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Speaker 1: it is uh. It is twelve thirty seven in the

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Speaker 1: morning here on the tenth of September twenty twenty three.

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Speaker 1: This is the official Morning Combat UFC two ninety three

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Speaker 1: Post fight show, Instant Reaction, whatever you'd like to call it.

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Speaker 1: So UFC two ninety three is, in the books, a

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Speaker 1: surprisingly pretty good card in terms of fun fights, at

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Speaker 1: to it. We'll obviously we'll start with the main event

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Speaker 1: So let's just read the results and then we will

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Speaker 1: go from there. Pretty amazing night, Pretty amazing night. You know.

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Speaker 1: I well through the result, then we'll get to it here. Okay.

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Speaker 1: So in the main event, Sean Strickland defeats Israel at

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Speaker 1: asnja Ad of Sonia whatever over the course of five rounds.

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Speaker 1: He did it on all three judges scorecards forty nine,

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Speaker 1: forty six. I had at forty eight forty seven for Strickland,

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Speaker 1: but I thought he was the winner. Lazy and gentlemen,

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Speaker 1: you know, listen a couple things. I gotta put your

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Speaker 1: cards on the table right away. You know, I've been

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Speaker 1: a longtime supporter of the career and the fighting ability

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Speaker 1: of Izzy, and that's one and number two. I thought

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Speaker 1: he was gonna win. And then three, you know, when

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Speaker 1: asked like what could Strickland do? To win. I didn't really,

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Speaker 1: I didn't have a good answer. In fact, I couldn't

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Speaker 1: come up with one. I didn't think that a guy

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Speaker 1: with the style that he has, which we'll get into

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Speaker 1: in a minute, could win. And it's like, dude, none

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Speaker 1: of that. This was. This was the best Sean Stricklan

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Speaker 1: I'd ever seen by far, by far, okay, but we

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Speaker 1: got to say something about Sean Strickland number one. This

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Speaker 1: was the performance of his lifetime, not in terms of

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Speaker 1: like overwhelming force, although he did rock and drop Izzy

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Speaker 1: and nearly close the show in the first round, but

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Speaker 1: that's not it to me. You know, Like when Ronda

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Speaker 1: got beat up by Holly, she got overwhelmed and she

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Speaker 1: got finished, and was this amazing thing. Like when when

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Speaker 1: was this amazing thing. Although obviously rock hold had already

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Speaker 1: I have to tell you, man, this was you know,

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Speaker 1: not that there was any like flukiness about the win

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Speaker 1: over with Ronda and Holly, but I just want to

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Speaker 1: make this point. This was twenty five minutes, went the

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Speaker 1: full distance, right. The judges didn't turn in any bullshit

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Speaker 1: scoring cards, Like, is a four to one card for

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Speaker 1: Sean Strickland justified? Yep, sure is very justified. Easy to

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Speaker 1: see that one. You may have it slightly different or whatever,

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Speaker 1: but that's not an unfair scorecard. Again, all three of

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Speaker 1: them had it. So the judges didn't mess it up. Okay,

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Speaker 1: so we went the full distance. Judges didn't mess it up.

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Speaker 1: There was no you know, crazy reffing that either was

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Speaker 1: no reffing, and he stood with him the entire twenty

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Speaker 1: five minutes. Not one single I haven't looked at the

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Speaker 1: fight metric data, but from what I know, not a

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Speaker 1: single takedown attempt. Ladies and gentlemen, whatever your preferences as

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Speaker 1: these guys are underpaid, you know, circumstances of getting a

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Speaker 1: ladies and gentlemen. There can just be no debate about it.

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Speaker 1: The right guy one, the right guy one, period, no question.

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Speaker 1: And by the way, hooever you know is he wasn't

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Speaker 1: the hometown guy in the sense that he's Kiwi and

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Speaker 1: that and the other. Nope, none of that. The right

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Speaker 1: guy won. You have to give him his credit. Whatever

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Speaker 1: that guy's best domain. I mean, you can't say shit

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Speaker 1: the first round, Dude, I was, I wasn't sure that

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Speaker 1: me a little bit. The idea that Izzy's been like

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Speaker 1: Of course Sean deserves you know, ninety nine point nine

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Speaker 1: Let me get to swig at this water here, because that

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Speaker 1: was crazy. What was different about Sean this time? What

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Speaker 1: big takeaways for me from this fight was the cage cutting.

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Speaker 1: If you watch the Pareta fight, he follows him, right,

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Speaker 1: That's not the same as cage cutting, where I'm trying

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Speaker 1: But like having now reviewed the fight, I'm trying to

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Speaker 1: But what I wouldn't call what he had poor defense.

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Speaker 1: he was throwing a lot of looping shots, man, a

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Speaker 1: lot of looping shots. He wasn't throwing stuff down the middle.

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Speaker 1: You know who was throwing stuff down the middle? Sean Strickland.

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Speaker 1: Sean Strickland was happy to throw stuff linear shots right

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Speaker 1: Sean Strickland. But I'm talking over the full twenty five minutes.

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Speaker 1: What were the two best punches? The two type of

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Speaker 1: punches that were the best for Sean Strickland. His jab

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Speaker 1: Actually is he attempted more two seventy one to Shawn's

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Speaker 1: They didn't do shit. Did he ever slow down once

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Speaker 1: in the fourth? Yeah? He attempted six? Fifth round thirty

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Speaker 1: That's the lowest for Sean Strickland. There is no case

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Speaker 1: for isy, there is no well what about forty eight

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Speaker 1: no there is. You cannot find three rounds for him.

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Speaker 1: You can find one round and you could maybe squint

427
00:22:07,760 --> 00:22:11,840
Speaker 1: and find two. That's it. You cannot find three. And

428
00:22:11,880 --> 00:22:14,480
Speaker 1: again you could also argue it would be hard to

429
00:22:14,520 --> 00:22:17,879
Speaker 1: argue ten eight round one. But you get my point, Like,

430
00:22:18,440 --> 00:22:21,360
Speaker 1: the dominance was just basically all in one direction. Dude,

431
00:22:21,359 --> 00:22:23,560
Speaker 1: Sean Strickland had the performance of a lifetime. And I

432
00:22:23,600 --> 00:22:27,639
Speaker 1: got a little bit of pushback, I think on what

433
00:22:27,760 --> 00:22:30,840
Speaker 1: was it Friday Show, and I said that that Eric

434
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Speaker 1: Nixic is one of the greatest coaches in them history.

435
00:22:33,480 --> 00:22:36,720
Speaker 1: I don't know why that's controversial to some people. You're like, oh, well,

436
00:22:36,760 --> 00:22:38,600
Speaker 1: it's premature. Well let's see what he did. Now. He's

437
00:22:38,600 --> 00:22:42,159
Speaker 1: got two champions that have come through his tutelage. One

438
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Speaker 1: guy Sean Strickland has been with for a long time

439
00:22:44,000 --> 00:22:46,440
Speaker 1: Francis left MMA factory came to him and became a

440
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Speaker 1: UFC champion as well. I seriously doubt this is the

441
00:22:49,480 --> 00:22:52,119
Speaker 1: last champion that he ever has. And for folks who

442
00:22:52,160 --> 00:22:55,160
Speaker 1: don't realize what happened before Nixon got there, Extreme Coutur

443
00:22:55,320 --> 00:22:58,080
Speaker 1: was in dire straits. It had a big roar of

444
00:22:58,119 --> 00:23:01,200
Speaker 1: popularity when Randy first established it and blah blah blah,

445
00:23:01,240 --> 00:23:03,080
Speaker 1: but then the gym kind of fell on hard times.

446
00:23:03,119 --> 00:23:04,720
Speaker 1: A lot of fighters left. They weren't really known for

447
00:23:04,760 --> 00:23:08,520
Speaker 1: having anybody big and under. It's not just Nixic, of course,

448
00:23:08,520 --> 00:23:13,199
Speaker 1: but under his leadership and his time and effort, that

449
00:23:13,280 --> 00:23:19,320
Speaker 1: gym has come fucking roaring, roaring back, roaring back. And

450
00:23:19,440 --> 00:23:23,240
Speaker 1: is he you know, to the point of what Striggling

451
00:23:23,320 --> 00:23:25,000
Speaker 1: himself said, has beating a few of his friends and

452
00:23:25,040 --> 00:23:27,160
Speaker 1: you know, was kind of in his head. But look

453
00:23:27,200 --> 00:23:28,680
Speaker 1: at what they were able to turn in tonight, dude.

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Speaker 1: That's a chance that this is a team that they

455
00:23:32,600 --> 00:23:36,080
Speaker 1: don't win championships by accident. They don't luck their way

456
00:23:36,080 --> 00:23:38,800
Speaker 1: into belts, you know what I mean. They don't get

457
00:23:38,840 --> 00:23:41,560
Speaker 1: they don't get gifted this shit. It doesn't just fall

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00:23:41,600 --> 00:23:44,680
Speaker 1: in their lap. They go out there and grind their

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Speaker 1: way into getting it, and they have a consistent level

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Speaker 1: of excellence throughout it. Again, I know there's other coaches

461
00:23:49,920 --> 00:23:51,320
Speaker 1: and there's lots of other guys there. It's not just

462
00:23:51,400 --> 00:23:53,520
Speaker 1: him and on some level anyone who works with them.

463
00:23:53,560 --> 00:23:55,960
Speaker 1: They all deserve credit. But like you know, the number

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Speaker 1: of coaches and MMA that ever even get to a

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Speaker 1: UFC title fight, you can count very few. And howvermany

466
00:24:00,840 --> 00:24:03,479
Speaker 1: has champions, howver many have multiple champions. Now I know

467
00:24:03,680 --> 00:24:05,840
Speaker 1: there was a time when AKA had three champions at once.

468
00:24:05,880 --> 00:24:07,600
Speaker 1: I mean, that's gonna be tough to beat. But okay,

469
00:24:07,800 --> 00:24:10,879
Speaker 1: no one's taking away Javier Mendez his place. You know,

470
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Speaker 1: if you can take a program that was like failing

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Speaker 1: basically as a gym program, turn it into one of

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Speaker 1: the best gyms in the world and create two UFC

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Speaker 1: champions and several other highly ranked fighters, some of which

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Speaker 1: are homegrown, some of which are recruited, but nevertheless a

475
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Speaker 1: consistent level of excellence. Dude, you're doing something that a

476
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Speaker 1: handful of coaches in MMA history have ever done. Put

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Speaker 1: some fucking respect on Eric Knixxick's name if that statement

478
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Speaker 1: to you was in any way controversial, because it shouldn't be.

479
00:24:39,200 --> 00:24:44,040
Speaker 1: It shouldn't be. He's a fantastic coach and whatever my like.

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Speaker 1: You know, I'm not part of the Shan Strickland fan club,

481
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Speaker 1: but whatever my reservations there, I've always heaped praise on

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Speaker 1: Eric Nixon. Dude, I know Eric Nixon well. I talked

483
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Speaker 1: to him all the time, like I've been able to

484
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Speaker 1: pick his brain. You just you're just dealing with a

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Speaker 1: different level of operator there. You're dealing with a a

486
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Speaker 1: different level of operator there. What what what was the

487
00:25:03,640 --> 00:25:07,400
Speaker 1: record tonight for CKB? Was it like two and four?

488
00:25:07,440 --> 00:25:09,040
Speaker 1: Because there were three and three? Was I think it

489
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Speaker 1: was like two and four for who won tonight? Let's see,

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Speaker 1: let's go through this here very quickly. Uh, Kevin ju

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Speaker 1: Set one, so that's one. Shane Young lost, that's one

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Speaker 1: and one. Blood Diamond lost one and two. Uh, let's

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Speaker 1: see Jack Jenkins loss, so that'd be one in three.

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Speaker 1: Olberg one, so that'd be two and three or No,

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Speaker 1: I don't think Jack Jenkins has But then Tyson Pedro, No,

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Speaker 1: Tyson Pedro is he? I think he is? So maybe

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Speaker 1: they're yeah, so wait so or does Kevin ju Set

498
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Speaker 1: is he with cd KB? I know he's like adopted

499
00:25:43,560 --> 00:25:46,040
Speaker 1: kiw know, yeah city Kickboxing. Yeah, so maybe three and three,

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00:25:46,040 --> 00:25:49,560
Speaker 1: I'm not sure. Nevertheless, you know, tough night, tough night

501
00:25:49,600 --> 00:25:52,159
Speaker 1: at the office for them, especially with losing their their

502
00:25:52,200 --> 00:25:57,040
Speaker 1: biggest star losing there. In that way, everyone's in comes

503
00:25:57,200 --> 00:25:59,520
Speaker 1: and sometimes it's by the only part I got right

504
00:25:59,600 --> 00:26:02,119
Speaker 1: was like the the only part which is like this small.

