00:00 In today's episode, we are going to do

00:01 picks for UFC 333 main event Alexander

00:05 Volkanovski versus Mo Zaur Evloev. The

00:07 co-main is great if not better than the

00:10 main event. Petr Yan versus Merab

00:13 Dvalishvili. Oh my days, bro. This card

00:16 is actually special. It's going to be at

00:18 07:00 a.m. for me. So, I'm going to have

00:20 to wake up early. I'm going to make sure

00:22 that we're we're here to support the man

00:24 Cody Steel. If you guys haven't checked

00:26 out that podcast, um and I realized,

00:28 bro, the more podcasts I do with UFC

00:30 fighters, the harder it is to do

00:32 predictions, bro. I'mma keep it 100 who

00:34 I think is going to win. I got to lock

00:36 in as well. So, we're going to lock in

00:37 on our picks and make sure that we're

00:39 still top 15 most profitable predictors

00:43 on YouTube, all right? So, let's do the

00:44 thing. Let's start off with the first

00:46 fight of the card. Last Iasmin Lasmin

00:50 Lucindo versus Nicole Caliari, bro.

00:53 Caliari. And she low-key bad, bro. I

00:56 ain't going to lie. Um I'mma go with the

00:57 favorite off the first the first rip.

00:59 Lasmin Lucindo, she's coming off a win.

01:02 Uh she did lose to Amanda Lemos. Lemos

01:04 is not bad, you know what I mean? But, I

01:06 feel like she's has fought better uh

01:08 opposition than Caliari. And plus, I

01:10 mean,

01:11 >> [snorts]

01:11 >> Caliari has only had a few fights in the

01:13 UFC. She's only won once. She won her

01:15 Contender Series and she just come came

01:17 off a win against Shauna Bannon. Um it's

01:19 five five months ago. So, um I feel like

01:22 she's going to be confident going into

01:23 this fight, but I think Lucindo's

01:25 experience is going to outweigh

01:27 Caliari's kind of a submission threat

01:29 here. So, I'mma go Lucindo decision.

01:32 Keep it keep it real smooth, real easy

01:34 winning up this card. And then we got a

01:35 freaking banger already, bro. Noah

01:37 Gundersen. Uh he's won his last five as

01:40 we can see here on Tapology going

01:42 against our boy Cody Steel. Now, I don't

01:44 know why they're giving Cody every fight

01:46 possible outside of the United States

01:48 and just be like, "Yo, fight the

01:50 farthest away from home." cuz he lives

01:52 in Vegas. Uh but Cody Steel coming off a

01:54 great win out there in Australia. Uh he

01:57 fought uh Don Madge and won via heel

01:59 hook in an amazing scramble.

02:02 Um his uh his last loss was against

02:03 Rauju who is has aged very well. Rauju

02:06 is a freaking dog, bro. He's really

02:07 good. He just beat Hacran Garcia in

02:09 Arizona. And uh that was a fire fight,

02:11 bro. That was such a dog fight and Cody

02:13 Steel uh he's been throwing them hands

02:15 and his jiu-jitsu is really high level.

02:17 So, I'm going to go with Cody Steel KO

02:19 though. I'm going to I'm going to say he

02:20 gets the finish in the first round. Um

02:23 you know, the submission threat's there,

02:25 so you don't want to go on on the ground

02:26 with Cody Steel. And Cody likes to throw

02:28 them hands. The only thing that I'm kind

02:29 of worried about in this fight is, you

02:31 know, if he if he does some of the

02:32 mistakes he did in the Rauju fight. The

02:34 Rauju fight it felt like he was just

02:36 avoiding the game plan. He just really

02:37 wanted to get in there and get in a

02:38 freaking scrap. And I feel like he if he

02:41 follows the game plan, things should

02:43 just go according to plan. So, I got

02:45 Cody Steel round one. Let's do it, bro.

02:48 Now, we have a really good fight here.

02:49 Daniel Santos versus Balashi Oki. And

02:53 I'm kind of worried, bro, cuz Daniel

02:54 Santos, every time I've gone against

02:56 him, he's won. And I think I went Santos

02:59 against Doo Ho Choi and he got chinned.

03:01 So, this is going to be pretty

03:02 interesting. Uh Oki is coming off of two

03:04 losses in a row against Mason Jones and

03:07 Mala Sousa. And man, he beat Michael

03:09 Iswel Jr. via decision. So, that's

03:11 pretty impressive, I'm not going to lie.

