Heavy Hands

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584 - Middleweight is a Joke Aug 06, 2025

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A meaningful but deeply depressing middleweight main event, plus a discussion of how to counter MMA's fast-paced, pressure-fighting meta.

Predatory instinct: how Max Holloway attacks - read my latest breakdown on Substack: https://open.substack.com/pub/facepunching/p/predatory-instinct-how-max-holloway?r=evbq&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false

KotoshoWHO? Discussing the shocking results of the July sumo tournament on Patreon with Miguel Class: https://www.patreon.com/heavyhands

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CONTENTS:

00:00 Intro 8:34 Dolidze vs Hernandez 32:12 Erceg vs Osbourne 44:10 Fili vs Rodriguez 59:43 Countering the Pressure Meta

583 - Bobby's Sticky Situation Jul 30, 2025

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Sad day. Robert Whittaker has been beaten up by a Dutchman--again.

KotoshoWHO? Discussing the shocking results of the July sumo tournament on Patreon with Miguel Class: https://www.patreon.com/heavyhands

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CONTENTS:

00:00 Intro 00:44 Whittaker vs de Ridder 23:56 Yan vs Mcghee 42:15 Magomedov vs Barriault 50:33 Grant vs Blackshear

582 - Paid in Full Jul 23, 2025

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Dustin Poirier goes out with class, and Max Holloway's legend continues to grow. Also Oleksandr Usyk. Good weekend of fights!

Read my huge, two part breakdown of Joshua Van vs Brandon Royval on Substack: https://open.substack.com/pub/facepunching/p/joshua-van-vs-brandon-royval-part?r=evbq&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Sumo is back, and that means more Heavy Henka with Miguel Class on our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/heavyhands

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CONTENTS

00:00 Intro 2:50 Holloway vs Poirier 3 33:19 Costa vs Kopylov 43:43 Holland vs Rodriguez 49:47 Usyk vs Dubois 2 1:02:27 Johnson vs Zellhuber

581 - Third time's the charm? Jul 17, 2025

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Our Max, who art in N'awlins, Blessed be thy name.

Sumo is back, and that means more Heavy Henka with Miguel Class, coming soon to the Heavy Hands Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/heavyhands

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580 - Now that's a lotta glue! Jul 10, 2025

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A couple weeks ago we got Ilia Topuria and Joshua Van. Now we've got Tallison Teixeira and Steve Garcia. Oh well.

The first part of my breakdown of Joshua Van vs Brandon Royval FREE on substack: https://open.substack.com/pub/facepunching/p/joshua-van-vs-brandon-royval-part?r=evbq&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Payton Talbott also got a big test at UFC 317 and, while it wasn't perfect, he showed real improvement. We're talking about that in our latest bonus episode: https://www.patreon.com/heavyhands

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579 - The Future is Now Jul 02, 2025

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Ilia Topuria has now killed all of your favorite fighters. His next target: your mom.

Payton Talbott also got a big test at UFC 317 and, while it wasn't perfect, he showed real improvement. We're talking about that in our latest bonus episode: https://www.patreon.com/heavyhands

Heavy Hands merch: https://www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/64577943?asc=u

CONTENTS:

6:36 Topuria vs Oliveira 29:50 Pantoja vs Kara-France 47:06 Van vs Royval

578 - The UFC's Last Action Hero Jun 25, 2025

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The UFC is making an effort to feature all their brightest young talent at UFC 317. It's an actual, honest-to-god pay-per-view card!

Discussing Hill-Rountree, Usman-Buckley, and everything else we missed in our latest bonus episode: https://www.patreon.com/heavyhands

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CONTENTS: 00:00 Intro (& Jon Jones) 11:01 Topuria vs Oliveira 32:43 Pantoja vs Kara-France 49:32 Royval vs Van 1:04:41 Talbott vs Lima

577 - Titans of Brain Thinking Jun 12, 2025

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Sean O'Malley once again had a terrible gameplan. But at least he wasn't alone.

Joe Pyfer assumes Kelvin Gastelum isn't good enough to survive one round, gets confused and angry when he does. Hear us talk about it in our latest bonus episode: https://www.patreon.com/heavyhands

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576 - O'Malley's Revenge Jun 05, 2025

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Sean O'Malley barely had any success at all in his first fight with Merab Dvalishvili, which means Merab had better be careful in the rematch... because it can only get tougher.

There's another yokozuna in the world of sumo--our second new grand champion this year. Join us on Patreon for a breakdown of Onosato's historic rise in the latest episode of Heavy Henka: https://www.patreon.com/heavyhands

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CONTENTS:

00:00 RIP Jordan Breen 11:29 Intro 14:46 Dvalishvili vs O'Malley 2 37:34 Pena vs Harrison 1:03:32 Pyfer vs Gastelum 1:16:35 Bautista vs Mix

575 - UFC Health Checkup May 29, 2025

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Meet the new Apex card, somehow worse than the old Apex card. That's why, after discussing the only two good fights, we decided to give each of the UFC's 11 weight classes a nice, thorough checkup.

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