Khamzat’s Biggest Test? Strickland, JDM & UFC Fight Talk | TFATK Ep. 1186
The Fighter & The Kid
Thiccc Boy Studios | PodcastOne
4.2 • 17.4K Ratings
🗓️ 5 May 2026
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
The Fighter and The Kid are back in the new studio, and Brendan Schaub and Bryan Callen break down a wild week of UFC, combat sports, viral clips, and Gamebred Miami.
Brendan talks about his trip to Miami for Gamebred Bareknuckle, including fight reactions, wild event stories, and why Brandon Girtz vs. John Teixeira stood out as one of the best fights he has seen this year. The episode also goes into Khamzat Chimaev vs. Sean Strickland, Strickland’s path to surviving the early storm, and why Khamzat’s wrestling creates such a tough problem for the middleweight division.
Brendan and Bryan also debate Islam Makhachev’s dominance, Ian Machado Garry’s chances, Carlos Prates’ rise, JDM’s tough night, and why welterweight and middleweight are two of the UFC’s most exciting divisions right now.
Plus, Bryan’s Hawaii stories, Callen’s son ditching him for a flea market date, Adrien Broner concerns, Theo Von at Stagecoach, Trump viral clips, Kentucky Derby talk, and more.
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| 0:00.0 | This is really the fighter and the kid. |
| 0:03.0 | This is really the fighter and the kid. |
| 0:07.0 | Come on, baby. |
| 0:08.0 | First of all, just want everybody to know. |
| 0:10.0 | New vibes. |
| 0:11.0 | Now, there's light behind us. |
| 0:13.0 | Do we like the windows? |
| 0:14.0 | We love the windows, but what we want is we want that natural light illuminating our face. |
| 0:18.0 | Oh, weird. It's like my wife told you that before this. |
| 0:21.7 | Yeah, and if you guys think I look good like this, just fucking wait. Increase the exposure. |
| 0:27.8 | Yeah. I'm not mad at the light. It doesn't feel like we're in dungeon anymore. |
| 0:31.1 | Listen, I get it recognized for being on mad TV by people. And that means that that was 30 years ago. |
| 0:36.8 | And those people are dying. More than that. And that means that that was 30 years ago. And those people are dying. More than that. |
| 0:38.6 | And that means that I'm aging slower than I thought because they still recognize me after all |
| 0:44.3 | that time. Now, well, now I was in Hawaii. I was in Hawaii. Okay. I was in Hawaii. I was on |
| 0:52.7 | Waki-ki Beach. Water's amazing. Weather's amazing. |
| 0:57.7 | Went snorkeling. A lot of whites because they ran out all the... Well, so I didn't realize that Hawaiians, the native Hawaiians are just like Samoans. And their high school there, I think it's Baku, one of the high schools, is one of the most heavily recruited from the NFL. |
| 1:13.7 | Oh yeah. |
| 1:14.0 | So big time. |
| 1:14.7 | Troy Palomalo. |
| 1:15.7 | Yeah. |
| 1:16.0 | Got some boys out. |
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