03:13 But, I'm going to go Daniel Santos. He

03:15 trains out of Brazil, shooto box, you

03:16 know, Charles Oliveira reincarnated. So,

03:18 we got a little a little Charles "The

03:20 Bronze" energy. I'm going Daniel Santos

03:22 on this fight right here. Uh I'm going

03:25 to go with the submission win though. I

03:26 think he hasn't won via submission in a

03:28 while. So, if we get this pick right,

03:30 we're on to something. We're on to

03:31 something. If we don't, then amen. We're

03:33 just going to ignore it. We're just

03:34 going to ignore it and pretend that it

03:35 didn't happen, all right? Moving up the

03:36 card, we got Jacob Malkoun versus

03:39 Abubakar

03:42 right here, bro.

03:43 Vagab Ayev, he's going to have a little

03:44 bit of a home crowd advantage. Nothing

03:47 too crazy, but there's a lot of Russians

03:49 on this card. Maybe that's why it's so

03:51 stacked, bro. This this card is really,

03:52 really good. So, uh I'm going to go with

03:54 the first Russian uh fighter to to get

03:56 the dub here. I think he he ends up

03:58 getting a win here. I'm going to go with

04:00 the KO round two. All right? We're going

04:01 to go KO round two for Mr. Abubakar

04:04 Vagayev. His opponent's pretty decent,

04:06 you know, he's coming off of three wins,

04:08 but he took GM3 to decision. So, I mean,

04:11 that says a lot, you know what I mean?

04:12 It's like, you know, but he also won a

04:13 he decision with Taurus Finnie. Taurus

04:14 Finnie goes for like 50 takedowns a

04:16 fight. So, yeah, we're going to we're

04:17 going to find out Saturday night. Now,

04:19 my first major underdog play of the card

04:22 is going to be Colby Covington versus

04:23 Azamat Chupanov. I'm going to go with

04:26 Colby Covington on this fight. He's a

04:28 major underdog and this is going to be

04:30 where the separation is, you know, to

04:32 see where the card goes. Because it

04:34 seems like whenever I start off a card

04:35 pretty hot, like we're hitting, hitting,

04:37 hitting, and we have one that, you know,

04:39 it could go either way,

04:41 it it affects the whole entire timeline,

04:44 all right? So, we need the timeline to

04:46 be correct. And for the timeline to hit

04:48 the way we need it to, we need Colby

04:49 Covington to freaking win here. We could

04:52 go decision, but I don't think it's

04:54 going to happen. I think we're going to

04:55 get grappled pretty early on. So, I'm

04:57 going to go a round two

04:59 KO for Mr. Colby Covington. And we'll

05:01 see how that plays out, okay? Now, I

05:04 have Grant Dawson versus Nurullo

05:06 Aliev, the Eagle. And there's a lot of

05:09 undefeated fighters here, but the thing

05:11 is with the with the undefeated fighters

05:13 is like, have they been really put to

05:15 the test? Aliev has fought Mike Davis,

05:18 Shamrock, and Joel Souls

05:21 Souls

05:22 Souls Come on now. Grant Dawson has

05:24 fought Mateusz Rebecki, Manel Torres,

05:27 Diego Ferreira, freaking Rafa Garcia.

05:30 Come on. Come on now. So, let's let's

05:32 lock in. I think the strength of

05:33 schedule has been better of Grant

05:35 Dawson, a little bit more experience. I

05:36 know he got chin against Torres, but I

05:38 think he bounces back. He already got a

05:40 dub, so I think he adds another one and

05:41 takes away

05:43 a O from the bro from Russia. So, I'm

05:45 going to go two I'm going to fade two

05:46 Russians in this one. This one might be

05:47 a little sticky. The Colby [snorts]

05:49 Covington one is a little tough, but I'm

05:51 going to go with a round three TKO in

05:52 this one, all right? We have Abusupiyan

05:54 Magomedov versus Kamran Mostafa.

05:56 Abusupiyan, I'm taking you, bro. A lot

05:58 of people that I've been talking to have

06:00 been taking Kamran Mostafa, and I kind

06:01 of understand why. Like, he's a

06:02 up-and-coming prospect. He has hands.

