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UFC Belgrade Event Recap Medic vs Rodriguez Full Card Reaction & Breakdown
THE MMA GURU · Watch on YouTube · Generated with SnapSummary · 2026-08-02

00:00 UFC Fight Night Belgrade Serbia Medici

00:02 versus Rodriguez just took place and I'm

00:04 going to go through the entire card

00:06 starting with the early prelims ending

00:08 with the main event giving my reaction

00:10 and breakdown to every single fight on

00:11 the card and this was even though the

00:14 card wasn't too stacked nonstop finishes

00:18 start to finish pretty much.

00:21 Um, I don't remember a decision on the

00:23 card and I think there was maybe one

00:25 decision and it was still technically a

00:28 finish anyway. Oh no wait, Alexander

00:30 Rakic of course was boring beyond

00:33 belief. I forgot about that one but

00:34 there were a bunch of fun finishes on

00:36 the card. We're going to start straight

00:38 away with Marina Spasic versus Stephanie

00:41 Luciano.

00:43 Um, I went with Stephanie Luciano by

00:45 submission.

00:47 And after some striking back and forth

00:49 between the two of them, Stephanie

00:51 Luciano found the takedown and got the

00:53 rear naked choke on Marina Spasic.

00:55 Luciano's got a really good submission

00:57 game. I mentioned that in the build up.

01:00 Um, I said I had her winning this one by

01:02 submission anyway.

01:03 Um, and and it's just another aspect of

01:05 her game. She did she's decent on the

01:07 feet. Marina Spasic is a bit more of a

01:09 striker.

01:10 Um, but there's a level to Luciano's

01:12 game, you know, where she can take

01:14 things to the ground and get finishes

01:16 there by rear naked choke. So great win

01:19 by Stephanie Luciano to kick off the

01:20 card and uh we move on to Jovan Lekic

01:24 versus Aleksandar Popovic. I've never

01:28 seen

01:31 two men of similar height

01:34 look completely different sizes before.

01:40 Never seen it before. Now, I've stood

01:43 next to people that are my height that

01:44 look way smaller than me. And you're

01:47 going to say of course you're fat but

01:49 just in terms of frame

01:52 this isn't like really a fat guy.

01:55 But Popovic was like maybe an inch

01:57 shorter than him,

01:59 but just looked so tiny in comparison.

02:02 You'd never think they were only an inch

02:04 away in height or a a couple of inches

02:06 away in height. It looked like Popek was

02:08 out there as like a lightweight or a

02:10 welterweight taking on a heavyweight in

02:13 Jo van Lekker. He looked massive

02:15 compared to him. Both guys went for a

02:17 couple of strikes a piece, and then Jo

02:19 van Lekker cracked Alexander Popek with

02:21 a nasty body kick and folded him badly

02:25 with it. Really nasty body kick from Jo

02:27 van Lekker, followed up with some ground

02:29 and pound afterwards, and got himself a

02:31 first round TKO win. I thought this

02:34 could have ended up being a blob fest,

02:35 but um

02:36 you know what?

02:38 He's improved since his first Contender

02:40 Series win, and he made a statement in

02:42 his UFC debut. I would like to see him

02:45 take on someone who's an actual

02:46 heavyweight next because

02:48 I mean, that was so weird to see. Even

02:50 though Alexander Popek, I said it going

02:52 in, this guy's a light heavyweight. He's

02:53 going to be way too small.

02:56 The guy looked like a welterweight out

02:57 there, like a middleweight. I feel like

02:59 Carlos Prates

03:01 would have looked bigger next to next to

03:04 to Jo van Lekker than Alexander Popek

03:07 did. It was like a weird, almost felt

03:09 like I was watching an optical illusion.

03:11 Um but Lekker's just so much bigger than

03:13 him, so much more powerful. Hurt him

03:15 with that body kick, folded him, and

03:16 finished him. Really nasty win from Jo

03:18 van Lekker. We move on.

03:22 Nina Milosevic versus Hayley Cohen. I

03:25 went with Nina Milosevic. I thought she

03:27 is the way better fighter.

03:29 Um and this was another body shot

03:31 sequence finish, dude. I missed a few

03:33 body shot finishes on this card.

03:35 Um but this was a really nasty finish by

03:37 body shots by Nina Milosevic. Hurt

03:40 Hayley Cohen to the body, I believe,

03:41 with a knee or a kick, and then followed

03:43 up with a punch to the body, as well.

03:46 Folded Hayley Cohen the first time that

03:48 she landed it, and then Cohen kind of

03:49 gritted her way back into the fight, and

03:51 the ref let it continue. And then Nina

03:53 Milosevic folded her yet again with

03:56 another body shot, and Hailey Cowan was

03:58 done. Hunched over, done a little back

04:00 roll on the ground as well. That's how

04:02 hunched over she was.

04:04 And it was a really nasty TKO win from

04:06 Nina Milosevic, so

04:09 great win, great performance, great

04:11 debut for a great talent in women's

04:13 bantamweight, you know. Women's MMA is

04:15 coming along.

04:16 And I think by them putting it on the

04:18 back burner for a bit, it's got a chance

04:21 to like marinate, if you know what I'm

04:23 saying.

04:24 I feel like with women's MMA, I said

04:26 this earlier on the stream,

04:28 I feel like we haven't really had a

04:30 women's MMA fight yet this year.

04:33 Until Dern versus Robertson for a title

04:36 fight.

04:37 Name like a high-profile women's MMA

04:39 fight that's happened.

04:40 I'm I mean, Kong Wang's been on a card,

04:43 but

04:45 I just can't think of like a top-level

04:46 match-up that's gone down.