505
00:26:02,600 --> 00:26:05,639
Speaker 1: The only part I got right was the general disclaimer

506
00:26:05,720 --> 00:26:07,879
Speaker 1: that in title fights the guy couldn't think of I

507
00:26:07,920 --> 00:26:10,880
Speaker 1: did a live chat last week. I couldn't remember his name.

508
00:26:10,920 --> 00:26:12,760
Speaker 1: It was Tim Elliott, and Tim Elliott did not beat

509
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Speaker 1: Demetrius Johnson, and it was a bit of a weight

510
00:26:14,640 --> 00:26:18,880
Speaker 1: bully issue there. Nevertheless, you're like, oh, what's Tim Elliott

511
00:26:18,880 --> 00:26:20,679
Speaker 1: gonna do to Demetrius Johnson? Did he give him a

512
00:26:20,680 --> 00:26:23,639
Speaker 1: tough fight? He gave him a very tough fight. You know.

513
00:26:24,320 --> 00:26:27,960
Speaker 1: People always think that there's like this destined contender who's

514
00:26:27,960 --> 00:26:31,080
Speaker 1: gonna rise up and wins, and sometimes that's true, right.

515
00:26:31,520 --> 00:26:37,240
Speaker 1: I remember when Saint Pierre made his fought Matt Hughes

516
00:26:38,080 --> 00:26:40,879
Speaker 1: and lost the first time, and then you know, but

517
00:26:40,920 --> 00:26:42,439
Speaker 1: he had already Beaten Carro and then I think he

518
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Speaker 1: beat after that or even around that time he beat

519
00:26:44,200 --> 00:26:46,879
Speaker 1: Jay Huron and like Dave Strasser and all this shit

520
00:26:47,080 --> 00:26:49,680
Speaker 1: and he's rising, yeah, and then when he beat Frank Trigg,

521
00:26:49,800 --> 00:26:51,720
Speaker 1: you're like, oh, Matt Hughes might be in trouble now,

522
00:26:51,960 --> 00:26:54,520
Speaker 1: Like you could see that coming. But a lot of

523
00:26:54,560 --> 00:26:57,320
Speaker 1: times that's not the way it goes. It's the same

524
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Speaker 1: kind of situation with Chefchenko. Dude, there's a lot of

525
00:27:00,200 --> 00:27:02,639
Speaker 1: tape on Izzy at this point, and a lot of

526
00:27:02,680 --> 00:27:06,359
Speaker 1: his fainting game. It hasn't not that it hasn't changed, obviously,

527
00:27:06,359 --> 00:27:08,879
Speaker 1: it slightly alters over time, but guys have picked up

528
00:27:08,920 --> 00:27:11,000
Speaker 1: on a lot of the different stuff that he does

529
00:27:11,520 --> 00:27:14,680
Speaker 1: to get you off, to change angles, the shot selection

530
00:27:14,800 --> 00:27:17,080
Speaker 1: that comes with it, the question mark kicks and all

531
00:27:17,119 --> 00:27:19,280
Speaker 1: this stuff, like they the setups for this. A lot

532
00:27:19,320 --> 00:27:22,520
Speaker 1: of it is much more readable than it once was.

533
00:27:22,560 --> 00:27:25,960
Speaker 1: And Nixon, having a couple goes at this, got much

534
00:27:26,000 --> 00:27:31,159
Speaker 1: better at reading it. Sean Strickland much better at prepping

535
00:27:31,200 --> 00:27:35,720
Speaker 1: for it and practicing for it. And it worked. It worked,

536
00:27:36,080 --> 00:27:39,840
Speaker 1: It worked beautifully. It all worked. So like you know

537
00:27:39,920 --> 00:27:42,720
Speaker 1: this idea, like, well, could easy get a rematch? We'll

538
00:27:42,720 --> 00:27:44,000
Speaker 1: talk about that in a second. Could he go to

539
00:27:44,000 --> 00:27:47,280
Speaker 1: two five? One issue I think he's facing is that

540
00:27:49,760 --> 00:27:53,680
Speaker 1: the unpredictability of what his striking game used to represent

541
00:27:54,040 --> 00:27:57,479
Speaker 1: has plummeted. It's not what it once was. And you know,

542
00:27:57,640 --> 00:28:00,560
Speaker 1: when guys go after him, like Paeta or runs In

543
00:28:00,920 --> 00:28:05,879
Speaker 1: or Gastolm, they're more hittable, they're way more or Costa like,

544
00:28:05,920 --> 00:28:10,879
Speaker 1: they're more hittable. But when you're reserved and you're backing

545
00:28:10,880 --> 00:28:13,560
Speaker 1: a guy up and you're not throwing, and you're putting

546
00:28:13,560 --> 00:28:15,280
Speaker 1: pressure on him and you're making a move and he

547
00:28:15,320 --> 00:28:18,600
Speaker 1: can't settle and he can't throw, and then some of

548
00:28:18,640 --> 00:28:21,840
Speaker 1: his reads and some of his options are much more diagnosable.

549
00:28:23,359 --> 00:28:28,760
Speaker 1: Brand new ballgame, brand new ballgame, and Sean cleaning up

550
00:28:29,440 --> 00:28:32,160
Speaker 1: the stuff that got him into trouble previously. Remember, there's

551
00:28:32,200 --> 00:28:33,520
Speaker 1: like kind of two guys he can be. He can

552
00:28:33,600 --> 00:28:35,639
Speaker 1: kind of be like the backwards guy he's not very

553
00:28:35,680 --> 00:28:38,000
Speaker 1: offensively potent, and he can be the come forward guy.

554
00:28:38,040 --> 00:28:39,840
Speaker 1: He was able to be the come forward guy and

555
00:28:39,920 --> 00:28:43,440
Speaker 1: more offensively potent, but he threaded a needle by not

556
00:28:43,480 --> 00:28:46,200
Speaker 1: making some of those previous mistakes of not cage cutting,

557
00:28:46,680 --> 00:28:50,120
Speaker 1: of walking into range at times, right like bullying guys

558
00:28:50,160 --> 00:28:53,480
Speaker 1: in that way A couple more aspects about this. The

559
00:28:53,520 --> 00:28:55,760
Speaker 1: submission radio boys asked me if there are any advantages

560
00:28:55,840 --> 00:28:57,760
Speaker 1: that Sean had had, and one thing that they had

561
00:28:57,760 --> 00:29:00,000
Speaker 1: said that Eugene Barman had pointed out was like, you know,

562
00:29:00,120 --> 00:29:05,080
Speaker 1: this guy fought recently that abust Mega Madoff fight. And

563
00:29:05,160 --> 00:29:09,320
Speaker 1: I did say this on the the MK two three

564
00:29:09,520 --> 00:29:12,440
Speaker 1: pregame special, Dude, that was a tune up fight. That

565
00:29:12,520 --> 00:29:18,080
Speaker 1: was a tune up fight. Spence, Crawford, Tank Garcia. In

566
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Speaker 1: both cases the guys who won, respectively, Spence and Tank.

567
00:29:23,040 --> 00:29:25,200
Speaker 1: The one difference as many, but one of the big

568
00:29:25,240 --> 00:29:28,360
Speaker 1: differences between them and their opponents was you had the

569
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Speaker 1: Avidcan fight as a tune up fight for Crawford, and

570
00:29:32,440 --> 00:29:34,520
Speaker 1: then you had the Hector Garcia fight that he had

571
00:29:34,520 --> 00:29:38,560
Speaker 1: here in DC before taking on Ryan Garcia. They got

572
00:29:38,600 --> 00:29:42,080
Speaker 1: tune up fights and they were much fresher and they

573
00:29:42,080 --> 00:29:45,720
Speaker 1: were much more ready. Dude, look at what he got.

574
00:29:46,160 --> 00:29:48,600
Speaker 1: Everyone was clowning that fight because he god, oh, should

575
00:29:48,600 --> 00:29:50,120
Speaker 1: this be a UFC man event. No, it shouldn't be

576
00:29:50,160 --> 00:29:54,360
Speaker 1: a ufcman event, you know, and Sean fighting the Apex

577
00:29:54,400 --> 00:29:57,000
Speaker 1: forever like, okay, all that stuff, but that's not what

578
00:29:57,040 --> 00:29:59,760
Speaker 1: we're talking about. In this context, what purpose did that fight?

579
00:29:59,800 --> 00:30:02,760
Speaker 1: So for Sean, he was able to take a UFC fight,

580
00:30:03,080 --> 00:30:06,360
Speaker 1: had to weather an early storm against that guy, got

581
00:30:06,400 --> 00:30:08,400
Speaker 1: to walk him down, and it was a guy that

582
00:30:08,480 --> 00:30:11,600
Speaker 1: was relative to Sean's skill level, very beatable. Dude, that's

583
00:30:11,600 --> 00:30:13,760
Speaker 1: a tune up fight. He got a tune up fight.

584
00:30:13,800 --> 00:30:15,080
Speaker 1: I mean, that's not what they called it. That's not

585
00:30:15,120 --> 00:30:17,080
Speaker 1: what it was designed to be. You don't really get

586
00:30:17,080 --> 00:30:21,200
Speaker 1: tuneup fights in the UFC by matchmaking design. But he

587
00:30:21,280 --> 00:30:24,000
Speaker 1: got one. Look what good it did. It made this

588
00:30:24,040 --> 00:30:26,760
Speaker 1: guy so much readier than maybe he would have otherwise been.

589
00:30:27,040 --> 00:30:31,640
Speaker 1: Certainly he looked very ready to me. So you know,

590
00:30:31,680 --> 00:30:33,560
Speaker 1: people can laugh like, oh, what was the value of

591
00:30:33,560 --> 00:30:34,960
Speaker 1: that win? That guess shouldn't have been the main event,

592
00:30:35,000 --> 00:30:36,920
Speaker 1: Not that anyone was like clowning Sean for but like,

593
00:30:36,920 --> 00:30:40,680
Speaker 1: oh the wind didn't mean anything, bullshit. That win was

594
00:30:41,320 --> 00:30:46,160
Speaker 1: super valuable, super valuable, all the sparting that goes with it,

595
00:30:46,240 --> 00:30:48,360
Speaker 1: then getting ready, getting to get a little bit of

596
00:30:48,400 --> 00:30:51,480
Speaker 1: the test. But it's very beatable and you get to

597
00:30:51,520 --> 00:30:54,080
Speaker 1: work it all out. Now, No Mecha Manoff doesn't fight

598
00:30:54,160 --> 00:30:55,520
Speaker 1: like Iszy, so you have to make some of those

599
00:30:55,560 --> 00:30:59,600
Speaker 1: changes there. But staying fresh, staying ready, making the walk

600
00:30:59,640 --> 00:31:03,480
Speaker 1: the whole nine yards, and getting a really relatively beatable guy. Dude,

601
00:31:03,480 --> 00:31:06,720
Speaker 1: you just don't get opportunities like that. You don't get

602
00:31:06,720 --> 00:31:12,480
Speaker 1: opportunities like that. You really don't. So pretty impressive, Pretty

603
00:31:12,480 --> 00:31:15,280
Speaker 1: goddamn impressive. Now, the folks that asked me on my

604
00:31:15,360 --> 00:31:18,880
Speaker 1: live chat, is there going to be a rematch? I

605
00:31:19,080 --> 00:31:22,200
Speaker 1: don't know. I will tell you candidly, even as someone

606
00:31:22,280 --> 00:31:25,200
Speaker 1: like me who's been an easy fan of his game

607
00:31:27,600 --> 00:31:30,200
Speaker 1: for a long time, I don't think he's entitled to one.

608
00:31:31,120 --> 00:31:34,320
Speaker 1: I don't he got beat farre and square, and you

609
00:31:34,360 --> 00:31:36,800
Speaker 1: know this is what two losses in the last three

610
00:31:36,840 --> 00:31:39,040
Speaker 1: fights like. No, I don't think he's entitled to one.

611
00:31:39,800 --> 00:31:42,280
Speaker 1: That of course does not mean he won't get one.

612
00:31:42,440 --> 00:31:45,280
Speaker 1: That in no way means that they absolutely might do

613
00:31:45,360 --> 00:31:50,520
Speaker 1: that because you know, Izzy versus Drickish is going to be,

614
00:31:51,320 --> 00:31:54,160
Speaker 1: you know, a lot bigger than Sean Strickland versus Drickis

615
00:31:54,160 --> 00:31:56,200
Speaker 1: It just is you know, I mean, I don't think

616
00:31:56,200 --> 00:31:57,560
Speaker 1: I have to tell you all that. You know, that

617
00:31:57,640 --> 00:32:02,320
Speaker 1: win that is he had over Pareeda, the redemptive one,

618
00:32:02,440 --> 00:32:03,880
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, that sent him into a new

619
00:32:03,920 --> 00:32:06,280
Speaker 1: atmosphere and you know, the Drinkest one was going to

620
00:32:06,320 --> 00:32:07,920
Speaker 1: be the one you thought was going to make all

621
00:32:08,000 --> 00:32:12,200
Speaker 1: the sense, it just wouldn't be as big, you know,

622
00:32:12,280 --> 00:32:19,320
Speaker 1: Seawan Strickland. So I have a feeling that they're going

623
00:32:19,360 --> 00:32:22,040
Speaker 1: to maybe run this one back. I don't know. I

624
00:32:22,040 --> 00:32:25,000
Speaker 1: don't unless Easy goes to two five right away or something.

