WEBVTT - Medić SHOCKS D-Rod! Full UFC Belgrade Recap + Ray Longo & Gamrot vs Salkilld Picks 0:00:00.360 --> 0:00:04.920 The John Annik and Kenny Florian Podcast. John Annik and 0:00:05.040 --> 0:00:06.480 Kenny Florian. 0:00:06.120 --> 0:00:07.240 I fucking love him. 0:00:07.480 --> 0:00:08.760 I can't get enough of him. 0:00:10.520 --> 0:00:23.800 Job. There are a couple of absolutely self involved. 0:00:24.640 --> 0:00:31.960 You are your hosts, John Annik and Kenny Florian's. 0:00:35.880 --> 0:00:37.760 And just like that we are live. Great to be 0:00:37.800 --> 0:00:40.840 with you. Monday, August third, twenty twenty six, Episode six 0:00:40.960 --> 0:00:44.440 hundred and six of the Anak and Floran Podcast powered 0:00:44.440 --> 0:00:48.239 by All the Smoke Fight. Thank you for subscribing to 0:00:48.280 --> 0:00:52.120 the Annik and Florian podcast YouTube channel. 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All right? 0:01:13.120 --> 0:01:15.679 I mean you know I don't have any great travel stories. 0:01:15.720 --> 0:01:18.280 We ate at one outstanding restaurant and the fans were outstanding. 0:01:18.360 --> 0:01:20.720 Got a little photo shoot in the restaurant in Yeah, 0:01:22.040 --> 0:01:25.679 after we ate, but uh yeah, it was a great trip, 0:01:25.720 --> 0:01:28.839 a great crowd. We will get into the entire fight 0:01:28.920 --> 0:01:30.680 card and all of that. I sort of feel like 0:01:30.760 --> 0:01:33.120 the Boston Red Sox should be the lead story today though, 0:01:33.160 --> 0:01:35.880 if I'm being honest, I mean, are you paying attention 0:01:35.920 --> 0:01:36.920 to what this team is doing? 0:01:37.160 --> 0:01:38.440 They're crushing it right. 0:01:38.800 --> 0:01:43.520 Yeah, I mean, as as radios go off all around 0:01:43.560 --> 0:01:45.640 the mixed martial arts community, I'm gonna put my Red 0:01:45.640 --> 0:01:47.360 Sox hat on for us. Let's go. 0:01:50.720 --> 0:01:52.360 Blacked out, black doub. 0:01:52.440 --> 0:01:56.160 I wait to talk about the Serbian fans and Udo 0:01:56.360 --> 0:02:03.080 Schmititch and the record setting night. But the Red Sox 0:02:03.080 --> 0:02:06.360 have won twenty eight of thirty three. It's the best 0:02:06.360 --> 0:02:10.760 thirty three grame stretch in UFC history, UFC history in 0:02:10.800 --> 0:02:13.720 Red Sox fourteen of sixteen going into the All Star Break, 0:02:13.760 --> 0:02:16.359 including their last nine out of the break, tacked on 0:02:16.440 --> 0:02:18.200 six more in a row to tie the franchise record 0:02:18.240 --> 0:02:20.359 fifteen straight wins. Now they've ripped off five straight after 0:02:20.400 --> 0:02:23.079 sweeping the Dodgers fourteen and three. Since the All Star Break, 0:02:23.080 --> 0:02:24.959 twenty eight and five span in their last thirty three, 0:02:25.120 --> 0:02:27.639 So we're gonna wear the red Sox hat today anyway, 0:02:28.840 --> 0:02:31.160 that is not in my wheel house, like mixed martial 0:02:31.280 --> 0:02:33.480 arts is. But before we get into the fight, Car Kenny, 0:02:33.520 --> 0:02:36.760 So I flew Air Serbia so as to fly direct 0:02:37.280 --> 0:02:41.200 from to Belgrade, and it was a little bit of 0:02:41.240 --> 0:02:45.079 a time war, right, And I hope this doesn't you 0:02:45.240 --> 0:02:48.080 smoke on the plane, so you can smoke in restaurants. 0:02:48.120 --> 0:02:50.440 You could definitely smoke in restaurant. I actually have a 0:02:50.440 --> 0:02:53.200 photo that show the audience. But yeah, you could smoke 0:02:53.600 --> 0:02:57.480 in restaurants. This was a beautiful woman smoking a cigarette 0:02:57.520 --> 0:02:59.240 in a restaurant. 0:03:00.639 --> 0:03:01.079 Amazing. 