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We are back with another edition of No Betts Bard and a rarity.

Something that never happens, a show where we're barely going to talk about the UFC.

Maybe not barely, but they are not the primary driver this weekend.

That is right, fresh off the heels of UFC 328.

We are now on the road to MVP MMA1,

aka Ronda Rousey, returning to fight Gina Corano, in what will almost assuredly be the most

watched MMA fight of all time.

But we will dive into all that, the rest of that card.

And of course, we will also talk UFC Vegas 11 117 a bit of a full-blown double

header and kind of works out because let's be honest the ufc card's quite bad one of the worst

on paper ever assembled i've been saying that a lot but it's very very true. The Rousey Carano card, some highlights,

and then a lot of stuff that you just aren't going to know or care anything about in the

undercard. So if you blend the two together, you can get one Frankenstein of a pretty good

fight week. And we are here to do just that and I say we because when you were embarking

on a mission to create life in a demonic way you know with some lightning and a full blown

Frankenstein who who better who would you want more than the king in the north himself?

A man for whom I, you know, got a couple of his brethren competing this weekend.

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