625
00:32:25,120 --> 00:32:26,680
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know how that's going to go.

626
00:32:27,920 --> 00:32:32,680
Speaker 1: But the rematch or no rematch will be interesting here also,

627
00:32:32,720 --> 00:32:35,400
Speaker 1: it will be I think the UFC might. I think

628
00:32:35,800 --> 00:32:38,520
Speaker 1: there's gonna be Sean Strickland fans who are very happy, obviously,

629
00:32:39,040 --> 00:32:43,040
Speaker 1: But then there's a question of should they have done

630
00:32:44,120 --> 00:32:45,840
Speaker 1: the Drinkest fight, Like should they have Like if you

631
00:32:45,840 --> 00:32:47,760
Speaker 1: were gonna have Easy lose, did you want to lose

632
00:32:47,760 --> 00:32:49,400
Speaker 1: in like a bigger fight that you could have made

633
00:32:49,440 --> 00:32:55,160
Speaker 1: this like all African storyline or whatever. Your bileage may

634
00:32:55,240 --> 00:32:56,800
Speaker 1: vary on that one, but this is certainly one of

635
00:32:56,800 --> 00:33:00,560
Speaker 1: the biggest upsets in UFC history. So no matter one's

636
00:33:00,600 --> 00:33:02,680
Speaker 1: other preference, it feels like that. It feels like the

637
00:33:02,720 --> 00:33:04,600
Speaker 1: Drinkest Easy fight, like you could still do it, but

638
00:33:04,640 --> 00:33:09,720
Speaker 1: it probably went up in smoke because I suspect even

639
00:33:09,760 --> 00:33:11,320
Speaker 1: though I do not. I think if you lose two

640
00:33:11,320 --> 00:33:14,280
Speaker 1: title fights in three goes, you're not entitled to a rematch.

641
00:33:14,760 --> 00:33:17,000
Speaker 1: That's just my personal opinion, but I think they probably

642
00:33:17,040 --> 00:33:18,880
Speaker 1: are going to run this one back, unless he's going

643
00:33:18,880 --> 00:33:20,880
Speaker 1: to two a five, or unless he's got other designs.

644
00:33:20,920 --> 00:33:30,040
Speaker 1: But man, man, man, what a win for Sean Strickland tonight.

645
00:33:30,280 --> 00:33:37,440
Speaker 1: Goddamn took away the leg kicks, caught, rolled, blocked the

646
00:33:37,560 --> 00:33:41,000
Speaker 1: vast majority of what he threw, dropped him in the first,

647
00:33:41,200 --> 00:33:43,760
Speaker 1: nearly finished him, and outstruck him in the final. Three

648
00:33:44,120 --> 00:33:47,760
Speaker 1: fucking a fucking a dude, what are you going to say?

649
00:33:47,960 --> 00:33:50,479
Speaker 1: What are you gonna say? He did it? He did

650
00:33:50,560 --> 00:33:58,840
Speaker 1: it absolutely, absolutely fairly, absolutely squarely, absolutely deserving to hoist

651
00:33:58,880 --> 00:34:01,480
Speaker 1: the belt tonight, no doubt about it. How old is

652
00:34:01,480 --> 00:34:03,480
Speaker 1: Sean Strickland. I think he's older than Izzy if I'm

653
00:34:03,480 --> 00:34:06,479
Speaker 1: not mistaken, right, So he's no much younger. What am

654
00:34:06,480 --> 00:34:11,840
Speaker 1: I saying? Thirty two? So yeah, man, he had losses

655
00:34:12,239 --> 00:34:14,920
Speaker 1: last year to Jared Kennon ear he got knocked out

656
00:34:14,920 --> 00:34:18,320
Speaker 1: by Pata, and you know he's got as a stoppage.

657
00:34:18,840 --> 00:34:20,680
Speaker 1: These are the losses that he's guys, got a loss

658
00:34:20,680 --> 00:34:24,960
Speaker 1: to Santiago Ponza Nibio. Sean Strickland does. He's got a

659
00:34:25,040 --> 00:34:28,399
Speaker 1: loss to Kamara Usman. I was there for that one, right,

660
00:34:29,120 --> 00:34:30,640
Speaker 1: I think I was there for that. No, not for

661
00:34:30,760 --> 00:34:37,359
Speaker 1: that one. Elizu Zeleski Dos Santos stopped him and then

662
00:34:38,560 --> 00:34:41,480
Speaker 1: he beat Jack Hermanson via split. Paeda knocked him out,

663
00:34:41,520 --> 00:34:44,200
Speaker 1: and then Cannon Ear beat him. It's like, you know,

664
00:34:44,360 --> 00:34:45,960
Speaker 1: I guess Pareta has the win over Izzy, but then

665
00:34:45,960 --> 00:34:48,520
Speaker 1: Izzy knocked him out. And the rest of those guys

666
00:34:48,600 --> 00:34:53,759
Speaker 1: are all welterweights. You know, sometimes it's the one you

667
00:34:53,880 --> 00:34:57,200
Speaker 1: see coming and sometimes it isn't. Man, it's just that

668
00:34:57,520 --> 00:35:00,839
Speaker 1: mma these guys. You know, at thirty two, I think

669
00:35:00,880 --> 00:35:02,880
Speaker 1: I misunderstood. I thought Sean was much older than that.

670
00:35:03,239 --> 00:35:06,680
Speaker 1: At thirty two, that's when you're really becoming and moving

671
00:35:06,760 --> 00:35:09,000
Speaker 1: into your own that way, you know, you really begin

672
00:35:09,120 --> 00:35:11,799
Speaker 1: to everything's beginning to gel. And for a guy who

673
00:35:11,880 --> 00:35:14,080
Speaker 1: spars a lot of rounds, for a guy who you know,

674
00:35:14,840 --> 00:35:19,719
Speaker 1: tries to stay reasonably active, everything worked for him. Just

675
00:35:19,800 --> 00:35:22,520
Speaker 1: about everything worked for him tonight. Let me look at

676
00:35:22,560 --> 00:35:24,400
Speaker 1: his defensive performance. I want to see some of that

677
00:35:24,480 --> 00:35:31,040
Speaker 1: for Sean Strickland. Oh man, Yeah, dude, is he ow

678
00:35:32,520 --> 00:35:38,040
Speaker 1: couldn't land shit on him, Man, unbelievable. Sean Strickland eleven

679
00:35:38,120 --> 00:35:42,480
Speaker 1: of fourteen strikes in the clinch, just seven of eleven

680
00:35:42,560 --> 00:35:45,200
Speaker 1: late kicks, thirty four for is He thirty four total

681
00:35:45,280 --> 00:35:49,040
Speaker 1: leg kicks. But listen to this difference. Twenty two punches

682
00:35:49,280 --> 00:35:51,600
Speaker 1: or strikes landed to the head. Most of those are

683
00:35:51,600 --> 00:35:54,719
Speaker 1: gonna be punches for Izzy, eighty five for Sean Strickland

684
00:35:54,800 --> 00:35:59,360
Speaker 1: eighty five eighty five. I just thought Izzy looked like

685
00:35:59,400 --> 00:36:02,240
Speaker 1: he was out of ideas. All of the tricks he uses,

686
00:36:02,320 --> 00:36:04,240
Speaker 1: all of the shoulder fans and hip fants and everything,

687
00:36:04,560 --> 00:36:06,560
Speaker 1: most of those, not most of those, Many of those

688
00:36:06,600 --> 00:36:08,640
Speaker 1: he couldn't really get going because he was under pressure

689
00:36:08,680 --> 00:36:12,080
Speaker 1: to move. So that was part of it. And like

690
00:36:12,160 --> 00:36:14,600
Speaker 1: I said, man, he's been around a long time. Look

691
00:36:14,600 --> 00:36:16,600
Speaker 1: at many times I've broken down his game. Look at

692
00:36:16,640 --> 00:36:18,640
Speaker 1: many times other people have broken down his game. You

693
00:36:18,680 --> 00:36:20,600
Speaker 1: don't think those guys over stream Coutur haven't done that.

694
00:36:21,200 --> 00:36:23,520
Speaker 1: They've done that. And there's a lot of tape on him,

695
00:36:23,560 --> 00:36:25,480
Speaker 1: and that shit doesn't work like it used to, man,

696
00:36:25,800 --> 00:36:27,520
Speaker 1: And that is the nature of the fight game. There's

697
00:36:27,600 --> 00:36:31,040
Speaker 1: nothing ignoble about that. It happens for everyone. If Sewn

698
00:36:31,120 --> 00:36:33,480
Speaker 1: ends up winning and defending this time, but I'm saying

699
00:36:33,520 --> 00:36:36,279
Speaker 1: he ends up defending the title many times, that day

700
00:36:36,360 --> 00:36:37,800
Speaker 1: will come for him too, And it will come for

701
00:36:37,880 --> 00:36:40,120
Speaker 1: the one who replaces him and replaces him, and replaces

702
00:36:40,239 --> 00:36:42,960
Speaker 1: him and replaces him. This is the inevitable cycle of

703
00:36:43,040 --> 00:36:45,600
Speaker 1: the fight game. The question is only when will it

704
00:36:45,719 --> 00:36:47,520
Speaker 1: catch up to someone? Will it catch up to them

705
00:36:47,560 --> 00:36:49,680
Speaker 1: at what year and what fight and blah blah blah.

706
00:36:49,880 --> 00:36:52,000
Speaker 1: That's the only really part that you have a difficulty

707
00:36:52,120 --> 00:36:55,240
Speaker 1: kind of deciphering, you know. But it happened here tonight

708
00:36:55,320 --> 00:36:59,200
Speaker 1: in Australia. It happened to Izzy like he just he

709
00:36:59,320 --> 00:37:01,879
Speaker 1: didn't look to him like he wasn't ready. He didn't

710
00:37:01,920 --> 00:37:05,239
Speaker 1: look to me like he wasn't focused. Maybe he's got

711
00:37:05,320 --> 00:37:06,800
Speaker 1: some injury that we don't know about or something I

712
00:37:06,840 --> 00:37:10,040
Speaker 1: don't know, you know, I don't know. But you got

713
00:37:10,160 --> 00:37:12,359
Speaker 1: to give Sean his flowers as a competitor. You don't

714
00:37:12,360 --> 00:37:13,680
Speaker 1: have to give him his flowers as a person if

715
00:37:13,680 --> 00:37:15,320
Speaker 1: you don't want to, or you know, whatever, your choice.

716
00:37:16,200 --> 00:37:18,560
Speaker 1: I'm not making any commentary about that because I feel

717
00:37:18,600 --> 00:37:20,320
Speaker 1: like it'd be a distraction. I'm not making that. But

718
00:37:20,360 --> 00:37:24,000
Speaker 1: I'm just trying to say as a fighter, as a fighter,

719
00:37:24,040 --> 00:37:26,040
Speaker 1: as a competitor, you simply have to give him his

720
00:37:26,120 --> 00:37:29,360
Speaker 1: flowers tonight. You have to he has There can just

721
00:37:29,440 --> 00:37:33,960
Speaker 1: be It's not ambiguous, there's nothing like how do we

722
00:37:34,040 --> 00:37:37,440
Speaker 1: feel about all of this? Like, there's no he did it.

723
00:37:37,719 --> 00:37:42,200
Speaker 1: He did it in dramatic and important and frankly historic fashion. Boy,

724
00:37:42,280 --> 00:37:46,920
Speaker 1: what is it about Australia forcing huge UFC upsets? Rohnda

725
00:37:47,040 --> 00:37:51,960
Speaker 1: and and Holly and now this one different kinds of upsets,

726
00:37:52,000 --> 00:37:55,480
Speaker 1: but upsets dramatic just the same, boy. Australia the land

727
00:37:55,520 --> 00:38:01,160
Speaker 1: where the golden children go to die? Right? I mean,

728
00:38:01,560 --> 00:38:04,520
Speaker 1: if you are a UFC star and you want to

729
00:38:04,560 --> 00:38:07,600
Speaker 1: defend your title in Australia, boll, you do so at

730
00:38:07,640 --> 00:38:12,160
Speaker 1: your own peril. I think I think the Rousely fight

731
00:38:12,280 --> 00:38:14,760
Speaker 1: was in Melbourne. Maybe I don't think it was Sidney.

