Get ready to have your fight predictions flipped on their head as Chingasa's Combat Crew, featuring yours truly and my trusty sidekick Fonzo, tackle the high-stakes brawls of UFC 298 Parley Super Show. We've got the scoop on Carlos Vera's potential to shock the masses against Rinya Nakamura and we're not holding back on our heavyweight predictions—expect fireworks when Marcos Rogerio de Lima meets Justin Tafa. Plus, we throw down our own heated debate on whether betting the farm on the fight's duration packs a punch or if it's just a swing and a miss.
Strap in for a tactical deep-dive into the main card that'll make you feel like you're ringside with us. We're breaking down the technique and form evolution of Anthony 'Fluffy' Hernandez and Roman Kopylov, ensuring you know who's got the edge before they even step into the octagon. And for those who live for the thrill of a well-placed bet, we'll share our strategies on laying down cash for the most unpredictable outcomes, especially when it comes to the high-stakes showdown between Amanda Lemos and Mackenzie Dern.
To cap it all off, we put our betting strategies on the line as we dissect the main event featuring featherweight king Alexander Volkanovski and the challenger Ilija Topuria. We'll hash out whether the undefeated Topuria's streak will hold up against Volkanovski's storied experience, and we don't hold back on our predictions. So, for the full rundown on technique, stats, and stakes in the exhilarating world of UFC—and some good old-fashioned banter—you won't want to miss this episode of Chingasa's Combat Crew. Tune in, turn up the volume, and feel the rush of the fight world!
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00:08 - UFC Fight Previews
07:48 - Betting Analysis of Upcoming MMA Fights
13:16 - Fluffy vs. Roman Copylov UFC Fight
26:08 - Betting Strategy for MMA Matches
34:36 - Betting Predictions for Volkanowski vs. Dariush Fight
ャーバーツ come on, I don't want toYour, I don't want to, I don't want to, I don't want to. I'm gonna show you how to relax and smile like, oh, just Nasty, as he just shook up the world. How's that feel? Hey, I'm not surprised. Alright, welcome to this bonus edition of Chingasa's Combat Crew. It's our UFC 298 Parley Super Show. I got my boy, fondo, right here down below my dude, you ready to jump into this show?
Speaker 1:Hell yeah, and let's crack it up, bro, I'm not here.
Speaker 2:I got the official banger's list on the screen. Right now let's go over the prelims. Not everything on the screen is considered an official banger, but still some fights that I might want to talk about. Rinya Nakamura taking on Carlos Vera. Carlos Vera I know it's bolded out. If you're watching us on YouTube you could see it's like a big buff dude, but it's dude is Goes by the nickname of Pequeño Dog, just to let everyone out there know he's not a big dude. Right after that, though, the big boy's coming up to the plate Marcos Rojelio I got my teeth fixed. Dilemma taking on Justin I'm a whooped that ass Tafa. And this one, fonzo, is an official Chingassos combat crew banger. Both of these dudes are going to be here for a good time, not a long time, so stay tuned. It's probably going to be a one hitter quitter like a one round banger for sure. And then the main event of the prelims Amanda Lemos taking on Mackenzie Dern Not an official banger, but it should be fun to talk about. And then the main card nothing but bangers Fonzo. Anthony Fluffy Hernandez taking on Roman Kapilov. Marav Almexkin. Now Davish Vili taking on Henry. Sojudo, joff Neal taking on Ian Machado-Garry, robert Whitaker taking on Paulo Costa and then Alexander don't call me an old man Volkanowski taking on Ilija Tuporia. I don't know if you really want to pick any of these Fonzos. I don't have to go. We're going to do our usual. I got my piece.
Speaker 1:I don't know if you're going to touch this one.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I hell, I hell, yeah All right, let me get my notebook here, fonzo, and I'm ready to go. All right, actually, I just you know what.
Speaker 1:I wasn't going to touch it originally, but I like the odds, man.
Speaker 2:I, like you, like the odds. Let's take a look at them real quick here. So let's look at their records. Both of these guys are fresh in the UFC. Nakamura is a gigantic, gigantic favorite here. He does have one official win, actually two official wins in the UFC. Last one was a unanimous decision win over Ferney Garcia and then, before that, he had a KO win in round one over Toshiyomi Kazama, his homie. There he is. There he is Pequeño Carlos Vera. I think he's only had one fight in the UFC and that got canceled. So this is going to be his first official fight in the UFC. Let's take a look.
Speaker 1:I was like my book has got.
