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00:00We knew that Jason Jackson and Thad Jean were going to headline
00:03that semifinal card on June 12th.
00:05They were making the tour of Nashville, doing all the media in there.
00:08We're going to try to catch up with Thad Jean next week on the show
00:10and talk to him about that.
00:11But right under that one, Jesus Pinedo versus Gabriel Braga.
00:15They're going to rematch again for the third time.
00:17That's going to be awesome to see.
00:18Of course, you've got to put that up at the top there.
00:20Logan Sturley, Masiaka Kikuri.
00:22A little surprised this one's that high on the card,
00:24given that these guys are going to be kind of a grinded-out kind of fight.
00:28But their semifinals fight.
00:29You've got to throw it in there.
00:30And Javi Bulov versus Kim as the fourth one on the main card there.
00:34But then you look at the early card where you've got some of these alternate bouts
00:36and some of these showcase bouts that are going to be involved.
00:39I love that they put together Jeremy Kennedy and Adam Borch.
00:41Both these guys could have been in these semifinals very easily
00:44if the matchups went differently.
00:45But now they will match up against each other.
00:48Eve Landu, of course, on the card as well.
00:50Should be a great one.
00:51So that one is, you know, you look at the card.
00:53It's very well constructed.
00:54The top four fights, obviously, are there at the top.
00:57And I love that Kennedy Borch is going to be the one to wrap up that early card.
01:01That's the matchup they made of two guys that lost.
01:03Could be a great one between those two guys.
01:06Then when you look at June 20th,
01:08the main card of that one has Rabotinov versus J.J. Wilson as the main fight.
01:12A little surprised about that one.
01:14But you've got Luz Karmouche, Laura Donna as the co-main.
01:17That should be a great fight.
01:18Could have been easily a main fight there.
01:20Hadley versus Alves for their semifinal matchup as the third fight.
01:24And then Mondo Gutierrez, Justin Wetzel.
01:27I mean, that one's going to be the first one to lead off the night.
01:30It could have been a main event.
01:31It could have been, you know, higher on the card.
01:33But that one might not be a bad matchup to throw there,
01:35right, to kick things off on the main card for the PFL doing that one.
01:38And then you see some of these other semifinal matchups mixed in there on the prelim.
01:42A little surprised.
01:43Some of them could have been bumped up.
01:44Like a Primus Davis, I think, could have been on the main card.
01:47A Jenna Bishop, Shakalova.
01:50Shakalova is going to be a great matchup.
01:52It might be a little bit more of a grinder one,
01:54but that could be easily on that main card as well.
01:57So there are some fights here that, you know,
01:59you're seeing some of these other fighters that lost making a showcase battle,
02:03like a Matos, a Kelly.
02:05All should be some great fights.
02:07But maybe you could have made it a six, five, six, seven,
02:11even a main card there with the Primus and Bishop fights making the main card.
02:15Or you usually could have shoveled one of those on there
02:17and maybe bumped down Rabotinov-Wilson.
02:21I was a little surprised that one is the main event,
02:23the headliner for that card, but still a great card from the top.
02:27I would have made it maybe a little bit bigger to include some of those other ones,
02:29at least one of those other ones on the main card.
02:32But still going to be awesome to see June 20th, of course,
02:34down there in Wichita, Kansas.
02:37Then to finish up the semifinal matchups,
02:39we have on the main card,
02:41Fabian Edwards versus Josh Silvera to be the last fight we see.
02:46That is going to be awesome.
02:47I love that as the main event,
02:49almost as much as I love Phil Davis versus Sullivan Colley.
02:52I mean, you really couldn't go wrong with those two matchups,
02:54whichever way that you put them.
02:56Dalton Rosta versus Aaron Jeffrey.
02:58As that third fight's great,
02:59I might have put Carlos Jr. versus Powell a little bit on top of that.
03:02And then surprisingly, you see there at the bottom,
03:05a bantamweight showcase battle between Sergio Pettis and Raytheon Stotts.
03:10Of course, Pettis making his PFL debut.
03:13Getting bumped down all the way to the first fight on the main card.
03:16Usually when you're putting on a showcase fight like that,
03:18it's a main event or at least a co-main.
03:21This one all the way down as the first one on the main card.
03:24A little surprising that that's all the way down there,
03:25but a good move by them maybe to get a little bit of excitement
03:28and pump things up a little bit with that fight
03:30to start off the main card as we talked about
03:31the way they organized some of the earlier ones.