UFC 297-298

In the One More Round podcast, the host discusses the controversial main event of UFC 297 between Shawn Strickland and Drikus Duplessis. The host changes his mind on who won after watching the fight multiple times. It was a close fight, with both fighters showing strengths and weaknesses. The judges' scorecards were split, indicating the close nature of the fight. The host believes a rematch is warranted to determine the better fighter. Both fighters can learn from their first fight and come up with new game plans. The host also analyzes the fight statistics, showing the closeness of the match. Strickland landed more strikes to the head, while Duplessis had more strikes to the body and legs. Overall, the fight was close and a rematch would be exciting to see. Welcome, everyone, to the One More Round podcast. I'm your host, Scott Arndt. So just wanted to talk about UFC 297, mainly the main event, a lot of controversy surrounding this middleweight fight between Shawn Strickland and Drikus Duplessis. I've changed my mind quite a bit on who won. Every time I watch the fight, it's really hard to score. A lot of people are going to call me dumb for that. I think it was a close fight, man. I mean, Shawn Strickland, I thought he won. I've watched the fight six times now. First three times, I gave it to Shawn, and the last three times, I gave it to DDP. It's really hard to make a decision. Shawn beat him up with that jab. Shawn didn't really get hit very much. DDP had a great variety in strikes, great body kicks, good low kicks, had some good combos as well. Shawn definitely boxed the whole time. He used his push kick that he usually does, but Shawn did look just one-dimensional in this fight. DDP definitely looked like an MMA fighter. Used wrestling, like I said, more combos, leg kicks, body kicks. But if you look at just the sheer damage that Shawn did to his face, I just, I don't know. To me, this fight, I think it was a great fight. I feel it was a little slow in some areas, but Shawn had great defense. DDP had good control. He pushed the fight. He definitely pushed Shawn back quite a bit in this fight, but it was a split decision, man. It was really close. Judges score cards, 48-47, 47-48, 47-48. It was really close, man. My thoughts on the fight, like I said, I thought Shawn won the three times I watched it, then DDP. I thought he won. It could have went either way, but with that being said, it deserves a rematch. I've seen some controversy that they're not going to do the rematch. Don't know why. I don't think Izzy needs to fight next. I don't think Hamzat should fight next. I think it should be Shawn Strickland and DDP. It was that close. It was that close, and the good news, if we do the rematch, we're going to see who the better fighter was. I don't think you could say DDP was a better fighter. I don't think you could say Shawn Strickland was a better fighter. I think it was evenly matched. But here's what's going to be cool if they do do the rematch. Both parties have learned something. Shawn Strickland can go back, work on his camp, work on more varieties, not just straight boxing. Adding in more kicks. He knows he's going to try to wrestle. He knows he's going to throw a lot of body kicks, leg kicks. So he has that information. And yes, he had that information by looking at fight videos and stuff like that, but Shawn just isn't going to box. But now that he has a game plan, he's fought the man, he's seen the man, tape is different from actually fighting. And out there and doing it is totally different. And same goes for DDP. Okay, maybe he thinks Shawn's just going to box. Because Shawn didn't try to take him down. He stuffed a couple take downs, if I remember correctly. Shawn didn't throw a lot of leg kicks or body kicks or any knees. He didn't really do anything in the clinch. And that's what DDP's thinking about. And those are the things that Shawn needs to work on. Good clinch control, more body kicks, more leg kicks. If he would have done more body kicks and leg kicks and push kicks, he would have kept DDP away from that pressure. So we thought this was a good fight. Could you imagine what the rematch is going to look like? I think it's going to be a totally different fight. I think it's going to be amazing. Just knowing that they're going to go back and research and look at new game plans. I think it's going to be a great fight. And just to see how close it really was, like I have the UFC stats pulled up here. You could go to, you know, just look up UFC 297, the stats. It was close, man. You know, I've heard some people say, you know, stats don't win fights. And obviously they don't. You know, Joe Rogan talked about it. He talked about it on his podcast where they were reading the stats and he's like, well, those stats don't necessarily mean you win the fight, which he's right. I think it's kind of crazy that they don't score it that way, but I'm going to read these stats to you. If you don't care, oh well, you're listening to me. So Sean Strickland had 173 significant