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Speaker 1: was an interesting fight card, huh. The pre limbs had

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Speaker 1: very easy thing for me to do. So I recognize

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00:21:27,280 --> 00:21:29,200
Speaker 1: that that may not, you know, make you happy about

430
00:21:29,200 --> 00:21:31,080
Speaker 1: what you saw, but it should be make you happy

431
00:21:31,119 --> 00:21:33,199
Speaker 1: about the fact that it's ten thirty and even on

432
00:21:33,200 --> 00:21:35,199
Speaker 1: the East Coast, if you party animals still want to

433
00:21:35,200 --> 00:21:39,560
Speaker 1: go out, you can beyond that. I'm not really sure

434
00:21:39,600 --> 00:21:41,040
Speaker 1: what to say. Let's look at some of the numbers

435
00:21:41,040 --> 00:21:44,399
Speaker 1: here if we can Jack Hermanson attempting three hundred and

436
00:21:44,440 --> 00:21:47,399
Speaker 1: fifty three significant strikes only landing thirty eight percent of

437
00:21:47,440 --> 00:21:51,320
Speaker 1: them three hundred and thirty attempted by Sean Strickland landing

438
00:21:51,359 --> 00:21:54,640
Speaker 1: forty six percent of them significantly more efficient again, stuffing

439
00:21:55,240 --> 00:21:59,800
Speaker 1: eight takedowns Sean Strickland day. That is extremely impressive, and

440
00:22:00,000 --> 00:22:02,760
Speaker 1: they kind of fought at the same pace except for

441
00:22:02,880 --> 00:22:07,520
Speaker 1: maybe yeah, more or less her Manson in a round

442
00:22:07,600 --> 00:22:10,000
Speaker 1: one twenty six her Manson around two thirty two. These

443
00:22:10,040 --> 00:22:13,320
Speaker 1: are how many significant strikes he landed around three twenty six,

444
00:22:13,440 --> 00:22:17,240
Speaker 1: round four twenty seven, and then round five twenty six

445
00:22:17,320 --> 00:22:20,119
Speaker 1: he landed either twenty six, twenty seven or thirty two.

446
00:22:20,160 --> 00:22:23,240
Speaker 1: He landed twenty six twice twenty seven. Excuse me. He

447
00:22:23,280 --> 00:22:26,680
Speaker 1: landed twenty six one two three times, twenty seven to

448
00:22:26,760 --> 00:22:29,159
Speaker 1: oneces and thirty two onets four Sean Strickland twenty two

449
00:22:29,240 --> 00:22:31,080
Speaker 1: in the first round, thirty two in the second round,

450
00:22:31,560 --> 00:22:34,800
Speaker 1: twenty seven in the third, thirty four in the fourth,

451
00:22:34,840 --> 00:22:39,320
Speaker 1: and then thirty eight in the fifth. In terms of targeting.

452
00:22:41,080 --> 00:22:44,800
Speaker 1: In terms of targeting, Jack Hermanson targeting the head just

453
00:22:44,920 --> 00:22:48,720
Speaker 1: fifteen per sixteen percent of the time that is interesting. Wow,

454
00:22:48,920 --> 00:22:53,640
Speaker 1: body forty six, leg thirty seven Sean Strickland, interestingly only

455
00:22:53,640 --> 00:22:55,359
Speaker 1: going to the leg two percent. That part is not

456
00:22:55,720 --> 00:22:58,160
Speaker 1: in any way remarkable. You would imagine against a takedown threat,

457
00:22:58,200 --> 00:23:01,119
Speaker 1: you're gonna those are gonna be pretty offensively, especially like

458
00:23:01,119 --> 00:23:03,520
Speaker 1: when you are targeting the leg right, not what you're throwing,

459
00:23:03,560 --> 00:23:05,719
Speaker 1: but what you're targeting. You're gonna have to be very

460
00:23:05,800 --> 00:23:10,359
Speaker 1: judicious about any leg attacks body fifteen percent. The body

461
00:23:10,359 --> 00:23:12,480
Speaker 1: shot was a nice thing he was doing. He would

462
00:23:12,520 --> 00:23:17,560
Speaker 1: throw he would throw the jab or maybe throw let's

463
00:23:17,560 --> 00:23:19,600
Speaker 1: see what would he throw it? Would he throw overhand

464
00:23:19,760 --> 00:23:21,760
Speaker 1: jab and then to the body or jab then I

465
00:23:21,760 --> 00:23:24,240
Speaker 1: think you would do jab. And then as her Manson

466
00:23:24,240 --> 00:23:28,800
Speaker 1: would lean away, you saw hooks and straights to the body,

467
00:23:28,920 --> 00:23:31,720
Speaker 1: a lot more hooks from strictly. Now he got away

468
00:23:31,720 --> 00:23:33,680
Speaker 1: from those as I think the head cleared up a

469
00:23:33,720 --> 00:23:36,600
Speaker 1: little bit more and his jab got cooking. But he

470
00:23:36,720 --> 00:23:38,520
Speaker 1: was investing in that a little bit early. Didn't really

471
00:23:38,560 --> 00:23:41,000
Speaker 1: slow her Manson down a ton. But again, nice work

472
00:23:41,000 --> 00:23:42,800
Speaker 1: as well, and we talk about all the time if

473
00:23:42,800 --> 00:23:44,320
Speaker 1: you have an opponent that was sort of ducking and

474
00:23:44,359 --> 00:23:46,119
Speaker 1: dodging and leaning a great way to make sure you

475
00:23:46,200 --> 00:23:48,200
Speaker 1: keep on tabs on them as to go to the body.

476
00:23:48,240 --> 00:23:52,680
Speaker 1: Plus it brought the head down for subsequent attacks elsewhere.

477
00:23:54,400 --> 00:23:56,800
Speaker 1: And that's all she wrote. Not a spectacular main event,

478
00:23:56,960 --> 00:24:00,919
Speaker 1: not a hugely remarkable one one in my mind for

479
00:24:00,920 --> 00:24:03,440
Speaker 1: Sean Strickland, again this should move him into the top five.

480
00:24:03,840 --> 00:24:07,359
Speaker 1: I thought he showed really well, well rounded work. Not

481
00:24:07,440 --> 00:24:09,879
Speaker 1: a ton of offensive urgency, which again he caught to

482
00:24:09,920 --> 00:24:14,640
Speaker 1: in the postfight interview. Not a ton of power which

483
00:24:14,680 --> 00:24:18,920
Speaker 1: we know, not a ton of Oh here was one thing.

484
00:24:19,560 --> 00:24:21,720
Speaker 1: He was threatening knees early. Do you guys know that

485
00:24:21,800 --> 00:24:23,680
Speaker 1: he would throw the knee and then he would put

486
00:24:23,680 --> 00:24:26,280
Speaker 1: punches behind it, and it worked a little bit. Then

487
00:24:26,320 --> 00:24:27,720
Speaker 1: he kind of got away from it. Sometimes he would

488
00:24:27,720 --> 00:24:29,960
Speaker 1: throw the knee or show the knee rather and then

489
00:24:30,119 --> 00:24:32,720
Speaker 1: there'd be pushkicks behind it. I was surprised there weren't

490
00:24:32,720 --> 00:24:35,240
Speaker 1: any uppercuts. There was a lot of time where you

491
00:24:35,240 --> 00:24:38,480
Speaker 1: saw her Manson like kind of like hunched over, looking

492
00:24:38,560 --> 00:24:42,080
Speaker 1: down moving into range. I thought, for sure, I guess

493
00:24:42,359 --> 00:24:48,240
Speaker 1: maybe maybe he didn't want to throw a lead uppercut

494
00:24:48,320 --> 00:24:52,760
Speaker 1: because that wouldn't be enough, and he didn't want to

495
00:24:52,800 --> 00:24:55,119
Speaker 1: throw a rear uppercut because if he missed on it,

496
00:24:55,160 --> 00:24:58,400
Speaker 1: he didn't want to get timed where her Manson could

497
00:24:58,400 --> 00:25:00,879
Speaker 1: get underneath it. I'm not sure. I'm not sure, but

498
00:25:01,000 --> 00:25:03,960
Speaker 1: I thought there were ample opportunities, especially starting from like

499
00:25:04,000 --> 00:25:06,800
Speaker 1: the third round on where her Manson was just kind

500
00:25:06,800 --> 00:25:08,719
Speaker 1: of hunched over like that and he could have been

501
00:25:08,720 --> 00:25:18,800
Speaker 1: eaten up, but strickly and I thought fought a pretty smart, capable, safish,

502
00:25:19,880 --> 00:25:23,520
Speaker 1: safish kind of fight. I don't know if he didn't

503
00:25:23,840 --> 00:25:25,600
Speaker 1: intentionally like, oh, I got to make sure I get

504
00:25:25,600 --> 00:25:29,679
Speaker 1: into the top five. Sometimes it happens. Sometimes it happens

505
00:25:29,680 --> 00:25:31,320
Speaker 1: he gets into a certain mode. I think he had

506
00:25:31,320 --> 00:25:34,680
Speaker 1: a lot of respect for the groundability of Jack Armanson,

507
00:25:34,720 --> 00:25:37,879
Speaker 1: which you would one would you know, would would want to.

508
00:25:38,040 --> 00:25:42,439
Speaker 1: So it's a it's a it's a good performance by him.

509
00:25:42,480 --> 00:25:44,760
Speaker 1: It's just not one that's gonna get the fans to

510
00:25:44,840 --> 00:25:47,119
Speaker 1: be like, hey, we should push this guy to the

511
00:25:47,160 --> 00:25:51,200
Speaker 1: front of the line. I don't have, frankly a ton

512
00:25:51,359 --> 00:25:55,639
Speaker 1: to say about the comin Nick Maximov mov forgive me

513
00:25:55,680 --> 00:26:00,399
Speaker 1: if I'm pronouncing it wrong, defeats Punahele Soriano via lit.

514
00:26:01,000 --> 00:26:03,240
Speaker 1: First Judge has It twenty eight twenty nine, Then one

515
00:26:03,320 --> 00:26:05,720
Speaker 1: judge had it thirty eight to twenty set or twenty

516
00:26:05,760 --> 00:26:08,520
Speaker 1: nine twenty eight for Soriano, thirty twenty seven for Maximomov

517
00:26:08,760 --> 00:26:11,320
Speaker 1: move and then twenty nine twenty eight. Here's the thing.

518
00:26:11,760 --> 00:26:14,640
Speaker 1: You can't complain about the win if you're a Soriano fan,

519
00:26:15,200 --> 00:26:19,239
Speaker 1: because he, to me won the third round without too

520
00:26:19,359 --> 00:26:22,639
Speaker 1: much issue, and then the second round I can grant

521
00:26:22,840 --> 00:26:26,880
Speaker 1: is close. However, here's the problem. One. The second round

522
00:26:26,960 --> 00:26:35,119
Speaker 1: is close, like definitely Maximov was doing the dominant grappling

523
00:26:35,200 --> 00:26:40,000
Speaker 1: later right in terms of position, but there was hardly

524
00:26:40,160 --> 00:26:44,240
Speaker 1: any ground and pound or any real submission attempts at all.

