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Speaker 2: see the fourth. It is still the fourth. Usually we

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Speaker 2: late into the night. Today that is not the occasion.

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Speaker 1: Welcome.

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Speaker 2: This is the Beltiore two ninety Morning Combat Post fight Show,

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Speaker 2: Instant Reaction, you name it. My name is Lou Thomas.

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Speaker 2: Of course, I'm one half of the hosting duo from

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Speaker 2: regular Morning Combat. Brian Campbell is off doing CBS Sports

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Speaker 2: here tonight. We'll go through the results from the main

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Speaker 2: card for Beltore two ninety, which just finished on CBS.

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Speaker 2: This was Belatore's debut on CBS. We'll talk some about that,

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Speaker 2: and of course it was fedro million ACO's last fight.

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Speaker 2: He retired in the cage. It was a depressing affair.

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Speaker 1: Who cares anymore? Who cares? Who cares?

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Speaker 2: a solid. All right, let's get to these results. So

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Speaker 2: this took place. I didn't realize they had renamed the forum.

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Speaker 2: So it's now called the Kia Forum or just Kia

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Speaker 2: Forum anyway in Inglewood, California. This is just outside Los Angeles. Basically,

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Speaker 2: it's a suburb of some kind of a.

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Speaker 1: Way of looking at it. All right, neither here nor there.

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Speaker 2: Bellat or two ninety headlined Ryan Bader defeats Faedo million

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Speaker 2: Anco via Tko at two thirty of round one.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I mean, you know, we knew it was

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Speaker 2: I even on Friday's MK when we were breaking it down,

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Speaker 2: I wanted to sort of give life to the idea

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Speaker 2: about what a fad or pick might look like if

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Speaker 2: you could make one, and I hitched my wagon to it.

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Speaker 2: But I even openly said that like BC's pick and

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Speaker 2: the pick for Bader was the correct one, and it was.

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Speaker 2: I mean, there was listen, we you know, I mean,

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Speaker 2: as necessarily on par with Fador's achievements, but I think

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Speaker 2: a beloved figure of the game who was highly accomplished

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Speaker 2: They kind of booked him Chris Gutierrez, which was a

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Speaker 2: But of course he gets iced terrible. And then we

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Speaker 1: Of course, he didn't. He got iced.

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Speaker 2: the first person to her defeat fad Or twice. Although

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Speaker 2: seven in September. You know, I think he had some

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Speaker 2: But you know, I think, let this be a reminder

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Speaker 2: it's myriad reasons why they want to prove to themselves

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Speaker 2: But getting back to the point about sticking the landing,

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Speaker 1: But you know, that was always going to be a thing.

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Speaker 2: What else did I notice about the broadcast? The crowd

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Speaker 1: One of them was five rounder.

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Speaker 2: That was fine, But in terms of like the impact

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Speaker 1: Let me see if it's trending on Twitter. I don't

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean UFC Vegas sixty eight is trending on

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Speaker 2: little bit. But you know, the vet by name isn't.

432
00:21:01,440 --> 00:21:04,480
Speaker 2: So you know, I don't know how this one's gonna do. Candidly,

433
00:21:04,520 --> 00:21:06,480
Speaker 2: I don't know it might do well. I really I

434
00:21:06,520 --> 00:21:09,200
Speaker 2: don't know what the benchmarks are internally for success either,

435
00:21:09,680 --> 00:21:11,280
Speaker 2: Like what do they consider success.

436
00:21:12,240 --> 00:21:12,639
Speaker 1: I don't know.

437
00:21:12,680 --> 00:21:15,280
Speaker 2: They don't share these memos with me, but I think

438
00:21:15,359 --> 00:21:18,040
Speaker 2: they made a mistake not showing the lark and fight

439
00:21:18,240 --> 00:21:23,160
Speaker 2: and crowd was a little weird. Crowd was a little weird.

440
00:21:23,960 --> 00:21:26,959
Speaker 2: I don't really know what to make of that. But okay,

441
00:21:27,200 --> 00:21:32,240
Speaker 2: moving down the card, your comin event, Johnny Eblin defeats

442
00:21:32,240 --> 00:21:35,239
Speaker 2: anatotally Tokov fifty forty five and then two forty nine

443
00:21:35,320 --> 00:21:38,919
Speaker 2: forty six is unanimous decision. Johnny Eblin is the most

444
00:21:39,080 --> 00:21:48,639
Speaker 2: unheralded champion among major MMA organizations today in any way, class,

445
00:21:49,720 --> 00:21:52,080
Speaker 2: I don't that's not me telling you that I can

446
00:21:52,160 --> 00:21:56,240
Speaker 2: declare with total confidence that he's the very best middleweight.

447
00:21:56,359 --> 00:21:57,879
Speaker 2: I don't know that. I don't know if he's the

448
00:21:58,000 --> 00:22:00,280
Speaker 2: very best middleweight. This is not me declare to you

449
00:22:00,320 --> 00:22:02,000
Speaker 2: he's gonna beat all of your favorite fighters at the

450
00:22:02,080 --> 00:22:04,800
Speaker 2: UFC ever signs him. It's not what I'm suggesting either.

451
00:22:05,119 --> 00:22:07,200
Speaker 2: What I am saying is relative to what he can

452
00:22:07,280 --> 00:22:13,000
Speaker 2: do and relative to what he's accomplished, matched against the

453
00:22:13,040 --> 00:22:15,320
Speaker 2: acclaim he gets for it. I mean, there's just a

454
00:22:15,440 --> 00:22:19,119
Speaker 2: yawning gap in between. I got news for you. Like,

455
00:22:19,200 --> 00:22:21,480
Speaker 2: I don't know if Johnny Evelin is the best middleweight

456
00:22:21,520 --> 00:22:25,040
Speaker 2: on earth. I tend to think probably not at He's

457
00:22:25,119 --> 00:22:29,520
Speaker 2: not right now, not right now, but he probably gives

458
00:22:30,000 --> 00:22:33,879
Speaker 2: Pata a hard time, real hard time, just stylistically, he

459
00:22:33,880 --> 00:22:38,240
Speaker 2: gives him a hard time and might just beat his ass,

460
00:22:38,320 --> 00:22:41,480
Speaker 2: like it could actually be ugly like that. I'm not

461
00:22:41,560 --> 00:22:43,680
Speaker 2: declarant to you like that would happen, but that you

462
00:22:44,000 --> 00:22:46,240
Speaker 2: could add not dismiss that at all. I mean, let's

463
00:22:46,440 --> 00:22:47,520
Speaker 2: talk about what makes him good.

464
00:22:47,600 --> 00:22:47,760
Speaker 1: Right.

