Dana welcome back to TNT Sports how are you good good to see you what's the plans over the next 12 months for the UK fight fans I know that you love coming so what when's the next time do you think normally we're around March time yeah right right off the top of my head I don't know um I know we have our new schedule mapped out until uh probably um probably February okay um everything is sort of a TBD so what we'll do is we'll lay out three different Poss possibilities that we could end up
and you know on on certain dates and and we'll start to narrow that down as we get into the uh into the new year but you know you know how important the UK is to us so we'll be there and you know um I don't know where and when yet but we will we get there as much as we possibly can I suppose because this sport is so it changes so quickly you're right wins losses can affect different narratives I suppose when look at 30 n's men event for example with JN and Stipe being in
there the ideal thing for every British fight fan is we put that together with Tom Aspen it might not happen in the UK that might be a Las Vegas thing but that would hopefully be the destination for him next 100% And I truly believe that whoever wins this fight I just competitively the way that these guys are wired and the reason that they're both massive Legends on the sport they're not going to just ride off into the sunset without set settling the dispute with Tom aspal and I think that also when you think about Jon
Jones becoming the youngest champion in heavyweight history and all the things that Stipe accomplished they were given opportunities uh you know when they were young and I think that they will reciprocate heavyweight MMA Jon Jones Tom aspinal oh man that might that might be the best fight in MMA I don't I don't disagree I don't disagree um people will lose their minds if either one of those fights happen stpe or Jon Jones moving away from MMA just for a split second we've spoken about boxing so many times you've looked under the hood we know that
it's broken we know that it's all over the place but i' I heard you speaking recently that maybe you're changing your mind a touch what's brought that on it's not that I'm that that I'm changing my mind it's it's that um I'm looking at a different opportunity obviously the Saudis have you know shake turkey specifically has completely reinvigorated boxing making fights that couldn't be made before that would have never been made had it not been for him so he and I have um you know created a relationship and it's made me more interested than I
was before from my point of view being a boxing fan can you get the UFC model which works can you get that into boxing I think you can whether I'm right or wrong we will find out is that something that you're going to look to do next year we're we're we're we're we're talking we're talking what are your hopes for the next 12 months every every single time we we speak there's always something on the horizon and it gets ticked off relatively quickly what are the goals and Ambitions for the UFC over the next 12
months every year you know I'm looking to do the same thing I'm looking to go to territories that we haven't been what's big about next year is our rights deal is up so that's going to be very interesting to see how this plays out over the next 12 months because that will play out in the next 12 so um there's there's really big things working with the UFC right now you know not just territories we haven't been we're looking at new R steals um obviously you know the talent that came off this season of the
contender series every year it's fun to to see who's going to do what is that your favorite thing Contender series because I watch you on Tuesday nights and I'm telling you there's a glow going on I wish that there was enough Talent out there to do that every Tuesday 52 weeks a year it's I can't tell you how much I love it just to finish off on a we've just spoke about Tom um our audience love Leon Edwards what's your plans for Leon Edwards over the next six months or so because we want to see
him back in the I don't know we'll see is that starts to come together obviously we talked about England is a very important Market to us um so he's a very important fighter in that market we'll see how what happens in 25 and how excited are you given his last performance about patty pimer patty killed it I mean again lot of negativity surrounding Patty a lot of uh naysayers about what he is capable of doing and I think he he shut a lot of people up with that last performance so um again another massive star
out of the UK that I'm sure we'll be doing something with him over there soon well fingers crossed the fight that I would love to see is him and hero moano he's a superstar as well those two together I can just imagine those press conferences being absolutely Carnage on the fights itself I agree and and they could end up fighting and obviously and and uh he could end up fighting in the UK or back here in Abu Dhabi again too there you go listen always good to see you thank you so much time thank you
