[SPEAKER_00]: What is up everyone?
[SPEAKER_00]: Welcome back to another edition of the Xi'in show, Misha, and Xi'in here on Shardag, a das kam, and I am back on my top five fights for the month of July in mixed martial arts.
[SPEAKER_00]: And we're very, very, very good June.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm coming into July.
[SPEAKER_00]: I actually don't think it's the most stacked month in the world.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm in, I'm sorry, in the UFC should I say
[SPEAKER_00]: It's a really stagnant in PFL for me enough, and I've two big PFL fights here, and I've tree UFC fights.
[SPEAKER_00]: Outside of that, like, Octagon have one card, but it's a good card, not their biggest cards, cagewares, not massively of North, and I know it's here, and what I've called no have, have a card and things, but it's
[SPEAKER_00]: Not a massive amount for ever, but what we do have is pretty notable, and I come on here every month and I say, this is the top five fights I'm looking forward to, of the month are these are the top five best fights or these, you know, are the shanshi in five fights of the month, and I've different, this one, it's the five fights of not.
[SPEAKER_00]: So these are the five fights in my opinion, if you're an MMA fan, you need to be watching these this month.
[SPEAKER_00]: And there's only one place to start, I suppose, and that's a kind of a greater versus max Halloween.
[SPEAKER_00]: July 11th.
[SPEAKER_00]: at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada, at UFC 3-2-9.
[SPEAKER_00]: And when I say a fight of North, that's exactly what this is, right?
[SPEAKER_00]: Event of North, main event of North, matchup of North.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is the one, and where do you go from there?
[UNKNOWN]: Look,
[SPEAKER_00]: it's it's a fight that I have maybe two minutes to talk about here you'd probably need two or three hours to talk about and we will obviously be talking about a lot over the next 12 days or whatever it is from from the moments I regard now which is not very long seems to come very quickly across but like
[SPEAKER_00]: This is a return of Colombo Grader, a one-square champion, one of the greatest fighters we've ever seen, the biggest star in the history of the sport, the most famous person in the history of the UFC who broke his leg.
[SPEAKER_00]: and was injured for a couple of years, was ready to come back.
[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe what is that?
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm part of the time, my interview in like two and a half, three years ago was talking about coming back that August never happened and I was coming back in obviously July of 2020-26 and a lot has happened in between then.
[SPEAKER_00]: So
[SPEAKER_00]: That I think could be how, and maybe I'm speaking out of the front here, please let me know in the comment section below, or maybe don't.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's how it would be talked about, I think, in America, and lots of places in Northern, I'm here in Ireland, and the conversation is very, very different.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like, kind of a Gregor Stach in Ireland has plummeters as much as Stach could plummet.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, he's the blackbuster video where everyone wants to say, I'm Ireland.
[SPEAKER_00]: obviously civil suit for which he lost.
[SPEAKER_00]: He appealed as the appeal didn't go through either.
[SPEAKER_00]: He ended up paying compensation and all.
[SPEAKER_00]: And people's opinion of Colonel Gregor has completely and utterly changed.
[SPEAKER_00]: Um, no, so look, there are a lot of people who never liked him, but the people who did like him, no, no, no, like you mean or look, you always have, there are some people who will be a fan forever, and there's, you know, he is taken up.
[SPEAKER_00]: This whole political malar here don't really know much about all of that, but those people are also on his side as well.
[SPEAKER_00]: But the vast majority of normal Irish people have like completely turned against him.
[SPEAKER_00]: Um, and that is something I suppose that we,
[SPEAKER_00]: We never really saw a country behind a person, as much as we were, we were great, and now we've seen bits and pieces, obviously, with Anderson Silver and Brazil and George St. Pierre and Canada, but like, did I ask for a fire and there's also a massive, right?
[SPEAKER_00]: So...
[SPEAKER_00]: That whole dynamic now has very much changed and I started off by saying this is a fight of North, are these are fights of North and the reason this is a fight of North is because it is a fight for me personally that
[SPEAKER_00]: It's going to be very hard to cover.
[SPEAKER_00]: I've been on this, like I wait, let's fight over.
