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Speaker 1: on the competing live stream. But what you're looking at

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Speaker 1: right here your instant reaction to what went down BMF

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Speaker 1: avoid spoilers, you need to realign what you're doing with

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Speaker 1: Justin Geechee the highlight five years after being brutal stopped

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Speaker 1: current era? They ran it back on Saturday. The ceremonial

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Speaker 1: this rematch. Look, this is a wild card altogether for

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Speaker 1: this BMF. BMF gave you what you wanted for a

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Speaker 1: second round, surprising high kick knockout from Justin Geechee. But

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Speaker 1: checking in. I know what you're saying, Hey, BC, you're

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Speaker 1: the boxing guy. Well you're not at Crawford Spence. Where's

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Speaker 1: Luke when we need him? Hey, this is Morning Combat,

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Speaker 1: the same Morning Boxing and Morning MMA. We can do

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Speaker 1: it all here. We do do it all BC working

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Speaker 1: from home this weekend. You already knew that because I'm

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Speaker 1: for what was wow and a virtuoso performance all into

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Speaker 1: Thank you for following the show and following us in

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Speaker 1: all things we do. Mikey Moore Mile of CBS Sports

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Speaker 1: on the ones in twos. But your boy, BC, you know,

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Speaker 1: We got the hottest white belt takes that money can

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Speaker 1: Enjoyed this card from top to bottom, especially the pay

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Speaker 1: what we did see there. Justin Gaechee, who has long

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Speaker 1: predicted that, you'd be like, Okay, let's get this guy

426
00:21:12,320 --> 00:21:14,160
Speaker 1: southed up for a title. And oh, by the way,

427
00:21:14,440 --> 00:21:16,240
Speaker 1: am I trying to out match make myself? Could they

428
00:21:16,320 --> 00:21:18,800
Speaker 1: really fly in Izy and just do the trilogy for

429
00:21:18,840 --> 00:21:20,480
Speaker 1: the vacant title. Well, I don't think that's going to

430
00:21:20,520 --> 00:21:22,600
Speaker 1: happen here. But what I do think is gonna happen

431
00:21:22,640 --> 00:21:25,040
Speaker 1: is Poton's going to fight for this belt against whoever's healthy,

432
00:21:25,080 --> 00:21:29,400
Speaker 1: whether that ultimately is Yuri Prahotzka or I mean, could

433
00:21:29,400 --> 00:21:32,040
Speaker 1: it be unclive. Probably not likely, but we'll see which way.

434
00:21:32,080 --> 00:21:34,960
Speaker 1: It's interesting again that the UFC did not show their hand. Normally,

435
00:21:35,040 --> 00:21:37,240
Speaker 1: they are quick when things happen to just throw an

436
00:21:37,240 --> 00:21:38,960
Speaker 1: in or rem belt or just patch it up and

437
00:21:38,960 --> 00:21:41,240
Speaker 1: fix it the best way they can. In a weird way,

438
00:21:41,240 --> 00:21:44,199
Speaker 1: they're allowing this and the women's bandaweight division, as we

439
00:21:44,200 --> 00:21:47,200
Speaker 1: saw with the Holly Holme Myra Bueno Silva main event

440
00:21:47,240 --> 00:21:49,320
Speaker 1: that did not have title implications. They're kind of just

441
00:21:49,400 --> 00:21:51,560
Speaker 1: letting it play out, but I have to think they're

442
00:21:51,960 --> 00:21:54,920
Speaker 1: relatively excited that Poton could really be a player here.

443
00:21:54,920 --> 00:21:57,720
Speaker 1: It's not just for the for the magnet or the

444
00:21:57,720 --> 00:22:00,880
Speaker 1: catnip to eventually lure Easy to two five when he's

445
00:22:00,880 --> 00:22:03,560
Speaker 1: done with Strickland. If that fight even happens. Based on

446
00:22:03,600 --> 00:22:07,840
Speaker 1: Stricklands tweets, it seems not sure or obviously when ddp's healthy,

447
00:22:07,880 --> 00:22:09,480
Speaker 1: if they want to cash in and make that fight

448
00:22:10,080 --> 00:22:15,480
Speaker 1: for the real African Championship. But this was an interesting

449
00:22:15,520 --> 00:22:17,680
Speaker 1: advancement for Poton because what do you want out of

450
00:22:17,720 --> 00:22:20,119
Speaker 1: this guy? You want him to approve where there's holes,

451
00:22:20,160 --> 00:22:23,359
Speaker 1: I mean, the holes are glaring there. But he does

452
00:22:23,480 --> 00:22:25,600
Speaker 1: have these intangibles and he showed that in the first

453
00:22:25,680 --> 00:22:28,440
Speaker 1: Eazy fight in the UFC, obviously by being dominated and

454
00:22:28,520 --> 00:22:32,560
Speaker 1: nearly stopped and somehow short on gas in round five

455
00:22:32,640 --> 00:22:35,720
Speaker 1: pulling off the big finish right there. He's a threat

456
00:22:35,760 --> 00:22:38,280
Speaker 1: for this title at two five. Again, not the breakthrough

457
00:22:38,359 --> 00:22:41,000
Speaker 1: knockout performance where you're like, damn, sign them up. Now,

458
00:22:41,080 --> 00:22:44,400
Speaker 1: let's see. The evolution is gonna have to continue. They're

459
00:22:44,400 --> 00:22:47,040
Speaker 1: gonna have to be in that stream in Brookfield, Connecticut,

460
00:22:47,119 --> 00:22:50,200
Speaker 1: or Bethel, or outside of Danbury, wherever the hell Glover lives.

461
00:22:50,960 --> 00:22:53,800
Speaker 1: It's decen area of the state Connecticut. Decent area. I

462
00:22:53,800 --> 00:22:56,200
Speaker 1: grew up not too far from there, hardworking, a lot

463
00:22:56,240 --> 00:22:59,320
Speaker 1: of Portuguese and Brazilian population. I respect those guys a lot.

464
00:23:00,840 --> 00:23:03,280
Speaker 1: But he's got to continue this. But if he fights

465
00:23:03,400 --> 00:23:05,159
Speaker 1: Ery prahatsc connect you're telling me you won't jump out

466
00:23:05,160 --> 00:23:06,639
Speaker 1: of your chair to be excited. You're damn right you

467
00:23:06,640 --> 00:23:08,720
Speaker 1: will that if I would be absolutely crazy. And I

468
00:23:08,920 --> 00:23:13,240
Speaker 1: like who Pooton's becoming now. I mean, it's insane how

469
00:23:13,320 --> 00:23:15,800
Speaker 1: quickly he's transitioned, even with the glory for you know,

470
00:23:15,800 --> 00:23:17,600
Speaker 1: the kickboxing back groun. How many times have we seen

471
00:23:17,640 --> 00:23:20,320
Speaker 1: guys with big kickboxing backgrounds try to make that instant

472
00:23:20,359 --> 00:23:24,720
Speaker 1: transition and then it goes really, really badly for them.

473
00:23:24,760 --> 00:23:27,400
Speaker 1: This has been incredible. This has been absolutely incredible. He's

474
00:23:27,440 --> 00:23:29,080
Speaker 1: now on the doorstep of a title in the second

475
00:23:29,080 --> 00:23:31,159
Speaker 1: weight class, in his second fight in that weight class.

476
00:23:32,160 --> 00:23:36,040
Speaker 1: His transition this quickly, even while benefiting with the fact

477
00:23:36,040 --> 00:23:37,920
Speaker 1: that he had already cleaned out the division, and there

478
00:23:38,160 --> 00:23:40,920
Speaker 1: was a short path to the top. You know, he's

479
00:23:40,920 --> 00:23:43,119
Speaker 1: not young. There was a short path through the UFC

480
00:23:43,160 --> 00:23:45,040
Speaker 1: to cash in on that rivalry, and they did it.

481
00:23:45,200 --> 00:23:47,760
Speaker 1: He won the freaking title. But look at how he's

482
00:23:47,840 --> 00:23:51,520
Speaker 1: closing up those glaring weaknesses. Now, if you are not

483
00:23:51,720 --> 00:23:54,119
Speaker 1: able to take Poton down at two o five and

484
00:23:54,400 --> 00:23:56,800
Speaker 1: use it against him, or in this case, even if

485
00:23:56,800 --> 00:23:58,919
Speaker 1: you have some success, it's not going to gas him out.