525
00:26:44,320 --> 00:26:47,520
Speaker 1: And well, I don't think Soriano kicked his ass per

526
00:26:47,560 --> 00:26:49,639
Speaker 1: se in the first part of the second round. He

527
00:26:49,880 --> 00:26:53,280
Speaker 1: was doing the damage. So if we're really caring about

528
00:26:53,720 --> 00:27:01,320
Speaker 1: damage as the chief operating and measurable concern about what

529
00:27:01,480 --> 00:27:04,119
Speaker 1: should decide fights first before we get to everything else,

530
00:27:04,720 --> 00:27:06,919
Speaker 1: assuming that they're not equal, and we can grant that,

531
00:27:07,040 --> 00:27:08,960
Speaker 1: however much damage was done the second round, it was

532
00:27:09,000 --> 00:27:13,560
Speaker 1: not equal Soriano doing frankly all of it, whatever what

533
00:27:13,840 --> 00:27:16,679
Speaker 1: much there was, I you know, to me it was

534
00:27:16,720 --> 00:27:18,639
Speaker 1: two O heading into the third, I grant that he

535
00:27:18,720 --> 00:27:20,399
Speaker 1: kind of gassed out and had a knee injury in

536
00:27:20,440 --> 00:27:22,640
Speaker 1: the third and or maybe he didn't gas out, maybe

537
00:27:22,640 --> 00:27:24,199
Speaker 1: it was just a knee injury. Whatever, he didn't have

538
00:27:24,240 --> 00:27:26,240
Speaker 1: a strong performance in the third round. I think it's

539
00:27:26,560 --> 00:27:29,400
Speaker 1: fair to say. But he clearly won the first as

540
00:27:29,400 --> 00:27:33,359
Speaker 1: far as I could tell, and the second was you

541
00:27:33,400 --> 00:27:36,479
Speaker 1: could make a case for Maximov. So for that reason

542
00:27:36,520 --> 00:27:40,119
Speaker 1: you cannot cry robbery. But a thirty twenty seven scorecard

543
00:27:40,280 --> 00:27:46,720
Speaker 1: is fucking stupid. It's not it's not real like that's

544
00:27:47,200 --> 00:27:49,040
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't was he I you know, I

545
00:27:49,080 --> 00:27:51,080
Speaker 1: don't know what the judge was looking at there. Doud

546
00:27:51,119 --> 00:27:53,120
Speaker 1: Crosby is a bit of a you know, he can

547
00:27:53,160 --> 00:27:54,919
Speaker 1: be a silly goose. I think is a is a

548
00:27:55,040 --> 00:27:57,199
Speaker 1: very you ever seen it? Okay, let me let me

549
00:27:57,520 --> 00:28:01,280
Speaker 1: shout as out to everybody. Chuck Mendenhall, when he was

550
00:28:01,320 --> 00:28:05,040
Speaker 1: at MMA Fighting, did a long feature on Doug Crosby.

551
00:28:05,080 --> 00:28:07,560
Speaker 1: I believe that's who had the thirty twenty seven scorecard there.

552
00:28:07,720 --> 00:28:13,239
Speaker 1: If you've never read the feature on Doug Crosby, you

553
00:28:13,280 --> 00:28:16,800
Speaker 1: know you need to. You need to proper weirdo would

554
00:28:16,800 --> 00:28:21,200
Speaker 1: be a good way to get you in the door there.

555
00:28:21,200 --> 00:28:24,520
Speaker 1: And that's under selling it in a big direction. He's

556
00:28:24,600 --> 00:28:28,119
Speaker 1: not a normal judge by any stretch of the imagination,

557
00:28:29,359 --> 00:28:32,560
Speaker 1: and that thirty twenty seven scorecard is only possible to

558
00:28:32,720 --> 00:28:35,879
Speaker 1: justify in the absence of giving a fuck about what

559
00:28:35,880 --> 00:28:38,680
Speaker 1: you're supposed to be looking at. So I don't mind

560
00:28:38,720 --> 00:28:41,480
Speaker 1: in any way that Maximov won. I disagree, but I

561
00:28:41,520 --> 00:28:45,760
Speaker 1: don't really mind. You can argue that that two rounds is,

562
00:28:46,920 --> 00:28:49,960
Speaker 1: you know, par for the course, given how things went, fine, fine,

563
00:28:50,560 --> 00:28:59,240
Speaker 1: But thirty twenty seven is like, you know, you just

564
00:28:59,280 --> 00:29:01,120
Speaker 1: pin the tail on the donkey. You know, you just

565
00:29:01,680 --> 00:29:03,080
Speaker 1: you guys know that game. I don't know how many

566
00:29:03,120 --> 00:29:05,520
Speaker 1: people from other parts of the world are watching this.

567
00:29:05,560 --> 00:29:07,200
Speaker 1: Then maybe that's just an American thing. I don't know.

568
00:29:07,240 --> 00:29:09,640
Speaker 1: But I don't know. I don't know where the fucking

569
00:29:09,640 --> 00:29:11,479
Speaker 1: thing comes from. But you get the idea you're just

570
00:29:11,560 --> 00:29:14,200
Speaker 1: out there groping in the dark for some kind of

571
00:29:14,280 --> 00:29:18,120
Speaker 1: normalcy and you just end up in the middle of nowhere.

572
00:29:18,160 --> 00:29:21,200
Speaker 1: Three twenty seven is a absurd scorecard. I thought Soriana's

573
00:29:21,200 --> 00:29:23,760
Speaker 1: first round was maybe his most disciplined round ever. Obviously

574
00:29:23,840 --> 00:29:25,960
Speaker 1: he's got some first round wins, I believe, right, some

575
00:29:25,960 --> 00:29:28,320
Speaker 1: big ass ones. If I'm not mistaken in terms of

576
00:29:28,440 --> 00:29:30,240
Speaker 1: how vicious they were. Yeah, he's got a ton of them,

577
00:29:30,280 --> 00:29:35,960
Speaker 1: but uh, I thought this time he needed to show

578
00:29:36,000 --> 00:29:41,160
Speaker 1: a little bit more restraint, and he did, but Maximov

579
00:29:41,240 --> 00:29:45,680
Speaker 1: was kind of all over him. The the DS thing

580
00:29:45,760 --> 00:29:47,800
Speaker 1: is kind of weird, right, It's like the guy comes

581
00:29:47,800 --> 00:29:50,239
Speaker 1: out to deaf tones. It's like, do you do you

582
00:29:50,400 --> 00:29:53,360
Speaker 1: all like deaf tones? And it's never even like original

583
00:29:54,080 --> 00:29:56,760
Speaker 1: or I should say, older era deaf tones. I don't

584
00:29:56,760 --> 00:29:58,160
Speaker 1: know what's on they came out through. I think that

585
00:29:58,200 --> 00:29:59,600
Speaker 1: was may have been from White Pony, which case I

586
00:29:59,600 --> 00:30:01,720
Speaker 1: guess it is. But like you ever notice, like no

587
00:30:01,760 --> 00:30:05,160
Speaker 1: one ever comes out to board from the debut album

588
00:30:05,360 --> 00:30:07,880
Speaker 1: or like you know, stuff like around the Fur or whatever.

589
00:30:08,240 --> 00:30:10,600
Speaker 1: It's always from White Pony later, which I guess is

590
00:30:10,640 --> 00:30:12,520
Speaker 1: a different era of their sound. I'm just pointing out

591
00:30:12,760 --> 00:30:15,760
Speaker 1: they all seem I'm not saying that they well, I

592
00:30:15,800 --> 00:30:17,560
Speaker 1: don't know. It seems like some of them borrow their

593
00:30:17,600 --> 00:30:21,080
Speaker 1: personality from the Diaz is now not his fighting style.

594
00:30:21,200 --> 00:30:23,360
Speaker 1: I thought his fighting style is actually quite the opposite

595
00:30:23,400 --> 00:30:26,640
Speaker 1: in many ways. But you know, the way they're their

596
00:30:26,640 --> 00:30:29,000
Speaker 1: mannerisms and then the way they dress, and then the

597
00:30:29,080 --> 00:30:31,200
Speaker 1: music they listen to. It all seems quite derivative to

598
00:30:31,240 --> 00:30:33,720
Speaker 1: a degree. But but he got the win. Again, you

599
00:30:33,760 --> 00:30:38,400
Speaker 1: can't argue robbery. You can. You can argue that I disagree.

600
00:30:38,600 --> 00:30:43,240
Speaker 1: I think things should have been seen differently. That's fine,

601
00:30:43,280 --> 00:30:45,800
Speaker 1: but you can't argue robbery. If there was two three

602
00:30:45,880 --> 00:30:48,000
Speaker 1: twenty sevens, I'd be like, okay, well that's a robbery.

603
00:30:48,040 --> 00:30:52,840
Speaker 1: But twenty nine twenty eight four Maximov is a justifiable scorecard.

604
00:30:52,840 --> 00:30:54,960
Speaker 1: The one thing called, the one sort of word of

605
00:30:55,000 --> 00:30:58,640
Speaker 1: caution I would have is that he is obviously a

606
00:30:58,680 --> 00:31:02,040
Speaker 1: talented grappler, right, obviously obviously that if he gets his

607
00:31:02,120 --> 00:31:05,440
Speaker 1: hands on you from that standing back control, I don't

608
00:31:05,480 --> 00:31:07,920
Speaker 1: mean having the hooks in, but having the waist in

609
00:31:07,960 --> 00:31:11,360
Speaker 1: some kind of capacity or another, he's devastating there. He's

610
00:31:11,520 --> 00:31:16,760
Speaker 1: very very good there, and and you know he's going

611
00:31:16,840 --> 00:31:19,120
Speaker 1: to cause problems for a lot of people. But like, dude,

612
00:31:19,120 --> 00:31:21,760
Speaker 1: look at the stats on his ground and pound. Man,

613
00:31:22,920 --> 00:31:26,280
Speaker 1: let me pull these up here, you know, listen to

614
00:31:26,320 --> 00:31:29,240
Speaker 1: the number of strikes he throws. These are the number

615
00:31:29,280 --> 00:31:34,280
Speaker 1: of significant strikes he landed per round round one five five.

616
00:31:35,440 --> 00:31:38,600
Speaker 1: They credited him with three of seven takedown attempts. But

617
00:31:38,800 --> 00:31:42,040
Speaker 1: like they might have counted, but they didn't in the

618
00:31:42,040 --> 00:31:45,000
Speaker 1: sense that he achieved a takedown position again by fight

619
00:31:45,080 --> 00:31:48,680
Speaker 1: metrics own calculation, and there was the sort of one

620
00:31:48,840 --> 00:31:50,880
Speaker 1: sub attempt which they credited him with, but I don't

621
00:31:50,880 --> 00:31:53,480
Speaker 1: know it wasn't it didn't feel it to be super dominant.

622
00:31:53,520 --> 00:31:58,800
Speaker 1: Round two thirteen strikes, Round three eleven. He's got the

623
00:31:58,800 --> 00:32:01,720
Speaker 1: positional game. I want to say locked up, but he's

624
00:32:01,800 --> 00:32:04,800
Speaker 1: clearly quite gifted at that. But there's not enough ground

625
00:32:04,800 --> 00:32:07,480
Speaker 1: and pound. There's not there's not enough ground and pound.

