Vicente ‘The Silent Assassin’ Luque stops by to speak with Bloody Elbow’s Shakiel Mahjouri ahead of his co-main event slot at UFC Uruguay, aka UFC on ESPN+ 14. Luque admits he was expecting more trash talk from his opponent Mike Perry and still welcomes it. He also praised the skills of Leon Edwards, broke down the complicated nature of the welterweight division, also revealed how a move to Brazil shifted his MMA career into overdrive and more... Discussion Points: 0:25 - Expectations about Mike Perry’s trash talk 1:29 - Expectations for the UFC Uruguay staredown 2:22 - Importance of a slowburn up the UFC rankings 4:00 - The tipping point from failure to success 6:22 - Breaking down the complicated welterweight division 8:20 - Examining past opponent Leon Edwards 9:45 - Biggest advantage over Mike Perry 10;24 - How moving to Brazil fostered Vicente Luque’s MMA career 11:50 - Life as the son of a martial artist 13:38 - Predicting a knockout of Mike Perry Vicente can be followed on twitter - @VicenteLuqueMMA, on instagram - luquevicente, or on facebook - vicentecpluque; for more on his fight history check out his pages at Tapology.com, UFC.com or his Wikipedia. For the VIDEO Broadcast of this interview visit: https://youtu.be/Bo85BHj3q5I Here's a look at the complete fight card as it stands as of Sunday, Aug. 4, 2019, bout order subject to change: UFC on ESPN+ 14 MAIN CARD | 7PM CDT 125 lbs - Valentina Shevchenko (17-3) vs Liz Carmouche (13-6) 170 lbs - Vicente Luque (16-6) vs Mike Perry (13-4) 145 lbs - Luiz Garagorri (11-0) vs Humberto Bandenay (14-6) 205 lbs - Volkan Oezdemir (15-4) vs Ilir Latifi (14-6) 185 lbs - Rodolfo Vieira (5-0) vs Oskar Piechota (11-1) 145 lbs - Enrique Barzola (15-4) vs Bobby Moffett (14-4) ESPN+ PRELIMS | 4PM CDT 265 lbs - Ciryl Gane (3-0) vs Raphael Pessoa Nunes (9-0) 115 lbs - Tecia Torres (10-4) vs Marina Rodriguez (11-0) 125 lbs - Rogerio Bontorin (15-1) vs Raulian Paiva (18-2) 155 lbs - Alex da Silva (20-2) vs Rodrigo Vargas (11-2) 135 lbs - Geraldo de Freitas (12-4) vs Chris Gutierrez (13-3) 170 lbs - Gilbert Burns (15-3) vs Alexey Kunchenko (20-0) 125 lbs - Veronica Macedo (5-3) vs Polyana Viana (10-3) If you enjoyed our interview, "heart" us here on SC, or give us a “like”, share & subscribe over on one of our other BE Presents Podcast Channels: YouTube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCFoX81d3fNHrcUckyQdRzLQ iTunes & Apple TV: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/blood…&i=1000421882228 Google Play: play.google.com/music/listen?u=0#…m6qmvqn4yqvivru74 iHeartRadio: www.iheart.com/podcast/269-Blood…Presents-30639274 Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/55S2dpKYVqn…kESkWZigLNnEg1ug Stitcher: www.stitcher.com/podcast/bloody-e…esents?refid=stp blubrry: www.blubrry.com/mma_nation/ TuneIn: https://tunein.com/podcasts/Sports--Recreation-Podcasts/Bloody-Elbow-Presents-p1190843/ OverCast: overcast.fm/itunes984162015/bloody-elbow-presents Player FM: player.fm/series/bloody-elbow-presents ... whichever one happens to be your listening platform of choice. While you’re there, don’t forget to subscribe to Bloody Elbow Presents; that way you’ll always be the first to get all of BE’s daily MMA offerings. For previous episodes of the show, check out our playlists on all of our BE Presents channels. *Intro/Outro music has been provided by OxBow, starring Eugene S. Robinson: http://www.theoxbow.com