Speaker 2:Nakamura as a heavy minus 1200 favorite and Pequeño Carlos Vera a plus 675 underdog. Fonzo, you said you're touching this.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah.
Speaker 2:Which one are you going with? What are you going with my man?
Speaker 1:I'm going for Carlos Vera. I'm going based on by the money line. I'm just going to do straight money line bet, all right, so that'll be 100 bucks plus 675. But I honestly think that his path to victory is going to be sub man. I was looking at his record. He's got some subs in his record, so I think if he's going to win he's going to win that way.
Speaker 2:All right, so that's how you're picking. I'm going. I'm not going to touch this one money wise. But I would imagine Nakamura is just going to steamroll this dude man. I'm with Vegas on this one. He's got a lot of hype. He's supposed to be like, uh, like a just like a phenom in Japan dude. So he's coming in with a lot of heat again, not touching it, but I'm taking Nakamura. All right, I'm just I'm not betting with my heart, man, I'm going to. It's going to go with what I think Vegas is going with. And I'm going with my mind on this one. I'm not All right, man. I'm going to see if that plays in your favor this time, all right, fondo, take the reins on this one. Introduced, all right.
Speaker 1:So this time we got Marcos Rojeda the Lima taking on Justin Tafa, um 38. Taylor tape is 38, for years old for Marcos Rojeda the Lima 34. Justin Tafa so Justin Tafa is a younger cat here. They're about the same height, um, although Justin Tafa does edge out. Uh, marcos were headed to Lima with a few pounds and their reach is pretty similar 75 to 74.
Speaker 2:Um the Justin Tafa's Peroni situation out of this Fondo? Just stick to the breach, bro.
Speaker 1:So yeah, so my Dilema has a slight advantage in reach, a very slight, but I don't think that's going to play a factor in this fight at all.
Speaker 2:All right, bro, let's look at their records here. As we said, uh, this I don't. I might have messed up, because this is not. This doesn't show his last loss. I cut it, got cut off. So I know he fought Derek Lewis last and got his teeth knocked in, and I don't know if that Ben Rothwell fight is the last fight he had prior to that.
Speaker 1:He had one with Waldo Cortez Acosta, okay, and he won that via decision. All right, that was in 2023 as well, and then he be Andrea Lasky by decision one around one all sub-disass? Yeah, all right. And then before that, um, black, uh, what is it? Black boy, even off, okay.
Speaker 2:So he's got plenty of fights. Pretty active. Yeah, it's been pretty active.
Speaker 1:All right, and here we have just like two fights a year since 2022.
Speaker 2:He KO'd Austin Lane in his last fight, in the last trip in the Althagone, but before that he had that nasty eye poke. And then, before that, back to back KO's dude. One KO over Paca Porter and then the KO by head kick over there, I remember that. Hunsucker bro All in round one. Look, he has not gone out of round one in his last four fights, bro. If you want to count that, no contest 29 seconds worth of round one. All right, let's check out the money line here. Money line is coming in on Marcos Rogelio Dilema at minus 145. Tafa at a plus 125, bro Tafa by submission plus 1600. I could totally see Tafa landing a uh KO. You know a one hitter quitter. But I could also see Rogelio doing that.
Speaker 1:My best question is which one is which one is most likely to do bro?
Speaker 2:You don't know, like, honestly, either one of these guys I has the potential to hit that, that one shot KO, or to deliver a shot. That's going to send the guy to the mat and then they're going to follow it up with shots. And then Jason Herzog watches and he's like where did I park my car?
Speaker 1:Oh, I'm rafting to fight again. Stop it.
Speaker 2:So I'm going with the under on this, bro. I would just. I would just say that this is going to go at under a round and a half, but at minus 160, that's not really worth it. Man, it's not going to pay off, then, yeah, no, it's not like you put a hundred bucks on that, you yeah.
Speaker 1:You're not even going to break it.
Speaker 2:No, you won't. But if you pick one or the other, that's where your money could go.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so Vegas seems to think that it's most likely that top is gonna get the KO versus Rogelio.
Speaker 2:Yeah, plus 150. Yeah are you touching this one or what I?
Speaker 1:am.
Speaker 2:Where are you going? Where you going?
Speaker 1:I'm going top of KO top, that's what you.
