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Speaker 1: Hi, Hello everyone. Well, well, well we are live. Welcome.

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Speaker 1: My name is Luke Thomas. I am one half of

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Speaker 1: the Morning Combat hosting duo. This is our UFC two

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Speaker 1: to eighty post fight show, our instant reaction. Hope you

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Speaker 1: of your questions, and a whole lot more. I have

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Speaker 1: a lot to talk about. Wow. That was in some

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Speaker 1: ways phenomenal, in some ways anti climactic, in some ways

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Speaker 1: I have to say it because people are a little

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Speaker 1: bit silly. If you don't want spoilers, this would be

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Speaker 1: your time to go, all right, all right, So with

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Speaker 1: that in mind, let's get this party started, shall we.

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Speaker 1: We have a lot to get to, all right. Volume

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Speaker 1: should be good. Everything should be pretty good. Okay, So

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Speaker 1: here's here's the order of business. We'll go from the

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Speaker 1: main event down. We'll focus on the three main fights,

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Speaker 1: most especially, and then we'll go from there some of

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Speaker 1: the other pieces I want to talk about, But that's

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Speaker 1: basically the general idea. Okay. UFC two eighty is officially

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Speaker 1: in the books. Let's go through with this. This was,

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Speaker 1: of course, in Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates

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Speaker 1: at the Etihad Arena. In your main event, Islam Makachev

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Speaker 1: defeats Charles Olivera via arm triangle choke at three sixteen

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Speaker 1: of round two. Let me pull up with some notes

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Speaker 1: that I have that are little bit cleaner so I

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Speaker 1: can see that a little bit more easily with my

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Speaker 1: blind ass. There we go. Okay, what do we want

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Speaker 1: to say about that, folks, Let's be very very honest

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Speaker 1: about that. That that was barely competitive. That was barely competitive.

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Speaker 1: Islam Makachev had a harder time. Granted he was a

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Speaker 1: different fighter at that time, because I think he really

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Speaker 1: harder time with Thiago Moisas he I'm not gonna say

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Speaker 1: he ran through Charles oliver because that's not quite true,

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Speaker 1: but he more or less did everything he wanted to

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Speaker 1: more or less. That was certainly dominant, clear cut, no controversy.

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Speaker 1: Islam was just better. He was just better, and he

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Speaker 1: was better everywhere. It kind of counted too, mostly because

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Speaker 1: what he did was he found to found a way

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Speaker 1: to fight the fight on his terms and not Olivera's. Now,

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Speaker 1: if you follow my personal YouTube channel, which quick plug

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Speaker 1: I did an hour long breakdown of Olivera's game so

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Speaker 1: folks would have a better understanding of it. But if

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Speaker 1: you watched Friday's MK, I picked Makachev. The reality about

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Speaker 1: this matchup is that Charles Olivera has from an offensive standpoint,

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Speaker 1: significantly more tools, significantly more tools. He has way more

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Speaker 1: dynamic striking, although some of that wasn't quite present this

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Speaker 1: time based on some of the choices Islam was making,

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Speaker 1: But certainly he has a phenomenal offensive submission game and

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Speaker 1: from a lot of different areas from the back. He

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Speaker 1: He can find himself on top. He can scramble when

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Speaker 1: a lot. He's powerful on the clinch. Islam is a

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Speaker 1: much more defensively sound fighter. Right. The stats speak to this,

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Speaker 1: but the tape speaks to this as well. That first

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Speaker 1: He also does have really strong abilities, which you saw

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Speaker 1: that really is the story of this fight. Islam found

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Speaker 1: his opportunities when they presented themselves, took advantage of them,

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Speaker 1: He knew Charles was going to do that. People might

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Speaker 1: be saying, well, what's up with Charles's jumping switch knees

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Speaker 1: and jumping switch kicks, Guys, He's been throwing that for

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Speaker 1: years successfully. He landed it on Nick Lentz to his face.

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Speaker 1: it as a way to korral fighters. Islam knew it

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Speaker 1: which was to either there's different angles he was taking

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Speaker 1: whatever you want to call it, they are. And of

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Speaker 1: are excellent at game plans. And in a guy like Islam,

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Speaker 1: who is so defensively sound, doesn't ever really compromise what

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Speaker 1: not very defensively sound. I mean, that's part of the

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Speaker 1: olivera is because he has this brilliant offense where he's

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Speaker 1: around with the right hand from Islam. Markatschev. Now, candidly,

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Speaker 1: That is exactly what he did. That is exactly what

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Speaker 1: say that Charles got his ass beat or something. I

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Speaker 1: don't think that's quite right. But as electrifying and as

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Speaker 1: to be clear, I don't think any of that changes

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Speaker 1: with this today. The guys had setbacks before, and all

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Speaker 1: But the thing to me, that will not prevent him

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Speaker 1: he's got all the offense he needs. Yeah, he's got

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Speaker 1: offense for days. What he doesn't have is defensive soundness,

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Speaker 1: and that is a big problem for him. Now. Heading

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Speaker 1: and he who wins the clinch, excuse me, wins the fight? Well,

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Speaker 1: who won the clinch? Islam won the clinch? How did

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Speaker 1: Islam Makachev. What makes them so special is they have

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Speaker 1: He was just overmatched. Charles's resume is better in many ways,

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Speaker 1: Do defense wins championships? When I say defense wins championships,

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Speaker 1: what I mean is not that Islam was super, you know,

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Speaker 1: And when that happens and there isn't that requisite defense

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Speaker 1: It's a phenomenal fight. Let's look at some of the numbers.

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Speaker 1: and sixteen percent of the body. That makes some sense.

428
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Speaker 1: You would want to be targeting the head of a

429
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Speaker 1: guy who leaves those kinds of openings, and he did,

430
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Speaker 1: and there you have it. I'm looking at some of

431
00:23:00,760 --> 00:23:06,720
Speaker 1: these other numbers here, Yeah, mock excuse me, Olavera having

432
00:23:06,840 --> 00:23:10,080
Speaker 1: a total of forty two seconds of control time, the

433
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Speaker 1: vast majority of it coming from the round number one,

434
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Speaker 1: the thirty eight seconds. But of course that's where he

435
00:23:15,400 --> 00:23:20,040
Speaker 1: got thrown, and so it didn't really matter. You know,

436
00:23:20,080 --> 00:23:21,879
Speaker 1: he wasn't able to do a whole lot with it. Again,

437
00:23:22,080 --> 00:23:25,239
Speaker 1: those if you see somebody who is either good at

438
00:23:25,320 --> 00:23:28,600
Speaker 1: judo or sambo and they're being real cool and comfortable

439
00:23:28,640 --> 00:23:30,560
Speaker 1: and someone's pressing them into the fence and they've got

440
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Speaker 1: an overhook or an underhook whatever, and they're kind of

441
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Speaker 1: both upright and there maybe you know, one guy is

442
00:23:35,640 --> 00:23:37,720
Speaker 1: kneeing the other one. Guys in the other one. The

443
00:23:37,800 --> 00:23:40,240
Speaker 1: dude who is the judo orsemble guy's about to send

444
00:23:40,240 --> 00:23:44,960
Speaker 1: that other bubb before a ride. Mark this down on

445
00:23:45,040 --> 00:23:47,600
Speaker 1: tape and go back and look at my Shavkot Rochmanov

446
00:23:47,600 --> 00:23:51,439
Speaker 1: tape study. He does it all the time, all the time.

447
00:23:52,600 --> 00:23:55,520
Speaker 1: And so you had an idea about what this fight

448
00:23:55,600 --> 00:23:57,840
Speaker 1: was going to be, and I think this was about

449
00:23:57,880 --> 00:24:00,399
Speaker 1: as close to best case scenario for Islam as he

450
00:24:00,480 --> 00:24:04,520
Speaker 1: honestly could have expected won the clinch battle in large part.

451
00:24:04,760 --> 00:24:06,679
Speaker 1: In large part, obviously, there was a couple of shots

452
00:24:06,680 --> 00:24:11,640
Speaker 1: that sneaked through for Charles frankly won on the feet

453
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Speaker 1: at distance, which I can't believe I'm saying that part

454
00:24:13,800 --> 00:24:18,040
Speaker 1: is surprising, certainly. But then once he dropped him, while

455
00:24:18,359 --> 00:24:21,640
Speaker 1: guys like Chandler, you know, didn't want to necessarily get

456
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Speaker 1: in their guard and they wanted to get away or

457
00:24:26,000 --> 00:24:29,439
Speaker 1: justin Gaechee for example, you know, a guy like Islam

458
00:24:29,480 --> 00:24:32,159
Speaker 1: has no problems following him down there, and did it

459
00:24:32,200 --> 00:24:35,879
Speaker 1: in a way where he could advance position carefully, like

460
00:24:35,920 --> 00:24:38,040
Speaker 1: he didn't try to advance position. Like what's another reason

461
00:24:38,040 --> 00:24:39,680
Speaker 1: why you would go for the head and arm triangle

462
00:24:40,040 --> 00:24:44,480
Speaker 1: without necessarily having your like like why you wouldn't start

463
00:24:44,480 --> 00:24:45,960
Speaker 1: from side. The other part is, of course, as I

464
00:24:46,000 --> 00:24:47,320
Speaker 1: just mentioned, like you don't want to wait to get

465
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Speaker 1: to a position and then do it. But the other

466
00:24:49,160 --> 00:24:52,040
Speaker 1: part is one of the benefits of that particular attack

467
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Speaker 1: which he did, which remember he's locked in half guard

468
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Speaker 1: and he's going for the head and arm triangle right

469
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Speaker 1: the head that excuse me, the arm that comes under

470
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Speaker 1: the head is the one palm down right, so here

471
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Speaker 1: he is. The reason why you want to do that

472
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Speaker 1: is because you can control their head before you make

473
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Speaker 1: that final move. John Danaher talks about what's one of

474
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Speaker 1: the benefits of half guard. There's pluses and there's minuses,

475
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Speaker 1: but one of the benefits of half guard passing can

476
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Speaker 1: be that you can control the head in ways where

477
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Speaker 1: if you're just mobile Torreondo passing, for example, you cannot

478
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Speaker 1: right you don't have access to it. So he had

479
00:25:23,480 --> 00:25:25,280
Speaker 1: a situation where he was able to lock up the

480
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Speaker 1: head and the arm, but certainly to control Why would

481
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Speaker 1: you want the head control for folks that man knows

482
00:25:30,440 --> 00:25:33,359
Speaker 1: it's one end of the spine, right, So if their

483
00:25:33,440 --> 00:25:35,280
Speaker 1: hips are flat on the ground, you've got control of

484
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Speaker 1: their head. By virtue of whatever you're doing, you are

485
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Speaker 1: at least putting and exerting some control at both ends

486
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Speaker 1: of the spine that will limit their movement. And so

487
00:25:43,800 --> 00:25:46,200
Speaker 1: he goes to half guard, locks it up there, and

488
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Speaker 1: then moves. So we're already talking about the fact that

489
00:25:48,160 --> 00:25:49,720
Speaker 1: he set up the sub before he even moved to

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Speaker 1: the final position to secure it. And then the other

491
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Speaker 1: part is of course that he had control of Charles's

492
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Speaker 1: head and neck which enable him to safely move to

493
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Speaker 1: that position, and all I did was just steal the

494
00:26:04,600 --> 00:26:07,280
Speaker 1: choke once he got there. Yeah, dude, that's a good

495
00:26:07,280 --> 00:26:10,359
Speaker 1: fucking fighter. Islam Makachev is a very good fighter. I

496
00:26:10,400 --> 00:26:12,600
Speaker 1: still think he looked a little vulnerable on the feet.

497
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Speaker 1: They keep talking about his stand up like it's like,

498
00:26:15,359 --> 00:26:18,080
Speaker 1: you know, it's just as good as his ground game.

499
00:26:18,520 --> 00:26:20,480
Speaker 1: I'm still skeptical of that. I don't really buy that,

500
00:26:20,600 --> 00:26:22,520
Speaker 1: to be quite honest with you, I don't see much

501
00:26:22,560 --> 00:26:27,520
Speaker 1: evidence of it currently. But be that as it may,

502
00:26:28,359 --> 00:26:31,040
Speaker 1: everything else about his game looked pretty magnificent. Let me

503
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Speaker 1: see if I have some other notes here from what happened. Yeah,

504
00:26:34,040 --> 00:26:35,440
Speaker 1: I was a left straight in the first round, and

505
00:26:35,440 --> 00:26:37,880
Speaker 1: it was the Hariraigoshi that he got the right hand

506
00:26:37,920 --> 00:26:39,400
Speaker 1: flor of him in the second round, and then that's

507
00:26:39,440 --> 00:26:45,080
Speaker 1: the rest of the game. Defensive soundness is is key.

508
00:26:45,119 --> 00:26:47,919
Speaker 1: Defense wins championships, right. I don't know if I finished

509
00:26:47,920 --> 00:26:49,520
Speaker 1: my ray Lewis thing, but that's what they said about

510
00:26:49,520 --> 00:26:53,040
Speaker 1: the Ravens at the time. Defense wins championships doesn't mean

511
00:26:53,040 --> 00:26:55,200
Speaker 1: you're just shelling up all the time. It just means

512
00:26:55,320 --> 00:26:58,199
Speaker 1: you don't give the same kinds in this particular context anyway.

513
00:26:58,480 --> 00:27:01,800
Speaker 1: You don't give the same kind of offensive, easy offensive

514
00:27:01,800 --> 00:27:04,280
Speaker 1: opportunities do Charles as which you kind of have to admit,

515
00:27:04,359 --> 00:27:08,320
Speaker 1: Charles gave him a lot of easy opportunities, right with

516
00:27:08,320 --> 00:27:11,400
Speaker 1: with some of the ways in which he attacks. It's

517
00:27:11,520 --> 00:27:14,800
Speaker 1: for a guy which he was going up against. You know,

518
00:27:14,960 --> 00:27:17,439
Speaker 1: here's the other part, Like Islam looked like he was

519
00:27:17,520 --> 00:27:21,520
Speaker 1: fighting a game plan for Charles. I did not see

520
00:27:21,560 --> 00:27:23,840
Speaker 1: a ton of evidence that Charles was fighting a game

521
00:27:23,880 --> 00:27:28,399
Speaker 1: plan for Islam. And I don't know if that's just

522
00:27:28,440 --> 00:27:30,880
Speaker 1: because of what Markachev was able to do and then

523
00:27:30,920 --> 00:27:32,960
Speaker 1: diffuse it and it just looked that way and that's

524
00:27:32,960 --> 00:27:36,840
Speaker 1: not really true, or if it's a function of that.