strikes, 42% significant strike percentage. Total strikes he threw was 183. Now this is like total for the whole fight. Zero takedowns, no submission attempts, no reversals, control time was zero. If you look at DDP for the whole fight, 137 significant strikes, 38% significant strikes. Chonzo's 42%, DDP's is 38%, really close. Total strikes thrown for DDP was 140, takedowns was six of 11, 54% takedown percentage. Control time, so like when he did take him down, I didn't think he controlled him very much. He did suplex him, by the time Sean got taken down, he did get back up pretty quick, but total control time for the fight, for the wrestling was two minutes in eight sets, yeah, two minutes. Okay, now we're going to break it down per round. Sean Strickland, 34 significant strikes, DDP 18. Significant strike percentage, 45% for Sean, 35% for DDP. Total strikes, 39%, I mean, sorry, 39 total strikes, 19 for DDP. Two takedowns for DDP, 28 seconds of control time. So looking at that, you could say Sean won the first round, or did he, because DDP had two takedowns. Those two takedowns may have got DDP that round. Now if we look at it this way, this is round two. Sean Strickland, 22 significant strikes, DDP 26. Strike percentage, 35% for Sean Strickland, DDP 43%. Now look at this, total strikes thrown, they were tied, 26-26. But DDP got another takedown, one of one, 22 seconds control time. That was round one and round two, okay? You could probably give both of those rounds to DDP. If you look at round three, Strickland's at 31 significant strikes, DDP's at 29. Now look at this percentage, 35%, DDP's 34%. Sean Strickland, 31 total strikes, DDP 29. Zero takedowns, zero control time. That was an even round. That could have went anywhere based on the stats we're seeing with takedowns, with strikes. They were even in round three. That could have went to anybody. Now, round four, which I believe DDP won round four, Strickland 33, DDP 29 significant strikes. Look at this again, 38% for Strickland, 39% for DDP. 34 total strikes for Strickland, 31 for DDP. Three of five takedowns, 60% takedown, one minute and 18. I believe that's the, I believe round four is when he suplexed him, if I remember correctly. Now round five, I believe Sean won round five, but let's look at this, okay? Sean Strickland had 53 significant strikes, DDP had 35. Strike percentage was 53% for Sean, DDP was 40%. Now we look at total strikes, 53 for Sean, 35 for DDP. Zero of two, and I believe that he stuffed two takedowns in the fifth round. He stuffed two takedowns in the fifth round. I think that's, I think that's the round, and that was it. DDP was crown champion, okay, split decision. Look how close everything is though. My opinion is if Sean would have thrown more variations like DDP did, I think Sean would have won this fight. But Sean has a black belt in jiu-jitsu, yes, I know Sean likes to hang and bang, I get that. But this is an MMA fight, you've got to show different variations, you've got to go for something. At this point, I don't think DDP, DDP's face was jacked up, and I think he was trying to take it to the ground, just to score points, because I don't think he was, I knew, I think he knew he wasn't getting anywhere standing besides doing the body kicks and the leg kicks. He wasn't hitting Sean in the face besides that good overhand right that landed on Strickland's eye and cut him open. I don't think there was a headbutt there either. It's a hard angle, and I don't think DDP was being dirty by doing that. I think it was a total freak accident coming up out of that takedown up into Sean's face. You know until they headbutt you. Okay, so we've just broke it down per round. Now, if we look at this, it's red and blue, so DDP's blue, Sean's red. This is the significant strikes, this is going to talk about the percentage per round, and landed by target, and landed by position. So, if we look at this, 90% to the head for Sean, 59% to the head for DDP. Obviously, you can tell who was hitting who in the face. Sean was destroying his face. Now, look at this though, 5% to the body for Sean. Those were the few push kicks that he was doing in that fight. Then, we look at the body for DDP, it was 23%. He landed some good body kicks, okay? Then, we look at leg kicks. Sean did a great job checking, but didn't really throw very many leg kicks, okay? 3% for Sean, 17% for DDP. So, if you look at the comparisons, yeah, Sean beat his face up, but DDP had more percentages amongst the body, right? 17% to leg, 23% to body, 59% to head. Sean, 90% to head, 5% to body, 3% to leg. Now, look how close this is. Landed by position, 100% distance for Sean, 97% for DDP. This is close. Now, clinch, 2%, okay? So, he did land some strikes. DDP landed some strikes in the clinch. Nothing on the ground though. I thought DDP had a few ground shots, but I don't know what it's... If it's actually in guard or side control, half guard, I don't know what it's trying to stat, where the stat comes from for ground. Okay, now we're going to look at it per round. Okay, round one, it's to Sean for strikes. 