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An entertaining night of action was dragged down by some inadvertent fouls and one person saying some wildness on the microphone that instantly erased his quality performance, giving me plenty to talk about on this week’s edition of The Next Day Takeaways. This week, we run though: * Ignoring the unimportant voices on social media and what comes next for Belal Muhammad * How to potentially handle...

UFC 273 was an electric night of action in Jacksonville, capped by another dominant performance by Alexander Volkanovski. On this week’s episode, we cover: * Volkanovski being the best fighter on the planet right now * Aljamain Sterling’s win over Petr Yan and what comes next for both men * Khamzat Chimaev cementing his status as a legitimate welterweight contender and why a fight with Colby Covin...

On this edition of the show, ESK goes from top to bottom on Saturday’s UFC Columbus fight card, discussing what comes next for the victors and the major takeaways from each bout: * Curtis Blaydes as a heavyweight contender and the tiers in the heavyweight division * Alexa Grasso’s big win and why she should be next in line at flyweight (5:10) * Bryan Barberena being a tough out in the middle of th...

What’s more important: personality or performance? The wake of Saturday’s event in London feels like a great opportunity to discuss the question as despite massive efforts in crucial, competitive matchups by Arnold Allen and Tom Aspinall (and others), Paddy Pimblett is the guy garnering the lion’s share of the attention. On one hand, I get it: he’s magnetic, he’s charming, he has that indescribabl...

After an electric event at The O2 in London, today’s podcast is packed with energy as well as we discuss: * Tom Aspinall’s dominant effort and who he should fight next * Arnold Allen meriting a championship opportunity or a title eliminator bout at the absolute worst * Paddy Pimblett’s win, how the UFC is likely to slow play his move up the rankings, and how long fans will support such a venture *...

After a two-week absence, The Next Day Takeaways is back in your ears! This week’s show looks back at the events from Saturday night at UFC Vegas 50, including: * Song Yadong’s breakout effort and standing as one of the top prospects in the UFC * Magomed Ankalaev having done enough to merit the next championships opportunity at 205 and why he might be the best light heavyweight in the world at the...

Getting this one done nice and early because we’ve got afternoon plans and I didn’t want to leave you hanging. On this episode of The Next Day Takeaways , we discuss: * Jamahal Hill’s knockout win and why Anthony Smith makes sense as his next opponent * Johnny Walker’s continued slide, how we really need to be more patient with emerging talents, and how we need to stop abandoning them as soon as t...

The second pay-per-view of 2022 went down on Saturday night at Toyota Center in Houston, Texas, with Israel Adesanya successfully defending his middleweight title in an entertaining, competitive fight with No. 1 contender Robert Whittaker. On this episode of The Next Day Takeaways , we’ll look at: * why Adesanya is as close to a perfect fighter as I’ve ever seen * what comes next for Adesanya, bot...

Thanks to the fine people at Substack, I can now jump on here and tape a quick 20-minute emergency podcast whenever something comes across my timeline that makes me want to tape a quick 20-minute emergency pod. So in light of the ESPN MMA tweet about the UFC Middleweight Mount Rushmore and my subsequent tweet about Robert Whittaker’s record in the division, I thought I would jump on here and break...

We had fights, so we have a podcast! Episode 2 of The Next Day Takeaways looks at the key discussion points from the top of Saturday’s Fight Night event at the UFC APEX, including Sean Strickland’s continued march forward at middleweight and who he should fight next, some of the scoring questions, the emergence of Shavkat Rakhmonov, and much more. If you like the podcast and the newsletter, please...

Guess who’s taping Sunday podcasts looking back on the action from inside the Octagon now? I’ve been kicking around this idea for a while and now that Substack has made putting something like this together extremely easy and convenient, I don’t have any more excuses for not doing it, so here you go. The Next Day Takeaways will be exactly what the name suggests: thoughts, reflections, and things to...