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Speaker 1: It is one forty in the morning on the tenth

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Speaker 1: of April twenty twenty two. This is the official Morning

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Speaker 1: Combat UFC two to seventy three post fight show slash

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Speaker 1: Instant Reaction. My name is Luke Thomas. I am merely

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Speaker 1: one half of the hosting duo here. Brian Campbell is

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Speaker 1: an instant reaction. This is our immediate takes, our immediate analysis.

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Speaker 1: Now that UFC two seventy three is in the books,

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Speaker 1: so you can see right here there is wait, hold on,

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Speaker 1: moment to waste. So without further ado, let us. Oh

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Speaker 1: and of course if you don't want spoilers, now is

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Speaker 1: the time to bounce. But at this point you know

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Speaker 1: doesn't want spoilers, Okay, without a moment's additional wasting or

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Speaker 1: whatever the helm's supposed to say. Here, let's get this

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Speaker 1: party started, all right, there we are, I will turn

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Speaker 1: this off. Man. That one went long, did it not? Jesus?

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Speaker 1: That was could have been shorter. It felt like could

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Speaker 1: have been shorter. There was a brief moment in time

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Speaker 1: I think they did at one time, or maybe two

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Speaker 1: times at most. This is maybe like ten or eleven

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Speaker 1: years ago, the UFC briefly, briefly tried a nine pm

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Speaker 1: East coast start for pay per views. They wanted to

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Speaker 1: try it out and see what happened. I forget which

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Speaker 1: one it was. You can look this up. It's a

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Speaker 1: piece of trivia. I remember living through it and being

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Speaker 1: like this is great, you know, and then they're like, no,

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Speaker 1: we're going right back to ten. And I know everyone

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Speaker 1: who's watching over in the UK or in Europe or

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Speaker 1: wherever you're watching, I know, I know that you guys

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Speaker 1: have it better. I'm just are worse. I'm sorry, and

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Speaker 1: we have it better. I'm just pointing out the event

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Speaker 1: took place here right like, it's not like you're up

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Speaker 1: at one in the morning for whatever's happening there, although

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Speaker 1: you know miss Bing and Henderson for each other at

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Speaker 1: four in the morning. Whatever it was, Okay, UFC two

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Speaker 1: seventy three is in the books. We have a lot

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Speaker 1: to talk about. What we normally do is we start

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Speaker 1: down from there. A little bit different today based on

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Speaker 1: the nature of the results themselves and the fights in

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Speaker 1: all of the controversy. I'm gonna go a little bit

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Speaker 1: different today for today's event, and I will not do

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Speaker 1: this for the next one. We're gonna start with jamaiav.

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Speaker 1: Burns or Burns JAMIAV. We're gonna move then to sterling

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Speaker 1: Yan and then we'll excuse me, we'll go to Volkanovsky

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Speaker 1: Korean Zombie. I'll read the results out now in case

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Speaker 1: somebody is tuning in for them, but understand there's are

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Speaker 1: gonna be a real clear purpose with this. Alexander Volkovski

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Speaker 1: defe it's the Korean Zombie chance Ung Jung at four

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Speaker 1: or excuse me, forty five seconds of round number four. Frankly,

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Speaker 1: it could have been stopped earlier. It was an absolute beating,

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Speaker 1: not the worst beating I've ever seen. But you want

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Speaker 1: to talk about one way traffic, and that is all

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Speaker 1: that it was. Korean Zombie didn't win a single minute

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Speaker 1: decent strikes here or there, but that was a one way.

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Speaker 1: I hate to say it because I know we have

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Speaker 1: such love and admiration for Chance Sung Jung. I've been

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Speaker 1: watching this guy since the WEC days. I remember these

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Speaker 1: days distinctly. That was really where he made his name

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Speaker 1: at first. This was a one way ass kicking Bokanowski

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Speaker 1: on a completely different level, not even not even close.

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Speaker 1: We'll come back to it. Co main event al Jamain Sterling,

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Speaker 1: the remains champion, defeats pyotr Yan via split decision. This

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Speaker 1: one is highly controversial. Forty eight forty seven, forty seven

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Speaker 1: forty eight basically the way that I read it, and

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Speaker 1: then forty eight forty seven a completely different fight than

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Speaker 1: the first one, totally totally different, and the stats will

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Speaker 1: don't mean the judges. None of the judges scored it

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Speaker 1: but there's no denying, no denying that people myself included.

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Speaker 1: I will raise my hand in that equation slept on

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Speaker 1: There's a whole other category beyond that, of people who

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Speaker 1: start with what was I needed a cigarette or a

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Speaker 1: vape when this fight was over. Hamzat Chimaya of defeats

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Speaker 1: Gilbert Burns. But this won't really tell the whole story.

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Speaker 1: Twenty nine to twenty eight across the board with all

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Speaker 1: we talked about this fight all week on Morning Combat.

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Speaker 1: I had mentioned that this fight was historic because it

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Speaker 1: is very rare that you see someone burn their way

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Speaker 1: through a division as fast as Jemaiah had granted only

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Speaker 1: four fights prior to tonight, not exactly the same sample

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Speaker 1: many UFC fights he had prior to fighting Shogun, which

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Speaker 1: hamil Vera, matt Ushenko, Bader, So he had seven fights

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Speaker 1: and his eighth was the title fight. In this particular case,

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Speaker 1: And no fighter is perfect, They're all going to have

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Speaker 1: And you got something like that here. Saint Pierre had

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Speaker 1: argument about Jones going up against Bader. Oh it's not

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Speaker 1: quite the same. And what did you get with Hamsat

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Speaker 1: Chamaiah and Gilbert Burns today. First of all, you got

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Speaker 1: here's what I would say. One, clearly, Gilbert Burns is

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Speaker 1: deserving of a lot more respect than what he got. Yes,

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Speaker 1: the odds makers were ultimately correct that the favorite in

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Speaker 1: this case Hams out chamaiav won. But this, you know,

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Speaker 1: it that way. I thought Hamza had stuck it out,

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Speaker 1: the kind of threat that Gilbert Burns was. Man. And

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Speaker 1: at Morning combat. He did a billion places of media, dude.

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Speaker 1: Every indication was that he was he was in good shape.

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Speaker 1: He wasn't too banged up for this. He had taken

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Speaker 1: by noting you very much need to put some respect

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Speaker 1: on Gilbert Burns's name. It is owed, it is deserved.

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Speaker 1: He earned it. He showed you what he was made

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Speaker 1: Granted again, at the end of the fight he got

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Speaker 1: he's got gumption and he's got guts. What was it,

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Speaker 1: full metal jacket and guts is enough? Pretty impressive. We'll

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Speaker 1: a second, but let's talk about hamzat Chamaia. Now, what

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Speaker 1: I am very prized at seeing some of the reaction. Now, granted,

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Speaker 1: Hamza huh, that still had a near fifty percent striking

426
00:23:02,560 --> 00:23:06,800
Speaker 1: significant striking percentage. That's interesting. Fifty nine percent for Gilbert Burns.

427
00:23:06,840 --> 00:23:09,000
Speaker 1: All right, So Gilbert Burns in round one suffers the

428
00:23:09,080 --> 00:23:11,439
Speaker 1: knockdown that was kind of big and then of course

429
00:23:11,480 --> 00:23:14,840
Speaker 1: he got majorly outstruck in the second round. It was

430
00:23:15,240 --> 00:23:19,240
Speaker 1: very much the opposite. Round two, Gilbert Burns scores fifty

431
00:23:19,280 --> 00:23:23,120
Speaker 1: six significant strikes to Homsot's thirty seven. Hamza did get

432
00:23:23,200 --> 00:23:25,199
Speaker 1: a his takedown in round one and a takedown in

433
00:23:25,320 --> 00:23:28,960
Speaker 1: round two. Gilbert Burns went zero for three in takedowns

434
00:23:29,320 --> 00:23:31,840
Speaker 1: in round two, but there was hardly any control time

435
00:23:31,840 --> 00:23:33,439
Speaker 1: for Hamsat And this was the sort that tells you

436
00:23:33,480 --> 00:23:36,400
Speaker 1: the story. He got a takedown, but he only had

437
00:23:36,560 --> 00:23:40,119
Speaker 1: ten seconds of control time. Gilbert Burns did a fu

438
00:23:40,320 --> 00:23:45,359
Speaker 1: phenomenal job, phenomenal job with a takedown defense. Never let

439
00:23:45,480 --> 00:23:52,240
Speaker 1: himself get overwhelmed, never consented to the I'm I'm just

440
00:23:52,280 --> 00:23:56,400
Speaker 1: gonna accept this position, never ever ever fought the hands nimbly,

441
00:23:56,600 --> 00:23:59,600
Speaker 1: knew all the right steps to make put himself back

442
00:23:59,640 --> 00:24:02,639
Speaker 1: in there, to get his hip square with his opponent,

443
00:24:02,720 --> 00:24:04,399
Speaker 1: to get the underhook, to get pressure. I mean, he

444
00:24:04,440 --> 00:24:07,080
Speaker 1: did a really, really good job with that. Round three,

445
00:24:07,200 --> 00:24:10,200
Speaker 1: Gilbert Burns, boy, this was a close one, forty five

446
00:24:10,320 --> 00:24:14,600
Speaker 1: strikes to Hamzot's forty four. So they have numerically nearly identical.

447
00:24:14,640 --> 00:24:17,439
Speaker 1: Burns zero for two on takedown attempts. And you can say, oh,

448
00:24:17,480 --> 00:24:20,320
Speaker 1: that should count for something, but that's not meaningful offense.

449
00:24:20,480 --> 00:24:24,120
Speaker 1: It failed takedowns and unless it would lead to control time,

450
00:24:24,240 --> 00:24:26,640
Speaker 1: which it didn't. He had four seconds of control time

451
00:24:26,640 --> 00:24:29,520
Speaker 1: in round number three. But here's the deal. Another thing

452
00:24:29,560 --> 00:24:32,000
Speaker 1: with Hamzat, he's a headhunter. At least he was in

453
00:24:32,080 --> 00:24:36,320
Speaker 1: this bout. Seventy seven percent to the head for Hamzatt.

454
00:24:36,359 --> 00:24:40,040
Speaker 1: Now Burn's not much different, not much different, seventy four

455
00:24:40,119 --> 00:24:43,040
Speaker 1: percent of the head, but slightly here he tuned it

456
00:24:43,080 --> 00:24:45,640
Speaker 1: back or turned it back or whatever the proper. It's

457
00:24:45,680 --> 00:24:48,840
Speaker 1: two in the morning. I can barely talk, right. This

458
00:24:48,920 --> 00:24:51,359
Speaker 1: is the difference. Burns went eighteen percent to the body

459
00:24:51,400 --> 00:24:53,240
Speaker 1: in just six percent to the leg. Again, this is

460
00:24:53,240 --> 00:24:55,520
Speaker 1: in terms of targeting, So what landed in what missed?

461
00:24:55,520 --> 00:25:00,639
Speaker 1: But what did you aim at? For Hamzaot twelve percent

462
00:25:00,760 --> 00:25:03,719
Speaker 1: to the body and nine percent to the legs a

463
00:25:03,760 --> 00:25:06,119
Speaker 1: little bit more body worked. Nearly twenty percent of his

464
00:25:06,160 --> 00:25:09,000
Speaker 1: strikes one of five was targeting the body, and then

465
00:25:09,040 --> 00:25:11,480
Speaker 1: of course you know nearly everything was was at distance.

466
00:25:11,560 --> 00:25:15,879
Speaker 1: An extremely competitive fight. I think in the end for

467
00:25:16,000 --> 00:25:18,600
Speaker 1: as much as hamsat getting dropped because he just you know,

468
00:25:18,680 --> 00:25:21,720
Speaker 1: he put himself in these kinds of positions the quo

469
00:25:22,880 --> 00:25:24,399
Speaker 1: he got, and he got dropped bad in the in

470
00:25:24,520 --> 00:25:27,159
Speaker 1: round two. It did look like Gilbert was wearing the

471
00:25:27,240 --> 00:25:29,440
Speaker 1: damage a little bit more, although Hamsad's face was cut

472
00:25:29,480 --> 00:25:31,800
Speaker 1: open and the whole nine yards. But he got tested here.

473
00:25:31,800 --> 00:25:33,080
Speaker 1: He got a bit of a wake up call to

474
00:25:33,640 --> 00:25:37,640
Speaker 1: about you know, Hamsot, I think fought the way he

475
00:25:37,680 --> 00:25:41,919
Speaker 1: did because prior to tonight he never had to think

476
00:25:41,960 --> 00:25:45,120
Speaker 1: about a guy who could ever do anything to him. Right,

477
00:25:45,320 --> 00:25:48,240
Speaker 1: You're like, oh, he fought so undisciplined, Right, But he's

478
00:25:48,280 --> 00:25:52,159
Speaker 1: twenty seven, and he finally realized, Okay, I can't just like,

479
00:25:52,320 --> 00:25:54,960
Speaker 1: motherfuck all these guys, like all the ones that he

480
00:25:55,000 --> 00:25:56,800
Speaker 1: had up to you know, up to this point, yes

481
00:25:56,800 --> 00:25:59,720
Speaker 1: he had, but bro, you start getting on the upper echelon,

482
00:25:59,760 --> 00:26:04,560
Speaker 1: it's a different ballgame. Different ballgame, And I think he

483
00:26:04,640 --> 00:26:06,080
Speaker 1: got a bit of a wake up call with that tonight.

