With UFC 285 right around the corner, Firas explains why he thinks the main event between Jon Jones and Ciryl Gane for the vacant heavyweight title is as mouthwatering of a matchup as the recent Fight of the Year candidate put on by pound-for-pound kings, Islam Makhachev and Alexander Volkanovski at UFC 284.
With Tatiana Suarez successfully bouncing back in the win column on Saturday for the first time in her 1,358-day layoff, Firas explains why the 32-year-old’s second-round submission win over women’s flyweight, Montana De La Rosa, proved she can return to the top of women’s MMA and have a Khabib Nurmagomedov-like reign in the women’s strawweight division.
Finally, Jim takes Matt and Firas on a stroll down memory lane of the years the two spent on opposite ends of the iconic welterweight rivalry between Matt and Zahabi-trained fighter Georges St-Pierre.