Keith and Ben preview one of the most loaded cards in mixed martial arts history, with background, analysis, detailed predictions and picks for all 13 fights. With so much to discuss, the guys nonetheless found the time to veer into discussions on subjects including: pro wrestling gimmicks involving live animals, James Thompson's exploding ear and, of course, Bo Nickal-though for once, he qualifies as on-topic.
0:00 The best card in UFC history?
10:12 Deiveson Figueiredo (22-3-1) vs. Cody Garbrandt (14-5)
23:43 Bobby Green (31-15-1, 1 NC) vs. Jim Miller (37-17, 1 NC)
37:25 Jessica Andrade (25-12) vs. Marina Rodriguez (17-3-2)
48:40 Jalin Turner (14-7) vs. Renato Carneiro (18-5-1)
1:02:43 Sodiq Yusuff (13-3) vs. Diego Lopes (23-6)
1:12:50 Holly Holm (15-6, 1 NC) vs. Kayla Harrison (16-1)
1:34:39 Calvin Kattar (23-7) vs. Aljamain Sterling (23-4)
1:51:58 Jiri Prochazka (29-4-1) vs. Aleksandar Rakic (14-3)
2:08:15 Bo Nickal (5-0) vs. Cody Brundage (10-5)
2:24:05 Charles Oliveira (34-9, 1 NC) vs. Arman Tsarukyan (21-3)
2:42:40 Justin Gaethje (25-4) vs. Max Holloway (25-7)
3:04:44 Weili Zhang (24-3) vs. Xiaonan Yan (18-3, 1 NC)
3:19:30 Alex Pereira (9-2) vs. Jamahal Hill (12-1, 1 NC)
3:36:49 A quick rundown of all the picks
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I'm always here for the Pre and Post show.
We appreciate it, man. I do a lot of different things for Sherdog, but interacting with people directly in the preview comment section and on the live recap is the most enjoyable part of my job by far.
Thank you very much. Hope you participate in the live chat
So nice that the boys are dressed up fancy for Bo Nickal
I just want him to notice me
You guys do great work! I was looking for something to fill the void when fight night picks retired and you gentleman are just as thorough. Really appreciate the well thought out analysis
Welcome to the party! We aren't for everyone - not everyone is down for 12 minutes of analysis on random Fight Night prelims - but if deep dives are your thing, I think we deliver the goods pretty well. Hope you enjoy the shows, and if you're able, come hang out on the recap. We're taking questions and comments in real-time, and we'd love to hear from you. [ben]
Love FNP. Craig and Matt are my boys. Craig and I did a show together for a few years. Thanks for listening.
Much appreciate you guys! Watch all of these every week. Finally have a Saturday night off and might even pop in the recap live chat! Thanks for everything
Love it. See you Saturday
What a great way to start the week love the energy in the introduction
Incredible weekend of wrestling and then UFC 300 week. What a time to be alive
@@keithshillan627 Finally a weekend of wrestling where I’m not liable to spoil something for you! Never thought I’d see the day when a high schooler would qualify over Tomasello for Olympic trials.
Moicano as a cop would def keep a piece of tape right over his body cam.
Sometimes it happens by accident
Just got home from work and scrolled my KZhead page looking for UFC 300 related content. Saved 13 videos to Watch Later and Chilean & Duffy is the first one I'm watching. You guys got me HYPED!!!
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Thanks as always guys! Been following Sherdog at large for a long time, you're always my first go to for event previews and recaps.
Thank you! I recognize your name; in fact I think I mentioned you in my "listener of the night" rundown on the recap a while back. [ben]
Love it. Thanks for listening
So excited for this, top effort from the best in the business!
Thank you very much. We got to go big for UFC 300
Me when my girl wants to watch killers of the flower moon: babe this movie is too long Me when the UFC 300 preview is 3hr 40min: y'all couldn't do 300 minutes?
hahah, so funny, so true
Damn, that would have been a good idea
Commenting because I've been watching y'all for the last year now and while i was interested in MMA before, you guys have single handedly increased my interest tenfold, thanks for all the work y'all do!
[ben] Thank you! That's pretty much the ideal: all I want out of this is for people to laugh, to get excited for the event under discussion, and maybe pick up a few observations here and there that add to their enjoyment on fight night.
This is a great compliment. Nobody wants the sport to grow more than Ben and I do
Wow. Looking dapper! Long time hardcore from the days of TJ Desantis, Jeff Sherwood, and Jordan Breen. You have definitely picked up the baton and become the standard bearer in MMA analysis (and banter)! Keep it up!
[ben] Thank you! Keith and I are both listeners (and former callers!) to the JBS from way back, and Jordan was actually the one who got me in the door at Sherdog. We are but humble keepers of the flame.
