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. Who's hot? Who's not? Tell me who rock? Who sell out in stores? You better believe it's this damn award-winning Morning Combat podcast. Hell, yeah. We're back at it Monday morning. So much UFC 270 on the brain. I'm your host, Brian Campbell, that BBC with the BDE, the beige bastard indeed. But no, that's not Luke Thomas right there. You're looking at two.

Of the Kings of Connecticut of Connecticut combat royalty. It's basically us to Glover, Vince McMahon, the carcass of Willie Pepp. That's Chuck Mendenhall, the man in the damn at Chuck. Luke is away with some much needed schedule family time we wish him well. But anytime we can. Slide you in to replace one of us. It's an upgrade brother.

I appreciate it, man. I'd like to send you guys on vacation more. I love this. This is the first time I've done the remote so bear with me. But I'm always here as usual. Live from your office there somewhere in Connecticut. Is that a big cock you have on the wall behind you? It's actually two big cocks, cock fighting. So yes, thank you very, very on brand dog. Well, there it is. All right. Quickly chuck just a kind of, you know, look, just check your temperature. The fans may have seen your great addition to our Morning Combat UFC 270.

Preview content in the past week, plus from resume review to pregame preview. But then Saturday, you know, post in Ghana, you're, you're, you know, you're showing up on on team Helwani there on the ringer with with Bill Simmons. So, you know, Chuck, who's congratulations to your checkbook, but who said, Jan, that's what we want to know right now, you know.

Well, I got to go with the checkbook right now, but I love being here, man. This is great. Thank you for having me again. I appreciate it. He's a damn gun for hire.

If you like the great content that we've done with Chuck Mendenhall, there's one more you can keep checking out YouTube.com slash Morning Combat. It is called high court or the dishonorable one himself, Charles J. Mendenhall presided over a Hall of Fame debate regarding Michael Bisming. So check it out.

What's the J4? What was the what? The J4? Yeah.

Judicious. Okay. Judicious. Okay. Got it. Just big jerk. Those were our social handles below. You may be, you know, looking at this fine piece of merch right here, a little call me crazy. One of our famous segments.

You can go to Morning Combat.store right now to pick up much of our merch. In fact, all of it. In fact, today we are rolling out a brand new line of fantastic stuff.

Like the skeleton Luke logo line. That's new. We got some new products right there. We've got some new, you know, the, I mean, Chuck, our logo. It's the fist in the sun. Right.

But I love it. I think the same. I got like a very. Yeah. Yes. I got like a very quick look at some of the line. And I thought it was awesome. And you guys have all kinds of cool shit going on there.

Thank you. Thank you for that compliment, Chuck. In fact, if you guys want it so badly that you're like, you know, I like it. I just want to pay full price.

Well, today is your day. We are offering 10% off right now. And Morning Combat.store for the duration of the show. If you use our code, that's live 10 RJ Donkelhauser, our fantastic merch maven is waiting for your calls or emails right now.

Go on there. Get the 10% off. Outfit yourself in this great stuff. Also our partner, right. The label that pays the showtime has a great deal for you as well. You want showtime. You want 30 days free. Why not? Okay.

399 is the cost go to showtime.com. It's showtime championship boxing, which we'll get to in a little bit. It's Bellator, which is back. I believe this week. Right. Ryan Vader with a bang. We're going to see a heavyweight unification of their own. So don't miss that. Don't miss billions. Don't miss Dexter. Whatever the hell.

Chuck, do you watch anything showtime? It's a great app. It's a great time. I watch quite a bit of showtime. Actually. Yes. I'm a big fan. All right. You're very generic response. It leaves me a lot. But that's fine. I do watch showtime. I do watch it.

But for the shows you're mentioning, maybe not so much. People aren't here necessarily chuck to see us sell shit. They want to hear about in gone. A fantastic flyweight title, Colmane event and a trilogy. A lot of great stuff to get through.

We mentioned our social channels below. Am I forgetting anything else, Chuck? Not that I'm aware of. All right. All right. Great. Great to have you here, Chuck. You know that we call the. Oh, there it is. Chuck, there it is. Sorry.

But we're still in line for other awards. In fact, we're going up against Chuck's friend, Ariel, Hawani, and the MMA hour, as well as a few other great shows, including Chris Jericho sports podcast awards.com is rolling out their best combat sports podcast trophy plaque, whatever we're going to get in.

You can vote for morning combat. Go to that website right now. You got to log in, but you have to put like credit card or sign up for any loans or anything. You can just you can just log in vote for us. You know, see what happens or vote for whatever your favorite show is.

Vote for the ringer if they can make it one year. Yeah, don't look for it. We're probably well. All right. I don't want to waste any more time, Chuck. Wow. Wow. Wow. Saturday night. It went down in Anaheim, California, USC 270, a heavyweight title, unification on paper. We said, you know, could be for the ages.

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