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Well, hello there, everybody, and welcome to a brand new episode of We Got Next here on the MMA Fighting Podcast Network.

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I am Mike Kack and man, we have quite a show for all of you this week as we shine the light on the next wave of talent in our great sport of mixed martial arts, the up and comers.

And in some cases, those individuals turning the page to a new chapter in their careers and we have three great guests this week, some incredible honesty, some incredible stories, and I will say this is one that you'll definitely want to listen to from start to finish.

Of course, there's a lot going on. It's a big week in the sport of mixed martial arts. We got UFC 267 coming up on Saturday in Abu Dhabi.

You get two big title fights. We got Yom Belhovich defending his light heavyweight title against glove it to share that is on ESPM plus that is a free event, not free free.

But if you have a subscription, you don't have to buy it on pay review, at least in the United States, other parts of the world, not so lucky.

Of course, the main event, fascinating one, co main event is a good one to for the interim, Bantamway title between Peter, Yom and Corey Sanhaigan, what a tremendous fight that's going to be Jose Young's already out in Abu Dhabi grinding away, he's been there, different part of the world, completely different sleep schedule. He's a he's a mad man, he's a wild man that Jose Young, so make sure you follow all of his tremendous coverage out there in Abu Dhabi.

We got BTL coming up on Thursday, it's going to be a little bit of a different show, Jed Bishu and I are just going to hit record, talk about the big news in the sport, but also before Jed will come on, I am going to draft out the random brackets for the big BTL championship tournament on the show, which starts next Thursday, and for those saying, get back to YouTube, get back to video.

Stay tuned for that, but as far as this show goes, let us run down the lineup because it is a fun one, wrapping us up, we're going to talk to David O'Nama, who made his UFC debut this past Saturday, incredible fight with Mason Jones, he was on the wrong side of a unanimous decision, but he gained a lot of fans after taking this fight on four days notice, he brought it, a tremendous fight, so we'll check in with him at the end of the program, we're also going to talk to.

Temba Gorimbo, he is fighting on Friday, on UFC fight pass, they have a new two year deal with UAE warriors, Temba is going to be fighting Henderson Faheda at UAE Warriors 24, promotions doing events on Thursday and Friday back to back days, this will be on the Friday card.

No official word yet, but it appears that perhaps Dana White will be in attendance for this card, which is great for him, something he's wanted for a while, he's supposed to fight on the contender series in April of last year of memory surgery correctly, and he had visa issues, of course we had a pandemic going on, there's a lot going on with this individual.

And that's just like a piece of the puzzle, this guy's story is truly unbelievable, just a little cliff notes version, I'm going to let him explain it later on.

Both his parents died when he was young, he was an orphan at 13, at the age of 16 he became a blood diamond smuggler in Zimbabwe, so if you see in the movie Blood Diamond,

you kind of understand what this gentleman did to make money, like literally a blood diamond smuggler, just a wild journey this guy has taken, he's been in jail, he's been deported, he's escaped Zimbabwe, he found MMA, and just an incredible story.

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