UFC 322: New York Takeover + DC & Chael Get a Grip?

Good Guy / Bad Guy

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🗓️ 14 November 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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On this episode of Good Guy / Bad Guy…DC & Chael are taking over the Big Apple ahead of UFC 322! Islam Makhachev has vacated his Lightweight title in hopes of getting the belt currently held by Welterweight Champ Jack Della Maddalena. But is the risk worth the reward? Does he surpass Khabib Nurmagomedov with a win? ESPN tested Islam’s recorded grip strength and it was higher than Light Heavyweight Champ Alex Pereira’s. So, were putting the guys to the test! Can you guess who has the stronger grip? Plus, a Super Fight is upon us when the #1 Women’s Pound-4-Pound takes on the #2. Is Valentina Shevchenko vs Zhang Weili the greatest Women’s fight of all time? Then, this week in MMA history the original Double Champ, Conor McGregor made history at Madison Square Garden becoming the 1st fighter to hold titles in two divisions simultaneously. But have we seen the last of the Champ-Champ era? And, you do NOT want to miss which UFC 322 fighters the guys believe need to spend 2-3 years in Dagestan. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	What's happening, guys?
0:09.0	Welcome to another episode of Good Guy, Bad Guy.
0:12.0	I'm Chale. He's Daniel. Madison Square Guard is straight outside of this wall.
0:16.0	Daniel. Big fight feel, man. You fought at the guard before. You've been to the guard before.
0:20.0	How you feel it's awesome? It's awesome. But I gotta be honest, man. Go fought at the guard before. You've been to the garden before. How you feeling?
0:21.2	It's awesome.
0:21.9	It's awesome.
0:22.4	But I got to be honest, man.
0:23.6	Go.
0:24.0	The city can get the best of you. I mean, you can have a quarter of a mile to go, and it takes an hour. What is that? Like, you know what I kind of wish? And this is the problem with like being in these types of cities.
0:37.7	The cabby will just take your money.
0:39.8	Dude, tell me that is better for me to walk. And this is the problem with like being in these types of cities.
0:54.3	The cabby will just take your money. Dude, tell me that is better for me to walk. Sure. Be a good human being. Yes. Right? Like just tell me it's better if you walk this quarter mile. It's going to take you an hour. Yes. Instead of 10 minutes. There was a FedEx guy outside when I was on my lost journey. And I wanted to shoulder tap him and say,
0:56.9	I will give you a hundred, but you got to walk me.
0:55.2	You got to actually just walk me to this location daniel i
1:00.0	couldn't find it there there's three-tenths of a mile and cereal mess with you by the way yeah for
1:04.5	sure these these the new york city is a different place and there's just so many people but it does
1:10.5	feel big yeah anytime we're here for fights it feels big it's probably colder than it's normally been at this time of the year but it feels right right because you can feel that kind of storm brewing what's gonna be UFC 3 22 this weekend hey there's a vibe in the air I'm starting to cut you bro. But there was so many people coming in on Jack out of nowhere.
1:28.6	This has always been Islam and the odds makers still favor Islam.
1:31.8	I'm just telling you, in my own personal orbit, I'll name drop for you.
1:34.6	Michael Chandler came in, Big Jack.
1:37.0	Audasanya pig Jack by finish, that it won't even be a hard fight.
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