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Speaker 1: There we go. Hi, my name is Luke Thomas. Welcome.

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Speaker 1: UFC two eighty eight is in the books, it is done,

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Speaker 1: it is over. We have results and I'm here to

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Speaker 1: talk about them. This is the official UFC two eighty

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Speaker 1: eight post fight show. As I mentioned, or maybe I

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Speaker 1: did in either way, my name is Luke Thomas. I

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Speaker 1: am the one half of the hosting duo for Morning Combat.

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Speaker 1: Brian Campbell usually joins me. We have where we are

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Speaker 1: a tandem, a duo, but just for tonight, it'll be

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Speaker 1: me getting to the results of UFC two eighty eight.

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Speaker 1: So if you're joining me now, thank you so much.

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Speaker 1: all the fun stuff that you normally do. Uh yeah,

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Speaker 1: let's get to it. I mean I give usually, you know,

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Speaker 1: do that. I don't think we're really got to do that.

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Speaker 1: You know what's about to happen, results, reactions, analysis, everything, everything.

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Speaker 1: Let's get to it without further ado, shall we and

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Speaker 1: we're back. Let's do this part. Hey, there we go.

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Speaker 1: I helped my family members move today. So if I

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Speaker 1: look like shit, I mean I normally look like shit,

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Speaker 1: but if I look extra special like shit, it's because

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Speaker 1: I was, like, I literally moved boxes and furniture all

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Speaker 1: day and then I came basically right here. So what

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Speaker 1: you're gonna do? That's life, all right. So UFC two

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Speaker 1: turn this little window off here. Okay, I just knew

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Speaker 1: this was gonna happen. I did think Sterling was gonna win,

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Speaker 1: so I got that part right. I'll get to the

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Speaker 1: results here in just a second. But more than I,

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Speaker 1: like you just knew the result was gonna be like

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Speaker 1: the kind that got the most people pissed off. I

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Speaker 1: don't know. I had a weird feeling with these two

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Speaker 1: I do think in the end it actually was a

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Speaker 1: not a great fight by any stretch, but a good one.

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Speaker 1: Definitely a high level one, definitely tactical, competitive, very competitive.

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Speaker 1: But in the end, here's the result. Aljamn Sterling retains

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Speaker 1: his UFC Bantaway Championship defeating Henry Shudo via split decision.

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Speaker 1: One judge had it forty eight forty seven for Sahudo

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Speaker 1: to other judges had a forty eight forty seven for

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Speaker 1: al Jaman Sterling. Cards on the table, I had forty

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Speaker 1: eight forty seven Miskie three rounds to two for Sterling.

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Speaker 1: But I really recognize that, you know, you could give two.

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Speaker 1: I think I gave him. I think two maybe and five.

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Speaker 1: I think that's about it. He was thinking that he

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Speaker 1: win at all. Four was not close. I think three

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Speaker 1: to start this post fight show was I just had

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Speaker 1: a feeling these two were going to combine for like,

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Speaker 1: whoever won in the end, people were gonna be pissed

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Speaker 1: about it, or there's gonna be like a weird controversy.

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Speaker 1: Stirling is often in fights that you know, this one

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Speaker 1: didn't end weird in the sense of the fight itself,

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Speaker 1: but that the scoring controversy followed him afterwards. I think,

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Speaker 1: is this his bantamweight run has not been filled with

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Speaker 1: short of the second Yon fight, These like high water

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Speaker 1: marks of consensus about how well he's done. Okay, so

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Speaker 1: a couple of high level takeaways. Father time is mostly undefeated,

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Speaker 1: pretty undefeated. I'd put out a stat before the fight.

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Speaker 1: We've been over this a million times, from one to

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Speaker 1: twenty five to one seventy. We're looking at the age

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Speaker 1: of UFC fighters in title fights thirty five and older.

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Speaker 1: What was there record? The record was two and twenty

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Speaker 1: fight win, and that continue to this day. Now. He

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Speaker 1: for three years. Even if you're training in the gym

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Speaker 1: With able to get to the back, never really threatening

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Speaker 1: for Sterling's sake that if he won, Like obviously, what

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Speaker 1: And I had kind of hoped for his sake that

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Speaker 1: is like really his peak moment thirty three years of age. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: You even heard Henry postfight being like, yeah, you know,

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Speaker 1: So for this fight, let's see, Yeah, Sterling just much

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Speaker 1: But guys, here's just the reality of bansamweight at thirty

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Speaker 1: six years of age, again, especially with three years off,

429
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Speaker 1: here's the fucking reality. We're not talking about falling off

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Speaker 1: a cliff. That's I never imagined he would come back

431
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Speaker 1: and look like terrible. I mean, maybe he thought he

432
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Speaker 1: would look like noticeably different, but I never thought he

433
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Speaker 1: was gonna come back and look awful, and he didn't.

434
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Speaker 1: I didn't think he looked I thought he looked pretty good. Again,

435
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Speaker 1: you can make argument he won the fight, but but

436
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Speaker 1: we're talking about relative to his peak, if you want

437
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Speaker 1: to call it that against Cruz three years ago, when

438
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Speaker 1: he was thirty three. All that has to happen is

439
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Speaker 1: that's a different opponent, different challenge, the whole nine yards.

440
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Speaker 1: But on top of that, we're talking about a minor

441
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Speaker 1: change in physical readiness. Not quite as fast, not quite

442
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Speaker 1: as strong, not quite as explosive, don't have quite as

443
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Speaker 1: much work capacity through five rounds. Even if you're not

444
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Speaker 1: necessarily as tired. The two can be a little bit different.

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Speaker 1: All you're talking about is a slight change, dude, a

446
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Speaker 1: slight change. At one hundred and thirty five, at the

447
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Speaker 1: very very top, the results of fights are going to

448
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Speaker 1: start changing. I mean, just think of it this way.

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Speaker 1: What is your margin of error at the very very

450
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Speaker 1: highest level of bantamweight, man, It is close to fucking zero.

451
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Speaker 1: First one to make a major mistake. No one really

452
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Speaker 1: made a huge mistake here tonight. That was the other

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Speaker 1: part too. You had two fighters who they did some

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Speaker 1: things better than but they didn't make any like bone

455
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Speaker 1: headed errors. Sterling kind of shooting from far out didn't

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Speaker 1: end up costing him. It could have, but in terms

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Speaker 1: of how the fight played out, they didn't. They weren't

458
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Speaker 1: making costly errors. So we're talking about the margin of

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Speaker 1: error is fucking thin. Add in any slight athletic change again,

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Speaker 1: work capacity the whole nine yards, it's going to have

461
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Speaker 1: an impact. It's going to have an impact. So I

462
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Speaker 1: didn't think he looked physically over the hill. It's not

463
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Speaker 1: my argument, but he didn't have the same zip and

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Speaker 1: pop that he that he felt like he had three

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Speaker 1: years ago. And again you might be saying, oh, three

466
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Speaker 1: years off the whole nine yards. Sure, sure, but at

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Speaker 1: thirty six, you can't take three years off and then

468
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Speaker 1: expect to beat the guy at thirty three who's like

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Speaker 1: uniquely good and weird ways and has been competitive basically

470
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Speaker 1: this whole time, absent in some injury recovery time. It's

471
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Speaker 1: just too it's too at one thirty five. It's just

472
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Speaker 1: way way way too unforgiving, super unforgiving division. So I

473
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Speaker 1: know that this is I'm not going to be the

474
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Speaker 1: fight that I you know, I'm gonna try to convince

475
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Speaker 1: the world that al Joe deserves his flowers. And I'm

476
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Speaker 1: telling you that there are structural reasons to have had

477
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Speaker 1: some reason to believe that Suhudo might struggle in parts.

478
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Speaker 1: You know, I understand all that. But he's fucking good, folks.

479
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Speaker 1: Al Jamn sterling is very, very good. He's very good.

480
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Speaker 1: He's not going to wow you with his ko power. Obviously,

481
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Speaker 1: his grappling prowess is rather significant. You didn't see much

482
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Speaker 1: evidence of it tonight, But I mean, I don't really

483
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Speaker 1: need to prove that point, but his overall, his overall

484
00:25:40,160 --> 00:25:44,199
Speaker 1: skill set and what he does in fights again, combining

485
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Speaker 1: wrestling threats with backtaking threats, combining the both of them

486
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Speaker 1: to set up striking. Very good lateral movement. He can

487
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Speaker 1: go first, he can go second, he can pull into traps,

488
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Speaker 1: he can he can lead, good work capacity, accurate, good variation,

489
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Speaker 1: dynamic kicker when he needs to be, good use of range.

490
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Speaker 1: I mean, dude, that's a very difficult thing to fucking beat.

491
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Speaker 1: With Dominict Cruz, there was a lot of resetting he

492
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Speaker 1: was able to take advantage of. He was able to

493
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Speaker 1: much better time the motion, both in terms of the

494
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Speaker 1: final need that landed, as well as some of the

495
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Speaker 1: leg kicking he was able to do, like it was

496
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Speaker 1: just a much more available, predictable target. Sterling makes himself

497
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Speaker 1: an unpredictable, difficult to find target over time. When you

498
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Speaker 1: can narrow the options where he's up against the fence,

499
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Speaker 1: or you can narrow the movement, sure that equation gets

500
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Speaker 1: a little bit different, But over the course of five rounds,

501
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Speaker 1: three rounds, whatever, it ends up being hit that overall

502
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Speaker 1: body of work. No one individual piece except for some

503
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Speaker 1: of the back control might wow you, but the other

504
00:26:48,920 --> 00:26:54,760
Speaker 1: pieces working in conjunction. He's difficult to beat. He's really

505
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Speaker 1: difficult to beat. It's not like he's got a huge

506
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Speaker 1: lead on the division. It's not like he's so much

507
00:27:02,480 --> 00:27:05,080
Speaker 1: better than these other guys. Again, the fight with Yon

508
00:27:05,520 --> 00:27:10,240
Speaker 1: was really close. The one was with Billishaw was just

509
00:27:10,240 --> 00:27:12,680
Speaker 1: a disaster, but that's not his fault. And this one

510
00:27:12,760 --> 00:27:14,159
Speaker 1: was really really close. Like, it's not like he's got

511
00:27:14,240 --> 00:27:17,879
Speaker 1: like a major distance between himself and the rest of

512
00:27:17,880 --> 00:27:22,440
Speaker 1: the bands and weights. But however much you like him,

513
00:27:22,480 --> 00:27:25,399
Speaker 1: however much you don't like him, I don't think that

514
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Speaker 1: his ability to stay on top these last few years,

515
00:27:28,400 --> 00:27:32,080
Speaker 1: relatively speaking, is in any way accidental, Like, yes, there

516
00:27:32,080 --> 00:27:35,720
Speaker 1: are other guys nipping at his heels, but that overall, Again,

517
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Speaker 1: the last thing I'll say is that overall body of work,

518
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Speaker 1: it is a lot to deal with. It's really really

519
00:27:41,560 --> 00:27:44,520
Speaker 1: a very very dynamic problem. He is a tall fighter

520
00:27:44,560 --> 00:27:48,800
Speaker 1: for that weight class who fights tall, and when he grapples,

521
00:27:48,840 --> 00:27:54,280
Speaker 1: he grapples in terms of like positionally, like with purpose, verve,

522
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Speaker 1: and with asymmetry to put himself in strongest possible asymmetrical

523
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Speaker 1: terms with his opponent. Like, it's a lot to deal with. Man,

524
00:28:02,800 --> 00:28:06,680
Speaker 1: it's a lot. So even guys like Yodorian and Henry Shudo,

525
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Speaker 1: they can get five rounds and they cannot convince judges

526
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Speaker 1: to get them that. Oh so it's worth it, sort

527
00:28:11,680 --> 00:28:14,919
Speaker 1: of saying like I wish we could talk to these judges.