04:49 And by doing that,

04:51 the divisions are kind of marinating,

04:53 they're building, you know. We don't

04:54 need to rush things. Um but Nina

04:56 Milosevic was a great signing by the

04:58 UFC.

04:59 Um not just because she was a Serbian. I

05:02 would have signed her to the UFC anyway,

05:03 or at least brought her on to this

05:04 season of the Contender Series, but uh

05:07 really great impressive debut victory.

05:09 Um she's got a bright future.

05:11 Let's not rush. Let's take our time,

05:13 and let her develop at her own rate.

05:15 Nina Milosevic gets it done, first round

05:18 TKO.

05:21 Mateusz Rebecki versus Kyle Prepolec,

05:24 just a one-sided beatdown from Mateusz

05:26 Rebecki. Actually very impressive to me,

05:29 because Prepolec's been in there with

05:31 Benoit Saint Denis, Drew Dober, and

05:33 pretty decent lightweights. I mean,

05:35 Benoit Saint Denis before he lost to

05:36 Paddy Pimblett, people were calling him

05:38 the boogeyman of the division, and he's

05:40 back on a win streak, and look out for

05:42 Look what he did to Hafia.

05:44 Um

05:46 And Drew Dober is always dangerous, you

05:48 know, even though he's not really too

05:49 motivated to beat a guy like Prepolec,

05:51 he's always dangerous and always a good

05:52 unranked lightweight.

05:54 So, for Rebequi to easily dismantle

05:56 Prepolec, take him down, and beat the

05:57 [ __ ] out of him start to finish in round

05:59 one,

06:01 very impressive to me, dude. The amount

06:03 of volume that he put on Prepolec. I

06:05 mean, the numbers, you can see it here

06:07 yourself.

06:10 132

06:13 total strikes to 11 in favor of Rebequi.

06:17 This is within 4 minutes and 40 seconds.

06:19 Not even a full round.

06:21 Round one, 75 to two

06:25 insignificant strikes. That's like

06:27 Khamzat Chimaev in five overall fights.

06:31 That's his total significant strike

06:32 count. And Rebequi got it all within 4

06:35 minutes and 40 seconds, taking down

06:37 Prepolec, beating the [ __ ] out of him,

06:39 far side wrist control, loads of ground

06:41 and pound. And Rebequi just eventually

06:43 couldn't take any more, and the referee

06:45 was like, "You're not improving your

06:46 position. You're receiving a one-sided

06:48 ass whooping. We're going to have to

06:50 call it off." Great win by Mateusz

06:51 Rebequi getting it done on the prelims.

06:54 Another finish. We move on.

06:57 Was it a finish? Is the question. Uh

07:01 Bogdan Grad versus Denis Buzukja.

07:03 Um I think it was a finish, to be honest

07:07 with you. Uh but round one, Bogdan Grad

07:10 was having a decent round, and he was

07:12 getting his takedowns off on Denis

07:14 Buzukja in the first round. Bogdan Grad

07:17 often has good first rounds in fights.

07:19 He's very explosive. Um the chances to

07:22 beat him usually come later on as the

07:24 fight goes on. Very strong, very

07:26 physical early.

07:27 Um and he did more of the busy work in

07:29 round one, landed some really good

07:30 shots.

07:31 Um and got his takedowns and submission

07:34 attempts in the first. Round two,

07:38 Denis Buzukja starts doing pretty good,

07:40 to be fair.

07:41 Denis Buzukja starts doing pretty good,

07:43 landing some good shots on Bogdan Grad,

07:45 kind of wobbling him a couple of times

07:47 on the feet as well I noticed. He didn't

07:50 look like he really went for a finish

07:51 that many times, but he definitely stung

07:54 Grad with some shots that were like, "Oh

07:55 [ __ ] Grad is now desperately shooting

07:58 for these takedowns on Dennis Buzukja."

08:00 And he's not getting too many of them.

08:02 He eventually does get a takedown in

08:04 round two.

08:05 And he gets to the arm triangle position

08:07 and Dennis Buzukja is grimacing on his

08:10 face.

08:11 Like that. And by the way, in the in the

08:14 backstage thing that he said, he said,

08:16 "I wasn't even in a submission

08:17 position." Then why was your face

08:18 looking like that, dude?

08:20 The guy was like this in the arm

08:22 triangle.

08:23 Like that.

08:25 And he was like, "The submission wasn't

08:26 even in."

08:28 Interesting. But then, the question is

08:30 whether or not he tapped.

08:32 He didn't tap.

08:37 But if a referee sees you in a

08:38 submission position, which it was, it

08:41 was an arm triangle. It wasn't the

08:43 perfect arm triangle, but you never know

08:45 how much of a squeeze someone's got. And

08:47 an athlete like Bogdan Grad is going to

08:49 have a hell of a squeeze.

08:51 And Dennis Buzukja did a motion with his

08:53 hand that really did closely resemble a

08:56 little light tap on the leg of Bogdan

08:58 Grad. It's just not something that you

09:00 do

09:03 to convince a referee you're still in

09:05 there

09:05 and you're not tapping. He kind of like

09:08 gently double taps Bogdan Grad's thigh.

09:12 Um and it was just a weird movement from

09:15 him. So, it just kind of looked like a

09:16 tap. It looked like a sort of half-assed

09:19 I don't really want to tap, but I did

09:21 kind of tap.

09:22 Um and Bogdan Grad got the submission

09:24 victory over Dennis Buzukja. Really good

09:27 win. I picked him to win.

09:29 Um

09:31 Would he have won the overall fight?

09:33 Probably.

