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By partnering crime across the board from DC with love is Luke Thomas. But look, we don't often open the show live in the midst of something.

But round two of the one championship heavyweight unification fight between Anatoli Malikin and Arjan Buller is going on right now down there.

And is it Singapore, Luke? Is that where this is? No, they're in Thailand. Thailand. Excuse me. We are midway through round two. This is happening. Now you can watch this fight live on the one championship YouTube page at the moment.

But Luke, welcome in, dude. We have we got okay bet to get through. We got to set the stage for a busy boxing weekend. And we have big time breaking news over the last 24 hours to react to in both sports.

This should be a hell of a program. It should be. Sorry. I'm trying to watch this. Malikin is doing the same thing he's been doing the whole fight. He's just kind of marching Buller down. Buller not doing a whole lot.

But Malikin at 257 here a second round. Can't quite put him away. But to your point, BC, a lot to get to in the combat sports world, betting, canelo news. Yeah, fun stuff.

Just to recap, Luke, as we continue live through this one championship heavyweight unification about Anatoli Malikin, the interim champ has never been passed midway in round two. He's only been there twice in his unbeaten career all wins by stoppage. So we'll see as we hit the midway point here of round two.

Stamina. He has very paced controlled start from Malikin, not rushing it. But look, he's been touching Buller consistently and cornering him at will in this boxing ring that they're fighting Malikin's one of these guys.

Rizmler bringing this up is he's one of these guys that BC and I both really sort of sit up to watch. He's exciting and heavyweight. I said he I thought he was on the smaller side. He's actually almost as tall. If not, maybe even taller than Buller. I was surprised by that. I guess I underestimated how tall he was. But nevertheless,

a very, very exciting heavyweight outside the UFC. And right now he's in cruise control. He's not like, you know, Buller's still in it. But it's all Malikin through two basically.

Buller returning Luke from two years of inactivity and contract disputes and injuries, but he's back. Did you think he used that two years to shaping up his Falupa enough around the waistline or am I just, you know, am I just talking shit about heavyweights when it doesn't matter what your abs look like at this.

I mean, I think he's probably in decent shape. I don't think it's really the issue. But Malikin just uppercuts to the body in the corner. Why?

Look, why did they decide ultimately? I know this this fight card, this one championship fight card has a lot of Moitai on it.

But what do you think was the decision maker on going ring over cage in this? That one I don't understand. It doesn't.

I guess maybe Jesus Malikin is landing some heavy bombs. Oh, Buller's in trouble. I can't live in the corner against this.

Oh, no, no, no, you can't this guy's yeah, you're right. He may he is he is moving downhill on you. It's beast mode the whole time.

I don't really understand why they did that one. I'm not complaining about it, but it does change the fight. Obviously now you have to like for folks who don't really appreciate it when you have a square ring versus a open cage with your circular over the UFC's octagon shape.

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