525
00:27:36,960 --> 00:27:38,720
Speaker 1: Charles just kind of has one way to fight and

526
00:27:38,800 --> 00:27:42,080
Speaker 1: then because he has so many offensive tools, he just

527
00:27:42,160 --> 00:27:44,240
Speaker 1: lets those come to life and then you know, eventually

528
00:27:44,520 --> 00:27:47,280
Speaker 1: they just overtake the opponent. It's hard to say, but

529
00:27:49,080 --> 00:27:51,560
Speaker 1: that's the story of that fight. Folks. When you see

530
00:27:51,560 --> 00:27:54,360
Speaker 1: a guy who barely gets hit, who has lights out

531
00:27:54,400 --> 00:27:58,639
Speaker 1: takedown defense, is good at wrestling, relatively young, and has

532
00:27:58,680 --> 00:28:01,399
Speaker 1: a great team, you should be careful about picking against

533
00:28:01,400 --> 00:28:05,639
Speaker 1: that guy. He should be very, very careful and against Volkanovsky,

534
00:28:05,680 --> 00:28:07,040
Speaker 1: I'd have to think about it. I haven't given that

535
00:28:07,040 --> 00:28:16,840
Speaker 1: fight much consideration, but if Volkanovski wrestles with him, that

536
00:28:16,880 --> 00:28:19,520
Speaker 1: could be bad. Although I think Volkanowski is strong enough,

537
00:28:19,520 --> 00:28:21,760
Speaker 1: I don't think he's got the same level of technique

538
00:28:22,480 --> 00:28:24,440
Speaker 1: in a lot of those spaces, so that could be

539
00:28:24,520 --> 00:28:26,800
Speaker 1: kind of interesting. I do think he'll have you know what,

540
00:28:27,080 --> 00:28:29,120
Speaker 1: Volkanovsky can knock his ass out on the feet. He's

541
00:28:29,160 --> 00:28:34,080
Speaker 1: got big power. Well that's not quite true. I think

542
00:28:34,119 --> 00:28:36,760
Speaker 1: he'll have more power at one fifty five, let me

543
00:28:36,800 --> 00:28:41,720
Speaker 1: correct the record there, And with his fainting and whatnot,

544
00:28:41,840 --> 00:28:44,400
Speaker 1: he should be able to confuse him. The question is,

545
00:28:44,760 --> 00:28:47,240
Speaker 1: if Islam is able to make contact, how easily could

546
00:28:47,280 --> 00:28:50,520
Speaker 1: Volkanovsky fight him off. That's the part we haven't really

547
00:28:50,520 --> 00:28:53,800
Speaker 1: seen because Max Holloway couldn't really get takedowns established, but

548
00:28:53,840 --> 00:28:56,200
Speaker 1: he was able to make contact. And if he can

549
00:28:56,280 --> 00:28:58,720
Speaker 1: make contact, you would imagine a guy like Islam could

550
00:28:58,760 --> 00:29:00,600
Speaker 1: as well. But if they do that fight in Australia,

551
00:29:00,600 --> 00:29:02,920
Speaker 1: that'd be huge. So I guess we'll have to see.

552
00:29:02,920 --> 00:29:04,760
Speaker 1: We'll talk about that more at a later date. But

553
00:29:08,240 --> 00:29:11,880
Speaker 1: pretty remarkable, pretty remarkable. Let me turn this on here

554
00:29:11,920 --> 00:29:15,360
Speaker 1: real quick. As I asked for subscribe subscriptions. Subscribe, subscribe,

555
00:29:15,360 --> 00:29:20,920
Speaker 1: subscribe if you haven't already. Okay, we do these for free.

556
00:29:23,520 --> 00:29:25,240
Speaker 1: We take a look at the feet. Everything looking good,

557
00:29:25,320 --> 00:29:29,880
Speaker 1: Yes we are okay, all right. I am not sure

558
00:29:29,960 --> 00:29:31,960
Speaker 1: we'll come back to us with your questions. So I'm

559
00:29:32,520 --> 00:29:34,200
Speaker 1: not done with the main event, but I'm done for

560
00:29:34,280 --> 00:29:38,440
Speaker 1: just the moment. Let's talk about that Comaine. There's actually

561
00:29:38,440 --> 00:29:40,280
Speaker 1: more to the story than you might imagine. Okay, al

562
00:29:40,320 --> 00:29:44,400
Speaker 1: Jamain Sterling retains his title and defeats TJ. Dillashaw. Now,

563
00:29:44,440 --> 00:29:47,600
Speaker 1: technically what goes into the record books would be that

564
00:29:47,640 --> 00:29:49,840
Speaker 1: he won via TKO. He had him from the back,

565
00:29:49,880 --> 00:29:53,080
Speaker 1: I believe at three forty four round two. Here's the

566
00:29:53,120 --> 00:29:59,920
Speaker 1: real story of this fight, guys. Okay, TJ. Dillashaw basic

567
00:30:00,440 --> 00:30:03,480
Speaker 1: had his arm dislocated off the first takedown attempt and

568
00:30:04,000 --> 00:30:07,880
Speaker 1: was a one winged fighter for the rest of that fight.

569
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Speaker 1: They were able to roll his shoulder his fight, or

570
00:30:10,600 --> 00:30:12,600
Speaker 1: they were able to roll his arm back into the

571
00:30:12,680 --> 00:30:16,720
Speaker 1: socket relatively easily. It looked like between the first and

572
00:30:16,800 --> 00:30:19,400
Speaker 1: second rounds, but then it just came right back out

573
00:30:19,480 --> 00:30:21,120
Speaker 1: ladies and gentlemen, if you've been following me for a

574
00:30:21,160 --> 00:30:23,200
Speaker 1: long time, then you already know what I'm about to say,

575
00:30:23,720 --> 00:30:26,080
Speaker 1: which is that I had laborum surgery on this left

576
00:30:26,080 --> 00:30:28,160
Speaker 1: shoulder in May of two thousand and nine. I am

577
00:30:28,240 --> 00:30:30,680
Speaker 1: left handed, so this was something that I was very

578
00:30:30,720 --> 00:30:34,120
Speaker 1: concerned about. I tore my laborum lifting weights like a moron,

579
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Speaker 1: and so it was so bad that my shoulder was

580
00:30:36,960 --> 00:30:38,320
Speaker 1: kind of not all the way, but it was kind

581
00:30:38,320 --> 00:30:41,040
Speaker 1: of popping out a little bit in my sleep, and

582
00:30:41,080 --> 00:30:43,680
Speaker 1: it did pop out one or two times in different

583
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Speaker 1: circumstances before I was able to get surgery. It's excruciatingly painful.

584
00:30:47,160 --> 00:30:48,760
Speaker 1: We talked about this with the Aaron Pico fight, which,

585
00:30:48,800 --> 00:30:50,720
Speaker 1: by the way, they referenced on the broadcast. Thought that

586
00:30:50,800 --> 00:30:57,280
Speaker 1: was amazing. I cannot overstate this to you. Okay, when

587
00:30:57,280 --> 00:31:00,560
Speaker 1: they repaired my laborum, they did something very purposefully, and

588
00:31:00,600 --> 00:31:02,600
Speaker 1: the guy who did it was a surgeon at the

589
00:31:02,640 --> 00:31:06,920
Speaker 1: time for the then Washington Redskins, the local NFL team.

590
00:31:06,920 --> 00:31:09,440
Speaker 1: They're now the Washington Commanders. It's a different story, but

591
00:31:09,480 --> 00:31:12,680
Speaker 1: we're talking about a very accomplished orthopedic surgeon, and I

592
00:31:12,720 --> 00:31:14,280
Speaker 1: want you to pay attention to something right here, I'm

593
00:31:14,280 --> 00:31:15,640
Speaker 1: gonna put my I'll see if icking back up a

594
00:31:15,680 --> 00:31:17,560
Speaker 1: little bit and you can. Well, I gotta keep the

595
00:31:17,600 --> 00:31:20,719
Speaker 1: mic in front of me. But watch this. They purposely

596
00:31:20,800 --> 00:31:25,720
Speaker 1: told me that when once your joint integrity is compromised

597
00:31:25,720 --> 00:31:29,240
Speaker 1: for whatever reason, mine was the labrum being torn, that

598
00:31:29,400 --> 00:31:31,720
Speaker 1: the shoulder is never the same afterwards. So what they

599
00:31:31,760 --> 00:31:34,720
Speaker 1: do is when they repair it, they stitch it even

600
00:31:34,880 --> 00:31:38,080
Speaker 1: tighter so that it stays in place, because otherwise, if

601
00:31:38,120 --> 00:31:40,680
Speaker 1: they tried to just repeat the level of security that

602
00:31:40,720 --> 00:31:43,720
Speaker 1: you had before, it will just go out again. So

603
00:31:43,800 --> 00:31:46,040
Speaker 1: if you watch, when I turn my hands up, this

604
00:31:46,080 --> 00:31:48,400
Speaker 1: is the this is the arm I had the surgery on.

605
00:31:49,000 --> 00:31:53,440
Speaker 1: I can go about that far right, I can't. I

606
00:31:53,440 --> 00:31:55,680
Speaker 1: can't don't have any more mobility. So I've got like

607
00:31:55,760 --> 00:31:58,760
Speaker 1: this much that much mobility. This is my other arm.

608
00:31:58,800 --> 00:32:05,320
Speaker 1: Watch this. Okay, they purposely sew this one so tight

609
00:32:05,400 --> 00:32:08,240
Speaker 1: that you lose mobility. But I have not had any

610
00:32:08,240 --> 00:32:11,160
Speaker 1: subsequent issues. It doesn't work quite the same as it

611
00:32:11,200 --> 00:32:13,160
Speaker 1: once did, but it can do basically whatever I want

612
00:32:13,160 --> 00:32:16,760
Speaker 1: it to, all right, he said in the post fight speech.

613
00:32:16,800 --> 00:32:18,760
Speaker 1: After this disaster of a fight was stopped, and it

614
00:32:18,760 --> 00:32:24,000
Speaker 1: should have been stopped between rounds. He said that in

615
00:32:24,040 --> 00:32:27,440
Speaker 1: the camp his shoulder had popped out probably close to

616
00:32:27,480 --> 00:32:33,160
Speaker 1: twenty times. When I heard that, I was like, oh, okay. Now,

617
00:32:33,560 --> 00:32:35,840
Speaker 1: as you may or may not have ascertained by this point,

618
00:32:35,960 --> 00:32:38,480
Speaker 1: I am not a medical professional, So what I'm about

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Speaker 1: to tell you is my conjecture. My conjecture is that

620
00:32:42,200 --> 00:32:47,680
Speaker 1: he is fucked. Okay, If you have ground that shoulder

621
00:32:48,120 --> 00:32:51,480
Speaker 1: to dust to the point where it falls out as

622
00:32:51,520 --> 00:32:54,560
Speaker 1: easily as it has been, and you can roll it

623
00:32:54,640 --> 00:32:56,480
Speaker 1: back in that easily, and then it pops out again

624
00:32:56,520 --> 00:32:59,560
Speaker 1: that easily, there is a very good case to be made.

625
00:32:59,560 --> 00:33:03,720
Speaker 1: Your shold will never be the same again. Okay. Surgery

626
00:33:03,760 --> 00:33:06,280
Speaker 1: appears to be a foregone conclusion. By the way, he

627
00:33:06,320 --> 00:33:10,360
Speaker 1: already had both shoulders surgically repaired, which was something he

628
00:33:10,400 --> 00:33:12,840
Speaker 1: was saying would was the benefit of the suspension from

629
00:33:12,840 --> 00:33:14,400
Speaker 1: you side, and not that it was a good thing,

630
00:33:14,800 --> 00:33:16,800
Speaker 1: but that if there was some silver lining, is that

631
00:33:16,840 --> 00:33:20,680
Speaker 1: he finally had some time to address some long standing issues. Dude,

632
00:33:20,760 --> 00:33:23,240
Speaker 1: that shoulder of his, that left shoulder of his, is fucked.

633
00:33:23,640 --> 00:33:28,200
Speaker 1: It's fucked, super fucked. Very good chance it won't be

634
00:33:28,240 --> 00:33:30,400
Speaker 1: the same again. And more to that point there could

635
00:33:30,440 --> 00:33:33,200
Speaker 1: be some long term quality of life issues associated with it.

636
00:33:33,240 --> 00:33:35,560
Speaker 1: You cannot do that to your I mean you understand,

637
00:33:35,560 --> 00:33:38,560
Speaker 1: the shoulder is a very complex joint. It Look how

638
00:33:38,640 --> 00:33:41,760
Speaker 1: many different directions your elbow can move. Mine's a little

639
00:33:41,760 --> 00:33:43,640
Speaker 1: bit limited here. I can't go much further than that

640
00:33:44,000 --> 00:33:46,520
Speaker 1: relative to that, but you get the idea like it's

641
00:33:46,600 --> 00:33:49,000
Speaker 1: designed to go up, it's designed to go latterly, it

642
00:33:49,040 --> 00:33:51,680
Speaker 1: could even go back a little bit right. It's a

643
00:33:51,760 --> 00:33:54,680
Speaker 1: very complex joint and all of the pieces have to

644
00:33:54,680 --> 00:33:56,560
Speaker 1: be in place for that to work. If your shoulder

645
00:33:56,640 --> 00:34:01,320
Speaker 1: is that fucked and that loose due I hope he

646
00:34:01,400 --> 00:34:06,560
Speaker 1: has a very, very very good orthopedic surgeon, because he's

647
00:34:06,600 --> 00:34:09,600
Speaker 1: gonna be thirty seven at a bare minimum by the

648
00:34:09,600 --> 00:34:11,759
Speaker 1: time he comes back right when and by the way,

649
00:34:11,800 --> 00:34:14,799
Speaker 1: look at TJ. Dillashaw's let me finish the point. There'll

650
00:34:14,800 --> 00:34:16,719
Speaker 1: be thirty seven by the time he comes back with

651
00:34:16,800 --> 00:34:20,960
Speaker 1: a badly fucked up shoulder in the bantamweight division at

652
00:34:21,000 --> 00:34:23,440
Speaker 1: one hundred and thirty five pounds. To this point I

653
00:34:23,480 --> 00:34:26,120
Speaker 1: want to make about TJ. Listen to how inconsistent he

654
00:34:26,120 --> 00:34:27,799
Speaker 1: has been just in terms of his ability to make

655
00:34:27,840 --> 00:34:30,279
Speaker 1: it to the octagon right now. He did fight three

656
00:34:30,280 --> 00:34:33,760
Speaker 1: times in twenty sixteen, that's great. Fought once in twenty seventeen,

657
00:34:34,040 --> 00:34:37,160
Speaker 1: fought once in twenty eighteen, fought once in twenty nineteen,

658
00:34:37,239 --> 00:34:40,240
Speaker 1: then got popped, missed two years, fought once in twenty

659
00:34:40,239 --> 00:34:43,200
Speaker 1: twenty one, and now we'll have fought once in twenty

660
00:34:43,239 --> 00:34:45,879
Speaker 1: twenty two. He might fight again in twenty twenty three,

661
00:34:45,920 --> 00:34:53,040
Speaker 1: but probably in the third or fourth quarter. That that

662
00:34:53,120 --> 00:34:57,799
Speaker 1: was a bad decision. Okay. I'm not a manager for

663
00:34:57,880 --> 00:35:00,120
Speaker 1: these guys. I'm not a coach for these guys, and

664
00:35:00,160 --> 00:35:03,680
Speaker 1: so my opinion is not what they're asking for. I'm

665
00:35:03,719 --> 00:35:07,560
Speaker 1: telling you my opinion, for whatever that is worth is

666
00:35:07,560 --> 00:35:09,680
Speaker 1: they made a mistake sending him out there. They made

667
00:35:09,680 --> 00:35:12,600
Speaker 1: a mistake. If your shoulder is that fucked, you need

668
00:35:12,640 --> 00:35:15,279
Speaker 1: to get it medically addressed, right of way, right away.