Speaker 2:Plus 150, 100. Yeah, all right, dog, go for it. Go for it. I think I'm gonna save my point. My some money for this next one. All right, this is the main fight of the prelims. A man, number three ranked Amanda Lemos, taking on Mackenzie Dern Mackenzie both of these ladies, I believe, are coming in off of a loss, and not just like a normal loss, like they got the dog shit beat out of each other. Both times Amanda Lemos got the dogs not remember when she got her ass what by Zangue Lee. That was like a total domination, do total domination. And then Mackenzie Dern got freaking her head knocked off. By who was it? Andrage, not too long ago.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah. So the one thing that Amanda Lemos does not have in her favor is time. She is 36, 36 fighting at 115 pounds. I don't know how that? How I mean, is that is that good for her long wise? She's 13 3-in-1. Let's take take a look at her record. She last lost by unanimous decision to Zhang Wei Li, went all five rounds, dude. So the only positive that came out of that is that she could take an ass whooping dude, because that's what it was. She got the brakes be off of her. Remember? She got caught in that Crucifixen was just taking shots. But before that check that out, she was on back-to-back wins TKO win over Marina Rodriguez, and then it's that sub over Michelle Waterson, but she was totally outclassed in that one. And then, before that, she lost to Jessica Andrage by standing arm triangle, bro Caught up against the cage. Take a look at McKenzie's record, mckenzie coming in with that TKO loss to Jessica Andrage in round two. And then, before that, she had a drag out back in fourth fight with Angela Hill, but she ended up winning by unanimous decision. And then, before that, she had an L to Yan Xiaonan. And then, before that though, she squeaked out a split decision over Tisha.
Speaker 1:Mm-hmm.
Speaker 2:Check out what Vegas says. Let's look at my bookie. My bookie has Amanda as a minus 125 favorite. Mckenzie has a plus 105 dog Over under on this. Is that plus 100 at the over? So Vegas is thinking this is gonna Finish in less than two rounds or inside of two rounds. I like, I like that plus 170, amanda Lemos, bro, yeah, I could totally see a repeat of what happened to McKenzie last time around. Okay, so I'm gonna go Amanda by KO 100, $100 and then that's that plus 170.
Speaker 1:That's that plus 170. All right For this one. I'm just gonna go. I'm not gonna play the, I'm gonna play the over on this. A plus 100, all right? Um, yeah, I don't know man, I don't know if it's good, I don't know who's gonna win.
Speaker 2:I could totally see Lemos just fucking blasting McKenzie again. I mean, I almost feel like and and remember dude McKenzie's taking this on short notice because this wasn't the original plan. I believe this was supposed to be a mandalamos and I can't remember who it was, but McKenzie just took this not too long ago, yeah, and who knows if she's fully recovered from Getting tk old by a man of Jessica and Josh last time around also. So think about that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but I also, I also think that this could be, this is gonna be, this could just very well be over fire. I mean over three rounds. Yeah, I mean like it could just drag on in the fight. It could easily be one of those fights.
Speaker 2:I need to stand up. Dawg for these, because I need to stand up. We're getting into the main card now, the main portion. Bro, thank god for standing desk bro.
Speaker 1:Okay, if you're standing, I'm standing.
Speaker 2:All right, bonzo you're ready to get into this freaking main card. My man, let's go. All right, let's get into this. Bro, I've been studying. Take all the other, check this shit out. How many of you guys out there ever had to deal with, uh, jury duty? Bonzo, you ever had to report for jury duty? Fuck that man. Seriously, bro, every single time I've gotten a jury notice, I've only had to report, like maybe two or three times. And those few times that I had had to go, I always come up like, oh no, bro, I'm racist or no, I can't get the time off, whatever, but I've always gotten off. Well, this time around I'm like you know what, I'm gonna try to see how far I can go. So I made a pass around one and this was like a month ago, dude. So then they're like a report back on the 15th. So, like, dude, that's like a month away. But they also said call every day to see what's up. Like all right, dude, I call every day for like the first 10 days and every day just kept saying report on the 15th, report on the 15th. Guess what I stopped doing. Stop calling. So I show up today. Guess what. Yesterday they canceled the trial, bro. So I told them at work. I had jury duty when I really didn't, so now I got to use a sick day, but I spent all morning going to jury duty when I could have been doing some ghee. I Know that's the worst shit, dude. Whatever man let's give, it really grinds my gears. Yes, exactly, dog, exactly. So I ended up spending the rest of the afternoon Basically just watching film. So I was watching, I watched basically every single fluffy Hernandez fight and then the two or three Roman Copy lot fights that are in the UFC with ESPN plus, because stupid as UFC fight pass was down all day. All right. So here we are. We got the tail of the tape on the screen. You're right there, my man. Yeah yeah, all right, they're both pretty. Actually I can't even go over tail the tape because it still had a crumb up on the screen, so let's just pass that. All right. Let's look at fluffy's record on the screen. He is on a one, two, three, four fight winning streak, most recently winning beating Edmund Shabazzian in round three by TKO and dude I was going back and forth, bro, for a little while before that he slept. Mark on Dre Barry all in round three arm triangle Before that dude. A really good fight Against Josh friend, but he ended up getting a unanimous decision, decision winning that. And then the win that almost everybody knows Fluffy for is that Rodolfo Vieira submission win in round two submitting a world judicule champion, my man.