09:34 I mean, if he got that second round, but

09:36 you can't say. Maybe Buzukja would have

09:37 came back in the third, or maybe he

09:39 would have escaped that and had a good

09:40 end to the second round. He had a great

09:42 start to it, but with that submission

09:44 position taken into consideration,

09:47 um I still would have given the round to

09:48 Bazooka, to be honest with you. So,

09:50 there's an argument, but he kind of

09:52 [ __ ] tapped, dude. Don't do something

09:54 that looks very much like a tap.

09:57 You know? That's just the one thing you

09:58 don't do. So far I'm acing the

10:00 predictions. That's going to go downhill

10:02 real soon, but not yet.

10:05 Not yet.

10:11 Borislav Nikolic versus Mark Vlogdin.

10:14 Vlogdin, time for flyweight or we're

10:17 going to the PFL.

10:18 Um he nearly took out Borislav Nikolic.

10:21 Nikolic was one of the fighters that I

10:22 was most looking forward to fighting

10:25 on this card,

10:26 um because I thought he was one of the

10:28 better prospects out of Serbia. And to

10:31 be fair, he was, because a lot of them

10:34 lost on this [ __ ]

10:36 um moving forward.

10:39 But Borislav Nikolic,

10:40 he's a very goofy, like weird, but very

10:45 powerful striker.

10:47 I was expecting him to get a finish over

10:49 Mark Vlogdin. Maybe a lesser fighter

10:51 would have been finished. Mark Vlogdin's

10:53 got a very tough chin.

10:54 Um but round one, he nearly finished

10:57 Borislav Nikolic. He put him on the on

10:59 his ass immediately in round one with a

11:01 big hook as Borislav came in and started

11:04 going for like a front choke, maybe a

11:06 guillotine or something like that. And

11:08 Borislav was trying to fight hands and

11:10 Vlogdin was kneeing him in the face over

11:11 and over again. So, uh Vlogdin actually

11:14 ended up having a decent first round. Um

11:16 even though not much happened, he

11:18 definitely won the first and they ended

11:20 up kind of pinned in a north-south

11:22 position for the first round. Um with

11:25 both guys getting some takedowns and

11:27 Nikolic not really being able to get

11:28 going.

11:29 Um the corner calms him down. Round two.

11:33 Um very close round to be fair, but

11:36 Borislav was landing the better shots

11:39 throughout the round and he uh he got

11:40 taken down by Volodyn and nearly had his

11:43 rear naked choke sunken.

11:46 But he immediately reversed it and ended

11:48 up on top

11:49 >> [gasps]

11:49 >> for quite some time. Volodyn kicks him

11:52 off. Borislav's popping him with the jab

11:54 throughout the round. I actually feel

11:55 like

11:56 uh Nikolic got wobbled

11:59 towards the end of the second and if he

12:01 he would have had a

12:02 worse poker face

12:04 maybe he would have lost this fight. It

12:06 was actually pretty competitive in round

12:07 two.

12:09 But he ended up landing some pretty good

12:11 jabs throughout the second round.

12:13 But I swear Volodyn caught him in round

12:16 two and it kind of looked like Nikolic

12:18 didn't like it at all like he

12:20 but he had a good poker face. Very close

12:22 round.

12:24 It you don't know if he really was badly

12:26 hurt or not. He wasn't badly hurt

12:29 anyway, but it was just kind of There

12:30 was a shot in round two that Volodyn

12:32 tagged him with where you were like,

12:33 "Ooh."

12:34 But before that it was just Nikolic

12:36 landing the better shots at range. And

12:38 then round three he beat the [ __ ] out of

12:40 Volodyn, went for a finish, teeing off

12:42 on him against the cage. Very open

12:44 defensively though is Nikolic. I don't

12:46 know how far he's going to go because

12:48 bantamweights are very

12:50 very sharp in what they do.

12:54 So he could be in for some trouble if he

12:56 doesn't clean it up a little bit. Um but

12:59 you know, he beat up on Volodyn in the

13:00 third round.

13:02 Went for some submission attempts with

13:03 the guillotine. Volodyn wasn't having

13:05 it.

13:06 But at the end of the round he did put

13:08 Volodyn out. This went to a decision,

13:11 unanimous in favor of Borislav Nikolic.

13:14 But he did put out Volodyn at the end of

13:16 the third round. He had a rear naked

13:17 choke locked in. No hooks, so he didn't

13:19 really have the leverage for it. But uh

13:24 he put Volodyn out at the end of that

13:25 round. Volodyn was like face first on

13:27 the canvas, not moving.

13:30 Maybe you could say, "Oh, he was so

13:31 defeated by the feeling of the loss

13:34 that he just couldn't get up." But, that

13:36 should have been a submission win.

13:38 If you are out at the bell, you're out.

13:40 That That That should just be how it

13:42 works, but either way, um Volkan

13:45 survives to a decision, I guess,

13:47 and Nikolae advances and wins his UFC

13:50 debut. We move on.

13:52 >> [laughter]

13:55 >> Michael Oliveira is a giant [ __ ]

13:57 power punching machine.

14:00 Ode Osbourne Elliott was supposed to go

14:02 into his deep bag of tricks and survive

14:04 the first 3 minutes.

14:07 Did my race tier list video of the UFC

14:10 not do anything for some of these guys,

14:12 dude? Heartbreaking loss for Osbourne

14:14 Elliott. We get through the first 2

14:17 minutes.

14:18 Okay? We chop at the legs, we throw some

14:21 kicks at the arms, we move around,

14:24 and then we do a smirk or a crafty grin

14:28 at 3 minutes in, and it's do or die

14:30 time, dude, but no.

14:32 Michael Oliveira is a powerful dude.

14:34 He's [ __ ] massive for the division as

14:35 well. He's cutting a [ __ ] ton of weight.