669
00:35:15,280 --> 00:35:18,080
Speaker 1: Excuse me, because I'm gonna say it one more time.

670
00:35:18,120 --> 00:35:19,600
Speaker 1: And I know folks don't ever think about this, but

671
00:35:19,640 --> 00:35:21,319
Speaker 1: look at my gray hair. I didn't have gray hair

672
00:35:21,360 --> 00:35:23,640
Speaker 1: when I started this job, right I started doing this

673
00:35:23,719 --> 00:35:26,600
Speaker 1: job in my twenties. I'm now forty three. There will

674
00:35:26,640 --> 00:35:29,120
Speaker 1: be a time in your life when all that fun

675
00:35:29,200 --> 00:35:31,719
Speaker 1: athletic shit is over. Not that I was some kind

676
00:35:31,719 --> 00:35:34,239
Speaker 1: of I never had that career, but I'm saying at

677
00:35:34,239 --> 00:35:36,880
Speaker 1: forty three, you're not going to be a bantamweight elite guy. Right,

678
00:35:36,920 --> 00:35:40,000
Speaker 1: we can all agree there, and that's going to be

679
00:35:40,000 --> 00:35:42,880
Speaker 1: behind you. And now you have to live the next

680
00:35:42,920 --> 00:35:45,919
Speaker 1: part of your life with fucked up knees, fucked up back,

681
00:35:46,160 --> 00:35:47,960
Speaker 1: fucked up. Who knows what happens to your brain from

682
00:35:48,000 --> 00:35:51,440
Speaker 1: all of this, and now your shoulder on top is

683
00:35:51,480 --> 00:35:53,600
Speaker 1: going to be a disaster. They should have pulled him

684
00:35:53,600 --> 00:35:55,040
Speaker 1: from that fight. Here's another reason why the should have

685
00:35:55,040 --> 00:35:58,560
Speaker 1: pulled in from the fight. He apologized, which I appreciated

686
00:35:59,000 --> 00:36:02,040
Speaker 1: after the fight, saying, you know, I held a spot

687
00:36:02,080 --> 00:36:06,080
Speaker 1: and you know, if your shoulder was that damaged, you

688
00:36:06,280 --> 00:36:10,239
Speaker 1: were never going to beat al Jamaine Sterling. It was

689
00:36:10,360 --> 00:36:14,839
Speaker 1: never gonna happen. One in a hundred billion chances that

690
00:36:14,840 --> 00:36:16,800
Speaker 1: that happens. And what did you see, by the way,

691
00:36:17,000 --> 00:36:20,040
Speaker 1: by the way, before his shoulder was even fucked what

692
00:36:20,120 --> 00:36:23,400
Speaker 1: did you know was gonna happen? TJ has amazing kicks

693
00:36:23,480 --> 00:36:26,920
Speaker 1: right to control space, But dude, what is the number

694
00:36:27,080 --> 00:36:31,520
Speaker 1: one fucking takedown set up for Al Jamaine Sterling? It's

695
00:36:31,560 --> 00:36:35,160
Speaker 1: the single leg. I put out multiple videos on this

696
00:36:35,400 --> 00:36:38,879
Speaker 1: four MK on this particular issue and how TJ has

697
00:36:38,880 --> 00:36:42,880
Speaker 1: a problem getting his kicks caught and al Jamaine Sterling

698
00:36:42,960 --> 00:36:45,319
Speaker 1: is good at catching them and loves the single leg.

699
00:36:45,400 --> 00:36:49,600
Speaker 1: It's the first fucking thing that happened. They sent him

700
00:36:49,640 --> 00:36:54,080
Speaker 1: out there unable to win. They sent him out there

701
00:36:54,160 --> 00:36:58,680
Speaker 1: unable to win. He never had a realistic shot at that,

702
00:36:59,560 --> 00:37:02,720
Speaker 1: never if that's how bad it was, where you can't

703
00:37:02,760 --> 00:37:06,480
Speaker 1: even hit mits. They said he couldn't even hit mits

704
00:37:06,640 --> 00:37:10,400
Speaker 1: in the uh dressing room. You can't even hit mits?

705
00:37:10,440 --> 00:37:13,359
Speaker 1: What the fuck are you doing in a fight like that?

706
00:37:13,400 --> 00:37:16,960
Speaker 1: You don't You don't have a prayer. At his best,

707
00:37:17,200 --> 00:37:20,360
Speaker 1: could he have beaten al Joe? Sure, the odds were close.

708
00:37:21,120 --> 00:37:22,480
Speaker 1: He might have been the favorite at some point. I

709
00:37:22,480 --> 00:37:23,920
Speaker 1: don't remember how it was, but at a bare minimum

710
00:37:23,920 --> 00:37:27,160
Speaker 1: he was like either a slight favorite or a slight underdog. Sure, sure,

711
00:37:27,320 --> 00:37:31,120
Speaker 1: absolutely absolutely he's a high quality fighter, no doubt about it.

712
00:37:31,440 --> 00:37:34,960
Speaker 1: But with your shoulder like that, you know you don't

713
00:37:35,000 --> 00:37:37,959
Speaker 1: have a prayer. You cannot beat Algebein Sterling with one

714
00:37:38,120 --> 00:37:42,040
Speaker 1: arm and not just one arm pain that it's causing you,

715
00:37:42,080 --> 00:37:44,800
Speaker 1: And like how it messes up your posture and everything.

716
00:37:47,040 --> 00:37:50,759
Speaker 1: And they sent him out there. They sent him out there, Oh,

717
00:37:50,760 --> 00:37:53,000
Speaker 1: because I don't know if we'll be back here again. Dude,

718
00:37:53,120 --> 00:37:56,520
Speaker 1: At some point, this career is gonna end. It's gonna

719
00:37:56,560 --> 00:37:58,799
Speaker 1: end for all of them. No one fights forever. It's

720
00:37:58,840 --> 00:38:02,120
Speaker 1: not possible. And by the way, two rules about fighting.

721
00:38:02,600 --> 00:38:05,560
Speaker 1: Number One, the end is inevitable, and two it might

722
00:38:05,600 --> 00:38:09,480
Speaker 1: happen sooner than you think. Okay, And once that's over.

723
00:38:10,480 --> 00:38:12,960
Speaker 1: Once that's over, you now have the rest of your

724
00:38:13,000 --> 00:38:15,960
Speaker 1: life that you have to live. And I know that

725
00:38:16,000 --> 00:38:17,600
Speaker 1: people when they're twenty three that are like, yeah, I

726
00:38:17,640 --> 00:38:19,919
Speaker 1: would give anything so that I could achieve the most

727
00:38:19,960 --> 00:38:22,440
Speaker 1: athletic glory. That all sounds nice when you're in your twenties.

728
00:38:22,560 --> 00:38:25,200
Speaker 1: Repeat that shit to me when you're forty five, that

729
00:38:25,280 --> 00:38:27,640
Speaker 1: you don't regret some of those decisions. Repeat that shit

730
00:38:27,680 --> 00:38:29,759
Speaker 1: to me when you're full. Oh yeah, you know, I'm

731
00:38:29,800 --> 00:38:31,960
Speaker 1: so glad that I can. I can't raise my hand

732
00:38:32,000 --> 00:38:37,480
Speaker 1: over my head because I pursued these athletic dreams, like

733
00:38:39,440 --> 00:38:41,560
Speaker 1: you know, and for what like there was never if

734
00:38:41,560 --> 00:38:44,280
Speaker 1: there was like a reasonable chance at victory despite the injury,

735
00:38:44,680 --> 00:38:47,319
Speaker 1: then fine, But you go back to Thiago Santos as well,

736
00:38:47,480 --> 00:38:49,600
Speaker 1: fucks up both of his knees in the John Jones fight.

737
00:38:49,640 --> 00:38:52,080
Speaker 1: They should have pulled it, they didn't. He has I

738
00:38:52,080 --> 00:38:54,040
Speaker 1: think one win or whatever it was after that, but

739
00:38:54,080 --> 00:38:58,920
Speaker 1: it's basically not the same guy ever since, right, Like,

740
00:38:58,920 --> 00:39:03,640
Speaker 1: what the you should again my opinion, I'm not an

741
00:39:03,760 --> 00:39:06,520
Speaker 1: MMA coach, I'm not an MMA manager, I'm none of

742
00:39:06,520 --> 00:39:09,279
Speaker 1: those things. But in my opinion, having watched this shit

743
00:39:09,440 --> 00:39:12,920
Speaker 1: for a very long time, if your guy doesn't have

744
00:39:12,960 --> 00:39:16,919
Speaker 1: a reasonable chance at victory, do not send him out there.

745
00:39:17,880 --> 00:39:19,440
Speaker 1: And you know, all he ended up doing was just

746
00:39:19,480 --> 00:39:21,239
Speaker 1: taking a bit of a beaten from Algae. It wasn't

747
00:39:21,280 --> 00:39:24,080
Speaker 1: a tremendous one, but all of it was unnecessary, all

748
00:39:24,120 --> 00:39:28,319
Speaker 1: of it, and it got dislocated a fucking again, you know.

749
00:39:28,360 --> 00:39:30,600
Speaker 1: And then it brings up these questions like the UFC

750
00:39:30,640 --> 00:39:32,320
Speaker 1: knew this and they just let it go. Remember I

751
00:39:32,400 --> 00:39:35,560
Speaker 1: think I believe they're self regulating Abu Dhabi. I would

752
00:39:35,560 --> 00:39:38,279
Speaker 1: need to double check that. But also like it just

753
00:39:38,280 --> 00:39:42,920
Speaker 1: shows you how worthless these pre fight medical examinations are. Now,

754
00:39:43,000 --> 00:39:45,680
Speaker 1: I'll defend the doctors there a little bit, which is

755
00:39:45,719 --> 00:39:51,080
Speaker 1: that if you aren't honest with your doctor, it's very

756
00:39:51,080 --> 00:39:53,440
Speaker 1: difficult for them to know what to do with you.

757
00:39:53,520 --> 00:39:56,360
Speaker 1: Imagine you had some kind of ailment, But I said,

758
00:39:56,440 --> 00:40:00,319
Speaker 1: go into the er and pretend you have no problem.

759
00:40:00,480 --> 00:40:03,000
Speaker 1: Let them screen you, and if you make it out,

760
00:40:03,000 --> 00:40:05,840
Speaker 1: I'll give you a million dollars. You could probably do

761
00:40:05,880 --> 00:40:08,400
Speaker 1: it unless you had like super elevated blood pressure or

762
00:40:08,400 --> 00:40:10,399
Speaker 1: there's blood shooting out of your head. But if it's

763
00:40:10,400 --> 00:40:12,040
Speaker 1: some kind of internal injury that you can kind of

764
00:40:12,080 --> 00:40:14,520
Speaker 1: camouflage or just pretend it's not there for five to

765
00:40:14,520 --> 00:40:18,160
Speaker 1: ten minutes. Yeah, Like, what what is the doctor really

766
00:40:18,200 --> 00:40:20,680
Speaker 1: going to do? So I understand and I'm sympathetic with that.

767
00:40:21,120 --> 00:40:22,600
Speaker 1: So this is where it falls back on the people

768
00:40:22,600 --> 00:40:25,120
Speaker 1: around him and TJ himself, like, dude, what are you

769
00:40:25,320 --> 00:40:30,160
Speaker 1: thinking You're gonna fight a five round fight against the

770
00:40:30,239 --> 00:40:34,759
Speaker 1: bantamweight champion with one arm? Like what what what do

771
00:40:34,800 --> 00:40:38,560
Speaker 1: you think? No? No, of course that's no, that's not

772
00:40:38,600 --> 00:40:42,000
Speaker 1: going to happen at all. Uh And it still did,

773
00:40:42,440 --> 00:40:45,480
Speaker 1: and it still did. Just a travesty. That was a

774
00:40:45,520 --> 00:40:47,600
Speaker 1: waste of the fans time, That was a waste of

775
00:40:47,600 --> 00:40:50,759
Speaker 1: the fans money, That was a waste of Aljamain Sterling's time.

776
00:40:51,320 --> 00:40:53,799
Speaker 1: That was frankly a waste of TJ. Dillashaw's time, and

777
00:40:53,880 --> 00:40:56,040
Speaker 1: he got yet more damage to the shoulder as a

778
00:40:56,040 --> 00:40:58,040
Speaker 1: consequence for it. That was just a disaster all the

779
00:40:58,040 --> 00:41:01,359
Speaker 1: way around. People didn't pay for that. You know, there

780
00:41:01,360 --> 00:41:03,320
Speaker 1: should be some kind of a partial refund, to be

781
00:41:03,400 --> 00:41:05,319
Speaker 1: quite honest with you, like how you can just let

782
00:41:05,360 --> 00:41:09,319
Speaker 1: this happen, you know, Oh, well, just you know, we'll

783
00:41:09,320 --> 00:41:11,440
Speaker 1: dig through and we'll find a way. No the fuck

784
00:41:11,880 --> 00:41:16,680
Speaker 1: you won't. No, you won't. No, you won't, No, you won't.

785
00:41:17,800 --> 00:41:21,359
Speaker 1: You have to have the ability, the reasonable ability, to

786
00:41:21,400 --> 00:41:23,800
Speaker 1: be able to win. Contrast that with what Eric Nixon

787
00:41:23,840 --> 00:41:26,040
Speaker 1: told me on Friday, which was that they thought they

788
00:41:26,040 --> 00:41:27,759
Speaker 1: were gonna have to pull out Francis from the Serial

789
00:41:27,840 --> 00:41:30,279
Speaker 1: Gone fight, and then once they took the brace off,

790
00:41:30,320 --> 00:41:33,279
Speaker 1: he actually fought really well and was pretty good to go.

791
00:41:33,920 --> 00:41:37,080
Speaker 1: And he may have been in pain during the fight,

792
00:41:37,239 --> 00:41:40,000
Speaker 1: but he never had the knee fully compromised. He was

793
00:41:40,000 --> 00:41:43,600
Speaker 1: still able to move somewhat off of it. That's still

794
00:41:43,640 --> 00:41:47,240
Speaker 1: a slim chance, but that's I can kind of squint

795
00:41:47,320 --> 00:41:51,560
Speaker 1: and see that one. This you can't even hit pads

796
00:41:51,680 --> 00:41:57,920
Speaker 1: in the dressing room. I mean, these are not the

797
00:41:58,080 --> 00:42:02,800
Speaker 1: ingredients for success. These are not the ingredients for success.

798
00:42:02,840 --> 00:42:06,800
Speaker 1: And the fans and al Jamaine and everyone else deserves

799
00:42:06,800 --> 00:42:09,680
Speaker 1: better than that, quite honestly, if you're not prepared for

800
00:42:09,719 --> 00:42:13,840
Speaker 1: this contest, don't waste anyone's fucking time. And I get it, like,

801
00:42:13,920 --> 00:42:15,440
Speaker 1: I may never come back here. I have to take

802
00:42:15,440 --> 00:42:17,520
Speaker 1: advantage of every opportunity. Blah blah blah. You're not taking

803
00:42:17,520 --> 00:42:21,160
Speaker 1: advantage of anything in those circumstances. You're using the opportunity,

804
00:42:21,600 --> 00:42:25,600
Speaker 1: but you're not taking advantage of anything you have. There's

805
00:42:25,680 --> 00:42:28,640
Speaker 1: there's nothing to take advantage of. You are so hobbled

806
00:42:29,040 --> 00:42:32,520
Speaker 1: as to make any probable chance of success virtually zero.