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:All right, let's take a peek at One of my favorite, personal favorite fighters, roman Kapilov. This is the new up-and-comer in the UFC. He's only got one, two, three, four, five, six fights in the UFC. Started off on a bad start to fight losing streak, but since then it's rattled off four wins in a row, including wins over Alessio de Chiquir, chirico Punely, soriano, claudio Ribeiro and Josh friend the same Josh friend that fluffy went three rounds with Kapilov, got him out in two but he was having trouble with the wrestling a little bit in the first round, dog. So what I did notice With fluffy game is he spams takedowns like a MF for dude, almost like B style kind of like. Like he hides his takedowns behind punches. He sets him up pretty clean. There's no long shots from across the cage. Everything is in really close. He likes to pressure people. His one loss You'll notice, fonzo. His last loss was against Kevin Holland. I watched that and look, kevin Holland got him out in round one. Bro, it was quick, kevin.
Speaker 1:Holland.
Speaker 2:Pressured him, dropped him with the knee and then followed it up with shots. That's the only fight I saw.
Speaker 1:Where that's probably just like a poor time.
Speaker 2:Take down that that Kevin Holland was not only that, though, but he allowed Kevin Holland to pressure him. He was like backing up, okay, and in all the other fights that he's since then, he's the one taking control, dude. He's the one following his opponent, pressuring him, getting in the face. So when he's in his opponent's face, that's when he has his most success, and he's like I said, dude, he sets up his takedowns with strikes. He hides the takedown behind a left hand. He loves, he loves to throw that left hand and then immediately drop in for a single or a double, a high C. He likes to switch over to single. There. He gets you down. Once he gets you down on the ground, though, dude, he's not one of those guys who's looking for a position. He is looking to just break you. He's not Pressuring you, pressure passing. He's dropping bombs, he's throwing knees, he's throwing elbows, he's throwing punches, and then not only that, he's constantly looking to see where your base is at. He's trying to get you off balance. He's trying to push you forward, throw you back. He's trying to make you move so that you open up. And then, next thing, you know, dude, you're taking an elbow behind the ear, you're taking two punches to the face, and then you got to cover up and then he's got you on your back and then he just continues down that road. All right, I'm at point a, now I'm at point B, now at point C, and then, before you know, dudes are in deep ass water. But my boy here, roman copy log bro. He throws that left hand like a pitcher throwing a fastball down the pipe. It's just he's just constantly winging it out, dude. And one thing I did notice is, although he is a southpaw, he doesn't throw jabs with that lead right hand. He throws like right crosses and he loves to throw a left kicks to the body, dude. That's what sets up a lot of his I mean a lot of his His chaos is he goes to the body. A lot people drop their hands and the next thing you know you're eating a crow cop kick. That's a problem too for a wrestler man, because if he's going to the body, that can catch somebody coming in but if you're not giving your him, if you're not getting giving him the space to throw that, then how's he gonna get it off? So the battle here is gonna be is copy love gonna be able to create the space to throw his patented high kick or his body Kick, or is he just gonna have to use his hands to keep fluffy away? Okay, and it's only a three-round fight, bro. So that's gonna favor the grappler. This is classic grappler versus striker. Look at the money coming in heavy on fluffy bro Minus 260 and the over under dude. Look at the over minus 155 and the under one and a half rounds at plus 125, so Is an underdog here? That's interesting yeah copy love is a big underdog, bro. Uh, I'm gonna lay a hundred bucks on copy love KO, just cuz that plus 300 is is tempting, bro Tempting. So copy love KO, 100 Plus 300, although I don't believe that that's how it's gonna play out, dude. I mean, I'm only playing that cuz of the odds, I. But I think Overall here, fluffy's gonna get this W and I think he's gonna get it by decision. So I'm gonna play another hundred on fluffy at plus 260. That's super good too. All right, fonzo, you're over up. My man, what's what's what you doing? What you doing? All right, I'm just gonna do. Don's going crazy over there.
