MMA: UFC 234 interview special -- Whittaker, Silva, Adesanya, Gastelum
State of Combat with Brian Campbell
CBS Sports, Boxing, MMA
4.6 • 765 Ratings
🗓️ 7 February 2019
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Brian Campbell chats with the four biggest names on Saturday's UFC 234 card in Melbourne, Australia, as a pair of must-see middleweight bouts top the marquee. Champion Robert Whittaker explains why he's just an every man who happens to be good at fighting (4:30) and challenger Kelvin Gastelum shares bounty hunting stories and breaks down why he's the one to ruin the UFC's best-laid plans (17:00). Anderson Silva looks back on five of the biggest moments of his legendary career and explains why he believes he has one more trick up his sleeve at age 43 (32:30). Finally, the brash Israel Adesanya talks mental toughness and why he's not just the future of the sport, he's the now (45:45).
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| 0:00.0 | Oh, five, four, three, two, two, one, two, ignition, lift off. |
| 0:24.3 | Oh, yeah. |
| 0:29.6 | It's your boy, B.C. and it's bonus time on the State of Combat podcast on CBS Sports. |
| 0:35.0 | Little MMA edition of the bonus chats, the interview special. |
| 0:39.3 | Your boy, the Brian Campbell coming at you. |
| 0:43.8 | What do we have for you this Saturday, UFC 234? |
| 0:48.8 | If you listened to the regular MMA edition featuring Brandon Wise as myself, |
| 0:58.0 | we got you fired up this week for what should be a good card with two sexy middleweight matchups to top the marquee down under Melbourne, Australia. |
| 1:01.3 | Well, now we've got the four participants involved. |
| 1:04.0 | And some bonus chance you simply won't want to miss. |
| 1:09.9 | Yes, it's sponsored underwritten and brought to you, of course, by that performance enhancing audio. |
| 1:12.5 | And of course, you know, I want you to get out there. |
| 1:17.9 | And let's say pay it forward with the five-star review if you like what you hear today. |
| 1:19.4 | But what do we have today? |
| 1:27.7 | The four most important names at UFC 234 as middleweight champion, Robert Whitaker-Staffed by to Explain why he's just a regular guy. |
| 1:29.8 | Call him Bobby Knuckles if you want. |
| 1:32.1 | But that's not what he identifies with. |
| 1:36.5 | Robert Whitaker as normal a dude as one can imagine. |
| 1:39.5 | He just so happens to be on fire at the moment. |
| 1:44.5 | One of the pound for pound best fighters headlining a card Saturday in his own backyard. |
| 1:48.9 | We're, of course, also going to chat with his opponent, Kelvin Gasselam, the former ultimate fighter winner. |
| 1:50.3 | Tells a little old school bounty hunting stories for Gastellum. |
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