807
00:42:33,719 --> 00:42:36,279
Speaker 1: What chance are you taking advantage of the one in

808
00:42:36,400 --> 00:42:39,879
Speaker 1: eight hundred billion chance? You know, it's like Jim Carrey

809
00:42:39,880 --> 00:42:42,040
Speaker 1: from Dumb and Dummer. So you're telling me there's a

810
00:42:42,080 --> 00:42:45,640
Speaker 1: chance like, No, fuck, no, I'm not telling you that.

811
00:42:45,640 --> 00:42:48,040
Speaker 1: That's that's the opposite of what I'm telling you. So

812
00:42:48,120 --> 00:42:50,880
Speaker 1: I certainly feel bad for for I mean, Aljo seems

813
00:42:50,880 --> 00:42:53,440
Speaker 1: pretty happy he got the win and he did what

814
00:42:53,480 --> 00:42:55,480
Speaker 1: he was supposed to. And you heard old Ray Longo

815
00:42:55,560 --> 00:43:00,640
Speaker 1: in that corner. Boy, they don't fuck around there, huh. No, mercy, No,

816
00:43:00,920 --> 00:43:03,799
Speaker 1: mercy from a ray Longo is a savage, dude. Don't

817
00:43:03,800 --> 00:43:06,800
Speaker 1: think he's not. Ray Longo is a savage. No mercy,

818
00:43:07,480 --> 00:43:10,040
Speaker 1: no mercy the whole time. That's exactly the right attitude.

819
00:43:10,200 --> 00:43:11,600
Speaker 1: That's what you have to That's your job is to

820
00:43:11,640 --> 00:43:15,320
Speaker 1: go in there and annihilate this guy, and if he's injured,

821
00:43:15,440 --> 00:43:17,680
Speaker 1: that's his fucking problem. And he did exactly he was

822
00:43:17,719 --> 00:43:20,520
Speaker 1: supposed to. I tend to think the fact that he

823
00:43:20,640 --> 00:43:24,319
Speaker 1: caught the kick off of the first one basically and

824
00:43:24,360 --> 00:43:25,960
Speaker 1: then ran it down for a takedown. I think that's

825
00:43:26,000 --> 00:43:27,640
Speaker 1: exactly how the fight would have gone. But we, of

826
00:43:27,680 --> 00:43:30,080
Speaker 1: course don't know that. I can't in any way prove

827
00:43:30,160 --> 00:43:34,120
Speaker 1: that you knew that that was gonna be one of

828
00:43:34,160 --> 00:43:37,879
Speaker 1: the central tensions of the fight. But I just can't

829
00:43:37,920 --> 00:43:40,880
Speaker 1: believe that they went out there this physically damned. I mean,

830
00:43:40,880 --> 00:43:44,560
Speaker 1: you're just rolling out whoever at that point. You could

831
00:43:44,560 --> 00:43:48,840
Speaker 1: have rolled out a this is true. You could have

832
00:43:48,920 --> 00:43:51,439
Speaker 1: rolled out an unranked bantamweight and they would have fought better,

833
00:43:52,520 --> 00:43:55,719
Speaker 1: probably right. I mean, maybe Sterling finishes them in the

834
00:43:55,719 --> 00:43:57,080
Speaker 1: first but you know what I'm saying, like you could

835
00:43:57,120 --> 00:44:00,480
Speaker 1: have rolled out someone way less as good as but

836
00:44:00,560 --> 00:44:03,520
Speaker 1: fully healthy, they would have given a much better account.

837
00:44:03,600 --> 00:44:08,400
Speaker 1: That tells you how much that injury hobbled him. What

838
00:44:08,480 --> 00:44:10,560
Speaker 1: a waste, What a waste. All I can say is

839
00:44:10,600 --> 00:44:12,799
Speaker 1: I and I saw people being like, good, you'll fuck

840
00:44:12,920 --> 00:44:16,080
Speaker 1: that cheater. Guys. How fucking old are all of us here?

841
00:44:16,200 --> 00:44:19,279
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm old as shit, so that's different. How

842
00:44:19,280 --> 00:44:25,400
Speaker 1: old are some of y'all? He got caught, he got suspended.

843
00:44:25,760 --> 00:44:29,800
Speaker 1: That's the punishment, and by the way, a severe one.

844
00:44:30,239 --> 00:44:32,319
Speaker 1: From age thirty three to age thirty five, at one

845
00:44:32,360 --> 00:44:34,480
Speaker 1: hundred and thirty five pounds, he lost two of the

846
00:44:34,560 --> 00:44:38,640
Speaker 1: last very good years he had, okay, a very severe punishment.

847
00:44:39,080 --> 00:44:41,279
Speaker 1: He got fucked up in the Corey Sandegan find and

848
00:44:41,280 --> 00:44:44,279
Speaker 1: found himself here. But he served his punishment every day

849
00:44:44,320 --> 00:44:47,160
Speaker 1: of it. Punishment's over now. Whether or not he should

850
00:44:47,160 --> 00:44:49,160
Speaker 1: have been a title fight based on meritocracy up to

851
00:44:49,200 --> 00:44:51,080
Speaker 1: this point, fine, you can have a debate about that.

852
00:44:51,520 --> 00:44:54,719
Speaker 1: But to like wish injury upon him because he one

853
00:44:54,800 --> 00:44:59,080
Speaker 1: time we know of got caught or cheated anyway, well,

854
00:44:59,120 --> 00:45:01,040
Speaker 1: he one time got caught. I'll put it that way.

855
00:45:02,480 --> 00:45:04,160
Speaker 1: Like you are like some kind of say this, like

856
00:45:04,160 --> 00:45:05,879
Speaker 1: fuck this guy, like this guy's gonna have a life

857
00:45:05,960 --> 00:45:09,399
Speaker 1: after this. He did what was asked of him, He

858
00:45:09,480 --> 00:45:11,960
Speaker 1: took the suspension, he came back, he re entered the

859
00:45:12,000 --> 00:45:13,759
Speaker 1: testing pool. You can check how many times he's been

860
00:45:13,800 --> 00:45:16,560
Speaker 1: tested on ysada's stupid ass website. And by the way,

861
00:45:17,000 --> 00:45:19,279
Speaker 1: if you think TJ. Dillashaw is the only person who

862
00:45:19,320 --> 00:45:22,879
Speaker 1: either has or is using at this present time, you're

863
00:45:22,920 --> 00:45:27,359
Speaker 1: a child. You're a child. I guarantee you it is

864
00:45:27,960 --> 00:45:31,600
Speaker 1: way more common than you imagine, and I have other

865
00:45:31,719 --> 00:45:34,720
Speaker 1: pieces of bad news for you. Santa Claus is also

866
00:45:34,840 --> 00:45:38,239
Speaker 1: not real, right, This is just a common thing that

867
00:45:38,320 --> 00:45:40,759
Speaker 1: I think happens in all of sports, including in more

868
00:45:40,920 --> 00:45:45,440
Speaker 1: seriously tested ones like NIMA through you Sada, and certainly

869
00:45:45,480 --> 00:45:49,960
Speaker 1: it's common in places that don't even just commission testing

870
00:45:50,040 --> 00:45:52,800
Speaker 1: or whatever, which is just you know, close to non existent.

871
00:45:53,640 --> 00:45:55,560
Speaker 1: And then people still watch like it's a total joke,

872
00:45:55,600 --> 00:46:00,680
Speaker 1: but you know, just wishing him to be maimed because

873
00:46:00,880 --> 00:46:04,160
Speaker 1: he already served his punishment. Dude, you're a child. You're

874
00:46:04,200 --> 00:46:08,239
Speaker 1: a child, and and and and uh a maladapted one

875
00:46:08,280 --> 00:46:11,120
Speaker 1: at that. Right. If you want to be mad at

876
00:46:11,200 --> 00:46:14,480
Speaker 1: him because he wasted all of our time, which he did, fine,

877
00:46:15,320 --> 00:46:17,640
Speaker 1: no issue. Take it to him because he did he

878
00:46:17,680 --> 00:46:20,959
Speaker 1: wasted your time in mind, you know, but just being

879
00:46:21,000 --> 00:46:23,680
Speaker 1: glad that he got maimed or you know that he's

880
00:46:23,680 --> 00:46:27,160
Speaker 1: had this ongoing maiming that he hasn't treated, and like

881
00:46:27,239 --> 00:46:30,480
Speaker 1: that's justice for this or some shit. It's like the

882
00:46:30,480 --> 00:46:34,000
Speaker 1: most backward sense of justice ever. He already filled the

883
00:46:34,040 --> 00:46:38,759
Speaker 1: fucking punishment. He already did it, but he wants to

884
00:46:38,760 --> 00:46:40,759
Speaker 1: just keep getting punished over and over and over and

885
00:46:40,800 --> 00:46:43,040
Speaker 1: over again. Like who the fuck you know you sound?

886
00:46:43,040 --> 00:46:48,200
Speaker 1: How do you hear how crazy that sounds? I mean,

887
00:46:48,360 --> 00:46:52,600
Speaker 1: only people who are like truly dead or sad inside

888
00:46:53,040 --> 00:46:55,680
Speaker 1: say something like that, like fuck duck God, even though

889
00:46:55,680 --> 00:46:59,880
Speaker 1: he already got his punishment, right, something has to be

890
00:47:00,040 --> 00:47:06,279
Speaker 1: wrong with you. All right, now, we'll come back to

891
00:47:06,320 --> 00:47:09,319
Speaker 1: that with your questions. How about Sean O'Malley taking on

892
00:47:09,400 --> 00:47:12,600
Speaker 1: pyotr Yan. This is not how I scored it, but

893
00:47:12,640 --> 00:47:17,080
Speaker 1: these are the results. Sean O'Malley defeats pyotror Yan via

894
00:47:17,280 --> 00:47:21,960
Speaker 1: split decision. There are two twenty nine twenty eight's for O'Malley.

895
00:47:22,360 --> 00:47:25,799
Speaker 1: There is one twenty nine twenty eight for Yon'm gonna

896
00:47:25,840 --> 00:47:27,239
Speaker 1: look at the numbers here in just a second, but

897
00:47:27,280 --> 00:47:29,480
Speaker 1: here's the first thing I want to say, I do

898
00:47:29,560 --> 00:47:34,760
Speaker 1: not agree. I do not agree. I think that second

899
00:47:34,880 --> 00:47:37,400
Speaker 1: round clearly for Yan, even though he got rocked, he

900
00:47:37,480 --> 00:47:40,960
Speaker 1: went right back and rocked Sean for it. And then

901
00:47:41,520 --> 00:47:44,040
Speaker 1: in the third round it's pretty clear to me that

902
00:47:44,040 --> 00:47:48,600
Speaker 1: that was O'Malley's first round. Is the toss up? By

903
00:47:48,600 --> 00:47:50,560
Speaker 1: the way, I saw some people had thirty twenty seven Yon.

904
00:47:52,239 --> 00:47:55,000
Speaker 1: I think that's a little generous, but I've seen him,

905
00:47:56,960 --> 00:47:59,879
Speaker 1: so really it comes down to round one. Let's look

906
00:47:59,880 --> 00:48:04,120
Speaker 1: at the numbers, which are you know, by definition, quantitative

907
00:48:04,280 --> 00:48:07,160
Speaker 1: in total not qualitative, But let's look at them here

908
00:48:07,160 --> 00:48:10,440
Speaker 1: to see if the first round is truly egregious. Okay,

909
00:48:11,320 --> 00:48:16,280
Speaker 1: first round, Yon landed nineteen significant strikes O'Malley twenty three.

910
00:48:17,840 --> 00:48:20,920
Speaker 1: Peter Jan fyodor Jan excuse me, had one takedown in

911
00:48:21,000 --> 00:48:23,479
Speaker 1: round one which he had control time for one minute

912
00:48:23,520 --> 00:48:25,799
Speaker 1: and ten seconds. I do not know how many of

913
00:48:25,840 --> 00:48:29,280
Speaker 1: those nineteen strikes he landed came from ground and pound,

914
00:48:29,760 --> 00:48:32,279
Speaker 1: but keep that in mind. So here we have a

915
00:48:32,320 --> 00:48:34,200
Speaker 1: situation where he was able to get the takedown in

916
00:48:34,239 --> 00:48:37,480
Speaker 1: some top control time and he doesn't get the round. Now,

917
00:48:38,160 --> 00:48:40,719
Speaker 1: let me explain to you something. Ben cartilage is one

918
00:48:40,760 --> 00:48:45,200
Speaker 1: of the guys that scored it twenty nine twenty eight, O'Malley.

919
00:48:46,320 --> 00:48:48,400
Speaker 1: While I do not agree that it is twenty nine

920
00:48:48,440 --> 00:48:51,560
Speaker 1: to twenty eight, O'Malley, I do know Ben and have

921
00:48:51,640 --> 00:48:55,479
Speaker 1: had the pleasure of talking with him at times without

922
00:48:55,520 --> 00:48:58,000
Speaker 1: the course of my career, to just you know, pick

923
00:48:58,440 --> 00:49:00,040
Speaker 1: his brain and hear what he has to say and

924
00:49:00,080 --> 00:49:03,040
Speaker 1: blah blah blah. And I certainly don't want to speak

925
00:49:03,040 --> 00:49:04,600
Speaker 1: for him, but let me just tell you he is

926
00:49:04,640 --> 00:49:07,560
Speaker 1: a very competent judge. Okay, you can say you don't

927
00:49:07,600 --> 00:49:11,600
Speaker 1: like the scorecard. Fine, that's not a bad judge. It's

928
00:49:11,600 --> 00:49:13,440
Speaker 1: a good judge. It's a very good judge. As a

929
00:49:13,480 --> 00:49:17,000
Speaker 1: matter of fact, he is very very competent. So the

930
00:49:17,080 --> 00:49:19,960
Speaker 1: first point I want to make is you cannot claim

931
00:49:20,000 --> 00:49:22,520
Speaker 1: it's bad judges giving it a twenty nine to twenty

932
00:49:22,560 --> 00:49:26,280
Speaker 1: eight to Shan O'Malley, because it's not. And you cannot

933
00:49:26,280 --> 00:49:28,640
Speaker 1: claim it's some kind of robbery when it comes down

934
00:49:28,640 --> 00:49:33,600
Speaker 1: to one round that was pretty close. I thought Yahn

935
00:49:33,719 --> 00:49:37,640
Speaker 1: won it. But it's pretty close. That's the nature of judging.

