The Die Hard MMA Podcast · Clint MacLean

UFC London Movsar Evloev vs Lerone Murphy

March 17, 2026·2 hr 39 min·5 clips

I hit a 10-to-1 submission prop and still missed profitability—here's how my epic downslide happened.

The show opens loud. The host jokes about Buckingham Palace, fixes his own Hogwarts bit, and swings straight into London like the card is already under his skin. UFC Vegas 114 still gets its moment. He says the Apex card beat expectations, then lingers on Jillian Robertson's win because it made the long-term backing feel earned. The room is messy, but the read is locked in. Once the matchups start, the host treats them like live arguments with his first instinct. He checks records, finishes, and skill claims, then keeps poking until something breaks. Antonio Tricoli gets the roughest treatment. The host sees a 35-year-old on a three-fight skid, all by finish, whose grappling resume sounds better than it looks once the cage door shuts. That turns into a pretty blunt read. Tricoli should be able to grapple on paper, but he keeps getting finished, slowed down, frustrated, and harder to trust. Even the name work gets loose. The opponent's last name becomes part of the bit as the host stumbles through pronunciations while trying to keep the breakdown moving. The point underneath is plain enough: a black belt label does not help if the fighter cannot force grappling or show a clean way to win. Then Michael Venom Page shifts the mood. Page is treated less like an aging name and more like a style problem the promotion keeps misreading. The host says the UFC tried to put him in awkward spots against Shara Bullet and Jared Cannonier, and Page won anyway. That makes the matchmaking rant bite. Pulling a name up from 170 to build Shara Bullet, in this telling, was a shortcut that blew up. It is betting talk first, but there is fight logic under it. The fun is the process: doubt, irritation, memory, suspicion, then the pick starting to harden in real time.

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A sharp, slightly ragged London preview that treats fight picks like money on the table.

The episode frames UFC London with the energy of a fight week that is already arguing with itself. It moves from the UFC Vegas 114 hangover into blunt MMA chatter, and it works best when the talk stays unscripted and direct.

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You want a London fight read with gambling teeth.

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