14:37 I saw a bunch of people posting his

14:39 weigh-in pictures of just him looking

14:41 like an absolute [ __ ] drawn-out

14:42 skeleton. But, he's a massive dude for

14:44 the division. And uh like he's tall, but

14:47 he's not skinny. He's like an other

14:49 Morales just going into this weight

14:50 division, but uh

14:52 um maybe not as tall.

14:55 And he put away Osbourne Elliott, dude.

14:56 Put him away. Caught him over the top.

14:58 Stung him with a jab early, I believe.

15:00 Um and Osbourne got back up, tried

15:02 shooting a couple of takedowns, couldn't

15:04 get him, and Oliveira just stung him

15:05 over the top with a right hand. And then

15:07 followed up with ground and pound

15:09 afterwards, dude. Nasty finish from

15:11 Michael Oliveira over on Osbourne

15:13 Elliott. I tried to believe.

15:15 Maybe if it would have got out the first

15:17 round, it would have been a different

15:18 story, but uh he's a dangerous puncher,

15:20 is Michael Oliveira. Very dangerous

15:22 match up for Robin out to take on a

15:24 two-fight losing streak. In hindsight, a

15:27 [ __ ] move. But I

15:30 Some people are here to fight and take

15:31 on the dangerous tests. Some people

15:33 aren't and sometimes it [ __ ]

15:35 backfires big time, dude. Michael

15:36 Oliveira gets a nasty debut win over

15:39 Robin out. One more chance, Dana,

15:41 please. Just one more chance, dude. Can

15:43 a brother get a Gilbert Albina match up?

15:45 You know what I'm saying?

15:46 Come on, man. We move on.

15:50 Ludovit Klein versus Tofiq Musayev. Very

15:53 impressive from Tofiq Musayev. Uh Tofiq,

15:56 age is just a number Musayev, as he

15:58 always says.

16:01 While looking like that. Um but yeah,

16:04 Tofiq Musayev, dirty [ __ ] Hate him

16:06 after his debut. Or not debut, but his

16:08 fight with Ignacio Bahamondes.

16:10 Despicable person. But he fought this

16:12 one clean. Very clean fight against

16:15 Ludovit Klein. And he outstruck him on

16:17 the feet, you know. He didn't really

16:18 take grappling into the game here. Like

16:21 he didn't score a takedown. He only

16:22 attempted one of them. And he just

16:25 outpopped Ludovit Klein on the feet.

16:26 Round one, he was stinging him with some

16:28 inside low kicks.

16:30 And uh Ludovit Klein didn't really have

16:32 an answer for it. Even though I'm seeing

16:33 here that he landed more strikes. That

16:35 can't be right.

16:37 He landed more strikes in round one than

16:39 Musayev did.

16:42 I don't think that's right.

16:45 >> [snorts]

16:45 >> I mean, maybe. But I thought Musayev

16:48 >> [sighs]

16:49 >> landed the shots that mattered in round

16:51 one at least, right? And the inside low

16:53 kicks were like That can't be right. I

16:55 feel like Musayev landed more than Klein

16:57 did in round one, but

16:59 maybe I'm off. It was still a

17:00 competitive round.

17:03 But Musayev was the one pushing forward,

17:05 stinging Klein on the chin, making him

17:07 stumble backwards after some right

17:08 hands, landing that inside low kick.

17:11 Klein did have some moments, though. It

17:12 was a competitive round, but I thought

17:14 Musayev led the dance pretty well. And

17:16 in round two, Klein started getting off

17:18 with some shots, some good combos, but

17:20 Mesayev stayed in there. Stayed in

17:22 there. Looked big out there against

17:24 Klein as well. You know, we've seen

17:26 Klein against Rebecki where Klein's like

17:28 the rangy longer fighter and I thought

17:30 it would look somewhat even in the size

17:32 dynamic here, but Mesayev is a massive

17:35 lightweight

17:36 and just pushed Klein backwards, kept

17:38 the pressure on him, landed some really

17:39 good shots, stung him with a big shot up

17:41 against the cage towards the end of

17:43 round two, and finished with some really

17:45 nasty ground and pound. Solid win from

17:48 Tofiq Mesayev.

17:50 Um I'm still wishing for his demise, but

17:54 not yet. Not yet. Great win by Mesayev.

17:58 Solid win. On the feet, if he would have

17:59 out-grappled Klein, I would have been

18:00 like, "Oh, you know,

18:02 who we who you know, it's hard to tell

18:04 if he's going to be able to do that

18:05 against a guy like Klein. I guess we

18:07 should have seen it coming with a Gamrot

18:08 performance." It would have been like

18:09 that, but Klein actually defended

18:11 takedowns pretty well.

18:12 And Mesayev just didn't give him any

18:14 room on the feet to work kicks or

18:16 anything.

18:17 Um Klein would land some kicks and some

18:20 knees to the body, but Mesayev was just

18:22 stinging him with punches and staying

18:24 pretty defensively responsible. So, good

18:26 striking fight from Tofiq Mesayev. We

18:28 move on.

18:30 Miloš Janičić versus Noa Guignon

18:35 I went with Noa Guignon. I think Bonus

18:39 did go with Noa Guignon here.

18:41 Um Miloš Janičić had a lot of hype

18:44 coming into this one.

18:46 Um people were pretty amped up for his

18:47 debut in that region.

18:49 Um he had a bunch of fights on like

18:51 some, you know, dirty boxing and dirty

18:53 boxing and all this type of stuff and

18:56 some other things. He was a dangerous

18:57 striker and he did look like a dangerous

18:59 striker in the first round. But after a

19:02 couple of low kicks from Noa Guignon

19:04 or Guignon, I don't know how to

19:05 pronounce his name, but uh Noa the gun

19:08 after a couple low kicks, Miloš

19:10 Janičić's leg kind of gave way on him,

19:12 his rear leg. And yes, it was an injury,

19:17 but I think it was because of the low

19:19 kicks of Noah because he was landing on

19:21 him, and Milos Janicic

19:23 was leaning so far over his own lead leg

19:26 that the second he was forced to put

19:28 weight on the back one, it was just not

19:30 in a position to hold him.