45%, 35% for DDP. Round two went to DDP, 43%, 35% to Sean. Round three, 1% difference, 35% for Sean, 34% for DDP. Now, look at this though. Round four, again, 1% difference, okay? 38% for Sean, 39% for DDP. Round five, it was all stripling, 53% for Sean, 40% for DDP. So, looking at this, round one, round two, round three, Sean outstriked DDP. And then, if you look at round two, round four, DDP had more of a percentage of striking. But that's not counting the takedowns and anything like that. So, this, Sean landed more strikes on the feet. So, if we look at stats and we look at it like that, that kind of breaks it down. I just think it was a close fight, man. I think both fighters went out and gave it their all. I think, like, looking at it, I definitely, I think Sean was a little more calm. Like, if you look at comments before the fight when he got off the bus, walking in to get ready for the fight, he did look a little nervous. And everybody says, oh, that's the way he looked against Adesanya. That's how he looked at Adesanya. That's how he looks when he's getting ready for any fight. I don't know, man. He just, he looked a little off. And I love Strickland. I think he's got a good personality. I think he's down to fight. Maybe he was a little more comfortable. I don't know. DDP did look like he had a lot of confidence. The thing that did shock, I think, everybody was DDP's cardio and Sean's cardio kind of slowing down in round three. And I believe him slowing down was due to the fact that DDP was pressuring him so much. He kept moving forward. He made Sean back up. And I think it was funny when Sean said, all Izzy did in that fight, when he was in that All Izzy did in that fight when they fought was he backed up and he backed up. Well, DDP made you back up too, Sean. But that jab and that cross messed his face up. But this is not boxing. This is not wrestling. This is everything. I felt if Sean would, like, if you look at round five, they were definitely going for it. And I give round five to Sean, for sure. He started adding more kicks. He started adding more combos, started being more aggressive. But if he would have consistently did that through the fight, I think it would have been a Strickland fight. Because round five, he did stuff those two takedowns. Round four, he got beat, for sure. Three takedowns, suplex, a minute, 18 seconds of control. And when you're watching the fight and you don't look at the stats and you're just watching it, you could give it to anybody. And that's why I feel this is a great case for a rematch. And this is a great case for a rematch. I think Sean deserves it. I even think DDP deserves it. Because, you know, DDP was, like, saying, you know, how Dana White, he said, he was trying to confirm that were there people that say, I didn't win the fight? And Dana White scored it that he did not win the fight. And that's when he said, oh, bullshit. There's, you know, Joe Rogan scored it that Sean won. Brendan Schaub, whatever you say about him, he even scored it. Eddie Bravo, you know, looked like he even said it could go either way, man. He's in the middle. Dana White scored it. Then you got, you got other people like Joe Sundin said DDP won. So the case for the rematch is you got professional fighters divided saying Strickland won, DDP won. You got media divided. You got fans divided. Well, let's settle the score. Let's see who really won. Let's see who the better man is. And to just boost up Izzy again, when Izzy got destroyed by Sean. Why does Izzy get a chance at the title fight? He's got a fight. Why don't you do Hamza and Izzy? But to not give Strickland an immediate rematch, I think is, in my opinion, not fair. I'm not going to tell the UFC what they should do. They're a successful business, but I think you owe it to your fans. I think you owe it to the two gentlemen that fought. I think Strickland definitely deserves it. And I'm not taking anything away from Drikus Duplessis. I'm not taking anything away from Drikus Duplessis. Happy for him. Glad he's the champ. I think he fought hard. But I don't think he, I mean, I didn't see him do anything spectacular. Nothing that was like, oh my gosh, that's the champ. But Sean didn't do anything really either, though. It was evenly matched, in my opinion. And I know some people are going to be out here, you kidding me? He out-wrestled him. He out-striked him. That's not what the stats show. The only thing that he did that showed that he beat him was the wrestling. He had six in the first round, two in the second round, one in the, no wait, I'm sorry. He had two in the first round, one in the second round, zero in the third round, three in the fourth round, and then zero in round five. But the stats are so close for strikes. I don't think we can, I don't think it's a great decision to not do an immediate rematch. I think the UFC has already came out and said they're not going to do a rematch. I haven't been able to look at the data. I just wanted to hop on here and just talk about