▶ Episode 625: Jake Paul & Jon Jones out here committing elder abuse
The fights themselves were not necessarily the story for either Jake Paul or Jon Jones, during what has to be considered one of the biggest combat sports weekends in recent memory. For Jake Paul, it w
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▶ Episode 624: Jones. Stipe. Tyson. Paul. One weekend?
Albeit for very different reasons, we’ve been looking forward to both Jon Jones vs. Stipe Miocic and Mike Tyson vs. Jake Paul for a while now. Both fights have experienced lengthy delays (one owing to
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▶ Episode 623: UFC can’t keep sending Alex Pereira You up?’ texts
Belal Muhammad is out of his scheduled title defense against Shavkat THAT BOY GOOD Rakhmonov at UFC 310, owing to an infected bone in his toe. Say what? An infected BONE? We didn’t even know that was
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▶ Episode 622: MMA eats our heroes
What a strange mix of emotions we felt watching UFC 308. On one hand, it was cool to see guys like Ilia Topuria and Khamzat Chimaev score big wins to solidify themselves among the next wave of MMA’s g
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▶ Episode 621: Big Fran back! UFC 308 next!
There are a lot of lean times in MMA. A lot of times where it feels like, for lack of a better term, ain’t shit goin’ on. This is not one of them. With Francis Ngannou making his return to MMA last Sa
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▶ Episode 620: Can Francis Ngannou come up big for PFL?
This Saturday in Saudi Arabia, Francis Ngannou returns to the cage for the first time since January 2022. A lot has transpired since then, as we all know: Big Fran left the UFC amid a bitter contract
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▶ Episode 619: Alex Pereira saves the day (again!)
UFC 307 was not one for the record books. In fact, right up to the point that Alex Pereira and Khalil Rountree Jr. took the cage for the light heavyweight title fight main event, it was sort of a stin
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▶ Episode 618: Alex Pereira tempts the gods at UFC 307
Alex Pereira sure fights a lot. Saturday’s light heavyweight title defense against Khalil Rountree Jr. at UFC 307 will be Poatan’s fourth fight in the last calendar year and also his 10th in the UFC s
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▶ Episode 617: We came, we Sphered, we conquered
The UFC’s long-awaited, much hyped debut at Sphere in Las Vegas finally went down Saturday and – you know what? – it was actually pretty cool. The visuals were stunning, the atmosphere was unique and
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▶ Episode 616: UFC 306 at Sphere!
Well, Main-iacs, the time is finally here. This is the week the UFC heads across town to (the) Sphere for UFC 306. Dana White has convinced himself that the dummies on the internet said he couldn’t do
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▶ CME Patreon Live Chat for 9/4/24
Since we missed the Proper yesterday, we thought we'd go ahead and put this episode of the Live Chat out on the regular free CME podcast feed. For you free listeners, think of it as a view behind the
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▶ Episode 615: All hail the Fighting Nerds!
Caio Borralho and Jared Cannonier actually had themselves an entertaining scrap on Saturday in the main event of the UFC's latest offering on ESPN. In the end, it was Borralho notching the unanimous d
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▶ Episode 614: Don’t doubt Dricus
How does Dricus du Plessis keep doing this shit, man? This is a guy who fights like he’s in PRIDE in like 2005. He rushes in, throwing them haymakers, seemingly just hoping for the best — and somehow
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▶ Episode 613: UFC 305 is getting the high hat
We’re going to Perth for UFC 305 and Dricus Du Plessis vs. Israel Adesanya for the UFC middleweight title. It’s both a fight and a fightcard that are flying under the radar just a little bit here. The
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▶ Episode 612: Topuria vs. Holloway is *fire emoji*
The UFC this week made good on its promise to book a men’s featherweight title fight between Ilia Topuria and Max Holloway and we … are … stoked. For hardcore fans, this might be the best fight availa
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▶ Episode 611: The name, remembered
Belal Muhammad went and did it. The man the UFC forced to go 10 fights without a loss between 2019-2024 before finally granting him a title shot. The man who came into Manchester a significant underdo
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▶ Episode 610: UFC 304 preview + Jake Paul, future champion?
Oops! … He did it again. Jake Paul played with our hearts, got lost in the game onSaturday, as he dispatched Mike Perry via sixth round TKO. Things went a little off the rails after that, with Conor M
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▶ Episode 609: Did Jon Jones lose a finger? At the airport?
Things Jon Jones has done on Twitter over the last few weeks include, but are not limited to: Announcing he gained 50/50 custody of a son we (maybe?) didn’t know he had. Posted a picture with his new
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▶ Episode 608: Was Diaz vs. Masvidal actually good?!?
Well, you know what they say about sunshine and the proverbial dog’s ass. Hard to believe, but Nate Diaz and Jorge Masvidal went out there and had an (allegedly) entertaining boxing match over the wee
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▶ Episode 607: Alex Pereira is that dude
Turned out, Alex Pereira didn’t need the dark arts to defeat Jiri Prochazka. He just needed Prochazka to continually rush at him with little to no defenses around his face until Pereira could start la
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▶ Episode 606: The internet don’t want to hear about your toe, bro
So, now we know. It was the toe. The pinkie toe, to be exact. The littlest pig. That’s what kept Conor McGregor out of the fight of the year, his grudge (?) match years in the making against Michael C
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▶ Episode 605: The many ins and outs of UFC 303
Conor McGregor is out. Alex Pereira is in. Michael Chandler is out. Jiri Prochazka is in. Jamahal Hill is out. Anthony Smith is in. Elsewhere, Khamzat Chimaev is out. Ikram Alizkerov (?) is in. Mike T
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▶ Episode 604: So close, so far
Dustin Poirier gave it his all, putting on the sort of gritty and endlessly game performance against Islam Makhachev at UFC 302 that we've come to expect from him during his great career. But it wasn'
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▶ Episode 603: Last chance for Cool Dusty P
Dustin Poirier is already an all-time great lightweight. He's a shoo-in first-ballot UFC Hall of Famer. He's beloved by fans. He possesses a resume that will stand-up with almost anyone's. But you kno
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▶ Episode 602: Boxing is good right now
Hey! It’s the 12th anniversary of the Co-Main Event Podcast! Yaaaay! Didn’t think we’d still be here, did you? DID YOU? Haha, well, screw you haters, we’ll see you in the passion project gotcha videos
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▶ Episode 601: Derrick Lewis things
By now we all know what Derrick Lewis brings to the table. You either like it, or you don't. Lewis is going to come into fight week and be cheeky and affable, claiming to have not really trained and/o
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▶ Episode 600: Jose Aldo didn't get the memo at UFC 301
Fitting that as the Co-Main Event Podcast celebrates its 600th episode, it's an old dog making the most headlines from Saturday's UFC 301. If Jose Also was supposed to serve as a stepping stone for Jo
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▶ Episode 599: UFC 301 preview + BKFC rewind
A few years ago it might have seemed farfetched that one day we'd be sitting here spending the majority of an entire episode of the Proper talking about Bare Knuckle FC and a Jake Paul fight, but that
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▶ Episode 598: UFC to Netflix?
In all the hubbub over UFC 300, most of us missed the juicy detail that Netflix Co-CEO Ted Sarandos was down there sitting cageside on the elbow of Ari Emanuel during the event. You know who didn't mi
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▶ Episode 597: UFC 300 proved us wrong
Well, don't we all feel stupid now? After weeks of dumping on the UFC 300 card for not living up to our expectations, it finally happened on Saturday and it ... was ... bonkers. You had Max Holloway p
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▶ Episode 596: UFC 300 is nigh!
Saturday night, the greatest fight card in the history of fight cards comes at us from T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. Or, at least, that's what the UFC wants us to think about UFC 300. Honestly, the car
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▶ Episode 595: Cheating still works in MMA
Well, Chris Weidman can't very well retire after that one, can he? We had hoped perhaps Saturday's Fight Night bout against Bruno Silva would be the former middleweight champion's last but ... not onl
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▶ Episode 594: Did the fighters blink?
The years-long staring contest between the UFC and some of its former fighters is over. The class action antitrust lawsuit between the two parties ended last week with the MMA company agreeing to pay
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▶ Episode 593: Conor McGregor, whas really goin' on?
After showing up to the Road House premiere looking like he was in a *cough* heightened state of awareness *cough* Conor McGregor once again iterated that he wants to return to the UFC to finish out
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▶ Episode 592: UFC 299 spectacular (for Sean O'Malley)!
If Sean O'Malley needed a statement win to prove he is perhaps the class of the UFC's growing group of young stars, he got one Saturday, essentially pitching a perfect game against Marlon Chito Vera
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▶ Episode 591: UFC 299 is more than O'Malley vs. Chito
Sean O'Malley looks to avenge his funky 2020 injury loss to Chito Vera on Saturday at UFC 299. Kinda weird to think that we already consider O'Malley one of the UFC's most established stars and champi
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▶ Episode 590: Brian Ortega’s wild week
Brian Ortega injured himself before his co-main event fight against Yair Rodriguez even started on Saturday, appearing to roll his ankle during Bruce Buffer’s fighter introductions. Then Ortega got li
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▶ Episode 589: Topuria triumphs at UFC 298
Everything came up Ilia Topuria on Saturday at UFC 298, as the 27-year-old Spaniard fulfilled his self-avowed destiny with a thunderous second-round knockout of longstanding men’s featherweight champi
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▶ Episode 588: UFC 298 is Old Man Volk vs. whippersnapper Topuria
Alexander Volkanovski fully embraced his old man status headed into Saturday's UFC 298, in a legitimately hilarious internet video that showed off his stellar general acting chops and comedic timing.
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▶ Episode 587: Renato Moicano is A LOT
Got to admire Renato Moicano’s entrepreneurial spirit. Here’s “Money” Moicano nearly 10 years and 15 fights into his UFC career (he’s 18-5-1 as professional after Saturday’s win over Drew Dober) and i
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▶ Episode 586: UFC 300 adds Kayla Harrison + Jon Anik apologizes?!?
It was a triple-whammy announcement from Dana White last week, adding Kayla Harrison to UFC 300, giving her a fight with Holly Holm and having it at women's bantamweight. Clearly Harrison's involvemen
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▶ Episode 585: UFC 297: Dumb and Dumber
Dricus du Plessis beat Sean Strickland for the middleweight title, Raquel Pennington cashed-in on the women's bantamweight strap on her 18th fight in the UFC and the company announced Frankie Edgar wa
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▶ Episode 584: UFC 297 preview!
Sean Strickland and Dricus du Plessis are set to take it to the cage on Saturday at UFC 297, instead of fighting all over the damn arena like Mankind and HHH in 1997 or whatever. The champion probably
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▶ Episode 583: UFC gets back to action for 2024
Friends, the holiday doldrums are over and this weekend the UFC kicks off its sure to be relentless 2024 live event schedule with a rematch between Magomed Ankalaev and Johnny Walker. Maybe not the se
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▶ Episode 582: UFC 296 debrief
The last UFC event of 2023 left us with a lot to talk about. Leon Edwards and Alexandre Pantoja both successfully defended their titles. Up-and-comers Shavkat Rakhmonov and Paddy Pimblett got big wins
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▶ Episode 582: UFC 296 debreif
The last UFC event of 2023 left us with a lot to talk about. Leon Edwards and Alexandre Pantoja both successfully defended their titles. Up-and-comers Shavkat Rakhmonov and Paddy Pimblett got big wins
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▶ Episode 581: Can Colby + Royval make it a baker's dozen?
It's been a year of upheaval in the UFC. All told, the company has crowned 11 champions in 2023--with UFC 296's twin-bill of title fights still on deck this Saturday. Can Colby Covington finally break
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▶ Episode 580: Long live the king (of violence)!
It's possible there has never been a person better suited to bare knuckle boxing than Mike Perry. Here he was again last weekend against Eddie Alvarez, seeming to wager that he was willing to go out t
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▶ Episode 579: Questions, Comments, Concerns
On the heels of last week's PFL championships and in advance of this week's UFC Fight Night, we open it up to listener questions. What's at stake between Beneil Dariush and Arman Tsarukyan this weeken
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▶ Episode 578: It was all a dream ...
It was funny and fitting that Bellator 301 crowned two new champions and advanced one fighter to the finals of the company's ongoing grand prix just a couple days before we got final confirmation it h
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▶ Episode 577: You get a KO! And you get a KO! And YOU get a KO!
We crowned two new champions on Saturday at UFC 295–and neither fight took that long. On a night full of KOs at Madison Square Garden, Alex Pereira emerged with the light heavyweight championship (his
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▶ Episode 576: Jiri P. vs. Alex P. at MSG
We’re sad that Jon Jones vs. Stipe Miocic is off pretty much indefinitely due to Jones’ torn pec, but UFC 295 still looks pretty OK. It’s admittedly a little top heavy – no need to stack the card when
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▶ Episode 575: Francis Ngannou, god among men
MMA people, what did we just see? Francis Ngannou went over there to Saudi Arabia over the weekend and DID THE DAMN THING against heavyweight champion Tyson Fury. Ngannou out-performed even our most g
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▶ Episode 574: Strange times in Abu Dhabi
UFC 294 was a weird one. Islam Makhachev and Khamzat Chimaev both scored big victories over short-notice replacements, but the event also was marred by low blows, fence grabs, illegal knees, some supe
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▶ Episode 573: UFC 294 is some tasty chicken salad
So, just a couple weeks before the UFC is set to head to Abu Dhabi with a fairly marquee card, they lose BOTH their co-main event and main event to some unexpected misadventure. In this case, it was a
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▶ Episode 572: 'Nothing planned' for Conor McGregor?!?!
UFC President Dana White this week confirmed earlier social media posts from Conor McGregor that the fighter had sent his stuff to UFC drug czar Jeff Novitsky, but said that McGregor was not back in
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▶ Episode 571: Is this the end?
Bellator 300 happens this weekend at Pechanga Arena in San Diego. Three titles on the line. Seventeen fights total. Under normal circumstances you could chalk it down as a gala celebration of Scott Co
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▶ Episode 570: Mailbag bonanza!
We got more listener mail than we expected coming out of last weekend’s Fight Night card – Thanks, Bryce! – and with no UFC event scheduled for this weekend we thought, what the hell, let’s answer as
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▶ Episode 569: Everybody had fun except Valentina Shevchenko
Nobody loves a 10-8 round more than Mike Bell. That Mike Bell is a 10-8in' MFer to be sure. Let him out of your sight for even one second and Mike Bell will score a round 10-8. Valentina Shevchenko fo
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▶ Episode 568: What. The F@#k. Just Happened?
It was no dream. There is no waking up from this one. Sean Strickland really DID show up on Saturday at UFC 293 and take the middleweight title from Israel Adesanya by shocking unanimous decision. Thi
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▶ Doin' the Damn Thing: The Essential Dadliness of Patrick Wyman
Hey, Co-Mainiacs, here's a tasty lfree sample of what's going on behind the paywall over at Patreon.com/comainevent. If you like it, you might consider signing up and joining the team? Remember, all o
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▶ Episode 567: UFC 293 ain't no bobby dazzler
Sounds like Sean Strickland is having fun on his trip to Australia, what with showing up on day one and slugging a random fan in the stomach. He's also writing some fire tweets (and by fire we mean of
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▶ Episode 566: Holloway, Zombie both sweet dudes
Max Holloway got the win as expected over Chan Sung Jung on Saturday, but it was still a fairly impressive weekend for the Korean Zombie. Jung was able to find Holloway's chin more than expected prior
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▶ Episode 565: Sean O'Malley, world champion
Friends, your new UFC men's bantamweight champion is Sean O'Malley. It's possible that's a pretty big deal. At this point, the UFC certainly seems to have succeeded in its years-long effort at making
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▶ Episode 564: UFC's O'Malley Experiment gets serious
Since his promotional debut in 2017, the UFC has had Sean O'Malley ticketed for stardom. Saturday at UFC 292, perhaps we'll see if he came make good on that promise. O'Malley is going off as about a 2
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▶ Episode 563: Jake Paul to MMA. Is it time?
Jake Paul did that thing on Saturday where he outduels an aging but beloved MMA star in the boxing ring. This time it was Nate Diaz coming up short on the scorecards against The Problem Child. It wa
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▶ Episode 562: Justin Gaethje, BMF, No. 1 contender
Usually, when Justin Gaethje delivers devastating kicks, they are to the legs. Turns out, he can kick you in the head pretty hard, too. Dustin Poirier found that out the hard way Saturday during the p
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▶ Episode 561: Doin' it again, brother, at UFC 291
Nobody in the world will argue with Dustin Poirier and Justin Gaethje re-matching at UFC 291. That's just a good-ass fight. One so good, in fact, that it probably doesn't need the added silliness of b
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▶ Episode 560: Francis Ngannou rolls a Yahtzee
At this point, you gotta admire Francis Ngannou's track record of doing exactly what the fuck he says he's going to do. He said he was going to wait out his UFC contract. He did that. He said he was g
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▶ Episode 559: UFC 290 is why we watch
Holy shit! If you happen to be an MMA fan who struggles with the current landscape of the UFC, Saturday's pay-per-view was a goddamn life-affirming breath of fresh air. UFC 290 was probably one of the
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▶ Episode 558: Are the vibes off for Volk at UFC 290?
There's no real reason to believe Yair Rodriguez defeats Alexander Volkanovski in their men's featherweight title unification bout at UFC 290 this weekend. Volkanovski has been too good, he comes into
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▶ Episode 557: These rich nerds ain't fighting
Mere weeks after Dana White said the UFC doesn't do gimmick fights, he's all up in the media talking about trying to book an actual cagefight between Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk. First off, if you
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▶ Episode 556: What would a Bellator-PFL merger look like?
Bellator staged the top MMA event of the weekend, with Sergio Pettis outdueling Patricio Pitbull in a compelling scrap for the men's bantamweight championship and light heavyweight titlist Vadim Nemko
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▶ Episode 555: Oliveira Owns UFC 289
Amanda Nunes pretty much whooped-up on Irene Aldana to retain her women's bantamweight title and then retired in the cage, which was a nice moment. Canadian fighters went undefeated in front of their
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▶ Episode No. 554: Is UFC 289 the last ride for The Lioness?