19:32 You know? It wasn't like a situation

19:34 where two guys are just moving around

19:35 and then boom, one of their leg explodes

19:38 when they throw something or they do

19:40 something. It was like Gungon was

19:41 chopping his lead leg, and when Janicic

19:44 had to like back up on his rear one, it

19:47 was still in the position of him like

19:49 launching overhands and trying to get to

19:51 the chin of Noah Gungon, so

19:54 tough for Milos Janicic.

19:56 His leg's cooked. Noah Gungon chopped at

19:59 his legs. Didn't really get hit by

20:01 anything too clean on the feet early.

20:03 Um took down Milos Janicic and beat the

20:05 [ __ ] out of him on the ground.

20:07 Um getting a submission win. Nasty win

20:11 by Noah Gungon. Got the rear naked

20:12 choke, and that was all she wrote. Great

20:14 win by Noah Gungon, and uh he said on

20:17 the mic, "I just finished your comrade."

20:20 or something like that. I don't I don't

20:22 remember what he said, but he had a bit

20:23 of a bad guy moment on the mic, so some

20:25 aura points there. We move on.

20:28 >> [snorts]

20:29 >> Vlasto Ceppo versus Gilbert Urbina.

20:32 Um Gilbert Urbina in big 2026.

20:36 >> [snorts]

20:37 >> Vlasto Ceppo we we always knew he was a

20:41 uh

20:42 dangerous power striker and not much

20:44 else,

20:46 but that's been able to beat Urbina many

20:48 times before. But Urbina toughed out

20:51 some damage early.

20:52 Got hit with a bunch of shots.

20:55 Um not too many, I guess, in hindsight,

20:57 but it looked like he was on the back

20:58 foot getting hit with the majority of

21:00 them.

21:01 Um maybe like seven to one in big shots

21:04 early. And then he stung Vlasto Ceppo. I

21:06 was literally saying it while Chepko was

21:08 swinging. He's so open defensively and

21:11 then bang.

21:12 Arbina stings him with a shot on the

21:14 back foot. Chepko goes down and Arbina

21:17 beats the [ __ ] out of him with ground

21:19 and pound for a TKO finish in round one.

21:21 I will say

21:23 great win by Gilbert Arbina.

21:26 Gilbert Arbina victory in 2026.

21:31 The guy literally is known for just

21:32 losing non-stop. Crazy victory from him.

21:35 New look as well. Maybe it's a new

21:37 Arbina.

21:39 But uh Vlasto Chepko

21:41 this physique is not what I saw on the

21:43 regional scene, dude.

21:47 You are a roid merchant on the regional

21:49 scene perhaps, question mark. I'm asking

21:52 a question.

21:54 If you look at pictures of Vlasto Chepko

21:57 and the way he looked on the regional

21:58 scene, this is not what we ordered,

22:01 dude.

22:03 This is not what was advertised. This

22:05 soft-bodied guy

22:07 that came out there in his UFC debut, so

22:11 Listen, man. You're going to get found

22:12 out. You're going to get found out and

22:13 you're going to get fraud checked by

22:15 Gilbert Arbina of all people, so good

22:18 win from Arbina, dude. Big underdog

22:20 pulls it off. Vlasto Chepko loses. We

22:23 move on.

22:25 Duško Todorović versus Robert Valentin.

22:28 I went with Robert Valentin by

22:30 submission over Duško Todorović. I could

22:33 also have seen a TKO. I can't remember

22:34 what I said specifically, but Robert

22:36 Valentin's got really nasty guillotines

22:38 and front chokes. You can't shoot lousy

22:40 takedowns against him. And Duško

22:42 Todorović is just so finishable in so

22:46 many moments of a fight. On the feet,

22:48 he's very chinnable. On the in the

22:51 grappling sequences, he's very

22:53 vulnerable in the way that he shoots in

22:55 to give up that guillotine or to give up

22:57 a darce or an Anaconda choke. And Robert

22:59 Valentin, even though

23:03 he's been hitting missing his career,

23:07 if you give him a finish, he'll take it

23:09 every time. Like, he's a he's a jump for

23:11 a finish type of guy. It costed him

23:13 against Ryan Loader,

23:16 but this time he was more patient. He

23:18 got position. Duško Todorović reversed

23:21 it, and then Robert Valentin reversed

23:23 him back. And uh he actually nearly had

23:26 Duško Todorović

23:27 in like a standing guillotine in round

23:30 one.

23:31 Um this isn't the picture of it, but uh

23:34 yeah, this was round one. He nearly

23:35 picked him up in a standing guillotine.

23:40 Medić did save the night, correct, by

23:42 the way.

23:43 Um we'll get to him in a second, but he

23:45 nearly badly caught Todorović in a

23:47 standing guillotine. And then just a

23:49 couple reversals and scrambles on the

23:50 ground, and Robert Valentin was always

23:53 one step ahead of him.

23:54 Always one step ahead of Duško

23:56 Todorović. Anytime Todorović scra- uh

23:58 scrambled,

24:00 um Robert Valentin was in a better

24:02 position,

24:03 and uh just got it done.

24:07 Really nasty win.

24:08 Really nasty finish.

