. I thought he looked tremendous.
1:27.9	He looks huge going back out there and still looks like a guy that could run the
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