What's happening, guys? Happy Friday!

I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving.

I have traveled.

I'm out in Chicago.

Real American freestyle goes down Saturday night on Fox Nation.

I hope you guys check it out, but so much has happened in the world of MMA.

Plus, Ilya and Islam Makalchev have not appeared to get closer to a fight.

They appear to be further away, but for the first time ever they have something to actually fight about.

You know what?

Let's start right there.

You want to know something I found interesting? In this last week, Ilya and Islam

Mokulchav have put some space between themselves. Like just a week ago, I was in New York

and somebody asked me, hey, chill, if the White House card was being made right now, which I must tell you is the most annoying topic that I've maybe ever had to deal with an MMA, but the whole White House card, the card in the venue that doesn't exist by the promoter who's not currently licensed on the date that's yet to be determined that big card. Okay. But I did get asked this, what fight would you do? And the

landscape of M&A changes so incredibly fast. But for last week when I was asked that, the correct

answer and the right answer was Islam, Uncle Chevin, Ilya,

Toporia. Now, specifically, you do that fight at 170 pounds so that for marketing reasons,

you can evoke the potential of champ, champ, champ status. Now, they finally have something to fight about these two.

These two finally have a reason to fight, which is Ilya, in the absence of nothing.

Ilya never getting in the ring, Ilya never getting defeated,

Ilya never missing a weight class, Ilya never doing anything, Ilya never missing a weight class,

Ilya never doing anything, has lost his ranking.

He lost his ranking to Islam.

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