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Speaker 1: The volume, guys.

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Speaker 2: Diego Lopez fights Alexander Volkanowski for the vacant UFC Featherweight

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Speaker 2: Championship this weekend. Thanks for checking in with me, man,

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Speaker 2: I appreciate you stopping by. How has this all been, Diego?

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Speaker 2: This has gone really really fast. Two years ago you

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Speaker 2: make a short notice debut, you fight so competitively against

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Speaker 2: if Loyev right, if Loye right. Yes, fight so competitively

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Speaker 2: against Evloyev. Fast forward and you're fighting for the world title. Like,

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Speaker 2: is this faster than you could have even imagined?

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Speaker 3: I think it is. I ain't stay so fass, I mean,

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Speaker 3: chuie is I'm state fights for the title, but I

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Speaker 3: have it thirty two fights, bro walking to ma chat

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Speaker 3: heavy in Michael here for a professional fight, I walk

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Speaker 3: it to a so long time. Uh one day, I know,

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Speaker 3: I know imaginally this is I'm staying UFC. Is my

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Speaker 3: incest in the in the division is so fast? I

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Speaker 3: take for I fight for the title, But I know

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Speaker 3: I I sent this secarette in my myself. It's the

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Speaker 3: I already UFC. I I put the bigger, bigger bigg

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Speaker 3: things in the division.

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Speaker 2: Then we get to note cha UFC and you're fighting

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Speaker 2: Brian or Taga this time at your actual way, and

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Speaker 2: you beat him as bad as anyone has ever beaten

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Speaker 2: Brian or Taga.

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Speaker 4: Did you know matchup wise that that was a good

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Speaker 4: fight for you?

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Speaker 5: Yeah?

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Speaker 4: I know.

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Speaker 3: Uh, in this fight my mind is, uh go to

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Speaker 3: the altagon, put the great show. Uh prove it for

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Speaker 3: for everybody who stay waiting for fight at the top. No,

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Speaker 3: this is my goal, uh for this fight. I know

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Speaker 3: it's the guys is a great fighter's not not too

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Speaker 3: many people's bitters, the theres, the and put in this fight. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: I know, I know it's the is a great fight. Now.

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Speaker 2: Were you disappointed seeing him leave the weight class when

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Speaker 2: you could potentially have fought him for the belt?

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Speaker 3: No, I don't think so. Because this guy in October

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Speaker 3: in the in the fight week in the UF this

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Speaker 3: guy said many time, is that you's the guy?

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Speaker 1: Uh move for?

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Speaker 4: He told you?

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Speaker 3: No, told you in the media. Yes, the media. Uh.

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Speaker 3: I at least it is me and my teas they

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Speaker 3: prepared for.

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Speaker 1: But did he look big?

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Speaker 4: Does he look big like a big guy to go

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Speaker 4: up to one of the divide.

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Speaker 3: No, I don't think so. This is it's it's short,

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Speaker 3: it's short. Small, but it's.

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Speaker 4: It's white like big.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's big. Uh, but you know I'm not the

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Speaker 3: point for this. My focus is the title, the bell

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Speaker 3: Yeah bell, I lind seen. My focus in the title

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Speaker 3: this time twenty twenty three three, the the champions volcano

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Speaker 3: in My focus in the Volcanos Voco, the lost of

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Speaker 3: the title. My focus there in the Poia. Uh yeah, no,

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Speaker 3: that's the point because my my focus is for the title.

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Speaker 3: No one past.

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Speaker 2: So it is Alexander Volkanowski, right, and this is one

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Speaker 2: of the greatest champions of all time, right, he can

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Speaker 2: do it all.

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Speaker 4: This guy is an amazing fighter. But in his last

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Speaker 4: few fights he's one in three.

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Speaker 2: In his last four he got beat by Marktcheff, then

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Speaker 2: he got finished by Marktcheff, then he got finished by

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Speaker 2: the poor year.

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Speaker 4: Is Alexander Volkanowski the same guy? Can he compete with

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Speaker 4: you on Saturday night?

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Speaker 1: Uh?

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Speaker 3: Maybe? Maybe now is the guy take one one in

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Speaker 3: the West. Maybe it's the guy is the humanity is

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Speaker 3: different now? Maybe taking it take take take your time

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Speaker 3: for for the rest is the ovens for for your

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Speaker 3: life too? Maybe now is different for the fight for No.

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Speaker 3: I think it's the guy fighted so fast after after

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Speaker 3: the Yeah, but bro, I mean I hope the best

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Speaker 3: version that the voke. I work too much for this fight.

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Speaker 3: I hope for the best, the best diversion of the

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Speaker 3: vote in the octagon. Uh, this is my goal now

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Speaker 3: is my goal for BITI voke is the best version.

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Speaker 4: Experience is a very key component to this fight.

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Speaker 2: Volkanowski has for ten straight title fights, main events, five rounds.

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Speaker 2: You haven't you have none, no main events, no five

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Speaker 2: round fights.

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Speaker 4: How have you prepared yourself for that?

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Speaker 2: Knowing that if this fight goes long, you're in there

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Speaker 2: with a guy that has essentially made a career of

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Speaker 3: I know vocal is a lot of a lot of experience.

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Speaker 3: You have seen fight too much to match the fight

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Speaker 3: in the five rounds. But I prepared myself for for

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Speaker 3: the best. I've I prepared for one, two, three, for

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Speaker 3: five rods is necessary for for this fight. But I

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Speaker 3: I I go to finish this fight. I know what

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Speaker 3: I know. I know twenty four for for the fighting,

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Speaker 3: make the decision. I twenty four the finished the fighter.