486
00:23:58,920 --> 00:24:02,400
Speaker 1: It's actually gas you out. And he's also you know,

487
00:24:02,960 --> 00:24:04,760
Speaker 1: made out of stone and can knock you out at

488
00:24:04,800 --> 00:24:08,439
Speaker 1: any point and has just true deep inner toughness to

489
00:24:08,440 --> 00:24:11,440
Speaker 1: fight through stuff. Guys are problems, Guys, It's gonna be

490
00:24:11,440 --> 00:24:13,119
Speaker 1: a problem again in this division. It's not going to

491
00:24:13,160 --> 00:24:15,640
Speaker 1: be a dominant I don't think at middleweight, although again

492
00:24:15,680 --> 00:24:18,119
Speaker 1: I mean he was dominant to get to the title.

493
00:24:18,359 --> 00:24:21,520
Speaker 1: Winning the title took some level of miraculousness and then

494
00:24:21,520 --> 00:24:25,199
Speaker 1: he get knocked out in the rematch. But for a

495
00:24:25,240 --> 00:24:27,879
Speaker 1: division that's so wide open to begin with, and Jamal

496
00:24:27,960 --> 00:24:30,000
Speaker 1: Hill's out and who knows when Year is healthy and

497
00:24:30,040 --> 00:24:31,919
Speaker 1: whatever happened to rackets you a lot of a lot

498
00:24:31,960 --> 00:24:36,679
Speaker 1: of uncertainties here. Poloton is looking at least pretty certain

499
00:24:36,920 --> 00:24:39,119
Speaker 1: that he belongs in this title picture at the moment,

500
00:24:39,359 --> 00:24:41,840
Speaker 1: and again he's helped by the chaos of this division.

501
00:24:43,200 --> 00:24:46,880
Speaker 1: But I don't usually love to reward survive in advance,

502
00:24:46,960 --> 00:24:49,639
Speaker 1: but when you show these type of skills, I mean,

503
00:24:49,640 --> 00:24:51,439
Speaker 1: it was clear like y'all was trying to steal this

504
00:24:51,480 --> 00:24:55,480
Speaker 1: fight with takedowns, and Poloton rightfully got his hand raised.

505
00:24:55,760 --> 00:24:58,320
Speaker 1: Big win, absolutely big win, but he also landed the

506
00:24:58,359 --> 00:25:02,120
Speaker 1: bigger shots, which forced Young to wrestle Moore. It's where

507
00:25:02,160 --> 00:25:04,880
Speaker 1: it's kind of a puzzling performance from Yon kind of,

508
00:25:05,440 --> 00:25:09,720
Speaker 1: but he was also outgunned in certain areas. The legendary

509
00:25:09,760 --> 00:25:14,119
Speaker 1: Polish power is just that. But you can't at either

510
00:25:14,200 --> 00:25:17,879
Speaker 1: division stand in trade with Poton, especially when you're tired

511
00:25:17,920 --> 00:25:19,800
Speaker 1: and hurt, as was going on at the end of

512
00:25:19,800 --> 00:25:22,120
Speaker 1: that second round, You're going to be in a lot

513
00:25:22,119 --> 00:25:24,440
Speaker 1: of trouble. A one note of a fight that unfortunately

514
00:25:24,440 --> 00:25:26,480
Speaker 1: didn't go down, which was Stephen wonder Boy Thompson was

515
00:25:26,520 --> 00:25:28,600
Speaker 1: supposed to be right in the midst of this pay

516
00:25:28,640 --> 00:25:32,240
Speaker 1: per view card against Michelle Padata. Padata Missedwaight badly by

517
00:25:32,240 --> 00:25:36,640
Speaker 1: three pounds. We saw that decision come out late Friday

518
00:25:37,000 --> 00:25:40,320
Speaker 1: on Twitter or Instagram wherever it was where Wonder Boy's

519
00:25:40,359 --> 00:25:43,280
Speaker 1: basically like, look, this has happened to me before. Somebody

520
00:25:43,280 --> 00:25:45,080
Speaker 1: missing way and we still went on with the fight,

521
00:25:45,160 --> 00:25:47,199
Speaker 1: and they, you know, got the upper hand against me.

522
00:25:47,240 --> 00:25:51,120
Speaker 1: I respect at his age the decision of Wonder Boy,

523
00:25:51,119 --> 00:25:53,000
Speaker 1: who had the chance to go forward with the fight

524
00:25:53,280 --> 00:25:56,120
Speaker 1: but because of that weight change, went against it, because

525
00:25:56,160 --> 00:25:57,800
Speaker 1: of his recent history, and I thought, you know, his

526
00:25:57,920 --> 00:26:02,520
Speaker 1: long written excuses were very understandable of at my age

527
00:26:02,560 --> 00:26:04,960
Speaker 1: with the opportunities. Like the one thing I loved about

528
00:26:04,960 --> 00:26:06,960
Speaker 1: the message that Wonder Boy put out there was that

529
00:26:07,840 --> 00:26:11,280
Speaker 1: like I'm not trying to get money or or you

530
00:26:11,320 --> 00:26:13,920
Speaker 1: know glorified name fights, like I'm in this to win

531
00:26:13,920 --> 00:26:17,879
Speaker 1: the title, all right. I respect that. So he pulls

532
00:26:17,880 --> 00:26:20,440
Speaker 1: out of this fight to not give that advantage in

533
00:26:20,520 --> 00:26:23,440
Speaker 1: such a key pivotal fight to his opponent. But then,

534
00:26:23,560 --> 00:26:27,920
Speaker 1: according to reporting from Mike Boone, Mike Bond of MMA

535
00:26:28,040 --> 00:26:30,960
Speaker 1: Junkie who you know, hand check on the on the

536
00:26:31,000 --> 00:26:37,879
Speaker 1: flight to Salt Lake City, Mike right, he says, the

537
00:26:37,960 --> 00:26:41,240
Speaker 1: UFC and hot paying Stephen Thompson show money in this situation.

538
00:26:43,359 --> 00:26:45,600
Speaker 1: That's that's a little dicey, that's a little that's a little.

539
00:26:46,080 --> 00:26:49,960
Speaker 1: So it's like from the promotion there, that's a standpoint

540
00:26:50,680 --> 00:26:53,280
Speaker 1: beyond the fact that they're insanely cheap in these areas

541
00:26:53,840 --> 00:26:58,000
Speaker 1: of thinking, Okay, well you were healthy to fight and

542
00:26:58,040 --> 00:27:00,520
Speaker 1: you chose not to. Well we're not going to kill

543
00:27:00,560 --> 00:27:03,480
Speaker 1: you for it or whatever, but we're not going to

544
00:27:03,600 --> 00:27:06,679
Speaker 1: reward you for it. Is that fair? I don't know

545
00:27:06,680 --> 00:27:08,920
Speaker 1: if that's fair. I mean, this wasn't a weight miss

546
00:27:09,000 --> 00:27:13,040
Speaker 1: by like three tenths of a pound and Wonder Boys

547
00:27:13,080 --> 00:27:16,120
Speaker 1: just being pedantic or trying to protect like for example,

548
00:27:16,200 --> 00:27:19,520
Speaker 1: speaking of Michelle Padeda, when Diego Sanchez leaned into that

549
00:27:19,640 --> 00:27:21,679
Speaker 1: d QW win just to kind of survive at events

550
00:27:21,680 --> 00:27:24,000
Speaker 1: in his own career. It was kind of a desperate move,

551
00:27:24,000 --> 00:27:26,000
Speaker 1: but it was a desperate act by a desperate man

552
00:27:26,240 --> 00:27:29,000
Speaker 1: with a weird coach behind him who's chasing him with knives.

553
00:27:29,400 --> 00:27:33,280
Speaker 1: So you got it, you understood it. This is a

554
00:27:33,320 --> 00:27:36,600
Speaker 1: three pound miss. This isn't, you know, pedantic wonder Boy

555
00:27:36,600 --> 00:27:39,399
Speaker 1: trying to one up the company. Wonder Boy showed up

556
00:27:39,400 --> 00:27:42,280
Speaker 1: and was professional and showed up to fight. Can't get

557
00:27:42,320 --> 00:27:44,840
Speaker 1: a show money for the camp be put in that

558
00:27:44,960 --> 00:27:48,800
Speaker 1: his opponent effed up and he didn't want to give

559
00:27:48,800 --> 00:27:51,960
Speaker 1: that opponent the advantage, so he doesn't get show money

560
00:27:52,000 --> 00:27:55,920
Speaker 1: when you're on your biggest financial year in UFC history.