0:03:01.200 --> 0:03:06.040 Oh yeah, I will say though, I was more you know, 0:03:06.520 --> 0:03:09.760 I was more cigarette emoji than trash can emoji when 0:03:09.800 --> 0:03:11.760 she was smoking the cigarette. I was sort of wanting 0:03:11.800 --> 0:03:14.200 to bum one and smoke one so as to offend 0:03:14.240 --> 0:03:17.200 the people at my table. They also don't smell as strong. 0:03:17.280 --> 0:03:21.480 They're thinner. I didn't really smell it. I did get 0:03:21.480 --> 0:03:23.600 a bloody nose later, but I don't think it was because. 0:03:25.080 --> 0:03:28.040 But what were like, what did this plane look like? 0:03:28.200 --> 0:03:30.480 Was it from the fifties sixties. 0:03:30.200 --> 0:03:32.920 To talk about here, I don't know what decade this 0:03:32.960 --> 0:03:35.640 Air Serbia plane was from but I asked for a 0:03:35.680 --> 0:03:39.120 coke zero, and not only did it come without ice, 0:03:39.640 --> 0:03:46.440 but it was warm as coffee. And so yeah, when 0:03:46.520 --> 0:03:48.680 you ask for ice, they give you like a cube. 0:03:48.720 --> 0:03:52.440 So that's sort of an interesting Serbian tradition. And then 0:03:52.520 --> 0:03:54.560 there was no ice at the arena, which is fine, 0:03:54.720 --> 0:03:57.240 you know, but I have certain lubrication methods for my 0:03:57.360 --> 0:04:01.360 vocals on fight night, right tea coffee and ideally coke 0:04:01.440 --> 0:04:03.960 on the rocks is a nice little mix in, you know, 0:04:03.960 --> 0:04:06.000 if you need a little fucking pick me up. You know, 0:04:06.040 --> 0:04:08.000 we were going coke out of the cam, which doesn't 0:04:08.000 --> 0:04:08.680 necessarily work. 0:04:09.440 --> 0:04:11.960 Warm soda might might be the cure for that, who 0:04:12.040 --> 0:04:12.880 knows so. 0:04:13.920 --> 0:04:16.640 And then like the salt and pepper, like ceramic salt 0:04:16.680 --> 0:04:18.920 and pepper, it just sort of like feels like there 0:04:18.920 --> 0:04:21.840 could be a more efficient way, and doing that it 0:04:21.880 --> 0:04:24.760 was wild, but that's great. Oh so much love for 0:04:24.800 --> 0:04:27.640 mixed martial arts in this country. And Alexander Rockets spent 0:04:27.680 --> 0:04:29.679 a lot of time with the Serbian Federation of Mixed 0:04:29.680 --> 0:04:34.000 Martial Arts, and you see some of the developing talent 0:04:34.120 --> 0:04:35.480 and we're going to get into all of that, but 0:04:35.520 --> 0:04:38.040 clearly this is initiative and all of these places. You know, 0:04:38.279 --> 0:04:40.360 if you read between the lines, you can understand what 0:04:40.400 --> 0:04:42.680 an appetite there is for these UFC live events. Every 0:04:42.680 --> 0:04:45.120 time the UFC, I'm not gonna say we every time 0:04:45.160 --> 0:04:47.720 the UFC goes somewhere, they set a gate record, whether 0:04:47.800 --> 0:04:50.360 it's in the United States or outside of these countries. Right, 0:04:50.440 --> 0:04:53.440 So the appetite for this stuff is such that, you know, 0:04:53.520 --> 0:04:56.640 these countries invest and pay and try to get it there, 0:04:56.640 --> 0:04:58.719 and then there's an economic boom for them when the 0:04:58.800 --> 0:05:02.400 UFC comes there. Tremendous experience all around, certainly one of 0:05:02.400 --> 0:05:05.120 the best live crowds I've experienced in terms of just 0:05:05.160 --> 0:05:07.719 straight volume. When I took off the cans, it was 0:05:07.760 --> 0:05:11.560 absolutely absurd. So, uh, let us dive into all of that. 0:05:11.680 --> 0:05:14.640 Kemflo looks great, Krispy Camera on a Monday. Let's get 0:05:14.640 --> 0:05:15.360 to head us. 0:05:17.240 --> 0:05:19.359 Headlines. It's time for headlines. 