Amanda Nunes returns Saturday to defend her women's bantamweight title against Irene Aldana at UFC 289. Should be a solid little scrap, though we're not sure there's any reason to suspect Nunes might
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▶ Episode 553: So many Conor McGregor headlines
Conor McGregor is filling out the paperwork to re-enroll in the USADA testing pool, according to Dana White, which means the biggest star in MMA is back! Almost? Maybe? Remains to seen. Despite the
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▶ Episode 552: Fighter pay drops to 13% in 2022
Bloody Elbow's John Nash has a new report out on the UFC's finances and, friends, it is mind-blowing. Once again in 2022, the fight company made more than $1 billion in revenue and, largely because it
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▶ CME Patreon Power Hour: Big guys pointing fingers
Joe Rogan said some fairly innocuous stuff this week about what would happen in a street fight (or a locked-room fight, as the case may be) between Jon Jones and Tyson Fury. Fury did not appreciate Ro
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▶ Doin' the Damn Thing: Kevin Seccia on the WGA writers strike
This week, Friend of the Podcast and Real Life Hollywood TV Writer Kevin Seccia was kind enough to come in off the picket line to talk us through the particulars of the ongoing WGA writers strike. Kev
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▶ CME Patreon Live Chat for 5/17/23
Rumor has it, there was some news this week. Just a lil bit. Just a lil bit of news happened over the last couple of days. As you may have heard, the biggest of homies, Francis Ngannou, announced on T
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▶ Epsiode 551: Francis Ngannou has some news
What a tease this guy, Big Fran is. Here he is posting this video to his socials last week promising us that on Tuesday he's going to tells us (what we hope is) his final decision on free agency. We'r
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▶ CME Patreon Power Hour: Almeida says he'll tap the Bigi Boy. What if
Jailton Almeida isn't keeping his gameplan too close to the vest when it comes to this weekend's UFC on ABC main event against Jairzinho Rozenstruik. The fast-rising heavyweight prospect says he's str
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▶ Doin' the Damn Thing: Two UFC fighters have hijacked the kingdom of M
The Economist published an interesting feature story about how UFC veterans Abu and Ottman Azaitar -- who you may remember from that UFC 257 fiasco involving an alleged bagful of potatoes -- have pa
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▶ CME Patreon Live Chat for 5/10/23
It's pledge month at the Co-Main Event Podcast. As a totally independently produced podcast, we rely on the generosity of listeners like you to keep this thing rolling. Here's a free sample of our wee
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▶ Episode 550: UFC 288 doesn't overachieve
You know how some fight cards that look pretty meh on paper turn out to be unexpectedly great? Yeah, UFC 288 wasn't really one of those. Headlined by an important but perhaps not best-selling men's
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▶ Episode 549: UFC 288 preview + BKFC's Super Bowl
It's not every weekend that the eyes of the combat sports world fall squarely on BKFC, but with the UFC giving new meaning to the term Just Some Fights and no other MMA to speak of, that was the case
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▶ Episode 548: Sergei Pavlovich punches his ticket (and Curtis Blaydes)
Welcome to the heavyweight elite, Sergei Pavlovich. Ya boy went out there and starched Curtis Blaydes in just over three minutes on Saturday at a UFC Fight Night event to become the consensus No. 1 co
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▶ Episode 547: Max Holloway ain't nothing to fuck with
You think the UFC will stop sending its top men's featherweight prospects to Max Holloway? Because so far when they do, all they get back is a box of bones. Holloway continued his up-and-comer ass-whi
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▶ Episode 546: Izzy gets one back
Once it was over, you could kinda tell Israel Adesanya had been thinking about this one for a while. He had his bow-and-arrow celebration all planned out. He did every dance he knew how to do. He had
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▶ Episode 545: Reactions to UFC/WWE super-happy-fun merger
There we all were, just minding our own business, tying to enjoy our weekends when suddenly Endeavor just casually drops that, oh yeah, they're going to buy WWE and roll it into a single, publicly tra
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▶ Episode 544: Sandhagen, Holm reinforce status quo
Cory Sandhagen and Holly Holm (or, Holly Holmes, if you prefer) both looked pretty good at the weekend's UFC Fight Night event. Both veterans dispatched challengers who were looking to break into titl
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▶ Episode 543: A 'Rocky' moment for Leon Edwards
Leon Edwards went into Saturday's welterweight title fight against Kamaru Usman at UFC 286 as both the champion and a bit more than a 2-to-1 underdog. As of Monday morning, he's now one thing, but not
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▶ Episode 542: UFC 286 preview + Merab's dominance
Leon Edwards and Kamaru Usman are going to do it again, brother, for the third time on Saturday at UFC 286 in London. The champion is going off as a fairly significant underdog and conventional wisdom
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▶ Episode 541: Baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhh!
Goddamn, he made that look easy. During the week leading up to UFC 285, Jon Jones said he expected people to be shocked by how effortlessly he'd beat Ciryl Gane for the heavyweight title. Jones said i
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▶ Episode 540: Jones vs. Gane is upon us (we hope)!
This episode takes a deep dive into a thing we once thought would never actually happen: Jon Jones' move to heavyweight. This Saturday at UFC 285, the greatest light heavyweight of all time finally ta
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▶ Episode 539: Erin Blanchfield is the real deal
Erin Blanchfield jumps up to the No. 2 spot on the UFC's official women's flyweight rankings this week after her drubbing of a short-notice Jessica Andrade Saturday at a UFC Fight Night. Hard to say s
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▶ Episode 538: A fight for the ages
Islam Makhachev and Alexander Volkanovski had themselves perhaps one of the greatest fights on all time on Saturday at UFC 284. For all the hoopla about a superfight and the Nos. 1-2 pound for pound f
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▶ Episode 537: Well, that was sad
We thought it was weird from the start that Fedor Emelianenko wanted to have his retirement fight against Ryan Bader. It was. Friends, Fedor looked every single day of his 46 years on this planet on S
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▶ Episode 536: Is MMA ready to let go of Fedor?
We are led to believe that Saturday's Bellator 290 will include the last fight for The Last Emperor. The 46-year-old Fedor Emelianenko will do the damn thing one more time in a rematch against Ryan Ba
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▶ Episode 535: What will a Jamahal Hill title reign look like?
Jamahal Hill answered all our questions against Glover Teixeira on Saturday night at UFC 283. Could he handle the step-up in competition? Yes. Was he ready to go hard for the full 25 minutes? Indeed.
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▶ Episode 534: Francis Ngannou KOs UFC in contract standoff
Well, he did it. Francis Ngannou waited-out his UFC contract while rehabbing from knee surgery during 2022 and now he's a free man. There's never been a better time to be a free agent in combat sports
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▶ Episode 533: It's fight week! (and surely there's nothing else to tal
Well, fuck, you guys. We had just hit export on the latest episode of the CME when we refreshed Twitter to see the planned UFC main event between Nassourdine Imavov and Kelvin Gastelum is off and no
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▶ Episode 532: The State of MMA in 2023
With video of Dana White slapping his wife in the face in a club in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico on New Year's Eve now spreading across the internet, we are forced to frame this week's discussion around whe
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▶ Episode 531: It was a weird year for stars in the UFC
Conor McGregor didn't fight. Jon Jones didn't fight. Francis Ngannou fought once, in January, and then spent the rest of the year rehabbing from injury with perhaps one foot out the door. Nate Diaz le
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▶ Episode 530: Paddy Pimblett breaks the internet
Paddy Pimblett somehow messed around and was awarded a unanimous decision victory over Jared Gordon on Saturday at UFC 282, in a co-main event bout almost everybody who watched live thought Gordon won
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▶ Episode 529: Wonderman! What is the secret of your power?
Score one for the old dogs at Saturday's UFC on ESPN event. Not only did Stephen Wonderman Thompson emerge victorious over an injured Kevin Holland in the main event, but Clay Guida, Rafeal dos Anjo
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▶ Episode 528: Conor McGregor probably took PEDs, Conor McGregor seems
Well, this is a new one. After months of speculation on exactly what he was up to when the UFC apparently let him opt out of the USADA testing pool while recovering from the horrible leg injury he suf
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▶ Episode 527: Is Vadim Nemkov the world's No. 1 LHW?
We have once again reached an odd inflection point where Bellator MMA could lay conceivable claim to having the best fighter in the world in a particular weight class. This time it's light heavyweight
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▶ Episode 526: UFC 281 was WILD
This week, we take listener questions on all things UFC 281. Will Israel Adesanya get an immediate rematch against Alex Pereira after dropping the middleweight title in a fight he was probably on his
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▶ Episode 525: UFC 281 preview bonanza
As has become customary for pay-per-views, two title fights are on the docket Saturday at UFC 281. One is a hotly anticipated middleweight championship match between Israel Adesanya and Alex Pereira t
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▶ Episode 524: Admit it, Jake Paul vs. Anderson Silva was a fun fight
Two things can be true at once: Is Jake Paul just using these aging MMA fighters to make himself a series of huge paydays from relatively easy fights? Yes, obviously. But did Paul and Showtime also ce
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▶ Episode 523: Islam Makhachev is astonishing
We did not think it was going to go like that. Both figuratively and literally, our money was on Charles Oliveira to once again become lightweight champion at UFC 280. As it happened, Islam Makhachev
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▶ Episode 522: Some of us are a little TOO pumped for UFC 280
Let's face it, Charles Oliveira vs. Islam Makhachev seems like a heck of a fight for the vacant UFC lightweight title. Factor in that this event goes down in the middle of a Saturday afternoon (can'
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▶ Episode 521: These Conor McGregor steroid rumors aren't going away
It's been a few weeks now since news originally broke that Conor McGregor apparently hadn't been drug tested by USADA since the third quarter of 2021. Yet ... still nothing. It doesn't appear those re
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▶ Episode 520: It was Zuck all along.
So, Dana White lied right to our faces and it turned out the reason no fans or media could attend Saturday's UFC Fight Night event WAS because Mark Zuckerberg wanted to be there, after all. And even i
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▶ Episode 519: 'The Dark Lord' might do OK in BKFC
Ben Rothwell is set to make his first post-UFC appearance this weekend, taking on -- say it with us now -- Bobo The Bible Belt Brawler O'Bannon in BKFC. You know what, call us crazy, but considering
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▶ Episode 518: That was disgusting
If we remember UFC Fight Night 210 at all, it'll likely be as a damn bloodbath. Cory Sandhagen got a much-needed win in a men's bantamweight contender bout against Song Yadong, after springing open an
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▶ Episode 517: Nate Diaz, the MMA Gods smile upon thee
Well, that was fuckin' crazy, eh Mainiacs? Here we thought Nate Diaz and Tony Ferguson were both headed for demoralizing losses in odd match-ups against heavily favored opponents and then -- Boom! --
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▶ Episode 516: Will UFC 279 set a record for sadness?
It's pledge month over at the CME Patreon. If you haven't yet signed up to join the team, we'd love it if you'd consider lending us your support at: patreon.com/comaineventThis week, we set about gett
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▶ FREE Power Hour: Is the UFC's debut in France a big deal?
The UFC touches down for the first time in Paris, France this Saturday, with Ciryl Gane and Tai Tuivasa set to do the damn thing in an allegedly important heavyweight contender bout. Is it still a big
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▶ Episode 515: Can the One Championship-Prime Video partnership be a ga
One Championship took advantage of a UFC-free weekend and made its debut on Amazon Prime Video over the weekend. You know what? It was pretty good. Can recommend. Would do again. Plus, One maybe kinda
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▶ Episode 515: Can the One Championship-Prime Video parntership be a ga
One Championship took advantage of a UFC-free weekend and made its debut on Amazon Prime Video over the weekend. You know what? It was pretty good. Can recommend. Would do again. Plus, One maybe kinda
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▶ Episode 514: We didn't see that coming and neither did Kamaru Usman
In what has to be the most shocking ending to a UFC pay-per-view card in recent memory, Leon Edwards kicked Kamaru Usman right in his damn face with less than a minute remaining in the fifth round of
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▶ Episode 513: Leon Edwards has waited years for this. Can he cash in?
On Saturday in Salt Lake City (man it still feels weird to type that), Leon Edwards' long, strange journey to a UFC welterweight title shot finally comes to a head. Edwards will fight champion Kamaru
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▶ Episode 512: Mike Tyson is mad online. Should he be?
So, Mike Tyson is big mad at Hulu for producing a mini-series about the boxer's life without any of his input. He's happy with Dana White, however, who Tyson says turned down a lot of money to adverti
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▶ Episode 511: Amanda Nunes was the GOAT. Amanda Nunes is still the GOA
More than merely making some physical adjustments in the wake of her title loss to Juliana Pena at UFC 269, it seemed like Amanda Nunes just flat vowed to show the world she was still the women's MMA
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▶ Episode 510: UFC 277 preview bonanza!
There are two primary questions we hope to have answered by the UFC 277 main event. Firstly, did Juliana Pena merely catch lighting in a bottle when she took the women's bantamweight title off Amanda
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▶ Episode 509: Brian Ortega's arm popped (when it wasn't supposed to)
Yeah, so Brian Ortega and Yair Rodriguez were just getting down to what was shaping up as a pretty fun main event on Saturday's UFC on ABC card when Ortega's shoulder popped out of joint while he was
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▶ Episode 508: Rafael Fiziev was so impressive in so many ways
Where to start with this guy Rafael Fiziev? The technique? The power? The composure? How about the takedown defense? Poor Rafael dos Anjos spent 15 minutes trying everything he could think of to get F
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▶ Episode 507: Few rave reviews for Izzy after UFC 276
On one hand, you gotta hand it to Israel Adesanya for beating Jared Cannonier in the UFC 276 main event without really seeming to try that hard. On the other hand, man, it really didn't seem like he w
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▶ Episode 506: Is UFC 276 a killer card with a ho-hum main event?
It's international fight week and UFC 276 looks pretty stacked. Alexander Volkanovski and Max Holloway are gonna go out there and try to make their series one for the ages. Robbie Lawler's gonna be th
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▶ CME Patreon Live Chat for 6/22/22 [FREE]
Since we missed The Proper on Monday due to some family vacationing, we decided to offer up this episode of the Live Chat for free via the CME feed. Hope you all enjoy this hour of unfettered discours
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▶ Episode 505: Jiri & Glover wrote a damn epic poem out there
You want twists? You want turns? You want a fight where both guys get to look strong AND vulnerable en route to one of best light heavyweight title matches of all time? Well, we give you Jiri Prochazk
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▶ Episode 504: UFC 275 is old dog vs. young weirdsmobile
Challenger Jiri Prochazka is going off as nearly a two-to-one favorite over light heavyweight champion Glover Teixeira in the main event of Saturday's UFC 275. That should give you something to chew o
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▶ Episode 503: Jorge Masvidal keeps confessing to crimes he says he did
Every time somebody asks Jorge Masvidal about his alleged encounter with Colby Covington outside the Papi Steak in Miami, it seems like Masvidal answers with a paragraph-long confession to the crime,
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▶ Episode 502: Enough already with the judging 'controversies'
We can't do it anymore, you guys. It's too much. Seems like every damn weekend our social media timelines are clogged with people arguing about some MMA judges' decision. Did they score it right? Did
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▶ Episode 501: Live tweeting our thoughts to Dustin Poirier
What happens when you sit down to record the CME Proper and right away notice that Dustin Poirier has responded to one of your tweets? Why, you live-tweet him right back as you do the show, of course.
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▶ Episode 500: The ups & downs & good & bad of UFC 274
We had ourselves a good, old fashioned emotional roller coaster during UFC 274, didn't we, Mainiacs? First you had Charles Oliveira missing weight (bad!) and being stripped of the title (real bad!), o
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▶ [FREE] CME Patreon Power Hour: Chucky Olives, what have you done?
Just as we sat down to record this episode of the Power Hour, news flashed across the wire that Charles Oliveira had missed weight, been stripped of the UFC lightweight title and will now fight Justin
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▶ Episode 499: Who's 'scared-cited' for UFC 274???
Dueling title fights are on tap for Saturday's UFC 274. In the lightweight championship scrap, both Charles Oliveira and Justin Gaethje will no doubt choose violence -- it's just a matter of exactly h
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▶ Episode 498: Tyson Fury & Francis Ngannou seem serious about this shi
It turned out to be a wild weekend in combat sports and, perhaps wildest of all, the guy who ultimately pulled off the biggest coup didn't even fight. Francis Ngannou crashed the party in the ring aft
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▶ Episode 497: Let's get Jon Jones-Stipe Miocic on the books!
With heavyweight champ Francis Ngannou recovering from surgery and assumedly still on the outs with UFC brass, the company is teasing a potential 265-pound bout between Jon Jones and Stipe Miocic. Pos
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▶ Episode 496: Khamzat Chimaev proves his case at UFC 273
We said we wanted to see Khamzat Chimaev tested and, brother, he sure was during a three-round epic with Gilbert Burns. You know what? He mostly passed. There are a couple things -- specifically, his
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▶ Episode 495: UFC 273 preview bonanza!
UFC 273 might be a teensy bit of a lower-profile affair that the last few UFC pay-per-views, but the top three fights are still gonna be a lot of fun. Oddsmakers don't think these bouts will be all th
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▶ Episode 494: Curtis Blaydes has a lot going for him at heavyweight
Curtis Blaydes is big, athletic and -- as he proved on Saturday night -- has a well-rounded skillset. On top of that, he's only 31 years old. In the aging and shallow heavyweight division, all those t
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▶ Episode 493: Violence abounds at UFC London
It had been a couple years since the UFC was able to make the trek across the pond and perhaps that break allowed everybody's aggression to become duly PENT. Because once the ref said fight? Hoo boy
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▶ Episode 492: Diego overachieves, Ankalaev underwhelms
We thought Magomed Ankalaev vs. Thiago Santos would be a banger, but instead it turned out to be a tepid 25-minute affair where two aggressive, powerful light heavyweights canceled each other out. So,
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▶ Episode 491: UFC 272 wrap-up + Are Conor, Dustin, Colby, Jorge + Nate
In the immediate wake of his lopsided and predictable unanimous decision win over Jorge Masvidal on Saturday at UFC 272, Colby Covington got right to work building his NEXT big grudge match. This one
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▶ Episode 490: Ever feel like Jorge Masvidal & Colby Covington don't li
Jorge Masvidal and Colby Covington are set to settle their longstanding personal grudge on Saturday at UFC 272 and, frankly, the end can't come soon enough. At 37, and winless since 2019, this seems l
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▶ Episode 489: When bad things happen to weird people
Well, Johnny Walker got posterized by Jamahal Hill on Saturday in the UFC. It was his fourth loss in five fights and it was an ugly one. Not does it establish Hill as perhaps the hot new contender at
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▶ Episode 488: Israel Adesanya was just too good
Robert Whittaker made some big improvement between his two bouts against Israel Adesanya, making Saturday night's UFC 271 main event a very competitive affair. In the end, however, it was just too muc
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▶ Episode 487: Can an Israel Adesanya-Bobby Knux rematch be any differe
It would be an understatement to say things didn't go Robert Whittaker's way at UFC 243, the first time he fought Israel Adesanya for the middleweight title. But that was 2019, in The Before Times, an
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▶ Episode 486: Is Sean Strickland's psycho gimmick working at all?
This week Sean Strickland took us all on a virtual tour of his apartment, where he keeps his guns on the kitchen counter and you have to reach into the toilet bowl to make it flush. Strickland's going
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▶ Episode 485: Francis Ngannou wins it all
Well, he did it. Big Francis Ngannou went out there and gutted-out a unanimous decision win over Ciryl Gane on Saturday at UFC 270. Maybe it wasn't the fight we all expected, but the world must now co
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▶ Episode 484: Is this Francis Ngannou's last UFC fight?
