<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="162">2:42</a> Alex “Amazon kickboxing archer” Pereira saves another PPV main event, defeats Czech samurai again . <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="2267">37:47</a> Diego “Mexican mohawk-mullet hybrid from Manaus” Lopes wins fun fight against Dan “4 hour notice” Ige. <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="2739">45:39</a> Roman “MMA professional goalie” Dolidze returns to LHW, crushes Smith’s future title shot goals. <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="2822">47:02</a> Macy “Cajun mohawk” Chaisson gets a two-fight win streak by way of brutal above eyebrow cut on Brazilian Sheetara. <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="2908">48:28</a> Ian “keep my wife’s name out your f#*king mouth” Machado Garry celebrates his odd uninteresting win with Guinness Extra Stout beer. <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="3420">57:00</a> Luke takes questions from The Donks.

I think Herb wanted to stop the fight sooner. Especially right after the head kick but Anik, Joe and other people were saying the last one got stopped too early. I think that played a part. Which was wild to hear them say he should have stopped it sooner. Herb Dean can't win. I didn't have a problem with either

Masvidal vs. Cowboy is a good comparison to this main event as far as the whole "getting finished twice in one fight" goes. I remember Masvidal was catching Cowboy's kicks and smashing him when he was off balance. I think another good one is Izzy vs. Whittaker 1. Izzy floored Rob hard at the end of round one before finishing him off in the next round. As far as whether they should stop fights between rounds when a fighter stumbles back to their corner after getting saved by the bell, we also have examples like Dillashaw vs. Garbrandt 1 where TJ was saved by the bell in round one before finishing Cody in round two and winning the belt. So it's tricky to say what call should be made, especially when there is a belt on the line.

Talbott, Silva and Pyfer all had big ko's on the prelims. Swanson vs Fili was a solid fight too. Those deserve some recognition, sir.

Loooove your post fight talks ❤

Izzy had some reeeaaaalllyyy boring fights sometimes. Alex is just really exciting to watch with a lot of action

Luke, your insight and breakdowns are the best in the business 🤘

All I can say is thank god I no longer stay up till stupid hours to watch these cards live. Watching the next morning with the fast forward button has been such a blessing.

I watched Alex win his title vs Donegi Abena live on stream. The big talk surrounding the fight was "how will Alex's power transfer to LHW?" I watched him absolutely dismantle Donegi and knew that he was one of the best strikers of our generation. The second he announced he was coming to MMA, I knew the shit was about to get fucking real. I am incredibly glad I was right about it.

Poatan is everything that Luke told us Izzy was

I'm also not convinced Ankalaev is the guy to beat Alex. Dude is horrible at checking leg kicks and his fight IQ is pretty bad

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="2220">37:00</a> There is no way in hell Jon takes that fight on short notice, he wouldn't fight Chael on 11 days notice, much less a guy like Poatan.

Luke speaks of Izzy like Dana speaks of Jon Jones.

I think the toe dislocate happened on the headkick knockdown at the end. But still he popped it back in himself.

Alex Pereira is a 100 stat custom created fighter that was 3d printed and given consciousness 😂. His left hook is a cheat code. Apparently his left leg is too.

I love that analogy he is the best Big game Hunter I've seen

Imagine if Conor fought Chandler here and we didn’t have the Lopes vs Ige fight, along with no Poatan… the card would’ve been horrible.

Good shit, Luke. Thanks for consistently taking the time to do these post-show. Love the work you’re putting out right now.

Alex has the touch of death

Alex Pereira really is a unique and special talent!! The man is different in the best way .. Thank you Luke for all your great content

If they don't allow Alex to go HW next fight I can say alot of ufc will be disappointed

I’m thankful for Luke. He’s one of the only legitimate combat sports journalists out there. Him and Ariel really are top of the food chain in my eyes

Not everyone would absorb a punch like Jiri did at the end of the 1st round. Props to him, tough guy

The absolute state of MMA, where no top fighter is smart enough not to trade blows with GOAT kickboxer, instead keeping their hand at their waist and running into the left hook. Zero brain, zero talent. Takes nothing from Poatan, he's fantastic and does the most of what he can, but man... The opposition is a total disgrace Alex turning MMA into embarrassment.