[SPEAKER_00]: I have no problem seeing what needs to be said.
[SPEAKER_00]: I just talked to her there.
[SPEAKER_00]: I've given my opinion many times on my regular over the last few years.
[SPEAKER_00]: And as unusual as it was to see our eyes like my Gregor, it's pretty unusual to see a fall like my Gregor as well.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I'd be
[SPEAKER_00]: fight looks like in that fall like Willy win and it'll be like how do we react now how does the world react how does Ireland react to that we lose and everyone will be like this is just a not a step on the ladder to falling on the door.
[SPEAKER_00]: Um, soldiers, they're like, yeah, I think we have kind of floated into this fight, but what happens during this fight and what happens after will be absolutely massive.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm actually also very interested to see in today's leading up to it, who will get to speak to kind of a Gregor, who will interview kind of a Gregor, who will ask him the really questions.
[SPEAKER_00]: He spoke the area in a couple of, who was a Jimmy Fallon,
[SPEAKER_00]: which is unbelievable to me.
[SPEAKER_00]: Hopefully no questions get asked.
[SPEAKER_00]: When I say hopefully, I don't really have any hope.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't think they probably will get asked, but there'll be a lot of chat around it and afterwards.
[SPEAKER_00]: I forgot to tell him.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's a massive fight for him and he's legacy and where he is in the sport at the moment.
[SPEAKER_00]: In this month, that is definitely the fight of North.
[SPEAKER_00]: Um, it feels odd going from that fight to another fight, but we will, we'll, we'll stay on July 11th and we'll talk about another fight because this is, I'll fight the exact opposite of that.
[SPEAKER_00]: The meaning in this one is all about sport and this has been what's Anthony against Patty Pimdler.
[SPEAKER_00]: Uh, which I believe, uh, if you're going to make a gun, this is the core main event.
[SPEAKER_00]: It is indeed and You know, it's it's a massive fight.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think for for Borka is really because From look for Binoa's Anthony He is one foreigner owner after losing those couple of feces to do some part of you and He's not on my cannot beat that hook or last amount of the after beating Darius and Huffie and Kyle Proplek as well And I kind of vote a warm up fight.
[SPEAKER_00]: I would say and I'll pay the people that's going back after given a good account of himself against the the now champion just in Gachi
[SPEAKER_00]: But it felt like Perry Pimmett's run up until that was catered if you want to say that.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now a lot of people would say that about my Gregor as well back in the day.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't think that was as true as it is for Pimmett.
[SPEAKER_00]: So...
[SPEAKER_00]: This is a real test for Paddy Pimba against the guy who is at the peak of his powers right now.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's Tartier's of Edge, right in his prime, as I said, he's one foreigner or he's beaten Darius and hook or two guys who were, where they ranked in the top seven at the time when he beat him, probably dare dare about.
[SPEAKER_00]: So Paddy Pimba is fighting the top five six seven eight guy in the world in his prime.
[SPEAKER_00]: As Paddy's in his prime as a Latartier one years of Edge,
[SPEAKER_00]: The just-in-gate-chee performance proof, Penny Pembert, is a really, really good fighter.
[SPEAKER_00]: Winds before that proved these good fighters, as well.
[SPEAKER_00]: Destroying a Bobby Green, the way he did, look, Michael Chandler and Tony Ferguson.
[SPEAKER_00]: There are guys that needed to be beat at that stage of their career, and they were good winds.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't take anything away from Penny Pembert at all.
[SPEAKER_00]: But this is a different sort of test for Bimmler, I think.
[SPEAKER_00]: and uh... i think he will prove a novel if he was going to be binocent in the year i actually think the trajectory of people's thoughts on patty hum that like changes vastly because like dimmer talking about him in fights with let's say let's say like the guy who was last week physive i would talk about it maybe fighting
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, why are all people?
[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe Charles Oliveira, or Gamrata, you know, people like that, or whoever else is around their max all the way.
[SPEAKER_00]: If he was the, maybe beat McGregor or McGregor or stay, he was the winner or whatever.
[SPEAKER_00]: And you're, you're probably, you're probably giving him a real chance in those fights where it's not like it's always very hard to look a petty pendant and go, he has a real chance of beating those guys.