936
00:49:37,760 --> 00:49:39,880
Speaker 1: We don't know exactly how it looked to Ben or

937
00:49:39,920 --> 00:49:41,719
Speaker 1: any of the who was the other judge. I don't

938
00:49:41,719 --> 00:49:42,880
Speaker 1: have it in front of me. The two of the

939
00:49:42,960 --> 00:49:45,240
Speaker 1: judges that had it, you don't know what those strikes

940
00:49:45,239 --> 00:49:49,960
Speaker 1: looked or sounded like in that particular position where they

941
00:49:50,000 --> 00:49:51,759
Speaker 1: were re seated. You don't know exactly what they saw,

942
00:49:51,800 --> 00:49:54,279
Speaker 1: what they didn't see, how they absorbed it, how they

943
00:49:54,280 --> 00:49:56,279
Speaker 1: felt it, how they were able to ascertain it. You

944
00:49:56,320 --> 00:49:59,440
Speaker 1: don't know any of those things. Maybe they thought that

945
00:49:59,520 --> 00:50:04,480
Speaker 1: the strike wasn't equal, it was slightly favoring Sean, but

946
00:50:04,520 --> 00:50:06,040
Speaker 1: then he had the one takedown, but he didn't do

947
00:50:06,080 --> 00:50:07,520
Speaker 1: a lot of ground pound with its something they still

948
00:50:07,520 --> 00:50:09,279
Speaker 1: favor Sean for the win. I don't know. I've not

949
00:50:09,320 --> 00:50:11,080
Speaker 1: talked to the two judges who scored it that way.

950
00:50:11,400 --> 00:50:15,040
Speaker 1: But can I see, based on the scoring criteria why

951
00:50:15,120 --> 00:50:18,040
Speaker 1: that's the case, Yes, of course I can. Here is

952
00:50:18,040 --> 00:50:21,080
Speaker 1: to me, the bigger culprit, the bigger culprit, the bigger

953
00:50:21,120 --> 00:50:22,920
Speaker 1: culprit to me, and I've been saying this for a

954
00:50:22,920 --> 00:50:26,880
Speaker 1: long time. I think that the new way that judges

955
00:50:26,920 --> 00:50:33,120
Speaker 1: are asked to interpret the rules massively, massively, massively overcorrected

956
00:50:33,160 --> 00:50:36,560
Speaker 1: for a problem. A problem that they were trying to

957
00:50:36,680 --> 00:50:39,640
Speaker 1: solve was that, hey, what happens if a guy like

958
00:50:39,640 --> 00:50:42,760
Speaker 1: a Logan story MVP type fight, it gets a takedown

959
00:50:42,800 --> 00:50:44,600
Speaker 1: and rides on top and just doesn't do shit. And

960
00:50:44,560 --> 00:50:46,480
Speaker 1: the other guy on bottom is kind of threatening subs

961
00:50:46,560 --> 00:50:50,359
Speaker 1: or threatening sweeps and you know he's tacking underneath where like, yeah,

962
00:50:50,400 --> 00:50:53,240
Speaker 1: he's being controlled or whatever. But the guy on bottom

963
00:50:53,280 --> 00:50:55,640
Speaker 1: is the one who just seems to be just doing more.

964
00:50:55,960 --> 00:51:01,000
Speaker 1: They wanted to find a space for that. Good. So far,

965
00:51:01,120 --> 00:51:04,440
Speaker 1: so good, but what has ended up happening is remember,

966
00:51:04,800 --> 00:51:07,520
Speaker 1: the judges can't follow I'm gonna just pick on bas

967
00:51:07,640 --> 00:51:11,400
Speaker 1: who I like the most. No, the judges are asked

968
00:51:11,400 --> 00:51:16,240
Speaker 1: to follow the criteria that is presented to them, whether

969
00:51:16,320 --> 00:51:20,400
Speaker 1: they like that criteria, whether they hate that criteria, whether

970
00:51:20,400 --> 00:51:24,200
Speaker 1: they're neutral about that criteria. This is the criteria. Fucking

971
00:51:24,280 --> 00:51:28,120
Speaker 1: apply it. End of argument. That's the job of the judge.

972
00:51:28,360 --> 00:51:30,040
Speaker 1: So anyone who here is telling you this is a

973
00:51:30,120 --> 00:51:32,040
Speaker 1: robbery or the judges don't know what they're talking about.

974
00:51:32,719 --> 00:51:36,200
Speaker 1: I don't agree with the decision. But the people saying

975
00:51:36,200 --> 00:51:39,279
Speaker 1: this was a robbery are idiots, Okay, And you can

976
00:51:39,480 --> 00:51:41,520
Speaker 1: take the snippet and you can send it to whoever

977
00:51:41,840 --> 00:51:44,479
Speaker 1: is doing it. These are people who are reacting way

978
00:51:44,520 --> 00:51:47,720
Speaker 1: too emotionally and not thinking about the problem. The real

979
00:51:47,840 --> 00:51:49,880
Speaker 1: problem to me is that if you don't get the

980
00:51:49,960 --> 00:51:52,560
Speaker 1: back with heavy ground and pound, or you don't lock

981
00:51:52,640 --> 00:51:55,799
Speaker 1: up an arm bar right away, they basically want to

982
00:51:56,560 --> 00:52:01,640
Speaker 1: The scoring criteria wants grappling to basically have no value. Now,

983
00:52:01,640 --> 00:52:03,560
Speaker 1: there could be some other ways it could have value,

984
00:52:03,560 --> 00:52:05,879
Speaker 1: where if you're, like you know, constantly getting someone down

985
00:52:05,920 --> 00:52:08,279
Speaker 1: it's a big slam that could count, or if you've

986
00:52:08,320 --> 00:52:10,839
Speaker 1: got so much control time that you're wearing them out,

987
00:52:11,520 --> 00:52:13,799
Speaker 1: it can be the kind of an accumulative effect. But

988
00:52:13,960 --> 00:52:17,319
Speaker 1: basically the takedown that he had where in round one

989
00:52:17,560 --> 00:52:19,719
Speaker 1: he had one minute and ten seconds of control time

990
00:52:19,760 --> 00:52:23,920
Speaker 1: from it, essentially that doesn't mean much under the current criteria,

991
00:52:23,960 --> 00:52:27,400
Speaker 1: and to me, that is fucking insane. To me, I

992
00:52:27,400 --> 00:52:30,400
Speaker 1: don't think that makes even the slightest degree of sense.

993
00:52:31,360 --> 00:52:33,880
Speaker 1: I don't want to overvalue stuff. What they want is

994
00:52:33,880 --> 00:52:36,080
Speaker 1: for the grappling to matter to such an extent that

995
00:52:36,160 --> 00:52:39,359
Speaker 1: it either leads to or is part of what would

996
00:52:39,360 --> 00:52:42,120
Speaker 1: be a fight ending kind of scenario. Right where you're

997
00:52:42,200 --> 00:52:44,520
Speaker 1: going for the arm bar, the choke is on, or

998
00:52:44,600 --> 00:52:47,800
Speaker 1: from a ground pound standpoint, you're really just fucking hammering

999
00:52:47,840 --> 00:52:50,239
Speaker 1: them where you control them, right, that's what they're looking for.

1000
00:52:51,960 --> 00:52:55,600
Speaker 1: He didn't get that. But how disruptive it can be,

1001
00:52:55,880 --> 00:52:57,560
Speaker 1: How even if it's just for a minute and ten,

1002
00:52:57,640 --> 00:52:59,520
Speaker 1: how draining it can be. I do think it had

1003
00:52:59,560 --> 00:53:02,759
Speaker 1: an effect on shown O'Malley, especially in the second round

1004
00:53:02,760 --> 00:53:05,280
Speaker 1: when he got two minutes and forty two seconds. I mean, dude,

1005
00:53:05,760 --> 00:53:08,880
Speaker 1: listen to this. Fucking Yon had five minutes and forty

1006
00:53:08,880 --> 00:53:12,319
Speaker 1: four seconds of control time overall. Round one one ten,

1007
00:53:12,800 --> 00:53:15,959
Speaker 1: Round two two forty two, Round three one fifty two. Now,

1008
00:53:16,320 --> 00:53:18,520
Speaker 1: he went for two of seven takedowns there and didn't

1009
00:53:18,520 --> 00:53:20,240
Speaker 1: do a whole lot with it. And here's the difference.

1010
00:53:20,360 --> 00:53:26,239
Speaker 1: Round one again, quantitatively, nineteen strikes to O'Malley's twenty three. Okay,

1011
00:53:26,320 --> 00:53:28,359
Speaker 1: I thought that Yan did enough to get it. Round

1012
00:53:28,400 --> 00:53:33,000
Speaker 1: three is a different scenario. Fifteen strikes for Yon, significant

1013
00:53:33,200 --> 00:53:37,040
Speaker 1: to O'Malley's forty plus. I think he cut him open

1014
00:53:37,040 --> 00:53:38,440
Speaker 1: in that round, or maybe it was the second round.

1015
00:53:38,440 --> 00:53:41,719
Speaker 1: I can't remember anymore. But you know, a massive difference

1016
00:53:42,080 --> 00:53:46,200
Speaker 1: despite a roughly equal or ish amount of time in

1017
00:53:46,239 --> 00:53:49,120
Speaker 1: control positions. Fine, I can see that if one guy

1018
00:53:49,200 --> 00:53:52,640
Speaker 1: is clearly outlanding the other one in a lot of

1019
00:53:52,680 --> 00:53:57,120
Speaker 1: significant ways or with significant strikes, and even even though

1020
00:53:57,320 --> 00:54:00,160
Speaker 1: he's given up some control time across two takedowns, I

1021
00:54:00,160 --> 00:54:03,120
Speaker 1: can get that. But I thought that Yon's leg kicks

1022
00:54:03,160 --> 00:54:06,040
Speaker 1: were harder in general in the first round. I thought

1023
00:54:06,120 --> 00:54:09,640
Speaker 1: that that control time of disrupting his balance, taking him off,

1024
00:54:09,760 --> 00:54:12,720
Speaker 1: forcing him to work back to his feet, right threatening

1025
00:54:12,800 --> 00:54:15,440
Speaker 1: him in that way. I think that that matters. The

1026
00:54:15,440 --> 00:54:19,359
Speaker 1: scoring criteria doesn't make it matter. And so here we are.

1027
00:54:19,840 --> 00:54:23,200
Speaker 1: Here we are. We're in a situation where I thought

1028
00:54:23,280 --> 00:54:27,680
Speaker 1: Yon should have won, but he didn't. Now let me

1029
00:54:27,719 --> 00:54:31,040
Speaker 1: say this in defense of Sean O'Malley, and I tweeted

1030
00:54:31,080 --> 00:54:35,480
Speaker 1: just this, Sean O'Malley is a worthy adversary. I mean

1031
00:54:35,560 --> 00:54:41,000
Speaker 1: he gave Yan a tough fight, a very tough fight.

1032
00:54:41,200 --> 00:54:44,399
Speaker 1: Even if you think Jan was going to win, which

1033
00:54:44,400 --> 00:54:47,520
Speaker 1: I did, And even if you think Yon did win,

1034
00:54:48,040 --> 00:54:53,160
Speaker 1: which I do, Sean O'Malley put it on him a

1035
00:54:53,200 --> 00:54:56,480
Speaker 1: little bit. I mean he stung him in that right

1036
00:54:56,800 --> 00:54:58,360
Speaker 1: with that it was the right hand in the in

1037
00:54:58,400 --> 00:55:02,120
Speaker 1: the second round. Now, okay, Jan got it back, but

1038
00:55:02,280 --> 00:55:04,680
Speaker 1: some of his linear punches through the middle were catching him,

1039
00:55:04,880 --> 00:55:06,759
Speaker 1: some of his own body kicks were catching him. That

1040
00:55:06,880 --> 00:55:09,560
Speaker 1: knee caught him, Like dude, he was pot shotting and

1041
00:55:09,600 --> 00:55:12,080
Speaker 1: finding it. I think the limit to Sean O'Malley is

1042
00:55:12,440 --> 00:55:14,640
Speaker 1: the things that we knew he was good at. He's

1043
00:55:14,760 --> 00:55:17,560
Speaker 1: very good at. Although he did gas a little bit

1044
00:55:17,560 --> 00:55:20,880
Speaker 1: and so his movement was compromised somewhat again from part

1045
00:55:20,920 --> 00:55:24,640
Speaker 1: of the fucking wrestling that he's doing. I mean, just

1046
00:55:24,680 --> 00:55:27,799
Speaker 1: think about how ludicrous this sounds. It's like he had

1047
00:55:27,840 --> 00:55:30,400
Speaker 1: the wrestling and it counted effectively by virtue of some

1048
00:55:30,400 --> 00:55:31,799
Speaker 1: of the ground and pound or whatever he was able

1049
00:55:31,800 --> 00:55:34,080
Speaker 1: to get in the second round. But the reason why

1050
00:55:34,520 --> 00:55:37,279
Speaker 1: he's gassed partly in the second round is not just

1051
00:55:37,320 --> 00:55:40,239
Speaker 1: because of the wrestling from the second round. It's the

1052
00:55:40,280 --> 00:55:43,480
Speaker 1: accumulative wrestling that came from the first as well. And

1053
00:55:43,520 --> 00:55:45,680
Speaker 1: not just a little bit a minute and ten seconds

1054
00:55:45,680 --> 00:55:48,880
Speaker 1: off of it that's over. That's over twenty percent of

1055
00:55:48,920 --> 00:55:52,319
Speaker 1: the round where Yan had control time. This is why

1056
00:55:52,320 --> 00:55:54,760
Speaker 1: it's like, well, that wasn't leading to a fight ending scenario.

1057
00:55:54,800 --> 00:55:57,520
Speaker 1: It's like, well, who gives a shit, This is still

1058
00:55:57,680 --> 00:56:01,239
Speaker 1: very much effective grappling anyway, neither here nor there on that.

1059
00:56:01,320 --> 00:56:06,680
Speaker 1: But for O'Malley, I thought we knew his boxing was

1060
00:56:06,680 --> 00:56:08,440
Speaker 1: good We knew his timing was good, we knew his

1061
00:56:08,480 --> 00:56:11,080
Speaker 1: feints were good, his lateral movement for a time was good.

1062
00:56:11,719 --> 00:56:14,279
Speaker 1: The big issue was, and we did see this play out,

1063
00:56:14,280 --> 00:56:16,480
Speaker 1: which was okay, but what happens when someone can wrestle him?

1064
00:56:16,520 --> 00:56:19,120
Speaker 1: I asked this on Fridays or even Wednesday's MK. No

1065
00:56:19,480 --> 00:56:21,680
Speaker 1: I asked it, or maybe it was of Chuck No, no,

1066
00:56:21,680 --> 00:56:22,960
Speaker 1: I don't know, Sorry it was of BC. It was

1067
00:56:23,080 --> 00:56:27,360
Speaker 1: Wednesday's MK, which was tell tell me who the last

1068
00:56:27,680 --> 00:56:32,080
Speaker 1: very good dogged wrestler O'Malley has fought prior to tonight

1069
00:56:33,719 --> 00:56:36,400
Speaker 1: doesn't really exist. This was the first time he fought,

1070
00:56:36,440 --> 00:56:38,640
Speaker 1: certainly in the UFC anybody who was like a really

1071
00:56:39,320 --> 00:56:42,759
Speaker 1: who Yes, Jan can strike as well, obviously very well,

1072
00:56:42,960 --> 00:56:45,360
Speaker 1: some of his counter striking in that second and especially

1073
00:56:45,400 --> 00:56:47,920
Speaker 1: in the third round where he was he had his

1074
00:56:48,000 --> 00:56:50,200
Speaker 1: hands up and he would roll so he was already

1075
00:56:50,200 --> 00:56:54,080
Speaker 1: in a position to come over the top and crack him,

1076
00:56:54,120 --> 00:57:00,799
Speaker 1: which he did. But but uh, Sean O'Malley has a

1077
00:57:00,800 --> 00:57:04,560
Speaker 1: good chin. The issue was just the wrestling was the wrestling.

