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Speaker 1: Hi everyone. My name is Luke Thomas. I am one

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Speaker 1: half of the hosting duo of Morning Combat. That's this

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Speaker 1: YouTube channel, that's the podcast. I have some breaking news

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Speaker 1: that is funny, sad, funny. Again, the state of things,

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Speaker 1: no matter what your opinion, is just the state of things.

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Speaker 1: So why don't we get right to it? First things first, however,

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Speaker 1: please hit that subscribe button thumbs up on the video

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Speaker 1: if you don't mind appreciate that. Plus, don't worry, we'll

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Speaker 1: go into this into more detail tomorrow. Morning Combat is

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Speaker 1: tomorrow Monday at eleven am. Me Brian Campbell will get

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Speaker 1: his reaction. We'll think about this a little bit more.

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Speaker 1: But this is my instant reaction to the news that

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Speaker 1: Floyd Mayweather, who was in retirement but I guess not

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Speaker 1: really is going to be facing off with the YouTube

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Speaker 1: sensation and all around idiot logan Paul. They're going to

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Speaker 1: have a boxing exhibition match February twentieth. It was announced

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Speaker 1: on Floyd's Instagram page today, which is Sunday, the sixth

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Speaker 1: of December here in twenty twenty. Now details are a

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Speaker 1: little bit scarce. We don't know what weight, we don't

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Speaker 1: know what venue, Frankly, we don't even know what state

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Speaker 1: and understand depending on where they go, the Commission might

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Speaker 1: have some issues with this, although my hunch is they're

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Speaker 1: going to take this to a place where one, probably

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Speaker 1: some fans can be in attendance. We'll get to that

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Speaker 1: in just a second, and then two where the Commission

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Speaker 1: is going to be relatively leaning about this. But it

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Speaker 1: is not a fight. It is not a sanctioned fight,

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Speaker 1: because lord knows, it would be impossible to get a

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Speaker 1: fight like that sanctioned. It is an exhibition. Of course,

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Speaker 1: we're coming off the heels of the Mike Tyson and

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Speaker 1: Roy Jones exhibition that had done pretty well. Now, that

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Speaker 1: company that was behind that was called Triller. The one

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Speaker 1: behind this company is a fan experience platform called fan Mio.

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Speaker 1: Now this is interesting. The pay per view has different

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Speaker 1: prices depending on when you buy it. If you buy

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Speaker 1: it before a certain time, it's twenty four to ninety nine. Sorry.

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Speaker 1: For the first one million buys, it's twenty five dollars.

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Speaker 1: For the after one million, it's thirty nine to ninety nine,

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Speaker 1: and then it's fifty nine ninety nine for buys on

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Speaker 1: or after December nineteenth, and if you buy the day

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Speaker 1: of it's seventy dollars, it probably will exceed a million dollars,

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Speaker 1: especially a million buys, I should say, especially at a

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Speaker 1: twenty five dollars price point that is very low. You'll

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Speaker 1: recall that the Tyson Jones pay per view was just fifty.

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Speaker 1: Most promoters who are putting on actual fights are usually

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Speaker 1: somewhere around sixty five seventy five, and if they're really

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Speaker 1: more key events like a Mayweather McGregor or a Mayweather Pacio,

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Speaker 1: they can be as high as one hundred. This will

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Speaker 1: be high the later you go, but as you can see,

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Speaker 1: they want to get in with a low price point,

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Speaker 1: two low price points, and then also before Christmas, even

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Speaker 1: before New Year's or really trying to sort of bank

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Speaker 1: as many of those buyes as they can. That's actually

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Speaker 1: a fairly interesting strategy. I don't know how well it

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Speaker 1: will work, but it seems like a decent and gamble,

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Speaker 1: and one worth paying attention to, because that's about the

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Speaker 1: only thing worth paying attention to. Look, man, I'm not

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Speaker 1: going to sit here and belabor the point, and Brian

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Speaker 1: and I will go into this more into detail tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: If you're Floyd, it's kind of amazing, right, you fight

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Speaker 1: the best fighters several generations in a row, you retire,

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Speaker 1: you get out of hert well, you sort of semi

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Speaker 1: retire and you fight Connor McGregor, and you make a

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Speaker 1: boatload of money for that, close to three hundred million.

