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Oh, yeah. All frickin. Yeah. All right. It's MK. It's hump day. Nearly every day in these parts Wednesday, August 30th,

2023. And you're looking at the damn near, I don't know, best in show, best in class, the award-winning combat sports symposium showtime CBS sports. Yeah, we call morning combat in these parts. Brian Campbell, the beige guy, BBC with the BDE, the American alpha.

That's your service. The guy next to me. Oh, just a fantastic bee's nest of salt and pepper, honey and spice. Yes. Yes. It's Luke Thomas from Washington, DC. Luke, we got this great show for the fans today.

Um, no need to get too, yep, on the phone, but somebody's gonna bang. Yeah, someone's gonna bang, but let's tell the audience what happened here. So yesterday for folks who don't know, actually on Monday, after Monday show,

BC took a plane to LA because he had to host the, so there's actually a press conference for just the undercard for the canelo charlophile, which of course will be September 30th, but the undercard, if you guys haven't seen it yet, don't take my word for it.

Listen to what other people in boxing are saying. It's great. So they had a special event for that BC hosted it, then took a red eye home from Tuesday to now this morning, slept for an hour.

Like BC, are you sure you want to host because we're trying to mix things up BC BC is now going to be hosting Wednesdays. I might be hosting on Fridays and he was like boys and girls when it's time to bang when that red light comes on.

It don't matter if I got an hour of sleep BC is ready to rock. It doesn't matter. That's what I do. Luke, I deliver. Okay. If you're coming on, then you know what to do already.

We've got a great show, the return of fan submissions, you can follow us on the social channels below. And of course, your regular look ahead, UFC Paris on the horizon, some big news, some big investments, incorporate partnerships in the MMA space to get to and so much more big names from John Jones to a few others that are probably pretty big too.

Thank you very much for joining us today. We do get nominated for awards. So why don't we throw to the graphic here. The world MMA awards is trying to make us are giving us the chance at the very least to become a three time defending best MMA programming champion.

L. T. We're up against Ariel. We're up against Dana White. We're up against Annick from Florian embedded, you know, all those corporate entities, those evil empires, but we are the little engine that could a few times indeed, because we have crazy aggressive P1 fans who are willing to create 176 email addresses, but we appreciate you. We thank you.

If you believe it us, continue to look, did you see people that took advantage of that early line when we were like plus 950 to win and we were like, yo, that's wrong. Okay, we're probably, you know, we had a good chance here. And now it's what minus we're like minus 250 favorites.

Yeah, now we're favorites to win minus 200 starting at plus 900. I'm told that like they got wind of the fact that whoever laid the odds just, you know, typical career for LT typical career for BC just fucking slept on just completely fucking slept on.

So if you, if you got in girly, chances are you might make some cash. Good for you. I hope you do.

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All right, topic number one, let's get right off the top with a bang to we, yeah, we're going back to Paris. It's UFC Paris this Saturday afternoon mixed martial arts. If you're an East Coaster like myself. And of course, a heavyweight till with hometown boys serial gone looking to bounce back from the one sided vacant title lost to John Jones to losses.

In fact, in his past three fights, the rising 28 year old Sergei Spivak in front of him. But Luke Thomas, this is the second trip back to Paris for the UFC correct me if I'm wrong.

Where we get into the specifics of this matchup. Let's talk about this expansion in general to what extent do we feel like France has become a hot market in recent years.

Fueled, of course, by the sport being banned, then Bellator was the first to put their flag back down show up. You have seized many times. There's the potential of serial gone can get back on the horse.

That there can be a French champion, along with Manon Ferro with a big chance this Saturday. Where are we in the status of French MMA in your mind.

Again, we're speaking from afar. It's a little bit hard to know now that we're not there. But it still seems to me a market that is a bit more of a market of the future than it is the present. Now that sounds kind of odd because one of the reasons why you would want to go to France is not just that it's one of the top three economies in terms of size in Europe.

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