732
00:38:14,840 --> 00:38:16,560
Speaker 1: Was it in Sydney? It might have been Sydney. Now

733
00:38:16,640 --> 00:38:20,560
Speaker 1: I need to look. Hold on, let's see just a

734
00:38:20,680 --> 00:38:22,680
Speaker 1: double check. I'm sure you guys know that off the

735
00:38:22,719 --> 00:38:24,480
Speaker 1: top of your head very quickly, and then we'll move

736
00:38:24,520 --> 00:38:27,719
Speaker 1: on to some other details here. Yeah, that lost to

737
00:38:27,760 --> 00:38:30,640
Speaker 1: Holly Holm 'FC one ninety three was in the Etty

738
00:38:30,719 --> 00:38:36,719
Speaker 1: Hot Stadium in Melbourne. Yeah, Melbourne, doesn't matter where you

739
00:38:36,760 --> 00:38:40,000
Speaker 1: are in Australia. It's where the Golden Children. Where the

740
00:38:40,040 --> 00:38:44,239
Speaker 1: Golden Children get they get slaughtered, They get slaughtered there.

741
00:38:44,719 --> 00:38:47,239
Speaker 1: Pretty pretty remarkable. People have asked, is it the biggest upset?

742
00:38:47,239 --> 00:38:48,840
Speaker 1: And you see history, by the odds, it would not

743
00:38:48,960 --> 00:38:52,759
Speaker 1: be certainly that one would be bigger this other one.

744
00:38:52,760 --> 00:38:54,160
Speaker 1: There's been some other ones that I think that might

745
00:38:54,200 --> 00:38:57,400
Speaker 1: be bigger as well. But this is I mean, to

746
00:38:57,560 --> 00:39:01,360
Speaker 1: go into a fight where you're plus four hundred underdog,

747
00:39:01,400 --> 00:39:04,680
Speaker 1: you're competitors nearly minus seven hundred. You traveled all the

748
00:39:04,719 --> 00:39:07,799
Speaker 1: way across the Earth on short notice against a guy

749
00:39:07,880 --> 00:39:10,680
Speaker 1: your own coach had failed against any previous time that

750
00:39:10,719 --> 00:39:13,200
Speaker 1: one of his fighters had gone up against him, and

751
00:39:14,320 --> 00:39:18,399
Speaker 1: you even admitted that you were doubting yourself and your

752
00:39:18,520 --> 00:39:23,680
Speaker 1: chances about this. To then go and then outperform that

753
00:39:23,840 --> 00:39:30,040
Speaker 1: guy against all those circumstances without shooting a single takedown again.

754
00:39:30,280 --> 00:39:32,680
Speaker 1: We went over this twenty five minutes. Blah blah blah.

755
00:39:33,360 --> 00:39:37,000
Speaker 1: That's just one of the most impressive exchanging of the

756
00:39:37,120 --> 00:39:40,560
Speaker 1: titles that I've ever seen, not in terms of like,

757
00:39:40,680 --> 00:39:41,879
Speaker 1: oh my god, he went in there and just beat

758
00:39:41,920 --> 00:39:43,360
Speaker 1: the shit out of him and like shot out how

759
00:39:43,400 --> 00:39:45,319
Speaker 1: superior he was. And it was this passing of the torch.

760
00:39:45,800 --> 00:39:49,960
Speaker 1: But given all of that uphill climbing he had to do,

761
00:39:51,120 --> 00:39:56,800
Speaker 1: including right here, including right here in his head for

762
00:39:56,880 --> 00:39:58,520
Speaker 1: the people who will listen to this on the audio

763
00:39:58,560 --> 00:40:03,080
Speaker 1: podcast platform later, through all of that, and he still

764
00:40:03,600 --> 00:40:08,839
Speaker 1: was better in four or five rounds. You just if

765
00:40:08,840 --> 00:40:13,520
Speaker 1: you watch MMA long enough, dude, you see so much

766
00:40:14,320 --> 00:40:21,239
Speaker 1: competitive injustice, right, people not getting opportunities, or they get

767
00:40:21,280 --> 00:40:27,440
Speaker 1: opportunities and someone else foxom or you know whatever. How

768
00:40:27,480 --> 00:40:29,440
Speaker 1: many times how much fuckery is there in the fight

769
00:40:29,520 --> 00:40:33,960
Speaker 1: game where just things are just they don't go someone's

770
00:40:34,000 --> 00:40:36,080
Speaker 1: way and they're not destined for greatness and they're never this,

771
00:40:36,239 --> 00:40:41,560
Speaker 1: that and the other, you know, And then to competitively,

772
00:40:42,239 --> 00:40:45,719
Speaker 1: you know, win all of this the way that he

773
00:40:45,880 --> 00:40:48,120
Speaker 1: did up against it, even though yes, I know that

774
00:40:48,200 --> 00:40:51,360
Speaker 1: the offse's had kind of treated him like the hometown favorite.

775
00:40:51,520 --> 00:40:53,920
Speaker 1: I understand that, so that the wind was at his

776
00:40:54,040 --> 00:40:57,600
Speaker 1: back in certain ways. But for all the other parts

777
00:40:57,640 --> 00:41:00,640
Speaker 1: of this, all the competitive task that he and his

778
00:41:00,840 --> 00:41:05,640
Speaker 1: team had was extraordinary, and they passed it a plus

779
00:41:05,960 --> 00:41:07,880
Speaker 1: or at A at the worst a minus. You know

780
00:41:11,880 --> 00:41:14,560
Speaker 1: he earned it. John Strickland is your UFC middleweight champion

781
00:41:14,600 --> 00:41:17,920
Speaker 1: in one of the most historic upsets in UFC history.

782
00:41:18,040 --> 00:41:21,719
Speaker 1: And there's not a damn thing fluky about it. And

783
00:41:21,920 --> 00:41:25,160
Speaker 1: that's just the reality. Pretty amazing. Now, I asked for

784
00:41:25,360 --> 00:41:29,759
Speaker 1: questions on Twitter, so we'll get to those here in

785
00:41:30,080 --> 00:41:36,719
Speaker 1: just a minute. Let me do this very quickly, all right,

786
00:41:36,840 --> 00:41:39,400
Speaker 1: So then let's switch here just a second. Let's do

787
00:41:39,719 --> 00:41:42,680
Speaker 1: uh if we can't not that one, sorry, boys and girls,

788
00:41:43,400 --> 00:41:48,840
Speaker 1: Let's do this one quickly. Let's talk about the comaane

789
00:41:48,840 --> 00:41:51,960
Speaker 1: because I want to get to your questions. But let's

790
00:41:51,960 --> 00:41:54,279
Speaker 1: get to these results here if we can. At UFC

791
00:41:54,320 --> 00:41:57,880
Speaker 1: two ninety three, your co main event, Alexander Volkov defeating

792
00:41:57,920 --> 00:41:59,680
Speaker 1: Taitu I Vasa, he does so what at four thirty

793
00:41:59,680 --> 00:42:11,719
Speaker 1: seven of round two via Ezekiel choke. All right, so

794
00:42:11,920 --> 00:42:15,400
Speaker 1: here's the difference as far as I could tell, Volkov's

795
00:42:15,440 --> 00:42:21,680
Speaker 1: again linear punches. Volkov's jab was dynamite, His flurrying as

796
00:42:21,719 --> 00:42:24,200
Speaker 1: the round war on was even better. His lead leg

797
00:42:24,440 --> 00:42:27,760
Speaker 1: is so crafty where he's able to like inside cutkick

798
00:42:27,840 --> 00:42:30,200
Speaker 1: then go high and outside leg kick go to the

799
00:42:30,239 --> 00:42:33,040
Speaker 1: body like he's just you know, constant disruption, constant landing,

800
00:42:34,239 --> 00:42:37,960
Speaker 1: keeping you at range, keeping you defensively, transferring, like all

801
00:42:38,040 --> 00:42:40,800
Speaker 1: kinds of stuff. Very very gifted with that, and he

802
00:42:41,000 --> 00:42:43,560
Speaker 1: was I knew he was going to be technically superior

803
00:42:43,640 --> 00:42:46,000
Speaker 1: to Tie, But the question was could Tie keep up

804
00:42:46,040 --> 00:42:50,399
Speaker 1: long enough to have superior speed and power and explosivity

805
00:42:50,480 --> 00:42:52,160
Speaker 1: to maybe close that gap a little bit, And the

806
00:42:52,160 --> 00:42:55,160
Speaker 1: answer was pretty clearly no. Now, I was pretty impressed

807
00:42:55,200 --> 00:42:58,319
Speaker 1: with Tie's leg kicks. Those were damaging, and you could

808
00:42:58,320 --> 00:43:00,879
Speaker 1: see that Volkov was wearing it for a little while.

809
00:43:01,320 --> 00:43:02,800
Speaker 1: But I will tell you that the big thing to

810
00:43:02,920 --> 00:43:07,280
Speaker 1: me is look how much uh Tuivasa got his timing

811
00:43:07,400 --> 00:43:11,239
Speaker 1: split right. So you're moving out of you guys know

812
00:43:11,280 --> 00:43:13,640
Speaker 1: I do this all the time. You're moving like this, right,

813
00:43:13,800 --> 00:43:16,760
Speaker 1: You're constantly doing this, and then someone catches you in between.

814
00:43:16,800 --> 00:43:19,839
Speaker 1: So you would see Tuivasa try and set this up

815
00:43:19,880 --> 00:43:22,000
Speaker 1: and then come leaping in and then but you know,

816
00:43:22,400 --> 00:43:25,000
Speaker 1: you'd see Volkov just hit him, hit him with a

817
00:43:25,280 --> 00:43:27,680
Speaker 1: hit him with a shot coming in, and it would

818
00:43:27,719 --> 00:43:30,479
Speaker 1: stop it or impact it or just nullify it or whatever,

819
00:43:30,560 --> 00:43:32,880
Speaker 1: and then sometimes it would drop him. In fact, that.

820
00:43:33,160 --> 00:43:35,520
Speaker 1: I think the final time he did get dropped was

821
00:43:35,600 --> 00:43:39,000
Speaker 1: from that. It's because he was predictable, He could be read,

822
00:43:39,280 --> 00:43:42,160
Speaker 1: and Volkov just was like waiting, waiting, waiting, go right.

823
00:43:43,160 --> 00:43:45,640
Speaker 1: So to me, it was like the devil was in

824
00:43:45,680 --> 00:43:49,200
Speaker 1: the details on the setups. The distance closing of Tuivasa

825
00:43:50,560 --> 00:43:53,800
Speaker 1: was way too readable. And then even with it, he

826
00:43:53,960 --> 00:43:55,920
Speaker 1: just wasn't employing defense. If you're gonna let kick, you

827
00:43:55,960 --> 00:43:57,920
Speaker 1: gotta like really get off and like get your head

828
00:43:57,920 --> 00:43:59,680
Speaker 1: off the center line. He wasn't really doing a lot

829
00:43:59,719 --> 00:44:02,200
Speaker 1: of that, you know, So he was kind of eating punishment.

830
00:44:02,320 --> 00:44:04,279
Speaker 1: Even when he was delivering, he was delivered. I mean,

831
00:44:04,280 --> 00:44:06,160
Speaker 1: don't get me wrong, to we've also was delivering with

832
00:44:06,280 --> 00:44:08,799
Speaker 1: those leg kicks, some good punishment, especially the early parts

833
00:44:08,840 --> 00:44:11,399
Speaker 1: of round two. Like you could tell Volkov was hurting

834
00:44:11,440 --> 00:44:12,799
Speaker 1: a little bit. He was kind of trying to shake

835
00:44:12,880 --> 00:44:15,960
Speaker 1: it out and Ali shuffle a little bit. So there

836
00:44:16,040 --> 00:44:20,040
Speaker 1: was those moments, but the technical details of distance closing,

837
00:44:20,120 --> 00:44:21,920
Speaker 1: of finding that range, which is not easy against a

838
00:44:21,960 --> 00:44:23,440
Speaker 1: six to seven guy with a long reach. I'm not

839
00:44:23,520 --> 00:44:25,400
Speaker 1: making it to be like some simple task. But what

840
00:44:25,480 --> 00:44:28,400
Speaker 1: we were looking for this of this fight, what we

841
00:44:28,480 --> 00:44:32,279
Speaker 1: were looking for was an opportunity to see if tui

842
00:44:32,400 --> 00:44:35,279
Speaker 1: Vasa could progress. Now, the good news was, I did

843
00:44:35,360 --> 00:44:38,319
Speaker 1: think that this was much more like the gone fight

844
00:44:38,440 --> 00:44:41,480
Speaker 1: for him than it was the Pavlovitch fight. Now, the

845
00:44:41,480 --> 00:44:44,440
Speaker 1: Pavlovitch fight didn't last very long, obviously, but you could

846
00:44:44,480 --> 00:44:46,520
Speaker 1: see Ty had a game plan. He was trying to

847
00:44:46,560 --> 00:44:49,120
Speaker 1: stick to it. He was trying to maintain composure. He

848
00:44:49,239 --> 00:44:51,200
Speaker 1: was trying to do what they had set up to do.

