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Podcast: The Co-Main Event MMA Podcast
Episode: Petr Yan was perfect at UFC 323
Description: Petr Yan showed up looking shockingly prepared for everything Merab Dvalishvili had planned on Saturday at UFC 323. Yan had the takedown defense. Yan had the stifling striking game. Yan worked the head and the body as well as he possibly could have. And perhaps most impressive of all, Yan had the cardio — taking over down the stretch, during what is normally Merab Time — to secure a surprising victory for the men’s bantamweight title in a fight-of-the-year–candidate thriller.
In doing so, Yan put himself in position to begin chiseling out a legacy as one of the all-time...