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Speaker 1: It is let's see August second, twenty twenty two, and

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Speaker 1: it is time, ladies and gentlemen, for Morning Combat Extra credit.

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Speaker 1: This is the podcast within the podcast. My name is

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Speaker 1: Luke Thomas. I hope you are doing well. Thank you

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Speaker 1: so much for joining me. I greatly appreciate it. This

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Speaker 1: is gonna be episode I believe twenty seven of extra

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Speaker 1: credit here on the show today. Of course, you know

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Speaker 1: the drill UFC two seventy seven, basically all the stuff

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Speaker 1: we didn't get to in the regular MK with Rashad

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Speaker 1: we'll get to here today. So here are the five

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Speaker 1: fights that I'm going to be covering. As you know,

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Speaker 1: we typically do five fights, not the best five necessarily

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Speaker 1: for you, but the five for me that stood out

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Speaker 1: the most. So they are as follows. They go like

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Speaker 1: this a Leschandre Pantojia fighting Alex Perez, Anthony Smith versus

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Speaker 1: Mega mant On caliav Alex Morno versus Matthew Semmelsberger, Drew

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Speaker 1: Michael Morales taken on Adam Fuget. I believe is how

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Speaker 1: Without further ado, let's begin. We start with Aleschandre Pantoja

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Speaker 1: defeating Alex Perez. This happened at officially one p thirty

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Speaker 1: one of the very first round in Unbelievable Job. This

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Speaker 1: it does bear repeating here. Ale Chandre Pantoja is doing

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Speaker 1: guys with good wrestling but very high level jiu jitsu

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Speaker 1: the time of the recording of this video, the rankings

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Speaker 1: at light heavyweight have on Kolia at three, Belohovich at two.

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Speaker 1: an appropriate next step Drew Dover. I don't know if

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Speaker 1: he's ranked or not. Let's see if he made the

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Speaker 1: rankings with this one at lightweight. Nope, didn't make the rankings,

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Speaker 1: so he's not even in the rankings. How about that

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Speaker 1: two unranked guys. I think that fight should be next.

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Speaker 1: I like that one action oriented, winnable for Dover, winnable

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Speaker 1: for Patty. May the best man win very very very

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Speaker 1: much like that idea. I think it'd be a lot

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Speaker 1: of fun, and I think it's the right next step

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Speaker 1: for Patty in particular. And then, last, but not least,

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Speaker 1: again to something I discussed a little bit earlier in

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Speaker 1: the week, Michael morales taken on Adam Fugett. The thing

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Speaker 1: that stands out to me about Michael moralesy is he

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Speaker 1: is very good, but he's got a what I call

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Speaker 1: a disaggregated game, you know, parts of his He's got

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Speaker 1: all these different parts of his game that are really good.

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Speaker 1: He's athletic, powerful, he knows how to handle the lead jab,

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Speaker 1: but he's kind of hittable. He's got very good takedown defense,

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Speaker 1: but maybe not the best ring generalship. Like, there's all

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Speaker 1: these pieces of his game, like the parts that are good,

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Speaker 1: are really good, and it's not lopsided. It's not like

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Speaker 1: he's got like amazing striking and then like really bad wrestling,

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Speaker 1: or like really great wrestling and then bad striking. They're

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Speaker 1: just all these different pieces. And he's twenty three years old,

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Speaker 1: and he's had uneven experience up to this point, some

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Speaker 1: of a lot of the shows. He initially started in

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Speaker 1: word in his native Ecuador, and I think parts of

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Speaker 1: Mexico as well. Here he is now in the UFC.

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Speaker 1: He trains out of Mexico. So his upbringing through the

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Speaker 1: game has been good and helpful, but you can see

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Speaker 1: that it's not been comprehensively like Te's crossed and I's dotted.

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Speaker 1: But he's very athletic. He seems to make, for the

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Speaker 1: most part, pretty good decisions. Fugett was on top of him,

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Speaker 1: eating big shots kept coming. It was ultimately a short

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Speaker 1: I think right hand that sat him down in the end.

