Brain Bash Finale

In Jacks last episode of Brain Bash, he discusses what inspired him to create the podcast. He then goes on to break down the events of UFC Fight Night April 18th, talking about each fight and his parlays. Finally he makes his parlay prediction for the upcoming weekends Fight Night. 

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Welcome back to the Brain Bash Podcast. Thank you again for joining me this week. Uh guys, this is a little bit of a somber episode. It's gonna be kind of a sad one because this is actually the last episode of Brain Bash, unfortunately. Um the series might continue later on. I might bring it back when I get some more equipment, but uh just to give you guys a little background, because uh you don't really know too much about me unless you know me from um, you know, my stories in your school and stuff, uh, from promoting the podcast on my Instagram, whatever. But I'm a student at Hussan University in Bangor, and I go to NESCOM, which is the New England School of Communications, and I'm a radio student over there. I'm finishing up my last semester, and this podcast is actually my capstone project, which is like my uh it's like my end of the year last big project that I do, but I want to do something that encompasses everything that I've done in school. So I did radio and audio engineering, so I you know, I use a lot of um audio engineering and post-production for this podcast. The whole I I'm the producer behind the scenes as well. Multi-talented um individual kind of. I make do with what I what I have and I use the little knowledge that I do have. It works out pretty well for the most part. And so that's yeah, this is gonna be the last episode because I'm graduating from college and I won't have all of the microphones and the equipment at my disposal. But once I make some money after school ends, you know, I'm back to it. I'm gonna save up and get some more equipment, and I do want to bring the podcast back, but if I can't do that, this will be the last episode, and I don't know when I'll be coming back if I am. But it's still gonna be a fun one. And I just I just say that because I didn't wanna I didn't want to promise me coming back if I'm not going to, but I I very well may. But I'm gonna call this the last episode just because I don't want to make any promises. And uh this one I'm gonna go over the April 18th fight night that we just had with Gilbert Burns and Mike Mallet Malott. After that, we are going to talk about my parlays for that. I had two parlays for that card, and we're gonna talk about my parlay for the card coming up. We have another fight night. Um, I think that one's Algermaine Sterling. I can't remember who who he's fighting for the main event, but that's gonna be coming up next weekend, or this upcoming weekend rather. So first of all, we'll start with uh April 18th fight night, the Gilbert Burns, Mike Mullot, and the first fight of the night we had was a great a great way to start off the card. Um two tiny little fellas, Jamie Siraj and John Giannis, and I was kind of surprised that Jamie Siraj was the favorite in this fight. He was the minus two hundred and sixty-five, um, I'm pretty sure. And i it just didn't really seem like he had really any reason to be that heavy of a favorite going into this, and I hadn't seen him fight before because this was his UFC debut. So I had never seen him fight before this. Um it started out pretty slow. They were feeling each other out in the beginning. Uh, but Giannis landed a huge right cross, it landed fr right flush on Siraj's chin, and it just seemed like Siraj was kind of made of paper. Like every time he got hit with anything even kind of big, he was on wobbly feet. Um he did he did recover from that first right hand though, got back to his feet, but Giannis just looked way stronger and he was just bullying him, throwing Siraj around like a toddler, easily overpowering him. It was it was weird, man. He was just shoving him to the at the end of um th this fight, not even the end of the first round, it didn't get that far. Uh Siraj was just getting pushed on the ground like um Giannis just putting his hands on his shoulders and pushing him like a child, like a naughty toddler putting him into timeout and he's trying to get out of his little chair. But it was just really weird to see such a such a disparity in power between these two guys. And they were they're small dudes, still the difference was immense, and once John Giannis was able to get Jamie onto the ground, it was just it was over from there. He got him down easily and just completely overpowered him and just literally made him look like a baby deer. Like his Siraj's limbs looked weak. I thought the fight was stopped a little bit early. The ref, I mean, honestly, I will say Jamie definitely looked completely outclassed. So where I th I do think that he could have tried to show that he was gonna survive a little bit longer and the ref might have been premature. I also think that Siraj was just out outmatched and he