1078
00:57:04,640 --> 00:57:07,640
Speaker 1: So it's like, you can give O'Malley a title shot

1079
00:57:07,719 --> 00:57:11,080
Speaker 1: and he might be able to knock out al Jamaine Sterling,

1080
00:57:11,440 --> 00:57:15,320
Speaker 1: that could happen, but given the grappling weaknesses, and I

1081
00:57:15,360 --> 00:57:17,800
Speaker 1: don't think O'Malley has a bad ground game. I don't

1082
00:57:17,800 --> 00:57:21,960
Speaker 1: think that's true, but it's clearly not nearly as strong

1083
00:57:22,040 --> 00:57:25,080
Speaker 1: as his striking game. There is a lopsidedness to it.

1084
00:57:25,600 --> 00:57:27,920
Speaker 1: A guy like Sterling, I would, you know, again, he

1085
00:57:27,920 --> 00:57:30,520
Speaker 1: could get knocked out because O'Malley is a dangerous striker.

1086
00:57:31,120 --> 00:57:35,280
Speaker 1: But if I'm O'Malley, I'm taking another fight. I'm taking

1087
00:57:35,280 --> 00:57:37,400
Speaker 1: another fight. You know. I'm not sure against too, Corey

1088
00:57:37,440 --> 00:57:44,040
Speaker 1: Sandhagen or whoever or somebody, but I would elect to

1089
00:57:44,080 --> 00:57:50,680
Speaker 1: take the Alexa Grasso system right where you int your way,

1090
00:57:50,720 --> 00:57:52,840
Speaker 1: knowing that some of your vulnerabilities are going to be

1091
00:57:52,880 --> 00:57:55,440
Speaker 1: a problem going forward. Also, like just getting back to

1092
00:57:55,480 --> 00:57:57,440
Speaker 1: the decision, did you see his body language and his

1093
00:57:57,480 --> 00:58:00,440
Speaker 1: team's body language heading into the decision. Didn't look like

1094
00:58:00,520 --> 00:58:03,280
Speaker 1: any of them thought they had won. Talking about Tim O'Malley,

1095
00:58:04,080 --> 00:58:07,920
Speaker 1: So not a robbery, not at all. I'm look at

1096
00:58:07,920 --> 00:58:11,200
Speaker 1: some of my notes that I made. Jean came out

1097
00:58:11,240 --> 00:58:13,960
Speaker 1: early in that first round with good forward pressure right

1098
00:58:14,040 --> 00:58:17,320
Speaker 1: really getting into O'Malley's face. I thought that was pretty interesting.

1099
00:58:17,920 --> 00:58:21,520
Speaker 1: He found back exposure and a takedown right in round one.

1100
00:58:22,480 --> 00:58:24,680
Speaker 1: He had a high guard, was using leg kicks, but

1101
00:58:24,760 --> 00:58:27,680
Speaker 1: O'Malley had the good linear boxing. I thought that was

1102
00:58:27,680 --> 00:58:29,320
Speaker 1: what you which you got. Round two, both of them

1103
00:58:29,400 --> 00:58:32,200
Speaker 1: rocked each other, and then round three, Yhon's counter striking

1104
00:58:32,840 --> 00:58:36,240
Speaker 1: was big, but he was still behind the gun in

1105
00:58:36,360 --> 00:58:44,680
Speaker 1: terms of what it was O'Malley dealing and then Yon responding.

1106
00:58:44,760 --> 00:58:47,680
Speaker 1: Yan was responding very well, but he was still like

1107
00:58:47,760 --> 00:58:53,240
Speaker 1: a little bit behind in that regard. You know, I'm

1108
00:58:53,240 --> 00:58:57,160
Speaker 1: gonna look at the overall numbers here if I may,

1109
00:58:57,320 --> 00:58:59,960
Speaker 1: Jean targeted the head forty one percent of the time,

1110
00:59:00,040 --> 00:59:02,600
Speaker 1: targeted the body, twenty two percent in the leg thirty six.

1111
00:59:03,200 --> 00:59:06,000
Speaker 1: O'Malley much more of a head hunter, seventy five percent

1112
00:59:06,000 --> 00:59:08,440
Speaker 1: of the head, just seven percent to the body, and

1113
00:59:08,480 --> 00:59:11,360
Speaker 1: then seventeen percent to the leg. That makes sense, But

1114
00:59:11,600 --> 00:59:17,160
Speaker 1: numerically O'Malley outstruck him in round one. Numerically O'Malley outstruck

1115
00:59:17,240 --> 00:59:20,240
Speaker 1: him in round three. Numerically Yon outstruck him in round two,

1116
00:59:20,840 --> 00:59:24,160
Speaker 1: plus had the three takedowns and the almost three minutes

1117
00:59:24,200 --> 00:59:26,800
Speaker 1: of control time. So yeah, round three is the one

1118
00:59:27,400 --> 00:59:29,800
Speaker 1: where excuse me, Round two is the one that's clearly y.

1119
00:59:29,960 --> 00:59:32,000
Speaker 1: It's like, no doubt about it. In round three, it's like,

1120
00:59:32,680 --> 00:59:36,280
Speaker 1: probably the better argument is for O'Malley. It's round one

1121
00:59:36,320 --> 00:59:40,240
Speaker 1: that I just don't think belongs to O'Malley. I don't,

1122
00:59:41,040 --> 00:59:43,160
Speaker 1: but he's a worthy adversary. I think he really had

1123
00:59:43,160 --> 00:59:45,680
Speaker 1: a moment tonight where he realized, you know, I am

1124
00:59:45,720 --> 00:59:47,480
Speaker 1: good enough to compete at this level. But I hope

1125
00:59:47,480 --> 00:59:51,120
Speaker 1: he also takes from this that the other portions of

1126
00:59:51,160 --> 00:59:55,439
Speaker 1: his game, they're gonna get audited. Like in the Bansamway Division, man,

1127
00:59:55,600 --> 01:00:00,240
Speaker 1: you gotta be very well rounded, very well rounded, and

1128
01:00:00,280 --> 01:00:01,840
Speaker 1: of course you can see the champ doesn't have a

1129
01:00:01,880 --> 01:00:04,080
Speaker 1: super well rounded game in the same sense. But you know,

1130
01:00:04,360 --> 01:00:06,560
Speaker 1: grappling as your base, and especially in the way that

1131
01:00:06,600 --> 01:00:08,640
Speaker 1: he does where he can find the back so nimbly,

1132
01:00:12,840 --> 01:00:15,200
Speaker 1: it's a little bit more of a defensively sound one,

1133
01:00:15,640 --> 01:00:18,840
Speaker 1: I would argue, getting back sort up to the Makachev argument, right,

1134
01:00:18,840 --> 01:00:21,200
Speaker 1: it's just a little bit more of a place where

1135
01:00:21,200 --> 01:00:24,520
Speaker 1: you can define the terms of the fight a little

1136
01:00:24,520 --> 01:00:28,040
Speaker 1: bit more easily and control the variables of chaos that

1137
01:00:28,120 --> 01:00:30,960
Speaker 1: tend to exist in an anime fight. He should be

1138
01:00:30,960 --> 01:00:33,760
Speaker 1: a Striker first, no doubt about it. But like you know,

1139
01:00:33,800 --> 01:00:39,080
Speaker 1: we go back to the champ at middleweight is he

1140
01:00:39,080 --> 01:00:44,840
Speaker 1: he has very good takedown defense and he has at

1141
01:00:44,840 --> 01:00:46,800
Speaker 1: this point a very good ability to get up off

1142
01:00:46,800 --> 01:00:48,760
Speaker 1: the ground, like they can barely hold him down, and

1143
01:00:48,800 --> 01:00:51,600
Speaker 1: when they do, they can't do much to him. Certainly,

1144
01:00:51,600 --> 01:00:54,640
Speaker 1: O'Malley has good takedown defense and wasn't getting his ass

1145
01:00:54,640 --> 01:00:57,720
Speaker 1: whip completely on the ground. But you would just imagine

1146
01:00:57,760 --> 01:00:59,680
Speaker 1: if this is a problem, there's gonna be other guys in,

1147
01:01:00,200 --> 01:01:01,920
Speaker 1: including Alja man Sterling that are gonna have something to

1148
01:01:01,920 --> 01:01:05,000
Speaker 1: say about it. If I'm yon I'm looking for maybe

1149
01:01:05,040 --> 01:01:07,000
Speaker 1: one more now he might just take the title shot

1150
01:01:07,040 --> 01:01:09,440
Speaker 1: because you know, again you don't know if that's ever

1151
01:01:09,480 --> 01:01:12,520
Speaker 1: going to come around again, but you get the idea.

1152
01:01:14,280 --> 01:01:18,240
Speaker 1: Also on this main card, sh be Neil Daryush defeating

1153
01:01:18,280 --> 01:01:21,160
Speaker 1: Mateosh Gamrock thirty twenty seven thirty twenty seven, twenty nine

1154
01:01:21,200 --> 01:01:25,600
Speaker 1: to twenty eight, crazy crazy fight. Here's the thing about Gamrock.

1155
01:01:25,680 --> 01:01:27,800
Speaker 1: Now gam Rock's on his way. How old is he? Old?

1156
01:01:27,880 --> 01:01:32,320
Speaker 1: Mateyoush thirty one, thirty one years of age and benil

1157
01:01:32,600 --> 01:01:39,520
Speaker 1: is thirty three. Yeah, Wow, you knew Gamrock was probably

1158
01:01:39,560 --> 01:01:43,560
Speaker 1: the better wrestler, and you knew that his offense really

1159
01:01:43,600 --> 01:01:47,560
Speaker 1: comes from his wrestling, getting the takedown, establishing top control,

1160
01:01:47,640 --> 01:01:50,640
Speaker 1: ground and pound, wearing guys out, matt returning them, putting

1161
01:01:50,680 --> 01:01:53,120
Speaker 1: their hands back on the mat, taking the back, getting

1162
01:01:53,280 --> 01:01:55,480
Speaker 1: tight waist around them, whatever you wanted to your hands,

1163
01:01:55,600 --> 01:01:58,040
Speaker 1: you know, clasped hands, the whole nine yards locked hands,

1164
01:01:58,040 --> 01:02:01,760
Speaker 1: as they say in wrestling. So if he couldn't get that,

1165
01:02:01,960 --> 01:02:03,880
Speaker 1: is his striking good enough to make up the difference.

1166
01:02:03,880 --> 01:02:05,240
Speaker 1: Like the reason why he was able to beat sar

1167
01:02:05,320 --> 01:02:08,000
Speaker 1: Yukiin was because sar Yukiin's striking is also not quite

1168
01:02:08,000 --> 01:02:12,160
Speaker 1: far along. But Bidio Daryush has pretty good striking right

1169
01:02:12,200 --> 01:02:15,320
Speaker 1: as we saw, he has the ability to protect himself

1170
01:02:15,360 --> 01:02:17,680
Speaker 1: in jiu jitsu context and was able to over the

1171
01:02:17,720 --> 01:02:24,680
Speaker 1: course of time just nullify Gamrock's wrestling. So it's like Gamrock,

1172
01:02:24,760 --> 01:02:27,400
Speaker 1: through his wrestling, is a force to be reckoned with.

1173
01:02:27,920 --> 01:02:32,080
Speaker 1: But if you take away the wrestling's potency, what's left

1174
01:02:32,560 --> 01:02:36,360
Speaker 1: not a whole lot, and Daryush is crazy well rounded.

1175
01:02:36,400 --> 01:02:38,680
Speaker 1: Dar Yush gets a knockdown in this fight, which they

1176
01:02:38,720 --> 01:02:40,680
Speaker 1: awarded him to win the third round. That was a

1177
01:02:40,680 --> 01:02:42,720
Speaker 1: big shot that he dropped him with that was phenomenal

1178
01:02:43,120 --> 01:02:45,919
Speaker 1: striking numbers nine for nine in round one, both of them.

1179
01:02:46,240 --> 01:02:50,200
Speaker 1: Round two Daryush thirty one to fifteen, round three nineteen

1180
01:02:50,240 --> 01:02:53,760
Speaker 1: to nine, both in favor of Daryush. Darus also gets

1181
01:02:53,920 --> 01:02:56,440
Speaker 1: excuse me, Gamrock got two takedowns with control time at

1182
01:02:56,440 --> 01:02:58,880
Speaker 1: one twenty two in round one. He got one takedown

1183
01:02:58,920 --> 01:03:00,919
Speaker 1: a round two with just ten second some control time,

1184
01:03:01,440 --> 01:03:04,480
Speaker 1: and he got one takedown in the third round with

1185
01:03:04,560 --> 01:03:06,959
Speaker 1: thirty five seconds of control time, but Daryush had twenty

1186
01:03:07,000 --> 01:03:09,560
Speaker 1: six himself. That was really the story of this fight

1187
01:03:09,640 --> 01:03:14,200
Speaker 1: is dar USh Uh defensively sound against the most important

1188
01:03:14,240 --> 01:03:17,880
Speaker 1: weapon of his opponent and then has more offensive tools

1189
01:03:17,920 --> 01:03:20,760
Speaker 1: on top of it. Right, see how the pieces began

1190
01:03:20,800 --> 01:03:25,520
Speaker 1: to get put together. That's how that one goes. Let

1191
01:03:25,560 --> 01:03:29,800
Speaker 1: me see the targeting. Targeting is fairly similar. Not a

1192
01:03:29,840 --> 01:03:34,040
Speaker 1: whole lot of difference there, but anyway, and then the

1193
01:03:34,120 --> 01:03:37,280
Speaker 1: card opened with men on Froro defeating Kitlyn Chukegan. That

1194
01:03:37,320 --> 01:03:40,080
Speaker 1: fight was terrible, So I'm not gonna sit here and

1195
01:03:40,120 --> 01:03:41,720
Speaker 1: say a whole lot about it. I will say a

1196
01:03:41,720 --> 01:03:45,920
Speaker 1: whole lot about Blah Mohammad and Sean Brady on Monday.

1197
01:03:46,280 --> 01:03:50,840
Speaker 1: On Monday, on Monday Show because it involved BC. He

1198
01:03:50,960 --> 01:03:56,000
Speaker 1: is now spared from getting a tattoo. But all right,

1199
01:03:57,400 --> 01:04:00,960
Speaker 1: let's take a look at your questions. Let's see what

1200
01:04:01,040 --> 01:04:11,160
Speaker 1: you got. Let's see what you got. All right? Peot

1201
01:04:11,280 --> 01:04:17,680
Speaker 1: Yan has for what I read that he lost the

1202
01:04:17,680 --> 01:04:20,480
Speaker 1: first Maga Mado fight by a point deduction, then his knee,

1203
01:04:21,360 --> 01:04:23,240
Speaker 1: then a fight where he couldn't get Stirling off his back,

1204
01:04:23,240 --> 01:04:27,439
Speaker 1: and now a robbery. Oh, doing the Brian Campbell test.

