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Speaker 1: Hi everybody. It is uh, let's see. It is one

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Speaker 1: a m. The thirteenth of February twenty twenty. My name

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Speaker 1: is Luke Thomas. I am one half of the Morning

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Speaker 1: Combat podcast duo Brian Campbell. Of course we'll be back

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Speaker 1: on Monday show. But this is my UFC two to

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Speaker 1: seventy one post fight show. We're going to get to

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Speaker 1: whole lot of other stuff. Well, okay, all right, we

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Speaker 1: got UFC two seventy one to talk about. Do we not,

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Speaker 1: So without further ado, let's get this party started and

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Speaker 1: we're back. If you're listening on podcasts, you know the drill,

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Speaker 1: give us a nice review there as well. Okay, just

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Speaker 1: sort of one real quick, not even a housekeeping no,

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Speaker 1: just a disclaimer that I always want to make sure

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Speaker 1: folks know I've literally just watched the fight. I know

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Speaker 1: you guys have just watched the fight. We're just absorbing

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Speaker 1: this second third watches or however many may elicit different

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Speaker 1: views about what happened in the fight, or ultimately how

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Speaker 1: it was scored or not. You may watch it again

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Speaker 1: and decide that however you saw in real time was

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Speaker 1: exactly the same. But it is at least fair to

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Speaker 1: say that a lot of us, not just for the

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Speaker 1: main event, but for everything else. This is my first

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Speaker 1: response to things that might change over time, including by

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Speaker 1: Monday if I've had a time to watch more tape.

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Speaker 1: That is especially true in terms of of getting the

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Speaker 1: technique breakdowns. But okay, let's turn this one off. Let's

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Speaker 1: get to it. Let's start this process, shall we. Okay,

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Speaker 1: let's see UFC two seventy one took place at the

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, and no spoilers if you don't want spoilers,

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Speaker 1: this is your time to go right. So I usually

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Speaker 1: say that before I hit the stinger, But either way,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna get to spoilers. Okay, five four three two one,

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Speaker 1: all right. UFC two seventy one took place at the

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Speaker 1: Toyota Center in Houston, Texas, live on pay per view.

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Speaker 1: In your main event, Israel Atasania retains his title defeating

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Speaker 1: Robert Whitaker via unanimous decision with scores of forty eight

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Speaker 1: This is a hard thing, I thinks for this is

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Speaker 1: way in which the scoring criteria work and works is

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Speaker 1: going to get not a score that is acceptable. You're

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Speaker 1: they're okay, it's whatever, but they're doing just that. They're

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Speaker 1: caveat out of the way. My scorecard was three to

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Speaker 1: two for Adasania. I gave him the first three rounds.

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Speaker 1: But those are gonna add I mean he's gonna be

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Speaker 1: of people who held the title at middleweight. He is

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Speaker 1: a decorated and you know, exemplary champion. But if we're

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Speaker 1: asking who we're ranking middleweight champions of all time, the

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Speaker 1: reason why Silva would remain probably at number one, would

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Speaker 1: be that he has you know it was at ten

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Speaker 1: title defenses. But what Adasanya has done an undefeated dude, Right,

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Speaker 1: Joe Burrow is competing tomorrow. I'm not going to make

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Speaker 1: some grand football comparison because I'm not capable of doing it.

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Speaker 1: But Joe Burrow is competing tomorrow, right, And there's a

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Speaker 1: potential designation he might get. If you're European or Australian

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Speaker 1: and you're watching this or Kiwi or whatever. Joe Burrow

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Speaker 1: is the quarterback for the Cincinnati Bengals. Tomorrow is the

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Speaker 1: Super Bowl. It's the biggest game that America has by far,

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Speaker 1: like in any sport, It's huge. Okay, one hundred million

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Speaker 1: people watch. It's It's a thing. Joe Burrow. If he

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Speaker 1: wins as the quarterback tomorrow for the Cincinnati Bengals, he'll

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Speaker 1: be the first person in NFL history to win the Heisman,

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Speaker 1: which is the award that is given to basically the

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Speaker 1: best college football players. It's also voted on, but the

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Speaker 1: best college football player of the year is awarded the Heisman.

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Speaker 1: A national title in college and then a Super Bowl.

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Speaker 1: No one has done the trifecta. He is up for that,

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Speaker 1: potentially doing that tomorrow. Now I'm not here to compare

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Speaker 1: any one fighter to what Joe Burrow was trying to

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Speaker 1: do or some kind of ham fitted way. But what

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Speaker 1: I am trying to explain to you is it is

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Speaker 1: entirely common, not just for people to have success at

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Speaker 1: the regional level and then the UFC level, but then

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Speaker 1: stumble a little bit at the next level. It's even

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Speaker 1: common for people to have stumbling at the regional level,

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Speaker 1: kind of get it together at the professional level, have

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Speaker 1: to retool there again and then get really good. In fact,

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Speaker 1: you look at guys like Derek Brunson and Jared Cannoneer,

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Speaker 1: they're exactly that that was thirty eight versus thirty seven

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Speaker 1: years old. In fact, it was thirty eight versus thirty

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Speaker 1: eight because in like a month or less Cannon is

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Speaker 1: gonna turn thirty eight. But he had to retool himself

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Speaker 1: to get to where he is, and he is a

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Speaker 1: formidable competitor. To be very clear, what I'm pointing out

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Speaker 1: about is about Israel Atasanya, though, is that at every

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Speaker 1: mother fucking level he has won. You could see he

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Speaker 1: didn't win a two of five, okay, at middleweight, at middleweight,

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Speaker 1: look at what he has done to the point where

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Speaker 1: number one contenders are getting second cracks at him in

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Speaker 1: bigger bouts with much more prep, and they still cannot

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Speaker 1: get their hand raised. Ladies and gentlemen, Let's state this

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Speaker 1: outright very clearly. When I use the word campaign, what

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Speaker 1: I mean is someone making a hard slog through a division.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes a campaign can be one where losses are part

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Speaker 1: of it. Right, But if someone likes, say, change his

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Speaker 1: weight class, then you know has many fights in another

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Speaker 1: weight class. I'm gonna talk, I'm gonna I would refer

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Speaker 1: to that change as the beginning of that campaign. He

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Speaker 1: has been in middleweight save for the Blakhovich fight, essentially

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Speaker 1: one of five cents at the beginning at middleweight for

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Speaker 1: that campaign. That's, ladies and gentlemen, that's one of the

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Speaker 1: best weight class campaigns you will ever see. You will.

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Speaker 1: It will be very rare, very rare that someone has

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Speaker 1: twenty plus fights and I know Habib did it again.

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Speaker 1: That's that is easily one of the best weight class

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Speaker 1: campaigns you will ever see, dude. That's that's you know.

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Speaker 1: When you when you put together wow who had a

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Speaker 1: run through a weight class? You put Demetrius Johnson's run

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Speaker 1: on the list. You put in Anderson Silva's run on

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Speaker 1: the list. You put a couple of the ones that

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Speaker 1: GSP made throughom blah blah blah. You at kamar Usman whatever,

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Speaker 1: you add this one to the list, and you can

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Speaker 1: sort of however you want. You can put other ones

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Speaker 1: ahead of it if you want. And I think again,

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Speaker 1: Anderson Silva has the ten title defenses. But as a

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Speaker 1: weight class campaign, Anderson Silva went to the UFC at

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Speaker 1: what he already had four losses by the time he

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Speaker 1: got there. Now, great, he went on to do great things,

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Speaker 1: which is my point. But you understand what I'm saying, Dude,

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Speaker 1: to be undefeated at middleweight at every level you've touched

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Speaker 1: is fucking bonkers. It is bonkers. And to me, it

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Speaker 1: is actually, at least to some extent, related to the

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Speaker 1: fact that even though it Adasignia just never gets injured.

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Speaker 1: The dude is an iron man. The fact that he

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Speaker 1: had that those fights. Let's look at his calendar of

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Speaker 1: how often he was taking fights when he was Him

505
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Speaker 1: and McGregor were like when it was hot, they were

506
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Speaker 1: just on it taking fights all the time, and obviously

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Speaker 1: Easy took more in the end. But okay, yeah, so

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Speaker 1: he made his debut in April of twenty eighteen. Then

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Speaker 1: he fought in July, and then he fought in November.

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Speaker 1: So his first year he got in excuse me, he

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Speaker 1: got in four fights. He fought at UFC two twenty

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Speaker 1: one February. Excuse me, So here we go. February, April, July, November.

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Speaker 1: In his first year, won every quarter, just getting after

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Speaker 1: twenty nineteen February April, October, and then that was it.

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Speaker 1: Then in March March, and he fought twice in March,

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Speaker 1: twice in twenty twenty one and others. Is his first

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty two. So he has slowed it down out

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Speaker 1: But that one period there for twenty eighteen twenty nineteen,

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Speaker 1: basically fighting almost every quarter at that point, never got injured,

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Speaker 1: stayed with it, stayed taking fights, even dared to be

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Speaker 1: great up at two oh five, didn't go his way,

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Speaker 1: got back to one eighty five. The point I'm trying

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Speaker 1: to make here is it's not just that he was

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Speaker 1: good and then kind of hung on to what he

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Speaker 1: had and then lorded it over the division. He had

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Speaker 1: to get better commensurately because all those other guys whose

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Speaker 1: asses he was kicking the first time, they got a

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Speaker 1: second chance at it, and they were not gonna let that

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Speaker 1: happen to them again. Victori lost, but he was not

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Speaker 1: gonna let that happen to him again the first time

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Speaker 1: where he actually held out to sign it down and won. Well, actually,

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Speaker 1: in some ways he got beat worse the second time,

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Speaker 1: but certainly you can argue he put himself to get

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Speaker 1: the fight in a great he had done the work

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Speaker 1: to get the second crack. I'll at least give him that.

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Speaker 1: And then the case of rubber Wood Crow, this made

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Speaker 1: a very close fight of it, but in the end

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Speaker 1: he couldn't convince three judges that he had won three rounds.

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Speaker 1: He couldn't He couldn't convince two judges. He couldn't convince

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Speaker 1: one judge he had won three rounds. They just can't

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Speaker 1: do it. They can't do it, dude. He has a

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Speaker 1: this fucking weight class push Israel Adisanya is on and

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Speaker 1: it's not even over yet. We'll see what he does

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Speaker 1: with with with Jared cannoneer, although like Granny's pretty tough too,

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Speaker 1: but it's one of the great ones you'll ever see.

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Speaker 1: Listen to his fucking resume, dude, on his resume, since

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Speaker 1: he joined the UFC, Rob Wilkinson, Marvin Vctori, Brad Tafar's,

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Speaker 1: Derek Brunson, Anderson Silva, Kelvin Gaslin, Robert Whittaker, Joel Romero,

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Speaker 1: Paulo Costa, Marvin Vactory, Robert Whitaker, and he has the

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Speaker 1: Blahovich lost at middleweight though, just I mean, you gotta

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Speaker 1: be kidding me. That is he He is, he is,

552
00:28:33,280 --> 00:28:35,560
Speaker 1: You're you're gonna miss him when he's gone. All these

553
00:28:35,760 --> 00:28:38,600
Speaker 1: fucking clowns who like I don't like that he paints

554
00:28:38,640 --> 00:28:41,200
Speaker 1: his nails, you know, who gives this? Who gives a shit?

555
00:28:43,200 --> 00:28:47,040
Speaker 1: Like of all the things, I couldn't believe that this

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Speaker 1: guy who could beat the fuck out of me and

557
00:28:48,920 --> 00:28:50,920
Speaker 1: beg my girl in front of me and I cry

558
00:28:50,960 --> 00:28:53,440
Speaker 1: and take it. I can't believe he paints his nails.

559
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Speaker 1: What a girly man. I'm gonna say nasty things about

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Speaker 1: him on social media, you know, and just finding any

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Speaker 1: reason to undercut him or to say that the win

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Speaker 1: is in this or that. Dude. They've had a long

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Speaker 1: time to put an l on this guy at middleweight.

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Speaker 1: They've had multiple cracks at it. They've had it in Auckland.

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Speaker 1: They have they had in Auckland. Now, they had it

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Speaker 1: in Perth, Australia, they had it in Melbourne, They've had

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Speaker 1: it in Atlanta, back to Melbourne, then in Las Vegas,

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Speaker 1: then Abu Dhabi, then in Las Vegas, then Arizona and

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Speaker 1: in Houston and then well, I guess the one in

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Speaker 1: Las Vegas with Blovic gotam. But the other ones at middleweight,

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Speaker 1: as we're trying to point out here, they can't do it.

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Speaker 1: They can't do it. It takes somebody who has it

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Speaker 1: absolutely generational level of ability to ward off contenders like that,

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Speaker 1: and he has to have a thirst and a hunger

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Speaker 1: for competition, for improvement, for growth, to maintain the kind

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Speaker 1: of competitive lead while staying injury free that it takes

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Speaker 1: to beat Robert Whitaker's. If he had taken a month

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Speaker 1: or two less serious than he had taken in the

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Speaker 1: last time that they fought, he I don't know if

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Speaker 1: you win these fights in that like Whitaker brings you

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Speaker 1: that much concern. Right, there's any moment in the last

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Speaker 1: four or five years, whatever it's been four years, not

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Speaker 1: even hardly barely four years. Uh, you know, he had

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Speaker 1: slacked a little bit. I don't think he could have

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Speaker 1: done what he did, but he didn't. He kept his

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Speaker 1: foot on the gas. And this is not an argument

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Speaker 1: for his he cannot be beaten. This is not an

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Speaker 1: argument for again, multiple interpretations for several scorecards over the

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Speaker 1: course of any fighter's career. His included sure fine, but

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Speaker 1: when when there was actually time to do the tallying,

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Speaker 1: when it was time to do the fighting, when it

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Speaker 1: was time to get the w The middleweights of the

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Speaker 1: world cannot do it. Robert Whitaker got pretty close. It's

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Speaker 1: about as close as anyone's gotten really inside the middleweight division.

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Speaker 1: That's about it. And he had two tries at it

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Speaker 1: and still couldn't do it. Israel Auta Sonya is not

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00:31:04,520 --> 00:31:08,480
Speaker 1: just one of the bast motherfuckers of today. The stuff

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Speaker 1: he's doing. You know, did he wow you this time

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Speaker 1: with the dance number? He didn't do one? Did he

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Speaker 1: blow Robert Whitaker, you know into smithereens? No, you know,

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Speaker 1: these guys, he's not fighting chumps. By the time they

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Speaker 1: get a second crack, it's going to be he's going

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00:31:23,760 --> 00:31:26,080
Speaker 1: to be very difficult puzzles to solve. But the fact

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Speaker 1: that they still can't do it this far into his run.

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Speaker 1: It's bonkers. Every new level that you reach in a

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Speaker 1: sports career, certainly, it's not just that the people who

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Speaker 1: you are up against make the competition more difficult. The

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Speaker 1: stakes are raised, the requirements on the person. They all

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Speaker 1: go up so to not only just be excellent there,

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Speaker 1: but be excellent proportional as your rivals come up and

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Speaker 1: come down and take places and change and get better

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Speaker 1: and come out of nowhere and fade into obscurity and

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Speaker 1: blah blah blah. To maintain that requires not just a

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Speaker 1: huge lead on your competitors in terms of some skill

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Speaker 1: set or something else. It requires matching their intensity to

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Speaker 1: beat you the entire time. In this or at least

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Speaker 1: in this case, it does. I don't I don't think

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Speaker 1: he could have done it without it. It's remarkable. It's remarkable.

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Speaker 1: It's it's it's truly truly remarkable to see something like this.

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Speaker 1: It should be a reason why any any anybody who

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Speaker 1: gets twenty pro wins in a weight class doesn't lose

622
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Speaker 1: and captures and defends multiple times a UFC weight class title.

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Speaker 1: I mean that is that they're not going to be

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Speaker 1: a whole lot of them. They're not going to be

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Speaker 1: a whole lot of them. Israel Asignia as one of them.