wasn't really gonna recover or do anything from where he was at. It was uh it was pretty one-sided the whole time. Uh Jamie Siraj is just built really, really small for the UFC. I just feel like if someone even looked at him funny enough, he'd snap in half. So the ref was probably fearing for his safety too. So John Giannis gets that first win by knockout. Really exciting fight to start the card. And the next one, uh, this was an interesting one. W this fight ended in a draw, and uh I had never seen this is another one I had never seen Mark Velogdon. I think this was his UFC debut as well, and it was a fairly impressive one for the most part, I guess. Uh he looks like a tiny jacked baby. He's got the most childish face I've ever seen, and his body's super compact. He just looks like God squished him down a little bit, and his muscles bulged out, but he lost like at least six inches in height. Uh no shade mark, by the way. Don't come at me if you're hearing this. But um I think that compact body of his was what made him uh able to be as explosive as he is. He was a very explosive fighter. In the beginning at least. Um his debut fairly impressive, like I said, in terms of like keeping his composure against a veteran fighter, he did pretty good with that. Um in the the beginning of the fight, he was definitely the early aggressor, which kind of worked at times, but not really so much at others. He got caught when he would get overexcited and try to find something that wasn't really there. And as the fight went on, I think uh Castanada, his IQ and experience just they really shine through, and he was able to take over the control of the pace of the fight, and he just really took the last two and uh second and third round, and he definitely would have been the winner, like easily. He won rounds two and three, but big butt uh he had a point deduction in the second round because he kept hitting um Velogden with groin strikes. So that point deduction alone, I think, was what created that draw. I think if he didn't have those groin shots, he would have easily taken that second round and he would have won this fight. No alm no doubt about it, because that's uh I mean, obviously that's how it would have went, because if the points weren't taken away, he would have won that second round. So a weird finish to that one for sure. Uh draw finish in that fight. And then this next one, I don't really want to even talk about this fight. I uh JJ Aldrich versus Jamie Lynn Horth, I was really pissed off about this one, and even more so towards the end of the night, because I'll get into this later, but this is the fight that made me lose one of my parlays, and if I hit that one, oh my god, I think it was for like three hundred dollars. And for all of you rich brain bash fans out there, three hundred dollars might not sound like a lot to you, but I'm at the end of my college career, and I'm like literally on my hands and knees in the well wait, pause. Not like that. That's not what I meant. Take that back, rewind. I'm I'm scrounging for coins is what I meant to say. Um just trying to find all the coins, the loose coins around my house and like the laundry room and stuff, and I'm putting them all together and bringing them to the uh coin store and using that to get food. That's where I'm at right now, brain bash listeners. Donations welcome on Spotify.com. I actually don't know if that's possible. But if it is, uh send them to my Venmo, Jack-Hodgen. So this fight would have got me a lot of Domino's pizza, some Chinese buffet, a ton of food for a while. So this pit really pissed me off because I thought this was a surefire win for Jamie Lynn Horth, and it was not at all. J.J. Aldrich ends up winning by unanimous decision. And I'm not even gonna talk about this fight because now I gotta start door dashing again. I wasn't gonna have to door dash for like a month. So I'm really pissed off about this. This fight was super back and forth for the most part, especially in the beginning. Um I feel like Zeleznikova was doing a lot better in the first round and sort of pushing the pace for the most part, and she was throwing a lot of combinations where Croden, on the other hand, was throwing more uh one shot at a time and not really following up with too much after it. But the first round was definitely in favor of Zeleznakova, but as the fight went on in the second and third, I feel like that strategy from Croden to not go all out in these exchanges and kind of hold back a little bit and pick and choose shots really played well for her because b uh because of that, she was able to keep some reserves in the gas tank, and I think that she just kind of just kind of outgassed Zeleznakova and really beat her in terms of um stamina so that she was able to find some bigger shots in the second and third and r turn those big shots into combinations of her own afterwards once she was patient enough to find those those moments to get those big combos in. Uh, that definitely paid off for her in this fight, kind of taking it