On To the Next One | Matches To Make After UFC 290

MMA Fighting

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Sports, News, Sports News

4.5 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 9 July 2023

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Where does Alexander Volkanovski go following his one-sided main event victory to retain his UFC featherweight championship in the UFC 290 main event? What about the challenger Yair Rodriguez after getting stopped in the third-round by Volkanovski? On an all-new edition of On To the Next One, MMA Fighting's Mike Heck and Alexander K. Lee attempt to answer those questions from a matchmaking perspective, and discuss whether Volkanovski's best potential option is another featherweight title defense against Ilia Topuria, or a lightweight title rematch with Islam Makhachev. Additionally, future matchups are discussed for new flyweight champion Alexandre Pantoja and now former two-time champ Brandon Moreno, Dricus Du Plessis following his shocking finish of Robert Whittaker, along with fellow main card winners Dan Hooker, Bo Nickal, and more. Follow Mike Heck: @MikeHeck_JR Follow Alexander K. Lee: @AlexanderKLee Subscribe: http://goo.gl/dYpsgH Check out our full video catalog: http://goo.gl/u8VvLi Visit our playlists: http://goo.gl/eFhsvM Like MMAF on Facebook: http://goo.gl/uhdg7Z Follow on Twitter: http://goo.gl/nOATUI Read More: http://www.mmafighting.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Vox Media Podcast Network.
0:26.6	I'm muted.
0:28.0	We're live, everybody. Welcome to a brand new edition of on to the next one.
0:32.8	I am Mike Heck. That is my best friend, Alexander Kaylee.
0:36.8	And we are back with the matchmaking crowns on following an incredible UFC 290 event last
0:44.7	night at the T-Mobile arena in Las Vegas.
0:47.6	The car delivered in spades. I look a little dark because of lighting in here.
0:51.5	And I don't even care, baby, because that car was incredible.
0:54.8	My best friend, what a car it was.
0:57.8	You gave a gymnastics scale of 9.0 and normally it's either it hits or it exceeds.
1:07.9	This one had to have exceeded the 9.0, right?
1:10.5	Like for the first time since maybe we've introduced the gymnastics scale, I think we exceeded
1:15.2	9.0.
1:16.2	I think the level of difficulty, I think the UFC, you know, rocket shipped over that 9.0.
1:23.4	Did they not?
1:26.7	You know, it means that the gymnastics score was wrong.
1:29.1	I admit it was wrong because technically you can't, you know, the way gymnastics works,
1:33.2	you can't go over the score.
1:35.3	So this just means, you know, didn't gauge your right, didn't gauge your right.
1:39.0	This was much better than 9.0 on paper.
1:41.1	I probably wrongly clustered it together with some of the mediocre fight cars we've had
1:46.9	recently.
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