849
00:44:52,200 --> 00:44:56,040
Speaker 1: The issue is, as aforementioned, he's just technically overmatched by

850
00:44:56,080 --> 00:44:59,400
Speaker 1: a guy like Volkov. Volkov has slow feet, he doesn't

851
00:44:59,560 --> 00:45:03,600
Speaker 1: move and move very quickly, but he's very technical. He

852
00:45:03,680 --> 00:45:06,520
Speaker 1: has good reads, he has good timing, timing, beat speed,

853
00:45:07,200 --> 00:45:10,400
Speaker 1: and it was too much for Tuivasa. Nearly got finished

854
00:45:10,440 --> 00:45:12,160
Speaker 1: at the end of the first and he got dropped

855
00:45:12,200 --> 00:45:15,160
Speaker 1: at the second, and Volkov got on first at a

856
00:45:15,239 --> 00:45:17,239
Speaker 1: very good job to maintain mount. There was a couple

857
00:45:17,320 --> 00:45:19,320
Speaker 1: times where you saw Tuivasa kind of rolling side to

858
00:45:19,440 --> 00:45:22,360
Speaker 1: side and nearly got out on his left hip, and

859
00:45:22,400 --> 00:45:24,960
Speaker 1: then Volkov kind of slid his knee over. I mean,

860
00:45:25,560 --> 00:45:27,480
Speaker 1: you know, for a dude that big to be on

861
00:45:27,600 --> 00:45:31,320
Speaker 1: top of you, it's gotta be a fucking nightmare to

862
00:45:31,440 --> 00:45:33,759
Speaker 1: get them off of you. It can be the case

863
00:45:33,800 --> 00:45:36,320
Speaker 1: depending on who they are, that they if they have

864
00:45:36,480 --> 00:45:39,040
Speaker 1: long legs that if they go wide, they can leave

865
00:45:39,080 --> 00:45:41,799
Speaker 1: space between the thigh and the floor. But he had

866
00:45:41,800 --> 00:45:45,839
Speaker 1: a nice sort of like constrained knee forward mount which

867
00:45:45,960 --> 00:45:48,960
Speaker 1: kept him and he could grape vine the legs, and

868
00:45:49,040 --> 00:45:51,160
Speaker 1: because he's so big, he can grape vine and then

869
00:45:51,239 --> 00:45:54,200
Speaker 1: still get some distance down. Typically, if you're gonna grape

870
00:45:54,280 --> 00:45:57,160
Speaker 1: vine someone, you're gonna attach your hips to them and

871
00:45:57,360 --> 00:46:00,320
Speaker 1: flatten them. It kind of flattens your ability to you know,

872
00:46:00,800 --> 00:46:04,120
Speaker 1: create distance to pop. But he's so big, he was

873
00:46:04,160 --> 00:46:05,600
Speaker 1: kind of actually able to do it a little bit,

874
00:46:05,640 --> 00:46:08,160
Speaker 1: which was very impressive. So people are like, oh, well

875
00:46:08,239 --> 00:46:12,120
Speaker 1: Volkov can't wrestle. Well, he might have defensive wrestling issues.

876
00:46:12,200 --> 00:46:16,720
Speaker 1: That could be true, but his offensive grappling against Taytoyvasa,

877
00:46:16,920 --> 00:46:19,359
Speaker 1: it's once he moves into a dominant position, it's going

878
00:46:19,400 --> 00:46:21,680
Speaker 1: to be very tough to get a guy like that

879
00:46:21,960 --> 00:46:27,160
Speaker 1: out and off of you. So I thought that ty,

880
00:46:27,560 --> 00:46:31,399
Speaker 1: did you know not? I don't really fault him too much,

881
00:46:31,440 --> 00:46:34,640
Speaker 1: but again technically overmatched, and then he finished him with

882
00:46:34,640 --> 00:46:36,840
Speaker 1: the Ezekiel choke, the Exekul choke, is much easier to

883
00:46:36,920 --> 00:46:38,920
Speaker 1: do in the geo, I should have had a long

884
00:46:38,960 --> 00:46:41,320
Speaker 1: sleeve shirt. But the basic ideas, let me see myself

885
00:46:41,320 --> 00:46:43,320
Speaker 1: here so I can do this a little bit more correctly.

886
00:46:43,840 --> 00:46:47,360
Speaker 1: The basic idea would be as follows. You go like this,

887
00:46:47,960 --> 00:46:52,040
Speaker 1: So if so this is the person's neck, the stem

888
00:46:52,239 --> 00:46:56,360
Speaker 1: of this microphone holder, you come around the back of it,

889
00:46:56,520 --> 00:46:58,520
Speaker 1: and then you with a gee you would grab the

890
00:46:58,600 --> 00:47:01,239
Speaker 1: inside of your sleeve and then you roll this over

891
00:47:01,320 --> 00:47:03,799
Speaker 1: the top and then you kind of like exit out

892
00:47:03,840 --> 00:47:05,440
Speaker 1: a little bit right, And so that's the way you

893
00:47:05,520 --> 00:47:08,120
Speaker 1: do it. With Nogi, they end up making like a

894
00:47:08,239 --> 00:47:11,000
Speaker 1: fist into one side and then they kind of catch

895
00:47:11,200 --> 00:47:14,160
Speaker 1: the top of the arm on the other like kind

896
00:47:14,200 --> 00:47:16,239
Speaker 1: of like this. That's sort of the way they do it,

897
00:47:16,680 --> 00:47:20,680
Speaker 1: but it takes it takes practice. Now. Shouts to Joe

898
00:47:20,719 --> 00:47:23,160
Speaker 1: Gilpin over at flow grappling. He had pointed out, if

899
00:47:23,160 --> 00:47:26,520
Speaker 1: you actually look at it, partly it was the Ezekiel choke.

900
00:47:26,600 --> 00:47:29,880
Speaker 1: Partly he was kind of covering tuy Vas's mouth, so

901
00:47:29,920 --> 00:47:35,400
Speaker 1: it was almost like a suffocation mixed with a choke scenario,

902
00:47:36,120 --> 00:47:40,160
Speaker 1: which is you know, devastating, fucking devastating hard to deal with.

903
00:47:40,440 --> 00:47:43,719
Speaker 1: It's just if you've got a big, strong guy like

904
00:47:43,800 --> 00:47:47,160
Speaker 1: that on top of you and you're that technically outmatched, like, dude,

905
00:47:47,200 --> 00:47:50,360
Speaker 1: once someone gets the mount, it's like DC's like you

906
00:47:50,400 --> 00:47:51,880
Speaker 1: got to push on the hips and stuff. Dude, that

907
00:47:51,960 --> 00:47:53,760
Speaker 1: guy's you know what did he weigh in at probably

908
00:47:53,800 --> 00:47:58,359
Speaker 1: close to two sixty five. He's got good balance, he's

909
00:47:58,360 --> 00:48:01,279
Speaker 1: got a heavy bass. Yes, of course, you can put

910
00:48:01,360 --> 00:48:03,480
Speaker 1: their hands on their hips and you could. You know,

911
00:48:04,080 --> 00:48:06,600
Speaker 1: everyone knows the basic shrimp escapes to get it back.

912
00:48:07,280 --> 00:48:11,279
Speaker 1: You're gonna just get fucking pounded doing that. You could see.

913
00:48:11,400 --> 00:48:13,520
Speaker 1: One thing that Tuyvasa was trying to do was step

914
00:48:13,760 --> 00:48:18,240
Speaker 1: over with his outside leg to collect the ankle of Volkov,

915
00:48:18,440 --> 00:48:20,719
Speaker 1: then bring that in and then come out the other side.

916
00:48:21,320 --> 00:48:23,640
Speaker 1: He was trying that, but he couldn't even get that going,

917
00:48:23,920 --> 00:48:25,640
Speaker 1: you know, And that's what Volkov would grapevine and the

918
00:48:25,760 --> 00:48:29,640
Speaker 1: kind of hold him there. So Volkov's jab was on point.

919
00:48:29,840 --> 00:48:33,560
Speaker 1: Lead like at Tax were on point. Timing was great,

920
00:48:34,600 --> 00:48:38,239
Speaker 1: ground and pound was good. Top control was good, mount

921
00:48:38,880 --> 00:48:42,960
Speaker 1: maintaining mount was good. Tai Tuyvasa was simply technically overwhelmed.

922
00:48:43,120 --> 00:48:45,719
Speaker 1: He was technically overwhelmed, and of course that led to

923
00:48:45,800 --> 00:48:49,040
Speaker 1: him being physically overwhelmed. I still think that at twenty

924
00:48:49,120 --> 00:48:51,279
Speaker 1: eight or however old, I think Tie is right around.

925
00:48:51,640 --> 00:48:53,279
Speaker 1: I think he's right around that hole. It's tied. Just

926
00:48:53,320 --> 00:48:58,600
Speaker 1: to be very sure, thirty, I'm not so young anymore. Still,

927
00:48:59,120 --> 00:49:02,040
Speaker 1: thirty at heavyweight is young. I still think that there's

928
00:49:02,040 --> 00:49:03,560
Speaker 1: a lot of room for improvement. But they have to

929
00:49:03,640 --> 00:49:07,360
Speaker 1: dial back the level of competition, right, They need to

930
00:49:07,400 --> 00:49:10,080
Speaker 1: dial that back. It's pretty clear it's time to Okay,

931
00:49:10,640 --> 00:49:15,120
Speaker 1: he's got some ability, he's got some ability, but we

932
00:49:15,239 --> 00:49:17,200
Speaker 1: can't be given to this guy top five guys right now.

933
00:49:17,440 --> 00:49:19,839
Speaker 1: It's just not he's not really ready for top five guys.

934
00:49:20,560 --> 00:49:23,399
Speaker 1: So let's not throw the baby out with the bath

935
00:49:23,480 --> 00:49:26,160
Speaker 1: water and declare that the Tai Tuyvasa experiment has failed.

936
00:49:26,239 --> 00:49:29,960
Speaker 1: Far from it. But the Tai Tuyvasa fighting top five

937
00:49:30,040 --> 00:49:32,200
Speaker 1: guys and even like top seven, well, I'm not sure

938
00:49:32,200 --> 00:49:35,319
Speaker 1: where Volkov is ranked, but he needs someone I would

939
00:49:35,360 --> 00:49:38,120
Speaker 1: say outside the top ten. That's really who he needs.

940
00:49:38,160 --> 00:49:39,520
Speaker 1: You're like, oh, that's kind of a waste of time.

941
00:49:39,560 --> 00:49:41,560
Speaker 1: I don't think it is first to be a get

942
00:49:41,680 --> 00:49:43,560
Speaker 1: right win, which he kind of needs at this point,

943
00:49:43,600 --> 00:49:47,560
Speaker 1: and then on top of it, it would be work

944
00:49:47,600 --> 00:49:50,719
Speaker 1: another opportunity to work out his game, develop it. So

945
00:49:50,760 --> 00:49:52,879
Speaker 1: it's pretty important. That's for Volkov. I'm not really sure

946
00:49:52,920 --> 00:49:55,319
Speaker 1: what it does. Let me pull up the rankings, which

947
00:49:55,360 --> 00:50:01,040
Speaker 1: I do not contribute to. The heavyweight rankings have Let's see,

948
00:50:01,080 --> 00:50:05,680
Speaker 1: they've got Volkov at seven. Yeah, he should be fighting

949
00:50:05,880 --> 00:50:09,160
Speaker 1: Ty should be fighting the marching Taboras and Rosenshrucks or

950
00:50:09,239 --> 00:50:13,320
Speaker 1: Strooks of the world, not the aspinall on Blazes, you know.

951
00:50:14,120 --> 00:50:17,359
Speaker 1: But you've got Volkov sitting at seven. Ty was sitting

952
00:50:17,360 --> 00:50:19,680
Speaker 1: at six. I don't think that's fair anymore. I'm not

953
00:50:19,719 --> 00:50:22,680
Speaker 1: sure which direction they're gonna go, but five is Curtis Blades,

954
00:50:22,719 --> 00:50:26,240
Speaker 1: four is Aspenaal and then obviously it's Mio Chichi Pavlovich

955
00:50:26,280 --> 00:50:28,880
Speaker 1: and Gone from there. I don't really know what this

956
00:50:29,000 --> 00:50:32,400
Speaker 1: will do for him because you've got Gone and Pavlovich

957
00:50:32,440 --> 00:50:34,040
Speaker 1: and Aspenal kind of waiting in the wings to see

958
00:50:34,080 --> 00:50:37,160
Speaker 1: what happens. Could they run another one back with Curtis Blades.

