[SPEAKER_00]: What's up everyone, welcome back to another edition of D. She and show me Sean.
[SPEAKER_00]: She and here on Shardog.
[SPEAKER_00]: A dot, a calm and today I'm here to preview a PFL's return to Washington, D.C. with another really, really good card and a fight that I think people have been caring to see for a long time, responding maybe even that people have been clamoring to see for a long time with tad gene.
[SPEAKER_00]: fighting for the wealth of battle in the man event against Shamil Musaif.
[SPEAKER_00]: There's a good one on the card on this as well, with a lot of, I suppose the real performers in the PFL over the last few years, you know, in the tournament, but also outside the tournament in order to pass.
[SPEAKER_00]: And we thought we'll talk about that as we get down to the card, but let's start with the man event of tagging versus Shamil Musaif.
[SPEAKER_00]: And this is, you know, I said for a long
[SPEAKER_00]: with the Welterweight Division in PFL that it actually stands up there with what they have in India Sea with these two lives and obviously core mega metaphors, you know, retired now.
[SPEAKER_00]: I will see how retired it is, but with Patrick Haberora on the way up as well and you know, many more people that they've had like umla to have as well who's also on this card in the comment.
[SPEAKER_00]: They have a really, really good, well-to-wear roster, well-to-wear roster, really, really good as well, that can absolutely stack up against the UFC.
[SPEAKER_00]: And that's why, you know, when Jackson and Madalena was champion, I was kind of making the claim like the Jackson and Madalena might be in the top 10 in the world if we're to actually rank well-to-wets.
[SPEAKER_00]: And people kind of laughed me out of the house, but I didn't know.
[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe Top 10 was a bit harsh, 10 Top 5 or 6, I don't know if people are laughing at that now, considering how good some of these guys have gotten.
[SPEAKER_00]: And let's just get straight into Ted G.
[SPEAKER_00]: Um, a guy who in 2025 went to the next stratosphere, I think like people like myself and a lot of people probably listening to this were watching him, uh, before that, you know, he's been in the PFL since 2023 and he put on some unbelievable fights there, like against Ali Omar, knocked him out and the first round, uh, knocked out Roman Babin and it was just a brilliant performance.
[SPEAKER_00]: But gone into the tournament in 2025, there were some really good guys in that tournament, right?
[SPEAKER_00]: And the way he just ran through it was absolutely sensational, like knocked out Hammard Barkhamov in the first round, wanted a decision against Jason Jackson, and asked 9 fights into his career.
[SPEAKER_00]: And we know how good Jason Jackson is.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's another one of those guys that I talked about when I was mentioning like the top 10.
[SPEAKER_00]: At that stage, you know, it'd be hard to say like he's beaten the guy in the UFC's top 10 right now, wasn't he?
[SPEAKER_00]: Or around the top 10 anyway, and any beat Logan's story as well, like, you know, that wrestler test that people always talk about, you know, can you, can you be the wrestler though?
[SPEAKER_00]: If you were like an unbelievable strike or like that jeans, and anyone didn't, and he did it.
[SPEAKER_00]: And even five rounds of them as well.
[SPEAKER_00]: This was just a case of, oh, you got to look at your knockout or he stopped one take down and he couldn't.
[SPEAKER_00]: dude, which he dealt with it for five rounds.
[SPEAKER_00]: So that's how good tagine is.
[SPEAKER_00]: Again, Shemil must have, I think he'll, he'll meet another level.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like, those lads are very good, but he is a real or a level of a fighter, I think.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like,
[SPEAKER_00]: you in five rounds of Kormagman of a last effort and that's the only fight in his career that he's ever lost to the draws while back in KSW in 2021.
[SPEAKER_00]: But like the wins he's had like that more Ramzan of fight in 2024 in the tournament.
[SPEAKER_00]: Just an unbelievable performance.
[SPEAKER_00]: You found toys the second one was a bit of a weird fight because it It was you know, I was when the tournament put mid Rematches that no one wanted to see but it was just a weird.
[SPEAKER_00]: It couldn't have either So that was a bit of weird fight with the first fight.