0:05:19.560 --> 0:05:22.480 I have some very urgent and important breaking new. 0:05:22.680 --> 0:05:26.800 Headlines and Kenny Sumians concast. 0:05:29.640 --> 0:05:32.760 Boston Red Sox twenty eight and five spanning their last 0:05:32.800 --> 0:05:35.480 thirty three fire alex Core I think when they're ten 0:05:35.520 --> 0:05:39.760 and seventeen unacceptable elevate Chad Tracy, interim manager. Let's fucking 0:05:39.880 --> 0:05:43.839 go La strong though on the shirt all right. UFC 0:05:43.880 --> 0:05:50.360 Fight Night Udos versus d rod so Ken Flow twelve 0:05:50.360 --> 0:05:56.880 finishes ten in round one. UFC Modern era records commentators dream, 0:05:57.480 --> 0:05:58.760 what'd you make of the fight card? 0:06:00.320 --> 0:06:00.560 Dude? 0:06:00.600 --> 0:06:04.479 A lot of great finishes, definitely guys going forward. The 0:06:04.520 --> 0:06:08.360 crowd seemed to be very hyped up, And yeah, I 0:06:08.440 --> 0:06:08.839 enjoyed it. 0:06:08.880 --> 0:06:10.479 I mean, I love these. You know, I had to 0:06:10.480 --> 0:06:10.839 catch up. 0:06:10.839 --> 0:06:12.320 I didn't watch it live, so I had to go 0:06:12.360 --> 0:06:14.400 and catch up, and it was easy to do it. 0:06:14.320 --> 0:06:15.640 Because of all these great finishes. 0:06:15.680 --> 0:06:16.200 Man. Yeah. 0:06:17.000 --> 0:06:20.440 Yeah. It was early on in the daytime, obviously in 0:06:20.480 --> 0:06:22.719 the United States of America, and I don't get to 0:06:22.720 --> 0:06:25.400 do a lot of these European shows. I've done shows 0:06:25.400 --> 0:06:29.400 certainly across England, but never in Liverpool, never in Paris, France. 0:06:29.520 --> 0:06:32.160 And I did do an Instagram live and I don't 0:06:32.200 --> 0:06:34.919 know sometimes if I'm repeating myself to certain segments of 0:06:34.920 --> 0:06:39.360 our audience, but Paris, France is ubiquitously regarded by our 0:06:39.520 --> 0:06:46.200 staff as the loudest, sort of most festive UFC crowd 0:06:46.240 --> 0:06:51.000 that they have experienced. I have not experienced that. This 0:06:51.200 --> 0:06:54.280 was certainly top five for me. Kenny, you and I 0:06:54.320 --> 0:06:58.599 experienced some crazy Brazilian crowds and those were the days 0:06:58.640 --> 0:07:00.720 and we didn't even know it, right, Like, those were 0:07:00.720 --> 0:07:02.440 the fucking days and we didn't even know it. But 0:07:02.520 --> 0:07:05.160 I'm so grateful to have had this experience in Serbia. 0:07:05.200 --> 0:07:10.480 And you know, the flares coming out. I'm always rooting 0:07:10.480 --> 0:07:12.280 for chaos, so I had wished the flares had come 0:07:12.320 --> 0:07:16.400 out earlier, I guess in the night. But it was 0:07:16.720 --> 0:07:19.640 a scene. It was an experience only elevated by the 0:07:19.680 --> 0:07:23.119 athletes and the fighters as usual. And yeah, first round 0:07:23.120 --> 0:07:27.520 finishes and twelve finishes overall, including Udo Schmitits thirty seconds 0:07:27.520 --> 0:07:30.920 into round one against Daniel Rodriguez, and I guess we 0:07:31.000 --> 0:07:35.120 will start there. Man. You know, this kid left Serbia 0:07:35.200 --> 0:07:38.280 ten years ago, didn't go back a singular time because 0:07:38.320 --> 0:07:40.560 he's been invested in this mixed martial arts career. And 0:07:41.120 --> 0:07:43.320 he goes back there, his faces on all the buildings 0:07:43.320 --> 0:07:46.720 and billboards, and he wins the main event in thirty seconds. 0:07:47.080 --> 0:07:50.280 I watched your Instagram live and it was phenomenal. Oh 0:07:50.320 --> 0:07:52.120 did you hear me talk about my favorite fighter of 0:07:52.160 --> 0:07:52.560 all time? 0:07:52.600 --> 0:07:53.880 I did? I did. 0:07:54.440 --> 0:07:56.680 I'll stop comparing you to who's some are polars. That 0:07:56.680 --> 0:07:57.520 would be the last time. 0:07:57.800 --> 0:07:59.840 That'd be the last time you're the man. 0:08:00.280 --> 0:08:02.720 No, it was great, and you know, to put it 0:08:02.760 --> 0:08:05.800 into that context, you know that's that is a special thing. 