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Speaker 1: Combat UFC two ninety nine postfight show. Thank you for

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Speaker 1: now and be like, Yeah, you stand at range with

426
00:23:43,560 --> 00:23:47,000
Speaker 1: Sean O'Malley, it's going to go probably real bad for you.

427
00:23:47,119 --> 00:23:49,600
Speaker 1: In all likelihood. I will say that I thought the

428
00:23:49,600 --> 00:23:53,960
Speaker 1: commentary team was right to note that under pressure O'Malley,

429
00:23:54,040 --> 00:23:57,440
Speaker 1: when he's moving backwards, is much more. He just doesn't

430
00:23:57,480 --> 00:24:03,080
Speaker 1: have the same kind of offense. It's it's it's constrained,

431
00:24:04,040 --> 00:24:07,399
Speaker 1: but he's hard to keep on that back foot for

432
00:24:07,440 --> 00:24:10,000
Speaker 1: a very long amount of time. So like such that

433
00:24:10,119 --> 00:24:14,159
Speaker 1: he is on the back foot, you get the results

434
00:24:14,160 --> 00:24:16,080
Speaker 1: that you get, but he's very very hard to keep

435
00:24:16,119 --> 00:24:20,120
Speaker 1: there as time goes on. So it looks like it's

436
00:24:20,119 --> 00:24:23,080
Speaker 1: gonna be morobbed next. I'm gonna guess later on this year,

437
00:24:23,720 --> 00:24:26,560
Speaker 1: I'm gonna guess that that's going to really launch O'Malley

438
00:24:26,640 --> 00:24:29,960
Speaker 1: into that space of being a villain, a heel, shall

439
00:24:30,000 --> 00:24:32,720
Speaker 1: we say, in the industry. But I also think if

440
00:24:32,720 --> 00:24:34,280
Speaker 1: he goes in there and wins that one, and he

441
00:24:34,359 --> 00:24:37,280
Speaker 1: shines in that one like he shined tonight, there will

442
00:24:37,320 --> 00:24:41,359
Speaker 1: be some reluctant skeptics who kind of get brought over

443
00:24:42,000 --> 00:24:44,760
Speaker 1: in the end about his ability. He has exciting boxing,

444
00:24:44,760 --> 00:24:49,920
Speaker 1: He has exciting striking. He can create openings for himself.

445
00:24:49,920 --> 00:24:52,280
Speaker 1: He can do it in so many different ways, with

446
00:24:52,400 --> 00:24:55,959
Speaker 1: so many different targets and so many different weapons. And

447
00:24:56,080 --> 00:25:00,320
Speaker 1: he did not wilt under pressure against a foe bright lights, ma, event,

448
00:25:00,560 --> 00:25:03,440
Speaker 1: you name it. Dude, he delivered. I don't know if

449
00:25:03,440 --> 00:25:05,359
Speaker 1: he delivered at the pay per view box office. I

450
00:25:05,400 --> 00:25:08,080
Speaker 1: don't know if he delivered to any of you watching

451
00:25:08,080 --> 00:25:11,280
Speaker 1: in any kind of emotional sense or whatever, but he delivered.

452
00:25:11,280 --> 00:25:14,280
Speaker 1: That was an outstanding performance by an elite fighter in

453
00:25:14,280 --> 00:25:19,760
Speaker 1: a big stakes contest, showing again because they had fought

454
00:25:19,840 --> 00:25:22,720
Speaker 1: with twenty twenty, you had this, you know, the elapse

455
00:25:22,720 --> 00:25:24,840
Speaker 1: of time, and so you're able to make like a

456
00:25:24,880 --> 00:25:27,040
Speaker 1: judgment Kalba, who really has made the most amount of

457
00:25:27,080 --> 00:25:29,000
Speaker 1: progress in the time. Did he really answer that question

458
00:25:29,080 --> 00:25:32,439
Speaker 1: very authoritatively? This was an excellent performance by him. It's not,

459
00:25:32,920 --> 00:25:35,160
Speaker 1: you know, not as good as what Ilia did to Volk.

460
00:25:35,520 --> 00:25:38,480
Speaker 1: And everyone's like, oh, you're bringing up Billy again. Sure, yes,

461
00:25:38,760 --> 00:25:41,320
Speaker 1: deal with it. You'll be okay. I promise. If you

462
00:25:41,359 --> 00:25:44,280
Speaker 1: need a pacifier, your local pharmacy will probably have one

463
00:25:44,280 --> 00:25:49,919
Speaker 1: for you. But for everybody else you can deal. But

464
00:25:49,960 --> 00:25:52,960
Speaker 1: it was still nevertheless extremely impressive, really really good stuff

465
00:25:53,000 --> 00:25:55,000
Speaker 1: from him. I'm not really sure what else to say

466
00:25:55,000 --> 00:25:57,520
Speaker 1: about it. He just kind of dealt in the way

467
00:25:57,560 --> 00:25:59,440
Speaker 1: that he did. I think the biggest question will simply

468
00:25:59,480 --> 00:26:02,680
Speaker 1: be how the fame base receives this performance and how

469
00:26:02,720 --> 00:26:05,080
Speaker 1: they receive him heading into any kind of Morob fight,

470
00:26:05,160 --> 00:26:07,080
Speaker 1: and what that fight looks like, and ultimately what it

471
00:26:07,160 --> 00:26:10,000
Speaker 1: might mean. But that could be a real corner turning

472
00:26:10,680 --> 00:26:14,199
Speaker 1: situation where you go if you were to lose to Morob,

473
00:26:14,240 --> 00:26:16,879
Speaker 1: it would be devastating for him, I think, But if

474
00:26:16,920 --> 00:26:18,120
Speaker 1: you were to win and to look good, it could

475
00:26:18,160 --> 00:26:21,679
Speaker 1: be really one of those sort of galvanizing moments in

476
00:26:21,720 --> 00:26:25,000
Speaker 1: a fighter's career. Outstanding performance by Sean O'Malley. We'll come

477
00:26:25,040 --> 00:26:27,320
Speaker 1: back to that a little bit later as well. All right,

478
00:26:29,080 --> 00:26:32,720
Speaker 1: let's get to this other one co main event. Jesus

479
00:26:32,880 --> 00:26:37,440
Speaker 1: Christ Dustin Poirier defeats Ben was Saint Deny two thirty

480
00:26:37,480 --> 00:26:41,399
Speaker 1: two of round two h He dropped him with a

481
00:26:41,480 --> 00:26:43,200
Speaker 1: right hook and then finished them off on the ground,

482
00:26:43,240 --> 00:26:46,560
Speaker 1: but had rocked him previously with a left hand before that. Dude,

483
00:26:46,640 --> 00:26:48,720
Speaker 1: let me pull up the numbers on this fucking crazy

484
00:26:48,760 --> 00:26:52,000
Speaker 1: ass fight. So here's what's kind of interesting. I'm wondering

485
00:26:52,040 --> 00:26:55,760
Speaker 1: about this. So I had a feeling that Sean O'Malley

486
00:26:55,840 --> 00:26:57,520
Speaker 1: was gonna win. I did think that Ben was Saint

487
00:26:57,560 --> 00:27:01,320
Speaker 1: Deny was gonna win. He did not, obviously, although he

488
00:27:01,400 --> 00:27:05,120
Speaker 1: got fairly close ish kind of at times. I mean,

489
00:27:05,160 --> 00:27:07,720
Speaker 1: he was just overwhelming in the way that you imagine

490
00:27:07,760 --> 00:27:10,840
Speaker 1: him to be, but he was he was too reckless

491
00:27:10,880 --> 00:27:13,879
Speaker 1: this time. He was not nearly as polished as I

492
00:27:13,920 --> 00:27:16,560
Speaker 1: had seen him in more recent fights. He kind of

493
00:27:16,640 --> 00:27:19,760
Speaker 1: let it all hang out, and that that cost him

494
00:27:19,760 --> 00:27:21,159
Speaker 1: in the end. But I mean, listened to some of

495
00:27:21,240 --> 00:27:23,879
Speaker 1: these stats from Ben Washingtony first of all three takedowns

496
00:27:24,160 --> 00:27:26,560
Speaker 1: with total amount of basically they call it control time.

497
00:27:26,560 --> 00:27:29,560
Speaker 1: At four fifty three, he gets credited with a sub

498
00:27:29,560 --> 00:27:35,160
Speaker 1: attempt they credit they credit Dustin Poarier with four sub attempts.

499
00:27:35,359 --> 00:27:40,119
Speaker 1: That's four jumping of the guillotines, all of which fucking failed.

500
00:27:40,119 --> 00:27:41,520
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know if it was actually four.

501
00:27:41,840 --> 00:27:43,119
Speaker 1: Maybe there's another one. I don't remember it. Did he

502
00:27:43,160 --> 00:27:44,840
Speaker 1: go for like a triangle or some shit, I don't know,

503
00:27:44,920 --> 00:27:48,680
Speaker 1: But in any case, he jumped guillotine eighty million times.

504
00:27:48,880 --> 00:27:51,520
Speaker 1: None of it worked. Mike Brown tells him between rounds yo,

505
00:27:51,640 --> 00:27:54,760
Speaker 1: fucking stop jumping guillotine, and he does it like immediately

506
00:27:54,800 --> 00:27:56,160
Speaker 1: at the beginning of the second round. But it didn't

507
00:27:56,160 --> 00:27:58,960
Speaker 1: matter because he gets to win. I was not convinced

508
00:27:59,000 --> 00:28:01,600
Speaker 1: he was going to get this. Saint Is twenty eight

509
00:28:01,760 --> 00:28:05,000
Speaker 1: that dustin PARTI a thirty five but coming off of

510
00:28:05,119 --> 00:28:11,639
Speaker 1: also a head kick ko loss basically granted some time

511
00:28:11,720 --> 00:28:13,680
Speaker 1: had expired since then it was that was in July.

512
00:28:13,840 --> 00:28:16,159
Speaker 1: That was the same day as Spence Crawford. But I

513
00:28:16,240 --> 00:28:18,080
Speaker 1: just didn't know. I did not I did not like

514
00:28:18,800 --> 00:28:20,400
Speaker 1: the situation, but you know, it was kind of interesting.

515
00:28:20,440 --> 00:28:22,160
Speaker 1: Ben W. Wassingtony came in with it looked like someone

516
00:28:22,160 --> 00:28:24,600
Speaker 1: had put out a cigarette on his forehead, and people

517
00:28:24,640 --> 00:28:27,640
Speaker 1: had theorized that perhaps he had had staff. It looked

518
00:28:27,640 --> 00:28:29,439
Speaker 1: like staff to me. I don't know if it was,

519
00:28:29,480 --> 00:28:32,320
Speaker 1: but like, raise your hand if you've seen UFC fighters

520
00:28:32,359 --> 00:28:35,040
Speaker 1: compete with staff, I mean I've seen it a million times.

521
00:28:35,040 --> 00:28:36,879
Speaker 1: There was that car recently where there was like four

522
00:28:36,920 --> 00:28:39,400
Speaker 1: fighters on the car who all had staff, So it

523
00:28:39,400 --> 00:28:41,440
Speaker 1: could very much be true. The question is if he

524
00:28:41,600 --> 00:28:44,640
Speaker 1: did in fact have staff, I mean, what do you

525
00:28:44,640 --> 00:28:46,880
Speaker 1: think the Florida Commission's gonna stop him. I mean, the

526
00:28:46,880 --> 00:28:49,560
Speaker 1: Florida Commission was out there just playing fucking tetris on

527
00:28:49,600 --> 00:28:52,959
Speaker 1: their phones probably the whole time. But more to the point,

528
00:28:53,400 --> 00:28:55,959
Speaker 1: if he did have staff and he was on antibiotics,

529
00:28:55,960 --> 00:28:59,360
Speaker 1: that would drain him. But you couldn't really attribute that

530
00:28:59,480 --> 00:29:01,440
Speaker 1: to the law. I don't think he had plenty of

531
00:29:01,600 --> 00:29:04,120
Speaker 1: energy to do the things that he wanted to do.

