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00:00And then we also had a bantamweight championship.
00:05We talked about, you know,
00:06the check being a little small
00:07in the overall PFO titles,
00:08but still can be pretty big for anybody.
00:10And McGrillon, Lewis McGrillon,
00:12definitely made mention of that,
00:14said he'd feel like he just robbed a bank.
00:16I mean, sometimes in the fight game, as you know,
00:18you know, personality can help propel a fighter.
00:20You know, if you're excited to watch both on the mic,
00:23just as much as you are on the cage,
00:24it can, you know, get you even further along,
00:26quicker sometimes.
00:27I mean, this guy, I loved his personality.
00:29You know, the way he was after the fight,
00:31the post-fight interview,
00:32got a lot of energy, got a lot of personality,
00:34and that's always great to watch in a guy,
00:36especially when he's a champion that he is now
00:38in the bantamweight in Europe.
00:41Yeah, he's an absolute superstar in the making,
00:43and, you know, has certainly become must-see TV this year.
00:47You know, and you look back to the end of last year,
00:49the end of, you know, December,
00:51the last championship where he wasn't in the brackets.
00:54You know, he was fighting a showcase bout,
00:57and he came up short on that night.
00:59And to see his evolution since then, you know,
01:02he got a dominant win over Matiz Zaharoff
01:04in his first fight this year.
01:06And then, you know, the fight against Dean Garnett was,
01:10it may well be the best fight I've ever seen
01:13on European soil.
01:14You know, it was just an absolute wild fight.
01:17You know, one of the best ever.
01:19It really is.
01:20If you've not seen it, go and check it out.
01:22Lewis McGrill and Dean Garnett, you know,
01:24potentially a fight that we're gonna see next year again.
01:27If we can get these guys rematched.
01:31But I have to also give a shout out to his opponent.
01:33You know, Alexander Lustre has had a really good year
01:36as well, another fight that I want to see return next year
01:38and try and get that $100,000.
01:41You know, it's great money for fighters
01:43at this stage in their career.
01:44You know, a lot of these guys are around 10 fights in,
01:47and, you know, to be able to make $100,000,
01:49it just takes that pressure off for a couple of years
01:52where they know they can really focus on, you know,
01:55taking the right fights and building themselves.
01:57And I think that these guys have,
02:00I mean, they both deserve the money,
02:01but obviously McGrillin has, you know,
02:04put himself in a position now
02:05where everyone's talking about him
02:07and what he's able to do.
02:10And speaking of money, we had a number of contracts,
02:12three, I believe, handed out to the PFL in this card.
02:16Talk about some of the fighters who were able to get there,
02:18you know, their ink on the dotted line there,
02:20that maybe, you know, propel themselves further
02:22in their MMA career with the PFL.
02:25Yeah, this was really fun, you know,
02:26to have Cedric Dumbe involved.
02:28And, you know, we had three France v France matches.
02:31And the idea was that we gave two contracts out.
02:34We had a really good performance
02:35with Mahir Campanella winning by arm triangle.
02:39The third fight was Matthias Dürergren,
02:41and he was just a superstar all week.
02:44You know, he was standing on the scales doing a Rubik's cube
02:47and, you know, just spoke to the fans really well.
02:50He had a great walkout.
02:52So I think his performance, as well as the, you know,
02:56the rest of it gave, you know,
02:57really won Cedric Dumbe over.
02:59But then the other kid Salvo, I mean, you know,
03:02he was making his pro debut.
03:04There was a lot of pressure
03:05and he just had a completely dominant performance
03:07over a very tough opponent.
03:09And I just think Cedric looked at him and thought to himself
03:13that this guy's still got a lot of potential.
03:15Let's also give him a contract.
03:16And then, you know, we'll build these guys out
03:19on an undercard of maybe one of Cedric's events.
03:22But it was a fun little event to have within an event.
03:27And I think all the fighters that got the contracts
03:28were really pleased to have Cedric involved.
03:32I'm sure it's changing some of the champions' lives,
03:34the big checks, changing some of those other fighters
03:37up and coming with just being on the roster.
03:38I'm sure that, you know,
03:39a big great way to end the year for the PFL,
03:42a great thing to do, you know, around the holidays.
03:44You know, everyone's gonna have a happy holidays.
03:46They got that win.
03:47What were some of the other fighters
03:48that maybe impressed you in the last 30 seconds we have?
03:50Some of the other fighters that impressed you
03:51with their wins on this card?
03:52Because it wasn't just these title fights up top.
03:54There are plenty of other action at various weight classes.
03:58Man, I've got to give a shout out to Patrick Habarora.
04:00He was just absolutely fantastic.
04:02One of the best right hooks
04:04I've ever seen in mixed martial arts.
04:05Check it out.
04:06It's all over social media.
04:07He's definitely a superstar in the make.