626
00:32:08,440 --> 00:32:10,280
Speaker 1: That's a solid win that he got today and he

627
00:32:10,280 --> 00:32:12,800
Speaker 1: should be proud of it. And again it's not it's

628
00:32:13,680 --> 00:32:16,160
Speaker 1: we can debate it, but it's not a crazy scorecard,

629
00:32:16,720 --> 00:32:18,720
Speaker 1: and some of you might feel like it's entirely justified,

630
00:32:18,760 --> 00:32:20,959
Speaker 1: in which case fine, Like there's no controversy for you

631
00:32:20,960 --> 00:32:23,360
Speaker 1: at all. It's great. But I'm just pointing out as

632
00:32:23,480 --> 00:32:27,440
Speaker 1: the as the abilities of opponents rise, it's good to

633
00:32:27,480 --> 00:32:29,680
Speaker 1: have these skills. There's nothing bad about those skills, but

634
00:32:29,720 --> 00:32:31,760
Speaker 1: they have to be complimented by something that gets you

635
00:32:31,800 --> 00:32:34,560
Speaker 1: closer to that damaged threshold, because he can't be in

636
00:32:34,600 --> 00:32:36,680
Speaker 1: these long, grueling fights a you get out of fights,

637
00:32:36,720 --> 00:32:39,680
Speaker 1: quicker b makes the judge's decisions easier, and of course

638
00:32:39,720 --> 00:32:41,040
Speaker 1: it's easier for me to sit here and to just

639
00:32:41,080 --> 00:32:43,160
Speaker 1: say you should get better. I mean, I realize that

640
00:32:43,200 --> 00:32:45,240
Speaker 1: means absolutely nothing to prize fighters who actually have the

641
00:32:45,240 --> 00:32:48,160
Speaker 1: task of learning to do it. But as as somebody

642
00:32:48,200 --> 00:32:51,520
Speaker 1: who watches the game and has at least you guys

643
00:32:51,600 --> 00:32:54,280
Speaker 1: are the same as me, you recognize that like the

644
00:32:54,440 --> 00:32:58,160
Speaker 1: very best guys who employed that style, the reason why

645
00:32:58,200 --> 00:33:01,320
Speaker 1: they're the very best is because they can make it

646
00:33:01,360 --> 00:33:05,400
Speaker 1: a really damaging, threatening fight ending place to be. It

647
00:33:05,480 --> 00:33:08,239
Speaker 1: does seem like once he gets there, he can do

648
00:33:08,320 --> 00:33:11,000
Speaker 1: a lot of forms of control and scramble and really

649
00:33:11,000 --> 00:33:15,000
Speaker 1: be on you, like a wide on rice. But and

650
00:33:15,080 --> 00:33:17,320
Speaker 1: you know there are submision attempts you have to take seriously.

651
00:33:17,360 --> 00:33:19,440
Speaker 1: But he never really takes an opponent that I've seen

652
00:33:19,440 --> 00:33:23,480
Speaker 1: at the UFC level anyway to that threshold very dangerously,

653
00:33:23,600 --> 00:33:26,160
Speaker 1: very very often, whereas the sort of the very best

654
00:33:26,160 --> 00:33:30,000
Speaker 1: guys with that style, they they really they make their

655
00:33:30,040 --> 00:33:34,719
Speaker 1: presence felt and from a damaging perspective right away. So

656
00:33:34,760 --> 00:33:36,800
Speaker 1: that's gonna be a challenge for him as he gets

657
00:33:36,800 --> 00:33:40,760
Speaker 1: older and develops. Although it's a nice win and obviously

658
00:33:40,840 --> 00:33:44,040
Speaker 1: his grappling skills. You know, he's what was his eighth fight.

659
00:33:44,120 --> 00:33:46,560
Speaker 1: I mean, let's let's let's have a how old is

660
00:33:46,560 --> 00:33:55,360
Speaker 1: is he? Let's see here he is, Let's see. According

661
00:33:55,400 --> 00:34:01,120
Speaker 1: to sure Dog, he's fucking cry he's twenty four. I mean,

662
00:34:01,160 --> 00:34:04,240
Speaker 1: this was his eighth fight. So let's be very very

663
00:34:04,240 --> 00:34:08,200
Speaker 1: in the interest of fairness here, let's be let's dial

664
00:34:08,239 --> 00:34:11,879
Speaker 1: back the criticism and including even mine to a significant degree.

665
00:34:11,920 --> 00:34:14,839
Speaker 1: He doesn't even have double digit fights. He's twenty four

666
00:34:14,920 --> 00:34:18,600
Speaker 1: years old. This is a nice start for him, no

667
00:34:18,719 --> 00:34:21,640
Speaker 1: doubt about it. It's actually a really nice start for him, candidly,

668
00:34:21,800 --> 00:34:27,160
Speaker 1: very good. But but to get to where I think

669
00:34:27,160 --> 00:34:29,560
Speaker 1: he's obviously gonna want to go, the young man is

670
00:34:29,600 --> 00:34:31,000
Speaker 1: going to have to do some work as a released

671
00:34:31,000 --> 00:34:33,319
Speaker 1: to ground and pound. But he's got plenty, plenty of time.

672
00:34:33,360 --> 00:34:36,480
Speaker 1: Twenty four years of age. That's very young, very young,

673
00:34:36,600 --> 00:34:40,319
Speaker 1: So good for him. All right, This is the one

674
00:34:40,320 --> 00:34:43,960
Speaker 1: I had the most interesting, frankly, heading into the contest

675
00:34:44,000 --> 00:34:48,760
Speaker 1: and coming out of it. Shoffcott Rochmanoff defeats Carlston Harris

676
00:34:48,880 --> 00:34:51,239
Speaker 1: via keo spinning hookkick and punches. Now the hookkick. It

677
00:34:51,320 --> 00:34:55,799
Speaker 1: turned out didn't land super flush. But by the way,

678
00:34:55,800 --> 00:34:57,439
Speaker 1: this is four to ten of the very first round,

679
00:34:57,480 --> 00:35:02,120
Speaker 1: which I'll get to in just a second. The spinning

680
00:35:02,120 --> 00:35:04,960
Speaker 1: hookick by itself didn't land all that cleanly, but it

681
00:35:05,040 --> 00:35:08,560
Speaker 1: landed enough to take Harris off of his feet and

682
00:35:08,600 --> 00:35:11,799
Speaker 1: then dude, shaq kotta Rockmanov is interesting. This happens a

683
00:35:11,800 --> 00:35:14,560
Speaker 1: lot in his fights. He is very good at standing

684
00:35:15,320 --> 00:35:18,680
Speaker 1: ground and pound, right. A lot of guys like Kabib,

685
00:35:18,680 --> 00:35:20,120
Speaker 1: they want to tie you up and then from there

686
00:35:20,160 --> 00:35:21,840
Speaker 1: they just sort of lay into you or they'll control

687
00:35:21,880 --> 00:35:23,440
Speaker 1: one wrist and blah blah blah. And then of course

688
00:35:23,480 --> 00:35:25,680
Speaker 1: he has some of those skills too. But you know,

689
00:35:25,719 --> 00:35:27,680
Speaker 1: he's very good on the feet. He drops a lot

690
00:35:27,719 --> 00:35:29,880
Speaker 1: of opponents. He hurts him a lot. He finds himself

691
00:35:29,880 --> 00:35:32,799
Speaker 1: in these situations where he's on top looking over his

692
00:35:34,680 --> 00:35:39,960
Speaker 1: prey basically, and he is so good at at getting

693
00:35:40,000 --> 00:35:43,000
Speaker 1: guys to kind of acquiesce to the position because I

694
00:35:43,000 --> 00:35:44,719
Speaker 1: guess they don't think there's not a lot of guys

695
00:35:44,719 --> 00:35:47,360
Speaker 1: who excel at standing ground and pound. I'm on my

696
00:35:47,440 --> 00:35:49,600
Speaker 1: feet and I'm bending over at the waist and I'm

697
00:35:49,600 --> 00:35:53,080
Speaker 1: finding unique clever ways to drill the target he does.

698
00:35:53,120 --> 00:35:54,400
Speaker 1: He's actually good at that. And then of course if

699
00:35:54,440 --> 00:35:56,560
Speaker 1: he has to transition to the grappling where he's you know,

700
00:35:56,600 --> 00:36:01,239
Speaker 1: he's now trying to go for a pass or or

701
00:36:03,520 --> 00:36:05,960
Speaker 1: what's the position now, leg drag if he wants to

702
00:36:05,960 --> 00:36:08,080
Speaker 1: put you in leg drag or whatever whatever he's trying

703
00:36:08,120 --> 00:36:10,000
Speaker 1: to do, he can do that as well. He can

704
00:36:10,080 --> 00:36:13,320
Speaker 1: play those levels, but he often will drop a person

705
00:36:13,760 --> 00:36:15,600
Speaker 1: and then before he even has to engage with them

706
00:36:15,640 --> 00:36:17,320
Speaker 1: on the mat, or chooses to engage with them on

707
00:36:17,360 --> 00:36:19,480
Speaker 1: the mat, sometimes he can just sort of stand over

708
00:36:19,520 --> 00:36:22,560
Speaker 1: them and and he sneaks through several and then when

709
00:36:22,600 --> 00:36:25,560
Speaker 1: they block, he's got an answer for that. Anyway, just dude,

710
00:36:25,600 --> 00:36:29,359
Speaker 1: shove got. Rockmanov is a motherfucking problem for everybody. And

711
00:36:29,400 --> 00:36:31,319
Speaker 1: I understand that there is a ton of hype over

712
00:36:31,360 --> 00:36:37,040
Speaker 1: hamzat Chamayav. I'm not in any way suggesting that you

713
00:36:37,239 --> 00:36:41,000
Speaker 1: have to think Rockmanov is better. I'm not suggesting to

714
00:36:41,080 --> 00:36:46,040
Speaker 1: you that this guy will never lose. I'm not suggesting

715
00:36:46,080 --> 00:36:50,040
Speaker 1: to you. I don't know. Here's what all I can

716
00:36:50,040 --> 00:36:53,800
Speaker 1: tell you is the following. He is undefeated, he has

717
00:36:53,840 --> 00:36:56,920
Speaker 1: nothing but finishes almost before but before this fight, it

718
00:36:57,000 --> 00:37:01,239
Speaker 1: was split down the middle, half submissions, half, you know,

719
00:37:02,520 --> 00:37:09,319
Speaker 1: striking stoppages. He added another one here, dude, he's not

720
00:37:09,400 --> 00:37:13,400
Speaker 1: even trying. He's not even trying. You talk to the

721
00:37:13,440 --> 00:37:17,920
Speaker 1: people around him, you talk to the people who who

722
00:37:18,000 --> 00:37:21,719
Speaker 1: recruited him and sort of discovered him, and they all

723
00:37:21,760 --> 00:37:26,000
Speaker 1: talk about him like he's the next coming of Jesus

724
00:37:26,080 --> 00:37:28,839
Speaker 1: or something. They can't and I know, everyone's like, oh,

725
00:37:28,920 --> 00:37:33,000
Speaker 1: everybody's corner and camp and management do this. Yeah, not

726
00:37:33,440 --> 00:37:37,080
Speaker 1: like they do for this guy. I'm telling you, I

727
00:37:37,120 --> 00:37:39,440
Speaker 1: don't know how far he will go. I cannot predict

728
00:37:39,480 --> 00:37:42,120
Speaker 1: the future. I cannot tell you that. I think I

729
00:37:42,120 --> 00:37:43,879
Speaker 1: can declare to you he's gonna beat homs up your mind.

730
00:37:43,920 --> 00:37:45,520
Speaker 1: Hums up your mind might fight him and beat him

731
00:37:45,560 --> 00:37:48,560
Speaker 1: like that would be a thing that would not necessarily

732
00:37:48,600 --> 00:37:52,080
Speaker 1: surprise me. What I can tell you is this guy

733
00:37:52,320 --> 00:37:54,560
Speaker 1: is going to mow through some of your favorite fighters,

734
00:37:54,840 --> 00:37:57,080
Speaker 1: and he's gonna contend for a title at some point,

735
00:37:57,600 --> 00:38:00,439
Speaker 1: and he might just fucking win it. To this dude

736
00:38:00,760 --> 00:38:06,719
Speaker 1: is super talented, super talented. Look at everything he can

737
00:38:06,760 --> 00:38:14,200
Speaker 1: do right. He can box, he can kickbox, he can counterstrike,

738
00:38:14,960 --> 00:38:20,080
Speaker 1: he can slip, he can block. He's got phenomenal submissions.