528
00:28:16,040 --> 00:28:18,240
Speaker 1: They clearly look just look at the second Yon fight,

529
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Speaker 1: look at this one. They clearly love something about his

530
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Speaker 1: fight style. I honestly believe it's the amount of activity,

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Speaker 1: even some of the stuff that doesn't necessarily land like

532
00:28:28,440 --> 00:28:30,880
Speaker 1: just and that's gonna sound like ludicrous as certain people,

533
00:28:30,920 --> 00:28:32,280
Speaker 1: but like you just go back and you watch the

534
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Speaker 1: Martin Campman Diego Sanchez fight, like we're talking Sanchez, get

535
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Speaker 1: the crowd roaring, and then you go back and look

536
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Speaker 1: at the replaces and he's missing on like five punches,

537
00:28:41,760 --> 00:28:43,480
Speaker 1: and then Campan would land a super hard one and

538
00:28:43,480 --> 00:28:45,479
Speaker 1: they'd be real quiet about it, and he lost it.

539
00:28:45,520 --> 00:28:47,360
Speaker 1: Like that was one of those fights that was a

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Speaker 1: real wake up call that even shots that miss, depending

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Speaker 1: on how it can be perceived by the crowd or

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00:28:52,760 --> 00:28:56,720
Speaker 1: the or the judges, can sometimes actually weigh as if

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Speaker 1: it almost did land, partly because they can be confused

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Speaker 1: at times. Anyway, I'm just sort of pointing out the

545
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Speaker 1: volume of sterling, by the way, I do think is effective.

546
00:29:06,240 --> 00:29:08,680
Speaker 1: But even when it's not, I wonder if it's counting

547
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Speaker 1: for him. I wonder if he's got a inherently judge

548
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Speaker 1: pleasing style, and to what accepting that makes the difference.

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Speaker 1: By the way, I saw people complaining about, like, oh,

550
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Speaker 1: the UFC, you know they've been having some dud main events. Well,

551
00:29:21,480 --> 00:29:23,840
Speaker 1: this was a fight that kind of needed to happen,

552
00:29:23,920 --> 00:29:26,320
Speaker 1: Like no one was bitching about it that much when

553
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Speaker 1: they made it. People were bitching about the card, and

554
00:29:28,680 --> 00:29:31,200
Speaker 1: fair enough, the card overall had some good parts, had

555
00:29:31,200 --> 00:29:34,719
Speaker 1: some duds, but this fine was this fight was fine.

556
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Speaker 1: And it's the new Jersey State Athletic Control Board, which

557
00:29:38,480 --> 00:29:41,080
Speaker 1: is their commission, who judges this. So if you're mad

558
00:29:41,080 --> 00:29:43,640
Speaker 1: at the judging, you should be mad at them. And

559
00:29:43,680 --> 00:29:45,120
Speaker 1: by the way, I think the UFC would have been

560
00:29:45,160 --> 00:29:48,240
Speaker 1: all too happy to welcome back Henry Shuda was a champion.

561
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Speaker 1: So it's like, oh, the UFC, because how did the

562
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Speaker 1: conspiracy theories go? Right? I'm trying to put myself in

563
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Speaker 1: the mind of a mouth breather. It's very hard for

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Speaker 1: me to do, but let's try. They would say something

565
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Speaker 1: like the typical complaint that I see is that, oh,

566
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Speaker 1: the UFC is setting up their people to do well.

567
00:30:05,440 --> 00:30:07,000
Speaker 1: You know, they're gonna set up their guy that they

568
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Speaker 1: want to win. Guys, I have a feeling they would

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Speaker 1: much rather have seen Henry s Hudo win, but he didn't.

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Speaker 1: Not tonight. All right, let's look at some of the

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Speaker 1: other results from this fight card. If we can cut

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Speaker 1: me an event again, I'm not really sure what to

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Speaker 1: say about that. Balal Mohammed defeats Gilbert Burns fifty forty five,

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Speaker 1: forty ninety six, forty nine, forty six. So in the

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Speaker 1: first round, balal Mohammed stuff's a takedown from Gilbert Burns

576
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Speaker 1: or I think Burns. His body and head were on

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Speaker 1: the same side, right, because you want him to be

578
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Speaker 1: on the opposite side, and he ended up crashing on

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Speaker 1: his left shoulder. Now, it didn't look like that Aaron

580
00:30:41,400 --> 00:30:44,320
Speaker 1: Pico shit where it's like all hanging down, But it

581
00:30:44,360 --> 00:30:48,680
Speaker 1: didn't look great because he couldn't really use it. He

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Speaker 1: didn't really throw it hardly at all after that, certainly

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Speaker 1: not the last three rounds at all. I'd have to

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Speaker 1: go back and look to see if there was some

585
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Speaker 1: other ones, but in general he didn't throw it. And

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Speaker 1: that's really important because one way you can get a

587
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Speaker 1: guy who's moving in the way in which balal Mohammad

588
00:31:02,640 --> 00:31:05,760
Speaker 1: was with the constant stand switching and trying to angle

589
00:31:05,840 --> 00:31:08,760
Speaker 1: change is jabbing him, is jabbing him, and that was

590
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Speaker 1: his jabhand. He couldn't jab for shit. He had to

591
00:31:11,160 --> 00:31:14,560
Speaker 1: throw in like fake takedowns and then like throw overhand rids.

592
00:31:14,600 --> 00:31:16,440
Speaker 1: He could barely land anything. He was able to land

593
00:31:16,480 --> 00:31:20,200
Speaker 1: some decent kicks. Really, here's here's the reality. The two

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Speaker 1: guys who won in the main and the Comaine, they

595
00:31:22,520 --> 00:31:25,600
Speaker 1: are not the fan favorites and attendance Gilbert Burns, I think,

596
00:31:25,640 --> 00:31:29,160
Speaker 1: was a little bit more widely liked than Balah Mohammad

597
00:31:29,240 --> 00:31:31,320
Speaker 1: was tonight, and certainly so Huda was more well liked

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00:31:31,320 --> 00:31:36,200
Speaker 1: than Sterling. And I get that a performance that of

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Speaker 1: the kind that Balah Mohammed turned in, which was a

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00:31:38,440 --> 00:31:42,680
Speaker 1: good performance, but against an injured foe, like a visibly

601
00:31:43,520 --> 00:31:45,640
Speaker 1: injured foe. I think it was after the third round

602
00:31:45,680 --> 00:31:49,280
Speaker 1: Gilbert Burns told his corner he couldn't throw his arm

603
00:31:49,400 --> 00:31:51,560
Speaker 1: at all. He couldn't throw his left at all anymore.

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00:31:51,800 --> 00:31:53,840
Speaker 1: I mean, you can't throw your jabhand in a fight

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00:31:53,880 --> 00:31:57,160
Speaker 1: where like the jab would have been incredibly effective. By

606
00:31:57,160 --> 00:31:59,080
Speaker 1: the way, Sterling was actually pretty good with the jab.

607
00:31:59,120 --> 00:32:02,440
Speaker 1: He was jabbing to the using that to fake level changes,

608
00:32:02,440 --> 00:32:04,280
Speaker 1: and then using that then jab to the head. It

609
00:32:04,320 --> 00:32:07,280
Speaker 1: was actually pretty effective. Burns couldn't do any of that.

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Speaker 1: So again, I don't look at this performance as the

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Speaker 1: kind that Belah Mohammed is gonna be able to take

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00:32:14,640 --> 00:32:17,920
Speaker 1: to his critics and be like, aha, you see. But

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Speaker 1: I also think if we're just gonna be fair to

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00:32:20,280 --> 00:32:26,200
Speaker 1: bloh Mohammed, it's so clear he's gotten much much better,

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00:32:26,240 --> 00:32:29,640
Speaker 1: particularly in the stand up, like it's very apparent at

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Speaker 1: this point. I mean, let's talk about his win streak

617
00:32:32,000 --> 00:32:38,760
Speaker 1: here for just a second if we can. Okay, So

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Speaker 1: he lost to Jeff Neil. He's like, he's got three

619
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Speaker 1: losses in the UFC, one to Alan Joe Bann that

620
00:32:43,880 --> 00:32:48,440
Speaker 1: was his UFC debut, the decision. He got ko in

621
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Speaker 1: the first round at UFC two oh five by Vicente Luce.

622
00:32:51,480 --> 00:32:52,959
Speaker 1: Then he went on a four to fight win streak.

623
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Speaker 1: He lost to Jeff Neil via decision in January of

624
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Speaker 1: twenty nineteen. He hasn't lost since since then. He beat

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Speaker 1: Curtis Milnder, Curtis, will, Takashi, Sato Lyman, Good, Diego Lima,

626
00:33:03,560 --> 00:33:06,400
Speaker 1: He had the no contest weird thing against Leon Edwards.

627
00:33:06,640 --> 00:33:08,920
Speaker 1: Then he beats Demian Maya, then he beats WonderBoy, then

628
00:33:08,960 --> 00:33:13,000
Speaker 1: he rebounds and beats Vicente Luke. Then he stops Sean

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Speaker 1: Brady inside of two, and then he did what he

630
00:33:15,440 --> 00:33:17,120
Speaker 1: did to Gilbert Burns tonight. I mean, I don't know

631
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Speaker 1: how you can look at his movement, how he shut

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00:33:19,720 --> 00:33:22,800
Speaker 1: down the takedown. He's physical for a welterweight in this

633
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Speaker 1: particular case, on the defensive end, not even in the

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Speaker 1: offensive end. I don't know if he even got a

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Speaker 1: single takedown. I look at the numbers. Did he get

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Speaker 1: Did he even attempt a single takedown on Gilbert Burns?

637
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Speaker 1: I don't think he did. Nope, he sure didn't. I mean, okay,

638
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Speaker 1: Gilbert Burns has got nasty jiu jitsu, but I'm just

639
00:33:39,960 --> 00:33:41,600
Speaker 1: pointing out that was his bread and butter. That was

640
00:33:41,640 --> 00:33:44,240
Speaker 1: the only way he could win previously. And look at

641
00:33:44,320 --> 00:33:46,560
Speaker 1: him now and again. Oh but Gilbert was injured. Yes,

642
00:33:47,400 --> 00:33:50,440
Speaker 1: Gilbert was injured, but between the last two fights, really

643
00:33:50,480 --> 00:33:53,320
Speaker 1: the wind streak he's been on since January of twenty nineteen,

644
00:33:53,840 --> 00:33:56,480
Speaker 1: it is so evident to me, and so very much

645
00:33:56,560 --> 00:33:58,960
Speaker 1: not up for debate, that his movement is better. He's

646
00:33:58,960 --> 00:34:02,800
Speaker 1: got better setups, can set traps. His cardio looked pretty good.

647
00:34:02,840 --> 00:34:05,760
Speaker 1: He took this fight after Ramadan on three weeks notice.

648
00:34:06,560 --> 00:34:09,160
Speaker 1: Didn't look to me like his cardio was really impacted

649
00:34:09,160 --> 00:34:13,640
Speaker 1: in any kind of super noticeable way. Gilbert Burns is

650
00:34:13,680 --> 00:34:16,759
Speaker 1: a fucking demon who called him out for this fight.