Francis Ngannou's contractual status with the UFC has dominated the storylines leading up to Saturday's title unification bout against Cyril Gane. But what happens when these two guys actually get i
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▶ CME Power Hour: Who would want to firebomb Conor McGregor's pub?
It's another FREE Power Hour for all the little Co-Mainiacs this week. On this episode, it's all power rankings all the time this week, as we head into Saturday's Fight Night event featuring Giga Chik
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▶ Episode 483: Can Giga Chikadze steal that spot?
Giga Chikadze's Fight Night main event against Calvin Kattar coming up on Saturday may well have gotten more interesting this week, when Max Holloway pulled out of a featherweight title shot at UFC 27
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▶ CME Power Hour: How UFC gonna raise PPV prices AGAIN?!?
For the third year in a row, the UFC wishes fans a Happy New Year by raising prices on its PPV events by $5. That's a 25% increase in just a few years. On this episode of the Power Hour, we ask: Will
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 181 (11/30/15)
Did Benson Henderson’s UFC career come to a close last Saturday in South Korea, with a split decision victory over Jorge GAMBRED Masvidal? As always with The Man They Call Bendo, it was kinda hard to
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 91 (2/17/14)
If we’re being honest, there’s just too much stuff to talk about during this week’s Co-Main Event podcast. Saturday night’s UFC Fight Night 36 produced dueling middleweight contenders in Lyoto Machda
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 90 (2/10/14)
It’s not every week that news breaks during a Co-Main Event Podcast recording session, but this was one of those weeks. Ben and Chad were nearly done taping episode 90 when news floated across the wir
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 89 (2/3/14)
UFC 169 left the Co-Main Event Podcast no shortage of storyline with which to fill this week’s hour and change. From the Urijah Faber-Renan Barao-Herb Dean thumbs-up debacle, to Jose Aldo skipping tow
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 88 (1/27/14)
To begin this week’s Co-Main Event Podcast, Ben tells the story of his escape from Chicago following Saturday’s UFC on Fox 10. And what a harrowing tale it is, too, friends. Once safely ensconced back
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 87 (1/20/14)
Another week, approximately another 1 million stories for the Co-Main Event Podcast to try to cram into an hour, 15 minutes. Last Wednesday’s UFC Fight Night 35 card ended with Luke Rockhold reclaimin
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 86 (1/13/14)
For the first time in Co-Main Event Podcast history, World Wrestling Entertainment takes over nearly an entire round of this week’s show, as Ben and Chad discuss the merits and drawbacks of the new WW
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 85 (1/6/14)
With very little in the way of topical MMA news going on this week, the Co-Main Event Podcast once again puts the fate of the show in the hands of you, the listener. Instead of wasting a round talking
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 84 (12/30/13)
The Co-Main Event Podcast prepares to ring in 2014 this week with the first ever installment of CME: After Dark. What’s that mean, you ask? Eh, just that Ben and Chad had to record a couple hours late
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 83 (12/20/13)
Surprise! Just because the Co-Main Event Podcast wants you fools to have a very happy holiday (and because Chad has to go out of town next week) Dundas and Fowlkes got together to record episode 83 a
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 82 (21/16/13)
UFC on Fox 9 left a lot on the Co-Main Event Podcast’s plate, Ben and Chad don’t mind telling you. First Urijah Faber proves he’s still the man to beat at bantamweight by throttling Michael McDonald.
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 81 (12/9/13)
One show on the Fox family of networks down, another one coming this weekend. Episode 81 of the Co-Main Event Podcast finds Ben and Chad reveling in the unexpected glory of Mark Hunt’s slugfest with A
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 80 (12/2/13)
If you had to come up with an official slogan for the Co-Main Event Podcast, it might well be: Motherfuckers be acting silly. In that way, episode 80 dovetails nicely with the week’s MMA news. This we
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 79 (11/25/13)
After the rollercoaster of the last few weeks it feels almost refreshing to return to the normal MMA news cycle, with the Co-Main Event Podcast sleuthing around for suitable topics with which to fill
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 78 (11/18/13)
Big week for the Co-Main Event podcast, considering all the fallout from UFC 167. During episode 78, Ben and Chad discuss the hotly contested welterweight title fight between Georges St. Pierre and Jo
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 77 (11/11/13)
For the listener, perhaps the best part of plowing through episode 77 of the Co-Main Event Podcast will be hearing Ben cough and choke his way through the full hour like somebody’s 70-year-old grandma
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 76 (11/4/13)
And so the UFC begins its hard push to the new year this week, with shows on both Wednesday and Saturday, to be followed up by two more events this month and then three during the month of December. N
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 75 (10/28/13)
Lot of ground to cover during this week’s Co-Main Event Podcast. With Tito Ortiz’s “unexpected” neck injury forcing Bellator to scramble to re-book Michael Chandler vs. Eddie Alvarez on free TV last F
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 74 (10/21/13)
It’s always a joy to record the Co-Main Event Podcast, but some weeks? Some weeks are just superior to others. Take this week, for example, when in the aftermath of the excellent UFC 166 and in advanc
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 73 (10/14/13)
With one of the biggest fight cards of the year on tap, Ben and Chad turn nearly their full attention to UFC 166 during this week’s Co-Main Event Podcast. And we only say nearly after yet another weir
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 72 (10/7/13)
Some personal news kicks off episode 72 of the Co-Main Event Podcast, with Chad explaining to inquiring MMA minds everywhere why he chose to leave his position at ESPN.com on Monday. Will he take Ben’
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 71 (9/30/13)
Plenty of news and notes to discuss this week on the Co-Main Event Podcast and not all of it jolly. On Episode 71, Ben and Chad spend the bulk of the time sorting out happenings that range from unsavo
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 70 (9/23/13)
There was so much awesomeness to go around in Jon Jones’ UFC 165 win over Alexander Gustafsson that Ben and Chad thought something special was in order for episode 70 of the Co-Main Event Podcast. Unf
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 69 (9/17/13)
Don’t know if you heard amid all the boxing chatter last week, but there’s a pretty cool mixed-fighting show this Saturday night too, as UFC 165 emanates from the Air Canada Centre in Toronto, Ontario
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 68 (9/10/13)
Just because there is no major MMA show this week doesn't mean the Co-Main Event Podcast won't have more than enough fight-related BS to BS about during episode 68. For starters, Ben and Chad chop it
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 67 (9/3/13)
The first Co-Main Event Podcast of the Anthony Pettis Era went down in style, with custom-made suits and Corn Nuts for everybody. Nah, not really. Since episode 67 was recorded on Labor Day, Ben and C
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 66 (8/27/13)
Two shows, one week? Two shows, one week. As the UFC prepares to double dip with the revival of its old Wednesday evening time slot for Fight Night 27 and Saturday’s UFC 164, the Co-Main Event Podcast
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 65 (8/20/13)
Consider it yet another significant hurdle cleared by the UFC on Saturday, as the organization’s Fight Night 26 show ferried Fox Sports 1 into the world with the violent, crowd-pleasing stuff of promo
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 64 (8/13/13)
Episode 64 marks another early arrival for the Co-Main Event Podcast, this one recorded and put in the can just as news broke that Jason “Mayhem” Miller had allegedly been arrested for domestic violen
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 63 (8/6/13)
One of the many things that makes hosting the Co-Main Event Podcast so fun is that to date Ben and Chad have never encountered a week where they had to be all, “Well, just a bunch of boring, normal, s
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 62 (7/30/13)
Online voting did not go as planned last week during the quest to find a winner in the Co-Main Event Podcast music contest. Nobody’s fault, really (except maybe the dudes who wrote up the rules for th
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 61 (7/23/13)
Don’t mind telling you, Universe, there are a lot of unknowns on this weekend’s UFC of FOX 8 card, which means the Co-Main Event Podcast had its work cut out for itself during episode 61. Witness Ben
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 60 (7/16/13)
Thank God for Anthony Pettis, Brian Stann and Anderson Silva, as those three gentlemen provided a significant lift to episode 60 of the Co-Main Event Podcast during what otherwise may have been a fair
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 59 (7/9/13)
Don’t know if you guys heard, but UFC middleweight champion Anderson Silva (who has long been regarded as pretty good at fighting) lost the title to Chris Weidman this weekend at UFC 162. It was sort
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 58 (7/2/13)
With America set to turn 237 years old this week (or 229 years young, for you Treaty of Paris types) the Co-Main Event Podcast celebrated the only way it knows how: By recording the show early so Ben
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 57 (6/25/13)
Ben and Chad pull a fast one on the CME Universe this week, calling an audible and opting to do an All Questions Answered installment of the podcast for Episode 57. Turns out it was a pretty slow news
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 56 (6/18/13)
One thing to be said for episode 56 of the Co-Main Event Podcast: Everybody was sober for the recording. We think. Hard to tell sometimes with Ben Fowlkes, you know? Anyway, with the decision-heavy UF
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 55 (6/11/13)
Well, the Co-Main Event Podcast will never do that again. At least, we hope not. The CME unveils its Unofficial Drinking Game this week with Ben, Chad and Sir Nigel spending the hour trying to drink u
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 54 (6/4/13)
The groovy, spaced-out beach vibe that accompanies episode 54 of the Co-Main Event Podcast is due largely to the show’s featured music, which comes to us from a CME listener’s surf rock band called –
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 53 (5/28/13)
Episode 53 of the Co-Main Event Podcast is so chock full of heavyweight goodness that it barely slips in under the 265-pound weight limit. With UFC 160 still lingering on all our palates like a fine w
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 52 (5/21/13)
Not going to lie to you, episode 52 of the Co-Main Event Podcast contains a lot of talk about testosterone replacement therapy. But you knew that already, right? After Vitor Belfort knocked out Luke R
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 51 (5/14/13)
So it turns out some a-hole has been impersonating Ben Fowlkes on the internets, huh? The introduction to episode 51 of the Co-Main Event Podcast is highlighted by Ben and Chad discussing the story of
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 50 (5/7/13)
All in all, it was kind of an awkward week for the Co-Main Event Podcast to ring in episode No. 50. Caught in the doldrums between major MMA events and without much really juicy news to sink their too
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 49 (4/30/13)
Though she does not appear on episode 49 of the Co-Main Event Podcast, the real star of this week’s show may be Ben’s wife, as both he and Chad borrowed her jokes for the broadcast. And really, what c
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 48 (4/23/13)
With less than a week to go before UFC 159 and just a few days removed from UFC on Fox 7, episode 48 of the Co-Main Event Podcast is strictly concerned with the big issues: Did Benson Henderson really
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 47 (4/16/13)
If we see your eyes brimming with tears as you listen to this week’s episode of the Co-Main Event Podcast, we’re just going to assume Ben and Chad said something that affected you on a deeply personal
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 46 (4/9/13)
Due to some technical difficulties it took two full tries to get episode 46 in the books, but Ben and Chad persevered, took it one round at a time and, God willing, they came out on top. You might not
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 45 (4/2/13)
Episode 45 of the Co-Main Event Podcast was recorded mere moments before the Wanderlei Silva-Gegard Mousasi April Fool’s Day internet rumor bonanza took the MMA news world by storm, or else you better
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 44 (3/26/13)
Ugh. Yeah, so the Co-Main Event Podcast lost a bet. Because of the unbelievable drubbing Ben’s and Chad’s beloved University of Montana Grizzlies took at the hands of Ariel Helwani’s hated Syracuse Or
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 43 (3/19/13)
Episode 43 of the Co-Main Event Podcast finds Ben and Chad just trying to wrap their arms around all the awesome happenings of UFC 158 and hug it all so, so tight. Maybe all the excitement goes to the
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 42 (3/12/13)
Two exciting developments for episode 42 of the Co-Main Event Podcast: 1) The debut of the show’s new logo! and 2) Listener generated music! Both are part of Ben’s and Chad’s ongoing mission to make t
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 41 (3/5/13)
Episode 41 of the Co-Main Event Podcast comes on the heels of last Saturday’s unpredictable UFC on Fuel TV 8 card from Saitama Super Arena and leaves Ben and Chad with no shortage of things to discuss
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 40 (2/26/13)
Episodically speaking, the Co-Main Event podcast turns 40 this week, amid the rush that was Saturday night’s UFC 157 and the advance jitters of next weekend’s show at Saitama Super Arena. Ben and Chad
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 39 (2/18/13)
Another week, another increasingly jury-rigged episode of the Co-Main Event Podcast somehow finds its way into the light. This week, Ben and Chad had to resort to using the world’s oldest known comput
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 38 (2/13/13)
And so, here it is, the long-awaited episode 38 of the Co-Main Event Podcast, aka CME: The Lost Tapes. The guys got thrown for a loop this week as first the unexpected death of Chad’s computer, then B
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 37 (2/5/13)
This week the Co-Main Event Podcast puts a temporary hold on one of its solemn vows in order to discuss the recent kerfuffle caused by the release of the UFC’s first official rankings. Seriously, thou
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 36 (1/29/13)
Episode 36 of the Co-Main Event Podcast is more sprint than marathon. This week Ben and Chad hit the ground running after the unadulterated awesomeness that was Saturday night’s UFC on FOX 6 card and
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 35 (1/22/13)
Production of the Co-Main Event Podcast moved into the icy basement of Castle Fowlkes during the last two weeks, so if you detect any audio irregularities in episode 35 it may be just be the sound of
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 34 (1/16/13)
As you certainly know by now, the birth of Ben’s daughter (Willa Jane Fowlkes, who is adorable, by the way) on Monday threw this week’s Co-Main Event schedule into chaos. Just when you thought they’d
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Book Club: 'Bar Brawler'
The logo for the first meeting of the Co-Main Event Podcast book club really sets the tone, don’t you think? Racy, exciting, a little bit dangerous. The truth is, the whole thing is kind of a blur. Wh
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 33 (1/8/13)
The Co-Main Event Podcast may well have dodged another baby bullet this week, as Ben’s wife still had not gone into labor as he and Chad recorded episode 33. Unless Mr. and Mrs. Fowlkes’ kiddo is petu
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 32 (1/1/13)
Through the magic of tape delay the Co-Main Event Podcast’s first installment of 2013 is also the last episode of 2012, as the guys got together bright and early on New Year’s Eve Day to crank this pu
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 31 (12/25/12)
Not even Christmas can stop the Co-Main Event express, as America’s favorite mixed martial arts podcast thunders straight through the holiday season with episode 31. In the lead up to this weekend’s U
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 30 (12/18/12)
After so angering the CME Universe last week by choosing to go out of town with his family, Chad hopes to make amends by heading straight from the airport to Co-Main Event Studios to record episode 30
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 29 (12/4/12)
First the bad news, kids: There will be no Co-Main Event Podcast next week, since Chad will screw everyone by being out of town. Now that we’ve all processed our grief from that little disappointment,
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 28 (11/2712)
Exciting times, you guys, as this week the Co-Main Event Podcast makes arguably the most electrifying announcement since the advent of the White Elephant Essay Contest. What is it, exactly? Well, you’
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 27 (11/20/12)
Where to even begin with episode 27 of the Co-Main Event Podcast? After a week filled to the brim with MMA action, Ben and Chad have no shortage of topics to discuss: From Georges St. Pierre showing n
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 26 (11/13/12)
Only one word to describe episode 26 of the Co-Main Event Podcast: Gargantuan. With UFC: Macau (Macau!) now nothing but a memory and UFC 154 waiting in the wings next weekend, Ben and Chad have plenty
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 25 (11/6/12)
Episode 25 really makes the guys rethink the relatively free reign they’ve been giving Sir Nigel Longstock over MasterTweet Theatre, as things get weirder than ever between the CME and the world’s lea
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 24 (10/30/12)
So this week the Co-Main Event Podcast put five rounds in the books in just shy of one hour, four minutes. Kind of makes you wonder why Ben and Chad can’t typically complete three rounds in under 1:15
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 23 (10/23/12)
Two things were conclusively proven while recording this week’s Co-Main Event Podcast. One, Chad can’t remember past episodes of the CME for shit. Two, don’t even try to talk to Ben about PEDs if you
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 22 (10/16/12)
Big news, people: This was probably the best single week for listener mail in Co-Main Event Podcast history, so Ben and Chad respond with a slightly expanded LM segment and by sprinkling some of your
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 21 (10/9/12)
Well, Ben and Chad were on pace to wrap up episode 21 of the Co-Main Event Podcast in near record time this week. Then, they started talking about Ben’s trip to Kansas City to take in the third instal
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast episode 20 (10/2/12)
The Co-Main Event Podcast reaches another milestone this week, as episode No. 20 drops like Bob Sapp after a CroCop left hand. By which we mean, it gets hit, takes a second to think things over and th
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 19 (9/25/12)
Well, if this isn’t the longest CME Podcast yet, it’s got to be damned close. Ben and Chad kill 72-plus minutes discussing this week’s plethora of MMA-related news. Among the personalities your dudes
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 18 (9/18/12)
So here it is in all its glory. Episode 18 of the Co-Main Event Podcast may hit the airwaves 24 hours (or so) later than usual because Ben had to go party in California all weekend, but here it is non
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 17 (9/11/12)
Ben and Chad feel pretty confident that the Co-Main Event is the first podcast in history to name check Scott Coker, Paul McCartney and Marcus Aurelius in a single episode. Not to brag, but that gives
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 16 (9/3/12)
The Co-Main Event Podcast had to strike while the iron was hot this week, and by that terrible cliché we mean “hot” as in before Chad’s wife up and started giving birth. As a result, episode 16 comes
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 15 (8/28/12)
We know what you’re thinking: If only you could find a couple dudes willing to spend another hour of everyone’s lives talking about a UFC 151 card that will never happen, right? Good news, wishful thi
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 14
After a week of buildup and anticipation the CME presents its first ever listener controlled episode. You asked the questions, so Ben and Chad endeavor to answer them. Well, some of them. As many of t
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 13 (8/14/12)
Episode 13 of the Co-Main Event Podcast starts like a house of fire and slowly devolves into finger-pointing, as Chad calls Ben on his latent sexism and Ben responds by accusing Chad of subtle xenopho
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▶ Co-Main Event Episode 12 (8/7/12)
Important things to know about this week’s CME Podcast: First, Chad busts out his Don Frye impression. Second, Ben wonders what it would take to get Lyoto Machida and Shogun Rua to show up to a bench
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 11 (7/31/12)
It would frankly be difficult to imagine a more comprehensive hour – fine, hour and 10 minutes – of mixed martial arts talk than this week’s Co-Main Event Podcast. During the time allotted for episode
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 10 (7/24/12)
With Sir Nigel Longstock still missing – and last heard from somewhere in the wilds of Iowa – Ben and Chad go it alone this week as the Co-Main Event Podcast officially hits doubled digits. Without th
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 9 (7/17/12)
Sandwiched as it is between last week’s UFC and Strikeforce events and this weekend’s UFC 149, there is no shortage of topics for the Co-Main co-hosts to break down during episode nine. This week, Ben
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 8 (7/9/12)
For the first time in its illustrious history the Co-Main Event Podcast goes to the championship rounds this week. No, it is not just some crazy dream, Ben and Chad really did need five full periods t
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 7 (7/3/12)
With UFC 148 looming on Saturday and the CME podcast’s first ever listener contest set to debut next week, Ben and Chad put one hour, 10 minutes in the books for episode seven. Go ahead, complain all
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 6 (6/26/12)
In episode six, Ben and Chad discuss the true failings of Clay Guida’s game plan against Gray Maynard at UFC on FX 4, break down how the recently retired Fedor Emelianenko will be remembered in MMA hi
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 5 (6/19/12)
At least one host of the Co-Main Event podcast thinks this Friday's UFC on FX 4 card is like a bowl of cheese balls left on the bar at a Hell's Kicthen tavern. The other suggests video of a tiger figh
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 4 (6/12/12)
Which pro MMA fighter emailed Ben and Chad a picture of his cat playing Yahtzee this week? You’ll have to listen to episode four of the Co-Main Event Podcast to find out. As if that wasn’t enough, you
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 3 (6/5/12)
Ben and Chad discuss the revelation of Frank Mir's testosterone replacement therapy exemption, the chaotic state of the welterweight division and why nobody (even people allegedly getting paid for it)
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 2 (5/29/12)
Looking to avoid a sophomore slump, Ben and Chad examine what UFC 146 means for the careers of Junior dos Santos and Frank Mir, Jason Mayhem Miller's Octagon collapse and whether anyone should care
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 1 (5/23/12)
Ben and Chad talk up (or talk down) UFC 146, Nick Diaz and Chael Sonnen's dueling appearances before the Nevada State Athletic Commission and UFC light heavyweight champion Jon Jones crashing his Bent
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▶ Episode 482: Dana White keeps taking these Ls from Jake Paul
If Dana White had actually read The Art of War he might understand that it is a bad idea for him to continually engage Jake Paul on the battlefield where Paul is strongest. Unfortunately, the longti
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▶ Doin' the Damn Thing: Year-end wrap-up of books, movies & TV
Due to some family obligations, we're not going to be able to record that new episode of the Proper we promised. Instead, please accept this free episode of Doin' the Damn Thing. For the final pod of
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▶ Episode 481: Jake Paul, Derrick Lewis & UFC fighters' letters to Sant
Derrick Lewis became the UFC's all-time knockouts leader with his win over Chris Daukaus on Saturday night, for whatever that's worth. On the other side of the country, Jake Paul walloped Tyron Woodle
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▶ Episode 480: UFC 269 was crazy! Let's discuss
CME listeners had a lot to say in the wake of UFC 269. You filled up our inbox, so we had no choice this week but to take listener mail throughout the episode, while we discuss Charles Oliveira's subm
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▶ Episode 479: UFC 269 preview + Jose Aldo reclaiming his legacy
The UFC offers up the final PPV of 2021 this Saturday, with two title fights on the main card of UFC 269. Charles Oliveira defends his lightweight title against Dustin Poirier and Amanda Nunes puts th
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▶ Episode 478: Can't wait for the new shapes to drop
The Trillers revolutionized modern hand-to-hand combat with the Triad or whatever over the weekend, and the results were a real mixed bag for the former UFC fighters on the card. Not to worry, however
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▶ Death in the West: DB Cooper 50th Anniversary Episode
Hey Co-Mainiacs, just a reminder that Chad's other podcast, Death in the West, returns for a second season in January. This week, DITW dropped a special teaser episode for the upcoming season that c
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▶ Episode 477: Holloway-Rodriguez was art. Hang it in the Louvre!
