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WEIGHING IN

Khamzat Calls Out Alex Pereira for UFC White House Fight! | WEIGHING IN #642

WEIGHING IN

John McCarthy & Josh Thomson's MMA Show

Sports

4.6531 Ratings

🗓️ 14 January 2026

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Josh Thomson talks Khamzat Chimaev vs Alex Pereir, UFC announcements and more. Follow Josh on X/Instagram @therealpunk

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0:00.0

What's up guys? Hey, welcome to the show The Wayname Podcast. I'm here joined tonight by my boy

0:04.1

podcast Dave. It's been helping me hold it down for a little bit. Obviously you guys can tell

0:08.7

he's giving the fist bump. I'm losing my voice a little bit. I had a couple of vice interviews

0:15.3

today like Vice TV interviews today. I'm talking about the history of the sport and spending

0:20.3

some time talking about past

0:21.6

fighters, a little bit emotional, I think, somewhat, you know, knowing close guys and close

0:26.7

people that are going through a lot of stuff right now. And so it was a lot. It had me reflecting

0:31.4

on the early UFC days to, you know, the strike force days, the pride days, you know um the fact that i fought in pride i fought in

0:39.9

the early ufc i fought in pride that i fought strike force and and just the connections i have with a lot

0:44.9

of those guys um you know all the way from you know obviously phil baroni uh mayhem miller you know

0:51.3

nick diaz uh the group of guys that just you know came up in the in the early days of the UFC, a little bit in the pride days. And then, you know, Mark Coleman and those guys as well. So Don Fry, you've got a big group of people that we were having conversations about today. So it was a long day of filming. So voice is a little ras raspy hope you guys can deal with throughout the show

1:11.0

but um look keep an eye out for that they did a great series on some guys um the first the first like

1:17.3

docu series was a group of them that they have already launched that was season one they're doing

1:21.2

season two right now in the filming recording of that so just keep an eye out it's on vice tv and

1:26.7

it was it was a good little segment that we did today.

1:29.3

And take a look at it. Take a look at it when it comes out.

1:32.7

Dave, we have a lot of things going on. I know Dana had some announcements today.

1:37.5

You know, announced a big time fight. And but then, you know, there's also a lot of things going on right now on X.

1:43.4

Some fighters calling out each other. Some fighters, you know, searching for fights. Some guys like Hamzaa Tchamayev really kind of taking a dig saying that, hey, I want that, I want that 205 pound title. I want to chase it up there. Alex Bahrain has been avoiding me. And he wants that fight. And for me, I take a look at that fight and I think to

2:03.2

myself I see no I see no reason to do that fight you're taking a guy who is considered

2:09.2

a star at 185 pounds and Hamzat Chamaev and you want to know you hate him I'm joking

2:16.9

I don't hate that's what the joking. I don't hate him.

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