0:08:05.960 --> 0:08:07.960 And you could just see how much it meant to 0:08:08.040 --> 0:08:10.200 him as he took it in at the top of 0:08:10.200 --> 0:08:14.160 that cage, after that absolutely scintillating knockout that he had 0:08:14.160 --> 0:08:17.800 over Daniel Rodriguez. And you know, those are the kind 0:08:17.840 --> 0:08:20.680 of moments that you will remember forever, no matter what 0:08:20.840 --> 0:08:24.000 happens to Metich moving forward. That is a memory that 0:08:24.080 --> 0:08:26.280 will stay forever and for his family as well. 0:08:26.320 --> 0:08:28.400 And what a win. 0:08:28.520 --> 0:08:28.760 Dude. 0:08:28.760 --> 0:08:32.280 This guy is so damn explosive and he has a 0:08:32.440 --> 0:08:36.200 natural intuition of a true killer inside the cage. 0:08:36.840 --> 0:08:39.640 So I did a seven minute segment or so on 0:08:39.720 --> 0:08:42.840 the pre show. We were an analyst short because of 0:08:43.240 --> 0:08:45.840 Anthony Smith, whom we will get to time permitting. I 0:08:45.880 --> 0:08:48.160 really have so much love for him as a as 0:08:48.200 --> 0:08:50.640 a human being. But you know, they asked me sort 0:08:50.640 --> 0:08:54.000 of my keys to victory for Udosh Meititch and Daniel Rodriguez. 0:08:54.080 --> 0:08:56.400 Now I am not an analyst, right, but I thought 0:08:56.440 --> 0:08:59.240 for Udo Schmititic, he had to be able to turn 0:08:59.320 --> 0:09:02.240 his words into action in terms of having tunnel vision, right, 0:09:02.880 --> 0:09:05.120 Imagine how overwhelming it must have been to go back 0:09:05.160 --> 0:09:06.960 to your home nation for the first time in ten 0:09:07.040 --> 0:09:11.640 years and you are headlining the UFC fight night. He 0:09:12.320 --> 0:09:15.040 didn't even know if mixed martial arts was going to 0:09:15.080 --> 0:09:17.360 be the combat sports path he took when he moved 0:09:17.360 --> 0:09:20.640 to the US to Alaska ten years ago. So to 0:09:20.679 --> 0:09:23.079 go back, I would imagine a lot of athletes might 0:09:23.120 --> 0:09:25.960 have succumbed to that moment, even five percent. And so 0:09:26.600 --> 0:09:29.320 after the fight with Michael Bisping, all he wanted to 0:09:29.320 --> 0:09:32.680 do was cry, and that would have been appropriate because 0:09:32.720 --> 0:09:35.199 he bottled up all that emotion and it didn't even 0:09:35.200 --> 0:09:38.319 necessarily use it as fuel. Right. He's just that good 0:09:38.360 --> 0:09:41.520 and that prepared as an MMA athlete in twenty twenty six. 0:09:41.559 --> 0:09:43.520 But I just wondered for him when I was asked 0:09:43.520 --> 0:09:46.839 for a key to victory? Can he not get overwhelmed 0:09:46.840 --> 0:09:49.840 by this walk in this moment? Right? And he did 0:09:49.840 --> 0:09:52.040 not at all. He's got ice water in his veins, 0:09:52.080 --> 0:09:54.199 and I'm curious to see how far he can take it. 0:09:54.640 --> 0:09:58.120 He looked ultra focused when he walked into that cage. 0:09:58.640 --> 0:10:03.400 He looked intense, and it's very easy to mismanage those 0:10:03.400 --> 0:10:06.360 emotions when you're in that kind of environment, right, And 0:10:07.000 --> 0:10:11.320 you know, I think that bringing that intensity without dialing 0:10:11.400 --> 0:10:16.400 it up too much, you know, staying focused, not worrying 0:10:16.400 --> 0:10:18.360 about what the fans are doing, you know, like all 0:10:18.400 --> 0:10:21.640 those things are very difficult for professional athletes to deal with, 0:10:21.760 --> 0:10:24.320 especially when it's just you out there, you're not hiding 0:10:24.320 --> 0:10:25.120 amongst the team. 0:10:25.679 --> 0:10:26.880 And boy did he deliver. 