UFC on ESPN 1 ‘Velasquez vs Ngannou’ - Care/Don’t Care Preview

Sorry cry babies! Eugene S. Robinson and 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 Velasquez vs Ngannou next Sunday, Feb. 17th.

It’s time for another of our infamous and patented Care/Don’t Care 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 lovely 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 234 review - 00:55
• Should this have remained a PPV after Whittaker vs Gastelum was cancelled? - 11:41
• Preview of UFC on ESPN 1 - 18:21 *fight card timestamps below
• Sneak Peek about the next OZY CONFIDENTIAL - 38:57

Here’s a look at the upcoming Sunday, February 17th, UFC on ESPN 1: ‘Velasquez vs N’Gannou’ card from the Talking Stick Resort Arena in Phoenix, Arizona, as it stands right now, via Tapology.com:

MAIN CARD - ESPN 1 | 9PM ET
Cain Velasquez vs Francis Ngannou - 32:40
James Vick vs Paul Felder - 31:09
Cynthia Calvillo vs Cortney Casey - 29:09
Alex Caceres vs Kron Gracie - 26:08
Bryan Barberena vs Vicente Luque - 24:52
Andre Fili vs Myles Jury - 23:31

PRELIMS - ESPN | 7PM ET
Jimmie Rivera vs Aljamain Sterling - 21:11
Manny Bermudez vs Benito Lopez - 20:56
Andrea Lee vs Ashlee Evans-Smith -
Scott Holzman vs Nik Lentz - 20:14

EARLY PRELIMS - ESPN+
Jessica Penne vs Jodie Esquivel - 20:04
Luke Sanders vs Renan Barão - 19:11
Aleksandra Albu vs Emily Whitmire - 18:21

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Be sure to follow Eugene on twitter @EugeneSrobinson, follow Eugene, John and Stephie at the MMA Puncholes page on fb, John at @heynottheface, and Stephie can be followed @CrooklynMMA, @MookieNCrookie, AND @LevelChangePod.

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

June M. Williams