This is our live. 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.

Smokum if you got him, Johnny. Morning combat is back. Hello, everyone. It is the 11th of April, 2022, and it is time for your official kickoff to the new fight week, the wrap up of the old fight week, all things new and old and speaking of all things new and old.

No, Brian Campbell didn't lose 100 pounds or get normal colored hair or grow a wonderful mustache. This is my, well, I won't say new co-host, but certainly co-host for today. Brian Campbell, of course, is on vacation. Fresh off of his trip to UFC 273. It is my friend in yours. Mr. 305 himself, Danny, Sugara. Hi, Danny. How are you and welcome to the show? My good, good friend.

I'm doing well. I'm refreshed, finally, rested up from the UFC 273 fight week, hectic, hectic stuff. And here we are to talk about it because a lot went on, not only in MMA, but also the world of boxing. So thank you for having me, Luke. I'm excited to be here and let's get rolling.

All right, rate Jacksonville in turn, I'm going to give you the Florida power rankings. I'm going to say you're going to put Miami one, so whatever. Tampa, I'll throw Jacksonville in there and then I'll throw in, you know, actually, no, those are what the three NFL teams have are from, right?

Rank those teams for me. Miami, Tampa, Jacksonville. I mean, I like Tampa. Tampa's not too bad. I mean, Jacksonville isn't bad either, but not my company. Yeah, it's not like a little bit more of the more of the city life, a little bit more, more movement going on. Yeah.

No, just real quick, the downtown, like you're in Miami, like downtown is just buzzing all the time, all the time, cars everywhere, you know, Miami track traffic is infamous. In Jacksonville, the weirdest thing is the downtown is not hectic at all at night. It's not so you think, oh, maybe it's just offices, but during the day, you don't see many cars or many people either.

So Danny and I were talking about this previously and I've traveled to the Midwest, like I've been to Des Moines, Iowa. And of course, Des Moines, Iowa is not exactly Jacksonville, Florida. It's much, it's much different in a lot of different ways. But the point I was trying to make was, you go through a lot of these sort of like middle America, you know, downtown cities that are still important cities like Des Moines, Iowa is obviously for election season is incredibly important.

They're empty. They're completely empty. So you're no you in like a top top top 10 top seven, certainly top five market if downtown is always what's the downtown part of what is it? Ocean Drive? Is that the big, the big street in Miami?

Well, that's more like touristy, but like the downtown would be like, you know, Brickle and just over town in that area, which actually Habib's studios for you go to CR and over town. They're like prime Miami spot.

Okay, that's actually surprising to hear, but very cool, just the same. All right, we have a lot to get to today. UFC 273 is in the books. Danny was there. We'll talk about his experience as well. Plus Danny indicated there was Ryan Garcia, who was back. There was Lubin Fundora over the weekend. And of course, triple G had a very impressive showing all bit with a little bit of trouble along the way. So we're going to get to all of that thumbs up. If you are watching on YouTube, please hit subscribe if you would be so kind. And of course, this is going to be a huge, huge week.

For showtime. Why Friday, Bellator 277, the finals of the light heavyweight Grand Prix between Vadim Nemkov and Corey Anderson, a sensational fight. Winner has a rightful claim as the number one light heavyweight in the world. I do believe that. And then certainly you have the rematch between AJ McKee and Patricia Pitbull, both of those fights Friday night on Bellator, and then on Showtime regular. And then of course Showtime Pay Per View on Saturday, the fight. I have been very much looking forward to Spence versus Ugas.

So if you don't have Showtime, don't know what you're waiting for. Showtime.com, get a 30 day free trial. If you like it, you can keep it. If not, go somewhere else. So if you don't have it yet, you can watch Bellator 277 Gratis. That's up to you. Also, we have a store morning combat dot store.

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And oh, you know what, Danny, how could I forget that both you and I, it should be noted, are Nord VPN customers.

Yeah, both of us use it. Danny, I'll just ask you, why did you have a Nord VPN on your computer or the top?

Yeah, internation as well as you can use it here in the States is great. I love it. I used it all the time when I was covering the jade fight.

We fought Jeremy Stevens in Mexico. That's when actually I got it. That was like what like 2019 and I was using it all the time.

VPNs are great. I love them. So I'm a customer of Nord and I'll continue to be great service.

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