Max Holloway showed out, but perhaps needed to dip deeper into the ol' bag of tricks than we anticipated to defeat Yair Rodriguez in ANOTHER FOTY candidate UFC main event. And did it surprise anyone t
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▶ Episode 476: Are there even words to describe Gaethje-Chandler?
Somehow Justin Gaethje vs. Michael Chandler exceeded even our loft expectations. That was just bananas, and now they better damn well let Gaethje fight the winner of Chucky Olives vs. Dusty P. Plus, w
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▶ Episode 475: All hail the great and powerful Glover
You know what, in this sport, we'll take the feel-good stories where we can get them. Glover Teixeira winning his first UFC title at 42 while being universally liked and and unyielding positive is a f
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▶ Episode 474: Getting nervous for Costa, excited for Fedor & pumped fo
Marvin Vettori was surprisingly businesslike all week, considering all the nonsense Paulo Costa was pulling, and that approach extended to the fight. Vettori notably wouldn't share his wine with Costa
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▶ Episode 473: Your Qs on Conor McGregor, UFC: Ladd vs. Dumont, Bellato
It's amazing how naturally the phrase, Conor McGregor punched a DJ, rolls off the tongue at this point. Yeah, that just feels right. That feels like something McGregor would do. This week, on an All
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▶ Introducing: Doin' The Damn Thing
The maiden voyage of Doin’ The Damn Thing is frankly jam-packed with CME goodness. We spend the first part of the show discussing the first couple episodes of Ken Burns’ new PBS doc on Muhammad Ali an
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▶ Episode 472: Fury & Wilder had a classic
Boxing owned the weekend, no doubt about that. Tyson Fury and Deontay Wilder crafted a classic in their trilogy fight, capturing the attention of the sports world in a way it feels like MMA can never
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▶ Episode 471: These are not the Weirdsmobiles we came to see
Well, shit, what can you do? Seemed like Thiago Santos and Johnny Walker kind of forgot to fight during the UFC's main event on Saturday night. That happens sometimes, but it certainly wasn't what we
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▶ Episode 470: UFC 266 reaction + Jon Jones gets arrested, like, IMMEDI
UFC 266 was a hell of a fight card, basically from start to finish. While there weren't any surprises in the evening's big three bouts, Alexander Volkanovski and Brian Ortega put on an absolute crac
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▶ Episode 469: UFC 266 preview + Anthony Smith in DGAF mode
Anthony Smith had some words for Ryan Spann in the cage Saturday night, after Smith scored a first-round submission victory. Lionheart admits he let some of Spann's pre-fight trash talk get to him b
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▶ Episode 468: That time Anderson Silva clowned you so hard, people sai
It took Anderson Silva a little under one minute, 30 seconds to leave Tito Ortiz in the black lands during their boxing match Saturday at the Trillers. Silva styled on Ortiz so badly, some people thou
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▶ Episode 467: What will become of you, Darren Till?
Derek Brunson went out this weekend and reminded us all that he is a very good fighter who thus far in his UFC career as only lost to the elite in the middleweight division. So, that was good for him.
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▶ Episode 466: Oh right, this is a Tyron Woodley fight
It turns out, Tyron Woodley boxes a lot like he fights in MMA, which is to say watching him was one of the more frustrating experiences in all of combat sports. So, yeah, Jake Paul improved to 4-0 or
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▶ Episode 465: Jared Cannonier is 'broke.' That's a bad look.
Jared Cannonier edged Kelvin Gastelum in a competitive and entertaining UFC main event on Saturday night, then immediately hopped on the mic and announced that he's broke. Is that a good look for th
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▶ Episode 464: All Questions Considered!
On an All Questions Considered episode of the show, we take a grab bag of queries from you, the Co-Mainiacs, including: Will Conor ever be champion again? Which UFC titles will change hands before the
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▶ Episode 463: 'Good Kid,' mad city
Ciryl Gane pretty much ruined the entire city of Houston's weekend with his third-round TKO of Derrick Lewis at UFC 265. Does the Good Kid's forthcoming title unification bout with Francis Ngannou n
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▶ Episode 462: Can AJ McKee become a star if he stays in Bellator?
AJ McKee pretty much annihilated the competition during the Bellator featherweight grand prix, including Saturday's championship finale, where he stopped Patricio Pitbull in just a minute, 57 seconds
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▶ Episode 461: Exactly how 'back' is TJ Dillashaw?
TJ Dillashaw surprised a lot of people--including your humble co-hosts--Saturday night by emerging with a split-decision victory over Cory Sandhagen in Dillashaw's return after a two-year JPD suspensi
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▶ Episode 460: Miesha Tate is immediately a player again
Miesha Tate perhaps benefited from some friendly matchmaking Saturday night as she returned to the cage for this first time since 2016, but she still made it look pretty easy against a retiring Marion
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▶ Episode 459: THIS IS NOT OVER! (but it should be)
Conor McGregor broke his whole leg shit on Saturday night against Dustin Poirier at UFC 264. The good news is, Poirier will probably now get to fight for the title while McGregor convalesces. The bad
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▶ Episode 458: Does anybody know what Conor McGregor has left?
This weekend at UFC 264, Conor McGregor returns to the octagon for just the fifth time since 2016 to complete a trilogy with Dustin Poirier. At this point, we've got so little recent intel on McGregor
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▶ Episode 457: Anderson Silva deserves this moment
Kind of funny that we all, as MMA fans, are going to look down our noses at these boxing vs. MMA crossover fights until we win one, and then suddenly we're out here in the street lighting couches on f
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▶ Episode 456: No babies are safe!
Honestly, Brandon Moreno kinda stole the show at UFC 263, what with winning the men's flyweight title in overwhelming fashion while simultaneously seeming like the nicest damn person in the world. In
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▶ Episode 455: Don't mess around and lose this one, Izzy
Israel Adesanya defends the middleweight title Saturday at UFC 263 against Marvin Vettori, in a championship fight that feels like it's happening just because. Does that make this a sneaky trap fight
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▶ Episode 454: Your questions on Cyborg, Font, Fabia & More
Cris Cyborg battered Leslie Smith for nearly the full 25-minutes to retain the Bellator women's featherweight title on Friday night and the following evening Rob Font did something close to the same a
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▶ Episode 453: King Chuck takes the throne
Charles Oliveira is the lion of lions. He weathered the early storm against Michael Chandler, won the vacant UFC lightweight title via second round TKO and then smeared blood on Dana White. Not a bad
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▶ Episode 452: Bellator won the weekend. Does it matter?
There's no doubt that Bellator's Friday night event on Showtime was the best MMA card of the weekend. With MVP's whole-shit-broke KO win, Rumble Johnson having a fun one with Jose Augusto and Young Se
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▶ Episode 451: Jiri Prochazka is an absolute wildman
Just two fights into his UFC run, it sure looks like Jiri Prochazka is closing in on a light heayvweight title shot. And hey, if we're being honest, anything that keeps this suddenly Jon Jones-less di
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▶ Episode 450: We all went on an emotional journey at UFC 261
From seeing Chris Weidman's leg shatter against Uriah Hall's leg to a trio of stoppages--at least a couple of them fairly shocking--in the event's three title fights, there were a lot of mood swings d
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▶ Episode 449: UFC 261 & Triller's weird alternate universe
Given the assembly-line nature of the UFC content these days, you can't blame MMA fans, boxing hardcores and casuals alike for being interested in Triller, which is (if nothing else) EXTREMELY differe
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▶ Episode 448: A bad deal for everybody
Marvin Vettori defeated Kevin Holland in the main event of UFC on ABC 2 on Saturday, but it turned out to be the sort o fight that didn't really help either guy's standing in the middleweight division
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▶ Episode 447: It's Patricio Pitbull the world's best featherweight?
Patricio Pitbull Freire advanced to the final of the Bellator featherweight grand prix Satuday night during that promotion's debut on Showtime, by choking Emanuel Sanchez to damn sleep with a quickn
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▶ Episode 446: Francis Ngannou does everything right
Francis Ngannou pitched damn near a perfect game on Saturday at UFC 260, stopping Stipe Miocic via second-round KO to claim the heavyweight title. By all rights, Jon Jones should be next, but somehow
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▶ Episode 445: I'll follow you home, bitch
The UFC heavyweight title rematch between Stipe Miocic and Francis Ngannou is set to go down this weekend. The featherweight title scrap between Alexander Volkanovski and Brian Ortega? Not so much. Pl
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▶ Episode 444: Sometimes it be like that
Well, fudge. That's not how we wanted it to go. That's obviously not how Belal Muhammad wanted it to go. Dare we say, that's not how Leon Edwards wanted it to go, either, though his suggestion that ma
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▶ Episode 443: Speak your truth, Jan Blachowicz
Israel Adesanya's foray into the light heavyweight division did not go as planned, courtesy the Legendary Polish Power of Jan Blachowicz. Oh, Janny Blackjacks, you never stop surprising us. Plus, Aman
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▶ Episode 442: Can Adesanya defeat The Legendary Polish Power?
Knock on wood, people: Five UFC titles are scheduled to be on the line during March, including this weekend's UFC 259 and its triple bill of championship bouts. Can Israel Adesanya end Janny Blackjack
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▶ Episode 441: Heavyweight Bacchannal!
The current moment in the UFC belongs to the big fellas. With Derrick Lewis' KO of Curtis Blaydes last weekend and the Biggi Boy vs. Ciryl Gane coming up next, the heavyweight division is taking cente
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▶ Episode 440: Real Champ Shit from Kamaru Usman
After a first round where it looked like Gilbert Burns was on the verge of capturing the UFC welterweight title, Kamaru Usman put his foot down. The power jab, the low kicks, the third-round TKO victo
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▶ Episode 439: A tough one for the old guys
Both Alistair Overeem and Frankie Edgar had rough nights at Saturday's UFC. Alexander Volkov busted Overeem's nose en route to a second-round TKO. Corey Sandhagen put Edgar's chin into the stratospher
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▶ Episode 438: All Questions Considered
Alistair Overeem fights Alexander Volkov this Saturday during Super Bowl weekend, but you already knew we weren't going to spend the entire show talking about that. Instead, we take listener queries i
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▶ Episode 437: Put some respect on Dustin Poirier's name
Dustin Poirier walked out to James Brown's The Big Payback, stopped Conor McGregor in the second round and then declared himself the uncrowned champion. A pretty nifty piece of business from The Dia
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▶ Episode 436: Does McGregor fight week still have that magic?
Max Holloway amazed us all with his performance at Saturday's UFC on ABC card. Never one to rest on its laurels, however, the UFC ramps back up for two events this week. (We see you, Michael Chiesa vs
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▶ Episode 435: What to expect from UFC on ABC
The UFC returns to network television this week for the first time since 2018, as Saturday afternoon it presents its debut broadcast on ABC. What to make of this, especially after the fight company's
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▶ Episode 434: All Questions Considered
On the first episode of The Proper since mid-December, we've got some catching up to do. So, we're going All Questions Considered this week. What's up with the UFC raising PPV prices? Have we witnesse
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▶ Episode 433: CME Office Christmas Party
Let's be honest, ain't nobody doing any work the week of Christmas. This episode, we present (or, uh, re-represent, as the case may be) our year-end awards. Plus, Sir Nigel Longstock stops by to read
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▶ Episode 432: The greatest majority draw of all time!
Deiveson Figueiredo and Brandon Moreno threw DOWN on Saturday in the main event of UFC 256 and, while it probably wasn't the fight of the year, it was perhaps the greatest majority draw of all time. I
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▶ Episode 431: Say it ain't Yo-el!
The UFC says its release of perennial title contender/lovable weirdsmobile Yoel Romero is one of about 60 cuts it will make before the New Year to trim its inflated roster. Inflated, huh? That's an
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▶ Episode 430: Tyson-Jones delivers, UFC plays musical chairs
Ben watched the Mike Tyson-Roy Jones Jr. exhibition boxing match on Saturday night and gleefully reports that he got his money's worth ... of entertainment, if not exactly top flight boxing action. Me
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▶ Episode 429: Figgy Smalls, Shevy Chenks & the 'McKee Lock' on AQC
UFC 255 was definitely a thing that happened, as Deiveson Figueiredo and Valentina Shevchenko retained the men's and women's flyweight titles, respectively. This week on an All Questions Considered ep
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▶ Episode 428: Did Felder's gamble pay off?
Paul Felder didn't beat Rafael dos Anjos Saturday night, but it still feels like Felder's choice to step in on short notice for a five-rounder against a former champion was the right thing to do. Plus
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▶ Episode 427: Five Questions About the Light Heavyweight Division
So, Glover Teixeira pretty much handled Thiago Santos in their main event fight Saturday night. This week, the CME turns its attention to the most vexing questions facing the 205-pound division, inclu
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▶ Episode 426: Can the UFC just end Anderson Silva's career?
Anderson Silva lost to Uriah Hall on Saturday via fourth-round TKO. It wasn't great. It also wasn't terrible. But, jeez louise, Dana White sure showed up at the postfight presser in a shitty mood. He
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▶ Episode 425: Do svidaniya, Khabib Nurmagomedov
Khabib Nurmagomedov called it quits on Saturday after UFC 254 in what has to be considered one of the most emotional retirement announcements in MMA history. Naturally, we got a lot of mail on the sub
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▶ Episode 424: You sly dog, Brian Ortega
Brian Ortega returned from his first career loss and an extended absence from the cage looking like a new man on Saturday and straight-up put a whipping on Chan Sung Jung. Sup with that??? Plus, we lo
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▶ Episode 423: Welcome to immortality, Joaquin Buckley
If what you want out of your UFC content is a no-strings-attached experience where one semi-anonymous dude might do something unbelievably awesome (and terrible) to another semi-anonymous dude then, b
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▶ Episode 422: A Couple Old Road Dogs
Holly Holmes Holm and Carlos Conduit Condit both went out there and reminded us who the fuck they were on Saturday. But what now for our two old pals? Plus, the Jon Jones-Israel Adesanya beef gets
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▶ Introducing: Death in the West
Here's a taste of Chad's new podcast: Death in the West.
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▶ Episode 421: Adesanya made it look easy
Israel Adesanya froze Paulo Costa like a statue, battered him with leg kicks from range and then toppled him with strikes to the dome piece in the second. It was, in short, exactly the kind of perform
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▶ Episode 420: Colby Covington, still reprehensible
Colby Covington pretty much shut down Tyron Woodley en route to a fifth-round TKO victory on Saturday night. Then Covington opened his mouth and spewed awful racist bile all over the place during the
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▶ Episode 419: All Questions Considered
There were a ton of fights this weekend, and the CME will forego its normal three-round format in order to talk about as many of them as possible. We discuss Michelle Waterson's win over Angela Hill,
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▶ Episode 418: The Reem rolls on
Alistair Overeem's late-career dream continues, in the form of a fifth-round TKO over Augusto Sakai. All the props in the world to Overeem for remaking himself as a crafty veteran, but how far can he
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▶ Episode 417: Anthony Smith didn't find what he was looking for
Anthony Smith made a somewhat short turnaround after his high-publicized de-toothing by Glover Teixeira back in May, just to return Saturday night to get outpointed by Aleksandar Rakic. Chances are, S
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▶ Episode 416: Frankie can still Frankie
Frankie Edgar finally made his bantamweight debut on Saturday and ... well ... it looked a lot like what we've seen from him at every other weight, which is to say quite good, but also prone to produc
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▶ Episode 415: Did the Stipe-DC trilogy have a satisfying end?