561
00:27:55,920 --> 00:27:58,560
Speaker 1: And this is a former two time title challenger who's

562
00:27:58,600 --> 00:28:01,399
Speaker 1: also speaking a BMS on this night. He's also the

563
00:28:01,560 --> 00:28:07,119
Speaker 1: nicest mother effort And everyone makes jokes about that, like

564
00:28:07,200 --> 00:28:10,800
Speaker 1: that's not a great high morale move for the company.

565
00:28:10,960 --> 00:28:14,640
Speaker 1: That's not. It's just not. It's consistent, all right. I'm

566
00:28:14,640 --> 00:28:17,200
Speaker 1: sure Dwayne Johnson got compensated for everybody wearing his shitty

567
00:28:17,240 --> 00:28:20,560
Speaker 1: sneakers out there. I don't know if I'm extra mad

568
00:28:20,600 --> 00:28:23,160
Speaker 1: because it's wonder boy and we all like him, or

569
00:28:23,240 --> 00:28:25,080
Speaker 1: because this is a calendar year in which was a

570
00:28:25,119 --> 00:28:28,600
Speaker 1: lot of ufcbs outside of the cage. But that just

571
00:28:28,680 --> 00:28:30,880
Speaker 1: that just didn't say right. That just didn't say right.

572
00:28:31,680 --> 00:28:34,600
Speaker 1: Let's continue on down this card though, because I liked

573
00:28:34,600 --> 00:28:36,280
Speaker 1: a lot of the things that went down. It kept

574
00:28:36,280 --> 00:28:39,640
Speaker 1: me on my toes. Big thing that went down there

575
00:28:39,680 --> 00:28:44,880
Speaker 1: in the heavyweight division, the blackbe Steric Lewis. Guys, this

576
00:28:45,080 --> 00:28:49,200
Speaker 1: is a this is an all time great like batshit

577
00:28:49,240 --> 00:28:52,320
Speaker 1: weird moment, and and Lewis has a ton of them

578
00:28:52,360 --> 00:28:54,920
Speaker 1: in his career, right, My balls were hot, all of that.

579
00:28:55,040 --> 00:28:57,840
Speaker 1: Where's Ronda Rousey's financed all of that? And we've always

580
00:28:57,840 --> 00:29:01,680
Speaker 1: loved and celebrated that. But not only did Derek Lewis like,

581
00:29:02,120 --> 00:29:05,720
Speaker 1: badly need a win here, badly right, three fight losing skid,

582
00:29:05,760 --> 00:29:08,480
Speaker 1: lost four or five most of the I think all

583
00:29:08,520 --> 00:29:12,600
Speaker 1: those by stoppage. He badly needed the win, which is

584
00:29:12,600 --> 00:29:14,400
Speaker 1: why he put on the six pack abs and got

585
00:29:14,400 --> 00:29:17,520
Speaker 1: into great shape for this fight against Marcos Jougerio de Lima.

586
00:29:18,640 --> 00:29:21,920
Speaker 1: But then he goes out and arguably offers his most

587
00:29:21,960 --> 00:29:24,920
Speaker 1: Derek Lewis moment of all time afterwards, which I think

588
00:29:25,520 --> 00:29:28,160
Speaker 1: is crazy like a fox. I think because we find

589
00:29:28,200 --> 00:29:31,080
Speaker 1: out in the post fight speech that Lewis, who by

590
00:29:31,120 --> 00:29:34,720
Speaker 1: the way, scored a thirty three second TKO of Dilema

591
00:29:34,760 --> 00:29:37,000
Speaker 1: which we'll get to Rogario Delima, which we'll get to

592
00:29:37,040 --> 00:29:40,880
Speaker 1: in a second, he this was the last fight of

593
00:29:40,880 --> 00:29:43,320
Speaker 1: his deal. So with the three fight losing skid all

594
00:29:43,320 --> 00:29:45,840
Speaker 1: by stopping this is basically UFC saying like, let's go

595
00:29:45,880 --> 00:29:47,320
Speaker 1: see what happens. If you can go out there and

596
00:29:47,360 --> 00:29:50,000
Speaker 1: win and look great, we'll see what happens. Well, not

597
00:29:50,040 --> 00:29:52,920
Speaker 1: only did Derek Lewis get in shape for the part

598
00:29:53,480 --> 00:29:55,960
Speaker 1: against in my opinion, a second tier heavyweight, but a

599
00:29:56,040 --> 00:29:58,800
Speaker 1: second tier heavyweight who was who had beaten four or

600
00:29:58,800 --> 00:30:01,360
Speaker 1: five coming in, not wor beaters. He beat the type

601
00:30:01,400 --> 00:30:04,000
Speaker 1: of guys at Marching Tiburrow beat to Go to have

602
00:30:04,040 --> 00:30:06,280
Speaker 1: a winning streak of seven over eight fights for his

603
00:30:06,640 --> 00:30:09,880
Speaker 1: most recent step up fight and destruction loss against aspinall

604
00:30:10,280 --> 00:30:13,120
Speaker 1: but it was the same type of deal. Not only

605
00:30:13,160 --> 00:30:15,520
Speaker 1: does Lewis get in the top shape to save his job,

606
00:30:16,000 --> 00:30:19,800
Speaker 1: not only does he deliver an insane performance, he then

607
00:30:20,000 --> 00:30:23,560
Speaker 1: does the most endearing and ridiculous over the top stuff

608
00:30:23,800 --> 00:30:26,200
Speaker 1: for even in over the top athlete that we love,

609
00:30:26,560 --> 00:30:28,880
Speaker 1: which has to make everybody go, damn it, I love

610
00:30:28,920 --> 00:30:31,800
Speaker 1: that guy. That's smart when you're in your final fight

611
00:30:31,840 --> 00:30:33,920
Speaker 1: of your contract and you're you know, just look, he's

612
00:30:33,920 --> 00:30:37,680
Speaker 1: not gonna get cut, even at thirty eight. He's obviously

613
00:30:37,680 --> 00:30:39,440
Speaker 1: got the power to always make fun fights, and he's

614
00:30:39,440 --> 00:30:41,160
Speaker 1: a name and Dana White loves him. When we all

615
00:30:41,160 --> 00:30:43,440
Speaker 1: know that it was possible if he got stopped again,

616
00:30:43,480 --> 00:30:45,520
Speaker 1: he was gonna get cut. That's very possible. But it's

617
00:30:45,560 --> 00:30:47,320
Speaker 1: mostly for this and this is why it was so

618
00:30:47,360 --> 00:30:50,000
Speaker 1: important that he repaired this, not just with the performance,

619
00:30:50,160 --> 00:30:53,440
Speaker 1: but with getting in shape the performance, and in my opinion,

620
00:30:53,440 --> 00:30:57,160
Speaker 1: by doing that extra endearing stuff on top is because

621
00:30:58,600 --> 00:31:02,320
Speaker 1: the losses and no one else talks about this. The

622
00:31:02,360 --> 00:31:05,160
Speaker 1: losses were self implosive a lot of them. They were

623
00:31:05,880 --> 00:31:07,760
Speaker 1: the god loss in his hometown, he Houston. I talked

624
00:31:07,760 --> 00:31:10,280
Speaker 1: about it this week. You know, he admitted afterwards just

625
00:31:10,280 --> 00:31:13,040
Speaker 1: just the moment got too much for him. Hometown, trying

626
00:31:13,040 --> 00:31:16,160
Speaker 1: to win a title got too much for him. I

627
00:31:16,160 --> 00:31:19,080
Speaker 1: think if you look across as major losses, I mean,

628
00:31:19,120 --> 00:31:21,320
Speaker 1: maybe he's always going to lose to DC at Madison

629
00:31:21,360 --> 00:31:24,160
Speaker 1: Square Garden in that spot, but DC had a horrific back.

630
00:31:24,240 --> 00:31:26,320
Speaker 1: And you know that was during a time where Derek

631
00:31:26,400 --> 00:31:28,640
Speaker 1: Lewis would always say these weird things in interviews, not

632
00:31:28,680 --> 00:31:30,960
Speaker 1: the normal weird things, but like the where you just say, like,

633
00:31:31,360 --> 00:31:33,240
Speaker 1: it's just money for me, I don't care about the money.