651
00:34:17,000 --> 00:34:18,480
Speaker 1: I don't think he remember they want He wanted to

652
00:34:18,480 --> 00:34:19,960
Speaker 1: make it at one to five, and he still accepted

653
00:34:20,000 --> 00:34:22,200
Speaker 1: it at one seven. He's still made weight and still

654
00:34:22,239 --> 00:34:23,640
Speaker 1: looked the way that he did. I know there was

655
00:34:23,640 --> 00:34:26,480
Speaker 1: some videos that were circulating pre fight being like, oh,

656
00:34:26,640 --> 00:34:28,759
Speaker 1: it's Bell all injured and he didn't look great. I

657
00:34:28,800 --> 00:34:32,480
Speaker 1: will admit I saw them. It was in like getting

658
00:34:32,480 --> 00:34:34,560
Speaker 1: on and off the scale or walking up steps, and

659
00:34:34,560 --> 00:34:35,840
Speaker 1: he'd be like, I don't know, my man looks a

660
00:34:35,840 --> 00:34:39,479
Speaker 1: little bit banged up. Didn't matter in the end, man,

661
00:34:39,560 --> 00:34:42,120
Speaker 1: he had everything he needed and then some to get

662
00:34:42,120 --> 00:34:44,520
Speaker 1: this win tonight. Now, the reality about this is is

663
00:34:46,560 --> 00:34:49,239
Speaker 1: it's hard to know exactly what kind of inference you

664
00:34:49,280 --> 00:34:52,399
Speaker 1: can draw from beating a guy this injured. Number one

665
00:34:52,440 --> 00:34:56,759
Speaker 1: and number two, we all kind of wondered, well, if

666
00:34:56,800 --> 00:35:00,400
Speaker 1: you have a really strong showing tonight, is there a

667
00:35:00,480 --> 00:35:03,600
Speaker 1: chance you could leap frog Colby Covington? And I just

668
00:35:03,640 --> 00:35:06,200
Speaker 1: don't think that's in the cards, man, I just I

669
00:35:06,200 --> 00:35:08,239
Speaker 1: don't think that in any way, if you'd gone out

670
00:35:08,280 --> 00:35:10,439
Speaker 1: there and like, even with an injured Gilbert Burns still

671
00:35:10,440 --> 00:35:12,359
Speaker 1: beat the living fuck out of him and stopped him,

672
00:35:13,160 --> 00:35:15,120
Speaker 1: maybe you could say something. They would still be debate

673
00:35:15,160 --> 00:35:17,560
Speaker 1: because folks would again point out how injured he is,

674
00:35:17,600 --> 00:35:19,799
Speaker 1: but you would still you know, there'd be something to it.

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00:35:19,840 --> 00:35:23,719
Speaker 1: There's not even given the UFC or Dana White or

676
00:35:23,719 --> 00:35:30,680
Speaker 1: whoever's affinity for Colby. It would take something miraculous or

677
00:35:30,680 --> 00:35:35,160
Speaker 1: at a bare minimum very impressive to overturn the apple cart.

678
00:35:35,280 --> 00:35:39,040
Speaker 1: And I don't think you got that tonight. But I

679
00:35:39,080 --> 00:35:42,400
Speaker 1: do think that there's now enough evidence to conclude that

680
00:35:42,520 --> 00:35:46,239
Speaker 1: Balah Mohammed and the success that he's had in no

681
00:35:46,320 --> 00:35:48,000
Speaker 1: way again, I'm gonna say one more time, in no

682
00:35:48,120 --> 00:35:54,719
Speaker 1: way accidental, in no way easy to attribute to a

683
00:35:54,840 --> 00:35:59,240
Speaker 1: run of weak opponents, a run of totally good fortune.

684
00:35:59,239 --> 00:36:01,320
Speaker 1: I mean, yes, is opponent in this particular case, getting

685
00:36:01,320 --> 00:36:03,839
Speaker 1: injured was good fortune. But the other wins he got

686
00:36:03,840 --> 00:36:09,440
Speaker 1: were all by a large, hard scrabble, very difficult opponents.

687
00:36:12,080 --> 00:36:16,600
Speaker 1: I wonder what this does to Gilbert Burns. So Burns

688
00:36:16,640 --> 00:36:24,200
Speaker 1: is thirty six, I believe you know. I thought Data

689
00:36:24,280 --> 00:36:27,160
Speaker 1: Cormier made a really good point on the broadcast, right,

690
00:36:27,680 --> 00:36:31,360
Speaker 1: And on the broadcast he said this is why the

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00:36:31,400 --> 00:36:34,399
Speaker 1: champions are deserving of respect. And his argument was, yes,

692
00:36:34,480 --> 00:36:37,040
Speaker 1: of course they're a champion. But it's think about this

693
00:36:37,080 --> 00:36:38,960
Speaker 1: for a second. You not only have to be an

694
00:36:39,040 --> 00:36:43,799
Speaker 1: incredibly high achiever, but you also have to just get

695
00:36:43,840 --> 00:36:47,279
Speaker 1: really lucky, like shit has to go your way in

696
00:36:47,440 --> 00:36:50,279
Speaker 1: all of the right ways to get yourself to that

697
00:36:50,480 --> 00:36:53,040
Speaker 1: end of the line spot where you can hoist a

698
00:36:53,080 --> 00:36:58,200
Speaker 1: belt either over your head or around your waist, and

699
00:36:58,680 --> 00:37:00,759
Speaker 1: at thirty six, you're just not going to be as

700
00:37:01,080 --> 00:37:03,879
Speaker 1: injury resilient as you normally would be. Now, who knows,

701
00:37:03,880 --> 00:37:05,520
Speaker 1: maybe this is something that would have been messed up.

702
00:37:05,560 --> 00:37:08,719
Speaker 1: No matter what, we don't have any real medical diagnoses

703
00:37:08,800 --> 00:37:11,680
Speaker 1: upon which to make any broader conclusions, So I don't

704
00:37:11,680 --> 00:37:14,840
Speaker 1: really know. I don't really know, But what I do

705
00:37:14,960 --> 00:37:19,040
Speaker 1: know is maybe this isn't the end of the line

706
00:37:19,080 --> 00:37:22,319
Speaker 1: for him as a genuine title contender, but this complicates

707
00:37:22,320 --> 00:37:24,279
Speaker 1: his plan what I think he really wanted to do,

708
00:37:24,680 --> 00:37:26,839
Speaker 1: because you know, we saw him in South Florida before

709
00:37:26,880 --> 00:37:30,480
Speaker 1: the Hamsat fight. Brian and I my co host, we uh,

710
00:37:31,040 --> 00:37:33,040
Speaker 1: Brian Campbell. We went down to Florida about a month

711
00:37:33,080 --> 00:37:35,880
Speaker 1: ago for UFC two eighty seven, and we spoke to

712
00:37:35,960 --> 00:37:38,120
Speaker 1: him there before the Jorge mazwat All fight, and you know,

713
00:37:38,120 --> 00:37:40,440
Speaker 1: he didn't say this exactly, but we were talking to

714
00:37:40,520 --> 00:37:42,920
Speaker 1: him afterwards and just we both got the sense of

715
00:37:43,000 --> 00:37:44,839
Speaker 1: like what he wants is to win that one against Jorge.

716
00:37:44,960 --> 00:37:50,040
Speaker 1: This is again a month ago when okay, we thought

717
00:37:50,080 --> 00:37:52,360
Speaker 1: he wanted to win that one and maybe jump the

718
00:37:52,400 --> 00:37:54,520
Speaker 1: line with that. It was a good performance, but not

719
00:37:54,920 --> 00:37:57,000
Speaker 1: enough to get it, so he took this one, I

720
00:37:57,000 --> 00:37:59,880
Speaker 1: think being like, Okay, I can I can stay with

721
00:38:00,200 --> 00:38:02,800
Speaker 1: weight down, I can stay lean, I can stay ready.

722
00:38:03,840 --> 00:38:05,640
Speaker 1: Just got to extend this by a few weeks and

723
00:38:05,680 --> 00:38:08,120
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be right back there against a guy who

724
00:38:08,440 --> 00:38:10,319
Speaker 1: I should be faster than in a better striker than

725
00:38:10,320 --> 00:38:14,200
Speaker 1: I guarantee you that's what their calculations were or something

726
00:38:14,239 --> 00:38:18,960
Speaker 1: approximating that. Anyway, And in the end, who knows how

727
00:38:19,000 --> 00:38:21,040
Speaker 1: much extra wear or tear he got because he didn't

728
00:38:21,040 --> 00:38:23,600
Speaker 1: get a chance to fully recover. Who knows if it

729
00:38:23,640 --> 00:38:26,120
Speaker 1: was just bad luck, blah blah blah. But now it

730
00:38:26,160 --> 00:38:27,840
Speaker 1: puts them in a really weird space where it's like,

731
00:38:28,400 --> 00:38:31,480
Speaker 1: is he going to get what does he have to

732
00:38:31,520 --> 00:38:33,719
Speaker 1: do to get back to where he was because again, sorry,

733
00:38:33,719 --> 00:38:35,440
Speaker 1: I didn't finish the point. I think he wanted to

734
00:38:35,480 --> 00:38:37,840
Speaker 1: win the one against Jorge, either get a title shot

735
00:38:37,880 --> 00:38:40,759
Speaker 1: from that, or you know, do it whatever whatever again

736
00:38:40,840 --> 00:38:44,640
Speaker 1: to fill in as the guy in London in case

737
00:38:44,680 --> 00:38:47,440
Speaker 1: they needed someone to be a weight replacement. And I

738
00:38:47,440 --> 00:38:48,960
Speaker 1: think you want to fight for a title and then

739
00:38:48,960 --> 00:38:50,560
Speaker 1: I think he wanted to call it a day. I

740
00:38:50,600 --> 00:38:52,080
Speaker 1: really do. I don't think you wanted to keep going

741
00:38:52,160 --> 00:38:54,759
Speaker 1: much longer. I don't know what he wants to do now.

742
00:38:54,800 --> 00:38:57,120
Speaker 1: God only knows. I mean, he's had a pretty amazing career,

743
00:38:57,160 --> 00:39:00,520
Speaker 1: but I think in MMA he is a little bit

744
00:39:00,560 --> 00:39:05,919
Speaker 1: short of what he wanted to do, so it puts

745
00:39:05,960 --> 00:39:08,560
Speaker 1: him in a really difficult spot about who he has

746
00:39:08,640 --> 00:39:12,360
Speaker 1: to beat and how ready the UF he's going to

747
00:39:12,400 --> 00:39:14,400
Speaker 1: be able to give him a title shot and everything else.

748
00:39:15,960 --> 00:39:17,960
Speaker 1: Kolby's gonna get it, then Blall's gonna get it, and

749
00:39:18,000 --> 00:39:20,960
Speaker 1: he's gonna have to take someone else and win. I'm

750
00:39:21,000 --> 00:39:22,280
Speaker 1: not even sure he's at the top of the division.

751
00:39:22,320 --> 00:39:24,239
Speaker 1: Who he could fight that would make sense at this point.

752
00:39:24,239 --> 00:39:26,480
Speaker 1: I look. I mean, I guess a Kamaru rematch they

753
00:39:26,480 --> 00:39:29,920
Speaker 1: could do, unless Kamaru goes to one five to fight Hamsaut,

754
00:39:29,920 --> 00:39:35,640
Speaker 1: which they might do. But it's hard to draw very

755
00:39:35,640 --> 00:39:39,000
Speaker 1: broad conclusions. We're really going to the x's and o's

756
00:39:39,000 --> 00:39:42,480
Speaker 1: about the fights. When one guy is banged up like that,

757
00:39:44,080 --> 00:39:50,120
Speaker 1: there's not a whole lot you can really say, Uh, okay,

758
00:39:50,560 --> 00:39:53,800
Speaker 1: how about this one women strawweight? About jan Shaunan defeats

759
00:39:53,880 --> 00:39:57,440
Speaker 1: Jessica onroge at two twenty of round number one via

760
00:39:57,560 --> 00:40:00,600
Speaker 1: TKO Man the incident I saw. You can look at

761
00:40:00,600 --> 00:40:04,000
Speaker 1: my timeline. I tweeted it. It just had it had

762
00:40:04,040 --> 00:40:08,719
Speaker 1: fabricio verdom versus step amochic all over it. Man, And

763
00:40:08,800 --> 00:40:11,000
Speaker 1: how do you know that, dude? When they run you

764
00:40:11,239 --> 00:40:15,120
Speaker 1: back to the fence, that's one thing. That's one problem.

