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POST Interview: Cody Saftic on UFC 239, Hall of Fame, Media Landscape

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🗓️ 4 July 2019

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Cody Saftic returns to the POST Office to chat with John Pollock on all the major stories in Mixed Martial Arts. The two break down the UFC 239 card with Jon Jones vs. Thiago Santos and Amanda Nunes vs. Holly Holm, how Ben Askren will fare against Jorge Masvidal, the 30th UFC fight Diego Sanchez, how important Luke Rockhold’s fight is and what could be in store with a victory, and Gilbert Melendez returns after nearly two years away. Plus, the changing MMA media landscape, a discussion on the UFC Hall of Our Sponsors: * Check out TickPick and use my code No promotion code/URL for a great deal: https://www.tickpick.com/ Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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0:00.0

Welcome back everybody. John Pollack here, live from the post office and look who we have found.

0:05.0

Cody Safick back here. We haven't scared you off yet. Thank you so much, Cody, for joining us.

0:10.0

Always my pleasure to come. I did make a rookie mistake though, John.

0:13.0

I thought I should take an oubre to see John in the office today, but then I decided,

0:17.0

beautiful day, I'm going to walk it out.

0:19.7

And the expression I believe is hotter than Derek Lewis's balls out there.

0:24.0

Because it's a...

0:25.0

I opened my door and I thought Cody just ran a marathon.

0:27.6

Yeah, I felt bad too because I'm like, oh, I'm going to show up and John's going to be like,

0:30.2

why did I invite this guy over?

0:32.1

But yeah, yeah, I yeah it's like 35 degrees or

0:34.0

something I'm always happy when I open my door and there is there's Cody Saffick on the

0:37.0

other end of it always great to chat with you lots to catch up with we're

0:41.9

we'll primarily discuss youFC 239, but as we go back to this past weekend,

0:46.4

I think two real interesting fights in Minneapolis, number one. Joseph Benavides, you know,

0:52.1

not to say he had a flawless performance, but I would say a

0:54.9

pretty dominant win over JuicyA 4miga and I go back and look, it's interesting the

1:01.0

two stories. We look at Francis and Danu and the story kind of coming out of that was well he has done enough now to get back and get another heavyweight title fight and if I'm Joseph Benavides and my last title fight was in 2013 I have a win over the current champion and yet

1:15.1

Cody I don't even feel confident that his next fight will be for a championship.

1:19.5

Yeah Joey two times says it's fate that he's gonna to fight the champion again, but I don't necessarily.

1:23.8

I don't know if fate's been on this dude's side because he might be the most talented guy that is just,

1:28.8

man, came along at a time, had his chances with Demetrius Johnson to be fair, but has anyone had to work harder

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