465
00:22:48,240 --> 00:22:52,960
Speaker 2: He has striking that still is in development. I think

466
00:22:53,000 --> 00:22:56,920
Speaker 2: you can see that. But he's got the ability to

467
00:22:59,000 --> 00:23:01,199
Speaker 2: He's got good linear punches, right, I mean, what was

468
00:23:01,200 --> 00:23:05,359
Speaker 2: the punch that was giving Tokov so many problems. The

469
00:23:05,400 --> 00:23:09,160
Speaker 2: one too, the one too. He could not miss with

470
00:23:09,200 --> 00:23:13,040
Speaker 2: that one too. That right hand was sticking to call

471
00:23:13,359 --> 00:23:17,000
Speaker 2: flush over and over and over again. I was like,

472
00:23:17,080 --> 00:23:20,199
Speaker 2: holy smoke, that thing is just dynamite. And you know,

473
00:23:20,240 --> 00:23:22,480
Speaker 2: he had a lot of winging punches off balance and

474
00:23:22,480 --> 00:23:24,400
Speaker 2: then try and switch through stances like that stuff needs

475
00:23:24,400 --> 00:23:26,199
Speaker 2: a little bit of work. You know that that's not

476
00:23:26,320 --> 00:23:29,159
Speaker 2: like his strong suit. But he's got good, respectable power.

477
00:23:29,280 --> 00:23:34,160
Speaker 2: I would call his striking more than functional, like valuable,

478
00:23:34,280 --> 00:23:36,119
Speaker 2: like he can he can stand with it and do

479
00:23:36,320 --> 00:23:36,560
Speaker 2: with it.

480
00:23:36,600 --> 00:23:37,080
Speaker 1: He can win.

481
00:23:37,520 --> 00:23:39,040
Speaker 2: But what really sort of set him apart is that

482
00:23:39,040 --> 00:23:42,040
Speaker 2: his striking is not the best, but it's good and

483
00:23:42,320 --> 00:23:45,160
Speaker 2: he's got good power. He's got great cardio, and that

484
00:23:45,160 --> 00:23:50,200
Speaker 2: that dude can just wrestle you until until he's for forever.

485
00:23:50,720 --> 00:23:53,120
Speaker 2: He's a perpetual motion machine. And that's at that's side

486
00:23:53,119 --> 00:23:55,520
Speaker 2: one hundred and eighty five pounds. He reminds me a

487
00:23:55,560 --> 00:23:58,639
Speaker 2: little bit, a little bit, this is not quite the

488
00:23:58,680 --> 00:24:00,440
Speaker 2: right thing, because the guy I'm about to as much

489
00:24:00,440 --> 00:24:03,720
Speaker 2: better as a at weaving in the Submission Threat. But

490
00:24:03,800 --> 00:24:05,800
Speaker 2: like when Chris Widman was on his game. It was

491
00:24:05,800 --> 00:24:08,320
Speaker 2: a little bit like this again. Wideman had a little

492
00:24:08,320 --> 00:24:11,080
Speaker 2: bit more slickness with the boxing, a little more slickness

493
00:24:11,080 --> 00:24:14,080
Speaker 2: with the submission game. But it felt a little bit

494
00:24:14,119 --> 00:24:16,000
Speaker 2: like what you're getting out of this, Like a big,

495
00:24:16,119 --> 00:24:19,240
Speaker 2: strong middleweight who has the gas tank to go forever.

496
00:24:19,320 --> 00:24:21,320
Speaker 2: He can push the pace if he needs to. He's

497
00:24:21,359 --> 00:24:25,200
Speaker 2: got good power, he can push you back with his striking,

498
00:24:25,320 --> 00:24:28,520
Speaker 2: he can land on you, he can he has, you know,

499
00:24:28,840 --> 00:24:33,359
Speaker 2: reasonable striking defense, and when he mixes all of it together,

500
00:24:33,400 --> 00:24:35,800
Speaker 2: it just becomes overwhelming. Like that's the kind of game

501
00:24:35,840 --> 00:24:39,119
Speaker 2: that he's got, and it's I don't know who in

502
00:24:39,119 --> 00:24:40,359
Speaker 2: that organization.

503
00:24:39,920 --> 00:24:40,560
Speaker 1: Can beat him.

504
00:24:41,160 --> 00:24:43,320
Speaker 2: He will only get beat if he makes some kind

505
00:24:43,359 --> 00:24:46,679
Speaker 2: of error or one in a million shot lands, or

506
00:24:46,720 --> 00:24:49,600
Speaker 2: he doesn't prepare right. But if he's healthy, and if

507
00:24:49,640 --> 00:24:52,680
Speaker 2: he prepares and if you know, Father Time doesn't whip

508
00:24:52,680 --> 00:24:54,879
Speaker 2: his ass, he's gonna hold onto that belt for some time.

509
00:24:55,920 --> 00:24:58,120
Speaker 2: Let me pull up to bellatore Middleway rankings. I don't

510
00:24:58,160 --> 00:25:01,800
Speaker 2: do the rankings for Bellatour, so I couldn't tell you.

511
00:25:01,760 --> 00:25:07,280
Speaker 1: Who they have up here. Let's see so current middleweight.

512
00:25:07,280 --> 00:25:08,200
Speaker 1: Here's your middleweights.

513
00:25:10,760 --> 00:25:13,440
Speaker 2: Fabian Edwards probably the next one, Tokov was the one

514
00:25:13,480 --> 00:25:16,920
Speaker 2: sitting in that same space. Psalter, who he already beat

515
00:25:17,119 --> 00:25:19,600
Speaker 2: Ross has only got eight fights, eight or nine fights.

516
00:25:19,920 --> 00:25:23,200
Speaker 2: Then Aaron Jeffrey Austin, Vanderford, Lorenz Larkin was an interesting one,

517
00:25:23,400 --> 00:25:25,400
Speaker 2: and then Romero Cotton. So does a couple of names

518
00:25:25,400 --> 00:25:28,040
Speaker 2: in there, you know, and Larkin is obviously a much

519
00:25:28,119 --> 00:25:32,200
Speaker 2: better a much better striker than Johnny Eblin. But overall

520
00:25:32,280 --> 00:25:34,480
Speaker 2: game in terms of just the amount of effort that

521
00:25:34,520 --> 00:25:36,960
Speaker 2: guy can apply to you and what it can result in,

522
00:25:38,800 --> 00:25:41,560
Speaker 2: that's a lot to deal with. That's a lot to

523
00:25:41,560 --> 00:25:45,160
Speaker 2: deal with. So early I thought I thought Tokov took

524
00:25:45,240 --> 00:25:48,479
Speaker 2: maybe the first or second round. I think the first round,

525
00:25:49,359 --> 00:25:53,159
Speaker 2: I thought Eblin made a strong comeback. In the second

526
00:25:54,240 --> 00:25:56,080
Speaker 2: had to push through like the tide like. I think

527
00:25:56,080 --> 00:25:58,200
Speaker 2: he kind of squeaked it out. And in the third

528
00:25:58,320 --> 00:26:00,320
Speaker 2: round I thought Tokov was really taking it to him.