765
00:40:15,160 --> 00:40:20,200
Speaker 1: You shouldn't back up straight, but they shouldn't follow straight either. Yeah,

766
00:40:20,239 --> 00:40:21,719
Speaker 1: but if you back up to the fence and then

767
00:40:21,760 --> 00:40:23,960
Speaker 1: you turn at an angle and then they follow you

768
00:40:24,040 --> 00:40:26,960
Speaker 1: where you're both have at least one shoulder to the fence,

769
00:40:27,000 --> 00:40:29,160
Speaker 1: so they're following you almost like in an L shape.

770
00:40:29,600 --> 00:40:31,799
Speaker 1: They're going to get knocked the fuck out. Like it's

771
00:40:31,840 --> 00:40:34,000
Speaker 1: they're gonna get knocked the fuck out. That's what's going

772
00:40:34,040 --> 00:40:39,600
Speaker 1: to happen. You cannot chase a world class fighter that

773
00:40:40,000 --> 00:40:43,680
Speaker 1: amount of distance in a straight line and not pay

774
00:40:43,760 --> 00:40:48,640
Speaker 1: for it. Does it require? I mean, yes, there's more

775
00:40:48,680 --> 00:40:52,080
Speaker 1: significant analysis to it than that you can go over

776
00:40:52,120 --> 00:40:55,640
Speaker 1: there and look at the fact that, for example, uh

777
00:40:55,800 --> 00:40:59,439
Speaker 1: shout on or yawn anyway, caught her on the half beat.

778
00:40:59,520 --> 00:41:02,000
Speaker 1: So one fights on a rhythm and it sometimes has

779
00:41:02,040 --> 00:41:04,200
Speaker 1: to do exactly with how they're stepping and so you

780
00:41:04,239 --> 00:41:07,239
Speaker 1: could see Androge was stepping forward like this, and so

781
00:41:07,440 --> 00:41:10,600
Speaker 1: you don't hit them at those moments, you hit them

782
00:41:11,040 --> 00:41:13,920
Speaker 1: right there in between, in between spots. Anybod who have

783
00:41:14,000 --> 00:41:16,000
Speaker 1: seen any of my breakdowns knows I talk about the

784
00:41:16,000 --> 00:41:18,200
Speaker 1: half beat all the time. That's when they're open, that's

785
00:41:18,200 --> 00:41:20,640
Speaker 1: when they're defenseless, that's when they're vulnerable. And sure enough

786
00:41:20,960 --> 00:41:23,520
Speaker 1: sh Nan stepped out, so she had her head off

787
00:41:23,520 --> 00:41:26,279
Speaker 1: the center line, threw a punch over the top, and

788
00:41:26,320 --> 00:41:29,480
Speaker 1: it's always worse. Of course, everyone I'm sure watching knows this.

789
00:41:29,840 --> 00:41:33,440
Speaker 1: When you walk into a punch, it only accentuates the effect.

790
00:41:34,040 --> 00:41:37,160
Speaker 1: So it was perfectly time. Got her when she was

791
00:41:37,200 --> 00:41:40,319
Speaker 1: off balance, got her when she was defenseless, got her

792
00:41:40,360 --> 00:41:43,640
Speaker 1: when she was moving into it. Because she's fucking chasing

793
00:41:44,200 --> 00:41:50,040
Speaker 1: a world class fighter in straight lines. You're gonna get

794
00:41:50,120 --> 00:41:53,200
Speaker 1: knocked the fuck out, like you're gonna get stretched doing that.

795
00:41:53,320 --> 00:41:56,200
Speaker 1: It doesn't You can do that against shitty fighters on

796
00:41:56,239 --> 00:41:58,279
Speaker 1: a regional scene and you may not even pay for it. Dude,

797
00:41:58,320 --> 00:42:01,920
Speaker 1: you cannot do that against Steve a miocicch He will

798
00:42:02,000 --> 00:42:05,279
Speaker 1: light your ass on fire and you turns out you

799
00:42:05,520 --> 00:42:09,160
Speaker 1: cannot do that against Jan Shan, this version of Yan Shanna, who,

800
00:42:09,200 --> 00:42:13,319
Speaker 1: by the way, is easily one of the most improved strawwights,

801
00:42:13,360 --> 00:42:16,920
Speaker 1: if not the most improved among top ranked strawwights in

802
00:42:16,960 --> 00:42:20,160
Speaker 1: the last like two three years. Look at her record, man,

803
00:42:20,239 --> 00:42:23,399
Speaker 1: she has really come a long way. She had good

804
00:42:23,520 --> 00:42:25,680
Speaker 1: numbers and had some good wins. She beat Angela Hill,

805
00:42:26,120 --> 00:42:28,680
Speaker 1: she beat karroly nikoble Kyevich, and then the Kadelia win.

806
00:42:28,760 --> 00:42:30,759
Speaker 1: You're like, okay, through twenty twenty, she's on her way.

807
00:42:31,200 --> 00:42:32,920
Speaker 1: And then she had the back to back losses to

808
00:42:33,239 --> 00:42:37,479
Speaker 1: Esparza and Hadriguez. I think that really lit a fire

809
00:42:37,520 --> 00:42:40,080
Speaker 1: on her competitively. And so she has the Mackenzie dernwin,

810
00:42:40,120 --> 00:42:41,480
Speaker 1: which she looked pretty good in though there were some

811
00:42:41,480 --> 00:42:44,400
Speaker 1: tough moments, and then just absolutely blowing the doors off

812
00:42:44,480 --> 00:42:48,399
Speaker 1: Jessica Androge. She's thirty three, so right now she's really

813
00:42:48,400 --> 00:42:50,839
Speaker 1: coming into her own now. I will say Androge has

814
00:42:50,880 --> 00:42:53,959
Speaker 1: had a habit of like overrunning opponents and getting hurt

815
00:42:54,000 --> 00:42:56,600
Speaker 1: as a consequence, or just you know, being a little

816
00:42:56,600 --> 00:42:59,480
Speaker 1: bit reckless in it and paying for it. For example,

817
00:43:00,719 --> 00:43:03,880
Speaker 1: against the other Chinese fighter that they may set up

818
00:43:03,880 --> 00:43:06,439
Speaker 1: with this one Jean Wilie sort of not the same

819
00:43:06,520 --> 00:43:10,840
Speaker 1: kind of circumstance, but sort of similar ish principles about striking.

820
00:43:12,239 --> 00:43:15,919
Speaker 1: She ended up here. But Yanchau Nan I think has

821
00:43:16,040 --> 00:43:19,239
Speaker 1: really really sharpened up Man. She used to be kind

822
00:43:19,239 --> 00:43:21,760
Speaker 1: of like a volume striker, I think because she needed

823
00:43:21,760 --> 00:43:24,080
Speaker 1: to be. She just had to put something out into

824
00:43:24,120 --> 00:43:27,000
Speaker 1: the fight and then build on it if it worked

825
00:43:27,080 --> 00:43:30,920
Speaker 1: to win. Less so understanding what works for her, what

826
00:43:31,000 --> 00:43:33,920
Speaker 1: works for her in X circumstance, what works for her

827
00:43:33,960 --> 00:43:37,240
Speaker 1: in WHY circumstance. Part of the reason I believe, for example,

828
00:43:37,280 --> 00:43:39,319
Speaker 1: that Alja Man Sterling has really risen to the top

829
00:43:39,320 --> 00:43:42,399
Speaker 1: of the bantamweight division is because he understands and has

830
00:43:42,440 --> 00:43:45,360
Speaker 1: a fight style that works for him. It really has.

831
00:43:45,640 --> 00:43:47,320
Speaker 1: He took something where he was just kind of throwing

832
00:43:47,320 --> 00:43:49,680
Speaker 1: shit at the wall a few years ago to see

833
00:43:49,680 --> 00:43:52,040
Speaker 1: what's stuck. But then he got a chance to see that,

834
00:43:52,400 --> 00:43:54,360
Speaker 1: and now he has sharpened it and refined it and

835
00:43:54,400 --> 00:43:56,800
Speaker 1: he's got a whole system built in where it works.

836
00:43:56,840 --> 00:43:59,000
Speaker 1: It seems to me like on the striking side anyway,

837
00:44:00,200 --> 00:44:03,319
Speaker 1: jon Cha Nan has something like that. Yon Cha Nat

838
00:44:03,400 --> 00:44:08,000
Speaker 1: has just much better decision making, much better timing, better setups,

839
00:44:08,040 --> 00:44:11,399
Speaker 1: better vision. She's seeing the field, so to speak, much

840
00:44:11,440 --> 00:44:16,200
Speaker 1: more clearly. Now Again, Androge is making it easy for

841
00:44:16,280 --> 00:44:19,839
Speaker 1: her in a case like this, just just following along

842
00:44:19,880 --> 00:44:22,840
Speaker 1: the I'm telling you, you follow someone along the fence

843
00:44:22,920 --> 00:44:26,520
Speaker 1: line at a high level fight in UFC, and dude,

844
00:44:26,520 --> 00:44:30,840
Speaker 1: you're gonna get cracked. You're gonna you can't. You absolutely

845
00:44:31,000 --> 00:44:33,840
Speaker 1: cannot do that shit. And to think she was trying

846
00:44:33,880 --> 00:44:37,080
Speaker 1: to double up on her outside hooks, so she was

847
00:44:37,360 --> 00:44:38,799
Speaker 1: I have to go back and look a double check.

848
00:44:39,560 --> 00:44:42,160
Speaker 1: Is it still up on my feed? Let's see, I

849
00:44:42,200 --> 00:44:44,239
Speaker 1: tweeted about it. Well, I want to see it if

850
00:44:44,280 --> 00:44:51,960
Speaker 1: I can. Where it was that Canelo one tonight. I

851
00:44:51,960 --> 00:44:55,920
Speaker 1: don't know if you'll saw that. Nah, it's gone now, Dagger.

852
00:44:59,160 --> 00:45:02,120
Speaker 1: In any case, I saw there was a couple of

853
00:45:02,120 --> 00:45:03,759
Speaker 1: times she was trying to catch her by doubling or

854
00:45:03,800 --> 00:45:07,360
Speaker 1: tripling up on her hooks, trying to get Shounan moving

855
00:45:07,400 --> 00:45:10,279
Speaker 1: into that position. And then I think over and then

856
00:45:10,320 --> 00:45:11,960
Speaker 1: maybe yeah, and I think that's what happened. She was

857
00:45:11,960 --> 00:45:16,239
Speaker 1: like trying to throw multiple hooks on the same side

858
00:45:16,239 --> 00:45:19,120
Speaker 1: and then follow with the right as she was stepping through.

859
00:45:19,120 --> 00:45:21,800
Speaker 1: But you're doing it in straight guys, you cannot attack

860
00:45:21,840 --> 00:45:24,400
Speaker 1: in straight lines and you cannot retreat in straight lines.

861
00:45:24,680 --> 00:45:28,560
Speaker 1: Anyone good is going to set you on fire for it. Boxing.