easy in the first, waiting for a chance and going for calculated strikes. Towards the end of the second round, she started l getting so she got a takedown and she started landing some good shots in the clinches. And while Daria definitely won the first round of this fight, and maybe even the first half of the second round, Melissa completely turned things around, started finding so many late takedowns, and like I said, that success in the clinch, and it seemed her tactic of picking and choosing, like I said, those more calculated shots that really gave her that edge. And by the end of the fight, Dario was all sorts of bloodied up, and it was an overall away amazing way to bring the fight to a close for Melissa, and she started, like I said, started slow, but quite literally finished on top, uh, finishing the fight on the ground, just raining down on Zeleznikova. Honestly, if this fight kept going, she probably would have won by TKO. So good win for Melissa Croden on that one. Wins by unanimous decision, almost TKO. The next fight we had Gokan Sarakom and Tanner Bozer, and this was a another very good back and forth uh the first round, especially, very back and forth round. It was these boys were definitely super tired by the end of that first. Um Sarakom had some good counter combos and almost found a knockout, but Bozer recovered and finished the round with a nice spinning back fist. So, like I said, very back and forth in that first beginning part. And uh similar to the fight before this one, we had one fighter in Bozer who was landing more in bursts and landing f uh just combos more often, while Sarakom, on the other hand, he was landing individual clean shots and lots and lots of good retaliations after he was being hit. Every time he would get hit, he would always retaliate well, so it made it dangerous for Tanner Bozer to really go all out on him. Um Sarakom had an awkward knockdown or maybe a knockdown or there was like a slippage, I couldn't really tell. But after that he landed some huge hammer fists on the ground. But Bozer really did a good job recovering. He really recovered well, and um every time Bozer would get when he did get up, when he would start landing these huge combos, that he would seem like he was in complete control, land some huge shots, and like a lot of them in succession, but then Sarakom would just come back to life and l and land these even bigger shots that did even more damage. And once he seemed like he was completely out of it, and he seemed like he started to slow down, he was just throwing with power and precision. Like Sarakom completely hit a 180. It just seemed like the whole fight, as it was going on, he was slowing and slowing and slowing, and then towards the end, he was just like an assassin picking and choosing these perfect strikes until he finally found that perfect right hand, just a perfect straight right, directly on Bowser's chin for the picture perfect knockout, and that was a great UFC debut for uh Sarakom getting his ninth knockout victory of his career. The next fight we had Julian LeBlanc and Robert Valentine, and this was another debut for Julian LeBlanc. This was his first fight in the UFC. Um, the second Canadian fighter in a row to make his first appearance appearance, oh my god, I can't even speak. The second Canadian fighter to make his first appearance after Tanner, and he uh he definitely had a better outcome than Tanner did, though, for sure. Tanner had a great fight, though, I shouldn't say that. He he fought very well, but Saracom just his strikes were doing more damage overall, and he was able to find that finish at the end. But Valentine came into this one guns ablazing, threw a ton of like a huge barrage of leg kicks early, and the whole beginning of this fight and the whole fight to go on was just Valentine being extremely active. He was obviously the aggressor the whole time, and he had no trouble at all finding the easy takedown and getting to LeBlanc's back immediately. But once he did get to his back, he I gotta commend him. He was did a very good job at staying patient, and he was looking for the submission, of course, but he wasn't rushing anything. He wasn't trying to show his hand and uh go for something immediately. He landed a lot of good strikes from that back position, uh some elbows included, which really did some damage and made LeBlanc feel uncomfortable, and then Robert Valentine ended up finding that open neck, and he ended up getting that rear naked choke for the submission win. Another great fight. Uh great exciting beginning to this card. And it continued with the next fight with uh Dennis Bazook I c I don't even know how to pronounce this guy's name. I can't remember what they even said during the fight. Bazooka, but I'm gonna call him Bazooka. Dennis Bazooka and Marco Barbosa. Barbosa. Um Barbosa, I saw something about him that made me I hit the craziest double take that I I just couldn't believe that this was real. He has seventeen wins in his career, right? Sixteen of those wins he won in