This is our life. This is our passion. That's the spirit we bring to this show. I'm Luke Thomas. I'm Brian Campbell. This is Morning Combat.

Oh, yeah, without peer in the industry, often imitated, but you best believe never duplicated. This is Morning Combat Friday, August 6, 2000 and 21, the cure for the common fight talk show. My name is Brian Campbell. The BBC with that BDE Showtime CBS Sports, the labels that pay me and you know my co-host.

He's 42 years old. He's freshly cut from the barber shop. He's a great guy. All right. I'm a little hard on the edges, right? You know, it's got a horrible diet. I mean, you know, we can run down a lot of, you know, issues with the guy, but what a great fight analyst. It is the one and only Luke Thomas. Luke, how are you on this weekend?

I am doing well. And you're right. Often imitated, but never duplicated. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, fuck your favorite show. All right. You know what I'm saying? Even if it's this one, please, please do that. Actually, wow. That's right. All right. Luke, let's start right here. Happy birthday yesterday, my friend. Okay. 42. You still gifted us with a live chat because, you know, YouTube.com slash Morning Combat is every day, all day, all that.

And then some tall pale and handsome. You were still there. You had your daughter in your lap. I mean, what, what an event. I'm so glad you made it around the world another year, Luke.

It's another chance for us to collect checks a whole another year. Thank you. It was fun. I had a good day and I'm ready for the show today.

Did you indeed throw axes as your Instagram pick? I did. I didn't want to an axe throwing place here, not too far from my house. And it's fun. It's a little like the world.

It's a little like the problem is, you know, you rent it for the hour. It takes you, at least for me, I couldn't quite get the distance right for how far I needed to go.

By the time the hour was up, I had finally gotten it. And then it was like, oh, we're done. And I'm like, because I didn't rent it for another hour.

So unlike most people, Luke, who grab drinks and just throw shit and have fun, you spent the whole hour scientifically trying to master it and then you ran out of time.

Sounds a lot like your career before you met me, Luke, but I was happy to see that you got out there. Normally you have an axe to grind with the industry, but now you are on top of it. And speaking of that, Luke, the podcast award season voting is upon us.

That other award we told you about where that's over. But how about the world MMA awards? Your favorite show morning combat is up there for best MMA programming. So look, you know, Luke said at a million times, he's not going to be moved too much either way.

But I care about it. And I believe we can win this. So if you do too, head over to world MMA awards.com slash nominees, make your pick for best show embedded. I think we're up against Joe Rogan, a couple of other cats in this space.

We're honored to be in this conversation. Also, as I told you, YouTube.com slash morning combat. Look, we're hitting you over the head multiple times, three live shows per week.

So many great bonuses, Luke's live chat on Thursdays. And we got some fresh interviews for you to check out. You'll see heavyweight Sarah gone. I sat down with I just recently chatted with Errol Spence Jr.

The unbeaten unified welterweight champion who of course takes on Mandy Pacquiao August 21st and Luke, unless, unless the shit falls apart today, right after MK ends, I'll also be chatting with the great Mandy Pacquiao himself. So a lot of good stuff on our channels coming your way.

If you want our good stuff also on your body, right? Yeah, look at this shit right here. Wow. Morning combat dot store is the best place to buy our gear.

Then take a picture of yourself wearing that gear and then send that image, of course, to morning combat at gmail.com for every Wednesday for fan subs today, of course, is dead wrong.

We love our family here. They're weird, right? People giving the sausages some guy putting tats on his body, but we love them all. So shout out to all our great peeps, Luke.

It's good stuff. Anything else Luke, I should sell or can we set the weekend? Let's do it, buddy. All right. If I forgot anything producers, I apologize, but let's get into it.

We're going to set the stage for the weekend to come. And it's a fun one for fights. Okay, and it all goes down Saturday night. The big one UFC 265 is the name of the paper.

You Houston, Texas, the backdrop and the interim light heavyweight, excuse me, the interim heavyweight championship is on the line when hard hitting Houston native Derek Lewis takes on Cyril gone, the Frenchman.

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