Washington Calling | UFC at the White House, Origin Game II Preview & Cam Murray to Start?
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What ringside stories does Matty share from UFC at the White House?
Welcome back to another week of the podcast. We're about to be joined by Matthew Live from Washington, D.C. He's going to tell us all about the UFC, some of his funny interactions over there. Also, we're going to preview State of Origin Game 2 at the MCG. What a game it's going to be. Queensland, New South Wales, Queensland. We saw how dominant they were in game one for 60 minutes, but New South Wales ended up getting the win after the Kalamponga send-off, and some shocking team selection that has gotten a lot of backlash that we're going to talk about, ask Matthew's opinion for, but... Stay tuned this week. Also, when this comes out and with our review on Wednesday post-match, there's a new batch of Mate vs. Mate hats up, Queensland and New South Wales.
If anyone wants to head to the Instagram, the link tree is in the bio. Go and get yourself one in time for Game 3, whatever state that you follow. But nonetheless, let's get into Matthew, who's joining us right now. And we're joined by the big fella right now, the one and only, Matty Johns live from Washington. Mate, how are things over there?
Buddy, they're good.
How did the UFC event impact the perception of the sport in Washington?
They're good. Yeah, we've got the press conference coming up a little later.
What are the major team changes for Origin Game II?
Got to go in there with all the fighters and whatnot. But yeah, things are going really good. Plenty going on.
How do you get along with the fighters and the UFC people? Do they accept you?
Accept me in which way?
Like, as in, do they... Obviously, you go into a rugby league press conference, you're very well respected, but you'll go into a place where they don't know rugby league. How do they take to you?
Yeah, look, I think it gives you an insight into what it would be being just a journalist, you know, like a neutral. You go in there and, mate, you just basically go in there, Coop, and... just got a job to do, you know? And, uh, um, so yeah, like, you know, man, I must say the fighters are really, really good. I mean, there's a lot to learn about the, like with the UFC. I know that what we've got at the moment with the NRL, we've got that new rights still going on, you know, talk about $4 billion deal. Um, And people need, you know, the broadcasters need stuff for that $4 billion. And the UFC is the best example. You know, I know we're going to talk a second about Volk.
What strategies are being discussed for New South Wales in Game II?
You know, going around Washington with Alex Volkanovsky, mate, he gets mobbed everywhere he goes. And I'm not talking about middle-aged man and young blokes your age. I'm talking about school kids. Everyone just mobs him. It is... UFC has gone from being an outlier sport, you know, five, ten years ago, to a mainstream sport, and it's getting bigger and bigger and bigger. And I remember, like, there was, like, a nine-year-old girl rushed up and was, like, so excited. And I said... I said, like, how do you know Alex? And she goes, oh, my dad loves the UFC and me and my brothers sit and watch it as well.
How does Cam Murray's potential starting position affect the team's dynamics?
And that is the tale of the tape. I mean, this is the next generation coming through, which view that don't look at the UFC as, as I said before, a sort of niche sport. They view it as a Main Street sport. It is just so big over here. And Volk's a big deal in Australia, right? He's a big star in Australia. Over here, he's much, much bigger.
Hey, Matthews, anything particularly surprised you about Washington? One, about Washington, but also around the UFC stamping their mark for the 250th anniversary of the nation.
Washington, firstly, I've had no want or desire ever to come to Washington.
What are the predictions for the upcoming Origin Game II?
But coming here, it's a really good city. It's a really contained city, a very easy city to get around. It's really good. I must say at the moment it is so hot. Like today it was nearly 40 degrees. So that's going to be a factor. Jesus. Yeah, really, really good. Yeah, it's been incredibly hot today. And so that's going to be a big factor on fight day or fight night. I mean, what it is at this time of the year, like when you boys were young fellas in England, it doesn't get dark till 11 o'clock at night in England in the middle of summer. over here it's similar but at the moment it doesn't get dark till like 9 p.m and so fight night you know for a lot of the fighters you know it's going to be up around 30 degrees so that's going to be a big factor but the the city jack it's a really really good city a lot of really good people um yeah i've really enjoyed it it's been great
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What ringside stories does Matty share from UFC at the White House?
0:00–1:09
2
How did the UFC event impact the perception of the sport in Washington?
1:09–1:15
3
What are the major team changes for Origin Game II?
1:15–2:25
4
What strategies are being discussed for New South Wales in Game II?
2:25–3:06
5
How does Cam Murray's potential starting position affect the team's dynamics?
3:06–3:51
6
What are the predictions for the upcoming Origin Game II?
3:51–4:58
7
How do the hosts analyze the performance of key players in the Origin series?
4:58–6:18
8
What final thoughts do the hosts share about the significance of the Origin series?
6:18–42:24