[SPEAKER_00]: Even, again, he did well against Getshee.
[SPEAKER_00]: But if he does it against Santini, I think I think that matters his changes.
[SPEAKER_00]: So for me,
[SPEAKER_00]: A point of view of sports, from a, from a, like physiotherapy game, like I was arguing coming into it, like he has lasted top guys in the world, Willie loose who goes just beyond them, who is fighting at the weekend in Tarras, are really proved that he's like the number of a guy in the world and he really proved that he may be proved that he needs to go up a bit again and try it out again.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's a real proven fight.
[SPEAKER_00]: And this is another one.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I think especially for Paddy member look Santa New with the guys I said he's beaten he has kind of proven it.
[SPEAKER_00]: But you know, will Paddy be under he's proved he's not will he prove he's number seven.
[SPEAKER_00]: And Santa New is age nine ten or whatever might be are will Santa New prove he's seven six five and Paddy be able to be like, well, maybe does those wins against the old guys,
[SPEAKER_00]: Um, while I'm on the USC, I've finished USC fights, and then I get to the PFL fights.
[SPEAKER_00]: So the, the tart fight I'm on for is July 18th, and it's Usman, come out Usman against, um, uh, against Drickest duplacy, and what is this a fight of North?
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, this is two former champions, um,
[SPEAKER_00]: It's again, it's a headliner, it's on in an Oklahoma city, and the pay comes in there.
[SPEAKER_00]: And it's that middleware, and Camaro's when, obviously, has been a guy who's kind of gone back and forth between well-to-head and middleware.
[SPEAKER_00]: A lot of people asked to drag him buckly win, which was at well-to-head if I'm not mistaken.
[SPEAKER_00]: We're talking about him getting a title character, saying, kind of, that's the money fight, that's the fight that's going to happen.
[SPEAKER_00]: And the fact that that didn't happen, I wanted an upper-pellum back to middle-earth, because I like Camaro Usman that middle-earth at this stage of his career, I just feel like there's a lot of young guns at 170 that he would might struggle against, but I think at 185, he can actually win fights.
[SPEAKER_00]: and maybe go to a title shot.
[SPEAKER_00]: And if he wins this fight, I think he will probably go to a title shot, even though obviously he doesn't have the run behind him.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, Shimai Fuhi Laster is also now no longer the champions that are isn't that broad-blocking the way and Drick is still perceived.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's a guy who has obviously beaten Sean Strickland, the current chairman, which feels still feels weird to say twice.
[SPEAKER_00]: So
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, no, it's a real fight of north.
[SPEAKER_00]: Again, a fight that really matters at the top of this division.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I'd be
[SPEAKER_00]: Like, I think what Duplasie is, look, we all know it, not to go into a complete breakdown of the X's and all of the fight.
[SPEAKER_00]: But Duplasie is kind of a weird, unartodox, yet highly effective fighter.
[SPEAKER_00]: And Camaro Usman, I think, is the opposite of that in terms of the first part.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think he's a very technical, put together, tactically technical fighter.
[SPEAKER_00]: and the obviously he's gotten a result massively over the years to who will win out in that because duplacy for the most part has beaten every guy he's met like that, you know, he's last obviously solidish McClill and back in the day and and Shumaya as well in a different start to fight with Shumaya just took him down and and sit and up for all five rounds of that.
[SPEAKER_00]: But like
[SPEAKER_00]: You look at Nadesania, you look at a Whittaker, even gone back to Darantil and people like that.
[SPEAKER_00]: You would think these guys are kind of more technical fighters than anybody beat them all.
[SPEAKER_00]: Can he do the same to Usman, like maybe a smaller slightly faster guy who might have a little bit of the wrestling as well?
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm sure he looked at your Mio fight and think I can wrestle this guy to the ground.
[SPEAKER_00]: So let's see, I think it's a very, very interesting fight and we'll see how it goes.
[SPEAKER_00]: So to PFL, and there's a lot of really good fights in PFL.