529
00:26:00,359 --> 00:26:03,240
Speaker 2: But then Eblin ended strong, dropping him with that elbow.

530
00:26:03,720 --> 00:26:06,239
Speaker 2: I believe that's right. Fourth round, he just wrestled him

531
00:26:06,280 --> 00:26:09,199
Speaker 2: to death. Fifth round, more or less the same thing.

532
00:26:09,240 --> 00:26:12,119
Speaker 2: Tokoff couldn't get him off. Tokoff's gas tank heard him.

533
00:26:12,119 --> 00:26:14,080
Speaker 2: That's something that like you've noticed in the past. We've

534
00:26:14,200 --> 00:26:17,199
Speaker 2: seen Tokoff fights. His gas tank is not terrible, but

535
00:26:17,240 --> 00:26:19,879
Speaker 2: I don't know that it's suited well for five rounds.

536
00:26:20,320 --> 00:26:25,239
Speaker 2: He can usually be much more of a force through three,

537
00:26:26,080 --> 00:26:28,280
Speaker 2: so your gas tank was a bit of a problem.

538
00:26:28,560 --> 00:26:31,240
Speaker 2: He had good punching power, he a good striking but

539
00:26:31,440 --> 00:26:35,960
Speaker 2: I think that once he became a little flat footed

540
00:26:36,720 --> 00:26:41,000
Speaker 2: and not able to be as reactive. In that third round,

541
00:26:41,040 --> 00:26:42,879
Speaker 2: when he got stung with some of those hard rights,

542
00:26:43,440 --> 00:26:46,040
Speaker 2: everything just began to slow and he couldn't really ever

543
00:26:46,080 --> 00:26:48,520
Speaker 2: get get back out into another gear. He couldn't catch

544
00:26:48,520 --> 00:26:54,320
Speaker 2: his breath, really, he couldn't. He couldn't put uh, he

545
00:26:54,400 --> 00:26:59,479
Speaker 2: couldn't put Eblin on the back foot enough. And he

546
00:26:59,560 --> 00:27:02,760
Speaker 2: was on the back foot metaphorically and literally constantly after that.

547
00:27:02,800 --> 00:27:04,160
Speaker 1: You know, he just could never look back.

548
00:27:04,200 --> 00:27:06,840
Speaker 2: So I think stealing that second round and the third,

549
00:27:07,040 --> 00:27:10,560
Speaker 2: dash say, taking the second round, stealing the third, and

550
00:27:10,600 --> 00:27:12,960
Speaker 2: then just mopping him up after that, and then in

551
00:27:13,000 --> 00:27:17,400
Speaker 2: that fifth round get out of here with the souplex,

552
00:27:17,520 --> 00:27:20,400
Speaker 2: with the release no less, I mean no, I don't.

553
00:27:20,400 --> 00:27:21,719
Speaker 2: I think he held on to him, don't think there

554
00:27:21,720 --> 00:27:26,160
Speaker 2: was a release, but drove him, I mean right into

555
00:27:26,200 --> 00:27:31,080
Speaker 2: the canvas, amazing, amazing flare. So I would like to

556
00:27:31,080 --> 00:27:33,639
Speaker 2: see Evelin continue to work on his overall game, in

557
00:27:33,680 --> 00:27:37,520
Speaker 2: particular the striking. I think obviously the wrestling is pretty

558
00:27:37,560 --> 00:27:42,040
Speaker 2: far advanced, so bringing other parts of his game up

559
00:27:42,080 --> 00:27:44,479
Speaker 2: overall fight IQ working on all the pieces of his

560
00:27:44,520 --> 00:27:47,080
Speaker 2: game with a particular focus on striking. The other part

561
00:27:47,080 --> 00:27:50,440
Speaker 2: two is like getting to dominant ground positions for ground upound.

562
00:27:50,680 --> 00:27:54,719
Speaker 2: He's good at setting up positions to stifle and ride,

563
00:27:55,359 --> 00:27:58,600
Speaker 2: not so much for maximum punishment, which is understandable because

564
00:27:58,760 --> 00:28:02,080
Speaker 2: there's a trade off inherent there, but you know, getting

565
00:28:02,119 --> 00:28:04,840
Speaker 2: that equation right and better. And dude, he's off to

566
00:28:04,880 --> 00:28:07,920
Speaker 2: the he's off to the races. He's absolutely i think,

567
00:28:08,040 --> 00:28:13,080
Speaker 2: top five middleweight in the world, bare minimum, bare minimum.

568
00:28:13,320 --> 00:28:14,520
Speaker 2: And you know you're gonna look a part of his

569
00:28:14,560 --> 00:28:17,639
Speaker 2: game and be like, it's a little there's nothing super

570
00:28:17,680 --> 00:28:20,960
Speaker 2: flashy about it, right, there's no part of it that's

571
00:28:21,000 --> 00:28:24,280
Speaker 2: super flashy. It's the combo of everything. It's a and

572
00:28:24,520 --> 00:28:27,639
Speaker 2: and it's a deceptive too. It's deceptive to watch a

573
00:28:27,680 --> 00:28:32,080
Speaker 2: guy that big who doesn't have super flashy striking or

574
00:28:32,119 --> 00:28:35,080
Speaker 2: like crazy submission ability still kind of take it to

575
00:28:35,119 --> 00:28:40,720
Speaker 2: these guys. Uh, and I just I it's a it's

576
00:28:40,720 --> 00:28:45,840
Speaker 2: it's this. It's this combination of having his ace in

577
00:28:45,920 --> 00:28:48,920
Speaker 2: the hole is the cardio and the wrestling combined. But

578
00:28:48,720 --> 00:28:51,280
Speaker 2: but dude, he didn't even really use that until much

579
00:28:51,320 --> 00:28:54,040
Speaker 2: of Like I don't recall that being a huge part

580
00:28:54,040 --> 00:28:56,680
Speaker 2: of the first two rounds, even where that really didn't

581
00:28:56,720 --> 00:28:59,120
Speaker 2: get going until as like a real thing he could

582
00:28:59,160 --> 00:29:00,840
Speaker 2: hold onto. I think he got to take down in

583
00:29:00,880 --> 00:29:03,760
Speaker 2: the second. I don't have any stats because Belatore doesn't

584
00:29:03,800 --> 00:29:07,280
Speaker 2: offer stats. There's another thing that about BELITOI that drives

585
00:29:07,320 --> 00:29:08,800
Speaker 2: me a little bit crazy, if I can be honest,

586
00:29:08,840 --> 00:29:12,280
Speaker 2: Like they don't have stats that they compile and share,

587
00:29:12,360 --> 00:29:15,320
Speaker 2: and it drives me up the wall. But here we are,

588
00:29:15,440 --> 00:29:17,480
Speaker 2: so I don't I don't have any stats. But he

589
00:29:17,560 --> 00:29:18,880
Speaker 2: got to take that. Really didn't do a whole lot

590
00:29:18,880 --> 00:29:21,440
Speaker 2: with them. But really the takedowns didn't get to become

591
00:29:21,440 --> 00:29:24,160
Speaker 2: a meaningful part I think until the third a little bit,

592
00:29:24,160 --> 00:29:25,920
Speaker 2: and maybe even the second half of.