24:11 Um sunk in the guillotine deep, and

24:13 Duško Todorović taps. Um and then he

24:15 gave a speech afterwards how similar

24:17 they are, and how, you know, I always

24:19 find that very humiliating for the

24:20 loser, but Duško was a decent sport

24:22 about it, I guess. Probably his last

24:24 fight in the UFC. And for Robert

24:27 Valentin, he's got some momentum

24:29 together. I think he's pretty decent,

24:31 you know, he had that fight with a

24:32 Tevita Cire after his mom died, and he

24:34 just looked like a shell of himself in

24:36 the first round. Um but when he switched

24:39 on, he can be a pretty tricky finisher

24:41 in the middleweight division, so good

24:43 win from Robzilla. We move on.

24:48 Aleksandar Rakić versus Marcin [ __ ]

24:50 Tybura, dude.

24:52 Rakić wins the fight very clearly. Round

24:55 two was actually reasonably competitive.

24:58 The commentary was talking about what

24:59 Tybura needs to do, but Rakic did not

25:02 really do much in the second round and

25:04 it made it so that Tybura, also not

25:06 doing much, made it quite even. Round

25:09 one very clear to Rakic. He out low

25:11 kicked Tybura.

25:13 He swung a lot in combination early, but

25:15 he's so

25:16 low in punch power. It's remarkable. For

25:20 a 6'4" athlete like Aleksandar Rakic,

25:24 he is has negative punch power. I don't

25:28 think we've ever seen him score a KO

25:30 with a punch.

25:31 He caught Devin Clark with like a

25:33 backfist

25:35 with his forearm.

25:38 I don't know if we've ever seen Rakic

25:39 actually hurt someone with a punch.

25:42 This is why we got bamboozled into the

25:44 Yair great chin

25:47 uh

25:47 what's it called conspiracy.

25:51 But first round, Rakic picking away at

25:52 Tybura. Tybura crafty getting blobbish.

25:56 Round two, Tybura makes it a bit closer,

25:58 but I still gave it to Aleksandar Rakic.

26:00 Close round though and [ __ ] to watch,

26:02 man.

26:03 Such low output. No big shots from

26:05 Rakic.

26:06 I felt like he should have finished

26:08 Tybura here, man. I believe in Rakic as

26:10 a technical fighter.

26:12 Surely you should be chopping up Marcin

26:14 Tybura's legs in this fight at a bare

26:16 minimum.

26:18 Round three.

26:20 Rakic did enough to get ahead early and

26:23 started fast.

26:25 Um landed some elbows in the clinch.

26:26 Tybura landed one back on him that cut

26:28 him open. And then for the last three

26:30 and a half minutes of round three, he's

26:33 pushing Tybura up against the cage.

26:37 It was really uneventful to watch.

26:41 Um and he really soaked in the uh

26:43 victory. I don't know. Shout out to

26:45 Rakic, but uh people are saying it here.

26:47 Bro had a competitive fight with a

26:49 40-year-old gatekeeper and he's acting

26:52 like he won the title.

26:55 But, you know, yeah, he really soaked in

26:56 the victory, but I thought man, is Tom

26:59 really that good compared to these guys?

27:00 Because

27:02 I felt like he really This should have

27:03 been a nice statement performance from

27:05 him. And he did win, but he just looked

27:07 like a the most shredded MMA blob

27:11 in UFC history, somehow, which was

27:14 really weird. We move on up the card to

27:17 another fight which was

27:18 I got this one wrong. Jan Błachowicz vs.

27:21 Magomed Ankalaev. I guess the odds were

27:23 correct.

27:25 And I know there's a lot of people out

27:26 there. First of all, amazing first-round

27:28 finish by Magomed Ankalaev.

27:31 Heartbreaking as a Jan Błachowicz fan.

27:33 Also knowing that Magomed Ankalaev is

27:36 Guram Kutateladze is also quite

27:38 rewarding feeling. I'm a little bit

27:39 confused emotionally here.

27:41 But, this was a really nasty finish from

27:43 Magomed Ankalaev. I didn't believe he

27:45 was going to do it against Jan

27:46 Błachowicz.

27:47 I thought the odds were disrespectful.

27:48 I've seen Magomed Ankalaev

27:51 This was the easiest fight of his

27:52 career. I know he got caught early.

27:54 But, he ain't done that to a lot of

27:56 light heavyweights, but he rose to the

27:58 occasion. And sometimes that's what it

28:00 takes for fighters, you know, to just

28:01 shed off that

28:03 I'm expected to do well vibe. You know

28:06 what I mean? Like I'm expected to go out

28:09 there and get a first-round KO of this

28:11 guy. And then it doesn't happen. But, in

28:12 this fight it was kind of like a [ __ ]

28:14 it, we ride. You know what I mean? Let's

28:17 see what [ __ ] happens, dude. Jan

28:18 Błachowicz, couple weeks notice, on

28:21 holiday in Serbia. Let's [ __ ] go for

28:24 it, dude. And then he ended up shining

28:26 big time. He looked sharp on the feet

28:28 early with his kicks. Jan was checking a

28:30 lot of them, but Sterling was just going

28:32 shin to shin with him. Landed some good

28:34 kicks early. Jan stung him with a left

28:36 hook to his eye.

28:39 And Sterling kind of took a knee for a

28:40 second.

28:42 Um, but I don't think he was hurt that

28:43 badly. It was just a shocking shot that

28:45 caught him.

28:46 And then bang, Navaho Sterling catches

28:48 Jan Błachowicz down the pipe with a

28:50 right hand.

28:52 Jan Błachowicz going for his left hook.

28:56 Straight punches beat looping punches,

28:57 dude. The weasel told us

28:59 years ago.

29:01 Navaho Sterling gets a first-round

29:03 finish over Jan Błachowicz. And very

29:05 important to note,

29:07 in the middle, and this is a crazy thing

29:09 that happened, in the middle of Navaho

29:12 Sterling TKO'ing Jan Błachowicz, and by

29:14 the way, nasty ground and pound, split

29:16 open Jan with some elbows on bottom,

29:18 landed massive shots in the guard of Jan

29:20 Błachowicz.