06:05 He's dangerous. He could get finishes.

06:07 Um But I I think experience really pays

06:10 pays off. And Abusupiyan Magomedov

06:13 has the experience. He's 29 and 7 as a

06:15 pro. That's a lot of fights. And he's

06:17 not like unk status yet. Like he's 36

06:20 years old. He just turned 36.

06:21 Rozenstruik's not a super young gun,

06:23 either, bro. He's like He's almost 32.

06:25 So, age difference is there, but the

06:27 experience should pay off. And I'm going

06:29 to go with the safe play here and go

06:30 with Abusupiyan decision here, okay?

06:32 We'll see. I know the last few cards

06:34 have been like so many finishes. Like

06:36 every card is like a record-breaking

06:38 record-breaking finish. But I'm really

06:40 hoping we get to see some back-and-forth

06:41 fights on this card. I think it says a

06:44 lot with the matchmaking. And if we're

06:46 just getting people getting slimed out

06:48 over and over, that's just like, you

06:50 know, you got to have a little bit of

06:51 balance. You can't have everybody go in

06:52 there and get slimed out. Then it's

06:54 like, come on, where are Where are the

06:55 close fights? The close fights are the

06:57 ones we talk about at the end of the

06:58 day. At the end of the day. So, let's

07:00 let's get it going.

07:01 Now,

07:02 Nikita Krylov versus Abdul-Rakhman

07:05 Yakubov.

07:07 You know, Yakubov is from Turkey. He's

07:09 undefeated. And I'm going Abdul. I know

07:11 I like Nikita Krylov. Don't get me

07:13 wrong.

07:14 And I was just talking about experience

07:15 here, but

07:16 um

07:17 Nikita Krylov, I feel like he's just

07:19 he's just a little chinny.

07:22 A little too chinny. And his last fight

07:23 with Robert Whittaker and Whittaker he

07:25 didn't look the fastest, we could say,

07:27 you know what I'm saying? But uh I mean

07:29 I think I don't know. I don't know. I'm

07:31 I'm really not

07:32 super hyped on Nikita Krylov, but he's a

07:35 good fighter. I like him, but I think I

07:37 think he gets he gets touched up in the

07:39 second round by Abdul-Rakhman

07:41 Yakubov. Yakubov.

07:43 All right. Dominick Reyes versus Azamat

07:46 Murzakanov. Okay, okay. Dominick Reyes.

07:50 I'm taking you, bro. We locking in here,

07:52 bro. I know it's like a little tough

07:53 because he has been chin before. 16 and

07:55 5. His last loss was against Carlos

07:58 Ulberg. And we don't we don't talk about

08:00 Ulberg on this channel. If you're on

08:02 this channel, we don't talk about this

08:03 dude. So, Dominick Reyes,

08:06 we are going to bounce back from that

08:07 last fight against Johnny Walker. I'm

08:09 sorry if you guys watched that. It's

08:11 kind of like that SpongeBob episode

08:13 where they kind of want to rewind and

08:14 take everything back from what you saw.

08:16 But Dominick Reyes, we need to lock in

08:18 here. And I think he does. Azmat

08:20 Murzakanov was undefeated before his

08:22 last fight. He's coming off a loss. So

08:23 we're going to have to see the changes.

08:25 You know, you have an undefeated fighter

08:27 walking out there, you're like, I'm

08:28 untouchable. No one can freaking beat

08:29 me. You just lose, you're like, oh, I

08:31 could get beat. And I think Dominick

08:33 Reyes is going to capitalize off that

08:35 and get the finish. I'm going to go with

08:37 a round two round two finish for Mr.

08:39 Dominick Reyes. Yep. All right. Main

08:42 card, bro. This one is like this yeah,

08:45 we need to lock in here. Aaron Pico

08:46 versus Loik Keita. Keita. And bro, oh my

08:51 gosh. Aaron Pico looked amazing in his

08:53 last fight against Patricio Pitbull. The

08:55 boxing was so fluid. He looked like he

08:57 had his swagger back. You know, he got

08:59 chin against Loik Murphy, but we don't

09:00 talk about that. But he's going against

09:02 a freaking beast. Keita, he's the one

09:04 that did the little celebration to slime

09:06 some dude out. There's a quick

09:07 turnaround for him. He literally fought

09:09 a month ago. So quick turnaround,

09:11 back-to-back weight cuts, and all that

09:12 stuff, but I think if I choose Aaron

09:15 Pico,

09:16 Keita is going to win. And if I choose

09:18 Keita, Pico's going to win. And I want

09:21 Pico to win. So I'm going Keita and I'm

09:23 a sacrificing a freaking Pico on wrong

09:26 here, bro. I really am.

