The 2026 MMA Prediction Show with Ariel Helwani
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🗓️ 9 January 2026
⏱️ 104 minutes
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Summary
Ariel Helwani joins John Pollock for The 2026 MMA Prediction Show.
They revisit Helwani’s predictions from 2025 to see how he fared before making a new list for 2026 in “Likely or Unlikely”.
Plus: The Year in 2025 for Helwani, the Winter Olympics in Italy, the second year of Uncrowned, and all the latest as they officially launch the new year.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the 2026 MMA prediction show with John Pollock and Ariel Halwani. |
| 0:06.1 | The show where we look forward, but first, we must look back. |
| 0:13.7 | Yeah, PC's the new kid on the blog. |
| 0:15.4 | He was unaware that we wore tuxes on the show. |
| 0:18.1 | Now, this is my usual attire. |
| 0:20.1 | I mean, this is a whole tracts. You couldn't even have given us like the tracksuit with the chicken fillets something you |
| 0:24.0 | know well listen i have a confession to make i'm actually more than yours boys a corson |
| 0:28.2 | wow oh my god you're going to be incredible oh oh oh oh my shit wow you know when i before one of your guys reached out to me and asked me about coming on your show, okay? And you know, for the record, you reached out first. I don't know about that. Yes, you did. I asked. I have the DM. I'm not arguing with you. How's he doing? He's doing well. He's doing well. Yeah. Well, maybe there's a bridge to. |
| 0:54.5 | Yeah, maybe we can figure this thing out. |
| 0:55.7 | Yeah, we should probably all get back together. The one and only Tony Cohen. Wow. Thank you for having me. It's a great pleasure. It's a great pleasure to you. Please. Thanks for having me. I've never seen a manager do more media than him. My God. So my point is, if you're going to do that much media, expect people to talk about you. |
| 1:11.7 | If you don't want people to talk about you, don't do the media. |
| 1:14.2 | Can you guys just... my God. So my point is, if you're going to do that much media, expect people to talk about you. |
| 1:11.7 | If you don't want people to talk about you, don't do the media. Can you guys just stop talking about each other? I can't promise that. I don't go there. Like, like, some people would say, like, say that, you know, Camaro's hairline is, is afraid of his forehead. I don't say that stuff. I don't go there. We would all love, you know, as the mafia, |
| 1:29.9 | is if you could announce |
| 1:31.4 | a pick for the Buffalo Bills |
| 1:33.4 | in the NFL draft. |
| 1:35.2 | Why do you want to make something inherently more |
| 1:37.3 | dangerous? Why? You tell me. No, you tell me. |
| 1:39.7 | Well, you're asking a question that you know the answer to. |
| 1:41.9 | No one gives a fuck. Like, they don't give a |
| 1:43.3 | about anything else. |
| 1:45.0 | I've even got a little cocktail going here. |
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