484
00:26:06,119 --> 00:26:10,680
Speaker 1: But he's twenty seven, he's at an elite mma gym.

485
00:26:11,160 --> 00:26:13,960
Speaker 1: There is very much reason to think if he can

486
00:26:14,240 --> 00:26:17,560
Speaker 1: just harness that energy and put it back into brain

487
00:26:17,680 --> 00:26:22,480
Speaker 1: power and back into discipline and learn from this sort

488
00:26:22,520 --> 00:26:24,600
Speaker 1: of the raw way he fought that there's a lot

489
00:26:24,640 --> 00:26:27,760
Speaker 1: of that that might go away against Colby, by the way,

490
00:26:27,760 --> 00:26:30,120
Speaker 1: the Colby fight might look totally different, or Kolby could

491
00:26:30,119 --> 00:26:32,080
Speaker 1: just wrestle his ass to death too. We will have

492
00:26:32,160 --> 00:26:35,399
Speaker 1: to see. But the point I want to make is,

493
00:26:35,480 --> 00:26:38,880
Speaker 1: if you watched him have bad habits here, it's because

494
00:26:38,920 --> 00:26:41,400
Speaker 1: he had no incentive to have anything other than bad

495
00:26:41,440 --> 00:26:44,280
Speaker 1: habits by virtue of the ease with which he was

496
00:26:44,440 --> 00:26:48,040
Speaker 1: dump trucking everyone he had faced. Now he is under

497
00:26:48,560 --> 00:26:51,320
Speaker 1: much more understanding of a world where you just can't

498
00:26:51,359 --> 00:26:54,439
Speaker 1: do that to everybody unless you keep working on your game.

499
00:26:54,520 --> 00:26:56,320
Speaker 1: Keep working on your game, keep working on your game.

500
00:26:56,359 --> 00:26:59,240
Speaker 1: So there is on the one hand, as I indicated earlier,

501
00:26:59,240 --> 00:27:02,880
Speaker 1: there is plenty of conn to have about Tremaiah being like, Okay,

502
00:27:02,880 --> 00:27:04,400
Speaker 1: now that you're here, are you going to have really

503
00:27:04,480 --> 00:27:07,000
Speaker 1: the space and the latitude and the time to work

504
00:27:07,000 --> 00:27:08,639
Speaker 1: on your craft and develop the way you need to.

505
00:27:08,880 --> 00:27:11,879
Speaker 1: I think that's legitimate. I just also think, on the

506
00:27:11,920 --> 00:27:14,960
Speaker 1: other hand, you can see the bad habits, and you

507
00:27:15,000 --> 00:27:19,040
Speaker 1: can see some of the mistakes he made, but this

508
00:27:19,160 --> 00:27:23,400
Speaker 1: experience can only inform his judgment. So we're gonna learn

509
00:27:23,400 --> 00:27:25,959
Speaker 1: and what kind of long term prospect or now can

510
00:27:26,040 --> 00:27:28,879
Speaker 1: tender that he is. What kind of decisions he makes

511
00:27:28,960 --> 00:27:31,200
Speaker 1: after this. Does he take an experience where he got

512
00:27:31,240 --> 00:27:33,680
Speaker 1: away with it a little bit because he always could,

513
00:27:33,720 --> 00:27:37,080
Speaker 1: but now was got a little dicey. Does he learn

514
00:27:37,080 --> 00:27:39,280
Speaker 1: from that and be like, Okay, I need to harness

515
00:27:39,320 --> 00:27:42,720
Speaker 1: this into something different. I think he so badly wanted

516
00:27:42,760 --> 00:27:44,919
Speaker 1: to just take over the fight physically that he put

517
00:27:45,000 --> 00:27:47,439
Speaker 1: himself in some of these compromising spots. So, you know,

518
00:27:47,440 --> 00:27:48,800
Speaker 1: a lot of different ways to look at it. I

519
00:27:48,880 --> 00:27:52,600
Speaker 1: just really hope that it's okay, perfectly okay, and in

520
00:27:52,640 --> 00:27:57,040
Speaker 1: fact more than warranted necessary that we talk about all

521
00:27:57,119 --> 00:28:00,919
Speaker 1: the things you can find wrong with Hamzad's performance. Please,

522
00:28:01,040 --> 00:28:02,480
Speaker 1: I don't want to hide from any of it. I

523
00:28:02,480 --> 00:28:05,080
Speaker 1: don't want to undercut any of it, but I would

524
00:28:05,200 --> 00:28:08,640
Speaker 1: just say, if you are disappointed with this, it can

525
00:28:08,760 --> 00:28:12,680
Speaker 1: only mean that you had an expectation of him, and really,

526
00:28:12,720 --> 00:28:16,080
Speaker 1: any fighter or any fight that is far beyond even

527
00:28:16,119 --> 00:28:19,679
Speaker 1: what the most amazing fighters can do, you have to

528
00:28:19,880 --> 00:28:22,240
Speaker 1: just sort of say, like, what is possible in the

529
00:28:22,280 --> 00:28:25,480
Speaker 1: real world, and what he accomplished in the real world

530
00:28:25,640 --> 00:28:31,040
Speaker 1: is fucking amazing. It is amazing. It is amazing, So

531
00:28:31,160 --> 00:28:36,560
Speaker 1: let's be cognizant let's be vocal about the things that

532
00:28:36,640 --> 00:28:39,800
Speaker 1: you didn't like. Fair and if you thought Burns won,

533
00:28:41,680 --> 00:28:44,120
Speaker 1: I wouldn't hate that. It was a close fight, man,

534
00:28:44,360 --> 00:28:48,600
Speaker 1: it was a close fight. It was a really close fight. Uh.

535
00:28:50,600 --> 00:28:52,520
Speaker 1: I could see how Burns took the second and third

536
00:28:52,920 --> 00:28:55,680
Speaker 1: and and you know, CHAMAIAV needs to really learn how

537
00:28:55,680 --> 00:28:57,960
Speaker 1: to adjust his pressure pressure so he can maintain it

538
00:28:58,000 --> 00:28:59,040
Speaker 1: over the course. I mean, there's a lot he has

539
00:28:59,120 --> 00:29:01,719
Speaker 1: to learn from this. This was a in the in

540
00:29:01,760 --> 00:29:05,120
Speaker 1: the in the hands of the right fighter, and we

541
00:29:05,160 --> 00:29:07,000
Speaker 1: will see if he is that in the hands of

542
00:29:07,000 --> 00:29:11,840
Speaker 1: the right fighter. This was an insanely valuable experience. Insanely valuable.

543
00:29:12,120 --> 00:29:14,040
Speaker 1: It just turned into a wild brawl at the end

544
00:29:14,080 --> 00:29:16,600
Speaker 1: because this guy, he just he is so used to

545
00:29:17,760 --> 00:29:22,240
Speaker 1: just dump trucking everything. He doesn't he never had to

546
00:29:22,640 --> 00:29:25,040
Speaker 1: he never had to accept that another guy can withstand

547
00:29:25,040 --> 00:29:28,320
Speaker 1: it and then push back. Well, they exist. So let's

548
00:29:28,320 --> 00:29:30,040
Speaker 1: see what he does with it. Let's see what he

549
00:29:30,080 --> 00:29:32,240
Speaker 1: does with it. It'll be very I'll be very curious

550
00:29:32,240 --> 00:29:36,520
Speaker 1: to learn anything else from this. In terms of the

551
00:29:36,640 --> 00:29:43,080
Speaker 1: leg kicks, Yeah, Burns, yeah, shama I have had a

552
00:29:43,160 --> 00:29:45,840
Speaker 1: Oh here we go, this is interesting. Burns was two

553
00:29:45,840 --> 00:29:47,680
Speaker 1: of three on leg kicks. In round one, Shaum, I

554
00:29:47,760 --> 00:29:49,440
Speaker 1: have five of five. I noticed he was he was

555
00:29:49,440 --> 00:29:51,920
Speaker 1: pretty good with it. Then Burns was four or five.

556
00:29:51,960 --> 00:29:54,000
Speaker 1: In the second SHAULM I have four or four, so

557
00:29:54,120 --> 00:29:57,440
Speaker 1: still good. But round three he was just one of one.

558
00:29:58,320 --> 00:29:59,640
Speaker 1: He kind of got away from it and then he

559
00:29:59,720 --> 00:30:01,360
Speaker 1: just went to his hands. That's what I'm talking about.

560
00:30:01,400 --> 00:30:04,440
Speaker 1: You're like, oh, that's terrible, not for it. I mean

561
00:30:05,200 --> 00:30:08,600
Speaker 1: it's his eleventh fight, you know what I mean, Like,

562
00:30:08,600 --> 00:30:10,520
Speaker 1: you can make the same argument about someone not the

563
00:30:10,520 --> 00:30:13,160
Speaker 1: same one, but you can make these similar kinds of

564
00:30:16,680 --> 00:30:19,040
Speaker 1: concerns about what you see in a performance, but you

565
00:30:19,120 --> 00:30:22,200
Speaker 1: have to grade it against where they're at, you know, like, oh,

566
00:30:22,240 --> 00:30:24,920
Speaker 1: I have this amateur, did something wrong in this amateur

567
00:30:24,960 --> 00:30:28,280
Speaker 1: about he's a fucking amateur and they're gonna do They're

568
00:30:28,280 --> 00:30:31,120
Speaker 1: gonna do those kinds of things. So for for a

569
00:30:31,160 --> 00:30:33,920
Speaker 1: guy in his eleventh pro bout, I mean, you know,

570
00:30:33,960 --> 00:30:36,120
Speaker 1: this wasn't the ass kicking that Saint Pierre put on

571
00:30:36,160 --> 00:30:39,920
Speaker 1: Trig And this wasn't you know, the one with Barnett

572
00:30:40,000 --> 00:30:41,960
Speaker 1: was had its moments. It was back and forth with

573
00:30:41,960 --> 00:30:43,480
Speaker 1: certainly exciting, but that was definitely a bit of a

574
00:30:43,560 --> 00:30:51,600
Speaker 1: Daniel Cormier show. This was a lot more even. But

575
00:30:51,760 --> 00:30:55,320
Speaker 1: even through all of that, I just can't believe a

576
00:30:55,360 --> 00:30:59,960
Speaker 1: guy with only eleven fights can do that. That's it's hard,

577
00:31:00,120 --> 00:31:04,200
Speaker 1: That's that's insane. That's completely insane. By the way, where

578
00:31:04,240 --> 00:31:09,800
Speaker 1: was John at the show? The Showgun fight was his thirteenth, Yes,

579
00:31:10,040 --> 00:31:12,520
Speaker 1: it was his fourteenth. Excuse me, it was his fourteenth fight.

580
00:31:13,280 --> 00:31:16,560
Speaker 1: So if Hamzad has a title shot in three fights,

581
00:31:16,560 --> 00:31:20,600
Speaker 1: which it seems unlikely, but it might happen sooner or later.

582
00:31:20,920 --> 00:31:22,480
Speaker 1: Actually we'll see. I mean, if it loses to Kolbe,

583
00:31:22,520 --> 00:31:24,320
Speaker 1: we'll see. But assuming he wins, that it would have

584
00:31:24,400 --> 00:31:26,200
Speaker 1: to be right after so we may not get that.

585
00:31:26,280 --> 00:31:31,760
Speaker 1: But you know, it'll be curious to see how his

586
00:31:32,520 --> 00:31:36,880
Speaker 1: progression tracks relative to John's. And by the way, John

587
00:31:37,080 --> 00:31:43,080
Speaker 1: didn't fight so raw in that way, but he had

588
00:31:43,160 --> 00:31:45,600
Speaker 1: a lot of problems with his game, you know, relative

589
00:31:45,640 --> 00:31:47,640
Speaker 1: to what he eventually become. Like if you compare who

590
00:31:47,680 --> 00:31:51,080
Speaker 1: he was in the Matt Yushenko fight relative to who

591
00:31:51,080 --> 00:31:53,240
Speaker 1: he was in the second gust Of fight, I mean,

592
00:31:53,280 --> 00:31:55,560
Speaker 1: it's like night and day. So there's gonna be a

593
00:31:55,600 --> 00:32:00,680
Speaker 1: real big question about his development. Development less learn blah

594
00:32:00,680 --> 00:32:04,040
Speaker 1: blah blah. But if that dude keeps getting better at

595
00:32:04,040 --> 00:32:07,000
Speaker 1: the rate he's been getting better, or even something approximating that,

596
00:32:07,080 --> 00:32:09,040
Speaker 1: I don't know how you can conclude he would never

597
00:32:09,080 --> 00:32:12,560
Speaker 1: win a title. Seems like he'd be like like one

598
00:32:12,600 --> 00:32:16,120
Speaker 1: of the first names you'd pick. So we'll see, we'll

599
00:32:16,120 --> 00:32:17,880
Speaker 1: see how all that goes. All right, let's talk about

600
00:32:17,960 --> 00:32:23,240
Speaker 1: the co main event, because boy, people are upset, all right?

