Care/Don’t Care Preview – UFC Ft. Lauderdale ‘Jacaré vs Hermansson’

Sorry cry babies! Eugene S. Robinson & John S. Nash, along with moderator Stephie Haynes are back with an all new edition of the infamous & patented Care/Don’t Care Preview for ‘Jacaré vs Hermansson’ on Saturday, April, 27th. It’s …

Sorry cry babies! Eugene S. Robinson & John S. Nash, along with moderator Stephie Haynes are back with an all new edition of the infamous & patented Care/Don’t Care Preview for ‘Jacaré vs Hermansson’ on Saturday, April, 27th.

It’s time for another of our infamous and patented Care/Don’t Care Previews, with your talent: the astounding Eugene S. Robinson of ozy.com and author of “Fight: Everything You Wanted to Know About Ass-Kicking but Were Afraid You’d Get Your Ass Kicked for Asking” and host of the newly released OZY CONFIDENTIAL podcast, and co-host John S. Nash is back, the financials analyst of our Show Money Podcast, aka: the man who knows everything there is to know about the history of MMA. Eugene and John are joined by their astute moderator, Stephie Haynes of Bloody Elbow’s Level Change Podcast and the Mookie & Crookie Show.

The format of the show is to announce each fight as they go, commenting whether or not they care about it at all, as well as introducing an off-topic discussion point or two. This week’s topics are as follows:

  • UFC St. Petersburg Recap – 0:57
  • UFC on ESPN+ 9 – Ft. Lauderdale Preview – 31:50 (*timestamps for each bout can be found below in the fight card)
  • Bellator 220 main event picks (Fitch vs. MacDonald) – 54:50
  • From the Police Blotter:

– BJ Penn threatens farmer with a machete: 58:50
– Darren Till trashed a hotel and then stole a taxi: 1:01:29

  • Eugene’s upcoming items – 1:05:28
  • Nash’s/Stephie’s upcoming items – 1:06:38

Here’s a look at the fight card as it stands now for UFC on ESPN+ 9, which takes place Saturday, April 27, 2019 with 13 fights at BB&T Center in Sunrise, Florida, via Tapology.com:

ESPN+ MAIN EVENT | 5:30PM/2:30PM ET/PT

Ronaldo ‘Jacaré’ Souza vs Jack Hermansson – 51:42
Greg Hardy vs Dmitry Smolyakov – 49:27
Mike Perry vs Alex Oliveira – 46:26
Glover Teixeira vs Ion Cutelaba – 45:05
John Lineker vs Cory Sandhagen – 40:54
Roosevelt Roberts vs Thomas Gifford – 36:47

ESPN+ PRELIMS | 7PM/4PM ET/PT
Ben Saunders vs Takashi Sato – 34:54
Andrei Arlovski vs Augusto Sakai – 30:30
Carla Esparza vs Virna Jandiroba – 28:23
Gilbert Burns vs Mike Davis – 26:39

EARLY PRELIMS | 5:30PM/2:30PM ET/PT
Jim Miller vs Jason Gonzalez – 23:55
Angela Hill vs Jodie Esquibel – 21:56
Court McGee vs Diego Lima – 17:32

Watch our brief feature video – Fighters Pick Fights: Bellator 220 ‘Fitch vs MacDonald’ here:

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*Intro/Outro music has been provided by OxBow, starring Eugene S. Robinson.

The MMA Puncholes, Nate Wilcox, Alexei Auld, Eugene Robinson, John Nash, Stephie Haynes
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The MMA Puncholes, Nate Wilcox, Alexei Auld, Eugene Robinson, John Nash, Stephie Haynes