634
00:31:33,240 --> 00:31:34,640
Speaker 1: I want to feed my wife and kids, like I

635
00:31:34,640 --> 00:31:36,720
Speaker 1: don't care about this the title and all of that.

636
00:31:37,280 --> 00:31:42,160
Speaker 1: I think he has always been his biggest enemy and

637
00:31:42,200 --> 00:31:45,120
Speaker 1: the idea of maxing out fully who he could be.

638
00:31:45,840 --> 00:31:48,360
Speaker 1: Sometimes I think it's like laziness and work ethics. Sometimes

639
00:31:48,400 --> 00:31:51,280
Speaker 1: I think it's injury. Sometimes I think it's self implosion.

640
00:31:51,320 --> 00:31:55,160
Speaker 1: I think mentally he's folded a few times. What we

641
00:31:55,280 --> 00:31:57,400
Speaker 1: end up finding out if you listen closely on the

642
00:31:57,440 --> 00:31:59,240
Speaker 1: build up to this was his last fight or the

643
00:31:59,240 --> 00:32:02,120
Speaker 1: fight agains sidergate speedback that he was stopped in the

644
00:32:02,160 --> 00:32:04,880
Speaker 1: third round. We find out that he had cut or

645
00:32:04,960 --> 00:32:06,160
Speaker 1: was it the third round he found out that he

646
00:32:06,200 --> 00:32:09,080
Speaker 1: had cut just a ridiculous amount of weight by fasting

647
00:32:09,440 --> 00:32:12,560
Speaker 1: during fight week, passed out, So that was his last loss.

648
00:32:12,560 --> 00:32:15,560
Speaker 1: It was a first round submission, excuse me, in February

649
00:32:15,560 --> 00:32:17,720
Speaker 1: of this year, and we end up finding out that

650
00:32:17,720 --> 00:32:20,040
Speaker 1: he went through hell physically to get to that point.

651
00:32:20,520 --> 00:32:23,800
Speaker 1: So if three straight stoppage losses and four of your

652
00:32:23,880 --> 00:32:27,440
Speaker 1: last five being defeats, albeit against good competition, isn't enough

653
00:32:27,480 --> 00:32:29,920
Speaker 1: to wake you up and get into very good shape

654
00:32:30,320 --> 00:32:32,600
Speaker 1: entering the final fight of your deal and knowing they

655
00:32:32,640 --> 00:32:36,720
Speaker 1: could cut you, because again, when you're self implosive a

656
00:32:36,760 --> 00:32:40,240
Speaker 1: lot of ways, you're not trustworthy right to some degree.

657
00:32:42,240 --> 00:32:44,760
Speaker 1: He fixed it all in this fight, and he did

658
00:32:44,840 --> 00:32:48,840
Speaker 1: it with a running, jumping, switched knee off the opening bell.

659
00:32:48,960 --> 00:32:52,920
Speaker 1: I mean, it was like absolutely ridiculous, except it landed.

660
00:32:53,000 --> 00:32:56,640
Speaker 1: It perfectly split the guard of Jerio Dilema. Now is

661
00:32:56,680 --> 00:32:59,400
Speaker 1: this guy's last name Dilema or is it Rogerio Dilema?

662
00:32:59,760 --> 00:33:02,640
Speaker 1: Is he he middle nog? You know? All right, maybe

663
00:33:02,760 --> 00:33:04,960
Speaker 1: not gonna work on my hard five? Sorry my heart? Yeah,

664
00:33:05,000 --> 00:33:08,080
Speaker 1: there you go. He split, you know, and de Lima

665
00:33:08,120 --> 00:33:10,760
Speaker 1: has the defense for it. But that knee just lands perfectly.

666
00:33:10,960 --> 00:33:15,040
Speaker 1: And I actually love the patience of the the beast

667
00:33:15,120 --> 00:33:18,320
Speaker 1: there the black Rhino when he got on top, but

668
00:33:18,600 --> 00:33:20,480
Speaker 1: was kind of like picking his spots with the ground

669
00:33:20,520 --> 00:33:22,560
Speaker 1: and pound to set up that finish. He ends up

670
00:33:22,560 --> 00:33:27,080
Speaker 1: getting the finish thirty three seconds. And then Derek Louis,

671
00:33:27,080 --> 00:33:29,960
Speaker 1: there's stuff that, of course I'm gonna pop for the

672
00:33:30,640 --> 00:33:34,080
Speaker 1: shorts came off and the underwear's ball free and the

673
00:33:34,200 --> 00:33:37,720
Speaker 1: DX crotch chop and the run and jump on top

674
00:33:37,760 --> 00:33:39,520
Speaker 1: of the cage in his underwear. It's like no one's

675
00:33:39,520 --> 00:33:41,720
Speaker 1: ever done this before, and you know, and he's hilarious

676
00:33:41,720 --> 00:33:44,720
Speaker 1: in the post fight interview. I hope this is the

677
00:33:44,800 --> 00:33:47,320
Speaker 1: right wake up call for him in this regard. He's

678
00:33:47,320 --> 00:33:49,160
Speaker 1: got to be in better shape. I don't know, a

679
00:33:49,240 --> 00:33:51,640
Speaker 1: thirty like, I think he's done angling toward a title

680
00:33:51,680 --> 00:33:53,520
Speaker 1: shot him. He kind of maxed himself out pretty damn

681
00:33:53,520 --> 00:33:56,160
Speaker 1: good if you consider he fought Daniel Cormier at MSG

682
00:33:56,320 --> 00:33:59,000
Speaker 1: for the title and then fought for you know, against

683
00:33:59,360 --> 00:34:02,200
Speaker 1: Gon first second chance. There at a portion of the belt.

684
00:34:04,000 --> 00:34:07,360
Speaker 1: But YOFCU wants to employ this guy because of moments

685
00:34:07,400 --> 00:34:09,880
Speaker 1: like that, because of the he's the all time knockout winner.

686
00:34:09,920 --> 00:34:12,120
Speaker 1: They love this guy. He does have to commit to

687
00:34:12,160 --> 00:34:13,759
Speaker 1: being in more shape, and if I think, I think,

688
00:34:13,800 --> 00:34:16,919
Speaker 1: if he does, he's not going to get injured as much.

689
00:34:17,200 --> 00:34:19,040
Speaker 1: He's going to have the best chance to max out

690
00:34:19,080 --> 00:34:23,160
Speaker 1: because even at thirty eight, he's still explosively fast and

691
00:34:23,200 --> 00:34:26,640
Speaker 1: powerful in the right moment, even for a guy that looks,

692
00:34:26,760 --> 00:34:29,160
Speaker 1: you know, fake's being tired, sometimes fakes being heard and

693
00:34:29,200 --> 00:34:32,040
Speaker 1: looks like he can be a circus clown at times. Man,

694
00:34:32,120 --> 00:34:34,600
Speaker 1: he can. He can strike like a cobra in nowhere

695
00:34:34,640 --> 00:34:38,080
Speaker 1: and hurt you, and he's still an interesting out if

696
00:34:38,120 --> 00:34:40,759
Speaker 1: he gets his stuff together. Most guys, when they have

697
00:34:40,800 --> 00:34:43,719
Speaker 1: that many consecutive stoppage losses, it's normally you know, again

698
00:34:43,800 --> 00:34:45,840
Speaker 1: due to like a poor chin falling apart, and you

699
00:34:45,840 --> 00:34:47,520
Speaker 1: know a few of these he's fighting killers. A few

700
00:34:47,520 --> 00:34:50,560
Speaker 1: of those. He took some big shots. But when he

701
00:34:50,640 --> 00:34:53,319
Speaker 1: gets out of his own way. It's inspiring. I want

702
00:34:53,320 --> 00:34:55,040
Speaker 1: to see that continue. I want to see more of that.

703
00:34:55,440 --> 00:34:59,239
Speaker 1: And you know, if we're ranking power rankings in his

704
00:34:59,280 --> 00:35:01,640
Speaker 1: most hilarious moments, this is the best. It's the best one.

705
00:35:01,680 --> 00:35:03,759
Speaker 1: It's the best one by far. That was great. It

706
00:35:03,840 --> 00:35:05,120
Speaker 1: was one of the best things I've ever seen. I

707
00:35:05,120 --> 00:35:08,000
Speaker 1: absolutely loved it. Huge star, a huge fan. Let's keep

708
00:35:08,040 --> 00:35:11,000
Speaker 1: on going down this line here. This lightweight tilt between

709
00:35:11,000 --> 00:35:14,240
Speaker 1: Bobby Green and Tony Ferguson was not what we expected.