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Speaker 1: Even if I grant, I could just tell he has

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Speaker 1: is he has come a long way in terms of

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Speaker 1: capturing the fans of imagination. But I think there's still

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Speaker 1: a lot of people who either hate him or like

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00:32:54,160 --> 00:32:56,520
Speaker 1: to hate on him. Not as many. They're not as many,

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Speaker 1: I grant, but there's still some. And I saw that

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Speaker 1: people were like, no, man I had I had three

633
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Speaker 1: rounds for Whittaker. Okay, that's possible, that's a possible scorecard.

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Speaker 1: That's not the I would argue, that's not the light.

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Speaker 1: When you had to rank which ones can are most defensible,

636
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Speaker 1: I would not put three two Whittaker at the top

637
00:33:13,280 --> 00:33:17,000
Speaker 1: of that list. I'd put it as justifiable. I'd put

638
00:33:17,000 --> 00:33:19,080
Speaker 1: it there. I'd put it justifiable. I would not put

639
00:33:19,080 --> 00:33:22,640
Speaker 1: it as like this would be my leading, this would

640
00:33:22,680 --> 00:33:25,440
Speaker 1: be my best argument to explain what happened. I don't

641
00:33:25,480 --> 00:33:27,040
Speaker 1: think you. I don't think I could do that. There's

642
00:33:27,080 --> 00:33:29,960
Speaker 1: just not enough. There's missing pieces in what he did

643
00:33:30,280 --> 00:33:33,800
Speaker 1: that I think make the difference in the end for me, certainly. Anyway,

644
00:33:34,600 --> 00:33:36,840
Speaker 1: getting back to these numbers here very quickly, if I can,

645
00:33:39,520 --> 00:33:44,160
Speaker 1: let's see let's look at targeting. Wow, targeting by Adasania

646
00:33:44,200 --> 00:33:47,480
Speaker 1: thirty six percent to the leg, seventeen percent to the body,

647
00:33:48,120 --> 00:33:52,200
Speaker 1: forty five percent to the head. Robert Whittaker pretty pretty

648
00:33:53,320 --> 00:33:55,120
Speaker 1: switch the you can switch ahead and the leg here

649
00:33:55,200 --> 00:33:57,680
Speaker 1: relative to out a Sonya sixty four percent of the

650
00:33:57,680 --> 00:34:00,640
Speaker 1: head that sounds right, thirteen percent to the body, and

651
00:34:00,680 --> 00:34:02,680
Speaker 1: then twenty two percent of the leg. I thought one

652
00:34:02,720 --> 00:34:04,400
Speaker 1: of the things he did really well, like why was,

653
00:34:04,760 --> 00:34:06,720
Speaker 1: for example, like how did Otto sign you kept getting

654
00:34:06,760 --> 00:34:08,640
Speaker 1: hit cleaned by those jobs? You ever noticed that when

655
00:34:08,680 --> 00:34:10,359
Speaker 1: he would get backed up straight and he would get

656
00:34:10,400 --> 00:34:11,719
Speaker 1: hit because when he could get out of the way

657
00:34:11,719 --> 00:34:14,120
Speaker 1: of the hooks, he could lean and they would go

658
00:34:14,160 --> 00:34:16,799
Speaker 1: in front. The jab was straight, so he couldn't lean

659
00:34:16,880 --> 00:34:19,120
Speaker 1: quite as much together the way. But that's not why

660
00:34:19,239 --> 00:34:21,959
Speaker 1: it was. Because it was the takedowns. Robert Witker would

661
00:34:22,000 --> 00:34:23,239
Speaker 1: kind of get low and you couldn't tell if he

662
00:34:23,320 --> 00:34:24,840
Speaker 1: was going to reach or come up high, so he

663
00:34:24,880 --> 00:34:27,759
Speaker 1: would fake it one way and then come over, and

664
00:34:27,800 --> 00:34:30,120
Speaker 1: then a lot of times they would have great success.

665
00:34:30,160 --> 00:34:32,400
Speaker 1: It had I won't say it had to otisign and

666
00:34:32,400 --> 00:34:36,280
Speaker 1: completely confused because I thought Atoignia defended six of those takedowns,

667
00:34:36,280 --> 00:34:38,319
Speaker 1: and again the rest of them. Two of them were

668
00:34:38,320 --> 00:34:41,040
Speaker 1: pretty good, take really good takedowns in the sense of

669
00:34:42,040 --> 00:34:44,879
Speaker 1: being able to put a little something behind it. But

670
00:34:44,920 --> 00:34:46,560
Speaker 1: the rest of them he just couldn't really do a

671
00:34:46,600 --> 00:34:50,319
Speaker 1: whole lot with him. Dude. It's a very aggressive, no

672
00:34:50,320 --> 00:34:54,759
Speaker 1: nonsense scrambler, and it was a deterrent for whiticker. He

673
00:34:54,760 --> 00:34:57,000
Speaker 1: had to be. He had to apportion his offense and

674
00:34:57,040 --> 00:34:59,160
Speaker 1: really find the right time so to do. It got

675
00:34:59,160 --> 00:35:01,080
Speaker 1: better as it went along. Fifth round clear to him,

676
00:35:01,120 --> 00:35:06,279
Speaker 1: but interesting, interesting, just the same. We'll come back to

677
00:35:06,320 --> 00:35:08,239
Speaker 1: that with any of your questions. If you guys have

678
00:35:08,360 --> 00:35:11,359
Speaker 1: any of them, I'll be happy to take them again.

679
00:35:11,360 --> 00:35:13,520
Speaker 1: If you're watching thumbs up on the video hit subscribe.

680
00:35:14,000 --> 00:35:17,120
Speaker 1: All right, let's talk about the other fight that is

681
00:35:17,440 --> 00:35:22,880
Speaker 1: highly interesting. Co main event, ty to Ivasa defeats Derek

682
00:35:23,000 --> 00:35:28,640
Speaker 1: Lewis via elbow. Ko. It's not quite right to say this,

683
00:35:28,760 --> 00:35:30,799
Speaker 1: but it's basically right to say this. It was a

684
00:35:30,800 --> 00:35:35,160
Speaker 1: one hit or quitter from ty to Evasa. Uh one

685
00:35:35,680 --> 00:35:39,680
Speaker 1: of the second round. Man, turn this up a little bit.

686
00:35:39,800 --> 00:35:41,399
Speaker 1: I know you are going to complain about the sound.

687
00:35:41,440 --> 00:35:43,840
Speaker 1: If I don't, it's probably already to wait for that anyway,

688
00:35:45,440 --> 00:35:48,520
Speaker 1: boy Ty to Evasa has arrived. Huh. That was a

689
00:35:48,520 --> 00:35:52,600
Speaker 1: great performance by him, really really really really strong stuff

690
00:35:52,600 --> 00:35:56,640
Speaker 1: from him, really strong stuff from Derek Lewis for a time. Actually,

691
00:35:56,760 --> 00:36:00,480
Speaker 1: Derek Lewis is really clever. Those they talk about him,

692
00:36:00,480 --> 00:36:02,960
Speaker 1: the the running, jumping and switch knees and the jumping

693
00:36:02,960 --> 00:36:08,719
Speaker 1: switch eye kick, those are all done very, very in

694
00:36:08,719 --> 00:36:12,359
Speaker 1: a very calculated manner. The jumping he does he did

695
00:36:12,360 --> 00:36:14,080
Speaker 1: to Chris Dalkie. He doesn't a lot of people. It's

696
00:36:14,160 --> 00:36:17,080
Speaker 1: to elicit a big defensive reaction, usually to create space,

697
00:36:17,520 --> 00:36:19,680
Speaker 1: and then he actually just fills it and can retake center.

698
00:36:19,719 --> 00:36:22,600
Speaker 1: Its Oftentimes when he gets pressed backwards or if it's

699
00:36:22,600 --> 00:36:24,680
Speaker 1: in the center he wants to press someone backwards, he

700
00:36:24,680 --> 00:36:27,120
Speaker 1: does it because he gets a big motion reaction. You

701
00:36:27,160 --> 00:36:28,880
Speaker 1: see that big ass man coming out of flying in

702
00:36:28,920 --> 00:36:31,120
Speaker 1: the middle of nowhere, throwing kicks. People get the fuck

703
00:36:31,160 --> 00:36:34,480
Speaker 1: out the way. It's kind of like that. So you

704
00:36:34,520 --> 00:36:36,640
Speaker 1: saw some of that. You saw some big punches land

705
00:36:36,680 --> 00:36:39,160
Speaker 1: I thought, the takedowns, the inside trip and then do it.

706
00:36:39,200 --> 00:36:41,560
Speaker 1: He was hammering to Evasa as he was trying to

707
00:36:41,560 --> 00:36:44,359
Speaker 1: get up the fence. I couldn't believe to Evasa's chin.

708
00:36:44,440 --> 00:36:49,839
Speaker 1: Holy fuck man, because you only know it doesn't take

709
00:36:49,920 --> 00:36:52,080
Speaker 1: much from old Derek Lewis to start sending people to

710
00:36:52,120 --> 00:36:56,040
Speaker 1: the land and wind in ghosts in a hurry. But

711
00:36:56,120 --> 00:36:58,239
Speaker 1: he withstood. You know what was funny to me was

712
00:36:58,800 --> 00:37:02,400
Speaker 1: this was a really strategic performance by Ti tui Vasa

713
00:37:02,480 --> 00:37:03,879
Speaker 1: all the way out all the way in. You heard

714
00:37:03,880 --> 00:37:07,120
Speaker 1: the commentators talk about it, getting double underhooks, driving with

715
00:37:07,200 --> 00:37:10,000
Speaker 1: his head, kind of working on Derek, trying to slow

716
00:37:10,080 --> 00:37:14,480
Speaker 1: him down, hold his I think survive a first round storm.

717
00:37:14,840 --> 00:37:21,359
Speaker 1: I thought he brawled with Lewis somewhat strategically. Actually at

718
00:37:21,480 --> 00:37:23,719
Speaker 1: or wasn't much brawling. I mean it was pronounced and

719
00:37:23,760 --> 00:37:25,960
Speaker 1: we remember that part. But if you look at that

720
00:37:26,040 --> 00:37:27,880
Speaker 1: as a portion of how much they were doing relative

721
00:37:27,920 --> 00:37:29,279
Speaker 1: to the rest of the round, not that much. And

722
00:37:29,280 --> 00:37:31,239
Speaker 1: you're like, well, how much could they do? Well, go

723
00:37:31,360 --> 00:37:34,719
Speaker 1: watch Cyborg versus Belvin Manhoff in cage rage and I'll

724
00:37:34,760 --> 00:37:37,480
Speaker 1: answer that question for you. They can fucking brawl as

725
00:37:37,520 --> 00:37:41,799
Speaker 1: long as the fight is existing. Basically, so for them

726
00:37:41,880 --> 00:37:44,799
Speaker 1: in this particular case here at tuy Vasa and Lewis,

727
00:37:44,800 --> 00:37:47,600
Speaker 1: they would brawl in short bursts. TUIs Vasa would brawl

728
00:37:47,960 --> 00:37:51,080
Speaker 1: just enough to buy himself some space and respect from

729
00:37:51,120 --> 00:37:54,400
Speaker 1: Derek to then either get off the fence, reclinch to it,

730
00:37:54,640 --> 00:37:58,279
Speaker 1: just just get them get them off. And I thought

731
00:37:58,320 --> 00:38:00,440
Speaker 1: it worked. And then after that he was very much

732
00:38:00,440 --> 00:38:02,799
Speaker 1: about making sure he was mindful of his range, not

733
00:38:02,840 --> 00:38:05,560
Speaker 1: taking too many punches. He was on the defensive end

734
00:38:05,680 --> 00:38:09,560
Speaker 1: for a lot of that, but a he can brawl,

735
00:38:10,560 --> 00:38:14,560
Speaker 1: and really what you saw was a demonstrated like where

736
00:38:14,640 --> 00:38:17,440
Speaker 1: is he very much better than Derek Lewis at offense?

737
00:38:17,480 --> 00:38:20,600
Speaker 1: In the clinch? Derek Brunson and Jared Kennoneer had a

738
00:38:20,640 --> 00:38:23,280
Speaker 1: similar situation where Brunson was separating on the clinch break,

739
00:38:23,560 --> 00:38:25,400
Speaker 1: didn't have his hands up and just gets drilled with

740
00:38:25,760 --> 00:38:28,080
Speaker 1: a shot. Tu Vasa is a little bit different man

741
00:38:28,120 --> 00:38:30,839
Speaker 1: if you've never wrestled, And I realized that Tuey Vasa is.

742
00:38:30,920 --> 00:38:33,200
Speaker 1: You know, he made weight, but you know he's a

743
00:38:33,239 --> 00:38:37,279
Speaker 1: guy who's probably been at three hundred fairly routinely at

744
00:38:37,600 --> 00:38:39,719
Speaker 1: the last few years of his life. For I bet

745
00:38:39,760 --> 00:38:42,080
Speaker 1: getting up there is not all that unheard of for

746
00:38:42,160 --> 00:38:45,560
Speaker 1: him at a bare minimum. And you know, if you've

747
00:38:45,600 --> 00:38:48,239
Speaker 1: never wrestled in a three hundred pound guy, they all

748
00:38:48,400 --> 00:38:50,600
Speaker 1: I always got paired with the three hundred pound guys,

749
00:38:50,640 --> 00:38:53,080
Speaker 1: because I'm not three hundred pounds, but I'm the closest

750
00:38:53,120 --> 00:38:59,560
Speaker 1: thing mid to high two hundreds. And uh, it fucking sucks, man,

751
00:39:00,440 --> 00:39:02,600
Speaker 1: It sucks trying to wrestle those dudes. Because you know

752
00:39:02,640 --> 00:39:05,439
Speaker 1: what's kind of funny is if they catch you right,

753
00:39:06,719 --> 00:39:08,520
Speaker 1: sometimes they can just push you and then they can

754
00:39:08,600 --> 00:39:11,480
Speaker 1: keep pushing you. And if they push you like in

755
00:39:11,520 --> 00:39:14,040
Speaker 1: a certain moments where you can never quite get your footing,

756
00:39:14,480 --> 00:39:15,960
Speaker 1: they can just back you up all the way to

757
00:39:16,000 --> 00:39:18,240
Speaker 1: the wall. Like tuy Vasa can do that with guys.

758
00:39:18,239 --> 00:39:20,719
Speaker 1: He can kind of like get the lean on them

759
00:39:20,760 --> 00:39:22,480
Speaker 1: where you know, it's not really a tug of war

760
00:39:22,560 --> 00:39:24,880
Speaker 1: or a push of war. He'll catch him on the

761
00:39:24,920 --> 00:39:26,840
Speaker 1: back foot and then just kind of keep pushing them backwards

762
00:39:26,880 --> 00:39:29,640
Speaker 1: a little bit. And he has stopped people with that

763
00:39:29,760 --> 00:39:32,520
Speaker 1: very technique before the exact technique where he just kind

764
00:39:32,520 --> 00:39:36,160
Speaker 1: of runs him into the fence and then almost ricochets

765
00:39:36,200 --> 00:39:39,520
Speaker 1: them off the fence to catch the elbow over the

766
00:39:39,520 --> 00:39:41,840
Speaker 1: top when they ricochet off the fence, or at a

767
00:39:41,840 --> 00:39:45,239
Speaker 1: bare minimum, giving them no place to ricochet too when

768
00:39:45,239 --> 00:39:48,120
Speaker 1: their head hits so they you know there's a greater

769
00:39:48,200 --> 00:39:51,120
Speaker 1: absorption within the body of the damage of the blow.

