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The Co-Main Event MMA Podcast

The Co-Main Event MMA Podcast

By: Chad Dundas and Ben Fowlkes
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An irreverent and unscripted look at the week's mixed martial arts news from longtime MMA journalists Ben Fowlkes and Chad Dundas. Topics include the latest happenings in the UFC, Bellator and other promotions.
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  • Episode 699: It’s the UFC’s ‘Year of the Unc’

    Episode 699: It’s the UFC’s ‘Year of the Unc’
    Jun 29 2026
    Old guys seem to be having a renaissance in the UFC right now and, as gentlemen of a certain age, we frankly couldn’t be happier. Shout out to Mike “Bad To The” Bohn for pointing out this week that the older fighter has won the main event of every numbered UFC PLE so far this year (Volk and Gaethje, both 37; Chuckie Olives, 36; and Uhlberg and Strickland, both 35). That’s right, 2026 so far is the UFC’s Year of the Unc. But what's really goin' on here? Fighters aging better? The move away from USADA 👀? No decent young athletes want to get into this sport anymore? We discuss. Plus, how does the Paramount+ app suck so bad yet still somehow be better than ESPN+? And y’all see Rafael Fiziev kick that dude upside his head? Dang. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 hr and 3 mins
  • Episode 698: UFC’s Meta AI rankings are out!

    Episode 698: UFC’s Meta AI rankings are out!
    Jun 22 2026
    Breaking news, Mainiacs! Right before we started recording this episode, the UFC announced that its new artificial intelligence fighter rankings — developed in conjunction with Zuck and the smart kids at Meta — are out! Finally, the pesky whims of humanity will no longer hamper the UFC’s ability to rank fighters in each weight class from 1-15. Now, a computer will use “statistical modeling and machine learning with the deep domain expertise of the UFC” to tell us who’s hot and who’s not. It will evaluate “a comprehensive set of objective metrics, including outcome probability, win type, fighter trajectory, and weight-class sensitivities.” So, thank God that’s crystal clear and fixed forever. Plus, we got mail about Conor McGregor’s return! And the UFC didn’t exactly get those Super Bowl numbers they were hoping for at the White House. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 hr and 5 mins
  • Episode 697: UFC’s White House show could’ve been worse, we guess

    Episode 697: UFC’s White House show could’ve been worse, we guess
    Jun 15 2026
    I guess we gotta give a small amount of credit to the UFC for showing some uncharacteristic restraint during Donald Trump’s Big Birthday Bash at the White House. They actually kept the overt MAGA Mania to a minimum. They didn’t show D-Tiddy himself too much (though when they did, he sure seemed to be having a terrible time). They didn’t have anybody pop out of a cake to sing “Happy B-Day, Mr. President,” or bring the special little guy into the cage to give him a championship belt. Then again, if “it could have been worse” is our metric for success, well, that says it all, doesn’t it? There were good parts and bad parts of UFC Free Dumb 250, is what we’re saying. This shit looked great on TV. The UFC’s live event production team remains elite. The Marine Corps band absolutely crushed it all night. The fights themselves trended from pretty good to all time-great. A bunch of the other stuff was bad, though. AI slop during the story of America? Bad. Josh Hokit on the mic? Fucking terrible. Using this event as the public-facing element of UFC ownership’s efforts to cuddle up even further with this presidential administration? Yep, still bad! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 hr and 4 mins
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I've been listening to the comain even for about 8 years on various podcast apps. Ben and Chad are great, with loads of experience as journalists and the podcast is one of the best out there for MMA

one of the original mma podcasts

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I've been listening to this podcast since day one. It is still the best MMA podcast out there, all topics covered and with humour, what more do you want???

The presentation and audio is top quality

highly recommend

Everything MMA and great humour

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