UFC Abu Dhabi Preview Show: Are Magomed Ankalaev and Bogdan Guskov in a title eliminator?

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**Jed Meshew** (1:11)
Mixed martial arts, mixed martial arts. How do we lack our martial arts in Abu Dhabi?

**Jed Meshew** (1:23)
That is right, ladies and gentlemen. Hello, my name is Jed Meshew, and mmafighting.com is a great website.
We are here to preview many, many fist fights this weekend. I know the thumbnail says the UFC Abu Dhabi Preview Show, and that is what we will primarily be involved in. But there's also a PFL this weekend to talk a little bit about. And then there's a bunch of boxing, which we don't have on the schedule to chat about. But if y'all decide at the Q&A at the end, you want to chat some boxing, we'll be happy to do that as well. I say we, because unlike last week, this week, I am joined. I'm joined by a man who's a good friend of mine and who had a good long vacation, leaving us in the trenches taking grenades while he was in Paris, France, the world over, a traveler of the highest order. But mostly, you know him as the Prince of Positivity and the King in the North, Alexander K. Lee, AK.

**Jed Meshew** (2:18)
How you doing, buddy?

**Alexander K. Lee** (2:19)
What's up, my friend?
I thought that's why you said we, because we is yes in French. I don't know if you knew about that.
I was watching a lot. I was studying a lot of Benoit Saint-Denis, and I was like, oh, they say we a lot. I'm like, oh, that means yes. Cool. So thought a little educational for our listeners out there. I don't know if you knew that, Jed. But yes, I'm a cultured man.
Yes, my wife and I were in Paris and it was lovely. We got blessed with perfect weather. Apparently, we missed the Euro heat wave. We came in like right after and it was just gorgeous. Just quite a bit of walking. I saw all the sites, Eiffel Tower. I saw a lot of places where John Wick killed people. Jed, I don't know if you saw the fourth John Wick movie.

**Jed Meshew** (2:59)
That's of course. You do know that I've seen that movie.

**Alexander K. Lee** (3:03)
Every time we went somewhere, I was like, oh, John Wick killed people here.

**Jed Meshew** (3:07)
John Wick killed the guy.

**Alexander K. Lee** (3:08)
Yeah, John Wick killed the guy here.

**Jed Meshew** (3:09)
Did you know the steps where John Wick killed a lot of people?

**Alexander K. Lee** (3:12)
I did those steps carrying two big ass bags of luggage. It was quite fun. So I was like, man, these really are the murder steps. I felt it. I felt what John Wick felt on that fateful night.

**Jed Meshew** (3:21)
Have you been to Paris before?

**Alexander K. Lee** (3:22)
I have never been to France before. So this is my first time.

**Jed Meshew** (3:25)
Paris, lovely, lovely city. Huge fan of it. So glad to have you back. Last week was tough without you, but you come back at a great time, AK, because there's a bevy, a smorgasbord, a feast, a feast, AK, a feast of fights this weekend. UC Abu Dhabi has, I don't know, 12, how many fights are that PFL, Washington, DC as well tomorrow, AK.
There's just, there's a lot going on this weekend, but we will start at the top of the batting order, of course, with UFC Abu Dhabi. AK, I genuinely have not looked, I assume everything was okay with the weigh-ins yesterday or last night, I guess, how it worked. Is everybody on weight?

**Alexander K. Lee** (4:11)
Yes, I, for some reason, I think I was working on something else and then I was like, oh, the weigh-ins are on it. One in the morning, Eastern time, I'll watch, I'll just check these out. I didn't actually watch them, I should say. I don't know if they had a live stream going, if anyone.