BTL | Dana White Breaking News Reaction, Fury vs. Usyk, UFC St. Louis Fallout, More

Saturday will be a monster day in the combat sports world, most notably because of the #boxing world as for the first time in what seems like forever, an undisputed heavyweight champion will likely be crowned as Tyson Fury battles Oleksandr Usyk for all the marbles in Saudi Arabia. With such a high-stakes and fascinating matchup, what are the biggest questions surrounding it?
On an all-new edition of Between the Links, the panel will discuss their most burning questions heading into #FuryvsUsyk, what would be the more interesting result, and who needs the victory more. Additionally, topics include #UFCStLouis this past Saturday, Derrick Lewis' big win, Joaquin Buckley's victory and subsequent callout of Conor McGregor, Dana White revealing that he wants out of the #UFC APEX - which coincidentally is where Saturday's #UFCVegas92 event will be held headlined by Edson Barboza vs. Lerone Murphy - the targeted Maycee Barber vs. Rose Namajunas main event bout for July in Denver, and more.
Host Mike Heck moderates the matchup between #MMA Fighting's Jed Meshew and Morning Kombat's Brian Campbell. Show goes LIVE Thursday at a special time of Noon ET / 9 a.m. PT.
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[@Jexxtor]

BTL with Mike Heck, Jed Meshew, and Brian Campbell is a must! It’s always legendary and interesting!

[@Weezing336]

The 304 card looks great to me. I'm actually excited to see Belal get his title shot.

[@joehohos7927]

But Buckley still got a segment on this program 😅😅

[@Onlybadtakes2589]

And will continue too Heck loves giving Buckley shine

[@Onlybadtakes2589]

More people talking about Buckley for that awful call out, but its working. Doubt media would even talk about him if he asked for a reasonable bout. Look how quick people moved on when JDM called out Shavkat

[@josephboza7448]

Cause JDM vs Shavakat made sense. The media loves callouts that are stupid. In their mind Conor was a stupid call out. I know he gave the media Burns in his scrum. If he did that from the word go, I dont think the co main event would have been called out. Buckley did what he had to do to win it.

[@cfslim4768]

if he called out gilbert he would have a segment, he has a segment rn lol

[@TucoRope2Tight]

These bad callouts got him 15mn segments 2 shows in a row. That's still much better than being another UFC co-main eventer whom you barely remember the name.

[@cfslim4768]

@@TucoRope2Tighti know that’s what i was trying to say i was mocking them saying if he called out gilbert he would have a segment whike talking about him

[@winstonalexander3948]

I’m only here for the CEO, CFO, CMO, COO, CIO, CCO, CAO, CTO of CTE, CDE, BBC with the BDE donk of the century Brian Campbell

[@profightsinfo]

Dana White didn’t care that Buckley got on the mic at the UFC presser and asked to headline St. Louis. He was literally laughing when he said we’ll wrap it up and he gave an interview (either w/ UFC, ESPN or BT Sports) where he was asked about it and he said he loves fighters that are like that and praised Buckley for being the type of dude willing to fight anyone anywhere or whatever. Now, post UFC St. Louis maybe Dana doesn’t like Buckley, who could say, but the narrative that Dana hated the 300 press conference move is just not true.

[@brandonhagerman3112]

I set in the 300 section for ufc STL for $95 a seat, that same ticket was $225 all the way up until the Thursday before fight day

[@junipersnow1]

Inflation from printing 4 trillion dollars did it!!!!! ... Tickets must have been %40 more like all our food and so purchasing power went down..... Wake the F up.

[@dagwood5041]

love when bc is on

[@TheNotoriousLCB]

Mike being the biggest mark ever is genuinely hard to listen to lol

[@felipe3354]

Why is he a mark?

[@Zolo00]

@@felipe3354 "Waah waah, the callout wan't perfect. In WWE this would have been an epic fail!!!"

