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MMA Fighting

The MMA Hour with Ariel Helwani - Episode 309

MMA Fighting

Vox Media Podcast Network

News, Sports, Sports News

4.51.6K Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2015

⏱️ 260 minutes

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Summary

Ariel Helwani speaks to John Kavanagh, Ido Portal, Anthony Pettis, Khabib Nurmagomedov, Rose Namajunas, Aljamain Sterling, Javier Mendez, Lance Palmer, and Tony Ferguson. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Support for this show comes from Krakan.

0:03.0

Krypto is like the financial system, but different.

0:07.0

It doesn't care where you come from, what you look like, your credit score,

0:11.0

or your outrageous food delivery habits.

0:13.7

crypto is finance for everyone everywhere all the time.

0:18.4

Krakhan, see what crypto can be.

0:21.3

Don't invest unless you're prepared to lose all the money you invest.

0:25.0

This is a high-risk investment and you should not expect to be protected if something goes wrong. It's the mixed martial arts hour with

0:34.8

the mixed martial arts hour with

0:38.8

The mixed martial arts hour back in your life on this Monday, December 14, 2015.

0:50.0

Hello again everyone, I'm Ariel Hawani inside our New York City studio back from Las Vegas

0:56.7

and what a week it was.

1:00.6

From nothing to something to everything.

1:05.0

Is there a better way to describe the journey that Connor McGregor has been on for the last three years, less than three years, two and a half years.

1:15.0

As far as the UFC is concerned, we were first introduced to him in April of 2013.

1:20.0

I think a lot, and I'm not going to say that we discovered him, I'm not going to say that we discovered him I'm not going to say that

1:25.3

We were the first ones to talk about him, but at least for North American fans I think that you were first introduced to him on this very show in February of 2013.

1:36.4

And of course he beat Marcus Bremage in Sweden and we were wondering, all right, that's a nice win.

1:41.0

It was on Facebook, but it was nice. Then he went to Boston, he got the championship walkout, the lights went down, he got his own media day, he beat Max Holloway. And boy does that win look good right about now right and then people were went all right

1:57.0

That's good, but what about this guy? What about that wrestler? What about this striker bused up his knee does an amazing job of remaining in the news.

2:05.0

As he predicted, he brings the UFC back to Ireland.

2:09.0

As he predicted, he finishes Diego Brande down first round, the card sells out in seconds.

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