1205
01:04:27,480 --> 01:04:29,480
Speaker 1: Have I ever seen this fighter lose? Yes? Have you

1206
01:04:29,520 --> 01:04:31,720
Speaker 1: ever seen Yon lose? I've seen him lose twice. But

1207
01:04:31,760 --> 01:04:34,840
Speaker 1: you know what Brian's talking about there? Considering what we

1208
01:04:34,880 --> 01:04:37,880
Speaker 1: know about typical bodybuilding exercise being potentially detrimental for MMA,

1209
01:04:37,960 --> 01:04:40,560
Speaker 1: and that Sam Calavita has a stable of fighters practicing

1210
01:04:40,560 --> 01:04:43,480
Speaker 1: these exercises, does he know what he's doing. I'm not

1211
01:04:43,560 --> 01:04:47,680
Speaker 1: reviewed Calavida's methods, but forget all that they let a

1212
01:04:47,720 --> 01:04:50,800
Speaker 1: guy get his shoulder ground into dust and send him

1213
01:04:50,800 --> 01:04:53,240
Speaker 1: out there to fight al Jamain Sterling. I mean, what

1214
01:04:53,280 --> 01:04:57,800
Speaker 1: the fuck are y'all thinking? I'm listen. TJ's a highly

1215
01:04:57,840 --> 01:05:00,480
Speaker 1: accomplished fighter, his coaches are highly accomplish, which this team

1216
01:05:00,520 --> 01:05:03,320
Speaker 1: is highly accomplished. But he's ever made fighters. Man, their

1217
01:05:03,400 --> 01:05:06,960
Speaker 1: sense of risk is so off. Like, dude, I think

1218
01:05:07,000 --> 01:05:09,200
Speaker 1: about that. He literally thought like, Okay, probably don't have

1219
01:05:09,240 --> 01:05:11,240
Speaker 1: a great chance. But however little it is, I'm just

1220
01:05:11,280 --> 01:05:13,240
Speaker 1: gonna write it out. Dude, you don't have a chance.

1221
01:05:13,960 --> 01:05:16,240
Speaker 1: This is like buying one scratch off at your local

1222
01:05:16,280 --> 01:05:18,880
Speaker 1: seven to eleven for not just a local lottery, but

1223
01:05:18,920 --> 01:05:21,280
Speaker 1: for that you know powerball thing. Like it's it's not no,

1224
01:05:21,360 --> 01:05:23,360
Speaker 1: You're not going to win. No, no, no, no no,

1225
01:05:23,680 --> 01:05:25,120
Speaker 1: And of course you could do more damage. And by

1226
01:05:25,160 --> 01:05:27,480
Speaker 1: the way, you've already done all this damage. Like imagine

1227
01:05:27,520 --> 01:05:29,840
Speaker 1: just draining your bank account to buy the fucking scratch

1228
01:05:29,840 --> 01:05:32,080
Speaker 1: off versus feeding your kid. I don't know what the

1229
01:05:32,120 --> 01:05:36,720
Speaker 1: analogy would be, but of the metaphor rather, but no,

1230
01:05:36,920 --> 01:05:39,360
Speaker 1: you don't have a chance at all. Honestly, I take

1231
01:05:39,360 --> 01:05:40,880
Speaker 1: my chance in the power ball more than I would

1232
01:05:40,880 --> 01:05:48,480
Speaker 1: with that totally totally not understanding the importance of not

1233
01:05:48,560 --> 01:05:50,680
Speaker 1: respecting I should say the importance of health and safety

1234
01:05:50,680 --> 01:05:53,760
Speaker 1: by like this is what I talk. Okay, this is

1235
01:05:53,800 --> 01:05:58,160
Speaker 1: why there wasn't enough regulation. But this is why MMA

1236
01:05:58,240 --> 01:05:59,960
Speaker 1: has to be regulated by the government. This is why

1237
01:06:00,080 --> 01:06:04,960
Speaker 1: fighters have to be saved from themselves. This right here,

1238
01:06:05,520 --> 01:06:11,720
Speaker 1: a guy will go out woefully unprepared due to significant

1239
01:06:11,760 --> 01:06:14,720
Speaker 1: injury to the one of the most important joints in

1240
01:06:14,760 --> 01:06:17,080
Speaker 1: the human body and be like, yeah, you know I

1241
01:06:17,160 --> 01:06:25,280
Speaker 1: might have a chance, Like no, you don't. Weird card

1242
01:06:25,760 --> 01:06:29,480
Speaker 1: illegal needs krilov is allergic to decisions but gets one.

1243
01:06:29,880 --> 01:06:34,360
Speaker 1: The loll ko right, TJ Shoulder eleven versus one upset

1244
01:06:34,640 --> 01:06:37,400
Speaker 1: faves like Jan Brady Gamrot all lost. Yeah, it was

1245
01:06:37,400 --> 01:06:42,439
Speaker 1: a strange card. I think Sahudo is the UFC's best

1246
01:06:42,440 --> 01:06:46,160
Speaker 1: option for al Joe Cheeto needs one more. Yan lost,

1247
01:06:46,560 --> 01:06:49,600
Speaker 1: Sean arguably didn't win and didn't hype up a title fight,

1248
01:06:49,680 --> 01:06:51,800
Speaker 1: Cordy needs more wins. Morob needs one more in won't

1249
01:06:51,800 --> 01:06:55,320
Speaker 1: fight anyways. Not a bad argument, not a bad It's

1250
01:06:55,360 --> 01:06:57,040
Speaker 1: one from one guy here. Let me go to somebody else.

1251
01:06:57,080 --> 01:06:59,640
Speaker 1: Maine was barely competitive. Comane was a farce with one

1252
01:06:59,680 --> 01:07:03,360
Speaker 1: athlete being injured since April, and Sean Yon was a

1253
01:07:03,400 --> 01:07:05,400
Speaker 1: bad call by the judges. If you ponder a moment,

1254
01:07:05,440 --> 01:07:08,200
Speaker 1: how anti climactic was this. I still think that the

1255
01:07:08,200 --> 01:07:10,280
Speaker 1: main event was pretty It wasn't competitive, but it was

1256
01:07:10,320 --> 01:07:15,640
Speaker 1: still pretty cool to see and Sean versus Yan versus

1257
01:07:15,640 --> 01:07:22,240
Speaker 1: O'Malley was tremendous fun. Tremendous fun. Sean matching or even

1258
01:07:22,240 --> 01:07:24,880
Speaker 1: slightly edging Yan on the feet was super impressive. This

1259
01:07:24,880 --> 01:07:27,800
Speaker 1: person rights Yan didn't seem to respect the striking of

1260
01:07:27,880 --> 01:07:32,000
Speaker 1: san Hagen, Al Joe or Aldo nearly as much Sugar belongs. Yeah,

1261
01:07:32,000 --> 01:07:37,160
Speaker 1: I'd agree with that. I'd agree with that. Stylistically, Who

1262
01:07:37,200 --> 01:07:39,280
Speaker 1: is the next contender from Markachev? At lightweight? Am I

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01:07:39,360 --> 01:07:41,439
Speaker 1: right in thinking soar Yukin is the dark horse threat

1264
01:07:41,480 --> 01:07:44,320
Speaker 1: to Islam if he can get some wins together. He

1265
01:07:44,440 --> 01:07:46,040
Speaker 1: has a lot more work to do in his game.

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01:07:46,520 --> 01:07:48,960
Speaker 1: His style and having already shared the octagon with Mankachev

1267
01:07:49,040 --> 01:07:52,240
Speaker 1: could be advantages over the rest of the division. It'll

1268
01:07:52,240 --> 01:07:54,360
Speaker 1: be interesting to see Darry Yush if he gets it well.

1269
01:07:55,640 --> 01:07:58,720
Speaker 1: Who would you pick Markachev Volkanovsky? I probably picked Makachev,

1270
01:07:59,160 --> 01:08:00,520
Speaker 1: but I don't know. I have to I have to

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01:08:00,520 --> 01:08:05,320
Speaker 1: think about that. At one fifty five, I would probably

1272
01:08:05,360 --> 01:08:12,000
Speaker 1: say dar Yush has an interesting choice. Chance. Maybe I

1273
01:08:12,040 --> 01:08:14,760
Speaker 1: fear this person writes Islam might ragged all voke. The

1274
01:08:14,800 --> 01:08:17,120
Speaker 1: size disadvantage in the physical style will be very tough

1275
01:08:17,160 --> 01:08:19,960
Speaker 1: to navigate. Yeah, that's the real key. There is if

1276
01:08:20,040 --> 01:08:22,680
Speaker 1: Islam can routinely get his hands on him and then

1277
01:08:22,880 --> 01:08:29,880
Speaker 1: win those exchanges with wrestling, I don't know how Volkanowski wins.

1278
01:08:30,360 --> 01:08:33,200
Speaker 1: Is Banil Dariyush the Yan Blohovich of one fifty five? No,

1279
01:08:33,280 --> 01:08:37,759
Speaker 1: because Blohovich I almost remember dark. You guys remember Daryush

1280
01:08:37,880 --> 01:08:39,920
Speaker 1: was a very good jiu jitsu competitor. So like when

1281
01:08:39,920 --> 01:08:41,479
Speaker 1: he came over, I was like, oh right, he might

1282
01:08:41,479 --> 01:08:43,000
Speaker 1: be able to do some things. He had some loss,

1283
01:08:43,040 --> 01:08:45,839
Speaker 1: like the Barbosa loss was real bad. He got viciously

1284
01:08:45,920 --> 01:08:50,479
Speaker 1: killed with a flying knee. But I always thought pretty

1285
01:08:50,520 --> 01:08:54,040
Speaker 1: highly of him. Yes, in the sense that a kind

1286
01:08:54,080 --> 01:08:56,200
Speaker 1: of guy who had to take the long way to

1287
01:08:56,240 --> 01:08:59,160
Speaker 1: get somewhere and then like you know, eventually was just

1288
01:08:59,200 --> 01:09:01,760
Speaker 1: became this Undernow I will force maybe in that sense,

1289
01:09:01,800 --> 01:09:03,880
Speaker 1: but I don't feel like their trajectories are exactly the

1290
01:09:03,880 --> 01:09:10,439
Speaker 1: same in that way. If Brian Campbell were a ring horn,

1291
01:09:10,520 --> 01:09:12,120
Speaker 1: would he be the one used in the arenas to

1292
01:09:12,200 --> 01:09:18,760
Speaker 1: night do? What was up with the shitty ringhorn? It

1293
01:09:18,880 --> 01:09:24,000
Speaker 1: sounded like some like, you know, like some depressed frat

1294
01:09:24,040 --> 01:09:28,400
Speaker 1: guy farting out his taco bell, just the saddest little

1295
01:09:28,400 --> 01:09:33,120
Speaker 1: shitty farts, you know, just just total not even trying

1296
01:09:33,120 --> 01:09:35,719
Speaker 1: in my life anymore, still wearing sweatpants at five pm,

1297
01:09:35,960 --> 01:09:41,639
Speaker 1: that kind of thing. Will al Joe ever be able

1298
01:09:41,640 --> 01:09:45,360
Speaker 1: to have an uncontroversial championship win? Well, this one ain't

1299
01:09:45,400 --> 01:09:48,040
Speaker 1: his fault, I mean, holy fuck right. Whatever you want

1300
01:09:48,040 --> 01:09:50,000
Speaker 1: to say about the first Yon fight, fine, say it.

1301
01:09:50,000 --> 01:09:52,320
Speaker 1: I don't even care to relitigate it anymore. Say what

1302
01:09:52,400 --> 01:09:55,679
Speaker 1: you want to say, This one ain't his fault. And

1303
01:09:55,720 --> 01:09:57,759
Speaker 1: you're like, oh, he's happy, Yeah, no, shit, he's happy.

1304
01:09:58,040 --> 01:10:00,200
Speaker 1: He just got through a very difficult experience. He going

1305
01:10:00,240 --> 01:10:01,840
Speaker 1: to get a lot of money for it. He's still

1306
01:10:01,880 --> 01:10:04,240
Speaker 1: the champion, he gets to carry that into the next fight. Yeah,

1307
01:10:04,280 --> 01:10:10,120
Speaker 1: you'd be fucking happy too. On MMA decisions, not one

1308
01:10:10,240 --> 01:10:12,880
Speaker 1: media card for O'Malley. On paper, this is one of

1309
01:10:12,880 --> 01:10:16,800
Speaker 1: the biggest bad decisions, right, but we don't watch it. Well,

1310
01:10:16,840 --> 01:10:18,760
Speaker 1: I guess some of the media guys are cage side,

1311
01:10:18,760 --> 01:10:20,639
Speaker 1: but you still don't watch it in the same position

1312
01:10:20,640 --> 01:10:22,479
Speaker 1: that a judge does. A judge is right on the ring,

1313
01:10:22,520 --> 01:10:28,160
Speaker 1: apron Luke. How do you deal with the fact that

1314
01:10:28,200 --> 01:10:30,280
Speaker 1: fighters get screwed out of fights and not have it

1315
01:10:30,439 --> 01:10:34,400
Speaker 1: turn you off to the sport? Probably because I have

1316
01:10:34,720 --> 01:10:39,120
Speaker 1: compartmentalized identity. I don't know what is the path to

1317
01:10:39,200 --> 01:10:44,240
Speaker 1: victory for Volkanovsky. It has to be avoiding contact and

1318
01:10:44,280 --> 01:10:47,240
Speaker 1: then confusing him on the feet. On the feet, Volkanovsky's

1319
01:10:47,280 --> 01:10:50,760
Speaker 1: better very confident in saying that. On the ground is

1320
01:10:50,760 --> 01:10:53,479
Speaker 1: where it's like, I don't know what the path of

1321
01:10:53,520 --> 01:10:56,920
Speaker 1: victory would be. There. Love to see al Jo has

1322
01:10:56,960 --> 01:10:58,920
Speaker 1: done what is asked of him. This person writes he

1323
01:10:59,000 --> 01:11:01,040
Speaker 1: takes heat because of the legal knee from me on

1324
01:11:01,080 --> 01:11:04,200
Speaker 1: and a dislocated shoulder from TJ. Why the disrespect? Well, listen.

1325
01:11:04,640 --> 01:11:07,920
Speaker 1: He said something like, you know, I'm the human backpack

1326
01:11:08,120 --> 01:11:10,240
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna make something up. But he's like, when

1327
01:11:10,240 --> 01:11:12,759
Speaker 1: I get my armor on your throat, it's a rap rap.

1328
01:11:13,600 --> 01:11:16,320
Speaker 1: I heard that when I was in my bathroom here

1329
01:11:16,360 --> 01:11:18,080
Speaker 1: because I'm in my old bedroom. This is where my

1330
01:11:18,080 --> 01:11:20,720
Speaker 1: studio is, and I was like, Oh, they're gonna kill

1331
01:11:20,800 --> 01:11:22,920
Speaker 1: him for that on social media. I knew right away.

1332
01:11:22,960 --> 01:11:24,800
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, man, they're gonna fucking murder him.