862
00:45:29,120 --> 00:45:31,280
Speaker 1: I don't know enough about kickboxing really say, but certainly

863
00:45:31,280 --> 00:45:35,240
Speaker 1: an mma like, dude, you back up in straight lines defensively,

864
00:45:35,280 --> 00:45:37,320
Speaker 1: they're going to eat you alive. You go forward in

865
00:45:37,360 --> 00:45:39,960
Speaker 1: straight lines offensively, they're going to eat you alive like

866
00:45:40,760 --> 00:45:43,120
Speaker 1: you just can't. So it's the most predictable thing you

867
00:45:43,160 --> 00:45:47,080
Speaker 1: can do from a motion and attack line standpoint. You know,

868
00:45:47,120 --> 00:45:49,920
Speaker 1: you just can't do shit like that. But I think

869
00:45:50,239 --> 00:45:53,640
Speaker 1: to me, to land a shot that cleanly, yeah, the

870
00:45:53,680 --> 00:45:56,640
Speaker 1: other person has to make mistakes, that's true, it's true.

871
00:45:57,160 --> 00:46:01,120
Speaker 1: But the person doing the attacking has to have good timing,

872
00:46:01,400 --> 00:46:05,359
Speaker 1: good commitment, pocket presence, and for her to get out

873
00:46:05,360 --> 00:46:08,359
Speaker 1: of the way so she avoided trouble while throwing her own.

874
00:46:09,360 --> 00:46:13,000
Speaker 1: Just a very very good performance from Yon Cha Nan.

875
00:46:13,080 --> 00:46:16,040
Speaker 1: A short one, but a good one just the same.

876
00:46:16,120 --> 00:46:18,160
Speaker 1: Now that where does that lead us? That leads us

877
00:46:18,160 --> 00:46:20,840
Speaker 1: to a place where could we have an all female

878
00:46:20,920 --> 00:46:24,439
Speaker 1: Chinese fight between Jeong Wi Lee and Yan Chao Nan. Boy.

879
00:46:24,480 --> 00:46:29,000
Speaker 1: The UFC would fucking love that, wouldn't they. They would

880
00:46:29,000 --> 00:46:32,719
Speaker 1: love that that would be huge. I think, I mean,

881
00:46:32,760 --> 00:46:35,120
Speaker 1: I don't I when I say it would be huge,

882
00:46:35,160 --> 00:46:36,920
Speaker 1: What am I really saying? Do I really know a

883
00:46:36,960 --> 00:46:39,840
Speaker 1: lot about the Chinese mma market? I suppose that I

884
00:46:39,880 --> 00:46:42,920
Speaker 1: really don't, so I'm very much speaking out of turn. However,

885
00:46:43,440 --> 00:46:46,080
Speaker 1: it would seem to me that to have two Chinese

886
00:46:46,160 --> 00:46:48,640
Speaker 1: nationals legitimately at the top of the weight class, because

887
00:46:48,640 --> 00:46:50,839
Speaker 1: you could argue that they are obviously with Jong Wi Lee,

888
00:46:51,080 --> 00:46:54,040
Speaker 1: it's not there's no argument she is, but Yon Channon

889
00:46:54,120 --> 00:46:57,760
Speaker 1: a very deserving contender at this point, right, or pretty

890
00:46:57,800 --> 00:47:02,040
Speaker 1: high level one. You could have what would seem to

891
00:47:02,080 --> 00:47:04,880
Speaker 1: me as the like that's the kind of event you

892
00:47:04,880 --> 00:47:08,879
Speaker 1: would want to have if you were building any market.

893
00:47:10,480 --> 00:47:12,400
Speaker 1: Maybe you would want a different weight class, maybe you

894
00:47:12,400 --> 00:47:14,440
Speaker 1: want a different kind of makeup, but you would yeah,

895
00:47:14,520 --> 00:47:16,600
Speaker 1: or you want a big superstar like economic record, but

896
00:47:17,200 --> 00:47:24,120
Speaker 1: having a a burgeoning market that has significant future potential.

897
00:47:24,600 --> 00:47:27,080
Speaker 1: To have already two world class fighters in the same

898
00:47:27,120 --> 00:47:30,800
Speaker 1: weight class legitimately earning a spot to compete against one another,

899
00:47:32,440 --> 00:47:36,120
Speaker 1: this is this is a promoter's dream for developing a market.

900
00:47:36,160 --> 00:47:39,359
Speaker 1: This is a promoter's you know, happy place when they're

901
00:47:39,360 --> 00:47:42,120
Speaker 1: thinking about what we can do, Like what what things

902
00:47:42,640 --> 00:47:45,279
Speaker 1: could go right for us that could set us up

903
00:47:45,280 --> 00:47:48,080
Speaker 1: to win in these markets. That that's exactly it. That's

904
00:47:48,120 --> 00:47:51,560
Speaker 1: exactly it. It's a huge, huge, huge potential opportunity. I

905
00:47:51,600 --> 00:47:53,640
Speaker 1: think we'll have to see, I guess how it plays

906
00:47:53,640 --> 00:47:56,000
Speaker 1: out over time and if you see even goes in

907
00:47:56,080 --> 00:48:00,919
Speaker 1: that direction. But those are significant, significant stakes for them.

908
00:48:01,600 --> 00:48:04,160
Speaker 1: Also weirdly about just gone Drodge. I know, I was

909
00:48:04,239 --> 00:48:06,640
Speaker 1: willing to write off the Aaron Blanchield performance because she

910
00:48:06,680 --> 00:48:13,960
Speaker 1: took it on short notice. And Aaron Blanchfield's a fucking hammer, right,

911
00:48:13,960 --> 00:48:20,799
Speaker 1: She's a hammer. But I don't know, man, Like, let

912
00:48:20,840 --> 00:48:23,680
Speaker 1: me look at her record, Like the thing is Androge

913
00:48:23,760 --> 00:48:27,000
Speaker 1: is so hot and cold. There's just times when you're like,

914
00:48:27,040 --> 00:48:28,960
Speaker 1: my god, she looks like she can beat anyone in

915
00:48:29,000 --> 00:48:30,440
Speaker 1: the world, and there's times were like, dude, how the

916
00:48:30,480 --> 00:48:32,960
Speaker 1: fuck does she lose this way? So she said two

917
00:48:33,000 --> 00:48:34,640
Speaker 1: of these in a row now, two losses, one in

918
00:48:34,680 --> 00:48:36,440
Speaker 1: the first round, one in the second round to Blanchfield.

919
00:48:36,760 --> 00:48:39,600
Speaker 1: The winner, Lauren Murphy also came this year, and she

920
00:48:39,640 --> 00:48:43,040
Speaker 1: looked phenomenal in that contest, and then the winner, her Lamo,

921
00:48:43,160 --> 00:48:46,840
Speaker 1: she came about a year ago and she looked phenomenal

922
00:48:46,880 --> 00:48:48,360
Speaker 1: in that contest, and then, of course she has some

923
00:48:48,400 --> 00:48:50,799
Speaker 1: wins prior to that in twenty twenty one, and then

924
00:48:50,840 --> 00:48:52,759
Speaker 1: she has a loss again shift Tanko in that same year.

925
00:48:52,840 --> 00:48:56,319
Speaker 1: So it wasn't like she's been on like some obvious decline.

926
00:48:57,440 --> 00:49:01,080
Speaker 1: She looked good against some top contender at one twenty five.

927
00:49:01,160 --> 00:49:07,080
Speaker 1: The fight against Lamosh was at one point fifteen, so

928
00:49:07,120 --> 00:49:08,880
Speaker 1: she's back there. So yeah, Like, I don't know if

929
00:49:08,920 --> 00:49:12,719
Speaker 1: it's really fair to say, you know, there's a pattern here,

930
00:49:13,000 --> 00:49:15,239
Speaker 1: not so much in terms of his over the course

931
00:49:15,280 --> 00:49:17,839
Speaker 1: of her career, there might be some patterns. What I'm

932
00:49:17,840 --> 00:49:20,080
Speaker 1: trying to say is is she on some She's currently

933
00:49:20,080 --> 00:49:22,960
Speaker 1: in the slump with two losses in a row, and

934
00:49:23,040 --> 00:49:28,000
Speaker 1: it it does look to me like certain fights I

935
00:49:28,080 --> 00:49:31,360
Speaker 1: think she makes a more concerted effort to have better boxing.

936
00:49:32,239 --> 00:49:35,120
Speaker 1: She seemed a little bit like too willingly reckless here

937
00:49:35,360 --> 00:49:38,560
Speaker 1: in a cost her obviously, I guess I'm pointing out

938
00:49:39,040 --> 00:49:41,000
Speaker 1: these two losses are bad because they both come by

939
00:49:41,040 --> 00:49:44,440
Speaker 1: way of stoppage. But it just seems maybe a little

940
00:49:44,480 --> 00:49:48,520
Speaker 1: premature to how old is she? How old is just

941
00:49:48,520 --> 00:49:52,759
Speaker 1: gonna draws? Yeah, thirty one, I was gonna say that

942
00:49:52,800 --> 00:49:55,080
Speaker 1: I was worried about her progression, but I you know,

943
00:49:55,200 --> 00:49:58,080
Speaker 1: she didn't look good after losing to Jean Wailie and

944
00:49:58,120 --> 00:49:59,920
Speaker 1: what happened after that? She did lose to Rows, but

945
00:50:00,040 --> 00:50:02,960
Speaker 1: and she finished off Kitlyn Chukegian inside of a round.

946
00:50:03,600 --> 00:50:05,960
Speaker 1: You know, she's just got sign We all know the story.

947
00:50:06,040 --> 00:50:11,279
Speaker 1: She's got significant punching power, absurd strength. I will say though, that, like,

948
00:50:11,440 --> 00:50:13,520
Speaker 1: do you feel that we're at a point in her

949
00:50:13,560 --> 00:50:18,040
Speaker 1: development where we should see more weapons compliment that rather

950
00:50:18,080 --> 00:50:21,440
Speaker 1: than her continuously just using that to win when it's available.

951
00:50:22,160 --> 00:50:24,480
Speaker 1: I do feel that way a little bit. I do

952
00:50:24,520 --> 00:50:27,640
Speaker 1: feel a little bit like, Okay, these things are so

953
00:50:27,800 --> 00:50:30,880
Speaker 1: potent that she'll still win with them eventually, no matter what.

954
00:50:31,120 --> 00:50:42,839
Speaker 1: Right are we seeing enough complimentary technical growth alongside it

955
00:50:43,680 --> 00:50:46,080
Speaker 1: to give you confidence about other things? I don't know.

956
00:50:46,760 --> 00:50:48,400
Speaker 1: I don't know if I do not, certainly not in

957
00:50:48,400 --> 00:50:52,960
Speaker 1: the last two fights. But well, you know, she's been

958
00:50:53,000 --> 00:50:57,200
Speaker 1: able to rebound before after bad losses. Let's see what

959
00:50:57,239 --> 00:51:00,000
Speaker 1: her twenty twenty four looks like. Because she's already thought

960
00:51:00,080 --> 00:51:01,719
Speaker 1: three times this year they're really going to give her

961
00:51:01,760 --> 00:51:04,040
Speaker 1: another fight. I guess they might. She might get four

962
00:51:04,120 --> 00:51:09,359
Speaker 1: this year, but likely heard me oh it's late. I

963
00:51:09,400 --> 00:51:17,319
Speaker 1: apologize all right, very quickly, movsar Evloyev's kind of how

964
00:51:17,320 --> 00:51:20,520
Speaker 1: they were saying, it defeats Diego Lopez. Diego Lopez has

965
00:51:20,560 --> 00:51:23,919
Speaker 1: both a fade and bangs. I mean, my man came

966
00:51:24,000 --> 00:51:26,640
Speaker 1: ready with like three or four haircuts at the same time.