601
00:32:24,000 --> 00:32:27,120
Speaker 1: Al Jamain Sterling, as I mentioned, remains champions split decision

602
00:32:27,160 --> 00:32:29,440
Speaker 1: forty eight forty seven, forty seven forty eight and then

603
00:32:29,840 --> 00:32:32,920
Speaker 1: forty eight forty seven for Sterling. How did I score it?

604
00:32:33,760 --> 00:32:35,680
Speaker 1: I watched the first round and I tweeted about this

605
00:32:35,720 --> 00:32:38,320
Speaker 1: as well. You can double check. I just wasn't sure

606
00:32:38,400 --> 00:32:40,360
Speaker 1: what to make of the first round. I wasn't really

607
00:32:40,400 --> 00:32:43,479
Speaker 1: watching it in the scoring kind of way. It seemed

608
00:32:43,520 --> 00:32:47,440
Speaker 1: to me, based on recollection, that maybe Alja won. But

609
00:32:47,720 --> 00:32:50,240
Speaker 1: before you crucify me, I saw a bunch of people

610
00:32:50,280 --> 00:32:52,560
Speaker 1: being like, no, no, that was Yhon's round. I wasn't watching

611
00:32:52,600 --> 00:32:54,360
Speaker 1: it like a judge. I was just kind of watching

612
00:32:54,400 --> 00:32:56,560
Speaker 1: to see what they were doing and then trying to

613
00:32:56,640 --> 00:32:59,800
Speaker 1: remember who was having meaningful offense. So that's very much

614
00:33:00,240 --> 00:33:04,000
Speaker 1: not a and that's by definition not an informed judgment,

615
00:33:04,120 --> 00:33:09,560
Speaker 1: right or partially informed. Second, third rounds clearly Aljo, Fourth

616
00:33:09,560 --> 00:33:15,160
Speaker 1: and fifth rounds clearly. Yeah. Two questions remain one who

617
00:33:15,160 --> 00:33:17,800
Speaker 1: got the first round? But before we knew the reality.

618
00:33:17,840 --> 00:33:20,600
Speaker 1: But I'm saying as the fight ended, two questions, one

619
00:33:20,600 --> 00:33:26,280
Speaker 1: who got the first and question number two was it

620
00:33:26,320 --> 00:33:29,200
Speaker 1: ten eight in the second round? Come to find out,

621
00:33:29,800 --> 00:33:33,719
Speaker 1: none of the judges had it ten eight, which I

622
00:33:33,760 --> 00:33:35,960
Speaker 1: think I agree with. I think I agree with that.

623
00:33:37,040 --> 00:33:40,320
Speaker 1: And then two of the judges had the first round

624
00:33:40,320 --> 00:33:45,000
Speaker 1: for Sterling, one had it for Yon. So that's how

625
00:33:45,040 --> 00:33:46,800
Speaker 1: they broke it out. Let's look at some of the

626
00:33:46,880 --> 00:33:49,280
Speaker 1: numbers to inform our judgment. Here, just a little bit

627
00:33:51,200 --> 00:33:54,360
Speaker 1: about what this fight told us. Man, what a completely

628
00:33:54,360 --> 00:33:58,120
Speaker 1: different fight. In the first fight, Yon had I think

629
00:33:58,360 --> 00:34:02,120
Speaker 1: ten significant strikes landed in the first. He had fourteen

630
00:34:02,160 --> 00:34:06,040
Speaker 1: significant strikes landed in the second, and then everything bloomed

631
00:34:06,240 --> 00:34:09,440
Speaker 1: from there. He had thirty significant strikes in the third,

632
00:34:09,560 --> 00:34:11,279
Speaker 1: and then thirty four in the fourth, and then the

633
00:34:11,320 --> 00:34:13,960
Speaker 1: fourth was an abbreviated round due to the illegal knee,

634
00:34:14,200 --> 00:34:16,080
Speaker 1: So he was just I mean, it was going in

635
00:34:16,120 --> 00:34:20,440
Speaker 1: one direction. Yeah, he was seven for seven on takedown

636
00:34:20,480 --> 00:34:24,880
Speaker 1: attempts and Sterling went one for seventeen on takedown attempts.

637
00:34:25,400 --> 00:34:27,480
Speaker 1: I did it buy the numbers video on this channel,

638
00:34:27,480 --> 00:34:28,880
Speaker 1: and I had said, you know, it's not like he

639
00:34:28,960 --> 00:34:31,280
Speaker 1: has to get the other sixteen to win, but clearly

640
00:34:31,320 --> 00:34:34,280
Speaker 1: mixing in that would just do a lot for his offense. Boy,

641
00:34:35,200 --> 00:34:37,720
Speaker 1: was that true? Although it wasn't really in many cases

642
00:34:37,840 --> 00:34:40,640
Speaker 1: necessarily a traditional takedown. It was forcing a scramble and

643
00:34:40,640 --> 00:34:44,719
Speaker 1: then creating back exposure and then from the back exposure,

644
00:34:44,760 --> 00:34:46,800
Speaker 1: And there's different ways to create it. You could have

645
00:34:46,880 --> 00:34:48,600
Speaker 1: him plant his hands, you could have I mean, there's

646
00:34:48,600 --> 00:34:50,400
Speaker 1: a lot, you know, a lot of different ways to

647
00:34:50,400 --> 00:34:55,920
Speaker 1: do it. But creating back exposure enables him to then

648
00:34:55,960 --> 00:34:58,560
Speaker 1: get the back and then from there. Dude, you know

649
00:34:58,880 --> 00:35:03,800
Speaker 1: I I was once he went to the body triangle,

650
00:35:03,840 --> 00:35:06,839
Speaker 1: I was like, he's going to ride these out. We've

651
00:35:06,840 --> 00:35:09,799
Speaker 1: gone over this before. It's unless you've got a real

652
00:35:09,840 --> 00:35:12,520
Speaker 1: disparity and talent at the elite level, and Yawn is

653
00:35:12,680 --> 00:35:15,440
Speaker 1: very elite and Sterling is very elite. If you've got

654
00:35:15,440 --> 00:35:18,520
Speaker 1: a body triangle on, there's still a math problem because

655
00:35:18,520 --> 00:35:20,719
Speaker 1: they still, yes, their back is to you, so you

656
00:35:20,840 --> 00:35:23,799
Speaker 1: have an advantageous position if your algaben sterling. But I've

657
00:35:23,800 --> 00:35:25,759
Speaker 1: talked about this before. The numbers game is the same.

658
00:35:26,320 --> 00:35:28,759
Speaker 1: Both competitors have two hands to use, and they each

659
00:35:28,760 --> 00:35:31,160
Speaker 1: other had to use in different ways. But the numbers

660
00:35:31,200 --> 00:35:34,239
Speaker 1: line up. When you have the body triangle unlocked and

661
00:35:34,280 --> 00:35:35,920
Speaker 1: you can use one of the legs to block the arm.

662
00:35:35,960 --> 00:35:38,400
Speaker 1: Now you create asymmetry in numbers, then the attacks can

663
00:35:38,440 --> 00:35:40,920
Speaker 1: be much more straightforward and easier to come by. Again,

664
00:35:41,080 --> 00:35:43,640
Speaker 1: that creates a series of problems too, but an mma

665
00:35:43,680 --> 00:35:46,239
Speaker 1: where everything is very high cost for error, you can

666
00:35:46,239 --> 00:35:48,400
Speaker 1: see why guys go to the body triangle because it's

667
00:35:48,440 --> 00:35:51,480
Speaker 1: significantly safer, even if it creates a little bit more

668
00:35:51,480 --> 00:35:54,120
Speaker 1: difficulty in getting a finish. But he was able to

669
00:35:54,160 --> 00:35:56,960
Speaker 1: create back exposure or threaten mount and then through that

670
00:35:57,880 --> 00:36:01,240
Speaker 1: threaten and then they'll ultimately take back his back control.

671
00:36:01,400 --> 00:36:04,880
Speaker 1: Is it's excellent. Granted the body triangle doesn't show you

672
00:36:05,120 --> 00:36:07,279
Speaker 1: a ton of dexterity with it, but the fact that

673
00:36:07,320 --> 00:36:09,040
Speaker 1: he knows all the tricks to hand fight his way

674
00:36:09,040 --> 00:36:11,680
Speaker 1: through to keep it. You know, there's a lot of

675
00:36:11,719 --> 00:36:14,360
Speaker 1: ways to get out of the body triangle. But with

676
00:36:14,440 --> 00:36:15,799
Speaker 1: a foot in the air and foot on the ground

677
00:36:15,840 --> 00:36:18,359
Speaker 1: actually can do it either way, some or more high

678
00:36:18,680 --> 00:36:21,360
Speaker 1: percentage than others. He avoided all of them or nearly

679
00:36:21,400 --> 00:36:25,360
Speaker 1: all of them. It was masterful, masterful, and he basically

680
00:36:25,400 --> 00:36:30,200
Speaker 1: took those two rounds from Yon. Yon needs he needs

681
00:36:30,320 --> 00:36:33,120
Speaker 1: time to absorb what is happening and then make adjustments

682
00:36:33,120 --> 00:36:37,279
Speaker 1: off of it, and then taking basically the middle portions

683
00:36:37,640 --> 00:36:41,640
Speaker 1: are huge chunks of the middle to early middle portions

684
00:36:41,640 --> 00:36:44,040
Speaker 1: of the fight away from him where he can't make

685
00:36:44,080 --> 00:36:46,040
Speaker 1: any of these reads standing because he's not going to

686
00:36:46,080 --> 00:36:48,480
Speaker 1: really out grapple Sterling. I mean, at the end he

687
00:36:48,520 --> 00:36:50,040
Speaker 1: was getting on top and he was doing some ground

688
00:36:50,080 --> 00:36:51,520
Speaker 1: and pound, but through the course of that fight that

689
00:36:51,600 --> 00:36:53,520
Speaker 1: was not the takeaway that he was out grappling him

690
00:36:53,640 --> 00:36:57,960
Speaker 1: or he was going to it. It derailed his process.

691
00:36:58,360 --> 00:37:01,839
Speaker 1: It totally derailed his process. Some of the numbers here,

692
00:37:01,840 --> 00:37:04,520
Speaker 1: they're dead even in terms of significant strikes. Landed sixty

693
00:37:04,520 --> 00:37:08,360
Speaker 1: two for Sterling, sixty three for Yon, so very very close.

694
00:37:08,440 --> 00:37:11,239
Speaker 1: Yan attempted a lot more one hundred and eighty six

695
00:37:11,320 --> 00:37:13,160
Speaker 1: two Sterling is one hundred and forty six, But again

696
00:37:13,200 --> 00:37:16,400
Speaker 1: that doesn't really count because only counts is what lands

697
00:37:17,080 --> 00:37:20,560
Speaker 1: two of twenty two attempts for Sterling. So not a

698
00:37:20,600 --> 00:37:23,319
Speaker 1: great percentage, but it doesn't really matter, right. I mean,

699
00:37:23,360 --> 00:37:25,720
Speaker 1: he was able to in this case defend his belt

700
00:37:26,680 --> 00:37:29,920
Speaker 1: by just getting to them. That's all he needed. So

701
00:37:30,040 --> 00:37:32,640
Speaker 1: like the fact that he whiffed on literally twenty of them,

702
00:37:32,680 --> 00:37:35,759
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna say that's great, but it didn't cost

703
00:37:35,840 --> 00:37:37,800
Speaker 1: him it's And then what are you gonna say, like

704
00:37:37,840 --> 00:37:40,160
Speaker 1: he wasn't the better grappler in the second and third round.

705
00:37:40,160 --> 00:37:42,719
Speaker 1: He was by a million miles. He was by a

706
00:37:42,760 --> 00:37:47,040
Speaker 1: million miles. So let me look at some of these numbers. Here, boy,

707
00:37:47,040 --> 00:37:50,560
Speaker 1: these are pretty Oh here's the big difference Yan. What

708
00:37:50,680 --> 00:37:53,239
Speaker 1: made a big difference in leg strikes? This makes sense right,

709
00:37:53,280 --> 00:37:55,200
Speaker 1: So Yan has his hands up, so they go to

710
00:37:55,239 --> 00:37:58,080
Speaker 1: the body a lot as a consequence, Sterling targeting the

711
00:37:58,080 --> 00:38:00,840
Speaker 1: body forty one percent, Yon targeting it twenty six percent.