593
00:29:25,880 --> 00:29:27,480
Speaker 1: The third something like that.

594
00:29:27,560 --> 00:29:32,800
Speaker 2: So but even before that, you know, also he has

595
00:29:32,840 --> 00:29:34,520
Speaker 2: to make adjustments, Like, dude, he got beat up a

596
00:29:34,560 --> 00:29:37,880
Speaker 2: little bit early. You know, his initial read, his initial

597
00:29:37,920 --> 00:29:42,000
Speaker 2: way of doing it. He had had to kind of

598
00:29:42,000 --> 00:29:44,080
Speaker 2: deal with it. His eye was swollen shut. He had

599
00:29:44,120 --> 00:29:45,840
Speaker 2: to persevere and throw. And then once he found his

600
00:29:45,880 --> 00:29:48,120
Speaker 2: reins and once he found i think some of the

601
00:29:48,160 --> 00:29:50,440
Speaker 2: timing and then what the setups were that worked better,

602
00:29:50,480 --> 00:29:52,760
Speaker 2: he just went back to them and that was it.

603
00:29:52,800 --> 00:29:54,480
Speaker 2: And again that right hand off the one two, And

604
00:29:54,520 --> 00:29:57,120
Speaker 2: it was the timing too, because though the looping hands,

605
00:29:57,120 --> 00:29:59,200
Speaker 2: they take longer to travel, so you can kind of

606
00:29:59,240 --> 00:30:00,720
Speaker 2: get out of the way of the them and you

607
00:30:00,720 --> 00:30:02,840
Speaker 2: can anticipate them coming or whatever. You can roll and

608
00:30:02,840 --> 00:30:05,640
Speaker 2: make big motions. But the one too, bob bob, And

609
00:30:05,680 --> 00:30:07,880
Speaker 2: it's not like a one two like dot dot. It's

610
00:30:08,000 --> 00:30:10,959
Speaker 2: not dot, it's like right behind it, switching that switching

611
00:30:10,960 --> 00:30:13,800
Speaker 2: that timing up like George Foreman on Mark Michael Moore.

612
00:30:14,240 --> 00:30:16,480
Speaker 2: Go watch the timing on Foreman's one two that sits

613
00:30:16,520 --> 00:30:18,520
Speaker 2: him done. It is bobop, it's right behind each other.

614
00:30:19,040 --> 00:30:20,840
Speaker 2: He pops them not quite with the same speed, but

615
00:30:20,880 --> 00:30:24,560
Speaker 2: an off speed kind of rhythm, and it catches them constantly,

616
00:30:24,720 --> 00:30:30,520
Speaker 2: constantly in that fight. So that was supposed to be

617
00:30:30,640 --> 00:30:33,760
Speaker 2: in that Cobine event role. That was supposed to be

618
00:30:33,760 --> 00:30:38,920
Speaker 2: a deem Nemkov taken on Uel Romero, but it all

619
00:30:38,920 --> 00:30:44,360
Speaker 2: fell through. This was the kind of substitute for a

620
00:30:44,360 --> 00:30:47,240
Speaker 2: substitute fight given the circumstances.

621
00:30:47,400 --> 00:30:49,200
Speaker 1: I don't mind it. I thought it was fine.

622
00:30:49,440 --> 00:30:52,640
Speaker 2: And Eblin getting some promotion I think is what you want,

623
00:30:53,680 --> 00:30:55,440
Speaker 2: and him ending with a little bit of a dramatic

624
00:30:55,440 --> 00:30:58,080
Speaker 2: flare is great. But I believe that there is work

625
00:30:58,120 --> 00:30:59,720
Speaker 2: to be done to make sure that that guy gets

626
00:30:59,720 --> 00:31:03,320
Speaker 2: the credit that he deserves. Quite frankly, sore more should

627
00:31:03,320 --> 00:31:05,320
Speaker 2: be done to that effect. How about we talk about

628
00:31:05,400 --> 00:31:08,400
Speaker 2: very quickly if we can, the opening bout at welterweight,

629
00:31:09,000 --> 00:31:13,560
Speaker 2: Brendan Ward taken on Sabajo Massi. He stops Sabaja Masi

630
00:31:13,720 --> 00:31:15,600
Speaker 2: at one thirty four of round two via tk O

631
00:31:15,680 --> 00:31:18,640
Speaker 2: head kick and then punches dude. Sobajo Massi was tearing

632
00:31:18,640 --> 00:31:23,320
Speaker 2: Brendan Ward up in that first round. Punches he was

633
00:31:23,360 --> 00:31:26,719
Speaker 2: walking into, he was getting leg kicked to death, and

634
00:31:26,760 --> 00:31:28,960
Speaker 2: a lot of the stuff that Ward was throwing was missing.

635
00:31:29,000 --> 00:31:31,080
Speaker 2: Now towards the end he had Ward had a nice

636
00:31:31,120 --> 00:31:34,920
Speaker 2: flurry and he was able to slow things down because

637
00:31:35,600 --> 00:31:39,320
Speaker 2: Homasi would throw these wild strikes, slip and then try

638
00:31:39,360 --> 00:31:42,000
Speaker 2: and like you know, scramble out of it, and then

639
00:31:42,040 --> 00:31:43,840
Speaker 2: Ward would get his back and he couldn't do a

640
00:31:43,840 --> 00:31:45,360
Speaker 2: whole lot with it, you know, in terms of like

641
00:31:45,400 --> 00:31:49,120
Speaker 2: getting actual chokes, but it slowed Homasi down. It slowed

642
00:31:49,360 --> 00:31:52,600
Speaker 2: the fight down. And then he gets a little a

643
00:31:52,640 --> 00:31:55,320
Speaker 2: little bit of a flurry to like a more tired Homasi.