770
00:39:51,320 --> 00:39:53,480
Speaker 1: He got hit with that elbow, and you can see

771
00:39:53,480 --> 00:39:57,000
Speaker 1: Derek Lewis's eyes go like that, and it almost, I think,

772
00:39:57,120 --> 00:39:59,279
Speaker 1: entirely in an involuntary way. He got hit with a

773
00:39:59,320 --> 00:40:03,480
Speaker 1: fucking hammer of thor that was Mulneier, like you know,

774
00:40:04,200 --> 00:40:06,080
Speaker 1: vision picked it up and cracked him with it. I mean,

775
00:40:06,080 --> 00:40:08,680
Speaker 1: that was a heavy shot he got hit with and

776
00:40:08,719 --> 00:40:10,920
Speaker 1: his body just kind of reacted and it was actually

777
00:40:10,960 --> 00:40:13,279
Speaker 1: an elbow in the clinch before that as well. That

778
00:40:13,320 --> 00:40:16,759
Speaker 1: had done good work to me. The lesson of that is, yes,

779
00:40:16,840 --> 00:40:18,839
Speaker 1: tuy Vasa did brawl a little bit, but I thought

780
00:40:18,880 --> 00:40:22,839
Speaker 1: he was sparingly. He used it sparingly. Not only did

781
00:40:22,840 --> 00:40:25,200
Speaker 1: he use it sparingly, to my mind, he used it

782
00:40:25,200 --> 00:40:29,920
Speaker 1: at least somewhat strategically. Beyond that, he had a larger

783
00:40:30,000 --> 00:40:34,319
Speaker 1: strategic purpose that was slow to materialize. But once he

784
00:40:34,360 --> 00:40:38,640
Speaker 1: was able to get Derek Lewis in closer range, he

785
00:40:38,680 --> 00:40:40,680
Speaker 1: wasn't kind of fighting or circling on the outside. He

786
00:40:40,719 --> 00:40:42,960
Speaker 1: had him in a space that A he's comfortable in

787
00:40:43,000 --> 00:40:44,440
Speaker 1: and B. I think Derek Lewis is at least a

788
00:40:44,480 --> 00:40:47,799
Speaker 1: little bit more limited in it's fair to say. And

789
00:40:47,920 --> 00:40:51,680
Speaker 1: he made really strong work with it. He had to endure.

790
00:40:51,920 --> 00:40:54,760
Speaker 1: You know, he did lean on natural strength and ability.

791
00:40:55,120 --> 00:40:57,120
Speaker 1: And when I say strength, they don't just mean physical strength,

792
00:40:57,120 --> 00:41:00,799
Speaker 1: but I mean you know that he has a ridiculous chin.

793
00:41:01,920 --> 00:41:04,320
Speaker 1: He did have to lean on that. At times. Lewis

794
00:41:04,400 --> 00:41:06,720
Speaker 1: was doing good work. At times, Dude Lewis sets traps.

795
00:41:07,160 --> 00:41:11,720
Speaker 1: Louis manipulates his opponents. He's very good at like waiting

796
00:41:11,719 --> 00:41:14,279
Speaker 1: for the right moment and then really kind of overtaking them,

797
00:41:14,320 --> 00:41:16,839
Speaker 1: and he picks his spots and rounds, and he knows

798
00:41:16,840 --> 00:41:18,799
Speaker 1: where he's good and he knows where he's bad. To

799
00:41:18,800 --> 00:41:21,600
Speaker 1: see the wrinkles of the wrestling, especially after Big Francis

800
00:41:21,600 --> 00:41:23,840
Speaker 1: did it, happy to see it, man, it's great. What

801
00:41:23,880 --> 00:41:26,880
Speaker 1: a phenomenal thing from Derek Lewis. But Tay too, I

802
00:41:26,960 --> 00:41:30,480
Speaker 1: Vasa to me was showing that it wasn't just that

803
00:41:30,560 --> 00:41:32,759
Speaker 1: he was like trying to work a strategic game plan

804
00:41:32,800 --> 00:41:35,920
Speaker 1: then sometimes brawled. I think it was all part of

805
00:41:35,960 --> 00:41:39,560
Speaker 1: a larger process for him, part of a transition generally.

806
00:41:39,680 --> 00:41:43,120
Speaker 1: But you know, staying true to who you are when

807
00:41:43,160 --> 00:41:46,080
Speaker 1: it's valuable, and then staying true to who you want

808
00:41:46,080 --> 00:41:48,640
Speaker 1: to be when it's necessary, right, I think that those

809
00:41:48,680 --> 00:41:50,560
Speaker 1: were coming with some of the trade offs that he

810
00:41:50,680 --> 00:41:52,520
Speaker 1: was making there. I do want to say something though,

811
00:41:53,400 --> 00:41:57,000
Speaker 1: I feel so, and I mean this genuinely. I feel

812
00:41:57,040 --> 00:41:59,239
Speaker 1: really bad for Derek Lewis. And the reason why is,

813
00:41:59,239 --> 00:42:00,839
Speaker 1: you know, you feel bad for any fighter who loses,

814
00:42:00,880 --> 00:42:03,319
Speaker 1: particularly when it's a when it's a one punch KO

815
00:42:03,400 --> 00:42:05,880
Speaker 1: or a one shot KO, because you know, listen, man,

816
00:42:05,920 --> 00:42:08,120
Speaker 1: they make themselves vulnerable to the world. It's hard on

817
00:42:08,160 --> 00:42:11,040
Speaker 1: them to lose like that. But on top of that,

818
00:42:11,160 --> 00:42:14,000
Speaker 1: for a guy like Derek Lewis, I mean, you know,

819
00:42:14,520 --> 00:42:18,000
Speaker 1: let's see, now, he has fought in Houston with the

820
00:42:18,080 --> 00:42:22,160
Speaker 1: UFC and he won UFC one ninety two. He won

821
00:42:22,239 --> 00:42:25,719
Speaker 1: that contest, so that's nice. And he fought for them

822
00:42:25,719 --> 00:42:30,360
Speaker 1: for legacy and he won that one. But subsequent to

823
00:42:30,440 --> 00:42:34,920
Speaker 1: the Victor Pesta fight, he fought in Austin and he

824
00:42:35,080 --> 00:42:39,680
Speaker 1: lost that one. He fought in Houston against Blagoy and

825
00:42:39,760 --> 00:42:42,440
Speaker 1: he did win, excuse me, against Latifi, he did win that,

826
00:42:43,760 --> 00:42:45,560
Speaker 1: and then he got the tie to Ivasa won, but

827
00:42:45,680 --> 00:42:49,680
Speaker 1: he did. What were they talking about, Well, I was

828
00:42:49,680 --> 00:42:52,160
Speaker 1: still gonna say, has to suck losing in your hometown.

829
00:42:52,800 --> 00:42:55,400
Speaker 1: I thought for some reason he had two. Oh no,

830
00:42:55,480 --> 00:42:57,239
Speaker 1: so what am I saying? The serial gone one? Sorry? Here,

831
00:42:57,280 --> 00:43:02,239
Speaker 1: the syrial gone one. Sorry. The literal La Tifi was

832
00:43:02,280 --> 00:43:04,920
Speaker 1: Houston as well. But then he had another one in

833
00:43:04,960 --> 00:43:06,640
Speaker 1: Houston Cyril Gan he lost, and then the other one

834
00:43:06,680 --> 00:43:08,319
Speaker 1: to Vivas. I was just gonna say this. He does

835
00:43:08,360 --> 00:43:11,240
Speaker 1: have some wins in Houston, Legacy wins, some UFC wins,

836
00:43:11,640 --> 00:43:14,360
Speaker 1: but it's bigger fights. He's lost there. And I'll just

837
00:43:14,400 --> 00:43:17,520
Speaker 1: say this, never lose sight of the fact that a

838
00:43:17,560 --> 00:43:20,239
Speaker 1: lot of MMA fighters actually don't get to fight in

839
00:43:20,280 --> 00:43:23,680
Speaker 1: their hometown. I know that sounds kind of crazy, but

840
00:43:24,000 --> 00:43:27,440
Speaker 1: it really is true. It's less so true now because

841
00:43:27,440 --> 00:43:29,239
Speaker 1: the UFC is doing a better job of like going

842
00:43:29,239 --> 00:43:30,880
Speaker 1: to Florida, and a lot of guys are from Florida,

843
00:43:31,600 --> 00:43:33,040
Speaker 1: and I guess a lot of guys are based out

844
00:43:33,040 --> 00:43:34,919
Speaker 1: of Las Vegas. So you may not feel it as much,

845
00:43:35,160 --> 00:43:38,080
Speaker 1: but understand something. If you're an a level boxer, you

846
00:43:38,120 --> 00:43:40,879
Speaker 1: know you're gonna go back to your city wherever you're from,

847
00:43:40,880 --> 00:43:42,680
Speaker 1: even if it's a smaller market, and you're gonna have

848
00:43:42,719 --> 00:43:45,560
Speaker 1: like a grand homecoming, and it's gonna be a big thing,

849
00:43:45,680 --> 00:43:49,120
Speaker 1: like This happens all the time. Like Miguel Coto going

850
00:43:49,160 --> 00:43:51,719
Speaker 1: back to you know, Maison Square Garden for example, was

851
00:43:51,760 --> 00:43:53,759
Speaker 1: a big one. Or even though he's Puerto Rican, but

852
00:43:53,760 --> 00:43:55,759
Speaker 1: I was, he's a giant Puerto Rican community in New

853
00:43:55,840 --> 00:44:01,280
Speaker 1: York City, you know. Or or you know Lamont Peterson

854
00:44:01,320 --> 00:44:04,880
Speaker 1: back to d C or Tank Davis back to Baltimore.

855
00:44:05,000 --> 00:44:06,839
Speaker 1: Like these are all the big ones what they do

856
00:44:06,880 --> 00:44:09,880
Speaker 1: this and it's always this big grand thing, and you know,

857
00:44:09,960 --> 00:44:12,720
Speaker 1: to win there is a big deal. Now Garanted Curtis

858
00:44:12,800 --> 00:44:15,160
Speaker 1: or you know, excuse me, Derek Lewis has had wins

859
00:44:15,360 --> 00:44:17,920
Speaker 1: with UFC in Houston, So this is not the same thing.

860
00:44:18,520 --> 00:44:21,200
Speaker 1: But you know, remember like for example, pop quiz, where

861
00:44:21,320 --> 00:44:25,600
Speaker 1: in what city was dominant Cruz versus TJ. Dillashaw in

862
00:44:26,719 --> 00:44:31,799
Speaker 1: I'll remember it was in Boston. Why the fuck is that?

863
00:44:33,000 --> 00:44:35,520
Speaker 1: You know? It's because the UFC often has these needs

864
00:44:35,560 --> 00:44:38,399
Speaker 1: now post pandemic. I guess they're not traveling as much.

865
00:44:38,400 --> 00:44:39,759
Speaker 1: And again they're going back to some of the same

866
00:44:39,760 --> 00:44:43,040
Speaker 1: place as Houston, or I should say Texas, Florida and

867
00:44:43,280 --> 00:44:44,840
Speaker 1: Las Vegas, and I guess a little bit of California

868
00:44:44,840 --> 00:44:46,000
Speaker 1: and some other places. But you get that idea, it's

869
00:44:46,000 --> 00:44:48,680
Speaker 1: a little more constrained, but you know, the point being

870
00:44:48,760 --> 00:44:50,800
Speaker 1: is there's a lot of fighters who are in big

871
00:44:50,840 --> 00:44:52,759
Speaker 1: fights and a lot of UFC fighters, a lot of

872
00:44:52,880 --> 00:44:54,560
Speaker 1: MM fighters don't get the chance to do it because

873
00:44:54,560 --> 00:44:58,640
Speaker 1: the promotion sometimes will work outside of where it makes

874
00:44:58,640 --> 00:45:01,600
Speaker 1: sense for the main event headliner. This is actually it does.

875
00:45:01,680 --> 00:45:03,160
Speaker 1: It's a real I mean, dude, we had a guy

876
00:45:03,160 --> 00:45:06,560
Speaker 1: from Australia and New Zealand today fighting in Houston, lucky us.

877
00:45:06,600 --> 00:45:08,920
Speaker 1: But you know, is that is that really where the

878
00:45:08,920 --> 00:45:10,799
Speaker 1: fight should have been? Like, I don't know about that,

879
00:45:10,880 --> 00:45:14,799
Speaker 1: but anyway, we get lucky for it. So that is

880
00:45:14,840 --> 00:45:18,160
Speaker 1: what it is. But it has to suck because here

881
00:45:18,200 --> 00:45:21,759
Speaker 1: he had these like really two big moments and you know,

882
00:45:21,880 --> 00:45:23,319
Speaker 1: they didn't go his way and one was for a

883
00:45:23,360 --> 00:45:27,880
Speaker 1: title and it can't be easy. It can't be easy.

884
00:45:27,920 --> 00:45:31,000
Speaker 1: Taitu I vasa getting back to him. Twenty eight years old.

885
00:45:31,640 --> 00:45:33,560
Speaker 1: I think it's how old he is. Twenty eight years old.

886
00:45:33,560 --> 00:45:36,879
Speaker 1: When's his birthday March so he'll be twenty nine next month,

887
00:45:36,960 --> 00:45:39,799
Speaker 1: but still less than thirty. And you just beat Derek

888
00:45:39,880 --> 00:45:43,719
Speaker 1: Lewis by one punch ko him and again I'm going

889
00:45:43,800 --> 00:45:45,720
Speaker 1: to go back to it. You didn't just one punch

890
00:45:45,800 --> 00:45:50,400
Speaker 1: or one strike KO Derek Lewis. You did it applying

891
00:45:50,400 --> 00:45:54,920
Speaker 1: a strategic game plan after weathering a pretty intense storm

892
00:45:55,040 --> 00:45:57,080
Speaker 1: in the first round. Like now, I don't know if

893
00:45:57,080 --> 00:45:58,640
Speaker 1: he's on the verge of stoppa drinking like that, but

894
00:45:58,680 --> 00:46:03,120
Speaker 1: you know, it was not a good round for him. Impressive, Impressive,

895
00:46:03,200 --> 00:46:06,040
Speaker 1: especially for a guy who had the three losses to

896
00:46:06,200 --> 00:46:10,360
Speaker 1: JDS bliguy Ivanov and Sergey Spivak. But since then he

897
00:46:10,400 --> 00:46:15,000
Speaker 1: beats Struve, Harry Hunsucker, Greg Hardy, Augusto Sakai and Derek Lewis,

898
00:46:15,040 --> 00:46:17,400
Speaker 1: and all of them by way of either KO, and

899
00:46:17,440 --> 00:46:19,880
Speaker 1: then the only one that was Harry Huntsucker was a TKO.