532
00:29:04,200 --> 00:29:07,120
Speaker 1: He was kind of reckless about it. Dustin Poitier's got

533
00:29:07,120 --> 00:29:09,680
Speaker 1: big power. He stood at range with him at times,

534
00:29:09,800 --> 00:29:13,200
Speaker 1: kind of just walked forward literally at times. So I

535
00:29:13,240 --> 00:29:15,239
Speaker 1: don't think that if he did have staff and if

536
00:29:15,280 --> 00:29:18,600
Speaker 1: he wasn't antibiotics didn't do him any favors. I think

537
00:29:18,640 --> 00:29:20,320
Speaker 1: that's pretty fair to say, But I don't think that's

538
00:29:20,320 --> 00:29:23,640
Speaker 1: really the great explanation for anything that happened to him.

539
00:29:23,640 --> 00:29:25,840
Speaker 1: I just I would not buy that. I would not

540
00:29:25,880 --> 00:29:30,080
Speaker 1: accept that. I think his tactical and strategic decisions are

541
00:29:30,120 --> 00:29:32,880
Speaker 1: the ones that really got him in big trouble there.

542
00:29:32,880 --> 00:29:35,040
Speaker 1: But dude, he gave it to Dustin Poorier big time.

543
00:29:35,080 --> 00:29:39,240
Speaker 1: First round thirty eight significant strikes landed to Poitier's twelve.

544
00:29:39,880 --> 00:29:41,680
Speaker 1: I mean, he was all over him, like white on Rice.

545
00:29:41,720 --> 00:29:43,560
Speaker 1: He had two takedowns in that round. He had three

546
00:29:43,560 --> 00:29:46,400
Speaker 1: minutes and twenty seconds of control time. There was various

547
00:29:46,400 --> 00:29:48,280
Speaker 1: points in either the first or second round where he

548
00:29:48,320 --> 00:29:50,240
Speaker 1: would have the back for long stretches. He had I

549
00:29:50,280 --> 00:29:52,960
Speaker 1: think a body triangle, certainly had both hooks in. He

550
00:29:53,040 --> 00:29:55,080
Speaker 1: had mount in the second round, and he had a

551
00:29:55,120 --> 00:29:57,600
Speaker 1: lot of stuff going on he had. I mean, I

552
00:29:57,600 --> 00:29:59,280
Speaker 1: thought the fight was close to being over when he

553
00:29:59,280 --> 00:30:04,520
Speaker 1: had Poorier on his belly, bellied out, wrist ride, and

554
00:30:04,560 --> 00:30:06,440
Speaker 1: then I think there's another one right around the neck

555
00:30:06,520 --> 00:30:09,560
Speaker 1: or wherever it was. But he had him the bit

556
00:30:09,600 --> 00:30:12,440
Speaker 1: where you have to live to like Ivan Saliverar, you

557
00:30:12,480 --> 00:30:15,000
Speaker 1: have to drive into their hips and then when you do,

558
00:30:15,080 --> 00:30:17,920
Speaker 1: you flatten them out. I thought that might have been

559
00:30:18,000 --> 00:30:21,000
Speaker 1: curtains for him right there. But Dustin Partier, fucking experienced,

560
00:30:21,400 --> 00:30:23,400
Speaker 1: did not panic, found a way out, found to get

561
00:30:23,880 --> 00:30:25,640
Speaker 1: found a way to create a scramble, got out of

562
00:30:25,640 --> 00:30:29,240
Speaker 1: it and got back to his feet, and then fucking

563
00:30:29,360 --> 00:30:32,200
Speaker 1: been in Washington is just like you know Lurch from

564
00:30:32,800 --> 00:30:38,480
Speaker 1: the Adams family, walking forward like you just can't do

565
00:30:38,560 --> 00:30:40,840
Speaker 1: that against a puncher like Dustin Paria. You just can't

566
00:30:40,880 --> 00:30:44,400
Speaker 1: do that. You cannot do that he's accurate, he's powerful.

567
00:30:46,080 --> 00:30:50,760
Speaker 1: You know, he has good timing. You know, he throws

568
00:30:51,920 --> 00:30:55,680
Speaker 1: punches in combination when he needs to. He's got devastating

569
00:30:55,760 --> 00:30:57,840
Speaker 1: series of different punches. He doesn't just have to land

570
00:30:57,880 --> 00:31:00,600
Speaker 1: the left. The right hook is a monster punch two

571
00:31:00,720 --> 00:31:04,520
Speaker 1: like he can. He is Dustin Pori is a motherfucker band.

572
00:31:04,560 --> 00:31:07,160
Speaker 1: You really, really really got to take your hat off

573
00:31:07,160 --> 00:31:10,920
Speaker 1: to him, because thirty five years of age, as I mentioned,

574
00:31:10,920 --> 00:31:14,440
Speaker 1: taking on this like fucking juggernaut, an unrefined juggernaut, but

575
00:31:14,440 --> 00:31:20,080
Speaker 1: a juggernaut just the same again at twenty eight years old,

576
00:31:20,480 --> 00:31:22,239
Speaker 1: Dustin Poorie, I'm gonna say it one more time. The

577
00:31:22,240 --> 00:31:25,120
Speaker 1: only guy to finish Max Holloway, the only guy I

578
00:31:25,120 --> 00:31:31,480
Speaker 1: think to submit. Michael Chandler finished. Michael Chandler finished, Justin

579
00:31:31,520 --> 00:31:34,720
Speaker 1: Gaegee finished Eddie Alvarez, beat Connor twice and finished him

580
00:31:34,720 --> 00:31:37,240
Speaker 1: as well. I mean, I can go on and on

581
00:31:37,360 --> 00:31:39,680
Speaker 1: down the list of all the things he's done. Had

582
00:31:39,680 --> 00:31:42,360
Speaker 1: the interim belt, never the full weight class title. Dude.

583
00:31:42,480 --> 00:31:44,080
Speaker 1: You know, I know he doesn't have that full weight

584
00:31:44,080 --> 00:31:46,600
Speaker 1: class title, and that does affect the resume, it has to.

585
00:31:47,360 --> 00:31:52,440
Speaker 1: But what he's accomplished a mixed martial arts is absolutely extraordinary,

586
00:31:52,520 --> 00:31:55,160
Speaker 1: and tonight might be one of the more impressive wins

587
00:31:55,680 --> 00:31:59,000
Speaker 1: if we're being honest. This guy, Saint Deny was outside

588
00:31:59,000 --> 00:32:01,520
Speaker 1: the top ten this think he was ranked eleven, and

589
00:32:01,560 --> 00:32:03,120
Speaker 1: this was a huge step up. Right. He was going

590
00:32:03,160 --> 00:32:05,000
Speaker 1: for Matt Favola, who's a good fighter, to Dustin Poora,

591
00:32:05,120 --> 00:32:07,000
Speaker 1: he's one of the best of guys to ever do

592
00:32:07,040 --> 00:32:09,480
Speaker 1: it in the weight class. That's a monster jump, and

593
00:32:09,520 --> 00:32:11,200
Speaker 1: he gave it to him for a little while, but

594
00:32:11,240 --> 00:32:15,440
Speaker 1: then ultimately his recklessness did him in. Usually he's kind

595
00:32:15,480 --> 00:32:18,600
Speaker 1: of able to just power through it, not so much

596
00:32:18,680 --> 00:32:23,600
Speaker 1: this time, but getting back to Dustin, for him to

597
00:32:23,680 --> 00:32:28,160
Speaker 1: have this many challenges where you're coming off the head KKO,

598
00:32:28,280 --> 00:32:30,080
Speaker 1: you're saying it could be your last fight. You don't

599
00:32:30,120 --> 00:32:33,240
Speaker 1: even know thirty five years of age. Granted that stat

600
00:32:33,280 --> 00:32:35,200
Speaker 1: doesn't really apply, the thirty five stat because we're not

601
00:32:35,200 --> 00:32:37,720
Speaker 1: talking about a championship fight, so the numbers will be

602
00:32:37,720 --> 00:32:39,280
Speaker 1: a little bit different. But if you actually look at

603
00:32:39,280 --> 00:32:42,160
Speaker 1: the overall numbers about the rates of fighters one fifty

604
00:32:42,200 --> 00:32:45,840
Speaker 1: five and below, the client actually does start mathematically around

605
00:32:45,880 --> 00:32:48,440
Speaker 1: thirty four years of age, So you know that checks out.

606
00:32:48,480 --> 00:32:53,120
Speaker 1: Given where he was in his last fight. So all

607
00:32:53,160 --> 00:32:56,400
Speaker 1: of those things, all the doubt, all of the uncertainty,

608
00:32:56,600 --> 00:32:59,280
Speaker 1: all of the questions. The whole card was filled with

609
00:32:59,320 --> 00:33:03,160
Speaker 1: these old generation versus new generation fights, this one potentially

610
00:33:03,240 --> 00:33:05,680
Speaker 1: with the biggest stakes do. With a win like this,

611
00:33:07,240 --> 00:33:09,760
Speaker 1: you kind of already knew what some of Dustin Poorie's

612
00:33:09,760 --> 00:33:12,160
Speaker 1: weaknesses are. He's not a bad wrestler. He doesn't have

613
00:33:12,200 --> 00:33:14,640
Speaker 1: bad jiu jitsu. In fact, his defensive jiu jitsu even

614
00:33:14,640 --> 00:33:16,520
Speaker 1: when he had his back take and was quite good.

615
00:33:16,840 --> 00:33:18,720
Speaker 1: But you know, you've seen the Habib fight, You've seen

616
00:33:18,760 --> 00:33:20,760
Speaker 1: some of these other fights where the the Charles Lavera

617
00:33:20,800 --> 00:33:23,400
Speaker 1: fight where he got overwhelmed in some of these positions,

618
00:33:23,400 --> 00:33:26,240
Speaker 1: and so you saw more of that today. But you

619
00:33:26,360 --> 00:33:30,760
Speaker 1: also saw this mental resilience. You also saw that, like you,

620
00:33:31,200 --> 00:33:35,320
Speaker 1: if you fuck around with a guy who's got punishing

621
00:33:35,400 --> 00:33:38,640
Speaker 1: ability like that, dude, it will go poorly for you.

622
00:33:39,520 --> 00:33:42,320
Speaker 1: It will go poorly for you. And sure enough, he

623
00:33:42,360 --> 00:33:45,160
Speaker 1: fucked around way too much. I admire the guts of

624
00:33:45,240 --> 00:33:48,680
Speaker 1: Ben Washington, but if he really wants to maximize that

625
00:33:48,840 --> 00:33:51,520
Speaker 1: fire in the belly that he has, right, he's got

626
00:33:51,520 --> 00:33:54,760
Speaker 1: an incredible competitor spirit. I think everybody would agree with that,

627
00:33:55,920 --> 00:34:00,520
Speaker 1: but he's so unrefined, he's so willing to just walk

628
00:34:00,600 --> 00:34:03,320
Speaker 1: forward no matter what. You just can't do that against

629
00:34:03,320 --> 00:34:04,840
Speaker 1: a guy like this. You really shouldn't be doing that

630
00:34:04,880 --> 00:34:07,640
Speaker 1: in the UFC at all, but you really really can't

631
00:34:07,680 --> 00:34:11,240
Speaker 1: do it against Dustin Poarier. You cannot. And it's interesting.

632
00:34:11,320 --> 00:34:13,479
Speaker 1: You know, we saw Gilbert Burns and I know he lost.

633
00:34:13,480 --> 00:34:15,320
Speaker 1: We'll talk about that in a second. We saw Halfaeo

634
00:34:15,360 --> 00:34:18,719
Speaker 1: Dosanjos and he lost. But like we're talking about people

635
00:34:18,719 --> 00:34:22,279
Speaker 1: who I think thirty nine, thirty seven for thirty nine

636
00:34:22,360 --> 00:34:24,839
Speaker 1: for do Song, just thirty seven for Gilbert. We're talking

637
00:34:24,840 --> 00:34:27,799
Speaker 1: about guys who had had, like, you know, very graduated declines,

638
00:34:28,440 --> 00:34:30,320
Speaker 1: and I think what we're seeing that Dustin poari is.