967
00:51:27,200 --> 00:51:29,879
Speaker 1: But okay, dude, like you gotta there was one thirty

968
00:51:29,920 --> 00:51:33,040
Speaker 1: twenty seven which didn't make any sense. Eight for Ivloyev

969
00:51:33,160 --> 00:51:38,040
Speaker 1: is fine, dude. Diego Lopez had nearly had an arm bar.

970
00:51:38,120 --> 00:51:40,440
Speaker 1: Did you see how Evloev got out of it? He

971
00:51:40,480 --> 00:51:43,040
Speaker 1: actually had to get his He rolled over so with

972
00:51:43,080 --> 00:51:49,200
Speaker 1: his arms extended, he brought his other top side knee

973
00:51:49,239 --> 00:51:54,200
Speaker 1: inside the hamstring of Diego Lopez. So the knee is

974
00:51:54,280 --> 00:51:57,000
Speaker 1: here and he can kind of pull his arm back

975
00:51:57,520 --> 00:51:59,880
Speaker 1: as a consequence by shoving his knee in and then

976
00:52:00,080 --> 00:52:02,640
Speaker 1: pulling his arm out. That was clever. I'd actually never

977
00:52:02,640 --> 00:52:05,440
Speaker 1: seen that before, So that was clever, very very clever.

978
00:52:05,560 --> 00:52:08,600
Speaker 1: And then the ground and pound, so to speak, from underneath,

979
00:52:08,640 --> 00:52:12,120
Speaker 1: the submission attempt from underneath, like Diego Lopez taking this

980
00:52:12,200 --> 00:52:15,440
Speaker 1: fight on extremely short notice, Well he came to fight today.

981
00:52:15,800 --> 00:52:18,520
Speaker 1: Salute to that gentleman. He was overmatched. You know, we're

982
00:52:18,520 --> 00:52:20,719
Speaker 1: talking about a guy who's undefeated and a top ten

983
00:52:20,760 --> 00:52:24,280
Speaker 1: in the world in this weight class. But Diego Lopez

984
00:52:24,480 --> 00:52:26,799
Speaker 1: showed up big time in the end. The difference was

985
00:52:26,920 --> 00:52:29,480
Speaker 1: one he was a bat out of hell in round one.

986
00:52:29,520 --> 00:52:31,960
Speaker 1: He could not sustain that level of attack strategically in

987
00:52:32,040 --> 00:52:36,360
Speaker 1: round two or three. And more to the point, Evloyev

988
00:52:36,400 --> 00:52:39,200
Speaker 1: has just got real good ways to manage around. He's

989
00:52:39,200 --> 00:52:42,759
Speaker 1: got Chris boxing a very good job. He can do

990
00:52:42,800 --> 00:52:44,680
Speaker 1: that for long periods of time where he kind of

991
00:52:44,719 --> 00:52:47,120
Speaker 1: eats off the clock where he's landing, landing, landing, nothing

992
00:52:47,200 --> 00:52:50,200
Speaker 1: huge again, kind of like Stirling, nothing huge, but he's landing,

993
00:52:50,440 --> 00:52:52,520
Speaker 1: and then he goes with the takedown every halfway through.

994
00:52:52,880 --> 00:52:58,600
Speaker 1: His finishing on top is excellent, and his ground and pound,

995
00:52:58,640 --> 00:53:00,840
Speaker 1: by the way, just slowly eats at you. It does,

996
00:53:01,000 --> 00:53:03,440
Speaker 1: it doesn't, it doesn't. There's no torrential downpour, but it's

997
00:53:03,440 --> 00:53:06,799
Speaker 1: just kind of steady drum beat that was beginning to work.

998
00:53:06,840 --> 00:53:08,319
Speaker 1: Lopez tried to have a bit of a surge in

999
00:53:08,320 --> 00:53:10,200
Speaker 1: the third. It didn't get him a whole lot. Uh

1000
00:53:10,400 --> 00:53:13,359
Speaker 1: at Loyev's top control and balance is really good as well.

1001
00:53:13,600 --> 00:53:15,440
Speaker 1: He's just a really, really difficult guy to beat. He's

1002
00:53:15,480 --> 00:53:18,040
Speaker 1: got a lot of things that enables him to control fighters,

1003
00:53:18,400 --> 00:53:23,000
Speaker 1: control position, control rounds, dictate range, and you saw most

1004
00:53:23,040 --> 00:53:26,120
Speaker 1: of that. But Diego Lopez earning absolutely I think a

1005
00:53:26,120 --> 00:53:30,719
Speaker 1: lot of people's respect tonight, and I think the admiration

1006
00:53:30,800 --> 00:53:33,960
Speaker 1: of the UFC brass as well. I don't really know

1007
00:53:34,000 --> 00:53:37,320
Speaker 1: what to say about Charles Jordan taking on Crone Gracie

1008
00:53:37,360 --> 00:53:39,640
Speaker 1: thirty twenty seven across the board. Gracy is lucky to

1009
00:53:39,680 --> 00:53:47,120
Speaker 1: get those. Probably his worst performance in the ever in MMA,

1010
00:53:47,320 --> 00:53:50,839
Speaker 1: probably probably the guy's been gone for what. Let's see,

1011
00:53:50,880 --> 00:53:54,239
Speaker 1: when was his last fight against Cub So excuse me

1012
00:53:54,440 --> 00:53:57,000
Speaker 1: pull up the record here His fight against Cub was

1013
00:53:57,080 --> 00:54:00,160
Speaker 1: in twenty nineteen, so pre pandemic, and here he in

1014
00:54:00,200 --> 00:54:05,120
Speaker 1: twenty thirteen, four years later, he comes back and people

1015
00:54:05,360 --> 00:54:08,080
Speaker 1: I had tweeted that I saw. I had seen anyways,

1016
00:54:08,160 --> 00:54:10,879
Speaker 1: what I thought were some improvements in his boxing. There

1017
00:54:10,960 --> 00:54:14,239
Speaker 1: was a little bit of shoulder rolling, there was a

1018
00:54:14,320 --> 00:54:18,719
Speaker 1: little bit of trunk movement, but I don't know. He

1019
00:54:18,800 --> 00:54:22,040
Speaker 1: looked disinterested all week. He didn't want to be at

1020
00:54:22,080 --> 00:54:24,279
Speaker 1: any of the media events, which fined You know, I

1021
00:54:24,280 --> 00:54:26,919
Speaker 1: can understand that, but you know he had the weird

1022
00:54:26,920 --> 00:54:29,040
Speaker 1: issue with Henry Shudo where they were signing posters at

1023
00:54:29,080 --> 00:54:32,160
Speaker 1: the same time. He just seemed checked out and disinterested.

1024
00:54:33,000 --> 00:54:35,440
Speaker 1: You know, he did pull guard, which you can accept

1025
00:54:35,440 --> 00:54:37,399
Speaker 1: from Chrome Grazie, one of the few fighters who can

1026
00:54:37,480 --> 00:54:40,759
Speaker 1: pull guard, and I think it's very much understandable and forgivable.

1027
00:54:40,840 --> 00:54:43,040
Speaker 1: So fine, I didn't mind that, but he couldn't really

1028
00:54:43,040 --> 00:54:45,520
Speaker 1: do a whole lot with it. Jordin was able to

1029
00:54:45,640 --> 00:54:49,280
Speaker 1: nullify basically everything. He never got swept, never even got close.

1030
00:54:50,360 --> 00:54:52,160
Speaker 1: I think it was a couple of submission attempts. I

1031
00:54:52,239 --> 00:54:57,120
Speaker 1: have the look up the thing from Fight Metric. Let's

1032
00:54:57,160 --> 00:55:00,400
Speaker 1: see what do they credit him with. By the way,

1033
00:55:00,440 --> 00:55:03,279
Speaker 1: the credit Diego Lopez with four submission attempts. It's pretty

1034
00:55:03,320 --> 00:55:06,400
Speaker 1: amazing of getting four of seven takedowns. But in the

1035
00:55:06,400 --> 00:55:09,160
Speaker 1: case of Chrome Gracy and Tarlos Jordan, he had no

1036
00:55:09,200 --> 00:55:11,480
Speaker 1: sub attempts. I mean, he never even got really close.

1037
00:55:11,800 --> 00:55:15,040
Speaker 1: Listen to this, eighty strikes from Tarlie Jordan to thirty

1038
00:55:15,080 --> 00:55:17,279
Speaker 1: two from chron I can't remember even thirty two, to

1039
00:55:17,320 --> 00:55:24,759
Speaker 1: be honest with you, that's just insane. Jordain accumulating six

1040
00:55:24,760 --> 00:55:26,719
Speaker 1: minutes and forty eight seconds of control time. For what

1041
00:55:26,719 --> 00:55:30,680
Speaker 1: it's worth, Chrome Gracie, dude, he's just right or died. Listen,

1042
00:55:32,600 --> 00:55:35,040
Speaker 1: When you first got into MMA, the Gracies were the

1043
00:55:35,160 --> 00:55:37,440
Speaker 1: royal family, and in many ways maybe they still are

1044
00:55:37,520 --> 00:55:41,160
Speaker 1: of MMA. Right. It's then with the number of madoffs

1045
00:55:41,200 --> 00:55:43,880
Speaker 1: like these people that have these brought these these incredible

1046
00:55:43,960 --> 00:55:47,480
Speaker 1: legacies and broad families that have numerous family members competing

1047
00:55:47,520 --> 00:55:49,680
Speaker 1: and winning at a high level. The gracis you had

1048
00:55:49,680 --> 00:55:51,800
Speaker 1: this moment in time where they were winning, kicking everyone's

1049
00:55:51,840 --> 00:55:55,160
Speaker 1: ass at the time NHB and then also in submission grappling.

1050
00:55:55,200 --> 00:55:59,000
Speaker 1: Remember Hoiler won what ADCC did Hoiler win ninety nine?

1051
00:56:00,040 --> 00:56:02,520
Speaker 1: He won four of them. But you know, or late nineties,

1052
00:56:02,600 --> 00:56:05,520
Speaker 1: early two thousands, Holy, there was kicking everyone's ass in ADCC,

1053
00:56:06,560 --> 00:56:08,440
Speaker 1: and so they had this moment where they were just

1054
00:56:08,480 --> 00:56:11,720
Speaker 1: like this dominant brand of everything you could ever imagine.

1055
00:56:11,719 --> 00:56:13,439
Speaker 1: But we are in a I mean, we're twenty years

1056
00:56:13,440 --> 00:56:15,799
Speaker 1: since then, and then you know, having a Gracie on

1057
00:56:15,840 --> 00:56:18,080
Speaker 1: a car just doesn't in any way mean what it

1058
00:56:18,239 --> 00:56:20,560
Speaker 1: used to. I mean, I'm not saying this pejoratively. I'm

1059
00:56:20,560 --> 00:56:23,439
Speaker 1: just giving an accurate reflection of the state of things

1060
00:56:23,480 --> 00:56:25,319
Speaker 1: I did live in an era of MMA where that

1061
00:56:25,440 --> 00:56:26,680
Speaker 1: was not the case, and now I live in a

1062
00:56:26,719 --> 00:56:31,200
Speaker 1: one where you know Hoys's son, I think Conrie or Hanri,

1063
00:56:31,239 --> 00:56:34,000
Speaker 1: ever you pronounce it. He's like just barely hanging on

1064
00:56:34,120 --> 00:56:38,160
Speaker 1: in Bellator. Cron obviously has incredible jiu jitsu. He has,

1065
00:56:39,080 --> 00:56:41,680
Speaker 1: you know, virtually every accolade the one could want from

1066
00:56:41,719 --> 00:56:44,840
Speaker 1: a life spent competing in that sport. But his style

1067
00:56:45,000 --> 00:56:48,200
Speaker 1: is not old school in a good way. It's old

1068
00:56:48,200 --> 00:56:50,799
Speaker 1: school in a very like you can't do anything to

1069
00:56:50,800 --> 00:56:54,600
Speaker 1: anyone at this level. You can't really wrestle, you don't

1070
00:56:54,600 --> 00:56:57,839
Speaker 1: have great boxing, you don't have great heads just on

1071
00:56:58,560 --> 00:57:02,800
Speaker 1: a post the whole time, hardly any movement with it slow.