900
00:46:21,200 --> 00:46:23,960
Speaker 1: That's it. He only has one decision in the UFC,

901
00:46:24,120 --> 00:46:27,600
Speaker 1: and it was beating Andrea Rolowski. That's it. Everyone else

902
00:46:27,640 --> 00:46:32,720
Speaker 1: he's put their lights out. If you won, super super,

903
00:46:32,960 --> 00:46:36,080
Speaker 1: super impressive. I really really wonder what the ceiling is

904
00:46:36,080 --> 00:46:38,239
Speaker 1: for a guy like that. You know, as long as

905
00:46:38,280 --> 00:46:41,759
Speaker 1: Cyril Gone is in the division, and you know, we'll

906
00:46:41,760 --> 00:46:43,320
Speaker 1: see what a Curtis Blades might do to him. I

907
00:46:43,360 --> 00:46:45,160
Speaker 1: think Curtis Blaze has another fight coming up. But let's

908
00:46:45,200 --> 00:46:48,400
Speaker 1: imagining Curtis Blades is still pretty still pretty viable contender

909
00:46:48,440 --> 00:46:50,480
Speaker 1: at the at the top of the heavyweight division. It

910
00:46:50,719 --> 00:46:53,279
Speaker 1: you know, one wonders exactly, you know, how far can

911
00:46:53,280 --> 00:46:56,279
Speaker 1: Tuivasa go? But to be twenty eight, almost twenty nine

912
00:46:56,320 --> 00:47:00,720
Speaker 1: years old, this far ahead and also understand that things

913
00:47:00,760 --> 00:47:03,480
Speaker 1: had to change to get this far ahead. He had

914
00:47:03,520 --> 00:47:07,360
Speaker 1: to want this place, and he had to make sacrifices

915
00:47:07,400 --> 00:47:10,120
Speaker 1: to get to this place, and even in the fight itself,

916
00:47:10,160 --> 00:47:13,880
Speaker 1: he had to really show commitment to what he was

917
00:47:13,920 --> 00:47:18,600
Speaker 1: after he did with those things in place. You know, again,

918
00:47:18,680 --> 00:47:20,680
Speaker 1: you don't look at him and think he's got like

919
00:47:20,760 --> 00:47:22,359
Speaker 1: the kind of physical build to do a lot of

920
00:47:22,400 --> 00:47:25,360
Speaker 1: different things. But can he get good enough at the

921
00:47:25,400 --> 00:47:27,680
Speaker 1: things that he's good at, can and he really shore up,

922
00:47:27,920 --> 00:47:30,480
Speaker 1: you know, to take down defense everything else in such

923
00:47:30,480 --> 00:47:32,560
Speaker 1: a way as to become a title contender. I think

924
00:47:32,600 --> 00:47:34,240
Speaker 1: if you can beat Derek Lewis y out, you probably

925
00:47:34,239 --> 00:47:37,320
Speaker 1: can be and on the right night, with the right punch,

926
00:47:37,360 --> 00:47:40,319
Speaker 1: that guy can win a title too. I just feel

927
00:47:40,360 --> 00:47:43,040
Speaker 1: like in the age of Francis, in the age of Cyril,

928
00:47:43,280 --> 00:47:46,520
Speaker 1: and maybe even Curtis Blades too, there's still some work

929
00:47:46,560 --> 00:47:48,480
Speaker 1: to be done. For him still some work that that

930
00:47:48,560 --> 00:47:51,160
Speaker 1: was a hell of a win, really was. He really

931
00:47:51,160 --> 00:47:53,560
Speaker 1: had to show a lot of himself on different sides

932
00:47:53,560 --> 00:47:55,640
Speaker 1: of the equation to get that. I we'll go through

933
00:47:55,640 --> 00:47:57,920
Speaker 1: a couple more of these here and they'll get to

934
00:47:57,920 --> 00:48:04,319
Speaker 1: some of your questions. Let's see results. Excuse me, Jared,

935
00:48:04,560 --> 00:48:06,080
Speaker 1: we'll talk about this one since his relevant to the

936
00:48:06,080 --> 00:48:10,400
Speaker 1: main event. Jared Cannoneer defeating Derek Brunson four twenty nine

937
00:48:10,440 --> 00:48:12,680
Speaker 1: of the second round with elbows. Derek Brunson looked awesome

938
00:48:12,719 --> 00:48:14,040
Speaker 1: in the first round. Let me get the numbers for

939
00:48:14,080 --> 00:48:16,800
Speaker 1: that one. I would love to see that. Derek Brunson

940
00:48:16,880 --> 00:48:19,439
Speaker 1: was on his way. He was on his way. Derek

941
00:48:19,440 --> 00:48:22,480
Speaker 1: Brunson is credited with a knockdown that he scored in

942
00:48:22,520 --> 00:48:25,799
Speaker 1: the first round. He got two of nine takedowns in

943
00:48:25,840 --> 00:48:27,719
Speaker 1: the first round, which doesn't sound like much, but he

944
00:48:27,760 --> 00:48:31,839
Speaker 1: had two minutes of control time. Think about that, and

945
00:48:32,040 --> 00:48:35,200
Speaker 1: I was even credited with a sub attempt also numerically

946
00:48:35,239 --> 00:48:38,080
Speaker 1: at a bare minimum, outstruck him. But that is not

947
00:48:38,200 --> 00:48:40,600
Speaker 1: the case for the second round. And the second round,

948
00:48:40,680 --> 00:48:45,160
Speaker 1: Jared Cannoneer landed thirty nine to Brunson's twenty three Brunson

949
00:48:45,280 --> 00:48:48,480
Speaker 1: is credited with one of four takedowns. Cannoneer, by the way,

950
00:48:48,560 --> 00:48:51,879
Speaker 1: scoring one of one takedowns and then closing the mother

951
00:48:51,960 --> 00:48:54,799
Speaker 1: effing show. Dude, Jared Cannoneer is a savage. You knew

952
00:48:54,840 --> 00:48:57,480
Speaker 1: heading into this what was he good at? Not like

953
00:48:57,560 --> 00:49:02,080
Speaker 1: he's a super specialist anyone an era excuse me, area,

954
00:49:02,160 --> 00:49:05,719
Speaker 1: but he has really just steadily worked on refining his

955
00:49:05,760 --> 00:49:09,200
Speaker 1: game and the weight class change has turned him into

956
00:49:09,200 --> 00:49:12,920
Speaker 1: a physical beast. He is a physical fighter at one

957
00:49:13,080 --> 00:49:17,000
Speaker 1: eighty five at the middleweight division. He can move guys around.

958
00:49:17,000 --> 00:49:19,200
Speaker 1: I actually thought that Brunson was the better wrestler and

959
00:49:19,200 --> 00:49:22,400
Speaker 1: maybe even a little bit stronger. But Jared Kannaneer is

960
00:49:22,440 --> 00:49:30,799
Speaker 1: a very dedicated, hard nose, take accept nothing kind of scrambler.

961
00:49:31,160 --> 00:49:33,840
Speaker 1: When he scrambles, man, he is breaking your wrists apart.

962
00:49:33,920 --> 00:49:36,240
Speaker 1: He is breaking your hands apart. He's controlling your wrists,

963
00:49:36,640 --> 00:49:39,279
Speaker 1: he is scooting his hips away, he is moving at

964
00:49:39,320 --> 00:49:43,000
Speaker 1: all times. He will accept nothing. And I have to say,

965
00:49:43,040 --> 00:49:45,080
Speaker 1: you know what stands out to me about Jared Cannoneer

966
00:49:45,239 --> 00:49:49,239
Speaker 1: is just how well his team prepped him. There were

967
00:49:49,480 --> 00:49:53,200
Speaker 1: so many scenarios that he found himself in where you

968
00:49:53,239 --> 00:49:58,480
Speaker 1: could tell he was executing the framing sequence, the footwork sequence,

969
00:49:58,560 --> 00:50:01,080
Speaker 1: the head placement, and what like if they were gonna

970
00:50:01,080 --> 00:50:02,840
Speaker 1: break apart, what he was gonna throw and when he

971
00:50:02,880 --> 00:50:04,520
Speaker 1: was gonna throw it, or what he was gonna do,

972
00:50:04,880 --> 00:50:07,160
Speaker 1: how he was gonna maneuver it. Not just for those scenarios,

973
00:50:07,200 --> 00:50:10,319
Speaker 1: a million other ones they had clearly rehearsed with him.

974
00:50:10,360 --> 00:50:12,680
Speaker 1: You're gonna find yourself in a lot of these scenarios

975
00:50:12,680 --> 00:50:15,200
Speaker 1: because you know, I wouldn't call Derek Brunson one note,

976
00:50:15,200 --> 00:50:17,839
Speaker 1: but I would call him predominant strength. I think it's

977
00:50:17,920 --> 00:50:21,919
Speaker 1: very fair and much of the game plan is gonna

978
00:50:21,920 --> 00:50:24,000
Speaker 1: revolve around that. So you you can be like with

979
00:50:24,120 --> 00:50:26,560
Speaker 1: Robert Whittaker, you you have some sense of what scenarios

980
00:50:26,600 --> 00:50:28,880
Speaker 1: are gonna be in, but with Derek Brunson, you have

981
00:50:28,920 --> 00:50:31,359
Speaker 1: a very clear sense of what scenarios you're probably going

982
00:50:31,400 --> 00:50:34,000
Speaker 1: to be in. Brunston doing a good job of diversifying

983
00:50:34,400 --> 00:50:36,759
Speaker 1: some of the takedown attempts. He was trying chaining them

984
00:50:36,800 --> 00:50:40,160
Speaker 1: together and then going with the high ankle to really

985
00:50:40,200 --> 00:50:41,440
Speaker 1: secure it a lot. You know a lot of times

986
00:50:41,520 --> 00:50:43,279
Speaker 1: you can you know, dump them with a with a

987
00:50:44,520 --> 00:50:46,560
Speaker 1: you can run the pipe, so you you're twist them

988
00:50:46,560 --> 00:50:49,560
Speaker 1: in the circle, you're blocking one side. You're driving your

989
00:50:49,560 --> 00:50:51,160
Speaker 1: weight over the top of their leg to turn them

990
00:50:51,200 --> 00:50:53,560
Speaker 1: and drop them to the hip. But everything's pushing down

991
00:50:53,600 --> 00:50:55,600
Speaker 1: a little bit. The double you can pick up and turn,

992
00:50:56,040 --> 00:50:58,239
Speaker 1: but with this it's just lifting that foot. I mean,

993
00:50:58,239 --> 00:51:00,000
Speaker 1: there's a lot more to it, but in this particular case,

994
00:51:00,120 --> 00:51:02,480
Speaker 1: the basic mechanics, of course, you're lifting as highest possible.

995
00:51:02,480 --> 00:51:04,360
Speaker 1: You can shelve it on top of your leg, you

996
00:51:04,360 --> 00:51:06,520
Speaker 1: can kick out the post leg. Rich Crunkleton was a

997
00:51:06,560 --> 00:51:09,640
Speaker 1: fighter at WEC who specialized in this. That seemed to

998
00:51:09,680 --> 00:51:12,719
Speaker 1: have some success for him. But but dude, kennan Ear

999
00:51:12,880 --> 00:51:16,160
Speaker 1: isn't just like a well schooled fighter, although he is that,

1000
00:51:16,360 --> 00:51:19,840
Speaker 1: he's not a not merely a well prepped fighter, although

1001
00:51:19,840 --> 00:51:23,120
Speaker 1: he is that, he is not merely a very physical fighter.

1002
00:51:23,160 --> 00:51:29,240
Speaker 1: Although he is that he is a very determined competitor varied.

1003
00:51:29,480 --> 00:51:31,960
Speaker 1: Is hard to discourage that guy. Dude, Robert Whitaker was

1004
00:51:32,000 --> 00:51:35,160
Speaker 1: beating his ass for the majority of that fight, and

1005
00:51:35,160 --> 00:51:37,560
Speaker 1: it even dropped him in the third and then Whittaker

1006
00:51:37,680 --> 00:51:40,319
Speaker 1: turned it on after that. Like the guy is, he's

1007
00:51:40,320 --> 00:51:41,880
Speaker 1: a he's a pit bull. I mean, I know his

1008
00:51:41,960 --> 00:51:45,760
Speaker 1: nickname is the you know, killer Gorilla, But dude, he's

1009
00:51:46,200 --> 00:51:50,160
Speaker 1: he is intense and focused, and it really when you

1010
00:51:50,280 --> 00:51:53,200
Speaker 1: when you marry that mental focus with the kind of

1011
00:51:53,400 --> 00:51:56,759
Speaker 1: intensity he shows physically when he's when he's in the

1012
00:51:56,840 --> 00:51:59,480
Speaker 1: scramble positions, it's you can see that there's just a

1013
00:51:59,480 --> 00:52:05,239
Speaker 1: certain fire that he has. And anyway, long story short is,

1014
00:52:05,760 --> 00:52:08,080
Speaker 1: he was able to connect on Brunson a little bit

1015
00:52:08,080 --> 00:52:10,160
Speaker 1: earlier in the second round. He was able to begin

1016
00:52:10,239 --> 00:52:14,480
Speaker 1: to make some better body work, I thought in the

1017
00:52:14,480 --> 00:52:17,160
Speaker 1: second round, clipped him with the right hand and then

1018
00:52:17,280 --> 00:52:19,280
Speaker 1: began to go to just absolute work on him, stuffing

1019
00:52:19,280 --> 00:52:23,840
Speaker 1: everything or almost everything, and finally just smashing him with

1020
00:52:23,880 --> 00:52:25,440
Speaker 1: an elbow in the clinch band. You got to have

1021
00:52:25,480 --> 00:52:28,120
Speaker 1: your hands up on the clinch break. Gotta have your

1022
00:52:28,160 --> 00:52:30,560
Speaker 1: hands up on the clinch break, or people like Jared

1023
00:52:30,640 --> 00:52:35,040
Speaker 1: Cannoneer are gonna just just know. You can't make you

1024
00:52:35,080 --> 00:52:38,160
Speaker 1: can't make mistakes like that, you know against Jared Cannoneer,

1025
00:52:38,680 --> 00:52:41,440
Speaker 1: he just doesn't work. Trevor Whitman talks about it all

1026
00:52:41,440 --> 00:52:45,120
Speaker 1: the time. What separates these guys, Dude, Dereck Brunson super talented,

1027
00:52:46,000 --> 00:52:50,840
Speaker 1: super talented, But what separated him between himself and Jared

1028
00:52:50,880 --> 00:52:54,600
Speaker 1: Cannoneer on this night. What was the difference between them

1029
00:52:55,200 --> 00:52:58,040
Speaker 1: in one major respect, certainly more complicated than this, but

1030
00:52:58,080 --> 00:53:02,160
Speaker 1: in a major respect, in that position, Derek Bruntson made

1031
00:53:02,160 --> 00:53:05,320
Speaker 1: a huge mistake. And if you make a huge mistake

1032
00:53:05,400 --> 00:53:12,680
Speaker 1: against guys this talented, that's it. There is no room

1033
00:53:12,680 --> 00:53:15,840
Speaker 1: for air here, not room for air like that. So

1034
00:53:15,920 --> 00:53:17,560
Speaker 1: you know, listen, and I'm sure he knows better. I'm

1035
00:53:17,560 --> 00:53:20,319
Speaker 1: sure he's practiced out a million times. I'm sure he'll

1036
00:53:20,360 --> 00:53:22,200
Speaker 1: look at the tape and be like, fuck, you know,

1037
00:53:22,239 --> 00:53:25,520
Speaker 1: I'm sure, I'm sure. I'm sure he knows. There's nothing

1038
00:53:25,560 --> 00:53:28,480
Speaker 1: I could say that he doesn't know. But he did.

1039
00:53:28,560 --> 00:53:30,840
Speaker 1: You know, in real time, when you getting the pressure

1040
00:53:30,840 --> 00:53:34,000
Speaker 1: put on you, you're getting hurt, you start making different choices.

1041
00:53:34,040 --> 00:53:37,040
Speaker 1: You don't know what's coming or going. And Jared Cannoneer,

1042
00:53:39,920 --> 00:53:42,640
Speaker 1: it's not the exact same fight that he had against

1043
00:53:42,680 --> 00:53:45,759
Speaker 1: Jack Hermanson. That's not quite true. Her Manson was not

1044
00:53:47,080 --> 00:53:51,080
Speaker 1: quite as smothering with the takedown and was a little

1045
00:53:51,080 --> 00:53:54,880
Speaker 1: bit more like hunt for the back grappling oriented than Brunson.

1046
00:53:55,480 --> 00:53:57,480
Speaker 1: But it's the same kind of thing that won in

1047
00:53:57,560 --> 00:53:59,960
Speaker 1: that fight. He had to scramble out of bad scenario

1048
00:54:00,520 --> 00:54:03,640
Speaker 1: that Hermanson could at least threaten. Keep it on the feet,

1049
00:54:04,280 --> 00:54:07,120
Speaker 1: wait for your turn, use what you practiced, Use what

1050
00:54:07,200 --> 00:54:11,600
Speaker 1: you guys had game planned. Tons of fix and faints

1051
00:54:11,640 --> 00:54:14,719
Speaker 1: from that team. They're very good at it, and not

1052
00:54:14,760 --> 00:54:18,000
Speaker 1: a lot of jabbing. But he needed a case finding

1053
00:54:18,000 --> 00:54:21,759
Speaker 1: his moment in all ranges putting it wasn't just the

1054
00:54:21,800 --> 00:54:23,239
Speaker 1: elbow in the clinch, like he had put a ton

1055
00:54:23,280 --> 00:54:25,160
Speaker 1: of pressure on him before that, and then you know,

1056
00:54:25,600 --> 00:54:27,640
Speaker 1: had heard him and then obviously by the time that

1057
00:54:27,640 --> 00:54:30,080
Speaker 1: that elbow landed, it was it was. It closed the show.