710
00:35:14,280 --> 00:35:18,760
Speaker 1: Now I'm sweating out my okay, bet bet not like anyone.

711
00:35:19,040 --> 00:35:20,480
Speaker 1: I don't know if you guys are into this, but

712
00:35:20,520 --> 00:35:22,120
Speaker 1: you know this is a tight race between Lac and I,

713
00:35:22,160 --> 00:35:24,360
Speaker 1: and I'm not particularly good at this. I picked that

714
00:35:24,440 --> 00:35:26,200
Speaker 1: this fight wouldn't go the distance. Only I picked it

715
00:35:26,200 --> 00:35:29,320
Speaker 1: would be really sad. You know what, It wasn't really sad.

716
00:35:30,280 --> 00:35:33,440
Speaker 1: Tony Ferguson just lost his sixth in a row for

717
00:35:33,719 --> 00:35:37,480
Speaker 1: them by stoppage, and before this stepped down in competition

718
00:35:37,520 --> 00:35:40,800
Speaker 1: against the still very dangerous Bobby Green. It was largely

719
00:35:41,080 --> 00:35:47,120
Speaker 1: all against super elite competition, but there were moments in

720
00:35:47,160 --> 00:35:50,400
Speaker 1: that stretch, including against n A, including against Michael Chandler

721
00:35:50,400 --> 00:35:52,160
Speaker 1: where we actually heard him. I mean, gosh, she dropped

722
00:35:52,200 --> 00:35:54,640
Speaker 1: gay Chee early in that fight for the interim title.

723
00:35:54,640 --> 00:35:56,600
Speaker 1: That he ended up I think, pouring out most of

724
00:35:56,640 --> 00:35:59,920
Speaker 1: the jug of what's left in his punch resistance. But Tony,

725
00:36:00,200 --> 00:36:02,160
Speaker 1: who's always in great shape, And yeah, I know he

726
00:36:02,200 --> 00:36:04,360
Speaker 1: had said crazy comments coming in that I'm in my prime.

727
00:36:04,680 --> 00:36:06,279
Speaker 1: I got to give him a lot of credit. You

728
00:36:06,320 --> 00:36:08,760
Speaker 1: could see he went back to the lab and tried

729
00:36:08,760 --> 00:36:11,839
Speaker 1: to reinvent himself. And you know what, he dropped Green

730
00:36:11,880 --> 00:36:15,200
Speaker 1: in the first round, and he wasn't easy to mangle.

731
00:36:15,320 --> 00:36:17,280
Speaker 1: It really wasn't until the second half of that second

732
00:36:17,400 --> 00:36:19,880
Speaker 1: round that he just started to get lit up. It

733
00:36:20,000 --> 00:36:22,799
Speaker 1: felt like anytime Green's flapping that jab out, every time,

734
00:36:22,840 --> 00:36:25,360
Speaker 1: he's just rigging the bell on Tony. But especially in

735
00:36:25,360 --> 00:36:27,319
Speaker 1: that first round, even with that, you know, I wonder

736
00:36:27,320 --> 00:36:29,880
Speaker 1: if that I poke that brief eyepoke which halted the action.

737
00:36:30,360 --> 00:36:34,680
Speaker 1: It kind of halted Tony's momentum in that same regard. Yeah,

738
00:36:34,760 --> 00:36:37,280
Speaker 1: he took a lot of punishment. Yeah he got finished again.

739
00:36:38,239 --> 00:36:39,920
Speaker 1: And no, I'm not trying to advocate for a guy

740
00:36:39,960 --> 00:36:42,040
Speaker 1: who just lost six in a row to come back again.

741
00:36:43,400 --> 00:36:47,799
Speaker 1: But rumors of his I'm walking on tyrope here, but

742
00:36:47,920 --> 00:36:53,880
Speaker 1: rumors of his extreme demise extreme demise might be slightly overexaggerated,

743
00:36:54,080 --> 00:36:56,000
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. Like, I give him a

744
00:36:56,000 --> 00:36:59,240
Speaker 1: lot of credit. He came in, he fought well and reasonly.

745
00:36:59,280 --> 00:37:01,160
Speaker 1: I think, ultimately, reason why Bobby Green won this is

746
00:37:01,160 --> 00:37:03,040
Speaker 1: because he didn't fall for any of the attempts by

747
00:37:03,080 --> 00:37:05,560
Speaker 1: Tony to make this a crazy fight. Tony was actually

748
00:37:05,640 --> 00:37:07,879
Speaker 1: kind of disciplined in there, and I think that made

749
00:37:07,920 --> 00:37:10,200
Speaker 1: Bobby Green have to be disciplined at times, and once

750
00:37:10,239 --> 00:37:12,200
Speaker 1: he was, once he made the adjustment. I thought Bobby

751
00:37:12,239 --> 00:37:14,439
Speaker 1: Green's second round adjustments to just worked behind that jab

752
00:37:14,480 --> 00:37:17,359
Speaker 1: and his speed advantage. It was the difference right. Their

753
00:37:17,560 --> 00:37:20,320
Speaker 1: third round was a little bit different. Tony actually landed

754
00:37:20,360 --> 00:37:22,319
Speaker 1: a cracking right hand early in that third round, and

755
00:37:22,360 --> 00:37:24,719
Speaker 1: I did wonder, like you gonna win a decision here,

756
00:37:24,800 --> 00:37:27,839
Speaker 1: Like is it possible Tony could pull this off if

757
00:37:27,880 --> 00:37:31,239
Speaker 1: he rallies down the stretch there? But Green turned the

758
00:37:31,239 --> 00:37:34,520
Speaker 1: tables quickly picked him apart, and then Tony goes to

759
00:37:35,640 --> 00:37:39,160
Speaker 1: pull guard and go for one of his rolling attacks.

760
00:37:39,840 --> 00:37:42,160
Speaker 1: You know, I had spicy California rolls for dinner. Here

761
00:37:42,200 --> 00:37:43,839
Speaker 1: for big Y. I'm not afraid to. At least it's

762
00:37:43,840 --> 00:37:46,200
Speaker 1: not gas station food, right. He tried to go for

763
00:37:46,280 --> 00:37:50,280
Speaker 1: one of those iminari you know, I don't know, Dragon

764
00:37:50,400 --> 00:37:54,360
Speaker 1: rolls with a side of what you know, Okay, so

765
00:37:54,400 --> 00:37:56,920
Speaker 1: it always comes with that green stuff that's like super spicy.

766
00:37:56,960 --> 00:37:59,440
Speaker 1: I'm not going near that stuff, with that thin white

767
00:37:59,440 --> 00:38:01,919
Speaker 1: stuff that put over each one. That's weird. Right. Maybe

768
00:38:01,960 --> 00:38:04,040
Speaker 1: he was going for one of those, and Green, I

769
00:38:04,040 --> 00:38:07,040
Speaker 1: gotta give him a lot of credit, didn't get the submission,

770
00:38:07,120 --> 00:38:09,880
Speaker 1: tempt right away, worked for it, and then got the

771
00:38:10,000 --> 00:38:14,480
Speaker 1: arm bar, and I think Tony ended up. Tony tried.

772
00:38:14,600 --> 00:38:16,480
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I'm confusing the two fights in my head.

