We got Connor back.

Which one of these fighters do you think has had a bigger impact on Emma?

They both had a huge impact.

I'm gonna go with John Jones, and I'll tell you why.

Yeah, if you're ah, feisty small athlete, you're gonna be a fighter.

That's where the money is and there ain't no There's no like pound for pound best point guard.

If you can't, you're you're playing with giants.

There's no no one cares if you're the pound for pound best linebacker.

If you're too small to play linebacker, weigh £150 you ain't playing in the NFL.

You're not playing major league baseball, likely Jose Altuve.

For every Jose Altuve, you know, there's a million other guys.

So the good small athletes or incentivized to go into fighting, especially if they have a fighting spirit, boxing and Emma.

But the big athletes in this country not worldwide in this country notice Stephen A.

How we're always like what happened in the heavyweight division in boxing, right?

What happened was the NFL in the N B A.

That's what happened when Mohammed Ali was heavyweight champ.

If you get a shot at the title in the 19 seventies, you get a shot at Ali.

You might make a million bucks, and an offensive lineman in the NFL might make 30 or 40,000.

There was financial incentive to go into fighting on that evaporated because of these other leagues.

But you know what happened when John Jones came on the scene?

John Jones, from a football family, older brother and younger brother, played in the NFL.

Chandler Jones, a star in the NFL.

He's an athlete who likes to fight, not a dude who couldn't do other things.

So he's fighting an athlete who likes to fight.

And I predict that years from now.

Remember the Tiger Woods effect?

How it's harder for Tiger to beat these guys now because for the first time, athletes parents were putting golf clubs in their hands.

Now Tiger has to face a whole bunch of young guys who are golfing because of him.

That's going to be the John Jones effect.

Big American athletes with options.

Look at Jon Jones, and I predict some of those guys are going to be fighters in the future.

That's a different kind of impact.

I'm not disagreeing with any of that, but I would say Connor McGregor Onley From this perspective, Jon Bones Jones eyes the best in the world.

He's demand, and we all know how how legit he is, how lethal he is and probably moving up the heavyweight.

It's gonna be very interesting to see what he does at that level because he is just phenomenal.

Having said all of that, he's just a fighter.

He's just a Nelly eat fighter.

Connor McGregor is something else.

I'm talking box office.

I have been Thank you have recency bias right now just because it's been Connor I'm getting.

I'm getting ready to bring up something that's not recent.

I've been covering sports for over a quarter century.

I've been to some major fights.

I remember one time I told you, Max, of all the events I mean, I was there when Temple was beat.

You Massieu Masters number five in the nation and Calipari because I was there covering Allen Iverson when they went to the MBA Finals, you know, I mean, I was there something I was there with Jordan hit his shot over Utah that when his last title I was then you talk.

I've seen a lot.

I saw you had a Golden State game 72 great events I've never seen.

I felt at the time I never saw anything like when Mike Tyson walked into a ring and I was there when he fought Andrew Galaga in Detroit after he came out of retirement and Connor McGregor against Eddie Alvarez at Madison Square Garden of 2000.

Now, Molly, I would ask you to pause for a second because you've been a lot of great events yourself.

When Connor McGregor walked into the arena that night, walked in the Madison Square Garden, walked into that octagon.

I mean, there are very few moments that you see like that in sports.

It's something, man.

And what I'm saying to you is the UFC is in good stead.

You look at the pandemic and how it's affected everybody.

Dana White was pushing, pushing, pushing for events, and the UFC has been blowing up in the ratings.

The interest is elevated.

Joe Rogan and all of those dudes doing a great job Aerial Hawaii and those guys doing a great job promoting sport when you look at Connor McGregor and the kind of impact he could have, there is no question.

I don't think Jon Bones Jones compares in that.

I'm glad you brought up Mike Tyson because here's the thing about Jon Bones Jones.

What Tysons appeal was he was the baddest man on the planet.

Doesn't just mean your heavyweight champ.

It was something extra.

No one took that mantle since Tyson Lennox Lewis was the best, but he was more of a boxer.

Um, you had guys like now Tyson Fury, who's also a boxer, and their British in m m au at Brock Lesner.

A big, strong guy.

He wasn't unbeatable.

Randy Couture was great, but he Jon Jones really took the mantle from Taison and in a new way, because it's more like a street fight than a boxing match.

As the baddest man on the planet.

When you thought of who's the best because he's a heavyweight, Tyson was box office.

Even after we have learned he wasn't the baddest man on the planet, he was still box office.

He's retired at age 50 no doubt, and still, because of that once upon a time, it was at a time.

Once upon a time, McGregor was a bad man, but he was.

But he's not a heavyweight.

John Jones.

John Jones is gonna have an impact that's gonna be felt.

Had an even bigger impact.

We all know that.

Course not over yet.

You know, of course.

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