Hey, when did Brian Campbell look Persian? I don't know about that, but he figured it out. Hi, everyone. Let's see. It is the twelfth of April, 2023, and it's time for a Wednesday edition.

Of morning combat. My name is Luke Thomas. I'm nearly one half of your hosting duo. I join you from the capital of the status of needles right here in Washington DC joined by why look at this back to back Canadians.

Here on the show today. Can you believe it joining me now? Fill it in for the one Brian Campbell is my friend in yours. It's Shaquille majority. Hi, Shaq. How are you, buddy?

I'm doing great. Clearly I still got some work to do, though, because I saw that Aaron Braun Stetter got his own graphic the other day. Yes. Here I am. Swerve in the folks.

You got no graphics. You ain't shit up in this, bitch. Nice to see you, Shaq. By the way, what part of Canada are you in Vancouver? So, you know, UFC 289 coming to my neck of the woods. Very excited.

Not the main event I dreamed about, but I'll take it. You know, I can't. Faggers can't be chooses when they call this side of the planet like once a year. So yeah, I got also say I hear the strip clubs in Vancouver are legit. Is that true?

No comment. Yeah, they're legit. I know you've been up there. You dirty dog. Of course, Shaq is one of our whoops. Move this out of the way. Shaq is one of our co-workers, our colleagues at CBS Sports. He does great work. We're going to talk about some of that here in today show, but we have a lot to get to today.

So let's see Max Holloway is coming back this weekend. Can you believe that? We'll talk about Max Holloway versus Arnold Allen and the rest of that card. There's a PFL event this weekend as well. We'll talk about that.

And of course, there's a bunch of fight news and notes will react to some of those pieces. Plus we're going to do buy or sell Shaq. We've got five of those to hit as well.

So thumbs up if you're watching on YouTube. Please hit subscribe if you be so kind. Appreciate everyone out there and.

Shaq, are you ready? Shaq, we've done one show together. I think we have not so if we're doing some inside baseball here. I was doing the math. I think you and I are supposed to do it together four times.

And every time something's come up, including, including you asking me like the day I was proposing to my fiance now fiance. So I'm glad we can finally make it happen.

All right. Well, here we are. We're good to go. We'll plug this at the end, but I don't want to just plug it at the end. You do a lot of interviews. You have your own YouTube channel.

Again, folks can find it at the MMA hub of CBS Sports.com Fair enough. Yes, but independent of that. Where else can they find your stuff?

Yeah, as I'm sure you know, because it's blasted on the show every single week. Shaq MMA on YouTube is where you'll find all of my interviews that's Shaq with a K.

It's not great branding. The first 10 things are going to see are probably Shaqilo Neil in a boxing ring. But hey, man, it's the name I was given. I'm doing the best I can.

Twitter at Shaq who is basically where you're going to find the rest of that stuff.

There you go. Good stuff. I want to remind everyone before we get started here, you should get showtime. If you don't have it showtime.com, you can get a 30 day free trial.

If you like it, you can keep it. If not, you can bounce. Of course, we got lots of bill tour and boxing on there, plus everything else. And then also want to remind folks to vote for MK for the sports, excuse me, best combat sports podcast for the sports podcast group.

You can put your phone up to the screen right there. Use the QR code. Or if you're so inclined, if you're listening on the audio platform, go to sports podcast group.com vote for your boys. Give us give us a vote. Shaq, have you voted for us yet?

Have you sent me any MK merch yet?

Oh, I got to tell you the demands for MK merch are absurd. They're so high. And they're I tell you what, you know, we got to get we got to get you that bomber jacket.

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