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Speaker 1: What I would like to see is him you know,

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Speaker 1: he's only twenty three years old. What I would like

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Speaker 1: to see is him continue to develop in the way

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Speaker 1: that he has been and to get more systemically coordinated,

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Speaker 1: right to really begin to put entire sequences all the

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Speaker 1: way together, from jabbing on the outside, getting to the inside,

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Speaker 1: you know, hitting the double, pushing to the fence, either

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Speaker 1: getting to take down or working that through, or get stopped,

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Speaker 1: retreating and then doing it all again these long rather

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Speaker 1: than having a few good I'm not saying he's only

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Speaker 1: good at a few things, but rather than having these

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Speaker 1: pockets of strength, having these entire flows of strength of

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Speaker 1: this entire process that you're trying to execute, there you're

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Speaker 1: good at, rather than you're good at that part, good

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Speaker 1: at that part, good at that part. Please don't mist

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Speaker 1: misunderstand me at twenty three years of age, to be

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Speaker 1: as good as he is, as athletic as he is,

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Speaker 1: as confident as he is. And by the way, he

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Speaker 1: hit a great half guard I think it was a

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Speaker 1: butterfly guard sweep. It was either half a butterck guards

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Speaker 1: looping underneath where he was able to grab this leg,

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Speaker 1: block the outside one, create separation and stand. So like

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Speaker 1: in other words, guys who are able to use a

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Speaker 1: guard to stand rather than just fighting everyone off, getting

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Speaker 1: your back to the fence and pushing off the head

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Speaker 1: and getting your hips away. He's kind of anti wrestling

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Speaker 1: more cleverly using the guard to stand up. That should

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Speaker 1: not be slept on. That's hard to do, that's really

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Speaker 1: hard to do. That should be acknowledged as a very

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Speaker 1: important skill that a guy like this has. I'm acknowledging

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Speaker 1: it out right. So, and he's powerful, and he's athletic,

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Speaker 1: and he has good takedowns when he wants to do

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Speaker 1: like he can do and good take down the fence.

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Speaker 1: He's got good stuff. But I would like to see

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Speaker 1: it all brought together, and that will come with time.

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Speaker 1: Twenty three years of age. It will come with time.

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Speaker 1: But what so that to me is there's lots of promise,

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Speaker 1: a ton of promise, provided that there's a little bit

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Speaker 1: more coordination to integrate and then to you know, the

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Speaker 1: parts he's not good at, Let's get better and then

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Speaker 1: let's integrate everything rather than just kind of being good

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Speaker 1: at a eeries of things that may or may not

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Speaker 1: be connected in that way. So if we look at

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Speaker 1: the numbers here, he scored two knockdowns against Fugitt, both

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Speaker 1: of which came in the third round. Numerically outstruck Fuget

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Speaker 1: eighty three to sixty four. If you get whiffing only

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Speaker 1: getting one of eight takedowns total accumulation of control time

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Speaker 1: just one fifty one, So he got one thirty one

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Speaker 1: in the first round, eight seconds in the second round,

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Speaker 1: and twelve seconds in the third, but some of that's

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Speaker 1: control time against the fence. Very close in the striking

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Speaker 1: twenty six to twenty five, Morales landing, but not quite

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Speaker 1: doing enough, like still the ring generalship there, like letting

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Speaker 1: Fuget pressure him rather than doing a little bit more

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Speaker 1: pressure than I think he could have. Morales tied him

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Speaker 1: up again thirty two to thirty two in the second round,

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Speaker 1: but then the third round began to take over twenty five

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Speaker 1: to seven. His targeting Morales head hunting a bit eighty

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Speaker 1: nine percent to the head, eight percent to the body,

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Speaker 1: two percent of the leg. I think some diversification of

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Speaker 1: that would do him well if you get did actually

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Speaker 1: a pretty good job of diversification, not enough to get

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Speaker 1: the dub, but you know it to be competitive through

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Speaker 1: long stretches of this fight. So this is what I

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Speaker 1: mean about Morales, Like this dude is one you definitely

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Speaker 1: want to keep your eye on. He's real talented, but

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Speaker 1: there is so much untapped potential with him, so much

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Speaker 1: untapped potential, and that's good and bad because there's potential

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Speaker 1: and it hasn't been actualized. But someone's going to have

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Speaker 1: to bring that to bear, including himself obviously, but the

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Speaker 1: right kind of environment for him which he might be in.

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Speaker 1: But let's let's see it all play out. So there

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Speaker 1: you have it. Not really any other honorable mentions. The

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Speaker 1: other fights on the card were not super money. There

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Speaker 1: were some other good ones, certainly, to be sure, but

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Speaker 1: those are the top five that I liked the most.

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Speaker 1: What did you like the most? Let me know in

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Speaker 1: the comments thumbs up on the video hit subscribe. Appreciate

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Speaker 1: you all watching mk is back tomorrow live and until then,

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Speaker 1: enjoy the fights