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Speaker 1: Hi everyone. It is the twenty fifth of October twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty two and it's time for Morning Combat Extra Credit.

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Speaker 1: This is the podcast we do within the podcast, my

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Speaker 1: name is Luke Thomas. I am one half of your

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Speaker 1: normal full MK hosting duo. I appreciate you joining me.

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Speaker 1: Brian Campbell of course, and I host regular MK. But

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Speaker 1: regular MK. We gotta make some choices about what we

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Speaker 1: can get to and what we can't with the time allotted.

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Speaker 1: We were not able yesterday to talk about some of

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Speaker 1: the other results from UFC two eighty, in particular Banil

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Speaker 1: Daryusch defeating Mateoushcamrot on the main card of UFC two

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Speaker 1: eighty and what I normally do on this podcast as

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Speaker 1: I go through five extra fights. But I gotta tell

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Speaker 1: you I'm not feeling like that today. I'm feeling today

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Speaker 1: like we got to give Banil Daryusch his flowers. So

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Speaker 1: that's what today's episode will be about. Thumbs up. If

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Speaker 1: and if you're a regular around here or otherwise, thank

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Speaker 1: you so much for Okay, so let's talk about Baniel

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Speaker 1: Daryusch's fight in part one with the Mateo Shamrot on

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Speaker 1: that main card, what it all means and what it

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Speaker 1: might lead to, and then I want to talk about

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Speaker 1: some of the career he's had and why he is

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Speaker 1: just so relative to his abilities and frankly at this

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Speaker 1: point his accomplishments, why he's so unheralded. All right, without

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Speaker 1: further ado, let's get into it, all right, So let's

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Speaker 1: get to a UFC two eighty. There were two other

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Speaker 1: fights that we did not get to from that main card. One,

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Speaker 1: of course, was the Chickagian versus Fro fight. You know,

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Speaker 1: it was not a great fight one way or the other.

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Speaker 1: It was certainly meaningful, but I don't really want to

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Speaker 1: talk about it. The one I would like to get to,

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Speaker 1: of course, as I just indicated, Benil Daryus defeating Mateo Shamrot.

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Speaker 1: He wins via unanimous decision one nine twenty eight and

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Speaker 1: then two thirty twenty sevens that I think either score

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Speaker 1: is defensible. Right, Certainly, the second round and definitely the

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Speaker 1: third round easily go to Daryush. The first round somewhat debatable.

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Speaker 1: In fact, if you look at the numbers, or at

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Speaker 1: least you know, you could understand a case for Gamrot

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Speaker 1: if you wanted to make it. Both guys were even

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Speaker 1: in terms of the quantitative totals from fight Metric, both

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Speaker 1: in terms of significant strikes and total strikes thirteen total,

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Speaker 1: nine significant, Gamrod having two takedowns with a minute in

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Speaker 1: twenty two seconds of control time. So what it would

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Speaker 1: really come down to is how impactful was the control time?

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Speaker 1: Did he get a lot from it? I would argue

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Speaker 1: he didn't get much from it, and that the more

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Speaker 1: impactful strikes came from dar Us, So there was a

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Speaker 1: numerical equivalency but not a qualitative equivalency. And then after

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Speaker 1: that it really wasn't even close to being anyone's fight

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Speaker 1: with Darusch. Again, quantitative totals round two darus to Gamrot

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Speaker 1: thirty one to fifteen, and then of course in the

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Speaker 1: third round nineteen to nine. Gamrock getting a takedown in

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Speaker 1: each of the rounds, two in round one, one in

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Speaker 1: round two, and then one in round three, but only

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Speaker 1: going four of nineteen just twenty one percent in terms

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Speaker 1: of what he was able to do, and by the way,

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Speaker 1: control time in the second round for Gamrod ten seconds,

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Speaker 1: and then control time for Gamra in the third thirty

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Speaker 1: five seconds, but these are not I mean, yes, he

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Speaker 1: might have had control time under the strictest letter of

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Speaker 1: the law, but it wasn't really controlling in any kind

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Speaker 1: of meaningful sense anything Daryush was trying to do. If

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Speaker 1: you look at the targeting on this fight, Daryush very

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Speaker 1: much mixing up his strikes fifty nine percent of the head,

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Speaker 1: learning any leg kicks sixty six percent of the head,

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Speaker 1: the leg. Not a heavy leg kicker. So there you

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Speaker 1: have it. Man, Daryus to me looked unbelievable in this fight.

