It’s time for another of our infamous and patented Care/Don’t Care Previews with me, Kid Nate and co-host extraordinaire Eugene S. Robinson, author of Fight: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Ass-Kicking but Were Afraid You’d Get Your Ass Kicked for Asking is here.
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Topics addressed include:
- Is this the least cared UFC card ever?
- Croatian names and how (not) to pronounce them
- Safeway sushi
- Ian and whether that’s a punk rock or classic rock name
- Igor Porajac vs Jan Blachowicz and the sadness thereof
- Francis Ngannou and whether or not the kid from Oklahoma flying to Croatia to make his UFC debut against Ngannou is being fed to a shark
- Gabriel Gonzaga’s back hair
- The color of Eugene’s shirt
- Diversity training
- Junior dos Santos and escaping the Lost Battalion
- Much much more!
Here’s the full bout order for next Sunday:
Main Card (FS1, 2 PM ET/11 AM PT)
Junior dos Santos vs. Ben Rothwell… 31:44
Derrick Lewis vs. Gabriel Gonzaga… 28:40
Curtis Blaydes vs. Francis Ngannou… 26:50
Timothy Johnson vs. Marcin Tybura… 26:16
Jan Blachowicz vs. Igor Pokrajac… 17:54
Maryna Moroz vs. Cristina Stanciu… 17:00
Preliminary Card (FS1, 12 PM ET/9 AM PT)
Zak Cummings vs. Nicolas Dalby… 12:07
Damir Hadzovic vs. Mairbek Taisumov… 08:17
Ian Entwistle vs. Alejandro Perez… 07:21
Filip Pejic vs. Damian Stasiak… 06:50
Preliminary Card (Fight Pass, 10:30 AM ET/7:30 AM PT)
Lucas Martins vs. Robert Whiteford… 04:06
Cyril Asker vs. Jared Cannonier… 03:30
Alessio Di Chirico vs. Bojan Velickovic… 02:15
Enjoy!