MMA: Jon Jones, Ben Askren, Holly Holm at UFC 239 media day
State of Combat with Brian Campbell
CBS Sports, Boxing, MMA
4.6 • 765 Ratings
🗓️ 5 July 2019
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Brian Campbell, "Suga" Rashad Evans and Brandon Wise take over UFC 239 media day in Las Vegas for a series of revealing interviews. Jon Jones and Evans candidly discuss their journey from best friends to enemies and back again. Holly Holm explains why she's different than any opponent Amanda Nunes has face. Plus, complete interviews with Thiago Santos, Ben Askren, Urijah Faber, Luke Rockhold, Jan Blachowicz, Gilbert Melendez, Michael Chiesa, Arnold Allen and Song Jadong.
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| 0:00.0 | Oh, five, four, three, two, one, two, live from Las Vegas. |
| 0:26.9 | It's the State of Combat podcast on CBS Sports. |
| 0:30.0 | All MMA all the time for International Fight Week. |
| 0:34.8 | UFC 2.39. |
| 0:37.2 | Happy fourth to you all. It's your boy, B.C. Brian Campbell, |
| 0:42.1 | fresh off UFC Ultimate Media Day, the Brandon Wise Brando Commando, the B-dubs sitting next to me in my |
| 0:50.3 | hotel room folks, fired up, ready to bring you some premium audio, some big time interviews. |
| 0:59.0 | Brando, first of all, how are you holding up on your debut trip to Sin City? |
| 1:04.2 | My back is on fire. I just wanted to like get to somewhere to sit down after media day because |
| 1:10.0 | we did a lot of standing |
| 1:11.0 | with you doing a lot more talking than me, which was really great because we got some great |
| 1:16.0 | content out of today. We got some great interviews for the fans that are, I think it's going to |
| 1:20.5 | fire some people up. Yeah, for the fans, he says, for the fans. Look, we're not going to, you know, |
| 1:26.9 | bury the lead at all. |
| 1:28.4 | We've got John Jones and Rashad, Evan, Sugar, of this podcast, fame, of UFC Hall of Fame, |
| 1:35.0 | fame, getting on the mic, each other, really detailing the history of their friendship, |
| 1:40.4 | which was Blood Brother teammates to mortal enemies ahead of UFC 145, to repairing |
| 1:46.3 | and patching it back up heading into this weekend. |
| 1:48.9 | Here, John, give you an honest take on their matchup on Rashad's true legacy as one of the |
| 1:53.7 | all-time greats, really good back and forth, and it doesn't end there B-dubs. |
| 1:58.6 | We're talking to everybody one-on-one from Holly Holm to Ben Ascran, Luke Rockhold, Jan Blowichitz. |
| 2:07.7 | You got it again, all right? |
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