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. Wow. A little bit artsy on this Friday. And you know, when Luke's away, your boy BC, you better believe it is going to play. Welcome into the award winning Morning Combat Friday, August 19, 2000 and 22. I'm your hostess with the most. I think the beige guy Brian Campbell coming at you. No loop Thomas table.

Before before you click off, right? I want you to know that it is Friday. It is artsy. You know your boy BC is going to bring it going solo today, not just not just because I love the sound of my own voice, but because I got a hard out. We're going to give you a 90 powerful minutes today. Then I'm heading on a jet plane South Florida Saturday night Showtime Championship Boxing your boy BC calling that prelim card 6 p.m. Eastern Showtime Sports is YouTube channel along with Keith.

One time, Thurman, it's going to be a party. You're going to want to hang out ahead of Saturday night, 8 p.m. Eastern, the quadruple header, headlining Showtime, of course, extreme Showtime right now for free. Going to Showtime.com 30 days free, pound the sand. If you need it, the end, but I guarantee you'll like what you see loaded, absolutely loaded combat sports. I want to say weekend, but it's really Saturday. I mean, guys, this Saturday is so friggin loaded that there were fight cards. I didn't even realizing and took

a couple of days ago, like PFL 9, like top ring on ESPN's manual Navarrete Boxing card. Of course, we got, I mean, we got a UFC pay-per-view. We got Showtime Boxing. We got Usik Joshua 2, BKFC and London. I mean, what a time. Considering how light the schedule is next week, you do wonder if some of these promoters or networked execs could have spread it out a little bit more, but it's going to be wild and I will set the stage today right now. Also going to close today's episode with a little Q&A, a little

DMs from dogs with your boy BC, whatever you responded to on Instagram, whatever is your flavor. I'll of course savor that and respond to you. But, you know, I've touched based with Luke. He's on vacation. He's not rounding out the last few days, having a great time. Maybe a little bit too much MK vacations from both of us of late, but you know, we got to keep the the home life balance going as well. So thanks for standing with us, supporting the likes of Chuck Mendenhall, Aaron Braun, Steader, Ray F. Bartholomew, Rashad Evans,

Daniel Mejury. We're going to see some of his clips today, a fantastic MK team that supports us, that gets us, gets us by, gets us to the next level. And if you haven't checked out our bonus content, one final plug, youtube.com slash morning combat. We got a preview, pre game preview like men do with Chuck. We got great interviews. We got rewatches galore ahead of this weekend. Usman Edwards won Joshua, Usik won. Check all that stuff out. Like us, follow us. Tell your friends about us. I remember those STDs. You saw willingly spread

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Braun Stetter for best MMA journalist is that if that's your flavor, spread the love, spread it across. Spread it wide. Is that the verbatim? Okay. Got that right there. Um, thanks guys. It's been a, it's been a, you know, heck of a run here. The last week. A lot of different partner swapping in and out here. Very, uh, very, uh, very fun. Very good, good times. Great oldies right there. Uh, shout out to our great team Long Island Luke, Gaff Pierre, Mikey Mormons on the ones and twos here behind the scenes, getting us ready.

We're going to have a great show today and, uh, you know, why not bang? Why not, why not just get into this? Why not just start it up? I know you love Luke Thomas, but you're about to get a lot of BC coming at you. Okay. Give it to take the taste test. All right.

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But this showing just the meat. Okay. I'm a little sauce today. I will get a little saucy.

All right. We got a little artsy. You know, BC doesn't just make it easy. He makes it easy. If you're giving the chance to. I, you know, I, I've come out of painting retirement.

I've got the, I've got the latest edition for you here. You know, you can be honest. You can be harsh if you need to. Okay. You know, my wife says it's not as bad as your normal ones. It's probably your best one yet. So, you know, what is it saying? That's, you know, it's up to you. It's up to you. All right.

All right. All right. What am I saying? Where about the bang? Here we go. Let's start it at the top. It is among arguably the Lotus weekend. Lotus, Lotus weekends and, uh, combat sports in a while.

And the top of the pops goes down paper view Salt Lake City Saturday night UFC 278. It's been, you know, kind of a weird build this week. You know, you know, a lot of comments from Luke Rock.

Paul, a coast of a lot of characters, a lot of moments, Apollo, or Luke calling out the media right there. We'll get to that in a second, but the main event.

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