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Speaker 1: Here was really the reality. If I had to ask

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Speaker 1: was tell or what in this fight was Daryush unable

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Speaker 1: to do. Now, you might be able to say, well,

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Speaker 1: what Gamroth had for him? Nothing. I mean, Gamroth is

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Speaker 1: Like he was able to get away very easily. And

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Speaker 1: I think the lack of the control time, such as

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Speaker 1: re threaten in the scramble, either by hoisting legs, turning

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Speaker 1: Certainly in the striking he was much better dropping Gamrock

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Speaker 1: and then of course he could threaten with his own submissions. Again,

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Speaker 1: to be clear, how many did did they award submission attempts?

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Speaker 1: You know, neither really got one, But I'm talking about

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Speaker 1: in the case of counted submission attempts, but in the

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Speaker 1: the submission attempt was never locked on, but it was

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Speaker 1: clear that's exactly where he was headed if Gamrock didn't

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Speaker 1: what I really took away from this fight was kind

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Speaker 1: what could he not do? He could basically do not

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Speaker 1: whatever he wanted, But every part of Daryush's game was present,

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Speaker 1: available and helpful in this context. He was the better striker,

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Speaker 1: and you saw evidence of that by the way, never

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Speaker 1: being down for that just an incredible performance, Like he

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Speaker 1: and of course no one is fully complete, no one

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Speaker 1: is without their issues. I tend to think that grappling

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Speaker 1: But unless they've got all the other pieces in place

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Speaker 1: But you know, we're just talking about a guy with

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Speaker 1: a fully, fully mature skill set. That was really the

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Speaker 1: takeaway from me. There was never a place that Gamrot

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Speaker 1: Jusch felt like he couldn't swim. Never there was no

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Speaker 1: the game as well. That was That was a performance

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Speaker 1: could tell has been in the trenches, right, a guy

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Speaker 1: who has seen great heights, seen great adversity as well

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Speaker 1: learned from it. Tightened up, this tightened up, that worked

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Speaker 1: now eight years or so. By the time that Gamrock

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Speaker 1: A very very, very solid performance. And by the way,

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Speaker 1: Here's dr Yush taking fights against guys like most guys

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Speaker 1: in darry Yush's position would be like, yeah, no, no, I'm

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Speaker 1: not taking who wants to fight Potatosh Gamrot, Right, I mean,

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Speaker 1: what's the upside to that? Even if you think you're

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Speaker 1: very commendable performance really, no matter which way you look

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Speaker 1: You can match him in the scrambling and people might

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Speaker 1: fight on the defensive. There were moments obviously where Darius

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Speaker 1: had to be on the defensive to address those considerations,

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Speaker 1: and forcing Gamrot to retreat from his countermeasures. A phenomenal

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Speaker 1: job by being dariusch phenomenal phenomenal job. I saw Javier

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Speaker 1: he was saying that Darius deserves a title shot. I

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Speaker 1: really agree. Now, I don't know that he'll necessarily get one,

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Speaker 1: but based on what he's done, let's look at his

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Speaker 1: wind streak here. This is just tremendous as well. He

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Speaker 1: hasn't lost in four years, first of all, since losing

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Speaker 1: to Alexander Hernandez, which it was something kind of fluke.

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Speaker 1: I mean, their careers have gone. The punch that Hernandez threw,

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Speaker 1: much faster. Dariusch just wasn't on his game as quick

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Speaker 1: But what I mean to say is if you ran

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Speaker 1: that back, who here is picking Hernandez over Dariusch, I

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Speaker 1: certainly would not, right And since then decisioning Thiago Moisas,

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Speaker 1: he would know where to put his hands, how to

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Speaker 1: address it, whether his posture should be, what his attack

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Speaker 1: should be, how he wants to get to his base,

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Speaker 1: all that kind of stuff that would have prevented that

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Speaker 1: kind of scenario. Then he did follow it up with

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Speaker 1: a ko of James Vick in UFC one ninety nine.

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Speaker 1: He followed it up with a very tough and unheralded

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Speaker 1: loss against Rashid mega Madoff, and then this is where

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Speaker 1: all of the problems began to start for him. Then

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Speaker 1: on Edson Barbosa in March of twenty seventeen, he got

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Speaker 1: KOed viciously. Now he got hit with a flying knee.

