Hello friends, it's your Opal, Ariel Hawani back with another stellar edition of the Wednesday Hawani show as always lots of drama in the world of mixed martial arts.

I will be speaking to Leon Edwards what is going on with him I will be speaking with Curtis Blades big fight for him on Saturday but first.

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Back in your life on this Wednesday February 17 2000 and 21 hello again everyone hope you're doing well another

addition of the Hawaii show coming your way and like I said at the very top an eclectic mix of guests a lot of drama to get to this week talking a

little well to weight division with Leon Edwards talking a little heavyweight division with Curtis blades couple things I just wanted to get out of the way right off the top of course as we talk about with Leon Edwards the entire

well to weight division is is an interesting puzzle right now I don't want to call it a mess because you know when you got options it's an interesting puzzle as I sit here right now taping this on Wednesday February 17th we are moving in the direction of Jorge

Mosville versus Camarro Usman to going down the summer probably in August we're also moving in the direction of them being the coaches of the ultimate fighter you may have seen some tweets from

Camarro Usman you may have seen some tweets or some Instagram posts from Jorge Mosville as well this is the direction we're going into and you know it makes sense as I said on Monday for Usman to go this route it's the

biggest fight you can get it's the most amount of money he can get it's a sellable fight in the sense that you could say hey you know the first

fight one week notice for me and him let's get a full cab all that stuff for more I know there are some people who think likely on Edwards as you'll hear on today's program that

Mosville doesn't stand a chance but from a promotional standpoint and when you consider the fact that Usman has beaten the top four guys at well to weight it's really his best

option right now also by the way one to boy Thompson and Michael Kissa are unavailable they're both banged up at the moment so that's probably the biggest news of the half

week if you will some other small things have come up since we last spoke on on Monday Mike Perry has a fight against Daniel Rodriguez on the same card by the way as

Darin Till and Marvin Victoria that's April 10th that's the card that's still kind of up in the air that might be the next ABC show from what I'm told and that's the one

that they're trying to move Robert Whitaker versus Paulo Costa to but that's still kind of like I said flux at the moment but could you imagine

Darin Till and Mike Perry on the same card I mean the content that you can produce as a result of both those guys being together would be pretty fantastic

and one of the thing that I did want to quickly mention before we get to our first interview of the day which is Leon Edwards

Julian Marquez says that he has some great plan as to how to salvage this whole Miley Cyrus thing and a lot of his friends are coming after DC and I I've yet to see this this great plan I mean I saw that he's doing a charitable thing I don't know how one

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