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MORNING KOMBAT WITH LUKE THOMAS AND BRIAN CAMPBELL

UFC 265, Chad Mendes, Laurel Hubbard | Luke Thomas' Live Chat, ep. 84

MORNING KOMBAT WITH LUKE THOMAS AND BRIAN CAMPBELL

Black Effect x All The Smoke Productions

Sports News, Sports, News

4.81.5K Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2021

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Today on the podcast, we'll discuss UFC 265 and preview the main event between Derrick Lewis and Cyril Gane. We'll also discuss the return of former UFC featherweight Chad Mendes to combat sports at BKFC, transgender athlete Laurel Hubbard competing for New Zealand in the Olympics, Khabib Nurmagomedov's fellow villager beating Kyle Dake in wrestling and much more. Morning Kombat’ is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, Castbox, Google Podcasts, Bullhorn and wherever else you listen to podcasts. For more Combat Sports coverage subscribe here: youtube.com/MorningKombat Follow our hosts on Twitter: @BCampbellCBS, @lthomasnews, @MorningKombat For Morning Kombat gear visit: store.sho.com Follow our hosts on Instagram: @BrianCampbell, @lukethomasnews, @MorningKombat To hear more from the CBS Sports Podcast Network, visit https://www.cbssports.com/podcasts/ To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey, look at it everybody. Hi, my name is Luke Thomas. This is episode I think 84 of my live chat. I am from Showtime. I am from CBS Sports. And I thank you so much for joining me.

0:23.0

Subscribe, like the video, do the whole YouTube bit and without further ado.

0:29.0

Let's get this party started.

0:40.0

All right, there we are. Happy Wednesday to you. Today we'll talk about whatever you want to talk about, but I'm guessing UFC 265.

0:49.0

I think I saw a couple of Laurel Hubbard questions. I've been doing a little bit of research about that. I watched her compete. So I have some thoughts if you're interested, if not, that's okay.

1:01.0

And you should know today is my birthday. Today is my birthday. I am 42 years of age. I will candidly admit that our maybe people do it different ages, but for me, I did a lot more reflecting this birthday than I had in previous ones about the state of my life.

1:18.0

And the reality is the state is pretty good. All things considered things. I didn't even understand my life previously without struggle.

1:34.0

Like to a point where struggle had become my identity. And then when things start to go right, you don't even know who you are anymore. At least I didn't.

1:46.0

I will say that it took a lot longer for things to go right in my life than I had expected. I thought I'd be, I don't know, I guess I thought I'd be at a different place at 42, but I'm not in a bad place.

2:03.0

And I'm grateful for it given how uncertain life is and how difficult it can be and how there's a lot of people who never got a lot of the opportunities that I did and never were able to get into places that they wanted to go.

2:16.0

And so while it's funny that at 42 things are beginning to come together for me in a way that I'm very happy with.

2:26.0

I would have liked it to happen sooner. I will not spend a moment being ungrateful for it. And I will say given just how rare happiness is in this world and given how rare achievement is in this world.

2:38.0

In terms of your own personal goals, even those can be difficult. In fact, those can be the most difficult. I just want to say thanks to everybody. Thanks to everyone who watches this, who watches MK, who watches anything I've ever done.

2:51.0

I just want to tell you I'm grateful. I'm grateful. I used to live frustrated all the time. And now I'm not nearly almost not at all.

3:04.0

The little things I'm frustrated with was how things went for my physical health during the pandemic and even before that. But that's that's nobody's fault with my own. And I'm on the mend and things are getting better each day.

3:17.0

So I'm grateful for my health. I'm grateful for this opportunity to talk to you. I'm grateful for everyone who watches. I'm very, very grateful. So thank you everyone. I really appreciate.

3:30.0

I don't take any one person in the audience for granted. Yeah, thank you guys really sincerely truly, you know, I hate to be like, oh, dreams come true.

3:44.0

I don't know about all that shit, but I've reached a place in my life that I had hoped to reach and could have done it without you guys.

3:57.0

So thank you. Thank you legitimately. Okay. With that out of the way, let's get to some questions that you guys had for me, which I will do right here.

4:13.0

Okay. First things first.

4:22.0

If Colby was to become, let me turn this off. Sorry. There you go. If Colby was to become champion, he states he would want Dustin next. Yeah, nothing tells you Dustin has made it more than that.

4:34.0

How do you see that fight playing out considering they've trained with each other. Colby is not a huge Walter wait, but he is bigger than Dustin.

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