the first round of the fight. Sixteen out of seventeen of his wins were finished in the first round, whether it be by submission or knockout, most of them by knockout, I think all but two. That's one of the crazier stats, I think, in the UFC standing today. That's unbelievable to me. And he extended that streak. He kept it going with a perfect left hook knockout in just a the madness of flying limbs everywhere, a very chaotic fight from the beginning, ending in an even more chaotic and spectacular fashion. It was a really good one, uh extending that s seventeen. I don't know if that made that eighteen or if that made that seventeen. Oh, excuse me, if that whatever. I'm just confusing myself. Anyways, great win from Marco Marco Barbosa. And the next fight we had another bummer for my parlays. This was another parlay killer for me, Tiago Moises, Moises versus Gage Young. Um the first round of this fight was definitely Moises' best. He had some control time on the ground, landed some decent shots, which gave him probably gave him that first round for sure. And it was just after that that was the trouble for Moises. Um he just seemed to be getting more and more fatigued pretty easily and pretty quickly, and his shots just stopped landing and didn't have nearly as much power. Gay Jung was totally outgassing him. Didn't seem like he was losing steam at all throughout this whole fight, and he just landed the bigger shots overall, especially in the second and third. Mainly in the second and third is where he was landing those huge shots. Um he seemed to find a few combinations too throughout that were really close to finishing Moises, but Moises hung on. I was sort of surprised to see one of the judges actually gave the second round to Moises and had him winning that fight. I definitely didn't see that coming at all. I thought Gage Young won that fight for sure. But when I saw that judge give one to Tiago, it gave me some hope, some fool's courage. I wish they didn't even give him one round, because it made me super excited and I'd another parlay. Not that one wasn't for as much, but that was like a hundred dollars. I could have that's I think with the deals, that's probably like eight Domino's pizzas. Something like that. Maybe even nine, I don't know. You gotta s if you're using your money right. But that was uh yeah, so that's not how it ended up going. Gage Young won this fight by split decision. And I will say, Tiago did land some huge significant strikes in that second round that could have given him that little edge on the scorecard. That must be what that judge was seeing. I just wish that the other judges saw that as well. So does my bank account. It's gonna be really nice. I'm gonna be bummed when I have to stop doing this podcast, but it's gonna be nice to go home and work because I'm broke as a joke. Next fight we had Korean Silva and Jasmus Jesuda Vicious. Uh pretty lackluster first round both of for both of the fighters, just kind of feeling each other out in the beginning. Not too too much action until the end when it was taken to the ground, and Jasmine was dominant for most of that exchange, but with not really any damage done. Uh in the second round, there wasn't too much action as well until around the three minute mark when we saw Silva go for multiple guillotine attempts, but Jasuda Vicious got out fairly easy out of all of them. And after she got out of the second one, she had top control on Silva till that end of that second round. But it was in an odd position with, you know, Silva having her legs up against the fence. So even after pinning Silva's arms on her knees, uh, Jasmine really couldn't find a good angle to land any big shots just because of that weird, awkward position. And in the third round, Jasuda Vicious was definitely the aggressor of this one. Uh pushed the pace, forcing Silva's back against the fence, where she ended up finding the takedown. And when she was on the ground, Silva went for the triangle choke but was unsuccessful, which gave Jasmine side control, and she just kind of, you know, held her down for most of the round till about the last twenty seconds, I think it was, when she landed a few more shots from on top. And Jasmine Jesuta Vicious ended up winning this one via unanimous decision. The next fight. We had Mandel Nalo versus Jai Herbert. And Nalo was also making his UFC debut after fighting in the Dana White contender series. While uh Herbert has been in the UFC for six years. All of Nalo's 14 wins in his career had been by knockout. And as soon as this fight started, it was completely understandable why. He stumbled immediately stumbled Herbert multiple times, even dropped him with a huge right hand two different times within 30 seconds. But I mean Herbert, gotta give him credit, man. He had the chin of a champion and ended up dropping Nalo in an instant with a huge answer and almost found the finish, but Nalo was able to get up briefly before Herbert another huge right hand and an even bigger left hook. And he was able to put Nalo