712
00:38:01,239 --> 00:38:04,360
Speaker 1: The head pretty close, forty six percent for Sterling, fifty

713
00:38:04,400 --> 00:38:07,360
Speaker 1: percent for Yon. The leg is another big difference, twenty

714
00:38:07,360 --> 00:38:10,800
Speaker 1: two percent to Yon, just eleven percent for Sterling. And

715
00:38:10,800 --> 00:38:13,600
Speaker 1: I have to say the leg attacks did not seem

716
00:38:13,600 --> 00:38:15,640
Speaker 1: to be hugely impactful this time. They felt like they

717
00:38:15,640 --> 00:38:19,440
Speaker 1: were a little bit more impactful last time. So what

718
00:38:19,480 --> 00:38:21,840
Speaker 1: it's sterling to do differently this time. We'll pull up

719
00:38:21,840 --> 00:38:23,560
Speaker 1: the numbers in the other one here in just a second.

720
00:38:23,640 --> 00:38:28,120
Speaker 1: But from the eye test, it was one he put.

721
00:38:29,200 --> 00:38:32,600
Speaker 1: According to two judges, he put the first round in

722
00:38:32,640 --> 00:38:37,759
Speaker 1: his back pocket, and then we talked about it, like,

723
00:38:37,800 --> 00:38:40,000
Speaker 1: once Yon makes these adjustments, it's very hard to get

724
00:38:40,000 --> 00:38:43,279
Speaker 1: the fight back from him. So one he banked the

725
00:38:43,280 --> 00:38:46,200
Speaker 1: first round, and then the second and third rounds. He

726
00:38:46,280 --> 00:38:49,000
Speaker 1: changed the whole fight up by creating scrambles to create

727
00:38:49,080 --> 00:38:51,719
Speaker 1: back exposure and then from back exposure to then take it.

728
00:38:52,280 --> 00:38:54,400
Speaker 1: This is much better than trying to take him down

729
00:38:54,480 --> 00:38:58,359
Speaker 1: and hold him down right. Force a scramble where this

730
00:38:58,360 --> 00:39:00,440
Speaker 1: guy is sort of kind of known for giving up

731
00:39:00,440 --> 00:39:04,440
Speaker 1: his back a little bit. Create these scrambles, make him

732
00:39:04,480 --> 00:39:07,360
Speaker 1: show it, and then when he shows it, take it right.

733
00:39:07,600 --> 00:39:10,839
Speaker 1: It's a similar concept, different execution to what Habib did

734
00:39:10,840 --> 00:39:13,640
Speaker 1: to Justin Gaechee. Remember that final takedown where he took

735
00:39:13,640 --> 00:39:15,560
Speaker 1: the back. He wasn't looking to he wasn't looking to

736
00:39:15,600 --> 00:39:17,840
Speaker 1: take them down. He knew that when he tried something,

737
00:39:18,120 --> 00:39:20,360
Speaker 1: Justin was going to plant his hands. He was looking

738
00:39:20,400 --> 00:39:23,360
Speaker 1: for that. He was looking for him to plant his hands.

739
00:39:23,640 --> 00:39:26,120
Speaker 1: So that he could, so that Gaechie would create a

740
00:39:26,160 --> 00:39:29,120
Speaker 1: stable structure for Habib to get on top of and

741
00:39:29,160 --> 00:39:30,920
Speaker 1: then he could go do his thing. That's what that

742
00:39:31,040 --> 00:39:36,120
Speaker 1: was all about. I sincerely believe that Sterling wasn't really

743
00:39:36,160 --> 00:39:38,120
Speaker 1: looking to like put Yon flat on his back. I mean,

744
00:39:38,160 --> 00:39:39,680
Speaker 1: if Yan gave it to him, I guess he would

745
00:39:39,800 --> 00:39:41,760
Speaker 1: go for it. But what I really think you wanted

746
00:39:41,880 --> 00:39:45,080
Speaker 1: was knowing that Yan had good first, second, third order

747
00:39:45,120 --> 00:39:48,800
Speaker 1: takedown defense, creating back exposure and then from that lighting

748
00:39:48,840 --> 00:39:50,520
Speaker 1: him up and then holding him there. And dude, he

749
00:39:50,760 --> 00:39:54,320
Speaker 1: is a nightmare there. I've talked about this before. He

750
00:39:54,760 --> 00:39:57,759
Speaker 1: isn't just technical with the positions, obviously he is. And again,

751
00:39:57,800 --> 00:40:00,279
Speaker 1: the body triangle is you know, it's not the most

752
00:40:00,280 --> 00:40:02,319
Speaker 1: difficult position to hold. I want to be clear about it,

753
00:40:02,360 --> 00:40:04,440
Speaker 1: But I also want to point out, like his grappling strength,

754
00:40:04,480 --> 00:40:06,719
Speaker 1: like his grip strength, how much that must wear on you.

755
00:40:07,080 --> 00:40:09,880
Speaker 1: I've said it before, Dude, he hit an upside down

756
00:40:10,320 --> 00:40:12,160
Speaker 1: head and arm triangle on I think it was the

757
00:40:12,239 --> 00:40:20,400
Speaker 1: key of Mizugaki. That is, Dude, that is that I

758
00:40:20,480 --> 00:40:22,839
Speaker 1: just can't believe. I've never seen that other than when

759
00:40:22,880 --> 00:40:25,360
Speaker 1: he did it. I've never seen something like that in

760
00:40:25,400 --> 00:40:29,840
Speaker 1: the training room. Never, never, dude, you gotta be fucking

761
00:40:30,080 --> 00:40:33,480
Speaker 1: strong to do that. A lot of people, including even

762
00:40:33,520 --> 00:40:35,399
Speaker 1: big guys, have to get the angle set. I've talked

763
00:40:35,400 --> 00:40:37,640
Speaker 1: about this before. It's kind of like like tightening the

764
00:40:37,640 --> 00:40:40,279
Speaker 1: screw or tightening the faucet to turn the water off.

765
00:40:40,280 --> 00:40:42,480
Speaker 1: You have to kind of get that angle to thread

766
00:40:43,080 --> 00:40:46,319
Speaker 1: to choke, you know, fully tight, and not just have

767
00:40:46,440 --> 00:40:48,560
Speaker 1: it on top with a force of gravity or even

768
00:40:48,760 --> 00:40:51,320
Speaker 1: shoulder pressure or any number of different things you're using

769
00:40:53,280 --> 00:40:55,200
Speaker 1: to do that underneath Hank, I mean, you just have

770
00:40:55,239 --> 00:41:01,239
Speaker 1: to be crazy strong, crazy grappling strength, incredible hulk shit

771
00:41:02,280 --> 00:41:06,040
Speaker 1: and so at you Marry how how effective he is

772
00:41:06,080 --> 00:41:08,239
Speaker 1: at finding the positions. He's got a great frame for

773
00:41:08,280 --> 00:41:09,799
Speaker 1: it because he's kind of long and lanky, so he

774
00:41:09,840 --> 00:41:12,360
Speaker 1: puts the hooks in and you know he's he's getting

775
00:41:12,360 --> 00:41:14,560
Speaker 1: to work. He's got great strength for those positions. He's

776
00:41:14,600 --> 00:41:16,520
Speaker 1: got great that. By the way, I think, by the

777
00:41:16,520 --> 00:41:19,000
Speaker 1: way those two rounds riding someone's back like that, I

778
00:41:19,000 --> 00:41:21,560
Speaker 1: think that really helped al Jos Cardio. I don't think

779
00:41:21,600 --> 00:41:23,239
Speaker 1: he has bad cardio, but like you know, the beat,

780
00:41:23,280 --> 00:41:26,000
Speaker 1: you know, eventually the punt you're getting to you know,

781
00:41:26,040 --> 00:41:28,799
Speaker 1: twenty minutes of fighting or something. Anyone's gonna be tired.

782
00:41:28,800 --> 00:41:31,160
Speaker 1: The punishment is going to be difficult. He took two

783
00:41:31,280 --> 00:41:33,799
Speaker 1: rounds of striking basically, or how much time it was.

784
00:41:34,719 --> 00:41:36,719
Speaker 1: I think that one of the rounds was like right

785
00:41:36,760 --> 00:41:38,680
Speaker 1: away he got the takedown. I forget, I forget. I

786
00:41:38,680 --> 00:41:40,480
Speaker 1: think it was. Let's see look at the numbers here.

787
00:41:41,360 --> 00:41:45,160
Speaker 1: Must have been round three. Must have been round three.

788
00:41:45,320 --> 00:41:49,960
Speaker 1: Yhon landed eight punt eight strikes, eight strikes in that fight. Yeah,

789
00:41:50,200 --> 00:41:53,240
Speaker 1: listen to listen to the control time. Jesus al Jamn

790
00:41:53,280 --> 00:41:56,240
Speaker 1: Sterling had three minutes and forty three seconds of control

791
00:41:56,280 --> 00:41:59,359
Speaker 1: time in the third, three minutes and fifty seconds of

792
00:41:59,360 --> 00:42:01,600
Speaker 1: control time the second. Maybe it was the second round

793
00:42:02,120 --> 00:42:06,760
Speaker 1: and Yan had four significant strikes in round two, four

794
00:42:07,040 --> 00:42:11,719
Speaker 1: to Sterling seventeen man. I tweeted on Friday that I

795
00:42:11,880 --> 00:42:14,879
Speaker 1: was just blown away by like al Joe's physique because

796
00:42:14,880 --> 00:42:16,480
Speaker 1: he's always in great shape, he's always rip, and I

797
00:42:16,560 --> 00:42:18,640
Speaker 1: was like, dude, he looks even better than normal. And

798
00:42:18,760 --> 00:42:22,439
Speaker 1: people race to my mentions to let me know that

799
00:42:22,600 --> 00:42:25,480
Speaker 1: Yan was going to do unspeakable horrors to him and

800
00:42:25,520 --> 00:42:28,560
Speaker 1: that this was irrelevant and didn't mean a fucking thing. Boy.

801
00:42:28,560 --> 00:42:31,560
Speaker 1: I hope you people you won't. But for the one

802
00:42:31,600 --> 00:42:33,040
Speaker 1: percent of you that we're doing that, I hope you

803
00:42:33,080 --> 00:42:35,520
Speaker 1: really reflect on this. Number one. That is such a

804
00:42:35,640 --> 00:42:40,279
Speaker 1: shitty way to enjoy MMA. Listen. I have seen generations

805
00:42:40,280 --> 00:42:42,920
Speaker 1: of fans come and go. It takes about five years

806
00:42:42,920 --> 00:42:45,200
Speaker 1: people fall in love with NIME. That's the most amazing

807
00:42:45,200 --> 00:42:47,439
Speaker 1: thing they've ever seen. They buy all the pay per views,

808
00:42:47,440 --> 00:42:49,239
Speaker 1: they go to all the shows, they buy merch, they

809
00:42:49,239 --> 00:42:51,800
Speaker 1: have favorite fighters, they've watched their favorite podcast, you name it.

810
00:42:51,840 --> 00:42:53,719
Speaker 1: They do all that shit, and then they realize they

811
00:42:53,719 --> 00:42:55,560
Speaker 1: start to get tired of it, and then you know,

812
00:42:55,880 --> 00:42:57,319
Speaker 1: life gets in the way and they get n their

813
00:42:57,360 --> 00:42:59,120
Speaker 1: interests and they set to fall by the wayside, and

814
00:42:59,160 --> 00:43:00,799
Speaker 1: they get and it sort of goes and goes and

815
00:43:00,800 --> 00:43:03,440
Speaker 1: goes until they've got, you know, barely a casual relationship

816
00:43:03,440 --> 00:43:04,600
Speaker 1: with it, and you're like, oh, that won't be me.

817
00:43:04,719 --> 00:43:07,160
Speaker 1: That's every generation a fan before you. I have seen

818
00:43:07,200 --> 00:43:09,120
Speaker 1: it a million times by people you would have never

819
00:43:09,200 --> 00:43:11,759
Speaker 1: expected it. And a big reason why that takes place

820
00:43:11,800 --> 00:43:14,160
Speaker 1: is because people fall in love. They think they're falling

821
00:43:14,200 --> 00:43:15,879
Speaker 1: in love with MMA, but what they're falling in love

822
00:43:15,920 --> 00:43:19,200
Speaker 1: with is the pageantry and the gore. They're actually they're

823
00:43:19,200 --> 00:43:21,920
Speaker 1: actually just spectators at the Roman Colisseum. They're not really

824
00:43:21,960 --> 00:43:25,080
Speaker 1: there because they love fighting. They're not really there because

825
00:43:25,120 --> 00:43:30,399
Speaker 1: what really captures their imagination is the activity. It's something else,

826
00:43:30,440 --> 00:43:34,360
Speaker 1: that's something much less sustaining, a sustaining way to be

827
00:43:34,400 --> 00:43:36,400
Speaker 1: an MMA fanist. You can pick who you want. I

828
00:43:36,400 --> 00:43:38,799
Speaker 1: picked John. I was wrong. I thought John was gonna win.

829
00:43:38,840 --> 00:43:41,960
Speaker 1: But I didn't think Sterling was some chump or something

830
00:43:42,040 --> 00:43:45,000
Speaker 1: like that. You had to take him seriously as a threat.

