Fighter vs. Writer: Matt Brown Explains Why Conor McGregor Could Beat Max Holloway, Plus Full UFC 329 Preview

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**Damon Martin** (1:17)
Welcome back to The Fighter vs. The Writer. I am Damon Martin. He is UFC legend, Matt Brown. And Matt, we have finally arrived. We are now days away from the return of Conor McGregor. A day that you and I had pretty much given up on like a year and a half or two years ago, but we are here.
I know you won't trust it till he's in the octagon, but here we are now at this point, five days away. Seems like it's gonna happen.

**Matt Brown** (1:40)
Yeah, it's hard not to trust it now, man. I guess he's gonna do it. So we get to see it. And I'll tell you, the closer it gets, the more excited I get, man. I think it's actually pretty cool.

**Damon Martin** (1:51)
You know, I was thinking about this before we recorded. Like, you know, DOC kind of the schedule, the grind of it all, you know, you just gotta go one event to the next. And I was kind of hoping, like when they did the White House card, they did that card before. And I was like, why are we doing a card? Like we should have like two weeks to build into this event. And we did this time because of July 4th being on a Saturday. So we're going to schedule a show on July 4th. I was like, this kind of feels nice. I basically had two weeks to really think about Conor and Max and Paddy and BSD and Corey Sanaghan and Mario Batista. And I kind of get excited. And I was like, I think the UFC should try to fit more of these in like a week before like the biggest card, one of the biggest cards of the year. Give us a little time to ramp up and get excited. I'm more excited now just because I didn't just go through another show two days ago.

**Matt Brown** (2:33)
Yeah, you don't have any burnout from too many fights, right? And remember that's how it used to be back in the day. You remember back, I don't know, I remember Ken Shamrock and Tito Ortiz fighting, and it was like a two, three month build up, and every day you're at the gym talking to your boys about it. And now it's just like, you know, what did you think about the fights last weekend? Yeah, they were really cool, you know? Okay, cool. There's another fight this weekend we could talk about. So, but look, this is what we all wanted, you know, the amount of volume. This is, you remember back in the day we were on the Sure Dog Forums and the MMA Underground. Right, man, we can't wait for it to get on ESPN. We can't wait for it or, well, I don't think we ever even imagined actually getting on to ESPN, right? But that was just like a pipe dream is what it felt like. And then, and then we get it and all we do is bitch about, that's too many fights, it's too much. So we're getting a little taste of that nostalgia now with a week off before the big card. And, you know, I guess there's been a lot of other news and on the side, you know, with Dustin Poirier and, you know, other things going to the White House, everybody's still talking about that. So, but, you know, it's cool, man. It feels cool. And I think this Conor fight, I guess it's going to go through. I guess it's going to happen. I guess I'm officially proven wrong.