Speaker 1:All right, shit. I think I'm just gonna end up doing I had a different dude. When I look these odds up, there were different on my end, so I'm switching it out they were and I checked out.
Speaker 2:I checked out my bookie this morning and they had updated one, so I yeah, so I have this one. I. I think the line did move a little bit more in Anthony.
Speaker 1:When I was, when I was checking is they were dead, even like there wasn't like the money line was like hardly any difference.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's what I'm saying. It's since. Look at where it's at now.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so I'm gonna do. I'm just gonna do straight up 100 on copy. Love, just money down to the money line.
Speaker 2:All right, so you're going 100 on copy law and that's a plus 210.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:All right, bro, so you still got 700. I got 700 as well. All right, next five, bro. Oh, let's go. This could be made of embro. I cannot, like Bonzo, talk to everybody right now cuz I gotta take a walk.
Speaker 1:So my man here is talking about Merab, that which feel II versus Henry say who Dough the king of cringe.
Speaker 2:So yeah, tail of the tape we got, we got, we got tail of the tape for this one.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we got at Marabh coming in at 33 years of age. Henry Sohoot over the hill according to most, at 37. High. Advantage goes to Marabh, weight identical, but also Marabh has reached advantage 68 inches versus 64 for Henry Sohoot.
Speaker 2:So what do we got in terms of the records, Frank, all right here we got Marabh on the screen and Marabh has been on the tear going all the way back to 2018. Dog, I can't even count that high. So I'm just gonna talk about his big wins as of late. His biggest win recently, piotr Yon last March, a five-rounder where he just was I said it earlier spamming takedowns. He's just takedown after takedown, after takedown after takedown. I think I heard a crazy stat that said he averages like six point something takedowns per fight. Damn. So over, I mean, and normally he's fighting three rounds. So over three round, over a three-round fight, he's averaging at a minimum two takedowns, sometimes more Damn. So that means you're getting, you're getting taken down and you gotta fight to get back up and you're getting taken down again and he's like, yeah, dude, and that's just in the first round.
Speaker 1:Yeah, dude, but let me go back, man. Let me see if you noticed a pattern. Real quick have you noticed that ever since Marab's got that, got that egger haircut, he's been on this tear. Have you noticed that?
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 1:It's been like Samson dude, it's just the egger cut. That's what's been doing it for him.
Speaker 2:Dude, and today and bro, check this out, it's part of the culture it must be the egger Mexican Marabing, because in the press conference today he was like Mexicans, you deserve a better fighter. And then he pulled out something from his pocket and he unfolded it, and it was a Mexican flag, bro.
Speaker 1:Check out our.
Speaker 2:IG for that. I got a screenshot of it. Chingasso's crew IG check it out.
Speaker 1:Always. Yeah, bro, god Nassau.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's Marab Hernandez Davish. Really, bro. All right, let's take a look at Cousin Ann's boy's record here. Trip Cheese, as Cousin Ann likes to refer to whom as Took a layoff, took some time off and came back and took a five round L to Al Jemaine Stern. Although it was a super close fight, a lot of people thought he pulled it off, but I thought it was a little too much for him to chew. I think he should have taken a warm up fight, some someone maybe like in the five to eight rank range, and then boom title shot. Or top five, someone in the top five, three to five, and then a title shot, instead of just jumping into the deep water. It might've been too much, too soon. And then really can we even take into account everything before that, because he took like four years, three years off, practically.
Speaker 1:Well, I mean, I think it's still notable. You know what I mean Like his record. I mean because look at the people he's beat. You know what I mean. So it does goes to show the caliber of fighter he's been.
Speaker 2:I mean a win or I would say his most impressive win is the Demetrius Johnson split decision win. I agree, and that was back in 2018, almost six years ago, at least five and a half years. Yeah, but then again, like I said, man, he's also Five and a half years ago I don't even know if he had PS5, bro, he's also 37, you know what I mean. Yes.
Speaker 1:That's exactly. I think, more than anything it's his age, but you know, I don't know, man, he's still a talented guy.
Speaker 2:Oh, I forgot to put the extras in this one.
Speaker 1:That's cool man, we'll just go straight down the money, all right.
Speaker 2:All right. So what are you doing on this one? Are you touching this one at all? I mean, I'm going with Marab on this one and this one's for sure gonna go all three rounds, dog, I don't see a finish happening and Vegas has the over at a minus 350, and that is just way too steep for my pocket. So I'm not touching that.
Speaker 1:I have Marab winning by decision, just win, just putting it on him.