1072
00:57:04,680 --> 00:57:08,239
Speaker 1: I just don't know what about that. If the other

1073
00:57:08,280 --> 00:57:11,560
Speaker 1: guy has good submission defense and a good game plan,

1074
00:57:12,480 --> 00:57:15,799
Speaker 1: what does Chron have that's gonna enable them enable him

1075
00:57:15,800 --> 00:57:21,680
Speaker 1: to beat them? Like? What is? It's just way, way, way,

1076
00:57:22,320 --> 00:57:26,040
Speaker 1: way too antiquated. You just can't beat people like that. Man,

1077
00:57:26,280 --> 00:57:31,080
Speaker 1: It's not gonna work. And Jordan had him studied. Jordane,

1078
00:57:31,200 --> 00:57:34,000
Speaker 1: you know, knew exactly what his assignments were. When his

1079
00:57:34,040 --> 00:57:36,280
Speaker 1: hands were on the ground. If his arm ever got separated,

1080
00:57:36,280 --> 00:57:38,800
Speaker 1: it was one time where it got moved out again. Obviously,

1081
00:57:38,800 --> 00:57:40,480
Speaker 1: you don't want your arm fully extended. You want to

1082
00:57:40,560 --> 00:57:42,280
Speaker 1: kind of have t REX. You don't want to have

1083
00:57:42,320 --> 00:57:44,400
Speaker 1: your arm on the other side of the center line.

1084
00:57:44,480 --> 00:57:46,919
Speaker 1: That's a problem. He was always real good about keeping

1085
00:57:46,960 --> 00:57:48,640
Speaker 1: his arms in his hands where they needed to be,

1086
00:57:48,880 --> 00:57:50,680
Speaker 1: you know, when he was on the ground, and he

1087
00:57:50,720 --> 00:57:52,840
Speaker 1: stayed out of trouble and eventually over time landed some

1088
00:57:52,920 --> 00:57:54,920
Speaker 1: decent crown and pound or just got away and was

1089
00:57:54,960 --> 00:57:58,400
Speaker 1: forcing chron to stand up. Man, I listen, I remember

1090
00:57:58,480 --> 00:58:00,440
Speaker 1: Krone as an active competitor ten years ago. When he

1091
00:58:00,440 --> 00:58:02,240
Speaker 1: was doing that was at the twenty eleven eighty CC

1092
00:58:02,400 --> 00:58:06,280
Speaker 1: in China. Like, dude, Crone's amazing. You know, he's amazing

1093
00:58:06,280 --> 00:58:10,480
Speaker 1: in that particular sport, but he is just that was

1094
00:58:10,480 --> 00:58:12,760
Speaker 1: a waste of that was a waste of everyone's time today,

1095
00:58:12,800 --> 00:58:14,840
Speaker 1: to be quite honest. I mean, I appreciate what Charla

1096
00:58:14,920 --> 00:58:17,840
Speaker 1: Jordan was able to do, but that should not have

1097
00:58:17,840 --> 00:58:20,080
Speaker 1: been on the main card. That's if this is the

1098
00:58:20,080 --> 00:58:21,920
Speaker 1: way he's going to compete, then he doesn't have a

1099
00:58:21,920 --> 00:58:24,880
Speaker 1: future in UFC. I mean, maybe they give him another fight,

1100
00:58:24,960 --> 00:58:29,280
Speaker 1: maybe they don't. But like if after four years that's

1101
00:58:29,320 --> 00:58:31,640
Speaker 1: the way you look like, dude, this is not going

1102
00:58:31,720 --> 00:58:40,040
Speaker 1: to work. It's not gonna work, man. So it wasn't

1103
00:58:40,080 --> 00:58:42,560
Speaker 1: a very fun pay per view, huh. I mean the

1104
00:58:42,640 --> 00:58:46,520
Speaker 1: Yanshao non win was great. Diego Lopez made that fight

1105
00:58:46,600 --> 00:58:51,560
Speaker 1: really fun, but the comane kind of sucked. The main opener,

1106
00:58:51,800 --> 00:58:54,960
Speaker 1: this one was no fun, and I did think again,

1107
00:58:55,000 --> 00:58:57,040
Speaker 1: I thought the main event was good, not great, but

1108
00:58:57,080 --> 00:59:00,880
Speaker 1: people seem very dissatisfied with the result, which is inevitable.

1109
00:59:01,000 --> 00:59:04,040
Speaker 1: So not the best UFC pay per view. The last one,

1110
00:59:04,560 --> 00:59:06,920
Speaker 1: two eighty seven was amazing. We'll see how two ighty

1111
00:59:07,000 --> 00:59:09,440
Speaker 1: nine does, but not that amazing. All right. I have

1112
00:59:09,560 --> 00:59:13,640
Speaker 1: got questions that you guys have filled up, So let's

1113
00:59:13,680 --> 00:59:17,320
Speaker 1: get to him and see what you guys have to say.

1114
00:59:17,680 --> 00:59:22,400
Speaker 1: Excuse me, here we go. Yeah, all right? Is al

1115
00:59:22,480 --> 00:59:25,840
Speaker 1: Joe doomed to suffer the same fate as Tyrone Woodley?

1116
00:59:26,320 --> 00:59:28,240
Speaker 1: He's clearly an all time great in his division, yet

1117
00:59:28,240 --> 00:59:33,720
Speaker 1: the fans just refuse to get behind him. M Yeah,

1118
00:59:33,760 --> 00:59:36,640
Speaker 1: there might be something to that. Who wins in an

1119
00:59:36,720 --> 00:59:40,080
Speaker 1: MMA fight between Ryan holl and Crome Gracie. Everyone thinks

1120
00:59:40,120 --> 00:59:41,600
Speaker 1: Ryan would go to the ground with him. No, he

1121
00:59:41,640 --> 00:59:43,560
Speaker 1: wouldn't Ryan would strike with him on the feet. I

1122
00:59:43,600 --> 00:59:47,240
Speaker 1: guarantee it. I guarantee it. Henry has done so much

1123
00:59:47,280 --> 00:59:49,080
Speaker 1: in his three years of his hiatus, training with the

1124
00:59:49,160 --> 00:59:51,919
Speaker 1: likes of Jean and Figy, but he wasted three years

1125
00:59:51,920 --> 00:59:54,520
Speaker 1: to fight what should have been his next contender in

1126
00:59:55,680 --> 00:59:58,600
Speaker 1: that's Champ. Yeah, you're right. Does al Jo's ability to

1127
00:59:58,600 --> 01:00:00,600
Speaker 1: get traditional takedowns on? So? Who do make a fight

1128
01:00:00,640 --> 01:00:04,920
Speaker 1: with vulk a bit more interesting? I didn't walk away

1129
01:00:05,120 --> 01:00:10,919
Speaker 1: from Tonight's Bansamway title fight thinking anyone had a shot

1130
01:00:10,960 --> 01:00:14,640
Speaker 1: against Vulcan boy. Let's talk about that for a second.

1131
01:00:14,680 --> 01:00:19,800
Speaker 1: I distinctly recall having a bunch of zeros hit me up,

1132
01:00:19,840 --> 01:00:21,680
Speaker 1: and when I said, like, this makes when he was

1133
01:00:21,680 --> 01:00:25,480
Speaker 1: like on retirement, He's like, I want to fight Volkanovsky,

1134
01:00:25,480 --> 01:00:28,360
Speaker 1: and I'm like, is everyone fucking hide? This fight makes

1135
01:00:28,440 --> 01:00:31,360
Speaker 1: no sense. He's Volkanoski has done a huge featherweight, but

1136
01:00:31,360 --> 01:00:34,400
Speaker 1: in terms of like strength and physicality, he's way bigger

1137
01:00:34,600 --> 01:00:37,200
Speaker 1: than Sahudo. He's got just as high fight IQ, if

1138
01:00:37,240 --> 01:00:39,919
Speaker 1: not higher. He's gonna hit a lot harder. He's gonna

1139
01:00:39,920 --> 01:00:43,160
Speaker 1: be much more resistant to punching power from a guy

1140
01:00:43,200 --> 01:00:45,360
Speaker 1: like just like, what the fuck? Are we people talking about?

1141
01:00:45,640 --> 01:00:47,040
Speaker 1: And then what I said was, Okay, if he goes

1142
01:00:47,040 --> 01:00:50,160
Speaker 1: back in there he beats al Joe and gets the title,

1143
01:00:50,480 --> 01:00:52,560
Speaker 1: all right, we can talk. Then let's let's see him

1144
01:00:52,560 --> 01:00:55,080
Speaker 1: do that. He got close, He got close, but like

1145
01:00:55,720 --> 01:00:58,640
Speaker 1: even with it, did you see a guy that was

1146
01:00:58,680 --> 01:01:02,560
Speaker 1: gonna beat Alexander volkanovske tonight? I didn't see that. I

1147
01:01:02,560 --> 01:01:05,120
Speaker 1: didn't see that anywhere. I didn't see that in Crone

1148
01:01:05,240 --> 01:01:09,520
Speaker 1: versus short An. I didn't see it in uh Lopez

1149
01:01:09,560 --> 01:01:12,160
Speaker 1: and Loev. I mean, I didn't really see anyone who

1150
01:01:12,200 --> 01:01:16,320
Speaker 1: I thought was like, Wow, this guy's got Volkanovsky's number. No, dude,

1151
01:01:17,120 --> 01:01:21,000
Speaker 1: like Islam Makachev is one of the best fighters in

1152
01:01:21,040 --> 01:01:25,320
Speaker 1: the world up away class and that, and Volkanovsky gave

1153
01:01:25,360 --> 01:01:28,880
Speaker 1: that fucker everything he could handle. Like come on, man, like,

1154
01:01:29,000 --> 01:01:31,160
Speaker 1: people are just you gotta be fucking kidding me with this?

1155
01:01:34,400 --> 01:01:37,320
Speaker 1: Has there been a fighter fans didn't want to be

1156
01:01:37,400 --> 01:01:41,040
Speaker 1: championed more than Belal? Boy, you guys did not live

1157
01:01:41,080 --> 01:01:44,919
Speaker 1: through the Tim Silvia era I did. If you think

1158
01:01:44,920 --> 01:01:47,160
Speaker 1: people don't want Balal to be champion, boy, do I

1159
01:01:47,200 --> 01:01:51,680
Speaker 1: have news for you? Uh? This person writes I DM

1160
01:01:51,760 --> 01:01:54,440
Speaker 1: to BC exactly how al Ja was likely to win

1161
01:01:54,560 --> 01:01:56,680
Speaker 1: edge out rounds by landing at range and burn the clock.

1162
01:01:56,720 --> 01:01:59,600
Speaker 1: Grappling knew he'd struggle to get takedowns with Wooden sub

1163
01:01:59,600 --> 01:02:08,360
Speaker 1: Henry knew Henry might struggle with the reach. Congrats. What's

1164
01:02:08,400 --> 01:02:12,360
Speaker 1: more interesting Aljie versus Sugar, Sean or Morob versus Sugar

1165
01:02:12,480 --> 01:02:14,919
Speaker 1: or Alji versus Folk? Okay, you can get Algi versus

1166
01:02:15,000 --> 01:02:18,360
Speaker 1: Vulk off the screen? What's more interesting versus Sugar? No,

1167
01:02:18,400 --> 01:02:22,200
Speaker 1: Aljil versus Sugar to be is more interesting. Do you

1168
01:02:22,240 --> 01:02:25,400
Speaker 1: think Gilbert and Androge regret taking fights so close together?

