UFC 281 Recap: Pereira Stuns Adesanya, Weili Submits Esparza, Poirier Wins | Ep 374
Morning Kombat
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4.7 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 14 November 2022
⏱️ 122 minutes
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Summary
On Episode 374 of Morning Kombat Luke and Brian are joined by Aaron Bronsteter to recap a wild UFC 281 event. Alex Pereira stunned Israel Adesanya in round 5 with a TKO win after being down big on the cards. What can be said about Adesanya’s run as middleweight champion? Zhang Weili submitted Carla Esparza in round 2 to become the strawweight champion yet again. Is she destined to hold the belt for a long time? Dustin Poirier submitted Michael Chandler in the third. What did he prove with this win? Plus, Frankie Edgar's career came to an end.
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| 0:00.0 | This is our life. This is our passion. That's the spirit we bring to this show. I'm |
| 0:15.0 | Look Thomas. I'm Brian Campbell. This is Morning Combat. |
| 0:21.0 | Hey, it's the 14th of November. We're tired of shit. Hi, everyone. It's Morning Combat. |
| 0:29.0 | Monday edition post UFC 281 edition. My name is Luke Thomas. I am merely one half of your hosting duo. |
| 0:38.0 | I join you from the capital of the status of needles right here in Washington DC. |
| 0:42.0 | Join by my editorial life mate. He's that BC with that CTE. |
| 0:49.0 | I sound like I'm dying of fucking lung cancer. I'm just I'm just awful. Hi, Brian Campbell. How are you? |
| 0:56.0 | I'm you know, I'm wounded. Luke, but you know, they've called me a red light guy before and no, |
| 1:03.0 | that has nothing to do with Amsterdam. You know, you may, you know, you may fall apart on this show. |
| 1:10.0 | Look, but I'll get you across that finish line. Okay. You can call me Sully Sullenberger. |
| 1:17.0 | Going to drive the plane into some geese. Huh? |
| 1:22.0 | No, look, what a weekend. What a week. What an event. UFC 281 couldn't be more fired up to break it down. |
| 1:28.0 | We've got a very special guest. Just seconds away, Luke. And really if you arguably the best Canadian journalist of all time, |
| 1:35.0 | but Luke Thomas jokes ad reads aside. |
| 1:39.0 | RIP to one of the great ones. And this is obviously a shock or Anthony Rumble Johnson 38 years old. |
| 1:45.0 | We'll have more later in the show on his, you know, life and legacy. |
| 1:49.0 | But some sad news coming off a wild card in New York City. Yeah, there was a lot of good news from the event itself. |
| 1:55.0 | It was one of the best events we'd seen in some time. UFC 281 totally delivered BC had talked all week about that MSG magic. |
| 2:02.0 | And you got to see it. There was good evidence of it. But then of course yesterday, some somber news that basically Anthony Rumble Johnson had passed away. |
| 2:10.0 | We'll talk about that in a minute. Just very quickly thumbs up. If you're watching on YouTube, please hit subscribe. |
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