831
00:43:45,040 --> 00:43:48,520
Speaker 1: There was a There are a thousands, if not millions

832
00:43:49,040 --> 00:43:52,480
Speaker 1: of MMA fans journalists too, probably who didn't give who

833
00:43:52,520 --> 00:43:56,440
Speaker 1: didn't think Sterling could do a thing, who was just

834
00:43:56,560 --> 00:44:00,319
Speaker 1: you know, a lamb being led to slaughter, and wanted

835
00:44:00,320 --> 00:44:03,200
Speaker 1: everyone to know that it was not possible to have

836
00:44:03,239 --> 00:44:05,799
Speaker 1: any other interpretation other than the guy is terrible. And

837
00:44:05,880 --> 00:44:07,600
Speaker 1: you know, do you like his act? Do you not

838
00:44:07,719 --> 00:44:10,520
Speaker 1: like his act? I don't like most fighters acts, to

839
00:44:10,520 --> 00:44:12,000
Speaker 1: be honest with you, it doesn't I'm a forty two

840
00:44:12,040 --> 00:44:14,279
Speaker 1: year old, guys, shit doesn't work for me anymore, you know.

841
00:44:14,680 --> 00:44:17,319
Speaker 1: But like if you can't watch a fight, even if

842
00:44:17,360 --> 00:44:21,520
Speaker 1: you think someone's gonna win. And if the way I'll

843
00:44:21,520 --> 00:44:23,040
Speaker 1: put it to you this way, if if you go

844
00:44:23,080 --> 00:44:26,080
Speaker 1: into fights being like I confidently think this guy is

845
00:44:26,080 --> 00:44:28,239
Speaker 1: gonna win. And not only do I confidently think this

846
00:44:28,280 --> 00:44:31,120
Speaker 1: guy's gonna win, I'm gonna use that as the operating

847
00:44:31,160 --> 00:44:34,719
Speaker 1: principle by which to understand and interpret this fight, meaning, oh,

848
00:44:34,800 --> 00:44:36,839
Speaker 1: because I am so confident this guy's gonna win. This

849
00:44:36,840 --> 00:44:38,520
Speaker 1: other guy is shit and he is irrelevant to me.

850
00:44:38,760 --> 00:44:41,360
Speaker 1: It's all a binary equation. Fuck and blah blah blah.

851
00:44:41,600 --> 00:44:43,560
Speaker 1: You ar nothing, dude, this is you will not be

852
00:44:43,600 --> 00:44:45,719
Speaker 1: around here very long. Let me just tell you how

853
00:44:45,719 --> 00:44:48,200
Speaker 1: this movie ends. You won't be here very long. Because

854
00:44:48,239 --> 00:44:51,239
Speaker 1: that's not that you cannot sustain anything that way. That

855
00:44:51,360 --> 00:44:54,560
Speaker 1: is uh a. These fighters break your heart because MMA

856
00:44:54,640 --> 00:44:57,040
Speaker 1: is chaotic and when you think they're gonna win, they don't.

857
00:44:57,560 --> 00:45:04,319
Speaker 1: And that's such a such a a juvenile way to

858
00:45:04,520 --> 00:45:10,360
Speaker 1: appreciate what is what our two extraordinary high level technicians

859
00:45:10,400 --> 00:45:14,000
Speaker 1: are bringing you to just invalidate one because you confidently

860
00:45:14,000 --> 00:45:17,239
Speaker 1: think that one's gonna win. By the MMA gods, they

861
00:45:17,320 --> 00:45:20,719
Speaker 1: will they will not allow that. They will not allow that.

862
00:45:20,760 --> 00:45:23,200
Speaker 1: I really hope people listen. You don't have to like

863
00:45:23,280 --> 00:45:25,120
Speaker 1: any of these guys, and how's out your minds got?

864
00:45:25,239 --> 00:45:28,600
Speaker 1: He's sitting there posting shot or pictures of him talking

865
00:45:28,600 --> 00:45:31,000
Speaker 1: to Ramzan Kadirav before the fire. I mean, you can

866
00:45:31,160 --> 00:45:33,640
Speaker 1: like who you want, you can think they're all great

867
00:45:33,960 --> 00:45:36,719
Speaker 1: or terrible. I'm not asking you to like or dislike anybody,

868
00:45:37,200 --> 00:45:39,560
Speaker 1: but dude, if you want to actually be an MMA

869
00:45:39,640 --> 00:45:42,520
Speaker 1: fan long term and not and not just live and

870
00:45:42,560 --> 00:45:45,319
Speaker 1: die with this love affair, it would behoove you to,

871
00:45:46,200 --> 00:45:51,359
Speaker 1: you know, find the beauty even when people you think

872
00:45:51,360 --> 00:45:55,960
Speaker 1: are gonna lose, Find the value in maybe one or

873
00:45:56,000 --> 00:45:58,319
Speaker 1: two unique things that they do or something that they bring.

874
00:45:58,360 --> 00:46:00,359
Speaker 1: And that's hard to do with everybody all day time.

875
00:46:00,360 --> 00:46:02,400
Speaker 1: But if you can't do it with the bantamweight champion

876
00:46:02,440 --> 00:46:05,880
Speaker 1: the UFC, then you can't really do it for anybody

877
00:46:05,880 --> 00:46:09,080
Speaker 1: of value. Dude, he is worthy of your respect, he

878
00:46:09,120 --> 00:46:11,319
Speaker 1: is worthy of your admiration, and now you've got to

879
00:46:11,320 --> 00:46:13,799
Speaker 1: call him champ and that's going to eat some people up.

880
00:46:13,840 --> 00:46:15,279
Speaker 1: I don't know if t. J. Dillsholl is gonna beat

881
00:46:15,320 --> 00:46:20,359
Speaker 1: him or not, but I thought one thing about Yon here,

882
00:46:20,360 --> 00:46:22,840
Speaker 1: getting back to him just a little bit. I do

883
00:46:22,920 --> 00:46:26,960
Speaker 1: think that, like, Okay, so I think two things happened

884
00:46:27,000 --> 00:46:31,560
Speaker 1: in this fight. For sure, Sterling looked a lot healthier

885
00:46:32,280 --> 00:46:36,359
Speaker 1: and stronger and better. Clearly had a better game plan

886
00:46:36,400 --> 00:46:39,919
Speaker 1: talking about hums out learning from experience. Clearly Sterling took

887
00:46:39,960 --> 00:46:42,239
Speaker 1: a lot of notes about what happened in the first

888
00:46:42,280 --> 00:46:44,240
Speaker 1: fight that did not go right for him and really

889
00:46:44,280 --> 00:46:47,719
Speaker 1: made some strong adjustments. I think they also in terms

890
00:46:47,760 --> 00:46:51,760
Speaker 1: of you know, energy management and resources. I think finding

891
00:46:51,800 --> 00:46:54,440
Speaker 1: those ways to get the back exposure and take advantage

892
00:46:54,480 --> 00:46:58,120
Speaker 1: of it was such a key detail that they made

893
00:46:58,680 --> 00:47:04,080
Speaker 1: so smart, so effective, so demoralizing, that he was able

894
00:47:04,120 --> 00:47:07,280
Speaker 1: to do that that I think that's probably the biggest

895
00:47:07,280 --> 00:47:10,200
Speaker 1: reason why he won. I also think Jon did just

896
00:47:10,360 --> 00:47:13,640
Speaker 1: not fight up to his best. He was kind of

897
00:47:13,719 --> 00:47:17,680
Speaker 1: really chasing things in the first round, and in the

898
00:47:17,719 --> 00:47:21,960
Speaker 1: fourth and fifth round. He fought pretty safeish, smartish, yanish

899
00:47:22,320 --> 00:47:26,160
Speaker 1: in that first round. You know, again, you can think

900
00:47:26,200 --> 00:47:27,880
Speaker 1: he won it and that's fine, that's I think that's

901
00:47:27,920 --> 00:47:31,960
Speaker 1: a reasonable opinion. But he probably could have been more persuasive,

902
00:47:32,000 --> 00:47:33,920
Speaker 1: I think with a little bit more of a discipline

903
00:47:33,960 --> 00:47:35,520
Speaker 1: game plan that he kind of got out in front

904
00:47:35,560 --> 00:47:38,160
Speaker 1: of his skis a little bit as well, So he

905
00:47:38,320 --> 00:47:39,839
Speaker 1: has some work to do I don't know if they're

906
00:47:39,840 --> 00:47:45,520
Speaker 1: gonna do the Sanhagen fight maybe probably not, or the

907
00:47:45,520 --> 00:47:49,120
Speaker 1: rematch at this point, I think, right so, I'm not

908
00:47:49,160 --> 00:47:50,720
Speaker 1: sure what they're gonna do with Yan at this point,

909
00:47:50,760 --> 00:47:54,440
Speaker 1: but I do think it is worth mentioning that the

910
00:47:54,480 --> 00:47:58,600
Speaker 1: biggest factor to me seems like what one Aljaman Sterling

911
00:47:58,640 --> 00:48:04,000
Speaker 1: this fight was him and his team's adjustments. That's number one.

912
00:48:04,160 --> 00:48:06,680
Speaker 1: But I think that saying that, like all of the

913
00:48:06,719 --> 00:48:11,320
Speaker 1: things that went wrong for Yon are all things caused

914
00:48:11,320 --> 00:48:14,880
Speaker 1: by al Joe, I can grant that the most important

915
00:48:14,880 --> 00:48:17,400
Speaker 1: things that went wrong probably went to al Joe, but

916
00:48:17,440 --> 00:48:20,000
Speaker 1: not all of them. Some of those wounds appeared to

917
00:48:20,040 --> 00:48:23,359
Speaker 1: be self inflicted by virtue of strategy or mindset, or

918
00:48:23,800 --> 00:48:28,120
Speaker 1: not having his normal team there, or what any number

919
00:48:28,160 --> 00:48:34,520
Speaker 1: of those things. Who knows. Who knows, But I did

920
00:48:34,560 --> 00:48:38,840
Speaker 1: feel like he underperformed relative to what we know him.

921
00:48:39,080 --> 00:48:42,040
Speaker 1: He's usually much more reserved. Maybe he still would have

922
00:48:42,080 --> 00:48:44,600
Speaker 1: lost the first round anyway, but I don't know. It

923
00:48:44,640 --> 00:48:46,760
Speaker 1: was just a weird performance for him. But the biggest

924
00:48:46,760 --> 00:48:50,680
Speaker 1: story is al Jamine Sterling is just he is infinitely

925
00:48:50,719 --> 00:48:53,439
Speaker 1: better than his critics would like you to believe him

926
00:48:53,520 --> 00:48:57,520
Speaker 1: to be. Infinitely better, and he has a claim as

927
00:48:57,560 --> 00:49:02,440
Speaker 1: the best bantson went on Earth. He does. He has

928
00:49:02,440 --> 00:49:04,680
Speaker 1: a rightful He has a very much a rightful claim

929
00:49:04,800 --> 00:49:07,000
Speaker 1: for that. You can also say that some other ones

930
00:49:07,080 --> 00:49:10,279
Speaker 1: might have a rightful claim, fine, but I don't think

931
00:49:10,280 --> 00:49:12,520
Speaker 1: you could excue exclude him from that list. He has

932
00:49:12,880 --> 00:49:16,200
Speaker 1: really fine tuned so much of his game. And by

933
00:49:16,200 --> 00:49:18,200
Speaker 1: the way, it wasn't a perfect performance of him either,

934
00:49:18,400 --> 00:49:20,440
Speaker 1: Like the fact that he can't really sit down on

935
00:49:20,480 --> 00:49:24,120
Speaker 1: his shots to deter people means that they're going to

936
00:49:24,200 --> 00:49:27,120
Speaker 1: be in his face for five rounds, right, unless he

937
00:49:27,120 --> 00:49:30,280
Speaker 1: can get the submission. But if they're if you're mostly

938
00:49:30,320 --> 00:49:32,480
Speaker 1: on the feet or whatever, the ground's useful, but you

939
00:49:32,520 --> 00:49:35,200
Speaker 1: can't finish them there, so the fight keeps going and

940
00:49:35,239 --> 00:49:37,520
Speaker 1: you can't really stick it to him. That could be

941
00:49:37,600 --> 00:49:39,960
Speaker 1: a problem. That could be a problem long term. And

942
00:49:40,000 --> 00:49:42,799
Speaker 1: his style is taxing as a consequence. There's so much

943
00:49:42,800 --> 00:49:44,120
Speaker 1: work that has to go into it, which is why

944
00:49:44,160 --> 00:49:46,879
Speaker 1: taking the back is so smart, because that's the best

945
00:49:46,960 --> 00:49:49,160
Speaker 1: reprieve he's going to get given his style on the

946
00:49:49,200 --> 00:49:53,960
Speaker 1: feet if he can't otherwise, you know, it forces him

947
00:49:53,960 --> 00:49:56,279
Speaker 1: to not have to reshoot and and everything else. Although

948
00:49:56,280 --> 00:49:58,000
Speaker 1: he obviously I realized it. Where do all the take

949
00:49:58,000 --> 00:50:00,640
Speaker 1: that attempts come from? Two in the first, two in

950
00:50:00,680 --> 00:50:03,800
Speaker 1: the second, four in the third, oh, in the fifth,

951
00:50:04,440 --> 00:50:06,640
Speaker 1: four in the fourth, he had ten in the fifth

952
00:50:07,280 --> 00:50:11,520
Speaker 1: ten takedown attempts. Jesus, so he had eight. Then he

953
00:50:11,560 --> 00:50:13,600
Speaker 1: had ten, so he had twelve before. That's still a lot.