1058
00:54:31,360 --> 00:54:34,840
Speaker 1: By the way, those those elbows that cannon ear landed

1059
00:54:34,840 --> 00:54:36,200
Speaker 1: at the end of that fight, it was like, dude,

1060
00:54:36,200 --> 00:54:40,600
Speaker 1: where was referee Carrie Hatley Jesus Christ. I mean he

1061
00:54:40,680 --> 00:54:43,240
Speaker 1: intervened after the second one, so I was like, okay,

1062
00:54:43,680 --> 00:54:46,400
Speaker 1: he didn't need the second one, but all right, I'm

1063
00:54:46,440 --> 00:54:48,120
Speaker 1: not I wouldn't. I wouldn't have said anything. It was

1064
00:54:48,160 --> 00:54:51,160
Speaker 1: just the second one. But then he intervened, but he

1065
00:54:51,200 --> 00:54:55,760
Speaker 1: didn't really like pull him off. He just kind of like, eh,

1066
00:54:56,280 --> 00:54:57,880
Speaker 1: stuck his hand in there. You're seeing the jeff of

1067
00:54:57,920 --> 00:55:01,600
Speaker 1: the guy. Like in Europe, somewhere. You know, he's supposed

1068
00:55:01,600 --> 00:55:04,160
Speaker 1: to be screening people at a soccer match somewhere. He

1069
00:55:04,239 --> 00:55:05,960
Speaker 1: just runs his hands along the side as a big,

1070
00:55:06,000 --> 00:55:08,440
Speaker 1: fat old person. He's just like the next guy comes up,

1071
00:55:08,440 --> 00:55:12,239
Speaker 1: he's his ant. It was like that. It was like

1072
00:55:13,760 --> 00:55:19,359
Speaker 1: Jesus Christ, you know, all right, I'm just sort of

1073
00:55:19,680 --> 00:55:22,440
Speaker 1: I'm saying, nonsense, let's let's do this. Where are we

1074
00:55:22,520 --> 00:55:28,359
Speaker 1: on this? Some of the results here very quickly that Mycano, boy,

1075
00:55:28,400 --> 00:55:35,319
Speaker 1: did he look great against Alexander Hernandez that combo he

1076
00:55:35,360 --> 00:55:38,320
Speaker 1: finished him with again from the clinch, I think, or

1077
00:55:38,440 --> 00:55:42,440
Speaker 1: right at right now. So Hernandez I thought was getting

1078
00:55:42,480 --> 00:55:44,800
Speaker 1: hit a lot. He was doing good work from both stances.

1079
00:55:45,080 --> 00:55:47,080
Speaker 1: But to me, he was getting hit way more at

1080
00:55:47,080 --> 00:55:48,960
Speaker 1: South Paul, and he was switching back and then like

1081
00:55:49,000 --> 00:55:52,120
Speaker 1: not getting hit as much. Now again there's a few

1082
00:55:52,160 --> 00:55:55,480
Speaker 1: interpretations of what all that means. He threw a punch

1083
00:55:55,719 --> 00:55:58,200
Speaker 1: from South Paul, which I thought was not his optimal

1084
00:55:58,239 --> 00:56:03,960
Speaker 1: stance at least not against what Kano and then clinched

1085
00:56:04,000 --> 00:56:05,719
Speaker 1: and then I hit on the clinch and then backed up.

1086
00:56:05,760 --> 00:56:07,960
Speaker 1: So actually three fights in a row where it kind

1087
00:56:07,960 --> 00:56:13,040
Speaker 1: of happened that way. But in any case, Mcano's boxing

1088
00:56:13,280 --> 00:56:17,319
Speaker 1: finishes him off with this devastating combo and then takes

1089
00:56:17,360 --> 00:56:21,200
Speaker 1: his back and elicits the tap. I thought, almost immediately,

1090
00:56:21,239 --> 00:56:23,399
Speaker 1: what a performance. Why not to Wacano his best win

1091
00:56:23,440 --> 00:56:25,399
Speaker 1: at lightweight, and I always talk about it. That guy

1092
00:56:25,480 --> 00:56:27,879
Speaker 1: was giving Brian ord T City pulled up the magic

1093
00:56:27,920 --> 00:56:29,800
Speaker 1: in the end because he's bron otaking, he does stuff

1094
00:56:29,840 --> 00:56:32,879
Speaker 1: like that. But prior to that, mcanna was given him

1095
00:56:32,960 --> 00:56:35,839
Speaker 1: the business and he's you know, he had to work

1096
00:56:35,880 --> 00:56:39,279
Speaker 1: some things out, but he's talented. Bobby Green defeating NASA

1097
00:56:39,480 --> 00:56:42,160
Speaker 1: hack Parass screen was looking like a Diaz brother out there.

1098
00:56:42,280 --> 00:56:45,560
Speaker 1: The fans love him, Thank god. John Annett calling for

1099
00:56:45,719 --> 00:56:48,959
Speaker 1: I think quite rightly calling for a fight night where

1100
00:56:48,960 --> 00:56:51,759
Speaker 1: Bobby Green gets to headline. I agree, let's all get

1101
00:56:51,760 --> 00:56:54,920
Speaker 1: on the Bobby Green should headline a fight night card Bandwagon.

1102
00:56:54,960 --> 00:56:57,759
Speaker 1: If we can agree on nothing else tonight, certainly we

1103
00:56:57,800 --> 00:57:00,840
Speaker 1: can agree with that. And then I thought Hack Parass

1104
00:57:00,880 --> 00:57:02,680
Speaker 1: was just a little bit overwhelmed. That was just a

1105
00:57:03,440 --> 00:57:06,560
Speaker 1: too tall of a task quite frankly, all right, let's

1106
00:57:06,560 --> 00:57:09,839
Speaker 1: see what you guys have for questions and then we'll

1107
00:57:09,840 --> 00:57:19,840
Speaker 1: get to them. All right, This person writes, honestly, I

1108
00:57:19,840 --> 00:57:23,080
Speaker 1: don't think UFC is marketing Easy. I think he's market

1109
00:57:23,280 --> 00:57:25,920
Speaker 1: the same, market the same and has neared his ceiling.

1110
00:57:26,560 --> 00:57:28,840
Speaker 1: I don't see him doing one million buys, more like

1111
00:57:28,920 --> 00:57:31,120
Speaker 1: John doing three hundred to seven hundred d depending on opponent,

1112
00:57:31,160 --> 00:57:32,720
Speaker 1: which is still great. Yes, first of all, that would

1113
00:57:32,720 --> 00:57:34,600
Speaker 1: still be great. More to the point, he needs a

1114
00:57:34,680 --> 00:57:37,080
Speaker 1: rival that people want to pay money to see him fight.

1115
00:57:38,240 --> 00:57:40,560
Speaker 1: It's not his fault. I mean, you can say John Jones,

1116
00:57:40,560 --> 00:57:41,920
Speaker 1: but dude, what is I mean, who the fuck? What

1117
00:57:41,960 --> 00:57:44,640
Speaker 1: is John Jones doing? Like, I'm sure he'll come back,

1118
00:57:44,640 --> 00:57:46,160
Speaker 1: and actually I'm not sure he'll come back and fight

1119
00:57:46,200 --> 00:57:50,040
Speaker 1: at some point. I think that is. I think John

1120
00:57:50,080 --> 00:57:52,920
Speaker 1: returning to fight is likely, I'll put it that way,

1121
00:57:53,080 --> 00:57:55,400
Speaker 1: but likely at heavyweight right Like, he's not got business

1122
00:57:55,400 --> 00:57:57,320
Speaker 1: with Easy at two oh five, he's not doing that shit.

1123
00:57:57,480 --> 00:58:00,160
Speaker 1: So you know who's this rival? I guess you go

1124
00:58:00,200 --> 00:58:04,040
Speaker 1: back and see what happens at two o five and yeah,

1125
00:58:04,240 --> 00:58:06,200
Speaker 1: at middleway. I don't know who that would be right now,

1126
00:58:06,200 --> 00:58:08,080
Speaker 1: I don't know who that would be. And I know

1127
00:58:08,160 --> 00:58:10,080
Speaker 1: some folks like what about Coamzau? Yeah, but kams out, Like,

1128
00:58:10,080 --> 00:58:11,480
Speaker 1: I don't know what's gonna happen with that. First of all,

1129
00:58:11,480 --> 00:58:13,600
Speaker 1: he's got to beat Gilbert Burns. Second of all, that's

1130
00:58:13,600 --> 00:58:16,240
Speaker 1: at welterweight. Like, yes, I recognize that coms out looks

1131
00:58:16,280 --> 00:58:20,040
Speaker 1: like a complete destroyer, but it's still so early before

1132
00:58:20,080 --> 00:58:22,560
Speaker 1: you could say anything about that. By the way, I

1133
00:58:22,600 --> 00:58:25,480
Speaker 1: pretty sure Lewis was undefeated in Houston until the gunfight. Yes, correct,

1134
00:58:26,240 --> 00:58:29,080
Speaker 1: I appreciate Brunson's corner throwing the towel I do too.

1135
00:58:29,200 --> 00:58:33,160
Speaker 1: Didn't really matter in the end, but good for them,

1136
00:58:33,320 --> 00:58:38,160
Speaker 1: Good for them. What do you make of Rob winning

1137
00:58:38,240 --> 00:58:42,840
Speaker 1: round five clean? Yes? And arguably four yes. Rob seemed

1138
00:58:42,880 --> 00:58:45,479
Speaker 1: to improve on calculating what works and what doesn't over time.

1139
00:58:45,520 --> 00:58:48,080
Speaker 1: He did did is he given too much respect after

1140
00:58:48,160 --> 00:58:51,760
Speaker 1: round one? No? I think Rob found a space to

1141
00:58:51,800 --> 00:58:54,800
Speaker 1: put it in euphemistic terms where he didn't get hit

1142
00:58:54,840 --> 00:58:57,600
Speaker 1: as much after the first and that neutralized a lot

1143
00:58:57,600 --> 00:58:59,240
Speaker 1: of what Otasini was doing. But this is what I'm

1144
00:58:59,240 --> 00:59:03,560
Speaker 1: talking about. If you don't take away the leg kicks, Henna,

1145
00:59:03,600 --> 00:59:05,440
Speaker 1: he's just gonna rack up. He's gonna rack it up

1146
00:59:05,920 --> 00:59:14,880
Speaker 1: over and over, and he did. The initial urgency is

1147
00:59:14,880 --> 00:59:16,840
Speaker 1: he uses to get up or good positioning when he

1148
00:59:16,880 --> 00:59:19,440
Speaker 1: gets taken down. A special makes him near unbeatable, and

1149
00:59:19,480 --> 00:59:22,120
Speaker 1: wonder if it's the coaching or his individual will. Dude,

1150
00:59:22,160 --> 00:59:24,880
Speaker 1: All wrestling is going to be a combination of all that. Dude.

1151
00:59:24,920 --> 00:59:27,080
Speaker 1: It's funny. You hear it more in wrestling and then

1152
00:59:27,080 --> 00:59:29,160
Speaker 1: they try to apply it to life and it doesn't

1153
00:59:29,200 --> 00:59:32,800
Speaker 1: work in life this way, but because it's far too simplistic,

1154
00:59:32,840 --> 00:59:35,160
Speaker 1: but it does work in wrestling this way and certainly

1155
00:59:35,240 --> 00:59:39,080
Speaker 1: gives it can be a valuable way to get intensity

1156
00:59:39,080 --> 00:59:40,880
Speaker 1: when you need it in life. But you'll hear it

1157
00:59:40,920 --> 00:59:44,000
Speaker 1: from coaches who wants it more. Dude. Sometimes at the

1158
00:59:44,160 --> 00:59:47,960
Speaker 1: end of wrestling practice or a match, there are two

1159
00:59:47,960 --> 00:59:49,920
Speaker 1: guys who are asked to square off, and you have

1160
00:59:50,000 --> 00:59:52,800
Speaker 1: to go and you're basically equal, and you're both you

1161
00:59:52,880 --> 00:59:55,640
Speaker 1: both are more or less is tired, you're both about

1162
00:59:55,640 --> 00:59:59,040
Speaker 1: the same size. It really just comes down to do

1163
00:59:59,320 --> 01:00:02,760
Speaker 1: you have a will inside of you to put it

1164
01:00:02,800 --> 01:00:04,800
Speaker 1: on this person in front of you? Do you have

1165
01:00:04,880 --> 01:00:10,440
Speaker 1: it in you? Scrambling? Is that intensity at maximum at

1166
01:00:10,440 --> 01:00:12,920
Speaker 1: all times? Let's the best scramblers do that. Now, some

1167
01:00:13,000 --> 01:00:15,400
Speaker 1: scramblers like wait, wait, wait, and then explode. But once

1168
01:00:15,440 --> 01:00:19,840
Speaker 1: they explode, it is it is. It is life or death.

1169
01:00:19,920 --> 01:00:22,880
Speaker 1: To them that they go. You have to harness that

1170
01:00:22,960 --> 01:00:25,960
Speaker 1: mental if you don't scramp. If anyone's ever wrestled, I

1171
01:00:26,080 --> 01:00:27,600
Speaker 1: know that they're not in their head right now. If

1172
01:00:27,640 --> 01:00:30,120
Speaker 1: you go, especially go against somebody else who has wrestled,

1173
01:00:30,680 --> 01:00:33,520
Speaker 1: If you do not wrestle, and in particular, if you

1174
01:00:33,560 --> 01:00:37,880
Speaker 1: do not scramble with intensity, bitch, you're gonna have a

1175
01:00:37,920 --> 01:00:41,600
Speaker 1: bad day. It's gonna be a very bad day for you.

1176
01:00:41,600 --> 01:00:44,680
Speaker 1: You have to do it with maximum intensity. Again, more

1177
01:00:44,680 --> 01:00:47,440
Speaker 1: strategic wrestling means you have to pick your spots. But

1178
01:00:47,560 --> 01:00:51,840
Speaker 1: even then, when they go, they go, so yes, it

1179
01:00:51,880 --> 01:00:54,040
Speaker 1: is of course, you know, I know, I know those

1180
01:00:54,040 --> 01:00:56,200
Speaker 1: guys shouts to the Hickman brothers over. I think it's

1181
01:00:56,240 --> 01:00:58,480
Speaker 1: Beanng Tao is their new gym. I know they've worked

1182
01:00:58,520 --> 01:01:01,000
Speaker 1: with the Hickman brothers. I think that's show. And they've

1183
01:01:01,000 --> 01:01:03,120
Speaker 1: got other coaches I'm sure they worked with in New Zealand.

1184
01:01:03,640 --> 01:01:06,400
Speaker 1: Everyone who's played a role has done a phenomenal job,

1185
01:01:06,480 --> 01:01:10,280
Speaker 1: not just for Izzy defensively, for Rob offensively, dude, Rob's

1186
01:01:10,280 --> 01:01:13,680
Speaker 1: takedowns are great. He got four of them. It's pretty good.

1187
01:01:14,520 --> 01:01:22,240
Speaker 1: It's pretty good. Someone writes, I'm so glad you asked this.

1188
01:01:22,760 --> 01:01:25,240
Speaker 1: What do you make of bis Being replacing Joe? Seems

1189
01:01:25,280 --> 01:01:27,160
Speaker 1: like fans have made assumptions and jumped on the idea

1190
01:01:27,200 --> 01:01:29,560
Speaker 1: that Disney and ESPN called for it. Listen, I have

1191
01:01:29,640 --> 01:01:32,439
Speaker 1: no idea what happened with it. Uh, let me say

1192
01:01:32,480 --> 01:01:35,760
Speaker 1: something first. I literally got on. Uh, I had to.