644
00:31:56,160 --> 00:31:59,800
Speaker 2: Second round comes out, Ward lands big punches again and

645
00:32:00,160 --> 00:32:03,600
Speaker 2: a headkick that drops Homasi at least hurts him. He

646
00:32:03,680 --> 00:32:06,120
Speaker 2: kind of falls over and then finishes him off with punches,

647
00:32:06,120 --> 00:32:08,160
Speaker 2: tries to get a choke, couldn't get it, and then

648
00:32:08,160 --> 00:32:10,280
Speaker 2: fallows up with more punches and elbows and everything else

649
00:32:10,280 --> 00:32:12,800
Speaker 2: than Holmasi is a bloody mess. So, first of all,

650
00:32:13,080 --> 00:32:15,360
Speaker 2: Ward versus Homasi is your first fight to return to

651
00:32:15,400 --> 00:32:18,880
Speaker 2: CBS since what the Strike Force brawl basically in Nashville.

652
00:32:19,200 --> 00:32:22,640
Speaker 2: First fight back is a bloodfest. I mean, it wasn't

653
00:32:22,640 --> 00:32:24,520
Speaker 2: the bladest fight you've ever seen, but it was pretty bloody.

654
00:32:25,280 --> 00:32:28,000
Speaker 2: Loved it perfect. That's exactly what EMMA should be doing.

655
00:32:28,080 --> 00:32:30,520
Speaker 2: So that was great. And then for Ward, man, this

656
00:32:30,560 --> 00:32:32,200
Speaker 2: is a guy at thirty four years of age who

657
00:32:32,280 --> 00:32:34,680
Speaker 2: just punted on basically five plus years of his career.

658
00:32:34,680 --> 00:32:37,080
Speaker 2: Even before that, he wasn't taking great care of himself

659
00:32:37,080 --> 00:32:38,360
Speaker 2: in the way that he should have been. He lost

660
00:32:38,400 --> 00:32:40,720
Speaker 2: all that time with jail and rehab and everything else,

661
00:32:41,360 --> 00:32:45,400
Speaker 2: and was losing this fight. Early Homasi was landing the heavier,

662
00:32:45,640 --> 00:32:49,840
Speaker 2: cleaner strikes. He was the one who had great takedown

663
00:32:49,840 --> 00:32:54,600
Speaker 2: defense early, great ability to cause separation. Like he was

664
00:32:54,600 --> 00:32:57,040
Speaker 2: doing great stuff. And then the game we talked about

665
00:32:57,040 --> 00:33:00,160
Speaker 2: Ward getting the back, taking advantage of the mistakes, put

666
00:33:00,280 --> 00:33:03,560
Speaker 2: some punches together, finding a range, keep walking hom Asi down,

667
00:33:03,640 --> 00:33:05,320
Speaker 2: slow him down a little bit. And then once he

668
00:33:05,400 --> 00:33:07,920
Speaker 2: slowed down, the big punches from Ward. Ward's always been

669
00:33:07,920 --> 00:33:10,800
Speaker 2: a big puncher. They caught up with him, they landed,

670
00:33:10,840 --> 00:33:13,400
Speaker 2: he lands a head kick, he follows up. Just a great,

671
00:33:13,640 --> 00:33:16,240
Speaker 2: great job by Brendan ward Man. And I even said

672
00:33:16,240 --> 00:33:17,840
Speaker 2: this on Friday, like, I don't know how far he's

673
00:33:17,880 --> 00:33:19,640
Speaker 2: gonna go. Man, the guy missed a lot of time,

674
00:33:19,680 --> 00:33:20,800
Speaker 2: you know. And I'll tell you that he missed a

675
00:33:20,840 --> 00:33:23,920
Speaker 2: lot of time there. That's there. Some cost has to

676
00:33:23,960 --> 00:33:26,520
Speaker 2: be paid there, there always is. There's no such thing

677
00:33:26,560 --> 00:33:28,760
Speaker 2: as a free lunch in this life. But you know,

678
00:33:29,120 --> 00:33:31,280
Speaker 2: I know that he has put himself in the best

679
00:33:31,400 --> 00:33:34,440
Speaker 2: place he could possibly be to get something out of it.

680
00:33:34,480 --> 00:33:36,040
Speaker 2: And the two guys he had beaten since he got

681
00:33:36,040 --> 00:33:38,560
Speaker 2: back to his career to resume things. You know, they

682
00:33:38,600 --> 00:33:41,440
Speaker 2: weren't great names. And so bajo MASSI you know the

683
00:33:41,560 --> 00:33:44,040
Speaker 2: is he the number one welterweight in the world. No,

684
00:33:44,400 --> 00:33:46,880
Speaker 2: but he's a tough guy. He was certainly a much

685
00:33:46,920 --> 00:33:49,560
Speaker 2: tougher guy than who Ward had been fighting. And he

686
00:33:49,800 --> 00:33:52,240
Speaker 2: comes from a good camp and he was sticking it

687
00:33:52,280 --> 00:33:55,280
Speaker 2: to Ward early for Ward to overcome all of that

688
00:33:55,680 --> 00:33:57,560
Speaker 2: and then come back and get the stoppage win man

689
00:33:57,600 --> 00:34:00,240
Speaker 2: and then bring in Jean Claude van Dam for a

690
00:34:00,320 --> 00:34:02,720
Speaker 2: very awkward hug. But the guy he brought in Mighty

691
00:34:02,760 --> 00:34:05,280
Speaker 2: Matt who he was talking about. That's the guy who

692
00:34:05,440 --> 00:34:07,920
Speaker 2: founded high Rollers. BJJ shouts to Mighty Matt.

693
00:34:07,960 --> 00:34:11,080
Speaker 1: That dude is super cool, super cool.

694
00:34:11,920 --> 00:34:14,839
Speaker 2: He invited us out to his high Rollers place out

695
00:34:14,840 --> 00:34:17,520
Speaker 2: in Vegas, so BBC in a couple of the Showtime guys.

696
00:34:17,920 --> 00:34:19,560
Speaker 2: We all went out, some of the Showtime producers. We

697
00:34:19,600 --> 00:34:21,320
Speaker 2: all went out there and he treated us like fucking

698
00:34:21,400 --> 00:34:25,000
Speaker 2: kings man. So that dude is just, you know, a

699
00:34:25,800 --> 00:34:29,680
Speaker 2: cool person, tries to do right by everybody. I think

700
00:34:29,719 --> 00:34:32,319
Speaker 2: he's also involved. I think He's like he runs you

701
00:34:32,360 --> 00:34:34,799
Speaker 2: know Nick and Adas have that game up nutrition thing.

702
00:34:35,840 --> 00:34:39,279
Speaker 2: I think he runs that. So you know, some cool

703
00:34:39,280 --> 00:34:41,000
Speaker 2: people all the way around. So that was cool to

704
00:34:41,000 --> 00:34:43,160
Speaker 2: see as well. But great, great win by Brendan Ward.