0:10:27.120 --> 0:10:30.560 And you know, we know how dangerous d Rod is 0:10:30.840 --> 0:10:32.839 and the fact that he's able to execute in that 0:10:32.920 --> 0:10:39.280 manner with a classic euros Minich early finish, that's pretty impressive. 0:10:39.280 --> 0:10:41.959 Man, this is really someone around whom you can build 0:10:42.040 --> 0:10:44.760 I think Kenny, I don't know what his following is 0:10:44.800 --> 0:10:46.880 and what the internal numbers in the USC say about 0:10:46.880 --> 0:10:50.400 his following, but man, he maximizes the mic time too, right. 0:10:50.640 --> 0:10:52.920 I mean I could harken back to quotes right as 0:10:52.960 --> 0:10:55.559 I did on the broadcast. Who's saying, you know, division's 0:10:55.559 --> 0:10:58.080 got a problem or we got a problem, folks? It's me, 0:10:58.440 --> 0:11:01.040 you know, and increasingly he's a real problem. I don't 0:11:01.080 --> 0:11:04.080 know how he compares to say Carlos protests in terms 0:11:04.120 --> 0:11:06.679 of straight power and the ability to sort of know 0:11:06.720 --> 0:11:08.960 what your best weapons are and put them to good 0:11:09.040 --> 0:11:12.280 use in the octagon. But hey, Udos the doctor, medic 0:11:12.320 --> 0:11:14.000 sure as fuck wants to find out because that's the 0:11:14.000 --> 0:11:17.160 guy he calls out right, what else can you say? 0:11:17.440 --> 0:11:23.000 Nobody's calling Carlos protests out No, and it's it's time. Now, 0:11:23.040 --> 0:11:25.880 it's time for medics to go out and start going 0:11:25.920 --> 0:11:30.400 against the elite guys because he clearly has a certain something. 0:11:30.760 --> 0:11:33.599 Uh definitely has a knack for finishing it, has a 0:11:33.679 --> 0:11:37.160 knack for finding your chin and then repeatedly hitting it. 0:11:37.040 --> 0:11:37.880 After you're hurt. 0:11:38.080 --> 0:11:43.200 Like that sequence of moves of techniques that he was 0:11:43.200 --> 0:11:45.960 striking d Rod with was just amazing. 0:11:46.000 --> 0:11:47.520 I mean, the accuracy was awesome. 0:11:47.800 --> 0:11:49.800 You could see how intuitive it is for him to 0:11:49.840 --> 0:11:52.560 throw not just one or two, but like three, four, five, 0:11:52.600 --> 0:11:54.560 and as de Rod is falling to the ground like 0:11:54.600 --> 0:11:56.600 he's kicking him like a soccer ball like it was. 0:11:57.600 --> 0:11:58.920 It was. It was really impressive. 0:11:59.000 --> 0:12:02.000 Yeah, joking during the week, Meticch hadn't been back here 0:12:02.000 --> 0:12:03.840 in ten years. I'm like, this dude's American. I mean, 0:12:03.880 --> 0:12:06.520 let's be honest right now, it is America. No, but 0:12:06.600 --> 0:12:11.400 he really it's fascinating to sort of see every fighter's story. 0:12:11.480 --> 0:12:15.160 But good for Udo Schmititch, and I don't know what 0:12:15.160 --> 0:12:17.080 they're gonna do with this welterweight division. You know, the 0:12:17.080 --> 0:12:20.520 timing is really great for him. You have Islami Kashev 0:12:20.559 --> 0:12:24.679 defending the title against Ian Maschado Gary in twelve days. 0:12:25.640 --> 0:12:29.840 Michael Morales reportedly the backup. I haven't seen the corner sheet, 0:12:29.840 --> 0:12:34.640 but I'd imagine that is accurate. So you know, I 0:12:34.679 --> 0:12:37.560 don't know, man, excuse me. Cody's telling me Carlos protests. 