959
00:50:37,200 --> 00:50:39,560
Speaker 1: He's got the Jelton Almeta fight coming up. I guess

960
00:50:39,640 --> 00:50:41,799
Speaker 1: the winner of that. Maybe you could do if Almeta wins,

961
00:50:41,840 --> 00:50:44,239
Speaker 1: you could do Almeta versus Volkov. I don't know. It's

962
00:50:44,280 --> 00:50:45,640
Speaker 1: a little hard to say, but it's a good win

963
00:50:45,719 --> 00:50:47,200
Speaker 1: for him. It's a solid win. I think it puts

964
00:50:47,280 --> 00:50:50,680
Speaker 1: him probably not inside the top five, but just outside

965
00:50:50,719 --> 00:50:53,839
Speaker 1: of it. And he has forty seven fights in dude,

966
00:50:53,840 --> 00:50:56,880
Speaker 1: he's still getting better. Remarkable. That's not easy to do.

967
00:50:56,960 --> 00:50:58,279
Speaker 1: A lot of guys kind of get stuck in their

968
00:50:58,320 --> 00:51:00,920
Speaker 1: ways and they sort of live by the sword, die

969
00:51:00,960 --> 00:51:03,279
Speaker 1: by the sword mentality. He's had a much better one

970
00:51:03,840 --> 00:51:15,800
Speaker 1: the whole way through, you know. Okay, Manel cop defeats

971
00:51:15,880 --> 00:51:21,279
Speaker 1: Felipe do Santos three rounds, fifteen minutes. The scores were

972
00:51:22,560 --> 00:51:27,000
Speaker 1: let me see here the scores were, for fuck's sake,

973
00:51:27,320 --> 00:51:29,960
Speaker 1: do I have them here? We pulled them up. I

974
00:51:29,960 --> 00:51:31,480
Speaker 1: think it was twenty nine twenty eight. I maybe there

975
00:51:31,560 --> 00:51:34,120
Speaker 1: was maybe one thirty twenty seven, something like that. I'll

976
00:51:34,160 --> 00:51:38,920
Speaker 1: get them here in just a second. I apologize service.

977
00:51:38,920 --> 00:51:43,360
Speaker 1: I'm using didn't have the scorecards listed. Okay, Yeah, So

978
00:51:43,640 --> 00:51:47,239
Speaker 1: he wins this one at UFC two ninety three thirty

979
00:51:47,280 --> 00:51:49,759
Speaker 1: twenty seven, that's right, and then two twenty nine twenty eight, dude,

980
00:51:49,760 --> 00:51:53,040
Speaker 1: Felipe do Santos kept taking his fight basically on short notice.

981
00:51:53,040 --> 00:51:55,880
Speaker 1: After kay Car France fell out. I thought he performed

982
00:51:56,200 --> 00:51:58,680
Speaker 1: super ably. He he could not deal with some of

983
00:51:58,719 --> 00:52:01,760
Speaker 1: the counter striking, He could not deal with the speed.

984
00:52:01,960 --> 00:52:04,359
Speaker 1: He could not deal again with the linear punches another

985
00:52:04,440 --> 00:52:08,680
Speaker 1: Nixxick train fighter and Manel Cop. He could not really

986
00:52:08,719 --> 00:52:12,279
Speaker 1: deal with that very well. But his mental composure was

987
00:52:12,320 --> 00:52:15,600
Speaker 1: a phenomenal. He was landing in those sometimes those back

988
00:52:15,640 --> 00:52:18,480
Speaker 1: and forth exchanges, he was landing great work. He rattled

989
00:52:18,560 --> 00:52:21,759
Speaker 1: Cop in the second round. He bloodied him. I think

990
00:52:21,800 --> 00:52:25,279
Speaker 1: he swoll up one of his eyes. He performed for

991
00:52:25,560 --> 00:52:31,080
Speaker 1: given the circumstances very ably, very ably, Manil Cop showing

992
00:52:31,160 --> 00:52:41,160
Speaker 1: you what makes him special as a fighter. Handspeed, angles, combination, punching, accuracy, fantastic.

993
00:52:41,400 --> 00:52:44,360
Speaker 1: His timing was good. The chin on Dos Santos, I

994
00:52:44,440 --> 00:52:47,320
Speaker 1: mean he was getting lit up by Cop, Cop dropping

995
00:52:47,400 --> 00:52:49,760
Speaker 1: him in the first round. He's knocked on at flyway.

996
00:52:49,760 --> 00:52:52,000
Speaker 1: He's knocked down his last four opponents. I was shocked

997
00:52:52,080 --> 00:52:54,719
Speaker 1: that one went to a decision. I couldn't believe that

998
00:52:54,800 --> 00:52:56,240
Speaker 1: that one had gone all the way to a decision.

999
00:52:56,239 --> 00:52:57,920
Speaker 1: I thought for sure he was going to get stopped,

1000
00:52:57,960 --> 00:53:00,200
Speaker 1: but no, and he even took a round in the

1001
00:53:00,280 --> 00:53:05,879
Speaker 1: process as well. Doesn't really change the flyweight landscape. It's

1002
00:53:05,920 --> 00:53:08,160
Speaker 1: a big even through a loss. It's a big boost

1003
00:53:08,239 --> 00:53:11,600
Speaker 1: for Dos Santos. For Cop, I think that the rivalry

1004
00:53:11,680 --> 00:53:13,520
Speaker 1: now between him and kay car France has reached a

1005
00:53:13,560 --> 00:53:16,200
Speaker 1: fever pitch, like people really want to see it Cop

1006
00:53:16,680 --> 00:53:19,640
Speaker 1: on the night that Sean Strickland wins, of course he

1007
00:53:19,960 --> 00:53:22,480
Speaker 1: and who is the other gentleman who did this? Charlie

1008
00:53:22,600 --> 00:53:27,480
Speaker 1: Radkey the fight being over and then dropping the old

1009
00:53:28,000 --> 00:53:30,640
Speaker 1: anti gesler, the old six letter F word. I'm not

1010
00:53:30,719 --> 00:53:32,600
Speaker 1: gonna go on about it because I know this community

1011
00:53:32,680 --> 00:53:36,759
Speaker 1: thinks that, you know, that's nineteen ninety three, and then

1012
00:53:36,840 --> 00:53:39,759
Speaker 1: that's totally cool. You know, It's like only the most

1013
00:53:39,880 --> 00:53:42,799
Speaker 1: unenlightened people think that that's okay. But all right, neither

1014
00:53:42,840 --> 00:53:46,279
Speaker 1: here nor there, so you know, not a great look

1015
00:53:46,320 --> 00:53:48,200
Speaker 1: in that sense, but great look as a fighter. It

1016
00:53:48,239 --> 00:53:53,279
Speaker 1: looked tremendous as a talent. And I don't see any

1017
00:53:53,400 --> 00:53:56,960
Speaker 1: other way that they go to any other place other

1018
00:53:57,080 --> 00:53:59,560
Speaker 1: than Cop versus kaykr France, which, by the way, like

1019
00:53:59,680 --> 00:54:02,480
Speaker 1: that rivalry building up, and kay car France was in

1020
00:54:02,560 --> 00:54:05,359
Speaker 1: attendance tonight and they were still like at you after

1021
00:54:05,400 --> 00:54:08,239
Speaker 1: you and Kay car France doing a thing like you know,

1022
00:54:08,920 --> 00:54:10,719
Speaker 1: like it was. I mean they've they've done a good

1023
00:54:10,760 --> 00:54:13,520
Speaker 1: even kay car France, not even like having a microphone,

1024
00:54:13,640 --> 00:54:16,080
Speaker 1: just being in attendance with everything and then like going

1025
00:54:16,120 --> 00:54:18,719
Speaker 1: crazy about it. They've done a good job building up

1026
00:54:18,760 --> 00:54:20,560
Speaker 1: that fight, like they've done a good job building up

1027
00:54:20,560 --> 00:54:22,000
Speaker 1: that fight. I can't wait to see that one. So

1028
00:54:24,560 --> 00:54:29,239
Speaker 1: tremendous flyweight action. Tremendous flyweight contest, marred by the very

1029
00:54:29,320 --> 00:54:31,560
Speaker 1: stupid post fight comments. But other than that, you know

1030
00:54:31,600 --> 00:54:36,160
Speaker 1: a lot of good work justin Tafa fucking demolishing and

1031
00:54:36,239 --> 00:54:40,759
Speaker 1: the words of Laura Senko bodying Austin Lane at one

1032
00:54:40,920 --> 00:54:43,520
Speaker 1: twenty two of round number one, I mean, holy fuck, dude,

1033
00:54:43,600 --> 00:54:45,600
Speaker 1: dropped him with a hit. I think hit him with

1034
00:54:45,600 --> 00:54:49,000
Speaker 1: the right hand again, splitting his timing, moving us up

1035
00:54:49,000 --> 00:54:53,080
Speaker 1: the center line and then catching him but then coming

1036
00:54:53,120 --> 00:54:56,160
Speaker 1: a little bit low, hitting him up high, dropping him,

1037
00:54:56,200 --> 00:55:00,920
Speaker 1: and then hitting him with vicious almost looked like it

1038
00:55:01,040 --> 00:55:06,200
Speaker 1: was personal ground and pound. Thereafter Tafa getting poked in

1039
00:55:06,239 --> 00:55:08,160
Speaker 1: the eye one more time. Luckily it didn't have much

1040
00:55:08,200 --> 00:55:09,839
Speaker 1: of an impact this time, but I'm like, fuck, dude,

1041
00:55:09,840 --> 00:55:14,000
Speaker 1: are you shitting me? Another ipoke? Really word? But Okay,

1042
00:55:14,320 --> 00:55:18,840
Speaker 1: he wins. Amazing, amazing performance by him. Some of the

1043
00:55:18,880 --> 00:55:20,400
Speaker 1: best tattoos I've seen in the UFC with some of

1044
00:55:20,440 --> 00:55:24,120
Speaker 1: these simoan guys, right, So that's a great job he did.

1045
00:55:24,440 --> 00:55:27,600
Speaker 1: And then Tyson Pedro sent the pleasure Man packing, defeating

1046
00:55:27,640 --> 00:55:32,040
Speaker 1: Anton tracli Viako at two twelve of round number one.

1047
00:55:33,480 --> 00:55:36,719
Speaker 1: I think it was his right hand that couldn't miss

1048
00:55:36,760 --> 00:55:38,440
Speaker 1: a series of right hands and then finally he went

1049
00:55:38,600 --> 00:55:41,080
Speaker 1: left hand a right hook, so left straight, right hook,

1050
00:55:41,520 --> 00:55:43,520
Speaker 1: and that dropped him. And then he hit him with

1051
00:55:43,680 --> 00:55:48,799
Speaker 1: one of these fucking coffin nail hammer fists that closed

1052
00:55:49,000 --> 00:55:56,400
Speaker 1: the show. Dramatic, dramatic finish. Phenomenal win for Tyson Pedro.

1053
00:55:56,560 --> 00:56:01,600
Speaker 1: Phenomenal win. So there was your main card. Quickly About

1054
00:56:01,680 --> 00:56:06,280
Speaker 1: Laura Senko, I've been saying she's the best color commentator

1055
00:56:06,320 --> 00:56:07,920
Speaker 1: that they've got, and I don't know how you could

1056
00:56:07,960 --> 00:56:11,080
Speaker 1: disagree listening tonight, I mean, everyone's gonna have their you know,

1057
00:56:11,200 --> 00:56:14,000
Speaker 1: I like this person, I like that person fine, but like,

1058
00:56:14,320 --> 00:56:17,080
Speaker 1: just as an example, like during the fight, she was

1059
00:56:17,239 --> 00:56:20,560
Speaker 1: talking about how Sean Strickland kind of uses so Sean

1060
00:56:20,560 --> 00:56:23,120
Speaker 1: Strickland's right handed, so he'll keep this hand up here,

1061
00:56:23,160 --> 00:56:24,360
Speaker 1: he'll kind of put let me see if I can

1062
00:56:24,400 --> 00:56:28,200
Speaker 1: see myself. He'll keep this hand up and I should

1063
00:56:28,200 --> 00:56:33,680
Speaker 1: have changed the lower third. Goddamn it. Hold on, she'll

1064
00:56:33,760 --> 00:56:36,239
Speaker 1: put her excuse me, Sean stricken will put his hand

1065
00:56:36,320 --> 00:56:38,040
Speaker 1: up here, and then we'll kind of have this hand

1066
00:56:38,120 --> 00:56:40,120
Speaker 1: here a little bit. And what she was talking about

1067
00:56:40,200 --> 00:56:41,840
Speaker 1: was he'll kind of he'll kind of he'll kind of

1068
00:56:42,600 --> 00:56:44,759
Speaker 1: shoulder roll a little bit, kind of Philly shell it.