773
00:38:16,520 --> 00:38:18,440
Speaker 1: Did not get the arm bar. I'm totally confusing with

774
00:38:18,480 --> 00:38:21,400
Speaker 1: the other fight. It is after midnight right now, so

775
00:38:21,440 --> 00:38:22,960
Speaker 1: we do have to let it all hang out on

776
00:38:23,000 --> 00:38:26,759
Speaker 1: the East coast. I'm confusing it with the arm bar

777
00:38:27,320 --> 00:38:29,640
Speaker 1: in the earlier fight. This was the arm triangle choke,

778
00:38:30,480 --> 00:38:32,560
Speaker 1: and dude, Tony bit down. Man. He tried his best,

779
00:38:32,560 --> 00:38:33,840
Speaker 1: He tried his best toe out of it. Looked like

780
00:38:33,880 --> 00:38:36,799
Speaker 1: he actually potentially could have finished off that last final

781
00:38:37,000 --> 00:38:40,239
Speaker 1: twenty seconds, but Green got their choke tight enough got

782
00:38:40,360 --> 00:38:43,160
Speaker 1: him to fall asleep. Perfect stop is there's six seconds

783
00:38:43,239 --> 00:38:45,360
Speaker 1: to go. I get the under on my okay, bet,

784
00:38:45,680 --> 00:38:48,560
Speaker 1: does Tony still have a job. That's the thing. It's

785
00:38:48,600 --> 00:38:52,239
Speaker 1: like he actually, you know, he felt better than Cowboy

786
00:38:52,360 --> 00:38:55,440
Speaker 1: had during that stretch of really bad finishes that led

787
00:38:55,480 --> 00:38:58,319
Speaker 1: to his finish Bjay, I mean, god, this was better

788
00:38:58,360 --> 00:39:01,080
Speaker 1: than the Lava shack. But I didn't want to see

789
00:39:01,080 --> 00:39:02,880
Speaker 1: Diego Sanchez keep going out there, and I don't know

790
00:39:02,920 --> 00:39:05,880
Speaker 1: if I still want to see Tony. But Tony, I

791
00:39:05,920 --> 00:39:09,279
Speaker 1: love you, man. You fuck yeah, you brought it. You

792
00:39:09,360 --> 00:39:10,960
Speaker 1: got into shape. I mean you're always in shape, but

793
00:39:11,000 --> 00:39:12,680
Speaker 1: you brought it this time. It's a good win for

794
00:39:12,719 --> 00:39:16,040
Speaker 1: Bobby Green because it was harder than it should have been.

795
00:39:16,160 --> 00:39:17,799
Speaker 1: It's actually the first I love the stat that they

796
00:39:17,800 --> 00:39:20,200
Speaker 1: throw out there, first submission win since for Bobby Green,

797
00:39:20,239 --> 00:39:24,520
Speaker 1: since his UFC debut ten years ago. Wild wild turn

798
00:39:24,560 --> 00:39:28,080
Speaker 1: of events there, but this was kind of a charming

799
00:39:28,120 --> 00:39:30,319
Speaker 1: fight on a largely charming card. And to kick off

800
00:39:30,360 --> 00:39:32,680
Speaker 1: this pay per view main card again losing wonder Boy

801
00:39:32,719 --> 00:39:37,680
Speaker 1: against Paeda, the other one, Perreira pereda Kevin Holland gave

802
00:39:37,760 --> 00:39:42,120
Speaker 1: us the breakthrough win that we've wanted, needed, and asked

803
00:39:42,160 --> 00:39:44,600
Speaker 1: for for a long time, and the fact that he

804
00:39:44,640 --> 00:39:47,400
Speaker 1: can package this with the one punch knockout win of

805
00:39:47,440 --> 00:39:50,719
Speaker 1: San Diego Ponzinibbio in the fight before now means he

806
00:39:50,760 --> 00:39:53,000
Speaker 1: has legitimate momentum. But I think even the difference between

807
00:39:53,040 --> 00:39:56,960
Speaker 1: this fight and that last one was he both leveled

808
00:39:57,080 --> 00:40:00,320
Speaker 1: up and matured. Now tough fight for Michael Key Yessa

809
00:40:00,840 --> 00:40:04,440
Speaker 1: coming off nearly two years away with sustained injuries, and

810
00:40:04,480 --> 00:40:07,200
Speaker 1: I think it's natural to say, like, you know, he's

811
00:40:07,200 --> 00:40:09,280
Speaker 1: got a really good sort of second career. He's starting

812
00:40:09,320 --> 00:40:11,720
Speaker 1: as an analyst in the studio. He does the podcast

813
00:40:11,760 --> 00:40:14,520
Speaker 1: I think with Paul Felder, and he's becoming, you know,

814
00:40:14,640 --> 00:40:16,719
Speaker 1: kind of a favorite UFC guy. So I'm not you know,

815
00:40:16,800 --> 00:40:19,400
Speaker 1: maybe maybe that does begin to lend the idea that

816
00:40:20,239 --> 00:40:22,040
Speaker 1: half not one foot out the door, but a half

817
00:40:22,040 --> 00:40:25,080
Speaker 1: a foot maybe three toes. Maybe I got bare feet

818
00:40:25,160 --> 00:40:26,319
Speaker 1: right now. But you don't want to see it. I

819
00:40:26,360 --> 00:40:29,759
Speaker 1: know you don't want to see it. It looked like

820
00:40:29,800 --> 00:40:31,520
Speaker 1: he was actually going to retire afterwards, look like he

821
00:40:31,560 --> 00:40:33,120
Speaker 1: was taking off the glove. They were kind of teasing

822
00:40:33,200 --> 00:40:34,880
Speaker 1: on the broadcast, but I don't think it ended up

823
00:40:34,880 --> 00:40:37,080
Speaker 1: happening either that or or I looked away to check

824
00:40:37,120 --> 00:40:39,000
Speaker 1: out what was going on Spence Crawford and I missed it.

825
00:40:39,480 --> 00:40:42,640
Speaker 1: But for Kevin Holland at age thirty to hear that

826
00:40:42,760 --> 00:40:45,439
Speaker 1: he put all that money into starting basically his own

827
00:40:45,480 --> 00:40:49,120
Speaker 1: training camp, hiring his own full time wrestling coach, this

828
00:40:49,280 --> 00:40:51,600
Speaker 1: was the change. This was it. This was the change

829
00:40:51,600 --> 00:40:55,600
Speaker 1: that he needed because his takedown defense against Kiessa was

830
00:40:55,600 --> 00:40:59,239
Speaker 1: was absolutely fantastic. And it was and even I mean

831
00:40:59,640 --> 00:41:02,160
Speaker 1: even in some times where he had top position on

832
00:41:02,160 --> 00:41:04,480
Speaker 1: the ground and you're starting to see Kiessa lock him

833
00:41:04,520 --> 00:41:06,160
Speaker 1: up and we know what Kiska do on his back

834
00:41:07,040 --> 00:41:09,520
Speaker 1: to see Holland deal with all of that bring the

835
00:41:09,520 --> 00:41:11,839
Speaker 1: fight back to the feet where we knew he would

836
00:41:11,840 --> 00:41:13,920
Speaker 1: have a striking advantage. And then you add in the

837
00:41:13,960 --> 00:41:16,920
Speaker 1: fact that Kiys is on a long layoff. Yeah, dude,

838
00:41:17,000 --> 00:41:19,279
Speaker 1: Kisa was in great shape. It typically is what. He

839
00:41:19,360 --> 00:41:21,719
Speaker 1: was in great shape here, and he talked in the

840
00:41:21,719 --> 00:41:24,200
Speaker 1: pre fight interviews that they the package they showed about

841
00:41:24,480 --> 00:41:27,440
Speaker 1: rounding out his game and showing Kevin Holland a different look.

842
00:41:27,840 --> 00:41:30,160
Speaker 1: We didn't get to see that rounding out. And sometimes

843
00:41:30,200 --> 00:41:33,200
Speaker 1: you know that long time off it can be hard,

844
00:41:33,280 --> 00:41:35,719
Speaker 1: you can't get caught early, and it's weird. It looked

845
00:41:35,760 --> 00:41:38,640
Speaker 1: like the jumping knee from Holland here that set up

846
00:41:38,680 --> 00:41:42,120
Speaker 1: this finish was ultimately the thing. But Holland would say

847
00:41:42,120 --> 00:41:44,600
Speaker 1: afterwards in the interview that he didn't really land it flush,

848
00:41:44,719 --> 00:41:46,480
Speaker 1: but he kind of put Kissa down in saying in

849
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Speaker 1: the past, when Kisa kind of gets hurt or close

850
00:41:49,040 --> 00:41:51,640
Speaker 1: to her, he kind of starts to fall apart. And

851
00:41:51,920 --> 00:41:54,879
Speaker 1: according to Holland, he not only was prepared for that,

852
00:41:54,880 --> 00:41:56,520
Speaker 1: that's what one of it. And then he even took

853
00:41:56,520 --> 00:41:58,320
Speaker 1: a shot Neil Magne is saying if Neil Magne was

854
00:41:58,320 --> 00:42:00,680
Speaker 1: a smarter fighter, he would have figured that out too

855
00:42:00,680 --> 00:42:03,279
Speaker 1: against him. But this is a big win. I mean,

856
00:42:03,320 --> 00:42:08,399
Speaker 1: Holland like he was the ultimate pandemic opportunist. He won