1193
01:01:35,840 --> 01:01:38,240
Speaker 1: I was at a kids party today and I came

1194
01:01:38,280 --> 01:01:40,240
Speaker 1: home and I had missed the first fight, but I

1195
01:01:40,360 --> 01:01:43,000
Speaker 1: turned it on by the second one, and I'm listening

1196
01:01:43,000 --> 01:01:44,600
Speaker 1: to bis Being because I was like, oh, yeah, Bisping's

1197
01:01:44,640 --> 01:01:46,040
Speaker 1: commenting today. I was like, Wow, he's doing a really

1198
01:01:46,040 --> 01:01:47,440
Speaker 1: good job, you know. And I tweeted it and it

1199
01:01:47,480 --> 01:01:50,960
Speaker 1: turned into some controversial tweet. Listen. Some of you in

1200
01:01:51,120 --> 01:01:54,680
Speaker 1: cells out here who are like you can't read anything

1201
01:01:54,720 --> 01:02:00,200
Speaker 1: I do without it being the most deranged, bad faith interpretation.

1202
01:02:00,640 --> 01:02:03,000
Speaker 1: Somebody thought that. Some people thought it was like a

1203
01:02:03,040 --> 01:02:05,840
Speaker 1: fucking jab at Joe Irugan. How the fuck would that be?

1204
01:02:06,040 --> 01:02:08,520
Speaker 1: Some of you motherfuckers need to touch grass. I mean,

1205
01:02:08,640 --> 01:02:12,000
Speaker 1: you are in desperate need of the touch of a

1206
01:02:12,000 --> 01:02:14,880
Speaker 1: sexual partner and a little bit of grass underneath your feet.

1207
01:02:15,040 --> 01:02:20,760
Speaker 1: Like you got your desperate, desperate need of it. Literally

1208
01:02:20,840 --> 01:02:26,680
Speaker 1: could not have been a more harmless, frankly innocuous tweet.

1209
01:02:26,680 --> 01:02:30,400
Speaker 1: We will go. It doesn't mean anything. He's coming, He's

1210
01:02:30,600 --> 01:02:34,440
Speaker 1: he's coming back next event, like it was. I have

1211
01:02:34,480 --> 01:02:36,840
Speaker 1: no fucking idea why he's gone. He's back the next one.

1212
01:02:37,720 --> 01:02:42,520
Speaker 1: Mike did a great job. Can we all cool down? Please? Okay?

1213
01:02:42,960 --> 01:02:47,560
Speaker 1: Thank you? Number one that aside. I will say this,

1214
01:02:47,560 --> 01:02:51,280
Speaker 1: this is a hypothesis about which I have zero evidence,

1215
01:02:51,360 --> 01:02:54,120
Speaker 1: nor am I making any kind of evidentiary claim. If

1216
01:02:54,160 --> 01:02:56,600
Speaker 1: you're asking me why he was off the broadcast, I

1217
01:02:56,640 --> 01:03:00,400
Speaker 1: think it screams Disney, uh making a phone call. I don't.

1218
01:03:00,720 --> 01:03:02,760
Speaker 1: I think, you know, I don't know if it had

1219
01:03:02,800 --> 01:03:05,560
Speaker 1: anything to do with their fall out with Gina Carano

1220
01:03:05,680 --> 01:03:08,320
Speaker 1: and what that told them about the MMA community, because

1221
01:03:08,320 --> 01:03:10,560
Speaker 1: I think even in the MMA community, Gina Carano has

1222
01:03:10,560 --> 01:03:12,280
Speaker 1: a lot of support. But I know some of you

1223
01:03:12,320 --> 01:03:13,680
Speaker 1: don't want to hear this, but there's a lot of

1224
01:03:13,760 --> 01:03:16,120
Speaker 1: views that are mainstream and MMA that are completely fucking

1225
01:03:16,200 --> 01:03:19,960
Speaker 1: batshit to wider society. And I think what, basically I

1226
01:03:19,960 --> 01:03:21,360
Speaker 1: don't know I had anything to do with Genia or not.

1227
01:03:21,560 --> 01:03:25,160
Speaker 1: Point being is you know, listen, Joe is on his

1228
01:03:25,240 --> 01:03:28,880
Speaker 1: own platform and doing his own thing, and it's enormously successful,

1229
01:03:28,880 --> 01:03:32,280
Speaker 1: but it carries with its own share of problems. I

1230
01:03:32,280 --> 01:03:35,600
Speaker 1: think Disney wants to keep distance between that. I think

1231
01:03:35,640 --> 01:03:40,760
Speaker 1: Disney wants whatever problems that Joe might be encountering to

1232
01:03:41,000 --> 01:03:43,320
Speaker 1: remain that way for him. Not that they want his

1233
01:03:43,360 --> 01:03:45,080
Speaker 1: problems to remain, but they don't want it to bleed

1234
01:03:45,120 --> 01:03:48,840
Speaker 1: over into them. And in a month from now, like

1235
01:03:48,960 --> 01:03:52,200
Speaker 1: most scandals, no one's going to care about this anymore. Uh,

1236
01:03:52,600 --> 01:03:56,200
Speaker 1: And you know, everyone will move on. And if the

1237
01:03:56,240 --> 01:03:59,240
Speaker 1: fighters after he interviews them, when they win, they'll say, oh, Joe,

1238
01:03:59,480 --> 01:04:01,200
Speaker 1: that was bullsh that you were on the last one.

1239
01:04:01,200 --> 01:04:03,560
Speaker 1: Everyone will clap, everyone will be happy, and then there

1240
01:04:03,560 --> 01:04:05,320
Speaker 1: will be no big deal about it. Really, if you

1241
01:04:05,360 --> 01:04:07,520
Speaker 1: had done it this weekend, even then, I don't know

1242
01:04:07,520 --> 01:04:08,840
Speaker 1: if there would really been a big deal about it.

1243
01:04:08,880 --> 01:04:11,720
Speaker 1: But we're just off the heels of this again. You

1244
01:04:11,760 --> 01:04:13,880
Speaker 1: can think it's stupid, you can think it's great. Whatever

1245
01:04:13,880 --> 01:04:16,200
Speaker 1: you think about it, it did exist, and I think Disney

1246
01:04:16,240 --> 01:04:18,120
Speaker 1: wants no part of that. But to be clear, and

1247
01:04:18,160 --> 01:04:21,280
Speaker 1: I can't say this more, I have zero No one

1248
01:04:21,320 --> 01:04:22,880
Speaker 1: put a bug in my ear. I have not talked

1249
01:04:22,920 --> 01:04:24,800
Speaker 1: to Joe Rogan. I have not talked to Brendon' job

1250
01:04:24,840 --> 01:04:27,880
Speaker 1: about it. I've not talked to anybody about it, but

1251
01:04:28,000 --> 01:04:30,360
Speaker 1: I don't know how you explain that otherwise, especially since

1252
01:04:30,440 --> 01:04:33,720
Speaker 1: Joe Rogan is texting John Annick about is he doing

1253
01:04:33,760 --> 01:04:36,480
Speaker 1: this during the broadcast? Like there was supposed to be

1254
01:04:36,480 --> 01:04:39,919
Speaker 1: a scheduling conflict that he's gonna be back next time,

1255
01:04:40,720 --> 01:04:44,600
Speaker 1: but you know, anyway, Okay, So I don't know what

1256
01:04:44,680 --> 01:04:48,200
Speaker 1: to make of his absence. But I'll say this two things.

1257
01:04:48,280 --> 01:04:52,720
Speaker 1: One not that it's any shot at anybody else, because

1258
01:04:52,720 --> 01:04:55,240
Speaker 1: you don't have to be insane to say to look

1259
01:04:55,280 --> 01:04:57,080
Speaker 1: at well, maybe you do have to be insane to

1260
01:04:57,080 --> 01:04:58,640
Speaker 1: look at someone saying a nice thing and being like,

1261
01:04:58,720 --> 01:05:01,880
Speaker 1: what the fuck is that supposed to be? I said,

1262
01:05:01,920 --> 01:05:04,520
Speaker 1: it's a nice day. What the fuck you want? Bitch?

1263
01:05:04,960 --> 01:05:08,840
Speaker 1: I mean, okay, everyone, Hill Bisbing did a great job

1264
01:05:08,840 --> 01:05:10,720
Speaker 1: on his own. I don't know how much time he

1265
01:05:10,760 --> 01:05:13,200
Speaker 1: had to prep for this. It all seems quite last minute,

1266
01:05:13,240 --> 01:05:17,280
Speaker 1: but either way, he did a great job, and that

1267
01:05:17,320 --> 01:05:20,000
Speaker 1: shouldn't be surprising you hear him do fight nights. I

1268
01:05:20,040 --> 01:05:22,040
Speaker 1: don't know if he's done fight nights. I can't remember

1269
01:05:22,040 --> 01:05:25,800
Speaker 1: if he's done finance with DC or not. But either way,

1270
01:05:25,920 --> 01:05:29,080
Speaker 1: I thought that they did a great job collectively, actually

1271
01:05:29,280 --> 01:05:33,000
Speaker 1: with one exception. One thing I actually thought they did

1272
01:05:33,120 --> 01:05:35,760
Speaker 1: was Joe and DC can sometimes be a little chummy

1273
01:05:35,800 --> 01:05:38,720
Speaker 1: at times, which by the way, some people like Brian

1274
01:05:38,800 --> 01:05:40,520
Speaker 1: Campbell likes it, and at two ex time I like it.

1275
01:05:40,840 --> 01:05:42,520
Speaker 1: I don't like the chummy chumminess, but I like that

1276
01:05:42,560 --> 01:05:46,160
Speaker 1: they get along because they bring joy to the broadcast

1277
01:05:46,520 --> 01:05:49,400
Speaker 1: at times. Though they get the sillies. You know, it

1278
01:05:49,440 --> 01:05:52,600
Speaker 1: does happen. Bisping and DC didn't get the sillies, and

1279
01:05:52,640 --> 01:05:55,200
Speaker 1: so what ended up happening was it kept DC, in

1280
01:05:55,280 --> 01:05:58,439
Speaker 1: my judgment, on track, and so you got a lot

1281
01:05:58,440 --> 01:06:01,560
Speaker 1: more technical analysis from especially on the wrestling side, from

1282
01:06:01,640 --> 01:06:03,240
Speaker 1: DC to I thought there was a lot of that.

1283
01:06:03,720 --> 01:06:06,600
Speaker 1: And then I would add no, I thought it was

1284
01:06:06,600 --> 01:06:10,920
Speaker 1: about right. I thought I thought d C shine with

1285
01:06:10,960 --> 01:06:14,240
Speaker 1: the wrestling. The one critical comment that needs to be

1286
01:06:14,280 --> 01:06:16,919
Speaker 1: made is that they were beaten up on that one

1287
01:06:17,040 --> 01:06:20,600
Speaker 1: judge who had the worst fucking scorecards imaginable. He had

1288
01:06:20,640 --> 01:06:24,760
Speaker 1: the one fight. God blessed Roxanemota Fairy. She is an angel.

1289
01:06:24,800 --> 01:06:26,440
Speaker 1: We are lucky to have her, but she didn't win

1290
01:06:26,480 --> 01:06:28,959
Speaker 1: that fight, and she doesn't deserve a scorecard just calling

1291
01:06:29,000 --> 01:06:32,640
Speaker 1: it what it is. He had the fight for her,

1292
01:06:32,720 --> 01:06:35,080
Speaker 1: and then it was a fight right after that, whichever

1293
01:06:35,120 --> 01:06:36,600
Speaker 1: one was, and I forget which one it was, where

1294
01:06:36,600 --> 01:06:40,080
Speaker 1: he had another bullshit insane scorecard, the Rolobski scorecard he

1295
01:06:40,080 --> 01:06:42,120
Speaker 1: had I think he had for Olobski's opponent or something

1296
01:06:42,440 --> 01:06:47,600
Speaker 1: something like that. You know, just absolutely insane judging in Texas,

1297
01:06:47,640 --> 01:06:50,200
Speaker 1: and the commentary team is right to beat him up

1298
01:06:50,240 --> 01:06:53,440
Speaker 1: for it. On the other hand, there was also a

1299
01:06:53,440 --> 01:06:56,360
Speaker 1: point where there are I think it was DC. If

1300
01:06:56,400 --> 01:06:58,280
Speaker 1: I'm wrong, you can kill me for it. But I don't.

1301
01:06:58,480 --> 01:07:00,400
Speaker 1: I'm not trying to be wrong. I do think there

1302
01:07:00,480 --> 01:07:02,800
Speaker 1: was one point where DC was saying, not my Michael.

1303
01:07:02,800 --> 01:07:05,000
Speaker 1: Michael did a pretty good job of it, but DC

1304
01:07:05,200 --> 01:07:08,120
Speaker 1: was saying that, like, oh, what may have won this

1305
01:07:08,320 --> 01:07:13,320
Speaker 1: round was you know, I think it was either for

1306
01:07:13,520 --> 01:07:17,560
Speaker 1: progression or or Octagon controls what he said with octagang

1307
01:07:17,600 --> 01:07:23,120
Speaker 1: control folks. In the scoring criteria, octagon control doesn't show

1308
01:07:23,240 --> 01:07:27,400
Speaker 1: up unless a bunch of other shit is completely equal,

1309
01:07:27,920 --> 01:07:31,360
Speaker 1: Like you cannot tell a difference between the damage and

1310
01:07:31,440 --> 01:07:33,240
Speaker 1: a bunch of other shit. You have to go down

1311
01:07:33,280 --> 01:07:35,760
Speaker 1: the list, and then eventually you get to a point

1312
01:07:35,760 --> 01:07:37,720
Speaker 1: where like Okay, the one guy kind of corraled the

1313
01:07:37,720 --> 01:07:40,600
Speaker 1: other one, and you know, it's almost like a tiebreaker

1314
01:07:40,720 --> 01:07:44,480
Speaker 1: kind of scenario. But that was an a round where

1315
01:07:44,800 --> 01:07:50,800
Speaker 1: there was unambiguous with not the main event, like unambiguous damage.

1316
01:07:51,000 --> 01:07:53,600
Speaker 1: So it's like, if you're gonna kill the judges rightly

1317
01:07:53,720 --> 01:07:57,360
Speaker 1: forgetting insanely wrong scoring cards, if you're gonna tell the

1318
01:07:57,400 --> 01:08:00,240
Speaker 1: audience about what matters for scoring, you have to be

1319
01:08:00,320 --> 01:08:02,720
Speaker 1: up to date on what the best practices are and

1320
01:08:02,720 --> 01:08:06,520
Speaker 1: with the frankly, what judges are using in modern mma

1321
01:08:06,800 --> 01:08:09,440
Speaker 1: and what they're told to use by commissions in writing

1322
01:08:09,480 --> 01:08:11,560
Speaker 1: in the bylaws, you have to know that. So I

1323
01:08:11,600 --> 01:08:14,520
Speaker 1: think that's a fair criticism. But otherwise they seem fine,

1324
01:08:14,560 --> 01:08:16,960
Speaker 1: and when Joe comes back next month, everyone's gonna be happy.

1325
01:08:17,000 --> 01:08:19,760
Speaker 1: And I just couldn't believe. I was like, Wow, Mike's

1326
01:08:19,760 --> 01:08:22,000
Speaker 1: done a great job. What the fuck's that supposed to mean?

1327
01:08:24,040 --> 01:08:28,040
Speaker 1: I guess it means that, you know, some of you

1328
01:08:28,120 --> 01:08:30,680
Speaker 1: are are hard up for some fresh air. That's what

1329
01:08:30,760 --> 01:08:33,200
Speaker 1: Mostly it means, y'all need to go take a fucking

1330
01:08:33,240 --> 01:08:38,320
Speaker 1: long walk when the sun sets. Jesus. In hindsight, if

1331
01:08:38,320 --> 01:08:40,040
Speaker 1: it was just going to be swinging for the fences.

1332
01:08:40,080 --> 01:08:42,880
Speaker 1: Should we have realized ty had this one? He's never

1333
01:08:42,920 --> 01:08:45,120
Speaker 1: been ko Jd has finished him from mount but tide

1334
01:08:45,160 --> 01:08:48,200
Speaker 1: everyone out, and we've seen Lewis finished by body shots

1335
01:08:48,240 --> 01:08:51,559
Speaker 1: in ko Mittrione. Tie's chin is iron again. I think

1336
01:08:51,600 --> 01:08:54,559
Speaker 1: it's a little bit simplistic to say that this was

1337
01:08:54,640 --> 01:08:56,679
Speaker 1: just a function of brawling. It's a little bit more

1338
01:08:56,760 --> 01:09:00,400
Speaker 1: than that. How did Tye just stand up through that

1339
01:09:00,439 --> 01:09:02,439
Speaker 1: ground and pound and then start swinging back? I don't know,

1340
01:09:02,920 --> 01:09:06,920
Speaker 1: an he's a mutant. Do you think Rob would have

1341
01:09:06,920 --> 01:09:08,680
Speaker 1: had more success if he mixed his strikes with his

1342
01:09:08,760 --> 01:09:10,360
Speaker 1: take that one attempts? He did a lot of that.

