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Jason Kelly (@JayKellyMMA) and Joe Rizzo (@rearnakedchoke) hooked up RNC Radio with The Building Downtown to chat UFC 248, BTC 9: Rampage, Tyson Fury vs. Deontay Wilder, and a strangely true comparison. UFC 248 is headlined by middleweight champion Israel Adesanya vs. Yoel Romero, with a co-main event between strawweight champion Zhang Weili vs. former division queen Joanna Jedrzejczyk. Kelly and Rizzo talked about the four fighters at the top of the card, who they think will win, as well as some of the other key matchups, such as Sean O'Malley vs. José Alberto Quiñónez. Rizzo also laid out a fair comparison between Romero and David Ayres, a 42-year-old emergency goalie who recently played in -- and won -- an NHL game for the Carolina Hurricanes. Kelly and TBD co-host Kirill Kasatskiy attended BTC 9: Rampage at The Aud on Feb. 29, in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada. Kelly and Rizzo touched on the event's main-event winner, Jesse Ronson, and the importance of supporting local MMA. For more on the promotion, check The Building Downtown for a recap show in an upcoming episode that will feature fighters from BTC 9. Kelly and Rizzo, though a little late to the party, discussed Tyson Fury's knockout victory against Deontay Wilder. The former co-hosts talked about Fury's performance, the costume fiasco, allegations of Fury cheating, and what they think will happen in July's rematch. Rizzo even added a rare rant, in which he panned the so-called experts who all seemed to have predicted the outcome correctly after the fact rather than before the fight, in which Fury went off as a slight underdog. Subscribe to RNC Radio (@RNCRadio) and follow along on Twitter, in addition to joining our emerging Facebook group at facebook.com/RNCRadio.