739
00:38:20,280 --> 00:38:25,360
Speaker 1: He can wrestle, he makes good decisions all the time.

740
00:38:25,840 --> 00:38:30,160
Speaker 1: He's patient with his offense, he is clinical with his finishes.

741
00:38:31,400 --> 00:38:36,040
Speaker 1: He's how old is he? Twenty six? Schoffcott Ruckmanov twenty seven?

742
00:38:36,160 --> 00:38:38,640
Speaker 1: Just turned twenty seven, and well not just but in October,

743
00:38:38,960 --> 00:38:42,200
Speaker 1: so he's twenty seven years old. Twenty seven years old,

744
00:38:42,280 --> 00:38:44,400
Speaker 1: and he looks like that. Now I know what everyone

745
00:38:44,440 --> 00:38:46,960
Speaker 1: is saying, Well, who are the guys he's beaten? Okay,

746
00:38:47,040 --> 00:38:49,480
Speaker 1: let's read out their names, because I agree that this

747
00:38:49,560 --> 00:38:54,120
Speaker 1: is not the best resume among prospects in the Baltsway division.

748
00:38:54,320 --> 00:38:56,759
Speaker 1: Hamzat has beaten better guys to this point, although it

749
00:38:56,840 --> 00:38:58,759
Speaker 1: wasn't always the case, but now it is. And I

750
00:38:58,800 --> 00:39:01,280
Speaker 1: would actually argue Sean Brady and his win over Michael

751
00:39:01,360 --> 00:39:05,600
Speaker 1: Kiessa actually has a better win than to this point

752
00:39:06,080 --> 00:39:08,880
Speaker 1: Schoffcott Rockmanov does. But he's got to win over Alex Olivera,

753
00:39:08,920 --> 00:39:11,439
Speaker 1: which he finished in the first round with a guillotine choke,

754
00:39:12,000 --> 00:39:14,600
Speaker 1: then in the next one Michelle Prezerish, which I know

755
00:39:14,600 --> 00:39:15,960
Speaker 1: a lot of you guys don't know who that was

756
00:39:16,000 --> 00:39:19,399
Speaker 1: because he had the USADA suspension. You know, you can

757
00:39:19,440 --> 00:39:21,440
Speaker 1: call him like one of these middling brazil guys. That's

758
00:39:21,480 --> 00:39:24,400
Speaker 1: not quite true. He was one of these aggressive like

759
00:39:24,440 --> 00:39:27,680
Speaker 1: if your ground game wasn't locked on, he was gonna

760
00:39:27,719 --> 00:39:30,520
Speaker 1: give you major problems with being the sort of stout,

761
00:39:30,680 --> 00:39:35,279
Speaker 1: low to the ground Wressell grappler position control type who.

762
00:39:35,320 --> 00:39:38,000
Speaker 1: By the way, a guy like Mizelle Preseris has wins

763
00:39:38,040 --> 00:39:42,719
Speaker 1: over Mad's Brunell, Josh Berkman, Desmond Green, Zach Cummings beat

764
00:39:42,760 --> 00:39:46,520
Speaker 1: good fighters. Merribeck tys them off like he has wins

765
00:39:46,560 --> 00:39:49,920
Speaker 1: over solid guys. Shofcott Rockmanov went through him like a

766
00:39:49,960 --> 00:39:52,399
Speaker 1: hot knife through Butter took his time in the first

767
00:39:52,480 --> 00:39:54,359
Speaker 1: round to just sort of see what he was looking at,

768
00:39:54,360 --> 00:39:57,240
Speaker 1: and then just dispatched with him in the second round

769
00:39:57,280 --> 00:39:59,759
Speaker 1: like he was the buzzing of flies. Carlton Harris came

770
00:39:59,800 --> 00:40:02,760
Speaker 1: to the fight undefeated. He had two wins in the UFC.

771
00:40:03,360 --> 00:40:05,799
Speaker 1: He had to win over a Christian Aguilera. He had

772
00:40:05,840 --> 00:40:07,839
Speaker 1: a Ana Kono choke, which was a really nice one.

773
00:40:07,880 --> 00:40:10,200
Speaker 1: A guy reached for a single and tried to dump him,

774
00:40:10,200 --> 00:40:12,799
Speaker 1: and instead Carlton turned him and then as he did,

775
00:40:12,920 --> 00:40:14,799
Speaker 1: locked up the end of Conda in the prata. In

776
00:40:14,800 --> 00:40:17,239
Speaker 1: the process. It was fucking slick, and then he beat

777
00:40:17,280 --> 00:40:19,239
Speaker 1: Impakasanga and I and stopp him inside the first round.

778
00:40:19,239 --> 00:40:21,160
Speaker 1: By the way, he beat Christian Aguilera in the first round,

779
00:40:21,200 --> 00:40:23,719
Speaker 1: he had two first round stoppages. Now, he was very

780
00:40:23,760 --> 00:40:25,920
Speaker 1: loose with his striking, which we knew, but he's long,

781
00:40:26,280 --> 00:40:28,200
Speaker 1: he was lanky, he had big power, and he was

782
00:40:28,239 --> 00:40:31,759
Speaker 1: strong in the clinch. Shovkott Rochmanov took all of that

783
00:40:31,880 --> 00:40:36,320
Speaker 1: away like that. Did you notice how he was waiting

784
00:40:36,360 --> 00:40:38,279
Speaker 1: for Harris to throw big strikes, which is kind of

785
00:40:38,280 --> 00:40:39,920
Speaker 1: getting all away of him, taking a look at it,

786
00:40:40,160 --> 00:40:44,200
Speaker 1: sometimes counteracting him with it, watching his loose positioning, forcing

787
00:40:44,239 --> 00:40:47,280
Speaker 1: him into direction changes, and then catching him with those kicks,

788
00:40:47,600 --> 00:40:51,200
Speaker 1: always out of range for big shots, never afraid to engage,

789
00:40:51,560 --> 00:40:55,120
Speaker 1: taking his time finding the openings, going low, landing high,

790
00:40:55,160 --> 00:40:59,040
Speaker 1: causing it sniper like fucking standing ground and pound, and

791
00:40:59,080 --> 00:41:03,920
Speaker 1: then polishing him off from there. Dude, you're I had

792
00:41:03,920 --> 00:41:06,600
Speaker 1: someone tweet which they're totally correct. They're like, well, yeah,

793
00:41:06,600 --> 00:41:08,400
Speaker 1: you can beat guys like this, and what does that

794
00:41:08,440 --> 00:41:09,640
Speaker 1: mean by the time you get to the top five,

795
00:41:09,680 --> 00:41:12,319
Speaker 1: You're gonna have a much harder time, Dude. That's that's

796
00:41:12,320 --> 00:41:14,840
Speaker 1: true for everyone. Like maybe COM's out Tremaiah is the

797
00:41:14,840 --> 00:41:16,920
Speaker 1: next champion that Like, who could in any way be

798
00:41:17,000 --> 00:41:18,839
Speaker 1: surprised if he was the guy that did that. I mean,

799
00:41:19,040 --> 00:41:21,799
Speaker 1: it'd be crazy, but at the same time kind of believable, Right,

800
00:41:22,120 --> 00:41:24,920
Speaker 1: But do I really think he's gonna beat that if

801
00:41:24,920 --> 00:41:26,399
Speaker 1: it ends up happening this way? Do I think he's

802
00:41:26,440 --> 00:41:29,120
Speaker 1: gonna beat Kamaru Usman the same kind of way he's

803
00:41:29,160 --> 00:41:31,680
Speaker 1: gonna beat the Leech? No, of course not. Dude. By

804
00:41:31,719 --> 00:41:33,279
Speaker 1: the time you get to the top five, you're dealing

805
00:41:33,360 --> 00:41:35,239
Speaker 1: I don't care what division you're in, you're dealing with

806
00:41:35,280 --> 00:41:37,480
Speaker 1: bad motherfuckers. May tomb of the top five guys for

807
00:41:37,520 --> 00:41:38,640
Speaker 1: the most part in the world. There's a couple of

808
00:41:38,640 --> 00:41:41,160
Speaker 1: guys in Baltimore here there that have some claims obviously

809
00:41:41,200 --> 00:41:43,400
Speaker 1: around that. But dude, yeah, of course, of course you

810
00:41:43,440 --> 00:41:46,759
Speaker 1: get to the top five, it's gonna be significantly harder. Dude.

811
00:41:46,760 --> 00:41:50,360
Speaker 1: That's that's true for anybody. That's true for shop Gott Rockmanov,

812
00:41:50,520 --> 00:41:53,960
Speaker 1: that's true for literally any fighter going up the I

813
00:41:53,960 --> 00:41:55,480
Speaker 1: don't know, I don't know who you could say that

814
00:41:55,520 --> 00:41:57,360
Speaker 1: about who actually has been through the top five a

815
00:41:57,400 --> 00:42:00,239
Speaker 1: division and they beat them with the same e as

816
00:42:00,239 --> 00:42:02,880
Speaker 1: they did number twenty through twenty five. Yeah, like, of

817
00:42:02,920 --> 00:42:05,680
Speaker 1: course that's much harder, and I cannot predict the future

818
00:42:05,719 --> 00:42:06,960
Speaker 1: to you. What I'm trying to tell you is the

819
00:42:07,000 --> 00:42:10,759
Speaker 1: guy is twenty seven. He has I'm not saying he's

820
00:42:10,800 --> 00:42:16,040
Speaker 1: perfect and everything, but he's got command of seemingly every

821
00:42:16,040 --> 00:42:18,280
Speaker 1: part of the game. We'll see how his takedown defense

822
00:42:18,320 --> 00:42:22,920
Speaker 1: looks against more dedicated, active, frequent wrestler types. That much

823
00:42:23,040 --> 00:42:28,400
Speaker 1: is still not totally known. But dude, that's a super

824
00:42:28,560 --> 00:42:33,280
Speaker 1: smart fighter who just makes excellent choices, is well rounded,

825
00:42:33,800 --> 00:42:36,920
Speaker 1: calm as a bomb, and he walks into the fucking

826
00:42:36,960 --> 00:42:42,200
Speaker 1: octagon with wolf pelts on his head and back. Dude,

827
00:42:42,200 --> 00:42:43,920
Speaker 1: this is a guy from a different part of the

828
00:42:43,920 --> 00:42:47,319
Speaker 1: world that you know. I think he's at Sanford MMA

829
00:42:47,480 --> 00:42:50,320
Speaker 1: now or he's part of the time, and great because

830
00:42:50,560 --> 00:42:52,480
Speaker 1: you know, what a great place to be for a

831
00:42:52,480 --> 00:42:56,839
Speaker 1: guy that talented. But I'm telling you, I'm telling you

832
00:42:57,640 --> 00:43:03,080
Speaker 1: that prospects this early in their career don't look this

833
00:43:03,200 --> 00:43:07,400
Speaker 1: good this often. This is very very rare. Hard to

834
00:43:07,440 --> 00:43:10,200
Speaker 1: know exactly what that means when they finally, as everyone

835
00:43:10,280 --> 00:43:12,360
Speaker 1: rightly notes, when they finally ascend to the top of

836
00:43:12,360 --> 00:43:14,479
Speaker 1: that division, what does that mean. I don't know. He's

837
00:43:14,600 --> 00:43:17,560
Speaker 1: going to ascend to that top five. He is going

838
00:43:17,560 --> 00:43:19,200
Speaker 1: to ascend to them, and he's gonna beat some of

839
00:43:19,200 --> 00:43:22,280
Speaker 1: your favorite fighters, probably pretty fucking bad in certain cases

840
00:43:22,320 --> 00:43:24,680
Speaker 1: along the way. Where it all ends up in that

841
00:43:24,760 --> 00:43:27,719
Speaker 1: mix with the Brady's of the world and the Chimayavs

842
00:43:27,719 --> 00:43:29,400
Speaker 1: of the world, and whoever else ends up being up

843
00:43:29,400 --> 00:43:32,080
Speaker 1: there when it all gets mixed, we'll have to see.