Stipe Miocic will continue being the man after his unanimous decision victory over Daniel Cormier at UFC 252 concluded that pair's heavyweight title trilogy. As for Cormier? We're not totally sure, th
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▶ 414. What's your hype level for UFC 252?
Stipe Miocic and Daniel Cormier fulfill the trilogy this weekend. Kind of feels like it snuck up on us, no? Plus, we love Derrick Lewis, but is he trying to do too much? And shouldn't some MMA company
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▶ Episode 413: Not so fast, Edmen Shahbazyan
Score one for the grizzled veterans, as Derek Brunson became the first professional fighter to crack the riddle of Edmen Shahbazyan on Saturday night. Plus, chaos ruled at UFC Fight Night 176 and--wha
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▶ Episode 412: That's a wrap on #FightIsland
Robert Whittaker reasserted himself as one of the UFC's elite middleweights--and reminded us he has no qualms about stomping a motherfucker's knee to shreds. Plus, Shogun and Roger Nog didn't make us
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▶ Episode 411: More heartbreak for Joe B.
Joseph Benavidez likely saw his last, best chance at a UFC title evaporate when he got choked unconscious by new undisputed flyweight champion Deiveson Figueiredo on Saturday. Plus, what did we miss f
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▶ Episode 410: The cold, hard reality of Kamaru Usman
The legend of Street Jesus collided with the best welterweight in the world at UFC 251 and ... well ... it was a long night in the Bread Game. Plus, Max Holloway maybe got jobbed (or maybe not!) and P
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▶ Episode 409: You're crazy for this one, Jorge Masvidal
Gilbert Burns is out and Jorge Masvidal (probably, almost certainly) in against Kamaru Usman in the UFC 251 main event. It was a circuitous route to the fight that should've been headlining this pay-p
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▶ Episode 408: Why isn't Dustin Poirier a bigger star?
Dustin Poirier and Dan Hooker went to battle on Saturday in the main event of UFC on ESPN 12. Did Hooker prove he belongs among the lightweight elite? Did Poirier revive his title aspirations? This we
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▶ Episode 407: Curtis Blaydes just got interesting
Curtis Blaydes told us exactly what he was going to do to Alexander Volkov on Saturday night and then he went out and did it. He also warned some of you more punch-and-kick-oriented types that you mig
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▶ Episode 406: Every UFC event is a perfect, beautiful snowflake
Cynthia Calvillo established herself as a women's flyweight contender with a win over Jessica Eye on Saturday. Would we say she looked ready for Valentina Shevchenko, however? No, we would not. Next u
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▶ Episode 405: Amanda Nunes Puts On a Tour de Force
Amanda Nunes, the female GOAT, continues to be leaps and bounds ahead of any competition the UFC can find for her. What are you gonna do? Meanwhile, Cody Garbs, Aljo and O'Malley make the case against
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▶ Episode 404: Jon Jones is having a weird time
Jon Jones says he's vacating the light heavyweight title and going on hiatus during a public spat over pay with the UFC. Then he's suddenly out in the streets working as a social activist. Plus, Gilbe
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▶ Episode 403: Are fights like Woodley vs. Burns the new normal?
Apologies from some sound quality issues on this week's show, Co-Mainiacs. Hopefully, you will solider through with us. On this episode, we discuss Conor McGregor continuing to troll the competition,
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▶ Episode 402: On Alistair Overeem, lovable elder statesman
Alistair Overeem weathered an early storm to defeat Walt Harris by virtue of his wily, veteran guile on Saturday. We discuss that, plus look back at the UFC's weird week in Jacksonville.
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▶ Episode 401: A command performance
When it finally arrived, UFC 249 weekend served-up a downright unwieldy number of storylines. From Jacare's positive coronavirus test to The Waiver to Justin Gaethje's surprise destruction of Tony F
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▶ Episode 400: It's UFC 249 ... fight week?
It's here (we think). It's happening (maybe). It's finally going down (in a matter of days). UFC 249 fight week is upon us leading up to Saturday's revamped and (twice) rescheduled fight card. Are you
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▶ Episode 399: Will UFC 249 be safe? We're going to find out.
The UFC plans to do three events in Jacksonville, Fla., from May 9-16. Can that be safe? One way or another, we're all going to find out.
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▶ Episode 398: What will it take to do UFC 249 safely?
We discuss reports of Dana White's recent conference call with fighters booked on upcoming UFC cards, what an epidemiologist told Ben about how the UFC could get back to business in a safe way and wha
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▶ Episode 397: Everybody showed their ass for UFC 249
With UFC 249 officially postponed after Disney and ESPN bigwigs pulled the plug on Dana White's Grand Plan to Be a Man, we look at what we learned about White, Disney, ESPN, MMA fans, media and manage
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▶ Episode 396: Where is 'somewhere on EARTH' exactly?
We're told UFC 249 is a go. We're told the main event will be Tony Ferguson vs. Justin Gaethje. We're told it will be for an interim title. We're told the venue you will be ... wait for it ... somewh
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▶ Episode 395: Khabib out, UFC 249 still on & JBJ still JBJin'?
Khabib Nurmagomedov is stuck at home in Dagestan, which makes him a lot like the rest of us, when you think about it. So, he's probably out, but the UFC insists 249 is still on. Plus, Jon Jones in t
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▶ Episode 394: UFC 1!
Well, here's something completely different. This week, from self-isolation and without much MMA happening worldwide, we went back and rewatched UFC 1. It was weird. Then we talked about it.
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▶ Episode 393: Greetings from self-isolation
Both our families are self isolating this week, which causes a number of challenges for the CME podcast. Still, here we discuss Charles Oliveira's win over Kevin Lee at UFC Brasilia, the UFC's weird d
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▶ Episode 392: An absolute classic
Zhang Weili and Joanna Jedrzejczyk tore the house down in their women's strawweight title fight at UFC 248. Israel Adesanya and Yoel Romero? Weeeeeell, that's a different story. This week, we discuss
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▶ Episode 391: How dare you, sir?
Deiveson Figueiredo smashed UFC Norfolk's main event title fight when he missed weight last week. Then he damn near smashed the whole flyweight division by defeating Joseph Benavidez via second-round
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▶ Episode 390: Ben ate the peanut butter cups for Fury-Wilder
What are Dan Hooker's prospects among the lightweight elite after defeating Paul Felder at UFC Auckland? Can Joseph Benavidez finally make good on his flyweight potential? Are we really doing Cejudo v
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▶ Episode 389: Diego Sanchez, what in the world?
Jan Blachowicz crashes the light heavyweight title picture with his three-minute KO of Corey Anderson, Diego Sanchez mystifies us with an unusual performance against Michel Pereira and, up next week,
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▶ Episode 388: An emotional journey
How about that UFC 247, eh people? Specifically, how about that thriller main event between Jon Jones and Dominick Reyes? On this episode of the CME, we discuss that fight, the judging controversy tha
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▶ Episode 387: Jonathan Dwight Jones enters the cage
Jonny Bones returns for the fourth time in roughly 13 months on Saturday to take on Dominick Reyes at UFC 247. If he wins, is this the last time we see Jones at light heavyweight? Can Reyes pull off t
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▶ Episode 386: Curtis Blaydes advances to 13-and-Ngannou
Curtis Blaydes looked good en route to second round TKO victory over Junior dos Santos Saturday at UFC: Raleigh. Yet, is there a huge, Francis Ngannou-shaped roadblock between him and the title? Also,
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▶ Episode 385: Were fans satisfied with UFC 246?
Conor McGregor blew through Donald Cerrone in 40 seconds in the UFC 246 main event, which seemed like exactly what matchmakers and promoters wanted. But with such a top-heavy main card and a $70 price
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▶ Episode 384: What are you looking for from Conor McGregor at UFC 246?
Conor McGregor returns to the cage for the first time since 2018, for a bout against Donald Cerrone at Saturday's UFC 246. What do we expect from Conor and from Cowboy? And what else is worth watching
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▶ Episode 383: Fair use!
We're back with an All Questions Considered episode of the podcast, as we wrap-up the action from Bellator 237 and look ahead to what 2020 might bring in MMA. Also, Tyron Woodley got mad at Leon Edwar
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▶ CME Holiday Live Chat for 12/23/19
With Christmas just a couple days away, we went ahead and moved our normal Patreon Live Chat from Wednesday to Monday and opened it up to all listeners. Thanks to everyone who joined us. We hope the r
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▶ Episode 382: It was kind of a weird weekend
All three UFC 245 title fights nearly went the distance, pushing the pay-per-view run time up around four hours. Here we talk about how it all went for Usman, Covington, Volko, Holloway, Nunes and GDR
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▶ Episode 381: That feels emotionally manipulative
You wanna talk about painful? How about Jairzinho Rozenstruik destroying Alistair Overeem's lip in the final seconds of a heavyweight main event Overeem was on the verge of winning at UFC on ESPN 7? A
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▶ Episode 380: It is more or less officially on
Conor McGregor returns from his lengthy, uh, sabbatical to fight Donald The Cowboy Cerrone at UFC 246 in January and, among other things, the CME wants to know: Why now? Why the Cowboy? Why welterweig
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▶ Episode 379: What's Going On With Your Face?
The dreaded Patreon Power Rankings take over the CME proper for the first time ever! Plus ... uh ... what's going on with Ben's face?
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▶ Episode 378: We're a roving goddamn spectacle
Zabit Magomedsharipov edged Calvin Kattar in the main event of UFC: Moscow on Saturday night, but not without a bit of intrigue. Magomedsharipov seemed to be fading down the stretch of their three-rou
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▶ Episode 377: We Ate the Wings
Well, we spent part of UFC 244 at Buffalo Wild Wings eating the special one-night-only BMF wings. It didn't go that great for us. We talk about that, plus Jorge Masvidal being crowned the BMF king, Na
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▶ Episode 376: The BMF title fight is ON
Ben returns from England and we attempt to catch up on everything we missed while he was gone. As usual, it was a lot: Nate's atypical drug test. Maia vs. Askren. Greg Hardy. Dom Reyes. Douglas Lima
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▶ Episode 375: All. Questions. Considered.
Joanna Jędrzejczyk is back and maybe (?) better than ever, but is she back enough to coast into an immediate title shot against Zhang Weili? Plus, what to make of Kron Gracie at this point, is Hori
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▶ Episode 374: Just Astonishing
We talk about Israel Adesanya's second round knockout over Robert Whittaker at UFC 243 to unify the middleweight championship. Where do both the new champ and the old go from here? And, damn it, we re
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▶ CME Special Report: Catching up with Ben in Australia
Ben got up early for us on what was his Thursday morning and Chad's Wednesday afternoon. We catch up with him about what it's like to be on the ground in Australia for UFC 243 and answer some listener
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▶ CME Movie Club: Silence of the Lambs
With Ben traveling to Australia to cover UFC 243 for The Athletic, there won't be a normal CME this Monday. We hope to be able to deliver a long-distance podcast for you later in the week, depending o
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▶ Episode 373: It does a disservice to everyone
We discuss Yair Rodriguez and Jeremy Stephens' main event fight from UFC: Mexico City ending in a no-contest after just 15 seconds. Due to Ben's travel schedule, we also look ahead to UFC 243's Robert
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▶ Episode 372: Don't stake your night on getting hit by Justin Gaethje
We discuss Justin Gaethje's first-round TKO victory over Donald Cerrone and his ensuing call-out of the winner of a championship fight that hasn't even been booked yet. In addition to that, we look at
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▶ Episode 371: He's Really, Really Goddamn Good at This
After Khabib Nurmagomedov tapped-out Dustin Poirier at UFC 242, we all have to give it up for the guy. He remains one of MMA's more complex and polarizing figures, but he's really good at this stuff.
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▶ Episode 370: It's About to Go Down
We discuss Khabib Nurmagomedov's and Dustin Poirier's bout to unify the UFC lightweight title this weekend in Abu Dhabi, plus what Zhang Weili's strawweight title win over Jessica Andrade means for th
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▶ Episode 369: Sup with your mouthpiece, man?
We discuss Conor McGregor's apology and the MMA world's appetite to see him return to the cage, Matt Mitrione's loss via mouthpiece distraction at Bellator 225 and look ahead to UFC on ESPN+ 15.
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▶ Episode 368: It's Like Nate Diaz Never Left
In the wake of Stipe Miocic reclaiming the title from Daniel Cormier at UFC 241, we talk about what's next for the heavyweight division. We also marvel at the return of Nate Diaz and discuss Paulo Cos
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▶ Episode 367: Is There a Nose in There Somewhere?
We discuss Mike Perry's terrible broken nose (and his reaction) after his fight with Vicente Luque, the return of Nate Diaz and what Daniel Cormier is going to have to do to beat Stipe Miocic a second
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▶ Episode 366: Just Downright Onerous is What it Is
We talk about Colby Covington’s suffocating victory over Robbie Lawler and how important Covington’s odious schtick has been to getting him where he is today. Plus, Cris Cyborg’s “production team” und
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▶ Episode 365: He's 100 Percent That Dude
We talk about Max Holloway's impressive decision win over Frankie Edgar at UFC 240, where Cris Cyborg might land next and try not to get our hopes up for possibleschadenfreude from Covington vs. Lawle
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▶ Episode 364: For Some People, Winning Is Not Enough
We talk about Leon Edwards' unanimous decision win over Rafael dos Anjos from UFC on ESPN 4 and what it's going to take Rocky to break through in the minds of MMA fans. Plus, UFC 240 goes down Satur
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▶ Episode 363: Let's Talk About Practical Next Steps
Sometimes it seems like Germaine de Randamie is forever shrouded in controversy. Even her 16-second TKO win over Aspen Ladd Saturday at UFC Fight Night 155 likely won't be good enough to make her a No
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▶ Episode 362: This May Go Down as the PPV of the Year
We discuss all things UFC 239, including: Jon Jones' lack of urgency against an injured Thiago Santos, Amanda Nunes pulling a Holly Holm on Holly Holm, Jorge Masvidal becoming a breakout star after
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▶ Episode 361: Don't Turn Your Back on Francis Ngannou!
After Francis Ngannou dusted Junior dos Santos in 71 seconds at UFC on ESPN 3, is he a little bit of takedown defense away from being a transformative figure in the heavyweight division? Plus, we look
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▶ Episode 360: Is Ngannou vs. JDS the Most Anticipated Fight of Summer?
We look at Chan Sung Jung's big win over Renato Moicano, investigate the buyers' remorse of the people who tuned in to see Artem Lobov vs. Paul Malignaggi at BKFC 6 and look forward to the heavyweight
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▶ Episode 359: The Bad Guy Goes Out ... Again
We discuss Rory MacDonald advancing to the final of the Bellator welterweight grand prix, Chael Sonnen calling it a career all over again and Fedor Emelianenko announcing his farewell tour. Wait, is
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▶ Episode 358: Henry Cejudo is Every Damn Thing He Said He Was
A full slate of UFC 238 recap, including Cejudo's shocking come-from-behind men's bantamweight title win and Donald Cerrone losing a fight by blowing his nose. Plus, Bellator 222 is a snapshot of ever
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▶ Episode 357: Some Significant News
Ben and Chad talk about their decisions to join The Athletic as senior writers. Plus, Lusty Gusty calls it quits, Cowboy and El Cucuy prepare to throw down and Henry Cejudo attempts to become the cham
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▶ Episode 356: Does UFC Want Stand-and-Bang Only?
We take listener questions about the UFC release of Justin Willis and Elias Theodorou, which fights we're looking forward to at UFC 238 and which items we'd choose for an MMA time capsule.
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▶ Episode 355: A Meat Grinder of a Fight
Rafael dos Anjos and Kevin Lee journeyed to hell and back in the main event of UFC: Rochester. Or, at least, RDA made it back. Lee didn't sound like he was so sure in his post-fight comments. That, pl
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▶ Episode 354: Would Andrade Have Lost If She Hadn't Won?
Rose Namajunas was piecing-up Jessica Andrade until the new champ knocked her out cold with a slam. What does that say for the future of both fighters in the 115-pound division? Plus, it was a crazy w
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▶ Episode 353: Keep Talking, Sweet Talker
Donald Cerrone ages like a fine wine against Al Iaquinta, the way forward at lightweight seems as straight forward as ever (though is it ever easy?) and Jessica Andrade opens as a slight favorite over
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▶ Episode 352: A Fight Between Weirdsmobiles
Ben and Chad discuss Jack Hermansson crashing the middleweight title picture with his surprising victory over Jacare Souza, the newly gentle-of-spirit Rory MacDonald retaining his Bellator welterweigh
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▶ Episode 351: A Big Weekend for the S.E. Wildmen
With Bellator 220 airing on DAZN and UFC: Jacare vs. Hermansson airing ... somewhere, it shapes up as a big weekend for hardcore MMA fans. Also, in no great surprise to anyone--including, it seemed, A
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▶ Episode 350: Ebbs and Flows Out This MFer
Ben and Chad discuss UFC 236's stellar interim title fights, including what should rightfully happen next for Dustin Poirier, Max Holloway, Israel Adesanya and Kelvin Gastelum. In addition to that, th
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▶ Episode 349: Goddamnit, I Hate Myself
Ben and Chad talk UFC 236's two interim title fights--Max Holloway vs. Dustin Poirier and Kelvin Gastelum vs. Israel Adesanya. In addition to that, they talk about Bareknuckle FC successfully setting
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▶ Episode 348: Congratulations, You're Having a Thiago Santos
Is Jon Jones just messing with us? Teasing a July matchup with Stipe Miocic only to almost immediately ink this deal to fight Thiago Santos? Well, that's just mean spirited. Also, Justin Gaethje knows
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▶ Episode 347: This is Just Primed for Violence
Stephen Thompson was winning right up until he lost. Anthony Pettis was losing right up until he won. Big Pretty talked big but fought ugly. Plus, Gaethje vs. Barboza seems destined to be a certain ki
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▶ Episode 346: Three Piece and a Soda
Jorge Masvidal serves Darren Till AND Leon Edwards some tasty vittles at UFC Fight Night 147. Plus, Anthony Pettis moves up to welterweight ... and, wait, UFC pay-per-views are available exclusively w
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▶ Episode 345: Yeah, That Was Gross
Junior dos Santos defeats Derrick Lewis after Lewis allegedly shows up at UFC Fight Night 146 with a serious knee injury. Then, dos Santos says anybody but Brock Lesnar should fight next for the heavy
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▶ Episode 344: Y'all Fighting at the Buffet? Bruh.
With Jon Jones saying he's just now getting comfortable feeling like a UFC fighter (lol, wut?!?), we discuss the outlook for the rest of Bones' 2019 in the wake of his victory over Anthony Smith. Plus
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▶ Episode 343: Middle. Finger. Emoji.