Yep, we have love SRN since the beginning
Nice to wake up to this! Excited fellas
Thank you for listening. I hope we didn't let you down
I remember seeing these previews (back when I only looked forward to the written breakdowns on Sherdog) and wondering who would want to spend hours watching two dudes break down fights. Now I look forward to it every week. Thanks guys.
We still ask this question every week
Was looking foreward to this.
Thank you for listening
Thank u so much for this episode. You both are sharp-dressed analysts.
Thank you for listening
Looking sharp!!!!! I’m stoked for UFC 300, but mostly super anxious because you already know…..The Highlight is fighting!!! Max is so goood & tough/durable so i haven’t been this nervous since Justin Gaethje fought Khabib….I’ll be devastated if it doesn’t go well for The Highlight but let’s go!!!! The whole card is fantastic…..let’s gooooooo!
Once in a lifetime fight right there
Y'all are great. Thanks for all the work
Thank you for listening
A preview befitting #UFC300
Thank you for listening
I loved the fight last week, love both guys but lopes vs yusuff is probably = to it as a fight night main event.
Yeah. I would be cool with Yusuff vs Lopes as a Fight Night main event
Always look forward to the show fellas! Great content and always way ahead of the pack. Sherdog brass give these guys a raise
Thank you!!!!!!!
Always like and appreciate your detailed pre-fight analysis..... only 2mins in and ....I've clicked Like. You guys are appreciated!!!
Thank you. I appreciate you
Well done as usual gents, putting on a master-class in analysis as always! Nice to see you boys putting on the dapper threads to do your best Ric Flair impressions of "stylin' and profilin' hehe. Its crazy to think how long its been, first listening to the UFC Roundtable/ Beatdown After the Bell episodes (since '09 for me at least with UFC Fight Night 17) and now enjoying you two here on the KZhead. Well done as always, keep up the good work.
Quick story time with Keith, I once did security for Ric Flair
And thank you for the nice words
Keith said "who bets $2500 to win $100" and Shohei Ohtani's interpreter just called his bookie
Here's an interesting follow-up question: of the people who are frequent interpreters at the UFC level, which would be most likely to do the same, and why is it Wallid Ismail?
@@sherdog I think it would be Jorge Gurgel
Best fight preview I’ve ever watched, from the GOAT mma analysts. Excellent work fellas!
Dude, we love you so much. People like you keep me motivated to do the show
Can't wait to listen, I know it's going to be awesome guys!!!!
Than you for listening
A++ card rating
Wow this is the first time I watched this channel and Keith Shilian is great. He knows everything about Bo Nickal and is smart enough to say "He has been training for 2 years, that's why he is fighting Cody Brundage" cuz most people really don't understand how time and improvement works. They want him to fight a top 10 when he is 5-0 and never got hit. LOL
1) Keith is very good at this. 2) Keith has probably watched more tape on Bo Nickal than anyone other than maybe Cael Sanderson and Bo's dad. 3) Keith totally wants Bo to be fighting Top 5 guys right now, but I told him I'd cut off his mic if he got carried away. Joking aside, I think we both believe in Nickal as a likely future contender and possible future champ, and I'm actually really happy the UFC has been bringing him along in such a conservative manner. And that goes all the way back to before he was actually in the UFC. There was no real reason to make him fight twice on the Contender Series, but I'm glad they did. [ben]
@@sherdog yessir. And that credit also goes to his management team First Round Management, Malki Kawa. He is also the manager of Ilia Topuira. And ofc guys like Jon Jones, Jorge Masvidal and many more greats. He was in an interview with Ariel 2 years ago and said Bo will be what Jon Jones is supposed to be. Ofc that's a crazy statement considering Jon is the Goat but still. He also said he could've put Bo in the ufc without even putting him on DWCS first, and make him challenge the title in 2 years. But he wants to take it slow and give Bo the necessary time and fights for his improvement
Thank you for the kind words. You think I am excited for Nickal, wait until Carter Starocci comes to MMA
This is good stuff. Thorough and well-reasoned.
Thank you sir. Appreciate you listening. Hope you join the live recap show after the event
Ayeeee. All dressed up looking sharp gentlemen
I love the show. Commented on Spotify too! Very underrated humor on this show and always the best dressed!...well today, the best dressed, preview show.
Thanks for the love. Appreciate you
You guys are awesome. Every week. Just awesome!
Thank you so much! I appreciate it anytime you drop in and say hi. [ben]
Thank you for listening
Peak eyebrow day for Keith the 🐐 🤣🫡
My sex appeal raised a different level for this show
@@keithshillan627🤣🤣 Bo wishes he was at that level
And I will be there for recap!!