Speaker 2:So how much are you putting down on that? You're gonna go 230 for 100, or you're gonna go 100?
Speaker 1:Damn you know what. Never mind, I'm not touching this one, never mind. The speed line changed because it was less than that. Damn, never mind.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that minus 230 is totally like. I'm not touching it, you know, just because it's not. I don't think it's really worth it. But on my long parlay already I did throw in Marab. So if you wanna get a little crazy and turn a little three parlayer into a four parlayer, I mean I'm not gonna say it's guaranteed, but there's probably a high percentage that he's gonna be able to pull it off. Yeah, I mean, I just think, like Moravz MMA wrestling versus Henry's wrestling, I don't, I don't know, I don't see him being able to stop that game. Dude, right right, all right, all right. Dude Coco. Main event. We've been waiting for a minute on this one. Number eight. Jeff Neil taking on number 10. Ian Machado, gary. Tail of the tape on the screen Jof Neil, 33 years old. Ian, 26. Jeff Neil, 5 foot 9. I did not know that, I thought he was a little bit taller. Ian Gary, 6 foot 2. And then the reach advantage is pretty even, with Jeff at 75 inches and then Ian at 74 and a half. Jeff Neil, 15 and 5, and Ian Gary is undefeated at 13. And oh, jeff Neil's record is on the screen right now, coming in with that L that he took against Shafka, dude, surprisingly went three rounds, just a little into the third round before he got choked out. But up until then, dude, he was fighting off Shafka to take downs, exchanging with him, winning some of the the exchanges. Actually, I thought, you know, he didn't really get into trouble until Shafka started grappling with him and then he really started imposing his will and then, before that, he beat luke by KO and then Ponsonibio by split decision and then back to back losses. Do look at that. Took an L to Neil Magni back in 2021. So is that, is that a lot? Enough time for his game to have changed, kind of did? No, yeah, he's nothing, definitely not the same fighter that he was back then, but he still has some of the same pieces. He's still kind of the same right, whereas Ian Gary like I hate to say bro, I want to see him to get his, but will, but I don't know, he just keeps leveling up and leveling up and leveling it up. Somehow he did go three rounds with Neil Magni, wasn't able to get him out, and then, before that, got the TKO win over Daniel Rodriguez and then he's got some other wins over some other people there, by finish, you know, but no, no notable wins there and you can't really say like, oh yeah, he beat the. I mean he pieced up Neil Magni, but Neil was never in trouble being finished in that fight, if I'm not mistaken. I don't remember.
Speaker 1:Him being in trouble.
Speaker 2:Yeah, all right, fonzo, I got my bookies Bets on the screen. Check it out. The money is coming in heavy on Ian, gary at minus 230 and Jeff at a big underdog, at plus 185. Bro, I'm gonna play this one first. Sure, dude what are you doing? I'm gonna hit the under at a hundred. That's plus 105. I'm gonna hit the Because I think if, if, if, neil is gonna win this, it's gonna be by finish dude. He's gonna, because he does have that one shot power. So if he can land a clean shot, I Think he can take him out and I think that a hundred dollars is worth the risk for a plus two, sixty five return. Okay, neil by submission. Nah, neil by decision. Oh man, plus 700. Dude, that's what I'm doing. Yeah, I'm gonna do that too. That's what I'm doing. All right, so you're gonna go, neil by decision.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and then I'll do Neil by KO. So Neil by the $200 on that and then $100 on me on Neil by decision. $200 on what? Neil by decision and that's plus 262, but no plus 700, and then I'm gonna do 100 Neil by KO, and that's a plus 265, 265, right, all right, dog, I like it.