[SPEAKER_00]: He looks so good in that like he knocked out storling in the second round of fight before that Didn't in 2024
[SPEAKER_00]: at the PFL, the PFL meaner card that was kind of the PFL opera kind of are the clothes or in November even.
[SPEAKER_00]: He beats a knocked out Mega Manu Maladov, who again was on the he undefeated in the 1980s or something at the time.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like this guy is a beast and he can he can really do it all like he's really really good.
[SPEAKER_00]: wrestling, but like you might think he's comes from Dagestan, he's never shaming him Muzaev, he's just gonna wrestle you and take it out.
[SPEAKER_00]: He can absolutely strike as well he's a really really good striker power in his hands.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's 12 knockouts and he's in his what is the 25s now.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's absolutely no joke.
[SPEAKER_00]: He can set a pace like his nicknames the silent assassin and that's a really good nicknames for him because he can just go in there
[SPEAKER_00]: What would you say?
[SPEAKER_00]: The Marab were, are he can malle you like in the maybe like maybe a DDP where with with pace and with striking but he doesn't have to do it that way either he can do it in a more skillful way like this guy has it all he's really really good and you know I think he fights at his best when he is showing a bit of everything where it's tagging on the other side of it I think he's like he's the fighter I really like right at the type fighter I really like because he puts
[SPEAKER_00]: the skill game with the precision game.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like there's some fighters I look at and like Leon Edwards is a great example of a guy who has a precision game.
[SPEAKER_00]: Right?
[SPEAKER_00]: And he wins his arrow.
[SPEAKER_00]: When he got to the championship anyway, maybe he changed it with his.
[SPEAKER_00]: But he won a by precision, right?
[SPEAKER_00]: Every bit of it was like I do the writing here here and here.
[SPEAKER_00]: And not the more skilled guy in the world, but like really precise, really smart, really good in everything, not great in everything.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then there's guys who just kind of fly around and
[SPEAKER_00]: trove everything and you know like christian me or i don't come from that so you can want to do what is from the same camp badly but you know i think you feed a bit more precision he could be really good that jean put those things together he has the world and he draws the big high kicks the spin and kicks the elbows but he can draw a jab and he can get a take down again on top he can stop a take down he doesn't do anything for me that's
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, I hear Luke Thomas and other people I was talking about like the half beat and he gives you a read under half beat.
[SPEAKER_00]: He doesn't do that.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like when he's doing crazy things, he does them at the right time in the right place and like I just think he's something else.
[SPEAKER_00]: I really really do.
[SPEAKER_00]: But how many fighters have we seen like that that go in against the guy like she means I have who's a top top level fighter and he just brings them back down to earth.
[SPEAKER_00]: We've seen it happen a lot of flinty times in MMA, plenty of times.
[SPEAKER_00]: And that could be the case again in the men event here, because, you know, as much as, you know, we always tend to look at the new shiny open common guy and on Saturday night, we'll see tagine and that, but like, sometimes the guy who's just
[SPEAKER_00]: on another level is going to shorter he's on another level and I'm not saying it must I have is on another level to tag in but he's on another level to more people we'll see what are tagging can fight a guy like that and beat a guy like that he's beaten the guys he's beaten guys
[SPEAKER_00]: close to that, very close to that.
[SPEAKER_00]: And you know if I if you're looking for my pick here, I might just lean pedgene, I lean pedgene, I like that.
[SPEAKER_00]: I just, I, I, I, I, he has proven so much.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like this, this is, this is not a case of he, he hasn't shown against a guy like this before in terms of,
[SPEAKER_00]: one skill set around you like that.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's shone against the guy with loads of different skill sets.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's almost gone out and take in this opportunity to show it once more to show he can do it against all of those things in the one in the guy is good as she means was I have.
[SPEAKER_00]: But there's no guarantee he's in that.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like this isn't just the case of I would be fried checked if he loses.
[SPEAKER_00]: No, this is a great fighter fight, not a great fighter, and we'll see on Saturday and I do wins, but I cannot wait for that one to, it's an absolutely fantastic fight altogether.