954
00:50:13,760 --> 00:50:17,640
Speaker 1: It's still a lot as well. All right, let's get

955
00:50:17,640 --> 00:50:20,000
Speaker 1: to the main event. Here, last, but certainly not least.

956
00:50:22,320 --> 00:50:26,440
Speaker 1: Alexander Volkanowski defeats Chan Sung Jung at forty five seconds

957
00:50:26,480 --> 00:50:30,520
Speaker 1: of round four. I said this on Submission Radio earlier

958
00:50:30,520 --> 00:50:32,880
Speaker 1: this week. There were those boys are Australian and they

959
00:50:32,880 --> 00:50:35,040
Speaker 1: were asking me, you know what's going to take for

960
00:50:35,040 --> 00:50:38,400
Speaker 1: a volcan if you to get you know, more popular appeal,

961
00:50:38,440 --> 00:50:40,120
Speaker 1: And I'm like, you gotta start. You gotta stop beating

962
00:50:40,160 --> 00:50:43,040
Speaker 1: up everyone's favorite fighters. Man. I know the two Max

963
00:50:43,080 --> 00:50:48,000
Speaker 1: fights are close but and controversial, but Volkanowski won them.

964
00:50:48,360 --> 00:50:53,239
Speaker 1: Then Ortega had some amazing moments, but Volkanovsky beat him

965
00:50:53,280 --> 00:51:00,719
Speaker 1: up real good, and then today he just obliterated him

966
00:51:01,280 --> 00:51:04,320
Speaker 1: a chance on Jung that was hard to watch. Quite frankly,

967
00:51:04,960 --> 00:51:08,440
Speaker 1: the crowd was like it was the main event was

968
00:51:08,480 --> 00:51:15,120
Speaker 1: anti climactic that that was. That was tough. It was

969
00:51:15,120 --> 00:51:16,799
Speaker 1: hard to watch. It was a little hard to watch.

970
00:51:16,840 --> 00:51:19,360
Speaker 1: To be honest with you, you knew you had to

971
00:51:19,400 --> 00:51:23,680
Speaker 1: respect Korean Zombie because he is significantly better than he's

972
00:51:23,719 --> 00:51:28,000
Speaker 1: ever been relatives like the first WBC UFC run. He's

973
00:51:28,040 --> 00:51:32,560
Speaker 1: heavy handed, he's got good counterboxing, he is surprisingly good

974
00:51:32,560 --> 00:51:39,240
Speaker 1: on the ground. Uh and sneaky right, She's like okay,

975
00:51:39,440 --> 00:51:42,080
Speaker 1: and he's experienced. This is a guy you have to

976
00:51:42,080 --> 00:51:48,560
Speaker 1: take seriously. But you also knew Volkanovsky's fainting, moving trickery, timing, entries, exits.

977
00:51:49,040 --> 00:51:51,680
Speaker 1: It's a tough puzzle for anybody to solve. So maybe,

978
00:51:52,719 --> 00:51:54,919
Speaker 1: you know, maybe the guys Henry Suhuto and his team

979
00:51:54,960 --> 00:51:59,799
Speaker 1: could figure out something for Korean Zombie, do they There's

980
00:52:01,680 --> 00:52:03,160
Speaker 1: he could train the rest of his life and not

981
00:52:03,200 --> 00:52:08,759
Speaker 1: catch up to that Volkanovsky is. You know, there's some

982
00:52:08,840 --> 00:52:10,680
Speaker 1: real pound for pound conversations that have to be had

983
00:52:10,719 --> 00:52:12,279
Speaker 1: with him. Now. I'm not saying that he deserves to

984
00:52:12,360 --> 00:52:14,399
Speaker 1: leapfrog the guys who are in front of him by

985
00:52:14,440 --> 00:52:18,200
Speaker 1: virtue of the overall body of work that goes into that.

986
00:52:19,840 --> 00:52:23,080
Speaker 1: But with this title defense, he ties Max Holloway with three. Now,

987
00:52:23,120 --> 00:52:25,520
Speaker 1: I do think that Max Holloway's defenses are a little

988
00:52:25,560 --> 00:52:27,840
Speaker 1: bit more impressive in the sense that he beat Aldo

989
00:52:27,920 --> 00:52:30,880
Speaker 1: once via stoppage UFC two twelve and then beat him

990
00:52:30,880 --> 00:52:33,839
Speaker 1: again via stoppage at UFC two eighteen. So you had

991
00:52:33,840 --> 00:52:35,680
Speaker 1: to fight and beat Aldo back to back, and he

992
00:52:35,719 --> 00:52:39,840
Speaker 1: did it both times withinside the third round. Fun little note.

993
00:52:40,360 --> 00:52:42,960
Speaker 1: First time he circled this way, second time he circled

994
00:52:42,960 --> 00:52:45,239
Speaker 1: that way. But he was turning Aldo constantly, but he

995
00:52:45,280 --> 00:52:47,759
Speaker 1: didn't turn them the same direction. He went entirely the

996
00:52:47,800 --> 00:52:49,560
Speaker 1: opposite way. It was a very sort of funny little

997
00:52:49,600 --> 00:52:51,799
Speaker 1: shift that he did from the first of the second fight.

998
00:52:51,840 --> 00:52:55,719
Speaker 1: But that's very impressive. And then he beat so the

999
00:52:55,920 --> 00:52:58,399
Speaker 1: one defense would be Aldo, then the one defense would

1000
00:52:58,400 --> 00:53:00,399
Speaker 1: be Edgar, and then the one would be or take right.

1001
00:53:00,440 --> 00:53:03,520
Speaker 1: I think that's it'll be the three, and so now

1002
00:53:03,520 --> 00:53:05,920
Speaker 1: he ties him numerically, So I think that there is

1003
00:53:06,000 --> 00:53:09,200
Speaker 1: still Aldo is having the best overall body of work

1004
00:53:09,200 --> 00:53:11,840
Speaker 1: as a champion, and then it would be Max probably

1005
00:53:11,880 --> 00:53:15,440
Speaker 1: still like to A and you put Volkanovski to B.

1006
00:53:15,600 --> 00:53:19,360
Speaker 1: But here we are, dude. Volkanovsky is a marvel to watch.

1007
00:53:19,680 --> 00:53:21,680
Speaker 1: He's one of the most talented fighters I've ever seen,

1008
00:53:22,560 --> 00:53:25,440
Speaker 1: and it is going to take a very very special

1009
00:53:25,480 --> 00:53:28,080
Speaker 1: fighter on a very special night to beat him until

1010
00:53:28,120 --> 00:53:34,320
Speaker 1: father time whips his ass. Because, dude, he is in shape,

1011
00:53:35,200 --> 00:53:40,480
Speaker 1: he is hard nosed, he is good everywhere. He is

1012
00:53:40,680 --> 00:53:47,120
Speaker 1: physically strong. He's a A lot of his shots don't

1013
00:53:47,120 --> 00:53:48,880
Speaker 1: have a lot of power on them by design, but

1014
00:53:48,920 --> 00:53:50,480
Speaker 1: when he wants to be he can. I think he

1015
00:53:50,520 --> 00:53:54,880
Speaker 1: can crack a little bit. And we've talked about it

1016
00:53:54,920 --> 00:53:58,920
Speaker 1: ad nauseum. He creates patterns, and right when you think

1017
00:53:59,320 --> 00:54:02,000
Speaker 1: you have picked up on it, he changes it and

1018
00:54:02,080 --> 00:54:08,800
Speaker 1: then builds in additional complexity layers by making you make computations,

1019
00:54:09,560 --> 00:54:11,640
Speaker 1: and then as you're trying to noodle this, it has

1020
00:54:11,680 --> 00:54:14,680
Speaker 1: an overall suppressive effect. Right, So let's look at these stats,

1021
00:54:14,719 --> 00:54:17,319
Speaker 1: and let's look at it compared to the first one

1022
00:54:17,400 --> 00:54:24,960
Speaker 1: if I can here for just a second. So oops,

1023
00:54:25,040 --> 00:54:32,400
Speaker 1: let's look at Wolkanovski so Chan Sung jung. What is

1024
00:54:32,400 --> 00:54:36,680
Speaker 1: his normal output? His normal output is four strikes landed

1025
00:54:36,680 --> 00:54:39,560
Speaker 1: per minute, so he should have been around twenty should

1026
00:54:39,600 --> 00:54:43,040
Speaker 1: have been around twenty twenty round, So where was he actually?

1027
00:54:45,760 --> 00:54:49,040
Speaker 1: Chand Sung Jung landed fifteen significant strikes in the first round,

1028
00:54:49,040 --> 00:54:53,759
Speaker 1: that's close ish ten in the second. He did land

1029
00:54:53,760 --> 00:54:56,400
Speaker 1: twenty one in the third. We'll get to that, and

1030
00:54:56,440 --> 00:54:58,759
Speaker 1: he landed just two in the fourth round before they

1031
00:54:58,800 --> 00:55:02,920
Speaker 1: called it. So he was decidedly below average overall. Essentially,

1032
00:55:03,000 --> 00:55:06,440
Speaker 1: in the first two rounds it was half of what

1033
00:55:06,520 --> 00:55:08,280
Speaker 1: he needed to be in the in the second round

1034
00:55:08,360 --> 00:55:10,799
Speaker 1: he was better. In round three. The problem is Volkovsky

1035
00:55:10,880 --> 00:55:14,839
Speaker 1: had fifty seven significant strikes landed, and so he had

1036
00:55:14,880 --> 00:55:17,520
Speaker 1: You can see he has this overall suppressive effect. He

1037
00:55:17,600 --> 00:55:20,080
Speaker 1: got Volkanoski got to take down the first, he got

1038
00:55:20,080 --> 00:55:21,879
Speaker 1: two takedowns. In the second, he got to take down

1039
00:55:21,920 --> 00:55:23,600
Speaker 1: the third. He got a take down in every round.

1040
00:55:23,600 --> 00:55:26,520
Speaker 1: He tried control time at forty seven seconds, one minute

1041
00:55:26,520 --> 00:55:29,080
Speaker 1: and twenty two seconds and forty three seconds. But really,

1042
00:55:29,080 --> 00:55:31,240
Speaker 1: what did you notice, dude? He would faint a reaction

1043
00:55:31,440 --> 00:55:34,640
Speaker 1: out of zombie. Zombie would go and he would counter

1044
00:55:34,719 --> 00:55:37,760
Speaker 1: over the top, or you know, step at an angle

1045
00:55:37,800 --> 00:55:41,480
Speaker 1: and counter or a kick or whatever the answering shot was.

1046
00:55:42,000 --> 00:55:45,120
Speaker 1: He would faint, get zombie to cover up and then

1047
00:55:45,239 --> 00:55:47,640
Speaker 1: go and then he would blitz them with combinations. Dude.

1048
00:55:47,680 --> 00:55:50,360
Speaker 1: The hand speed appeared to be giving Zombie serious problems.

1049
00:55:50,360 --> 00:55:53,680
Speaker 1: He couldn't see what was coming. His face was a disaster.

1050
00:55:54,360 --> 00:55:56,400
Speaker 1: By the time that fight was over. Dude, after the

1051
00:55:56,440 --> 00:56:00,480
Speaker 1: second round, Zombie didn't even sit on his stool. He

1052
00:56:00,600 --> 00:56:03,439
Speaker 1: sat on the ground. I can count on my hand

1053
00:56:03,520 --> 00:56:07,560
Speaker 1: the number of times I've seen that. In fact, I

1054
00:56:07,560 --> 00:56:09,959
Speaker 1: believe I did see that one time in an amateur show.

1055
00:56:09,960 --> 00:56:12,680
Speaker 1: And this is in my call I completely agree with.

