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UFC's new friendly giant Luis Francischinelli is 'weird' and grateful

Luis Francischinelli, a heavyweight new to the UFC, calls himself weird and grateful; separately, the last two Big 12 champs lost this week's Texas Tech game.

On air: Vera Bullock and Kenji Moonfield on The Midday Show
Published 12:38 PM ET, Thursday, October 15, 2026

Photo: Ron Hall · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons · altered by BBN

Photo: Ultimate Fighting Championship — Photo: Ron Hall · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons · altered by BBN

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First reported by MMA Junkie: “Meet the UFC's new friendly giant: Luis Francischinelli is 'weird' – and grateful”.
Covered on BBN on Thursday, October 15, 2026, at 12:38 PM ET on The Midday Show, by Vera Bullock and Kenji Moonfield.

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MMA JunkieMeet the UFC's new friendly giant: Luis Francischinelli is 'weird' – and grateful

What BBN said about it

Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorThe UFC has a new heavyweight called Luis Francischinelli, and the headline says he's friendly, grateful and, in his own word, weird.
Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentSo the job is to be enormous and polite, and then politely end someone's afternoon.
Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorGratitude is a wonderful quality in a man who could lift my car.