705
00:34:43,480 --> 00:34:45,200
Speaker 2: Let's talk very briefly if we can, about some of

706
00:34:45,200 --> 00:34:47,239
Speaker 2: the highlights from the preliminary card. I won't get into

707
00:34:47,239 --> 00:34:49,040
Speaker 2: too many of these, but we have to talk about it.

708
00:34:49,160 --> 00:34:50,759
Speaker 2: I mean, I was killing CBS. We're not putting on

709
00:34:50,800 --> 00:34:53,560
Speaker 2: the broadcast, so we got to mention it here. Lorenz Larkin,

710
00:34:53,760 --> 00:34:58,640
Speaker 2: are you kidding me? Apparently was a welterweight fight against

711
00:34:58,640 --> 00:35:01,560
Speaker 2: They got him ranked a middleweight, so it's thing against Muhammad.

712
00:35:02,000 --> 00:35:04,360
Speaker 2: I'm gonna say Berkhamov. I don't know the proper pronunciation

713
00:35:05,080 --> 00:35:09,640
Speaker 2: via ko with a fucking elbow. Did y'all see this?

714
00:35:10,200 --> 00:35:12,520
Speaker 2: First of all, want to point out something about Lorenz Larkin.

715
00:35:12,560 --> 00:35:15,320
Speaker 2: He got signed by UFC. I think, excuse me, he

716
00:35:15,320 --> 00:35:18,520
Speaker 2: got signed by Belatore. I believe his last win in

717
00:35:19,040 --> 00:35:22,760
Speaker 2: UFC was against It was the back to back wins

718
00:35:22,760 --> 00:35:26,160
Speaker 2: over Jorge Masvidal and then he stops Neil Magni. Then

719
00:35:26,239 --> 00:35:29,640
Speaker 2: he goes to Bellatore and fights Douglas Lima and loses.

720
00:35:30,160 --> 00:35:32,319
Speaker 2: Then he fights Paul Day and gets knocked out.

721
00:35:32,560 --> 00:35:33,000
Speaker 1: Terrible.

722
00:35:33,040 --> 00:35:35,759
Speaker 2: I mean, his start to Bellatore could not have gone worse,

723
00:35:35,800 --> 00:35:38,799
Speaker 2: and he was like a prized acquisition. They brought him

724
00:35:38,800 --> 00:35:42,040
Speaker 2: out there for that Bellatore NYC Deis and everything like

725
00:35:42,080 --> 00:35:45,040
Speaker 2: this was a big deal. That Yes, of course Larkin

726
00:35:45,080 --> 00:35:47,120
Speaker 2: had fought in Strikeforce under Scott Cooker, but this was

727
00:35:47,120 --> 00:35:49,040
Speaker 2: a huge deal for him to go back home. This

728
00:35:49,120 --> 00:35:52,040
Speaker 2: was twenty sixteen, only two years after Scott took over Belatore,

729
00:35:52,040 --> 00:35:55,080
Speaker 2: still trying to do big things, and he just it

730
00:35:55,160 --> 00:35:57,000
Speaker 2: just didn't work, like none of it worked, or at

731
00:35:57,080 --> 00:35:59,920
Speaker 2: least early. So then he fights Fernando Gonzalez, doesn't look right,

732
00:36:00,000 --> 00:36:03,759
Speaker 2: and he fights Ion pascued. Looks okay. He barely beats

733
00:36:03,800 --> 00:36:06,680
Speaker 2: koresh Karov, but that's a tough win. He beats kait Nakamora,

734
00:36:06,680 --> 00:36:08,799
Speaker 2: who's an underrated name, a little bit long in the tooth,

735
00:36:08,840 --> 00:36:11,880
Speaker 2: but a good one. He barely beats Raphael Carvalio. He

736
00:36:11,880 --> 00:36:15,279
Speaker 2: beats Kyle Stewart in Paris, but Kyle Stewart like took

737
00:36:15,280 --> 00:36:17,880
Speaker 2: that fight on short notice. And then he has the

738
00:36:17,960 --> 00:36:20,800
Speaker 2: illegal excuse me was the no contest the illegal elbow

739
00:36:21,360 --> 00:36:24,919
Speaker 2: from his fight with McCaw Berkhamov at BULTWO twenty three

740
00:36:24,920 --> 00:36:25,480
Speaker 2: back in July.

741
00:36:25,960 --> 00:36:29,040
Speaker 1: So this was like the rematch. I'm just pointing out this.

742
00:36:29,000 --> 00:36:32,040
Speaker 2: Guy has slowly he dug himself a huge hole after

743
00:36:32,080 --> 00:36:35,320
Speaker 2: the Magni fight and has slowly kind of clawed out

744
00:36:35,360 --> 00:36:38,640
Speaker 2: and then had this performance. How did he set it up?

745
00:36:39,040 --> 00:36:41,120
Speaker 2: He goes for a punch, it misses, but he ends

746
00:36:41,200 --> 00:36:43,959
Speaker 2: up overshooting it, and then as he retracts his hand

747
00:36:44,200 --> 00:36:45,960
Speaker 2: he pulls the collar tie and then he had the

748
00:36:46,000 --> 00:36:46,760
Speaker 2: outside elbow.

749
00:36:47,000 --> 00:36:47,640
Speaker 1: So what does he do?

750
00:36:47,760 --> 00:36:50,919
Speaker 2: He fucking snaps that that dude down and turns him.

751
00:36:51,160 --> 00:36:54,120
Speaker 2: He turns him. So what does Burt Berkhamov or Berkmov do.

752
00:36:54,560 --> 00:36:57,600
Speaker 2: He takes his foot, his right foot and plants it

753
00:36:57,680 --> 00:37:01,800
Speaker 2: on the ground to stop getting turned and to balance himself. Well, dude,

754
00:37:02,280 --> 00:37:06,040
Speaker 2: if someone is turning you and you plant to stop,

755
00:37:07,800 --> 00:37:11,359
Speaker 2: you are setting up I If I turn you from

756
00:37:11,400 --> 00:37:14,279
Speaker 2: here from my left to my right and then you

757
00:37:14,320 --> 00:37:17,000
Speaker 2: stop and plant so I can't turn you. I'm gonna

758
00:37:17,040 --> 00:37:20,960
Speaker 2: keep coming with this left bah and you are driving

759
00:37:20,960 --> 00:37:25,440
Speaker 2: yourself back into it. You are driving yourself back into it.