844
00:43:32,160 --> 00:43:34,200
Speaker 1: I can't tell you. I don't know. I don't know

845
00:43:34,280 --> 00:43:36,279
Speaker 1: how you can look at that and not think that

846
00:43:36,280 --> 00:43:40,480
Speaker 1: that guy has title potential written all over him, written

847
00:43:40,560 --> 00:43:42,560
Speaker 1: all over him. Dude, you don't see you don't see

848
00:43:42,560 --> 00:43:46,000
Speaker 1: fighters you know in the and by the way you

849
00:43:46,040 --> 00:43:48,440
Speaker 1: talk to the people around him. This contract he's on,

850
00:43:48,920 --> 00:43:50,600
Speaker 1: he's just trying to fight these guys so he can

851
00:43:50,600 --> 00:43:53,279
Speaker 1: get through this contract. He wants the next contract, as

852
00:43:53,280 --> 00:43:55,719
Speaker 1: I understand it, to be the one where he really

853
00:43:55,760 --> 00:43:58,719
Speaker 1: begins to make more of a serious push. So the

854
00:43:58,840 --> 00:44:01,319
Speaker 1: argument that he's not beating the very best there is,

855
00:44:01,400 --> 00:44:04,919
Speaker 1: it's incontestably true. It is quite obviously true. But he's

856
00:44:04,920 --> 00:44:06,840
Speaker 1: dispatching them in the way that he's supposed to. And

857
00:44:06,880 --> 00:44:12,160
Speaker 1: then the skills he's showing. They're remarkable, they're they're rare,

858
00:44:12,760 --> 00:44:15,960
Speaker 1: they're special. He is a special fighter. He's a very

859
00:44:16,000 --> 00:44:19,439
Speaker 1: special fighter. Ham's that Tremaiev is a special fighter as well,

860
00:44:19,480 --> 00:44:22,200
Speaker 1: and for some of you and maybe the world in general,

861
00:44:22,280 --> 00:44:26,040
Speaker 1: he might be even more special. Fine, fine, fine, one

862
00:44:26,080 --> 00:44:30,000
Speaker 1: does not necessarily preclude the other. But Shavkott Rochmanov, if

863
00:44:30,040 --> 00:44:33,319
Speaker 1: you have not paid attention at this point, you got it.

864
00:44:33,360 --> 00:44:36,080
Speaker 1: You gotta start, you gotta start. He's gonna he's gonna

865
00:44:36,120 --> 00:44:40,359
Speaker 1: start mowing through very good fighters, and he is going

866
00:44:40,440 --> 00:44:42,920
Speaker 1: to make a shitload of noise in this division. And

867
00:44:44,760 --> 00:44:47,400
Speaker 1: if he ends up wearing gold should not be a

868
00:44:47,440 --> 00:44:51,920
Speaker 1: surprise at any point whatsoever. He is that talented. Uh,

869
00:44:52,120 --> 00:44:54,800
Speaker 1: But whether he can get it done against other guys

870
00:44:54,800 --> 00:44:57,840
Speaker 1: who are beasts in their own right like a Tremaiev

871
00:44:57,840 --> 00:44:59,359
Speaker 1: and some other ones who I'm sure we'll we'll see

872
00:44:59,360 --> 00:45:03,360
Speaker 1: you as the the months and years move on, let's see.

873
00:45:03,520 --> 00:45:06,160
Speaker 1: But if they can keep that kid in rotation, I'm

874
00:45:06,160 --> 00:45:09,680
Speaker 1: telling you, man, I'm telling you that dude is a

875
00:45:09,840 --> 00:45:14,319
Speaker 1: fucking hammer. He is a hammer. He is going to

876
00:45:14,560 --> 00:45:21,799
Speaker 1: hurt Walter weights on his way through. And he beat

877
00:45:21,800 --> 00:45:25,920
Speaker 1: olivera when olivera missed weight, got to performance to the

878
00:45:26,000 --> 00:45:30,200
Speaker 1: night bonus here? Who are the bonus winners? Let's see

879
00:45:30,239 --> 00:45:31,799
Speaker 1: if I can tell you, I don't know that I

880
00:45:31,840 --> 00:45:34,400
Speaker 1: have it in front of me. I'd have to look

881
00:45:34,880 --> 00:45:39,080
Speaker 1: elsewhere on the card. Oh, you know what, let me

882
00:45:39,120 --> 00:45:42,040
Speaker 1: look up shov Catt Rockmanov's numbers here very quickly. I

883
00:45:42,080 --> 00:45:44,520
Speaker 1: want to see his overall stats. It's only through three fights,

884
00:45:44,520 --> 00:45:47,759
Speaker 1: so it doesn't tell you a whole lot. So what

885
00:45:47,800 --> 00:45:51,319
Speaker 1: do we have for Rockmanov? Yeah, very judicious take down

886
00:45:51,320 --> 00:45:53,320
Speaker 1: defense one hundred percent, but obviously he's not been tested

887
00:45:53,320 --> 00:45:55,720
Speaker 1: by somebody very good in that regard, like super good

888
00:45:56,840 --> 00:45:59,600
Speaker 1: striking defense fifty three. It's pretty good, sub sub average

889
00:45:59,600 --> 00:46:01,719
Speaker 1: to average averaging two and a half per fifteen minutes.

890
00:46:01,760 --> 00:46:04,960
Speaker 1: That's very high strikes landed, he's judicious with it two

891
00:46:05,000 --> 00:46:07,279
Speaker 1: point eighty seven, strikes absorbed one point twenty seven. So

892
00:46:07,320 --> 00:46:10,960
Speaker 1: he's a very high positive differential take down accuracy. They

893
00:46:11,000 --> 00:46:12,960
Speaker 1: have him at thirty three percent, but again that's not

894
00:46:14,120 --> 00:46:18,400
Speaker 1: indicative of exactly how hard he's going. And then they

895
00:46:18,400 --> 00:46:20,520
Speaker 1: take down average one point two seven. Yeah, these are

896
00:46:20,560 --> 00:46:24,160
Speaker 1: hard to read exactly. How will these numbers compare to

897
00:46:24,239 --> 00:46:26,160
Speaker 1: what he does in the top five, Yeah, will look different,

898
00:46:26,600 --> 00:46:29,960
Speaker 1: but that's that's true of everybody. Everyone's gonna look a

899
00:46:29,960 --> 00:46:31,560
Speaker 1: little bit different when they get to that top five.

900
00:46:31,600 --> 00:46:33,440
Speaker 1: So I can't wait to see what happens with him.

901
00:46:33,680 --> 00:46:35,680
Speaker 1: Get this guy through his first contract, and let's get

902
00:46:35,719 --> 00:46:40,480
Speaker 1: him to the next one, because he's about to start.

903
00:46:40,560 --> 00:46:44,680
Speaker 1: He's about to start absolutely fucking terrorizing people. He is good,

904
00:46:45,320 --> 00:46:50,040
Speaker 1: really really really really good, really good. Elsewhere on that

905
00:46:50,080 --> 00:46:53,000
Speaker 1: main car, Brendan Allen stepping in. I guess he got

906
00:46:53,000 --> 00:46:57,240
Speaker 1: the call on Tuesday fut a light heavyweight and submits

907
00:46:57,280 --> 00:47:01,200
Speaker 1: with No. It wasn't quite a bulldog because a bulldog,

908
00:47:01,320 --> 00:47:03,320
Speaker 1: it was still a rear deck of choke rip versus

909
00:47:03,360 --> 00:47:05,040
Speaker 1: a you know, with the heads popping out in the

910
00:47:05,040 --> 00:47:07,560
Speaker 1: bies behind. Also kind of like with a clock choke,

911
00:47:07,600 --> 00:47:09,759
Speaker 1: with a bulldog choke, you can kind of lean your

912
00:47:09,800 --> 00:47:12,600
Speaker 1: hips back and into it and it will make the

913
00:47:12,680 --> 00:47:14,719
Speaker 1: choke even worse. You can't really do that when you're

914
00:47:14,760 --> 00:47:16,400
Speaker 1: behind them. But he didn't have any hooks in. He

915
00:47:16,440 --> 00:47:18,479
Speaker 1: was kind of off to the side, But it didn't matter.

916
00:47:18,520 --> 00:47:20,879
Speaker 1: That choke was in so deep. What could what could

917
00:47:20,920 --> 00:47:22,920
Speaker 1: a guy like Alvi do? He got dropped with a

918
00:47:22,960 --> 00:47:27,400
Speaker 1: vicious left hook, so Alan disguised it coming in low

919
00:47:27,480 --> 00:47:29,040
Speaker 1: to the body with a right coming up top of

920
00:47:29,080 --> 00:47:32,719
Speaker 1: the left, drills him, drops him, and then he's got

921
00:47:32,760 --> 00:47:34,880
Speaker 1: six submission skills. I've always had a high opinion to

922
00:47:34,880 --> 00:47:37,280
Speaker 1: Brendan Allen. I think he's a very good fighter. Stumbled

923
00:47:37,280 --> 00:47:41,000
Speaker 1: a couple of times along the way. I guess against

924
00:47:41,080 --> 00:47:43,520
Speaker 1: Chris Curtis he lost, and against Sean Strickland he lost.

925
00:47:43,719 --> 00:47:45,440
Speaker 1: But you know those are two good fighters themselves, certainly

926
00:47:45,440 --> 00:47:47,040
Speaker 1: in the case of Sean Strickland, who was headlining the

927
00:47:47,040 --> 00:47:50,960
Speaker 1: car tonight. I Chris Curtis I thought deserve to be

928
00:47:51,000 --> 00:47:53,520
Speaker 1: in the UFC a long time ago. Learning experiences will

929
00:47:53,520 --> 00:47:55,239
Speaker 1: see how far he goes. How old is Brendan Allen.

930
00:47:55,320 --> 00:47:58,560
Speaker 1: He is only twenty six, twenty six, young guy for

931
00:47:58,600 --> 00:48:01,760
Speaker 1: twenty six. He's very very talented as well, really talented,

932
00:48:02,560 --> 00:48:05,480
Speaker 1: super well rounded trains with a good team. So dude,

933
00:48:05,520 --> 00:48:07,799
Speaker 1: to come in with that and land that left hook

934
00:48:07,880 --> 00:48:09,880
Speaker 1: was brilliant. The choke was nice and you did it.