We talk about what the heck is happening at lightweight, where Dustin Poirier went from tweeting a middle finger emoji to landing in a 155-pound interim title fight. Also, a look ahead to UFC 235, the
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▶ Episode 342: Now THIS is the Heavyweight Division We Know and Love
Did Francis Ngannou knock Cain Velasquez out with the shortest uppercut ever seen by man? Did Velasquez's knee spontaneously self-destruct? Is Mirko CroCop back? Have Matt Mitrione and Sergei Khariton
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▶ Episode 341: Finally, We Speak of Bowels
So, wait ... WHAT happened to Robert Whittaker just before UFC 234? And how did Kelvin Gastelum play it? And did how we feel about Adesanya vs. Silva have mostly to do with our own fears?
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▶ Introducing: Road Agents!
A free sample of Ben and Chad's new podcast Road Agents which will be available to top-tier patrons at the CME's Patreon page. Like what you hear? Go sign up:patreon.com/comainevent
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▶ Episode 340: Hella Stoppages
Jose Aldo and Marlon Moraes each got big wins at UFC Fight Night 144. Plus, your dudes look ahead to UFC 234's Robert Whittaker vs. Kelvin Gastelum and Anderson Silva vs. Israel Adesanya.
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▶ Episode 339: You're Looking at Me Askance Right Now
Ryan Bader becomes the Bellator champ champ with his quick and easy victory over Fedor Emelianenko in the heavyweight grand prix final. Did Scotty Cokes and Co. just hit a towering home run? Plus, wha
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▶ Episode 338: I’m Out Here Swinging Snakes Around, Man!
Ben and Chad break down the action from UFC on ESPN+1, as instructed by the huge amounts of listener mail they received.
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▶ Episode 337: I Feel Like I'm Taking Crazy Pills
The UFC's broadcast deal with ESPN is upon us, so Ben and Chad break down Henry Cejudo vs. TJ Dillashaw, talk about how a streaming-only product will affect fans and then nod to Nate Diaz jumping into
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▶ Episode 336: From Outhouse to Penthouse
After holiday break, Ben and Chad are back like Francis Ngannou after knocking out Curtis Blaydes. On this episode: UFC 232 wrap-up plus UFC 235 goes from the outhouse to the penthouse.
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▶ CME Christmas Spectacular [re-release]
ICYMI, the CME put out a Christmas Spectacular last year about this time. Here it is again.
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▶ Episode 335: Time to go whole hog on sword fighting
Chad and Ben discuss the divergent directions of Frank Mir and Lyoto Machida, then look ahead to UFC 232's dueling title fights.
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▶ Episode 334: Got Them WMDs
Ben and Chad breakdown the two title fights from UFC 231 and ask what happens next at men's featherweight and women's flyweight. Plus, with the UFC's deal with Fox about to end, what did we learn?
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▶ Episode 333: Poison most foul
Recapping the hot heavyweight action from Adelaide, Australia over the weekend (and Shogun!), plus Ben and Chad look ahead to the two awesome title fights on tap Saturday at UFC 231.
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▶ CME Book Club: The Sisters Brothers
Ben and Chad discuss one of their favorite books, Patrick DeWitt's The Sisters Brothers, with some help from the CME listening audience.
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▶ Episode 332: Still Reeling from Chuck-Tito 3
The outcome of Chuck Liddell-Tito Ortiz 3 leaves everybody out of sorts and wondering, among other things, if Golden Boy is one-and-done in MMA. Also, just how back is Francis Ngannou?
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▶ Episode 331: Stop Doing Stuff with Your Eyes
Are we ready to accept Santiago Ponzinibbio as welterweight No. 1 contender? Also, Bellator throws it back to the early 2000s with a tape delay from Israel and Francis Ngannou prepares to fight Curtis
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▶ Episode 330: 25 Damn Years
The UFC celebrates its 25th anniversary with a Fight Night event in Denver. Yair Rodriguez and Chan Sung Jung have a crackerjack. Mike Perry and Donald Cerrone settle their rivalry ... for now.
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▶ Episode 329: What's Your Problem, Floyd Mayweather?
Stunning news this week, as Floyd Mayweather Jr. announces he'll be doing ... something ... at Rizin 14 on New Years Eve. Plus, UFC 230 wrap-up and a Fight Night 139 preview.
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▶ Episode 328: So We're Doing TRADES Now?
Derrick Lewis will cash in on his balls being hot against Daniel Cormier at UFC 230, Anthony Smith seems like a good little light heavyweight contender and, wait, you can make *trades* in MMA?
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▶ Episode 327: Bellator GP Action + DC vs. Beast
Ben and Chad try not to jinx the Bellator Heavyweight Grand Prix. Plus, new fights for DC, The Black Beast, Jonny Bones, Lusty Gusty, Shev-champ-o and Joanna Former Champion.
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▶ Episode 326: Some People Don't Play
CANNONBALL!!! After Khabib Nurmagomedov goes into the crowd to brawl with Dillon Danis, Ben and Chad question whether anything really goes when you're selling the fight.
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▶ Episode 325: The Big Banana
Conor McGregor vs. Khabib Nurmagomedov is almost upon us! Plus, your dudes break down much of the action from Bellator 206.
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▶ Episode 324: Jon Jones + Conor McGregor = A Good Week
Jon Jones back. Conor McGregor back. Plus, why is Bellator trying to hide Gegard Mousasi vs. Rory MacDonald from us?
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▶ Episode 323: All. Questions. Considered.
All listener mail all the time on this AQC episode. Ben and Chad talk results from UFC: Moscow and answers questions on all things under the MMA sun.
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▶ Episode 322: Woodley whips Till + Did Nicco Montano get screwed?
On tap this week: UFC 228's main event turned out to be a showcase fight for Tyron Woodley, Nicco Montano loses her title without even fighting and wild times afoot at strawweight.
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▶ Episode 321: UFC 228 primer + Conor-Khabib for 2 million buys?
Are we hyped for Tyron Woodley vs. Darren Till? Is Valentina Shevchenko the uncrowned champ? And is Dana White right to expect two million buys for UFC 229?
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▶ CME Book Club: Fletch
Special guest Sarah Aswell joins the CME to discuss Fletch and how much author Gregory MacDonald may or may not have been fucking with us.
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▶ Episode 320: Gaethje kills, plus growing pains for Bareknuckle FC
Justin Ray Gaethje KOed James Vick in 1:27 on Saturday, Bareknuckle FC starts to reveal its flaws and Buffer vs. Diaz is the hottest feud of the summer.
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▶ Episode 319: Would the UFC really rebuff GSP's superfight offer? Real
Dana White says he won't let Georges St-Pierre fight the Conor-Khabib winner (*knowing wink*), Justin Gaethje and James Vick prepare to do terrible things and James Gallagher gets kicked. Right. In. T
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▶ Episode 318: A livestream grab bag
For the first time ever, Ben and Chad open the livestream up to everyone and take questions from the audience.
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▶ Episode 317: All hail The Messenger, Tilly Dills (and stills), plus C
UFC 227 provided twists and turns--Henry Cejudo and Tilly Dills reigned--and Conor McGregor is set to return against the dude he through that hand truck at, so ...
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▶ Episode 316 (7/30/18): Conor Back, Plus a Bunch of Rematches!
UFC on Fox 30 looked great on paper and the fights themselves turned out to be banging on Saturday night in Calgary. Dustin Poirer defeated Eddie Alvarez in a rematch in order to become … the guy who
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▶ Episode 315 (7/23/18): Shogun falls, while Alvarez & Poirier do it ag
After nearly seven painstaking hours of UFC: Hamburg on Sunday, Anthony Smith made short work of Shogun Rua in their main event light heavyweight fight. Merciful, perhaps, if you were one of the super
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 314 (7/16/18)
Junior dos Santos outdueled Blagoy Ivanov in the main event of UFC Fight Night 133 on Saturday, though the unanimous decision win wasn’t exactly the home run needed to declare the former champion well
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 313 (7/9/18)
Now that we’ve all stopped hyperventilating following UFC 226, the Co-Main Event Podcast is here to break down all of the action. On this episode, Ben and Chad discuss the catharsis of seeing Daniel C
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 312 (7/3/18)
The Big Daddy is finally here--it’s UFC 226 fight week. Your dudes are pretty hyped for what may well turn out to be the biggest fight card of the year. On this episode of the CME, Ben and Chad look a
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 311 (6/25/18)
An unexpectedly busy MMA weekend leaves the Co-Main Event Podcast with plenty to talk about this week. Donald Cerrone dropped to 1-4 in his last five after a hotly contested unanimous decision loss to
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 310 (6/18/18)
With Chad newly returned from his family trip, the CME is back to its normal schedule this week with a lot of stuff to catch up on. Firstly, there was UFC 225, which included big wins from Robert Whit
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 309 (6/4/18)
UFC 225 is right around the corner, so this week’s Co-Main Event Podcast largely concerns itself getting you ready for that event. What does middleweight champion Robert Whittaker have to prove--or ga
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 308 (5/29/18)
After a short break for Memorial Day, the CME is back--and just in time to discuss the retirement of Michael Bisping. Bisping announced his exit from MMA on his own podcast on Monday, nicely teeing-up
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 307 (5/21/18)
Yeah, so Kamaru Usman’s unanimous decision win over Demian Maia in the main event of UFC Fight Night 129 wasn’t exactly a crowd-pleaser. Usman largely wore Maia around the cage like a hat, but compare
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 306 (5/14/18)
Ben and Chad take back everything they said last week about how maybe UFC 224 and Bellator 199 wasn’t going to be all that. As it happened, shit was *flames emoji*. Amanda Nunes crafted her third stra
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 305 (5/7/18)
UFC 224 comes our way from Rio de Janeiro this Saturday, featuring Amanda Nunes defending her women’s bantamweight title against Raquel Pennington in its main event. Good news, though, Universe. If yo
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 304 (4/30/18)
It’s always a good week on the Co-Main Event Podcast when Ben and Chad get to talk Fedor Emelianenko news that isn’t patently depressing. Therefore, Emelianenko’s weekend victory over Frank Mir at Bel
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 303 (4/23/18)
Just in case there was any confusion about who they were, Kevin Lee and Frankie Edgar took to the cage Saturday at UFC Fight Night 128 to remind us all. Lee got his point across en route to a fifth ro
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 302 (4/16/18)
Dustin Poirier and Justin Gaethje had themselves a gem on Saturday in the main event of UFC on FOX 29. To say we are not surprised, motherfuckers, would be an enormous understatement. As two of the mo
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 301 (4/9/18)
Remember last week’s Co-Main Event Podcast, when Ben and Chad felt lucky that Tony Ferguson had been removed from UFC 223 on a Sunday, thereby (they thought) allowing them to dodge the CME News Curse
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 300 (4/2/18)
Episode 300! Good thing your dudes didn’t have big plans about how they would spend this milestone episode of the Co-Main Event Podcast, since the MMA world up and went kablammo on Sunday night about
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 299 (3/26/18)
With the major MMA organizations largely taking the weekend off, the Co-Main Event Podcast is back with an All Questions Considered episode. This week, Ben and Chad let the brave and generous sponsors
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 298 (3/19/18)
Did Fabricio Werdum merely get caught slipping on Saturday at UFC Fight Night 127? Or does the 40-year-old former UFC champ’s knockout loss to Alexander Volkov forecast the end of Werdum’s time among
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 297 (3/12/18)
Having--somewhat improbably--survived Friday night’s PrideFC Drinking Game Challenge, Ben and Chad return this week to their lives as humble and rapidly aging podcast hosts. The Co-Main Event still ha
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 296 (3/5/18)
We’re down to single digits now in counting the days until the Co-Main Event Podcast PrideFC Drinking Game Special. So if you still haven’t gotten down with the Patreon, the time is now. This week, ho
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 295 (2/26/18)
Jeremy Stephens scored a potentially big win over Josh Emmett on Saturday at UFC on Fox 28. How he got there is where things get interesting. The hard-slugging Stephens appeared to commit multiple fou
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 294 (2/20/18)
ALL QUESTIONS CONSIDERED ALERT! This weekend’s MMA action created too many storylines for the Co-Main Event Podcast to handle under its normal format. Luckily, Ben and Chad also got a ton of good emai
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 293 (2/12/18)
UFC 221 featured uncomfortable close talking, pantomimed public urination, an egregious eye poke & a dude chugging beer out of a shoe. In other words, we finally reached perfection. On this episode of
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 292 (2/5/18)
Let’s just say UFC Fight Night 125 did not go off with flying colors Saturday from Belem, Brazil. From the mild controversy of Lyoto Machida’s split decision win over “Ya Boi” Eryk Anders to the sligh
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 291 (1/29/18)
The biggest MMA news of the week arguably happened Sunday night, at the conclusion of WWE’s annual Royal Rumble pay-per-view. We all suspected Ronda Rousey might wash-up on WWE’s shores sooner or late
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 290 (1/22/18)
Stipe Miocic, you magnificent SOB. All the heavyweight champion did last weekend at UFC 220 was toss a bundle of dynamite on the tracks in front of the Francis Ngannou hype-train. In the process, Mioc
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 289 (1/16/18)
“No Time” to waste on this week’s Co-Main Event Podcast. And yes, that is both a clever play on words referring to Volkan Oezdemir’s upcoming light heavyweight title fight against Daniel Cormier at UF
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 288 (1/8/18)
It’s never too early to start talking about Bellator MMA’s heavyweight title grand prix, that’s the Co-Main Event Podcast’s official position on the matter. With Chael Sonnen and Quinton “Rampage” Jac
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 287 (1/3/18)
Look, if we’re being honest here, Chad and Ben spend the opening five minutes of 2018’s first Co-Main Event Podcast talking about microwave ovens and stomach flu. So, if your New Year’s resolution is
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast 2017 Christmas Spectacular
Lorenzo Fertitta was gone: to begin with. There was no doubt about that. He’d sold his ownership stake and unfollowed the ring girls on Twitter and flown away on his private jet, richer than God and s
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 286 (12/18/17)
Rafael dos Anjos’ dominant win over Robbie Lawler at UFC on Fox 26 was yet another reminder to the Co-Main Event Podcast (or, at least, one half of it) to stop sleeping on dos Anjos. At this point, yo
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 285 (12/11/17)
Brian Ortega snatched Cub Swanson’s neck (twice) on Saturday at UFC Fight Night 123, perhaps along with it snatching future No. 1 contender status in the men’s featherweight division. This week, Ben a
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 284 (12/4/17)
As investigators continue to comb downtown Detroit looking for Alistair Overeem’s jaw, the Co-Main Event Podcast returns with another action-packed episode. On this week’s show, Ben and Chad discuss M
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 283 (11/27/17)
As feared, things turned even sadder this week for Michael Bisping. That short-notice fight with Kelvin Gastelum went as poorly as Ben and Chad worried it might. Just a few weeks after getting stunned
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 282 (11/20/17)
Show of hands if a couple weeks ago you predicted that a boomerang toss would take up a good portion of Co-Main Event Podcast episode 282? Yeah, Ben and Chad did not see that coming either. In the wak
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 281 (11/13/17)
Seriously, how worried should we be about Conor McGregor? After another weekend where the UFC lightweight champion attended an MMA event as a fan and ended up causing a borderline international incide
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 280 (11/6/17)
The happenings of Saturday night’s UFC 217 were simply too big to fit inside a normal episode of the Co-Main Event Podcast, so for this week’s show Ben and Chad have decided to supersize it. Ninety mi
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 279 (10/30/17
Batten down the hatches, CME Universe, it’s UFC 217 fight week. With just a week or so left before Michael Bisping actually defends his UFC middleweight title against Georges St-Pierre, Ben and Chad t
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 278 (10/23/17)
Darren Till made the most of his first real spotlight moment in the Octagon on Saturday at UFC Fight Night 118, blowing through Donald Cerrone via first round TKO. Now it seems as though Till might be
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 277 (10/16/17)
Gdansk, Gdansk, Gdansk is where the UFC journeys this weekend for Fight Night 118. The main event of that card features Donald Cerrone against Darren Till, which is kind of a strange marquee matchup u
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 276 (10/9/17)
No big deal, you guys. Demetrious Johnson is just going to toss Ray Borg up in the air like a small child and then armbar him as he plummets to earth (which is something we absolutely do NOT recommend
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 275 (10/2/17)
UFC 216 comes our way this weekend from T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. The event will go on, the UFC says, just days after the deadliest mass shooting in modern American history struck the Las Vegas str
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 274 (9/25/17)
A pretty low-quality UFC event and a pretty high-quality Bellator event paced the weekend in MMA and you know that kind of role reversal is enough to get the creative juices flowing for the CME. On th
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 273 (9/18/17)
Luke Rockhold returns from more than a year away, takes some time to shake off the rust and ultimately emerges from UFC Fight Night 116 with a second-round win via strikes over Dave Branch. Pretty muc
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 272 (9/11/17)
Demetrious Johnson didn’t get his chance to break Anderson Silva’s record for consecutive UFC title defenses after all. Not when Ray Borg got pulled from their scheduled UFC 215 main event just prior
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 271 (9/5/17)
Back to business, Co-Mainiacs! After the months-long fever dream that was Mayweather vs. McGregor this week finds Ben and Chad thrust back into sober (and somewhat sobering) MMA action. For Episode 27
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 270 (8/28/17)
Welp, here it is, CME Universe, the last episode of the Co-Main Event Podcast where you have to listen to Chad and Ben spend any significant time talking about Mayweather-McGregor. And really, is that
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 269 (8/21/17)
Well, Co-Mainiacs, here we are. The moment is upon us. History unfolds before our very eyes. On this week’s Co-Main Event Podcast, Ben and Chad take a last, pre-fight look at the boxing match pitting
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 268 (8/14/17)
Perhaps you thought it was an ain’t shit going on kind of week, eh Universe? If that’s what you did anticipate, Ben and Chad don’t blame you. With the UFC clearing the lane for Aug. 26’s Mayweather vs
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 267 (8/8/17)
Did you enjoy UFC Fight Night 114, CME Universe? Your dudes Ben and Chad hope you did because that’s all the live MMA action inside the Octagon that you’re going to get between now and Sept. 2. Fortun
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 266 (7/31/17)
After Saturday night’s UFC 214, the Co-Main Event Podcast is spent. Following the drama and the comedy, the triumph and the heartbreak, the entire MMA community should probably be cooling its heels so
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 265 (7/24/17)
The Co-Main Event Podcast returns this week with a gargantuan show to handle an MMA news cycle that doth overfloweth with insane action. Ben and Chad convene to discuss Chris Weidman’s potentially car
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 264 (7/18/17)
Can you hear us, Co-Main Event Universe? Look, we realize you may be confused since A) This episode of the CME is dropping a day later than normal and B) Your ears may still be ringing from last week’
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 263 (7/11/17)
Well, Universe, Robert Whittaker and Justin Gaethje both had pretty damn good weekends, huh? Amanda Nunes? Maybe not quite so hot. On this episode of the Co-Main Event Podcast, Ben and Chad look at Wh
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 262 (7/3/17)
It’s International Fight Week, CME Universe, and you know what that means: The UFC will produce back-to-back events this weekend--both of them from the same building in Las Vegas, which makes you wond
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 261 (6/26/17)
On paper, maybe it looked like kind of a ho-hum weekend in the world of mixed martial arts, but in practice--boy, howdy--it brought the weird. In other words, Bellator: NYC and UFC Fight Night 112 are
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 260 Part 2 (6/19/17)
Whoa there, partner! This is part 2 of episode 260 of the CME. If you haven't listened to part 1 yet, you'll want to double-back and do that. If you have, proceed. If you haven't, no need to be embarr
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 260 Part 1 (6/19/17)
After another week where the Co-Main Event Podcast was off again, your dudes are back in full effect this week with a super-sized episode of the CME. On this show, Ben and Chad are in a mad scramble t
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 259 (6/5/17)
The world has a new undisputed UFC featherweight champion, as Jerome Max Blessed Holloway rolled up to UFC 212, took the best Jose Aldo had to offer over the course of two rounds and then laid out
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 258 (5/29/17)
After a week off to collect themselves--and in Ben's case go on vacation with his family--the Co-Main Event Podcast is back with a vengeance. It doesn't hurt that there are oodles of high-level MMA ha
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 257 (5/15/17)
UFC 211 was a barnburner, Universe, and this week’s Co-Main Event Podcast has your wall-to-wall coverage. Stipe Miocic’s first-round TKO over Junior dos Santos to put a second successful defense of th
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 256 (5/8/17)
Not gonna lie to you, Universe, parts of this episode of the Co-Main Event Podcast don’t sound great. This week’s recording session was beset by technical difficulties, mostly with Ben’s microphone. F
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 255 (5/1/17)
Another relatively slow week in mixed martial arts means another #aintshitgoinon episode of the Co-Main Event Podcast. This week, Ben and Chad fill an hour, 15 minutes with almost nothing but your lis
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 254 (4/24/17)
Artem Lobov didn’t beat Cub Swanson on Saturday in the UFC Fight Night 108 main event. In fact, at no point in their five-round fight did it even look like Lobov was about to win. Still, dude did bett
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 253 (4/17/17)
Just in case you needed a reminder how comparatively shitty you are at whatever it is you do for a living, Demetrious Johnson fought last weekend. Johnson, the UFC’s inimitable flyweight champion, pai
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 252 (4/10/17)
There was simply no end to the hijinks, controversy and out-and-out skullduggery surrounding Saturday night’s UFC 210. In other words, it was an event tailor made for Ben and Chad to discuss on the CM
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 251 (4/3/17)
Muhammed Lawal and Quinton “Rampage” Jackson ran it back on Saturday at Bellator 175, renewing their rivalry of 2014 by putting on a second fight that looked nearly identical to the first. Except that
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 250 (3/27/17)
Ain’t shit goin’ on, you guys. Aside from Tonya Evinger getting that sweet, sweet revenge on Yana Kunitskaya at InvictaFC 22 over the weekend, it's been a fairly quiet couple weeks in the MMA Bubble.