Speaker 2:I like it. So I'm at one two, three, four, five, six. I got four hundred dollars left. What do you got? Two, three, four, five, six, I'm bien. Yeah, all right, dude. Co. Main event Robert Whitaker, paulo Costa. Robert Whitaker coming in with a record of 25 and 7, paulo Costa 14 and 2. They're pretty much even in age Robert Whitaker 33, paulo Costa 32. They're about the same height, same weight and even the reach is not that much of a difference. Robert Whitaker got that 73 and a half inch reach and Costa 72 inch. Bobby Knuckles coming in with that last elegant DDP where he got the break speed out of him For two rounds, dude. Then before that he had a unanimous decision Three-round war with Fittori. It was just a take-down war, dude. Then before that, five round war with Izzy where he just got outclassed. But then before that he was on a one, two, three fight Winni streak dating back to 2020, with wins over Kelvin, jared Cannon year and Darren Till. So of those three wins that Jared Cannon year when looking pretty good, then that was a unanimous decision win. Our boy Polo has not fought since August of 2022 where he had a three-round war with Luke Rockhold. Dude, I don't know if you remember that one, but it was Pretty uneventful. I think they were fighting in Utah, so they got gassed out pretty fast because of the elevation. Oh, that's right, he did, he did win, he did win that one. And then before that he had back-to-back else, went over Marvin Matori Five round unanimous decision loss and then, when he literally got spanked by Izzy Back in 2020, took that when he booty bumped him, yes, got booty. Took his virginity. Yeah, that's tough man, dude, check it out. Polo's been in this UFC for a while, man. He's got a win over Johnny Hendrix there. All right, man, here's the money line. Money is coming in at Robert Whitaker at minus 240 and polo Kosa, big underdog, at plus 190. On this one dog, I'm gonna lay a hundred on Whitaker by decision at plus 105. That's a good bet.
Speaker 1:You know what? I'm gonna split my bets Go for it.
Speaker 2:I'm gonna just do one.
Speaker 1:I'm gonna do 100 by KO at plus 260 and then a hundred by decision for Bobby Knuckles.
Speaker 2:All right, say that. First one. Again a hundred dollars on.
Speaker 1:Bobby Knuckles by KO.
Speaker 2:That's plus 260, 260. All right, and then what else were you gonna do? A.
Speaker 1:A hundred by decision Bobby Knuckles plus 105.
Speaker 2:All right, bro, I got 300 left. I Don't know if I really want to put Whitaker by sub. No host of my KO. Whitaker by KO Down. Good, totally happen. Yeah, I'm gonna save. I'm gonna save my three for over here. All right, you got 200 left.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:All right, I got three main event time Fonzo, main a Fit, bruce Buffer. Get us there, bro. Get us to the gate. Here we are, alexander Volkanowski taking on up and coming phenom Ilya to pooria, el matador, alex Volkanowski, 26 and 3. Ilya to poor, 14 and 0. Big age difference here, fonzo, 35 versus 27, is the 35? Drought gonna continue here. They're about the same height, same weight, obviously, and the reaches isn't that much different. Volkanowski does have a slight reach advantage 71 and a half versus 60, 9, 69, or bro? Let's look at Volkanowski's record on the screen, coming in with that last loss by Islam. Remember? He got knocked out in the first round and everyone's wondering if the cobwebs have been cleared. Where is his mind at? And then, before that, though, man, he beat the Docs. Not out of your year, rodriguez, who's? a striking sniper dude, kicks, elbows, punches from everywhere, went three rounds with him and was never, ever in trouble. But for that that five round war with Islam when he had a full camp to prepare, and then before that, dudes it's a who's who of killers and he took them all out, tk, mostly by decision, but he does have some finishes Chan Sung Jung, yair Rodriguez, chad Mendez, yup, and then to Porya. Man to Porya has not been in the UFC for very long but he is undefeated. So he's finished. He's beat everybody and he's almost finished everybody, except for the first time in the UFC and his last fight in the UFC. So his last fight in last trip into the Octagon was against Josh Emmett on UFC on ABC. Where he do he just demolished.
Speaker 1:Josh, the only thing man is, if you look at it, this is this is going to be his toughest challenge. You know, definitely, dude. Yeah, like this is going to be the real, real test. As a matter of fact, I honestly would have liked to see him take on somebody else, like I would have liked to have seen him fight Yair Max. Right, that's what I'm saying. Yeah, before he takes on Vogue, because then that would that would have answered more questions before this fight. But I'm not mad at it, I think you know. I mean, does he every night?
Speaker 2:this is a fun fight, sure, this is going to be a bad ass fight. So let's see where all the money is going on this. So you see that it's slightly coming in on Volkanowski at minus 125 to Porya, slight underdog at plus 105. Bro, I'm going to lay all my 300 here on Volk by decision. Volk by decision. What is that?
Speaker 1:200 plus 200 plus, that's a smart one.
Speaker 2:I don't see a finish here. Actually, what do I have left? I got one, two, three, four, five. Okay, I'm going to yeah, I think I'm going to go 200 on Alex by decision, and I'll sprinkle 100 on to Porya. To Porya by what? By decision?
Speaker 1:Thumb in that's plus 400. That's a good yeah. Just to be honest right there, I don't know, man. All right, I'm not going to change my bet. I'm going to leave it the way it is. I'm going to do 200 on Volk by KO.