935
00:48:10,520 --> 00:48:13,799
Speaker 1: Get in the call on Tuesday take I take my

936
00:48:13,800 --> 00:48:16,760
Speaker 1: hat off to run it down. Very very very solid performance,

937
00:48:16,800 --> 00:48:20,680
Speaker 1: good pressure, good presence of mind, calm executed. That's a

938
00:48:20,719 --> 00:48:26,359
Speaker 1: great job. Brian Battle defeating Treshawn Gore unanimous decision, twenty

939
00:48:26,440 --> 00:48:28,480
Speaker 1: nine to twenty eight. Across the board, Gore having his

940
00:48:28,560 --> 00:48:31,759
Speaker 1: moments when he could firmly get Battle right up along

941
00:48:31,840 --> 00:48:34,239
Speaker 1: the fence line, and there he was absolutely doing sick work.

942
00:48:34,280 --> 00:48:36,960
Speaker 1: I think especially it was the second or third round

943
00:48:36,960 --> 00:48:38,840
Speaker 1: where he nearly dropped him a couple of times he

944
00:48:39,120 --> 00:48:42,280
Speaker 1: had hammers, but otherwise he was waiting around, and Battle

945
00:48:42,360 --> 00:48:44,320
Speaker 1: was the one had to do more work and obviously

946
00:48:44,320 --> 00:48:46,640
Speaker 1: didn't have the same kind of power, but it didn't

947
00:48:46,680 --> 00:48:48,799
Speaker 1: matter the amount of damage he was able to do

948
00:48:49,040 --> 00:48:52,080
Speaker 1: ultimately had an effect. But more to the point, Gore

949
00:48:52,160 --> 00:48:54,680
Speaker 1: was constantly having to block and then reset and then

950
00:48:54,719 --> 00:48:57,680
Speaker 1: find new positioning and then started over again and blah

951
00:48:57,719 --> 00:48:59,839
Speaker 1: blah blah. Meanwhile he's just getting picked apart and picked

952
00:48:59,880 --> 00:49:03,400
Speaker 1: up and picked apart. He had success, extraordinary success in

953
00:49:03,400 --> 00:49:06,319
Speaker 1: that one very specific range. But if that's gonna be

954
00:49:06,320 --> 00:49:09,319
Speaker 1: the if that's gonna be the the context in which

955
00:49:09,320 --> 00:49:10,560
Speaker 1: you do your best work, there has to be a

956
00:49:10,600 --> 00:49:12,399
Speaker 1: little bit more urgency hitting into the third to put

957
00:49:12,440 --> 00:49:15,319
Speaker 1: them there. Easier said than done, I realize, you know, oh,

958
00:49:15,440 --> 00:49:17,160
Speaker 1: let's see you do it. No, I obviously could not

959
00:49:17,239 --> 00:49:19,319
Speaker 1: do it. I would fail miserably. Brian Battle would knock

960
00:49:19,320 --> 00:49:21,600
Speaker 1: me the fuck out in all likelihood. But you get

961
00:49:21,600 --> 00:49:24,839
Speaker 1: the idea, like, that's if that's your mechanism to win,

962
00:49:25,640 --> 00:49:28,359
Speaker 1: you have to have it more accessible than what it

963
00:49:28,480 --> 00:49:30,600
Speaker 1: was in this performance. I think that's a pretty reasonable

964
00:49:30,600 --> 00:49:33,080
Speaker 1: way to put it. So Brian Battle had to work

965
00:49:33,120 --> 00:49:35,360
Speaker 1: for it. He had his eye closed. I was surprised

966
00:49:35,400 --> 00:49:37,160
Speaker 1: Gore didn't try to jab him up a little bit

967
00:49:37,480 --> 00:49:41,040
Speaker 1: as the fight went on. But Brian Battle stayed composed,

968
00:49:41,400 --> 00:49:45,439
Speaker 1: stayed to what he does best and outwork the other guy.

969
00:49:45,920 --> 00:49:48,480
Speaker 1: Simple as that. Outworked him and it was a harder

970
00:49:48,480 --> 00:49:50,359
Speaker 1: thing for him to do, but he got it done.

971
00:49:50,360 --> 00:49:54,000
Speaker 1: I commend him. And then the opening bout, people got

972
00:49:54,040 --> 00:49:56,200
Speaker 1: bitter at me for some tweet. I don't really understand why.

973
00:49:56,200 --> 00:49:58,920
Speaker 1: But let's talk about Julian Rossa defeating Steven Peterson via

974
00:49:58,920 --> 00:50:02,239
Speaker 1: a split decision. This was a fucking war. I mean,

975
00:50:02,400 --> 00:50:06,200
Speaker 1: Jesus Christ, these two. I had tweeted that, like, you know,

976
00:50:06,200 --> 00:50:08,160
Speaker 1: if you look at the spinning backfist that knocked down

977
00:50:08,200 --> 00:50:10,840
Speaker 1: Peterson and then Peterson throwing three right hands against a

978
00:50:10,920 --> 00:50:14,360
Speaker 1: Rosa on the fence and nearly dropping him. Rosa looking

979
00:50:14,400 --> 00:50:16,600
Speaker 1: good early but then not really having defense on his

980
00:50:16,680 --> 00:50:18,640
Speaker 1: left side, so the right hand of Peterson was finding

981
00:50:18,719 --> 00:50:21,400
Speaker 1: it over and over and over. Once they made that

982
00:50:21,480 --> 00:50:24,320
Speaker 1: adjustment safe, Saoud at a four to centim a, giving

983
00:50:24,320 --> 00:50:26,680
Speaker 1: Peterson all the life he needed. That was a winnable

984
00:50:26,680 --> 00:50:28,560
Speaker 1: fight for Peterson. He was in that one. Had to

985
00:50:28,600 --> 00:50:30,080
Speaker 1: make some adjustments out of the first and got in

986
00:50:30,120 --> 00:50:32,400
Speaker 1: the second the third, But these two absolutely took it

987
00:50:32,440 --> 00:50:35,480
Speaker 1: to each other in the best way possible. I want

988
00:50:35,520 --> 00:50:37,280
Speaker 1: to look at some of the stats here very quickly

989
00:50:37,680 --> 00:50:40,600
Speaker 1: if I may, and I had tweeted, I don't think

990
00:50:40,600 --> 00:50:43,160
Speaker 1: this is in any way controversial. In fact, I would

991
00:50:43,320 --> 00:50:46,560
Speaker 1: kind of judge the palette of somebody who disagreed as

992
00:50:46,600 --> 00:50:49,280
Speaker 1: a fight fan. Erosa getting three of five takedowns, Peterson

993
00:50:49,280 --> 00:50:53,520
Speaker 1: whiffing on zero two. Neither was credited with a knockdown,

994
00:50:53,520 --> 00:50:55,880
Speaker 1: which is kind of interesting. I wonder how why that

995
00:50:55,880 --> 00:50:57,880
Speaker 1: went that way they did. But you know, look at

996
00:50:57,920 --> 00:51:01,240
Speaker 1: the volume of strikes. For example, we're talking the stricklyn

997
00:51:01,320 --> 00:51:04,120
Speaker 1: to Ann Hermanson being mid to high twenties, low thirties

998
00:51:04,160 --> 00:51:08,280
Speaker 1: at most. For the most part, Erosa significant strikes forty five,

999
00:51:08,440 --> 00:51:13,440
Speaker 1: forty eight, sixty two, Peterson thirty nine, fifty nine fifty.

1000
00:51:13,480 --> 00:51:16,239
Speaker 1: He really came alive in that second round, and both

1001
00:51:16,239 --> 00:51:19,319
Speaker 1: guys targeting the head for Erosa seventy seven percent for

1002
00:51:19,400 --> 00:51:22,200
Speaker 1: Peterson seventy six percent. Two fucking dogs. That was a

1003
00:51:22,200 --> 00:51:24,840
Speaker 1: dog fight. Anyway. I had tweeted that that fight was

1004
00:51:24,880 --> 00:51:28,680
Speaker 1: better than Bonner Griffin. This does not mean that Bonner

1005
00:51:28,719 --> 00:51:33,160
Speaker 1: Griffin loses its historical significance or that in the year

1006
00:51:33,200 --> 00:51:35,000
Speaker 1: in which it aired two thousand and five. By the way,

1007
00:51:35,040 --> 00:51:36,799
Speaker 1: I watched that fight fucking live. I don't know how

1008
00:51:36,840 --> 00:51:40,560
Speaker 1: many people can say that it was brilliant it was,

1009
00:51:41,320 --> 00:51:43,000
Speaker 1: you know, did it change the game in the way

1010
00:51:43,040 --> 00:51:45,920
Speaker 1: everyone says it did. It's overstated in that sense, but

1011
00:51:46,120 --> 00:51:48,640
Speaker 1: it was a really significant fight. It was a viral moment.

1012
00:51:48,640 --> 00:51:51,759
Speaker 1: It was one of these early slobberknockers that kind of

1013
00:51:51,800 --> 00:51:54,440
Speaker 1: validated The Ultimate Fighter, at least as an entertainment franchise,

1014
00:51:55,120 --> 00:51:57,560
Speaker 1: and it launched the careers of at the time Forced

1015
00:51:57,600 --> 00:51:59,680
Speaker 1: Griffin and Stuff and bonnerre more so for Griffin than

1016
00:51:59,719 --> 00:52:03,480
Speaker 1: the other way. But dude, like I remember the aftermath

1017
00:52:03,520 --> 00:52:05,719
Speaker 1: of that, I remember all that explicitly. If you go

1018
00:52:05,760 --> 00:52:08,239
Speaker 1: back and you watch that fight, it doesn't hold up

1019
00:52:08,280 --> 00:52:10,840
Speaker 1: to modern scrutiny. I said, it doesn't age well, it

1020
00:52:10,880 --> 00:52:14,839
Speaker 1: doesn't lose any of the sentimentality we associate with it,

1021
00:52:15,360 --> 00:52:19,680
Speaker 1: or to some degree it's historical relevance, but as a

1022
00:52:19,880 --> 00:52:24,640
Speaker 1: viewing fight doesn't hold up all that well. And my

1023
00:52:24,719 --> 00:52:28,000
Speaker 1: whole point is MMA has advanced to such a degree

1024
00:52:28,040 --> 00:52:29,680
Speaker 1: that you can get a fight like this and not

1025
00:52:29,880 --> 00:52:32,200
Speaker 1: to me, it is significantly more entertaining and frankly better

1026
00:52:32,680 --> 00:52:34,840
Speaker 1: than that one. Now, of course, myledge will vary. I

1027
00:52:34,840 --> 00:52:38,840
Speaker 1: can't always speak to everyone's tastes being a matter of

1028
00:52:40,480 --> 00:52:44,399
Speaker 1: or everyone's preferences lining up with the objective reality. I'm

1029
00:52:44,440 --> 00:52:47,680
Speaker 1: sure that I'm importing my own personal preferences here in

1030
00:52:47,680 --> 00:52:49,759
Speaker 1: a way that even I can't possibly detect. I get

1031
00:52:49,760 --> 00:52:54,839
Speaker 1: that we've got our own epistemic limits, but I don't

1032
00:52:54,840 --> 00:52:56,840
Speaker 1: feel like it's very controversial. Dude, Like, don't take my

1033
00:52:56,880 --> 00:52:58,439
Speaker 1: word for it. I tweeted to go look at that fight.