639
00:34:30,360 --> 00:34:32,239
Speaker 1: I don't know how much longer he's gonna stick around,

640
00:34:32,280 --> 00:34:34,880
Speaker 1: but if he does, he might have a more graduated listen,

641
00:34:34,880 --> 00:34:38,160
Speaker 1: because father time will get everybody. But this was a

642
00:34:38,200 --> 00:34:40,920
Speaker 1: great rejuvenating win. I don't know if he gets him

643
00:34:40,880 --> 00:34:45,400
Speaker 1: a title shot, but it's a very rejuvenating win. But

644
00:34:45,480 --> 00:34:46,879
Speaker 1: he might have. He might be one of those guys

645
00:34:46,880 --> 00:34:48,719
Speaker 1: where if he sticks around, he would have not a

646
00:34:48,760 --> 00:34:51,680
Speaker 1: precipitous decline, but a more graduated one, which would be

647
00:34:51,719 --> 00:34:54,400
Speaker 1: interesting to see. Getting back to the previous point, I

648
00:34:54,440 --> 00:34:56,360
Speaker 1: don't know if this puts him in a position to

649
00:34:56,440 --> 00:34:59,400
Speaker 1: go for the title. Do you want to see Islam

650
00:34:59,480 --> 00:35:03,959
Speaker 1: versus dust I don't hate that fight. I would still

651
00:35:04,040 --> 00:35:07,880
Speaker 1: rather see the winner of Arminsar Yukian and Charles Lavera.

652
00:35:09,280 --> 00:35:11,160
Speaker 1: I think those guys are the ones to do it.

653
00:35:11,760 --> 00:35:17,080
Speaker 1: But could Dustin fight the winner of gai Chie and

654
00:35:17,400 --> 00:35:21,799
Speaker 1: Max especially or the loser of that one, or I

655
00:35:21,800 --> 00:35:23,719
Speaker 1: don't know, because macma go back to one forty five,

656
00:35:24,239 --> 00:35:25,879
Speaker 1: I'm not really sure. I don't know how they're gonna

657
00:35:25,880 --> 00:35:28,279
Speaker 1: play that. He could fight McGregor again, maybe I don't.

658
00:35:28,280 --> 00:35:29,719
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know how they're gonna play it.

659
00:35:29,760 --> 00:35:33,840
Speaker 1: But he certainly, with this win tonight, earned himself a

660
00:35:33,880 --> 00:35:37,160
Speaker 1: big fight, a big opportunity, big card, whole nine yards

661
00:35:37,320 --> 00:35:40,399
Speaker 1: and you heard the agilation from the audience for him.

662
00:35:40,719 --> 00:35:45,360
Speaker 1: There is just deep reverence in mixed martial arts fandom

663
00:35:45,360 --> 00:35:48,359
Speaker 1: for a guy like Dustin Poirier. So what he really

664
00:35:48,360 --> 00:35:51,440
Speaker 1: showed me was things you had seen before. He doesn't

665
00:35:51,480 --> 00:35:53,880
Speaker 1: have the best wrestling in the division. He doesn't have

666
00:35:53,960 --> 00:35:55,440
Speaker 1: the best jiu jitsu. Although he does have some of

667
00:35:55,480 --> 00:35:57,600
Speaker 1: the best power at one fifty five and some of

668
00:35:57,640 --> 00:36:01,000
Speaker 1: the best boxing, but he's got great veteran experience. He

669
00:36:01,080 --> 00:36:03,880
Speaker 1: doesn't panic. He does have good defense. I think in

670
00:36:03,960 --> 00:36:08,200
Speaker 1: general it certainly last stage defense where everything goes totally overwhelmed.

671
00:36:08,200 --> 00:36:10,560
Speaker 1: He's got an ability to stop a lot of attacks

672
00:36:10,560 --> 00:36:14,200
Speaker 1: from there and stayed calm, waited for his moment, didn't

673
00:36:14,200 --> 00:36:16,760
Speaker 1: need a whole lot. Dropped Satan Denis with the left hand.

674
00:36:17,040 --> 00:36:20,600
Speaker 1: They scramble again, they exchange, he walks forward, bog It's

675
00:36:20,640 --> 00:36:23,400
Speaker 1: hit with the right hook and sat him down, and

676
00:36:23,440 --> 00:36:25,000
Speaker 1: that was all she wrote after that, A little bit

677
00:36:25,000 --> 00:36:31,919
Speaker 1: of ground and pound. Unbelievable, really incredible, incredible to keep

678
00:36:31,960 --> 00:36:35,399
Speaker 1: the barbarians of the youth movement at one fifty five

679
00:36:35,440 --> 00:36:37,839
Speaker 1: at the game. We've seen this a lot. Who said

680
00:36:37,840 --> 00:36:41,560
Speaker 1: this to me? I forget who it was. Someone said

681
00:36:41,560 --> 00:36:44,120
Speaker 1: this to me that this one I cannot take credit

682
00:36:44,160 --> 00:36:47,440
Speaker 1: for this as someone else's thought. Who was it? Was

683
00:36:47,480 --> 00:36:51,960
Speaker 1: it one of the guys at Submission Radio. Was it

684
00:36:52,320 --> 00:36:54,400
Speaker 1: Mike Owens? I don't remember. Somebody said it to me

685
00:36:54,440 --> 00:36:56,200
Speaker 1: this week that they felt that this was a lot

686
00:36:56,280 --> 00:37:02,399
Speaker 1: like Geechee and physive right where Gai Chee was kind

687
00:37:02,400 --> 00:37:04,560
Speaker 1: of at the bad end of things with Physic for

688
00:37:04,560 --> 00:37:06,719
Speaker 1: a while and then turned it around and ultimately got

689
00:37:06,719 --> 00:37:11,280
Speaker 1: the stoppage. This was not the same level of beating.

690
00:37:12,440 --> 00:37:14,160
Speaker 1: I mean, Gaichee was I think up against it in

691
00:37:14,239 --> 00:37:15,920
Speaker 1: terms of like the damage he was taking in that

692
00:37:15,960 --> 00:37:17,960
Speaker 1: fight before it got stopped. I think also that one

693
00:37:18,000 --> 00:37:20,440
Speaker 1: went to the third if memory serves this, one didn't.

694
00:37:20,440 --> 00:37:23,399
Speaker 1: But there is a parallel there, dude. These guys who

695
00:37:23,600 --> 00:37:26,719
Speaker 1: formed like the last ten years almost fifteen to an

696
00:37:26,719 --> 00:37:30,160
Speaker 1: extent of fifty, not quite fifteen, but the last ten

697
00:37:30,280 --> 00:37:33,560
Speaker 1: years of one fifty five. These guys, man, they are

698
00:37:33,600 --> 00:37:36,480
Speaker 1: holding on and the next crop is having a real

699
00:37:36,600 --> 00:37:40,720
Speaker 1: hard time putting them away and really kind of asserting themselves.

700
00:37:40,520 --> 00:37:43,680
Speaker 1: It's it's a few different reasons they're not quite there yet.

701
00:37:43,719 --> 00:37:48,960
Speaker 1: It is remarkable to see that that class, the McGregor's

702
00:37:50,120 --> 00:37:52,000
Speaker 1: he wasn't so much there at one fifty five. But

703
00:37:52,400 --> 00:37:55,080
Speaker 1: certainly you're gay Chee Alvarez is now doing something else.

704
00:37:55,400 --> 00:37:58,800
Speaker 1: But Poorier is still there, you know, Chandler to an extent,

705
00:37:59,520 --> 00:38:02,319
Speaker 1: that class of one to fifty five ers, man, they

706
00:38:02,360 --> 00:38:05,520
Speaker 1: are hard to get out of the driver's seat. Very

707
00:38:05,640 --> 00:38:08,640
Speaker 1: very difficult, very difficult. I'm trusting if there's anything else

708
00:38:08,640 --> 00:38:11,759
Speaker 1: in these numbers that kind of stands out, ben Wi

709
00:38:11,880 --> 00:38:13,960
Speaker 1: Sainton fifty percent of the head in terms of targeting,

710
00:38:13,960 --> 00:38:16,520
Speaker 1: thirty percent to the body, fourteen percent of the leg.

711
00:38:16,880 --> 00:38:19,120
Speaker 1: Partia eighty five percent of the head. He's a bit

712
00:38:19,120 --> 00:38:21,440
Speaker 1: of a headhunter. Ten to the body, just three percent

713
00:38:21,480 --> 00:38:23,840
Speaker 1: of the leg. Not ever been a really big leg kicker.

714
00:38:23,880 --> 00:38:26,400
Speaker 1: We kind of already knew that, So I'd be curious

715
00:38:26,400 --> 00:38:28,400
Speaker 1: to know what you guys want to see the UFC

716
00:38:28,480 --> 00:38:32,200
Speaker 1: do with Partier next. Definitely deserves a big fight, Definitely

717
00:38:32,200 --> 00:38:36,479
Speaker 1: deserves a big name. But how that goes, I don't

718
00:38:36,560 --> 00:38:39,400
Speaker 1: quite know how they want to play that one exactly,

719
00:38:39,760 --> 00:38:44,400
Speaker 1: So I guess we'll have to see elsewhere on this card,

720
00:38:46,200 --> 00:38:49,680
Speaker 1: Michael Page defeating Kevin Holland. So this fight was fucking weird,

721
00:38:49,920 --> 00:38:52,759
Speaker 1: wasn't it. Michael Page wins I think twenty nine to

722
00:38:52,760 --> 00:38:56,919
Speaker 1: twenty eight on all three judges scorecards. Just a weird one.

723
00:38:57,160 --> 00:38:59,279
Speaker 1: So basically, what do I have to say about this?

724
00:39:02,160 --> 00:39:04,719
Speaker 1: Page did what he normally does, hands down. He calls

725
00:39:04,719 --> 00:39:06,719
Speaker 1: his style the six thirty because his hands are down,

726
00:39:07,360 --> 00:39:10,000
Speaker 1: hands down style, and he was able to just bomb

727
00:39:10,800 --> 00:39:13,440
Speaker 1: on Kevin Holland with these like blitzing right hands kind

728
00:39:13,440 --> 00:39:14,960
Speaker 1: of coming over the top, and it was almost like

729
00:39:14,960 --> 00:39:18,279
Speaker 1: they would have this like weird trajectory where they would

730
00:39:18,320 --> 00:39:22,200
Speaker 1: come over like in an arc, almost as they would

731
00:39:22,200 --> 00:39:24,120
Speaker 1: as he would blitz and cover distance. He would be

732
00:39:24,160 --> 00:39:27,560
Speaker 1: super far apart and cover all this distance. Dude. In

733
00:39:27,600 --> 00:39:30,520
Speaker 1: the end, he was able to pot shot Kevin, knock

734
00:39:30,600 --> 00:39:34,520
Speaker 1: him off of his feet at times, nulla, fie him

735
00:39:34,520 --> 00:39:37,160
Speaker 1: in the clinch, resist for the most part, I'll pull

736
00:39:37,280 --> 00:39:39,160
Speaker 1: some of the numbers here. Resist for the most part, any

737
00:39:39,640 --> 00:39:43,400
Speaker 1: concerted takedown attempts, I'm gonna pull him here. They credited

738
00:39:43,840 --> 00:39:47,279
Speaker 1: Holland with two of five takedowns, with some control time,

739
00:39:47,520 --> 00:39:50,600
Speaker 1: but for the most part, again nullified. Most of the takedowns,

740
00:39:50,840 --> 00:39:54,480
Speaker 1: nullified most of the subsequent damage that could have come

741
00:39:54,480 --> 00:39:56,120
Speaker 1: from that didn't take. I mean, there was some ground

742
00:39:56,120 --> 00:39:57,960
Speaker 1: and pound, there was an elbow that got through. He

743
00:39:58,000 --> 00:40:00,359
Speaker 1: had some decent ground and pound at times, but just

744
00:40:00,440 --> 00:40:02,239
Speaker 1: not enough in the end. And Dude, by the end

745
00:40:02,280 --> 00:40:05,120
Speaker 1: of the third round or sort of the second half

746
00:40:05,160 --> 00:40:09,680
Speaker 1: of it, I've never seen like Kevin Holland looked like

747
00:40:09,680 --> 00:40:13,759
Speaker 1: he wasn't. Even when Kevin Holland is losing fights, he

748
00:40:13,840 --> 00:40:18,120
Speaker 1: tends to look like he's having fun, right, did you

749
00:40:18,160 --> 00:40:21,960
Speaker 1: see that? I didn't see that. I didn't see that

750
00:40:22,080 --> 00:40:23,640
Speaker 1: at all. I did not see a guy who was

751
00:40:23,680 --> 00:40:25,719
Speaker 1: having fun. I did not see a guy who was

752
00:40:26,560 --> 00:40:29,240
Speaker 1: happy to be there or you know, in the zone,

753
00:40:29,560 --> 00:40:32,160
Speaker 1: or you know, just kind of flowing with everything. I

754
00:40:32,160 --> 00:40:34,919
Speaker 1: didn't see that shit at all. I did not get

755
00:40:34,960 --> 00:40:39,840
Speaker 1: that impression. He looked to me bewildered, confused, frustrated, didn't

756
00:40:39,840 --> 00:40:42,399
Speaker 1: want to be there anymore, and it just got worse

757
00:40:42,400 --> 00:40:44,080
Speaker 1: and worse for him for the most part as it

758
00:40:44,120 --> 00:40:46,280
Speaker 1: went on. He looked at some of these numbers per round.