09:27 But I think this fight is going to be a

09:29 freaking banger, a master class, fight

09:32 of the night, almost guaranteed, I

09:34 think. We'll see. I don't like

09:35 guaranteeing things, but this is this

09:36 one going to be good, bro. It's going to

09:38 be good.

09:39 Um but I don't want to see Pico get

09:40 slimed, so I'm going Keita finish, round

09:43 two. All right. I think he survives.

09:45 Okay, okay, okay. Now we got some random

09:46 dude, this guy Volkov versus Kuniyev.

09:49 Kuniyev is like, yeah, of course. You

09:51 know, Volkov this guy is like 40 and 11.

09:53 No one really They know why doesn't even

09:54 know who this guy is. So like

09:56 bro, Volkov should be champ right now.

09:58 I'm being straight up. I'm going

09:59 Alexander Volkov. He needs to slime this

10:01 dude out in the first round and then

10:02 he'll be like, oh, how is this dude not

10:04 a champion? Dana White doesn't even know

10:06 his own employees, bro. He doesn't even

10:07 know them, so I'm like, we got to lock

10:09 in. We got to lock him in right now. So,

10:11 Dana's going to remember Volkov. He's a

10:13 XL Paddy Pimblett and if we see his

10:15 cornerman combing his hair, we got it

10:18 that's a good sign. It's a great sign,

10:20 all right? Moving up the card, there's

10:21 only three fights remaining on this

10:22 card. Loni Cavanaugh versus Razaman

10:26 Temirov

10:27 Temirov Temirov. Razamin Temirov and

10:30 man, it seemed like Loni a little

10:31 chinny. I'm not going to lie, he's just

10:33 a a little chinny, bro, but he's he's so

10:35 good, bro. He lost to Charles Johnson.

10:37 He lost to Royval. He was literally

10:38 winning that fight against Royval, but

10:40 he's going against Temirov who slimed

10:42 out my boy Erceg and it was it was

10:44 really sad. So, we're going to have to

10:46 get our get back here and I'm going Loni

10:47 Cavanaugh and this fight is like almost

10:49 guaranteed to end in a finish. I think

10:52 Loni stings him on the feet and gets a

10:55 submission. What do you guys think? All

10:56 right, so I'm going Loni Cavanaugh. We

10:58 get chin, we get knocked down a few

11:00 times, but we are going to chase that

11:02 submission because I I think Temirov has

11:05 a chin. Just look at him. He looks very

11:07 built and stout, but these guys are like

11:09 5'4. So, these guys might have a lot got

11:11 a whole lot of money, all that stuff.

11:13 So, I got Loni Cavanaugh chin right into

11:16 a rear naked choke, ends the show. We

11:18 back in the win column, all right? Petr

11:21 Yan versus Merab Dvalishvili. This is

11:23 the trilogy, all right? It went 1-1.

11:25 Merab won the first one. Petr Yan got

11:28 the second one. Who wins this one? Now,

11:30 this one

11:31 I got I got a controversial take, all

11:33 right? I know I know Petr Yan is the one

11:35 with the the most skills. He just came

11:37 off of winning against Merab. Like he

11:39 looked incredible. Like no one could

11:40 beat him. These guys are two

11:41 supercomputers going against each other,

11:43 but this dude Petr Yan had a 9-hour

11:46 surgery in January, okay? We're in

11:49 October, 8 months. 8 months, 9-hour back

11:54 surgery?