[@felipe3354]

@@Zolo00 it was an epic fail all around

[@jasonriddle4492]

If Bors was still a WW and Shavkat wasn't injured the UFC wouldn't even give Belal a ticket to the event

[@unsub6737]

I wonder who 'Revisionist History' Jed Meshew had as the HW champion just before Jon was injured training for his 1st title defense & Aspinall was coming off of a W over Tybura & nowhere near title contention but for Jon's injury? I forget, but he probably still had Francis as HW champ i.e it can never be Jon. Makes u wonder where he'd take this if Blaydes beats Tom?

[@Onlybadtakes2589]

Never forget his ufc 300 rant then going how he likes the card soon after

[@virkon3208]

If Blaydes beats Tom, again, then Jed will be on the "Tom was over-rated" take so quick you won't remember otherwise.

[@virkon3208]

That's his schtick.

[@TucoRope2Tight]

Jed is correct. Aspinall is a more legitimate champion than Jones who beat one guy with a giant hole. If Blaydes wins, which he has a chance bc he's good, he's my HW champion. Jon Jones is just making a detour in HW for 2 or 3 vanity fights. Meaningless unless he defends against the top.

[@tragic3299]

You guys spend half of every episode talking about peoples call-outs. Literally nobody cares except you guys.

[@ellishawkins984]

Somebody must have mixed BC and his brand of budget mic, like to think its Casey but not seen him yet...good job anyway.

[@jbortiz98]

One championship has a way better product to watch than the PFL

[@wwenexusfan908]

Attention is currency and the “worst callout ever” is garnering more attention than 95% of post fight interviews. You’re blinded by emotion if you don’t see how that’s a positive for Buckley.

[@southsidemilly414]

This wouldn’t even be a topic if he didn’t make this worst call out ever so u right

[@dagwood5041]

and its going to amount to absolutely nothing👍

[@wwenexusfan908]

@@dagwood5041 congrats bud, you just described nearly every post fight interview ever. What a groundbreaking discovery

[@wwenexusfan908]

@@dagwood5041 congrats bud, you just described nearly every post fight interview ever. What a groundbreaking discovery

[@windowlizard]

Bc mike and jed nice!😊

[@junipersnow1]

You are all winners.🥳

[@jbortiz98]

The PFL needs to clean our house and get people who know how to promote/make exciting fights in there. Who cares about punch speed or AI scores

[@jbortiz98]

Starting with Don

[@silence7113]

BC 👏👏👏LFG

[@southsidemilly414]

Why does BC look so red?

[@TUC4MOT3]

has high blood pressure from all the gas station food

[@zephyrleapold6796]

Here to do one thing, get paid, and laid, then go home to my wife and kids.

[@ellishawkins984]

Jed has the smallest nostrils ever

[@dagwood5041]

hilarious observation

[@ellishawkins984]

@@dagwood5041 its like he was born to not like cocaine, kind of worked out for him, he couldnt get a rolled note up there without scraping all of the snot...just as well. Also he must be way more nasally than the mic is picking up

[@Gordon-xf2rv]

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[@fedeescobar4152]

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[@danielruiz3379]

BC 🎉🎉🎉

[@brandonhagerman3112]

Sat

[@jimbrozini]

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[@fedeescobar4152]

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[@jasonriddle4492]

Remember when MMA Fighting covered MMA only?? Good times

[@luklopskywalk]

SHUT UP ABOUT THE CALLOUT LAME.

[@DaLeprechaun]

Not a great point saying Butker is a good example of not all publicity being good publicity. His jersey is #1 selling and when this all blows over (which it will) way more people will recognize his name. Buckley made a dumb move and pissed off Dana and people of power, as well as wasted a great chance to call his shot. But he's all over the media and people are talking about him, publicity is good although the way he got it was by ruining an opportunity and he could have created better publicity

[@UFCBETTY77777]

BC needs to cut down his answer time. Does the same thing on Mornimg Kombat

[@TUC4MOT3]

these guys just hate buckley because of how he acted with Aeriel but are giving Buckeley the attention he wants. Its hilarious.

[@76tattooartist]

„The real“ heavyweight champion? Did I miss something? Who you’re really indirectly disrespecting is Stipe. Jones is heavyweight champ,he has a fight scheduled against the one and only heavyweight GOAT. Now go and cry under the shower about it.

[@luklopskywalk]

Bc is not great in this format