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, right. When Luke's away, then cats will sit here and play regardless. We'd back maybe with a bang. It's Morning Combat Wednesday, August 16th,

2023, hump day in the house and UFC 292 on the menu. I'm the beige Bastard Brian Campbell. Your BBC with that BDE right here. The guy next to me,

just a regular in these parts, arguably with respect to more Ronaldo. My favorite Canadian, right? This side of Joni Mitchell. It's the Elvis Costello of MMA. TSN's Aaron Braun Stetter and Abron. You know, I get fired up to do this jam with you, my friend.

Well, if I can turn out the hits in MMA for as long as Elvis Costello has in music, I mean, I'll have stuck around a little bit too long, but I mean, he is still putting out bangers even to this to this date.

And one of the all time great rock pioneer. So I appreciate it. Like Elvis, your aim is true, Aaron, in your back. And we got a big show. Like I said, heavy, heavy, heavy on the UFC in Boston,

we're going to have a paper review this weekend. Banemweight Bonanza. We're going to have reactions to you yesterday's Canelo versus Jermel Charlo kickoff press conference to get you fired up for September 30th.

And how about the bring back Aaron of an old school MK segment that you and I birth together called vinyl intercourse?

Well, I can't wait. And I don't know how many vinyl enthusiasts are out there outside of myself. You and Lucas Brennan of Bellator fame, but hopefully enough to stick around and watch that segment.

Are you talking about Lucas Brennan? Is a vinyl guy? What do you want to do? I mean, on the Bellator broadcast, Moro Ronaldo on earth, a nice nugget that Lucas has like over a thousand vinyl records.

So he is now in the short list of my favorite fighters for that one reason.

Well, somebody wake Lucas Brennan up. You and I will be interviewing him for vinyl intercourse moving forward shortly enough, but great show for you today. So many great partners behind the scene show time. The label that pays us. And of course you can get 30 days free right now by going to showtime.com Bells or boxing, Bill Cosby docs. We got them all right there. Yeah. W come on, Bell. We love your brother. Also morning combat dot store. A B. Did they ever, did they ever outfit you in any of this fantastic merch right here? I feel like this is become a recurring joke whenever you ask.

It's like it's like when Jimmy was a Jimmy Fallon or Jimmy Kimmel was saying that. Who is it that he always T. Who is it that he always tease was coming up on the show. It's like that kind of recurring joke. Isn't the Matt Damon gets bought. Yeah. That's right. Matt Damon. No time for Matt Damon today. It's become like a bit at this point. But yeah, please. I know that the Canadian shipping is expensive, but like I have a PO box in the US that you can send it to if you'd like. I can I can lower the costs for the the folks that put together the merch.

So right on like the border on the US side, you you pay for a shipping home. Absolutely. I mean, that's how you save money on shipping in Canada, because otherwise we get, you know, it costs, it costs a bundle. Where is this locator? We allowed to disclose this. I don't want you. It's up to New York. Okay. All right. All right. There you go. There you go. Luke Thomas on vacation as well. I'll be back next week. So we'll set to enjoy that. I'm trying to think if there's any other business shout out to a G1, but no ad reads today. Just the same. You can follow us at the

social channels below GFPR and Long Island Luke on the ones and twos from Malka behind the scenes. Thank you very much. And oh, Hey, Brian, there's too much hatred in this game. How about some congratulations in our space for the Shmo David Schmulenson and Helen Yee tying the knot. They're engaged brother. Congratulations across the board. Well, the knot is not yet tied, but I do agree with your sentiments. Congratulations to Helen and the Shmo. They've been added for a long time in terms of covering MMA and of course as a couple as well.

But they help each other out and continue to put out great content for many years. You know, Helen and I actually the first time I covered the World and May awards. I mean, that's a bit of a segue for you. But I was doing the red carpet and Helen, you was there. And this was probably like seven years ago. And this was a pretty Shmo. And it was nice to meet Helen there, which he was like really an aspiring journalist coming up, working really hard, doing stuff on her own.

We weren't actually happened to have the same camera, so we were kind of like exchanging tips that day. So it's nice to see two, two people who have been in the game for a long time get, you know, make it official outside of the parameters of MMA journalism.

Where do you think they currently rank in the MMA power couples pound for pound rankings ahead of Cheyenne and Roman or like above, like what probably below mandy and Nina, right? But they'll fit in there somewhere nice.

I'm trying to think in terms of like media power rankings. Are they the only ones? Like do we have any other couples that cover MMA?

Sure. I mean, Ryan, unfortunately got divorced and herself and Wade are no longer together. And that was like the original kind of media MMA power couple. But I'm not sure who else there is.

Luke, Luke, they're oh, Esther Lynn and E. KC lighting. Oh, that's too. Yeah. I mean, KC. I mean, so I don't know if they're quite dare. Yeah. I mean, that's a tough one to beat in a couple's power rankings.

And despite Luke's, you know, inching in this area, being bread, Okamoto, we don't consummate. We're just good friends that have been through the wars together. Okay.

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