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 249 (3/20/17)
Will UFC Fight Night 107 be remembered as the evening in London when Jimi Manuwa stomped into the collective consciousness of the light heavyweight division and announced he wasn’t there to make frien
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 248 (3/13/17)
At Saturday night’s UFC Fight Night 106, Vitor Belfort lost to up-and-coming middleweight Kelvin Gastelum in such lopsided fashion that even Belfort himself thinks it might be time to set an end date
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 247 (3/6/17)
Yeah, that UFC 209 main event between Tyron Woodley and Stephen “Wonderman” Thompson pretty much stunk up the joint, huh? Just a couple of dudes out there walking in circles for 25 minutes. And this a
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 246 (2/27/17)
With an actual, honest-to-goodness interesting pay-per-view card coming on Saturday at UFC 209, the Co-Main Event Podcast has much to talk about. Tyron Woodley and Stephen Thompson prepare to rematch
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 245 (2/20/17)
The President’s Day episode of the Co-Main Event Podcast is exactly what you might expect: slapdash, thrown-together, even less organized than usual. See, what had happened was, Chad had to take his 4
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 244 (2/13/17)
Ooof, UFC 208, right? That was rough. This week the entire Co-Main Event Podcast Universe is likely reevaluating how it spends its Saturday nights after shelling out $60 for the worst pay-per-view fig
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 243 (2/6/17)
UFC Fight Night 104 ended with decidedly divergent fortunes for main and co-main event favorites Chan Sung Jung and Alexa Grasso. Jung returned from three years away from the cage to triumphantly knoc
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 242 (1/30/17)
The Octagon touched down in the Mile High City on Saturday for UFC on Fox 23 and things went well for some people and … not so well for others. On this week’s Co-Main Event Podcast, Ben and Chad look
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 241 (1/23/17)
Tito Ortiz and Chael Sonnen had the MMA spotlight all to themselves last Saturday night at Bellator 170 and the two of them delivered a fight that can only be described as a complete stinker. Sonnen’s
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 240 (1/16/17)
A new beginning for Yair Rodriguez, perhaps a sad end for BJ Penn and another weekly episode of the Co-Main Event Podcast. With Rodriguez’s second-round TKO over Penn still fresh in the minds from Sun
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 239 (1/9/17)
Naturally, this episode of the Co-Main Event Podcast was recorded just as the announcement that Tyron Woodley will face Stephen Thompson in a welterweight title rematch at UFC 209 was going down. Whic
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 238 (1/2/17)
It was a weird weekend in the world of MMA, Universe. For starters, we saw perhaps the final fall of Ronda Rousey as she collapsed into dust under the pressure (and the fists) of women’s bantamweight
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 237 (12/26/16)
The world won’t be hearing much from Ronda Rousey in the final days before her UFC 207 comeback fight against Amanda Nunes. During the Christmas holiday we found out Rousey had been excused from parti
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 236 (12/19/16)
UFC on FOX 22 scored decent ratings but at least a few of the fight results didn’t pan out in the way matchmakers perhaps wanted. Ben and Chad spend the bulk of this episode of the Co-Main Event Podca
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 235 (12/12/16)
Finally, the UFC featherweight division has its (interim) champion. The good news? He seems like a likable sort, comes bearing hashtags and impeccable taste in reflective neckties. The bad news? He’s
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 234 (12/5/16)
Did y’all watch crazy-ass Tim Elliott give Demetrious Johnson a run for his money on Saturday night? Hopefully you at least DVR’ed the damn thing, Universe, because--hoo boy--that was some shit. If yo
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 233 (11/28/16)
Well, Universe, Conor McGregor is no longer the UFC featherweight champion. Just like we always knew it would, the announcement that McGregor had “relinquished” the 145-pound title (totally willingly,
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 232 (11/21/16)
Things get back to normal for this week’s episode of the Co-Main Event Podcast. Or, at least, as normal as they ever get in this sport’s unending news cycle. Ben and Chad spend the CME’s normal three
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 231 (11/14/16)
UFC 205 is in the books and it was a doozy, folks. The fight company’s debut at Madison Square Garden and first trip to New York since 1995 was so big that it throws the normal format of the Co-Main E
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 230 (11/7/16)
Bad news, CME Universe, with just a few days to go before UFC 205, Ben and Chad probably just jinxed the whole thing by recording this episode of the Co-Main Event Podcast. See, the trouble is that th
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 229 (10/31/16)
Feeling refreshed, CME Universe? After a three-week break from UFC events we hope you are bright-eyed, bushy-tailed and ready to dive headfirst into the end of the year push. Ben and Chad certainly ar
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 228 (10/24/16)
Never thought Ben and Chad would do a largely juice-box themed episode of the Co-Main Event Podcast, but that’s the situation after Tito Ortiz made good use of props during his live “debate” with Chae
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 227 (10/17/16)
And here we thought it was going to be a slow week. Turns out, the MMA news cycle really does never stop churning out its wonderful goodness. As a result, this week’s Co-Main Event Podcast is chock fu
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 226 (10/10/16)
What to even make of Michael Bisping at this point, Universe? That’s one of the questions that weighs heavy on the mind of Co-Main Event Podcast. After watching Bisping retain his middleweight title a
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 225 (10/3/16)
Nothing like watching a couple of 135-pound dudes try to rearrange each other’s faces for 25 minutes to get you primed for another week of talking about mixed rules fighting, right, Universe? Oh, yeah
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 224 (9/26/16)
A couple days after watching Cyborg Justino do Cyborg Justino stuff to Lina Lansberg, the Co-Main Event Podcast still has questions. Did Cyborg really make weight? What’s the endgame here? Is Lansberg
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 223 (9/19/16)
It’s like, one night you go to bed secure and comfortable, everything normal and when you wake up—zounds!—the world’s gone crazy. Of course, we mean Chael Sonnen signing with Bellator MMA, right CME U
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 222 (9/12/16)
Well, CME Universe, we saw it. CM Punk totally fought in the Octagon at UFC 203. And it was a thing that absolutely happened. And you know what? Ben and Chad understand if you’re not sure exactly what
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 221 (9/5/16)
The Co-Main Event Podcast gets primed for UFC 203 this week, as Ben and Chad discuss Stipe Miocic’s pending heavyweight title fight against Alistair Overeem. The way they figure it, you take hometown
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 220 (8/29/16)
What’s up, Universe? Did y’all see Paige VanZant go upside Bec Rawlings’ head with that kick this past weekend on UFC on Fox 21? If you did, Ben and Chad expect you know some of what’s coming on this
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 219 (8/22/16)
Well, CME Universe, they done did it. Conor McGregor and Nate Diaz did the damn thing at UFC 202. We saw it--some of us--and we saw that it was good. This week, the Co-Main Event Podcast spends the li
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 218 (8/15/16)
Batten down the hatches, CME Universe. This week gives us the spectacle that will be UFC 202 and then every weekend after that will be full up with action in the Octagon until like mid-October. Consid
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 217 (8/8/16)
Well, Universe, if you sat through the interminable six-fight main card of UFC Fight Night 92 on Saturday night and you’re still hungering for more MMA talk/action, the Co-Main Event Podcast salutes y
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 216 (8/1/16)
Another week, another new champion in the UFC. For episode No. 216, the Co-Main Event Podcast unexpectedly finds itself penning a eulogy for the title reign of Robbie Lawler, who got himself KOed by T
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 289 (1/16/17)
“No Time” to waste on this week’s Co-Main Event Podcast. And yes, that is both a clever play on words referring to Volkan Oezdemir’s upcoming light heavyweight title fight against Daniel Cormier at UF
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 215 (7/25/16)
This week the Co-Main Event Podcast picks up the shattered pieces of what was once the UFC women’s bantamweight division and tries to put them all back together in a way that seems somehow appealing.
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast
The MMA scene slumps back to normal this week, after a gala UFC 200 celebration that saw the fight company stage three events on consecutive days. What does “normal” mean exactly? Well, you know, just
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 213 PART 2 (7/11/16)
This is part 2 of CME episode 213, where the guys discuss the happenings of UFC 200 and the late-breaking sale of the UFC to WME-IMG. Did you listen to part 1 first? No? You better get on that.
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 213 (7/11/16)
Let’s see, where to even start? Well, UFC 200 happened, mmmkay? It took three days, there were a boatload of fights and a bunch of noteworthy stuff happened. But even before that there was Wednesday e
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 212 (7/5/16)
How to even make sense of this monster UFC 200 fight week, CME Universe? The Co-Main Event Podcast split the damn thing over two episodes and it still feels too big to even deal with. This week, Ben a
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 211 (6/27/16)
The Co-Main Event Podcast basically clears its schedule this week to begin a two-episode dive into the UFC 200 mega-card. With the much-ballyhooed lineup for the July 9 extravaganza set, Ben and Chad
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 210 (6/20/16)
The UFC appeared headed for new ownership late Monday, just as the Co-Main Event Podcast sat to record this week’s episode. Naturally, reports that Frank and Lorenzo Fertitta would be loading up their
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 209 (6/13/16)
The Co-Main Event Podcast gets back to business this week--if indeed business ever slowed down--with a return to its usual format. The death of Kimbo Slice still looms large over the MMA world, as doe
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 208 (6/6/16)
For about 15 minutes on Saturday night the CME Podcast was fired up to do a show all about how unexpectedly awesome UFC 199 was. From Michael Bisping’s upset victory over Luke Rockhold to Dominick Cru
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 207 (5/30/16)
The Co-Main Event Podcast shows up for this memorial day episode feeling a little shaky and touch hungover, but it showed up nonetheless. Ben and Chad just aren’t going to leave you hanging, you know?
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 206 (5/23/16)
Ben is returned from the woods and the Co-Main Event Podcast goes on as scheduled. While his personal appearance--normal, un-grizzled--is a bit of a letdown for Chad, who was hoping for something more
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 205 (5/16/16)
In order to squeeze another episode in between vacations, the CME got together early on Monday to lay down No. 205 before Ben slipped off to his literal cabin in the literal woods for some literal R&R
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 204 (5/12/16)
Thanks for your patience, CME Universe. Nah, jokes, patience is not your motherfuckering virtue, guys, you know that? You grumbled and groaned the whole week Chad was off visiting his in-laws in Flori
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 203 (5/2/16)
Another week where #aintshitgoingon. I mean, #notreally. Itleads your guys Ben and Chad to pull out another All QuestionsConsidered episode of the Co-Main Event Podcast. And yeah, sure,there’s that Fi
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 202 (4/25/16)
Well, last week’s Co-Main Event Podcast got bombed out of
relevance fairly quickly by The Irish Gentleman Conor McGregor, eh,
Universe? The paint was barely dry on the shingle offering CME No.