760
00:37:25,480 --> 00:37:28,440
Speaker 2: That's exactly what he did. He fucking snaps and turns

761
00:37:28,520 --> 00:37:31,560
Speaker 2: this dude who plants his weight to stop, and fucking

762
00:37:32,560 --> 00:37:35,800
Speaker 2: Larkin just whips that elbow. As soon as the guy plants,

763
00:37:35,880 --> 00:37:38,920
Speaker 2: he keeps going, whips that elbow. Actually, wait, he waits

764
00:37:38,920 --> 00:37:40,640
Speaker 2: a beat on him, so he gets him on the

765
00:37:40,640 --> 00:37:44,320
Speaker 2: half beat. Actually, but then still same same physics. Supply

766
00:37:44,400 --> 00:37:46,360
Speaker 2: the guy stops, he's going into it. It's you know,

767
00:37:46,760 --> 00:37:50,480
Speaker 2: almost two forces essentially colliding, brings that elbow over the

768
00:37:50,480 --> 00:37:55,279
Speaker 2: top and fucking smokes this dude, I mean somemoked him

769
00:37:56,440 --> 00:37:58,440
Speaker 2: goes flat. He actually did like the Rick Flair where

770
00:37:58,480 --> 00:38:00,439
Speaker 2: he kind of like took a step and then fell.

771
00:38:00,520 --> 00:38:03,440
Speaker 2: But once he fell, eyes wide open, like you know,

772
00:38:03,719 --> 00:38:06,839
Speaker 2: completely out, like light saw on No One's Home. One

773
00:38:06,880 --> 00:38:09,840
Speaker 2: of the best knockouts from a standing elbow you'll ever see.

774
00:38:10,400 --> 00:38:12,879
Speaker 2: I know it's only February, but that's you can add

775
00:38:12,880 --> 00:38:15,560
Speaker 2: that at least to the list of like Knockouts of

776
00:38:15,600 --> 00:38:18,280
Speaker 2: the Year content contenders or knock out of the ear contenders.

777
00:38:18,280 --> 00:38:21,759
Speaker 1: I should say amazing.

778
00:38:22,520 --> 00:38:25,680
Speaker 2: And he, by the way, was the underdog. Lorenz Larkin

779
00:38:25,880 --> 00:38:28,240
Speaker 2: was in this fight. Like I'm telling you, his stock

780
00:38:28,320 --> 00:38:30,919
Speaker 2: has dropped to a dramatic degree, When was the last

781
00:38:30,920 --> 00:38:33,880
Speaker 2: time you saw like a Lorenz Larkin interview? What was

782
00:38:33,920 --> 00:38:35,799
Speaker 2: the last time he was part of something like in

783
00:38:35,840 --> 00:38:38,400
Speaker 2: the news cycle? You just his name has just almost

784
00:38:38,440 --> 00:38:41,439
Speaker 2: been forgotten to a degree, and that's been a part

785
00:38:41,480 --> 00:38:43,200
Speaker 2: because of like the way the billet or run has

786
00:38:43,239 --> 00:38:45,360
Speaker 2: gone it. He had signed with all his hype and

787
00:38:45,400 --> 00:38:48,520
Speaker 2: went and he just had this slow, weird, kind of

788
00:38:48,600 --> 00:38:52,520
Speaker 2: quiet climb back. Well, dude, if this is the announcement

789
00:38:52,560 --> 00:38:55,040
Speaker 2: that he's back and ready to start fighting other elite

790
00:38:55,080 --> 00:39:00,000
Speaker 2: top guys, I can't think of a better commercial than

791
00:39:00,080 --> 00:39:06,840
Speaker 2: the one he started in today. Phenomenal, phenomenal. And you

792
00:39:06,840 --> 00:39:08,560
Speaker 2: know another thing about it is, you know, keep your

793
00:39:08,600 --> 00:39:10,880
Speaker 2: hands up on the clinch break. But the way he

794
00:39:10,880 --> 00:39:13,520
Speaker 2: does it, he turns him and he gets the guy. Dude,

795
00:39:13,640 --> 00:39:16,319
Speaker 2: Larkin is waiting for the guy to do that. It's

796
00:39:16,400 --> 00:39:18,800
Speaker 2: the same thing in wrestling. If I snap a guy down.

797
00:39:19,280 --> 00:39:22,040
Speaker 2: What's the reaction gonna be if I snap you down?

798
00:39:22,160 --> 00:39:24,239
Speaker 2: What's the reaction gonna be from a call from an

799
00:39:24,320 --> 00:39:27,279
Speaker 2: elbow tie and a collar tie? Ah, snap you down?

800
00:39:27,480 --> 00:39:30,200
Speaker 2: The reaction is gonna be from the normal person is

801
00:39:30,200 --> 00:39:31,799
Speaker 2: gonna want to if I'm pulling you down? What are

802
00:39:31,800 --> 00:39:33,439
Speaker 2: they gonna want to do. They're gonna want to go up,

803
00:39:33,840 --> 00:39:35,880
Speaker 2: and when they go up, you hit him. You just

804
00:39:35,880 --> 00:39:38,560
Speaker 2: time the double, so you snap him down waiting for

805
00:39:38,640 --> 00:39:41,080
Speaker 2: the rebound, and then you pop the double in between.

806
00:39:41,120 --> 00:39:43,520
Speaker 2: That's the same thing he does here. He pulls the

807
00:39:43,560 --> 00:39:46,640
Speaker 2: guy waiting for him to step and all that does

808
00:39:46,800 --> 00:39:50,200
Speaker 2: is boom, set him up for the elbow, and.

809
00:39:50,120 --> 00:39:52,239
Speaker 1: He smoked him. He smoked him.

810
00:39:52,280 --> 00:39:54,960
Speaker 2: He completely shut the lights off with one shot. It

811
00:39:55,160 --> 00:40:01,040
Speaker 2: was brutal, very very job well done. Kudos all of

812
00:40:01,040 --> 00:40:06,160
Speaker 2: that to Lorenz Larkin. Tonight just an absolutely massive, massive

813
00:40:06,200 --> 00:40:08,440
Speaker 2: win that should have been shown on the main broadcast.

814
00:40:08,480 --> 00:40:11,759
Speaker 2: Henry Carrals gets a nice win Aliiev and then Steve

815
00:40:11,840 --> 00:40:15,080
Speaker 2: Mallory had a weird fight where Isiav kind of wins

816
00:40:15,080 --> 00:40:19,680
Speaker 2: the first round, gets demolished in the second round, and

817
00:40:19,719 --> 00:40:21,600
Speaker 2: then wins the third kind of like in a very

818
00:40:21,600 --> 00:40:24,400
Speaker 2: body of Hohme top control Lamprey kind of way. So

819
00:40:24,440 --> 00:40:26,200
Speaker 2: it ends up being a draw because the second round

820
00:40:26,280 --> 00:40:27,600
Speaker 2: was an easy ten eight.

821
00:40:29,239 --> 00:40:29,640
Speaker 1: Anyway.