Speaker 2:So you're going to say that one more time, dog 200 on Volk by KO at plus 260. 200. Volk, ko plus 260. Dude, that's what's up, that's it. That's my balance, all right. Well, that's it, dude. I'll just think in dude, like you're right, dude to poor has never faced an opponent like Volk and off ski. Someone who's and then dude, not only is to poor, you fighting Volk and off ski, it's to poor as coach, versus Volk and off you know what I mean. Like which coach is able to come up with a game plan that is going to better use their fighters tools to their advantage? And who's been there more? Who's been there longer? You know what I mean. And then not only that dude. I think that strength and size is really going to come play a key factor in this. This is yet to poor as fucking strong, and he's young dude. Volk and off ski used to weigh plus 200 pounds. He's got that frame still. He's just a little bit smaller. So I'm really interested to see what this fight is going to look like when they're clenched up, when they're up against the cage, when someone's got an over under and in the end, where the where is it going to go from there? You know what I mean, how easy is to poor. You're going to be able to get Volk off of him, because he often needs to struggle to throw his punches. You know what? I mean yeah, and one thing that I did notice that to poor you like to do is he likes to go to the body with the left and then he likes to follow it up with the right hand over the top because people will be squared up. But he just finds that gap, dude. He goes to the body what's going to happen to your guard? It's going to come down soon, as he knows that. Then he goes up to the top right away. But one thing that I did notice is every time he went to that because he does it he's done it more than once, dude he finished dry hair like that. He I think he did that to Bryce before he dropped him and then he was hitting Josh Emmett with that, like all night long. But all those guys just stood right in front of him, dude, like they don't have that movement, that Volk focus, constantly cutting angles and moving around right. Switching stances, going back and forth. You know so I don't know. And even in the fight with Josh versus Josh Emmett, josh Emmett's corner was able to see that to poor you can only punch in a certain stance. So they kept telling them I couldn't. I heard it but I don't remember what it was. But he, they kept saying like hey, go to your whatever, make him reset, go to. I just just say he said go to your right, go to your right, make him reset. Because when he would go that way he couldn't adjust his power that way or something. So he had to try to get Emmett back into a spot where he could use his power again. So it's not automatic all the time and it's not fluid. He's not able to throw those punches in any stance that he's at Right. And then earlier due today in the press, in the press conference, like to poor, you just went full on heel, bro. Like telling the crowd to shut the fuck up, telling everybody you're going to fuck like, you're going to like me tomorrow, you'll fuck on Saturday. You're going to see, I don't give a fuck Dude. He even went as far as pulling a fucking copycat car on a Gregor and snagged Volkovsky's belt.
Speaker 1:Oh shit.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so he went all in like that, bro. So I can't wait for Saturday. Man, it cannot get here soon enough, my dude.
Speaker 1:It'll be fun, man, and you know. The only thing I want to add to that is did you check out? Did you see Volk's post like and this is the thing, man, I love bulk. For the same reasons, man, like you know, like the fact that he went on and did the whole thing where he's old and shit.
Speaker 2:Dude, he showed up to the press conference like that yeah, but no, he was talking. He pretended to fall asleep.
Speaker 1:He also shared this story where he was like his, his daughter was talking to him about, about, like, hey dad, what? What if there's a robber that breaks into our house and he's like, what are you talking about? He goes I'm the world champ, I'll take care of it. And he goes no, no, what if they break in and they try to harm me and they're like no, I got it, don't worry about it, I'm the world champ. And he goes. Well, what if the robber is is a machev, what, what?
Speaker 2:That's hilarious man Cold game. Even she knows who the real boogeyman is. Exactly yeah, mania bro Nah, or it could be man, We'll see.
Speaker 1:We'll see on Saturday, man.
Speaker 2:So, after this hit, while everyone's listening or watching this, one more sleep, fonzo. Closing comments. My dude Excited man Can't wait. Let's see what the results are. All right, y'all. Thank you for tuning in. Thank you for watching. Let us know what your picks are. Get in that. What's. What's that app we use again, dog, I always.
Speaker 1:Oh, burning, burning.
Speaker 2:Burning Three, two. All right, stay tuned, and maybe we'll compose a little verdict link so that everybody can share their picks or even just judge the fights. All right, all right, everybody. Until Monday when the regular episode drops. Tune in. Until then, chingosso's combat crew out, peace, peace. Here's that right hand. Oh God Nasty, as he just shook up the world, how's that feel? Hey, I'm not surprised. I'm not surprised.