1034
00:52:59,480 --> 00:53:01,960
Speaker 1: It doesn't hold up in the sense of the magic

1035
00:53:02,000 --> 00:53:04,239
Speaker 1: that it meant at the time. Not really, it's the

1036
00:53:04,480 --> 00:53:06,759
Speaker 1: relevance for what it meant for MMA, But like as

1037
00:53:06,760 --> 00:53:11,040
Speaker 1: an entertaining MMA fight. You will routinely see fights much

1038
00:53:11,560 --> 00:53:14,000
Speaker 1: much better than that. I think most educated fight fans

1039
00:53:14,080 --> 00:53:16,399
Speaker 1: understand that. But you know, Twitter is a place where

1040
00:53:16,440 --> 00:53:19,040
Speaker 1: people like to pretend they don't understand anything. So there's that.

1041
00:53:19,120 --> 00:53:21,400
Speaker 1: So congratulations to both of those guys. Two fucking dogs.

1042
00:53:21,400 --> 00:53:23,640
Speaker 1: All right, let's get to your questions. If we can,

1043
00:53:23,760 --> 00:53:25,880
Speaker 1: again thumbs up on the video. If you're watching on YouTube,

1044
00:53:25,960 --> 00:53:30,680
Speaker 1: hit subscribe. Excuse me if you were watching on YouTube,

1045
00:53:31,480 --> 00:53:36,399
Speaker 1: and uh, let's get to your questions. Okay, let's see

1046
00:53:36,400 --> 00:53:42,400
Speaker 1: what you got. Not many Leech or g Neal next

1047
00:53:42,400 --> 00:53:44,879
Speaker 1: to Rock Monov I've seen I would wouldn't mind either

1048
00:53:44,920 --> 00:53:47,520
Speaker 1: of those. I've also seen Neil Magne thrown around. I

1049
00:53:47,520 --> 00:53:48,920
Speaker 1: think any of those fights are good. I don't think

1050
00:53:48,920 --> 00:53:50,400
Speaker 1: that's gonna happen because again, I think he's trying to

1051
00:53:50,440 --> 00:53:54,520
Speaker 1: get through this contract. But once he gets through this contract,

1052
00:53:54,800 --> 00:53:56,720
Speaker 1: then I think those names will make a lot of sense.

1053
00:54:00,200 --> 00:54:03,759
Speaker 1: Satins person rights sad seeing lesser named fights. Fighter excuse me,

1054
00:54:03,800 --> 00:54:06,520
Speaker 1: Erosa and Peterson going to war while on smaller contracts.

1055
00:54:06,880 --> 00:54:09,319
Speaker 1: Peterson missed weight, so Erosa should get an extra thirty

1056
00:54:09,360 --> 00:54:12,360
Speaker 1: percent and both fifty K five The night bonuses worthwhile

1057
00:54:12,360 --> 00:54:17,680
Speaker 1: for Erosa, but Peterson gets peanuts. Yeah, I mean, I

1058
00:54:17,680 --> 00:54:20,440
Speaker 1: think you guys know how I feel about fighter pay.

1059
00:54:20,840 --> 00:54:24,160
Speaker 1: Will that performance help or hinder Sean Strickland's chances of

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00:54:24,200 --> 00:54:28,320
Speaker 1: fighting for the title when you move up the ladder,

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00:54:28,400 --> 00:54:32,680
Speaker 1: It doesn't meaningfully hinder it, right, Like, just the proximity

1062
00:54:33,600 --> 00:54:36,959
Speaker 1: alone is significant enough to wear off a promoter having

1063
00:54:37,680 --> 00:54:40,600
Speaker 1: maybe something of a bad taste. But what it would

1064
00:54:40,640 --> 00:54:44,800
Speaker 1: mean is that you won't get any of the extra

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00:54:44,840 --> 00:54:47,120
Speaker 1: benefits that come with being in that space. They couldn't

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00:54:47,160 --> 00:54:49,200
Speaker 1: deny you the value of what it means to be five.

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00:54:49,239 --> 00:54:51,040
Speaker 1: I guess they could do that too, but they typically don't.

1068
00:54:51,560 --> 00:54:55,440
Speaker 1: Like you will still get other fights against relevantly positioned fighters,

1069
00:54:55,440 --> 00:54:57,000
Speaker 1: Like that still is a thing that's good for you,

1070
00:54:57,320 --> 00:54:59,360
Speaker 1: and then again you win that you just keep escalating,

1071
00:54:59,719 --> 00:55:02,360
Speaker 1: but it doesn't You can't. You don't enjoy the boowie

1072
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Speaker 1: of excitement, and that actually can be quite powerful for

1073
00:55:05,680 --> 00:55:10,000
Speaker 1: promoters and fans alike. Do you think Jack could have

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00:55:10,080 --> 00:55:12,000
Speaker 1: just tried to hold Sean against the fence and win

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00:55:12,080 --> 00:55:16,240
Speaker 1: without rabbit punching and control. No, A lot of grapplers

1076
00:55:16,239 --> 00:55:18,480
Speaker 1: seem to abandon any form of grappling if they get

1077
00:55:18,520 --> 00:55:21,760
Speaker 1: takedowns denied or Shawn's jab that big of a deterrent

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00:55:21,760 --> 00:55:23,680
Speaker 1: that Jack's forced to just lose a striking match. I

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00:55:23,680 --> 00:55:26,080
Speaker 1: think the jab was big. Also, it's fucking exhausting to

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00:55:26,080 --> 00:55:28,279
Speaker 1: wrestle a guy like that. Do those takedown defense. Those

1081
00:55:28,280 --> 00:55:31,319
Speaker 1: takedown attempts were not close. Sean Strickland did a good job.

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00:55:31,320 --> 00:55:33,600
Speaker 1: Sean Strickland had to reconcile with the fact that there

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00:55:33,600 --> 00:55:35,600
Speaker 1: was going to be a moment where a leg was

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00:55:35,640 --> 00:55:37,560
Speaker 1: grabbed and he was off balanced and he was gonna

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00:55:37,560 --> 00:55:40,120
Speaker 1: have to fight for under hooks. But that was the

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00:55:40,160 --> 00:55:44,160
Speaker 1: most he was inconvenienced. You never saw him like extensively

1087
00:55:44,200 --> 00:55:47,480
Speaker 1: wrestle off of his hands right, Like he never had

1088
00:55:47,480 --> 00:55:55,960
Speaker 1: to worry about that. That's what I'm talking about. How

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00:55:56,000 --> 00:55:58,280
Speaker 1: do the people that score the fight for her Manson

1090
00:55:58,360 --> 00:56:01,560
Speaker 1: remain judges and felt refs are bad, But if any

1091
00:56:01,680 --> 00:56:03,759
Speaker 1: NFL judge made a mistake that agreed just they'd never

1092
00:56:03,800 --> 00:56:05,720
Speaker 1: ref the game again. We've been over this a few times.

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00:56:06,120 --> 00:56:08,960
Speaker 1: You do have to acknowledge if you've never experienced it,

1094
00:56:08,960 --> 00:56:12,239
Speaker 1: it's impossible to explain. But if you've sat cage or

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00:56:12,320 --> 00:56:14,279
Speaker 1: ringside and then you go back and you watch that

1096
00:56:14,360 --> 00:56:17,239
Speaker 1: same thing on video, they look different. I know that

1097
00:56:17,360 --> 00:56:19,160
Speaker 1: sounds insane. You're like, how could it be? It's the

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00:56:19,200 --> 00:56:21,000
Speaker 1: exact same fight, right, but the way in which you

1099
00:56:21,080 --> 00:56:24,800
Speaker 1: interpret it is different because of the nature of well reality.

1100
00:56:24,960 --> 00:56:26,919
Speaker 1: It's either in front of you and you can see

1101
00:56:26,960 --> 00:56:30,279
Speaker 1: facial expressions, you can hear things differently, Certain things land

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00:56:30,280 --> 00:56:31,840
Speaker 1: for you that you may not be able to detect

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00:56:31,960 --> 00:56:34,759
Speaker 1: on screen, or vice versa. The screen actually gives you

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00:56:34,800 --> 00:56:37,640
Speaker 1: an angle into the grappling that you couldn't see, for example,

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00:56:37,760 --> 00:56:39,440
Speaker 1: just being ringside, especially if you're in a state that

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00:56:39,480 --> 00:56:42,040
Speaker 1: doesn't have monitors. There's a lot of ways in which

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00:56:42,400 --> 00:56:43,960
Speaker 1: looking at a fight just in front of you and

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00:56:43,960 --> 00:56:46,560
Speaker 1: then going back and watching on film it sounds like

1109
00:56:46,600 --> 00:56:49,720
Speaker 1: the most incredibly stupid thing you've ever heard in your life.

1110
00:56:49,719 --> 00:56:51,799
Speaker 1: But it really really is true. And I didn't believe

1111
00:56:51,800 --> 00:56:53,400
Speaker 1: it until it happened to me, and I was like, fuck,

1112
00:56:53,800 --> 00:56:57,120
Speaker 1: and it happens. I won't say it's true every time

1113
00:56:57,320 --> 00:56:59,520
Speaker 1: I've done that, but it's been true a lot. It's

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00:56:59,520 --> 00:57:02,200
Speaker 1: been true in where I was like, you have to

1115
00:57:02,239 --> 00:57:08,279
Speaker 1: acknowledge it. That being said, you know, three rounds for

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00:57:08,320 --> 00:57:12,480
Speaker 1: her manson. I would just I would just need to

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00:57:12,560 --> 00:57:15,919
Speaker 1: hear what the judge was looking at, Like, what would

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00:57:15,960 --> 00:57:20,320
Speaker 1: be the reason you would do that, because I don't

1119
00:57:20,440 --> 00:57:22,760
Speaker 1: think you can make a strong argument for that. I

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Speaker 1: really don't. Do you think Alvi should consider calling it today?

1121
00:57:27,560 --> 00:57:29,400
Speaker 1: Since he hasn't won since twenty eighteen and is two

1122
00:57:29,480 --> 00:57:30,960
Speaker 1: seven to one in his last ten, whether or not

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Speaker 1: he should retire, I think is a separate question. I

1124
00:57:33,640 --> 00:57:35,160
Speaker 1: don't know if he's taken enough damage for that. A

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Speaker 1: lot of times those losses have been boring fights that

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00:57:38,280 --> 00:57:41,640
Speaker 1: he did not incur a lot of damage in. But

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00:57:41,720 --> 00:57:43,920
Speaker 1: I don't know how much longer the UFC will retain

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Speaker 1: his services, which is certainly not my call. I don't

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00:57:46,120 --> 00:57:48,960
Speaker 1: wish bad on him, but I think we all sort

1130
00:57:48,960 --> 00:57:51,880
Speaker 1: of know if I think he's I think he's oh

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00:57:51,920 --> 00:57:55,280
Speaker 1: to eight, right, right, or maybe seven and one in

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00:57:55,280 --> 00:57:56,720
Speaker 1: his last eight or something like that. But I think

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00:57:56,760 --> 00:58:01,000
Speaker 1: today he tied the longest losing screak in UFC history

1134
00:58:01,040 --> 00:58:04,640
Speaker 1: with bj Pen, which you know would probably indicate he

1135
00:58:04,920 --> 00:58:07,680
Speaker 1: might have to find employment elsewhere, which again I don't

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00:58:07,720 --> 00:58:10,320
Speaker 1: you know. That doesn't help me. I don't take any

1137
00:58:10,320 --> 00:58:14,560
Speaker 1: pride in that, but just looking at the reality go

1138
00:58:14,640 --> 00:58:16,760
Speaker 1: into your head. Who do you think whins Shofcott, Rockmanov

1139
00:58:16,800 --> 00:58:18,960
Speaker 1: or Chamaiev. See, I just don't know, man, because Chamaiav

1140
00:58:19,000 --> 00:58:20,560
Speaker 1: comes out like a bat out of hell and he's