Thanks Luke was great to see a rising star get it done again! Almost 70k views in 24 hours they wanna hear about it brother!

Love watching the fights after the fact and then watching these. Cheers, Luke 🇮🇪 🇺🇸

The 1st place I come to after a ufc event… 👏🏻

Alex never stood out early in his kicboxing career because he was still an alcholic. He started getting a lot better after he was able to quit.

Time to refresh that logo & jingle Luke.

I love the way pereira doesnt waste shots none of it is to show off how good and technical he is his biggest asset is power and technique but my god the patience and discipline he has is almost insane

Damn! the Izzy glazers came out of the woodwork to make Pereira's success about him.

Luke, that is such a casual take on Garry. This is the type of fight the younger fighter usually losses. Instead he leverage his skills, got his opponent out of his comfort zone and found a way to win. Acting like this is somehow a negative is deeply unserious analysis.

This card sucked, let’s be honest.

The UFC sacrificed the future for that amazing UFC 300 card.

And…. That’s why Izzy is #2 Mdlwt All-Tims, period. How impressive is it, he had Alex beat the 1st time, and KO’d him in the 2nd. These two dudes are BEASTS and Alex is super scary!!

Glover has 2 be a big part of poatons UFC success wat a guy 2 hav in the corner and he must b passing on so much knowledge. poaton is definitely the boogie man in 2 if not 3 divisions!

The situation with Poatan is very similar to Ronda in the early days of women's divisions in the UFC, or similar to Joanna and Valentina, and then potentially Khabib. Some of these fighters, when they come in , they have had such a robust background and skillset built-up pre-UFC that gives them a massive edge over their opponents. At the time Ronda was fighting her competition (granted way less evolved than now), her grappling and Judo was 10x ahead of everyone else. Joanna and Valentina, their muy thai and striking was sooo far ahead of everyone that it looked like mismatch at times. Khabib and his grappling, it seemed as if he was like 3 weight classes above his opponents. Poatan is similar... I am a kickboxing fan so I was following Poatan (alongside Rico V. etc ) in glory before he was even remotely close to switching to MMA... I was just not sure how his defensive grappling goes, otherwise I had no doubt that if Poatan comes in , his striking is like ridiculously sharp, technical and damaging that all these hybrid MMA guys are going to struggle against him. Moving up from 185 takes the risks that come with massive weight cuts away as well, and for his age he is not "old" for 205 or 265. What would stop Poatan is someone who can just stifle him with spamming takedown attempts and make it a close fight and win a decision (e.g. similar to how the Jan Blachowicz fight went) , or if we just wait and let time catch up on him so he becomes slower and just has a natural athletic decline. Otherwise, I dont see him lose a straight up kickboxing match to anyone at 205 anytime soon.

Luke - I watched the main event back and Jiri landed 2 strikes

Ian Garry gets mauled by JDM and Shavkat. They are the future of the division

Pereira short notice ability is his kickboxing days the man used to fight so regularly and also he said himself he doesnt have a long time left hes taken opportunities to make a boatload of money build his legacy and bounce ... monster and hes such a superstar now the guy absolutely deserves everything

Anthony smith with 3 weeks camp has less gas than Dan Ige on 3 hours notice

Can I come to a live taping of MK? As a soon to be 43 year old stone/brick mason with multiple hernias waiting for surgery. Make my wish come true.

He has the best resume of any current active light heavyweight

RIP Ricky Simon. After that getting Punk'd Prominence quit job last night Sergei Pavlovich & Jason Jackson last week

DC's is intolerable as a commentator.

Gary compared his leg/calf kicks to Alex 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

What brand of shirt is Luke wearing?

I got Poatan vs Aspinal imma be honest. And I understand how good Aspinal is

Nice thumbnail pic, Luke.