1169
01:02:25,920 --> 01:02:29,439
Speaker 1: Maybe because I think Androge fought what three months ago?

1170
01:02:30,520 --> 01:02:33,479
Speaker 1: You know she got kind of stopped basically in that one.

1171
01:02:34,240 --> 01:02:38,480
Speaker 1: I mean she she did get stopped. What to make

1172
01:02:38,480 --> 01:02:40,640
Speaker 1: of Algae being booed so close to his hometown? I

1173
01:02:40,640 --> 01:02:43,800
Speaker 1: mean it's Newark, New Jersey, folks. I have spent a

1174
01:02:43,800 --> 01:02:46,200
Speaker 1: lot of time in Newark, New Jersey. I worked in Newark,

1175
01:02:46,200 --> 01:02:50,360
Speaker 1: New Jersey for two years, Okay, when I was living

1176
01:02:50,360 --> 01:02:53,280
Speaker 1: in Manhattan because I refused to live in Newark. First

1177
01:02:53,280 --> 01:02:54,919
Speaker 1: of all, That's the first thing I want to say,

1178
01:02:55,640 --> 01:02:58,240
Speaker 1: And the second thing I want to say is you know,

1179
01:02:58,320 --> 01:03:00,160
Speaker 1: I have to spend an inordinate amount of time in

1180
01:03:00,200 --> 01:03:05,000
Speaker 1: the Newark train station dealing with the the local beauties

1181
01:03:05,040 --> 01:03:12,240
Speaker 1: who hang out there. And let me tell you, Newark sucks.

1182
01:03:12,880 --> 01:03:17,280
Speaker 1: Newark sucks. Getting booed in Newark is you know. I

1183
01:03:17,320 --> 01:03:18,920
Speaker 1: wouldn't be able to live with myself if I got

1184
01:03:18,920 --> 01:03:22,240
Speaker 1: booed in like, you know, my own hometown or or

1185
01:03:22,280 --> 01:03:24,560
Speaker 1: you know, a place that I've respected New York City

1186
01:03:24,720 --> 01:03:28,920
Speaker 1: or Madrid or something, you know, world class cities. Getting

1187
01:03:28,920 --> 01:03:31,200
Speaker 1: booed in Newark. It's like, I mean, who could who

1188
01:03:31,200 --> 01:03:33,439
Speaker 1: could give a shit? You know, who could possibly care?

1189
01:03:34,000 --> 01:03:36,600
Speaker 1: But yeah, I think it does speak to some of

1190
01:03:36,600 --> 01:03:39,200
Speaker 1: that that distance that Aljo has between himself and the fans.

1191
01:03:39,240 --> 01:03:42,320
Speaker 1: And now Henry had kind of really remade himself in

1192
01:03:42,360 --> 01:03:46,440
Speaker 1: the last couple of years, considering Gilbert was considerably down

1193
01:03:46,480 --> 01:03:49,640
Speaker 1: on the scorecards and being compromised. Thoughts on letting him

1194
01:03:49,640 --> 01:03:52,840
Speaker 1: continue the fifth and accumulate more unnecessary damage. Yes, true,

1195
01:03:53,480 --> 01:03:55,640
Speaker 1: wouldn't have minded if they had stopped it for that reason,

1196
01:03:55,680 --> 01:03:57,360
Speaker 1: but I didn't think he was taking a beat, And

1197
01:03:57,440 --> 01:03:59,080
Speaker 1: for that reason, I don't really mind that they let

1198
01:03:59,120 --> 01:04:03,400
Speaker 1: it continue, especially you don't really know exactly what kind

1199
01:04:03,440 --> 01:04:06,880
Speaker 1: of future opportunities Gilbert might get if he was getting

1200
01:04:06,920 --> 01:04:09,760
Speaker 1: his ass kicked in a serious way. I would say differently.

1201
01:04:11,440 --> 01:04:13,320
Speaker 1: I have a hard time thinking al jail won't get

1202
01:04:13,320 --> 01:04:15,800
Speaker 1: Sean's back. Why wouldn't he because he could get knocked

1203
01:04:15,840 --> 01:04:19,760
Speaker 1: the spark the fuck out trying to do it. How

1204
01:04:19,840 --> 01:04:22,640
Speaker 1: much blame should we give Sahudo's corner for telling him

1205
01:04:22,680 --> 01:04:26,200
Speaker 1: he was up on the scorecards pretty much the whole time. Yeah,

1206
01:04:26,240 --> 01:04:28,360
Speaker 1: I didn't hear that. I'm not saying it's not true.

1207
01:04:28,400 --> 01:04:30,080
Speaker 1: I'm saying I must have the volume too low. I

1208
01:04:30,080 --> 01:04:32,320
Speaker 1: didn't hear it. But if that's true, that's a real

1209
01:04:32,360 --> 01:04:34,760
Speaker 1: problem to Henderson Huto waste the last years of his

1210
01:04:34,840 --> 01:04:38,360
Speaker 1: prime by being retired. I'm gonna argue, yes, I'm gonna

1211
01:04:38,400 --> 01:04:42,200
Speaker 1: argue yes. After we did the resume review and I

1212
01:04:42,240 --> 01:04:45,920
Speaker 1: saw how he was just really beginning to peak. I mean,

1213
01:04:45,920 --> 01:04:47,160
Speaker 1: you saw it in real time. But then when you

1214
01:04:47,160 --> 01:04:50,000
Speaker 1: go back and you watch someone's catalog, and you should

1215
01:04:50,000 --> 01:04:52,360
Speaker 1: try it sometime, like for example, an easy one to

1216
01:04:52,360 --> 01:04:54,040
Speaker 1: do would be Connor McGregor, because so many of his

1217
01:04:54,080 --> 01:04:56,880
Speaker 1: fights are either short or end in stoppages or whatever.

1218
01:04:58,600 --> 01:05:00,880
Speaker 1: Go through and watch his rise begin to see these

1219
01:05:00,920 --> 01:05:03,600
Speaker 1: moments where they really begin to become different people. I

1220
01:05:03,640 --> 01:05:05,880
Speaker 1: thought at that at that's, at that cruise fight, that

1221
01:05:05,920 --> 01:05:10,160
Speaker 1: he had really just turned into something else altogether. And

1222
01:05:10,240 --> 01:05:12,240
Speaker 1: then he just stopped. And I understand why he stopped,

1223
01:05:12,280 --> 01:05:14,400
Speaker 1: Like I get it, I don't. You got to make

1224
01:05:14,440 --> 01:05:16,880
Speaker 1: the decisions for yourself the best way you can. But

1225
01:05:16,920 --> 01:05:19,280
Speaker 1: they all come with trade offs. And the trade off

1226
01:05:19,280 --> 01:05:22,000
Speaker 1: here quite clearly was he gave away several years I

1227
01:05:22,040 --> 01:05:23,800
Speaker 1: think left. I mean what he had in his prime

1228
01:05:24,360 --> 01:05:27,680
Speaker 1: where he could have really beaten these guys and and

1229
01:05:27,760 --> 01:05:29,960
Speaker 1: done something special. He already did something very special, but

1230
01:05:30,000 --> 01:05:32,600
Speaker 1: I mean even more than what he already did. Do

1231
01:05:32,640 --> 01:05:35,439
Speaker 1: you believe al Joe Dipson weaves too much to avoid strikes? Yes,

1232
01:05:35,480 --> 01:05:39,040
Speaker 1: sometimes it seems prima facia that he that it could

1233
01:05:39,080 --> 01:05:42,959
Speaker 1: leave him to vulnerable vulnerable tkicks Yes, or punches too. Also,

1234
01:05:43,000 --> 01:05:45,480
Speaker 1: I wonder if the large movements are more taxing on

1235
01:05:45,520 --> 01:05:48,120
Speaker 1: the cardio they can be. Yes. Is there a more

1236
01:05:48,160 --> 01:05:50,360
Speaker 1: method to the madness than it seems? He seems to

1237
01:05:50,360 --> 01:05:52,480
Speaker 1: have worked it into what he does, and so he

1238
01:05:52,520 --> 01:05:58,120
Speaker 1: has a tolerance for it. How what a fight between

1239
01:05:58,120 --> 01:06:01,880
Speaker 1: Taporia and avloevgo or of looe of. I would love

1240
01:06:01,960 --> 01:06:04,120
Speaker 1: to see it. The question is to pour you a

1241
01:06:04,160 --> 01:06:06,800
Speaker 1: bat out of hell. He's got good takedown the fence.

1242
01:06:09,280 --> 01:06:11,800
Speaker 1: Would he be able to last against a guy like this? Conversely,

1243
01:06:11,960 --> 01:06:14,280
Speaker 1: I think he would give Evloyev a lot of problems.

1244
01:06:14,280 --> 01:06:20,600
Speaker 1: Could he tolerate the firepower? Well? To see? What do

1245
01:06:20,640 --> 01:06:22,800
Speaker 1: you think about Derek clearly giving round five the most

1246
01:06:22,840 --> 01:06:24,560
Speaker 1: clear round of the whole fight to al Jaoe? Yeah,

1247
01:06:24,560 --> 01:06:27,080
Speaker 1: that sucks. I don't agree with that at all. Scale

1248
01:06:27,080 --> 01:06:28,960
Speaker 1: of one to ten, How embarrassing and cringe worthy are

1249
01:06:29,000 --> 01:06:34,480
Speaker 1: these stupid post fight face offs? Two or three? Oh? No?

1250
01:06:34,520 --> 01:06:36,640
Speaker 1: I guess well, is ten the most cringe? Then to

1251
01:06:36,760 --> 01:06:40,240
Speaker 1: be a seven or eight? This person writes al Jamine's

1252
01:06:40,280 --> 01:06:42,400
Speaker 1: at boring ass the only person who can get all

1253
01:06:42,400 --> 01:06:45,600
Speaker 1: the O'Malley haters to cheer for Sean. Yeah. Like I said,

1254
01:06:45,600 --> 01:06:46,919
Speaker 1: I didn't think this is gonna be one of those

1255
01:06:46,920 --> 01:06:50,680
Speaker 1: opportunities where al Joe is going to really convince the skeptics.

1256
01:06:50,880 --> 01:06:53,600
Speaker 1: He is a talented guy. You have to reconcile and

1257
01:06:54,000 --> 01:06:57,240
Speaker 1: reckon with that fact. But I get that if he's

1258
01:06:57,280 --> 01:07:00,480
Speaker 1: not your favorite, I can understand how he has arrived

1259
01:07:00,480 --> 01:07:02,840
Speaker 1: in this position. But you should very much have respect

1260
01:07:02,880 --> 01:07:05,360
Speaker 1: for Alja man Sterling. He is an excellent fighter and

1261
01:07:05,560 --> 01:07:08,120
Speaker 1: these guys aren't having a hard time by accident. Whether

1262
01:07:08,160 --> 01:07:11,600
Speaker 1: he's your favorite, that's a different story. All right, let's

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Speaker 1: We'll react to this from Brian Campbell. We'll both react

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Speaker 1: to Canelo's win over John Ryder, who went the distance.

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Speaker 1: They get dropped twice, but they went the distance. So

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Speaker 1: what does that mean. We'll talk about that and a

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Speaker 1: whole lot more. So, thank you guys so much for watching.

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Speaker 1: Combat UFC two eighty eight post fight show. And until

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Speaker 1: next time, get some sleep. Let's go, let's do it.