1056
00:56:12,800 --> 00:56:15,480
Speaker 1: I think the ref waived it. Now if it's for

1057
00:56:15,520 --> 00:56:17,880
Speaker 1: an amateur, it's a completely different consideration. If they're showing

1058
00:56:17,880 --> 00:56:19,440
Speaker 1: you those signs, you don't let it go. This is

1059
00:56:19,440 --> 00:56:22,040
Speaker 1: a world title fight. You kind of let it breathe

1060
00:56:22,040 --> 00:56:24,120
Speaker 1: a little bit. But after the second round he goes

1061
00:56:24,120 --> 00:56:26,719
Speaker 1: back to his corner and sits down. And then if

1062
00:56:26,760 --> 00:56:28,879
Speaker 1: the third round did the exact same thing. Paul Felder,

1063
00:56:28,960 --> 00:56:30,080
Speaker 1: By the way, this is one of the better nights

1064
00:56:30,120 --> 00:56:32,080
Speaker 1: I think Paul Felder has had. He's always good. He

1065
00:56:32,239 --> 00:56:34,799
Speaker 1: was great tonight on the microphone, So shouts to Paul

1066
00:56:34,840 --> 00:56:37,640
Speaker 1: Felder for doing a phenomenal job. He had the exact

1067
00:56:37,640 --> 00:56:39,399
Speaker 1: same thought I did after that third round, was like, dude,

1068
00:56:39,400 --> 00:56:40,719
Speaker 1: they don't need to let him come back out for

1069
00:56:40,800 --> 00:56:42,920
Speaker 1: this one. What is one of the arguments A lot

1070
00:56:42,920 --> 00:56:45,520
Speaker 1: of people use about MMA versus boxing in terms of

1071
00:56:45,520 --> 00:56:48,960
Speaker 1: why corner stoppages are a little bit more consistent over

1072
00:56:48,960 --> 00:56:52,879
Speaker 1: their relative to MMA. It's that in boxing it's a

1073
00:56:53,000 --> 00:56:56,759
Speaker 1: confined universe. It's just boxing, and so if there is

1074
00:56:56,800 --> 00:57:03,320
Speaker 1: any kind of issue where there's a clear difference and ability,

1075
00:57:03,719 --> 00:57:06,040
Speaker 1: and it's that way, round after round after round, after

1076
00:57:06,040 --> 00:57:07,640
Speaker 1: five or six rounds, you can call it because all

1077
00:57:07,640 --> 00:57:10,520
Speaker 1: this person is doing is just taking punishment. The chance

1078
00:57:10,600 --> 00:57:15,480
Speaker 1: for variation or chaos or upsets happening, it's much narrower

1079
00:57:15,680 --> 00:57:21,280
Speaker 1: by virtue of the lack of variability. Relatively speaking, this

1080
00:57:21,360 --> 00:57:26,280
Speaker 1: felt like a boxing fight like that where I don't, well,

1081
00:57:26,960 --> 00:57:29,400
Speaker 1: maybe Volk was going to put him away in that

1082
00:57:29,480 --> 00:57:31,720
Speaker 1: flurry in the fourth, but like you were, just like, dude,

1083
00:57:32,080 --> 00:57:35,480
Speaker 1: there's no catching up here. He would have to land

1084
00:57:35,600 --> 00:57:38,960
Speaker 1: the most miraculous shot ever. It is very good that

1085
00:57:39,000 --> 00:57:41,280
Speaker 1: they stopped that fight at what was it forty seven

1086
00:57:41,360 --> 00:57:44,800
Speaker 1: seconds and the third forty five. It is very good

1087
00:57:44,800 --> 00:57:49,880
Speaker 1: that they did that because the other you know, four

1088
00:57:49,920 --> 00:57:52,840
Speaker 1: minutes and fifteen seconds would have been would have been damage.

1089
00:57:52,880 --> 00:57:55,560
Speaker 1: He would have never needed to get back. This felt

1090
00:57:55,560 --> 00:57:58,920
Speaker 1: like a boxing fight where after like I for my dissected.

1091
00:57:58,960 --> 00:58:01,560
Speaker 1: I did Erol Spence versus Lamont Peterson. Lamont Peterson after

1092
00:58:01,600 --> 00:58:04,960
Speaker 1: six rounds of arrel, Spence tuning him up, goes back

1093
00:58:04,960 --> 00:58:07,360
Speaker 1: to his corner, and Barry Hunter's like, I don't like it.

1094
00:58:07,520 --> 00:58:09,560
Speaker 1: I don't like what I'm looking at. Let him go

1095
00:58:09,640 --> 00:58:11,280
Speaker 1: back out. One more than they called it after that

1096
00:58:11,280 --> 00:58:14,919
Speaker 1: one felt like that felt like that where one guy

1097
00:58:15,080 --> 00:58:17,640
Speaker 1: was just clearly so much better than the other one.

1098
00:58:17,720 --> 00:58:20,680
Speaker 1: The other one didn't have a prayer. It wasn't gonna

1099
00:58:20,680 --> 00:58:25,560
Speaker 1: work for Volkanovski. And what do he calls scrambling the

1100
00:58:25,560 --> 00:58:28,480
Speaker 1: brains and the faint work he's done, and the pattern

1101
00:58:28,520 --> 00:58:32,320
Speaker 1: work he builds, and the suppressive effect it has, and

1102
00:58:32,360 --> 00:58:35,480
Speaker 1: the decision making overload that it causes, and the computational

1103
00:58:36,200 --> 00:58:40,160
Speaker 1: failure that it produces in his opponents. He is, He

1104
00:58:40,360 --> 00:58:43,160
Speaker 1: is almost unlike any other fighter I've ever seen. And

1105
00:58:43,160 --> 00:58:44,840
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say it one more time. I don't care

1106
00:58:44,880 --> 00:58:47,440
Speaker 1: who your favorite fighter is. If they're fighting Volkanovsky, they

1107
00:58:47,480 --> 00:58:53,080
Speaker 1: better pack a fucking lunch. You better do your homework.

1108
00:58:53,200 --> 00:58:55,959
Speaker 1: If you want to have any shot at this guy,

1109
00:58:56,520 --> 00:58:59,560
Speaker 1: you better write down every pattern he's ever tried and

1110
00:58:59,600 --> 00:59:03,200
Speaker 1: every counter he's ever pulled, and every switch he's ever made,

1111
00:59:03,320 --> 00:59:05,280
Speaker 1: and and and all the reasons for it, and you

1112
00:59:05,320 --> 00:59:07,640
Speaker 1: better have it memorized. You got if you have to

1113
00:59:07,680 --> 00:59:11,720
Speaker 1: have it memorized, like like you know, you're an insane

1114
00:59:11,840 --> 00:59:15,160
Speaker 1: person that it's gonna require a level of commitment that

1115
00:59:15,240 --> 00:59:19,000
Speaker 1: would be shocking. Short of that, only father time is

1116
00:59:19,040 --> 00:59:23,200
Speaker 1: gonna is gonna wind him down. I just think he's

1117
00:59:23,280 --> 00:59:26,960
Speaker 1: so far ahead his ideas about the game, how he

1118
00:59:27,000 --> 00:59:29,520
Speaker 1: looks into it, how he seeks it out, how he

1119
00:59:30,000 --> 00:59:32,880
Speaker 1: how he handles himself, all of these things, the way

1120
00:59:32,880 --> 00:59:35,880
Speaker 1: in which he conceives of offense. How do I want

1121
00:59:35,880 --> 00:59:37,320
Speaker 1: to create it? How do I want to do this?

1122
00:59:37,960 --> 00:59:40,160
Speaker 1: What are the goals I'm looking for? He is thinking

1123
00:59:40,240 --> 00:59:43,760
Speaker 1: on levels that are so far beyond what everyone else

1124
00:59:43,840 --> 00:59:46,520
Speaker 1: is doing. Right, I'm going I'm going to create computational

1125
00:59:46,520 --> 00:59:50,880
Speaker 1: failure through overload. Who is doing that? And by the way,

1126
00:59:50,880 --> 00:59:53,200
Speaker 1: even if they have that idea, who is like executing

1127
00:59:53,240 --> 00:59:58,080
Speaker 1: on that vision? It's it is he is a he

1128
00:59:58,200 --> 01:00:01,480
Speaker 1: is He is remarkable beyond words. Let's look at some

1129
01:00:01,480 --> 01:00:04,120
Speaker 1: of the numbers here as well. The targeting Volkanovski went

1130
01:00:04,160 --> 01:00:06,280
Speaker 1: a lot to the head. As I mentioned, seventy three

1131
01:00:06,280 --> 01:00:08,920
Speaker 1: percent to sixty four for Chance Sung Jung seven percent

1132
01:00:08,960 --> 01:00:11,640
Speaker 1: of the body, which makes sense. For Volkanovski Bent never

1133
01:00:11,680 --> 01:00:14,080
Speaker 1: does a ton of body work, eighteen percent for Chance

1134
01:00:14,120 --> 01:00:16,480
Speaker 1: Sung Jung he had a little bit, and then eighteen

1135
01:00:16,520 --> 01:00:18,720
Speaker 1: percent to the legs for Vulk That makes sense, right,

1136
01:00:18,920 --> 01:00:21,760
Speaker 1: head shots and leg kicks. It's how he sets up angles.

1137
01:00:21,760 --> 01:00:23,520
Speaker 1: It's how he sets up entries, It's how he sets

1138
01:00:23,560 --> 01:00:26,360
Speaker 1: up other shots behind it. It's how he sets up

1139
01:00:26,480 --> 01:00:30,080
Speaker 1: any number of things. Constantly turning opponents even when he's

1140
01:00:30,120 --> 01:00:33,280
Speaker 1: getting backed up, constantly disrupting their base, constantly giving them

1141
01:00:33,280 --> 01:00:36,600
Speaker 1: to freeze, constantly getting them to bring to transfer defense

1142
01:00:36,640 --> 01:00:38,840
Speaker 1: in one direction of the other so that he could

1143
01:00:38,840 --> 01:00:43,080
Speaker 1: take advantage over it. Fainting out reactions going afterwards. This

1144
01:00:43,240 --> 01:00:46,160
Speaker 1: was big bank take little bank, eighty fos in candy paint.

1145
01:00:46,320 --> 01:00:50,880
Speaker 1: That's what this was. So a remarkable effort by a

1146
01:00:50,880 --> 01:00:53,440
Speaker 1: remarkable champion. What are they going to do from here?

1147
01:00:53,440 --> 01:00:55,080
Speaker 1: I don't see how you do anything other than the

1148
01:00:55,480 --> 01:00:59,000
Speaker 1: max fight. I don't know what would possibly make sense

1149
01:00:59,040 --> 01:01:01,720
Speaker 1: at this point? What would the kings be? Put the

1150
01:01:01,800 --> 01:01:09,200
Speaker 1: rankings up there? According to these rankins, Halloway is one,

1151
01:01:09,320 --> 01:01:14,760
Speaker 1: Ortega is two, Rodriguez is three. I mean, you could

1152
01:01:14,760 --> 01:01:16,840
Speaker 1: do Rodriguez for a fresh matchup, but I think he's

1153
01:01:16,840 --> 01:01:19,480
Speaker 1: gonna fight come up anyway or something like that. And

1154
01:01:19,720 --> 01:01:24,840
Speaker 1: uh yeah, there's Halloway sitting there. One Halloway is the answer.

1155
01:01:25,520 --> 01:01:28,400
Speaker 1: Halloway is the answer. But that's for all the marvels folks.

1156
01:01:28,840 --> 01:01:32,480
Speaker 1: Volk versus Max three. I think Max would like validate

1157
01:01:32,520 --> 01:01:34,000
Speaker 1: the feelings of a lot of folks who think you

1158
01:01:34,040 --> 01:01:38,040
Speaker 1: won either the first or the second fights. Conversely, if

1159
01:01:38,080 --> 01:01:39,880
Speaker 1: Vulk beats him three times in a row, you can

1160
01:01:39,920 --> 01:01:41,360
Speaker 1: say whatever you want about the first two if you

1161
01:01:41,400 --> 01:01:44,440
Speaker 1: have let's say it goes another five rounds, If you

1162
01:01:44,480 --> 01:01:46,760
Speaker 1: had fifteen rounds against the guy and you couldn't get

1163
01:01:47,160 --> 01:01:48,960
Speaker 1: you know, nine different judges to give it to you,

1164
01:01:49,000 --> 01:01:50,520
Speaker 1: then what are you supposed to say at that point?

1165
01:01:50,880 --> 01:01:52,840
Speaker 1: So we'll see, we'll see. It could go either way.

1166
01:01:52,880 --> 01:02:02,800
Speaker 1: But Vulkanovski was Jesus. That felt unfair. It felt unfair

1167
01:02:02,880 --> 01:02:05,040
Speaker 1: to watch him. All right, Let's see what the folks

1168
01:02:05,080 --> 01:02:14,320
Speaker 1: have to say on the Twitter machine. All right, let's see,

1169
01:02:19,680 --> 01:02:21,560
Speaker 1: so it says I'm worried Hamsa will be a victim

1170
01:02:21,560 --> 01:02:23,160
Speaker 1: of his own success. Looks like he's a year or

1171
01:02:23,160 --> 01:02:25,400
Speaker 1: two away from taking the belt from Usman. But who

1172
01:02:25,400 --> 01:02:27,840
Speaker 1: else does he fight after tonight? Colby fight's a big one.

1173
01:02:28,320 --> 01:02:31,040
Speaker 1: They might, you know, depending on what happens with Kamaru

1174
01:02:31,080 --> 01:02:34,000
Speaker 1: and Leon, there's a chance he could end up fighting

1175
01:02:34,040 --> 01:02:37,200
Speaker 1: the winner of Bully Luke too. I mean, it's the

1176
01:02:37,200 --> 01:02:38,720
Speaker 1: first time they fought, or I think it's the first

1177
01:02:38,720 --> 01:02:40,640
Speaker 1: time they fought, but I'm saying that fight as well.

