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Speaker 1: There we go.

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Speaker 2: UFC Fight Night happening in Nashville Saturday, March twenty third.

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Speaker 2: Tickets on sell this weekend. Anthony Showtime. Pettis, the dude

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Speaker 2: in the main event, is in the building right now.

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Speaker 1: How you doing, man?

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Speaker 3: I'm good man. I'm just enjoying life for though.

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Speaker 1: How's how's national treatment so far?

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Speaker 4: Know what I got in yesterday? I have everything I

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Speaker 4: experienced so far, so good. I went to the Prayers

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Speaker 4: game last night. I was a crazy atmosphere. So I'm

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Speaker 4: excited to get in that arena and perform.

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Speaker 2: Man, it's gonna be exciting to see you in the

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Speaker 2: arena perform. You taking on Steven WonderBoy Thompson. Let me

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Speaker 2: ask you this, why the jump to one seventy. Well,

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Speaker 2: I I was in a weird spot at one fifty five.

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Speaker 2: I just fought the number one guy. I was winning

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Speaker 2: the fight, broke my hand, and you know, if I

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Speaker 2: go back at one fifty five, they were trying to

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Speaker 2: give me, you know, a top fifteen, top ten guy.

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Speaker 4: You know I don't want that. You know, I'm right

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Speaker 4: there at one fifty five. It kind of has to

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Speaker 4: sort of self out that division. And wonder Boy was

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Speaker 4: looking for an opponent for a long time, and this

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Speaker 4: style of a fight is perfect for the fans. Man.

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Speaker 4: I mean the way I come at attack somebody with

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Speaker 4: my strikes, the way he attacks with his strikes. This

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Speaker 4: this is one of the fights that have I want

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Speaker 4: in my career. I think it's like one of the legacy.

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Speaker 2: Fights, right, and you talk about it, you know, you

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Speaker 2: send out the challenge on social media. He answered the challenge.

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Speaker 2: Was this someone that you wanted to fight when it.

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Speaker 1: Was brought up or did he just come to you

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Speaker 1: and said let's do this thing.

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Speaker 4: Well, my manager came to me. You know, my manager came.

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Speaker 4: He said, it's wonder boy. They just gave me listen

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Speaker 4: of names and the one that stuck out was his.

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Speaker 4: You know, he's like one way class above me and

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Speaker 4: he's lost to my my teammate, Tyroon Woodley. So we've studied,

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Speaker 4: we studied him for a long time. I know his

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Speaker 4: game plan, I know his the way he fights, I

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Speaker 4: know his weaknesses is shrengths, and uh, I think I

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Speaker 4: have I know I have what it takes to beat

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Speaker 4: this guy, and I think I can do it impressively.

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Speaker 2: Man, It's gonna be crazy. Anthony Showtime. Pettis my guest

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Speaker 2: right now. UFC fight not happening in Nashville Bridge Down

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Speaker 2: Arena Saturday, March twenty third.

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Speaker 1: You talk about the hand, how's it? How's it? He like,

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Speaker 1: how's it?

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Speaker 3: Yeah?

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Speaker 4: Man, the hand was a weird thing. You know, it's

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Speaker 4: I broke it six times already now in low career.

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Speaker 4: So I mean, the body's is not made to punch,

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Speaker 4: and I just keep doing as a technical error, and

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Speaker 4: I keep going to overhand right, all that pressure goes

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Speaker 4: on one knuckle bowe and knuckle explodes the hand. I

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Speaker 4: had to get a quarters on shot because it was

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Speaker 4: like a hairline from actually keeps going behind the actual

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Speaker 4: like spot where it breaks. There's like a callis that

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Speaker 4: builds up and then it gets the right behind that's

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Speaker 4: the weakest spot. So got a quarterson shot in it

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Speaker 4: took away the pain, let it heil up, and we

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Speaker 4: did X rays, you know, the bones back to exactly

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Speaker 4: how it's supposed to be.

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Speaker 3: So time to get effort.

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Speaker 2: Man.

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Speaker 1: Did you ever think that you were gonna knee surgery

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Speaker 1: on that hand or is it that kind of Yeah?

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Speaker 4: I've had surgery twice already on this hand. And one

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Speaker 4: was to put screws in. One was to take the

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Speaker 4: crews out because the screw started backing out a while back.

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Speaker 4: And ever since I take the screws out of that hand,

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Speaker 4: it's been breaking on me. So, uh, it hasn't broke completely.

