Episode 136: Amir Albazi Defeats Kai Kara-France in Close Decision | Chimaev Should Be Next For Usman | Will Jon Jones Fight Again in 2023? | Is Lightweight Best Move For Max Holloway?

Episode 136, or as some are calling it, Brandon's high school wrestling weight episode, is here! Let's get right into things, we start off giving our recap of UFC Fight Night Kara-France vs Albazi. For the main event we discuss the close decision, our thoughts of Amir's performance and the inconsistency of the judges score cards. We also give our recap of some of the other fights on the card including performances by Bruce Leroy, Jim Miller and others! Next we move into covering some topics that we are very interested in seeing fleshed out in the last half of the year. In this segment we give our takes on what should and could be next for Kamaru Usman, Jon Jones, Israel Adesanya and Max Holloway. Within those fighters we discuss is any of them need to potentially go to another weight class to get the best fight for them, or if they'll even fight again this year. Lastly we go into the news which featured Merab's surgery, TUF season debut, a big fight announcement and more! We'd like to remind you as well that we did not give out picks and predictions for this coming weekends UFC 289, because we will be doing them on our live show, The Kickback, on the MMA Underground's youtube channel! Be sure to come hang out with us and talk all things UFC 289 and MMA, we'll be sure to post the link in our IG story, on twitter and anywhere else. Like always please be sure to comment, like, rate and subscribe!