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Speaker 1: The flying knee, you should go back and look at

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Speaker 1: it on fight pass. It's not dar excuse me, it's

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Speaker 1: not Barbosa moving laterally like you know. We saw, for example,

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Speaker 1: the jumping switchkick of olivera at UFC two eighty. He

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Speaker 1: covers distance with it. When Barbosa did it, he went vertical.

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Speaker 1: It's straight up and down. He got Daryush moving in

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Speaker 1: and he just met him and popped him up and

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Speaker 1: finished him off in one. And I don't know what

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Speaker 1: brown was this it was the second round, but finished

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Speaker 1: him off with one strike, just just took his head

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Speaker 1: off with that, right, getting overly aggressive with it, not

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Speaker 1: setting it up. If Barboza is able to time you

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Speaker 1: that way, he could see it coming in. And also

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Speaker 1: it should be clear twenty seventeen Barbosa is a lot

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Speaker 1: better than twenty twenty two Barbosa. That's five years ago.

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Speaker 1: But I think that was also a vicious, vicious KO.

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Speaker 1: It's not so easy to mentally come back from that.

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Speaker 1: Can you still have an aggressive game? That has been

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Speaker 1: something of the hallmark at times getting over his skis

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Speaker 1: because you still have an aggressive game after a difficult

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Speaker 1: fight like that that he fought Evan Dunham, who is

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Speaker 1: a good submission grappler, well rounded guy, and it was

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Speaker 1: a draw, just not really able to make it all work.

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Speaker 1: Then he follows it up with a loss another KO

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Speaker 1: loss to Alexander Hernandez. Now that happened just forty two

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Speaker 1: seconds into the first round. This was on the Zombie

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Speaker 1: Roger excuse me, this was on the UFC two twenty

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Speaker 1: two card. He just leaned over but to throw a punch,

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Speaker 1: but Hernandez was first and got there first, and he

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Speaker 1: ran headfirst into the punch that Hernandez was throwing, and

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Speaker 1: that was it. He went face first or I forget

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Speaker 1: exactly how we fell, but it was instantaneous ko. It

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Speaker 1: looked almost a little bit like it didn't fall on

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Speaker 1: top of him, but it looked almost like the Andrea

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Speaker 1: Rolovski Paul blintelloko where you can't even hardly see it,

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Speaker 1: but when they show it in replay, you can see

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Speaker 1: him landing flush on him and it put him out.

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Speaker 1: So let's point this out here. He has a loss

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Speaker 1: to Kisa, which was just a sort of a mistake

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Speaker 1: he made, not like a devastating beating or anything. Comes

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00:23:02,359 --> 00:23:04,560
Speaker 1: back with two nice wins over Vic and Mega Madoff,

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Speaker 1: then gets viciously chaoed by Barbosa, has a very whole

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Speaker 1: hum performance against Evan Dunham, and then viciously chaoted again. Folks,

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Speaker 1: this might derail most people. You know. You get viciously

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Speaker 1: chaoed in two of three fights where your lights are

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Speaker 1: put out, they gotta wake you up. You know a

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Speaker 1: lot of guys can't mentally recover from that look. Ronda

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Speaker 1: Rousei took one of those and was never the same

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Speaker 1: ever again. He took two of them, two of them

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Speaker 1: in three fights, by the way, one in twenty sixteen,

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Speaker 1: November of twenty sixteen, then basically a year later in

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Speaker 1: October of twenty seventeen. Excuse me, March of twenty eighteen,

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Speaker 1: so a little bit for a little bit for what

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Speaker 1: am I saying? March of twenty seventeen, and then March

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Speaker 1: of twenty eighteen. So in March of twenty seventeen, and

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Speaker 1: in March of twenty eighteen, a year apart, he got

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Speaker 1: viciously chaoed, viciously chaoed, And what happened after that He

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Speaker 1: went on the run of his career. That speaks to

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Speaker 1: insane committed focus, mental fortitude, self belief. And I'm sure,

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Speaker 1: please do almost understand me. I'm sure he's had doubts.