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Speaker 4: That's what I'm kind of waiting for. If it's a

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Speaker 4: complete break, then they can go back in and fix it.

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Speaker 4: Right these hairline fractures, they don't want to open me

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Speaker 2: Fix the airline right, My guess. Right now, Anthony Pettis

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Speaker 2: is hanging out in the building. Uh so what do

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Speaker 2: you think you can do to prevent that from breaking in?

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Speaker 2: Because I know that, like you said, you've broken it

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Speaker 2: multiple times and it's the same spot.

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Speaker 4: At a step, take a step back. You know, it happens.

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Speaker 4: It's you're in a fight, man, So adrenaline kicks in

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Speaker 4: and you know, technique goes out the window a little bit,

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Speaker 4: and I gotta, I gotta, I gotta remember like that

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Speaker 4: that punch has to be a stander, not over hand, right,

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Speaker 4: And I already hit hard for for my size, so

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Speaker 3: I'm facing the results of it.

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Speaker 2: You know, you talk about adrenaline. And let me ask

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Speaker 2: you this the photo that shocked the world. You're sitting

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Speaker 2: there your last fight and you're there on top and

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Speaker 2: you've got the tongue on you look like a like

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Speaker 2: a savage What's going through your mind during that hell thing?

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Speaker 1: Blood's all over your face and you're just like, I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna whoop this dude's ass in a second.

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Speaker 4: I don't even remember, honestly. It was just like one

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Speaker 4: of the moments that was just like in the fight,

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Speaker 4: I just felt like an animal man, like.

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Speaker 1: I knew I broke, I had him hurt.

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Speaker 3: I know I had him hurt.

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Speaker 4: And then like that was the time where I knew

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Speaker 4: I hurt my hand, you know, So I threw the punch.

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Speaker 4: I felt that like clicking my glove a little bit,

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Speaker 4: and then I took him down. Well he did a

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Speaker 4: front roll and I got on top of him, and

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Speaker 4: you know, I just I just felt my hand like

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Speaker 4: I put it on the mat. I just feel it

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Speaker 4: was this little off. So I'm like, I just felt

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Speaker 4: like savage mode. Man, I gotta go, like you gotta go,

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Speaker 3: It's near him.

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Speaker 2: You know, they gave you that fight of the Year

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Speaker 2: and you know, if your coach didn't call off the fight,

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Speaker 2: do you think that it was still kept going or

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Speaker 2: you know, I know you fought with a dislocated shoulder before.

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Speaker 4: But I mean, honestly, like as as as him being

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Speaker 4: my coach, I can't say anything about his scison of

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Speaker 4: stopping that fight. I got. I gotta rerite to his choice.

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Speaker 4: He saw something I didn't see. Tony's a tough dude.

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Speaker 4: I mean he took a he took a butt whopan

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Speaker 4: you know, oh yeah, some some big shots. He hit

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Speaker 4: me with some big shots. It was a fun fight,

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Speaker 4: Fight of the year man. So I'm coming off of

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Speaker 4: a performance like that going into a huge fight. You know,

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Speaker 4: people are counting me out of this fight. That's why

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Speaker 4: I love it. They're like, oh, pet is moving up

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Speaker 4: to one hundred and seventy pounds. You know, this is

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Speaker 4: a mismatch. It's not a mismatch like this guy's He's

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Speaker 4: you know, I have the skill set to.

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Speaker 1: Beat this guy, right.

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Speaker 2: And you know, he's coming off of a loss and

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Speaker 2: his flash fight was May of last year, so he's

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Speaker 2: been off, you know for a while, And I mean

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Speaker 2: you recently just had a fight, and how do you

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Speaker 2: prepare for this because he hasn't been on for a year,

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Speaker 2: so could he come back? I mean, how do you

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Speaker 4: The preparation for this fight is a lot better than

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Speaker 4: my other fights. And I've cut down one hundred and

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Speaker 4: forty five pounds. I'm sitting right now one hundred and

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Speaker 4: eighty five ninety right now. So like for me to

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Speaker 4: cut down to one hundred and forty five pounds, man,

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Speaker 4: it's forty pounds.

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Speaker 3: And I've done it.

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Speaker 4: So like these these fights right here, one hundred and

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Speaker 4: seventy five pounds, I just take go enjoy training, Like

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Speaker 4: I don't have to go run ten miles to make

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Speaker 4: my weight. I get to go train in the gym.

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Speaker 4: All my practices are martial arts, bait practice, base practices,

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Speaker 4: so it takes the way cut out of it.