759
00:40:46,719 --> 00:40:49,719
Speaker 1: They were close Michael Page seventeen to eleven, again quantitative

760
00:40:49,719 --> 00:40:52,960
Speaker 1: not qualitative totals. Kevin Holland kind of turned the page

761
00:40:52,960 --> 00:40:54,920
Speaker 1: back a little bit. There gets a take down, two

762
00:40:54,920 --> 00:40:58,120
Speaker 1: minutes of control time sixteen to ten, and significant strikes,

763
00:40:58,360 --> 00:41:01,520
Speaker 1: but then around three dude, pop quiz how many significant

764
00:41:01,520 --> 00:41:04,640
Speaker 1: strikes did Kevin Holland land in round three? The answer

765
00:41:04,760 --> 00:41:09,520
Speaker 1: is two two. He did get a take down in

766
00:41:09,560 --> 00:41:12,280
Speaker 1: a minute and some change with control time, but Michael

767
00:41:12,320 --> 00:41:16,640
Speaker 1: Page landed fourteen. You look at the sub attempts won

768
00:41:16,680 --> 00:41:18,960
Speaker 1: sub attempt by Kevin Holland in the second round. That

769
00:41:19,160 --> 00:41:22,480
Speaker 1: was the rear naked choke he almost got, but then

770
00:41:22,520 --> 00:41:25,680
Speaker 1: you saw the shoulder, the inside shoulder kind of slip past,

771
00:41:26,120 --> 00:41:28,120
Speaker 1: and so he was able to go from from chest

772
00:41:28,200 --> 00:41:31,319
Speaker 1: to back to chest to chest and that prevented it.

773
00:41:31,360 --> 00:41:36,280
Speaker 1: But in terms of targeting Kevin Holland forty eight percent

774
00:41:36,320 --> 00:41:37,919
Speaker 1: to the leg, he couldn't get a whole lot, going

775
00:41:38,320 --> 00:41:42,080
Speaker 1: just twelve percent to the leg for MVP, sixty eight

776
00:41:42,120 --> 00:41:45,480
Speaker 1: percent to the head, just thirty seven percent for Kevin Holland.

777
00:41:45,520 --> 00:41:47,719
Speaker 1: It just looked like, dude, Kevin Holland has this tendency.

778
00:41:47,920 --> 00:41:49,680
Speaker 1: He's a very good fighter, but he has this tendency

779
00:41:49,719 --> 00:41:53,560
Speaker 1: to fight on other people's terms. And sometimes that matters

780
00:41:53,719 --> 00:41:56,360
Speaker 1: and sometimes it doesn't. Sometimes he wins and sometimes he doesn't.

781
00:41:56,360 --> 00:41:59,080
Speaker 1: But this one looked like he was fighting on MVP's

782
00:41:59,200 --> 00:42:01,759
Speaker 1: terms and he didn't like it, and he didn't look

783
00:42:01,840 --> 00:42:04,839
Speaker 1: like himself. And also I just don't know what his

784
00:42:04,880 --> 00:42:08,560
Speaker 1: game plan was. I just don't quite know. I can't

785
00:42:08,560 --> 00:42:10,759
Speaker 1: get a clear sense of what he wanted to do.

786
00:42:10,880 --> 00:42:13,520
Speaker 1: Like there's you can lose a fight, but I can

787
00:42:13,560 --> 00:42:15,640
Speaker 1: at least see, hey, what was the like, what were

788
00:42:15,719 --> 00:42:18,239
Speaker 1: the what was this guy and his team thinking was

789
00:42:18,280 --> 00:42:21,120
Speaker 1: their best plan to get the win? And sometimes they're right, like,

790
00:42:21,120 --> 00:42:23,040
Speaker 1: sometimes that would have been your best plan. It didn't work,

791
00:42:23,080 --> 00:42:25,840
Speaker 1: but it was your best plan, and it's sort of identifiable.

792
00:42:26,520 --> 00:42:29,040
Speaker 1: I just can't make heads or tails of what Holland's

793
00:42:29,080 --> 00:42:30,880
Speaker 1: game plan was supposed to be here. I don't I

794
00:42:30,920 --> 00:42:34,880
Speaker 1: don't quite know. I don't understand exactly what he was attempting.

795
00:42:35,400 --> 00:42:37,520
Speaker 1: Necessarily with all of this, it was a strange one.

796
00:42:39,400 --> 00:42:43,840
Speaker 1: So MVP wins his debut. When the fight ended, the

797
00:42:43,880 --> 00:42:46,680
Speaker 1: crowd was kind of quiet. They didn't seem all that

798
00:42:46,760 --> 00:42:48,400
Speaker 1: jazzed about it, but there was a couple of moments

799
00:42:48,440 --> 00:42:52,160
Speaker 1: where they kind of liked it. Michael ven Impage coming

800
00:42:52,160 --> 00:42:55,080
Speaker 1: out doing a lot of antics, I you know, playing

801
00:42:55,120 --> 00:43:00,799
Speaker 1: the Undertaker's theme music or whatever. I would not call

802
00:43:00,880 --> 00:43:02,840
Speaker 1: this in any way a bad debut. I would not

803
00:43:02,920 --> 00:43:05,520
Speaker 1: call it the best debut I've seen for a belatur fighter,

804
00:43:06,600 --> 00:43:09,480
Speaker 1: although Eddie Alvarez when he fought to actually know what

805
00:43:09,560 --> 00:43:12,640
Speaker 1: I mean, that's no, because Michael Chandler's debut against Dan

806
00:43:12,680 --> 00:43:15,040
Speaker 1: Hooker was the best. Because I'm trying to think Hector

807
00:43:15,080 --> 00:43:18,520
Speaker 1: Lombard against him. Bouch Wright was not that great. Uh.

808
00:43:18,800 --> 00:43:23,360
Speaker 1: And then Will Brooks, I can't remember what his debut

809
00:43:23,440 --> 00:43:27,200
Speaker 1: fight was. I don't really remember there, I'm not sure.

810
00:43:29,080 --> 00:43:31,000
Speaker 1: And there's been some other ones as well. Eddie Alvarez

811
00:43:31,239 --> 00:43:33,279
Speaker 1: had a tough fight against Dounce Running. He lost that

812
00:43:33,320 --> 00:43:35,960
Speaker 1: when he got leg kicked into, you know, big time.

813
00:43:36,800 --> 00:43:39,799
Speaker 1: So this was one of the better ones, I would say,

814
00:43:39,800 --> 00:43:41,680
Speaker 1: but maybe not the best one because obviously Michael Channer

815
00:43:41,680 --> 00:43:44,880
Speaker 1: would hold that position. So but a good start, A

816
00:43:44,920 --> 00:43:46,759
Speaker 1: good start for MVP. I don't know really what he's

817
00:43:46,840 --> 00:43:49,239
Speaker 1: gonna do in this organization. It's hard to say what

818
00:43:49,280 --> 00:43:52,080
Speaker 1: would it all look like. His anti grappling for the

819
00:43:52,120 --> 00:43:54,120
Speaker 1: most part was pretty good. His clinch work for the

820
00:43:54,200 --> 00:43:56,839
Speaker 1: most part was nullifying. He was able to get double

821
00:43:56,880 --> 00:44:00,319
Speaker 1: underhooks as well. I know what he was trying to do.

822
00:44:00,400 --> 00:44:02,880
Speaker 1: I just can't really tell you exactly what Kevin Holland

823
00:44:02,920 --> 00:44:05,879
Speaker 1: was trying to do. He looked confused, and I think

824
00:44:05,920 --> 00:44:10,560
Speaker 1: he had something of an incoherent kind of performance because

825
00:44:10,600 --> 00:44:12,760
Speaker 1: he just didn't seem to have and he like thoughts

826
00:44:12,800 --> 00:44:16,040
Speaker 1: about what attacks would get him where he needed to

827
00:44:16,040 --> 00:44:17,840
Speaker 1: be and what he needed to do to even launch

828
00:44:17,880 --> 00:44:26,160
Speaker 1: those attacks. To begin with jack Dale Medelena defeating Gilbert Burns.

829
00:44:26,200 --> 00:44:28,680
Speaker 1: This was a thirty seven year old in Gilbert Burns

830
00:44:29,120 --> 00:44:32,280
Speaker 1: taking on jack Dale Medelena at twenty seven, a monster

831
00:44:32,560 --> 00:44:37,640
Speaker 1: monster monster fight of a generational clash. In the end,

832
00:44:37,719 --> 00:44:41,919
Speaker 1: jack Dela Medeleana wins at three forty three of round

833
00:44:42,000 --> 00:44:47,799
Speaker 1: three via ko slash tko. Dude. Gilbert Burns was a

834
00:44:47,920 --> 00:44:50,080
Speaker 1: minute and a half or so from winning this fight.

835
00:44:50,160 --> 00:44:53,000
Speaker 1: I think I thought jack Dale Meddelena won the first,

836
00:44:53,040 --> 00:44:55,600
Speaker 1: and then I think got out wrestled or so in

837
00:44:55,680 --> 00:44:58,600
Speaker 1: the second and really needed to like put his It

838
00:44:58,600 --> 00:45:04,080
Speaker 1: was anybody's fight heading into the and he what you've

839
00:45:04,120 --> 00:45:08,000
Speaker 1: noticed with Jackie La Madelena is he has good like

840
00:45:08,040 --> 00:45:11,240
Speaker 1: where does his wrestling fall apart? He has good defensive wrestling.

841
00:45:11,320 --> 00:45:14,080
Speaker 1: He knows what the assignment is, but he can be

842
00:45:14,160 --> 00:45:17,680
Speaker 1: baited into making mistakes by forcing him to make a

843
00:45:17,719 --> 00:45:20,480
Speaker 1: series of different reactions when the takedowns are going in

844
00:45:20,520 --> 00:45:24,520
Speaker 1: different directions. Right, So we've gone from where in one

845
00:45:24,560 --> 00:45:27,600
Speaker 1: scenario he'll know what to do, We've now transitioned to

846
00:45:27,600 --> 00:45:29,880
Speaker 1: another one very quickly, and then another one very quickly

847
00:45:30,280 --> 00:45:32,759
Speaker 1: and then the more you transition the position, the more

848
00:45:32,800 --> 00:45:35,760
Speaker 1: you move, the more that like a little error begins

849
00:45:35,800 --> 00:45:38,080
Speaker 1: to sneak in and he can get out. He used

850
00:45:38,160 --> 00:45:44,800
Speaker 1: basically like a reverse Z guard to ultimately flip Burns over,

851
00:45:44,920 --> 00:45:48,560
Speaker 1: but he also did it with the assist of the fence. Dude,

852
00:45:48,560 --> 00:45:51,040
Speaker 1: whether it's Craig Jones doing the flying triangle at karate

853
00:45:51,160 --> 00:45:55,200
Speaker 1: combat or you know you name it. We saw the

854
00:45:55,200 --> 00:45:57,960
Speaker 1: bulldog choke where someone was using the fence on the

855
00:45:58,000 --> 00:46:00,520
Speaker 1: bulldog choke to like almost like a clock choke to

856
00:46:00,600 --> 00:46:03,879
Speaker 1: kind of like a clock choke would happened with the gee,

857
00:46:03,920 --> 00:46:08,279
Speaker 1: but there could be a similar kind of mechanics with

858
00:46:08,400 --> 00:46:11,480
Speaker 1: parts of the body, and they were using the fence

859
00:46:11,520 --> 00:46:13,399
Speaker 1: to crawl up to like really get the bulldog joke.

