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Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, Luke Thomas here all right. UFC two to

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Speaker 1: fifty four is in the books, We've got the results.

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Speaker 1: I want to get to him because it is monumental,

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Speaker 1: huge news about Habib Nimberga Madov. First, give the video

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Speaker 1: a thumbs up. Hit that subscribe button. We're gonna have

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Speaker 1: tons of analysis for you, but we got to get

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Speaker 1: right to it. About the UFC two to fifty four

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Speaker 1: main event. Let's do it. Okay, so hot, off the presses.

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Speaker 1: Habib Nimergamadov retains his UFC lightweight title, defeating Justin Gaechee

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Speaker 1: at one thirty four of the second round via triangle choke.

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Speaker 1: Now there is news to get to afterwards. I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: set it up now, but I want to talk about

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Speaker 1: the fight first. The news is that after Nimberga Madov won,

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Speaker 1: he gets his hand raised and he gets interviewed and

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Speaker 1: says to UFC commentator John Annik that he has done.

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Speaker 1: He has retired. This is his last fight. He will

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Speaker 1: not fight anymore without his father in his corner. And

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Speaker 1: as you may or may not know, his father, abdulma

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Speaker 1: app Nemica Madov passed away this year due to essentially

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Speaker 1: complications from COVID nineteen. Let's put a pin in that.

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Speaker 1: I know that's big news, but let's put a pin

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Speaker 1: in that because I want to talk about the fight,

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Speaker 1: because the fight itself is incredibly interesting. Okay, so Nimica

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Speaker 1: Madov wins in the second round. I want to say

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Speaker 1: something upfront about this. You will probably never see another

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Speaker 1: fighter like Habib Nimika Madeov ever again in your life.

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Speaker 1: Can't guarantee that, but the chances are good in an

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Speaker 1: era where fighters are more well rounded than ever, and

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Speaker 1: in an era where the best practices are just improving

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Speaker 1: almost week over week, month over month, year over year.

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Speaker 1: I mean, five years ago, people didn't understand that the

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Speaker 1: calfkick would be so important. And here we are, and

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Speaker 1: now you see so many people playing with ranges and

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Speaker 1: fakes and feints. You see a little bit less of

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Speaker 1: the ground game by virtue of the sort of natural

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Speaker 1: progression of the sport. But the point being, as fighters

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Speaker 1: are better than ever in terms of the well roundedness,

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Speaker 1: and they're better than ever in terms of the general

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Speaker 1: best practices. And then here comes a guy who says, Okay,

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Speaker 1: I'm going to go this way when everyone goes that way,

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Speaker 1: It's not true that Habib striking is not good. It's functional,

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Speaker 1: but functional, as you can see, was enough. I thought

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Speaker 1: his jab was actually landing pretty well. But the point

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Speaker 1: being is here was a guy in an era where

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Speaker 1: everyone was going basically one direction, decided to be a

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Speaker 1: specialist and was so good at it he was able

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Speaker 1: to amass a twenty nine and zero record in arguably

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Speaker 1: the toughest division, certainly during most of the time in

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Speaker 1: which he competed in it. UFC champion in his weight

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Speaker 1: class will likely be put at a pound four pound

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Speaker 1: ranking at the very top of that list we'll see

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Speaker 1: on subsequent days. And this is the key. Anderson Silva

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Speaker 1: I think fought more of his contemporaries Saint Pierre and

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Speaker 1: certainly so did Jones. Nimberga. Madoff is retiring at twenty

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Speaker 1: nine to oh and they can barely land a glove

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Speaker 1: on this guy. He has to this point still never

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Speaker 1: been knocked down in a professional MMA contest, never even

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Speaker 1: been cut. They can't lay a glove on him. You

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Speaker 1: literally cannot say that that he was never knocked down

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Speaker 1: or cut in his UFC run about any other UFC

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Speaker 1: champion ever. He is utterly peerless in that regard. He

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Speaker 1: has no other contemporaries as it relates to that consideration.

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Speaker 1: It is amazing to watch his dominance now in the

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Speaker 1: fight itself, what happened Gechie came out. Both were pretty

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Speaker 1: reserved in terms of their movement. It was pretty clear

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Speaker 1: geeche was going to go in and outside to side

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Speaker 1: and he wanted to a keep the fight inside the

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Speaker 1: two black lines, and B he wanted to keep Nimbera

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Speaker 1: Madoff turned as much as possible because to the extent

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Speaker 1: of any kind of lunging punches that Nimberga Madov throws

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Speaker 1: when he pressures. And also it'd be harder to shoot

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Speaker 1: in general he was fairly successful with that NUMBERA. Medov

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Speaker 1: I'm talking about this, I will pull up the fight

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Speaker 1: had two takedowns out of an attempted three, but in

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Speaker 1: It wasn't like you know, some other fights he'll have

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Speaker 1: But eventually this was the big tell. Once Nimberga Madov

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Speaker 1: and then nimer Goabadav wins. That was the key at

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Speaker 1: range striking nimber Goabda wasn't gonna win that. Pressuring Justin backwards.

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Speaker 1: He was gonna take some licks, but he was beginning

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Speaker 1: similar strategy, but that really began to wear Justin down.

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Speaker 1: they got to the matt massive massive difference in the

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Speaker 1: Number goa Madov anyway, Number Camdov, it appears, is going

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Speaker 1: This opens it up big time. First, it's a bit

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Speaker 1: that this removal of nimber Goa Meedov just completely opens up,

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Speaker 1: That is a genius. That is what he is. Man.

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Speaker 1: You know, not a perfect five nobody is certainly not

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Speaker 1: that may be because y'all got to witness something special

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