0:12:37.559 --> 0:12:40.680 He had two million followers on just ig for protests, 0:12:40.640 --> 0:12:44.400 one hundred and eleven thousand for Udo Schmititch. That's, you know, 0:12:44.640 --> 0:12:47.280 one metric. I think this is going to really propel 0:12:47.400 --> 0:12:53.120 meticch and Carlos protest is the the fight taking type, 0:12:53.280 --> 0:12:57.040 so maybe there's something there. You've got Joaquin Buckley and 0:12:57.679 --> 0:13:01.640 Mike Malotte as a main event. Come out up, Kenny, 0:13:01.720 --> 0:13:04.760 oh Yar Slavamasov at number fifteen in the world. I mean, 0:13:05.120 --> 0:13:07.360 I get intimidated just watching that guy eat. I believe 0:13:07.400 --> 0:13:09.200 he was there and he was breaking bread, and I 0:13:09.200 --> 0:13:12.760 certainly was not gonna interrupt him. Kenny, what's your appetite 0:13:12.760 --> 0:13:16.760 for metics versus protests and not necessarily asking for a lean. 0:13:16.920 --> 0:13:20.360 But how how competitive is Medics in that fight because 0:13:20.400 --> 0:13:21.400 he would be the underdone. 0:13:22.040 --> 0:13:25.800 Yeah, he certainly would that. I want to see him 0:13:25.800 --> 0:13:29.120 against the elite. I put Protest like top three, top 0:13:29.200 --> 0:13:32.160 four for sure. I don't know if Mediic wants to 0:13:32.160 --> 0:13:35.720 climb the ladder that quickly. I think that is a 0:13:35.840 --> 0:13:38.680 huge challenge, no question about it. Is he a guy 0:13:38.679 --> 0:13:40.680 that could surprise us all and maybe get a knock up? 0:13:40.840 --> 0:13:41.080 Yeah? 0:13:41.280 --> 0:13:44.800 I do think he's that explosive, He's that fast, he's 0:13:44.840 --> 0:13:47.760 big for the division, and just the fact that he's 0:13:47.840 --> 0:13:50.760 calling out something like Protest I think shows where his 0:13:50.880 --> 0:13:53.640 confidence and where he thinks his skill level is at. 0:13:54.679 --> 0:13:58.240 So yeah, I think would be extremely entertaining. I don't 0:13:58.280 --> 0:14:00.520 see that one going the distance either. I think someone 0:14:00.520 --> 0:14:03.680 would get finished or it would be an absolute classic, 0:14:04.760 --> 0:14:06.880 you know, if it did go the distance, just because 0:14:06.960 --> 0:14:10.000 both those guys have crazy offensive arsenals. 0:14:10.080 --> 0:14:12.640 But if I'm managing. 0:14:12.200 --> 0:14:16.520 Someone like Medic, I'm saying, ah, yes, I like the confidence, 0:14:16.520 --> 0:14:18.520 but let's slow down a little bit. Let's take someone 0:14:18.920 --> 0:14:22.000 in and around maybe twelve to ten like that bat 0:14:22.080 --> 0:14:23.560 range as far as the rankings go. 0:14:25.120 --> 0:14:29.360 Cody. Not sure why that says islamikashev won for Meta UFC. 0:14:29.800 --> 0:14:33.920 I was of the belief that Carlos Protest is the 0:14:34.040 --> 0:14:36.560 number one contender, So maybe you guys could chase that 0:14:36.640 --> 0:14:39.080 for me, because if Protest is the number one contender, 0:14:39.560 --> 0:14:42.040 I'm not sure Medicic is going to get that fight. 0:14:42.280 --> 0:14:42.760 Yeah. 0:14:42.920 --> 0:14:45.760 Again, you do need to stay relatively active if you 0:14:45.840 --> 0:14:49.280 are Protests. Maybe they have Michael Morales plans for him. 0:14:49.320 --> 0:14:52.440 I don't know, but congrats to medic and he came 0:14:52.480 --> 0:14:56.720 into the octagon Kenny average fight time three minutes, fifty 0:14:56.840 --> 0:15:02.440 nine SECONDSZ and it went down. It went down. All right, 0:15:02.480 --> 0:15:05.479 We're gonna uh, we'll go three wide and continue the conversation. 0:15:05.600 --> 0:15:09.600 Let's uh, let's is it rated rated rated RJ rated. 0:15:10.000 --> 0:15:14.560 Let's go discuss this is rated R with r J Clifford. 