No Bets Barred | Will Khamzat Chimaev Finally Win A Title By Beating Dricus Du Plessis at UFC 319?

MMA Fighting

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🗓️ 13 August 2025

⏱️ 63 minutes

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The UFC is back in Chicago! This Saturday, the UFC heads to the Windy City for UFC 319 and one of the most anticipated fights of the year. In the main event, Dricus du Plessis puts his middleweight title on the line against Khamzat Chimaev, 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 all the fights at UFC 319. Topics discussed include du Plessis's chances at upsetting Chimaev and retaining his title, Aaron Pico's UFC debut against Lerone Murphy, Geoff Neal's shot at upsetting Carlos Prates, the weirdness of Michael "Venom" Page vs. Jared Cannonier, the latest update on The Climb, and more. Tune in for episode 135 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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1:07.4	You're listening to the Vox Media Podcast Network.
1:21.4	Music You're listening to the Vox Media Podcast Network. What is up, y'all?
1:22.5	We are back with another edition of No Betts Bard.
1:25.5	I'm your host, Jed Mesh Mashu of Mayfiting.com.
1:28.6	And it's finally here, ladies and gentlemen, the event.
1:32.2	I personally have been waiting many months for many other people, very excited about this one as well,
1:37.9	including my guest this week, a longtime favorite for second chair position.
1:44.1	Action Network's Billy Ward, Billy, UFC 319, Drickus Duton. week a long time favorite for second chair position action networks billy ward billy
1:46.0	uccc 319 drickus duplecci hamzot shemayev how excited are you yeah very excited for that
1:53.3	fight not the greatest card overall but i think they're correctly assuming that we're all excited
1:58.4	enough to see hamsat finally get the title shot that they could kind of kind of ease off a little bit on the rest of the card but that's fine you know we're all excited enough to see Hamz out, finally get the title shot that they could
2:01.0	kind of kind of ease off a little bit on the rest of the card, but that's fine. You know,
2:04.5	we're doing the boxing model a little bit. Very boxing coded. Not a bad fight, though. Look,
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