down for good, finished him off with some hammer fists for good measure, and his v his veteran experience really shin through on this one. It came through for him on that fight. Um when he was seemingly done in the beginning, most young guys like that, they wouldn't have that sort of resolve to bounce back after almost being knocked out and find that huge bomb to really flip the switch and turn that glass chin into a win. So really, really, really good comeback victory for Jai Herbert. One of my favorite fights of the night. Absolutely balls to the wall, insane, a great one. The next fight after that, we had Kyler Phillips and Charles Jordain. And uh Phillips did a good job getting Jordain on his back early in the first round, but Charles was very active and he did a really good job of not giving anything up, going for a triangle choke and always striking or hip escaping. And while Charles briefly did get up, it didn't really last long at all. Phillips got him down again pretty easily. And this would become a trend for this fight where Jordan would escape for just a second and then get taken right back down immediately due to Phillips' just constant pressure the whole time. Uh Charles was able to get back up through it all though eventually and end that first round with some huge, huge significant strikes. And going into the beginning of the second, Phillips had a clean trip and was able to, after he got him, did got Jordan down, he was not really able to do much this time. I think this is where Charles Jordan was really figuring stuff out, figuring out how to get up pretty easily, and Charles did get up with ease on this this one, and there were some huge shots halfway through the second round. Both fighters were starting to get tired, they were starting to get beat up a little bit, and at the end of that round, Jordan had a failed spinning back fist that turned into a takedown, and then getting up from said takedown, there was just a crazy exchange in the last minutes of or last seconds of that second round, some flying knees, some bicycle kicks, and going into the third. This was certainly um this third round was certainly more fast-paced, more frantic. Both fighters I feel were kind of feeling they needed to win this fight in this round. And we saw some dirty boxing, some nasty exchanges with some dirty elbows. Jordan was always making the threat of the flying knee, and he lay you know, jumping around trying to show that, trying to show that he was going to put it out there, trying to find one of those to land, and Phillips timed one super good and he used it to secure a takedown. As the third round was getting on, getting progressed, uh Jordan definitely smelled blood after he cracked Phillips open with some elbows, and he pressed on to him masterfully for the final seconds, almost finding that finish, but just couldn't quite get it. But even though he didn't get it, the finish, he ended up winning that fight via unanimous decision. So all the same in the end. And the final fight of the night, Gilbert Burns and Mike Millot, both guys, right at the beginning of this one, they just came out swinging, man. There was no feeling each other out in the beginning of the fight. They were throwing from their asses from the beginning, and it wasn't a ton of clean, huge shots at first, but you could tell they were trying to gauge distance, figure out how far they could stay safe without getting clipped. And uh Burns had his moments, but Millot started to take over in the second round, and he was just landing the bigger of the shots and the exchanges. Back in Burns up, and you could see Burns was getting uh he was getting a little more cautious throughout this fight because he started getting chipped apart and he was like, dude, I cannot be touched by this guy anymore. He didn't want to get caught clean, because if he did, it would have been over. And by the third round, it felt like it was just a matter of time. There was about three minutes left, and Millot cracked Burns with a giant right hand, dropped him right there, and Burns was tough enough to get back up, but he just never fully recovered from that, and Millot ended up landing just another right bomb of a hand, and he dropped him one more time, and this was there was no getting back up for Gilbert Burns this time. That was it. He got swarmed immediately, and Mike Millot ended up getting the win by KO. So great victory for Mike Millot. A lot of action on this card, a lot of uh finishes, really entertaining card overall. These past few weeks have been really good. Last week was one of my favorite cards I've seen in a little bit. And um this one as well, this didn't disappoint. Hard to follow that Josh Hokett fight from last week, though. But we definitely had some bangers. Now, I was pretty pretty pissed off about this. As I mentioned earlier to you, I had the two parlays this night. So the first one was Gokan Sarakom to win, Charles Jordan to win, and those both hit, and then Jamie Lynn Horth to win. Unfortunately, as I mentioned