[SPEAKER_00]: This, this common month, and I'm leaving out a couple like, like Johnny Eblen against Impec Sang and I too, for the interim title, I'm leaving out a great fight between Sergio Perez and Lewis McGrill and Evans, and to call it Ditchievaz back as well against Denis Skeelo as I believe she's fighting, but I talked about Usman there.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I'm going to talk about Usman again for a second, uh, but this time Usman or Mega Meta, who's taking on Archie Colligan, Angelai, Tarty Force, um, this is a superb fight for the Laiowet title.
[SPEAKER_00]: There's a lot of talk about like all Will Usman or Mega Meta of fight out.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's contract and test free agency.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, maybe San BFL and maybe go to DOC or whatever the case might be.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think that's dangerous.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's fighting a guy in Ashkalk and targeting and all.
[SPEAKER_00]: Usman and Mega Man of 21 and all.
[SPEAKER_00]: But Ashkalk and is no joke.
[SPEAKER_00]: I've interviewed him a couple of times.
[SPEAKER_00]: I've covered all of his fights probably, but in depth, he's last three or four fights.
[SPEAKER_00]: And this guy is an absolute beast.
[SPEAKER_00]: This guy is a guy who is one seven decisions, and he's five and one and finishes five finishes, one, sorry, five knockouts, one submission.
[SPEAKER_00]: But he wins every round.
[SPEAKER_00]: He dominates people like he beat Jege Wilson the last time in a fight where he looked better in every aspect than he did before.
[SPEAKER_00]: Um, and I absolutely think he can win this fight against him some under my command.
[SPEAKER_00]: I've been interested about nuts in this obviously we'll be doing the venture all closer to the time, but
[SPEAKER_00]: This is a fight that I actually call it an absolutely can win, especially if it was man as one eye at free agency or one eye in the UFC, whatever it might be, you cannot take actually call it again lightly, like this is a guy who's trained with Camaro's from Trends with Justin Gatchy all the time, one of Justin Gatchy's main trainer partners, like he only fought a few weeks ago for the UFC like that, and look how good he looked in that.
[SPEAKER_00]: This guy is an absolute beast of a fighter, and this is a great fight, this is a top-top
[SPEAKER_00]: The older PFL fight I want to talk about is very similar sort of breakdown.
[SPEAKER_00]: July 25th, Washington, D.C., the man event there as well.
[SPEAKER_00]: Tagging versus Shamil, Mooseyev, Ferti, the Weltoetile, this is phenomenal.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like Mooseyev is 18, 101 versus the 11 and all, Tagging.
[SPEAKER_00]: Mutsai have only lost for your decision to correct Mega Manov in the unification about last time on correct Mega Manov retired, so he's getting immediate title shot.
[SPEAKER_00]: A tagging just had the most phenomenal 2020-25, beaten Burkamov, Jason Jackson, and Logan Storley, like Logan Storley, the wrestler, and obviously Gene, the unbelievable striker.
[SPEAKER_00]: all around fighter can you know can wrestle but hits very very hard it's a lot of knockout as well this is a massive step up for tagging and a massive fight for him like a 27 years of age or world as he is oyster he could be the best fighter pf l have ever had if this goes well for him and if the next couple of fights go well for him
[SPEAKER_00]: This is what PFL need.
[SPEAKER_00]: PFL need these two fights.
[SPEAKER_00]: They needed the chair of the fight.
[SPEAKER_00]: They need the everyone because hangin' I fight to have a massive summer for them.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I actually think that can happen.
[SPEAKER_00]: I have like PFL, I've covered all of this.
[SPEAKER_00]: They've been brilliant.
[SPEAKER_00]: over the last couple of years, and they have these two brilliant fights, plus many more disommers of all, but tagging versus Shimi, I was right up there as, is it the best fight?
[SPEAKER_00]: I go, I go with, uh, when Remaga Menov and Colligan is the best fight in a month, but this might be second, BFL might have to talk to you, but it's a month, can't wait.
[SPEAKER_00]: All right, everyone, that's it for me.
[SPEAKER_00]: Thank you very much for tuning in.
[SPEAKER_00]: My name is Sean Sheen for Shardogg.com and I'll see you all.