this fight because there's so much controversy around it. I'm not a professional fighter. I'm a professional fight fan. You know, I wrestled in middle school and high school and did jujitsu. And so I love this sport. I love this sport. But I believe the rematch, you owe it to these two fighters to prove who's the best. That's my opinion. I don't know. Why don't you guys just talk? Because there's so much division that I think to shut the division up, there's so much division that I think to shut the division up. I don't, I don't know who's going to, I don't know, man. I don't, I don't, I don't think it's a good decision to put Izzy up there, Hamzat up there. Strickland deserves this rematch. And I think it's going to be an exciting fight. I don't know if the UFC is worried about pay-per-views on this fight. I think it'd go even higher. They have no problem selling out the arena. They'll have no problem selling this fight. We've even got rematches. We've gotten rematches that, that didn't even deserve one. Like, like, remember when GSP and Matt Serra fought and Matt Serra beat him, there was an immediate rematch. That was a huge upset. You could say a case for Izzy should have got a rematch against Sean Strickland, but Sean beat him, beat him up. He proved he took it from the champ. He proved, even though it was a decision fight, he beat him up for all five rounds. I don't think DDP beat Sean Strickland up for five rounds. I don't think Sean Strickland beat DDP up for five rounds besides his face. Just think of it as a close fight, and I think you owe it to them to do a rematch. Now look at some news here, just to see if anything came out. Besides UFC 300, but two days ago, you know, Joe Rogan surprised judges, awarded to Plessy's win over Sean Strickland. Even, well, even, you know, Dana White scored it that way. If you watch the Fight Companions, Dana White, Dana White, Dana White, Dana White, Dana White, Dana White, Dana White, Dana White, Dana White, Dana White, Dana White, Dana White, if you watch the Fight Companions, Joe Rogan's Fight Companions, they scored it that way. They're all pretty sad about Strickland losing, because they genuinely thought he beat him. Trying to look at any more news, see if there's a rematch. But I don't think that, like, because Sean's coming out saying, you know, that headbutt cost me the fight. Michael Bisbing has talked about it. Henry Cejudo's even talking about who really won, great in the fight. I think Demetrius Johnson covered it, saying why DDP won the fight, which was a very good analysis. Let's see, getting a rematch, right here. I think this is essentially sports. Getting a rematch denied by Dana White, Sean Strickland, raises huge controversy surrounding DDP win at UFC 297. Says, with the conclusion of UFC 297, we witnessed a new champion crowned with 185-pound division gold. Sean Strickland failed to defend his title against DDP and had to suffer the sixth loss of his career. Their battle was ridden with uncertainty till the final bell. Still knocks, won the bout, but there's a new controversy in the story now. Strickland and Duplessis promised a war and they delivered a war. Blood-rage fight between them shifted the dynamics of the middleweight division. But now Strickland has been denied an immediate title rematch and seems like the fighter has now fired shots at the new champion. Strickland wants his rematch. He deserves a rematch. I don't think anybody can honestly say that he doesn't deserve one. Strickland started the match with a proper combination of strikes and blocks. Tarzan's jabs affected Duplessis enough to leave him with a black eye in the second round. Two black eyes and a swollen face, might I add to this article. And again, guys, this is essentially sports. There was a thought that Strickland must have clinched the victory, but as the final bell rang, DDP grabbed the bell. After the decision win, the MMA community seems to be in split, like I said. One side claimed that Strickland was robbed, while the other claimed that the win was fair. Nonetheless, Strickland took his Instagram handle to add a last comment on his loss, fighter's first loss. Handle to add a last comment on his loss, fighter shared stats by ESPN, where it can be seen Strickland had more significant strikes than Duplessis, which he did, which we just covered in that stats. And you can even, there's a picture of it here that Sean shared. He said, all right, I'm done complaining. Ha ha. Thanks to everyone for letting me vent onto the next LOL. I love you guys. Thanks, ESPN. Okay, 34 round one for Sean, 22. But we'll see, it shows that, it shows DDP had more strikes in round two. But 31 strikes round three for Sean, 29. Dude, it's so close. It's so close, but a lot of MMA fighters out there, a lot of MMA fighters out there say that it doesn't win you fights. But you should never let it go to split decision or the judges ever. You got to finish them. Even Dana White has said that. Joe Rogan has said that. Several other fighters have said that. But anyway, the newly