0:15:17.240 --> 0:15:19.480 The fighting, that's that's the fun part. It's like Hansel 0:15:19.520 --> 0:15:22.040 from Zulander, which is so fucking hot right now, dude, Like, 0:15:22.480 --> 0:15:25.240 well think about it, like I don't know who he is. 0:15:25.400 --> 0:15:26.360 I just know he's arrested. 0:15:26.480 --> 0:15:45.320 I you know, googled him. 0:15:36.440 --> 0:15:39.880 Only on the Annik and Florian podcast. 0:15:40.320 --> 0:15:42.600 And thanks to the great Charlie Arnold for the intro 0:15:42.680 --> 0:15:45.120 and it is rated R with all. I got it wrong. 0:15:45.160 --> 0:15:46.280 I got it wrong either way. 0:15:46.640 --> 0:15:46.840 R J. 0:15:46.960 --> 0:15:49.080 Clifford back in the United States of America. I wonder 0:15:49.120 --> 0:15:51.720 if he has a Serbia mug. I don't know if 0:15:51.720 --> 0:15:52.920 you bought a Serbia mug. 0:15:53.160 --> 0:15:55.600 Ah. 0:15:55.640 --> 0:15:57.320 Welcome home, buddy, welcome home. 0:15:58.000 --> 0:15:58.880 Glad to be back. 0:15:59.120 --> 0:16:02.000 Yeah, I mean shit, man, I did not put Serbia 0:16:02.080 --> 0:16:05.000 on my list of like places I thought would be fantastic. 0:16:05.000 --> 0:16:08.080 I didn't think any place could replace London or Paris 0:16:08.120 --> 0:16:12.320 as like a European hotspot. But Serbia, man's where the 0:16:12.440 --> 0:16:14.960 kids smoke London arts, the women love fighting and the 0:16:15.000 --> 0:16:18.080 men wear purses, but fuck dude, they love their ass 0:16:18.160 --> 0:16:21.600 kicking and that environment was sick. We got the flares, annik, 0:16:21.680 --> 0:16:23.720 We got the flares we were making. 0:16:23.840 --> 0:16:27.120 I thought there were gonna be more, and uh they 0:16:27.120 --> 0:16:30.240 were not omnipresent. But yeah, finally, I was waiting all 0:16:30.320 --> 0:16:31.160 night for those. 0:16:30.960 --> 0:16:33.400 You felt you just felt it so like I didn't 0:16:33.440 --> 0:16:37.400 know this, But the doors in the venue are this 0:16:37.720 --> 0:16:40.680 thick and steel, and some of them have an AK 0:16:40.840 --> 0:16:43.120 forty seven with like the circle and line through it, 0:16:43.160 --> 0:16:46.920 like they have bulletproof doors Kenny in that venue because 0:16:46.960 --> 0:16:50.040 the fans are so nuts that they need to like 0:16:50.280 --> 0:16:53.280 bomb proof shit, Like, that's what I'm talking about. 0:16:53.320 --> 0:16:55.400 That's where you hold it. Mixed martial arts. 0:16:55.160 --> 0:16:58.240 Contest, bulletproof, bulletproof doors Kenny. 0:16:58.320 --> 0:16:59.640 Yeah, I love it. I love it. 0:16:59.640 --> 0:16:59.800 Man. 0:17:00.240 --> 0:17:02.240 So you've been all over the world, dude, going to 0:17:02.280 --> 0:17:05.000 these different fights. Well, what was your take on the 0:17:05.040 --> 0:17:05.560 crowd there? 0:17:05.960 --> 0:17:07.840 Yeah, and how do you compare it to Paris? Because 0:17:08.080 --> 0:17:10.400 take Paris on the pedestal, So. 0:17:10.920 --> 0:17:16.040 A couple of things. The atmosphere was fantastic. The fans 0:17:16.040 --> 0:17:17.919 are awesome, and I think we all kind of like 0:17:18.160 --> 0:17:22.200 youtubed Serbian basketball crowds at home, and just the anarchy 0:17:22.240 --> 0:17:24.720 that's there. If there's just like a thick cloud of 0:17:24.800 --> 0:17:27.760 smoke over those basketball games from flares and cigarettes, it 0:17:27.800 --> 0:17:31.160 just gives them awesome, just like Kuma Tay type of environment. 0:17:31.200 --> 0:17:31.800 That was great. 0:17:32.480 --> 0:17:34.120 The fans had all these chants. 0:17:34.320 --> 0:17:35.879 I made the mistake of tweeting like hey, what do 0:17:35.960 --> 0:17:38.560 these chants mean and just turned into just a giant 0:17:38.640 --> 0:17:43.080 thread of international incidents and culture battles with other countries. 