It is going to be a big one
Great breakdowns
Thank you for listening
love the break down
Thank you for listening
Big ups bois! Watching your show as usual 🍺
Thank you very much
Bo Nickal is gonna be rookie Aaron Pico all over again, and Cody Brundage is his Zach Freeman. DON'T TELL ME I DIDNT WARN ALL OF YOU.
Take it back!!!
lookin dapper, can't go back now
Just watch me!
I'm wearing a 3 piece suit from now on
You guys are the best in the business…and that’s coming from Anchorage Brazilian Jiu Jitsu.
I went and unliked this comment just so i could like it again. 🙌
Love Anchorage, You guys are the best
The Professionals. Given The Goods .
Holy cow gentlemen, looking good, I had to shave and polish the shoes before I could watch this 🤵
Dress for the job you want, not the job you have
Fantastic breakdown as always guys. I won't go into all my picks because I could talk about it for almost four hours myself. One thing I will say is that I think Bobby Green wins and then calls out Paddy Pimblett for the UFC event in Manchester. I know Moicano wants that fight too, but I think it'll be hard for him to make that case after Turner smashes him.
ERRRRRBODY is lining up for a shot at Paddy.
If I am the UFC, I am giving Paddy a softball for Manchester. I'm thinking a name like Clay Guida
@@keithshillan627 I understand that reasoning, but I'd hate to see it. If they ever have an opportunity to give Paddy a challenge in England it will be at this event because there is a huge and vicious rivalry between Liverpool and Manchester, so the crowd may well be more divided than normal.
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Love you guys!!
Appreciate you. Thanks for listening. Hope to join the live recap show
You guys are the best.
Thank you for listening
Great content
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Oh Shoot! The boys came dressed to the nines today!!
We wearing tuxedos and top hats for UFC 400
[ben] The next time you see me in a blazer, kid, we better either be on Press Row together or at your wedding. If you ever see Keith in a tie again, give him your name, your ID, and ask politely to speak to an attorney.
Serious settings with the suits!
UFC 300 baby
Correct me if I'm wrong but I thought the UFC had Zhang Mingyang as the official backup to the Pereira/Hill.
😂
Best analysis in the Business, these guys are ALWAYS on Point !!!! Great Team
Thank you. I appreciate your kind words. Enjoy the fights tonight and come back for the recap show
I think the Prochazka vs Rakic fight is simply the UFC trying hard to get Prochazka back in the win column and using Rakic as the sacrificial lamb. The UFC know who is the more marketable and, therefore, bankable $$$ in the business sense.
Rakic is a pretty tough ass lamb though
@@keithshillan627 That is quite true about Rakic! Also it's been nearly 2 years since he last fought so.... he might surprise everyone in some way by appearing as "Rakic 2.0". But I still expect Jiri to get the job done, his motivation after the Pereira loss must be very high ... I'm sure he'll be super keen to get the train back on track with a dominant stoppage win over Rakic.
Looking smooth guys
Thank you sir. Got to go big for UFC 300
The best fight week ever. And capped off with perfect weigh-in at 45 minutes long. Lets go! UFC 300 is here!
I’m pumped but seems like the casual fans aren’t noticing because there isn’t a superstar on the card
How many more ‘wins in a row’ does Kyle Nelson need, before he sniffs title contention? I think 3 more wins in a row and he could find himself in a title eliminator bout.
[ben] I'd say three at the very least. He's operating in a brutal division, though it helps that a lot of the UFC FW Top 10 are aging guys who have fought each other a million times. Also, he doesn't really have any of the traits that sometimes let a fighter jump the line; e.g., a memorable look, big personality, established rivalry with the champ. He's entertaining enough, but he isn't exactly Ige or Landwehr in that department. So yeah, I think he probably has to make the climb like anyone else, and while it's really cool that he's fighting the best he ever has right now, it might be asking a lot for him to win three more fights, especially as he gets close to the rankings. Look at it this way: I would have a hard time favoring him over Kattar or Sterling on Saturday, and that's exactly the kind of matchups he's headed for.
@@sherdog UFC 300! I am ready to RUMMBBBLLLLEEEEE!
I didn't expect to see Kyle Nelson's name in a UFC 300 post. That said, I think he needs 3 to 5 wins
They come runnin' just as fast as they can 'Cause every girl crazy 'bout a sharp-dressed man
Solid reference. I think both Ben and I have seen ZZ Top in concert
2 minutes and No bo nickel reference. I think I'm out. Otherwise great 2 minutes guys
Bo is coming. Plenty of Bo love on this card
Great content new subscriber !!$$$
Thank you for listening
Excellent preview, but I did miss storyline with keith!
I'm glad there is at least one
Commenting to be one of 300. And I can’t believe Bo Nickal is be so disrespected. -3000? That’s it?
Thank you
Comment number 300!!!.... ( or 18)
Love it. Thank you
Hey, man, did you see Al's Hotdogs closed? Sad day.