857
00:42:08,480 --> 00:42:11,160
Speaker 1: five fights in twenty twenty, but that led to this

858
00:42:11,239 --> 00:42:14,000
Speaker 1: other reputation. I called him the new cowboy, right, not

859
00:42:14,040 --> 00:42:16,040
Speaker 1: only Vera. I don't think he has that. I don't

860
00:42:16,080 --> 00:42:18,400
Speaker 1: think this. I don't think his stuff is that poet

861
00:42:18,560 --> 00:42:22,760
Speaker 1: you know, talking about cowboys Seroni. And when you take fights,

862
00:42:22,800 --> 00:42:26,080
Speaker 1: hard fights at the last minute, short notice, move divisions

863
00:42:26,120 --> 00:42:29,560
Speaker 1: and you're fighting killers, you're gonna juggle wins and losses,

864
00:42:29,600 --> 00:42:33,000
Speaker 1: and it's gonna affect your reputation and your standing and

865
00:42:33,000 --> 00:42:34,600
Speaker 1: what people think of you. And I think sometimes he

866
00:42:34,640 --> 00:42:37,239
Speaker 1: got kind of drunk on being young and crazy. And

867
00:42:37,280 --> 00:42:40,000
Speaker 1: remember that there was that stretch in the cage. Holland

868
00:42:40,040 --> 00:42:41,759
Speaker 1: was doing so much talking that we're starting to say, like,

869
00:42:41,840 --> 00:42:44,480
Speaker 1: is this becoming a detriment to who he is, even

870
00:42:44,520 --> 00:42:46,440
Speaker 1: though as he would say, that's who I am, It's

871
00:42:46,480 --> 00:42:50,600
Speaker 1: how I've always been. This is the commitment we've wanted

872
00:42:50,640 --> 00:42:54,840
Speaker 1: and needed, because his move down to welterweight actually wasn't desperate.

873
00:42:54,880 --> 00:42:58,000
Speaker 1: Now he's foreign two overall. And what's most interesting was

874
00:42:58,000 --> 00:42:59,840
Speaker 1: that his postfight comments didn't even have anything to do

875
00:42:59,880 --> 00:43:02,200
Speaker 1: with welterweight. In fact, he supposed to fight comments were

876
00:43:02,520 --> 00:43:05,360
Speaker 1: that I only came down to seventy for the BMF

877
00:43:05,440 --> 00:43:07,799
Speaker 1: belt and it doesn't look like the b AF belt

878
00:43:07,920 --> 00:43:10,279
Speaker 1: is gonna be around for me, so I'm gonna go

879
00:43:10,360 --> 00:43:12,480
Speaker 1: back up to middleway. And this quote was great at

880
00:43:12,480 --> 00:43:14,120
Speaker 1: the end. He said, I want to eat steaks and

881
00:43:14,320 --> 00:43:17,040
Speaker 1: lose weight by having sex, which I actually got into

882
00:43:17,080 --> 00:43:19,480
Speaker 1: my CBS supports recap, by the way, so that's fantastic.

883
00:43:19,960 --> 00:43:22,520
Speaker 1: It got you know, even the editors reached back and

884
00:43:22,520 --> 00:43:24,640
Speaker 1: we're like, that's a hell of a pole. That's a

885
00:43:24,640 --> 00:43:26,040
Speaker 1: hell of a quote that you put in there. It's

886
00:43:26,040 --> 00:43:28,120
Speaker 1: a hell of a quote he delivered. And maybe if

887
00:43:28,160 --> 00:43:30,279
Speaker 1: it's just from the idea of not having to do

888
00:43:30,320 --> 00:43:33,680
Speaker 1: that weight cut and but it seemed like he figured

889
00:43:33,680 --> 00:43:36,279
Speaker 1: the weight cut out. Like I don't begrudge him. If

890
00:43:36,320 --> 00:43:38,080
Speaker 1: he feels like he'd be just as good as middleweight,

891
00:43:38,680 --> 00:43:41,839
Speaker 1: why go through that physically? But even though he's four

892
00:43:41,840 --> 00:43:45,600
Speaker 1: and two overall since cutting down to welterweight, if he's

893
00:43:45,640 --> 00:43:48,440
Speaker 1: going to start having this type of success, and you know,

894
00:43:48,520 --> 00:43:51,239
Speaker 1: to be fair, he's really focusing on his ground game,

895
00:43:51,920 --> 00:43:55,160
Speaker 1: especially the wrestling. He's that has a good submission, But

896
00:43:55,520 --> 00:43:57,440
Speaker 1: to see him really work on the wrestling part of it.

897
00:43:57,520 --> 00:44:00,840
Speaker 1: If he feels he needs the extra gas in the

898
00:44:00,920 --> 00:44:04,239
Speaker 1: tank and should try that at middleweight, I perfectly understand that.

899
00:44:04,480 --> 00:44:07,600
Speaker 1: But he was an interesting experiment at welterweight, and per

900
00:44:07,640 --> 00:44:10,239
Speaker 1: the welterweight version of him, this was the win we've

901
00:44:10,239 --> 00:44:12,200
Speaker 1: been waiting for it, this was the win he needed.

902
00:44:12,440 --> 00:44:14,520
Speaker 1: It's I mean, he's quick, he's long, he's a lot

903
00:44:14,520 --> 00:44:16,480
Speaker 1: of Thank god, they were comparative to Tommy hearns a

904
00:44:16,480 --> 00:44:19,040
Speaker 1: little too aggressively right there. Although I understand the comparison

905
00:44:19,080 --> 00:44:22,120
Speaker 1: on the broadcast, but I was happy to see that.

906
00:44:22,120 --> 00:44:23,680
Speaker 1: I mean, you're always happy to see you, like Derek

907
00:44:23,760 --> 00:44:28,200
Speaker 1: Lewis tonight, like Justin Gatgee tonight, like put Poeton tonight.

908
00:44:28,560 --> 00:44:32,000
Speaker 1: When people either mature or evolve or do both on

909
00:44:32,040 --> 00:44:35,120
Speaker 1: the same night and put it together, it's inspiring. So

910
00:44:35,200 --> 00:44:36,759
Speaker 1: that's what I got for you here. I don't want

911
00:44:36,760 --> 00:44:38,719
Speaker 1: to I could be here for a long time. Also

912
00:44:38,760 --> 00:44:40,880
Speaker 1: want to shout out in the preliminary feature about there

913
00:44:40,920 --> 00:44:44,800
Speaker 1: on ABC and ESPN. Gabriel bone Fime of the bone

914
00:44:44,800 --> 00:44:48,000
Speaker 1: Fime Brothers making his official debut in the UFC after

915
00:44:48,280 --> 00:44:52,160
Speaker 1: scoring a win on the Contender series. Holy crap, we

916
00:44:52,239 --> 00:44:55,439
Speaker 1: have to readjust our who's coming through that welterweight door

917
00:44:55,480 --> 00:44:58,400
Speaker 1: pretty soon conversation. That used to be Hamzak coming through

918
00:44:58,440 --> 00:45:02,000
Speaker 1: that walterweight door. Not anymore. We may have another Humzat

919
00:45:02,120 --> 00:45:04,880
Speaker 1: type not you know, not exactly the same skill set.

920
00:45:05,160 --> 00:45:08,000
Speaker 1: But his first round submission in seventy three seconds against

921
00:45:08,040 --> 00:45:14,440
Speaker 1: Trevin Giles via guillotine was just one way, just absolute

922
00:45:14,680 --> 00:45:19,320
Speaker 1: man domination. The ease in which he pulled guard and

923
00:45:20,120 --> 00:45:23,839
Speaker 1: got that thing sunking in. He's jacked and huge and

924
00:45:23,880 --> 00:45:26,640
Speaker 1: aggressive even coming out pushing that pacer off the start

925
00:45:26,680 --> 00:45:30,520
Speaker 1: and Giles throwing bombs and they're exchanging heavy strikeches like damn,

926
00:45:32,280 --> 00:45:35,240
Speaker 1: he's so this is my guilty pleasure in this sport.