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Speaker 1: You have an exhibition against Tension Tension Maasakawa and you

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Speaker 1: butcher him. You got how much for that? I don't know,

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Speaker 1: but probably significant royalties, I would imagine. And now now

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Speaker 1: he has gone from like a high level MMA fighter

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Speaker 1: to smaller but high level kickboxer, although Nasacala has fought

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Speaker 1: MMA as well, but predominantly kickboxing, to now just like fuckoh,

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Speaker 1: that's like, that's like the level he's he's gone to

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Speaker 1: is like dude who's relatively in shape by average person standards,

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Speaker 1: who makes a living filming people who've killed themselves in

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Speaker 1: Japanese forests. And you know, I don't know what does

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Speaker 1: he do? Eat bugs? I don't even know what he

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Speaker 1: does really, but he is quite popular and this will

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Speaker 1: probably do really well. So who is the audience for this? Well,

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Speaker 1: it's probably gonna be a couple of things, especially if

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Speaker 1: you're buying it for twenty five dollars. There are gonna

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Speaker 1: be people who watch this, you know, very ironically, like

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Speaker 1: they're sort of in on the bit that it's kind

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Speaker 1: of fun. We also don't know who else might be

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Speaker 1: will be here, but who the hell knows. So there's

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Speaker 1: gonna be people who might want to watch for the

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Speaker 1: full experience, the sort of silliness of it all, the

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Speaker 1: sort of in the middle of a Monty Python sketch

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Speaker 1: kind of feel. There's that. The other part, though, is

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Speaker 1: I've been trying to figure out, like what the appeal

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Speaker 1: of this is, because you know, I wouldn't. I'm probably

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Speaker 1: gonna have to watch it just from my job, but like,

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Speaker 1: it doesn't appeal to me. And this is actually a

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Speaker 1: little bit different than the Jones and the Tyson thing,

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Speaker 1: because that was a little bit like old guy trying

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Speaker 1: to show, you know, a little bit of athletic spirit.

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Speaker 1: And I'm sure that they will have some level of

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Speaker 1: that between these two. But here's what it occurs to

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Speaker 1: me about this. This is like it's not quite sports

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Speaker 1: and it's not quite pro wrestling. It's sort of something

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Speaker 1: in between, right, because there's no determined outcome. Excuse me,

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Speaker 1: there is a determined outcome in the sense that nobody

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Speaker 1: can win. So it's not really the stakes are not

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Speaker 1: the same as sport like, it's not up in the air,

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Speaker 1: it's not too elite athletes, it's nothing like that. It's

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Speaker 1: much more circusy. But at the same time it has

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Speaker 1: this sort of imprimature of athletic regulation, sanction, real athlete,

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Speaker 1: you know, difference in size kind of a thing, right,

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Speaker 1: So it plays on the margins of both the reality

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Speaker 1: of sports and the theater and sort of circusy element

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Speaker 1: of pre wrestling. Well, actually neither, so I should say,

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Speaker 1: being in neither camp fully anyway, a little bit here,

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Speaker 1: a little bit there. It's something of a bridge between them,

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Speaker 1: which is why it will just depend on what your

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Speaker 1: what your preferences are. If you like just raw sports,

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Speaker 1: you're not really into the pro wrestling thing, this probably

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Speaker 1: will not do much for you. I put myself in

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Speaker 1: that camp. On the other hand, there are people who

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Speaker 1: like sports that are pre wrestling. There are people who

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Speaker 1: just like wrestling. So if you're a little bit more

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Speaker 1: inclined towards that sort of circus see kind of I'm

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Speaker 1: not too judgmental about the fact that it's not all

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Speaker 1: that hardcore sport. I want to see a little fun.

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Speaker 1: I want to see a little pomp and circumstance. This

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Speaker 1: might be for you how well these two will execute

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Speaker 1: in the same way that Jones and Tyson we're able

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Speaker 1: to execute. Your guess is as good as mine. So

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Speaker 1: we don't have a whole lot. We have a date

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Speaker 1: February twentieth. We have Floyd Mayweather, we have Logan Paul.

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Speaker 1: We have a few price points depending on when you

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Speaker 1: want to buy this the company again, fan meo if

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Speaker 1: you guys are interested in that. But we don't have

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Speaker 1: a whole lot else. We don't have a fight card,

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Speaker 1: we don't have an athletic commission, we don't have a state.

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Speaker 1: We don't have a lot of things. So we'll have

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Speaker 1: to see. But that is the news for now. February twentieth,

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Speaker 1: it's going to get real weird, probably a little stupid,

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Speaker 1: maybe a little fun, depending on one's perspective. But people

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Speaker 1: took notice of the success from that Tyson Versus Jones

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Speaker 1: pay per view, and we set up before in Morning Combat.

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Speaker 1: Whether it's real fights that Bellator is putting on between

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Speaker 1: older guys, or whether it's these exhibitions in boxing, and

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Speaker 1: I suppose you could make real fights out of that

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Speaker 1: case too, depending on the pair. There is a market

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Speaker 1: for weird, there's a market for old dudes. There's a

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Speaker 1: market for this YouTube kind of thing, and you're getting

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Speaker 1: it here. This is sort of a mix of all

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Speaker 1: of it there, not quite for wrestling, not quite sport,

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Speaker 1: something in the middle, all right, Like the video, hit

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Speaker 1: Vegas sixteen, Spence Garcia, and a whole lot more tomorrow

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Speaker 1: on Morning Combat. For now, I'm Luke Thomas. Talk to

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Speaker 1: you all then,