1333
01:11:25,040 --> 01:11:27,640
Speaker 1: They're gonna murder him on social media for that. You know,

1334
01:11:28,000 --> 01:11:34,599
Speaker 1: he doesn't necessarily listen. He doesn't connect with broad swaths

1335
01:11:34,640 --> 01:11:38,040
Speaker 1: of the fan base. As someone who also doesn't connect

1336
01:11:38,120 --> 01:11:40,240
Speaker 1: with broad swats of the fan base. I sort of

1337
01:11:40,320 --> 01:11:42,320
Speaker 1: understand that, you know, he is who he is. He's

1338
01:11:42,320 --> 01:11:45,880
Speaker 1: his own guy, he's his own guy. And you know

1339
01:11:46,000 --> 01:11:48,200
Speaker 1: that thing he said, well, it's a rap. Rap to

1340
01:11:48,200 --> 01:11:53,519
Speaker 1: me is corny as shit. But uh not everyone can

1341
01:11:54,000 --> 01:11:57,120
Speaker 1: you know, not everyone is at ease with an audience.

1342
01:11:57,200 --> 01:12:01,400
Speaker 1: Not everyone is you know, has that magnetizing ability. And

1343
01:12:01,439 --> 01:12:03,160
Speaker 1: some people try and they are good at it. Some

1344
01:12:03,200 --> 01:12:05,000
Speaker 1: people try and they fail at it. Some people just

1345
01:12:05,080 --> 01:12:07,120
Speaker 1: naturally are good at it. Some people are just naturally

1346
01:12:07,120 --> 01:12:09,120
Speaker 1: bad at it. There's all kinds of ways in which

1347
01:12:09,160 --> 01:12:14,040
Speaker 1: people aren't necessarily, you know, the best vehicle for widespread adoration.

1348
01:12:14,200 --> 01:12:17,280
Speaker 1: But you better respect his fucking abilities, man, you better

1349
01:12:17,320 --> 01:12:22,320
Speaker 1: respect his abilities. Why was Daryush so effective against Cameron?

1350
01:12:22,479 --> 01:12:24,200
Speaker 1: Kind of went over that, how do you da da

1351
01:12:24,240 --> 01:12:27,760
Speaker 1: da da crazy? How pound for pound number one? Vulk

1352
01:12:27,840 --> 01:12:29,439
Speaker 1: is going to be like a plus three hundred Next

1353
01:12:29,439 --> 01:12:32,760
Speaker 1: fight he might be is Islam versus Chimaia of at

1354
01:12:32,760 --> 01:12:35,160
Speaker 1: one seventy, potentially the best fight in history. Fuck no,

1355
01:12:38,920 --> 01:12:40,639
Speaker 1: is it wrong to say that Daryush is the only

1356
01:12:40,680 --> 01:12:43,200
Speaker 1: threat to Islam and the lightweight division as things stand.

1357
01:12:44,840 --> 01:12:52,759
Speaker 1: Let's see let's look at so here are your ranked

1358
01:12:52,800 --> 01:12:57,120
Speaker 1: contenders at one hundred and fifty five pounds. Olivera, Dustin Parier,

1359
01:12:58,000 --> 01:13:02,519
Speaker 1: Justin Gaechee, Islam, Michael Chandler, darry USh, Phyzi, Phazy is

1360
01:13:02,520 --> 01:13:09,759
Speaker 1: an interesting one, Dosanjos Gamrot, Saryuki, and it's mcgoulov, McGregor, Turner,

1361
01:13:10,600 --> 01:13:15,640
Speaker 1: Dan Hooker, Tony Ferguson. Daryush is a good one. Phyzie's

1362
01:13:15,640 --> 01:13:17,920
Speaker 1: an interesting one. He's got lights out takedown defense. He

1363
01:13:17,960 --> 01:13:21,599
Speaker 1: could be interesting. I think if Arman can really work

1364
01:13:21,640 --> 01:13:25,600
Speaker 1: on his game, you'd put him there. It'smagoulov is quietly

1365
01:13:25,640 --> 01:13:27,479
Speaker 1: a guy you should pay attention to as well. He's

1366
01:13:27,479 --> 01:13:29,120
Speaker 1: got a fight with Armand coming up, and he might

1367
01:13:29,120 --> 01:13:32,439
Speaker 1: win that bitch too. It's mcgoulov. Has very good takedown

1368
01:13:32,479 --> 01:13:35,840
Speaker 1: defense and an a maybe maybe the best job at MMA,

1369
01:13:36,520 --> 01:13:41,519
Speaker 1: like a phenomenal jab. No one ever talks about him

1370
01:13:41,520 --> 01:13:43,840
Speaker 1: because you know, I don't think he does English speaking media,

1371
01:13:43,960 --> 01:13:47,519
Speaker 1: and he doesn't have he doesn't have a boring fight style,

1372
01:13:47,560 --> 01:13:51,000
Speaker 1: but he doesn't exactly again, command a presence. We'll have

1373
01:13:51,000 --> 01:14:02,599
Speaker 1: to see what happens there. Let's see here. I got

1374
01:14:02,600 --> 01:14:04,760
Speaker 1: a funny question. Someone just DM me I'm not gonna

1375
01:14:04,760 --> 01:14:07,320
Speaker 1: look at that one. Hold on, let's go back to

1376
01:14:07,360 --> 01:14:11,280
Speaker 1: your questions here, let's go to the bottom. Ar Let's

1377
01:14:11,280 --> 01:14:18,400
Speaker 1: start our way back up. Okay, why is Islam so good? Defensively?

1378
01:14:19,400 --> 01:14:22,080
Speaker 1: He has He's good about getting out of the way

1379
01:14:22,080 --> 01:14:24,759
Speaker 1: of strikes, he's good about blocking with him, he doesn't

1380
01:14:24,760 --> 01:14:28,559
Speaker 1: stand in the pocket for very long. And then a

1381
01:14:28,560 --> 01:14:31,559
Speaker 1: lot of times he spends indominant grappling positions where guys

1382
01:14:31,560 --> 01:14:35,400
Speaker 1: can't really land on him. He has good control on

1383
01:14:35,439 --> 01:14:38,840
Speaker 1: the ground to avoid like a lot of reversals. He

1384
01:14:38,920 --> 01:14:41,519
Speaker 1: has good submission defense. He threatens with submission. So the

1385
01:14:41,520 --> 01:14:43,479
Speaker 1: point'm trying to make is he's constantly putting the fight

1386
01:14:43,560 --> 01:14:49,600
Speaker 1: on his terms. Right. Does this mean Habib is the

1387
01:14:49,680 --> 01:14:52,800
Speaker 1: lightweight goat? I think he's the best lightweight I've ever seen,

1388
01:14:53,520 --> 01:14:56,519
Speaker 1: but he you know, can you argue that Charles's resume

1389
01:14:56,600 --> 01:14:58,800
Speaker 1: in certain ways is better? You could argue that in

1390
01:14:58,840 --> 01:15:02,439
Speaker 1: certain ways. Does this finally prove that sambo wrestling is

1391
01:15:02,479 --> 01:15:05,519
Speaker 1: a superior martial art in mma that jiu jitsu isn't effective.

1392
01:15:06,960 --> 01:15:10,360
Speaker 1: That's not really the right takeaway here, Yeah, that's not

1393
01:15:10,400 --> 01:15:16,400
Speaker 1: the right takeaway. People mean balal all the time. For decisions.

1394
01:15:16,439 --> 01:15:18,360
Speaker 1: But I would say he has heavier hands than Kolby,

1395
01:15:18,360 --> 01:15:20,200
Speaker 1: who acts like he is a killer. That was a

1396
01:15:20,280 --> 01:15:22,600
Speaker 1: nice win from Ballah. I'll say that for him. I

1397
01:15:22,680 --> 01:15:24,000
Speaker 1: have a lot to say about it because he should

1398
01:15:24,000 --> 01:15:26,240
Speaker 1: be really proud of himself. Thought it was the stoppage

1399
01:15:26,320 --> 01:15:28,720
Speaker 1: was a little early. Wouldn't argue too much about it.

1400
01:15:28,880 --> 01:15:30,439
Speaker 1: Not going to go to the mat for it. I

1401
01:15:30,479 --> 01:15:35,600
Speaker 1: don't care about it that much. But you know, to

1402
01:15:35,680 --> 01:15:37,600
Speaker 1: not really even wrestle Sean Brady and then punch his

1403
01:15:37,680 --> 01:15:42,479
Speaker 1: lights out, that's extremely impressive, really impressive. Do you think

1404
01:15:42,560 --> 01:15:47,400
Speaker 1: Charles Lavera really showed up? Yeah? Sure do. Matching justin

1405
01:15:47,439 --> 01:15:50,280
Speaker 1: Pore versus Makichev is understandable. But the new tide is here.

1406
01:15:50,320 --> 01:15:52,920
Speaker 1: They should be bringing in the youngs. Islam would kick

1407
01:15:52,960 --> 01:15:58,439
Speaker 1: their canes out. Yeah. I can't believe how dominant Islam was.

1408
01:15:58,520 --> 01:16:02,960
Speaker 1: I can, I can should? Or does TJ hang it up?

1409
01:16:03,000 --> 01:16:04,960
Speaker 1: I think the end of his career is probably pretty close,

1410
01:16:05,000 --> 01:16:07,400
Speaker 1: to be honest with you, thirty seven years of age

1411
01:16:07,439 --> 01:16:09,720
Speaker 1: before he even returns, maybe even thirty eight depending on

1412
01:16:09,720 --> 01:16:13,920
Speaker 1: how things go and multiple surgeries. His left shoulder will

1413
01:16:13,960 --> 01:16:16,080
Speaker 1: never be the same. I don't give a fuck what

1414
01:16:16,120 --> 01:16:19,080
Speaker 1: he says. It will never be the same, and you

1415
01:16:19,120 --> 01:16:21,200
Speaker 1: know he probably wants one or two more. You know,

1416
01:16:21,280 --> 01:16:25,960
Speaker 1: I doubt he wants to go out like this, but yeah,

1417
01:16:25,960 --> 01:16:28,160
Speaker 1: he's he doesn't have much time left in the game.

1418
01:16:30,000 --> 01:16:32,439
Speaker 1: Did Islam's performance damp in your height for a potential

1419
01:16:32,520 --> 01:16:37,120
Speaker 1: Vulcan super fight? A little? A little? He's It's like,

1420
01:16:37,120 --> 01:16:38,559
Speaker 1: I don't know how I gonna get that fucking guy

1421
01:16:38,600 --> 01:16:46,679
Speaker 1: off you. You know, let's see is Islam the first

1422
01:16:46,720 --> 01:16:49,400
Speaker 1: lightweight champion where we don't have to talk about Connor

1423
01:16:49,479 --> 01:16:52,040
Speaker 1: jumping the line to fight for the belt. I'm not

1424
01:16:52,080 --> 01:16:54,800
Speaker 1: sure I understand what you mean. Oh DoD you guys

1425
01:16:54,840 --> 01:16:59,200
Speaker 1: see this old Hamzat trying to beef with Habib's people.

1426
01:17:00,640 --> 01:17:04,720
Speaker 1: I heard about this. They got they got video footage.

1427
01:17:05,439 --> 01:17:10,400
Speaker 1: That's crazy. Who do you want to see O'Malley fight next?

1428
01:17:10,479 --> 01:17:12,000
Speaker 1: I could see it. I mean, if they give it

1429
01:17:12,040 --> 01:17:24,559
Speaker 1: to Cheeto to Sterling. Look at the Banthamway Division. Answer

1430
01:17:24,640 --> 01:17:36,240
Speaker 1: that question, Morob, Someone's gotta fight Morob, Right, someone's gotta

1431
01:17:36,280 --> 01:17:42,400
Speaker 1: fight that fucking guy. Was that fucking Kadirov in the

1432
01:17:42,439 --> 01:17:44,040
Speaker 1: cage after the main event? No, I don't think so.

1433
01:17:44,360 --> 01:17:45,720
Speaker 1: I don't think he was. I don't think he was

1434
01:17:45,760 --> 01:17:48,120
Speaker 1: there or in the cage. How much of a chance

1435
01:17:48,160 --> 01:17:50,840
Speaker 1: do you give Alex against Islam? I would favor Islam,

1436
01:17:50,880 --> 01:18:03,800
Speaker 1: but I you know Alex is crafty Uh, all right,

1437
01:18:06,880 --> 01:18:11,200
Speaker 1: there you go. That's my show. That's it. We would

1438
01:18:11,200 --> 01:18:12,880
Speaker 1: have be done here an hour and twenty minutes, roughly,

1439
01:18:12,960 --> 01:18:15,760
Speaker 1: not quite. That's along the stream has been going on

1440
01:18:15,760 --> 01:18:17,200
Speaker 1: my end, but that's not how long it's been on

1441
01:18:17,240 --> 01:18:21,559
Speaker 1: your end. Hey man, what a night. Huh didn't end

1442
01:18:21,600 --> 01:18:24,519
Speaker 1: up hell you wanted? But you got some results. You

1443
01:18:24,600 --> 01:18:27,360
Speaker 1: certainly did. We will see what happens with TJ. Dilshaw's arm.

1444
01:18:27,400 --> 01:18:29,559
Speaker 1: We will see what happens with Stirling's next title defense.

1445
01:18:29,880 --> 01:18:31,920
Speaker 1: We will see what happens where Yon goes from here.

1446
01:18:32,240 --> 01:18:34,200
Speaker 1: Certainly see what happens with Sean O'Malley. He might get

1447
01:18:34,200 --> 01:18:35,600
Speaker 1: a title shot. I don't think you should take it,

1448
01:18:35,600 --> 01:18:39,400
Speaker 1: but we'll see. And Islam Makachev is the best lightweight

1449
01:18:39,400 --> 01:18:42,639
Speaker 1: in the world. That's a fact, folks, that's a fact.

1450
01:18:42,880 --> 01:18:46,280
Speaker 1: It's also a fact that you ladies and gentlemen should

1451
01:18:46,320 --> 01:18:49,799
Speaker 1: subscribe to this show Morning Combat. It's the best motherfucking

1452
01:18:49,800 --> 01:18:52,080
Speaker 1: podcast in combat sports. I don't care what anybody says.

1453
01:18:52,280 --> 01:18:54,000
Speaker 1: This is the number one Elle nu moro who know

1454
01:18:55,080 --> 01:18:56,400
Speaker 1: and we love what we do. We would love it

1455
01:18:56,400 --> 01:18:59,240
Speaker 1: if you joined us when we do it. So thank

1456
01:18:59,280 --> 01:19:01,599
Speaker 1: you so much for who has been here. I greatly

1457
01:19:01,640 --> 01:19:05,120
Speaker 1: appreciate it. Back on Monday, Monday, Monday with a show

1458
01:19:05,120 --> 01:19:09,080
Speaker 1: to react to everything with Brian Campbell, and then that'll

1459
01:19:09,080 --> 01:19:12,120
Speaker 1: be that all right. So for everyone on staff and

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01:19:12,240 --> 01:19:14,640
Speaker 1: CBA Sports and showtime, I'm Luke Thomas. I'm out of

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Speaker 1: here until next time. Get some sleep.