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What is up, my friends? How is everyone doing? Hope you're out there having a great day, having a great week, crushing it as usual.

It's a wonderful day. The sun is shining. It's a beautiful time and welcome to the MMA fighting ranking show. Let me be the first one to wish you guys a happy, a wonderful November. I hope October just treated you beautifully.

My name is Sean O'Shaude and thank you once again for starting your month here with us. I'm joined by the nicest man in MMA. These are the principal activity.

Alexander Kaylee and AK, we are here again, my man, October is in the books. Perhaps our busiest month so far and rankings in terms of rankings movements as we started doing this in summer. How are you feeling?

Look, I'm not the nicest man in MMA. The nicest man in MMA, I think, just became the USC Light Headweight Champion. I'm still riding that high, Sean. I mean, I don't know the man personally by all accounts, Glover to share one of the nicest, most decent men in this sport of ours, which is not always filled with reputable characters to put it nicely.

But even if you don't know him personally, I think we're all aware of his professional journey and the way he's carried himself in the public eye, and it's just a wonderful story to see when so I'm strong that I'm feeling good. I imagine a lot of people are and I hope that's pushed people to get through there. Their Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, this week, and I'm glad if not, I'm glad we're here, Sean to maybe help them get them the rest of the way to this next weekend's big card.

I love it. The feel good vibes continue, man. I mean, I had said it in my post fight column, but Glover to share it to me is now the number two feel good story. Basically at the last light decade in this sport, but obviously Michael is being always have number one, but Glover to share a number two for me, and it's going to be hard for somebody to take that from him. That was incredible. What we saw on Saturday. But let's dive into it, man. So, so quick preamble before we get started. This is our once a month look at the MMA fighting global rankings. First Wednesday of every month are a little chance to inject some transparency into the process.

Let's talk some stuff out, settle some grievances. You know how it goes. Really just let you inside. Let's know what we're thinking with some of these decisions. And later on in the show, we're going to be joined as always by two of our esteemed fellow ranking panelists this week. We're welcome. I mean, in Damon Martin, once again, and Jen Meshou as well, we're going to be hitting the biggest debates. We had internally as a team over this last ranking cycle. It's going to get a little spicy probably some people's feelings might be getting hurt, but that happens on this show. First day, K though, let's go a couple quick rounds here.

You and I, as we do three rounds, hitting the biggest movers and shakers of October. And let's start here. Incredibly busy month at the top levels of the sport for us. I mean, 23 ranked fighters competing in total over the course of October. So among all of that chaos, OK, I throw it to you. What was the most meaningful or important result of the last month in your eyes?

I mean, I want to say it's the to share a win, but that's only when views sort of in the lens of everything else that haven't laid heavyweight. So it's kind of a tie because they're related to share a, you know, a glove to share a beating Yom Blahovic, become the year's the champion, but also Corey Anderson beating Ryan Bader in the in the Bellator heavyweight, excuse me, Bellator light heavyweight world grand prix semi finals and Vadim Demkov winning as well. But the Anderson one raises a lot of kind of raised a lot of questions, and which are, which are only amplified by this past weekend's results.

Because Corey Anderson, again, maybe the number one guy in Bellator right now, he's not the champion. He's going to face Demkov will find out clover to share is is by if we're going by belts, the number one guy in the UFC.

Corey Anderson is beaten clover to share.

Corey Anderson is beaten Yom Blahovic's he did lose the rematch by first round, but that's that's convincing wins over two of the top two names in the UFC John Jones out of the picture.

And I think it's important to mention that too because light heavyweight has kind of sneakily been this division that I think has gotten better over the last couple of years.

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