crowned middleweight champion has a new challenge ahead of him. Now DDP became the first South African champion in the UFC, which is great. You know, congrats. That's history. So the fighter is set to defend his title against the heavyweights of the division. At the post-fight interview, DDP issued a challenge to the former champion, Izzy. Izzy should not be able to fight him. He lost to Strickland. He needs to have a comeback fight before just skipping and going straight to DDP. I think that would be a good fight. But I don't think it's deserved. But anyway, Izzy seems to have accepted the challenge and is preparing for the fight. Interestingly, the light heavyweight champion, Alex Pereira, has shown interest in making a comeback to the middleweight division. Now see, it's like, it's like contradictory because it says Strickland is also on the cards for the new champion, as White claimed that their rematch is slated to happen, but not immediately. That makes no sense. Anyway, finally, we got another name that is making noise in the division, Hamza Chamaev. He has called out to Dana White to keep his promise for a title shot. All in all, DDP has four potential middleweight contenders. Who do you think will lock horns against the South African first? It should be DDP. It should be DDP and Strickland. That's what it should be. So it looks like Sean's not going to get a title rematch. I don't think Izzy or Hamza should be fighting that. Maybe Alex Pereira, but I don't know. I don't know how that's going to, because I think Strickland and Pereira's friendships there. I mean, he was in his corner. I don't know. I don't know how that's going to go down. I don't know. Adesanya's quietly confident rematch with Strickland. That was September 20th. There's a bunch of videos that you can look at, see the rematch. Now this one says Dana White agrees to rematch. Yeah, rematch on Strickland, but it says not immediately. So it looks like we won't get a Strickland rematch. All right, moving on. UFC 298. What are your guys' thoughts about that fight? Pulling this up now. Okay, Volkanovski, Teporia. That's going to be a great fight. I do have some concerns with this fight. My concerns are that Volkanovski just came out of a knockout. And some people can bounce back from it. I mean, he is Alexander the Great. You never know, man. I mean, but that does mess with your head. I mean, that was four months ago. I think it was four months ago. Or when he does, I think he's got four. Yeah, he's preparing for this fight for four months, it looks like. And Teporia has just brutalized some of the competition. I mean, let's see. Ilya Teporia. His martial art is Greco-Roman. Great boxing. Awesome boxing, in fact. I'll look at some more details on here. I watched a few of his fights last night just to recap and take a look. He does have a heavy boxing stance. He can wrestle. I mean, when him and Bryce Mitchell fought, he definitely beat him up. And I like Bryce Mitchell. I think that fight there was brutal. He outstrikes him. He had 53 strikes. And we're talking about Bryce Mitchell and Teporia when they fought. Knocked Bryce down with a knockdown. 53 total strikes. One submission with that arm triangle defeated him. But he's cool, calm, and collected, man. Teporia is very technical with his strikes. Definitely has that high guard coming into the fight, so he's calculated. He's ready to throw those nice combos. And I don't think he's as well-rounded as Volkanovski. Volkanovski can wrestle. He's got submissions. He's good at boxing. He's good on the feet. He's got good feet movement. Teporia is kind of heavy on his leading leg. This is a classic boxing stance. And in some of the fights, when you saw him fighting against wrestlers like Bryce Mitchell, Bryce Mitchell did take him down. But when Bryce did try to take him down a few times, he pancaked him. He was very calculated with his decisions in that fight. I think it's going to be a hard fight for Volkanovski. I mean, Teporia is 27. He's hungry. He's ready for the belt. And I know Volkanovski said he's coming for that zero. So I think this is going to be a great fight. I think if Volkanovski wrestles, he'll win this fight. Taking it to the ground. Good ground control. I think that should be Volkanovski's game plan. And Teporia is good at wrestling, too. But man, he can box. And he's very calculated with his combos. He's good at setting and trapping. Now, even though Volkanovski, his reach is 71 and a half. And Teporia is 69 inches. Not much reach, but it does help. But Volkanovski's 35. Teporia's 27. These young guys, man, he's 14 and 0. Volkanovski's 26 and 3. It's going to be an interesting fight. I think if Volkanovski wrestles, I think this will be his fight. If he tries to stand with Teporia, I think he's going to have some problems. Because Volkanovski does get hit a lot. He's got a great chin. I know Makachev got him with that head kick. But I think it's going to be an interesting fight. I think it can go either way. But Teporia, I mean, he destroyed Josh Emmett. Outboxed