earlier, Jamie Lynn did a good job preventing that bet from hitting. She did not win that fight, guys. That really bummed me out. But at least I will say that fight was at the beginning of the night, so it's always good to l I feel it's always good to lose your parlay early instead of losing it at the very end. There's nothing worse than being like four for five and you lose the last one by like Lamello missing a layup. So I don't know, I I'm a kind of a glass half full guy, I try to be. But it's hard to be whatever. The other parlay I had was Gokan as well, Charles again. So those two won as we know, and then Mike Mullot won as we know. And then I made the mistake of picking the underdog and Tiago Moises. Really wish I didn't do that one. I was so close to winning that one, man. You uh split decision too. One judge gave it to Tiago, I was really pulling for him to get that. I was really surprised, as I mentioned earlier, when one of the judges even gave it to Tiago at all. But when I heard that, I was so pumped because me and my friend both had opposite bets on that one. He was pissed. But not so great on the bets this week. When am I great on the bets though? It's always off by one. You can't ever actually win. And I did, you know, like uh I here I go from saying I uh you never do win, but I'm about to give you my parlay for next week. It'll be good. We're definitely bouncing back next week. Um this time I'm gonna bet on some big favorites. And instead of just betting on them to win, uh I'm gonna make the odds a little better for me, make it so I can win a little more money, and we'll go with um the overall prediction. So the first one I'm gonna do, uh the first leg of my parlay, we're gonna look at that Michelle Montague versus Myra Silva fight. That's the first bet that I'm going to make, and I'm going to take Montague. Heavy favorite, minus four hundred, and the top six biggest YouTube betters all bet this fight to go to Montague by decision. So I'm gonna take that decision bet and take that minus four hundred down a lot, and that's gonna really make elevate this parlay and uh make the odds a lot a lot higher. Or excuse me, a lot lower, rather, so we can make some money, some real money that we can get lots of Chinese buffet with. Alright, this next fight on the parlay we're looking at is Rodolfo Vieira versus Eric Maconio. And we're not just taking Vieira to win this fight, but we're also taking him to win by submission. Uh we're gonna raise the odds to on this bet by doing that from what was it? Minus, we're he's he's a heavy favorite with minus 128, but taking him by submission puts that to plus one eighty. So this already we have uh the plus one eighty and then about a minus one hundred for minus two hundred maybe for the Michelle Montague. So we're already at a plus one eighty, minus two hundred, and then we're gonna do one final leg, and this is not gonna be from a blowout fight, so this is kind of a risky one. I mean, the f no, not that's not to say the first two aren't risky, they're definitely risky, uh, especially that second one I was talking about. But the final leg is going to be Alexander Hernandez and Rafa Garcia, with Hernandez winning. Not gonna do any exact predictions on this. We're just gonna take him winning because he's only a minus one fifteen, he's not a heavy favorite in this fight. But I will say the wit even with the odds being as close as they are, the biggest sports predictors are leaning in majority towards Hernandez seven to three, and he's pretty hot right now. I gotta say, he won his past four fights, and the last two of them were by knockout, so he's definitely on a hot streak. So I'll give it that, but I will say this is kind of a pick that I'm a little bit less confident with, just because of the odds being so close. Garcia, he did look nasty, I will give it to him. Especially in his last win uh against Jared Gordon, where he got that knockout, so it's definitely gonna be a a tough one right there. It's gonna be a that's a that's a nail biter for the parlay. But that's what we're looking with l w oh my god, that's what we're working with, guys. And I'm discombobulated because I'm so bummed out that it's over now. The last episode, I all I can say is thank you so much for being uh for tuning into the Brain Bash podcast with me and listening to my UFC breakdowns, predictions, opinions. And I'd like to I definitely want to know what you guys think. Like if you like this show, if you think it's interesting at all, um I'll keep doing it. I'll keep it going for sure. I really like doing it. It's a lot of work, but it's a lot of fun. And it's very rewarding at the end of the week to get an episode out. Maybe we would have to go back to every other week if it's in the summertime, but something, man. Let me know what you guys think. And uh like I said, thank you so much. Hopefully we can get back to it again soon. Have a great weekend. Enjoy the fights, enjoy your if there's a holiday this weekend, enjoy the holiday. This has been the Brain Bash Podcast.