I loved Dana’s nervous breakdown at the press conference

I think the fact that Poatan ever having the physical ability to even sniff 185lb is something that should be studied. He is fucking massive at 205lb. How that man ever got low enough to drop that much weight is stupid.

Alex’s revenge tour must end where it all started and that’s Izzy

@Luke Thomas The full screen 1080P visual quality leaves some to be desired. Can you upload higher res?

This reaction is fucking gold 😂😂

I'd definitely rather see fighters stepping in on short notice than fight cards just fall apart. Obviously, I'd prefer to see any of them coming in with a full camp.

Alex is just a Stone cold killer, incredible what he has achieved, and fast

Diego has Logan Paul punching mechanics, and Ige deciding to fight out of Diego’s guard in the third was terrible fight IQ.

Poatan's high kick reminded me a lot to the Gilbert Yvel's one vs. Gary Goodrich back in Pride, and the only difference is that it was a KO.

Jones Poatan is the biggest fight in the sport right now, Jones aint ever taking it

Pereira had the same problem as Jiri when he had his first fight against Izzy, in the end of first round, but in the end Pereira won the fight by knockout.

Don't think it's as bad Cerroni, Jiri was straight away ready to defend on ground, wasn't knocked out and got back up looking to continue. Had time to recover, but not to make up the skill deficit. Poatan has not just got the skills, but also the presence and calm to maximise them in the moment. To do on short notice and injured is P4P status.

Alex v Jiri was similar to Whittaker v Izzy 1, Rob getting caught last second of rd1 then going back out there...

He’s training with heavyweight boxers before this fight. He isn’t doing that for jiri. He’s planning his next move

There's only 2 guys right now with karate style and both are late 30's early 40's.

Only problem with with the thought experiment of Poatan stepping in to fight Jon on short notice is Jon would never take a fight on short notice. He pulled out against Chael and you think he'd stay in there with Alex? But on your larger point, yes I'd be hyped

With all the complaints of early stoppages lately, you have to wonder if Herb was making sure nobody said it after 303. Of course the stoppages seem to always be too early or too late.

I don't particularly like Adesanya's attitude, but his resume is unquestionable.

This man and Ariel Hawani live vicariously through men with real talent. They are sad and subhuman.

Luke said “mid”….

I didnt think colby was washed but now i have to do my research lol

Why are you surprised he's getting better at 36? His mma career is so short, he has all that room to get better in certain areas, that's why his improvements are looking so good, also your ability to think out a good gameplan doesn't diminish at 36 or something. You're being dramatic. (I'm a big poatan fan)

Izzy mentions Alex everyday, posts his one KO consistently, picks against Alex every fight. Izzy fan cope from Luke in this video today😂

As a general comment, let's not forget that Alex was fighting with two broken toes

Alex vs Jon at heavyweight is the fight to make. Fook Aspinall

Although any mention of MacGregor was conspicuously absent from the broadcast, could the way this event played out have made him look any worse? With so many fighters stepping up to compete under less than optimal circumstances, the commentary team and fighters themselves constantly stating "this is what real fighters do", then Alex KOs Jiri with a broken toe/foot, the irony was almost poetic.

Prime MMA Yoel might be the only guy that can take that Poatan left hook

After last night, Alex vs Jon Jones is the biggest most interesting fight the UFC can do right now. Retire Stipe and let's do this!

The Alex Pereira glazing went on a little too long at the beginning. He's awesome. We get it, Luke. Wipe your mouth.

What we are watching with Alex Pereria is kinda what it was like 👀 Bones in his prime...whoever they put in front of him, he just mowed em down!!!

If he gets through Ankalaev, give him a superfight.

The Izzy glazing is wild

i want alex to fight izzy again dude got knocked the f out and needs the win to establish himself as the current top dog in the sport

First fight Jiri got a single leg then turned it into a take down. This fight he clinched up and then Alex eventually broke it up. No take downs where attempted. I mean its a win for Alex that he didn't even let Jiri get to the position of being able to get a single leg. And i don't doubt that he is much better at grappling now so that has boosted his confidence in his whole game. I don't think these fights were very similar at all. Jiri had a lot of success in the first fight. He pressured the whole time. He had no success at all in this one. He got shut down everywhere and took tons of big shots even though he was being way more restrained about it. Alex was pressuring way more and was walking him down by the end of it.