1343
01:09:11,080 --> 01:09:13,240
Speaker 1: It really seemed like he'd often go for one or

1344
01:09:13,280 --> 01:09:15,040
Speaker 1: the other. Also, am I the only one who thought

1345
01:09:15,040 --> 01:09:18,040
Speaker 1: he seemed a bit scared? You know? It's funny. I

1346
01:09:18,040 --> 01:09:22,320
Speaker 1: remember Frankmuhir used to talk about how he would adjust

1347
01:09:22,320 --> 01:09:25,640
Speaker 1: his mindset at times to be like perfectly cool in scenarios,

1348
01:09:26,040 --> 01:09:27,759
Speaker 1: and at times he was like a little too cool,

1349
01:09:28,080 --> 01:09:30,240
Speaker 1: like underneath Lesner was a little too cool. Up against

1350
01:09:30,240 --> 01:09:32,880
Speaker 1: the fence against Carwin, he was like getting hit and

1351
01:09:32,920 --> 01:09:35,080
Speaker 1: you could see him not losing composure, like he was

1352
01:09:35,120 --> 01:09:38,559
Speaker 1: trying to not lose composure. But it comes to point

1353
01:09:38,600 --> 01:09:43,280
Speaker 1: where if you're getting drilled like that, I understand that

1354
01:09:43,400 --> 01:09:47,240
Speaker 1: you want to put down the instinct to panic. Of course,

1355
01:09:47,280 --> 01:09:51,840
Speaker 1: what good would that do anybody? However, your body giving

1356
01:09:51,880 --> 01:09:55,839
Speaker 1: you some kind of natural reaction. It shouldn't. It shouldn't

1357
01:09:55,840 --> 01:10:02,000
Speaker 1: precipitate panic, but it should precipitate urgency. And I did

1358
01:10:02,040 --> 01:10:06,280
Speaker 1: feel like there wasn't Again, could have been a little

1359
01:10:06,280 --> 01:10:09,000
Speaker 1: bit more urgency in Rob's game. I thought, if he

1360
01:10:09,200 --> 01:10:14,360
Speaker 1: really wanted to make a strong case for himself, this

1361
01:10:14,640 --> 01:10:17,559
Speaker 1: is he giving up his back. Worry you, if Rob

1362
01:10:17,640 --> 01:10:20,960
Speaker 1: had gotten really close with the choke attempt, I'd be

1363
01:10:21,000 --> 01:10:25,040
Speaker 1: a little bit more. I'd be a little bit more

1364
01:10:25,040 --> 01:10:29,120
Speaker 1: open to the idea that he's got some deficiency there.

1365
01:10:29,160 --> 01:10:30,800
Speaker 1: And I'm sure again he's never going to be as

1366
01:10:30,800 --> 01:10:32,799
Speaker 1: good in grappling as he is on the on the feet.

1367
01:10:32,840 --> 01:10:35,920
Speaker 1: But no, I don't think that's some kind of like

1368
01:10:36,160 --> 01:10:43,000
Speaker 1: dramatic weakness or something. If is he successfully defends against

1369
01:10:43,040 --> 01:10:44,720
Speaker 1: Cannoneer the summer, do you think his time in one

1370
01:10:44,760 --> 01:10:46,800
Speaker 1: eighty five is coming to a close? What would there

1371
01:10:46,800 --> 01:10:50,639
Speaker 1: be left to do? What would there be left to do? Dude?

1372
01:10:50,680 --> 01:10:52,920
Speaker 1: Can you imagine how fucking good you gotta be. Like,

1373
01:10:53,000 --> 01:10:55,880
Speaker 1: they can't we can't find we can't find dudes to

1374
01:10:55,920 --> 01:10:59,559
Speaker 1: fight you who we even think have a shot right

1375
01:10:59,640 --> 01:11:02,559
Speaker 1: after you beat Whitaker. Obviously Whittaker is is, you know,

1376
01:11:02,680 --> 01:11:06,960
Speaker 1: more or less on the level. But everybody else, you know,

1377
01:11:07,040 --> 01:11:09,519
Speaker 1: it's like, dude, they're not again, that's the other part.

1378
01:11:09,560 --> 01:11:11,639
Speaker 1: Take out Whittaker, which the other ones are all that close,

1379
01:11:11,800 --> 01:11:17,120
Speaker 1: Like dude, he's just he You're gonna miss him when

1380
01:11:17,120 --> 01:11:19,559
Speaker 1: he's gone. I'm telling you you're gonna miss him when

1381
01:11:19,560 --> 01:11:25,920
Speaker 1: he's gone. What's twee Vas's ceiling again? I'm not quite sure.

1382
01:11:26,680 --> 01:11:28,960
Speaker 1: This fight reminded me of Dilla Shaw versus San Haagen

1383
01:11:28,960 --> 01:11:31,080
Speaker 1: in Tombs, of who were rewarded more of exchanges. I'm

1384
01:11:31,080 --> 01:11:33,680
Speaker 1: torn either way. Forty eight forty seven. I like the

1385
01:11:33,680 --> 01:11:35,840
Speaker 1: interpretation of whoever judges to fight as long as we

1386
01:11:35,880 --> 01:11:38,519
Speaker 1: can hear the judges criteria. Do you think there's a

1387
01:11:38,600 --> 01:11:41,040
Speaker 1: chance of judges chiming in post fight? Nope? And the

1388
01:11:41,080 --> 01:11:44,080
Speaker 1: commission will protect him too. Commission's never gonna make him

1389
01:11:44,080 --> 01:11:52,400
Speaker 1: talk to the media. Fucking sucks. Thoughts on Houston crowd

1390
01:11:52,439 --> 01:11:54,719
Speaker 1: booing tuy vasa all week until he knocked out hometown

1391
01:11:54,760 --> 01:11:57,880
Speaker 1: hero Derek Lewis. Seems like MMA fans are only loyal

1392
01:11:57,920 --> 01:12:00,080
Speaker 1: to their own blood loss. No, I didn't read it

1393
01:12:00,120 --> 01:12:03,000
Speaker 1: that way. I read it more like they were being

1394
01:12:03,040 --> 01:12:07,040
Speaker 1: good sports about a guy who wasn't their guy, but

1395
01:12:07,439 --> 01:12:13,000
Speaker 1: was like in spirit kind of their guy. How much

1396
01:12:13,040 --> 01:12:15,120
Speaker 1: of a difference would there have been on the main

1397
01:12:15,160 --> 01:12:18,120
Speaker 1: events scorecards if the match took place in a different state,

1398
01:12:18,160 --> 01:12:21,120
Speaker 1: without knowing how much they awarded forward progress? I don't know,

1399
01:12:21,560 --> 01:12:24,600
Speaker 1: But Atasigny putting Whittaker on his heels, whether that was

1400
01:12:24,720 --> 01:12:27,120
Speaker 1: just for setting the tone in the fight or also

1401
01:12:27,160 --> 01:12:28,720
Speaker 1: sitting in the tone and then setting the tone with

1402
01:12:28,720 --> 01:12:31,600
Speaker 1: the judges, I don't know, but I do think it

1403
01:12:31,640 --> 01:12:40,599
Speaker 1: played a role. Didn't seem like a lot of Izzy

1404
01:12:40,680 --> 01:12:43,960
Speaker 1: strikes actually landed. Izzy's body posture was better, and Rob

1405
01:12:43,960 --> 01:12:49,040
Speaker 1: always looked skittish but seemed more effective. He more effective

1406
01:12:49,040 --> 01:12:52,160
Speaker 1: with his punches, for sure, more effective with his punches.

1407
01:12:52,640 --> 01:12:58,559
Speaker 1: I would agree with that, but I would not agree that.

1408
01:13:01,720 --> 01:13:04,800
Speaker 1: I would not agree that he didn't numerically outland him.

1409
01:13:05,600 --> 01:13:09,000
Speaker 1: And again this is we have no way to know,

1410
01:13:09,080 --> 01:13:11,880
Speaker 1: But from a subjective standpoint, I thought Izzy did again

1411
01:13:12,400 --> 01:13:21,639
Speaker 1: three rounds to two better damage? Was is he's win

1412
01:13:21,720 --> 01:13:23,360
Speaker 1: more of what is he did? Or more of what

1413
01:13:23,400 --> 01:13:28,960
Speaker 1: Whittaker didn't do? More of what is he did? I mean, well, no, actually,

1414
01:13:29,280 --> 01:13:31,559
Speaker 1: I know I need to be careful about that. Parts

1415
01:13:31,600 --> 01:13:33,040
Speaker 1: of it were what is he did? Parts of it,

1416
01:13:33,120 --> 01:13:36,800
Speaker 1: you know, shutting down the wrestling and then forcing other dimensions.

1417
01:13:36,840 --> 01:13:45,360
Speaker 1: But at the same time, Whittaker, you know, calibrating his

1418
01:13:45,439 --> 01:13:48,080
Speaker 1: approach the way that he did maybe a little bit

1419
01:13:48,080 --> 01:13:50,639
Speaker 1: too over calibrated. So a little bit of column a Columby.

1420
01:13:50,720 --> 01:13:52,960
Speaker 1: It's never one or the other, It really isn't, especially

1421
01:13:52,960 --> 01:13:58,920
Speaker 1: at this level. Did it seem like Rob had hesitancy

1422
01:14:01,280 --> 01:14:03,600
Speaker 1: at every level, including his grappling to avoid risking a

1423
01:14:03,600 --> 01:14:05,400
Speaker 1: repeat of the first fight? Yeah, a little bit. Sure.

1424
01:14:07,560 --> 01:14:09,800
Speaker 1: Do you feel like that contender the contender has to

1425
01:14:09,800 --> 01:14:15,080
Speaker 1: be more aggressive in order to win? You know, not

1426
01:14:15,280 --> 01:14:19,160
Speaker 1: by my scorecard, But are you asking me does that

1427
01:14:19,200 --> 01:14:21,000
Speaker 1: happen in the real world? I'm sure that it does.

1428
01:14:23,400 --> 01:14:25,719
Speaker 1: With is he not defeating Whitaker? The only clear contender

1429
01:14:25,760 --> 01:14:27,640
Speaker 1: is cannon Ear There's many reasons he should move up

1430
01:14:27,640 --> 01:14:29,320
Speaker 1: in wig class, but do you think USC would prefer

1431
01:14:29,360 --> 01:14:31,679
Speaker 1: to keep him at middleweight? No? I think he's gonna

1432
01:14:31,720 --> 01:14:33,679
Speaker 1: move up. I really don't think he's gonna stick around

1433
01:14:33,680 --> 01:14:36,080
Speaker 1: one any five. I think, dude, one of the most

1434
01:14:36,120 --> 01:14:39,040
Speaker 1: baller things. To think about this for a second. GSP

1435
01:14:39,160 --> 01:14:41,360
Speaker 1: did this right. Not the only one to do it.

1436
01:14:41,400 --> 01:14:45,559
Speaker 1: Other ones have done it, but it's rare. Okay, even

1437
01:14:45,600 --> 01:14:48,120
Speaker 1: the great Anderson Silva couldn't do this right. It didn't

1438
01:14:48,160 --> 01:14:51,600
Speaker 1: happen for him. Do you understand what a bad motherfucker

1439
01:14:51,680 --> 01:14:57,599
Speaker 1: you have to be to be like, well, I've been

1440
01:14:57,640 --> 01:15:01,799
Speaker 1: here for years. A bunch of you had a chance

1441
01:15:02,080 --> 01:15:04,000
Speaker 1: at beaten me, some of you a couple of times,

1442
01:15:05,080 --> 01:15:08,400
Speaker 1: and you couldn't do it. I have beaten anyone that matters.

1443
01:15:09,080 --> 01:15:11,240
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go and do something else with my life,

1444
01:15:12,160 --> 01:15:15,040
Speaker 1: have a great day. And you give a belt back

1445
01:15:15,080 --> 01:15:17,720
Speaker 1: to the division because none of them could take it

1446
01:15:17,760 --> 01:15:19,559
Speaker 1: off of you. Do understand how what a ball or

1447
01:15:19,560 --> 01:15:22,519
Speaker 1: moved that? That is one of the most gangster ass

1448
01:15:22,640 --> 01:15:24,559
Speaker 1: things you'll ever do in your life. If you're one

1449
01:15:24,600 --> 01:15:28,360
Speaker 1: of those Pride Fighters Prize fighters, you can have that

1450
01:15:28,920 --> 01:15:31,840
Speaker 1: because I you just if I don't give it back

1451
01:15:31,880 --> 01:15:34,280
Speaker 1: to you, just never have it like that is such

1452
01:15:34,680 --> 01:15:37,160
Speaker 1: a fucking power move. And GSP did him. He was like,

1453
01:15:37,240 --> 01:15:39,559
Speaker 1: I'm done with this shit. You know, he was burned out,

1454
01:15:39,600 --> 01:15:42,519
Speaker 1: but still you can't beat me? Yall can have it back? Right?

1455
01:15:43,760 --> 01:15:45,640
Speaker 1: You need this more than I do. Kind of a

1456
01:15:45,680 --> 01:15:51,240
Speaker 1: thing John did it? John get well? I mean John's

1457
01:15:51,439 --> 01:15:53,680
Speaker 1: giving the belt back a number of times, but you

1458
01:15:53,680 --> 01:15:55,559
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, Like he was no one could

1459
01:15:55,640 --> 01:16:06,080
Speaker 1: take it from him, right, have that? Someone says, I

1460
01:16:06,120 --> 01:16:07,760
Speaker 1: honestly had it three rounds to two for Isy, but

1461
01:16:07,760 --> 01:16:10,080
Speaker 1: I could see how round three could have gone either way. Yeah,

1462
01:16:10,200 --> 01:16:15,200
Speaker 1: that seems reasonable. Well, again, a lot of questions about

1463
01:16:15,240 --> 01:16:19,920
Speaker 1: the ceiling for tay to Ivasa. Honestly, I really think

1464
01:16:19,960 --> 01:16:23,400
Speaker 1: it's going to be commensurate with his ability to win.

1465
01:16:24,840 --> 01:16:27,360
Speaker 1: If this is the limit right where he can't beat Blades,

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01:16:27,479 --> 01:16:29,920
Speaker 1: or he can't beat Gon, or he can't beat in Ghanu,

1467
01:16:30,040 --> 01:16:32,920
Speaker 1: then what's his limit? You know, you're I mean higher

1468
01:16:32,920 --> 01:16:34,559
Speaker 1: than what it is today in terms of popular appeal,

1469
01:16:34,600 --> 01:16:37,120
Speaker 1: but not much higher. He's got to really, you know,

1470
01:16:37,160 --> 01:16:39,519
Speaker 1: get out there and make some things happen in this division.

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01:16:42,280 --> 01:16:44,559
Speaker 1: Someone says Whitaker's jab in double jab was the most

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01:16:44,560 --> 01:16:47,760
Speaker 1: effective tool of the fight. Agree, No, I don't. The

1473
01:16:47,840 --> 01:16:51,040
Speaker 1: lag kicks were far more effective. No, I don't agree

1474
01:16:51,040 --> 01:16:56,599
Speaker 1: at all. Is that a copy of Goliath by Matt

1475
01:16:56,800 --> 01:17:05,200
Speaker 1: Staller on your bookcase? Yes? Yes it is? Well is

1476
01:17:05,240 --> 01:17:07,680
Speaker 1: he is, without questioning, extreme talent. The more I see him,

1477
01:17:07,680 --> 01:17:09,240
Speaker 1: the more I feel like a prime Silva is the

1478
01:17:09,240 --> 01:17:13,120
Speaker 1: best middleweighted MMA has ever seen. His recency bias clouding

1479
01:17:13,160 --> 01:17:16,479
Speaker 1: Anderson's amazing legacy. Anderson had, you know, his own share

1480
01:17:16,520 --> 01:17:19,639
Speaker 1: of the highlight reels. To me, the only real difference is, Dude,

1481
01:17:19,640 --> 01:17:22,960
Speaker 1: Anderson had a totally different career than Israel Outa Sonya.

