Jimmy Smith discusses Aljamain Sterling and Petr Yan's title rematch falling off UFC 272 just days after Holloway vs Volkanovski had to be pulled from main event of the card and reacts to today's reports that Colby Covington will take on Jorge Masvidal in the new main event of UFC 272 and the featherweight and bantamweight title fights being moved to UFC 273 in April.

Jimmy Smith examines the UFC's options after it was announced Max Holloway was out of his eagerly anticipated trilogy fight with Alexander Volkanovski at UFC 272, discusses fighters leaking sparring video with Francis Ngannou coach, Eric Nicksick from Xtreme Couture, and tries to understand the concept of a person being 'ugly hot'.

UFC 272 features two title rematches with Aljamain Sterling and Petr Yan and a trilogy fight for the featherweight title between Alex Volkanovski and Max Holloway. RJ Clifford fills in for Jimmy Smith and speak to Aljamain Sterling's coach Ray Longo about the highly anticipated bantamweight title rematch and talks all the least UFC 272 and MMA news with MMAjunkie's Mike Bohn.

Jimmy Smith examines whether the Diaz brother image of taking on any fighter anywhere still holds up after Diaz seemingly turned down a fight with Dustin Poirier and breaks down whether it's a smart move for Joanna Jędrzejczyk to take a fight with Zhang Weili for her Octagon return this year.

RJ Clifford fills in for Jimmy Smith and analyzes whether a fight between Nate Diaz vs Dustin Porier is likely after Porier said that he's agreed to the fight and speaks with BloodyElbow.com's John Nash about the war of words between Dana White and Jake Paul and the Francis Ngannou contract situation.

Jimmy Smith analyzes the battle that seems to brewing between Francis Ngannou and the UFC catches up with veteran UFC featherweight about his win at UFC Vegas 45 and possibly dropping down to bantamweight, and discusses how the NBA is handling COVID surges and the Christmas slate of games with SiriusXM NBA Radio's Brian Custer.

Jimmy Smith breaks down the public back and forth between Jake Paul and Jorge Masvidal about the terms of a possible fight, and answers listener questions from the UTC midweek mailbag.

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RJ Clifford catches up with Morning Kombat host, Luke Thomas to talk about Paul vs Woodley 2 and UFC Vegas 45 (:32) and speaks to UFC welterweight Belal Muhammad about his win over Stephen Thompson last Saturday and what could be next for him in the division (18:12)

Jimmy Smith discusses Jake Paul's comments about wanting to compete in an MMA fight (:34), catches up with Angela Hill about her fight at UFC Vegas 45 (15:09) and joining the SiriusXM Fight Nation team (24:48) and speaks with Bellator heavyweight champion Ryan Bader about his upcoming fight with Valentin Moldavsky at Bellator 273 (29:39).

Ryan McKinnell speaks with Tyron Woodley about his upcoming rematch with Jake Paul, breaks down UFC Vegas 45 with Xtreme Couture coach, Eric Nicksick, and discusses all the latest news stories in combat sports with MMAFighting.com's Shaun Al-Shatti.