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Speaker 1: I'm sure he's felt bad at times. I'm sure he

496
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Speaker 1: second guessed himself. I'm sure many many parts of this

497
00:24:25,240 --> 00:24:30,399
Speaker 1: were a difficult, awful journey, right, he must have. So

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Speaker 1: the day he got knocked out was March third of

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Speaker 1: twenty eighteen. I bet March fourth was a real bad

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Speaker 1: day for him. I bet that was a real bad

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Speaker 1: I bet it was a bad week in a bad month,

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Speaker 1: and maybe even the rest of that year was a

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Speaker 1: bit of a bad year. Though he did rally against

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Speaker 1: Boysis at the end there November of twenty eighteen. But

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Speaker 1: you see what I'm saying, from the darkest period of

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Speaker 1: his career getting KOed in March of twenty seventeen, ho

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Speaker 1: hum fight in the middle and then getting kaoted again

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Speaker 1: in March of twenty eighteen, Guys, he could have never

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Speaker 1: been the same after that. And he wasn't the same

510
00:25:01,160 --> 00:25:07,480
Speaker 1: after that. He was reborn. He was reborn after that.

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Speaker 1: That is incredible, dude. That's Michael Bisping level tough. And

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Speaker 1: I don't say that lightly. That's Michael Bisping level tough.

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00:25:13,880 --> 00:25:16,600
Speaker 1: When you can do that, when you can, you know,

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Speaker 1: not necessarily be the best fighter every time out there.

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Speaker 1: That's not what we're asking him to be. We're asking

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Speaker 1: to be high level and be elite, which he is.

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Speaker 1: But we're not saying and every time he's going to

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Speaker 1: be the best guy out there, and sometimes he's not

519
00:25:28,280 --> 00:25:30,000
Speaker 1: only going to not be the best guy out there,

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00:25:30,800 --> 00:25:34,440
Speaker 1: he's gonna be, you know, laying on his back looking

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Speaker 1: up at the lights. And to do that, to get

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Speaker 1: beat like that and come out and still have good

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00:25:41,520 --> 00:25:44,560
Speaker 1: well roundedness and aggressive attack, I mean, think about this.

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Speaker 1: He had that awful loss to Hernandez and then still

525
00:25:48,359 --> 00:25:50,640
Speaker 1: was able to go and have that just balls out

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Speaker 1: crazy war with Jakar close, unafraid, willing to take risk,

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00:25:57,640 --> 00:26:01,439
Speaker 1: willing to take damage, and yet still being cerebral at times,

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00:26:01,680 --> 00:26:06,399
Speaker 1: at most times really well rounded, hunting for submissions, hunting

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Speaker 1: for the finish, taking on undesirable assignments like who the

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00:26:12,800 --> 00:26:17,360
Speaker 1: hell wants to fight Gamrock and did it and did

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Speaker 1: it and won again. I know that the Fight game

532
00:26:22,480 --> 00:26:26,920
Speaker 1: is predicated on entertainment. It's just a huge, huge part

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Speaker 1: of it, and for many people it's the only part

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00:26:28,560 --> 00:26:31,639
Speaker 1: of it. I understand that, and I accept that, and

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00:26:31,720 --> 00:26:33,840
Speaker 1: I accept that if you choose not to go that route,

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Speaker 1: you're going to have to take a lonely road to

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Speaker 1: get to the ultimate prize, or at least a shot

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Speaker 1: at the ultimate prize, and that is a bed that

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00:26:40,240 --> 00:26:42,760
Speaker 1: Daryush has made for himself. Again, I'm sure he's comfortable

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Speaker 1: with that, but that's the reality. But I really really

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Speaker 1: hope folks can take a moment and understand that, you know,

542
00:26:48,560 --> 00:26:50,400
Speaker 1: does he have a super elite win on his name

543
00:26:50,680 --> 00:26:53,200
Speaker 1: regred I would say Gamrot is certainly of that. Ferguson's

544
00:26:53,200 --> 00:26:54,359
Speaker 1: got a big name, but you know, he's long in

545
00:26:54,359 --> 00:26:57,920
Speaker 1: the tooth. But since twenty one, twenty twenty one and on,

546
00:26:57,960 --> 00:27:01,679
Speaker 1: he has really, really really turned another corner and to

547
00:27:01,800 --> 00:27:04,760
Speaker 1: go and have the very best run of your career