him. Yeah, I'm going, if Volkanovski wrestles, I think he can take this fight. We'll see. I'm watching some of the camps right now. I think just Volkanovski's more of a well-rounded fighter. Now, Robert Whittaker and Paolo Acosta, I don't know about this fight. I'm not super hyped. I like Robert Whittaker. I just, Paolo Acosta, I don't know if he's got the drive. And everybody knows the controversy of him pulling out of fights. I don't know, man. I just, it's a hard fight to judge. Robert Whittaker's chin, I worry about his chin sometimes. DDP beat him up pretty good. Took him down, controlled him. Had a few good shots in that fight. Paolo Acosta, if he wants it, he's going to, Robert Whittaker's going to have some problems with him standing. I said I watched both these fighters last night, and I, you know, the Volkanovski and this fight, I mean, it's pretty, pretty well-rounded. Pretty evenly, I mean, they're around the same age, same height, same reach. So it's going to be an interesting fight, for sure. I don't know how to really gauge this one. I don't know. I'm not, I don't know. I didn't go either way. Robert's coming off a loss. I don't know about Paolo. I didn't really invest my time. I don't really care as much. Neil, Jeff Neil and Ian Gary. I don't know. I didn't really do research on that one. The other one I did do a lot of research on, which I think is going to be a good fight, but it could be, I don't know. This is going to be, to me, I'm excited for this fight. Mehrab versus Henry Cejudo. I hope I pronounce it. Devoloshevy, I think that's what it is. He's going to be a problem for Cejudo. I think that's the worst matchup you're going to make for Cejudo because he's coming off that loss against Algermain. Even though he did pretty good against Algermain, you know, went to decision. I haven't fought in, I think, a year. And Mehrab's just been going through it, man. He's been, those hammer fists on the ground when he takes them down, he's got great wrestling. I think it's going to be a wrestling match for sure. I think Mehrab takes it. I don't think Cejudo's got him. I watched both fights and Mehrab's just destroying, destroying people. Cejudo's 36 years old. Mehrab's 33. He's got the reach advantage. Now, it doesn't really matter because Cejudo fought some tall people and did pretty well. But this guy, I think Mehrab's going to take it. They both got great wrestling. This is going to be a tough fight, man. Just going to watch the fight cams. How far away is that fight? The 17th. It's coming up. I don't know how far away that is at the moment. Two, three weeks, something like that. Going to watch the countdown. Going to watch the countdown. Going to look at preparations for this fight. I don't know, man. I think it's just going to be a wrestling match. If it's a stand-up fight, I think Cejudo's got a better chance of standing just because Mehrab doesn't have a high guard and he swings kind of wild. But if Cejudo gets caught with one of those, you know what's coming. He's coming straight to the ground and those hammer fists are right behind him. Now, Henry does a few hammer fists as well. If you watch side-by-side, they're pretty much the same fighter. I think Mehrab's just got the drive. I mean, Cejudo's been the champion. He knows what it's like. Mehrab's hungry. He wants to be the champion. He wants to climb those ranks. I don't know. This Cejudo fight's going to be crazy. But those are the ones that I wanted to talk about. And a lot of people think that Mehrab's going to be a problem for Cejudo. Bisbing's covered it. Shelsonan's covered it. DC and Rogan have covered it. Let's see if we can find any news about that, if anything's changed. One month ago, it said on Ariel Helwani's show, Mehrab doesn't want to be a champion. I'm not going to butcher it. Mehrab wants a five-round fight against Henry. Maybe he just wants a five-round fight just to prove that he's a better fighter and just wants to dominate him with the wrestling stand-up. Just finish him. Get him out of there. We see what happens in five-round fights. Yeah, a lot of... Not a lot of news. This is kind of older news. I'm trying to look for fresh news. See, one month ago, one month ago. Not a lot of news, you know, except for this one, two weeks. It's just a promo. If you watch it, I mean, they're pretty close in what they do. Yeah, that's a long time ago. I don't know. It's going to be a good fight, though. Definitely Mehrab will take it over Cejudo. I guess that's how it goes, though. We'll just have to see. Look at the fight camp. Do an update and I'll readdress it. But that's my thoughts on UFC 297 and some thoughts on UFC 298. Hope you guys like the episode. This is the first one I've recorded. I like fighting. I like the MMA. I like talking about it. Don't have anybody to talk to about stuff like this. So why not talk to you guys? If you like it, great. If you don't, oh, well, I'm going to keep talking about it. So thanks, guys, for listening. Share it. Comment. See what you agree on. Have a good one, guys.