201 for
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 201 (4/18/16)
The Co-Main Event Podcast is aware of a situation involving Episode 201 and a local business establishment--and that situation is that the episode is out and it’s fucking awesome. On this week’s show,
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 200 (4/11/16)
Like UFC 200 itself, perhaps Co-Main Event Podcast No. 200 doesn’t feel like quite as a big a deal as CME No. 100, but it’s still pretty goddamn great. For starters, Ben and Chad kick off the show by
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 199 (4/4/16)
Plenty to talk about on this week’s Co-Main Event Podcast. Your guys Jon Jones and Daniel Cormier took care of that. It was a pretty shitty week for the UFC 197 main event all the way around. First, J
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 198 (3/28/16)
Even during another relatively slow week, there is more than enough MMA news to whet the palette of the Co-Main Event Universe. On this week’s show, Ben and Chad discuss Nate Diaz’s recent declaration
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 197 (3/21/16)
After a few consecutive weeks where #aintshitgoingon suddenly the Co-Main Event Podcast finds itself in a brave new world where #shitgoingon. Almost #toomuchshit. Never to be cowed by the twists of ci
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 196 (3/14/16)
Let’s be honest, CME Universe--ain’t shit going on this week. Sure, there’s UFC Fight Night 85 from Australia, with Frank Mir fighting … Mark Hunt, maybe? Dunno, let Ben and Chad check up on that and
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 195 (3/7/16)
The Co-Main Event Universe spoke with a loud, clear voice this week. And what did you tell us? That the only things you cared about from the past week were Conor McGregor’s loss to Nate Diaz and Holly
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 194 (2/29/16)
A lot has changed since Ben and Chad sat to record the Co-Main Event Podcast just last week. Rafael dos Anjos is out and Nate Diaz is in against Conor McGregor at UFC 196 which only made things more s
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 193 (2/22/16)
Well, it was a certain kind of weekend wasn’t it, Universe? What with Bellator MMA getting down to its nitty, gritty freakshowiest best, while Kimbo Slice and Dada 5000 did Kimbo and Dada things and R
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 192 (2/15/16)
Admit it, you’ve basically waited your entire life to listen to the Co-Main Event Podcast discuss a Cowboy vs. Cowboy fight. If that’s the case, gentle reader, you are in luck, as this week Ben and Ch
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 191 (2/8/16)
Both co-hosts of the Co-Main Event Podcast are sick this week--co-sick, you might even say--but Ben and Chad still rally the troops for an hour and change of hard-hitting mixed martial arts talk. How
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 190 (2/1/16)
This week’s Co-Main Event Podcast delves heavily into the backlash against Sage Monroe Northcutt after his easy-peasy loss to Bryan Barberena on Saturday at UFC on Fox 18. Were the “haters” just being
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 189 (1/25/16)
Well, Ben and Chad drew up plans for this week’s Co-Main Event Podcast and then tore them up and started again after Cain Velasquez pulled out of UFC 196 with an injury. Then they tore THOSE plans up
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 188 (1/18/16)
There were a lot of strange happenings over the weekend at UFC Fight Night 81 and where do you go when things get strange? That’s right, my precious, you come to the Co-Main Event Podcast to hear the
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 187 (1/11/16)
This week’s Co-Main Event Podcast begins with the twisted tale of UFC 197 and who may or may not end up competing at that most bedraggled fight card. A week ago, we thought the whole event could be a
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 186 (1/4/16)
Robbie Lawler and Carlos Condit straight up did the damn thing last weekend at UFC 195, Universe. These two evenly matched welterweights put it all on the line for 25 minutes of greuling MMA action an
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 185 (12/28/15)
You hold in your hands--metaphorically, at least--the last CME podcast of 2015. With no way to adequately sum up the rollercoaster ride of this year in MMA, Ben and Chad don’t even try. Aside from som
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 184 (12/21/15)
Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to the Co-Main Event Podcast Christmas special. On this very special episode of the CME we all sit around a roaring fire sipping cocoa with marshmallows while we think b
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 183 (12/14/15)
Hey, CME Universe, how about that Conor McGregor, huh? Turns out he’s pretty good at throwing the old left hand. So good, in fact, that he’s the new UFC featherweight champion, the company’s biggest s
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 182 (12/7/15)
The Co-Main Event Podcast ain’t hurting for topics this week, what with three UFC events on back-to-back-to-back nights. From Jose Aldo and Conor McGregor finally (we hope) doing the damn thing at UFC
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 181 (11/30/15)
Did Benson Henderson’s UFC career come to a close last Saturday in South Korea, with a split decision victory over Jorge GAMBRED Masvidal? As always with The Man They Call Bendo, it was kinda hard to
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 180 (11/23/15)
This week’s Co-Main Event Podcast is awash in the weird come-down after UFC 193, a heady period where the likes of Neil Magny and Kelvin Gastelum are thrust forth as a main event fight for a televised
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 179 (11/16/15)
Well, what in the good goddamn just happened? That’s probably what you’ve been asking yourself these past few days since witnessing Holly Holm’s shocking second-round knockout of Ronda Rousey at UFC 1
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 178 (11/9/15)
It’s the big enchilada, Co-Main Event Podcast fans. On Saturday night at UFC 193, Ronda Jean Rousey puts her women’s bantamweight championship on the line against Holly Holm, allegedly at some mondo s
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 177 (11/2/15)
As the MMA world prepares to dive back in for the push to the New Year, the Co-Main Event Podcast steels itself for what lies ahead. On this week’s episode, Ben and Chad look at Vitor Belfort’s main e
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 176 (10/26/15)
Back to form this week for the Co-Main Event Podcast. Even though there still #aintreallyshitgoingon, Ben and Chad get deep into three rounds of mixed martial arts discussion. How is Ben holding up in
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 175 (10/19/15)
Another week where there #AintShitGoingOn, but the Co-Main Event Podcast bravely marches on. Pretty noble, right? Ben and Chad forge ahead into another week of listener questions. All are considered,
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 174 (10/12/15)
It’s up to you this week, podcast pals. The Co-Main Event shifts into All Questions Considered mode for its latest episode and you know what that means--ain’t shit else going on. Ben and Chad put the
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 173 (10/5/15)
This week’s Co-Main Event Podcast is recorded in the immediate wake of UFC 192 and immediately in advance of what everyone believes will be Jon Jones’ reinstatement to the UFC. Current champion Daniel
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 172 (9/28/15)
As we record this episode of the Co-Main Event Podcast, just imagine Josh Barnett seated at the head of a viking banquet table, full-up on honey mead and eating stew from a bowl made of the skull of h
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 171 (9/21/15)
Chad rolls into this week’s episode of the Co-Main Event Podcast straight from the road, after nearly a week being in Iowa with his family. He needs a vacation from his vacation, but instead he gets m
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 170
Breaking news into the Co-Main Event Podcast just as the show goes on the air this week, and Ben and Chad offer up some instant reaction to the Nevada State Athletic Commission handing Nick Diaz a fiv
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 169 (9/7/15)
Demetrious Johnson went out last weekend at UFC 191 and proved he’s still the most capable 125-pound mixed martial arts fighter on the planet--and the Co-Main Event Podcast breaks down every painstaki
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 168 (8/31/15)
The Co-Main Event Podcast can’t have one week where it doesn’t talk about Ronda Rousey, can it? Just when Ben and Chad thought we all had Rousey’s future set, the UFC done went and changed it again la
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 167 (8/24/15)
Even with no UFC event scheduled for this next weekend, the Co-Main Event Podcast has plenty to talk about. On this episode, Ben and Chad break down Max Holloway’s anti-climactic win over Charles Oliv
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▶ A Special Announcement from the CME and a Chance to Revisit an Old Fa
By now, the cat is probably well out of the bag that there is no new CME this week, after Ben decided to go on vacation with his family to some mountain lake. Just picture him, swinging comfortably in
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 166 (8/10/15)
The MMA world will get a chance to catch its breath this weekend, or maybe come down from the weird herky-jerky meth high that was watching Glover Teixeira choke Ovince St. Preux unconscious on Saturd
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 165 (8/3/15)
Rondamania is running wild as Ben and Chad sit down to record episode No. 165 of the venerable old Co-Main Event Podcast. It’s no wonder that the UFC’s dominant women’s bantamweight champion dominates
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 164 (7/27/15)
This week’s CME podcast finds Ben and Chad sorting through the rubble of TJ Dillashaw’s destruction of Renan Barao--read: Reen-an Barrio--at Saturday night’s UFC on Fox event. As you may recall, that
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 163 (7/20/15)
Like Frank Mir’s standing as a top UFC heavyweight, the Co-Main Event Podcast is back! Back in your lives after a short seven-day respite, yet without having accomplished anything nearly as impressive
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 162 (7/13/15)
The Co-Main Event Podcast is back in the building, ready to sweep up after all these damn Irishmen practically wrecked the place. It’s going to be a big job. On this episode, Ben and Chad find themsel
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 161 (7/6/15)
It has been a real white-knuckle thrillride, this lead up to UFC 189, but as Ben and Chad sit down to record this week’s Co-Main Event Podcast they are secure in the knowledge it is almost over. From
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 160 (6/29/15)
Just so much news this week that is right in the Co-Main Event Podcast’s wheelhouse, you guys. Seriously, sometimes it seems like the MMA Gods are scripting this shit just so Ben and Chad can poke fun
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 159 (6/22/15)
Call episode 159 of the Co-Main Event Podcast the first of the Kimbo Slice Era of mixed martial arts. Errr, wait, the second Kimbo Slice Era of mixed martial arts? Whatever. The Sliceman knocked Ken S
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 158 (6/15/15)
The Co-Main Event Podcast bows down before new UFC heavyweight champion Fabricio Werdum this week. Werdum defeated Cain Velasquez as something approaching a 5-to-1 underdog on Saturday at UFC 188 and
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 157 (6/8/15)
In order to record this week’s episode of the CME, Ben interrupts a madcap schedule of dancing to indie rock bands and Chad pauses his white-knuckle wait for the birth of his son. Really, they have no
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 156 (6/1/15)
Picture it, CME Universe. There you are, walking along, minding your own business, just doing your thing, landing your low kicks, everything going your way, when--boom--all of the sudden Carlos Condit
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 155 (5/25/15)
Daniel Cormier and Chris Weidman are your UFC champions in the light heavyweight and middleweight division (respectively), CME Universe. Both guys came to UFC 187 on Saturday ready to do the damn thin
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 154 (5/18/15)
Frankie Edgar--just so damn good at winning fights according to the unified rules of mixed martial arts. The former lightweight champion and presumptive featherweight No. 1 contender proved that all o
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 153 (5/11/15)
Well, we knew the this day would come eventually. This week, the Co-Main Event Podcast spends a good portion of its hour-and-change talking about fashion. Clothes. “Kits” as the young people say. Ben
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 152 (5/4/15)
The MMA guns fell mostly silent over the weekend, to allow the splendor and spectacle of Floyd Mayweather’s boxing fight against Manny Pacquiao dominate the national media cycle the way only a boxing
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 151 (4/27/15)
As Ben and Chad sat down to record Co-Main Event Podcast episode 151 on Monday afternoon, the whereabouts of UFC light heavyweight champion Jon Jones were still unknown. Jones is sought by Albuquerque
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 150 (4/20/15)
Luke Rockhold was the man of the hour on Saturday at UFC on Fox 15, battering Lyoto Machida en route to an important second-round victory. No surprise he continues to be the hot topic of conversation
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 149 (4/13/15)
A new week dawns for the Co-Main Event Podcast with--wait, what’s this?--Mirko Cro Cop as a potentially relevant member of the UFC heavyweight division?!? Well, let’s not get ahead of ourselves, but t
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 148 (4/6/15)
If you ever wanted to jump on the mic and tell 5,000 Virginians to go f--k themselves, Al Iaquinta lived your dream last Saturday at UFC Fight Night 63. If you’ve ever wanted to jump on the mic and te
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 147 (3/30/15)
Even with no UFC event last weekend, there is still plenty on the Co-Main Event Podcast’s plate in this latest episode. For starters Ben and Chad talk about Jose Aldo and Conor McGregor wrapping up th
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 146 (3/22/15)
It's a surprise Sunday Co-Main Event Podcast for all the little Co-Main Event Maniacs who’ve been saying their prayers and taking their vitamins out there in radio land. Also, because Chad has his ann
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 145 (3/18/15)
After a week long excursion in Florida, Chad gave up on turning his life into a Zac Brown Band song and returned to Co-Main Event World headquarters on Wednesday. He and Ben turned out the following e
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 144 (3/9/15)
UFC 185 comes to the American Airlines Arena in Dallas, Tex., this weekend, and while you probably can’t be there in person, the Co-Main Event Podcast transports you there via … the sound of their voi
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 143 (3/2/15)
With the world still reeling from two seismic events--Ronda Rousey’s 14 second win over Cat Zingano and the birth of Ben Fowlkes’ second child--the CME delivers a very special episode. This week, Ben
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 142 (2/23/15)
The technical term for this weekend’s MMA slate is “stacked” or, if you’re a true purist, even “stacked-ass.” Nope, not to confuse the layman out there, but this is one stacked-ass weekend of MMA acti
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 141 (2/16/15)
You know what? Much respect to Benson Henderson for taking all our minds off our troubles for a little while on Saturday night, when he choked out welterweight Brandon Thatch in the fourth round of th
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 140 (2/9/15)
All right, Co-Main Event Universe, Ben and Chad are going to do things a bit differently this week, for venerable episode Olde No. 140. As depressing as it is to admit, Anderson Silva’s failed drug te
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 139 (2/2/15)
Anderson Silva is back, Nick Diaz is still crazy, John Lineker and Kelvin Gastelum still can’t make weight and Chris Weidman is injured again. Does that about cover it? Oh yeah, some big news will pro
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 138 (1/26/15)
The Co-Main Event Podcast isn’t feeling well, you guys, but Ben and Chad still got it together to record episode 138 for you, the fans. Just too much stuff going on not to give er the ol’ CME try. For
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 137 (1/19/15)
After an odd-ball Sunday night UFC event, the Co-Main Event Podcast finds itself still shaking off the hangover of Fight Night 59. Ben and Chad squint for a long time at Conor McGregor’s victory over
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 136 (1/12/15)
In classic Co-Main Event fashion, the new podcast smell hadn’t even worn off last week’s episode before UFC light heavyweight champion Jon Jones tested positive for that candy cane. You know, that gut
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 135 (1/5/14)
Plots are thick for this week’s Co-Main Event Podcast, recorded just a couple of days after Jon Jones and Daniel Cormier finally settled their beef at UFC 182. Well, they fought, anyhow. Not sure ther
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 134 (12/29/14)
This week’s Co-Main Event Podcast was recorded in the middle of a g.d. blizzard, and Ben and Chad hope just a bit of that cozy holiday splendor somehow seeps into your earholes. God knows there is eno
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 133 (12/22/14)
Ben and Chad feel your pain, CME Universe. You have, what? One or two more days of work before the bosses let you cut out for Xmas? You’re sitting in your office right now, paging through best-of-year
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 132 (12/15/14)
The Co-Main Event Podcast gets back on its normal schedule this week. With everyone present and accounted for, Ben and Chad turn their attention to the latest happenings in MMA, both confirmed and oth
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 131 (12/12/14)
With Ben’s lengthy business chasing down hashtag lifestyle pieces in Las Vegas finally concluded, he and Chad get back on the wild, bucking horse that is the Co-Main Event Podcast on Friday. Better la
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 130 (12/1/14)
After a week off to nurse their Thanksgiving food hangovers and Thanksgiving hangover hangovers, Ben and Chad return with a new Co-Main Event Podcast, and not a moment too soon. See, gentle listener,
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 129 (11/17/14)
Ben and Chad delayed the recording of this week’s CME by some 25 minutes, hoping to be able to hear the UFC’s big #TheTimeIsNow announcement, so they could discuss it as BREAKING NEWS during the intro
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 128 (11/10/2014)
No time to mince words for the Co-Main Event Podcast this week, what with the MMA schedule more jam-ass-packed than even is normal. Is normal. Ben and Chad have, frankly, too much on their communal CM
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 196 (3/7/16)
The Co-Main Event Universe spoke with a loud, clear voice this week. And what did you tell us? That the only things you cared about from the past week were Conor McGregor’s loss to Nate Diaz and Holly
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 127 (11/4/2014)
The Co-Main Event Podcast records another Tuesday morning episode this week, as Ben’s tenure as a juror in a local trail plays havoc with the schedule. He joined Chad for coffee and fight talk as soon
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 126 (10/27/14)
What’s that chill you feel in the air, gentle listener? Why, it’s the super-scary, mega-terrifying Halloween episode of the Co-Main Event Podcast. Just pull up a squeaky old rocking chair and try to l
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 125 (10/20/14)
After the soaring high that was last week’s All Questions Considered episode, Co-Main Event Podcast No. 125 crashes back to earth, reverting to the crippling normalcy of just having Ben and Chad talk
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 124 (10/13/14)
With the UFC on hiatus both this weekend and the last, the Co-Main Event Podcast saddles up for another episode of All Questions Considered. It’s simple, really. You send Ben and Chad your email quest
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 123 (10/6/14)
Yet another UFC doubleheader Saturday leaves the Co-Main Event Podcast feeling spent. On this episode, Ben and Chad discuss Rory MacDonald’s victory over Tarec Saffiedine in an apparent welterweight t
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 122 (9/29/14)
On the heels of the stellar UFC 178 card, the Co-Main Event Podcast once again finds itself with a good kind of problem: too many compelling storylines to cram into one episode. As usual, Ben and Chad
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 121 (9/22/14)
So, Chris Weidman broke his hand and his fight with Vitor Belfort is pushed back to February? Man, you guys, the Co-Main Event Podcast is starting to feel responsible for this stuff, as one again (!)
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 120 (9/15/14)
The Co-Main Event Podcast is back … on Mondays! With both Ben and Chad just hanging around town doing nothing special this week, we’re back to our normal schedule. You know what that means … some big
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 119 (9/9/14)
With Ben safely returned from the wilds of Maine, the Co-Main Event Podcast produces what it hopes is its last delayed show for some time. Lucky thing, too, since the MMA world just proves too capable
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 118 (9/2/14)
Now back to irregularly scheduled programming. For the next two weeks, the CME will come out on Tuesdays, which for the record was how the show was conceived in the beginning, before public pressure a
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 117 (8/25/14)
Not gonna lie, after another UFC doubleheader Saturday, the Co-Main Event Podcast felt a little bit like Cung Le fresh from three-plus rounds with Michael Bisping. Ben woke up super early to write MMA
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 116 (8/18/14)
After 21 empty, listless days with no shows, the UFC returned with a vengeance this past weekend. With an event scheduled for every Saturday from now (last weekend, actually) through the end of the mo
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 115 (8/11/14)
With one CME host returning to town just as the other skeddadled out the back door, Ben and Chad had to squeeze in episode 115 during the short window when both dudes were still in the One True Time Z
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 114 (7/28/14)
You know the Co-Main Event Podcast has a lot to discuss this week, what with Anthony Johnson’s fearsome punching power and Alexander Gustafsson’s torn meniscus crying havoc with the light heavyweight
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 113 (7/21/14)
MMA’s charmed month of July rolled on, as Conor McGregor and 9,500 of his closest, most Irish-est friends blew the roof off O2 arena in Dublin over the weekend. The Co-Main Event Podcast was not in at
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 112 (7/14/14)
After the pleasant dream that was last weekend (no shows! zero!), it’s once again fight week, as MMA fans gear up for two UFC events. Wednesday’s UFC Fight Night 45 is headlined by Donald Cerrone vs.
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 111 (7/7/14)
The Co-Main Event Podcast has never smelled so clean, nor felt so fresh in its … uh … groin … area. Be warned, CME Universe, this week Ben and Chad record the show under the influence of Dude Wipes, w
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 110 (6/30/14)
Look, Ben and Chad need to get this episode of the CME recorded quick, so they can make it down to Cub Swanson’s Bar and Grille before the two-for-one appetizer happy hour ends, OK? Before they shuffl
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 109 (6/23/14)
The winners of the second annual White Elephant Essay Contest are finally announced this week, so after a couple of weeks of stalling from Ben and Chad, winners must now begin the interminable wait fo
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 108 (6/16/14)
Demetrious Johnson put Ali Bagautinov under his spell on Saturday at UFC 174, battering yet another top five flyweight into oblivion. Can the UFC’s 125-pound champion have a similarly dominating effec
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 107 (6/9/14)
The Co-Main Event Podcast had the strangest dream, you guys. We dreamed Diego Sanchez went out and got lit up pillar to post by Ross Pearson this weekend at UFC Fight Night 42 and somehow walked out w
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 106 (6/2/14)
Real talk, Universe? Sometimes Ben and Chad wish they could invent a suspended animation machine, that would freeze all MMA news from breaking between the time the Co-Main Event Podcast is recorded an
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 105 (5/26/14)
Tylor Jeffery Dillashaw, everybody! The Co-Main Event Podcast was not expecting to spend nearly an entire round talking about that young man during episode 105, but that’s what happened after Dillasha
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 104 (5/19/2014)
Fight cards like Bellator 120 are pretty much tailor-made for discussion on the Co-Main Event Podcast. With a little bit of quality action and a whole lot of weirdness, Ben and Chad dig deep into the
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 103 (5/12/14)
Matt Brown saved us all from what felt like the longest UFC card in history on Saturday night, and the Co-Main Event Podcast is grateful because of it. On episode 103, Ben and Chad talk about Brown’s
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 102 (5/5/14)
One thing the CME can always count on: MMA dudes will be beefin’. This week, Ben and Chad take on yet another mysterious phonenapping, as Josh Thomson’s Twitter account talked some junk about Nick Dia
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 101 (4/28/14)
Episode 101 of the Co-Main Event Podcast sneaks in before Ben Fowlkes takes his family on a fabulous Florida vacation this week (must be nice, amirite?). Ben and Chad have more than enough to fill all
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 100, Part 2 (4/21/14)
Huffing and puffing like a couple heavyweights at a local MMA show, Ben and Chad stagger into the championship rounds during the second half of CME 100. As if the first hour wasn’t action-packed enoug
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 100, Part 1 (4/21/14)
The Co-Main Event Podcast celebrates episode 100 this week. In order to honor the show’s vast listening audience for its attention and good graces, Ben and Chad bust out a doublewide show, going five
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 99 (4/14/14)
Deep breath, fight fans, this shit is about to get hectic. The Co-Main Event Podcast dives into the thick of the UFC’s spring schedule this week, with talk of Roy Nelson’s win over Antonio Rodrigo Nog
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 98 (4/7/14)
The Great MMA Drought of 2014 is nearly over as Ben and Chad sit down to record episode 98 of the Co-Main Event Podcast. Friday in Abu Dhabi the UFC ends its uncharacteristic period of inactivity with
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 97 (3/31/14)
Ah, the doldrums of Spring. With the MMA calendar in a bit of a down cycle this week, the Co-Main Event Podcast breaks from its typical format with one of its favorite diversions--All Questions Consid
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 96 (3/25/14)
A day late and several dollars short, episode 96 of the Co-Main Event Podcast finally makes its way to the streets on Tuesday, after a 24 hour delay caused by Ben Fowlkes’ duties as a newspaperman for
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 95 (3/17/14)
The first Co-Main Event Podcast of the post-Georges St-Pierre era goes in the books easily enough. God knows there’s enough to discuss, with Johny Hendricks’ masterpiece victory over Robbie Lawler to
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 94 (3/10/14)
With Alexander Gustafsson’s win over Jimi Manuwa on Saturday at UFC Fight Night 37-38/UFC London, the Co-Main Event Podcast celebrates a rejuvenated light heavyweight division to begin episode 94. In
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 93 (3/3/14)
Feb. 27 may end up being regarded as an official holiday on the Co-Main Event Podcast calendar, as that was the day the Nevada Athletic Commission finally rid MMA of the scourge of legalized testoster
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▶ Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 92 (2/24/14)
Ronda Rousey coasted off into the bright light of a six month vacation this week, after dispatching Sara McMann in one minute, six seconds on Saturday at UFC 170. The victory did not come without cont
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