1141
00:58:20,600 --> 00:58:23,360
Speaker 1: so fucking good and he's so overwhelming. But I just

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00:58:23,440 --> 00:58:25,360
Speaker 1: don't know what Shamayav looks like in round two and

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00:58:25,440 --> 00:58:27,720
Speaker 1: round three and round four. Like what if Rockmanov gets

1144
00:58:27,760 --> 00:58:30,880
Speaker 1: run over for two rounds but survives, and then Shamaiav

1145
00:58:30,920 --> 00:58:32,920
Speaker 1: is just not the same guy? Like John Danaher had

1146
00:58:32,920 --> 00:58:36,240
Speaker 1: this post recently on Instagram where he just talked about

1147
00:58:36,560 --> 00:58:38,920
Speaker 1: everyone knows people get tired as fights go along, But

1148
00:58:38,960 --> 00:58:40,960
Speaker 1: if you're a competitor and you go out there, and

1149
00:58:41,000 --> 00:58:42,760
Speaker 1: if you've ever done this in sparring, or if you've

1150
00:58:42,760 --> 00:58:45,520
Speaker 1: ever competed at like a local grappling tournament, you know

1151
00:58:45,920 --> 00:58:48,120
Speaker 1: there's been times where you see people get paired up

1152
00:58:48,160 --> 00:58:50,520
Speaker 1: and the guy across looks like fucking hercules. You're like,

1153
00:58:50,520 --> 00:58:52,040
Speaker 1: how does anyone beat this guy? And then you see

1154
00:58:52,040 --> 00:58:54,240
Speaker 1: people beat him and you're like, right, they don't really

1155
00:58:54,240 --> 00:58:56,000
Speaker 1: try to beat him in the first minute, they try

1156
00:58:56,000 --> 00:58:58,600
Speaker 1: to beat him in the tenth. They just wait until

1157
00:58:58,920 --> 00:59:01,400
Speaker 1: even the guy that comes out like hercules, like a

1158
00:59:01,400 --> 00:59:03,400
Speaker 1: bat out of hell. If you are sturdy in your defense,

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00:59:03,840 --> 00:59:06,680
Speaker 1: you have to kind of remind yourself when this gets later,

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00:59:06,880 --> 00:59:09,280
Speaker 1: whatever I'm feeling now, it will not be that way

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00:59:09,360 --> 00:59:11,760
Speaker 1: at that time. Now. Of course, that's easier said than done,

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00:59:11,760 --> 00:59:14,400
Speaker 1: and you could just get your ass kicked before that happens.

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00:59:14,760 --> 00:59:17,480
Speaker 1: But my number one rule, man, let me my number one,

1164
00:59:17,480 --> 00:59:19,760
Speaker 1: but one of my major rules, one of my major

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00:59:19,840 --> 00:59:23,320
Speaker 1: major rules about prospects. Even ones as good as Rochmanov,

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00:59:23,640 --> 00:59:27,680
Speaker 1: and even ones as good as Jamaiav, their resumes don't

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00:59:27,720 --> 00:59:30,479
Speaker 1: necessarily totally speak to this. Jamiav's does a little bit more.

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00:59:31,200 --> 00:59:33,400
Speaker 1: But I can't tell you how many times I have

1169
00:59:33,560 --> 00:59:36,600
Speaker 1: seen I have seen someone come off the regional scene

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00:59:37,080 --> 00:59:39,440
Speaker 1: and they look like fucking world beaters, and they got

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00:59:39,480 --> 00:59:42,120
Speaker 1: sick power, and they've got like ten wins all by

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Speaker 1: first round ko or tko or some kind of stoppage,

1173
00:59:45,480 --> 00:59:47,520
Speaker 1: and you're like, damn, man, that guy's probably pretty good.

1174
00:59:47,520 --> 00:59:50,960
Speaker 1: But here's the deal, folks. You just have to remember this.

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00:59:53,400 --> 00:59:56,280
Speaker 1: And Habib avoided this because he got out early enough.

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00:59:56,280 --> 00:59:58,680
Speaker 1: But I maintained that if Abib had stuck around, you

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00:59:58,680 --> 01:00:01,160
Speaker 1: would have seen this to an extent. You can argue

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01:00:01,160 --> 01:00:04,000
Speaker 1: he got this in the tebow fight to an extent

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01:00:06,560 --> 01:00:11,080
Speaker 1: eventually in high level MMA, and this is true for

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01:00:11,160 --> 01:00:16,520
Speaker 1: basically everyone, including John Jones, including George Saint Pierre, including

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01:00:16,560 --> 01:00:23,000
Speaker 1: Anderson Silva, including Demetrius Johnson, including you name it, dude.

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01:00:23,040 --> 01:00:27,600
Speaker 1: Eventually an MMA, someone is going to put it on them.

1183
01:00:28,520 --> 01:00:31,080
Speaker 1: Someone's going to put it on them, and then the

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01:00:31,160 --> 01:00:35,040
Speaker 1: question is how do they react. John Jones had Alexander

1185
01:00:35,040 --> 01:00:38,160
Speaker 1: Gustason put it on him in the first fight pretty early,

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01:00:38,200 --> 01:00:40,200
Speaker 1: and then he was able to, like at least rally

1187
01:00:40,200 --> 01:00:43,120
Speaker 1: and he remember had that spinning back elbow that landed

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01:00:43,440 --> 01:00:46,200
Speaker 1: on the head of Augustuson which kind of turned that

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01:00:46,240 --> 01:00:50,080
Speaker 1: fight a little bit late. Now again there's some judging controversy,

1190
01:00:50,080 --> 01:00:53,439
Speaker 1: but you could at a bare minimum Jones rallied right.

1191
01:00:53,800 --> 01:00:57,439
Speaker 1: Fad Or got rocked by Fujiita. Fujita put it on him.

1192
01:00:57,960 --> 01:01:02,600
Speaker 1: But what happened Fador held on, got back to his feet, bodykick,

1193
01:01:02,760 --> 01:01:08,680
Speaker 1: left hook and dropped him. Uh. Pick Anderson Silva against

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01:01:08,880 --> 01:01:11,480
Speaker 1: chaill Son and dude, chaill Son and put it fucking

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01:01:11,680 --> 01:01:14,960
Speaker 1: on him. You know, you can go to Saint Pierre.

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01:01:15,320 --> 01:01:16,680
Speaker 1: I mean, we can do this. We can do this

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Speaker 1: all the time. We can do this all the time.

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Speaker 1: Eventually someone is going to put it on him. I

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Speaker 1: don't know who that's going to be, and I don't

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01:01:25,160 --> 01:01:27,760
Speaker 1: know when that's going to be. The big thing for

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01:01:27,920 --> 01:01:33,480
Speaker 1: me about Chamaiev is is he talented? Immensely? He is

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01:01:34,040 --> 01:01:40,000
Speaker 1: inarguably very talented. Does he have a weakness in the

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01:01:40,040 --> 01:01:43,120
Speaker 1: second or third or fourth round? I have no fucking idea,

1204
01:01:43,800 --> 01:01:46,480
Speaker 1: And that's my point. I don't know. I don't know,

1205
01:01:46,720 --> 01:01:49,120
Speaker 1: and I have no idea if Rockmanov is that guy.

1206
01:01:49,840 --> 01:01:53,040
Speaker 1: Way too early to tell. Rokmanov could be a guy

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01:01:53,080 --> 01:01:56,920
Speaker 1: who's more well rounded than Shamaiev. But Chamaiah might compete

1208
01:01:56,960 --> 01:02:01,000
Speaker 1: with so much intensity, doesn't matter his ass over to

1209
01:02:01,520 --> 01:02:04,840
Speaker 1: Would that surprise you? Wouldn't surprise me. The dude is

1210
01:02:04,880 --> 01:02:08,000
Speaker 1: shot out of a cannon. I just mean to say,

1211
01:02:08,360 --> 01:02:11,320
Speaker 1: you don't really know about these guys. You don't really really,

1212
01:02:11,360 --> 01:02:14,360
Speaker 1: really really know until somebody puts it on him. Until

1213
01:02:14,360 --> 01:02:18,200
Speaker 1: somebody really puts it on him, dude, Someone's gonna line

1214
01:02:18,320 --> 01:02:20,600
Speaker 1: up all the champions if they stick around. If kamara

1215
01:02:20,680 --> 01:02:23,040
Speaker 1: Hu's been sticks around long enough, and he may not,

1216
01:02:23,600 --> 01:02:26,400
Speaker 1: but someone's gonna put it on him. Eventually, they're gonna

1217
01:02:26,400 --> 01:02:28,760
Speaker 1: have a round or a moment where or you can

1218
01:02:28,800 --> 01:02:30,840
Speaker 1: even argue Gilbert Burns kind of you know, touched them

1219
01:02:30,920 --> 01:02:32,480
Speaker 1: up early, though that's not quite putting it on him,

1220
01:02:32,520 --> 01:02:37,120
Speaker 1: but you get the idea. Most guys, most of the time,

1221
01:02:37,320 --> 01:02:40,920
Speaker 1: have someone really really push him at some point, and

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01:02:41,000 --> 01:02:43,560
Speaker 1: the really good ones sometimes they lose, like for example,

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01:02:43,760 --> 01:02:46,560
Speaker 1: Saint Pierre lost to Hughes the first time, but then

1224
01:02:47,160 --> 01:02:48,840
Speaker 1: you know, he found his way back and that was

1225
01:02:48,880 --> 01:02:51,600
Speaker 1: what it was, So gun to my head, who's more

1226
01:02:51,680 --> 01:02:55,440
Speaker 1: well rounded? Shovcott Rochmanov is significantly more well rounded, but

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Speaker 1: Chimayev is insanely special. He is much more intense, He

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01:03:01,560 --> 01:03:06,480
Speaker 1: is much more driven, and I think when you combine

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01:03:06,480 --> 01:03:08,280
Speaker 1: that with his skill, that's why you get the results

1230
01:03:08,280 --> 01:03:11,720
Speaker 1: from him that you do. He is an absolute fucking tsunami,

1231
01:03:12,320 --> 01:03:14,680
Speaker 1: and I don't think even very very, very very good

1232
01:03:14,720 --> 01:03:16,680
Speaker 1: fighters are going to have the ability to deal with that.

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01:03:16,920 --> 01:03:20,120
Speaker 1: Only the very best will. We'll see how that looks,

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01:03:20,160 --> 01:03:30,640
Speaker 1: but again, who the hell knows. Let's see and I

1235
01:03:30,640 --> 01:03:32,720
Speaker 1: think that's it. I think that's it. I'll see a

1236
01:03:32,720 --> 01:03:39,280
Speaker 1: whole lot else. So anyway, like the video hit subscribe,

1237
01:03:39,640 --> 01:03:42,800
Speaker 1: stick around for Brian Campbell. He's gonna have you a

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01:03:43,160 --> 01:03:48,040
Speaker 1: Mario Barrios and Keith Thurman wrap up and I love

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01:03:48,080 --> 01:03:51,240
Speaker 1: you guys. I'm back. Let's do this. Good fun had

1240
01:03:51,240 --> 01:03:54,080
Speaker 1: by all. I appreciate it. Shoot me an email if

1241
01:03:54,120 --> 01:03:57,320
Speaker 1: you have any questions or for their thoughts. Luke Thomas

1242
01:03:57,360 --> 01:04:00,520
Speaker 1: news at gmail dot com. And until then, and gents,

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Speaker 1: I appreciate you watching It's eleven twenty a night. Get

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Speaker 1: some sleep,