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Speaker 1: Eliot Tuporia has just taken over the entire promotion of

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Speaker 1: the UFC and quite frankly, the entire sport of MMA.

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Speaker 1: UFC fans, you have your next big superstar and his

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Speaker 1: name is El Matador. He just knocked out Charles Olivera.

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Speaker 1: That's right, du Bronx in the first round of his

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Speaker 1: introduction to one hundred and fifty five pounds, and he

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Speaker 1: is the new lightweight champion of the World in the UFC.

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Speaker 1: He has now held belt in two separate weight classes,

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Speaker 1: and he is starting to make a legacy that is undeniable.

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Speaker 1: Seventeen to zero and no flaws. I mean that specifically

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Speaker 1: in this fight. What just happened the breakdown, Let's go so,

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Speaker 1: like I said, Eliot Tuporia, Charles Olivera, this was the

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Speaker 1: fight I think that everybody was anticipating this week, and

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Speaker 1: it turned out to be one that actually delivered on

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Speaker 1: the anticipation, unlike another fight that happened in direct competition

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Speaker 1: in the boxing ring on the same night. I'll just

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Speaker 1: say it, Julio Sayeser job as Junior Jake Paul did

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Speaker 1: not deliver anywhere close to the magnitude to the performance

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Speaker 1: to the delivery to the spectacular nature of the finish,

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Speaker 1: all of it culminating in Iliotzaporia going absolutely bonkers and doing.

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Speaker 2: Exactly what he said he would do.

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Speaker 1: If you guys didn't see during fight week, it was

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Speaker 1: almost like a foregone conclusion from Eliot Saporia that he

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Speaker 1: was gonna win this fight, a level of confidence that

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Speaker 1: we have not seen in the UFC in a very

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Speaker 1: very long time, one that included him walking up to

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Speaker 1: Charles and telling him it was written. I didn't want

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Speaker 1: it to be you. I'm sorry it had to be you,

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Speaker 1: but this win was already written. To then celebrating a

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Speaker 1: victory the night before it happens, a victory dinner on

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Speaker 2: Before the fight.

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Speaker 1: It was almost as if Iliot Tuporia knew what we

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Speaker 1: all thought, but maybe didn't have the courage to say

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Speaker 1: because we're not him, We are not Iliot Saporia. We

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Speaker 1: didn't know that his confidence would exude and radiate so

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Speaker 1: much energy, but eventually he would have a spectacular performance

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Speaker 1: like we just saw. So let's talk about the fight.

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Speaker 1: I told you guys coming into this fight, and I'll

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Speaker 1: tell you again. The biggest gap I saw between Eliot

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Speaker 1: Saporia and Charles Lavera was obvious the striking department, and

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Speaker 1: it was in the pocket. The moments where this fight

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Speaker 1: would get heavy is when Iliot Sapporia and Charles both

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Speaker 1: decided to engage in the phone booth fight, and right

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Speaker 1: away from the opening bell this happened, and funny enough,

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Speaker 1: as the fight started, both of them traded in the

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Speaker 1: pocket and Charles Lavera was the one that came out

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Speaker 2: As soon as the fight.

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Speaker 1: Started, he clipped Iliot Sapporia with a right hand that

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Speaker 1: made Ilio back off and rethink that exchange, and ultimately

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Speaker 1: there was a scramble where Charles Lavera got double underhooks

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Speaker 1: and in that exchange, I'm not sure if Charles got

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Speaker 1: cut on the eyebrow from something Ilia hit him with

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Speaker 1: and Ilia ends up flipping position on him, getting top

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Speaker 1: Leg locks, got somewhat threatening with one, and Ilia got

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Speaker 1: this moment, something that again when you watch him fight,

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Speaker 1: as the words you keep finding in your mind. He

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Speaker 1: fights with such a poise, such an a welcoming of

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Speaker 1: the moment. No jitters, no, no butterflies, No, the moment

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Speaker 1: is too big. It reminds you of another god that

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Speaker 1: and fifty five pounds. I'm not saying that Iliot Taporia

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Speaker 1: is Connor McGregor or Connor MacGregor is Iliot Taporia, but

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Speaker 1: Eliot Saporia's run is better. He has knocked out two

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Speaker 1: You may have this moment, but now it's my turn too,

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Speaker 1: Pimless stepped in and I don't know who arranged it,

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Speaker 1: and say congratulations, but you're not knocking me out. I'm

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Speaker 2: Gonna do all this and do that. It was perfect.