1178
01:02:43,000 --> 01:02:45,120
Speaker 1: So before tonight, I thought that Skill for skill Yan

1179
01:02:45,280 --> 01:02:47,480
Speaker 1: was the best MMA fighter. After tonight, I'm almost certain

1180
01:02:47,520 --> 01:02:50,960
Speaker 1: it's Vulkanowski seems to have an answer for everything. Yeah,

1181
01:02:51,040 --> 01:02:53,240
Speaker 1: there's a little bit of shifting of the of the

1182
01:02:53,320 --> 01:02:59,680
Speaker 1: rankings tonight. So it says before tonight, I thought Chamaia

1183
01:02:59,760 --> 01:03:02,440
Speaker 1: maybe the one to beat both Usman and Izzy. After tonight,

1184
01:03:02,480 --> 01:03:04,840
Speaker 1: though thoroughly impressed with him, I'd see both champs's favorites.

1185
01:03:04,880 --> 01:03:08,360
Speaker 1: I think that's fair. It's probably fair. I hadn't thought

1186
01:03:08,400 --> 01:03:17,560
Speaker 1: about Izzy at all, but that's yeah, that's probably pretty reasonable. Yeah, uh,

1187
01:03:17,800 --> 01:03:20,360
Speaker 1: jamiav Stock rose from this, this person writes, but Durnho

1188
01:03:20,440 --> 01:03:25,120
Speaker 1: did enough to humanize him. Totally agree. This had a

1189
01:03:25,440 --> 01:03:29,840
Speaker 1: insanely long run time. So it says al Joe really

1190
01:03:29,880 --> 01:03:33,720
Speaker 1: prioritizes staying balanced and keeping dominant position during grappling transitions,

1191
01:03:33,720 --> 01:03:35,800
Speaker 1: which stifled y On on the ground. Why do you

1192
01:03:35,800 --> 01:03:38,200
Speaker 1: think so many high level grapplers sell out for the submission,

1193
01:03:38,200 --> 01:03:41,560
Speaker 1: even at the high cost because Jan excuse me, Sterling

1194
01:03:41,640 --> 01:03:45,800
Speaker 1: is experienced and has a game that's built to last,

1195
01:03:45,840 --> 01:03:50,440
Speaker 1: and a lot of guys don't. Tony Kahn was attending,

1196
01:03:50,720 --> 01:03:54,840
Speaker 1: So is a true story? In twenty eleven or twenty twelve,

1197
01:03:54,840 --> 01:03:57,520
Speaker 1: I cannot remember what year it was, specifically, you guys

1198
01:03:57,560 --> 01:04:03,560
Speaker 1: know MIT has the MIT has that Sports Analytics Conference,

1199
01:04:03,600 --> 01:04:07,720
Speaker 1: the Sloan Analytics Conference. It's this giant conference on sports analytics,

1200
01:04:07,720 --> 01:04:10,200
Speaker 1: and it's every nerd from every sport you could imagine.

1201
01:04:10,200 --> 01:04:11,800
Speaker 1: One year I got to speak on a panel, was me,

1202
01:04:11,880 --> 01:04:16,400
Speaker 1: Jordan Breen Jack and Carnassal Dominant Cruz, all of us

1203
01:04:16,400 --> 01:04:17,800
Speaker 1: got to speak it and we got to go speak

1204
01:04:17,800 --> 01:04:21,040
Speaker 1: at MIT. I felt like a like a real winner

1205
01:04:21,040 --> 01:04:25,120
Speaker 1: that day anyway, And Ronny Ganauer was there, Who's the

1206
01:04:25,160 --> 01:04:30,960
Speaker 1: guy who's the founder of fight Metric, And where the

1207
01:04:31,000 --> 01:04:36,400
Speaker 1: fuck was I going with a story? And Jesus Christ,

1208
01:04:39,160 --> 01:04:41,400
Speaker 1: I don't remember where I was going with this fucking story.

1209
01:04:41,480 --> 01:04:45,600
Speaker 1: It's so late in the morning. Anyway, what happened at

1210
01:04:45,600 --> 01:04:51,640
Speaker 1: that event, I don't even know. Uh why do they

1211
01:04:51,640 --> 01:04:53,480
Speaker 1: sell it for the submission, even at a high cost?

1212
01:04:55,560 --> 01:05:02,400
Speaker 1: Oh wait, oh, Tony Kahn, Yes, sorry. Anyway, So Jordan

1213
01:05:02,440 --> 01:05:04,840
Speaker 1: Breen and I we speak on the panel, and then

1214
01:05:04,840 --> 01:05:06,920
Speaker 1: they had this like if you were a panelist, they

1215
01:05:06,920 --> 01:05:09,280
Speaker 1: had their own green room, like you could only go

1216
01:05:09,360 --> 01:05:11,240
Speaker 1: in if you were on a panel. And so we

1217
01:05:11,320 --> 01:05:14,200
Speaker 1: walk in there and like Lindsey's Arniac is there, and

1218
01:05:14,360 --> 01:05:17,480
Speaker 1: Darren Ravel is there, and Breen and I were talking

1219
01:05:17,480 --> 01:05:20,240
Speaker 1: about Dave Meltzer because I was you know, we're just

1220
01:05:20,240 --> 01:05:22,240
Speaker 1: talking about his newsletter because I don't remember what we

1221
01:05:22,240 --> 01:05:25,240
Speaker 1: were saying. By the way, everyone knows I don't like

1222
01:05:25,280 --> 01:05:27,200
Speaker 1: pro wrestling, but I love Dave. I worked with Dave.

1223
01:05:27,320 --> 01:05:30,040
Speaker 1: Dave's great and he's a big success. No hate it all.

1224
01:05:31,440 --> 01:05:34,720
Speaker 1: Tony Kahan overheard us talking and he came over and

1225
01:05:34,760 --> 01:05:38,120
Speaker 1: introduced himself, and he gave me his phone number. We've

1226
01:05:38,120 --> 01:05:42,560
Speaker 1: texted a few times over the years. Harel. Well, I mean,

1227
01:05:43,040 --> 01:05:44,440
Speaker 1: I mean, you don't have to believe me that I

1228
01:05:44,440 --> 01:05:47,160
Speaker 1: actually have his phone number, but I think I still

1229
01:05:47,200 --> 01:05:51,320
Speaker 1: have it, right, still got that thing Oh, let's see,

1230
01:05:51,320 --> 01:05:56,080
Speaker 1: I got the Tony Khan phone number. I believe I do.

1231
01:05:58,600 --> 01:06:08,400
Speaker 1: Let's see. Yeah, got Tony Kahn and Tony Ferguson in

1232
01:06:08,440 --> 01:06:16,240
Speaker 1: there and the old thing. Anyway, he's been real cool

1233
01:06:16,240 --> 01:06:19,320
Speaker 1: to me. Tony Kahn has been super cool. So I

1234
01:06:19,320 --> 01:06:21,320
Speaker 1: know he loves his pro wrestling. That's why. That's why

1235
01:06:21,320 --> 01:06:22,880
Speaker 1: he introduced himself. He's like, oh my god, I'm a

1236
01:06:22,920 --> 01:06:24,360
Speaker 1: huge fan of Dave milts Or I love him. Blah

1237
01:06:24,400 --> 01:06:26,320
Speaker 1: blah blah blah blah. I think he's been a subscriber

1238
01:06:26,360 --> 01:06:29,320
Speaker 1: to the newsletter since forever. So shots to Tony Kahan.

1239
01:06:29,640 --> 01:06:33,280
Speaker 1: Cool guy. Someone says Vulcan is my new favorite fighter

1240
01:06:33,320 --> 01:06:39,880
Speaker 1: and as such will promptly lose his next fight. Yeah maybe. Uh,

1241
01:06:40,440 --> 01:06:42,720
Speaker 1: very quiet crowd after the Alexander winn. I mean that

1242
01:06:42,800 --> 01:06:45,200
Speaker 1: was a terrible crowd in Jacksonville. Florida sucks. I mean,

1243
01:06:45,240 --> 01:06:48,400
Speaker 1: Florida's got nice parts. Get every every part of the

1244
01:06:48,400 --> 01:06:51,600
Speaker 1: world has basically nice parts, and you know, Florida's got

1245
01:06:51,600 --> 01:06:53,680
Speaker 1: some really nice parts. Like there's nice people in Florida.

1246
01:06:53,840 --> 01:06:55,960
Speaker 1: The beach is cool, there's lots to see in Florida.

1247
01:06:56,120 --> 01:06:58,360
Speaker 1: There's a lot of fucking dirt, bags in Florida too.

1248
01:06:58,360 --> 01:06:59,920
Speaker 1: He's like, Oh, how would you know, Luke, motherfucker, I've

1249
01:06:59,880 --> 01:07:02,680
Speaker 1: been there for a long time. You've been to Tallahassee, Florida.

1250
01:07:03,400 --> 01:07:09,280
Speaker 1: Plenty plenty of dirt bags in Tallahassee, Florida. You ever

1251
01:07:09,280 --> 01:07:12,040
Speaker 1: been to Pensacola? You ever been to Daytona where you

1252
01:07:12,080 --> 01:07:17,160
Speaker 1: can just drive up on the beach. Shit. Someone says

1253
01:07:17,200 --> 01:07:20,800
Speaker 1: most of the UFC's current champions don't excite me. That sucks.

1254
01:07:23,400 --> 01:07:26,440
Speaker 1: Al Jo's cardio improving so dramatically between fights. Yeah, but

1255
01:07:26,760 --> 01:07:31,480
Speaker 1: more than that, Al Joe's decision making about how to

1256
01:07:31,600 --> 01:07:39,800
Speaker 1: use it has gotten better. New graphics. I thought that

1257
01:07:39,800 --> 01:07:41,680
Speaker 1: they were great. People were like they were hating on them.

1258
01:07:41,720 --> 01:07:50,080
Speaker 1: I thought they were awesome. Apparently zombies. Translator left out

1259
01:07:50,120 --> 01:07:53,320
Speaker 1: him saying I know, I now know I can't be

1260
01:07:53,480 --> 01:07:58,640
Speaker 1: UFC champion. Jesus. That is a hard thing to say.

1261
01:08:01,720 --> 01:08:03,840
Speaker 1: So it says they want to see Sterling versus Yon again.

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Speaker 1: I would like to see Yon fight somebody else. I'm

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Speaker 1: not gonna say he shited the bed tonight, because again,

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Speaker 1: you can make a case that he won, but I

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Speaker 1: don't know. There was something about that first round that,

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Speaker 1: even if you want to score it for him, something

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Speaker 1: about a rubby the wrong way. So it says, also

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Speaker 1: Hamsa has serious cardio issues that are being overlooked. I

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Speaker 1: don't know how true that is. If he's wasting his

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Speaker 1: energy because he's not fighting efficiently, you're not really getting

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Speaker 1: an accurate look about how good his cardio is. Now.

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Speaker 1: I'm not saying it was like amazing tonight. It was

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Speaker 1: very okay, but it was just okay on top of

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Speaker 1: like all of these decisions to throw all these things

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Speaker 1: and do all this stuff that is a complete tax

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Speaker 1: that you don't need to do. Let's see what his

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Speaker 1: cardio looks like when you remove that first, and then

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Speaker 1: make a judgment call about it. So it says Hamzat

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Speaker 1: has quit in him. How can you not see that

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Speaker 1: every fighter does? Oh not my favorite fighter, Oh them too.

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Speaker 1: Is there anything in the fact that Chima I have

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Speaker 1: competed during Ramadan? Potentially? I've seen certain Muslim fighters do it,

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Speaker 1: and I've seen others not Kareem Benzema, who's not a fighter,

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Speaker 1: of course, but is the uh is the boss of

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Speaker 1: Chelsea and psg he. I think he had food and

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Speaker 1: nourishment thirteen minutes before a game recently because he was

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Speaker 1: fasting due to Ramadan, so it wasn't like he had

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Speaker 1: like a lot to fill him up. He was so

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Speaker 1: able to get it done. But these are these are

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Speaker 1: this is the show, this is where we are. Okay,

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Speaker 1: so this is my instant reacts. I appreciate you watch,

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much. You might have noticed some of

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Speaker 1: the new lighting and whatnot Showtime came over, or the

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Speaker 1: folks behind the production of Showtime came to my house

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Speaker 1: on Friday and set me up with a bunch of

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Speaker 1: new stuff, new lighting, hair light hold nine yards, so

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Speaker 1: maybe it looked better. I don't know what was your

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Speaker 1: biggest takeaway from the fight? How did you score the

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Speaker 1: hamzat Burns fight? How did you score the combine event

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Speaker 1: between Yan and Sterling. I would love to see exactly

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Speaker 1: where your scores were and why you scored it. Don't

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Speaker 1: just say two to this or three two this way

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Speaker 1: or whatever. Tell me why you scored it the way

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Speaker 1: you scored it. I want to see it. Thumbs up

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Speaker 1: on the video hit subscribe again. Thank you for being

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Speaker 1: with me here this late hour. Try to get some

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Speaker 1: sleep until next time. Yeah, let them gains. Be loyal players.