860
00:46:13,680 --> 00:46:16,440
Speaker 1: And here he's using the fence to use basically like

861
00:46:16,480 --> 00:46:19,719
Speaker 1: a reverse Z guard to then roll through and roll

862
00:46:19,760 --> 00:46:24,800
Speaker 1: over create the scramble. Here comes Burns just gets intercepted

863
00:46:24,840 --> 00:46:28,800
Speaker 1: with a fucking brutal knee. He goes crashing to the canvas.

864
00:46:28,960 --> 00:46:32,560
Speaker 1: Bab bab bab. I thought Gilbert had a good game plan.

865
00:46:33,040 --> 00:46:36,200
Speaker 1: He wanted to use speed, he wanted to use evasion,

866
00:46:36,680 --> 00:46:39,040
Speaker 1: get in, get out. They wanted to make wrestling a

867
00:46:39,120 --> 00:46:41,719
Speaker 1: key part of everything that he did. As you can see,

868
00:46:41,719 --> 00:46:43,320
Speaker 1: he's got very good wrestling. Let's look at some of

869
00:46:43,360 --> 00:46:45,680
Speaker 1: these numbers on this one if we can. For old

870
00:46:45,680 --> 00:46:48,680
Speaker 1: Gilbert Burns, where are we on this one? Yeah, let

871
00:46:48,680 --> 00:46:51,240
Speaker 1: me look at these numbers. He was eighteen to eighteen

872
00:46:51,600 --> 00:46:54,319
Speaker 1: significant strikes in the first round for both, then Jack

873
00:46:54,360 --> 00:46:56,920
Speaker 1: Dela Bandelena twenty one to nine in the second, and

874
00:46:56,960 --> 00:46:59,799
Speaker 1: then twenty eight to fucking zero in the third. G

875
00:47:00,840 --> 00:47:03,799
Speaker 1: So maybe, so maybe I'm getting this backwards. Burns had

876
00:47:03,800 --> 00:47:05,960
Speaker 1: three takedowns on the first so I think Burns may

877
00:47:05,960 --> 00:47:10,080
Speaker 1: have won the first, JDM won the second, and then

878
00:47:10,400 --> 00:47:13,000
Speaker 1: Gilbert was on his way to winning the third before

879
00:47:13,080 --> 00:47:15,600
Speaker 1: ultimately losing it with that kind of like last second

880
00:47:15,800 --> 00:47:20,520
Speaker 1: or not last second, but surprising scramble towards the end

881
00:47:20,560 --> 00:47:26,080
Speaker 1: of the third frame. So, first of all, Jack Dela

882
00:47:26,160 --> 00:47:28,520
Speaker 1: Madelena afterwards gets out and says he wants to fight

883
00:47:28,560 --> 00:47:31,000
Speaker 1: shoff kot Rokamanov. I was like, dude, you got to

884
00:47:31,040 --> 00:47:33,799
Speaker 1: have balls the size of hip ay hops to want

885
00:47:33,840 --> 00:47:35,759
Speaker 1: to fucking call out a guy like that. That is

886
00:47:35,920 --> 00:47:38,560
Speaker 1: unbelievable to me. So shouts to Jack Dale Medelanda for

887
00:47:38,560 --> 00:47:41,000
Speaker 1: being a fucking g that's incredible. I don't know if

888
00:47:41,000 --> 00:47:42,360
Speaker 1: they're going to make that fight, but that would be

889
00:47:42,400 --> 00:47:46,799
Speaker 1: fucking awesome. But as it relates to this fight, what

890
00:47:46,880 --> 00:47:49,600
Speaker 1: it showed me was that at twenty seven years of age,

891
00:47:50,600 --> 00:47:55,480
Speaker 1: Burns did have enough grappling prowess to win. He ultimately

892
00:47:55,520 --> 00:47:57,399
Speaker 1: did not, but he did have enough ability to win.

893
00:47:57,400 --> 00:47:59,400
Speaker 1: He was very very close to pulling that off, and

894
00:47:59,440 --> 00:48:02,920
Speaker 1: we already saw Dustin pulled off in the Comaine. However,

895
00:48:03,880 --> 00:48:09,080
Speaker 1: what I would say is for JDM supporters, I'm not

896
00:48:09,080 --> 00:48:11,920
Speaker 1: gonna say he got lucky tonight, but he certainly rescued

897
00:48:11,920 --> 00:48:14,520
Speaker 1: that a little bit. But what I am gonna say

898
00:48:14,600 --> 00:48:17,480
Speaker 1: is for all of his limits that he might have,

899
00:48:17,719 --> 00:48:21,120
Speaker 1: and those are real, I think he's gonna smooth those

900
00:48:21,160 --> 00:48:24,200
Speaker 1: out in the next year or two where they will

901
00:48:24,239 --> 00:48:30,160
Speaker 1: be largely indetectable and he's gonna get real. Dude, there

902
00:48:30,200 --> 00:48:35,400
Speaker 1: was a moment he was using no that was a

903
00:48:35,440 --> 00:48:38,160
Speaker 1: different fight. Sorry, excuse me, that's a different one. But

904
00:48:39,160 --> 00:48:41,440
Speaker 1: certainly what we can say is his I mean, if

905
00:48:41,440 --> 00:48:46,920
Speaker 1: you're using like reverse z guard shit to get off underneath,

906
00:48:46,920 --> 00:48:48,719
Speaker 1: by the way, like Craig Jones is the man with

907
00:48:48,840 --> 00:48:53,400
Speaker 1: reverse c guard stuff. He's the man. In fact, if

908
00:48:53,440 --> 00:48:57,080
Speaker 1: you have his tutorial, I think it's in the I

909
00:48:57,080 --> 00:49:05,440
Speaker 1: think it's in the Power Bottom. The Power Bottom. Uh,

910
00:49:05,719 --> 00:49:07,080
Speaker 1: it's the fucking name of it. What do you want

911
00:49:07,120 --> 00:49:10,840
Speaker 1: me to do it? It's in that tutorial, and he

912
00:49:10,880 --> 00:49:13,120
Speaker 1: goes through it. And I know he worked with JDM

913
00:49:13,160 --> 00:49:16,440
Speaker 1: a little bit for this fight, and it showed. It showed.

914
00:49:16,840 --> 00:49:21,279
Speaker 1: What I'm saying is I was hoping jdm's grappling would

915
00:49:21,320 --> 00:49:24,440
Speaker 1: be already at the point in this fight where I'd

916
00:49:24,480 --> 00:49:26,480
Speaker 1: be like, Wow, he's ready to go off. I think

917
00:49:26,480 --> 00:49:28,400
Speaker 1: he's just a little bit short of that. But I

918
00:49:28,400 --> 00:49:30,520
Speaker 1: think it's almost in it. I think it's an inevitability.

919
00:49:31,040 --> 00:49:33,080
Speaker 1: I think it's an inevitability that he's going to have

920
00:49:33,280 --> 00:49:35,600
Speaker 1: all of the grappling. He needs to then let his

921
00:49:35,680 --> 00:49:38,479
Speaker 1: boxing do the talking for him. And you can see

922
00:49:38,480 --> 00:49:42,080
Speaker 1: he is super formidable when it comes to that, very

923
00:49:42,160 --> 00:49:45,279
Speaker 1: very formidable. He can put combinations together. He also can

924
00:49:45,320 --> 00:49:47,560
Speaker 1: go linear than hook. He can make you move and

925
00:49:47,600 --> 00:49:50,120
Speaker 1: transfer your defense and then put things around it. He

926
00:49:50,160 --> 00:49:52,280
Speaker 1: can follow you. He can switch stands through a combination

927
00:49:53,000 --> 00:49:54,920
Speaker 1: and make everything look different. I mean, he can do

928
00:49:55,000 --> 00:49:57,520
Speaker 1: so many different things in the striking department that at

929
00:49:57,520 --> 00:50:00,480
Speaker 1: all just A plus A plus A plus grappling to

930
00:50:00,520 --> 00:50:02,759
Speaker 1: me is like a solid B plus maybe eight. Yeah,

931
00:50:02,840 --> 00:50:04,440
Speaker 1: a solid B plus is what I would give it.

932
00:50:04,600 --> 00:50:06,239
Speaker 1: I think it's going to be an a territory in

933
00:50:06,280 --> 00:50:09,120
Speaker 1: the next year or two for MMA purposes, obviously, is

934
00:50:09,120 --> 00:50:10,680
Speaker 1: what we're discussing. I'm not saying he's gonna go win

935
00:50:10,719 --> 00:50:14,480
Speaker 1: the fucking World Championships, but in MMA he's going to

936
00:50:14,520 --> 00:50:18,960
Speaker 1: have very very good grappling in such a way where dude,

937
00:50:18,960 --> 00:50:20,640
Speaker 1: I mean, Gilbert burns people like, oh, this jiu jitsu

938
00:50:20,680 --> 00:50:25,400
Speaker 1: is bad. Gilbert doesn't go for submissions all that often,

939
00:50:25,440 --> 00:50:29,239
Speaker 1: but his positional jiu jitsu is very very strong. It's

940
00:50:29,239 --> 00:50:34,960
Speaker 1: extremely good. And he was able to resist that with

941
00:50:35,120 --> 00:50:38,439
Speaker 1: a little bit of like, you know, low percentage shit

942
00:50:38,480 --> 00:50:40,640
Speaker 1: at the end, but it did work. He made it work.

943
00:50:41,280 --> 00:50:44,160
Speaker 1: He willed his way to victory with that, and that's

944
00:50:44,200 --> 00:50:48,880
Speaker 1: skillful as well. He got it done. So hell of

945
00:50:48,880 --> 00:50:51,359
Speaker 1: a performance by him. We're coming off what the last

946
00:50:51,440 --> 00:50:55,000
Speaker 1: UFC event where Steve Erseg looked tremendous knocking people out,

947
00:50:55,040 --> 00:50:57,520
Speaker 1: so like, I know that, you know, people are sad

948
00:50:57,560 --> 00:51:00,320
Speaker 1: in Australia about the state of vulcan and it's totally

949
00:51:00,320 --> 00:51:03,320
Speaker 1: normal and totally understandable. But dude, just like look around,

950
00:51:03,400 --> 00:51:05,480
Speaker 1: like the crop that's here now and then the next

951
00:51:05,520 --> 00:51:09,920
Speaker 1: crop of Aussie fighters, they're very fucking good, very very

952
00:51:10,080 --> 00:51:13,439
Speaker 1: very very good fighters. Due JDM, I would be very

953
00:51:13,480 --> 00:51:15,680
Speaker 1: surprised if he's not in a title fight. Whether he

954
00:51:15,719 --> 00:51:18,840
Speaker 1: wins it, I don't know, but I'd be very surprised

955
00:51:18,880 --> 00:51:20,800
Speaker 1: if he goes his whole career never fighting for a

956
00:51:20,920 --> 00:51:24,160
Speaker 1: UFC title. He seems destined to be fighting for one.

957
00:51:24,840 --> 00:51:27,480
Speaker 1: Whether that's with Shafcott now or later, I don't know,

958
00:51:27,760 --> 00:51:30,960
Speaker 1: but he is going to be a force to be

959
00:51:31,000 --> 00:51:36,000
Speaker 1: reckoned with at the championship level before he's thirty. I

960
00:51:36,040 --> 00:51:38,480
Speaker 1: feel like I can say that with a strong degree

961
00:51:38,480 --> 00:51:41,840
Speaker 1: of confidence. An amazing talent. And I feel terrible for

962
00:51:41,880 --> 00:51:46,319
Speaker 1: Gilbert Burns. He had that lost to Bela Mohammed. He

963
00:51:46,400 --> 00:51:50,040
Speaker 1: got injured, didn't want to do surgery, did the stem

964
00:51:50,040 --> 00:51:51,840
Speaker 1: cell thing, but that just took a lot longer to

965
00:51:51,880 --> 00:51:53,799
Speaker 1: get back out there, I think, or you know, it

966
00:51:53,840 --> 00:51:57,480
Speaker 1: depends on how you view the shoulder surgery, but it

967
00:51:57,560 --> 00:52:01,640
Speaker 1: certainly delayed effective use of his time and now your

968
00:52:01,719 --> 00:52:04,800
Speaker 1: late thirties at one seventy. This was a tough loss.