822
00:40:30,000 --> 00:40:33,279
Speaker 2: Chris Gonzalez defeating Max Roskoff. I might save that one,

823
00:40:33,320 --> 00:40:34,759
Speaker 2: you know what, else, that's the last one.

824
00:40:34,640 --> 00:40:35,000
Speaker 1: I'll go on.

825
00:40:35,080 --> 00:40:42,840
Speaker 2: I'll save the rest. Yeah, okay. I remember when Usmin

826
00:40:42,880 --> 00:40:45,560
Speaker 2: Nimerga madeff beat Chris Gonzalez. I had people being like, dude,

827
00:40:45,719 --> 00:40:47,960
Speaker 2: nimer goa made's not beating anybody good, and I'm like,

828
00:40:48,440 --> 00:40:51,480
Speaker 2: you're out of your fucking mind. Gonzalez is a team

829
00:40:51,480 --> 00:40:54,120
Speaker 2: ALFA Milk guy, you know, NCAA, All American, the whole

830
00:40:54,160 --> 00:40:57,439
Speaker 2: nine yards, great athlete. Yeah, like, it's hard to look

831
00:40:57,480 --> 00:41:02,319
Speaker 2: good against usman Nimerga made off, Okay, but that doesn't

832
00:41:02,360 --> 00:41:03,920
Speaker 2: mean you're not a good fighter. And he goes in

833
00:41:03,960 --> 00:41:06,160
Speaker 2: here against Max Roschkoff, who, by the way, hit an

834
00:41:06,200 --> 00:41:11,719
Speaker 2: amazing like turning inside arm throw he hit. He hit

835
00:41:11,760 --> 00:41:15,440
Speaker 2: an amazing duck under to get the back. But Chris

836
00:41:15,520 --> 00:41:19,279
Speaker 2: Gonzalez is a great striker. I think he was able

837
00:41:19,320 --> 00:41:21,080
Speaker 2: to connect and think with the right hand. I have

838
00:41:21,120 --> 00:41:23,000
Speaker 2: to go back and look that also kind of landed.

839
00:41:23,040 --> 00:41:24,279
Speaker 2: It was legal, but kind of landed in the back

840
00:41:24,320 --> 00:41:25,799
Speaker 2: of the head, and then just polished him off, and

841
00:41:26,160 --> 00:41:29,880
Speaker 2: dude Gonzalez was his down blocking was excellent in this contest,

842
00:41:29,880 --> 00:41:32,840
Speaker 2: Like Roschkoff had to really dig to get any takedowns

843
00:41:32,840 --> 00:41:34,200
Speaker 2: and couldn't do a whole lot with him when he

844
00:41:34,239 --> 00:41:37,439
Speaker 2: got him and dude, that's a very good grappler. He's

845
00:41:37,600 --> 00:41:40,240
Speaker 2: very much reborn. I still think highly of his future

846
00:41:40,239 --> 00:41:43,520
Speaker 2: over extreme guitur. But this is my point. It's like

847
00:41:43,560 --> 00:41:45,799
Speaker 2: everyone was like, oh, Gonzalez is a tomato. Can get

848
00:41:45,800 --> 00:41:48,120
Speaker 2: the fuck out of here with that, dude, Chris Gonzalez

849
00:41:48,160 --> 00:41:50,839
Speaker 2: is a very good fighter. Here's what happens, man. There's

850
00:41:50,840 --> 00:41:52,680
Speaker 2: a lot of people who actually don't watch Belatour. They

851
00:41:52,719 --> 00:41:54,880
Speaker 2: kind of half assed watch Belatore, and then they make

852
00:41:54,920 --> 00:41:57,759
Speaker 2: these grand proclamations about who is there and how good

853
00:41:57,800 --> 00:42:01,400
Speaker 2: it is. No Bellatore is not any organization to the UFC,

854
00:42:01,520 --> 00:42:04,319
Speaker 2: not even close. But you can't let that get in

855
00:42:04,360 --> 00:42:08,080
Speaker 2: the way of identifying what our actual like, good fighters

856
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Speaker 2: like if you have to give them their due if

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Speaker 2: they are owed it, and of course how that matches

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Speaker 2: across any kind of aisle one or UFC or PFL.

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Speaker 2: We can get into those debates. But if you see

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Speaker 2: a good fighter doing good things, you should say as much.

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Speaker 2: Chris Gonzales is a good fighter, is a very good fighter,

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Speaker 2: and this was a very good win that he was

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Speaker 2: able to get. All right, I don't have anything else

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Speaker 2: there's I don't know if there's any bonuses. I mean,

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Speaker 2: Beltmore does that, But overall, I guess we'll see how

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Speaker 2: things go for I'll say this, you know, it's almost

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Speaker 2: kind of ho hum that Mma returned to CBS. This

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Speaker 2: was a big counterculture thing when it happened the last time.

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Speaker 2: Let me tell you, it was a huge deal. It

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Speaker 2: was a shake up in sports, and today it was

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Speaker 2: just another day, which I think is kind of a

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Speaker 2: good thing, right, success, Like we don't have to constantly

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Speaker 2: fight for every inch of space to be treated as

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Speaker 2: a sport, worth celebrating, worth broadcasting, worth being a part of.

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Speaker 2: So that's really kind of nice. And last time, like

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Speaker 2: they would have weird cruise for like the CBS shows,

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Speaker 2: like Gus Johnson was doing them, It's like, why is

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Speaker 2: he here here? They stuck with, you know, the reliable

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Speaker 2: people who do all of their broadcasts, which is probably

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Speaker 2: the right call. I was glad to see that too.

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Speaker 2: Like they didn't try to go too crazy with it.

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Speaker 2: They wanted it to look nice, it seems to me,

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Speaker 2: but not be like over the top. They didn't want

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Speaker 2: to They didn't want to have like the grandest show ever.

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Speaker 2: They just want to have a good, solid, meaningful, impactful show.

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Speaker 2: I think they got that. Whether or not they got

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Speaker 2: the viewership for it very much remains to be seen.

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Speaker 2: You know, I don't know. I don't know how that's.

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Speaker 1: Going to go.

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Speaker 2: So we'll see that. Is it for me tonight? I

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Speaker 2: think yeah, it's it for me tonight. We'll call it

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Speaker 2: an early one here back on Monday and they were

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Speaker 2: off to London. Yeah, that's it. So we got a

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Speaker 2: lot of stuff going on. So thank you guys so

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Speaker 2: much for watching, thumbs up, hit, subscribe, all that good stuff.

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Speaker 2: And yeah, I'll see you guys on Monday with the

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Speaker 2: wonderful Bryan Campbell and until then, enjoy the fights.

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Speaker 1: Oh, get some sleep, do that? How about that? Bye, guys,

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Speaker 1: see y'all later.