455 - Fear of Flyweight

UFC 299 is here, and it's got a hell of a main event: reigning bantamweight champion Sean O'Malley vs Marlon "Chito" Vera (and Avian Bone Syndrome).

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The UFC's favorite warehouse is haunted... 

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It happened. Ilia Topuria dethroned the king. Now the question is, did featherweight just receive its fourth consecutive all-time great champion?

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Feel that electricity in the air? There's a definite feeling that Ilia Topuria may have what it takes to become the next UFC featherweight champion... but there's a certain GOAT who has a thing or two to say about that. 

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It turns out Sean Strickland and Dricus Du Plessis are gods, and they have recast the entire UFC in their image. That's right: MORE MIDDLEWEIGHTS.

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Roman "Bongcloud" Dolidze returns looking to sneer Nassourdine Imavov to death.

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"Goodness," said Mr Cormier, "that was some act... What the hell do you call yourselves?"

The two fighters grinned and flung their arms wide. "The Middleweights!"

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Middleweight does not look like Israel Adesanya or Robert Whittaker or Anderson Silva. It looks like this: the worst good fighter you've ever seen versus the best bad fighter you've ever seen. That's middleweight, baby.

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Magomed Ankalaev is a man cursed. His life is hell, and this hell is not composed of circles but of one, endless spiral that goes forever down, down, down... into oblivion.

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After a not-too-well-deserved week off, Heavy Hands returns with the era-defining MMA awards show you've all been waiting for! The best, the worst, the stupidest--all get their time to shine at the 2023 Handies!

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