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Speaker 3: So I mean, I feel good.

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Speaker 2: I like where I'm at, and it's gonna be exciting.

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Speaker 2: Anthony Showtime. Pett has taken on Steven WonderBoy Thompson UFC

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Speaker 2: fight Night happening in Nashville Saturday, March twenty third. So

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Speaker 2: you were on the big fight a lot of people

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Speaker 2: come away from that night talking about the one big

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Speaker 2: thing that happened at the end of the night. What

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Speaker 2: can you tell a fan that they think, well, UFC,

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Speaker 2: that just tarnished it.

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Speaker 4: You know, yeah, oh man, watch my last fights. You

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Speaker 4: no fans know when Anthony Pettis fights, it's gonna be

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Speaker 4: a show.

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Speaker 3: And I don't.

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Speaker 4: I don't pick my fights like based on you know,

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Speaker 4: who's who's gonna give me a title shot?

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Speaker 3: Right now?

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Speaker 4: I'm who's the best, Who's he's number four at welterweight.

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Speaker 4: You know, I'm having a new weight class and I

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Speaker 4: call it number four, So I know it's gonna be

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Speaker 4: a great fight. This guy's honestly, his striking is phenomenal.

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Speaker 4: My striking is a different a different approach, a different attack.

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Speaker 4: It's like kind of like karate versus taekwondo, old school

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Speaker 4: vibe feeling. But at the same time, the guys, you know,

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Speaker 4: great martial artists. But come March twenty third, you know,

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Speaker 4: I know what I have to do to this guy.

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Speaker 2: So for the average fan that's not very well known

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Speaker 2: about UFC, but they know everything that's going on.

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Speaker 1: You're number eight, he's number four. You beat him, what

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Speaker 3: Who knows?

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Speaker 4: Honestly, this is this has never happened no one. No

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Speaker 4: top top five guy. So you know, for me, it's

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Speaker 4: who knows what happens, and I'm gonna go in there.

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Speaker 4: I'm gonna put on other performance of my life and

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Speaker 4: after that happens, we'll figure out.

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Speaker 2: Was next My guest right now Anthony Showtime pattis UFC

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Speaker 2: Fight Night happening in Nashville Saturday, March twenty third. Uh So,

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Speaker 2: yesterday I kind of took to Twitter, asked some fans

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Speaker 2: some questions and they wanted to ask you some stuff.

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Speaker 2: So Marco Polo on Twitter wants to know, will you

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Speaker 2: move back to one fifty five to fight?

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Speaker 4: Although, yes I will, and that's uh. He called me

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Speaker 4: out before his last fight. He had a great, great performance.

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Speaker 4: He looked amazing his last fight. So them of the

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Speaker 4: fights I want guys like that that are are that's

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Speaker 4: want to train. So yeah, most definitely I'll move back

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Speaker 4: to fifty five and one seventiesn't permanent. The one seventy,

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Speaker 4: you know that that opportunity was there. That's why I

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Speaker 4: went to one s all right.

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Speaker 2: All Right, So Danny Fisher, also on Twitter, wants to

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Speaker 2: know if we will see the old Time Old Showtime

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Speaker 2: against Thompson coming up at UFC Fight Night.

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Speaker 4: Well, a guy like Thompson is not going to be

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Speaker 4: looking to grind me on the cage and make this

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Speaker 4: fight boring. So I get to go out there and

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Speaker 4: be loose free and literally just fight my fight. And

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Speaker 4: that's why I love this fight. You know, he's not

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Speaker 4: him Being one seventy doesn't help him when it comes

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Speaker 4: to striking. It helps Hi when it comes wrestling, and

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Speaker 4: obviously my jiu jitsu games is ridiculous. If he does

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Speaker 4: take me down, I feel like it's a bad game

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Speaker 2: Man, It's gonna be a big night UFC Fight Night

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Speaker 4: You know, he's he's he's going from something that's that's

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Speaker 1: But he's like, I'm still gonna do this. I'm not quitting. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: Some buzz most definitely my guest right now, Anthony Showtime

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Speaker 2: Pattis is in the building.

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Speaker 4: Nah, I think MacGregor's at his own bar. Man McGregor

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Speaker 1: Do you think that he would last around?

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Speaker 2: Right man, that's crazy stuff right there, Anthony showtime. Pettis

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Speaker 4: You've never been to a live UFC event, you have

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Speaker 1: There is Anthony showed time.

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Speaker 2: Pettis taking on Steven wonder Boy Thompson Saturday, March twenty third,

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