BTL | Dana White vs. Eddie Hearn Saga Continues, UFC 335 Announcements, More

Mike Heck (0:00)

All right, Mike Heck here from MMA Fighting, and my good friend Jed Meshew is here with me as well, because Jed, the day has finally arrived. It's App Day, the all new SB Nation app. It's live now, it's live, Jed.

Jed Meshew (0:12)

It's alive. Yeah, man, I'm really excited. And it's awesome, man. Combat sports, like all sports, but combat sports fan especially, you guys are gonna have your voices heard like never before within SB Nation. MMA boxing, not me, but you, pro wrestling, Mike.

It's it is a community based app. It's all about community with the new SB Nation app.

Mike Heck (0:34)

It's so easy to use and it can keep, obviously, combat sports fans connected to their favorite teams and all of sports too across the board. So I can keep up with the Red Sox, the Celtics, the Patriots and the Bruins all on my phone. And it's so simple to use.

Jed Meshew (0:48)

Yeah, like you you mentioned those teams, but there's so much more because I don't care about Boston sports, Mike. But I get to follow the NFL, all the other sport. F1, the various sports that I care about outside of combat sports.

And then there's the live experience because that's to me, that's one of the coolest things. You can chat with us during Fight Cards every Saturday, and you can chat with other people in the communities as big events are happening. So it's a really good time.

Mike Heck (1:15)

So ladies and gentlemen, come fight with us over on the all new SB Nation app. Download it today. Download it right now. What are you waiting for? Download it.

SPEAKER_3 (1:28)

Live from MMA Fighting Studios. This is Between the Links.

And now your host, Mike Heck.

Mike Heck (1:42)

The iconic voice of Esther Lin welcomes you to a brand new edition of BTL. Happy Thursday to us all. We are here ahead of a fight week that's happening at the world's most famous Apex, UFC Vegas 122 Brendan Allen vs. Christian Leroy Duncan is the main event. We had some big things announced during UFC 332, which honestly stole the show overall. Big UFC 335 fights and announcements. Dana White vs. Eddie Hearn continues to be a thing.

And we'll talk about that much more. Honestly, whatever the hell you guys wanna talk about. And by the way, shout out to the usual listeners and watchers of the program on YouTube, on Twitter, on the Twitch. But now we get to welcome in a couple of new locations. Shout out to the Facebookers out there and shout out to the Kicksters as well. We are live on those platforms today.

And joining me to just deliver takes, to discuss the big news in the combat sports world, and to answer your questions is Mr. No Gray Area himself, the hot take kid, the one and only Jed Meshew. Jed, how we doing? How we feeling?

Jed Meshew (2:58)

Are they Kicksters or are they Kickers?

Mike Heck (3:00)

Oh, we have to workshop this.

Jed Meshew (3:02)

We got to have to, because Twitch, I mean, they could be Twitchers, but that feels too close to Tweakers, which I don't think we want to call them, you know? So we got to, this is all new ground for us. I just saw, as you hit the intro music, I was like, oh, we're on kick now.

Mike Heck (3:19)

Who knew?

Jed Meshew (3:20)

So fancy times.

Things are happening. In the Sean Strickland's Tweetin, I went and saw Digger last night. So a lot's going on, Mike. A lot is happening.

Mike Heck (3:35)

Okay. Please tell me, please tell me about Digger, because I see previews and I see like little clips and trailers and I'm just like, is this going to be a great movie or is this going to be an awful movie?

I don't know what to think, but give us, without spoiling anything, what is Digger?

Jed Meshew (3:58)

So it's really hard to not spoil anything. And like, so this is just going to be pretty vague. If you've seen the movie, you'll know what I'm talking about, but like there is stuff that is not in the preview. That comes out, like that in the trailers, that is interesting, right? And like, it's, I think every, it's a movie that I think everybody is right about. Whatever your take on Digger, I think is correct.

And mine is that it's a little too self-aggrandizing for me, but also you might view it and be like, well, that's the point. And like, yeah, it is. My fundamental, I think it's a fine movie. I will almost certainly never watch it again.