11:55 You know, I'm no I'm no doctor, but hey

11:57 man, if you have a surgery on your

11:59 knees, on your back, on your neck, the

12:01 back surgery is like the most like, you

12:03 know,

12:04 you don't play around with your back,

12:06 you know what I'm saying? And I think

12:07 Merab he fought four times the last time

12:09 four times in the year. He fought Petr

12:11 Yan. Maybe overworked, had a few

12:13 injuries going into that last fight. I'm

12:14 not trying to make excuses for Merab,

12:16 but he's rested up, he's fueled up, his

12:19 cardio is good. He might be a little

12:21 chinny to the body, but I think Merab

12:23 gets this win via decision. And I think

12:26 my hot take is that after this fight,

12:29 after Merab wins, everybody's going to

12:31 be like, "This dude Petr Yan had back

12:33 surgery." And they're not even They're

12:34 not even thinking about No one's even

12:36 talking about it. Like, it's going to

12:37 make complete sense after the fight if

12:40 Merab wins. If he loses, then it's like,

12:42 "Zo, come on, what are you talking

12:43 about? This is Petr Yan, bro. Like, back

12:44 surgery don't matter. It don't matter if

12:46 it's the spinal, you know?" But, Merab

12:49 I'm rolling with Merab, bro. Rolling

12:51 with Merab. Decision. He's the underdog.

12:55 That's just That's just how I go.

12:58 >> [music]

12:59 >> You guys hear that? Oh my god. Yeah, I'm

13:01 taking Volk on this one, bro. Movsar

13:03 Evloev, the king of canceling fights.

13:05 Uh there's no way he could be champion,

13:07 bro. If If he has If he has the belt, oh

13:10 my gosh, I'm going to be so sad cuz Volk

13:12 is going to retire if he loses. And then

13:14 we're going to have like four or five

13:15 scheduled fights and only like one of

13:17 them happens. He's going to fight like

13:18 once a year.

13:19 And then we're just not going to see any

13:20 finishes, bro. We're just going to see

13:22 Like, I'm a fan of wrestling, I'm a fan

13:23 of grappling, but bro, come on. Like,

13:26 that's so many decisions. We haven't got

13:27 a finish. Like, let's lock in. But if if

13:29 Movsar finishes Volk, bro, I'm going to

13:31 be so pissed. I might just like smash a

13:33 TV. I'm not going to lie. But Alexander

13:35 Volkanovski, Alexander the Great, is

13:38 going to really show levels in this

13:40 fight. And I guarantee we're going to be

13:42 shocked. And anybody who doubted Volk,

13:44 bro, come on. This is Volk, brah. This

13:46 is Volk. Yeah, we got chin against Ilia.

13:48 Yeah, we got chin against Islam. But

13:50 this is Movsar, bro. This is Movsar. And

13:53 bro, I know it's tough.

13:55 It's tough cuz Movsar, he really is

13:56 good. And honestly, I saw him in person

13:58 and I'm like, "Damn, this fool Movsar

13:59 really got low-key He He got aura

14:01 low-key." I'm not going to lie. But I

14:03 still got Volk, bro. I still got Volk. I

14:05 still think that his experience at the

14:07 age of 38 is different from other

14:10 38-year-olds, you know?

14:12 I'm trying I'm really trying to convince

14:13 myself to be like, "It's going to be

14:15 okay, bro. Like we're going to be all

14:16 right. Like we going we going go through

14:18 the fire. We going go through the pain.

14:20 But damn, if Volk loses this fight, bro,

14:22 I'm going to I'm going to be pissed,

14:23 bro. I'm going to be pissed. Straight up

14:25 with you cuz I'm like, damn, it's over.

14:27 It's over, bro. It's like seeing the

14:28 ghost just vanish in the freaking

14:30 Avengers Endgame type stuff. So, it's

14:32 not

14:34 We going to be locked in for this fight.

14:35 Let me know what you guys think on these

14:37 picks.

14:38 Um I took quite a few underdogs on this

14:40 card right here. I'm not going to lie.

14:42 But I am pretty confident that this card

14:44 is going to be an absolute banger. So, I

14:46 hope you guys are doing good. Thank you

14:48 guys for 5,000 subscribers. We're

14:49 actually starting to do good on our

14:52 freaking videos, bro. Um I start I'm

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14:58 um I just want to thank you guys for

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15:04 Um yeah, I I appreciate you guys so much

15:06 and I I can't wait to produce some great

15:08 content for you guys. So, we just had

15:10 Joe Pyfer.

15:11 The video should be somewhere around

15:12 here. We just went to his gym in San

15:14 Francisco, got to see what a UFC

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15:20 in December of last year. Go check that

15:21 out as well. Stay tuned, bro. We really

15:24 we about to start freaking locking it in

15:26 even more, bro. So, I thank you guys so

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