969
00:52:05,239 --> 00:52:09,120
Speaker 1: He was so close. I'm not sure where he goes

970
00:52:09,160 --> 00:52:14,719
Speaker 1: from here. I'm not I'm not saying retirement is eminent, inevitable,

971
00:52:14,800 --> 00:52:20,560
Speaker 1: but I am saying, you know, I know he wanted

972
00:52:20,560 --> 00:52:24,319
Speaker 1: a title fight. I know he wanted that kind of

973
00:52:24,400 --> 00:52:26,640
Speaker 1: placement on a card, and I don't think that is

974
00:52:27,200 --> 00:52:31,279
Speaker 1: in his future probably at this point. Right and then last,

975
00:52:31,320 --> 00:52:33,000
Speaker 1: but not least on this main card before we get

976
00:52:33,040 --> 00:52:35,359
Speaker 1: to some of your questions. Peter Jan Peo dor Yan

977
00:52:35,920 --> 00:52:38,759
Speaker 1: defeating song Ya Dong songa don looking real good in

978
00:52:38,800 --> 00:52:41,280
Speaker 1: the first round. I thought he took it. And then Yan,

979
00:52:41,880 --> 00:52:44,640
Speaker 1: we all know he takes forever to get make adjustments,

980
00:52:44,719 --> 00:52:47,279
Speaker 1: make some downloads. He had a real long guard and

981
00:52:47,320 --> 00:52:49,200
Speaker 1: it wasn't working at first, and like, why would you

982
00:52:49,280 --> 00:52:50,640
Speaker 1: use the long guard. You can use the long guard

983
00:52:50,680 --> 00:52:52,760
Speaker 1: for any number of reasons. It's a little bit better

984
00:52:53,280 --> 00:52:55,680
Speaker 1: like you see it in boxing, but it's better in

985
00:52:56,800 --> 00:52:59,600
Speaker 1: like MMA or muy tay or whatever, where you can

986
00:52:59,640 --> 00:53:02,840
Speaker 1: then throw elbows because your hand is already extended. But

987
00:53:03,640 --> 00:53:05,839
Speaker 1: for Yon, what he was doing is he was kind

988
00:53:05,840 --> 00:53:07,879
Speaker 1: of raising it up and then catching things that were

989
00:53:07,920 --> 00:53:10,279
Speaker 1: like bumping him on the outside. That's kind of what

990
00:53:10,280 --> 00:53:12,440
Speaker 1: he was doing. He's also like putting his hand up

991
00:53:12,440 --> 00:53:14,920
Speaker 1: and then like deflecting in the and fucking with the

992
00:53:15,000 --> 00:53:17,239
Speaker 1: vision of song it dong, and also just kind of

993
00:53:17,239 --> 00:53:20,040
Speaker 1: like putting traffic out here. He was doing it as well.

994
00:53:20,080 --> 00:53:21,640
Speaker 1: That was working really well. And then as the fight

995
00:53:21,680 --> 00:53:24,400
Speaker 1: war on, he was getting takedowns. At end of the

996
00:53:24,440 --> 00:53:26,760
Speaker 1: second takedown, at the end of the third, perfect timing.

997
00:53:26,760 --> 00:53:28,279
Speaker 1: He had some decent ground and pound when he was

998
00:53:28,320 --> 00:53:31,000
Speaker 1: down there. He had excellent scrambles to the extent that

999
00:53:31,040 --> 00:53:33,000
Speaker 1: he needed to. Even in the first he had good

1000
00:53:33,040 --> 00:53:35,480
Speaker 1: scrambles for the most part. Song You don kind of

1001
00:53:35,480 --> 00:53:38,200
Speaker 1: brought it to him early, but he looked to me

1002
00:53:38,280 --> 00:53:41,440
Speaker 1: overmatched a little bit here, Dude. I said this on MK,

1003
00:53:41,600 --> 00:53:43,719
Speaker 1: this one I feel very strongly about, and I think

1004
00:53:43,880 --> 00:53:48,640
Speaker 1: the facts bore this out. People were like, oh, Yeahn's

1005
00:53:48,680 --> 00:53:50,759
Speaker 1: on this terrible losing streak. He's doing so bad. I'm like,

1006
00:53:50,800 --> 00:53:54,200
Speaker 1: this is not a Tony Ferguson losing streak. Okay, he

1007
00:53:54,280 --> 00:53:57,440
Speaker 1: lost the second Algro fight. I thought fair and square.

1008
00:53:57,480 --> 00:53:59,960
Speaker 1: People thought it was controversial. I didn't, but it was close.

1009
00:54:00,080 --> 00:54:02,600
Speaker 1: I'm certainly close, but he lost it fine. And he

1010
00:54:02,640 --> 00:54:05,839
Speaker 1: lost the Morob fight fine. But I thought he beat

1011
00:54:06,160 --> 00:54:08,520
Speaker 1: Sean O'Malley. I know he didn't, but I felt like

1012
00:54:08,560 --> 00:54:11,640
Speaker 1: he deserved that, and he was certainly beating al Joe before.

1013
00:54:11,680 --> 00:54:15,239
Speaker 1: That's that he stupidly need him in the face. He

1014
00:54:15,280 --> 00:54:17,799
Speaker 1: had the win over Corey Sandhagen. It's like, dude, if

1015
00:54:17,800 --> 00:54:20,760
Speaker 1: you fight all those fucking guys and you only lose

1016
00:54:20,880 --> 00:54:23,640
Speaker 1: via decision to two of them, and one of them

1017
00:54:23,719 --> 00:54:25,800
Speaker 1: was like very close. In the case of the second

1018
00:54:25,840 --> 00:54:30,600
Speaker 1: Algio fight, is that some kind of epic losing streak.

1019
00:54:30,640 --> 00:54:32,759
Speaker 1: That's not an epic losing streak. To me, that's just

1020
00:54:33,200 --> 00:54:37,120
Speaker 1: an insane schedule. You're just not going to get out

1021
00:54:37,160 --> 00:54:39,479
Speaker 1: of that unscathed. And then you got that, and again

1022
00:54:39,520 --> 00:54:41,640
Speaker 1: he made some boneheaded errors in some of those fights,

1023
00:54:41,680 --> 00:54:44,640
Speaker 1: not just the foul like there's things you can nitpick,

1024
00:54:45,320 --> 00:54:48,280
Speaker 1: but people were like, oh, he's on this terrible decline,

1025
00:54:48,320 --> 00:54:51,520
Speaker 1: and I'm like, that's not quite right. This is not

1026
00:54:51,600 --> 00:54:54,799
Speaker 1: a great moment, and there could be psychological impacts from

1027
00:54:54,840 --> 00:54:58,759
Speaker 1: all of the losing, that's true, but he doesn't look

1028
00:54:59,280 --> 00:55:01,759
Speaker 1: bad in the way that people were suggesting. And so

1029
00:55:01,880 --> 00:55:04,360
Speaker 1: sure enough, first round doesn't quite go his way, but

1030
00:55:04,440 --> 00:55:07,160
Speaker 1: he wasn't getting his ass kicked, and in the second

1031
00:55:07,239 --> 00:55:09,359
Speaker 1: round he really begins to turn things around. The jab

1032
00:55:09,440 --> 00:55:12,560
Speaker 1: started working for him, the switch dance combinations began to

1033
00:55:12,560 --> 00:55:14,520
Speaker 1: work for him, the bodykicks began to work for him.

1034
00:55:14,520 --> 00:55:16,640
Speaker 1: As I mentioned, the takedowns at the end of the round,

1035
00:55:16,920 --> 00:55:19,120
Speaker 1: and then by the third round he was fucking styling

1036
00:55:19,600 --> 00:55:22,719
Speaker 1: on Songa Dong Like, dude, that was a good performance

1037
00:55:22,760 --> 00:55:25,120
Speaker 1: from him, especially to get right get back in there.

1038
00:55:25,120 --> 00:55:27,319
Speaker 1: He says he wants to go on there a rematch tour.

1039
00:55:28,160 --> 00:55:30,160
Speaker 1: I'd be all in favor of it. Morob and Sean

1040
00:55:30,200 --> 00:55:33,480
Speaker 1: Umalley's who he wants. Obviously he's not due for a

1041
00:55:33,520 --> 00:55:36,320
Speaker 1: title shot, but that was a very, very strong performance

1042
00:55:36,320 --> 00:55:37,920
Speaker 1: from him. Dude. Here's the thing about Songa Dong. He

1043
00:55:37,960 --> 00:55:40,439
Speaker 1: falls to twenty one and eight, but he's just twenty

1044
00:55:40,480 --> 00:55:43,399
Speaker 1: six years old. I still think there's a couple more

1045
00:55:43,440 --> 00:55:46,759
Speaker 1: gears he could hit to really improve. He to really

1046
00:55:46,920 --> 00:55:48,760
Speaker 1: rout out his game and take him to the next level,

1047
00:55:50,719 --> 00:55:53,160
Speaker 1: and he has plenty of time to get there. He

1048
00:55:53,239 --> 00:55:56,239
Speaker 1: does do some things well, but he doesn't quite throw

1049
00:55:56,320 --> 00:56:01,880
Speaker 1: in combination the way I would hope he doesn't seem

1050
00:56:01,920 --> 00:56:05,000
Speaker 1: to I never seem to have a clear sense of

1051
00:56:06,160 --> 00:56:10,839
Speaker 1: exactly what he's trying as well, whereas with Yan Yan

1052
00:56:11,040 --> 00:56:14,439
Speaker 1: tends to have a very signature kind of style. Song

1053
00:56:14,480 --> 00:56:17,120
Speaker 1: Ya Doong is a little too reserved, especially as the

1054
00:56:17,120 --> 00:56:19,040
Speaker 1: fight wears on for me to say that that's the

1055
00:56:19,080 --> 00:56:21,919
Speaker 1: case with him. So there's still some things to work out,

1056
00:56:21,920 --> 00:56:23,480
Speaker 1: but he's got plenty of time to do it. And

1057
00:56:23,520 --> 00:56:27,200
Speaker 1: this was again super redemptive win by Yan. So just

1058
00:56:27,239 --> 00:56:29,440
Speaker 1: one of those lessons where you look at someone's record

1059
00:56:29,480 --> 00:56:32,479
Speaker 1: and again it doesn't look great at the end. There

1060
00:56:32,880 --> 00:56:35,279
Speaker 1: those those four or five fights where he was kind

1061
00:56:35,280 --> 00:56:37,279
Speaker 1: of up and are mostly down, just a little bit up,

1062
00:56:37,760 --> 00:56:39,880
Speaker 1: but you gotta pay attention to the details. It really

1063
00:56:40,000 --> 00:56:43,040
Speaker 1: wasn't true that he was like looking bad in those fights.

1064
00:56:43,680 --> 00:56:46,640
Speaker 1: He was looking like they were tough fights in an

1065
00:56:46,640 --> 00:56:51,960
Speaker 1: insanely fucking tough division, and he did what he could. Also,

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00:56:52,160 --> 00:56:54,040
Speaker 1: a couple of notes from the premium card here very quickly,

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00:56:54,080 --> 00:56:57,239
Speaker 1: Curtis Blades defeating Jalaton Almida Jelton Almeida. They called it

1068
00:56:57,360 --> 00:57:00,319
Speaker 1: nine takedowns, guys, those are not nine takedowns. I'm sure

1069
00:57:00,320 --> 00:57:03,400
Speaker 1: how many takedowns there were. But if you take someone

1070
00:57:03,480 --> 00:57:05,600
Speaker 1: down and then they get to a knee and you've

1071
00:57:05,600 --> 00:57:09,800
Speaker 1: got a tight waste on them, and you both stand

1072
00:57:10,120 --> 00:57:11,960
Speaker 1: and then I pick you up and then bring you

1073
00:57:12,000 --> 00:57:14,640
Speaker 1: back to the mat, that's a Matt return. Or I

1074
00:57:14,680 --> 00:57:16,360
Speaker 1: trip you and run you into the mat and my

1075
00:57:16,440 --> 00:57:18,919
Speaker 1: hands are locked the whole time. That's a Matt return.

