Episode 699: It’s the UFC’s ‘Year of the Unc’
About this episode
The episode discusses the recent success of older fighters in the UFC and the implications of this trend.
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
People in this episode
Hosts: Chad Dundas, Ben Fowlkes
Topics covered
- UFC
- older fighters
- sports renaissance
- USADA
- Paramount+ vs ESPN+
- MMA analysis
More episodes of The Co-Main Event MMA Podcast
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- Episode 701: Conor's cooked
- Episode 700: Conor McGregor’s UFC 329 return raises so many questions
- Episode 698: UFC’s Meta AI rankings are out!
- Episode 697: UFC’s White House show could’ve been worse, we guess
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