We Got Next | Ricky Simon Explains Sean O'Malley Callout, Responds To Michael Bisping

MMA Fighting

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🗓️ 30 December 2021

⏱️ 24 minutes

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This week on We Got Next, Ricky Simon to recap his KO victory over Raphael Assuncao at UFC Vegas 45, having Ed Herman call him a “veteran” in the gym recently, if he felt weight lifted off of his shoulders after the finish with memories of his loss to Urijah Faber in the back of people’s minds, his awkward exchange with Michael Bisping and the former middleweight champion’s claims that Simon tried to make him look silly, why he changed course and called out O’Malley, his response to O'Malley being ranked higher than him, the likelihood of that fight happening, his thoughts on the future rematch for the bantamweight title between Aljamain Sterling and Petr Yan, and more. Follow Mike Heck: @MikeHeck_JR Subscribe: http://goo.gl/dYpsgH Check out our full video catalog: http://goo.gl/u8VvLi Visit our playlists: http://goo.gl/eFhsvM Like MMAF on Facebook: http://goo.gl/uhdg7Z Follow on Twitter: http://goo.gl/nOATUI Read More: http://www.mmafighting.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:24.2	Welcome to a brand new edition of We Got Next here on MMAFighting.com. I am Mike Hack. We are back.
1:30.2	We took a week off last week. I took a few days off after covering the Jake Paul
1:36.2	versus Tyron Woodley fight in Tampa. What a scene. And I've said this a few times.
1:41.2	I felt like I was 487 years old. Being out there covering that events because I just don't...
1:48.2	When I was growing up 80s, 90s, even like in the 2000s.
1:53.2	The word celebrity wasn't a very loose term. Like you were either famous or you weren't
1:58.2	famous. And it was pretty easy to spot who the famous people were. And if you saw famous people
2:02.2	and you saw people lining up to take pictures with these famous people, you thought,
2:06.2	I know who this person is. But in this day and age covering an event like that and seeing all
2:12.2	the people that were headlines to take selfies with, I didn't recognize any of them.
2:17.2	Let me recognize like one out of 50 or 60. It was just a wild scene.
2:22.2	For the first time in my combat sports journalism career, that was the first time I was like,
2:28.2	man, am I too old to cover this sport? And then I realized this is just kind of a freak show
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