Welcome to your weekly dose of Three Amigos Podcast fun. We’ve got a great episode today featuring an in-depth look at the MMA community’s news of the week and a preview UFC Orlando and a recap of UFC Austin. We also have a new installment of our popular segment Sports That Can’t Stop No Double Leg ™.
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Here is a summary of the topics discussed, complete with the time stamps for when each interview or special segment begins. As always, we hope you enjoy listening to the show as much as we enjoyed recording it.
Sports That Can’t Stop No Double Leg™ - 32:10
The hosts discuss a variety of topics that include:
- Conor McGregor says he offered to save UFC 222
- Meltzer claimed negotiations for McGregor to fight twice in 2018 were going well
- Buys for UFC 220 and 221 are in; 220 was around 350k buys, same as Cris Cyborg & Khabib Nurmagomedov card
- UFC 221 Romero vs. Rockhold estimated at around 130k
- Burns pulled from UFC Orlando after weighing 186 at start of week for 155 lbs fight
- Bellator cut like 90% of their roster - Marcos Galvao, Georgi Karakhanyan, Kendall Grove
- Mitrione vs Nelson bombs ratings-wise
- Sports That Can’t Stop No Double Leg™
- Nieky Holzken enters World Boxing Super Series on short notice, would face George Groves if he wins
- Three Houston Astros prospects get suspended by Major League Baseball for separate drug test failures over the course of one month
- NBA fines Mark Cuban for basically saying he wants his team to lose as much as possible
- Fight News Dump:
- Kevin Lee vs. Edson Barboza (?)
- Machida vs. Belfort set for UFC 224
- UFC Austin recap
- Bellator 194 recap
- UFC Orlando preview
- UFC Orlando Picks:
- Iain: Stephens, Torres, Latifi, Perry, Barao, NcMann, Hill, Jouban
- Mookie: Stephens, Torres, Latifi, Perry, Kelleher, NcMann, Hill, Jouban
- Stephie: Emmett, Andrade, OSP, Perry, Kelleher, NcMann, Hill, Jouban
- Staff standings for 2018:
- Iain: 25-12
- Mookie: 20-17
- Stephie: 19-18
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