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5 days ago | 
letitrollpodcast.substack.com | Nate Wilcox |Ryan Harkness |Steve Juon
Current time: 0:00 / Total time: -40:39Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. Nate and Ryan are joined by hip-hop ringer Steve Juon continue their discussion of “Last Night A DJ Saved My Life - The History of the Disc Jockey” by Bill Brewster and Frank Broughton.
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1 week ago | 
themmadrawpodcast.substack.com | Nate Wilcox
Current time: 0:00 / Total time: -41:24Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. UFC Vegas 107 looked absolutely awful on paper, but in practice, we did have some exciting moments. The ladies’ fights were somewhat underwhelming, though. Alice Ardelean defeated Rayanne dos Santos, which wasn’t a terrible watch and even won FOTN. However, Macy Chiasson vs. Ketlen Vieira was a complete slog of a contest that saw Vieira victorious.
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1 week ago | 
themmadrawpodcast.substack.com | Nate Wilcox
Current time: 0:00 / Total time: -1:28:49Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. UFC Vegas 107 is not giving what it needs to give, stat-wise. A whopping 12 fighters are coming off losses—on a card that only has 11 fights. Fourteen of the athletes hail from the Contender Series. Could it provide a bunch of action? Sure. Will it matter to the advancement and growth of the competitors outside the two ranked bouts?
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1 week ago | 
themmadraw.com | Nate Wilcox
This guest post is by Blake Avignon. “In business, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield” – Warren BuffettWhat seemed like a simple renewal has become a media rights landmine. The UFC’s exclusive negotiation window with ESPN quietly expired, and with it, the comfort of predictability. Now, every major player, from streamers to legacy networks to tech giants, is reevaluating whether the UFC is a core asset or a luxury in a changing sports economy. Start with Apple.
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2 weeks ago | 
bvmsports.com | Nate Wilcox
By Nate Wilcox via www.themmadraw.com, Last week I posted on Saudi Arabia's General Entertainment Fund Chairman HE Turki Alalshikh's sudden announcement of a date and venue change for Canelo Alvarez vs Bud Crawford. It didn't take long for Turki to complicate things even further by announcing one more change, removing TKO's Dana White and Nick Khan from a promotional role in the fight. Sela is "a Saudi Public Investment Fund (PIF) company" that Turki used to put on Terence Crawford vs.
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2 weeks ago | 
themmadraw.com | Nate Wilcox
Last week I posted on Saudi Arabia’s General Entertainment Fund Chairman HE Turki Alalshikh’s sudden announcement of a date and venue change for Canelo Alvarez vs Bud Crawford. It didn’t take long for Turki to complicate things even further by announcing one more change, removing TKO’s Dana White and Nick Khan from a promotional role in the fight. Sela is “a Saudi Public Investment Fund (PIF) company” that Turki used to put on Terence Crawford vs.
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2 weeks ago | 
themmadrawpodcast.substack.com | Nate Wilcox
Current time: 0:00 / Total time: -49:03Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. UFC is taking another break, just a month after its last one, because of Memorial Day. Not that we’re complaining, just making note of the situation. Our analysts are without their man across the pond, though.
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2 weeks ago | 
themmadraw.com | Zach Arnold |Nate Wilcox
How do they do it? How is UFC getting customers to pay MSG-level fight prices at arenas across the world for matchmaking that, until recently, was absolutely bottom-of-the-barrel in terms of fight quality? UFC 317 at T-Mobile Arena with Ilia Topuria vs. Charles Oliveira is a perfect example. It’s hard to get a floor seat for less than $1,000. Cage side seats are thousands of dollars. And that event is likely going to sell out in short order. Same story in locales like New Orleans and Chicago.
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3 weeks ago | 
themmadrawpodcast.substack.com | Nate Wilcox
Current time: 0:00 / Total time: -1:20:35Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. UFC Vegas 106, much like last weekend’s UFC 315, looks okay on paper. It’s got a couple ranked fights—which is amazing for an Apex card—as well as fairly low stats for fighters coming off losses. There is a downside because a lot of the fighters with losses have some problematic losing streaks.
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4 weeks ago | 
themmadrawpodcast.substack.com | Nate Wilcox
Current time: 0:00 / Total time: -1:10:01Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. UFC 315 delivered some terrific finishes and good fights on the undercard. We saw Bruno Silva felled for the first time in a terrifying finish that left him with a dented skull (think Cyborg Santos vs. MVP). Silva left the arena on a stretcher. We also bore witness to Jessica Andrade being swarmed and finished in under three minutes, and without ever landing a shot on Jasmine Jasudavicius.