29:22 Um

29:23 and just finished him off there and

29:24 then.

29:26 In the middle of Jan Błachowicz sinking

29:28 to the canvas, he became old and washed

29:30 up. It was crazy.

29:32 You guys should have been there for it,

29:33 dude. He became old and washed up

29:36 immediately as Navaho Sterling stung him

29:38 on the chin. And what I mean by that is

29:41 um

29:44 what I mean by that is

29:46 yes, Jan is old as [ __ ] but Jan was old

29:49 when he fought Glover.

29:52 And that's not And now he's out of his

29:54 prime. Man, prime Jan will never be

29:56 forgotten.

29:57 He's been an old [ __ ]

30:01 And I know he was coming off a knee

30:02 surgery and whatever, and I it does play

30:04 into it,

30:05 but he's taken fights with like Albeurg

30:08 off of shoulder surgery and

30:10 this fight against him, and he's had

30:12 many surgeries throughout his career.

30:14 He's in his early 40s.

30:17 He's been in his late 30s. He's been 40

30:20 years old, 41 against Alex Pereira, 42

30:23 against Carlos Albeurg, and taken him to

30:26 split decisions.

30:28 Navaho Sterling chinning him is very

30:30 impressive to me. And I think he's a

30:32 very dangerous light heavyweight to

30:34 watch out for. And this type of win is

30:36 the right

30:38 I've seen Navaho's interviews, and I've

30:40 even spoken to him about this before.

30:43 After some of his wins over these guys

30:46 that you should be destroying that he

30:47 didn't, um he's very hard on himself.

30:52 And uh I think this is the type of thing

30:54 to like finally feel that

30:57 yeah, I can be a world champion at this

30:59 [ __ ] you know what I mean? Like I can

31:00 legitimately beat these top contenders.

31:03 This is going to be a massive confidence

31:05 boost for Aljamain Sterling. Really

31:07 nasty finish. And uh let me tell you,

31:10 dude, man like [ __ ]

31:14 What's it again?

31:15 I was trying to commentate by using

31:17 this. Man like Carlos Ulberg, dude,

31:19 [ __ ] Ulberg.

31:22 Disgusting lad.

31:24 Man like Carlos Ulberg, dude, from the

31:27 upper hut.

31:29 How far we've come. 28 years of age,

31:31 young at lightweight by the way.

31:33 Ulberg's pretty old.

31:35 It's going to cause some complications

31:36 cuz now they've got Ulberg and Aljamain

31:38 Sterling and sorry, Carlos Ulberg.

31:41 Um now they've got Ulberg and Carlos

31:43 Ulberg and Robert Whittaker at the top

31:45 of the division, so

31:46 I think eventually they're going to have

31:48 to fight each other, but they don't seem

31:49 keen on it. But uh nasty finish from

31:51 Aljamain Sterling, dude. Wicked. And Yan

31:56 I don't want to see him keep losing. And

32:00 he's been chin again. He is old.

32:02 I know he He's Here's my thing. Yan is

32:05 old as [ __ ] and past his prime,

32:08 but he's been that way for [ __ ]

32:10 years. I really think so. He was still

32:12 quite old and past his prime when he

32:14 fought Israel Adesanya. He's been quite

32:17 plodding, you know? And not the uh

32:20 dynamic scrambler that he used to be on

32:22 the ground at least. Like

32:24 But yeah, Aljamain Sterling puts him

32:26 away back KO. Really nasty finish. I

32:28 didn't think he'd be ready for it. Not

32:29 on not not on short notice.

32:32 Um and not after some of his recent

32:34 performances. Like I thought, dude, if

32:36 if those guys are making it competitive,

32:38 Jan's going to be a [ __ ] problem, but

32:41 he smacked him straight on his [ __ ]

32:43 chin and put Jan Błachowicz away. He's

32:44 massive for the division, and you could

32:46 really tell that when he got into full

32:48 guard on top of Jan because he was just

32:50 postured up, smashing elbows through the

32:52 guard.

32:53 And it looked bad, dude. It was bad. It

32:56 was bad, man.

32:57 My sub.

32:59 Um great win by Aljamain Sterling. We

33:01 move on. Main main event, Uroš Medić

33:03 versus Daniel Rodriguez.

33:05 Uroš Medić immediate first-round slam

33:08 out KO.

33:11 Nasty win.

33:12 Nasty win by Uroš Medić.

33:15 30 seconds in, he delivers for Serbia. I

33:19 mean, you got to understand, before this

33:20 point on the card, Rakic had

33:22 underdelivered. Duško Todorović had been

33:25 finished by Valentin and looked like

33:27 [ __ ] Keppo got finished by [ __ ]

33:29 Gilbert Urbina. Um Miloš Janičić was

33:33 from that region and originally Serbian

33:35 but from Montenegro. And he got beaten

33:38 by Noa I don't know via finish.

33:40 Slovakian Ludovít Klein ended up getting

33:43 defeated on that card as well as a

33:45 pretty decently sized favorite.

33:47 Um Boris Lov went to a decision, you

33:49 know?

33:50 Like it started getting a bit

33:53 iffy for fighters from this region

33:55 before this main event, but you know who

33:56 held it down in Serbia's time of need,

34:00 Uroš Medić. I was worried about him in

34:02 this fight because he is a bit of a coin

34:04 flip guy if he doesn't get that first

34:06 round finish, fights can change for him.

34:09 Like the odds are definitely going to

34:10 close up if we leave that first round.

34:13 But uh leaving that first round with

34:16 Uroš Medić is a very tricky thing to do.