1076
00:57:18,960 --> 00:57:21,560
Speaker 1: It's not a takedown. So I know they're like, oh,

1077
00:57:21,600 --> 00:57:25,440
Speaker 1: it's a record nine takedowns. Don't get me wrong. Almada

1078
00:57:25,560 --> 00:57:28,320
Speaker 1: won the first round and was out grappling him a

1079
00:57:28,400 --> 00:57:33,640
Speaker 1: billion percent, but he didn't get nine takedowns. What was

1080
00:57:33,680 --> 00:57:36,280
Speaker 1: it two or three maybe, but not nine? Like, no,

1081
00:57:36,600 --> 00:57:38,800
Speaker 1: those are mat returns, and there's a fucking difference between them.

1082
00:57:38,800 --> 00:57:42,800
Speaker 1: I'm sorry there is. So that's a little bit weird.

1083
00:57:42,880 --> 00:57:45,040
Speaker 1: But then he goes for another takedown and then Curtis

1084
00:57:45,040 --> 00:57:48,520
Speaker 1: Blaze just fucking hammer fits them until he just doesn't

1085
00:57:48,560 --> 00:57:50,760
Speaker 1: move and then he rolls over and then he eats

1086
00:57:50,760 --> 00:57:53,560
Speaker 1: more ground pound and then that was it. Dude. They

1087
00:57:53,560 --> 00:57:56,480
Speaker 1: were like, oh, Almeida's winning the position battle, He's not

1088
00:57:56,480 --> 00:57:59,080
Speaker 1: doing enough damage. Guys. If your hands are locked, how

1089
00:57:59,120 --> 00:58:04,240
Speaker 1: do you punch? If your hands are locked, how are

1090
00:58:04,320 --> 00:58:07,360
Speaker 1: you gonna punch, and there was one time Rogan was like,

1091
00:58:07,400 --> 00:58:11,200
Speaker 1: oh Song, you dong let up Yon. Well, no, he

1092
00:58:11,240 --> 00:58:13,600
Speaker 1: had a tight waist. He kept it with one hand

1093
00:58:14,000 --> 00:58:16,560
Speaker 1: and then was kind of punching with the other one.

1094
00:58:16,880 --> 00:58:19,240
Speaker 1: But if they don't have locked hands, you can just

1095
00:58:19,280 --> 00:58:22,280
Speaker 1: break the hands and go, which is exactly what he did.

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00:58:22,360 --> 00:58:24,920
Speaker 1: I mean, it's not like it's like he kind of

1097
00:58:25,440 --> 00:58:27,040
Speaker 1: let him up in the sense that he'd like let

1098
00:58:27,040 --> 00:58:30,120
Speaker 1: go of the locked hands. But that's not the same

1099
00:58:30,120 --> 00:58:32,000
Speaker 1: thing as like I just let him go. It's like

1100
00:58:32,040 --> 00:58:35,320
Speaker 1: he just made a choice to throw punches, and the

1101
00:58:35,360 --> 00:58:37,120
Speaker 1: case of al Meda, he did not make a choice

1102
00:58:37,120 --> 00:58:39,800
Speaker 1: to throw punches. I've I've been impressed with him in

1103
00:58:39,840 --> 00:58:42,360
Speaker 1: the sense that he looks like a physical freak and

1104
00:58:42,600 --> 00:58:44,280
Speaker 1: guy with that kind of jiu jitsu can do well

1105
00:58:44,960 --> 00:58:50,160
Speaker 1: in the heavyweight division. But there's just not nearly enough

1106
00:58:50,160 --> 00:58:54,920
Speaker 1: well roundedness, not nearly enough damaging offense from him. He

1107
00:58:54,960 --> 00:58:57,200
Speaker 1: didn't do shit to Curtis Blades in that first round,

1108
00:58:57,720 --> 00:58:59,320
Speaker 1: and it was like a little bit of like Josh

1109
00:58:59,320 --> 00:59:01,560
Speaker 1: Barnett and his brown thow that was with the elbow

1110
00:59:01,600 --> 00:59:04,320
Speaker 1: that came down. This was just hammer fists, but he

1111
00:59:04,480 --> 00:59:07,280
Speaker 1: just kind of sat there and taking it without really adjusting.

1112
00:59:07,520 --> 00:59:09,919
Speaker 1: So Curtis Blade has kept going and then finished him off.

1113
00:59:10,080 --> 00:59:12,480
Speaker 1: Good for Curtis Blades. He could be fluky at times,

1114
00:59:12,480 --> 00:59:14,000
Speaker 1: but he's a very talented guy and that was a

1115
00:59:14,040 --> 00:59:17,480
Speaker 1: good win. Maycy Barbera wins Mateo Scameron wins a horribly

1116
00:59:17,520 --> 00:59:20,560
Speaker 1: boring fight. Kyler Phillips got the best win of his career.

1117
00:59:21,040 --> 00:59:24,720
Speaker 1: And then, uh, did you guys see Roberlis to Spain

1118
00:59:25,440 --> 00:59:29,400
Speaker 1: beating Josh Parisian guy is backing up completely off balance

1119
00:59:30,000 --> 00:59:33,680
Speaker 1: and then still tags him and uh knocks him out.

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00:59:34,520 --> 00:59:37,200
Speaker 1: It's like, holy shit, dude, heavyweight is a different fucking

1121
00:59:37,440 --> 00:59:40,640
Speaker 1: I said it, one five and up, one fifty five

1122
00:59:40,680 --> 00:59:45,400
Speaker 1: and down. Different sports, bro, different fucking sports. They are

1123
00:59:45,520 --> 00:59:48,160
Speaker 1: not the same fucking sport at all. All right, let's

1124
00:59:48,160 --> 00:59:50,040
Speaker 1: see what kind of questions y'all got for me? Here?

1125
00:59:53,640 --> 00:59:58,959
Speaker 1: One more time on this. Get that subscription going, so yeah,

1126
00:59:59,320 --> 01:00:11,760
Speaker 1: get that some script she can go on player. All right,

1127
01:00:11,800 --> 01:00:24,120
Speaker 1: here we go questions. Someone says, Luke, you told me

1128
01:00:24,160 --> 01:00:26,320
Speaker 1: it would be okay after VOLC lost and Gan Whu lost,

1129
01:00:26,320 --> 01:00:29,439
Speaker 1: Tchuto got Mutino. This is an okay, actual question. Were

1130
01:00:29,440 --> 01:00:36,200
Speaker 1: people underrating MVP or was Kevin overrated. I think it's

1131
01:00:36,360 --> 01:00:39,800
Speaker 1: more a question of people underrating MVP personally. But I

1132
01:00:39,800 --> 01:00:41,760
Speaker 1: think Kevin's got some issues to figure out as well.

1133
01:00:42,400 --> 01:00:45,720
Speaker 1: Would you prefer Shotcot JDM or Shotcock Colby? Shotcot Colby

1134
01:00:45,760 --> 01:00:48,919
Speaker 1: and then after that shop Cut JDM? Will there ever

1135
01:00:48,960 --> 01:00:52,040
Speaker 1: be strict champion parameters in place? So three title defenses

1136
01:00:52,240 --> 01:00:55,400
Speaker 1: equals this, five equals this. No, they're never gonna do that,

1137
01:00:55,800 --> 01:00:57,720
Speaker 1: but I do think it's a generally good rule, like

1138
01:00:58,320 --> 01:01:01,240
Speaker 1: a rule of thumb. I should say, three title defenses

1139
01:01:01,280 --> 01:01:03,320
Speaker 1: and you can go up. But you know you got

1140
01:01:03,360 --> 01:01:07,400
Speaker 1: you got some work to do. For Sean O'Malley. Do

1141
01:01:07,440 --> 01:01:09,640
Speaker 1: you think the UFC will make Sean versus Elia or

1142
01:01:09,640 --> 01:01:12,240
Speaker 1: Sean versus Mirob. They're gonna make Morob next for sure.

1143
01:01:12,880 --> 01:01:14,400
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't have any doubt about that.

1144
01:01:15,360 --> 01:01:17,480
Speaker 1: Is the time we start recognizing Seawan O'Malley as one

1145
01:01:17,480 --> 01:01:19,640
Speaker 1: of the best strikers in MMA. Dude, time for that

1146
01:01:19,720 --> 01:01:24,600
Speaker 1: was a while ago. Guys, I have tattoos. I would

1147
01:01:24,640 --> 01:01:26,240
Speaker 1: never get a tattoo on my face. I think it's

1148
01:01:26,240 --> 01:01:29,720
Speaker 1: fucking stupid. I don't know why he has his hair

1149
01:01:29,840 --> 01:01:31,720
Speaker 1: the way he has or dresses the way I thought

1150
01:01:31,760 --> 01:01:34,680
Speaker 1: he looked ridiculous at the UFC press conference. But it

1151
01:01:34,680 --> 01:01:37,080
Speaker 1: doesn't matter what I think, And it really doesn't matter

1152
01:01:37,080 --> 01:01:39,200
Speaker 1: what you think about those things either. I mean, you're

1153
01:01:39,240 --> 01:01:41,480
Speaker 1: in titled to think what you want, but they have

1154
01:01:41,520 --> 01:01:44,400
Speaker 1: no actual fucking bearing on his ability. And there's this

1155
01:01:44,440 --> 01:01:46,080
Speaker 1: weird thing that happens where it's like, I don't like

1156
01:01:46,120 --> 01:01:48,960
Speaker 1: this guy's personality or the way he dresses or what

1157
01:01:49,000 --> 01:01:51,520
Speaker 1: he says, and so therefore I'm going to underrate him.

1158
01:01:51,680 --> 01:01:53,200
Speaker 1: It's the same thing people did. I'm gonna bring it

1159
01:01:53,280 --> 01:01:55,000
Speaker 1: up one more time because I know it just triggers

1160
01:01:55,000 --> 01:01:58,360
Speaker 1: the fuck out of people when I do. But you know, ilia,

1161
01:01:58,400 --> 01:02:01,640
Speaker 1: oh he got he got ten seven at that press conference. Yeah,

1162
01:02:01,680 --> 01:02:04,680
Speaker 1: you mean doing a fucking comedy routine in his third

1163
01:02:04,760 --> 01:02:07,080
Speaker 1: or fourth language. You mean that that You mean to

1164
01:02:07,120 --> 01:02:09,439
Speaker 1: tell me that was not actually indicative of how well

1165
01:02:09,480 --> 01:02:12,240
Speaker 1: he fights? Wow? How am I gonna sleep through the night.

1166
01:02:13,280 --> 01:02:14,840
Speaker 1: It's the same thing with Sean Dude. I don't know

1167
01:02:14,880 --> 01:02:17,680
Speaker 1: what the fuck he's wearing at these things. He looks absurd,

1168
01:02:18,160 --> 01:02:20,520
Speaker 1: But the guy can fight his ass off. He can

1169
01:02:20,560 --> 01:02:23,760
Speaker 1: fight like a motherfucker dude. He is very, very very

1170
01:02:23,800 --> 01:02:28,920
Speaker 1: fucking skilled and you have to take that seriously. Just

1171
01:02:28,920 --> 01:02:30,920
Speaker 1: wanted to point out Dustin has never lost two in

1172
01:02:30,920 --> 01:02:33,280
Speaker 1: a row. I think that's just outstanding. He's got an

1173
01:02:33,440 --> 01:02:39,720
Speaker 1: unbelievable Hall of Fame fucking resume period, he had a

1174
01:02:39,720 --> 01:02:43,600
Speaker 1: fucking Hall of Fame resume. Does current RDA beat current

1175
01:02:43,640 --> 01:02:47,040
Speaker 1: Tony Ferguson Not a doubt in my mind. Yes, the

1176
01:02:47,080 --> 01:02:49,520
Speaker 1: new guard at lightweight is still on hold. Yes, just

1177
01:02:49,640 --> 01:02:53,120
Speaker 1: mentioned it. Great point. What level of undressed was BC

1178
01:02:53,320 --> 01:02:55,360
Speaker 1: during the Barbara Chukegian fight? I wasn't with him. I

1179
01:02:55,440 --> 01:02:57,439
Speaker 1: was texting him, but I wasn't with him, and why

1180
01:02:57,480 --> 01:03:00,000
Speaker 1: it was a birthday suit during the Hall of Fame announcement,

1181
01:03:00,080 --> 01:03:02,280
Speaker 1: Yes you want to in Jchick goes into the Hall

1182
01:03:02,320 --> 01:03:05,840
Speaker 1: of Fame. Congrats. Has O'Malley cemented himself as one of

1183
01:03:05,840 --> 01:03:08,560
Speaker 1: the best strikers country, Yes, no doubt about it. What

1184
01:03:08,640 --> 01:03:10,480
Speaker 1: do you think the odds would be on JDM versus

1185
01:03:10,480 --> 01:03:13,360
Speaker 1: Shavcat going the distance? Not high, especially if it's a

1186
01:03:13,360 --> 01:03:18,120
Speaker 1: five round fight, right, I mean Chavcott has nothing but finishes.

