BTL | UFC 331 Fallout, Van & Tsarukyan Shine, Steveson's Tough Week, Fury vs. Joshua

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 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 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, and the various sports that I care about outside of combat sports.

And then there's the live experience, because 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.

The iconic voice of Esther Lin welcomes you to a brand new edition of BTL. Happy Thursday to us all. We started a couple of minutes late.

That is the stream yard's fault. It's super weird because we couldn't see your comments popping up, so we could throw them on the screen. And then, as you do in life, you just log in, log out, log back in, and there they are. All the comments are up there. I didn't want to have a show without comments, especially from Lazybet, as you just saw. And we appreciate you checking out the program. There's always lots to talk about. UFC 331 still giving us things to talk about. Tyson Fury, Anthony Joshua is official. Dana White is involved. Eddie Hart is pissed. He's going to try to fight this all the way. John Martin is out at MVPFL. We got Darren Till, Yoel Romero competing in bare knuckle boxing this weekend. Misfits has a card including Henry Cejudo and Tony Ferguson. Just so much going on. And we're here to talk about it all with you. UFC 334 released its lineup and it seems like forgotten news with everything that's going on. So we could talk about that and much more. And joining me to do exactly that is Mr. No Grayery himself, the hot take kid, Mr. Clime himself, Mr. Jed Meshew. Sorry, Jed, I forgot that, I forgot things happened at 331 Damn it. I wish I could take that back. How are you, sir, outside of that?

Jed Meshew (3:21)

Good. As long time listeners of our programs will know, I, before moving to MMA full time as my career, I worked in the tech industry for about five years. And you would be astonished, Mike, that all like, the answer to 90% of tech problems is turn it off, turn it back on.

That's it. Like there's a reason that when you call Comcast, the first thing is like, just turn off your router for a minute and turn it back on. Because that is the solve for like a vast majority of problems. And really, like you said, the same in life, you know, take a nap, take a nap, come back in a little, you know, 20 minutes later, you're going to feel right as rain. You feel much better. Your comments will start populating and you'll be ready to go.

Mike Heck (4:09)

Yes.

Let me ask you a question about UFC 331, because I've rewatched some of the big moments from this many, many times. Obviously, the Sean Chiraf knockout was big. I rewatched the Arman-Ruffy fight. The elbow was big and trying to dissect everything Arman did from sort of like a strategy standpoint was really fascinating. Josh Van and Pantoja rocked that fight. I've watched that fight five times now. It's so damn good. And Van's fifth round is a legendary fifth round, in my opinion. Like the more I see it, the more I appreciate it.

Years from now, Jed, because we're going to remember this card. This was outside of the White House and the Spectacle and all of that. This was the card of the year. There have been some good ones this year, no doubt about it. But this one, I will probably remember more mostly because it has such staying power. Ten years from now, niece, nephew, child, grandchild comes up to you and says, Jed, tell me about UFC 331 What's the first thing you're going to say?