34:21 And you kind of got to be lucky to do

34:22 it. Myktybek Orolbai outgrappled Uroš

34:25 Medić and ended up submitting him. If

34:27 you remember that fight,

34:29 Uroš nearly [ __ ] finished him in the

34:31 first round by TKO. Like he had him

34:34 quite badly hurt in the first round of

34:36 that fight and then My Thai bet just wet

34:38 blanketed him and eventually got a

34:40 submission. But Uros puts away D-Rod in

34:42 spectacular fashion. Round one goes out

34:45 there, couple shots back and forth, I

34:46 think a couple low kicks back and forth

34:49 between the two of them. D-Rod looks to

34:51 close the distance and Uros Medic stings

34:53 him with a lead hook, throws the right

34:55 hand, it hits the chest, throws the left

34:58 hand again, three punch combination.

35:00 Pop pop pop like that, very fast.

35:03 Um and the last one lands behind the ear

35:06 of D-Rod as well. But the first one was

35:08 the one that did the majority of the

35:09 damage. The rest of it was just

35:10 follow-up [ __ ] Then on the way

35:13 down to the canvas, he hits D-Rod with a

35:16 knee to the arms and the guard that

35:19 sends him flipping backwards.

35:23 And then we didn't see it until the

35:24 replay.

35:26 But the second D-Rod hits the ground,

35:29 Uros just [ __ ] soccer kicks him in

35:31 the stomach on the ground. And now

35:33 D-Rod's covered up on the ground like,

35:35 what the [ __ ] have I been hit with? I've

35:37 been hit by three punches, a knee to my

35:40 guard, and now oh my body as well from

35:42 this punt to the stomach from Uros

35:44 Medic. He unleashed like five different

35:47 moves on D-Rod within the space of about

35:49 2 seconds or a second of this fight and

35:53 put him away. 30-second TKO.

35:56 Serbian needed him. He soaked it in in

35:59 the main event uh post-fight interview.

36:02 Um they got a star on their hands, dude.

36:04 Great win by uh

36:07 >> [sighs]

36:08 >> Great win. Of course people are going to

36:09 give props for uh D-Rod, you know,

36:12 sympathy [ __ ] but dude, it's all about

36:14 the winner, dude. Uros Medic pieced the

36:16 [ __ ] No one does that to D-Rod, dude. I

36:18 know I know Ian Garry eventually caught

36:20 him with a head kick in their fight,

36:22 but to just put him away easily with a

36:24 punch on the chin, Uros must hit

36:26 different in that division.

36:29 He's one of It went from like a guy who,

36:31 you know, he's a bit of a coin flip, but

36:33 now he's got momentum to

36:35 I'm starting to think this guy is one of

36:36 the most dangerous first-minute fighters

36:39 in UFC in the UFC right now.

36:44 I mean, I know there's heavyweights and

36:46 there's higher division guys, but

36:49 in terms of that first minute of

36:50 fighting, Uros might be the most

36:52 locked-in there is. Like, you really

36:55 have to watch your p's and q's in the

36:57 first minute of a fight with Uros Medic,

36:59 and I think now that he's in big fight

37:01 moments,

37:03 that's going to help him out.

37:05 Okay? On the lower down of the uh of his

37:08 career, when he was facing lesser-known

37:10 guys and he was on the prelims of the

37:12 apex and

37:14 guys don't have

37:16 they still have that fear and that

37:19 pressure,

37:20 but to be in a main event and the

37:22 crowd's going wild and this is a very

37:25 important fight of your career, maybe

37:26 the biggest fight of your career. If

37:28 Leon Edwards comes back against him and

37:30 it's in the main event of a UK Fight

37:32 Night and if Edwards loses, he's done,

37:35 it adds to the potency of Uros Medic's

37:38 fight style.

37:40 You know? Don't be going out there

37:42 nervous about losing. And now that

37:44 people know that he's capable of it at

37:46 such a consistent rate against good

37:48 opponents,

37:50 it's going to just increase the potency.

37:51 So, I think he's got a good chance

37:53 against any well-to-do Um I don't know

37:56 who I'd confidently pick him to beat,

37:58 but

37:59 in that opening window, he's going to

38:00 have a solid shot to catch a lot of

38:02 these guys that you may deem better than

38:04 him as a fighter based on what they've

38:07 accomplished and how they've performed.

38:09 But in the first round, dude, Uros is an

38:11 extremely explosive first-round finisher

38:15 and yeah, just a nasty, nasty fighter,

38:17 dude. Serbia saved.

38:20 Uros Medic holds his ground and delivers

38:22 a massive main event win. Great card

38:24 overall.

38:26 I didn't do great on picks, but I didn't

38:28 do too bad.

38:30 I went with Luciano by sub. I got it. I

38:33 went with Lekko to win. Got it.

38:36 Milosevic to win. Got it. Rebecchi to

38:39 win. Got it. Grad to win. Got it.

38:42 Nikolic to win. Got it. We won't talk

38:44 about this one, but that's what

38:47 1 2 3 4 5 6 6 and 1

38:52 6 and 2

38:54 Got the Noa Gugnon win. Pretty coin

38:56 flippy of a fight, but I got the Noa

38:57 Gugnon win. 7 and 2. Uh Beana pulls it

39:01 off. What the [ __ ]

39:03 Uh 7 and 3. Then Valentin got it. Rakic

39:05 got it. Sterling or Yan was kind of the

39:07 debate going into this fight week. And I

39:10 still got the main event in Uros Medic.

39:12 First round TKO. Nasty win, dude. Great

39:14 win by Uros Medic. And I'm a big fan of

39:16 him, so I hope he keeps doing well. Like

39:18 and subscribe. Thank you for watching

39:19 Tido Pip. I'll see you later. Goodbye.

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