UFC Vegas 79 & Bellator 299 Recap | Ferguson-Pimblett | Thompson-Rakhmonov | Morning Kombat Ep 493
Morning Kombat
Black Effect x All The Smoke Productions
4.7 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 25 September 2023
⏱️ 115 minutes
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Summary
On Episode 493 of Morning Kombat Brian Campbell and Luke Thomas break down UFC Vegas 79 and Bellator 299. What did we learn from Rafael Fiziev vs. Mateusz Gamrot? Should Bryce Mitchell fight Brian Ortega next? What did Johnny Eblen prove with his win over Fabian Edwards? Next up the guys break down a bunch of fight announcements including Tony Ferguson vs. Paddy Pimblett, Stephen Thompson vs. Shavkat Rakhmonov, Ian Garry-Vicente Luque and much more. As always we close out Monday's with Dm's from Donks and HYSTS.
(00:09:15) - Mateusz Gamrot vs. Rafael Fiziev
(00:26:10) - Bryce Mitchell vs. Dan Ige
(00:43:16) - Bellator 299 recap
(01:03:10) - Tony Ferguson vs. Paddy Pimblett
(01:14:20) - Fight Announcements
(01:32:00) - Israel Adesanya Arrested
(01:40:00) - HYSTS
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| 0:00.0 | Well, guess what day it is. Guess what day it is. No, it's not a Wednesday. It is Monday, |
| 0:25.5 | the 25th of September, 2023, and it's many things in addition to being, let's say, |
| 0:31.8 | Canelo, Charlotte, Fight Week. It's also your regular Monday morning, morning, |
| 0:36.6 | combat. Hi, everyone. My name is Luke Thomas. I'm really one half of your hosting |
| 0:40.4 | duo. Join by the primate next to me, although he is barely qualifying for that |
| 0:45.0 | designation. He is my friend and yours. It's Brian Campbell. Hi, Brian Campbell. |
| 0:49.3 | How are you? Luke, I'm actually doing friggin fantastic. And you want to know |
| 0:54.4 | why? Yes, tell me because it's Canelo, Charlo, Fight Week. And Luke, this ain't a small |
| 1:00.3 | one. This is a big one. This is a big ass one. And when you and me, you and I, Luke and |
| 1:06.8 | BC get a chance to be on the front lines this week, hosting big events, providing the soundtrack |
| 1:12.4 | to Fight Week and injecting ourselves with the same electricity that everybody in Vegas |
| 1:17.5 | will feel come this Saturday night, Showtime, Pay Per View. It may sound like I'm reading |
| 1:22.0 | an ad, but really, I'm reading the thoughts and emotions of my own heart, Luke. I'm fired |
| 1:26.6 | the hell up. The thoughts and emotions of your heart? Yes. Your heart has thoughts. |
| 1:31.9 | What the heart wants, Luke. Okay. Yeah. But he's right. He's right. So we have a lot |
| 1:36.7 | to get to today. So of course, there was a Bellator event over the weekend. There was |
| 1:39.5 | you. Have see over the weekend. There were a slew of announcements on Friday after |
| 1:44.0 | the show. We're going to get to those as well. But also we are now at the beginning of |
| 1:48.3 | Canelo, Charlo Fight Week. So let's remind everyone BC and I'll be flying out there tomorrow |
| 1:52.6 | night. There's like a Wednesday press conference Friday, way in Saturday. We'll be doing the |
| 1:58.2 | prelims or some big names on that. We'll tell you more as the week gets going. But I want |
| 2:02.0 | to remind everyone right now, youtube.com slash morning combat. The Canelo, Charlo, dissected |
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