BTL | Sean Strickland vs. UFC, Dana White's Response, UFC Edmonton

Mike Heck (0:00)

All right, Mike Heck here from MMAFighting, 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 sports, 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 (1:41)

The iconic voice of Esther Lin welcomes you to a brand new edition of BTL. Happy Thursday to us all. And as always, lots to talk about. Lots of questions to be answered. Some things to discuss. Some news to break.

Also, when it comes to some MMA Fighting programming coming up next week. More on that in a little bit, but we are here to talk about Sean Strickland versus the UFC, probably. Dana White breaking silence on that situation and others.

We have some kind of questionable and controversial parting of the ways when it comes to UFC fighters no longer being on the roster. Lots to talk about and joining me to deliver takes that you can only get on this program from this man, the hottest of takes, Mr. No Gray Area himself, the one and only Jed Meshew. Jed, how we doing? How we feeling?

Jed Meshew (2:35)

You didn't even mention the biggest news of the day, Mike. The biggest news of the day, the Beekeeper 2 trailer dropped. Jason Statham is going after all of the rogue beekeepers coming in January. I say this without a hint of irony, my most anticipated movie in like a year.

Since 28 Days Later Bone Temple, which the moment they announced that was happening, I was like, that's the movie I want to see most.

I want to see Dune 3 I love the dunes. I'm interested in Avengers Doomsday, but Beekeeper 2, ladies and gentlemen, man, that is going to be a film.

Mike Heck (3:16)

So Christmas came early for you.

Jed Meshew (3:18)

I it really, really did. Like I because I didn't think they would really do it, which is insane because the movie costs like 20 million to make and it made like one hundred and fifty million dollars or something. So, of course, they were going to make a sequel. But it was such like a. Did you ever see it?

It's an insane film. It is a categorically insane film, which like really, you know, it's there's a lot of like 80s action homage in there, but dialed up to 14

It just it was one of my favorite movies of 2024 and I could not be more excited for the dumb fun. I'm a big Jason Statham guy. I've seen both Statham movies that came out this year, but The Beekeeper is elevated Statham and that's that's my sweet spot, baby.

Mike Heck (4:09)

Well, everybody go watch the first one and prepare yourselves for the second one. And let's just get right into it. By the way, shout out to the YouTuber, shout out to the Facebookers, the Twitterers, the Twitchers and the Kicksters. We're all here.

All the social media.

Jed Meshew (4:25)

So many things happening.

Mike Heck (4:26)

So many things happening. We welcome all of you. Submit your questions. You can submit super chats and get to the front of the line. We got questions on the SB Nation app. We got questions in the chat. So fire away. Shout out to Scott McCrate. 47 months, but really it's since May 9th, 2020