Just told the boys to suit up.
Wow super deep dive. Longer then titanic
On the Editor's Cut Ben poses naked and I draw pictures of him
@@keithshillan627 I'M KING OF THE WORLD!!!!
Balls deep
Only way to do it
Kieth we need to factor in that Andrade was purely showed up for a pay check her last few fights and the UFC knew that very well. Financially I don't think she can afford to lose
That's a good point
Hey guys, can you address how the Brazilian name changed work sometime? Do they get to change them whenever they want to whatever they want or are there limitations? You know what I’m asking. Thanks!
[ben] Hey! I can speak on this subject a little bit, since I ran the Sherdog Fight Finder for a year or so, and am still semi-involved in what's going on. We are pretty conservative when it comes to fighter nicknames vs. fighter real names. Our goals are clarity, respect, and consistency, probably in that order. We don't love when fighters constantly change nicknames (for one, it's a lot of work) but as long as they are identified by their official name, it isn't a huge deal if (for example) Hector Lombard wanted to switch back and forth between "Lightning" and "Showeather" all the time. In Brazil, nicknames are a huge part of sporting culture and a lot of athletes are known primarily by their nickname, so it's sometimes difficult to balance. There are only a very few fighters that we identify by their nickname in the database. Most of them are Brazilian, but regardless of where they're from, our decision to use the nickname is usually due to a combination of factors: being synonymous with the nickname...plus some other factor. In the case of Renan Barao, he's synonymous with the nickname, plus his real name is a mile long. In the case of Gleison Tibau, he's synonymous with the nickname, plus he started going by it so early in his career that he was in the UFC for years before most people even realized "Tibau" wasn't one of his surnames, but the beach he used to hang around. (That isn't exclusive to Brazilians, by the way: Cub Swanson has been going by his nickname for so long that most people don't even know his real name is Kevin, so "Cub" got grandfathered in.) Just being synonymous with the nickname usually isn't enough by itself, which is why we still have Cristiane Justino, Ronaldo Souza, and Mirko Filipovic in the database under actual names. What's really starting to make things challenging for us is Asian fighter names. For example, muay thai fighters give themselves long nicknames that are a mashup of their own name, their team affiliation, their hometown or their sponsors, so you get handles like "Tawanchai P.K. Saenchaimuaythaigym" and "Loma Lookboonmee," they often change them at will, and sometimes they don't even resemble the fighter's legal name. And that's even assuming that the fighters' "real" names fit easily into Western-style classification, which my goodness they do not. Case in point: former UFC and current ONE fighter Aung La Nsang is from Myanmar. Nsang isn't his last name. He doesn't have a last name, in the sense of a family surname like an American or Mexican or Japanese fighter would. That creates challenges when it comes to something as simple as alphabetizing.
Ben, thank you for the explanation. You guys are the best in the business. Hope I get to buy you a beer someday. Enjoy the fights
Looking sharp boys! Latest "Leaderboard" video is out. Ben killed it jumping from 5th to 2nd! In case ya wanna watch it... I tried to post link here, but it gets removed as spam? - Nothing against Nickal, but a Main Card spot on this card is ridiculous. Even if it was McGregor, does anyone want to see this much of a betting mismatch? Certainly not on the Main. Unless it's Jesus vs Judas or something, a non-championship mismatch like this should be on the prelims. imho Love the show!
In fairness, Cody did call Bo the 2nd coming of Jesus at media day today
@@keithshillan627 I saw that after my comment. Made me seem unoriginal. I'm better than that, dang it!
Need to suit up too view this content
Got to step the game up for UFC 300
LETS FUCKIN GO BOYS
UFC 300!!! I'm so pumped
Cliff notes on their picks?
I have a better chance of hitting a headlock takedown on keith than Brundage has of beating Bo Nickal, lol.
[ben] Bad example, because Keith would totally let you hit one just to be nice.
@@sherdog Nope! I'm jumping the front hip and sending her for a ride
keith and ben are in their boxers yo
I was only wearing shorts underneath
I know I didn't just see a man fall off his chair after those odds😆😆😆 3:06:11
It was an accident of course
Not long enough
Should have gone 300 minutes
I liked and commented! Chama
Thank you very much
SherDOG 300 ; LETS GOOOOE!
The takeover
Love it
Spending 15 minutes analyzing the Nickal fight is absurd. They are giving him the Pimblett treatment and should have matched him with Shahbazyan this time out instead. Maybe get odds closer than -2500 and the chance to see if he has a chin. No chance they will match him with someone like Allen if he does break into the top 10.
He has been a pro for less than 2 years. No need to rush him
Lol kayla harrison said a burger and a belt at the presser! Haha! She is funny!
Looking how ripped she is, that Burger must be packed with protein