1069
00:56:44,920 --> 00:56:47,600
Speaker 1: But if you're Philly shell, in the words of Laura Senko,

1070
00:56:47,880 --> 00:56:51,720
Speaker 1: you're typically bladed, right, so you're presenting what's the difference

1071
00:56:51,719 --> 00:56:53,879
Speaker 1: between being square and being bladed. If you're bladed, it's

1072
00:56:53,880 --> 00:56:57,040
Speaker 1: a much smaller target. So when Floyd uses this this

1073
00:56:57,280 --> 00:57:00,920
Speaker 1: guard right here, you know, you're catching stuff off the

1074
00:57:01,000 --> 00:57:05,160
Speaker 1: shoulder right behind the shoulder, right, and you're presenting a

1075
00:57:05,280 --> 00:57:08,600
Speaker 1: much smaller target. What makes Sean a little bit weird

1076
00:57:08,640 --> 00:57:10,440
Speaker 1: is he kind of rolls with it. Yeah, like this,

1077
00:57:10,640 --> 00:57:13,399
Speaker 1: he kind of rolls with it, but he's almost much

1078
00:57:13,480 --> 00:57:16,760
Speaker 1: more square. Guys, Guys, you can say whatever you want. Oh,

1079
00:57:16,800 --> 00:57:21,880
Speaker 1: that's not that big of a deal. She's the only

1080
00:57:22,040 --> 00:57:25,480
Speaker 1: one who's gonna point something like that out a trenchant

1081
00:57:25,840 --> 00:57:30,280
Speaker 1: helpful observation to the audience like that. You know, Joe

1082
00:57:30,360 --> 00:57:33,080
Speaker 1: Rogan's a legend. I think we all know that he

1083
00:57:33,200 --> 00:57:35,960
Speaker 1: doesn't deliver analysis like that. I'm sorry, he just doesn't.

1084
00:57:36,400 --> 00:57:39,560
Speaker 1: He doesn't. It's not an insult. He brings other things

1085
00:57:39,600 --> 00:57:42,000
Speaker 1: to the broadcast. Many people like him for any of

1086
00:57:42,000 --> 00:57:44,440
Speaker 1: the reasons. This is not an argument about whether or

1087
00:57:44,480 --> 00:57:48,200
Speaker 1: not you should like Joe Rogan as a commentator or not. Right,

1088
00:57:48,320 --> 00:57:51,320
Speaker 1: that's not my argument. My argument is the level of

1089
00:57:51,440 --> 00:57:55,920
Speaker 1: detail and precision and thoughtfulness that Sanko puts into the

1090
00:57:55,960 --> 00:57:59,640
Speaker 1: broadcast is, in my judgment, a level above all the

1091
00:57:59,720 --> 00:58:03,520
Speaker 1: rest of them. All the rest of them. And again,

1092
00:58:03,600 --> 00:58:06,760
Speaker 1: I know that there are just some absolute mouth breathing

1093
00:58:06,840 --> 00:58:09,000
Speaker 1: cavemen who were like, no, she ain't the good. You're

1094
00:58:09,040 --> 00:58:13,439
Speaker 1: in denial. You're in denial. She is that good. She's

1095
00:58:13,600 --> 00:58:15,360
Speaker 1: probably gonna be here for a long time doing this,

1096
00:58:15,520 --> 00:58:17,320
Speaker 1: so you might as well just get comfortable with it.

1097
00:58:17,400 --> 00:58:21,200
Speaker 1: She's better than the other men on that panel, and

1098
00:58:21,480 --> 00:58:26,439
Speaker 1: in certain cases by a considerable distance. So I thought

1099
00:58:26,560 --> 00:58:31,880
Speaker 1: her debut went swimmingly. To be quite honest with you, Yeah,

1100
00:58:32,600 --> 00:58:37,000
Speaker 1: all right, let's see here. Let's take some of your

1101
00:58:37,080 --> 00:58:44,640
Speaker 1: questions god damn. All right, let's take some of the

1102
00:58:45,640 --> 00:58:48,480
Speaker 1: Let's take some of those questions. Finally, all right, here

1103
00:58:48,520 --> 00:58:55,640
Speaker 1: we go. How is the UFCPR machine going to correct

1104
00:58:55,680 --> 00:59:01,760
Speaker 1: for seaw Strickland's New age masculinity. I don't know. I

1105
00:59:01,920 --> 00:59:06,440
Speaker 1: don't know. They got their hands full, and yeah, you know,

1106
00:59:07,680 --> 00:59:14,400
Speaker 1: this is this is this is this is the world

1107
00:59:14,400 --> 00:59:17,800
Speaker 1: they've created. Like you know, they don't want to do anything,

1108
00:59:17,880 --> 00:59:19,800
Speaker 1: I mean, their independent contractor. So there's a debate about

1109
00:59:19,800 --> 00:59:27,600
Speaker 1: whether they can meaningfully, you know, in the workplace direct

1110
00:59:27,720 --> 00:59:32,040
Speaker 1: forms of speech, but they choose not to. So welcome

1111
00:59:32,120 --> 00:59:34,400
Speaker 1: to the world you created. Can you remember a time

1112
00:59:34,440 --> 00:59:37,720
Speaker 1: when you've seen the basics use this effectively? Shit, dude,

1113
00:59:37,800 --> 00:59:42,120
Speaker 1: that's a great question. Not like this? To travel this far?

1114
00:59:42,280 --> 00:59:44,040
Speaker 1: Be the guy that good win a world title? No,

1115
00:59:44,240 --> 00:59:48,240
Speaker 1: not like this. What's next for is he probably time

1116
00:59:48,320 --> 00:59:51,040
Speaker 1: off again? I think he's probably gonna get a rematch.

1117
00:59:51,320 --> 00:59:52,919
Speaker 1: I don't think he deserves one, candily, And I don't

1118
00:59:52,920 --> 00:59:54,960
Speaker 1: say that as a hater. I'm just saying, you lose

1119
00:59:55,000 --> 00:59:58,320
Speaker 1: two title fights out of three, No, it's time to

1120
00:59:58,400 --> 01:00:01,840
Speaker 1: not get one. But he probably will. This person writes

1121
01:00:01,880 --> 01:00:03,919
Speaker 1: Isy's behavior was so weird, didn't take a step forward

1122
01:00:03,960 --> 01:00:06,200
Speaker 1: for five rounds raise Shawn's hands said how great he was,

1123
01:00:06,280 --> 01:00:07,560
Speaker 1: ran out of the cage to dat people in the

1124
01:00:07,560 --> 01:00:14,040
Speaker 1: crowd up and left. Something feels off. Maybe first title

1125
01:00:14,040 --> 01:00:17,120
Speaker 1: of defense for Strickland probably gonna be easy, Okay, I

1126
01:00:17,200 --> 01:00:21,120
Speaker 1: mean just another idiot here, all right, I don't know

1127
01:00:22,560 --> 01:00:24,640
Speaker 1: what kind of pr push. Do you anticipate the UFC

1128
01:00:24,720 --> 01:00:27,440
Speaker 1: putting behind Strickland? He writes, There's definitely a market that

1129
01:00:27,480 --> 01:00:29,240
Speaker 1: they should try to exploit, but it's going to be tricky.

1130
01:00:29,240 --> 01:00:30,600
Speaker 1: It's not as if they can put him on Kimmel

1131
01:00:30,680 --> 01:00:33,920
Speaker 1: or Fallon. There's a whole independent podcast circuit that he

1132
01:00:34,040 --> 01:00:36,680
Speaker 1: can and probably will do, probably along political lines, but

1133
01:00:36,800 --> 01:00:39,800
Speaker 1: not necessarily. Just that that I suspect will boost its profile.

1134
01:00:40,160 --> 01:00:42,240
Speaker 1: Not so much the Colby Covington route, per se, but

1135
01:00:42,400 --> 01:00:47,439
Speaker 1: something like that. This person's asking how anything Laura did tonight?

1136
01:00:47,480 --> 01:00:51,400
Speaker 1: I thought she did, Like, did miss a beat? Didn't

1137
01:00:51,400 --> 01:00:53,720
Speaker 1: miss a beat? Would that way? And did sewn? Strickland

1138
01:00:53,760 --> 01:00:55,240
Speaker 1: just have one of the biggest baby face turns in

1139
01:00:55,360 --> 01:00:59,400
Speaker 1: MMA history. He was already having one during the week, right,

1140
01:00:59,480 --> 01:01:01,760
Speaker 1: it wasn't even win Like even if he had lost tonight,

1141
01:01:01,800 --> 01:01:03,920
Speaker 1: I thought he had had one, so the win always

1142
01:01:03,960 --> 01:01:07,920
Speaker 1: sends that one into overdrive. Does this feel like turnover

1143
01:01:07,960 --> 01:01:10,960
Speaker 1: for the division? With both Izzy and Rob losing dominantly,

1144
01:01:11,040 --> 01:01:14,480
Speaker 1: it gives the feeling things are moving a new direction. Yep.

1145
01:01:15,240 --> 01:01:17,560
Speaker 1: Their time is you can tell kind of passing them

1146
01:01:17,600 --> 01:01:21,560
Speaker 1: by the lack of body punching was horrific game planning

1147
01:01:21,560 --> 01:01:23,600
Speaker 1: and a really bad sign for Izzy's ability to make reads.

1148
01:01:23,640 --> 01:01:25,240
Speaker 1: He was doing a little bit of it, but yeah,

1149
01:01:25,680 --> 01:01:27,720
Speaker 1: in the last fifteen months we've seen two fighters beat

1150
01:01:27,760 --> 01:01:29,560
Speaker 1: Sean through the body jab, So for him and his

1151
01:01:29,600 --> 01:01:31,680
Speaker 1: team's not picking up his bat. He was doing some

1152
01:01:31,800 --> 01:01:33,479
Speaker 1: of it, he just couldn't quite get it going. Also,

1153
01:01:33,680 --> 01:01:36,920
Speaker 1: this Seawan was different. The body jab that Padeda had

1154
01:01:36,960 --> 01:01:39,960
Speaker 1: to use was a guy who was marching into him constantly.

1155
01:01:40,520 --> 01:01:43,400
Speaker 1: Even as he circled away, that guy would circle, So

1156
01:01:43,520 --> 01:01:47,080
Speaker 1: it's much more direct like stumbling into shit. This was

1157
01:01:47,400 --> 01:01:51,960
Speaker 1: much more strategic pressure. Has Izzy's extensive fight history cut

1158
01:01:52,000 --> 01:01:53,600
Speaker 1: up with him? Yes? Do you think Sean's first time

1159
01:01:53,640 --> 01:01:56,280
Speaker 1: blah blah blah blah. Will you be doing a breakdown

1160
01:01:56,280 --> 01:01:58,800
Speaker 1: of what Sean did to disarm? Is he one hundred percent?

1161
01:01:59,240 --> 01:02:03,440
Speaker 1: One hundred percent? For as important is the overhand right

1162
01:02:03,480 --> 01:02:04,640
Speaker 1: is in them? And wa? And why doesn't is he

1163
01:02:04,720 --> 01:02:07,760
Speaker 1: ever try to throw it? He did, he couldn't find it.

1164
01:02:07,880 --> 01:02:09,200
Speaker 1: He didn't throw it a lot, but even then he

1165
01:02:09,200 --> 01:02:12,240
Speaker 1: couldn't get it going. Shocking upset of all time? No,

1166
01:02:14,040 --> 01:02:16,480
Speaker 1: could it be that we simply didn't see how favorable

1167
01:02:16,520 --> 01:02:19,000
Speaker 1: stylistic matchup this could have been and was for strictening, Well,

1168
01:02:19,040 --> 01:02:21,440
Speaker 1: we definitely I certainly missed a shit ton. I can

1169
01:02:21,520 --> 01:02:25,240
Speaker 1: say that a stand up fighter, is he a more

1170
01:02:25,280 --> 01:02:27,080
Speaker 1: than one to be backed up and not much explosive

1171
01:02:27,120 --> 01:02:29,280
Speaker 1: punching part of the scourge off and playing his game? Yeah,

1172
01:02:29,760 --> 01:02:32,600
Speaker 1: it's more than that though. This was the right pressure game,

1173
01:02:33,200 --> 01:02:35,240
Speaker 1: as I mentioned, taking the leg kicks away like kind

1174
01:02:35,240 --> 01:02:38,200
Speaker 1: of walking in and lifting, not letting. Is he settle,

1175
01:02:38,520 --> 01:02:44,160
Speaker 1: making him his his his his offense limited and therefore

1176
01:02:44,240 --> 01:02:48,040
Speaker 1: by being limited, more readable and more hasty and kind

1177
01:02:48,080 --> 01:02:51,360
Speaker 1: of like forced. He just he just he took off,

1178
01:02:51,560 --> 01:02:53,760
Speaker 1: you know. He put him on a shot clock, is

1179
01:02:53,800 --> 01:02:55,160
Speaker 1: really what he did. He put is he on a

1180
01:02:55,200 --> 01:02:57,760
Speaker 1: shot clock and a fast one too, not thirty five

1181
01:02:57,800 --> 01:03:02,480
Speaker 1: seconds or whatever or thirty seconds but whatever the fucking

1182
01:03:02,520 --> 01:03:05,120
Speaker 1: shot clock is these days. But he had him on

1183
01:03:05,160 --> 01:03:07,960
Speaker 1: an mma shot clock and he it hurried up the

1184
01:03:08,000 --> 01:03:11,840
Speaker 1: game and he had hard time with it. Let's see,

1185
01:03:12,240 --> 01:03:14,800
Speaker 1: is he's demeanornification skipping on the press He skipped the presser.