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Speaker 3: I take it nothing. Twenty four for fighting every fighter

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Speaker 3: for five rides. Right. Look, my record is twenty twenty five,

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Speaker 3: twenty six wins, twenty to twenty finished. This is my goal.

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Speaker 3: My goal is finishing this fight.

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Speaker 4: You're right on the verge of it. Man, you have

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Speaker 4: any Orange Oklahoma state? You went training? He went training

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Speaker 4: still water. How do you like it down there?

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Speaker 3: Is amazing? Is amazing. Time stayed two weeks and he's

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Speaker 3: still water. It is amazing. Trainice. The people in Oklahoma

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Speaker 3: is so nice. People. Is they training this guy in

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Speaker 3: the in the room two? It's the Yeah, and so

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Speaker 3: I'm so happy.

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Speaker 4: It is my time in oklaholm and David's coming tomorrow.

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Speaker 4: The coach is coming to watch a fight.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yes, David is coming in Tomato. Yeah. I I

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Speaker 3: had no idea, but to my money, is I good?

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Speaker 3: Defend it for David? It's say mean, it's that yesterday

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Speaker 4: Is is y'all?

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Speaker 3: Okay?

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Speaker 4: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: I'm so happy because David is now. He's a good

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Speaker 3: friend too.

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Speaker 4: Good friend, great coach, You're a great fighter. Guys.

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Speaker 2: Diego Lopez challenges for the Featherweight Champions for the World

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean it feels amazing, you know.

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Speaker 5: Like I know a lot of people were worried because

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Speaker 6: But I was very, very smart.

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Speaker 6: So they're just like you just need to get to

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Speaker 5: You So here I am. I'm super excited. It's fight

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Speaker 2: When you wrap your mind around this, right, because even

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Speaker 6: Mean, I mean I won my first medal at seventeen

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Speaker 4: Seventeen years old, Yeah, I won your first world medal.

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Speaker 2: So when dealing with with with those types of issues

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Speaker 4: Times where.

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Speaker 2: You're kind of like worried, like you can't let the

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Speaker 4: How do you deal with those demons of all the

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Speaker 5: Oh, I'm smart about it, but I still work very hard. Yeah,

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Speaker 5: So it's not like the tearing me from getting my

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Speaker 2: I remember sitting there with Rogan and we were talking

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Speaker 4: Damn's gonna be shamped. She's undefeated. She did, she did,

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Speaker 6: I just trusted. I showed up every single day. I

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Speaker 6: Kidding, we got to do it again.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, how You're like, what, but that strengthens you? Hear right?

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Speaker 5: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, this is a mine right to glocer because there's

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Speaker 5: I think for her, you know, she has a strong

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Speaker 2: So when I talk to my when I talk to people,

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Speaker 6: Yeah.

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Speaker 5: No, actually, and then Nina fight, I didn't feel tired

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Speaker 6: All around their kids.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I lose.

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Speaker 5: I was like just thinking like maybe I could just

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Speaker 6: Just get Yeah, I was like, just get through the

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Speaker 5: Like it was like a competitor, like you know when

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Speaker 3: It was like that.

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Speaker 2: I literally sometimes would look at the clock. You're grabbing

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Speaker 6: Like shit, two minute clip footwork, all right, I got this.

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Speaker 2: Just yeah, I'm glad because I'm glad to hear that

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Speaker 5: I felt fine, No, I just you know, I just

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Speaker 6: I should have just stayed engaged and like that. But

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Speaker 5: Even like it's like I thought to myself, Oh, you know,

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Speaker 5: I'm fine, I could just do foot work around here,

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Speaker 4: Your documentary was nice too. It was on Bill you

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Speaker 4: know what it was on Max. I saw that. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: it was congratulations. That's ok.

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Speaker 6: I appreciate it. That's a big deal for me, though

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Speaker 6: I didn't want to add two.

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Speaker 5: Like you know, I do a lot of sparring rounds

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Speaker 3: Okay, Yeah, so yeah, I.

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Speaker 6: Think that's something that's like a good thing for me.

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Speaker 5: I don't know if it's like I get I shake

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Speaker 6: It's strange.

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Speaker 1: I don't know.

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Speaker 6: So Like in fact, like my coach was doing Punch County.

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Speaker 5: He's like, yeah, their last round was the most punches

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Speaker 6: That's good to hear.

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Speaker 2: Because you know, when you're in the FEEDD fighter and

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Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, absolutely.

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Speaker 5: I mean they even did it to Waylee her lap fire,

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Speaker 2: So it's not even like sometimes it's not competitive, but

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Speaker 6: Absolutely, you know.

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Speaker 4: Are you ready for what happens? If you win this

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Speaker 2: Your life changes completely? The spotlight girls, everything is just

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Speaker 6: Yeah. No, I mean I think that, you know, I'm

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Speaker 5: Maybe that's why my time wasn't four years ago, you know,

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Speaker 6: This is my time, and I look forward to proving

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Speaker 5: And that you know, it's gonna be an amazing story

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Speaker 5: and I just can't wait to share it with the world.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's gonna be a tremendous fight. I cannot wait

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Speaker 2: to watch, guys. Tatiana Suarez challenges Wayley this weekend for

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Speaker 2: the belt. Make sure you tap into everything she's doing,

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Speaker 2: follow her, subscribe to everything she's doing. She's a fantastic wrestler,

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Speaker 2: but she'sn't even better fighter, possibly a world champion. You

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Speaker 2: have see three twelve goes down this week it from Sydney.

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Speaker 2: Till next time, Mike subscribing. Tell you friends that DC's

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Speaker 2: got a YouTube channel and I'm checking in with people

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Speaker 2: like Tatian. Sorry till next time.

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Speaker 4: Peace,