[SPEAKER_00]: In kind of the center of the character that I'm very excited for is Tyson Pedro against Rafael Xavier.
[SPEAKER_00]: I spoke to Tyson Pedro, where was it like a week or two ago, at this stage now, and
[SPEAKER_00]: Like, he sounded really, really good.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like, he came into the PFL after a long period in the U.S. C.O.V.C.
[SPEAKER_00]: and, you know, that period, I suppose was blighted by injuries.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I kind of asked him about that, you know, and it's, it's very tough.
[SPEAKER_00]: When you are a fighter like that, and you have, I suppose, such a stop start, maybe career, but, you know, he's, he came into the
[SPEAKER_00]: he's opening fight to Yashimordidov in Belfast.
[SPEAKER_00]: When was that?
[SPEAKER_00]: That was April.
[SPEAKER_00]: So it's not that long on the gate.
[SPEAKER_00]: So he's getting turned around very quickly here.
[SPEAKER_00]: I went back and I watched that fight a couple of weeks ago when I talked to him and he could have won that fight.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, I think Big John McArthur actually should have stopped that fight in the in the turret round.
[SPEAKER_00]: And, you know, Yashimordidov's I think the number two rank guy in the world at that way are class.
[SPEAKER_00]: So,
[SPEAKER_00]: That's I think I that maybe tells you where he is right now.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know Raphael Xavier again He's another guy who's far all of the I suppose the top guns around the the PFL and stuff now like our Andy Open come on guys like Russell make a meta of Timmy and Paul and and guys like that and you know He's been an octagon as well fighting really good lads or you know savers as you know good power a lot of wins via knockout
[SPEAKER_00]: that'll be, you know, that'll be bang on for Pedro.
[SPEAKER_00]: He'll have no problem with that.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think Pedro will win that fight.
[SPEAKER_00]: If he looks as good as he did in his last fight, I think he will win that fight.
[SPEAKER_00]: Not maybe not fairly handily, but I think he'll win it at his at his leisure as they tend to say.
[SPEAKER_00]: There's one guy I have to mention as well before I go here.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's fighting Brandon Davis in Kasi and then Bella.
[SPEAKER_00]: One of my favorite fighters in the PFL over the last few years fighting over on PFL Africa In 2020 25 he began the champion didn't he?
[SPEAKER_00]: Winnie B will a good dog or he actually beat How Kanye before that in the fight and I thought you know Symbar Sheikh Hakania was was going to beat him like one this position over him hard fought fight
[SPEAKER_00]: Buddy kick over Boyle Goodogga just a brilliant performance.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's actually beaten sharply Tarra's toys as well and brave back in 2024.
[SPEAKER_00]: So that'll tell you how good this guy is not out of about a definitely a guy to watch in Kosey and Demele.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm a big fan of...
[SPEAKER_00]: a big fan of his all together so keep a keep an eye on that one.
[SPEAKER_00]: But also Sullivan Kali against the aforementioned Rasul Megamet of you know Kali 8 and 2 now, but has faced a real high level of fighter so far as Rasul Megamet of one of these guys that's came to the the onion maps fighting under the flag of bad end and so many people are these there's you know he beat the aforementioned Raphael Xavier as well back in PFL Sioux Falls in in May only you know only a couple of months ago and
[SPEAKER_00]: If this is a big step up for him, I will say it against the date and two Sullivan Carly like who, you know, he lost the shoe first, but before that he beat Phil Davis and he went to another level from my opinion, in my opinion, beating Phil Davis, beat Alex Pleisi as well before that he's gotten some extra power on his hands, I think over the last soil and you know, thank
[SPEAKER_00]: That's gonna be tough for you for both guys there.
[SPEAKER_00]: So this is a really well match made car the one a car that would say the one thing I would say about it But that man event is is a real special one for me.
[SPEAKER_00]: Absolutely cannot wait for that and You should be tuning in on Saturday night to watch it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Because if you're never me a fan you have to watch this BFL card You have to watch tagging one of the top fighters and all know that about that all right everybody That's it for me.
[SPEAKER_00]: My name is Sean Sheen for sure dot com and I'll see you all next time