You're listening to the Co-Main Event Podcast.

And now your hosts, Ben Folks and Chad Dundas.

That's right.

You're listening to another episode of the co-main event mixed martial arts podcast.

I'm Chad Dundas. That's Ben Folks. We're both senior writers in MMA for the Athletic,

and we meet here every single week to chop up all the prominent, newsworthy, and hilarious happenings in the world of mixed martial arts.

Ben, the results of the athletics' first ever fighter survey hit the streets this week.

And you can go ahead and get 40% off right now if you head over to the athletic and sign up for a year.

This is something we've been working on for a few months now.

I know we're all excited to get it out there in front of the public.

You had a story come out today to lead us off, if you will.

Why don't you tell the kids at home what the athletic fighter survey is all about?

Yeah.

Well, basically the idea was to survey fighters on kind of a range of questions about the state of the sport.

The athletics have done this with a lot of other sports.

I really love the one they did on the NHL and surveying players.

And it was interesting, you know, to go from reading one of those as a fan and just like an outsider in a sport and kind of the insight

you get into it. And I kind of, I'll admit, I thought when we started doing it, I felt like I looked

at the list of questions and I guess I probably assumed that I knew what the answers would more

or less look like. I got to say, I was surprised. I feel like I learned a lot just doing the

surveys, reading the results of other people's surveys.

You learn how this sport looks through the fighter's eyes when you do a bunch of these surveys over and over again.

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