Happy Friday, everybody. Welcome into the Early Edge, brought to you by BetMGM. This is, of course, the UFC 328 preview. I'm Claudia Volffano, joined by Danny Brasco, Hayden Iverson. So many storylines here. Two titles up for grabs. We're going to get into all the storylines and, of course, the bets. I just want to say hello to you, two fellows, though. Danny, how are we doing on this Friday? Look, maybe my bets were too fire because the FDNY just came to my apartment building and they had to put one out. Perhaps it was because of my plays. But currently I'm watching my bathroom an entire apartment flood.

So I may be a little flumics as I give these plays out, but it just goes to show I'm locked in. It's UFC 328 guys. There's nowhere else I'd rather be. Just so everyone knows right before we came on air, Danny's like, hey guys, by the way, my house is flooding, but I'm doing this show because this card is that good. So, Danny, we love you.

We appreciate you, and I hope your house is okay.

Hayden, how are you doing over there? A lot better than Danny. I guess so. Flooding in my area, so maybe my bets aren't as hot as Danny's, but hopefully we can give out some winners on this show. Oh man and we will get to all the plays.

I want to talk the storylines first though starting with this main event of course middleweight

title up for grads. Shemaya of the undefeated title holder right now up against the former

title holder and Sean Strickland and there is no argument as to what the storyline is here guys

it's the bad blood between these two.

And we can talk about the fabrication in the UFC.

We always try to build up these storylines.

You don't have to do that.

These guys just do not like each other.

They've made that very clear.

Danny, when you look at this fight specifically,

what's the one thing that stands out to you?

Well, we're going to get that extreme Couture beef finally settled because there's two sides of this story.

It's always interesting when guys that have trained against each other match up in the octagon.

And you hear about what the teammates saw, what the coaches saw, and how those exchanges went.

Hamzat says that he ragdolled Sean, that he submitted him multiple times. People in the gym have acknowledged that including a guy that's trained with both these guys and Brendan Allen. And Strickland says that he got the better of Hamzot in sparring sessions. When Sean wanted to pick up the intensity and hard spar, Hamzot would cower to a know, back away. So Strickland's called him a weight

bully saying he picks on easier guys in the gym. Hamzat said, I beat you in the gym. I want to know which side of the story is true. The XC. Beef will be settled. And Strickland is the significant underdog here. Hayden coming off that third round knockout over Hernandez, he's won five of the last What's the storyline you're looking at?

Yeah, I mean, can Strickland do it again?

I mean, we Strickland do it again?

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