927
00:45:35,560 --> 00:45:39,359
Speaker 1: I love whether it's Bonko Hamza, and I love when

928
00:45:39,440 --> 00:45:43,160
Speaker 1: guys are so good early and we don't have the

929
00:45:43,200 --> 00:45:46,880
Speaker 1: answers to the questions of you know, championship stamina and

930
00:45:46,880 --> 00:45:49,319
Speaker 1: and tangibles and IQ and all these things that can

931
00:45:49,360 --> 00:45:53,960
Speaker 1: only be answered when you finally get pushed back. I

932
00:45:54,080 --> 00:45:55,640
Speaker 1: like to see him just go go as high as

933
00:45:55,680 --> 00:45:57,840
Speaker 1: you can go before before we see that, because sometimes

934
00:45:57,920 --> 00:45:59,680
Speaker 1: we don't end up seeing that to the highest level.

935
00:45:59,680 --> 00:46:02,719
Speaker 1: But if that means rushing somebody into a title shot, now,

936
00:46:02,760 --> 00:46:04,759
Speaker 1: I don't want to break somebody, right. I mean, was

937
00:46:04,840 --> 00:46:07,719
Speaker 1: Darren Till kind of rushed into a title shot? Yeah?

938
00:46:07,960 --> 00:46:10,120
Speaker 1: I didn't think he'd be wonder Boy, But that's another question.

939
00:46:10,160 --> 00:46:12,160
Speaker 1: I'm one of the only people who predicted that Woody

940
00:46:12,239 --> 00:46:14,160
Speaker 1: would finish him, right, I Mean, everybody's so down on

941
00:46:14,200 --> 00:46:17,160
Speaker 1: Woodley heading into that fight. Was crazy that and gone

942
00:46:17,239 --> 00:46:19,640
Speaker 1: rest gone getting out wrestled by Francis or the two

943
00:46:19,680 --> 00:46:21,560
Speaker 1: things that you're gonna put on. I'm gonna make gravestone

944
00:46:21,560 --> 00:46:27,640
Speaker 1: hopefully one day. But bone Fieme looked like it looked

945
00:46:27,640 --> 00:46:29,120
Speaker 1: like I want to see him against the top like

946
00:46:29,320 --> 00:46:31,520
Speaker 1: five guy right now. Now. He called out a ranked

947
00:46:31,560 --> 00:46:34,680
Speaker 1: guy afterwards through the translator and just said, UFC like,

948
00:46:34,719 --> 00:46:37,520
Speaker 1: match me up. Let's match this guy up. Let's see

949
00:46:37,560 --> 00:46:40,799
Speaker 1: what we have here, because this is a a I mean,

950
00:46:40,840 --> 00:46:43,840
Speaker 1: he's chiseled, so I'm not saying sexy because of that,

951
00:46:43,920 --> 00:46:46,600
Speaker 1: but this is a very sexy rising first fight in

952
00:46:46,640 --> 00:46:49,120
Speaker 1: the UFC, like open our eyes. I mean they put

953
00:46:49,200 --> 00:46:51,719
Speaker 1: him in the feature bount on ABC for a reason. Right,

954
00:46:52,400 --> 00:46:55,160
Speaker 1: he delivered. We had some other fun finishes on this card.

955
00:46:55,200 --> 00:46:57,799
Speaker 1: Brandon Maverick actually got him win she much needed. But

956
00:46:57,840 --> 00:47:00,560
Speaker 1: I'm gonna wrap this up. This is the craziest I

957
00:47:00,600 --> 00:47:05,879
Speaker 1: in combat sports in a while. This is wild. Luke

958
00:47:05,920 --> 00:47:09,680
Speaker 1: Thomas has your Spence Crawford MK incident analysis on the

959
00:47:09,800 --> 00:47:13,760
Speaker 1: MK channel YouTube dot com Slash Morning Combat. I encourage

960
00:47:13,800 --> 00:47:17,160
Speaker 1: you to watch that as well. Hope you were able

961
00:47:17,160 --> 00:47:19,840
Speaker 1: to catch all the events or maybe you'll watch them afterwards.

962
00:47:20,760 --> 00:47:24,200
Speaker 1: What a fun night. But two ninety one. It delivered,

963
00:47:24,600 --> 00:47:26,080
Speaker 1: got a lot, a lot to talk about here on

964
00:47:26,120 --> 00:47:28,719
Speaker 1: Monday as we match it forward. We'll get Luke's take

965
00:47:28,760 --> 00:47:31,240
Speaker 1: after he watches the full. I know he was tweeting

966
00:47:31,280 --> 00:47:33,680
Speaker 1: some and watching that along with in the arena there

967
00:47:33,880 --> 00:47:38,759
Speaker 1: watching the boxing undercard. But what a year. I know,

968
00:47:38,800 --> 00:47:40,480
Speaker 1: I talk a lot about this year because it's like

969
00:47:40,680 --> 00:47:45,000
Speaker 1: twenty twenty three in boxing is like amazing, and MMA

970
00:47:45,160 --> 00:47:47,600
Speaker 1: hasn't been like as great as it can be, but

971
00:47:47,640 --> 00:47:49,640
Speaker 1: obviously at least in a main and co main event,

972
00:47:49,680 --> 00:47:52,120
Speaker 1: since we're still getting very good and meaningful fights in

973
00:47:52,160 --> 00:47:55,360
Speaker 1: the fights we want and need, short of Francis versus

974
00:47:55,480 --> 00:48:00,560
Speaker 1: John and Connor versus Usada. But as crazy this week

975
00:48:00,760 --> 00:48:03,960
Speaker 1: was and this day this is, you know, I mean,

976
00:48:03,960 --> 00:48:06,320
Speaker 1: I'm gonna add nauseum in that line for Bill Parcels.

977
00:48:06,320 --> 00:48:08,320
Speaker 1: But this is why you lift them weights in the offseason.

978
00:48:08,360 --> 00:48:10,920
Speaker 1: This is why you've put up with those fight night

979
00:48:10,960 --> 00:48:13,640
Speaker 1: cards at the Apex. This is why every time boxing

980
00:48:13,640 --> 00:48:15,800
Speaker 1: breaks your heart on a bad scorecard, you know what

981
00:48:15,840 --> 00:48:18,680
Speaker 1: I mean, For days like this, for nights like this,

982
00:48:18,920 --> 00:48:21,719
Speaker 1: for moments like this, for years like this. I love

983
00:48:21,760 --> 00:48:23,799
Speaker 1: this job. If I didn't have this job, I'd be

984
00:48:23,880 --> 00:48:26,520
Speaker 1: right with you guys in your living room watching it,

985
00:48:26,800 --> 00:48:31,239
Speaker 1: watching Ariel and Luke and Kate. Thank you for being

986
00:48:31,239 --> 00:48:33,799
Speaker 1: on this journey with me. Hope you enjoyed two ninety one.

987
00:48:34,080 --> 00:48:36,440
Speaker 1: Hope my white belt takes didn't ruin you at all either.

988
00:48:36,640 --> 00:48:38,880
Speaker 1: But thanks for Mikey Morms on the ones and twos.

989
00:48:39,040 --> 00:48:41,719
Speaker 1: You can get this shirt Morningcombat Dot Store. Probably our

990
00:48:41,760 --> 00:48:44,680
Speaker 1: third best item besides the bomber jackets in the in

991
00:48:44,719 --> 00:48:47,080
Speaker 1: the drug rugs. This is high quality shit right here.

992
00:48:47,200 --> 00:48:50,360
Speaker 1: I hope we didn't get demonetized for that swear. I

993
00:48:50,440 --> 00:48:55,120
Speaker 1: love the show, I love you all. Combat Sports is fantastic, right,

994
00:48:55,880 --> 00:48:57,720
Speaker 1: so good? I mean, did you guys see what happened

995
00:48:57,719 --> 00:49:00,480
Speaker 1: with Spencer Crawford. I can't wait till talk about this

996
00:49:00,480 --> 00:49:01,960
Speaker 1: on Monday. I didn't even see the whole thing. I

997
00:49:02,640 --> 00:49:09,319
Speaker 1: saw flashes. I saw flashes of extended brilliance, a new way.

998
00:49:09,360 --> 00:49:12,760
Speaker 1: It was like four days ago, guys. I mean, shit's happening.

999
00:49:12,800 --> 00:49:16,680
Speaker 1: It's really it's happening. It's really happening. It's good. This

1000
00:49:16,760 --> 00:49:20,319
Speaker 1: is really good. All right, that's it, BC, I'm out

1001
00:49:20,320 --> 00:49:22,680
Speaker 1: of here. Take care of us here and we'll see

1002
00:49:22,719 --> 00:49:26,520
Speaker 1: you next week. It's gonna be great. One love, one love. Yeah,

1003
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Speaker 1: thank you.