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Speaker 1: It felt like such a good piece of business that

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Speaker 1: an ingrained hwed between two guys that just don't like

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Speaker 2: Finally we get to see them fight, and.

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Speaker 1: There's even a shove from Ilia to get Patty out

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Speaker 2: It makes sense.

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Speaker 1: But then I heard Dana White say this in the

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Speaker 3: Well, I don't know who the hell led him in there.

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Speaker 3: That should have never happened. Let's start there. I was

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Speaker 3: But that's not the fight. It's just, yeah, it was fun.

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Speaker 3: It shouldn't happen. It was fun to watch. Wow, that's

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Speaker 3: fun to watch or not, it's just that that shouldn't happen. Plus,

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Speaker 1: Dana White is upset that Patty Pimlett faced off with

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Speaker 2: Me just doesn't make sense. Let'sen get it.

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Speaker 1: I know that Justin Gaigie is a matchup that favors

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Speaker 1: a striking battle that Eliot Teporia will most likely win.

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Speaker 1: I mean, listen, I know Mma Matt doesn't always work.

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Speaker 1: expect to happen when Iliot Teporia gets in there? For

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Speaker 2: Be stopped, and he wants to strike.

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Speaker 1: And also if he wrestles to Poria is probably better

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Speaker 1: them have their own separate fan bases. Both of them

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Speaker 1: You can say it's too early, but at that point,

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Speaker 1: is it not just the same problem that everybody has

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Speaker 2: That's the same problem we've had for years with them.

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Speaker 1: We don't get the fights we want when we want them,

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Speaker 1: and instead they fall by the wayside and we all

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Speaker 1: sit there on our hands and say, well, we wish

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Speaker 1: we would have got them when they were in their prime.

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Speaker 1: I just think that's the fight to make, and Dana's

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Speaker 1: upset about it because I think Dana wants Elia Tuporia

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Speaker 1: and Justin Gage. I'm hoping this moment forced his hand.

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Speaker 1: I'm hoping that the people loved it enough to say,

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Speaker 1: get you know, let's do it.

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Speaker 2: I really do.

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Speaker 1: I just don't know if that's the case. But regardless

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Speaker 1: in any form or fashion, Elia Tuporia is on the

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Speaker 1: verge of becoming a global MMA superstar. He is becoming

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Speaker 1: what this sport has needed in the last I would

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Speaker 1: say two to three years without Alex.

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Speaker 2: Pereira's name being invoked.

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Speaker 1: This man can speak great English, he is well dressed,

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Speaker 1: he's got a great look. He is a crunch time player,

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Speaker 1: meaning he steps up on every big stage and delivers

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Speaker 1: in the most emphatic fashion and when he's done, it's

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Speaker 1: onto the next one.

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Speaker 2: Business as usual.

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Speaker 1: If the UFC does not strap the rocket ship to

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Speaker 1: his back, whether it's with which whatever, or it's with

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Speaker 1: Patty the Batty, and they make an ingrained rivalry to

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Speaker 1: just build his legacy further potentially or to make Patty

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Speaker 1: the Batty that next big thing. They need to understand

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Speaker 1: they have a burgeoning superstar on their hands and if

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Speaker 1: they don't take advantage of it now, I don't know

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Speaker 1: what else they need to know. Elia Taporia is the

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Speaker 1: real deal and he's going to be for a very

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Speaker 1: long time undefeated and undisputed lightweight champion of the World.

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Speaker 1: In a demolishing a demolition job of Charles olivera who

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Speaker 1: you know, has been around in the sport for a

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Speaker 1: very long time. Not sure where he goes from here.

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Speaker 1: Obviously didn't have his best performance. Wasn't his night, And yes,

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Speaker 1: some of it was about Charles, his stubbornness, his inability

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Speaker 1: to keep the fight at distance, but more of it

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Speaker 1: was about Iliad Taporia and his just greatness.

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Speaker 2: What happens next for him, Charles, for the UFC.

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Speaker 1: I don't have those answers, And I know one thing,

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Speaker 1: it's almost impossible to mess this up because Ilio Taporia

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Speaker 1: is just that damn good.

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Speaker 2: What happens for him next? I guess we'll find out