0:17:43.119 --> 0:17:46.480 So that was a mistake. But yeah, man, I think 0:17:46.960 --> 0:17:51.080 I think the compared to like Paris in London. Because 0:17:51.160 --> 0:17:54.080 the Serbians didn't do that great in the middle. 0:17:53.840 --> 0:17:54.240 Of the car. 0:17:54.320 --> 0:17:56.000 That kind of took a little bit of the wind 0:17:56.040 --> 0:17:58.800 out of the sales. It obviously, rush Meticic saved it 0:17:59.680 --> 0:18:04.080 the factor for me. I didn't know this, but because 0:18:04.119 --> 0:18:06.960 the fans are so bunkers in Belgrade at the arena 0:18:07.080 --> 0:18:09.560 day of events, they are not allowed to sell booze 0:18:09.640 --> 0:18:12.680 in the arena or within like a two mile radius. 0:18:13.080 --> 0:18:16.560 Just imagine that environment. If those Serbians. 0:18:15.920 --> 0:18:20.320 Had the correct blood alcohol level for an international sporting contest, 0:18:20.359 --> 0:18:21.840 like that's the only thing holding them back. 0:18:22.359 --> 0:18:24.720 It's like five hours on the front end they can't 0:18:24.760 --> 0:18:27.359 serve alcohol. And then I know there were some members 0:18:27.400 --> 0:18:30.720 of our crew that were worried that when we got 0:18:30.760 --> 0:18:33.000 back to the hotel bar because there's I think a 0:18:33.040 --> 0:18:35.920 two hour window after the show, maybe they can't serve. 0:18:36.080 --> 0:18:39.639 But that proved to be a falsehood. The gin was 0:18:39.720 --> 0:18:44.639 absolutely flowing at the fight, So Kenny, I just wanted 0:18:44.640 --> 0:18:45.440 to jump in here. 0:18:45.520 --> 0:18:45.720 R J. 0:18:46.440 --> 0:18:50.959 You sort of wrote something to the effective in an 0:18:50.960 --> 0:18:53.639 email to me that you know, maybe eight months in 0:18:53.680 --> 0:18:57.679 a Mexican prison isn't necessarily the most ideal foundation for 0:18:58.080 --> 0:18:59.240 an Mma main event. 0:19:00.160 --> 0:19:04.520 It sure makes for great like uh, pre production material, right, 0:19:04.600 --> 0:19:06.320 Like if you want like some hype to talk like 0:19:06.359 --> 0:19:09.200 that's you got a guy debut, you know, Iroschmtitch debuting 0:19:09.200 --> 0:19:11.880 against a dude who spend eight months and like call 0:19:11.920 --> 0:19:14.800 it fet better, rally, prison or I don't know, I 0:19:14.800 --> 0:19:17.000 don't know what you want to call it. But man, 0:19:17.119 --> 0:19:20.480 talk about not showing up. But I know Iroschmitich is 0:19:20.520 --> 0:19:23.720 just a great finisher and that fucking combo Canny left 0:19:23.800 --> 0:19:27.840 every left knee soccer kick to the body, knee on belly. 0:19:28.200 --> 0:19:31.359 He has that extra two feet of distance to just 0:19:31.840 --> 0:19:34.800 to just go kill shot, Like I don't you know, 0:19:34.960 --> 0:19:36.800 I don't know what de Rock could have done or 0:19:36.840 --> 0:19:40.520 prepare to make things go like that much better. But man, 0:19:40.600 --> 0:19:44.879 if you don't show up a hundred percent ready against Iroshmetitch, 0:19:45.040 --> 0:19:47.080 you are gonna be posterized quickly. 0:19:47.160 --> 0:19:47.840 Yeah. 0:19:47.880 --> 0:19:50.880 So it's bittersweet when I see those types of finishes 0:19:50.920 --> 0:19:54.240 because I always want to collect as much data as possible, 0:19:54.280 --> 0:19:56.159 like what does he look like in round three? What 0:19:56.160 --> 0:19:58.159 does he look like in round four or five? It 0:19:58.200 --> 0:20:00.560 goes a distance. If he gets hurt, how does he back? 0:20:01.320 --> 0:20:03.840 How far do you think Earl's Menitch can go in 0:20:03.880 --> 0:20:07.040