No Bets Barred | Will Ilia Topuria beat Charles Oliveira at UFC 317 to become 10th double champ?

MMA Fighting

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Sports News, Sports, News

4.6 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2025

⏱️ 65 minutes

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International Fight Week is upon us. The biggest week of the year for MMA goes down this week as the UFC brings its Hall of Fame ceremony and a monster pay-per-view to Las Vegas. Featuring two titles fights, UFC 317 is the hallmark event of the summer and No Bets Barred is here to break it all down. This week, host Jed Meshew is joined by the Action Network's Billy Ward to dive into UFC 317. Topics discussed include Ilia Topuria's chances to become the 10th two-division champion in UFC history, Charles Oliveira's chance to stop him, the flyweight title fight between Alexandre Pantoja and Kai Kara-France, Joshua Van's big step up against Brandon Royval, the various live dogs on the card, the sad end to Billy's climb and the continuation of Jed's, and more. Tune in for episode 131 of No Bets Barred. Follow Jed Meshew: ⁠⁠@JedKMeshew⁠⁠ Follow Billy Ward: ⁠⁠@PsychoWard586⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Subscribe to MMA Fighting⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Check out our full video catalog⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Like MMA Fighting on Facebook⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Follow on Twitter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Read More: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠http://www.mmafighting.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:43.7	You're listening to the vox media podcast network what is up y'all we are back with another edition of No Betts Bard.
1:46.3	My name is Jed Mishu. I am your host. And it's a good week, ladies and gentlemen, because
1:51.8	UFC 317 is upon us. But before we get that, we've got a little bit of discussion to get to
1:59.6	because this week's guest is a man after
2:02.6	my own heart a fellow climber and last week ladies and gentlemen he took a fall i'm speaking of course
2:08.8	about our friend billy ward from the action network and billy first thanks for coming on to talk
2:16.5	through all of this terrible sadness.
2:19.3	But second, how are we doing after UFC Baku?
2:23.6	Yeah, it's tough.
2:24.7	I feel like I sacrificed the climb for one of my best weeks gambling in a long time.
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