548
00:27:05,560 --> 00:27:09,360
Speaker 1: after literally right at the very end of your very

549
00:27:09,440 --> 00:27:11,960
Speaker 1: worst that could have just continued and stayed being his

550
00:27:12,080 --> 00:27:18,760
Speaker 1: very worst, he turned his very worst career moments and

551
00:27:18,800 --> 00:27:23,399
Speaker 1: turned it into his very best. That is remarkable. That

552
00:27:23,520 --> 00:27:27,560
Speaker 1: is special, special, special guy that can do something like that,

553
00:27:27,880 --> 00:27:36,160
Speaker 1: so impressive, amazing and very much worthy of your respect.

554
00:27:36,440 --> 00:27:39,480
Speaker 1: I hope Bianiel Dariyust gets a title shot. I really do,

555
00:27:39,800 --> 00:27:42,040
Speaker 1: because I think the guy's earned it. I think he

556
00:27:42,119 --> 00:27:45,880
Speaker 1: matches up well in certain ways anyway with Makachev, and

557
00:27:47,680 --> 00:27:49,679
Speaker 1: you would like to see someone who's put in that

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00:27:49,840 --> 00:27:54,600
Speaker 1: kind of performance and this kind of run rewarded for

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00:27:54,640 --> 00:27:56,720
Speaker 1: those efforts. And the last part I'd say on this is,

560
00:27:57,600 --> 00:28:01,480
Speaker 1: you know these fighters fight people like ask me to

561
00:28:01,560 --> 00:28:02,840
Speaker 1: I root for one of the other. You know, some

562
00:28:02,880 --> 00:28:05,040
Speaker 1: of these fighters I like more than others. But in

563
00:28:05,080 --> 00:28:07,879
Speaker 1: most cases, in most cases, the truth is this, And

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00:28:07,920 --> 00:28:10,720
Speaker 1: I mean it's quite sincerely, dude, this is too tough

565
00:28:10,760 --> 00:28:14,120
Speaker 1: a sport, like from the media side to really take

566
00:28:14,200 --> 00:28:18,879
Speaker 1: sides like you just want the guy who deserves it

567
00:28:18,960 --> 00:28:21,119
Speaker 1: the most to get his hand raised, and sometimes it's

568
00:28:21,160 --> 00:28:22,800
Speaker 1: the one you like, and sometimes it's the one you not.

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Speaker 1: As a fan certainly anyway as well, you just got

570
00:28:26,600 --> 00:28:28,399
Speaker 1: to make sure that the process was fair, that the

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00:28:28,400 --> 00:28:29,959
Speaker 1: person who earned it, Man, hey have they earned it?

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00:28:29,960 --> 00:28:32,600
Speaker 1: That's all you can ask for. All you hope is

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Speaker 1: that there's a degree of fairness. But I also hope

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00:28:35,640 --> 00:28:37,520
Speaker 1: a little bit that the fan base can look at

575
00:28:37,520 --> 00:28:39,800
Speaker 1: a guy like this. He's not going to dazzle you

576
00:28:39,880 --> 00:28:42,000
Speaker 1: with brilliant one liners. He's not going to give you

577
00:28:42,400 --> 00:28:44,800
Speaker 1: unbelievable social media content where he's high five and has

578
00:28:44,800 --> 00:28:46,800
Speaker 1: a bullet and all this bullshit. But what he is

579
00:28:46,840 --> 00:28:51,080
Speaker 1: going to give you is everything he's got every time out. Dude,

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00:28:51,120 --> 00:28:55,200
Speaker 1: what else do you want? You want elite skill with

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Speaker 1: unparalleled commitment. That is Banil Daryush. That's all you could

582
00:29:01,600 --> 00:29:05,880
Speaker 1: ever ask for and that's what he gives. I'd like

583
00:29:05,920 --> 00:29:08,760
Speaker 1: to see it rewarded. Thumbs up on the video please

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Speaker 1: hit subscribe. Of course, morning combat continues Manyana will be

585
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Speaker 1: in Arizona for the Jake Paul fight against Anderson Silva,

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Speaker 1: so plenty of coverage coming your way for that plus

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Speaker 1: the other UFC fights this weekend. Thank you guys so

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Speaker 1: much for joining me. I appreciate it, and until next time,

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Speaker 1: enjoy the fights