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Oh, better late than never. Let's put it that way. Sorry for the delay, but we are here Monday UFC 272 post fight to talk about some Ramirez

Pedraza, some Chocolatito, a whole lot to do. Hello, everyone. This is morning combat. And I am merely one half of your hosting duo. My name is

Luke Thomas. I join you from the capital of the status right here in Washington, DC joined by the vice Roy slash prince of CT Connecticut. My friend in yours. Big beige. Brian Campbell. Hi, Brian Campbell.

Luke, I've just been told through my earpiece by our bosses that they will be capturing that before the start of the live stream meltdown that you had on our staff and selling it as an exclusive MK NFT loop. Okay.

So somebody out there can own can be the sole owner of that. Wow, Luke. Wow.

Well, I mean, you're sitting there playing, you know, armpit farting noises while my devices don't work and I can't connect. And I can't even talk to the guy who can help me connect because BC's like.

Yeah, looks like you know, the adults are trying to speak. Yes. Okay.

I got a little frustrated. I am sorry about that. But I was trying to get to the show on time. But here we are BC. I'm happy to be here. UFC 272 will lead the show today.

But as I mentioned, we got a lot to get to plus your questions on DMs or docs. We're going to see BC's have you seen this shit. We have a lot to do. So thumbs up on the video if you're watching on YouTube, please hit subscribe for our new subscribers. Welcome.

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Drink them up. Have a great time. I believe we even have, you know, a little little art to look at here to wet the pellets. It's easier to tickle around the North Rim, if you will, Luke.

Okay. We have that. I think we have that. Let's see that if we have that. I know that I was I was promised we had that. Anyway, morning combat dot store. Go check it out. We got new stuff. And it's fantastic. Yeah.

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And yeah, BC, I think that's it. You ready to get the show started. Yeah, let's, let's, let's give them, you know, everything we got left, Luke. Okay. Let's just empty it.

Let's empty the tank. All right. Topic number one here. And again, last apologies for the delay. Here we go. Topic number one. BC, I did the post fight show. So I can't wait to hear what you have to say. Colby, Covington basically dominates Jorge Maz, but I'll en route to unanimous decision. I think at a 5045, a 5044 and a 4946, but that basically tells the story of the fight. BC, overall impressions of the fight. And then specifically, what did you learn about Colby, Covington in this contest?

Yeah, look, you know, in the end, it played out how we all thought was certainly the most likely outcome. It's why the betting odds were, were that way with a three to one favorite for Covington, who had the freshness advantage. And certainly, most importantly, that stylistic advantage.

It was right in some of our ways we predicted and look at it coming in in terms of what version of Maz Vidal, it would be.

But it went to script for the most part. And what I learned is that Colby, Covington is still very much at age 34 of the true elite of this game, right in that same category, in my opinion, with the max hallways, Robert Whitaker's Dustin Porier's right now, who are some of the best UFC fighters who are not champions at the moment.

Right on the edge of the top 10 pound for pound, makes smart adjustments showed his toughness in that little hiccup in round four, which is, you know, probably going to be more of a conversation on what Maz Vidal didn't do.

After that moment, but I'm still seeing a very complete fighter, Luke, and whether you love him or you hate him, but it's set up for you to hate him to be fair, that pivot, which he laid the groundwork during fight week of the, you know, I hate Dustin Porier, too, guys, don't forget that that instant pivot afterwards shows he understands, Luke, where he's truly at, he's not going to get a third shot at loose mind anytime soon.

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