1482
01:17:23,520 --> 01:17:26,519
Speaker 1: He wasn't in the UFC until his thirties, and again

1483
01:17:26,680 --> 01:17:28,600
Speaker 1: I think he had lost four even five fights or

1484
01:17:28,640 --> 01:17:30,599
Speaker 1: whatever it was before he even got to the UFC.

1485
01:17:30,720 --> 01:17:32,840
Speaker 1: I mean, he had a completely different record and he's

1486
01:17:32,840 --> 01:17:35,240
Speaker 1: still competing I heron his forties and blah blah blah.

1487
01:17:35,360 --> 01:17:39,920
Speaker 1: It's just totally different. But that run of title defenses,

1488
01:17:39,920 --> 01:17:43,360
Speaker 1: for me, is the one thing that he's got over

1489
01:17:43,400 --> 01:17:47,280
Speaker 1: Auta Sonya. But I gotta tell you, like, I'm not

1490
01:17:47,320 --> 01:17:50,200
Speaker 1: sure what Addasani is supposed to do at this point. Again, Cannon,

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01:17:50,200 --> 01:17:53,120
Speaker 1: heir deserved it. I take Cannon here seriously. I guarantee

1492
01:17:53,160 --> 01:17:56,240
Speaker 1: you Atasanya and his team take Cannonior seriously. Cannon Heir

1493
01:17:56,360 --> 01:18:00,360
Speaker 1: is a real threat, he absolutely is. But wo expect

1494
01:18:00,360 --> 01:18:02,320
Speaker 1: out of Signa to win that. And if he wins that,

1495
01:18:02,400 --> 01:18:07,280
Speaker 1: you're like, you know, what do you want to do?

1496
01:18:07,520 --> 01:18:09,400
Speaker 1: And back in the day it didn't matter. You would

1497
01:18:09,400 --> 01:18:11,719
Speaker 1: just kind of keep staying there and whatever. But he

1498
01:18:12,200 --> 01:18:14,400
Speaker 1: Cannon Heir can change things. But if Cannoneir is not

1499
01:18:14,439 --> 01:18:18,320
Speaker 1: the guy, then there probably is no guy. And what

1500
01:18:18,320 --> 01:18:20,000
Speaker 1: would it mean for out of sign you to have

1501
01:18:20,040 --> 01:18:24,080
Speaker 1: fewer title defenses, but to go undefeated one hundred percent

1502
01:18:24,120 --> 01:18:26,080
Speaker 1: in that division and just move on to the next one.

1503
01:18:26,880 --> 01:18:29,400
Speaker 1: You know, at that point you would have to have

1504
01:18:29,400 --> 01:18:31,600
Speaker 1: a different conversation. So we'll see how things go. You

1505
01:18:31,640 --> 01:18:33,360
Speaker 1: still have to beat Cannon Heir. We'll see how it goes.

1506
01:18:37,280 --> 01:18:39,639
Speaker 1: Thoughts on your co host scoring it forty eight forty

1507
01:18:39,640 --> 01:18:41,680
Speaker 1: seven for Whittaker, So Brian, I did not know that,

1508
01:18:41,960 --> 01:18:45,400
Speaker 1: So Brian scored it forty eight forty seven for Whittaker. Well, again,

1509
01:18:45,920 --> 01:18:48,400
Speaker 1: two rounds to Whittaker. Not hard at all for me

1510
01:18:48,439 --> 01:18:51,080
Speaker 1: to see round five and round four. So the question

1511
01:18:51,120 --> 01:18:52,960
Speaker 1: is could you see one more round? As we've been over,

1512
01:18:53,280 --> 01:18:55,839
Speaker 1: I don't see it that way. But I could understand

1513
01:18:55,840 --> 01:18:58,760
Speaker 1: how someone would you would probably accuse me of having

1514
01:18:58,800 --> 01:19:01,679
Speaker 1: an Ada soignya by I think you could credibly accuse

1515
01:19:02,280 --> 01:19:07,960
Speaker 1: BC of having a Whittaker bias, But I understand why

1516
01:19:08,000 --> 01:19:10,040
Speaker 1: he might come to that position. I think he's wrong,

1517
01:19:10,080 --> 01:19:12,519
Speaker 1: but I don't think that that's an irrational scorecard. I

1518
01:19:12,600 --> 01:19:17,000
Speaker 1: understand that Shamaiah beats Izzy. He could, he could, but

1519
01:19:17,080 --> 01:19:19,200
Speaker 1: we you know again, dude, he's The thing is is like,

1520
01:19:19,240 --> 01:19:21,120
Speaker 1: there's a you know, that's an interesting one, and what

1521
01:19:21,160 --> 01:19:23,880
Speaker 1: would happen if Kamaru went up? But the thing is like,

1522
01:19:24,640 --> 01:19:26,320
Speaker 1: maybe that's what the UFC tries to do now. They

1523
01:19:26,400 --> 01:19:28,200
Speaker 1: try to find some price point where they can make

1524
01:19:28,240 --> 01:19:30,040
Speaker 1: that fight happen. I you know, I don't know if

1525
01:19:30,040 --> 01:19:31,559
Speaker 1: they will or not. But if that's not on the

1526
01:19:31,560 --> 01:19:33,439
Speaker 1: table and Shamaia is busy at Walter Waite, then these

1527
01:19:33,520 --> 01:19:43,479
Speaker 1: questions are irrelevant. You know who's next for Rob? Great question.

1528
01:19:45,800 --> 01:19:47,800
Speaker 1: You wouldn't do the brunts in one again. You could

1529
01:19:47,800 --> 01:19:50,080
Speaker 1: maybe do her Manson. It's a fresh matchup, both coming

1530
01:19:50,120 --> 01:19:53,360
Speaker 1: off of losses, different positions, but you could do Strickland.

1531
01:19:53,720 --> 01:19:59,400
Speaker 1: Strickland's an interesting one for Whittaker. She Whittaker dropped back

1532
01:19:59,400 --> 01:20:00,880
Speaker 1: down to one seven, and you know, the only guy

1533
01:20:00,960 --> 01:20:02,240
Speaker 1: he can't beat is a guy who may not be

1534
01:20:02,320 --> 01:20:09,280
Speaker 1: there very longer, very much longer. Anyway. Yeah, someone's saying,

1535
01:20:09,320 --> 01:20:12,559
Speaker 1: I'll take Rogan back over Bisping's commentary in that main event,

1536
01:20:12,600 --> 01:20:17,439
Speaker 1: absolutely shocking. It's not that it's not that shocking. Honestly, Again,

1537
01:20:17,840 --> 01:20:19,800
Speaker 1: I don't agree. I have it three rounds to two,

1538
01:20:19,960 --> 01:20:24,080
Speaker 1: so I don't even have Bisping's scorecard. But in the

1539
01:20:24,160 --> 01:20:27,439
Speaker 1: frame of defensible scorecards, I think he said forty nine

1540
01:20:27,439 --> 01:20:29,120
Speaker 1: to forty six was how he had it four rounds

1541
01:20:29,160 --> 01:20:32,640
Speaker 1: to one. Yes, that is defensible. Sorry, it is, so

1542
01:20:32,800 --> 01:20:35,120
Speaker 1: is forty eight forty seven winker and everything in between.

1543
01:20:36,520 --> 01:20:39,240
Speaker 1: So there you go. That's that. Those are defense Those

1544
01:20:39,280 --> 01:20:41,800
Speaker 1: are those are outliers relative to the middle one, which

1545
01:20:41,800 --> 01:20:43,560
Speaker 1: I think the correct one. Forty eight forty seven is

1546
01:20:43,600 --> 01:20:46,559
Speaker 1: the right one for Atosania. But yeah, I get it.

1547
01:20:46,600 --> 01:20:48,760
Speaker 1: By the way, you know, Rogan has been accused of

1548
01:20:48,960 --> 01:20:51,479
Speaker 1: bad commentary. I'm not accusing him of bad commentary, but

1549
01:20:51,560 --> 01:20:56,720
Speaker 1: I have seen it a million times. If Bisping got

1550
01:20:56,720 --> 01:20:59,280
Speaker 1: it wrong this one time for you, let me assure

1551
01:20:59,320 --> 01:21:01,760
Speaker 1: you he would have to add a lot more to

1552
01:21:01,840 --> 01:21:03,320
Speaker 1: equal what a lot of other people who have been

1553
01:21:03,360 --> 01:21:05,960
Speaker 1: doing on TV for a lot longer have done. And also,

1554
01:21:06,000 --> 01:21:10,000
Speaker 1: it's impossible to please MMA fans on with commentary, whether

1555
01:21:10,000 --> 01:21:19,200
Speaker 1: you're Rogan or Bisping. Someone says Rob versus Marvin. Now, yeah,

1556
01:21:19,200 --> 01:21:20,680
Speaker 1: you could do that one too. It's a great one.

1557
01:21:23,000 --> 01:21:25,040
Speaker 1: If year he wins and easy moves up. How do

1558
01:21:25,080 --> 01:21:28,400
Speaker 1: you feel about that chaos? The thing is the size

1559
01:21:28,439 --> 01:21:30,400
Speaker 1: of those guys at two of five. That's the thing

1560
01:21:30,439 --> 01:21:33,479
Speaker 1: that's again is going to give you pause. The size

1561
01:21:33,560 --> 01:21:35,920
Speaker 1: is really hard for him to deal with. I think

1562
01:21:36,600 --> 01:21:38,880
Speaker 1: he's added a lot of muscle. He is much bigger now.

1563
01:21:38,920 --> 01:21:47,200
Speaker 1: But I don't know. Are there any less biased commentators

1564
01:21:47,240 --> 01:21:52,960
Speaker 1: in the UFC guys, I don't, dude. Every fight night

1565
01:21:53,080 --> 01:21:55,679
Speaker 1: on my timeline from what I'm seeing from everybody else,

1566
01:21:55,680 --> 01:21:59,479
Speaker 1: people kill Rogan every time, Like are y'all's timelines full

1567
01:21:59,520 --> 01:22:02,240
Speaker 1: of prey for the I forget even Rogan, maybe not

1568
01:22:02,320 --> 01:22:05,040
Speaker 1: John Anick, but my timeline, okay, for the exception of

1569
01:22:05,080 --> 01:22:09,840
Speaker 1: John Annick, everyone is killing all the commentators every time,

1570
01:22:09,960 --> 01:22:12,320
Speaker 1: Like where does this come from? Where? Like tonight was

1571
01:22:12,360 --> 01:22:14,360
Speaker 1: one way or the other. They get murdered every time,

1572
01:22:15,160 --> 01:22:17,680
Speaker 1: all right? I gotta go to something else, but like

1573
01:22:17,760 --> 01:22:19,679
Speaker 1: go to bed? What we got here? Is he too strong?

1574
01:22:19,720 --> 01:22:25,719
Speaker 1: Forty five ers? Yup? Pereira or chimayav being in contention? Dude,

1575
01:22:25,720 --> 01:22:28,120
Speaker 1: we got Pereira's got a long Peteida's got a long

1576
01:22:28,160 --> 01:22:35,240
Speaker 1: way to go? Is he did fuck all other than

1577
01:22:35,320 --> 01:22:37,120
Speaker 1: landing leg kicks? How many times did he land on

1578
01:22:37,120 --> 01:22:41,080
Speaker 1: Whittaker clean? Dude? Landing leg kicks is landing clean? What

1579
01:22:41,200 --> 01:22:47,800
Speaker 1: is it you? You focks who've never taken a leg kick? Oh? Buddy, oh,

1580
01:22:47,840 --> 01:22:50,400
Speaker 1: do I encourage you to go take the Pepsi challenge.

1581
01:22:50,439 --> 01:22:54,080
Speaker 1: I can't lose in that way. I cannot lose. Did

1582
01:22:54,360 --> 01:22:56,799
Speaker 1: fuck all? Did you ask the You asked the question

1583
01:22:56,880 --> 01:22:59,360
Speaker 1: how many times did he land on Whittaker Clean? As

1584
01:22:59,400 --> 01:23:03,519
Speaker 1: if landing on Whittaker Clean with leg kicks is somehow

1585
01:23:03,680 --> 01:23:07,040
Speaker 1: exempt from the larger consideration. Guys, I know it bothers you.

1586
01:23:07,520 --> 01:23:11,680
Speaker 1: I actually talked about it on Friday explicitly. If you

1587
01:23:11,800 --> 01:23:15,240
Speaker 1: don't shut down is these leg kicks, he will literally

1588
01:23:15,320 --> 01:23:18,240
Speaker 1: win and defend titles on them, and he will do

1589
01:23:18,320 --> 01:23:27,240
Speaker 1: it to very good fighters. The aristocrats. It happens every

1590
01:23:27,280 --> 01:23:30,800
Speaker 1: time it needs to. They can't accept for Blokhovich who

1591
01:23:30,840 --> 01:23:33,760
Speaker 1: stopped it. You don't believe me, go back tonight on

1592
01:23:33,840 --> 01:23:36,400
Speaker 1: fight Patch, fight Pass. Excuse me, I can't talk tonight.

1593
01:23:37,160 --> 01:23:40,120
Speaker 1: Go on fight Pass and watch it from the word

1594
01:23:40,320 --> 01:23:43,640
Speaker 1: go watch how often he either gets out of the

1595
01:23:43,640 --> 01:23:46,200
Speaker 1: way or outright checks it, and then over the course

1596
01:23:46,520 --> 01:23:49,120
Speaker 1: of the rounds, how that changes his offense and then

1597
01:23:49,120 --> 01:23:52,360
Speaker 1: he gets blitzed, hit and then taken down. But the

1598
01:23:52,400 --> 01:23:55,640
Speaker 1: first order of business was turning off the spigot to

1599
01:23:55,800 --> 01:23:58,639
Speaker 1: the leg kicks. Once you do that at a sign

1600
01:23:58,680 --> 01:24:00,800
Speaker 1: you at least at two oh five for Ilhovich on

1601
01:24:00,840 --> 01:24:02,800
Speaker 1: that night. But once he did that in that fight,

1602
01:24:03,479 --> 01:24:09,720
Speaker 1: it made it a totally different scenario. It's if I

1603
01:24:09,800 --> 01:24:12,760
Speaker 1: can see it on tape. I guarantee all the people

1604
01:24:12,760 --> 01:24:14,559
Speaker 1: who are fighting him can see it on tape. But

1605
01:24:14,760 --> 01:24:18,880
Speaker 1: easier said than done, easier said than done. All right,

1606
01:24:20,160 --> 01:24:22,320
Speaker 1: thank you so much for watching. Thumbs up on the

1607
01:24:22,400 --> 01:24:26,799
Speaker 1: video hit subscribe all that good stuff. I appreciate you watching.

1608
01:24:27,200 --> 01:24:30,800
Speaker 1: We will have Brian Campbell on Monday show for a

1609
01:24:30,880 --> 01:24:34,000
Speaker 1: full recap. That will be a extra credit where I'll

1610
01:24:34,000 --> 01:24:35,760
Speaker 1: recap all the stuff from the rest of the card.

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Speaker 1: It will be a fun, fun show. So thank you

1612
01:24:38,560 --> 01:24:41,320
Speaker 1: so much for watching. Please subscribe, Please share this video

1613
01:24:41,320 --> 01:24:46,200
Speaker 1: with everyone you get, and until next time, stay Actually no,

1614
01:24:46,360 --> 01:24:49,720
Speaker 1: I always say enjoy the fights. Or no it's late,

1615
01:24:49,760 --> 01:24:51,640
Speaker 1: go go to fucking bed.