Eric “Little Birdy” Nicksick

Pereira just exposing whats been pretty obvious about mma athletes since, uh, ever? They cant strike. Like, none of them. Nobody above 170lbs is world class. Nobody. Otherwise they'd probably box. Its funny hearing analysts gush over how balanced he stays. Yea. Hes a world class striker. If you cant stay balanced, you cant strike. The fact that Pereira can run through these divisions shows how light the talent still is in this sport above 170.

I remember about a year and a half ago, maybe two years. I made a comment about how poor the quality of ufc shows have become. I remember luke soon after making a general comment about tough luck for anyone complaining about the quality of shows because they have no other choice. Well, it's been two years and I haven't watched any of these shows, except maybe 3 in total, which included this one just to check to see if anything has changed. Nothing had changed at all. Still putting on glorified fight night cards. The production is still a sh!t show with multiple cancelations. The fights are still of low quality with the highlights being a rematch where Alex pereira still hasnt fought a true wrestler, and all his fights are still suspiciously short notice. Prochazka's defence is still hot garbage. The best fight of the night was between two women , and the other main attraction was a complete let down because Gary wanted to hug his way to victory, too scared because he was getting lit up on the feet. This card truly was garbage, can't believe Dana white once marketed this as an alternative to corrupt boxing. See you guys in 6 or 7 months, When Jon Jones predictably sits on top of pereira for an easy win. Or maybe pereira will catch him coming in.

Be nice see vadim nemkov be able to get into ufc cause it seems like pfl is not giving him fights he only had the 1 man vadim vs alex pereira would be fire and vadim at hw also fire

I thought the stoppage was fine. He probably should have stopped it a little earlier but if he did people would claim it was too early.

I dont think people realize what intelligent defense is. Yiri was evading Alex’s strikes. That is intelligent defense because it demonstrates awareness of the oncoming strikes. Intelligent defense does not have to be effective. Its just indication of the hurt fighters mental presence. Per the rules, the ref shouldn’t stop the fight if the hurt fighter is intelligenty defending themselves. (Unless they indicate an unwillingness to engage. Like if they just shell up and cover their heads then it could be stopped on those grounds.) i think refs get a raw deal because folks apply arbitrary and ever-changing criteria for stopping a fight.

They missed jones vs Francis. Now we have jones vs Alex. This is the Gods giving us a second chance.

This year so far the U in UFC doesn't mean Ultimate, it's almost like the I stands for Uninteresting.

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="895">14:55</a> Andrei Arlovski may be the best/only example of ‘chin gone’ looking, retooling, and competing for another…decade?!? 🤯🤯

Agree with your observation on Ian Garry. Has little to no chance against a Rakmanov-type fighter. I think Burns and Usman would finish Garry as they wouldn't be handicapped by the thought of being taken down.

Big Game Hunter is great

Poatan is a T-Rex. Him vs any top 10 heavyweight next. I think one non-title bout up there before a hypothetical Aspinal/Jones fight is great for him as far as getting used to the size and testing how the power carries. Like, Alex vs. Volkov or Alex vs. Gane are SICK fights. EXCELLENT ABC main events and great heavyweight audits.

Anthony Smith really backed up his claim that nobody wanted to fight him on 2 weeks notice 😂 Company man will come in even overweight getting schooled by a middleweight.

Luke finally says what's his weight 😢

jiri was hurt end of and 1 but he had a minute to recover and most corners would allow the fight to continue

Is there a better finisher in combat sports i mean when they hurt someone its over your not recovering if hes on you maybe anthony joshua also bit pereira man hes building some legacy its insane

Luke loves justifying Izzy’s title shot on the grounds of “it makes the promotion the mkst money” but hates the idea of Jones vs Stipe or Alex. Sounds like he is ok with Izzy getting preferential treatment for promotional reasons, but not if it comes to something that would benefit Jon.