1186
01:03:14,840 --> 01:03:16,440
Speaker 1: Oh that's interesting. Do you think there's something going on

1187
01:03:16,480 --> 01:03:19,400
Speaker 1: with him that spurred this dead of a fight from him? Maybe? Again,

1188
01:03:20,120 --> 01:03:22,360
Speaker 1: I don't. I haven't talked to him. I haven't talked

1189
01:03:22,360 --> 01:03:25,960
Speaker 1: to him since the first MMA Padaeta fight, So I

1190
01:03:26,000 --> 01:03:29,600
Speaker 1: don't know. For a team who was so good at

1191
01:03:29,600 --> 01:03:32,200
Speaker 1: game planning and luckily they had nothing for strictly, and yeah,

1192
01:03:32,200 --> 01:03:34,520
Speaker 1: they had nothing for him, that's very true. What do

1193
01:03:34,600 --> 01:03:43,000
Speaker 1: you make of both corners during the fight? Knick six

1194
01:03:43,040 --> 01:03:47,120
Speaker 1: corner is very understandable, the Bearman corner and the Izzy corner.

1195
01:03:51,200 --> 01:03:53,280
Speaker 1: I'd have to go back and listen more closely. I

1196
01:03:53,320 --> 01:03:55,280
Speaker 1: didn't get it. I'd be kind of making up that

1197
01:03:55,360 --> 01:03:58,200
Speaker 1: I heard it very clearly. I really didn't so, but

1198
01:03:58,680 --> 01:04:03,120
Speaker 1: clearly not an You know, who do you think of

1199
01:04:03,240 --> 01:04:05,520
Speaker 1: Strickland's MMA version of the Philly Shell working on one

1200
01:04:05,520 --> 01:04:07,600
Speaker 1: of the scaries? What do you what do you think shocking?

1201
01:04:07,760 --> 01:04:09,440
Speaker 1: Is it a testament to the Philly Shell or boxing?

1202
01:04:09,520 --> 01:04:12,760
Speaker 1: Not necessarily it's the right guy using it's the right thing.

1203
01:04:12,920 --> 01:04:17,920
Speaker 1: You know, where does this put Eric Nixon among all

1204
01:04:18,040 --> 01:04:20,720
Speaker 1: active coaches in the game today, if not at the

1205
01:04:20,800 --> 01:04:23,919
Speaker 1: top right near it? Do you feel like there's value

1206
01:04:23,960 --> 01:04:26,080
Speaker 1: in the corner's honesty early in the match? Seems like

1207
01:04:26,120 --> 01:04:28,120
Speaker 1: a lot of perspective was left out in Izzy's corner

1208
01:04:28,160 --> 01:04:31,720
Speaker 1: that Shawn's corner didn't hold back. Yes, but also like

1209
01:04:32,480 --> 01:04:34,840
Speaker 1: closely dissecting a corner like that when you don't know

1210
01:04:34,920 --> 01:04:38,480
Speaker 1: their interpersonal relationship in that way, it can be you

1211
01:04:38,560 --> 01:04:39,920
Speaker 1: can get in front of your skis in that one

1212
01:04:39,960 --> 01:04:41,240
Speaker 1: over out in front of your skis. Do you how

1213
01:04:41,280 --> 01:04:43,320
Speaker 1: do you think this impacts Izzy? In the middleweight goat conversation?

1214
01:04:43,440 --> 01:04:46,240
Speaker 1: He is guys, you know how much I like is

1215
01:04:46,360 --> 01:04:52,680
Speaker 1: He's game? You know he can't he doesn't. It's still

1216
01:04:52,760 --> 01:04:56,440
Speaker 1: Anderson Silva. It's still Anderson Silva. Is Sean Strickland the

1217
01:04:56,440 --> 01:04:59,200
Speaker 1: best boxer ever? May know? Didn't you say that Sean

1218
01:04:59,200 --> 01:05:02,600
Speaker 1: couldn't win tonight? Uh couldn't win? No? Highly unlikely that

1219
01:05:02,680 --> 01:05:11,080
Speaker 1: they wouldn't win. Yes, anybody can win. Let's see, did

1220
01:05:11,120 --> 01:05:13,240
Speaker 1: Sean just break the easy code? Didn't bite on a

1221
01:05:13,280 --> 01:05:15,480
Speaker 1: single faint hardly? He did bite, but he didn't bite

1222
01:05:15,560 --> 01:05:18,439
Speaker 1: a bit at a safe distance, and it really felt

1223
01:05:18,520 --> 01:05:22,320
Speaker 1: like without those is he was neutered. Yes, yes, it

1224
01:05:22,400 --> 01:05:24,800
Speaker 1: seems like his strike. But it's not just that. It's

1225
01:05:24,920 --> 01:05:27,560
Speaker 1: that you've got to pressure him so that everything becomes

1226
01:05:27,600 --> 01:05:31,640
Speaker 1: more readable, becomes hastier, becomes less set up, becomes less confident,

1227
01:05:31,920 --> 01:05:35,480
Speaker 1: less powerful, all that stuff, it's all working together. There.

1228
01:05:38,680 --> 01:05:40,640
Speaker 1: Is he still in the goat conversation? No? I mean, dude,

1229
01:05:40,640 --> 01:05:43,280
Speaker 1: he's still second best. I mean he's second best with

1230
01:05:43,360 --> 01:05:46,040
Speaker 1: a bullet. You know, they're like the distance between is

1231
01:05:46,120 --> 01:05:48,600
Speaker 1: he and the other middleweight's vying for number two is

1232
01:05:48,640 --> 01:05:51,000
Speaker 1: pretty far? But you know, do I put him in

1233
01:05:51,280 --> 01:05:55,640
Speaker 1: the above what Anderson Silva did? I watched Anderson Silva's rain. No,

1234
01:05:56,480 --> 01:06:01,440
Speaker 1: it's not the same. Is the six letter f ward back?

1235
01:06:01,680 --> 01:06:08,680
Speaker 1: It is on UFC broadcasts apparently at thirty four? Are

1236
01:06:08,720 --> 01:06:12,600
Speaker 1: we witnessing? Is he on the decline? Maybe maybe not

1237
01:06:12,880 --> 01:06:19,360
Speaker 1: so much physically, not so much physically, but maybe the

1238
01:06:19,600 --> 01:06:23,440
Speaker 1: competitive advantage that he enjoyed early in his UFC run.

1239
01:06:24,640 --> 01:06:27,680
Speaker 1: The difference is clear now that the rest of the

1240
01:06:28,160 --> 01:06:30,320
Speaker 1: and I guess it has been for some time. You know,

1241
01:06:30,400 --> 01:06:33,200
Speaker 1: Cannon Eir got kind of close and other guys got

1242
01:06:33,280 --> 01:06:36,840
Speaker 1: kind of close the competitive distance between himself and his peers.

1243
01:06:36,960 --> 01:06:43,160
Speaker 1: That that distance has collapsed dramatically. Why didn't is he

1244
01:06:43,240 --> 01:06:45,440
Speaker 1: push more in the final round? I don't know. Was

1245
01:06:45,560 --> 01:06:49,640
Speaker 1: Is he overconfident coming in Probably a little bit, a

1246
01:06:49,720 --> 01:06:52,200
Speaker 1: little bit not much. I still think he had focus,

1247
01:06:52,640 --> 01:06:53,920
Speaker 1: but he was like, you know, I'm gonna go kill

1248
01:06:53,960 --> 01:06:55,640
Speaker 1: your king and stuff like that on social media. I mean,

1249
01:06:56,240 --> 01:06:58,360
Speaker 1: but I mean, like, you know, a fighter being confident

1250
01:06:58,360 --> 01:06:59,760
Speaker 1: that they're gonna win is like, there's kind of a

1251
01:07:00,240 --> 01:07:05,600
Speaker 1: to be like psychotically confident. But okay, does this put

1252
01:07:05,600 --> 01:07:08,240
Speaker 1: the whole mma? Science in question? Means analysis still have

1253
01:07:08,280 --> 01:07:11,800
Speaker 1: a lot to discover, yes, of course, but also analysts

1254
01:07:11,840 --> 01:07:16,440
Speaker 1: are always working with incomplete information. You know, we are

1255
01:07:16,520 --> 01:07:18,920
Speaker 1: working with what they have showed, not what they can

1256
01:07:19,080 --> 01:07:21,680
Speaker 1: show the next time. And as a result, there's gonna

1257
01:07:21,680 --> 01:07:23,680
Speaker 1: be a gap between that, you know, and this was

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Speaker 1: a big one. Is that the best defensive performance you

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Speaker 1: can remember? That's a pretty goddamn good one. It's a

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Speaker 1: pretty goddamn good one. Will twenty twenty three be known

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Speaker 1: as the Year of the shawns hey Man? The Shawn's

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Speaker 1: in mma are having a great year. Wow, is this

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Speaker 1: bigger than Sarah beating GSP? I don't think by odds

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Speaker 1: it is. I don't think it is. Let's see, do

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Speaker 1: you think Sean won every round but the second? Probably? Probably?

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Speaker 1: Would you say that? Is he striking has not evolved

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Speaker 1: enough at this level? Or is it just a competition

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Speaker 1: catching up? Definitely? Competition catching up? Definitely. Someone wrote obligatory question,

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Speaker 1: did Strickland win or did is he lose? As is

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Speaker 1: he's number one media cheerleader. Sean Strickland won, Sean Strickland won,

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Speaker 1: Sean Strickland won. Is he didn't lose in that in

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Speaker 1: the way you're framing it, Sean Strickland won. You have

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Speaker 1: to acknowledge it. You have to. You have to. You

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Speaker 1: cannot take that away from him. He fucking earned that thing,

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Speaker 1: fair and square, No two ways about it, No two

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Speaker 1: ways about it. Um okay, most of these, Most of

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Speaker 1: these are the same kind of questions. Does Johnny Eblin

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Speaker 1: have a serious claim to be the best mental weight

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Speaker 1: in the world? Yes? I know people are not gonna

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Speaker 1: want to say that because he fights for Bellatore, but yes,

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Speaker 1: yes he does. Did Drake lose to oh Drake? Drake

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Speaker 1: put it on him two hundred and twenty thousand. All right,

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Speaker 1: here we go. Do I think is he properly prepared? Yes,

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Speaker 1: all right, that's it. Hey, I'm gonna do extra credit

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Speaker 1: here just a minute. So that's that. Was it a

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Speaker 1: weird performance from Issy in the sense that you know,

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Speaker 1: all week there was like a weird media environment and everything.

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Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know. I don't know what

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Speaker 1: to make of him leaving. I don't know what to

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Speaker 1: make of any of that stuff. I guess we're gonna

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Speaker 1: have to wait and see what the information will be.

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Speaker 1: But tonight belongs to Sean Struck, no doubt about it.

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Speaker 1: Tonight belongs to Sean Strickland. Belongs to a lesser degree,

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Speaker 1: but also to Eric Nixon, an extreme cotuur, and guys

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Speaker 1: who flew all the way to fucking Australia and got

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Speaker 1: the goddamn job done in the most, if not the

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Speaker 1: most one of the most improbable circumstances that any of

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Speaker 1: us have ever seen. But the night belongs to Sean Strickland,

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Speaker 1: and there are simply no two ways about it. So

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Speaker 1: I want to thank you folks for watching here tonight.

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Speaker 1: I really appreciate it. Thumbs up on the video hit

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Speaker 1: subscribe and uh boy, we got a lot to talk

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Speaker 1: about on Monday's Morning Combat, do we not? So join

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Speaker 1: us on Monday Monday, Monday Monday Live at eleven am,

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Speaker 1: ME and BC, Sean Strickland wins a fucking one sided

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Speaker 1: affair basically over Izzy and is the new UFC middleweight Champion.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Sean Strickland. Era. Didn't think I'd be

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Speaker 1: saying that tonight, but you got a call balls and

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Speaker 1: strikes and that was That was the pitching performance of

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Speaker 1: a lifetime. Congratulations to him. I'm out here, y'all, peace,

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much for watching.