1187
01:03:19,720 --> 01:03:22,200
Speaker 1: Why are fighters like Cheeto wn Yon slow starters? Is

1188
01:03:22,200 --> 01:03:24,280
Speaker 1: there anything specifical that determines if a fighter is a

1189
01:03:24,280 --> 01:03:26,400
Speaker 1: faster or slow starter. It really is just a function

1190
01:03:26,480 --> 01:03:29,600
Speaker 1: of their sort of strategic mind. It's a function of

1191
01:03:29,640 --> 01:03:33,360
Speaker 1: like sometimes physical not readiness. But it takes them a

1192
01:03:33,400 --> 01:03:39,360
Speaker 1: little bit of duress to get them. You have to

1193
01:03:39,400 --> 01:03:42,520
Speaker 1: prime the pumps with some people. People have different psychological

1194
01:03:42,560 --> 01:03:52,360
Speaker 1: and competitive makeups. Did you expect a candae Owen shout out, yeah, guys, Hey,

1195
01:03:52,440 --> 01:03:55,000
Speaker 1: quick question for you. Was Trump in attendance tonight? I

1196
01:03:55,040 --> 01:03:58,360
Speaker 1: could not tell from the broadcast. They never made that clear.

1197
01:04:01,040 --> 01:04:05,840
Speaker 1: It's like, we're just gonna show this motherfucker fifty times gratuitously,

1198
01:04:06,560 --> 01:04:11,840
Speaker 1: just because we want to, just because hey, uh, we're

1199
01:04:11,840 --> 01:04:14,160
Speaker 1: all just supposed to not notice that. We're just doing

1200
01:04:14,240 --> 01:04:19,680
Speaker 1: hardcore right wing politics now on UFC broadcast explicitly, not

1201
01:04:19,800 --> 01:04:23,640
Speaker 1: just it would like causes, but with actual politicians all

1202
01:04:23,640 --> 01:04:25,080
Speaker 1: the time, and people being like, I know what I'm

1203
01:04:25,080 --> 01:04:28,080
Speaker 1: gonna say, Oh cope, seethe And it's like, dude, can

1204
01:04:28,120 --> 01:04:32,000
Speaker 1: you imagine how many fucking bedwetters there would be if

1205
01:04:32,000 --> 01:04:33,920
Speaker 1: they had Bernie Sanders all rolling up and they were

1206
01:04:33,920 --> 01:04:36,080
Speaker 1: doing this shit, or even god, god forbid, Joe Biden

1207
01:04:36,080 --> 01:04:38,320
Speaker 1: they were doing that with him. Give me people would

1208
01:04:38,360 --> 01:04:41,400
Speaker 1: be wetting their fucking bed over this, and we're just

1209
01:04:41,400 --> 01:04:43,400
Speaker 1: supposed to be like, Yeah, this is totally fucking normal.

1210
01:04:43,440 --> 01:04:46,320
Speaker 1: Every sport does this. It's the most insane shit ever.

1211
01:04:46,360 --> 01:04:49,320
Speaker 1: But whatever, h doesn't really matter in the end, Okay,

1212
01:04:50,000 --> 01:04:53,640
Speaker 1: bigger insult to Chandler the Connor fight being delayed constantly

1213
01:04:53,760 --> 01:04:55,560
Speaker 1: or the camera showing a random guy in the crowd

1214
01:04:55,600 --> 01:05:02,280
Speaker 1: with Michael Chandler under him the delay. The delay by

1215
01:05:02,320 --> 01:05:05,920
Speaker 1: the way, you see, Connor did like a media event.

1216
01:05:06,080 --> 01:05:08,400
Speaker 1: I know, He's at south By Southwest with Jake Jillenhall

1217
01:05:08,680 --> 01:05:11,120
Speaker 1: and was like, hey, Hunter Campbell, let's fucking get this show.

1218
01:05:11,160 --> 01:05:13,640
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm paraphrasing, like, let's get this fucking show

1219
01:05:13,640 --> 01:05:17,800
Speaker 1: on the road, like he did that. How do you

1220
01:05:17,800 --> 01:05:20,360
Speaker 1: think Corey Sanahagan fares against O'Malley. I think he's got

1221
01:05:20,400 --> 01:05:23,880
Speaker 1: a really good chance, but he doesn't hit with the

1222
01:05:23,920 --> 01:05:26,960
Speaker 1: same kind of authority O'Malley does. I think he might

1223
01:05:27,040 --> 01:05:28,400
Speaker 1: mix it up, though a little bit more so the

1224
01:05:28,480 --> 01:05:30,920
Speaker 1: question is could he really test the takedown defense in

1225
01:05:30,960 --> 01:05:34,920
Speaker 1: a sustained way of Sean O'Malley. Do you think Jan

1226
01:05:35,000 --> 01:05:39,000
Speaker 1: versus Sanhagen should be next? I'm okay with who you

1227
01:05:39,000 --> 01:05:43,280
Speaker 1: got no san Haagan Umar MVP versus wonder Boy. You

1228
01:05:43,320 --> 01:05:44,880
Speaker 1: could do that one. I don't think you have to.

1229
01:05:48,720 --> 01:05:51,320
Speaker 1: Should we really have to watch Sean versus Morob and

1230
01:05:51,360 --> 01:05:57,000
Speaker 1: Ilia versus Ortaga before Sean versus Ilia? Yes, yes we should. Dude,

1231
01:05:57,040 --> 01:05:59,320
Speaker 1: you have you have an obligation to defend your title.

1232
01:05:59,360 --> 01:06:01,920
Speaker 1: You can't just go be fucking around like Ilia had

1233
01:06:02,120 --> 01:06:05,360
Speaker 1: just won it. Sean at least has now one title defense.

1234
01:06:05,600 --> 01:06:08,480
Speaker 1: He got one title defense between the two of them. No,

1235
01:06:08,880 --> 01:06:11,880
Speaker 1: they got to go defend their titles. Why did Yon

1236
01:06:12,040 --> 01:06:15,080
Speaker 1: fall so much? You mean you mean his like down blocking.

1237
01:06:16,560 --> 01:06:18,760
Speaker 1: How big would the Tiporio O'Malley fight be if they

1238
01:06:18,800 --> 01:06:20,080
Speaker 1: made it. I think it'd be big, but I think

1239
01:06:20,080 --> 01:06:21,960
Speaker 1: it'd be even bigger if they waited. A little bit.

1240
01:06:23,840 --> 01:06:26,240
Speaker 1: Good for Shawn's brand Sean O'Malley, but kind of a

1241
01:06:26,280 --> 01:06:28,200
Speaker 1: waste of a title shot. I agree to an extent.

1242
01:06:30,320 --> 01:06:32,840
Speaker 1: This was basically the same, except Sean has more power

1243
01:06:32,920 --> 01:06:41,640
Speaker 1: relative to Corey. That's not unfair. How about Michelle Pereeda

1244
01:06:42,080 --> 01:06:44,200
Speaker 1: by the way, looking great in his weight class, no

1245
01:06:44,280 --> 01:06:49,040
Speaker 1: doubt about it. He looked awesome and personnel feelings aside.

1246
01:06:49,080 --> 01:06:51,360
Speaker 1: Do you think you go ont ajcheck induction to the

1247
01:06:51,400 --> 01:06:56,320
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame was nice. Yes, congrats. Next for Poirier again,

1248
01:06:56,400 --> 01:06:58,240
Speaker 1: big fight. We already talked about that one a little bit.

1249
01:06:58,920 --> 01:07:02,000
Speaker 1: It will Morab be the adding favorite against Sean O'Malley. No,

1250
01:07:02,320 --> 01:07:04,240
Speaker 1: he will not be the betting favorite. It will be close,

1251
01:07:04,280 --> 01:07:07,479
Speaker 1: but it will be Sean O'Malley. Dustin stole the show.

1252
01:07:07,560 --> 01:07:13,400
Speaker 1: I think he did to an extent. Uh, Okay, let's see.

1253
01:07:16,240 --> 01:07:19,440
Speaker 1: Would you rather see wonder Boy versus MVP or JDM

1254
01:07:19,520 --> 01:07:24,800
Speaker 1: versus Shapcott. Kind of a fucking question is that I'd

1255
01:07:24,880 --> 01:07:28,760
Speaker 1: want to see JDM versus Shavcot over almost any other fight?

1256
01:07:28,960 --> 01:07:37,560
Speaker 1: Like Jesus Christ, How is that even a contest? All right,

1257
01:07:38,840 --> 01:07:42,160
Speaker 1: Sugar better hope, Sugar better hope he doesn't get a

1258
01:07:42,200 --> 01:07:45,800
Speaker 1: plane to Spain. He dances and strikes. He is most

1259
01:07:45,840 --> 01:07:47,840
Speaker 1: in danger when a good boxer stands in the pocket

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Speaker 1: and can land a solid strike. Yes and no. Have

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Speaker 1: you checked on BC after the roasting he got on

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Speaker 1: the way and show. Yeah. I talked to BC like

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Speaker 1: every single day. Yeah, he's fine. We laughed about it.

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Speaker 1: I should Marlin's corn have thrown in the towel. I

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Speaker 1: was wondering about that a little bit as well. The

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Speaker 1: answer is probably, But it's not one of those urgent cases.

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Speaker 1: You know, it's not one of those ones where you're like,

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Speaker 1: oh my god, dude, get the fucking towel. You know.

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Speaker 1: It just wasn't one of those. But like, looking back

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Speaker 1: on it, what would they have saved him? They would

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Speaker 1: have saved him some you know, he didn't need to

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Speaker 1: take all that punishment, Like this was a big there

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Speaker 1: was a big difference in skill, so they would have

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Speaker 1: been within their right to do it, but I understand

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Speaker 1: not necessarily doing it. Why did Sean call out the

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Speaker 1: number six fighter ducking Morob? Yeah? Probably. I mean I

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Speaker 1: just don't think I'm not ducking him. I just don't

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Speaker 1: think he really wants to fight Morobs, like it's super

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Speaker 1: interesting to him. But it's the most important fight to

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Speaker 1: make for that division, So you kind of have to

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Speaker 1: accept it in that way. All right, Well, it's nearly

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Speaker 1: four am, boys and girls, so I'm gonna call it

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Speaker 1: a day. One more time subscribe. I waited to say

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Speaker 1: this at the end of the program here, and lets

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Speaker 1: you know, I get questions all the time about, Hey,

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Speaker 1: when's MK coming back, Hey, what's what's got some you

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Speaker 1: know who's got some MK news. We We're gonna have

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Speaker 1: some real good MK news for you. I mean when

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Speaker 1: I say super soon, I mean super soon, super super

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Speaker 1: super soon. Uh luke. Are you guys still planning to

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Speaker 1: come back this month? Yes, in fact, that's a it's

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Speaker 1: it's a guarantee. I mean, unless I get struck by

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Speaker 1: lightning or some shit, but it's a guarantee. So to

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Speaker 1: the MK faithful who have hung on and waited and

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01:09:42,439 --> 01:09:44,360
Speaker 1: been like what the fuck and like trying to figure

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Speaker 1: it all out, we appreciate it. We're sorry it took

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Speaker 1: as long as it did. But there is there is

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Speaker 1: a light at the end of the tunnel headed this way.

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Speaker 1: I promise you that I can say that with great confidence.

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Speaker 1: So get ready, get ready. We are. We are revving

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Speaker 1: the engine and we're gonna get We're gonna get going

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Speaker 1: here very soon. Okay. So love to each of you.

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Speaker 1: Thank you guys so much for joining me today. I

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Speaker 1: greatly appreciate it. Subscribe all that good shit. Get some sleep.

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Speaker 1: It's been fun. Until next time. Enjoy the fights piece, y'all.